Chappie, Focus, Serena, and What We Do in the Shadows

Hey, this is Steve Blum, and you are listening

to the Geekcast Radio Network. Alright, that's

right. It is another episode of Weekend at the

Movies. I am one of your hosts, Optimus Solo.

With me today is Movie Revolt Dan. Hello. Hey,

how's it going? Not too bad. And, Fridley Senton.

Matt Fridley, hello. Hey there. Matt, how has

your week been going? Well, I've been battling

various illnesses, so that wasn't fun. But I

haven't missed any work, so I guess it's okay

enough. So you've just been spreading the illness?

Yeah, it's not because I touched over 50 % of

the things that come through the building You're

just improving everybody's immune system. Yeah,

that's what I tell them Dan how about you? What's

how's your weekend going? It's been a kind of

a crazy week. I had to unfortunately I missed

out on seeing a movie because my wife got a flat

Tyler earlier this week she hit a pothole so

hard she actually bent the wheel of her car so

I spent what day I was hoping to see Chappy and

actually in the mechanic which was kind of not

very fun and I missed it before because of snow

and then yeah it did not work out very well not

meant to be no it's i'm just not meant to see

chappy which kind of sinks because i was looking

forward to it but i know even despite the the

you know the reaction that's out there but unfortunately

because of craziness i wasn't able to see it

how are you keeping track of how many flat tires

you've had in the last uh whatever period of

time it's been i've had two in the last well

technically i've had one in my one my wife's

had one in the in the last uh last this last

month basically and the last time since then

i don't think i've had one a little bit maybe

in my life i probably had a good like six or

so like uh either friends or myself one time

i had to change some random lady's tire at work

just because she i don't know she was like does

anyone know how to change a tire and i'm like

yeah i do so unfortunately you're like i've done

it a bunch you've done it uh you've done it six

more times than i have in my life oh wow so i'm

knocking on fake wood um i don't know if it's

fake wood or not but i'm knocking on it anyways

because that's the second time i've had to tell

that story today because I don't know, I was

at lunch with my mom and my girlfriend, and for

some reason that came up, so I am bound to have

a flat tire tomorrow, so. Did anyone give you

the change? It's just a pain just to get it go

through everything and whatnot, so. I just bought

a new car, and it has no spare tire. It's like,

no, it's got special tires, and then there's

a can of Fix -A -Flat. So like, it's my biggest

fear right now is to get a flat tire. Like when

I was buying it the dealer was like no, I assure

you. It's really big in Europe. They don't have

spare tires You know, you know, you know, it's

shady when it's like yeah, it's big in Europe

in Yeah, like Estonia maybe, you know That doesn't

that doesn't narrow it down too much Yeah, my

week's been okay. Um, the seasons have apparently

changed with the time change We got to lose that

hour of sleep a week ago or half a week ago or

whatever and apparently that meant winter was

temporarily over because we're seeing temperatures

in the 50s and 60s right now. Crazy. And a whole

bunch of snow has melted and the only reason

I bring that up is because as soon as we get

that first week of warm weather my job slows

down and goes to a screeching halt. because everyone

just freaks out about the warm weather and it

has an impact. So work has been somewhat slow

for the first time in about, I don't know, five

months. And also a weird thing at work, my assistant

manager requested Saturday and Sunday off. So

I have to work Saturday and Sunday, but the interesting

thing about that is it ended up with me having

Thursday and Friday off and I never get a Friday

off and I very rarely these days get two days

off in a row. So today's day one of two that

I actually have off. I'm trying to enjoy that

and got absolutely nothing done today. So that's

how I'll spend the first day off and I'll try

to be productive on the second. Other than that,

I was able to get to the movie theater to see

Chappy so we'll talk about that a little bit

later. That was the only trip to the theater

this week. Might be... two trips next week if

I can somehow wrangle it into working. I don't

know exactly how I'm going to do that but I'm

going to attempt because there's two films coming

out that one my girlfriend really wants to see

and one I really want to see. Alright, so like

we do every week we're going to get into the

box office real quick and goodness gracious maybe

a factor of the weather around the country in

some places too but that was a slow week at the

box office for sure. you know a lot of weeks

we have the number one movie coming in with uh

30 40 25 million or something like that that

was not the case this week chappy takes the number

one spot with a whopping 13 million yeah it did

not make the 100 million dollars i needed to

make to get points for uh the fantasy league

because it was off by a good 73 million dollars

so but it did make about a third of its budget

i want to say i'm not going to try to do the

exact math but it's close to a third of its budget

so you should be uh... hopefully i'll write in

that category uh... focus was number one last

week it dropped number two this week with ten

million the second best exotic marigold hotel

somewhat surprised but opening in at the number

three spot uh... with just north of eight million

kingsman the secret service uh... finally dropped

from the two -spot went from two to four brought

in eight million which brings it just teetering

on the edge of one hundred million so those people

with converse uh... i don't know if anybody else

in that movie is uh... Mark Hamill and Colin

Firth, so they are just about to get some points

when that movie makes two million more dollars.

And Spongebob drops from three to five, so it's

just south of the 150 million mark. Who knew

that at this point in the year it would be number

two for the year, just behind 50 Shades of Grey,

which continues to plummet. I think it's just

hopefully about done making money. So even though

it did make a bunch of money that opening weekend

It's probably not going to be in the top 10 after

the year's over because it's sitting at 156 and

I don't think it's gonna make I Don't think I

would doubt it would make it to 175 or 180 that

might be its max So it's probably not gonna be

in the top 10 for the year, even though it's

number one for the year right now And then the

other opener, I don't think any of us would have

predicted this but unfinished business opens

at 10th on the list Did not make five million

dollars now. We usually talk about this when

we do our box office prediction that comedy sometimes

Make money pretty easily and they especially

usually make their budget back because they usually

have pretty pretty small budgets But unfinished

business opens with four million dollars in this

budget was 35 So even if it did exactly what

it did this week, it's gonna take quite a few

weeks for it to make its budget back So it might

be one of the first major bombs as far as comedies

go for the year, but Not a real great year for

for comedy so far. I mean hot tub time machine

Only had a budget of 14 million and it hasn't

made that yet yeah, I mean the Don't finish business

only made $3 ,000 more than American sniper last

weekend Which by the way, I guess we should mention

American sniper took over the number one spot

for 2014 Which is insane. Yeah, it's at $337

million, so it passed both the Hunger Games and

Guardians of the Galaxy to take the number one

spot here in recent weeks. So I guess that's

the number one grossing film of 2014, and I'm

pretty sure it's safe to say that nobody on the

planet predicted that. No, I mean, if you did,

you're a very smart person, but I think that's

kind of crazy. Yeah. But yeah rounding off the

top ten would have been Fifty Shades of Grey,

McFarland USA, which is getting rave reviews,

The Lazarus Effect, which is getting the opposite

of rave reviews, The Duff, and then like I mentioned,

Unfinished Business. So looking ahead to next

week, is there any doubt as to what will be number

one, Dan? Oh no, because Cinderella opens up

next week, right? Right, yep, opens up tomorrow.

It'll crush it. And I say that because I'm an

idiot and I don't realize when the show is going

to actually be released, so it's... Has opened

up as you're listening to this someone might

be like watching it as we you know Maybe it's

true as they listen to us Yeah, the early birds

could be watching it currently right now But

I would say that's a pretty safe bet to be number

one just number one based on the content and

number two It's getting a lot of good buzz around

it as far as reviews and different things like

that. So So even though those that are more skeptical

might be willing to give it a shot based on the

word of mouth so far Other comments about the

box office guys. I got nothing No. Alright, well

let's get into our news then. Let's start Eeny

Meeny Miny Moe with Matt. What is your first

news story for today? The first one I'm going

to bring up is Liam Neeson saying he's getting

too old for action movies. Stealing the words

right out of Bruce Willis' mouth. Which he started

doing when he was like 55. Yeah, it's not it's

not like the Rock who started, you know first

with action movies or you know all the if you

think of like the classic Action stars and they

all started fairly young I don't know if we can

come up with another action star that started

as old as Liam Neeson. Yeah, definitely I mean

usually it's the other way around you do your

your action or just like your your random movies

at the beginning to get your name out there and

then like later on in your career if you have

a long career that's when you're like, oh, I

want to do you know important or impactful or

meaningful movies, but Liam Neeson already did

all that, so apparently he wanted to do the action

and the verse and now go back to meaningful movies

after this. I don't know. Dan, what do you think?

Is he really done with action films or when the

next contract flies at his door, is he gonna

cave in? Well, I think maybe he could be done

because we didn't talk about it, but like Run

All Night comes out this weekend. It doesn't

seem like that's getting positive reviews or

gonna do really well. So it feels like the novelty

a little bit is wearing off. You know, I don't

think he is... bank at the box office as he once

was and maybe the fact that you know he maybe

those uh some of those contracts for the movies

aren't as strong as they would be and the fact

that they're not he's not getting paid a lot

and movies aren't that good maybe he's kind of

just taking a step back which i think is good

i think i love taken i really love the gray as

well but i don't know to me i want to see him

kind of do some other things i do like him as

an action star but i i just feel like he's been

making the same movie over and over again So

if he's uh, if he's offered something in the

next expendables, would you be upset if he turned

it down? Uh, I wouldn't be upset. I'd be more

upset that they're making another expendables

Yeah, I mean I think he's made I mean he's not

hurting for money unless he's The worst money

manager on the planet like most athletes or something

like or nickel hammer Yeah, I mean there are

those that don't manage their money well but

he has made a bunch of money whether you know

what he's done with it who knows but the taken

alone made him a bunch of money and obviously

that's what got him a lot of contracts flying

at him everybody wanted to cast him in different

action roles and I can't really fault him for

taking his you know his chances with some of

them you know some of them obviously recently

haven't worked out as well but I have no fault

with him trying to kind of Shake that off and

get into some other genres. Obviously, he's not

just an action star. He's a pretty darn good

actor on top of that. So he's proven that in

his early career for sure. So I'm looking forward

to seeing what else he does because I like him

as an actor and I'd like to see him get away

from the action a little bit. Maybe he'll do

a Star Wars spot where he's a goat. He's like,

I need a little bit money. He'll get his own

Star Wars spinoff. It'll be like Ghost Dad, but

with Liam Neeson. Oh, man. I'd watch that. Don't

say that. It'll be made. All right, Dan, what

do you got for your first news story? Well, my

first news story is regarding Channing Tatum

and the fact that it is rumored that he will

be the starring or part of a possible... Ghostbusters

3 or another Ghostbusters movie, which will be

all male. We know that there would be that all

-female remake or reboot. I don't even know what

they're calling it. Sequel with Melissa McCarthy

and Kristen Wiig. Well, apparently they're going

to be making maybe even another Ghostbusters

movie because Dan Ackward can't get enough Ghostbusters.

I don't know. But it'll be starring Chanum Tatum,

possibly Chris Pratt, and a few other people

have been rumored. Okay, before we try to sort

this out here, obviously we've had the rumors

dropped a little bit ago about, like you said,

the whole female cast one, and now it's not that

this one is not connected. This is not like what

we've had recently when there's two Hercules

movies or two Steve Jobs movies in the works

or whatever it was. Two, what is it, Jungle Book

or Peter Pan or something that's coming up? This

is all supposed to be a connected effort. And

they're not just talking about doing two films.

They're talking about doing TV stuff. They're

talking about putting like a toy line out. They're

trying to make this like a complete... I think

they even talked about TV. I don't know if that

would have been in the form of like an animated

series or a live action series or what. But they're

trying to create an all -out Ghostbusters franchise

slash universe that all of these are connected

to. I guess the reaction or the question I would

have for you guys is what do you think are the

chances of something like that working out in

this whole you know obviously ghostly supernatural

type hunters fighters is there an audience for

Like the whole gamut that they're gonna be trying

to throw at us here with this Ghostbusters franchise

I don't know I know there are people out there

that watch Ghostbusters the original movie at

least once a year So there's still very hardcore

fans that are right there for it um whether or

not it's going you know putting all your eggs

in one basket so to speak is gonna be a good

idea i don't know i know i've seen interviews

with with ackroyd or whatever not bad with names

um and he like is he like i heard one interview

where he's like yeah so we're doing this all

female ghostbusters i've been trying to get a

ghostbusters 3 going but we're doing this all

female one um it's gonna be a reboot but hopefully

that'll help launch ghostbusters 3 So it's like

I don't even know if he knows what he's doing

at this point. He just wants to make as much

Ghostbusters as possible Yeah It seems like he's

definitely wanting to do as much as possible

And you know in the in the effort that they're

doing here to try to create an entire franchise

or an entire Ghostbusters universe Like I said

with two different movies with possible TV stuff

with toy stuff with whatever else they're gonna

be trying to throw at us i guess the other question

would be are they doing it are they going about

it in the right order is is it wise to put the

all female ghostbusters out there first before

this one and i don't know then do you think trying

to do two movies possible tv stuff whether live

action animated is it all going to be too much

or is it some other Work in this whole huge universe.

They're trying to create I feel like it's just

gonna be way too much It just seems I don't know

it feels like they're forcing the issue a little

bit too soon Like let's see how the maybe the

all -female cast works and then maybe bring in

additional characters or something like that

I don't know. It feels like people just want

to create that franchise or create that world

immediately I thinking of something like spider

-man the music spider -man franchise which try

to like create the cinematic universe and like

two movies and it was just a little bit of a

like a mess. So that'd be my worry. I mean, it

needs to be separate films, but it just seems,

I don't know. I think you're just running that

well dry. And they even have a new production

company called Ghost Core, which is set. It's

a quote from the article here. It's set to oversee

other films, TV and merchandise spun from the

idea of hunting down wayward spooks. Sounds like

one of those shows on like sci -fi where they

hunt ghosts or something like that. Also, we

didn't mention it, but the names also being tossed

around. Iron Man 3 writer Drew Pearce, the Russo

brothers, obviously most people know them from

the Captain America franchise. Of course, still

Dan Aykroyd and Ivan Reitman, and like you said,

Channing Tatum. So, I mean, there's a lot of

big names being thrown at this. And a tweet from

Drew Pearce, the writer, don't worry, the tone

we're aiming for is pretty, quote, human -centric,

period, except for all the ghosts. I guess that's

kind of a clever tweet. But yeah, I don't know.

I don't know if there is a audience for this.

I know a lot of people have wanted another Ghostbusters

movie. I didn't hear anybody yearning for a Ghostbusters

world. Yeah. I mean, plus if Bill Murray's not

part of it, do we really want it? Right. I don't

know. It's interesting, I guess. I'll believe

it all when it happens, and we'll see what...

What happens with this female version first?

I guess I don't know if that tanks if ghost core

folds and I don't know I can't believe they named

a production company that to oversee all of this,

but I guess there's a Nothing wrong with taking

some risks and taking some chances, but those

are not that's not the basket I would put all

my eggs, and I don't think all right Yeah, I

haven't heard his name connected to a whole bunch

of other things so Maybe it's just a fun venture

for him at this point, and he's got nothing to

lose I guess For my first new story both of mine

are gonna be very similar I'm talking about some

new films that are coming out that we haven't

had a lot of chance to We haven't had a lot of

information on or a chance to talk about them

So I just want to kind of get your guys to take

we did mention this first one once long time

ago in one of the episodes, but Guy Ritchie is

doing a medieval saga called Knights of the Round

Table, King Arthur. I guess that's the actual

title. We knew he was doing something related

to King Arthur, but there's some information

coming as far as the synopsis going. I'm going

to read this quote from him. The bold new story

introduces a streetwise young Arthur who runs

the back alleys of Londonium. Sorry. What? who

runs the back alleys of Londonium with his gang,

unaware of the life he was born for until he

grasped a hold of the sword Excalibur and with

it his future. I gotta keep reading because this

is just fun. Instantly challenged by the power

of Excalibur, Arthur is forced to make some hard

choices. Throwing in with the resistance and

a mysterious young woman named Guinevere, he

must learn to master the sword, face down his

demons, and unite the people to defeat the tyrant

Vortigern, who stole his crown and murdered his

parents and become king. Besides that ridiculous

plot synopsis, he's calling it a sweeping fantasy

action adventure. We have Charlie Hunnam starring

as the title star there, the knight. We have

Astrid, I'm gonna say this name wrong, Astrid

Burgess -Frisbee will co -star as Guinevere.

I have not seen her in a lot of things. She's

been in some stuff, like she was in Pirates of

the Caribbean, one of them, but I think she was

just a young girl at that point, so I don't remember

her character. And Vortigaern, and I have no

idea if I'm saying that right, the Tyrant, will

be played by Jude Law, and rounding out the cast

as Arthur's father is Eric Banna with Diamond

Honsu playing a Merlin -like figure. That's the

most intriguing part for me. I don't know. I

like Guy Ritchie. He did great with the Sherlock

Holmes films. I think a lot of people like Snatch

and... What's the other one? He did Lock, Stock

and Sm... Two Smoking Barrels? I can't remember

what the other one he did early on, but I know

he did Snatch. So I like Guy Ritchie. I like

Honsu. I don't know. What do you think, Dan?

Does that sound ridiculous? Londonium? I will

say that the synopsis does not... Bold will it's

supposed to take during present time or is this

actually in the because the streetwise thing

almost makes me think it's supposed to be like

a good today version of it or something like

that. I do kind of like the cast though. I mean

Charlie Hutton, I know he wasn't great in specific

rim but I like him a lot in Sons of Anarchy and

I do like June Law playing a villain. I think

he's been doing a lot of cool things recently.

And who doesn't like the idea of Jamin Hansu

doing a Merlin like character? Yeah yeah and

I remember when we first brought this up like

they already greenlit like five movies or something

like that or it was a crazy amount. I don't know

if that's still the case but I don't know, like,

I'm all, we remember last episode we were talking

about lack of fantasy films, so if this gives

us more good fantasy and I do like Guy Ritchie

as a director, I'm all for it. And it's set to

open a little over a year from now, July of 2016.

Matt, you like fantasy. Is this something up

your alley or is this something that seems silly

to you? Uh... I don't know, man. Londonium? Why

even bother? Do we all know it's London? That

makes it sound like a future London doesn't I'm

with Dan this is gonna take place in the past

or the future like you got a gang of thieves

in Londonium and then he finds a sword in the

garbage can and now he's like I'm king Is that

is that an element on the periodic table? Can

someone confirm or deny that because I know like

Americanium or something is on there. I swear

Londonium I've seen before I think it's on the

periodic table of elements But yeah, I don't

know. I love the idea of King Arthur, and like

you said, I like the cast. I like the idea of

a fantasy film, so I'm hoping it's alright, because

I like Guy Ritchie, but I don't know. That synopsis

has me worried, so. Going back to you then, Matt,

what is your next story? My next story is about

Star Wars. Some of the first news we've actually

gotten about the spin -off, the first spin -off

movie, which is that they're going to title it

Rogue One. Which, if you've read the books, which

I know don't exist anymore or whatever. It was

the leader of Rogue Squadron, the elite starfighters

of the Rebel Alliance. But even in the movies,

Luke was Rogue One in Empire and Wedge takes

over in Return of the Jedi. So it's got some

of that. But we don't have much. We got a director,

we got a couple of actors. Uh, it could be in

the past, could be in the future. Um, either

way I'm interested. They've attached, uh, what's

her name? Felicity Jones. Felicity Jones as,

uh, the first actress they're gonna get. Which,

it would be interesting, cause I don't think

there's any female star fighters in the movies.

No, I don't recall any. And, and there, there

are very few even in the books. Um, and so I'm

excited, cause that's a great thing. And maybe

it'll be Cial Antilles, Wedge's daughter, which

would be great, because you could have that throwback

to the past. I don't know. I'm super excited.

That'd be cool. I'd be down for that for sure.

And I appreciate you bringing this new story

up, because it does fill the quota here on Weekend

at the Movies of talking about Star Wars at least

one time. So we've done that. I don't know. I'm

thrown off a little bit by the title. I like

the title. I like the potential synopsis or setting

that you just presented there with Wedge's offspring.

The original rumors about the first spinoff was

that it was going to be about Boba Fett and a

group of bounty hunters in some type of adventure.

To me, titling the film Rogue One says that that's

not the direction they're going for. I don't

know how that title would go or coexist with

a story about... Boba Fett, so maybe we're going

a different direction But it's Star Wars. So

hey, I'm all in until they do something bad.

Oh wait, they already did that So I guess it

doesn't matter for me they can do bad stuff they

can do good stuff I'm still gonna be excited.

What do you think Dan? Yeah, I mean, I guess

it could still kind of involve Boba Fett Maybe

it's like Rogue one is they're going after Boba

Fett and his group and maybe they're playing

on the idea of rogue because you can consider

Boba Fett a rogue too. I don't know But I mean,

this is going to be directed by Gareth Edwards,

who last did Godzilla. So, you know, a little

hesitant there. And I almost thought they would

do something more kind of, I don't know, like,

you know, knowing a guy coming from the guy who

does Godzilla and monsters, that would be something

along those lines. So a little bit surprised

there, but I do I do love good space battles.

I could like, you know, combat, fight, combat

some of my favorite parts of the Star Wars film.

So if a movie is all that and it could be pretty

cool I just you know and I love Felicity Jones

so that's that's pretty cool yeah I think there's

a lot of potential there for a space battle and

all -out kind of dogfight in space so that would

be that would be very cool to see especially

with our current technology and visual effects

prowess that has been displayed in some other

films so I'd be all for that. I'm just interested

to see what direction they're going to go with

the spinoffs, how much they're going to relate

to the other films, or if they're not going to

relate at all, what characters we're going to

focus on. I'm assuming they've tried to get away

from including Harrison Ford in anything just

to be safe. Too soon. Too soon. Did you guys

hear though that Carrie Fisher also got hurt?

No, because that's not as big a news somehow.

Yeah, she even labeled it like a Star Wars curse

and she in like a little sound bite or whatever,

she even said that Mark Hamill should probably

watch out since things usually happen in threes.

I'm trying to remember exactly what happened

to her, but she got hurt like the exact same

week that Harrison Ford got hurt. She walked

up to a door or something. That would not surprise

me. Car accident. What what it was a car accident

just days before Harrison Ford crashed his plane

So don't get into any vehicles if you're involved

in any of the Star Wars movies is the thing there

Geez, I hope they got all the filming that they

needed out of those people for good Dan what

what do you have for your next story? Well with

with cinderella opening this weekend it seems

fitting that there's news that another classic

disney film will be adapted for live action and

and that is dumbo and probably more and the tour

and probably the bigger element of the story

is the person who'll be doing it and that of

course is tim burton who brought the world alice

in wonderland so that has me worried because

tim burton hasn't really done anything good uh

though i did like frank and weenie i should that

was at least a decent little film uh but yeah

that has me a little upset Little hesitant. I

do. I think Dumbo is one of my favorite Disney

films. It's like the perfectly made movie. It's

only like 63 minutes, but I think it's really

like smartly done. And so I wonder if it would

fit for live action because, you know, it's definitely

animals and how that's going to work. But I don't

know. I'm a little worried if this is actually

going to seem like fitting Tim Burton style,

because it doesn't seem to me like a movie that

Tim Burton would make. But maybe that's a good

thing. Yeah, if you were to like list Disney

films that you think Tim Burton would be suitable

for if that's not a oxymoron Obviously Alice

in Wonderland is the first thing that comes your

mind and that's what he's done and he's doing

a sequel to that But I don't think I'd get to

Dumbo very quickly if I was listing things I'd

probably get I don't know like a Pinocchio or

something or Even like Beauty and the Beast I

could see because you know, there's right. There's

like a horror element in that but yeah Don't

know what was more shocking to me the live -action

part or the Tim Burton So this is coming out

like the same time a wriggling brothers isn't

doing elephants anymore But now we're gonna do

a live -action dumbbell though. I'm certain it'll

be all CGI I just I just don't know which one's

more scary Tim Burton or live -action So I don't

know this this whole article scares me a lot

I'm not as I didn't have as big of a personal

connection like or like memories on Dumbo as

you might have had I'm not saying it's a I'm

not disagreeing with your take on its quality

or it's a Caliber there, but it wasn't one that

personally I was like super invested in as a

kid So I wouldn't be as hurt if this was messed

up But it seems like there's a lot of potential

to be messed up Matt What do you think I can

I can they pull off live -action elephants in

the scale with big ears that fly? And will Johnny

Depp find a role well, I mean I'm sure Tim Burton

has already talked to him about it. Will he voice

Dumbo? Uh... Dumbo shouldn't have a voice though,

right? No, Dumbo talks. Doesn't he say at least

one line? No, he doesn't say anything in the

entire movie. Dang. I think I got that one wrong

on the movie quiz or whatever. Man, I don't know.

I never... I'm the worst person ever because

I haven't seen like 70 % of Disney movies, including

Dumbo. That surprises me with your girlfriend.

Yeah, no, it's a point of contention. Okay. Sorry

about that. No, it's fine. She busts my balls

for it all the time. It's not like I have a thing

against it. It's just a weird thing that just

didn't happen in my childhood, I guess. I also

didn't see Indiana Jones until I was in my 20s,

which is another weird thing. So I don't know.

I'm not excited at all, but... I don't know.

I don't think Tim Burton is as bad as everyone

thinks he is. I like a lot of the movies he's

done. He's had a few crappy ones recently, but

maybe Dumbo will be the one that saves his career.

That would be a feat in and of itself, and I

would give him more respect for that if he turned

things around with Dumbo. Another thing I would

never have thought I would have said. Yeah, we'll

have to wait and see on that for my other news

story. Again, a lot of people probably would

not be as excited about this one as I am, but

this one has me somewhat excited. And that is

the story of Newton Knight. But I don't know

what the actual, I guess the name is going to

be the Free State of Jones of the film. Directed

by Gary Ross. I know a lot of people might not

recognize that name. He is both a writer and

a director. didn't know this but he was actually

one of the writers I don't there was two writers

credited for the movie big back in 1988 and he

is one of them I don't know like I said I don't

know if he was the main one or not he also did

Seabiscuit as a writer Pleasantville Mr. Baseball

and helped with the screenplay of The Hunger

Games and wrote the animated film The Tale of

Despereaux And he is doing a film, apparently,

about this Civil War story based around the person

Newton Knight. For those of you that don't know,

he was a Confederate soldier who led a band of

deserters against the Confederacy during the

height of the Civil War. Apparently they attempted

to try to form their own state, the Free State

of Jones, near Jones County, Mississippi. But

it's kind of about this person's life. And another

reason why I'm interested besides it being Civil

War, and that's one of my favorite periods in

history, is that Matthew McConaughey is going

to star as Newton Knight, a man who married a

former slave. I'm not going to say this name

right either, but I'm not even going to try.

The main star in Beyond the Lights. And she was

also in the movie Belle. If you've ever seen

the cover for the movie Belle, that's this individual.

Dan, do you know how to say her name? I do not.

OK. I was going to try, but I just feel like

I would butcher it so bad that it's going to

be terrible. But yeah, so Matthew McConaughey

is the person he is portraying, married this

former slave, helped form a mixed race community

in the era of Reconstruction. So other names

attached to it are Kerry Russell, who a lot of

people probably know from the Americans currently,

or for Donna the Point of the Apes. And this

guy's had his name changed. Currently it's Mahershala

Ali from House of Cards. I don't know. I love

this time of history and right now I would see

anything that Matthew McConaughey is in so the

idea of this intrigues me. It's set to release

a year from now in March of 2016. Dan, what do

you think? Anything worth getting excited for?

I think the story itself is pretty interesting.

It's kind of when I saw this the first thing

thought that kind of came to my head was like

12 Years a Slave where it's like that story probably

hasn't been made into a movie yet because it's

like so crazy that it's true and it seems like

it's right for a good movie. The director doesn't

instill a great deal of confidence. I mean I

did like Pleasantville. Seabiscuit was you know

good too but he hasn't really done a great deal

in a while and Mr. Baseball was It's a fun, fine

film, but I don't know. You feel like this has

the potential of being an Oscar -worthy type

of movie, especially with McConaughey attached,

but him as a director, I don't know if that'll

be happened, but maybe, you never know. Sometimes

you're a person with the right material and it

can work out, but I'm definitely intrigued by

it, mostly based upon the story itself. The other

thing that really got me was the image that's

attached to the article. because I'm really buying

Matthew McConaughey as a Confederate soldier

in that get -up. Which I don't know if that's

a good thing. I'm like, I can really see him

being a Confederate soldier. Well, I mean, he

won't have any problems using his Texas accent

as Hiro has a big problem with from True Romance,

so maybe he'll cut him some slack on this. I

don't know. I guess he's technically... It doesn't

say necessarily where he's from. Obviously, at

some point he's getting... to Mississippi. I

don't know if that's necessarily where he grew

up or if that's just where he ends up throughout

the war. So I don't know. But Matt, what do you

think? Are you do you like war movies or anything

like that? Or is this not in your ballpark? You

know, I don't think I have anything against war

movies. I just don't find myself going to them.

I feel like this is like right up Nate's alley

to a point that he would have really liked something

like this. But I mean, I don't know. Like if

someone were like, hey, you want to go see that

Civil War movie? I'd be like, Okay Yeah, but

I'll drag you to it. Maybe in a year. Maybe you

haven't contacted me about a single movie this

whole year. Oh Man calling me out. All right,

we're going to a movie But yeah civil war and

revolutionary war are two of my favorite periods

in American history Just from the studies I've

done through school and stuff like that. So I'm

all about it and it's been a while since we've

had Something Dan of is my memory just failing

me It seems like it's been a while since we've

had something to deal with The Civil War specifically

I mean like as far as actual battles and stuff

like that. Oh actual battles Yeah, nothing's

popping into my head actually of a civil war

for me. You don't see them very often. It's usually

not actually centered on the the war stuff that

took place in that time period but not necessarily

about the war and I'm not saying that this one

will be I don't know how much of the war this

one will focus on or not but because it does

talk about reconstruction a bit which would be

obviously afterwards yeah the ones that come

to mind obviously like glory and Gettysburg and

but you know besides that there's not a great

deal of a Civil War film the Civil War war movies

at least So it might be a good time for something

like that to come out. Maybe people will be up

for that and it's not something that people are

gonna be tired of compared to, you know, a lot

of the other stuff that's gonna be available

that they've seen. Yeah, another World War II

drama. Right, exactly. I think that's it for

our news. Some things that we didn't talk about

just to throw out there so people don't think

we're idiots and didn't realize it happened.

But obviously there was the news story about

the Toy Story 4. That's not going to be a direct

sequel, but instead it's going to be a romantic

comedy. I did not see that. That's great. I don't

even know how to react to that. It could be good.

I don't know. I mean, it's supposed to be with

what? Ben and Barbie and Ken, right? That's what

the rumor was a long time ago. I don't know if

that's what this is going to be then, if that's

going to focus on that, or if we're going with

Woody or Buzz. Woody and Buzz romantic comedy?

Oh, man. Do it, Disney. Disney I didn't even

mean to say it like that, but uh, you know And

I won't doubt anything that Disney or Pixar or

whoever's gonna be directly involved this one's

gonna do And then of course, there will be this

will excite some people especially a TFG one

Mike. Apparently Tron 3 is happening Was the

last Tron technically Tron 2 then? Yeah, it was

yeah It was I'm missing any of them, so I'm so

in the dark on that. Oh man, Amy just bought

Tron 1 at the store. We should go watch that.

I haven't seen any of them, so I can do that.

And Tron 3 apparently is going to be shooting

in Vancouver this fall, so Tron fans can be excited

about that. As far as trailers go, the ones that

were new this week were for films entitled No

Escape, St. Lawrence, Little Boy, The Forger,

Tomorrow land had a second. I guess it's a first

actual trail I guess the other one was considered

a teaser five flights up a second trailer for

inside out and the first teaser for Hotel Transylvania

2 I didn't use any of these as my news story

because the ones that I would use I actually

refrained from watching. Yeah I guess the way

that I view trailers, and everybody has a different

opinion, some people will watch every trailer

that's available for every movie, the first trailer,

the second trailer, the teasers, and get as much

information as they can. Some people will avoid

100 % of trailers, like at all costs. My take

is this, and I'm interested to hear what you

guys say on how you view trailers, but my opinion

is I will watch trailers until I'm interested

in a film. So... Some films I'm interested in

regardless. I don't need to see a teaser. I don't

need to see a trailer like for Star Wars. I don't

need to see anything about that film. I already

know I'm interested. I can go watch it. I would

rather not know as much as possible. And then

there's other films that I don't know necessarily

if I'm interested in. I'm kind of on the fence,

so I will watch a trailer. And if that trailer

interests me, I will watch nothing else about

that film. So, I mean, that's kind of how I view

it is I watch trailers until I'm interested in

and then I kind of stop and that's why I did

not watch anything for I didn't watch the new

trailer for Tomorrowland or Inside Out because

I'm already on board for those two films. I did

watch and I didn't watch the trailer for Hotel

Transylvania 2 because I haven't seen the first

movie and I figured that it would be out of order.

So, I did watch the other trailers but nothing

necessarily that I wanted to bring up. What,

Dan, how do you view trailers? When it comes

to trailers, I used to be a person that would

kind of watch them all and seek them out and,

you know, go to IMDB every day and see what's

new, but it's kind of changed and I kind of pick

and choose honestly. For something like a Marvel

movie, I tend to watch the trailers because I

feel like they don't give away a great deal or

at least I feel like it'd be impossible to avoid

them anyway, so why bother? But if it's a movie

that I know I'm going to see just based upon

the director and my, you know, the fact that

I like what they've done in the past, I... tend

to try to avoid them like interstellar I avoid

it at all costs with as much as possible so you

know if they come up in the theater and I'm there

I don't I don't like walk out but I like to go

in blind as much as I can if I see something's

getting good praise that's usually just enough

motivation for me to see it uh and see if I'm

gonna like it but uh yeah I just feel like I

like going in blind as much as possible anymore

what about you Matt uh I guess I don't put as

much thought into it as you guys do I guess Like,

if I'm at a theater, I'll watch any trailer,

of course. Um, I don't generally seek out trailers,

although when we were watching them every week

for MYR, I kind of enjoyed that. I've avoided

every trailer for Avengers, and I probably will

avoid every trailer for Marvel movie unless I'm

really concerned. But, and I think I like that

the best is, like, if I'm interested in the movie

not seeing anything but ahead of time. But with

like Star Wars, like I was there day one, I think

I've watched the Star Wars trailer like ten times

because it's Star Wars and I can't get enough

Star Wars in my life. Like I said I would find

watching trailers fun, but I only want to watch

them mainly about movies I don't know anything

about yeah, and maybe it'll spark some interest

Maybe it'll make me interested in watching that

movie or seek it out compared to a movie that

I'm just like I don't know anything about it

So that's kind of how where I view it as a more

of a discovery tool So if I've already discovered

the movie I already know about it. I don't necessarily

need to see the trailer makes sense so sometimes

it's good like a deciding factor like I don't

know this one you know anything about them, I

might check the trailer out, but you know sometimes

it's just good it's you know going knowing nothing

even if and just be surprised but sometimes i

find even like having a trailer can benefit the

watch where it's like you kind of have a better

idea of what a movie is going in to it so you

can put start putting the pieces together and

almost you know not have to play catch -up at

times which can be beneficial And I would probably

enjoy trailers even more if people if there was

like a class that everybody could go to on What

you should do and what you shouldn't do in a

trailer. I Feel like for some reason the people

that are in charge of comedies are absolutely

the worst at putting together trailers You don't

need to put your funniest jokes on the trailers

That's actually probably the worst thing you

can do and they all do it Yeah, and then it's

like you come out and you're like, oh I laughed

at the three things that I knew were gonna happen

and it would have been a lot Funnier if I would

have saw it live. Yeah, so And I will mention

that that little I mentioned there was a quote

-unquote new trailer for a little boy It's labeled

as the first US trailer that trailer has existed

for At least six months, hasn't it? That trailer,

I swear we talked about it a long time ago. I

don't know if it was a scheduled release that

then got shelved and now they're kind of bringing

it back as to, hey, it's closer to when we're

actually going to release it, so we're going

to release this trailer and call it the first

trailer again, but I saw that last year at some

point, so it's not new. The rest you can go to

the website geekcastreader .com. There'll be

links to all of those trailers so you can click

on them and watch them and check them out. Maybe

you like watching all the trailers so you'll

watch the Tomorrowland and the Inside Out one.

The one I got the most out of was Five Flights

Up. That seemed intriguing to me but leave it

up to you guys if you want to watch them or not.

So we're going to take a quick break. And then

we'll be back with our main attraction, which

is going to be an extended version of what we've

been watching recently and look at a couple of

2015 films that we've seen. So we'll be right

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thanks for sticking with us and like i said we're

having a little extended version of what we've

been watching uh... would just kind of go around

the table and just like we did with the news

and we'll discuss each one some of them i know

there's at least one that uh... multiple people

have seen So that one might go a little bit longer,

but we'll start with Matt and doesn't have to

be a 2015 film Matt But what and what is one

of the films you saw this week? One of the films

I saw this week And I actually posted to my Twitter

was the original Star Wars And I mean the original

Star Wars back before a new hope ever existed

as a concept Because it's the original 1977 theatrical

release that doesn't have that in the scroll

doesn't say episode anything doesn't say a new

hope Just the first Star Wars Yes, how'd you

even get access to that? It's hard to even find

they they released them on a very limited edition

DVD run And it's actually just a copy of the

early 90s Laserdisc version. And those are the

only two versions I know that exist of it in

digital form. It was Laserdisc and then in one

run for DVD. And you know, fingers crossed they

put them on whatever Disney Blu -rays come out.

Because it's not even anamorphic. You have to

adjust your screen. Because it's got like four

black bars on it. But it's the original one.

Han blasts Greedo without Greedo shooting him.

It's great. Nice and You liked it more or less

than the last time you watched it I don't think

you could like Star Wars more or less. I like

it Star Wars amount I don't know if it's ever

really come up here like I'm very knowledgeable

and very into comic books But like my Star Wars

knowledge and fandom is so much like it just

eclipses that Like we haven't had a Star Wars

movie come out yet guys. It's gonna get ridiculous

here It's a I believe that's the only I'm trying

to think back. I think that's one of the only

films I've lined up for on opening night on multiple

occasions Yeah, we back in the when I was in

high school. There was a Star Wars tripper pursuit

that came out and I remember in our I think it

was a some type of advanced biology or whatever

type of course. It was either my junior or senior

year, but the teacher was really relaxed and

basically we would get our stuff at the beginning

of the class period and it was somewhat of an

advanced class and most of us would be done with

time to spare. And my cousin was also in that

class and we were probably the two biggest Star

Wars nerds in the whole school. And the teacher

was pretty into it too, so we would have... the

three of us playing this Star Wars server pursuit

at the end of every class and there was multiple

times where whoever went first won and if anyone's

familiar with trigger pursuit that is not necessarily

an easy thing and it doesn't that's not a quick

thing but you had to be careful because someone

might just run the table and not get a single

question wrong I would not be as good today as

I was then but I'm with you Matt so how many

times do you think you've seen Star Wars? I don't

know. I know it was a minimum once a year thing

when I was a child. The last time I saw it was

less than a year ago when I first got these DVDs,

which I'd been tracking them on the used market

and I was like, I don't really want to pay 40

bucks a DVD. I got lucky some moron in our town

sold them to the used DVD shop and I got them

for 12 bucks a piece, which is insane. But yeah,

so as soon as I got them, I went to a friend's

house and we watched them all back -to -back

So I think I've seen just a new hope four times

in the last year So I couldn't even guess how

many times I've seen in my life Dan, how about

you? How many times have you seen Star Wars films?

Like from start to finish. I it's tough. I probably

you know 25 or above would it be assumption if

you count just catching them randomly on tv or

you know watching them whenever i don't know

it's it's up there but i would assume it would

similarly be like nearly once a once a year since

i was you know six years old or so so right And

something we've been slacking on we haven't been

we haven't done much for grades recently on on

the show So our scale on the website when we

do our reviews is five stars Matt What would

you give this out of five stars what Star Wars?

Yeah, like five like I don't I could like I mean

I couldn't even make Okay, so get this When the

blu -rays came out they had deleted scenes on

them and I hadn't seen those and I've been like

Like, I need to find someone who has the Blu

-rays or I need to buy the Blu -rays just for

these deleted scenes. But it kind of fell out

of my mind, you know, a year or two ago. I accidentally

caught just the A New Hope scenes on YouTube

and they're all out there now if you want to

see them and you haven't somehow. And it was

just like, I was watching it like, there's more

Star Wars. Like and I literally watch just the

new hope scenes right where there's more bigs

and you get the Tashi station scene and I'm just

like It was mind -blowing. I was five years old

again and Like I actually haven't watched the

Empire ones because I don't want to go through

them too fast because I'll be out of Star Wars

I gotta go buy the blu -rays now. Damn it. I

see you don't cuz they're on YouTube it No, I

still have to go buy Gotta wait because Disney

might release a really good version. All right,

good point. Good point. I'll wait Dan what about

you? What's that? What's a movie you watch this

week? Oh, well, I'll start with one that I think

you saw You saw Kevin and I'm actually gonna

start from worse the best though worse might

be a strong word and I saw focus starring Margot

Robbie in Will Smith Notice that you said Margot

Robbie first wasn't even I went in alphabetical

order I will actually say though. I thought I

thought Will Smith to me. This was Will Smith

that I Kind of became a fan of it felt like Will

Smith kind of got back to his old mojail a little

bit with this movie, but Overall, you know focus

this movie I like but think little of in the

sense that like kind of disposable in that way

It's kind of the word that comes to my mind after

I was watching I'm like, yeah, I like it if it

was kind of this disposable It was like room

temperature water, you know, it's like it'll

quench your thirst But it's not something you

ever crave or like seek out just like yeah if

I nothing else I guess this is this will do the

job, but Did like Margot Robbie and Will Smith

together thought they had good chemistry when

it came to like the protege a teacher relationship

They're like, you know romantic relationship

not so much I feel like if anything that that

took away from it and for those that don't know

they basically play these two con artists that

go through and They start off in New Orleans

during the Super Bowl and and I one of my favorite

scenes was the the scene during the Super Bowl

and I thought that was a lot of fun, but I don't

know I think it never reached that again. And

like I said, I feel like the Relationship angle

anything got in the way and romantically. I don't

think it was really that strong I felt like it'd

be a better movie without it It got a lot in

the way a lot and I thought a lot of the cons

They did were kind of we're interesting enough.

It it wasn't really breaking new ground wasn't

really trying to Considering the talent involved

with someone like Margot Robbie and Will Smith

to me We would think it would be something better,

but I don't know. I thought it was enjoyable

enough I didn't hate it. It was just kind of

like a you know worth the rental, but not something

I would seek out I think What for me kind of

one of the takeaways for me when watching this

film is I was trying to think back To other films

in this genre other con movies, and I think it's

a hard. It's a hard genre because You set everything

up, and I think the journey is usually entertaining

and usually interesting But I think with any

movie that's based on either a big con job or

con artist or anything like that, it all depends

on the payoff at the end for me. And if you miss

that, the whole movie just seems to deflate a

little bit for me. And I think that's one of

the biggest flaws for this film is that it does

a good job of setting up how slick they are and

how quick with their different cons are and witty

or clever or whatever. in the movie like that

you're always kind of anticipating something

that's coming up like it's all building towards

something and I think with that genre maybe more

than a lot of genres it really is dependent on

the the final act and the finale of the film.

Do you get that same type of feel when you watch

a con movie Dan? Yeah I mean if it doesn't have

that good payoff it definitely hurts it a little

bit and I think that what issue with the ending

for focus is that it telegraphs itself so much

that when it happens it's just like oh Yeah.

Okay. And it, it, you like a great con usually

has a really good like not trick ending, but

like, Oh, okay. Like you've been calling the

entire time. Like almost like a meta thing element

to it where focus was just kind of like, yeah,

this is kind of, we told you exactly what was

going to happen in the beginning of the movie,

which seems a little bit of a let down. And movies

like that are also usually filled with lots of

different twists, lots of different tricks or

whatever. And something else that either makes

or breaks a movie is how many of those are predictable

and how many of those do catch you off guard,

like you said, and actually con the audience

that's watching them. Because when I think back

at the most successful movies like that, I think

of something like, I would put like usual suspects

in that group, even though it's not necessarily

like the same type of... of con movie. It's something

that, you know, as an audience, the first time

you're watching it, you are, for all intents

and purposes, conned to a point where the ending

does pay off. And a lot of people that I was

listening to review this film also had a big

feeling that it felt like two different movies.

Did you get that impression where it feels like

one movie up through the Super Bowl and then

everything that happens after that seems like

out of left field in a different film altogether?

I didn't really feel that it does feel like it

ends after the Super Bowl like I could kind of

see that but totally and Everything else it I

mean it was a little bit different, but it didn't

feel like two separate movies I felt kind of

cohesive enough for me. I didn't yeah, I didn't

get that as much as everyone else was saying

either I can understand liking the first part

better And not liking the other part as much,

but I still felt like it was the same same, you

know thematic film and you said you'd Is it a

good sign for us that Will Smith and Margot Robbie,

even though maybe the romantic angle might not

have worked as much, but that there was a decent

amount of interaction and chemistry between them,

seeing that they will be together again here

coming up? I guess it's a good sign, though.

I think their characters are going to be vastly

different in Suicide Squad. At least they have

some experience working together, and I love

a lot of the little, like, in -jokes that they

threw about Australia in the movie, because Margot

Robbie's from there, which kind of seemed kind

of random, but yeah, I think it's at least a

good sign, because if they were awful together,

then it would kind of not bode very well for

Suicide Squad. I did think some of the supporting

cast was worth watching as well. There's some

good characters that are involved on the outskirts

of this film as well. And they did do a good

job of balancing some lines there with making

the jokes or making the humor somewhat crude,

somewhat out there, but still handled with a

way that didn't make it seem like that. Yeah,

it's interesting. I guess the one character,

I forget who plays it, but he's the, I think

he's called the Fat Persian or something like

that. I think that's like one of his names, but

that was originally supposed to be played by

Artie Lang. from how it's turned, but he ended

up turning it down. I don't, which I think was

a good thing, because I don't think him playing

that part really well. Yeah, I mean, I'm with

you though on this one. I thought it was an enjoyable

film. It's worth a watch. Like you said, if it's

something that comes up on TV or something you're,

you know, Redboxing or Netflixing or whatever,

I don't know if that's the proper way. Are those,

can I use those as that form of speech? Redboxing

and Netflixing? I use Netflixing. Okay, so if

you're doing that I think it's fine. I don't

necessarily think it was worth my theater money

But I'll just say that I maybe used my rewards

for AMC for that. So maybe I didn't pay for it

But yeah, I think it's a it's a fun watch. I

had fun with it I didn't think Will Smith was

as bad as he's getting flack for I thought he

was somewhat charismatic Even if he did look

a little worse for wear physically Where do you

where would you grade this one if we're going

on five stars? I gave it three out of five like

which is like, you know passable basically, you

know, yeah, I Can see that. Um, I I did just

do my first review of the year I was waiting

until I had seen ten films for 2015 to do my

first review because I as part of my review I've

just for my own fun and Entertainment. I'm doing

a running top ten list. I just want to put it

out there for anybody that's looking at that

that that's based on 10 films. So at the beginning

of the year, it's going to seem a little ridiculous

and it'll get better as more films come out.

So please don't look at that and see that I have

The Seventh Son listed in my top 10 as anything

bad. It's one of the 10 films I've seen. So I

have focused currently in my number three spot.

So that that's a sign of what's happened so far

in 2015. But I'm right with you. I would give

that one a three out of five as well. So. agreement

from both of us uh... what movie have i seen

that i wanted to talk about that uh... something

i probably should be prepared about uh... maybe

oh yeah that's good um... i'd just such happy

uh... which were again was going to be one of

the main things but uh... some things prevented

everybody from seeing it uh... and that is uh...

definitely a polarizing film i will say that

much uh... in listening to both the True Bromance

podcast and the In Session film, those are the

only two that I've listened to so far that have

reviewed Chappie. Definitely a split panel, but

since JD was on both shows and he was the one

that was for it, I guess it's not as split. He

was going against DJ Valentine and Brendan on

In Session who both hated it, and he was going

up against Barry and Hiro on True Bromance who

both did not say as fond things about it as he

did. But I've heard a little of everything both

in reading reviews and whatnot. It's not getting

good scores on Rotten Tomatoes. I think it's

in the 20s or 30s or something. I haven't checked

it recently, so it might have changed. But for

those of you who don't know, Chappie's obviously

the latest film from Neil Blomkamp, starring

Charlotte Copley, Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman, I

guess I can say Sigourney Weaver. But saying

that they're starring her would be misleading.

But it's all about this character named Chappie.

who is clearly from the previews and from the

posters, most people will see that it's some

type of robot, android, machine, AI type of character.

I'm not going to give too much away because I

know you guys haven't seen it and I don't want

to spoil too much. But people are familiar with

Neil Blomkamp. He did District 9 and Elysium.

Is it a coincidence on the poster for Chappie

that it says from the director of District 9?

Yeah. And, you know, and maybe Elysium. Yeah,

not listed anywhere. I mean, District 9 is bigger

type than most of the other things. So I don't

know. But it just tells the story of this character.

Obviously, we're in like a RoboCop type setting

where machines have somewhat supplemented the

police force in this society, which can only

be seen as a futuristic South Africa, I guess.

I think it might actually even give a year and

say South Africa. So I'd have to go back. Since

I was in the theater, I wasn't taking notes this

time. So I believe they might even put a date

and a place there. But that's basically the setting

for it. Basically, we're just following the character

of Chappie in his creation and in his kind of

upbringing slash development over time and It's

a that's about all I'm gonna say because I don't

want to really say too much To spoil things like

I said again, but it basically just follows that

character a lot of people have problems with

the The character of Hugh Jackman, I won't disagree

that that is a major problem to this whole film.

He is awful in this film. I'm not saying he as

an actor is awful, but as the character and how

it's written is awful. I don't know, man. I think

there is some redeeming qualities to this film,

though, and I think the main redeeming quality

is the character of Chappie. I think he will

go down as probably one of the more memorable

characters of 2015, kind of projecting forward

a little bit. Charlto Copley does an amazing

job with the voice, with the mannerisms, with

whatever he was doing to bring that character

to life, and you definitely empathize with the

character of Chappie. So I think there is some

interesting things to take away. There's also

a lot of... Maybe not huge themes, but there

is a lot of themes concerning, like you would

expect in a movie like this, you know, humans

versus machines type thing, and how much trust

or how much control do you want to give the machines

versus humans. There is some themes about parenting

and some themes about upbringing and that type

of thing. So I think there's some good takeaways

from this film, but there also are a lot of plot.

Holes and errors and things that don't make any

sense. So it's a flawed film, but it's still

something that I enjoyed I think I would probably

on a score give it about the same as we did focus

Three is what I gave it on the review. I would

say it's a pretty strong three though I was real

close to giving a half point doing like a three

and a half or something like that Also, just

to point this out. It stars two people. I just

have to say their names here Ninja and Yolande

And those are both the characters names in the

film as well as the actual people His name is

ninja nice And then it also the the third member

of that gang is called America with a K But that's

not his actual name. So I don't know I I think

I'd be really interested to see what you guys

think about this film when you when you get a

chance to see it But yeah three out of five for

me real strong three out of five for me for Chappie

It's not like Brendan in sessions said it's not

the worst film. He's ever seen there's no way

that That's hyperbole edits at its absolute worst

For me if I'm saying something like it's the

worst film of the year Which obviously we do

that from time to time what? The only way something

can be the worst film of the year is if it absolutely

has no redeeming qualities if it's both awful

from a plot standpoint, awful from a writing,

awful from an acting, you know, if there's just

absolutely nothing redeeming about it, something

like Kellyn Lutz's Hercules last year, you know,

that you can, even that you can say is the worst

film of the year, or at least in the running,

I don't think it was my worst film, but you could

say that about something. Chappie, you can't

call Chappie the worst film of the year. There's

too many redeeming qualities about this, or at

least discussion points, so I'm not gonna go

that far, so real strong three out of five, Matt.

I'll stop talking and let you talk. What was

the second movie you watched this week Empire

Strikes Back? Again original theatrical release

I wanted to watch this one first honestly But

it's like I haven't seen Star Wars in like three

or four months, so I should probably watch that

one before I don't know there's nothing to say

about it. It's Empire Strikes Back It's the it's

it's in the running for best Star Wars movie

of all time some people like Jedi more some people

like a new hope, but I like Empire. I just wish

I were of the right age when it came out. Like,

you know, when it came out in the 80s, like,

it's like a terrible movie. Like, I mean, like,

Han Solo's captured, Luke's been de -limbed,

Vader's his father, apparently. It's just like,

it's gotta be one of the most miserable experiences,

and you have like three years before another

movie comes out. And they weren't to the point

yet where they could do one every year Yeah,

it's just like not like I can't even imagine

what that was like to be a kid at that time Yeah,

that would have been my brother was a kid at

that time and he saw them all in the theater

I should ask him what that was what that was

like but I like everybody else that we we talked

to had to see it didn't in reruns or you know

VHS or whatever so I do I do have a question

for is there a lot Is there a lot of difference

between Empire Strikes Back, the theoretical,

and then the updated version by Lucas? I mean,

I know like all the changes from, you know, New

Hope and Return, but I don't really hear much

about the changes for Empire. Is there a bunch?

I actually don't know. There was actually one

bit I was watching, I was like, whoa, I would

have thought that would have been a... Lucas

added like when they ejected the the trash and

Han Solo, you know D latches like there's actually

a cockpit scene with Boba Fett and I didn't know

that that was in there and I was like, oh I didn't

expect that But like yeah, I don't I you know,

I really don't know. I don't even know what's

the differences in Jedi even What did I know

it's like a lot of the ending what's the different

endings like the different cities and stuff like

that? Oh, yeah Oh is a song one in Empire to

the additional songs from the band No, that's

that was Jedi today. Okay, and Jedi has all the

other new job of the hut stuff too, right? Yeah

I only remember oh, yeah Jedi has the additional

band All right, well apparently we all need to

revisit the different versions and get first

stuff on that. We'll get corrected by people

online, so that's okay. All right, and I assume

that's a five out of five as well, Matt? Oh,

definitely. A six if we can get it. All right.

Dan, what do you got next? The second film I

want to get, another 2015 film. This is currently

available on demand, and it is the... It is The

Salvation, starring Mads Mikkelsen, Castro Van

Deen, and Eva Green. And it's a classic, it's

a... we're classic like Revenge Western that

you don't really we don't really get that much

anymore and I checked it out because I'm pretty

much a fan of everything Mads Mikkelsen does

uh since since I first saw him probably the first

thing I saw him was in Casino Royale uh for those

that don't know he plays the chief in that he's

the main villain he's also Hannibal in the new

Hannibal show on NBC he uh big fan of him from

The Hunt from two years ago that was quite a

good movie and uh The Hall of Rising as well

uh so pretty much like everything he does like

he he kind of has like a look to him that can

be both like for voting and but also like just

with a few adjustments, a little bit sympathetic

at the same time. And I think he uses both well

for this role. He plays a Danish immigrant who

travels to the United States due to a war in

his country with Germany. He goes out west with

his brother to get land and we meet him and the

film starts when his son and wife have finally

come out west to kind of live with him. And then

a tragedy occurs as happens with Revenge Westerns

in the beginning of the film and it kind of leads

him down. this spiral in his life and those around

him. And other people in the film like Casper

Van Deen. He is like kind of the black hat the

evil cowboy as it would He was good. I wish we

got more of his character Like he was good in

this parts like he was in like we saw that he

was feared by everyone around him But I wish

we got more like we kind of better understanding

of who was character was we don't get a lot there

Eva greens a lot of fun It's actually a world

that she keeps her clothes on for which is a

little weird She doesn't do that all the time

anymore That's for sure I don't know if I lost

you guys no no no that's definitely for sure

She please it's interesting though. She doesn't

say a word in the movie because when she was

in her character when she was a child her tongue

was cut out so she is unable to speak so she

which is but she does a really good job of displaying

emotion just through facial expressions and her

character is actually probably one of the more

interesting in the film so it's a classic revenge

western it fills that trope really well it's

within that genre it's not really doing anything

brand new but it just does it really effectively

the action is pretty well shot it's actually

well shot overall they shot the film in south

africa leave to kind of take place for the West

and it really gets that isolated feeling of the

West really well where it just feels like there's

like no hope outside of these towns you can understand

why they're be so corruptible because just like

there's they're so desolate and you know just

like almost just like a dryness throughout the

atmosphere but If you're in the lookout for good

Westerns because they're a dime a dozen anymore

that really hard to find Which is I use the wrong

metaphor time a dozen isn't means there's too

many of them But they're really hard to find

you there's a few out there dead man's burden

Which was pretty good true grid, of course and

Django on chain, but I do like Westerns I do

like seeing you new Westerns when they do come

out and you can get it I wouldn't probably pay

six bucks for it. Maybe just wait For it when

it's on Netflix, probably give it about a 3 .5

a little bit better than focus, but again, it's

not gonna go down as like a Transcendent of the

genre just kind of stays within it and does it

well. I Feel like I feel like you me and JD were

all sitting down in front of our TVs one day

like scrolling through on -demand stuff and We

all selected different films to watch But I was

definitely considering all the ones that you

guys watched because he just did an extra film

podcast where they talked about Maps to the Stars,

which is one of the ones I was considering. The

Salvation was one of the ones I was considering.

And then there was like two other ones. The one

is called, I'm going to get it wrong now, it's

starring Forrest Whitaker and shoot, I want to

say Anthony Hopkins. That might be wrong, but

Drama and I'm not even gonna remember the name

it starts with a T. It's like two two men or

two something I don't know that's terrible podcasting

right there, but that was one of the ones I was

considering and the other one was Serena I'm

sorry and Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence,

and that's the one I ended up watching and even

though JD didn't give like a ringing endorsement

of maps to the stars and even though you only

gave The salvation of three and a half. I wish

I would have watched either one of those I once

watched Serena myself, but I just I have not

heard great things. So I feel like I would wait

off and not pay the like eight dollars for it

for on demand or whatever. Yeah, my mistake.

You know, it's got Bradley Cooper. It's got Jennifer

Lawrence. The setting is a depression era in

North Carolina. The future of George Pemberton's

Timber Empire becomes complicated when he marries

Serena. And the tagline is some loves can never

let you go. Yeah, also in this film was a re

I always say his name wrong to a recent fans

the guy who played the lizard in the Amazing

Spider -Man, okay? He plays a pretty interesting

character. It might be the best part of the film

and it's written by directed by somebody named

Suzanne buyer or beer or bear bi er who is On

IMDB it says is known for the films in a better

world after the wedding and brothers. Have you

seen any of those Dan? In a better world I have.

It's actually, I do like that movie. It's like

a modern day Bicycle Thieves. Gotcha. Well I

hadn't seen anything that's listed on her IMDB

so I really couldn't judge anything on it. But

maybe she has better stuff like you're saying.

Maybe in a better world and some of these things

are worth checking out. But this movie so badly

wanted to be There Will Be Blood. Feel like it

wanted to be that film and I'm not saying there's

a lot necessarily to compare about them other

than they're like period pieces They're kind

of in the same type of a setting so to speak

and you know, obviously Daniel D Lewis is is

kind of the the oil baron so to speak whereas

Bradley Cooper here is playing like a timber

Baron, I guess you can call him But basically

it's Bradley Cooper's character. He is in charge

of this big timber Empire and You know, it's

a dangerous business again similar to there will

be blood people are dying, you know during the

work, you know trees are falling on people or

Just random accidents that that could be occurring

in this time. You know, it's also a depression

like setting and then he You know meets Jennifer

Lawrence who at the time is like some type of

horse Rider, I don't know what she was technically

doing, but she's driving a horse around in some

type of competition I don't know what the term

for that is because I'm Ignorant right now, but

it wasn't a jockey It's not like she was racing

them is one of those like should almost like

a show horse type thing Where you just kind of

gently run around in circles and occasionally

jump over like a block like the Olympics things

where they make them dance Not quite that either.

It's a great discussion on horses though. But

anyways, he's taken it back. No, not a carousel

either. That might have been interesting though.

But he's taken it back by Jennifer Lawrence's

character and, you know, of course it's in the

plot so I'm not giving anything away. He marries

her and brings her back to, you know... His location

of this timber empire and you know, they're kind

of running it together so to speak meanwhile

the setting is that they're you know, the the

local law enforcement as well as some very seemingly

important people are trying to basically get

him to sell his land so that they can Do whatever

I don't ever remember it wasn't that important

but so they can do something with his land and

so he's trying to fight that so there's a little

bit of back and forth between him and the officials

of that area and and some people even within

his own company or Empire that you know Possibly

flirting with the idea of selling him out and

because he has some some hidden secrets that

if they get out will ruin him type of thing But

Jennifer Lawrence character is absolutely batshit

insane This is possibly worse than marrying the

chick from Gone Girl, what Ben Affleck did in

that film. I think she would rival that level

of mistake as far as marriage goes. But I don't

know, I don't... This movie is bad. This movie

is bad in all kinds of different ways, but if

you loved There Will Be Blood, which I did, maybe

you would find something out of here, but I didn't.

I just felt like it was trying to be that film,

like trying to be the same mood, trying to be

the same darkness, but with none of the coolness

of There Will Be Blood because there's no Daniel

Day Lewis and there's no cleverly written dialogue,

like... This movie needed someone to rewrite

all the dialogue to make it more engaging. And

then maybe it would have had a chance. But I

can't give this one more than a two out of five.

So not a ringing endorsement from me for Serena

here. But yes, Two Men in Town, Dan is the name

of the other one. That was the name of the other

one. So in my, I didn't mention it when I was

doing my top 10 of 2015, what my little list

was when we talked about Chavvy, but I said Focus

was at number three, Chappie's currently actually

at number two for me, with Kingsman being at

number one. Serena ranks in at number six right

now. So that ringing a door is not giving it

two out of five, why is it six out of my top

ten? So that was it for me this week. Matt, we

talked about the two that you'd seen. Dan, I

think you had one other one that you watched,

though. Yeah, I watched one other one. I'll be

quick with this one. It's also available on demand,

and it's What We Do in the Shadows, and it's...

a mockumentary directed by Jermaine Clement and

Takiya Wati. I'm probably saying that horribly

wrong, but those, the Jermaine Clement. you probably

have heard his name, obviously he's connected

with Flight of the Conchords, and what's it about?

It's a mockumentary about vampires, which sounds

a little bit ridiculous, and it is, but in all

the best ways possible, and I actually really

ended up liking this a great deal. If you're

a fan of the Flight of the Conchords, you'll

probably really like the humor here. You know,

there's some broad humor here and there, but

a lot of great subtle jokes, and a lot of the

same characters and actors that you've seen in

Flight of the Conchords do come and show up in...

of what we do in the shadows, some really great

cameos, especially when the whale will show up.

That's a lot of fun. And it, I think it does

a really good job of like kind of poking fun

of the vampire culture, but in a lot of, you

know, obvious ways, but some interesting ways

too. And it's just, it's kind of, they deal with

some of the fish out of water stuff where you

have these characters who are hundreds of years

old and still kind of stuck in their own ways,

but it doesn't kind of harpen on that too much,

but. It's I know it's a lot of fun. I'm a sucker

for good mockumentaries I do like that style

like the office is one of my favorite TV shows

and I think it does it Well, and it it doesn't

it almost feels like a like a modern -day spinal

tap Not nearly as good as spinal tap, but at

least it is able to find like intriguing ways

to approach the idea of what a vampire would

be like in real life. So it's it's cool. It's

it's fun. And there's actually, you know, for

low budget films, some really decent special

effects, too. So some really bad special effects.

But, you know, it's it's fun if. But I don't

know. Have you seen it, Kevin? No, I have not,

but you had me at Jermaine Clement and Flight

of the Concord, so it's on my list now. What

kind of ranking would you give this one? I give

it four out of five, which is, you know, I really

liked it. And right now it's probably sitting

out of my favorite film of the year so far out

of the six that I've seen. So I don't know if

that's a ringing endorsement, but I did like

it a great deal. Did you say it was available

on Netflix or on demand? It's available on demand

currently. Like I when they when they announced

that it was hitting theaters. I checked the website

It wasn't coming anywhere near us like more than

an hour drive at least Which really bummed me

out because I was super excited for it when I

first saw the trailers last year But I'm glad

it's on demand. I might actually try to catch

that one this weekend Matt that might be something

that we would almost that'd be fun to watch together

as well We will have to discuss that all right,

so I think that's it right We didn't get I didn't

leave any of you out with anything you saw this

week Nope. Nope. That's all I got. Okay. Looking

ahead to the weekend coming up, a couple things.

Obviously, like we mentioned, Cinderella is playing

as we speak, so that is something that you might

want to be... going to see if you're interested

in that story. Also, like Dan mentioned when

we were talking about Liam Neeson, the film Run

All Night is also being released either as we

speak or as you're listening to this, whichever

way you want to talk about that. Also, Home Sweet

Hell starring Katherine Heigl, Jim Belushi, Patrick

Wilson. The tagline for that is Psycho Wife,

Unhappy Life. Also Yeah Symboline starring Ethan

Hawke Ed Harris Mila Jovovich John Leguizamo

and Dakota Johnson The Cobbler which we talked

about last week with Adam Sandler Again, I don't

some of these are going straight to on you know

on -demand or straight to a DVD There's also

one called Walter There's also one called it

follows which quote is one of the most striking

American horror films in years I've actually

heard a lot of great things about it follows

which I hopefully Check out before next week.

Alright, and like I said, Walter, which is starring

a whole bunch of people that are looking for

work, Nev Campbell, William H. Macy, and some

other people. I believe it's a documentary called

The Wrecking Crew. I think that's a documentary

dealing with the West Coast music scene. I don't

know, it has Nat King Cole, Elvis, Frank Sinatra,

Simon and Garfunkel, The Righteous Brothers,

and a whole bunch of other people listed, so

I believe it's some type of documentary. I think

that's pretty much it for films being released

in the theater or going straight to on -demand.

As far as Blu -ray's coming out, coming up this

next Tuesday after the weekend's over, you have

Penguins of Madagascar, you have Exodus, Gods

and Kings. Dan, you lining up for that one? Not

so much. I do plan on watching it just because

I feel like I have to watch all the Ridley Scott

movies because I don't know. I'm not seeking

it out. I've yet to see it. Are you instead going

to seek out Annie the combo pack? Oh, man, I'm

gonna wait for the special edition Okay, there

is also I should say a combo pack of penguins

of Madagascar song of the sea combo pack Which

I have heard some good things about that son

of a gun Ewan McGregor and Brennan Thwaites film,

which is also currently on demand Vice starring

Bruce Willis and Thomas Jane and the last one

coming out to DVD would be Chris Rock's top five

which was released late in the year last year.

So that one I would say is worth a watch if you're

not paying too much for it. I did enjoy that

one. So those are the Blu -ray slash DVD releases

for this week. Does anybody have a question for

the fans based on anything we talked about or

anything that's coming up? Matt, you got anything?

I was wondering, and this might be an okay question

if we haven't done it or similar enough before.

We've got our first Star Wars spinoff. What Star

Wars story do you want to see? That's not a bad

one. We got multiple spinoffs apparently coming

up. What other stories do you want to see? I

know the ones that have been most rumored have

been the Han Solo centric one, the Boba Fett

one. So what other characters or groups or events

do you want them to focus on? Can I throw out

my opinion that I'm kind of hoping that Rogue

One isn't Boba Fett centric? Cause like, I feel

like, so Boba Fett's like the coolest character

in Star Wars, right? We can all say that, but

like, I like the idea of being like, well we're

not gonna use him in the first movie, cause we

don't have to. Like, I mean, it's like the opposite

of what Warner Brothers is doing with their like,

their movies, where they're just like, let's

get all the good things right away. Like, I don't

know man. Hold back, hold back. I'm fine with

whatever they do, as long as it's good and it

works. I don't care what order they give it to

us, but I would like to eventually see a Boba

Fett -centered film at some point. So maybe they

could put that in their back pocket in case they

need to ramp up anticipation again if something

else doesn't go quite as well, like something

directed by Gareth Edwards. So that's a great

question. We also did get a bunch of feedback.

for our top 10 science fiction and fantasy films

I don't know if you guys had seen that on the

website or not but definitely appreciate those

chiming in on it a lot of people saying some

good stuff that they really like that episode

and they're looking forward to the other list

so so that's a great and and some people kind

of throwing out their opinions on stuff that

that they saw on the list that they didn't expect

or Matt one person At least one person saying

that their tastes most closely lined up with

yours. Is it Jason Aaron? I don't know. Well,

I've got it open, but that was like right after.

Maybe even the day of he put that in. So big

props to that guy for liking what I like. So

there was this one time on Top Gear they were

talking about the greatest cars in Europe and

they all chose a different car and then at the

end of the thing they're like, wow, I can't believe

we're all car guys and we all forgot the Fiat.

And I feel like that's how we all were with forgetting

that fantasy is all over television right now.

Yeah. Yeah, they did talk about that, how the

TV seems to be the vehicle for fantasy right

now. And maybe it's just because I don't watch

any of them that I completely forgot about that,

which I shouldn't, because I feel like my girlfriend

watches every single one of them, which is not

a bad thing. But there is a lot of fantasy on

TV. I can't believe I didn't think about that

either. Yeah, and so we're just in movie mode,

I guess. I don't know. But that was a good point,

so. Definitely definitely a good point. I don't

think I think other than that. That's about it

for the show Dan I didn't know I can edit this

out if I'm completely wrong, but Did you have

a did you want to do that challenge thing on

air or is that something we're doing? Oh, we

can do it on air I mean, it doesn't matter. I

did you I didn't have one for Matt, but I can

come up with one real quick Well, I have I had

one question for you guys and what we're doing

guys is so you're kind of keeping track and Going

along with us throughout the year. Obviously.

We said we're doing a bunch more of these top

ten list different genres You know animated comic

book drama action comedy and etc and eventually

getting to the point We're watching our top or

we're listening our top 50 films of the decade

so far and as part of that Dan came up with a

great idea and we're going to be challenging

each other to watch certain films in a given

time so that Maybe they would have a chance of

making our list and there's stuff that we haven't

seen up to this point and I definitely want to

take Dan up on that challenge so Matt can be

a part of it as well, but we're we're basically

just throwing out movies that we know the other

people haven't seen and Challenging them to watch

them. Hopefully within the given week Hopefully

most of the time that's possible Dan the question

I had for you. Obviously if we pick something

out on Netflix It's it's gonna be pretty easy

to watch and and free, are you opposed to me

picking anything that's available via Redbox?

Do you do Redbox at all? I do do Redbox. Okay,

because my issue is I went through your Letterboxd

account and I went through the last five years

and I came up with a list of about 20 films and

then I went to Netflix and one of them was available.

So, I then went to Redbox to see if certain things

were available. I even, as crazy and creepy and

stalkish as this seems, tried to look up Redboxes

in your area. So, even though I don't necessarily

know where you live, I do know the general area.

So, hopefully some of these are available. So,

if you're not opposed to that... Amazon, too.

So, I mean, Amazon's pretty easy. You can rent

a movie for pretty cheap on Amazon if it's not

brand new. All right. Because otherwise, I'm

going to end up giving you crappy films that...

Because you've seen so much on Netflix darn it

here at Netflix kind of sewer But I will let

you go first then what so what's one of your

movies that you're gonna throw out as a challenge

Well, I will I guess I can give this to both

of you guys who think you both like animation

and kind of like fantasy And this is I don't

know if it's completely fantasy, but I hope I

don't know if you I didn't check to see if you

guys saw it, but hopefully it's a no. If it's

not, I have a backup. And that's currently available

on Netflix. It's really short. It's only like

80 minutes long. And it's The Secret of the Kells.

It's The Secret of Kells. I have not seen that.

It was nominated for an Oscar. It was listed

as a 2010 film. IMDB since 2009, but I'm considering

it 2010, I guess, because that's when it was

available. So it's like an Irish folktale, basically,

and I really like the animation. I actually just

finished watching it today, and I'd be curious

to hear what you guys thought of it. Okay. Absolutely.

Secret of Kells. I've heard about it. I've looked

at it multiple times, like the cover and stuff

like that, but I have never actually watched

it. So I will add that to the homework list for

this week. which brings me to the first thing

that I'm going to throw out towards you, which

is something that I believe is available on Redbox,

if not hopefully Amazon. I'm not going back too

far for this 2013 film, just because I'm interested

to see your take on it, especially after the

fact that it's been out for a while and it's

not necessarily in the whole Oscar moment type

thing. But that film would be August Osage County.

Have you seen that yet? I have not seen that

yet. Okay, so I would be interested to see what

your take on that is. It's one that I kind of

am on the fence about, so I'm still doing some

thought -in about that one and what kind of merits

it has. Originally it was in my top ten, I think,

for that year, but, you know, time has passed.

I've seen some other movies, so it's kind of

on the borderline of some different lists that

I'm doing, so I'd be interested to see what your

take on August Osage County is. I do have some

animated ones on my list, but I'm going to save

them for another week or two and hope that they

become more widely available. Alright. Matt,

are you okay with watching Secret of the Kells

this week? I should be able to get that one.

I think I can convince my girlfriend to watch

it. Alright. So those are the challenges out

for this week, and we'll see how that works for

the first time, and if it works, hopefully that's

something we can keep doing throughout the weeks

here. Anything else from you guys before we close

the show out? That's all I got. I'm out. Alright,

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