Harrison Ford Actor Spotlight

Today on Weekend at the Movies, we talk about

yet another new member of the Beauty and the

Beast cast, the possibility of another superhero

movie universe, every Robin Hood lover's wet

dream, and in our main attraction, we give you

our second actor spotlight for the one and only

Harrison Ford. All that and more coming up. on

Weekend at the Movies. That's right, it's another

episode of Weekend at the Movies. Thanks for

joining us. I am one of your hosts, Optimus Solo,

and joining me, as I guess always these days,

which is awesome, movie revolt Dan. Hello. Hey

man, how's it going? Not too bad. We both have

successfully survived our Florida vacations and

we're back to the norm, I guess. Yeah, yeah.

It's nice to leave from nice weather and come

back to nice weather as the spring has finally

started in my area, which is great. Yeah, the

spring had kind of started in my area right before

I left, and then we had like a little cold spell

this week, so I got back from the plane and I

did the classic tourist thing where I did have

jeans on on the flight. but I also just had a

t -shirt and so we landed and it was not t -shirt

weather so it was freezing for a little bit but

I've readjusted so we're good to go. So yeah

Dan I got to spend some time in Miami, I was

spending some time in Tampa and a tiny bit of

time in Orlando and as fate would have it apparently

it was a podcasting Florida vacation month. for

movies because JD from In Session Film was in

Disney in Orlando, the same time I was at Universal

Studios in Orlando. And also got a cool opportunity

and met up with myself and Amanda, met up with

Hiro from the True Bromance podcast for a night

in Tampa. So that was a lot of fun. We met him

and he took us out for a night on the town in

Tampa. We stopped at a few establishments. and

had a lot of fun, and apparently he had too much

fun. I'm not trying to throw him out under the

bus, but he mentioned it on his last episode

of True Bromance that he doesn't remember all

of the night, so I guess there's that. But I

just wanted to mention a couple things real quick

before we get going. Since I was in Universal,

definitely a great place to go if you're a movie

fan. I'm sure Hollywood Studios and Disney is

very much in the same vein, but there's so many

cool things for movie lovers. I'm not just talking

about the general actual rides and the interactive

adventures that you can go on based on the movies,

but there's a lot of other cool things, too,

that you can see. We actually went to a little

show that was called the movie... horror magic

or something like that where they kind of went

into the the kind of it was like a little show

with some some acting going on but they were

kind of going behind the scenes of different

things they do for horror films like with the

knives and the blood and you know kind of went

through the different stages of of makeup and

stuff from way back in like the old universal

monster movies you know through more modern stuff

with a little cgi and some other things so i

mean it stuff like that was pretty interesting.

Just a lot of little things that are really cool.

They had a lot of replicas or maybe even real

things from movies that you could see and you

could look at, especially in that horror thing.

They had a mask from Predator and different makeup

things that were used. A lot of cool stuff there.

As a weird coincidence, Earlier in the vacation

we were in south of Tampa just hanging out with

some family and whatnot and we went to a local

restaurant and called the fishery and Amanda

really wanted some to try some alligator so she

got some some gator bites and As we were leaving

the restaurant we walked around because they

wanted to wanted us to get a picture in front

of the restaurant and As we were kind of going

down this like the the back way around the restaurant.

There's this big Like wall plaque thing that

had pictures of Denzel Washington and stuff.

And I'm like, why is there like a big, like shrine

to Denzel Washington going on? And I'm starting

to look closer and the movie out of time was

actually filmed. Part of it was filmed at that

restaurant. So I was like, oh, you know, we'd

both seen the movie and there's literally pictures

of them in like. The areas that we were just

at and I was like, oh that's kind of weird and

pretty cool So we had to take some stuff and

take some pictures of that as it all kind of

came together So definitely a fun trip for us.

Like I said, I would highly suggest going to

Universal if you're a movie fan I'm not a roller

coaster person, but there's plenty 90 % of the

rides have aren't that extreme So even people

that don't do roller coasters can handle them.

So that was a lot of fun Alright, so getting

into it like we normally do. We'll take a look

at the box office from last week and as we kind

of predicted a while back it was going to be

a good two, three, four weeks until something

would challenge Furious 7 and that of course

has not happened yet because Avengers is still

about a week away or so. Furious 7 still at the

number one spot brought in another 29 million.

Not that it needed any more money. There's a

couple of new films came into the two and the

three spots. We have, even though it has a zero

on Rotten Tomatoes, Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 brought

in 23 million for the second place. Unfriended

came in third with 15 million. There must be

a lot of younger people going to that. The animated

film Home dropped from the second spot down to

the fourth spot with 10 more million and the

longest ride coming in fifth. with seven million.

Obviously, no surprises that Furious 7 is at

the top, but the rest of the top five surprise

you at all, Dan? I'm actually surprised Paul

Boyd -Malkoff made as much as it did. I mean,

23 million is not a huge amount, but it's a zero

percent. It's almost an accomplishment to actually

to have that because it's so rare. Not one person

has written a good review of that film. It's

almost impossible, but. Are you surprised that

unfriended did that well 15 not really I think

it probably Like you said, it's probably like

80 % of that audience or teenagers. I could I

could see that It's got to be the worst name

in the history of movies, but it's better than

its original title, which was like Cybernatural

was his original title. So and then changes unfriended

and I'm like it might be better. I don't know

but I it's not I I was more surprised that that

had like a 60 % on Rotten Tomatoes. That was

more surprising to me. Right. And just to correct

myself, I guess Paul Blart, it had zero for a

long time. It's currently at two. Oh, it's not.

Two percent. Somebody had to ruin it. Somebody

just, you know that somebody that just did that.

They're like, oh, I'm going to be the person

that makes it so it's not at zero. They owed

Kevin James a favor. Right, but yeah to mention

the other ones that the new ones just to give

the rotten tomato stats unfriended is sitting

at 61 % Paul Blart at 2 % And on true story,

which was another new one is sitting at 47 %

Think those are all the the main nuance Paul

Blart unfriended and true story So that's what

the Rotten Tomatoes numbers are looking at I

know child 44 was released in a couple places

that actually has a 25 % Which is very disappointing

to me because I had kind of hoped for that but

that's not right The only other one that I didn't

get to mention last week because it Seems like

it's being very selective where it's being released.

That was the one that I never can say right X

Machina That's actually certified fresh right

now at 89%. That's actually finally been released

in my area, so hopefully we'll see that this

weekend. It's released tomorrow in our area too,

so I'm definitely looking forward to actually

having a chance to go see that. As far as the

yearly box office, since we haven't talked about

it in at least a week or two, no surprises there.

Furious 7 is at the top spot currently, 300 million.

Dan, when we did our box office prediction, I

had Furious 7 coming in at 8th overall for the

year. You had it coming in 7th. Did we underestimate

it? Maybe, but there's still a lot coming out.

Is it crazy that we're talking about a film that

has already had over 300 million and we're both

still thinking that it might come in 7th or 8th?

Yeah, it's already made a billion dollars, so

maybe quite a little bit. It's probably going

to be in the top five. You know, you still have

Star Wars, Hunger Games, Age of Ultron. A lot

of big Pixar movies coming out. So it might be...

It's going to be an interesting race this year.

I mean, obviously we know, we probably know the

top two, but it's going to be crazy to see where

some of these movies end up at. You know, we

talk about, you know, when we do the box office

thing that, you know, usually about 10, anywhere

from 8 to 12 films do over 200. We're going to

have half of that do over 300 this year. So,

that's kind of crazy. Cinderella is still sitting

at the number two spot with 187, 50 Shades of

Grey with 165, Spongebob 161, Home 144, Kingsman

125, and Insurgent 121. So those are the seven

that are over the 100 million mark. Anything

else you wanted to bring up about the box, officer?

No, I got nothing else. All right. Well, let's

get into our movie news for today. We're gonna

give you another Addition of thumbs up thumbs

down. We have ten different things that we're

gonna talk about So we'll get to those right

now and the first one Dan there was just news

here recently that we are gonna be getting a

Spider -man animated film being released soon

and that the people behind it are of course none

other than the people that were behind the Lego

movie. The whole idea of a Spider -Man animated

film or a new one being released to theaters,

thumbs up or thumbs down? I actually will go

with thumbs up on that. I think it's an intriguing

idea. Spider -Man and animation tend to go pretty

well together, and getting the guys who made

Lego movies a good start. So to me, it's looking

good. I kind of like that idea, so I'll go thumbs

up. And they definitely had a pretty good year

last year. Miller and Lord with the Jump Street

and with the Lego movie, et cetera. Now this

is, again, pretty far into the future. This is

a movie that is set to be released in 2018. So

we're way off in the distance. But I just like

the idea that it's something that's gonna be

released to theaters. Because that's not really

something that DC or Marvel has done much of

in the animated realm No, that's it's been mostly

direct to DVD and D Marvel's not fared very well

in that in that Medium that much directed DVD

animated films DC's done a little bit better

though. They've been kind of on a downtick recently,

but yeah Well, I think that what's the last time

we got a like superhero animated film with what

Batman? Dude the one in the 90s from the animated

series. I can't think of its name Mac that's

been a long time So I'd be interested to see

how an animated comic book film does I would

expect I would suspect that it would do pretty

well And of course, there's gonna be questions

on if they do try to tie in The animated film

plot story or whatever to everything else that

they're doing. I Don't know if that's necessary

or not but It's definitely something that people

will be interested in to see if there is any

tie -ins, because a lot of other things have

tried to do that, whether it be Transformers,

Star Wars, etc., where they've had an animated

property, whether it be a movie or a TV series

where they try to tie that into the overall universe.

We'll have to see what happens with that, but

I'm going to go with you on this one. I'm going

to say thumbs up. I like the idea of a theater

release of an animated comic book film, and I

like the idea of Miller and Lord being connected

to it. double, two thumbs up for us about the

animated Spider -Man film. Next up, let's talk

about, since we're on the topic of Spider -Man,

there was a new story that supposedly gave a

short list of actors that were in contention

to be the next Spider -Man. We're just going

to give the names out that they put out in this

list, which is according to the wrap, and just...

Based on this group of names, we'll say thumbs

up or thumbs down to the direction that they

possibly would be going for this. First would

be Nat Wolf from the Fault in Our Stars, Aza

Butterfield from Ender's Game, Liam James from

The Way Way Back, Tom Holland from The Impossible,

and Timothy Chalamet. We're going to go with

Chalamet on that TV's Homeland. That's apparently

the short list or at least the direction that

they're looking. I know there's been a lot of

talk about the possible Spider -Man casting.

Dan, thumbs up or thumbs down to this group of

names and maybe the direction they're headed

here? Well, some of them I'll admit I'm not all

too familiar with. Ace of Butterfield, I would

say, is one I'm thumbs down on. Not that he's

a bad actor, I just, I don't... I don't see him

in the role of spider -man, but the one the kid

that was from way way back I think I see that

actually I feel like to give them and be a good

choice so I guess some in the middle because

I'm kind of some of the names I'm liking some

of them I'm indifferent on and some of them I

Don't like I guess so I'm gonna go I can see

that a lot of these names even though I've seen

the way way back and the fault in our stars You

know, it's not like those actors, most of those

actors are not big name actors. So a lot of people

would be kinda unfamiliar with them. So I'm kind

of thumbs up to the idea of casting somebody

that's not gonna be so mainstream known. As well

known, I have no problem with that. But it's

not like any of these names are just jumping

off the page at me that I'm gonna get excited

about. I mean, I like the idea that they're going...

For the more teenage Peter Parker, I kind of

I do like that. I think it would be make an interesting

dynamic with the Avengers if he's more of a teenager.

So that I do thumbs up with. I just I don't have

a strong enough opinion for a lot of those actors

to really get right. That's kind of how I am.

And of course, everybody, I guess, could breathe

a sigh of relief since they did release the idea

that this will not be an origin story. Yes. Thank

you. Which I think all of us are like, thank

God, including myself. But then in the same breath,

I'm thinking they're casting a younger person.

So you know what? It seems you're casting like

the younger version of Peter Parker. How do you

avoid the origin story when you're going younger?

I guess it just be that he's established or you

can maybe he's already in touch upon it, like,

but not focus. Yeah, like think about like Batman

1989, which. didn't have an orange and a batman

it kind of hinted at it but it was not a big

element of it or you can just do it in a conversation

or something or like one scene instead of making

it the entire movie yeah that makes sense um

so i'm with you a kind of a thumb neutral thumb

there um No opinion too strongly one way or the

other. So moving on to a couple casting news

items Like I said in the teaser at the beginning

seems like every week there they must have this

time. So Every seven days they're releasing a

new name for the cast of the live -action Beauty

and the Beast I swear we've talked about this

at least five shows in a row So the next name

that has on the list that has been revealed is

none other than Ewan McGregor who apparently

will be playing Lumiere. So added to a very crowded

bunch now with Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, I

don't want to get my Emma's confused, Kevin Klein,

Ian McKellen, Luke Evans, Dan Stevens, Josh Gad,

and of course a couple others and now Ewan McGregor.

So thumbs up or thumbs down to Ewan McGregor

playing Lumiere. That's that's I think that makes

sense actually I think he kind of Has that personality

trying to think of role where I feel like it's

similar to him doing that And something pops

in my head, but I think it came and went but

yeah, I'll go thumbs up I think I like you McGregor

a lot so I'd be interested in seeing him in that

role I guess is it gonna be a voice like I'm

just curious how that's gonna work exactly Yeah,

like a voice actor or motion capture. Maybe I

don't know I don't know how they're pulling this

all off. They've got a ton of great names connected.

And also, of course, if you remember the casting

that Ian McKellen is playing Cogsworth. So that

would, as the article kind of points out, that

would leave it to be that it's probably going

to be in those scenes, Ian McGregor and Ian McKellen

playing off of each other, which is a combination

I don't know if that's been done before, but

that makes me interested to see how... how they

interact with each other but i'm with you i'm

kind of waiting to see what exactly they're doing

with this as far as how live is the live action

and how cg or motion capture or whatever else

they're going to do uh... but yeah i'm thumbs

up to you and mcgregor i'm a big fan of his so

add him to the listed that uh... interesting

cast so far that's for sure Another casting moment

that we talked about briefly in last a couple

weeks ago episode when Amanda was with me we

brought up the idea of Daniel Radcliffe being

involved in a Grand Theft Auto film and of course

during that episode we were both questioning

if anybody Would really be interested in this

project? whatsoever. The Grand Theft Auto drama,

the behind the scenes true story of the creators

of Grand Theft Auto or whatever you want to call

this. But there's another article this week that

Bill Paxton apparently is going to be joining

the casting as well. So we got Bill Paxton, Daniel

Radcliffe. Is that enough to get you interested

in the outlaw story of Grand Theft Auto, Dan?

I like Bill Paxton, but he's also... It's an

odd choice, but I think you can technically make

it good movie out of anything in some ways So

yeah, that's kind of it. I don't know. It's strange

but Yeah, I just I just can't picture fans of

Grand Theft Auto being interested in this lawyer

slash creator Drama. Yeah, I it just seemed like

it's them trying to just capitalized on the name

of that? Is it really an interesting story or

is it just because it involves this property?

That I don't know. I would think the same thing

with Facebook. Why would they make a movie about

Facebook and then a movie they really love? That's

true. It's possible, but I don't know. We'll

see. I think I'm thumbs down on this one. Nothing

against Bill Paxton. I just can't get behind

this yet maybe like I said maybe it'll be something

like we didn't expect like with the social network

or something like that but I just think it's

a weird pairing of this this video game and the

content that it consists of but I mean I guess

it makes sense because a lot of people are definitely

against it and against what it's trying to prove

so maybe it'll touch on some cool uh sensor slash

you know that type of ideas you know generation

clashing so there's potential there I'm not huge

on Daniel Radcliffe, so I need more than Paxton

to get me excited about this one. So thumbs down

for me. Did you give a thumb any direction on

that one? Yeah, I'll say thumbs up for the most

part. I just be, I don't know. I think there's

potential. I guess I'll say that. I've enjoyed

Radcliffe in the Harry Potter films, and I thought

he was pretty good in women and black. You know,

Horne's lead led a lot to be expected, but I

think it was more just than just him. So I don't

know. He has done some theater acting, too, so

I think he has a career ahead of him. So I think

there's enough there for me to give him some.

All right. And. What we always like to do is

connect everything here with our main attraction

so that we have multiple connections to our main

attraction even in the news here because one

of the news items is about a casting potential

or possibility for Blade Runner 2 which of course

will star our main attraction focus Harrison

Ford and the news story is about the possibility

that Ryan Gosling will star alongside Harrison

Ford. Blade Runner 2, Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling.

Thumbs up or thumbs down, Dan? Oh, man, that's

one's kind of tough because I feel like there's

been a lot of comparison between Ryan Gosling

and Harrison Ford for different reasons. Like,

you know, people have kind of made connections

with those two. Like if there was ever an Indiana

Jones, would it like be him? So I could see that.

But I just I don't know. The idea of Blade Runner

2 is just gives me a thumbs up. I just got to

go thumbs down on it. I just don't think it's

a good idea. And I I like Ryan Gosling, but I

feel like it's still not enough. I just I don't

know. I think it's not going to work out. So

I'll go thumbs down. All right. Also to note

that they also have released that Dennis Villanueva.

I think that's how you say his name. The director

from Prisoners and who has a film this year called

Sicario. I believe that's how you say that. is

signed on for the director's chair for Blade

Runner 2 as well. He's got a good track record,

but I just, I don't know. I'm somewhat intrigued

by the combination of the director, Ryan Gosling,

Harrison Ford. I would be more intrigued if it

was a different movie. Like if it was just some

movie that I knew nothing about. I was like,

oh, you got Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford in

some type of science fiction film directed by

this guy. I'd be like, okay, I'm on board. Blade

Runner 2? I'm kind of with you on that. I'm a

little torn on getting excited over something

that could just totally not live up to its predecessor.

I mean, I don't know if there's a possible way

to live up to Blade Runner. I don't know. I'm

kind of with you. I'm going to go thumbs down

on this one, even though I like the people involved.

I don't think this project is necessary. As far

as a casting direction... Matthew Vaughn, who

obviously has been talked about a lot this year

with his film Kingsman, he is being eyed to direct

a film about Flash Gordon. Flash Gordon and Matthew

Vaughn, do they make a good... hair dan thumbs

up or thumbs down i gotta say like i really don't

know because i've never really watched flash

gordon so it's not my i don't have much knowledge

of it honestly the most knowledge i have of flash

gordon is from watching ted and then make a lot

of reference to it uh but i like matthew vaughn

and i do think like he could do some interesting

things in with like the idea like with flash

gordon which was like supposed was serious but

was Kind of become so bad. It's good type of

territory So maybe it's kind of like almost like

a kick -ass style in that way more satirical

in some instances So I've loved everything Vaughn

has done. So I'll go thumbs up Yeah, I'm kind

of with you even though I was There was flash

Gordon cartoons and this and the other when I

was growing up But it was just never a property

that I got interested in so I really know Outside

of like the names of some of the characters and

kind of what they look like I don't really know

much about the stories or the you know kind of

the mythos of flash Gordon So I can't really

comment too much about that but on the very limited

knowledge I have of flash Gordon I'm all for

Matthew Vaughn taken on because maybe he'll make

that something that I could be interested in

finally after all these years and you know, revisit

that. So, yeah, I liked what Matthew Vaughn did

with Kingsman, so why not do Flash Gordon? I'm

going to give that one a thumbs up as well. And

in our last bit of casting news, and I have to

bring this up, because this could mean potential

points for me, finally, in our fantasy film league.

Idris Elba, according to Simon Pegg, is definitely

set to star in Star Trek III, and according to

Simon Pegg, in a, quote, kick -arse role. I don't

know. It doesn't say major role, though, so that's

the question. That's true. It's got to be major.

Is kick -arse good enough for major? You know,

a few weeks ago it was said that he was a possible

main villain. So he didn't say that he's going

to be the main villain, but we can still kind

of hope that that's the thing. At least I can

hope that's the thing. So yeah, I love the idea

of Idris Elba being involved in any way, shape,

or form in any big movie. So I have to give this

a thumbs up. What about you? Do you think he's

a fit for the Star Trek universe? That's interesting.

I mean, yeah, I guess so. I mean, he fit into

the Pacific Rim universe, which is much different,

I would say. But yeah, I think so. I would love

to see him play a Star Trek villain. I think

it would be something completely different, at

least for the movies, and he's a great actor,

so that would be kind of cool. That would be

weird seeing him playing a Klingon, though. That's

what I was going to say. I would actually somehow

love to see them somehow make him a Klingon.

He's such a tall guy. I think it might work.

He would tower over everybody. Yeah, so he definitely

has the impressive size and voice to do something

like that. definitely towers over everybody so

I could definitely see him doing that much more

than I could see him doing a Ferengi or a Romulan

or something like that so I have to wait and

see what happens with Idris Elba but of course

as an Idris Elba fantasy owner I'm all for him

being in every movie. I saved, that's it for

the casting news, but I saved two other pieces

of news for last. I figured they were kind of

the bigger pieces of news that at least I've

seen in the last little bit. I don't know if

they're going to have positive reactions, but

they're definitely worth talking about. And I

have to read this one because it's going to take

a second to digest this headline. But the first

one here is, quote, John Wick directors to adapt

a bloodshot comic for Sony's new superhero movie

verse. I'll give you a second to try to digest

what I just said here. But apparently Sony is

now going to try to join the ranks of Marvel

and DC by creating their own movie universe based

on superheroes. And they're going to start with

a film based on the Bloodshot comic and they

have the directors from John Wick on board for

that. So just to give a little bit more information

here, the studio's overall plan is to release

Bloodshot in 2017. which is a valiant entertainment

title, or an adaptation of that, and then they're

going to do another valiant title, Harbinger,

sometime after 2017, then both films will receive

a sequel, and then the fifth film will be called

Harbinger Wars, which will tie everything together.

Dan, reaction thumbs up or thumbs down to Sony

trying to create their own superhero movie version.

Oh, Sony. You try so hard, don't you? It's really...

I've not read a lot of Valiant stuff. I have

heard your things about it, which is interesting

because I know a big thing for them is like how

their universe works and how it doesn't intend

to not like... run together as much or something

like that i could be mistaken so i find that

interesting that's what they're going with it

it does feel like they're grasping at straws

a little bit uh it i don't know like i don't

really have faith in sony with things that they've

done so far so uh i don't know i i'm gonna go

thumbs down just because it just feels like them

just doing trying to jump on the bandwagon a

little bit too late Currently, besides having

the directors from John Wick, as far as people

working on the screenplay, the names being thrown

out here are Jeff Wadlow from Kick Ass 2, Eric

Heiserer from 2011's film The Thing, and Matthew

Vaughn, who we just talked about, apparently

are all teaming up on the screenplay. So maybe

that would interest a few more people, but I'm

kind of with you. necessarily trust Sony in trying

to do whatever they're trying to do here. You

know, we talk a lot about superhero fatigue or

people have brought it up, you know, is it gonna

eventually hit a wall or are people gonna lose

interest, etc. And that's talking about just

with Marvel and DC doing everything that they're

doing. I don't know if there's really room for

another player in that. whole genres so i feel

there's there's also not much fanfare interest

in the forget like it doesn't seem like it's

with something that you're going to have this

in the fact that sony's hoping for i don't think

i think right so he's taking over one like universes

but it's like part of that is having characters

people really care about and so people care about

the valiant characters but it's such a small

you know it's a small group of comic book fans

are already a small group you know people like

the avengers are superman's batman those or names

that go beyond just comic books where those characters

really don't, so I don't think they're gonna

get the attention they think they are. And this

news definitely didn't set Twitter or anything

on fire. No. People going crazy about it. And

I think you said something interesting there

about the whole people love universes or don't

love universes, because I think that's kind of

the biggest mistake people are making. They're

seeing the success of Marvel or you know some

of these other things like even maybe like a

fast and furious even though it's not necessarily

a universe as it is just like a Bond series of

films or something like that, but Everybody seems

to be trying to jump on board and creating all

these universes I don't know that they're actually

understanding why the universes that have worked

why they've worked which you said you know it

has to deal with characters and stories and stuff

like that and You know, even thinking back to

what Ghostbusters is doing now, what Sony's trying

to do with this, we talked about the whole plan

for this King Arthur thing where there was going

to be 75 films based on King Arthur. I think

I'm with you. It's not just about creating a

universe. I mean, it's cool. It's a cool aspect,

but you have to have the foundation for that

universe. Yeah, it's got to be characters you

care about. And you can do that with a movie

even if you don't know those characters. It's

just that... It just seems like the fact that

Sony's like, hey, we're creating a universe and

not, hey, we're creating good movies. It just

seems like that's they're just trying to do what

DC did and making universe in one movie just

to do it. Right. So that's a double two thumbs

down for that one. And I saved the best for last.

This has got to be the most absurd news story

about films that I've ever brought up or any

of us have ever brought up here on our weekend

at the movie show. We've talked a lot in recent

years about two studios or two companies kind

of going head -to -head with certain movies.

Originally it was planned for there to be two

Jobs movies that were going to be much closer

in release than they're in enough to be. Steve

Jobs is what I'm talking about. We had our two

Hercules films last year. We talked about two,

what was it, Peter Pan films. uh... you don't

know what movies i believe her to jungle book

films so we we talked about a lot of uh... you

know two different studios try kind of using

the same concept seems story premise and going

up against each other or at least in films in

in the same year whether it was planned or not

i didn't think we would ever be talking about

for got movie studios doing such a thing so for

rival robin hood movies all got the green light

in hollywood here and this is something to try

to dissect here so the studios being and we're

not just talking about just random you know second

-rate or third -rate studios or lower budget

things or anything like that we're talking about

warner brothers sony lionsgate and disney all

have given green light to robin hood productions

Alright, let me try to break this down a little

bit before we start reacting here to try to give

you what each one's doing. So, Warner Brothers

is gonna have a version scripted by the gangster

squad and Aquaman writer Will Beale and produced

by the pair behind the Lego movie. Alright, doesn't

really say much about what that version is going

to be. Lionsgate is preparing Robin Hood Origins,

described as an edgier take on the story, which

adopts a similar tone to the How It All Began

style of Batman Begins. There's so much wrong

with that, what you just said. interest the script

is by uh... joe b harold who is working with

guy richie on a new six film king arthur franchise

so maybe we're creating a universe there well

i don't know i don't even say that it's so gonna

happen but i think robin and king arthur oh my

god that's gonna be alright so that's lions gate

uh... disney uh... Their hopes are pinned on

Nottingham and Hood, according to this article,

a swashbuckling family -friendly adventure film

in the vein of Pirates of the Caribbean. This

is from writer Brandon Barker who sold a script

to Disney for apparently six figures. This is

interesting. He sold a script to Disney for a

six -figure fee after submitting it to a web

service which rates screenplays and refers the

best ones to industry insiders. So that's an

interesting I didn't realize that what that happened

Disney is seeking to turn Robin Hood into an

adventure franchise that fits its global brand

obviously because they need more of those and

Then lastly we have Sony which you thought the

Lionsgate one sounded ridiculous, huh? Leave

it to Sony to to one off of that a radical reinterpretation

of the legend Last year it bought a Robin Hood

pitch for 1 million dollars from Corey Goodman

and Jeremy lot which sees Robin, Little John,

Friar Tuck, and Will Scarlett as an Avenger -style

team of heroes from the Middle Ages. Their story,

titled simply Hood, has been described as a high

-action, fast and furious meets Mission Impossible

-style reinvention. These are not real, right?

Like these can't be. It feels like a Saturday

in the Life sketch, right? Where it's like...

This feels like an April Fool's joke. It does.

That can't... I cannot do like two big thumbs

down for all it just seems all four it oh my

god it is I was gonna give you a chance to thumbs

up and thumbs down each one I'm gonna go off

the four yeah I'm sorry none of them I don't

know like where is these coming from it feels

like it's so it just what these kind of do it

just shows you the ridiculousness of each studio

in their own way the one that does you know the

Ridiculous part of the Caribbean films and trying

to redo that or redoing the fashion. It's just

This is everything that's wrong with how it really

it is a microcosm of everything that's But seriously

look I mean they're all trying to capitalize

on stuff without being original whatsoever They're

all starting with a story that we already know

and characters. We already know so they're like

we'll bypass the idea of you know having to You

know make these characters interesting to people.

We'll just use stuff that they already know But

then we're going to completely do what's popular

today. One's going the superhero route. One's

going the dark and gritty Batman Begins Dark

Knight route. You know, one's trying to just

do random fun that doesn't matter, like Pirates

of the Caribbean. I guess the only one that hasn't

literally said something stupid, I guess, is

Warner Brothers. Give them time. Give them time.

I mean, I like Robin Hood as a character. I like

the story. I like the mythology of Robin Hood.

But come on look at these look at Robin Hood

origins Nottingham and hood and just plain hood

I mean like For these movies and not one of them

was doing a sequel to Prince of Thieves like

not one not one You could do like a Dark Knight

Returns type of situation where like, you know

He's coming back for one last one last hurrah

or something like that Oh and just to add some

here the for the Sony one Jerry Bruckheimer is...

There you go. Like I said, has there been a more

absurd movie news story that we've ever talked

about? I think the Hood one has got to be the

worst though. It's like Fast and Furious and

Mission Impossible in the Middle Ages. No, that

doesn't work at all. The only thing that's worse

than that is if they do somehow try to, if Lionsgate

does somehow try to like combine Robin Hood and

King Arthur. And then I don't know I'll say what

they're when they're there's gotta be some other

type of Aladdin maybe I don't know right just

to create a whole universe of things that have

no connection to each other whatsoever be like

kids know this character And they also know this

character We'll put them in the same movie geez

so yeah, that's just all kinds of bad all kinds

of crazy and Isn't there somebody like? Don't

they have like insiders or something? Don't they

know that they're all doing this at the same

time? Didn't somebody be like, wait a second

guys, like three other studios are doing this.

Maybe it's not a good time. I think that's partially

it too is like they see other studios are doing

it. So then they also do it too. It's like, oh,

they got it. They got a Robin Hood movie in the

works. So now we have to have one too. See, this

is the one thing as much as as much as I probably

complained in the past about what Marvel allowed

to happen when everything kind of got splintered

off and Sony owns this and Fox owns this or whatever

it happened like This almost makes me thankful

that certain properties are owned and not able

to be touched by other people. But, goodness

gracious, I mean you guys, listeners will have

to let us know. Maybe we're off base, maybe one

of these will be fantastic, but I don't know.

Is there anybody that's really interested on

having four Robin Hood films in the next three

to five years? Yeah, I don't know. Good luck

with that. Alright, so that's a thumbs down for

both of us. all the way across the board. I love

Robin Hood, but that's ridiculous. We're not

going to have time to talk on all the trailers

just for time constraints here, but there was

a whole bunch of trailers that came out in the

last... Seven to ten days and obviously we didn't

record an episode last week except for the update

on the fantasy league But there's a whole bunch

of stuff So we'll have the links all in the the

website here and the web page and you can click

on those and list and watch the the different

trailers You can also let us know which ones

you're most interested in but just kind of going

down the list here There was a trailer for a

film called infini Which is a Luke Hemsworth

sci -fi movie Is Luke Hemsworth related to any

other famous Hemsworth maybe I didn't know but

Interesting sci -fi flick for people that love

science fiction a couple different animated films

that are definitely look interesting the Little

Prince with Marion Why can I never say her name

Marion Cotillard? Yes, and and Jeff Bridges,

obviously we all most people know the story about

the Little Prince. So that's a Intriguing one.

There's also the last I believe this is the last

animated film from Studio Ghibli when Marnie

was there. I feel like I said that about like

14 different animated films about Studio Ghibli.

This is the last one. It still is working. Yeah,

this is the last one. Nope, no, this one is.

So two different animated films that people might

be interested in and of course some big ones.

Fantastic Four, another trailer for Mad Max,

a second trailer, a new trailer for Star Wars.

The new trailer for Superman versus Batman and

a trailer for Ant -Man. So obviously those everybody's

probably seen everybody has talked about and

heard lots of stuff about. So those are all there.

The UK trailer for Mr. Holmes starring Ian McKellen.

What else we have? Dope with Forrest Whitaker

and Zoe Kravitz. High school comedy -esque type

film that looks somewhat interesting. The other

ones we have out there Learning to Drive. which

is a patricia clarkson ben kingsley romantic

comedy and the only thing i have to say about

that is please don't cost me any points ben kinsley

i need every point i can get for you horror fans

uh... movie film called the gallows which i did

not watch the trailer for i apologize uh... suffragette

starring meryl meryl streep and carrie mulligan

uh... every secret thing which was a creepy creepy

trailer That film stars Diane Lane, Elizabeth

Banks, and Dakota Fanning. I don't know if that's

supposed to be based on a true story or not.

I can't remember from seeing the trailer, but

that's a creepy film about Dakota Fanning and

another of her aged individuals who apparently

kidnap or torture little children. It was a creepy

trailer. That's all I can say. That's the only

word that can come to mind is creepy. And then

another trailer for a film called Results starring

Kobe Smulders and Guy Pearce. That was a unique,

I can totally see Guy Pearce as the fitness instructor,

yoga slash like what's the film about losing

weight or what's the TV series about losing weight,

Biggest Loser? Yeah, like Guy Pearce fits that

role so well and I would have never pictured

him as that, but he fits that perfectly. Any

and Love and Mercy the Brian Wilson biopic which

I will say I watched that trailer. I'm a huge

Beach Boys fan and So far I'm all in that seems

like an interesting take that they're doing with

the two different people playing Brian Wilson

one is the younger version and one is the older

version and So far I'm all in Biopics have a

tendency to disappoint but we'll see about that.

And of course, I don't want to forget teaser

trailer for Joe dirt to beautiful loser. There

you go So any trailers that really kind of blew

your socks off or or anything you want to mention

about those necessarily blew my socks off But

the the first one you were one of the first ones

you mentioned with the sci -fi one with the houndsworth

one of the henworth brothers maybe that one looked

kind of intriguing it looked like alien -esque

in a way uh i agree so that that i do look forward

to i did like the fantastic four trailer it there

were some issues like not big fan of the way

dr doom looked but overall i don't know i think

i still think that movie might actually be good

so Alright, so definitely let us know your thoughts

on which of those films you're interested in.

I think that was a good selection of trailers.

You know, a lot of times we have five or six

trailers and there's nothing that really catches

my eye, but even if you take all those big, huge

blockbuster ones out, I think a lot of those

other films had at least some potential. I mean,

they might disappoint, but there's definitely

some stuff to take a look at and see if it's

something that you might be interested in watching,

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Alright, thanks for sticking with us and it is

main attraction time, but before we get to our

spotlight on Harrison Ford, we always like to

talk about what films we've been watching over

the last Week or for us. It's been a little while

since we recorded So I'll let you start Dan because

I know you've had a chance to see a few more

films than I have With the vacation complication.

So what's one of the films you've seen in the

last little bit? Well, I kind of got on like

an old -school movie kick for some reason I don't

know why well, I kind of do one thing. I actually

We're kind of realized is that I thought you

know I don't know if you ever created like a

list of shame like movies that you that are well

claims that I haven't thought about yeah, and

I kind of did but I went through the AFI top

100 the two top 250 of IMDB in the site and sound

pole as well looking at movies that are kind

of on each that I have yet to see or haven't

seen in a long time and One of the ones that

was really high on a lot of those lists it was

you know in the top 10 for AFI it was I think

like 70 ish within Sight and Sound and that's

Lauren of Arabia It's a movie actually that I

saw I saw when I was younger a good deal But

it's been such a long time since I've watched

it that I felt like it wouldn't be like I feel

like saying I've seen I watched it would be kind

of a You know kind of like it would I don't remember

anything from it because it was such a rare so

I sat down and watched it I'll be honest, I didn't

watch it all in one sitting. It is like four

hours, and it's kind of hard to find four hours

to sit down and watch a movie. But it is streaming

on Amazon Prime, and I think Netflix too, I'm

not sure. So I did see it, and I gotta say, when

you have a movie like that that's built up as

one of the greatest movies of all time, it's

difficult for something to live up to that hype.

But I gotta say, have you seen Lawrence of Arabia?

That is one that I have not seen. Actually, my

mom and I, at one point, were trying to go through,

kind of just as a, I guess, a mother -son bonding

thing, we were gonna go through a similar thing.

We were gonna go through the top 100 IMDB, or

not IMDB, AFI list, just like you were talking

about. And that's one that was on our list, but

we didn't quite get to it, and then, you know,

life kind of got in the way, but we did watch

about, probably, half dozen to a dozen films

that I hadn't seen, and I wish that was one of

them that I had seen, but no, I haven't caught

up with it yet. And I gotta say, I kind of fall

in line and feel like it is well -deserving of

its praise. I am a sucker for that old -school,

like, big Hollywood entertainment of that era,

like those types of epics. I do like Ben -Hur,

Ten Commandments is okay, but I don't know, something

about it seems that I really like, but there's

something a little bit, I think, that puts me

more into Arabia. head of other films like Ten

Commandments or or Cleopatra or Ben Hur and there's

just I think anything and a lot of it starts

with the character of of of Lawrence and Peter

O'Toole's performance and like the transformation

you see of that character. Now does that movie

need to be four hours long and I don't know I

think it It doesn't feel like four hours as much

as that might seem it does feel long because

it's four But it doesn't like I felt like I was

never bored or I was always intrigued with what's

going on and just the scale of it It's just it's

As cliche as it sounds, they don't make movies

like that anymore. And I don't know. I would

highly recommend it. I ended up really loving

it. It obviously looks fantastic. It's one of

the best shot films of all time, no matter what.

That's unquestionable. It's infamous for its

cinematography, capturing a lot of those landscapes,

just using some of the historical accuracy. It's

questionable, to say the least. But I don't know,

it's just the scale of it in just the characters

itself and just seeing this progression in the

story, it's rather remarkable and they keep attention

for that long. I don't know, the score too is,

I don't know, it's nearly, it's a nearly perfect

movie, I would say, which is kind of maybe hyperbole,

but I do think it's... I would say it's one of

the best movies ever made that I've seen. I still

have to see a lot, like I mentioned, but I do

think it's well deserving of its praise. I will

definitely have to bump that one up a bit on

my list of those AFI films to watch. Alright,

I will go quickly and then let you get back to

talking because I've actually only seen one film

this week due to the vacation timing of everything.

So the one film I got to see... Well, I should

say outside of finishing the Harry Potter series.

Oh, you finished it all. Yes, we finished. Well,

that's kind of a white lie. Maybe not a white

lie. That's kind of a lie because we have maybe

30 minutes left of the very last one that we

didn't get in. So I saw all of it except for

the very ending of the very last film. But I

do. That's the one I'd seen most recently. So

I do know how, you know, I know what happens.

And I'm kind of with you. I like the progression

of what the films did over the whole series.

And there's a lot more to chew on on those later

ones than it is, you know, than the kid -friendly

ones are at the beginning. Not saying that takes

away from any of my enjoyment from those first

couple, but there's definitely more to those

final few. And outside of maybe one and a half

of the films, I thoroughly enjoyed all of them.

So... I got still got a kind of work on my rankings

of all of them one through seven the seven total

films Seven books and eight movies. I don't remember.

I can't remember I got it. I gotta get my when

that when when movies start breaking into parts

I use track so I got a kind of pinned down my

final rankings of them all but I would say overall

it was an enjoyable experience and it definitely

helped because Being at Universal and going through

the different Harry Potter things they have they

did such an awesome job on that and stuff is

to the fine detail is so spot on for what the

movie is so it definitely increased the experience

there so I'll give a final ranking of that maybe

in a blog post or something like that but outside

of that the only film I was able to see is we

made it to the theater one time real quick when

we got back from vacation and that was to see

the new film The True Story starring James Franco

and Jonah Hill. And that one was just released,

so it was playing in one of the two theaters

near us, and we figured we'd get, we weren't

even sure if that was gonna be playing at all,

so when we saw it, we thought we'd better jump

on the chance before it disappeared. And I gotta

say, it was a pretty enjoyable film. Amanda liked

it, I think maybe a touch more than I did, but

it was more... It was one of those films that

the film ends and and you're not quite at least

for me. I wasn't quite sure how I felt about

the film I wasn't sure if I liked it disliked

it or Loved it like I was really torn like the

performances. I think are really good Jonah Hill

is playing a New York Times Writer and he basically

eventually comes into contact with James Franco's

character who has been accused of these horrific

crimes. He's been accused of killing his wife

and his three very little kids and at one point

takes on Jonah Hill's identity and that's kind

of how they come into contact with each other

and then it becomes a movie where you basically

have the two of them interacting a lot as Jonah

Hill is trying to write a piece on James Franco's

character and kind of just the the dynamic of

kind of like, I don't know, I've seen a lot of

people describe it as kind of cat and mouse but

you know who's pulling the strings and who's

telling the truth and whose motives or purposes

are redeemable or or not and also stars Felicity

Jones who plays Jonah Hill's wife and she was

fantastic in it as well I thought she was definitely

a bright spot in the film so I'm just kinda goes

back and forth and trying to figure out if he

actually did commit these crimes or if he didn't

and that's all I'll say on it just so that people

can kinda watch it and figure things out for

themselves But it was definitely an interesting

take. I didn't know if I would buy the whole

Jonah Hill James Franco do a serious movie together.

And overall, I think it was pretty successful.

Like I said, it's getting kind of mixed reviews.

So I'd be interested in hearing what a few people...

that we, you know, like yourself, Dan, or JD,

or the True Romance guys, or whatever, the first

time watchers, to see what everybody else feels

about it. But I'm still kind of digesting it

and still trying to decide where it fits for

me. I think if I was given a rating right now,

I would probably be sitting at like a three and

a half, maybe, out of five. Right around that

line so Definitely would be interested to hear

what other people have to say about the true

story and as I figure out where Where that actually

sits with me, but in a year that hasn't had a

whole bunch of great films. It's still probably

towards the top for me and you didn't give a

grade for Lawrence of Arabia would that be a

five? I figured that's what it was, but I just

in case anybody tries to complain about us not

giving our grades, so Alright, so what else have

you seen? Well, I did see one 2015 movie that

I'll touch upon and then touch upon the homework

that I did go over as well And it's I want to

talk about it much because it's been out forever

and it's a movie that we Talked about earlier

with that just made a billion dollars and that's

fast interior seven I did see that actually saw

that when I was in Miami because uh You know,

why not? It seems like a good place to watch

that. Yeah. Yeah, you know, we wanted to get

a little bit so Why not go see a two and a half

hour movie about So, uh, I like I like a lot

of people like I I know you're not you're not

a fan of the franchise and I wasn't for the biggest

time I thought the first movie was like a generic

point break recall ripoff and then it also led

to a Lot of idiots trying to replicate that movie

after they watched it, which was always annoying

and oh, yeah I remember that. Yeah, so that was

man that made that was always College and high

school people trying to be street racers. Yeah

Love it. Yeah So that one in the second one movie

was was god -awful I'm not a fan of the third

one either in a fourth one. I thought was just

as bad But I thought it did, you know It did

get better with the fifth one in large part because

of the rock and I like the six one two and the

seventh seventh film kind of continues that trend

it is it is a soap opera with crazy car stunts

and yeah, it's You know, there's a little bit

of a self -parody in it, I think. I think it

kind of realizes what it is. And I think the,

overall, a lot of the action, I enjoy. I like

some of the new additions that came on, and mostly

Jason Statham and Tony Jha. I think they've led

to some cool action sequences. In the beginning,

there's a great fight with... Jason Satham in

The Rock, which is for me the highlight. Though

I did realize, though, it's probably not a good

sign if I'm rooting for the villain. At the end,

when you have the big showdown with Vin Diesel

and Jason Satham, I'm like, I'm kind of rooting

for Jason Satham because I like him more. I don't

know if that's a good thing. I'm like, I probably

shouldn't be rooting for the villain. But, you

know. They messed up somewhere. Yeah. But I mean,

it's fine. Like, I don't... it does seem I don't

know what they're gonna do after this I do think

they handled the whole Paul Walker thing relatively

well it it's kind of a touchy subject it just

I'm curious how it's gonna work and like I don't

know 10 years are now watching this movie and

looking at the ending it's gonna be kind of odd

but I don't know I did like it I do think it

It the plot doesn't make any sense because it's

they're trying to find Jason's Jason's character

they're trying to get this like tool to do that

but his character keeps showing up and Instead

of going after him. They're going after the tool

to find him, but it's like the guys right there

So why you, why you, do you just go after them

now? Like you don't have to, it doesn't make

any sense at all. It makes no sense. The physics

don't exist, you know, it's just, you can do

things that are impossible, but if you can accept

it, I mean, it's, I wouldn't say it's completely

turn your brain off fun. It basically is, but

the characters are likable enough and I do feel

like it's gotten away from the street racing

stuff, though it does bring that back occasionally.

And when it does, it's always stupid. there's

the race in the beginning that's like a street

race which makes no sense it just feels like

it's fan service and when it talks about car

stuff i just don't it doesn't i don't know and

Vin Diesel just some of the lines he says it's

just like i don't think he has like it talks

longer than one sentence i don't think it's in

the entire franchise it's always like one or

two sentence phrases that's like the extent of

what he says but uh i don't know it's exactly

what you expect you know Oscar winner? Multiple.

Multiple. Definitely. It's gonna win all the

Oscars. All the Oscars. I could see it like,

you know, sound editing and like the technical

awards but that's about it. Right. Well I will

say that Amanda just borrowed the first six films

from a friend. Gipped the first four. Okay. They're

all sitting on my coffee or my table out in the

living room and so far I've avoided starting

that marathon. So we'll see. Yeah. I mean, technically

it all kind of ties together, but it really doesn't

matter. It really doesn't matter. It sounds like

it doesn't matter. Because if you look at the

character in one movie, somehow they gain magical

skills they never had. It's like now this guy

has ninja powers. He's never had ninja powers

before, but now he has ninja powers. No idea

how that happened. That's awesome. TfU and Mike

hates us. What are you going to do? Like I said,

I like the fifth, sixth, and seventh movie, but

the other four are just unbearable. They just

really are. Especially the fourth one. The fourth

one is just not good. Just because the action

is just terrible. I could see the ideas there,

but they didn't have the budget to pull it off

because the CGI is just pathetically bad. It

was definitely fun listening to the film spotting

episode. where they talked about the Fast, or

the Furious 7, where they both marathoned all

seven movies like the week prior to that. Oh

man, and they were coming up with the most absurd,

the top, whatever, five most absurd moments in

the franchise. I did not do that. I just watched

the third one, and I didn't watch any of the

other ones. It is like, there are callbacks,

I will say, which it was kind of interesting.

There's a lot of intricacies in this movie because...

there are things that happen in the third movie

that aren't happening till this movie. And that

third movie happened ten years ago. So keep that

in mind. Sounds like you could write a lot of

papers about this franchise. Probably could.

You probably could. What else did you see? Well,

I did get the chance to see the movie that you

signed me recorded, I feel like, what, five weeks

ago? It seems like a couple months ago. A movie

I was actually hoping to pick up because it was

Magic in the Moonlight, the Woody Allen film

from last year. He's a rather prolific guy. He

tends them all out. It's starring Emma Stone

and Colin Firth. Colin Firth plays this magician.

who is sent to basically to this family to defraud

Emma Stone who is playing the part of a psychic

and she's basically extorting this family for

millions of dollars and this guy hires him to

prove she's a fraud so these people will stop

giving her money because they're falling for

her tricks so it kind of goes into that and In

conference, it's a rather it would say unlikable

fellow. He's a magician who's rather narcissistic

and Very full of himself obviously and it's an

interesting story like I will say like when it

comes to Woody Allen I've I don't know like I've

seen five of his movies maybe Manhattan Magic

Moonlight Any Hall Midnight in Paris, which I

loved I love Midnight in Paris and I ended up

liking this movie I didn't love it nearly as

much as Midnight in Paris, but I do it's a movie

that I there are issues I had with it but I guess

I just like Cullen Firth and Emma Stone enough

that I didn't those didn't really bother me like

I don't want to give anything away, but I felt

like you could see where it was going the entire

time and I usually don't have a gigantic issue

with it, but I guess I felt the movie felt it

was being more clever than it was in that aspect

but I do I do like their their characters and

I do think I think Emma Stone Isn't it was interesting.

It was seeing here in a little bit different

of a light the cheap wasn't playing kind of her

normal role like a normal like spunky self, so

I I do I I do hope that She doesn't know I could

see her getting a better performance in Woody

Allen movies I've seen like a it wasn't anything

near like Blue Jasmine level with Cate Blanchett

Or anything like that, but it was just getting

here into something a little bit more subdued.

I would say But it was funny. I certainly laughed

had a good humor to it I ended up giving like

a 3 .5 out of 5 It's you know a solid little

romantic comedy. It does I think its first half

is stronger than its second half, but I ended

up just enjoying it enough that I was happy with

the product that Willie Allen made. It was one

of those films where I wasn't jumping up and

down about it, but when I was thinking back,

although you could find little things here and

there, I was thinking about the performances,

which I liked, and I was thinking about the fact

that I was entertained the whole time. I was

interested the whole time. It was never something

where I was... bored or something that I was

you know upset at the direction you know what

I mean even if some things were predictable or

some things weren't overall it was just a fun

experience so yeah I think it just it kind of

kept things simple which I liked it didn't really

get it was just kind of and I just I love that

time period too in the music yeah so the thing

that that helped a lot because I just which is

kind of partially what I really like it did make

me think of Midnight in Paris in that way because

it does kind of highlight the 20s as well. I

think it's an intriguing premise too, just the

whole idea of trying to defraud. That's basically

what his character was known for, was kind of

defrauding those types of things. Just the whole

idea of that's kind of clever and interesting.

Yeah. So, awesome. I'm glad you gave it a favorable

rating. Like I said, I'm kind of right there

with you. I was probably a high three, low four,

somewhere in the three and a half range, so I'm

kind of right on board with you on that one.

I don't remember if you gave it a grade for Furious

7. Oh yeah, I gave it a three out of five, because

like I said, it's a fun action movie, but it's

not anything more than that, you know what I

mean? You kind of do have to forgive a lot. of

logic and just science, I guess he was saying.

So it's just, yeah. But it's, you know, it's

a good, like, I just need something to enjoy.

I think it's good in that aspect. And I have

to apologize to the class because I did not complete

my homework on time. It's okay. You did more

real -life homework by going to Universal Studios

and getting that. There we go. So Dan has granted

me an extension, so I will be reporting on my

homework next time we record. So hopefully everybody

can give me a pass on that. I guess then it's

time. Did you have any other thing that you wanted

to mention? No, that's it for me. Alright, so

let's get into our main attraction here as far

as our actor spotlight. We did one a few weeks

slash months ago on Will Ferrell and we definitely

got a lot of responses from that and different

actors that people wanted us to cover. Way more

suggestions than we could possibly get to right

away. So there's a lot of names being dropped,

so we'll try to get to some of them here and

there. But we wanted to do one that somewhat

has some connections to some films that are going

out, and one of the films being released this

week is The Age of Aniline, which stars Harrison...

I don't know if you call it Stars Harrison Ford,

but Harrison Ford is in it. So we're looking

at Harrison Ford. It also makes sense since he's

making all kinds of headlines with every different

Star Wars rumor that's coming out for later on

in the year. So we're just getting ahead of the

game and getting as much Star Wars related talk

as we can in while we can. So we're looking at

Harrison Ford. And if you remember what we did

with Will Ferrell, we kind of went down. Touched

on the good and the bad and we tried to come

up with his top three films and his bottom three

films what we did with Will Ferrell It's three

enough for Harrison Ford, Dan. It's tough. I

mean, I think we never even we've settled on

four for Right for couldn't decide but I think

with I think you know, here's four definitely

has more than three good movies But I think they're

I think we can come to more of a consensus sitting

there's an unquestionably two that go above all

others, but that Third one, I think there's more

of a debate. So we're going to get into that

a little bit. And do you want to, I don't know,

should we start with the good or the bad on this

one, Dan? Let's go bad first and end on a good

way you think all right, so We'll just go kind

of back and forth throwing out some different

nominees for what would be a possibility for

maybe one of his worst Three films, so I'll let

you start just throw out throw out a name that

you're thinking of and once we're done throwing

out suggestions We'll try to narrow it down to

that that bottom three. It's funny is the first

movie I thought of when it came to bed was this

movie that came out in 2010 what I actually saw

in theaters and It's an I don't know if you if

you saw it's it's he's not it's not the the major

star in it But he plays a key role and that's

in morning glory from 2010 he played it's a movie

about basically the news and Specifically like

morning news like the today show type of stuff

and he plays like a news reporter But he's more

old -school news reporter, but I remember the

yes, but the issue was like the entire movie

is about like Why that like new real news reporting

is bad and like the like fluffy today show stuff

is good and it I don't know it's not a good movie

and like Harrison Ford just really grumpy the

entire time and and because that seems to be

like what he's becoming his older age and it's

just I don't know there's a lot of talent involved

because you know Rachel McAdams stars Diane Keen

isn't that too and they try to make them likeable

near the end but I just I don't know I just felt

like its entire message I was against and then

I just I thought it was just a complete waste

of talent so I don't know if you saw that movie

at all Yeah I did see that movie and that's one

of the ones where I was kind of looking up and

down his filmography and I saw that title and

I must have just passed over it like oh that

doesn't ring a bell with me but now I'm glad

you brought that up because I remember this movie

now and you're completely right with everything

you said. This was not a good film currently

holds a 55 % on Rotten Tomatoes. And I get tired

of seeing him play the old grumpy man. That's

not what I want out of Harrison Ford. So I think

that's a great selection. I think I have to throw

out one that's probably at least first thought

for some people and might have a parallel when

we get to our discussion on the kingdom of the...

well at least it might not be one of them that

might not be the bottom three but it's at least

in the conversation that's for sure that's for

sure i will think you know That that's a certified

fresh film on Rotten Tomatoes? Yes, I did. It

was actually rated well, and it did amazing in

the theater, too. So yeah, it's interesting.

And I did not realize either those things were

actual things. I just thought everybody hated

that film. It's kind of funny with that. And

Phantom Menace is, too, if I remember correctly.

George Lucas has that magic touch, I guess. I

guess. It lasts for one weekend. And then a few

weeks later, we're like, oh, wait, no, that wasn't

it. What were we thinking? But yeah, I guess.

The classic bridge scene. Yeah. Oh my god. Yes.

There's so many. There's so much wrong with that.

So I think that one's in the conversation. I

don't know if it's necessarily anything to do

with Harrison Ford. Yeah. But yeah, that was

definitely a tragedy in the Indiana Jones. Franchise

what else do you want to throw out there? This

is funny because this is actually on TV right

before we started recording and it's a firewall

I Don't if you saw that it's like it's just I

don't think I did He plays like a tech. It's

I forget the area was watching and I still didn't

remember what he would exactly but it's like

it's funny cuz it's like right in the mid 2000s

and it was like he was a security specialist

or something or for technology and It I don't

know. It was almost trying to Paul Bettany. Yeah,

it's trying to kind of like It felt like taken

before taken and had like elements of like Air

Force one in some ways it felt like it was just

kind of treading that ground again it it wasn't

I want to say like Awful, it was just so middle

of the road that made it very forgettable Okay,

so that one's out there with it I want to throw

another one in the group and that would be And

there might be some people that like this one,

but I'm gonna put six days and seven nights out

there Oh, that's a good choice I remember seeing

that as a younger fella I don't remember exactly

what year that came out but I want to say that

I was possibly in high school maybe? And I didn't

know this other side of Harrison Ford. This film

came out in 98 so I was like a sophomore, junior

in high school and the only Harrison Ford I knew

when I was that age was the Indiana Jones, the

Star Wars, the the political throwers, which

I've just drawn a blank to. Yeah, the Jack Ryan

films. So I saw Six Days and Seven Nights, and

that really hurt my perspective on Harrison Ford.

I didn't like anything about that film. It's

currently got a 36 % on Rotten Tomatoes. Who

is it, Anne Hayes? Yeah, I don't want to say

too much about it, but I would definitely put

that in the conversation. What about you? I agree

I would as well and another one that kind of

comes to mind too is Extraordinary measures with

him and Brett and Frazier. Oh jeez, which was

like it was like they were having overacting

contest And the loser was us and it was just

like a really like glorified TV movie and it

should not be seen by people so That was a 2010

film. Got 28 % extraordinary measures. We're

coming up with a lot. This is going to be maybe

a little bit harder than I thought. I'm going

to throw out another one, and that would be Paranoia

from just a couple years ago, 2013. Currently

holds a 6 % on Rotten Tomatoes. Wow. There you

go. Yeah, this film was all kinds of bad. I remember

being interested in like the premise and then

somewhat in the trailer. So I did actually see

this I believe in theater and that was a mistake

because it was definitely one of the worst films

of 2013 and it's just kind of a it's it's like

your typical setup where um where there's like

this innocent kind of uh too smart for his own

good character played by Liam Hemsworth. And

then he kind of gets sucked into this corporate

feud between two companies, one of which is head

by Harrison Ford and the other one is head up

by Gary Oldman. And it's just kind of where Liam

Hensworth becomes this pawn that they're each

using to try to gain the other company's secrets

and stuff like that. And there's so many holes

in this movie that... It's just very hard to

get through even if you're just trying to just

like put your brain on hold and just say okay

Well, I'm just gonna get entertained by this

but you can't because it's like a thriller and

The plot's important in the thriller So I did

not like this film so I would definitely put

that in the conversation what other ones you

got to throw out there I did not see paranoia,

but I have everything I heard I have to agree

with you I thought about Ender's Game. I thought

Ender Games was okay, so I didn't think it'd

be his worst. But I don't know. Hollywood Homicide?

I never watched it, so I can't really say. I

had that on my list as well. I've not seen that,

so I'm guessing it's not very good. No, no. Not

very good at all. The only other two I had, which

I'm not sure what your opinions are on these

two films or not. Maybe you like them, but I

put down, just to add to my list to give me some

more options, I put down Cowboys and Aliens.

I'm not a fan, no. I guess I felt more... I kind

of equate that with Ender's Game around the same

thing, which I think they're bad, but they're

not aggressively bad like some of his other memories.

Right, and the only other film that I had wrote

down was What Lies Beneath? I've not seen that.

Based on the ones that you threw out and the

ones I threw out, is there one that's sticking

up as a for sure thing for you? Even though I

haven't seen it, I'm thinking paranoia for sure.

Yeah, it was definitely not good. Harrison Ford

and Gary Oldman should be able to do something

better than that. I would probably agree with

that. Any other big standouts that you think

should be for sure? I have to say Extraordinary

Measures because I felt like that is just...

I remember when that came out, the studios even

tried to bury it. It was just like they just

didn't want to add that to me. Like that and

Morning Glory. But I would probably say Extraordinary

Measures more for me. Okay. So we got Paranoia

and it's 6%. extraordinary measures with its

twenty eight percent uh... we got one other spots

uh... you mentioned morning glory uh... i'm also

thinking that that uh... possibly either six

days seven nights and the other ones we mentioned

cowboys and aliens or uh... kingdom of the crystal

skull which which one are you leaning towards

uh... who man talk about option of winners uh...

Six days seven nights morning glory six days

seven nights has a 36 % not that we're caring

what rotten tomato says necessarily and then

Our morning glory is of 55. Of course, we know

kingdom of the crystal skull is highly rated

I'm thinking I'm thinking six days seven nights

just because I just remember actively hating

both of those characters and just wanting them

not to succeed in their mission and I for that

and I think like Though, I mean, Chris' skull

is awful in a lot of ways. I feel like it's not,

I thought he, like Harrison Ford, it wasn't because

of him. It was everything around him. But I feel

like he played more of a role in the other movies

regarding why they weren't successful. So we

got Extraordinary Measures, Six Days, Seven Nights,

and Paranoia. Phil, that's pretty strong. All

right, that's that's pretty strong in the worst

way. Yeah So we're landing on those for Harrison

Ford's worst film. So let's like like you said,

let's end on a positive note Let's throw out

some of his best films. You said that you feel

that there's a couple that are for sure What's

one of those? Well, I would have to say Raiders

of the Lost Arch for sure Okay, that that's that

was one of the tricks here that I was trying

to come up with I'm like Do I eliminate do do

I have a conversation with Dan and do we eliminate

Indiana Jones and Star Wars? Or do we just say

that one per franchise? And everybody has different

favorites for Indiana Jones Yeah, I saw so I

saw some Twitter comments about that that we'll

get into a little bit but Raiders of the Lost

Ark Definitely probably more regarded as the

best Indiana Jones film. Yeah, I mean Last Crusade

is very close for me, but I think I used to go

Raiders, but there I like I Temple of Doom is

to me the middle of the road with those two,

but the first and the third I think are pretty

parallel. And I think I saw The Last Crusade

at the right time. I'm not even positive that

that might have been the first one I saw somehow.

I don't know. I have very fond memories of The

Last Crusade, but I'm with you. If we were picking

one Indiana Jones, I'd probably go with Raiders

of the Lost Ark. I mean, it also wants us to

marathon those, so maybe I'll be getting some

new perspective, even though I think I've seen

each one of those films probably 50 times. So

I don't know how much could change there. So

Raiders of the Lost Ark, and you mentioned that

there might be one other one that was a for sure.

Well, yeah, I guess it's Star Wars. And then

the question is, which one? And I would probably,

I mean, I don't know. People have different favorites,

but I'm kind of cliche in the end where I say

Empire. OK. So. Yeah, I mean, everybody, again,

has their different favorites, but man, that's

so hard. Yeah, I'd probably go with Empire, too.

I'm trying to think if there's one. I'm trying

to separate the Star Wars films and what I feel

about them overall to Harrison Ford specifically.

Yeah. And to thinking if there's one of those

films where I like him more. I'm thinking Empire

has his most, or probably has his best line,

you know, the, I love you, I know, so it, yeah.

All right, so we got Empire Strikes Back and

we got Raiders of the Lost Ark as two that possibly

will be for sure, but let's throw out all the

other options and see if there's any competitors.

The first one that I was thinking of, we kind

of talked about it a little bit in our new segment

as far as a possible sequel, so let's throw the

original Blade Runner at least into the conversation

if we're going along those lines. Now we also

talked about, go ahead. Yeah, I would say I agree.

Arguably, I think you could even say there's

an argument that some people would say that's

his best movie considering his best performance

in his best movie. So I think that is for sure

in the conversation. Now, one of the other characters

that he's obviously most famous for, which apparently

I'm an idiot because I couldn't think of the

name, is Jack Ryan, of course. Is there a Jack

Ryan film that stands up with all these other

ones? No. No? I like those movies, but like,

no. Okay. I guess, I don't know. They're, you

know, they're good, but I guess I like Haunter

at October the most. But I just, I think like

you can argue like the other movies are like

the best of all time within their genre. I don't

know if I would say like Clear and Present Danger

or the Patriot Games are the best in that, their

respective genres. So I would say they're...

You know, good movies, but not amongst his best

of all time. Now, if we were trying to make a

list of movies that were representative of his

career... That would be a different conversation.

We'd probably have to throw one out there because

for a while that was kind of what he was doing

Yeah, you know with like films like Air Force

One you mentioned clear and present danger Patriot

games fugitive K -19 Widowmaker even a little

bit later like that that was kind of a whole

section of his career before he went into the

the old grumpy man phase Yeah, we had a sci -fi

adventure phase early on so if we were talking

all those I would probably put the fugitive in

that group probably a head of head of them all

maybe that makes sense and i think i actually

might like air force one more than the jack ryan

movies but it's been a while since i've seen

seen them all let's be honest um and then another

one that's very highly uh rated by a lot of people

would be a witness yeah that's another good one

too that's i think probably his more his best

dramatic performance or one of his best dramatic

performances i would say so that's now obviously

Obviously, some of these films might not star

him as much as other ones, but this guy, I didn't

realize the number of highly acclaimed films

that he's been in. And I'm not trying to be the

dead horse with the whole Rotten Tomatoes thing,

but he has a ton of certified fresh films. Way

more than I thought, and I'm just kind of naming

them all so we can kind of just at least name

drop these films, but 42 from a couple years

ago is certified fresh. Actually, Anchorman 2

is certified fresh, Crystal Skull certified fresh.

That seems weird to say. Air Force One, The Fugitive,

which we just mentioned, Presumed Innocent, Indiana

Jones and the Last Crusade, Frantic, Indiana

Jones and the Temple of Doom, Return of the Jedi,

Blade Runner, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Empire

Strikes Back, Apocalypse Now, A New Hope, The

Conversation, and American Graffiti, all certified.

I don't know what's keeping witness from being

certified fresh. It's a 91 % but it hasn't quite

met the criteria that they have over Rotten Tomatoes.

You've got to wait a few years, I guess. Either

it doesn't have enough reviews or I don't know

what the problem is there. It came out in 1985.

Any of those that we need to add to the conversation?

Well, I think we should maybe just mention American

Graffiti because I definitely you know that was

kind of his breakout role and You know help hit

help him lands, you know get in the Star Wars

films, you know It's where he met with George

Lucas. So I think that's worth a mention And

he was also, you know, he had a small role in

Apocalypse Now. It wasn't really Huge, you know,

it was kind of like I think if you're just talking

movie specifically I think that would be in the

argument but since this role was so small in

it I would put in the conversation Okay, so for

the ones that we've talked a lot most strongly

about we have the the one Star Wars film if we're

picking just one The one Indiana Jones film again

if we're picking just one and then we had possibly

Fugitive or Air Force one we talked about and

then we had Blade Runner Witness and American

Graffiti What are you thinking for if we're trying

to narrow this down to three spots? I'm thinking

Blade Runner Bleed wonder or witness. I mean,

I think either of those would be Strong choices,

but I think I feel like Blade Runner is a little

bit more acclaimed it certainly has more of a

culture impact and I think I Don't know. I feel

like it fits more the Harrison Ford model a little

bit It feels weird that it's so science fiction

heavy a little bit. Mm -hmm. So it but I think

I think it makes sense, but I think Witness is

a... Is that when he was at his best? Was he

at his best when he was doing more of the sci

-fi fantasy films compared to when he's doing

more of the thrillers or suspense films or when

he's doing whatever he's doing lately with the

more dramatic light -hearted stuff? I think so.

I think so. I think it was when he was working

also with better directors. I think he is a good

movie star and I think he has that charisma for

sure. But I think... With Blade Runner, it was

a different, it was nothing like anything any

of the other characters, so I don't know. I think

he's best when he's a strong movie around him.

Like, if the movie is not very good, I don't

know if he can hold him up by himself. I think

he's a good actor, but I think he's like one

of those powerhouse, like, Zespians, per se.

I think he needs, like, strong material, and

which is why I think he works, when he has strong

material, he tends to not get out of the park.

Well, that's the most part. I'm going to agree

with you. If I had to narrow it down and only

pick one, I would probably put Blade Runner in

there too. So we will keep that with Raiders

of the Lost Ark, Empire... Did we say Empire

or Return of the Jedi? I said Empire, but I mean...

Yeah. Empire Strikes Back and Blade Runner as

our top three. I think that's a pretty good list.

I don't think you can go too much wrong with

those. I mean somebody might argue that a different

Star Wars film or a different Indiana Jones film

should be in there. And I guess we kind of avoided

putting more than one of any of those in there,

just for variety's sake. Looking at his career

as it is right now, I mean, it's pretty safe

to say that his best years are over. Is there

anything else that, I mean, does he hold any

interest for you anymore? If his name's attached

to a film, does that excite you at all? No, it

doesn't. unfortunately I just because he's kind

of I don't know it seems like he like he it's

weird like I felt like he's kind of run away

from a lot of the properties of being infamous

but then now he's going back to them I don't

know if that's because like he wasn't as successful

as he hopes to be but yeah I just know he doesn't

really I just think he's had too many duds and

he's just like not been producing really well

like he's just kind of playing that like you

mentioned that grumpy old guy and it's becoming

like coming a little bit tiresome though i thought

he was pretty good in 42 i will i will say i

did like that role but if he playing that same

that's because that type of character worked

yeah and and and who he was playing but i'm with

you like i can only watch the the grumpy old

man so many times and I'm not saying that he

needs to do this. I mean, I don't know exactly

what his age is. He's climbing up there, and

hopefully he's not hurting for money at all.

But I don't know. I would've been fine if he

appeared in episode seven, Star Wars here, The

Force Awakens, this December, and that was just

his ride off into the sunset. I'd be fine with

that. Yeah, I wouldn't disagree. Looking at the

previous age of Adeline, I'm not holding up much

hope for that either. It looked pretty awful.

So again, I think he needs to... I think he rubs

a lot of people the wrong way. So it's just based

upon his interviews and stuff like that. It doesn't

seem like he's a very likable guy, which may

become an issue when you're not stopping him

from getting the parts. But maybe he's rumored

for Indiana Jones 5, and they might be remaking

that. I don't know. Well, and just look at the...

We just came up with a bottom three and a top

three. If you put the years next to the bottom

three and the years next to the top three, you're

gonna see a vast difference in when those films

are coming out. I don't think that's a coincidence.

Do us a favor, get in your Millennium Falcon

without hurting yourself and right off into the

sunset. I feel like after six days, seven nights,

it's just been kind of a downward spiral, unfortunately.

I hate that I'm ripping on one of my favorite

actors as a kid with Indiana Jones and Han Solo.

best characters I probably was exposed to at

a young age but that's all I need to see. I can

just watch those over and over again. I don't

need to see anything else. Alright, so you will

have to let us know listeners if we got it right

or wrong. Do we have the right top three or the

right bottom three? We did go to the Twitterverse

to see what everybody thought as far as their

favorite and least favorite films. And we definitely

got a few responses that was a variety of different

films being touched on. I know it sparked some

Indiana Jones comments here and there for sure,

including about four or five people that started

talking about Temple of Doom and Kingdom of the

Crystal Skulls. Some Temple of Doom love out

there, for sure, from my girlfriend. And I can't

remember if it was Brendan or if it was... Yeah,

Brennan temple is so underrated But he still

said I got to go with Raiders as as my favorite

and then he said favorite Harrison Ford film

is five. Don't don't give me episodes and numbers

here So, but yeah, so Brendan Cassidy from In

Session Film, thanks for those comments. We're

with you on that with Raiders, obviously, and

with one of the Star Wars films. Who else said

some things? We had TFG and Mike mention a few.

Another love for Temple of Doom from Matt from

Simplistic Reviews. Trying to get to Mike's comment

to see which ones he listed. The worst films,

he said Frantic, Six Days, Seven Nights. and

uh... he also wanted uh... regarding henry to

be added to his best choices which uh... included

obviously uh... indiana jones and star wars he

also said that he really enjoyed random hearts

in air force one uh... mister hasuse kazada at

scanner fifty one uh... talking about sabrina

i don't know if i agree with that But I saw it

a long time ago. I don't remember it sticking

that much with me He also mentioned witness and

Hollywood homicide I hopefully he was talking

good for witness and bad for Hollywood homicide

home Amanda my girlfriend also said that she

liked him in what lies beneath which I must have

not liked as much as she did. She also said he

was laughable in Cowboys vs. Aliens, which definitely

agree with that. Last one here, Carlton at Bouncing

the 500, favorite Harrison Ford film, Raiders

of the Lost Ark, least favorite regarding Henry,

and then he goes on to say whose thesis was brain

damage will make a better man. Someone has a

great tweet there. I do have one more, too. I

don't know if you saw it. Ryan Cox mentioned

Star Wars and Air Force One, so that's his favorite.

Okay. So I did want to get it. Excellent. So,

and if you didn't get in on the tweets beforehand,

just go to the website and let us know in the

comments for this episode which ones you think

are the favorite, least favorite, and if we got

it wrong or... Right. Looking ahead to next week

as far as the movie releases and as far as Blu

-ray goes, a few films being released here as

you're listening to this. The Age of Adeline,

which we talked about, which has Harrison Ford

in it, being released April 24th, which is the

day this goes live. We also have The Forger with

John Travolta and Christopher Plummer. We have

The Water Diviner starring Russell Crowe. Little

Boy Those are probably the the biggest ones also

Kung Fu killer for the Kung Fu fans out there

Any other ones that were being released that

you thought were worth mentioning? No, I just

let me mention X Machina should be going more

More going wide so that if you have not seen

that I think that seems like to be the best option

this weekend Right and just to give you a quick

brief Review so far as well as far as what Rotten

Tomatoes is saying about these films so far like

we mentioned the Ex Machina is 89 % Age of Adeline

57 The Water Diviner 63. So maybe a positive

review film from Russell Crowe He directed that

I was his director Tori will debut. Yes Yes,

Little Boy is currently sitting at seven percent.

There you go So maybe avoid that one And the

Kung Fu film, getting some good reviews. So that

one is at 82%. There's also, I believe this is

a documentary, Kurt Cobain documentary, which

is sitting at 97%. And I mentioned The Forger

starring John Travolta. That actually beats Little

Boy. That's at a 4%. Nice, nice. And we mentioned

this one, so I'll mention it. We mentioned it

when the trailer came out. But just before I

go, starring Sean William Scott. 14%. So I think

you're right with which film people should see.

I do want to see Russell Crowe's film, but definitely

making a trip to see the Ex Machina. I can't

say it. Yeah, it just sounds wrong every time

I say it. I say it and I'm like, I said that

wrong and I didn't, but it just feels wrong.

And as far as Blu -ray is coming out this week

and anything being released there, uh... if you're

looking for this coming tuesday and what you

want to watch uh... april twenty eighth we got

accidental love which uh... has jake jillan hall

jessica beal in it we have the inherent vice

combo pack uh... movie called the barber i'm

not aware of what that is uh... and a whole bunch

of uh... smaller stuff the boy next door jennifer

lopez combo pack the gambler uh... combo pack

which did not get good reviews and uh... pannington

actually already being released on dvd in blue

ray seems like that just came out and and and

that got uh... really great reviews so uh...

if you're looking for something uh... family

-friendly or kid -friendly that uh... definitely

did very well at both the box office and with

the critics so the uh... few choices there between

some films that uh... came out late last year

or early this year anything that uh... strikes

your fancy that you're gonna pick up their uh...

honestly not really I'm going to stay away from

most of that too. I might watch Paddington in

some way, shape, or form, but I'm probably not

going to go out and buy it. I think that does

it for today. The only thing left that we have

to do is ask you guys a question. I'll give Dan

a chance first to ask a question, and if he doesn't

I will try to... Make up for that. So Dan, do

you have an idea for a question for this? Um,

I guess if Going back to the Robin Hood question

and the Robin Hood films that we went over if

I'd be curious if anyone was interested in any

of those properties and if so, which ones I That

was what I was gonna go with see great minds

think alike Since we didn't necessarily break

it down and do a thumbs up and thumbs down on

each version of it I would be interested if if

you had to get one of those versions which one

would you pick so you have the lions gate the

warner brothers the disney in the sony version

are we going with uh... the the fast and the

furious one and uh... prior to the caribbean

one the superhero squad one uh... which version

of the origin batman begins dark version which

version of robin hood would you pick so a great

question are you interested in any of those whatsoever

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