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Here's a queation: how do you guys feel about being in the era of the never-ending franchise? We will never see the end of Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Kong/Godzilla, probably even Avatar (especially now that it's Disney). Feels like A24 is the only studio doing one-off dramas and quirky arthouse stuff now.

Tell me Im wrong, I dare you, Apple TV is consistently doing the highest quality shows, sci-fi, drama, comedy, etc. They've become what Netflix and HBO once were. And here is just another example. Time Bandits is one of my favorite films, Terry Gilliam's genius, on full display.This adaptation looks wonderful. I can't wait. ruclips.net/video/QeFdmAEYuwY/видео.htmlsi=ZqMeNf_POks-CGbY

I think we may have a substantial plot twist when it come to the TV-verse version of Billy Butcher.. Something's inside of him that's not cancer

When i saw White Lotus in the subject, I thought maybe the new season was out! I think Jennifer Coolidge kind of makes the show. I was hoping the next season would still include her, going back before the 1st season with her still out on hotel excursions that go sideways. Murders at hotels that just keep following her would be amusing. I watched the 1st two House of Dragon episodes. I have the same issue with the naems though, I can't keep them straight in my head. It's started out Ok though, so I'll watch the whole season. I never head of the Bikeriders movie. I"m not totally sure if I'll watch it. I watched all of Sons, but was hating it towards the end, I was really only kept watching because I wanted everyone dead! And needed to see who got axed. They should have ended it after the first 2 seasons instead of trying to drag out a good thing because it was so popular. They werew awful people, fighting with even worse people. 😂 Jamie refused to watch after 1st season because he can't stand when the bikes don't have the right sound effects or keep getting run off the road by vans. He'd just start ranting "that just wouldn't happen!" 😆I did love Tig & Walton Goggins together though. There's a book I read called The Road To Hell, about the Hells Angels, and how the cops ended up taking them down in the late 90s here. It's crazy all the stuff that was going on.

I watched Iron Claw when it landed on streaming because I was really into WWF late 90s. Although, I didn't know much about the Von Erich family, they were kind of before I got into it. What a depressing, tragic family. They even left out one of the other brothers that had died, to streamline the movie a bit. I HATED who they cast as Ric Flair, and it took me right out of the movie when he was on screen. I don't know how he got through the audition process. Zac & Jeremy did great though and got pretty jacked. I didn't really like the movie overall though. Just so depressing with everything that happened, and how their father treated them.

I laughed when Lauren said "I don't really care about this" for the Star Wars blah blahhing 😆I do agree though, Rogue One is the best of all of them. So, I think that could easily just be watched on its own, without really knowing too much back story. It would probably still be good for someone that isn't really into the whole universe. I've seen all the Star Wars movies and shows, but I'm kind of bad at the details, I get confused with the timelines and the what/when/where of it all. I did like the Kenobi tv series though, because I like Ewan & the kid they got to play Leia was great.

What would you guys think of a remake of The Last Starfighter?

Kevin, I'm skipping telling Andrew this time, but you're behind on the audio version again...

39 :17 mmmm hmmmm

To me, Back To Black comes off like an ABC Movie Of The Week

Lauren!

Hey APNC, if you guys haven't seen the official trailer that just dropped for Alien: Romulus. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say we finally may get the successor to Aliens that Aliens deserves.

This was a good episode. This review of Atlas actually makes me want to watch it, even though I know how it goes. Your evisceration of it was hilarious.

Do u like Vikings

So, the trailers for the new Beverly Hills Cop and the Beetlejuice sequel dropped today. Thoughts?

Bodkin on Netflix is a joy. It almost had me feeling 'Deadloch' vibes. Would highly recommend.

Unfrosted was just OK. It was kind of like a longer seinfeld episode. Kind of chaos, and weird. But I love Melissa McCarthy. The best line from the movie also works as a review: "it's slightly better than garbage" and then Amy Schumer mumbles "like grape nuts" for some reason that line made me crack up cause my parents always bought grape nuts, and grape nut ice-cream when I was a kid. I wish he'd do more comedians in cars episodes, I've rewatched all of them multiple times 😆

Can I go off topic? I've been a Star Trek fan for as long as I can remember. I began watching the rerun TOS episodes with my dad, possibly before I can remember. Over the years, the franchise has had its ups and downs, with both TV and films being delivered to varying degrees of quality. The high of Wrath of Khan along with the lows of Insurrection. The quality of TNG and the lower rung of Enterprise. Such is life. One of the most recent, Discovery, is nearing its end with the 2nd half of its final season airing currently. While this was never the cream of the crop of the more recent ST efforts, this show failed for one simple reason: no one wants to sit through a 5 season long therapy session. This show is way too internalized to be a ST show. First, it starts out as Burnam having issues with daddy and her brother, then it's the Klingon guy, then her mother, then Booker. Also, you've got Stametz and Culber who have possibly the worst chemistry for an on screen couple. Blu and Tol, Saru and the Vulcan admin woman. In each of these relationships, it's all whining and overly dramatic issues that are blown far out of proportion. All of this was exasperated by the "Burn" season. An entire season about the pandemic, where the season seemed to last longer than the actual real-world illness. We were living the pandemic, and I didn't want to be forced to fed it by my entertainment as well. Adventures are about escapism, that feeling of being taken far off to a different place or far away time, not to be reminded of the hell that is reality. They also canceled ST Lower Decks, there was some truly funny shit on there. Almost like the Family Guy version of ST.

I feel that you guys missed the big point of invincible. Mark, Mark has been holding back so much this whole time and now that he's killed someone he will find the strength to unleash his full power next time he fights the Viltramites. Also, Eve has been holding back as we saw in her solo. she is very powerful, and if she fully unleashes, she could probably destroy the world.

Rebel Moon 2...........wait, someone actually watched this whole thing? This clunky, boring, soulless catastrophe? I'm not even sure that I have words for this "film". This was supposed to be a Star Wars story. Can you imagine? This would actually have been worse than the Book of Boba Fett. And that is truly saying something. This whole Zack Snyder is making the same film over and over again has gotten stale. Sam shot setups, same sepia tone color correction, same dull characters, and same overused slo-mo effects every damn time. These kinds of films exist for me on a level akin to F&F and franchises like The Expendables, and other Jason Statham properties. Made by an egotistical guy who thinks he's an auteur. If Rebel Moon were a person it would be an alpha bro driving a jacked-up truck, wearing tactical sunglasses, blasting any song by Skynard while screaming "guns, yeah, 'Murica" out the windows. Which is to say cliché, uninteresting and far too overdone.

I binged the first 4 episodes of Fallout this weekend. Loving it. Man, I love Walton Goggins, between Baby Billy in Righteous Gemstones, Venus, the girl he plays in Sons, and this. He's just so great.

Nyad sounds pretty interesting, I heard about it a while ago, I saw Annette Bening doing an interview about it. I might check that out. Don't Look Up - I found really boring. Until maybe the last 10 mins. I found it kind of a waste of time, and I really think the only reason it became popular is because nothing else was being made or coming out with covid happening. Just watch the last 15 mins or something. 😝

3BP was a well-done adaptation. Changes from the source materiel, but most of them are understandable, and none of them were egregious enough to destroy the story, in my opinion. For anyone who has yet to read the books, I would recommend them to anyone who enjoys reading. Including the 4th book, The Redemption of Time. Written not by the trilogy author, but with the original author's blessing. A book that, to me, has some similarities to Arthur C. Clarke's 3001: The Final Odyssey.

Damsel is the sloggiest, most trope-filled, derivative snoozefest that Netflix has done since that Zack Snyder abomination. It's boring, poorly written, badly acted, middling at best special effects. Millie Bobby Brown is in dire need of a real role. This Enola Holmes, Stranger Things, Damsel pigeon hole she is in is going to end her career real quick. Netflix as a whole is dying when it comes to quality. If they fuck up The Three Body Problem, I'm gonna be pissed.

“Observe the plans within plans within plans.” -Baron Vladimir Harkonnen

You’re not saying his name right. You’re in the company of many on RUclips who pronounce Denis Villeneuve like it’s Spanish. The correct pronunciation: Deh-Nee Veal-Nuhv.

I completely forgot about Alice in Borderland!! I only watched the first two episodes, and then for whatever reason, I forgot to go back to it. So now I'll have to check out the rest. As soon as I finished Squid Games, I googles "shows like" and that's how I found it a couple years ago. I remember liking it well enough. I agree maybe Squid Games is a bit better, but I think I'll go watch at least the next episode and see if it hooks me back in. I haven't watched Fleabag, so I might check that out as well. And I am a loser, and have never seen any of Lost. I just never got jumped on it when it came out, and then it seemed like too much to bother with.

Love this podcast...like a pop culture yelp review

This was a great episode, fellas!!

I watched the greatest moment in pop last weekend too, it was interesting. I had no idea that they all got together over night, After an award show to create that. It's pretty crazy. I'm sure the energy in the room kept them going, but it must have been exhausting. I hadn't heard of Players yet, so I might look that up😄 Ahaha. Michael at the end. He should pop in for more commentary on videos.

At a secret gathering of studios somewhere deep in Simi Valley. Disney: Well, not the best year, but we're ok. Amazon: we've got Tolkien stuff coming! Hello? Guys? A24: You guys, honestly, we're just so happy to be here. Coffee, anyone? WB/Discovery: (sobbing) We try! I swear we try, but our movies aren't doing well. People constantly say we make the worst comic-related films! Sony: Yo, got you, son. Hold my beer. A couple of years later, at the same meeting... Disney: OK, let's get back to Star Wars. Amazon: We've got more Tolkien stuff coming! Seriously, are you guys ignoring me? A24: Oh, you're not supposed to bring the Oscar to the meeting? Our bad. WB/Discovery: We give up, and they don't even like the 4 hour versions. Sony: We'd like to apologize to you guys. Uhm, we might have just killed the whole super-hero movie, thingy. So, uh, sorry. Please play Spider-man on PS5.

It was interesting to listen to your AI script. I definitely prefer normal Kevin! Thanks for letting us listen to it. BTW I really enjoyed the video clips you played in this episode. Side note: I use AI a lot for work (to save time) and it's true.... you need to find where it works and where it doesn't. For my comms material I have to pick pieces of it to get the tone right. Was falling in love with Ryan Gosling AI scripted? 🤣 Other movies that popped in my head (are they romcoms, not sure!): Juno, Sliverlining playbooks, trainwreck

I think you're too hard on yourself, this episode was fine! 😆 I haven't seen a few of these movies. But I did like Failure to Launch. I tend to watch action/comedy more than rom/com. But I will look up a couple of the others you listed to watch. I never saw Crazy Stupid Love and I bet I will really like it. I kind of like The Proposal with Ryan Reynolds and Sandy B, and Betty White of course. 😊

I'll have to rewatch Just Friends lol. I just remember liking its brutal honesty, and it's usage of "I Swear" 😂 But you're right: times have changed. Ana Faris seemed to be a Britney Spears caricature too. But... I now recall I think she gets with the younger bro. Was he even 18 yet??? Cringe.

Monarch. A friend and I were discussing the "Zillaverse" the other day, and my take was this: "You know how the DCEU is way worse (or was considering Marvel's decline) than Marvel? That's the Godzilla franchise. Not very good films with a spin-off that doesn't raise the bar much." I'm sure this is caused by the Toho people or whomever runs the Godzilla stuff. Apple+ is usually premium tier when they release shows, Invasion, Foundation, Silo, Slow Horses, Masters of the Air, etc. Monarch at best... is meh.

I really liked Echo a lot!! She does kick ass, and I'm so glad it all dropped at once so I could binge it. Also, side note, Graham Greene, who plays her grandfather is Canadian, I recognized him right away. I hadn't heard anything really about the new Mean Girls, so that's interesting. I love the original, & watch it all the time. So I' wasn't sure I'd want to see any kind of remake of it, but I might check out the movie now if I see it pop up somewhere. As far as Deadpool goes, note to Jen, probably avoid your youngest watching it for sure. It's more violent, but the funny/sarcastic attitude is pretty amusing. He's hilarious. Although there's no real nudity during any sex scenes, you do see Ryan's bits & pieces for a min when he wakes up in a warehouse and is running naked & fighting someone. I don't remember nudity in 2nd one, but I think it might have a PG version out there too. My friend wants me to watch Slow Horses, I haven't started it yet though! One Piece I loved too! And I actually watched 1st two animated episodes just to compare. And realized how well it was cast. They did a great job matching the characters and story in the live version. I won't bother watching more of the animated version probably, it was just a curiosity thing. But I'm looking forward to next season.

Promo sm

If Zach Snyder did anything marvel, he could only do Punisher or Blade. They fit his style

Also, interesting that you liked Dashing Through the Snow more than 8-Bit cause I thought for sure it would be 8-Bit. I will say, between Dashing Through the Snow and Candy Cane Lane, I was loving me some black Santa…possibly more than white Santa. 😉

I'm still reeling (in a good way) at the inclusion of this Blackstreet song so relatively prominently in the film ruclips.net/video/ub2LNLBc7Jo/видео.htmlsi=NFdfKyWs2a05O0T6

Leave the World Behind: Solid 8 out of 10

Leave the World Behind should have been called Leave the Ending Out.

I've been watching that Squid Game contest the last few days, I like it. They're crying a lot though, you'd think contestants were actually getting shot. I watched Family Switch this week, it's cute. Nothing new, or ground breaking of course, but it's ok. I like both Jennifer Garner and Ed Helms, and the daughter is the girl from Wednesday. I also watched Candy Cane Lane😆 It's not bad. I'm on a cheesy movie kick lately. Leading into December my brain is mush with year end coming. I just need easy on the head movies to combat the chaos. I've already watched Home Alone & Elf last weekend. 😅Every Christmas Eve I go to my friends, and we watch Die Hard. I've had so much going on I still never got to see the Marvels or Blue Beetle. I will watch both though, so we'll see. I'm sure I'll like Marvels fine though, I'd be surprised if I hated it. My work closes over xmas break, so I plan on being a vegetable and hopefully I'll get caught up watching movies then.

Are you guys going to do a holiday episode this month?

I was kind of wondering why they didn't push the release date for Marvels out a bit to give them a chance to talk & promote it. I haven't seen it yet, but I'm sure I'll probably like it. (though, I am not a cat person, so cats & singing sound odd 😆) Side note - Iman & Teyonah were just on the View talking about Marvels. And Teyonah has a new Christmas movie coming out soon with Ludacris. So, I'm excited for that one now😀 I loved Loki! It was great, he was trying so hard to fix everything, and fails over & over. Then to realize he finally has friends he wants to protect and find his purpose. It was a nice end to the series. I looked at it as the end to Loki as a character. I'm sure down the road they could figure out how to make him cameo in things if they wanted, but I think his journey is over. And I hope they leave it alone. I feel like Andrew went into Loki the way I went into Wanda vision. There was so much hype, it kind of ruined it for me. I was late to the Wanda party, so it was already all out when I finally started it and I had a hard time getting into the first few episodes, it was a let down. I should re-watch it. I've only ever watched it once. With Loki I watched episodes asap before I could see anythign online about it. I wanted to be a blank slate.

I liked Old Dads 😆Bill Burr cracks me up though. I know he's extreme, and exaggerates his points for comedic value, but I didn't find it too preachy, I think it was fine. He walks that line, but then did come around at the end, so it balanced out bit. Either way, I can see why it would be getting some hate and not be for a lot of people. It's got a very specific target gen x audience. I'm really liking Loki! All the time jumping stuff warps my brain though. I find it confusing sometimes. So I can't wait to see how this season ends, and then binge it all again to re-watch.

27:44: "I missed it b/c I watch movies at night..... and I'm old" --> that's not nice to yourself Kevin! Anyway.... I want to check out some of these movies, thanks for the reviews. I just saw Fair Play this weekend. I actually enjoyed this b/c I liked being on the edge of my seat. I wasn't sure how it would end and the direction of their relationship since like you said, they kept coming back. I liked the ending and I actually searched about it after watching it to see what others were saying. I started Bodies and also Pain hustlers as well. Is that on your list?

I loved One Piece! I knew nothing about it either, and just put the first episode on because I was bored and didn't know what to watch. I kind of got sucked in, and binged it all over a couple days. After I finished, I put the first episode of the anime series on out of curiosity. I'm not an anime person, but after watching 1st episode, they did a great job casting the characters! And stuck to the story nicely. I've seen that they're planning on doing One Piece as long as Netflix will let them. They want to do several seasons, there's a ton of content to draw from.

And the people that don’t like him like you would hate it no matter what. The black guy seemed for leveled in criticizing Zack but the other dude was quite literally upset for what? Like you don’t have to watch the movie. You can’t even keep a level head talking about his movie. Do better.

The flash was my favorite part of Justice league, not that that says a WHOLE lot seeing that I did not enjoy that either...but alas. All of his positive, funny qualities were stripped of the character in this movie and you were left with a twitchy, neurotic and annoying main character. I hated the blatant ripoff of the marvel multiverse and variants, I didnt uderstand skipping Robert Pattinsons batman...? I didnt see the film but it was weird to just skip the most recent version of batman. The special fx were so distracting and terrible, I just couldnt get behind it and honestly couldn't believe that was what we were left with, knowing the movie had such a large budget. Supergirls' character was so flat, angry and not likable I was disappointed that she the big saving grace in the film. I refused to give the flash any money in its theatrical stint or to rent it but I honestly DID want to like it. I wanted to finish it saying I don't like Ezra Miller, I think its crazy they still released this after all the controversy BUT ALL IN ALL IT WAS A GOOD MOVIE, and I just couldn't say that. He went back, and ends up losing his mother but at the end, batman was still a variant and.....you're just left confused. And agreed that the end credit scene with aquaman was dumb and Im so glad I watched it at home where I could fast forward to it and not waste an additional 10 minutes of my life to be left with that nonsense. I wish I could say I at least thought it was OK! It was so shockingly bad and I cant believe they were so hell bent on releasing it after everything. Very very disappointing film in my opinion.