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0:00Well, greetings and salutations, everybody. Welcome to the best and move related show on the planet Earth, the John Campy show coming from right here in our quaint little studio. I'm of course your host, John Campi. I'm joined in studio by Jonathan Voico. Hello, everybody. Writer, director, producer, Robert Meyerbernett. Are we gonna get story time again soon? Not today, but, uh, and most importantly, of course, you guys are here. Thank you so much for being here, making our little show part of your day. And here's how today's show's gonna go. We're gonna start off by talking about a number of topics we got lined up for you guys. Then in the second part of the show, we're gonna take your comments and questions. Now there are two different ways to get a comment or a question on the show. First off, if you're not watching this show live, like if you're watching this a little bit later in the day after we've done the live stream, you guys can send in a question or topic to www.streamelements.com slash John Campi a slash tip. Or if you are one of the people watching live, you can send in a question using the super chat feature in the live chat. Now, we

1:04will, of course, address your questions. If we deem them appropriate to be addressed on the show, we do reserve the right not to address any questions that we don't think are appropriate. Also, want to let you guys know that another way you can get the John Campi a show, maybe you're at work or you're commuting. You can't have a YouTube video on in front of you. That's why you need to subscribe to our John Campi a show podcast feed. Just go on to Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favorite podcasting app of choice. Make sure you subscribe to our podcast today. So that way it'll be there when you need it. All right. With that down guys, let's get things started with this. Today is March 25th. That name said, well, why is that date? Why is that date? Oh, that's right. So March 25th, 10 years ago today, uh-oh, in 2016, the movie, Ney, the event, Batman versus

2:05Superman came out and hit theaters. As you can see here, we are today celebrating the 10th anniversary of Batman versus Superman. Definitely why I think of March 25th. That's the, that's why that's why most people do market down. And you know, it's, when you look forward here today, you know, we're in the launch of a new DC era. You know, I pointed out in an editorial video I did before. If you want to know just how good James Gunn did and Peter Safran did it, relaunching the DCU, uh, their first movie out of the gate, their first movie out of the gate had higher critic audience scores and box office than the previous nine DCU films. That's how about a slide and that's how well he got them out of the funk. I mean, so congratulations to that. But you know, as we look back to the completely miserably failed DCU. Now, and I say that, I say that as a guy who liked or loved every

3:06single movie in the DCU, other than two, uh, the birds of prey, Harley Quinn movie and Wonder Woman 1984 didn't like those two. But I had minimum light and some I loved all the rest of the movies. I really did. But a lot of the audience did not agree with me. A lot of critics didn't agree with me. A lot of the audience did agree with me and the box office certainly didn't agree and it was time to move on. But you know, almost no movie kind of represents that dichotomy, if you will. I think them Batman versus Superman. And today, 10 years later, I still defend this movie. I like this movie. Do I think it was as good as man of steel? No. Do I think it had a couple of problems? Yes. But did I overall walk out of that theater with a big smile on my face? Absolutely. I did. I absolutely did. And you know, the reason I bring up this article here, uh, the one in screen ran, they, they talk about four things at age. Well, and a few things that didn't. I, number them were right on par with me. Let

4:09me talk to you about a couple of things that this movie did great. First of all, I never thought ever we would ever get an opening to a comic book movie that would come anywhere near close the opening of X-Men 2 with Nightcrawler attacking the White House. I never thought it would ever happen. Like I don't think that's the greatest comic book movie of all time, but that's the greatest opening to a comic movie ever. And I never thought we would have a film that would contend with that Batman versus Superman came along and it did it. That whole opening, first of all, what a great way to introduce us to Bruce Wayne and to Batman and to tie into the events of what happened in Man of Steel. That whole sequence of telling it from the perspective of Bruce Wayne when Zod and Superman were fighting in Metropolis. And what he saw, like in Man of Steel, we saw from the perspective of our hero, Cal L, but from there we saw it from the perspective of a mortal on the

5:10ground Bruce Wayne. And that whole scene when he saves the little girl and finds out that little girl's mom is dead. And then the camera starts, first of all, Zack Snyder and his cinematographer in that scene. Oh my God, starting the camera above Bruce's head and have Ben Affleck turn into the camera as he looks up to the sky without a word of dialogue. And everything you need to know is written all over his face. And in that opening, in that moment, they completely underscored every ounce of motivation and reason behind everything Bruce does in the rest of the movie. It's brilliant. It's better than brilliant. It's the best opening to any comic book movie ever. I mean, that little movie called Avengers End Game with Hawkeye and his family disappearing. That was pretty damn good too. But also different, but also awesome. But I still contend that is the greatest opening to any of these movies ever. Also, it gave us Ben Affleck as Batman. Who was great? Who

6:18I think gave us? I'm not saying he was better than Christian Bale's Batman. That's not what I'm saying. Hear my words. But I think he gave us the most accurate Batman ever. Like he was the first actor to play Batman. I think that really communicated the fact that Bruce Wayne died in that alley with his parents and the Batman was born and the real person is Batman and the fake mask is Bruce Wayne. Now, obviously, I, you know, the dark night is the greatest one of the greatest comic book movies of all time. Definitely the greatest Batman movie of all time. But you know, Christian Bale played that character like he's still Bruce Wayne and he puts on the persona of Batman. That's not Batman. Batman is Batman and he puts on the fake persona and Ben Affleck did such a great job of really embodying that. Like even when he's talking to Alfred, it really comes across. Like there's still Bruce Wayne isms in him for sure. But that was just brilliant. The other

7:20thing I got to say that I love I love the action in the movie. I really did. I love the action. I had a lot of fun with it. But most importantly, everybody forever wanted a movie where Batman fought Superman. Hell, even in that Will Smith vampire movie in the abandoned streets as Will Smith. What was it called again, the his version of Omega man? What was it called? He's walking down the street and even a billboard up on the on the abandoned movie theater said Batman versus Superman. Yeah, everybody always wanted it. But how do you play out a god fighting a man? And damn it, Zack Snyder did it, man. I thought that fight was awesome. I thought mechanically it played out in a way that it totally fit comic book logic. It was brutal. It was like the stakes were high. You could feel it. And I love that fight. One of the biggest knocks on Batman versus Superman

8:26is of course the Martha scene that comes at the end of that Batman versus Superman fight. Now about seven years ago, maybe eight years ago, I didn't editorial called defending the Martha scene because and I do blame this ones. This is Zack Snyder's fault for not communicating it properly. But I think everybody misunderstands that scene. Like Superman does the say Martha and Bruce goes, oh my god, you and me have the same mom name. Oh my, like that's the way everybody took it. That's not the way it was meant. But again, that responsibility lies on Zack Snyder. I contend when you watch the movie and you understand that when Superman says, look, he's about to die. And his last thing in dying is a completely selfless act asking Batman to go and save somebody else. And when he says that, and of course, there's a coincidence with the name Martha, when he says that, I think it shakes everything that Batman thinks about this alien. He's about to kill. I think it makes Bruce look at what he's about to do. And you know, there's a version of Batman versus Superman

9:31called the Arkham cut that does a little bit of re editing that when he says that and Batman is stunned. He rehears in the Arkham cut. They replay playing like a ghost in his head. Some of the words that Alfred said to him, like it turns good men crew or blah, blah. And to me, when I watch that scene, that's what's happening. But again, I understand why audiences saw it differently. And that is Zack Snyder's fault for not portraying it the right way. Now, are there problems with how they handled Doomsday? Absolutely. Are there was the way they chose to portray Lex Luthor problematic? Probably. It's not a perfect movie. But Rob, I stand here 10 years to the day. And I still defend this movie. I don't think it's one of the greatest comic book movies of all time. But I enjoy Batman versus Superman. I think it's a good, enjoyable film. I think the pros outway the cons. And I still defended it this day. Anyway, Rob, here we are 10 years later. And you know,

10:31maybe I don't know if you agree with me or not, when I say maybe nothing represents the schism that happened. And kind of maybe the whole DCU going off its rails early as represented more than with Batman versus Superman. But as you look back 10 years later, what's the legacy of this film? What are the thoughts that come to you 10 years later? I don't know. What do you think about it? I would call my relationship to this movie problematic. On one hand, I will tell you this. I love to watch it. You know, I've got multiple cuts of it. I own multiple cuts of physical media. I think the movie is a glorious mess. Like in the middle of the movie, suddenly we're having Batman's having the nightmare sequence where he's dreaming the anti-life equation and earth is being turned into apocalypse by dark side. And it's like, what does this have to do with anything?

11:32And I love it. You know, I love watching the nightmare scene. I love seeing Jared Leto's, you know, Joker. And I love seeing everybody in the post-apocalyptic road warrior wasteland. And I'm like, what the hell is this doing in this movie? You know, I understand it was setting up just like, but then suddenly you're in a congressional hearing with Holly Hunter and Lex Luthor brings up a Mason jar of piss, Granny's sweet peach tea or whatever. There's so much, and then Superman's rescuing Lois Lane and Jimmy Olson's a CIA agent. There is so much wacky shit in this movie. And for me, and then Wonder Woman shows up, you know, with the greatest theme song ever. And it's so there's all this stuff in this movie out by the way. Yeah, totally. Oh my god. I'll talk about a hot hot and talented. But it was so annoying when they added this scene to the trailer because you're like, okay, yeah, but yeah, totally. So there's all this stuff in this movie that I like

12:34watching, but it's all like from different movies. But when you watch it all together, I'm like, what am I supposed to take away from all this? Like, where is all this going? Like, I would have thought, I think that there is an interesting, like, I look at this movie and I really love the scene where Lex Luthor introduces Bruce Wayne. And oh, too, and Clark Kent. Yeah. First of all, the idea that Gotham City is across the river or across the sea from Gotham is the dumbest shit in the world. I'm like, what Superman never flew over there to check Batman now? Like they've never been Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent. I love bringing people together. I'm like, you guys live across the bay from one another. And none of that stuff makes any sense at all. And you know, I'm watching all this. I love that one scene with Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent. I love watching, like, they clearly know who each other is. You know, they're like, and I love game of mental chess. Yeah, I would love to have seen a totally different movie. Me too. That has, that has, that has all of the, they got to do a different thing. That has all of this stuff in it because I prefer the ultimate

13:36cut. Like I was there. And I find myself, I enjoy all the scenes in this movie. They're just all from different movies. What about that scene when like, they already have logos for Wonder Woman and stuff. Oh my God. You know, I mean, and that's Lex Luthor's figured out for all the meta humans. Yeah. Yeah. Here's the one. I mean, and then yeah, then suddenly there's Aquaman. There's flash. There's all. And I'm like, did anybody read the script before they shot it? Because it seems like, now here's the thing. I love all of these scenes. Like, I watched Michael. I love this nightmare scene. I love, I love see, because I know what it is. But I'm like, who decided to put dark side in the anti-life equation and the thing? And Lois Lane is dead. Like, all of that said, John, I put this movie on. If it's sometimes it's late at night and I'm looking what I don't watch on HBO. I'm like, oh, Batman v Superman. And I'll just turn it on and watch random scenes. Like, oh, here's a Doomsday movie. Like, do we ever get a Doomsday movie? Not really.

14:41But we got 15 minutes of a Doomsday movie within Batman v Superman, Don of Justice. So let's watch that for a while. And then I'll go back and I'll watch Batman in the warehouse scene, Batman and Alfred. Where's the where's the Ben Affleck Batman movie, by the way? Oh, there isn't one. There's 15 minutes of one that you can watch. And I'm like, I just saw the Ben Affleck Batman movie. Deathstroke Determinator was the villain. We don't get to see that movie. But we get this little bit that they shoved into this film. The most we saw was in the Flash movie. It's totally. Remember at the beginning he's there in the bridge. Yeah, and I'll totally watch and I kind of watch the Flash movie like that too. But I will say this, Batman v Superman, Don of Justice is one of the, it's a bad movie. But I love everything about it. Yeah, I still think it's a good movie. I listen, you know the funny thing is everything you just said, I agree. I do. But I think it's one of those situations where for you, all those things mean the negatives outweighed the positive. To me, the positives

15:46still outweighed the negatives. So like that's why I'll say I still like the movie. But I still think it's a good movie. You think it's a bad movie. But I love everything in it. But it's just like I'm watching five or 10 or 15 or maybe 20 different movies all within the same movie. And from one minute to the next, it can't decide what movie it wants to be. But you know what, you mentioned the ultimate cut. And it kind of highlights, it kind of highlights one of the problems with all of the Snyder cutisms, which was, you know, we have a really good friend who's a professional editor in this business. He's very successful. Our buddy Cliff, we've had him on the show before. And you know, he was really the first one. Like I watched the ultimate cut. I said, you know, this, I think over all this is a better version, but something's wrong, something's wrong. And I remember Cliff said to me, and this is put into perfect thing. He goes, when you do a new edit, edit means you take some things out to make it flow better. Like you're, it's a new edit is not just taking a dump truck full of other footage and belching it back into the movie and just leaving

16:50everything else as it was. He said, you know, Batman versus Superman, an ultimate cut was the right idea. A lot of the new stuff they put in was great, but it needed to be rearranged a little bit and then needed some things cut out. And then the same thing happened when you got to the Justice League director's cup that he did. He still left all of his own stuff in there. And just belched out a whole bunch of new stuff. It's still made for at the end of the day, I think a better version, but it could have been so much better if they actually did an edit. I love them. Just adding news. I love. Exactly. We actually ran into each other. Arslay Holley with the night of BBS. Do you remember that? Yeah. You guys are coming out and we were going in in the bar area. Yes. I mean, look, I will say this. I love Zack Snyder's Man of Steel or Justice League trilogy overall. Because for all of its faults or whatever, he took all of these DC characters and made them the way I felt about them when I was a little kid. They all were got like James Guns

17:53New Gods and monsters. I felt like I was watching. This is like a 70s van with airbrushed art on the side. And every image in this movie is like a 70s van painting. And I just, I love it. I love it. It's not good. But I love everything in it. You know, all the elements are great. Superman and Batman look great. All the superheroes look great. I love everything. I love the Moe's Aquaman. Come at me, bro. I like the flash. I love Wonder Woman. I like Paradise Island. I like whatever. It was like the DC universe writ large. The way I've always wanted to see it. The problem is none of it holds together. But I don't care. All right, guys. That down question is for you. What do you think it is hard to believe, but it's been 10 years now since Batman versus Superman came out. Maybe the poster child of the divisiveness that formed over the DCEU, totally understandable. I still like the film, but I understand and agree with a lot of the criticisms of it. Whatever

18:55you guys think, jump down to the comments section below and let us know your thoughts. All right, guys. With that down, let's move on to this, shall we? You know, one of the truisms of life is that Netflix original movies suck. They just do. You'll find one out of every hundred that actually come out that is worth being a good diamond in the rough. They do have a couple of films I really, really like. But for the most part, they crank out, you know, original movies like the factory cranks out Skittles. And but most of them taste like garbage. Rest Skittles are a delightful rainbow in your mouth. But they've got this new one that they just dropped a trailer for. That I got to say actually looks pretty damn good. Now, we've heard about it. Actually, they did a presentation for it. I wanted there to dumb things, but it's a new movie they got coming out called Apex. And it's got two terrific leads in Charlize Theron and Teran Egerton.

20:01By the way, Eric Bann is in it too. I don't think we see him in the trailer, but apparently he's in the movie. Simplest of simple premises. Young adventure-seeking woman likes to go off on adventures gets caught with a nasty serial killer in the woods. And now it's a fight to survive. Simplest of simple premises. And that's fine. Some of the most entertaining movies can be birthed at a very simple premises. If you have really interesting characters and fun things that happen around it. And I'll tell you what, this trailer, like IndyWire is talking about here about how they launched this trailer today, I just think it looked like a lot of fun. Like just the whole the whole scene in it when Teran Egerton is like, puts down the Bluetooth speaker. Say what? You got the end of this song before I start coming after you. It's like, what? It's like and let's let's be honest. It's not like this isn't anything we've haven't seen before. Yeah. But it just looks great and you put these type and by the way, Teran Egerton looks amazing.

21:05You know, this is his audition and I said to you for playing Wolverine. Oh, yeah. It's an unfair comparison because I understand it's two different premises, but I got split vibes. I could see that a little bit. I could see that. I know he doesn't have split personality, but I'm just saying his look and his is his mean attitude and everything. That's why he said it's unfair comparison, but just vibes of it. Now granted, there is a 99.9% chance this movie will suck because it's a Netflix original. But, you know, like I said, every once in a while they put out a really good one. And to me, this looks like it could be one of the good ones. Anyway, Rob, you had a chance to see the trailer to Apex. What did you think? Well, first of all, the subgenre of Crazy Australians is a favorite of mine. You know, movies, things like Waking Friday. There's lots of great Australian crazy people movies. And I'm already in. And this reminded me of Deliverance and Southern comforts and, you know, all this kind of stuff. And I just thought it looked fun. And I love the fact that the title is Apex. What a great title for this. And, you know,

22:08it looked like the action was was a lot of it was practical. And I like Terran, Terran Eggerton. And this is these nuts, suitably nuts. And this looks like a lot of fun. I love movies like this. I hope it doesn't disappoint. I would love to have seen this in a theater. I'll tell you that. I mean, it looks like it's shot well. I don't think shot it in the blue mountains or wherever they shot it. But I'm in. Count me in, John. Yeah. It really does. Looks like something I would have liked to have seen in a theater. This would have been another great thing for Cerandos to have, you know, distribution in place. Yeah. And it looks like both these characters are having a blast. Both actors are having a blast. Anyway, guys, question is for you. The new trailer for Apex is now out. And I honestly, surprisingly, you think it looks really good. I'm not a believer or have any faith in Netflix original films for the most part. But every once in a while, they put one out the surprises. And this could be one of those. Anyway, whatever you guys think, jump down to the comments section

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24:11You guys might remember that a little while ago, we talked about on this show that Disney entered a one billion dollar investment deal with open AI. And as a part of that one billion dollar investments, they licensed a ton of their character IPs so that people using open AI's video generator, Sora, could be used in Sora to create all these different things. Not something I was particularly a big fan of. Yeah. But whatever I didn't know what Disney's long term roadmap or plan for that was. But it was interesting. Now you guys of course know it and really talking about technology in general and what's going on with different AI companies is not really the purview of a show like ours. But this is where it kind of crosses into the entertainment industry. But many of you guys know that open AI has been at least fair to say it's not a little bit of a bumpy road lately. A bit of a bumpy road. Well, according to reports that are now coming

25:15out like this one in the holiday reporter in a shocking move. Open AI is shutting down Sora and directly connected to that that one billion dollar investment deal that Disney had with open AI that Disney was going to invest into open AI off the table. It's done. It's over. This is what the people at the holiday reporter had to write. They said this in a surprise move open AI will shut down its Sora AI video app just months after it was first launched. We're saying goodbye to Sora to everyone who created with Sora shared it and built community around it. Thank you. The company said in a statement. What you made with Sora mattered. No, it didn't. That's not pretend that it did. And we know this news is disappointing. We we will share more soon including timelines for the app in API and details on preserving your work. A source familiar with the matter tells the pilot reporter that Disney is exiting the deal it signed with open AI last year in which it pledged to invest one billion dollars in the company and agreed to license some of

26:20its character characters for use in Sora. Now there are a number of reasons that are being given about why they've done this. And they're all legitimate. One is open AI is now more aware of its limits and is wants to redirect its resources that it has into different areas. A lot of individuals made about robotics and improving their agenda of AI sort of stuff. That's all true. But the one that I really to me rings most true is that nothing that open AI does leaves them as exposed to litigation and lawsuits and getting sued out the ears as much as Sora does. Nothing like almost everything Sora creates by its very nature is copyright violation. Right. It's about everything you do. And they're all they're currently in the midst of some lawsuits as a result of their tools being used for for certain purposes. And in the world of entertainment and

27:22movies, I think that's also the most relevant reason for it. Now again, open AI didn't come out and say we're getting sued too much over Sora. So we're shutting it down. But that's what a lot of the insiders are saying. It's the one I think is probably the most relevant. And it's certainly most relevant to our discussions about how it relates to Disney. Now, not all of them have shut down. There are other AI generative platforms out there. But a number of them are getting sued too, including Google. And so it's going to be interesting to see what the evolution of these tools will be. Anyway, Rob, you heard about this. Disney's pulling a billion dollars. So that's a billion dollars they get to keep. No Disney characters in Sora because there's not going to be a Sora. What's your takeaway from this? Well, I mean, I thought it was an interesting thing that Disney was doing sort of heading off copyright problems at the past and teaming up and allowing their audience to make things. I thought that was an interesting solution. But to see where all this is going was not surprising because as everyone knows the talk about data centers and how many natural, how much

28:27natural resources in terms of water and electricity and everything that's going to use and Elon Musk going, we're going to build data centers and space. And all there's so much interesting stuff happening. It's not surprising that the Wild West that is our new AI future is going to have a lot of bumps in the road. And the flagrant copyright violations that these video generating platforms have made possible. You see them every day on the internet. You know, I watched a few Star Trek ones today before I came to work. And it's distressing. It really is distressing. And I think they they Disney and and open up open AI probably did a good thing by putting this to bed. Yeah. And look, even just from a resources point of view, the computational power needed to do anything with video generation. So far exceeds everything else people use, you know, chat GPT or whatever to do. It just be again, there's a very logical argument made

29:32about resource balance. And it's like, that just uses way too many resources. And it doesn't make us any money. And we're just getting sued to hell for it. And it's going to be part of me. It's going to be interesting to see what happens to other video platforms right now. They choose just to go, I'll just shut it down. I don't know. Maybe yes, maybe no question is for you guys. What do you think about this? It did it catch you by surprise. It totally caught me by surprise. Do you think some other video generators will follow suit? I mean, nobody's really exhibited a real money making model for it. And it uses an insane amount of resources. And they get sued a lot. I don't know. Maybe there's some benefits. Whatever you guys think, jump down to the comments section below and let us know your thoughts. All right. With that down guys, let's move on to talk about this, shall we? You know, Project Hail Mary is out in theaters right now. And I am just, if it came out 2025, it would be my favorite film of 2025. I mean, just that simple. I just love

30:38it that much. And again, I've been saying this a lot whenever we bring up movie, how they got me so emotionally invested in a rock puppet. I'll never know, but they did. Well, that is kind of brought back to the forefront, the names of the directors of the film. Of course, Lord Miller, who we love around here. Now, you guys might have forgotten that at one point in time over a decade ago, Lord Miller, we're going to direct a flash movie for the DCU. One of the many, one of the many, and other people came and went. They went through several sets of directors and writers and that whole thing. That's, you know, that should probably be the topic of my next editorial video is about the the history of what finally brought us to the flash movie. But that's for another time. Well, in a recent interview, Lord Miller have kind of implied that they still want to do their idea of the flash. They still want to do one. The folks over at GameRadar write this over 10 years later, spider versus Phil Lord and Chris Miller are still hoping to make their very elaborate flash

31:43DC movie or flash movie at DC. Spider-verse filmmakers, Phil Lord and Chris Miller are still sitting on their idea for the flash and they're keeping it close to the chest. They wrote the following. We had a very elaborate treatment, Miller says in an interview with Happy Sad Confused with Lord elaborating that it was pretty different from the film that actually came to fruition. By the way, for the record, I really like the flash film. I thought the flash movie was really fun. Obviously, there's a lot of problems surrounding it, but I like the movie for what it was. Anyway, they go out and say, it's a good idea and I'm afraid not to be able to use it someday. Lord explained when asked about what the plot would have been and he says, that's all I can say. So they're keeping that really close to the vest. Now, obviously Lord Miller or two of the big names behind the Spider-verse movies, which are the two greatest Spider-man movies of all time, even though they're animated. I do know that they didn't direct it. They produced them, oversaw the production of them, wrote, I think, a lot of it. And now they've got Project Hill Mary, which is already getting best picture buzz, like a year away from the next Oscars, which is

32:48getting that. It's got a lot of people talking a lot of people thinking, listen, I could totally see this happening. I really can. James Gunn, if he doesn't quit and leave DC, which I think he will next year, but if he doesn't, James Gunn is totally the type of guy who would easily get on the phone with Lord Miller. And we know that James Gunn Lord Miller all know each other. They hung out. Just get on the phone with them and say, tell me of this idea you had for the flash. And the music, the music's cute. Yeah. And then just use it without them anyway. Tell me your idea for the flash. Oh, yeah. Great, James. And they tell him this idea. Thanks. Hangs up the phone and goes makes the movie without them. But no, seriously, I, God, I would love to see Lord Miller take a swing at the flash. And you know what? Maybe there's a reason that we haven't heard any word about a flash project today in the new DC. Maybe James Gunn knew his buddy, Lord's and Miller were busy with project

33:52Hail Mary. And they had to sit on it for a while. By the way, I know nothing. This is just me speculating as a fan. By the way, and the reason I, people ask me sometimes, why do I always go out in my way to emphasize? By the way, guys, I don't know this for a fact. This is me as a fan talking because even when I do it, I'm not going to point fingers. Some outlets ran some stories and some YouTube channels ran some videos that James Gunn is leaving DC. And their whole source was me. Why did you report that, John? It's not even true. Seriously, it was like, you know, you, a movie insider YouTuber, John Kavius says that James Gunn is leaving. He said, no, I was really careful to say nobody told me this. This is just me as a fan speculating, at any rate. So that's why I repeat that so many times the way that I did. That's like saying, we reported that all the movie studios are actually in a fantasy world. Actually, giant castle of Kingdom Warner, brother, surrounded by script wood.

34:52And what was it? Plot River, idea of the river. So anyway, I would, I would love this. I really, really would. Now, of course, when this story comes up and with Project Helmer, a lot of people, oh, man, if only we got that Lord Miller solo movie. Look, I, there are things I can say and things I can't. All I can say is as a big fan of Lord, you guys watch my show. You know, I dush about these guys for all time. Their version of solo getting asked was the right thing. And I'm just going to leave it at that. So, but who cares? Them on Flash with James Gunn is the head of the studio producing with them. I would eat this up and you know what? I think it's going to happen. I think it's going to happen. Just me guessing is a fan, but I think it's going to happen. Anyway, Rob, you hear Lord Miller's

35:53interview. You think there's ever a chance? Well, two questions. Do you think there's ever a chance we could get a Flash movie with them directing? And second question is, is it even something you'd want to see? What do you think? Yeah, I mean, look, I think a Flash movie lends itself to a more comedic approach, not like a ha ha gaffa comedy, but a lighthearted kind of a romp. And I think that Lord Miller could do something really interesting with it. I mean, look, I really like their take the end of the Spiderverse movies are terrific. Oh, I love them. You know, and there's a, to see like, I'm not saying that they're going to do that in live action, but I think, look, obviously, they're, they're star so far has risen very far to actually to Eradani. That's as far as their star has gone. But I think that you could see them. Look, they're, they have great success. They can parlay that into whatever they want now. It just depends what they want to do in them doing a Flash movie. James Gunn always said, if the idea is good and the script is good, we'll make

36:54that. That's what he's looking for. And if they've got, they've thought about this for a long time, so they probably have a pretty great refined idea. And like you said, I could see it happening. You know, if James Gunn likes the idea, why not? I mean, Warner Brothers certainly would love to have Lord Miller under their umbrella. Why not? All right, guys, question is for you. What do you think about this? I mean, Lord Miller saying, look, we still have our idea for the Flash movie, and we're still sitting on it. And we're going to keep it to ourselves for now. Kind of implying they'd still like to do it. The two questions for you. Do you think this could actually happen? And number two, would you want to see it happen? Whatever you guys think, jump down to the comments section below and let us know your thoughts. All right, guys, with that down, let's move on and talk about this, shall we? Last night was the debut of Daredevil born again season two. It dropped online last night. I thought they were launching originally with two

37:58episodes, but apparently they launched with one. They're going to have two episodes next week. But only one episode to start last night was a longer episode if it was on broadcast television, it would have been an hour because it came in around 48 minutes or something like that. And you know, I was really interested to seeing how they would follow up from Daredevil born again season one because I really, really enjoyed season one. I wasn't a huge fan of the finale, like the stuff with Punisher was pretty cool, but I mean, I wasn't a big fan of the finale this year, but overall, I really enjoyed the season. I thought it was a lot of fun, not as good as the Netflix version, but really good nonetheless. What I said, Rob, was it was a season that was worthy of the Daredevil name. Maybe not quite as good as the Netflix stuff, but it was worthy of the Daredevil name. So I tuned in to watch episode one. And by the way, the full reviews now for season two are out. Take a look at this. 95% critic rating for season two and the 96% audience rating at grant

38:59that ticked out the grain of salt. You can't really trust audience ratings with broadcast television shows because there's no way for rotten tomatoes to verify people actually saw the episodes. They can't with movies. They can't with TV. Anyway, but the critics 95% outstanding. And I'll tell you this, here's my general impression of it. When the episode was over, actually about two minutes before it ended, you know, me and in our buddy Ryan were watching it. And I turned to Ryan. I said, you know, this feels, and again, this is neither a good thing nor a bad thing. But it feels a lot more like the Netflix iteration of Daredevil than season one of born again did. Again, that's neither good nor bad. I'm just saying it kind of had that feel. It had that tone. It had that DNA. Yeah. That felt like so. I thought the action was absolutely terrific. The violence was visceral. And you could feel the impact like every time one of the the club

40:02ends of a stick would hit somebody in the head. You felt the thump. Oh, yeah. Right. When he was taking out guys legs, breaking arms, all that kind of stuff, you could feel it. I love the fight in the apartment at the end. Like that was crazy. Yes. I without going into the room. No, no, no, it's only cinematography. The first scene I felt was very static shots. Kind of locked off shots. Yeah. And I was like, well, this kind of feels TV, but it was still really good and really engaging on the boat on the. Yeah. But I won't get. But the cinematography in that that apartment man, that was so good. The cinematography was great. Yeah. And then the ending of the episode was a what kind of ending, which I thought was great. And not who I thought it was. Nope. Me either. Yeah. Me either. And I we can't say, but I'm positive you and I are thinking of the same person about what we thought was going to be happening at the ending.

41:03And listen, and then the introduction of Matthew, listen, we knew Matthew was going to be in it. I forgot. But when he came on, I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, in this season. And his character is great. I mean, he uses a pretty standard movie trope. You're going to want to answer that. Yeah. Yeah. They put the standard movie cliche that's been done a thousand times. But it worked and so he was great in it. Wilson Trump. Wilson Fisk is as Fiskie is ever. I and oh, there's a scene. Again, I won't get into any details. But scene with him and Vanessa sitting at a table. And like Vanessa still carries all that damn power that that character like she is seriously one of the low key greatest characters in this series. And like I've read some people like criticizing saying it was kind of a slow start. I'm like, it's chapter one of an

42:04eight chapter story. And it was good action. Good drama. It was setting the yeah, I was setting the context. It was laying the seeds of what the story lines are. And I thought that the dialogue was great. The character work was great. The action was wonderful. The cinematography was fantastic. Could I have used it a little from a color palette? Could I have used it a little bit brighter? I could have to be honest with you. But that is what it is. But listen, I'll tell you what, I think it's off to a really good start. I'll just say that now now. Take that with a grain of salt. That starting strong has never been a problem for Disney plus shows. Hell, the acolyte started pretty strong. Obi-Wan started pretty strong. Obi-Wan definitely started strong. Acolyte. Look at Boba Fett started. Look at Boba Fett started really strong. And we also how all those turned out. So, you know, I'm still reserved in judgment for the series as a whole. But you still want to start strong

43:08and start strong. They did. I thought it was a really good first episode. Anyway, Rob, you had a chance to watch Daredevil season two episode one. What's your general thoughts on it? I liked it a lot. I liked how I thought it did a great job setting the table involving all the characters, you know, little Gandalfini's character. And that I liked that little side quest or into his party, his apartment. And with our stalwart reporter, I really liked Matthew Lillard's character. I really liked the the side quest of the poor, those poor guys who the poor ship commander. He did what he was supposed to do. Let's not go into details. Well, yes, I won't go. It was good. I'll just say I liked it all. I thought it was a really sprawling story. It has a lot of different threads that I thought were really well dealt with. I really liked that there was a lot of great action there. I thought there was some really good special effects in there as well that I really enjoyed of a certain ship. I thought it was really good. You know what? I was in. And like you said, it felt netflexy to me.

44:13More so than like you said, season one. And I, you know what? It's just a really compelling story. And I want to see where it goes. I can't wait. There's a lot of there was a lot of brutality in it. It was it was a real violent episode. Really violent. A lot of f-bombs. I mean, it was it was ferocious. You know, there was no punches pulled. And by the way, I'll throw this in there too, without giving details. The character of Matt's therapist girlfriend from season one, who is a character that I really started getting annoyed with. They've made her very interesting. Yes. Like in one episode in just two scenes. And I'm glad it's what it is. Yeah, exactly. Like they've actually made me interested in what's going to happen to this character now. And what this character is going through and struggling with. And like good decisions, bad decisions. I'm suddenly like really interested in this character. Kent, the person that she was speaking to in that room. So I don't know what the spoiler

45:14level he is. He was in season one. But I don't remember how he appeared in season one. But I don't even know if you want to mention that he was in this episode. I think he might have been just quickly appeared to one of the trailers. But just for the at the risk of not wanting to spoil too much. So I again, overall, I thought they're off to a really, really good start now. Can they carry that through? That's always been Disney pluses problems. Sometimes they do. Sometimes they don't. But at least they're off to a good start. Guys, question is for you. Did you have a chance to see Daredevil born again, season two episode one? What did you think about it? We had a really good time with it. But whatever you guys thought, jump down to the comments section below and let us know your thoughts. All right, guys, with that down, let's move on to this. You know, we've got a brand new Lord of the Rings thing on the way with obviously with the hunt for golem. Now, a lot of people, you'd be forgiven if you fall into this camp. You think,

46:16ah, not a big fan of the rings of power. By the way, I really don't like rings of power, season one, but I thought season two was quite a good improvement. At least it's going in the right direction. Yeah, big step up. But, you know, it doesn't live up to the quality standards of fellowship of the ring. Two towers return to the king, these glorious things. But we do have hunt for golem. And the thing that's different from rings of power to this is that the actual creative team, including Peter Jackson and Phillipa and all those people who are the creative team behind the original Lord of the Rings films are actually the ones behind this new hunt for golem film. So that's something to be excited about. But now there's a new Lord of the Rings and it's actually a sequel and it's actually coming from Peter Jackson and a very unlikely in the voice of gladriel, a very unlikely source as varieties reporting that Stephen Colbert, who by the way,

47:19this is a literal truth. Stephen Colbert is not just a Lord of the Rings fan. He is a Lord of the Rings scholar. He is a J. R. R. Tolkien scholar. And most people who know Colbert know that about him. But in a video stream that Peter Jackson was doing, he brought on, he cut in, brought in Stephen Colbert and they talked about it. And Peter Jackson then suddenly kind of changed direction. As he said, he said, well, now it's time for us to talk about the next live action thing that we're doing with Lord of the Rings. And it brings in Stephen Colbert and the basics is this in Lord of the Rings, a fellowship of the Ring, chapters three through eight were kind of left off the table. That includes like the burrows, Tom Bombadil, all that kind of stuff. It was kind of left off the table. And Stephen Colbert said, you know, me and my kid, his son who is also a screenwriter, he said, they looked at that and they came up with a construct for a story. And then they sort of scripted out a draft of something to build

48:24around that. And he said, it took me two years to build up the guts. But then I called Peter Jackson. And Peter Jackson loved the idea so much so that he organized a call with Warner Brothers, with New Line and Warner Brothers. And they loved it. And now Peter Jackson, according to this story, Peter Jackson and Stephen Colbert are bringing us a new Lord of the Rings movie. And it's a sequel that takes place 14 years after Frodo and Bilbo and Gandalf all sail off into the West. This is what they write over it. Variety said, Warner Brothers has revealed that Stephen Colbert and his sons are developing a brand new Lord of the Rings movie. The announcement came Tuesday night via the studios for a social media accounts. And there's the video there of Peter Jackson, Stephen Colbert talking about it. The video announcement opened with Lord of the Rings director, Peter Jackson, giving a quick update about the next in the fantasy franchise. Andy circuses the hunt for golem. Jackson said of the project, which is set for release. Andy's doing

49:27a terrific job. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Then he goes on to talk about this. Jackson then teased a very special partner who will help him develop the next film after the hunt for golem titled The Lord of the Rings Shadows of the Past. That partner is none other than late night host Stephen Colbert, who Jackson patched in through a video call. Colbert is a vocal token fanatic, then explained to the plot of the movie will come from chapters of Fellowship of the Ring that didn't make it into Jackson's 2001 adaptation. Once again, that's chapters three through eight. You know what the books mean to me? And what your films mean to me, Colbert told Jackson, but the thing I found myself reading over and over again were the six chapters early on in the Fellowship of the Ring that you all never developed into the first movie back in the day. It's basically the chapter three is company. A three is company chapter three through fog of the Barrow Downs chapters eight. And I thought, oh, wait, maybe that could be its own story and we could fit it into a larger story. Could we make something that was completely faithful to the books while

50:30also being completely faithful to the movies that you guys already made? The late night host. Now, this is the key. A lot of people are worried about, do we want the Lord of the Rings film that's just written by Stephen Colbert and his son? It's not, this is the thing a lot of people are getting wrong already. It's not just them writing the script. The late night host said that after coming up with the idea, he discussed it with his son, screenwriter Peter McGee, and worked out a framing device for the film after the groundwork was laid. Colbert called Jackson. And over the last two years, they've worked with screenwriter Phillipa Boyens, who wrote the original Lord of the Ring's movies with Peter Jackson. It's not just Colbert and his son. It's also Phillipa is writing it who wrote the original Lord of the Rings films. All right. So they, the three of them wrote it into a script. Now, here's the idea of the film. Okay. The film's official log line reads 14 years after the passing of Frodo going into the West. Sam, Mary, and Pippin set out to retrace the first

51:34steps of their adventure. Meanwhile, Sam's daughter, Eleanor, who is in a lot of the other written materials, has discovered a long buried secret and has determined to uncover why the war of the rings was very nearly lost before it even began. Okay. So this is fascinating on a number of levels. First of all, one of the things the fandom also often screams for that I disagree with is if somebody's going to be making something, they have to be a big fan of the material. You know what? The guy who made the Jeremy Irons Dungeons and Dragons movie was one of the biggest Dungeons and Dragons fans in the world. That didn't help make the movie any better. But if what you're looking for is somebody who's actually a die hard fan of the material, Stephen Colbert is it. I mean, he's it. Like I said, he's literally a scholar on Tolkien.

52:34But the big key for me in this is that Philippa wrote the script with him. That he came up with this idea for a story. Peter Jackson loved it. And because Peter Jackson loved it so much, Philippa loved it. She got connected to it and started writing it with them. That's the key part of all this. Obviously the big name in there is Stephen Colbert. I get it. 100%. I get it. But it's Peter Jackson and Philippa Boynes that are like really the creative engines behind this and making it go. And it's their involvement and their endorsement of this that I like. But here's the other thing that I like. In a world where almost every new movie about an existing IP is a fucking flashback or prequel. I love the idea of an actual sequel. There's a lot of stuff written about what happens after the age of men begins and the elves have departed and gone off into

53:40the west and the dwarves disappear. A lot a lot of stuff, but we've never seen it done in movie form. What happens after they go into the west? And I'm excited about that. Now, will this turn out to be great? Don't know. I think the hunt for golem will tell us a lot. If the hunt for golem is great, then I think we should have a lot of excitement about this. If the hunt for golem sucks, we might have some reasons to be worried. But I love that Philippa is connected to it. I love that Peter loved the idea so much that he brought it to Warner Brothers with co-bearer. I love that it's a sequel, which we don't get enough of. And so there's a lot of things here that I like. Understanding you could go south kind of like the Hobbit films did, but I mean, I choose to be enthusiastic about this for now. Anyway, Rob, this is a really kind of out of left field story. But what do you think about this whole thing? What what standing out to you that you like and what standing out to you that maybe could be points of concern? Well, people forget that, you know, Stephen Colbert is also a gifted writer. He's been writing for 30 years. I mean, yeah, he's been

54:44doing sketch comedy and he's been doing his show. But he understands a scene, you know, he understands how to tell a story. And I think as somebody who is, like you said, a Tolkien scholar, I mean, she can quote chapter in verse a lot of of the Lord of the Rings shows. And I really think that he came up with an idea that's derived right from the beginning of fellowship over the course of those, what is it like five chapters. And I think that the intention behind doing all this is born out of passion. Yeah, his past, which is something that's often been very important to you. Absolutely. And I'm like, I know that this is going to be his life's mission. I mean, he's putting himself out there. It'd be like if I was given the opportunity to make a Star Trek movie, you know, if it was bad, I couldn't show my face on the earth ever again. And so this is that kind of thing. I mean, it's a man who's had a lifelong passion for the works of professor Tolkien. It's his

55:46opportunity to really contribute in a meaningful way. And it's something, this is not something that just they just decided on as this article pointed out, they've been doing this for two years now. This has been in the making this has been in the and so they did not decide to even announce this until they knew what they had was good. And so I think that's really interesting. Look, do I think exploiting the Lord of the Rings and IP is in a way creatively bankrupt after making the Hobbit and after making Lord of the Rings? I do. But the people that are involved in making the HUD for Gollum and now this are are coming at it from the, yeah, of course, it's a money making proposition. They're going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on these movies. They need to make money. But at least you have people that are first and foremost passionate about Tolkien's work. And that's all you want. You know, when I want a creator is adapting something, you know, I'll tell you something. Did I want Mike Flanagan to do another adaptation of Stephen King's carry? No. But knowing Mike Flanagan was incredibly passionate about what he's done

56:52and his past works. Yeah. I'm like, I, I'm all in when Flanagan wants to adapt King because he gave us life. Chuck, he gave us, you know, he's going to do the mist and he gave us all the Netflix. Yeah, the Netflix stuff too. And then I mean, everything he's done has been I've enjoyed. And by the way, he's got that clay face movie coming out that he wrote. Yeah, I mean, Dr. Sleep was what I meant to say. Right. And you know, all that stuff I'm like in when you have a passionate creator, that's all I want. I want authorship and passion. So I'm only to give this chance. I think that Stephen Colbert will put his life's work into this. And that's all you want from somebody. I loved in that announcement how they, how they were joking that, well, you really don't have anything to do after May. Yeah, I suddenly have some free time after time. I mean, I thought that was great. And what a great pivot Stephen Colbert is making here. He's got plenty of money you saved up from 25 years on TV. I think this is the greatest thing to see a creator pivoting to do something like this. But I mean, look, listen, I'm not going to lie.

57:55There's also a little bit of fan envy here coming from me because here's a guy who's literally just the world's biggest fan of something. And he gets to actually go and play in that playground. It's, it's almost as if like Lucasfilm were to give me a call and say, you want to write something for a Star Wars story? I mean, so I, I like this idea again. If it wasn't for Peter Jackson being connected, if it wasn't that Philip, it was also writing it. And by the way, by the way, by the way, you know, who else loved it? Diluka and Abdi loved it. Yeah. Who just had one of quality wise, one of the best years ever for a studio. Like for Warner Brothers last couple of years, they loved it. So much. You're like, yeah, let's do this. That's all

58:55fine and good. But there's also that element of me that I'm just looking at Stephen Colbert, who when it comes to the Lord of the Rings is just a fan. And now he gets to go and play in that playground with, he gets to be on a video call of Peter Jackson. Let's talk Lord of the Rings. Oh my God. Like I'm just straight up. I'm jealous. 100% jealous. I'm not going to lie about it. Now this can turn out to be a complete car wreck. It could be absolutely disastrous. 100% it could. But I, I like the building blocks. I see coming together here. Well, it was cool. Bear's idea. You know, he had this idea that was derived right from the beginning of fellowship of the ring too. So the book itself. So I'm like, okay, you know, this is not, this is not somebody's doing some kind of a shameless cash grab. This is a man who's going to put everything he has into it. It's going to be, you know, it's going to stand as a, it's, it's him honoring this thing that's meant so much to him in his life. I totally get where he's coming from. And I'm pulling for him. I hope it's terrific. All right, guys. Question is for you.

59:56What do you think about this? Peter Jackson and Stephen Colbert, not a partnership I would have thought we'd be talking about, are going to be making a new Lord of the Rings film that is actually a sequel to Return of the King. I'm kind of stoked about the idea. Can they execute? That's going to be something we're going to speculate about over the next couple of years. I'm sure whatever you guys think about it, jump down to the comments section below. And let us know your thoughts. By the way, I just have to address this. I've seen some, like, one of the people in the live chat, a show in Kaiju says, I don't doubt his passion of love, but this is a bad idea. So Peter Jackson doesn't know what he's talking about. Philip a boys doesn't know what she's talking about. Deluk and Abdi don't know what they're talking about. Why is it a bad idea? Like, that's the thing. Like, if it was just Warner Brothers, here's the thing. If Warner Brothers said we want to make another Lord of the Rings movie, let's get Stephen co-bear to make it. I would be sitting here telling you how much of a bad idea

1:01:01that is too. But Stephen co-bear is just a guy who came up with an idea, fleshed out a little bit, took it to Peter Jackson. And if Peter Jackson looked at and said this is great, so great, let me get my decades-long writing partner to work with you on this. And the decades-long writing partner who wrote the original Lord of the Rings films, looked at the idea and said, this is great. Let's write this. And then they took it to Warner Brothers, Deluk and Abdi who have been doing nothing but cranking out quality. Look at and say, we love this. Let's do it. Could it be a disaster? Absolutely. But in principle, point to me where this is a bad idea. Just out of all the things I just let which point of that, which pillar of that idea is a warning sign, is a bad thing, that Peter Jackson liked it, that Phillipa Boys liked it, that Deluk and Abdi liked it, that the writer of the original Lord of the Rings films is writing it. Like I'm just saying,

1:02:04can it turn out to be terrible? Yes. But from a starting premise, which one of those things is a dangerous red flag? I don't see any. That's just me. But anyway, we'll see how it turns out. Whatever you guys think, let me know in the comments. This episode is brought to you by Redfinn. You're listening to a podcast, which means you're probably multitasking. Maybe even scrolling home listings on Redfinn, saving homes without expecting to get them. But Redfinn isn't just built for endless browsing. It's built to help you find and own a home with agents who close twice as many deals. When you find the one, you've got a real shot at getting it. Get started at Redfinn.com. Own the dream. All right, guys. With that all down, it's time for us to move on to the most important part of our show, which is of course taking your live comments and questions. But before we do that, we got to do two things. First of all, be good afternoon to writer, director producer Robert Meyer Burnett. Great job as always, sir. We'll talk to you again tomorrow.

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1:05:15that can help return Star Wars to form? All I can tell you is that we did not miss out on anything. Yeah, no, listen, Steven Spielberg, the greatest filmmaker of all time, has his bad days at the office. The Lord and Miller Solar Project was their bad day at the office. Let's just leave it at that and go on from there. All right, let's next. Tyler Yates, two parter says, been a while since I commented, down a rap, I went down a rabbit hole of videos and rewatched your Infinity War trailer review back in 2018. I remember that. I do anything to go back to that time. Thank you for continuing to do this. I promise you have no idea how much this helps me and then goes on to say, I consider you a friend. It's part of my daily routine. It helps me through my struggles tremendously. I wish I can contribute more, but I always watch daily. Can't wait for a doons day. If you ever make it to Virginia, I will be out of media. What's, I don't know American geography that great. What's the main

1:06:17cities in Virginia? Richmond. Richmond. Okay. Well, yeah, who knows. Maybe we can hit Richmond at some point. First of all, thank you so much for the kind words. Man, I appreciate that. And I feel the same way. Like one of the guys I would watch a lot on YouTube and listen to a lot of the podcasts. There's a tech guy who's been around the business for a very ongoing all the way back to the G4 days called Leo Laporte. And I remember like, I just watched so much Leo Laporte. I did bump into him and meet him once, but really I didn't know Leo Laporte. Leo Laporte certainly didn't know who I am, but I kind of feel like I know him. You know, I watch so much Marquis Brownlee, NKBHD that I feel like I know him. I watch like just so much, I watch so much beard meets food. I feel like I feel like if I bumped into beard on the street, I go, Hey, man. And then I'd be surprised that he didn't know who I was. I mean, it's just, it's just like that. So it is kind of funny the way. And I, you know, I think that's the same reason why when like Carrie Fisher died, or another good example is when Robin Williams died.

1:07:27I did not know Robin Williams, but I think there's a part of our brains that doesn't make the distinction. The only thing my brain knew is that I've spent a lot of time with Robin Williams in my life. And I think there's a part of my brain that doesn't make the distinction between I, I spent time with him with him on my screen versus with him in my living room, right? And so when he passed away, I still remember the day we did AMC movie talk that day. And I was legit overtaken with emotion. When Carrie Fisher passed away, same thing. I didn't know Carrie Fisher and she didn't know me. But to my brain, I had spent so much time with her through my childhood, through my teenage years, through my adult life, I had just spent so much time with Carrie Fisher that when she passed away, it really hit me emotionally. And I think that's, you know, living in a city like Los Angeles, like, same through somebody's brought something to

1:08:28the live chat, too. I was thinking the same thing that like when Kobe Bryant passed away, a lot of people in the city were very emotionally moved. It's not just because, oh, he's the guy who threw the ball through the hoop. No, it's just that they spent so much time over the years with him. Granted, maybe it was on screens or in the arena, but so I totally get that cement. I have YouTubers that I feel that way about too. So thank you for sharing that, man. That's really kind of you appreciate that. Gareth Gretz says, Hey, John Dylan here, how would you feel if Lex Luthor himself Nicholas Holt was cast as James Bond? I think he's a little too old for what they're looking for. But I think he'd make an excellent bond. Great work as usual. Can't be in crew. X actor and X role. The only question I ever care about is, is the person X a really talented actor? And if the answer to that is yes, then I'm okay with it. I'm fine with it. I think Nicholas Holt is a phenomenal actor. Like, honestly, one of his best performances

1:09:32was as a smaller supporting role in that Anya Taylor Joy Ray finds movie about where he's the chef. Oh, yeah. And I'm forgetting the name of it now. It's a terrific movie. Everybody in the live chat, which the menu, the menu. Oh, my, he's, he's so good in that. Not enough people saw him in the order with where he plays like a far right kind of neo Nazi character. Yep. Crazy. It was great. He's just, you know, warm bodies was a great one. I mean, he's just, he's a terrific actor. So on the level of that, I think he's a terrific actor. I would be perfectly good if they announced him as a new bot. I think you're right. He's probably a little too old at this point, but I would be perfectly good with it because he's a great actor. All right. What's next? We got Nick Griffiths who says House of Cars is my favorite is a favorite of mine. It's tough, reconciling space. He's talent with his exit, especially since he wasn't convicted. I love an alternate reality redo of the final season. What are your thoughts? Yeah,

1:10:35I wasn't, I wasn't, I didn't love the final season. But then you'd have to say, you'd have to say all of that was like fake. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know either. Look, I will say this. House of Cars was a fantastic series. It was absolutely a fantastic series. And Kevin Spacey was remarkable in it. It's so funny that when something goes, let's say with an actor, something goes south. I cannot explain it. I'm not justifying it. It's neither right nor wrong. But there's this thing in my brain where I can watch things that I've already seen that person in and not really think about it too much. Like I can go back and watch usual suspects. Yeah. And I don't even really think about the controversy surrounding LA Confidential is still my top three movie. LA Confidential, baby driver, house of cards like whatever. I can watch anything with Kevin Spacey in it that I'd already seen. And I don't even think about it. But it feels weird watching him in something I

1:11:42haven't seen him in already. Again, I'm not saying that's right or wrong. I'm just saying that's just weird thing in my brain. It is really an interesting thing with him too because he got acquitted in the one trial he did. He's never been convicted of anything to the best of my knowledge. I don't know. It's an interesting situation. Yeah. But yeah, but that show was fantastic. All right. What's next? We got Garden Variety who says the Daredevil official podcast is a must watch. Interesting. I don't usually care too much to watch a podcast of a show that's done by the people who make the show. You know what I mean? Yeah. Because then to me, that's just another piece of... No, it's not to me. Let me tell you what it is. It's just another piece of marketing for the show. When the actual studio that makes the show produces a podcast about the show, then it's just another commercial. It's just another piece of marketing for the show. That does not mean it can't be great. Especially if there's insights to the filmmaking. Yes.

1:12:46Like, you know what? The Mandalorian stuff that they did with John Favreau. Remember, they did those direct-around tables talking about Mandalorian stuff. Those were actually really good. And I always watched the Game of Thrones after show because we're still insightful. Yeah, but that's not packages. That's not the same. As if it's a fan podcast. No, no, no, this is us, the filmmakers telling you the process as we went through. But I might have to check it out. All right. We have a $20 tip from Marcel. Thank you, Marcel. Thank you for supporting us in that level, man. In the comics, when Spider-Man turns into Man Spider, heroes help to take him down. Could Spider-Man be the main villain in Brand New Day facing up against the Punisher and Hulk? Do you think the Doomsday trailer will be shown with the Brand New Day trade? That's two different questions. But number one, no, I don't think Spider-Man or Man Spider is the villain of Spider-Man Brand New Day. I do think they're using elements of that storyline. We know for

1:13:46a fact they're using elements of that storyline. And the fact of the matter is Peter is mutating in more and more into a spider-like creature. So there's definitely man spider stuff they're doing. But no, I don't think he's a thing. By the way, it's great. Spider-Man is Hulk doesn't need to team up with anybody to stop. Hulk is Hulk, right? Shoot Spider. I'm not strong enough. Yeah, just puny webs. Like, Nick, that's the end of that fight. But I do think there's probably going to be an action sequence. But no, I don't think Man Spider is the villain. As far as do we get a trailer of Doomsday with Spider-Man, again, here's the funny thing about questions like that is that we no longer live in an era where trailers debut with movies. 99.5% of all trailers debut online. And then you may see them with a movie when you go see it. But we don't live in that era anymore

1:14:48where the first time a trailer gets played, it's in front of this movie, unless your movies made by a guy named Christopher Nolan. Right. And that's incredible, by the way. Yeah. So that's why I said 99.5% of the time, not 100% of the time. So there will be a Doomsday trailer before Spider-Man comes out. Yeah, by then, because that's July 31st or something like that. So yeah, I am actually of the belief that we are going to get a Avengers Doomsday trailer at Cinemacon. Yeah, I don't know that for a fact. Yeah, I don't know that for a fact. But if Disney always brings the goods, they always bring the goods to Cinemacon. And with a doon trailer now out, I think in three weeks, we are going to get a first trailer. And I think they're going to debut at Cinemacon. And then, of course, it will be attached to Spider-Man brand today. Sure, of course. But I don't think they're going to wait for Spider-Man brand

1:15:50new day. All right, what's next? Arnav says, will Marvel stick to the half-year releases like the last trilogy for this new Spider-Man solo trilogy? Or no, will they change it to every three to five? Oh, one not half a year. Every one to two-year releases. Or will it be three to five years as I saw a rumor that they're doing that? First of all, rumors or bullshit never believe any rumor you see. They'll make movies as they have their idea for it. Sony only has to be in production every 69 months to hold on to the rights. So yeah, I don't think they're going to have a timeline rule. I know that you're going to have a rule that every two years, we have to have a new Spider-Man movie out. Listen, we'll get a much better picture about what the landscape of the MCU as a whole is going to be once we see Avengers Seeker Wars. So could we get another Spider-Man movie in two

1:16:57years? We could. But do I think they're going to have like a scheduled rule that every two years we have to have a new Spider-Man movie? I don't think they're going to do that. I think it could work out to be close to that, but I don't think they're going to have a rule for that. But again, just me guessing though. All right, what's next? Daniel R. Ortiz, well, greetings to the study. Tases, Geo and crew. Could we expect to see any changes at AMC theaters following the further decline of the stock? If so, what kind? Although it is kind of flat out of a dollar now, but it's hard to say in my personal opinion, I am stunned that Adam Aaron still has his job. Like, the decline of AMC is so staggering. And by the way, I say this from a place of love, they are still the movie theater I choose to go to first. They're my go-to movie theater still are.

1:17:58And obviously, I have history with AMC. So it'll always have a very special place in my heart. That said, I'm hard pressed to think of any possible other kind of company. That your CEO could fail so completely and so miserably and would still have their job. It's staggering. The one really good move. And it was. It was a very good move. It's left them in a precarious position, but it really was the right thing to do. I talked about it in the editorial I did recently about AMC and their current predicament with their stock being at and just under and just over one dollar.

1:18:59It was when their asses got saved by pure luck. And the meme stock thing happened. Remember game stop in AMC stock up, whatever. Adam Aaron had nothing to do with that. He can't take any credit for that. That was just pure dumbass luck. But he saw an opportunity to print and sell new shares to the company when that stock was insanely artificially elevated by the meme thing. And that literally saved the company. And that was the right decision. Give credit words do. There have also, by the way, been a few small things that they have done that I don't want to sit here and paint a picture. I think every single thing that Adam Aaron does is stupid. Not at all. There have been a couple of small things that I think they've

1:20:02done that have been some pretty good positive things I do. But at the end of the day, I can't imagine another company being put through the ringer and being brought to the place that they're at. And the CEO still keeps their job. Like it's staggering to me. And I don't know. Maybe I, maybe I bump into Adam Aaron at CinemaCon. And maybe he's like, listen, can't be there's a lot of behind the scenes stuff you don't understand or know or would know about. Let me lay it out for you. And maybe it would change my tune. I don't know. Maybe it would. And again, for the record, I have been told by somebody who knows him. And a few other people who have heard this anecdotally as well that I've heard he's actually a really nice guy. And I just feel like I speak so negatively about him that I should throw that out. I've heard from people that he's actually a really nice guy and a very well liked guy. But I, yeah, man, it's just, it's just staggering to me that he's still

1:21:02the CEO of that company. Anyway, all right, what's next? Okay, we got Dallas Halls. He says the year is 2013. And man of steel was just released. And John Warner Brothers DC approaches you and gives you the keys to the DCU. What's the next movie? So this is the Campiiverse. BVS was second released 10 years ago today. Was it the right move? If it was me, I'd stick to MCU example of origins first. No, guys, film fans. And I've fallen prey to this too. So this is all of us. We're always looking for the formula. Oh, if they followed this formula, guys, the DCU did not fail to work because they didn't do origin stories first. If Batman versus Superman was, and I'm one of the fans of the movie, remember, if Batman versus Superman was universally liked, it wouldn't matter that they didn't do a Batman origin story. Nobody would care. Like I always come back to this.

1:22:05You know what Star Wars didn't do? Star Wars didn't start with a Luke origin story first and then an Obi-Wan origin movie, then a Han Solo origin movie, then a Chewbacca origin movie, then a Princess Leia origin movie, and then make Star Wars. No, they made Star Wars. Guardians of the Galaxy did not start with a Star Lord origin story and a Groot origin story and a Drax origin story and a Gamora origin story and a Rocket origin story. No, they just made Guardians of the Galaxy. The formula means nothing, whether they started with a big team movie, whether they started with individual things, the end of the day, the movie you put out is either a really good movie or it's not. And if the movie is really good, that's all that matters. That's all that matters. If they had put out Batman versus Superman and had it been good enough that more people than just this idiot really enjoyed it, then none of this would be an issue.

1:23:11So the question is not which movie should they have made next? The issue was they needed to make better movies. That's it. They just need to make better movies and had they made better movies from the get-go that more people enjoyed. We wouldn't be talking about this today because if they made movies that only a certain segment of people like me liked, then it doesn't matter if that was a Ben Affleck standalone Batman movie or a Batman versus Superman movie or a Teen Titans movie or it doesn't matter. If you're making mediocre product, you're making mediocre product and at the end of the day that's what kills you. It's not whether or not it was a team-up movie versus a standalone movie or whatever. Marvel films did not work because first they did Iron Man and then they did Captain America. No, Marvel films worked and Marvel

1:24:13became the iconic juggernaut that it is because they made high quality movies. That's why it worked. Just going back and copying the formula of individual films, that's not what makes your movie good or bad. What would have been my next movie? Honestly, it's irrelevant what the next movie would have been if they didn't have the support and got the right talent behind it to make higher quality films that more people enjoyed. I say that as somebody who I'm one of the people who did enjoy it, but I was in the minority. I still take shit from people because I got Henry Cavill in here. I only have one movie while I got Yoda over here too, but I only have one movie character standing in my office and it's my man Henry in the most underappreciated comic book film of all time man of steel. I'm one of the fans, but I can still acknowledge that I'm in the minority

1:25:15and they needed to make better movies. So anyway, there's that. All right, what's next? All right, we got our super chats now. We're going to start with Draco. Happy 10th anniversary of Batman of the Superman, Donald Justice, and 5th anniversary of Dota Dragon's Blood. Rhea, the last dragon turned five as well. You know, Ryan, the last dragon is a movie that is totally forgotten. And it went through this while. I think I remember I was a D23 and they brought out the director of Ryan, the last dragon and they she told this great story and she showed this pictures of her as a little girl with her grandmother in Disney costumes. And she said, I just wish my grandmother was here today. So I could show her that I'm making a Disney movie and it was so passionate and so great. And then they ripped it apart. They changed directors. They changed a bunch of the cast. And by the way, at the end of the day, it's still a pretty decent little movie. I like Ryan, the last dragon. It's not a super memorable one, but I liked it. It's a good little film. But man, that one gets

1:26:19totally forgotten about. All right, what's next? We got Penn's gaming. Hey, John and crew, hope you guys are doing well. Before you said you would make a video about everything that happens in Doomsday, is that happening? I never said that. Never once did I say that. All right, what's next? Chase says, did you watch Twin List? Thought it was amazing. Good. You know, that came out at the same time. There were two little films that came out around the same time that neither turned out to be as good as I thought they would be. But we're still really quite good nonetheless. One was Twin List. And the other one was about that guy who has a threesome with the two girls and both of them get pregnant at the same time. What was the name of that movie again? That was a clever little film. That and Twin List about the guy was a twin loses one of his twins and gets all. But what was the name of that movie? Guys in the live chat, do any of you remember who that was?

1:27:20Oh, what was the name of it? The threesome. Was it just straight up called threesome? Yeah, I just looked at it. Yeah. So those ones came out saved at both smaller indie style films and both of them were really quite good. That was someone that knows I couldn't believe it. All right, what's next? Spain says you caught up on one piece season two episode seven was amazing. Mark Herelick, Dr. Herelick deserves an Emmy for that performance. Highly doubt that. I say that as a huge fan of one piece season one. No, I haven't started watching season two yet. Really like season one a lot. And I am looking forward to watching season two, but I haven't started watching it yet. Christopher says Batman V Superman was released 10 years ago today. I personally didn't enjoy the film, but I loved that film's iteration of Batman, the warehouse scene in the car chase where we're talking about the warehouse scene is one of the bat, you know, it might be the best Batman fight scene in all of movies. I mean, say what you will about the Christopher Nolan, how great the Christopher Nolan films was. Their combat scenes were not the best.

1:28:23But I think that warehouse scene is probably the best Batman fight scene in any movie. I love that scene. I loved his introduction too. We didn't really talk about that where the cop looks up and he's like in the shadows in the in the on the ceiling. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh gosh, they they just did Batman really well in that movie. I thought hyper carry. I'm craving the return of martial arts cinema and theaters. Do we need a new Jackie Jett Tony job? Where are the modern day martial arts action stars can't wait for Mortal Kombat 2, but then what? Yeah, it really happens to look everything in Hollywood happens in cycles, right? From cop films to rom coms to period pieces to buddy cop films, westerns, the martial art epic. Man, I'll tell you what, if Tony jaw had known had had had a had a better grasp of English, I think he would have become a major

1:29:29superstar. I really do. I think his lack of ability to speak English fluently because he had all the tools man. Tony jaw was so fricking good. And if you guys, I mean, he was truly the air to the Jackie Chan throne. Like Jackie Chan, part of the mystique of Jackie Chan was him doing all these crazy, all of his own like crazy nutty stunts, right? Like you stayed for the end of Jackie Chan movies and see all the behind the scenes about way he did the stunts and some of the stunts that went wrong and all that kind of stuff. But Tony jaw, when you look at some like on back and you watch like the behind the scenes of them shooting these crazy stunts, he was truly positioned to be the heir to the Jackie Chan throne. And I think he would have become a major superstar. I really do. Anyway, all right, what's next? We got Jeff who says I'm a little concerned that Hollywood

1:30:32might be pulling the taffy a bit much on tokens works. Blast trilogy plus the show aren't high art per se. Well, I mean, look, there was a couple of mistakes they made with the Hobbit. And you start with it because I still stand behind. I think the first Hobbit film was actually really quite good. Like when all the dwarves show up at Bilbo's house, smash the plates, that's what Bilbo baggains hates. And they like it's so teleported me back into the book. It was like the book coming you know what I remind me of. It reminded me of the beginning of Lord of the Rings fellowship of the ring when they're entering into the shire for the first time on the carriage. Because to me, that was like one of the most memorable magical moments of movie going of my life because it was literally the portrait my mind painted of that scene brought to life. And it was an amazing moment to me. And like I think there was a lot of that in the Hobbit too. Now the problem with the Hobbit

1:31:33was they literally took the smallest book. And it was already questionable that they were going to do it in two movies. Yeah. Like even when they announced that the Hobbit was going to be two movies, a lot of us were like really? Yeah, I was like, Oh, okay. And then it's a short book. And when they said three, I went, Oh, no. And then did we say two movies? We meant three movies. And we're like yeah, really? Like two is already probably too much. Three. And so and then there was all the the kerfuffle about you guys remember Guillermo del Toro was supposed to direct the the Hobbit films. But because of all the delays, nobody's faulting everything, but because of all the delays, stuff like that, eventually Guillermo del Toro to go, I can't wait anymore. I have other obligations. So he had to bail on it. And then Peter Jackson, who was not intending to direct those films at all was suddenly thrust in the position where he had to go and drive. And he was totally not ready

1:32:35to direct those films. He was not ready to direct those films. He talks about that in some interviews, but he was not ready to direct those films. And then so I'll send his thrust in when he was totally not planning on directing them. And he had to drive. Listen, a lot of things went around the Hobbit films. But the world of J. R. Tolkien and the world of Miller Earth is so big and so vast. I honestly believe they haven't even really begun to scratch the surface of what's possible in on screen storytelling with it. I really believe that. It's not like some little parable or some little short story that they took and now they're making 25 shows and 30 movies out of it. We're talking about a vast world across thousands of years of storytelling. And I honestly think done right. I don't even think they've scratched the surface of it, but that's just me. All right, what's next? We got Johnny who says, hey, John Big fan of the show,

1:33:39you think we'll get a Voltron trailer by the end of this summer, also any update on the night writer project? I honestly don't care about the Voltron project. I got as excited as everybody when they announced that they were doing a Voltron movie, especially when my boy Henry was going to be in it. But fair or unfair. And remember, it was going to be a theatrical film. And then all of a sudden they changed their minds and said, nope, this movie's now going to go direct direct streaming. And listen, I'm not saying that doesn't mean it can't be good. I'm just saying that if I'm being honest, I lost all my interest in it. It's like, oh, okay, well, you obviously don't believe in it then. Now, that might be right and that might be wrong. But you don't choose how you feel about something. You feel about something the way you feel. And I'm just saying that when they made the announcement that they were pulling this Voltron project from a theatrical release and they

1:34:44were dumping it on streaming, to me, that was them screaming from a mountaintop. We don't think this is any good. And like my kind of my mantra to studios is, if you don't have faith in a movie, why should I have faith in it? Like, how can you ask me to believe in your project if you don't believe in your project? So listen, I hope the movie comes out because it is my boy Henry and I hope it's awesome. I'm just saying I'd be lying to you as my audience if I told you that I'm excited about it. I'm not. I I lost all my interest in it. So hopefully it comes out and it's great, but I really don't care when a trailer comes. You know, hopefully when it does drop, I'll watch it and I'll love it and get excited. But right now I'm just not there, Jonathan. Yeah. I agree. It took the window on my sales. It says if it's not even being made, and I know that sounds cynical. But if we like the trailer cool, going back to just real quickly, someone had asked about martial arts movies, I guess a 24 is doing a blood sport remake. Yep. So there's one option there for you.

1:35:48Now it's not a director. I think it's going to be, I think it's going to have a female lead in it. Yeah, it's a remake. So it's not, but just, you know, they're going to make some changes to it and stuff like that. By the way, I want to dress this too. Like one of our channel members in the live chat there, Mr. The Mr. Spawn says Henry is kind of like box office kryptonite. Point me to one movie he's done that if somebody else was in the lead, it would have had bigger box office. He's not the reason it's yeah, it's like you can only call somebody box office kryptonis. If like, Oh, that movie would have done well, but people avoided it because they were in there. Like, right. The, the ministry of ungenerally warfare. So good. That, that was a really fun movie. Yeah. You could have, you put Jake Jellin Hall in the lead. It would have had the same fate. That movie is forever in my mind because the writer's strike ended the night I was watching that movie. Yeah. So like to, to be able to say like, Oh, it's just the matter of which movie he's been in. He is not box office kryptonite at all. Just point me to a movie that you think would have done

1:36:49really great at the box office had somebody else been in the role. I just don't think that exists. I think he's a legit movie star. I just don't think he's been in the right projects. We got what's next? Hello, Lorna, who says, have you seen Jason Bateman's HBO's or, yeah, DTF St. Louis? No, but I want to. That's, that's when I got in my queue because David Harbers in that as well. I think that looks really interesting. So I want to watch it, but I'm not starting it yet. All right, what's next? Guzman says, Hi, y'all, is your appreciation for the Snyderverse DC movies your most divisive film opinion? First, I love Man of Steel, but I hate the rest, especially Flash. No, it's not. I think my most divisive one because I think that I stand by it. I think the Flash is a really good comic movie. I think it's really good. Does it have some quirky parts in it? Absolutely. No doubt. But I think overall it was a really entertaining, well thought out, interesting film. And I had a really good time with it. But that's not at all, like amongst my most divisive. I think my most divisive one is probably

1:37:58that I don't like the original Blade Runner. I wish I did. It's truly a pivotal sci-fi classic, but I just don't like the original Blade Runner. And that is the one that by far gets the most what did you say when I bring it up? Listen, I could lie and listen, a lot of online film guys lie about what they like and don't like to make sure they don't rub their audiences the wrong way. I don't care about that. My number one responsibility is to give you my honest opinion, whether it's whether something you agree with or disagree with. And I don't like the original Blade Runner. And that's probably I have many others like that, but the one that gets the biggest head snap when I say it, it's got to be when I say I don't like the original Blade Runner. All right, what's next? Sebastian says, what are your thoughts on invincible season four? Well, they just started, didn't they? Yeah.

1:39:00This is what I'll say so far. So to give context, Invincible season one was amazing. Invincible season two was crap. And I almost ditched on the show because of it. Invincible season three, while not quite as good as season one was a definite turning back in the right direction. So I'll say this so far to me, Invincible season four is more like season three than season two. I'm enjoying it. And there is a sequence of scenes in the last step, I think it was the last episode that they aired, where like Alan the Alien and Omni Man are going around the galaxy, trying to get artifacts and weapons and recruit allies in the fight against the Viltramite Empire. But in between each little mission where they're going around, they end up back on the ship. And Omni Man is staying in the same cabin as Alan the Alien and his

1:40:02girlfriend. And he can never sleep because Alan the Alien and his girlfriend bang so hard every night that it the camera is just brilliant thing where they keep cutting to Omni Man sleeping on a couch with a pillow on both of his ears grimacing, trying to not hear Alan have sex. And it's a hilarious bit in a lab. So yeah, I think season four so far has been pretty good. I think it's been pretty good. Definitely more season three than season two. And that's a good thing. All right, what's next? We got X-Men super fan. Yeah, I'm sorry, but Nicholas Holt ran circles around Jesse Eisenberg as Lex. Well, no. Holt, listen, Eisenberg manifested the character that was written. I think just the the character of Lex that was written in Superman was a much better iteration of Lex than the one that was written for Jesse Eisenberg in Batman versus Superman.

1:41:09If you had put Nicholas Holt in Batman versus Superman given the same director and given the same script and the same character, I don't know that we would have been any happier with the character. I just don't like I personally think Jesse Eisenberg is a little bit of an overrated actor. I don't get me wrong. I don't think he's bad. Don't misinterpret me, but I don't think he's as good as a lot of people think, but at the same time, I don't think you can blame him for the Lex Luthor character. You got in Batman versus Superman. I think if Nicholas Holt was handed that same character, I don't think any of us still would have been happy with the character. So I don't know that it's a matter of Nicholas Holt ran circles around Jesse Eisenberg. I think it's a matter of the Lex we got in James Gunn Superman ran circles around the Lex Luthor that was written in Batman versus Superman. At least that's how I look at it. And then follows up kind of the same idea, but Rachel

1:42:10was a better Lois Lane too. I love Amy to bits, but she was not as good as Lois Lane. Listen, Amy Adams is truly a top 10 greatest actress in the world. She just is. You look at her resume and you look at her body of work. She's one of the finest actresses in the world. And as much as I love Manesteele, and you guys know how much I love Manesteele, I do think she was miscast. I just don't think it was the right role for her. I don't think the role was right for her, and I don't think she was right for the role. Rachel Brosnahan is also an award-winning actress, Emmy-winning actress, but she's the perfect fit for that Lois Lane. And by the way, Amy Adams might have been a good fit for another iteration of Lois Lane, but for the Lois Lane they gave us in that DCEU. Amy Adams was just not the right fit. I think overall she's a better actress than Rachel Brosnahan,

1:43:13and no disrespect to Rachel Brosnahan. She's fantastic. I love the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. She's so good in that, and won so many awards for it. But it's just also just a matter of this. She was the right match for that character, whereas I don't think Amy Adams was the right match for the DCEU's version of Lois Lane. All right, what's next? We got Oscar who says, hey, John, celebrating the big 30 today. Been a fan since I was 18. What advice would you tell 30-year-old self? Ha, that's a really good question. 30 is a pretty good year. I would say this. 30 is you are still at the beginning of everything. Like I went back to school in my 30s. I made major career pivots in my 30s. So what I would tell a lot of people in the third, like I talked to people sometimes who are in their 30s and they think they missed their

1:44:16opportunity to do this, or that has already passed me by. It's like, no, it has not. Believe me, it is not. Like I said, I changed careers in my 30s. I changed, I went back to school in my 30s. Yeah, so just always know that the world is still completely open to you. All right, what's next? X-man, superfan says, Meryl Streep once said that he would be open to being the DCEU under James Gunn. Who would you like to see her play if you had your choice? Any character she wanted that she was a half decent fit for. She is literally the greatest actress of all time. So I mean, anything, help make her Lex Luthor for all I care. But yeah, I don't think there's any particular character I would point to like literally any character that she is remotely the right fit for. You put the greatest actress in the world ever into it if it fits her. All right, what's next? Sebastian says, Hey John, do you think Super Mario Galaxy can beat its previous movie when it's

1:45:17coming out next week? Do you mean like opening weekend or like total box office by the time it's out of theater? Yeah, like can it be better in terms of quality? Sure. Listen, I like the first one, but it's let's not pretend like it was some like masterpiece. Very basic story. There's a lot of room for improvement. Like I like that first Mario brother. I was entertained by it, but there's a lot of room for improvement. So it definitely could be better. Can it do better at the box office? It's I would guess it won't, but it is possible. It is possible. So let's see. All right, what's next? X-Men Superfan says what for X-Men need to be in your opinion, the MCU's X-Men roster. Well, in my opinion, which will it be or what do I think they should do? Oh, he should. If it's the one like who would like who would I think the the and you're saying four, you're limiting it to four. Okay, if you're limiting it to four, it's got to be Scott.

1:46:17It's got to be Jean. It's got to be Hank or Beast. Now, do I put in do I put Bobby in there? Bobby is one of the original X-Men. See, when they made the animated series, they kind of made they put Jubilee in there. Yeah, but that was based off like a 90s version. Right, but I mean, but it was it was also a dynamics thing, right? And I wonder if a Jubilee character or even like a Jubilee like character like something like a Kitty pride might not be better for a for a dynamics balance than Bobby. I love X-Men. I mean, I love Iceman. I love Iceman. You know, okay, y'all go Scott. This is what I'll do. Scott, Jean, Beast, Storm. That's probably the one. That's probably what I would go with. There you go. Yeah, because Storm should be in there. Yeah. Brandon says,

1:47:20love how in July, we get two massive film starring Tom Hollins in daya and John Brinthall. Two weeks apart, they'll be in cinemas at the same time. Not to mention Brinthall will be on streaming too. Yeah, of course. That's coming the week after Daredevil ends. Yeah. The very next week is Punisher One Last Kill, which I'm very excited about. I cannot wait. Yeah, we did a little story a little while ago on like this is the year of Zendaya, man. Like Zendaya, she's got that when she's got with Robert Pattinson. On the TV side, she's got one of the most popular HBO shows of all time. Euphoria coming back. She's got Spider-Man brand new day. She's got the Odyssey. And she's got Dune 3, all in the same calendar year. I contend there's never been a year like that for a performer. It's absolutely crazy. All right, what's next? Metalhead says the biggest issue I had with

1:48:24BBS was that it was based on an elseworld story that the characters don't act like the normal versions. I'm the only person who doesn't like the Dark Knight series. I think it means the Dark Knight returns. Yeah, well, the Dark Knight returns. First of all, I think you're the first person I've ever heard from that says they didn't like the Dark Knight returns. But that's fine. It's all subjective. Your opinion is null as well than mine. But I don't think it's an exaggeration to say. That the Dark Knight returns literally was the birth and the template for how everybody sees Batman today. That was really it. The Dark Knight returns fundamentally changed how we all thought about Batman. And yeah, the fight of Batman and Superman in that was epic. And it ends. I mean, it's one of the greatest lines ever. Like when Batman's got Superman down, he's like,

1:49:25I want you to remember this Clark, my hand on your throat. And then he fakes his own death. He said, but Superman figures out that Batman faked his own death. I love that moment where you kind of like when he hears the heart, he's starting back up and he's just smile a little bit. It's so good. Oh, yeah, man. Listen, I love the Dark Knight returns. And I would say that Batman versus Superman was not based on the Dark Knight returns. It borrowed elements from it. I think it's fair to say it definitely borrowed elements from it. But that if you've read the Dark Knight returns, Batman versus Superman is nothing like Dark Knight returns at all. You don't have the mutant gang running around, you know, with their spiky head leaders, nothing to do with it. But they definitely borrowed elements from it. I think that's a more fair way to say it. All right, what's next? Brandon says Pattinson is also going to have an amazing 18 months. The drama Odyssey,

1:50:27Dune and Batman likes and day a good time to be him almost all the same movies too. Yeah, I get a lot of people forget that he's also got some really, really big major ones. It's again, the Batman, too, is not coming out this year like Zendaya has all those coming out in the same calendar year. But yeah, it's a good time to be Robert Pattinson right now. It's a really good time to be Robert Pattinson. All right, this next Earth Earth thing entertainment. Did you see or like Ted's DND episode season 2 episode 3? I did not. I haven't been watching Ted. I watched the first, I think, two episodes of season one. And I enjoyed it. I laughed. But I just never picked it back up after the first couple of episodes. And to be honest, I'm not planning on it either. I've just got too much other TV. Like I'm like I just mentioned, I haven't even started season two of Fallout yet. I haven't started season two of one piece yet. I'm keeping up with by the way, by the way, Monarch Legacy Monsters this season. Awesome. Been loving it.

1:51:31You don't be reminded of yet another series I'm behind on. I'm Monarch. Yeah, this season's been great. I've really been loving this season. I've been keeping up with the pit. I've been keeping up with, yes, there's a bunch of been keeping up with. But I got to, I'm just so far behind, I'm honestly not planning on picking up. But I have had other people tell me that even if I don't watch Ted, I should at least go and watch that D&D episode because many of you know I'm a D&D player. So I might have to go and do that. All right, what's next? X-Men, final three here. X-Men Superfan asks, who would you like to make the next James Bond theme? Don't care. And do you mean like theme or like the the song that they sing at the opening credits? Oh yeah, because that's two different questions right? Because that's as big of a tradition in Hollywood as about who writes the song. And I'd be terrible because every time I hear who's doing it, I'm like, and then I hear it. I'm like, wow, that was good. Yeah, like I even remember when what's her name, Phineas is her brother. Oh, yeah. Oh my gosh. I'm the bad guy, boo, boo. What's her name again? I'm totally

1:52:37free. Is there a name? Oh, Lord. Can't remember anything. Somebody in the live chat will feed in there. Billy Eilish, thank you. I remember when I heard Billy Eilish was going to do the James Bond theme. I'm like, I don't think she's old enough to have even seen a James Bond movie. But her theme was awesome. It was really good. Then of course, she had the Adele one for Sky. Sky. Yeah. And it was such a throwback. I loved it. Yeah. Yeah. Total throwback, but it was perfect. Yeah. But if you're talking about theme, oh, they're never going to change the John Barry man. You just got to say the John Barry. You change that. I'm out. You change that. I'm out. Yeah. That is never ever changing. That's like saying we're going to do Star Wars, but forget that. Yeah. Which by the way, they haven't used in some of the films, but they're like they're not changing the the Star Wars. I mean, that is the Star Wars proper. You know, it's funny. Side note, I still remember there was an episode of Pond Stars, where they always

1:53:41have they always have guys bringing in guitars. But this guy brings this older guy brings this guitar. It's like, yeah, I'm selling my guitar. And he's like, Oh, by the way, I'm the guy who plays in the James Bond theme. I'm the guy who played that and recorded it. And this is the guitar I did it on. Like, oh, that's the guitar that played the theme for James Bond. So, yeah, if that's the question, then I don't think they're ever going to change it. All right, what's next? Daniel, Europe simply says real world be gone. So for those who don't know what that means, for those you don't know what that means. Back in the day, like I've been I've been playing Dungeons and Dragons since I was 13, 14. But back in the day, when I was in Bible college and living in dorm in Bible college, we had a group that played Dungeons and Dragons. We were not,

1:54:41like, we were not any of these like what I call not real Chris, these wacky people think, everything's demonic. That's not Christianity. That's not a life of faith. Anyway, we were we had a Dungeons and Dragons group that we played in Bible college because it's just a fun game of imagination. And anyway, and what we would do is we would get like unspeakable, unholy bags of Doritos and cheeses and numerous bottles of Coke and whatever. And what we would do is, when we were ready to start playing, we would close the door to the dorm room and say, real world be gone. And then we'd play D&D. And yeah, I mean, we were nerds, but whatever. That's where the real world be gone thing gets. And sorry, oh yeah, that was all he said, just said the question. Yeah, yeah, that. And then our final one here is from Sebastian. What did you think of the Harry Potter trailer? Well, we didn't get to see it. I'm watching it dropped after we started the show.

1:55:44Once this train leaves the station, yeah. So once we start the show, I'm not going to stop the show so I can go and watch the trailer. So I'm going to go watch the trailer. Well, I'm sure we'll talk about it tomorrow, but I haven't had a chance to watch it yet. And I don't do trailer reactions. So we're not going to play the trailer. I was we're doing the show and do my live reaction to it. I don't do trailer reactions. No, the shade on anybody else who does. Many people do it great. I'm not a trailer reactor. So we will talk about the Harry Potter thing tomorrow. But I clearly, since it didn't come out until we already started the show, I haven't had chance to see it yet. But tomorrow, tomorrow, we will talk about it. And all right, guys, that'll do it for today's installment of the John Campy Show. Thank you so much for being here and making our little show part of your day. Big special. Thank you to all you guys who sent in questions. Number one, because it gave us great fun things to talk about. But number two, he supported this channel as you did it and all of us involved at the show. Thank you guys very much for your support. Don't forget to come on back and join us again tomorrow. Make sure you go and subscribe to our podcast

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