MOVIE REVIEW: The Super Mario Bros. Movie

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,100 Hey, this is Daniel Warren Johnson, creator of books such as Murder Falcon, Extremity, 2 00:00:05,100 --> 00:00:09,240 Wonder Woman Dead Earth, and Beta Rape Bill, and you're listening to the Oblivion Bar 3 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:14,640 Podcast. 4 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:37,840 Welcome to the Oblivion Bar Podcast with your hosts, Chris Hacker and Aaron Knowles. 5 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:38,960 Hello everyone. 6 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:43,800 Welcome to episode 114 of the Oblivion Bar Podcast, the official podcast of the fantasy 7 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:45,520 shop in St. Charles, Missouri. 8 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:49,120 I am Chris Hacker, one of your co-hosts here, and joining me this week as he does every 9 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:55,440 single week, my BFF and part owner of our local plumbing shop, Aaron Knowles. 10 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:56,440 Let's go. 11 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:57,440 Okey dokey. 12 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:02,480 Oh, I knew it was going to be a Mario voice of some sort. 13 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:03,480 And I'm happy. 14 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:04,480 I'm happy you delivered on that. 15 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:05,480 On that. 16 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:06,480 How was it? 17 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:07,480 It was good. 18 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:08,480 It was very good. 19 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:11,880 Almost verbatim right out of the movie and the video game. 20 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:13,560 So I don't know why they didn't call you. 21 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:14,560 That's what I'm curious about. 22 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:16,680 You know, and we'll talk about it. 23 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:21,760 I actually got to interview the voice of Bowser from the video games recently. 24 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:25,480 And you know, one thing that he just refused to do is his Bowser voice. 25 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:28,800 You know, they do it all the time. 26 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:29,800 I didn't even ask. 27 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:30,800 I didn't even ask. 28 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:33,200 He's like, before you even ask, I'm not fucking doing it. 29 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:34,200 All right. 30 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:35,200 I think I'll tell you. 31 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:38,440 Well, I'll talk about this later, but I did get a little warning before from his handler 32 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:39,440 before I interviewed. 33 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:41,520 So we'll talk about that later. 34 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:42,960 You're not getting any Bowser for free. 35 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:45,560 OK, there's no giveaways in the movie. 36 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:47,360 Why aren't you in the movie? 37 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:50,560 Yeah, that's another thing they probably heard constantly. 38 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:54,760 But yeah, you know, as Aaron was saying right now. 39 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:58,820 So yeah, for episode one 14, we are talking about the Super Mario Bros. movie we both 40 00:01:58,820 --> 00:01:59,980 saw this weekend. 41 00:01:59,980 --> 00:02:02,680 It is sweeping the nation as we speak. 42 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:04,400 Aaron right now, it is the number one movie in America. 43 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:06,640 Is it not plumbing the nation? 44 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:07,920 That's a that's a good one. 45 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:08,920 All right. 46 00:02:08,920 --> 00:02:09,920 I'll take that one. 47 00:02:09,920 --> 00:02:11,360 Let me give you a gold star right here for that one. 48 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:13,520 I'm going to put it in post. 49 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:15,480 But yes, Super Mario Bros. movie. 50 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:19,480 I'm very excited, Aaron, to hear your thoughts because you are so embedded in the world of 51 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:20,480 Nintendo. 52 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:21,480 You have the Nintendo tattoo. 53 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:24,820 A lot of people, I don't know if they know this or not, but you have the Nintendo tattoo. 54 00:02:24,820 --> 00:02:28,400 You know, as far as as long as I've known you, you have just been a super fan when it 55 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:31,900 comes to just not only Mario, but just all things Nintendo. 56 00:02:31,900 --> 00:02:33,680 So I'm very curious to hear your thoughts. 57 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:35,780 Let's hold off on that for just a bit. 58 00:02:35,780 --> 00:02:38,960 Let's talk about a couple of things before we get into our news and notes here. 59 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:39,960 Number one. 60 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:40,960 What's that? 61 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:41,960 What's housekeeping? 62 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:42,960 House. 63 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:43,960 Did I say inside baseball? 64 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:44,960 No, no, no. 65 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:45,960 But they usually do. 66 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:47,840 No, this is this is not inside baseball because we're sharing it. 67 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:50,120 This is all for the people. 68 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:54,960 So as most people knew, if you had been listening to the show or listening to the grid, you 69 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:58,760 know that you were supposed to go to Megacon this last weekend. 70 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:03,040 You know, Aaron and I were planning to go with Comic Sketch Art to Orlando. 71 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:06,520 And I was very excited leading up to our trip. 72 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:09,840 I was having some stomach pains, Aaron, and I don't really know what was going on. 73 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:13,920 So I went to the E.R. It was very consistent enough for me to be worried. 74 00:03:13,920 --> 00:03:20,120 So I went to the E.R. and they did some CT scans and they found a mass in my colon. 75 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:23,600 And I'm going to say all this, everyone, just so everyone at home listening right now, please, 76 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:25,120 I don't want your I don't want sorrys. 77 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:27,200 I don't want any of that. 78 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:28,880 I don't want you feeling bad for me. 79 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:31,200 I want to just explain to you what's going on. 80 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:35,960 And then I want you to send me fun things to read and listen, because yes, that means 81 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:36,960 colon cancer. 82 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:37,960 OK. 83 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:38,960 And I've I've accepted it. 84 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:40,160 I'm OK with it. 85 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:45,320 It's very beatable, especially for my age and how healthy I am already. 86 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:49,760 But that was found, you know, instead of me being able to go to Orlando with Aaron and 87 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:53,640 a lot of our friends from Comic Sketch Art and enjoying our weekend in Orlando. 88 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:55,980 Unfortunately, I was admitted to the hospital. 89 00:03:55,980 --> 00:03:57,960 It fucking sucked the entire time. 90 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:04,680 It was just tubes up the noses, enemas up the butts, colonoscopies, all the fun things. 91 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:07,240 But I'm glad we found it. 92 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:08,520 Glad we're going on with it. 93 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:12,640 I don't know if we're going to eventually eventually have some type of break in the show. 94 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:17,600 Of course, if I have surgery and it coincides with our schedule, we might have to take a 95 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:18,600 break. 96 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:23,120 But this show brings me so much reprieve and bringing not only just sitting down with you, 97 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:26,920 Aaron, and talking about nerdy things, but sharing it with the people brings me so much 98 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:27,920 joy. 99 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:29,960 So if I'm able to do both, I absolutely will. 100 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:33,040 But I want to just let everyone know what's been going on. 101 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:36,840 I've obviously been sharing some things on social media. 102 00:04:36,840 --> 00:04:38,960 But again, I'm not afraid. 103 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:41,720 So I'm not a subtle person. 104 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:43,360 Subtlety is not really one of my strengths. 105 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:45,140 You know, it's not something I'm known for. 106 00:04:45,140 --> 00:04:49,840 So when something like this happens, I'm going to just share it because mostly because I 107 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:52,640 want people to know that it's not bothering me. 108 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:53,640 It's like I'm okay. 109 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:54,640 I'm okay with it. 110 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:56,680 And I've taken I've decided to take it on. 111 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:58,260 And it's not I'm not worried. 112 00:04:58,260 --> 00:05:02,520 So I wanted to tell that Aaron off the top, just so everyone's aware, kind of explain 113 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:06,000 that because, again, I've shared a little bit on social media, but I haven't had a chance 114 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:07,000 to actually talk about it. 115 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,040 So all that being said, Aaron, you eventually did go to Megacon. 116 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:12,560 And I'd love to hear about your trip and how that went. 117 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:17,960 Well, the most interesting thing was I was I drove to Orlando. 118 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:19,080 I was in the van. 119 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:22,400 And then that's when I got the news about what's going on with you. 120 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:28,080 And also, I just wanted to I'm pretty sure it's pronounced cologne cologne cologne, cologne, 121 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:29,080 scopie. 122 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:30,080 I don't know. 123 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:32,920 That's not make fun of cancer. 124 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:33,920 We can't. 125 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:34,920 It's fine. 126 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:35,920 No, I mean, I guess I think it's if you. 127 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:36,920 You have it, you can make fun of it. 128 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:38,280 I'm pretty sure that's the rule. 129 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:39,280 Yeah, I was. 130 00:05:39,280 --> 00:05:41,240 I got to go watch the movie 5050 now. 131 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:42,920 Yeah, that's right. 132 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:47,440 But literally, I was driving to I was driving a van full of comic material and stuff for 133 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:48,560 CSA. 134 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:52,840 And I'm like on the verge of tears about halfway through because my friend is just told me 135 00:05:52,840 --> 00:05:55,200 that he is in the hospital. 136 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:59,160 But anyways, so yeah, I went to Megacon, worked with CSA. 137 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:02,840 I got to work with some really fun, amazing people. 138 00:06:02,840 --> 00:06:09,920 I got to host what not shows with with Skaff and well, not with Skaff, but alongside Skaff 139 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:12,440 and some of the CSA staff. 140 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:16,240 I did a show with Mitch Garad, Josh Casara. 141 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:19,560 Man, it was it's like honestly, it was like a real deals. 142 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:22,000 Ariel Diaz's sway art. 143 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:29,560 Yeah, yeah, it was it was something that I honestly never expected that I would do. 144 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:32,920 But at the same time, something I absolutely loved doing. 145 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:38,240 And I want to say that the only reason that I was anywhere near successful was because 146 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:43,080 I had my man in in front of the computer, my man in the chair, Chris. 147 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:44,080 I was your Oracle. 148 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:45,080 He was my Oracle. 149 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:50,360 He was my who's who's the dude, the bald dude from from Spider-Man now. 150 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:53,200 Oh, I was a Ned Ned. 151 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:54,200 You're my Ned. 152 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:57,880 He was the dead in my head and the chair, the man in the chair. 153 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:02,440 And basically what would happen was they'd be like, oh, you got a show in like 10 minutes 154 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:04,200 because they kept moving the schedule around. 155 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:05,760 And I'm like, OK, who's it with? 156 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:07,520 They're like Ariel Diaz. 157 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:10,960 And so what I would do immediately was I would text Chris and be like, all right, give me 158 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:13,160 the 60 second rundown on Ariel Diaz. 159 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:18,400 And he would come through with pictures and like a nice little like three part text of 160 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:20,000 everything that I needed to know. 161 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:21,880 And it was like a slideshow. 162 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:22,880 It was perfect. 163 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:25,200 And like, Chris, I mean, I know you were watching, you were involved. 164 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:27,720 You were, you know, you were helping me out from the from trying to pop in. 165 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:28,720 Yeah. 166 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:30,080 And like, I think it went pretty well. 167 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:32,120 Everybody said it went really well that I did a good job. 168 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:34,200 And so I was kind of addicted to it. 169 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:35,600 And, you know, I really enjoy it. 170 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:40,040 So, you know, when we do again, eventually work together with Comic Sketch, you and I 171 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:45,280 will both hopefully be hosting shows together, if not separately. 172 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:47,760 But again, it was just it was a super exciting time. 173 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:50,240 I got to I got to talk to a lot of artists. 174 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:51,240 Everyone got to listen to that episode. 175 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:55,640 You know, our previous episode 113 was all of your interviews with everyone across the 176 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:58,680 world. 177 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:00,200 I think it turned out really well. 178 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:04,400 I think you got a lot of great info from, you know, people like Benjamin Percy and Philip 179 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:08,680 Kennedy Johnson, good friend of the show, you know, Ariel Diaz, as we were just saying, 180 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:13,800 you know, and and you even had I'm forgetting his name now, but who was the voice of Bowser? 181 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:14,800 Do you remember? 182 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:15,800 Oh, Ken James. 183 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:16,800 Yeah. 184 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:17,800 Yeah. 185 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:18,800 Kenny James. 186 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:19,800 So yeah, a lot of great people on that episode. 187 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:23,880 And I will say this, that one thing that was really, really nice was everybody at CSA, 188 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:24,880 like working with them. 189 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:27,040 I had never done anything like this before. 190 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:29,520 And working with CSA was amazing. 191 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:33,080 Everybody was super supportive and helpful when it came to like learning different things. 192 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:37,400 Like I had to learn their little clover, like, you know, card system. 193 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:38,400 I had to learn. 194 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:41,520 I, you know, I met Cami Garcia's Gabriel Piccolo. 195 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:43,880 I had to work with both of them. 196 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:48,800 And you know, it was I had I had to, you know, get people to, you know, I was selling prints. 197 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:50,280 I was getting stuff signed. 198 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:53,320 I worked with Ryan Stegman, Ryan Ottley. 199 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:56,840 I went to their signing of Frank Cho. 200 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:58,240 Just all these like artists. 201 00:08:58,240 --> 00:08:59,240 Very fast paced. 202 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:00,580 Yeah, very, very absolutely. 203 00:09:00,580 --> 00:09:01,580 Very fast paced. 204 00:09:01,580 --> 00:09:04,520 At one point, I was working behind an artist selling prints. 205 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:09,360 The next minute, it's hey, you got 30 minutes to get to this conference or this room and 206 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:13,280 you're here helping with a VIP event for these huge artists. 207 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:20,320 And like, again, it was very, very you're right, fast paced, but also again, very learnable, 208 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:21,440 teachable environment. 209 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:22,440 Yeah. 210 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:24,080 And I'm just really thankful. 211 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:29,400 And also, like everybody was super like worried, like they're they're asking about you. 212 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:31,560 A lot of them talk, you know, they know you. 213 00:09:31,560 --> 00:09:33,520 And so they're all like, you know, you know, how's Chris? 214 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:34,560 Like I heard about him. 215 00:09:34,560 --> 00:09:36,280 Even some of the creators like Nerf Alice. 216 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:38,740 Nerf Alice was such a sweet woman. 217 00:09:38,740 --> 00:09:42,160 And she's like, oh, I heard about Chris, you know, and she's like wanted to let you know 218 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:43,480 that she was worried about you. 219 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:46,960 Philip Kennedy Johnson, you know, he was worried, like just all these people that we've talked 220 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:47,960 to. 221 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:51,800 It's amazing that they even recognize us and think about us to know like who we are and 222 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:53,480 what we're going through. 223 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:56,920 So it's definitely it's definitely a, you know, it was a fun situation. 224 00:09:56,920 --> 00:09:58,440 I was completely wrecked. 225 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:00,840 Yeah, you were tired for like the next two days. 226 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:02,280 Yeah, I'm still tired. 227 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:06,240 Like I was completely my my social battery was drained. 228 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:09,120 My mental, emotional, physical batteries were gone. 229 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:12,960 And that's that's also including the fact that again, I was just there by myself. 230 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:17,180 So I didn't have you, which I think it would have made it a lot easier just because again, 231 00:10:17,180 --> 00:10:20,440 it was it's very hard to fit in with a group of complete strangers. 232 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:21,440 Yeah. 233 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:25,840 You know, and then plus they say that misery loves company, you know, so we could have 234 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:27,680 suffered together and made us stronger. 235 00:10:27,680 --> 00:10:31,920 So the camaraderie of the con, you know, if you've ever been to a convention, if you've 236 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:36,360 ever been to a comic convention, you know, that CSA that alley is busy. 237 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:38,940 You know, we got some of the best talent in the industry. 238 00:10:38,940 --> 00:10:42,400 So a lot of those people, a lot of the top, top talents, you know, again, you're Ryan 239 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:45,200 Stegman, you're Miss Garrett's Ryan Otley, Frank Miller. 240 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:46,620 These guys are all in the same alley. 241 00:10:46,620 --> 00:10:49,200 So we're we're losing our minds a lot of the time. 242 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:51,120 But I am very glad that you had a good time. 243 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:54,960 I'm excited for us to our next convention that's scheduled right now is San Diego Comic 244 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:55,960 Con. 245 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:57,840 So I'm excited for us to do that together. 246 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:02,040 Hopefully I'll be able to get over this home pretty easily and we'll we'll be able to get 247 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:04,160 into it and enjoy it, enjoy it and have a good time. 248 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:08,600 But and one more piece of housekeeping news before we get into our news and notes, we 249 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:12,160 got to tell everyone Aaron Patreon dot com forward slash oblivion bar pod. 250 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:14,680 If you want to support the show, I want to be quick here, by the way, everybody, I know 251 00:11:14,680 --> 00:11:15,760 that we've been rambling. 252 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:18,400 We just want to get to the actual meat of the episode. 253 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:21,240 But Patreon dot com forward slash oblivion bar pod. 254 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:23,300 If you want to support the show, this is the best way to do it. 255 00:11:23,300 --> 00:11:27,520 You could have access to the grid, which is our patron exclusive show episode transcripts, 256 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:29,480 early access to these episodes. 257 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:33,240 Special shout out at the end of this, you know, this episode, you could get a t shirt. 258 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:34,960 There's a lot of cool things over on Patreon. 259 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:37,400 We always do a bunch of really cool stuff for our patrons. 260 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:40,200 So Patreon dot com forward slash oblivion bar pod. 261 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:42,560 Please go check it out if you want to help us out. 262 00:11:42,560 --> 00:11:44,260 We would honestly love it so much. 263 00:11:44,260 --> 00:11:47,120 So Aaron, if you're ready, let's go ahead. 264 00:11:47,120 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get a trailer. 298 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:33,840 Everybody gets a trailer and it was a big, big week for trailers. 299 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:38,600 So we've got trailers for Across the Spiderverse, Blue Beetle, Barbie, Ahsoka and Indiana Jones 300 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:41,680 and the Diles. Amazing trailers, my friend. Yes. Yeah. 301 00:13:41,680 --> 00:13:42,880 And we're going to talk about all of them here. 302 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:46,800 So I want I want to start off with probably my favorite of the week, which was we got 303 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:50,640 our very first full trailer for Sony Pictures, Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse. 304 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:54,120 As of this recording, this is actually the most viewed trailer of twenty twenty three, 305 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:55,120 which is not surprising. 306 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:57,800 A lot of people are very, very excited for this movie. 307 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:01,520 You know, it's a sequel to for what a lot of people think myself included as maybe one 308 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:03,880 of the greatest comic book movies of all time. 309 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:08,520 Maybe not only one of the greatest Spider-Man movies, but just best comic book movies of 310 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:11,160 all time is just that's a huge feat. Right. 311 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:16,000 So the trailer opens up with Miles Morales reminding us that he is the one and only Spider-Man. 312 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:20,240 This is, of course, Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York, Earth 1610. 313 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:23,480 Here we get to see him with his updated costume for this new movie. 314 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:27,200 No longer the spray painted suit of the old Peter Parker from his Earth. 315 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:31,440 Later we see Miles have his first encounter with what we've been told is the, quote unquote, 316 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:34,960 main villain of this movie, which also seems kind of unlikely. 317 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:38,000 The spot played by Jason Schwartzman. 318 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:42,520 So the spot actually appeared in comics and first appeared in comics in 1984 in Peter 319 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:44,960 Parker, the spectacular Spider-Man 98. 320 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:47,400 Aaron, are you familiar with the spot at all? 321 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:48,960 Have you ever seen him in any media? 322 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:49,960 I have. 323 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:50,960 I have. 324 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:54,800 He's able to like throw spots that are basically like almost teleport, not teleportation, but 325 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:55,800 like like portals. 326 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:56,800 Yeah. 327 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:57,800 Kind of connect. 328 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:00,440 It connects him to the spot world is what it's called. 329 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:05,280 So he is an ex-MIT scientist working for the kingpin who accidentally transformed himself 330 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:09,920 into the spot while attempting to artificially recreate the trans-dimensional powers of the 331 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:11,040 superhero known as Cloak. 332 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:12,720 So that's Cloak from Cloak and Dagger. 333 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:16,520 If you're familiar with that, he has that cloak that kind of like transports him and 334 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:18,760 Dagger just to wherever they want to go. 335 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:21,960 You know, you'll be reading a comic and Cloak and Dagger will just show up out of nowhere. 336 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:24,280 You're like, how did you get here? 337 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:26,960 You know, so he was trying to recreate that power. 338 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:32,720 So he is a functionally immortal and his body is able to reconstitute on death in this mysterious 339 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:36,720 alternative dimension that you can travel through either fully or partially by manipulating 340 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:39,120 and summoning localized portals. 341 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:44,640 We also see Spider-Man 2099's multiversal team, which includes Jessica Drew's Spider-Woman, 342 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:49,080 Hobie Brown's Spider-Punk, AKA Spider-Man of Earth 138. 343 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:52,520 And I'm going to say this wrong here, but Pivotar Parakakar? 344 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:54,640 I'm gonna say Pavator Prabhakar. 345 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:55,640 Prabhakar. 346 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:56,640 Okay. 347 00:15:56,640 --> 00:15:57,640 Yeah. 348 00:15:57,640 --> 00:15:58,640 All right. 349 00:15:58,640 --> 00:15:59,640 Yeah. 350 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:01,680 Which is Spider-Man India and that's Spider-Man of Earth 50101. 351 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:04,480 So a pretty cool team here. 352 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:06,200 I actually really like seeing all them together. 353 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:10,680 And it doesn't seem like to me, Aaron, you can tell me if you've kind of analyzed this 354 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:15,440 differently, but it doesn't seem like Spider-Man 2099 is a bad guy outright. 355 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:21,000 It seems like he sees Miles Morales as Spider-Man as a threat somehow to the multiverse. 356 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:25,520 And that's why he's trying to stop him from not only traversing the multiverse, but leaving 357 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:28,840 whatever this earth is that all these other Spider-Men are at. 358 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:29,840 Okay. 359 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:33,360 So I'm gonna ask for me real quick, because I don't think we've actually seen Madame Webb 360 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:34,360 yet. 361 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:35,360 No, we have not. 362 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:38,080 Not in any of the trailers, but it has been rumored that she is in this movie. 363 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:43,640 So from what I understand, Madame Webb is able to like, she has her like hub at the 364 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:45,760 center of like the Spider-Verse. 365 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:52,120 And so I'm assuming that that is who Spider-Man 2099 is like working for and getting his information 366 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:53,120 from. 367 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:57,760 And I feel like he is on a mission that has probably been given to him that he like is 368 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:00,680 almost blindly following. 369 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:02,040 And Peter is a soldier. 370 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:03,040 Yeah. 371 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:08,360 And so he's going to realize that maybe Madame Webb is trying to manipulate, you know, him 372 00:17:08,360 --> 00:17:10,600 and some of the other Spider-People. 373 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:15,560 And they're going to figure out that, you know, Miles has to figure it out, you know, 374 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:18,440 does not necessarily have to follow this plan that is in place. 375 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:23,480 And so, yes, I think there he's going to be the pseudo villain. 376 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:25,080 You know, you got the spot in the beginning. 377 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:26,080 Yeah. 378 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:27,080 So we're going to see the spot. 379 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:28,080 We're going to take the villain. 380 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:29,080 Then we're going to have this guy. 381 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:32,600 And I think that a lot of it is going to be like a subplot, because I think that what's 382 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:37,200 going to happen is there's going to be a lot of plot that's based around the main villain 383 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:41,700 of the spot, like either figuring out who he is trying to kill his family. 384 00:17:41,700 --> 00:17:45,360 And basically, you know, they're going to pull him out of his dimension and he's got 385 00:17:45,360 --> 00:17:47,640 to get back to stop this from happening. 386 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:48,640 Yeah, very possible. 387 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:55,160 I think Spider-Man 2099 is one of those characters that at least in the comics, he is kind of 388 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:58,720 he's a police officer in his universe, and it would make sense that he is kind of just 389 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:02,720 following orders for what is essentially what he believes to be the greater good. 390 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:06,920 And like you said, I can very easily see, you know, Madame Webb kind of quote unquote, 391 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:11,120 no pun intended, pulling the strings behind the scenes and like manipulating a lot of 392 00:18:11,120 --> 00:18:12,120 this. 393 00:18:12,120 --> 00:18:15,960 And eventually, Miles Morales and all the other Spider-Men throughout this movie have 394 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:16,960 to team up to stop her. 395 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:17,960 This is the lobby. 396 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:18,960 The whole thing was his idea. 397 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:19,960 What's the guy got to do to join this? 398 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:27,760 You can never be part of this. 399 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:33,240 Don't even get me started on Dr. Strange and the little nerd back on Earth 1999. 400 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:35,320 Come on, go easy on the kid. 401 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:37,320 He had a terrible teacher. 402 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:38,320 Peter. 403 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:39,320 Miles. 404 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:40,320 You have a baby? 405 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:41,320 I have a baby. 406 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,320 I'll take it from here. 407 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:50,320 Miles, being Spider-Man is a sacrifice. 408 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:59,720 You have a choice between saving one person and saving every world. 409 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:00,720 Send me home. 410 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:01,720 I can't do that. 411 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:02,720 I can do both. 412 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:03,720 Spider-Man, always. 413 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:04,720 Not always. 414 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:06,200 What about Uncle Ben? 415 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:10,520 If not for Uncle Ben, most of us wouldn't be here. 416 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:16,080 You can't run forever, kid. 417 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:19,080 I can't lose one more friend. 418 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:22,080 Tell me, is it what we talked about? 419 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:23,080 You knew? 420 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:24,080 I had no idea what you're doing. 421 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:30,160 Everyone keeps telling me how my story is supposed to go. 422 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:34,920 I just want to know how many time, how many superheroes he's going to get to voice in 423 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:35,920 the MCU. 424 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:36,920 Oscar Isaac. 425 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:40,320 Oscar Isaac is, he says this is another one. 426 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:44,680 He loves playing that superhero world. 427 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:48,000 In this, we also see Mayday Parker, which is really awesome for a lot of fans. 428 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,800 She's obviously the daughter of Peter B Parker and Mary Jane. 429 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:54,720 Mayday is the Earth 982 Spider-Girl in the comics. 430 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:58,920 May first appeared in the comics in 1998's What If 105? 431 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:02,480 That's that famous Spider-Girl cover that you've probably seen a lot of people been 432 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:03,480 buying here recently. 433 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:05,160 Spider-Girl is very popular. 434 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:09,200 If you talk to a lot of people who have been in the Spider-Man comics for a long time, 435 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:13,160 they say that that Spider-Girl run, because they actually go off and spin her off. 436 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:14,160 There's another pun. 437 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:17,960 They spin her off into another comic and she's Spider-Girl for a long time. 438 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:22,020 So very excited to see her and hopefully we eventually get her aged up in this universe 439 00:20:22,020 --> 00:20:23,880 and she becomes a player at some point. 440 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:27,880 So Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse hits theaters on June 2nd, 2023. 441 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:29,720 We do not have long to wait. 442 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:31,100 Just a couple of months. 443 00:20:31,100 --> 00:20:33,820 Just a web swing away. 444 00:20:33,820 --> 00:20:34,820 Just a thwip away. 445 00:20:34,820 --> 00:20:35,820 A thwip? 446 00:20:35,820 --> 00:20:36,820 Thwip? 447 00:20:36,820 --> 00:20:39,400 I want to talk about Blue Beetle. 448 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:40,920 Talk about the next one here. 449 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:47,080 I am so friggin excited for the Blue Beetle trailer, for the movie. 450 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:54,200 So Jaime Reyes, all this, we get a lot revealed in this trailer. 451 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:57,160 Previous Blue Beetles that have existed in the timeline, you see how the Blue Beetle 452 00:20:57,160 --> 00:20:58,800 ties in the DC universe. 453 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:02,920 Blue Beetle as a superhero alias has existed since 1939. 454 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:07,640 Jaime himself being the Blue Beetle was only introduced back in 2006 as the third character 455 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:11,520 become the Blue Beetle at DC Universe or DC Comics lore. 456 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:15,460 At the beginning of the Blue Beetle trailer, Jaime mentions how everything right now feels 457 00:21:15,460 --> 00:21:17,020 so out of reach. 458 00:21:17,020 --> 00:21:23,040 This could be a regular line, but this also hints at a major Blue Beetle villain, The 459 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:24,040 Reach. 460 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:25,040 Yeah, absolutely. 461 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:26,040 It could be them. 462 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:30,080 I would be very surprised if they don't talk about The Reach at some point because they 463 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:35,640 are so intertwined with the Blue, not just Blue Beetle lore, but specifically Jaime's 464 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:36,640 lore. 465 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:40,360 A lot of his recent runs have dealt with specifically The Reach. 466 00:21:40,360 --> 00:21:45,120 And so they even say in the trailer that the Blue Beetle, I guess they call it the scarab. 467 00:21:45,120 --> 00:21:49,320 Yeah, the scarab is where he gets his powers from that. 468 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:52,760 So what I love about this, I mean, I'll go more into the trailer, but what I love about 469 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:53,760 this- 470 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:54,760 Is it the Buster Sword? 471 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:56,080 No, no, I do love that. 472 00:21:56,080 --> 00:22:00,880 So one of my favorite animes and like manga and anime has always been The Guyver, which 473 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:05,360 is if you've ever seen The Guyver, The Guyver is a very similar story. 474 00:22:05,360 --> 00:22:10,320 It's about a kid whose dad was actually a, who worked at a company called the Cronus 475 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:15,840 Corporation and they are actually a secret, like a secret organization made up of aliens 476 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:20,340 that are looking for these weapons called the Guyver units. 477 00:22:20,340 --> 00:22:25,840 And very much like this, they attach to a host and allow them to basically call out 478 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:29,120 this suit of bio armor. 479 00:22:29,120 --> 00:22:30,600 It sounds exactly like Blue Beetle. 480 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:31,600 Exactly, exactly. 481 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:32,600 And I love it. 482 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:33,600 Verbatim Ver-Beetle. 483 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:37,960 So it's, you know, obviously, you know, they had to come from somewhere. 484 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:40,760 Anyways, so The Reach are Galactic Conquerors. 485 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:46,960 They actually mentioned in the trailer that the scarab is a world destroying weapon. 486 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:50,760 So obviously that lines up with what The Reach wants to do. 487 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:54,440 They're Galactic Conquerors that use highly advanced technology to invade and take over 488 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:59,120 planets just like any good invading species. 489 00:22:59,120 --> 00:23:02,320 So it's The Reach who created the scarabs and sent them to multiple planets. 490 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:03,960 Oh my God, sounds familiar. 491 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:04,960 Okay. 492 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:05,960 Right. 493 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:07,680 I would be surprised if they're not in this movie. 494 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:12,720 We will get some hint towards like, they're the ones who sent, you know, Jaime's scarab 495 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:13,960 to Earth at some point. 496 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,780 Because again, you'll talk about it here in just a moment, but other Blue Beetles have 497 00:23:16,780 --> 00:23:18,960 existed but they haven't had scarabs. 498 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:24,280 So The Reach is the one who sent this particular scarab to Earth for Jaime to find and eventually 499 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:26,000 use as his Blue Beetle suit. 500 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:31,400 So another Easter egg reference we see in the Blue Beetle is Ted, to Ted Kord, excuse 501 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:33,820 me, is the Blue Beetle bug ship. 502 00:23:33,820 --> 00:23:35,140 That was his superhero vehicle. 503 00:23:35,140 --> 00:23:40,520 The fact that the Blue Beetle bug ship exists confirms that Ted Kord operated as a superhero 504 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:42,580 at some point in this timeline. 505 00:23:42,580 --> 00:23:43,840 How long we don't know. 506 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:48,420 The fact that the Blue Beetle ship looks a lot like the Watchmen's Owl ship is no coincidence 507 00:23:48,420 --> 00:23:53,320 as Night Owl took inspiration from several DC characters, including Blue Beetle. 508 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:56,560 Yeah, he's one of the old Charleston characters from back in the day. 509 00:23:56,560 --> 00:24:00,540 Every single one of those Watchmen characters are based off one of the Charleston characters 510 00:24:00,540 --> 00:24:01,540 from the 60s. 511 00:24:01,540 --> 00:24:04,900 You know, you've got Question, who was, or you've got, excuse me, Rorschach, who's based 512 00:24:04,900 --> 00:24:05,900 off Question. 513 00:24:05,900 --> 00:24:08,240 You've got Night Owl, who's based off Blue Beetle. 514 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:12,000 Like there are all these different characters that DC purchased from Charleston when they 515 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,440 essentially bought all of Charleston. 516 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:17,360 Instead of Alan Moore creating a story about all these Charleston characters, Alan Moore 517 00:24:17,360 --> 00:24:23,640 just created a makeshift team that looked almost exactly like these characters from 518 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:24,640 back then. 519 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:29,760 So another awesome Easter egg on the ship, on that blue ship, we see a suit. 520 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:34,920 Okay, it's the very first Blue Beetle known as Dan Garrett, who appeared in Fox Comics's 521 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:37,280 Mystery Men comics back in 1939. 522 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:41,680 The first Blue Beetle would be brought into DC Comics lore decades later in 86, Secret 523 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:45,560 Origins Volume 2, except that was based on the Charlton Comics version of the character. 524 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:50,320 In the current DC Comics canon, Dan Garrett was the first Blue Beetle having encountered 525 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:52,580 the Scarab during an expedition. 526 00:24:52,580 --> 00:24:57,360 So you talked about the Buster Sword, which there's that scene where he like, you know, 527 00:24:57,360 --> 00:24:59,280 anything you can imagine, I can create. 528 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:03,720 And then he puts two swords together and he does like this cool almost fanfare twirl with 529 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:04,720 it. 530 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,680 Like, yeah, it's like nice choice. 531 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:13,480 And I love, I love, so almost immediately I got like video game vibes from that. 532 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:18,800 And like, so like if they do, which they probably will do a Blue Beetle like video game, it'll 533 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:20,840 be cool to have like that voice in the background. 534 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:24,520 Like when you do like a cool combo, you know, like you ever have those action games where 535 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:27,120 like you do a combo and it's like 372 hits. 536 00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:28,120 Awesome. 537 00:25:28,120 --> 00:25:29,120 Yeah. 538 00:25:29,120 --> 00:25:30,200 You know, it'll be like, yeah, something like that. 539 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:33,720 So Blue Beetle hits theaters August 18th, 2023. 540 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:35,040 I'm super pumped for it. 541 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,640 I've been waiting for this for a while. 542 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:38,960 I happen to really like the Blue Beetle. 543 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:43,360 I know you do, Chris, as well, but you like more of the historical version of- 544 00:25:43,360 --> 00:25:48,640 I like Ted Kord more, mostly because of the adventures of Blue and Gold, which is Booster 545 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:51,880 Gold who we've already been confirmed to eventually get in this universe. 546 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:53,800 But it's not Jaime Reyes' version. 547 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:54,800 It's Ted Kord. 548 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:58,920 Ted Kord and Booster Gold are such a fun, they're like, they're like the BFFs of the 549 00:25:58,920 --> 00:25:59,920 DC universe. 550 00:25:59,920 --> 00:26:04,160 Like they are only Batman and Superman wish they were as cool as Blue and Gold. 551 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:08,120 Maybe, maybe we'll see some kind of, because Booster Gold can time travel. 552 00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:11,720 Maybe we'll see a version where he went back and picked out, you know, he got picked up 553 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,160 as best friend out of the timeline, you know, and then- 554 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:18,240 Or maybe Booster Gold just takes place in the time back when Ted Kord was the Blue Beetle, 555 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:22,000 because we don't only just see Dan Garrett's Blue Beetle costume, but we also see Ted Kord's, 556 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,160 which means we're going to meet Ted Kord in this movie. 557 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:25,160 Yes. 558 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:28,000 Because you know, that vehicle that eventually we see the family on and it's like flying 559 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,120 over the city, that's not Jaime's. 560 00:26:30,120 --> 00:26:31,520 That's not something that came with the Scarab. 561 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:32,960 That's Ted Kord's for sure. 562 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:35,360 So there's a lot of technology that they're using. 563 00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:36,360 Yeah. 564 00:26:36,360 --> 00:26:37,360 Yep. 565 00:26:37,360 --> 00:26:38,360 I'm excited. 566 00:26:38,360 --> 00:26:40,160 I will say I'm tempering my expectations. 567 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:44,000 I know you're very excited for this movie and I'm really happy for you, but I refuse to 568 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,480 get overly excited about anything that DC does from now on. 569 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:49,480 I just refuse because they've let me down too many times recently. 570 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:51,680 They've been off more than they've been on. 571 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:52,960 And I'm just going to wait because- 572 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:53,960 Fool me once. 573 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:54,960 Yeah, exactly. 574 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:58,920 Like, and everyone knows I love these characters and I love this universe so much. 575 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:02,360 You know, I said it many a times here on the show, put a gun to my head and told me to 576 00:27:02,360 --> 00:27:04,480 pick Marvel or DC. 577 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:08,800 It would be tough, but I would probably say 51% of me is DC, 49% is Marvel. 578 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:12,080 Like I just really do love the DC universe so much. 579 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:15,720 So I want them to succeed, but I just and I love the Buster Sword. 580 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:16,720 I remember that's the one. 581 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:17,720 That's what I keep talking about. 582 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,020 I'm like that scene looks really cool, but there have been many times we're in these 583 00:27:21,020 --> 00:27:27,360 movies and these DC, you know, universe movies where it's all all flare, no substance, you 584 00:27:27,360 --> 00:27:29,900 know, and I'm just really worried that this is just going to be in because there are parts 585 00:27:29,900 --> 00:27:31,840 of Black Adam that look really cool. 586 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:35,920 There are parts of Batman V Superman that look really cool, but I just refuse to get 587 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,280 excited because those movies have burned me. 588 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:44,360 Sometimes it does what you want and sometimes it doesn't. 589 00:27:44,360 --> 00:27:48,080 I think I cut a bus in half. 590 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:52,640 This character chose you, but it belongs to me. 591 00:27:52,640 --> 00:28:05,400 That load of fuel for your family makes you weak. 592 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,720 The universe has sent you a gift and you have to figure out what you're going to do with 593 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:09,720 it. 594 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:23,000 Whatever you can imagine, I can create. 595 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:32,320 Nice choice. 596 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:34,880 Let's move on to a movie that there's absolutely zero chance. 597 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,320 Oh boy, will be will be terrible. 598 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:38,880 This is going to be an incredible movie, everybody. 599 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:40,280 I will call it right now. 600 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:45,040 I will stake my reputation that Barbie is going to be fucking awesome. 601 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:50,320 It's going to be another five David A. Weiner's that it might be another five David A. Weiner's, 602 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,560 honestly, because this movie looks like so much freaking fun. 603 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,760 And what's really interesting about Barbie, this is the first full trailer that we've 604 00:28:56,760 --> 00:29:04,160 gotten is that this actually opens the same weekend as Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer. 605 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:08,200 Even that double feature, going to the movie theater and having to choose between Barbie 606 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,480 and Oppenheimer or the or the nuclear bomb. 607 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:11,920 Something's going to bomb that weekend. 608 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:13,360 Yeah, something will bomb. 609 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:18,560 And if you if you ask me, if you if you said which one will bomb, I don't think it's Barbie. 610 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:22,720 I honestly don't like if I had to pick between those two, I think for sure it's Oppenheimer. 611 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:24,000 I'm going to call this right now. 612 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,640 They're going to move Oppenheimer's release date. 613 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:27,640 I would not. 614 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:30,600 Not just a week to just like one week just so they don't have to compete with Barbie. 615 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:35,160 I bet you that I think that's very, very smart of them if they end up doing that. 616 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:36,800 So Barbie Barbie is the ride. 617 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:37,800 Sure, can't hop in. 618 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:42,680 You ever read the lyrics to Barbie by Aqua? 619 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:43,680 I don't have to. 620 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:45,040 I know them all by heart. 621 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:47,280 And it's jacked up, honestly, like it is. 622 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:48,280 It's pretty messed up. 623 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:51,200 Don't kids at home do not go and read those. 624 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:55,080 Barbie is the upcoming movie starring Margot Robbie as the titular character and Ryan Gosling 625 00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:56,080 as Ken. 626 00:29:56,080 --> 00:30:00,160 This has been directed and written by Greta Gerwig alongside Noah, Noah Bombach. 627 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:04,320 And the plot will follow the life of the perfect doll in a perfect world until some internal 628 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:07,040 conflict leaves her beliefs and shambles. 629 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:10,120 So she sets off to find answers in the human world. 630 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,880 So Greta Gerwig, she's done a couple of H-24 movies. 631 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:14,280 She did Little Women. 632 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:15,760 She's awesome bird lady. 633 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:16,760 Yeah, ladybird. 634 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:17,760 Yep. 635 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:18,880 Noah Bombach is also super awesome. 636 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:24,520 He did Marriage Story with Scarlett Johansson and what's his name? 637 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:25,520 Kylo Ren. 638 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:26,520 Kylo Ren. 639 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:27,520 Yeah. 640 00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:28,520 Why am I forgetting? 641 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:29,520 Adam Driver's. 642 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,040 Yeah, we found it. 643 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:36,880 The large ensemble supporting cast includes Emma Mackie, Dua Lipa, Kate McKinnon, Simu 644 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:43,320 Liu, Shruti Ghatwa, Michael Cera, Will Ferrell, John Cena and much more. 645 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:47,640 In a perfect plastic world of Barbies and Kins, Robbie must emerge as the one who questions 646 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:51,120 the world around her and actually works to change it. 647 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,800 The trailer highlights its stellar cast and hilarious bits. 648 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:58,280 This movie is going to be one of those like ha ha laughing clown, like, yeah, this is 649 00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:03,360 funny but also please, please understand the underlying subtext that I'm trying to show 650 00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:04,360 you. 651 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:09,920 Idiot America, get off your phone, stop buying so much makeup, stop being so critical of 652 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:11,480 yourself and your image. 653 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:13,680 It's going to have all those subtext, I'm sure. 654 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:14,680 Very excited about it. 655 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:17,000 Greta Gerwig just is incapable of making a bad movie. 656 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:18,000 I am excited. 657 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,400 Yes, just like you were talking about by the layers of what this is going to offer because 658 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:28,480 there's going to be not only layers of social commentary but there's going to be layers 659 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:29,480 of humor as well. 660 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:33,320 Like just even in the trailer, there's like this, like, you know, if I wasn't so injured 661 00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:39,080 right now, I'd beat you off, you know, and it's like, you beat me off, I beat you off. 662 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:40,080 It's like I beat you off. 663 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:41,080 I beat you off so hard. 664 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:42,080 Yeah, beat you off so hard right now. 665 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:45,680 I'll beat you both up at the same time. 666 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:49,000 But yeah, Simu Liu looks like he's going to be the bad guy in this. 667 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:50,120 It looks like the bad Ken. 668 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:51,840 He kind of does playing against character. 669 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:52,840 I like that too. 670 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:56,240 That's really cool because you know, I love Simu Liu and I love him as of Shang-Chi, of 671 00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:59,360 course, but I'm excited to see him in this movie and everybody looks great. 672 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:02,480 Ryan Gosling, Marco Robby, just perfect all around him. 673 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:04,720 I'm unironically very excited for this movie. 674 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:10,640 So Barbie and like I said, Oppenheimer both released on July 21st, 2023. 675 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:12,800 So which one's going to bomb? 676 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:13,800 Which one's going to bomb? 677 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,800 I think it's the one about bombs, probably. 678 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:23,800 Can't say bomb on point, bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb. 679 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:38,800 Okay, ladies, let's do this. 680 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:44,680 What are you doing here? 681 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,480 I'm coming with you. 682 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:49,720 Did you bring your rollerblades? 683 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:51,400 I literally go nowhere without them. 684 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:57,280 Oh, looks like this beach is a little too much beach for you, Ken. 685 00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:00,720 If I wasn't severely injured, I would beat you off right now, Ken. 686 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:02,560 I'll beach off with you any day, Ken. 687 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:04,680 Anyone who wants to beat him off has to beat me off first. 688 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:06,800 I will beat both of you off at the same time. 689 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:07,800 Beat both of us off? 690 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:08,800 I will beat you. 691 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:10,260 Nobody's going to beat anyone off. 692 00:33:10,260 --> 00:33:13,320 This is lined up perfectly for all the ones that you want to talk about. 693 00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:14,320 It does. 694 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:15,320 It does. 695 00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:20,480 My girl, Rosario Dawson, she's coming out with another hit, another hit. 696 00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:23,600 Disney has unleashed the first trailer for Lucas. 697 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:24,800 Another one. 698 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:25,800 Another one, dare I? 699 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:26,800 Okay. 700 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,680 Lucasfilm's upcoming live action series, Star Wars, Ahsoka. 701 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,080 The trailer premiered at Star Wars Celebration on April 7th. 702 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:35,360 They got a lot of good trailers at Celebration, which- 703 00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:36,360 A lot of cool stuff premiered. 704 00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:37,360 Yeah. 705 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:38,360 Super jealous. 706 00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:41,040 A lot of new shows, everything, but Ahsoka is definitely one of the ones. 707 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:42,040 They have acolytes. 708 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,360 They have a skeleton crew, but Ahsoka is definitely the one that stood out for me. 709 00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:48,560 They announced all the different directors for all the new live action movies that are 710 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:49,560 coming out. 711 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:50,560 Oh, yeah. 712 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,040 Daisy Ridley's coming back for a new Rey. 713 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:58,280 Anyways, so the show, Ahsoka, the synopsis says, after the fall of the empire, the story 714 00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:02,440 follows the former Jedi Knight, but I thought she wasn't exactly a Jedi yet. 715 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:03,440 I think they're going to tackle that. 716 00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:04,440 Probably. 717 00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:06,640 They're going to tackle that in this series and talk about how she was and then she wasn't. 718 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:08,240 Does she still want to be and all of- 719 00:34:08,240 --> 00:34:09,240 Is she? 720 00:34:09,240 --> 00:34:10,240 Isn't she? 721 00:34:10,240 --> 00:34:11,240 Where are we now? 722 00:34:11,240 --> 00:34:12,240 I told you. 723 00:34:12,240 --> 00:34:13,240 You know that old bit. 724 00:34:13,240 --> 00:34:14,240 The old Jedi Knight. 725 00:34:14,240 --> 00:34:21,200 Ahsoka Tano, Rosaria Dawson, as she investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy. 726 00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:26,040 We actually know that she's going to be up against Admiral Thrawn, Grand Amble Thrawn. 727 00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:31,520 So Ahsoka and Sabine, Natasha Liu, Bordizo are on the hunt for Grand Admiral Thrawn in 728 00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:36,960 hopes that it will lead them to find the lost Ezra Bridger, the young Jedi who disappeared 729 00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,760 with Thrawn, Lars Mikkelsen, many years ago. 730 00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:43,920 So the series directly follows up several threads from the animated series Star Wars 731 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:47,880 Rebels, which again, I'm still trying to get into, but I had a good conversation with it 732 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:51,880 with some people at Megacon, so I'm excited to get back into that. 733 00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:56,360 Trailer also confirms that Mary Elizabeth Winstead is playing Hera Syndulla and the 734 00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:58,120 droid Chopper is also back. 735 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:01,920 We even get our- I think that's going to be David Tennant, I believe. 736 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:02,920 Oh, that'd be cool. 737 00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:04,200 That'd be really awesome. 738 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:07,840 We even got our first glimpse at Grand Amble Thrawn and the trailer teases the whole heir 739 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:13,160 to the Empire thing, which was an overt nod to Timothy Zand's iconic Extended Universe 740 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:14,840 novels. 741 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:19,000 That's the novels that- if you ask anyone, anybody who's read all the Star Wars novels, 742 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,000 they're like, okay, say I want to get into the Extending Universe, say I want to read 743 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,720 some of the old Star Wars novels, what should I read? 744 00:35:24,720 --> 00:35:28,520 Heir to the Empire is everyone's first choice because they say that Thrawn stuff is some 745 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:34,000 of the best, not only in the live action, just across all different medias of Star Wars, 746 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:38,360 Heir to the Empire is one of the highest revered of the Star Wars universe. 747 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:41,680 Might have to check that out then. 748 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:48,040 The series is also going to star Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker, Imane Isfandi as Ezra 749 00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:55,280 and Rey Stevenson and Ivana Sokno, who will be the Dark Side master and apprentice, Balaon 750 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,240 and Shin Hati. 751 00:35:57,240 --> 00:36:01,600 The limited series is written by Dave Filoni, who executive produces along with Jon Favreau 752 00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:03,240 and Kathleen Kennedy. 753 00:36:03,240 --> 00:36:06,080 Probably the dream team of another show. 754 00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:12,000 And I want to throw this out there, the trailer looks cinematic. 755 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:13,000 It looks gorgeous. 756 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:18,480 Like, again, this is one of those things where when you have an unlimited amount of money 757 00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:23,680 to support a universe, even your television shows are going to look like they came straight 758 00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:24,680 from the theater. 759 00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:25,680 Like this- 760 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:27,600 We're in the golden age of TV right now, Aaron. 761 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,800 They're putting millions and millions of dollars into these series and it shows. 762 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:32,800 It looks so good, doesn't it? 763 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:33,800 It does. 764 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:34,800 Yeah, it does. 765 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:35,800 It looks awesome. 766 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,800 So Ahsoka will debut exclusively on Disney Plus, so make sure you get your subscriptions 767 00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:42,520 in August 2023. 768 00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:43,520 Looks good. 769 00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:44,520 Excited about that. 770 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:46,000 Mandalorian has been really good thus far. 771 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,360 I'm excited to eventually cover it here on the show. 772 00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:50,140 That's season three of Mandalorian. 773 00:36:50,140 --> 00:36:52,160 And we haven't seen Ahsoka in this series. 774 00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:55,600 I don't anticipate we will, but excited to see her again in this series and get into 775 00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:57,200 out, you know, Gran Admiral Thrawn. 776 00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:00,000 Again, he's one of the more interesting characters from the extended universe that we haven't 777 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,680 touched on yet in this, you know, in canon, and they're just going to keep doing that. 778 00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,760 They're going to keep cherry picking really awesome parts of the extended universe and 779 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:08,160 bringing it into live action. 780 00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:10,160 And very excited about that. 781 00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:13,160 It's been a while. 782 00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:16,160 Things have changed. 783 00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:20,160 I started hearing whispers. 784 00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:23,160 About Thrawn's return. 785 00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:26,160 As heir to the Empire. 786 00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:33,160 We have to prepare for the worst. 787 00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:46,160 The Jedi fell a long time ago. 788 00:37:46,160 --> 00:38:00,160 There aren't many left. 789 00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:15,040 Perhaps it is time to begin again. 790 00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:19,280 Destiny has released a brand new trailer for Lucasfilm's Indiana Jones and the Dial of 791 00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:20,280 Destiny. 792 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:25,400 This is the final chapter and is set in 1969 during the space race with Harrison Ford back 793 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:29,360 as Indiana Jones as he's pulled into another great adventure, which involves Voller, a 794 00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:33,600 NASA member and ex-Nazi involved with the moon landing program who wants to rectify 795 00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:37,120 the world and make it into a better place as he sees fit. 796 00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:40,920 He's looking to correct the mistakes that Hitler made when he was in power with the 797 00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:42,880 Dial of Destiny artifact. 798 00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:47,600 This film comes from producer Steven Spielberg and also stars Mads Mikkelsen, Phoebe Waller 799 00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:54,440 Bridge, Boyd Holbrook, Shanti Renee Wilson and Thomas Krutchman and Indiana Jones and 800 00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:57,720 the Dial of Destiny will open in theaters on June 30th, 2023. 801 00:38:57,720 --> 00:39:01,720 Aaron, I really wanted to gauge your excitement here with this brand new installment in the 802 00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:05,760 Indiana Jones, which they're saying again is the final chapter. 803 00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:07,360 Are you excited about this? 804 00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:10,840 We haven't really talked about it a ton here on the show and my love for Indiana Jones 805 00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:12,440 is very passive. 806 00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:18,120 My opinion is I'm excited to see this, but I'm not like truly, truly emotionally invested 807 00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:19,120 in this franchise. 808 00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:20,120 What are your thoughts? 809 00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:21,280 I'm pretty pumped about it. 810 00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:26,440 I was really disappointed with Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, although I did enjoy watching 811 00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:27,440 it. 812 00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,080 I've been I've been watching Indiana Jones movies since I was a kid, so it's always been 813 00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,560 like a staple in my household. 814 00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:35,200 And I honestly don't see this as being the last one. 815 00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:40,680 I think if anything, they might hand the reins, they might hand the hat and the whip off to 816 00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:45,280 Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who I believe is his goddaughter. 817 00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:46,640 And I'm pretty excited about it. 818 00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:50,160 So what I've been told about this movie is that they're supposed to be potentially even 819 00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:51,160 some time traveling. 820 00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:52,160 Hmm. 821 00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:53,160 Interesting. 822 00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:54,160 We do see some younger Harrison Ford in this. 823 00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:55,160 Yes. 824 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:56,160 You know, in these trailers. 825 00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:57,360 So we will see how that plays out. 826 00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:03,000 But I am I feel like they might have learned a lot of lessons with Kingdom of the Crystal 827 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:04,000 Skull. 828 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:09,920 And I think this is going to be an opportunity for them to really like reinvigorate some 829 00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:15,120 of the fans and like just, you know, bring back the idea of what Indiana Jones was. 830 00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:16,280 So I'm pretty excited. 831 00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:19,600 You can obviously tell obviously tell that Harrison Ford is getting older, so he's not 832 00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:25,960 going to be whipping around, whipping around, whipping, whip smack as much as he has been. 833 00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:30,240 But I think that they're going to do I think they're going to try and do as much like credit 834 00:40:30,240 --> 00:40:34,720 to what Indiana Jones franchise has been for a long time. 835 00:40:34,720 --> 00:40:38,280 We see a lot of friendly faces or like familiar faces again. 836 00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:40,840 I'm just I am pumped for it. 837 00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:41,840 I know I'm not. 838 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:47,800 I think I am cautiously optimistic about it because it's obviously not the same like level 839 00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:49,120 because they are older. 840 00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:52,800 It's like watching, you know, it's like watching Red when you wanted to watch James Bond. 841 00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:59,400 If you watch Red and it had, you know, Morgan Freeman, it had Bruce Willis and it had like 842 00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:01,320 all the like, you know, all those guys in it. 843 00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:04,400 It was like an older spy movie, but it was still good. 844 00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:05,400 It was still good. 845 00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,200 So I am excited for this. 846 00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,800 Well, and it's also being directed by James Mangold, who is awesome. 847 00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:11,240 He's the director of Logan. 848 00:41:11,240 --> 00:41:13,640 He's he did Ford versus Ferrari. 849 00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:16,200 So he's done a lot of good stuff and he'll be doing the Swamp Thing movie and he'll be 850 00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:20,120 doing like we were just saying a moment ago at Star Wars Celebration, he was announced 851 00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:22,340 as one of the directors of one of the new live action movies. 852 00:41:22,340 --> 00:41:27,280 So clearly Lucas Films is very, very excited with what this dial of destiny already looks 853 00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:30,800 like and enough to at least invest in him with Star Wars. 854 00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:33,760 So very excited, very excited to see what this is. 855 00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:34,760 So called capitalism. 856 00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:40,560 Fashion your seatbelt. 857 00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:47,040 There might be some turbulence. 858 00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:50,040 You've taken your chances, made your mistakes. 859 00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:53,880 And now a final triumph. 860 00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:54,880 Indiana. 861 00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:55,880 Indiana Jones. 862 00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:58,880 A few times in my life, I've seen things. 863 00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:05,160 I've been tortured with voodoo. 864 00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:09,680 Shot nine times. 865 00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:13,480 Including once by your father. 866 00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:15,480 Sorry. 867 00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:31,760 But I've been looking for this all my life. 868 00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:33,480 That'll do it for our News and Notes this week. 869 00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:37,200 Thanks once again to Whatnot for sponsoring our News and Notes segment. 870 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:38,200 That's right. 871 00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:40,360 Let's go ahead and get into our main topic, which is of course talking about the Super 872 00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:41,360 Mario Bros movie. 873 00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:43,600 I'm very excited to hear Aaron's thoughts on this. 874 00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:47,600 But before we get to that, let's go and take a short break and we will be right back. 875 00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:52,480 Hey, this is Chris and Lance asking you to check out our podcast, Comic Book Keepers. 876 00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:56,440 Each episode features one hero, villain, team or series. 877 00:42:56,440 --> 00:43:00,280 Learn history behind a wide variety of comic book characters and creators. 878 00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:02,560 Get recommendations on 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a beta version of their new media board, which allows you 901 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:24,840 to upload your own themes and transitions and include them in your recording on a separate 902 00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:25,840 track. 903 00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:30,400 So check them out at Riverside.fm and change the way you record your podcast. 904 00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:46,240 Visit riverside.fm and tell them the Oblivion Bar sent you. 905 00:44:46,240 --> 00:44:49,640 For episode 114 of the Oblivion Bar podcast, we're going to be talking about the Super 906 00:44:49,640 --> 00:45:17,160 Mario Bros. 907 00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:31,840 The 908 00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:33,260 Just like you. 909 00:45:35,020 --> 00:45:37,100 Do you think I know every human being with a mustache 910 00:45:37,180 --> 00:45:40,640 wearing an identical outfit with a hat with a letter of his first name on it? 911 00:45:40,720 --> 00:45:41,980 Ha-ha-ha! 912 00:45:42,060 --> 00:45:42,940 Because I don't! 913 00:45:45,720 --> 00:45:47,060 Bowser is coming. 914 00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:49,860 Together, we... 915 00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:53,740 are going to stop that monster. 916 00:45:53,820 --> 00:45:57,120 Hal, look at us. We're adorable! 917 00:45:57,120 --> 00:46:01,280 Oh, I got this. No problem. 918 00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:02,780 Whoa! 919 00:46:02,860 --> 00:46:03,860 Yes! 920 00:46:05,460 --> 00:46:08,500 Come on, Mario! Our big adventure begins now! 921 00:46:08,580 --> 00:46:10,500 Get it off! Get it off! Get it off! 922 00:46:10,580 --> 00:46:11,580 Whoo! 923 00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:17,880 There's a huge universe out there... 924 00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:18,960 Whoa! 925 00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:21,140 ...of a lot of galaxies. 926 00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:25,640 They're all counting on us. 927 00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:27,100 Mario! 928 00:46:31,180 --> 00:46:32,180 No pressure. 929 00:46:39,060 --> 00:46:40,980 Ha-ha-ha-ha! 930 00:46:44,240 --> 00:46:45,240 Wahoo! 931 00:46:45,240 --> 00:46:47,240 The Super Mario Bros. 932 00:46:55,240 --> 00:46:57,900 Alrighty, everybody, we are here to talk about Super Mario Bros. 933 00:46:57,980 --> 00:47:01,400 Spoilers ahead, if you have not seen this movie yet, please go see it. 934 00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:03,200 Go to your nearest theater and find this. 935 00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:05,400 It's showing in over 4,000 theaters across the U.S. 936 00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:08,280 So you're not going to have any trouble finding it, but please... 937 00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:09,780 Peaches, peaches, peaches, peaches. 938 00:47:09,860 --> 00:47:11,660 Peaches, peaches, peaches, peaches, peaches. 939 00:47:11,740 --> 00:47:13,400 Ha-ha-ha-ha! 940 00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:14,900 Yeah, but spoilers ahead. 941 00:47:14,980 --> 00:47:17,740 So, Aaron, we have not talked about this movie at all. 942 00:47:17,820 --> 00:47:19,820 Not in private, not before the recording. 943 00:47:19,900 --> 00:47:20,900 No. 944 00:47:20,980 --> 00:47:22,240 I've been waiting to hear your thoughts. 945 00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:25,900 And please, for the love of God, release your thoughts on me. 946 00:47:25,980 --> 00:47:28,240 What did you think of Super Mario Bros. movie? 947 00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:33,860 Like a broken, busted pipe, a broke, a destroyed water main, 948 00:47:33,940 --> 00:47:37,120 I shall unleash my thoughts of Super Mario Bros. 949 00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:38,200 Waka-waka-waka! 950 00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:40,280 Ha-ha-ha-ha! 951 00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:41,280 Um... 952 00:47:42,940 --> 00:47:43,940 It was fun. 953 00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:45,440 Ha-ha-ha! 954 00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:47,240 You guys notice that every time Aaron is like, 955 00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:50,240 okay with a movie, he's starting to use my terminology now? 956 00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:51,940 It's either fun or fine. 957 00:47:52,020 --> 00:47:54,320 And see, when I say it's fun, I actually think it's fun. 958 00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:57,240 But when Aaron says it's fun, he means that he kind of liked it. 959 00:47:57,320 --> 00:48:00,240 It was, it was, it was really, it was fun. 960 00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:01,320 It was, it was fun. 961 00:48:01,900 --> 00:48:03,400 It wasn't great. 962 00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:04,480 It was fun. 963 00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:05,560 All right, fair enough. 964 00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:06,900 I had a lot of fun with it. 965 00:48:06,980 --> 00:48:09,320 I think that if I was to categorize it 966 00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:12,120 in the way that we speak in our grading system, 967 00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:13,320 I would say that it's fun. 968 00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:15,700 I'd say that it's fun also, but from my end, 969 00:48:15,780 --> 00:48:17,160 like the way that I say that things are fun, 970 00:48:17,240 --> 00:48:19,660 which is that I had a lot of fun with this movie. 971 00:48:19,740 --> 00:48:21,740 I think it is exactly, I said this on Twitter, 972 00:48:21,820 --> 00:48:24,860 but this is exactly the movie that I would have wanted as a kid. 973 00:48:24,940 --> 00:48:28,440 Like if I, we are not the target audience for Super Mario Bros. 974 00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:30,860 This movie was not made for us, right? 975 00:48:30,940 --> 00:48:32,200 Like it's for kids. 976 00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:35,160 If I was a 10-year-old, this movie would be my favorite movie. 977 00:48:35,240 --> 00:48:38,120 Like it is, it's exactly what I want as an, 978 00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:40,700 you know, out of an adaptation of a Super Mario Bros. movie. 979 00:48:40,780 --> 00:48:42,280 So you're better than Sonic. 980 00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:43,660 I think it's better than Sonic. 981 00:48:43,740 --> 00:48:44,580 Yes, absolutely. 982 00:48:44,660 --> 00:48:46,120 Do you think it's better than Sonic? 983 00:48:47,240 --> 00:48:48,000 I would say it's... 984 00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:48,580 Is it close? 985 00:48:48,660 --> 00:48:49,420 It's close. 986 00:48:49,500 --> 00:48:50,200 It's close. 987 00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:51,280 They were both... 988 00:48:52,460 --> 00:48:53,460 I'll just get it, fuck it. 989 00:48:53,540 --> 00:48:54,540 I'll get into it, okay? 990 00:48:54,620 --> 00:48:55,620 Just get into it. 991 00:48:55,700 --> 00:48:56,700 Just get into it, okay? 992 00:48:57,080 --> 00:48:59,160 I really enjoyed it. 993 00:48:59,240 --> 00:49:01,500 I think that I wanted to enjoy it more, 994 00:49:01,580 --> 00:49:04,200 but I think I was looking for certain things 995 00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:06,920 that I think would have made it like... 996 00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:10,880 I'm so used to, especially Illumination, 997 00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:12,460 they're the ones that made this movie. 998 00:49:12,540 --> 00:49:16,220 I'm so used to their humor being like a little bit more 999 00:49:16,300 --> 00:49:18,500 like multi-level, like multi-dimensional, 1000 00:49:18,580 --> 00:49:20,620 like some adult humor mixed in. 1001 00:49:20,700 --> 00:49:22,120 And I feel like they... 1002 00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:22,960 Got layers. 1003 00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:28,040 Yeah, I feel like maybe at the request of Nintendo 1004 00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:30,920 to not like make it too layered, 1005 00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:32,500 they might have limited, 1006 00:49:32,580 --> 00:49:34,620 they might have dimmed that down a little bit 1007 00:49:34,620 --> 00:49:37,120 because I feel like there were some real opportunities 1008 00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:39,540 in this movie to make it great. 1009 00:49:39,620 --> 00:49:43,120 And I think that those might have been slept on a little bit. 1010 00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:44,380 Okay, fair enough. 1011 00:49:44,460 --> 00:49:46,040 And you know what's weird about that is that, 1012 00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:47,840 again, this movie is very much for kids 1013 00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:50,920 and has the sensibility of a kid's movie. 1014 00:49:51,660 --> 00:49:54,460 A lot of the musical choices outside of the score 1015 00:49:54,540 --> 00:49:57,700 is of the 80s, of your generation. 1016 00:49:57,800 --> 00:49:59,620 You've got like, aha in there. 1017 00:49:59,700 --> 00:50:02,160 Well, it is, it's of the 90s. 1018 00:50:02,240 --> 00:50:03,920 It's our, I guess you could say our generation. 1019 00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:04,920 I'm from 91. 1020 00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:06,420 So like, it's still very much... 1021 00:50:06,500 --> 00:50:07,420 You're right. 1022 00:50:07,500 --> 00:50:09,080 The music and it's like there's... 1023 00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:12,340 But that again, and that's why I would say as well, 1024 00:50:12,420 --> 00:50:19,700 even the actors, a lot of these actors are from like other titles 1025 00:50:19,780 --> 00:50:23,080 that are more like have that more of that layered humor. 1026 00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:26,160 Something like a lot of Jack Black, Chris Pratt, 1027 00:50:26,240 --> 00:50:29,780 Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Rogen, all of these guys, 1028 00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:31,420 Sebastian Maniscalco. 1029 00:50:31,420 --> 00:50:34,120 Like all of these guys are from like humor. 1030 00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:35,580 That some of it's good for kids, 1031 00:50:35,660 --> 00:50:37,340 but some of it could have been used for adults. 1032 00:50:37,420 --> 00:50:39,160 And I think that that would have been, 1033 00:50:39,240 --> 00:50:42,080 this would have been a prime opportunity to bring two generations 1034 00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:44,580 or multiple multi-generational gaps 1035 00:50:44,660 --> 00:50:46,960 of Mario and Nintendo lovers together. 1036 00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:47,960 I just feel like that. 1037 00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:50,040 I think that's what that's probably what it is for me. 1038 00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:54,800 Is there was some just that lack of bridging those gaps 1039 00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:56,620 was a missed opportunity. 1040 00:50:56,700 --> 00:50:57,840 So you feel like it was close. 1041 00:50:57,920 --> 00:50:59,080 It was close to being great. 1042 00:50:59,160 --> 00:50:59,920 Yes. 1043 00:50:59,920 --> 00:51:01,380 It just didn't quite meet the mark. 1044 00:51:01,460 --> 00:51:03,380 It's like just some small things that they could add. 1045 00:51:03,460 --> 00:51:05,840 I'll give you one example, just right off the top. 1046 00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:08,380 Again, spoilers, but there is this scene 1047 00:51:08,460 --> 00:51:14,220 where all the Donkey Kong army and Mario and Toad and Princess 1048 00:51:14,300 --> 00:51:15,960 are driving the Rainbow Bridge 1049 00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:20,460 and they basically get attacked by the Koopa army. 1050 00:51:20,540 --> 00:51:24,080 It very much reminded me of Mad Max Fury Road. 1051 00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:25,660 Yeah, I think that was very deliberate. 1052 00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:27,960 What would have been great, what would have set this team, 1053 00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:31,080 this scene over the top was they had a rock band. 1054 00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:35,080 Why not put that rocking turtle on like a bigger thing 1055 00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:38,000 like he was driving to the desert playing the rock band? 1056 00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:39,000 Playing the rock band. 1057 00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:40,800 Playing like a turtle guitar? 1058 00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:43,080 Yeah, because you remember there was that guy 1059 00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:45,620 in Mad Max Fury Road who was on that rig. 1060 00:51:46,420 --> 00:51:48,420 Yeah, that's a small reference. 1061 00:51:48,500 --> 00:51:49,880 Small like adult references. 1062 00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:51,960 That would have set it over the edge. 1063 00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:54,960 Yeah, they definitely played it safe. 1064 00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:56,260 And I think that was purposeful. 1065 00:51:56,260 --> 00:51:59,800 I think a lot, you know, Nintendo famously did not 1066 00:51:59,880 --> 00:52:02,600 for a very, very long time because of the absolute travesty 1067 00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:04,840 that is the 1993 movie. 1068 00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:06,420 Is it 93 or 92? 1069 00:52:06,500 --> 00:52:07,500 I can't remember exactly. 1070 00:52:07,580 --> 00:52:11,000 I want to say 93, but yeah, the failure of like the wizard, 1071 00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:13,580 the failure of the Super Mario Brothers movie 1072 00:52:13,680 --> 00:52:18,500 with Bob Hoskins and John J. Lugosamo. 1073 00:52:18,580 --> 00:52:22,500 Yeah, so yes, like a lot of those have been not the greatest. 1074 00:52:22,580 --> 00:52:23,800 So I see, you know... 1075 00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:25,040 And they've been cautious because of it. 1076 00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:26,120 Yes, very much so. 1077 00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:27,780 And I would not be surprised. 1078 00:52:27,860 --> 00:52:29,080 I think you hit it on the head exactly. 1079 00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:31,320 I think when Elimination came to them and said, 1080 00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:32,820 hey, we want to make a Mario movie, 1081 00:52:32,900 --> 00:52:34,200 Nintendo was like, sure. 1082 00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:36,280 But here is the prerequisites. 1083 00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:39,080 Here's the whiteboard of things that we need to have done. 1084 00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:40,400 And it needs to be for a certain age. 1085 00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:43,580 Nintendo was very notorious for keeping their kid stuff, 1086 00:52:43,660 --> 00:52:44,540 kid stuff. 1087 00:52:44,620 --> 00:52:47,580 They don't bridge outside of like even Pokemon. 1088 00:52:47,660 --> 00:52:49,960 You know, again, it's two people who love Pokemon. 1089 00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:53,120 Imagine an adult Pokemon movie or a Pokemon, 1090 00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:56,580 an adult Pokemon game even or adult Pokemon manga, 1091 00:52:56,660 --> 00:52:58,040 something, they won't do it. 1092 00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:00,880 I mean, the manga itself was pretty like adult. 1093 00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:02,700 Yeah, well, sure. Yeah. 1094 00:53:02,780 --> 00:53:05,660 We don't eat Pokemon. We do. 1095 00:53:05,740 --> 00:53:06,740 Fucking knee. 1096 00:53:06,820 --> 00:53:07,820 Fucking knee. 1097 00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:11,780 So just real quick, the summary of in case you don't know, 1098 00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:13,200 the Super Mario Brothers movie is a... 1099 00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:16,540 Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. 1100 00:53:16,620 --> 00:53:19,540 A Brooklyn plumber named Mario travels through the Mushroom Kingdom 1101 00:53:19,620 --> 00:53:21,000 with a princess named Peach 1102 00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:23,120 and an anthropomorphic mushroom named Toad 1103 00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:24,620 to find his brother Luigi 1104 00:53:24,700 --> 00:53:26,240 and to save the Mushroom Kingdom 1105 00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:29,700 from a ruthless fire-breathing Koopa named Bowser. 1106 00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:32,540 Another issue I had with this movie, 1107 00:53:32,620 --> 00:53:33,820 and I'm going to say it right there, 1108 00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:39,660 is this was an opportunity to not make Luigi 1109 00:53:39,740 --> 00:53:41,820 the punching bag of the Mario Brothers. 1110 00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:43,580 He's the total damsel of distress in this movie. 1111 00:53:43,660 --> 00:53:44,660 He's the total damsel of distress. 1112 00:53:44,740 --> 00:53:47,660 And yes, he does get a little bit of, you know, 1113 00:53:47,740 --> 00:53:49,780 of redemption at the end. 1114 00:53:49,780 --> 00:53:52,960 But why put him in a cage the entire time? 1115 00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:55,580 He could have had almost a little mini adventure 1116 00:53:55,660 --> 00:53:59,580 and some personal growth by somehow escaping, 1117 00:53:59,660 --> 00:54:01,740 you know, and having his own adventure. 1118 00:54:01,820 --> 00:54:02,820 Like, that's... 1119 00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:04,080 I think they wanted to... 1120 00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:06,700 What they really wanted to do was avoid the trope 1121 00:54:06,780 --> 00:54:09,420 of making Princess Peach the damsel in distress. 1122 00:54:09,500 --> 00:54:11,960 I would have almost rather Toad be the damsel in distress, 1123 00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:13,120 but then you have to establish 1124 00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:16,040 why Mario and Luigi would even care, right? 1125 00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:18,420 So I think it's an easy softball to make Luigi, 1126 00:54:18,420 --> 00:54:20,920 because it gives stakes to Mario to get out there 1127 00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:23,680 and actually help, and it gives stakes to Peach and Toad, 1128 00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:25,800 because they need Mario's help 1129 00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:28,020 in order to defeat Bowser down the road. 1130 00:54:28,100 --> 00:54:29,300 So let me throw this out there. 1131 00:54:29,380 --> 00:54:31,640 Let me throw this out there, okay? 1132 00:54:31,720 --> 00:54:33,140 They don't have cell phones. 1133 00:54:33,220 --> 00:54:34,220 Right. 1134 00:54:34,300 --> 00:54:35,300 They can't communicate. 1135 00:54:35,380 --> 00:54:37,480 Let's say that Luigi had... 1136 00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:38,640 They know he's... 1137 00:54:38,720 --> 00:54:39,980 Or they are under the impression 1138 00:54:40,060 --> 00:54:41,440 that he has been kidnapped. 1139 00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:43,280 They have to go save him. 1140 00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:46,020 But Luigi escapes and has his own adventure. 1141 00:54:46,020 --> 00:54:48,940 Mario never... The stakes are still there for Mario. 1142 00:54:49,020 --> 00:54:50,360 Mm-hmm. Yeah. 1143 00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:51,440 I mean, very possible. 1144 00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:52,900 For a long time, people were speculating 1145 00:54:52,980 --> 00:54:55,900 that during this movie would be a Luigi's Mansion type of thing. 1146 00:54:55,980 --> 00:54:57,520 I was hoping that. Exactly. 1147 00:54:57,600 --> 00:54:59,520 They were that close. They almost did it. 1148 00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:01,740 Literally, when he separates in that tube 1149 00:55:01,820 --> 00:55:03,200 and he goes off to his own thing, 1150 00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:04,280 when he shows up, I'm like, 1151 00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:06,580 oh, shit, they're going to do Luigi's Mansion. 1152 00:55:06,660 --> 00:55:09,040 But it ends up being a castle from the games. 1153 00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:12,160 When you get so far, especially in Super Mario World 1154 00:55:12,240 --> 00:55:13,700 or just most of the games in general, 1155 00:55:13,700 --> 00:55:17,120 you eventually have to battle Bowser or someone in a castle. 1156 00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:18,200 That's what this was. 1157 00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:20,280 And you eventually see the Shy Guys and all that. 1158 00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:22,280 But yeah, I get your complaint. 1159 00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:23,540 I think they just, again, 1160 00:55:23,620 --> 00:55:25,740 they made this extremely linear for the young audience. 1161 00:55:25,820 --> 00:55:27,080 They didn't want to confuse them. 1162 00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:29,000 They wanted to make this as simple as possible, 1163 00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:30,740 establish who everyone is, 1164 00:55:30,820 --> 00:55:32,740 establish what their stakes are, 1165 00:55:32,820 --> 00:55:34,740 what they're good at, what they're not good at, 1166 00:55:34,820 --> 00:55:35,920 and kind of go from there. 1167 00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:38,340 And I think, with all that being said, 1168 00:55:38,420 --> 00:55:39,420 the directors of this movie, 1169 00:55:39,500 --> 00:55:41,880 which is Aaron Horvac and Michael Jelinek, 1170 00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:45,220 who are the developing team behind Teen Titans Go, 1171 00:55:45,300 --> 00:55:46,760 most famously over on Cartoon Network, 1172 00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:49,180 they also developed Batman the Brave and the Bold 1173 00:55:49,260 --> 00:55:51,680 and 2011's reboot of The Thundercats, 1174 00:55:51,760 --> 00:55:54,180 I think overall the direction is pretty solid. 1175 00:55:54,260 --> 00:55:55,760 You know, again, like you said, 1176 00:55:55,840 --> 00:55:58,440 I'm not going to sit here and say this movie is groundbreaking 1177 00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:00,640 and that it's one of the greatest animations of all time, 1178 00:56:00,720 --> 00:56:03,520 but I think they did a decent job of making this movie fun 1179 00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:05,280 and kind of easy to follow. 1180 00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:07,600 It's kind of up to the watcher at this, you know, 1181 00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:09,020 Aaron and I are talking about it right now, 1182 00:56:09,100 --> 00:56:10,940 but it's kind of up to the audience member 1183 00:56:10,940 --> 00:56:13,440 on whether they find that compelling or not. 1184 00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:15,320 I think this movie gave me exactly what I wanted, 1185 00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:18,940 which is basically a really fun, colorful movie 1186 00:56:19,020 --> 00:56:21,900 that has all the tropes and all the characters 1187 00:56:21,980 --> 00:56:24,040 and all the music and all the references 1188 00:56:24,120 --> 00:56:25,120 to the Super Mario world. 1189 00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:27,620 I will say this, and you know, 1190 00:56:27,700 --> 00:56:30,540 I completely agree with what you're saying. 1191 00:56:30,620 --> 00:56:33,800 Since we are not the audience, like it's not... 1192 00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:37,380 Those things would be for me and like my level of audience, 1193 00:56:37,460 --> 00:56:39,540 but I will say this. 1194 00:56:39,540 --> 00:56:43,120 This movie was a treat for the eyes. 1195 00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:44,420 Yeah, colors. 1196 00:56:44,500 --> 00:56:48,040 Not just colors, but like if you looked at all, 1197 00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:51,540 like if you just watched the texture on their skins, 1198 00:56:51,620 --> 00:56:54,760 even like Bowser and his scales, 1199 00:56:54,840 --> 00:56:57,460 if you looked at Donkey Kong and his fur, 1200 00:56:57,540 --> 00:57:01,600 if you looked at the medals on the bicycles on the go-karts, 1201 00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:03,480 like amazing. 1202 00:57:03,560 --> 00:57:06,260 Well, like it's so detailed. 1203 00:57:06,340 --> 00:57:07,520 We're going to talk about it a little bit, 1204 00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:09,780 but there are two post-credit scenes. 1205 00:57:09,860 --> 00:57:13,940 The final post-credit scene looks like it was filmed in a sewer. 1206 00:57:14,020 --> 00:57:17,200 It's how, for a second there, I thought it was really in a sewer, 1207 00:57:17,280 --> 00:57:19,280 and I'm like, that shit's real, man. 1208 00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:22,240 Yeah, this is one of the prettiest animated movies 1209 00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:23,660 I've ever seen in my life, 1210 00:57:23,740 --> 00:57:26,040 and Illumination cannot get enough credit 1211 00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:28,840 for making a beautiful film in that sense. 1212 00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:32,380 And again, not a lot of creative liberties were taken in this movie. 1213 00:57:32,460 --> 00:57:35,000 A lot of it is ripped right out of the video games. 1214 00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:36,460 But again, I'm happy with that. 1215 00:57:36,460 --> 00:57:39,960 And I think that was probably another thing that Nintendo required. 1216 00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:41,800 They're like, hey, listen, you can make this movie, 1217 00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:45,880 but freaking stick to the basics here when it comes to design. 1218 00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:47,140 You better make it exact. 1219 00:57:47,220 --> 00:57:49,340 You want Mario? Make him look like Mario. 1220 00:57:49,420 --> 00:57:53,520 Even the maps are straight from the video game. 1221 00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:54,600 It's so good. 1222 00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:56,520 Even Bowser's ship. 1223 00:57:56,600 --> 00:58:00,480 At one point, we even see the clown ships from Super Mario World. 1224 00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:02,240 We'll talk about all of that here in just a bit. 1225 00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:04,520 But Aaron, why don't you go ahead and get into the cast here, which is awesome. 1226 00:58:04,520 --> 00:58:08,600 Okay, so the cast, basically Chris Pratt, Mario Mario, 1227 00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:10,360 Charlie Day as Luigi Mario, 1228 00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:13,440 Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, 1229 00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:16,200 Jack Black as Bowser, Peach as Peach as Peach, 1230 00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:18,080 Keegan-Michael Key as Toad, 1231 00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:19,500 Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong, 1232 00:58:19,580 --> 00:58:21,620 Fred Armisen as King Cranky Kong, 1233 00:58:21,700 --> 00:58:23,620 Sebastian Maniscalgo as Spike, 1234 00:58:23,700 --> 00:58:26,040 and Kevin Michael Richardson as Comic. 1235 00:58:26,620 --> 00:58:30,760 So Charles Martinet, who has actually voiced Mario in the video games since 1991, 1236 00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:35,480 plays Mario and Luigi's father and Giuseppe, an Italian citizen of Brooklyn, 1237 00:58:35,560 --> 00:58:38,440 who resembles Mario's original appearance in Donkey Kong. 1238 00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:40,060 That was super fun to see. 1239 00:58:40,140 --> 00:58:42,240 Yeah, he looked like Jumpman. 1240 00:58:42,320 --> 00:58:46,240 And I think that's even on the arcade system as they're playing. 1241 00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:48,360 If you look on the back, it doesn't say Donkey Kong, it says Jumpman. 1242 00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:50,700 Well, and then there's also a Jumpman, the guy who's always like, 1243 00:58:50,780 --> 00:58:52,660 whoo-hoo for them, he's like, that's Jumpman. 1244 00:58:52,740 --> 00:58:55,460 Giuseppe is also a reference to regular Giuseppe, 1245 00:58:55,460 --> 00:59:00,760 which was a dorkly animation series about Mario and Luigi's third brother. 1246 00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:04,720 The series is about his regular life while his brothers are always on adventures. 1247 00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:07,100 Do you ever hear about that, regular Giuseppe? 1248 00:59:07,180 --> 00:59:08,440 No, I actually haven't. 1249 00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:10,400 That's something I just learned for this. 1250 00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:12,780 It's literally a dorkly animation on YouTube 1251 00:59:12,860 --> 00:59:15,860 where it just talks about Giuseppe and his life, 1252 00:59:15,940 --> 00:59:18,780 which is what he does while Mario and Luigi are off doing adventures. 1253 00:59:18,860 --> 00:59:22,000 Funny. So, okay, budget for this movie? 1254 00:59:22,080 --> 00:59:23,360 $100 million. 1255 00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:24,960 Yeah, that's pretty standard, right? 1256 00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:26,460 That's pretty standard these days. 1257 00:59:26,540 --> 00:59:32,340 As of this recording, which is 4 p.m. Central Standard Time 1258 00:59:32,420 --> 00:59:38,880 on the 8th of April, the movie has grossed $113.3 million in North America 1259 00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:44,380 and $34.7 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $148 million. 1260 00:59:44,460 --> 00:59:46,020 So, not a flop. 1261 00:59:46,100 --> 00:59:47,180 Definitely not a flop. 1262 00:59:47,260 --> 00:59:49,640 It's already, basically, it's already surpassed its budget. 1263 00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:51,340 And as we said here on the show, Aaron, 1264 00:59:51,420 --> 00:59:54,420 now when you go into this next bit, it's going to make things even crazier. 1265 00:59:54,420 --> 00:59:57,880 But as we said here on the show, a lot of times in Hollywood, 1266 00:59:57,960 --> 01:00:00,220 in order to become a, quote unquote, success, 1267 01:00:00,300 --> 01:00:02,840 you have to earn your budget back times too. 1268 01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:08,420 So, once this movie hits $250 million, it's already a success. 1269 01:00:08,500 --> 01:00:11,220 Now, go ahead and go into this next part because it's pretty crazy. 1270 01:00:11,300 --> 01:00:14,500 So, it's projected $137 million for the three-day weekend, 1271 01:00:14,580 --> 01:00:16,060 which would pass up Finding Dory. 1272 01:00:16,140 --> 01:00:18,900 And it's not a bad thing because this weekend, it's Easter weekend. 1273 01:00:18,980 --> 01:00:20,340 A lot of kids are out of school. 1274 01:00:20,420 --> 01:00:22,560 You know, it's an extended weekend for a lot of people. 1275 01:00:22,560 --> 01:00:26,340 So, it's going to pass up Finding Dory with $135.1 million 1276 01:00:26,420 --> 01:00:28,760 to rank as the second best start of all time 1277 01:00:28,840 --> 01:00:32,300 for an animated film behind Incredibles 2. 1278 01:00:32,380 --> 01:00:35,600 Overseas, Super Mario looks to start off with $173 million 1279 01:00:35,680 --> 01:00:39,060 for a $368 million worldwide start, 1280 01:00:39,140 --> 01:00:41,860 which would supplant Frozen 2, 1281 01:00:41,940 --> 01:00:45,060 which was a $358 million opening, 1282 01:00:45,140 --> 01:00:47,640 as the highest opening weekend of all time. 1283 01:00:47,720 --> 01:00:52,440 This also does not include Japan's opening, which is April 28th. 1284 01:00:52,440 --> 01:00:57,440 Spoilers, Japan really likes Nintendo slash Super Mario Bros. 1285 01:00:57,520 --> 01:00:59,520 So, there we go. 1286 01:00:59,600 --> 01:01:04,400 I bet you Japan by itself gets like $200 million, probably. 1287 01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:06,940 Yeah. Yeah, like, it's going to be crazy. 1288 01:01:07,020 --> 01:01:09,400 I would not be surprised if Super Mario Bros. 1289 01:01:09,480 --> 01:01:11,600 is our first billion-dollar movie in over two years. 1290 01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:14,520 Well, that's not true because we had Avatar of the Way of Water. 1291 01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:17,360 It'll join Top Gun Maverick and Avatar of the Way of Water 1292 01:01:17,440 --> 01:01:20,320 as one of the only billion-dollar movies over the last two years, 1293 01:01:20,320 --> 01:01:22,440 which is crazy. It's going to be wild. 1294 01:01:22,520 --> 01:01:25,440 Yeah. So, Aaron, before we get into our Easter eggs, 1295 01:01:25,520 --> 01:01:28,060 which is kind of its own thing, and again, if you've seen the movie, 1296 01:01:28,140 --> 01:01:29,640 you know how many Easter eggs are in this film. 1297 01:01:29,720 --> 01:01:31,560 Is there anything else you kind of want to say overall? 1298 01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:33,980 Is there, you know, who was your highlight? 1299 01:01:34,060 --> 01:01:35,480 I guess is probably my only real question. 1300 01:01:35,560 --> 01:01:36,560 Is there a highlight in this movie 1301 01:01:36,640 --> 01:01:39,360 that really took over for you in this movie? 1302 01:01:39,440 --> 01:01:45,820 I think I would just say that I really liked each character, 1303 01:01:45,900 --> 01:01:49,560 and again, I think the only person 1304 01:01:49,560 --> 01:01:54,360 that I wanted to have a little bit more character growth was Luigi. 1305 01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:55,440 Sure. 1306 01:01:55,520 --> 01:01:58,640 I really liked how they played Donkey Kong's character, 1307 01:01:58,720 --> 01:02:01,400 how he's kind of still a younger Kong 1308 01:02:01,480 --> 01:02:04,560 who needs to prove himself to his father. 1309 01:02:04,640 --> 01:02:08,440 I really also liked how strong and powerful 1310 01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:12,840 and commanding Princess Peach was, 1311 01:02:12,920 --> 01:02:15,320 and the fact that we always talk about 1312 01:02:15,400 --> 01:02:17,200 how she's always the damsel in distress, 1313 01:02:17,200 --> 01:02:20,320 King Bowser is always kidnapping her, 1314 01:02:20,400 --> 01:02:22,820 and now we see him trying to marry her. 1315 01:02:22,900 --> 01:02:25,980 And to be honest, I mean, he could have still kidnapped her, 1316 01:02:26,060 --> 01:02:28,400 but honestly, I felt like they were definitely kind of playing in 1317 01:02:28,480 --> 01:02:31,520 the consent vibe into this. 1318 01:02:31,600 --> 01:02:32,820 So I really liked how they did that. 1319 01:02:32,900 --> 01:02:37,020 And again, I really liked a lot of the character design, 1320 01:02:37,100 --> 01:02:40,700 the building, how they included everything from carts 1321 01:02:40,780 --> 01:02:46,900 to the platforming scenes that were almost like the side-scrolling scenes. 1322 01:02:46,900 --> 01:02:48,520 I really enjoyed that. 1323 01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:50,520 The one with him and Donkey Kong was really awesome. 1324 01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:51,780 The one with him and Donkey Kong was super fun. 1325 01:02:51,860 --> 01:02:55,660 Again, this movie was really, really, really fun. 1326 01:02:55,740 --> 01:02:58,160 It just wasn't really great for me. 1327 01:02:58,240 --> 01:03:01,700 And so, and as we're going to get into, 1328 01:03:01,780 --> 01:03:03,440 there's just a ton of Easter eggs. 1329 01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:08,240 Like, again, it was so much fun seeing the quality of this movie, 1330 01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:11,660 but then to also see all of the Easter eggs that were thrown in, 1331 01:03:11,740 --> 01:03:13,980 it was really fun to watch. 1332 01:03:14,060 --> 01:03:15,820 Yeah, they clearly did their homework, for sure. 1333 01:03:15,820 --> 01:03:17,280 And they knew that that would be important, 1334 01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:18,440 especially for the older audience. 1335 01:03:18,520 --> 01:03:21,360 If they did anything for the older audience, it was the Easter eggs. 1336 01:03:21,440 --> 01:03:22,280 Absolutely. 1337 01:03:22,360 --> 01:03:25,320 And to kind of answer my own question, Bowser was, for me, the highlight. 1338 01:03:25,400 --> 01:03:26,400 I think he was so... 1339 01:03:26,480 --> 01:03:28,320 Jack Black did an incredible job playing Bowser, 1340 01:03:28,400 --> 01:03:30,620 added depth to a character who, for a long time, 1341 01:03:30,700 --> 01:03:32,700 was basically just a mustache-twirling villain. 1342 01:03:32,780 --> 01:03:35,620 And you can tell that he really just wants to be loved. 1343 01:03:35,700 --> 01:03:36,860 And you were right. 1344 01:03:36,940 --> 01:03:40,500 Like, they kind of have that certain almost self-awareness 1345 01:03:40,580 --> 01:03:42,960 that Bowser's never really been down for consent. 1346 01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:46,080 He always just steals the princess and goes off to his castle. 1347 01:03:46,160 --> 01:03:50,420 But in this way, he kind of asks her. 1348 01:03:50,500 --> 01:03:52,920 And he does eventually force her to come with him, 1349 01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:56,380 but he doesn't just grab her and go, which he easily could have done. 1350 01:03:56,460 --> 01:03:59,380 Actually, I want to take everything I just said back 1351 01:03:59,460 --> 01:04:01,540 as far as highlighting the characters. 1352 01:04:01,620 --> 01:04:04,800 The highlight character of this entire movie that I loved 1353 01:04:04,880 --> 01:04:08,220 was that little star sprite that was in the prison 1354 01:04:08,300 --> 01:04:12,000 that was like, the only hope is the sweet mercy of death. 1355 01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:14,920 Like, hands down, best character. 1356 01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:17,960 Yeah, that's... I think he's from Super Mario Galaxy. 1357 01:04:18,040 --> 01:04:19,040 Galaxy, yeah. 1358 01:04:19,120 --> 01:04:21,920 Yeah, it's... Luma Lee is her name. 1359 01:04:22,000 --> 01:04:23,960 So, Luma Lee, I think is the name. 1360 01:04:24,040 --> 01:04:25,920 Yeah, Luma Lee. 1361 01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:29,120 Basically, it's like a nihilistic star 1362 01:04:29,200 --> 01:04:31,540 that just comes and talks to you sometimes during the game. 1363 01:04:31,620 --> 01:04:32,620 So... 1364 01:04:33,420 --> 01:04:35,000 All right, let's get into our fun facts here. 1365 01:04:35,080 --> 01:04:36,380 A lot of Easter eggs and whatnot. 1366 01:04:36,460 --> 01:04:38,540 So, I'll do a couple here, Aaron, and we'll just switch back and forth. 1367 01:04:38,620 --> 01:04:40,040 At the beginning of the movie, in Brooklyn, 1368 01:04:40,040 --> 01:04:42,620 we see a billboard for a car wash called Balloon Man. 1369 01:04:42,700 --> 01:04:44,500 This is, of course, one of the characters 1370 01:04:44,580 --> 01:04:46,660 in the 1984 arcade game Balloon Fight. 1371 01:04:46,740 --> 01:04:49,660 So, a lot of old heads will remember Balloon Fight from back in the day. 1372 01:04:49,740 --> 01:04:53,080 Spike, who is the former employee of Mario and Luigi in the film, 1373 01:04:53,160 --> 01:04:54,700 is actually one of the main characters 1374 01:04:54,780 --> 01:04:57,200 of the 1984 arcade game Wrecking Crew. 1375 01:04:57,280 --> 01:05:00,120 This game also was later used as kind of the basic concept 1376 01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:01,200 for Wreck-It Ralph as well. 1377 01:05:01,280 --> 01:05:03,580 So, a lot of people will see kind of the parallels there, 1378 01:05:03,660 --> 01:05:04,660 which is kind of funny. 1379 01:05:04,740 --> 01:05:06,240 Mario shows up in that movie as well. 1380 01:05:07,040 --> 01:05:08,420 After the fight at dinner, 1381 01:05:08,420 --> 01:05:10,920 we see Mario go to his room and play Kid Icarus, 1382 01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:14,160 which is a 1987 NES fantasy platformer, 1383 01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:16,200 along with Balloon Fight and Wrecking Crew. 1384 01:05:16,280 --> 01:05:17,660 Kid Icarus played an important role 1385 01:05:17,740 --> 01:05:19,880 in the eventual development of Super Mario Bros. 1386 01:05:19,960 --> 01:05:22,000 on the video, you know, on the NES, 1387 01:05:22,080 --> 01:05:23,500 and eventually the SNES, and so on. 1388 01:05:23,580 --> 01:05:24,580 I did not know that. 1389 01:05:25,120 --> 01:05:27,040 One thing that was really cool is when Mario and Luigi 1390 01:05:27,120 --> 01:05:29,420 receive a call from their first client, 1391 01:05:29,500 --> 01:05:31,880 they go to an Easter egg-filled house, which... 1392 01:05:31,960 --> 01:05:32,960 if you... 1393 01:05:33,040 --> 01:05:34,420 all over the place. 1394 01:05:34,500 --> 01:05:35,920 Inside the house is a painting of a dog 1395 01:05:36,000 --> 01:05:38,120 who recovers the duck you shoot in Duck Hunt. 1396 01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:40,160 There's a glass statue of a Pikmin. 1397 01:05:41,960 --> 01:05:43,660 The owner of the house is seen reading a book 1398 01:05:43,740 --> 01:05:47,120 named Galaxy as a Nod to 2007 Super Mario Galaxy. 1399 01:05:47,200 --> 01:05:50,080 So, just a fun little, like, look at everything. 1400 01:05:50,160 --> 01:05:51,960 And I'm just going to say this. 1401 01:05:52,040 --> 01:05:56,460 That reminds me, if you're ever working in somebody's house 1402 01:05:56,540 --> 01:05:57,660 and their dog attacks you, 1403 01:05:57,740 --> 01:06:00,620 you automatically will probably own their house. 1404 01:06:00,700 --> 01:06:01,700 So... 1405 01:06:01,780 --> 01:06:02,780 Yeah. 1406 01:06:03,500 --> 01:06:05,700 Also, don't step on that dog's bone, Mario. 1407 01:06:05,780 --> 01:06:07,120 Luigi, whoever it was. 1408 01:06:07,120 --> 01:06:10,540 And I also want to say there was, like, there's a sign... 1409 01:06:10,620 --> 01:06:13,700 Maybe that was actually the scene with the flooding. 1410 01:06:13,780 --> 01:06:15,740 Like, there's a restaurant. It has the ducks. 1411 01:06:15,820 --> 01:06:18,460 It's from, like, on their sign from Duck Hunt. 1412 01:06:18,540 --> 01:06:19,540 Yeah. 1413 01:06:19,620 --> 01:06:22,200 So, as soon as Mario and Luigi enter the sewers, 1414 01:06:22,280 --> 01:06:23,580 that'll take them to the Mushroom Canyon. 1415 01:06:23,660 --> 01:06:25,580 We can hear the theme song in the Super Mario Bros. 1416 01:06:25,660 --> 01:06:28,120 World Dash 1-2, one of the most beloved songs 1417 01:06:28,200 --> 01:06:29,540 in the gaming franchise. 1418 01:06:29,620 --> 01:06:30,620 Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun. 1419 01:06:30,620 --> 01:06:36,620 The classic Super Mario theme also plays as soon as Mario sees the Mushroom Kingdom 1420 01:06:36,700 --> 01:06:37,700 for the first time. 1421 01:06:37,780 --> 01:06:40,780 And while we're talking about music, that song plays inside Peach's castle. 1422 01:06:40,860 --> 01:06:43,860 It's the same song we hear in 1996's Super Mario 64, 1423 01:06:43,940 --> 01:06:46,940 the game that established how the castle looks. 1424 01:06:47,020 --> 01:06:48,700 Yeah, it's very similar. 1425 01:06:48,780 --> 01:06:53,860 You know, the Super Mario 64 castle, verbatim of what we see in this movie. 1426 01:06:53,940 --> 01:06:56,320 While walking through the streets of the Mushroom Kingdom, 1427 01:06:56,400 --> 01:06:58,620 Mario passes by a crazy cap store, 1428 01:06:58,620 --> 01:07:00,740 which was introduced in Super Mario Odyssey. 1429 01:07:00,820 --> 01:07:03,240 There's also an antique shop where you can see the boomerang flower 1430 01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:05,320 from 2011's Super Mario 3D Land, 1431 01:07:05,400 --> 01:07:07,820 the music box from 1988's Super Mario Bros. 3, 1432 01:07:07,900 --> 01:07:12,120 and the pixelated hammer Jumpman uses in 1981's Donkey Kong. 1433 01:07:12,200 --> 01:07:14,620 There's actually, like, way more in that shop, if you can do it. 1434 01:07:14,700 --> 01:07:16,700 And also the... 1435 01:07:16,780 --> 01:07:19,200 What is it? I guess the little toad that's buying something. 1436 01:07:19,280 --> 01:07:21,240 He's like, how do you work it? He goes, oh, you blow it. 1437 01:07:21,320 --> 01:07:23,320 And he's talking about the cartridge from the NES. 1438 01:07:23,400 --> 01:07:24,400 Yeah, exactly. 1439 01:07:24,500 --> 01:07:25,500 So there's just a ton of stuff there. 1440 01:07:25,580 --> 01:07:27,580 Yeah. 1441 01:07:27,580 --> 01:07:29,580 So we get a lot of Kongs in this movie, Aaron. 1442 01:07:29,660 --> 01:07:31,660 And as soon as Donkey Kong steps into the arena, 1443 01:07:31,740 --> 01:07:33,740 we hear the DK rap song that serves as the intro 1444 01:07:33,820 --> 01:07:36,580 of the 1999 Donkey Kong 64, which is awesome. 1445 01:07:36,660 --> 01:07:39,080 And actually, I heard that Seth Rogen had to fight 1446 01:07:39,160 --> 01:07:40,160 to get that into the movie. 1447 01:07:40,240 --> 01:07:41,740 Like, he very specifically wanted that. 1448 01:07:41,820 --> 01:07:43,240 That was, like, his main... 1449 01:07:43,320 --> 01:07:45,660 One of his, really, his only creative, like, suggestions 1450 01:07:45,740 --> 01:07:47,580 when he took on this role. 1451 01:07:47,660 --> 01:07:49,080 So in the stands around the arena, 1452 01:07:49,160 --> 01:07:51,160 we get a close-up look at DK's brother, Diddy Kong, 1453 01:07:51,240 --> 01:07:52,240 which is really cool to see him. 1454 01:07:52,320 --> 01:07:54,960 He debuted in 1994's Donkey Kong Country. 1455 01:07:55,040 --> 01:07:56,540 We get Diddy's girlfriend, Dixie, 1456 01:07:56,540 --> 01:07:59,540 which first appeared in 1995's Donkey Kong Country 2. 1457 01:07:59,620 --> 01:08:03,040 Diddy's Kong Quest, which is also by his side. 1458 01:08:03,120 --> 01:08:05,380 We also, also coming from Donkey Kong Country 2 1459 01:08:05,460 --> 01:08:07,880 is Swanky Kong, the mustachian entrepreneur 1460 01:08:07,960 --> 01:08:09,960 of the Kong family who also is in the crowd. 1461 01:08:10,040 --> 01:08:13,460 Another member of the Monkey Crew is Chunky Kong, 1462 01:08:13,540 --> 01:08:15,540 the playable character in Donkey Kong 64. 1463 01:08:15,620 --> 01:08:18,120 And when the Kongs jump on carts and go to war, 1464 01:08:18,200 --> 01:08:20,080 we can also identify fan favorite 1465 01:08:20,160 --> 01:08:21,660 transporting specialist, Funky Kong, 1466 01:08:21,740 --> 01:08:24,040 who debuted in Donkey Kong Country. 1467 01:08:24,040 --> 01:08:27,460 And Kitty Kong, one of the heroes of the 1996 Donkey Kong Country 3. 1468 01:08:27,540 --> 01:08:29,040 So a lot of Kongs in this movie. 1469 01:08:29,120 --> 01:08:30,420 Not a lot of them got... 1470 01:08:30,500 --> 01:08:32,040 Not a lot of play for a lot of those guys. 1471 01:08:32,120 --> 01:08:34,380 I think Diddy Kong getting a little spotlight is cool 1472 01:08:34,460 --> 01:08:36,460 and I think probably foreshadowing for down the road. 1473 01:08:36,540 --> 01:08:37,540 We'll probably see more of him. 1474 01:08:37,620 --> 01:08:40,040 And obviously, Cranky Kong gets a lot of play in this movie as well. 1475 01:08:40,120 --> 01:08:42,040 So I thought that was really cool. 1476 01:08:42,120 --> 01:08:44,540 During the fight with Kong in the island arena, 1477 01:08:44,620 --> 01:08:46,620 we see the introduction of two more power-ups. 1478 01:08:46,700 --> 01:08:48,040 First, Mario eats a mini mushroom, 1479 01:08:48,120 --> 01:08:51,040 first appearing in 2002's Mario Party 4. 1480 01:08:51,120 --> 01:08:52,620 This power shrinks the user. 1481 01:08:52,620 --> 01:08:56,620 Then there's the cat suit, a form introduced in 2013's Super Mario 3D World 1482 01:08:56,700 --> 01:08:59,000 that is activated by collecting a golden bell. 1483 01:08:59,080 --> 01:09:02,080 Finally, Cranky Kong summons the heroes to DK's house. 1484 01:09:02,160 --> 01:09:06,500 The cabin is modeled almost exactly after Donkey Kong Country's home. 1485 01:09:06,580 --> 01:09:08,580 So, Aaron, we actually, if you remember, 1486 01:09:08,660 --> 01:09:11,040 we reviewed Super Mario 3D World here on the show 1487 01:09:11,120 --> 01:09:13,620 when it was released on the Nintendo Switch. 1488 01:09:13,700 --> 01:09:17,700 So when Mario and Peach and Toad have to choose how to build their carts, 1489 01:09:17,780 --> 01:09:21,460 the tools used to choose each piece receive a special reward. 1490 01:09:21,460 --> 01:09:23,120 Each piece resembles... 1491 01:09:23,200 --> 01:09:28,580 It's almost the same concept from Super Mario Kart 8. 1492 01:09:28,660 --> 01:09:31,740 It introduced the anti-gravity wheels we also see used in the chase sequence 1493 01:09:31,820 --> 01:09:37,780 while the glider was introduced by 2011's Mario Kart 7. 1494 01:09:37,860 --> 01:09:40,280 The majority of carting scenes happened on the Rainbow Road, 1495 01:09:40,360 --> 01:09:43,700 a level that is present in every Mario Kart game. 1496 01:09:43,780 --> 01:09:47,580 During the chase sequence, we also see the drivers use classic Mario Kart items 1497 01:09:47,660 --> 01:09:50,160 such as bananas, green shells, bullet bills, 1498 01:09:50,160 --> 01:09:53,540 and even that one Koopa turns into the blue shell. 1499 01:09:53,620 --> 01:09:55,200 Blue shell! 1500 01:09:55,280 --> 01:09:57,780 Also, he hits Mario with it. Mario wasn't even in the lead. 1501 01:09:57,860 --> 01:10:00,320 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bullshit. 1502 01:10:00,400 --> 01:10:04,420 Which the Super Mario Brothers movie becomes an elite soldier of Bowser's army. 1503 01:10:04,500 --> 01:10:06,860 At the end of the main carting sequel, and this is the same... 1504 01:10:06,940 --> 01:10:10,420 This is the one I was talking about where they could have added in that dude from... 1505 01:10:10,500 --> 01:10:15,780 Or somebody very similar to the Mad Max Führer Road guitarist. 1506 01:10:15,860 --> 01:10:17,420 At the end of the main carting sequel, 1507 01:10:17,420 --> 01:10:20,920 we see Bowser's minion kidnapping the Kongs while driving clown copters, 1508 01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:25,920 the same vehicles Bowser first used during the final boss fight in Super Mario World. 1509 01:10:26,000 --> 01:10:28,540 Mario and DK are also swallowed by a Ma Ray, 1510 01:10:28,620 --> 01:10:31,960 which is that giant eel introduced in 64. 1511 01:10:32,040 --> 01:10:33,740 When they escape, they fly on a barrel, 1512 01:10:33,820 --> 01:10:38,460 directly referencing Donkey Kong Country's gameplay, which they do a lot. 1513 01:10:38,540 --> 01:10:39,540 Yeah. 1514 01:10:39,620 --> 01:10:41,620 Again, just the suits and everything in this movie, 1515 01:10:41,700 --> 01:10:44,200 everything was phenomenally done. 1516 01:10:44,280 --> 01:10:45,840 While getting ready for his marriage to Peach, 1517 01:10:45,840 --> 01:10:48,960 Bowser wears the same white top hat he does in Super Mario Odyssey, 1518 01:10:49,040 --> 01:10:50,040 which I really liked. 1519 01:10:50,120 --> 01:10:55,040 They actually had amiibos of Princess Peach and Bowser 1520 01:10:55,120 --> 01:10:57,800 in those wedding outfits, which was really cool. 1521 01:10:57,880 --> 01:10:58,880 No, no kidding. 1522 01:10:58,960 --> 01:11:00,840 Yeah. Among the guests of the marriage is King Boo, 1523 01:11:00,920 --> 01:11:06,120 which we saw King Babam, who gets lit, 1524 01:11:06,200 --> 01:11:08,720 who gets his fuse lit. 1525 01:11:08,800 --> 01:11:12,640 And King Boo was the main villain of Luigi's Mansion franchise. 1526 01:11:12,720 --> 01:11:15,380 The third act introduces two other power-ups. 1527 01:11:15,380 --> 01:11:18,920 First, Peach uses an ice flower, which I've actually never seen. 1528 01:11:19,000 --> 01:11:21,300 I don't think I really remember ever seeing. 1529 01:11:21,380 --> 01:11:27,260 Strangely introduced in the 92s, Volume 5 of the Super Mario Koon manga series. 1530 01:11:27,340 --> 01:11:28,340 That's why you haven't seen it. 1531 01:11:28,420 --> 01:11:29,960 That's why I haven't seen it. 1532 01:11:30,040 --> 01:11:32,420 And then Mario grabs a Tanooki suit, 1533 01:11:32,500 --> 01:11:35,220 which allows him to fight after he grabs a super leaf 1534 01:11:35,300 --> 01:11:37,380 coming from Super Mario Bros. 3, 1535 01:11:37,460 --> 01:11:40,800 which happens to be my first cosplay ever. 1536 01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:44,420 The final power-up Mario and Luigi uses is the invincibility star, 1537 01:11:44,420 --> 01:11:47,540 which allows them to fight Bowser's army in the Brooklyn battle. 1538 01:11:47,620 --> 01:11:50,880 The final blow on Bowser is also given after they grab the villain's tail, 1539 01:11:50,960 --> 01:11:53,220 spin his body and throw him far away, 1540 01:11:53,300 --> 01:11:55,580 a move that became famous during the boss battles 1541 01:11:55,680 --> 01:12:00,080 of Super Mario Bros. 64, or Super Mario 64 just in general. 1542 01:12:00,180 --> 01:12:04,040 That's the move that I was really hoping that they would use, 1543 01:12:04,120 --> 01:12:08,040 was that tail spin and throw him away. 1544 01:12:08,120 --> 01:12:10,300 Yeah, that's basically all we have there in terms of Easter eggs. 1545 01:12:10,380 --> 01:12:13,800 I know there's a ton more, but that was just kind of breaking the surface. 1546 01:12:13,800 --> 01:12:15,180 And I think it covers a lot of it. 1547 01:12:15,260 --> 01:12:16,260 Was it not funny? 1548 01:12:16,340 --> 01:12:21,140 Real quick, was it not funny that they used Mr. Blue Sky 1549 01:12:21,220 --> 01:12:25,100 in one of the final scenes to wake up Mario, 1550 01:12:25,180 --> 01:12:26,380 who was played by Chris Pratt? 1551 01:12:26,460 --> 01:12:29,840 Because that was the opening song to, I want to say, 1552 01:12:29,920 --> 01:12:32,060 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. 1553 01:12:32,140 --> 01:12:34,100 Yeah, it's the opening credit scene there. 1554 01:12:34,180 --> 01:12:35,640 Yeah, it's pretty funny how they did that, 1555 01:12:35,720 --> 01:12:37,920 because I don't think I've ever heard... 1556 01:12:38,020 --> 01:12:41,640 I've never heard Mr. Blue Sky in any other movie besides those two. 1557 01:12:41,640 --> 01:12:44,520 And they both involve Chris Pratt. 1558 01:12:44,600 --> 01:12:46,520 All right, let's talk about our end credits scenes here. 1559 01:12:46,600 --> 01:12:49,140 In the first end credits scene, it features Bowser 1560 01:12:49,220 --> 01:12:52,300 basically reprising his Peaches song, which is awesome. 1561 01:12:52,400 --> 01:12:55,220 Every time that he sings that song, it's hilarious. 1562 01:12:55,320 --> 01:12:58,180 Jack Black apparently wrote Peaches himself. 1563 01:12:58,260 --> 01:13:00,400 However, it turns out that Bowser is still shrunken down 1564 01:13:00,480 --> 01:13:02,600 from the end of that battle there at the end of the movie 1565 01:13:02,680 --> 01:13:05,400 and is in a bottle prison from that final fight. 1566 01:13:05,480 --> 01:13:06,720 So that was pretty funny. 1567 01:13:06,800 --> 01:13:09,680 And then the one that really had a lot of actual gravity to it, 1568 01:13:09,680 --> 01:13:12,600 and I think something that we were kind of anticipating 1569 01:13:12,680 --> 01:13:15,520 him to show up at some point in this movie, if not in the end credits scene, 1570 01:13:15,600 --> 01:13:18,100 is that while Bowser's end credits scene was cute, 1571 01:13:18,180 --> 01:13:19,980 the one that had real consequences was the post credits scene 1572 01:13:20,060 --> 01:13:21,060 at the very end of the film. 1573 01:13:21,140 --> 01:13:23,860 In it, we see a Yoshi egg that has ended up in the Brooklyn sewers 1574 01:13:23,940 --> 01:13:28,440 after Mario and Bowser's fight that brought parts of the Mushroom Kingdom 1575 01:13:28,520 --> 01:13:29,520 into New York. 1576 01:13:29,600 --> 01:13:32,640 As the egg starts to hatch, we hear the screen... 1577 01:13:32,720 --> 01:13:34,360 Actually, we see the screen cut to black, 1578 01:13:34,440 --> 01:13:35,940 and we hear the little dinosaurs iconic... 1579 01:13:36,020 --> 01:13:36,980 Waffle! 1580 01:13:37,060 --> 01:13:39,440 I don't really understand how this is, to be honest, 1581 01:13:39,440 --> 01:13:40,440 like impactful. 1582 01:13:40,520 --> 01:13:43,440 Yes, it's cute that there's going to be like a Yoshi in the real world. 1583 01:13:43,520 --> 01:13:46,780 I guarantee it's probably if and when they do a sequel, 1584 01:13:46,860 --> 01:13:47,900 because they will, 1585 01:13:47,980 --> 01:13:52,200 it'll be something along the lines of like Gators in the New York sewers. 1586 01:13:52,280 --> 01:13:54,900 And it's actually they got to go down and get Yoshi or something 1587 01:13:54,980 --> 01:13:55,980 and take him back. 1588 01:13:56,060 --> 01:13:57,060 But there were... 1589 01:13:57,140 --> 01:13:58,860 We also see Yoshi. We see Yoshi in the movie. 1590 01:13:58,940 --> 01:13:59,940 Yeah, there were Yoshi. 1591 01:14:00,020 --> 01:14:02,400 So I don't really understand how this is like super iconic 1592 01:14:02,480 --> 01:14:05,200 other than them just having the Yoshi sound. 1593 01:14:05,280 --> 01:14:08,200 Well, those Yoshi's were pink, if I remember correctly. 1594 01:14:08,200 --> 01:14:10,320 They're multicolored, yeah. 1595 01:14:10,400 --> 01:14:13,740 But I wonder if maybe what makes our Yoshi specific and special 1596 01:14:13,820 --> 01:14:14,820 is that he's green. 1597 01:14:14,900 --> 01:14:16,620 Maybe he's like the only green one, perhaps. 1598 01:14:16,700 --> 01:14:18,040 I don't know. Who knows? 1599 01:14:18,120 --> 01:14:19,580 But I am excited to see Yoshi, 1600 01:14:19,660 --> 01:14:22,240 and I'm excited to see who they get to eventually voice him to, 1601 01:14:22,320 --> 01:14:23,660 because Yoshi doesn't really say much. 1602 01:14:23,740 --> 01:14:24,740 He says, Yoshi! 1603 01:14:24,820 --> 01:14:27,660 That's all he says, or wink, or whatever he does. 1604 01:14:27,740 --> 01:14:29,740 Bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop. 1605 01:14:29,820 --> 01:14:30,820 Bloop, bloop, bloop. 1606 01:14:30,900 --> 01:14:32,660 So, yeah, it's exciting, though. 1607 01:14:32,740 --> 01:14:34,080 It was really fun seeing him. 1608 01:14:34,160 --> 01:14:36,160 I kind of wish he would have showed up in the movie, 1609 01:14:36,160 --> 01:14:38,280 but you know, you got to save some stuff for the sequel. 1610 01:14:38,360 --> 01:14:40,320 So, Aaron, I think that'll do it for our review 1611 01:14:40,400 --> 01:14:41,860 of Super Mario Bros. 1612 01:14:41,940 --> 01:14:42,940 Final thoughts. 1613 01:14:43,020 --> 01:14:46,280 Final thoughts on the first Super Mario Bros. movie 1614 01:14:46,360 --> 01:14:47,360 in a long time. 1615 01:14:47,440 --> 01:14:49,240 One that will definitely, like you said, 1616 01:14:49,320 --> 01:14:50,660 get a sequel here soon. 1617 01:14:50,740 --> 01:14:52,320 Again, really fun. 1618 01:14:52,400 --> 01:14:54,040 I had a good time watching it. 1619 01:14:54,120 --> 01:14:57,040 I didn't have a great time, but I had a good time watching it. 1620 01:14:57,120 --> 01:14:59,540 And I'm excited to see where this goes, 1621 01:14:59,620 --> 01:15:03,240 but at the same time, it's not perfect. 1622 01:15:03,320 --> 01:15:04,740 It's not great. 1623 01:15:04,740 --> 01:15:06,540 So, yeah, I really liked it, though. 1624 01:15:06,620 --> 01:15:07,620 All right, fair enough. 1625 01:15:07,700 --> 01:15:09,200 Yeah, I mean, I'm going to say something similar, 1626 01:15:09,280 --> 01:15:11,700 but I just think it gave me exactly what I wanted. 1627 01:15:11,780 --> 01:15:13,660 I wasn't ever really expecting this movie 1628 01:15:13,740 --> 01:15:17,420 to be thought-provoking or have some type of layers. 1629 01:15:17,500 --> 01:15:20,120 It would have been nice if it was like, like you said, 1630 01:15:20,200 --> 01:15:22,740 one of those rare animated movies 1631 01:15:22,820 --> 01:15:26,580 where adults can go out and enjoy as much as the kids do. 1632 01:15:26,660 --> 01:15:29,240 But this was never geared for us, you know? 1633 01:15:29,320 --> 01:15:33,160 And I kind of felt that in my heart going into this, 1634 01:15:33,240 --> 01:15:34,500 and I just had fun with it. 1635 01:15:34,500 --> 01:15:38,620 You know, it just gave me, like I said, it had all the references. 1636 01:15:38,700 --> 01:15:41,080 It just it was unoffensive. 1637 01:15:41,160 --> 01:15:42,660 It didn't take any risks. 1638 01:15:42,740 --> 01:15:45,040 And I wish it kind of would have in certain instances. 1639 01:15:45,120 --> 01:15:47,920 But overall, I enjoyed it quite a bit. 1640 01:15:48,000 --> 01:15:53,000 And I want more of this, if not, maybe just a slightly more 1641 01:15:53,080 --> 01:15:55,700 risk-taking version at some point, you know? 1642 01:15:55,780 --> 01:15:57,080 Which I think is kind of what you... 1643 01:15:57,160 --> 01:16:01,120 Yeah, where's the Snyder cut of Super Mario Brothers movie? 1644 01:16:01,120 --> 01:16:03,620 Or Yoshi comes in the movie and just fucking cuts heads off. 1645 01:16:03,700 --> 01:16:06,120 All right, before you ask me, I'm going to ask you. 1646 01:16:06,200 --> 01:16:07,200 OK. 1647 01:16:07,280 --> 01:16:08,240 Five David A. Weiner's. 1648 01:16:08,320 --> 01:16:09,320 Oh, shit. Here we go. 1649 01:16:09,400 --> 01:16:10,620 What are you giving it? 1650 01:16:11,700 --> 01:16:14,740 Oh, I'm going to give Super Mario Brothers movie 1651 01:16:14,820 --> 01:16:17,120 a four out of five David A. Weiner's. 1652 01:16:17,200 --> 01:16:18,700 Wow. OK. OK. 1653 01:16:18,780 --> 01:16:21,120 Wow. That was worth an Owen Wilson. 1654 01:16:21,200 --> 01:16:22,200 Wow. Wow. Yeah. 1655 01:16:22,280 --> 01:16:25,740 So I'm going to give it a three point five. 1656 01:16:25,820 --> 01:16:28,120 OK. I think I was close. 1657 01:16:28,200 --> 01:16:29,540 Yeah. Three point five and four. 1658 01:16:29,540 --> 01:16:33,540 Initially, I wanted to give it a three, but I think after having kind of discussed it 1659 01:16:33,620 --> 01:16:37,540 and kind of just definitely implementing and embedding that idea 1660 01:16:37,620 --> 01:16:42,620 that this was not made for me, but still I had fun watching it, 1661 01:16:42,700 --> 01:16:45,700 that kind of went from a three to a three point five for me. 1662 01:16:45,780 --> 01:16:49,780 So I did enjoy it and it does deserve better than a three. 1663 01:16:49,860 --> 01:16:52,040 So three point five is where I'm at. 1664 01:16:52,120 --> 01:16:53,540 Yeah, I think those are both respectable. 1665 01:16:53,620 --> 01:16:56,160 And I think it's both recommendable from both of us that you should. 1666 01:16:56,240 --> 01:16:58,540 If for some reason you listen to this and you have not watched it, 1667 01:16:58,540 --> 01:17:00,540 but Mario Brothers movie, go check it out. 1668 01:17:00,620 --> 01:17:03,660 Go watch on the biggest screen, the loudest speakers you can find. 1669 01:17:03,740 --> 01:17:05,160 And I think you'll have a good time with it. 1670 01:17:05,240 --> 01:17:08,000 If you have any attachment to the Super Mario Brothers franchise, 1671 01:17:08,080 --> 01:17:11,920 you're going to really enjoy this or kind of, you know, you'll you'll have fun with it. 1672 01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:15,000 As Aaron and I like to say, so that'll do it for our review 1673 01:17:15,080 --> 01:17:16,420 of the Super Mario Brothers movie. 1674 01:17:16,500 --> 01:17:18,920 Aaron, let's get into my favorite topic of this show. 1675 01:17:19,000 --> 01:17:21,000 And that, of course, is Aaron's arcade. 1676 01:17:21,000 --> 01:17:27,000 Aaron's arcade, it's time for Aaron's arcade. 1677 01:17:30,620 --> 01:17:33,240 Fucking love that music, man. 1678 01:17:33,320 --> 01:17:34,380 I fucking love it. 1679 01:17:34,460 --> 01:17:37,340 Love it. Welcome to Aaron's rockative provocative. 1680 01:17:37,420 --> 01:17:38,920 It gets the people going. 1681 01:17:39,000 --> 01:17:39,960 Gets me going. 1682 01:17:40,040 --> 01:17:42,500 Welcome to Aaron's arcade, where I get to talk about whatever the hell 1683 01:17:42,580 --> 01:17:43,880 I want for the next few minutes. 1684 01:17:43,960 --> 01:17:46,160 And you have no choice but to listen, brother. 1685 01:17:46,240 --> 01:17:47,720 Hmm. I got you for three minutes. 1686 01:17:47,800 --> 01:17:49,080 No, three minutes. 1687 01:17:49,080 --> 01:17:51,080 Three minutes playtime. 1688 01:17:51,160 --> 01:17:54,120 So I've been so talking about Megacon earlier. 1689 01:17:54,200 --> 01:17:57,540 I had a great time, again, hanging out with a lot of really cool artists. 1690 01:17:57,620 --> 01:18:00,620 One of the people that I got to hang out with was Ryan Otley. 1691 01:18:00,700 --> 01:18:06,880 Ryan Otley is most famously, I would say most famously known for Invincible. 1692 01:18:06,960 --> 01:18:08,660 So I had to take an opportunity. 1693 01:18:08,740 --> 01:18:11,500 And, you know, I have seen the show on Amazon, 1694 01:18:11,580 --> 01:18:14,580 but I really wanted to read it and see what all the excitement was about 1695 01:18:14,660 --> 01:18:17,300 because they're actually getting ready to talk about or to release. 1696 01:18:17,300 --> 01:18:19,080 Was it season two season two? 1697 01:18:19,160 --> 01:18:20,420 Yeah, they've released a trailer. 1698 01:18:20,500 --> 01:18:22,300 So people are asking like, what's going to happen? 1699 01:18:22,380 --> 01:18:23,760 You know, talking to Ryan Otley about like, love. 1700 01:18:23,840 --> 01:18:25,000 I love Invincible. What's going to happen? 1701 01:18:25,080 --> 01:18:26,800 Season two. Who's going to be the big bad? 1702 01:18:26,880 --> 01:18:29,120 Whatever. So I was like, I got to know more about this. 1703 01:18:29,200 --> 01:18:32,120 So I started reading Invincible from the beginning. 1704 01:18:32,200 --> 01:18:34,760 And Chris, what did you tell me? 1705 01:18:34,840 --> 01:18:36,420 It's a lot. There's a lot. 1706 01:18:36,500 --> 01:18:38,500 There's a lot. It's three omnibuses were. 1707 01:18:38,580 --> 01:18:41,800 Yes. And I'm already hundred and thirty issues. 1708 01:18:41,880 --> 01:18:43,080 I think. Yeah, I'm already. 1709 01:18:43,160 --> 01:18:45,880 I want to say 40 issues in. 1710 01:18:45,880 --> 01:18:47,920 Wow. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah. 1711 01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:53,120 So you're basically you're into like, have you met on shoot? 1712 01:18:53,200 --> 01:18:56,540 I'm forgetting his name now, but he's the guy with the mustache bald mustache. 1713 01:18:58,120 --> 01:18:59,240 Maybe not. You may not be there. 1714 01:18:59,320 --> 01:19:02,200 A lot of Viltrum mights. 1715 01:19:02,280 --> 01:19:04,460 The Viltrum. He's a Viltrum. Yeah, one of the Viltrum. 1716 01:19:04,540 --> 01:19:06,920 A lot of Viltrum bites have mustaches. 1717 01:19:07,000 --> 01:19:08,000 Yeah, I guess they all do. 1718 01:19:08,080 --> 01:19:10,120 So I guess I guess I would say the most 1719 01:19:11,200 --> 01:19:14,200 really relevant character that I've met recently. 1720 01:19:14,200 --> 01:19:16,600 Maybe I'm not 40 ish. I thought I'm pretty far in. 1721 01:19:16,680 --> 01:19:19,800 But I have met Mark's little brother. 1722 01:19:19,880 --> 01:19:21,960 OK. Yeah. OK. 1723 01:19:22,040 --> 01:19:24,320 Because so you're close than what I'm thinking. 1724 01:19:24,400 --> 01:19:25,800 I'm not going to spoil anything. OK. 1725 01:19:25,880 --> 01:19:29,520 So I will tell you, it's it is an amazing book. 1726 01:19:29,600 --> 01:19:33,320 Although there are some issues that are a little wordy, 1727 01:19:33,400 --> 01:19:36,840 it's a very good book and I really enjoy reading it. 1728 01:19:36,920 --> 01:19:40,040 So I'm going to keep people abreast 1729 01:19:40,040 --> 01:19:43,080 of where I'm at while while we're doing this show. 1730 01:19:43,160 --> 01:19:50,320 But I am I'm very much enjoying this more in-depth look at Mark 1731 01:19:50,400 --> 01:19:55,360 and his journey into becoming invincible and and learning that he has to 1732 01:19:55,440 --> 01:19:59,720 because there's a lot of stuff, obviously, that we don't see in the cartoon 1733 01:19:59,800 --> 01:20:01,360 or in the show that's in this. 1734 01:20:01,440 --> 01:20:05,960 And so I'm excited to read more about that on the other side of Aaron's Arcade, 1735 01:20:06,040 --> 01:20:08,160 where I'm actually playing games. 1736 01:20:08,160 --> 01:20:11,520 I've been playing. I don't know if you know this, but I'm a huge Doom head. 1737 01:20:11,600 --> 01:20:16,400 I love Doom games. Mighty Doom on the mobile devices is super fun. 1738 01:20:16,480 --> 01:20:20,080 If you haven't played that, there are some microtransaction you can do, 1739 01:20:20,160 --> 01:20:22,000 but I've been actually having a great time again. 1740 01:20:22,080 --> 01:20:26,800 I am a free to play whore and I love this game. 1741 01:20:26,880 --> 01:20:29,600 It's it's it's just super fun because you can almost upgrade 1742 01:20:29,680 --> 01:20:31,240 just about anything in this game. 1743 01:20:31,320 --> 01:20:33,560 All of your weapons, all of your armor. It's super fun. 1744 01:20:33,640 --> 01:20:36,520 And then the last thing that I'm going to talk about is they finally 1745 01:20:36,520 --> 01:20:43,440 finally released the I guess the update that allows the Halo Master Chief 1746 01:20:43,520 --> 01:20:47,680 collection to be used and played on the Steam Deck. 1747 01:20:47,760 --> 01:20:51,960 It is finally playable and it is good. Nice. 1748 01:20:52,040 --> 01:20:56,200 This is all I've ever wanted from a mobile gaming device was to play 1749 01:20:56,280 --> 01:21:02,680 things like Halo and Doom, Doom Eternal on a mobile platform. 1750 01:21:02,680 --> 01:21:07,800 And it looks great. So if you own a Steam Deck, make sure you pick up 1751 01:21:07,880 --> 01:21:11,120 that that Master Chief collection and start playing with it. 1752 01:21:11,200 --> 01:21:15,080 I went online and I made sure that I found the correct settings, 1753 01:21:15,160 --> 01:21:18,040 the video display settings to get the most out of my Steam Deck. 1754 01:21:18,120 --> 01:21:22,000 And it's capabilities as far as battery life, all that stuff. 1755 01:21:22,080 --> 01:21:24,400 But it's so good. It's so good. 1756 01:21:24,480 --> 01:21:25,920 So make sure you go check that out. 1757 01:21:26,000 --> 01:21:28,240 It's finally available. Halo on the Steam Deck. 1758 01:21:28,320 --> 01:21:29,800 Mighty Doom on mobile. 1759 01:21:29,800 --> 01:21:33,640 And if you haven't read it yet, Ryan Otley's run or like, I mean, 1760 01:21:33,720 --> 01:21:37,400 it's all these guys run of invincible. 1761 01:21:37,480 --> 01:21:38,800 So good. 1762 01:21:38,880 --> 01:21:41,560 And with that, I'm going to shut up because I've been talking for way 1763 01:21:41,640 --> 01:21:43,280 too long, or at least it feels way too long. 1764 01:21:43,360 --> 01:21:46,640 We're going to my favorite part of the show, which is Chris's Corner. 1765 01:21:46,640 --> 01:21:58,080 It's time for Chris's Corner. 1766 01:21:58,160 --> 01:22:01,200 All righty. For Chris's Corner, we're going to be talking about Beef, 1767 01:22:01,280 --> 01:22:04,160 which is a brand new series over on Netflix. 1768 01:22:04,240 --> 01:22:08,080 This is a 10 episode television series that was created by Lee Sung-jin, 1769 01:22:08,160 --> 01:22:10,680 who is the writer and soon to be. 1770 01:22:10,760 --> 01:22:13,480 Well, I think he's just I think actually he's just writing the Marvel 1771 01:22:13,560 --> 01:22:14,960 Studios Thunderbolts film. 1772 01:22:14,960 --> 01:22:16,680 So exciting stuff. 1773 01:22:16,760 --> 01:22:19,160 He does actually doesn't have a ton of credits to his name, but that's OK. 1774 01:22:19,240 --> 01:22:22,880 Beef, it stars Stephen Yen and Ali Wong. 1775 01:22:22,960 --> 01:22:27,360 And these are two people who have had an involvement in a road rage incident 1776 01:22:27,440 --> 01:22:29,040 that begins to consume their lives. 1777 01:22:29,120 --> 01:22:33,120 So essentially what you have is you have Stephen Yen, who is this kind of handy 1778 01:22:33,200 --> 01:22:37,960 man, can't get up in the world, just world against him kind of guy. 1779 01:22:38,040 --> 01:22:39,200 Just nothing goes right. 1780 01:22:39,280 --> 01:22:40,800 So he's got some anger issues. 1781 01:22:40,880 --> 01:22:44,160 And then you have Ali Wong, who is, you know, a very, very 1782 01:22:44,160 --> 01:22:49,040 you know, upper class, has a family, but is unhappy with her husband and just 1783 01:22:49,120 --> 01:22:50,120 like her career. 1784 01:22:50,200 --> 01:22:52,880 And they get in this altercation during this road rage incident. 1785 01:22:52,960 --> 01:22:53,960 It goes viral. 1786 01:22:54,040 --> 01:22:56,960 And a lot of people are talking about it and they just get consumed. 1787 01:22:57,040 --> 01:23:01,000 They eventually figure out who each other are and they start like going after each 1788 01:23:01,080 --> 01:23:05,880 other. And when something goes wrong in one of their lives, instead of dealing 1789 01:23:05,960 --> 01:23:09,720 with it inside their own lives, they go after each other like they almost are 1790 01:23:09,800 --> 01:23:12,760 using each other as like a springboard for their own anger issues. 1791 01:23:12,840 --> 01:23:13,840 It's really interesting. 1792 01:23:13,840 --> 01:23:15,320 It's produced by a twenty four. 1793 01:23:15,400 --> 01:23:17,880 Aaron, you know, I'm a big a twenty four whore. 1794 01:23:17,960 --> 01:23:20,840 So anything a twenty four does, I will at least check out. 1795 01:23:20,920 --> 01:23:24,480 And I'm so happy I did because beef, if you're on the fence for some reason 1796 01:23:24,560 --> 01:23:26,360 about checking the series out, definitely check it out. 1797 01:23:26,440 --> 01:23:27,200 It is awesome. 1798 01:23:27,280 --> 01:23:30,320 I don't know if they have any plans to do any more than one season, but I'm 1799 01:23:30,400 --> 01:23:33,800 only I think I'm four episodes in and it's really awesome. 1800 01:23:33,880 --> 01:23:36,200 So cannot recommend beef over on Netflix. 1801 01:23:36,280 --> 01:23:38,040 It just came out this week, came out April 6th. 1802 01:23:38,120 --> 01:23:39,600 So go check it out. 1803 01:23:39,680 --> 01:23:40,800 Really, really good. 1804 01:23:40,880 --> 01:23:42,360 Once again, beef on Netflix. 1805 01:23:42,360 --> 01:23:45,800 So that'll do it for Chris's corner and that'll do it for episode one. 1806 01:23:45,880 --> 01:23:50,080 Fourteen of the Oblivion Bar podcast, everybody truly appreciate it. 1807 01:23:50,280 --> 01:23:54,280 Next week, Aaron, on the show, finally, we're going to be talking to the one 1808 01:23:54,360 --> 01:23:55,120 and only Kevin Smith. 1809 01:23:55,200 --> 01:23:55,920 Yes. 1810 01:23:56,080 --> 01:23:57,800 And this is a big deal for us. 1811 01:23:57,880 --> 01:24:00,360 This is one of the biggest accolades on the show. 1812 01:24:00,440 --> 01:24:04,000 One of the biggest guests we've ever had here on the Oblivion Bar podcast. 1813 01:24:04,680 --> 01:24:05,760 It's been a long time coming. 1814 01:24:05,840 --> 01:24:07,760 We've had to reschedule a couple of times, but that's OK. 1815 01:24:08,000 --> 01:24:11,480 Any any chance we can get him on the show, we will work with it and be flexible. 1816 01:24:11,480 --> 01:24:13,120 So excited to talk to Mr. 1817 01:24:13,200 --> 01:24:13,600 Smith. 1818 01:24:14,320 --> 01:24:19,200 He is a nerd legend and just excited to pick his brain. 1819 01:24:19,360 --> 01:24:21,000 So that'll be coming up on episode one. 1820 01:24:21,080 --> 01:24:21,600 Fifteen. 1821 01:24:22,240 --> 01:24:25,960 Once again, I will keep everyone updated on my progress in terms of, you know, 1822 01:24:26,720 --> 01:24:29,200 the the colon cancer of it all. 1823 01:24:29,520 --> 01:24:32,600 So make sure you follow us on socials if you care to follow that. 1824 01:24:32,680 --> 01:24:33,520 I'll follow along with that. 1825 01:24:34,000 --> 01:24:35,680 And yeah, that'll do it for episode one. 1826 01:24:35,760 --> 01:24:37,000 Fourteen. Aaron, go and take us out of here. 1827 01:24:37,000 --> 01:24:41,040 I'm really looking forward to the sequel series to beef chicken. 1828 01:24:42,280 --> 01:24:42,880 Liver. 1829 01:24:46,080 --> 01:24:49,680 Subscribe to our podcast, Apple Podcasts, to your Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, 1830 01:24:49,760 --> 01:24:51,240 Amazon Music and iHeartRadio. 1831 01:24:51,880 --> 01:24:54,920 Join our Patreon community, patreon.com forward slash Oblivion Bar Pod. 1832 01:24:55,000 --> 01:24:59,000 Thank you to our patrons, Aaron, Greg, Sebastian, Brad B, Rob, David, Travis, 1833 01:24:59,080 --> 01:25:03,880 Jeff, Jay, Cassidy, George, Christie, Alex, Kyle, Haley, Jeff, S, Lozi, Jeremy, 1834 01:25:03,880 --> 01:25:07,040 and Brad and Lisa from Comic Book Couples Counseling. 1835 01:25:07,320 --> 01:25:10,520 Follow us on social media, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter at Oblivion 1836 01:25:10,520 --> 01:25:13,600 Bar Pod. 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Thank you. 1848 01:25:45,200 --> 01:25:48,960 And last but not least, as Chris would tell you every single day, every single 1849 01:25:48,960 --> 01:25:52,880 night before he kisses you to sleep, softly, right on the forehead. 1850 01:25:53,240 --> 01:25:56,960 Do not forget to tip your bartenders 20 percent or more, or you will wake up in a 1851 01:25:56,960 --> 01:25:58,600 sweat because of all the nightmares. 1852 01:25:59,120 --> 01:26:00,680 That's right. Yeah, 20 percent or more. 1853 01:26:00,680 --> 01:26:02,760 Anything less than 20 percent is wrong. 1854 01:26:02,760 --> 01:26:05,640 And thank you guys so much for listening to the Oblivion Bar Podcast. 1855 01:26:05,640 --> 01:26:31,920 We appreciate it. We will see you next week for Episode 115.