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Deadpool & Wolverine Review + Villains, The Olympics and More!
Today the boys (well Eric and Nitro) give their review of the Summer blockbuster Deadpool & Wolverine. Did they love it? Did they hate it? Did they want to build a snowman after? Find out in this mildly spoilery episode where Eric and Nitro talk about the high-octane action, stunning cameos and thoughts on the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe!
That’s not all, they also recap the Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony; Nitro wraps up season 3 of The Boys and AP shares reviews of two thrillers that he’s finally removed from his queue, 2019’s Villains starring Bill Skarsgard (IT Chapters 1 and 2) and Maika Monroe (Longlegs) and 2015’s The Gift starring Joel Edgerton (Star Wars: The Phantom Menace), Jason Bateman (Arrested Development) and Rebecca Hall (Godzilla x Kong).
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sit at my desktop I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna get this jump start on this, I'm gonna start editing, and then I see, see, ap writing. I'm like, I see you did I distract you and then I go to my desktop and I'm like, oh, I need to clear by all my icons, and then it's like I completely sidetracked. Terrible, terrible oh my god, okay, all right ready, all right, ready. Ap channeled his inner bad. You ruined it.
Speaker 2:Now I ruined it. Now I ruined it. All right, go Go.
Speaker 1:AP channeled his inner bad guy with villains, and Eric and I left Deadpool really wanting to build a snowman on this week's episode of Whatcha Watchin'. Welcome to Whatcha Watchin'. Presented by Geeky A Go-Go, a show where we dive into what's currently on our screens. Big screens or little screens, size matter not here, just the quality or lack thereof, of our cues. Gentlemen, this week has been an insanely epic week for Ryan Reynolds and Mr Hugh Jackman. They are the it guys of the interwebs, the media everywhere, and Eric and I had the absolute pleasure of seeing them on the big screen. Anthony, I mean, we don't have to rat you out it's fine.
Speaker 2:It's fine. I did not. I have yet to see it. I don't know when I'm going to see. I might try to sneak out of my house tonight to go see a showing you're going to have to. I am going to like the most remote part of Italy and there's like I don't even think there's a store to buy groceries in. I don't know why my wife picked this town.
Speaker 1:You're going to go buy a home for a dollar. That's what it is. Did you guys buy a house? Is that what I was going to say?
Speaker 2:It was $3. Thank you very much, big spender over here.
Speaker 3:Made by AP Italian Edition. That's right over here. Made by AP Italian Edition.
Speaker 2:That's right. That's right. Yes, we're going to be live on location in international waters, but the sad point is, while I will be enjoying the beautiful Amalfi Coast, I will not have the opportunity to see this, possibly until I get back a week from tomorrow. So I know I'm not going to avoid spoilers because it's already been spoiled. So you guys just let it all out. Just let it all out. Just break it. For me I don't care.
Speaker 1:I'm sure, ryan.
Speaker 2:Reynolds doesn't care either.
Speaker 1:No, we're not going to. There are some like oh, I'm spoiling everything Now.
Speaker 2:Remember, though, it was opening weekend. This episode comes out tomorrow, Monday, the Monday after opening weekend. I feel like we need to. We can't go too crazy with the spoilers, because we're going to really make mad the few people who listen to this show.
Speaker 3:Again, like I said, Marvel ruined it already.
Speaker 2:All right, all right.
Speaker 3:They publicly went out and told everybody about this. All right, all right, spoil it away, then Spoil it already.
Speaker 2:They publicly went out and told everybody about these. Alright, alright, spoil it away then.
Speaker 1:Not only that, a lot of movie theaters have been doing the midnight matinees to get the weekend started, and this and that there were full-on movie showings early in the morning on Thursday. There was a fan event at the Jersey Gardens AMC at like 3 in the afternoon. So there was a fan event at the Jersey Gardens AMC at like 3 in the afternoon. So there were showings all over the place and numerous showings all day long on Thursday. So they really got to jump on the weekend. So this is four days, and tomorrow will be five days of just full-blown availability to watch these films. So if you haven't seen them yet, I feel bad for you.
Speaker 2:I was willing to be reserved but eric is going to, let's go there. It is there, it is All right. Well, how was it?
Speaker 1:Tell us all about it. I mean, for me it was. We were kind of toying around with, like, what are the catchphrases we should say? For me it was an extremely good welcome to the MCU for both of the characters. Right, it was funny, there was tension. I mean, for me the multiverse is getting a little bit tired, but I think they did it really well with tons of humor like music and basically dancing, which was actually good, stunt choreography and whatnot, but super good, like tons and tons and tons and tons and tons of cameos throughout the entire film. I'm not going to jump to the discobol rating yet.
Speaker 3:I want to hear eric's thoughts on this, but I think you know what's interesting is uh, hold on, it's interesting. You said it's a welcome to the mcu marvel universe situation. It felt more like that uh than oh. I mean, yes, they, it was a nice intro integration, uh. But you know, I felt a little bit more like the this is more of a goodbye than anything else.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, I could see that. I see what you're talking about. There's something that happens during the credits that I don't want to completely spoil, but it's definitely worth watching, and I see where Eric's going down the path of that thought, so I'm on board with that, eric. That's a very cherry on top. I like how you're thinking there.
Speaker 2:Good job, Eric.
Speaker 1:Definitely, but in that same vein, I think it is. You know, yes, it's a goodbye to one, but it's also a welcome to the other. The thing that I liked the most, or one of the things I liked the most, I should say, was they pulled because of all those cameos, they pulled many other pieces of IP with them, right? Yeah, lots of, like I said, character appearances that were in other franchises and just hey, you're all coming with us, hop on board to the Deadpool and Wolverine train. So they weren't like the exact like hey, how do we get these people involved? In a subtle way, it was like nope, you're with us, let's go. Um, kind of encompassing the entire thing. So that's how I felt about it, eric. What? What are your thoughts? Deeper thoughts.
Speaker 3:I, I think that we knew this was going to be a tricky because we don't know when, when they were announcing the phases you don't know where deadpool movies come into these phases of mcu, um, and so it was always going to be interesting how they integrate all these stories. We knew it's going to be cameo heavy, uh. But going back to my earlier thought around this tying together is a lot of what chris is talking about here around, like the, the characters that they pulled in a universe. They pulled in, yes, they pulled in a bunch from the current mcu, but I feel like they pulled in a lot more of the past, characters that never got a goodbye right, like they never got like a, like a send-off, um, and I will say, and I'm I'm pretty much on the internet but like the cameos that showed up, like you're talking about, like far back to the 90s, of uh, of of marvel, characters that were outside of this entire world that got brought in yes and um, and they weren't.
Speaker 3:Like it was surprising actually how heavy of a role that some of these characters played. Like when we talk about cameo, you think that it's going to be just like uh, uh, oh, they show for like three seconds and maybe they go away. Like there are a few characters with substantial roles that that led to the end of essentially the, the, the show, oh wow, um, which I was really really really kind of impressed by. What I thought was also interesting is a lot of the usual characters from the earlier deadpool movies. They were just there. They were actually. They feel more like cameos actually in the show than anything else. Like they were there at the beginning to do a setup and they were there at the end to do some closing. But I really, really liked it. You know it was nice and surprising.
Speaker 3:You know I think that we went in looking at the Rotten Tomatoes again to see what the critics and, you know, like the fan. I think this is another one of those movies where, like the fan, like loved it, and the critics are like man, now, if I have to be critical and take a step back and go like was this a great movie, I'll be like. I guess it's okay, it's a standalone movie, but I think it taps into so much of all the fans and all the stories and all that kind of stuff which it made it a very, very enjoyable movie. There were a lot of dancing, the opening credit was pretty much, and the opening scene was pretty much to like NSYNC's bye, bye, bye oh, come on really. And Ryan Reynolds did a full bye, bye, bye choreography and it was insanely awesome, just so well timed too. You know, it's a tap into so much of this kind of nostalgia factor. So I don't know, anthony, I feel like you need to go out and go see it tonight.
Speaker 2:So I well, you know, I might, I might, it depends on on who all is still awake by the time we finish recording this. So so question for you guys Do you think this? So? I believe yesterday, yes, yesterday at San Diego Comic-Con, marvel's panel announced that there's going to be two new Avengers movies coming out by the Russo brothers in 26, 27. Avengers Doomsday, I believe, and something Wars, secret Wars, secret Wars, thank you. Do you think that? We will finally see? Now that you know, chris, to your point, it's a welcome to the mcu. Do you think we'll see wolverine and deadpool show up in? Because they're not avengers in the in the comic, they're not avengers in the comic. Um, in the marvel mcu, right, they're just these kind of ancillary characters like the. It's the x-men over here, it's the avengers over here, uh, but they're not, not in the same, okay. So do you think we'll see Deadpool, ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman's Wolverine in any of these upcoming Avengers movies in 25 and 26? No, really, I don't think so.
Speaker 1:Okay, If Deadpool not at all. No way.
Speaker 2:No chance. Oh really, Deadpool not at all. No way, no chance.
Speaker 1:Oh really, he is not Like the Avenger films. Although can be comedic, they are not of the same vein as Deadpool. No way, I don't think America would allow for a rated R Avengers film. A lot of people would probably like it, but I don't think he belongs there. Like know, with you know, captain america, and like things with symbolism and like the greatest avenger and the strongest avenger and all those things. It's like, you know, really heroes that people aspire to be and look up to, whereas deadpool's like okay, that's deadpool. Um, yeah, I don't think at all. If wolverine were to make an appearance, I think, uh, it would be an overarching, an x-men type of thing, right, like a whole team cameo like hey, we're really down. You know, we're not really. We're really bad straights here. We need help from other teams, and then the x-men show up. That's how I would envision it. I don't know, eric, what do you think? Yeah, I don't, I don't think they're coming. Actually, I think that and that's why I said I don't know, eric, what do you think?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't think they're coming. Actually, I think that, and that's why I said I didn't think of this as an intro like welcome to the MCU. I think they welcomed mutants to the MCU, but I mean, I'll just start going through spoilery territory. Yeah, we all saw in the trailer that the time variant authority is involved somehow, right, and so what we found out this time is because, um, the reason that the, uh, the deadpool's world is ending is because a very important person in this world is ending, it has passed away and, as a result, that timeline is about to disappear, because every timeline has an anchor, like an anchor character. In this case, I'm pretty sure and I need to watch it again uh, that deadpool and old man logan like exists in the same universe. And because logan died, deadpool's world is ending and and so the whole point is uh, is that, uh, ryan reynolds, deadpool need to go find uh logan to help him, essentially, save his world. That's the whole point. So, um, when I said that, uh, they might not show up, is because a lot of these characters that they brought in I think it's intentionally like alternative characters that could have happened, uh and uh, or have happened in the past, right. So even just in the trailer you saw, um, well, I mean, yeah, there's the trailer where you're facing off against, like, uh, all the evil villains these are all alternate universe villains, slash people who's been there in the past.
Speaker 3:I don't think any of them are going to come back to the mainstream main, main main timeline essentially. Um, which actually? Uh, talk about timeline, because I do think that it brings up an interesting point you talk about, like the san diego comic-con announcement. They also announced what a cop-out. They're bringing back robert downey jr, my god, yeah, as dr doom, so which actually jives pretty well.
Speaker 3:Actually, I think, with there was a theory out there that the fantastic four was going to be happening in a different timeline. And, you know, because they were doing all these like 60s, I think, or 50s, like motif and kind of ads, right. So like I think that the MCU is heading in a direction where they're going to be establishing multiple main timelines, possibly where things are happening, and then I think with, like you know, uh, what's the thing? Doom, what, doomsday, doomsday, uh, and, I think, secret wars. I think that's when they're you're gonna start seeing these timelines really crossing back together. So I would just say, like well, that boom wolverine ended with, with telling you that I don't think these two characters are in the main prime like mcu timeline. They're actually in a separate timeline. They they could cross timelines but they're still in that timeline and I think that you know with all the MCUs that's happening. I think we're beginning to see a world where there's going to be multiple timelines happening at the same time with little things kind of cross over between them.
Speaker 1:That's kind of the premise of what, if right, the cartoon series on Disney+. It's a cheap I shouldn't say cheap, it's a mechanism to just do whatever you want, right, because you could say, oh, that's not part of this timeline and we're done here, so it it's almost like rebooting it without caring about the original material, the source material, right, because it's like, okay, whatever, like it, you know it, we. So we know robert downey jr is going to be victor von doom, but is he tony stark, right? Is he tony stark dr doom or is he victor von doom? Completely different character? I don't know, you know. Uh, maybe, maybe they're relatives and so it's like they're twins and they were separated at birth and one of them went off and he got raised in some kind of bavarian castle, you know, and who knows, because it's all timeline stuff. Yeah, you know it's. It all remains to be seen. And you know, in the mind of the, the, the time keepers of the mcu, I don't know.
Speaker 3:I mean, they pretty much did too. I think it's no different than Lucasfilm when they got bought right and then all the legends that became legends. But somehow in the last few decades they started building back in these characters into the main storyline, but their take of it right, and I think that we're going to start seeing the same thing, because I still don't think that there has been a meaningful way that mutants have been explained in MCU. But now we're being comfortable with some of these things and I think it will be interesting in the next few phases of the movies and I don't even know what's coming out next to see kind of how these things are going to get introduced into the fold.
Speaker 2:That's an interesting theory about Tony Stark. What's his name? Robert Downey Jr, and being so, do you think? First, okay, a couple of things. First of all, these timeline things. This is why I cannot stand the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It drives me. My fragile brain cannot process all of this stuff, which is sad because I really like some of the movies. Like there's a lot of good stuff out there, but this whole timeline multiverse crazy. If Star Wars ever goes down the route of a multiverse, I'm going to explode. So I am not a huge Marvel Universe fan, so so forgive my ignorance here. Do you think to your point about kind of like the alternate universe? So do you think Tony Stark will actually be Doctor Doom in an alternate universe, or they're going to reposition Robert Downey Jr, the actor, as a completely different character?
Speaker 3:It's a different character. There has to be a different character. There's no way it's Tony Stark, tony Stark's dead, dead. I don't think they'll touch tony stark again in one timeline, correct? But see, that's why. That's why that's what I'm saying, that's what I'm saying this is gonna be, I bet the fantastic four, yeah, and and victor found doom and all their associated characters, silver server, all these kind of things. I bet. All these things are happening.
Speaker 3:Another timeline and something disastrous happened and it ended up in the prime marvel timeline okay, and that's how they get introduced and I bet there's gonna be things like wow, you look just like tony stark, like they're gonna have a throwaway line in there somewhere, sure. But also remember, like robert dine jr was 20 years younger when he was filming as iron man, like, and now he's, he's becoming a different actor and it's very possible that they're just gonna put him that way and just go like this is a whole different kind of dude and make up and all that kind of stuff I don't know that'll be interesting.
Speaker 2:Um, because I don't think we've yet seen a recycled actor in a we we have who.
Speaker 1:Oh, he's not an MCU character, although now he is an MCU character and Eric knows what I'm talking about but it's a huge spoiler and I do not want to ruin it for you. Okay.
Speaker 3:Wait hold on. What did I know? What are you talking about from this movie, Chris?
Speaker 2:This movie there was a recycled actor I'll give you one hint, eric.
Speaker 1:Oh yes, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 3:The one thing I did not want to spoil for Anthony.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, all right, all right, all right, all right.
Speaker 3:Actually, there are two characters that I did not want to spoil for you in this movie.
Speaker 2:Okay, all right. In this movie, but they are recycled actors that were playing one character in the MCU and now they're playing a new character in the MCU.
Speaker 3:Let us just say that, similar to Ryan Reynolds, who has had multiple character appearances in Marvel properties in the past, actually superhero properties in general, so has this gentleman.
Speaker 2:Okay, oh, ooh, okay, so now we know the gender. Okay, all right, all right, yes, yes, yes, okay, cool, oh okay god damn it. Uh, we'll see if I can try to get to it tonight.
Speaker 3:I don't, I can't make any promises I will just say that, uh, since we're going, I'm just gonna go spoil this damn thing. It's come at me three listener to this podcast. So, uh, uh, imagine the world, like just anything. Think about all the superhero marvel movies that has happened in the past. Like there were only maybe one or two that I was surprised did not make a cameo in chris, but then I realized those might not have been fox marvel movies. I think that these are characters that are belong to some other random studio that didn't make the cut. But like, if you just think back to all the movies, I'm talking like all the way back you're talking like I'm trying to think like the obvious is Sony.
Speaker 2:Then there's Fox Universal was that Fantastic Four or the original Fantastic Four? Then there's Fox Universal. Was that Fantastic Four or the?
Speaker 3:original Fantastic Four the Hulk is owned by Universal.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:Got it All right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the only other one that I thought of was New Line Cinema, but he's in this, so hold on.
Speaker 2:Oh, so you're like throwing things thing.
Speaker 1:so so it was a new line cinema marvel movie no, the character, the character we're specifically talking about is not new line okay, got it, got it I wonder who owns.
Speaker 3:Um, I won't just say someone who did not show up, uh, ghost writers didn't show up, yeah, I don't even know what studio that was like oh, okay, okay, I just looked it up. You know ghost writers back with mcu. It was with sony, and sony destroyed those movies and so marvel got the rights back and so ghost rider already showed up in like agents of shield, so that isn't really like a brand new thing got it, got it nice but anthony man, like I will say some of the things that's been leaked.
Speaker 3:So, uh, uh, daphne king, who we just saw in the acolyte, you know, played a, a nice role, uh, in this movie nice uh, x23, okay, oh, she is a mutant okay well, she was the she was, uh, she showed up for the first time in logan. That's how the world knew oh, no way she's a little girl no kidding.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, I had no idea that was such a good movie too, okay so she's back okay, okay, all right, all right, all right and she's playing the same character yes, yeah, wow, okay oh god, the other three is just so good.
Speaker 3:I did not. I don't want to keep going deep into it, chris all right, anthony.
Speaker 1:Your choices are 10 10 pm. 11 10 pm. 11 30 pm, 11.10 pm, 11.30 pm, 10.40 pm, 12.01 am.
Speaker 3:And just to drive Chris's point home, I just looked up a movie theater in the Amalfi Coast, which there is only one. Your only choice is Inside Out 2 or something to do with the Despicables. So you know that's what you got.
Speaker 2:Who knew the Amalfi coast was so family friendly with their cinema selection? Despicable me inside out too. All right, all right, so so okay, I, I know I have to see this. I feel like I'm dragging our episode down today by not having seen it. I apologize to you too and our listeners. Uh, but I will go see it. And, um, I will give you my unfiltered review, uh, when we, when we regroup, um, so, so, disco anything. Any last words before you share your disco balls?
Speaker 1:let's go for a disco balls, disco balls, eric, go ahead I'm gonna get this a four.
Speaker 3:I uh I thoroughly enjoyed it. I uh it's a solid, solid four. Story wise, I didn't think it moved anything forward all that much, uh, and but as a fan, I I very much enjoyed it and, like I said, I continue to be surprised by just how well the story kind of came together.
Speaker 1:So that's a four for me nice, I'm gonna put it in a realm of superhero films okay but it's getting a five.
Speaker 1:What, what it is? It is so that not not on the scale of is this going to win academy awards and screen actors guilds, awards or anything like? None of that, none of that. Okay, we're not. We're taking, we're, we're, we're. What is it called? The bell curve or whatever? Um, we, we're taking that aside and putting it into the category of superhero films and it's getting a solid five. Disco balls, it's just. It's hilarious. The actors good. It is 100% fan service. There's tons and tons of little Easter eggs in it. I thought I saw articles that said like the 100 Easter eggs in Deadpool and Wolverine, and I'm like I didn't even catch that many. Or maybe I did, I just didn't consider it an Easter egg.
Speaker 3:Great, fantastic funny film and like just to let you know, anthony, the kind of characters that Fox produced starting in the year 2000 include X-Men, x2, daredevil, elektra, fantastic Four, x-men, the Last Stand well, it's all these Fantastic Four and X-Men movies, deadpool, and those are just some of the movies that you can draw from some of these characters that might be showing up.
Speaker 2:All right, all right, wow, okay, awesome, all right. So four and a five average, right. So four and a five, average it out to four and a half. I think that's probably one of our highest rated disco balls so far. Out of 30, almost 40 episodes.
Speaker 1:Wow Okay, very cool, very cool.
Speaker 3:Antony, since you didn't watch Deadpool, what did you watch? Are you going to make fun of another Eastern European?
Speaker 2:horror film somewhere and get called out about it. I actually gave a very nice review of that movie and I'm glad I did, because the star of the movie actually commented on our video on YouTube. So I'm glad it wasn't Torben who was listening to the shade I threw at his high school musical performance beard Fakie McBeardface. Fakie McBeardface, master Fakie McBeardface, all right, so I didn't watch anything nearly as cool as Deadpool and Wolverine, so I watched the movie Villains, and I actually watched this a little while ago and I I I'm reviewing it now because I kind of mentioned it when I did my review of Long Legs. Long Legs Villain stars Micah Monroe, who was in Long Legs with Bill Skarsgård, and Jeffrey Donovan and Keira Sedgwick, and so it's they're the four primary actors in this film and pretty much the film. The premise is Micah Monroe and Bill Skarsgård, I believe they just robbed a gas station or something like that Armed, armed robbery. They zoom off and then they get into a car accident and they have to run into the woods and they find this big house that looks like no one's home and so they break into the house just to try to recuperate, get something to eat and try to figure out what to do next when, all of a sudden, the owners of the house show up, which is Kara, kira Sedgwick and Jeffrey Donovan. Kira Sedgwick she's. I haven't actually seen her in anything recently. This is probably the most recent thing I've seen her in. She is Miss Kevin Bacon. She was in lots of movies in the 80s and 90s. Jeffrey Donovan he is in Burn Notice and a bunch of other TV shows Law and Order he does lots of Law and Order stuff, but it's this couple. You almost get this vibe that they're in the South, like Georgia. They have these thick Southern accents and they're trying to diffuse the situation of the fact that these two people broke into their house and and then all of a sudden the tables turn and this nice, sweet, southern type of couple imprisons Bill Skarsgård and Micah Monroe and they have to escape for survival. You almost get these vibes of did you guys ever see, uh, the people under the stairs? Uh, west craven early 90s. Uh, kid breaks into this creepy old house and come to find out there's all these people that have been locked up in the basement, uh, and they've become albino because they haven't seen the light in years and years. Anyway, you get that kind of vibe from this film where you know you have this nice, loving, seemingly loving couple and then all of a sudden they're they're very nefarious and they, they're very wicked people and they lock up Bill Skarsgård, michael Monroe.
Speaker 2:It is a borderline dark comedy, dark comedy thriller. I wouldn't call it a horror at all. A lot of fun. It came out in 2019, I believe I put it in the show notes, but my show notes have closed. I believe it's streaming on Amazon Prime as well as Peacock AMC Plus, if you have that. Yeah, it's billed as a comedy slash drama, slash horror on IMDb, so definitely check it out. I would give it a three and a half disco balls. It was a fun watch. It's always nice to see actors do different things, like Bill Skarsgård. He is a very talented actor.
Speaker 2:He's been Pennywise, a very talented actor he's been Pennywise. He's been one of the antagonists in the John Wick series. He now plays this goofy gas station robber slash victim in Villain. So it's fun to kind of see people stretch their acting chops, and the same with Micah Monroe. She's just a wonderful actor to watch. So yeah, three and a half disco balls for the Villains on Amazon Prime.
Speaker 1:Nice, when did that come out? That's not a recent film, is it?
Speaker 2:It's not, it's 2019. It was actually, I think it premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in 2019. And that's where it picked up its small distribution. I don't even know who the film festival in 2019 and that's where it picked up its small distribution. I don't even know who the distributor of it is, but we were just looking for something to to watch and this looked interesting. Oh yeah, sony Pictures is the distributor. Universal let's see gunpowder and sky is the US distributor. Never heard of them. Sony is their non-US distributor. Comes from Braun Studios. Braun Studios did the Ghostbusters, most recent Ghostbusters movies as well. Braun Studios does a lot of really interesting films.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, definitely check it out, cool, wait, and just to tie into our earlier point, I think this is the movie that he did right after Deadpool 2, which I didn't even know he was the deadpool's two oh, with scars guard, I I am.
Speaker 2:I am about to hand over my nerd card I have yet to see.
Speaker 3:Deadpool 2 I don't need to see it for this. You don't need to see it for this movie.
Speaker 2:You don't need to see it to see this movie and I love Deadpool 1. Deadpool's probably my favorite MCU character, but I just haven't seen Deadpool 2 yet. There's so much stuff to watch out there. I mean, I listen to this podcast called Geeky A Go-Go and they're just constantly churning out their favorite shows and my queue is just exploding. Alright, Chris, favorite shows. And my queue is just exploding. Alright, Chris, back to you. What do you? What's your? What's your round two? Are we doing a round two today?
Speaker 1:sure we'll do a round two what's your round two?
Speaker 1:we'll do quick, okay in the vein of superheroes right and the merc with the mouth right. That's what. That's what his, his name is. Um, I finished watching, uh, the boys season three. Holy bloody cow batman.
Speaker 1:That show doesn't cease to amaze me in their creative ways to off people. It's just one after the other, after the other. I'm like whoa, I didn't know they were going to do that For me. Gratuitous violence aside, I think it's for me like, the gratuitous violence aside, right, I, I think it's. It's pretty funny. It is a little too realistic with its political tendencies in the current state of the world, but, um, it's kind of. It kind of is like trying to make you understand what would happen in current politics if you throw superheroes into the mix, which is kind of like what the Watchmen did back in the 80s. So I think that's why I kind of like the Boys, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Speaker 1:I do enjoy the Boys season three. I'm looking forward to a season four. I'm pretty like. I don't think they announced it or anything like that, but there's no way that they're going to leave it where they have left it, unless the cast just is like we're all walking away from this, we're not doing this anymore. I think that's the only way this show could get ruined. Yeah, I, I, I like the boys, season three and the and the whole show in its entirety. So yeah, keeping it quick, I definitely recommend watching it. If you haven't, this specific season, I will give it four disco balls.
Speaker 2:Wow, you're very generous with your disco balls today.
Speaker 3:Yes, Once again being very loose with his balls.
Speaker 2:Loose with his balls. It's the shiny disco balls. You just want to give them balls for everybody.
Speaker 3:I think here they had to rename the last episode of the season due to current event.
Speaker 1:Oh yes, they had to put a disclaimer up and, yes, there was a renaming of the episode title, I think.
Speaker 2:But yeah, I mean like I said.
Speaker 1:I do love the voice. It's very, very, like I said, very close to World War Politics right now. So, with that aside, you know, remember, this is fantastic in the sense that it's a fantasy, it is a work of fiction, but sometimes art imitates life and vice versa.
Speaker 2:so, yeah, that's it, eric one thing about the boys I have not, so I finished season one. I never watched season two or season three. I just couldn't get into it. I want to get back into it, but you're right about their. They have, like, no lack of creativity when it comes to killing off people. I think the first episode of the entire series doesn't like. They have no lack of creativity when it comes to killing off people.
Speaker 3:I think the first episode of the entire series doesn't the fast guy run through someone, and it's just blood everywhere.
Speaker 2:That's the first season. Yeah, right, exactly. That's just spectacular.
Speaker 3:I mean there are some classic ways in season two that happened.
Speaker 1:Speaking of Fantastic Desk, I I mean I'm just saying deadpool and wolverine also had some fantastic death scenes, so also rated r okay, eric, do you want to buy anthony his ticket to like ensure that he's gonna go so he doesn't feel bad he's wasting?
Speaker 2:we really should, we really should let me see if everybody's asleep upstairs. If everybody's asleep, I'll just leave. Nice, it's like where did that? Go where's daddy daddy's at the movie theater so he can be as cool as his friends, uh all right, sorry, eric, eric, what you're watching uh, no, there's no, no disco balls associated with what I'm doing right now, but the olympics has happened this week.
Speaker 3:It's gonna be happening for the next two weeks. Uh, I'm a big fan of the olympics, both winter and summer, uh, and so I've been just following up on all sorts of olympics around the clock. Um, I've been also watching some european streams of the olympics, so I'm getting some a lot of covers. I think nbc when they covered the o Olympics, they select the more US-centric ones where Americans are going to do very, very well, which makes sense. But, for example, today I saw a really thrilling competition between the US women's soccer team against the Germans Fantastic, there was some excitement already in the world of, I think, archery, where it came down to like a I don't know what the what the term for is, but it's like a shootout between the two teams.
Speaker 3:It was really sick. It's like so close to the point where they're taking out magnifying glasses to measure things. Um, some swimming competitions already been happening and, uh, simone Biles has been like crushing, I think, like breaking social record again that's happening, so really excited. Uh, break dancing, I think, is a sport for the first time. I'm I'm excited to see kind of how that actually works uh in the Olympics did that start yet?
Speaker 3:yeah, I don't think. I'm not sure, actually I haven't seen it, uh, but that's a new one that I'm looking forward to, uh. Other than that, you know, I think, uh, I'm just excited for Olympics that's happening. This week.
Speaker 1:Did you catch the opening ceremony? I sure did.
Speaker 3:Thoughts I sure did, I, as someone who used to run events for a living, I think, major points for creativity. For creativity, I think, to the paris organizing committee where obviously, you know, I think, in early days of planning it, they want to say paris should be an essential part of this thing. Right, and you know? Uh, they like the march of nations is down, the parade of nations is down, like four miles of a river, right, like that's impressive, right, uh, they had like events happening all across the city of paris, essentially throughout the whole opening ceremony. Um, what was disappointing were, I think, they won some of these things. They tried to go to avant-garde on this, they went too french on some of these things, which it is what it is, but I went.
Speaker 3:Would I have done that? That seems like only you guys will appreciate this. And then, um, two, uh, I mean gosh, you can't. Um, there's just certain things that that doesn't make sense when you're out in the wild. Like camera position wasn't great. Some of these things wasn't great. Um, like, there are things where I remember there's just a bunch of people walking around like these are people who are like I was like why are these walking around on a bridge? Oh, they're trying to get to that next thing.
Speaker 3:And then three like the weather, like unfortunate. Like the I'm obviously saying outdoor venue. I mean I think this is for the first time that anyone's ever done like this. People usually doing a stadium for a reason. They did it outdoor and start it started raining like 10 into the show and there are just things they're just taking away but you can see the vision right, like the spoiler alert they end it with like they lit the cauldron. The cauldron flow like is a hot air balloon that flew into the sky and now it's going to be lit there in the city of paris for the next two weeks. That is sick. Like imagine if you see that. That's really sick.
Speaker 3:And then, like talk about cameos, like Celine Dion saved the entire opening ceremony. I mean, my goodness, like she. Just I was like, oh, there's Celine Dion and there she is at the Eiffel Tower singing and being a good old Celine, and you know, like, get me. Like I was like thank God she saved like the meandering mess that was kind of happening a little bit before this thing, and but so I will say you know, gosh, I think great vision, I think reality struck when it comes to execution, is very disappointing, I think, for a lot of people. So that was my thought. What about you? What'd you guys think you guys saw it I caught.
Speaker 1:So I I only caught the little bit of the beginning of the opening ceremony because I had to go to work. But for me it was weird and I understandably why. But I've always known the opening ceremony to, you know, to start with like a whole performance, a whole performance and history of the country and whatnot, which the French did do. But when I turned the TV on, it started with a parade of athletes and I'm like, did I miss this? I thought it was starting now Because it's like you said, it's a four-mile thing through a river and you have to get hundreds of people, thousands of athletes on boats and just literally parade them through the Seine. I was like, okay, it kind of makes sense, they have to start this concurrently as everything is going on. And then I found it weird, and I'm sure people can beat me up about this, but as much as a Francophile as she is, why would you start the show with Lady Gaga? She's an American, right, like she's show.
Speaker 1:Celine Dion is not French either. I mean French-Canadian. I'll buy that a little bit more than lady gaga, because you could look like. I said she, she speaks french. I've seen her in interviews. She's I I have. I don't speak any french at all so I can't judge her, but she knows what she's doing and I'm like, why would you start with an american? And, like I said, good for international relations. But I was like, all right, cool, like props to you guys for scoring one of the top world talents to sing a song in complete french. So, but that's all I got. That goes, as, as lady god was performing, I had to head out to work, so I didn't really get to see much else yeah, I, I 100 agree with that.
Speaker 3:I, uh, I did. There are things where I go. You could have selected an old french, I think, um performer. Like it was strange, like especially uh well, think about it toward the end like why was serena williams there to kind of like tour, like handing out the tours toward the end, like it feels like you should have been highlighting a lot more French athletes toward the end of that entire thing.
Speaker 1:Snoop Dogg.
Speaker 3:Well, snoop Dogg is wonderful and Snoop Dogg should be in every single event and commentating on all these things, snoop Dogg holding a blunt-shaped thing that's on fire.
Speaker 3:They interviewed him before he went. They like oh, snoop, like you know, exciting to see you going to the olympics to come and pay down things which, if you don't, if you don't know why, look up snoop dogg and kevin hart commentating on the olympics last like a few years ago, fantastic. And then snoop dogg is returning to provide his unique perspective. And one of the interviewers was like snoop, you know, marijuana is illegal in in france. And he's like oh, I know the law, I'm gonna observe the law. I'm like yeah, okay cool, awesome.
Speaker 1:I mean, look the parade. They not the parade. The olympics in in general is one of the nearest and dearest things that I hold to me. I actually attended the Olympics in Greece. I know Eric likes to bust my chops about how Greek I am. That's how Greek I am.
Speaker 3:I actually went to the Olympics in.
Speaker 1:Greece.
Speaker 2:Everybody likes to bust your chops about how Greek you are. You're almost too.
Speaker 1:Greek, exactly, but no, it's a showcase of all the world's uh best, and so I I wish the best to all the athletes. I hope everyone gets golds that they want to get, uh, that earn the golds, um, and I think it's a good thing, um, in general, uh, there's things that I wouldn't do, but that's time for another podcast, and probably not a geeky podcast. But yeah, that's it. Any other final thoughts? Anthony, do you have anything for it?
Speaker 2:Much like Wolverine and Deadpool, I did not see the Olympics either. Hey guys, knock, knock. Who's there? Not Anthony?
Speaker 1:Just like this weekend. I took your first joke and I spun it a little bit. Oh my God. All right, anthony, all right. What else did you not watch?
Speaker 2:I watched this. I'm going to be very quick about it. It's called the Gift 2015. It's written and directed by Joel Edgerton, produced by Jason Blum, who's produced pretty much every horror and thriller of the last 30 years 20 years, it seems like it also stars Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall. Everybody remembers Rebecca Hall from Godzilla X-Kong Hall. Everybody remembers Rebecca Hall from Godzilla X Kong. She is the scientist that goes down into what is it Middle Earth, to help them all out down there.
Speaker 2:Pretty much, jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall are a power couple and they move back to Jason's kind of hometown area because he just accepted a big job I think he's like in the LA area. And as they're kind of moving things in, joel Edgerton shows up and Joel Edgerton's character, gordo, went to high school with Jason Bateman's character and Jason Bateman doesn't remember him. Anyway, edgerton starts leaving gifts like welcome presents and stuff like that, and they get their strange gifts and then things just start getting weird and uncomfortable to a point where Jason Bateman's like look, I don't want you part of my life anyway, bad stuff starts happening and come to find out. There's a bit of a history, possibly from the high school days, that I'm not going to spoil, but it is a lot of fun. It's a good mystery, a good thriller. It's fun to see Joel Edgerton play these parts.
Speaker 2:For those of you who are Star Wars fans, that is Owen Lars, a young Owen Lars from the Phantom Menace. He's also currently in Dark Matter on Apple TV+, which is a really good show. I'll probably be covering that in a couple weeks. I'll give that one another three and a half disco balls as well. It's currently streaming on Netflix. But again, if you're looking for a good drama, mystery, thriller, definitely check this one out. You know I check this one out you know I have seen the movie.
Speaker 3:I didn't know he wrote and directed it. That's a surprise.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, I don't know if he's done that since then, but yeah, it actually is pretty good. It's a good movie.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean, that's surprising. That actually made me appreciate that movie a little more.
Speaker 2:Actually, I'm going to check him out right now to see if he's. What else has Joel Egerton written and directed? He has a lot going on right now Past television, self other. I don't see production credits, oh well.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Cool, all right.
Speaker 2:I feel like I've disappointed you too this episode.
Speaker 1:I feel like I've just let you down.
Speaker 2:I didn't watch Wolverine, I didn't watch the Olympics. I just got my little thriller horror movies over here the Olympics is sports.
Speaker 1:okay, every nerd in the world gets a pass for sports. Okay, but you do not get a pass for seeing the, the summer blockbuster in geekdom. Okay, uh, yes, okay, you did up, you did well up until now, watching all the episodes of the acolytete on time Okay, but you completely dropped the ball. I totally dropped the ball, but, like I said, you can go see it tonight on all those showtimes I listened to previously.
Speaker 2:And then I could record just me giving it a review and insert it into.
Speaker 1:Totally should.
Speaker 2:Totally should, all right.
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Speaker 3:Bye.
Speaker 1:Bye, bye-bye.
Speaker 3:Deadpool bye-bye-bye, bye, bye.
