Is Project Hail Mary a Top 5 Space Movie? — We Ranked Them All

We rank the greatest space films of all time and settle the heated debate over whether Project Hail Mary truly earns a spot among the elite. From "Mount Rushmore" picks to a definitive tier list, watch as we compare this new release to classics like Interstellar and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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Transcript

Big Claims Before The Review

SPEAKER_01 0:00

I'm gonna 100% put Project Hail Mary in my Mount Rushmore. I don't know if I put it in my personal top three. My personal favorite. I don't think that my personal favorite. Nutty Professor Part 2 is the greatest movie in my life.

Spam Taste Test And Salt Shock

SPEAKER_03 0:12

Oh my god, dude. Alright, so the boys and I all went and saw Project Hail Mary this weekend as a team, and we want to talk about it. Immediately out of the gate, it's being touted as one of the greatest space movies of all time. And as I I would say avid movie lovers in the room, we've got to throw our weight in the rink on that conversation. Um, and I know for a fact someone's gonna be pissed off by the end of it. But before we get into it, as we like to do around here, we got to feed the muscles, feed the minds, and feed the belly. Sam, what do you got today for our snack segment? It smells like sausage, it smells like protein in here. Tell me you got something good.

SPEAKER_01 0:57

It's it's protein, it's savory, it's something that could most likely be taken to space and make the journey.

SPEAKER_03 1:04

That's real Tim Foy.

SPEAKER_01 1:06

Get the out of the nook that at least cook that spam. I seared this this morning in the Brava. I've never had spam.

SPEAKER_00 1:19

I've never had spam either. Never in my life had first.

SPEAKER_01 1:23

I was telling Dan they make a million flavors of this. I was like, we could maybe test every flavor of spam on the bunker.

SPEAKER_03 1:29

I'm not opposed to that at all. Joshua Wiseman changed my mindset on spam. So he's one of my favorite creators. He does food content. If you don't follow him, follow him. But he did some spam dishes back in the day on his channel. Yes, the the recipes. Oh my goodness. I was looking at these, I was like, they look incredible. I come from a fam, you know, like I've I've I've talked about it. Like we're an immigrant Italian family. Like, spam doesn't exist in our language, right? So like I've I mean, see, I it's not a knock on it, it just wasn't a thing. I grew up on it. So, how do we do this? Well, I we could each just pull a piece out of it. Well, we just take a chunk and we fist it. Yeah. Look at this color on there.

SPEAKER_01 2:06

Oh god, it fell into the can.

SPEAKER_03 2:08

Just cracked me off on ears.

SPEAKER_01 2:09

No, no, no, no, no, no. You know, no man shares spam. I grew up on this, but as a child, my dad would make spam and eggs all the time, but it was so salty that my child palate could only handle like a bite of it. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:21

I uh I go fishing with a bunch of old guys every year up in um Central PA, and they're a bunch of guys from Jersey there. Have you guys ever had Scrapple?

SPEAKER_01 2:30

I have. I'm not a huge, huge fan of it, but uh Is it similar?

SPEAKER_03 2:34

Uh Scrapple's similarities, I would say. I think Scrapple's like things you don't want to be eating, kind of like a hot dog. It's just like really fatty, but he throws on this massive cast iron, I end up eating a shit ton of it.

SPEAKER_01 2:44

I will warn you with the spam, you're gonna have one bite, and you're gonna be like, this actually isn't bad at all. But it's like by the time you get like halfway through that piece, your body's gonna be like, this is way too much salt, stop right now, and it doesn't taste as good. It's intended to last. It's like a non-perishable, right? That's why there's so much salt. Correct. This was actually during World War II. This this uh helped kept keep the GIs nourished, and then they had an excess of it, and they're like, Well, we gotta like sell this stuff. It was marketed as like a dinner meet. Like, if you there's old commercials from the 50s where it's like it was they were larger cans, and it's like, oh, just heat up a block of spam for your family, and they'll this is a dinner.

SPEAKER_03 3:22

Well, cheers, boys. Here's my popping my spam cherry.

SPEAKER_01 3:33

That's not bad. What is it?

SPEAKER_03 3:41

It's definitely pork.

SPEAKER_01 3:43

Check the can. What's the ingredients? What do the ingredients say? Love it. Yeah, it's like uh jalapeno spam, that's like the best.

SPEAKER_03 3:51

Like I don't think you want to read that. It's it tastes like something I shouldn't be eating.

SPEAKER_00 3:58

But like 770 milligrams of sodium. Yeah, how many servings? Um, six servings per container, serving size, two ounces. So 700 per serving? Uh I don't know. Is that one slice?

SPEAKER_01 4:13

I I can't tell. Because if there's six servings, I mean there's 4200 uh milligrams of soda.

SPEAKER_03 4:18

So much sodium in that can. That was fantastic. That was the best thing you brought.

SPEAKER_00 4:22

Yeah, that's a mount per serving.

SPEAKER_03 4:25

That serving size is two ounces. So it's one slice, two ounces. They come pre-sliced, right?

SPEAKER_01 4:29

No, I had to slice it. You can get it pre-sliced, like in a bag. They sell individual slices. I could mac a lot of that.

SPEAKER_03 4:37

I love salt. I will say this. Don't like ham. Like, I think ham is an inferior meat. We've talked about it. Like ham, team turkey all day. Get ham out of my life. But I feel like that's ham. Yeah, there's some ham in there.

SPEAKER_00 4:51

There's really not that much in it. Pork, salt, water, modified potato starch, sugar, sodium nitrate. That's what it is. It's that modified potato starch. But that's not that much.

SPEAKER_03 5:00

No, I was expecting to have like a conglomerate of incredible ingredients that I can not pronounce.

SPEAKER_01 5:05

I watched a documentary on it. One of those ingredients is solely in there to prevent the gelatin layer from forming in the can. I don't know. It might be that nitrate or something.

SPEAKER_03 5:15

Maybe. Yeah. I've never had it before. That's actually pretty good. I know. I don't hate it. Spam an egg. I think I don't know. What's the protein in it? There's only like six grams, I think, in the can or something.

SPEAKER_00 5:27

Is there any protein in it?

SPEAKER_03 5:29

Was it seven grams per serving or seven grams amount per serving? How many cows per serving? Seventy? Please tell me it's only seventy.

SPEAKER_00 5:39

180.

SPEAKER_01 5:41

Wait, so you're saying there's six servings, seven grams of protein. Six servings.

SPEAKER_03 5:47

The serving size is two ounces. Except you're getting like a thousand calories and only 42 grams of protein. Enough salt. That's where everyone's like, I that's why I love seeing this shit online. It's like high protein recipe. You're like, that is a thousand calories.

SPEAKER_00 6:00

Did you crush one of those cans the other day for lunch? Half.

SPEAKER_03 6:03

I had half a can. It's so much salt. Wiseman uses it in like uh in like uh fried rice. It looks good. I think if you're trading off the salt you're adding to food is with the salt that comes in, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:16

Gosh, that would fried rice. Breakfast breakfast sandwich? I've been to sushi places where they take a piece of nori and they wrap it with some rice and they'll like put like a little uh something else in there. It's not bad. It actually that's actually pretty good, man.

SPEAKER_00 6:30

That's dangerous.

SPEAKER_01 6:31

Dude, that, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:33

I need I feel like it needed that fry though. Like I love that crisp.

SPEAKER_01 6:35

Oh, you need the crisp. Yeah. Do people eat that raw? You can, it's cooked. You just spoon it out of there? Yeah, don't quote me on this, but I'm almost positive the way they make it, they like puree all the mystery meat together, and I believe it's cooked in the can. Like that's why when that piece of meat comes out, it's like it has all the divots of the can and the shape.

SPEAKER_00 6:55

It says to get it to a golden brown.

SPEAKER_03 6:58

What about now? I'm just corn fused. If what's it it's a hot dog then, but it's not fully cooked, ready to eat, hot or cold.

SPEAKER_01 7:10

Yeah, you could eat that stuff cold. It's like sp you can make a spam salad out of that. Oh, yeah. I've wanted uh they they make a spam loaf where you get slices of it and there's cream cheese in between each thing. It looks like a zebra stripe thing. Yeah, there's there's so many weird spam recipes out there. Oh my goodness. Well, I can't believe you guys love the spam. I was I was shocked.

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First Impressions Without Spoilers

SPEAKER_03 7:28

Yeah, even Joe, you like if you go protein first, I'm probably in. All right, even though that had very little per calories, it wasn't like the French pastry bullshit that you brought in here. That one pastry was so good. Yeah, Joe. If only you didn't cut it like that. I don't I don't think I would hate the idea of having Sam prepare every spam in a variety of ways for us to try in a bunker video. I'm down, yeah. Yeah, let's go. Let's make it happen. All right. Well, if you're not a member of the Builder Bunker, the Builder Bunker is where you get one early access to this, as well as exclusive content for pretty much anything that we feel like putting on there, because no one controls the algorithm there but us, um, as well as a bunch of other awesome features. So check out the Builder Bunker if you want to support me and the boys and any of the stupidity that we talk about here that we can't actually public publicly publish. Um but with that, let's just get into the movie. Thoughts straight out of the gate. Let's let's hold the spoilers. This will be like a week after it was released, but we gotta start out with the biggest space nerd here, Joe. Big space guy. Like real big. They call him Joe the space man, some say. He actually went for Halloween last year as the space Lego man. Sometimes we catch him out in the project, Hail Mary. That would actually be a glorious costume for you as the space Lego man.

SPEAKER_00 8:54

Uh can we throw up a spoiler warning right now? Spoiler warning. I was saying, should we try? Go, no spoilers. I'll try. Alright, being very general. I really liked the movie, but it took me a little bit to like think back on what I witnessed. My initial gut reaction after I was done was man, it was super slow. I didn't know I liked it. And then I started figuring out how they filmed it and uh their budget, everything that went into it. They didn't use a single green screen. No. I found this out all after, and it made me appreciate it a lot more how cool it was. Yeah. Um, yeah, no, I I thought it was it's definitely up there in one of the better space movies of all time. I I think there were some other better ones that were just more story-driven, in my opinion. I I can name a few, we'll get into that later, but I thought it was a great movie. I wish I would have read the book maybe first. I might read it after, but I feel like maybe if I would have read the book, it would have given more context. I don't know what to expect, honestly, going into it.

SPEAKER_03 9:52

So it's give it's being hailed right now as like a masterpiece. Like you're seeing that hearing that word thrown around a lot when you see the reviews and like Rotten Tomatoes, what is it, 93%, 97%? Something like that. 95, I think. Something absurd, right?

SPEAKER_00 10:05

You agree with that? Yeah, I I think it it's appropriately rated. I think it deserves to be up there. I don't think it's better than some other movies that that I can get into the mix. I don't think it's an interstellar. I don't think it's the Martian. I think there's some other ones, and they're very they're all very different in their own ways. Um Ryan Gosling, man, he give him his flowers. He's been in some bangers lately. Dude. Some heavy hitters. That's that's what my I'll say.

SPEAKER_03 10:28

It's just but yeah, I think this is a really good movie. This movie for me showed the range of Ryan Gosling. Yeah. He like usually his character is staying exactly where that character is and whatever. Like you think of Driver, right? That's it. Drive, drive, yeah. He's just like that. He just stays in that person the whole time. There's no like real character mannerisms. I didn't see the Barbie movie, but supposedly he like crushed that role. Yeah, but he's like Ken, like the whole time. I feel like the dynamic of his personality was so relatable in this movie, and it showed like real, like uh really good range, right? You were like super bought into him as like he he's a he's a if you don't uh this isn't a spoiler, he's a world-renowned scientist in the movie, and usually that's somebody where you're like, I have nothing in common with you, and I will never be able to connect emotionally. But they made him very approachable, and in the book he is too, like that character, but they made him very approachable. I think he did a phenomenal job of making that like a real human. I made him be like a school teacher, and it's like, no, this is like a world thought leader.

SPEAKER_00 11:34

He did some interviews after he had uh the author, Andy Weir, is that his name? Yeah, he had the author helping him because I guess he's super smart. Um all the equations he's writing out in the movie, he had to memorize the real math equations. Everything's like true to real life. It's that's absolutely insane.

SPEAKER_03 11:52

I loved that part of the movie. It was like they made it, it feels like it felt like it was really like close to real science.

SPEAKER_01 11:57

Yeah, yeah. I I because I I went into this pretty much like completely blind, and that's like my favorite way to go into a movie. Like I love to see just like I'm the opposite. Really? Oh, yeah, I'm deep. See, I want to see like one initial trailer, and then I just want to go into it because I feel like once I start to watch multiple trailers, you start to put things together and you get like a general outlook of the film. I also think they did a great job. I don't know if this would be a spoiler or not. I don't think it will be. They did a great job concealing one of the characters in the trailer, at least in the trailers I saw. Where like you didn't read the book, you had no clue what was coming. Exactly. And you didn't know in what regard it was gonna be.

SPEAKER_03 12:34

Like it's gonna be like I have no idea what you're talking about right now. I'm just gonna for the second most important the he he was actually the main character with Gosling being Yeah, what about him?

SPEAKER_00 12:43

He wasn't really this isn't a spoiler. The one trailer shows him talking to him. Oh, does it? Yeah, like he's figuring out the voice, and it's like going through the different voice modes in the trailer, and it's like I still think there was a lot of mystery to Rocky. I think there was, but at the same time, like he wasn't the most interesting character. See, I only see he was super cool. Shut up.

SPEAKER_01 13:05

Shut up, Brandon. He wasn't the most interesting character. He how they made Rocky was I'm joking. How they made Rocky was good. No, I mean, I'm being I'm like, I think he's interesting. He had a lot more personality than Tars, that's all I'm gonna say.

SPEAKER_00 13:21

We can go bar for bar with Interstellar, it doesn't touch it, but it's it's a good move. Bar for bar.

SPEAKER_01 13:26

We'll save this for later. But what do you mean later? Well, I think we're getting into the later in the episode, yeah. After the cameras are off, we will discuss this. But rock. He's a rock, a rectangle, like a paper mache puppet they made look cool. Anyway, the I'll say that going into going into it blind. I was like, this is just it was one thing I really appreciate about it, and I'm seeing a lot of movies do this now. They don't follow like the full traditional plot diagram where it's like we have to give full exposition and introduce this, and we're gonna build up like I personally didn't feel like as like bored during it because they hopped right into rising action, they told it like a non-linear format. So as you're watching it, you're like, I don't full you don't fully know what's going on or what has happened until the very end of the movie. And I I was so into it. I literally went like three hours later and saw it a second time through after watching it. I was like, Oh my god, there was so much foreshadowing. There was just like everything watching it a second time was so satisfying, and I feel like you pick up different things from it as you watch it, but I loved it. I feel like it was a lighthearted interstellar, it like kept me engaged the whole time. It was like it had some kitschiness that made it fun, but not too much, where you couldn't take it seriously as like a like a thriller. I I loved everything about it, that was great.

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SPEAKER_03 14:48

I I I thought it was excellent without going into details, which we should just do. You know, we'll just do an after show where we just spoil the shit out of it because it's gonna be necessary, right? You can come and check that out in the bunker. But I agree wholeheartedly with with what you're saying, both of you are saying, is like I had very high expectations because I read the book. Um, I also the I like physically read, I didn't listen to the book, so the audiobook is supposedly also fantastic if if you're into audiobooks. Um, but for me, reading the actual book, I wasn't let down at all by the movie, right? And usually you'll get into something if you read the book first. People are let down by the movie or let down by the movie because it's not as good. Now, the book did a better job of doing a lot of like your traditional story stuff. I feel like there was a lot more in the book for like phase one of the movie. Um, but I I did Joe was like, I thought it started slow. When we got out of theater, you're like, I thought it started slow. I was like, if you read the book, man, you'd be bored as shit because they got pretty quickly into like the juice of what the the whole thing's about. But I think that that comes with being conditioned to traditional storytelling, like you said. It's like, oh, you gotta do all this character buildup and all this stuff. It's like, nope, pow, we're like right into what's going on here.

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SPEAKER_03 17:30

I will say that I I gotta, if we're talking that versus like an interstellar, Interstellar definitely gets the nod on like painting the like doomsday kind of picture of the colour. Just very different.

SPEAKER_00 17:38

Like the story, it's hard to compare them, honestly. I say that in light of me making that joke, but like it's a very different film. Like the way they're telling this, you're it's a story that you're learning about the story of how they got there, right? So, like a story and a story. People are doing it more in movies nowadays, and it's honestly very satisfying. It's a nice change of pace for films.

SPEAKER_03 17:58

It is. I've I loved the the thing I love the most about the movie is they did not lose you in how they layered the foreshadowing and the pace of what was actually happening, because the book is the exact same thing, right? So, you know, without without spoiling it, the main character basically loses his memory, and the whole movie is built and the whole book's built on that. Okay, you that's not spoiling anything. You just they literally stayed it in the first minute. Um so with all that being said, still a phenomenal job of not leaving gaps in your knowledge base. Like I feel like I'll like I feel like Interstellar, you gotta watch it a couple times to like know what the hell's going on, which I also do think is indicative of a great movie, right? And that's just Christopher Nolan all day long. He's like, I'm gonna make you want to watch this thing a hundred times, right? But um, I feel like you didn't have to do that with this movie. Now, granted, I I had the basis of knowledge from the book, but um they did the phenomenal job without the character, the acting and the depiction of the characters in the movie itself, everything from like the main characters down to like the B and the C characters, all of them just flawlessly portrayed exactly what they were supposed to be. There wasn't like an unnecessary storylines, there wasn't unnecessary bullshit, there wasn't like trying to develop this random character for some reason that made absolutely no sense to anything except the agenda of the directors. Like they didn't do any of that. That happens way too often in movies now. Um, uh yeah, I mean, I think it was I think it earned everything that's being accredited to it. I'd love to see, I just don't think it's a great year for this movie to come out and win awards because of what's coming out later in the year. You know, you got like Doom 3, the Odyssey, Doomsday.

SPEAKER_01 19:40

Like I I thought about that. I was like, I wonder if they would have stood a better chance last year. But I don't even know if they would have.

SPEAKER_00 19:47

It's better than Sinners. I thought Sinners was a really good movie. Hard to compare, but Sinners won every award you could imagine.

SPEAKER_01 19:53

That was good. That was absolutely criminal that Marty Supreme. There's a whole different conversation. But the fact that it won nothing at the Oscars isn't it's just proof that the Oscars does not.

SPEAKER_03 20:02

I saw a clip last week. So we're on the back end of the Oscars, and then coming into this, and by the we're not we're not critics by any means, but I did see that there's like a it was something with a it's a Jake Jillen Hall Hugh Jackman movie. I haven't seen it. But if there's a kidnapping, you've probably seen it. Um that's new. No, someone kidnapped Hugh Jackman's kid, and then Jake Jalen Hall's a detective. It was supposedly Hugh Jackman and Jake Jalen Hall's best um can you look that up, Joe? Best um performances of all time. Huh. Completely snobbed at the Oscars as well. Um and it just goes to show that like phenomenal acting and incredible um prisoners, yeah. 2013. That movie just got completely overlooked, and supposedly a lot of people were uh uh attesting it to like how overlooked Marty Supreme was this year at the Oscars. It was just like they him and Jake Jalen Hall crushed it.

SPEAKER_01 20:58

I think if that clip didn't come out of Timothy Shalmay making a comment about the opera and the ballet, I think he would it would have it would have won something, but I think that that came out and they were like, all right, well, see how you like this.

SPEAKER_00 21:12

In the book for Project Hell Mary, him losing his memory. I didn't even realize that he lost his memory until you just said that. I thought maybe it was just from the sleep he was in.

SPEAKER_03 21:22

So he loses memory because he's in a coma for a decade or whatever it is.

SPEAKER_00 21:26

I didn't even pick up on it in the movie. Does he remember anybody? Is that like him slowly remembering? So what the flashbacks are slowly getting his memory. I don't know how I didn't just put that together until now.

SPEAKER_03 21:37

Yeah, which is one of those things you probably picked up better in the second watch.

SPEAKER_01 21:39

Yeah, the second because the first time watching it through, I'm like, I can't confusing. I can't tell if he genuinely lost his memory or if he's like, Yeah, oh, how am I up here in this spaceship? Yeah, it was I didn't realize while we like the movie was long.

SPEAKER_03 21:53

It was very long. But the book is like the book's so good that you're like you don't realize how long it is. Is but then when you're watching the movie, you're like there are gaps of things that do help you understand a little bit better. But if they were to add it, it would have been a four-hour movie. It would have been it would have been like unwatchable. Let's normalize four-hour movies. I'm here for it. Well, I I mean, speaking of long movies, I Sarah and I were actually able to get some time to watch the the Peaky Blinders movie this weekend. Oh, yeah. When you're used to watching a show that does have the time and the hour, the hour and a half long episodes to build all this shit up, and then they condense it into a two-hour movie for like the finale. You're actually completely I was utterly disappointed because if you're a Peaky Blinders fan, they build story arcs like really, really well in that show with a lot of plot twists and shit. That just like the movie, they just like had to cap them super fast.

SPEAKER_00 22:46

Is the movie standalone from the show, or is it like it goes?

SPEAKER_03 22:49

Yeah, you gotta have the backbone of the show a little bit. But like essentially it's like the it's the cap on the entire six seasons of the Peaky Blinders and and the character of Tommy Shelby. Yeah. Which is, I mean, yeah, Killian Murphy, he crushed it again. Incredible actor. Oh, so good. But yeah, the that so yes, let's normalize four-hour movies, right? Give us a gap in the middle, go take a piss, you know, take a break. This is here's a break, you know, interlude kind of thing, right? Going back to uh theater and then let it go because that movie could have been a four-hour movie, and I still think it would have been phenomenally paced and incredibly well done.

SPEAKER_01 23:26

That's part of the thing I liked about kind of jumping back and forth in perspectives because I thought about it, I'm like, if this would have been in like a linear format, I feel like there could have been moments where it's like, okay, I'm a little gassed now, I'm a little bored. Like it was just like, you know, 50 minutes straight of them in space trying to solve a problem, and then like another 50 minutes straight of like, oh, here's us on earth prepping for this. I don't think it would have been as interesting, but I feel like cutting it up selectively, where you get to the end of a scene, it's like, wait, what's about to happen next? Like, oh, we're back in space now. Like, oh wait, what's gonna happen in space? Okay, we're back on the flashback.

Mount Rushmore Space Movies Draft

SPEAKER_03 23:57

Yeah, yeah. I'm with you there. Totally. So getting into you know, something we love to do here. Joe's Joe's conditioned, Sam and I. We are Mount Rushmore guys now. Um, I feel like this is gonna be in some people's Mount Rushmores, and specifically when it comes to space movies. Now, we gotta put some bumpers on space movies, right? We're not considering like science fiction, like Star Wars to be a space movie, are we?

SPEAKER_00 24:25

No, and same with I didn't like Guardians of the Galaxy, yeah, anything Avengers-wise, no.

SPEAKER_03 24:30

Yeah, okay, so we're sticking with like realism, pseudo-realistic space movies. Okay, and Mount Rushmoring knows. No, I I I'm probably gonna actually need a list because I'm not I'm not huge in the space category. I'm kind of deficient here. So I know, right? It's like it's not that I dislike space, I just prefer I prefer more of the fantasy realm of storytelling than I do like the sci-fi realm when you get to like the edges, because you have space and then you have like you know, it's fantasy world building. Like I live over closer to that side of things. Um so none of like the non-realistic stuff, like dunes out, right? It's considered science fiction, I guess. Right, yeah. So we're going with just straight, kind of pseudo-realistic space. Right? Not post-apocalyptic, not like I don't know. See, it's hard. It's hard to narrate it down into like a space. It is. All right, well, straight out of the gate. I think we all have one Mount Rush more, the pinnacle, the elite, the George Washington. I should be the Abraham Lincoln, probably.

SPEAKER_00 25:47

Yeah, probably would be Abraham Lincoln.

SPEAKER_01 25:54

Yeah, this is my top three. I don't know if I would say it's number one, but it's definitely my top three.

SPEAKER_03 25:57

Oh, space movies? Uh or movies in general.

SPEAKER_01 26:00

That's space movie. I think it's a phenomenal movie, too, but I just doing space movies. I don't know if I put it in my personal top three. My personal top three.

SPEAKER_03 26:07

I'd be damned if you can name two more movies. I'm like, he's gonna throw like Norbit out there and some of that dumb shit. Like, what a bullet train. What's the other stupid? I forgot this part of the conversation, Joey. He's gonna piss us off. My personal favorite.

SPEAKER_01 26:19

I don't think that my personal favorite top three movies are objectively the top three best movies ever made. Just my personal ones. So it wouldn't make it my top three. Could I see a world where maybe it would go in an objective top three? Perhaps.

SPEAKER_00 26:33

Interstellar?

SPEAKER_01 26:34

Perhaps. And I like the thing is, I like I was talking to Kristen about this. Like, it's so funny the dynamic we have at work because I used to be, and I still really like Christopher Nolan, but I was like the biggest Christopher Nolan fan like growing up. Like when the Dark Knight Rises came out, I stood in line for like five hours to watch a triple feature where they did all three movies at once. Like, I love Christopher Nolan. That had to be amazing. It was great. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 26:59

How is that not as impactful on your life as this other junk that you throw in there? Nutty Professor Part 2.

SPEAKER_01 27:05

That's the greatest movie in my life. Oh my god, dude. It's just it's a strictly personal thing. It's just, it's there's nothing else like it. And it's weird because most movies that are so bad that they're good, they're like established and well out, like just they're out there, everyone knows what they are. That sequel, there's so many people I talk to, they're like, I think I saw the first one. I'm like, watch the second, just watch it now, just with all your knowledge and life experience. When's the last time you've seen it? It was so shitty when I saw it, I never want to see it again. Exactly. But I'm telling you, if you watched it now with a fresh set of eyes, why?

SPEAKER_03 27:37

It wasn't good the first time. It's just I hate the stupidity.

SPEAKER_01 27:41

It's beyond so bad stupid. It's beyond so bad that it's good. It's so bad that it's great.

SPEAKER_00 27:47

I like doesn't even make any sense. I like a lot of brain cells in hearing that. I want to do it. Wait, hold on. It's so bad that it's good.

SPEAKER_01 27:58

But it's not, it's beyond so bad that it's good. It's so bad that it's great.

SPEAKER_03 28:03

No.

SPEAKER_01 28:03

I don't I'm trying to understand that logic there. The first scene. I don't even know if I'm allowed to describe the first scene of the movie.

SPEAKER_00 28:10

Let's probably still let's go back to Mount Rushmore space movies. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 28:14

No, we're all in agree. It's interstellar. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:16

We'll put it up there. All right. Go ahead, Sam. Give us your other three. I I'm so curious of these ones.

SPEAKER_03 28:23

I say you start. We usually do one at a time, but yeah, you go ahead and go f yourself right now. I mean, go ahead and we can go one at a time.

SPEAKER_00 28:28

Go one at a time.

SPEAKER_03 28:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 28:29

I'll put uh I've got two easy ones, uh, Mount Rushmore. I'm gonna 100% put Project Hell Mary in my Mount Rushmore space movies. So so far, Interstellar, Project Hell Mary. I'm gonna have to think about the other two.

SPEAKER_03 28:42

I'm so I'm I'm I'm probably gonna go with like pretty generic answers here. I don't have anything like Armageddon for me is up there. Age-wise, the the soundtrack was a massive impact on life when I was a young man, right? So like I I feel like for me, you know, we talk about like the Han Zimmer score that's coming out with Dune part three, like how epic Armageddon was Armageddon's soundtrack is like elite. Yeah, yeah. Um and then I love it's it's I yeah. It's it yeah, it was just so good. I I don't I don't know. Are you going back to back? Nah, go ahead. I'll thank a little more. Number two, the Martian. The Marshall's good. I was probably gonna throw that in there for me as well. Martian's a as far as like a realistic. Matt Damon crushed that.

SPEAKER_00 29:37

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Andy Weir. Yeah. Yep, Andy Weir. Yep, it's at the Oscars, didn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Matt Damon crushed that role, man. I that movie was just so good to me. So that came out before Interstellar. Yes, it did. And so I think that's why he got it. Uh actually, no, it didn't. Look it up. It came out at twenty fifteen movie.

SPEAKER_01 29:57

It came out in twenty fifteen. You know the only disappointing thing about that movie? They couldn't find a way to squeeze Ben Affleck in there. He just had some small role in it. And when Interstellar came out. 2014 or 2012. I know, yeah, I know Interstellar was first. I was one year.

SPEAKER_00 30:14

I feel like I don't know. I'm a stand for Interstellar. You're right. Wasn't getting that one wrong. So the only reason I love it so much is because it gave me that fix I was looking for in like a space movie that I couldn't find since Interstellar dropped. Interstellar dropped, I watched it two or three times over that year, and there was no other movies. I was trying to find something that was that was new. It was good.

SPEAKER_03 30:37

You're like 15. Yeah, I was 15 years old. Yeah, so you're like that's what so what's super interesting is like you're a teenager watching that. Obviously, like so there's a there's a lot of theory out there in regards to like the impact of music and movies on people, like whatever you fall in love with between like 14 and 18, if they can capture you, you stay there for life. So like there's a lot of there's a lot of psychology and science behind like the those industries to try and capture audiences at those age because you'll stay. Like, if you if you love anime at 15, you're gonna love anime your rest of your life. Yeah, same thing with like Star Wars, like usually think think about it, like right, like when your favorite music artist, when did you start falling in love with that? Right then, right? Same with me. Like, so yeah, that doesn't I was obviously like 25, so like it doesn't affect me the same way as it did you, but it's still interesting to hear because it's a you you gotta it's a f you gotta be thinking to like thing with inner stuff.

SPEAKER_00 31:32

Like you they bring in the theory of relativity, time dilation, all these things. Oh yeah, wormholes and and dude.

SPEAKER_03 31:38

Even now I'm like blown away with science.

True IMAX Talk And Aspect Ratios

SPEAKER_00 31:40

Yeah, that's crazy. That movie was like revolutionary. 12 years later. Yeah, it's nuts. I wish they would, yeah. They they supposedly were gonna re-release it in IMAX recently. I don't know if they did or didn't. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:50

See that that's the only thing I I wish there were more IMAX theaters because whenever true IMAX 70 millimeter. Yeah, because it is there's nothing like seeing a movie like that for the first time in an IMAX theater, and then it just doesn't do it as much as a few.

SPEAKER_00 32:02

Have you ever gone to an actual IMAX theater? Where? There's only 15 the waterfront. There's not one in the waterfront. It says IMAX. Maybe I haven't.

SPEAKER_01 32:12

There's only 15 true Hold up. What's the one in Cinepark? It's like the DX or whatever. No, no, no. There's not there's none in Pittsburgh. I I know this for a fact. Well, you know where there is one, the Carnegie Science Center. You sure?

SPEAKER_00 32:24

Because there's only I'm telling you, there's only 15 accurate.

SPEAKER_03 32:27

He's right, but it's not, I don't think it's I don't think they do standard movie releases. Yeah, because I I saw a nature documentary when I was like middle school there.

SPEAKER_01 32:33

Really? It was an iMac.

SPEAKER_00 32:35

It's the true aspect ratio that you can't get anywhere of the 70 millimeter top to bottom. There's been so many, so there's been so many photos released over the weekend of um Project Hell Mary, the scene when they go to the planet, yeah, and then you see the rings. Yeah. Um, like that and its true aspect ratio that we couldn't even see.

SPEAKER_03 32:50

Yeah. Insane. Dropping the Dune 3 trailer. I've also seen the same thing in full aspect ratio, what it would look like on IMAX in the in Dune 2 and Dune 1. Um, but it looks incredible. You're just like, oh, when they're on like um whatever uh whatever Prime, that black and white planet, they're showing like the full spectrum, it looks insane. I could have sworn though that that waterfront had one waterfront one was so there's Toronto, Providence, New York, Dallas, Phoenix, Los Angeles, the Science Center?

SPEAKER_01 33:22

I guess I don't think it's a public.

SPEAKER_03 33:24

It's probably not for like they don't they they don't drop movie releases there, they just play their shit. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, you're right. That's wild.

SPEAKER_00 33:31

Huh. So it's not the yeah, it's 70 millimeter film.

SPEAKER_01 33:34

Oh wait, oh wait, right there. Uh Pennsylvania, you have to go the King of Prussia. Yeah, them all. Wow.

SPEAKER_03 33:40

I uh going back to it, the Martian will be on mine too. The Martian So the Martian took a couple for me to be like into it, like a couple watches. I love it. It just like you don't like him eating his own shit. No, I thought that I I thought that um Damon did a phenomenal job of once again being like an approachable scientist. Yeah, like he's like a human and he was like celebrating like I figured out how to grow potatoes, you know what I mean? Like he was just like stoked about winning while he was which I like like that aspect. You usually either gonna get like too nerdy and too scientific or like too far-fetched to grasp. I thought the Martian did a phenomenal job. I think Project Hell Mary does an incredible job. I thought Interstellar does a great job of making like the layman relate.

SPEAKER_00 34:29

So the Martian and Project Hell Mary correlate to me in the sense of I think in both those movies, it's very true to the governments or whoever is behind this. If you get trapped on Mars or you're stuck in space, yeah, they're not doing shit for you. They're not gonna try to like Matt Damon, they didn't even want to go rescue him. Yeah, you know, Project Hell Mary, they threw a man on a ship and Yeah, you're dead.

SPEAKER_01 34:50

They rescued them in Apollo 13, though. Yeah, well we gotta bring Tom Hanks out.

SPEAKER_00 34:56

Still waiting for that moon landing footage to come out, you know. They lost it. We just have digital copies of recreations, that's all. So you know you got what's your third? Third? Probably um oh man. Armageddon's a a good one. I mean, probably at astrada, Brad Pitt. You never see it? No. Uh I never butcher the name. Astra. I would I say Ad Astra.

SPEAKER_01 35:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:27

Ad Astrada, because I'm like, Yeah, been a while. My bad. Astra, Ad Astra. I don't think I ever saw this. It's a good movie. What's the premise? You have to watch it.

SPEAKER_03 35:38

Got you.

SPEAKER_00 35:40

Another space movie. Man, they're all they're all space movies, Paul. It's something about space and getting stuck. They all kind of have the same storyline one way or another. Yeah, it's just like we're kind of just ranking the styles of these movies. They're really all the same. Isn't Gravity just the woman floating through space? Not the woman. Sandy. Yeah, that's the worst movie of all time.

SPEAKER_01 36:02

I I I think I started it one time, I never finished it.

SPEAKER_00 36:05

Yeah, well, either you're in the group with the basically everybody that watched that.

SPEAKER_01 36:09

You've got I just have two so far. Yeah. So my third, I'm gonna put uh it's not on the list, uh Aliens, not Alien, aliens, the second one. Like I really enjoy the first alien, but the second one, it's just it's just phenomenal because I feel like the first one, it's like very like it's it's like a real kind of like thriller, it's a little bit like horrifying, a lot of silence. Like it's like I remember the first time I watched it, I think I was like 13, it was terrifying. But aliens, I feel like took so much of that first movie, improved on it, added so much. I feel like it really started to establish like the lore of that universe, and it is just so great. I feel like so many of the things to follow that, like the third and fourth alien picture, they're just they're not that good. But the first two, they're great, but number two specifically, definitely on the Mount Rushmore. I think it honestly even established a lot of things for like future sci-fi films. Like, I don't know if there were if there was anything before that that showed like the whole like okay, you're gonna go in a coma and sleep through space. There's probably movies that did that first, but I feel like in that the alien franchise early on, I mean that was like the 70s, I think. I mean, that was pretty that was old, yeah. That was old.

SPEAKER_03 37:22

I think I was too young and probably still am to appreciate like 2001 of Space Odyssey.

SPEAKER_00 37:27

That yeah, at its core, like it's like I've rewatched it, it's on my list. I I I I've re-watched it. I like how it was shot. Yeah, it's very I hate old movies. I've never gotten it.

SPEAKER_03 37:36

I'm not gonna get into it because it was old. Like I never watched the full thing.

SPEAKER_00 37:39

I'm never how long is it again? What's the runtime?

SPEAKER_01 37:41

It's a long one. It's also like a Stanley Kubrick film, so it's like it's like I always joke around. I'm like, I'd love to see Stanley Kubrick have a YouTube channel. He wouldn't give a shit about retention graphs. Like, we're gonna make it four times as long as Stanley, they drop off halfway through. I don't care. Yeah, like yeah, I mean you gotta buckle up for his. I love Stanley Kubrick, but yeah, his his stuff.

SPEAKER_00 37:59

Uh two hours, 29 minutes. That's a long movie for bat.

SPEAKER_01 38:03

It feels long. But for when it came out, yeah. I don't know. It's impressive that they were able to make a movie like that in 1968 or 65.

SPEAKER_00 38:11

Look at it, man. It's so sick.

Alien Arguments And Actor Typecasting

SPEAKER_03 38:12

If some of the friends are so if you're gonna get if you're putting aliens on yours, so like the here's the thing for me. I'm probably putting Project Hail Mary on mine, but if I didn't, I'd probably put Prometheus in. Yeah, because for me Prometheus bangs. Prometheus, if I didn't know it, if you don't know it's in the alien property until the end. Yeah. Like, and that had me going the whole time because I was like, I was just baffled by like the whole story and whatever, everything going and and I was just way more curious. Like, I I think the alien franchise is garbage. Like, I think the acting's terrible. I hate it. What are you talking about? I don't I Sagorney Weaver? Yeah, like I don't give a shit. You're out of your mind. I it does nothing for show some respect to Prometheus, too. But my god. The only reason I like Prometheus is because I wasn't part of it. So I'm incredibly turned off by like those kind of movies. I hate horror. I think it's all just like Prometheus bangs, man. I I just think it's all avoidable. I think I think like it for some, like you're watching, I'm I don't know, you just watch a scientist stand behind like a glass wall on every single alien and someone's infected, and they're like, there must be quarantine, but we have to save them. It's like they did something stupid to get infected. Like, see, I oh I I I like the fact I think, and I haven't watched Prometheus in a while, but I love the fact that it was like a of like a like a gods world, like being worshipped kind of thing. Like it just had some dynamic to it that I thought was incredibly interesting.

SPEAKER_00 39:44

It wasn't like a horror, but it definitely is more like that's why I liked it more than Alien, because I feel like the Alien franchise is a horror movie.

SPEAKER_01 39:51

Yeah, I they're all kind of different, like the first one's very different than the second. See, I I really I liked a lot of things about Prometheus. Like, like I thought it was really good. The my issue with Prometheus, though, it's not as much with that the film itself, but more so with where they went after. I agree with that. They like opened up so many things where it's like, I have questions about this. Oh my god, they're explaining the lore behind this, and I I'll never forget, I was like, I can't wait till I can't wait till there's a sequel. And it was like a couple years later, I'm in the theaters and I hear like the alien sounds. I'm all pumped, and like, finally, a sequel to Prometheus, and then Danny McBride shows up in a spaceship doing a Kenny Powers impression. They're like, This is a prequel to the alien franchise or whatever. I'm like, What this is where we took the property? We didn't do a sequel to that movie that had all the open-ended stuff.

SPEAKER_03 40:37

They're like, We're gonna do like that's why I thought it was great, is it just left you thinking at the end, and you're like, This is how when I think about it, I'm like, I don't know. I'm like I said, I can't sit here and be like, oh, aliens, blah, blah, blah, because I never really got into it. Like, none of them have ever done it for me. Yeah, and so I was like not super into it. But that movie had me, and then when it turned into an alien prequel, I was like, Oh shit.

SPEAKER_00 40:59

I think a part two or like a number two would have been. Oh, anything would have been great. You know what?

SPEAKER_01 41:03

Anything. I I could be wrong because it's been so long since I've seen it, but I'm almost certain this the movie they did with Danny McBride, Alien Covenant, or whatever. I think it does take place after Prometheus, and they have like a slight nod to it. Like, don't they find that woman's body or something? But they don't answer any of the questions. Like it's like technically a sequel, but it's like it's different.

SPEAKER_00 41:22

I remember watching Prometheus and wanting like a part two of Prometheus and not getting it when I was like trying to find if there was one or if they made a second one. It was just pointing me to that franchise, Alien Covenant, and I watched it and it just didn't do anything for me. So I'd never watched another one of those.

SPEAKER_03 41:36

I just completely lose any sort of serious respect for something. Like, I mean, yeah, I think Danny McBride's phenomenal. Oh, yeah. I just think he's a comic first. So like I'm looking at it, it's like I can't watch you be serious because I just can't take you seriously. It's like Will Farrell, it's like really hard to watch Will Farrell in a serious role because you're just so used to him being like hilarious and stupid, and you're just waiting for Kenny Powers to come out when Danny McBride's trying to be serious. I'm just waiting for him to be like, but what if I touched your titties? You know, I'm just waiting for Stevie to pop out this year. Which which kind of sucks is because we shouldn't, as viewers, put actors and actresses in boxes just based on previous roles, but like they kind of do it to themselves. Yeah, right?

SPEAKER_00 42:18

Like I know I know Ryan Gosling's played serious roles, but like I don't associate him with like a movie like Project Hell Mary.

SPEAKER_03 42:25

Yeah, but I know but he's dynamic. Yeah, exactly. And he was a child actor who became dynamic, you know.

SPEAKER_01 42:31

And some actors will like selectively do that. Like I know like Leonard Leonardo DiCaprio, he's like an actor in like interviews, he's like very selective about his roles because he doesn't want to fall into a trope like that. He said he's been offered roles in the past where it's like, I know I could do this and do it well, but this is gonna put me in a box. Like I feel like, and some people could kind of navigate it and escape it. Like, I feel like Robert Downey Jr., he's like he had that moment after uh Avengers where it's like I'm gonna do a role in Oppenheimer here and just blow it out of the water, and it's like, wow, this person really can hop between like a you know superhero blockbuster and like a more serious film.

SPEAKER_00 43:05

He had Sherlock Holmes before which he was great in.

SPEAKER_03 43:09

They're supposed to bring that back this year, by the way. They're starting to film another one. Yeah, I saw that. I I'm I'm thinking more like um oh, it's Adam Sandler. Great example for me. It's like it's very hard. Adam Sandler, like in his serious roles, uncut gems, right? Like great movie. Yeah, yeah. You're just if you can disconnect from what your expectation of Adam Sandler is, yeah, you're able to appreciate the movie. But then you're there's always that part that's like just like I saw like a uh at the Oscars, he made like the Chalamet. Yeah, yeah. Like that's who he is. That's what you're expecting. So seeing him act like super serious, that's kind of where you know, where I go with Danny McBride. Except it's but he directs some pretty good shit and he's pretty he's pretty damn good. It's just like I'm just yeah, kind of like Tom. I love giggle at you.

SPEAKER_01 43:56

Yeah, I absolutely love Danny McBride. I love like almost all of his comedies. It's just that I don't want them in my alien movies though. You know what?

SPEAKER_00 44:03

I take Backspace Odyssey. Give me Project Hell Mary and the Mount Rush book. Alright, let's go. Okay. I I I did like it a lot and I'm sitting here debating it and it's it just it's one I I think there's also an odd that needs to be given to the movie is that it can only be a one-off.

SPEAKER_03 44:19

There's not like that's it. Yeah. Right? There's no Yeah you don't need a you don't need another part you don't need another book or another exactly which you like are always wanting in a lot of space movies. I wanted another interstellar. For sure wanted another I want to see what happens at when he goes to find her you know but like you're also okay with the fact that you never get it. Yeah very true. You know so like and I I just think that's also part of Nolan's brilliance right like I wanted the at the at the end of Inception I'm sitting there I was like I want more of this and you guess just because he's just your head he he loves he loves to give you those endings where it's like kind of open to your own interpretation which I really enjoy and I like to just leave it at that.

SPEAKER_01 44:59

I don't even want to fill my head with any sort of like videos where it's like well we're actually going to tell you what we believe happened. It's like no I kind of like just keeping it open like I can choose my ending. But and that and you also have like such good like the prestige right that that's such an underrated uh Christopher Nolan that's the movie that got me with him. Oh really I didn't discover till later but because I'm older than you guys.

SPEAKER_03 45:21

So like the prestige came out I think before the dark night or like right around like anyway you're like who is that what is going on right and I'm I was a little too little too young for seven but like you still I don't know that was twisted yeah and anyway prestige same thing you're like now I'm completely bought into Hugh Jackman's character right and I want to know what's going to happen with him now that he's basically lost his mind trying to chase the impossible right and then Nolan just puts out hit after hit after hit like he just puts out bangers like the past couple years.

SPEAKER_01 45:58

Well I feel like him as a director kind of like how we were talking about uh actors that will only take on roles that fit them I feel like he'll only like do movies that kind of fit his style because I feel like there's movies that I think like he wouldn't be the guy to do it.

SPEAKER_03 46:12

Like I feel like it wouldn't fit his I would say though like I don't love every like not every pennant was solid pull up his movies Dunkirk is really good but you have to be in the World War II stuff to like really love it. And then you obviously you just have a run of like Interstellar Dark Knight rises Inception the Dark Knight the prestige Batman begins right I said seven I meant Memento earlier. Insomnia the following dude yeah he doesn't have a massive catalog he's literally I did what I mean man he has a limited scarcity of movies and they're they're bangers like he hasn't put out a movie since Oppenheimer and he'll put out the Odyssey and it'll be another three year gap. They're just three year gaps between all that's actually no there's two in the Dark Knight he probably filmed all those in sequence. Anyway without all that being said we've got our Mount Rushmore we've got Interstellar we all agree upon I think we all ended up putting Project Hail Mary up there. Yeah yeah I didn't do a fourth I probably I'd probably throw 2001 a Space Odyssey on my fourth yeah yeah I got what did I put Armageddon and the Martian yeah the Martian or my four and that's without going into like you know insane kind of Star Wars Guardians of the galaxy yeah steer clear of that sci-fi like deep hardcore sci-fi just fake world stuff like because Dune's up there for me like Dune's a space yeah Dune would be up there those movies are so good. What I love so we had a massive amount of actually not massive we had that trailer dropped this last week as well if you haven't seen it check that out but I love seeing right now the Oscar for Oscar uh parallels to like the Lord of the rings is like Dune's going for the greatest trilogy of all time like status. And it could be epic or it could be a massive fail. Um but it's we got a we got a big year coming out movie wise and it's a bummer to see Project Helm out earlier in the year in a year that's gonna have Odyssey that's a tough year. And and like Doomsday is going to be it probably won't be as acclaimed but it will be a great movie.

Most Anticipated Movies Coming Next

SPEAKER_00 48:23

Should be yeah it'll just put another good movie in the mix though to take way votes and stuff. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 48:29

I mean what to to wrap up you guys have any movies you're looking forward to the most space movies or just any I really want to see there's and I don't even know the plot of it which is why I'm kind of pumped to see it. There's an A24 film coming out with uh it's an A24. It's the uh it's a small production company they're the ones that did Marty Supreme they do like small I gotta watch that yeah uh but they have a movie coming out with uh Zendaya and Robert Pattinson called the drama dude how Zendaya just pumps a woman design when does she not work?

SPEAKER_00 49:00

I don't know she's in everything she she's underrated for the movies she's been in she she makes me uncomfortable because she's like super believable she's in Spider-Man Spider-Man's coming out right that movie did like 700 million views in in the trailer it's insane how big that Spider-Man like I Spider-Man is great.

SPEAKER_03 49:17

Yeah is she in the Odyssey Zendia I don't is she listen if she's in the Odyssey we're gonna have to rework Tom Holland is I don't know if she is but she seems to be in everything that he's in too so I wouldn't be surprised she's a goddess Athena yeah she's in Dune she's in Spider-Man and she's in the Odyssey all in the same year like wow give that girl something she might be in Avengers might be a parallel universe could be um so hold on here that are yeah you got the Odyssey Toy Story 5 is going to be epic uh if you're a Toy Story fan it's just like they take forever between those movies it's insane um you've got that Spider-Man movie is also probably gonna be pretty awesome I don't think it's gonna be up there with like a claim to all time I'm I'm you've got Mandalorian Grogu same thing like John Favreau love John Favre.

SPEAKER_01 50:08

Yeah that looks great he's gonna it's gonna be awesome um pool are you excited my wife was very excited for the devil wears Prada 2 oh yeah my uh like I know it's gonna be like that's like a goofy opinion my grandma used to be uh obsessed with that movie she was back when Netflix email you the DVDs she watched that like at least like once every couple months and it you'd actually enjoy it I think it's a phenomenal story uh Meryl Streep could do no wrong Meryl Streep even in Project Hail Mary do you guys remember they had Meryl Streep do uh Rocky Voice I mean phenomenal film I don't know is there a is there a book that uh is there a sequel in the books to I don't know I have no idea I saw that trailer over the weekend I feel like it ended poor there's a couple more uh I'm pumped for Narnia I I love the Narnia franchise I think it's very childish but they're that it'll be interesting to see they bring in Narnia back is it like the actual OG Narnia boot no it's it's it there's a new Narnia coming out they they brought it's like all new actors and stuff. So it's a reboot okay Supergirl should be up there for you you love this the new you're so hyped in the new Supergirl no way you have a whole office dedicated to Superman you love this I like I guess I'll say this I like I really like James Gunn and I like all the creative liberties that like James Gunn takes with all of his characters. I don't really know enough about the film um I think like well she's like all f up and disturbed remember from the movie she's not like disturbed I feel like she's like f up like she's like like I was ignored a terrible she went the other direction. Yeah I feel like like I don't know I definitely they're gonna take it like a much more like comedic girl yeah she's like it's kind of like she's like a pol a a college party party girl super girl say f up I mean like she's like you watch the trailer you haven't seen the trailer he's like anti-trailer. Yeah but like I said like like a I'll tell you like a DC superhero property I am excited about that lantern show you showed me I don't know how excited I really am for like Supergirl to be honest with you.

SPEAKER_03 52:02

I would think that the argument you put up to Joe and I about Superman that you'd be all in on Supergirl. That's crazy man real.

SPEAKER_01 52:09

I you I kind of feel like she has washes dude no I just feel like Superman it had to be made and there's like a core audience for it. I almost feel like Supergirl is being made strictly to like hit a different audience demographic and to get some more world building done like I feel like it's like more of a Is the Hunt for no the Hunt for Golem's not coming out this year.

SPEAKER_03 52:27

I think they moved Hunt for Gollum because Shrek 5 moved oh yeah Hunt for Gollum Gollum gets his own movie now Hunt for Gollum's a prequel to the Lord of the Rings or to the pot excuse me okay where they like so Gollum there's a if you if you're in the movies Gollum gets captured by Sauron.

SPEAKER_01 52:46

Oh how the hell did he get captured by a a freestanding building let's go for it interrogate him in before the the the Lord of the Rings movies.

SPEAKER_03 53:04

Okay. In order that's where they get a bunch of information that's how they know how possessed he is he's like anyway. Does he look normal in this before he's like so it's like the he's like he had the ring for like 50 years I think damn and so they they have to find Gollum and Gandelf goes on a mission to find Gollum and get information from Gollum before anything that happens in the Lord of the Rings happens. So it should be pretty good. There's some good casting in it. Yeah 2027 yeah they actually I was I didn't think did I just see Idris Elba Idris they're probably just throwing him in anything but they but like um uh Vigo Mortensen's not coming back as Aragon because he'd be too old right but you also you do have um Sir um whatever his name is going to play Gandalf again it should be pretty awesome I didn't think about how did he get captured by a freaking a really long crane arm or something all right we'll go back to what's actually coming out I think I'm most excited um probably for the Odyssey yeah that I think we'll do the same thing we're taking day off the boys we'll all go see the Odyssey in the best theater that we can find because I think we're all pretty hyped for it. Yeah the Odyssey's great it's gonna be a life year for movies there's a lot it's a great year for movies well at least what movies are trying to come back to yeah I think this is a good year for theaters for theater movies yeah I I won't knock it I read the book The Sunrise for the reaping on the reaping uh probably pretty good they they that franchise up with those videos after the three hunger games um they went weird but this one if you're if you paid attention to it we've talked about this a little bit um hey Mitch Katniss's mentor this is his his origin story in this movie um this sounds goofy I really enjoyed the first super Mario world movie I never saw yeah no it's good I thought it was it's not like a a movie I didn't I thought they fucking I love Chris Pratt yeah and they like he just wasn't Italian enough for me about it.

SPEAKER_01 55:04

He's Mario yeah yeah I I mean Chris Pratt's like one of my so the second one looks solid I don't know goofy a goofy one that I am kind of pumped to see it come back because I feel like it's kind of nostalgic probably for you too scary movie six the Waynes brothers are doing it it's like a legit after Scary Movie 2 I was like these are just dumb like I just they stopped making it story and just went dumber and dumber yeah but I mean it's kind of just interesting to see though because the spoof genre died in the 2000s and it's just kind of interesting to see them try to bring it back. It was never like I was never a huge huge fan of those movies but whenever they like died for good I was like oh man we lost the genre.

Aftershow Tease And Goodbye

SPEAKER_03 55:42

I didn't even I gotta I guess kill the whole genre yeah well if you guys got something you're looking forward to coming up this year let us know if we missed anything. If you watched Project Hail Mary and you've got some thoughts let us know we thought it was excellent obviously here I don't think we spoiled anything but we are going to dive into what we'll call the uh just a little after show here because I've got some things I want to ask you two about that will be spoilers. So if you're into that check us out in the Builder Bunker um and appreciate you guys tuning in. See you on the next episode