The fact that (from what the Weekly Planet boys report) the whole "bizarrely cheap, weird, washed-up celeb" angle came from Weathers himself is what makes it truly magical to me. When the man stopped an episode dead in its tracks to rhapsodize about Burger King's free drink refills policy I WEPT
The best part of that bit is Tobias responding with "I think I want a refund", and Carl giving him a tense staredown with overly dramatic suspense music playing in the background.
In the end scene on the boat when they're kissing and it cuts to John Cena and Henry Cavill, they missed a perfect opportunity to have them still kissing 😂
Your opening theme has the same evolution of every opening theme to a sitcom where it exists, get changed a little bit, and then truncated down to a fraction of the original.
I really enjoyed Argyle. I thought it was really fun. even though the story was a bit messy, I enjoyed each of the twists and how the actors played off each other
God can you imagine how horrifying it must have been for the Madame Web actors to spend all this time thinking they are making a popular Superhero movie only to slowly realize that they are the next target for "Morbin Time" memes.
I loved the part near the end where you answered and gave personal experiences of some simple questions about life in Australia. You should do that again someday.
True story, I met Ariana Debose on her first film where she was the lead, "Seaside", based and shot in Oregon, Seaside/Portland. I was the Assistant Director. She's super friendly.
Theory: Carl Weather's one-armed character from Predator is the same one-armed character as Chubbs from Happy Gilmore. He somehow survived the Predator attack, changed his name and became a Country Club golf pro? I like that narrative and think the world is a richer place having Happy Gilmore be canon in the Predator universe.
I get that people are upset with the Arhkamverse canon, but every story beat in Arkham Knight presses the point *so* hard that this is Batman's last stand and that it ends his legend. Trying to claim that actually he met Superman right after and had wholesome Justice League adventures for years (and that in-universe they built tacky theme parks to commemorate the events of the games even though those incidents racked up enormous numbers of innocent casualties) gives such incredible whiplash that it's impossible for my brain to reconcile that they're meant to be the same universe, so it just doesn't. It's like the way that the Schumacher movies have a kind of 'soft' canon with the Burton movies - I understand what is being said to me but they will never feel like they are the same story.
that outro of what could possibly be the new intro bloody slaps, boys! head started nodding uncontrollably soon as it started, thought it'll fall off if it was any longer -- good on ya!
45:09 I love the joke in American dad where Francine tags along on a mission and she walks into the casino in a long dress and strikes a pose and Stan roles up on a scooter with a mullet and a little air tube in his nostrils and says “ people don’t dress like that in Atlantic city” 😂 they missed that opportunity here
RIP Carl Weathers - a long & eclectic career! Matthew Vaughan's been in a bit of a rut post the first Kingsman movie, what happened?! Absolutely no way it's coming close to simply breaking even on its reported $200m cost in its theatrical run! Until recently, Apple were more responsible with spending MUCH less e.g. $35m on CODA that won 3 Oscars in 2021 & got record viewership on Apple TV+. Some (most) directors just seem to work better when constrained by a smaller budget like Vaughan's Layer Cake ($6.5m budget) as compared to Argylle's $200m! Leave The World Behind (Julia Roberts & Mahershala Ali) is now the 8th most watched movie in Netflix history & could rise as high as #5!
Celebrity directors with carte blanche and infinite budgets are the worst thing to happen to film making. Look at James Cameron, George Lucas, Ridley Scott, Guy Ritchie, Zach Snyder. Awful, bloated, CGI-ridden, dumb, longwinded, lazy movies that are basically just masturbation exercises by the directors and unintentionally showing off how poor they are at either writing or directing or editing (or all). Get out of here with these 3+ hour movies that have nothing to say.
Wait wait! Wait!... What about just having the instrumental version of the song play up until right at the point where you say the weekly planet? Then you get the whole song and it's catchy and you still say the weekly planet and we still get to rock out
Oh NVM that happens at the end! Very cool. Just put that at the start but with the real vocal take! 🤘🤘🤘 (not that that new vocal take didn't make me bust out laughing)
I like the shortened intro, i suspect they did it for same reason comic poo cut their intro theme, shows better video rentention the quicker you get to talking but it could be for other completely different reasons. I've not even heard of Argylle. Sad about Carl Weathers. Action Jackson himself. Lets get more coffee ☕️
I don't think that game tarnishes Conroys legacy. The actual characters and performances in Suicide Squad aren't the problem with that game. By all accounts, it's a great cast who does the best with what they were given.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Imagine your best friends didn’t like you or know who you were. There, that’s my review. Doesn’t count, I know. Also that song at the end fucking goes hard. I’m sad about the lyrics, but the guitars and synths are 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Ben and Collings and Laurence!!!! PLEASE edit together a video of the Madame Webb portion of this podcast! There's practically an unlimited well of interview footage and MCU footage and movies that Dakota Johnson's parents were in. Not to mention great audio from the boys here! I really think it could do huge huge numbers on the Mr Sunday movies channel! Like whole new crop of fans and lifetime listeners and break a million and all that stuff. Please please please!!
The suicide squad came is actually quite good, to me of course. The base game does not feel like a live service looter shooter at all. It’s very much a well thought out single/multi player experience. Give it a try if you want or wait for it to be on sale
The original "Mercenaries" game was one of my favorites as a kid.. it was the ultimate open world sandbox that let you call in airdrops of all of Americas best weaponry to do childish shit with. I loved it lol.
I feel like Amazon have been killing it recently with their "funny thriller" productions recently. Mr & Mrs Smith was one of the best things I've seen in a while, even if it isn't an original IP; incredible chemistry between the two leads, snappy dialogue that felt remarkably real, despite the somewhat silly premise, lots of fun appearances by great actors in smaller roles, great locations and fantastic cinematography. Good stuff. I also really enjoyed Role Play, though it wasn't on the same level quality-wise.
Although it's been nearly over a year now and I am still mourning the loose of the butthole theme song, I have got to admit the new one at the end of this episode is pretty great!!! Hope it makes the transition to the fulltime opener
I unironically love the new theme. Equal parts epic and punk rock. Though my butthole will miss being shot up with red-hot comic book movie news. 1:28:31
Why is Argylle basically the Amazon show Citadel that nobody watched? Plots sound incredibly similar right down to opening with train action sequences.
I like the new intro. I think I'd personally like it slightly better without the count of 4, which feels a little too hardcore, but maybe it'll grow on me.
I cannot stand this Argylle slander. Dislike. Unsub. Report. But seriously tho, I genuinely feel like I saw a different movie to everyone else on the planet, I loved this one
20:13 "Look, I think also- let's say- again, I haven't even played this, maybe I would love it, I definitely wouldn't and I'm never gonna play it, cause I don't encourage this kind of SHIT!" - The mind of Mr. Sunday
hIf you're getting into some classic Hong Kong martial arts movies, you gotta go with the classic Drunken Master, Jackie CHan's breakout role that solidified his signature slapstick action comedy vibe, also Snake in Eagle's Shadow has the single greatest death scene in cinema history (IYKYK). EDIT: Fans of Jamie from Street Fighter 6 might recognise Jamie's critical art in Drunken Master.
I was doing okay until the horrible dance/kill scene in the hallway with the super fake looking colored smoke. My bar was pretty low because I was already expecting an unrealistic action movie but that one scene was just too discordant and weird for me. All of the dance stuff was weird. I don't normally have a problem with Sam Rockwell dancing but they made dancing such a huge part of the story. It was weird.
I enjoyed Argylle but it felt a bit like a diet coke version of what it should have been. If it had been allowed to break out of PG-13 rating it could have packed a bit more punch and made it easier to overlook some of its flaws. I'd probably watch it again.
I really enjoy that Brute's new theme just sounds like James screaming "WEEKLY PLANET" like a maniac 😂 Why don't you just keep the theme the same, but change "up your butthole" to "in your ear holes". I'm pretty sure I've seen others mention that when James first mentioned changing the theme
Spoiler: In Argylle, why did they get Bryce Dallas Howard’s character to dress up as Dua Lipa’s character? I thought the point was she was trying to look like herself again, not LaGrange? Maybe I missed that explanation, I heard them say “you may as well look the part”. And as you said, it’d make more sense if Elly had worn a green velvet dress.
52:50 it doesn’t make any sense why they hypnotised her it they thought she was a double agent, you would just say “oh good your awake give us the information”, why not just say she got a brain injury and woke up thinking she was this writer, or just don’t make her a double agent, too many ideas pick one, also this film is also spiderman homecoming with the dad reveal, anytime a movie mentions a farther figure now before revealing him I’m going to assume it’s the villain
