The Beginning of The End - Revenge Of The Podcast
September 21, 201501:14:31

The Beginning of The End - Revenge Of The Podcast

The year was 2005. George Lucas returned with the third (and final) film in the Star Wars series: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. Again, taking in the criticism from the previous two productions, has the director finally found a focus? Is this a good conclusion to the Phantom Menace series?

Griffin and David begin their investigation with the opening battle sequence. And as is tradition of stunning off screen action, the movie starts at the END of the Clone Wars. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are in space fighters, R2D2 is basically Inspector Gadget now and every 45 seconds a new droid is introduced with the intention of later being merchandised. Also, we meet new characters General Grievous (the limping, coughing leader of the droid army) and a surfer Gungan. Plus, discover Chancellor Palpatine has been kidnapped by Count Dooku (who may have lost his head.) Join your hosts in this week’s episode as they try to take it all in.


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[00:00:23] [SPEAKER_00]: David Griffin I have a bad feeling about this

[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_02]: My name is Griffin Eman David Sips

[00:00:32] [SPEAKER_00]: This is a Griffin and David present Revenge Of The Podcast!

[00:00:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Revenge Of The Podcast, this is our new mini-series

[00:00:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Did they say I have a bad feeling about this in this one?

[00:00:41] [SPEAKER_00]: They say it a lot in the second one Oh yeah

[00:00:43] [SPEAKER_00]: They say it within the first 20 minutes of this film which is what we're covering today

[00:00:47] [SPEAKER_00]: on today's episode as is tradition It's tradition

[00:00:49] [SPEAKER_00]: We always have so many Hori-old traditions

[00:00:52] [SPEAKER_00]: We break off a mini-series which is the first up to the first crazy edit

[00:00:56] [SPEAKER_00]: So there's what do you call it? It's not a wipe edit, it's the one

[00:00:59] [SPEAKER_02]: It's like a windshield wiper edit It's like the clock edit

[00:01:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, yeah It's like the hands of a clock

[00:01:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah we're doing the first battle sequence slash lightsaber fight slash plane crash

[00:01:11] [SPEAKER_02]: 22 minute

[00:01:13] [SPEAKER_02]: It's a I just called it a cartoon episode

[00:01:15] [SPEAKER_02]: It's like an episode of you know Samurai Jack

[00:01:18] [SPEAKER_00]: I have an analogy well except it's not a masterpiece

[00:01:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Right I have an analogy I want to throw out later in the episode

[00:01:25] [SPEAKER_00]: But just you know let's just set the table quickly

[00:01:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:01:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Because who knows maybe first time listening

[00:01:30] [SPEAKER_00]: It could be

[00:01:32] [SPEAKER_00]: This is my series started out as us doing a limited series

[00:01:35] [SPEAKER_00]: about the Phantom Menace, a film that we thought never got a sequel

[00:01:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah we're real stupid George Lucas' sci-fi opera clearly had big plans

[00:01:44] [SPEAKER_00]: and bigger narrative ambitions We found out the end of that mini-series

[00:01:47] [SPEAKER_00]: In fact there was a sequel called Attack of the Clones

[00:01:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:01:51] [SPEAKER_00]: The second Phantom Menace movie

[00:01:54] [SPEAKER_00]: We took a brief detour into judging the judge

[00:01:57] [SPEAKER_00]: It's okay let's stick on Star Wars for now

[00:02:01] [SPEAKER_00]: The original question was what is the Phantom Menace about

[00:02:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh yeah right and then this with Attack of the Clones it was is this a good sequel

[00:02:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Wait do you have a core question for this third film we just uncovered

[00:02:13] [SPEAKER_02]: You don't

[00:02:15] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't have one yet I mean I have to make a confession

[00:02:18] [SPEAKER_00]: I this week for two reasons only watched up to the point that we're discussing today

[00:02:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay

[00:02:25] [SPEAKER_00]: One is I thought let's keep it fucking pure

[00:02:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay

[00:02:28] [SPEAKER_00]: I have now uncovered the memories because we didn't know this movie existed

[00:02:32] [SPEAKER_00]: and then we realized we did in fact know it existed

[00:02:34] [SPEAKER_00]: I know why I buried the memories I'll tell you that

[00:02:37] [SPEAKER_00]: I saw three times in theaters and I don't remember

[00:02:38] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't remember like any of it

[00:02:41] [SPEAKER_00]: So

[00:02:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Like you really don't

[00:02:42] [SPEAKER_00]: I remember the end only

[00:02:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Sure

[00:02:44] [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like I was watching this shit and I like

[00:02:47] [SPEAKER_00]: None of it was ringing a bell

[00:02:49] [SPEAKER_00]: But so I watched the first 22 minutes on it because I was like keep it pure

[00:02:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Actually don't have the knowledge of where it's going when you're watching it

[00:02:56] [SPEAKER_00]: You know

[00:02:57] [SPEAKER_00]: And only talk about it

[00:02:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Call up the opening crawl

[00:02:59] [SPEAKER_00]: What the beginning sets up

[00:03:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:03:01] [SPEAKER_00]: And two was a poor time planning on my part

[00:03:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:03:05] [SPEAKER_00]: That's the real reason

[00:03:06] [SPEAKER_00]: It's time management

[00:03:07] [SPEAKER_02]: I put it on last night and just couldn't turn it off

[00:03:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:03:13] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just bringing up the opening crawl

[00:03:15] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't have a core question yet because I haven't seen the whole thing yet

[00:03:18] [SPEAKER_00]: But I think it um

[00:03:21] [SPEAKER_00]: True

[00:03:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm trying to find the right word this

[00:03:25] [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like it has to be something about like

[00:03:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Now that we know he's made three of them

[00:03:30] [SPEAKER_02]: George Lucas

[00:03:31] [SPEAKER_00]: We can't

[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Right or end director

[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_00]: We've been analyzing these movies from this stance of like

[00:03:35] [SPEAKER_00]: What was he trying to do

[00:03:36] [SPEAKER_00]: What would you want this to build to

[00:03:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay

[00:03:39] [SPEAKER_00]: We now have the complete picture

[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_00]: The Star Wars trilogy

[00:03:43] [SPEAKER_00]: The Phantom Manus trilogy

[00:03:44] [SPEAKER_00]: That's true

[00:03:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Right

[00:03:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes

[00:03:46] [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like the question has to be like

[00:03:50] [SPEAKER_00]: What was

[00:03:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Does this conclude the story well

[00:03:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah

[00:03:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah I guess that's the question

[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Is this a fitting end to the Star Wars trilogy

[00:04:00] [SPEAKER_00]: That's the question

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_00]: That's the mystery

[00:04:02] [SPEAKER_00]: That's the investigation

[00:04:03] [SPEAKER_00]: We figured it out

[00:04:03] [SPEAKER_00]: There we go

[00:04:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Geez

[00:04:05] [SPEAKER_02]: It's like pulling teeth with you

[00:04:07] [SPEAKER_00]: I haven't been sleeping well

[00:04:08] [SPEAKER_00]: A long time ago

[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_00]: In a galaxy far far away

[00:04:12] [SPEAKER_00]: We talked about this before

[00:04:13] [SPEAKER_00]: I just want to stop once again

[00:04:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Not discussed enough that these are period films

[00:04:17] [SPEAKER_00]: For crying out loud

[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_02]: I really yeah

[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_02]: They're so ridiculous

[00:04:20] [SPEAKER_00]: They're period movies

[00:04:22] [SPEAKER_00]: They're period picture

[00:04:22] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm saying period

[00:04:23] [SPEAKER_02]: They're period picture

[00:04:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah they're set a long time ago

[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Long time ago

[00:04:28] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm just rolling over my power cord right now

[00:04:31] [SPEAKER_00]: All right there we go

[00:04:31] [SPEAKER_00]: So read in the crawl

[00:04:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay this is always

[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_00]: It's always exciting to break off a new crawl

[00:04:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:04:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Right

[00:04:35] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a good way to start

[00:04:36] [SPEAKER_00]: We like a crawl

[00:04:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Revenge of this

[00:04:37] [SPEAKER_00]: We like a good crawl

[00:04:38] [SPEAKER_02]: By the way this movie is garbage

[00:04:39] [SPEAKER_02]: I haven't

[00:04:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Just just just

[00:04:41] [SPEAKER_02]: I only watched the first twenty minutes

[00:04:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah just a frothy shit

[00:04:45] [SPEAKER_02]: That's what this movie is

[00:04:46] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm trying

[00:04:46] [SPEAKER_00]: I want to be

[00:04:48] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't

[00:04:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Because David

[00:04:49] [SPEAKER_00]: It's immediately worse than the other two

[00:04:50] [SPEAKER_00]: David we can't get this cynical and negative

[00:04:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I know you don't want me to be negative

[00:04:54] [SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna make it to ten episodes

[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_02]: You don't want me to be negative

[00:04:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Because we got to do ten episodes

[00:04:57] [SPEAKER_02]: This might not be a ten episodes

[00:04:58] [SPEAKER_02]: It might not be

[00:04:59] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think it can ever

[00:04:59] [SPEAKER_00]: It might break us

[00:05:00] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know

[00:05:00] [SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna see what I want

[00:05:01] [SPEAKER_00]: It somehow looks worse than the last one

[00:05:03] [SPEAKER_00]: I will say

[00:05:03] [SPEAKER_00]: I got some really good guess lined up

[00:05:05] [SPEAKER_00]: I haven't talked to you about it

[00:05:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:05:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Not specific dates

[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_00]: But I've been like

[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Reaching out to people

[00:05:09] [SPEAKER_00]: And getting time frames of like

[00:05:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay I'm off work

[00:05:12] [SPEAKER_00]: These two weeks

[00:05:12] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm back this week or two weeks

[00:05:14] [SPEAKER_00]: So like

[00:05:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Let's talk about that

[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna have some fucking killer guess coming up

[00:05:17] [SPEAKER_02]: All right

[00:05:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Here's the opening crawl

[00:05:19] [SPEAKER_02]: Excited for the guests

[00:05:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_00]: War

[00:05:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh I mean

[00:05:23] [SPEAKER_00]: David come on

[00:05:24] [SPEAKER_00]: It's pretty good

[00:05:25] [SPEAKER_00]: David come on

[00:05:26] [SPEAKER_02]: The Republic is crumbling under attacks

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_02]: By the ruthless Sith Lord Count Dooku

[00:05:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay

[00:05:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay

[00:05:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Kind of cool

[00:05:33] [SPEAKER_02]: Although you're like

[00:05:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh why didn't we see that

[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Crumbling that sounds fun

[00:05:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Like let's watch some of that

[00:05:38] [SPEAKER_02]: But anyway

[00:05:38] [SPEAKER_00]: David it's not worded as

[00:05:40] [SPEAKER_00]: The Republic has crumbled

[00:05:42] [SPEAKER_00]: It is crumbling

[00:05:42] [SPEAKER_00]: We're mid crumble

[00:05:43] [SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna get to see some of the fucking crumble

[00:05:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Now here's this sentence

[00:05:47] [SPEAKER_02]: Not quite so much

[00:05:48] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like fucking active

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_00]: We're in the action

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_02]: There are heroes on both sides

[00:05:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Evil is everywhere

[00:05:54] [SPEAKER_02]: What?

[00:05:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah I don't know what that really means

[00:05:56] [SPEAKER_02]: There are heroes on both

[00:05:56] [SPEAKER_02]: So you're saying like

[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_02]: There are good people and bad people

[00:05:58] [SPEAKER_02]: On both sides of this

[00:05:59] [SPEAKER_02]: I guess

[00:06:00] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah

[00:06:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah I mean of course

[00:06:02] [SPEAKER_00]: A little less compelling

[00:06:03] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a war

[00:06:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Not every person is

[00:06:05] [SPEAKER_02]: All right now here we go

[00:06:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Heroes are but there's evil

[00:06:07] [SPEAKER_02]: And now we've got like

[00:06:08] [SPEAKER_02]: A

[00:06:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Wait say that sounds one more time

[00:06:10] [SPEAKER_02]: There are heroes on both sides

[00:06:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Evil is everywhere

[00:06:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Well it sounds like

[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_02]: It's very existential

[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah it also

[00:06:16] [SPEAKER_00]: It kind of kind of makes itself

[00:06:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Don't forget evil is everywhere

[00:06:18] [SPEAKER_00]: There are heroes on both sides

[00:06:20] [SPEAKER_00]: But there's evil

[00:06:20] [SPEAKER_00]: So he's just saying

[00:06:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Good and bad

[00:06:22] [SPEAKER_00]: A lot

[00:06:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay fuck

[00:06:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Makes it a bit

[00:06:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Rainy and sunny

[00:06:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay

[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_02]: All right now here's

[00:06:26] [SPEAKER_02]: This is about his

[00:06:27] [SPEAKER_02]: Blinding a left turn

[00:06:29] [SPEAKER_02]: This is a U-turn

[00:06:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay

[00:06:30] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna need some peanuts

[00:06:31] [SPEAKER_02]: While you read this

[00:06:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah

[00:06:32] [SPEAKER_02]: In a stunning move

[00:06:34] [SPEAKER_02]: The fiendish droid leader

[00:06:36] [SPEAKER_02]: General Grievous

[00:06:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Has swept into the Republic Capitol

[00:06:40] [SPEAKER_02]: And kidnapped Chancellor Palpatine

[00:06:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Leader of the Galactic Senate

[00:06:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay first off George

[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_00]: A little

[00:06:45] [SPEAKER_00]: You know

[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_00]: To describe your own

[00:06:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah pump the brakes

[00:06:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah pump it

[00:06:49] [SPEAKER_00]: You know what I'm saying

[00:06:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Like you're not saying like

[00:06:50] [SPEAKER_00]: And not like the black eye

[00:06:51] [SPEAKER_00]: A man of stunning power

[00:06:52] [SPEAKER_00]: You're saying like

[00:06:52] [SPEAKER_00]: A stunning narrative turn

[00:06:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah right

[00:06:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah okay

[00:06:55] [SPEAKER_02]: In a stunning off-screen narrative turn

[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah

[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_02]: And a person you've never heard of

[00:06:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay wait give me

[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_02]: Give me the sentence again

[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_02]: In a stunning move

[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_02]: The fiendish droid leader

[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_02]: General Grievous

[00:07:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Has swept into the Republic Capitol

[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_02]: And kidnapped Chancellor Palpatine

[00:07:07] [SPEAKER_02]: The leader of the Galactic Senate

[00:07:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay okay okay

[00:07:09] [SPEAKER_02]: So Palpatine's a hostage

[00:07:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:07:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Pretty cool

[00:07:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Which is interesting

[00:07:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Because we also know

[00:07:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah he's pulling the strings

[00:07:15] [SPEAKER_00]: On both sides

[00:07:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Right and we don't know who

[00:07:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Grievous works for

[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_02]: And who he is

[00:07:19] [SPEAKER_02]: Or what he is

[00:07:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Or what's going on

[00:07:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Or why he's fiendish

[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah no okay

[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm kind of liking this now

[00:07:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay so Grievous

[00:07:25] [SPEAKER_00]: No I am

[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm liking this a lot

[00:07:27] [SPEAKER_00]: I got a

[00:07:27] [SPEAKER_00]: I got a Steffie

[00:07:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Grievous is a droid general

[00:07:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Does that mean

[00:07:31] [SPEAKER_00]: He is a

[00:07:33] [SPEAKER_00]: The general of the droids

[00:07:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Is he command all the droids

[00:07:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Is that his job

[00:07:37] [SPEAKER_00]: That they went

[00:07:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay clones

[00:07:38] [SPEAKER_00]: One side

[00:07:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Humans

[00:07:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Non-cloned humans

[00:07:41] [SPEAKER_00]: One side

[00:07:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Droids

[00:07:42] [SPEAKER_00]: One side

[00:07:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Three sides

[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Like a triangle

[00:07:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Or do they

[00:07:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Is he

[00:07:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Did they need a general

[00:07:49] [SPEAKER_00]: And they were like

[00:07:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Let's build one

[00:07:52] [SPEAKER_02]: As the separatist

[00:07:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Droid army attempts to flee

[00:07:54] [SPEAKER_02]: The besieged capital

[00:07:55] [SPEAKER_02]: With their valuable hostage

[00:07:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Two Jedi knights

[00:07:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Lead a desperate mission

[00:07:59] [SPEAKER_02]: To rescue the captive chancellor

[00:08:00] [SPEAKER_02]: Dot dot dot

[00:08:02] [SPEAKER_02]: I wonder which to

[00:08:02] [SPEAKER_02]: It's good to know

[00:08:03] [SPEAKER_02]: It's interesting to note

[00:08:04] [SPEAKER_02]: That like this preamble

[00:08:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Really only speaks to

[00:08:07] [SPEAKER_02]: The first 20 minutes of the movie

[00:08:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Like the rest of the movie

[00:08:09] [SPEAKER_02]: This doesn't really have

[00:08:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Anything to do with

[00:08:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Which is maybe

[00:08:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Because the first 20 minutes

[00:08:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Solves this issue

[00:08:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah

[00:08:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Kidnapping

[00:08:14] [SPEAKER_02]: And the war

[00:08:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Pretty like

[00:08:16] [SPEAKER_02]: You know

[00:08:16] [SPEAKER_02]: 90% of it at least

[00:08:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe how it crawls to function

[00:08:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Like maybe to be set up

[00:08:19] [SPEAKER_00]: So we have mystery

[00:08:20] [SPEAKER_00]: It's just a back story

[00:08:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Right

[00:08:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay so the two Jedi's

[00:08:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm guessing are gonna be

[00:08:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeriel Poo from Yaddle

[00:08:25] [SPEAKER_02]: And you're absolutely

[00:08:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Yaddle never shows up again

[00:08:28] [SPEAKER_00]: We actually never talked about that

[00:08:30] [SPEAKER_00]: She's only in episode one

[00:08:31] [SPEAKER_00]: She's not in the council

[00:08:32] [SPEAKER_00]: On the other ones

[00:08:32] [SPEAKER_00]: They fired her

[00:08:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:08:35] [SPEAKER_00]: This is a good sidebar

[00:08:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Just because

[00:08:38] [SPEAKER_00]: A lateral thinking

[00:08:38] [SPEAKER_00]: And no one listening

[00:08:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Would have this thought

[00:08:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Yaddle and

[00:08:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeriel

[00:08:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Quirming Yeriel Poof

[00:08:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Makes me think of

[00:08:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Last night I was reading our reviews

[00:08:53] [SPEAKER_00]: On iTunes

[00:08:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay

[00:08:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Producer Ben

[00:08:55] [SPEAKER_00]: AKA

[00:08:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Producer Ben

[00:08:57] [SPEAKER_00]: AKA Ben Dooser

[00:08:58] [SPEAKER_00]: AKA

[00:08:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Hello Fennel

[00:08:59] [SPEAKER_00]: AKA

[00:09:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Mr. Positive

[00:09:00] [SPEAKER_00]: AKA The Haas

[00:09:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Hey that's great

[00:09:03] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm so excited to hear

[00:09:04] [SPEAKER_01]: That people are leaving reviews

[00:09:05] [SPEAKER_01]: That's so awesome

[00:09:06] [SPEAKER_00]: 25 5-star reviews

[00:09:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh that's really great

[00:09:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you guys

[00:09:10] [SPEAKER_01]: That's so great

[00:09:11] [SPEAKER_00]: One star review

[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_00]: From some

[00:09:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Fucking Sith Lord

[00:09:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Out there

[00:09:17] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know who it was

[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_00]: They didn't write the review

[00:09:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Did he identify himself as a Sith Lord?

[00:09:20] [SPEAKER_00]: You're not supposed to do that

[00:09:21] [SPEAKER_00]: They did not write the review

[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh they just left the star

[00:09:23] [SPEAKER_00]: They just left the star

[00:09:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Can you pull it up though

[00:09:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Cause we have

[00:09:25] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm trying to find it

[00:09:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the internet in here is

[00:09:27] [SPEAKER_02]: Really bad

[00:09:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Yep, we had a review

[00:09:31] [SPEAKER_00]: That corrected

[00:09:31] [SPEAKER_00]: They said

[00:09:32] [SPEAKER_00]: You know

[00:09:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Very nice things people had to say

[00:09:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Including the two reviews written by Ben

[00:09:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Very

[00:09:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you Ben

[00:09:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you Ben

[00:09:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And you'll know which two they are

[00:09:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Cause one of them has signed The Haas

[00:09:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And the other one has signed Mr. Positive

[00:09:44] [SPEAKER_00]: But

[00:09:46] [SPEAKER_00]: One of the reviews pointed out

[00:09:47] [SPEAKER_00]: That we have been making a big faux pas

[00:09:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Across too many series

[00:09:53] [SPEAKER_00]: The Jedi with the Kakarot face

[00:09:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Who we have been calling

[00:09:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Plu Klune this entire time

[00:09:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Is in fact called Plow Klune

[00:10:00] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh shit

[00:10:01] [SPEAKER_02]: That's how you pronounce it

[00:10:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Show Klune

[00:10:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Sorry about that

[00:10:05] [SPEAKER_02]: His name is never said aloud

[00:10:06] [SPEAKER_02]: I believe that's part of the problem

[00:10:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Apologies to Plow Klune

[00:10:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, apologies to the Kakarot race

[00:10:12] [SPEAKER_02]: He represents

[00:10:12] [SPEAKER_02]: He's got a Kakarot face

[00:10:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay well I'm just loading these reviews

[00:10:15] [SPEAKER_02]: They'll be ready in like 20 minutes

[00:10:16] [SPEAKER_02]: But hey

[00:10:17] [SPEAKER_00]: You know what

[00:10:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Keep it up

[00:10:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Keep rating

[00:10:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Keep reviewing

[00:10:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Unless you're a

[00:10:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Fucking Sith

[00:10:22] [SPEAKER_00]: We got no time for your one star garbage

[00:10:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Three are higher

[00:10:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Guess what

[00:10:26] [SPEAKER_00]: No, five are higher

[00:10:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, how about this

[00:10:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Six are higher

[00:10:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Well no

[00:10:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Then no one's gonna leave a review

[00:10:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Cause they won't figure out how to leave a six star review

[00:10:33] [SPEAKER_02]: Have you been watching the

[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Review

[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, the best

[00:10:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Did you see the six star episode?

[00:10:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's a best

[00:10:38] [SPEAKER_00]: That's my favorite show on television

[00:10:39] [SPEAKER_00]: It's the best

[00:10:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Um

[00:10:40] [SPEAKER_00]: I give it six stars

[00:10:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Me too

[00:10:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh

[00:10:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Ladies and gentlemen

[00:10:43] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm throwing down the gauntlet

[00:10:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Right now

[00:10:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh

[00:10:47] [SPEAKER_00]: If you

[00:10:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Give us a one star rating or review

[00:10:52] [SPEAKER_00]: You are not allowed to listen to the show anymore

[00:10:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Done

[00:10:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Done

[00:10:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Done

[00:10:58] [SPEAKER_00]: No

[00:10:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Fucking Siths allowed

[00:11:01] [SPEAKER_00]: If you give us one star

[00:11:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Or you write a nasty comment

[00:11:06] [SPEAKER_00]: You're fucking out

[00:11:07] [SPEAKER_00]: You're out

[00:11:07] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm deeming you a Sith

[00:11:09] [SPEAKER_00]: You gotta wear that on your fucking chest

[00:11:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Like a scarlet ladder

[00:11:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Have fun getting employed

[00:11:14] [SPEAKER_00]: You gotta go door to door

[00:11:15] [SPEAKER_00]: When you move to a new neighborhood

[00:11:17] [SPEAKER_00]: And knock

[00:11:17] [SPEAKER_00]: The Sith really

[00:11:18] [SPEAKER_02]: They really struggle with

[00:11:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Getting employed

[00:11:20] [SPEAKER_02]: They really do

[00:11:21] [SPEAKER_02]: It's tough to find a job once you've been

[00:11:22] [SPEAKER_02]: You know identified as a Sith Lord

[00:11:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but here's

[00:11:24] [SPEAKER_00]: For me

[00:11:25] [SPEAKER_00]: That's actually not true

[00:11:25] [SPEAKER_00]: If you see in this movie

[00:11:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, if you ask me

[00:11:28] [SPEAKER_00]: It speaks a lot to the way

[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_00]: That our country stigmatizes mental illness

[00:11:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Do you know what I'm saying?

[00:11:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Cause like

[00:11:33] [SPEAKER_02]: You're saying the Sith are mentally ill

[00:11:35] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm saying I don't like what they do

[00:11:37] [SPEAKER_00]: But perhaps we should investigate

[00:11:39] [SPEAKER_00]: What leads someone to become a Sith in the first place

[00:11:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Hey, I found our podcast on iTunes

[00:11:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, let's read some reviews

[00:11:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Here's some reviews

[00:11:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Um

[00:11:47] [SPEAKER_00]: I think the Sith are mentally ill

[00:11:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Why would any sane person want to be a Sith?

[00:11:49] [SPEAKER_00]: It's not cool

[00:11:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Ooh, we have a parental advisory

[00:11:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Really?

[00:11:53] [SPEAKER_02]: It's content

[00:11:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay

[00:11:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Well it was all that TC14 talk

[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_01]: I had to make a call there

[00:11:58] [SPEAKER_01]: I did talk about robot pussy

[00:11:59] [SPEAKER_02]: All right well here's

[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_02]: The crab things review

[00:12:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay

[00:12:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Quote

[00:12:06] [SPEAKER_02]: The title of the review is Mr. Positive

[00:12:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Quote

[00:12:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Hate these guys

[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Attack of the clones is dumb

[00:12:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Five stars

[00:12:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Five stars

[00:12:12] [SPEAKER_02]: So thank you for that

[00:12:14] [SPEAKER_02]: So uh oh he's a bit

[00:12:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Don't know if he's a Sith or not

[00:12:17] [SPEAKER_02]: Here's Jenna Carly

[00:12:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah

[00:12:19] [SPEAKER_02]: Very informative

[00:12:20] [SPEAKER_02]: I learned a lot about Rachel Billson's personal life

[00:12:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Great show

[00:12:23] [SPEAKER_02]: That's all we asked

[00:12:24] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm really glad we could be at service

[00:12:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah that's great

[00:12:27] [SPEAKER_02]: From Lawsindel

[00:12:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Fanfic

[00:12:30] [SPEAKER_02]: This is just for the fanfic episode

[00:12:33] [SPEAKER_02]: Unbelievably sexy

[00:12:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Five stars

[00:12:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Well David sounds like it's time for you to drink my diarrhea

[00:12:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Because you

[00:12:39] [SPEAKER_02]: No thank you

[00:12:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Hated that episode

[00:12:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Didn't want to have and tried to shut it down

[00:12:42] [SPEAKER_00]: And we got fucking specific fans who will only hear for the fanfic

[00:12:46] [SPEAKER_02]: And that was Ricky Irwin who pointed out that you're saying

[00:12:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Poe Klune wrong

[00:12:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah good guy

[00:12:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Good guy

[00:12:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Good man

[00:12:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Um

[00:12:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Trying to

[00:12:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Cold milk

[00:12:55] [SPEAKER_02]: The most delightfully offbeat and weirdly insightful film pot

[00:12:58] [SPEAKER_02]: No this one's actually just nice

[00:13:00] [SPEAKER_02]: It's not weird

[00:13:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you though cold milk

[00:13:02] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a great man Chris Cooks

[00:13:03] [SPEAKER_00]: I like this one

[00:13:04] [SPEAKER_00]: We read his theory and fanmasked

[00:13:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Cold milk has one line I really like

[00:13:07] [SPEAKER_00]: If you turn your screen over

[00:13:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh Jesus

[00:13:09] [SPEAKER_00]: So

[00:13:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh

[00:13:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Griffin's enthusiasm stories and willingness to potentially sabotage his career for a joke

[00:13:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Really carry the podcast

[00:13:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Whereas my more understated tone compliments

[00:13:23] [SPEAKER_02]: But you know he really just likes you

[00:13:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Well he's an old friend of mine

[00:13:27] [SPEAKER_02]: He's an old friend of mine

[00:13:27] [SPEAKER_00]: We were friends like 10 years ago

[00:13:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:13:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Literally butter

[00:13:31] [SPEAKER_02]: I love this podcast and listen to it almost daily to fall asleep

[00:13:35] [SPEAKER_02]: My girlfriend however is not a fan

[00:13:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Five stars

[00:13:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Don't leave us a review girlfriend

[00:13:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah this is my favorite comment

[00:13:41] [SPEAKER_00]: They're saying would our podcast is literally butter or that's the name the username

[00:13:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Literally butter is the username

[00:13:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay

[00:13:46] [SPEAKER_02]: But our podcast is literally butter

[00:13:48] [SPEAKER_00]: So

[00:13:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I love that he loves it

[00:13:50] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what to I mean

[00:13:51] [SPEAKER_00]: I wonder what kind of dreams he's having

[00:13:52] [SPEAKER_00]: And also is he saying we're a snooze fest

[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh no look I listened sometimes to a podcast to sort of

[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Dose off it happens

[00:13:59] [SPEAKER_00]: I couldn't fall asleep last night so I

[00:14:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Called up a

[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_00]: You do it though

[00:14:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Kaka kaka kaka

[00:14:04] [SPEAKER_00]: I um I pulled up a youtube playlist of all the time and talking about pizza

[00:14:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Sure sounds great

[00:14:11] [SPEAKER_00]: I just listened all that time and talked about pizza

[00:14:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay uh Patrick Cottner

[00:14:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Hey hey pat

[00:14:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Hey pat

[00:14:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Says all the movies

[00:14:18] [SPEAKER_02]: I hope they do all the movies

[00:14:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Every movie ever

[00:14:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Five stars

[00:14:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Well I mean

[00:14:24] [SPEAKER_00]: We used to think there were only six movies in total

[00:14:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Now we're starting to realize there are more and more

[00:14:27] [SPEAKER_00]: So I think we might be able to do that

[00:14:29] [SPEAKER_02]: And finally I wanted just the one star review

[00:14:33] [SPEAKER_02]: It's a review

[00:14:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Really?

[00:14:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah no no listen to this

[00:14:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh look

[00:14:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay

[00:14:36] [SPEAKER_02]: From Five Top E A T One N G

[00:14:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Which

[00:14:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Stop eating

[00:14:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay

[00:14:44] [SPEAKER_00]: And in Weed Speak

[00:14:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay

[00:14:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Stop eating on mic

[00:14:48] [SPEAKER_02]: It's disgusting

[00:14:49] [SPEAKER_02]: One star

[00:14:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Eat some peanuts right now

[00:14:51] [SPEAKER_02]: For that motherfucker

[00:14:56] [SPEAKER_02]: So yeah we have 25 reviews

[00:14:57] [SPEAKER_02]: 24 or 5 stars

[00:14:58] [SPEAKER_02]: One one star

[00:14:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Still pretty good

[00:15:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Doesn't hurt our average rating

[00:15:04] [SPEAKER_02]: That's actually really gross

[00:15:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah

[00:15:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh okay

[00:15:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah Ben's like turning your mic down right now

[00:15:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Turning it up

[00:15:11] [SPEAKER_00]: So

[00:15:13] [SPEAKER_00]: This is I would want to say record time for us to avoid talking about the movie

[00:15:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah seriously

[00:15:17] [SPEAKER_00]: We're 20 minutes into episode one

[00:15:19] [SPEAKER_01]: All right now we I let it run a little bit

[00:15:20] [SPEAKER_01]: So we're probably only about 11 in

[00:15:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_02]: So this movie begins with a huge opening battle over Coruscant

[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah

[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Between a bunch of triangle shapeships and donut shapeships

[00:15:35] [SPEAKER_02]: And I guess there's a lot of smaller ships kind of weaving around

[00:15:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Smaller droids

[00:15:39] [SPEAKER_02]: But you can't really

[00:15:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah droid ships and stuff

[00:15:41] [SPEAKER_02]: You can't really tell what's going on

[00:15:43] [SPEAKER_00]: I gotta stop you already

[00:15:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Because this is my first complain I have about the movie

[00:15:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah please

[00:15:48] [SPEAKER_00]: This is not what how a Phantom Menace movie is supposed to start

[00:15:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay so how is a Phantom Menace movie supposed to start

[00:15:55] [SPEAKER_02]: In your opinion with an assassination attempt

[00:15:56] [SPEAKER_02]: As the second movie does

[00:16:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Crawl crawl crawl crawl crawl

[00:16:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:16:02] [SPEAKER_00]: It does that

[00:16:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Fades into just space

[00:16:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Then we see a ship go by

[00:16:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah that's true

[00:16:07] [SPEAKER_02]: The first one it's the the Jedi Ambassador ship

[00:16:10] [SPEAKER_02]: You know

[00:16:10] [SPEAKER_02]: And then the second one it's you know Amidala's

[00:16:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:16:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Royal cruiser

[00:16:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah and this one it's like we see the sun

[00:16:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah

[00:16:19] [SPEAKER_02]: And then we kind of pan down to Coruscant

[00:16:21] [SPEAKER_02]: And then we see this like epic battle is happening over Coruscant

[00:16:24] [SPEAKER_00]: We see there like a billion ships

[00:16:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Right already I'm like

[00:16:26] [SPEAKER_02]: This movie is is kind of saying like

[00:16:28] [SPEAKER_02]: It's zooming out as wide as possible

[00:16:30] [SPEAKER_02]: This is something I'm gonna talk about a lot

[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Like it's really trying to show off how much detail it can fit into a frame

[00:16:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Which

[00:16:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Is annoying

[00:16:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Congratulations

[00:16:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah great job Georgie

[00:16:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Tons of detail I hope you're happy

[00:16:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Yep

[00:16:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Drink that detail in a cup of my diarrhea

[00:16:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Mix it in with diarrhea

[00:16:47] [SPEAKER_00]: I got a fucking diarheumic flurry machine

[00:16:49] [SPEAKER_00]: You could pick your mixin

[00:16:50] [SPEAKER_00]: And your mixin is details

[00:16:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Carry on

[00:16:54] [SPEAKER_00]: We pan down

[00:16:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Yep

[00:16:56] [SPEAKER_00]: One ship the central ship sort of flies by in classic Phantom Menace fashion

[00:17:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:17:01] [SPEAKER_00]: But there's so much other fucking shit going on

[00:17:03] [SPEAKER_00]: What usually happens is ships flying by

[00:17:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Right

[00:17:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Then there's like a big action

[00:17:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Right

[00:17:08] [SPEAKER_00]: And then there's like a lull right

[00:17:10] [SPEAKER_00]: And then yeah we get to something

[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_00]: So in clones we got ship goes by lands

[00:17:15] [SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of silence you see people standing there

[00:17:18] [SPEAKER_00]: It's like peaceful it lulls you into it

[00:17:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Explosion

[00:17:21] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a bad opening

[00:17:23] [SPEAKER_00]: In Phantom we see the ship going by

[00:17:26] [SPEAKER_00]: They're communicating permission to dock this and that

[00:17:28] [SPEAKER_00]: The ship land

[00:17:29] [SPEAKER_00]: There's like four minutes before they get in

[00:17:31] [SPEAKER_00]: But it like it's situates you into the world

[00:17:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Not this time war

[00:17:37] [SPEAKER_00]: My brain immediately turned off

[00:17:39] [SPEAKER_02]: I know it's really terrible

[00:17:40] [SPEAKER_00]: It's such a fucking overload

[00:17:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Well especially because it's like

[00:17:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah it's a cartoon

[00:17:45] [SPEAKER_02]: It's just a cartoon thing you're watching

[00:17:47] [SPEAKER_02]: It's just like

[00:17:47] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's 17 minutes before we have more than one line of dialogue at the same time

[00:17:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Real long

[00:17:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Right

[00:17:54] [SPEAKER_02]: So you've got

[00:17:55] [SPEAKER_00]: I like the balance between like actor because

[00:17:57] [SPEAKER_00]: The shit's going on I don't care you've given me no reason to care

[00:18:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Don't assume just because I watched the two other movies

[00:18:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe do your big space battle at the end

[00:18:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Like in Phantom Menace

[00:18:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Where it doesn't work but it works better than this

[00:18:07] [SPEAKER_02]: You gotta let us get in the worst seat

[00:18:09] [SPEAKER_00]: You gotta let us kick our shoes off

[00:18:10] [SPEAKER_00]: You gotta let us resituate ourselves to the characters

[00:18:13] [SPEAKER_00]: War

[00:18:14] [SPEAKER_00]: War

[00:18:18] [SPEAKER_02]: So

[00:18:19] [SPEAKER_02]: So just shit

[00:18:20] [SPEAKER_00]: We got Anakin

[00:18:21] [SPEAKER_00]: We got Anakin and we got Obi-Wan

[00:18:23] [SPEAKER_00]: They're in fighter pilots

[00:18:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Obi-Wan fighters and

[00:18:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Obi-Wan's got our old buddy R2

[00:18:28] [SPEAKER_00]: And Anakin

[00:18:29] [SPEAKER_02]: No no Anakin has R2

[00:18:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Obi-Wan has R4

[00:18:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh right

[00:18:32] [SPEAKER_02]: That red piece of shit who gets his head ripped off

[00:18:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah that was kind of fun

[00:18:37] [SPEAKER_02]: To watch because I hate R4

[00:18:38] [SPEAKER_02]: By Buzz Droids

[00:18:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah

[00:18:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And then we have Vulture Droids

[00:18:41] [SPEAKER_00]: That's the other thing

[00:18:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Every 45 seconds is introducing a new

[00:18:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Look at those a new toy for you to buy

[00:18:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:18:46] [SPEAKER_00]: But they're like naming it

[00:18:47] [SPEAKER_00]: And then showing the three action features that toy will have

[00:18:50] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean one of the most

[00:18:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Really it really made bubble boil

[00:18:55] [SPEAKER_02]: And I had forgotten about it

[00:18:56] [SPEAKER_02]: It's like when the Buzz droid is on Obi-Wan's ship

[00:18:59] [SPEAKER_02]: And R2 is trying to zap it

[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_02]: And Obi-Wan's like

[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Hit the center eye

[00:19:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Like it's literally like a Star Fox game

[00:19:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Like it's you know he's just giving video game instructions to the like

[00:19:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Programmer of this video game that will come out

[00:19:10] [SPEAKER_00]: And they're giving you instructions for the toy

[00:19:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Hit the center eye

[00:19:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Which is like if you hit the center eye

[00:19:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Then the thing explodes

[00:19:15] [SPEAKER_00]: The spring loaded feature

[00:19:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Did you have a Buzz droid?

[00:19:17] [SPEAKER_00]: No I didn't

[00:19:18] [SPEAKER_00]: I will actually say

[00:19:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if I bought any revenge of the Sith

[00:19:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Is that true?

[00:19:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:19:25] [SPEAKER_00]: It was in a period of my life where I thought I was

[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Had no time for childish things

[00:19:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Ah

[00:19:32] [SPEAKER_02]: You put away your childish thing

[00:19:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah and then I got a little older

[00:19:36] [SPEAKER_00]: And I had disposable income

[00:19:37] [SPEAKER_00]: And now I spent all my money on toys again

[00:19:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah cool good job

[00:19:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah I'm doing great

[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_00]: But merchandise spotlight might come back this season

[00:19:43] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't have one prepared today

[00:19:44] [SPEAKER_00]: But they ramped it up again

[00:19:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Let's do a couple

[00:19:46] [SPEAKER_00]: There was some weird shit

[00:19:47] [SPEAKER_00]: They ramped it up again

[00:19:48] [SPEAKER_00]: But it was they really put pedal to the metal

[00:19:53] [SPEAKER_00]: And like I know

[00:19:56] [SPEAKER_00]: I was reading about the history of Phantom Ashtois recently

[00:19:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Sure

[00:20:01] [SPEAKER_00]: The big selling point for this movie was they were like

[00:20:03] [SPEAKER_00]: We're not gonna focus on characters

[00:20:05] [SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna focus on ships and fucking droids

[00:20:07] [SPEAKER_00]: And you see it

[00:20:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Cause this movie starts and it's like 80,000 ships

[00:20:11] [SPEAKER_00]: All these droids

[00:20:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Like all these fucking missiles flying

[00:20:13] [SPEAKER_00]: There's so many droids in this movie

[00:20:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah

[00:20:15] [SPEAKER_02]: And there's missiles flying

[00:20:16] [SPEAKER_02]: There's this extended thing with like Obi-Wan

[00:20:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Distracts the missiles by sort of zipping around

[00:20:21] [SPEAKER_02]: And Anakin goes into like a spin that makes them

[00:20:24] [SPEAKER_02]: They're like torpedo missiles

[00:20:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Like in addition to like the sort of laser shit we've had

[00:20:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah sure

[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_02]: And you've got the buzz droids that kind of crawl over your ship

[00:20:33] [SPEAKER_02]: And like sort of rip it apart piece by piece

[00:20:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And then the vulture droids are the ones where their like

[00:20:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Legs flip down and they sort of

[00:20:38] [SPEAKER_00]: They were in the first one

[00:20:39] [SPEAKER_00]: They were in Phantom Menace a little

[00:20:41] [SPEAKER_00]: They're at the end attack the clones

[00:20:43] [SPEAKER_00]: And now they're like a big fucking thing

[00:20:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:20:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:20:45] [SPEAKER_00]: I just like I don't know

[00:20:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Dude I'm 26 years old right

[00:20:50] [SPEAKER_00]: I feel a million

[00:20:52] [SPEAKER_00]: I look like I'm 12

[00:20:54] [SPEAKER_00]: But I'm 26

[00:20:56] [SPEAKER_00]: And I just sat there and I was like

[00:20:58] [SPEAKER_00]: God I'm so thick

[00:20:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Get a fucking headache

[00:21:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Like I felt like a grandpa watching this opening

[00:21:02] [SPEAKER_00]: I just was like

[00:21:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:21:04] [SPEAKER_00]: The kids like this

[00:21:04] [SPEAKER_02]: No I mean it kind of reminded me of

[00:21:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Transformers

[00:21:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Which I think had come out a year earlier

[00:21:10] [SPEAKER_02]: 2004 I think is Transformers

[00:21:12] [SPEAKER_02]: The first one

[00:21:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh no sir

[00:21:13] [SPEAKER_02]: 2007

[00:21:13] [SPEAKER_02]: It's 2007

[00:21:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay I don't know

[00:21:15] [SPEAKER_02]: No sir

[00:21:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah of course it's not 2004

[00:21:17] [SPEAKER_02]: Wow they've made only

[00:21:18] [SPEAKER_02]: They've made four of those things since 2007

[00:21:20] [SPEAKER_02]: That's crazy

[00:21:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah

[00:21:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Um

[00:21:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Where like when I remember when I watched Transformers

[00:21:24] [SPEAKER_02]: At the end I was like

[00:21:25] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what's happening

[00:21:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Like I literally my eyes can't track this

[00:21:29] [SPEAKER_00]: I love the first Transformers

[00:21:30] [SPEAKER_00]: I like it too

[00:21:31] [SPEAKER_00]: But even that's an example of like

[00:21:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay that movie starts in media res

[00:21:35] [SPEAKER_00]: With like the attack on the military base

[00:21:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Transformers does?

[00:21:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes

[00:21:38] [SPEAKER_00]: But uh you see a military base

[00:21:40] [SPEAKER_00]: That although heightened to a bay degree

[00:21:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Behaves like how we know a military base

[00:21:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Behaves in the real world

[00:21:47] [SPEAKER_00]: In Transformers

[00:21:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes

[00:21:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Sure

[00:21:49] [SPEAKER_00]: And they're like what's this

[00:21:50] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm struggling to recall

[00:21:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Weird signal what's this

[00:21:52] [SPEAKER_00]: And then the helicopter turns into a robot

[00:21:54] [SPEAKER_00]: It functions sort of as a four sequence

[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_00]: You know the beginning is good

[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_02]: I just think the end is horrible

[00:21:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Transformers

[00:21:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Sure it becomes chaos

[00:21:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah

[00:21:59] [SPEAKER_00]: But like that's the opening

[00:22:01] [SPEAKER_00]: And then from there we go to Shia LaBeouf

[00:22:03] [SPEAKER_00]: And we have like 30 minutes of character

[00:22:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Before the Transformers end

[00:22:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Totally agree

[00:22:07] [SPEAKER_00]: You know and that's like

[00:22:08] [SPEAKER_00]: We're talking bare minimum shit here

[00:22:10] [SPEAKER_00]: It's not even like fucking rich characterization

[00:22:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Although I do think

[00:22:12] [SPEAKER_00]: First-hand Transformers is a very very functional blockbuster

[00:22:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:22:16] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a functional blockbuster in a way the sequels are not

[00:22:18] [SPEAKER_00]: No the third one was great

[00:22:19] [SPEAKER_00]: The third one's easily

[00:22:20] [SPEAKER_00]: I like the third one

[00:22:21] [SPEAKER_00]: The math

[00:22:21] [SPEAKER_00]: I like the math

[00:22:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Not a masterpiece which is really good

[00:22:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah but two and four are horrendous

[00:22:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Almost a watchable

[00:22:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Four was such a problem

[00:22:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:22:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Two is the worst thing

[00:22:28] [SPEAKER_00]: This is like

[00:22:29] [SPEAKER_00]: That's the other thing is George has always been like

[00:22:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Pretty reserved in his cinematic style

[00:22:35] [SPEAKER_00]: I agree

[00:22:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Even though he's doing like space battles

[00:22:37] [SPEAKER_02]: You know a lot of slowpans

[00:22:39] [SPEAKER_02]: A lot of you know yeah

[00:22:40] [SPEAKER_00]: And he centers the frame

[00:22:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And the action happens within the frame

[00:22:43] [SPEAKER_00]: And if there is any movement

[00:22:45] [SPEAKER_00]: It is a slow pan

[00:22:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Phantom Menace has really clear action

[00:22:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Really clear action

[00:22:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Attack of the Clones

[00:22:50] [SPEAKER_02]: And not so much

[00:22:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Well I think there is until the end

[00:22:53] [SPEAKER_00]: When we get to the war

[00:22:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Where he openly said

[00:22:57] [SPEAKER_00]: I just went to the special effects

[00:22:58] [SPEAKER_00]: And had to do a lot of stuff

[00:22:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Right yeah

[00:23:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And this one must be the same process

[00:23:02] [SPEAKER_00]: This feels like from the get go

[00:23:04] [SPEAKER_00]: He did that for everything

[00:23:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Well because it's three years on

[00:23:07] [SPEAKER_02]: You've got better technology one imagines

[00:23:09] [SPEAKER_02]: You know

[00:23:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Show off

[00:23:11] [SPEAKER_00]: But it also feels like he's so dispassion about that

[00:23:14] [SPEAKER_00]: He's like

[00:23:14] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean because what they say

[00:23:16] [SPEAKER_00]: In fucking attack of the clones

[00:23:18] [SPEAKER_00]: It's the last scene of the movie

[00:23:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Is the war breaking out

[00:23:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Right

[00:23:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Sure

[00:23:22] [SPEAKER_00]: And he said you know

[00:23:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Basically what I wrote in the script was

[00:23:25] [SPEAKER_00]: All hell breaks

[00:23:27] Right

[00:23:27] [SPEAKER_00]: And I handed it to them

[00:23:28] [SPEAKER_00]: And said

[00:23:28] [SPEAKER_00]: One page

[00:23:28] [SPEAKER_00]: And interpreted that how you want

[00:23:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Right he wrote one sentence

[00:23:30] [SPEAKER_00]: He didn't describe any of it

[00:23:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:23:32] [SPEAKER_00]: This it feels like every page of the script

[00:23:34] [SPEAKER_00]: He went something crazy happens

[00:23:35] [SPEAKER_00]: You figure it out

[00:23:37] [SPEAKER_00]: And then there are two lines of dialogue

[00:23:38] [SPEAKER_02]: You don't think he wrote lines like yeah

[00:23:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Like look out

[00:23:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Buzz droids

[00:23:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Hit the center eye

[00:23:42] [SPEAKER_02]: No that's what I'm saying

[00:23:43] [SPEAKER_00]: I think you wrote one or two lines of dialogue

[00:23:45] [SPEAKER_00]: So that they know what to reverse engineer

[00:23:47] [SPEAKER_00]: The toys around and how to make them work

[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh

[00:23:49] [SPEAKER_00]: You hit the center eye the thing it looked

[00:23:51] [SPEAKER_00]: It's the button

[00:23:52] [SPEAKER_00]: It's button activated

[00:23:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Um

[00:23:54] [SPEAKER_00]: And the video game designers could do that

[00:23:55] [SPEAKER_00]: And then the rest of it was just like

[00:23:57] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know more stuff happens with

[00:23:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay

[00:23:58] [SPEAKER_00]: But it feels like it's made by 70 different film

[00:24:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Making the cameras fucking wheezing around

[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Spinning around

[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Doing fucking tricks

[00:24:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Doing an Ollie a 180

[00:24:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Yo

[00:24:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:24:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Not to mention

[00:24:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe taking

[00:24:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Do we want to go through this narrative

[00:24:08] [SPEAKER_00]: It's hard to go through narrative order

[00:24:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Because there's so much chaos I can't remember what fucking happened

[00:24:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:24:12] [SPEAKER_02]: In the pilot sequence when they're in the

[00:24:14] [SPEAKER_02]: You know

[00:24:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Obi-Wan and Anakin are bantering

[00:24:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes

[00:24:17] [SPEAKER_02]: It's the sort of the same as Deku Klunstil

[00:24:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes

[00:24:19] [SPEAKER_02]: I would say

[00:24:19] [SPEAKER_02]: A little better

[00:24:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Just a little bit better

[00:24:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Make this argument

[00:24:24] [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like we've switched positions now

[00:24:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Ewan McGregor is much bigger in this movie

[00:24:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Than he is in the last two

[00:24:29] [SPEAKER_02]: But I think he's appropriately sized

[00:24:31] [SPEAKER_02]: No I agree that's what I'm saying

[00:24:33] [SPEAKER_02]: He's finally like

[00:24:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Playing at McDermott levels

[00:24:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Quite hammy

[00:24:36] [SPEAKER_02]: He's eating the ham

[00:24:37] [SPEAKER_02]: And it's good

[00:24:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Way better than

[00:24:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Delicious honey baked ham

[00:24:40] [SPEAKER_02]: In the first movie he's kind of a non-entity

[00:24:43] [SPEAKER_02]: In the second movie he's too serious

[00:24:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah but he's got some gravitas in the second one

[00:24:47] [SPEAKER_02]: Some but in this one he's actually got it

[00:24:48] [SPEAKER_02]: In my opinion

[00:24:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah

[00:24:49] [SPEAKER_02]: With such a ham

[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Hayden Christensen still bad

[00:24:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah I would contend worse

[00:24:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Worse in later scenes

[00:24:56] [SPEAKER_02]: But in this scene

[00:24:57] [SPEAKER_02]: He doesn't completely just like

[00:25:00] [SPEAKER_02]: You know deliver every line in a total monotone

[00:25:02] [SPEAKER_00]: I'll say this

[00:25:03] [SPEAKER_00]: I think his line readings are

[00:25:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Once he gets to the romance word

[00:25:06] [SPEAKER_02]: You know and everything else

[00:25:07] [SPEAKER_00]: I was gonna say his line readings are more natural

[00:25:09] [SPEAKER_00]: I would correct that by saying his line readings are less unnatural

[00:25:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Correct?

[00:25:13] [SPEAKER_00]: I think we agree his line readings are less unnatural

[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Within the first 22 minutes of this movie

[00:25:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Right, yeah at the start

[00:25:17] [SPEAKER_00]: But then he gets back into the old habits

[00:25:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay in the first 22 minutes of the movie

[00:25:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:25:21] [SPEAKER_00]: His line readings are less unnatural

[00:25:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:25:23] [SPEAKER_00]: That I haven't said I also think he is

[00:25:25] [SPEAKER_00]: 50% less charismatic than he was in the first movie

[00:25:27] [SPEAKER_00]: And I do not think he was charismatic in the first movie

[00:25:30] [SPEAKER_00]: I think I agree with you

[00:25:31] [SPEAKER_00]: His line readings sound more like how a human being talks

[00:25:33] [SPEAKER_00]: But it also feels like they just woke him up

[00:25:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Like he fell asleep in between each line

[00:25:38] [SPEAKER_00]: And they had to shake him in the green screen cockpit

[00:25:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And he went uh Obi-Wan

[00:25:41] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what we're gonna do about these droids

[00:25:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Even more than in the second movie

[00:25:44] [SPEAKER_02]: And this is truer later

[00:25:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Where it's more just like actual dialogue scene

[00:25:49] [SPEAKER_02]: It really feels like George Lucas just said

[00:25:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Like the same old Jackson like

[00:25:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay say you sit over there

[00:25:55] [SPEAKER_02]: And so when Jackson was like oh um

[00:25:56] [SPEAKER_02]: You sit over there and he's like we got it

[00:25:58] [SPEAKER_02]: We'll edit that in

[00:25:58] [SPEAKER_02]: He didn't let them read this one

[00:25:59] [SPEAKER_00]: He was like telling them the land

[00:26:00] [SPEAKER_02]: Having them repeat it like a parrot

[00:26:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah right exactly

[00:26:03] [SPEAKER_02]: It really feels that way because

[00:26:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah

[00:26:05] [SPEAKER_00]: But he encouraged himself

[00:26:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay so we see him he's got

[00:26:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Anakin's got long hair now

[00:26:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Remember that when he was like a like a sandy blonde little boy

[00:26:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:26:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay the second movie's hair is a little darker

[00:26:18] [SPEAKER_00]: He's got the Jedi brain

[00:26:19] [SPEAKER_02]: But he's got yeah he's got this sort of crew cut

[00:26:21] [SPEAKER_02]: This movie's got dark

[00:26:22] [SPEAKER_02]: He's got an Obi-Wan haircut

[00:26:23] [SPEAKER_02]: He's got this long shoulder yeah

[00:26:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh but Obi-Wan's haircut was long but still neat

[00:26:28] [SPEAKER_00]: That's true straight

[00:26:29] [SPEAKER_02]: This is more uh you know L'Oreal

[00:26:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Sort of bouncy

[00:26:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah yeah

[00:26:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Got some chin and

[00:26:33] [SPEAKER_00]: It looks mad dirty

[00:26:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:26:34] [SPEAKER_00]: I can't tell if he dyed his hair

[00:26:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Or if it's gotten darker

[00:26:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Force dyed

[00:26:38] [SPEAKER_00]: And he's got a scar across his eye

[00:26:39] [SPEAKER_00]: He's got a little scar

[00:26:40] [SPEAKER_00]: And so it's supposed to be like oh this is Anakin

[00:26:42] [SPEAKER_00]: I guess

[00:26:42] [SPEAKER_00]: And of course he's got a robot arm

[00:26:43] [SPEAKER_00]: He's got a robot

[00:26:44] [SPEAKER_00]: With like a black glove

[00:26:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:26:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Needed even be said

[00:26:47] [SPEAKER_00]: This movie starts and the Clone Wars are wrapping up

[00:26:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh yeah

[00:26:50] [SPEAKER_02]: All right we didn't even

[00:26:51] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean we joked about it so much but like yeah

[00:26:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah

[00:26:53] [SPEAKER_02]: This is the last big battle of the Clone Wars

[00:26:55] [SPEAKER_00]: And Anakin's got the scar and as I we just don't

[00:26:57] [SPEAKER_00]: I guess oh man

[00:26:58] [SPEAKER_00]: It looks like he probably had a crazy battle

[00:27:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Something must have he must have grown up a lot

[00:27:02] [SPEAKER_00]: We don't see any of that

[00:27:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Just gotta say

[00:27:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:27:07] [SPEAKER_02]: The Clone Wars makes no sense

[00:27:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Based on this battle

[00:27:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Go on

[00:27:11] [SPEAKER_02]: They the the separatist army has somehow broken through everything to get to

[00:27:16] [SPEAKER_02]: One assumes the most impregnable part of Republic space right

[00:27:20] [SPEAKER_02]: The core of sent must be at the center of everything

[00:27:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes

[00:27:23] [SPEAKER_02]: So they've gone all the way in

[00:27:25] [SPEAKER_02]: But and yet this is their downfall somehow

[00:27:29] [SPEAKER_02]: They capture the Chancellor that doesn't work out

[00:27:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah

[00:27:32] [SPEAKER_02]: You know they get the Chancellor back

[00:27:33] [SPEAKER_02]: But then is that it like are all their ships destroyed in this

[00:27:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Is this like a last gasp effort is that the idea

[00:27:39] [SPEAKER_02]: How did they get all the way in is my question

[00:27:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah I don't know

[00:27:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah well obviously

[00:27:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Back to Hayden Christensen

[00:27:44] [SPEAKER_00]: We should watch the Clone Wars show maybe to explain that so

[00:27:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah we should

[00:27:47] [SPEAKER_00]: There are two different shows we've discovered

[00:27:49] [SPEAKER_00]: One directed by J.J. Tarkowski who's one of

[00:27:52] [SPEAKER_00]: I would contend our finest living filmmakers

[00:27:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean he doesn't make films but sure

[00:27:56] [SPEAKER_00]: He did make a film that was called Holtre Transylvania and it fucking rules

[00:27:59] [SPEAKER_00]: I've never seen Holtre Transylvania I forgot that was him

[00:28:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Ready for me to throw my soapbox down the ground for a second

[00:28:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay

[00:28:06] [SPEAKER_00]: That movie gets no credit because there's no sandwich in it

[00:28:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes

[00:28:10] [SPEAKER_00]: But guess what and all those cronies it's like the happy mass and crew doing all the voices

[00:28:14] [SPEAKER_00]: That movie is written by Robert Smigel

[00:28:17] [SPEAKER_00]: It's got fucking good jokes

[00:28:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:28:19] [SPEAKER_00]: It's got fucking good ass jokes

[00:28:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Did they do two

[00:28:21] [SPEAKER_02]: It's coming out and like

[00:28:22] [SPEAKER_02]: No but I mean like are they involved or did they like pass them

[00:28:25] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if Smigel wrote on it

[00:28:26] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know

[00:28:27] [SPEAKER_00]: J.J. Tarkowski still directed it

[00:28:28] [SPEAKER_00]: J.J. Tarkowski who did uh

[00:28:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Dexter's lab

[00:28:32] [SPEAKER_00]: No I love Jenny

[00:28:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Sam Raidjack

[00:28:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Right yeah sorry

[00:28:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Star Wars the Clone Wars the 2D mini series

[00:28:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Is one of the finest

[00:28:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Preveyors of real expressive

[00:28:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Character animation

[00:28:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Tartotowski and Smigel wrote

[00:28:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Holtre Transylvania 2

[00:28:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Really?

[00:28:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:28:47] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm fucking I'm so jazzed

[00:28:49] [SPEAKER_00]: That's my most anticipated movie of the fall

[00:28:51] [SPEAKER_00]: I um Holtre Transylvania is a film that is so immensely visual

[00:28:55] [SPEAKER_00]: That even though I think the jokes are good

[00:28:57] [SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of the Sandler Crony's who often sound like they're kind of fucking phoning it in

[00:29:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Who often on screen feel like they're phoning in their performances

[00:29:05] [SPEAKER_00]: In this movie give active engaged performances that recall their earlier days on SNL when they gave a shit

[00:29:09] [SPEAKER_00]: You could watch all of Holtre Transylvania on mute and you would get every single story plot point

[00:29:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Because he fucking uses animation like Chuck Jones

[00:29:19] [SPEAKER_00]: He does

[00:29:20] [SPEAKER_00]: It's really expressive

[00:29:21] [SPEAKER_00]: He's not limited to the physics of how a character would behave

[00:29:24] [SPEAKER_00]: I love Pixar but Pixar is pretty traditional and like

[00:29:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Here's a model and we'll animate that model as if they are a puppet

[00:29:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Right

[00:29:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Holtre Transylvania characters' bodies are changing to fit their moods

[00:29:34] [SPEAKER_00]: They're becoming larger and smaller

[00:29:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Their arms are stretching out

[00:29:37] [SPEAKER_00]: It feels like a fucking Looney Tunes cartoon

[00:29:38] [SPEAKER_00]: It rules

[00:29:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay

[00:29:40] [SPEAKER_00]: You know what else is cool?

[00:29:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Monsters

[00:29:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Monsters are the best David

[00:29:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Everyone should watch Holtre Transylvania

[00:29:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Great now they're on mute

[00:29:50] [SPEAKER_02]: But then there was a Clone Wars

[00:29:52] [SPEAKER_02]: He made that in a minute

[00:29:53] [SPEAKER_02]: No but then there was another Clone Wars

[00:29:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh right

[00:29:55] [SPEAKER_00]: So that was based on his style but he had no involvement in it

[00:29:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Well and also his 3D animation doesn't look as interesting

[00:29:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah and it ran like five seasons

[00:30:01] [SPEAKER_00]: I've been trying to watch

[00:30:01] [SPEAKER_00]: And then they made a movie of it

[00:30:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Some of it recently

[00:30:03] [SPEAKER_00]: I've been trying to get into it for the sake of this podcast

[00:30:06] [SPEAKER_00]: I'd only seen a smattering of episodes across

[00:30:11] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna try to now go through and watch from the beginning

[00:30:15] [SPEAKER_00]: I've heard it gets good like season two

[00:30:17] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah no thanks

[00:30:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Anyway so the Clone Wars are over is our point

[00:30:21] [SPEAKER_02]: This is the point I was gonna make

[00:30:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Basically the end of the Clone Wars

[00:30:23] [SPEAKER_00]: It feels like what they're trying to show is that like Anakin's grown up

[00:30:25] [SPEAKER_00]: And he's found whatever sort of inner peace

[00:30:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Because he doesn't seem whiny

[00:30:29] [SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't have the same sort of like devil make-hair attitude

[00:30:32] [SPEAKER_00]: He's a little more grounded

[00:30:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Definitely

[00:30:34] [SPEAKER_02]: And boring

[00:30:35] [SPEAKER_02]: And he's not like challenged yet

[00:30:37] [SPEAKER_02]: And boring

[00:30:37] [SPEAKER_02]: And boring

[00:30:37] [SPEAKER_02]: But Obi-Wan is trying to counteract by just being like

[00:30:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Obi-Wan's in his house

[00:30:44] [SPEAKER_02]: He doesn't say that

[00:30:45] [SPEAKER_02]: But great if you did that

[00:30:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Well yeah he's being a little more boisterous

[00:30:47] [SPEAKER_00]: He's almost hitting boss-nass levels of like

[00:30:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Hey Ben

[00:30:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Well is it that Obi-Wan is still a bachelor

[00:30:52] [SPEAKER_01]: And Anakin's got the old ball and chain

[00:30:54] [SPEAKER_00]: He does

[00:30:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Anakin definitely seems like

[00:30:58] [SPEAKER_00]: He's got a real king of queens vibe going on

[00:31:01] [SPEAKER_00]: He's just like

[00:31:02] [SPEAKER_00]: God fucking domestic life is tough

[00:31:04] [SPEAKER_00]: King of Queens starring Kevin James

[00:31:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Who plays Frankenstein and Hulk to cancel Vanya

[00:31:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Which you should all watch

[00:31:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Who's the seven play

[00:31:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Who's the seven play

[00:31:10] [SPEAKER_00]: The wolf man

[00:31:11] [SPEAKER_00]: He's so good in it

[00:31:12] [SPEAKER_00]: He's like a wolf man who's got like seven cubs

[00:31:15] [SPEAKER_00]: And he's just so fucking tired

[00:31:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Because he's got to take care of seven wolves all the time

[00:31:19] [SPEAKER_00]: He's just slumped over

[00:31:21] [SPEAKER_00]: And he goes like I got to get time away from the kids

[00:31:25] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm all of Shann's wife

[00:31:26] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a great movie

[00:31:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Hotel Transylvania

[00:31:28] [SPEAKER_00]: I wish they had called it

[00:31:29] [SPEAKER_00]: A Houttu Transyltenia

[00:31:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Do you think?

[00:31:34] [SPEAKER_00]: To Tudysylvania

[00:31:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Who plays the late

[00:31:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Who plays his daughter

[00:31:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Selena Gomez in a surprisingly emotional

[00:31:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Voice performance

[00:31:44] [SPEAKER_02]: And yeah I mean I've seen the trailer for

[00:31:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Hotel Transylvania two a couple times

[00:31:48] [SPEAKER_02]: And like you know

[00:31:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Has like a couple of solid laughs

[00:31:50] [SPEAKER_00]: I thought that I was really disappointed by the trailer for the

[00:31:52] [SPEAKER_00]: This is gonna be a whole episode about Hotel Transylvania

[00:31:54] [SPEAKER_02]: We gotta get it off of this track right now

[00:31:56] [SPEAKER_00]: I was not planning on seeing Hotel Transylvania

[00:31:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I was like I can't believe Jenny Tardowski did

[00:32:00] [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't even look like his work

[00:32:01] [SPEAKER_00]: And then I had a flight get delayed

[00:32:03] [SPEAKER_00]: And I like went to the nearby movie theater

[00:32:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Because I had three hours to kill

[00:32:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Sure

[00:32:06] [SPEAKER_00]: And was like this movie fucking rules

[00:32:08] [SPEAKER_00]: And no one's talking about it

[00:32:09] [SPEAKER_00]: And it wasn't not if you're best in anime film

[00:32:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Wasn't it? No I was about to ask

[00:32:11] [SPEAKER_00]: No and like some shitty bullshit was instead

[00:32:13] [SPEAKER_00]: This is like pure animations

[00:32:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Like everything animation can be

[00:32:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Well now I really want to watch it

[00:32:18] [SPEAKER_00]: It's really good

[00:32:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay

[00:32:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Great

[00:32:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Comedic character animation

[00:32:23] [SPEAKER_00]: It was nominated for a Golden Globe

[00:32:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:32:25] [SPEAKER_00]: But not on us

[00:32:26] [SPEAKER_00]: I got it right for once

[00:32:28] [SPEAKER_02]: They're usually pretty good about it actually

[00:32:29] [SPEAKER_00]: C.Lo Green played Murray the Mummy in the original film

[00:32:33] [SPEAKER_00]: And they recast him with Keegan-Michael Key

[00:32:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Except because of the whole C.Lo saying

[00:32:39] [SPEAKER_02]: It's okay if he rapes people or whatever

[00:32:41] [SPEAKER_02]: If they're asleep or something

[00:32:42] [SPEAKER_02]: I forget what he did

[00:32:43] [SPEAKER_00]: C.Lo Green doesn't like

[00:32:44] [SPEAKER_00]: He goes it's not possible to rape someone

[00:32:45] [SPEAKER_00]: If they're asleep because they're asleep

[00:32:47] [SPEAKER_00]: So they couldn't say no

[00:32:49] [SPEAKER_02]: So he's saying like it's like

[00:32:51] [SPEAKER_02]: You know who knows 5050

[00:32:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Is that his argument like you know

[00:32:55] [SPEAKER_02]: You didn't know yes you didn't know no

[00:32:57] [SPEAKER_00]: You definitely didn't hear no

[00:32:58] [SPEAKER_00]: And to that I say

[00:32:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Hey C.Lo Green enjoy not playing a mummy anymore

[00:33:03] [SPEAKER_02]: That's your punishment

[00:33:04] [SPEAKER_02]: And your millions of dollars

[00:33:05] [SPEAKER_02]: So that year the nominees were

[00:33:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Brave, Frank and Weenie, Paranorm and

[00:33:08] [SPEAKER_02]: So they were like you're wrapped

[00:33:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Dude 2000

[00:33:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah

[00:33:15] [SPEAKER_02]: That's a picture wrap on C.Lo Green

[00:33:17] [SPEAKER_02]: Just want to say 2012 pretty stacked

[00:33:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Brave which I don't like but you know

[00:33:22] [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's okay

[00:33:22] [SPEAKER_02]: It's okay

[00:33:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Frank and Weenie which is pretty good

[00:33:25] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not a huge fan

[00:33:26] [SPEAKER_00]: But you know I can

[00:33:26] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm a huge timber defender as we know

[00:33:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Not a huge fan

[00:33:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Paranorm and which is the deserving

[00:33:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe winner of that year

[00:33:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Was probably my second or third favorite movie that year

[00:33:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Great movie

[00:33:34] [SPEAKER_00]: 2012 that was my second favorite movie

[00:33:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Wreck-It Ralph which is also fantastic

[00:33:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Is really solid

[00:33:38] [SPEAKER_02]: And would maybe also be my choice

[00:33:39] [SPEAKER_00]: I like Coachelt Transylvania more than Wreck-It Ralph

[00:33:41] [SPEAKER_00]: I wasn't

[00:33:41] [SPEAKER_00]: No thank you

[00:33:42] [SPEAKER_02]: And then the Pirates Band of Misfits

[00:33:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Which was the one that kind of snuck in

[00:33:45] [SPEAKER_02]: But it's really a cute movie

[00:33:46] [SPEAKER_00]: I like

[00:33:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I would go Paranorm and H.C. Transylvania

[00:33:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Wreck-It Ralph

[00:33:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Pirates

[00:33:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Brave

[00:33:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Was that the lineup?

[00:33:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:33:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Frank and Weenie

[00:34:00] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't like Frank and Weenie

[00:34:01] [SPEAKER_00]: It was better as a short

[00:34:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay

[00:34:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Anakin is boring

[00:34:05] [SPEAKER_00]: He's real boring

[00:34:06] [SPEAKER_00]: He's got nothing going on here

[00:34:07] [SPEAKER_02]: But he's almost

[00:34:08] [SPEAKER_02]: He's more fun in this than he is later

[00:34:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:34:11] [SPEAKER_02]: You know like he only gets more boring

[00:34:13] [SPEAKER_00]: I haven't watched it yet

[00:34:14] [SPEAKER_00]: We got just talk about the 22 minutes

[00:34:16] [SPEAKER_00]: I want to talk about the whole movie

[00:34:17] [SPEAKER_00]: No

[00:34:17] [SPEAKER_00]: So they're shooting around and their droids coming in

[00:34:19] [SPEAKER_00]: And shit's going fucking bananas

[00:34:20] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's white noise

[00:34:22] [SPEAKER_00]: I was watching

[00:34:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Fucking a Spielberg documentary that's him talking about his own work

[00:34:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Recently was like Spielberg on Spielberg

[00:34:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Sure

[00:34:28] [SPEAKER_00]: And he was talking about 1941

[00:34:30] [SPEAKER_00]: And Georgie

[00:34:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Stevie Spielberg

[00:34:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Stevie Weenie

[00:34:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Is really

[00:34:34] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm friend of Georgie

[00:34:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm friend of Georgie

[00:34:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Georgie

[00:34:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Stevie Weenie I think is very interesting

[00:34:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Because he's very candid about his failures

[00:34:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah definitely

[00:34:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Very clear out about that

[00:34:41] [SPEAKER_02]: He's a really good like

[00:34:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Self-analyzing

[00:34:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah no

[00:34:45] [SPEAKER_02]: He's great

[00:34:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah

[00:34:46] [SPEAKER_00]: And then so when he compliments himself on stuff

[00:34:48] [SPEAKER_00]: You're like

[00:34:49] [SPEAKER_00]: You can get away with that

[00:34:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he's really happy with this

[00:34:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Because

[00:34:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Because you can tell

[00:34:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he knows when he's good and he knows when he's bad

[00:34:54] [SPEAKER_00]: And he was talking about 1941

[00:34:55] [SPEAKER_00]: And he said you know

[00:34:57] [SPEAKER_00]: I realized when I was sitting there in the theater

[00:35:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Everyone was sitting there with their ears plugged

[00:35:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Gone

[00:35:04] [SPEAKER_00]: People were complaining that the movie was too loud

[00:35:06] [SPEAKER_00]: And I

[00:35:07] [SPEAKER_00]: For which

[00:35:07] [SPEAKER_00]: For which

[00:35:08] [SPEAKER_00]: 1941

[00:35:08] [SPEAKER_00]: For which

[00:35:08] [SPEAKER_00]: 1941

[00:35:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh yeah

[00:35:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Which was famously his first flop

[00:35:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:35:11] [SPEAKER_00]: He was coming straight off of

[00:35:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Jaws and Close Encounters

[00:35:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes

[00:35:15] [SPEAKER_00]: It's Before Raiders

[00:35:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Right

[00:35:17] [SPEAKER_00]: He has Belushi and Akroyd

[00:35:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Who like a year before this movie came out

[00:35:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Pulled off the Holy Trinity of

[00:35:26] [SPEAKER_00]: What was it?

[00:35:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Anvil House was the number one movie in America

[00:35:28] [SPEAKER_00]: SNL was the number one TV show in America

[00:35:30] [SPEAKER_00]: And the Blues Brothers had the number one album in America

[00:35:33] [SPEAKER_00]: So John Belushi like couldn't have been bigger

[00:35:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And Akroyd was like his best collaborator

[00:35:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely

[00:35:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Right

[00:35:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And he's like I'm putting fucking Akroyd and Belushi

[00:35:42] [SPEAKER_00]: In an action comedy

[00:35:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Spielberg is going to go to fucking war

[00:35:45] [SPEAKER_00]: He's got a huge budget

[00:35:46] [SPEAKER_00]: With like a weird premise

[00:35:48] [SPEAKER_00]: War and oh it's all these weird character actors

[00:35:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Great character actors

[00:35:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:35:51] [SPEAKER_00]: And the movies just

[00:35:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Such a big flop

[00:35:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:35:54] [SPEAKER_00]: And everyone thinks Spielberg is cooked

[00:35:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Not, it wasn't a flop money wise

[00:35:57] [SPEAKER_00]: But it was just

[00:35:58] [SPEAKER_00]: It was seen as a flop

[00:35:59] [SPEAKER_00]: It was a disappointment

[00:36:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:36:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And it was not liked

[00:36:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no absolutely

[00:36:02] [SPEAKER_00]: After all of his movies had been like

[00:36:04] [SPEAKER_00]: He had yet to make a movie that wasn't like

[00:36:06] [SPEAKER_00]: No I know

[00:36:06] [SPEAKER_00]: I know a wild success

[00:36:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Well the sugar lends takes a crack

[00:36:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Was a wild success in relation to

[00:36:12] [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter

[00:36:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever whatever whatever

[00:36:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever whatever

[00:36:14] [SPEAKER_00]: He said it was too loud

[00:36:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Sure

[00:36:17] [SPEAKER_00]: And he was like I didn't mix it any louder than my other movies

[00:36:20] [SPEAKER_00]: But it was the illusion of

[00:36:22] [SPEAKER_00]: There was no silence in the movie

[00:36:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I had no moments of rest

[00:36:25] [SPEAKER_00]: So you're sitting there and it's action action action

[00:36:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Then comedy and people are yelling

[00:36:28] [SPEAKER_00]: And the bullets are flying

[00:36:29] [SPEAKER_00]: And their lights and everything

[00:36:30] [SPEAKER_00]: And even visually it was too loud

[00:36:32] [SPEAKER_00]: There was too much going on

[00:36:33] [SPEAKER_00]: The people felt like they couldn't rest

[00:36:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And he was like that taught me the most important lesson

[00:36:37] [SPEAKER_00]: As a filmmaker

[00:36:37] [SPEAKER_00]: That you need to have these sort of peaks and valleys

[00:36:39] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just quoting it

[00:36:40] [SPEAKER_00]: He worded it much more perfectly

[00:36:41] [SPEAKER_00]: But he was like

[00:36:42] [SPEAKER_00]: You know the small moments are what are effective

[00:36:44] [SPEAKER_00]: And build up to the larger moments

[00:36:45] [SPEAKER_00]: And Spielberg is a master of silence

[00:36:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Knows when to really like

[00:36:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Pull back and make you focus on something

[00:36:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Not even use Johnny Williams' score

[00:36:54] [SPEAKER_00]: But George Lucas

[00:36:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Well this movie is like

[00:36:57] [SPEAKER_00]: The first 20 minutes are just fucking 1941

[00:37:00] [SPEAKER_02]: And it's interesting because he also talks about

[00:37:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah

[00:37:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Lucas in his commentary is like

[00:37:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Energy and how like the movie is slow here

[00:37:07] [SPEAKER_02]: And then it picks up speed

[00:37:08] [SPEAKER_02]: And we don't want to lose momentum

[00:37:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Like he seems to be a tune to this

[00:37:11] [SPEAKER_02]: But then it doesn't show

[00:37:12] [SPEAKER_00]: My favorite moments in favorite moments

[00:37:14] [SPEAKER_00]: In Phantom and Clones

[00:37:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Especially in Phantom

[00:37:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Are the moments that are a little quieter

[00:37:18] [SPEAKER_00]: There's moments where he just has ships going by

[00:37:20] [SPEAKER_00]: As we said within frame

[00:37:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Or just a very very slow sort of pan

[00:37:24] [SPEAKER_00]: You know

[00:37:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Things like that

[00:37:25] [SPEAKER_00]: It's like okay there's a nice sort of rhythm to this

[00:37:27] [SPEAKER_00]: And this is like the first 20 minutes in the movie

[00:37:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Are like a wash for me

[00:37:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Because there's so

[00:37:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Everything's flying by

[00:37:33] [SPEAKER_00]: So much is going on

[00:37:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Every line the characters say is like a fucking one liner

[00:37:37] [SPEAKER_00]: There's so much

[00:37:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Or like horrible piece of information

[00:37:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, expository dialogue

[00:37:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Terrible like clunky

[00:37:44] [SPEAKER_00]: It's just my brain just shot off

[00:37:47] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay

[00:37:48] [SPEAKER_02]: And like we've got the battle

[00:37:50] [SPEAKER_02]: And then I think as you're mentioning

[00:37:51] [SPEAKER_02]: There's this thing where they like crash

[00:37:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Into the ship

[00:37:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh right

[00:37:54] [SPEAKER_00]: They do crazy crash

[00:37:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh they barely make it in

[00:37:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah and there's a bunch of droids in there

[00:37:58] [SPEAKER_02]: And like R2 has like four things

[00:38:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay we gotta talk about R2

[00:38:02] [SPEAKER_00]: We gotta talk about R2

[00:38:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Running around

[00:38:04] [SPEAKER_02]: He lights them on fire

[00:38:06] [SPEAKER_02]: He sprays them with oil

[00:38:07] [SPEAKER_00]: R2's suddenly in Spectre Gadget

[00:38:09] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's really annoying

[00:38:10] [SPEAKER_00]: It's really fucking annoying

[00:38:12] [SPEAKER_00]: R2 has by and large been a tactical

[00:38:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:38:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Robot

[00:38:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:38:17] [SPEAKER_00]: He's the repair droid basically

[00:38:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Right and he's

[00:38:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Which is simple

[00:38:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Utilitarian

[00:38:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:38:23] [SPEAKER_00]: He's not meant to move around

[00:38:24] [SPEAKER_00]: You put him in the ship

[00:38:24] [SPEAKER_02]: You repair ship right

[00:38:26] [SPEAKER_02]: And in the second movie

[00:38:26] [SPEAKER_02]: He had this brief like moment of insanity

[00:38:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Where he like brutalizes C-3PO and flies around

[00:38:31] [SPEAKER_02]: But like it doesn't have any relation to anything

[00:38:32] [SPEAKER_02]: And it just felt tacked on

[00:38:34] [SPEAKER_00]: And also the only special power we saw him use was the rockets

[00:38:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Like even knocking off C-3PO

[00:38:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Like he did that in a very like

[00:38:40] [SPEAKER_00]: In a way that was consistent with his movements in the first movie

[00:38:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Sure yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

[00:38:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Dragging C-3PO's head was like

[00:38:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay he's got like a cord

[00:38:47] [SPEAKER_00]: All of a sudden he's got like four arms

[00:38:49] [SPEAKER_00]: That come out of his body

[00:38:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Like those blue lines

[00:38:51] [SPEAKER_00]: He's like holding a cell phone

[00:38:52] [SPEAKER_00]: He's like holding those blue lines on his chest

[00:38:54] [SPEAKER_02]: They're like little arms

[00:38:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Aren't just like they flip out

[00:38:56] [SPEAKER_00]: They're like articulated with like multiple joints in them

[00:38:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And then he's also got that data spike thing

[00:39:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Yep

[00:39:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Plus he's got the like the rockets

[00:39:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah and he can shoot

[00:39:05] [SPEAKER_00]: He can fucking pee pee oil

[00:39:07] [SPEAKER_00]: He pee-pees oil

[00:39:08] [SPEAKER_00]: And then he uses the rockets to burn people with the oil

[00:39:11] [SPEAKER_00]: He's fucking he's inspected down to it

[00:39:14] [SPEAKER_02]: And he's goofy

[00:39:15] [SPEAKER_02]: But not only that

[00:39:16] [SPEAKER_02]: And I watched him

[00:39:17] [SPEAKER_02]: He's moving so fast too

[00:39:18] [SPEAKER_02]: I watched the movie with my girlfriend last night

[00:39:20] [SPEAKER_02]: She had some insights

[00:39:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Humble right

[00:39:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Because she hasn't yeah

[00:39:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Because she hasn't seen this movie

[00:39:26] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think she'd ever seen the movie

[00:39:27] [SPEAKER_02]: She'd seen the other one

[00:39:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay

[00:39:28] [SPEAKER_02]: And she was just really horrified

[00:39:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Especially when he

[00:39:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Pee's oil all over them

[00:39:34] [SPEAKER_02]: And then sets them on fire

[00:39:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Yep gross

[00:39:35] [SPEAKER_02]: The big battle joys

[00:39:36] [SPEAKER_02]: And she was like

[00:39:37] [SPEAKER_02]: He's not supposed to be violent

[00:39:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Like R2 is like a you know cute little guy

[00:39:42] [SPEAKER_02]: He likes you know

[00:39:43] [SPEAKER_02]: You know he's sort of an ornery little guy

[00:39:45] [SPEAKER_02]: But he's not like

[00:39:46] [SPEAKER_02]: It's like a shockingly violent scene

[00:39:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Like imagine if those weren't robots

[00:39:50] [SPEAKER_00]: I would contend that these first two 20 minutes are entirely violent

[00:39:54] [SPEAKER_02]: No they're crazy

[00:39:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Now this movie is rated PG-13

[00:39:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah and the other two movies are rated PG

[00:39:58] [SPEAKER_02]: George is pushing it

[00:39:59] [SPEAKER_02]: George is literally like check it out

[00:40:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Because someone is beheaded in the first 20 minutes

[00:40:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Well even the droid violence seems weirdly

[00:40:07] [SPEAKER_00]: More visceral and frightening than it did in other movies

[00:40:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Like I don't know if I'm just misremembering

[00:40:13] [SPEAKER_00]: But every time they like slash a droid

[00:40:16] [SPEAKER_00]: It's done this very angry way

[00:40:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah sure

[00:40:18] [SPEAKER_00]: And then the inner guts of the droid are like

[00:40:20] [SPEAKER_00]: This bright seared orange

[00:40:22] [SPEAKER_00]: That looks kind of like

[00:40:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah and the droids talk a lot too

[00:40:26] [SPEAKER_00]: They're like oh my god

[00:40:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Like whereas before it was just kind of like

[00:40:30] [SPEAKER_00]: You're knocking down like you know

[00:40:32] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a house of cards being knocked over by like a fly swatter

[00:40:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Now it's suddenly like you're cutting things in half

[00:40:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And these things seem to have feelings

[00:40:40] [SPEAKER_00]: And they're deser more grotesque

[00:40:43] [SPEAKER_00]: And it all feels like they almost look

[00:40:45] [SPEAKER_00]: When they're split up a little more organic than they used to

[00:40:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Sure

[00:40:49] [SPEAKER_00]: It not like

[00:40:51] [SPEAKER_00]: No I know what you're saying

[00:40:52] [SPEAKER_02]: It might just be because there's more technology

[00:40:55] [SPEAKER_02]: So they can like just make them look a little better

[00:40:57] [SPEAKER_02]: And like that almost bites them in the ass

[00:41:00] [SPEAKER_00]: But there's like a lot more like red and orange

[00:41:02] [SPEAKER_00]: That recalls the visceral of the human body

[00:41:05] [SPEAKER_02]: There's also the clones

[00:41:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Like that's not like this movie has added this other CGI person thing

[00:41:10] [SPEAKER_02]: We'll get to that

[00:41:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Very important sidebar

[00:41:12] [SPEAKER_02]: We should talk about it because they are in the first three minutes

[00:41:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes in the opening fucking thing when like

[00:41:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Anakin and Obi-Wan are talking over their inner comms

[00:41:19] [SPEAKER_00]: And like making fucking jokes or whatever

[00:41:21] [SPEAKER_00]: They're like sir da da da da

[00:41:22] [SPEAKER_00]: And they like cut to a clone trooper

[00:41:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:41:26] [SPEAKER_00]: But he's not a clone trooper

[00:41:27] [SPEAKER_00]: He's a clone but he's like wearing just like a fighter pilot uniform

[00:41:29] [SPEAKER_00]: He's not wearing the standard clone trooper arm armor

[00:41:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Armoir

[00:41:34] [SPEAKER_00]: And he

[00:41:34] [SPEAKER_00]: It's tomorrow morrisan

[00:41:35] [SPEAKER_00]: It's tomorrow morrisan

[00:41:36] [SPEAKER_00]: And I was like

[00:41:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Why does his face look weird?

[00:41:39] [SPEAKER_00]: It looks almost like tomorrow morrisan is CGI

[00:41:42] [SPEAKER_00]: And I realized what it is

[00:41:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Is he's wearing not like a strong trooper helmet

[00:41:45] [SPEAKER_00]: But like a fighter pilot helmet

[00:41:46] [SPEAKER_00]: That's like a helmet with a visor

[00:41:48] [SPEAKER_00]: The visor is fucking computer generated

[00:41:51] [SPEAKER_00]: The helmet is fucking computer generated

[00:41:53] [SPEAKER_00]: So it's like I don't know if you ever use like face time

[00:41:58] [SPEAKER_00]: And there are filters you can do on face time

[00:42:00] [SPEAKER_02]: I haven't

[00:42:01] [SPEAKER_02]: This is a thing you can like put bunny ears on someone's head or whatever

[00:42:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah and so there's like a tracking thing in your computer that like looks and like

[00:42:08] [SPEAKER_00]: When you move your head the bunny ears stay roughly on top of your head

[00:42:12] [SPEAKER_00]: But there's some lag time

[00:42:14] [SPEAKER_00]: If you move around quickly the bunny ears are floating around

[00:42:16] [SPEAKER_02]: I didn't notice this although obviously it looked super CGI

[00:42:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Jumped out to me

[00:42:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I was like what looks unnatural here

[00:42:21] [SPEAKER_00]: It's literally the only organic thing in the frame is his face

[00:42:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And even that doesn't it doesn't look right

[00:42:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Because there's CGI on the visor over and the helmet

[00:42:29] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's like when his face is moving they're trying to move the helmet around it

[00:42:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Hey guess what George put a fucking helmet on a head

[00:42:34] [SPEAKER_02]: It's also let's talk about

[00:42:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Put a helmet

[00:42:37] [SPEAKER_02]: All right okay okay yes yes yes

[00:42:39] [SPEAKER_02]: On a head

[00:42:39] [SPEAKER_02]: But it's really creepy because there's this whole thing where they have to like

[00:42:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Get to the Star Destroyer thing

[00:42:46] [SPEAKER_02]: And the clones basically like block the laser fire and die

[00:42:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Like kind of that's like kind of their job like

[00:42:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Anakin's like let's go help them and Obi-Wan's like they're doing their job dying

[00:43:00] [SPEAKER_02]: The whole clone thing is they don't get into it enough

[00:43:03] [SPEAKER_02]: It's really weird and creepy

[00:43:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Yep so

[00:43:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Really strange

[00:43:08] [SPEAKER_00]: C3PO's

[00:43:09] [SPEAKER_00]: R2D2 is going all go go gadget

[00:43:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:43:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Anakin and Obi-Wan start like trying to make their way through the ship

[00:43:15] [SPEAKER_00]: We meet this fucking guy Grievous

[00:43:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Grievous is a robot with

[00:43:19] [SPEAKER_00]: The worst

[00:43:20] [SPEAKER_02]: The worst character in all three movies worse than Jar Jar Banks

[00:43:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Worse than uh what's his pants uh

[00:43:27] [SPEAKER_02]: Neumotian with the legal

[00:43:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh uh New Conrad

[00:43:30] [SPEAKER_00]: New Conrad worse than all of them in my opinion

[00:43:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Well this is a very important point we meet

[00:43:35] [SPEAKER_00]: General Grievous

[00:43:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Yep

[00:43:36] [SPEAKER_00]: He's a he's a rabbit with a cape

[00:43:38] [SPEAKER_02]: He's a robot with a cape

[00:43:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Now my girlfriend said and you wanted me to repeat this because I told you off

[00:43:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah her reaction is for the podcast

[00:43:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Why is the robot wearing a cape?

[00:43:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Is he cold?

[00:43:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Which is made of metal metal conducts

[00:43:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Temperatures

[00:43:52] [SPEAKER_00]: No metal think about how cold metal gets

[00:43:55] [SPEAKER_00]: But robots there he's a robot

[00:43:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Why would he be cold?

[00:43:58] [SPEAKER_02]: None of the other ones wear capes

[00:43:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Because it made him metal, metal gets cold

[00:44:00] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't understand the logic is airtight here for me

[00:44:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Why is he

[00:44:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Cold metal is in the winter

[00:44:04] [SPEAKER_02]: He has essentially what feels like a smokers cough

[00:44:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah because he's got a cold that's why he's wearing the cape

[00:44:09] [SPEAKER_02]: He's sort of like uh bring the Jedi to me

[00:44:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Like it's the most bizarre character

[00:44:17] [SPEAKER_00]: This is set in the winter

[00:44:18] [SPEAKER_00]: He's wearing a cape because he's cold and he has like a common how

[00:44:21] [SPEAKER_00]: I really

[00:44:21] [SPEAKER_00]: He's got the flu I don't know

[00:44:23] [SPEAKER_00]: He's wheezing

[00:44:25] [SPEAKER_00]: He looks somewhat organic

[00:44:26] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean there's like

[00:44:27] [SPEAKER_02]: You're my least favorite person

[00:44:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh thank you you're my best friend

[00:44:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah he has organic pieces

[00:44:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Like his eyes

[00:44:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:44:33] [SPEAKER_00]: That are kind of like snake-like

[00:44:34] [SPEAKER_00]: And when the flesh around his eyes looks like sins

[00:44:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Like maybe he was like a man burned onto him

[00:44:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah something like that

[00:44:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Like he's Robocop

[00:44:41] [SPEAKER_02]: And then not to spoil the rest of the movie because you don't want to talk about it

[00:44:44] [SPEAKER_02]: But he has like internal some sort of internal organ

[00:44:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh that's cool

[00:44:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah no it's not

[00:44:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I remember that now

[00:44:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Um

[00:44:51] [SPEAKER_00]: John Grievous is there

[00:44:52] [SPEAKER_00]: I was bass and he's like

[00:44:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Like it's all right

[00:44:56] [SPEAKER_00]: The second

[00:44:57] [SPEAKER_00]: This feeds into like the white noise thing of the movie that's going on right

[00:45:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Like they introduce him

[00:45:03] [SPEAKER_00]: And he's got seven different ticks

[00:45:05] [SPEAKER_00]: At the same time

[00:45:07] [SPEAKER_02]: He's got a cape

[00:45:08] [SPEAKER_02]: He's limping

[00:45:09] [SPEAKER_02]: He's coughing

[00:45:10] [SPEAKER_02]: He's got weird eyes

[00:45:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh I don't know that

[00:45:11] [SPEAKER_02]: He collects lightsabers in his jacket

[00:45:14] [SPEAKER_00]: I already can't pay attention to this character because too much is

[00:45:17] [SPEAKER_00]: There's too much business

[00:45:19] [SPEAKER_00]: There is entirely too much business

[00:45:20] [SPEAKER_00]: And not only that

[00:45:21] [SPEAKER_02]: We've been told this is like an important character

[00:45:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Who somehow kidnapped the Chancellor

[00:45:25] [SPEAKER_02]: He comes off immediately like a fool

[00:45:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Like a fool

[00:45:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Like he's decrepit

[00:45:30] [SPEAKER_02]: He doesn't seem to be able to like walk around really well

[00:45:34] [SPEAKER_02]: He this whole Chancellor kidnapping plan isn't working

[00:45:37] [SPEAKER_02]: He takes the Jedi's lightsabers and literally puts them in his pocket

[00:45:41] [SPEAKER_02]: They immediately just call them back

[00:45:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Like you couldn't put him in like a locked box at least

[00:45:46] [SPEAKER_02]: He's like ah I'll add it to my collection

[00:45:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Opens jacket has a pocket puts them in the pocket

[00:45:51] [SPEAKER_02]: The jacket doesn't close there's no zipper

[00:45:53] [SPEAKER_02]: It's a cloak

[00:45:54] [SPEAKER_02]: That's not a jacket so it's a cape

[00:45:56] [SPEAKER_02]: It's a cape

[00:45:56] [SPEAKER_02]: He's got a cape

[00:45:57] [SPEAKER_02]: It's just it's literally what

[00:45:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Why do you like put them away

[00:46:02] [SPEAKER_02]: They have force powers

[00:46:04] [SPEAKER_02]: They can make anything go into their hands

[00:46:06] [SPEAKER_02]: He's a bad character

[00:46:07] [SPEAKER_02]: He's the worst character

[00:46:10] [SPEAKER_02]: There's so much more to talk about with him

[00:46:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah oh yeah

[00:46:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Now I think that he's in the cartoons right

[00:46:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes

[00:46:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Like like that's where his backstory lies

[00:46:17] [SPEAKER_02]: He's really cool in the Jani Tartofsky cartoon

[00:46:19] [SPEAKER_02]: I bet

[00:46:19] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure

[00:46:20] [SPEAKER_00]: He fucking makes a meal out of his design

[00:46:21] [SPEAKER_00]: And they make him an almost silent character

[00:46:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And so he's a physical present

[00:46:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Wait we forgot to mention his accent

[00:46:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Because he has like a Dracula accent

[00:46:29] [SPEAKER_00]: He's like bringing the Jedi to me

[00:46:32] [SPEAKER_00]: It feels very inspired by Hotel Transylvania

[00:46:35] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a very Hotel Transylvania vibe

[00:46:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Now I read that Gary Oldman almost played this role

[00:46:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah and then I heard John Rhys Davies almost played the role

[00:46:44] [SPEAKER_00]: And instead a guy who worked at industrial light and magic played this role

[00:46:47] [SPEAKER_02]: How did that happen

[00:46:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Was he just like in the like in the canteen

[00:46:52] [SPEAKER_02]: And was going like uh-huh

[00:46:53] [SPEAKER_02]: And Dracula and and George Lucas was like hire this man

[00:46:57] [SPEAKER_02]: I really think George E. Porgy wanted to get this movie over with

[00:47:00] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah it's possible

[00:47:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Because I believe Oldman couldn't do it because the movie has these like weird union rules

[00:47:05] [SPEAKER_02]: And like you had to be like you know

[00:47:07] [SPEAKER_02]: And uh that was the rumor I heard at least

[00:47:09] [SPEAKER_02]: That that was the reason he couldn't do it

[00:47:11] [SPEAKER_00]: I think it also just fits into like

[00:47:13] [SPEAKER_02]: I've been trained in lightsabers

[00:47:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Like on Dooku

[00:47:16] [SPEAKER_00]: The same part of him that would rather CGI a helmet

[00:47:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Rather than put a helmet on a head

[00:47:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Would rather just get a guy

[00:47:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Oldman's fossing

[00:47:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Fucking Jimmy over there could do it

[00:47:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Get a guy from down the hall

[00:47:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh should we have one of our finest living actors

[00:47:28] [SPEAKER_00]: No that guy over there mopping up

[00:47:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Have him play Grievous

[00:47:32] [SPEAKER_02]: That's stupid can you do a voice

[00:47:33] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm trying to find this guy's name

[00:47:36] [SPEAKER_02]: The actor's name

[00:47:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah whatever

[00:47:37] [SPEAKER_02]: No I'm interested

[00:47:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Um uh but this is a very important point David

[00:47:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Matthew Wood

[00:47:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah right

[00:47:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Go on

[00:47:45] [SPEAKER_00]: But it's also so modulated

[00:47:47] [SPEAKER_00]: The performance like whatever voice he's doing

[00:47:49] [SPEAKER_00]: It's also run through like 17 filters

[00:47:51] [SPEAKER_02]: No I mean it sounds awful

[00:47:53] [SPEAKER_02]: There's just so much fucking

[00:47:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Barely tell what he's talking about

[00:47:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Not that it matters

[00:47:56] [SPEAKER_00]: There's so much camera movement too

[00:47:58] [SPEAKER_00]: There's so much fake CGI camera movement

[00:48:00] [SPEAKER_00]: That's like you barely can get your bearings

[00:48:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Within a single frame

[00:48:03] [SPEAKER_00]: David so much visual information

[00:48:05] [SPEAKER_00]: So much noise

[00:48:06] [SPEAKER_00]: He's a sound editor by the way

[00:48:08] [SPEAKER_00]: That's who Matthew Wood is

[00:48:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Well it sounds like he did two bad jobs on this movie

[00:48:12] [SPEAKER_00]: I just bought like a new fucking sound system for my TV

[00:48:15] [SPEAKER_00]: And it sounded all burnt out

[00:48:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:48:18] [SPEAKER_00]: I was like is my thing not working

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[00:48:24] [SPEAKER_00]: He really likes them

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[00:48:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah yeah that's how much

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[00:48:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh David I'm not done yet

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[00:48:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Because Costco had an immediate in-store rebate

[00:48:45] [SPEAKER_00]: No need to mail it in

[00:48:48] [SPEAKER_00]: 189

[00:48:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Damn

[00:48:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah

[00:48:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Anyway carry on

[00:48:50] [SPEAKER_00]: And they had Samsung as well for 180 and 90

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[00:48:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Um

[00:48:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Grievous is like

[00:48:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh

[00:49:01] [SPEAKER_00]: What's going on here

[00:49:02] [SPEAKER_02]: No wait we should actually pull back because in between the space battle and grievous is the dooku fight

[00:49:08] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm talking about the very first interaction of dooku

[00:49:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh okay all right okay

[00:49:11] [SPEAKER_00]: I agree because I'm actually going back forward

[00:49:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Which is just when he sees that they're coming towards him

[00:49:15] [SPEAKER_00]: And he turns to like a nemoidian

[00:49:17] [SPEAKER_00]: And goes like whatever whatever the fucking dialogue is

[00:49:21] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't remember something

[00:49:21] [SPEAKER_00]: No no no no

[00:49:22] [SPEAKER_00]: But the nemoidian and it's a new nemoidian

[00:49:24] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think we've seen before

[00:49:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:49:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Goes like sir the Jedi's are coming for us

[00:49:27] [SPEAKER_00]: He has an American accent

[00:49:28] [SPEAKER_02]: I know I noticed that

[00:49:29] [SPEAKER_02]: This is huge

[00:49:30] [SPEAKER_02]: It is it's interesting

[00:49:31] [SPEAKER_02]: They're like uh maybe this guy should talk different

[00:49:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah

[00:49:34] [SPEAKER_00]: He almost sounds like a Californian server

[00:49:36] [SPEAKER_02]: You know he you're right or absolutely right

[00:49:38] [SPEAKER_02]: He's looking at some

[00:49:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Like sir the Jedi's are approaching

[00:49:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah and and general grievous is like

[00:49:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Use the blast of shields

[00:49:45] [SPEAKER_02]: You know ah spaghetti

[00:49:47] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah make a pizza paya

[00:49:49] Um

[00:49:51] [SPEAKER_02]: He's like a diner chef

[00:49:53] But

[00:49:54] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm too bad Jackson Jackson's not been in this one by the way

[00:49:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Not at all

[00:49:58] [SPEAKER_02]: No I know

[00:49:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Fuck this movie

[00:49:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah yeah just turn it off

[00:50:01] [SPEAKER_00]: TC14 comes back though right

[00:50:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Griffin

[00:50:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Double fuck this movie

[00:50:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Um I think it does feel like in a in a severe instance of too little too late

[00:50:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Someone finally prevailed on George

[00:50:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Or the Georgie Porgy was trying to go like see they don't all sound like that

[00:50:18] [SPEAKER_00]: They was just those specific characters

[00:50:20] [SPEAKER_02]: But Newt Gunray does come back and guess what

[00:50:22] [SPEAKER_02]: He sounds like that

[00:50:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Yep

[00:50:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah no I know

[00:50:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah you're saying like look he just has an accent from his planet

[00:50:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Specifically they're all regionally that was

[00:50:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Not Chinese aliens maybe that one grew up in space China

[00:50:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah space China

[00:50:35] [SPEAKER_00]: This guy grew up in space Valencia

[00:50:38] [SPEAKER_00]: He sounds like a teenage mutant as a turtle

[00:50:41] [SPEAKER_00]: For one minute

[00:50:42] [SPEAKER_00]: He's got like two lines yeah

[00:50:43] [SPEAKER_00]: And he goes like sir I think the Jedi's are here

[00:50:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Um so no but I think that is after the dooku fight

[00:50:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Because they have

[00:50:49] [SPEAKER_02]: There's one line he has before the dooku fight

[00:50:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Where they seem to approach

[00:50:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay so let's talk about the dooku fight

[00:50:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Because this is actually insane

[00:50:54] [SPEAKER_00]: They're getting through

[00:50:55] [SPEAKER_00]: They get into a room

[00:50:57] [SPEAKER_02]: They just get into a room by the way

[00:50:59] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean okay no there's some business with like an elevator shaft

[00:51:01] [SPEAKER_02]: They go up they go down

[00:51:02] [SPEAKER_02]: R2's like

[00:51:03] [SPEAKER_02]: There's some Magna guards

[00:51:04] [SPEAKER_02]: But once they get to the room

[00:51:04] [SPEAKER_02]: The room is just fucking empty

[00:51:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Empty room

[00:51:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Palpatine sitting in a chair with

[00:51:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Like something bound to his hand

[00:51:10] [SPEAKER_02]: You know he's he's tied to the chair

[00:51:12] [SPEAKER_00]: But he seems weirdly calm

[00:51:13] [SPEAKER_02]: He does I mean you know

[00:51:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh thank you so much for showing it

[00:51:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever you know

[00:51:18] [SPEAKER_00]: So they come up and they're like talking to him

[00:51:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh yeah I feel like he has a couple interesting lines

[00:51:24] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know

[00:51:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh he's basically like

[00:51:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Watch out he's a Sith Lord

[00:51:28] [SPEAKER_02]: And Obi-Wan's like

[00:51:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Before dooku shows up

[00:51:30] [SPEAKER_00]: There was like an exchange that I'm forgetting

[00:51:31] [SPEAKER_00]: That I thought was kind of interesting at the time

[00:51:33] [SPEAKER_00]: But whatever we'll talk about when we watch the movie

[00:51:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Fucking nine more times

[00:51:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:51:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Um uh and then he's very calm

[00:51:39] [SPEAKER_00]: He goes oh no look a Sith Lord

[00:51:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Turn around dooku's there

[00:51:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Dooku's there he does this embarrassing CGI jump

[00:51:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Down okay

[00:51:46] [SPEAKER_00]: And this is the third Yoda jump that has happened so far in this movie

[00:51:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I know it's crazy

[00:51:49] [SPEAKER_00]: We talked about how the Yoda jumping around thing

[00:51:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Was like the moment where Attack of the Clone is just totally breaking

[00:51:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Uncanny Valley like we said with JD

[00:51:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Morgan Evans, former guest, referred to him as being like flubber

[00:52:01] [SPEAKER_00]: He said Yoda just turns into flubber

[00:52:03] [SPEAKER_00]: He's just flubber

[00:52:03] [SPEAKER_00]: There like Gord Morgan there

[00:52:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you

[00:52:05] [SPEAKER_00]: There are three flubber jumps in the first 22 minutes

[00:52:08] [SPEAKER_02]: You mean like with the elevator and all that stuff

[00:52:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Obi-Wan does a flubber jump

[00:52:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah no he does

[00:52:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Obi-Wan does a total flubber jump

[00:52:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Where he suddenly just becomes a cartoon rag doll

[00:52:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Then R2 doesn't flubber jump

[00:52:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes

[00:52:17] [SPEAKER_00]: No question does a flubber jump

[00:52:19] [SPEAKER_00]: And Chris Lee

[00:52:20] [SPEAKER_00]: And Chris Lee and we talked about how like oh clearly there's some doubles in this

[00:52:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Because he's an old man

[00:52:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah he's old

[00:52:25] [SPEAKER_00]: But it's done pretty seamlessly in clones

[00:52:27] [SPEAKER_02]: It's better they figured it out

[00:52:29] [SPEAKER_02]: They choreographed it smarter I think

[00:52:31] [SPEAKER_02]: So they had to do that less

[00:52:33] [SPEAKER_02]: And they're doing wide shots

[00:52:34] [SPEAKER_02]: They're doing wide shots

[00:52:35] [SPEAKER_02]: And obviously he's bouncing off of an unreal thing anyway

[00:52:37] [SPEAKER_02]: So the unreal thing can bounce

[00:52:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And also his fighting style was very classical

[00:52:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Yoda's jumping around but he's staying there and sort of just fencing

[00:52:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Right exactly

[00:52:45] [SPEAKER_00]: He's got his arms outstretched

[00:52:46] [SPEAKER_00]: He's very brave

[00:52:46] [SPEAKER_02]: This one he's showing off for a minute when he does this summer salt

[00:52:49] [SPEAKER_00]: You know he's faked the entire time

[00:52:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Because his head is barely connected to his body

[00:52:53] [SPEAKER_00]: He does a summer salt just to show up

[00:52:56] [SPEAKER_00]: And then let

[00:52:56] [SPEAKER_00]: He could have walked down the fucking stairs or just jumped straight down

[00:52:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Instead he has a fucking flip

[00:53:02] [SPEAKER_00]: And then he's doing crazy motions

[00:53:04] [SPEAKER_00]: He knocks out Obi-Wan

[00:53:06] [SPEAKER_02]: No I'm sorry before he knocks out Obi-Wan

[00:53:08] [SPEAKER_02]: I really want to highlight Obi-Wan's line of

[00:53:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Don't worry Scythlords

[00:53:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Ah speciality

[00:53:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh yeah

[00:53:14] [SPEAKER_02]: What's Scythlords?

[00:53:16] [SPEAKER_02]: All right Obi-Wan killed one Scythlord

[00:53:18] [SPEAKER_02]: One time

[00:53:19] [SPEAKER_02]: One time

[00:53:19] [SPEAKER_02]: And too late

[00:53:20] [SPEAKER_02]: And then Dukku chopped off one of them's arm and you know put a fucking you know boiler on the other one

[00:53:27] [SPEAKER_02]: So that was a draw at best

[00:53:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Right so they thought

[00:53:29] [SPEAKER_00]: So I don't know about Scythlords or our speciality

[00:53:32] [SPEAKER_00]: They thought that the Scythlords were dead right

[00:53:34] [SPEAKER_00]: At the beginning of Fentimus they think Scythlords no longer exist

[00:53:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely

[00:53:38] [SPEAKER_00]: They kill one Scythlord after he kills

[00:53:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Obi-Wan's best friend and mentor

[00:53:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Very true he did kill someone forgot about that

[00:53:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Kills him but like too late

[00:53:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Right

[00:53:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:53:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Doesn't kill Dukku

[00:53:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Nope

[00:53:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Let him get let some get away

[00:53:53] [SPEAKER_00]: They still don't know who the actual Scythlord is

[00:53:56] [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm sorry that's not your speciality

[00:53:58] [SPEAKER_00]: No speciality is killing

[00:53:59] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean maybe that George is trying to be ironic that he's saying it to the real Scythlords

[00:54:02] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think so

[00:54:03] [SPEAKER_02]: No probably not

[00:54:03] [SPEAKER_00]: No I think his speciality is battle droids which big whoop anyone could kill a fucking battle droid

[00:54:08] [SPEAKER_02]: He could kill a lot of them

[00:54:08] [SPEAKER_00]: I could fart on a battle droid at break in half

[00:54:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Anyway as you say they kind of chat with Dukku for a second where Dukku's like hand over those sabers

[00:54:17] [SPEAKER_02]: Gentlemen we you know know don't want to make a mess and they're like ah fuck you we're gonna fight you

[00:54:20] [SPEAKER_02]: And then he just drops like a staircase on Obi-Wan

[00:54:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they're fighting like crazy

[00:54:24] [SPEAKER_02]: In like the shittiest CGI as well

[00:54:27] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah

[00:54:27] [SPEAKER_02]: Obi-Wan's like pinned it looks it looks terrible

[00:54:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, there's one line where he goes like this time. Let's fight two against one. Let's fight at the same time

[00:54:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, he said something like that. It's like yeah, right. Oh right smart. Yeah, maybe you shouldn't

[00:54:37] [SPEAKER_02]: He's mature

[00:54:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah

[00:54:38] [SPEAKER_00]: No, that's basic fucking logic if you're two good guys

[00:54:41] [SPEAKER_00]: But he didn't do it that time

[00:54:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Don't go like you go first

[00:54:43] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm hanging back

[00:54:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Dukku had lightning powers last time those are mysteriously

[00:54:47] [SPEAKER_02]: Disappeared this time not sure why he could have saved his own life had he almost throws this fight it feels like yeah

[00:54:52] [SPEAKER_02]: It feels like it really is pretty bad

[00:54:54] [SPEAKER_02]: It feels like hurry-carry because yeah, he and Anakin fight for a bit. Yeah

[00:54:58] [SPEAKER_02]: He has this thing where Anakin's like my powers have doubled since I last and he's like twice the pride double the fall

[00:55:03] [SPEAKER_00]: How much later does more you take play? I like several years. Okay. I think so. Yeah

[00:55:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Um actually I can try to find out they're watching the fight

[00:55:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Palpatine is fucking loving it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's just like get him

[00:55:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Because good anakin good. Yeah, and he's like he's just going like oh interested like he's fucking having a ball

[00:55:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Right. He's playing both teams

[00:55:27] [SPEAKER_00]: And he's just enjoying the fight

[00:55:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Then

[00:55:31] [SPEAKER_00]: What happens it's been three years just let you know since the three-year war

[00:55:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Anakin anakin chops off in a kind of a weird fluid move chops off Dukku's hands both of them

[00:55:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's sort of like really. Yeah, it's

[00:55:45] [SPEAKER_02]: It's pretty it's pretty nuts pretty

[00:55:47] [SPEAKER_02]: Dukku falls to his knees

[00:55:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, anakin catches his blade like with ease and just like gives him the old sort of you know puts them to his neck

[00:55:55] [SPEAKER_00]: He's got like chopsticks going

[00:55:56] [SPEAKER_00]: He's got like a blade in each hand pointing the opposite direction. So he's got a blade against each side of his neck

[00:56:00] [SPEAKER_02]: And dukkus just looks like a sad grandpa all of a sudden. He's just so upset

[00:56:05] [SPEAKER_02]: He's so defeated and poppins like finish him now. He literally says kill him kill him

[00:56:10] [SPEAKER_02]: And it's like a command. It's not like he's like requesting it. He goes like anakin kill anakin good

[00:56:17] [SPEAKER_02]: And anakin's like oh, I don't know if I should do that's not the jedi way god

[00:56:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Anakin's getting really good

[00:56:23] [SPEAKER_02]: And palpatine literally you would hope maybe that there be palpatine would really sort of try and sell this and be like

[00:56:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, you got to kill him. He'll come you know like he just said do it

[00:56:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Isn't there a moment to where he goes like remember what we talked about no

[00:56:36] [SPEAKER_00]: He just says it might happen after he kills dooku

[00:56:39] [SPEAKER_00]: But there's a line in here that implies that they have been meeting and talking a lot

[00:56:43] [SPEAKER_00]: They were supposed to know that yeah, the anakin's gotten very close with the emperor. I mean the chancellor right and it's like

[00:56:49] [SPEAKER_02]: No, no, no, they won't and um that should have been happening to you

[00:56:53] [SPEAKER_00]: and

[00:56:55] [SPEAKER_00]: That's an interesting dynamic. Maybe that should have been

[00:56:58] [SPEAKER_00]: on screen

[00:56:59] [SPEAKER_00]: The developing of their relationship how'd they go from zero to six at the nfn of mass?

[00:57:02] [SPEAKER_00]: He's like i'm gonna keep an eye on you boy. No attack the clones. He does almost nothing

[00:57:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Barely corresponds with anakin. We shall watch your career with great interest right right exactly right and then in this one

[00:57:12] [SPEAKER_00]: he just

[00:57:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Something everything good happened off screen anyway anakin chops up his head and he's immediately

[00:57:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Like he's so even keeled about it, right anakin. Yeah, he's like, I don't know if I should

[00:57:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Palpatine's like you shouldn't he's like okay. I will

[00:57:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Decapitates right head rolls gross. Yep. What the fuck is this movie?

[00:57:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, and then anakin goes like I shouldn't done that

[00:57:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Like that was a bad idea. Yeah, it goes. That was a bad idea. Which by the way

[00:57:41] [SPEAKER_02]: No, it wasn't yeah like kill the sith lords. They're magical wizards of dark evil

[00:57:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Like I don't actually really get why it's supposed to be like no they should probably die

[00:57:50] [SPEAKER_02]: They are impossible to imprison but he was like so right shoot lightning out of their hands for crying out loud

[00:57:55] [SPEAKER_00]: So right with guilt about about the

[00:57:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Slaughtering the jazz side of the test which was pretty horrifying. Let's not yeah

[00:58:00] [SPEAKER_00]: No, great right, but he was very emotionally affected by this one. He's just like

[00:58:04] [SPEAKER_00]: You know what that was a mistake. You know what?

[00:58:07] [SPEAKER_00]: That was bad bad on me. Anyway, he frees palpatine and palpatine's like no, no, no, it was good. It was good

[00:58:14] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know now this movie really is about how every character's

[00:58:18] [SPEAKER_02]: internal logic radar is

[00:58:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Broken yeah because palpatine is basically just like a serpent at this week's like yes

[00:58:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, yes, yes, and then he's like palpatine's like we got to go forget obi one

[00:58:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Palpatine's got a big foam finger that says sit on it

[00:58:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Obi-Wan is literally lying peacefully with like a staircase kind of touching his ankle

[00:58:38] [SPEAKER_02]: He looks beautiful

[00:58:41] [SPEAKER_02]: It's over he's dead and and like anakin's like don't worry about it like just like

[00:58:46] [SPEAKER_02]: He's he says uh his fate will be our own. Yeah, right? So they take anika

[00:58:50] [SPEAKER_02]: They take everyone but like why isn't anakin like hold up like

[00:58:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Excuse me like I just like stormed this like whole starship

[00:58:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Like I can pick up the stupid staircase for one second. Why are you pushing this? Yeah, because palpatine doesn't drop and he's like no

[00:59:03] [SPEAKER_02]: there's no time

[00:59:05] [SPEAKER_00]: And and grievous grievous gets away

[00:59:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, yeah, there's a whole scene where grievous like steals their lightsabers and r2 and then r2 does this like decoy trick

[00:59:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Where he like turns on all his devices at once

[00:59:15] [SPEAKER_02]: And then they use that

[00:59:17] [SPEAKER_00]: He has the magnifying glass coming out of the top of his hat

[00:59:20] [SPEAKER_02]: They use that distraction to grab their lightsabers from grievous's cape pocket

[00:59:24] [SPEAKER_02]: And then there's a lot of business with like the starship like

[00:59:29] [SPEAKER_02]: It starts going down and then they level it off and they take control of the

[00:59:33] [SPEAKER_00]: And they're trying to fucking bring it back

[00:59:36] [SPEAKER_02]: It sucks

[00:59:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Suck and it's it's so hard to fucking and yeah grievous escapes. I guess I don't know

[00:59:41] [SPEAKER_00]: He gets in a ship or something

[00:59:43] [SPEAKER_00]: So remember how we thought that the choice to

[00:59:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Let grievous, sorry dooku get away at the end of clones was

[00:59:52] [SPEAKER_00]: unfulfilling

[00:59:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Narratively on a dramatic level

[00:59:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Unfulfilling and then we're like it must because they're setting them up is the big bad and then he's like the intermediary

[01:00:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Boss. Yeah, not even he's the first boss grievous is the intermediary boss

[01:00:07] [SPEAKER_02]: That's how shitty dooku is in this movie the coughing robot with a cloak and snake eyes is the intermediary boss

[01:00:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Grievous is dooku is on screen for three minutes. Yeah, and for two minutes and 54 seconds of those three minutes

[01:00:22] [SPEAKER_00]: It is a

[01:00:24] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a cgi head on a cartoon rag doll. It's a flubber. He's a flubber. Christopher flubber lee right

[01:00:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Um

[01:00:31] [SPEAKER_00]: This is what I would equate the first 22 minutes of this movie to

[01:00:35] [SPEAKER_00]: I would

[01:00:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Say it is like watching someone else play a video game

[01:00:40] [SPEAKER_02]: That is a really good point because except like a bad video game

[01:00:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Because like my roommate will watch me play the witcher three like wrapped with a tension

[01:00:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but that's a video game with a strong narrative art

[01:00:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Exactly

[01:00:51] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm saying there like if you're watching someone play like a war game or a space battle game

[01:00:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that would be fun if I was doing that

[01:00:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe if I had staked in this because I was controlling it was trying to get through and it feels very mission-based like shoot this

[01:01:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Get this hit the center. I got those droids. Yeah all that shit, right?

[01:01:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Activate oil slick, right? They are like giving you video game commands like they're an NPC. Yeah hit c left

[01:01:12] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah

[01:01:14] [SPEAKER_00]: I

[01:01:15] [SPEAKER_00]: The only time I could get engaged this movie was I went this would be fun to play

[01:01:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, I guess so yeah because to start in media res with this with so much fucking sound

[01:01:25] [SPEAKER_00]: And fury and fury right just this white noise this cacophony of just fucking nonsense happening

[01:01:31] [SPEAKER_00]: We don't care about these characters. We already haven't cared about them for two films

[01:01:34] [SPEAKER_00]: You're dropping us in and not even giving us time to re-assimilate. You know like get our bearing

[01:01:40] [SPEAKER_00]: And so it's just like the only way I would have staked this is if I was actually trying to make this shit happen

[01:01:45] [SPEAKER_00]: If I was trying to pilot the ship and instead you're just watching it and going like can can I get a turn or can we watch something together?

[01:01:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Because it's not fun for me to watch the other problem which we've talked about before

[01:01:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Which recursed through all the films is that the jedi's it's like watching one of those like youtube speedrunners

[01:02:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Who knows everything already and is really like committed and boring and focused

[01:02:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's like

[01:02:07] [SPEAKER_02]: They walk into what seems like a crazy situation like yeah, don't worry about it. So I slice any way move next room

[01:02:12] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, there's no fun. They're having no fun. There's douchebags in this movie. Like they're so cocky

[01:02:16] [SPEAKER_00]: There's no struggle. We have so much to talk about. It's someone doing a speedrun of a video game

[01:02:21] [SPEAKER_00]: This movie you're right

[01:02:22] [SPEAKER_00]: It's it's watching someone do a speedrun of a video game. That's not great

[01:02:26] [SPEAKER_02]: And at the same time

[01:02:28] [SPEAKER_02]: They do that and it's not great, but then senator palpatine is based out of chancellor is like

[01:02:34] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm evil and they're like, oh hi chancellor. Nice to see you. Anyway, let's keep going

[01:02:37] [SPEAKER_00]: They're so stupid and let it be said mcdermot's killing it great from the we have a we're gonna have a lot to talk about with him

[01:02:44] [SPEAKER_02]: We had a whole episode on them

[01:02:47] [SPEAKER_02]: No

[01:02:48] [SPEAKER_02]: No, he's so good. I love sin

[01:02:51] [SPEAKER_02]: But I mean

[01:02:52] [SPEAKER_02]: You wish the movie would rise to that level of fun, you know to that level of theatricality, but it doesn't yep

[01:03:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, this has been episode one of revenge of the podcast. Yeah, I guess we're done. Is there anything we miss?

[01:03:07] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think so. I mean, we'll rewatch it. Well, I'm sure we already forgot a ton of things

[01:03:12] [SPEAKER_02]: But um, but you know, we don't see pad may we don't see some of our old faves like, you know in this first opening sequence

[01:03:19] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no, we're seeing pad may there's no like 3po

[01:03:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, uh, no dexter. There's no mace when do no mace when do

[01:03:27] [SPEAKER_00]: There's no ellen sleazebagano. Uh, no no, I mean

[01:03:31] [SPEAKER_00]: He comes back, right?

[01:03:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, we'll see why fucking set up that thread about him trying to go on the straight and narrow if we're not gonna see him turn out

[01:03:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I want like the end of a boyhood

[01:03:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, right where the guy with the migrant worker like like went to school and became your mother's a great woman

[01:03:47] [SPEAKER_02]: I actually really like that scene even though people hate that scene in boyhood

[01:03:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Because it's that scene is so out of the blue. Yeah weird like, you know, because he's there just in a restaurant

[01:03:56] [SPEAKER_02]: He's like, hi remember me from like an hour ago

[01:03:59] [SPEAKER_02]: You told me to go to school like while you were walking away like over your shoulder

[01:04:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I went to school and I really appreciate that advice that you gave me and you're like, oh, yeah

[01:04:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Nice job white lady. You told like, you know, the migrant worker to go to school

[01:04:11] [SPEAKER_02]: But um, but I like I think david earlick made this point to me, but I seized it and remembered it is like

[01:04:17] [SPEAKER_02]: Boyhoods about like watching someone slowly develop and not really realizing it because you're with them all the time

[01:04:22] [SPEAKER_02]: But this is like it's there's like a drastic development off screen

[01:04:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I like that and it's like yeah like time has passed like people circumstances change wildly. Yeah sometimes

[01:04:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I wish it was just a little racially. It's a it's a little it is. Yeah, but I like the idea of it. Yes, I do um

[01:04:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Boyhoods a good movie. Yeah, what was I why was I creating it's a boy?

[01:04:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, you're talking about ellen sleaze back in oh

[01:04:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, we want him to come back and go like I don't know if you remember me

[01:04:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Episode four is probably about that. I'm just assuming now. We're so stupid that there's an episode four

[01:04:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, disney did buy the company. So I'm assuming they did that in order to make an episode maybe that's what it is

[01:04:58] [SPEAKER_00]: That's probably what we could probably look forward to an episode four from disney sometime in the next five or ten years

[01:05:03] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean takes a long time for movies to get off the ground. Yeah

[01:05:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, uh, we'll be talking about this movie for a bunch of weeks and then after that

[01:05:09] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know we'll go on to other movies because we'll have to wait for episode four to come out

[01:05:13] [SPEAKER_00]: We got some great guests coming up this season hate the bit

[01:05:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, we got some great guests. Yeah, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about

[01:05:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Ben's looking at me with just scorn. You're being a real sleaze bagging out right now

[01:05:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, we got some great guests coming up david doesn't even know about them. They're gonna be fucking exciting surprises

[01:05:31] [SPEAKER_02]: They got tons of twitter followers and you can tell me who they are

[01:05:34] [SPEAKER_02]: They'll push to the top of the charts tons of twitter followers. Let me take some guesses taylor swift

[01:05:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Yep, that'd be amazing. What if taylor swift came on this podcast?

[01:05:41] [SPEAKER_00]: You know what? I've been thinking a lot lately. I think taylor swish would like me

[01:05:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, probably I think she would think I was fun

[01:05:48] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying she would like like me. Yeah, no go ahead although a boy can dream

[01:05:52] [SPEAKER_00]: But I do I do think we'd hit it off

[01:05:54] [SPEAKER_00]: And we'd shake it off

[01:05:56] [SPEAKER_00]: If you know what i'm saying, i think taylor swift and I would shake it off

[01:06:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Ben took a turn off his phone. I know yeah, please rate review subscribe

[01:06:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Listen to other ucb network podcast so you're going through a breakup. Yeah, menage a tois with mirf and diana you tell it

[01:06:13] [SPEAKER_00]: You're telling me to tell her that's the name of the other person. Okay, you tell it

[01:06:17] [SPEAKER_01]: Um long form conversations long form. That's what I was thinking about

[01:06:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, please yeah do do uh

[01:06:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Listen to all of those subscribe rate review. Don't be a fucking sith

[01:06:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Five stars or nothing. That's great

[01:06:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh and once again remember if you give us one star you are not allowed to listen anymore

[01:06:36] [SPEAKER_00]: So or be a guest think through on that taylor

[01:06:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Dear oh dear

[01:06:44] [SPEAKER_00]: That is all I have to say on the matter. I look forward to watching the rest of this film

[01:06:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Unlike with attack the clones where I loved the beginning of the movie and then

[01:06:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Knew already that it didn't pay out. I'm going into this with the opposite opinion. I know you hate this movie

[01:07:01] [SPEAKER_00]: I do I look at the first 22 minutes. I'm going who knows what happens in the back. We just dissed it for so long

[01:07:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but I've only seen the first 20 minutes. I don't know this movie is the worst of the star

[01:07:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Impossible it's not impossible. In fact, it's very likely impossible. Yep

[01:07:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Although I haven't like one thing that's happened on screen so far other than e mcdern's performance

[01:07:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for listening. Mm-hmm. We'll be back next week with taylor swift

[01:07:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Will we yeah, we'll be discussing sound mixing we'll be discussing

[01:07:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Taylor Swift is like a jd amado level savant when it comes to the technical aspects of sound

[01:07:34] [SPEAKER_02]: She's been in the music industry since she was 16 years old. You think I'm fucking joking. I'm not

[01:07:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Taylor Swift will be our guest next week. Talk about sound mixing. Great. Teach me a thing or two. Yeah, great

[01:07:42] [SPEAKER_00]: She knows where it's gonna be training center. Why do you think I'm bringing her in? Oh, I'm glad you're taking the hint

[01:07:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I've been realizing some old episodes ben. You haven't done some of the edits that we asked you to that's true

[01:07:54] [SPEAKER_00]: All those times I told you to edit out

[01:07:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Mention of your father's financial problems. Yeah, I think fucking you added some in it feels like some episodes

[01:08:01] [SPEAKER_00]: You dropped out. He does a great grip in he does a great grip in

[01:08:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Taylor Swift will be coming here next week. Talk about

[01:08:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Matthew woods sound mix on the film is sound editing on the film

[01:08:12] [SPEAKER_00]: We'll give ben some helpful pointers and we'll try to hit it off. I look just as friends

[01:08:16] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just looking for friends if you want something more. I don't know that's fine, but I just think we'd really get along

[01:08:20] [SPEAKER_00]: I think we have a lot in common great

[01:08:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, thank you for listening and as always

[01:08:25] [SPEAKER_00]: shake out