Episode 48; 2022: THE ADAM PROJECT

A first for the list this week; my film of the year for 2022 is a movie made for streaming, not the cinema- it's Shawn Levy and Ryan Reynolds' THE ADAM PROJECT', a rip-roaring, hilarious, sci-fi, time travel, coming-of-age epic!

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Hello everyone, welcome back to Milestone Movies once again. This is episode 48 of the podcast, which means we are looking at 2022. An interesting year, we're pretty much over the whole pandemic cinema shutdown, movie studios uh not releasing anything kind of thing. Um, a lot more in streaming, uh, as you might expect. It's only grown since um since the lockdowns, and this is the first episode, I'm pretty sure, where uh the movie of the year for me is actually a streaming movie. Um uh we will move on to that in a moment, but it's the Adam Project, which is a Netflix one uh from Sean Lebe, Levy, Levy Levi, uh with Ryan Reynolds, and we'll talk about that in a little bit more detail later on. Uh but the top five in terms of success at the box obviously, like I say, it's kind of back to normal in the sense that uh it's not sort of films from the Far East or whatever that's um that's the biggest, uh, but it's not quite as dominated by Disney as the previous few years have been. Um, but there is pretty much all sequels, so the top five is all sequels, the biggest of which was Avatar, where Water was the second Avatar. Um, and it was a big wait between um the first one, I think 13 years between the first one and the sequel coming out. It'd obviously been talked about by Jim Cameron from the beginning, saying you know it was going to be this whole series of movies, and I think he's still talking about it being five altogether, but um the the third one I don't think performed quite as well as everyone was expecting. Um probably still did billions, but uh yeah, so Avatar Way of the Water was the biggest film of 2022. Um, an even bigger weight between uh original and sequel was the second biggest film of the year, which was Top Gun Maverick. Uh so there's obviously Tom Cruise back in jet fighter pilot mode um with uh not Anthony Edwards this time, uh no Meg Ryan, no Kelly McGillis, uh Kelly McGuinness. Uh but you have got pretty decent supporting cast there. Miles Teller uh plays Goose's Son, um, and it was also sort of launch pad for Glenn Powell, who's gone on to be you know pretty much one of the biggest action stars about at the moment as well. Um, yeah, pretty good. I really liked it to start with with Maverick, as the trailers have suggested, it was pretty much it looked like it was going to be a carbon copy of the original. It even sort of you know hits the same beats to begin with, and you you think it's gonna be um yeah, just a just another Top Gun the same, but it's this sort of film of two halves, really. If you've not seen it, it goes, you know, they go on a mission which goes wrong, uh trapped behind enemy lines, and then it becomes like a completely different film. And that I really, really like the end of it, uh, where they've got a kind of escape from enemy territory without a plane. Um, yeah, so that's pretty good. Uh, but yeah, it was a huge, huge hit. It's just been back in the cinema actually already because it was the 40th anniversary of the first Top Gun. Went to see that one. Um, and they re-released Maverick alongside it as well. Um, the third biggest, again, not quite such a long gap between sequels, but a long gap between this cast getting back together. So this is um the third one's Jurassic World Dominion, which is the sixth Jurassic Park overall. Uh, you obviously had an original trilogy, then you've now had a trilogy of Jurassic World films. Um, and this was the sort of culmination of all of those, and it brought the cast of the original Jurassic Park film back together. So you've got Sam Neil, uh Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, uh, and they're all back together with the cast of the newer trilogy, Chris Pratt, uh Bryce Dallas Howard, and all that. So it was really good. It was kind of almost like a you know, uh Avengers Endgame sort of thing, or you know, a bit a big mashup of uh sequels, or probably more like you know, X When Daisy Future Pass with a previous cast and the original cast sort of thing. Um, but yeah, very, very good. I really like it, especially when they all get together at the end and they're all sort of um, you know, trying to get off the goddamn island again. But uh yeah, really, really good. Um and it's obviously as I've talked about Jurassic Park previously episodes, uh Jurassic Park Rebirth has been since this is sort of starting a new uh hopefully trilogy as well. Uh, your fourth film was Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. So, this is your second um Doctor Strange film, obviously quite a close sequel to Spider-Man No Way Home, in which Doctor Strange sort of cameoed in that and helped Peter Parker by opening um opening the multiverse and sort of setting him up to to help him out, but it actually opens the floodgates, if you like, to all these other dimensions, and really it's launched the second age, is it called the the second saga of the MCU. So after the Infinity Saga, it's now the multiverse saga. Um and yeah, obviously that's the plans have gone slightly awry because they can't use Kang so much anymore. Um, but yeah, this was kind of the beginnings of that multiverse stuff going on, which is good, really trippy film. Actually, uh tackled, not tackled, but uh bought in threads from the animated What If um as well with the Strange Supreme, I think his character is called in that one. Uh, which sort of tied in directly to that, and you've also got um Haley Atwell, who's the Captain Britton from that series as well, as well as first look at Patrick Stewart, who's now coming back for Doomsday, and an alternative Reed Richards and all this sort of stuff. So, yeah, really, really, really cool. Um, but yeah, quite trippy, quite trippy film. And the number five film of the year was another sequel, kind of another prequel, uh, which is Minions The Rise of Groove. So follow up to Minions, but obviously they're prequels to the Despicable Me film. So I think you're looking at the sixths in the uh series at this point, I believe. So, yeah, there we are, there's top five. Not necessarily my own top five, but I would certainly count um Jurassic World Dominion in there, really like that. Um, my other personal top five would be as well as the Adam Project, which I'll talk about in a moment in a little bit more detail. Uh, is Prey, which is a again that went straight to Disney Plus, I believe. Um, Dan Trachtenberg's uh Predator uh prequel, essentially. So it's set in you know old America, so it's you know Native American Indian uh Prey uh the Predator comes down and you know basically has to fight these humans who haven't got modern weapons and all this sort of stuff. Um, you know, it's very sort of not not retro, but sort of you know, a period piece really. Um but it's very cool, and obviously Track and Bog has gone on to be the sort of overlord of the Predator universe with Badlands and Killer of Killers and stuff like that, which are you know, obviously cinematic releases as well now, so that's very cool, worth it checking out. Um one I really like actually Ticket to Paradise, which is a I've not really talked about many sort of romantic comedies in this uh podcast, but you know, I am kind of partial to the odd one. Um and when you've got a good cast like George Clooney and Julia Roberts, uh it's you know, I think it was the first time they've acted together, they've been friends for years. Oh no, of course not, they're um the Oceans films, weren't they? Um, and yeah, so there is um a battling sort of ex-couple, ex-wife, ex-husband, ex-wife, um, and their daughters get married to you know, it's a bit of a sort of impulse thing. She's gone on a gap year, um, met a guy who, you know, is you know, proper islander in the Hawaiian Islands, I think it is. Um, and yeah, so they fly out there to try and basically sabotage the wedding so that their daughter won't get married, and you know, obviously end up falling back in love again and all that sort of stuff. But you know, you know where it's going, but it's a really fun adventure on the way. It's quite a good fun film. Um what else we got? So Lightyear as well. So wasn't really expecting much from this because this was it's a buzz light year film, but it's not a Toy Story film. Um, it's almost animated as if their characters are humans, obviously they're not toys, but I think the the the sort of provides of the gist of it was that these are the characters that the toys in Toy Story were based on. Um, and yeah, you kind of thought is this really gonna work? And then it wasn't even Tim Allen during the voice, it was Chris Evans, as in Captain America. But it was like, okay, we'll give it a go. I mean, it looked, you know, quite good in terms of the animation and stuff like that, so give it a go. And wow, I was really blown away by it. This uh, without going into too much detail, if you've not seen it, it does something with basically the passage of time in the middle of the film, which you really don't expect it to be that sort of adventure. Uh, the stakes are a lot higher than you would initially realise. Again, I don't want to spoil it because it is a it's very different to what you think it's gonna be. So I think it's well well worth checking out. Um, I really enjoyed it, definitely. Um, and yeah, I it didn't do that great, I don't think. Um you know, it's it was probably underperformed. It is a Pixar film, but it's not obviously tied into Toy Story in that way, and I guess people sort of struggled to make out what it was going to be, but you know, shame. I would like to see more of them, definitely. Um, yeah, very cool. But yeah, it's it's not even related to the old Buzz Lightyear cartoon from when the first sort of Toy Story came out, you know, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command and all that sort of stuff. So yeah, it's odd, it's got its own little sort of place in the in the filmic world, I suppose, but yeah, but it's uh very cool. Um so yeah, some other bits and bobs. I mean, you've obviously still got Marvel going apace as well as Doctor Strange. Uh, you also had Thor Love and Thunder, which was type away TT back, not quite as much fun, in fact, not anywhere near as much fun as uh Thor Ragnarok, uh, but it does have some you know significant things in it. It's um got uh Jane returning, so Natalie Portman's character returning, but not in the same way. She's basically imbued with the power of Thor and becomes the mighty Thor, um, which is unexpected, I think. Uh certainly her coming back to the franchise was very unexpected and done in a in a pretty good way. Um Christian Bale is a character who you know is quite a tragic sort of backstory, and he is quite a nasty guy, so that kind of butts up a little bit against the the sort of comedy aspects of it as well. So quite sit quite as well. But there's some really, really fun bits in there. Russell Crowe as uh Apollo or Zeus, uh can't remember who he is, but he's a very fun uh little character when they go and visit the uh the godly realm or whatever it is. Um yeah, there's some good stuff in there, but yeah, not quite I mean they would struggle to hit the heights of um of Ragnarok again, I think, to be perfectly honest with you. Um and you also have a Black Panther Wakanda Forever, which again not quite as effective as the first Black Panther, but in their defence, you know, it wasn't the film that they'd intended it to be. You know, unfortunately, we lost Chadwick Bozeman after um Endgame uh in real life. You know, he'd been secretly battling pancreatic cancer, I think it was he had, um, and sort of you know battling through the whole time he'd been, you know, massively famous, nobody really knew uh how ill he was, and um, yeah, unfortunately he was sort of taken from us uh at a very early age, um tragic, obviously, and this film sort of struggles to uh honour him, I suppose, uh, in the same way, and also move the story on to where there can be another sort of Black Panther in the uh MCU. But um, yeah, it's good, but it's again for no fault of its own. I think it does struggle to live up to the original. Um it's the year of sort of big sequels, you know, big gaps between originals and series and series coming back. So there was a fifth screen film. I mean, I've lost count of how many years it have been since screen four. Um, again, this is sort of start of a new sort of set of films. Um you've had Scream 7 came out this year, 2026, um, was pretty effective. Uh Scream 6, I saw as well. So that was sort of obviously a direct follow-up to five, but yeah, it's it's you know, keeping some of the original characters and certainly some of the original um settings and stuff like that, but bringing in new younger characters as well. Um pretty good going there. Um Jackass Forever. So we we assumed gonna be the last of the the jackass films, so obviously, um Johnny Knoxville, etc., sort of doing ridiculous things to themselves. It's one off from the old MTV show. Uh so this one was 2022. We thought that was gonna be the end of it, but actually this year there's gonna be another one which is um I can't even remember what it's called Jackass, but it's the fifth one anyway. They're saying that's gonna be the final one, so we shall see. Uh, you with a ridiculous role Roland Emmerich film uh in the style of sort of Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day and 2012 was uh Moonfall this year, which is literally about the moon comes off his axis and is plummeting towards the earth, and scientists are gonna try and stop that happening. So literally, the moon is gonna hit the earth and they have to move it. Um, it's as stupid and as fun as that sounds. Uh, Death on the Nile, which was the second of Kevin Branner's um Hercule Pro Agatha Christi adaptations, probably my favourite one actually. Death on the Nile, I think he's done that really well. Great cast in there. Um, Gal Godot jumps out of me uh being one of the main ones in there. Obviously, it starts off quite well with uh Poirot sort of living his life and sort of trying to get away from being dragged into this sort of uh you know, the slew thing. He's trying to have a break from it. Um and it's great, and there's yeah, better than the next one which came along, which was the uh haunty in Venice, which was you know very uh macabre and supernaturally sort of thing, really. So this one's obviously a bit more grounded, probably one of the most famous of the Quaro stories as well, because obviously there was the old um Pit Eustinoff version as well. Um Studio 666, which was the first, yeah. So obviously years ago, you know, 60s, 70s, pop stars, rock bands, all that sort of stuff used to make movies as a matter of course, you know, the Beatles do it, monkeys did it, um, people like that. But it'd been a while since we'd really had that, apart from I guess the sort of fluffy stuff like Spice World and uh the S Club 7 film, I think it was C and Double was that called. Um but this is the Foo Fighters in their film debut in a crazy horror film in their sort of I don't know, Rob Zombie sort of um sort of milieu I don't know. Um but that's the sort of style of it, so it's just a funny tongue-in-cheek uh horror film, which is yeah, it didn't get much of a release, didn't get much hype, it just sort of snuck out there, but uh good one for uh fans of the Food Fighters. Um one of the last sort of appearances of uh Taylor Hawkins before he was uh sort of taken from us again as well. Uh so well worth checking out for that. Um, we've still got the DC films that are not related to the other DC films, and they're just sort of trickling bits and bobs out. So you've got the Batman, which was the Robert Patsen uh one. Uh I hated it, really thought it was rubbish. I couldn't stand Robert Pattson, many things I've seen him in, and certainly he's no Bruce Wayne to my liking, but it did very well, and allegedly this sort of sequel coming. Um, but yeah, not great. Slightly better was Black Adam. Uh Dwayne Johnson, Rock, obviously, as Black Adam. Very good casting, I think. He was good in that. Uh, you had uh Piss Brosnan in there as uh Dr. Light as well. Uh Dr. Fate, sorry. Um, and yeah, it wasn't too bad. Sarah Shahi was in there, she was quite good. Uh, and you even had a little uh cameo of uh Henry Campbell, it looked like he was going to come back as Superman, but again, with all these DC films, it didn't go anywhere, didn't lead into anything that's happening now, um, and just a bit of a damp squib in that sense, really. So um, unfortunately, there we go. But yeah, then there also the um the Sony Spider-Verse, they're still trying to expand that outside the MCU. Um, and they had a shot of that with Morbius, just Jared Leto, again, he's just you know, he's a man in search of a franchise, he really is. He's uh kind of had a go at everything, wouldn't he? Really, he's done uh DC Marvel, he's done Tron more recently, he's uh gonna be in the new He-Man film as well. Hopefully, I'll got uh high hopes for him in that, as we talked about previously. Uh, what else we got? Oh, a big, big hit, actually, a big uh Oscar winner as well, with Everything Everywhere All at Once, uh, which was from the the Danielses, as they're known the Dan Quan and Daniel Schneit Scheinhardt, I think they're pronounced. Um, and this is a quite a trippy, you know, based in sort of Eastern um sort of martial artsy films, but um it's you know obviously quite American, uh Americanized as well, with uh Jamie Curtis and stuff. Um you've got Michelle Yo, and it was also a big comeback for Kihu Kwan, I think his name was pronounced, um, who obviously we all remember a short round in Temple of Doom and uh Data in Goonies, um, and had just you know given up acting. I think he was doing sort of stunt um coordination and stuff like that, and still working in the movie industry, but not in front of the camera. And um, yeah, they gave him a sort of a uh a brilliant role in this one where he's sort of a behem-pecked husband who sort of he discovers his sort of secret, you know, untapped potential. Um and yeah, it's been a real sort of good comeback for him, and he sort of spun that into you know things like roles in um the Loki TV series and stuff like that, which really which was a real sort of you know goal for him, I think. Um and yeah, he's done his own sort of action films and all this sort of stuff as well. Yeah, he's done really well out of that, so that was good. But yeah, I've had a little bit sort of I tried a little bit too hard, I think, everything over there all at once to be kind of quirky and whatnot, but it was alright, it's good. Um you had a Michael Bay action film, uh Ambulance, so outside of the sort of Transformers thing, he's just getting back into doing Morbid owned sort of thing there, which was yeah, pretty good breakneck sort of actioner. Uh Jake Gyllenhaal and um Eliza Gonzalez, uh, as a basically he's a villain, she's an ambulance worker, and he gets taken hostage and uh hijinks ensue. Um, a bit of an overuse of drones, I think, in that one. Every other scene is this big zoom-in drone shot sort of zooming in from above and whatnot. But apart from that, pretty good, pretty good. Um what else we got? So there's the well, it looks like the last of the series so far. Fantastic Beast, Secrets of Dumbledore. So obviously, there's been a lot of sort of behind-the-scenes controversy, obviously, everything from Johnny Depp getting dropped from the films to Ezra Miller um doing whatever the weird stuff he does. You know, JK Rowling's kind of been cancelled because of her views on uh gender and stuff like that. So, yeah, I don't think it did quite as well as was expected, even though obviously Harry Potter's still a massive you know franchise, massive business. Um, the Fantastic Beast film's never really sort of captured the imagination of people in quite the same way. Um, as far as I can tell, it's uh kind of the end of that series with those three three and done on there. Uh, what else we've got? So um a couple of animations of Bob's Burgers movie. Now, I've not long started watching the Bob's Burgers series, I'm only about three seasons into it, I think. Um, and the movie comes yeah a fair bit later than that, so I've not actually seen that yet, but uh you know, speaks for itself a spin-off of Bob's Burgers, the sort of adult animation. Uh yeah, what else we got? Oh, the sea beast. That's one my kids really like. That's uh I think that's a Netflix one uh with Carl Urban uh voicing this sort of sea captain who's sort of it's a bit kind of like a Moby Dick story. Um he's hunting this sort of mythical legendary sea beast, and this girl comes along for the ride and gets caught up in it, and they actually end up sort of befriending the sea beast. And yeah, so kind of like a how to train your dragon sort of vibe to it as well, where you know what we thought was the the enemy, the monster, ends up being, you know, their friend. Uh, but that's good. Uh, and another really odd, quirky, but very nice film. Uh, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. It's hard to say. Marcel Shell with Shoes. Oh, I can't say it. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. There we go. Um, which is spun off from a series of sort of shorts that um was done online by the director. Um, and it's really, really cool. I mean, it's literally about uh an anthropomorphic shell, I guess. Uh seashell with one eye and trainers, um, and he lives in this house, which is basically an Airbnb sort of house where there's sort of humans come and go, but a lot of the time they're kind of left to their own devices. Um, and he's got a family, and there's you know, a sort of jeopardy with this the family dog that comes in and all this sort of stuff. So, yeah, it's it's really odd, and it sort of leads into this fact that this house was owned by this young couple and they fell out and split up, and that's why it's Airbnb. And it's really odd, and somebody who goes to stay in there, and you never see sort of the humans, you know, other than hands and stuff like that, and voices, um, sort of discovers that Marcel is alive and starts filming him and putting him online and. It becomes a huge sort of internet phenomenon, and you know, people coming to visit the house and all this sort of stuff. And yeah, it's really, really odd, uh, but really, really sweet. I watched it over this Christmas, actually, it was on TV and just watched it on a you know, possibly hungover morning sort of you know, in a New Year's Day kind of yeah, viewing. It's really really sweet, really nice, and yeah, nice to show with kids and all that sort of stuff as well. So it was very cool. Uh slightly more grown-up and adult is Bullet Train, which is David Leach, who's one of the uh originators of The Matrix and uh John Wick and all that sort of stuff. Um, very, very breakneck action film set on the you know notoriously fast trains in Japan. Um, and it's yeah, it's kind of like a um almost like a fast sort of thing with who's got the MacGuffin and you know who's killing who, and you know, all these sort of factions that are all double agents and all this sort of stuff. So that's very cool. Like that one a lot. Um oh clerks 3, so uh uh Kevin Smith coming back to the uh quick stop once again. And I did a podcast specifically about clerks 2, love that one so much. So obviously had high hopes for clerks 3, and it just kind of fizzled out of it. I don't think it even made sort of cinemas over here, certainly not mainstream. I think it should probably have a few showings in London or something, but um, yeah, all the original sort of cast off back, but just yeah, don't know, just I can't really remember much about it, even you know what I mean. So uh it's nice that you're still doing the films, and it's nice that the cast is still coming back and it's building this sort of filmic universe and everything, but yeah, that wasn't high point for me, unfortunately. Um, and another slightly disappointing sequel have been again another long time coming one, uh, was Hocus Pokus 2. So that was made specifically for Disney Plus uh and Halloween on 2022. Um, all the original cast in turn of the witches back. Um obviously all the kids have sort of grown up and moved on, but um yeah, it was good, kind of captured the spirit of it a little bit. Um, but yeah, not didn't quite have the I guess nostalgic sort of thing that you get when you watch the original Hopus Pokers. So um, but I've I've heard this talk of a third one possibly as well, so look forward to that. Um oh yeah, we're talking about slight disappointment. Um, this was probably my biggest dispoint of the year, was the Fablemans, which was Steven Spielberg's um semi-autobiographical. So it's basically about his life as a young Jewish aspiring filmmaker and growing up in the sort of troubles he had at home, uh, with his parents sort of splitting up and being unfaithful and then not having enough money to buy the stuff he needs to make films and all this sort of thing as well. Um, but yeah, it was just I found it really hard going and not a lot of fun and a bit grim, and actors that normally you know do a good job. You've got you know, Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, they just didn't seem that great in it. I don't know. I mean, you know, I guess you've got to put it down to the director, and maybe it's I don't know, maybe it's down to him being a bit self-indulgent, telling his own story, but it just wasn't that interesting. I didn't find, unfortunately. So um, but yeah, still got faith in Spielberg disclosure days out this year, and I'm seeing good things about that, so hopefully, but yeah, Fable Man's didn't do it for me, I'm afraid. Um, and a slightly more off-kilter um uh autobiographical film, or a biographical film, so by bio what do you call it? You know, uh biopic. There we go, that's the word I've looking for. Um, was weird, the Al Yankovic story with Daniel Radcliffe as Weird Al Yankovic. I mean, obviously a huge sort of icon and mainstay of comedy in uh the States, uh his parody songs and all that sort of stuff. Never really quite made it as big over here, but you know, quite well known to people like myself who grew up in the 80s and knew his sort of Michael Jackson spoofs and all this sort of stuff. Um, and yeah, it's it's for I mean, Daniel Radcliffe, who if you didn't know, sort of coming out of Harry Potter, what a good actor he'd become, you know, stuff like Horns I really liked him in and whatnot, but this one, you know, he he's a real tour de force for him because he obviously doesn't like anything like Weird Al Yankovic, but he absolutely absolutely plays him as a sort of separate entity, as a separate character, um, and he's really, really good in it. And it was weird, this is a film that was um was made for or by, and it's the first biggest sort of streaming film on Roku. I don't know if you're familiar with that, it's like a little streaming box. I've got one myself, um, and you can just literally hook it up to your TV and the internet, um, and you can sort of access all the other sort of you know apps your Disney and your channel for and your prime and all that sort of stuff through it. Um, but they also have the Roku channel on there, so you know they have their own stuff and you know, old bought-in movies and old TV series and stuff like that. I'm watching uh the raccoons, the 80s cartoon series on it at a minute. Um, but yeah, every so often they'll do their own sort of films as well, and this is certainly the biggest sort of high-profile one. Um, to the extent that I think even got uh Oscar nominated, so you know put them on the right on the map. But um, yeah, if you know I'm not you know chilling for them, but if you're uh interested in rocking box, they'd literally uh mine cost me about 25 quid, it's been absolutely brilliant. You know, you can just get so much stuff on there, it's really cool, worth checking out. No subscriptions or nothing, just literally one-off payment and you you hook it up and you're good to go. So, yeah, well worth checking out if you weren't familiar with that one. Um, certainly in the States, I don't know if it's international, I assume it must be. Um, if it's got American films on it, so yeah, but yeah, so that's the gist of uh 2022. Uh the one I want to talk about the most is the Adam Project. Like I say, the probably the only time I've chosen a streaming director streaming film as my film of the year. Um, you know, by this point, in terms of the sort of movie companies, I think they pretty much look upon streaming as as much of a um an event as a cinematic release. So um this was Sean Levi and uh Ryan Reynolds coming hot off of uh the free guy uh and sort of just about to go into Deadpool and Wolverine as well, so you know, very much at the height of their sort of star powers and whatnot. Um, and it's really really cool, interesting story. It's a little bit like, but not very, but a little bit like the kid with Bruce Willis, uh, where basically a guy is visited by his younger self, or he the older guy visits his younger self. Um, in this case, um it's the story starts off with young Adam, um and he's basically having troubles at school, he can't settle, his father's died a little while ago, so his mum, Jennifer Garner, is struggling with him. Uh the kid is played by uh Walker Scoble, who would go on to be uh Percy Jackson in the Disney Plus uh series, and he's really really good in this. Um, and it basically he's discovers a guy in his garage, um, and it turns out he's an astronaut, essentially he's in his crashed spaceship, um, and he's you know, there's something familiar about him, uh, and it eventually turns out he knows the house, he knows you know, weird stuff like how to close the fridge properly and where things are kept, and he's actually wearing the same watch as Adam, and it he works out he's basically his older self who's come back from the future, um, to put right what once went wrong, or in you know, the sense of that, what actually transpires is his father, uh, who they thought died in natural sort of circumstances, was actually caught up in um some nefarious uh scheme by some uh uh nefarious scientists. Um, but yeah, I mean it's a lot of fun. So Ryan Reynolds and Walker Scobles say play the same character at different ages, but they're on screen together, and some of the stuff that they're doing where they're kind of mirroring it, you know, really, really good. I mean, Ryan Reynolds' sense of humour and all that sort of stuff is you know pretty much legendary already. And you've got this younger version of them, Walker Scobles, just actually, you know, really doing a good job of being very Ryan Reynolds-y, you know, the linesy delures could, you know, uh, you can only come from Ryan Reynolds and they're covered from this kid, and it's like you could completely believe they are the same guy. Uh, and it's really good, really good fun, really, you know, looks really big budget, you know, all the sci-fi sort of stuff and the spaceship stuff. Uh Zoe Saldana, his sort of future girlfriend and all this sort of stuff, she's great in it. Um, Mark Ruffalo um is uh their dad. Um yeah, it's a brilliant cast. Um, and I guess it kind of got lost a little bit by going straight to streaming because you know, when you've got a movie released in the cinemas, there's always you know there's TV adverts everywhere, it's on all the sides of buses, and you can't really sort of miss it, and you know, they do a lot of press and all sort of stuff. Whereas with streaming films, they do kind of just tend to fritter out a little bit, and there's a you know, might be a big release for that week, and then after that, you don't really hear about it again because you don't really get the sort of follow-on with sort of DVD releases anymore and things. Um, yeah, so if it's one that sort of went by the wayside for you and you didn't see, well worth checking out. It's on Netflix. Um, and yeah, I really, really like it. It's a lot of fun, it's just completely in my wheelhouse really. It's a sort of a time travelly comedy sci-fi, a little you know, sci-fi light, I suppose, really. Um, but yeah, fantastic cast, really, really good director. I really like his stuff. Um, yeah, check that one out. It's very, very good film. Um, and that is my tip for the top for 2022, my filming a year. Um, I mean, this was 48 episodes. I mean, we're literally in the final hurdle now for the uh last few episodes of the podcast. As I say, it's now gonna be 51 episodes as opposed to the 50 that I'd always uh said it was gonna be. If you missed our question and answer session a couple of uh episodes back, one of the listeners actually cutting on to the fact that it was uh I was gonna finish too early. If I finished at 50 episodes, we'd only got the 2024. Uh, so yeah, so we've got 2023 next week, episode 49, then 50 51, and that'll be it. It's uh yeah, I can't believe it's nearly over, but uh it's still going, so keep listening. I very much appreciate the ones that do, uh the ones that contact me and let me know how much you enjoy it. Um, so please feel free to do that, and I will speak to you same time next week. Uh, thank you very much for listening. Bye bye.