Villains You Never Knew and Gaming Wonders

Prepare for a fun-filled ride through the cinematic universe as we kick off our podcast with a festive flair. Ever wondered if the characters we love to hate are truly the villains of their stories? Our conversation takes a playful twist as we ponder whether Nick from "Law Abiding Citizen" and other notorious figures might actually be the villain. With a delightful nod to our show's growth and an unforgettable chat with rising star Mason McCartea, we invite you to join in the laughter and discovery.

Next, we turn the spotlight on so-called heroes who may not be as gallant as they seem. From Jim Preston's morally questionable decisions in "Passengers" to Tony Stark's chaotic legacy in the "Iron Man" series, we scrutinize the ripple effects of their actions. Our discussion doesn't shy away from controversial favorites like Admiral Holdo and Jake Sully, sparking a fun debate on the true cost of their "heroic" deeds. Get ready to question everything you thought you knew about these iconic figures.

Our exploration extends beyond the silver screen and into the world of gaming, where unexpected victories and upcoming releases are shaking things up. From Astro Bot's surprising win to the anticipation for Marvel Rivals, there's plenty to keep every gamer on their toes. We also venture into the realm of TV, offering recommendations and teasing exciting series on the horizon. As we eagerly await Hayden's return, we fondly reminisce about past episodes and the joy of trivia games. Join us for an episode brimming with humor, insights, and a sprinkle of nostalgia.

Transcript

Unintentional Movie Villains

Speaker 1 0:00

It's our last episode without Hayden, I forgot. I was like oh, we're doing Christmas Vacation again, still Christmas, still December, when this comes out. It's that time Christmas time is here. Everybody knows there's not a better time of year. Hear that sleigh. Santa's on his way To the good parade for Christmas vacation. Hello and welcome to Entertain this.

Speaker 2 0:41

It's a podcast about movies shows and video games and my name is hayden don't worry, in another week or two you'll get to hear that in person again once again, he'll be back I don't actually have to try hard at this show anymore I'm not gonna. I'm not going to lie. It will be refreshing to have someone else to bother you about. Did you do any research, Tom? Did you look up any news?

Speaker 1 1:11

This has been a great year of you not bugging me about any of that Because I just gave up.

Speaker 2 1:15

I'm not doing it all myself.

Speaker 1 1:16

I broke you like mid-March.

Speaker 2 1:18

Yeah, I wasn't going to put up the fight, I was just like I'll just get a bunch of news together.

Speaker 1 1:22

And the numbers speak for themselves. Mitch, Nobody cares if I'm prepared. We've been doing great this year. That we have Now our last episode because that's going to come out before this one. So we had a great conversation and interview with Mason McCarty, up-and-coming young actor and filmmaker. We heavily recommend you check out his show. If you're in the Nashville area and you need a actor, producer or filmmaker, look him up well, he said southeast, that's where his publicist and his agent kind of has he's in the atl quite a bit but he's uh in a stranger things, terrifier three.

Speaker 2 1:58

Uh, he was had a role in miss marvel, a couple other things.

Speaker 1 2:01

So he's definitely on the road to being in in the big time.

Speaker 2 2:05

I told him he needs to be Angel in X-Men when they continue the MCU with the X-Men characters.

Speaker 1 2:10

And then, when he is, we can come back and be like we called it. We told you to go for it.

Speaker 2 2:14

Go for gold.

Speaker 1 2:16

Reach for the sky. But before we talk about our episode today, social media Mitch Well you go to entertainthispodcastcom, which will take you to our Facebook group and page.

Speaker 2 2:28

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Speaker 1 2:38

I didn't think what the last one was. It's like, uh, tiktok, tiktok, that's it. That's it, that's what we were thinking. Tic Tacs, tic Tac, that's it. That's it, that's what we were thinking. Think with your brain, say it with your face.

Speaker 2 2:46

Use your big brain.

Speaker 1 2:47

Use it Anyway. Now, this is a list I came up with.

Speaker 2 2:51

On the fly.

Speaker 1 2:52

On the fly. It's not Christmas related at all.

Speaker 2 2:56

Nope, we hope you're past that by now.

Speaker 1 2:57

Yeah, yeah, you're reeling from the bacchanalia of Christmas and the impending bill of how much money you spent going damn it.

Speaker 2 3:10

Well, let's see. No, this will come out the week of Christmas, so it'll be coming out two days before Christmas.

Speaker 1 3:15

Ah well, Merry Christmas, you filthy animals. And a happy new year you bum Speaking of villainry and speaking like, yeah, this top 10 is.

Speaker 2 3:28

Oh, I was going to say Hayden's not here I know Villainry.

Speaker 1 3:32

Yeah for this top 10, we're going to talk about unintentional movie villains.

Speaker 2 3:38

Or was it unintentional, or was it?

Speaker 1 3:41

This is a list that's a little tongue-in-cheek. These people aren't actually like the villains of the movie. These are people who you look at and go. They were the bad guy and because of them things happened.

Speaker 2 3:52

If you look at it through the right lens, you're like, yeah, wait a minute.

Speaker 1 3:55

Like hey, and there might be a couple, you might sit there and you might reel back and go, those sons of bitches. I'm not gonna say, because I don't want to get sauced, I mean we can shake it up. No, no, make sure I don't rub my eye. Now you can put it back. That's what you could do. I should, I could, I should just throw it out, I'm gonna get some smelling sauce.

Speaker 2 4:11

Before we started an episode I watched, uh, joe rogan. Before they were they were getting ready. You know they were starting up their their episode over there. Like were like here, try this. And he went.

Speaker 1 4:27

You just sound like Elvis. Thank you Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 4:31

Anyways, we'll get into our top ten. Tom, what was your number ten for unintentional villains?

Speaker 1 4:37

Nick from Law Abiding Citizen, Jamie Foxx's character the prosecutor.

Speaker 2 4:41

I saw that one. No, is he a prosecutor? Well, I guess he's the detective or the prosecutor I saw that one. Is he a prosecutor? I guess he's the detective or the prosecutor, I think he's a prosecutor, he's a lawyer, yeah.

Speaker 1 4:49

Technically he's doing his job, who gives the dude that raped and murdered this guy's family the deal that no judge should have ever accepted as a plea to pin it on the dude who didn't really do nothing Right, and he basically just unleashes gerard butler's like evil side yeah, he's like mad scientist, he's like cia trained.

Speaker 1 5:11

It's like judge's phones are like exploding next to their heads, like blowing their brains out. He like kills his whole team, like with bombs in his car. It's like he and it's all because of him, it's his fault, yeah, and then he's trying to stop him.

Speaker 2 5:23

It's like the guy, he's all because of him, it's his fault, yeah, and then he's trying to stop him. It's like man, the guy he's killing kind of deserved it.

Speaker 1 5:27

Yeah, it's like you know this is all kind of your fault that we're here.

Speaker 2 5:31

Wouldn't have happened if you had done this to begin with.

Speaker 1 5:34

What is your number? 10?.

Speaker 2 5:35

Yoda.

Speaker 1 5:37

Yoda, okay, sell me on it.

Speaker 2 5:39

Yoda is around from the prequels and to the main trilogy, around from the prequels and to the main trilogy. He knows all this stuff happened. He knows Darth Vader's Luke father, luke Skywalker's father and pretty much he trains Luke some and he fights the Emperor and loses.

Speaker 1 5:59

Well, he fights Darth Vader and loses. He doesn't fight the Emperor.

Speaker 2 6:01

No, Yoda does.

Speaker 1 6:04

Oh, are they talking about Luke? Still no no, no.

Speaker 2 6:06

Yoda fights the Emperor and loses. Yeah, what really does he do to help anything Besides alienate Anakin, to begin with by saying no, he can't be a master, but you can sit in on the council just to piss him off more.

Speaker 1 6:22

And they ignore everything. Count Dooku told Obi-Wan in Attack of the Clones, yeah, and then like and even like. Later there's a throwaway line where Mace Windu goes like the dark side of the force surrounds the Chancellor. We need to be careful, like, because it's him, remember.

Speaker 2 6:42

Well, and the whole fact, all this stuff happens, and what does Yoda decide to do? I'm going to go into exile, self-imposed exile. We're not going to fix anything, we're just going to hope it all works out.

Speaker 1 6:51

Hope this all pans out somehow, but he doesn't try to take the Emperor out for a round two.

Speaker 2 6:58

No, Doesn't build a force to go against the Emperor, he just goes and hides.

Speaker 1 7:03

On the swamp planet and loses his mind.

Speaker 2 7:05

And then he's hitting R2-D2 with a stick trying to take a portable light going mine and then, like the meme, he just gets tired of his kid talking to him.

Speaker 1 7:14

So he just rolls over and goes to sleep and dies and disappears. He's like you know, I didn't think, yeah, all right, all right, all right, mitch.

Speaker 2 7:24

Well done. Sorry, that was my number 11. I have 11. My number 10 is the wife in World War Z, because she calls him the whole thing. They know the zombies work off the sound. And he's working his way quietly as best as possible.

Speaker 1 7:38

Two, that thing should have a silencer True, like, why is the ringtone?

Speaker 2 7:45

on, but she knows he's on a mission. Why are you calling and bothering him? He'll get to you when he gets back.

Speaker 1 7:50

You're like hey, are you doing okay?

Speaker 2 7:52

And he's just like not now.

Speaker 1 7:56

Like people died because of that.

Speaker 2 7:58

Many people died because of that, Like SEALs and soldiers were getting taken out. Because of that nonsense, I want to say it's like all, but like three of that team died because of it. Yeah, so yeah, she ruined it.

Speaker 1 8:11

Yeah screw her. My number nine is the boyfriend from the Devil Wears Prada. I haven't seen that I've seen the Devil Wears Prada like three or four times so why is he the bad digital bad guy?

Speaker 1 8:24

because the unintentional bad guy, because he doesn't support her. Uh, what's her face? And hathaway, it's all about him and like what he wants to do and he's just like you know he's being a crappy boyfriend. It's like she gets this like luxury dream job, like getting, like you know, fashion designer clothes she's working for like one of the top fashion designer magazine moguls. It's highly lucrative, experience-wise and everything-wise.

Speaker 2 8:48

And he's just like what about me?

Speaker 1 8:52

You know, not cool, not cool.

Speaker 2 8:56

Well, my next one might be on your list, it's Daniel from Karate Kid oh. Because he comes to town, steals Johnny's girl. So Johnny goes after him because he stole his girl.

Speaker 1 9:07

True.

Speaker 2 9:08

And then I forgot.

Speaker 1 9:08

Honor demands it.

Speaker 2 9:10

Something happens to where he actually embarrasses Johnny in front of something else because Johnny said something to him so he embarrassed him. I don't know I can't remember if he knocks him into some trash or something like that.

Speaker 1 9:19

Really Daniel's the bully.

Speaker 2 9:21

Well, and then he goes to the karate tournament and he wins by using an illegal move. So I mean, who's the bad guy here? And they actually bring that up in Karate Kid or in Cobra Kai. The first season he goes. You know, you were really a jerk to me. And there's a part where Daniel's in the show he's thinking back. He's like you know, I could have been better.

Speaker 1 9:41

But it was the 80s, it was different. Mitch, it was different.

Speaker 2 9:44

Go and steal the guy's girl, embarrass him in front of everyone and then cheat to win.

Speaker 1 9:48

And beat him in a karate tournament. And I'm the good guy and everybody's cheering for me.

Speaker 2 9:55

And he's like what the? So, yeah, that's my number nine, you know? Yeah, All right, all right.

Speaker 1 10:00

I like that one. I like that one. My number eight is Daniel from Mrs Doubtfire.

Speaker 2 10:07

Oh, the Robin.

Speaker 1 10:08

Williams character. It's like not only were you like a crappy dad and a bad husband, or he was probably a fun dad and just a bad husband. Your wife divorces you. You don't get to see your kids, so you impersonate a made-up woman, lie and manipulate your way back into your family's life and then you try to stop your ex-wife from getting together with pierce brosnan, who he intentionally poisons yeah, because he's allergic and like, does all this crap to him? And he was never mean to him at all.

Speaker 2 10:44

He was just kind of unfortunate circumstances in the wrong place at the wrong time for him.

Speaker 1 10:48

Pierce Brosnan's character was great to his ex-wife, great to the kids, great to him. As Mrs Doubtfire and his kids find out and he swears in the secrecy and all this other stuff, it's like are you the good? Am I supposed to be happy?

Speaker 2 11:06

Yeah.

Speaker 1 11:07

Is that kind of like the older you get, the more you realize like no, what you did was like toxic and horrible.

Speaker 2 11:11

What you did was wrong.

Speaker 1 11:13

Wrong sir.

Speaker 2 11:15

Well, my number eight is Willy Wonka.

Speaker 1 11:18

Willy Wonka? Which Willy Wonka? Gene Wilder, any of them?

Speaker 2 11:21

Because they have slave labor. And then the child endangerment in every movie.

Speaker 1 11:25

All right, I will give you that for the Gene Wilder one the first one it's like reckless child endangerment. The kid in the chocolate lake, he gets sucked up the tube. The one kid gets shrank to the size of an action figure. The one girl falls through a trap door.

Speaker 2 11:49

yeah, god knows how long or how far uh one turned into a giant blueberry a giant.

Speaker 1 11:53

Yeah, it had to be juiced and turned into a human again well, the johnny depp one.

Speaker 2 11:59

He lets the girl be taken to the trash compactor by the squirrels. He shrinks the other other kid. The one has to be juiced. He lets him get sucked up the tube in that one. But then he's paying his child labor, or not child labor, his Oompa Loompas. He's paying them with chocolate while they do all the work in his factory.

Speaker 1 12:16

But it's implied in that movie that that's like money to them. That is compensation that they desired. The first one. There is no mention of compensation to the Oompa Loompas and they have to show up and do dance numbers.

Speaker 2 12:31

True, what do you do?

Speaker 1 12:33

But yes, definitely the Gene Wilder one when your kid is a brat.

Speaker 2 12:38

All right, what's your number? Seven?

Speaker 1 12:40

Ferris Bueller.

Speaker 2 12:42

I had that one and I ignored it because I figured that would be on your list. I wanted to have different ones.

Speaker 1 12:46

Because he's a douche. He manipulates his friend who's like you know, has, like I mean Cameron. You know it's Cameron, he's just moody, you know, kind of.

Speaker 2 12:55

Convinces his girlfriend to skip school.

Speaker 1 12:56

Yeah, he makes Cameron impersonate a policeman over the phone.

Speaker 2 13:07

Lie to get Sloloan, you know well.

Speaker 1 13:08

Let me just let me just do it it will. Such a piece of chicago police I want my daughter's sign in 10 minutes. It's like any like basically forced. Yeah, he's like. He like forces him into like a mental breakdown where he like kicks a ferrari that Ferrari that's worth millions of dollars out of a window. He basically coerces him into taking his dad's car as they go around. He pretends to be Abe Froman, the Sausage King of Chicago.

Speaker 2 13:36

It's called Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Another thing I saw was Paul Rooney's trying to be a normal day Trying to be a principal. Trying to do his job.

Speaker 1 13:44

Because this Ferris Bueller. He hacks a school computer and deletes the amount of days he's been sick.

Questionable Movie Heroes

Speaker 2 13:51

Yeah, he's not the greatest person, but it's a funny movie. He's the protagonist if you're a teenager. Yeah, if you're an adult. He's the antagonist. Well, my next one is Jim Preston from the movie Passengers. Have you seen that? Is it the one with Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence?

Speaker 1 14:14

Yeah, yeah, because he wakes her up. It's like she would have lived a normal life once they got there, but it's like you're going to basically just live alone with this guy on a ship and die.

Speaker 2 14:23

Exactly, he wakes her up and she's just stuck with him and, like he doesn't tell her, she finds out. And that's when he's like, tries to confess, like ah, well, actually you know what had happened was you condemned another person to death on.

Speaker 1 14:37

So you'd have someone else to talk to.

Speaker 2 14:39

Yeah, cause you found her pretty hot woman. All right, what's your number six?

Speaker 1 14:49

Admiral Holdo from the Last Jedi.

Speaker 2 14:51

I don't know who that is, I don't remember.

Speaker 1 14:54

That's Laura Dern's character, the one with the purple hair. That's the one where Leia does the Mary Poppins crap and they unceremoniously kill Admiral Ackbar. But the whole movie. All she does is gaslight the crap out of everybody and everybody thinks she's a psycho, insane woman who's dooming them all to death. When she has a plan, she won't tell any of them. So they go rogue like we're all going to die because of this insane, inept woman who won't listen to anything, and they pull a mutiny. And then she reveals her master plan. They're all like ugh. And then what does she do? She just flies the ship into theirs at light speed.

Speaker 2 15:35

Yeah, and just Well, she hounds Poe Dameron about everything he's doing, and then he actually is the one that has to go out and save everybody until she to give her time to pull yeah plan, so which was stupid to begin with. Yes, if you could go to light speed, why not just set your next coordinate? Communicate with someone, have them waiting so when you appear and they follow you, they just but then they figure out how they're tracking them through light speed.

Speaker 1 16:00

They track the lead ship, yeah, and it's like, well, you empty the lead ship and send it and then they'll follow that one and everybody jumps at the same time, but everybody else goes in different directions. You can't jump everybody.

Speaker 2 16:10

Yeah, duh, they can't follow everyone how?

Speaker 1 16:13

hard was that to solve. They can't follow everyone. I did that three beers deep. Imagine what I could have done sober Six beers deep.

Speaker 2 16:22

The more you drink, the better it gets.

Speaker 1 16:24

Yeah, the more you know what's your next one.

Speaker 2 16:27

My number six was Tony Stark. Okay, because he creates every villain he faces. He is the one that helped Obadiah Stane develop what he needed to build his company, to build the bad guy.

Speaker 1 16:42

He's the one that I forgot exactly how he like yeah, he literally is like so, obadiah stan, uh, you know, the villain takes his technology, because tony basically takes the company off from being public, right, or like goes public, they're not going to make weapons, which was like what they did forever, it's how the company made money. And he's like no, we're not doing that. I'm building this arc reactor crap where it's like they had one that was like the size of a building and Tony made one like the size of like an iPod that he just sticks and he won't tell anybody else or share it with anybody, right. And then the second movie you have Hammer, and the two of them hate each other because Tony's always one up and we're just being a douche to the guy because he's a bully. And then the third one you find out that.

Speaker 1 17:22

Guy Pearce was like a scientist who had this technology and Tony made fun of him. He gave him the business and he's like all right.

Speaker 2 17:28

Well, yeah, he told him he would meet him on the rooftop and then just left him out there.

Speaker 1 17:31

Yeah.

Speaker 2 17:32

But in the second one the guy that has like the electric whips, it's called Whiplash. I forgot like something like he says that Tony Stark stole the arc reactor.

Speaker 1 17:41

From his dad.

Speaker 2 17:41

Yeah, so he. And then, not only that, he creates Ultron by his. Ai system that he makes, and Ultron gained sentience. He, he, he did it all.

Speaker 1 17:54

It's really Tony Stark's really the bad guy. Kind of makes fellow wonder what's your number five?

Speaker 2 18:00

not burping.

Speaker 1 18:01

Uh, Jake Sully from avatar.

Speaker 2 18:04

Yeah, I read literally just betrays the human race for wild poon but then also doesn't tell the avatar people that that the plan for the humans to attack them yeah, literally knows both aspects.

Speaker 1 18:20

He's the bad guy on both sides. He's the bad guy on both sides. He's the bad guy on both sides, literally Like goes native off the reservation, kills humans. It's like you are not one of the Na'vi. It's like it is magic science to get unobtainium and everyone's like that's the stupidest name and I'm like it's the most believable thing because that's probably what people would have just came up with. It's obtainable here on Earth, it's unobtainium. And everyone's like that's the stupidest name and I'm like it's the most believable thing because that's probably what people would have just came up with. It's obtainable here on Earth, it's unobtainium. That's what we'll call it. That was easy, instead of coming up with some fancy Latin nonsense to name it like. They just call it unobtainium.

Speaker 1 19:00

And it's like you were sworn to oaths. You were like he was like a space marine or something to like be part of this program because his brother was, his brother died. And it's like they were literally going to fund your surgery to make you not a paraplegic and restore you back to normal. And then you decide to run off and just go full Pocahontas, mode F it all up, f up countless billions of dollars of an operation in space on a planet because of a tree. You know Like I remember everybody saw this movie. Everybody was like oh my God, blown away. My dad hated it. He goes, my dad. He's an effing race traitor. I can't stand it. Like he betrayed the human race. He's like am I the only one watching the movie?

Speaker 2 19:44

I mean, it's a pretty movie, but I just don't like them.

Speaker 1 19:48

They look great. Yeah, they look great, but it's.

Speaker 2 19:50

I don't like the story. Anyways, my number five is Margaret from the Proposal, which is like the romantic comedy with Sandra Bullock.

Speaker 1 19:58

Yeah, great movie who's?

Speaker 2 20:00

Margaret is Sandra Bullock's character.

Speaker 1 20:01

Oh yeah, because she is mean. But it is Sandra Bullock, she can be mean to me.

Speaker 2 20:07

They end up together in the end. But if you look at it, she's this big executive like some kind of book firm or something like that, Like a publishing company, and she basically makes Ryan Reynolds, her assistant, marry her so that she doesn't get deported.

Speaker 1 20:21

To Canada.

Speaker 2 20:25

Makes him go to his own family. Lie to his whole family on his grandmother's 90th birthday.

Speaker 1 20:29

Betty White yeah.

Speaker 2 20:31

All just so she wouldn't be deported.

Speaker 1 20:33

To Canada. Yeah, all, just so she wouldn't be deported To Canada. Yes, it's not like she was getting deported and was like wanted by the cartel or something, or like the Russian mafia. It's like Canada.

Speaker 2 20:41

But she like treats him bad the whole movie. Oh yeah, she's terrible Until like maybe three-fourths of the way in.

Speaker 1 20:46

But she gets away with it because she's hot.

Speaker 2 20:49

Yeah, she probably would. I mean yeah, but anyways you know she'd get away with that, alright.

Speaker 1 20:57

Mitch, calm down, I'm sorry you're drooling on the table again what's your number? Four Dewey, finn Dewey.

Speaker 2 21:03

Finn, who's that from the?

Speaker 1 21:04

school rock Ned Schneebly which character is that?

Speaker 2 21:08

Jack Black? Oh, it's Jack Black.

Speaker 1 21:09

Yeah, the school rock movie yes, basically impersonates a teacher at a you know what's obviously shown as a reputable private school.

Speaker 2 21:18

I was going to say he was a substitute, but no, I forgot his roommate or whatever was a substitute. Yeah, his roommate is a substitute.

Speaker 1 21:23

So, he pretends to be him thinking it's like a one or two day thing, yeah, and like shows up and he's hung over shows up and he's hung over. It's like you're impersonating a teacher with kids. Yeah, and it's like you basically like steer these kids into like a cult, as like you as their leader, because you find out they're all musically gifted.

Speaker 2 21:41

Yeah.

Speaker 1 21:42

Or they all have some sort of talent.

Speaker 2 21:43

Didn't he like essentially kidnap them at one point? Yeah, by taking them to some.

Speaker 1 21:47

Taking them to some event and like they're like going to like shows, like tryouts and things, and he's like that's like they're not being taught anything, they're learning. Like it's like, oh, it's a school project, it's a big project, as, like the kids like learn how to, like, you know, play as a band and like indoctrinate them in the rock and roll, the principal starts like interviewing, he takes her to a bar where she's like a recovering alcoholic and like starts buying her drinks and and has her fall off the wagon, kidnaps the kids so they could play some show and he can have his moment. And then nothing happens to him. Of course not. He ends up starting a school and all those kids are his students and the parents are paying him for it. And then the real Ned Schneebly is teaching elementary kids how to play and he broke up with Sarah Silverman. That was the best decision he made his whole life, because she's crazy.

Speaker 2 22:39

Well, my number four is John Hammond from Jurassic Park.

Speaker 1 22:43

I mean, he's already kind of a villain.

Speaker 2 22:44

Well, no, he had good intentions. The road to hell is paved in good intentions, I mean he was just trying to make a good theme park for the world to enjoy and then it all went to hell Because he was a little over greedy in trying to make sure it all worked the way he wanted.

Speaker 1 23:03

And Newman. Well, Newman messed it up big time.

Speaker 2 23:06

Newman yeah, messed it up. Newman played a tremendous role. But you know, he kind of left it in the hands of them to begin with.

Speaker 1 23:14

So, john, Hammond, he's the one that created it.

Speaker 2 23:16

He pushed for all those things before they were ready.

Speaker 1 23:19

The book is wildly different. Oh, I'm sure, because, like Muldoon, the guy, like clever girl, like in the book he lives and they're like you know, when the power goes out and like everything, like it starts going wild, yeah, like the whole time. He's just standing there like behind him and just twirling the keys to the weapons locker Like just, he's like we got to do it.

Speaker 1 23:37

He's like we got to do it. And then finally he's like do it. The first thing he does is get a rocket launcher and blow up all the velociraptors. He's like not them Bam. It's like I'm not dealing with that while we're dealing with all this other nonsense. Okay, like that dude goes full-on like commando out there and I was like that would have been way cooler in that movie.

Speaker 2 23:59

All right.

Speaker 1 24:00

Well, what's your number three? Grandpa Joe from Willy Wonka, that was another one I considered.

Speaker 1 24:06

Like they're just laying under two sets of grandparents, just with their feet facing each other, that huge bed and that one blanket, just hot boxing each other's farts, just smelling like old fart, gross, and it's like all of them look like sickly and bedridden and like they give charlie chocolate that's just been melting in that that steam of pudding and he takes it and then, like they get the golden ticket and it's like the mom has been taking care of all of them. She's washing clothes, she's having to do singing numbers outside by herself, she's supporting this group. This dude finds out they got a golden ticket and he can dance.

Speaker 2 24:45

Yeah, he's jumping and dancing.

Speaker 1 24:47

He's got a hat, he's got a cane, he's doing a whole dance number. He's moving all around. It's just like you could have had a job. You could have been doing something to support this family. But what are you doing? You're down here hot boxing the other people's farts, playing footsies with whoever's in front of you. I don't even know if that's your wife or if that's an in-law. I don't know what's happening out there.

Speaker 2 25:08

One number three is Jenny from Forrest.

Questionable Heroic Protagonists

Speaker 1 25:10

Gump. All right, Jenny's my next one. She might have had a rough childhood, but she treats. Forrest so bad she just gives him a nugget to keep him hanging out and then goes off to go. Do blow in the 80s or heroin in the 70s and hippie stuff and. Black Panther Party. I'm sorry, I had to fire the the middle of your Black Panther Party.

Speaker 2 25:35

They're like. Well, she had a rough childhood and she really loved Forrest Not enough.

Speaker 1 25:39

She had a weird way of showing it.

Speaker 2 25:41

Yeah, every time he would show affection she'd run off with some other guy or something, or run off to do drugs. She finally shows up after her party days are over.

Speaker 1 25:48

And she has a deathly illness, like she's going to die, like she's like I'm sick now to the point like they doctors don't know what it is and I'm gonna die. Oh, here's your kid, yeah, and I it's like, do we know if forest is that child's biological father? He's named forest just because he named forest don't mean he came from forest. That is a white baby.

Speaker 2 26:09

Because you know it only happened once for him in the movie and then she ran off in the end of the night.

Speaker 1 26:16

Yeah.

Speaker 2 26:17

So I mean, you know, I'm just saying you know not to go into too much, but it took me six years to have a kid with my wife. Just saying Others not so long. Anyways, what is your number three?

Speaker 1 26:34

I'm sorry, number two, johnny from Forrest Gump.

Speaker 2 26:35

Well, my number two was Star-Lord. Star-lord Because, when they almost had the Infinity Gauntlet, he finds out that Gamora's dead.

Speaker 1 26:44

Oh, and then he breaks ranks and just starts beating up Thanos.

Speaker 2 26:46

He starts beating up and wakes him up from the trance that Mantis has him in, when they almost had the Infinity Gauntlet off of him, and then he does the snap. So they could have prevented all that if he had just controlled his emotions for just a moment.

Speaker 1 26:59

Yeah, big picture, that's like Chris Pratt. He's just an idiot.

Speaker 2 27:04

I mean, he's a great guy.

Speaker 1 27:05

I'm sure he is.

Speaker 2 27:06

In person from what I've seen, and he's really funny. But yes, his character's played.

Speaker 1 27:10

I still see Andy Dwyer.

Speaker 2 27:14

Well, what's your number? You said Jenny was your number two.

Speaker 1 27:18

Yeah, Our number one's the same.

Speaker 2 27:21

Because I knew what your number one was. I saved it for my number one. And who is that?

Speaker 1 27:28

Rose from Titanic. So you watch this movie and it starts with Bill Paxton's character. He's doing some submarine mission to the Titanic because they're treasure hunters to a degree. They're looking for the heart of the sea. This diamond, like legendary blue diamond, ornate, worth millions of dollars in the 90s. It's wildly expensive. Worth millions of dollars, you know in the 90s. You know wildly expensive. You know pure art of jewelry.

Speaker 2 27:56

Well, that's a one-of-a-kind thing too.

Speaker 1 27:59

Yeah, there is no other version of this. And then you go through this wonderful love story of a girl whose family becomes poor. They make her marry. What's it, billy Zane?

Speaker 2 28:12

Well, no, they were a well-to-do family that had lost their fortune when the dad did something.

Speaker 1 28:17

Yeah, so they were like you know destitute and about to like lose their status in society. So you know, this guy's like a stock market tycoon, like oil guy. He's got millions of dollars. So they're going to manipulate him, yeah, and he's willingly marrying her. It's not millions of dollars. So they're going to manipulate him, yeah, and he's willingly marrying her. It's not like he's getting roped into it. He has nothing to lose.

Speaker 2 28:38

Granted, he's not the greatest guy, but you know.

Speaker 1 28:40

Is he a little bit of a schmuck? Yeah, it's Billy Zane in the 90s. Come on, he looked like a prick, except in Tombstone. He looked fun there. And then prick, except in tombstone. He looks fun there. Yeah, and then not in the movie sniper with tom berenger. So they get on the boat. You know he's obviously footing the bill for all this. He has like a valet guy. You know he's a well-to-do guy, he's wealthy, you know he's.

Speaker 1 29:04

He's like basically saving the whole family you know, and then she's gonna kill herself because it's like, uh, it's like I'm gonna jump off the boat. And she meets a homeless guy, con artist, literal artist, yeah, Dude who is like and all of a sudden she's like I'm going to shack up with you and like they go through this torrid love affair in like two, three days of journeying from England through the Atlantic to get to New York.

Speaker 2 29:28

She cheats on her soon to be husband.

Speaker 1 29:30

Yeah. Cheats on her fiance with this guy in a car running from people. You know he's impersonating wealthy Like they get him like a little tuxedo to put on at dinner. He's drawing her naked, which is like stupid lewd to do at the in 19,.

Speaker 1 29:45

Like what? What year? 1912. In 1912. Like women were I don't think women could vote when that happened Like Susan B Anthony hadn't put pants on, yet that's a good thing. They go through this whole thing iceberg collapse and even, yeah, does he plant evidence on the kid? Yeah, yeah, because you know this dude's taking off with his fiance. Is he really the bad guy? And Rose over here frees him from like police custody. Yeah, because you know this dude's taking off with his fiance. Is he really the bad guy? And Rose over here frees him from like police custody. Yeah, releases him. Him and Jack, her husband are like get in the damn boat and to safety. Like we'll figure something out from here. You need to go. What does she do? They get her safe. They get her. She crawls off and gets back on the boat.

Speaker 2 30:32

Which causes them to be stuck on the boat, and he gives her the jacket that also has a necklace in it.

Speaker 1 30:37

Yes, you know she, and then she, they, eventually Titanic. Obviously you know snaps in half, you know drama, they're in the water.

Speaker 2 30:48

He put the jacket on because there was a little more pressing matters and he kind of forgot.

Speaker 1 30:50

Yeah, you know those things were happening. And then what does her soon-to-be husband do? He rescues a kid, yeah, and then obviously pretends to be that kid's dad to get on the boat, Right, you know, hey, at that point you do what you got to do, man. At that point you know decisions need to be made. You know these are business decisions.

Speaker 1 31:04

He saved a kid, though Rose and Jack are running amok. You know having their love life an affair. You know the ship's breaking in half and they land in the water. She's got a life jacket thingy on, causes him to die because you won't let him on the boat.

Speaker 2 31:19

She's like there's not enough room.

Speaker 1 31:21

And it's like there's enough room, like that's wood that is buoyant. It's like you are on like all wood and, looking at Leonardo DiCaprio, it'll support his additional 100 pounds that is spread out for buoyancy, like you, harlot. And she's like don't let go, jack, he dies because obviously he freezes to death in the Atlantic Ocean in like December. Yeah.

Speaker 1 31:48

And you know, sinks to the bottom All this. She's telling the story to Bill Paxson I think Philip Seymour Hoffman's in this movie. He's like a background guy or like part of like the submarine expedition and they're like, oh my God, you know, they're like crying because it's like, oh, what a love story. And it's like no stop. And then she's like a hundred years old. She had the necklace this whole damn time. Right, she's on the side of their boat, you know, in her nightgown thing that she suddenly has on because now she can walk and she has the necklace over the side, right above the titanic. And it's like this woman done got to the united states, met a different guy, got married, had kids, grandkids, and it's like their house is modest. You know, it's like that husband. He was out working trying to provide for this family but meanwhile you had millions of dollars in one damn necklace. That would have been like the biggest historical find ever. But you're like no, no, no.

Speaker 1 33:00

And you fling it into the abyss of the Atlantic Ocean.

Speaker 2 33:05

You should have threw yourself in there with you. Yes, Rose, here's to you the harlot of the ocean.

Speaker 1 33:16

Yeah.

Speaker 2 33:17

Screw you. So, if you've been listening, that is our top ten unethical villains Unintentional, I'm sorry, unintentional villains.

Speaker 1 33:27

I mean unethical accounts for some, unintentional accounts for some. Yes, these are people who are often portrayed as like a protagonist or a hero.

Speaker 2 33:35

Yeah.

Speaker 1 33:35

Or you know supposed to be better than they are, and then upon further review.

Speaker 2 33:41

Are not so much. Not so much. And now we move on to our news and reviews with absolutely no delay from our top 10 to the news and reviews.

Speaker 1 33:52

You could have made it seamless, but you I could have, but you know. You have failed. I'm transparent.

Speaker 2 33:57

Yeah.

Speaker 1 33:58

We're transparent on this show.

Speaker 2 34:01

Anyways, moving on to some of our news and reviews. Tom, have you watched or played anything recently that you'd like to talk about?

Speaker 1 34:07

No, that's new. No, I can tell you, of course it's not new. Uh, I'm still on the camo grind for dark matter Right now. I've done all the assault rifles gold diamond. All the SMGs are gold diamond. All the shotguns are gold diamond. The LMGs are gold diamond. The marksman rifles are gold and diamond. The SWAT-556 nearly broke me. I hate that gun so much. Now I'm on the sniper rifles. I hate that gun so much. Now I'm on sniper rifles. I got the first one, gold, and I'm halfway through on like the Dragunov, and then after that it'll just be the secondary weapons and melee. But I already got the knife like halfway to gold, and one of the pistols and I'm almost done with one of the launchers. So soon I'll get there and then I'll be on Dark Matter or I'll be on Dark Spine and then I'll eventually go through Dark Matter.

Speaker 2 35:02

Anyways, moving on to actual reviews.

Speaker 1 35:06

You know the 2024 Game Awards.

Speaker 2 35:11

Oh, so we're going to do this first, okay.

Gaming Awards and Future Releases

Speaker 1 35:15

Game of the Year was Astro Bot I, which I had never heard of beating out bellatro, black myth, wukong, elden ring, shadow of the air tree. We should have won final fantasy 7, rebirth, metaphor re fantazio. Uh, never played astrobot but, looking at all these games, as game of the year it should have been Shadow of the Urtree, which I think what people or, I guess, whoever voted or whoever. However it's done, I don't know it is a DLC, but it's a full game of a DLC. Yes, and you know, elden Ring did win Game of the Year in 2022, but this one should have won. Best Game Direction was also Astro Bot. My phone screen's frozen. Okay, there we go, beating out Bellatro, blackmuth, wukong, elden Ring. So the same games. Best Narrative was won by Metaphor Re Refantazio.

Speaker 2 36:18

Another game I've never heard of.

Speaker 1 36:19

Beating out Final Fantasy Like a Dragon Senua's Saga and Silent Hill 2. And then the rest of the screen doesn't load.

Speaker 2 36:31

Well, I looked at the Astro Bot just to see what the game was.

Speaker 1 36:35

And I'm not impressed.

Speaker 2 36:35

I mean people might love it, but to me it looked at the Astro Bot just to see what the game was and I'm not impressed. I mean people might love it, but to me it looked like a more upgraded version of Spyro and Crash Bandicoot. I mean, the graphics look a little better than that, but they don't look like PlayStation 4 graphics. I mean the game, the level design. It's a platformer essentially, but it looks like a Spyro level where you have to go up, left, right, find your way through those levels and there doesn't seem to be that detailed of a story to it besides the bots trying to do whatever its objective is.

Speaker 1 37:11

Best art direction was metaphor, refantazio, the game we don't know the game we don't know. The game we don't know, but they keep spelling it different each time I come across it Beating.

Speaker 2 37:20

Out Astro Bot.

Speaker 1 37:21

Black Myth Wukong Elden Ring. I don't know how Elden Ring didn't get Best Art Direction.

Speaker 2 37:26

Yeah, that's the best looking game. Even the original Elden Ring still looks better than a lot of games nowadays.

Speaker 1 37:32

Yes, best Score in Music Final Fantasy VII, rebirth nowadays. Yes, best score in music final fantasy 7, rebirth. Uh, best audio was sanua saga, hellblade 2, which beat out call of duty, black ops 6. It's like if a if a call of duty game ever wins best audio, I will lose my mind.

Speaker 2 37:57

Because you don't know what direction the audio is coming from.

Speaker 1 38:00

Ever. You don't even hear footsteps in this one. It's like pay to win to get better audio, like a subscription to hear footsteps. Best performance the contestants was Hannah Tell, Life is Strange, Double Exposure, Brianna White, Final Fantasy VII, Humberly Gonzalez, Star Wars Outlaws, Luke Roberts, Silent Hill 2, Melina Juergens, Senua Saga, Hellblade 2, and they won for Hellblade 2. Uh-huh, Once again, it doesn't want to tell me who won anything else and I can't X out enough to go back to it to give you more lists of winners and doers I don't understand how games like space marines 2 space marines 2 lost best action dragon ball, sparking zero or, uh hell, divers 2 are not even nominated.

Speaker 2 38:53

I don't understand. Those are games that, like, literally took over the gaming culture for when they came out yes, yeah, let me just go to forbes and see I mean, when hell divers 2 came out. I, I mean, I just okay best.

Speaker 1 39:10

Uh, hang on hell. Divers did win Best ongoing game, helldivers 2-1, beating out Destiny 2, diablo 4, final Fantasy 14, and Fortnite. Okay, so they did get a win. Best narrative was Metaphor ReFantanzio again beating out Final Fantasy Like a Dragon Senua's Saga, silent Hill 2. Best independent game was Bellatro beating out Animal. Well, lorelei and Laser Eyes, naiva and UFO 50. Best mobile game. So Bellatro's a mobile game.

Speaker 2 39:47

Okay.

Speaker 1 39:48

And it beat out AFK Journey Pokemon trading card game. Wuthering Waves and Zenless Zone Zero. Best VR AR trading card game Wuthering Waves and Zenless Zone Zero. Best VR AR Arizona Sunshine remake Asgard's Wrath. 2. Batman Arkham Shadow.

Speaker 2 40:04

The winner was Batman, didn't have a whole lot of competition. It's a VR game.

Speaker 1 40:10

Metal Hellsinger VR, metro Awakening Best action game. Here are the games Black Myth, wukong, call of Duty 6, or Black Ops 6, helldivers 2, stellar Blade, warhammer 40,000, space Marines 2.

Speaker 2 40:27

Which one?

Speaker 1 40:27

won Black Myth Wukong.

Speaker 2 40:30

What was the?

Speaker 1 40:33

Helldivers 2 and Warhammer. This is best action game. Yeah, I really think Warhammer, this is best action game.

Speaker 2 40:37

Yeah, I really think Warhammer. I played the Black Mith Wukong and I wasn't that impressed. I mean it was similar to like Elden Ring and stuff but as far as action.

Speaker 1 40:47

I mean it's. I don't think it was going to beat Warhammer.

Speaker 2 40:50

When you play Warhammer and Helldivers, that's action.

Speaker 1 40:53

I mean, it's literally nonstop, from when you start a level to when you finish Best RPG Dragon's Dogma 2, elden Ring, final Fantasy, like a Dragon Metaphor Re-Fantasia, and that one Metaphor Re-Fantasia I still didn't even. But best RPG, best role-playing game and it's like did you guys play Elden Ring Shadow?

Speaker 2 41:15

of the.

Speaker 1 41:15

Earth Tree. Best fighting game Dragon Ball Sparkling Zero, sparking, sparking, sorry. Granblue Fantasy vs Rising Marvel v Capcom. Fighting Collection Multiverse Tekken 8. Tekken 8.1.

Speaker 2 41:34

I mean, that's normally a pretty good game.

Speaker 1 41:39

I haven't played a fighting game in so long.

Speaker 2 41:40

Best family game was Astro Bot, besides Dragon Ball.

Speaker 1 41:42

Beating out. Legend of Zelda. Echoes of Wisdom. Sorry, hayden, best sports game was.

Speaker 2 41:49

NCAA.

Speaker 1 41:50

EA Sports FC25.

Speaker 2 41:52

FC25,. What was that?

Speaker 1 41:54

Isn't that like soccer?

Speaker 2 41:56

Oh, I guess. So I don't know. I don't know how, when college football came back, that did not win that wasn't even on there.

Speaker 1 42:04

It was F one 24. Ea sports FC 25, uh. Nba two K 25, top spin two K 25. Wwe two K 2024.

Speaker 2 42:15

Hmm.

Speaker 1 42:16

Interesting Best multiplayer Helldivers 2.

Speaker 2 42:19

Oh, I did 20.

Speaker 1 42:22

Beat out Warhammer, tekken, super Mario Party, jamboree and Black Ops 6.

Speaker 2 42:26

And I can't convince Tom to just get it on PC because he doesn't have a PlayStation.

Speaker 1 42:30

Most anticipated game. The winner Grand Theft Auto 6.

Speaker 2 42:35

Well, yeah, anticipated when, though? Like six, seven years from now.

Speaker 1 42:40

When, when, damn you Best. Community Support Baldur's Gate 3.

Speaker 2 42:51

We'll have to wait for Hayden to get back to review that, because I know he's played it.

Speaker 1 42:54

Yeah, but he played it by PowerPoint I take that back.

Speaker 2 42:57

He was downloading it back in March. It might still be downloading we don't even know. He had downloaded it on that Middle Eastern internet. Yeah.

Speaker 1 43:08

But with the Game of the Year Awards come a lot of the previews and teasers for games to come out in 2025. I have several. Okay that I'm sure people are going to be interested in. Ninja Gaiden was this? I can't read my own handwriting.

Speaker 2 43:24

Probably what four maybe.

Speaker 1 43:26

It's Ninja Gaiden, something I think I wrote like Cyan pork death threat. Yeah, it looks like I wrote like Roger Bread. I don't know what that means, roger Bread. I don't know what that means Roger.

Speaker 2 43:36

Bread.

Speaker 1 43:37

That's the name.

Speaker 2 43:38

Over and out.

Speaker 1 43:40

Roger, get the bread. I'm on it, witcher 4. We watched the teaser for.

Speaker 2 43:45

Yeah, we saw the trailer and it looked interesting. It looks very good.

Speaker 1 43:49

The graphics look impeccable. Elden Ring Night Rain.

Speaker 2 43:54

That looks very interesting.

Speaker 1 43:55

Which we'll talk about after we go through these ones. Borderlands 4 I never really played any of the Borderlands games.

Speaker 2 44:01

I know they're very popular. I played one, but it was alright well, turok Origins.

Speaker 1 44:06

I never played those those were back in like the 64 years. Yeah, I know, dying Light the Beast.

Speaker 2 44:15

I mean I enjoyed it, but I can't get anybody to play with me, and that's the only time I play is when I have other people to play with. Tom can't platform in that one, so he don't want to play it.

Speaker 1 44:23

Shut up. Game of Thrones, the King's Road. Are you going to get a Game of Thrones game? Apparently, jon Snow is a prominent character in this game.

Speaker 2 44:32

I wonder if it will be an RPG or like a straight.

Speaker 1 44:36

I hope it's an RPG. Yeah, I hope it's an open world game. That'd be interesting, that'd be cool. I feel like they could do a lot with that. They probably won't. Sonic Racing Cross Worlds Okay, I mean Sonic Racing was a.

Speaker 2 44:48

This is like another version of Mario Kart.

Speaker 1 44:50

Yeah, but the one I definitely want to talk about is Elden Ring Night Rain, yes, which initially people thought it was like a BR for Elden Ring Because they were showing like the blue flames, like closing in, like the circle Right, like in like Warzone.

Speaker 2 45:04

I mean because if you just look and weren't able to hear the trailer or whatever, that's kind of what it looked like.

Speaker 1 45:09

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 45:11

So but I do know, from what I've read and what I've seen, that that is kind of what happens as the zone closes. You've got to be inside that zone and it'll lead you to that final boss. Fight over your quote-unquote three days.

Speaker 1 45:22

Three days and three nights. It's geared to play as a trio.

Speaker 2 45:26

And I think each day is like 15 minutes or something like that. It's pretty interesting.

Speaker 1 45:31

And obviously this is a standalone game. This is not a DLC. This is a standalone game. This is not a DLC. This is not an expansion. This is coming out as its own game in 2025. I don't know if it's going to be early 2025, summer or winter.

Speaker 2 45:46

If they follow the same as they did with Elden Ring, it will probably be around March, which is also when the DLC came out Actually well, that was in June. Miyazaki wasn't the lead guy on this on this one.

Speaker 1 45:59

Okay, but the trailer looks really interesting. It looks really cool, so they showed a lot of abilities. You can sprint, you can like wall jump.

Speaker 2 46:05

Now well, we saw that they're, they're gonna have eight classes and each class has a different special ability and stuff like we saw one where he jumps up into the air.

Speaker 1 46:12

He's like sprouts, like wings and then he crashes down and like eliminates, adds, but it's like he pops up with the wings, then he goes higher up, he does a double jump or something while he's with it and goes higher up and then comes back down. So it looks like there's classes. And they said the Duchess was like a glass cannon Some stuff I had watched where they were talking about the classes.

Superhero Games and Movie Reviews

Speaker 2 46:31

I know another one said that what I was reading. It is like each time you start, you start back off as a base player and you have to fight your way and you earn the armor and weapons and stuff as you go. So it'll be interesting and each knight ends with a different boss and tool. I mean eventually you'll have the same one again.

Speaker 1 46:48

Have fought them all.

Speaker 2 46:48

But you know it ends with a different one and it's random supposedly where, like there's a three-headed Cerebrus-looking thing that splits into three wolves, there's one called like this looks like the Nameless King from one of the other Souls games From Dark Souls 3. Yeah. So I mean there's all sorts of stuff and it looks very interesting, and the graphics, I mean they look great, they look impeccable.

Speaker 1 47:08

It's Elden Ring, yeah, and some people wonder like, are they going to have, like, a battle pass because it's going to be more multiplayer-driven? Are they going to do like that? They already said from software it was like no, like everything that the game will have to offer will be in the game for you to unlock. Okay, and that's how Elden Ring rolls. It's like, if you want it, look it up online and figure out how to get it, because we're not going to make it easy. We're not giving you a log book or quest logs.

Speaker 2 47:38

You can't buy it, but you can find it. You just really got to find it.

Speaker 1 47:41

You got to work for it, even some of the armors. I got in the Shadow of the Urtree. I had to watch videos of where to go to get it and I was like you'd never think to even go any of these places to go find any of this stuff. And then I still, you know, still use the giant bonk swords, because I'll never change, I'll never give up the bonk.

Speaker 2 47:59

I'll never change. You can't make me you can't make me Strengthen forever. Well, going on to a little more news about games, there's a new game called Marvel Rivals which.

Speaker 2 48:08

I didn't know about until this week, evidently because I had never heard anything about it and I'm a big comic book fan and all that stuff. Well, supposedly it's a 6v6, kind of like Overwatch-style game where different characters have their different powers and stuff, and normally a game that has the Hulk versus Moon Knight or whatever. Moon Knight is just like a person with slightly above human where Hulk could be able to smash him and kill him.

Speaker 1 48:35

Pick him up, rip him in half, wipe his butt with one half and yeet it.

Speaker 2 48:38

I'm interested to see how that goes. Like I said, it's like Overwatch Each character has their own special ability. It's 6v6. It's on PlayStation 5, pc and Xbox. Let's see. I have some other news about it. Let's see. It says it appears to lack an emphasis placed on like positioning and map awareness. So it's more straightforward just fight your characters out. The characters they currently have are Adam Warlock, black Panther, black Widow, captain America, cloak and Dagger, doctor Strange, groot, hawkeye, hela, hulk, iron Fist, iron man, jeff the Landshark, which I don't know what that is. You have Loki, luna, snow, magic, magneto Mantis, moon Knight, namor, penny Parker, psylocke the Punisher, rocket, raccoon, scarlet, witch, squirrel Girl, spider-man, star-lord, storm, thor, venom, winter Soldier and Wolverine. So that's all the characters they have at the moment and they have more to come later on.

Speaker 1 49:43

That's a pretty good roster.

Speaker 2 49:45

But, like I said, it looks pretty interesting. Supposedly from what I've seen, it's free to download and then you can buy other stuff throughout the game and from what it looks like, it's all mostly cosmetic stuff that you can buy. So we'll see how that will work out. But it's an interesting game and if it's free I'm willing to try it. I love any kind of superhero thing.

Speaker 1 50:07

If it's free, it's for me. They call me Mitch McGee.

Speaker 2 50:12

Let's see another bit of news that we have. If you're listening to this, the Superman trailer that's, you know, the start, basically, of the DCU for James Gunn will be out at this point. So I'm interested to see how that will be, because it does come out next July. Okay, let's see what else. I haven't seen it yet, but I've heard Kraven has very bad reviews.

Speaker 1 50:33

Yeah, I heard it's rough. Kraven has very bad reviews. Yeah.

Speaker 2 50:34

I heard it's rough Kraven the Hunter.

Speaker 1 50:36

I saw one thing and it's like well, these eight minutes we saw, it's like it's the best you know superhero villain movie we've ever seen. And then I'm hearing like real people go and see it. Like not paid to write an article, yeah.

Speaker 2 50:51

Like the movie sucks. I mean, I think the idea and I had mentioned this to you before, but the idea of a person gaining like the abilities, kind of like of a lion, and hunting down bounty hunters that are like poachers and stuff sounds cool. But then when you try to mix it in and say, oh well, this is a spider-man villain that's doing good. Not every villain needs a redemption no hero story.

Speaker 1 51:10

Some villains are just villains and that's what craven is.

Speaker 2 51:13

He's not a good guy. He goes and hunts to, basically for sport for him, and spider-man's the biggest sport. That's why he goes after spider-man. Yep, I mean, he kills lions and rhinos and stuff with his bare hands or with a knife or whatever. So he's not a good person.

Speaker 2 51:28

They don't need to make him one yeah, you don't need to make him redeemable and then I found out that the rhino is like the main bad guy and I saw the pictures of him. It looks bad. The CGI just looks bad, Like somebody painted him purple to where he looked like tried to make him look like Thanos. It just looks stupid.

Speaker 1 51:45

Oh God. But yeah, that's what that is this will be another movie I miss, yeah, and probably rightfully so.

Speaker 2 51:54

But that's really all the news I had. You said you didn't really have anything new to review at the moment other than the Call of Duty stuff.

Speaker 1 52:03

Yeah, they released a new shotgun. It sucks, it's trash. It's the annual Christmas update. There is a weird issue where your character glows. They call it the piss glow on the Reddit.

Speaker 1 52:15

It happens on the on the reddit okay uh, it happens on nuketown, for you're just like glowing, like pissy green, it's radiation, like you stick out, like you are like glowing. There's no reason why. Yeah, there's no way to get rid of it, it's just your guy's just glowing. So if you're trying to be sneaking, like peek a corner, they see you like you look like the sun, you look like you're on fire, you know popping around the corner and I will say some of that hit scan stuff we've been talking about, like hit registration. There's a couple of times where I have watched myself line up a headshot on someone who wasn't moving. I pulled the trigger and I get nothing and I'm like, and then they turn and kill me and I'm like, like they got hit and like sensed it. And I'm like, and then they turn and kill me and I'm like, like they got hit and like sensed it and I'm like, wait, what? Like I'm telling you it's out there, it's real.

Speaker 1 53:00

They put a. They did two new maps. It was Hacienda and Racket. Racket was fun. That was like a small like map in the vein of Stakeout. Okay, other than that, yeah, I've just been playing for the camo. I haven't really played Warzone because I think Warzone is still in a crappy spot right now.

Speaker 2 53:21

I've just been playing Space Marines.

Speaker 1 53:24

I've taken my— We've gone back into service for the Emperor.

Speaker 2 53:27

I've taken my guy from a heavy from—I think he was level 10 to 20 in the last week.

Speaker 1 53:33

Damn.

Speaker 2 53:33

Now, granted, that's only playing like two or three hours two nights this week.

Speaker 1 53:39

Yeah, because I think Hayden's going to be back on tonight, so we'll be able to play again.

Speaker 2 53:44

But kind of reviewing a little bit, I have two shows that I want to talk about that they've only had like two or three episodes right now, which one of them is Creature Commandos, which is the animated TV show from the DCU, which is like the first official DCU content, so it's almost like the Suicide Squad, except for it's all monster characters from the DC. It's pretty funny. It starts off with Rick Flag's dad that dies. In the other Suicide Squad movie, the live action one, he takes over this group of creatures which is like Lady Frankenstein, the Bride of Frankenstein. One's like a, almost like the creature from the Black Lagoon. She has like a glass case around her head that she's got to stay in water.

Speaker 2 54:28

One's called GI Robot, where basically he's a robot from World War II that was made. He just wants to kill Nazis and they have a whole backstory in episode three which is hilarious. Basically he kills Nazis, his robot. He's there after the war. They find out all the people in his group or whatever died. So he doesn't understand. He just wants to join his buddies and kill Nazis. So the years go by, he gets put in this like collector's, like military museum thing. Well, this person buys him and you find out, he takes him and this guy's like a white supremacist, takes him to like a Nazi rally. Well, they take him to like it's just a bunch of rednecks with guns, and then the guy gets up and talks, the curtains part and there's a Nazi symbol and he goes Nazis.

Speaker 1 55:21

And he kills everybody.

Speaker 2 55:22

Well, it's funny because the robot's just like oh God, thank you, he's just been waiting for this, finally. And he goes Nazis come, his arms turn into guns and he just starts shooting everyone. It's funny. And then finally in the episode he comes out. He's just been standing there while this big battle's going on and Rick Flagg Sr looks at him and he goes GI, now you can kill some Nazis. And he goes these are Nazis. He's like, yes, and the robot starts laughing. He starts laughing, he breaks apart at the waist and flies up into the air. His arms separate into three more guns and he's just giggling as he's spinning in circles, shooting everything. It's pretty funny.

Speaker 1 56:05

My God.

Speaker 2 56:06

But it's got one guy I forgot his name, I think he's Radioactive man. He tries to kill Rick Flagg to get the control that has the bombs in their heads. It's funny, I love it. The next thing that I watched is Skeleton Crew, which is the new Star Wars stuff for Disney, and I think I had mentioned it before from the trailers.

Speaker 2 56:31

But it is kind of like a Goonies version of Star Wars, because basically, these kids are from this planet called At-At, which is this lost treasure planet that the rest of the galaxy knows about or has heard myths about. Well, they escaped this planet on accident from a ship that they find buried in the ground and when they go off into space, I mean they don't know how to get back because nobody else knows where this planet is, everybody else. It's a mythical treasure planet. Because they have money from their allowance that they show to the barkeeper. He's like where did you get this? He goes yeah, I think I'll need one more for this drink to cover the cost. They're trying to scam the little kids.

TV Shows, Trivia, and Farewells

Speaker 2 57:09

Well, also, there's this group of basically pirates that go and attack ships and try to steal all their stuff. They have a mutiny. That guy gets locked in the uh brig If they're like. I forgot what it's called. It's essentially like a, a port that's hidden from everyone, where all the scoundrels go. Well, the kids show up there, they get thrown into the cell with this guy. Well, evidently he has some kind of like force powers because he like floats the keys over to him when they hang them, hang them up on the wall, frees himself and the kids, and he promises that he'll get them back to their planet, as long as they show them where it is and, you know, compensate them with a reward for returning them. And that's kind of where it's left off at the moment. But, um, it's a good show, it's. I mean, it's not like big on action, it is more of like a kid's kind of it's more of an adventure.

Speaker 2 57:57

Yeah, I mean it's like a kid's adventure kind of thing, Because for the most part all the main characters are the kids and then you have the one adult. Any other characters are either like the parents that you see every now and then or the bad guys that are chasing the kids. But it's interesting, it's pretty fun. Another, but it's interesting, it's pretty fun. Another TV show that I've seen that I encourage you. If you like video games, you need to watch it. It's called Secret Level. It just came out on Amazon and it's basically an anthology where each episode is its own story, but it covers Like Dark Mirror Kind of yeah, there's an episode for.

Speaker 1 58:29

Warhammer.

Speaker 2 58:30

Warhammer is just one big action thing. Nice, there's one for Armored Core, where Keanu Reeves is actually the main character and the CGI character looks like him. It's just Armored Core, where he's going out and fighting mechs in his mech, which is pretty cool. There's one for Pac-Man which is very dark and disturbing. When you start watching, there's this character, this little golden ball that just tells this character he needs to eat, eat and grow strong and he can escape the maze, and then it gets dark towards the end.

Speaker 1 59:02

Okay, kind of a twist.

Speaker 2 59:03

yes, you wouldn't think of Pac-Man. There's one for a game called Sifu, where this person can basically trade parts, like, I guess, trade away his youth for another life or to heal, basically, which is? It's pretty cool because it's very martial arts kind of stuff. Let's see there was another one. Oh, one's like World of Warcraft, where these characters have to stop this giant dragon. It's pretty cool. There's a few others and there's other episodes that are going to be coming out later on. So If you haven't seen that, and there's other episodes that are going to be coming out later on, so if you haven't seen that, I encourage you to watch that. And then the only other thing that I've kind of started watching was how I Met your Mother. I know it's an old show, but I've never seen it and looking at it I've already determined that you're Ted, which is the main guy that's trying to find the girl, just because of your personality. Hayden is Barney.

Speaker 1 59:56

Not like trying to find the girl Just because of your personality.

Speaker 2 59:57

Okay, hayden is Barney, not like trying to get girls, but just plotting and scheming all the time.

Speaker 1 1:00:01

And being like annoying.

Speaker 2 1:00:02

And I figured I'm probably like Marshall, you know, the more driven one. That's kind of a screw up, but you know.

Speaker 1 1:00:10

Okay, mitch, it's okay.

Speaker 2 1:00:12

I'm just saying personality, wise it fits. Have you seen the show?

Speaker 1 1:00:17

Bits and bits over the years.

Speaker 2 1:00:20

I've watched like half the first season so far, and that's just who each character reminds me of.

Speaker 1 1:00:25

Okay, Mitch, Mitch okay.

Speaker 2 1:00:26

I enjoy it. It's pretty fun so far. If you haven't checked it out, I encourage you to check it out. Okay, but that's all I really got.

Speaker 1 1:00:33

That's all I really got as we count down. My name is Hayden.

Speaker 2 1:00:41

I'm getting ready to present the new. Stop Talking. I was like, oh well.

Speaker 1 1:00:44

As we get ready to usher in the return of Hayden.

Speaker 2 1:00:49

Talk about Dun dun dun Unintentional villains. Dun dun dun, dun dun dun.

Speaker 1 1:00:56

Quick sell the microphone, so we can.

Speaker 2 1:00:59

Oh wait, I forgot, that used to be the laugh. Brammer Baggins yeah, there we go, he returns.

Speaker 1 1:01:07

That's the worst, bueller, just pressing the buttons.

Speaker 2 1:01:18

Yep.

Speaker 1 1:01:19

This is the last, probably, episode of the Tom and Mitch Power Hour.

Speaker 2 1:01:22

Yeah.

Speaker 1 1:01:23

It was a great run. Well, it lasted. We talked about a lot, we laughed a lot.

Speaker 2 1:01:28

If you don't like the show, from here on out, send it all to Hayden on his Instagram or his ex account.

Speaker 1 1:01:34

His ex's Facebook. You can tie it onto a note to a brick and throw it through his window.

Speaker 2 1:01:41

ET underscore Hayden Yep.

Speaker 1 1:01:44

And you too can talk to Hayden Brandon.

Speaker 2 1:01:49

But no, I'm happy he's going to be back. Kind of missed him.

Speaker 1 1:01:53

Yeah, it's been. I do miss him. I know it sounds like I don't I do. I do miss him. I know it sounds like I don't I do, I do miss him Just slightly. I was listening to one of the other throwback episodes of the three of us. I was laughing, to us laughing, and I was like, yeah, I miss him. I miss him sitting here.

Speaker 2 1:02:10

But we'll be able to get back into some trivia and stuff which we enjoy doing.

Speaker 1 1:02:14

Yeah, I do miss doing trivia. It's been nice. We went a whole year without punishments.

Speaker 2 1:02:18

Yes.

Speaker 1 1:02:19

And you got to watch this god-awful nonsense we did do one.

Speaker 2 1:02:22

We watched the Godzilla, one that our power trip.

Speaker 1 1:02:26

Oh yeah, that Michael suggested to us that was New Year's.

Speaker 2 1:02:29

Well, yeah, they suggested to us. Then we recorded it in like end of January, beginning of February.

Speaker 1 1:02:34

Yeah, I remember watching that on New Year's Eve. Yeah, because Rachel was over and she was tired, so she went and took a nap and I watched the movie while she was taking a nap and I was just like this movie sucks. And I was like, oh, don't worry. She's like, don't you have to watch your crappy Godzilla movie. I was like I already watched it, don't worry about it.

Speaker 2 1:02:52

I was like thank you. And when Hayden comes back? Tom already knows, but this is your one chance. If you don't listen to this episode, Hayden, you missed out. You're going to have some trivia over this last year, so I hope you actually listened, like you said you did.

Speaker 1 1:03:07

You did. If not, it's gone. You didn't and you know it, and there's not enough time for you to listen to all of it and learn. If only you were here for every episode, every interview, everything we did. Just hope you paid attention Because I didn't and I was here.

Speaker 2 1:03:26

Yeah, tom, if you lose this, it looks bad, it looks real bad.

Speaker 1 1:03:29

Yeah, it would be really bad so what's my punishment?

Speaker 2 1:03:34

I'll be up to Hayden. That's all for this episode.

Speaker 1 1:03:36

That's all for this episode and probably this year.

Speaker 2 1:03:39

Yeah, probably. Yeah, Hayden will be back with us with the new year.

Speaker 1 1:03:44

I think it's been a good year.

Speaker 2 1:03:45

Yeah, I think we did a lot of stuff. We interviewed more people than we ever have, and I didn't even have to ask them. They approached us, which was kind of cool.

Speaker 1 1:03:54

Yeah, our numbers were really good. We did free comic book day without hayden again. Yeah, it was kind of bad though, because none of the audio recorded any of the questions because, yeah, it wasn't as good as it was when we did it the year before and the other auditorium, but we did make a lot of kids happy right, right, yeah, because every free comic book day we have a bunch of prizes, stuff that we bought or whatever, and we you know, we either raffle them out, or last year we gave away just raffle tickets for free.

Speaker 1 1:04:20

So yeah, and they're right.

Speaker 2 1:04:22

People had to be there and but they're only like a dollar, a raffle ticket.

Speaker 1 1:04:24

So yeah, I mean we're not like we're just trying to make back what we paid, actually be at the event there was a lot of little kids who, like we were doing the trivia, like I had like a bunch of spider-man action figures, like they were like, oh, those are so cool and it's like you know, oh, whatever the question would be, and they would like mumble an answer and I'd be like that sounded like this, and they'd be like you know, all these parents would be like aw, as we, like you know, hook up the kids, because you know that's what it's really about.

Speaker 2 1:04:46

Yeah, I mean for the kids. We at least had, like I had some Pokemon and Yu for the kids.

Speaker 1 1:04:53

We're here for the kids, for the wee ones.

Speaker 2 1:04:57

You know, except for the episodes we do for us.

Speaker 1 1:04:59

Yeah, that's for us, but the public events we're for. The kids. Oh, shout out to Cliff, it was his birthday.

Speaker 2 1:05:08

Oh, I haven't heard from Cliff in a while.

Speaker 1 1:05:10

Yeah, I haven't heard from Cliff, but hey, happy birthday, cliff, if you're listening.

Speaker 2 1:05:13

Happy birthday. Happy birthday. I don't know if he still listens to the show. I hope he does, I'm sure he does.

Speaker 1 1:05:17

I'm friends with him on Facebook.

Speaker 2 1:05:19

Okay.

Speaker 1 1:05:20

Other than that, I mean, what else did we do this year? That was cool.

Speaker 2 1:05:27

Like I said, we had a lot of interviews. We got to talk to a lot of people.

Speaker 1 1:05:29

We did do a lot of interviews.

Speaker 2 1:05:33

I don't think we really did much else, though.

Speaker 1 1:05:37

I mean we kind of moved up in the world this year. We were talking to people who were on House Stranger Things the Venom movies Smile 2.

Speaker 2 1:05:45

Smile 2. Terrifier 3.

Speaker 1 1:05:47

Terrifier 3. How many people did we talk to this year?

Speaker 2 1:05:52

I don't know. Maybe you should think about that. Oh God, I'm not going to say it's a question, but it might be a question. Just give me the answer. After the show we only do that every now and then I know it, it's been a whole year.

Speaker 1 1:06:05

I guess you can do it. I mean anyway, how about them dogs, huh.

Speaker 2 1:06:11

Oh, don't get me started. Don't get me started on that. We can be here for another hour. I can talk about football.

Speaker 1 1:06:16

Just saying we need to wait for Hayden to come back so he can sit here agonizing Like God sports.

Speaker 2 1:06:23

But he'll be back while the college football playoffs are going on.

Speaker 1 1:06:25

Just saying I'm sure he's so excited for that and has no idea that that's what's going to be happening.

Speaker 2 1:06:32

No, not a bit. We'll be sitting here recording. I'm going to be leaning back in your chair going what's on the TV? It's a score. Did they score?

Speaker 1 1:06:39

Did they win? But signing off, I guess, for the year. Yeah, thank you for joining us. If you were part of this episode, or you've been listening since the beginning, or you came into us and met us late later on than when we started or you just picked up with us this year.

Speaker 2 1:06:54

I mean, either we got a lot of people that love to listen to the same episodes over and over, or we got a lot more listeners this year. Hey, I'll tell you what Episode 23 was peak entertainment.

Speaker 1 1:07:04

It's our best one.

Speaker 2 1:07:05

Yet what was episode 23?

Speaker 1 1:07:06

I don't know, but yeah, the wild thing is episode 23 should be like what from 2020?

Speaker 2 1:07:14

Yeah, because we're on episode like 200 and something yeah, we've just been powering through we're on episode 231, which that'll be 232. We'll be on 233 today, you know, at the time of this recording episode 233 yeah god, like the simpsons of a podcast.

Speaker 1 1:07:34

We just keep going and going and everybody's like will they stop?

Speaker 2 1:07:37

which you might, might want to look up the 200th episode. Just saying Are we doing trivia about that? I'm just saying we're doing trivia about last year. You might want to think about that.

Speaker 1 1:07:48

I'm writing it down, 200th episode, but that's all I got for today.

Speaker 2 1:07:56

I'm Mitch.

Speaker 1 1:07:56

That's all I got for today. I'm Mitch. That's all I got for today and this year. Yeah, I'm Tom.

Speaker 2 1:08:00

And we'll catch you next time. Bye, bye, it's that time.

Speaker 1 1:08:16

Christmas time is here. Everybody knows there's not a better time of year. Hear that sleigh, santa's on his way.

Speaker 2 1:08:31

You can parade for Christmas vacation. Oh, yeah, adios.