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Spy Kids 3D: Game Over
On this week's show, we're popping on our funny glasses and reaching for some kind of coherence with 2003's Spy Kids 3D: Game Over! How come Stallone seems to be the only one having fun here? Are there some kind of stakes on the line in this movie? Why isn't this just a straight remake of Chinatown with kids? And what would make a better 3D movie: Ordinary People or Boogie Nights? All this, plus we play a stupid quiz about fake video games!
Spy Kids 3D: Game Over was directed by Robert Rodriguez, and stars Daryl Sabara, Alexa Vega, Ricardo Montalban, Sylvester Stallone, Salma Hayek, Mike Judge, Antonio Banderas and (not enough) Carla Gugino.
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we do an episode in 3d wait
go on everyone could wear those free
glasses you get to the theater and we
could just shove stuff through the
screen of their device at random
intervals and everyone will lap it up
because who doesn't like getting poked
by stuff
i
i love it we can charge people extra for
the 3d version of the podcast even
though the content will be exactly the
same people will pay thousands to
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technology and because it's not just a
gimmick it'll last forever i knew there
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all right so what movie the is not
available in 3d would you like to see
converted into a 3d movie ordinary
people
really you want the 1980 academy
award-winning drama ordinary people in
3d
no but just imagine like all those
intense scenes like it feels like you're
crying they're with them and you like
want to give them a hug like the painful
things will just be even more painful
think of that emotional gravitas
so you're literally looking to make the
3d experience more emotional damn okay
yeah wouldn't you cry more no i mean i
don't really like ordinary people you
know
it's fine it's okay it's not you know
raging bull should have won that year
but whatever and it has like if you want
the things that are in your face there's
a whole like boat scene accident oh
that's pretty like that's pretty like up
there with the what's that movie
jurassic world
riveting
for a boat accident you went with
jurassic world and not you know titanic
that's already in 3d i think didn't they
didn't they just re-released that in 3d
i think they just did yeah oh such a
good movie i uh i went to look up
because i'm i'm actually going to rely
on you for this one
i want to look up if the mummy has a 3d
uh version but was sidetracked when
google took me to was there a mummy on
the titanic was there i think there was
there was not
there was a rumor going around for a
while there was uh so it basically says
if the story sounds too good to be true
it's because it is
so there is no records of the mummy
being transported on the ship however
that's what they want you to believe
exactly so who says that they couldn't
have just snuck the mummy on the titanic
and that's really what cursed it i'm
just saying why have the asylum not made
a movie of that yet mummy on the titanic
sounds amazing i kind of love the idea
that it's the whole um
jack and rose lifting up on the on the
bow of the boat or the nose of the boat
but it's the mummy and he's decomposing
he's trying to be king of the world his
arm falls in the [ __ ] atlantic yeah i
mean that would make a great horror
movie somebody finds a sarcophagus at
the bottom of the ocean in the titanic
wreckage and then uh and then it ends up
coming to life and murdering people or
something maybe that's what james
cameron was looking for down there all
this time maybe he knows something about
that that we don't oh my god james
cameron directs it and brendan fraser's
stan like stars in it i would i would
die nice
i would love this i will write so wait
you're saying you want the mummy in 3d
yes i mean that that works for right
like that that movie has all the kind of
prerequisite [ __ ] that a 3d movie needs
it's got like you know people popping
all over the place and scarab beetles
running around that [ __ ] would work in
3d uh i think she just wants brendan
fraser in 3d yes um megan what do you
want in 3d um it's a toss-up between
back to the future
and
uh you know the car comes straight at
you out of the screen yeah
nice and the original ghostbusters i was
gonna say the 2016 ghostbusters but
apparently it was in 3d and now it was
in 3d because i saw it in 3d i saw it
twice in theater so there is a
reasonably good chance that i saw it in
3d and just do not [ __ ] remember so i
don't know i guess i don't i guess the
3d wasn't impressive enough for me to
remember it it wasn't it sucked because
i saw it with brian in the theater so he
tends to prefer to go for the 3d option
if it's available so we we must have
seen it in 3d if it was available in 3d
so now i'm like hm also you saw that
movie twice in fairs i'm sorry the i
like the movie but i um i i can't
remember why i saw it twice brian
[ __ ] loved it excellent dance
sequences yeah i mean i'm a paul figgs
stan but the uh the original like i'm
just trying to think of how the original
could be the the marshmallow man
sequence would be really [ __ ] last 3
days
way to make the marshmallow man like
slimer coming straight down the hallway
to venkman would look awesome in 3d yeah
like anything involving the the uh
proton beams or something i don't know i
realized what could take that next level
because if have you ever guys done like
4d so like
oh with the chairs that move back
forward there we go i i've done that
with schwartz i think the audience
should get slimed is that what you're
saying like i think that would be part
of it like you get the whole like
splatter section first you think it's 3d
with the glasses and then you get
splattered and then you touch your face
like oh no this is real yeah [ __ ]
whatever that afterlife movie is i want
like an interactive ghostbusters movie
where people are getting slimed in the
first several rows and like
i mean speaking of people getting slimed
in the first few rows you know what
movie i want in 3d resident evil evil
dead no evil or sorry evil dead that's
what i meant to say
boogie nights oh god i thought you were
going to say greasy stranglers
yes
boogie nights in 3d and then right at
the end when he flops out his [ __ ] the
audience would all just scream and it
would be amazing okay you know how in
when like 3d movies are all the rage
like every trailer would have like this
family and be like and like shocked as
like the tire comes at them imagine if
they use boogie nights for that to
emphasize the best like why you need to
go to the cinemas is because of boogie
nights because mark wahlberg's
prosthetic [ __ ] is gonna pop out of the
screen right at you and the audience
reaction is just
and then intrigued and then they i don't
know they lean in i don't know
trying to poke at it from a reach for it
yeah i realized now that 40 boogie
nights would be too much 3d maybe 40 too
much i don't know what to expect there's
there's people that are into [ __ ] i
mean oh god oh my god there's a there's
a market for that
stop bringing up cocky on this [ __ ]
podcast that's the third time you've
done it like it's 3d i'm sorry we've
already earned the little e on itunes
and we've only been [ __ ] recording
for five minutes
in for a penny in for a pound now
exactly
welcome to bad with numbers a podcast
where we talk about terrible sequels i'm
neff joined as always by laura hi roddy
heyo and megan hey and this week on the
show we are talking about spy kids 3d
game over uh from the year 2003 directed
by robert rodriguez were you guys uh
familiar with this franchise not really
i mean yeah i was familiar with the fact
that you're like my cousin would be like
oh you need to see el mariachi oh and
you see desperados oh what's he doing
next spy kids
yeah we'll get into that that's a pretty
interesting pivot he made there
uh this is my jen's thing and i remember
very see i didn't actually connect it
until i saw the glasses in the movie but
i remember going to blockbuster and them
having the 3d glasses on the counter
that you had to buy separately so i
remember having those and thinking that
it was so cool that i had the glasses
that were in the movie wait wait wait
wait so if you rented this movie at
blockbuster
you had to buy your own pair of glasses
to watch it i think so i don't i was
pretty young so i could have been but as
far as i remember it was an extra charge
it might it might have just been special
ones because i know there have been 3d
movies that i've gone to at the theater
anyways where they sell extra special 3d
glasses yeah at the concession stand
instead of the disposable ones or
whatever i have iron man ones so i i'll
date myself as usual by being old as
[ __ ] but i remember working in a video
store as a teenager and freddie's dead
the final nightmare was um available to
rent and it came with four pairs of 3d
glasses like the the cardboard paper
ones just came with a rental and they
were just returned when you returned it
they were not sanitized they were not
cleaned they were just doled out to the
next person
and in 2021 that just seems like such a
grim fall
going on that blockbuster it's like why
doesn't everybody have pink eye
oh my god yeah um yeah like this
franchise i i definitely saw the first
movie in theaters um i don't think i've
ever seen the second one but i also
definitely saw this one in theaters i
remember taking my daughter to see it
when she would have been maybe like five
years old and the only reason we went to
watch it is because she wanted to go and
see pirates of the caribbean but it was
um it was sold out because it was around
the same time and uh so we just ended up
going to watch this and then went and
saw pirates of caribbean like the next
night or whatever i mean this was the
better movie
uh maybe in retrospect sure but
definitely in the summer of 2003
everybody was on that pirates of a
caribbean trip right i was also
i went to a pirate convention like
festival i guess during that year yeah
did they have like a plank that you
could like you know walk
no but it had a stand-up comedian so
that was kind of weird wait did he do
r-rated comedy
[ __ ] stop listening now
just turn this off just turn this [ __ ]
off go and do something better your time
seriously it's not going to get any
funnier than that just [ __ ] we'll see
you next week yeah um shall we do a
little potted history on robert
rodriguez the director of this movie
because his career is a pretty
interesting one yeah okay so he was born
in 1968 in san antonio texas but in 1992
when he was 23 years old he self-funded
his debut feature el mariachi
and he raised the budget for it mostly
by participating in medical trials for a
clinic in austin
i love that that's great imagine funding
a feature just by taking a bunch of
random beta blockers and [ __ ] that's
insane the film is shot in a small town
near the mexican border it's basically a
kind of crime stroke shoot em up action
movie and even though it only costs
seven thousand dollars and even though
rodriguez wrote and directed and dp'ed
and edited the whole thing himself it
still gets picked up by columbia
pictures who then spend two hundred
thousand dollars on post-production to
clean it up for theatrical exhibition so
the whole like making a movie for seven
thousand dollars legend about rodriguez
is a little kind of fuzzy by the time
you factor in all like the money that
went into marketing and stuff but the
fact that he still shot a whole movie
for seven thousand dollars is kind of
insane um even if it did look pretty bad
until columbia like threw a load of
money at it that would get you like a
short film nowadays sure but it's also
it's this kind of notion that a lot of
filmmakers tell you like i've asked
filmmakers in the past would you
recommend going to film school and the
answer has always been no take the money
that you would spend on that and go and
learn a shoot a [ __ ] short feature
and use it for your real right yeah
i'd be like depends regardless anyway
the movie becomes a hit or at least like
scalable to its budget it becomes a hit
because it makes like two million
dollars from a really limited theatrical
run and then it does like untold amounts
of
business on vhs enough so that colombia
agreed a bankroll a sequel come remake
of the movie for rodriguez and that
movie turns out to be desperado which is
a potential good of a numbers episode
because my memory of that film is is
it's kind of awesome
but i haven't seen it in about 20 years
so i may be really wrong on that
desperado like establishes a long
working relationship between rodriguez
and not only antonio banderas but also
salma hayek and danny trejo who are also
in spy kids 3d machete um and he's
frequent
collaborator quentin tarantino who has a
minor role in desperado but also wrote
the script for rodriguez's next movie uh
which was from dusteldorn a movie that
again i adored when i saw it in theaters
when i was 15 watched it like
religiously through the back half of the
90s don't think it holds up quite as
well in this day and age um the front
end of that movie is always way more
enjoyable for me than all the silly
vampire [ __ ] in the second half but you
know still a quotable movie people still
love that [ __ ] i can see what you have
to watch them back i remember being a
kid though and watching uh what's it
called from dusk to dawn and just being
freaked the [ __ ] out of it because like
that was quite gory yeah and i mean i i
kind of wish with from dust till dawn
that they'd held off on the mark i
remember the marketing for that movie i
really wish they'd like held off on the
whole vampire reveal but all that [ __ ]
was in the trailers it was like if you
just sat down in that movie with no
prior knowledge and and like halfway
through this kind of fairly sort of
standard crime film becomes a film about
a [ __ ] bar full of vampires that
would have blown your mind in a movie
fair i don't know wait so then like i
really wanted to know how he pivoted to
spike it's cause you talked about like
uh desperado and like from dusseldon and
it's such a turn but i'm so curious of
like why that turned ready i'll say i'll
say this to you hold onto your butt
because you're about to find out all
right holding butt next up rodriguez
makes the faculty another movie that i
loved at the time uh also holds up
pretty well uh good script by kevin
williamson great soundtrack that film
has got an awesome [ __ ] cast you've
got elijah wood you've got jordana
brewster like pre fast and furious josh
hartness in there clear deval who i was
like absolutely in love with when that
movie came out
anyway by this point like rodriguez is
like a bankable genre director who like
really doesn't shy away from having
violence in his movies so obviously the
next thing he does is go and make a
pg-rated kids film about tween spies
right such a turn yeah it it's it's a
pivot but there's a reason for it right
rodriguez told an interviewer at the
time that somebody had come up to him
and said my son loves desperado and
rodriguez was like well how old is your
son and the guy says he's six
and apparently that like bothered
rodriguez to the point where he like he
didn't want kids being exposed to that
amount of violence and gun play in
movies so he opted to make a
family-friendly action comedy that
doesn't have any guns you know it's kind
of like very kind of gadget based sort
of action in those films um so he makes
this thing internally at his
troublemaker studios production company
it ends up costing like 35 million
dollars but it rakes in 150 million
worldwide and obviously fuels free
sequels the last of which came out in
2011. hey harmon you're leaving the
jessica alba one no no that's yeah 2011.
that was the one that had um john mchale
and jessica alba in it right uh did you
direct that too he did wow okay i should
i watch that i don't know
i've never seen it i couldn't tell you
man anyway after that rodriguez is kind
of like flitted between sort of extreme
hard r movies um
stuff like sin city machete were kind of
his r-rate adventures and he does like
kids movies as well right he did um the
adventures of shark blind lava girl
which i've i have never seen and to be
honest don't worry oh man that has like
a cult following i've never seen he do
what was that grindhouse film he did was
planet terror was that him yeah the one
where the woman has a gun leg yeah the
where rose mcgowan's got the the machine
gun
i didn't really like that movie i'll
just say what i find fascinating is like
laura's reaction to say like shark boy
and lava girl like he has this
capability like with this spy kiss movie
and like that movie like as like if
you're an adult you're like oh whatever
but then for some reason he's able to
tap into what makes kids go like yeah
this is what i want to see
come on george lopez's giant circle face
how can that not be like instantly just
lodged in your memory canal forever
like
like taylor lautner shark boy was mine
my little person yeah is he yeah i did
not know that about him i thought
twilight was his first movie no he made
my tiny hard quarter he was also in uh
when he was a weep cheaper by the dozen
two oh god damn i've seen that movie
that might that's that's a [ __ ]
episode um oh yeah
i mean like rodriguez hasn't done
anything as kind of cool as the stuff he
was doing in the 90s recently but he did
make um elite a battle angel which i've
seen like at least four times by this
point and i'm still enjoying that movie
but also looking at it now i'm kind of
like these visuals are gonna date real
[ __ ] quick like pretty soon that
movie is gonna look out of date because
it's all cgi and this is the problem
with cgi um just a little before we do
the box office a little fun thing about
rodriguez in 2015 he made a short film
with john malkovich called a hundred
years but as yet it's still unreleased
do you know why it's too malkovichi it's
too much of him malkovich malkovich
malkovich malkovich
close but not quite it's because it's
currently being held in a time locked
safe behind a case of bulletproof glass
and that safe isn't scheduled to open
until november
2115
when you
me and everyone listening to this
podcast will be long long dead as [ __ ]
why
i hope whoever beams that movie directly
into their like cerebral cortex through
netflix's latest body implant enjoys it
is it a case of like it's a student film
quality and no it doesn't want to see
the life of day no i think it's
literally it's like a time capsule kind
of thing it's like we're going to shoot
a movie in 2015. this is what a movie
looked like in 2015 and you're not going
to see it
for a hundred years and then in 100
years time they're going to open it up
and i'm sure it will play it like tiff
or [ __ ] whatever underwater festival
tiff has become i don't know if i would
do that i've learned from every movie
that if you find something that's a
hundred years old if you open it a mummy
will do something oh man
would you think malcolm
in that one oh my god maybe the mummy's
on the [ __ ] titanic in that movie
maybe that's what it is
so it's like titanic in the future that
little like case that they made for
their time capsule finds themselves on
titanic too and then malkovich uh future
future future future future grandchild
opens it oh that's too much futures
future future there you think future
future i'd say free futures sure i feel
like three is gonna malkovich is pretty
[ __ ] old as it is man so
yeah my my
grandkids will watch it maybe
yeah maybe maybe they'll they might see
it in their retirement home maybe yeah
should we do the box office for spy kids
3d
this movie opened on the 25th of july
2003 opened at number one which is kind
of surprising did 32 and a half million
on its opening weekend on its way to 111
million domestic
197 worldwide total damn that's a lot of
money
it was in the day though like when 3d
was still was this pre-avatar i can't
remember oh god yeah no this was this
was still the whole red and blue
cardboard glasses 3d yep
2003 man it was still a novelty like i
remember i didn't watch in theaters but
i remember going on blockbuster and
specifically wanting to see how it is to
have that [ __ ] fly at my face
but then it realized if you have like
glasses and you have like maybe a
stronger eye than the other like it
doesn't it doesn't really work that well
so i had to rely on the visuals and the
powerfulness of the story to get me
through
did it did you get through yeah i was
gonna say how the [ __ ] did you manage
that um uh
yeah sure i think i was a pr
i appreciated that if you were to take
the if you were to beat out this plot
there's not even enough to like maybe
fill a whole page
jesus and they somehow managed to make a
film like in my head i was like that's
kind of impressive
well we'll get to how they managed to
make a [ __ ] film out of that in a
minute but uh number two at the box
office that weekend ah we literally just
spoke about it it was pirates of the
caribbean the curse of the black pearl
yay
uh in its third weekend that's the
second one right that's the first one oh
sorry that's the first one and i don't
know
yeah it's um i don't know i haven't seen
it in a long time yeah i was fine at the
time orlando bloom so long based on a
theme park ride i mean i mean johnny
depp got a [ __ ] oscar nomination for
that movie for [ __ ] sake isn't that
worthwhile
that's weird yep number three that
weekend another movie we've talked about
before but have probably not gonna be
doing an episode on it bad boys too
yeah i remember it being okay yeah i
think we've already agreed that it's
kind of fine and the other better
podcasts have done funnier episodes on
it than we're probably ever going to
muster so let's just leave that one be
number four another movie that we've
talked about and we may be doing an
episode on this yet lara croft tomb
raider the cradle of life she punches
his jack
in the face does she yeah that one kind
of flopped that one kind of
underperformed i think they were
expecting that one to be huge and it
kind of killed that franchise dead for a
good 15 years it's because it was really
boring
is it too boring to be an episode um i
don't know i guess
when you want an action movie you want
like this kinetic kind of like thrill
ride and i remember watching it in
theaters and i was like wow this feels
like it was like shot like really slow
and they just kind of fast forward
okay i don't know
it wasn't as action-packed but then it
really got by on like your love of
angeline julie and gerald butler gerard
butler but yeah
gerard general
i'm star
uh number five that weekend a movie have
you ever seen but a lot of people love
seabiscuit okay i've never seen it i
have no response it's like oh my head is
like that's the one with the horse yeah
yeah there's a horse yeah and it runs
real
fast maguire's on the horse i don't know
you know
oh [ __ ] i forgot about him i'll think of
his horse i i never saw it i don't know
yeah that was the box office for spy
kids 3ds opening weekend let's get into
this movie first things first and let's
just [ __ ]
get rid of this elephant in the room
watching 3d content and stuff that was
designed to be screened in 3d watching
it in 2d always [ __ ] sucks it always
sucks right and i felt that more than
usual watching this movie because
obviously this movie was before reald 3d
became a thing in theaters so it was
still the anagraph from red and blue or
red and green um glasses and it felt
like it was trying so hard to remind you
that this is fruity
yeah
there are only like three good 3d movies
in my book intrigue go on final
destination five okay wasn't there one
that literally marked itself as the 3d
version so it wasn't even the one that
like pushed itself and marked itself i
think that was the fourth one but the
fourth one sucks as a movie so
regardless of whether the 3d is any good
i don't generally tend to watch that
fourth one over and over again i've seen
final destination five a bunch of
[ __ ] times anyway yeah that i could
see it working yeah monster house okay
and dread the the 2011 2012 dread movie
um has awesome use of 3d in it anything
else i don't care no yeah i'm the same
like for me like again like because i
have like glasses like they always never
really work for me and even now i find
the ones like the only reason i would
watch 3d now if it's like oh there's no
other showing ugh i'd be like fine and
i'll put it on because like it's like
it's not as fun to like have it like all
of a sudden the like the contrast and
the colors all of a sudden become darker
and like oh this is exciting so all the
hard work that the people done to
grading the film is now like not even on
the screen unlike nether who was like oh
it's so weird watching 2d that's not how
that sounds he sounds much more pleasant
than that ah but like that's a pretty
close approximation of how i sound yeah
that [ __ ] sucks
no but like i kind of like get a kick
i guess when i was watching this movie i
realized what i was in store for so like
i hit all sudden turn on this like flick
in my brain tries to appreciate the like
the weirdness of it like there are
scenes like like later on where like you
you can see they had a green screen so
they took like a stock footage of
whatever else so they're being like it's
all this chaos happening but in the
background you see like two civilians
just walking casually because it's stock
footage or just like any background that
i had to get
they use a lot of stock footage in these
movies so that's what it becomes that
it's more like the movie making magic of
it and seeing like all right it's like
almost like a game like will they make
this 3d oh look tongue sticking out of
the uh at your face uh i don't know like
the opening scene like what do they have
just like random square pixels flying at
me i was like all right let's do this
and let me tell you when three does work
it somehow usually is with like the text
and titles and they do like that
superman like opening kind of theme
thing and like
for some reason it's like the the frog
tongues don't get me the punching of
like whatever like weapons they have at
the screen don't get me it's like the
titles those are the ones that i feel
like i can touch the most
superman and through in 3d would be
awesome the old dick donner films [ __ ]
yeah sorry go ahead
that's my little spiel i like text guys
ooh fun okay we can go on all right we
know if we're going to make you a 3d
movie it just has to be like a
text-based movie then just it's just
like that star wars squirrel that's for
a feature film like
it's just the script of star wars that
scrolls by for the longest time oh my
god every now and again a word will just
randomly pop out of it
this movie opens with basically what is
chinatown for teeny weenies with uh this
juni kid uh juni cortez yes
investigating some [ __ ] corruption at
a water pack and it is it is literally
just a straight chinatown reference it's
kind of funny the way it does yeah
absolutely almost verbatim dialogue um
as well did anybody notice who plays
this girl that is uh asking him to
investigate what's going on at the water
park no oh it's selena gomez
selena gomez
yeah i had to look that up because
somebody mentioned she was in there and
i was like where oh my gosh she's so
tiny amazing the basically the plot of
this movie is the juni wants the new
video game called game over and
apparently the maker of the video game
is going to use it to control the minds
of all its players uh for reasons we
never really get into and the maker of
said video game is a character called
the toy maker and played by sylvester
stallone
does he make toys in this were their
toys not really okay doesn't make a
single [ __ ] toy um i want to know
what things he made in the past that
constituted toys that's what i'm a
little concerned about little can and
curious about also we kind of scared her
to buy this but like when he was doing
his detective work he was really
underselling himself 4.99 to actually go
out and do the investigation that's like
probably what like eight hours of work
so like he needs to what's it called
think of his finances more i know this
is a kids film but financial literacy at
a young age is very important
did any of you guys ever see mystery
team the uh the [ __ ] donald glover
movie yes oh my god yes that's what it
reminded me of were there child
detectives just that's what it reminded
me of it absolutely reminded me of that
movie yeah were there child detectives
that have grown up like he doesn't
realize that his friends are going to
college and he's kind of stuck in this
grade school mentality of like solving
mysteries and stuff if you haven't seen
mystery team go watch mystery team it's
great it's great it's so funny i really
had fun with the opening scene like and
i kind of wish they played with like the
genres a bit more if this movie had just
been this kid
running around doing gumshoe and
literally he gets gum on his shoes at
one point
but if he was doing like gumshoe stuff
and just being like a kind of [ __ ]
philip marlowe jr kind of character i
would have been all in on this movie yes
i love it i would love to watch a kid
detective movie i mean you know we had a
high school detective movie in brick so
why can't we have like an elementary
school detective movie as well right
anyway yeah some kid played by emily
osmond comes uh flying in his window she
flies in with her pigtails gertie okay
uh you're gonna have to fill me in if
she's a cat if these are characters from
the second movie because i never saw
that second movie uh she flies in and
she i don't her character looks like
she's dubbed did anybody else get a
weird vibe that her dialogue like it was
being dubbed honestly probably wasn't
paying enough attention for that i don't
think well you know what this was in the
first five minutes so i was still kind
of focused don't worry that went away
she drops in to provide the theme of the
story which is family is everything and
then she kind of just [ __ ] off again
and that's what we see of her until the
end of this film and then juni gets a
call from the president played by oh my
gosh george clooney what are you doing
in this movie being george clooney i
totally forgot he's really good in from
dustil dawn so that's why he's got like
the rodriguez connection right
i think that's honestly really cool
though like the fact that because okay
the whole notion in this movie is family
all of a sudden i have like flashbacks
to like fashion furious
he just owns that word so like
if spy kids comes back and takes it back
i will kind of be excited for that but
like the the fact that like this movie
is based on family but like if you look
at his kind of real life like in all his
movies he's managed to like make this
found family with all the like bringing
off like the actors and everyone from
like el mariachi to like again dustil
dawn into this movie so for some reason
i kind of find that cool and i hope they
wanted to participate it because they're
best friends and not because of like
contractual obligations yeah sure no i
think i think people find rodriguez a
fairly agreeable person to work with he
does tend to reuse a lot of the same
people in his movies um so yeah i mean
you know i guess he's probably a fairly
fun guy i mean his films look like
they're probably fun to make right right
it's just a shame that this one isn't as
fun to watch look there is so much
[ __ ] shitty green screen in this film
oh yeah that's like we know this that
this is my pet peeve in movies is bad
green screen and 90 of this film takes
place in front of a green screen i my
mind could not handle it it um
it did not age well and thank god it's i
i always wonder if people can tell which
movies i've suggested we watch
um
because this is definitely one of them
where it's just it's mindless you kind
of glaze over but yeah i did a lot of
just staring at the background and
realizing that these kids are just in an
empty room yeah
they are there is nothing around them
they are doing their best right and it's
you can't i mean you can fault them a
little but they're just kids they're
having a good time and therefore i'm
having a good time why not yeah sure i
mean you know i'm sure everybody had a
whole [ __ ] ton of fun making this
movie but at the same time
just because something's fun to make
doesn't mean it's fun to watch right you
know um yes uh enter salma hayek uh
playing um some scientist lady i guess i
don't know i was kind of fuzzy on what
the details were here she kind of she's
basically here just to drop some
exposition and uh tell junie that he
needs to save his sister from the game
that she is now trapped in and he has to
shut it down but while he's shutting it
down he can't release the toy maker
because apparently it's bad if this guy
gets out in the world i don't know yeah
this is at oss headquarters he has to go
to oss headquarters by the way have all
these weird like hexagonal cubicles
that are like just dozens of feet in the
air with like no bear like those people
could easily fall out of those things
yeah this place is a health and safety
net
it looks dangerous
i kind of would love my my office to be
that where you just sit in a lawn chair
yeah and then you flip up your laptop
when you're ready and then you flip it
down when you're not so ready it kind of
reminds me of flip phones where you
grade ragequit and just slam it shut
i think everyone will love lawn chair
office decor
yeah there are kids logging into this
video game and they can't log out
they're stuck they're just staring at it
is that like the concept then is the
this is like a prison for these kids
because i was really fuzzy on what the
stakes were in this movie there were no
stakes the stakes
were that
it's trapping children in a virtual
reality but the game hasn't fully gone
online yet so the kids that are trapped
are just the beta testers okay but but
but what happens when it does go online
all these kids get trapped and and then
what is he like using them as a fuel
source you're gonna brainwash them
because if you control the future
generations oh yeah if you control the
children you control the future yes like
the whitney houston song you both really
got into it at this point i realized
what was kind of how how this movie
works is that as soon as you start
asking a question something 3d will pop
out to you and like what was that never
mind and then you forget about what
you're doing amazing so it literally
stops you from asking questions by
bombarding you with something in your
face so it's great for people with low
tender spend
i was like is that why i enjoyed it i
have a terrible attention span it didn't
work for me fair enough how weird must
have been for this kid to watch this
movie in theaters when it premiered or
any of these people because like it was
so much so much of it was green screen
like that's gotta be weird right yeah i
guess i think just in general any time
like i don't know for me like in school
when we had to do like a short film and
for some reason decide to get the room
that has the biggest screen even seeing
yourself on screen in that sense is the
most awkwardest thing for me so yeah i
would imagine seeing them on screen
would be weird but then if they're maybe
narcissistic they would enjoy it they're
they're like acting kids right acting
kids love looking at themselves on
screen well hopefully the 3d work for
them that's all that matters yeah
there's like uh so junior's in the game
and there's like a bunch of beta testers
in there i guess these are the ones that
are already trapped right and like
their leader is called res and this kid
goes
oh that's a good joke
and i
both groaned and then i clapped
yeah i kind of laughed at that one um
anyway these beta testers boot junior
out to the moon because they don't want
him around because they're determined to
beat the game themselves you're talking
about like you know i was like oh it
distracts you but this is the point
where like actually started trying to
think if this was a commentary on gamers
i was like there's such dicks is this a
commentary yeah but but online gaming
didn't exist in 2003 in the way it does
now there were there was online games
you could play like fantasy star online
on the dreamcast and whatnot and i guess
like everquest halo and stuff yeah and
everquest but like compared to like the
the kind of the portrayal of video
gamers now on things like [ __ ] odd or
whatever or fortnite i don't know i just
feel like maybe it was pretty ahead of
the curve to be making that kind of
commentary all right
that was not but no you're right gamers
are dicks and i say that as a gamer they
are [ __ ] dicks competitive [ __ ]
oh yeah oh yeah they yeah they existed
in 2003. i was a dick with the people
playing goldeneye on the [ __ ] n64 in
the 90s right you know we all were yeah
yeah yeah proximity mine
uh in the [ __ ] facility level in the
[ __ ] air vents so that when somebody
spawns in the air vent they're [ __ ]
that's the way to do it yep i guess the
reason why i asked it wasn't why is it
commentary because all the time when
julie is like talking to them and like
listening to them i'm like like please
like use your common sense they're
clearly dicks why do you keep on
trusting them like so many times in this
movie he's a kid he's naive right but
yeah no they are they are kind of dicks
enter ricardo montelbana's grandpa
yeah
you know junie gets to pick a list of
people that he wants to go into the game
from people he knows and he has like a
list of pros and cons and i swear the
[ __ ] when it says cons i thought it said
khans and i thought that might be a nice
little joke but i guess it's probably
just the way sylvester stallone speaks
made it sound like he was saying khans
um i was really bummed out that antonio
banderas and carla gagino are like
barely in this movie by the way yep
they're all over that [ __ ] poster
they are not in this film until the last
10 minutes i was almost convinced that
uh antonio banderas wasn't even in the
same room as any of them until he hugs
his kid and then i was like oh [ __ ] okay
so he was there but they just cut him in
so weird yeah they were there for a day
of filming max all right yeah yeah
apparent apparently not all those people
were filmed at the same time or in the
same place see that makes sense to me
it's weird apparently grandpa has like
beef with this toy maker character but
you know we like we can't spend any time
on like developing that in any way
because we've got to get to this giant
robot fight between junior and some girl
called dimitra but like don't you love
how they get rid of the grandpa like
because like they can't even be bothered
it's like pretty butterfly i was like
okay all right yeah he just [ __ ] off
that's what's happening now he picks
grandpa they make a big deal out of it
and then he just [ __ ] off yeah yeah
he's kind of in and out of this movie a
lot it's uh it's bizarre well he's happy
to have legs so he's like
he just like runs
um yeah this [ __ ] cgi robot fight did
this look good in 2003 i can't remember
what was like what was the standard of
cgi in 2003 that was like around the
time that angly hulk movie was out right
i think so lord of the rings
was the was fellowship what year did
fellowship come out 2001 yeah okay yeah
there you go that means it should have
been around two towers releases does
those trees look real hell yeah they did
well i kind of bought into like because
it's a video game i was like fine like
if you look at video game graphics and
like the cgi scenes or what are those
scenes called whatever the cgi cutscenes
i was like
i felt like maybe they're on par with
that but then we made fun of like mummy
returns for having like a playstation 2
[ __ ] cut scenes so yeah yeah that's
different though okay with this i don't
know why i'm all sudden getting heated
like that's okay no like mommy returns
that was like going like this clearly
doesn't look like a human oh well this
one is like at least it kind of got the
vibe of like cartoon video game antics
and like stuck with it they didn't try
to pull off a realistic looking scene
of antonio banderas or like imagine if
sylvester stallone was 3d in all of us
like i don't know if i could take that i
don't know roddy i think what my
complaint is is that if you're going to
have a giant cgi robots you better make
them look like real giant robots
otherwise i'm going to get [ __ ] angry
about it
yeah they have this they have this fight
and um oh man then we cut to stallone
and kind of my favorite thing about this
movie is sylvester stallone and the fact
that he's also playing like three
additional characters here that are like
he's kind of like a subconscious or
something i don't know he's playing an
austrian military guy he's playing some
scientist and also a hippie oh it's like
in like expanding his id into like
personable people it's weird as [ __ ] i
guess they i guess they just didn't want
him to be talking out loud to himself
like in a
i mean and look he's having fun god
bless him he's having fun in this movie
yep unlike some action heroes stallone
can make fun of himself
i can't imagine who the [ __ ] you're
talking about there um
anyway they go off to play some [ __ ]
what i thought was f-zero for a minute
here or like some f-zero knock-off but
it turns out that this kid's car can
like throw a pie so i guess it's more
like mario kart right oh yeah yeah yeah
yeah i was thinking the whole way
through this doesn't have this looks
like an episode of reboot oh it does
it really does reboot is great reboot is
great that's a compliment
crossed with tron or something yeah yeah
look this movie is like super bright and
super colorful but like i said that
doesn't mean it's good right it's just
like it's ugly i don't know i i guess
for an 11 year old this movie probably
rules yeah but i was gonna say i
remember it fondly but i think that was
because of different standards i might
have had you know it it just kind of
fits with the
setup that they had i wouldn't say that
spy kids one or two were you know
necessarily exceptional oscar-winning
yeah um but it still felt like just
enough that it was it kept my attention
at the time
for what an hour and whatever minutes i
don't even remember now
that blur i kind of have the an issue
that these action sequences do seem to
go on a little bit too long
like this race sequence felt like it
went on forever
um but that may also be because around
about the point uh that they have this
race i kind of stopped the movie
for a whole day and went away and came
back to it a day later because i just
had a headache did you take a tunnel
advil no i didn't i didn't what i did
was i smoked a joint and did some
mushrooms and then came back and watched
the second half nice you know what makes
3d a lot better being on magic mushrooms
when you're watching it because shit's
really popping out when you're watching
it yeah
but like to kind of go on that though
like i don't know after a while i was
like okay clearly this is just kind of
like set pieces and what can ever go in
your face so then there's a point where
i just started analyzing the set pieces
and i was like okay that's pretty
interesting like the robot scene had the
thing where he ran around
in like
uh around the arena and i thought that
was kind of a unique way to play the
fight it wasn't like kind of a straight
up box and sock'em that's a i love those
things i'm a little frustrated with how
much life that took off of her like i
didn't know being
dizzy cost me six levels but all right
there's no logic to that life stuff the
health bar like she ended up with um she
went from a level 9 at the beginning of
that
robot battle to like three lives left
yeah i mean look i got a vibe from this
movie that robert rodriguez maybe hasn't
actually played that many video games
because yeah i don't know like this juni
kid comes across this health pack and
he's like what is that and i'm like
[ __ ] hell kid you're meant to be like
a gamer and you don't know what a
[ __ ] health pack looks like come on
seriously uh you forgot the whole like
about the prophecy he's the guy ness oh
yeah they they believe he's the guy from
the from the game's billboard like this
silhouette figure and that that's how
they all end up following him is because
he kind of matches the shape of this
figure no but like it happened before
the race scene where he was at the
racing no it's after the race scene
where he comes out but like it's the
whole thing for like coming back to my
whole thing about thinking that there
was like a bare minimum of beats and
they see how much they can flush it like
the guy feels like such a placeholder
for what the
the one the guy felt like kind of like i
don't know what we should call it you
know what there's no other alternative
it's fine the way it is just call him
the guy
yeah just leave it or they just forgot
to update that page when they were doing
a second pass on this script maybe i
don't know um also this dimitra kid and
i'm not being mean don't take it as i'm
being meaning about this kid but when i
was watching i was kind of like is this
kid meant to kind of look a little bit
like sylvester stallone
she looks a bit like stallone okay and i
thought oh is this like a plot point did
they cast stallone's daughter because it
turns out she's like a villain i wasn't
like a hundred percent off right i was
kind of like half right yeah she it does
turn out that she is like a program and
not a real kid but when i was looking at
her i was like god she actually looks a
little bit like stallone is this
actually his daughter or something yeah
it's not it's just just just me me
reading into [ __ ] i guess i don't know
you were trying to she just has a piece
of hair obnoxiously hanging in front of
her face for the entire movie yes
like move your hair also this this juni
kid can't say nintendo and i thought it
was like he couldn't say it and then i
realized that he's probably not allowed
to say it yeah
nintendo are like super fussy about
licensing stuff yeah so he goes
something like he says like atari sega
yeah this is like oh man or the wizard
okay so like who's more obnoxious the
performances by the kids in this film
which you know they're kind of janky but
you know god bless them they're trying
or performances by like actual fear or
kids like joseph gordon lev or anne
hathaway which would you rather watch in
a movie well you don't like joseph girl
levitt it's not that i dislike him i
just always find his performances to be
very kind of like certainly when he was
younger they're very kind of like their
kids you know
i mean i like
juni at the beginning of the film when
he's playing like a hard-boiled
detective because that kind of fits with
his acting style the it i feel like his
at the way he's performing the character
works not as good in the
kind of virtual world that he's
inhabiting where he's surrounded by
characters that are hamming it the [ __ ]
up or just shooting the scenery or
whatever but like he's not even i don't
know like i wish that he'd stayed in
like his hard-boiled detective outfit
when he was in the virtual world while
he's surrounded by people in like these
like little mega man outfits like i
would have loved if it was like some
kind of detective thing and he's you're
not actually the toy toy maker it's it's
this guy and it's almost like pulls off
grandpa's mask and it reveals that it's
him or something it's like a real
scooby-doo moment
oh my gosh
exactly that would have been fun
yeah i mean it must have been hard for
these kids right because acting on
against green screen stuff and cgi stuff
is hard you're just like it's a tennis
ball and a stick right that's always the
adage that when you're filming they just
give you like a point of reference to
look at and i thought it was the acting
like for what it was like again this is
a movie that really is just showcasing
3d so just taking that into
consideration i thought the acting is
fine but like if you coming down to it
though like what are you supposed to act
like what was his arc in this like what
is he at the end of this movie coming
out into the real world with oh like a
family like yeah the fellaini thing like
he's he's estranged from his family at
the start of the movie he kind of feels
like um like there's no unity in his
family that's why he's doing his own
thing as a detective
oh okay so i think he he kind of does
have an arc i guess he only works with
this family in like the last few minutes
of the film mostly him it's mostly about
him and his sister yeah we're clutching
at straws here to justify this pokemon
it's a [ __ ] kids film we can't be too
mean about it because it's for kids
there are good kids like this is on his
own level of just entertaining like
there's a lot of like kids feeling that
like like to this day like an adult will
cry about it because of the memories of
that film sure betray you
um
um
you know what never ending story two and
three [ __ ] might be episodes
we'll find out sooner or later i
actually seen the second one a long time
ago okay so right okay going back to
what we were talking about about the
stakes like they keep talking about how
when they run our lives they get
evacuated from the game forever but like
what what does that actually mean what
are the consequences of that did they
die if they enter some kind of like
vegetative state do they like get
grounded by their parents because they
already said earlier that the kids
couldn't leave the game so what does
that mean for him like they figured out
how to a way to get him out of the game
but not the other kids i just this is it
i don't understand what happens when
they lose their lives basically what
happens is that they are banned and they
cannot re-enter so the other kids they
don't really have stakes but what juni's
stakes is is that if he dies he can't go
back in to get carmen okay you know what
just sign up with a different [ __ ]
email address i used to do that [ __ ] on
battlefield 4 all the time let me just
take out my eyes and then just you know
get somebody else's but um with the one
kid the strong one arnold
hey he was talking about how he wanted
to beat the game so that he could get a
large amount of money for his family yes
oh so there's like cash prizes for this
thing so then
if you the players yeah yeah but he if
if he's a beta tester would he even be
eligible for the money no chris he
wouldn't because he knows all the back
doors through the game right i feel like
that would be a conflict of interest
something about he signed up with a visa
or something like that okay so he was
like yeah if i win there's supposed to
be a bunch of you know that's something
i guess but i still don't understand
like what the consequences here really
are i feel like they were intentionally
vague though because it's a family film
yeah my control of these children who
are all going to stay hooked into the
game permanently it's a prequel to the
matrix
stallone is stallone is the ai that
takes over the world and that's the
that's the stakes for the overall movie
but i'm talking about like the
individual stakes for these characters
yeah oh if they die they just seem to
get booted out of the game i mean that's
kind of
okay fine yeah it doesn't really i guess
i'm guessing somebody had it originally
in the script that it's like if they die
in the game they die in real life and
then like i guess the producers were
like no no you turned that into a bad
idea children's movies
we get a literal flores lava sequence
here which is kind of cool and they like
surf on the lava which is yes kind of
nice um and then sama hayek decides that
she's just gonna kill these kids in the
game with a big lava monster because she
can't risk letting the toy maker out but
also like juni has already saved his
sister so again i'm not really seeing
what the problem is here i don't know
when that happened i was like is that
how she's gonna save the sister
literally he's gonna be like you're free
like what that doesn't make you're
supposed to be villainous makes no sense
i mean look we tried to get hold of a
copy of this in 3d and i know like megan
you ordered a 3d copy on blue uh was it
blu-ray or um no it's just dvd from ebay
uh yeah and like uh we didn't we figure
out that like the what was the shipping
time it was like three weeks or
something it i think it estimated the
shipping time was like 14 to 25 days and
it's shipping from another town in
ontario yeah and we worked it out that
like literally it's a three-day walk
from here like they could walk that
[ __ ] dvd here in that amount of time
like a four-hour drive from here or
something probably not even that crazy
um but anyway we couldn't get hold of it
in 3d so we all had to watch this in 2d
so you know what maybe watching it i
know i definitely did see it in 3d in
theaters but maybe watching it in 3d
really does add another dimension to
this film i don't know oh yeah i'll
watch it again when i get the dvd
because i mean i wasted 10 bucks on it
so
why not damn
uh here comes elijah wood last seen our
back to the future part two episode uh
playing the guy the fabled guy he looks
like a giant in this film do you reckon
they did that like deliberately because
he was just coming off the back of all
those lord of the rings movies probably
he looked like a child to me he looked
younger than like some literally my note
dude is he still looks 12 years old i
mean he's in his 20s when he's filming
this but yeah he's got such a baby face
that he still looks like a 12 year old
he's adorable anyway he's the he's the
fabled the guy and he's meant to
basically lead them into level five and
the moment they get to level five he
gets wiped out like a big old door
kind of funny
i have to admit i have to admit that was
funny yeah it's [ __ ] uh samuel l
jackson in deep blue seed he basically
just [ __ ] buys it straight away when
i was a kid i was so frustrated because
i was really excited
i had gotten into the
lord of the rings uh franchise
and everything so when i heard elijah
wood was in it i was like this is gonna
be the best movie ever he's the guy and
then he [ __ ] shows up and i was so
so hyped and he dies and i remember just
sitting there for a while in my feelings
and i don't remember most of like the
ending to that movie
it felt like i watched it for the first
time because clearly my brain stopped
processing it after elijah wood died
it was
it was heartbreaking
it's i mean it's a pretty good punchline
it's an old gag but it's a good one um
yeah yeah demetra shows up again and
juni's sister is like she's not real and
i'm like yeah i've had girlfriends like
that before as well um
like you can also you can't just swipe
your hand for a computer program like
that kid keep your hands to yourself
that's just
not on the way he just starts like
poking at her
um
ricardo marvin kind of sucks in this
movie i'm sorry i know it sounds mean
but he's kind of i don't know there was
just something about his performance
that felt a bit off for me i don't know
i don't know if he's acting against the
kid
in actual in actuality or if he's just
saying his lines and then like i don't
know if they were both filmed in the
same room that's what i'm curious about
yeah i will say though ricardo matavon
like this is one of those his last
on-screen appearances
he aged really gracefully oh yeah he
looks great he looks great
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still sexy even as an old dude and also
i realized at this point in the movie
that the other guy with salma hayek in
the control room that's watching them is
mike judge yes yes of beavis and
butthead and king of the hill fame i was
like i didn't realize up until this
point and then when every time he spoke
after that i just heard him saying it in
a hank hill voice yeah we're gonna get
the kids out of the game
yeah because i saw him listed on the
cast list i was like wait that mike
judge yeah it is weird you must have
been friends with the director or
something i guess yeah i guess um also
clooney turns back up and does like an
impression of stallone for a split
second which is kind of what he's trying
to do
like that and it's it's pretty good and
and then he turns into stallone it turns
out like stallone has been [ __ ]
rigging this whole thing the whole time
i don't know i kind of tapped out by the
time this movie got to its climax well i
mean hey family shows up and it's cool
and we get to finally see
the the parents antonio banderas and
all them yeah
they they shut down the game and the toy
maker somehow escapes regardless and
he's got even though he did a bunch of
[ __ ] i don't know
yeah he's got like giant robots that are
now attacking stock footage of i don't
know i'm gonna say austin i don't know
where this is meant to be but i'm
assuming it's like austin
um and then we get like this call to all
of their family members to come and help
which is kind of the only bit of the
movie where my interest kind of perked
up uh because we get like chishmaru in
here for a start which is great is he
gonna do like a a pg friendly version of
the [ __ ] speech from from dustil dawn
no i guess no
um we get danny trejo here uh playing
machete
yeah which
this was three no wait four years before
grindhouse when they had that fake
machete trailer in grindhouse that then
spun off into two machete movies oh
really yeah so like i didn't realize the
origin of that machete character is
actually from [ __ ] spy kids which is
kind of crazy i love it um alan [ __ ]
and tony shalhoub show up as well with
like an army of robot kids for some
[ __ ] reason i seem to remember alan
[ __ ] being in the first movie right i
think he's like the bad guy in that um
as someone that hasn't has no
recollection of both the first two
movies i was like oh i probably i'm not
enjoying this as much as i am supposed
to if i were to actually watch those two
because it felt like it was like this is
the end of the trilogy and we're
bringing every your fan favorites and
it's like i don't know who any of these
people are
yeah same yeah i mean [ __ ] bill
paxton shows up as a cowboy i was like
oh
drops in on a flying pig and at this
point i really thought my mushrooms had
properly kicked in because i was like
[ __ ] hell there's a flying pig with
steve jeremy on it amazing but no that's
apparently really in the [ __ ] movie
it is and then grandpa volunteers to
shut down the toy maker's last giant cgi
robot and this juni kid is like grandpa
no and carlo gugino is kind of like he
has to let him go but then what we don't
actually see is under her breath she's
like his care home is really expensive
anyway and we could have like a second
and third vacation every year if we just
let this play out oh my god and then
they shut down this robot and they all
[ __ ] put their hands in and say what
we already knew from the start of the
movie that family is everything right
and that's kind of the end of the movie
apart from those 3d credits you know
what i don't need [ __ ]
blasted at me in 3d at the end of a
movie the words harvey weinstein yeah
thanks
shall we do and we haven't done one in a
while shall we do a quiz oh sure yes
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all right i don't have a title for this
quiz but basically the gist is i'm gonna
give you the name of a fake video game
from a movie
and i want you to tell me what movie
it's from and if you don't know i want
you to [ __ ] guess
this this feels like a very threatening
quiz
[ __ ] guess well you know what happens
you get you're going to get evacuated
from the podcast if you don't get it
right right you're going to lose all
your lives and uh and i don't know
python style i don't know
yeah um all right are you guys ready to
play sure yeah i mean if you're not just
saying we'll go do something else i've
suddenly forgotten every movie i've ever
watched so thanks for bringing that up
again
so caveat on this is it was pretty hard
to find fake games from movies so a few
of these are from tv shows as well so
yeah that might help your mind a little
nope i've never got tv2 thanks i guess
we'll find out how we do all right megan
you're up first okay what movie features
a video game called
transcendence and i'll give you a clue
the c is capitalized and it ends in a z
or a zed and that is also capitalized
i have no idea
all right i'll give you another clue
it's a canadian movie
i don't know why i said it like that
oh
no how should it be for canadian film
it's not i mean i'm sure it's i don't
know i don't i don't know transcendence
it sounds a lot like the title of the
movie well kind of the way it's
pronounced i
uh
why am i talking like robot all of a
sudden
yeah it's not it's not your goal
unless you want to buzz in right if you
know
buzz
okay brody buzz roddy buzzed in right
you want to take a guess existence
it is existence
existence there you go rudy gets megan's
point okay fine well if you don't know
the answer other people can just buzz in
now we just change the rules [ __ ] it who
cares yo existence is like a wild film i
still being remember being creeped out
by the game controller i don't think i
could ever play a fleshy looking oh my
god i would get an existence pour in my
body in a [ __ ] heartbeat that would
be amazing actually sort of get infected
oh anything to get me out of this
[ __ ] reality
roddy you're up next all right what
movie or tv
show features a game called
bonestorm oh bonestorm i feel like it
could be like south park maybe
oh you're so close but i'm afraid that's
not right megan's buzzing megan
you got the simpsons
megan wins back that point from roddy is
the simpsons
laura what movie or tv show features a
game called
roy
a life well lived
aha
i have no idea plus
yeah go
roddy with the buzz rick and morty it is
from rick and morty it's when yes i
thought it sounded familiar it's from
the jerry daycare episode when they're
playing the royal life live game
yes getting off the grid there's a
social insurance number right
doesn't he like become like a [ __ ]
carpet salesman
yeah oh it's so good um megan you're up
next okay what movie or tv show features
a game called
sugar
yes it's from wreck-it ralph it's the
the karting game the sarah silverman's
character plays
good movie about video games roddy yes
sir what movie
and i'm just to help you out a little
clues in the title what movie features a
video game called wrestle jam 88
wrestle jam 88
this is my thinking sounds
wrestle jam oh i don't even know because
i don't know i just want to like give a
call out and say mamma mia too
wrestlejam 88
88.
you gotta have to do something with
wrestle i'd imagine because it's not
space jam yeah i'm you'd have thought
maybe it would be something to do with
wrestle
is there any movie you can think of
anybody want to buzz in any movie that
might have the word wrestle as part of
its title the wrestler that one with you
don't get a [ __ ] go because you
the wrestler
laura gets the point that is correct
it's from darren aronofsky's the
wrestler there's a scene where mickey
rock is playing some
nes style wrestling game that features
his character as a playable character in
the game it was worth it that's right
that that one went to you meryl streep
uh laura your turn oh no where would you
find
oasis
why does that sound familiar
oh no in a juice
like aisle in the grocery store well you
would but that's not what we're talking
about here okay they made a game oh i
think megan knows she can buzz i know
what it is okay megan buzz in buzz uh
it's it's uh [ __ ] ready player one
it is and also may i add that you have
to refer to it as [ __ ] ready player
one whenever it gets brought up on this
podcast getting ready player one [ __ ]
ready play
david
sucks so badly i've totally lost count
of who's in the lead so we're just going
to do this last round
yeah i feel like i should maybe make a
note but i never i get too excited
into my quiz host [ __ ] capabilities i
know that we're stealing points from
each other it's all yeah oh yeah it's
all for still
megan what movie or film and this is a
tough one maybe would you find a game
called
demonic
sounds vaguely familiar but i
don't it's a comedy movie
i mean some people might say it's not a
comedy i think it's kind of funny but
it's a comedy movie about video game
developers
um
yeah i don't know i've drawn a blank
okay anybody want to buzz in a movie or
tv
it's a movie
demonic
yeah maybe this one's just too obscure
and there's comedy
nath do you want to buzz in i'll buzz in
i'll buzz in and tell you that the
answer is actually the movie grandma's
boy the [ __ ] happy madison comedy
that maybe
six people have seen wow yeah
they're developing a video game called
demonic in that game in that movie
congratulations on your uh on your point
there now yeah i'm glad
thank you
in which movie and this is a fake game
not a real game and i'll tell you why in
a minute because all the other ones have
been real
dude no but doom the arcade game oh wait
what i don't get this question because
there's a movie called doom so there's a
there's a movie where somebody is
playing an arcade cabinet of
doom
but doom was never an arcade cabinet it
was mocked up specifically for use in
this film
and when i saw this movie in fears i
turned because i went to see this with
my mom i turned to her and said that's
not a real game and you know what she
said to me she looked at me with the
loving eyes of her mother looking at her
son she said shut the [ __ ] up and uh
it's in the theaters and people are
watching that makes sense except more of
a scottish accent sure she said
shut the [ __ ] up um but anyway
to any one of us and probably uh roddy
what movie features doom the arcade game
i don't know so i'm just going to say
big
no afraid not literally for big oh
anybody else want to have a guess no
you're not going gonna get it i made
this one deliberately hard it is
featured in the movie gross point blank
oh in the convenience store there's a
doom arcade game before it gets blown up
how old were you watching girls point
blank with your mom how old the girl's
putting black is like bang bang bang
i was [ __ ] 17 when that movie came
out oh okay for some reason i thought
you were like a child like the child
who's watching el mariachi
no but my mom also took me to see
schindler's list when i was like 13 as
well so you know go figure
old enough um not in the uk it wasn't
because i was like 15. uh anyway laura
this is the last one okay you might get
this one
again the clue's kind of in the title
what movie or tv show
features a game called burger boss bob's
burger
that is correct yay
i actually earned one uh that was our
[ __ ] quiz winner
on video games i feel like nobody was
the winner in this one i feel like
especially you dear listener we're the
loser in this one
never mind um
all right
spike it's 3d would you guys recommend
this movie yes for all of the 3d action
and and uh color
the
draw carla uh
how do you
oh look carla oh my god are you okay
right here yeah man what the [ __ ]
i don't know i felt like if i thought
for some reason i needed to let me like
yes then as i tried to defend it come on
you can't actually recommend this movie
at all
hey that's a solid reason
she's in the movie for like two minutes
yeah worth it
those are some good minutes you know i
guess uh laura would you recommend this
um i would if you have the three weeks
to spare and can get a dvd copy with the
3d
glasses and everything because
realistically the only thing that this
movie for me has going for it is the
nostalgia without it it's fine but it's
gross to look at so i i wouldn't okay
uh megan
i mean we'll see how i feel after i
watch it in 3d if that ever happens um
but like it's like a theme park ride
right like i guess it would appeal to
kids if they're watching it in 3d but
other than that i mean it was made in
2003. i don't know if it holds up for
kids now maybe it does i don't know we
should go we should go find a child and
make them watch spy kids 3d and ask them
what they think yes i'll i'll as soon as
i get my 3d glasses i'll stick them on
my infant park him in front of the towel
sure
um yeah i i don't know i'm an adult i
feel like i can't objectively uh judge
this film yeah that's my kind of my take
on it as well this movie i would
recommend it if you're 11 but watching
this as an adult i don't know it just
gave me a headache i was just like
there's so much green screen so much
shonky cgi
i get what rodriguez was trying to do
with this movie he had like he wanted to
like try and and i guess this movie did
kind of almost sort of kick start the
whole revival of 3d
it was a few years later until we got
stuff like monster house and beowulf and
uh my bloody valentine all started like
spilling out using like real d
technology which was actually you know
pretty good 3d really but uh but you
know just as an adult this movie just
kind of dragged a little bit for me
stallone's fine in it i think stallone's
funny uh other than that there isn't
really much going on here um hey ho that
was our episodes on spy kids 3d
game over directed by robert rodriguez
next week on the show whoever's doing
this is going to come after you again
trust me it's just an urban legend urban
legend my ass
you ever hear the urban legend about the
guy who picks up the dead hitchhiker
urban legends final cut kind of feel
like we might have to play a drinking
game where uh anytime somebody says the
word urban led or the words urban legend
we uh take a shot yeah kind of feel like
we might be parallel halfway through
next week's episode um is that the first
is that the second one or the third one
i can't remember it's the second one i
think the okay the third one is called
bloody mary i think correct i don't know
i haven't seen i haven't seen this movie
yeah i it has a reputation i guess we're
going to find out why would the second
one be called the final cut it makes it
sound like it's the end of a series or
something that's weird anyway
i'm sure again i'm sure we'll find out
next week
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