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Hello, interwebs, and welcome to Close Up. I'm
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your host, Joe. And I'm Justin. It's been a while.
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This is probably Close Up's longest... I can't
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think of the word. It's been the longest time
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since an episode probably in the show's history.
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We apologize. We both went on vacation within
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a couple weeks of each other and didn't have
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any in our backlog to send out. And nothing good
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came out. I will give my opinion briefly on the
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few things that did come out. The Mandalorian
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and Grogu. Put it on in the background. Wait
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for streaming. It was okay first half. Kind of
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a dull second half. Nearly made me fall asleep
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in the back half. But the first half had me.
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And Masters of the Universe. Worth a watch. Very
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fun movie. Quite enjoyed that one. But today
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we're talking about Spider Noir. What is Spider
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Noir? It's a Spider -Man show. A very weird one.
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Starring Nicolas Cage. It's one of the few times
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Sony did something weird and did it right. As
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far as I'm concerned. That's a fair assessment.
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Sony has spent very many years adapting B -tier,
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C -tier Spider -Man villains. When maybe the
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secret sauce all along was to just adapt Spider
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-Man. Spider -Man. They already won everybody's
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hearts over with the Into the Spider -Verse movies.
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All right. We already explored an alternate Miles
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Morales and that got great acclaim. That won
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Oscars. That was very popular. And Spider -Noir
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was in that. So maybe, maybe they'll realize
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that adapting various versions of Spider -Man
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is the way to go from now on. Maybe. That'd be
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cool. Because I love what they did here. It was
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like, okay, so you took a weird multiversal Spider
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-Man and put your own spin on 1930s New York.
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You stylized it in black and white or even the
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true hue color they used, which is still representative
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of the saturation styles of older media. It still
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feels like
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a noir, but in color. like a like
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a 1950s sort of thing or even like a old comic
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book sort of thing like uh i think back to like
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amazing spider -man and they used to have those
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panels that were just uh like primary colors
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in lieu of detailed backgrounds sometimes like
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sometimes the backgrounds weren't that detailed
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but it was just like really bright saturated
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colors from the 40s to the 60s and it this kind
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of reminds me of that not that it was Not detailed,
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but just the color choices. It's the way the
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colors are, yeah. Yeah, it was just very bright.
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Think about like Batman in Detective Comics.
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Like, okay, in that era, movie detectives were
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black and white and like noir -ish is what we
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associate. But in comic books, detective stories
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existed too, and they were very bright and colorful.
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So this is kind of playing on conventions of
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the era that these characters were made from.
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In an interesting way. So I kind of like the
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option to have it black and white and color.
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It does work both ways. And what did you watch
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it in? I watched it in black and white. I watched
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about six out of eight in black and white. And
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I watched about two in color. Just to try it
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out. I couldn't do it. I watched the trailer
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in color just to see. And I was like, yeah, the
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style is cool. but the black and white's cooler
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yeah i feel like i watched color at a bad time
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because i watched it in the afternoon like the
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sun was kind of glaring on my tv and for some
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reason it seemed darker to me like it was very
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colorful but for some reason the lighting just
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obscured more maybe that was just a my tv issue
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pretty sure that's because it was shot for black
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and white yeah like on black and white the contrasts
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came out a lot more i never had a problem any
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time of day watching the show in black and white
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and like wow everything popped it looks gorgeous
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but in color it nearly seemed obscured sometimes
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well when you shoot for black and white you you
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already know automatically you've got strong
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contrast so you don't need to shoot with high
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contrast really well it depends on the the shot
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but yeah for the most part but that's why i think
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the color version kind of The separation between
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the characters in the background isn't as strong,
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I find. And I think that probably comes down
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to the fact that they were like, yes, we're shooting
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for black and white. Yeah. I also found the special
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effects look better in black and white. Maybe
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it's just because I'm overused to seeing superhero
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action set pieces in color. And it's obviously
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a lower budget Spider -Man project. Not that
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it's low budget, but it's clearly not movie level
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budget. But when you put it in black and white,
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it kind of hides those blemishes a little bit
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more. And it feels more true to the world, more
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immersive, I'll say, in black and white that
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way. And one thing I really appreciate about
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this show is just the filmmaking craft in general.
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I'm used to a lot of things just being disposable
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media. And I would think, okay, well, Sony's
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just rushing out a spider noir show. It's something
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weird, something to try, fine, whatever. But
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this show actually had a lot of thought put into
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its craft from the framing choices and the blocking
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and the camera movements. The visual storytelling
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was very well handled on this show. The people
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behind the scenes were actually giving thought
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to every choice, and I could tell that. I'm like,
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oh, wow, I don't have to casually turn my brain
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off. I can actually critique this thing as a,
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wow, you were making choices that I could tell
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were pushing your story forward. Even if you
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turn your brain off, it just looks good. Yeah.
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It's a style I really like. I don't know. I always,
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that was one thing
is closest to the... The most
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modern thing I can think of that was close is
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like the first Thor. The first Thor movie, I
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mean, it did the same thing with its Dutch angles
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and everything. It had a style to it and it looked,
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I don't know, it's just a great way of filming.
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Like, why do we want to look at movies where
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you're just looking the same way you'd be looking?
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Like, it looks like real life, except maybe there's
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something. The content in the movie is super
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and not realistic or whatever. But you're looking
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at it from plain realistic angles. Why are we
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afraid of strange angles? There's a difference
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between just showing us the information and using
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camera techniques and blocking and framing to
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communicate a story. And I think that's what
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a lot of things are missing. You're just shooting
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for coverage, basically, and letting a lot of
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the script and the actors do the work for better
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or for worse, and the editor as well, trying
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to piece it together. But this felt like there
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was a plan. It felt like every time they zoomed
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the camera in or dollied or panned somewhere,
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that it was part of the story. It was... It was
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trying to tell me something about a character's
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mindset or the world or communicating something
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the dialogue wasn't. Like, like with Dutch angles
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even. I'm like, okay, it's all right. It's a
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little off kilter. Something, something's weird
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here. I'm supposed to feel a bit unsettled here.
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Or like, I remember like when he was watching
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Cat Hardy at the dance, the first time he saw
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her perform and is like. like zooming in on their
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faces. I'm like, okay, so the camera's creating
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a connection here between the two of them. It's
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like the world is kind of fading out around him
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and he's focused on her and the camera's kind
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of zooming in on him. We can see his mindset
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and it's like all the filmmaking craft blending
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together in a satisfying way I don't normally
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see. As far as... Stuff like special effects
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goes, I think it's, the CGI is mostly passable.
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The swinging is a bit uncanny valley. That's
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about the only thing I was like, ah, okay. I
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think that was because the first, the first,
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the very first swing, I was like, ooh, uh, but
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it's because it's so contrasting to the style
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they're they're providing that could also be
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where you know you're feeling like the the old
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detective movies but then all of a sudden you've
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got modern superhero cgi stuff going on you're
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like it's a little bit jarring but i got used
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to it after after a little bit yeah i i can definitely
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understand that but that was something i thought
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they did really well is that they really really
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nailed that that style of film yeah that atmosphere
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with even like the dialogue uh the pacing basically
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everything they did you're sitting there you're
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like other than the cgi and that it the the camera
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looks a little bit sharper other than that if
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you put some heavy film grain on there and didn't
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tell someone it was a spider -man show Yeah.
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You'd probably be like, okay. Without the CGI,
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like if you're going to show, what's his name?
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The mob boss guy. If you throw one of those scenes
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in where it's just him and Hardy, even when Sandman's,
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you know, kind of there, the effects aren't like,
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it's nothing. It's nothing. It looks like a bad
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guy with old facial scars. Yeah. Makeup on there
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or something. Yeah. And it looks, I think with.
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heavier film grain on there or a little bit of
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blurring maybe it would look you wouldn't even
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know you would it wouldn't even be out of place
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from the movies that they're trying to play on
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and i have seen that critique before they say
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some people prefer the color because they say
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okay well i can't watch it in black and white
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because it's too crisp it
takes me out of what
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they're trying to do i can't imagine this is
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an old movie because it looks too modern and
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clean So that is something people say in favor
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of the color. I disagree. Yeah, but I think that's
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the thing is that you know that it's not, you
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know it's modern. Yeah. You know it's modern,
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but they're trying to emulate the style. It's
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not. Yeah. It's like what Stranger Things does,
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okay? We know it's modern. We know it's not the
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80s. It's a suspension of disbelief, but we also
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want modern effects and modern stylings. Yep.
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You're trying to get the feeling across and not,
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you're not trying to copy it. No, it's not supposed
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to be a one -for -one. If they wanted to do one
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-for -one with the old movies, they could do
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that. But it's not. Yeah. Why? I mean, there's
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a reason those styles changed. I mean, the cinematic
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language has just evolved over time. If you're
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trying to make a movie like they made it 80 years
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ago, you're probably making a worse movie. in
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a lot of ways just because well you're handicapping
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yourself basically well yeah i mean like those
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movies were still inventing a lot of the language
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like they even like color and and sound were
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in some cases barely like they barely knew how
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to incorporate that like in the first sound films
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they basically had to stand in place because
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they they couldn't they couldn't move around
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because they didn't know how to get the microphones
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moving it's like That's why in some cases, some
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people say, oh, silent films were better than
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early talkies because they knew how to move around.
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They weren't allowed to use blocking. Yeah. Like
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their blocking was, you stay here. Yeah, that
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was exactly it. Or even when they got further,
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lead actors, they'd have their, lead actors could
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move, but the background characters needed to
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stay in place. Yeah. Like every era of cinema
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is made with constraints of the time. So to do
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that, like you said, you're trying to handicap
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yourself for no reason. Tell a story with modern
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cinematic techniques, but it's inspired by 80
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years ago, obviously. Yeah. And I think they
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did that really well. I think they brought the
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best of both worlds into it. They brought that
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style because it matched. Basically, the parts
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they used matched the character. They didn't
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match. The film, the only thing they did was
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they did black and white, but otherwise it was
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more matching. The character was the way that
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the way the characters talk the way, but that
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was the style for it. So really it's not as much
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of a, I mean, it's not as much of a filming choice,
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but it's a like, yeah, the character's choice,
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but It's you're trying to. Yeah. Yeah. You're
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trying to bring in the world and you're using
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some techniques that people associate with film
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noir to kind of immerse you better. It's like
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it's like trying to think of Spider -Verse where
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you're like, OK, if you imagine this character
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of Spider -Noir in his universe, we're bringing
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modern filming techniques to this universe. This
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is what it would look like. Yeah. That's the
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way it comes across to me. Yeah. Is that, oh,
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in Spider -Noir's universe, you. You can imagine
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no matter what modern camera you bring, it's
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going to be black and white because the universe
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is black and white. It's going to, you know,
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the people are going to talk this way because
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that's the way they talk. So to me, that that
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was the that was what I got from it is that I
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felt like it was like taking a camera and putting
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it in Spider Noir's universe. Yeah, I like that
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idea. I also should iterate just for the people
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who are going to attack me in the comments. I
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don't necessarily think all modern filmmaking
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is better, but I do think that a movie well -made
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today is probably... It can do more things than
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a movie could 80 years ago. A well -made movie
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80 years ago is still topping over most of the
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slop that they put out today. Most things don't
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try hard enough. Well, but you got the same guys
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from... Spielberg is still... If you were to
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ask Spielberg to be like, is it, can you make
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better movies now or back then? He would say
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now, would he not? Oh yeah. All those guys are
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always trailblazers like Spielberg, Scorsese,
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Coppola. Of course they'd be like, yeah, we have
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more options. It's just the movies people are
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making right now aren't necessarily as good.
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I think James Cameron's a great example of he's
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never one to rest on his laurels. He's always
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trying to push technology forward. Say what you
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will about the Avatar movies, but they're some
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of the best looking movies out there now. Like
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I was just there was a guy next to me on my way
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back from Vancouver on the plane and he was watching
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Avatar Fire and Ash. And I got mixed opinions
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about that movie. But even on an airplane screen,
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I'm like, frick, this movie looks good. Yeah.
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James Cameron knows how to make good looking
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movies. And his movies, I think, are probably
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better looking now than Terminator in 1984. He's
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just. He got better at his craft. He has more
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tools. That's exactly it. But that's why. If
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you ask any one of those guys, of course they'll
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say that making a movie now is better. Yeah.
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Of course. Because... You can just do more. You
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can do more. There's more accessible. The imagination's
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the limit, really. Yeah. Which is part of the
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problem. Some people over -crutch on, oh, we
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can fix it in post. Just green screen everything.
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We can... We can fill it out later. But I think
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this is a good example of a show that uses modern
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tools and was clearly planned. It didn't look
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like overly green screen. It
looked like they
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built out sets and costumes and had like old
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style cars and bar rooms. Like they built out
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their sets and created an entire world around
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these characters. It just felt like a team that
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was actually trying in all regards. And that's
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why it excels. So I had a thought when we were
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talking about film tropes. So this is a bit of
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a thought spiral. So I was thinking of noir tropes
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and one of the big tropes is the femme fatale.
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And the femme fatale in this show is Cat Hardy.
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And it didn't clue in for embarrassingly long
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that, oh, this is this universe's take on Black
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Cat. I'm like, wait, Kat, I'm like, Hardy. But
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I didn't quite. Because I was like, I'm like,
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Hardy, Felicia, Felicia Hardy, Kat, Hart, son
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of a. I just got that right now. Are you kidding
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me? Love interest to Spider -Man, son of a. I
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had the thought like partway through, I'm like,
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Kat, maybe it's supposed to be like Black Kat.
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I don't know. Yeah, that's who she's supposed
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to be. Oh man, I didn't even think about that.
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I mean, some are obvious. I mean, you kept Sandman's
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name, Flint Marco. I'm like, okay, I know who
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that is. Right off the bat. I know who Sandman
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is. Even Robbie Robertson took me a minute because
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I'm like, I'm not super familiar with Spider
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-Man, but I'm like, Robbie Robertson, I know
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that name. I know that character. Oh, and then
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I looked him up and I'm like, oh, that guy. Right,
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right. He was even in the old Tobey Maguire movies.
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He was like the voice of reason at the Bugle.
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I'm not remembering. I don't know. Yeah, he was
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in those movies too. Oh, that was Robbie Roberts.
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Right, right. So he is a mainstay in the Spider
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-Man universe as well. I don't think the secretary,
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what's your name, Jan? Janet, Janice. Janet.
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Yeah, I don't know about Janet. I don't know
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about Silvermane. I don't know if he's a Spider
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-Man villain. He might be. I'm not familiar with
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Silvermane. I know Tombstone is. I'm familiar
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with Tombstone. Which was the guy with like the
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hard skin. That was supposed to be Tombstone.
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With this version of Tombstone. I didn't know
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who he was. I was like... I couldn't place that
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one. The electric guy, they called him Megawatt.
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But I don't know. I'm not familiar with Megawatt
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either. I don't know if that's like this universe's...
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Take on Electro or if Megawatt's actually a villain.
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I haven't looked that up either. I was assuming
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Electro, but. Yeah. I have also seen people say
00:20:10.700 --> 00:20:14.740
that this might be Peter Parker because there's
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one scene where somebody implies that Ben, that
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he changed his name after the war. So. Really?
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Yeah. So there is a pretty strong basis of a
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fan theory that this is just Peter Parker by
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a different name, which is funny because Ben
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Reilly is a Peter Parker clone in the comics.
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So like Ben Reilly is a character, he's Scarlet
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Spider. I'd actually be interested to see if
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Sony wanted to do a Scarlet Spider adaptation,
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more traditional Ben Reilly. Because usually
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Spider Noir is Peter Parker, but they just named
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him Ben Reilly. Which I've heard is because of
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a Sony contract thing. Like they're not allowed
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to show Peter Parker drinking or smoking or like
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engaging in any bad behavior if he doesn't have
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the symbiote suit or something weird. Like they're
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very restrictive on what they allow Peter Parker
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to do. That's fine. I don't care if he's Peter
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Parker or not. He's an interesting character
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on his own. Like, all right, Ben Reilly's a Spider
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-Man and they don't... They don't say crap about
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that. We can use that name. We're going to call
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him Ben Reilly. And that's Spider Noir now. And
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I love this take on Spider -Man. Like the old
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grizzled PI who's over the hill and his glory
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days are behind him. He's hung up the mask. He
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doesn't want to be Spider -Man anymore. Well,
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I also like that they played on it being kind
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of... sci -fi elements a little bit you know
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what i mean yep yeah like even the even the scoring
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behind some of it was like the trying to trying
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to remember an exact example but kind of like
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it felt more like classic fantasy scoring yeah
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it's just like in a hitchcock movie or something
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just yeah yeah that's that's kind of what i'm
00:22:18.150 --> 00:22:23.519
going for It just had those vibes of that and
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stuff like the way he gets his powers and kind
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of the science behind it. They kind of went with
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a mad science direction and I liked that it was
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a little bit of like a... If you were to take
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out the word superheroes or show this to somebody...
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It was like a 1930s... universal monster sort
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of thing you have like the guy who's like a man
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mixed with a spider bites him yeah uh you have
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like the freaks in the jars in in the basement
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that all died and they're all lined up and they're
00:23:02.140 --> 00:23:05.119
like oh these are our former comrades who all
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are in these jars and like mixes of animals and
00:23:09.690 --> 00:23:12.009
Weirdness like that. And we had the mad scientist
00:23:12.009 --> 00:23:14.430
who was picking up from the Nazis mad scientist
00:23:14.430 --> 00:23:17.930
experiments. Yeah, that kind of thing too. Strapping
00:23:17.930 --> 00:23:20.730
Spider -Man down in a lab basement and cutting
00:23:20.730 --> 00:23:23.289
open his liver to come up with a cure. Or it
00:23:23.289 --> 00:23:25.190
wasn't Nazis, was it? It was just Germans. It
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was just Germans. Because this was... World War
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I he fought in. Yeah, post -World War I. Yeah.
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1930s, Great Depression era. Yeah, I appreciate
00:23:36.210 --> 00:23:39.869
how... all that kind of tone but I also like
00:23:39.869 --> 00:23:42.549
how in classic noir fashion Ben Reilly's just
00:23:42.549 --> 00:23:46.970
a miserable bastard he's not he's not a good
00:23:46.970 --> 00:23:51.009
person I mean he well he acts like he's not a
00:23:51.009 --> 00:23:54.130
good person he puts on a front and I think Robbie's
00:23:54.130 --> 00:23:56.210
the Robbie and Janet know he's a good person
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which is why they stick by him and even their
00:23:58.109 --> 00:24:02.269
patience is tested but he's very much well I
00:24:02.269 --> 00:24:04.329
think it's summed up by that one line where he
00:24:04.329 --> 00:24:08.670
says he wants to cure himself because no power
00:24:08.670 --> 00:24:12.430
means no responsibility. I like that they waited
00:24:12.430 --> 00:24:16.230
until episode 7 to throw that out. Good spin
00:24:16.230 --> 00:24:20.670
for this universe. Just the idea that as Spider
00:24:20.670 --> 00:24:24.250
-Man he could be cured. It feels like a very
00:24:24.250 --> 00:24:26.930
Spider -Man story. His powers ruin his life.
00:24:27.069 --> 00:24:29.750
They drag him down a road he didn't really want
00:24:29.750 --> 00:24:33.150
to be. involved in anymore but he still feels
00:24:33.150 --> 00:24:36.029
responsibility because of the powers and oh here's
00:24:36.029 --> 00:24:39.029
a chance i might be able to cure myself and just
00:24:39.029 --> 00:24:42.410
live a normal life but then bad guys keep coming
00:24:42.410 --> 00:24:45.509
and well okay i guess i'm a hero after all i'll
00:24:45.509 --> 00:24:49.549
pick the good of new york over my good and suffer
00:24:49.549 --> 00:24:53.599
with these powers till the end of time uh because
00:24:53.599 --> 00:24:55.400
i couldn't help but do the right thing it's a
00:24:55.400 --> 00:24:58.259
very spider -man story that way i think it still
00:24:58.259 --> 00:25:00.920
echoes the the great power great responsibility
00:25:00.920 --> 00:25:03.599
because yeah he just acts like he doesn't want
00:25:03.599 --> 00:25:07.680
the responsibility but at that point even though
00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:10.480
he's like oh no powers no responsibility but
00:25:10.480 --> 00:25:13.380
in the moment he still has the powers he still
00:25:13.380 --> 00:25:15.799
has the responsibility and he follows through
00:25:15.799 --> 00:25:18.299
with his responsibility right to the end still
00:25:18.299 --> 00:25:21.200
ends up with powers so he still has the responsibility
00:25:22.429 --> 00:25:26.450
Yeah. He just really acts like it's something
00:25:26.450 --> 00:25:30.750
he wants to be rid of. Now, do you think if he
00:25:30.750 --> 00:25:35.329
still had more of the cure at the end, do you
00:25:35.329 --> 00:25:39.829
think he would have taken it? I think yes. Because
00:25:39.829 --> 00:25:41.970
that's what I was thinking too. I think he would
00:25:41.970 --> 00:25:45.410
have. Is that I still think he's not 100 % sold
00:25:45.410 --> 00:25:48.269
on, yeah, I want to be Spider -Man. No, no. I
00:25:48.269 --> 00:25:50.970
think he did it out of obligation. I mean, in
00:25:50.970 --> 00:25:53.710
his mind, What would he have left? He already
00:25:53.710 --> 00:25:57.450
quit being Spider -Man once. And then Silvermane's
00:25:57.450 --> 00:26:00.549
still out there, you know, running all the gangs
00:26:00.549 --> 00:26:02.869
in New York. He's a very high profile gangster,
00:26:02.990 --> 00:26:06.369
very dangerous person. All these freaks coming
00:26:06.369 -->
00:26:08.650
out of the woodwork, an electric guy, a sand
00:26:08.650 --> 00:26:12.509
guy. Wow. Okay. This is pretty crazy. He dealt
00:26:12.509 --> 00:26:15.049
with all that. Silvermane's gone. The gang's
00:26:15.049 --> 00:26:19.029
broken up. The bad guys are dead or on their
00:26:19.029 --> 00:26:21.940
way to something else. Flint and Cat are going
00:26:21.940 --> 00:26:25.759
off. They're cured. There's really no reason
00:26:25.759 --> 00:26:28.759
for a Spider -Man anymore. The reformist mayor
00:26:28.759 --> 00:26:32.140
got back into power. He's going to bring booze
00:26:32.140 --> 00:26:37.279
back. Yay. And like the city doesn't need Spider
00:26:37.279 --> 00:26:39.619
-Man anymore. Even Robbie got his job back. Like
00:26:39.619 --> 00:26:44.500
everyone ended up pretty well. And it's not like
00:26:44.500 --> 00:26:47.220
the show left open a tease of, oh, well, there's
00:26:47.220 --> 00:26:51.140
more to come. There's more. More deadly villain.
00:26:51.140 --> 00:26:53.220
That could be the end. It could be. Well, we
00:26:53.220 --> 00:26:55.700
know. It could be. I hope they do a season two.
00:26:55.920 --> 00:26:59.500
I hope so, too. But if they left it here, that
00:26:59.500 --> 00:27:03.400
wraps up okay. I don't know where you're going
00:27:03.400 --> 00:27:10.200
to go with it once you've eliminated this power
00:27:10.200 --> 00:27:13.900
virus. I think they've got a good thing because
00:27:13.900 --> 00:27:19.289
detective stories are... really easy to continue
00:27:19.289 --> 00:27:21.650
because stuff always continues to happen there's
00:27:21.650 --> 00:27:25.109
no he didn't really solve any huge mystery he
00:27:25.109 --> 00:27:29.289
solved one mystery crime yeah it involves some
00:27:29.289 --> 00:27:32.529
high figures but there's tons of other places
00:27:32.529 --> 00:27:34.869
they could go tons of other cases he could get
00:27:34.869 --> 00:27:37.990
there's lots they can do with that you know now
00:27:37.990 --> 00:27:39.690
that i'm thinking about it i would love to see
00:27:39.690 --> 00:27:42.720
i was thinking More in disappointment of, oh,
00:27:42.759 --> 00:27:44.940
well, now that we got rid of the animal characters,
00:27:45.059 --> 00:27:48.420
we can't see like a noir rhino or a noir scorpion
00:27:48.420 --> 00:27:50.900
or something. But then I'm like, oh, well, maybe
00:27:50.900 --> 00:27:52.900
I'd like to see what a noir version of Green
00:27:52.900 --> 00:27:55.599
Goblin looks like. Like, what does Norman Osborn
00:27:55.599 --> 00:27:58.339
look like in 1930s New York? Well, they hinted
00:27:58.339 --> 00:28:02.559
at Dr. Connors at one point. I missed that reference.
00:28:02.759 --> 00:28:05.180
Uh, when he, when he pretended to be crazy in
00:28:05.180 --> 00:28:08.180
her lab, he was like, Oh, uh, Dr. Connor. And
00:28:08.180 --> 00:28:11.019
she's like, Dr. Connor's lab is upstairs or something.
00:28:11.140 --> 00:28:14.039
Okay. I missed that. So he's, he's around. I
00:28:14.039 --> 00:28:15.740
don't know. I was looking out for that name too.
00:28:15.819 --> 00:28:18.640
And I somehow missed it. Yeah. He's not, uh,
00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:21.259
I'm like, okay, the genetic mutation in animals,
00:28:21.480 --> 00:28:25.920
lizard. Where's the lizard? Yeah. So he's probably
00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:28.140
going to be relevant or maybe it was just a name
00:28:28.140 --> 00:28:32.789
drop. Just, just for fun. Could just be. Yeah,
00:28:32.869 --> 00:28:36.569
there's a lot of potential if you wanted to keep
00:28:36.569 --> 00:28:41.849
this going. It's got a vibe. Nick Cage is great.
00:28:42.390 --> 00:28:46.089
Oh, yeah. He's... I love his Spider -Man voice.
00:28:46.529 --> 00:28:49.890
It's great. I think the hardest I laughed in
00:28:49.890 --> 00:28:52.289
the show was when Robbie was imitating him. He
00:28:52.289 --> 00:28:56.230
did it so well. And it was so perfect. Like,
00:28:56.269 --> 00:28:59.579
oh, what's that? I'm doing his voice. Yeah, you
00:28:59.579 --> 00:29:06.119
are. It's amazing. Oh, it was incredible. Like,
00:29:06.140 --> 00:29:07.920
we haven't gotten a heck of a lot of Spider -Man
00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:09.859
in this show, but I've seen enough that I know
00:29:09.859 --> 00:29:15.099
that's spot on. I also really liked the point
00:29:15.099 --> 00:29:18.240
when he's like, what? Janet, you, I'm the spider.
00:29:18.539 --> 00:29:25.099
I'm the spider. He's drunk all the time. He's
00:29:25.099 --> 00:29:28.339
just drunk all the time. Oh, I'm the spider.
00:29:28.599 --> 00:29:30.599
I just love how the first one was so blatant.
00:29:30.799 --> 00:29:36.960
Janet, I'm the spider. And you knew she knew?
00:29:37.980 --> 00:29:42.319
Yes. I also thought it was interesting what they
00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:46.579
did with the organic web fluid. I love the complication
00:29:46.579 --> 00:29:48.940
that even the organic web fluid can run out.
00:29:49.599 --> 00:29:52.619
That made it... Yeah. That made that... I'm like,
00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:54.759
okay, so Tobey Maguire's thing is cool, but,
00:29:54.759 --> 00:29:56.759
you know, we never got the classic Spider -Man
00:29:56.759 --> 00:29:59.180
web shooters running out of fluid with him because,
00:29:59.279 --> 00:30:03.119
I don't know, I guess at the time, Sam Raimi
00:30:03.119 --> 00:30:06.259
was like, hey, this is a cool idea, but organic,
00:30:06.440 --> 00:30:09.039
why would that run out? I think the idea was
00:30:09.039 --> 00:30:12.839
that his body was injured, right? Well, I think
00:30:12.839 --> 00:30:15.500
part of the idea is just that he's older and...
00:30:15.500 --> 00:30:18.579
Well, because he took, like, a huge hit to...
00:30:18.809 --> 00:30:20.630
Like, right before that was when he took the
00:30:20.630 --> 00:30:22.730
huge hit into the car windshield, and he was
00:30:22.730 --> 00:30:27.710
like... So I was like, oh, okay, so whatever
00:30:27.710 --> 00:30:31.230
produces
the webbing, he damaged his body, which
00:30:31.230 --> 00:30:33.490
is why it took him so long before he could use
00:30:33.490 --> 00:30:36.250
it again, is the way I interpreted it. I don't
00:30:36.250 --> 00:30:38.990
know if that's true or not, but that was what...
00:30:38.990 --> 00:30:41.690
Maybe. The way I interpret it is, I mean, to
00:30:41.690 --> 00:30:45.269
get a little... a little disgusting, I just figure
00:30:45.269 --> 00:30:48.220
any... A lot of fluids in your body just dry
00:30:48.220 --> 00:30:51.940
up eventually. Like you can only cry for so long.
00:30:52.019 --> 00:30:53.920
You can only have so much saliva in your mouth
00:30:53.920 --> 00:30:56.759
before your mouth goes dry. I figure this organic
00:30:56.759 --> 00:31:01.680
fluid is like other bodily fluids. It'll run
00:31:01.680 --> 00:31:04.279
out with enough use. I guess he wasted a lot
00:31:04.279 --> 00:31:06.619
in the scene before, did he not? Yeah, I think
00:31:06.619 --> 00:31:09.420
so. And they said he'd get it back after a rest.
00:31:09.579 --> 00:31:12.859
I'm like, okay, he's healing. He's recharging.
00:31:13.960 --> 00:31:15.940
I don't know. It tracks with how the human body
00:31:15.940 --> 00:31:18.680
works as I know it. That's true. If you wanted
00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:21.180
to make it an organic thing, that's reasonable
00:31:21.180 --> 00:31:25.759
to assume it's got a limited use. I also liked
00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:29.539
how they described his powers that like, like,
00:31:29.619 --> 00:31:32.859
oh, a spider doesn't, a spider uses hydraulics
00:31:32.859 --> 00:31:35.720
to move its, to move its limbs. I'm like, yeah.
00:31:35.859 --> 00:31:38.960
Oh, that's, and he's doing the, he's doing the
00:31:38.960 --> 00:31:41.660
thing with the arms. I'm like, that's weird.
00:31:42.589 --> 00:31:47.470
But cool. I had to have people point out that
00:31:47.470 --> 00:31:51.450
part of the problem with his powers is that he
00:31:51.450 --> 00:31:54.410
really does think like a spider and that he has
00:31:54.410 --> 00:31:56.710
to suppress his instincts all the time. Like
00:31:56.710 --> 00:31:59.690
if he didn't try to act human, like he said he
00:31:59.690 --> 00:32:03.170
had to go to movies to relearn how to socialize
00:32:03.170 --> 00:32:07.069
normally because like instinctually he is a spider.
00:32:08.349 --> 00:32:12.420
Which is like he really is a spider man. Who's
00:32:12.420 --> 00:32:16.299
trying to be human. Yeah. He's a lot, he's a
00:32:16.299 --> 00:32:20.140
lot weirder. He's like, like the spider person
00:32:20.140 --> 00:32:23.799
that bit him was like, okay, way too much spider
00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:27.079
in there. But how much transfers down? Like he's
00:32:27.079 --> 00:32:30.000
not just, he's not just got a little, he, he's
00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:34.579
like the step down from there. So it's not visible,
00:32:34.640 --> 00:32:39.359
but inside internally, he's weird. He's really
00:32:39.359 -->
00:32:43.619
weird. Yeah. yeah that's what makes him pretty
00:32:43.619 --> 00:32:47.539
interesting it it's a very once again this is
00:32:47.539 --> 00:32:50.960
another case of i really like what they did with
00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:52.539
this version of spider -man because it's still
00:32:52.539 --> 00:32:55.059
distinctly spider -man in every way i know him
00:32:55.059 --> 00:33:01.200
but also distinctly noir and something a fresh
00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:05.220
take on it that's like yes this feels like what
00:33:05.220 --> 00:33:07.519
i would think of a show called spider noir it
00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:11.549
feels It feels spot on to my expectations, but
00:33:11.549 --> 00:33:14.109
also still distinctly Spider -Man. Yeah, he's
00:33:14.109 --> 00:33:17.569
still got his wisecracking mouth the whole time.
00:33:17.910 --> 00:33:24.210
Yeah. Yeah, he still has rotten luck and can't
00:33:24.210 --> 00:33:26.589
get his way. He doesn't get the girl. He doesn't...
00:33:26.589 --> 00:33:32.009
Always loses. He always loses. Even when he's
00:33:32.009 --> 00:33:35.769
trying to succeed. I love the supporting cast
00:33:35.769 --> 00:33:41.289
in this show as well. the uh let's see uh the
00:33:41.289 --> 00:33:44.130
little newspaper kid he was great oh yeah he
00:33:44.130 --> 00:33:46.150
was he was good i didn't think he was gonna be
00:33:46.150 --> 00:33:48.849
you know like in it that much but he was he was
00:33:48.849 --> 00:33:51.470
in it quite a bit yeah i like even the little
00:33:51.470 --> 00:33:53.789
subplots like oh janet's trying to teach him
00:33:53.789 --> 00:33:59.509
grammar and he uh pickpockets the bad guys for
00:33:59.509 --> 00:34:04.430
ben reilly and the shoeshine kid he's just like
00:34:05.069 --> 00:34:07.309
I don't know, it's like Sherlock Holmes or something
00:34:07.309 --> 00:34:10.230
when he has the Baker Street Irregulars. It just
00:34:10.230 --> 00:34:12.130
feels true to that era where there's like a little
00:34:12.130 --> 00:34:15.409
kid sidekick who's hanging around. Where are
00:34:15.409 --> 00:34:20.449
his parents? In that era, it didn't matter. He
00:34:20.449 --> 00:34:23.230
just hangs out with middle -aged guys and fights
00:34:23.230 --> 00:34:29.889
crime. It's true to the source material in that
00:34:29.889 --> 00:34:35.460
regard. But yeah, I love the cast. I love Brendan
00:34:35.460 --> 00:34:38.619
Gleeson as Silvermane. He's such a good actor
00:34:38.619 --> 00:34:41.659
in everything. He was very good. And I feel like
00:34:41.659 --> 00:34:45.480
it takes a lot of skill to play a gangster character
00:34:45.480 --> 00:34:48.519
like this because it can be so easily one note.
00:34:49.800 --> 00:34:52.860
But he makes him a very layered character with
00:34:52.860 --> 00:34:55.079
a lot of personality in there. Like, oh, so you're
00:34:55.079 --> 00:35:00.789
just a guy without powers? Okay, sure. What are
00:35:00.789 --> 00:35:02.809
you going to be against Spider
-Man? Oh, you're
00:35:02.809 --> 00:35:09.670
a very compelling TV villain, actually. Because
00:35:09.670 --> 00:35:14.269
he's trying to get power everywhere, even with
00:35:14.269 --> 00:35:17.570
Cat Hardy. He has to pick all her songs, has
00:35:17.570 --> 00:35:21.210
to pick the clothes she wears. It makes her feel
00:35:21.210 --> 00:35:26.409
she can't get out of his grasp. It's his apartment.
00:35:28.230 --> 00:35:30.670
She wants to marry a dentist? Sorry, he's dead.
00:35:32.670 --> 00:35:35.250
Like, he doesn't act like, oh, I have all the
00:35:35.250 --> 00:35:39.130
power, but also he controls everything. Yeah.
00:35:40.829 --> 00:35:44.710
And I like that he just... If he wants somebody
00:35:44.710 --> 00:35:46.329
to work for him, he's like, you're working for
00:35:46.329 --> 00:35:52.170
me now. That's it. But I also like how he can
00:35:52.170 --> 00:35:55.130
get along with everybody as well. Even the people
00:35:55.130 --> 00:35:57.369
he's fighting with, he's always respectful to
00:35:57.369 --> 00:36:01.349
words. He always has this air of respect of,
00:36:01.409 --> 00:36:05.289
hey, okay, you know, I'm coming at you with an
00:36:05.289 --> 00:36:07.550
offer here, or I'm trying to have a conversation,
00:36:07.710 --> 00:36:10.010
and you're being rude to me, or you're challenging
00:36:10.010 --> 00:36:13.690
me, but fine, I'll play that game. But I'll keep
00:36:13.690 --> 00:36:17.369
my composure. I don't think he lost his temper
00:36:17.369 --> 00:36:20.519
very much at all. He was always... Pretty cool
00:36:20.519 --> 00:36:23.739
and businesslike the entire time. Even when he
00:36:23.739 --> 00:36:27.280
was getting emotional under the surface. But
00:36:27.280 --> 00:36:29.460
I also like how clinical he could be. Like, he
00:36:29.460 --> 00:36:32.820
just shot Winston. Okay. And he was joking about
00:36:32.820 --> 00:36:36.760
it for the rest of the show. Like, oh yeah, it's
00:36:36.760 --> 00:36:41.559
too bad Winston is in here. When he's trying
00:36:41.559 --> 00:36:44.780
to be more threatening. Like, okay, I shot my
00:36:44.780 --> 00:36:48.539
close. Loyal confidant. I will not hesitate to
00:36:48.539 --> 00:36:53.159
kill anybody else. Be aware. Mm -hmm. But he
00:36:53.159 --> 00:36:55.360
doesn't have to be overtly threatening about
00:36:55.360 --> 00:36:58.420
it. He can just... Yeah, okay, we saw what he
00:36:58.420 --> 00:37:02.199
did. I did love that bit with the marked bills,
00:37:02.320 --> 00:37:06.219
though. Oh, okay, so he marks all the bills,
00:37:06.300 --> 00:37:10.019
and I like Ben Reilly's ploy to get that bill
00:37:10.019 --> 00:37:14.469
into Winston's pocket. Mm -hmm. steal the other
00:37:14.469 --> 00:37:16.610
money from the safe, make it look like he's a
00:37:16.610 --> 00:37:21.230
thief. He has to move it all over the place to
00:37:21.230 --> 00:37:23.409
get there. He had to know a lot of information
00:37:23.409 --> 00:37:26.750
to be able to pull that off. It felt like a good
00:37:26.750 --> 00:37:29.070
combination of all the lore drops from the first
00:37:29.070 --> 00:37:31.769
few episodes. Like, oh, okay, so this is how
00:37:31.769 --> 00:37:35.010
it's all tying in together. I thought it was
00:37:35.010 --> 00:37:42.130
very well written. Tied in nicely. So... Do I
00:37:42.130 --> 00:37:46.409
have anything else to say? Nick Cage looks great
00:37:46.409 --> 00:37:50.170
in the suit. It's just a really awesome suit.
00:37:52.130 --> 00:37:55.070
It's aura. I like that the eyes light up. Yeah.
00:37:55.289 --> 00:38:01.090
It was cool. And this is an uncommon thing for
00:38:01.090 --> 00:38:03.110
me, but I actually really like the theme song.
00:38:03.570 --> 00:38:07.510
Just the whole title sequence. It's very rare
00:38:07.510 --> 00:38:13.340
that I watch the title sequence. I mean, most
00:38:13.340 --> 00:38:16.739
shows don't have title sequences to watch. That's
00:38:16.739 --> 00:38:19.019
true. But I really like this one. I like the
00:38:19.019 --> 00:38:22.280
Peacemaker title sequences as well. There's very
00:38:22.280 --> 00:38:26.480
few that I quite enjoy, but this set the vibe
00:38:26.480 --> 00:38:30.159
to me. And also is a good argument for why I
00:38:30.159 --> 00:38:32.139
think this show was originally planned to be
00:38:32.139 --> 00:38:34.019
in black and white. There's no color version
00:38:34.019 --> 00:38:37.469
of the title sequence. There isn't. Oh, yeah.
00:38:37.590 --> 00:38:41.090
Okay. The title sequence is full black and white,
00:38:41.170 --> 00:38:46.130
both versions. So, I think that was the idea.
00:38:47.429 --> 00:38:52.170
It really feels like the color was... I feel
00:38:52.170 --> 00:38:55.329
like it wasn't the creator's initial idea to
00:38:55.329 --> 00:38:59.250
do any color, actually. That seems like a studio
00:38:59.250 --> 00:39:04.030
move to be like, we want color. But I'm glad
00:39:04.030 --> 00:39:07.030
that they went with... having both because i
00:39:07.030 --> 00:39:08.989
know there's people there's a lot of people who
00:39:08.989 --> 00:39:12.969
won't watch it in black and white yeah but they
00:39:12.969 --> 00:39:15.989
still make they still they still went creative
00:39:15.989 --> 00:39:18.309
with the color they didn't just slap color on
00:39:18.309 --> 00:39:22.190
it they did put some effort into the color but
00:39:22.190 --> 00:39:25.829
you can there are certain tells you're like no
00:39:25.829 --> 00:39:28.750
this was specifically shot for black and white
00:39:28.750 --> 00:39:34.349
but yeah it's got a big They got to make money
00:39:34.349 --> 00:39:36.829
on it. They got to make it accessible for people
00:39:36.829 --> 00:39:39.469
who refuse to watch anything in black and white.
00:39:40.449 --> 00:39:42.989
It's a very rare case of having your cake and
00:39:42.989 --> 00:39:46.090
eating it too. Yeah, we got both. You get to
00:39:46.090 --> 00:39:49.409
have the vision that was
probably the artistic
00:39:49.409 --> 00:39:52.409
vision to start. And then also the marketable
00:39:52.409 --> 00:39:56.070
palette version, which also had an artistic style
00:39:56.070 --> 00:39:59.110
to it. So like, once again, whoever this team
00:39:59.110 --> 00:40:02.730
is, they managed to have it all. Yeah. Well,
00:40:02.730 --> 00:40:06.510
it's... When have you ever been like, oh, click,
00:40:06.690 --> 00:40:09.909
oh, which version do you want to watch? I'm like,
00:40:09.969 --> 00:40:15.070
oh, that's interesting. Yep. It's just cool.
00:40:15.130 --> 00:40:17.949
That's a brand new feature to me. As far as I'm
00:40:17.949 --> 00:40:19.789
aware, I haven't seen that on any other streaming
00:40:19.789 --> 00:40:25.789
service. No. That's pretty unique. So they had
00:40:25.789 --> 00:40:29.289
to have a whole... feature designed for the show
00:40:29.289 --> 00:40:31.869
i feel like the only time i've ever seen something
00:40:31.869 --> 00:40:35.429
like that was in um black mirror bandersnatch
00:40:35.429 --> 00:40:38.489
yeah that was it was very i remember that being
00:40:38.489 --> 00:40:41.710
similar or was like oh a or b which path sort
00:40:41.710 --> 00:40:45.070
of thing but i guess yeah i guess it's the same
00:40:45.070 --> 00:40:49.210
but it like that was trying to be a choose your
00:40:49.210 --> 00:40:51.989
own adventure book this is like i don't know
00:40:51.989 --> 00:40:55.679
it's a whole product like They did an entire
00:40:55.679 --> 00:40:58.360
separate color grade for the show. That's a lot
00:40:58.360 --> 00:41:00.000
of work. Yeah, I've just never seen anything
00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:03.579
like that. Like, that was really... Like, if
00:41:03.579 --> 00:41:05.440
you think about it, it's an eight -episode show,
00:41:05.559 --> 00:41:09.460
and they did 16 episodes of color grades. Basically,
00:41:09.599 --> 00:41:13.460
yeah. Like, it was a lot of extra effort. It
00:41:13.460 --> 00:41:16.699
wasn't just like, oh, for the people who think,
00:41:16.800 --> 00:41:19.940
oh, making black and white's easy. Like, no,
00:41:20.179 --> 00:41:22.829
it's still a... It's still a color grade. I think
00:41:22.829 --> 00:41:25.670
black and white takes even longer to do it correctly.
00:41:26.230 --> 00:41:29.150
Yeah, it's still effort. It's not just turn the
00:41:29.150 --> 00:41:35.369
color off. So it wasn't just an easy fix for,
00:41:35.489 --> 00:41:38.449
oh, we want it to be in black and white. All
00:41:38.449 --> 00:41:43.389
right, snap your fingers. Well, I thought the
00:41:43.389 --> 00:41:46.050
black and white was going to be a gimmick at
00:41:46.050 --> 00:41:49.429
first. Like I was like, oh, okay, whatever. They
00:41:49.429 --> 00:41:53.079
just. what'd they do slap a black and white filter
00:41:53.079 --> 00:41:56.679
over it wow okay then i'm like oh wait they actually
00:41:56.679 --> 00:42:01.239
shot this for black and white okay that that
00:42:01.239 --> 00:42:04.780
to me right there i went oh that means that was
00:42:04.780 --> 00:42:07.960
the the intent was to do black and white okay
00:42:07.960 --> 00:42:10.079
that's a big difference that's like that's like
00:42:10.079 --> 00:42:12.460
going to see a movie in imax or going to see
00:42:12.460 --> 00:42:15.380
a movie shot for imax that's a huge difference
00:42:15.380 --> 00:42:18.829
for sure right for sure I think one thing I also
00:42:18.829 --> 00:42:21.349
enjoyed about it, just the wish fulfillment of
00:42:21.349 --> 00:42:23.210
how many times have you watched an all black
00:42:23.210 --> 00:42:25.929
and white movie and appreciated the costumes
00:42:25.929 --> 00:42:27.909
and thought, oh man, I wish I could see this
00:42:27.909 --> 00:42:30.909
in color. That's true. Just to see what that
00:42:30.909 --> 00:42:32.889
would look like in color. Oh, that like really
00:42:32.889 --> 00:42:37.010
fancy show dress, Cat Hardy's singing it. I wonder
00:42:37.010 --> 00:42:38.889
what that looks like in color. Oh, I can just
00:42:38.889 --> 00:42:42.070
flip and see now. Wow, that's a really nice dress
00:42:42.070 --> 00:42:46.010
in color. Too bad I didn't have to see that in
00:42:46.010 --> 00:42:51.940
black and white. exclusively so yeah it kind
00:42:51.940 --> 00:42:55.619
of gives you the wow we get to see both like
00:42:55.619 --> 00:42:59.639
i remember there was um i didn't check this out
00:42:59.639 --> 00:43:02.340
but i remember late in the show after he did
00:43:02.340 --> 00:43:05.539
his surgeries and everything there was um janet
00:43:05.539 --> 00:43:08.539
mentioned multiple yeah You mentioned that multiple
00:43:08.539 --> 00:43:10.960
times and I never flipped over to see what the
00:43:10.960 --> 00:43:13.139
actual color grade looked like. If you, there
00:43:13.139 --> 00:43:15.159
were, there was a shot where, where he turned,
00:43:15.219 --> 00:43:17.820
where you could tell that he was a bit more kind
00:43:17.820 --> 00:43:22.059
of bruised his skin almost. Yeah. Like there
00:43:22.059 --> 00:43:25.460
was one, one part, but I was, but knowing that
00:43:25.460 --> 00:43:28.199
it was black and white, that's probably why they
00:43:28.199 --> 00:43:31.099
both like, I think Robbie and her were both like,
00:43:31.179 --> 00:43:34.320
Oh yeah, he's yellow. Several times to be like,
00:43:34.539 --> 00:43:36.840
Hey. Because we're not going to be able to see
00:43:36.840 --> 00:43:41.760
this. Yeah. And I didn't watch that one in color,
00:43:41.820 --> 00:43:44.239
but that's one where I'd be like, okay, I'm curious
00:43:44.239 --> 00:43:47.639
now. I want to see what he looks like. Maybe
00:43:47.639 --> 00:43:50.039
he was as yellow as a banana peel. We don't know.
00:43:50.139 --> 00:43:51.380
He might have been. He could have just been like
00:43:51.380 --> 00:43:53.619
total. Because I think that happens. I think
00:43:53.619 --> 00:43:55.219
you get jaundiced when you mess with the liver.
00:43:57.199 --> 00:43:59.719
So I'm like, when I heard they said yellow, I'm
00:43:59.719 --> 00:44:01.360
like, okay, well, they cut his liver open. I
00:44:01.360 --> 00:44:04.650
think I've heard that about livers. making people
00:44:04.650 --> 00:44:11.690
yellow huh well i don't know what to rate this
00:44:11.690 --> 00:44:17.269
one i'm on the fence i don't know if i'm gonna
00:44:17.269 --> 00:44:23.030
get it up to a must see i think at bare minimum
00:44:23.030 --> 00:44:26.230
it's bare minimum it's pretty darn good i don't
00:44:26.230 --> 00:44:29.909
know if i can call it must see because as far
00:44:29.909 --> 00:44:36.559
as like uh script goes it's a good script but
00:44:36.559 --> 00:44:39.960
i feel like it's the is the scripting that lets
00:44:39.960 --> 00:44:42.260
it down if anything and it's not even it's not
00:44:42.260 --> 00:44:44.460
even bad it's just that the technical merits
00:44:44.460 --> 00:44:47.960
based on technical merits alone i would say oh
00:44:47.960 --> 00:44:51.079
it's it it's a must -see for like just really
00:44:51.079 --> 00:44:54.260
well -made tv but as a complete package like
00:44:54.260 --> 00:44:57.530
the acting's great the you know We said the costumes,
00:44:57.690 --> 00:45:00.090
the set design, the camera work, like everything
00:45:00.090 --> 00:45:02.570
technically is great, but the script is like,
00:45:02.590 --> 00:45:05.849
if you just care about the story, is it really
00:45:05.849 --> 00:45:09.789
a lot better than an above average crime drama?
00:45:09.969 --> 00:45:14.070
I don't know if I can say it is. I think that,
00:45:14.130 --> 00:45:17.349
yeah, the story is what holds it back from being
00:45:17.349 --> 00:45:20.670
like really, really good. It's good, but I think
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it's above average good as far as story goes.
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Everything else is incredible. So that's why
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I don't know if I can... For me, I know it's
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an easy thumbs up, but it's that... Yeah, I know.
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That's my problem. Is it going to go one more?
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I don't know. If the script had really blown
00:45:36.760 --> 00:45:39.679
me away, it would be an easy must -see. Because
00:45:39.679 --> 00:45:44.420
of the technical, but it's just... This is the
00:45:44.420 --> 00:45:46.440
problem with critique. I don't know where the
00:45:46.440 --> 00:45:49.980
line is. You got to feel it out. I'm going to
00:45:49.980 --> 00:45:52.800
leave mine on a thumbs up. Because, you know
00:45:52.800 --> 00:45:55.900
what? If we get a season two... and they they
00:45:55.900 --> 00:46:00.119
amplify the script a bit more maybe that'll push
00:46:00.119 --> 00:46:02.980
it even higher because they've obviously got
00:46:02.980 --> 00:46:05.199
the technical stuff down they've got all that
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down really well yeah i think i'm gonna leave
00:46:08.380 --> 00:46:10.840
it at a pretty darn good because i can't say
00:46:10.840 --> 00:46:15.659
that for everybody or even the most majority
00:46:15.659 --> 00:46:18.659
of people it's a must -see because i feel like
00:46:18.659 --> 00:46:20.920
people don't care as much as i do about the technical
00:46:20.920 --> 00:46:24.309
side And they're just watching a story, which
00:46:24.309 --> 00:46:26.909
is a pretty good story, but it's not a must -see
00:46:26.909 --> 00:46:31.110
story. If you like the technical stuff, then
00:46:31.110 --> 00:46:35.010
it's a must -see for sure. Yes. But as a complete
00:46:35.010 --> 00:46:38.809
package, I'm going to say pretty darn good. So
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that's Spider Noir and our first episode in five
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weeks. I'm sorry. I hope the next one... I'm
00:46:44.730 --> 00:46:47.710
not. Well, I mean, the vacations were pretty
00:46:47.710 --> 00:46:51.869
fun. But I don't know what the next one will
00:46:51.869 --> 00:46:56.409
be. Maybe I think Vox Machina is too late. Disclosure
00:46:56.409 --> 00:47:01.250
Day has already come out. Who knows? Maybe it'll
00:47:01.250 --> 00:47:05.050
be Toy Story 5. No, it won't be because Justin
00:47:05.050 --> 00:47:08.550
doesn't watch Toy Story. I don't like it. Come
00:47:08.550 --> 00:47:10.789
at him in the comments. I don't think he even
00:47:10.789 --> 00:47:13.570
got to the third one. I got halfway through the
00:47:13.570 --> 00:47:16.610
third one. Okay. That's it. Forget about 4 and
00:47:16.610 --> 00:47:19.880
5. There's five of them? This is the fifth one
00:47:19.880 --> 00:47:22.900
right now. No, I'm not watching another one.
00:47:24.260 --> 00:47:26.539
Yeah, there's Toy Story 5. There's The Death
00:47:26.539 --> 00:47:29.539
of Robin Hood. Super Earl's coming out in a couple
00:47:29.539 --> 00:47:34.340
weeks. Maybe we'll do that one. We will see.
00:47:34.480 --> 00:47:38.480
Or maybe we'll skip back and do... Leisure Lists.
00:47:38.760 --> 00:47:42.269
A Leisure List. Catch you up on all the ones
00:47:42.269 --> 00:47:44.630
since the last Pleasure List. I could talk about
00:47:44.630 --> 00:47:50.130
all the stuff I watched on the plane. Yeah. I
00:47:50.130 --> 00:47:54.349
binged through Neon Genesis on my train. But
00:47:54.349 --> 00:47:56.070
we probably won't talk about that until Anime
00:47:56.070 --> 00:48:00.690
October. I watched both Wicked 1 and 2. Wicked
00:48:00.690 --> 00:48:04.889
1 and 2. The second one fell off hard. Both of
00:48:04.889 --> 00:48:07.329
those are the worst musicals I've ever seen in
00:48:07.329 --> 00:48:10.750
my life. Come at me. I loved the first one. I
00:48:10.750 --> 00:48:13.489
love the first part, but the second one was terrible.
00:48:14.550 --> 00:48:20.190
The music is the worst example of just singing
00:48:20.190 --> 00:48:24.130
the dialogue instead of an actual musical number.
00:48:24.210 --> 00:48:27.730
It's just singing the
dialogue at random portions.
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Brutal. Well, I don't really have a problem with
00:48:33.789 --> 00:48:36.409
the music. There's a lot I like about those Wicked
00:48:36.409 --> 00:48:37.949
movies. No, no, no. I don't think there's a single
00:48:37.949 --> 00:48:39.630
song in any of those that you could be like,
00:48:39.710 --> 00:48:41.630
yeah, I'm going to listen to the song. Because
00:48:41.630 --> 00:48:43.409
there's not a single song that's even a complete
00:48:43.409 --> 00:48:49.210
song. There's not even one. Yeah. The thing about
00:48:49.210 --> 00:48:51.909
Wicked I remember is that I didn't really know
00:48:51.909 --> 00:48:54.449
any of the songs going in. And it was just, oh,
00:48:54.590 --> 00:48:56.869
I remember hearing some of these in high school
00:48:56.869 --> 00:48:59.710
because I was a theater kid and all the music
00:48:59.710 --> 00:49:03.000
and theater kids. I sang these at various points
00:49:03.000 --> 00:49:04.880
and I never knew what they were. And then I watched
00:49:04.880 --> 00:49:06.980
the movie. I'm like, oh, that's what that's from.
00:49:07.079 --> 00:49:10.800
OK. So it was just that I'm like, oh, this song's
00:49:10.800 --> 00:49:12.840
been stuck in my head for years. And this is
00:49:12.840 --> 00:49:16.739
what it's from. Got it. Yeah, I was not impressed.
00:49:17.960 --> 00:49:21.500
Fair. I remember the first one I think was I
00:49:21.500 --> 00:49:25.619
said was pretty good. The second one, not good.
00:49:27.549 --> 00:49:29.329
Yeah, I was not impressed with the music, and
00:49:29.329 --> 00:49:31.789
I thought the story in both of them was pretty
00:49:31.789 --> 00:49:37.010
mid. Yeah. So maybe we'll do a leisure list in
00:49:37.010 --> 00:49:40.210
two weeks. Who knows? We will see what happens.
00:49:40.349 --> 00:49:43.369
But that's like my whole leisure list, Joe. Wicked
00:49:43.369 --> 00:49:45.829
1 and 2. That's it. That's all I've watched since
00:49:45.829 --> 00:49:48.590
the last leisure list that was like eight months
00:49:48.590 --> 00:49:53.969
ago. Let's see. Today is June 15th. What have
00:49:53.969 --> 00:49:59.409
I finished just in June? Oh, no. Let's see. Just
00:49:59.409 --> 00:50:04.349
in June, I finished X -Men 1992, Season 5, Adult,
00:50:04.610 --> 00:50:08.130
Season 1, Neon Genesis, Evangelion, The End of
00:50:08.130 --> 00:50:12.190
Evangelion, Masters of the Universe movie, Veep,
00:50:12.230 --> 00:50:15.650
Season 1, Star Trek Lower Decks, Season 5, Fleabag,
00:50:15.710 --> 00:50:19.190
Season 1, Spider Noir, and the old Will Smith
00:50:19.190 --> 00:50:21.659
superhero movie, Hancock. Which I just watched
00:50:21.659 --> 00:50:25.260
yesterday. Well, that one's good. The first half
00:50:25.260 --> 00:50:28.780
is good. Okay, yes. And it fell off very hard.
00:50:28.860 --> 00:50:30.900
It fell off very hard in the middle. I remember
00:50:30.900 --> 00:50:34.579
it being entertaining at least. Yeah, that's
00:50:34.579 --> 00:50:36.239
part of my journey to watch. This is just June?
00:50:37.199 --> 00:50:38.880
That's when I finished in June. We're only halfway
00:50:38.880 --> 00:50:42.280
through. All those TV shows, when it comes to
00:50:42.280 --> 00:50:44.699
TV shows, I just note what I finish in a month.
00:50:44.820 --> 00:50:49.010
I start them way back. Okay, I was really scared
00:50:49.010 --> 00:50:51.489
because I'm like... All the movies, I watched
00:50:51.489 --> 00:50:54.170
this month. All the shows, I ended this month.
00:50:55.489 --> 00:50:58.650
You know what? We should do a leisure list. Maybe.
00:50:58.769 --> 00:51:00.570
Let's do a leisure list. I'll have to narrow
00:51:00.570 --> 00:51:03.170
it down. We gotta finish this episode. Yeah.
00:51:03.969 --> 00:51:07.010
The last five minutes were meandering. But yeah,
00:51:07.130 --> 00:51:09.590
that's the end. Where can we find you? You can
00:51:09.590 --> 00:51:12.739
find me on Instagram at jchurchtpm. And you can
00:51:12.739 --> 00:51:15.519
find me on Instagram at ThoughtPlaneMedia. More
00:51:15.519 --> 00:51:18.760
importantly, go to ThoughtPlane .ca for everything
00:51:18.760 --> 00:51:22.320
else up to close -up, other written reviews,
00:51:22.760 --> 00:51:26.920
head -to -head. I hope we get prompt four done
00:51:26.920 --> 00:51:29.880
before the end of the heat death of the universe.
00:51:31.260 --> 00:51:34.480
There's also close -up uncut. Close -up uncut.
00:51:34.559 --> 00:51:38.119
For us saying things that we wouldn't usually
00:51:38.119 --> 00:51:42.389
say on close -up. Yeah. Or, you know. It's mostly
00:51:42.389 --> 00:51:44.170
just conversations before we start recording.
00:51:44.329 --> 00:51:46.730
It's actually pretty funny. I like that you do
00:51:46.730 --> 00:51:49.250
it. You know, you get the three, two, one in
00:51:49.250 --> 00:51:52.230
there. That's where it ends. It's great. Bloopers
00:51:52.230 --> 00:51:55.809
from our old movies and sketches and stuff are
00:51:55.809 --> 00:52:00.170
on there, too, for exclusive content. We got
00:52:00.170 --> 00:52:03.610
stuff on the website. Most of it's for free.
00:52:04.409 --> 00:52:09.530
You can enjoy. So, until next time. Bye -bye.
00:52:09.650 --> 00:52:16.929
See you in five weeks. I hope not see you in
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five weeks what a monster