Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Rob
Speaker 1: trend Right formerly Robin Right Trend. I am Jack, that
Speaker 1: is super producer Becca Romo. Hello, how are you? I'm good?
Speaker 1: How are you? I mean? You know how? I am
Speaker 1: just buzzing over the plans for this new DC universe.
Speaker 1: Whoa and a new ding movie. Two. That's what we're
Speaker 1: gonna kick it off with. Two just box office bo
Speaker 1: banger ideas coming out of Hollywood. Um so the first one.
Speaker 1: James Gunn's name is trending. James Gunn is the director
Speaker 1: of one of the Suicide Squads. Um I believe the
Speaker 1: superior of the Suicide Squads. I thought his was fun.
Speaker 1: But they've basically turned the keys for the d C
Speaker 1: universe over to him and Peter Saffren, who I'm not
Speaker 1: really familiar with. And they basically started running the DC
Speaker 1: studios three months ago, and today they had their first
Speaker 1: major announcement of like what what things look like going forward,
Speaker 1: and it's basically they're going to like try and be Marvel.
Speaker 1: They're still gonna make room for like one off movies
Speaker 1: like Joker and the Batman, The Batman and Teen Titans Go.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm not familiar with that one, but well,
Speaker 1: from my understanding, Teen Titans Go, if I'm correct, is
Speaker 1: pulling from the animated show Teen Titans Go. Um. I
Speaker 1: used to be a fan of it. It used to
Speaker 1: be on Cartoon Networks when I was a kid. It
Speaker 1: seems like it's still on base from my quick little google.
Speaker 1: But I didn't know they were making a full fledged
Speaker 1: film out of it, So yeah, maybe not. Maybe they're
Speaker 1: just saying that show is like its own standalone thing.
Speaker 1: Those will be explicitly labeled as d C else Worlds,
Speaker 1: so they're like, our big plan is to kind of
Speaker 1: continue doing the same thing, but put a title on
Speaker 1: our most popular movies that is diminishing to them, and
Speaker 1: the ones that actually work, the ones people like. We're
Speaker 1: going to people seem to really like. Those are separate
Speaker 1: from everything we've worked on that people hate. I mean,
Speaker 1: I have a lot of thoughts. I am a I
Speaker 1: don't know a superhero movie goer. I do enjoy the
Speaker 1: m c U over the d C Universe. I just
Speaker 1: think they've done way better world building. Obviously. I think
Speaker 1: there's a crux between either of them in the sense
Speaker 1: that like a Marvel movie is now a very specific
Speaker 1: type of movie, and they've done a really great job
Speaker 1: at integrating all of them and like getting people excited
Speaker 1: because there's just like so many stories that like innerlock
Speaker 1: and like tie together. But you know, at the detriment
Speaker 1: of bringing in new talent into the universe. I do
Speaker 1: think they have a machine and they're like, you must
Speaker 1: fit into our template, and if you don't, your movie
Speaker 1: will fail. And I think that was very much um
Speaker 1: the case with the Eternals. You know, like that was
Speaker 1: a big fail I think in the m c U
Speaker 1: because you're trying to take a director who does not
Speaker 1: film in that style and it's very successful in what
Speaker 1: they do, and you're inserting them into the Marvel universe,
Speaker 1: whereas a DC, I think it's had the opposite problem
Speaker 1: where nothing is cohesive, Like they have all these different
Speaker 1: storylines and in theory, you know, that's the difference between
Speaker 1: DC and Marvel comics is that they are less intertwined
Speaker 1: the Marvel's universe, but they have no cohesion and it's
Speaker 1: just feels like random superhero movies. And I don't think
Speaker 1: they've been able to get into a groove where people
Speaker 1: are coming to see DC movies like DC is just
Speaker 1: time and time again unless it is a Batman or
Speaker 1: a Joker has failed to mark. Yeah, I mean so
Speaker 1: the ones that they are going with, So they were
Speaker 1: like this not that, So the not that being the
Speaker 1: Joker franchise now because there there is going to be
Speaker 1: a Joker two with Harley Quinn and there's going to
Speaker 1: be more, Yeah, Lady Gaga, there's going to be more
Speaker 1: the Batman's um and they are like, so not those
Speaker 1: those are else world. We disowned them, but like not officially,
Speaker 1: but like you know, the ones that we're going with
Speaker 1: are the Flash, which has been I think in the
Speaker 1: can for a while and was delayed by all the
Speaker 1: Ezra Miller being announcement that they announced changing who the
Speaker 1: Flash is going to be. I think they're just going
Speaker 1: with the Flash, I thought, I don't know. Also Shasm two,
Speaker 1: uh right now, did you know we did talk about
Speaker 1: that on yesterday's trending he's a libertarian? Uh An Aquaban too.
Speaker 1: I think they also mentioned which does seem like those
Speaker 1: were not the ones that are like, those are not
Speaker 1: the universes that I thought people were most excited about
Speaker 1: in the DC world. So you know, it's just to
Speaker 1: me it feels like them being like the problem is
Speaker 1: there's too many overlapping worlds. There's too much you know,
Speaker 1: like we have the same character being played by multiple
Speaker 1: actors and that makes people mad and is not as
Speaker 1: you know, profitable as as Marvel. But I don't know,
Speaker 1: like the it seems like the things that have been
Speaker 1: working is that they can as opposed to Marvel, like
Speaker 1: do these one off like Joker movie in the style
Speaker 1: of the seventies, like a seventies Scorsese movie, or you know,
Speaker 1: I'd be like, well, that Suicide Squad movie wasn't good,
Speaker 1: I'm going to make a different one. But because he
Speaker 1: was the maker of one of the Suicide Squad movies
Speaker 1: and it was the superior one, but it was also
Speaker 1: like not seen by that many people because it came
Speaker 1: out during the pandemic, and maybe he told himself a
Speaker 1: story about like, well it was because there there's too
Speaker 1: much overlap and stuff. They've really doubled down on this
Speaker 1: idea that we've got to fix it by doing what
Speaker 1: Marvel did sixteen years ago exactly, And I just don't
Speaker 1: know that that is going to be the solution that
Speaker 1: they think it is. But we'll see Superman Legacy. Is
Speaker 1: Henry Calvill coming back. I believe he's out a Superman
Speaker 1: if if my keeping one half closed eye on the
Speaker 1: internet hubbub, I do believe that he is out and
Speaker 1: will no longer be playing Superman. Yeah. And Ryan Reynolds
Speaker 1: was the Greenland turn. But did they get a new
Speaker 1: Green Lantern? Yeah? Then so some of the stuff that announced,
Speaker 1: like HBO series called Lanterns that is like True Detective
Speaker 1: with green lantern, Space Cops, Um, the Brave and the
Speaker 1: Bold is like the Batman movie that they're endorsing as
Speaker 1: opposed to the Matt Reeves one that I think people
Speaker 1: were at least were like, all right, I mean this
Speaker 1: was different enough to justify it being a Batman movie.
Speaker 1: And yes, Superman Legacy is coming in July eleven five.
Speaker 1: I don't know what really what that's going to be,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. I got people talking, But like
Speaker 1: in terms of an overall vision, I am a little
Speaker 1: bit confused by it, as I am with this other announcement,
Speaker 1: which is Robert Zemeckis, who hasn't made a good movie
Speaker 1: since he became obsessed with computer effects. So he made
Speaker 1: back to the future, back to the future too Forrest Gump,
Speaker 1: which eminently watchable though very problematic and so problematic, not
Speaker 1: a great movie. But and then like he fell into
Speaker 1: the like making Beowulf and then the you know a
Speaker 1: Christmas Carol Starr and Polar Express and the Computer that
Speaker 1: is a movie I've seen way too many times because
Speaker 1: my son was obsessed with trance for a little bit.
Speaker 1: But he made that strange Marwin movie, so he is no.
Speaker 1: So he didn't do Gemini Man, but I saw a
Speaker 1: chunk of Gemini Man. Gemini Man is the biggest movie,
Speaker 1: like the biggest gamble on d aging technology. Gemini Man
Speaker 1: was a movie where they were like, okay, Will Smith
Speaker 1: and Will Smith like so it's like current Will Smith
Speaker 1: versus younger, d aged computer d aged Will Smith. And
Speaker 1: it's directed by Angle. There's some cool action sequences in it,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't work because the d aged Will Smith
Speaker 1: looks like a computer, like a video game cut scene, Like,
Speaker 1: it doesn't look like Will Smith. Because we all know
Speaker 1: what young Wilson. He's been on TV since it was,
Speaker 1: you know, seventeen. So he has announced that he is
Speaker 1: partnering with Tom Hanks and Robin Right to make a
Speaker 1: movie in which like I guess it's based on a
Speaker 1: graphic novel that all takes place in a single room.
Speaker 1: It's called Here, and it's like takes place in a
Speaker 1: single room as like people aged throughout time, so you
Speaker 1: see the scenes that people had in this room over
Speaker 1: the course of their lives. Cool concept. Um, it feels
Speaker 1: like this is not the way to go about bringing
Speaker 1: it to life because the the big announcement is that
Speaker 1: he is partnering with the AI affirm that made the
Speaker 1: deep fake Tom Cruise videos. So they're like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean those were more convincing than Gemini. Man, that's true. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I think it's more just the idea of deep bake technology,
Speaker 1: you know, like it's such a scary ground to be
Speaker 1: walking in water, to be walking in I guess, yes,
Speaker 1: but I'll be intrigued. Yeah, it could, it could be interesting.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Roberts mackis, you know, he's he's just
Speaker 1: going to keep doing it until he gets it right
Speaker 1: with the computer animation. Um, so we'll see. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break, we'll come right back, and
Speaker 1: we're back and we're on real Hollywood kick today. Because
Speaker 1: there's a scandal about the best Actress category of the Oscars.
Speaker 1: When that category the nominees were announced, everyone was like,
Speaker 1: to who now what is Leslie? Who? Who? Who is Leslie? Um,
Speaker 1: this is Andrea Rice Borro performance in a film to Leslie?
Speaker 1: Which is it made like twenty thousand dollars the box office,
Speaker 1: So everyone was like, well, nobody tho dollars in the
Speaker 1: box office. Everyone's like an independent film in a limited release,
Speaker 1: so it already did not have a ton of traction
Speaker 1: to go see it because it had a limited run
Speaker 1: and it was a first time directorial debut from the
Speaker 1: director Michael Morris, so you know, it was just a
Speaker 1: very obscure movie. Yeah, and there's usually some sort of
Speaker 1: bar for like number of people that have seen a
Speaker 1: thing for it to get nominated. Um. I think that
Speaker 1: probably that bars also has something to do with big
Speaker 1: studios investing the money in the campaign too. So the
Speaker 1: thing the Academy is saying, they're coming back. They're saying, look,
Speaker 1: we're not going to take away the nomination, but we
Speaker 1: are going to take a hard look at the tactics
Speaker 1: that the director of this film used to target some
Speaker 1: of the Academy voters via social media, and that just
Speaker 1: it feels a little like, okay, but so are you
Speaker 1: gonna look at the tactics that all studios and all
Speaker 1: all the people who spend money on four year consideration
Speaker 1: campaigns out here use. Yeah, like that's and also it's
Speaker 1: just like I don't understand how this one movie is
Speaker 1: the glaring issue versus the historic goal issues of racism
Speaker 1: with the Academy voting and promotion and and not even
Speaker 1: just racism in the terms of purposely not choosing any
Speaker 1: black or brown actors, but also in the marketing dollars
Speaker 1: those movies get, you know, the lack of promotion they
Speaker 1: get and the lack of proper targeting that they get
Speaker 1: because they simply do not have the budgets that these
Speaker 1: other films do because of their cast list or whatever
Speaker 1: may have you. So I hope they take a good
Speaker 1: look at how they're doing voting in general across the board.
Speaker 1: I think the Golden Globes always gets called out for
Speaker 1: being bought out. So I know this is the Oscars
Speaker 1: and not the Golden Globes, but I think it's you know, uh,
Speaker 1: the film industry at largees issue when it comes to
Speaker 1: representation and voting and all those things. Help. MICHELLEO gets
Speaker 1: it for everything everywhere, all at once. I will say,
Speaker 1: in the best actress category, you can almost say the
Speaker 1: same thing as on a day armisis nomination for Blonde
Speaker 1: because I don't feel like a lot of people saw it.
Speaker 1: It was very much a highly boycotted and uh scandalous movie,
Speaker 1: Like people were very upset that it was made. A
Speaker 1: lot of the feedback was like this was just so
Speaker 1: disparaging to Maryland's image and like can we let her rest?
Speaker 1: Like for these violent scenes really necessary? There is It's
Speaker 1: like based on a book that like was a fantasy,
Speaker 1: like almost a rape fantasy of Maryland's life. Like it
Speaker 1: just really is a bad screen play to be working
Speaker 1: off of. So you know, I know, Armist did her best.
Speaker 1: Uh it's not her fault innocence a little bit in
Speaker 1: the sense she shouldn't have maybe taken the role. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I am curious how people are feeling about that nomination
Speaker 1: over this one too. So yeah, yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: feel like the thing the reason that this is getting
Speaker 1: attention is because it is people who don't have the
Speaker 1: official like gatekeeper stamp of approval and the official like
Speaker 1: backing of you know, the people with money in Hollywood
Speaker 1: doing what the what the studios already do and so
Speaker 1: it's well, that's that's dangerous. But I mean, I'm all
Speaker 1: for people finding out, like the Academy What what if
Speaker 1: the Academy Awards were away for people to find out
Speaker 1: about movies also that they had missed. And you know,
Speaker 1: I don't mind that they're nominating smaller movies. I do
Speaker 1: wish they did it with movies that were made by
Speaker 1: non white people. Um. All right, and then finally we've
Speaker 1: been brought to the bad Guide section of I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's bad guide, but we have the worst
Speaker 1: Valentine's Gift Guide, uh named Yeah, well, the Verge is
Speaker 1: bringing us there three gift ideas him her couples. This
Speaker 1: is the U R L. I'm just trying to Yes,
Speaker 1: I would like to say, Jack, do you feel like
Speaker 1: if guides are helpful? Do you use gift guides and
Speaker 1: your gift giving activities over the year for your wife
Speaker 1: and your children. I just do all my shopping for
Speaker 1: my wife at Lids, so like, I get all my
Speaker 1: Christmas presents, anniversary present that Lids um and then she
Speaker 1: usually doesn't like the hat, so I get a cool
Speaker 1: hat out of the deal. Um no, I I don't.
Speaker 1: I think that when you're at the level of gift guide,
Speaker 1: it's probably a lot a loss at that point. That's
Speaker 1: how I feel. I feel like if guys are antiquated.
Speaker 1: I've seen some come through TikTok, like people making gift
Speaker 1: guides being like these are the perfect gifts for your
Speaker 1: boyfriend this season, and I'm like, I would never buy
Speaker 1: my boyfriend any of these gifts. And that is how
Speaker 1: I feel looking at the Virgin's Gift Guide. Do you
Speaker 1: want any notable I'm gonna I'm looking at it for
Speaker 1: the first time now. Um, all right, So here's an
Speaker 1: interesting one. The Dash Mini wafflemaker. Yes, in heart shape?
Speaker 1: Does it? Okay? So it does make heart chicks waffles,
Speaker 1: which is from the Valentine's Lists. That's always a thing
Speaker 1: that confuses me when somebody gets you a gift that
Speaker 1: is based on only that holiday, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like getting Christmas socks for someone on Christmas that like
Speaker 1: they won't be able to wear again until the next year,
Speaker 1: or something like that. I see those gifts out there
Speaker 1: when I'm like Christmas shopping at lids. Sometimes it will
Speaker 1: be a Christmas Team Duck baseball cap, and uh, I'm
Speaker 1: like that that's confusing to me. I feel that way
Speaker 1: with anything, especially the Valentine's themes, because I feel some
Speaker 1: type of way about Valentine's Day in the sense that
Speaker 1: like it feels like a very not that all holidays
Speaker 1: aren't consumers, but like especially like what are you do
Speaker 1: with all that heart stuff? Like what are you gonna
Speaker 1: do with all of the you know, expensive dinners, Like
Speaker 1: everything's just priced for no reason. I think it's great
Speaker 1: to use any opportunity to like celebrate your person and
Speaker 1: your partner in like an authentic way to use a couple,
Speaker 1: but like to have to be like I have to
Speaker 1: buy them a heart shape block it is to me
Speaker 1: so wasteful because when are they ever going to what that?
Speaker 1: But it's also just such a strange collection of Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's an essential magnet charger for your phone. That's just
Speaker 1: just a charger, just a phone charger, um. And then
Speaker 1: further down they have like another charger, like there's like
Speaker 1: they're gonna want a charger just said the networking switch
Speaker 1: like for Valiche, Yeah, they have a Ethernet like net
Speaker 1: gear networking switch that's like is this done with tongue
Speaker 1: in cheek and then Apple air pods. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I've heard of though as well. Thank you, thank you
Speaker 1: for this, So that's cool. Only gift I see on
Speaker 1: this list that I was like, yeah, that makes sense,
Speaker 1: but you'd have to be not as neurotic as me
Speaker 1: and already own it is the We're Not Really Strangers
Speaker 1: Couple's edition. I think that is a perfect gift in
Speaker 1: the sense that if you are in a newer relationship,
Speaker 1: a relationship that like maybe you're just now hitting a
Speaker 1: more serious spot like a six month mark, a year mark,
Speaker 1: and you haven't played this game. It's an incredible game
Speaker 1: for like, you know, going deeper with your partner and
Speaker 1: seeing you know these like learning about them at a
Speaker 1: whole new level in an authentic way, and it's like
Speaker 1: very romantic. You can like have a dinner or whatever.
Speaker 1: But otherwise, like I'm neurotic and I own Everywhere Not
Speaker 1: Really Strangers game. There's an ethnically ambiguous episode where we
Speaker 1: played it. Because I own all of them. I find
Speaker 1: them very fun, very great for you know, emotional intimacy
Speaker 1: with your friends, with your loved ones or your family.
Speaker 1: They have a family edition, but otherwise this list garbage. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is rough. Like I always my saying I do
Speaker 1: all my shopping from my if it lids is like
Speaker 1: my go to joke for like being a bad gift giver.
Speaker 1: But this gives me some new options, like new Yeah,
Speaker 1: as Brian put it, what's more romantic than ethernetports? Like, um,
Speaker 1: like the ugliest garment watch I've ever seen in my life,
Speaker 1: this garment Vivo move sport. If my man bought me
Speaker 1: this chunky ask garment watch, I'd be so upset. My
Speaker 1: high school girlfriend bought me like a very chunky watch before,
Speaker 1: like chunky watches were a thing or like at a
Speaker 1: time when nobody really wore watches, And I just just
Speaker 1: rode with it and was like, yeah, I do like it,
Speaker 1: like I had convinced myself. I liked it for like
Speaker 1: a year and a half. Was like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Some of it's like a roomba. What do you try
Speaker 1: to say I need to clean more? Like so you
Speaker 1: don't have to clean anymore, the job's getting done for you.
Speaker 1: Don't buy me a roomba. Don't buy a woman a
Speaker 1: cleaning product. Yeah, I am going to have to make
Speaker 1: note of that, because that's either baseball Caps are cleaning
Speaker 1: we have eight room. Yeah alright, well, super producer Beck Aromas,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us on this trending episode.
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