Movies on the Side

Hello and welcome to Movies on the Side.

This is Steven Robles.

And this is Nate Baronowski.

And today we're talking about the s is it
a straight to streaming movie?

I feel like it went straight to streaming.

This is not.

I think

it might have been i in theaters at some
point in time.

For five minutes. For

Yeah.

five minutes. We're talking about Mercy,

released earlier this year with Chris
Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson.

But first, I have a harrowing story to
tell you,

Nate.

And the mood shifts and the music changes.

The mood shifts. Q music. Listen,

Tell me.

listen. Are you a Chipotle Queso?

No, I'm not.

Okay. Well, then maybe this won't affect
you as much as me.

Have you ever seen it being made?

No, no.

Well, here's the

thing. So I have I hate that

I assume there's a bladder of some sort.

A big plastic bag. Yeah,

you already predicted what I'm about to
say.

yeah, yeah.

That's so annoying. But here's what
happened,

mate. I was picking up a to-go order
recently and I was waiting because

Uh-huh.

Yeah.

it wasn't ready yet. Because the order was
waiting on queso.

Because I get a side of queso and chips
with most orders.

Sure. Sure.

I order it for the family, but I think it
just ends up being me eating it.

But anyway

I'm there waiting. The guy says that queso
is almost ready.

And so I look back, and this is a Chipotle
setup where you can

see the entire kitchen behind the case.

Yes. Yes. There's no secret there's no
secret space.

Like you everything is in no secrets.

Everything's in full view. And I look back
and he goes over to a pot on the stove.

And I think, wow, queso's on the pot in
the pot.

Case was on.

They're like making this like queso in a
pot.

Yeah, like abuela did it.

Yeah.

You know what I mean? Like this is real
cooking here.

And then, to my horror, he puts in a ladle
style utensil

to lift something out of the pot.

Is it a plastic bag?

To which I see a plastic bag of queso.

And I think because they apparently heat

No. Why?

up the queso, not in a microwave,

they s they sue me the queso.

they're like sous V their their queso.

And I see this dude lift this plastic bag
out of the pot.

They've now heated it's now hot,

I guess. And he he

Yeah, yep. Perfect temp.

Scissors a corner.

man, I was kinda hoping it was gonna have
one of those like wine in

a box little nozzles, like a dispensing
lemonade at at fellowship meal after
church

No. No nozzle, no.

kind of thing. Nope, not that.

No no.

This is he cuts open the top of the bag or
the corner of the bag,

excuse me, just the corner, and proceeds
to squeeze it into the container that will

Yeah.

then go into the you know, the food
serving area to be scooped out,

as though it was fresh made queso.

Mm-hmm.

And I see I see him squeeze this bag and
it's blurting out the corner.

Yeah. Yep. Like a toothpaste tube.

He has one of these little tools like that
you would use for like

Yeah.

a toothpaste tube to like make sure you
get all the things out.

Yep. ~ every

little drop.

And I saw them put that container of queso
into the to go preparation area.

The person scooped the queso into the
little cup that I was getting,

Mm-hmm.

put it in my bag, and I was on my way.

Uh-huh. Yep.

And Nate, I don't know if I'm gonna get
Tripole queso anymore,

I'll be honest.

I

I'm gonna be a queso advocate for just a
second.

~ okay.

Here's something that sous vieing your
queso will do for ya.

Mm.

You're not gonna get a film. Cause you
know that if there's a bunch of queso

in a pot, there's gonna form a a top
layer.

So unless you're constantly mixing it and
you don't have to constantly

mix a big plastic bag. Now, how much
plastic is getting in your queso,

we can't know. We couldn't possibly know.

They we don't have time to talk about
this,

but

like are you a microplastics avoider now?

Okay.

~ I am not. I am not.

well I have seen a few microwave covers

in my day that are those plastic covers
that have begun to sort of like

Hmm. Yes.

They came in contact with something in the
microwave.

I feel like all of our show is just
microwave etiquette now,

but I do worry that those covers will sort
of literally drip macro

Leech just chunks of plastic.

plastics into my food. So I'm I'm
anti-macro plastics is what I'm anti.

I like that. I like that. Yes.

But back to the queso. They get a perfect
temp.

Hmm. Right.

They avoid the film, because it's all sort
of underwater.

And I'm gonna give you this.

Yes.

Hm.

There is less chance, cover your ears,

those that are sensitive, of things
falling into a queso

pot in the back of a chipotle,

such as hair and other particulates that
are about.

Mm, hm.

And so we're hoping that somewhere in a
Chipotle lab they're making

Mm.

the original one in sort of white glove
cleanliness.

Sure.

And by keeping it sealed, you could say
that it is keeping pure so that

the back of house Chipotle people don't
mess with it.

So in some ways, maybe you're getting a
more

I don't know. I'm just that that's the
that's the pro.

Are made

That is the pro. Obviously it's not great
to see an thing come out of

That is the pro.

a big plastic bag. That's never good.

N that

you know, you now I've I've seen them cook
the chicken on the the grill thing.

And I'm like that's real chicken on a real
grill.

Like that, like that feeling, yeah.

I go s I see it from raw to cooked with
the seasoning.

Yep. Yeah. Yep. That's great.

Like it's I see the whole process.

It's great. You know, I see them sometimes
making chips and cutting up vegetables,

like it's great. But something about like
I don't know where I didn't think they

were making the queso from scratch.

Like I'm not

You

know, I in there and there with like a
paprika,

just like a couple shakes a sip of
Calabrian chilies.

No, I I understand that.

Calabrian

But I also I

just didn't I didn't expect a big plastic
bladder.

I I was expecting maybe a wine in a box
situation or some kind of

Yeah.

Hey, the wine in the box is in a plastic
bladder,

in a box. Let it all be known.

It's all

Something I don't know. Something about
seeing that plastic bladder come

out of that pot of boiling water and I
thought,

I don't know.

Would there be a better would there be a
way like if they had a giant sometimes
like

queso that comes for like a a ballpark on
the nachos comes in those giant cans.

A big metal can. Would you rather someone
get a can opener

Sure, sure.

and like pop open a pre mixed queso from
the mothership of Chipotle?

Like like a bread in

a can. I listened to our bread in a can
episode again the other day

and it's just that was a wonderful
episode.

huh. huh.

~ I don't I don't know what I would have
felt better about.

Pretty much most things other than a big
plastic bag,

because that I associate that with like
Taco Bell,

like the meat just coming out of a plastic
bag kind of thing.

But I will say, you know, you were talking
about cross contamination.

Okay.

I do appreciate the low chance that there
is cross contamination.

Uh-huh.

Yeah, very low. Yeah.

But if you I mean if you're not a fan,

you won't get there ch case so often.

I get it.

weekly basically. There there are times
when,

you know, 'cause when they're making the
stuff,

stuff falls and things, stuff skits in
stuff.

yeah, stuff stuff gets in there.

Yeah, stuff stuff falls. Yep.

And there have been times where I dip a
chip in the queso and there's like

a little piece of chicken in there.

It's a nice surprise, honestly.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a that's a n
Yeah,

Like I'm down for that kind of cross
contamination.

that's a free piece. That's

a free extra protein for ya. ~ let's g
let's get away from food for a second,

Free double checking. Yeah,

'cause I do want to ask you before we we
watched Mercy for this week,

please.

Yeah, we did. We did.

but I do I heard before the camera started
rolling that you watched

the live action Moana and someday,

probably a Disney Plus time from now.

I will probably also watch it.

I have been reading with great,

great interest reviews that absolutely
have shredded this movie,

have bagged this movie into a Chipotle
queso style and squeezed

Mm.

out how terrible it is all over the pages
of their editorials.

And I want to know. Just give me like

Really?

I know you're not incredibly fond of the
original cartoon from ten years ago.

All I've heard in all these reviews is
there's nothing new under the sun.

This is just the same thing, just live
action and probably worse.

But like give me we may talk about it in
the future,

but give me like a little teaser of your
thoughts on it.

So we were as we were seeing the trailers,

one of the trailers that came up before
the movie,

I saw it last night. The first day you
could watch Moana in theaters,

we watched it in theaters.

Can't

I I don't know why also.

It

it was well, my daughter wanted to see it.

And this was a rare instance where both my
boys are at camps and so

okay, okay.

it was just Elise. And so it was kind of a
unique opportunity to do like

~ yeah.

Okay, that's great.

a you know kind of thing. But the one of
the trailers before the movie

was Shrek five. And it was like,

Uh-huh.

I think I think we've had enough Shreks.

I don't think we needed more Shreks.

I don't think

Yep.

Like

we have Toy Story Five and that that did
pretty good,

but we don't need anyway, so the ~ wait,

You don't need a live action toy story,

is what you're saying.

a live act Anyway. Tom Hanks did just turn
70 years old.

Now hold on.

I just saw that. it was the original,

but I liked the main actress.

I thought she did a good job. I think she
has a good singing voice.

My daughter reminded me as we were
leaving,

she was like, Wasn't Dwayne Johnson the
voice

In the animated one, I was like,

Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, for sure.

no, no. And yeah, he definitely was.

Yes.

He definitely was. Now listen,

Dwayne Johnson in a wig is properly
hilarious.

Like that's just funny on its face.

Yeah.

And there is lines in the movie that
allude to that.

Yes.

He's like, I have great hair. And like he
kind of does a knowing wink.

And so that's funny. But it's fine.

It's fine. Like, it's not it's not
horrible,

Okay. That's great. Yeah.

I I don't think. ~ but

There I will say, as with most movies,

I did cry at a couple moments because it's
a Disney movie and there's there's songs

and stuff. But there is a moment when I
mean this is not a spoiler because

the animated one's been out for ten years.

It's it's exactly the same. Yep.

Yeah, it's exactly the same. But there is
a moment during the final conflict against

Teffiti slash Te Ha where that Dwayne
Johnson

he does like a Samoan chant.

Uhhuh, yep. Yep, yep. Yep.

after he he breaks his hook and he's
standing up at to Tafidi

and like it looks like he's about to die
or whatever.

And something about Dwayne Johnson doing
that Samoan chant kind of got me.

It was like, you know, he's at least half
Samoan,

Uh-huh.

Dwayne Johnson or or partly Samoan.

And like seeing him do that was like,

shoot, that feels like kind of real.

And I it kind of made me a little
emotional for some reason.

I was like, he's like doing a thing here.

And ~ that moment alone, I would say,

when it comes out on Disney Plus,

I don't I wouldn't say it's worth going to
the theaters to watch it.

But that that moment I was like,

huh, ~ huh. How's it good?

shoot, that was kind of cool. Other than
that,

you know, it's a remake. It's a remake.

Sure. Do you

I wanna you what I want to do with you,

Nate? What we should do. Maybe we get ~
Jacob back on or somebody and

we do another top five, but top five live
action Disney remakes.

Because I don't even know which one would
be

Ooh, okay.

The best. But I think, you know,

we got the Lion King, now we have Moana.

We have what other live action remakes do
we have?

Aladdin, Snow White, Little Mermaid,

A Lion. The yes. Yes.

Yeah, see, we need to do this.

~ Okay. Cinderella was an early one.

The top five live action remakes.

Cinderella. That's right. I'm just saying,

I think that would be an interesting show.

Okay.

I have I have a question for you and then
we're gonna begin our movie.

Yes. Yes.

How long should an animated movie wait
before

it can be a live action? Like if you said
like,

This one

all right, I am the judge and I this was
ten years.

Yeah.

The which felt early to everyone.

It feels

ear it feels early. If the same actor,

But like what would you say w

Dwayne Johnson, was in both, is too early.

It's too early. Yes.

Right. Right. They need to have aged out.

I would say ten years is not enough time.

Twenty years feels like

If I told you, hey, next year Big Hero Six
comes out.

Well, see that that's problematic,

Nate. I mean you can't ask me that.

I know you love I know you love Big Hero
Six.

I would be down for a live action Big Hero
Six right now.

So that this

I would go see it right now. And ~ but I
feel like fifteen to twenty years minimum

T today. Okay.

feels like the right fifteen is like it
better be really good and maybe

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

do some original stuff.

I went to have been a kid and now I bring
my kid.

So a gen a generation. Like that's the
nostalgia play,

'Cause that's that's

right?

the nostalgia card, it's like the Fuller
House Full House deal.

Like you have to be enough removed where
whoever enjoyed it as a kid.

Boy meets world,

girl meets world. I g I gotta be far
enough away.

Exact and c I don't know if I've told you
this,

but I've seen Fuller House recently
because my daughter has now binge watched

the entire Full House series, the old one,

Wow, воу.

which I have to say holds up actually.

To be to be clear, it it actually is
pretty good.

Really? Okay. Okay.

~ not you know, it's not like Emmy Award
winning,

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, no, no.

but it's pretty it's pretty good.

Like it's funny. Fuller House,

not so much.

Not so much. But you know, it's not the
same chemistry.

But anyway, I would say fifteen to twenty
years.

I mean, is that what you but you're
generation?

Okay. I was gonna

say twenty yeah, I was saying twenty.

I feel like twenty like if you told me I
see I think Big Hero Six is too soon
still.

Yeah, that's probably good.

But like where I'm at currently,

which I think they already made is like
Mulan,

I would do like Hercules. Wherever that
time period is,

that might be twenty five ish by now.

Like that's where I'm at. I'm fine with
nineties movies getting the live action.

nineties movies getting live action.

I think that's

Early two thousands

can start. Like, give me treasure planet
right now.

They gust yeah.

I've never seen the animated one.

Pretty

Pretty pretty fine. People say that's like
a sleeper hit.

I I almost spoke to it.

It is. It's great. But I haven't seen it
for a long time,

so I don't know if if, you know,

the fourteen year old me is like,

Yeah, was great. Loved it.

There's also the Beauty and the Beast live
action remake.

That's another live action. We need to do
this episode.

Yeah. Yep. Okay. All right,

We need to do this episode. I'm just
saying.

Okay. Stop by Mercy. You've been asking me
to watch this for a while now.

let's talk about this movie.

And ~ yeah, what

I watched it on

a plane, Steven, and here's why.

I watched it with all of the ~ like,

Sure.

ugh, fine. I'll just watch it.

I kinda had a fun time watching this
movie.

And I it gave me I don't know,

Yes.

it it rhymes back in time to a type of
movie that is not great,

but is enjoyable. And there hasn't been

think recently when I haven't enjoyed or
when a movie hasn't been great,

it has also not been enjoyable.

This feels like a flashback to a disaster
movie or something like

of you know, this is not Spielberg minor
minority report.

This is like, you know, like whatever B
tier minority report,

that's what this is.

But it is so the premise is Chris Pratt
wakes up,

he is in a chair, and he is facing an AI
judge,

which is a system that now convicts
murderers,

and you have 90 minutes to prove your
innocence,

otherwise you will be executed on the
spot,

Yes. Yes. What a premise.

which is terribly dystopian.

What a premise. But it is heavy minority
report vibe.

What a premise.

~ yeah.

Be c

heavy viol and it is like B minority
report,

but I do think it's like minority report
for 2026 with

a little bit of realism because like AI is
a thing today,

and an AI bot talking to you and maybe you
having to prove your innocence

to it feels pretty real. Like that feels
plausible.

Right. It does

however feel like not quite right.

As if it was like a nineties movie script
that was like,

Yes, yes.

hey now that A like dig through the the
the sc the ideas that we have for movies.

This one has AI in it. Like let's use this
one as the like the main thing.

Yeah. It's got AI and like

Apple Vision Pro ~ you know, we're not
we're not doing the minority report with

the glove windows anymore. We're doing
Vision Pro moving windows with our hands
now.

Right. Exactly.

But I listen, this movie is 90 minutes of
a it's a murder mystery thriller kind

of thing with some cop stuff. And,

you know, if Chris Pratt's good at
anything,

it's this kind of like survival,

military, police.

Vibe type thing. He's good at it.

He's

What was

the one where he went to like the future
war the tomorrow war?

The tomorrow war. We just watched that
last week.

We watched that last week with all the
kids.

I would

watch this over Tomorrow War.

Yeah, I mean this is like less actiony and
more detective y,

I feel like.

Right. Less

less CG ish, which I felt maybe that's
what I liked about it.

Well, minus all the f floating windows.

Well, okay. Yeah,

I mean you know what I mean? Like that's
that's pretty

yeah, yeah, yeah.

but but we have to talk about Rebecca
Ferguson because I I really like Rebecca

Ferguson as an actress in Mission
Impossible.

Yep. Yep. Yep.

I love the silo series, and she is the AI
and Maddox of this thing.

Yes. Yes.

I gotta say, I think she does a good job
portraying an AI bot and

Yes.

I don't know if you have enough experience
using all the bots,

but do you do you have a feeling if she's
more of like a chat GPT or a Claude

or a Gemini?

I would not be able I mean, would not be
able to tell I would

say probably more claudy than anything,

She got an attitude. She has a little bit
of an attitude

is my guess. Yeah.

as an AI chatbot, which is Claudy,

I'll be honest. She is not sycophantic at
all,

I okay, good, good. Well you know,

I felt like that was

which is like ch Chat G PT and Gemini's a
little verbo.

Like she's very much like, hey,

address me as your honor, please.

I

I loved her face acting. I mean,

I thought she was great in this movie.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like she has some like sort of like pained
smiles

Yes.

as the a that is like, this is good.

This is very good.

Yeah, yeah. And

it's it must be hard because like you only
see her from like the neck

up the entire movie. Like she's only on
the screen talking to Chris Pratt.

Yeah.

But she does a good job at that.

She has a good face actor.

Yep. Do you think they ever met during the
filming of this movie?

You think they were ever in the same city?

Not

That's a good qu that's a good question.

This this entire movie could well,

Chris Pratt does have to get into a
building at the end of the movie and

do a little fighting. She might have done
this whole thing from home.

It feels like a movie that was done
intentionally very low budget.

Right? Like I feel like Chris Pratt had
like yes,

~ yeah. yeah. Definit there's like three
sets.

exactly. We have a house. We got a house.

We got a court, we got a the the judge
room,

any like blank room, green screen all
around ya.

That's it. Blank room. That's it.

Yep. And we got we'll do a couple street
scenes.

And then yeah, and the the lobby.

Yeah.

yeah, the streets.

We'll do a couple street scenes.

But yeah, it's very much like minimal
budget.

She might they might have just sent her a
costume in the mail and she just

did it over Zoom, you know what I mean?

She might have just they just green
screened everything.

Yeah, set this

set this camera up and just read these
lines.

That's it. No, I mean, like you said,

this is very B movie. But I was also I was
in it,

you know what I mean? Like it was a it was
a mystery to solve.

It was you know, you do the thing where
spoil spoilers.

Spoilers around, spoilers everywhere.

Spoilers everywhere.

Spoilers, this movie exists. Most people
probably don't even know this movie
exists,

let's be honest.

Well, did did like when it came to the the
mystery of it,

did you figure out who the actual killer
was pretty quick?

That's that's exactly what I wanted to ask
you.

I feel like I got a vibe. I got a vibe
like the second call,

I was like, wait a minute. This guy who I
really like from This Is Us,

Yeah.

Chris Sullivan, the actor, he feels a
little murdery,

Right. Right.

to be honest.

I yeah, it's one of those murder mysteries
where they don't actually

take enough time to give you enough
suspects

Right.

to like pick from. It's like

They do the first one

to throw you off. The guy in the
restaurant,

the chef or whatever.

Well, and

and all of that, it's like they're not
gonna make it so that the

guy who actually did it is just like

a regular old like guy who broke into
their house.

Right.

Like that's not a rewarding like if it if
Chris Pratt has been set up,

No, no, no.

then he was set up in a way by someone he
knows and it was done somewhat smartly

in order to fool the AI. So obviously it's
not gonna be like

just the guy who's his wife's with or
whatever on the side.

Like and so there was just like ~ n I was
looking at all the suspects up

Well.

on the wall and being like, Well,

dear movie I guess we're not trying that
hard to like fool me.

Right, right. I will say the ~ the overall
tenor of like

you can search for evidence anywhere
because your entire phone

and like they mentioned a couple of times
like

Uh-huh. And everyone's

phone and everyone there's no privacy.

Zero privacy, which is ironic because I'm
wearing the metaglasses as we record this.

Uh-huh. Yes. Perfect.

And they say the ~ municipal cloud is what
they call it.

And there's basically this they allude to
this idea that if you have a phone,

Uh-huh.

everything is on the municipal cloud,

like the federal whatever, or you have a
burner like black market phone that

Mm-hmm.

you have to get like some shady way,

and then that's not available to the
government.

But that's not really like you're not
supposed to do that.

And it does feel like

You know, that that feels the most
realistic dystopian future of this movie

Sure.

of like if there is a court case and not
to be too real,

like there's been many court cases where
there's information on an iPhone

and they will drag Tim Cook to court,

be like, Unlock this phone. And Tim Cook's
like,

Right. Right. Right.

nah, not doing it. And then Google's like,

Right.

Yeah, okay. Here's every location this
phone has ever been.

~ so there, you know, that feels the most
man,

ten, twenty years from now.

That might be how things go. And that's
scary.

Yeah.

for sure. I think it was th the like
nonchalance that everyone

has with privacy just being gone is like,

yeah, okay, I get it.

Like nothing about

this movie was so was unbelievable.

Like when when you see Minority Report,

you're like, Okay, these precogs taking a
bath,

they can tell the future, whatever.

Yeah, yeah.

Flying cars, I don't think so.

But this movie's like, nope, this movie
could be in the real world,

Right.

like, very soon.

Yeah, that was yeah. It was troubling.

Here's something else that I find a little
troubling with this movie.

I'm not sure if this if the makers of this
movie

or whoever's opinion gets like put into
the movie,

I'm not sure they think of this as that
dystopian.

Like, I'm not

Right.

sure that this I think there were like
well listen,

there were some things wrong.

A few tweaks to it, we had the the the cop
who like we find

out that Rob Nelson, his his sponsor,

is the murderer because he was the brother
of the guy,

the very first case that Chris Pratt did.

Anyway, we find that he had like a
vendetta against him the whole time.

And it did not end with the AI basically
being like shutting itself down like

for the betterment of humanity or for the
Mercy Court ending or

for they basically have a like what do
they call like a red zone

in downtown LA where just basically we're
like we put all

Yes. Madness.

the troublesome people quote unquote in
here and I kind of felt that there

Right.

was part of the movie that's like

Yeah. Yeah, we don't mind like we don't
mind setting up a you know,

Little border. Yeah.

a perimeter. Yeah. And and also like we
were just like one

bad choice away from this being like a
pretty good system.

Like I wouldn't mind we you know,

put people in the chair and set up the and
the there was like I feel like

Yeah.

it wasn't strong enough of like,

hey

Isn't this a scary future? I think it was
more like,

well, if you got nothing to hide,

like good luck proving your innocence and
I was and I had the thought of like,

Right.

if you're not someone who ~ can put
together a puzzle,

the fact that you like the reason we have
a court of law to have like

You're done.

a lawyer help us is that we don't all have
the ability to like piece ours

way out of guilt.

Right. Which at

least at least they made Chris Pratt like
a law enforcement person so

he would have some idea to put together a
case and he wasn't some like tech

Yeah.

bro or whatever who wouldn't really know
law.

But

But do you like

did you feel that at all? Did you feel
like there was a bit of this this
dystopian

was presented in a like ~ I'm like we
kinda want us to go like,

~ pretty cool, they can find every bad
guy,

you know?

Yeah, there wasn't a lot of negative
connotation to what was happening.

And unlike Minority Report, where that
movie spoiler ends with them

~ realizing the system is flawed and you
can have false positives,

Right.

and they shut the system down and the
pre-cogs get to live in a cabin on the
lake.

Right.

In this movie, at the end, it's like
Rebecca Ferguson and Chris Pan are like,

Right.

all right, we've learned something today.

Let's get to the next case. You know?

We'll see you later. Yeah, we'll just do
it again.

We'll see. Let's let's do it again.

And they literally do it.

Again in the moment because Chris Pratt's
partner,

Jack, did something bad for that original
case.

Cause turns out the bad guy was right
about his brother.

~ he didn't commit the murder.

So it's like the movie ends with being
like,

you know what, this system's actually
pretty good,

and we should probably keep it.

So it's a little

Right, right. I

was I was a little bit like, this is rough
and dystopian but I'm not sure

if we're supposed to feel that this is
rough and dystopian,

more like, ~ they got eighty percent away
to the good idea,

they just need to tweak it, but by the
way,

if you're ever gonna defend yourself in
the mercy court and you're pretty sure

you're innocent and you have some
evidence,

if you also wanna see like, hey,

my friend who left me on red, were they
actually

~ working that day or were they out at the
lake?

Yeah.

Is that I'm just gonna find out a few
things while I'm here.

You wanna you wanna look that stuff up.

You 'cause you get access you got access
to everything.

To everything.

You could just say

just say, hey. The no I don't think this
movie is making this big of a commentary,

but it also like that attitude kind of
feels like the attitude towards AI right
now,

where it's like, yeah, it can say some
pretty bad things and it has done some
pretty

bad things, but we'll just do a software
update.

Just a tool, just a tool. Yeah,

The next model, ChatGPT five point six is
gonna nail it.

r we just we need Rebecca

Ferguson. Yeah, maybe maybe that was it.

Maybe it was like this is where things are
heading and we need to be cautious.

But as long as we have people like Chris
Pratt here to keep us on

As long as

the straight and narrow, we'll be fine.

Is Chris Pr

listen, Chris Pratt, he has saved the
world from aliens now in the future.

He is now saving the world from AI.

Mm-hmm.

I mean, he's becoming that that guy.

Uh-huh.

He also saved the world ~ Ronin in
Guardians of the Galaxy.

Yep. I think he has a drinking problem
maybe in every one of these roles as well.

You know, ~ that it that could be a
problem.

He does, I think, develop that in the
tomorrow war as well.

Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Do you want him or Tom
Cruise?

But here's the here's my my bigger theory.

It well today I'll take Chris Pratt
because Tom Cruise,

you know, he's he's getting older.

He's getting older. My question to you is
Has Chris Pratt taken

the role that Will Smith did in the 90s?

Because

Recently we have watched Independence Day.

We watched it on July fourth as a good
American.

We recently watched Men in Black with my
son Asher.

And first of all, after seeing those two
movies,

I robot.

we haven't seen iRobot yet, which probably
should.

But after those two movies, my son Asher
was like,

Yep.

~ I think Will Smith might be my favorite
actor.

Because like those are two good Will Smith
movies.

When are your kids old

enough to see I am legend? Okay.

Jordan has already seen it twice and
enjoyed it.

Okay.

We I asked Asher, I like, You wanna see
this?

He's like, No, I don't think yet.

Not yet. Not yet. I think that's wise.

Yeah, yeah. Give that s give that a little
bit of time.

I

think Chris Pratt would trade away his
left foot right

now to have the popularity that Will Smith
had in the nineties

Fair. That's fair.

and early two thousands. Like I think he's
doing his best,

but I do not think he is anywhere which
again could be state of movies.

He also saved the world from dinosaurs.

I'm throw that out there. And and Koopa.

Z yeah, you're right. I didn't which I
didn't

watch I didn't watch the last I mean,

speaking of of Chris Pratt movies,

th like I saw the first Jurassic World,

maybe the second one. I did not see the
third one.

You don't you don't need to see the third
one.

It's not it's not good. It's not good.

But he also saved the world from Bowser.

You know what I mean? He's the voice of
Mario.

So there's that. Anyway,

He's also the Lego guy from the Lego
movie.

all I'm saying is he is fine. This movie
is f fine.

But I mean I was fine. It was fine.

That's that's my glowing review.

This movie was fine.

It was

fine. I felt like it was a great plain
movie and I think that there

Yes, perfect.

was I think there was some I th I thought
Rebecca Ferguson in there was great.

I think there was enough like fun elements
to it.

She was great.

And I was really like, they put a clock on
this movie because they basically said,

Yes.

Well you have the you have the time it
takes to watch this movie to figure

out this murder

And I love a good like it has some good
stakes to it.

You know? If you didn't make it

yeah. It was like twenty four

too. It felt like the clock in the movie
was like real time and like

it was pretty good. Th I will also say Chr
Chris Sul Chris Sullivan of This Is Us,

Uh-huh. ~ huh. Yep.

he is six foot five. How tall are you?

Six five.

at the same height. Well, at the end of
this movie,

he portrays, I think, a good,
intimidating,

bad guy character. And I just want to say
I want to see him as a legit bad guy,

Yeah.

like a mission impossible bad guy in the
future.

I think he would do really well as that.

He was Taserface from Guardians of the
Galaxy three,

two Remember Taser Face?

Wait, what? What words are you saying?

Taserface from what Guardians of the
Galaxy.

You're making this up. I've seen it.

Yeah. Yeah.

He was Taserface. Who was Taserface?

Taser face. Rocket Raccoon makes fun of
doesn't matter.

~ okay. No. No, but I want to see him as
like a real life like bad guy.

Yeah. A real bad guy.

I think he would I think he would do
really well at it.

That's all I'm saying. That's my that's my
thing.

Yeah. Yeah. What if I told you this?

Alright. Should we rate this movie?

~ go ahead. You go.

I

think that this movie should have been a
TV show.

~ Like multiple cases, like an ep a case
an episode?

No, not like not like that. Not like law
and order mer yeah,

thanks for yes anding me. Appreciate it.

sorry. Yeah, just like that. That was
good.

No, no, no. I'm sorry. Go good.

No, no. Okay, sorry. Yes, that was a bad
idea.

Good.

And a better idea would be if I would
wouldn't mind

the whole case sort of being a a season.

Okay, okay.

And that there's like he's been in the he
gets in the chair the whole time,

but it's really just like it is still the
90 minutes or whatever,

but it's pieced up and there's flashback
stuff,

but then we cut to minutes twenty through
thirty and as he thinks of a new idea.

I just think there's something I think the
plot of this movie

is pretty convoluted and it's not it's not
great,

but

Yeah.

I think trying to prove your innocence
from a chair being connected

to the the matrix to Amazon's cloud
computing

Right.

or whatever is is fun enough

A W S. It's fun.

to like I like how he has to like work
with his old partner to try to like make

Right.

it happen and so he's not he can't be
there.

He has to interrogate people remotely.

Yeah. He has there's a lot of tension in
him just like

calling his daughter and be like,

please pick up, please pick up.

~

yeah. Do you think you could prove your
innocence if you were falsely accused

of something? Or would you not be
innocent?

No. No. I mean, 'cause I

Do you think you would actually be guilty
of

think I would spend my first I'd waste my
first twenty minutes just having

a nervous breakdown. I mean,

Well sh I thought you were gonna say
you're gonna waste I know.

if I was handcuffed to a chair,

like there would be it would take like I'd
pass out after like hyperventilating

for the first ten minutes. I'm out for the
next twenty,

I wake up, I'm still strapped,

like there would be a lot of ~ I would I
would use up a lot of time.

Sure, sure. It'd be bad.

Do you I mean, but so you you feel like
you wouldn't have the wherewithal

With panic.

to like think through what's happening.

Like I have the false sense of confidence
that I could acquit myself.

I mean I

Like I feel like I could do it.

You could do it. Well,

with the amount of connections that
everyone has,

maybe you could be like I do feel like the
he should have just been like,

All right, someone was in the house.

I need you to like scan this house for
like the forty eight hours before this

and I want like count everyone who came to
the party and everyone who left.

I want to see faces. Like just check
everyone that was there and then like

Yeah, yeah.

They're w waiting twenty minutes for the
guy's bird cam to upload from

Yeah the bird The bird camera.

the neighbor behind him, like,

~ I thought we had like great technology.

I know. She said you gotta wait for it to
upload.

We're we're relying on the guy like
shooting his finches in the back.

It's like what do we so we're my innocence
is gonna be dependent

on this dude's internet speed?

Yeah, do we also

like in this dystopian future do do they
not have like satellite images like super

Ri that. That is a that's

everywhere?

a good that's a good point. Yeah,

there's no satellite of that backyard
where you could see the dude in the bush.

Okay. Yeah, no, that's a good point.

Right.

I would also say the first thing I would
tell the AI is like,

listen, every time I ask for a file,

you do this like virtual going through
folders on a computer screen.

Stop that. If I ask for a file,

immediately open it. I don't need you to
look like you're looking through folders.

Just boom, pop it up. Don't waste any
time.

In fact in

fact, I don't even need to see your face.

We don't need to connect ~ personally
unless you're feeling Yeah,

Cut the small talk. Your Honor,

exactly. I just want to see the percentage
probability of my guilt up

this counts for the rest of the time.

You just do what I said.

in the corner and just I wanna see it go
down as I go.

That's it. That's right. Real time.

Yeah. It was a little harder than maybe it
should have been to catch a

~ like unless he was wearing a Chris Pratt
face to trick like there's just

it wasn't

good enough of a technology. But I will
give them this.

He basically Chris Pratt said at some
point in time,

this was all set up. We all we all know
what this is.

No one ever gets out of mercy court.

This isn't actually meant to be something
where people prove their innocence.

It's just a public facing thing before we
execute them.

Which by the way, capital punishment,

Right. Yeah.

not discussed nor a conflict in this movie
at all.

You can't cover everything, mate.

It's

it's a hour and forty minute movie.

Well, you can't

cover everything. It's the main form of
quote unquote justice in this movie

is people getting basically an electric
chair.

And it was like, Matt.

No well and by a sound

a sound wave, to be clear. It is a sound
wave pulse that apparently executes these

people. I have no idea how that works.

Yes. Would this movie have been better

Hmm.

if let's say it was made before the day of
AI and we actually

had real Rebecca Ferguson in a room as
judge?

And there was a way to like they were
gonna get let you prove your innocence

Hm.

in ninety minutes. So they're still like
the same concept,

but she wasn't AI. Would that have been
more compelling?

Okay.

No. Cause then he'd just be

shuffling a bunch of papers around a desk
for ten minutes.

Like he's gotta look for the one picture
of the th no.

The movie ha you need the this setup with
the digital everything to work,

you know what I mean? I feel like I do it.

Okay. Yeah, you need it to be minority
report.

I will s the most realistic part of this
movie is that the teenage daughter

has a secret Instagram account that the
father doesn't know about.

That's that's the most realistic part.

And that that is how we're gonna rate this
movie,

Yes.

Nate.

On a scale of zero to five secret
Instagram accounts.

Ha Yeah. yeah,

by the way, that little hover bike that
Jack was on,

the quadcopter. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

the quadcopter, pretty cool vehicle,

pretty rough graphics.

Pretty rough graphics. I will also I
forget when I did this.

Again, low lower budget, lower budget.

I will the do you remember the movie The
Island with Ewan McGregor?

Yes, yes.

Weird movie.

I remember a guy getting a spike through
an ankle and dragged through the floor,

and that was me that stayed with me longer
than that should have.

Yeah. That was the dude from the Green
Mile of Recipe.

Yep.

But anyway, he that movie has like the
flying bike type things.

Mm-hmm.

And I think that movie's like eighty years
old,

and I think I had better CG than than this
quadcopter,

but th that movie was very strange.

Scarlet Johansson's in that movie.

It's very strange. I watched it again
recently.

Yes, yes.

I don't know why, but it was it was odd.

Anyway, what you told me to watch this
movie,

so you gotta rate it. What do you what do
you rate?

Yep.

Well, I forgot what this movie's called,

Mercy.

What do you what do you call it?

Mercy.

Yeah.

Man. Man ~ man ~

Or

maybe did you read the last one first?

I'll give you a break. I I could do this
one.

No, no, no, I'll do it, I'll do it.

Okay.

I mean, I found it fun. I found it fun.

Sure.

It's a two and a half movie, but like from
a I can't believe I'm saying this.

Mm-hmm.

I would watch it again tomorrow.

~ really?

And I watched this movie, I don't know,

a month ago. I'd watch it, I'd watch it
again.

Okay.

Like, you should watch something better,

of course.

Sure, sure.

But I thought it was fun. I would s I
would see it.

So you well I'm sorry, so you gave it a
three?

Two and a half, okay.

No, it's a two and a half, but I I would
give it like

a on the rewatch like a high
rewatchability is what I'm saying.

I don't know. Maybe I'm broken in some
way.

Okay, well Well

This this is like wild, wild west.

Like I'd I'd watch it right now.

I mean you have young kids, so you can't
make it out to the movies as often.

So that I understand there's a I'll take
what I can get kind of thing.

And it's sh it's the the runtime is nice.

You know, a lot of movies nowadays.

It's on prime.

You know what I mean? It's on prime.

I I'm gonna give it the same rating two
and a half,

but I'm gonna say low rewatchability.

Okay. Okay. I was in an airplane,

I don't I don't care to see this movie
again.

~ but I'll watch

there was pumped in oxygen. You know,

Sure, sure.

all airplane movies they they hit a little
harder.

Now I could watch Chris Pratt and Rebecca
Ferguson in another movie,

slightly different plot, but same you
know,

do the do it again. Do another another cop
detective type one,

but Rebecca Ferguson's like the captain
and Chris Pratt's like the the

guy on the ground and they do something
like that.

Do that. I think

Has he been

in a good movie recently? No no I'm just I
am concerned.

Period?

He was in the terminal list. Did you see
that?

I am I I am

I think I've seen that too.

That was fine. I think Super Mario Bros.

is a good movie, the first one.

And I think Infinity War is good.

An endgame. I wouldn't say he's the main
guy in those movies.

But I think Jurassic World is pretty good.

Like the first one. The first one.

Okay, yeah.

~ yeah, yeah. I don't watch Jurassic
World.

Passenger have you seen Passenger we
talked about passengers,

I ~ yeah, we've hey,

didn't we? That's a good movie.

everyone, go listen to our episode on
passengers.

I think we liked it.

I think we liked it. And ~ I think I mean
that's that's one that has rewatchability,

I think. Because ~ he was in Moneyball
apparently.

Sorry, I'm just scrolling through his
movie list now.

He's

been in Ray Ban, Colin, Heymeta,

Who Eats Art video commercial.

Did you see the electric state?

~ he was in that

I like us too just going through someone's
IMDB and being like,

I keep

Have you seen it?

the few times I had some Netflix stuff
downloaded for my recent trip

and I was watching I think the West Wing
on Netflix,

like, because Jason kept telling me to
watch it,

and it actually is pretty good.

~ I'm sorry to say he was right.

But I kept like Netflix really wanted me
to try the electric state.

Mm-hmm.

Every time I opened the app, it was like,

hey, this is a movie with Chris Pratt,

and there's action in it, and I could not
bring myself to watch it.

And there's and there's technology

and nostalgia just for you. No.

I could have you watched it?

~ We should do that one next.

That's Millie Bobby Brown. Millie Bobby
Brown.

Yeah, Millie Bobby Brown. That's right.

That's not a real name. Did you know that?

What?

I saw an interview where she talked about
how Bobby was her a relative's name

and so she has a different middle name.

Anyway. It's a pseudonym. Did you have
what?

That's disappointing.

What did you say? What did you call it?

A s not a pseudonym. ~ a gnome de plume.

That's that's what I meant. I meant a
gnome de plume.

A tromplay.

Alright, we you need to watch a a movie in
theaters and we need to we need

to come back. A supergirl is gonna come
out for streaming like tomorrow.

I am

It's only gonna be in theaters for like
two weeks.

We should do that one soon.

I'm planning

to watch the Odyssey in theaters.

That will be I am I will leave the
children with a caretaker and

I'm planning I I had this conversation
with my wife yesterday and I said

Home alone.

to her D are you interested in going to
see this movie in theaters with me?

I'm seeing this movie. You no.

You said you can't stop me. That's what
you said.

Or or do you want me to go by myself?

Those were the two options. She wants to
come with me.

what did she say? What did she say?

She wants to see it.

All right. Did you already get tickets?

I mean it's pretty popular.

We did not get tickets yet. We still have
to figure out the childcare situation.

probably gonna end up seeing it on some
like postage stamp size screen because

all it's it's selling out. It's popular.

I wanna see it though. I've been seeing
all the junkets now.

I'm in South Bend, Indiana, so we got

enough we got enough theaters around here
and not enough people.

Okay. yeah, you're

near Chicago. You could you could do
whatever you want.

All right. Well maybe maybe that'll be our
next movie when we release

an episode on our very irregular schedule,

but it's more regular than it was last
year.

So there you go. You should if you're
watching and listening to this still,

Yep, you got it.

thank you. Number one. Number two,

you should leave us a five star rating and
review an Apple Podcast

so people think we're a real podcast and
not a fake one.

Because people still think we're fake.

Mm-hmm.

But yeah, I appreciate that. Thanks,

~ thanks for listening. Thanks for
watching.

How do we sign off from this show?

I forgot. What do we do?

~ see ya next time.

That's lame.

Toodles.

Tootoodles.