 All right, we're live and if I connected everything we even have audio too. So tonight I bring you audio and video Together at the same time so tonight welcome Not just to the hoodie Coco moving picture. No tonight It's a talkie. That's right. We've moved into the talkie era So who else here? How are you? Hello everybody? Hello, dear devil Dave Hey sparkster Always nice to see you sparkster. Hello one low one bow to Thank you. Thanks for checking me out on what's on Joe mind. Hello Matt and Rob And Beta Ray Bob and Matt I said Matt already but hi Matt again Hello Lester and Peter and David So hi everybody I'm back. Sorry. There wasn't a lot of warning. Hello Isaac and iconic blood and sparkster Hey, it's sergeant slaughter slaughterhouse. Nice to see you there. Thank you for being here Hello photo viper and Cullen's hound Evening all how do you do? So yeah, sorry, I I didn't I wasn't able to give much warning for this live stream Just because I was setting it up at the last minute. It's been a Busy day is an understatement. It's been a busy day, but I got everything done. Hello Pains toy samples. Hey, it's a comic tropes. Hello comic tropes. Thank you very much for being here always nice to see you here Always happy to see you here. Always happy to see your show as well And Let's see sparkster says it's about to build a ferret and a devil fish out of Legos. That'd be cool That'd be cool a ferret and a devil fish So, you know that roughly the same size and I'll bet you would do a better job Then those knockoff Lego Lego people did on those official Lego, you know things, you know, it yours will be better. I believe in you I Believe in you. So anyway, hello, can now oh can now listen from sand springs. I'm sorry Sorry, sorry. Can I'm kidding. There's nothing wrong with sand springs. That's a joke. Hi sand springs not far away Not far away. Oh not far away Hello from from Tulsa, United States The earth the Milky Way of the universe Payne's toy sample says he picked up a recondo and okay see oh and this morning really that's cool That's cool. I have not yet seen a recondo Cometrope says my local target has lots of recondos and outbacks Mine did not mine had some Python Vipers and bats and out back and that was it See hello Matt Edwards. Hello Rob and hello Tim. Nice to see you. Thanks for being here. Oh Hello killer weezer. I don't think I said hello to you, but I'm glad you're here. How do you do? Yeah, sand springs not very far from here. Well, yeah, yeah, it's not very far from here It's farther from where I used to live I always always think of it as being pretty far away, but no, I'm closer now You know, I I've been here for what like two years and I'm still not used to To being in this location, but anyway, hello Dan Jammin. Hello Andrew Andrew the guy's so nice. They named him twice Good evening from Chile, California Hello from Chile United States actually it's kind of chilly here. It's it's been it's getting colder here It's a cold and rainy. It's been kind of dreary today Hello McLutler, how do you do a good evening? so yes So I had to throw everything together at the last minute what that means is I don't have anything planned and I Apologize in advance, you know, this usually means that I just go off on the strangest tangents You get these in for unfortunate windows into how my warped brain works So that'll be tonight But yeah, it's just it's just been a busy day, but I I did not want to miss This this live stream I also have I have some news before I start before I go into my news. Hello Marianne That's that's my my girlfriend there Marianne everybody treat her nice treat be nice to her But hello Marianne nice to see you thanks for being here and What was I saying? Oh, yes today is Tuesday. That means there's a new episode of half the battle Timmer has a new episode Have Isaac says how I finished the defiant. I haven't finished the defiant I haven't made a lot of great progress recently, but um I I Did run across some parts not parts that I needed but it was a little bit encouraging that maybe I Maybe it is feasible to actually complete that thing after all Maybe maybe I should do one more push to try to get the last of the parts To get that thing going. It's just that it's so many parts. It's so many parts Hello tattered and torn and anybody else who snuck in here Can now said the flea market was great. Oh the flea market. That's right. I missed this. Oh, well, excuse me I missed the flea market, but I Still had a really good time. The reason I missed the flea market is because I was out of town for part of the weekend Hello, Gray Fox You did make it in time just under the wire just done the under the wire Can now score a few GI to theme things A lot of resellers in there with oh the resellers were were snatching things up. Yeah Yeah, that's unfortunately a consequence, but I do still try to I like to buy from local vendors when I can Hello Christian bricks greetings Denmark from the United States. Thank you very much for being here. Nice to see you Christian bricks Hello, WJ80 85 and Hello rat face a sup I'll tell you what sup Is my new castleton shirt anybody notice that Anyway, I was thank you killer weasel for the super chat Not much for classifieds but classifieds, but Ben Big Ben would be the one I would get which classified is best so far to you That's a good question I That's a good question I Guess I mean I guess I would have to go with stalker just because that's that my sentimental choice People have been raving about Serpentor, but I don't have it yet. I don't have it yet so Yes, Andrew the the defiant is defying me The defiant is very very difficult to complete. It's very difficult The Lula says greetings from Australia health greetings Australia from the United States I believe we have a couple other Aussies in In in the chat Marianne says did I go to castle and who am I kidding? I never went to castleton. I I never went to castleton Today is Tuesday new half the battle he did a A tier list, you know top 10 GI Joe movies and you know, I want to talk about something related to that And by the way, this Um Did anybody get this Anybody get the reference? We'll do a quiz later. We'll see. Um, anyway So Tuesday Um Yes, did anybody go to castleton any any castleton grads? Um Uh Yes, now time flies. Um, uh, own the 12 inch stalker. Um, if you're talking about the the, um Like the hall of fame stalker, I do I do have that one. I do Um, I think I don't think it's complete, but I'm pretty sure I have one. Yeah Um Tim says heard how a hazelab sky striker shipping notifications are starting to go out. Can't wait. Yeah I I haven't gotten mine yet Mine said that they ought to ship it the somewhere around the middle of january. Well, we are past the middle of january Um Castle is the name of a mall in north indy. I can't see I've been there. Well, well, then I guess you haven't been to castleton Oh, thank you gray fox for the super chat classified armor tech star brigade. Uh, you enter out classic A classified armor tech star brigade. You know Armor tech star brigade is not Not my favorite thing in the universe. However If they actually did that in classified, I would be so curious The the curiosity would get the better of me and I would just have to I would just have to See how Um isek isek congratulations isek you win the no prize free no prize to isek Well done isek Uh, so watch watch in the mail for your no prize. There is no prize, but that's what you'll be getting free. No prize Robo joe. Yeah, think about think about like What the heck would they do with robo joe? in uh Uh in classified that see, uh, I'm thank you someone for getting the reference. I do I see I appreciate it I knew somebody would I knew somebody would And and by the way, I mean this is all right small tangent okay One of many probable tangents this uh This evening small tangents. I have been looking for A castleton shirt for years For years and in my awesome girlfriend got me one. So so thank you So so, uh, I got she got me this shirt. So just so that uh isek Can get the inside joke. Thank you very much, sir. Thank you and thank you Thank you for the thank you for the shirt. That's that's awesome I knew somebody would get it. I just knew somebody would um If you use fedex delivery manager, I checked that didn't get notification of my has lab victory saber Had shipped from hasbro until after I already had it in hand. Okay. That's that's interesting Yeah, uh, it's uh, yeah, uh my my ship my shipping Information is all updated. Um, yes. So, uh, yes anyway, what was I saying? Um, oh, yeah, uh, okay I Timmer has a new episode um so Uh, yes, uh chime chasers Uh, quite quite, uh, one of my favorite mst3ks episodes So timmer did a a top 10 movie Uh G ijo movie list And I wanted to talk a little bit about Channing Tatum. We'll get to that. We'll get to that in a second I did want to provide one update I wanted to buy provide one update and that is uh On my next review video. It is almost done Meaning that I have not only written it. I have also mostly filmed it. I've got to do a little bit A little bit of more, uh, shooting and then I can edit it. Um, it's it's taking longer than it normally would Mainly just because I'm slow at this right now. It'll get once I get back into the routine. It'll go faster, but um, there is a there is a New actual edited review coming It's actually coming. Um And it's it's almost done. I'd say it's 50 done. I just gotta I just gotta finish it the cat's over there He is he's he's gonna knock something off. It's it's it's fine. It's fine. Um, anyway, so yes um Yeah timmer covered all hasbro movies. So try yeah, he covered transformers and gem And uh, and the g ijo movies. Um, oh, um, thank you comic tropes. Yeah Um, thank you very much and thanks for the uh, the steady support comic tropes It's it's very much appreciated. It really is it really does mean a lot to me um, so Uh, yes, so there is a review coming Uh, hello, kevin mailie. Nice to see you. Um, Robert is there. He says no mst 3k episode is greater than michael Now michael was uh, that was an excellent episode Uh, slovenly joed on baker, uh, joke is Uh, no slovenly joed on baker joke is left on said. Yeah, uh, joed on baker. Um, uh, yeah That that they did two joed on baker movies they did, um Something justice. I can't I forget like final justice or something like that. Uh, and then uh, michael Um, joed on baker. He was he was a something he was I don't know what he was Um, so, um Yes, so there there's a review on the way and I just got to finish it up, but I'm trying to get back into doing regular reviews I also know what the next review will be. Um, I have the script for the next review almost done Um, uh I just I I'm not started shooting it yet, but Sorry, the cat's up there and I just really just please don't break anything. Please don't break anything um So I know what it is And I I should be able to just roll into it as soon as i'm done with the one that i'm working on so um Uh, robby rosary says, um, he believes, uh He is still alive. I assume you're talking about joed on baker, but was he ever alive really? Um, I don't of course he was I don't know what i'm saying. Yes. Yes. He's I mean He very well may be still alive. He'd he'd have to be Quite a an advanced age Uh, um Quite an advanced age. Uh fat cat says hello from scotland. Hello scotland from the united states Uh, jeffrey stale made ball says. Oh, yeah channel Channeling kool-aid man Oh, yeah, I can go for some kool-aid right now cherry That's my favorite color my my my favorite flavor. So I go for some cherry kool-aid. That'd be all right um Onyx says what's this fake classified list going on? I don't know. Uh, I don't know that's that's news to me Uh, but everything would be news to me because It's been it's been a really busy week. Um, not One of the reasons it's it's been busy is because I've been trying to get a a video done Um, and I've been making progress on it. Um, so Uh, Isaac said he found a spare umbilical cord for the defiant. Uh, that's great. Um, that's a really rare part um The umbilical cord is basically like an electrical wire Um, which you can get they like it's the same kind you can get at a hardware store um But you know, it's you know, you don't want to get a fake one It Want to try to like get one that actually came with the ship and that is a part that Is difficult to nail down. Um, but but I do have An authentic umbilical cord for the crusader And I think It's the same as the one with the defiant. I'd really like to find out though I'd like to find out if the umbilical cord for the crusader matches exactly with The one from the defiant or if there are any minor differences But so far I haven't been able to find anybody who has both That that can compare them Um Thank you for the super chat. He says jodan has a long list of movies bond villain the original walking tall And governor in dukes of hazard movie. Yeah, um, he he did like he had an extensive career. He did. Um, that's Uh, and as an actor, I guess you would say that's successful. That's pretty successful as an actor Um, I'm just what I'm just what I'm saying is he's a character. That's all that's um, he's an interesting character um The umbilical cord feed technology to the shuttle before the hanger gives birth. Yeah, see that's that's what it's there for Kevin did a video um about the defiant. I don't think he got to the crusader um It's very well, maybe that the umbilical cords are interchangeable, but I'd really like to find out for sure Um, hello, uh chromius and hello, uh stone gate creations. Thank you very much for being here So, um, what was I saying? So there's a video coming timmer did his thing Today, so check out, um the new half the battle. Let me let me look something up real quick. Um One second Talk amongst yourselves Because I don't have anything to open for you. I don't have anything planned. I have nothing planned Let's see. All right. Yeah, okay, so Let's let's talk about Let's talk a little bit about gi joe movies. That's that's a topic. That's a topic mst3k could have uh could have rift on any of the The gi joe movies, honestly Um, they're all very riffable and and I have done so, you know, it's There's a lot of entertainment meant to be gotten out of that Any pencil? I don't have any pencil to break. Yeah. No, I broke all my pencils And good good on you for remembering the the pencil breaking stunt um Let's see, um Yeah, so So, yeah, I want to talk about Channing Tatum a little bit. I was trying to pull up this, um This this story where he he has some some things to say. No, that's not it Anyway um, so Kind of spinning off of uh Spitting off of timers video today doing like, um top 10 hasbro movies covering which included, you know the gi joe movies um Oh, uh, hello seymour. Hello, new zealand from the united states. It's funny. I was just uh, I was just showing marianne flight of the concords Uh, that's a coinkie dink. Uh, but uh, but welcome welcome kiwi to to uh to the show. Thank you very much for being here um But before we get to before we get oh, hello peg warmers. Nice to see peg warmers. Oh Almost forgot something. Look, I don't have any show notes. I'm flying by the seat of my pants here Uh, thank you to what's on joe mine for having me on their show Um on this last friday. You can catch the replay on uh on their channel. So look for what's on joe mind or w o j m Um, and thanks. Thank you very much for having me on the show. I was always, um a big fan Of their show for a long time. So it's really kind of a trip to be able to uh to be on theirs Uh, that it's i'm i'm always happy to be invited. Thank you. Thank you so much Uh, so check out that uh, check out the replay there and check out their other episodes and peg warmers. Um Uh, I will be on an unspecified future episode of peg warmers. We're working on it. We're working on it. Um Um But uh, but but thank you peg warmers for being here as well. It's always nice to see peg warmers We got some friends here. We got some friends in the show. It's that's awesome. Um Um Thank you rob. Thank you rob. I I have I really appreciate it And I think you've got a really good show and a really good group of folks there um I wanted to mention something. I don't know if I've talked about this before but A gi joe fans are aware that there are a lot of movies out there, especially 80s movies that are almost gi joe movies Uh movies such as uh predator you know the first predator we're like, um Uh jesse ventura is sort of like ricondo and uh, carl weathers is uh, sort of like, uh Uh stalker and and all of that Um, and then there's there's mega force Mega force is a sort of gi joe movie where it's like This international action team that has goofy vehicles and these you know, silly, you know jumpsuit uniforms and all of this um Again sort of a gi joe movie, but not not Call gi joe. It's called something else. It has different characters, but you can certainly see Um, you know how you can see some influence in there Yeah, you know what I'm saying. Oh, hello joe fan 84. I don't know if I said hello joe fan 84 Hello joe fan 84 and I'm sorry if I missed anybody else Um, hello gabe. Uh, thanks for being here Um team america in in a way In a way, uh, I think a team america I think is a Um some influence, but they were always obviously trying to like copy those like 70s marionette Uh tv series from the uk. I like um Uh thunderbirds and those that so I think that that's what they were going for But you know, obviously team america. There's a little bit of an influence there Uh, hello space cobra. Uh, I live question mark because are any of us really live? Um, yes, the answer to that is yes I left the question just so you could contemplate it, but the answer is yes. We are in fact live um But here's the thing about these movies these almost gi joe movies as As a fan going back to when I was a kid um I want A good actual gi joe movie And these almost gi joe movies do not satisfy me. That's not that's it's it's not Good enough. It's not close enough to gi joe to be an almost gi joe movie. Um, hello stonehenge Kenton greetings to canada greetings canada from the united states. Thank you very much for being here It's it's it's really cold here right now starting to feel like canada But uh, but thanks. Thanks for being here. Thank you very much. You got in here just for the discussion Just in time for the discussion About gi joe movies. So Yeah, that's the thing An almost gi joe movie is not Close enough to a gi joe movie for me. It's just it just doesn't cut it. You know what i'm saying so Yeah, so it's cool to watch the predator and think hey, you know Uh, this this could be gi joe and it's it's fun to watch mega force and think hey like You know early era gi joe That kind of has a fun movie, right? Yes, it's fun to look at it that way. But no, I want an actual gi joe movie that is good With the actual characters in it and the actual storyline and I want the actual gi joe well, we've gotten a few We've gotten a few movies We got the animated movie from 1987 did not make it to theaters released directly to Uh, to home video. Hello rob. Uh, thanks for being here. Oh, hello white vegeta. Nice to see you didn't see you come in Hello, terence. Anybody else I didn't see you come in. Hello anybody who happens to be here um so um What were those hands? Oh, so, yeah, um, we got we got the 1987 animated movie um, we got uh rise of cobra cat is really Please don't break anything all everything over there is expensive and hard to replace. Oh, hey, yeah come over here or don't whatever so so, um Then we got gi joe rise of cobra and and this is something where I wanted to Talk a little bit about what chanting tatum said. I was not a big fan of gi joe rise of cobra. Uh, it was um It was um It was made during the hollywood writers strike so The writing on it is not what it could have been not what it should have been Hello oscar. Thank you very much for being here. Uh, thank you. I'm glad you liked the videos. Thank you very much so, um spy troops Um, I I don't know if I should count like all of the direct to video things And if I don't count the direct to video things, then I guess I wouldn't count the 1987 movie either um, but I mean if we're eliminating it to Theatrically released movies we have three We've got rise of cobra We've got uh retaliation And we have snake eyes gi joe origins. Let's talk about each of those. Uh, but uh, we will say that, um, Basically what uh chanting tatum did this lie detector thing? Uh for this article, you know where they hooked him up to a lie detector and then ask him some questions By the way lie detectors. That's kind of that's That's junk science. So the there's a reason why those aren't admissible in court that's not um That's that's kind of not does it really work, but they but as for as a gimmick for a um For for an interview of a celebrity, okay Uh, so but he he basically talked about how much he really disliked being on Uh, or in the the gi joe movie. Um, he talked about said he loved He he was told that he was going to do gi joe because he was in a three movie contract Um, and they told him he had to do it. He wanted to play snake eyes But he said no you're playing gi joe meaning do he played duke Um And and he didn't really want to he's uh rise of cobra earned negative reviews But but it grossed over 300 million at the box office. So it it financially it made some money um Oh, and that's that's the last of the article But anyway, the the point is he I mean he turned it down a whole bunch of times Didn't want to do it and wanted to be he wanted to be Uh, he wanted to be killed off within the first 10 minutes of the sequel He didn't he just did not want to be associated with the franchise anymore. Um, well, and that's um I'm not a big fan of The uh the rise of cobra movie and we we did talk about this a little bit when we uh When on what's on joe mind? Um, I can have a little bit of sympathy For that because I mean it should have been a better movie. It should have been written better. It should you know have Uh, I don't know been more accessible to Both fans and non fans um It just it just should have been better Um, I I still don't know the Channing Tatum was the best choice for duke I think the character of duke is just a bit older But duke is a recognized character and they will you know, they'll they'll cast the younger guy for it, but So but he he played duke. All right fine, whatever. Um But uh, yeah, um, but my um Put that kitty on a cardboard tank and let him defend the neighborhood see he would well, he might terrorize the neighborhood I don't think he's defending anything. He's a little terror He got his collar off. I don't anybody if anybody noticed, but we we can't keep the collar on him. He keeps getting it off We'll have to do something about that. Um, uh, anyway, um Uh, thank you. See more. Thank you. See more Uh Careful, uh anyways, uh So I I'm I I'm of two minds. First of all Like he had to had to be in a movie that Frankly, I didn't think was all that good and a lot of people didn't think it was all that good But but not everybody agrees with that. Some folks really liked it In fact, I think our old friend of form bx 257 preferred that movie over retaliation um But but I'm I'm not one of those. I I was a little frustrated with um With rise of cobra I I just thought It wouldn't have taken a lot of effort Uh to produce a much better and more interesting product Um, but you know It Whatever Channing Tatum thought of the movie it did The movie did still help Channing Tatum. It still got him out there. He it still helped to make him A household name So, you know, yeah ease up a little bit is what I'm saying. Just just ease up a little bit um The cat's really trying to knock my drink over. Let's let's not do that. Let's not do that um Gabe says snake eyes film. I switched off as soon as I saw snake eyes recast asian guy, um asian, uh I thank you. Josiah. He's uh hoody cat is has no chance versus Weber kitty. Yeah, he's uh Yeah, he's uh Yeah, but like a cat a tank battle that would be interesting, right? If we could get a cat tank battle happening People would watch that we we would win the internet if we had A cat tank battle Right um So anyway, let's let's move on. Let's move on. Let's uh, let's move on to Gijo retaliation the sequel the sequel Which took a few years to come out and it was delayed for an extra year because they wanted to add 3d effects to it um Channing Tatum was in it. He played duke Duke allegedly died um, even though Like they never I don't think they ever actually showed the corpse, but Duke ain't coming back He's gone into the a permanent coma. He's gone to into one of those comas that you don't wake up from um, but uh Yeah, now he's attacking my hand. That's that's fine. You know what? I'd rather you attack my hand Then attack my dream. That's fine. Um, so yes We we got a little bit of Channing Tatum again Um, oh, yeah, good one. See more uh, see more points to the expendables. That's another good example. That's another good example. Thank you um But that was not a Channing Tatum led movie that was a dwayne johnson the rock as Uh roadblock read led movie and I think that dwayne johnson was a much better roadblock than Channing Tatum was duke um, and I think dwayne johnson was a better ambassador for Uh, gi joe for the movie for the brand Uh, then then Channing Tatum ever was So, um, that was um an improvement And uh tatterin towards and cobra commander was legitimate retaliation. Yes, we had a we actually got a cobra commander That was recognizable as cobra commander. Uh, so Um A comet rope says retaliation was okay kind of depressing final act as london is destroyed Yeah, uh so sad to see london go. I wanted to go back there for vacation But unfortunately cannot because it's been destroyed. I don't know if you Got the word it was destroyed back in what was it 2013 um Sorry london That was during that phase of movies where like the stakes were not high enough unless a city was destroyed If a city doesn't get destroyed then what are our heroes even fighting for? So, yeah That was a little bit of a trope uh Not not a comic trope. That was a that was a movie trope. There's a movie trope Now retaliation had its drawbacks, all right retaliation had Its foibles retaliation had its flaws But in my opinion It's still an improvement, right? It's still an improvement over rise of cobra. The story was overall just less weird You know, it felt more grounded Um, the the ninja stuff was pretty good. It was better than the first movie um The rock as roadblock He did a great job and he seemed like that he actually cared about his role, you know He actually cared so and that's that's important john shoe as the director who Watson joe mine had as a guest by the way, that was a fun episode. Uh, john shoe as a surprise guest on what's on joe mine um But you know, he brought he was a competent director and I think did a pretty good job um and Retaliation didn't set the world on fire. It didn't leave everybody clamoring for gi joe three Um, but but there was a rumor though. There was a rumor that we were gonna get gi joe three Uh, in fact, I think there was even a poster made for it like a a banner Uh, but it never came about um instead We got a reboot Um that was supposed to start with a snake eyes focused movie and then uh Lead to the larger ensemble movie For the gi joe team now. Oh, hello, uh codename new to hiver too. You you are late, but i'm still happy to see you Thank you for seeing here. Uh, thank you. Thank you for being here. It's very nice to see you Uh, kelvin says london had exploding bars, uh dropped on it, uh, and i'm remembering yes Yes, they they had like it was a satellite thing and it like it came down and blew up london um And and nothing of value was lost That was mean. I don't know why I say things like that. I like london. I've been to london london is a very nice town I like london more than I like a lot of cities in the u.s london is nice and I yes much value was lost They lost that big wheel They lost big ben all of it parliament gone They lost all the tourist attractions All gone all blown up um Bruce willis before I move on to snake eyes. Let's let's let's wrap up. Let's wrap up a few things about retaliation bruce willis as Uh, the original gi joe as joe colton. Oh, hello jls comics. Nice to see you here. Uh, this is great We have a lot of friends here. That's that's really cool. Um um Okay Joe colton First of all having bruce willis in your movie if if you can get bruce willis in your movie You just have to have him right because that's guaranteed butts in the seats that is uh that is you know, that's Name recognition that's star power that That it gets people into the theaters But the whole joe colton thing was a little bit, you know shoehorned in You didn't need it It was okay But you could have lived without it too um I think there was like a little bit of a nod to the adventure team as well in that sequence And I think that's fine, but I think that if you're gonna do that like Do it a little bit more overtly. You know what I mean? Just If you're gonna go that direction just go that direction give us call them the adventure team, you know get get You know your your land adventure your sea adventurer get them the camouflage uniforms and the Or you know bullet man or whatever But but it's fine. It's fine. It was okay Gabe says I would prefer Oh, what would you prefer the rock as roadblock or terry cruz? Cast euros interesting choice. I think the rock did fine I think terry cruz also could have done well It would have been a different take on the character. Obviously a little bit of a different take on the character. I'm fine with um With what the rock did with roadblock. I'm cure. I would be curious though, uh, how terry cruz interpreted the character That'd be all right. You know, that'd be cool to see um but um okay The the the joe colton thing was it was fine, but not vital. It was not vital um But I did like that cobra in that movie Including cobra commander Actually looked like cobra. You had a an actual cobra commander You had like you had the his tank, but it was a new iteration of the his tank a new version uh updated Jumping general says it's joe fest time. It's almost joe fest time joe fest time in june I'll see you there um And and I liked the snake eyes storm shadow stuff. I liked that. I I thought it was Uh done better than the first movie The here's the trick about snake eyes and storm shadow and the new snake eyes movie tried to get it right They tried to get it right We'll get to that. But here's the thing about snake eyes and storm shadow snake eyes and storm shadow were friends That ended up fighting on opposite sides of a war. So the the interesting part of the story is Um, how did these very close friends end up fighting against each other? That's where your conflict is. That's where the the your the real interest is in that that conflict What really both of the earlier gi joe movies tried to do is they made Snake eyes and storm shadow enemies from the beginning From from very from a very young age. They were they were fighting against each other but it's it's a much less interesting thing to Uh to see how two people who always were enemies Were are still enemies now. I mean, that's not that's a less interesting question That's a less interesting conflict than How did these guys who were friends Become enemies and that's something that the new snake eyes movie tried tried to do Yes, joe fest joe fest Mary Ann and I should be at joe fest. We we we got the t-shirts. I ordered the wrong size t-shirts, so I'll fix that But we already got the t-shirts But I mean tonight I wanted to I wanted I wanted to wear castleton Um, oh after all I did, you know Use my time transport to go back in time and create the the dystopian Future that we all live in today. Sorry Little accident with the the time transport accidentally created the apocalypse. Oops um So then we got Uh snake eyes G i joe origins and they could have left out the g i joe origins. I was on the fence about that I thought that might be okay. They wanted to make sure that Snake eyes would lead into the g i joe movie and they wanted people to connect The g i joe movie to snake eyes when it eventually came out because snake eyes was supposed to be um, was supposed to be um, yeah, it was supposed to be a prequel basically it was a prequel to Uh, a larger Uh g i joe movie Uh, and I apologize. I'm not I I'm only intermittently Reading the live chat. See this is the problem when I go on a a tangent Like this when I go on a rant like this Like my eyes shut off like I I I can no longer read like I can you only use one part of my brain at a time And I'm using the talking part When I'm using the talking part. I can't use the reading. That's terrible. I know I know. Oh, marion hasn't seen snake eyes. I should I should show it to you You should at least see it. In fact, if you haven't seen it, you should at least see it You you should at least see it You know give give it a chance give it a chance, but I mean I And some folks did like in fact, I I believe Comic tropes has said that uh that he liked it and there are people that liked it too So, um, it's not necessarily a question of you know, whether you liked it or not because that's all individual That's individual taste. That's individual taste. I'm one of the ones that didn't like it, but But um, but but but that's just a matter of individual taste of The movie that they produced though um It was obvious that it was kind of a lower budget movie They they threw some CGI in there. It was it was a little sketchy Had some sketchy CGI Yes, I will remedy that. Yeah Next time you're over here. I'll force you to um I'll I'll force you to watch the snake eyes movie and then then we'll break up. That'll be what breaks this up. I don't um, but Um So it was obviously a lower budget movie, but you can do Um, you can do lower budget movies Uh, you you don't have to do everything big budget um, then You you just have to you have to have good writing You have to have good directing you have to have good acting and you have to put all those things together and you have to use your your budget to To the the most advantage to get the biggest bang for the buck so that you are uh Putting something interesting on the screen Uh, you you have it's not so much that you have to dial back your ambition But you have to be realistic about like You can't you can't afford the best CGI so so don't do CGI If you're gonna like having no CGI is better than having bad CGI because if you have bad CGI It just stands out and everybody like this Like the movie came out in what 2021 And 2021 You know people don't There are no excuses For bad CGI. All right. This isn't the mummy Okay, this is this isn't like 1997 All right, so people are much less Tolerant of bad CGI than they used to be so if you if you can't afford Good CGI then you got to do something else. You got to do something else um, but If you have good writing if you have good directing if you had good Actors it makes up for a lot of that All right, you use your assets and it will make up for less of a budget um but That's not quite Uh, I don't know what we got um I think I think you make I think you make it a genre movie like go deep into the The classic ninja movies, you know the I don't know enter the ninja and I don't know the octagon, you know Chuck Norris and these other ninja movies that were hot and famous in the 80s And you you go you dig into that, you know spend an entire weekend just just watching a bunch of those Get the essence of those and then translate that into Something modern something sharp, you know something poignant something with with characters that people care about um characters that are um relatable Um, and uh, if you if you can do that I think that you can Still make a great movie a movie that people will talk about On a lower budget um But I mean they were really they're really trying to do like this is their the start of their gi joe cinematic universe, right? This is This is their their iron man one but but like um the The well, there are lots of problems with snake eyes, but I'll I'll I'll narrow it down to one One my one big problem, you know making snake eyes talk, you know Casting him as an asian actor. I can live with that. Okay. I can live with that um I think what kind of killed it to me is that snake eyes was such an such a An unsympathetic character He spent a large part of the movie betraying the heroes and kind of being the bad guy Um, ironically if they had made that if they had titled that movie storm shadow And focused on tommy arashikage Focus on storm shadow that was an actually Interesting character that was a sympathetic character and when he is cast out of the arashikage clan For breaking their dumbass rules to in order to protect the clan and beat the bad guy You're like Yeah, I'm kind of on his side. You know That are they the good guys? Are they I mean we know this that cobra is the bad guys But that doesn't mean the other guys are the good guys. They could both be bad guys um But yeah, I if they had actually made it a storm shadow movie it might have worked It it legitimately might have worked with the same actors And with just a little bit of change to the story the whole thing might have worked um But uh, but the point is it's not the question is not whether We liked the movie Or not That's individual. We all make those choices individually The point is it didn't make any money And if it didn't make any money, then they can't make the next one, you know, they've they've got no motivation to make The next in the series um So I was hopeful I was hopeful that They might be Far enough down the the production line That they've already committed to making the gi jo ensemble movie And they'll go ahead and do that, but it's not looking like it. It's not looking like it um So it seems unlikely that we're gonna get A new iteration of gi jo in the movies anytime soon and that's Unfortunate because I'm gonna bring this back around. I'm gonna bring this back around. Thank you chew and bubblegum for mentioning mentioning mega force Thank you for two for mentioning mega force because I'm bringing this back around. I'm bringing this back around right Check this out. I'm bringing it this back around. So, um Here's the I think the value of those almost gi jo movies like your predator Like your expendables like your mega force and that is you know, if Paramount and hasbro are sitting around their offices, you know Uh, they're twiddling their thumbs and trying to think of what to do with this gi jo franchise And they're like, I don't know. I guess the people don't want the gi jo We don't know what to do with it. The the thing is that other Other movie studios other filmmakers other writers and directors. They seem to know how to do it You know, they seem to know how to give us these almost gi jo movies It can be done Other people seem to know they seem to figure out how to do it Except for the people who actually own the gi jo franchise So that's that's that's where I'm bringing it full circle. This is this is the end of my rant Which I've done for almost an hour and I've hardly even read the live chat. I apologize for not keeping up with the live chat, but I just I don't buy any excuses for Not being able to make gi jo into Uh an interesting and successful movie It absolutely can be done other people figure out how to do it So yes, it can be done, but like Snake eyes is one of the One of the the the most iconic characters in comic book history he's Got all of these wonderful qualities. He's he's loyal, you know, he's a he's a tough fighter, but he's he's Also kind to his friends and consider it He's a tragic character. He's he's good yet He's had so many bad things happen in his life and people can relate to that It's one of the most iconic characters in all of comic books. And if you can't figure out how to Make that character into Uh a movie Then then your writers are you get you have to hire better writers if your writers can't figure out how to do that get better ones um So that's that's That's my rant. Thank you all for your patience. Thank thank you for coming to my TED talk Um, but don't worry about this. You won't remember any of this because after the show I'm gonna jump into my Time transport. I'm gonna go back in time and I'm going to convince myself not to make this speech I'll convince myself that hey this rant. It don't don't do it Don't do it. It'll take up almost the entire hour just ranting about gi jo movies. Don't do it That's but a good thing. Good thing. I've got the the time transport I'll just I'll undo history and none of you will remember this anyway Hmm top gun Yeah, people say like oh people don't want to watch uh movies about military top gun was one of the biggest movies of the year one of the biggest movies in years You just have to do it right, right? You just have to It's not it's not about Military it's about the characters It's it's about what every good movie it's it's got to be about what every good movie is Really about it's about the people and their relationships. That's what all good movies are really about top gun I don't know rocky Time chasers Every good movie is really about the people I mean, have you noticed like the karate kid not about karate Rocky is not about rocky Top gun is is still kind of about fighter jets, but not entirely about fighter jets It's about the relationships between people and if you can do that then you can you can set it anywhere You can you can you can you can put whatever dressing you want on it if you can create characters that people like and care about um and Yeah, and if your movie writers can't figure out how to do that then get different ones um because um that G.I. Joe historically has made hasbro so much money G.I. Joe made transformers possible um and And g.I. Joe can do that again. It's possible. It can happen, but I mean Uh There's there's a gold mine. There's a gold mine Um, there's a gold mine that hasbro is sitting on and they don't know how to Uh, they don't know how to get them the gold out Um But and and by the way that this is nothing against the the g.I. Joe brand team for hasbro right now I think they're doing fine, and I think they're doing probably everything that Um, the company will let them do right where we've got a very vibrant classified line. We've got a whole bunch of um Of licensed product. We've got more g.I. Joe Out there of many different kinds than we have had in years decades even well not decades, but at least years at least a decade You know, we've got more g.I. Joe than we've had for a long time and that I I believe that is due to the brand team um Pushing and fighting to get us those things and I appreciate it. I really do. I think they're doing a great job I don't think the problem is the brand team Uh, if they if they had permission and budget To do whatever they wanted. I think that we would get Something really special But um that is not up to them, you know, we're talking about movie studios. We're talking about, you know We're talking about the corporation. We're talking about People way above their pay grade making decisions about what to do for this brand that The that they're sitting on that could be big um But uh But they're gonna have to they're gonna have to actually They need somebody who cares. They just need somebody who can well, maybe not may okay One last thing one last thing Sometimes it's not necessarily somebody who cares the most about A franchise that can Bring it around Okay, because somebody can care about the franchise but not be A good movie director Somebody could care about the franchise but not be a good writer um, and one example I would Throw out there is nicholas meyer the director of Star Trek 2 the wrath of con Nicholas meyer was not a star trek fan Oh, thank you the killer easter The way you pet allister. Are you sure you're not a bond villain dr. Claw? Instead of cobra commander Bring me inspector gadgets um Yeah, so Hey, look help help me with the algorithm. See see if I have cats in the video You know youtube already likes it more YouTube already likes it more Um, all right. There you go. You're you're free Um, anyway, what was I saying? I don't remember any of the um Uh I I don't blame the the the brand team. I think they're doing everything that they're allowed to do I think they're giving us as much as they possibly can um But uh Um, oh, yeah the uh Yeah, nicholas meyer was not a Not a star trek fan But he he was a good filmmaker, you know and he was somebody who could figure out from the source material What do you bring out? What do you what in the source material is good that you bring out and what do you change to make it? More modern to make it appeal to a wider audience This is what marvel has done if you look at the marvel movies I mean they draw from comic book source material, but they're not exactly like the source material. Oh, um, australia says Rob says shout out shout out loud australia day tomorrow should australia day A happy australia day rob and all of the other australian folks in the chat Congratulations, uh on australia day. Maybe i'll just celebrate australia day tomorrow myself um So yeah, like you'd maybe you don't necessarily need somebody who cares deeply about the franchise, but you need somebody who cares deeply about producing a good product somebody who's competent somebody who knows what they're doing and even somebody who has a little bit of artistry to their skill And if you if you have that person even if they're not a gi if they never heard of gi joe They can figure out how to make something out of it. There's it's a very rich source of material Um, so yeah, if your writers can't figure out how to do that then you've got the wrong ones That's that's what i'm saying. So now That's that was my rant. I that was not at all what I was intending to do this evening. Thank you very much Everyone for for sitting. Thank you for coming to my ted talk Um, it's now now one minute until eight o'clock and the cat is trying to climb up there. Please don't knock anything off No, he's he's all right. He's all right. So anyway, um, I am gonna say I will say good evening. Um I will say good evening. Thank you very much for watching Uh, we'll be back next week with the live show and hopefully I can get this video that i'm working on wrapped up I will do my best to get it up for sunday if I don't get it up on this sunday It will definitely be next sunday. Um, and then I'll get the next video in the work So we're we're gonna get back to doing regular videos and I apologize for the delay, but I i'm working as fast like it. I I had to like find things I had put things away. I had to find my camera. I had to find my tripod. I had to find the stuff That I use I had put it away Uh, but I but I did find the stuff and I'm working on it. So hopefully I'll see you guys with a new Uh video soon, but anyway, good night. Thank you very much for being here I will see you next week and until then remember only gi joe is g