And we are live. We are live. Hey everyone and welcome to the first episode of 2023 is Nodioh North's podcast. It's a Nodioh podcast and it's hosted by Northern Nodes.
I am one of your hosts Sam. And I'm the host Paul and we are joined by a concuffany of Nerds this evening. Actually I think a bit sorry for Sam's I can actually think I'm a little bit on the meal present shall we say but it's not the first time she's had five guys so let's say amateur. So we are joined by lovely goodwill, lovely Jay, Demi is in Grim and the lovely Grant.
So yes I'll be nicely as all for one so I'm not the addict. It's a new year. A new year. A new poll.
Yes and the big hello to everyone in the chat and everyone who's joining us on the podcast this night and we did do this last year and it was a really big success I believe. I think it was. The end year review of 2001 2021 I'm going back in time. My good god Paul.
Can you further what I have to say I'm 40 now so I can be a little bit like short the absent mind and shall we say let's just put this out I am heavily mitigated tonight so go again Paul. Yes well yes so and we are going to do an end year review so I don't know if Sam wants to start us off with her lovely seeing that was on the BBC just to kick off because we are going to have certain opinions and stuff today. Yeah okay so everything that's listed today is episode is our opinions and our opinions alone. If you would like to discuss anything from today's episode please come and join us in the Facebook group where we can have an open discussion or what we want to have as anyone coming for us and tell us our opinions are wrong we can all agree to disagree and fandom so let's give it fun give a kind and keep the toxic behaviour out of noism.
Well done. And I didn't have to look at a piece of theatre this week. Finally it sunk in. I said it's like I forgot what is going on.
Well yes um 2022. It was certainly a year. But not to talk about the things we've watched and seen so far but for the group and for the podcast we haven't hit many milestones we blew away all our targets by August I believe. Yeah.
But we wanted to hit by the end of the year so it's kind of been on a what would trajectory and just trying to keep it that way as well but there's been a lot of highlights like hitting 100 episodes and getting to talk about the goonies a lot being on the BBC as well and doing our first ever live performance in front of actual a room full of nerds was an experience and a half. It was definitely something true. And we didn't think we would ever do anything like this as well like being when when Sam brought the idea because I just wanted to write articles and say I like goonies I like George I like these movies. Sam was like we're going to do this this will be so much fun and I was like no it's not.
Yes it will. I did really fall to the time. I'm sorry I'm sorry for the past 109 episodes. Thank you for that.
Yes but we have had a lot of people join us along the way as well because I know I think it was this time last year when we created Team Podcast or this time that we decided that we were it wasn't just going to be me and Sam from the things it was going to be things that I think Jake and Grant were one of the first on board. I didn't get a question out and they were like yes yes yes yes. But yeah like I think like everything we don't really announce things very well. Like the news kind of just comes out at the end of random podcasts every other week.
But yeah it probably was around about the start or end of the year. That feels like a good time to start a team. Yeah and then we gathered a goodwill on the way. It kind of like since the meet up you kind of come out with your shell and decided you wanted to be a little bit more vocal shall we say?
Yeah we quite a good will. That was nice to Jake because I think you came to me didn't you bond with him. Oh cool. That's in me.
That's a good thing. You posted a comment on one of my photos and said if you ever do snatch a cap of salt would you consider it and I was like like immediately I forgot seven panic attacks. I was like yes and then Jake the nerdies Jesus the Messiah came down from the heavens with Angelica music instead of look if you shake yourself join the twitch team and that you know it's it was such a turning point for me because I had zero confidence in doing any of that and I never ever thought I'd do that and like Jake sort of like got me on the right track. I knew yeah didn't you it was like I was like the Sam Jackson coming with the Avengers initiative folder.
Oh you didn't even have an iPad. You know it's a bit of a twitch team. Oh yeah. Oh I've had that that's 23 I think we're gonna get an iPad just when when Jake was full heel.
I do feel a little bit bad meant when you mentioned the Star Trek episode because our newest member of the team did actually send me a message a few years before that actually episode asking to be on it as well. Great. So yeah I'm being my late after this. It was so weird but I just go like I'm not a massive Star Trek fan and then I'm just like oh that gives us real of all these names and stuff and be like well you know I know the entire Dominion War and oh I can remember everything lady and race and boys and you're like oh what do you know I'm actually nice.
You are not nice. You are not nice. You had an awakening. Well okay can I just say I'm looking at the actual video and I've never said this to a man before Paul but could you pull out of it?
My face is masculine. I'll do my lean back. I'll do my best for you. But I'll be honest with you.
It's time for Graham's course I'll show you. It's a time to my gloza. I did actually try and make a little bit less in the essence of people. I'm a crying of the podcast.
That's two Paul and your endos in the last five minutes. It's all in your endo don't worry. It's all in the night good weather lady. Grandson.
Hey yeah. Grandson. Grandson. Grandson.
For the audio of this. Grandson is here. Yes. I know Grands has been pretty much me and Sneeze since he's made his day of year on the Halloween.
Like since then it was it's been more harder to keep Grands off the podcast than keep on the podcast. That's like when Grandson is so insightful. It's every time you play an emergency or something like that. I say, oh shit.
We've had people pull open and I say, all right. I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll be fair.
You'll never have to fight. When you wrote about recruiting million Jay because you said it made that message asking me to be part of the team. It's like the highlight of the only episode I've done so far was turning Sami on by talking about poo. I can maintain that.
It's a volunteer. Then you know. Yeah. Twenty four.
That last year. Not in the way they think. Yeah. You meant that.
I understand. Thanks to you. I'll say that's a friend. You're so unemployed.
He's now. There's no friendship. I just want to. It's a way to put a breath for his nose now.
But yes. So yeah, it has been interesting. Like again, I know we did touch on this for the 100 episode. But I think it'd be a nice little thing to go over a little bit.
Just so there's not as much chaos on this one as it was the 100th episode. And what would you say would be your highlights being a part of the team podcast? Shall we say a team near the North Bishop? So we'll go with Jake first.
And for my point. Yeah, I think I mean, for me, it was just riding that good, North Brandon into some kind of modicum of Twitch success. You've had two payouts this year, which is amazing. Thanks to all the regulars you pop in, like Lee and Beth and Chris.
But yeah, we definitely couldn't do it without people watching because that would be weird. And yeah, like I don't know. Like the streaming thing's weird because sometimes you feel like nobody is watching. And then a couple of weeks, you'll just get a random stream you weren't even excited about and end up with like 20, 30 people dropping behind.
You can't like, oh, okay, it doesn't matter how much I plan things. This is kind of random. We know it's been fun. It's only going to get stupider in 2023.
Yes. That's a scary thing. They're keeping up with the madness. What, your grand total would you say your highlights?
I've really enjoyed the Twitch stuff as well. It's quite ironic. What? What?
What? It's just like, people watching. That's weird. There's the guy that I've sat there for four hours last night literally talking to myself.
But no one of the highlights from me did that kind of like, oh, I've done something quite special. Came out of one of the random Twitch streams where I didn't have that many people watching it. And then I logged into Twitch like a week and a half later and it had done over 100 views. And I was kind of like, oh, okay.
So maybe the stuff that I'm doing people prefer to watch after the fact because I just go off on one about mythology and topics and all of that kind of thing. So I was like, oh, God, how the fuck am I going to keep this pace up? I've exhausted all of the shit that I know in the first time it was broadcast. Remember, you do stream quite late at night and we're all like, at least in our 30s for no it isn't.
I mean, they're not true. So I think they'll end up on there on the twilight. Everyone's in bed. Yeah, no problem sleeping and all that kind of thing.
But yeah, you know, as far as the episodes is concerned, like the podcast itself, I wouldn't say that there's been one particular highlight of it because I really, really love coming on here and chatting with you guys. So the most of the stuff that I've talked about in the podcast, I've forgotten about it by 10 minutes after I've come off the episodes. He's so insightful. I think that last turn in just Fittles cast, which was quite a recent one.
I think that was like, I had some good energy. Nothing all of us just realized that the total like totals, knowledge is seeking up really knowing kind of like what Graham was saying before with Star Trek. Like, oh yes, back to Starchman. Matt's king.
Just all in there, right? Yeah, the Legion. And then the Legion. And that's good little segway.
So Graham, I know you're pretty new to the team as well, but you've been part of the community for the get go really from the start. But like over the last year, for the last year, what would you say to Harax? Even if not the day in your North, like your own streaming, because I know you do. Like I say, like to play your silly games, like the Duck, the Duck Tills one, the other night was hilarious.
Just like, it's just like, I'm really bad at this. But then like just like exiting out the game just to go back to the start screen to listen to the Duck Tills theme again. They made his proper banging version of it for the video game. You're like going, yeah, let's just listen to that.
They took it down because it was just too funky. But I know in streaming terms bizarrely, it was probably like, what it is though, when you do something obscure and you're playing obscure game, you get these crazy and by crazy, I mean, amazing, like crazy, like fans who just come out of the woodwork and then they're like uber fans. Yeah, and like I played X-Com Terror from the Deep from like 1995, I think. And you've got so many people just come along being like, oh, I love this game kind of thing and offering advice and stuff.
And like, and it really felt engaging, engaging where you just like, oh, they're chatting to me and stuff. And then like legacy of game, like, loads of people who were part of this elite legacy of Kane fan base and stuff were like coming on and chatting about stuff and telling me things I never knew about the game. And then even they invited me to like this Discord where they're talking about it. And the guy who created it is there.
Yeah, the guy who created it, the guy who was like, you know, the head of Silicon Knight's and stuff, who's like behind Eternal Darkness and two human, but let's not talk about that. And you know, and you just go, this is weird that I can just send a message and you can see that. We're doing Dennis Dyer. Yeah.
Oh my God, he's, he's came out with a bit of an NFT criminal, literally as well. But you just go, you are amazing. No, he's just like, you created all these amazing things. So there's obviously something amazing there, but I think he might kill someone somewhat.
Something. He sounds lovely. He won't be your witness. Yeah, no, but in terms of nearly up north, like, um, I think I really like the paranormal episode because I thought that was really interesting.
Like for me being such an incredible skeptic, like an open-minded skeptic, but a skeptic and then sort of having people like Beth on it who were very much believers. And I thought it'd be like good to have this sort of like neutral environment, but we could talk about stuff without it, like, resorting to arguments or something like that. Oh, you totally believe in this. Yeah, but I think you can get your tone across, can't you?
Whereas if you brought that in a comment and it's like a question for me, are you making fun of me though? That episode was so good. You were very inquisitive. Yeah, it was very, it was just very good at open conversation.
And it was such a, like, it was like breathtaking to see. I thought that. Well, it'd be a bit of fun. Well, doing the M Girl Podcast, actually I'm going to represent while I'm here.
Hold on, if I can stand up properly. I've got the Girl Podcast. Hello, hello, hello, hello. Hello, hello, hello.
Yeah. Which is the LGBT Plus Podcast I do. And we sometimes have guests on there where you don't agree with them, but you're not really allowed to disagree. And you don't really want to be in this forum of being like, I think that's bullshit.
It's really, really, really hard to be like, oh, what an interesting point of view. Please elaborate more rather than going, you know, I don't agree with you. I have learned that since doing the earlier North, because I've actually, uh, the stuff I was involved with beforehand, it was kind of like very aggressive. And for like a lot of arguing, for the sake of arguing, or just the same reactions.
And it was just basically trying to learn different people, different reactions to different people, and how people don't always come across well. Or it's just like asking them more questions rather than just saying that person's being a dick. Because I'll be honest, there has been a lot of people banned from the group, just because I thought he's been a bellend. But most likely when we've got on and talked with people, like, um, I think one of the big people, like, I'm not saying he's setting up a lot called Carl on the group.
He sometimes comes very opinionated and they kind of come across. But I don't think it's coming from a bad place. I think he's actually said he has, like, seeing mental health issues and stuff like that. But it's saying learning from that, and then treating people differently from the way I would have normally.
And it's like a learning curve, I think, for a lot of things. I think that's a difficult thing, because obviously as nerds and stuff, we're very passionate about what we're passionate about. Oh gee, that's stupid. Yeah.
You know, we're very passionate about stuff, but then you have people who don't really have the social expertise to kind of convey stuff without it seeming confrontational, without it seeming like that. And there's not, you know, if the whole point of going, there's nothing wrong with that. It's like, we can't all be sort of like, you know, fucking, where are you from from Deep Space Nine? Way!
You know, we've got all these amazing sort of like, you know, like, sort of charismatic things or whatever, but it's a side group going, but you're still valid. You know, and it's that thing of not jumping to debate. So when you get someone online who might seem slightly aggressive, you're not immediately going, you're an absolute dickhead. You know, you kind of just don't know how to express yourself with words very well.
I come from a background of writing for comic books, and I learned very quickly how to convey, in writing, the not shit-non-things. Like really, I learned to come here, like, I don't like this, but I'm not shit-non-no-no. So I kind of learned very quickly on how to do that, because you do get a lot of backlash when you don't agree with people on some things, and I've had a lot of backlash on the internet over my time. Very fair, I think my tolerance changed when we don't do all casual review, like, I had to learn and try and take points and stuff, but again, let's not go over that shit again.
You were very respectful. That's the best word I can describe in that episode. You were very respectful. So not even good, well, so good, well, what about you, sir?
Wow. I don't care if you can fuck off. Also, what are you saying? What are you saying?
Well, you're pondering good, well, the comments, please being pointed out that you've had the most kindness in the last 15 minutes of this podcast and you ever didn't try to try to do that. We're turning over and you've- We are, we are. It's nice to have the love for once, isn't it? Oh, good.
Sorry, good. Well, I'm sorry, good. You whore. Well, I mean, 2020, like I said earlier, on 2022 was, I wouldn't say it's not been dramatic.
It was life-changing, to an extent. Okay, now with my shell. I'm going to put it on the desk, sorry. You're going to put them back in the shell.
You need a time up, you, Paul. It was a turning point for me. I was always very, I had no confidence in myself. I would never have thought I'd be able to twitch on, and twitch stream and be on podcasts and everything like that.
And I'm slowly getting there. You do so well. I think I'm trying to do that. Life's been outside of New York North, life is being mental and crazy and unpredictable.
And as a man who desperately loves a routine and loves to have schedules, it's been very hard. So this year, I'm aiming to like, twitch more on my own and with Jake. Just with everything else that we've got looking for, you know, going on in 2023 with Nerfist and Sony Con and stuff like that. It's been a long time since I've been optimistic about the future and positive about the future.
And it's a weird feeling to go, oh, shit, I'm actually looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to this. I'm looking forward to that. And it's such a refreshing mindset change, because, you know, not a lot of people, but I do have mental health issues.
I'm bipolar and you got, you know, apart from Paul sometimes, believe me. You've got to deserve it. You lot have helped me recover and be a better person. Take the whole stop.
We're not having an image yet. We've been on not even 20 minutes. I'm the first on the team. I'm the first on the team.
I'm the first on the team. I'm the second on the team. This is the second time you've done this. Four.
Four. No, we'll take somebody to take a top off again. Take a top half in a minute. We can just put you guys.
You guys have, I have got to know every single one of you over the year, year and a half. And it's just been fucking amazing. And getting to use skills that I learned at uni that I paid fucking money for. All those years ago, finally, is so fucking rewarding.
Excuse my French book. I just saw, yeah. Good all you just made cutting away. Yeah.
Yeah. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. I've never been able to pick up fluids.
Seriously, can you give fluids within you? But no, I'm very grateful for the opportunities that you guys have given me. And I hope that I can just stop your second. Stop your second.
It's not opportunities we've given you. It's opportunities you've taken. That's the difference. I don't think you realize how charismatic you are, good will.
I don't think you realize how watchable and how entertaining you are. You know, no one hope that. Go on, take the compliments. Take the compliment.
Take the compliment. Take the compliment. It burns. All is absolutely right.
We've done nothing. You're the person who gets on and puts the camera on. Turns the mic on. You do all that.
No, please take some credit for yourself. I'm sorry. That's what Kate said about anyone. That's anyone does this.
I think a lot of people think it's easy. It's not. Because as we saw in other episodes, other people have been on. Some people are natural.
There's some people that it is quite difficult. Look at how early episodes. Fuck me. It's painful.
It's not that painful. It's not that painful. But I thought I was on for us. I thought I was on YouTube before I did this.
So I thought I was like a fucking pro. Until I had to host my first ever episode last year on my own without Paul. And I absolutely crumbles. I folded so badly through that episode.
It was the Alien one. Can you remember the grant? I do. I felt like I was falling apart because I didn't.
I'm always so used to. He is there. Always there. But the worst part of it is he was actually nearby somewhere.
So he's in the chat. Talk about this now. I don't know. I was like, my legacy.
They have to live from day one. I should be used to this. And I absolutely crumbled at that episode. But that's all going to be put aside for next year.
Even because I am going out on my own. So look out for that one. My God, so long. The amount of plans we're going to offer next year, I can't be involved with everything.
I think that's the big truth to me. I try to be involved with everything to the point where I'm really quick. There's been so many times that you haven't stopped. This is it.
I'm done. And I think I'm all about everything. Which is strange when you think about it. But it's a lot of things get to you.
Keep this on our toes. Yeah. A lot of new things coming this year. What was your favourite moment then?
I was going to ask you to score next. No, you go. You're all about everything Paul. You're all about it.
Keep late. It's strange when it's like as simple as it is. Like the fact that we turned up and do this each week. And it is still fun.
It's never felt like a chore. And it's never been difficult. That's always been the positive. Probably the highlights.
I have loved as a person as a person as a person. I loved seeing people's confidence grow again. Not me getting on private. Good will just come on later bounds.
Seeing someone like Beth who can be a little aggressive at times. I'm not going to like it. But seeing her getting grossed and joining in. And seeing that and seeing people like Lee getting involved.
And people kind of getting attached. That's the thing. It's not just like once or twice. It's like people are staying around.
Like Martin, bless me. Stay around and talk shit about him all the time. Just for the phone. You do the same thing.
I think that's always been like the thing I've enjoyed. Keeps me going each week and seeing people like Donna, come out of the shell. Because Donna is one of the most nervous people when you've got to run from the camera. But then when you see a grown blossom come out.
Like it's hilarious and so much fun at the same time. Again, seeing connections for inships formed as well. That's things I didn't expect to happen. Just come out that way.
And that's always been the thing. But obviously highlights stream and wise. Even though it nearly broke, it was probably the band called it. When we did fit everything in.
And we did the sonic run that. Kittle does have everything. So we had a fucking blue little bitch before. But then makes it during a community podcast episode.
Where people were just joining that. We had no idea who would come on and talk to us. A lot of people just wanted to show their face. And that was again was fun.
But then getting new people on the podcast. Like seeing Graham and seeing that grow. And Sonia and Sonia, suny, suny, as well. And makes it same people who might not get the communication.
Or might not be able to see things that they want to see. And giving them a platform. And it's just liberating at times. And yeah, that's my little diary at there.
Oh, that was so sweet. So you can be nice people. Mine, probably the same just how much we've grown over the last year. How the communities grow.
And how each week when I look in the chat, I see familiar names. And I see them every week. And it's so lovely that they're kind of like waiting for each other to join. Like you can see them on the list.
And I just absolutely love that. When it comes down to podcasts, we want to be favorite moments. We'll always be Charlotte getting her happy birthday. That absolutely, I have never felt so woman fuzzy in my entire life.
I didn't want to cry but be inside for best. And I was. Yeah, kind of see with the professional one here. The one who kept the corn during the celebrity used to.
Fun girl and out. I was more fun girl and out. But Charlotte, anything else. I was the wanderer over here.
And also I've absolutely loved the one we've done in Bantasophobia. I think that's it. Like me and Donna raving out when nobody was watching was one of my best moments ever. I absolutely adore that me and Donna raved in that sanitary.
And it was brilliant. So I have enjoyed doing what I have done in Twitch. Yeah. Oh yeah.
We got a lot of mileage out of that game. I don't particularly like. I know. But you take really well.
I like you guys. Yeah, someone's fucking killers on. So I get to make interest in that stream for the people watching. That's normally I don't need a good world screaming like a girl.
So that's a lot of fun. Um, but yes, I think that clicks the most stuff out of the way. So the real subjects and the real reason we're here as well is because. Um, there has been a lot of content given us in the last year.
I wouldn't have spent a lot of taking. But what would you say? Because we'll do it like I'll try and be a bit more organized this time. So we'll go on movies first.
So we'll talk about like other highlights. But what would you say was your favorite movie of 2022? So I'll go to Sammy first with a go on last last time. What?
No. I don't know. No. No.
No. Um, I was making a world-wide impression. What? No.
And I really, really, really loved Blackfone. There was something about that feeling that absolutely gripped us. That um, oh god. There'll be others that come up and I just generally like, I can't remember.
No. It was a brilliant flag. I never watched it. It was one of the ones I missed on this time.
But when it says I came up streaming, like I watched on the dodgybox. It is a very old school go-sorry type tale. And I thought I was very intent. I was all for it.
But that movie, I loved it. I absolutely adored it. Um, I thought it was nice, compactful. It wasn't long.
It was in it. The characters in it were incredibly entertaining. Like I was just drawn to it. But one that we actually watched last night, that I thoroughly enjoyed so much was nope.
And I think that sounded like absolute tit when I'm saying it. So I do apologise, nope. We watched it last night and there was some bits of it that I didn't quite get until after all was finished. Yeah.
And then it just made it like even, it was like when I watched Candyman. When that first came out, it wasn't until after the fact and I was talking about it. I was like, oh my god. Oh, I get things so much better now.
And then it made it more enjoyable after the fact. But it really, really stood out for us last night. I really enjoyed that. No, I really enjoyed not as well.
I like the characters. I think the characters were very likable. Yeah. I think that that's a problem with a lot of movies or TV shows.
Literally, they don't make the cast likable anymore. So you don't get any gross. But yeah. You made them very intriguing and the message as well.
So I didn't get the whole monkey bit. I didn't understand what that what what reference and why weren't we going back to that? And it wasn't until afterwards, and me and Antwerp and then I was like, oh my, it's the whole message of the whole film is the danger of trying to tame while that moves. And I was like, oh god.
Yeah, that makes so much more sense now. Like I get it. But I was absolutely convinced that what was in the sky was a hat. I'm not gonna lie.
I generally thought for about it half an hour that what was in the sky was a hat. Right. That's fantastic. Well, you grandfought would you say the movie of the year for you?
I mean, this year for me, there's not really been a lot of movies wise that has dropped my jaw already to play that. I think it's definitely been a year for TV for me. But there was one that I was really, really looking forward to when I think they got so much of the imagery saw right, a little bit of a crop for it. So shut that down.
Shut that down. You are the best. Do you like that? It does come apart as well.
I got this one. But yeah, obviously I'm a massive fan of the Halreza franchise. And I've been wanting to see something happen with that franchise that would re-energize it for probably about as long as I can remember, because Halreza in the last sort of about 20 years has sucked major balls with everything that they've put out. There was a slight kind of moderate kind of bullet off with Hellseeker.
Hang on. He's suggesting that Bloodlines wasn't the cinematic masterpiece. I'm afraid it's all made. As many Oscars as it won.
It was just the prize. But yeah, sorry, I'm going off a little bit there, but yeah, I wanted to see Halreza get reimagined without leaning so much on what had come before it. And while I don't think the new Halreza did it perfectly, it got, especially from an imagery perspective, it is absolutely beautiful in its horror. They've got so much of it, so, so right.
Yeah, it was a little bit, 13 goes to the puzzle box. But it was nice to see, you know, we see it in the group all the time. You see it on the internet all the time. Oh, no, remakes.
Why don't they come up with good ideas? It was like, if you come up with an idea, you're fucking, otherwise, leave it alone. Yeah, Granche, what can tell them? Well, the hostility towards remakes really, really pisses me off, because nobody gets angry about reimagined in the room.
You get nobody gets angry about reimagined in the show. I don't think anyone gets excited about them though. I get what I get wrong. Ten things I hear about you, it's the human of the show.
And that is an absolute masterpiece. Even looking at literature, you know what I mean? You get an updated version of Dracula, you get an updated version of Frankenstein, and nobody backs an eyelid. So why get angry about people rework and what were phenomenal creative ideas for the modern generation?
I would speak at the Jacob about this the other day. Not this Jacob, my son Jacob. And it's like, there's certain elements of older films that need an update. You know what I mean?
The modern generation I get a bit of on, but you look at certain situations in horror films that say, well, why don't they just use them all by fault? You know what I mean? Because they were made before the advent of the whole film. Before the advent of the internet.
So these things do need to be updated for a modern, they don't have to be updated, but if they are going to get updated for a modern take, then they should be treated exactly the same way that you do see an updated version of Frankenstein or Dracula or Sherlock Holmes or way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, back into the rounds of mythology and fairy tale folklore. There was one popular one Netflix the other day, and I'm really, really buzzing about it. There's a version of The Devil and The Blacksmith, which is the folklore tale that you're selling your Devil at the Crossroad. The Devil is the Devil.
The thing comes from like 8,000 year old fairy tale or something like that. There's the oldest story in existence that's been documented and it's been done to death, and nobody gets angry at it while the Johnson's don't get angry at it. He's already done it once before, and it was an absolute belter over run, so well done, granted it was an alien one. It was an endless title.
That's it. What were you Jake? What would you say your movie highlight of the year? This has been like, I would say like a real bad year for like movies for me.
Like I'm honestly happy that other people have been enjoying themselves. So like, I probably have to say it's like The Batman, and that was like way early on in the year as well. Yeah, I just want to be a top two to be fair. Yeah, but that's just because like I'm like a huge Batman fan, as I know some of you are here too.
And I haven't really liked, like probably liked a Batman movie for like a long time, because I wasn't too sold on Christian Bale, like I don't like super serious Batman. And I think this one has potential to go too serious, but also like the showed enough flashes of like weird comedy, like the part where he's like them drive. Like there was jokes in it. And there was like there was jokes at like the riddler's expense about being an inside and being like he's got 300 followers on this account.
It's like it's got potential to be like to have a little bit of that fun, because like Batman's like a sarcastic like bastard half the time in like the comics and like the old cartoons and stuff. But obviously I've got no idea where DC's going now, but they usually keep Batman on his own, like new news wise. I think they've said they're going to keep the joke or in the Batman completely separate to what is going on, what the folks going on, what. Like I like Batman in Justice League, but I feel like you need Batman with a history in Justice League, like you can't just have like his a new Batman.
I think you need a one where people know and he can make like a reference to the Joker and Superman. I'll be like, oh yes, I heard about that on the news. You need a bit of like history. So it's gonna take the time on the Justice League, I guess.
But yeah, that was probably the only I haven't had many cinema experiences this year, but that was probably like the most fun. I think the only other things I've seen is Thor, love and thunder. And then the one piece movie which seen anime in the cinema was an experience, but the Batman was better. No, I think what was quite satisfying for me for my like and for the Batman was the shit it was getting online before even anyone had seen it just because of the cast and because of like what we'd seen in the trailers that I was like, oh, emo Batman and like it's kind of like it's like, but I love the film noir style.
Like it was a very good 80s version, like the 80s comics for me and this sound of the Batman, Batmobile will live for me. Like I'm not a really big car person, like I'm not the biggest fan of cars, but the Batmobile that sound and that just, ferociousness, that's the way the Batmobile should be going forward. Because if you want to scare and pause terror, that coming after you, there's nothing scarier to me. But I love it's scary.
That might need to use that more often. I really, I think I haven't made this in a lot this year, which is quite unusual. For me, Batman was an experience and it didn't, it was a long film. But one that I was quite happy to sit through.
I insisted that it was long, but I was really pleased with the outcome. I think like as well, like you said, like it kept it a secret. Like we kind of knew runtime, but like we didn't know a lot of what was going to happen. No.
Like Sam, you totally right, like that was like a bit of an experience and that because you're like, I don't know anything about this. Yes. What the hell is that we're going to do? What's going to happen next?
I think that's what runtime is now, the pick with like the advancement in streaming, the not tied down to like the now and a half or under two or more anymore. So films are not really being made for the film, similar experiences, much as the web previously, it's now for the streaming because people like, this is actually just a sleek, for example, people watch that in droves. I know everyone's going to have different opinions on it, but we're not getting that because it's not a joke. But I think a lot of people did like warm through it and go, but as I said, the Batman lived great foundations for what could be like, seeing interesting more stories from the back universe.
And so yeah, that was one of my highlights, hopefully. What about you, Goodwill? You're going to lost in your train, I thought there. I'm sorry, I'm in the same opinion that 2022 wasn't that great for movies as a whole.
But really, I've only got two, Clerks 3, which destroyed me and completely out the left field violent night with I had so much, I'll start with Clerks 3, though. Yeah. For me, that was the perfect conclusion to the Clerks' trilogy, the Clerks' story. And I think a lot of people went in to the foetus and, you know, started the video and thought, this is going to be like Clerks 1, 2, it's going to be a laugh, it's going to be fun.
And then they all left destroyed emotionally by Kevin Smith. I'm still over it. I'm still not over it. I'm still not over it.
After watching that, I couldn't speak for an hour afterwards. Apart from text policy and I'm broken. The last time I felt what she'd literally was the series finale supernatural. You know, that got to me as well, but Clerks 3, it was so beautifully done.
It was so, it was not, I mean, let's be honest, it was a homage to the first Clerks. It was a tribute to the first one. It was a remake, shall we, sir? It was Kevin putting to write what he wanted originally.
Yeah. Clerks 1. Yeah. And it was just a tribute.
It was a thank you to his fans, it was a tribute to everyone. And I absolutely loved it. And violent night. Just pop it.
It was one of those, you know what I'm saying? You only scrolling on Facebook and you just get that rando film trailer that just pops up from like whatever studio, like Universal's posted there. And Universal's just came up and I was like, oh, it's David. How was David?
How was I standing? I was watching it. I was like, this is die hard and horn along on meth. Yeah.
Right. Yeah. Okay. Such an amazing made of describing.
Yeah. And I sat down on Christmas Eve. And I mean, I didn't have much work. And I watched it and I thought, you know what?
This is a great switch off movie. It's fun. It's funny. It's it's it's it is die hard and horn on meth.
Yeah. And it was so much fun. I love this. So much fun.
I mean, there's there's a few plot holes and there's a few bits here and there. And I thought, you know what? Sonnet. It's a Christmas movie.
And I think it's going to be a traditional Christmas. I want to see. Well, I'm currently I've already gave it Harvard's game out and said he wants to do a fight with Easter Bunny. They want to say once I have a holiday universe type thing.
I just thought this could be a stranger thing spin off. Like, you know, David Harvard didn't fall to the upside down. He just folded to a universe where he just emerged as Santa. Yeah.
It's the fact that it's the fact when you realize he's the real Santa, you're like, because I generally thought looking at like the trailers and courses, I was like, Oh, it's just a, you know, a store of Santa getting into the wrong place at the wrong time. And it's not it's the real. It's the real. It's the real.
Those guys. Santa is for your door, guys. It's fine. I mean, yeah, like if if if the in Stranger Things, they suddenly kill him by accident, any of us could be Santa as we found out in the Santa Claus.
The Santa Claus in upside down. If he'd accidentally shattered him for being on the roof. My question is, or when did the film when did the film this? Because for Stranger Things, David Harvard lost a lot of weird.
Yeah. And with this one, he was back to his chubby hubby self. He was bulked. He was broke.
Wasn't he bulk for Black Widow? Yeah, what's the major thing? It came out of Black Widow. That was the thing.
Could you really trust Netflix? Like CGI people. No, that's that is him. That's but he was built.
He was built. And I don't want to give too much away of the character, but he is the reason he's built. But it's yeah, it's yeah. It was so much.
It was fun. And it's it's it reminds. I mean, obviously, spoilers, there are attributes to haul along. Yeah, I lost.
And I know. Well, I'm sure we see it. Yeah, more. Yeah, more.
Yeah, more realistic. Yeah. And it was it was a great switch. You know, it sit there with a beer and just have fun.
And you know, after most of the films this year, it was just great to have a film that was just fun. Yeah, no, and that's what I've said before, before a lot of films that these days now, they don't give us like a like a like a book characters. And most of the characters, well, everyone that you're meant to like in these in that film, you did like on the people who are assholes were assholes. Yeah.
So it made like say there wasn't too complicated and it just made it really enjoyable. So yeah, no, two good choices. What about you, you grim? I'm gonna say that's just a funeral.
That was an issue. Yeah, it's a goal. That was last year. I can still watch it on pornhub.
It's really, I'm actually, firstly, I'm very pleased that everyone has said roughly the same thing to me. I was scared that I was going to be like, I like all the stuff that everyone hates. And you know, like everything was terrible. So it's quite good having everyone basically go.
It was crap for movies cause it was. No, it was actually, I just want to give a shout out to while I'm here to Gaming Queen, who is one of my crew who was joined the chat. I wondered, I wondered, I was like that, they've come for green. They're the drag queen friend of mine and they are, what is it, a regular on my twitch screen.
However, they are saying that their favorite movie was Welcome to Recon City. So going back to what we were discussing earlier, discussing earlier, that's an interesting opinion. I will say it's probably the best Resident Evil movie, but that's like saying Jacob Reesmog is my favorite Tory. It doesn't really, you know, it's a Jacob Reesmog is that favorite anything.
I just think the idea is it just like, when you in the bino, he's not quite real in its many of us. He's trying to spend what money is doing. He's like, what are these strange coins? It's the majority of the city now.
But I'm not the Joe Sandridge. Yeah, Welcome to Recon City was a film that did come out. No, bizarrely, yeah, the probably is basically my favorite films, obviously. I only saw it two weeks ago, but the Batman, like you said, the Batman was immense, because it was basically seven.
It was basically Batman reimagined at seven and the tension throughout was amazing. The characterization was amazing. It didn't fall into the same tropes that Batman movies do where they go, hey, let's just spend two hours doing like the origin story. It kind of goes, yeah, his parents are dead.
Yes, they got shot by someone. We know this. We don't need to make that the plot of the movie. And that was perfect.
I'm a bit scared whether people say that the last third is disappointing, you know, where their action goes up a little bit. And I was like, I don't know. I felt it was justified. I felt that it was building to something like that.
And so it kind of felt okay, but a lot of people disagree. No, no, you needed that because that's when Batman turned from vengeance to Corp. And I know they pretty much hit you with a set camera with it rather than like suddenly. But sometimes that's not a bad thing.
And I think it's good because obviously it has kind of Batman realizing that he can't do everything is Batman because I think the whole thing is that we don't see Bruce Wayne in the film. Bruce Wayne is barely in the film because even when it is, he's not Batman, he is that, you know, in that kind of idea of it's still the Bruce Wayne's character is so hidden in this persona. And he's kind of realizing, oh, I need to be myself in order to do a lot of the things. I can't just be a vigilante.
And I thought I was a really nice little progression throughout the film. And I'm interested to see what they do with villains though, because like you were saying, like Jake was saying, it's a super serious kind of film. And he's just going, how the hell do you put half the villains in? Because I think it's still too soon to put M.