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And this is the Big Picture-A-Conversation show about auctioning. CR is here. We will be conducting our first movie auction of the year today. Later in the show, an old pal of CR's, my Jake Johnson, beloved actor and first-time solo feature director.
He's got a new movie called Self-Reliance that is available on Hulu right now. Great job, Jake. He's just one of the ghosts. You did greet Chris very warmly.
And I was like, why weren't you here? Is the watch of the Big Picks farm system? Like, are we the feeder club for you guys? Or do you just so badly want to be part of the watch?
It's kind of like a Cleveland Browns moving to Baltimore situation, where we're the Ravens now, and we're just good every year. That's kind of what we're doing. And we're only good, like, once or twice a year. Yeah, every once in a while, you got a Miles Garrett, you guys are good.
But, you know, you had a nice run. We did. It's great. We did.
Jake greeted you warmly because I shared with him that we actually talked to Jake on the Big Picture six years ago. We went to South by Southwest when he made a movie called Winner Hall, Jeff Slumberg. And so we were chatting about that a bit. Self-Reliance is fun.
It's an interesting chat with him. I can't wait to check it out. We are going to auction today. We did our most anticipated movies of the year episode a couple weeks ago.
And so some of the titles you heard about there will be mentioned. Chris gave me a little sneak preview of some movies he's super interested in this year. I would say none of those movies are on our list. So this could be an interesting podcast.
Can I share the two texts that I received from Chris Ryan last night? Absolutely. Chris, is this okay? I see you give your approval.
And they're like, look at my crazy Trader Joe's haul. I'm going to make gyoza. And it's just like, God, this is soothing. And also approachable because I feel like I can do that too.
Have you made any efforts to create those meals? What was the 10 fish recipe in question? They were just making toasts. Oh, yeah, sure.
I said to you I've only really done the salmon and the tuna. I haven't branched out. But if you want to send me a reel, I watch all the reels that you send. Thank you.
I want you to know that. I haven't really approached this with Sean. I send Zach reels sometimes. Are you really into reels right now?
He's hugely into reels. And I know when he sends Zach reels because suddenly weird sounds are coming from Zach phone and he's tackling for like 20 minutes straight. Is reels having success? No, I'm doing it as Twitter method.
Yes, it is. Oh, as Twitter method. So if I'm watching something that I just feel compelled to do. Join Amanda and I on Threads.
Yeah. Did you know I'm posting on Threads now? What? Yeah.
Listen, I'm sorry. You cannot be the king of reels. You cannot be the king of reels. When did this happen?
This week. Oh, okay. This is new late breaking. This is like you guys have been like, thank God.
I started posting on Threads last week, just posting links to the show. And I was like, it seems like people are migrating there. Twitter is a fucking cesspool. Exactly.
It's awful now. Basically. And then I was like, oh, this is fun. I have a lot of women who look suspiciously alike who are getting heart on Rewatchables pods.
Yes, you certainly do. They're all named Cairo. Yeah, they all love tinned fish. They're from Ukraine.
So Threads is a good place. Reels is a good place. I'm just blogging. What was your other text?
What was your other text talking about on Threads? Well, I post podcasts and then also books I read and other things I like. I linked to my car car pants. Oh, you didn't see them.
You didn't see me yesterday. But I was wearing new pants that I liked. And I recommended those. Recommended some literature.
You know? Is it a one-way street or are you engaging with people? Great question. At this point, just because the number of followers, it's sort of a one-way street.
Not everyone is there yet. And I haven't been able to bring myself to do that thing where I post on stories that like, follow me on Twitter. I can't be doing that. This has to be organic.
This is that. Yeah. But it's like blogging at that. I'm having a great time.
Bobby has been posting on Peach recently. I don't even know what that is. Really? Yeah, really.
Yeah, Gen Z. You don't know. My preferred social media platform right now is the comment section in YouTube videos from Bob's theater career. Like, a bunch of different conversations are happening.
What's it going to take for us to get Sean Penn and Jon Bernthal to come in here and draft with us? Well, okay. So, would you be cool if Sean Penn was like, hey, I'd love to do the 2002 draft, but I am going to chain smoke American spirits indoors. I'm fine with it.
I'm fine with it. Okay. I mean, are you okay with it? I mean, I would like notice just to wear clothing that you're going to learn after well, or that I'll just carry with me.
That's the audio guy. I'm looking at the smoke detector right above us. You make it about like five minutes before it would ruin the sound. He's in a Bernthal pod.
He's wearing jeans and a black t-shirt barefoot and is sitting in front of a like snake eating itself. Don't try it on me kind of symbol and a Ukraine flag and an American flag and it smokes American spirits the whole time. How many American flags do you have in your home? Just be honest.
Um, I think I have three. When you were just doing that math, was it, you were like, I don't want to offend my MAGA bros. No, I was just thinking, I was like, which ones did I buy the last time I went to Monticello? Hold on.
Second text. The second text was, do you feel like there are not very many Oscars supporters for next year, for this year? I completely agree. Which is a segue into this auction and the new rules.
Well, let's recap 23 first. Because 23, I think it's interesting because 23, that was a really good segue that you just didn't let me do. You want me to do the new rules first? I just didn't follow because that was what Chris was talking about, you know, the auction and in general.
Well, here's, okay. So I came up with some new concepts for the auction this year because frankly, the auction, it's impossible to know how someone can win when we do one of the, well, you can vote on it on Twitter, but the movies are not out yet. So we're just voting on like the hype meter, I guess, for whatever is going to come soon. Even when you vote on a regular draft, it doesn't mean anything, but even with the auction, it's even less meaningful.
So I wanted to put some long-term parameters around it. So when we look back a year from now, like we are about to with our 2023 slate, we can say, okay, well, this person checked the most boxes and has, it has the best slate ultimately. And also I think we'll give us some guardrails in terms of not just like wildly trying to address something we know is not coming out because that's another mistake we've made. Right.
So not looking at anyone in particular sitting next to me. It was not my fault. That was a strike. Okay.
We're going to get it. We will briefly get into it. If no one has ever listened to an auction draft before, there are some core rules, which is that each bidder, that is Amanda, Chris and myself get $1,000 to bid on a slate of films. Each film on our slate must have a 2024 release date or an almost certain expectation of release in this calendar year.
We all get five movies. We have to get five movies. We can't run out of money before getting that fifth movie. Bidder is open with each new title and we move in a snake fashion.
You have 30 seconds to make a new bid. Do we still do 30 seconds? Bob, what do we do? I just kind of let you guys roll.
I call it 40 seconds. But this is the first time we've done it with Bobby in studio. Yeah, this is true. There's also been some truly joker-fied auctions where we're like literally vamping for 45 seconds and at the very last second are like, I bid $2 extra.
I think in some ways that's entertaining. In some ways it's awful. I realize I'm the number one culprit so I'm trying to have some self-knowledge about this. He also doesn't want me to bring up my discussion topics but I've been saving literally for this option.
I don't know what any of those things are. Movies that were previously optioned but did not get released are now back in the pool except what is the rule? That for $100 you can lock it down? Yeah, you can pay a $100 charge to keep it.
So do you pay the amount that you bid for last year plus $100? New rules. We've got to have some goals. So I'm adding what I'm calling category triggers to see if we can actually determine the winner and elevate the drama to some extent.
Here they are. And if you guys don't like them or you want to change them, let's talk it out. At least two of your films must gross $100 million domestically. I'm fine with that.
At least $100 million. $100 million. But two of those movies have to pick. They must or then what happens?
Well then that's one trigger that you won't qualify for to win. So the person who has the most triggers would win. Are you following? Yeah.
Sort of. Okay. The second new trigger is at least one film must receive at least two Oscar nominations. Okay.
Next trigger. At least one of your films must hit an 85 Metascore on Metacritic. Only 13 films released in the United States did that in 2023. I would like to change this to I would like to draft three movies that get more than 80% audience meter on Rotten Tomatoes.
Considered and rejected. Here are the movies that were released that received at least an 85 Metascore. Our Body, the documentary, Past Lives, Men Use Plus Years, The Wiseman film. Did that come out?
Oh yeah, that came out. The Boy and the Heron, The Zone of Interest, Killers of the Flower Moon, Oppenheimer, All of Us Rangers, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, Poor Things. Oh, there's more. I've got the number wrong.
Maybe I'm in 23. Poor Things, Fallen Leaves, Renaissance, Anatomy of a Fall, Spider-Verse 2, Orlando, My Political Autobiography, The Delinquents, May, December, and The Disappearance of Sharehite. That's it. Looks like it's about 19.
I haven't heard of several of those films. Well, you have heard of a bunch. And many of them will be nominated for Academy Awards as well. So there's some crossover there.
So we need $200 million. Two films that will gross $100 million domestically. We need one film with two Oscar nominations. Correct.
We need one 85 Metascore on Metacritic. And this is the hardest part. No more than one sequel. I don't know about this.
I don't know about this one. I think you should be able to get two sequels. Okay. Given what we know is coming out, I think that it's really difficult to do just one sequel.
Sure. No more than two sequels will be the new rule. Because there's some sequels that could get nominated for Oscars. That's right.
I'm excited about that one. See, that's what you're trying to throw the needle. And Amanda and I can only get one of them. And you would win.
Okay. You know what I mean? You don't have to get all of them to qualify to win. Oh, I see what you're saying.
But it gives us shape in the competition. Okay. So whoever has the most trainers. I'm fine with all your other rules other than the sequels one.
I think the sequels one is a little punitive. But if I'm voted down, that's fine. It is also tough because the 2024 slate is interesting. And it's basically all sequels and then movies that we're not really sure about.
That's true. This is part of the challenge of the game. You know, I was pointing that out. So I don't need you to make that look at me.
Like you are, you know, the master designer of the option. One, I am. Thank you for saying so. Two, I think the problem with this game is that it's too open.
So it's like there's enough for everyone in a way that makes it not fun. Like what you need is like everybody wants the same thing. And last year was easier because it was like, it was fun with everyone. That was no fair.
I guess you got it. I guess you got it. I can't even remember who got it. Why don't we recap our list then?
Just so people can get it. We do two of these years. We do one in January. We do one in July.
And we're taking the whole slate into consideration at the end of the year. So if you want to take two sequels now, you can. Okay. But then you can't take one in the next option.
Okay. Good for you, Martin. Only one of my movies did not come out last year. Amanda, do you want to read your list?
Sure. I got Killers of the Flower Moon for $640 worth every penny. I got Barbie for $307, also worth every penny in my opinion. I got Napoleon for $38, frankly a bargain.
Leave the World Behind for $1, which was a great deal. And Blitz, the Steve McQueen film that was not released. So that was $11 and maybe I'll hold on to it. I got The Zone of Interest for $160.
I got Priscilla for $727 because Sean was being a real prick, but it worked out. I got Strangers, which I guess is all of us, which is incredible, for $20. I got Passages for $20, also incredible. And I got Made in December for $75.
Thank you so much, Chris. Nice job. Thank you. All right.
I got Maestro for $500. I got the Killers of the Jus. Did you see Maestro? Yeah.
Did we talk about it on the pod? No. What did you think? I thought it was pretty good.
I watched it with my mom and I watched it on like a small television. Just like Bradley and Tanner. Just as Bradley and Tanner intended. All that effort.
Just as Lydia Tarr watched Leonard Bernstein growing up. I think that I compensated for not respecting the product itself and its intended viewing experience. I think I compensated for it by watching every single YouTube video of Bradley Cooper on this promotional run. You are the expert.
I am like the Robert Caro of Bradley Cooper crying in front of people on camera. Him crying in front of Michael Mann is the shit. Did you see that one? Yes.
It reminded me a lot of you. He's like, you sent me a letter. And then Michael Mann is like, I sent everyone who wants to send me a letter. And he's like, I don't care if I did.
Chris, I have an idea. A new pod called Did You See That One? Where you just tell everybody all the YouTube videos that you watched the day before. So I got Maestro for $500.
The Killer for $320. And then, look. A lot of things happened in 2023. Dune Part 2 did not happen.
I had that for $143. Challengers was taken from us. I had that for $15. Havoc, which I think I've drafted for two years now.
I believe so. The Tom Hardy London Underworld Drug Dealing Crime Saga. Oh, that's good. From the director of the Waves.
Scott Superman. Come up off that file. Let me see it. Come up off that file?
Yeah, let it go. Let's put it on Netflix. Unload it. In Part 2, I drafted The Bike Riders, which had a very, like, securitous route to finally in the theaters, hopefully in 24.
Yeah, it was dated. Focus Features. This summer. Anyone but you, which I haven't seen, $225.
Way to support your own investments. And then, The Nickel Boys, $80, didn't come out. Apartment 7A, didn't come out. And Quicksand, I never saw it.
And I drafted it out. For $345, that was a horror movie about Quicksand. It starts off, like, so strong. It's Maestro the Killer, and you got Dune Part 2 for $140.
And Challengers. For $15, because you bid me up on something. I think you guys get up on Barbie and Killers. We're out of money and then I beat you in Challengers.
Yeah, that's okay. Now, of course, we can all retain any of these titles. It might make sense to retain some of these titles for an additional $100. Not to be a stickler, but in the past, we have done it so that you can only retain things from the most recent option.
So, like, your Part 1 movies that did not get... Do you think I should retain anyone with you? No, they never came out. Do we know for sure that Quicksand is out?
It is, and I saw it. It was good? No. I think it's also, like, Brazilian.
Yeah, it was Argentina. I was like, what is it? Oh, okay. I thought this was going to be, like...
So, the Quicksand, is it just, like, in one place and everyone's going toward it? Or does the Quicksand spread? What? You actually want...
Like, means the world comes covered with Quicksand? How does it function? It's your standard operating Quicksand. It's in a remote locale, in a jungle environment.
And people just keep accidentally happening on the Quicksand? Just get dudes just keep slipping in. Like, what's in the Quicksand? And then they die.
And then it's, like, that 30 times. No, there's, like, the being trapped part is the entry. How do you get out of it once you've been trapped? Oh, so they're inside the Quicksand?
Absolutely. Oh, okay. I don't think you like the film. Yeah, no.
Quicksand is a fear. Is it? Yeah. I mean, that seems awful.
Where are you on avalanches? Well, I can know me in mountains, so I'm not trying to be right. There's just an avalanche talk. Interesting.
Were you there? No. Okay. You didn't, like, mark, work your way through it?
I was making a lunch. I was here. Wow. Good avalanche content.
Where do you want to have lunch? Are you afraid? No. I wouldn't want to be, like, camping on the side of that one when it happened, but, like, if it was at the force majeure distance, I think I would be into it.
Funny moment happened last weekend. Where are you in when it comes to doors of planes blowing off at 20,000? If that happens, I'm literally that guy who's, like, the first guy out the door, who just, like, blows away. He's like, ah!
I'm not, like, sticking it out. My seatbelt is off a minute. I can take it off. Like, I'm totally out of the situation.
I can see you, like... Is Alice allowed that? Is Alice allowed me to take off my seatbelt? an earthquake i don't know if you guys felt this earthquake 4.2 earthquake there was one of the very small earthquake i assume so um and alice was in the park and i lean was in the house with me as well and i was like oh my god earthquake i think my first thought was alice's first earthquake instead of like is alice okay um so she's at the park and uh texted the nanny and then he was like there was not an earthquake and i'm like you're a third of a mile away from my house there was an earthquake she's like no earthquake and in my mind the entire playground was like shaking like children were falling from the swings is your name like the aaron rogers of earthquakes uh i'm i mean she doesn't believe in them uh no she said there was no reaction no no one there that's is there a person who is the aaron rogers has anyone ever double checked the breaker scale who's calibrating it um what day was this right it was 11 a.m something like that yeah it was 11 yeah you didn't feel this no i didn't but i was at the park last you know as i am putting in the work from time to time so yeah you know my shoulders were holding everything stable and you were so grounded exactly that you could not be shaken by the earth i think that for the auction if there's really a fight for a movie whoever can hold their arms out longer should get it for the best one dollar we'll have to see if that's worth it if that's worth doing that exercise literally um okay so we all have an option here i guess maybe you don't have an option for only doing from the last one chris you have three options and i have one option do we want to change that though because i guess there was still always a chance that dune part two could have come out but we just didn't know that chris couldn't have kept it until that's a fair point so i think we could have seen exactly right so i think keep anything we could have but i did but that's true you asked me in the spring i would not have guessed that sag would have gone strike i would have guessed that the wga would have so and i think sag being on strike was the number one reason yeah yeah so should we i don't know what's the right move i don't know if it's the right move to allow you to carry everything or to carry nothing i think if we carry everything i think you should maybe get how about you get one you get one rebuy but it can be from either section okay okay that's good like i think i i would probably take multiple ones here if i had my brothers because that's pretty fair i got these at pretty fair prices so it wouldn't be that expensive yeah but let's let's be let's be fair okay so i will i will take it in okay i mean i get it for 275 because on the one hand i don't get any oscars from this movie but i want this movie okay and i think 275 is a reasonable price for what might turn out to be one of the best movies of the year i feel the same way about doing part two i got that so i will get that at 243 and i can put that in a variety of categories i don't have to decide yet right i mean you don't have to put it in anything yeah so i'm gonna take dune part two because 243 for what might be the biggest movie of the year is a great price i completely agree okay you want to carry blitz or no i don't think so oh yeah i mean we'll put it back on the market you know is there anything else okay so we're up right well you gotta do auction order yeah we do yeah i'm just gonna spin a wheel here the auction order doesn't matter quite as much as the draft order really i think it does actually i think going first is a bit amanda you're going first damn it okay and going second appears to be sean okay okay well do you think this is gonna be a good movie year it's gonna be a different movie year because last year we had so many knowns not in the movies but it's just like every great director released a movie last year um sure and then this year it seems a little thin we've got some things look forward to but then there's the possibility of like oh wow i wasn't even expecting this look at this wonderful thing that i've discovered whether it's a new filmmaker or something that you just weren't anticipating so that has its own virtues no one drafted past lives for example correct um so we'll see i guess so what do we do with the sequels you're allowed to two two across ten though so that means you can only take two across your entire sleep okay i have one other question which was sean you have since seen the bike riders i have so are you allowed i'm not gonna i try to not acquire anything i've seen right so i've seen have you seen the new jesus movie uh i'm filming right now i've been talking about every every day for the last couple months so i'm feeling good about it i'm also playing punches pilot yeah it's actually interesting okay wow this is incredible casting um okay so i forgot that you can't do he's a good dinosaur yeah totally he's like kind of a captain of the world you know okay that you can't take challengers uh it makes things interesting so i guess i'll do challengers starting 100 uh so i'm i have spent 243 is that right yeah that's right and you have previously possessed the challengers at the low low price of 15 and you released it yeah i released it yeah uh 100 you said well i'll put it 125 okay i will put 150 i suppose i should say challengers if you're just tuning in is the luca guadagnino film starring sandalia josh o'connor and my face it's it's sex tennis movie that's really all i haven't seen it yet bob and i went to the cinema last night we saw the beekeeper and they showed many previews before the film and they showed the challenger trailer which i had not seen and uh i thought they gave way too much of the movie okay well i think i'll watch it but i'm not gonna watch all of them i don't watch trailers i don't know i mean trailers used to be the shit i only watch the adventure trailers now so i'm at 150 i'd like to implore the people behind challengers to release some tennis challengers merch that i can oh right oh so like we'd love to send you some stuff yeah well like a racket cover yeah also clothes no that's a little too murky i was hoping for something like slightly more designed that um john anderson i think did the costumes okay if you know who that is i don't have to assume this is expired uh 150 wow a steal 150 you know what you're really nice sometimes you're too nice but thank you i'm i'm just consumed by by making sure i have enough money for rebelman too okay what's the title on that one scar giver yeah oh shit that's what they called you back grant right you're right in soccer college that's what uh that's what pep called you okay so now i'm putting a movie up huh i think this is a movie that we all want to see okay are we all desperate to see i don't know furiosa mad max saga oh yeah this is a sequel i guess a prequel trailers that didn't set the world on fire yeah i've shared my thoughts on that which is that i think people should be patient yeah um but i understand skepticism and i you know we are noted cgi would not apply properly skeptics on this podcast sometimes it can be applied magnificently as it was in fury road directed by george miller that's very true um my mom uh who is a huge mad max fan and introduced me to those movies in really way too young age uh and we often re-watched mad max and rogue warrior even beyond thunderdome at times we started watching fury road when i was last home we got about 40 minutes into it and she said what the fuck is going on and i said what do you mean and she's just like well i don't understand a single thing that's happening and i was like haven't you seen this before she's like no and it was really interesting to watch fury road like with someone who likes the movies but it was completely outside of the george miller saved action movie type cycle and she was just like what's happening well that's the thing about that movie and it certainly seems like furiosa will have a lot more in common with fury road but fury road is so different yeah from especially the first two mad max movies which are so yeah um i'll i'll put it up on the board for 50 dollars furiosa mad max saga i'll go 100 okay i'll go 125 dollars do you think chris hemsworth is gonna be in this uh he's gonna be a good villain i think he's a good actor who's no longer an ass act so i'm a little worried about that okay i do like his persona sometimes but not in this setting i wish he could find a way to meet the middle ground between extraction guy and like white tv store like what is the middle of that is it black hat it is not have you seen his national geographic i haven't i haven't either juliet limon has recapped it to me at length um i think juliet could be the co-host of did you see that one uh with chris ryan uh and she did see chris hemsworth just traveling around looking at various i want to say aquatic animals but the backstory of the show is quite sad isn't it right that he's found he is like potentially he carries the alzheimer's gene or something yeah and so that premise makes me sad like it makes me not want to watch the show even though i think what he's doing is very cool as an idea yeah you know he's working through it he doesn't wear shoes a lot in australia but i think that's common there i believe sean holds the bid right now at 125 does anyone else i'll bid 175 is chris hemsworth a good time to ask you about the protein plates bobby sure sure okay so i just don't understand this so i'm going to bid 200 before i'm gonna get into this you can't think that's a really good just to let you know sean did ask me to cut extraneous chat on our last episode it was two hours and 30 minutes you guys were in here for such a long time the protein stuff did just the back and forth don't do that i didn't know i didn't say what to cut i just said it was a really long time did you cut yeah did you cut anything else that was a note no no only when you were talking it was only with all of your comments fashion review uh no okay because that was very important okay um wow okay so i wanted to ask bobby about bulking and a new development i've noticed in the in the bro bulking space i'm up right yeah like i'm i'm in the lead for this what did you know sean did 200 slightly okay well you ask your question and i'll put him with it well it's really good he's now selling protein plates which is protein and grains not a vegetable in sight and i'm just not really sure that i understand this nutritional the nutritional science behind this they made a slight change to it used to have sweet potatoes and it used to have like a vegetable side too right even though that is also technically a carb like so it's just carbs and protein and not vegetables okay and so it's are you turning on vegetables chris ryan okay what is why are they doing this is it just because the bulking men don't want vegetables i think honestly probably it's like a financial thing probably harder to keep vegetables fresh and sourcing oh interesting sweet green moving away from vegetables i think there's also just like a lot of people who are like what i would love is just a piece of salmon to get out of here and i would also like to bid 225 yeah great uh 250 i actually i introduced the idea the other day to bobby that um one of the things that is i'm really focused on the diet part of all of this right now and not the working out part and i realized like were i fully committed to the diet yet not commit to the working out i'd be curious what happened in my body if i just like all of a sudden eat certain like just bison meat all morning right yeah yeah do you think it would give you an interesting energy on the pod you know like you're like sweating insanely bloated all day long it's just like you're sweating blood in la i mean you can try it smell of bison yeah just out of your pores that seems like a good idea what's the most recent bib 225 i'll go 250 yeah uh 260 you're gonna get this one aren't you you're gonna chase me down i don't know i mean i'm really excited about the movie so this is like darius slay and mike evans just going mano a mano this is running after the eagles game but the eagles game is on monday i think mike evans is hurt isn't he no i don't know i think it's aj around unfortunately for you oh i thought as i said i'm pulling for the eagles thanks man i got your back first of all i thought it was really rude what bill sims did to you i thought it was really funny spiteful i was hugely entertained by it bill and i want the same things from from christian from back to the eagles fans 280 yeah 290 310 315 340 it just seems carb heavy that's kind of where i am with it to protein plate you think any teller was gonna be able to pull it like will she be able to carry it like do you think any teller would love the protein plate yeah but it has keen wine i would love to see one of these movies by guys like i'm not that good of a driver you know has that ever happened in road warrior you think you're a good driver i don't know if i would be a good driver in this context oh i mean who would and i can't trust it yeah and then also like in road warrior is very uh careful about like he has to like go siphon gasoline from overturned cars constantly go juice yeah well that'll fit right in with your bison meat so thanks about that yeah uh he eats dog food in uh in the second one there's a long-running joke on lifting um instagram that dog food is very high three uh yeah 375 oh it's a sizable bid um i do think any teller joys can hack it you know i think this is gonna be like commercial i've never seen this from her before though i've never seen her in this kind of a mode you got it she's not a very um loud actor you know right but i wouldn't say that fairy road was i mean everything around it was loud and one of its chief flaws is tom hardy not enunciating words right but all the rest of them are just kind of looking like regal as stuff happens around them i mean you know charlie has a big like screaming falling on her knees moment you know it's a theatrical kind of acting she's on the fucking boat in northman she's just like that's true that's true i forgot about that in northman that's a good setup i heard you i'm sorry sorry about it i didn't hear you is it you got it i got furiosa 375 right now or 370 you got it all right i'm applying a new methodology you fucked me right here did i yeah because now i now i i was trying to bid you up but this is not the other sequel i wanted i know the other one is what i want you're not gonna take oh my god no i'm looking at my beetlejuice 2 sean look me in the eye and there's a third movie in a trilogy that's coming out this year i'll just put it out right now deadpool 3 maxine oh i got some insight dope on this one too they got me more excited for it i shared that i was super pumped it was on my list on the episode but now i'm even more excited about it uh maxine is the third film from tai west with mia goth about the parole character yes um this one is now in the 80s i guess it's somehow we've time jumped it's not the same character it's the same like energy all right so now she is a is she a porn star living in los angeles in the 80s i believe so and it's gonna be like you can get your info it just sounds like there's a real cop la cop movie element now what to you is the or la cop movie what's the other one i throw you a fastball down the middle and you're looking for change up i don't understand it's unbelievable uh i don't think that uh i don't think maxine's gonna be heat but okay so are you playing on the board right now maxine okay how much uh 20 bucks okay 50 bucks i mean i guess i could bid for the spirit are you excited for it i mean sure i guess i'll see this you have 50 bucks on this yeah uh i mean 75 yeah that's great okay amanda's gonna get maxine for 75 i don't know why you have that you should institute a hard rule that is a funny if you get a movie in the auction you have to see it on opening weekend oh she's gonna talk about it i know you're movies they're gonna come out anyone but you oh but i've been playing in philadelphia i don't think it's literally the breakout hit of 2024 okay and what you saw you saw an interest which you thought was a prequel to anyone but you so you want to see that first before getting into 75 right now time is time has elapsed actually can happen did you see the job in glazers like i'm gonna make a fun like a tender film next a tender film he said it's about tenderness is he doing paddington 3 he's doing maxine too uh okay great pick thanks so much i love ty west and i love uh i love me a goth all right you're so you're up again okay uh let's do uh bliss because you like that go right i did so i'll start the blitz fitting at 150 bucks and i would just say that this is the only thing that i kind of feel like outside of the blockbusters that i have a really good feeling about being nominated for oscars as well so could hit a couple of things here obviously also original films you don't have to worry about the sequel part uh saoirse ronan uh harris dickinson starring in this account of the bombing of London during World War II.
I completely agree with you about the Oscars. I don't know what the big contenders are. I was in the setting markets, and I don't know, man. There's a couple of films, but if Megalopolis, for instance, is not good, God forbid, you know?
Why? Because Francis Ford Coppola is sitting in the other room. He's been funding this show. He sold his winery so that we could start this show.
Did you not know that? He believes in creative expression. Yeah, so do I. And cinema.
Anyway, I'm taking Blitz. And Steve has... Well, you're... I'm not making Blitz.
Yeah, for how much? For $150. For $150. And McQueen hasn't made a narrative.
Well, he made Small Axe, right? So that was obviously a super... Not since Widows. Yes, he made a feature film, which is cool.
Widows is so good. Yeah, six years ago. I'm out on Widows. Shorting it.
No, I'm just kidding. I love Widows. I'm going to see you with Colin Farrell in the backseat, just being a demon, talking about ruining Chicago with all his evil ways. Great movie.
175. Pretty bullish on this one. Whether I get it or not, I'm like, this is one to keep in mind. Do you know who to search for Ronan dates Jack Loudon?
Yes, where have you been? On my couch watching Faux, which wasn't very good. It wasn't. And Googling who to search for Ronan dates.
Yeah, they've been together for many years. There were rumors of an engagement because she was spotted wearing a ring on Instagram. Did you see, speaking of you, Sue Cliffs, Jack Loudon was on Graham Norton and shared the Christmas village that he builds every year. And I swear to God, he collects little houses and Christmas figurines, and every year he builds a village and there's snow that is actually kitty litter.
Like a model. Like a model village. Yeah, like a small one that's set up. And then he was like, sure, I will share this with the public on Graham Norton.
I once went to a hardcore show with a rat in Boston to go see Kiss a Goodbye and Overcast. Why did you say those things to me? There was a sewage leak in the rat and they put down kitty litter to absorb it. I have to say, I think kitty litter is toxic.
I don't think we should be breathing it. Interesting take. You don't have a cat, so it's all good. Did you hear that one from AR12?
Amanda, 200. 225. How much money do you have left? I don't think I have a ton.
You have 32. 250. Sewage League would be a great hardcore band name. I should have just named it that.
If you look it up on Spotify right now, I guarantee you there's a band house. 275. 300. It's a tough one, because I feel like I don't get it.
I'm going to be like, should I try to get it. It's going to be amazing. You don't remember when you didn't get it in a draft and you just started crying? It was real, like, I don't want to do this anymore.
I've got to be honest with you. Are you on drugs? You were very open. You were like, you started crying?
You were crying? That's right. I was crying. Will I start crying?
That's a big question. You said 300? Yeah. I'll go 325.
Let's see. I'll go 350. 375. Chris, I haven't seen any live-action superhero movie since Avengers Endgame.
Do you think I should break the streets this year? From Adam Webb? Oh, from Adam Webb. I think if you're on LSD, you should go do that.
But honestly, I don't know. You guys excited for Adam Webb? Yes, but I wanted to see 385. And also, you have to see that with me.
We have to be sitting next to each other, or else what's the fun? Keep tossing me. See how many moves I do with you. You're upset because I said you cried of all the things that I've done with you.
I don't know, like, is the disinformation campaign. This is a place of truth, and I do not appreciate the way that you are bending that truth to your will. You quit on the podcast. You quit.
You were just like, I don't want to do this anymore. You did do that. It was fine. There's a difference between quitting and that.
I continue, I'd finish the draft. Yeah, but, like, solidly. Well, sure. Enough that friends of ours, like, ask me afterwards.
They're like, what is Sean okay? Like, what was that about? And I was like, yeah, sometimes it's me. If they're friends of mine, and they feel that I am sad, they should contact me directly.
You're not my messenger, okay? So if they reach out in the future, you say you should check in with Sean. He's been pretty low because he lost end game. If God forbid you were ever, like, your larynx were paralyzed.
Uh-huh, God forbid. And I couldn't do this anymore. Which one of me or Amanda would you want to be your advocate? And not your advocate for your personal health?
If something happens to me physically, the show is canceled, and we're deleting the feed. That just seems rash. Yeah, that seems short-sighted. I'll tell you what, if AI gets good enough that you can recreate me whilst my larynx is paralyzed, I encourage you to be coming to the show.
I'm on Letterboxd. Oh no, I got blown out of a plane. I support that. Amanda has the bid at $380.
So we're just not doing time limits at this point? I mean, you guys don't seem to be interested in... I think I'm a little bit old. It's just an AI shop for God's sake.
I can have it. $380 to Amanda. How much money is Amanda? $85, actually.
$380? Yeah. I will nominate Gladiator 2. I'll put it up for $50.
Okay. $75. This is not if you're interested in it. $200.
Okay, so it is. The extent to which I'm interested in this can't be quantified with money. It is, it's true. I mean, I think it can.
Also, this is the film. This is the film. I am on the highest of clips of this one. It's actually probably $380 because you need $1 for each of your other two movies.
Yes. So that's what you can say. I'm probably not going to get it and I'm just telling you, I am fucking free soloing on this one because if this is bad, if Paul Meskel and Barry Keoghan and fucking Denzel can't make... Barry Keoghan is no longer in this film.
Oh, why? I thought he got jacked. He dropped out, I think, to make a movie with Lynne Ramsey. I think...
Can I just say something about Barry, man? Yeah. He doesn't fucking miss. All he does is make...
I forgot he was in Dunkirk the other day. I was just watching Dunkirk making it. What about Eternals? Hey, we all swing this sometimes.
But that guy, he's not fucking off to go. I mean, yeah, he's going to be the Joker or whatever, but he's not messing around. He's not like, oh, I've got to go be in Scargiver. If he's leaving...
He was in Eternals, gross. I know, I know, I know. He's great. I like him a lot.
I think he was replaced by Fred Hechinger. I like him too. From White Lotus. From White Lotus.
White Lotus, season one. I think that's who replaced him. Do you know the other stars of this film? Besides Denzel Washington?
Peter Pascal? Yeah. Peter Pascal and Connie Wilson. That's cool.
So I bid... How much did I bid? $200. Okay.
$225. $250. $275. How much do I have left?
I have $390. Okay, $300. $320. $330.
$340. $380. You get it. The best part about you getting it is one of the triggers has already been limited for you because it's a sequel.
You have three sequels now. Can I trade it? I can still do it. I don't know whether I can go for the jugular with you, Chris.
By making me... By taking it from me? Yeah. But then he might take it from me.
Oh, so you're thinking that if you bid... Yeah, then I think he'll just... Yeah, because he has the funds. Interesting.
So... Interesting for you. Are you worried about this at all? Do you think Ridley is moving too fast at the end of this?
In my heart, I have really enjoyed roughly 85% of Ridley Scott's films and I have also enjoyed the movies that people think are not good in the late period. So personally, I'm not worried at all. In kind of the more global sense, I think there's reason for concern. Also, it's a big task for Paul Maskell.
This is the exact opposite of every single part he's ever played. Yeah. So, and he was cast in this role after playing Stanley Kowalski in Streetcar. Because Ridley's always watching.
I believe it's the producers of the film. Do you don't think Ridley Scott is familiar with Streetcar and Desire? I'm just not sure he's hitting up the theater on a regular basis. If I were him, I'd just hang in my castle.
So it's still on me, right? Yeah. $380? I'm not going to bid against you.
Okay. Chris gets it for $380. All right, well, whatever. We'll figure it out when we get to the end of this.
So Chris has $2 remaining. And then it's $390. And I have $725. I don't know.
I guess, I guess. Let's do Twisters. Let's have some fun. Okay.
Is this coming out? Coming out. When's it dated for? July 19th, 2024.
Fantastic. Sequel? I love a teaser for this. Just not for my own benefit because I don't have Twisters spoiled for me, but more just to see that they're...
That it's real? Yeah. Leanna Chong? Glenn Powell?
Daisy Edgar Jones? Daisy Edgar Jones. All right. I will do $200.
$225. Okay. $240. What have you got?
Challengers, Maxine, Blitz. $250. $275. $280.
$300. Really hard to say if this isn't going to be any good. Have you watched Twister recently? I can't say that I have because my 90s memory of it is really perfect in my, you know, 14-year-old...
It's a fantastic movie. Is it? I really enjoy it. I did watch it last year.
I would say I enjoyed myself. Paxton is unbelievable. Yeah. Unbelievable.
He is marvelous. I'm not sure that I fully was into the twisting as much as I wanted to be. Because of the special effects or just because you don't care about tornadoes? No, no.
Tornadoes are scary. The staging, I thought, there's one sequence that is amazing and everything else I was like, I think I wanted more than a movie called Twister. Did you guys have to do tornado drills in school? Not in Philadelphia.
We did in Atlanta. It was like a very weird foghorn. All the time. Yeah, the tornado horn.
Maybe we did. I just don't remember. I never did that. I used to hang out.
Smoking. I meant to do it in elementary school. Like River Phoenix style. Fair enough.
What is the price? $300? $325. Why not?
$350. $350? Yeah. What are my blockbuster implications here?
I mean, I don't have to have all my blockbusters right now, too. That's the other thing. It's not a better sense of the schedule in the second half of the year. $350?
Is that what it's up? Yeah. I mean, you can just... Do you want it?
If you want it, you can bid more than I have. You just explained auctioning. Thank you. You can have it.
Okay, thank you. You're welcome. I just don't want it on my ledger if I'm not going to love it. That's kind of where my head's at with these movies and this game.
Yeah. It's not about... Maybe that Avengers Endgame moment taught me something. That's beautiful.
Maybe that taught me about a really appreciated... You're such a wide-open campus right now. This is like Rothko at work. What color is where you choose?
Because you have so much money, so much real estate. Amanda and I, I'm down to two bucks. Yeah. Right, but don't I have another one?
Okay. So then the auction is over. Here we go. Well, I have four open spaces.
Oh, I can still nominate movies, right? That's true. Yeah, that's true. So my next nomination will be Mickey 17, which I will take for $3.
Do you think it's going to come out? I do. I do think it's going to come out this year. Even if it's not even by Warner Brothers.
Are you going to do this where you save a bunch of money? It doesn't matter. It doesn't roll over. It doesn't roll over, yeah.
You're up. I will nominate James Watkins' Speak No Evil remake. You can hold that. I can have that.