Transcending Cinema
Austin and Andrew discuss what makes cinema, cinema, and how to transcend the dumbness in us all.
Austin Lugo: Welcome back to another after show, another time where we talk about all of the movies that we have been watching. This week I have been watching. A ton of movies. I've been getting back into the film spirit, man. Are you still stuck on Star Trek? I've been watching a lot of Star Trek. Have you watched any movies?
Andrew Harp: Yeah, I watched one movie, my man , one movie. I was gonna watch some Press, burger and Powell this week. This week was kind of weird. I just had like a lot of like late afternoons working. I was having a lot of like nights where I was getting home at like eight and it's like I don't wanna
Austin Lugo: watch a movie. No, I feel you.
I get.
Andrew Harp: I just wanna like play a game or watch Star Trek or something, shit
Austin Lugo: like that. Is Star Treks still
Andrew Harp: great? Star Trek is still good. You know, I'm in the, I'm almost done with season three. I think I have like what, 10 episodes left in season three. Season three is when the show, so they started Deep Space Nine, wall t and G was still on.
And season three is the first season where, T and G is done. So now Deep Space Nine is now the one and only Star Trek show that's on television. So I think it has a little bit more money and a little bit more attention put into it. It's not like that different from the previous two seasons, but there have been a lot of like very intense like moments in episodes, like the end of season two into the beginning of season three are really intense.
There's a lot of crazy stuff going on. There's one two-parter that's really good where they go back in time accident. To 2024.
Austin Lugo: Oh, okay. What's 2024 look like?
Andrew Harp: It sucks. . It's kind of amazing. I think the episode came out in 1994 or 1995, and they go back in time accidentally. I think they're in San Francisco.
I think Federation headquarters is in San Francisco. I think So they're in San Francisco and yeah, two of the main characters. They get teleported there and then the police show up. One of the police is Dick. and they forced them into a sanctuary city, which is a homeless encampment. . Oh no. And Bashier, Dr.
Bashier. He's like, you know, I don't really know too much about 21st century history, but Benjamin, Cisco, the other character who's the commander, He is like, oh, it's a, it's an interest of mine and Bashir's like, why are all these people here? I don't understand. Like, this is terrible. And he is like, why are they here?
Are they criminals? And he is like, Nope, they don't have any jobs or money . So now they have to live in the sanctuary . I like little moments like that where it's a little on the nose, but it's kind of funny when the people riding it are just like, they're kind of like trying to write about like the current moment or whatever.
Yeah. Like a sanctuary city. It's a fucking homeless encamp. And he's just like, Nope, they didn't do anything wrong. They're not criminals. They're just no jobs and they don't have a job and they can't support themselves and, and Bashir's like, what? This person has mental illness. Like, this person needs to go to a hospital.
And he is like, they can't like . It's just like, okay. That was a really good two-parter episode. A lot of like crazy like moments in acting moments in the show in that season two. Yeah. I'm loving it dude. It's such a good show. There's some stinkers, but 26 episodes per season. They're bound to be. How long
Austin Lugo: is an episode?
45 minutes. Those are pretty long seasons for how long the episodes are? Yeah.
Andrew Harp: 45 minute episodes. 26 episodes. Seven seasons.
Austin Lugo: Wow, that's That's a lot of content. .
Andrew Harp: It's a lot. Yeah, it's almost 200 episodes, I think. That's insane. Yeah, it's easy with Star Trek because I think it's really easy to watch it at any time.
and so I, I, I can just like put it on and, you know, sometimes I might like look at my phone or like play a game or something like that while I'm watching Star Trek. Sometimes I might not be. It's just kind of like the perfect show for that. You can watch it any time doing whatever and you can pretty much li everything.
It's kind of simultaneously comfy, but it's also interesting and well-written sometimes, like there are things in it that are kind of silly and make me laugh. Just very, very, very good deep space. Nine though, once again though, it's a little bit darker. It's a little bit less utopian. There's a little bit less of that utopian aspect, but it's still very good.
But yeah, I only watched one movie and it was a movie I saw in theaters, which was Megan. We decided to go see Megan or Riek
Austin Lugo: in Friggan. It's the only way to say
Andrew Harp: it. It was decent. I don't have a lot to say about it. I recommend seeing it as early as you can on a weekday in a theater, cuz I think the movie is fun enough.
I wish it was a little bit better. I feel like it wasn't crazy enough, but I like the Megan robot. I just wish there was just like more to the movie. It wasn't like very scary, which is okay. . There's a lot of effort. It was fun. It was funny. It made me laugh and it was a decent movie, but it wasn't a particularly impressive or incredible one.
It was just Okay. Which is pretty good considering it's a horror movie that came out in January, which, you know, right in the studios put, throw all their slop, their worst
Austin Lugo: films.
Andrew Harp: Yeah. So considering that it came out in January, it's a horror movie in January, it was pretty good. But yeah, that was the only movie I saw this week.
Wow. I think we're gonna go see Infinity Pool. This.
Austin Lugo: Ooh, that's gonna be a blast. That's Kronenberg, right? The young Kronenberg, Brandon
Andrew Harp: Kronenberg. Yep. We'll go see it. I think
Austin Lugo: you have to let me know how that is. They're not gonna show that around. Actually, you know what? Maybe they are showing that. I think you're
Andrew Harp: wrong.
I bet. I bet If you check, they'll be a couple showings. I bet. If you'll check they'll be, I think
Austin Lugo: we did this last week and Yeah, feel like they were, yeah, we did this last week and they were showing it. They're gonna, they're showing it here, so I might go see that. We'll see. I need something to go see cuz.
I think my movie pass is here. Oh shit. I think so. I need to go fucking test this thing out because I'm ready. I'm ready to go to a fucking movie theater and, and use my fancy movie pass thing. But I did go to the theater this week. I saw an mite sha movie. I actually saw two mite sha movies this
Andrew Harp: week. Oh, that movie too.
We gotta go see the movie soon too. I think. I know you weren't particularly impressed with it, but we're still gonna go see
Austin Lugo: it. So I have not really seen much of Inny Shaman's work. I've seen his first film Sixth Cents. I've seen Stuart Little, which he wrote. I've seen Avatar Last Airbender, which is problematic for a whole lot of reasons that I don't think are necessarily Inny Shaman's fault.
I think there's a lot of reasons that that film was just never gonna work. So, People kind of blame him for that. Let it go. It's not really his fault. There's a lot of complications. I filmed that it just wasn't gonna work and this week I watched Alt, which we have talked about in the podcast before. Cuz you watched it like a year ago.
Andrew Harp: Yeah, not too long ago. Yeah,
Austin Lugo: it was, yeah. And I thought it was pretty fun. I mean, you know, it's exactly what you think the movie's gonna be. Some people, yep. They go to a beach and they get old and there's a plot twist. And that's the movie baby. It's exactly what you expect the movie to be like. There's nothing you know, and it's fun and silly, crazy
Andrew Harp: acting.
The acting in that movie is just so fucking
Austin Lugo: wild. Weird. I'm convinced that Mite Shaman is an alien from another planet who has been studying humans for the last 20 years and this is what he thinks humans are. I love it because there's no other way to like describe the writing of an mite Shalon films cuz they're weirdly stilted and they're act.
Weirdly. Yeah, like performances are always very strange and it's never like the fault, I don't think of like any of the actors, like it seems very much as if they were given this specific direction.
Andrew Harp: Probably. They're all great actors. Like they're top tier actors.
Austin Lugo: Yeah, yeah. They're all very quality actors and they're given these strange performances to give, and then the kids in the movies, I don't know if Emily Shaman's ever met a kid before.
Andrew Harp: So funny. They're so good. You know? We were, yeah. Yeah. Like, like the kids in his movies are great . They're weird. The, the scene where they're, well, I'm trying to think of what the line was like. We were talking about our, our future careers or what, what was that thing where they're like at their, at the hotels future
Austin Lugo: occupations.
Yeah. Our future occupations.
Andrew Harp: We were talking about our future occupations or something like that. Oh, I just love wineries like that are so good and so funny and so weird. I. Man, that's just so crazy
Austin Lugo: to me. I love it. I don't know what it is, but in Night, shaman has like this obsession with knowing everyone's career in the movie.
Like he does this with every movie of his. I've seen like where everyone's gotta say, I'm this person and this is my job. Yeah, . Yeah. Yeah. They do that in the movie too. I remember that. Yeah. . They do that a lot in Hope, like more than that. Least. Yeah. It's so good. Like they're constantly like, I'm a nurse or I'm a fucking museum curator like so many times.
It's wild. It's
Andrew Harp: a good movie. I don't care what people say. It's a good movie. Oh yeah.
Austin Lugo: It's a blast. . It's dumb cinema, but I think dumb cinema sometimes is great, and I think that's exactly what this is.
Andrew Harp: I'm not even gonna say it's dumb. I think it's transcended that.
Austin Lugo: I don't think it's dumb . It's transcended dumbness.
I had a blast watching the film and. Just everything about it is so wacky and weird and strange and it's a good time. And that final scene where they're flying over in the helicopter. Yeah. Part of me thought that like the helicopter was gonna get pulled in by the magnetic , fucking whatever, and they're all gonna die on that beach.
Cause I could see him. I shaline doing something like that. He doesn't, but I could see it. Very fun film. So I watched that in preparation for a nice shaman's newest film, knock at the cabin. It's very strange for an mite Shalon movie. I think if you came into this film and didn't know who the director was, I don't think you would know.
It's mite Shalon. It's very different from anything I've seen from him or know of any of his past work. It's very well shot. It looks beautiful. The performances. Are on point and not stilted at all. They're not like his usual performances, like they're very serious performances. All very good performances.
A great cast here. David Butta does a surprisingly good job in this film. I think he gives a lot of heart in this. The child actor, again, if there's one way to figure out it's an M Night Shawa movie, it's through the. The shot actor's good, but again, the dialogue of the kid is so wild and just unhuman most likely, but it's not midnight.
Shaman's usual wild, wacky tail. It's kind of boiler plate. Maybe part of the problem is the trailer just gives away too much. Maybe the trailers just. give the movie in a bit. I think the best way to experience this film is seeing as little as possible. I don't think that's always the case. I'm a huge fan of trailers.
I love seeing a good trailer, but I think when it comes to this film, I think the trailer might have done a little too much. I think it might have given a little too much away, and I think brought down the experience a bit. I would really enjoy watching this film again, maybe like five or 10 years from now when the trailer's way outta my mind.
Because I think it's a very competently made film. Everyone in it is very good. It's by far in LAN's best looking film. It's a beautiful looking film. Of course, like almost all of his work. It's basically just one location, a couple of actors. That's pretty much it. He loves that kind of shit. It's based off of a book, which.
I think some people will see as a benefit. Like if you're not someone who kind of likes the mite shalan style, then I think you'll enjoy this film because it doesn't follow the prototypical mite shalan stuff. And I think the most wild part about this film is there is no plot twist. It's exactly what you think the film's gonna be from the moment you walk in to the moment that it ends.
And I think for me, That's my biggest disappointment. I mean, it's so strange because like in some ways this is probably his best film, looks his best, it's probably his best writing. It's probably some of his best performances. But at the same time, it's sort of missing that classic mite, shalon touch to it.
It feels less like his film and more just like a very standard, I mean good, very well shot, very well made film, but more of like just, you know, one of a thousand directors who makes these kind of films, like one of these one-off films. And I think it's worth the watch. I strongly recommend people go see it in theaters.
It's a fun watch. It goes by really quick. It's only 90 minutes. and it goes by in a flash. The stuff with the gay couple is a little on the nose, a little heavy handed. I haven't seen the
Andrew Harp: movie. You can't, don't, I'm
Austin Lugo: not spoiling anything. I'm not, spoiler, not spoilers. But I think you're gonna enjoy it. I think you'll like it.
I will. I'll watch it soon. Just don't go in the expectation with like your usual mite shaalan experience, because it's not that. And I think that's really the only disappointment with the film because I think it's a very well made film. I think it's very enjoyable time. It's just if you go in expecting an mite shaalan film, you might be disappointed.
But if you just go in to have a good time, I think you're gonna have a good time. It's a good time. So that's why M Night experience. I also watched Magic Mike for the first time. You've seen that movie before? Yeah, I've seen that movie.
Andrew Harp: I like that movie. It's pretty good.
Austin Lugo: It's so wacky that Steven Sonenberg made this movie because the script doesn't really make a whole lot of sense.
the script's kind of all over the place, and I think it's the weakest point. Not necessarily that the writing itself is bad, but the story's kind of just a bit nonsensical and doesn't really go anywhere. I, there's just like a lot of ideas happening, but nothing seems to Yeah. Finish, which is strange. Like I think there's some really interesting concepts in this.
I like the idea. Channing Tatum wanting to start his own furniture business.
Andrew Harp: That character's really good. I like that character.
Austin Lugo: Mm-hmm. . I like the idea of Matthew McConaughey trying to open a new business venture. I like the idea, yeah. Of the drug stuff. But I think the problem with this film is they just tried to stuff way too many things into this film.
I think just focus on one thing. You know, focus on Channing Tatum's thing, or focus on Matthew McConaughey thing. Sure. Or the drug thing or whatever. But like just pick a thing and focus on that. And so I found this film a bit unfocused, but Steven Stoneberg, as always, very creative director. There's some really weird looking shots that you're just like, how the fuck did he get that shot?
Which I love. I mean, that's what makes Sunburg great. That's fine. This is
Andrew Harp: just kind of like a middling movie, in my opinion. That's good.
Austin Lugo: It's so yellow. It's one of the most yellow films I've ever seen. Yeah,
Andrew Harp: magic Mic is a pretty good movie. I like the sequel a lot. X XL is good. Okay. I wanna see X XL Magic Mic, double xl.
I've seen twice. Oh shit. . It is much more fun.
Austin Lugo: Awesome. I feel like there wasn't actually that much like dance, like strip scenes. Is there more of that in the second one? It's all dancing . Awesome. I love it. Those are the best parts, like that's what we're it for?
Andrew Harp: The idea is that like, so Matthew McConaughey is not on the sequel, which honestly, whatever, because Channing Tatum and the his friends Uhhuh decide that they're going to travel across Florida.
To the Stripping Convention , and they're gonna do one awesome last big show at the Stripping convention. It's a road trip movie where they meet like different people along the way as well. Oh, that's awesome. And the dancing in the movie is very good. ,
Austin Lugo: I mean, yeah. Chang Tatum has been in a bunch of dancing movies.
Right. And he used to be a stripper, so that's dope. Yeah.
Andrew Harp: Cheney Tatum, he's really good. It's way more involved in that way. And I don't know, it's just like a chill kind of like nice movie. Like the Magic Mic movie kind of ends on a sour note. Yeah. But the second movie is just all about your buds, your buddies.
Ah, that's great. That's a fun movie. Their movie comes out soon. Can I see that one? Are you gonna see in theaters? I didn't realize it was coming out in theaters. I guess it would be coming out in theaters. Yeah, I might see it in theaters. It looks fun. Yeah, I might go see.
Austin Lugo: Looks like a blast. That's dope. I was hesitant because Magic Mic was fine, but I wanted to hear your opinion on X XL before I got into it.
It's a really good movie. I like it. I'm pumped, so I watched that. I also watched Empire of Light, the new. Sean Mendez, or is it Sam Mendez? It's Sam. Sam Mendez. Like all of Sam Mendez's work. It's boring. Shot by the great Roger Deacons. So visually very stunning. I can understand people's complaints. So the thing about this movie is nothing happens and if you wanna watch a movie where something happens, this is not the movie to watch, but I was in a place where I wanted to watch something like that cuz there's plenty of great movies where nothing happens.
and if you want a good looking movie where like people just kind of sit around and talk and that's pretty much it there, there's very little going on this movie. I mean, nothing much happens. Basically Olivia Coleman, she's sad, and then shit, she's more sad and then she's slightly less sad. That's the whole movie.
That's the plot of the movie. Cool. Great. . It's of course a movie about movies. I mean, I, I do love. It's all takes place in the movie theater. I mean, basically the whole film is shot in this one movie theater, which is a very cool looking movie theater. I don't know if it empire is like a real theater in London or not, but very cool looking movie theater.
Great set designs, great performances, but on the downside, nothing happens. So , that is that. And then the final movie I watch, which I would say is the opposite of the Spectrum Empire. Is I decided to finally get into the Daniel Craig James Bond saga. Jimmy watched the James Bond movies constantly when I was a kid.
I mean, we had like 20 fucking DVDs of different James Bond movies from Bronson to Connery to, uh, so many different James Bonds. And I realized when I was watching this film that I've actually never seen a James Bond film all the way through. I've seen many, many parts to James Bond. I know the characters extremely well.
I know everything there is to know about bond, the music, all of that. So it was a very strange experience because it was simultaneously a fundamentally new experience, but extremely familiar because I grew up on these films, even though I've never watched one all the way through because. As a kid, the old James Bond movies don't really, uh, take, especially the older ones, like a lot of those jokes kind of fly over your head and just kind of miss it.
And you're kids, you're like, you don't really wanna watch like a sexy lady or any of that stuff. So they never really grabbed my attention. But Casino Royale, fuck man. It's really fucking good. That's a dope ass movie, dude.
Andrew Harp: I did not expect it to hit that hard. That is a straight up dope movie. It's so cool.
It's fucking insane.
Austin Lugo: I love it. Oh my God. This James Bond, Daniel Craig. I don't know if this is the case for all of his films, but in this film, he's a fucking insane human being. Like just wildly crazy maniac who was just out there murdering people. He's not like a very like
Andrew Harp: suave James Bond. He's more like a crazy
Austin Lugo: Yeah, it's a psychopath.
Yeah. . It is. A wild romp and the action scenes are incredible. That whole park core scene at the beginning, amazing. I mean, he's fucking jumping off walls and jumping in the shit, and I love that this James Bond gets like really fucking hurt. Like he's fucking running into speed shy. He gets beat up. Like this is not your classic James Bond.
He gets on explosions. I love it. He's wild. He's crazy. He's got those crazy eyes. Oh my God. My biggest complaint and perhaps my only complaint with Casino Rael is I don't like the James Bond song for this movie, and I don't like the opening song. And I think that's a big part of the new James Bond experience.
Wait, is that the Radiohead song? Is it Andrew's looking this up? Are you sure? This one's Radiohead. Or is it the next one's
Andrew Harp: Radiohead. I know one of them is Radiohead, but I want to know what, who did this song? I don't remember it. Let me see. I'm gonna
Austin Lugo: check it out. I mean, you can only give left a Radiohead, so if it is Radiohead, I'm gonna be disappointed cuz this
Andrew Harp: Oh, it's the Chris Cornell song.
Oh, he died. Oh sure. You're being disrespectful. I'm sorry. , he's a sound
Austin Lugo: garden guy. Oh, okay. He's a singer of Sound Garden. He. Not too long ago. I apologize. That song probably is
Andrew Harp: just, if I remember it, can Please.
Austin Lugo: Whatever. I'm not a fan. It's very mid two thousands rock. It just doesn't vibe with me. I think the visuals look cool.
Sure. I I like the, the animation that they do for it. But that opening song is just so important. Like it, it sets the tone for the whole movie and it really gets you into everything. And I can remember so many opening numbers of James Bond films. It's probably the only thing I remember from James Bond films.
It's the only thing I ever liked as a kid from a James Bond film. Yeah. But yeah. Yeah. It. It doesn't vibe with me. Just not my thing. I mean, that's fine. R i p, but otherwise they'll,
Andrew Harp: yeah. Kick ass movie. Wild. Awesome movie. Everyone's in. It's great. I've seen the first three movies of this Craig movie isn't, you know, the second movie isn't very good.
This is just, okay. I've heard
Austin Lugo: the second one's the worst. Yeah. Quantum
Andrew Harp: of Solace is just, okay. It's still worth watching, but it's just, okay. I saw Skyfall, but I, I saw the one in theaters when it came out, so it's been over 10 years now since I last saw it. Another Sam Mendez film and the next movie Too Specter, also a Sam Mendez.
I haven't seen Specter, I haven't seen no time to die. Obviously, I need to like rewatch Skyfall and then like watch Specter and then watch. No time to die. I need to do that soon. But Casino Royale, I mean, if I'm remembering correctly, I like Skyfall, but I don't think that movie is as good as Casino Royale.
Austin Lugo: great relaunch of James Bond. So wild, so insane. Everyone in is great, great casting choices all around. Even more wild is how much of this film is just people playing poker. Like there's a significant amount of this movie where it's just like people sitting playing poker and it's so good. Like you wouldn't think it'd be good cuz poker is extremely boring.
But it fucking works. James Vaughn just has no idea what he's doing, which I like this version of James Bond, cuz typically James Vaughn is so suave and he is like, I know everything too cool for school. But this one, he is like, I'm fucking outta my depths and everyone's. Beating the shit outta me and I don't know what I'm doing.
And I think that really works with Daniel Craig's performance and, and all of it works really well. I also had to pause the film with 30 minutes left, so it was right after the torture scene. Yeah, the torture seems awesome. Mads his murder , he destroys his balls. It's fucking insane. It is wild. The fact that you can put that in PG 13 movie.
Fascinating. This movie's not PG 13. I bet you it is. Let's look it up. The hell you're wrong.
Andrew Harp: No, you're right.
Austin Lugo: Wow. Yeah, yeah. Jameson movies are notoriously PG 13 because they need the most audiences possible. They don't make our aided movies, so the fact they got away with all of that in PG 13 film, I mean, obviously you got some clout because it's James Bond and everyone behind it, but.
Absolutely wild. And then, like I said, I left with 30 minutes left, so right after the torture scene because I had to go pick up. and when I come back there is a very big shift in tone because there's like a 15 minute honeymoon. Romp. You could describe it. Yeah, pretty much. Basically because comes a classic romcom, which I did not expect at all, and it was very surreal to leave the movie with one sort of film and then come back to almost a completely different film.
I couldn't really understand why this was going on, like I didn't. I was really hoping it wasn't like some sort of fucking dream sequence, which thank God it wasn't. That would've been awful. And she fucking dies. And she fucking dies. Yeah, she betrayed him. . There's the A big betrayal. Yeah. And that's what he gets, right?
That's the whole moral of the movie. That's what he gets for trusting someone. Like he trusts one person. This fucking insane person. Person. There's one person. That person gets everybody kill. Wild, but the $120 million, it's still out there. They great movie James Bond's out there. He's killing people. He is beating people up.
He's getting beaten up. Great romps through Venice and fucking Madagascar and all these different places. Very fun.
Andrew Harp: The action in Quantum of Solace is just not as good. It just can't hit
Austin Lugo: it. It's too bad. It's bad. It's unfortu. , but I'm still gonna watch it. Cause I wanna, I wanna see all of 'em. It's still worth watching.
Yeah. Because they're all connected for no time to die. Like I know that they all like interlink. Yeah, they're
Andrew Harp: all, they're all
Austin Lugo: connected. Yeah. Yeah. And other than qual of Solace, I've only heard good things about the other ones. I've heard. Skyfall is great. I've heard the one after Skyfall is good and I hear No Time to die is the best.
Some say it's the best James Bond. What's
Andrew Harp: from my sources. I've always, I think people still consider Casino Royal to be the best one, but
Austin Lugo: maybe I'm wrong. It is good. It's gonna be hard to beat. Like I said, it's the first full James Bond movie I've seen. Maybe I'll go back at some point, but I don't know, like a lot of those James Bond movies, from what I remember as a kid, they're pretty boring.
Like it's just a lot of, uh, I don't know. I feel like I. At least attempt some of the old gyms bond stuff.
Andrew Harp: Some of them are probably really fucking rough to watch. Some of them are probably really hard. Yeah. Cause they're boring and nothing happens.
Austin Lugo: There's so many, I mean, there's what, 26 James Bond films or something like that?
They're so fucking many.
Andrew Harp: I don't know. I haven't pursued that project yet. Maybe one day. But after I finished the Craig movies, I might, but I, I don't know. I don't know if I
Austin Lugo: eventually Craig first and then we'll figure out next steps from there. But I wanna at least see a couple of them. The ones I remember the most are the Pierce Bronson ones, which are the ones from the nineties.
Right? Those are probably pretty
Andrew Harp: fun for the most part.
Austin Lugo: Yeah. I remember a Sean Connery won, but I don't know. I have no idea which one it was or what happens in the movie. It's a lot of them. There's so many. There's just so many James Bond movies. Who's gonna be on X James Bond? Andrew, who's next? Oh oh seven.
It's me. . I know it. Who care? They just end it. No, no. They gotta do James Bond. They gotta do it forever until the end of time. I mean, it's insane. This guy writes like a couple of books and they just make movies forever off of this one idea, and they're just gonna keep doing that until the end of time. I mean, he is like a mythical character, right?
He's just like, you're ASAP fables or anything. Yeah, sure. Asop fables. It's the same idea. It's like this kind of Sure. Mythical character that's kind of ingrained in. American and British culture, so I love it. I will watch James Bond films forever, as long as they're not terrible. We'll see who's next. But Dan Craig's done.
I mean, he said he was done before, but now he's He's really done. He's really done . Yeah, I think he's really done. Yeah. We'll see. I don't know. It's probably gonna be one of those things where, you know, they make a couple more James Bond films and then Dan craves gonna be super old and they're gonna be like, we'll give you a shit ton of money we gotta give 'em back to like, show up.
Gotta have him back, do like a cameo or some shit. It's gonna happen. Just wait. We'll see. But yeah, that's fucking all the movies I watched, I watched a lot of movies. I watched a movie pretty much every day and it was great. I loved it. Literal minute of it. I also got to the fourth season of The Wire, so this is the season with the school, right?
This is the great season. As I've talked about The Wire, I've been pretty kind of hit or miss with it. I was like, the first two seasons, eh, the third season started to get good, but the fourth season is genuinely, it's just good on its own. It. Very good. It's very interesting to see like the politics of schools themselves and the way they kind of get money from the government by, cause there's this whole plot where one of the characters has to go out and get kids to come into class, but only for one day because the government gets paid as long as they kids show up at least one day.
Like they get paid for all of those kids and the school's just. I legitimately do not care if they show up for more than one day. Like they just need to show up this day in September and this day in October. Yeah, . That's it. And this guy's like, what? What? What the fuck? It's awesome. All of the, just like the political complications that are mixed between all these things.
It's wild. McNulty is in very little of it, which is a great move. But McNulty's a likable character in this season, which is a first. It's such a strange, From the last few seasons. It's very different, but it really works. And I think there's only five seasons, so I think I only have one more season of this, so I'm halfway through season four.
I think Season five, as you said, is about like the newspaper or the press or something, which I'm interested in. But yeah, we'll see. Hope the last season will be good too. And then, I don't know, I mean that's probably only another week or two. I'll probably be done by the next time we talk with the wire.
Andrew Harp: I will not be done with Star Trek at all by
the
Austin Lugo: time we talk
It's gonna take you a long time to get through that, sir.
Andrew Harp: Well, now since you're finishing the wire, now you gotta watch Star Trek.
Austin Lugo: You gotta start watching the Star Trek. I mean, I, I want to, it's just, that's such a large endeavor. It is. Maybe, I mean, I'm going to take a minute and figure it out, but
Andrew Harp: for me watching Star Trek, at least with like t and g and DS nine, it almost never feels like a chore when I watched.
When I watch GS nine doesn't feel like a chore. I'm just kind of chilling out, which I think is why it makes it so easy for me to watch it is that at least for me, like it just doesn't feel like I'm trying to sit down and like, okay, I'm gonna watch force myself to watch Season one of The Wire. You know?
It's like when I watch in Star Trek, I'm just like, yep, I'm hanging out. I'm vibing with my buddies.
Austin Lugo: Maybe. Maybe we'll see. I mean, I don't know. I don't know what else I'd watch. I kind of wanted to watch Twilight Zone. I don't know, like the original. Yeah, I've seen like the first season or two. But the thing about the Twilight Zone is their episodes are very dialogue heavy, so it'd be easy to watch while I'm working.
But there are also other episodes that the visual aspect's very important and so it just might be too challenging to watch in the format that I watch tv, which is while I do work. So yeah, maybe Star Trek's next. It's probably gonna be next. Yeah.
Andrew Harp: The thing about Star Trek is. Sometimes there's some visual elements.
Of course, it's a fucking visual medium, , right? For the most part, they take place on a lot of the same places. That's kind of the thing, kind of consistent tng. In the original series, they're on the enterprise, right? Once you watch the first three episodes, you get kind of the idea of like where things are and where they are and what they're doing, and I think it's a pretty good show to watch while working.
Maybe not all the time. I don't think anything is ideal to watch while you're working, but I like having Star Trek on occasionally just to watch. Like I said before though, the original series for me was hard to get into and I watched maybe a few episodes and I just couldn't get into it and then I just skipped to T N G and I just started watching T N G I would say more or less immediately enjoyed, started
Austin Lugo: enjoying it.
Yeah, I'll get into it. I mean, I do need something that's kind of less, the stakes are a bit lower and I know with like some of Star Trek. , it's a little bit more utopian, so, eh,
Andrew Harp: there's some pretty high stakes . I, I would say like that's kind of the good thing about the show is that they'll have episodes where the issue doesn't seem like that crazy, but it's still an issue and they're trying to solve it.
Or then they have like another, and the IX episode will be an issue of like, oh my God, if we don't do X or Y, like the universe will be destroyed. Shit. Like, oh no. Like, you know that timeline I was talking to you. Yeah, they go back in time. They accidentally do something that changes the future. Oh shit.
And so you go back to the, the characters in the future and they're like, oh my God, the federation is gone because, oh shit. They did something where like the federation never existed. And so they're like, oh my God, we have to fix the timeline so the federation can exist again. So stuff like that is very like, that's wild.
High stakes. But then there's also ones where it's just. Soandso wants to ask out a person, a girl, or something like a character, wants to ask out a girl or something.
Austin Lugo: Hey, it'd be good to get it too. So I'll finish up the wire, let you know my final thoughts. If it's everything people say it is. I mean, the fourth season's really good, but still like one of the greatest shows of all time, eh?
I don't know. Maybe I'm missing something. Maybe the final season will be so good. You're
Andrew Harp: probably not. It's just probably super overrated and hasn't aged as well as maybe a could f That's
Austin Lugo: a good point. Yeah, we'll see. Well, that's pretty much it, my end. That's all I've been doing. That's pretty
Andrew Harp: much it for me too.
Like I said, just,
Austin Lugo: Hey, you fair got anything? ?
Andrew Harp: You got like the one thing I know, I just, I just had, I watched one movie. It's very weird. I don't know. Uh, I just have, like I said, this week was really weird. Anyway, I just found myself working late, so hopefully this week will be a little bit better and I don't know, maybe this week we'll try to see Infinity Pool and then knock at the cabin and, but uh, yeah, I just haven't really been very movie minded lately.
I've been star Trek minded.
Austin Lugo: No, it's fine. I'll just carry this entire podcast on my shoulders. Yeah. .
Andrew Harp: Yeah,
Austin Lugo: definitely are now you good? Alright. Well, thank you all for listening, and until next time, thank you.