Hello and welcome to Movies on the Side.
This is Steven Robles.
And this is Nate Baronowski.
And today we're talking about the s is it a straight to streaming movie?
I feel like it went straight to streaming.
This is not.
I think
it might have been i in theaters at some point in time.
For five minutes. For
Yeah.
five minutes. We're talking about Mercy,
released earlier this year with Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson.
But first, I have a harrowing story to tell you,
Nate.
And the mood shifts and the music changes.
The mood shifts. Q music. Listen,
Tell me.
listen. Are you a Chipotle Queso?
No, I'm not.
Okay. Well, then maybe this won't affect you as much as me.
Have you ever seen it being made?
No, no.
Well, here's the
thing. So I have I hate that
I assume there's a bladder of some sort.
A big plastic bag. Yeah,
you already predicted what I'm about to say.
yeah, yeah.
That's so annoying. But here's what happened,
mate. I was picking up a to-go order recently and I was waiting because
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
it wasn't ready yet. Because the order was waiting on queso.
Because I get a side of queso and chips with most orders.
Sure. Sure.
I order it for the family, but I think it just ends up being me eating it.
But anyway
I'm there waiting. The guy says that queso is almost ready.
And so I look back, and this is a Chipotle setup where you can
see the entire kitchen behind the case.
Yes. Yes. There's no secret there's no secret space.
Like you everything is in no secrets.
Everything's in full view. And I look back and he goes over to a pot on the stove.
And I think, wow, queso's on the pot in the pot.
Case was on.
They're like making this like queso in a pot.
Yeah, like abuela did it.
Yeah.
You know what I mean? Like this is real cooking here.
And then, to my horror, he puts in a ladle style utensil
to lift something out of the pot.
Is it a plastic bag?
To which I see a plastic bag of queso.
And I think because they apparently heat
No. Why?
up the queso, not in a microwave,
they s they sue me the queso.
they're like sous V their their queso.
And I see this dude lift this plastic bag out of the pot.
They've now heated it's now hot,
I guess. And he he
Yeah, yep. Perfect temp.
Scissors a corner.
man, I was kinda hoping it was gonna have one of those like wine in
a box little nozzles, like a dispensing lemonade at at fellowship meal after church
No. No nozzle, no.
kind of thing. Nope, not that.
No no.
This is he cuts open the top of the bag or the corner of the bag,
excuse me, just the corner, and proceeds to squeeze it into the container that will
Yeah.
then go into the you know, the food serving area to be scooped out,
as though it was fresh made queso.
Mm-hmm.
And I see I see him squeeze this bag and it's blurting out the corner.
Yeah. Yep. Like a toothpaste tube.
He has one of these little tools like that you would use for like
Yeah.
a toothpaste tube to like make sure you get all the things out.
Yep. ~ every
little drop.
And I saw them put that container of queso into the to go preparation area.
The person scooped the queso into the little cup that I was getting,
Mm-hmm.
put it in my bag, and I was on my way.
Uh-huh. Yep.
And Nate, I don't know if I'm gonna get Tripole queso anymore,
I'll be honest.
I
I'm gonna be a queso advocate for just a second.
~ okay.
Here's something that sous vieing your queso will do for ya.
Mm.
You're not gonna get a film. Cause you know that if there's a bunch of queso
in a pot, there's gonna form a a top layer.
So unless you're constantly mixing it and you don't have to constantly
mix a big plastic bag. Now, how much plastic is getting in your queso,
we can't know. We couldn't possibly know.
They we don't have time to talk about this,
but
like are you a microplastics avoider now?
Okay.
~ I am not. I am not.
well I have seen a few microwave covers
in my day that are those plastic covers that have begun to sort of like
Hmm. Yes.
They came in contact with something in the microwave.
I feel like all of our show is just microwave etiquette now,
but I do worry that those covers will sort of literally drip macro
Leech just chunks of plastic.
plastics into my food. So I'm I'm anti-macro plastics is what I'm anti.
I like that. I like that. Yes.
But back to the queso. They get a perfect temp.
Hmm. Right.
They avoid the film, because it's all sort of underwater.
And I'm gonna give you this.
Yes.
Hm.
There is less chance, cover your ears,
those that are sensitive, of things falling into a queso
pot in the back of a chipotle,
such as hair and other particulates that are about.
Mm, hm.
And so we're hoping that somewhere in a Chipotle lab they're making
Mm.
the original one in sort of white glove cleanliness.
Sure.
And by keeping it sealed, you could say that it is keeping pure so that
the back of house Chipotle people don't mess with it.
So in some ways, maybe you're getting a more
I don't know. I'm just that that's the that's the pro.
Are made
That is the pro. Obviously it's not great to see an thing come out of
That is the pro.
a big plastic bag. That's never good.
N that
you know, you now I've I've seen them cook the chicken on the the grill thing.
And I'm like that's real chicken on a real grill.
Like that, like that feeling, yeah.
I go s I see it from raw to cooked with the seasoning.
Yep. Yeah. Yep. That's great.
Like it's I see the whole process.
It's great. You know, I see them sometimes making chips and cutting up vegetables,
like it's great. But something about like I don't know where I didn't think they
were making the queso from scratch.
Like I'm not
You
know, I in there and there with like a paprika,
just like a couple shakes a sip of Calabrian chilies.
No, I I understand that.
Calabrian
But I also I
just didn't I didn't expect a big plastic bladder.
I I was expecting maybe a wine in a box situation or some kind of
Yeah.
Hey, the wine in the box is in a plastic bladder,
in a box. Let it all be known.
It's all
Something I don't know. Something about seeing that plastic bladder come
out of that pot of boiling water and I thought,
I don't know.
Would there be a better would there be a way like if they had a giant sometimes like
queso that comes for like a a ballpark on the nachos comes in those giant cans.
A big metal can. Would you rather someone get a can opener
Sure, sure.
and like pop open a pre mixed queso from the mothership of Chipotle?
Like like a bread in
a can. I listened to our bread in a can episode again the other day
and it's just that was a wonderful episode.
huh. huh.
~ I don't I don't know what I would have felt better about.
Pretty much most things other than a big plastic bag,
because that I associate that with like Taco Bell,
like the meat just coming out of a plastic bag kind of thing.
But I will say, you know, you were talking about cross contamination.
Okay.
I do appreciate the low chance that there is cross contamination.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, very low. Yeah.
But if you I mean if you're not a fan,
you won't get there ch case so often.
I get it.
weekly basically. There there are times when,
you know, 'cause when they're making the stuff,
stuff falls and things, stuff skits in stuff.
yeah, stuff stuff gets in there.
Yeah, stuff stuff falls. Yep.
And there have been times where I dip a chip in the queso and there's like
a little piece of chicken in there.
It's a nice surprise, honestly.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a that's a n Yeah,
Like I'm down for that kind of cross contamination.
that's a free piece. That's
a free extra protein for ya. ~ let's g let's get away from food for a second,
Free double checking. Yeah,
'cause I do want to ask you before we we watched Mercy for this week,
please.
Yeah, we did. We did.
but I do I heard before the camera started rolling that you watched
the live action Moana and someday,
probably a Disney Plus time from now.
I will probably also watch it.
I have been reading with great,
great interest reviews that absolutely have shredded this movie,
have bagged this movie into a Chipotle queso style and squeezed
Mm.
out how terrible it is all over the pages of their editorials.
And I want to know. Just give me like
Really?
I know you're not incredibly fond of the original cartoon from ten years ago.
All I've heard in all these reviews is there's nothing new under the sun.
This is just the same thing, just live action and probably worse.
But like give me we may talk about it in the future,
but give me like a little teaser of your thoughts on it.
So we were as we were seeing the trailers,
one of the trailers that came up before the movie,
I saw it last night. The first day you could watch Moana in theaters,
we watched it in theaters.
Can't
I I don't know why also.
It
it was well, my daughter wanted to see it.
And this was a rare instance where both my boys are at camps and so
okay, okay.
it was just Elise. And so it was kind of a unique opportunity to do like
~ yeah.
Okay, that's great.
a you know kind of thing. But the one of the trailers before the movie
was Shrek five. And it was like,
Uh-huh.
I think I think we've had enough Shreks.
I don't think we needed more Shreks.
I don't think
Yep.
Like
we have Toy Story Five and that that did pretty good,
but we don't need anyway, so the ~ wait,
You don't need a live action toy story,
is what you're saying.
a live act Anyway. Tom Hanks did just turn 70 years old.
Now hold on.
I just saw that. it was the original,
but I liked the main actress.
I thought she did a good job. I think she has a good singing voice.
My daughter reminded me as we were leaving,
she was like, Wasn't Dwayne Johnson the voice
In the animated one, I was like,
Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, for sure.
no, no. And yeah, he definitely was.
Yes.
He definitely was. Now listen,
Dwayne Johnson in a wig is properly hilarious.
Like that's just funny on its face.
Yeah.
And there is lines in the movie that allude to that.
Yes.
He's like, I have great hair. And like he kind of does a knowing wink.
And so that's funny. But it's fine.
It's fine. Like, it's not it's not horrible,
Okay. That's great. Yeah.
I I don't think. ~ but
There I will say, as with most movies,
I did cry at a couple moments because it's a Disney movie and there's there's songs
and stuff. But there is a moment when I mean this is not a spoiler because
the animated one's been out for ten years.
It's it's exactly the same. Yep.
Yeah, it's exactly the same. But there is a moment during the final conflict against
Teffiti slash Te Ha where that Dwayne Johnson
he does like a Samoan chant.
Uhhuh, yep. Yep, yep. Yep.
after he he breaks his hook and he's standing up at to Tafidi
and like it looks like he's about to die or whatever.
And something about Dwayne Johnson doing that Samoan chant kind of got me.
It was like, you know, he's at least half Samoan,
Uh-huh.
Dwayne Johnson or or partly Samoan.
And like seeing him do that was like,
shoot, that feels like kind of real.
And I it kind of made me a little emotional for some reason.
I was like, he's like doing a thing here.
And ~ that moment alone, I would say,
when it comes out on Disney Plus,
I don't I wouldn't say it's worth going to the theaters to watch it.
But that that moment I was like,
huh, ~ huh. How's it good?
shoot, that was kind of cool. Other than that,
you know, it's a remake. It's a remake.
Sure. Do you
I wanna you what I want to do with you,
Nate? What we should do. Maybe we get ~ Jacob back on or somebody and
we do another top five, but top five live action Disney remakes.
Because I don't even know which one would be
Ooh, okay.
The best. But I think, you know,
we got the Lion King, now we have Moana.
We have what other live action remakes do we have?
Aladdin, Snow White, Little Mermaid,
A Lion. The yes. Yes.
Yeah, see, we need to do this.
~ Okay. Cinderella was an early one.
The top five live action remakes.
Cinderella. That's right. I'm just saying,
I think that would be an interesting show.
Okay.
I have I have a question for you and then we're gonna begin our movie.
Yes. Yes.
How long should an animated movie wait before
it can be a live action? Like if you said like,
This one
all right, I am the judge and I this was ten years.
Yeah.
The which felt early to everyone.
It feels
ear it feels early. If the same actor,
But like what would you say w
Dwayne Johnson, was in both, is too early.
It's too early. Yes.
Right. Right. They need to have aged out.
I would say ten years is not enough time.
Twenty years feels like
If I told you, hey, next year Big Hero Six comes out.
Well, see that that's problematic,
Nate. I mean you can't ask me that.
I know you love I know you love Big Hero Six.
I would be down for a live action Big Hero Six right now.
So that this
I would go see it right now. And ~ but I feel like fifteen to twenty years minimum
T today. Okay.
feels like the right fifteen is like it better be really good and maybe
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
do some original stuff.
I went to have been a kid and now I bring my kid.
So a gen a generation. Like that's the nostalgia play,
'Cause that's that's
right?
the nostalgia card, it's like the Fuller House Full House deal.
Like you have to be enough removed where whoever enjoyed it as a kid.
Boy meets world,
girl meets world. I g I gotta be far enough away.
Exact and c I don't know if I've told you this,
but I've seen Fuller House recently because my daughter has now binge watched
the entire Full House series, the old one,
Wow, воу.
which I have to say holds up actually.
To be to be clear, it it actually is pretty good.
Really? Okay. Okay.
~ not you know, it's not like Emmy Award winning,
Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, no, no.
but it's pretty it's pretty good.
Like it's funny. Fuller House,
not so much.
Not so much. But you know, it's not the same chemistry.
But anyway, I would say fifteen to twenty years.
I mean, is that what you but you're generation?
Okay. I was gonna
say twenty yeah, I was saying twenty.
I feel like twenty like if you told me I see I think Big Hero Six is too soon still.
Yeah, that's probably good.
But like where I'm at currently,
which I think they already made is like Mulan,
I would do like Hercules. Wherever that time period is,
that might be twenty five ish by now.
Like that's where I'm at. I'm fine with nineties movies getting the live action.
nineties movies getting live action.
I think that's
Early two thousands
can start. Like, give me treasure planet right now.
They gust yeah.
I've never seen the animated one.
Pretty
Pretty pretty fine. People say that's like a sleeper hit.
I I almost spoke to it.
It is. It's great. But I haven't seen it for a long time,
so I don't know if if, you know,
the fourteen year old me is like,
Yeah, was great. Loved it.
There's also the Beauty and the Beast live action remake.
That's another live action. We need to do this episode.
Yeah. Yep. Okay. All right,
We need to do this episode. I'm just saying.
Okay. Stop by Mercy. You've been asking me to watch this for a while now.
let's talk about this movie.
And ~ yeah, what
I watched it on
a plane, Steven, and here's why.
I watched it with all of the ~ like,
Sure.
ugh, fine. I'll just watch it.
I kinda had a fun time watching this movie.
And I it gave me I don't know,
Yes.
it it rhymes back in time to a type of movie that is not great,
but is enjoyable. And there hasn't been
think recently when I haven't enjoyed or when a movie hasn't been great,
it has also not been enjoyable.
This feels like a flashback to a disaster movie or something like
of you know, this is not Spielberg minor minority report.
This is like, you know, like whatever B tier minority report,
that's what this is.
But it is so the premise is Chris Pratt wakes up,
he is in a chair, and he is facing an AI judge,
which is a system that now convicts murderers,
and you have 90 minutes to prove your innocence,
otherwise you will be executed on the spot,
Yes. Yes. What a premise.
which is terribly dystopian.
What a premise. But it is heavy minority report vibe.
What a premise.
~ yeah.
Be c
heavy viol and it is like B minority report,
but I do think it's like minority report for 2026 with
a little bit of realism because like AI is a thing today,
and an AI bot talking to you and maybe you having to prove your innocence
to it feels pretty real. Like that feels plausible.
Right. It does
however feel like not quite right.
As if it was like a nineties movie script that was like,
Yes, yes.
hey now that A like dig through the the the sc the ideas that we have for movies.
This one has AI in it. Like let's use this one as the like the main thing.
Yeah. It's got AI and like
Apple Vision Pro ~ you know, we're not we're not doing the minority report with
the glove windows anymore. We're doing Vision Pro moving windows with our hands now.
Right. Exactly.
But I listen, this movie is 90 minutes of a it's a murder mystery thriller kind
of thing with some cop stuff. And,
you know, if Chris Pratt's good at anything,
it's this kind of like survival,
military, police.
Vibe type thing. He's good at it.
He's
What was
the one where he went to like the future war the tomorrow war?
The tomorrow war. We just watched that last week.
We watched that last week with all the kids.
I would
watch this over Tomorrow War.
Yeah, I mean this is like less actiony and more detective y,
I feel like.
Right. Less
less CG ish, which I felt maybe that's what I liked about it.
Well, minus all the f floating windows.
Well, okay. Yeah,
I mean you know what I mean? Like that's that's pretty
yeah, yeah, yeah.
but but we have to talk about Rebecca Ferguson because I I really like Rebecca
Ferguson as an actress in Mission Impossible.
Yep. Yep. Yep.
I love the silo series, and she is the AI and Maddox of this thing.
Yes. Yes.
I gotta say, I think she does a good job portraying an AI bot and
Yes.
I don't know if you have enough experience using all the bots,
but do you do you have a feeling if she's more of like a chat GPT or a Claude
or a Gemini?
I would not be able I mean, would not be able to tell I would
say probably more claudy than anything,
She got an attitude. She has a little bit of an attitude
is my guess. Yeah.
as an AI chatbot, which is Claudy,
I'll be honest. She is not sycophantic at all,
I okay, good, good. Well you know,
I felt like that was
which is like ch Chat G PT and Gemini's a little verbo.
Like she's very much like, hey,
address me as your honor, please.
I
I loved her face acting. I mean,
I thought she was great in this movie.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like she has some like sort of like pained smiles
Yes.
as the a that is like, this is good.
This is very good.
Yeah, yeah. And
it's it must be hard because like you only see her from like the neck
up the entire movie. Like she's only on the screen talking to Chris Pratt.
Yeah.
But she does a good job at that.
She has a good face actor.
Yep. Do you think they ever met during the filming of this movie?
You think they were ever in the same city?
Not
That's a good qu that's a good question.
This this entire movie could well,
Chris Pratt does have to get into a building at the end of the movie and
do a little fighting. She might have done this whole thing from home.
It feels like a movie that was done intentionally very low budget.
Right? Like I feel like Chris Pratt had like yes,
~ yeah. yeah. Definit there's like three sets.
exactly. We have a house. We got a house.
We got a court, we got a the the judge room,
any like blank room, green screen all around ya.
That's it. Blank room. That's it.
Yep. And we got we'll do a couple street scenes.
And then yeah, and the the lobby.
Yeah.
yeah, the streets.
We'll do a couple street scenes.
But yeah, it's very much like minimal budget.
She might they might have just sent her a costume in the mail and she just
did it over Zoom, you know what I mean?
She might have just they just green screened everything.
Yeah, set this
set this camera up and just read these lines.
That's it. No, I mean, like you said,
this is very B movie. But I was also I was in it,
you know what I mean? Like it was a it was a mystery to solve.
It was you know, you do the thing where spoil spoilers.
Spoilers around, spoilers everywhere.
Spoilers everywhere.
Spoilers, this movie exists. Most people probably don't even know this movie exists,
let's be honest.
Well, did did like when it came to the the mystery of it,
did you figure out who the actual killer was pretty quick?
That's that's exactly what I wanted to ask you.
I feel like I got a vibe. I got a vibe like the second call,
I was like, wait a minute. This guy who I really like from This Is Us,
Yeah.
Chris Sullivan, the actor, he feels a little murdery,
Right. Right.
to be honest.
I yeah, it's one of those murder mysteries where they don't actually
take enough time to give you enough suspects
Right.
to like pick from. It's like
They do the first one
to throw you off. The guy in the restaurant,
the chef or whatever.
Well, and
and all of that, it's like they're not gonna make it so that the
guy who actually did it is just like
a regular old like guy who broke into their house.
Right.
Like that's not a rewarding like if it if Chris Pratt has been set up,
No, no, no.
then he was set up in a way by someone he knows and it was done somewhat smartly
in order to fool the AI. So obviously it's not gonna be like
just the guy who's his wife's with or whatever on the side.
Like and so there was just like ~ n I was looking at all the suspects up
Well.
on the wall and being like, Well,
dear movie I guess we're not trying that hard to like fool me.
Right, right. I will say the ~ the overall tenor of like
you can search for evidence anywhere because your entire phone
and like they mentioned a couple of times like
Uh-huh. And everyone's
phone and everyone there's no privacy.
Zero privacy, which is ironic because I'm wearing the metaglasses as we record this.
Uh-huh. Yes. Perfect.
And they say the ~ municipal cloud is what they call it.
And there's basically this they allude to this idea that if you have a phone,
Uh-huh.
everything is on the municipal cloud,
like the federal whatever, or you have a burner like black market phone that
Mm-hmm.
you have to get like some shady way,
and then that's not available to the government.
But that's not really like you're not supposed to do that.
And it does feel like
You know, that that feels the most realistic dystopian future of this movie
Sure.
of like if there is a court case and not to be too real,
like there's been many court cases where there's information on an iPhone
and they will drag Tim Cook to court,
be like, Unlock this phone. And Tim Cook's like,
Right. Right. Right.
nah, not doing it. And then Google's like,
Right.
Yeah, okay. Here's every location this phone has ever been.
~ so there, you know, that feels the most man,
ten, twenty years from now.
That might be how things go. And that's scary.
Yeah.
for sure. I think it was th the like nonchalance that everyone
has with privacy just being gone is like,
yeah, okay, I get it.
Like nothing about
this movie was so was unbelievable.
Like when when you see Minority Report,
you're like, Okay, these precogs taking a bath,
they can tell the future, whatever.
Yeah, yeah.
Flying cars, I don't think so.
But this movie's like, nope, this movie could be in the real world,
Right.
like, very soon.
Yeah, that was yeah. It was troubling.
Here's something else that I find a little troubling with this movie.
I'm not sure if this if the makers of this movie
or whoever's opinion gets like put into the movie,
I'm not sure they think of this as that dystopian.
Like, I'm not
Right.
sure that this I think there were like well listen,
there were some things wrong.
A few tweaks to it, we had the the the cop who like we find
out that Rob Nelson, his his sponsor,
is the murderer because he was the brother of the guy,
the very first case that Chris Pratt did.
Anyway, we find that he had like a vendetta against him the whole time.
And it did not end with the AI basically being like shutting itself down like
for the betterment of humanity or for the Mercy Court ending or
for they basically have a like what do they call like a red zone
in downtown LA where just basically we're like we put all
Yes. Madness.
the troublesome people quote unquote in here and I kind of felt that there
Right.
was part of the movie that's like
Yeah. Yeah, we don't mind like we don't mind setting up a you know,
Little border. Yeah.
a perimeter. Yeah. And and also like we were just like one
bad choice away from this being like a pretty good system.
Like I wouldn't mind we you know,
put people in the chair and set up the and the there was like I feel like
Yeah.
it wasn't strong enough of like,
hey
Isn't this a scary future? I think it was more like,
well, if you got nothing to hide,
like good luck proving your innocence and I was and I had the thought of like,
Right.
if you're not someone who ~ can put together a puzzle,
the fact that you like the reason we have a court of law to have like
You're done.
a lawyer help us is that we don't all have the ability to like piece ours
way out of guilt.
Right. Which at
least at least they made Chris Pratt like a law enforcement person so
he would have some idea to put together a case and he wasn't some like tech
Yeah.
bro or whatever who wouldn't really know law.
But
But do you like
did you feel that at all? Did you feel like there was a bit of this this dystopian
was presented in a like ~ I'm like we kinda want us to go like,
~ pretty cool, they can find every bad guy,
you know?
Yeah, there wasn't a lot of negative connotation to what was happening.
And unlike Minority Report, where that movie spoiler ends with them
~ realizing the system is flawed and you can have false positives,
Right.
and they shut the system down and the pre-cogs get to live in a cabin on the lake.
Right.
In this movie, at the end, it's like Rebecca Ferguson and Chris Pan are like,
Right.
all right, we've learned something today.
Let's get to the next case. You know?
We'll see you later. Yeah, we'll just do it again.
We'll see. Let's let's do it again.
And they literally do it.
Again in the moment because Chris Pratt's partner,
Jack, did something bad for that original case.
Cause turns out the bad guy was right about his brother.
~ he didn't commit the murder.
So it's like the movie ends with being like,
you know what, this system's actually pretty good,
and we should probably keep it.
So it's a little
Right, right. I
was I was a little bit like, this is rough and dystopian but I'm not sure
if we're supposed to feel that this is rough and dystopian,
more like, ~ they got eighty percent away to the good idea,
they just need to tweak it, but by the way,
if you're ever gonna defend yourself in the mercy court and you're pretty sure
you're innocent and you have some evidence,
if you also wanna see like, hey,
my friend who left me on red, were they actually
~ working that day or were they out at the lake?
Yeah.
Is that I'm just gonna find out a few things while I'm here.
You wanna you wanna look that stuff up.
You 'cause you get access you got access to everything.
To everything.
You could just say
just say, hey. The no I don't think this movie is making this big of a commentary,
but it also like that attitude kind of feels like the attitude towards AI right now,
where it's like, yeah, it can say some pretty bad things and it has done some pretty
bad things, but we'll just do a software update.
Just a tool, just a tool. Yeah,
The next model, ChatGPT five point six is gonna nail it.
r we just we need Rebecca
Ferguson. Yeah, maybe maybe that was it.
Maybe it was like this is where things are heading and we need to be cautious.
But as long as we have people like Chris Pratt here to keep us on
As long as
the straight and narrow, we'll be fine.
Is Chris Pr
listen, Chris Pratt, he has saved the world from aliens now in the future.
He is now saving the world from AI.
Mm-hmm.
I mean, he's becoming that that guy.
Uh-huh.
He also saved the world ~ Ronin in Guardians of the Galaxy.
Yep. I think he has a drinking problem maybe in every one of these roles as well.
You know, ~ that it that could be a problem.
He does, I think, develop that in the tomorrow war as well.
Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Do you want him or Tom Cruise?
But here's the here's my my bigger theory.
It well today I'll take Chris Pratt because Tom Cruise,
you know, he's he's getting older.
He's getting older. My question to you is Has Chris Pratt taken
the role that Will Smith did in the 90s?
Because
Recently we have watched Independence Day.
We watched it on July fourth as a good American.
We recently watched Men in Black with my son Asher.
And first of all, after seeing those two movies,
I robot.
we haven't seen iRobot yet, which probably should.
But after those two movies, my son Asher was like,
Yep.
~ I think Will Smith might be my favorite actor.
Because like those are two good Will Smith movies.
When are your kids old
enough to see I am legend? Okay.
Jordan has already seen it twice and enjoyed it.
Okay.
We I asked Asher, I like, You wanna see this?
He's like, No, I don't think yet.
Not yet. Not yet. I think that's wise.
Yeah, yeah. Give that s give that a little bit of time.
I
think Chris Pratt would trade away his left foot right
now to have the popularity that Will Smith had in the nineties
Fair. That's fair.
and early two thousands. Like I think he's doing his best,
but I do not think he is anywhere which again could be state of movies.
He also saved the world from dinosaurs.
I'm throw that out there. And and Koopa.
Z yeah, you're right. I didn't which I didn't
watch I didn't watch the last I mean,
speaking of of Chris Pratt movies,
th like I saw the first Jurassic World,
maybe the second one. I did not see the third one.
You don't you don't need to see the third one.
It's not it's not good. It's not good.
But he also saved the world from Bowser.
You know what I mean? He's the voice of Mario.
So there's that. Anyway,
He's also the Lego guy from the Lego movie.
all I'm saying is he is fine. This movie is f fine.
But I mean I was fine. It was fine.
That's that's my glowing review.
This movie was fine.
It was
fine. I felt like it was a great plain movie and I think that there
Yes, perfect.
was I think there was some I th I thought Rebecca Ferguson in there was great.
I think there was enough like fun elements to it.
She was great.
And I was really like, they put a clock on this movie because they basically said,
Yes.
Well you have the you have the time it takes to watch this movie to figure
out this murder
And I love a good like it has some good stakes to it.
You know? If you didn't make it
yeah. It was like twenty four
too. It felt like the clock in the movie was like real time and like
it was pretty good. Th I will also say Chr Chris Sul Chris Sullivan of This Is Us,
Uh-huh. ~ huh. Yep.
he is six foot five. How tall are you?
Six five.
at the same height. Well, at the end of this movie,
he portrays, I think, a good, intimidating,
bad guy character. And I just want to say I want to see him as a legit bad guy,
Yeah.
like a mission impossible bad guy in the future.
I think he would do really well as that.
He was Taserface from Guardians of the Galaxy three,
two Remember Taser Face?
Wait, what? What words are you saying?
Taserface from what Guardians of the Galaxy.
You're making this up. I've seen it.
Yeah. Yeah.
He was Taserface. Who was Taserface?
Taser face. Rocket Raccoon makes fun of doesn't matter.
~ okay. No. No, but I want to see him as like a real life like bad guy.
Yeah. A real bad guy.
I think he would I think he would do really well at it.
That's all I'm saying. That's my that's my thing.
Yeah. Yeah. What if I told you this?
Alright. Should we rate this movie?
~ go ahead. You go.
I
think that this movie should have been a TV show.
~ Like multiple cases, like an ep a case an episode?
No, not like not like that. Not like law and order mer yeah,
thanks for yes anding me. Appreciate it.
sorry. Yeah, just like that. That was good.
No, no, no. I'm sorry. Go good.
No, no. Okay, sorry. Yes, that was a bad idea.
Good.
And a better idea would be if I would wouldn't mind
the whole case sort of being a a season.
Okay, okay.
And that there's like he's been in the he gets in the chair the whole time,
but it's really just like it is still the 90 minutes or whatever,
but it's pieced up and there's flashback stuff,
but then we cut to minutes twenty through thirty and as he thinks of a new idea.
I just think there's something I think the plot of this movie
is pretty convoluted and it's not it's not great,
but
Yeah.
I think trying to prove your innocence from a chair being connected
to the the matrix to Amazon's cloud computing
Right.
or whatever is is fun enough
A W S. It's fun.
to like I like how he has to like work with his old partner to try to like make
Right.
it happen and so he's not he can't be there.
He has to interrogate people remotely.
Yeah. He has there's a lot of tension in him just like
calling his daughter and be like,
please pick up, please pick up.
~
yeah. Do you think you could prove your innocence if you were falsely accused
of something? Or would you not be innocent?
No. No. I mean, 'cause I
Do you think you would actually be guilty of
think I would spend my first I'd waste my first twenty minutes just having
a nervous breakdown. I mean,
Well sh I thought you were gonna say you're gonna waste I know.
if I was handcuffed to a chair,
like there would be it would take like I'd pass out after like hyperventilating
for the first ten minutes. I'm out for the next twenty,
I wake up, I'm still strapped,
like there would be a lot of ~ I would I would use up a lot of time.
Sure, sure. It'd be bad.
Do you I mean, but so you you feel like you wouldn't have the wherewithal
With panic.
to like think through what's happening.
Like I have the false sense of confidence that I could acquit myself.
I mean I
Like I feel like I could do it.
You could do it. Well,
with the amount of connections that everyone has,
maybe you could be like I do feel like the he should have just been like,
All right, someone was in the house.
I need you to like scan this house for like the forty eight hours before this
and I want like count everyone who came to the party and everyone who left.
I want to see faces. Like just check everyone that was there and then like
Yeah, yeah.
They're w waiting twenty minutes for the guy's bird cam to upload from
Yeah the bird The bird camera.
the neighbor behind him, like,
~ I thought we had like great technology.
I know. She said you gotta wait for it to upload.
We're we're relying on the guy like shooting his finches in the back.
It's like what do we so we're my innocence is gonna be dependent
on this dude's internet speed?
Yeah, do we also
like in this dystopian future do do they not have like satellite images like super
Ri that. That is a that's
everywhere?
a good that's a good point. Yeah,
there's no satellite of that backyard where you could see the dude in the bush.
Okay. Yeah, no, that's a good point.
Right.
I would also say the first thing I would tell the AI is like,
listen, every time I ask for a file,
you do this like virtual going through folders on a computer screen.
Stop that. If I ask for a file,
immediately open it. I don't need you to look like you're looking through folders.
Just boom, pop it up. Don't waste any time.
In fact in
fact, I don't even need to see your face.
We don't need to connect ~ personally unless you're feeling Yeah,
Cut the small talk. Your Honor,
exactly. I just want to see the percentage probability of my guilt up
this counts for the rest of the time.
You just do what I said.
in the corner and just I wanna see it go down as I go.
That's it. That's right. Real time.
Yeah. It was a little harder than maybe it should have been to catch a
~ like unless he was wearing a Chris Pratt face to trick like there's just
it wasn't
good enough of a technology. But I will give them this.
He basically Chris Pratt said at some point in time,
this was all set up. We all we all know what this is.
No one ever gets out of mercy court.
This isn't actually meant to be something where people prove their innocence.
It's just a public facing thing before we execute them.
Which by the way, capital punishment,
Right. Yeah.
not discussed nor a conflict in this movie at all.
You can't cover everything, mate.
It's
it's a hour and forty minute movie.
Well, you can't
cover everything. It's the main form of quote unquote justice in this movie
is people getting basically an electric chair.
And it was like, Matt.
No well and by a sound
a sound wave, to be clear. It is a sound wave pulse that apparently executes these
people. I have no idea how that works.
Yes. Would this movie have been better
Hmm.
if let's say it was made before the day of AI and we actually
had real Rebecca Ferguson in a room as judge?
And there was a way to like they were gonna get let you prove your innocence
Hm.
in ninety minutes. So they're still like the same concept,
but she wasn't AI. Would that have been more compelling?
Okay.
No. Cause then he'd just be
shuffling a bunch of papers around a desk for ten minutes.
Like he's gotta look for the one picture of the th no.
The movie ha you need the this setup with the digital everything to work,
you know what I mean? I feel like I do it.
Okay. Yeah, you need it to be minority report.
I will s the most realistic part of this movie is that the teenage daughter
has a secret Instagram account that the father doesn't know about.
That's that's the most realistic part.
And that that is how we're gonna rate this movie,
Yes.
Nate.
On a scale of zero to five secret Instagram accounts.
Ha Yeah. yeah,
by the way, that little hover bike that Jack was on,
the quadcopter. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
the quadcopter, pretty cool vehicle,
pretty rough graphics.
Pretty rough graphics. I will also I forget when I did this.
Again, low lower budget, lower budget.
I will the do you remember the movie The Island with Ewan McGregor?
Yes, yes.
Weird movie.
I remember a guy getting a spike through an ankle and dragged through the floor,
and that was me that stayed with me longer than that should have.
Yeah. That was the dude from the Green Mile of Recipe.
Yep.
But anyway, he that movie has like the flying bike type things.
Mm-hmm.
And I think that movie's like eighty years old,
and I think I had better CG than than this quadcopter,
but th that movie was very strange.
Scarlet Johansson's in that movie.
It's very strange. I watched it again recently.
Yes, yes.
I don't know why, but it was it was odd.
Anyway, what you told me to watch this movie,
so you gotta rate it. What do you what do you rate?
Yep.
Well, I forgot what this movie's called,
Mercy.
What do you what do you call it?
Mercy.
Yeah.
Man. Man ~ man ~
Or
maybe did you read the last one first?
I'll give you a break. I I could do this one.
No, no, no, I'll do it, I'll do it.
Okay.
I mean, I found it fun. I found it fun.
Sure.
It's a two and a half movie, but like from a I can't believe I'm saying this.
Mm-hmm.
I would watch it again tomorrow.
~ really?
And I watched this movie, I don't know,
a month ago. I'd watch it, I'd watch it again.
Okay.
Like, you should watch something better,
of course.
Sure, sure.
But I thought it was fun. I would s I would see it.
So you well I'm sorry, so you gave it a three?
Two and a half, okay.
No, it's a two and a half, but I I would give it like
a on the rewatch like a high rewatchability is what I'm saying.
I don't know. Maybe I'm broken in some way.
Okay, well Well
This this is like wild, wild west.
Like I'd I'd watch it right now.
I mean you have young kids, so you can't make it out to the movies as often.
So that I understand there's a I'll take what I can get kind of thing.
And it's sh it's the the runtime is nice.
You know, a lot of movies nowadays.
It's on prime.
You know what I mean? It's on prime.
I I'm gonna give it the same rating two and a half,
but I'm gonna say low rewatchability.
Okay. Okay. I was in an airplane,
I don't I don't care to see this movie again.
~ but I'll watch
there was pumped in oxygen. You know,
Sure, sure.
all airplane movies they they hit a little harder.
Now I could watch Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson in another movie,
slightly different plot, but same you know,
do the do it again. Do another another cop detective type one,
but Rebecca Ferguson's like the captain and Chris Pratt's like the the
guy on the ground and they do something like that.
Do that. I think
Has he been
in a good movie recently? No no I'm just I am concerned.
Period?
He was in the terminal list. Did you see that?
I am I I am
I think I've seen that too.
That was fine. I think Super Mario Bros.
is a good movie, the first one.
And I think Infinity War is good.
An endgame. I wouldn't say he's the main guy in those movies.
But I think Jurassic World is pretty good.
Like the first one. The first one.
Okay, yeah.
~ yeah, yeah. I don't watch Jurassic World.
Passenger have you seen Passenger we talked about passengers,
I ~ yeah, we've hey,
didn't we? That's a good movie.
everyone, go listen to our episode on passengers.
I think we liked it.
I think we liked it. And ~ I think I mean that's that's one that has rewatchability,
I think. Because ~ he was in Moneyball apparently.
Sorry, I'm just scrolling through his movie list now.
He's
been in Ray Ban, Colin, Heymeta,
Who Eats Art video commercial.
Did you see the electric state?
~ he was in that
I like us too just going through someone's IMDB and being like,
I keep
Have you seen it?
the few times I had some Netflix stuff downloaded for my recent trip
and I was watching I think the West Wing on Netflix,
like, because Jason kept telling me to watch it,
and it actually is pretty good.
~ I'm sorry to say he was right.
But I kept like Netflix really wanted me to try the electric state.
Mm-hmm.
Every time I opened the app, it was like,
hey, this is a movie with Chris Pratt,
and there's action in it, and I could not bring myself to watch it.
And there's and there's technology
and nostalgia just for you. No.
I could have you watched it?
~ We should do that one next.
That's Millie Bobby Brown. Millie Bobby Brown.
Yeah, Millie Bobby Brown. That's right.
That's not a real name. Did you know that?
What?
I saw an interview where she talked about how Bobby was her a relative's name
and so she has a different middle name.
Anyway. It's a pseudonym. Did you have what?
That's disappointing.
What did you say? What did you call it?
A s not a pseudonym. ~ a gnome de plume.
That's that's what I meant. I meant a gnome de plume.
A tromplay.
Alright, we you need to watch a a movie in theaters and we need to we need
to come back. A supergirl is gonna come out for streaming like tomorrow.
I am
It's only gonna be in theaters for like two weeks.
We should do that one soon.
I'm planning
to watch the Odyssey in theaters.
That will be I am I will leave the children with a caretaker and
I'm planning I I had this conversation with my wife yesterday and I said
Home alone.
to her D are you interested in going to see this movie in theaters with me?
I'm seeing this movie. You no.
You said you can't stop me. That's what you said.
Or or do you want me to go by myself?
Those were the two options. She wants to come with me.
what did she say? What did she say?
She wants to see it.
All right. Did you already get tickets?
I mean it's pretty popular.
We did not get tickets yet. We still have to figure out the childcare situation.
probably gonna end up seeing it on some like postage stamp size screen because
all it's it's selling out. It's popular.
I wanna see it though. I've been seeing all the junkets now.
I'm in South Bend, Indiana, so we got
enough we got enough theaters around here and not enough people.
Okay. yeah, you're
near Chicago. You could you could do whatever you want.
All right. Well maybe maybe that'll be our next movie when we release
an episode on our very irregular schedule,
but it's more regular than it was last year.
So there you go. You should if you're watching and listening to this still,
Yep, you got it.
thank you. Number one. Number two,
you should leave us a five star rating and review an Apple Podcast
so people think we're a real podcast and not a fake one.
Because people still think we're fake.
Mm-hmm.
But yeah, I appreciate that. Thanks,
~ thanks for listening. Thanks for watching.
How do we sign off from this show?
I forgot. What do we do?
~ see ya next time.
That's lame.
Toodles.
Tootoodles.