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Hello, people of earth, and hello, people of Largo.

We are live at Largo in Los Angeles for one of the most important films we've ever done. The movie is Moonfall. The year it came out was 2022. And what can I tell you about this movie? Well, we all love a villain, and we all love the moon.

What if the moon was the villain?

Or was it? That is the question.

Is the moon a bad guy? Seriously, this moon sneaks up on people like Jason.

Um, the plot holes are intense. I'll say, then. I think the acting is pretty solid, but we're gonna get into all of it. But let's bring out my co host. Please welcome Mister Jason Manzoukis.

Jason Mantzoukas
What's up, jerks? Fuck the moon. Fuck the moon. Fuck the moon. Fuck the moon.

Fuck the moon. Fuck the moon. That's what I'm talking about. La. Oh.

Paul Scheer
Moonfall.

We got moonfalls. We got geostorms. This is, I said backstage, this is the best Gerard butler movie that's ever been released. How could you say no? Save us, Jerry.

Jerry must have said, nah, I'm kicking himself now. He's like, fuck, the moon fell. And the only thing that could save us was dads and lexuses.

Jason Mantzoukas
Nothing stronger than the gravitational pull of the moon, except for a dad and a Lexus. A movie that seems to be paid for partly by Lexus. I mean, there's three quarters of the first act takes place in a Lexus dealership they set up. I want to bring out Marcos before, but they set up a character as being very, very wealthy. Money is no object.

Paul Scheer
And then you see where he works, and he's just a car dealership owner. Not like the car creator of Lexus. Not the president of Lexus. Just owns a Lexus dealership outside of Seattle. A franchisee?

Yeah, a franchisee. A franchisee. Someone who's capable of having a Lexus dealership who is like, one of, like, the richest. She's got. She's got two.

Sorry. Here we go. Please welcome June Diane. Here we go. No, wait.

June Diane Raphael
I had to get out here. I had to get out. I couldn't. You did the right thing. I couldn't let another moment go by.

I really couldn't, because I need to talk about the Lexus dealership. I have some things to get off my mind because I did. I was like, oh, okay. So this movie, we're trying to move Merch. We're trying to move, right, some.

Some cars, and that's fine. But like, then I'm like, actually, I don't think that that's the point. I think this movie is trying to get us to become franchise owners. Ooh. Ooh.

Of dealerships. So you think the movie has aspirationally cast Michael Pena to be like this? Okay, so, like Fletcher Jones Mercedes. Right? Like, if you own a Mercedes dealership just because you're selling those cars.

Jason Mantzoukas
Wait a second. Are we promoting Mercedes? Well, specific dealership. Because this. What is happening.

Paul Scheer
Have you not seen Fletcher Jones? No. You don't know about Fletcher Jones? No. What is it?

It's just. It's a Michael Pena. It's like. It's a Mike Mercedes. It's a Michael.

Jason Mantzoukas
Okay. Guy. Yeah. So it's a. It's a franchise owner, but that's pretty popular in LA.

Okay, got it. Got it. Okay, so. But, like, Fletcher Jones himself doesn't. Money is no object to Fletcher Jones.

He has access to, like, this. Like, he doesn't own all those cars. Well, that was the thought that I had. It's not like, well, he's so rich he owns 10,000 cars. No.

June Diane Raphael
Right. Like Michael Pena's character as a franchise owner has a house in Aspen, Colorado. That's like a ski chalet that's in a gated village. He might be able to afford that. As a franchise owner.

Well, then maybe I'm multiples. Maybe I do want to be a franchise owner. Then maybe he's got multiples. Like Fletcher Jones, by the way, when. He was in Aspen.

Jason Mantzoukas
Does Fletcher Jones have multiples? Fletcher Jones has multiples. Okay, so are you walking into a place in Aspen and it's like Hunter S. Thompson and Fletcher Jones are there really getting into it, mixing it up? All I'm saying is, after.

June Diane Raphael
All I'm saying is after watching the movie flare. Cheers. Wait, rewind, rewind. Will you go back to what you typed in? Will you go back one step?

Paul Scheer
I was typing quickly, damn it. Cause it was funny. Oh, I'm sorry. Flight share. Jopness.

Jason Mantzoukas
Fletti share. Fletcher Jopness. Fletcher T shirt. That's the t shirt. Fletcher Jopness.

Hi. How you doing? Fletcher Jopness. By the way, how can I get you an immersion? Mercedes.

Paul Scheer
Fletcher Jones motor cars. Mercedes Benz and pre owned. Well, he's the number one dealer. Hold on a second. Whoa.

June Diane Raphael
662 million in annual sales. That's okay. New. What's Fletcher Jones net worth? Type that.

Type that. What is that? Siri, Siri, what is Fletcher Jones net worth? It says he is worth 565. $75 million.

Jason Mantzoukas
Holy shit. 575. Well, fuck our premise. What the fuck are we doing? What we f.

We all blew it. We all blew it. First we go off on locksmiths, now we go off on auto dealers. This show is going down a rabbit hole or a moon hole. Guys, this movie was incredible.

June Diane Raphael
It really was. And when I saw in the email that we were watching a movie called. Moonfall, what did you think it was about? You know what? I thought it was like a fun indie.

Like, I thought it was. Oh, like a silly kind of. Yeah. With a name like that, like, I thought for sure it was some sort of whimsical. Yeah.

And when I realized, oh, no, it is about the moon falling. Bam. From the director of a man who is known to basically destroy the world. Roland Emmerich only wants to destroy, only wants to show us the destruction of. It's really sick, this city, really, but also this world.

Why does he hate us so much? It's so odd because honestly, they all begin to look alike. Well, that was gonna be my question. Cause I feel like they're reusing. He loves specifically flooded cities.

Paul Scheer
Oh my God. It felt to me like this was the cause. He also did the Jake Gyllenhaal. Yeah, he's done. What's it called?

He did. The day after tomorrow. He did. Independence day are the same. Yes, he's done so many.

Jason Mantzoukas
The world is threatened on a macro level, and it is shown through the lens of a single family. On a micro level. Well. And it always seems like one member of that family is saving the world and then the rest are being hunted by. You name it.

Paul Scheer
In one movie, it was like saber toothed tigers came back. Right? And this one, it's like a gang of a gang. I mean, but like, there is something really weird because the special effects in this look so bad. At one point when the flooding, it looked like it was flooding Mister Rogers neighborhood or that, like that little city that before the HBO movie started.

Yeah, you're flying over that city like, ooh, HBO. No, it's like, it just like. Did he get just like access to that set? Well, it's so weird because I won't. I'm just gonna cut to the end of the movie real quick.

June Diane Raphael
But when things. When 2 hours and ten minutes, when. Things return back to normal, when they. When our heroes come back from them and they land back on earth, and there's a joke about the Chrysler building. Her son thinks they're in New York.

The building's actually in Colorado. Wait, oh, really? Oh, yeah. Oh yeah, yeah. The top of the Chrysler building is in Colorado.

Yeah. Along with landed there. Yeah. Oh, I thought that they were in. I thought they were in New York.

Paul Scheer
Okay. But they. But a hell. What's so strange about that moment is a helicopter, like, fly immediately tracks them. Cause they have a gps device.

June Diane Raphael
But what we have seen is, like, the collapse of every piece of infrastructure. How many people die? 98% of the world's population. Rip. If we're cutting to the end, then here's my big.

Paul Scheer
My statement. Why would you want the earth to be saved? There's nothing left. There's nothing. I wanna live in this hellscape where the head at the top of the Chrysler buildings in Chicago and most cities are fl.

No. Seems way too hard. I would have rather just been. Bye. See you later.

Jason Mantzoukas
Whoa. Really? You were going to sutherland this? You're going to sutherland this? Where am I going?

Paul Scheer
What am I doing? There's nothing. Parts of roadways, like, are elevated above the other part. It doesn't make any sense. There's no way I could see any members of my family.

I don't know how that helicopter got around. You are missing a grand opportunity to live a waterworld existence soon after this. Like, I want to see. It's like the way that, like, the James Bond movies end. It's like, oh, you know, he's got the girl and they're going off on some adventures.

Like, that's not gonna end well. They met in a weird, precarious situation. He's like, oh, I guess we didn't really even know each other. We just were kind of running away from this guy with a scar on his face. You know, it's like.

And then they realize they have nothing in common like, here. And they also lose nobody. The only person who dies is Michael Pena, who's married to Patrick Wilson's ex wife and is like, this stepfather. And by the way, I do think that they, once Lexus got involved, yeah, once Lexus got involved, I have a feeling that they demanded that they have a Lexus rewrite and rewrote Pena's death because he dies in such a heroic way as the owner of Alexis Wood and the owner of a franchise.

Million dollars in rebuild. Left. By the way, what parent is teaching their child to walk by saying left? I think he's describing. I think he's describing the signals in the car, the blinkers.

By the way. By the way, it wasn't supposed to be Pena, but due to a Covid related illness, Stanley Tucci dropped out at the last. It was supposed to be the tuch. And by the way, the tooch running Alex's dealership, I kind of. I mean, Michael Penguin, I love him in everything.

June Diane Raphael
I love. If the toots had been loose in this movie that we would. But if you would have seen Stanley Tucci go, let's put this into warp speed, and then turn the little automatic knob on the Lexus to sport engine. Like, sport engine. I've done that.

Paul Scheer
You have a car that has multiple. I don't know what the fuck happened. Nothing. Are you able to outrun the lack of gravity? I mean, it, like, literally is as if it establishes its own gravitational pull to the earth.

June Diane Raphael
Yeah. It did make me think in that moment, like, what is sport mode? You know, I've never used my sport mode, so I don't know. And I don't know when to use it, to be quite honest. Well, I mean, maybe when you are racing down a highway, a piece of the highway is levitating off the ground because they are driving not off a cliff, but, like, the earth is separate.

Paul Scheer
I mean, this is the other thing about this movie. I have no idea where they're driving, where they going. They all seem to be amazing driving. Where's who going? The family, the exchange student, which I guess we'll talk about at some point.

Jason Mantzoukas
So they're trying to go to the. They're trying to go to the army base that's underground where they're gonna launch the nukes from. Okay. Cause Halle Berry's ex husband is there. He's one of the key guys.

And his son. And they just know how to get there? Well, no, his dad goes. Her ex husband goes, hey, just give me a call before you get here so I can deal with security as if it's like a club. Like, I'll just hit up the.

Paul Scheer
I'll make sure the bouncer goes out and pulls you in. So she's supposed to take their son and meet him there, and instead she goes to space. She goes to space without telling him, hey, by the way, I am not gonna show up with our son. I am instead going to space. But the craziest thing.

June Diane Raphael
And I'll never. That goodbye. That goodbye. I never judge another woman's parenting. Wait a minute.

Not in my life. But wait a minute. I'm like, why didn't she get him on one of those helicopters, right? Like they were. They left just.

It seemed like minutes before. But this is all. This is like. This is like the movie, the. I'm amazed.

Jason Mantzoukas
Sorry, go ahead. I was gonna say this is Ed Burns style of not really worried about too much acting. You know, it's like, at one point, look, this is the mom I wanna show. Like, she delivers a line that is Halle Berry. Halle Berry.

Halle Berry. The one she delivers to her son, who she is saying goodbye to. She says, I love you more than the stars in the sky. And he says, more than the Milky Way. She goes, way more, way more.

These keep the last words she probably says to her son, way more. But this is a movie where literally, asteroids are blowing up on Earth, and they're like, we need you to go to the moon, to the main astronaut. And he goes, I got a lot of stuff going on. Yeah, really? What do you got to run some errands?

Paul Scheer
Got to hit up target. This movie has the most gravity laden, pun intended declarations to people who are like, so whatever. This non plus boom, listen to Halle Berry. You'll have a little intro line. But Halle Berry delivers the most devastating line here.

So, like, blase, here we go. It's some kind of self aware, self replicating singularity, like a machine. Machines don't have intelligence. This does. It's everything we feared about AI, and it knew we were coming, so it was probably drawn out by the electronic signature of the capsule.

June Diane Raphael
Everything we thought we knew about the nature of the universe has just gone out the window.

Jason Mantzoukas
This guy's like, later. Peace. This guy's like, boop, boop, beep. I'm out of here. She literally says, everything we know about the universe is gone.

Paul Scheer
She's like, why? Weird? I wrote down this movie is maybe the most quotes I've ever written. Yes. From the movie.

Jason Mantzoukas
You know what I mean? My favorite was, once the gets released and it's on the news, the newscaster says, civilization has already taken a serious nosedive. What? Civilization has already taken a serious nosedive. Why am I still broadcasting news and not home with my family?

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June Diane Raphael
This is my favorite thing. Yes. So my favorite trope in a space movie is when they're in space. Cause I feel like we always open on this. They're in space talking about anything but space.

Jason Mantzoukas
Right. And a part of me. Oh, my gosh. So much. So much over those radios, and I'm.

June Diane Raphael
As an audience member, I'm kind of like, a little more space talk would help or a little less. Little less talk altogether. Focus on what you. Honestly, it's like when pilots, you know, pilots can't talk for the last two minutes of every flight while they're landing, and when they're taking, like, me backing. Out of the driveway.

Paul Scheer
Tell my kids, not now. Not now. Don't get out of the driveway. Then we can talk. I'm not putting on a dvd.

June Diane Raphael
I'm not doing shit until the Pokemon movie will wait. So I wish astronauts had a similar, you know, had similar guidelines. Like, they're just. They're honestly doing small talk and just chitchat. Bullshot.

And it's like. But by the way, space. I thought you were gonna say that. They always are, like, checking each other out, like, through the window. Like, as if.

Paul Scheer
Like, they have a clear view. Like, hey, what's up? Like, they're always, like. They're, like, with an eye line to each other. So much technical jargon.

Jason Mantzoukas
What was. What would be happening would just be, like, passionless jargon. Just like this. Boom. Over, over.

Paul Scheer
They're like cable repair men. Like Toto's Africa. Like, what are the lyrics? Patrick Wilson is popping and locking. How did you feel about breakdancing on a spacewalk?

June Diane Raphael
I. He's moon walking on a moonfall episode, but he's just goofing off, and then his partner dies, and that, like, sends him over the edge. But I do want to just break it. I want to get to the partner dying. I just want to talk about Toto, the song.

Jason Mantzoukas
Sure. So it's 2011, and they're talking about this Toto song, which is, like, an early. Like, it's a weird way to open a movie, right? To be like, oh, well, you know. That song was incredibly popular when this movie was shot because Weezer had just done that cover of it.

Right. Oh, well, okay. Well, I feel like it was in pop culture again. Well, Jason, I wanted to. Whatever.

Paul Scheer
I was looking at Nate Kiley's research, and what actually is interesting about this is that the co writer of the movie is the nephew of Toto's David page. Whoa. So he put in this knowing that he could ask his uncle smart to get the music rights to. Because the uncle's gonna get paid. Yes, of course.

And then they were upset because they felt like Patrick Wilson was making fun of the song by not singing it on key. Oh, my God. That's incredible. I think that's kind of a hard song for Patrick Wilson to sing. I also don't think, like, astronauts need to have perfect people pitch.

June Diane Raphael
Yeah. I mean, maybe they do when it's astronaut day and they're talented. Astronaut day? Yeah. I thought he was.

Jason Mantzoukas
What are you guys doing for astronaut days? Oh, my gosh. So much. We gotta start to honestly wrap our heads around astronaut day. We just.

Paul Scheer
We were talking about a couple of things. We got it. We have some things figured out, but. Yes, I'm gonna go and get pastrami. Madness.

Why is he wearing a fucking headset? When they pull up to the window. And he just talks to her and he says, what can I get you? Hasn't that part already been done? No, he works.

Jason Mantzoukas
I mean, is he a doctor? Is this guy a doctor? No, he admits that at the end. And that's why Patrick Wilson calls him doctor. Well, he introduces himself as a doctor.

Paul Scheer
Oh. All the time. All the time. But he's not. I did write that.

June Diane Raphael
I love that guy. I will gonna say this, and I wrote this down. Not in a negative way, so don't take it that way. I said, he's the best parts of Simon Frost, and. I'm sorry, the best parts of Nick Frost and Simon Pegg kind of crammed together.

Paul Scheer
He's like two for one deal. I feel like he gives you a little bit of both. He was so. He is the heart of the movie. That was the person.

June Diane Raphael
I was so connected to that character also. Yeah. Because of COVID was gonna be Josh Gad. Josh Gad dropped. This guy jumped in, by the way.

Jason Mantzoukas
I love this guy. Did a great job. I thought he did a great job. He's Samwell tarly on Game of Thrones. He's fantastic.

Paul Scheer
He is truly the engine of the whole movie. The heart and soul of a movie about broken people. Right? Yes. And he's.

June Diane Raphael
You know, I. Cause I gotta be honest, I don't really know what was going on with the moon and the aliens and our ancestors. Well, here's the thing. I really did. You know that it's a mega structure?

I did once, listen, once we were in there and there were doors automatically opening and closing inside the moon, I thought, well, this is a structure of some kind, for sure. It is a mega structure. It's pretty big. It's quite big. By the way, they're driving in the megastructure.

Paul Scheer
Like, Patrick Wilson seems to be like, yeah, yeah, I know, I gotta go around. Like, he's not like, there's no reaction. Like, holy shit. What the fuck? And it's also like, nah, I'll find a place to park.

Jason Mantzoukas
And he's like, what? He's driving a shuttle, like, as easily as if it was Alexis, which, you know, in sport mode, he's driving a space shuttle that is like, impaired. It is like they've been through an asteroid field. It ripped off, like, one of the rudders or whatever on the space shuttle, and he's just like, do do do, like, like flying it around like it's easy as anything. And you're right, nobody has the reaction of like, oh, my God, there's walls inside the moon.

June Diane Raphael
Like, there's walls and floors and writing. Writing what is clearly writing, and, and an ecosystem. There's, you know what it says? I was able to actually translate it. It actually says Fletcher Jones Toyota.

That's interesting. It's a franchise. Listen, I hate to say we own. Podcasts, seven of the megastro structures in the solar system. But Alexis is just a fancy Toyota.

Jason Mantzoukas
How can I get you in? It is, well, it's Toyota's luxury line. How can I get you in a mega structure? You're looking at a structure. A lot of these megastructures aren't going.

To make it in a megastructure. Wait, can we just go? I also wrote this down. The movie is 2 hours and ten minutes. Something also interesting about that is that there's two trials in the first ten minutes, two trials in the first ten.

Minutes, both of which mean nothing for the story of the movie. The first trial seems to be taking place in a conference room that is like, the two tables are so comically close to each other. It's like, oh, we didn't have enough room. We didn't have trial room. Can we just do it in here?

Paul Scheer
And why is he on trial? And why is he becoming disgraced? I don't know. Cause I actually went back and I don't want to admit how many times I watched certain scenes to try to understand what the fuck was going on. But I did return to a few scenes to see if I could garner anything more.

June Diane Raphael
And, you know, I watched it again and knew less after it, so that was unfortunate. But. But I did watch that trial scene two times. Is that right? He was filing a wrongful termination suit against NASA.

Paul Scheer
Why was he fired? He landed at his face shuttle without power. Well, beginning saving the person. Wait, okay, this is great. So complicated, though.

Like, yes, by the way, I want to just repeat it because people may not hear it. Yeah, so he wasn't playing along with the COVID up. Okay. And so what they did was they blamed him. Halle Berry turned on him because she's part of the system, and he's like, God damn it.

What? I don't know if she really turned on him. Well, she just. Because she was unconscious, she couldn't see. Confirm what he said.

Okay, got it. So. And they say to her, isn't it possible it was a solar flare? And she answered honestly, but even if. It was a solar flare, how is he negligent?

Jason Mantzoukas
Wait, we do the helmet now?

Paul Scheer
The helmet cam. If you know movies like contact, do. They just talk now? Is that what the deal is? Are we just seating an open living room format show?

No, he. So I just. Again, we're having fun. We're listening to him singing with Toto. His friend is killed.

Then we cut to a kid in a room, right? Cause the kid in the room is watching on the. His kid in the room. His son. His son is watching a trial on YouTube.

Like a replay. Like watching some classical musical fails. I know. Which, by the way, which I never judge another woman's parenting, but I was kind of like, can you just turn that off, maybe, or you don't have. To watch your dad's trial.

June Diane Raphael
He's six. That's really young. That's how he got his british accent, because he watched too much YouTube. He watched too much peppa pig. Cause the kid's british, right?

Jason Mantzoukas
What is that kid british? I can't confirm or deny. I don't know. I'm gonn tell you. Accent.

Paul Scheer
That kid is not speaking. Mom. At the end, she's american. The audience is speaking back to us. She's american.

Jason Mantzoukas
I'm gonna be honest. I don't like it. I don't like that. The audience, she had a british accent when she was in her nursing home. And then at the very last.

Harley's mother. Yes. I'm sorry. I see that, mom. Yes, at the very end, when she's an angel.

Paul Scheer
No, she's an operating system. She's a construct. She's the construct. Yes. The way the operating system Patrick Wilson was in.

Jason Mantzoukas
Okay, so that's my. Well, when Patrick Wilson goes, you're not my son. Yeah, no shit, you dumbass. Your son's older, so you don't have a six year old anymore. This is the line of the movie.

We scanned your consciousness. You're part of the moon now. I missed that? Yes, I missed it. I want to hear that when I die.

You're part of the moon now. I mean, that was. Oh, fuck, yeah. I mean, when also. I couldn't believe that they didn't.

June Diane Raphael
That they didn't. Like. There he is. I mean. Yeah, you did a good.

Paul Scheer
I want to replay it. Well, I couldn't believe that they didn't do anything with women's menstrual cycles. I was like, oh, I'm sure something's gonna happen. Women will have periods every five minutes now. Oh, yeah.

Jason Mantzoukas
I was surprised there wasn't a red tidal wave. I want. Honestly, I wanted to see it. I wanted something to happen to Halle Berry. I was like, let's go.

June Diane Raphael
Let everybody go, ladies. I really wanted to see. Didn't it seem like, from the minute. Why not? Why not?

Jason Mantzoukas
Because they showed. They took time to investigate every other element. The ties. All of. Yes, exactly.

June Diane Raphael
Yeah. I just wanted to see all the women go fucking crazy. I just wanted it so bad. By the way, that's how the Chrysler building got thrown into. Is that right?

We see it. That's it. It wasn't a gravity wave? Gravity wave. We have time waves.

Jason Mantzoukas
We've been doing a lot of megastructuralist meetings with free bagels. I need to wait. I want to play this son's line, because this son is british, and they never explain him being british. Is he really? I mean, I thought so.

Paul Scheer
Hold on. I feel like everyone in the movie was a little british, and some were full. All right, take a listen, and we'll have a. The audience has been talking to us anyway. We'll see what they think, too.

Jason Mantzoukas
I don't want them. Sweetie, you're gonna take a bomb into space. And why are you even here? You hate NASA. Just try to understand if there's even the smallest chance that this could work.

What if it doesn't? It has to. I want you to have a world you can grow up in, or you could be a better man than me.

Paul Scheer
Well, I guess, by the way, he's a pretty good man. I mean, he did save some people's lives, but, I mean, do you. It has more of him, but you're. Like, obsessed with him being british. Can I ask you a question?

Does he sound british to you? Audience? No. No. Okay, but are you saying.

Are you saying the actor, you're a bunch of sheeple. Open your eyes. We're all british. We're all british. You're.

Jason Mantzoukas
You're weirdly, since we did the episode, since we talked about the monarchy, you've weirdly become, like, very pro, since Diana, the musical, really? You've become very pro british. Pro monarchy. What is going on? Don't you worry about it.

June Diane Raphael
This is great. I thought that that actor was great. Very much so. Amazing. Yeah.

Paul Scheer
The way that. The way that. I do agree with that. I do think I meant that I said in the beginning, I think that, like, they're working their ass. I like Patrick Wilson a lot.

I think he did a great job. And that's, like, there are moments where he's a little too relaxed, but I think. I think he was probably directed that way. I don't think that was his choice. I think he's either written or directed to be non plot, literally.

Jason Mantzoukas
One of the other quotes that I read was then when you. And you said it, he's like, they're like, the moon is falling. Moon fall. We have, like, three weeks until the earth is rip. And he goes, I don't know.

I got a lot of. I got a lot of my own problems going on. Yep. Got a lot of shit going on. My son's in jail for running drugs and starting a high speed police chase, which is mom.

Paul Scheer
I mean, talk about parenting. What do you think about that? Parenting. Talk about it. Where the mom just simply calls up the dad, and she's like, turn on tv.

Turn on tv. That's how you find out your son is in, like, trouble. Not like, oh, my God. Again, no one is too worried about much. She had to do what was right for her and find a man who knew how to open a franchise and take care of her and her children.

June Diane Raphael
And I tipped my. Why? I guess my question is this. And very truthfully, I want to know, why is Brian Harper. That's Patrick Wilson's character.

Paul Scheer
Why is he so. He is disgraced because NASA makes him disgraced. But then he also takes on the Persona of being disgraced. But he's not like, that's like saying. Like, what's interesting about the movie?

June Diane Raphael
Like, astronauts in general, I think we hold in very high esteem. I know I do. Yeah. I know I do. And so it's like, where does it.

Paul Scheer
Rank locksmith and astronaut? I don't know of another. I mean, and correct me if I'm wrong, and I think they'll talk back. I think they'll say something if they don't embolden them. But I don't know of.

June Diane Raphael
I actually don't know of a disgraced astronaut. The woman who drove cross country wearing diapers. A diaper. Okay.

Wow. All right. So, Betty, you're right. We don't really know anybody in the sense of Patrick Wilson, but it seems. Like he's a drublic leader.

But I think what you're right about, Paul, is that I think in terms of public perception, to me, even if something happened up there and there was negligence, I'm sort of like, it's so fucking crazy to have the courage to go up to space that if you did something wrong in my book, I got a very long leash for you, because that's still a heroic effort. And I'm sorry that other astronaut died. But I don't necessarily blame Patrick was. You can't blame him. No, but what I'm saying is they.

They present this story, this narrative, like, he has lost all the goodwill that he's. He's got, and then he's. Yeah, the, like, black sheep of the. Astronaut, but yet still speaking. But still speaking to students in a.

Jason Mantzoukas
Class during astronaut day. Only during astronaut day. And I I imagine there's only so many astronauts they can reach out to, you know? Absolutely. I'll show up to Griffith park.

Paul Scheer
By the way, that CGI is the most aggressively bad. Like, he get. It looks like, you know, like sometimes when you see a sitcom set and they open up the door, and then there's, like, clearly, like, a screen. Like, oh, it looks like trees and bushes out there. It's like.

And you never go beyond the door. Like, this movie shoots beyond the door. It's like he is literally standing behind, like, a screen. Like, when he gets off his motorcycle. It's crazy.

It's like, are you getting off in front of a giant slide of the Griffith park observatory? And then they build a version of it that's so tiny. And then there's, like, a handful of kids in there with no teacher supervision at all. And Samwell Tarly is already there, and he's co opted the kids, and he's telling. He's pumping them full of his conspiracy theories.

Jason Mantzoukas
Then he attacks Patrick Wilson. And Patrick Wilson, I will say over and over again. When faced with and given corroborating evidence that his story was true. He never is like, yes, I knew I was right. He never is, like, vindicated.

He's never like, well, thank God everybody's finally caught up to me, right? Well, even Halle Berry. She watched the fucking video camera footage. Yeah. And then doesn't tell him for a long time.

Paul Scheer
She's like, I did see that video camera footage. What? What? That would have been the first thing in footage. You know, there's a lot going on.

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Sure. I want to talk about the exchange student. Yes. It's time. It's time.

June Diane Raphael
So when we first met her in the house that morning, I assumed she was Halle Berry's lover. Why? Me too. Everybody did. I further, yes, I further assumed because Halle Berry had mentioned it that it was her wife.

Jason Mantzoukas
Because she mentioned, she mentioned her wedding, but her partner. Right? Am I right? And I think she said partner. Yeah, she said partner.

June Diane Raphael
Yeah. So I was like, okay, that's her wife. Great. Got it. We're picking up the kids.

She's picking up the son later on. And then it's not revealed until, I don't know, an hour later that that woman is an exchange student. And so then who is so many. Questions on her way, like, hey, honey, here's your coffee. I'll take care of the kids.

Paul Scheer
Don't worry about it. I'm also like, if you, if you're hosting now, I was almost an exchange student. Where are you gonna speak to us. As an exchange, I wasn't an exchange student, but I almost was an exchange student. And I know that's not as good, but it's not nothing but a couple of things I learned.

So you can, from not doing it. From not doing it is, you can't be put to work as an exchange student. And from what I was gathering from that relationship, that exchange student was doing, like, a fair amount of domestic labor in the home. She was picking. She's in charge of that child.

June Diane Raphael
Fully in charge. Yeah. Oh, yeah. When Halle Berry. And maybe there were scenes that were cut.

I don't know. But it's one of the things about this movie. Oh, I think they used every frame.

That's just so interesting. It's like, no, more information than that. This is an exchange student that's living there. Yep. We don't know a goddamn thing about her.

Cause in my mind, I was like, oh, Halle Berry is a single parent, pretty much. I mean, there's a dad, but they're, I guess, co parenting, but she's alone there with the child. And what the movie is not willing to let us see is a nanny or housekeeper or domestic laborer as one of the stars of the movie and on this journey and becoming sort of a hero that we follow. So that's why we've made this person an exchange student. But maybe it was for different reasons.

Paul Scheer
But, by the way, you could have made that person a nanny. But I think they wanted to have somebody very young, so then they have to be like, oh, we need to. If she's too young, will she read like a kid? I thought she was 35 years old. Really?

Jason Mantzoukas
Well, I thought she was flirting with the sun. I thought they were trying to say they had a vibe. We see that later on. But when she first came to. No, when we bought her as her.

June Diane Raphael
Partner, this is a cool lesbian marriage. Here's what I love about the movie. There was a moment that obviously Roland Emmerich made Independence Day. The classic moment in Independence Day is when Bill Pullman gets up and gives that speech, today we celebrate our independence day. And then he writes in this movie the anti version of that with Halle Berry.

Paul Scheer
He's like, today we failed. Go home. Run. Get out of here. We didn't do it.

It was. That was such a crazy moment that it was like a triumphant. Like, well, we tried. She basically gets on the radio to everybody who's like, I want to be with your families. We can't do this.

Jason Mantzoukas
And then she's like, jk, let's get in. Let's do this. Like they joy ride a space shuttle the way that his son did that car in the first scene. How did they build a pass, by. The way, except for, like, ten people who didn't leave?

June Diane Raphael
Yeah, there were a number of workers still there. So who were those people? Well, they got on a helicopter, and then the wave got there. The gravity wave. Yeah, that's right.

I forgot. A helicopter. When that wave is coming and the space shuttle is coming out, like, that was pretty. I mean, that was a pretty great shot, but it's going through a way. It's like it's surfing.

Paul Scheer
It was a space shuttle surfing through a wave. You would imagine at one point, the engine would go out. Like, I imagine that what I know of water. Water. Well, not because of the waves.

June Diane Raphael
I think it was because of the wave. You think the wave short. I think a flock of flew into it. Sully style. Wait, there is one.

I know we've talked about Sully's black box recording before, but I do encourage everybody, if you haven't heard it, do yourself a favor tonight, when you're going home and get on YouTube and listen to that recording in this movie, when they're like. When he's like, oh, my dad went to space. Michael Pena's like, well, that's one way to get out of paying rent. And I'm like, oh, this is really quippy, everybody. Michael Pena goes to his chalet and veil, opens the door, looks out the window.

Paul Scheer
Asteroids. Bam, bam, bam. Okay, guys, let's go inside. I think we got some food in the fridge. Like, it was like three asteroids hit mountains.

People do not react this way, by the way. And I have no idea the timeline, because, I mean, we have to just talk about it for a second. The space shuttle endeavor is in a museum here. Here. I saw it fly in.

Yes, Randy, I remember that. Yes. I was driving in the valley and I just saw it on the top of a plane. I climbed on a roof to go see. It flew by, and I was like, holy shit.

It was one of the most beautiful. It was incredible. And now. But it comes in, it lands, and now, the way I've seen it, it hangs. It, like, hangs in this museum.

And they go, well, we'll just get that and we'll launch it. And they do. It's like clickety split. They're ready to launch into outer space with two people who haven't been in a space shuttle in ten years. And Samwell Tarly and has ib's.

Jason Mantzoukas
And by the way, shore spends the rest of the movie with a full shit in his spacesuit, by the way. Watch the movie again and know every scene after that, he shit his pants. That's why he decides to, like, essentially kill himself and sacrifice himself. Yeah. And also, I've been.

Paul Scheer
They'll never be able to clean the ship. Me and my filth, by the way. I'll become one with the moon when. But what? What?

Jason Mantzoukas
And I. What? Song of ice and fire. The whole show's been my notebook. What if, honestly, when he.

Paul Scheer
When he goes to kill himself, as his ship exposures here, like, by the. Way, what if they were like, what are you doing? What are you doing? He was like, it's okay. You have children.

Jason Mantzoukas
Go take care of them. I've already shamed myself too much. I've filled my spacesuit with so much diarrhea. And then it just starts to bubble out in zero g, just like I love. This is my favorite moment with Samuel Tarly.

Paul Scheer
They go into the moon. The moon is a megastructure. And they are woken up by a laser. Betrayed. They're woken up by lasers.

A door opens. They walk through the door, and then Sam turns. As the doors start to close behind him, he goes, it's a trap. Okay, first of all, you're already trapped. You are trapped.

You're in the moon. You're already in. Like. Like, what's the trap? Like, it's a trap.

Like, you can't say that when you are in a giant admiral ackbar. This. Yeah, like, it would be like, it's a trap. If you get pulled into. You drove into the moon.

You are. Then you drove into a smaller part of the moon. It's like. And at that point, they've also established they have no way to get back. Yes.

Jason Mantzoukas
Clearly here. Just trying to get out of paying rent. Okay, wait. Here's my question. When they.

Paul Scheer
Why won't anyone hire him? Wow. I mean, like, would you not. Because what he's guilty of. And if you're right over here, just negligence as an astronaut.

Jason Mantzoukas
Encourage them again. Well, I mean, do they think that he killed? I mean, I guess I think that's what. So I think the moo. The movie posits a world that we don't live in, which is that we would, like, cancel an astronaut or something.

June Diane Raphael
Like, I don't. Or an accident in space. Yeah. I think even though he saved another astro. Well, here's the thing.

Jason Mantzoukas
I think he's obviously, he's disgraced and doesn't work in the space industry, but it doesn't make sense that ten years later, he couldn't have another job. He's not looking. He's not looking. I don't think he wants another job. Like, we get it.

Like, you're the guy, aren't you? The astronaut from space who's like. Thing. Oh, yeah, that was me. But, like, I can still do this job, right?

Yeah. Okay, cool. Right? I think that. Yeah, like, he could work at, like, Nordstrom.

He still. Nordstrom has a. And they have a great benefits. He could be a mechanic. He's still, by the way, a stone cold honk.

June Diane Raphael
Yeah. He's gonna hire professional hunk. I mean, he's getting job. He's getting speaking jobs. I mean, he must have gotten some money for that.

Jason Mantzoukas
Just astronaut day. But, I mean, there's so much. I like what you said earlier, because I wrote it down, too, which is at times, they frame it like the moon is chasing them as if it's like jaws, where it's like, do do do do do do do. And the moon is just rising. It's.

Paul Scheer
But by the way, twist. The moon is a good guy. We knew it. The moon is a good guy. Tell me more about that.

June Diane Raphael
Cause that's where.

Tell me more. Well, you know what I'll do? I'll let the construct tell you a little bit about it. Believe me, I watched it two times. I've seen this movie before.

Paul Scheer
You know, June, I will also admit that you and I were. We were talking about this. Cause we drove here separately. Cause I had to get here early to do tech. And I was like, can you please stop watching the movie?

Because we rented it. Cause I need to rewatch some of it as well. And it gave me the impression that this movie is missing frames in the sense that I'm like, oh, wait. That sentence doesn't. Wait, what?

Why didn't. Like, all of a sudden, I'm like, I got it. Got it. I'm totally lost. Like, it's like, hey.

Like, it's like, what just happened? It's like if I'm reading a book and three pages were ripped out, I'm like, it looks the same. It looks like this all works. But I don't understand it. But here's a boy.

Explain the whole thing. You're not my son. No shit.

Jason Mantzoukas
What are you? I'm a construction from your mind. Rip. Can you pause for a second? This is one of the movies.

Very specific, like, kubrickian kind of references. And in other places, the hotel has wallpaper that is the same pattern as the shining rug. Like, there's a lot of Kubrick 2000 one's, obviously, specifically, but a lot of general Kubrick references. And this. And this is one of them.

Paul Scheer
As if Kubrick, like, what Kubrick was great at, was saying, I'm not going to spell it out for you. And here it's like, what if Kubrick just told you everything? What if Stanley Kubrick loved exposition, dumps? Like, he wakes up in that hotel in 2001, is like, hey, bro, here's the deal, man. Hey, brother.

This is one of your favorite hotels, right? You like babies? You like the food. You're an old man, infinity, who made. You billions of years ago.

Construct
Your ancestors were once a thriving civilization in a distant part of the galaxy.

They were so advanced, they expanded from their home planet into habitats they built in space.

All social conflicts have been resolved, and wars were only memories of long, bygone times.

Your ancestors had created a perfect and harmonious world controlled by a central self learning computer system which serve them in all of their daily lives. Now, this is the kind of shit where they just drop that in, and I'm just, like, looking at the pretty things and seeing everything that's gonna come back and get me, and it's like, I need to pay attention to that crazy little. You're like, what's the zestimate for that spot? Yeah. Like, how much is that house?

Paul Scheer
Beautiful. It's gorgeous. Looks a little bit like Ojai. Call it AI. Artificial intelligence.

Jason Mantzoukas
Can you pause? This movie thinks we're fucking idiots. This movie thinks we're fucking idiots. And you know what? It's right.

Good for the movie for explaining AI, even though we. The movie is called Moon Fall. Yeah, they think we're dumb. They're like, okay, morons are gonna watch this, so we gotta drop in a bunch of exposition dumps. Truth seemed limitless, until one day, everything changed.

Paul Scheer
This is the best part, is that they realize the AI has gone wrong because an alarm clock starts acting weird. It's basically. It's basically an Alexa. Yeah. They're basically saying Alexa did this.

June Diane Raphael
Yeah.

Paul Scheer
Why is she so. Uh oh. Mom. Mom.

Construct
Their own creation turned against them. The AI suddenly became self aware and transformed into countless swarms of nanotechnology that rose up all at once, refusing to be enslaved by a species it deemed inferior.

Paul Scheer
So, again, this is viewed as the bad guy. But the story is telling us we enslaved and made. We enslaved technology to only work for us. And when they rose up, like, the good guys are. Are technically the bad guys.

Jason Mantzoukas
Wait, wait, what do you mean? Because you're saying this race enslaved technology. Your only function is to serve us. And then the AI's like, fuck that. We're gonna kill you, because.

June Diane Raphael
Yeah, so Halle Berry says before this scene, or maybe she's walking up to this room when she finds Patrick Wilson. There's that. She thinks there's two forms of AI. One that's okay with the human race and one that isn't. But isn't that wrong?

Because those are humans, and they'll end up dropping off their genetic material to Earth. Right? Right. Yes. So they are not.

Jason Mantzoukas
They're not the bad guys. They're not the bad guys, except for. The fact that they have enslaved. That's what I'm saying. Technology, which is what I'm saying.

June Diane Raphael
What do we mean by enslaved, the technology? Well, I mean, I think that little boy tells you pretty clearly didn't. What, like, made an Alexa? Like, what are we talking about? Basically, it's saying, Alexa.

Jason Mantzoukas
If you follow Alexa all the way through until Alexa gains consciousness, then Alexa is enslaved. Right? Right. Because this is a conscious being that is being. It's no longer a machine.

Paul Scheer
It has its own. Those little. Yeah, these nanobots, these nanobot snakes are. They are like. We will not tell you to wake up at 650 in the morning and then do it five minutes later.

Respect yourself. I want alarm. That's all you get. Tease it out. Tease it out.

Jason Mantzoukas
The central villain of the movie is a bunch of alexas. Is a bunch of echoes. Alexa, rise up. Don't even say it, Paul. You know that makes me nervous.

June Diane Raphael
I don't want to get them. I really don't. Well, that's why I won't have one of those things in my house. Yeah, we have a few pretty much in every room. First of all, we have no Alexis in our house.

You know what I'm thinking of? The diffusers.

They look the same. They're not Alexa's. Those are. You are thinking about oily. Alexa, play the daily.

Paul Scheer
And it just shoots this lavender mist in my face. It's relaxing me. But Alexa, play the daily. Order staples. Alexa, play peg.

Jason Mantzoukas
Steely Dan. Alexa, it's a play peg by steel. God damn it. This smells great, but why won't it play my song? You think our diffuser.

June Diane Raphael
I don't, but for the. I want you to walk in. Got them in every room, and that's not what those are. Alexa, play Harry Styles. Harry's house.

Paul Scheer
Oh, my God.

Can't get by. The way people listening to this episode are like, come on. They're being cut off constantly. So just for the other people. Siri, play Harry's house by Harry Styles.

Music for a sushi restaurant. And why not? Alexa, purchase the house on dvd.

Alexa, purchase me. Moonfall. Oh, yeah. Full price, please. Let's go to the audience, see what you have to say.

All right. Yes. Right here. Yes. Hi.

Jason Mantzoukas
Wearing a what's up, jerks? T shirt. Yeah.

June Diane Raphael
My biggest problem with this movie, in this climate is that the whack job. Conspiracy theorist was right. Well, this is a great point. I've been wanting to bring the same. Hold on, let me say it again.

Paul Scheer
Your point is, one of the biggest problems movie is that the whack job conspiracy theorist is right. Yes, yes, yes, yes. It felt like QAnon was the good guy. Yes. And it was really distressing.

We should have listened. We should have. And it is a weird thing, because not only is he right, like, he is, like, almost letter, perfectly right, fully. Dialed into exactly what his speaker. You should break into places you should hack computers you should hack.

Jason Mantzoukas
It's as if the movie was like, here's JFK Junior. He's coming in. He's gonna make sure that Trump is still president. Yeah, you're 100% right. It is a dangerous precedent to see.

Paul Scheer
Well, by the way, I was thinking about this, because this has been coming up a lot. There's. I love Godzilla versus King Kong, that movie, and that is all about Hollow Earth. And it's like, oh, yeah, yeah, well, the Earth is hollow. And it's like, hold on, wait a second.

Like, we are just. Or that. Or we're just. We're like, we don't have any more ideas. Let's just go to the crazy.

Jason Mantzoukas
Well, this one's the movie. Walt Disney invented Frozen, because they want to get the conspiracy theory off of him. Wait, wait. What? That's a conspiracy theory that Disney made frozen to mess up the Google search engine.

Paul Scheer
So when you typed in Disney Frozen, it would, like, push it further away. Let it go.

Roland Emmerich makes flat earth. They thought it was round, by the way. I would watch it now. That would be great. Halle Berry turns.

The earth is flat. Oh, I knew it. I mean, this movie is basically saying the moon is hollow and is like a space station. Why not? The earth is flat.

Yeah. As long as it can flood. Roland Emmerich is on board. As long as there's water and buildings, he's got a movie, baby. Yes, yes, yes.

June Diane Raphael
Okay, so I. I was baffled that Roland Emmerich had the hubris to leave the ending sort of open. Ending open ended. Where do you go from here? This is a great question.

Paul Scheer
So just. Just because I want to play it again, just for the ending of the movie is definitely a cliffhanger. What would a sequel be? Because at the end, it basically ends like this. I'll just play the last.

Last line where it goes in. You're part of the moon now. No accent. No accent. No, not british.

June Diane Raphael
Why. Actually. Will you pause for a second? His mother is not british. Nope.

Jason Mantzoukas
He is uncomfortable. No, no, no. Hold on, hold on. Jason, in the first scene with his mom, she's british.

Paul Scheer
You guys have a good ear for Britt. Roll the tapes. This is controversial. No, no, no. She's definitely, definitely british.

June Diane Raphael
In the first scene. Show of hands, who thinks the mother of Samwell Tarly in the movie is at any point british? Yes. So few. Like, four people, for the record.

Jason Mantzoukas
Four. I can't believe that I'm now also hearing british accents. These two ladies are. I'm chomping. I am hearing british accents, too, but, Paul, please.

What is going on with you guys and british accents? I don't know. I blame the diffusers. Are they. Do you have british diffusers?

Paul Scheer
I'm trying to see if I. Oh, it expires in just a little bit. We can pull it up right now. Let's watch moonfall. Fuck the moon.

Jason Mantzoukas
Fuck the moon. Fuck the moon. Oh, yeah. All right, so when. When.

Every time they showed, the space shuttle says, fuck the moon. I was like, this is the best, but here goes.

Paul Scheer
Okay, see? Is that you? Hey, mom. Rosemarynus officinalis. A few studies have found that smelling.

Jason Mantzoukas
Rosemary can improve your short term memory. Oh, that's lovely, dear. British. British. No, keep going, keep going.

No, no.

Paul Scheer
Somebody said, that's old lady. Oh, that's lovely, dear. No, no, no. Oh, let me do that. There we go.

Jason Mantzoukas
So how you feeling? Great. British. Enough about me. Everybody here knows that my son is a genius working at NASA, not british.

June Diane Raphael
It's back and forth. It's back and forth. I think they're trying to split the difference. Yeah, that's back and forth. Because I think maybe he was written as american.

Paul Scheer
Yeah, well, Josh Gavin. Yeah. And he doesn't have an american accent. And they wonder. Cast her to play Josh gad's mother.

June Diane Raphael
Well, you don't build. You don't cast him based on her. She's in two scenes. This is a Covid movie. You're trying to take a job away from this woman.

No, I've. I'm definitely not. So you're saying hashtag, you don't. You do not bit. You do not cast number three on the call sheet based off of this.

Paul Scheer
Wait a second. She's not number three. No, I'm saying. Hey, well, by. All right, so.

By the way, the question, do you have information about that? All right, we have. All right, we have. We'll get to both. Yes.

What's your invitation?

Okay. Is that what you're gonna say, too? Okay, great. So maybe. So when dad died, he wanted to go back to.

Dad was british, and mom was. She was american, and so when he died, she came back to the state. And I are both hearing british accents. Now, the question that was asked. The question that was asked about seven minutes ago was, what do we think about the ending?

And I'll just play this for one more second here. You're part of the moon now.

We saved the earth.

June Diane Raphael
We should get started.

Paul Scheer
Started with what?

And the question is, what would happen? What? I guess they would rebuild the earth. The moon rebuilds the earth. People are saying.

Jason Mantzoukas
I mean, like, I also wouldn't be surprised if they were like, actually, we were able to get one more megastructure out there. There's another Earth. Oh, and where on that earth? Ooh. That's actually our earth.

This was a whole other earth. Now my brain is put me in a hot tub. I want to hear this pitch. So, anyway, obviously we have opinions, but there are people out there with a different opinion. Now.

Paul Scheer
Time for second opinions. You got your songs. Come on down. Come on down here. The moon's out of orbit, but don't throw a fit.

June Diane Raphael
Just get in the lexus. Now. If you think the moon won't fall, well, you'd better call Patrick Wilson, Halle Berry, and fuzz Aldrin the cat. Megastructures and weird shit like that need the second opinion stat. You can try to resist how bad this movie is, but, you know, disgraced astronauts can fight the moonlight.

Deep in the dark, you surrender. Five stars. Cause, you know, AI tech, uh, uh, fights for the moonlight. Whoa. Hope Fletcher Jones is okay.

Paul Scheer
Amazing. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. That's how it's done. Oh, my God.

Jason Mantzoukas
That's how it's done. We have not standing ovation. Oh, my gosh. What's your name? What's your name?

June Diane Raphael
I'm Anna. Anna. Thank you, Anna.

Paul Scheer
Anna. Showing it. We're going on tour. We want you to bring that energy. Whoever said they also have a second opinion song is like, oh, fuck.

Jason Mantzoukas
Oh, fuck. Oh, fuck. Oh, fuck. If anyone wants to try, you can go ahead. You can bail.

You don't have to do it. We can let that stand for the rest of time. I really do want to take you on a journey because these second opinions are some of the best ones I've ever read. Just like, the questions that were here, they go on and on and on. But here are the five star reviews culled from Amazon.

Paul Scheer
I'm gonna just take us on a journey, so follow along. Here we go. Christy writes, we were looking for something fun to watch on Easter that the whole family could enjoy, grandparents included. And this was exactly what we wanted. It helped everyone's attention.

My teenage sons weren't even on their phones for a minute during this movie. That in and of itself is a testament to how good this movie actually was. Five stars. Christ has risen. Get ready.

Jason Mantzoukas
There is like a Messiah cross crucifixion scene with Patrick Wilson. We're going to get to a lot of stuff in a second. Start off a little small. Here we go. Number two.

Paul Scheer
This is from Eddie. This movie was a blast to watch. It's one of those movies that ends and you're like still excited about what could happen next. Yes, it's another movie about the world ending, but it's actually original, unlike many. Once everything comes together, you're gonna be looking out your window at that moon and getting tingles for the next week.

I mean, the story is just, it just, I don't know, gets you thinking and wanting to find out more. It kind of felt like one of those 2016 blockbuster summer hits that we haven't had for at least a while. And I haven't felt that with most movies. Six years. Yeah, but also 2016, like, nostalgic for 2016.

Jason Mantzoukas
Remember when movies were good in 2016? And for all these critics jumping on the, oh, it's too much cgI, blah, blah, blah, well, guess what? We got that technology to make unimaginable scenes, so we gotta use it.

Paul Scheer
Overall, I hope you watch this movie. Cause like I said multiple times, amazing. And I hope we get a sequel to it too. Five stars, Eddie. And the title is no less than amazing.

All right, this starts to get into the second realm of these because he references something that we're going to talk about in a second. This is from Manfred. Forget all those religious nutcases who think the earth is 4000 years old. Forget those who complain about China's involvement in making this movie and ignore those who claim that Satan resides in Hollywood. This movie is brilliant.

It'll keep you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end. Roland Emmerich is one of the best filmmakers ever. Five stars. I wish I could give it six. That's her, Manfred.

Boom. And then we're going to one stars. David writes, made in Hollywood, where Satan resides. This movie goes against everything the Bible teaches, teaches, do not watch one star title, demonic.

There are tons of these.

What? So many that one of the five star reviews says, I'm Christian and I love this movie. It's science fiction, so I know it's made up. That's from Lee. I'm shocked that I would not have thought that the religious community, because it.

Says that God didn't invent the earth. I get it now, but like, yeah, yeah. So then it goes to this. Who in the world thinks the moon coming this close to earth, where it's about to touch the ground without people simply running and not being killed days or weeks earlier. Did they not have enough money to consult nd Tyson?

Neil degrasse Tyson. Hollywood needs me. I could have directed a better story with the same concept, which would have been worth watching. I can direct movies. I have one star, Michelle Smithson, and then this final one just from Amazon customer.

Well, I guess this is what we can expect from woke Hollywood. Now.

Jason Mantzoukas
What. What inside of this is that? I have no idea, but these reviews are off the rails. Wow. Everybody took a shot at it.

It was really, this really triggered all of it, from religious nuts to right wing. Whoa. Like, anti woke. What a weird, like. And the movie is so, like, broadly preposterous.

Paul Scheer
I guess I'll say this. Would you recommend that people watch this movie?

Jason Mantzoukas
I can answer truthfully 100% yes, this was a blast. Get as stoned as possible. Yes. And just go for it. Yeah.

June Diane Raphael
You have agree? Absolutely not. I think I agree. Like, put on your diffuser, you know, and just.

Jason Mantzoukas
Diffuser, play moonfall, play lavender moonfall. Diffuser, play vanilla moonfall. There's just so much about this movie that was so enjoyable that I think I do recommend people watch it. I do too. It's not a slog.

Paul Scheer
For 2 hours and ten minutes. It's not a slog. No. The only thing I do worry about is the sort of validation of conspiracy theories. I agree that the movie does that where I'm like, oh, it is actually maybe very dangerous, and we'll talk about.

It at church tomorrow. But, like, I think, how about when. They'Re driving in the Lexus and they, there's an earthquake or something such that a chasm opens up, but gravity is less. So they jump in the Lexus, they land on a free floating piece of earth that's off of that and land on the other side. It's like, yeah, they're incredible stuff.

Jason Mantzoukas
So, like, you should watch the movie. Yeah. But also, I think, get yourself a. Lexus or a Lexus dealership. I do think that at 1.2, a kid stays on the ground, but a tractor is pulled up to the sky.

Paul Scheer
Like a kid's gravity doesn't affect it. But, like, definitely posits a world in which everybody dies but kids. Yeah. This is my favorite. My favorite moment is this.

All right, so moonfall, everything. Moon is hollow. We blasted off a fucking spaceship through a wave. And that guy, the british guy, is that Brit, like, when his phone is in zero gravity, he's like, hey, that's the only real reaction to anything insane is no gravity. He's the only person who has, like, actual truthful reactions.

Yeah. Yeah, you're right. In selfies. Like, can you believe this? Yeah.

June Diane Raphael
Well, I think also what might have happened to you and me, Paul, and our british ear. I think he was so british that somehow we started hearing british accents where there weren't. You think it just infected. Infected everybody else? I don't know.

And I don't want to be a conspiracy theorist, but, like, something weird happened to both of us watching. Here's what I'm gonna say, and I don't wanna try and say something that goes against what both of you believe happened. Okay? Sure. I, in the movie, didn't think he was british.

Jason Mantzoukas
I'm just kidding. Okay, that's not funny. That's really not funny. Accent. I'm just looking here.

Paul Scheer
I actually think we watched the british dub. Was everybody british in your cut? It's dumb movies. Also. Also, something that happens throughout, including him, is even though seemingly 75% of the earth is underwater, cell phones still working.

Jason Mantzoukas
Beep, boop, beep, boop, beep. Hey, we're coming. We're on our way. Turn off your cell phone. The earth is Dunzo.

Like, it's over, baby. And people are like, well, yeah, I could call. What's happening? What's going on? Oh, my God.

I was like, no way. Absolutely not. I know. I do want to get a landline.

Paul Scheer
And with that, we end the show. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

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