The Bad Alien Films & Blade Runner 2049 - The Weekly Planet Podcast

[@emilybeyersdorf4817]

The dog's name is Ollie? ANOTHER REVELATION

[@kendricklamar6480]

Emily Beyersdorf were learning little by little about James constantly. One day we'll realise he's a woman. Or not Australian!!

[@jimjohn6145]

It feels like the dog has been on so much shows now that it must be treated as a full-on member of the show

[@OrphanHart]

Jim John it should be in the Weekly Planet art between Goat Man and Thanos

[@yesnomaybe3443]

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[@danielmontiel7191]

As a father I really enjoyed this episode. Thanks goatman!

[@kenthehobo]

Wait! The dog's name isn't 'Dog'?!

[@gooterhagen1760]

Dr. Strange had a good third act. The first parts were bland origin film type stuff, but the third act time-twisting dark dimension time-loop bit was pretty cool.

[@blyzer7373]

@@ThreadBomb Nah "3rd" act of BvS was pure garbage. Absolutely the worst part of that movie. Just a boring, cgi mess.

[@thedashboard9562]

Why did Weylon have to pretend he was dead? It exists only as a twist for the audience, but narratively it makes *no sense.*

[@quasarone3083]

Dogs name confirmed

[@gooterhagen1760]

Agents of SHIELD was good this season, and hopefully keeps up the 2-3 "unique" story arcs per season outine. The Ghost Rider bit was cool, the LMD stuff in the middle was ok...but it led into the Hydra/Matrix thing which was honestly pretty cool too. They did the "Hydra is running things and the world is messed up" thing that the comics are doing, only better...their version of Captain America (The Patriot) was still punching Nazis, and they were spoofing the fact that America is essentially a Hydra/Nazi/Matrix simulation now. I liked the shade they were throwing.

[@JimmyGoodYT]

Ah, Mondays are so much better thanks to this show! Thanks guys!

[@liamreeves344]

yeah star trek 3, when christopher lloyd falls into that lava pit, good shit

[@amari8439]

To me, the last 3 guests have sounded exactly the same lol

[@BobbyReichle]

If you haven't seen Jodorowsky's Dune, it explains a lot of where the Geiger concepts for Alien came from. A lot of the work was done for another purpose and the more they mine it, the narrower it becomes and the further away from its original intent it is. Also a worthwhile watch with Villeneuve's Dune on the horizon.

[@BobbyReichle]

Not a bad reco. I think Lynch's Dune is much better when you understand the history of the movie.

[@RyanLittrell111]

I'm just surprised that Australians call soccer "soccer" and not football like the rest of the world. I thought that was just an American thing.

[@joshwebb6704]

Ryan Littrell Do you mean they call football "soccer" and not football like the people who invented it

[@radioactiveowl95]

Australia has it's own version of football

[@OrphanHart]

because the rest of the world is wrong 😜

[@RyanLittrell111]

Josh Webb Um yes obviously.

[@keitheager6023]

I think they have Aussie rules football, similar to rugby.

[@hegmonster]

1:14:40 Good point, but God bless Brad Dourif for playing so many memorable crazy persons!

[@troysmith1508]

I believe that Alien comic is called Alien Salvation. Mike Mignola does the art work. It is really good

[@OrphanHart]

My professor told me I should be listening to some educational podcasts to help stimulate my mind in order to improve on my academics. I told them I was, it's called The Weekly Planet.... bitch.

[@MikeSandersonVideos]

Your guest knows his Alien movies. Alien, the first, has always been the best

[@vsauce4678]

The official dog cast

[@jamesschaefer11]

It...The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) was the template for Alien.

[@MattMcloughlin]

Isn't the person who breaks through the wall chasing Ford and his dog, Gosling? Looks like his outfit

[@gooterhagen1760]

American Gods isn't a pale imitation. It has been very faithful to the book so far, and is insanely well shot...the visuals are incredible. Ian McShane, Gillian Anderson and Peter Stormare as Mr. Wednesday, Media and Czernobog are all perfectly cast. It's crazy good.

[@CrapAt0ItsBest]

i fucking love that dog already

[@ProjectRedfoot]

The VVitch is awesome and that actress is BRILLIANT

[@AngryGoats555]

Fox has a bad habit of getting super involved in their films and it always ends up coming back to bite them in the rear

[@sirtoby4939]

... Huh? Fox has a pretty high hit-to-fail ratio. There's a reason James blanked when he was doing the rundown "for every good one there's a bad one" after he mentioned Logan. Truth is: Most of the X-men movies are good. Now FF4... Well, that's a different story for different reasons.

[@AngryGoats555]

SirToby F4 was bad because if studio involvement. Need I say more?

[@marknc7546]

SirToby xmen movies are pretty shit tbh

[@sirtoby4939]

AngryGoats555 FF4 Was bad regardless of studio interference. Sure they made it worse. But Tranks movie was barely watchable before that.

[@sirtoby4939]

Nerd NC You're welcome to be wrong.

[@skilledwarman]

Idk what breed of dog Olly is, but I imagine a big goofy golden retriever

[@emilybeyersdorf4817]

skilledwarman levins posted a picture of him on his Twitter. he's a little black dog with pointy ears

[@skilledwarman]

I want him

[@cruxtymusic]

I live for this podcast

[@Dylbot2099]

I think the Goose is a rep, you see him running through a wall to save Deckard!

[@babywolf4238]

If they do a Dredd TV series, then they need to get the people behind Dredd 2012.

[@JCResDoc94]

1:44:00 its not in Scarlett witch's head in film continuity and shes alive just fine

[@LegendMkr7]

In college I did 60 shots of beer in 60 minutes and I was super tossed. It is a lot harder than you think and I can't imagine doing 40 more on top of that.

[@estaisthebesta1836]

I gotta admit when the covenant crew landed on the surface, I thought Kong was gonna come walking around the side of the mountain.

[@latina_fangirl]

The wife: Claire The dog: Ollie The son: ????? We need to know his name, James!!!!

[@gooterhagen1760]

Rahne Sinclair (Wolfsbane) is constantly shifting from girl to wolf and various steps in between. So if a character actually requires a lot of regular human face and then make-up bits and cgi bits, it's her. Unlike Mystique, who should be blue all the time, unless she's impersonating someone else...J-Law was just tired of having to wear the blue paint.

[@killaxero86]

Limitless the tv show was good. I watched it recently on Netflix. Cooper was in about 4 or 5 of the episodes. Also, at 1:04:20, thats where CinemaSins gets their "Gone to the Prometheus School of Running Away from Things" joke. And at the end the comic he's talking about is Aliens: Earth Hive.

[@Conneromance]

"I've mostly been wrong, but I'm definitely right this time, unless I'm wrong."

[@robotjox77]

As a father, I think Juno Temple would be a fantastic Newt. Mostly.

[@noonewillnoo]

Covenant was terrible. David should have had his own film not monopolise the Alien mythos undermining the Xenomorphs.

[@TheDeadlysyns]

The Xenomorph's were undermined in Alien 3 and Alien R.

[@trevorminyard8885]

Personally I think the whole “every mystery in a movie needs to remain a mystery forever and ever” mindset is irritating. I agree the mystery behind the xenomorphs was part of the cosmic horror that worked so well in the original films but as franchises and stories go on they need to develop and grow, you can only hold back a mystery for so long until it becomes annoying and repetitive and part of the thrill of a mystery is the build up to the dramatic reveal. Now I’m not saying the Alien movies have handled this objective well (they most certainly haven’t) I just think that argument needs to change from “they’re revealing too much about the aliens” to “they aren’t handling the reveals well at all”

[@bigbones83]

Love the 3 of you guys together - great banter! :-)

[@runningsuperska]

The first half of alien 4 is cool but turn it off when that hybrid alien turns up

[@ricardoscozzi6311]

will we see judge Judy and saul goodman make an cameo in the judge Dredd tv show and references to Boston legal

[@ZachBobBob]

Rogue One best third act obviously

[@mikeboehl5260]

As a father, I find this video offensive and disrespectful.

[@mikeboehl5260]

As a mother though, I think it's probably fine.

[@paulcoy9060]

maybe the mother and the father punch for a bit, then they're mates ?

[@PeaKaeCee]

Wondering which episode is the one with all yhe good Alien films; it's my favorite sci-fi franchise as well.

[@archiemarshall4368]

Un-orthadox suggestion perhaps but 'Magnificent 7' has a great third act. It's a pretty average western film, but the final battle is really great IMO

[@agnieszkamichalska6454]

Guys, you would be obviously played by R.D. Junior and a goat in a movie 🐐 I liked the "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmitt" 1 but 2 was just too much. "Riverdale" was my top guilty-pleasure series of 2017 so far, perfect amount of teenage drama haha xD

[@Mimic-kun1]

are they no longer the official podcast of comicbook movie.com

[@Mimic-kun1]

updated nevermind

[@WayneManor666]

Megacity One could work if it comes in a "24h" Style or whatever

[@jonseyjones321]

Ahh 'Guest' just go to JB HI-FI, and get Alien 3, Its the original Alien cut. I bought It like 2 months ago, so If 'Guest' was looking for a proper copy, not a digital, ripped coppy, you can buy Alien 3 In physical, DVD and Blu-Ray.

[@tokenshi]

Please let the 100 shots of beer be the first videocast.

[@15luisrivas]

I have a small request, so please James if you're hearing this turn up the volume of the podcast a bit :) If you don't want to is fine too. Is not

[@jimjam7928]

Corn on the Cobra.

[@cloneyoshi]

wait, if Popeye doesn't have sleeves that fit how does he put on his shirt?

[@matthewschade6181]

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep one of the best books I've read!! Get into it, m8.

[@oberoth111]

Wolfsbane doesn't need a serum. She can transform at will. I hope they keep her Scottish. There are only a handful of superheroes from the same place as me and I would be super pissed if they made her English.

[@arthurofold9737]

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is an AMAZING book!

[@TheBcpearson]

Please please do centurion it's about 9 bottles of beer in an hour and a half.

[@Doug_Hannon]

I maintain that Prometheus was a very good movie. Yes, the Weylan is alive twist was kinda dumb, but the other "problems" with the film don't bother me. People getting lost, or biologists being overconfident with animals, aren't really writing mistakes -- real people who don't know they're in a horror movie do dumb things all the time. It's an accepted part of Horror movie logic that that dumbness is sometimes accentuated a bit. But the idea of overambitious explorers stumbling into an alien bio-weapon staging area, where things go horribly wrong, is a good setup, and it's very well executed. The real reason people don't seem to like it is that they had an expectation that this was an "Alien" movie, and they were just upset it wasn't chock full of "Aliens." Taken on its own merits, I think it's beautiful sci-fi horror movie that explores some cool themes about the nature of deifying our creators.

[@JJJBunney001]

Nah peoples priblem was that it was dumb and people have the same issue with horror movies. They're not also part of a serious sci fi cannon with a giant budget this movie should have been better in every way

[@travisdirk]

More podcasts pleasseeeee :D

[@ligit2758]

Am I the only one who wants too see an Alien movie that just a bunch of marines who think they that xenos are just some bugs that need a bigger spray (a.k.a. bullets). Kinda like Aliens but the guys know who they're fighting, but just don't know how deadly they really are.

[@AnthonyAnalog]

I have what would've been a better back story which would set up multiple trilogies pre-prometheus and post-Aliens (obvious SPOILERS, but this is a spoiler video itself sooooo): Long ago engineers encountered another advanced civilization in the universe. They were better at science and engineers were better at war. Diplomatic truce. The science ppl were so good at it they figured out how to seed life and started doing so in secret. Mankind turned out to be one of their experiments (more on that later). Eventually the engineers stumbled upon earth and found it inhabited w a species oddly similar to their scientist buddies who didn't tell them they were seeding life. They started taking small samples of the population for experiments and such, while also trying to steal whatever data they could from the scientists. They were eventually caught and war breaks out (this turns out to be what's been speculated as the Engineer Civil War). Since engineers are better at killing things, being the physically superior species and all (see: engineer fighting off that massive octopus thing in prometheus w his bare hands) the scientists create the OG biomechanical Xenomorph to even the odds. Now this Xenomorph cannot spawn, and each one much be lab created (a caveat encoded into their original DNA by the scientists to completely control them). Eventually a few are captured by engineers and experimented in, etc (in secret hiding locations such as the world of Prometheus). Eventually the engineers manage to create black goo (a mutagen they used to seed life and can be weaponized to create Xenomorph-esque creatures but not being as good at science, can't 100% replicate the OG biomech Xeno). Back to humanity. Turns out we're the most promising seeded life form yet, in terms of our evolution/scientific and technical advancements/large scale societies and governments, etc culminating in our "creation" of AI (which our scientist creators already made long ago, we're essentially just accessing shit encoded in our DNA copied from our creators). Inspired by us, the engineers attempt to seed life in their own image as well using their black goo (which is how/why the civilization on Paradise that David eventually destroys looks like smaller engineers w/ human skin tone... And ultimately why David kills them in the first place. More on that later). So, back to prometheus. The signal sent to us by engineers was merely to gather additional samples of humans for archiving/experimentation/etc before they destroyed earth (since they're still at war with the scientist race and have decided to wipe them, and all evidence of their work out of existence). Now, leading into Covenant this would explain what David learned while Shaw was in cryosleep that made him decided to bomb the inhabitants of Paradise out of existence. It would also explain why he (SPOILERS) experimented on Shaw. He realized her reproductive organs were mutated during the events of Prometheus but she still managed to both live, and remain seemingly fully human. So there's something about her physiology that needs to be learned/utilized/etc (I would have Shaw alive during Covenant in an open surgery/adrenaline/antibiotic drip state but that's just me), and from his experiments on her the Alien ability to reproduce is developed (which doesn't make him the creator of the Xenomorph, but does give him a huge role in their advancement). This would explains the eggs in Alien, Aliens, etc without having to retcon anything (and would even make key plot elements of Alien 3 and Resurrection tolerable/logical). David could also use Walter to recreate the OG biomechanical Xenomorph as well, as he discovers that the original creator of man had AI capabilities tens to hundreds of thousands of years ago. All this does multiple things: explains why engineers hate humans w/o having to tread along the "Jesus was an engineer" shtick, explains the variations in xeno/proto/neomorphs and various kinds of huggers etc, it sets up a trilogy pre-dating prometheus which can also now include OG biomechanical Xenomorphs, as well as make earth ufology and metaphysical fantasy elements ppl love in movies now canon to the Alien universe, as well as setting up a potential post-Aliens (or even post Alien Resurrection depending on where you want to pick the time line up at) trilogy that's literally engineers vs the creators of man vs colonial marines vs Aliens just fucking shit up on a galactic scale. Unfortunately, I think that Ridley Scott may have fucked that all up to shoehorn Covenant directly into pre-dating the original Alien film. Lmk what yall think?

[@ktc241]

My theory on Blade Runner 2049, everyone is a replicate . . . that's it.

[@arvinbassi2704]

Young justice season 3 and live action teen titans has been announced

[@sarahsue123]

I love Prometheus

[@tomiwaaina5499]

1:39:12 hot dog was in the final episode of Riverdale, one of the south side snakes owned him. Some one tell that to James and twitter or someshit, I'm lazy

[@tomrosser2031]

love you mates

[@osiancoleman8447]

Hang on I just realised there are more good XMEN movies than bad look Good 1.Logan 2.XMEN 3.XMEN 2 4.Days of future past 5.The Wolverine 6.Deadpool 7.First Class Bad 1.XMEN ORIGNS WOLVERINE 2.XMEN 3 Controversial 1.XMEN APOCALYPSE

[@AnthonyAnalog]

Sweg yo Sweg unfortunately X Men and X2 haven't aged as well as say Spiderman 1 & 2. But that's due to Fox's love for generic shooting angles such as the infamous "camera on the ground looking up at stunt actor pulled across the sky by pulleys in unnatural movements" shot. Their film making is habitually saddled w/ studio interference.

[@osiancoleman8447]

HooliganMovement I think X2 holds up really well and it's still my favourite XMEN film 🎥 as a movie 🎥 I think it's the best. I still enjoy the first XMEN but I do understand we're u are coming form with the camera angles

[@osiancoleman8447]

Everybody loves X23 what u on about

[@huner57]

I hated the Wolverine though.

[@Marcel-vz7vp]

Well this will piss people off

[@LuckerW3]

In the defen of ALien:Covenant and Prometheus, i am a scientist, i am pretty stupid.

[@sarahsue123]

Yall say cobra really weird

[@JCResDoc94]

There is a deleted scene where alien Jesus bursts out of virgin Mary's stomach. But the twist is its not a Jew. I didnt say it was good.

[@nightmanjones2516]

Century Club isn't bad at all...Millennium Club is a bit of a bitch though. Every tenth shot has to be 40+ proof liquor. That'll grab you by the boo-boos. Cheers.

[@hugeackman]

tdk = good 3rd act.

[@naughtysauce4323]

Always skip the episodes with guests, except for the one with Claire

[@bambro1349]

way to many ads

[@kalinasarmy]

.......

[@ScratchBuiltPro]

I like this less since I found out what Mr Sunday looks like. I liked him better when his looks were in my head.

[@marknc7546]

nick ash he was fatter in my head

[@ScratchBuiltPro]

Blonder too.

[@deadbeatdynamo]

Not a fan of guests on the podcast. Brings everything to a screeching halt.

[@jesse8924]

Depends on the guest and how their humour naturally flows with James and Mason. Ben from Filthy Casuals was on the 'Best Video Games Based Off Movies' episode, and that dynamic was great. Sometimes it doesn't work as well though.

[@marknc7546]

i think it worked fine

[@brawly]

deadbeatdynamo yeah, I agree. Though I prefer it this way rather than the whole show.

[@happiaxxident]

Booo on 3 talkers. Get back to the two dudes in the logo pleeeeeease

[@tompompeus1783]

Can you stop having those guests please. It really ruins the dynamic!!

[@marknc7546]

Tom Pompeus i think its fun

[@darcy7384]

FAKE!!