Cop Car

I think his best movie is not even a Spider-Man movie.

It's Cop Car.

I think Cop Car is awesome.

Have you seen Cop Car, where the two kids steal the-

I, I-

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Kevin Bacon's cop car?

No.

which has occasionally, and would say famously, struggled with directors.

After directing the indie thriller Cop Car, Watts was chosen by Marvel to helm the relaunch of the Spider-Man movies.

The Tom Holland-starring movies, which included 2017's Homecoming, 2019's Far From Home, and 2021's No Way Home, became progressively bigger productions and bigger hits at the box office.

Watts proved that he could navigate the complexities of massive, big-budget productions.

Mm-hmm.

But it does seem like John Watts, uh, director of the Spider-Man, Tom Holland, uh, original Tom Holland Spider-Man trilogy, of course, uh, and Cop Car and Wolfs, uh, is going to direct Episode X, which kinda makes sense 'cause he, he's a big Star Wars fan.

He co-created Skeleton Crew, of course, and, uh, marshaled that incredible shadowy cabal of, uh, A-list directors, uh, who, who worked on that show, which nobody saw, [laughs] sadly.

Um, but this one, Jimbo.

Spider-Man Homecoming, Spider-Man Far From Home, Spider-Man No Way Home.

He also directed the indie film Cop Car, where Kevin Bacon shockingly plays a scary, mean cop to a bunch of teenagers who steal his car.

And also Wolves, the movie that taught Apple to stop putting their movies in theaters.

So that worked out well for everyone.

And of course, that's led by...

John Watts he's had films outside of that which have been hit and miss but he's never had a flop you could argue that Wolfs the film that came out a couple years ago on Apple with George Clooney and Brad Pitt it wasn't the best film in the world but it was no it wasn't a career killer it was I think it's currently like 60% on RT so most people actually liked it 6 out of 10 people liked it it's fine as a film he did a film called Cop Car which was admittedly a lot of fun it's got Kevin Bacon in so it's already gone up a point in my book And he did a film called Clown, which I watched 12 years ago.

It's a weird kind of horror film about a clown suit that fuses to someone.

But all of his films have the same thing in common, which he used in his Spider-Man films, which I would like to see him bring into his Star Wars, which is there's a very much a grounded effect to his films.

It was more about, okay, when this guy's swinging through New York, all right, he's 150,000 feet in the air, exaggeration.

But how can we make it look real, like it's still physically there? How do we keep it grounded as such? A bit like what I'm not going to, please don't misquote me on this, but a bit like the Nolan Batman films in that you're going to get some fantastical elements, of course, because it's superheroes.

But how can we keep the rest of it to street level? And he does that a lot in Clown, in Cop Car, in Wolves to a certain extent.

Skeleton Crew, he does as well because it is set in the suburbs.

Um, is mostly remembered for the bad stuff it would seem based on Twitter.

Uh, Jon Watts did the Spider-Man trilogy, did Copcar, did Skeleton Crew with Star Wars already.

Uh, apparently everybody hates Jon Watts on Twitter as well now.

I don't really know.

Not off the top of my head.

The Kevin Bacon vehicle Cop Car.

The, I...

You know what? I've never seen that.