Episode 323: Digger & Primetime

Can we, can we start with the, the original trailer drop where they previewed the greatest hits of every Tom Cruise movie, and it just went through every little incarnation of the role, and then it was like, "And now here he is as an old man with a shovel"? I had no idea what to expect.

I did not know what this was going to be.

And I've read a lot of stuff about why people are upset with this film because there is no good way to market it without giving away-

Yeah

... every twist and turn in it.

And I'm, I'm curious as to know what you, what you think about that.

I...

So I, before we hit record, uh, Matt caught me listening to one of our old episodes, a- and it wasn't out of vanity.

It was because there-

Masturbating.

Yes.

I was just masturb-

[laughs]

... to my own voice.

It was because when we, when we interviewed the editor of Star Wars, uh, he had a really interesting point where he said in the same year he had helped on World War Z, and he had also helped on The Great Gatsby, the Leonardo Great Gatsby.

Yikes.

And he said both movies weren't great, and he admitted that.

But he said people were really angry and frustrated with Great Gatsby, and they kind of gave World War Z a pass.

They were like, "Ah, whatever.

It's this, you know, thing.

It's just trying to be a zombie movie." But because of the ambition behind what they were trying to pull off with Great Gatsby, people almost soured on it more.

A- and so almost like a s- a movie n- his point was movies that don't really try that are average get a easier pass than movies that are incredibly ambitious and fall short of that ambitious goal.

People are a lot stronger to, uh, criticize.

And that stuck with me and, and I really thought that in this movie.

Uh, and I, I know people are rallying up against the, "If you don't wanna just have sequels all the time," or, "You gotta embrace original content."