So I went and saw a fantastic four yesterday. That’s three weeks in a row. I’ve gone to movies that opened that weekend.
Superman, I know what you did last summer and then yesterday. Fantastic. Four. Next week is Naked Gun. The week after that is going to be Freakier Friday. Now, when I was thinking about Freakier Friday, what was Freaky Friday released? That was late nineties, early two thousands, right as it early two thousands.
I mean, the one I’m talking about, I mean, it’s an old school movie, but the one that came out with Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis, the original one? Yeah. Okay. 2003. I was close. I remember that. And obviously reboots are a thing. Sequels to movies that came out 20 years ago, literally last week. I know what you did last summer.
Came out in 1997 and they released basically a sequel, a second sequel to it. Obviously, I still know what you did last summer, came out the next year, but they haven’t made a movie in that franchise that went to the theaters. There was, I think, a straight to video one that was garbage, but they haven’t made one that went straight to theaters since two th in 1998.
So. I’m looking at 27 years, but
seeing Fantastic Four yesterday. Spoiler free review. I liked it. It was good. Again, I’m not all geeked out on, I don’t know the backstory of everything. I don’t think I ever saw the original Fantastic four movies. There was one in oh five and oh eight in like 2015, and you know Michael B. Jordan was in it, and other people.
I just, I never watched those. But I went with my 18-year-old nephew who is Mr. MCU, and explains to me backstory, so I know everything kind of going into these movies. It was good. I liked it. Obviously good to see my boy, my high school, my high school classmate. I graduated with Peter Alita. You may know him as Pedro Pascal.
I know him as Peter Alita, but. He was good. Vanessa Kirby was good. The other dude was good grim. It was just a good movie. I liked it and I, I will say this, the mid credit scene is way better than the end credit scene. Honestly, I would advise you stick around for the mid credited scene and then leave after that, you are missing absolutely nothing with the end credit scene.
So I’m not gonna talk about the storyline or anything, or tell you what happened in the mid credited scene, but I, I do wanna talk about something that came up when I went with my nephew, and I’ll talk about it right after these messages because he’s all into MCU and he watches a lot of shows and movies.
He asked me when we were having lunch yesterday before the movie. He said, if there’s one franchise you could watch and only one for the rest of your life, what would it be? And initially I thought, this is such a stupid question, what do you mean I can only watch one franchise? He said, no, seriously, what’s the one franchise?
Obviously that could never happen. Nobody’s gonna prevent me from watching. But I was like, okay, I’ll engage in this because he knows I’m obsessed with Karate Kid and. Back to the future. Obviously if he’s talking, you know, he said the franchise, and I said, movie or TV show. He said, doesn’t matter either one.
And I said, honestly, as much as I wanna say back to the future, if I can only watch that for the rest of my life, I, I have to watch the same three movies over and over. That’s it. There’s no TV show, there’s no fourth movie. It’s three movies. Obviously in the Karate Kid world, you had six seasons of Cobra Kai and four movies technically, and then you had the fifth one, which was the Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith one, and then the newest one, karate Kid Legends, whatever.
So six movies and basically what, 60 episodes, so a lot healthier amount of episodes to watch. You know, he chose MCU because he grew up on the MCU and there’s a ton of movies and shows. So I understood why he chose that. But then I really started to think about this and I’m like, I, well, I wouldn’t choose MCU, I’m just not as into it as he is.
So what would it be? It’s not Karate Kid. It’s not back to the future. I can’t think of any movie franchise because again, what’s the most you’re gonna get? Six, seven. You know, the Rocky movies as much as I love Rocky three and four. There’s only what, six movies and then two Creed movies. So you’re looking at eight and I realized what my answer is to this.
I don’t think a lot of you’ll be surprised, but I think my answer is Beverly Hills 9 0 2 1 oh again. It’ll never happen that I’m only allowed to watch one franchise for the rest of my life, but when I really thought about it, it would be Beverly Hills 9 0 2 1 oh, because it gives me 10 seasons, even though seasons eight, nine, and 10 absolutely sucked.
And I didn’t really like them, and I think I’ve only seen each, I think I’ve only seen eight, nine, and 10, maybe once or twice. As opposed to the college years, which I’ve seen numerous times, not to mention repeated clips of them, but one of the biggest things about that franchise, as much as I loved it, it’s got 293 episodes.
So yeah, I have a lot to choose from. Now, some of you might choose other shows. Some of you might choose The Sopranos or Breaking Bad or The Wire or whatever. I get it. But for me, I think my answer is Beverly Hills 9 0 2 1 oh,
I obviously 24 would be the other one. And that’s got nine seasons of 24 episodes. I mean, that has over 200 episodes. It’d be tough. It really would be tough. It’d be be, it’d be between those two. I’ve always told you, 24 is my favorite show of all time. But if you’re telling me I can only watch one for the rest of my life, franchise, ugh.
Because if I say 24, I’m like, really? I can never watch Beverly Hills down oh two one oh again, and vice versa. I can’t believe my 18-year-old nephew actually posed a question to me that was rather insightful. Usually he just poses the most ridiculous scenarios and the most ridiculous hypotheticals. When we’re sitting and talking, I mean, just some of the dumbest shit.
This one was like, huh, even though obviously it’s a hypothetical, it would never happen. It actually made me think and yeah, it, it would either be Beverly Hills and I two an oh or 24 if finally rough week for celebrity deaths. Obviously, Ozzy Osborne, Malcolm, Jamal, Warner, but. Hulk Hogan dying yesterday, and I’m separating Hulk Hogan, the performer versus Hulk Hogan, the person, ’cause Hulk Hogan, the person.
Not a good dude. I’m just talking about the effect that he had on my life growing up as a kid. Hell, I think the effect that he had on a lot of people’s lives. ’cause even if you’ve never really watched WF now, WE, I think you’ve heard the name Hulk Hogan. He was the first wrestler to really cross over into mainstream Hollywood.
He paved the way for guys like The Rock and John Cena Roman Reigns coming up now. He really did. You know, being Thunder lips in Rocky three. The biggest thing with me is. One of the biggest things in wrestling is WrestleMania once a year. Usually in March. Now it’s a little bit later, it’s in like the third week of April, and now it’s being done over two nights.
But the biggest WrestleMania ever was WrestleMania three, and the Pontiac Silverdome 93,000 people, and it was Hogan versus Andre. In the main event, and this is back in the day where. If you didn’t watch it on pay-per-view, you had to wait until your local video store had it out on VHS. And I can say that the first wrestling event I ever saw in my life on TV was WrestleMania three.
When I rented it on VHS or my friend rented it, I went over to his house and watched it, and that was my first introduction into wrestling. I had heard the names Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant, rowdy Roddy Piper, Mr. Wonderful, Paul Orndorff. I had heard the names, but I had never actually watched it. That was the first thing I ever saw, and I was hooked.
It’s either fifth or sixth grade, and I’ve watched wrestling ever since. And Hulk Hogan is just synonymous with television, wrestling. Wwe F wwe. He was the biggest superstar of my generation in wrestling, and it wasn’t even close. Everybody knew who Hulk Hogan was. When Hulk Hogan finally lost the title.
He beat Iron Sheik in the early eighties. Finally lost the title, I believe. I think it was the year it was 1988. It was the main event. It was live on NBC. It wasn’t Saturday Night’s Main Event. It was Friday night. It was just called the main Event. He had lost the title for, I think he had held it for five or six years, maybe seven.
And he lost the title back to Andre the Giant, the year basically. He beats Andre in WrestleMania III in March of whenever that was, 87, and then February of the next year he loses it. That main event episode was seen by 33 million people. It’s how big wrestling was back then, and I couldn’t believe it.
We were all jaws on the floor that Hulk Hogan lost the title, however controversial. There was a double referee, Dave Hebner and his twin brother, the fake commissioner of the WWF. At the time, Jack Tunney declared the title vacant after that because Million Dollar Man paid off the Referee, which led to WrestleMania iv, which was a month later that set up a tournament in WrestleMania iv, where Macho Man, Randy Savage, won the title.
But just wanted to point out that when Hogan lost the title, after holding it for five or six years, he lost the title. On NBC’s main event on a Friday night and 33 million people watch that episode. RIP Hulk. Thank you all for listening. Really appreciate it. Follow me An Apple podcast. Also rate and review, but you gotta hit play.
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