
HDTGM all-star Jessica St. Clair helps the gang discuss the 2025 Spider-Man adjacent movie Kraven the Hunter starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ariana DeBose, and the king of vague accents himself, Russell Crowe. LIVE from The Moody Theater in Austin, they go off on the Rhino's backpack, how Kraven is basically Dr. Dolittle with abs, Calypso's hot leather outfit, and if Russell Crowe gave off John Goodman vibes. Plus, June expresses her feelings on men in bathrobes and an audience member wonders if Tony Bennett was in this movie.
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Jason Mantzoukas
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Paul Scheer
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Jason Mantzoukas
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Paul Scheer
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Jason Mantzoukas
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Paul Scheer
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Jason Mantzoukas
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Paul Scheer
Sure all the monkey shots in the pain and just a bunch of movies while they making the grade. Here's a real question for you. How did this get paid? Hello people of Earth and hello people of Austin, Texas. Yes we are live in Texas to talk about the Hunter, a movie that IMDb describes as Kraven's complex relationship with his ruthless father, Nikolai Kravinoff starts him down a path of vengeance with brutal consequences, motivating him to become not only the greatest hunter in the world, but also one of its most feared. Tagline, villains aren't born, they're made. That's right. This movie had a budget of $130 million. Opening weekend was $11 million. Domestic gross, $25 million. Rough one, rough one. Here's what I'm gonna say. I fucking loved it. I loved this movie. Russell Crowe with a Russian accent. Come on. And I gotta tell you, I'm gonna. I'll say some things that are sarcastic for sure, but Aaron Taylor Johnson, fucking ready for it. I'm like, that guy is performing with his dick out the entire movie, and I love it. I'm like, yeah, man, he got it. He got some memos, like, this is the way I'm going. I'm like, I'm in. I'm all in. But you know what? I may be the only person with this opinion, because tonight, we're gonna break it all down. But first, let me introduce my co host, Please welcome to the stage, Mr. Jason Mantzoukas.
Jason Mantzoukas
What's up, jerks? Let's go, Texas. That's right. Last time I was in this state, you tried to kill me with COVID This time, don't you give me those measles. I don't want your measles. Is there a baby in the house? Guess what? I'm not holding it because of the measles. Get it together, Texas.
Paul Scheer
Jason Craven, the hunter.
Jason Mantzoukas
Wow. Did I.
Paul Scheer
Did you see it before? It was an assignment.
Jason Mantzoukas
I started it. I started it, honestly. Probably six weeks ago.
Paul Scheer
Okay.
Jason Mantzoukas
I started about six weeks ago. I watched the opening act. I watched the prison cold open. I was like, we're definitely gonna do this.
Paul Scheer
Yeah.
Jason Mantzoukas
So I stopped. I stopped because I was like, God help me if I have to watch this more than once. And it's over two hours.
Paul Scheer
Wait a second. You didn't like the opening prison sequence?
Jason Mantzoukas
I liked it fine, but I was still like, I know. This is dog shit. Spoiler alert. I was fucking right. I've seen Morbius. I know what we're up to. I know how good this could be. I know what it is. Boy, that was. This movie is rotten to the core.
Paul Scheer
But the accents are good.
Jason Mantzoukas
Well, I mean, I have a lot of questions about the accents. All right, what region of the world does everybody come from?
Paul Scheer
Europe it is.
Jason Mantzoukas
But. But the brothers have American accents when they want to.
Paul Scheer
You know, you slip in and out of accents.
Jason Mantzoukas
Look, this movie is a referendum on the manosphere.
Paul Scheer
We are gonna bring out somebody who might have a lot of opinions about.
Jason Mantzoukas
Oh, I imagine not.
Paul Scheer
She's gonna be a special guest on this entire tour with us. There are no trash can fires, but I think there are gonna be a lot of things in this movie that are going to upset her. Please welcome Jessica St. Clair. Welcome, Jessica.
June Diane Raphael
I knew I'd be tortured. I knew I'd be tortured by a film.
Paul Scheer
This I felt would be right up your alley. You got sex hunks, guys.
Jason Mantzoukas
It's got hikers.
June Diane Raphael
Well, I spent the first 15 minutes thinking we were in the post apocalyptic future.
Jason Mantzoukas
Sure.
June Diane Raphael
So that was confusing, right?
Jason Mantzoukas
Just a Russian prison.
June Diane Raphael
Yeah, exactly.
Jason Mantzoukas
Where somehow I suspect we will all find ourselves soon.
June Diane Raphael
Honestly, I was like, here we go. And it's cold, so you know they're gonna be lighting those trash cans on fire. But then he took his shirt off. I said, that's something for Mommy. Something for Daddy and Mommy.
Jason Mantzoukas
Oh, wait. Baby duck already.
June Diane Raphael
Those Baby.
Jason Mantzoukas
Mommy likes those baby what?
June Diane Raphael
Baby Abby's abs.
Jason Mantzoukas
Baby Abby? You call those his baby Abby? I don't understand. Are you fetishizing him having a child set of abs?
June Diane Raphael
There ain't no hair on that chest. No hair.
Jason Mantzoukas
Or all the hair in the world. That's right.
Paul Scheer
That guy is hairless. He is hairless and he is finding reasons.
Jason Mantzoukas
Oh, he's slick as a seal, baby.
Paul Scheer
He is finding reasons to take off that shirt. Except for an odd hour where he's just wearing a suit.
Jason Mantzoukas
Yeah.
Paul Scheer
Which seems.
June Diane Raphael
That's weird.
Paul Scheer
Yeah. She should have taken that shirt off. We have a very special guest tonight joining us to help break down Kraven the Hunter. You know her from podcasts like, how did this get made? Please welcome June Diane Bravio.
Jason Mantzoukas
Standing ovation. Wow. Wow, wow, wow, wow. Oh, God. Oh, God.
Laci Mosley
There's someone in my seat. Paul.
Paul Scheer
Welcome.
Jason Mantzoukas
Welcome to a show. A show that is certain to go down in history as Chaos Unlimited.
Paul Scheer
Welcome, June. How are you?
Laci Mosley
I'm okay.
June Diane Raphael
How are you, Paul?
Paul Scheer
I'm well. Thank you so much for being here. June, thoughts on Kraven the Hunter? Gosh.
June Diane Raphael
Well.
Laci Mosley
Well, first of all, listen, there are more women on this stage than there are in the movie. That's for sure. There's truly. I've never seen anything like this. Like this Is this came out in 2024.
Paul Scheer
Yes.
Jason Mantzoukas
Dune offstage did say, when did this come out?
June Diane Raphael
Yeah.
Laci Mosley
Because to have one woman. There is one female character in this movie.
Paul Scheer
Yeah.
June Diane Raphael
And then you lose track at the end. What happened to her? No, she's gone.
Jason Mantzoukas
I'm so sorry. There's the female pilot who's an essential part of his crew, whose face we never see.
June Diane Raphael
Never. Now, granted, she was paid as an ex. They were like, we don't have the money. Just shoot her from behind at a certain point.
Laci Mosley
Cause I actually. I thought that there was a lot of energy spent not seeing her to the point where I was like, she's gonna be someone special.
Paul Scheer
Right? We want that kind of character.
Laci Mosley
We're gonna see her.
June Diane Raphael
Yeah.
Laci Mosley
And then as the movie went on, I said, where is she? Where is she? Where is she?
Jason Mantzoukas
Nope.
Laci Mosley
And then at one point, I thought that was his mom, because I had to make. Cause I had make some. What are you talking. I thought, it has to be his mom. They're gonna reveal it's his mom. And they got. He found her, and now she's working for him.
Jason Mantzoukas
I would love that. I would love that. By the way. Better movie, by the way.
Laci Mosley
My mind had.
Jason Mantzoukas
I wish my mom was a pilot.
Laci Mosley
I would love to work for both of my sons in the future, by.
Jason Mantzoukas
The way, as a pilot.
Laci Mosley
It's like a dream. But I had to make these connections and I had to make these storylines because none were provided to me as a viewer.
Jason Mantzoukas
Can I.
June Diane Raphael
No. Connective tissue.
Jason Mantzoukas
I have a question, and you very well may, but do you guys know which superhero this movie is directly related?
Paul Scheer
You are right in the pocket where.
June Diane Raphael
I didn't know it was a superhero movie.
Jason Mantzoukas
Okay.
Paul Scheer
Oh, wow. Wow.
Jason Mantzoukas
Until. When are you just finding out now?
June Diane Raphael
Honestly, until. This is crazy. Until that guy turned into a rhino at the end.
Jason Mantzoukas
Okay, so you did notice.
June Diane Raphael
I'm not joking. No, this is not a bit. I didn't know. I just thought. This is a story about a man who can talk to animals.
Jason Mantzoukas
So sort of like a Dr. Dolittle with abs.
June Diane Raphael
Yes.
Laci Mosley
I gotta tell you, Jess shredded Doolittle. I'm not that far off. I also.
Paul Scheer
Wow. Got a high.
Jason Mantzoukas
That's right. High five. I'm doing a whole five tour.
Laci Mosley
I also. That's not my kind of superhero.
June Diane Raphael
What?
Laci Mosley
He's a. He's an assassin. He's a murderer. And I agree with a lot of what he's doing, but. And I do see his eyes turning. And I do see he can scale walls. Aside from that. Aside from scaling walls like lions. You tell me. Right?
Jason Mantzoukas
Would it surprise you if I said waste character? Okay.
Paul Scheer
You're not going to reveal it just yet.
Jason Mantzoukas
I'm not going to. Is primarily known as A villain. What is a. Is the villain to a very popular superhero.
June Diane Raphael
This is Spider Man.
Jason Mantzoukas
It is a Spider man villain. This is Kraven the Hunter, a huge Spider man villain.
June Diane Raphael
Is that true?
Paul Scheer
Huge.
Jason Mantzoukas
True.
Laci Mosley
See what I was.
June Diane Raphael
But they're both fighting for justice.
Jason Mantzoukas
I agree. They are trying to weirdly make him a hero in this movie. And he is a villain.
June Diane Raphael
Well, that's no problem, I guess.
Jason Mantzoukas
Primarily for a storyline in the Spider man comics where he kills Spider man, buries him in the ground, and then lives as Spider man trying to be a better Spider Man.
June Diane Raphael
Well, that's a dick.
Jason Mantzoukas
Spoiler alert for Kraven's last hunt. And it's. And so to watch this, I was like, this is mystifying.
Laci Mosley
Wow. By the way, I do have. I mean, I have that issue with Disney movies now too, where every villain has to, like, have all humanity restored. And I'm like, let a villain be a villain.
June Diane Raphael
Sometimes Scar is just Scar.
Laci Mosley
Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes Donald Trump guy's got to be bad. Yes.
Paul Scheer
Here is a thing that you should know.
June Diane Raphael
Wait, I just heard you. This is how up this movie has made me. I just heard you say. Here is like. People are now sounding vaguely Russian to me when they're not meaning to. Here is the problem.
Paul Scheer
A little thing that you should know, which is this. They can't reference Spider man in these movies. This is Sony's version of the Marvel World. And they only can really reference these side characters.
Jason Mantzoukas
So the characters that are in this world are Venom, Morbius, who we did a few years ago.
June Diane Raphael
June has no memory of it.
Jason Mantzoukas
Yes. The vampire. Jared Leto. Vampire. Remember?
June Diane Raphael
Still nothing.
Jason Mantzoukas
Yep. No, listen. I wish I could erase it from my mind.
Paul Scheer
And now Kraven. So they can never reference Spider Man. They can never exist with Spider man. So they have to leave.
Laci Mosley
It makes me so mad, though. Paul, Sorry to interrupt, but I'm like. I wanna say to all the men of the world, there are other problems to solve. Like, let's not be working out how we can reference Spider man but not. But also tie.
June Diane Raphael
Imagine if the great minds got together.
Laci Mosley
Yeah. It's cure other things.
Jason Mantzoukas
Oh. Eclipse World.
Laci Mosley
Work on.
Jason Mantzoukas
Collectively. They've probably spent over a billion dollars making Spider man adjacent movies.
Paul Scheer
Yes.
Jason Mantzoukas
That do not reference Spider man at all.
Laci Mosley
Strange.
Jason Mantzoukas
That's fucking wild.
Paul Scheer
Bizarre in the weirdest way. It would. Yeah, it really is. It's. It's weird. And that's why this movie doesn't work in many ways. But I'll say this. That opening I thought was great. I was like, I'm in the prison. This is cool. Then we got to go back 16 years. Like, I got to find out how this motherfucker became this guy. I don't care.
June Diane Raphael
And that's like a Prince Harry and William story to me. You know, I thought we were looking at, you know, the royal family.
Laci Mosley
Yeah, the air and the spare.
June Diane Raphael
The air and the spare, which is another lens. And if we could spend time talking about the Megan Markle series, I'd have a better time.
Jason Mantzoukas
Let's get into it. Dig on.
June Diane Raphael
Well, love that quiche. Come on.
Laci Mosley
Now, listen, I will say there were some fundamental things I didn't understand, though. One is when they kept on calling the other brother the spare a bastard. So is Russell Crowe not his father?
Jason Mantzoukas
He's his father, but not the mom.
June Diane Raphael
It's the different mom.
Laci Mosley
Where's that woman?
Jason Mantzoukas
Oh, I'm sure he's killed her as well. He's a.
June Diane Raphael
He's a praying mantle.
Jason Mantzoukas
He's a true villain.
Paul Scheer
Russell Crowe is not a good dad.
June Diane Raphael
Yeah. By the way, I thought it was John Goodman.
Paul Scheer
Wait, hold on.
Laci Mosley
Joke.
June Diane Raphael
First time I saw him, I said, ooh, here's a dramatic turn for John Goodman. Good for him. Those are some nice residuals.
Paul Scheer
You saw his neckerchief and you were like, all right, John Goodman.
Jason Mantzoukas
You're like, oh, shit, King Ralph's in this.
Laci Mosley
Truth.
Paul Scheer
The fact that Russell Crowe pops in with a heavy Russian accent. I was like, I'm in. I'm 100%.
Jason Mantzoukas
I wish he'd been in the whole movie. I wish he was in the movie front to back.
Laci Mosley
And I didn't bat an eye at that accent. And he's like, got it. Love it. Keep going.
Paul Scheer
Because he's got a commitment to it. Like most people when they're uncomfortable with their accent, they're like, would. They're like quietly like, I am speaking in Russian. He's like, I'm speaking in Russian. And it will be this and sometimes.
Jason Mantzoukas
It will be like a pirate, but it definitely. It sounds so much like the Italian priest, exorcist priest. And it also sounds exactly like his Zeus from the. Oh, yeah. From the Thor movie. He's got one kind of same accent all across. And I mean, I'd rather honestly listen to 30 odd foot of grunts.
Paul Scheer
Good band. They know how to party.
Laci Mosley
Well, the real mystery is how the younger. The younger brother has no accent when we meet him. And I mean, none.
Jason Mantzoukas
Well, no. And Taylor Johnson's not doing Russian stuff. He sounds like he's doing a Matthew McConaughey yeah, like when she's like, did you do it? And he switches for the first time into his American accent and he's horrible. Good for me, bad for him. I thought he was going to be like, all right, all right, all right.
June Diane Raphael
Yeah.
Paul Scheer
And he takes off his shirt like, yep, he's freezing cold most of the movie.
Jason Mantzoukas
They live in London. Like, I don't understand, what is the world of this movie? Does this movie take place in a world where everybody can be anywhere in half an hour? Like, when they're like, we think he's in Siberia, they drive there in trucks.
Paul Scheer
How?
Jason Mantzoukas
I mean, I checked. You were in Turkey, motherfuckers. What's happening?
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Welcome spring.
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Visit kingsford.com for charcoal and more from America's grilling expert. Now, I know that we've already revealed that, yes, Kraven is a villain in the Spider man world. There's some other characters in here that are also established people. And if you were confused, they really hammered home when they introduced Calypso and say her name 15 times in 35 seconds.
June Diane Raphael
Is she a person?
Paul Scheer
She is a person, yes.
Jason Mantzoukas
She's also a Spider man villain.
Paul Scheer
Listen, Calypso.
Laci Mosley
Villains, villains.
Jason Mantzoukas
And is and is connected to Kraven in the Villain.
Paul Scheer
Yeah, villain.
Laci Mosley
Huh? She speaks villain, period.
Paul Scheer
Calypso, who is the lawyer who, like, at a certain point we set up Kraven is the hunter. He can find anyone. He found her off of a tarot card. That's all he had. And he's like, hey, look, I need your help finding people.
Jason Mantzoukas
What?
Paul Scheer
Wait a second.
Jason Mantzoukas
I don't know if.
Paul Scheer
Wait a second.
Jason Mantzoukas
I don't know if you've heard him, but Kraven is dot, dot, dot, a hunter.
Paul Scheer
Yes.
June Diane Raphael
There's so many ellipses in everything he says. Oh, I hunt people.
Jason Mantzoukas
I have a love.
Paul Scheer
I love it. I love it. It's like a CrossFit instructor is in a superhero movie. It's like, yeah, man, I'm doing it. I'm doing like he is got a lot of assuredness in this character. And I think you need it when your powers are so hard to figure out what they are, right?
Laci Mosley
Like, what are they, Paul?
Paul Scheer
I don't know. I'm saying, like, I'm like, yes, he's a hunter, which I get. But he seems to have a lot of powers that a lion would have.
Laci Mosley
Can I say something? He, in the beginning is really critical of his dad for using a gun to fight an animal.
Paul Scheer
Right?
Laci Mosley
And he makes a pretty sweeping statement about, like, weapons and human hunting. And, but then he uses weapons all the time.
Paul Scheer
To hunt people.
Jason Mantzoukas
To hunt people. But. And usually, and usually not guns. Usually like bladed weapons, which by the way, his armory is all like knives, I guess.
Laci Mosley
But I'm trying to understand what his ideology is, what he lived.
Paul Scheer
Russell Crowe. Like, what he's upset is animals don't have guns. Like, if an animal had a gun, he could use a gun.
Jason Mantzoukas
That's what, that's, that's it. Arm the animals. Right, Texas, who's with me?
Paul Scheer
Which by the way, Marvel did do in a series called Brute Force.
June Diane Raphael
Oh no.
Paul Scheer
Which is like a dolphin with a machine gun that also turned into a motorcycle.
Jason Mantzoukas
A bad guy with a gun is a dog with a gun.
Paul Scheer
Well, okay, Texas, but that, but I think that that is it. Like, I think it's explained here. Beth, can you play clip 2?
Jason Mantzoukas
Let me go and talk. Save your bed. No, it's a condition.
Paul Scheer
Oh, there's the rhino.
Jason Mantzoukas
As long as I take a few breaks here and there. One thing that you should know about me is that I'm always thinking of the future. I want you to be my partner.
Laci Mosley
Doesn't he look like John Goodman?
June Diane Raphael
He looks like Dan from Roseanne Getting Home Factory. Right?
Jason Mantzoukas
Shut the up, Donnie. Walter looks like Walter from the bow. I do not care. You're out of your element, Donnie.
Paul Scheer
Jason Schwarzman and John Goodman in the Hunter. So what can some no name non.
Jason Mantzoukas
Existent except swordsman's got the the co. No country Anton Shagor hair. He's like give me the Shigor hair teaching I, I.
Paul Scheer
But I believe that what they're kind of saying is you basically hunt to the predator's capabilities. Right. So if you're fighting a human and they have a gun, you can have a gun. Right? Cause it's fair. And I think what the son didn't like was here's a poor lion. My dad's using a gun. What a jerk.
Laci Mosley
So what in that scenario, what would he have preferred his dad use his bare hands?
June Diane Raphael
Yeah.
Paul Scheer
Or a tiger's tooth.
Jason Mantzoukas
Yeah.
June Diane Raphael
Guys, in that scene, he said to that guy to Rhino, he said, I'm teaching my sons the joy of stalking. And you're bothering me. Yeah, this is.
Paul Scheer
I can't wait to do that for my sons.
June Diane Raphael
Yeah, yeah. Like we need a child psychologist immediate. Cause this feeling.
Jason Mantzoukas
Do we though? Because it's all. I don't even think this is subtext.
Laci Mosley
This is text.
Jason Mantzoukas
This is how you create monsters.
June Diane Raphael
Yes. When the mother dies, he just says we go to hut. When someone says that to you, something bad is going to happen, mind.
Jason Mantzoukas
Normally these people are fighting a teenager in Queens. That's what they're normally in service of, fighting a teenage web swinger from Queens.
Paul Scheer
Well, now, here's the thing. In Spider man, when Spider man gets bit by the spider. In every version of Spider man, we have to always see it. When he's learning how to be Spider man, he does like, whoa, whoa, what's this? What's going on? When this motherfucker gets the blood of a lion and drinks some syrup, he is doing everything and has seemingly no reaction. Like he climbs up a whole building and you're like. He's like, oh, yeah, yeah.
Jason Mantzoukas
He never, he never is like, what's going on with me? He never has a question to anyone.
Laci Mosley
Well, because we have a 15 year time jump, so we never get to see that. But what we see him out of.
Paul Scheer
The hospital, he climbs up a wall.
Laci Mosley
Immediately, I guess we do.
Jason Mantzoukas
And he does. We do get the visual effect of him having like a zoom in vision. That's like having a telescope in a video game.
Laci Mosley
No, just like do lion, tiger. Yeah.
Paul Scheer
I don't know. I mean, does he have a bat power? He has a lot of powers. He also, I will say this, don't trust New York City. I think it's a New York City hospital. I don't trust that hospital. That ER was way too chill. They fly him in their opera like he's dead. And then, then that doctor just like, well, all right, so what do I got to do tonight? He wakes up, she goes, oh, shit. Like, you know, like they're like they're leaving him in there just cooking, like, dead.
Jason Mantzoukas
What's so interesting is there's an element of this that is inside of. I know we didn't get to play the Calypso clip, but inside of Calypso's world, a world of like magic and potions and tarot cards or these cards and spirituality and all this stuff that's so interesting. And all of her whole thing just gets plugged into this dumb dildo. Yeah, he gets to soak it up and run around.
June Diane Raphael
Here's the thing. I'd like her to drink her own potion. No, she had an extra one.
Jason Mantzoukas
Oh, yeah.
Paul Scheer
No, when she had that extra one, it's like, oh, well, we don't have another one. Actually. I did. Sorry, I did, I did.
Laci Mosley
What is her. What are her superpowers moving forward after this movie?
Jason Mantzoukas
I couldn't quite tell you. I'm not. Calypso's a character. I don't know Very well. It's not a big character, but I'm sure there's a nerd here who will.
Paul Scheer
Well, I will tell you, June, one of the.
Jason Mantzoukas
There's a Morgan in the room. Is there not a. Is there a marvel Morgan in the room?
June Diane Raphael
Right there, Right there.
Paul Scheer
I will say one of her powers is to build clients with. She has great Excel skills.
June Diane Raphael
Shoulder pads. She had some real sharp shoulder pads.
Paul Scheer
Let me see if I can. All right, we're gonna go talk to our Calypso expert. All right, here we go. We flew him all the way.
Jason Mantzoukas
There's people that have jerks T shirts.
Paul Scheer
Yeah.
Jason Mantzoukas
Wow. Wow.
Paul Scheer
If people are in coffee, they want to see it. Hi, how are you? What's your name? Jay.
Jason Mantzoukas
You have your son in one great word. This kid is mortified.
June Diane Raphael
You're traumatizing him like John Goodman does.
Jason Mantzoukas
The son, for those who can't, is like this.
June Diane Raphael
He's like, we go to hunt.
Jason Mantzoukas
You're doing great. You're doing great. The son is the hero, the dad is the villain.
June Diane Raphael
We go to hunt.
Jason Mantzoukas
As we've learned from this movie, the son is the hero, the dad is the villain.
Paul Scheer
All right, so I am here with Calypso X expert. Tell me about Calypso. What do you got?
Jason Mantzoukas
Hey, long time listener, first time caller. My name is Jay.
Paul Scheer
Calypso is a voodoo sorceress from Haiti.
Jason Mantzoukas
Yes, a Haitian voodoo sorceress, that I do remember. But what is.
Paul Scheer
What are you, part time lawyer?
Jason Mantzoukas
Not normally. I think that's like a side thing.
Paul Scheer
Okay.
Jason Mantzoukas
All right.
Paul Scheer
But in the comics, her whole thing.
Jason Mantzoukas
Is like, she's sometimes Craven's lover.
Paul Scheer
Yeah. But all the time like his partner.
Jason Mantzoukas
And basically she helps imbue them with.
Paul Scheer
The powers of the animals.
Jason Mantzoukas
So she gives them the potions and.
Paul Scheer
So she can give him like a snake part. That's a great thing. All right. I like that.
Jason Mantzoukas
Okay, so they work in. They're a good team. They work in concert. She's giving him access to different animal.
June Diane Raphael
Yeah, she's giving him access. Oh, yeah. By the way, why didn't we get.
Laci Mosley
To see a single smoochie? Thanks.
Jason Mantzoukas
Yeah.
June Diane Raphael
Wait for it.
Jason Mantzoukas
Because canonically, people this hot don't fuck bad.
June Diane Raphael
What?
Paul Scheer
Because people don't know that cooking up is full of carbs.
Jason Mantzoukas
It does give it up for day. It does feel like. It does feel like Craven and his family are a bunch of incels just roaming the country.
Laci Mosley
Yes, Truly.
Jason Mantzoukas
Just like. I feel like their hunting party has the tape brothers in it somewhere. Just tucked in like a couple of Creeps.
Paul Scheer
I. I did write down. I did write down at 1 point, 41 minutes, and there's still no discernible plot. Like, there's like. I don't know what. I'm. I'm just watching scenes. I'm getting an idea. I'm living in a world, and I'm.
June Diane Raphael
Like, we should start, like, Dimitri's kidnapping happens very late, right?
Jason Mantzoukas
Oh, yeah. Over 45 minutes.
June Diane Raphael
Right? Because the thing with these movies that I don't watch is, like, it has to make it this time. It's personal, right? I don't know. What's that from? Who cares? But it has to be personal. Let it cook.
Jason Mantzoukas
Let her cook.
June Diane Raphael
Let's make it personal.
Paul Scheer
But this is the whole thing. The whole movie is like, we can't know who Craven is because then they'll come after the people that you love. Well, he's got two.
Jason Mantzoukas
Who cares?
Paul Scheer
That's it. And it doesn't seem like he loves his dad, so he's really got one also.
Jason Mantzoukas
That's Spider Man's whole thing, right? Kraven the hunter is like, I'm Kraven the hunter. I'm here to hunt you. Get ready. That's his whole thing is, I'm craving the hunter. Hello, it's me. I'm gonna hunt you now. Spider Man. Little spider, when they show his little face, curious.
Laci Mosley
Why does he want to hunt Spider Man?
Jason Mantzoukas
Because Spider man, he.
June Diane Raphael
Spider man is not in this film at all.
Laci Mosley
I know, but I think he's getting so much fun.
Jason Mantzoukas
No, no, we should.
Laci Mosley
It's simply more interesting than what we saw. Sorry, would be.
Jason Mantzoukas
I agree. Because. I agree. We do not understand. Theoretically, Craven is hunting the bad guys, the poachers, the. The. The. The villains, the truly evil.
Paul Scheer
He's making a list, checking it twice, going to find out if you're naughty or nice. And if you're naughty, you're fucking dead.
Jason Mantzoukas
Yeah.
Paul Scheer
He is Santa Claus of the jungle.
Jason Mantzoukas
His list, he says, I have a list. So many times in this movie. And he checks one person off.
Paul Scheer
But by the way, it doesn't seem like that's his own list. It seemed like he got that list off of somebody's desk.
Jason Mantzoukas
Two, I guess.
Laci Mosley
Two.
Jason Mantzoukas
That same room. He kills two guys in that room. That's it.
June Diane Raphael
But that was that scene where he has that ledger, had a great line, which is, where's so and so. And he says, you're standing in him. Yes, that was a good line.
Laci Mosley
That was great.
Paul Scheer
I like it.
Jason Mantzoukas
No, there was some fun, like, dumb stuff in it.
June Diane Raphael
Yeah.
Jason Mantzoukas
Absolutely.
Paul Scheer
I love. I mean, I'm not cute.
Jason Mantzoukas
You love the movie, though. Do you love the movie now?
June Diane Raphael
I like it. Do you know what else I thought to myself? I thought a lot about the hair. And I know that's really June's area. And I knew. I didn't think you were going to.
Jason Mantzoukas
It's June's hair.
June Diane Raphael
It's your area. Did you say hairia?
Paul Scheer
Yeah. High five them. Give him a high five.
Jason Mantzoukas
Boo.
Laci Mosley
Gross.
June Diane Raphael
But I literally thought, this is the hair when Jason closes his eyes that he wants. Like, if I found out you, Cravens.
Jason Mantzoukas
Atkins, you think I want ATK's hair?
June Diane Raphael
I feel like if I found if I picked up your phone and I saw a screenshot of that guy's hair and you brought it into your barber. You're like, can you give me this? Can you give me the Craven?
Jason Mantzoukas
When have you ever seen him slicked back?
June Diane Raphael
That's that hair you want. It's not you can't do it, but you want it.
Laci Mosley
How? It's time for you to stand up and tell the people what I want. You want that hair.
June Diane Raphael
You do.
Jason Mantzoukas
I think you're projecting your desire to have me looking like this as my desire. Methinks thou dost protest too much. See this? This just tells me I'm right. This acting out tells me I'm right. Right? Balcony. I would never look like that. Number one, hairless. Too hairless. I'm not interested in this nonsense. Nor should you be. Come on.
June Diane Raphael
Everybody's interested in it. But those abs look like they've been pissed off.
Jason Mantzoukas
If I played Craven, which I would have loved to. Yeah, I would have been a Craven who fucked. Okay?
June Diane Raphael
That's your superpower.
Jason Mantzoukas
That's what I'm saying.
June Diane Raphael
Before you kill a bad guy.
Jason Mantzoukas
My commitment to you is if they sign me up for a superhero movie, my character will fuck.
June Diane Raphael
Also, you know what, people with beards. Every person with a beard is a bad man. Every person in this is a bad man. Bad, bad man.
Paul Scheer
Well, by the way, Jason, I'm surprised they didn't come to you.
Jason Mantzoukas
Wait a second. I didn't. I didn't love that ellipses Jason.
Paul Scheer
I'm surprised he didn't come to you now, because the people who turned down the role of Craven were Brad Pitt, Keanu Reeves, John David Washington, Adam Driver. Everyone said no. The movie was delayed for two years because people kept on saying no, no, no.
June Diane Raphael
And what was this guy up to?
Laci Mosley
He was awesome.
Paul Scheer
Footage of Bullet Train, and they're like, how about this guy?
Laci Mosley
Great.
Paul Scheer
And Then they put him in. And by the way, I thought he.
Laci Mosley
Did a great job.
June Diane Raphael
Great job.
Paul Scheer
I. I think that, like. I think that, like, he. He played it. Thank you.
Laci Mosley
Yeah.
June Diane Raphael
Oh, he did a great job.
Jason Mantzoukas
He's done no favors by this movie.
Paul Scheer
No.
Jason Mantzoukas
I think Aaron Taylor Johnson is a very good actor, but this movie is insufferably boring. And oftentimes we all, collectively, the audience and all the other characters know what's going on and Kraven doesn't. His whole thing is, I know everything. I'm the hunter. I'm stalking you. I'm observing you. And then oftentimes he's like, where's Dimitri? Where am. Where am I going?
Paul Scheer
I shouldn't have fallen asleep in the park with my shoes off.
Jason Mantzoukas
Yes, he's bad. He's bad. The whole thing about.
Laci Mosley
He should. The problem is there. Listen, there are some sequences, like the whole opening sequence I loved, but then there are other sequences, action sequences, where he's. When he doesn't have his shoes on, he's running through the streets and you just hear those flat feet on pavement over and over and over.
Jason Mantzoukas
Jump off of a skyscraper to the ground, but cannot catch them 40ft away on flat ground.
Paul Scheer
He really is more just like a kitty cat.
Laci Mosley
That's why, by the way, when you said he's someone major's, you know, nemesis, I thought, well, Catwoman.
June Diane Raphael
Oh, because he's doing a lot of planking.
Laci Mosley
Exactly.
June Diane Raphael
He has to plank.
Laci Mosley
Yeah.
Jason Mantzoukas
Boy, does that look good drawn in comics. And does it not look good in person?
Paul Scheer
I. I will.
Jason Mantzoukas
I will also tell you, talking on all fours, like, maybe we figured it's.
June Diane Raphael
Like that woman from the. The Grudge, or what is it? The thing that.
Laci Mosley
The ring.
Jason Mantzoukas
What does she do?
June Diane Raphael
Crawls up, gets you in the shower.
Jason Mantzoukas
Wait, the Grudge woman gets you in the shower?
June Diane Raphael
Yeah, right.
Paul Scheer
She's coming out of the shower, Jess. That's what. I'm. In your shower. She's always in your shower, leaving long dark hair.
Jason Mantzoukas
I'm Grudge. You watch out. You're going to get grudged.
Laci Mosley
I got grudge on you.
Paul Scheer
Maybe that's the reason why they don't hook up, is because he's got, like, that same thing, like a cat's tongue, so it feels like sandpaper.
June Diane Raphael
Help.
Jason Mantzoukas
How do you. Wait. Do you know that from making out with your cat?
Paul Scheer
I know it from my fanfic where he goes down on Calypso and she's like, oh. Ow.
Laci Mosley
Ew. Sorry.
June Diane Raphael
Ew.
Laci Mosley
I'm sorry, everyone.
Jason Mantzoukas
Read it.
Paul Scheer
It's in the lobby.
Jason Mantzoukas
Put some potion on there first. Put some potion on there first.
Paul Scheer
Here's the thing that got me is Craven seemingly has been living in the jungle since he's 16. Like, he leaves, lives in the jungle, builds that nice little.
Laci Mosley
By the way, let's talk about what he built. I'm like, don't worry about all of these bad guys on that list of yours. Like, you have a wonderful career ahead of you in architecture and design.
Jason Mantzoukas
The geodesic dome in Siberia.
Laci Mosley
I thought it was gorgeous.
June Diane Raphael
I want to see that in Dwell magazine.
Jason Mantzoukas
Also, there's no way. Also, he lives in the middle of Siberia and there isn't snow on the ground once. No, that's global warming.
Paul Scheer
Yeah, I had an issue with this. I don't know if anyone captured it. When Craven goes to have that fun run in the middle where it's like, Craven in the city and he goes.
June Diane Raphael
To visit his, like, Caroline in the.
Paul Scheer
City or Sex in the City, more popular.
Jason Mantzoukas
I would have loved it.
Paul Scheer
The Carolina in the city. Yes. Very popular.
Jason Mantzoukas
Give it up for Lea Thompson. Leah Thompson, a classic lady of the 80s right there.
Paul Scheer
Love Leah Thompson.
Jason Mantzoukas
No, no, no. I would have loved it if in the middle of this movie, Kraven had been on a date with Samantha from Sex and the City. And he was like, rahr.
Laci Mosley
And she was like, honey, yeah, that's a great pair.
Paul Scheer
So when he goes to surprise his brother in his loft, his brother's in the shower. And when he comes out of the shower, he's in a full bathrobe.
June Diane Raphael
I noticed that.
Paul Scheer
What's up?
June Diane Raphael
What's there? Unless you have a very large shower, like at the gym sometimes.
Paul Scheer
Yeah, exactly.
June Diane Raphael
Yeah.
Jason Mantzoukas
I have a question for June. June, how do you feel about men in a bathrobe?
Laci Mosley
That's such a great question.
June Diane Raphael
It's a good area.
Laci Mosley
I only want to see a man in a bathrobe at a spa.
Jason Mantzoukas
Great.
Laci Mosley
I don't want to see men in bathrobes at home.
Jason Mantzoukas
Here's what. I'm not interested in wearing a bathrobe. Get it off of my body. Get it out of here.
June Diane Raphael
Although, June, we have a friend who hooked up with somebody who had not only a bathrobe for themselves, but one for their overnight guests.
Jason Mantzoukas
Was it Nick Nolte?
June Diane Raphael
But you wouldn't.
Jason Mantzoukas
Was it Nick Nolte?
June Diane Raphael
It was Nick Nolte. But, Jason, if somebody. If you slept with someone and then they're like, here, you want this extra bathroom? I'm not fucking touching that.
Jason Mantzoukas
I'm in their house.
June Diane Raphael
Yeah.
Jason Mantzoukas
Okay.
June Diane Raphael
It's clean.
Laci Mosley
It's been laundered.
Jason Mantzoukas
That's wild.
Paul Scheer
I think it's. It definitely throws a lot more questions.
Laci Mosley
I know. But it also depends on the size because, like, I'm okay with a really oversized bathrobe where a man looks really tiny. Yeah, I think that's fun.
Jason Mantzoukas
So you want him to look like it's a home alone scenario.
Laci Mosley
Yeah, he's like so small in it, but I don't love when, like, the hem of it is right here.
June Diane Raphael
Like a kimono.
Laci Mosley
Yeah. I don't want to see that.
Jason Mantzoukas
You don't want a kimono Cut.
June Diane Raphael
No.
Jason Mantzoukas
Yeah.
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Laci Mosley
Great question.
Jason Mantzoukas
His last name is Craven. Off.
Paul Scheer
Well, they pronounce it different. They pronounce it Kravinoff. Right. So should it be?
Jason Mantzoukas
But it's an American accent. It's Craven. What's up? Hey, I'm Craven. I'm craving Russian born, American schooled. I live in Siberia. I'm an international man of mis.
June Diane Raphael
That's a hinge profile I am not going to click on.
Jason Mantzoukas
I've got an eight pack, but I don't fuck.
June Diane Raphael
Seriously.
Paul Scheer
Because of my cat's tongue.
Jason Mantzoukas
Don't swipe on me if you aren't cool with me wearing fur.
June Diane Raphael
Okay?
Laci Mosley
Speaking of fur. To jump to the end of the movie. Now that I know. Now that I know he's Spider Man's villain. It's all making a little bit more sense. But also. No, it's not at all.
June Diane Raphael
Nothing's helping because I did get that.
Laci Mosley
He was becoming a villain when he put that, that sweater vest on.
Jason Mantzoukas
It's here behind us. This is the iconic. Even like the lion's mane vest.
Paul Scheer
So he was given that by his father. Dad who he killed. But then the brother's like, oh, by the way, dad left you something. So at that point the dad must have been like, I guess my son's gonna kill, kill me.
Laci Mosley
But here's the thing. The story between him and his brother. The brother is so upset that the chameleon. Yes, the chameleon is so upset that Craven left him when he was 16 years old, as he should be. But, but I thought the dad said the brother was going back to school in New York.
Jason Mantzoukas
I believe he did.
Laci Mosley
So that's a great life. Yeah, it was the life his brother had before and it is away from his father.
Paul Scheer
June, think about it like this. 16 years ago in New York, impressions were just not a big form of entertainment. So you have this impressionist go there and people like, we don't want to see impressions.
Jason Mantzoukas
Well, that's why he opened a piano bar in London.
Paul Scheer
So he, he came to New York with great. He was like the next rich little Fred Travellini. And he's like, ah, buddy, you should have been here in the 80s. That's when impressions were big, you know?
Laci Mosley
And then I guess I just didn't understand why the brother was painting this as though he had been left with the father the whole time. I don't Think that that was true.
Jason Mantzoukas
The father wants to keep Craven with him. He says, you will stay here with me and we'll send the bastard away, Basically, is essentially what he's saying. He's trying to Jon Snow him to the wall, you know?
Laci Mosley
Right.
Paul Scheer
I think it's because he sent him to Fordham and he really wanted to go to Columbia.
June Diane Raphael
Oh, Jesus. I actually thought it was a big problem in the movie because, you know, the save the cat moment. Right.
Jason Mantzoukas
Well, they didn't save the cat. They killed that lion.
June Diane Raphael
They killed it, first of all. Killed the lion that was not saved. And then you're like, oh, I thought Kraven was a big dick when he left him behind. I'm like, why don't you bring Dimitri along? You know, like, put him in a side saddle. You know what I mean?
Paul Scheer
He can have Dimitri learn how to fly the helicopter.
June Diane Raphael
Thank you.
Jason Mantzoukas
He does.
June Diane Raphael
He left him behind. He goes, I won't be gone forever. Fuck you. You leave me with my abusive dad. What do you think's going to happen to me? I'm going to turn into a chameleon.
Jason Mantzoukas
He does well, by the way.
Paul Scheer
He doesn't even turn into a chameleon. It's. It's a year later. So it's like after the events of this movie, when the dad is dead, the guy's like, shit, maybe I should go to New York and meet, like, a sorcerer, because he's not evil until.
Jason Mantzoukas
The movie is over.
Paul Scheer
Which is the craziest fucking term.
Jason Mantzoukas
Well, no, it's. It's because when he's with the rhino and the rhino tells him about. So the rhino's power, inexplicably, is derived from his backpack.
June Diane Raphael
Tiny backpack.
Laci Mosley
Now let's get into it, Jason.
Jason Mantzoukas
Clear. Like, I. As you know, I love a backpack. And is this a. Is this an Evergoods? Is this a tom bin? A topo? It's not. It's not even a topo design. No, no, it's not. It's not. It's some dog shit backpack. It's some weird dog shit backpack full of nonsense, scientific goo. Gahs, who cares?
June Diane Raphael
Right?
Jason Mantzoukas
And his whole thing is he's got it jacked into his body and it's giving him, like, venom juice. And correct me if I'm wrong, expert from Marvel, but this is not how the rhino works. Right. Correct.
Laci Mosley
Thank you.
Paul Scheer
So that fact, basically is keeping him at bay. Like, he's circulating.
Jason Mantzoukas
Let him be the rhino. Let it be the rhino all the time.
June Diane Raphael
I just want to say one thing. Does everyone know that Jason, in the year 2000, had a backpack. Had a hard shell backpack that quote, he called his go bag that had at any time in New York City what he needed to survive.
Laci Mosley
Wow.
June Diane Raphael
In Siberia.
Jason Mantzoukas
Truly not in Siberia.
June Diane Raphael
If shit went bad. Yeah, like that.
Laci Mosley
So that is.
Paul Scheer
I got one of those.
June Diane Raphael
Well, I hope shit doesn't get crazy. Let me get my hard shell go bag.
Jason Mantzoukas
Yeah.
June Diane Raphael
You are craving minus the haircut.
Jason Mantzoukas
I wish I was craving.
June Diane Raphael
There we go. And now we're getting.
Jason Mantzoukas
I wish I had his hair.
June Diane Raphael
Oh, no.
Laci Mosley
So are you saying he said it? He said it. Are you saying, Jess, that you think that the rhino should have had a hard shell backpack?
June Diane Raphael
It was hard shell. Was it?
Jason Mantzoukas
No, I don't think it was like. It was like a fucking douchey tech bro backpack.
Paul Scheer
Yeah.
Jason Mantzoukas
And it was like, I work, but.
Paul Scheer
There'S nothing in that backpack.
Jason Mantzoukas
No. Every backpack in this movie is empty when they're hunting in the. Like in Africa or wherever. And they're all wearing big giant backpacks. They're light as a feather. And the backpacks are like. They're like. They have bubble wrap in them. It's embarrassing. It makes me feel like these men can't carry weight.
Paul Scheer
Wow.
Laci Mosley
Did you just give this movie, like a separate backpack watch. Or were you both watching the film and watched?
Jason Mantzoukas
I watched the backpack scene twice. I'm looking for labels. I'm looking for weight distribution. I'm looking for. Who's using a detachable hip belt. I'm looking for materials. What? Denier Cordura is the. Are these. Are these Dyneema?
Paul Scheer
What?
June Diane Raphael
That's fucked up.
Jason Mantzoukas
I feel I'm losing you, but I don't care.
Paul Scheer
I was wondering why he wasn't wearing a fanny pack. Because I was thinking when he's in that car, I'm like, oh, that's uncomfortable. You always to be like, your back, you know, it's like it's too uncomfortable.
Jason Mantzoukas
Well, it doesn't need all the space in the backpack. It could easily be condensed into a fanny pack or sling.
Paul Scheer
And there's some really nice, attractive fanny packs you could be wearing.
June Diane Raphael
Well, and I think if it was hard shell, which I would argue it should be, if it's protective, scientific, and.
Laci Mosley
Also, he's a rhino. But.
June Diane Raphael
But my point is.
Jason Mantzoukas
Yes, and it's not imposing at all.
June Diane Raphael
But that's my point as the backpack expert. Should it have been bigger if it was hard shell, would we have thought turtle?
Jason Mantzoukas
Yes.
June Diane Raphael
Dangerous turtle. Hero in a half shell?
Jason Mantzoukas
Yes.
June Diane Raphael
Hero in a half shell.
Jason Mantzoukas
Very much could have turned into the turtle character from Master of Disguise.
June Diane Raphael
Okay.
Jason Mantzoukas
This is a pistachio disguise scenario.
Paul Scheer
But by the way, I will say, like, what if, again, a rhino is not synonymous for having a shell on his back. Nor. And I'll say it again, a rhino never forgets. They are combining. Whoever wrote this script is not familiar with animals or they see all animals. It's like, I don't know. I can't tell. Different animals. I'm animal.
Jason Mantzoukas
Whoever wrote this script didn't drink any of Calypso's potions.
Laci Mosley
They didn't know because looking at the backpack now, and I'm so glad we have the time to just take a really close look.
Jason Mantzoukas
Buckle up, Austin.
Laci Mosley
Look at the show on Tuesday.
Paul Scheer
They talked about backpacks for two and a half hours.
Laci Mosley
I'm also like, it's. And I. You'll probably disagree, Jason, but I think it's. It's trying to be a very stylish, sleek look.
Jason Mantzoukas
I agree. It's. It's techy and slick, and I know.
Paul Scheer
What you're talking about. It's. It's a backpack for people who don't wear backpacks. And that's the thing I get.
Jason Mantzoukas
You know what this is? This is fucking. This is.
Paul Scheer
This.
Jason Mantzoukas
This douche. This fucking douche?
June Diane Raphael
Yeah.
Jason Mantzoukas
This is the big bad of the movie. And it's like, no. This guy is like, hey, I swear to God, I have a meeting with Tim Cook. You gotta let me in.
Laci Mosley
For sure.
Jason Mantzoukas
I swear to God, I'm on the schedule. I'm supposed to meet Tim Cook. Poor Alessandro Nivola is doing fantastic work. And it's like, do I really have to wear the backpack?
June Diane Raphael
Yeah.
Jason Mantzoukas
They're like, you guys look any better?
Laci Mosley
This is the type of guy who, like, they're wearing. Something major happened in his life, and he was like, I am not carrying a briefcase anymore. And then the day happened where he was like, I'm moving into a back well. Because he's got to.
Paul Scheer
Got to have his hands free.
Jason Mantzoukas
Yep.
Laci Mosley
Yes.
Paul Scheer
He's got to keep his hands free.
Jason Mantzoukas
Not just be the rhino all the time.
Paul Scheer
No.
Jason Mantzoukas
Bad ass. Would that.
Laci Mosley
Because I guess it's painful.
June Diane Raphael
Question mark.
Jason Mantzoukas
Who cares?
Paul Scheer
They do, Chop.
Jason Mantzoukas
Honestly, who cares? It's painful. Toughen up.
Paul Scheer
But by the way, also, what a fatal flaw the fucking rhino has. Oh, yeah. I am indestructible. Except for a small hole. Small hole that if you put a pen in there, I'm fucking dead.
Jason Mantzoukas
Also, when the rhino is. When the rhino. We see the rhino only in the very end of the movie. Fully Rhino'd out, right? And he's on top of a car and Craven's on top of a car. They're both on top of vehicles in the middle of a stampede. And once again, Kraven is looking at a human rhinoceros combo and is like, cool. Nobody's like, what the fuck?
June Diane Raphael
Here's something I actually thought was, why am I doing such high level work tonight? But forgive me, go ahead.
Jason Mantzoukas
This is your high level work, go ahead.
Laci Mosley
Forgive me, but I thought one of.
June Diane Raphael
The things that didn't make it scary for me and it should have been. And in fact, in the first five minutes, the man next to me on the plane said, are you sure you should be watching this?
Jason Mantzoukas
What?
June Diane Raphael
Yes. Because I kept going with this, like, because I just thought, oh, what's going to happen? And you know, he bit that guy's nose off, I think at some point. But, but I never worried that Craven was going to get beat. Like, shouldn't we always have some tension?
Paul Scheer
Well, I thought the rhino never got beat. The rhino is pretty tough. Like it realized. Yeah, well, you're right. I mean, look, okay.
Laci Mosley
Oh, God.
June Diane Raphael
He's put his hand.
Paul Scheer
I think that. And you know, as somebody who has been through this, when you get through what when you get chomped in half by a full lion, it's hard to scare you.
June Diane Raphael
That's a chapter that didn't make it into your book.
Paul Scheer
Couldn't put it. Didn't get the rights from the lion. But that's what I think that this movie kind of posits. It's like, yeah, man, a fucking lion just chomped down on me hard. I'm not afraid of anything. Like. And I feel like that's the energy that he carries with him in all.
Laci Mosley
But here's the interesting thing about the experience of the lion because he becomes, I think, part lion. Right? We think, I think the legend.
June Diane Raphael
Yeah.
Laci Mosley
But he also has a really intense experience with other animals who he seems to be communicating with. Like when that bird shows up at his window and that bird is very much so like, knock, knock, knock.
June Diane Raphael
That happened to you?
Jason Mantzoukas
Hey, bro.
Laci Mosley
No, but, but, but he has a tense relationship.
Jason Mantzoukas
The bear as well, at the end of the.
Laci Mosley
And the bear and then also his own herd, his own stampede and the.
Jason Mantzoukas
Snow leopard that attacks him.
Paul Scheer
Hey, you don't attack me. I attack you. Get out of here, kid.
Laci Mosley
Exception of that snow leopard, the movie posits that lions are natural friends to every other animal, which is not how I know the animal can work.
Jason Mantzoukas
I don't Think it's natural friends. I think he's meant to be establishing dominance over all of them. Like, really.
June Diane Raphael
Because they seem like they help him.
Jason Mantzoukas
Out, the lion being the apex predator, but.
June Diane Raphael
But they do so many solids for him. I agree.
Jason Mantzoukas
Oh, no, no. I do think in some way, shape or form, the movie wants us to believe he is talking or communicating with the animals the way that Aquaman talks with the fish.
Paul Scheer
But I just have an idea now because. All right, so the dad does kill the lion that chomps him, right?
June Diane Raphael
Yeah.
Paul Scheer
And then at the end, his dad, I guess, sews him that nice. Like the vest with the mane on it. I would imagine that he would not want to wear the mane of that.
June Diane Raphael
Line because that seemed weird to me too. Also that his dad said, let's just unpack that. No, I am you, you are me. Thanks for the gift. I'm wearing it. It's weird.
Laci Mosley
Yeah.
June Diane Raphael
Like, he doesn't want to be his dad.
Paul Scheer
No. Well, I think his dad's like, well, as much as you don't want to be me, you are. Fuck you. I'm dead by.
Jason Mantzoukas
Here's the thing. What's crazy in this movie is the stakes are so high. They're going all over the world. Everything that's happening has massive, massive. Like. Like evil is being perpetrated all over the place. And. And all of it is because of each of these men's reaction. Only to Russell Crowe. Yeah, he has birthed all of this because Nivola is also like, I couldn't get your father to like me, so now I'm the rhino.
Paul Scheer
But no, no, he doesn't want to be the rhino. He's trying to get the super soldier serum. Like, he's like, no, no, he doesn't.
Jason Mantzoukas
Want to be the rhino, but he wants to be strong. Strong Press Cravens.
Laci Mosley
But here's. There's the bummer about this movie, is there. There is such a better movie in there about a son who has been abused by his dad and doesn't want to become that man. And in this overcorrecting effort to not become him, he becomes exactly who his father is. Movie at all. Because in the journey to do that, like, we never get to emotionally see that that's anything he's challenged with. We don't. The movie is not interested in his interior life at all. And so I don't think he is. And I don't think he is either.
Jason Mantzoukas
Not interested.
Laci Mosley
So when he puts. When he puts on that vest, we are sort of left to believe, like, oh, yeah, the vest turned you.
Jason Mantzoukas
You know what? And I swear to God, my. I guarantee you this is how they sold it to Aaron Taylor Johnson. Listen, it's the Godfather. You're Michael Corleone. Wow. The father is the Godfather. And you are trying your best to be good, but at the end, you're bad, but you're a bad guy.
Paul Scheer
But he's not a bad guy.
June Diane Raphael
I don't think that's what this shows.
Paul Scheer
He doesn't break bad.
June Diane Raphael
He's never bad. Right. The brother's bad.
Paul Scheer
He's not bad. And then he puts on that coat.
Laci Mosley
Not bad. Of course he's not bad. But. But because. And again, I'm doing more work than the movie cares to do. But because he's so obsessed with not being bad, he ultimately knows he's seen as bad and can't escape that. The brother escaping his father's son. And so decides. It's so much easier.
Paul Scheer
Why are you getting applause?
Jason Mantzoukas
Breakdown. You're right. And the brother basically says, you're just as bad as dad. You just think because you do it for a different reason.
June Diane Raphael
But is he. He's killing bad people.
Laci Mosley
I don't think he is, but I don't think it matters because, again, this is the movie doesn't care about any of this. But. But because he can't escape that, he decides to become bad. He's not bad in the movie. But here's the thing.
Paul Scheer
If Jason's theory is true, which I think it might be like the Michael Corleone moment, like, there is.
Laci Mosley
I also mentioned that theory in a different way, but.
Paul Scheer
No, no, no.
June Diane Raphael
Just like the movie.
Paul Scheer
No, no, no.
June Diane Raphael
Women are erased.
Paul Scheer
I meant to say the way that he plays it at the end, because, like Michael Corleone at the end of the Godfather, you see this, like, moment of him just being like, oh, fuck. Like, what have. What have I gotten into? But here, he's like, put this on. He's like, fuck, I look cool. My new jacket. Like, there's no. There's no. Like, what have I become? It's more like, wait, are we supposed.
June Diane Raphael
To believe he's turning bad at the end?
Laci Mosley
Yes. Really?
Jason Mantzoukas
I think that's what the movie wants. I'm not saying it's successful, to be clear.
Laci Mosley
Yes, But I think that's what's happening now.
Jason Mantzoukas
Paul, you're getting up to go to the audience now. I'm gonna pause you for one second, and that second is only to say, who is the Foreigner?
June Diane Raphael
Oh, yeah.
Paul Scheer
I can't believe we didn't talk about The Foreigner.
June Diane Raphael
Wow.
Jason Mantzoukas
And how do we get him out of our country?
Paul Scheer
1, 2, 3. We gotta build a wall.
Jason Mantzoukas
This guy. We can't keep this guy in here.
Paul Scheer
Jay, does the Foreigner exist?
Jason Mantzoukas
Foreigner does exist.
Paul Scheer
All right. Foreigner does exist as well.
Jason Mantzoukas
But it's my understanding. Cause I looked that character up, and he is powerless.
Paul Scheer
Well, it seems like all he does.
Jason Mantzoukas
Is hypnosis powers that allow him to just get behind you.
June Diane Raphael
The scariest. The scariest moment of the Foreigner, honestly, with all those people he kills, is when he was slicing that rare steak so close to Dimitri. It's like, that's the nastiest shit I've ever seen.
Jason Mantzoukas
And where's that?
June Diane Raphael
He just appears with a steak. Also.
Jason Mantzoukas
You know what? I don't need to watch you eat or do anything. Hypnotize me for that part of it, obviously.
Paul Scheer
I think what I love about.
June Diane Raphael
When you're done masticating that steak, I.
Paul Scheer
Think what I love about these movies is they're going lower and lower on the tier of villains, and you're just seeing how pathetic they are. It's like, I am the Foreigner. It's like, all right, I guess, like, I don't know if we need a whole movie.
Jason Mantzoukas
Poor Alessandro Nivola. Poor Chris Abbott. Like a character who really genuinely. We're meant to be like, oh, this is a. This is a true assassin. And he's like, oh, Kraven killed my mentor. Who is the mentor? Do we know the guy in the.
June Diane Raphael
Prison with a bad teeth?
Laci Mosley
Yeah, but I was so confused. The guy in the prison, running the prison. I thought he was just a warden.
Paul Scheer
I thought he was a warden.
Jason Mantzoukas
But then, no, I think he's a bad guy who's a prisoner who just has a cool roof.
June Diane Raphael
Why didn't he get his own office?
Jason Mantzoukas
Great question. Why is he in that prison? The movie isn't. Here's what's interesting about a movie like this. It's not interested in exposition. These movies usually love exposition.
Paul Scheer
This movie says, you'll figure it out now. Yes.
Jason Mantzoukas
Well, this movie knows if it starts giving you information, you're gonna start being like, hang on.
Laci Mosley
Wait a second.
Paul Scheer
All right, so your name, your question.
Jason Mantzoukas
My name's Leti, and I have a question. So he's going to Siberia, and he's stampeded by all these buffalo.
Laci Mosley
But those are cape buffalo from Africa.
Jason Mantzoukas
So, like, where did I love. I love a woman over there is like, a woman right there is like, yes, yes.
Laci Mosley
Yeah.
Jason Mantzoukas
We have a buffalo expert. We have multiple buffalo experts.
Paul Scheer
Well, look, it's shocking because the movie.
Jason Mantzoukas
Raise your hand if you have a. If you're a buffalo expert.
June Diane Raphael
Yeah, couple. Couple.
Paul Scheer
I mean, so I guess we found the first flaw.
Laci Mosley
Yeah, that's it.
Jason Mantzoukas
That's the only.
Paul Scheer
All right, we'll mark it on the side. Tricky.
Jason Mantzoukas
All right.
Paul Scheer
I go to people with notebooks. I see this notebook. I see a lot of notes. What do you got? Hi, I'm Brad. So there's obviously so many questions with.
Jason Mantzoukas
This movie, it's kind of insane. Well, just do one of them.
Paul Scheer
But.
Jason Mantzoukas
So I watched it with closed captions.
Paul Scheer
On in the beginning and. Oh, if you have this note, I may have the same one. All right.
Jason Mantzoukas
This is great.
Paul Scheer
Okay. Yes. Oh, I think you do. Yeah. I watched this with closed captions on in the beginning, and I think they.
Jason Mantzoukas
Couldn'T understand Russ accent.
Paul Scheer
And it said, this line is responsible.
Jason Mantzoukas
For two or three thousand deaths.
Paul Scheer
And I was curious, like, lions only.
Jason Mantzoukas
Live to be, like, 10 years old. Charity in the wild. Oh, yeah. No, this lion has killed thousands of people.
Paul Scheer
But now what I saw was he said 200 or 2000 because it was a giant number when it was on screen.
Jason Mantzoukas
Right. It was 2 or 3,000. It was. I saw 2.
Laci Mosley
I saw it too.
Paul Scheer
Which, if you run the math back.
Jason Mantzoukas
Is like, he killed 300 people a.
Paul Scheer
Year, by the way.
Jason Mantzoukas
By the way. To be fair, then, if I'm being honest, the lion is doing a better job than Kraven.
June Diane Raphael
Sure.
Jason Mantzoukas
A lion is a better hunter than Kraven. Let the lion live. Justice for the lion.
June Diane Raphael
Hi.
Paul Scheer
What's her name? What's your question?
Laci Mosley
Hi, I'm Aubrey. So you guys didn't mention this.
Jason Mantzoukas
I'm kind of surprised, but, like, scene for scene, especially when he first shows us, like, his new. His house in Siberia or whatever, it's very Twilight esque.
Laci Mosley
And I don't.
Jason Mantzoukas
Yes, yes.
June Diane Raphael
Climbing on the trees.
Jason Mantzoukas
Right? So, like, his eyes are like an amber color.
Laci Mosley
Yes.
Jason Mantzoukas
You see the, like, blood exploding, like, all of it. He's running through trees.
Laci Mosley
Anyway, so my question is, are you.
Jason Mantzoukas
Guys team Craven or team Jacob?
Laci Mosley
I've never been team Jacob ever, so I guess I'm team Craven.
June Diane Raphael
I'm still team Craven.
Jason Mantzoukas
Yeah. I'm team Craven. And I agree. It is Twilight coded and nothing else.
Laci Mosley
I didn't realize, though, that. I didn't realize that. Are all these Marvel superhero movies so sexless?
Jason Mantzoukas
Yes.
Laci Mosley
Oh, wow.
Jason Mantzoukas
Oh, yes.
Laci Mosley
That's too bad. It is too bad.
June Diane Raphael
It's just an opportunity.
Jason Mantzoukas
It's truly heartbreaking because it's as if all of these incredibly strong, charismatic Men are not interested in anything at all.
June Diane Raphael
What a bummer. I feel like Craven is the guy you date in college. You know, he's a lot of fun at a party. Go on.
Jason Mantzoukas
I know the people you dated, you know. What are we doing?
June Diane Raphael
He's fun at a party. You know, take his shirt off and all that.
Jason Mantzoukas
I know that guy.
June Diane Raphael
But you don't marry Craven.
Jason Mantzoukas
No.
June Diane Raphael
Do you know what I mean? But I'm teaching.
Jason Mantzoukas
Unless you're Calypso.
June Diane Raphael
Unless you're. I guess you're Calypso stuck with him. It was her grandmother's fault. Daddled her with this responsibility.
Paul Scheer
Sorry. If you guys were talking for a while. I'm in the mezzanine.
June Diane Raphael
Jesus Christ. You're like the Foreigner, Paul. You just show up.
Paul Scheer
Hi. How are you?
Laci Mosley
I'm well.
June Diane Raphael
How are you? Good.
Paul Scheer
What's your question?
June Diane Raphael
So my question is mostly for June.
Jason Mantzoukas
And Jessica, who I love and I'm very happy.
Laci Mosley
Take a break.
June Diane Raphael
Thank you for giving women a chance to speak.
Laci Mosley
Take a break.
June Diane Raphael
Unlike the Marvel universe. Go ahead.
Paul Scheer
You guys got your. Madame Web.
Jason Mantzoukas
That's the other one. Madame Web.
Laci Mosley
Madame Web.
Jason Mantzoukas
Bonjour, Madame Web.
June Diane Raphael
Good old sleepy time. All right, go ahead.
Jason Mantzoukas
Okay, so as a woman, I.
Laci Mosley
At the kind of. Towards the end of this movie, Calypso.
Jason Mantzoukas
Calls Craven and she's like, oh, the bad guys are in my office and I need to get out.
June Diane Raphael
And he's like, come out and join me in my.
Jason Mantzoukas
Chip and Joanne, like, greenhouse. And she. There is a scene. There is a shot of her, like, packing her.
Laci Mosley
Oh, I know what you're gonna say, Aubrey. I'm already there with you.
Jason Mantzoukas
Carry on bag.
Laci Mosley
Like, carry on bag, but like a purse that size.
Jason Mantzoukas
Like a big tote. And then she is in Siberia.
Laci Mosley
And then at the end, she kills.
Jason Mantzoukas
Charlie from Girls with the Crossbow three. Motherfucker.
Paul Scheer
Yeah.
Laci Mosley
And all of a sudden, she is in a.
June Diane Raphael
Like a hot look.
Jason Mantzoukas
Leather outfit.
June Diane Raphael
Hot look. She has many outfits now.
Paul Scheer
I thought about this. This reminds me of your friend with the extra bathrobe.
June Diane Raphael
It's interesting that you're answering, Paul. She said it was for us.
Laci Mosley
Yeah.
June Diane Raphael
Okay. So thanks, Craven Part 2. Thank you.
Laci Mosley
Paul's mansplaining my question, but my. For the ladies. Did she have this made and she.
Jason Mantzoukas
Was ready because she is the granddaughter of all of these amazing women.
Laci Mosley
So she just had a to go.
June Diane Raphael
Superhero outfit or did Craven have a.
Jason Mantzoukas
Woman superhero outfit ready for her?
Laci Mosley
Yeah.
Jason Mantzoukas
Chip and Joanne Greenhouse. Just in case. So.
Laci Mosley
I'm so glad you brought this up.
June Diane Raphael
This is so funny.
Laci Mosley
And I Thought about it, too.
June Diane Raphael
Just so vital.
Laci Mosley
It's an important discussion, you know, I. Well, first of all, I just want to say I'm not sure. I didn't think she called him. I think she called her. He called her, and she happened to be on the phone and say, oh, my God, five strange guys just walked in. And so she just randomly caught them at that moment. But she couldn't have packed that. What I have to believe is that that outfit was in one of those things that popped out.
Paul Scheer
Yeah, one of those things.
Laci Mosley
Actually, it made me really appreciate Craven a lot more in that.
June Diane Raphael
What, though? Tell me, is it like our friend who hooked up with the guy who had the extra bathrobe who's like, try that on?
Laci Mosley
It's more. Yeah, it's like the guys still don't, like. It's like the guys who always kept their bathroom safe, stocked with tampons when they're single and, like, just had extra.
Jason Mantzoukas
Toothbrushes, extra stuff in case I get a nosebleed.
Laci Mosley
It just seemed like a really nice gesture. And like, he was waiting for the moment when a woman would arrive.
Jason Mantzoukas
Here's my question. Here's my question. He says to her, I just got attacked. They're going to come for you next. Get ready. She says, there's guys here. He says, go. Come to me in Siberia. Boom. She's loading up her bag. Why doesn't she bring her noise canceling headphones? They're in the drawer next to everything else. And she doesn't pack her noise canceling headphones.
June Diane Raphael
When you're being hunted, you do not want white noise.
Paul Scheer
All right, all right.
June Diane Raphael
Eyes out.
Paul Scheer
Hi. What's your name? What's your question?
Jason Mantzoukas
Hi, I'm Abba.
Paul Scheer
I thought it was interesting that when we see him in the jungle, he is, like, fishing and then takes a bite of the raw fish and then goes into his beautiful house with this.
Laci Mosley
Kitchen as if he's, like, living purely off the land.
June Diane Raphael
He's got, like, a Viking range, but he's like, I'm so hungry, I'm just gonna bite into this fish head.
Paul Scheer
And also, he's not looking into the.
June Diane Raphael
Fish'S eyes and getting some message. He doesn't give a shit about the fish.
Jason Mantzoukas
No, because I think he's gonna eat it. And he knows if he talks to the fish, they're gonna be like, no, don't eat me.
June Diane Raphael
Cool.
Jason Mantzoukas
Don't eat me. Ah, come on, Craven. And he's being like. He's doing his Gollum thing. But, yeah, like. Like the movie's not interested in him being, like, grimy and down and dirty and eating and. And being, like, ferocious because he has to be so slick and handsome all the time that at any point, someone could him, even though no one ever will.
Paul Scheer
I am in the balcony.
Jason Mantzoukas
Oh, boy.
Laci Mosley
Yay. Paul, be careful.
Paul Scheer
I am among my people.
Jason Mantzoukas
There's nothing in the balcony. Nothing scarier than a Texas balcony.
Paul Scheer
This is my Siberia. I will not take from these people.
Jason Mantzoukas
Just stinks of barbecue farts.
Paul Scheer
All right, what's your name? What's your question?
Jason Mantzoukas
Okay. Hi.
Laci Mosley
My name's Rena. I want to say. I cannot believe we have not talked about the singing at the club in this movie. What the hell is.
Jason Mantzoukas
What do you want to. What do you want to say about it? Go.
Laci Mosley
First of all, I don't think that's him singing.
Paul Scheer
Well, no, he's a chameleon. Tony Bennett.
Jason Mantzoukas
By the way, the balcony is killing it tonight.
Paul Scheer
That was him. Was it? Tony Bennett voice? Yeah. That's why he's the chameleon for one of the songs.
Laci Mosley
Not the first song before everyone gets killed.
Paul Scheer
All right, well, all right.
Laci Mosley
I'm just gonna say I don't know.
Jason Mantzoukas
Anything about Marvel movies, so I did not know this was a Marvel movie for the first hour and 45 hours.
Paul Scheer
You know that most Marvel movies have.
Jason Mantzoukas
A well within your rights. That's totally normal. It does not.
Laci Mosley
I know that Tony Bennett was gonna.
June Diane Raphael
Show up in a Marvel.
Jason Mantzoukas
Okay, now, hang on a second.
Laci Mosley
That wasn't. Of course. That wasn't actually Tony Bennett there.
Paul Scheer
No, no, she's shaking me now. No, it's.
Laci Mosley
Paul, walk away.
Jason Mantzoukas
Bennett's voice.
Laci Mosley
I understand that, but it's not right. It is, honey. It is. But you just said it wasn't. It's not him, but it is his voice. So what they did was they.
Paul Scheer
They played the song, and he went like this, right? And then Paul.
Laci Mosley
I think what she's saying is she's surprised. Yes. We've heard him do voices because I was surprised, too. We've heard him do voices. We've heard that he's, like, an amazing impressionist, but we have not known up until that point of the movie.
Jason Mantzoukas
I'm gonna be honest.
Laci Mosley
They keep on giving her the mic. I'm speaking. I knew he was mocking it. I knew he was mocking the voices.
Paul Scheer
You guys are doing great.
Jason Mantzoukas
Just hang on.
Paul Scheer
It was good. It was good. What do you got over here?
June Diane Raphael
All right, so we talked about how.
Jason Mantzoukas
This is a sexless movie, and we.
June Diane Raphael
Talked about how we kind of all.
Jason Mantzoukas
Got the freaking ick when he walked on all fours. So we think that's why Calypso didn't have sex with him. Because she saw him walk on all.
Laci Mosley
Fours and got the ick.
Jason Mantzoukas
Oh, I don't think so.
Paul Scheer
Wow.
Jason Mantzoukas
I don't think so. I think they. She wasn't into him because the bosses were like, no, they don't fuck. Because we don't show that to young people. Young June.
June Diane Raphael
And you don't even think there was an undertone? I didn't even feel much of an undertone because I was looking for it.
Jason Mantzoukas
Because I know they are partners in the comics.
Laci Mosley
Yeah. I mean, again, I had to create sexual tension between him and the pilot. I had to create it between him and Calypso. Can I make my way through the movie?
Jason Mantzoukas
I'll be completely honest. There was more chemistry between the brothers than anybody else. I was like, when are we gonna White Lotus this shit? Let's go. Let's go. Dimitri, jerk your brother off. Let's go. Come on. Marvel, Texas DEAs.
Paul Scheer
I. I did. I think there is a deleted scene I saw where he jerks off a bear.
June Diane Raphael
Okay, okay, Paul.
Jason Mantzoukas
Well, that's how he gets him to attack his dad.
Paul Scheer
Yeah.
June Diane Raphael
Oh, my God.
Jason Mantzoukas
He's like, I need you to kill my dad. And the bear's like, what's in it for me, bro? I auditioned to play the bear.
Paul Scheer
Obviously, we had opinions about this movie, but there are people out there with a different opinion. It is now time for second opinions.
Jason Mantzoukas
I'm Susan.
Laci Mosley
I'm Leti.
Jason Mantzoukas
I'm Ellie. Oo second opinions. Oo oo second opinions.
June Diane Raphael
In Siberia, then in London. The craven hunts tonight. Dreams of mommy and scary spiders. The craven sleeps tonight.
Jason Mantzoukas
Opinion, Opinion. A second opinion. Opinion, Opinion. A second opinion.
June Diane Raphael
Here's the rhino and then chameleon. The foreigner counts to three. 1, 2, 3. Sony's bringing all the villains but Spider man. Where is Hush, my brother? Don't fear my brother. We've got emotional scars.
Jason Mantzoukas
This movie's left us totally empty.
Laci Mosley
But we still give 5 stars.
Paul Scheer
Amazing.
Jason Mantzoukas
Great job.
Paul Scheer
Thank you so much. All right, these are five star opinions from Amazon. There are 76, but.
Jason Mantzoukas
And you're gonna read all of them.
Paul Scheer
I'll get through as many as I can. 69% are five star reviews. 69. Yeah. Craven and that bear. 69. All right. My name in Latin is Beautiful writes. I wasn't interested in this movie at all. After seeing the trailer, it looked like just another blood and guts film with no real storyline. Now, we ended up at the theater by mistake. Buying tickets to the wrong movie. Someone in our group wanted to see Craven so we decided to give it a shot within the first 10 minutes. I turned to everyone and said, this movie's really good title. Unexpected win. Five stars.
June Diane Raphael
I'm so curious what they were going to see. Was it Paddington 3 Paddington in Peru.
Paul Scheer
Does he have the marmalade powers?
Jason Mantzoukas
Do you think Craven understands Paddington better?
Paul Scheer
Oh, he definitely.
Laci Mosley
Great question.
Jason Mantzoukas
I mean Paddington to be clear. Speak. Wouldn't it be great if Craven was like he had the scene with his father at the end and then Paddington came out of the woods like in his blue coat, in his hat, like, oh man.
Paul Scheer
Marmalade.
Laci Mosley
Or just Aunt Lucy.
Jason Mantzoukas
I would love it. I would love it. Any of them?
June Diane Raphael
No, it's a woman.
Laci Mosley
They don't want her in film.
Paul Scheer
This is a quickie. Trend 700 writes, this is more than a great movie. It is a definitive portrait of a legendary character. With Kraven the hunter, Taylor Johnson doesn't just set the bar. He is the bar. Five stars.
Jason Mantzoukas
Can I ask a question?
Paul Scheer
What's that user's name, trend700?
Jason Mantzoukas
Isn't trend A steroid?
Paul Scheer
It seems like, yes, that is clearly.
Jason Mantzoukas
A steroid user who's like, this dude's fucking jack. I love this movie. Five stars. Jacked Jack. Dude who doesn't fuck just like me. I love steroids and not fucking craven. Five stars.
Paul Scheer
And finally Dartman writes this. I've streamed the movie. It's one of the best, but the price is ridiculous. I'm not gonna order it based on the price. Five stars.
Jason Mantzoukas
Okay.
Laci Mosley
That's okay, sir.
Paul Scheer
Look, sometimes that price point is hard. So I apologize to all of you. I will say this. We talked about how this movie had some moments. It's the first Spider man related project to receive an R rating. So that is. They believe that that's the issue because on Netflix.
Laci Mosley
So the genre of movie this is is Spider man related.
Paul Scheer
Yeah. These are spider verse movies.
Jason Mantzoukas
Yeah.
June Diane Raphael
You don't see a spider.
Jason Mantzoukas
So these are all movies that are waiting for Spider man to show up.
Laci Mosley
Spider man is living rent free. Oh yeah. Wow.
Jason Mantzoukas
Yeah, they are. They all exist as. As theoretical foils for a hero who's not in the movie. Movie.
Paul Scheer
Now here is a little fun fact. This character was supposed to be in Black Panther, a movie that would fit perfectly, but they told Ryan Coogler, yeah, you can't use him. Sony's got him. And so that's why we don't realize.
June Diane Raphael
That two people own two places.
Paul Scheer
Yes.
June Diane Raphael
It's like if McDonald's if, like, Ronald was with this person, the Hamburglar.
Jason Mantzoukas
These are your superheroes.
June Diane Raphael
Yep.
Jason Mantzoukas
Your superheroes are the.
Laci Mosley
I understand.
Jason Mantzoukas
That are the Grimace baby. Donald's Playland game. Give it that Grimace baby. Uh, oh, Hamburglar's here.
Paul Scheer
I want. I want our T shirt to be Craven in his chair with Grimace on.
Jason Mantzoukas
One side and the. And the fry guys. And the fry guys and Hamburglar, and it just says you up.
Paul Scheer
The other. The other idea for a shirt I had was a picture of Tony Bennett, and it says, this is not Tony Bennett. That might be the one.
Jason Mantzoukas
No, I think it should be CE n'est pas Tony Bennett if we want to go full Magritte.
Paul Scheer
I love it. Any final thoughts on this film?
Jason Mantzoukas
Yes. I felt much the same way the rhino did when he said at the end of the movie, I wish I'd never met you, Craven Ops. No more cogent piece of information was put out in this movie that said it all. I was like, me too, guy. I much more preferred the rhino when Paul Giamatti played him in the Andrew Garfield movies.
Laci Mosley
You know, I wrote down one line that Russell Crowe says at the end when he's describing Craven and he says he's an assassin who uses all the methods of the animals of the jungle. And I thought, does he? Because that was the one line where I was like, I was craving. I was craving, craving. I was craving for it so badly. Like, oh, that's what his powers are. That's what his whole deal is. That's who he is. That's who he is in every situation we put him in. But then when he said it, when he finally said it, I was like, that doesn't sound like the guy I know who's throwing darts and such.
Jason Mantzoukas
I felt like. I agree in the sense that when he has the yellow eyes of the lion, I'm like, yes. Give me, like, explain to me this power set and what access he has to the knowledge of the lion or whatever.
June Diane Raphael
Because using a blow dart, you never see, you know, a bear.
Laci Mosley
You're not gonna fight a bear.
June Diane Raphael
Try to blow dart somebody.
Laci Mosley
No, you're not gonna see. That's it.
June Diane Raphael
They don't have the ability with their paws.
Laci Mosley
This is a movie.
Paul Scheer
That's why you need somebody to jerk them off. I loved it.
June Diane Raphael
Yeah, I did.
Laci Mosley
Listen, I did.
June Diane Raphael
I don't know why you loved it.
Paul Scheer
I loved it because it was so aggressively dumb on every level that I was like, oh, I don't have to, like, great. I get it. I'm in. I like. I Think that sometimes people, when you get all this exposition, when you find out backstory of like, I don't need it.
June Diane Raphael
No.
Laci Mosley
Then you did love this movie.
Jason Mantzoukas
I'm just going through my notes, be like, oh, did I miss anything? Was there? And so I talk about the backpack so much in my notes.
Laci Mosley
Yeah.
Jason Mantzoukas
I have so many notes about the backpack and other backpacks in this movie. That's the movie I saw. I saw a two and a half hour movie about backpacks. It wasn't good, Jess.
June Diane Raphael
Well, we never talked about the severed finger. That was disgusting.
Jason Mantzoukas
Well, you know what that brings up and I'm sorry, but the movie, as we've talked about, isn't interested in investigating or having any of our characters be romantic or sexual in any way, shape or form. But God damn if there isn't a grisly violence in every scene.
Laci Mosley
Yeah. So many limb. Limbs chopped off, those antlers removed. I never seen machetes.
Jason Mantzoukas
That guy's head.
Laci Mosley
Oh, too much.
Jason Mantzoukas
We can't see him finger someone, but we can watch. We can watch him chop.
Paul Scheer
In a way. In a way. A machete to the head is a certain type of fingering.
Jason Mantzoukas
How so?
Paul Scheer
Putting your fingers up in that person's skull.
Jason Mantzoukas
Yeah. Just like Tony Bennett.
June Diane Raphael
Listen, I. I also, I can say all the movies I have to watch for this make me feel physically ill.
Laci Mosley
This one didn't same J.
June Diane Raphael
That's shocking to me. And what that's showing me is that.
Laci Mosley
What do you take away from that abs?
June Diane Raphael
Unable.
Laci Mosley
Yeah.
June Diane Raphael
Will get me through a lot.
Laci Mosley
Understood.
June Diane Raphael
I really mean well.
Paul Scheer
You're in luck on this tour. We got some abs coming up. A lot of movies have abs coming up.
June Diane Raphael
No, it's going to be worse. And I saw those zombie heads on those surfers. I'm so upset.
Paul Scheer
That's four shows from now. You got some time.
June Diane Raphael
Yeah. It's going to be bad, but yeah, no, I. I have to say, like, as far as it goes now, again, didn't know it was a Marvel movie.
Paul Scheer
Sure.
June Diane Raphael
You know, I don't know about Spider Man. That wasn't haunting me the whole time. And you know, you and I were.
Laci Mosley
So free in our watch to just see what we were seeing. And I think we were the only ones not thinking about Spider Man.
Jason Mantzoukas
What's so interesting is I wish we had watched it together, only for the sake of. I would have loved to have been present when a man in the. In the movie about hunters and poachers turned into a human rhinoceros.
June Diane Raphael
Yeah.
Jason Mantzoukas
If you had no idea that. Well, that this was a superhero movie. You'd be like, whoa.
Laci Mosley
You know what, though? Interestingly, I wasn't that shocked. I was like, okay, I got it.
June Diane Raphael
That in this world, a doctor did it. Like, I thought superheroes, it's like you were born that way. But I guess the fly is not Lady Gaga.
Paul Scheer
Fly is not a superhero movie.
June Diane Raphael
But that's what the Hulk. The Hulk bad experiment gone wrong.
Jason Mantzoukas
Yeah, that's an experiment gone wrong. The Hulk born this way.
Laci Mosley
But I thought, okay, we have a.
June Diane Raphael
Serum in this world that makes you a rhino. That doesn't make you a superhero. You have to, like, stab yourself with the tight with something from a tiny backpack. That doesn't make you a superhero. Superheroes are born.
Paul Scheer
Hey. Well, first of all, let me hang on. For all the diabetics out there, I want to say that you are our superheroes.
June Diane Raphael
You're always pandering to the diabetic crowd, Paul. It's so see through.
Paul Scheer
Yeah.
Laci Mosley
Are you getting kickbacks? Like, what?
Jason Mantzoukas
Yeah.
Paul Scheer
What's up, Paul, for all you insulin users out there, I see you.
Jason Mantzoukas
But wait, but you said. You claimed earlier that the ports on their body are points of weakness.
June Diane Raphael
Yeah, you just have to, quote, jam a pencil in there.
Jason Mantzoukas
Yeah, you.
June Diane Raphael
That's nice, Paul.
Jason Mantzoukas
You highlight.
Paul Scheer
Edit that out.
Jason Mantzoukas
Wow. Wow.
June Diane Raphael
Okay, so superheroes are created.
Paul Scheer
Yes.
Laci Mosley
Like some tragic event. Like Batman, you know, saw his parents murdered in front of him.
June Diane Raphael
They were born. Like, something's off.
Paul Scheer
No, I mean.
Jason Mantzoukas
Wait, what do you mean something's bad? Well, Batman is not part Bat Man. Bat. Isn't he man? Bat is part bat, but Batman is not part bat. Oh.
June Diane Raphael
He lives in a cave. He's not a bat. You man.
Jason Mantzoukas
Thank you.
Paul Scheer
That's our show.
Jason Mantzoukas
Hey, huge mistake. Huge pulp. I want to go on record. Huge mistake. The next 10 minutes, St. Clair is going to be on fire. She's. She's. It's like a kid who's been up too late. She's about to be nothing but truths. We're going to wrap it anyway. Yeah. See?
Paul Scheer
Thank you. Good night.
Jason Mantzoukas
Eat Texas.
Paul Scheer
What a great show. What a crowd. Thank you to everybody who showed up. And remember, you can find us anywhere you want online at hdtgm.
Jason Mantzoukas
All right. Idiots. Hey, folks, it's Jason. Guess what? We finally have a release date for Taskmaster Season 19, and it is right around the corner. If you're interested in watching the show, you can check it out on YouTube on the Taskmaster app. The official release date is May 1 for the UK viewers on Channel 4. That, I believe, means it will be available for the rest of us in the world watching it on YouTube the second May 2nd. Go to YouTube right now. Subscribe to Taskmaster on the YouTube app and get ready for absolute unbridled chaos.
Paul Scheer
A big thank you to our producers Scott Sahni and Molly Reynolds and our movie picking producer Avril Halley, as well as our engineer Casey Holford. We'll see you next week on Last Looks. Bye for now.
Laci Mosley
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Release Date: April 18, 2025
Hosts: Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, Jason Mantzoukas
Guest: Jessica St. Clair
In this episode of "How Did This Get Made?", the hosts Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, and Jason Mantzoukas delve into the critically panned film Kraven the Hunter. Joined by guest Jessica St. Clair, they dissect the movie's plot, characters, and overall execution, offering both humorous and critical insights into why the film has been labeled as one of the worst despite featuring notable actors like Russell Crowe and Aaron Taylor Johnson.
Paul Scheer kicks off the discussion with an enthusiastic take on the movie:
Paul Scheer [08:36]: "I fucking loved it. I loved this movie."
Contrastingly, Jason Mantzoukas provides a more skeptical perspective:
Jason Mantzoukas [05:35]: "This movie is rotten to the core."
June Diane Raphael and Jessica St. Clair echo mixed feelings, highlighting both entertaining elements and significant flaws within the film.
Kraven Kravinoff / Craven: Aaron Taylor Johnson's portrayal of Kraven is scrutinized extensively. The hosts discuss his transformation and the inconsistency in his character development.
Jason Mantzoukas [08:02]: "He is hairless and he is finding reasons to take off that shirt."
June Diane Raphael [12:17]: "This is Spider-Man's villain. Kraven the Hunter is a huge Spider-Man villain."
Calypso: Played by Jessica St. Clair, Calypso is analyzed for her limited presence and underdeveloped role in the movie.
June Diane Raphael [07:00]: "I knew I'd be tortured by a film. This one."
Laci Mosley [09:25]: "Because there is one female character in this movie."
The hosts emphasize the lack of substantial female characters, noting the impact on the movie's overall narrative and representation.
The movie's plot is a focal point of criticism. The hosts express confusion over the storyline's coherence and character motivations.
Paul Scheer [12:08]: "They can't reference Spider-Man in these movies. This is Sony's version of the Marvel World."
Jason Mantzoukas [15:02]: "The brother is so upset that Craven left him with his abusive dad. What do you think's going to happen to me?"
They highlight inconsistencies, such as the abrupt time jumps and the unclear relationship dynamics between Kraven and his family.
The hosts critique the movie's visual aspects, including costume design and special effects.
June Diane Raphael [32:14]: "It's your friend who hooked up with the guy who had the extra bathrobe."
Jason Mantzoukas [46:24]: "This is some weird dog shit backpack full of nonsense, scientific goo."
Particular attention is given to Kraven's physical appearance, such as his abs and hair, which the hosts find both distracting and underutilized in character development.
Themes of obsession, legacy, and transformation are discussed, though the hosts feel the movie fails to effectively convey these ideas.
Laci Mosley [22:53]: "What his ideology is, what he lived."
Jason Mantzoukas [25:16]: "This is how you create monsters."
They argue that Kraven's descent into villainy is poorly executed, lacking emotional depth and clear motivation.
The episode draws parallels between Kraven the Hunter and other films within the superhero genre, particularly highlighting its shortcomings in comparison to more successful entries.
Paul Scheer [55:14]: "This character was supposed to be in Black Panther, a movie that would fit perfectly, but they told Ryan Coogler, yeah, you can't use him."
June Diane Raphael [84:37]: "But I thought, okay, we have a serum in this world that makes you a rhino. That doesn't make you a superhero."
These comparisons underscore the episode's critique of the film's failure to capitalize on established superhero tropes and character backgrounds.
The hosts bring in fictional audience reviews to showcase the disparity between personal opinions and public reception.
Paul Scheer [76:11]: "Look, sometimes that price point is hard. So I apologize to all of you. I will say this."
Jason Mantzoukas [76:38]: "I feel like, you know, the backpack scene was comedy gold."
While some audience members praise the film, the hosts maintain a largely negative stance, emphasizing fundamental flaws that undermine its entertainment value.
Wrapping up the discussion, the hosts reiterate their mixed feelings about Kraven the Hunter, acknowledging moments of unintended humor and entertaining performances but ultimately deeming the film as flawed.
Paul Scheer [81:14]: "I loved it because it was so aggressively dumb on every level that I was like, oh, I don't have to, like, great. I get it."
June Diane Raphael [83:12]: "I have to say, like, as far as it goes now, again, didn't know it was a Marvel movie."
The episode concludes with the consensus that while Kraven the Hunter had potential, its execution fell short, leaving both the hosts and the audience with lingering questions and disappointments.
This summary encapsulates the primary discussions and critiques presented in the episode, offering a comprehensive overview for those who haven’t listened to it. The hosts employ humor and candid opinions to dissect Kraven the Hunter, providing listeners with both entertainment and critical analysis of the film's shortcomings.