This Week in Startups
01:02:09 · Jason Calacanis, Lon Harris
[01:02:09] S0: Okay. So Godzilla minus one twenty twenty three. I took my daughters to [01:02:12] S2: see it. [01:02:13] S0: That's the peak. Person. They loved it. I loved it. And I think it's the only time they saw a film with subtitles, with the first time. [01:02:19] S2: Probably that for a [01:02:19] S0: lot of people. Yeah. And it is unbelievably good. Highly recommend. Here is the next one coming. This is Godzilla Minus Zero. Is the one. This is zero. And the woman's got their eye blown out. I mean, it is... And it's Toho Studios. Look at this, man. Look at this. A house is flying through the air. [01:02:39] S2: Yeah. This one, they really... You can tell they got... They had a bigger budget this time. They've really upped the ante. They're taking it to the next level. [01:02:46] S0: I love this. You know my love of Japan. And, like, this era in Japan, to me, when I go to Japan, I look for the buildings and the vibes Mhmm. From... If this is what? Thirties, forties, fifties maybe? [01:02:58] S2: Is this is fifties. The first one was forties, and now this one is jumping ahead to the fifties. [01:03:02] S0: Okay. I I I love this era of Japan. And there's areas in Japan where they have preserved this era that I go when I walk around. [01:03:11] S2: Yeah. Yeah. Those little [01:03:12] S0: village I'll get soba at a 100... No. But I'll get soba in Tokyo at a 100 year old place. So that's, like, something you go watch now and then something you should look forward to. I don't know when it's coming out. Think it's sued? It's rated r. [01:03:25] S2: Yeah. It's coming soon.
01:03:25 · Lon Harris, Jason Calacanis
[01:03:25] S2: Yeah. It's coming soon. [01:03:26] S0: I hope. Metacritic. I don't see when it's... Oh, November 3. Yeah. In... Oh, wait. It's out. It's... [01:03:31] S2: That's this week. It's out. [01:03:32] S0: That's this week. God. I cannot wait. [01:03:35] S2: Oh, yeah. [01:03:35] S0: We we should do a movie run. [01:03:36] S2: It's playing at the Draft House. It's at the Barton Creek Square. [01:03:39] S0: We can go. Why don't we go? Wait. Wait. What am I doing this weekend? Why don't we all go? Yeah. I'll I'll get tickets for everybody. [01:03:44] S2: Figure it out. [01:03:45] S0: Let's go. Yeah. We got the IMAX. Okay. What do you got on your off duty? [01:03:49] S2: I did... There there is a film I wanna talk about. Another Asian film. This one is Korean. It's from this year. It's now on VOD. It's called hope. Zach, see if you can find this. You can rent it. It's on, you know, Prime Video, Apple, all the different platforms. It is... This movie is crazy. It's like two and a half hours long. I don't wanna give too much away. The opening is [01:04:08] S0: What? What's the name of the film? [01:04:09] S2: Hope. H O P E. That's... Which is the... Which is a town. It's a village in the opening of the movie. It is being attacked by some sort of unseen threat. It sounds like a monster. [01:04:20] S0: The Korean film. It's a [01:04:21] S2: Korean film. There's some sort of You saw it? I watched it. It's on VOD now, so I watched it the other day. [01:04:25] S0: There is [01:04:25] S2: some sort of monster or creature that is, as you could see, attacking the world.
01:04:25 · Lon Harris, Jason Calacanis
[01:04:25] S2: some sort of monster or creature that is, as you could see, attacking the world. [01:04:29] S0: Heard this is the best movie ever made in Asia. [01:04:32] S2: Chasing this thing around. It takes a long time for you to get your bearings on what really is happening. It's just chaos for a while. Incredible action sequences, really weird, cool effects, great characters. I mean, this is a crazy movie, and it takes... It it goes into some really unexpected, interesting directions. [01:04:50] S0: Okay. For 10 year old daughters? [01:04:52] S2: Oh, I mean, [01:04:54] S0: it is 16 year old. Yes. [01:04:55] S2: 16 year old for sure. It is it is... There is... Like, there's nothing objectionable about it, but it is... There is a lot of violent, monsterish action. So [01:05:04] S0: Okay. [01:05:05] S2: People are getting violently injured by this creature. [01:05:08] S0: Hope. H o p h [01:05:10] S2: o p, [01:05:10] S0: Korean film. It it is just People say this is by far the best Korean movie ever made. I think it's the biggest budget ever. [01:05:16] S2: It was a huge [01:05:16] S0: People are losing headlines. [01:05:17] S2: A huge budget. It's a big concept, and and there's lots of action, and some of the action sequences are really impressive. But it's also just... It's just really different. Like, it's a fascinating take on this whole genre, and you're following all these different characters, and it's interesting the way things come together. Some big twists. I I I really got into it. [01:05:34] S0: Don't tell us anything else. [01:05:35] S2: I don't
01:05:35 · Lon Harris, Jason Calacanis
[01:05:35] S2: I don't [01:05:36] S0: wanna reveal percent were reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, 77 for the popcorn rating. Pretty high for a monster film. [01:05:42] S2: Well, and it's it's... But it's like it... It's weird. It's not it's not... It it consistently upends your expectations about what you think is coming, and I I really enjoyed it. Check check it out. [01:05:52] S0: Worth Godzilla minus one. Guess the Rotten Tomatoes scores. [01:05:57] S2: Oh, it's gotta be, like, 98 or something. 97, 98. [01:06:01] S0: How do you do it? 99 [01:06:03] S2: Mhmm. [01:06:03] S0: And 98. [01:06:04] S2: Yeah. [01:06:04] S0: How do you do it? I mean, that was You know that that's bait. [01:06:07] S2: Yeah. That movie blew everyone. I mean, I remember... Because that... It was it was not... Like, there was Shin Godzilla, that Japanese Godzilla movie from, like, ten years ago, and that one was very, like, anticipated. The filmmakers were really well known. It was really marketed heavily. This one, I feel like Godzilla minus one kinda came out of nowhere. Like, I hadn't heard that much about it. I I think it was not intended to go international. International. Like, had mainly been selling it to Japanese audiences, and it was just so good. It became like a worldwide phenomenon. Like, r r r, that that that Indian movie around the same time. [01:06:41] S0: Give me one more. Give me one more. Okay? Everybody loves your pitch. [01:06:44] S2: There's a show that, it wrapped up a a few weeks ago on Apple TV, but I am just now finishing the season. Dark Matter season two just wrapped up.
01:06:44 · Lon Harris, Jason Calacanis
[01:06:44] S2: There's a show that, it wrapped up a a few weeks ago on Apple TV, but I am just now finishing the season. Dark Matter season two just wrapped up. [01:06:52] S0: Yes. I know about that. [01:06:53] S2: That one with the... It's a multiverse show, but in a in a much more thoughtful, serious way. And not to knock Marvel. I like Marvel. But, like, Marvel's doing the multiverse of that very, like, fantasy sci fi, like, oh, eight different versions of doctor Strange, which is fun. This one is like, what if you really could travel between realities and meet other versions of yourselves? Like, how would that psychologically impact you, and what would that do to the world? And, like Is that the guy who [01:07:21] S0: was the billionaire guy from Yes. [01:07:24] S2: The Silicon Valley. From Silicon Valley. Exactly. He plays a private detective. Glad he got one more. In this show. So, yeah, Joel Joel Edgerton plays a physicist, but in another reality, not his own. He's just a teacher in his reality. But in another reality, he's a [01:07:39] S0: This is my show. [01:07:40] S2: He's a brilliant physicist. [01:07:41] S0: Keep you around. [01:07:42] S2: Yeah. Who invents a device that allows you to visit other realities. And so he ends up meeting the other him who's this brilliant inventor. It sets off this whole chain of reaction that involves everybody he knows, basically. Very good. Very cool show. Dark Matter on Apple TV plus. [01:07:58] S0: That's your twist. We'll see you on Monday. Bye bye. [01:08:01] S2: Bye, everybody.