1 00:00:02,367 --> 00:00:03,334 I hope they don't show us 2 00:00:03,368 --> 00:00:05,136 some boring art house movie. 3 00:00:05,170 --> 00:00:06,871 Well, the title of the move is terrible. 4 00:00:06,904 --> 00:00:08,673 I mean, Focus Group? What is that? 5 00:00:08,706 --> 00:00:10,708 Focus Group isn't the title of the movie. 6 00:00:10,741 --> 00:00:13,010 - We're in a focus group. - Huh? 7 00:00:13,044 --> 00:00:16,347 Charlie, we're here to watch, analyze, critique, 8 00:00:16,381 --> 00:00:17,815 and then, most importantly, judge 9 00:00:17,848 --> 00:00:19,517 whatever film we're gonna be shown. 10 00:00:19,550 --> 00:00:21,886 Uh, these filmmakers... They need valuable input, 11 00:00:21,919 --> 00:00:23,397 and we have been carefully selected to provide it. 12 00:00:23,421 --> 00:00:25,356 We were walking out of the mall, 13 00:00:25,390 --> 00:00:27,658 and they offered us Red Lobster gift cards. 14 00:00:27,692 --> 00:00:28,869 Nevertheless, you know, they've chosen wisely. 15 00:00:28,893 --> 00:00:30,861 Uh, good afternoon, everyone. 16 00:00:30,895 --> 00:00:32,997 I-I want to thank you for joining us today. 17 00:00:33,030 --> 00:00:36,234 Now, your feedback is very important to us. 18 00:00:36,267 --> 00:00:37,402 - Sweet. - I'm sorry. 19 00:00:37,435 --> 00:00:38,712 I'm just a little confused here, 20 00:00:38,736 --> 00:00:39,880 'cause I can't follow this movie. 21 00:00:39,904 --> 00:00:42,340 The movie hasn't started yet. 22 00:00:42,373 --> 00:00:44,342 Yeah, uh, Moderator, not to worry. 23 00:00:44,375 --> 00:00:47,212 I-I just want to assure you that your movie is in good hands. 24 00:00:47,245 --> 00:00:48,546 Y-You've chosen wisely. 25 00:00:48,579 --> 00:00:51,382 See, I, myself, am a prolific filmmaker. 26 00:00:51,416 --> 00:00:54,885 In fact, while you don't thrill me, 27 00:00:54,919 --> 00:00:57,188 I might even consider you for one of my roles. 28 00:00:57,222 --> 00:01:00,925 Well, thank you, um, but I'm not really a performer. 29 00:01:00,958 --> 00:01:03,261 I'll get a performance out of you. 30 00:01:03,294 --> 00:01:07,031 - Uh, where will we appear in the credits? - In the credits? 31 00:01:07,064 --> 00:01:08,442 - Are we gonna be at the front? - Yeah, for our contribution. 32 00:01:08,466 --> 00:01:09,367 - Sort of the beginning of the film, or...? - Yeah. 33 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:11,736 Well, you-you will not be. 34 00:01:11,769 --> 00:01:15,406 But your opinions are valuable to us. 35 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:17,084 - And you're gonna get a lot of them. - Oh, yeah. 36 00:01:17,108 --> 00:01:18,652 I'm already tearing this entire experience apart. 37 00:01:18,676 --> 00:01:20,611 - As am I. - Me, too. 38 00:01:20,645 --> 00:01:21,888 - Why don't we just start? - I'll tell you what. Why don't you 39 00:01:21,912 --> 00:01:23,457 - just go ahead and show us. - Let's just, let's see. 40 00:01:23,481 --> 00:01:25,226 Whatever piece of shit you're gonna show us, you know, 41 00:01:25,250 --> 00:01:26,793 - Yeah. - So we can tear it apart and get out to Red Lobster? 42 00:01:26,817 --> 00:01:29,053 - Yeah, I'm hungry. - Okay. 43 00:01:29,086 --> 00:01:31,756 So the title of the film is... 44 00:01:31,789 --> 00:01:35,326 Thunder Gun 4: Maximum Cool. 45 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:36,594 - Oh! - What? -Oh! 46 00:01:36,627 --> 00:01:38,929 - Really? - Holy... 47 00:02:12,663 --> 00:02:16,434 Uh... uh... What was that? 48 00:02:16,467 --> 00:02:18,503 I, uh... I'm not sure. 49 00:02:18,536 --> 00:02:21,439 - Uh... - I-I was totally lost. 50 00:02:21,472 --> 00:02:23,841 Did they make Thunder Gun bad? 51 00:02:23,874 --> 00:02:27,478 - Yeah. - Okay. So, that was our movie. 52 00:02:27,512 --> 00:02:29,380 Now, clearly, the film is not done, 53 00:02:29,414 --> 00:02:30,491 but still a work in progress. 54 00:02:30,515 --> 00:02:31,949 - Oh. - Oh. -Oh, thank God! 55 00:02:31,982 --> 00:02:34,018 - Oh. - Okay, great. -Oh, Jesus. 56 00:02:34,051 --> 00:02:35,529 Okay, so let's adjourn to the conference room 57 00:02:35,553 --> 00:02:37,355 to begin our session. 58 00:02:37,388 --> 00:02:38,699 - Let's get into it. Yeah. - Yeah. Let's-let's fix it. 59 00:02:38,723 --> 00:02:40,358 - We can, uh, we can fix it. - Oh, yeah. 60 00:02:40,391 --> 00:02:41,892 Okay, why don't we just 61 00:02:41,926 --> 00:02:43,794 break it down, act by act? 62 00:02:43,828 --> 00:02:45,796 I'll play back a scene from the first act, 63 00:02:45,830 --> 00:02:47,698 and then we can discuss. 64 00:02:47,732 --> 00:02:50,134 - Yeah, okay. All right. - Okay. 65 00:03:02,413 --> 00:03:05,082 Is your name John? John ThunderGun? 66 00:03:07,084 --> 00:03:11,055 Mm. Maybe once. 67 00:03:11,088 --> 00:03:12,923 Not anymore. 68 00:03:12,957 --> 00:03:14,759 I'm Dr. Ling. 69 00:03:14,792 --> 00:03:17,728 This is my assistant Max. 70 00:03:17,762 --> 00:03:20,365 I'm head of research and development for Com-Tec. 71 00:03:20,398 --> 00:03:21,899 We need your help. 72 00:03:21,932 --> 00:03:23,934 Why? 73 00:03:23,968 --> 00:03:26,871 You got a bottle of whiskey that needs draining? 74 00:03:26,904 --> 00:03:29,039 A man named Colonel Washington has stolen a formula 75 00:03:29,073 --> 00:03:30,775 from our lab. 76 00:03:30,808 --> 00:03:33,010 In the wrong hands, this formula could be used 77 00:03:33,043 --> 00:03:34,845 as a powerful weapon. 78 00:03:34,879 --> 00:03:37,282 A weapon that could destroy millions of lives. 79 00:03:37,315 --> 00:03:40,518 We need it back, but he wants something from us. 80 00:03:40,551 --> 00:03:44,522 Oh, yeah? What's that? 81 00:03:44,555 --> 00:03:47,425 Not what, but who. 82 00:03:49,394 --> 00:03:51,262 I am Colonel Washington. 83 00:03:51,296 --> 00:03:54,565 You know my reputation, so you'll give me what I seek. 84 00:03:54,599 --> 00:03:57,234 Where is ThunderGun? 85 00:03:57,268 --> 00:03:59,370 Right here. 86 00:03:59,404 --> 00:04:01,906 Me. 87 00:04:01,939 --> 00:04:03,508 I am ThunderGun. 88 00:04:05,175 --> 00:04:06,977 I am ThunderGun. 89 00:04:07,011 --> 00:04:08,979 I am ThunderGun. 90 00:04:09,013 --> 00:04:10,247 I am ThunderGun! 91 00:04:10,281 --> 00:04:12,082 I am ThunderGun! 92 00:04:12,116 --> 00:04:14,619 I am ThunderGun! I am ThunderGun! 93 00:04:14,652 --> 00:04:17,322 I am... 94 00:04:18,589 --> 00:04:20,224 Okay, who has questions about the setup? 95 00:04:20,257 --> 00:04:22,427 - Mm. - Oh. -Oh! 96 00:04:22,460 --> 00:04:23,894 - Me, me, me, me! - Yeah. 97 00:04:23,928 --> 00:04:26,997 - Um, let's start with you. - What's being set up? 98 00:04:27,031 --> 00:04:28,766 Um... the entire movie. 99 00:04:28,799 --> 00:04:30,735 The, uh... 100 00:04:30,768 --> 00:04:33,003 So, the main characters, the story, the villain. 101 00:04:33,037 --> 00:04:34,772 That's where you lost me. Who's the bad guy? 102 00:04:34,805 --> 00:04:36,941 Well, Colonel Washington, obviously. 103 00:04:36,974 --> 00:04:38,409 That's not clear. 104 00:04:38,443 --> 00:04:40,778 In the old movies, the good guy wore white, 105 00:04:40,811 --> 00:04:43,948 the bad guy wore black, or was black. 106 00:04:43,981 --> 00:04:46,484 Well, depending on the hero. 107 00:04:46,517 --> 00:04:47,761 Right? It's-it's not a racial thing. 108 00:04:47,785 --> 00:04:49,253 - Mm. - It's about opposites. 109 00:04:49,286 --> 00:04:51,288 See, I want the bad guy to be different than me 110 00:04:51,322 --> 00:04:53,257 - so I know why I hate him. - Mm-hmm. 111 00:04:53,290 --> 00:04:54,835 Mm. I hate people who are different than me. 112 00:04:54,859 --> 00:04:56,827 Mm-hmm. Yeah. Like Rocky one. 113 00:04:56,861 --> 00:04:58,463 Bad guy was black. 114 00:04:58,496 --> 00:05:00,097 Rocky II... another black guy. 115 00:05:00,130 --> 00:05:03,468 Rocky III... different black guy with a mohawk. 116 00:05:03,501 --> 00:05:05,035 - Right. - Yeah, but in Die Hard, 117 00:05:05,069 --> 00:05:06,547 - the bad guy was foreign, right? - Hmm. 118 00:05:06,571 --> 00:05:07,781 - Yeah. - So I know why I hate him. 119 00:05:07,805 --> 00:05:08,939 - There we go. - Yeah. 120 00:05:08,973 --> 00:05:10,975 People hate foreigners. 121 00:05:11,008 --> 00:05:12,353 - Right. - Yeah, we hate them. -Right? So in Thunder Gun, 122 00:05:12,377 --> 00:05:13,554 you don't have to do any reshoots, right? 123 00:05:13,578 --> 00:05:15,179 - Yeah. - Don't-don't make him black. 124 00:05:15,212 --> 00:05:17,348 - Just give him an accent. - What kind of accent? 125 00:05:17,382 --> 00:05:19,125 What about Australian? That's pretty foreign. 126 00:05:19,149 --> 00:05:20,385 No, that's not gonna work. 127 00:05:20,418 --> 00:05:22,052 'Cause they're white. 128 00:05:22,086 --> 00:05:24,389 No, because they're fun. 129 00:05:24,422 --> 00:05:26,462 They're a very fun group of people, right? I mean... 130 00:05:26,491 --> 00:05:28,493 - Yeah. - Try to hate an Australian. 131 00:05:28,526 --> 00:05:29,870 - It's impossible. - A bunch of rapscallions. 132 00:05:29,894 --> 00:05:31,171 - Little rascals. - Ooh, but French, though. 133 00:05:31,195 --> 00:05:32,997 - French. - Ugh. 134 00:05:33,030 --> 00:05:35,032 - Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Snobby. Snobby, yes. 135 00:05:35,065 --> 00:05:37,468 Yes, yes. You will definitely dislike him, 136 00:05:37,502 --> 00:05:40,204 but you won't fear him because he's most likely a pussy. 137 00:05:40,237 --> 00:05:42,206 - Oh. - Right. -That's right. 138 00:05:42,239 --> 00:05:43,173 - Not scary. Not scary. - Right, right. 139 00:05:43,207 --> 00:05:44,642 When in doubt, 140 00:05:44,675 --> 00:05:46,310 - go Eastern European, right? - Right. 141 00:05:46,343 --> 00:05:47,554 - That's a classically evil part of the world. - Uh-huh. 142 00:05:47,578 --> 00:05:49,213 - There you go. - That'd work. 143 00:05:49,246 --> 00:05:51,849 You know, let's talk a bit about the female character. 144 00:05:51,882 --> 00:05:53,751 - Nah. - Do we have to? 145 00:05:53,784 --> 00:05:55,986 - I would love to. - The studio needs 146 00:05:56,020 --> 00:05:57,221 a female perspective. 147 00:05:57,254 --> 00:05:59,590 What did you think of Dr. Ling? 148 00:05:59,624 --> 00:06:02,026 Oh, I think she sucks. First of all, she comes in 149 00:06:02,059 --> 00:06:05,496 with a whole plan, like she's starting the movie. 150 00:06:05,530 --> 00:06:10,034 So, you... you want the female characters to have less agency? 151 00:06:10,067 --> 00:06:12,737 Yeah. Look, I feel bad enough about myself as is. 152 00:06:12,770 --> 00:06:15,673 I don't need some super hot, funny, smart chick doing, like, 153 00:06:15,706 --> 00:06:18,576 roundhouse kicks and cracking computer codes 154 00:06:18,609 --> 00:06:20,545 - to make me feel worse. - Mm. Mm-hmm. 155 00:06:20,578 --> 00:06:23,548 No. No. I-I like the women of the old Thunder Gun days, right? 156 00:06:23,581 --> 00:06:25,249 Bed 'em and dead 'em. 157 00:06:25,282 --> 00:06:28,185 Look, first act, he meets a lady. 158 00:06:28,218 --> 00:06:30,354 She's super hot, but I'm smarter, right? 159 00:06:30,387 --> 00:06:32,457 And then he bangs her, and she gets dead. 160 00:06:32,490 --> 00:06:34,058 And-and later on, he meets someone. 161 00:06:34,091 --> 00:06:36,126 All right, this one's smart, I'll give her that, 162 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:37,695 but I'm funnier. 163 00:06:37,728 --> 00:06:39,196 You know what I mean? 164 00:06:39,229 --> 00:06:40,931 He bangs her, she gets dead, and then, 165 00:06:40,965 --> 00:06:43,033 and in the end, he falls in love with an ugly one, 166 00:06:43,067 --> 00:06:44,445 and who cares about that? I don't care about that. 167 00:06:44,469 --> 00:06:46,103 And then she gets dead, and that sets up 168 00:06:46,136 --> 00:06:47,414 for the next movie, and I'm all in. 169 00:06:47,438 --> 00:06:49,774 Because all of the women are dead. 170 00:06:49,807 --> 00:06:51,609 You know? No competition. 171 00:06:51,642 --> 00:06:53,444 - Oh, that's a good point. Yeah. - Yeah. 172 00:06:53,478 --> 00:06:54,921 - Right? - Okay, yeah. Write that down. 173 00:06:54,945 --> 00:06:57,414 - Women hate women. - I... 174 00:06:57,448 --> 00:07:00,084 I think the studio was trying to get away 175 00:07:00,117 --> 00:07:02,487 from the female character just acting 176 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:05,055 as a plot device or a sex trophy. 177 00:07:05,089 --> 00:07:06,957 - Ah, but, yeah, why? - Why? 178 00:07:06,991 --> 00:07:09,293 - But that works. - Okay, let's move past this. 179 00:07:09,326 --> 00:07:13,130 Let's take it into the second act with this next clip. 180 00:07:13,163 --> 00:07:16,300 I'm sorry I dragged you into this, ThunderGun. 181 00:07:16,333 --> 00:07:18,603 Don't lose hope. 182 00:07:18,636 --> 00:07:20,605 We may get out of this yet. 183 00:07:20,638 --> 00:07:22,239 But if we don't, 184 00:07:22,272 --> 00:07:24,141 I think there's something I should tell you. 185 00:07:24,174 --> 00:07:26,811 We've met before. 186 00:07:26,844 --> 00:07:28,513 Detroit. 187 00:07:28,546 --> 00:07:30,347 Winter. 188 00:07:30,380 --> 00:07:32,082 At a bar. 189 00:07:32,116 --> 00:07:34,084 I went home with you. 190 00:07:34,118 --> 00:07:37,087 The next morning, you were gone, 191 00:07:37,121 --> 00:07:39,724 and I never heard from you again. 192 00:07:40,791 --> 00:07:44,261 I'm sorry if I hurt you. 193 00:07:44,294 --> 00:07:47,264 I never was good at being tied down. 194 00:07:47,297 --> 00:07:49,867 No, it's not that. It's just... 195 00:07:49,900 --> 00:07:52,503 My assistant. 196 00:07:52,537 --> 00:07:53,971 You know Max. 197 00:07:54,004 --> 00:07:56,641 Well, he's not just my assistant. 198 00:07:56,674 --> 00:07:58,676 He's my son. 199 00:08:00,645 --> 00:08:03,380 - Are you trying to tell me... - Yes, John. 200 00:08:03,413 --> 00:08:05,149 He's your son, too. 201 00:08:06,416 --> 00:08:08,052 Max is your son. 202 00:08:08,085 --> 00:08:09,987 Okay. 203 00:08:10,020 --> 00:08:12,189 So, this is the midpoint twist. 204 00:08:12,222 --> 00:08:13,691 What is? 205 00:08:13,724 --> 00:08:15,526 Um, ThunderGun finding out he has a son. 206 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:17,294 - Mm-hmm. - He has a son? 207 00:08:17,327 --> 00:08:18,529 Yes. 208 00:08:18,563 --> 00:08:20,297 But how is this the twist? 209 00:08:20,330 --> 00:08:22,299 I mean, because he's got a kid? 210 00:08:22,332 --> 00:08:24,134 I mean, he's probably got a thousand kids, 211 00:08:24,168 --> 00:08:26,871 all the raw-dog loads he drops. 212 00:08:26,904 --> 00:08:30,007 I don't know what "raw-dog loads" are. 213 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:32,009 Sorry for him. But my disgusting friend 214 00:08:32,042 --> 00:08:33,510 does bring up a good point. 215 00:08:33,544 --> 00:08:35,345 I mean, every Thunder Gun movie 216 00:08:35,379 --> 00:08:38,583 has at least one very tasteful yet very erotic sex scene in it, 217 00:08:38,616 --> 00:08:40,250 - and this had none. - Mm. 218 00:08:40,284 --> 00:08:42,152 Yeah. I've-I've been waiting for the right time 219 00:08:42,186 --> 00:08:44,030 to bring this up, but I feel like we need to address 220 00:08:44,054 --> 00:08:45,690 the elephant in the room, no? 221 00:08:45,723 --> 00:08:47,367 - Yeah, this is a big one for us. - Might as well. 222 00:08:47,391 --> 00:08:48,935 - I've been thinking about it. - Might as well. -Yeah. 223 00:08:48,959 --> 00:08:51,662 Okay, so... where's the dong? 224 00:08:53,297 --> 00:08:55,399 The-the dong? 225 00:08:55,432 --> 00:08:56,333 - The dong. - Yeah. Yeah, yeah. 226 00:08:56,366 --> 00:08:57,501 Yeah, the dong. The dong. 227 00:08:57,534 --> 00:08:58,679 John ThunderGun has hung dong 228 00:08:58,703 --> 00:09:00,738 in every chapter of this saga. 229 00:09:00,771 --> 00:09:02,382 And, well, I just watched 90 minutes of one, 230 00:09:02,406 --> 00:09:04,041 and yet not one hang. 231 00:09:04,074 --> 00:09:07,011 Well, I think that the studio was thinking 232 00:09:07,044 --> 00:09:11,515 the gratuitous nudity was maybe a bit much. 233 00:09:11,548 --> 00:09:13,517 - Fuck you. - Bullshit! 234 00:09:13,550 --> 00:09:16,220 - Bullshit! - This is exactly the type of Hollywood bullshit 235 00:09:16,253 --> 00:09:17,698 that America is sick of. What are you talking about? 236 00:09:17,722 --> 00:09:19,523 Hollywood's completely out of touch. 237 00:09:19,556 --> 00:09:21,534 - So out of touch with what people want! - Don't you want to give people 238 00:09:21,558 --> 00:09:24,294 - what people actually want? - There's a bigger issue here. 239 00:09:24,328 --> 00:09:26,296 Movies are different now. 240 00:09:26,330 --> 00:09:28,733 You lost a sense of community. 241 00:09:28,766 --> 00:09:30,901 Interesting. Go on. 242 00:09:30,935 --> 00:09:33,771 Look, years ago, before the Internet, 243 00:09:33,804 --> 00:09:36,240 we would all go out to the movies together. 244 00:09:36,273 --> 00:09:37,775 Yes. This is exactly what studios 245 00:09:37,808 --> 00:09:40,210 are trying to bring back. A-An event. 246 00:09:40,244 --> 00:09:43,280 A place we can all go to enjoy as a community. Yeah. 247 00:09:43,313 --> 00:09:44,982 I mean, it used to be 248 00:09:45,015 --> 00:09:47,985 you give the creep-show at the window a couple of bucks, 249 00:09:48,018 --> 00:09:50,587 you could spend all day in there popping off. 250 00:09:50,621 --> 00:09:53,090 And the joy of it was that there were people popping off 251 00:09:53,123 --> 00:09:54,324 at the same time. 252 00:09:54,358 --> 00:09:55,592 I mean, n-not that you looked 253 00:09:55,626 --> 00:09:57,327 at each other. It was dark. 254 00:09:57,361 --> 00:09:59,229 You weren't looking for the gay thing. 255 00:09:59,263 --> 00:10:02,332 But it gave you a sense of something bigger than yourself. 256 00:10:02,366 --> 00:10:04,802 Now, they... you know, 257 00:10:04,835 --> 00:10:06,436 got rid of all these movie theaters. 258 00:10:06,470 --> 00:10:08,605 They're taking all the sex out of the movies. 259 00:10:08,639 --> 00:10:10,307 And what am I supposed to do? 260 00:10:10,340 --> 00:10:14,111 Go home, turn the lights off and pop off in front of Charlie? 261 00:10:14,144 --> 00:10:15,479 No, thanks. 262 00:10:16,446 --> 00:10:17,848 I'm sorry. 263 00:10:17,882 --> 00:10:20,685 Are you talking about pornography theaters? 264 00:10:20,718 --> 00:10:23,854 I'm talking about community, honey. 265 00:10:23,888 --> 00:10:27,124 Right. E... Uh, yeah, even if the studios 266 00:10:27,157 --> 00:10:28,693 wanted to put back in the nudity, 267 00:10:28,726 --> 00:10:30,828 they couldn't because of the new rating. 268 00:10:30,861 --> 00:10:33,097 Wh-What do you mean, the new rating? 269 00:10:33,130 --> 00:10:35,966 Thunder Gun: Maximum Cool will be rated PG-13. 270 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:37,534 What? 271 00:10:39,003 --> 00:10:42,306 Now, that's quite a midpoint twist. 272 00:10:42,339 --> 00:10:43,607 They did it! They did. 273 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:45,943 They ruined everything with this PC bullshit. 274 00:10:45,976 --> 00:10:48,045 Straight white men can't have anything anymore. 275 00:10:48,078 --> 00:10:50,715 Men? Look, don't forget white women. 276 00:10:50,748 --> 00:10:52,783 We got completely passed over. 277 00:10:52,817 --> 00:10:54,685 Yeah, and I can't follow any of this. 278 00:10:54,719 --> 00:10:56,162 We're feeling a lot of outrage right now, you know, 279 00:10:56,186 --> 00:10:57,497 because we want something, and we know we deserve it, 280 00:10:57,521 --> 00:10:58,665 - but we're not getting it. - Mm. 281 00:10:58,689 --> 00:11:02,526 I'm mad, but I don't know at what anymore. 282 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:04,328 That's what it is! 283 00:11:04,361 --> 00:11:05,471 - That's what it is! - I'm pissed! 284 00:11:05,495 --> 00:11:06,639 - Aah! I'm mad. - Listen, listen. 285 00:11:06,663 --> 00:11:08,032 Our way of life is changing, 286 00:11:08,065 --> 00:11:09,499 - and that's scary. - Right. 287 00:11:09,533 --> 00:11:11,736 - We don't want to change. - Oh, that makes me so angry. 288 00:11:11,769 --> 00:11:12,879 - Makes me mad. - I want to cling 289 00:11:12,903 --> 00:11:14,538 to the way things were, but they're done. 290 00:11:14,571 --> 00:11:16,016 - Let's get out of here. - Let's run from this. 291 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:17,317 - We'll run from it. - Wait, wait, wait, 292 00:11:17,341 --> 00:11:18,351 - wait, wait. - Do we have to, legally? 293 00:11:18,375 --> 00:11:20,344 Guys, we can't run. Come on. 294 00:11:20,377 --> 00:11:22,579 What's ThunderGun's slogan? 295 00:11:22,612 --> 00:11:26,350 "No hesitation, no surrender, no man left behind." 296 00:11:26,383 --> 00:11:27,427 Did we leave a guy in there, though? 297 00:11:27,451 --> 00:11:28,819 Goddamn right we did, Charlie, 298 00:11:28,853 --> 00:11:32,222 and his name is John ThunderGun. 299 00:11:32,256 --> 00:11:34,058 Like it or not, 300 00:11:34,091 --> 00:11:36,160 we have a civic duty to uphold. 301 00:11:36,193 --> 00:11:37,928 We owe it to ourselves, to ThunderGun, 302 00:11:37,962 --> 00:11:39,696 and to movie audiences all over the world 303 00:11:39,730 --> 00:11:42,199 to put a stop to this liberal, PC bullshit. 304 00:11:42,232 --> 00:11:43,934 Mm-hmm. But I think we have been selected 305 00:11:43,968 --> 00:11:46,670 for a cosmic reason here; To put an end to this. 306 00:11:46,703 --> 00:11:49,073 To not pull our punches. 307 00:11:49,106 --> 00:11:51,275 To save the dong. 308 00:11:53,077 --> 00:11:55,079 Save the dong. 309 00:11:56,313 --> 00:11:59,583 - Save the dong. - Save the dong. 310 00:12:00,951 --> 00:12:04,688 - I agree. - Oh, for God's sakes. 311 00:12:04,721 --> 00:12:06,967 This is why you don't include women. Are you kidding me? 312 00:12:06,991 --> 00:12:08,392 What? 313 00:12:08,425 --> 00:12:09,702 Don't you see that there was a rhythm? 314 00:12:09,726 --> 00:12:11,304 - Like a cinematic rhythm. - Oh, let's do it again. 315 00:12:11,328 --> 00:12:13,197 - Let's do it again. - No way. No way! 316 00:12:13,230 --> 00:12:14,407 - I get it now. - You-you can't... 317 00:12:14,431 --> 00:12:15,711 You can't give women the zingers. 318 00:12:20,637 --> 00:12:22,282 Now, you listen here, you goddamn Hollywood communist. 319 00:12:22,306 --> 00:12:23,407 I live in Roxborough. 320 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:25,309 Again, I didn't make this movie. 321 00:12:25,342 --> 00:12:27,878 Listen to me, listen to me. If you start to strip sex 322 00:12:27,912 --> 00:12:29,746 out of our communities, out of our culture 323 00:12:29,780 --> 00:12:31,415 and-and even our art, 324 00:12:31,448 --> 00:12:34,251 not only do you isolate people, but you create an oppression 325 00:12:34,284 --> 00:12:36,220 disguised as morality. 326 00:12:36,253 --> 00:12:37,955 I mean, the... The Thunder Gun series 327 00:12:37,988 --> 00:12:40,124 has always been groundbreaking in so many ways, 328 00:12:40,157 --> 00:12:42,993 notwithstanding the recognition of an inequality 329 00:12:43,027 --> 00:12:46,163 that was present in cinema since its beginning days. 330 00:12:46,196 --> 00:12:49,233 The objectifying of the female form. I mean, 331 00:12:49,266 --> 00:12:52,769 with Thunder Gun, a great injustice was rectified. Okay? 332 00:12:52,803 --> 00:12:54,171 Fairness of the sexes. 333 00:12:54,204 --> 00:12:57,107 A unification of the human condition. 334 00:12:57,141 --> 00:12:58,919 I'm sorry, is this still about the flaccid penis 335 00:12:58,943 --> 00:13:00,310 you'd like to see? 336 00:13:00,344 --> 00:13:01,678 You're goddamn right! 337 00:13:01,711 --> 00:13:03,347 - Yeah. - We want to see it. 338 00:13:03,380 --> 00:13:05,749 Yes, we want to see the man's dick, but... 339 00:13:05,782 --> 00:13:07,327 I guess what I'm saying is that it's no longer 340 00:13:07,351 --> 00:13:08,618 just about gratuitous boobs, 341 00:13:08,652 --> 00:13:10,320 it's also about gratuitous penis. 342 00:13:10,354 --> 00:13:13,657 I mean, ThunderGun was about progress. 343 00:13:13,690 --> 00:13:17,194 Right. Uh, I think we all can agree 344 00:13:17,227 --> 00:13:20,297 that public opinion has sort of turned against the idea 345 00:13:20,330 --> 00:13:22,266 of someone exposing themselves. 346 00:13:22,299 --> 00:13:24,501 Oh, here we go. Here we go. 347 00:13:24,534 --> 00:13:27,137 - This is a different thing. - You're not understanding it. 348 00:13:27,171 --> 00:13:29,874 See, ThunderGun didn't take his dick out to intimidate people. 349 00:13:29,907 --> 00:13:32,476 He did it because he had accomplished his mission. 350 00:13:32,509 --> 00:13:34,644 He wanted to kick back and call it a day. 351 00:13:34,678 --> 00:13:36,780 He did do it once to intimidate someone, 352 00:13:36,813 --> 00:13:38,458 - but that was the bad guy. - It was the bad guy. 353 00:13:38,482 --> 00:13:40,684 And it just so happened the bad guy was a female. 354 00:13:40,717 --> 00:13:43,053 That was the best one. That was the best one! 355 00:13:43,087 --> 00:13:45,522 - That was funny. - It made me wish I had a dong 356 00:13:45,555 --> 00:13:48,525 that I could pull out to celebrate my accomplishments. 357 00:13:48,558 --> 00:13:51,795 You know? Or maybe just feel the cool breeze 358 00:13:51,828 --> 00:13:55,132 gently tickle the shaft on a, on a crisp autumn morn. 359 00:13:55,165 --> 00:13:58,635 - I don't know, whatever men do to-to feel powerful. - That's what it is. 360 00:13:58,668 --> 00:13:59,712 It really is. It really is. 361 00:13:59,736 --> 00:14:01,538 Listen, Moderator, the point is this. 362 00:14:01,571 --> 00:14:03,307 I mean, it used to be only, like, 363 00:14:03,340 --> 00:14:06,576 the hard-line conservatives, like the pearl-clutching types, 364 00:14:06,610 --> 00:14:08,712 were the only ones that were overly vocal 365 00:14:08,745 --> 00:14:11,415 and extreme in their policing of sexuality. 366 00:14:11,448 --> 00:14:14,084 But now you got this, like, liberal wave 367 00:14:14,118 --> 00:14:16,420 of moral authority sweeping the nation. 368 00:14:16,453 --> 00:14:18,064 You know, it's nuts. I mean, think about it. 369 00:14:18,088 --> 00:14:20,390 If the conservatives had always run Hollywood, 370 00:14:20,424 --> 00:14:22,326 movies would have sucked. 371 00:14:22,359 --> 00:14:24,761 You know what I mean? The art would have suffered. 372 00:14:24,794 --> 00:14:26,206 So I guess the question we're asking is 373 00:14:26,230 --> 00:14:28,832 how will art fare under the oppressive thumb 374 00:14:28,865 --> 00:14:32,702 of this new liberal Hollywood moral PC elite? 375 00:14:32,736 --> 00:14:34,704 Well, I don't know. It's tough to say. 376 00:14:34,738 --> 00:14:37,341 But is that a world that we want to live in? 377 00:14:37,374 --> 00:14:40,044 I say no. 378 00:14:40,077 --> 00:14:44,248 I say give me dong or give me death. 379 00:14:44,281 --> 00:14:45,682 Yeah! 380 00:14:45,715 --> 00:14:46,883 Yeah, man, don't tell me 381 00:14:46,917 --> 00:14:48,953 what I can see and what I can't see. 382 00:14:48,986 --> 00:14:53,057 So, uh, just to be clear here, they didn't make it PG-13 383 00:14:53,090 --> 00:14:55,125 because of political correctness. 384 00:14:55,159 --> 00:14:57,361 - Oh, did they not? - No. No-no. They-they made it PG-13 385 00:14:57,394 --> 00:14:58,528 because rated-R movies 386 00:14:58,562 --> 00:15:01,265 aren't making as much money anymore. 387 00:15:01,298 --> 00:15:04,268 Because of streaming, and most importantly, 388 00:15:04,301 --> 00:15:07,137 - piracy. - Piracy, huh? 389 00:15:07,171 --> 00:15:09,406 Yeah, and how have you all been viewing the franchise? 390 00:15:09,439 --> 00:15:11,408 - Oh, no-no, not through piracy. - No. 391 00:15:11,441 --> 00:15:14,078 In f... In fact, we, we-we saw the last installment 392 00:15:14,111 --> 00:15:15,745 of-of the franchise out in the theater. 393 00:15:15,779 --> 00:15:17,647 - We barely made it. - We barely made it. 394 00:15:17,681 --> 00:15:18,815 Oh, wait, no-no, hold on, 395 00:15:18,848 --> 00:15:20,884 but Frank called in that bomb threat. 396 00:15:20,917 --> 00:15:22,295 Oh, but-but that was okay, because remember, 397 00:15:22,319 --> 00:15:24,421 then we went home, and we, we saw it on the Internet. 398 00:15:24,454 --> 00:15:25,932 - Caught it online. - We caught it online. 399 00:15:25,956 --> 00:15:27,767 Oh, yeah-yeah-yeah. On that website that has all the movies. 400 00:15:27,791 --> 00:15:29,459 So, that's... that is pirating. 401 00:15:29,493 --> 00:15:31,095 No, no, no, pirating is stealing. 402 00:15:31,128 --> 00:15:32,805 We didn't steal it, okay? We just downloaded it. 403 00:15:32,829 --> 00:15:35,399 Uh, the website is called "MoviePirate.com." 404 00:15:35,432 --> 00:15:37,334 And the other one is called, 405 00:15:37,367 --> 00:15:38,835 uh, "FreeMovies/Arrrgh." 406 00:15:38,868 --> 00:15:42,839 Ah, I'm starting to see a little bit of a pattern here, 407 00:15:42,872 --> 00:15:46,410 because, uh, I also use one called "StolenMovies.free." 408 00:15:46,443 --> 00:15:49,479 So... you're part of the problem. 409 00:15:49,513 --> 00:15:51,781 Because of people like you, the studios felt like 410 00:15:51,815 --> 00:15:54,018 this was their only recourse. 411 00:15:54,051 --> 00:15:56,686 PG-13 opens up a whole new market. 412 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:57,654 You're saying it's our fault 413 00:15:57,687 --> 00:15:59,489 that we don't get to see the dong? 414 00:15:59,523 --> 00:16:00,700 You're coming in there changing everything, you know, 415 00:16:00,724 --> 00:16:02,026 getting rid of the dong, I mean, 416 00:16:02,059 --> 00:16:03,499 how is that even Thunder Gun anymore? 417 00:16:03,527 --> 00:16:04,928 Well, yeah, th-they're changing it. 418 00:16:04,961 --> 00:16:08,332 They're rebooting the entire franchise. 419 00:16:08,365 --> 00:16:09,833 - What? - What d... What? 420 00:16:09,866 --> 00:16:12,802 You guys didn't get that from the final scene? 421 00:16:12,836 --> 00:16:14,638 Uh, no, what...? 422 00:16:14,671 --> 00:16:16,373 Okay. Let's review. 423 00:16:22,379 --> 00:16:24,948 I'm not gonna make it through this one. 424 00:16:24,981 --> 00:16:28,018 We can both go detonate the hydro-fusion bomb. 425 00:16:28,052 --> 00:16:31,155 No hesitation. No surrender. No man left behind! 426 00:16:31,188 --> 00:16:32,622 Not this time. 427 00:16:32,656 --> 00:16:34,824 No, Dad. 428 00:16:34,858 --> 00:16:36,826 Please. 429 00:16:36,860 --> 00:16:40,164 Sometimes in order to save something... 430 00:16:40,197 --> 00:16:41,397 you have to destroy something. 431 00:16:43,033 --> 00:16:44,834 You'll need this to get out of here, son. 432 00:16:49,706 --> 00:16:52,109 To continue our story. 433 00:17:05,422 --> 00:17:07,391 So, you see, they're rebooting the franchise 434 00:17:07,424 --> 00:17:08,892 for a younger audience. 435 00:17:08,925 --> 00:17:10,260 The only people who are actually 436 00:17:10,294 --> 00:17:11,695 still going to see movies. 437 00:17:11,728 --> 00:17:14,064 I did not get that. 438 00:17:14,098 --> 00:17:16,166 Well, you haven't gotten anything the entire day. 439 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:17,667 Got to side with Charlie on this one. 440 00:17:17,701 --> 00:17:20,404 I didn't get it. Now, wh-what was with the fire stick? 441 00:17:20,437 --> 00:17:22,038 You mean the torch? 442 00:17:22,072 --> 00:17:24,374 The one he passed to his son Max... 443 00:17:24,408 --> 00:17:26,510 As in Maximum Cool... and said, 444 00:17:26,543 --> 00:17:28,278 "You need to continue our story"? 445 00:17:28,312 --> 00:17:30,580 It's the camera guy who screwed up. 446 00:17:30,614 --> 00:17:32,849 'Cause ThunderGun, he fell into that fiery abyss, 447 00:17:32,882 --> 00:17:35,027 - and for some reason, we're watching the kid... - Yeah, 448 00:17:35,051 --> 00:17:37,621 we wanted to go down into the volcano with John... 449 00:17:37,654 --> 00:17:39,799 No-no, you guys don't get it. It's a cliffhanger. Yeah? 450 00:17:39,823 --> 00:17:42,102 It's a cliffhanger. We're gonna find out what happened to John 451 00:17:42,126 --> 00:17:44,594 in the next movie, Thunder Gun 5... 452 00:17:44,628 --> 00:17:46,863 - Ooh... - Or, or there's a post-credit scene 453 00:17:46,896 --> 00:17:49,699 - that we didn't get to see, yes? - No. No. There's none of that. 454 00:17:49,733 --> 00:17:51,701 This isn't a cliffhanger. He's dead. 455 00:17:51,735 --> 00:17:56,273 John is dead. Now we follow the son's story. 456 00:17:56,306 --> 00:17:57,941 - No! - I don't, I don't want to. 457 00:17:57,974 --> 00:17:59,075 - I don't think so. - No. 458 00:17:59,109 --> 00:18:00,076 You don't have to think. 459 00:18:00,110 --> 00:18:02,045 I'm telling you, that's what it is. 460 00:18:02,078 --> 00:18:04,481 ThunderGun fell into a volcano. 461 00:18:04,514 --> 00:18:08,818 He died. And now his son Max becomes Thunder Son, 462 00:18:08,852 --> 00:18:11,155 the face of the franchise moving forward. 463 00:18:11,188 --> 00:18:13,557 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait... 464 00:18:13,590 --> 00:18:14,991 He has a son? 465 00:18:15,024 --> 00:18:18,328 Fuck, man! What? 466 00:18:18,362 --> 00:18:20,797 - How do you not get that? - It wasn't clear. 467 00:18:20,830 --> 00:18:23,400 Reshoots. Reshoots. You got to reshoot. 468 00:18:23,433 --> 00:18:25,778 - Yeah, reshoots. - Reshoots to make the movie more clear... 469 00:18:25,802 --> 00:18:27,504 No! That's not what we're gonna do. 470 00:18:27,537 --> 00:18:30,440 We're out of time. That's it. That's... We're done. 471 00:18:30,474 --> 00:18:33,410 But you're ruining our favorite movie! Uh... 472 00:18:33,443 --> 00:18:35,679 - How can we save the movies that we love? - Yeah. 473 00:18:35,712 --> 00:18:38,081 Maybe if you actually go out to the theaters 474 00:18:38,114 --> 00:18:40,750 and pay to see them, then they will continue to make them. 475 00:18:40,784 --> 00:18:44,788 Whoa! Oh, that's easy for you to say! 476 00:18:44,821 --> 00:18:47,324 With your Hollywood liberal bank account! 477 00:18:47,357 --> 00:18:49,293 Jesus! Who a you people? 478 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:54,164 I... am ThunderGun. 479 00:18:54,198 --> 00:18:57,767 I... am ThunderGun. 480 00:18:57,801 --> 00:19:00,937 I... am ThunderGun. 481 00:19:00,970 --> 00:19:02,606 I am... Thundergun. 482 00:19:02,639 --> 00:19:03,707 Goddammit, Dee! 483 00:19:03,740 --> 00:19:05,675 - Dee... - How did you not feel 484 00:19:05,709 --> 00:19:07,220 - that I was next and then you? - I don't know. 485 00:19:07,244 --> 00:19:08,378 There was a build to it, 486 00:19:08,412 --> 00:19:09,889 - and then... - It's like, we're trying 487 00:19:09,913 --> 00:19:12,382 to give the woman the final thing, and she can't do it. 488 00:19:12,416 --> 00:19:13,793 - Okay, start it over. - You can't go back. 489 00:19:13,817 --> 00:19:16,420 - Start it over? - You see the problem with women. 490 00:19:19,223 --> 00:19:21,291 Well, RIP ThunderGun, I guess. 491 00:19:21,325 --> 00:19:22,726 Yeah. What a waste. 492 00:19:22,759 --> 00:19:25,195 I recorded that whole thing for nothing. 493 00:19:25,229 --> 00:19:27,163 Dong-less! 494 00:19:27,197 --> 00:19:29,165 Wait a second. You recorded the whole thing? 495 00:19:29,199 --> 00:19:32,001 - Yeah. - Guys... hang on a second. 496 00:19:32,035 --> 00:19:34,037 Do you remember what ThunderGun said? 497 00:19:34,070 --> 00:19:36,139 Sometimes, in order to sav something, 498 00:19:36,172 --> 00:19:39,175 you have to destroy something. 499 00:19:39,209 --> 00:19:41,978 And I think I know what we have to do to save Thunder Gun. 500 00:19:42,011 --> 00:19:43,380 Destroy it? 501 00:19:43,413 --> 00:19:44,848 Well, how are we gonna do that? 502 00:19:44,881 --> 00:19:47,817 With a little help. From some pirates. 503 00:19:47,851 --> 00:19:51,321 No hesitation. 504 00:19:51,355 --> 00:19:52,656 No surrender. 505 00:19:52,689 --> 00:19:55,592 No man left behind! 506 00:20:34,398 --> 00:20:36,400 Mmm. 507 00:20:39,969 --> 00:20:41,871 I'm bored. 508 00:20:41,905 --> 00:20:43,115 Well, it looks like this new Thunder Gun movie's 509 00:20:43,139 --> 00:20:44,207 pretty good. 510 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:46,242 Well, you guys want to see it? 511 00:20:46,276 --> 00:20:47,720 We're gonna have to do a mad dash across town, though. 512 00:20:47,744 --> 00:20:49,245 It starts in 30 minutes. 513 00:20:49,279 --> 00:20:50,814 - To the sewers! - To the sewers! 514 00:20:50,847 --> 00:20:52,616 - Let's go! - Let's go! 515 00:20:52,649 --> 00:20:55,051 No, no, I meant like, let's see it on that pirate website. 516 00:20:55,084 --> 00:20:56,829 - You think it's up already? - Here, let me check. 517 00:20:56,853 --> 00:20:58,130 Yeah. We don't have to go across town. 518 00:20:58,154 --> 00:20:59,899 - It's probably on the, uh... - Yeah, it's free. 519 00:20:59,923 --> 00:21:01,491 We can stay here and watch it. 520 00:21:01,525 --> 00:21:02,968 - That way it's free. - Yep. It-it's on there. 521 00:21:02,992 --> 00:21:04,561 - Oh! - Put it... Yeah. 522 00:21:04,594 --> 00:21:05,995 You want to watch it on the phone? 523 00:21:06,029 --> 00:21:07,230 - Oh, good. - All right. 524 00:21:07,263 --> 00:21:09,065 Five tickets for the price of zero. 525 00:21:11,668 --> 00:21:13,670 Put on the Auto Motion Plus. 526 00:21:15,939 --> 00:21:17,499 Captioned by Media Access Group at WGBH. 527 00:22:00,884 --> 00:22:02,386 - Three! - I sharpen my teeth. 528 00:22:02,419 --> 00:22:03,853 - Two! - Too hard, too fast. 529 00:22:03,887 --> 00:22:05,389 - One! - Look what I just found. 530 00:22:05,422 --> 00:22:07,791 "Week long rental. Bed to be shared with owners." 531 00:22:07,824 --> 00:22:09,502 What kind of people do you think you're gonna attract? 532 00:22:09,526 --> 00:22:11,561 Bohemians with no sexual boundaries. 533 00:22:13,997 --> 00:22:15,899 - You guys know what this means, right? - No. 534 00:22:15,932 --> 00:22:17,367 Sunny is back. 535 00:22:17,401 --> 00:22:20,336 All new, Wednesdays at 10:00 on FXX. 536 00:22:26,009 --> 00:22:27,911 - Oh, my God! - Ooh. 537 00:22:27,944 --> 00:22:29,879 Look at these hardwood floors! 538 00:22:37,353 --> 00:22:39,556 You can't make people like you, 539 00:22:39,589 --> 00:22:41,991 but if people don't respect you, 540 00:22:42,025 --> 00:22:43,460 you can make 'em fear you. 541 00:23:18,327 --> 00:23:20,229 Mayans. 542 00:23:20,263 --> 00:23:23,066 All new Tuesdays at 10:00 on FX. 543 00:23:27,771 --> 00:23:31,441 Hey! Slow down! 544 00:23:34,343 --> 00:23:36,613 AHS 1984. 545 00:23:36,646 --> 00:23:39,182 All new, Wednesdays at 10:00 on FX.