"I think movies play the role in our culture that myths and legends used to play in ancient cultures or that novels used to play 100 years ago. They're the art form that that is capable of basically co..."

"know the the the sort of uh you know the entertainment factor is you know remains very high. Um having said that you know I think movies and Katherine I see if you agree with me on this or not. Um I t..."

"Katherine, would you agree with that? >> Yeah. No, no, definitely. I mean, I think uh I I think it was I think in slow decline probably the last 25 years um because fewer like you know probably the 90..."

"you families with young girls like you know went to see it and I I remember it at the time because it was the same it it it it went big the same week that Martin Scaresy's movie uh Killers in the Flow..."

"that. And so like I I like for sure it's true that the audience overall has fragmented. For sure it's true that like the internet you know has like you know created you know is sucking away you know j..."

"films in 2019. There was 1917. Uh Parasite won the Oscar. Stole it from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in my opinion, but still was like a decent film. Like there were a lot of great films in 2019. And..."

"the the theater business has obviously taken a giant hit kind of in the wake of co you know co was like this big, you know, was this big step down, you know, because the theaters, you know, were close..."

"affected things a lot in in Hollywood in a very negative way, which is, uh, streaming cut off the financial upside. um to the to to films and TV. And so uh films used to when they were hits they they ..."

"u, capital T, the big thing that happened, of course, which is Hollywood being on the vanguard of culture got hit by the thing, um, the cultural change of the last decade, like incredibly hard. And, y..."

"sort of post message uh um uh you know, kind of era. Um and you know, we don't know what era we're heading into. Maybe there's a new message or something, but like we're we're we're we're there's a ph..."

"it's literally like a time capsule. It's like a 2022 time capsule. It's literally like time frozen 2022. Um, and in 2022, this movie would have been like, "Oh my god, like this movie is like got the m..."

"just not that big of a hit but like I I have hopes for it and I hope it becomes one of these mythic movies which is Edington and uh let me let me start by asking have you guys both at this point seen ..."

"the thing is Edington like there's just nothing in the town. Like it's like 600 people. It's just like the streets are empty, the stores are empty. I mean it's like a town that was empty before CO, ri..."

"he said what was it the his term is it the eight was the eight bill was is the the beast with 8 billion feet or what was his term like the mass of humanity he had this term where he's like like Tom Wo..."

"and then if you if you talk to people in Hollywood basically what they'll tell you is by by the way independent of people's politics what the sort of I would say short people in Hollywood generally al..."

"other big topic in Hollywood is AI. Um, and yeah, so that's the, you know, that's the 800 lb thing. And, you know, and and you know, to their credit, they're, you know, say they're highly aware of it...."

"thought Naked Naked Gun I thought was actually a little bit of a minor miracle. Um, so, uh, for a couple a couple reasons. So, one is look, it's it's it's a sequel to movies from like 40 years ago. Um..."

"you'll be astonished. >> It's incredible. >> Come out. >> What's that? >> Did it come out? >> It came out this summer. It came out this summer. It came out this summer. And Marvel, just for context, i..."

">> You know, it's funny. Yeah, it's funny. It's so funny. Especially Atlas like Alice Rugr has become Al is Alice Shrug, you know, people who don't know, it's the sort of famous ran novel. It's kind o..."

">> Yeah. So South Park actually let's close closing this but just briefly on South Park. South Park was very much like what you're seeing with AI film making right now but in 199 19 1993 so I remember..."

">> On on that note, we got to let you go. Um, but this has been a fantastic episode of modering the situation. Thanks so much for coming on, Mark. >> All right. Fantastic. Situation monitored."