519 – What’s Happening With Paramount, Donkey Kong Bonanza, Eddington

Fighting In The War Room: A Movies And Pop Culture Podcast

Katey, Matt, Da7e and David

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv Reviews

4.6 • 992 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

This week, Katey Rich has gone to the beach (hopefully not the Old beach), leaving the three guys in the War Room where they try to figure out if budget or politics rules at CBS/Paramount, Patches is having a lot of fun breaking everything in Donkey Kong Bonanza on his Switch 2, and Da7e can admit Eddington is a good movie but he didn’t like how it made him feel, so David tries to talk him back to just “good.”

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FORMAT

00:00 – Lightning Round: Fourth Time’s The Charm

2:11- Intro – Welcome to Episode 519!! Reviews! Emails!

21:26- Tidbit – What is Happening With Paramount?

41:14 – Mini-Segment – Donkey Kong Bonanza

50:30 – Segment 3 – Eddington

1:06:02 – Outro

Transcript

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0:00.0	When the third time isn't the charm.
0:04.7	In honor of Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four Rise of the Silver Surfer,
0:10.0	Fant4 ASTIC and Fantastic Four First Steps in theaters this weekend.
0:15.2	What franchise got it right the fourth time?
0:19.8	I'm Matt Patches, and I just want to say
0:22.7	ASMR is not the way, Dave. You need to bring
0:25.3	PEP into your step for these intros. I don't care what the audience
0:28.6	to get to the review segment this week. It's super fun.
0:32.4	I don't care what they say. I'm Matt Patch. I'm going to go with
0:36.0	The Matrix Resurrection.
0:38.3	The number one film of 2021.
0:41.4	Lana Wachowski is back.
0:43.3	People hate this movie, but they're wrong because it's awesome.
0:45.8	No, this is such a rare example where Patches like lust for goofy shit actually dovetails
0:54.0	with a brilliant film.
0:56.0	They created digital strawberries or something
0:58.2	I remember. What a picture.
1:01.3	It's me, Dave with the Seven, and I think
1:03.4	we got it right with Mad Max
1:05.9	Fury Road.
1:09.3	And I am Dave without a seven, also known as David.
1:14.5	And I am going to go with Thunderball, James Bond.
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