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

530 – Box Office 2025, Zootopia 2, Wake Up Dead Man

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

Katey, Matt, Da7e and David

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv Reviews

4.6992 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary






This week, David is… somewhere. Katey, Patches, and Da7e get together in the War Room to talk about the 2025 Box Office pre-Avatar, Zootopia 2 going down easy like hot chocolate, then they talk about Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery which is in some theaters and definitely on Netflix. There is a spoiler gong at 1 hour, nine minutes, and forty-six seconds in, but we DO NOT GIVEAWAY THE WHODUNNIT, WHAT ARE WE, MONSTERS??!?!



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FORMAT



00:00 – Lightning Round: Best James Cameron Effect



02:52- Intro – Welcome to Episode 530 of one of the best podcasts of all time!! Review!



10:49 – Tidbit – Box Office 2025



32:05 – “Mini Segment” – Zootopia 2



47:04 – Segment Three – Wake Up Dead Man (Light Spoilers at 01:09:46)



1:17:42 – Outro

Transcript

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0:00.0

Actually, Fire and Ash week this time.

0:04.3

In honor of Avatar, Fire and Ash, in theaters this weekend,

0:08.3

what is your favorite special effect, computer generated or otherwise, in a James Cameron film?

0:13.6

I'm Katie Rich.

0:14.3

This question is obviously very close to my heart, and I'm struggling to come up with an answer,

0:18.2

but I'm going to go with a big one, which is how to make the Titanic actually depart South Hampton the way that it was

0:24.1

that it did in real life, that they had to flip the entire image.

0:27.0

They had to paint all the signage and everywhere up the dock backwards.

0:30.3

And so if you see the behind the scenes photos, all the words are backwards.

0:32.3

It's amazing.

0:34.8

I am Matt Patches, and I think I would have gone with the nuclear blast in Terminator 2 when people are getting scorched.

0:45.5

But I got to say, I was already hardcore Avatar before watching the Disney Plus documentary.

0:51.6

But ever since I saw James Cameron motion capture people on fucking like hovercrafts that

0:58.8

dive underwater, I actually think I'm completely converted to like diving in the water is the

1:05.8

most blissful, majestic special effect that's ever been achieved.

1:10.6

It's not Kate Winslet emoting with a pool noodle strapped to a fence. Yeah. majestic special effect that's ever been achieved.

1:15.8

It's not Kate Winslet emoting with a pool noodle strapped to a fence that's pretending to be a whale. That's a beautiful image that I screenshot it and keep on my desktop now.

1:20.6

But from a post-production standpoint, I'd say the diving.

1:27.8

Well, I'm Dave with a seven, and I'm saying the deleted scene from Tornator 2

1:33.6

Judgment Day of Sarah and John Connor taking a chip out of the T-800's head, and it's not

1:38.5

a mirror.

1:39.2

It's Linda Hamilton's identical twin sister Leslie working on a Stan Winston studio prop.

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