SPOILERS ABOUND IN THIS ONE

Travis & Tom talk about two big movies that came out in 2025. Though really Travis just wanted to talk about Superman but Tom forced him to watch A Minecraft Movie. An odd conversation follows.

CORRECTIONS:

• A Minecraft Movie made $957M at time of editing - so SHY of a billion dollars. Technically the “Billion Dollar Movie” for this year (at time of release) was the Lilo & Stitch remake… and f*** that!
• 28:44 - According to our research, Tom may be paraphrasing C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia) who actually said, “A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.”
• 39:53 - Kinda. In Byrne’s The Man of Steel (1986), Jor-El is merely apathetic at Lara’s suggestion that Kal-El will use his powers to rule Earth. As mentioned, Smallville went further with the idea in 2002 of Superman being sent with a mission of conquest. And in the comics as recent as 2017, Jor-El was revealed to be the villain known as Mister Oz, having actually survived Krypton’s destruction with help from Dr. Manhattan (yes, THAT Dr. Manhattan) and manipulates events from behind the scenes in the DC Universe. So regardless, there’s been precedent for at least a less altruistic Jor-El.

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Clips Cited

• “Agendas” Young Justice, written by Kevin Hopps, directed by Michael Change, performances by George Eads, Dee Bradley Baker and Kevin Michael Richardson, Warner Bros. Animation, 2012.
• ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers’ directed by Peter Jackson, New Line Cinema, 2002.
• ‘Superman’ directed by James Gunn, performance by David Corenswet, DC Studios, 2025.
• ‘Superman: The Movie’ directed by Richard Donner, performances by Christopher Reeve & Margot Kidder, Warner Bros. Pictures, 1978.