Hey, this is Brett with Summit Auto in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used RAM and heavy-duty truck headquarters. Today I'm showing you this brand new 2020 RAM 2500 Crew Cab Short Box, Big Horn Level 2 Edition. This one has the night edition on it as well. It is in bright white clear coat. It has the 6.4 liter V8 Hemi motor, which is going to give you 410 horsepower. Really good looking in bright white. This one also has the advanced towing group on it, which gives you some of the special cameras, the 360 cam, the cargo cam. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p, 60 frames per second, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, or smartphone device, turn them on now because it's definitely your best way to check out the looks and styling of the vehicle before seeing it in person. If you'd like to check out all the photos on this RAM in the upper right hand part of your screen, there's a link to our website. The night edition gives you the 20-inch painted alloy rims and it comes with Firestone Transforce AT LT28560R20 tires and all terrain tread pattern on there. You get the front coil and shock in the front there. You get the blacked out RAM logo, blacked out Hemi logo, and blacked out 2500 heavy duty logo. Part of that night edition, you also get the blacked out headlamp bezels on there. You also get the gloss black grille and blacked out RAM logo. This one has the factory fog lights, front bumper parking sensors on here. Has that camera right there, which is part of that 360 cam, which I'll show you in just a little bit. And we'll take a quick look at the original Windows sticker. I'm not going to go through everything, but feel free to pause it to see all the options, see if this truck is right for you.  You do get the 6.4 liter Hemi, the 8-speed automatic transmission. Quick note, it does come with the 373 axle ratio right there. So the optional equipment, you get the premium cloth bucket seats, which is 295, the towing technology group, which gives you the tow mirrors, the cargo cam, the mirror mounted auxiliary reverse lamps, surround view camera system and trailer reverse guidance is a $2,125 option, protection group is $145, the fifth wheel and goose neck prep package is $495, and you do get the night edition, which is a $2,495 option. Now that night edition gives you the painted bumpers, the 20-inch painted rims, and then all the black accents that you see around the truck. Level two equipment group, which is $4,890, gives you heated front seats, power slide and rear window, the dual zone temperature control, the seven-inch LCD display, eight-way power driver seat, front fog lamps, dampened tailgate, heated steering wheel, steering wheel mounted audio controls, Google and Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, Serious XM radio, leather wrap steering wheel, you get the front, park and rear park assist system, the blind spot with cross path detection remote start, this one also has anti-spin rear differential, which is $445, LED bed lighting, $165, 9 alpine speakers plus subwoofer, which is $595, then it does come with the Uconnect 12-inch radio with navigation, that's $1995, you get Serious Guardian for a year, Serious Traffic and Travel Link for five years, you get a 4G LTE Wi-Fi hotspot and then Serious XM with 360 L. Total MSRP is $60,590, if you want to get your summit price in the upper right hand part of your screen is a link to our website to get all the discounts, rebates and incentives on this truck. Your warranty is going to be three-year 36 bumper-to-bumper and then five-year $60,000 on the powertrain, and there's a look at that 12-inch radio, so it's $1995, but you get that radio, you get the nav with it, and then you get all that Serious product with it that's really nice to have. Now all the RAM 2500s are going to come with the rear coil suspension unless you get the auto leveling suspension, and you'll find that that rides a lot smoother on the highway when you don't have a big load in there. Now I believe you get the LED tail lamps when you get that advanced towing group. I believe that gives you those LED tail lamps as well as the cargo lamps up there. You get the blacked out big horn RAM and 4x4 logos full towing package, which includes a receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring, notice you have the backup sensors conveniently hidden in the plastic there. Now when they say damp and tailgate they mean that it's not going to slam down on you, so it's real light and it's got like a shock in it that's not going to let it slam. It has the fifth wheel and gooseneck prep package, yeah we're going to be taking those circles and everything, our caps, and we'll put those back in before we park this thing, but you get the four pin seven pin wiring back here, LED bed lighting, you get some side box tie downs, and then of course the gooseneck and fifth wheel prep package, which is really nice, notice the LED lights up there, part of that cargo cam. The other thing with that advanced tow group, you get these mirrors, well they look like the normal Dodge mirrors, but they're a little bit different. These have the blind spot monitoring in them, you get the LED side lights, which I believe was new for the new body style, and then you get these cameras right there, which is part of the 360 camera system and the side view camera system, which I'll show you in a little bit. They still fold out like they normally do, and they do fold in, they're actually a power fold in now, which I think you could get before, but this particular truck has that feature, and then the other cool thing is that these blind spot mirrors, they're power, so you can, if you get this button in your truck, that's the power blind spot mirror, you select that button and then select which side you want to control, and you can see that that mirror actually moves up and down, which isn't too cool for the driver's side, but when you got to control the blind spot mirror on the passenger side, that comes in very handy. Power windows, power locks, power mirrors, you get the nice dark wood grain trim on the doors, as well as the dark charcoal carpet bolsters. Speaking of that dark charcoal, you get the dark charcoal seats with the black, has the kind of cool, I don't know, electronic design, I guess you could say, in the back rest there. Power driver seat with lumbar, both these front seats are heated, factory floor mats, throughout you get auto headlamps, tilt, steering wheel, power pedals, the audio controls on the back of the steering wheel, and then you do get the seven inch LCD display, digital speedometer, compass, outside temp, battery life, and then oil temperature, which you can change all those corners to read whatever you'd like. Anyways, you get the heated leather wrap steering wheel, cruise controls and gear selector on the right, Bluetooth and information center controls on the left, and then remember it does come with those audio controls in the back of the steering wheel. You get the eight speed automatic transmission, the push button, four wheel drive, the push button start, you do get the keyless entry with the remote start on there, it's a real nice heavy duty key fob. And then you get the 12 inch Uconnect 4C radio. So you get AM, FM, Serious XM radio capabilities, you get Serious Guardian for a year, you also get the traffic and travel link plus for five years, and then you get the 4G LTE Wi-Fi hotspot as well. It also has Android Auto and Apple CarPlay capabilities where you can project your cell phone to the screen. So say you had a different navigation program that you liked better than this one such as Waze or Google Maps, you could project your cell phone to the screen and then use the screen to control your phone, also music and all that sort of stuff. We actually did a demo on that with Android Auto, if you want to check that out, it's in the upper right hand part of the screen on an 8.4, but it's very similar to this radio.  Notice you do get dual climate control, you can also do all your climate controls up there. Now the real great thing about this radio and this particular truck is the surround view camera as well as all the other cameras that you get with the advanced or with the towing technology group. The 360 cam is great, you can see all the way around the truck, you can see there's a little crack in the pavement there, you can see our shadow and everything, it's really a cool system. And then you get the backup camera which is right here, no that's HD, those grid lines are dynamic and it also kind of shows you where you're going to be going with the truck if you're going to hit something, depending on how hard you're turning. So that's kind of new, I just learned that, so that's really cool. Anyways, those turn, these turn, that center line is lined right up with the receiver hitch so you can get hooked up to your trailer or boat right every time, so that's a narrow view, you got a wide view, same thing with the front, you get a wide view and then a narrow view there. The cargo cam which is really cool, they even have the center line there, that's cool. You can even zoom in above your fifth wheel or gooseneck which is pretty neat as well, and then you get your backup camera and you can zoom in on this one too to go right over the receiver hitch. Once again, just making your life easier when you're hooking up to a camper or boat or trailer. The other thing, while you're hooked up, you have this camera down the side of the truck, so if you're backing up a trailer, you can see the trailer better, so you want it to be more on the driver's side, now you're fully on the driver's side. Same thing with the passenger side, you can select that camera as well. So really a lot of cool stuff that you can do with this radio and I think the cameras are the best feature of it, but maybe you like just the fact that it's a big, huge radio, I don't know. Anyways, we're running out of time here, factory brake controller, stability control, tow haul, front and rear parking sensors, you get two USBs, two USB-C's, an aux jack, cell phone holder, and then a 115 volt 400 watt plug-in. Up here, you get SOS and assist buttons in the console up there, map lights, and then home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then do one more final walk around of the truck here. Back seats are very similar to all the old trucks.  Back here, that power sign rear window with built-in rear defrost, you do get two USBs, two USB-C's, and then another 115 volt 400 watt plug-in. You do get a load floor back here, which is really nice.  Your subwoofer is right there. Storage on this side, you get two in-floor storage bins with removable containers for easy cleaning. Put ice and drinks in there, it's like you got too many coolers wherever you go. You get that nice wood grain trim and dark charcoal cloth bolsters on the back doors, child safety locks. Then we'll take one more quick walk around here. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today, and hopefully from this HD video you'll have gotten a really good idea of the overall looks and styling of this particular RAM. The specific options on it, the advanced towing group from RAM and what it all offers. Check out that 360 cam, the side cams, and maybe if you just like the night edition or the bighorn level 2, learned a little bit about that as well. 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Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's Case of Breaks.com. Happy Wednesday, and happy Game Two of the World Series Day here in 2021. And we've got a 22 box World Series Baseball Mixer second version of it. We had a 35 boxer yesterday. We got Break Two World Series Mixer Two today, which is a 22 box edition for Game Two. The deuces are wild, as Vince Gully would say. And there's all the boxes right there. Some pretty nice stuff, ladies and gentlemen, great list stuff. Here's a visual look at it as well if you're a visual learner. Nice. Thank you to this crew here. Appreciate all the people who bought their spots straight up. And congrats again to the winners of spots right here as well. All 30 teams are in. Let's roll the dice. Let's randomize it. Names and teams, six the hard way, three and a three. One, two, three. Four, five and sixth and final time. We got PJ on top, down to Josh Garza in the 30 spot. Three and a three. Hard six. One, two, three, four, five, and sixth and final time. We got the twins down to the Bravos after six. All right, PJ with the twins. David with the Astros. Daniel with the Indians. Travis with the White Sox. Daniel last spot mojo. Tigers, 70% of the time. Last spot mojo hits 100% of the time. Peter with the Philadelphia Phillies. Little iteration there. Karen with my Dodgers. Kyle with the Diamondbacks. PJ with the Pirates. Gerardo with the Rangers. PJ, double last spot mojo. What happened there? I think we added some spots. Well, Daniel, you had one of the last spot mojos. PJ, you have another last spot mojo. Martin with the spot that you want the Giants. PJ with the Red Sox. Charles with the Yankees. PJ with the Royals. Rockies, Cubs, Padres. Dom, you got the Reds. Allen with the Angels. Martin with the Mariners. Brad with the Nats. Brian Crouch with the Marlins. Carl with the Brew Crew. PJ with the Rays. Prim with the Blue Jays. Brian Croft with the O's. Chris Butler with the Mets. Brian Hayes with the A's. Josh Garza with the Braves. Number of Brains in this break. Let's sort by column B by team. And we're gonna pause the video. And when we come back, we're gonna see if there's any trades and then we'll have the break. Stick around, BRB. All right, welcome back, folks. So a little bit of trade chatter, but in the end, no deals are done. We've got Nick Jaspy just over my shoulder right here and on the top camera right there where you can see his hands, he's gonna be helping us pack stack this break. So it goes just that much quicker so then we can get to other stuff on jaspyscasebreaks.com, like the new releases. Got two big new releases today. And we've got a five star dual case break that's one of two fillers left on that or two of two fillers left on that. So we've got a lot of things we can work on. So thanks to Nick and thanks again to everybody who got into the action here. We're gonna start off with Valiant, which does not have a checklist. At least we do have a checklist but protein's not attached to it. So we're gonna go by our no checklist rule so it'll go to the team that they are currently on. We checked groupbreakchecklist.com and Break Ninja a couple other places and they're not attached. No teams are attached. So we're gonna go to the team they're currently on. So yes, that means Austin Martin would go to the twins. He got traded to the twins, right? Yeah, they traded in for, he was traded. All right, we got Everson Pereira who's gonna lead things off, 52 out of 99. You think Red Sox or you know Red Sox? I think Yankees. Yankees. Same division. Yeah, okay, you got the division, right? And that will go to Charles and the New York Yankees and we'll do an autograph recap at the end as well. What about Evan Carter, five out of 15? Red Sox. You think Red Sox or Evan Carter? I say, I don't know. He is a down East Woodduck who is the affiliate for, oh, the Rangers. He's in low A right now. That'll be for Gerardo Lopez and Texas. Next up we got Dax Fulton. Philly. Philly? I wanna say Miami. Dax Fulton is a Marlin. Heston Kirksaw, do we know? That goes to Baltimore, thanks Darren. Unfortunately the lag makes it so that I probably would have looked it up by the time you said Rangers or Marlins, but thank you. Heston Kirksaw, Baltimore, Orioles, B-more. That goes to Brian Croft who won the O's. There. And Austin Hendrick, who is I think an Oakland A. I think I, is Reds. Not even close. Not even the same region. And that's a 9-5-10 by the way, which is pretty nice. Dom with the Reds. Thanks Darren for trying to help. 35 out of 75. But there's just enough delay where we'll be ahead of you in the research department. All right, let's grab some Chronicles right here. And Nick is ripping the Prism Baseball Cellopacks. That's more boxes. What's that? Yes. Oh, you're almost home. How about we get this top UK edition going? Brian went one for five on his guesses when he was playing at home. Oh, I got it from Rex, made it together. The UK packs have a totally different feel. Is it, does it feel English? Yeah, feel sharp there. Oh wow. It's very British. They're edgy like. Yeah, very, very dry and very British. We've got a Jonathan Davis autograph for Toronto. That's gonna be for Robert Primrose and the Bluebirds. That's to 199. There's Gavin Lux to 99. And Luke Pharrell for the Rangers. That's gonna go to Orpharal, who knows. That goes to Gerardo Lopez with Texas. I'm assuming no vet commonship in this. Correct, no vet commonship per the item description.  Tess T. Junior, it's a numbered card. That's obviously gonna ship. Actually, this box is a bad example because I think almost all of these are gonna ship here. And that's gonna ship. Nice origin, two-color patch and auto. Gavin Lux, 17 out of 25. You really started to heat up at the end of the season and did okay in the playoffs, too. Karen Steele with my Dodgers. There you go, Karen. And you'll get a lot of these Gavin Lux rookie cards here, too. There's Miguel Cabrera at 75. Tim Anderson. Bren McKay, AJ Puck. Got a Robbins Cano Relic for the Mets. That's gonna be for Chris Butler, 30. Still has Mariners gear there, but team on the card is where it goes. There's a Mosaic Mike Trout and a Nissan Diaz Refractor. Nice. All right, we've got Prism. These are from the Salo Packs. So that's the one with the red, white, and blue parallels. They're right here. We're gonna slide some boxes over here for Mr. Nick, who's helping us. Packs have these here all on camera. Right, yes they are. Make myself a little room. So thanks to Nick because it's gonna help the break go a lot faster, ladies and gentlemen, which means we've got more time to do more breaks. Jaspyscasebreak.com, get your orders going while we're doing this mixer. So these are commons right here. So those won't ship. Obviously rookie cards will ship. Obviously inserts will ship. That's a green parallel. That's not numbered, but that will ship as well. That's a better example of what will and won't ship. Now, Carl, who's a Braves fan, was asking earlier how the Astros do against lefties. Because he had a strikeout prop that he was gonna try to do. He won team stats here. So as far as, I think they're one of the best teams against lefties. Yeah, like they're weighted on base. It's 336, WRC plus 116 runs created. Second only to Toronto. So the prop was Max Freed strikeouts at total at four and a half. There's Harman Killabrew to 125. I would take, those strikeout props are tricky because teams are so likely to pull the pitchers out much earlier in a ball game, you know? Like in the fourth inning or something like that. Oh, you took the over? Should have waited. The Mike Trout stained glass for the Angels, Alan Murdock. Yeah, although I don't know. I mean, Braves had to go to the bullpen early yesterday because of that unfortunate Charlie Morton injury. So maybe they will stretch Max Freed out however long he can go. Although they do have a travel day tomorrow, so I don't know what's gonna happen. Rookie autographs, Jonah Heim for the Rangers. Gerardo with that. Red parallel, 75 out of 95. Got a fearless insert here, Garrett Cole. So these are, remember, are all from Salopax. So that's why there's no, I'm sorry, not seeing autos. We do have a hobby box here that's gonna be ripped open. All right, so now exclusive to the Salopax are these red, white, and blue parallels. Obviously all of these will ship because they're Especial. There's Jonathan India who may be, who may be your NL Rookie of the Year. Issyria, pretty solid season.  Nice Mike Trout, red, white, and blue. Another one for Alan and the Halos. There's Ryan Mount Castle. He had a pretty good season too. Joe Adele, Rookie, red, white, and blue. The red, white, and blue is pretty popular card to grade. And pretty desirable people really look out for those. I was hoping for like a Cabrion, but it's all good. All right, we've got the Tops. What is it Tops? Tops just series one UK or something like that? Tops baseball UK? Looks like series one though. I don't know what the official name is. 2020 Tops Baseball UK Edition. That's what it's called. Obviously we'll hold the higher end stuff towards the end. Some absolute boxes right there. All right, good luck, Ang. So I guess they just pop the Union Jack on there and it's like British edition? UK edition? It's different parallels too. Oh, it's different colors too. Like I said, you know how they have the Independence Day parallels in the American? That's a bad day for the British though. It's a good day for us. Not a good day for the English. They did not like that. That was a bummer for them. They're like, this colony is about to make us a zillion dollars. We were upstarts. They're like, eh, I feel like we should get some representation if you're gonna tax us. And we've got, who's this? This is Alfred the Great, born in 849, the youngest son of the King of Wessex. Alfred the Great called his three brothers in ascension to throne to take power in 871. That's like pre Magna Carta. This is really old school. This will go to someone at the end of the rake. There's some nice rookies here though. We're running into, there's a Yordon Alvarez. We'll see him in action tonight, game two. Sub-TJ, what's going on? Yeah, Alfred the Great definitely played baseball. What about Queen Victoria? Kind of a hottie of that time, I guess? In the second longest reign in the history of the British market, Queen Victoria held the throne in the UK from 1837 to 1901. The Victorian era. There's a Boba Shet rookie card for the Toronto Blue Jays who is still a Commonwealth. Still part of the United Kingdom, I guess in a way, a Commonwealth. There's Alex Bregman, 48 out of 75. We'll see him in action tonight as well. There's Randy Arosarania, rookie card for the Rays. There's Bryce Harper, 55 out of 99. I wonder if Queen Victoria ever saw baseball in her entire life. I guess baseball was sort of invented in the late 1800s, so there's Oliver Cromwell, old Cromwell. He was the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, Ireland, for a five-year period in the 17th century. Yeah, kind of led the UK to a constitutional. More of a constitutional government, setting up parliament and whatnot. Nick, do you know the England National Anthem? Although this is more United Kingdom, it's not everybody, but the England National Anthem? Not really. I think it's the same tune as My Country, Tis of Thee. God save the Queen. There's Oliver again. I don't know if we played, I think we just put different lyrics, we remixed it. Just put different lyrics on top of a tune. I guess we're kind of like, I guess we kind of did like a weird owl. We used their sample. Yeah, we used their, we just, Posey or Quitty, rookie card. I don't know why he sleeved them. He didn't have a good start yesterday. Oh no, he's starting today. He might have a good start today. There's the White Cliffs of Dover. That's a pretty big landmark there. I guess I think you could see it from France, maybe. Gavin Luxe rookie card. Luis Robert rookie card. There's a Yoan Moncada, 84 out of 99. You got the Union Jack parallel, right there. You got Big Ben right up there, too. That's pretty cool. And there's Kwon Hyun Kim. Purple parallel, 42 out of 50 for the Cardinals. And who else do we have here? I've got Queen Victoria again. 46 out of 75, Yordan Alvarez. There you go. David M, getting all those Yordan's. Here's a parallel. We'll see him in action in about 20 minutes. Game two tonight. Ox at Pelicans on in the background for now. And there is the Tower of London. A lot of ghosts there. You see this? No, nice. It's awesome, where we got it? Oh, I thought Teddy got that. I bought it from Michael Myers via state sale. This state sale is creepy. I thought that was a Teddy purchase. Teddy's exactly the same as Michael Myers. You don't think. What? No, but this is from, what year is it on it? Was it like a real release? This can't be from like, it's an original Teddy. Teddy's like looking at himself right now. There is, Eisenbard, Kingdom Brunel. He was a son of French engineer in Portsmouth. Thanks. Oh, he helped his father plan the Thames Tunnel. I ate like almost all the jerks. What was the best one? My stomach is distended right now. So far I like, I like the granola. I like the golden graham thing. You know, it's like a rice crispy treat. That was pretty good. Lorenzo Cain. I like the cake pops were good. I didn't have the, I didn't have the, did you say K-pop? Oh, cake pops. Like BTS was here or something like that. What about my donuts? Teddy. Teddy, cut it in half. You got to have to at least sample it. You're going to be the decider in this whole thing. Yeah, you're going to be the one deciding. I can't eat all that stuff. Nobody's touched my pie. So I might like George Costanza's father. I'm going to just take it home. There's William Shakespeare. Nobody knew it was even there. Romeo, oh, Romeo. Wherefore art thou Romeo?  Those are like one thing a box. Nice. Thank you. Big thanks, Nick, for helping us save a little time. But Ronald Acuna Jr. 85 out of 99. Alvarez Astros. Yeah, there are a lot of cards in this box. Thankfully, Nick was able to pop these open for us to save us some time. Giving us more time to do some more breaks on jaskyscasebreaks.com. So keep your orders coming. We've got the queen, Queen Elizabeth II. There she is. Everyone watch the crown? I think I watched the first season. I don't think I've watched like, I think I watched the first two seasons. I don't think I've watched the latest season. There's Byron Buxton to 75. And a Christian Yelich, purple parallel to 50. Was that Queen one of yet? She's one of a kind. Carl, absolutely. And we've got the Tower Bridge. Another Jordon Alvarez. We're gonna see him in action a little bit later tonight in game two. Braves with a great game one win. There's Shane Bieber. The Biebs. The Biebs, BBC. That's what they call the BBC, the Biebs. You're listening to me. BBC Six, group breaks. And we've got, we've got Charles Darwin. Remember when he was just hanging out the Galapagos? What not? Doing his thing. What was his, anyone know the name of his, the ship that he was on? The main ship that he was on where he did a lot of his, a lot of his work. Trivia for bragging rights. Don't look it up. All right, and we'll randomize these as one lot to somebody at the end of the break. Let's get some of this Ginter here. Going. We've got some select baseball right here. This is Prism Hobby over here. I think there's more of that select over here. So we've got some more boxes here. We've got a mini Tatis Jr. I believe his Charles Darwin ship was the Beagle, I believe, like Snoopy. You know what I'm gonna do? So this will also go into this group right here, the non-baseball group. These mini cards flying around. Those will all ship, of course. And we've got a one out of five mini autograph Alejandro Kirk. That's pretty cool. That'll be for the Toronto Blue Jays. Prim with that one. Gold ink auto, mini, frame, and a train whistle out of fives and under. All aboard the Big Head Express. Woo-hoo. Nice. So Leo Kelly having polished off his first Shirley Temple on vacation, a six-year-old Leo, asked his parents if he can start an Instagram page to post a review, calling himself the Shirley Temple King. He began producing funny, witty, and brutally honest video reviews of non-alcoholic beverages. A viral tweet in 2019 made Kelly an overnight star, jetting a number of followers to 330,000 a single day. Wow. What's this thing, huh? That was your Ginter. And again, we'll randomize these all as one lot to one person in the break at the end, along with any other randomizers that we'll have to do. All right, select baseball. Good luck. This is Anthony Rizzo. 16 out of 50. That's still Cubs Edition going to PJ. Cabrine Hayes rookie card, Dylan Carlson to 149. PJ has the Cardinals, last spot, Mojo. And PJ also has the Pirates. And we got a Hasu Sanchez relic for the fish. That's gonna go to Brian Crouch. He won that spot in a filler. Kyle Lewis, autograph, nice. Selective signature for Seattle, Martin. There you go, Martin. Won that spot in the filler, got randomized the Mariners and gets the three out of 25. Kyle Lewis, Otto. Cracked ice pattern in the background. That's pretty sharp. Red, white, and blue Anthony Rizzo. And a Paven Smith rookie jersey. Kyle Cook with the Snakes. 136 out of 150. We got another Alejandro Kirk jersey and autograph. Another one for Toronto Prim. Did I put this mixer in the schedule? I don't think I put it on the schedule. I'm not sure when we're gonna be done with this. Josh Hader to 199. Christian Pache, red, white, and blue. Did Pache make the World Series roster? He made my fancy baseball roster this year. I thought he was gonna be like, he still could be in the future, but he got a hamstring injury or two kind of set him back earlier this year. I thought he would be a potentially, a potential 2020 guy, possibly. Amson Tejada, prison baseball hobby edition. Mark Maguire, blue, not numbered, but that will shift. And we've got a blue Mojo, Chris Bryant to 199. PJ with the Cubs. Carl's Correa, red, not numbered, but it will shift. Paul Goldschmidt, 59 out of 60. Fearless, insert. He's not on the World Series roster, says Carl. Daniel Lynch, 55 out of 75. Checkerboard pattern. And Spencer Howard, rookie autograph. Nice, Phillies. That's gonna go to Peter Aang and the Fightin' Fills. Gotcha, they have Heredia playing defense in center field, says Carl. Daniel Lynch goes to PJ and the Royals. Here's the second half of prison baseball hobby. Corey Seger, blue, little color match there. Bryce Harper, red wave, 48 out of 99 for the Phillies. Once again, Peter and Philadelphia. Cabrine Hayes, rookie card. And we got a Daz Cameron, autograph. Tigers, that's gonna be for Daniel. Last but Mojo. Daz Cameron, some of you may know his dad, Mike Cameron. There he is again, Daz Cameron, blue. Mike Trout, stained glass. Babe Ruth, lime green, to 125. Yankees' edition, going to Charles. Mike Trout for Allen and the Angels. We've got a Dane Dunning, two out of 75. Red wave, autograph. Gerardo Lopez with the Rangers. Dun, dun, dun, dun. Ooh, and a nice Joe Adele's silver. Rookie silver for Allen and the Angels. Let's get some Daenerys Optic, baseball. Mosaic baseball. And we've got two different years of absolute baseball. Right there and right there. And you can see on the top camera, and I guess on my face camera right here, nothing else there. And we'll start getting to all that good stuff back there. Aaron Judge to 150. Charles with the Yankees. Joe Adele, rated prospect, Hollow. And Jake Fraley to 125. Abraham Toro, autograph, tiny autograph. Rated rookie autograph for Houston, Houston edition. David M. with the Stroes. And a Yoan Moncada, autograph, fireworks auto.  Travis with the Chicago White Sox. There's an Aracise Aquino, rated rookie to 100. Orange parallel for Dom and the Red Legs. Nice bobeshet Hollow. The rookies insert for Toronto, Robert. Got a Brandon McKay. I don't know if he got too much time on the big club, but he's supposed to be a potential two way player for the Rays. All right, here's these two stacks, Mosaic baseball. We've got a full case of Mosaic in the store right now. Full case pick your team if you want to get into that. Jaspy's casebreaks.com. And if you buy at least two teams in that break, Jaspy's casebreaks.com, then you've got an entry for a shot at winning a sealed box of Mosaic baseball. Again, that's in our 12 box, full case Mosaic baseball. Pick your team break on Jaspy's casebreaks.com. And here's a sample of what you can get out of there. It's pretty nice stuff. Keegan Aiken. Oh, Spry and Croft. Nick Madrigal, red. And we've got a Dalton Varshow rookie autograph. Three autographs a box too. That goes to Kyle Cook and the Snakes. It was already game two time. As much as I want to watch the Hawks at Pelicans. I do kind of want to watch this, but I think a World Series game maybe has a little more precedence over this regular, early regular season basketball game. Things we're rooting for. Carl's pitching prop. He's got Max Fried over four and a half strikeouts. Are we thinking over or under on that? I think there was someone earlier, was it Vince? Someone was saying he was thinking, yeah, Vince Franco was thinking under the four and a half. Carl took the over. And the third and final autograph is for the Braves, William Contreras. Wilson's brother. Josh Garza with the ATL. Got an Ichiro, I thought that was gonna be a parallel. It's not, that will still ship because it's an insert. That's a parallel right there. That's 11 out of 25. Goldschmidt and a rookie silver Alec Baum for Peter and the Phillies. The Goldie will go to PJ and the Cardinals. Absolute time. This is absolute 2020 edition. It's Satis Jr. to 199 and then Aristides Aquino. Rip it and rip it. 73 out of 199. Couple pieces of his lumber. Going to Dom and the Reds. Is that two quick strikeouts for Jose or Quiti? Two color patch. An autograph, 46 out of 49, Andres Muñoz. Jersey signatures for the Padres, PJ with the pods. And another Padre for PJ, Adrián Morajón. 106 out of 149. Right on the piece of the baseball. I think that's a cool design. We got Dylan Cease to 99. Alex Bregman to 199. Tools of the trade, Miguel Sano. Quad Relic to 99 for the twins, PJ with the Twinkies. That could have been disaster, Nick. Aaron Saval, 001 out of 125 for the tribe. Cleveland, this is for you. Daniel with the tribe. Wow, that's a hit. I can't believe that Ozzy Alvy's getting on base. All right, the redemption is gonna be, it's gonna be Frank Thomas. Absolute heroes, materials, signatures, spectrum gold. That card is gold. Now, they would, Panini wouldn't do something crazy, right? Like put Frank Thomas on like some random team that he finished his career with. This has got to be, this has to be, this has to be the White Sox, right? I guess I'll check just to make sure. Cause I think he did play for like one Rando team, like the, at the end of his career. Yeah, that's, that's a White Sox. Didn't he? Or am I, am I, am I crazy? I feel like he played for like the A's or something like. Yeah, he played for the A's right after the White Sox and then Blue Jays actually for a couple of seasons, back with the A's, but Chicago White Sox, that's where, that's where everyone knows him from. And more importantly, that's what the checklist says. All right, here's another Absolute, that's from 2021. So this is current Absolute. There's Mookie Betts to 149 and Wander Franko. Six out of 25, triple rally. You know, I have to say that I like the, I like the, I like the hits from 2021 better than 2020 that we just saw. But I like the 2020 like base cards. There's Ryan Jeffers, rookie autograph for Minnesota. Another one for PJ, 34 out of 99. We've got Icons to 149 and Kaboom, Sammy Sosa. Slammin' Sammy Sosa, Kaboom, PJ with the Cubs. Nice. Absolute fans, I know there's a lot of Absolute sports fans out there. We have Panini Absolute Football. Just dropped today on the website right now, jaspyscasebreaks.com. There's Yoshi Tsutsugo for the Rays, along with that Randy Arozrenio card going to PJ and Tampa Bay. Dalton Jeffries, nine out of 50.  Going to Brian Hayes in Oakland. Ryan who won that team, won that spot in the filler. All right, so now we're getting to some of the, some of the good stuff here. How about let's pop open some Topps Chrome Black. Pretty underrated product, I want to say. I really like this a lot. There should be, yeah, there's a card in case they're on the bottom. We've got Ronald Acuna Jr., Freddie Freeman and we've got Stephen Strasberg, 36 out of 99. And the encased card is going to be an Astro. That's Yuli Guriel. For Houston, that's going to be for David M. Another encased card in here. It's going to be Malvin Valdez. That looks pretty sharp. Bowman first, gold, X-Fractor pattern, I don't know. Oh, right, I was like, where is it number? There it is. I knew it was low number, one of one. Cincinnati, dumb, out of fives and under. And definitely one of ones, get the train whistle. All aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-hoo. Nice, five star. You hope what's White Sox, Walker? Oh, the Frank Thomas, yeah. You might be lagging behind Walker. Make sure you're watching live. Definitely is a White Sox. We looked it up and everything. All right, five star baseball. I actually need some more top loaders for that. All right, first one right off the top is Leody Taveras. Rangers Autograph for Gerardo. And we've got a Rhino, Ryan Sandberg, nine out of 40. Gold, ink, autograph, gold and grass. Folks, we've got a dual case break of five star baseball on the site right now, jaspyscasebreaks.com. All we have to do is knock out two fillers for it and we'll be in Brakesville. I think where are we at on that right now? I think we are almost in single digits on the first filler. We've got to do two of them total. And then we can rip open two cases of five star baseball. All right, we're gonna do the autograph baseball first, then we'll do diamond icons and we'll finish off with the limited. And we're gonna play a quick round of who am I or I'll give you the clues and you try to give me the answer on who you think this player can be. We should put the name on top right here. Let me take a peek there. All right. Now this does go by no checklist rule. So this goes to the team that this player is currently on if they're active. And I know for sure this player is retired. So this will go to the team that he played for the longest. I don't think he played for too many teams. But he definitely played for that team longest. All right, got it. By at least by about four seasons. All right, who am I? I'm a Hall of Famer, two-time MVP, triple crown winner, two-time World Series winner, a World Series MVP, an All-Star MVP, a Rookie of the Year, a 14-time All-Star Gold Glover, a batting title winner, an ML Major League Player of the Year award winner, a Manager of the Year award winner. Who am I? And unfortunately, I'm no longer with us. He passed away pretty recently in early 2019 at the age of 83 years old. I think I'm the only player to have won an MVP in the NL and the AL. I don't think any other player has done that. There you go, TJ. TJ's got it, Frank Robinson. What an incredible career. So he's a Rookie of the Year in 1956. In 1961, with the Reds, wins an MVP at 25. And then in his first year with Baltimore at 30, MVP. At 33 years old, 35 years old, he finished third in MVP voting. And even as late as 37 years old when he was with the Angels in 1973, like he finished 15th in MVP voting. That's pretty good. Frank Robinson. And he played with Cincinnati for 10 seasons. This goes to the Reds. Yeah, both leagues, TJ. Has anyone else done that? That was right here, Frank Robinson. Honey, and he's hitting you with that Rookie of the Year inscription for you. There's the PSA DNA sticker right here. It's an official baseball. Pretty nice stuff. And you got the PSA DNA card in here as well. That's for the Reds and that'll be for Dom Martinez. There you go, Dom, congrats. TJ had the pleasure of meeting and talking with them at the winter meetings in San Diego. Nice. Yeah, he's a legend. I think he was with the Dodgers for half a second too. I think he was with the Dodgers for a season. Yeah, Martin, I think you're spot on with that. I think he was indeed the first black manager in both the AL and NL. All right, let's do that diamond icons. What is this? You got kind of a thicker card on the bottom. Usually it's just a relic on the bottom, but is that a piece of a cleat maybe on the bottom? All right, first one out of the gate is a four out of five Cal Ripken Jr. That's for Brian and the Orioles. Nice one, Brian. He won that spot in the filler, got randomized the Orioles, gets the Cal Ripken. All aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-hoo! The redemption is single player autograph dual relic red parallel. Is that another train whistle? Five star red? It must be that Cal Ripken's a red parallel. Philly's, Peter Eng. Double check that, but I'm pretty sure it's a train whistle. All aboard. Woo-hoo! Next one, another train whistle, yes. Five out of five silver ink autograph, Mike Schmidt. Another one for Peter. All aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-hoo! Onwards, we've got Johnny Bench, one out of 10 for the Reds.  Knocking Johnny Bench over, thankfully it's top loaded. We've got David Ortiz, Big Boppy, Twins Edition. Three color pageant autograph, eight out of 10, Big Boppy, Twins Edition. That goes to Minnesota, PJ. PJ had the red socks too. So his bases were covered there. Red ink auto Paul Goldschmidt, 14 out of 25. St. Louis Cardinals, PJ again. He's heating up, he's on fire. We've got five out of five Dylan Carlson for the Redbirds, PJ.  Woo-hoo!  We've got 24 out of 25, Davey Garcia, rookie, silver, ink autograph for the Yankees, Charles with the Bronx Bombers. And a cut auto, one of one, Monty Irving. That's an old New York baseball giant. That's awesome. We've got Willie Sargel's name down here too. Looks like some sort of awards presentation program or something like that. Monty Irving played from 1938 to 1956, Hall of Famer, seven-time All-Star, two-time World Series winner, two-time batting title winner. Nice. This obviously goes to San Francisco Giants. Martin Doring, Martin won that spot, got randomized Giants, gets his cut auto and all aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-hoo! All right, and what is this? It's gotta be a piece of his shoe, right? Francisco Lendor, 10 out of 10. Preeminent pieces. That is awesome. That is for Cleveland. And that's gonna go to Daniel LeGriff. Cleveland, this is for you. I don't have a, we're just gonna set this over here. I don't have a slider box for it, but we'll find one, we'll secure it. All right. What's Giants? Yeah, New York baseball Giants, obviously goes to San Francisco baseball Giants. You know, that's why they used to call them the New York football Giants, the football team, because they had to distinguish between the baseball team and the football team. What do we have here? We've got Ozzie Smith, 32 out of 50. Cardinals, PJ. We have a Freddie Freeman autograph. That's an appropriate time to get something like this. Think still scoreless in this game? Game two. Atlanta Braves, that goes to Josh Garza. Three more to go. It's Casey Meyes, class of 2018, 128 out of 250. Former number one overall pick. That's for the Tigers, that's gonna go to Daniel. Oh, Astros are up one nothing. I was only half paying attention during this. It's still early. And we've got a Gavin Luxe rookie autograph for Karen and the Dodgers. 107 out of 199. And the last one, the last box of our 22 box baseball mixer. Big thanks to Nick Jaspy for helping rip open these boxes to make this break. Probably go about half an hour faster. It's a Cabrion Hayes, nice way to finish it. Inception on card rookie autograph, Cabrion Hayes for the Pirates. It's for PJ and the Pittsburgh Pirates. And that is that, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much. The random UK cards and the non-baseball cards from Ginter will be given away as one lot to somebody in the break. So let's go back to the list. There we go. Let's grab everyone's names from Kyle all the way down to Brad. New dice, new list. There's some new dice. There you go, there's a new list. And name on top, we'll get those extra cards. Roll it, randomize it three and a four, seven times. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seventh and final time. After seven times, it's PJ with those extra cards. Thanks for watching, everybody. Let's do a quick little recap. And we've got more baseball in the store, Jaspy's casebrates.com. We just did those hit parade boxes, which are really sharp. And we had a pretty great break. Thanks, everybody. There's the Monty Irving for the Giants. A lot of train whistles here. David Ortiz, Bryce Harper, Rhino, Leody Tavares. There was that one-of-one, Malvin Valdez, the one-of-one right here. Kind of hard to see, but you can see it. Kaboom, Sammy Sosa, Frank Thomas for the White Sox. Nice mosaic autos. We do have a full case of mosaic baseball in the store. Jaspy's casebrates.com, Kyle Lewis Autograph. Nice one out of five, Alejandro Kirk. Gavin Lux, Origins Auto. A lot of great stuff. And there you go, ladies and gentlemen. Thanks, everyone, for getting into the 22 Box World Series Baseball Mixer. It was a random team break featuring that nice diamond icons box, too. Thanks, everyone, for getting in. I'm Joe for Jaspy's casebrates.com. I'll see you next time for the next break. Bye-bye.


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Welcome to the Adam Does Movies podcast. I'm your host Adam Olinger and today's topic CGI. Computer generated imagery. We see it often. We see it a lot. We hear about it even more.  What used to be an exciting prospect has become this awful, quick, easy way to turn a buck, which is of course not the case. The animators behind the CGI that you see in popular movies, big franchises like Marvel and DCU, they're putting pain, staking hours and time and energy into these renders, into these models. The problem is they don't have enough time. They don't have enough budget, but they have deadlines they have to hit and those deadlines are getting pushed up further and further.   I've been watching a lot of older films lately and by older I mean like early 2000s, even 2012, 2014 that's older now which is a sad thing to say. And you look at movies like Pirates of the Caribbean or even the Michael Bay Transformers. The CG used in those films is absolutely beautiful. Now the design of the character is that's another story when it comes to transformers but the way they utilize the effects, it's top notch. And we're going to get into that more in a little bit and the reason for it and why it suffered so much lately which I already kind of touched upon but we'll dig in a little deeper. What really sparked this is not so much the fact that CGI is being used as a buzz term to hit everything from deep fake technology to actual uses of CGI which is anything from creating fake versions of an Iron Man who's flying around taking out drones to fully rendered feature length films from Dreamworks or Pixar or whatever. That's all CGI. It's all animators behind a computer making these 3D worlds come to life. 3D objects using different lighting, different filters. I don't claim to be an expert on it. I just know the bare bones. I myself have never actually gone into one of these programs and messed around although there are plenty available for regular common folk to get their hands dirty and people have made incredible things in the department of CGI, in the department of 3D animation which is what I'm referring to when I say CGI. The word has kind of lost all meaning. It spans beyond just what normal people would say when they think of it. It kind of touches everything even if it isn't actually the proper use of the word. But what I know, the first time, let me go back to the first time I really recall seeing a fully rendered CG item, an object on the screen and if we're not counting Aliens 3 which I don't think we do. I don't think that was fully created on a computer from scratch. I think that there was some modeling done for the terrible Xenomorph crawling on the ceiling. Something didn't look right with that at all. But the first time I really recall it being used is in a movie called Eraser with Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was one of his kind of B movies that he would come out with, not up to the standards of Conan the Barbarian or a Terminator or a Total Recall. This is the B list. This is the collateral of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Anyway, there's a scene towards the end where he's having a shoot up in an aquarium. By the way, this is a pretty solid movie or in a zoo I guess he's at. And they take out a tank that's housing some crocodiles, possibly alligators. My brain's a little foggy on that. These things look atrocious. I remember seeing that as a kid and going, what the, those look terrible. And I can only imagine how awful they hold up today.  For 2D stuff, you look at something like Mario on the Nintendo, that 8-bit graphic, you look at that today. It looks pretty much the same. But if you look at video games or even movies, such as Toy Story 1, at the time they were groundbreaking, state-of-the-art, amazing visuals that you thought, man, they are never going to top this. It can't get much better than what I'm playing right now on a PlayStation 2. Good luck getting better graphics. And now you jump to a PS5. And now you jump to a modern Pixar movie. And it's just jaw-dropping, how different they look, how far they've come. But the eyes, they deceive, don't they? There was a time when Toy Story 1 and 2 specifically looked just incredible. And now they're very dated. Sometimes hard to watch because they don't look very good compared to Toy Story 3 or 4. And even those are paling in comparison to what's coming out now. And that's a problem with CGI. When you have matte paintings on a background, they look how they look. There's no real eye trickery going on. But for some reason, I don't know, I'm sure scientists and smarter people than myself can tell me exactly why. Something convincing today won't be convincing five years down the road when it comes to these visuals. I just, I can't put my finger on it. It's a remarkable thing. What's less remarkable is how bad modern CGI is being put into practice. We look at early Marvel movies, for instance. Iron Man 1, groundbreaking stuff. Movie itself is solid, for sure. I'd say the third act is pretty weak with the reveal of the giant Iron Man bad guy. Not great. But man, leading up to that, very compelling stuff. We got a solid narrative here. And I think what really drives it and what really sells it is that awesome design they have on the Iron Man suit and how they utilized both practical effects with the suit and some CG mixed in. And that's really the best. It's best to have a blend of both worlds, right? Get us a physical look at the object. Get us a physical suit that we can attach to with our eyes and our brain and then start tricking us later. Convince me that I'm still looking at the same thing. Plus it's easier for the animators when they have something that's basically one to one. Something they can take, put into the computer and just map all those effects to all those colors, all those imperfections, the light source. All that will help convince you that what you're seeing is in fact something worth believing. Modern movies aren't doing that anymore. Because of the crunch I mentioned. I did a quick Google search and found an article which means it's true because it's on the internet. This is from the fandom warrior. I'm just going to read this verbatim. Marvel Studios has produced several blockbuster movies over the past decade and are continuing to make first class superhero movies. By the way, this is an article by Rajeeb Majundar. I probably said that. I butchered that name. I apologize. We're going to keep going. Behind the scene, behind all this fame, fan following, and money are the visual artists who work day and night to make such extraordinary visual effects. And you know what? He might be using Chad GTP for all I know. So maybe the credit goes to Chad GTP. While Marvel is known for their superhero movies and extraordinary plot designs, did he say extraordinary twice? Okay. All right. Credits completely shot at this point. Listen, you can't go from one sentence where you say make such extraordinary visual effects to the next sentence while Marvel is known for their superhero movies and extraordinary plot designs, plot designs. Why did I bring up this article? This is completely off the rails. Let me just scroll down because this is garbage and find out. Okay, here we go. The VFX artists, visual, whatever, visual artists, visual effects artists are in the industry being paid 20% less than the normal industry standard. There were also talks that the artists were overworked and understaffed to complete their tasks within the given time. Well, this is not the first time Marvel Studios has come under speculation for their treatment of their artists. Back in July of 2022, a VFX artist who has worked on two MCU movies previously said that he suffered under the company's pressure. He tweeted, working on Marvel shows is what pushed me to leave the VFX industry. They're a horrible client. And I've seen way too many colleagues break down after being overworked while Marvel tightens the purse strings. In a recent report made by an unknown artist at Vulture while working for Marvel Studios revealed that they were forced to work four times than they were compensated for. The artist further added the minute I deliver movie is redacted. I'm never coming back. So due to these multiple allegations, Marvel Studios are now creating its own VFX studio house. Oh, that's nice. So now they can work their own people to the bone. But Marvel has officially not confirmed this decision or they denied anything about this. Now phase five is recently starting and the VFX house will play the biggest role in these movies becoming top grossing record breaking movies. Oh my God, this has to be a written by chat GTP. They said movies within six words. Now phase five is recently starting and the VFX houses will play the biggest role in these movies becoming top grossing record breaking movies. Come on. We're going to go to one more quote. I'm going to walk away from this trash article. The worst was when event this is a quote. The worst was when Avengers Infinity War and Endgame were coming out. They actually bumped up that release by a month, but they hadn't told us. I remember being on the floor with my team and one of my artists comes to me and says, Hey, you see this. And he shows me the article saying Marvel bumped the release date up a month. The studio claimed that they forgot to mention to their VFX team that they had moved up the release date by a whole month. Since the next movies will heavily rely on the artists, they will need to treat their artists right. They are not a team of four or five, but rather dozens of them work on the same project. The writing's just, I gotta, I gotta walk away. The writing's terrible. Wow. Okay. Quality is out the window. And that, you know what? That's a perfect example actually of what I'm talking about when it comes to the VFX department. It's not just the VFX teams that are feeling the crunch. It's across the entire board when it comes to the movie industry. This fandom wire article, for instance, probably wanted to get this thing out right away before the competition got it out, before they had something to say, Hey, what's trending this week? Oh, people are mad at Disney because they're underpaying their artists. Let's get something out yesterday. So they quickly throw this thing into a program.  They clean it up a little bit and they throw it out on the site because they have a deadline. They got dozens of these things to get out every single day, to get into the algorithm, to get into Google, to get higher in the ranking, higher in the search engine. And it's sad. I even feel it myself from time to time, although I've paired back because on YouTube you're rewarded for quantity, not quality. Of course, there is a balance.   You want to get known on TikTok?  I don't do any of that. I am on TikTok. You can follow me there if you want. Basically it's the same YouTube shorts that I have here, which is another thing. YouTube shorts are huge. Okay, I'm spinning out. Let me focus. The point is Marvel and Disney are in the business of making money and they are not treating the VFX teams with respect. And they're not that many. There's Weta. There's a couple other big ones out there in that space, the VFX team space. But if Marvel is taking a lot of their time working on a Black Panther sequel, that's time that they can't spend working on some smaller movies or another company like Universal or Paramount or whatnot. And so it's felt across the board and we're seeing it. So the other thing that I find interesting about this is it's not new when it comes to the video game space. Video games have been having a major problem when it comes to this as well, putting the teams under massive pressure, taxing them to the brink of depression and to the brink of quitting. They're undercompensated, overworked and very much underappreciated. So when it comes to video games, yeah, this is not a new thing. This is common practice. This is the trend. And now that movies are essentially blending into video games more, there's this parody that's happening because movies are becoming more cartoonish. They're more over the top. They're more bombastic. They certainly cost way more money, which I'm going to talk about next week on the podcast. So please subscribe if you're on YouTube or follow or pin or push or pop or poll or jerk or squeeze or whatever you have to do on Spotify and Apple Music or wherever you're listening to this. I'd love to have more people listen. See, I said listen twice there within the course of a sentence or two. That's just bad practice. And I'm not editing this. So that's how it is. Look at Fast 10 that just came out. You could convince someone that this is a PS5 game, that this is a new Xbox release and not even a movie. The thing costs $300 plus million to make, stupidly expensive, and it's mostly a cartoon with iffy effects that definitely could use more polish. And yeah, there's going to be crunch there to get all of those shots done of cars exploding, of Hoover dams breaking, of Vin Diesel having some sort of charisma anymore. This stuff all takes time and energy and a team of people to work on. I also read that what used to be smaller groups of say three people to work on one visual effects shot are now being minimized down to one. So one dude or one woman is doing the job that used to be three. And it's showing up all over. Let's look at recent examples. Indiana Jones 5, The Dial of Destiny. There's a fact, there's effects all over that film. The problem I have with that is that it doesn't really feel like an Indiana Jones movie at that point. Of course, the older movies had effects, especially Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but a lot of people disown that one as well. I tolerate Crystal Skull, but I don't really see it as a companion to Indiana Jones 1 through 3. It's more of an ugly stepchild that I'll put on from time to time, but I don't need to 1 through 3 is all I need. Those originals were known for their set pieces, for the cinematography, for the over the top action, and for the great stunt work stunts were king in that film. Practical effects were king in that film. There's mad paintings, there's of course a little bit of CG, but for the most part, they're practically done.  Yeah, you gotta put a lot more work into it. And it doesn't hit the same when you do that. There's a charm to believing what you're seeing. That's half the battle with film, right? To convince the audience what they're looking at is real. That's gone away in the last 5 to 8 years. Studios decided, eh, people know it's fake anyways, so why try to convince them? Why try to pretend the otherwise? That's what separates a brilliant film from just an okay movie ride, which is what a lot of these are.   The movie's insanely full of it, blended seamlessly with practical effects, and that's the difference. That's the payoff.  None of it was real. The sandstorm, yes, of course. But the mountains? They painted the mountains? Come on. It's boggers. You look at the behind the scenes on that, it's incredible what they were able to do, how they were able to convince us what we were looking at was real. You pair that with something like Thor, Love and Thunder, or Ant-Man in the Wasp, Quantum Shittia, and you see the difference. It's night and day. Now, of course, people will say, well, Adam, they're going to a quantum, you know, a quantum realm. Thor is off in the different space, different galaxies, fighting on different planets. You can't make that look real. Well, tell that to Dune. Tell that to the OG Star Wars films. And yes, I know the OG Star Wars movies are very dated. The effects work is very shoddy, but the planets themselves are practical. They're shot in different parts of Earth, which is our planet that we're on, of Earth. You can make a quantum realm using set pieces. These, this is the thing that I feel like studios forgot exist anymore. You can actually build set pieces. Look at Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.  No, no, no, no, they built out sets. They built out giant mushrooms and little leaf slides and whatnot. And it feels so much more, I don't even want to say believable. It just feels more inviting. It feels more real, more raw.  You become desensitized so fast. There's no wonder to any of it anymore. There's no, oh, wow. Now they're jumping over here and oh, wow, look it. Now they're running in place again. And another flying things going at them and another explosion. And wow, look at how much they're running in place. It's so lame. There's such a lack of creativity on display, even if those animators are doing their damnness in the background, which they are, to try to make it fun and different. It all feels the same. It's too bad. Another example I often point out is Jurassic Park. The original from the 90s, 94, 96, something like that. One of my favorite movies of all time.  And it's because of the animatronics on the dinosaurs. It's because of that, again, marrying of the two different effects, the practical and the special effect. You have the physical dinosaurs actually there that people are interacting with, such as a triceratops that stomach is moving up and down to a giant t-rex that at one moment is a massive built piece of property that's coming down and smashing through a car to the next shot being fully rendered. Fully 3D CGI, coming at the camera, knocking over trees. They keep it in the shadows. They keep it hidden. They mask the fact that this is very new special effects work. Terminator 2, the T-1000, the liquid metal, one of the very early uses of that technology again. James Cameron wisely knows how to use this by using a property, by using an element that's already very reflective and very surreal looking, not something we see in our day-to-day. It's easier to convince us that this is something that the person's really interacting with. Jurassic World, by contrast, gets rid of almost all animatronic versions of the dinosaurs, goes all in on CG. It's apparent. I still like Jurassic World, but I'm not believing anymore that there's any real threat from these creatures because I don't feel their presence. It looks like Owen is hiding from nothing. I picture a guy in a green suit, like going rah rah, kind of jumping in the background.  It's not the same. It's not the same.   And then you look at the recent Transformers, they lost like 20% of their, I don't even know what, something's missing. They look more fake. They look less believable. Maybe it's because there's more of it going on, but I think it's because of the time. I think it's because of the lack of focus on really making these things believable. The lack of care, really.  Let's get it done. We already have an idea of how to model these Transformers. Let's just push some buttons, get this thing out the door, call it a day. We're going to make a new trilogy. We don't have time to focus on the nuance, on how light is reflecting off of things and reflecting off of different arm pieces or how water is playing onto the sides of the character's body out of the chassis. We don't need to worry about how the thing actually looks as it's transforming. Let's just be done with it. It's a shame. And of course, modern MCU I brought up, Night and Day, that Iron Man 1, even the Avengers movies look pretty damn good. And then you have shots in Endgame that are just, they feel rushed, they feel cheap. And again, that doesn't mean these movies are bad. I'm just pointing out that they could be better. And yeah, you could say every movie can be better, but it can be better based on what they did six years ago is what I'm saying. They already had it figured out and now they're cutting corners at the expense of the audience. I noted a couple more great examples of CG. I mentioned Mad Max, I mentioned Pirates of the Caribbean, those Pirates movies, man. Davey Jones, that squid creature, seriously one of the best 3D modeled characters I've ever seen in a feature length film. The dude is phenomenal. Planet of the Apes, the new Planet of the Apes trilogy.  But those damn apes looked gold. They looked really good. And of course, it's the eye thing again. I feel like in five years from now, looking back on it, they're probably going to look a lot worse. But at the time they released, and at least still today, they hold up very well. It's because time was taken. You can see it in the behind the scenes, all the work that went into it, all the motion capture from Andy Serkis and the different actors that were doing this really put in the work. And they gave them the time they needed to breathe. They gave the animators proper time. Cloverfield, the shaky cam film, Blair Witch-esque, going through the city, stuff's breaking. You have that giant Statue of Liberty head smashing into the city. Love that. Another earlier use of CG blended in really well with the real world environment. And then District 9. This one, I haven't brought this movie up in a long time, but District 9 truly a gem of a film. If you haven't seen it, highly recommend this alien story. It takes place in Africa, very impoverished area, and aliens, the Thrawn, I think they're called something like that, are being treated like the lowest common denominator. It's a heartbreaking, tough film to watch for sure. And that's mainly because of the work the animators did on this with those 3D models of the aliens. So much beauty in that. You really have to tip the hat at the job they did on these models and making the eyes really come through, really bring that performance out of the model of the character. And then there's Christopher Nolan, everybody's favorite, the director that really leans heavy on practical effects whenever possible. But of course you shots and inception where buildings are rolling over themselves. And even an interstellar when there's space and time, you know, kind of blending together. And then there's a, there's 3D space that has to be somehow visually mapped out so the audience can understand what's going on within a black hole.  And they feel like they're part of the movie. They don't take you out of the moment. Christopher Nolan, he gets it. He really does. And there's other directors, of course, they do this as well. David Fincher is another one that comes to mind. I always get amazed when I see some of the behind the scenes stuff and find out what actually was done with CGI, such as some of the shots where he'll take a camera through some railings and you find out that, oh my god, those two railings were real, but the ones in the middle where the camera went between, those were faked. Those were faked out with 3D railings that they just plopped in place after they took the camera through it. Genius.  And that's just, you know, it's really all I wanted to talk about today was just kind of how far computer, how far CGI has come over the years. And then how it's kind of fallen in recent, because money is, of course, king. And studios are realizing they can cut corners and they don't have to make works of art anymore. They can make just small little adjustments, shave some of that budget, shave some of those workers off and get the movie out the door. And yet they still managed to spend $300 million on some of these things. It's absolutely mind boggling what's going on right now. And again, I'm going to focus on that next week. Oh, one other one I wanted to point out, which is kind of interesting. This is an example of, I wouldn't say doing it wrong, but I just kind of scratched my head. And that's the Mission Impossible movies recently. You always, there's always a big set piece, right, or two or three. And Tom Cruise is always doing his stunts. That's the big takeaway from these. In Fallout, he's jumping from, you know, like outside of the Earth's atmosphere. And I think he did it a dozen or a hundred times. I think it was over a hundred times he had to do this freefall from space. And it was such an impressive moment, because they could only get a couple seconds of shots, a couple seconds of footage each time he made this jump. And then they had to piece it together. But it's kind of undercut by the fact that everything around him was then CGI. It was replaced. It was, they added in a digital storm. They added in the entirety of Paris. Because when he was doing the jump, he was over a, you know, an empty field where they could get a permit. So if Tom Cruise is the only real thing in the scene, it again kind of loses that suspension of, you know, disbelief. It kind of removes me believing that he's there. I mean, hell, he was actually doing the jump. But then they faked everything else. I almost feel like at that point, throw him in front of a green screen and have him pretend to jump and then film the Paris shots. I think it's kind of done in reverse. And the same thing with this new movie, there's a shot where he goes over a mountain with a motorcycle. He did this jump, I think I read six or seven times. Looks really cool. In the practice footage, though, it's a ramp that they constructed over the side of this mountain that he jumps off of this tape. There's all sorts of different indicators for him to hit that line, hit that mark. And then the animators have to come in and remove the background and replace the mountain. And it does look kind of fake when you look at the trailer. The mountain does not look very real, very convincing. And so again, it's just, yeah, he did his own stunt, but he did it on top of a, you know, a closed environment where they kind of could set the stage for him to perfectly execute this. So you'll lose the believability again. I still think it's awesome. He does his own stunts. Of course, it's really cool. The final product. However, it's almost like an ego thing at this point because it's not convincing me at the end of the day. Still cool, but not quite, not quite where it should be. Anyway, yeah, a little, little mission impossible rant aside, that comes out as a recording tomorrow. So I'm very excited to go to this movie. I will be reviewing it on my channel, of course. If you like what I'm doing with the podcast and with my channel, Adam does movies, I have a Patreon, patreon.com slash Adam does movies. There's a $1 tier even if you're just like, Hey, Adam, here's a dollar or, you know, 75 cents because patron will take some of it. Or here's five bucks or $30. If you hit me up at 30 bucks a month, and you do that for a year, you get up to four movie requests as well. So you say, Adam, here's 30 bucks. I'd like you to watch this movie from 1972. That's four hours long. 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