2024 Movies: Mac & Guvie Vault

We discuss some of 2024's best, disappointing, and downright awful movies before ultimately deciding on a final four. Be sure to vote in our Twitter poll to help decide what the best movie of 2024 is!



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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mac in season seven, episode four of The Simpsons entitled
Bart sells his Soul. In the episode, Bart sells his
soul to Millhouse for five dollars, and with that five
dollars he buys the sponge dinosaur toys that when you
spray them, he envisions in his mind them becoming giant

(00:23):
and attacking his sister. But when he actually goes to
spray these dinosaur sponges with the hoes, they just grow
a little bit and then go down the drain. Completely
disappointed by his purchase, and well, it's just five bucks.
What I saw from my son yesterday he had saved

(00:43):
his allowance for a total of ten days.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
What do you give him allowance for?

Speaker 1 (00:48):
If he stays in bed, he gets two dollars.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Okay, all right, I.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Just want to sleep. If he stays in bed, he
gets two dollars. So he saved his allowance twenty dollars.
He had been wanting and saving up for this Spider
Man webshooter that you can put on your wrist and
when you pull it, it shoots a string. Yes, so
he finally got it. He was so excited he went outside,
clipped it all on, put the glove on and he

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went to the whip and out came this little dinky
line of webshooter, and the look on his face, the
excitement just drained from his body.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Did you shake up?

Speaker 1 (01:31):
I shook it up. It was ready to go. Nothing great.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, don't beat your heroes, right, that's what they say.
I can't tell you. I'm trying to think of a
toy that disappointed the shut.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
I can tell you one for me right now, one
that I thought, once I put them on, I could
jump from the bottom of my backyard to my top down.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Moonshoes so bad, so bad, dude, so fucking bad. Not
only could you not walk in them when you attempted
to jump to the moon, you didn't jump at all.
You jump it all.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Had to wear them on concrete to get any kind
of leverage, and they had no stick on the bottom,
like they weren't sticky, so you're like you're jumping and
then you're kind of sliding and like holding yourself back
from dying every single time.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Absolutely perfect example of what I was referring to. Those
fucking sucked. And you know what, you know, the technology
wasn't quite there in the nineties to get some real
fun like eventually got Tamagatchi's and whatnot, But those early
in the mid nineties toys were so there were so
many like the moon Boots or Moonshoes, whatever they were called,

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where you're like, they fucking roped you in with a
dope ass commercial, a little singer. You get them for
Christmas or your birthday, and you're like these suck.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
One good three, Yeah, jump three. King of Queen and
Mill Street And I'm Mac and we are the Mac
and Goo Program. We bring you once again twenty twenty four.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
YEP. In prep for the upcoming Oscars this weekend, Goo
and I are gonna sit down together and hash out
not even actually, we're gonna hash out with the top
four movies of twenty twenty four are and then present
them to you, the listeners. You'll be able to vote
on this on X so, hey, if you're listening to
this episode, I'm sure the poll will be out on X.

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And as we whittled down the twenty twenty twenty four
movies to the final four, we'll be talking about the
year overall, talking about the worst movies, the dishonorable Dischargers.
Shout out Sarge, the most disappointing movies of the year,
the mad movies, the fine movies, the middle ones, the
movies that were worth money spending, or we're spending your

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money on a scene in the theater or maybe even
a home release. And then a couple of underrated movies,
movies that we still want you to see that we
haven't heard anyone talking about, and then your honorable mentions
before we finally get into the mount rushmore of twenty
twenty four movies.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
So, without any further Ragoo, Mac, shall we take a
step back in time?

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Prob you're traveling back through time, not physically but mentally
with Maime.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
So watch.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
You never know what will be thrown into the macin goooviyvomans.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Run back. If you're new to the program here, this
was a Mac and Goo staple for like three years
we did Mac and goooy vaults. It went back to
specific years. We went all the way back to nineteen
eighty five because you and I aren't that old. We
just aren't that old, and there were that many good
movies prior to that, so we well.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
There are, actually there are great movies. It's just that
we weren't. It's a little before our time, and we
actually might go back to nineteen eighty because we need content.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, there are great movies, but there were like if
you go to a particular year pre eighty five, it's
almost amazingly clear with the best movie of the years.
There weren't a ton of contenders. And then as as
the eighties moved on, better and better movies got made.
So now we just basically do one year at a
time at the end of the prior year, so we're
doing twenty twenty four and goo on the whole. I

(05:33):
feel like twenty twenty four was solid but pretty lackluster.
Like if you even look at the last decade, outside
of the COVID shortened season in twenty twenty, this has
got to be one of the one of the more
down years of the last decade.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
I would say a week year, I would say that
you have a dirty dozen of pretty solid movies with
the couple at the top that are very good. But
I don't think that we have the top heavy that
old bunch that's still really solid. I just look at
a lot of men.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
I think there's a clear like four or five or
six movies that I really loved, and after that a
whole bunch of movies I'm probably never gonna see again.
And you look back to some of the recent years
and there's like eight, ten, twelve movies I might want
to own from this year, maybe three, four, you know, like,
and that's a good way I think in picturing, at

(06:25):
least people our age. You know, no one's really buying
movies anymore, but a movie you might want to own
to show other people, you know, shout out the Boxers,
that was part of their rating system. And from this year,
there's really only three or four that I would want
to own so that I could show people.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
I actually might because I did notice last year on
Black Friday that the four K DVDs, like the top
notch of the fucking Blu rays, are like dirt cheap.
I might start buying a couple every once in a
while because picture quality wise, sound quality wise, it's way
better than streaming.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah, and if the Apocalypse ever hits and somehow we
still have electricity but no Internet, you can go ahead
and play the.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Four As long as my glasses don't break, I'll be fine. Mac.
I look at twenty twenty four. The big theme. We
always look for a big theme on the year. I
would say monkeys and musicals, once again predicted by the Simpsons.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, a lot of monkey movies, for better or worse.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
In fact, there's a movie called monkey Man without any
monkeys in it, So that's how deep into the monkey
verse we are. A few musicals, one musical that is
really really I guess the word is uh, what's the
word I'm looking for here?

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Goo?

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Fucking I wasn't paying attention to you. I was thinking
of I was thinking of this as I think Hollywood
looked at it and said, Marvel's not around. How about
we start kicking off some of these other MCUs.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
The monkey cinematic universe, the musical cinematic universe.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
I started this list basically by breaking stuff into tears,
and at the very bottom of twenty two four and
a tier of its own.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
I would argue, you flip it and reverse it. This
is the best movie from last.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
Year, Madame Web, possibly the worst movie of all time.
It's the worst movie I've ever seen in theaters by
a lot, and I don't know if I'm ever gonna
have a theater experience as perplexing as watching Madam Web.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
I love Madam web I have seen it multiple times.
I've used it as a palette cleanser. I've watched it
in the movies. I watched it on my TV. I've
watched it on my phone. I've watched it on a plane.
I like to watch it on planes just to get
the people around me sitting around me really questioning what's
going on with me.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
We've seen a lot of bad movies in our lifetime,
especially a lot of bad comic book movies. It's just
amazing that in the year of Our Lord twenty twenty four,
we got a movie this bad in a year that
there were a couple other really really all time bad
comic book movies, this one still stood out head and
shoulders above the rest.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
This one, though, is in twenty twenty four the memorable movies.
There's only two or three, like great movies that are
so memorable. This one might be on the mount Rushmore.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yeah, in part because of Sony Verse Crash and Burned
finally in twenty twenty four, and Madam Webb was a
big part of that. So if you're talking themes in
what the year will be remembered for, you're not wrong.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Kunk Pat Chicken so good, so good, all right, mac
a movie, So let's go on to Dishonorable Discharges, a
movie that's close to Madam Webb in being so bad
that it's good. I had a wonderful time watching Trap.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
Fifteen movies in this upcoming category.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Here, no one cares.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
I still haven't seen Trap. I'm never gonna see Trap.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
I really wanted you to see it because, like you
understand like safety protocols, and you are also a stickler,
like when you watch Madam Webb and you know ambulance stuff,
CPR stuff, like you understand that, and you're a stickler
for movies getting that shit right. So much of Trap
just falls through the cracks.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yeah, and that's why I'm never gonna watch it. It's
it's really easy and go back and walk. Listen to
our Madam Web review if you'd like me, they listen
to me harping on this. It's really easy to just
hire someone for a day or two that is not
even an expert in these fields, that just work on these.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Male stopy right there. It's easier not to hire someone
and just make it up and whatever.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
The fucking minimum wages that SAG makes you pay people
for a day's work, and they can very easily tell you, no,
this is not what happens. This ruins this whole scene.
And they were almost every scene of Madam web had that,
And you're telling me a lot of scenes of Trap.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
Trap is so great. Trap has so many different levels
of ridiculousness, whether it be Josh Hartnett, how he's caught,
how he sneaks away so many times, how they figure
out that it's him. Lady Raven in the movie is
just an amazing character. M Night Shyamalan with his cameo,
just unbelievable dialogue. I love Trap.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Who Also we have here Craven the Hunter, which was
so bad, but because Madam Webb was so much worse,
Like I don't even hate.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
I got no enjoyment from Craven the Hunter. I got
enjoyment from Madam I agree.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
I just feel like I just feel like we've already
forgotten about Craven. I think it is coming to Netflix
pretty soon. Also, here a movie that Goo was dying
for me to watch, and I did watch Hot Frosty.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
I did not tell you to watch this, Yes you did.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
You absolutely did tell me to watch this, like two
months ago. Check The Tape starring Lacey Shebert and Ted
from Shit's Creek. This movie's really bad. This movie's really.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
But it opens up so many worlds of like, what
could we do with this magic scarf?

Speaker 2 (11:49):
In here? We've got Roadhouse, The Beekeeper, Lisa Frankenstein, all
really bad movies with premises that I guess we're never
really gonna work. Roadhouse, of course, the remake with Joan Hall.
That movie just sucked. Connor McGregor was funny watching walk
Around the bee Keepers, your classic state of the movie.
But I'm over it. I'm done, not for me. Lisa

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Frankenstein starred ant Man's daughter. She's pretty good in things.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
That's her name, ant Man's daughter, Catherine Newton.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
This movie sucked. It's really bad. And then goo, we
have Joker fally A doing here. And there's a lot
of people that feel the way about this that I
feel about Madam Webb.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
No enjoyment. It's once again, it's no enjoyment. And after
seeing it, you you do buy into the theory that
they wanted this to be bad.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
I questioned about ninety percent of the decisions that they
made in this movie. However, because Lady Gaga and because
Joaquin Phoenix like are trying. That makes it way better
than Madame Webb, way better.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
And they gave a shout out to Burt Ward when
they entered the bee Ward of the hospital.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah yeah, we had unfrosted, which was really fucking bad,
but I understood what they were going for. I don't
hate this movie as much as most people did.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
They're trying to take the piss out of the corporate dramedies.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yeah yeah, a few tweaks and it could have been
all right, but it did suck. Kinds of kindness. Yrgos
Lanthemos's most recent movie was confusing, long, long, boring, wasteful, wasteful.
It's bad, It's not good.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
This was the movie that I saw and I questioned
if I had any intelligence.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
But Sheman Spaceman starring Adam Sandler and Paul Dano as
a spider. I don't know if there was a more
boring movie.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Was that on the DVD cover Adam Sandler and then
Paul Dano as a spider.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
It was incredibly boring. And when we get Sandler in
these dramatic roles without any hints of humor, it almost
never works.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
We're expecting him to knock it out of the park, though,
like I'm expecting. If I'm seeing that he has signed
on to do something uber serious, I'm saying there must
be something to this, at.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
Least like with uncut gems right, or even a couple
of the successful prior dramatic roles he's done. He's able
to play a quirky character or a character to one
of the extremes. This doesn't have any of that. It's
devoid of fun or anything interesting. Uh Venom The Last
Dance was bad, but also exactly what I expected, right.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
I liked roughly twenty minutes of this.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
I'll give you that. I'll give you that argyle. A
movie that Goo and I were too excited.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
For, way too excited for, had two or.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Three entertaining scenes, and then about a half halfway in
it takes a turn in a Madam Web direction. It's
fucking The last forty five minutes of this movie are
fucking tremendously bad. So fucking bad.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
I question, and this might be a me and you thing.
You know how some people have recency bias. I think
you and I. Whatever the first big release of the
year is, it doesn't matter what it is. We get so.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
Jacked because we just want like a new fresh movie.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
We want the new year to start. We want to
get our new letterbox d going. Our guyle was that
so our gyle, I would argue, So you have a
category here called disappointment, I would put it in this.
Now let me explain why. Much like with Madam Webb,
I got some enjoyment out of when it jumps the shark,

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when they discover what her real identity is. I think
the movie completely jumps the shark, and I didn't give
a fuck about the rest of this movie. But then
they gave us two of the weirdest, dumbest action scenes
I've ever seen, and I'm like, you know what, fuck it,
I'm back.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
The skating on the oil slicks might be the worst scene.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
It looks terrible, but I said, I know how to skate,
and I like this.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
I agree. This movie was a tremendous disappointment, but it
was so bad it went below the disappointment category. That's
why I had it here. And then the final three
in the category good one. It was exactly what you
thought it was gonna be a cgi fucking snooze. Best
Garfield of the movie. I didn't see Our Little Secret.
I didn't see those two. Are your contributions here, goo

(16:12):
next category. You mentioned the disappointments of twenty twenty four.
I think we got maybe I don't know, nine ten
eleven movies here.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
Oh by the way, I also had the Lindsay Lohan
Christmas movie in the prior one. I would have it there. Now.
I'll tell you right now, I like what Lohan is doing.
I think that she is cutting those chops right back
up and she's going to be right on the top
of the world again by this movie. In general, I
hate Kristin Chennai and the movie did not do it
for me. But you can see where Lohan is going.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
I'm glad you took the thirty seconds to explain that.
In there. Disappointing movies Godzilla X Kong, the New Empire,
I thought we were trending in the right direction. It's
like the exact same.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
I would have had one lower. I hated this movie.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
Okay, no, that's fair. I wouldn't argue with this being
in the Dishonorable Dischargers. It's just I didn't think it
was bad, but you're right it was.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
It was not I thought it was wildly boring and dumb.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yeah, there's one hundred cent true. I'm not going to
disagree there. Good Woman of the Hour. Anna Kendrick's directorial
debut was getting so much height, and I watched it
and thought to myself, am I watching a different movie?
Like it was one of those things, like am I
watching a movie separate from what's getting reviewed. It's not bad,
but the direction from Kendrick isn't great, and the main

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actor playing the real life killer or quasi killer in
this movie, he sucked. I didn't like the way the
movie was structured. I had a lot of I had
a lot of issues with this movie. Now it's not bad,
but it got reviewed really well, and I thought it
was tremendously.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
Just did you think you might be stupid when you
were watching it?

Speaker 2 (17:48):
No?

Speaker 1 (17:49):
I thought everyone else it wasn't kinds of kindness?

Speaker 2 (17:51):
Oh how I operate? Yeah, well everyone.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
Else is stupid. It's the children good not sfaratu.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
I was pretty excited to watch and then didn't and
didn't and didn't got to it too much.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Like I was so excited to watch and just never watched.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
It's not good. I don't think it's good like, not
even close to me.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
I'm gonna fully admit right now, I ran out of
steam by the end of last year. Uh.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
I don't think Nasarato is a good movie, and I'm
stunned that it became Egger's highest grossing movie at the
at the box office.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
People liked Draculas.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yeah, this movie was was not good to me, but
apparently a lot of people liked it. It ends with us.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Uh right there, Yeah, disappointment. I mean it was advertised
to me as a rom com. It was not a
rom com.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
This, of course, is the movie.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
At the core of the Justin Baldoni.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
And uh, Blake Lively.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Lively, that's your name, the whole, the whole.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
I know way too much about this situation. My YouTube algorithm,
thanks to my beautiful, lovely, amazing wife, is completely cut.
So the one in the bedroom is the one that
goes to my personal Gmail account, and the algorithm is

(19:08):
just fucked. It is just NonStop. It's Blake Lively and
it is Justin Baldoni. It is that dumb reporter who
used to do interviews. She's putting out constant videos on
this I can't even think of her name. She sucks

(19:28):
Perez Hilton is doing a video every hour on it.
I understand the hustle. Right now people are eating this
juicy gossip. But it's him. It's Andy Signore, who used
to be the head of what the hell is that?
The honest trailer stuff screen Junkies he is. He's putting

(19:48):
out shit every couple hours too. I don't want any
more videos.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
Goode. Here's my thought on the whole blake Lively justin
Beldony thing. I don't care. I don't care. I don't
care what the truth is. I don't care what happened.
I don't care.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
Don't tell my wife that if she asks you, you
say they're monsters?

Speaker 2 (20:07):
Which people are monsters? Which side?

Speaker 1 (20:09):
You don't have to say either one. Just say they're monsters.
She'll understand.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
Good. The Instigators, the Matt Damon Casey Affleck movie that
you were super excited to watch.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
No, I wasn't. I saw it was on Apple.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Why were you so disappointed by it?

Speaker 1 (20:22):
Well, you have Matt Damon and Casey Affleck and Gronk
not just the ultimate jock, but also might just be
the ultimate jock or movies.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
Here, gu that you have some disagreement with that I
labeled disappointment. You say otherwise, I'll list them here. Hit Man,
Ricky Stinicky, A Quiet Place, Day One, Challengers. Let's start
with Hitman. Hit Man looked like it was going to
be a blast. Hit Man was not a blast. It
was fine.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
So I will agree with you that it did not
reach the blast level of what we wanted. But I
think it checked a lot of boxes of what we
want from a Glen Powell movie. It had some humor,
it had some twists, it had some sexiness. It did

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enough of what we want from a Glenn Powell movie.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
It was fine, but I was expecting much more. Ricky Sinicky,
This is a victim of its own Like first twenty
thirty minutes, first twenty thirty minutes very funny, the last.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
Hour no, no, no, no no, first half an hour
not funny. Then there's about twenty five to thirty minutes
that is laugh out loud funny. Then the rest of
it is terrible.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
Yeah, it's it's a disappointing movie because the highs are
very funny.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
The highs are really high in it, though.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
But it's contained within a twenty minute part of the movie,
and I could watch that.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
Twenty minutes over and over again. Though it's hilarious. What
do you want from a comedy I deserve.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
I want to let the eighty minutes of that, not
twenty minutes of it. Say.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
If you take that, that that congested center of comedy,
and you spread that out over the ninety minutes, then
you have your own self something.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah, which is why.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
But you don't have that pointing. But you don't have
that high though, that high, that's high.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
A quiet place. Day one. I love the first one,
really liked the second one. This one I just could
not get invested in. Man, I just didn't.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
I'm disappointed by it. But I think it's fine.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
I think it's cromulent, okay, but I'm speaking of it
from my perspective of love. The first one. Really enjoyed
the second one. So the bars here and I felt
like I came in here.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
By you putting it here, you make it sound like
it's bad.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
No, not necessarily, it's not bad. It was just disappointed, like.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
Well, I don't I don't like this next movie. I
wouldn't call Challengers bad.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
No, Challenge is not bad, dude. Challenger is a tremendous disappointment.
We were promised tennis and sex. We got some tennis
and a little bit of sex, and I don't know
the rest of the movie around it kind of sucked.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
The movie should have been way sexier, and also they
should have paid off way more on that three ways
they were.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Trying to build in. That movie just did not hit.
And yes, it's well made, it's well acted, you know,
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross build a great score. That
movie getting all the year end praise that it got,
or or maybe didn't get, I don't know, is overblown.
It's not. It's not a very good movie.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
Every conversation is like a tennis surf and you're just
volleying it back and forth and trying to win the set.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
Dude, next up a category with like twenty four to
twenty five movies in it, or twenty movies. I don't
know what it is. I'm calling this. It's fine, You're fine,
everything's fine. This is a movie that I didn't like.
I didn't hate. If you liked it more or liked
it less, I don't really care.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
Kind of forgettable if you will.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yeah, I'm gonna run through it. You stop me when
you'd like to talk about something, Abigail Mufasa, The Lion King,
Inside Out two. I like movies, Civil War, IF, Gladiator two,
Mawana Tu, Snackshack, A Complete Unknown, Maxine, Sonic three, axl
F Late Night with the Devil, Transformers one, White Twisters No,

(24:02):
No Twisters.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
No, I just like you yelling Twisters. I thought You're
going to finish the list and then I'll jump in on.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
Some of Reliance, Mean Girls, the musical Kneecap, Amelia Peez,
A Real Pain, The Bike Riders, and Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Now,
the only one that I have in here that I
battled with myself was the Bike Riders. I really really
liked it. Every single normal person I spoke.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
To we're not able. Yeah, we're not naming it.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
So I put it here because I think I'm in
the minority on that one. I think I liked it
way more than most.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
Okay, so I liked it just as much as you.
I was going to argue with you on this one.
I think it's better than fine.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
I guess ninety percent of the people say we're idiots.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
I actually want to ask you about a real pain.
You didn't like it, A real pain.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Oh yeah, so I just watched that a couple weeks ago.
Uh tremendously underwhelming. I guess it's the word. Okay, Iaran
Culkin is great. I had a hard time like paying
attention to it. It was just not It wasn't like
really interesting. It's so heavy on the relationship between Kieran

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Culkin's character and Jesse Eisenberg's character. And don't get me wrong,
they're they're acting, you know, acting up a storm. The
movie itself is just not that interesting, so I understood
why he's getting the praise. I just didn't care for
the movie.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
Okay, so, uh, snackshack does belong here, But I just
want to point out once again, came out of nowhere.
I did enjoy this as a comedy.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
That movie should have been bad. It ended up being solid.
That's that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
I'll give you that Late Night with the Devil. I
like the concept, and I also like how it shot,
how it looks, how they grainy up the film, and
the last five to ten minutes quite polarizing, kind of
throwing a lot of stuff at you. But I think
that might be better than just fine, because I feel

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like that's.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
When I really. I was really annoyed that they gave
us like those droplets of background stuff connecting a couple
of characters, and it just never pays off, and the
end's just okay. Like I felt like it was close
to being a pretty good movie and it just didn't
quite get there. It's not bad. There's a couple of
great scenes in it. David's Desmalchin is awesome. I just

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did not like that movie as much as a lot
of people.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
I fucking love Twisters. How dare you? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (26:21):
And maybe that's why I did.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
How dare you? Put that in? It's fine and not
worth money trip to theater. This movie was made for
the theater.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
I drafted it, I was anticipating it. I was hoping
for the best. Goo left the theater telling me it
was a chasing Top Gun Mavericks, And when I saw it,
I was like, this movie's not that fun.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
I said, in the way that it does a good
job capturing what the original movie was.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
For Top Gun Maverick, And I was expecting either a
blast or something as dramatic as what happens in that movie,
and I ended up just being almost a romcom. Goo
almost a rom com, which I like more than most,
but that move Twitsters was a little underwhelming.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
I love Twisters. I thought it was a fun ride.
For all, we're chasing storms. I can read the cumulus
clouds right now. It's raining. It's raining right now, and.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
I think it's something that more people should have on
their vehicles. If it is a real life thing. It's
screws that go into the ground if you live out
in the in the flats.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
I would put self Reliance in something lower. I didn't
really care for self reliance.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
Yeah, we're the opposite on this one. I enjoyed it
a lot. I really liked Self Reliance. However, I went
in thinking it was not going to be very good.
So Biff Whifson this as.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Well, Yes, and then a ministry of ungentlemanly warfare. I
don't know where I would put it. I think it's
better than fine, but I wouldn't like. I didn't see
it in the theaters. I saw it on a plane
and I thought I was like, this is pretty good.
I like this.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
Yeah, I still haven't watched that one, so i'll I'll
just say it belongs here, so that that makes sense. Good.
Now we're getting out of the nitty gritty. These are
the four movies that, well, there's more after here, but
four movies to me that were well worth a trip
to the theater, well worth your money even at home.
Actually five of them Watchmen Chapters one and two, the

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animated versions of the graphic novel Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Kingdom of
the Planet of the Apes, and Monkey Man. Now, these
five movies I don't really think deserve being in the
discussion of best movie of the year, which we're coming
up with the next seven. But I do think they
deserve praise for being a movie worthy going to see
in the theater or talking about and spending your money.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
The one movie that I would move down from here
is I think that Beatlejuice. Beetlejuice is just fine.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
Oh. I enjoyed it. It's one of the better comedies
of the year, maybe top through two or three comedy
of the year.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
I thought it made me laugh enough. I love Catherine O'Hara,
but for almost every other character, I was like, even Beetlejuice,
and I love myself some Michael Casing was great too,
my Michael Keaton, but I'm like, this ain't the same pacing.
This ain't the same guy, and he's definitely sanitized from
what he was in the eighty eight movie.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah, some of this for you, Most of this for
you is that you have the original movie as like
a four. I love the original movie, and so you
wanted I guess more dark Beetlejuice than like hijinks Beetlejuice.
Is that fair?

Speaker 1 (29:21):
But I also liked the Beatle Juice animated show, which
was hijinks.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah, I don't know, so I think you're just confusing yourself.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
I'm I'm so confused right now.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Carrying on the
monkey movies that was in the top five or six
for both of us for a long part of the
year until we got towards the end, really enjoyable. Movie
looked great on screen. Monkey Man, I would say the
best thirty or forty minutes of Monkey Man is up
there with anything on the year. It was just a
really uneven movie. Moving on to the underrated Slash. Not

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enough people have seen these movies. These are two I've
been talking about for a while. You have his well.
The first one, Furiosa, came out really early last year.
Got absolutely buried no money bomb Yeah, made no money
and I didn't really like uh, Fury Roads, so I
had no intention of seeing it at the theater. Then I
finally catch Furiosa two or three months later, after you

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had told me, I think you would like Hamsworth and
what he does and whatnot. And I borderline loved this movie.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
Really, Dementis is right up your alley. Yeah, it's your
exact style.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
Anya Taylor Joy was fantastic. I I thought everything about
Furiosa was better than Fury Road. And I know I'm
probably in the minority there, but I loved Furiosa good.
I think the real, the real winner of this category, real,
the real movie that the essence of this category is
is My Old Ass, the movie starring Aubrey Plaza as
the older version of a character. This movie is a delight.

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There's great heart to this movie. It's funny, it's gonna
make you cry. I haven't heard anyone talking about this
fucking movie. It's got nothing for award season. Not that
maybe it was to that level, but My Old Ass,
to me, was one of the six or seven best
movies of the year, and no one's been talking about.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
He has a great coming of age with a little
I won't call it a twist, but a nice little
spin at the end.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Yeah. Yeah, And it just hits on all the fields
and the subject matter of it is pretty relatable and
for a lot of people, so I think a lot
of people will grab to what they're talking about and doing.
It's just a really, really fucking well made movie. So
go watch My old Ass if you haven't seen it.
Moving on to the honorable mentions here, we have three
of them, and I think you would agree with these

(31:35):
three goo of the non four Mount Rushmore movies, Deadpool
and Wolverine, the Wild Robot, and fall Guy.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
Yeah, dead Pull and Wolverine I thought was a great
a great third movie for Deadpool, but also closing the
book on all of those Fox movies, a return for
Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, all of the Easter eggs, all of
the nods. We get Chris Evanack, we get Channing Tatum,
we get Wesley Snipes. I don't necessarily love the ending

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of this movie, and really, as a whole, this movie
isn't a great movie per se, but as a spectacle,
as a tent pole, it's fantastic.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
Yeah, so kind of christ Airing off of that, I
guess you could probably blame me for not having this
in our final four. But I agree with what Goose said,
and I was trying. I'm trying to capture what twenty
twenty four is gonna be remembered for. And I think
as the months passed, as the years passed, it'll be
remembered less for Deadpool and Wolverine and more for the

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movie that I chose over it. Even though I may
have liked Deadpool and Wolverine a little bit better at
the time, but the movie I ended up choosing over it.
I think i'd been more excited to see people's feelings
on It was obviously great, great theater experience, but like
Goose said, as a movie, it's not that great. We
just loved the fans.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
Fall Guy is great too. I love silly Goss. I
thought this was a really funny movie, great action. Maybe
a little too inside baseball for some people, but I
enjoyed it.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
Yeah, and a lot of what we said about Furio
So I think applies to Fall Guy to didn't make
nearly enough money, not enough people. Sorry, And it's a
great movie, truly a great movie. Absolute romp and like
you said, you get Goss at his best. The Wild
Robot made Goo cry three times. Maybe it made me
cry once. Really a heartfelt movie that came out of
fucking nowhere, out of complete I guess.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
I think there's two more books.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
Okay, all right, Well we don't read, so that's why
it comes out it.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
It's also a children's book. I don't actually I read
a lot of children's books.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Now.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
I'm I'm on the sixth dog Man book right now,
so yeah, book for third graders.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
What The Wild Robot did really well is break your
heart like two or three different times in separate ways.
And it really is almost it's almost like there's chapters
in this movie, but it works. It just plays out
really well and the ending is phenomenal. It's just a
great story. If you haven't seen The Wild Robot. For
my money, the best animated movie on the year. I

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did goog get a chance to start that movie flow
that has been winning a lot of the animated movie awards.
It's on Max right now. I'm having a hard time.
There's no words in it, so you're just watching and
it sounds and I don't know, maybe it's not for me,
but I digress.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
Just keep in mind, guys, if a robot can love,
maybe mac can too.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
Someday you go well out for further ado getting into
our top four movies of twenty twenty four, I'll start
it off with what I think is the best movie
of twenty twenty four and what I am hoping wins
Best Picture on Sunday Night Goo, That movie is a noura.
Anora is a rated R comedy drama in romance. It

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made thirty eight million dollars in its box office run
on a six million dollar budget. Absolutely crushed it and
as a run time of one hundred and thirty nine minutes,
it's two hours and nineteen minutes and feel much quicker
than that. It takes you on a fun little joy
ride on Roddy teaz. It's ninety three percent from the critics,
eighty nine percent from the audience on METACRITICU A ninety one,

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A ninety one unheard of in the nineties for Metacritic.
This is written and directed by Sean Baker, who gave
us the Florida Project, Red Rocket and was one of
the creators of Gregor.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
Not Unhappily Ever After.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
Not Unhappily Ever after so who knows that now? Synopsis
of Anora, a young escort from Brooklyn, meets and impulsively
marries the son of a Russian oligark. Once the news
reaches Russia, her fairy tale is threatened as her parents
set out for New York to get the marriage nulled.
There is a cast of five characters in this movie
that this whole movie is built around the dialogue, the

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back and forth, the characters ping pong and off of
each other. And it stars Mikey Madison as a nour
aka Annie. I hope she wins Best Actress. I'm pretty
sure it's gonna be de me more. I think she's deserving,
But what are you gonna do? The other four here
are Mark Edelstein, who plays Ivan, her sort of love interest,
and then the three like Croni's henchmen. Here are Vashe

(36:06):
Tovmasian as Garnic. He's the bearded dude, the one that
Annie braks his nose, you have your bories off. As Igor,
he's the bald one who's actually nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
And then Karen Karaguli and Hiss Toros.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
He's the who should be nominated.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
He's great.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
Amazing.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
Great Good describes this movie as Pretty Woman meets Uncut Gems,
and I think that's pretty apt. I think this movie
is better than both of those movies, So it is
selling it a little short unless you love those times
kind of everyone loves Pretty Woman, but I do think
this is better than that. It's what Goo's saying by
doing that is like it's a Cinderella story that goes sideways.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
Right, with a lot of yelling.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
Yeah, it's a good description of what happens in the movie.
There's a lot of hysterical parts in this movie, and
the dynamic that gets built between Annie and those three
dummies tasked with holding her and finding a van fantastic.
I think the thirtiest or so minutes of the Armenian
that Goo's talking about driving over to the house and

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the phone conversation and what's going on in the house
is probably my favorite thirty minutes of any movie all year.
It's fucking incredible and like, it gets really dark, but
the comedic notes in it keep it light enough that
it's like you're able to watch it and rewatch it.
It's just it's amazing. The writing of this movie, in
my opinion, and I'm sort of stunned that this isn't

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gonna win an award for script. As heartbreaking as the
outcome of this movie is. I loved that it like
really fits the movie, and the final twentiest minutes of
the movie like really kind of simmered down, and it
almost acts more of like a what's the word, like
a I'm fucking I'm losing my brain here, goo, I

(37:52):
forget what the word I'm looking for is. But it
almost acts as like an after the movie to show
you a little bit of where the characters are going.
And I really enjoyed that. It was a nice little
cherry on top of the whole.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
Lemachin, that's what it is? What Lemonchin right image.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
That's your Arminion pizza title things.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
I've been looking up. I'm like, what the fuck is
that Armenian bread treat?

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Yeah? Lemage and is delicious. I like a nice garlic
beef lemage with a little sour cream delicious. This movie
hits on a lot of relatable romantic notes. It's funny,
it's poignant. It's a very entertaining movie. I love these characters.
To me, gou, it's the only forty dogger of twenty
twenty four. I love Honora.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
Yeah. I also really liked Thenorra I have It. I
think three possibly two on the air. I really like
both of the movies that are nominated for the Academy
Award that we have in our top four.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
And actually three of them are nominated.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
Shut the fuck up the final All four shit. The
final twenty minutes of this movie and really specifically the
final ten really stick with you, and you watch it
and you're kind of I'm trying to think of like
the way to say this, because like Uncut Gems makes
you really anxious. All four are All four are not,
I don't care. Uncut Gems makes you really anxious the

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end of this movie, like you feel kind of gross
by what you just saw and how she was treated
and how her life has just fallen apart. She's a
puzzle and the pieces are all over the place, and
how it just kind of ends, and it's you figuring
out where she goes from here.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
Left with your own thoughts of where the characters may
go and go to your Uncut Gems point. This movie
feels like it operates in the same Uncut Gems world right,
like it could be you could have characters crossover amongst
the two movies, and I think that's one of the
best things about this movie.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
I loved the stuff that was very obvious on the screen,
and then I love what they left to your imagination
at the end.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
YEP, totally agree.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
MAC my first nominee to get into the MAC and
goooviy Vault is also nominated for an Academy Award. Apparently
all four of these are So I'll go fuck myself.
Rateed R a drama horror to horror comedy, dark comedy
that is the substance. It is also body horror, psychological horror, monster, horror,
social commentary. If you will, you know, women get old,

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men get.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
Old, especially the final fifteen minutes.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
When I get old. How am I gonna deal with it?
Not well, I'll tell you that much. I'm already not
dealing with it very well. I have to cut the
sides of my hair as much as possible, because that's
where the where the whites come in.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
So you get all your honkeys.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
That's where the honkeys come in, right around the ears
get the I get the poly walnut going on.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
Usually I was gonna say I was said the read
Richards you're not into the read Richards.

Speaker 1 (40:43):
I go poly Walnut. I'm an Italian Mac, just like
Lady Gaga.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
Stephanie Germanada Right.

Speaker 1 (40:48):
It has a run time of one hundred and forty
one minutes. Rotten Tomatoes eighty nine percent, seventy five percent
on Metacritic, seventy eight. That's you, by the way, Yeah
You doing Me? Written and directed by Cora le Farge.
I believe Farja Corley, Farja, Farja, thank you. She is

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known for Revenge from twenty seventeen I Met, a critic
of eighty one Rotten Tomatoes of ninety three and the
synopsis of this movie, A fading celebrity takes a black
market drug, a cell replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger,
better version of yourself respect. The Balance Mac movie stars

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Demi Moore, who is probably gonna win Best Actress as
Elizabeth Sparkle, Margaret Qually as Sue who should have been
nominated for Best Supporting Actress, and then Dennis Quaid, who
is a scene stealing gentleman, plays the guy named Harvey, who,
out of all of the stuff that happens in this movie,

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maybe the most disgusting thing is him eating shrimp.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
This movie. I think you had seen it and told
me to watch it, or we both.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
Watch it at the exact same time. Yeah, yeah, it
was you weird minutes ahead of me.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
Yeah, it was weird the way it happened. We both
kind of stumbled upon it, you know, in the in
the beginning of Fall last year, and uh, like very quickly,
I was like, Oh, this is gonna be right up
goose Alley. And what this movie does is it forces
you to make a decision, like twenty minutes in of
whether you're going to continue and watch the rest of it,

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because it gets pretty gross. And I would understand if
someone never finished this movie. But after it throws an
upper cut right to your jaw and you stick with it.
It's fucking true.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
You are glued. This is a mix of Requiem for
a Dream, and I think that's a little bit of
parasite in there, because the third act really takes a
hard left turn.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
Yeah, for sure it. This movie does an incredible job
of getting you invested in its outcome.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
Both actresses are amazing, but I think the real standout
here is the makeup, is the look, is the sound,
is the prosthetics is the sets, it's all top notch.
Dennis Quaid steals the scenes that he is in. The
whole movie has this like fast, heightened in your face

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feel about it. One of the big things like with
Dennis Quaid is that whenever he's on the screen, it's
almost like you have this upper god fish eye on him.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
The way the movie shot was brilliant, so many awesome
shots of them.

Speaker 1 (43:33):
The movie also gets going extremely quickly, doesn't waste any time,
and as a very effective ending that maybe you hate,
maybe you love, but you're not gonna forget it.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
Yep. Probably the most memorable scene of the year. It
has a very carry like finale, and man, it's super
memorable in a movie that you want people to watch
even if they hate it, because you can still I'll
have a fun conversation.

Speaker 1 (44:01):
And also the scene with her on stage goes on
maybe forever, let's go on.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
He makes you.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
Bathe in it. They say, oh you don't like this,
I don't care.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
Yeah. It really hits you over the head with it,
and I do think it's very fitting for the movie,
and it's very clear that they planned out that ending
well ahead of anything else. It's just it's a really
smart movie, even though it's doing some really vulgar things,
and it really makes you question what you may or
may not do in certain situations, or makes your question

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who the good guy is, who the bad guy is,
and and it just really gets you invested and really
has your rooting for certain things. And it's a movie
that actually qualifies for not enough people have seen it.
I have seen a lot of people tweeting at us
or at dork over the last two three months once
they've finally seen it and being like, Oh, I kind
of low key love this movie, dude. Next one up.

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Third nominee for Best Movie of twenty twenty four and
the movie I ultimately chose over Deadpool and wolver So
Sue Me. Wicked Part one, a PG musical, fantasy and
romance movie, made seven hundred and twenty eight million dollars worldwide,
four hundred and seventy two almost three domestically. This has
become the highest grossing Broadway musical adaptation of all time.

(45:16):
And goo, how about this one one of the top
ten highest grossing original non sequel movies ever at the
domestic box office. So that's a pretty good I.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
Can tell you right now, not to pooh pooh Mac.
This was not in my top four. I had this
somewhere in the twenties on the year. I'm not a
musical boy, and this did not hold my attention.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
Yeah, but to be fair, you were like, I'm taking
Dune Part two and the Substance.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
And you made you just gave away our final nominee.
No one had any idea what we were gonna say.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
Although I probably still would have picked this because I
don't think dead Poom Wolverine deserves to steal the pole.
So I wanted to run.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
I know, I'm just saying, like, for me, this is not.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
It understood, understood. We'll sit back and relax. Skew. This
movie had run time of one hundred and sixty minutes
two hours and forty minutes, and it fucking flies by.
For a movie that comes up and approaches three hours,
it did not feel like that at all. On Roddy
T's eighty eight percent from the critics, ninety five percent
from the audience, a seventy three on Metacritic. This is
written by Winnie Holtzman Dana Fox and based on the

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musical written by Steven Schwartz and Winnie Holtzman, which is
based on the book by Gregory maguire and all of this.
Of course, this lore is based on the original book
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum lfb L.

Speaker 1 (46:41):
I blew people's minds at work when I fucking brought
that up because you told me that fun fact. So
I'm like, I'm gonna be cool. I'm gonna bring this up.

Speaker 2 (46:51):
This movie is directed by John M. Chew, who I
think is gonna be able to direct whatever the fuck
he wants for the foreseeable future. You may know him
from Step Up two, Step Up three D. That's my
retaliation now you see me too. But more importantly, he's
done Crazy Rich Asians, which made a bazillion dollars in
the Heights, and now this upcoming. Of course, he's directed
in Wicked to aka Wicked for Good. He's also doing

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the Swiss Family Robinson movie Crazy Rich Asians two, and
Joseph in The Amazing technicol Or dream Code, so he's
probably gonna get first DIBs at all the Broadway shows. Right.

Speaker 1 (47:22):
So, because of my dislexia, I read that as Joseph
in The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcast and I'm like fuck, I
want to see that.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
Snapsis Alpha Ba, a misunderstood young woman because of her
green skin, and Glinda, a popular girl, become friends at
shiz University in the Land of Oz. After an encounter
with the wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship reaches a cross.

Speaker 1 (47:44):
Okay, you also ruined something for me in this movie too,
like it made me think it's even dumber than what
I first thought. Is that you made the point of
saying in the podcast that everyone just mocks and makes
fun of this green skinned lady, yet there are talking animals.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
Yeah, tough. Look, I know, I get it's it's a
it's a stain on the uh on the Land of Ox,
that's for sure. And that's a good full disclosure. I
think I have this movie at thirty six hot dogs,
and I don't think it's as good as the other
three movies we're talking about. But I think if you're
talking about the year of twenty twenty four in movies,
it deserves mentioned. In twenty twenty four is going to

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be remembered for.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
With talking goat, normal, flying monkey, normal green skin.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
What the shit? But it's so, that's why the green
skin is. They're telling the story of essentially of all
these animals that are getting persecuted. Eventually in this movie,
they're being used as separate, you know, lower than normal,
and that's also what happened.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
No one's mocking the Goat.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
They somewhat are, but you're right. It is a weird
dynamic for sure. Also, I didn't talk about this in
our episode, but people were like stunned to think that
the Wizard is Alphaba's father when it's made very clear
in like the opening scene when a drunk they don't
show him, but a junk Jeff goldblu comes waltzing in

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and bangs Alphaba's mother, Like that was very clear that
was Jeff Goldbloom, So I don't know why people didn't
pick up on that. This movie stars Cynthia Reveal as
Alpha ba Ariana Grande is Glinda, Jeff Goldbloom as the
Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Michelle Yo is Madame Morrible, Jonathan
Bailey as pierro Ethan Slater is Bach maris a Body
as Nessa Rose, Peter Dinklice as Doctor dillomand that was

(49:33):
the Goat Gooz. Talking about Andy Nyman as Government Throp
Governor Thropp Bowen Yang as Piphany, Pephany Pefani Bronwyn James
as Sheshen God. This movie is all about the dynamic
between Cynthia Rivo and Ariana Grande. This movie would not
be nearly as good or as successful if these two
weren't so talented and didn't have such great chemistry together.

(49:57):
Waving his pinky finger. If you watched any of the
promo for this movie, you would see how bizarre those
two are together, and it shows in this movie that
said they are two of the most talented singers on
the planet, and that helps this movie tremendously.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
That's the reason why this is passing as opposed to like,
I did not care for Wonka and I like me
some Timmy Shallome, But when they open the movie with
him singing, I'm like, I've made a huge mistake.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
Immediate turnoff, and we're Timmy Shal's boys, and we couldn't
we couldn't get there.

Speaker 1 (50:30):
These two women here are amazing singers.

Speaker 2 (50:33):
Incredibleness, and even if you go back and listen to
all of the Alpha buzz doing the riff that she
does at the end of this movie, they're not as
good as Cynthia Rivo. She does it the best I've
heard out of any of them.

Speaker 1 (50:45):
That's fucking even better than a Dina Menzel, much more really,
because she is a very good singer. I've heard her
Let It Go song at least a billion times.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
She doesn't have the high register that Cynthia Rivo has, though,
so hers comes off a little more. I don't know
what the word is. I'm not a technical singer, but
it doesn't have the same effect. Good. Once again, for
two and a half hours, this movie flies by. It
does a great job creating the contrast between the two
characters as Alpha Ba and Glinda. I still think Ariana
Grande is getting absolutely fucking robbed of best supporting actress

(51:17):
from this movie. I mean, they're giving it to Listen,
I love Zoe Saldana, but they're giving it to her
and a significantly worse movie, a signific significantly worse musical
and Ariana Grande is better in this movie. She just
simply is. This movie is better. I don't understand. I
for the life of me, I will be thinking about

(51:38):
how Zoe Saldana is gonna win in a landslide for
Amelia Pees and that Arianaa Grande was like, never even
an option. It's it's gonna bother me for years. The
story in this movie is very easy to grip onto.
It pulls from real life shit. Obviously. The practical sets
in this movie are fantastic. The costumes are great, and

(51:59):
even who didn't love this movie loves the scene in
the library dancing through life with Fierro with the library
and the books are spinning. It's so cool. Visually, this
movie's great. It's it's truly awesome. There's three great songs
in this movie that become memorable. I think instantly, maybe
not enough for Goo. The ending with Defying Gravity is
fucking credible. I am so so looking forward to part two.

(52:23):
And once again, I think the three movies Anora, the Substance,
and the movie we're going to talk about in one
second are the three movies that should be up at
the top for twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (52:34):
I just realized this. All four of these movies are
nominated for Best Picture.

Speaker 2 (52:40):
This movie, I was stunned. I was stunned that I
was so excited to talk about with people like My
dad ended up seeing it about a month after it
came out. He loved it. We had a good conversation
about it, like this movie got better over time with me.
The more I thought about it, the more I had
time to think about the shit in the movie. I
don't know, fun movie, maybe fourth or fifth best on
the year, but worth discussing for twenty twenty all right.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
In the final Lumnee to get into the Mac and
goofy vault and I think the movie that will win
a forty dogger for me. Rated PG thirteen Dune Part two,
Tune part due action adventure drama, SI five runtime of
one hundred and sixty six minutes. Dune the original one
was one hundred and fifty five minutes. A Rotten Tomatoes

(53:22):
of ninety two percent from the critics, ninety five from
the audience, meta of seventy nine. That's good Mac. Written
by Denis Villanue and John.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
Spates, John Spates, that sounds good.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
And then this is of course directed by Denis Villeneuve.
It's Villaineuve, right, he I villain Neuve. I did watch
him pronounce it recently. And then unsung hero of this
movie and maybe of the last couple years is Greg
Fraser or Frazer. I don't know how he pronounces it,
but he is the cinematographer who is not only doing

(53:58):
these Dune movies but also The Batman's and The Creator.

Speaker 2 (54:03):
And that movie The Creator, which was either last year
two years ago visually was fucking amazing. I kind of
hated the movie. The the plot visually one of the
closet looking movies ever made. So there you go. Greg
Fraser a big part of that. And because Dune's getting
Dune Part three is getting made quicker Dune Messiah, and

(54:25):
because The Batman Part two is getting bumped off, He's
gonna be able to do both movies, which is a
blessing for all of us.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
Knopsis paul A Treedes unites the Shani and Freeman while
seeking revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
This movie is ultimately as great as the supporting cast
is Zandaia Shani, Becca.

Speaker 1 (54:49):
Or bar Dam, Austin Butler, Josh.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
Brolm's Greatest skill Guard.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
Let's start listing fucking people this movie had.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
But everybody, yeah Chris for walking Lea said stelling Scar's Guard.
But what this movie really is, and what we talked
about so much during our review, is Timothy Shallomey makes
a turn but halfway through this movie and turns into
the baddest motherfucker alive. And I did not think he
had it in him that I didn't think this motherfucker

(55:19):
had it in him. And he does. And he fucking cross.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
This pipsqueak, this twerp, And I was sitting there roughly
an hour and a half in going how is this
little guy gonna be a leader of men? And then
you hit that fucking twist, and then we go not twist,
You hit that button, I would say. And then for
the final ninety minutes of this movie, and you could

(55:45):
argue this movie starts out slow, the first movie's a
little slow, but everything is worth it once you hit
that button, because the final ninety minutes of this is
just peak cinema. It is everything in it factor satisfactor,
no borometer. The acting is amazing, the direction is amazing.

(56:06):
This thing looks amazing. I the last ninety minutes just
blew me away and took away any doubt that I
had in the first movie or the first ninety minutes.
And I love this. This is a forty hot dog
movie gets up there with the best sequels of all time.
When the movie ended, Mac and I are sitting in

(56:28):
the theater. Usually we'll kind of talk, we'll joke around,
we're just sitting there. We're thinking, like, where do we
go from here? Not only in the movie, but in life.

Speaker 2 (56:37):
So this movie the reason, first of all, I would
be perfectly happy of this one. The pull. The final
ninety minutes of this movie is maybe the best, the
best ninety minutes of a movie I've seen, probably since
Blade Run in twenty forty nine, another Dnevil Nube movie.
My main issue is the issue that I had with

(56:57):
the first movie. I have this at thirty nine Hot Dog,
because it took four hours of build up for that
far was worth it. It was worth it. But there's something
to be said about a story that needs four hours
of build up in order for that to take place
and for that turn to happen. The turn when it
happens is phenomenal. The final ninety minutes, it's balls to

(57:18):
the wall and it's fucking awesome, and I'm so looking
forwards to what's gonna happen in the third movie. It's
just I do think there's something to be said that
it took four four and a half hours to get there,
and so the Journey was a little boring. As much
as I love these characters, the Journey was a little boring.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
And once again, movies that blend cinema and movie going
deserve more credit.

Speaker 2 (57:41):
I totally agree. Yeah, so this this is both like
I guess art Houses is too strong, but this is
cinema film and also a blockbuster and that doesn't come
along too often. And Denis Villeneuve and Christopher Nolan to
some degree, has done a lot of that over the
last fifteen years. And that's why either are the two
best directors on the planet, because they're combining every good

(58:04):
aspect of movie making, every reason why someone would want
to go to the movies. This is a quintessential theater movie.
You need to wash us and get your ears blown out,
You need to wash us on the biggest screen imaginable.
It's just this is why you go to the movies,
from movies like Doon.

Speaker 1 (58:18):
Too, Mac, can you please once again tell the people
at home the final four movies that could possibly get
into the Mac and Goofy vaults.

Speaker 2 (58:26):
The four movies up for Best Movie of twenty twenty
four are Anora, The Substance, Wicked, and Dune Part two.

Speaker 1 (58:36):
So head over to X, head over or wherever. Not
pretty much just X. Maybe we'll do something on Instagram.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (58:42):
Vote on these four movies. Tell us the movie that
should get into the Mac and goofy vaults. Let's get
into Mac Sack and Mac Sac could be any it
could be a boat in Mac. Yesterday, around two o'clocksh

(59:05):
you sent me a link to an article that we
are now famous. We made it into Barstool Sports one
of our clips, and in this article they say that
my father should be committed to a mental asylum.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
Yeah, so welcome in all two new followers from our
barstool publicity. Goo's clip that he put on TikTok about
his father dipping his cold cuts in Mayo somehow made
it into the hands of Rico Bosco at Barstool. I know,
Goo has no idea who he is, no idea those
of you that follow barstool. Somehow, Rico stumbled upon that

(59:42):
TikTok and blogged it and basically said that Good's dad
should be institutionalized. So, uh, that was pretty funny. It
was pretty funny. I think it happened around eleven amsay
to see my stupid face and mustache plastered on this
on the main barstool.

Speaker 1 (59:56):
That's also the best part about it, because you have
very little to do with the clip.

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
You're just saying almost nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:00:02):
You're there as a supporting character, giving a little insight
into like I like a little bit of mayonnaise, but
not too much, whereas I am doing the heavy lifting
of not only setting up the whole mayonnaise thing and
then throwing my father under the bus. Yeah, and then
you pop up and you're like, that's a good quote.
Yet here we are. You're the face of this operation now.

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
So once again, welcome into our two new lists.

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
Yes, I also like how so I said it to
my wife. I'm like, oh, this is cool, and she
read it. She goes, they didn't even mention your name,
and I'm like, that might be for the best.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
Honestly, they didn't mention either of our Then they just
said this guy's dad.

Speaker 1 (01:00:40):
This guy's dad.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
Actually I don't get mentioned at all.

Speaker 1 (01:00:44):
I prefer them saying that as opposed to Brian Antonelli's
dad should be tossed in a mental asylum.

Speaker 2 (01:00:50):
And on top of it, Bosco is such a divisive
that's the word I was looking for since divisive a
couple of the movie's devisives. Devisive was the word I
was looking for forty minutes ago. Bosco is such a
divisive character. At barstool, no one paid attention to our
stupid faces and just continued to shit on Bosco. So
that was good.

Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
I mean, there were some people online that were defending
my dad, saying what is.

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
Some people thought it was a genius move. Here here's
my take on it wholeheartedly. If you're not sharing mayonnaise
with anyone else, do whatever the fuck you want with
your mayonnaise. If you're sharing mayonnaise with more than just yourself,
do not be dipping shit in the maze.

Speaker 1 (01:01:27):
All right, Mac, Where can the people find us?

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I don't know man teapublic dot com. All right, So
this is the once again, the last time we are
ever gonna talk about twenty twenty four movies. They have
been thrown in the dirt. They're gone. Next week we
have a dump at the beginning of the week, and
then at the end of the week. Mioky seventeen.

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
No, it comes out a week after that, I think,
doesn't it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (01:02:18):
I think it's two weeks out. I'm pretty sure the
fuck I could be wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:02:22):
I hope you are.

Speaker 2 (01:02:23):
We do have the Mickey seventeen screening next week, and uh,
first of all, fuck you Disney very much. This is
a year and a half of the making this movie
for Goo and I, so we're very excited.

Speaker 1 (01:02:34):
Back to back year's number two most anticipated movie of
the year. Here we go, we finally get to see it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
I hope it's fucking great.

Speaker 1 (01:02:42):
I hope it's aw So check us out next week
Tuesdays or Tuesdays. I have used kangaroos, tamp bite Burton.
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