Mike and Kelsey share what they think were the best and worst movies of the 2023 summer movie season. Plus honorable mentions that you should check out or avoid. In the Spoiler-Free Movie Review, Mike talks about Gran Turismo which tells the true story of Jann Mardenborough, a Gran Turismo video game expert who became a professional racer of actual cars on actual tracks. Mike shares how it differs from a traditional video game adaption, what the movie got right and wrong and how it actually might be one of the better racing movies. In Trailer Park, Mike is ready to say “Welcome to Good Burger, home of the good burger, can I take your order?" because Good Burger 2 is on the way and possibly (but probably not) catch on with a whole new generation. Mike shares his distain for the upcoming sequel to the 90's hit comedy coming to Paramount+.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
That look Kelsey crack and a cold one. It's our
afternoon coffee as we're recording this. Hello, and welcome back
to movie Mike's movie podcast. I am your host, Movie Mike.
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in the middle of the afternoon we record this.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Are, and we are here to talk about our best
and worst movies of the entire summer. I have my
favorite one, I have my worst one. I have some
honorable mentions. Overall, a pretty good summer, which we'll get
into more later in the episode. I'll be giving my
review of Grand Turismo, and then in the trailer park
we'll be talking about Good Burger two and whether or
not it's just baiting us into some nostalgia. So ready
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to talk about movies? And now let's talk movies.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
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one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like
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Speaker 1 (01:15):
From the Nashville Podcast.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Network, this is Movie Mike's movie podcast.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
We are back and we're gonna talk about our best
and worst movies of the summer. The summer blockbuster season
officially kicks off the first weekend of May and just
wrapped up this past weekend on Labor Day weekend. So overall,
I thought it was a really solid summer blockbuster season,
the best since the pandemic, which isn't the hardest thing
to do because twenty one really didn't count. Twenty twenty
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two still felt like it was kind of like not
fully enforced. But this summer was so stacked to the
point that some movies suffered because just massive movies were
coming out and didn't get the attention they deserved. But
it was really hard for me to pick a favorite
movie of the summer. Was it for you?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yes and no. I had a lot of movies that
I really liked, but my favorite was one that just
like really hit.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And I think that's what we're gonna say here our favorite,
the one we enjoyed the most and for our own
specific reasons, but you'll kick it off. What was your
favorite movie of the summer.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
My favorite was a little foreign film called Past Lives.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Which was a movie I didn't expect to love as
much as I did because it's so simple but get
so well done.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It was so good, so so, so so good. I
think we also only saw it because our AC was
out that weekend. Yeah, we may have seen it otherwise,
but it was one of those where we were like
looking for something to see every day that weekend, and
we'd seen everything at Regal and we looked at again
our other favorite place, to the bell Court, and I
was like, oh, this is showing. I've heard good things
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about it. So we went to see it and I
left and I was like, wow, I loved that so much.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
And it has such a simple message and the overall
storytelling in that movie is just no bells and whistles,
just a straight ahead story about these two people who
stay connected through their entire lives, how they drift away
and come back, and how they stay connected. So overall,
it's just a true, genuine story and just filmmaking at
its finest in a movie that if you haven't seen yet,
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I really can't recommend it enough.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I would also like to say Barbie would have been
an obvious choice. I loved Barbie so much, but I
just kind of felt like that was too obvious.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Too obvious for you. Yeah, which is ironic, because Barbie
is actually my favorite of the summer, and I think
it's because I knew it was going to be good
going into it, when that trailer first dropped and I
knew Greta Gerwig was behind it, and I saw that
first look at her vision, I knew that movie was
going to be something special, but it was a rare
case that it even exceeded my expectations. And when I
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go to watch a movie in the summer, I want
to see something that's such a spectacle and draws me
in from everything from the music to the costume design
to the story, and a movie that I watch and
I forget about every other aspect of life and I
just live in that world. And Barbie was the only
movie this summer to do that for me. And I
think it's because of the message of that movie. It's
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because of the cast of that movie, the director Greta
Gerwig in that movie, like all those things coming together
into one visual masterpiece. I felt made up my favorite.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I love that you loved it because I feel like
now you understand the plight of being a woman so
much more, I really do.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I think it was all because of America Ferreira's monologue
in that movie, like one of the best monologues ten
fifteen years, Like you don't really get any monologues anymore,
but that one was unusually good.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I want that monologue tattooed on me, the whole thing,
the entire thing, the whole thing on my back.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
That would take a long time. But yes, everything about
that movie I loved, and it was hard for me
to pick because when you look at this blockbuster season,
I think we've seen over thirty movies this summer, which
is a lot of movies.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
And we haven't gone on like our normal date night
because all we do on the weekend.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yeah, we've been doing to a weekend. But the crazy
thing is in those thirty movies, I actually hand it
out three fives, which I never do. I usually give
out one to five out of five a year. If that,
I think the entire time I've been doing this podcast
since twenty nineteen, I've probably given out five five out
of fives, and in just this year alone, in the
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summer season, I've given out my three fives of the year,
which have been Barbie Oppenheimer and Guardians of the Galaxy
Volume three, which to me, have been perfect films this year.
And I think, I know it's still September, but I
feel like twenty twenty three is going to go down
in history as one of the best years in film
of all time, the best since twenty nineteen, but I
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still say overall my favorite is two thousand and seven,
twenty nineteen probably being number two. But after this year,
with still things that are supposed to come out, which
you know, what the strike going on, I think they'll
still come out this year. But if that wasn't affecting it,
twenty twenty three would easily make it as the best
year and so long. So we'll see how the rest
of the year plays out. But honestly, everybody, writers, actors
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need to get paid, so if we end up not
getting some of those movies, I'm fine with it. I
want to recognize that I haven't really spoken on the
strike that much, because really I don't know all the
details about it, but I know there is money to
pay these people a living wage and to get health
insurance and to get all the things they are asking for.
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And if you are not on the side of the
actors and the writers, I think you're going to be
on the wrong side of history. So as a movie fan,
it's hard for me because I want all these movies
to come out, but as a writer. But as a writer,
I'm like, yes, they are the ones making these dreams
and making these stories and making these characters that people
fall in love with, making you know, on the Disney
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side of it, the reason people go to the park,
it's all because of the writers, directors and actors. Without them,
you have nothing. You can't computer generate that, you can't
computer generate ideas that are going to live forever. Yes,
they need to get paid, and if we need to,
as movie fans miss out on some things this year,
I'm totally fine with that. I'll start reviewing movies from
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the eighties and seventies if I have to.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
If that's not reason enough to pay them, please get
this man new movies.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
So yes, But if all the movies that are slated
to come out the rest of this year. I think
twenty twenty three is going to be one of the
best just looking at this summer alone. So now that
we've talked about the good, let's get into the bad.
What was your worst movie of the summer?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
It was one that we attempted to see recently and
we haven't done this since the beginning of the year.
But we left we left it, and that was Strays. Now, Listen,
I knew it wasn't gonna be a cinematic masterpiece. It's
about talking dogs.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
With Will Ferrell and Jimmie Fox.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
But it looked funny, like a raunchy funny, but like
they made the dog's mouths move and it was weird.
And there were just a lot of penis jokes.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Lot, yeah, and it's weird to hear them coming from
a dog.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
But like they also just like used other cruder terms
for it. Like it was just a lot of I'm
not gonna say the word in case you have kids
in the car, but it's for a letter word I
think you can.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah, And it was raunchy without purpose, that.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Wasn't It's kind of like when HBO just puts like
nudity in and you're like, huh, did that add to
the story or were you just trying to put someone
naked on the screen.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
And it kind of felt they just let the actors
run away with anything they thought was funny. And I
know I wasn't going into this movie expecting Get to
have like a great script, but it felt like there
was nothing like they like, hey, this is what's happening
in this scene. Do what you want, say what you want,
and you just kind of default to saying a bunchet
FNS words.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
We didn't really laugh. I looked do you after I
finished my popcorn, and I was like, I've had my snack,
we can go now.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah, it just felt it was just weird. I think
it should have been animated. I think it would have
been a lot funnier and it wouldn't have been as
weird to watch if all the characters were animated.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
They do crude animated things all the time at South Park.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Yeah, look it's yeah south Park, or even like Sausage Party.
I think it works when it's animated. When it's live
action dogs, it feels weird because there's also a character Doug,
who is the main character of who is the owner
of the dog and he is mean to him, and
it feels weird to see a human be abusive to
a dog, even though it's a movie and it's supposed
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to be comedic.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I didn't like that.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I just, yeah, just the whole thing just didn't feel right.
I agree with that one being one of the worst
of the year.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah, I just I wanted to laugh. I went into
a thinking I was gonna laugh, and I'm we laughed him.
We're like, that wasn't funny, because.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
There are some things that are so dumb that you
enjoy and you can have there's some value to it,
even though the fact that it's so completely dumb and ridiculous.
They're still like, oh, I get what that was supposed
to be. But in that case, I saw nothing like that.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
It was like, imagine if you watched like Homeward Bound
as a kid, and they just like said curse words
and talked about inappropriate things. That's what the live action
made me feel like.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
That's probably what the pitch was for that movie to come.
You know how Homeward Bound. What if they just said
the F word?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Kids loved that movie. Now, millennials, they'll come back.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I can only imagine the situations of where kids convinced
their parents to take them to see the movie, not
knowing it was rated R.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
There were some small kids in our theater, which was weird,
and I think they laughed more than us.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
They stayed longer than us too. But speaking of raunchy comedies,
my worst of the summer was Vacation Friends Too. Oh
so dumb, And on a recent episode in the Trailer Park,
I was talking about how we actually ended up enjoying
Vacation Friends one so much.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
It was so funny, like an unexpected funny.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
And I almost even compared it a little bit to
kind of bringing back the humor of the Hangover with
all the ridiculous situations. Yes, and I think it was
the fact that we had no expectations going into that
movie that we enjoyed it. But Vacation Friends Too is
a disaster. There was no plot to it, and they
tried to make it an action movie. Taking the original
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concept in the first one, where it's meeting random people
on vacation and then going on a crazy adventure with
them that wasn't even really a plotlight. In this movie,
they just turned into wanta be action stars and the
comedy was so flat, and as much as I love
John Cena, he couldn't even say this movie.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Throw in Steve BUSHEMI in a random role in that
was real train wreck.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Yeah, it felt like a Saturday Night Live sketch that
went on way too long with no cinematic value whatsoever.
And I don't think I laughed once you fell asleep.
I did fall asleep. I think there was one scene
in particular where I did laugh because it was so ridiculous.
It was because of John Cena's character who gets into
a drinking competition with another guy, and that was the
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funniest part of the movie.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
That wasn't even that funny, and.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
It wasn't even that funny. I had to question whether
or not I laughed at that moment or or not.
So that by far is my worst of the summer
because I had, oddly I wouldn't even say high expectations,
but just of that movie, and it really let me down,
especially because I got on here and talked about how
much I love the first one. It was excited for
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that one, and it ended up being a disaster, a flop,
a big flop. So that's our best and worst. I
do have the top ten highest grossing movies of the summer.
Coming in at number ten was Elemental, which at first
was kind of seen as a bomb, but over time
through the international box office and kind of just having
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a steady chugging along at ticket sales, ended up coming
in at number ten, which isn't bad, but when you
think of Disney Pixart, coming in at ten is kind
of bad for them for how much they spent on
the marketing of that movie.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
But still, I felt like cracking the top ten is
pretty good for them, especially considering that Fast X came
in at number eleven and The Flash came in at
number twelve. They beat Fast Yeah, Fast, I'm surprised that
one did not make as much did not crack the
top ten.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
That reminds me is this is a great place to
tell you about a meme I saw because I love those.
I saw that somebody joked about if they made a
crossover between Jurassic Park and Fast and the Furious, They're like,
you know what, dinosaurs can't stop family.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Uh, they actually could do that because they're both universal.
That was rumored for a little bit.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I think that was what the meme said, was like
universal wanted to do it, but it made me laugh.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I wouldn't hold it past him. But again, we were
looking at the numbers in the US, so.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
He's like, please stop telling me about memes. That is
our entire relationship as I read you a funny Tweeter
meme and you're like, it's not as funny when you're reading.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
No, that one's pretty funny. But yes, just looking at
the domestic numbers. Here at number nine was Transformers Rise
to the Beasts, which, surprising, they made it into the
top ten good film. I feel like that was a
really good Transformers movie.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
It was.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
And at number eight is Mission Impossible Dead Recording Part one.
I feel like Tom Cruise hates that that wasn't a
top five or even top three movie.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Tom criz is yelling at someone somewhere.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Oh yeah, he's ripping somebody to shred over that. I
do think it suffered the timing. It came out right
before Barbenheimer weekend.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Oh yeah, it was the week before Barbenheimer.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
And also that trailer felt a little bit stale by
the time the movie actually came out. That I feel
like everybody had seen the big stunt in the movie already,
which they revealed so early on that it kept you
from wanting to go see anything else in the movie,
even though there's a lot of action in it. That
was like the big scene that they should have held onto.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
What was it, I don't even remember.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Whenever he jumps off the cliff and then parachutes, Oh yeah,
down to the train. They kind of they spoiled their
own movie in a sense. At number seven was Indiana
Jones in the Dial of Destiny.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
See, that's what I was thinking of. I was confusing
the Indiana Jones train scene a lot of trains.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yeah, another train movie. I feel like that movie shouldn't
have flopped as much as it did. Still a pretty
good movie. It's just why I put out in Indiana
Jones movie now, and it just kind of went out
on a your note for Harrison Ford. At number six
was The Sound of Freedom. At number five was The
Little Mermaid. At number four was Oppenheimer. At number three
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was Guardians of the Galaxy Volume three. At number two
was Spider Man Across the Spider Verse. At number one
summer Blockbuster season was Barbie, Oh Barbie, making ninety seven
million dollars in the US and over a billion Worldwide,
which at the time of this I think it's still
behind the Super Mario Brothers movie, but I think it
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could easily pass that up since it's still in theaters.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Super Mario made that much. Oh yeah, with the Global.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, with the Global. I have some honorable mentions. Like
I said earlier, I was in between Barbie and Oppenheimer.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
You actually didn't say that earlier.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Oh, I didn't say that earlier. In my head, I
was saying that I was in between those two. But
that would have been my runner up for best, followed
probably by Guardians and then Spider Man after that. My
honorable mentioned worse was You're So not Invited to my
bot Mitzvah, which came out on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
When we weren't the target audience.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
That we weren't, and I think I just felt like
I could see Adam Sandler not giving a crap about
his performance in a movie.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I think he probably just wanted to make something with
his family.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Which has been kind of his mo and all of
his movies of how many of my friends can I
continue to employ? Which is fine, But I feel like
that movie could have been a lot better than it was,
because at moments it had some real potential there to
be a funny movie. I like the concept of the movie,
but I feel like nothing really happened throughout that entire movie,
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for it being an hour and forty five minutes. I
feel like when you make a comedy like that, you
have to have like, boom boom boom, this happens, and
then this happens, Therefore this happens. It just kind of
felt like a bunch of random events thrown together to
make a movie, and I was let down by it,
especially because it's Adam Sandler with his own real kids,
like it should have been a lot funnier than that.
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I also have the movie I wasn't expecting to like
but ended up enjoying was Haunted Mansion. But I feel
like that movie suffered because it was like, why put
out a Halloween movie for kids in the middle of summer?
And maybe it's because we had so much low expectations
we ended up enjoying it.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Yeah, why didn't they save that for.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I think because they wanted to release on Disney Plus
during the Halloween season and get more people to subscribe.
But that just feels like a weird attempt to take
on a movie. Hey, let's suffer in the summer so
we can make it up in October.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, at that point, why not just do it direct
to Disney Plus in October? Like why even go through.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
With a It kind of taints it in a way, Yeah,
like we already bombed, but here it is on Disney Plus.
The movie I want to see a sequel to as
soon as possible was Talk to Me, which is a
horror movie that I went to go see by myself
because you were like, no way.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Yeah, I don't. Again, I don't do scary movies. And
also sometimes I like having the house to myself, so
I was like, goodbye, have fun.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
The movie I had to pay attention to the most
was A Fire, which was a foreign film from Germany.
And I think it's because I don't know any German whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
But not true. I did learn a German curse word.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Oh yeah, I did learn. Actually I knew that one
already because of South Park. But that was a movie
I had to pay so much attention to because German
is a hard language because they don't really you can't
really pick up on emotion from it. It's such a
dry and cold language that I had to I like
even when I watch a movie from South Korea, I
can kind of pick up on it, even though I
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don't know the language. I feel the emotion in this movie.
It's just straight dialogue and you have to read it
because you can't really put together how they are delivering
the dialogue versus what they are actually saying.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I think that's true of like and I. I don't
want to make a huge generalization, but like for European languages,
there's not always inflection. Yeah, Like I know German, it's
just kind of like hard syllables and consonants, and there's
not like pauses. And I have a friend who's married
to someone Swedish, and she talks about how when she
goes to visit this family, she can't necessarily keep up
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because again, kind of like German, Swedish is very hard
to pick up on emotions and inflection.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
It's a very matter of the fact, just like here
it is, yes. And I think that's why by the
end of that movie, I was so satisfied that I
picked up on the subtle plot lines and the overall
message of it and understood the character dynamics because I
had to pay so much attention that I was focusing
on just the dialogue that I was like, Oh, I
actually understood what that movie was trying to say.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
It was a really good movie. I didn't do it
good one that we enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
And then the movie that I saw twice this summer
that you saw twice as well, was Blue Beetle So Good,
which I would have put that one is my favorite
of the summer, but the fact that we just watched
it and watched it twice, I felt like it was
recency bias and the fact of how much that movie
has meant to me, and also getting my mom to
go see it and see it be enjoyed by somebody
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who doesn't like superhero movies whatsoever, leave laughing and enjoying
that movie.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
And your mom had so much fun. I just love
going anywhere with your.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Mom, And so that one probably could have made my
favorite given if I had have done this episode in
another month or two. But I still stand by Barbie
is my favorite of the summer. Anything else you would
like to say as we close out this portion of
the podcast.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Normally I give a book recommendation, but I'm gonna be honest,
I was really bad at tracking what I read this
past month's so I don't remember what I read in August. Sorry, everyone,
that's probably on my good Reads somewhere.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yeah, I would give a book recommendation of a book
I want to see turned into a movie, which is
a graphic novel. I just read Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Last Road in which I'm also looking at right
now because they have it on my booksack. But it
is one of the darkest, if not the darkest origin story,
not even an origin story, but Ninja Turtle story of
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all time. I highly recommend it. And that's somebody who
can rarely start and finish a book. But I think
a movie is probably coming because they're going to turn
it into a video game, but it would be essentially
taking the Ninja Turtle story and making a dark Knight
esque adaptation, very brutal.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
From what you told me about it, Yeah, you did
read it quickly on the plane.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
So if you are like me and have trouble starting
and finishing something and also want something in the level
of superheroes, great one to check out. All right, Well,
we'll come back and talk about Grand Tarismo and then
we'll get into Good Burger. Two. Let's get into it
now a spoiler free movie review. I want to talk
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about Grand Turismo, which is a much different video game
adaptation from a movie that I have seen. So the
movie is the real life story of Yon Martin Burrough,
who was this kid who was just a gamer and
got really good at this video game, Grand Tarismo, which
is a racing game that is so accurate with the
dynamics and the science behind it that it's almost like
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you're actually driving a race car, but with a PlayStation controller.
And that is the premise of this movie because Yon
is just a gamer trying to figure out what to
do in his life. His parents want him to go
to college, but he is so obsessed with racing and
so obsessed with gaming that he knows this is his
passion and he wants to follow it. He wants to
be the best at this video game, Grand Tarismo, so
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he can go on and do this as his career.
At that same time, Grand Turismo, the video game decides
to have a contest where they are looking for the
best player in the video game, whoever gets the highest score,
and they will take a group of those people to
actually train to drive. Because there are millions of players
all across the world and they want the best. Why
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do they want to do this, well to promote the
video game, to promote Sony, but also to get young
Blood into racing and have this whole kind of cross
promotion synergy thing going on. So it's this big contest
that's trying to build hype around racing and tap into
this market that has been overlooked, and that is what
we findy on. So this movie is an underdog story.
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It's a racing sport movie. The thing I felt was
a little bit off about this movie was the tone.
I want to talk about tone, which is something that
feels like a little elusive, but if tone is just
a little bit off, it can really change my viewing
experience of a movie. I felt like the tone was
just a little bit off in this movie. Because this
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movie isn't a bad movie by any means, And forgive
me for using this reference while talking about a racing movie,
it just kind of feels like this movie is stuck
in second gear basically all the way up until the end.
And I think it's because of the tone. This movie
didn't really know how it wanted to say, It knew
exactly what it wanted to say because it is based
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on a true story. The real life of Yan is
pretty remarkable, even though it's a much more condensed They
take some liberties like any movie based on a true
story does. So it knew what it wanted to say,
it just didn't know how it wanted to say it.
And it's because of the tone, because at times this
this movie felt a little bit over dramatic, and when
you get into a sports movie, especially a racing movie,
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you're gonna fall into all of these cliches, and it
just felt like they were trying to oversell the emotion
through the acting and through the direction, and even through
the look of this movie. I felt if this movie
would have had a little bit of a lighter tone
and maybe appealed more to like an eight or ten
year old, it would have had a much better effect
on the viewer. So I felt like, for me, this
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movie didn't know who it was talking to, and at
times I did feel inspired by his story. I think
the entire thing is remarkable, like I was just saying,
but I just don't know who they were trying to
get the message across to and who they were trying
to inspire by watching this movie. I just think if
it would have been a little bit more lighthearted and
geared towards the people who actually played this game and
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incorporate more things from the video game in this movie,
it would have just had a much more fun experience
for me, and I think a much more fun experience
for the younger audience who this movie really should have
brought in. It should be inspiring kids now who are gamers,
and I think that's what this movie missed out on,
because that is the most inspirational part about this movie
to me, the fact that they took a gamer who
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is just so good at what he did behind the
wheel in his bedroom and he went on to do
something amazing in the real world. That is the inspiring story.
That is the message you want to get across the kids,
because really that is remarkable when you think about the
fact that at least that part of this movie actually happened.
They took a kid who was just great at the
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video game and put that to the test, and all
the implications that come with that, all of the criticism
you get with that of oh, you're just some gamercare
you don't have what it takes to compete with us.
And then in the movie, you see what actually happens
in that situation. It just felt a little bit too
serious to me. And this movie just found itself in
an unusual position where yes, it is a video game adaptation,
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but is a true story. So really trying to sell
the story of Yan. But the movie is called Grand Turismo,
it should incorporate more of the video game. I wanted
to see more about how his mind works and how
he adapted that into his actual performance as a racer.
So the first act suffered by having the wrong tone,
but the movie had a formula that lent itself to
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building to that moment. It's a racing movie. What happens
in a racing movie. They race? What do you want
to do in a racing movie? You want to come
in first. That is exactly what this movie is. So
you as the viewer, experienced that with Yan, go through
all these trials and tribulations of him trying to get
better and better as a racer leading up to the
final race, which in this case is a twenty four
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hour race, the same race we saw in another racing
movie called Ford v. Ferrari. And I was trying to
put in my head where this movie ranked within other
racing movies, and it occurred to me that racing movies
are down there towards the bottom on my least favorite
genre of movie. I never really thought about it before,
but racing movies really just aren't that great because they
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are a cliche, because they are a little bit cheesy
and sometimes over dramatic. And for some reason, I thought
there would be this long list of great racing movies.
And as I'm scanning all these racing movies, I thought
to myself, Man, I'm really not missing out a whole
lot here, And really this movie kind of creeped up
there because there's really not that many things to compare
it to. So Ford v. Ferrari would be my favorite
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racing movie. It didn't really have to do a whole
lot to become one of my favorites. But that one
is in a much different category than this movie, with
a much better director and a much better cast. And
you're probably screaming to yourself Days of Thunder or maybe
trying to throw in some fast in the Furious movies.
I'm just talking about traditional racing movies. They're really just
not that great. So unless you are super into racing movies,
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which I would like to meet you, because I would
like to know you're on more racing movies and why
you really enjoy them, or unless you're gonna cheat and
say Talladegan Knights is one of the best racing movies
of all time, I would almost let that one pass.
I would let that pass. Is a great racing movie.
But I will say even though it felt a little
bit predictable, and I say that knowing that it's based
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on a true story and you can google it, look
it up on Wikipedia. I did see Yan doing some
interviews before the Writer's strike talking about how he actually
got to be the stunt driver in a movie about him,
So I did think there are some cool aspects of it.
But after watching this movie, I thought to myself, did
I really need to see this?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Like?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Did this really change me in any way? And I
know this movie isn't really getting the best reviews from
critics even though audiences love it. I get that I'm
right in the middle of both of those. I can
see some elements from a critical standpoint of why this
movie isn't great, But I do see a lot of
entertainment value in this movie because at the end of it,
you know, what it left racing my heart, and it's
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because of that formula. You get to that final race
and you're so invested in it you want to see
the entire thing through. Even though I felt this movie
was a little bit long, going over two hours, if
this would have been a ninety minute racing movie, I
would have loved it. I would have come on here
and told you you need to go see this movie,
and you're missing out by not going to watch Grand Tarismo. Instead,
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it spent so much time with all this backstory, we
could have really chopped down all of the weird awkwardness,
over dramaticness of that first act built up more to
what we wanted to see, all these gamers coming together
and learning how to race, and then just get to
the final race. So I won't deny that the movie
had a lot of heart. I'm inspired by Yan's story,
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but the way it was told was very stereotypical and
it didn't really know how to say it. So I
think that's what kept this movie back from being great.
So initially, when I was first going through my rating
on this movie, I had it had about a three
point five. But the more I realized what this movie
could have been and how much more inspirational it could
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have left audiences and really even inspired some kids to
maybe not become racers, but maybe take more pride in
the fact that they are nerd video gamers. And I
say that as a nerd video gamer, that you could
go on to do things that people don't expect you
to do. I think that's the biggest message of this
movie of because this movie does speak to the way
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people pay their dues and the way you look at
certain people and how they come up that there's kind
of just this old guard. It could be that there's
always this old guard, could be in racing, could be
in music, could be in comedy, of you have to
do things this way because this is how we do it,
this is how you become legitimate. And this kind of
throws everything out the window, saying, you know what, I
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can do it in my own way, and maybe I
can beat you doing it. That is what the message
of this movie is. In the movie, it didn't do
the best at the box office. It had this weird
thing where it delayed its premier day and then had
this two weeks of like sneak previews trying to create
some word of mouth. So with that sixty million dollar
budget and made twenty one million dollars in the US
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and fifty eight million dollars worldwide, So overall the numbers
represent just about what this movie is. So going back
to the rating system, if I had to give Grand
Turismo a rating, it was at that three point five,
but I talked myself out of it. I give it
three out of five racing helmets, And there weren't really
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any standouts in the cast. The story kind of overshadowed
every single individual character. Orlando Bloom felt like a very
odd choice as the one orchestrating this entire contest. David Harber,
who you would know as Hopper from Stranger Things, really
gave it as all, but he's probably the one who
contributed to the most cliches in this movie. Stylistically looked
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pretty good, but at times it just felt like a
Sony PlayStation ad and they were just trying to bring
people back to buy their product, which, hey, capitalism.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
It's time to head down to movie.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Mike Treylar Paul is good Burger too? Just nostalgia? Bate,
I say it is, and I'll tell you why, the
fact that this movie is not coming out in theaters
is a bad sign. Nickelodeon is deciding to make this
a Paramount Plus exclusive, so just trying to build hype
around the nostalgia and the fact that it's based on
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a movie slash TV show that came out when we
were kids, and trying to push us all to the
Paramount Plus streaming service, which is the only one that
I don't currently subscribe to. And I think it's because
they keep putting out movies like Good Burger two. I
it's nostalgia bait and I don't like this. I think
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in order to make a movie that comes twenty five
or thirty years after, that has to be a little
bit more of a demand or there has to be
a reason for this movie to be made. And quite honestly,
I'm surprised that Keenan is behind this movie and would
even agree to do this movie, because I feel he
has grown so far in his career. He's built so
(33:08):
much on Saturday Night Live, and I feel like now
as he's kind of on the way out of Saturday
Night Live, which I'm surprised he's still on that show,
but he's trying to get more into TV shows where
he is the Star and into movies. I mean, even
though he did fat Alber back in the day, which
I thought was actually pretty good, but I feel like
this is a weird step for him. This would be
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like justin Timberlake going back to n SYNC, which if
you follow TikTok and all the news going on there,
he might actually do that. But I just feel like
this isn't the move I was expecting Keenan to go in,
who I think is a good actor, who was one
of the best childhood actors of all time and has
had a really fruitful career doing things that we all love.
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And I think whenever they did the sketch of this
on Saturday Night Live and that was the end of it,
we didn't really need to see anything else. There's really
not a whole lot to explore. And I'm a big
nick kid. Above all the other networks that were made
for kids, that I think was the best one growing
up in the nineties and early two thousands, it is
the only one that I really cared to watch. They
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had great TV shows, whether it be live action or
the ones I love the most were the animated cartoons,
and it was a network that felt not like it
was run by adults making things that kids would like.
It felt very much like it was kids making content
for other kids, even though that wasn't the case. But
it just very much spoke to my inner child more
(34:33):
than Disney Channel or more than Cartoon Network. But when
it comes to movies, yeah, Disney Channel really had that
on lock with They're not really being that many great
Nickelodeon original movies that aired on the network or the
ones that come out in theaters. The first ever Nickelodeon
movie came out in nineteen ninety six, and it was
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Harry Get the Spy. What I remember the most about
that movie it was the first time I'd ever seen
an orange VHS tape. For those listening who were born
after the nineties, a VHS tape is this big rectangle
that you would put into a VCR, which is a
player much like well, you don't even have CDs anymore.
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It was this other big box that you would put
this little box into press play and you could watch
a movie. And Nickelodeon made all of their movies on
orange VHS tapes because orange was the color of the network,
and it really stood out on the shelf, especially when
it didn't have a case. But Good Burger was the
second Nickelodeon movie that came out on July twenty fifth,
nineteen ninety seven, and is really the cult classic of
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all the Nickelodeon films, although I really wouldn't put the
later Nickelodeon films in that same category when you get
to movies like not Your Libe, and I wouldn't even
really categorize the Ninja Turtles movies as Nickelodeon movies even
though they're owned by Nickelodeon. So for all these reasons,
I just don't think this movie is going to be
very good because I feel like they are taking less
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of a risk putting it on Paramount Plus, and to me,
that just feels like a straight to video approach to
putting out a movie like this. And if you don't
get that reference, you are also not getting my VHS reference.
Straight to video means when a studio would make a
lesser quality sequel and just put it out on VHS
or on DVD because they didn't want to spend the
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money on marketing and all the other added costs to
put it out in theaters because it was a lesser product.
So I've already told you why this movie isn't going
to be great, but I'll probably still check it out.
I haven't even played the trailer yet, so here's just
a little bit of the Good Burger to trailer. Hey,
(36:40):
hey man, you're almost car burging me to that. The
New Adventures of that in starts now. Welcome the good
Barker home.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
The gun Barker can't.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Water, I think, so, oh yeah, that's water for me, thanks.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
So.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Good Burger originated as a sketch on the Nickelodeon series
All That, which starred Keenan and Kel, who also had
their own Nickelodeon show called Keenan and Kel. But Good
Burger spun off into the movie that came out in
nineteen ninety seven and had some pretty good box office success,
making about twenty four million dollars on an eight million
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dollar budget. And the crazy thing Growing Up is as
much as I love Nickelodeon, as much as I love
Keenan and Kell, was probably my favorite live action Nickelodeon show.
I didn't really love Good Burger. I didn't think the
sketch on All That was particularly funny. Kel Mitchell as
ed was never one of my favorite Nickelodeon characters. So
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when I first saw the movie, I thought it was
really just very alright. And I think the reason I'm
so against this movie is I've been burned in the
past of movies that were reboots of my favorite childhood
TV shows or carrots, and they just turn out to
be not good. You even heard it there in that trailer.
It's that same kind of humor, but done by somebody
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twenty five years age. It just does not hit the same.
The only redeeming quality there is about this movie is
it is bringing back some of the original Good Burger casts,
who are some of the Nickelodeon ogs, Josh Server and
my favorite Lori Beth, who was a staple of Nickelodeon's
in the nineties, and you wonder what happened to her
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after the two thousands, because she was on that network
so much, whether it be on All that or all
the Nickelodeon game shows. That is what I loved about Nickelodeon.
It made people like Lori Beth a star who had
such great comedic timing and were such great comedic character actors.
And I haven't really seen her anything past the two thousand,
so I can't wait to see her role in this
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movie and her comeback to the medium screen on Paramount Plus. Again.
There is no official release date on Good Burger two,
but expect to see it sometime in November of this year,
and we'll all be saying this again, at least those
who decide to watch it.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Welcome to Good Burger, Home of the Good Burger.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Can I take ya order? Geez? And that was this
week's edition of Movie by Tram or Bar And that
is going to do it for another episode here of
the podcast. But before I go, I gotta give my
listener's shout out of the week. This week we are
going over to let's go over to Twitter. I wanted
to know all of your answers to this week's topic,
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what was your favorite movie you watched this summer? And
this week's listener shout out is to Big Will, who
replied on Twitter and said, very unpopular opinion, but I
love the flash. Yes, the style took some getting used to,
but it had a lot of entertainment value. And I
am a fan. And I said back to Big Will,
I can actually respect that. I don't ever want to
(39:51):
deny somebody enjoyment. If you watch that movie and enjoyed it.
More power to you. I don't even want to sound
condescending and saying that, but I wish I had enjoyed
that movie more when I saw it. But my true
honest feelings was boredom and fumbling of the bag and
a movie that I had so much hype going into.
I was so let down by and I felt like
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me just speaking my truth. And that criticism of the
movie ended up sparking the most outrage because people felt
I was just jumping onto other people's opinions, when the
fact is I don't read or listen to any other
reviews before giving my review. But people thought that I
was just joining on the DC bashing of the Flash.
(40:33):
Not the case. I just did not enjoy that movie
and almost fell asleep. But big will if you enjoyed it,
you love that movie. Now that it's streaming on HBO Max,
I do see more people talking about it and defending
that movie. I may, but I probably won't give it
a rewatch. But you never should have to feel bad
about enjoying a movie, And really you should feel better
because the other people who did hate a movie that
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you loved you can think, well, you wasted your time.
I didn't waste my time or my mind, so really,
you come out the winter. So thank you Big Will
for that reply. Thanks for everybody else who gave me
your opinions on your favorite movies of the summer. There
were a lot of barbies. Somebody even said that there
was no movie in particular. It was just listening to
this podcast, and I greatly appreciate that, So thank you.
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I hope you have a great rest of your week,
and until next time, go out and watch good movies
and I will talk to you later.
That look Kelsey crack and a cold one. It's our
afternoon coffee as we're recording this. Hello, and welcome back
to movie Mike's movie podcast. I am your host, Movie Mike.
I did say that was a coffee, right, he did.
That's my afternoon coffee. You're not just having a beer
in the middle of the afternoon we record this.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
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Are, and we are here to talk about our best
and worst movies of the entire summer. I have my
favorite one, I have my worst one. I have some
honorable mentions. Overall, a pretty good summer, which we'll get
into more later in the episode. I'll be giving my
review of Grand Turismo, and then in the trailer park
we'll be talking about Good Burger two and whether or
not it's just baiting us into some nostalgia. So ready
(00:53):
to talk about movies? And now let's talk movies.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast,
one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like
never before in a movie podcast. A man with so
much movie knowledge, he's basically like a walking IMTB with glasses.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
From the Nashville Podcast.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Network, this is Movie Mike's movie podcast.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
We are back and we're gonna talk about our best
and worst movies of the summer. The summer blockbuster season
officially kicks off the first weekend of May and just
wrapped up this past weekend on Labor Day weekend. So overall,
I thought it was a really solid summer blockbuster season,
the best since the pandemic, which isn't the hardest thing
to do because twenty one really didn't count. Twenty twenty
(01:42):
two still felt like it was kind of like not
fully enforced. But this summer was so stacked to the
point that some movies suffered because just massive movies were
coming out and didn't get the attention they deserved. But
it was really hard for me to pick a favorite
movie of the summer. Was it for you?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yes and no. I had a lot of movies that
I really liked, but my favorite was one that just
like really hit.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And I think that's what we're gonna say here our favorite,
the one we enjoyed the most and for our own
specific reasons, but you'll kick it off. What was your
favorite movie of the summer.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
My favorite was a little foreign film called Past Lives.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Which was a movie I didn't expect to love as
much as I did because it's so simple but get
so well done.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It was so good, so so, so so good. I
think we also only saw it because our AC was
out that weekend. Yeah, we may have seen it otherwise,
but it was one of those where we were like
looking for something to see every day that weekend, and
we'd seen everything at Regal and we looked at again
our other favorite place, to the bell Court, and I
was like, oh, this is showing. I've heard good things
(02:45):
about it. So we went to see it and I
left and I was like, wow, I loved that so much.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
And it has such a simple message and the overall
storytelling in that movie is just no bells and whistles,
just a straight ahead story about these two people who
stay connected through their entire lives, how they drift away
and come back, and how they stay connected. So overall,
it's just a true, genuine story and just filmmaking at
its finest in a movie that if you haven't seen yet,
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I really can't recommend it enough.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I would also like to say Barbie would have been
an obvious choice. I loved Barbie so much, but I
just kind of felt like that was too obvious.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Too obvious for you. Yeah, which is ironic, because Barbie
is actually my favorite of the summer, and I think
it's because I knew it was going to be good
going into it, when that trailer first dropped and I
knew Greta Gerwig was behind it, and I saw that
first look at her vision, I knew that movie was
going to be something special, but it was a rare
case that it even exceeded my expectations. And when I
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go to watch a movie in the summer, I want
to see something that's such a spectacle and draws me
in from everything from the music to the costume design
to the story, and a movie that I watch and
I forget about every other aspect of life and I
just live in that world. And Barbie was the only
movie this summer to do that for me. And I
think it's because of the message of that movie. It's
(04:05):
because of the cast of that movie, the director Greta
Gerwig in that movie, like all those things coming together
into one visual masterpiece. I felt made up my favorite.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I love that you loved it because I feel like
now you understand the plight of being a woman so
much more, I really do.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I think it was all because of America Ferreira's monologue
in that movie, like one of the best monologues ten
fifteen years, Like you don't really get any monologues anymore,
but that one was unusually good.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I want that monologue tattooed on me, the whole thing,
the entire thing, the whole thing on my back.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
That would take a long time. But yes, everything about
that movie I loved, and it was hard for me
to pick because when you look at this blockbuster season,
I think we've seen over thirty movies this summer, which
is a lot of movies.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
And we haven't gone on like our normal date night
because all we do on the weekend.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yeah, we've been doing to a weekend. But the crazy
thing is in those thirty movies, I actually hand it
out three fives, which I never do. I usually give
out one to five out of five a year. If that,
I think the entire time I've been doing this podcast
since twenty nineteen, I've probably given out five five out
of fives, and in just this year alone, in the
(05:19):
summer season, I've given out my three fives of the year,
which have been Barbie Oppenheimer and Guardians of the Galaxy
Volume three, which to me, have been perfect films this year.
And I think, I know it's still September, but I
feel like twenty twenty three is going to go down
in history as one of the best years in film
of all time, the best since twenty nineteen, but I
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still say overall my favorite is two thousand and seven,
twenty nineteen probably being number two. But after this year,
with still things that are supposed to come out, which
you know, what the strike going on, I think they'll
still come out this year. But if that wasn't affecting it,
twenty twenty three would easily make it as the best
year and so long. So we'll see how the rest
of the year plays out. But honestly, everybody, writers, actors
(06:05):
need to get paid, so if we end up not
getting some of those movies, I'm fine with it. I
want to recognize that I haven't really spoken on the
strike that much, because really I don't know all the
details about it, but I know there is money to
pay these people a living wage and to get health
insurance and to get all the things they are asking for.
(06:25):
And if you are not on the side of the
actors and the writers, I think you're going to be
on the wrong side of history. So as a movie fan,
it's hard for me because I want all these movies
to come out, but as a writer. But as a writer,
I'm like, yes, they are the ones making these dreams
and making these stories and making these characters that people
fall in love with, making you know, on the Disney
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side of it, the reason people go to the park,
it's all because of the writers, directors and actors. Without them,
you have nothing. You can't computer generate that, you can't
computer generate ideas that are going to live forever. Yes,
they need to get paid, and if we need to,
as movie fans miss out on some things this year,
I'm totally fine with that. I'll start reviewing movies from
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the eighties and seventies if I have to.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
If that's not reason enough to pay them, please get
this man new movies.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
So yes, But if all the movies that are slated
to come out the rest of this year. I think
twenty twenty three is going to be one of the
best just looking at this summer alone. So now that
we've talked about the good, let's get into the bad.
What was your worst movie of the summer?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
It was one that we attempted to see recently and
we haven't done this since the beginning of the year.
But we left we left it, and that was Strays. Now, Listen,
I knew it wasn't gonna be a cinematic masterpiece. It's
about talking dogs.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
With Will Ferrell and Jimmie Fox.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
But it looked funny, like a raunchy funny, but like
they made the dog's mouths move and it was weird.
And there were just a lot of penis jokes.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Lot, yeah, and it's weird to hear them coming from
a dog.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
But like they also just like used other cruder terms
for it. Like it was just a lot of I'm
not gonna say the word in case you have kids
in the car, but it's for a letter word I
think you can.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah, And it was raunchy without purpose, that.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Wasn't It's kind of like when HBO just puts like
nudity in and you're like, huh, did that add to
the story or were you just trying to put someone
naked on the screen.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
And it kind of felt they just let the actors
run away with anything they thought was funny. And I
know I wasn't going into this movie expecting Get to
have like a great script, but it felt like there
was nothing like they like, hey, this is what's happening
in this scene. Do what you want, say what you want,
and you just kind of default to saying a bunchet
FNS words.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
We didn't really laugh. I looked do you after I
finished my popcorn, and I was like, I've had my snack,
we can go now.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah, it just felt it was just weird. I think
it should have been animated. I think it would have
been a lot funnier and it wouldn't have been as
weird to watch if all the characters were animated.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
They do crude animated things all the time at South Park.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Yeah, look it's yeah south Park, or even like Sausage Party.
I think it works when it's animated. When it's live
action dogs, it feels weird because there's also a character Doug,
who is the main character of who is the owner
of the dog and he is mean to him, and
it feels weird to see a human be abusive to
a dog, even though it's a movie and it's supposed
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to be comedic.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I didn't like that.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I just, yeah, just the whole thing just didn't feel right.
I agree with that one being one of the worst
of the year.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah, I just I wanted to laugh. I went into
a thinking I was gonna laugh, and I'm we laughed him.
We're like, that wasn't funny, because.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
There are some things that are so dumb that you
enjoy and you can have there's some value to it,
even though the fact that it's so completely dumb and ridiculous.
They're still like, oh, I get what that was supposed
to be. But in that case, I saw nothing like that.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
It was like, imagine if you watched like Homeward Bound
as a kid, and they just like said curse words
and talked about inappropriate things. That's what the live action
made me feel like.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
That's probably what the pitch was for that movie to come.
You know how Homeward Bound. What if they just said
the F word?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Kids loved that movie. Now, millennials, they'll come back.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I can only imagine the situations of where kids convinced
their parents to take them to see the movie, not
knowing it was rated R.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
There were some small kids in our theater, which was weird,
and I think they laughed more than us.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
They stayed longer than us too. But speaking of raunchy comedies,
my worst of the summer was Vacation Friends Too. Oh
so dumb, And on a recent episode in the Trailer Park,
I was talking about how we actually ended up enjoying
Vacation Friends one so much.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
It was so funny, like an unexpected funny.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
And I almost even compared it a little bit to
kind of bringing back the humor of the Hangover with
all the ridiculous situations. Yes, and I think it was
the fact that we had no expectations going into that
movie that we enjoyed it. But Vacation Friends Too is
a disaster. There was no plot to it, and they
tried to make it an action movie. Taking the original
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concept in the first one, where it's meeting random people
on vacation and then going on a crazy adventure with
them that wasn't even really a plotlight. In this movie,
they just turned into wanta be action stars and the
comedy was so flat, and as much as I love
John Cena, he couldn't even say this movie.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Throw in Steve BUSHEMI in a random role in that
was real train wreck.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Yeah, it felt like a Saturday Night Live sketch that
went on way too long with no cinematic value whatsoever.
And I don't think I laughed once you fell asleep.
I did fall asleep. I think there was one scene
in particular where I did laugh because it was so ridiculous.
It was because of John Cena's character who gets into
a drinking competition with another guy, and that was the
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funniest part of the movie.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
That wasn't even that funny, and.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
It wasn't even that funny. I had to question whether
or not I laughed at that moment or or not.
So that by far is my worst of the summer
because I had, oddly I wouldn't even say high expectations,
but just of that movie, and it really let me down,
especially because I got on here and talked about how
much I love the first one. It was excited for
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that one, and it ended up being a disaster, a flop,
a big flop. So that's our best and worst. I
do have the top ten highest grossing movies of the summer.
Coming in at number ten was Elemental, which at first
was kind of seen as a bomb, but over time
through the international box office and kind of just having
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a steady chugging along at ticket sales, ended up coming
in at number ten, which isn't bad, but when you
think of Disney Pixart, coming in at ten is kind
of bad for them for how much they spent on
the marketing of that movie.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
But still, I felt like cracking the top ten is
pretty good for them, especially considering that Fast X came
in at number eleven and The Flash came in at
number twelve. They beat Fast Yeah, Fast, I'm surprised that
one did not make as much did not crack the
top ten.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
That reminds me is this is a great place to
tell you about a meme I saw because I love those.
I saw that somebody joked about if they made a
crossover between Jurassic Park and Fast and the Furious, They're like,
you know what, dinosaurs can't stop family.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Uh, they actually could do that because they're both universal.
That was rumored for a little bit.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I think that was what the meme said, was like
universal wanted to do it, but it made me laugh.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I wouldn't hold it past him. But again, we were
looking at the numbers in the US, so.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
He's like, please stop telling me about memes. That is
our entire relationship as I read you a funny Tweeter
meme and you're like, it's not as funny when you're reading.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
No, that one's pretty funny. But yes, just looking at
the domestic numbers. Here at number nine was Transformers Rise
to the Beasts, which, surprising, they made it into the
top ten good film. I feel like that was a
really good Transformers movie.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
It was.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
And at number eight is Mission Impossible Dead Recording Part one.
I feel like Tom Cruise hates that that wasn't a
top five or even top three movie.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Tom criz is yelling at someone somewhere.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Oh yeah, he's ripping somebody to shred over that. I
do think it suffered the timing. It came out right
before Barbenheimer weekend.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Oh yeah, it was the week before Barbenheimer.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
And also that trailer felt a little bit stale by
the time the movie actually came out. That I feel
like everybody had seen the big stunt in the movie already,
which they revealed so early on that it kept you
from wanting to go see anything else in the movie,
even though there's a lot of action in it. That
was like the big scene that they should have held onto.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
What was it, I don't even remember.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Whenever he jumps off the cliff and then parachutes, Oh yeah,
down to the train. They kind of they spoiled their
own movie in a sense. At number seven was Indiana
Jones in the Dial of Destiny.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
See, that's what I was thinking of. I was confusing
the Indiana Jones train scene a lot of trains.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yeah, another train movie. I feel like that movie shouldn't
have flopped as much as it did. Still a pretty
good movie. It's just why I put out in Indiana
Jones movie now, and it just kind of went out
on a your note for Harrison Ford. At number six
was The Sound of Freedom. At number five was The
Little Mermaid. At number four was Oppenheimer. At number three
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was Guardians of the Galaxy Volume three. At number two
was Spider Man Across the Spider Verse. At number one
summer Blockbuster season was Barbie, Oh Barbie, making ninety seven
million dollars in the US and over a billion Worldwide,
which at the time of this I think it's still
behind the Super Mario Brothers movie, but I think it
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could easily pass that up since it's still in theaters.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Super Mario made that much. Oh yeah, with the Global.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, with the Global. I have some honorable mentions. Like
I said earlier, I was in between Barbie and Oppenheimer.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
You actually didn't say that earlier.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Oh, I didn't say that earlier. In my head, I
was saying that I was in between those two. But
that would have been my runner up for best, followed
probably by Guardians and then Spider Man after that. My
honorable mentioned worse was You're So not Invited to my
bot Mitzvah, which came out on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
When we weren't the target audience.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
That we weren't, and I think I just felt like
I could see Adam Sandler not giving a crap about
his performance in a movie.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I think he probably just wanted to make something with
his family.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Which has been kind of his mo and all of
his movies of how many of my friends can I
continue to employ? Which is fine, But I feel like
that movie could have been a lot better than it was,
because at moments it had some real potential there to
be a funny movie. I like the concept of the movie,
but I feel like nothing really happened throughout that entire movie,
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for it being an hour and forty five minutes. I
feel like when you make a comedy like that, you
have to have like, boom boom boom, this happens, and
then this happens, Therefore this happens. It just kind of
felt like a bunch of random events thrown together to
make a movie, and I was let down by it,
especially because it's Adam Sandler with his own real kids,
like it should have been a lot funnier than that.
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I also have the movie I wasn't expecting to like
but ended up enjoying was Haunted Mansion. But I feel
like that movie suffered because it was like, why put
out a Halloween movie for kids in the middle of summer?
And maybe it's because we had so much low expectations
we ended up enjoying it.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Yeah, why didn't they save that for.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I think because they wanted to release on Disney Plus
during the Halloween season and get more people to subscribe.
But that just feels like a weird attempt to take
on a movie. Hey, let's suffer in the summer so
we can make it up in October.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, at that point, why not just do it direct
to Disney Plus in October? Like why even go through.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
With a It kind of taints it in a way, Yeah,
like we already bombed, but here it is on Disney Plus.
The movie I want to see a sequel to as
soon as possible was Talk to Me, which is a
horror movie that I went to go see by myself
because you were like, no way.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Yeah, I don't. Again, I don't do scary movies. And
also sometimes I like having the house to myself, so
I was like, goodbye, have fun.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
The movie I had to pay attention to the most
was A Fire, which was a foreign film from Germany.
And I think it's because I don't know any German whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
But not true. I did learn a German curse word.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Oh yeah, I did learn. Actually I knew that one
already because of South Park. But that was a movie
I had to pay so much attention to because German
is a hard language because they don't really you can't
really pick up on emotion from it. It's such a
dry and cold language that I had to I like
even when I watch a movie from South Korea, I
can kind of pick up on it, even though I
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don't know the language. I feel the emotion in this movie.
It's just straight dialogue and you have to read it
because you can't really put together how they are delivering
the dialogue versus what they are actually saying.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I think that's true of like and I. I don't
want to make a huge generalization, but like for European languages,
there's not always inflection. Yeah, Like I know German, it's
just kind of like hard syllables and consonants, and there's
not like pauses. And I have a friend who's married
to someone Swedish, and she talks about how when she
goes to visit this family, she can't necessarily keep up
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because again, kind of like German, Swedish is very hard
to pick up on emotions and inflection.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
It's a very matter of the fact, just like here
it is, yes. And I think that's why by the
end of that movie, I was so satisfied that I
picked up on the subtle plot lines and the overall
message of it and understood the character dynamics because I
had to pay so much attention that I was focusing
on just the dialogue that I was like, Oh, I
actually understood what that movie was trying to say.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
It was a really good movie. I didn't do it
good one that we enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
And then the movie that I saw twice this summer
that you saw twice as well, was Blue Beetle So Good,
which I would have put that one is my favorite
of the summer, but the fact that we just watched
it and watched it twice, I felt like it was
recency bias and the fact of how much that movie
has meant to me, and also getting my mom to
go see it and see it be enjoyed by somebody
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who doesn't like superhero movies whatsoever, leave laughing and enjoying
that movie.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
And your mom had so much fun. I just love
going anywhere with your.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Mom, And so that one probably could have made my
favorite given if I had have done this episode in
another month or two. But I still stand by Barbie
is my favorite of the summer. Anything else you would
like to say as we close out this portion of
the podcast.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Normally I give a book recommendation, but I'm gonna be honest,
I was really bad at tracking what I read this
past month's so I don't remember what I read in August. Sorry, everyone,
that's probably on my good Reads somewhere.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yeah, I would give a book recommendation of a book
I want to see turned into a movie, which is
a graphic novel. I just read Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Last Road in which I'm also looking at right
now because they have it on my booksack. But it
is one of the darkest, if not the darkest origin story,
not even an origin story, but Ninja Turtle story of
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all time. I highly recommend it. And that's somebody who
can rarely start and finish a book. But I think
a movie is probably coming because they're going to turn
it into a video game, but it would be essentially
taking the Ninja Turtle story and making a dark Knight
esque adaptation, very brutal.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
From what you told me about it, Yeah, you did
read it quickly on the plane.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
So if you are like me and have trouble starting
and finishing something and also want something in the level
of superheroes, great one to check out. All right, Well,
we'll come back and talk about Grand Tarismo and then
we'll get into Good Burger. Two. Let's get into it
now a spoiler free movie review. I want to talk
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about Grand Turismo, which is a much different video game
adaptation from a movie that I have seen. So the
movie is the real life story of Yon Martin Burrough,
who was this kid who was just a gamer and
got really good at this video game, Grand Tarismo, which
is a racing game that is so accurate with the
dynamics and the science behind it that it's almost like
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you're actually driving a race car, but with a PlayStation controller.
And that is the premise of this movie because Yon
is just a gamer trying to figure out what to
do in his life. His parents want him to go
to college, but he is so obsessed with racing and
so obsessed with gaming that he knows this is his
passion and he wants to follow it. He wants to
be the best at this video game, Grand Tarismo, so
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he can go on and do this as his career.
At that same time, Grand Turismo, the video game decides
to have a contest where they are looking for the
best player in the video game, whoever gets the highest score,
and they will take a group of those people to
actually train to drive. Because there are millions of players
all across the world and they want the best. Why
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do they want to do this, well to promote the
video game, to promote Sony, but also to get young
Blood into racing and have this whole kind of cross
promotion synergy thing going on. So it's this big contest
that's trying to build hype around racing and tap into
this market that has been overlooked, and that is what
we findy on. So this movie is an underdog story.
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It's a racing sport movie. The thing I felt was
a little bit off about this movie was the tone.
I want to talk about tone, which is something that
feels like a little elusive, but if tone is just
a little bit off, it can really change my viewing
experience of a movie. I felt like the tone was
just a little bit off in this movie. Because this
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movie isn't a bad movie by any means, And forgive
me for using this reference while talking about a racing movie,
it just kind of feels like this movie is stuck
in second gear basically all the way up until the end.
And I think it's because of the tone. This movie
didn't really know how it wanted to say, It knew
exactly what it wanted to say because it is based
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on a true story. The real life of Yan is
pretty remarkable, even though it's a much more condensed They
take some liberties like any movie based on a true
story does. So it knew what it wanted to say,
it just didn't know how it wanted to say it.
And it's because of the tone, because at times this
this movie felt a little bit over dramatic, and when
you get into a sports movie, especially a racing movie,
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you're gonna fall into all of these cliches, and it
just felt like they were trying to oversell the emotion
through the acting and through the direction, and even through
the look of this movie. I felt if this movie
would have had a little bit of a lighter tone
and maybe appealed more to like an eight or ten
year old, it would have had a much better effect
on the viewer. So I felt like, for me, this
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movie didn't know who it was talking to, and at
times I did feel inspired by his story. I think
the entire thing is remarkable, like I was just saying,
but I just don't know who they were trying to
get the message across to and who they were trying
to inspire by watching this movie. I just think if
it would have been a little bit more lighthearted and
geared towards the people who actually played this game and
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incorporate more things from the video game in this movie,
it would have just had a much more fun experience
for me, and I think a much more fun experience
for the younger audience who this movie really should have
brought in. It should be inspiring kids now who are gamers,
and I think that's what this movie missed out on,
because that is the most inspirational part about this movie
to me, the fact that they took a gamer who
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is just so good at what he did behind the
wheel in his bedroom and he went on to do
something amazing in the real world. That is the inspiring story.
That is the message you want to get across the kids,
because really that is remarkable when you think about the
fact that at least that part of this movie actually happened.
They took a kid who was just great at the
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video game and put that to the test, and all
the implications that come with that, all of the criticism
you get with that of oh, you're just some gamercare
you don't have what it takes to compete with us.
And then in the movie, you see what actually happens
in that situation. It just felt a little bit too
serious to me. And this movie just found itself in
an unusual position where yes, it is a video game adaptation,
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but is a true story. So really trying to sell
the story of Yan. But the movie is called Grand Turismo,
it should incorporate more of the video game. I wanted
to see more about how his mind works and how
he adapted that into his actual performance as a racer.
So the first act suffered by having the wrong tone,
but the movie had a formula that lent itself to
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building to that moment. It's a racing movie. What happens
in a racing movie. They race? What do you want
to do in a racing movie? You want to come
in first. That is exactly what this movie is. So
you as the viewer, experienced that with Yan, go through
all these trials and tribulations of him trying to get
better and better as a racer leading up to the
final race, which in this case is a twenty four
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hour race, the same race we saw in another racing
movie called Ford v. Ferrari. And I was trying to
put in my head where this movie ranked within other
racing movies, and it occurred to me that racing movies
are down there towards the bottom on my least favorite
genre of movie. I never really thought about it before,
but racing movies really just aren't that great because they
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are a cliche, because they are a little bit cheesy
and sometimes over dramatic. And for some reason, I thought
there would be this long list of great racing movies.
And as I'm scanning all these racing movies, I thought
to myself, Man, I'm really not missing out a whole
lot here, And really this movie kind of creeped up
there because there's really not that many things to compare
it to. So Ford v. Ferrari would be my favorite
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racing movie. It didn't really have to do a whole
lot to become one of my favorites. But that one
is in a much different category than this movie, with
a much better director and a much better cast. And
you're probably screaming to yourself Days of Thunder or maybe
trying to throw in some fast in the Furious movies.
I'm just talking about traditional racing movies. They're really just
not that great. So unless you are super into racing movies,
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which I would like to meet you, because I would
like to know you're on more racing movies and why
you really enjoy them, or unless you're gonna cheat and
say Talladegan Knights is one of the best racing movies
of all time, I would almost let that one pass.
I would let that pass. Is a great racing movie.
But I will say even though it felt a little
bit predictable, and I say that knowing that it's based
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on a true story and you can google it, look
it up on Wikipedia. I did see Yan doing some
interviews before the Writer's strike talking about how he actually
got to be the stunt driver in a movie about him,
So I did think there are some cool aspects of it.
But after watching this movie, I thought to myself, did
I really need to see this?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Like?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Did this really change me in any way? And I
know this movie isn't really getting the best reviews from
critics even though audiences love it. I get that I'm
right in the middle of both of those. I can
see some elements from a critical standpoint of why this
movie isn't great, But I do see a lot of
entertainment value in this movie because at the end of it,
you know, what it left racing my heart, and it's
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because of that formula. You get to that final race
and you're so invested in it you want to see
the entire thing through. Even though I felt this movie
was a little bit long, going over two hours, if
this would have been a ninety minute racing movie, I
would have loved it. I would have come on here
and told you you need to go see this movie,
and you're missing out by not going to watch Grand Tarismo. Instead,
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it spent so much time with all this backstory, we
could have really chopped down all of the weird awkwardness,
over dramaticness of that first act built up more to
what we wanted to see, all these gamers coming together
and learning how to race, and then just get to
the final race. So I won't deny that the movie
had a lot of heart. I'm inspired by Yan's story,
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but the way it was told was very stereotypical and
it didn't really know how to say it. So I
think that's what kept this movie back from being great.
So initially, when I was first going through my rating
on this movie, I had it had about a three
point five. But the more I realized what this movie
could have been and how much more inspirational it could
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have left audiences and really even inspired some kids to
maybe not become racers, but maybe take more pride in
the fact that they are nerd video gamers. And I
say that as a nerd video gamer, that you could
go on to do things that people don't expect you
to do. I think that's the biggest message of this
movie of because this movie does speak to the way
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people pay their dues and the way you look at
certain people and how they come up that there's kind
of just this old guard. It could be that there's
always this old guard, could be in racing, could be
in music, could be in comedy, of you have to
do things this way because this is how we do it,
this is how you become legitimate. And this kind of
throws everything out the window, saying, you know what, I
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can do it in my own way, and maybe I
can beat you doing it. That is what the message
of this movie is. In the movie, it didn't do
the best at the box office. It had this weird
thing where it delayed its premier day and then had
this two weeks of like sneak previews trying to create
some word of mouth. So with that sixty million dollar
budget and made twenty one million dollars in the US
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and fifty eight million dollars worldwide, So overall the numbers
represent just about what this movie is. So going back
to the rating system, if I had to give Grand
Turismo a rating, it was at that three point five,
but I talked myself out of it. I give it
three out of five racing helmets, And there weren't really
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any standouts in the cast. The story kind of overshadowed
every single individual character. Orlando Bloom felt like a very
odd choice as the one orchestrating this entire contest. David Harber,
who you would know as Hopper from Stranger Things, really
gave it as all, but he's probably the one who
contributed to the most cliches in this movie. Stylistically looked
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pretty good, but at times it just felt like a
Sony PlayStation ad and they were just trying to bring
people back to buy their product, which, hey, capitalism.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
It's time to head down to movie.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Mike Treylar Paul is good Burger too? Just nostalgia? Bate,
I say it is, and I'll tell you why, the
fact that this movie is not coming out in theaters
is a bad sign. Nickelodeon is deciding to make this
a Paramount Plus exclusive, so just trying to build hype
around the nostalgia and the fact that it's based on
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a movie slash TV show that came out when we
were kids, and trying to push us all to the
Paramount Plus streaming service, which is the only one that
I don't currently subscribe to. And I think it's because
they keep putting out movies like Good Burger two. I
it's nostalgia bait and I don't like this. I think
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in order to make a movie that comes twenty five
or thirty years after, that has to be a little
bit more of a demand or there has to be
a reason for this movie to be made. And quite honestly,
I'm surprised that Keenan is behind this movie and would
even agree to do this movie, because I feel he
has grown so far in his career. He's built so
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much on Saturday Night Live, and I feel like now
as he's kind of on the way out of Saturday
Night Live, which I'm surprised he's still on that show,
but he's trying to get more into TV shows where
he is the Star and into movies. I mean, even
though he did fat Alber back in the day, which
I thought was actually pretty good, but I feel like
this is a weird step for him. This would be
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like justin Timberlake going back to n SYNC, which if
you follow TikTok and all the news going on there,
he might actually do that. But I just feel like
this isn't the move I was expecting Keenan to go in,
who I think is a good actor, who was one
of the best childhood actors of all time and has
had a really fruitful career doing things that we all love.
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And I think whenever they did the sketch of this
on Saturday Night Live and that was the end of it,
we didn't really need to see anything else. There's really
not a whole lot to explore. And I'm a big
nick kid. Above all the other networks that were made
for kids, that I think was the best one growing
up in the nineties and early two thousands, it is
the only one that I really cared to watch. They
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had great TV shows, whether it be live action or
the ones I love the most were the animated cartoons,
and it was a network that felt not like it
was run by adults making things that kids would like.
It felt very much like it was kids making content
for other kids, even though that wasn't the case. But
it just very much spoke to my inner child more
(34:33):
than Disney Channel or more than Cartoon Network. But when
it comes to movies, yeah, Disney Channel really had that
on lock with They're not really being that many great
Nickelodeon original movies that aired on the network or the
ones that come out in theaters. The first ever Nickelodeon
movie came out in nineteen ninety six, and it was
(34:53):
Harry Get the Spy. What I remember the most about
that movie it was the first time I'd ever seen
an orange VHS tape. For those listening who were born
after the nineties, a VHS tape is this big rectangle
that you would put into a VCR, which is a
player much like well, you don't even have CDs anymore.
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It was this other big box that you would put
this little box into press play and you could watch
a movie. And Nickelodeon made all of their movies on
orange VHS tapes because orange was the color of the network,
and it really stood out on the shelf, especially when
it didn't have a case. But Good Burger was the
second Nickelodeon movie that came out on July twenty fifth,
nineteen ninety seven, and is really the cult classic of
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all the Nickelodeon films, although I really wouldn't put the
later Nickelodeon films in that same category when you get
to movies like not Your Libe, and I wouldn't even
really categorize the Ninja Turtles movies as Nickelodeon movies even
though they're owned by Nickelodeon. So for all these reasons,
I just don't think this movie is going to be
very good because I feel like they are taking less
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of a risk putting it on Paramount Plus, and to me,
that just feels like a straight to video approach to
putting out a movie like this. And if you don't
get that reference, you are also not getting my VHS reference.
Straight to video means when a studio would make a
lesser quality sequel and just put it out on VHS
or on DVD because they didn't want to spend the
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money on marketing and all the other added costs to
put it out in theaters because it was a lesser product.
So I've already told you why this movie isn't going
to be great, but I'll probably still check it out.
I haven't even played the trailer yet, so here's just
a little bit of the Good Burger to trailer. Hey,
(36:40):
hey man, you're almost car burging me to that. The
New Adventures of that in starts now. Welcome the good
Barker home.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
The gun Barker can't.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Water, I think, so, oh yeah, that's water for me, thanks.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
So.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Good Burger originated as a sketch on the Nickelodeon series
All That, which starred Keenan and Kel, who also had
their own Nickelodeon show called Keenan and Kel. But Good
Burger spun off into the movie that came out in
nineteen ninety seven and had some pretty good box office success,
making about twenty four million dollars on an eight million
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dollar budget. And the crazy thing Growing Up is as
much as I love Nickelodeon, as much as I love
Keenan and Kell, was probably my favorite live action Nickelodeon show.
I didn't really love Good Burger. I didn't think the
sketch on All That was particularly funny. Kel Mitchell as
ed was never one of my favorite Nickelodeon characters. So
(37:47):
when I first saw the movie, I thought it was
really just very alright. And I think the reason I'm
so against this movie is I've been burned in the
past of movies that were reboots of my favorite childhood
TV shows or carrots, and they just turn out to
be not good. You even heard it there in that trailer.
It's that same kind of humor, but done by somebody
(38:08):
twenty five years age. It just does not hit the same.
The only redeeming quality there is about this movie is
it is bringing back some of the original Good Burger casts,
who are some of the Nickelodeon ogs, Josh Server and
my favorite Lori Beth, who was a staple of Nickelodeon's
in the nineties, and you wonder what happened to her
(38:31):
after the two thousands, because she was on that network
so much, whether it be on All that or all
the Nickelodeon game shows. That is what I loved about Nickelodeon.
It made people like Lori Beth a star who had
such great comedic timing and were such great comedic character actors.
And I haven't really seen her anything past the two thousand,
so I can't wait to see her role in this
(38:52):
movie and her comeback to the medium screen on Paramount Plus. Again.
There is no official release date on Good Burger two,
but expect to see it sometime in November of this year,
and we'll all be saying this again, at least those
who decide to watch it.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Welcome to Good Burger, Home of the Good Burger.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Can I take ya order? Geez? And that was this
week's edition of Movie by Tram or Bar And that
is going to do it for another episode here of
the podcast. But before I go, I gotta give my
listener's shout out of the week. This week we are
going over to let's go over to Twitter. I wanted
to know all of your answers to this week's topic,
(39:29):
what was your favorite movie you watched this summer? And
this week's listener shout out is to Big Will, who
replied on Twitter and said, very unpopular opinion, but I
love the flash. Yes, the style took some getting used to,
but it had a lot of entertainment value. And I
am a fan. And I said back to Big Will,
I can actually respect that. I don't ever want to
(39:51):
deny somebody enjoyment. If you watch that movie and enjoyed it.
More power to you. I don't even want to sound
condescending and saying that, but I wish I had enjoyed
that movie more when I saw it. But my true
honest feelings was boredom and fumbling of the bag and
a movie that I had so much hype going into.
I was so let down by and I felt like
(40:13):
me just speaking my truth. And that criticism of the
movie ended up sparking the most outrage because people felt
I was just jumping onto other people's opinions, when the
fact is I don't read or listen to any other
reviews before giving my review. But people thought that I
was just joining on the DC bashing of the Flash.
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Not the case. I just did not enjoy that movie
and almost fell asleep. But big will if you enjoyed it,
you love that movie. Now that it's streaming on HBO Max,
I do see more people talking about it and defending
that movie. I may, but I probably won't give it
a rewatch. But you never should have to feel bad
about enjoying a movie, And really you should feel better
because the other people who did hate a movie that
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you loved you can think, well, you wasted your time.
I didn't waste my time or my mind, so really,
you come out the winter. So thank you Big Will
for that reply. Thanks for everybody else who gave me
your opinions on your favorite movies of the summer. There
were a lot of barbies. Somebody even said that there
was no movie in particular. It was just listening to
this podcast, and I greatly appreciate that, So thank you.
(41:16):
I hope you have a great rest of your week,
and until next time, go out and watch good movies
and I will talk to you later.
Host
Mike D
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