In this episode, Mike answers the question “What's a movie you LOVE but only needed to watch ONCE?” He gives his picks from Uncut Gems to Gravity and movies that are great enough to change your life and ones that you recommend to friends…but for some reason or another only needed to see them once. Mike also gives his spoiler free review of The Suicide Squad directed by James Gunn and stars Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena, Pete Davidson and MORE. Plus in movie news, Mike has all the details on yet another Ninja Turtles reboot in the works.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I'm
your host Movie Mike a k A. Mike Destro a
k A. The guy who just loves movies and does
an entire podcast about it. And today I'm talking about
my top five great movies that I only watched once.
So that's the question, what is a movie that you love,
but for some reason or another, you only needed to
watch it one time. Also going to give my spoiler
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free review of The Suicide Squad which came out in
theaters and on HBO Max and I actually don't think
I've been this excited to review a movie in a
very long time, so we'll get to that. Also, got
to talk about another Ninja Turtles reboot in the works.
So appreciate everybody for being here, for being subscribed to
the podcast. If you're listening on episode Release Stay, which
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is on Monday's special shout out to you guys. Without
any further ado, let's get started. 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 I made with so much movie knowledge.
He's basically like a walking audio TV Who's Glasses from
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the Nashville Podcast Network Movie Movie Podcast. Alright, alright, alright,
So how this episode idea came to my mind is
I have a lot of streaming services now. I have Hulu,
HBO Max, Paramount plus Apple Like, I have all the
streaming services now, and I get really excited when a
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movie that I've seen in theaters is available on the
streaming service that you know. It kind of takes a
while now, but the other day I was scrolling through
and Joker is available on HBO Max. And that's a
movie that I loved when it came out, one of
my favorite movies in the last five years. But for
some reason, I've not been able to go back and
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rewatch that movie. I think all the build up to
when that movie came out, and when I went to
see it, it altered my entire view on movies unlike
any other movie had done in a very long time.
And it was almost so perfect, and I loved it
so much that I didn't want to go back and
ruin that and is passionate and sat him about, you know,
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suggesting that movie for other people who haven't seen it
to go watch. I myself haven't been able to go
rewatch that movie. I had a cute up on HBO
Max the other night. I had some time and I
was like, you know what, I'm gonna watch this movie now,
and I couldn't hit play on it because I don't
want to ruin what I thought that movie was to
me and how it affected me. I don't really need
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to take that ride again. And there's some other kind
of things with this one in particular that how it
makes you feel and what happens in that movie kind
of affects you in a way, and it kind of
put me in a little bit dark of a mental
state after I watched that movie, but which I enjoyed
because when a movie can do that to me, I
think that's a true power of filmmaking that it alters
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your view on things and when you leave the theater
you feel a different own way. And that's what that
movie did to me. And I think rewatching it would
take a little bit away from that because I would
start to dissect it a little more. Maybe I feel
like Joaquin's Phoenix wasn't as strong as I felt it
at that time, But I felt like that movie was
perfect everything leading up to it, and me experiencing that
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movie in a movie theater. I only think that watching
it again would take away from that, so it still
stands up there is one of my favorite movies of
the last five years, but I haven't brought myself to
watch it again, so that is one of the ones
at the top of my list. And that's what kind
of inspired this whole kind of topic. And I asked
to a bunch of people online, what is that movie
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for you? So that's one of my first ones. And
that is also kind of the idea here that these
are all really great movies without a doubt, but maybe
they're too sad, or they're too depressing, or there could
also be a twist that wanted to reveal you don't
really need to watch it again. So I'll play that
one at number five. And I also decided to pick
movies that have only come out within the last five
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years because I think the main question I get from
people that I just talked to, even friends of like, hey,
what movies should I go watch right now? And I
try to just suggest the most recent favorite movies of
mine because I want to people experience new things and
things that are happening now in film. Because I think
the time is now how to get into movies and
what's happening now. So all of these are within the
last five years. Maybe you've seen him, maybe you haven't,
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but I would suggest checking these all out if you
have it. At number four on my list from seventeen,
I put Get Out and this is one of my
favorite horror movies of all time. And I really loved
what Jordan Peel did in this movie. And I'm really
excited for his new movie called Nobody that's coming out,
And I think he's kind of redefining what horror is
because for the longest time, I felt horror was associated
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with there's a serial killer killing a bunch of people,
or there's some kind of demonic for something just kind
of scary, existential that can be controlled, and that was
horror a lot, and a lot of those kind of
movies are my favorite movies. But I think what Jordan
Peel has been able to do is take the horror
genre uh and mess with your mind a little bit,
take you on a suspenseful ride or where you're trying
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to figure out exactly what is happening here, and create
this kind of tension that I really haven't seen a
director do in a very long time, and stylistically, I
feel like he's really been able to show his voice
in his movies, and I think that really comes out
with get Out. And I was so excited to see
this movie do so well get the nominations that it did,
because it really put them on the map to become
one of the best directors. Now he has two really
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great movies under his belt, but this one is just
my favorite. And I saw this movie in theaters and
it's one of those movies that just kind of resonates
with you. And if somebody is wanting to see a
scary movie out right now, I always recommend to them
get Out. Like if you haven't seen get Out, start
here and men decide whether you like Jordan Peel or not.
At number three, I went with Parasite, which came out
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in and it was the movie that everybody was talking
about when it was nominated and one the Oscar for
Best Picture. And this kind of brings me to another point,
is that a lot of the time, the movies that
win for Best Picture or even just nominated for Best
Picture are movies that you only need to watch one time.
They're all really great novel movies, and sometimes some of
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my favorites, but for some reason or another they don't
have a lot of rewatchability. There were other movies I
almost put on this list, like A Marriage Story or
The Irishman, which are all really great movies at the
time they come out, but sometimes you just forget about
these movies, no matter how good they are and how
important they are to kind of remember historical moments in
film and movie making. Some of the biggest movies of
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the year critically over time are just not the ones
you want to sit down and watch with some friends
on a Friday night. And I absolutely loved Parasite. I
went to see it before there was really a lot
of buzz about it because mainly I wanted to go
see a movie in theaters with subtitles because I felt
like that was the only kind of scenario for me
that I would really pay attention to reading the subtitles
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and getting into it, because I'll admit, if a movie
has subtitles, I'm a little less likely to see it,
at least before Parasite, and this is the movie that
kind of changed my whole mental approach to watching a
movie with subtitles. It's really not a big deal. Like,
don't let that stop you, because if a movie is
really great enough and it has subtitles, you're gonna totally
forget about it. You experience it in a whole different way,
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and you also get I think, a lot more of
the story because you're paying attention to every single line,
you see every written piece of dialogue, and you really
know what's going on. There was nothing lost on me
after seeing Parasite that I had to read throughout the
movie because not only was the dialogue great, but visually
looked amazing, and you're also just paying more attention to
things like body language and the actors actually giving the performance.
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So I thought this one totally nailed it, and maybe
in the same way of Joker. Even though it's on Hulu,
I still can't bring myself to go back and rewatch
this movie because I think I got everything out of
it that I needed to at the time. I don't
think there's anything I missed from it, but I don't
need to see it again. At Number two is a
movie called Midsummer, but it's spelled out Midsummer as another
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one in the horror genre that I will always recommend
to people, and I actually only watched it for the
first time in the last year or so. And the
reason I think it's such a great horror movie and
in the same way it is kind of a different
horror movie, and that it's kind of messing with your mind,
but also just some images that you are never really
prepared to see in a movie. The movie is basically
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about this girl has this weird relationship with their boyfriend,
has a pretty traumatizing past, and they decided to go
on this trip to a country to visit this civilization
that they later find out is basically a cult, and
not just any cult but a pagan colt, and they're
they're during this big Midsummer festival that they're having, trying
to do this research project for their college class, and
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it goes from just being about these kids going on
this trip to being a complete and total mind blown movie.
And I think the reason I haven't been able to
go rewatch this movie again, even though I just watched
it in the last year or so, even five years,
ten years down the line, I won't go back and
rewatch this movie mainly because how much it messed with
my brain while watching it, and I can only put
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myself through so much mental strain and see these kind
of graphic images one time. I'm good with the one time.
On this one, the entire movie kind of felt like
when you have a really bad dream. And I'm talking
about those bad dreams where you wake up in the
middle of the night, maybe you're sweating a little bit,
but you audibly wake up with a gasp, Like I
have those dreams maybe once a month, and it's because
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I have the weirdest, most insane dream Sometimes I can
almost feel like I experience pain in my dreams. It's
that kind of a dream. So it's basically taking that
and putting it to film, and that is what I
feel this movie is, so I am not going to
watch it again, not now, not ever. And at number
one is another movie from which I probably need to
make a whole other podcast about how is one of
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the most underrated years in film. I mean, just from
this list there we three movies from but the other
one I would add as my top movie that I
only needed to see once is Uncut Gems. And first
of all, if you haven't seen Uncut Gems with Adam Sandler,
you're either going to love this movie or completely hated.
That's the only other reviews I've heard from my friends
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and family, like they either went into this movie and
completely loved it the way I did, or you completely
hated it. And why I think that is it's because
this movie is very, very stressful. I was literally and
I don't use that word unless I mean it literally,
on the edge of my seat watching this movie. I
was stressed out. It felt like watching a car wreck unfold.
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And and the Safty Brothers basically took this concept of
like always feeling like something was about to go wrong
and made an entire movie out of it. Because while
you're watching Adam Sandler, who's basically this really kind of
not so great guy, doing all these things to put
him further and further into a hole, you just feel
worse and worse for him, and you know just something
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terrible is going to happen when all this stuff hits
the fan. And even later when the movie was added
to Netflix, I saw it sitting there and I couldn't
bring myself to watch it, mainly because I think this
one was a roller coaster that I only needed to
go on one time, and only needed to feel those
feelings one time. And I think that's okay. I just
think that some of the best movies like this one
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takes you on all the twists and turns, you experience
all the ups and downs, and after it's all over,
you're kind of complete. I think this is the best
example of a movie you only need to experience one
time and one time only. And if you've seen this
movie multiple times, I think there may be a problem
with your brains, so we'll have to get you evaluated.
But this is my top one that I only needed
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to see once. And I did ask this question on Facebook, Instagram,
and Twitter, and here's the top five that I gathered
from everybody's responses. At number five was The Village and
a bunch of other m Night Shamalan movies, and I
think that's mainly due to the fact that once you
know the twist in the movie, you're not gonna get
anything else out of out of rewatching it. And number
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four an interesting one, Passion to the Christ, maybe because
the images were a little bit too much or overall
was just a hard watch, also a bit of a
longer movie. So I've found that one probably the most
interesting response that I saw again and again out of
every movie that you guys suggested. At number three was
Saving Private Ryan, okay, and then at number two was Titanic.
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I think this one greatly has to do with the
running time on this movie, but I don't really agree
with that one, mainly because if the movie comes on TV,
I'll find myself watching it again and again. Maybe I
won't sit down and like, all right, tonight, we're watching
the Titanic. I guess that's not really a thing that
most people would do, but I would still rewatch some scenes,
maybe catch it from the middle and watch it till
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the end if it was on TV. So I wouldn't
sit down to watch it, yeah, but probably would rewatch
at some point in my life, like when I want
to teach my future kids about history, I'll be like,
all right, let's sit down and watch Leonardo DiCaprio in
this real life story of Titanic. And then the number
one from was A Star Is Born. I felt like
one of the most overrated movies of the last five years,
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a movie that I was surprised as how big of
a hit it was, and I think that was largely
due because of the music that came from this movie.
But I completely agree with this one. So there you go.
Those are all great movies. If you haven't seen them
at some point in your life, add them to your
list and let me know what you think. You can
shoot me an email movie Mike d at gmail dot
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com or just tweet me send me to d m
at Mike Destro. I haven't been this excited to do
a movie review in a very long time. I went
to see The Suicide Squad in theaters on Friday night.
I chose to see it on the big screen versus
watching it at home on HBO Max, and I'm really
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happy I made that decision. But I don't think that's
for everybody. I have a lot to dissect in this
spoiler free review. But if you haven't seen the trailer
for this yet, just to give you some context, here's
just a little bit of the trailer. Your mission. It's
pick a story, every trace of something known only as
a project starfish, any questions. Starfish is a slang term
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for a butthole if there's any connection. No. So, the
biggest question I've seen about The Suicide Squad is that
didn't they just make this movie like four years ago?
And yes, Suicide Squad came out in these Suicide Squad
just came out in one, and there's some key differences here.
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It's not a remake of that movie. It's more a reimagining.
A new director with James Gunn, a new story, a
new mission. Everything else is pretty much different, aside from
the fact that they brought back a few of the characters,
like Margot Robbie is back as Harley Quinn, Viola Davis
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is in this one. The original Rick Flag is in
this movie. So they took some of the characters, I
would argue the best characters from Suicide Squad and put
them into the Suicide Squad. The other may difference is
that one was rated PG thirteen, and I think that
was mainly because they were trying to keep that kind
of Avengers vibe of it being friendly for the whole family,
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which I think ended up ultimately hurting the film with
that PG thirteen rating, because they couldn't really go pull on,
all right, here's a really gritty comic book movie. They
still had to play that line of keeping getting into
PG thirteen. And right around that time they had a
big Marvel hit with Deadpool, which was a rated or
comic book movie so they were kind of like, oh man,
we kind of missed the mark there. This one is
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a rated R and a very hard are. I feel
like this is almost if Quentin Tarantino were to make
a superhero comic book movie. That is the kind of
vibe this one had. It was extremely violent, Like within
the opening scene of the movie, I felt my insights
twisted a little bit of how violent it was. So
if you're not really comfortable with a lot of blood,
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people getting their faces blown off, slicedop like those kind
of images are in this movie. And what I liked
about it is that it went for it. It was
very unapologetically violent, which I feel now it's kind of
a trend. I've seen it a little bit in like
The Boys, which is a series on Amazon that in
order to kind of make an impact with violence now
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you almost have to go over the top for it
to kind of resonate. Otherwise we see violence on TV
all the time, but to kind of give it a
more cinematic quality, this movie took it a step further.
So if you're uncomfortable with those kind of images, might
not be the movie for you. I want to see
it with my wife Kelsey and those are the only
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parts of the movie where she had to turn away.
She ended up liking the movie, but she's not really
into violence, is not really into horror, so those parts
did make her turn away and not want to watch it.
Other than that, I think she loved it. And one
of the things that really kind of draws my eye
to the big screen. While I was excited and happy
that I went to see it in theaters versus watching
it at home on streaming, is I really feel like
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there was little details that the director James Gunn put
into this movie that really made it feel like a
whole cohesive piece. And it's from like, you know, sometimes
movies put text on the screen to kind of clarify
what is happening in the story at that point, and
it's easy enough to just put a simple fun up
there and you know, kind of explained it that way,
but James Gunn took it a step further and does
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these cool special effects where he's writing out letters and
things that actually pertained to the story. It would just
make it more visually appealing. Not only that, I really
loved the color palette used in this movie. It kind
of has like a vintage, old school feel to it.
I feel like all the costume design and just the
way the movie looks, it felt more like a film
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rather than just the superhero comic book movie. I think
a lot of what the d C movies. The trouble
I have is they kind of just look overproduced in
a way. I feel like I'm watching sometimes like a
music video for a metal band in the two thousand's
when I see a DC movie, because it's just so
many graphics and special effects that it really takes away
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from me wanting to watch it. I just feel like
I'm just watching a big green screen with these actors.
But in The Suicide Squad, I really felt like it
had that movie maker feel to it, like it was
shot on an old school camera in away. And then
we get to the cast, which I think this really
made the movie. Bringing back Margaret Robbie was the best choice.
I think Harley Quinn is my favorite DC character. Viola
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Davis was great in this one. But but then they
brought in new characters like John Cena as Peacemaker, which
I thought was fantastic. And I think of all the
movies I've seen John Cena, and he's usually kind of
the comic relief or like in F nine, he's so
just kind of ridiculous and over the top that I
kind of questioned whether or not he was really a
good actor, And in this one, I think his character
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plays perfect to who he is, and I really got
to see him, you know, do a pretty good job
at being a believable actor, and I think this role
was perfect for him, So he was one of my
favorite parts of it. A dressed Elba as blood Sport
was really the lead I didn't know I needed. He
kind of took the role that Will Smith had in
Suicide Squad and really kind of carry the entire movie,
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being essentially the main character here of the entire Suicide Squad,
and I just thought he was fantastic. And I don't
really see him as an action star, but it was
his ability to do the big action scenes but also
have this comedic side to him that I thought he
was perfect for. And speaking of his comedic side, I
think this is one of the funniest comic book movies
I've ever seen, maybe ever, And the reason I think
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is that a lot of the Marvel movies they played
to a lot bigger audience. They're going for mass appeal
to the max and the jokes in Avengers movies or
any Marvel movie, I feel like they appealed to six
year old and also six year old and some of
the things in them. As much as I love Marvel,
when you kind of look at him, I think like,
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is this really that funny or is it just kind
of like a cheeky humor, Like the whole line and
joke about Captain America's but being America's asked in that, Like,
that's pretty funny, and we remember that from that movie,
But I don't think that's laugh out loud while I'm
watching the movie funny. It's just kind of a lighthearted
moments that come from all the big action to Marvel movies,
Unlike in this one. I felt like I found myself
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at several moments, maybe more than five, actually laughing out
loud because of the writing in the movie, and in
an age where I feel like we don't have a
whole lot of comedies, for them to be able to
make a comic book movie like this that has some actual,
real comedic moments in it, I thought that was a
big win for them, and I think some of the
biggest comic relief came from my favorite character out of
the entire movie, who is King Shark, voiced by Sylvester Saloon.
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And he's kind of, I would say, the groot of
this movie. He only says a few words, but he's
a big, dumb shark, and I found myself more emostly
invested in his story throughout any other character in the movie.
I don't know it's because I like identified with him
the most of being this big, violent kind of being
and kind of a little bit the outcast of the
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entire suicide squad, But there were just something emotionally that
struck a chord with me about King Shark and his
story in this movie that I felt like James Gunn
totally really took these characters that you probably have no
idea about and put them in this world that, Okay,
I totally get it. There's a guy throwing polka dots
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and I totally invested in it. So I really loved
that whole side of this. And if you're not familiar
with James Gunn, who directed this, you've probably seen his work.
He did Guarding into the Galaxy one and two he's
been rehired to do three. He also did a movie
I really love from back in the Day called Super
From with Rain Wilson and Elliott Page. If you haven't
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seen that movie, I think that really kind of gives
you a glimpse of the mind of James Gunn and
the way he was also able to make this movie
have some surprisingly heartfelt moments in the midst of all
this chaos and ridiculousness. There's some moments you actually feel
some emotional attachment to these characters. So on all levels,
I think there was just a lot going on here,
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a lot more depths than your average comic book movie,
and easily one of the best DC movies. I think
if I had to rate the top five DC movies,
it would be right up there and number five I'd
probably put Harley Quinn number four. I'd go with Wonder
Woman number three, Shazam at number two, I would put
The Suicide Squad, and that's only because my favorite movie
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has been Joker, which is kind of in its own
other little DC universe in a way, but that would
be my top five. I would easily put this one
on there, and if I had to rate it, I
would give it four point five out of five. King
Sharks uneasily. You must see this movie. If you're into
comic book movies, if you're just into action movies, I
think you should watch it. I personally love seeing it
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on the big screen, but if you have HBO Max,
I want to watch it at home for free. I
think it will totally translate over. So one of my
favorite movies of the year, so I think it's a
definite must see. Let's go over now and check out
the movie headlines. One of my favorite stories and movie
news in the past week is that Colin Jos and
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his brother Casey are writing a brand new teenage mutant
Ninja Turtles movie. Yes, it's getting rebooted yet again. The
plot details are still under wraps because they're still just
in the early stages they're writing the movie, but it
said it will refocus on the four Turtle brothers, Michelangelo, Leonardo,
Donna Tello, and Raphael. And also at the same time,
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Nickelodeon is working with an animated movie that SETH. Rogan
is executive producing that will come out in three And
I think Ninja Turtles is one of the biggest franchises
that since the original movies, they haven't really known what
to do with. You know, I kind of grew up
with those movies in the nineties, and the Ninja Turtles
were a little bit before my time because my brother
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who grew up in the eighties like they were the
biggest thing there. And I think that's great while and
I think that's one of the biggest reasons why I'm
excited that Colin Jos and his brother are doing this,
because over all the reimaginations and reworkings of Ninja Turtles,
I think this is the first time that it's been
worked on by somebody who was a fan of them
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in their early childhood days. They were so big now,
and I think it's kind of harder for things to
be like an overall culture phenomenon among kids. I think
maybe now it's like Fortnite or maybe like what Minecraft was.
I think that's what Ninja Turtles were in the eighties.
So for somebody to grow up with them and now
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be working on a movie, I am really excited about that.
I wasn't really the biggest fan of the Michael Bay movies.
While I was excited to see him on the big
screen again, I think those movies came and went and
they really didn't give a new voice, a really bring
anything new to the franchise. So I also just read
Colin Joe's book, which is called A very Punchable Face
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and maybe in a little bit of like just being
kind of all about him and into a story right now,
So it could be another reason why I'm excited about that.
I just think he has a really interest pass from
you know, growing up being a writer, being with SNL
for so long, now being married to one of the
biggest movie stars ever, Scarlett Johanssen, and seeing where he's
gonna go from kind of his departure from sn L
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and now kind of getting more into writing for movies.
I think he's really funny, So excited for that one.
Also in movie news, Brendan Fraser has been announced that
he will be in the new Martin scorseseon movie called
Killers of the Flower Moon, which also stars Leonardo DiCaprio
and Robert de Niro. I'm most excited about this one
because we haven't really seen Brendan Frasier in a movie
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in a very long time. I know he's had a
pretty interesting past that kind of led him to staying
away from starring in big movies, kind of took him
out of the spotlight. He felt like he was kind
of blacklisted from the industry and really hasn't done a
whole lot of movies, and he was kind of the
biggest action star for a little while with movies like
The Mummy. I feel like he was kind of the
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Chris Pratt of that time, and he's hasn't really been
around sense, So I'm excited for him to have a
big feature role here. I mean to go from being
in that trilogy of the Mummy, but also doing comedies
like George of the Jungle. He was in Looney Tunes,
back in Action, also in Encino Man. I feel like
he has quite the range. So seeing him in a
Martin Scorsese movie, I will be watching that. I'm really excited.
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It's supposed to come out next year, so that's definitely
a movie at the top of my list. And then finally,
in movie news, the Suicide Squad has the best R
rated opening during the pandemic, making twenty six point five
million dollars at the box office, but that's also one
of the lowest openings for the franchise. A couple of
things going on here. It's one it's also available on
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HBO Max, and you have the ability and the decision
to make of do you want to go watch it
in theaters and experience there or we just want to
watch it at home. That's kind of what we're seeing now.
We're also seeing the country in a bit of a
different situation right now with some things closing down again.
Something's going back into being restrictions, so that could change
somebody's decision to want to go to the movies. I
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want to see this on a Friday night, seven pm
showing and the theater was relatively empty. I'm talking there
was maybe one person on way the other side of
us in the theater, maybe another couple or two a
row back, and then maybe a couple in the front.
I'd say it was like twenty people in this entire
big theater, which is a little bit sad for me
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to see because I love experiencing movies like this in
the theater. But I also saw James Gunn, who directed
the movie, kind of expressed the way I've been feeling
too is that he really doesn't care and this is
coming from a director if people see his movie in
theaters or at home. He was like, Jaws is one
of my favorite movies of all time. But I've never
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seen that in the theaters. I've only seen that at home.
And the way movies are really going to be able
to last is for people to be able to see
them at home, Like that's how they live. Like, yes,
you can go experience it and have that feeling in
the theater, but five years from now, you're gonna watch
movies that came out a long time ago, and that's
how they kind of carry on their legacy is through
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streaming services. I just thought that was a pretty interesting
take to see the whole situation in a world where
people are trying to keep movie theaters open, I'd say,
just give us the option. So it was sad to
see that I had kind of an underwhelming box office debut,
and I feel it's also attributed to the original one
just being pelted to death with really bad reviews. And
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I would also like to say that I don't see
myself as a movie critic. I am a film enthusiast,
and just like you, I pay my ticket to go
see a movie, I pay for my streaming services at home.
I'm just a guy who loves movies. Basically, if you
went to a party, and there's a guy there who
just happens to know a lot about movies and seems
to be only talking about movies the entire time. We've
all seen that person at a party like that is me.
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I don't have any affiliation with any movie studio. I
don't feel the need to alter my reviews on any
external thing. And I feel like sometimes movie critics are
like that. They go into it, whether they have a
kind of feeling about the to or the directors, just
the franchise, and they want to take a movie down
and give it a bad review. And I feel like
DC and Suicide Squad in particular suffers from that. Like
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there was nothing inside of me that felt the need
to say a bad thing about this movie. But yeah,
it gets bad reviews. Even though it has one of
the highest ratings on Rotten Tomatoes for all the DC movies,
it's still not doing so well at the box office.
And I think people just have that kind of mentality
of the DC movies not being as great as Marvel
and not giving them a chance. I just want to say,
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give him a chance. But all right, that's gonna do
it for this week's episode. But before I hop out
of here. Every single week I give a shout out
to one of you guys listening, especially a shout out
to anybody who listens when these episodes come out on Mondays.
And last week I gave a not so great review
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so I did want to share a positive one in
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Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I'm
your host Movie Mike a k A. Mike Destro a
k A. The guy who just loves movies and does
an entire podcast about it. And today I'm talking about
my top five great movies that I only watched once.
So that's the question, what is a movie that you love,
but for some reason or another, you only needed to
watch it one time. Also going to give my spoiler
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free review of The Suicide Squad which came out in
theaters and on HBO Max and I actually don't think
I've been this excited to review a movie in a
very long time, so we'll get to that. Also, got
to talk about another Ninja Turtles reboot in the works.
So appreciate everybody for being here, for being subscribed to
the podcast. If you're listening on episode Release Stay, which
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is on Monday's special shout out to you guys. Without
any further ado, let's get started. 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 I made with so much movie knowledge.
He's basically like a walking audio TV Who's Glasses from
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the Nashville Podcast Network Movie Movie Podcast. Alright, alright, alright,
So how this episode idea came to my mind is
I have a lot of streaming services now. I have Hulu,
HBO Max, Paramount plus Apple Like, I have all the
streaming services now, and I get really excited when a
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movie that I've seen in theaters is available on the
streaming service that you know. It kind of takes a
while now, but the other day I was scrolling through
and Joker is available on HBO Max. And that's a
movie that I loved when it came out, one of
my favorite movies in the last five years. But for
some reason, I've not been able to go back and
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rewatch that movie. I think all the build up to
when that movie came out, and when I went to
see it, it altered my entire view on movies unlike
any other movie had done in a very long time.
And it was almost so perfect, and I loved it
so much that I didn't want to go back and
ruin that and is passionate and sat him about, you know,
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suggesting that movie for other people who haven't seen it
to go watch. I myself haven't been able to go
rewatch that movie. I had a cute up on HBO
Max the other night. I had some time and I
was like, you know what, I'm gonna watch this movie now,
and I couldn't hit play on it because I don't
want to ruin what I thought that movie was to
me and how it affected me. I don't really need
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to take that ride again. And there's some other kind
of things with this one in particular that how it
makes you feel and what happens in that movie kind
of affects you in a way, and it kind of
put me in a little bit dark of a mental
state after I watched that movie, but which I enjoyed
because when a movie can do that to me, I
think that's a true power of filmmaking that it alters
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your view on things and when you leave the theater
you feel a different own way. And that's what that
movie did to me. And I think rewatching it would
take a little bit away from that because I would
start to dissect it a little more. Maybe I feel
like Joaquin's Phoenix wasn't as strong as I felt it
at that time, But I felt like that movie was
perfect everything leading up to it, and me experiencing that
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movie in a movie theater. I only think that watching
it again would take away from that, so it still
stands up there is one of my favorite movies of
the last five years, but I haven't brought myself to
watch it again, so that is one of the ones
at the top of my list. And that's what kind
of inspired this whole kind of topic. And I asked
to a bunch of people online, what is that movie
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for you? So that's one of my first ones. And
that is also kind of the idea here that these
are all really great movies without a doubt, but maybe
they're too sad, or they're too depressing, or there could
also be a twist that wanted to reveal you don't
really need to watch it again. So I'll play that
one at number five. And I also decided to pick
movies that have only come out within the last five
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years because I think the main question I get from
people that I just talked to, even friends of like, hey,
what movies should I go watch right now? And I
try to just suggest the most recent favorite movies of
mine because I want to people experience new things and
things that are happening now in film. Because I think
the time is now how to get into movies and
what's happening now. So all of these are within the
last five years. Maybe you've seen him, maybe you haven't,
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but I would suggest checking these all out if you
have it. At number four on my list from seventeen,
I put Get Out and this is one of my
favorite horror movies of all time. And I really loved
what Jordan Peel did in this movie. And I'm really
excited for his new movie called Nobody that's coming out,
And I think he's kind of redefining what horror is
because for the longest time, I felt horror was associated
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with there's a serial killer killing a bunch of people,
or there's some kind of demonic for something just kind
of scary, existential that can be controlled, and that was
horror a lot, and a lot of those kind of
movies are my favorite movies. But I think what Jordan
Peel has been able to do is take the horror
genre uh and mess with your mind a little bit,
take you on a suspenseful ride or where you're trying
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to figure out exactly what is happening here, and create
this kind of tension that I really haven't seen a
director do in a very long time, and stylistically, I
feel like he's really been able to show his voice
in his movies, and I think that really comes out
with get Out. And I was so excited to see
this movie do so well get the nominations that it did,
because it really put them on the map to become
one of the best directors. Now he has two really
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great movies under his belt, but this one is just
my favorite. And I saw this movie in theaters and
it's one of those movies that just kind of resonates
with you. And if somebody is wanting to see a
scary movie out right now, I always recommend to them
get Out. Like if you haven't seen get Out, start
here and men decide whether you like Jordan Peel or not.
At number three, I went with Parasite, which came out
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in and it was the movie that everybody was talking
about when it was nominated and one the Oscar for
Best Picture. And this kind of brings me to another point,
is that a lot of the time, the movies that
win for Best Picture or even just nominated for Best
Picture are movies that you only need to watch one time.
They're all really great novel movies, and sometimes some of
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my favorites, but for some reason or another they don't
have a lot of rewatchability. There were other movies I
almost put on this list, like A Marriage Story or
The Irishman, which are all really great movies at the
time they come out, but sometimes you just forget about
these movies, no matter how good they are and how
important they are to kind of remember historical moments in
film and movie making. Some of the biggest movies of
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the year critically over time are just not the ones
you want to sit down and watch with some friends
on a Friday night. And I absolutely loved Parasite. I
went to see it before there was really a lot
of buzz about it because mainly I wanted to go
see a movie in theaters with subtitles because I felt
like that was the only kind of scenario for me
that I would really pay attention to reading the subtitles
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and getting into it, because I'll admit, if a movie
has subtitles, I'm a little less likely to see it,
at least before Parasite, and this is the movie that
kind of changed my whole mental approach to watching a
movie with subtitles. It's really not a big deal. Like,
don't let that stop you, because if a movie is
really great enough and it has subtitles, you're gonna totally
forget about it. You experience it in a whole different way,
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and you also get I think, a lot more of
the story because you're paying attention to every single line,
you see every written piece of dialogue, and you really
know what's going on. There was nothing lost on me
after seeing Parasite that I had to read throughout the
movie because not only was the dialogue great, but visually
looked amazing, and you're also just paying more attention to
things like body language and the actors actually giving the performance.
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So I thought this one totally nailed it, and maybe
in the same way of Joker. Even though it's on Hulu,
I still can't bring myself to go back and rewatch
this movie because I think I got everything out of
it that I needed to at the time. I don't
think there's anything I missed from it, but I don't
need to see it again. At Number two is a
movie called Midsummer, but it's spelled out Midsummer as another
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one in the horror genre that I will always recommend
to people, and I actually only watched it for the
first time in the last year or so. And the
reason I think it's such a great horror movie and
in the same way it is kind of a different
horror movie, and that it's kind of messing with your mind,
but also just some images that you are never really
prepared to see in a movie. The movie is basically
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about this girl has this weird relationship with their boyfriend,
has a pretty traumatizing past, and they decided to go
on this trip to a country to visit this civilization
that they later find out is basically a cult, and
not just any cult but a pagan colt, and they're
they're during this big Midsummer festival that they're having, trying
to do this research project for their college class, and
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it goes from just being about these kids going on
this trip to being a complete and total mind blown movie.
And I think the reason I haven't been able to
go rewatch this movie again, even though I just watched
it in the last year or so, even five years,
ten years down the line, I won't go back and
rewatch this movie mainly because how much it messed with
my brain while watching it, and I can only put
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myself through so much mental strain and see these kind
of graphic images one time. I'm good with the one time.
On this one, the entire movie kind of felt like
when you have a really bad dream. And I'm talking
about those bad dreams where you wake up in the
middle of the night, maybe you're sweating a little bit,
but you audibly wake up with a gasp, Like I
have those dreams maybe once a month, and it's because
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I have the weirdest, most insane dream Sometimes I can
almost feel like I experience pain in my dreams. It's
that kind of a dream. So it's basically taking that
and putting it to film, and that is what I
feel this movie is, so I am not going to
watch it again, not now, not ever. And at number
one is another movie from which I probably need to
make a whole other podcast about how is one of
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the most underrated years in film. I mean, just from
this list there we three movies from but the other
one I would add as my top movie that I
only needed to see once is Uncut Gems. And first
of all, if you haven't seen Uncut Gems with Adam Sandler,
you're either going to love this movie or completely hated.
That's the only other reviews I've heard from my friends
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and family, like they either went into this movie and
completely loved it the way I did, or you completely
hated it. And why I think that is it's because
this movie is very, very stressful. I was literally and
I don't use that word unless I mean it literally,
on the edge of my seat watching this movie. I
was stressed out. It felt like watching a car wreck unfold.
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And and the Safty Brothers basically took this concept of
like always feeling like something was about to go wrong
and made an entire movie out of it. Because while
you're watching Adam Sandler, who's basically this really kind of
not so great guy, doing all these things to put
him further and further into a hole, you just feel
worse and worse for him, and you know just something
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terrible is going to happen when all this stuff hits
the fan. And even later when the movie was added
to Netflix, I saw it sitting there and I couldn't
bring myself to watch it, mainly because I think this
one was a roller coaster that I only needed to
go on one time, and only needed to feel those
feelings one time. And I think that's okay. I just
think that some of the best movies like this one
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takes you on all the twists and turns, you experience
all the ups and downs, and after it's all over,
you're kind of complete. I think this is the best
example of a movie you only need to experience one
time and one time only. And if you've seen this
movie multiple times, I think there may be a problem
with your brains, so we'll have to get you evaluated.
But this is my top one that I only needed
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to see once. And I did ask this question on Facebook, Instagram,
and Twitter, and here's the top five that I gathered
from everybody's responses. At number five was The Village and
a bunch of other m Night Shamalan movies, and I
think that's mainly due to the fact that once you
know the twist in the movie, you're not gonna get
anything else out of out of rewatching it. And number
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four an interesting one, Passion to the Christ, maybe because
the images were a little bit too much or overall
was just a hard watch, also a bit of a
longer movie. So I've found that one probably the most
interesting response that I saw again and again out of
every movie that you guys suggested. At number three was
Saving Private Ryan, okay, and then at number two was Titanic.
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I think this one greatly has to do with the
running time on this movie, but I don't really agree
with that one, mainly because if the movie comes on TV,
I'll find myself watching it again and again. Maybe I
won't sit down and like, all right, tonight, we're watching
the Titanic. I guess that's not really a thing that
most people would do, but I would still rewatch some scenes,
maybe catch it from the middle and watch it till
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the end if it was on TV. So I wouldn't
sit down to watch it, yeah, but probably would rewatch
at some point in my life, like when I want
to teach my future kids about history, I'll be like,
all right, let's sit down and watch Leonardo DiCaprio in
this real life story of Titanic. And then the number
one from was A Star Is Born. I felt like
one of the most overrated movies of the last five years,
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a movie that I was surprised as how big of
a hit it was, and I think that was largely
due because of the music that came from this movie.
But I completely agree with this one. So there you go.
Those are all great movies. If you haven't seen them
at some point in your life, add them to your
list and let me know what you think. You can
shoot me an email movie Mike d at gmail dot
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com or just tweet me send me to d m
at Mike Destro. I haven't been this excited to do
a movie review in a very long time. I went
to see The Suicide Squad in theaters on Friday night.
I chose to see it on the big screen versus
watching it at home on HBO Max, and I'm really
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happy I made that decision. But I don't think that's
for everybody. I have a lot to dissect in this
spoiler free review. But if you haven't seen the trailer
for this yet, just to give you some context, here's
just a little bit of the trailer. Your mission. It's
pick a story, every trace of something known only as
a project starfish, any questions. Starfish is a slang term
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for a butthole if there's any connection. No. So, the
biggest question I've seen about The Suicide Squad is that
didn't they just make this movie like four years ago?
And yes, Suicide Squad came out in these Suicide Squad
just came out in one, and there's some key differences here.
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It's not a remake of that movie. It's more a reimagining.
A new director with James Gunn, a new story, a
new mission. Everything else is pretty much different, aside from
the fact that they brought back a few of the characters,
like Margot Robbie is back as Harley Quinn, Viola Davis
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is in this one. The original Rick Flag is in
this movie. So they took some of the characters, I
would argue the best characters from Suicide Squad and put
them into the Suicide Squad. The other may difference is
that one was rated PG thirteen, and I think that
was mainly because they were trying to keep that kind
of Avengers vibe of it being friendly for the whole family,
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which I think ended up ultimately hurting the film with
that PG thirteen rating, because they couldn't really go pull on,
all right, here's a really gritty comic book movie. They
still had to play that line of keeping getting into
PG thirteen. And right around that time they had a
big Marvel hit with Deadpool, which was a rated or
comic book movie so they were kind of like, oh man,
we kind of missed the mark there. This one is
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a rated R and a very hard are. I feel
like this is almost if Quentin Tarantino were to make
a superhero comic book movie. That is the kind of
vibe this one had. It was extremely violent, Like within
the opening scene of the movie, I felt my insights
twisted a little bit of how violent it was. So
if you're not really comfortable with a lot of blood,
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people getting their faces blown off, slicedop like those kind
of images are in this movie. And what I liked
about it is that it went for it. It was
very unapologetically violent, which I feel now it's kind of
a trend. I've seen it a little bit in like
The Boys, which is a series on Amazon that in
order to kind of make an impact with violence now
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you almost have to go over the top for it
to kind of resonate. Otherwise we see violence on TV
all the time, but to kind of give it a
more cinematic quality, this movie took it a step further.
So if you're uncomfortable with those kind of images, might
not be the movie for you. I want to see
it with my wife Kelsey and those are the only
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parts of the movie where she had to turn away.
She ended up liking the movie, but she's not really
into violence, is not really into horror, so those parts
did make her turn away and not want to watch it.
Other than that, I think she loved it. And one
of the things that really kind of draws my eye
to the big screen. While I was excited and happy
that I went to see it in theaters versus watching
it at home on streaming, is I really feel like
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there was little details that the director James Gunn put
into this movie that really made it feel like a
whole cohesive piece. And it's from like, you know, sometimes
movies put text on the screen to kind of clarify
what is happening in the story at that point, and
it's easy enough to just put a simple fun up
there and you know, kind of explained it that way,
but James Gunn took it a step further and does
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these cool special effects where he's writing out letters and
things that actually pertained to the story. It would just
make it more visually appealing. Not only that, I really
loved the color palette used in this movie. It kind
of has like a vintage, old school feel to it.
I feel like all the costume design and just the
way the movie looks, it felt more like a film
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rather than just the superhero comic book movie. I think
a lot of what the d C movies. The trouble
I have is they kind of just look overproduced in
a way. I feel like I'm watching sometimes like a
music video for a metal band in the two thousand's
when I see a DC movie, because it's just so
many graphics and special effects that it really takes away
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from me wanting to watch it. I just feel like
I'm just watching a big green screen with these actors.
But in The Suicide Squad, I really felt like it
had that movie maker feel to it, like it was
shot on an old school camera in away. And then
we get to the cast, which I think this really
made the movie. Bringing back Margaret Robbie was the best choice.
I think Harley Quinn is my favorite DC character. Viola
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Davis was great in this one. But but then they
brought in new characters like John Cena as Peacemaker, which
I thought was fantastic. And I think of all the
movies I've seen John Cena, and he's usually kind of
the comic relief or like in F nine, he's so
just kind of ridiculous and over the top that I
kind of questioned whether or not he was really a
good actor, And in this one, I think his character
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plays perfect to who he is, and I really got
to see him, you know, do a pretty good job
at being a believable actor, and I think this role
was perfect for him, So he was one of my
favorite parts of it. A dressed Elba as blood Sport
was really the lead I didn't know I needed. He
kind of took the role that Will Smith had in
Suicide Squad and really kind of carry the entire movie,
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being essentially the main character here of the entire Suicide Squad,
and I just thought he was fantastic. And I don't
really see him as an action star, but it was
his ability to do the big action scenes but also
have this comedic side to him that I thought he
was perfect for. And speaking of his comedic side, I
think this is one of the funniest comic book movies
I've ever seen, maybe ever, And the reason I think
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is that a lot of the Marvel movies they played
to a lot bigger audience. They're going for mass appeal
to the max and the jokes in Avengers movies or
any Marvel movie, I feel like they appealed to six
year old and also six year old and some of
the things in them. As much as I love Marvel,
when you kind of look at him, I think like,
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is this really that funny or is it just kind
of like a cheeky humor, Like the whole line and
joke about Captain America's but being America's asked in that, Like,
that's pretty funny, and we remember that from that movie,
But I don't think that's laugh out loud while I'm
watching the movie funny. It's just kind of a lighthearted
moments that come from all the big action to Marvel movies,
Unlike in this one. I felt like I found myself
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at several moments, maybe more than five, actually laughing out
loud because of the writing in the movie, and in
an age where I feel like we don't have a
whole lot of comedies, for them to be able to
make a comic book movie like this that has some actual,
real comedic moments in it, I thought that was a
big win for them, and I think some of the
biggest comic relief came from my favorite character out of
the entire movie, who is King Shark, voiced by Sylvester Saloon.
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And he's kind of, I would say, the groot of
this movie. He only says a few words, but he's
a big, dumb shark, and I found myself more emostly
invested in his story throughout any other character in the movie.
I don't know it's because I like identified with him
the most of being this big, violent kind of being
and kind of a little bit the outcast of the
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entire suicide squad, But there were just something emotionally that
struck a chord with me about King Shark and his
story in this movie that I felt like James Gunn
totally really took these characters that you probably have no
idea about and put them in this world that, Okay,
I totally get it. There's a guy throwing polka dots
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and I totally invested in it. So I really loved
that whole side of this. And if you're not familiar
with James Gunn, who directed this, you've probably seen his work.
He did Guarding into the Galaxy one and two he's
been rehired to do three. He also did a movie
I really love from back in the Day called Super
From with Rain Wilson and Elliott Page. If you haven't
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seen that movie, I think that really kind of gives
you a glimpse of the mind of James Gunn and
the way he was also able to make this movie
have some surprisingly heartfelt moments in the midst of all
this chaos and ridiculousness. There's some moments you actually feel
some emotional attachment to these characters. So on all levels,
I think there was just a lot going on here,
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a lot more depths than your average comic book movie,
and easily one of the best DC movies. I think
if I had to rate the top five DC movies,
it would be right up there and number five I'd
probably put Harley Quinn number four. I'd go with Wonder
Woman number three, Shazam at number two, I would put
The Suicide Squad, and that's only because my favorite movie
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has been Joker, which is kind of in its own
other little DC universe in a way, but that would
be my top five. I would easily put this one
on there, and if I had to rate it, I
would give it four point five out of five. King
Sharks uneasily. You must see this movie. If you're into
comic book movies, if you're just into action movies, I
think you should watch it. I personally love seeing it
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on the big screen, but if you have HBO Max,
I want to watch it at home for free. I
think it will totally translate over. So one of my
favorite movies of the year, so I think it's a
definite must see. Let's go over now and check out
the movie headlines. One of my favorite stories and movie
news in the past week is that Colin Jos and
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his brother Casey are writing a brand new teenage mutant
Ninja Turtles movie. Yes, it's getting rebooted yet again. The
plot details are still under wraps because they're still just
in the early stages they're writing the movie, but it
said it will refocus on the four Turtle brothers, Michelangelo, Leonardo,
Donna Tello, and Raphael. And also at the same time,
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Nickelodeon is working with an animated movie that SETH. Rogan
is executive producing that will come out in three And
I think Ninja Turtles is one of the biggest franchises
that since the original movies, they haven't really known what
to do with. You know, I kind of grew up
with those movies in the nineties, and the Ninja Turtles
were a little bit before my time because my brother
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who grew up in the eighties like they were the
biggest thing there. And I think that's great while and
I think that's one of the biggest reasons why I'm
excited that Colin Jos and his brother are doing this,
because over all the reimaginations and reworkings of Ninja Turtles,
I think this is the first time that it's been
worked on by somebody who was a fan of them
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in their early childhood days. They were so big now,
and I think it's kind of harder for things to
be like an overall culture phenomenon among kids. I think
maybe now it's like Fortnite or maybe like what Minecraft was.
I think that's what Ninja Turtles were in the eighties.
So for somebody to grow up with them and now
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be working on a movie, I am really excited about that.
I wasn't really the biggest fan of the Michael Bay movies.
While I was excited to see him on the big
screen again, I think those movies came and went and
they really didn't give a new voice, a really bring
anything new to the franchise. So I also just read
Colin Joe's book, which is called A very Punchable Face
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and maybe in a little bit of like just being
kind of all about him and into a story right now,
So it could be another reason why I'm excited about that.
I just think he has a really interest pass from
you know, growing up being a writer, being with SNL
for so long, now being married to one of the
biggest movie stars ever, Scarlett Johanssen, and seeing where he's
gonna go from kind of his departure from sn L
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and now kind of getting more into writing for movies.
I think he's really funny, So excited for that one.
Also in movie news, Brendan Fraser has been announced that
he will be in the new Martin scorseseon movie called
Killers of the Flower Moon, which also stars Leonardo DiCaprio
and Robert de Niro. I'm most excited about this one
because we haven't really seen Brendan Frasier in a movie
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in a very long time. I know he's had a
pretty interesting past that kind of led him to staying
away from starring in big movies, kind of took him
out of the spotlight. He felt like he was kind
of blacklisted from the industry and really hasn't done a
whole lot of movies, and he was kind of the
biggest action star for a little while with movies like
The Mummy. I feel like he was kind of the
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Chris Pratt of that time, and he's hasn't really been
around sense, So I'm excited for him to have a
big feature role here. I mean to go from being
in that trilogy of the Mummy, but also doing comedies
like George of the Jungle. He was in Looney Tunes,
back in Action, also in Encino Man. I feel like
he has quite the range. So seeing him in a
Martin Scorsese movie, I will be watching that. I'm really excited.
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It's supposed to come out next year, so that's definitely
a movie at the top of my list. And then finally,
in movie news, the Suicide Squad has the best R
rated opening during the pandemic, making twenty six point five
million dollars at the box office, but that's also one
of the lowest openings for the franchise. A couple of
things going on here. It's one it's also available on
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HBO Max, and you have the ability and the decision
to make of do you want to go watch it
in theaters and experience there or we just want to
watch it at home. That's kind of what we're seeing now.
We're also seeing the country in a bit of a
different situation right now with some things closing down again.
Something's going back into being restrictions, so that could change
somebody's decision to want to go to the movies. I
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want to see this on a Friday night, seven pm
showing and the theater was relatively empty. I'm talking there
was maybe one person on way the other side of
us in the theater, maybe another couple or two a
row back, and then maybe a couple in the front.
I'd say it was like twenty people in this entire
big theater, which is a little bit sad for me
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to see because I love experiencing movies like this in
the theater. But I also saw James Gunn, who directed
the movie, kind of expressed the way I've been feeling
too is that he really doesn't care and this is
coming from a director if people see his movie in
theaters or at home. He was like, Jaws is one
of my favorite movies of all time. But I've never
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seen that in the theaters. I've only seen that at home.
And the way movies are really going to be able
to last is for people to be able to see
them at home, Like that's how they live. Like, yes,
you can go experience it and have that feeling in
the theater, but five years from now, you're gonna watch
movies that came out a long time ago, and that's
how they kind of carry on their legacy is through
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streaming services. I just thought that was a pretty interesting
take to see the whole situation in a world where
people are trying to keep movie theaters open, I'd say,
just give us the option. So it was sad to
see that I had kind of an underwhelming box office debut,
and I feel it's also attributed to the original one
just being pelted to death with really bad reviews. And
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I would also like to say that I don't see
myself as a movie critic. I am a film enthusiast,
and just like you, I pay my ticket to go
see a movie, I pay for my streaming services at home.
I'm just a guy who loves movies. Basically, if you
went to a party, and there's a guy there who
just happens to know a lot about movies and seems
to be only talking about movies the entire time. We've
all seen that person at a party like that is me.
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I don't have any affiliation with any movie studio. I
don't feel the need to alter my reviews on any
external thing. And I feel like sometimes movie critics are
like that. They go into it, whether they have a
kind of feeling about the to or the directors, just
the franchise, and they want to take a movie down
and give it a bad review. And I feel like
DC and Suicide Squad in particular suffers from that. Like
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there was nothing inside of me that felt the need
to say a bad thing about this movie. But yeah,
it gets bad reviews. Even though it has one of
the highest ratings on Rotten Tomatoes for all the DC movies,
it's still not doing so well at the box office.
And I think people just have that kind of mentality
of the DC movies not being as great as Marvel
and not giving them a chance. I just want to say,
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give him a chance. But all right, that's gonna do
it for this week's episode. But before I hop out
of here. Every single week I give a shout out
to one of you guys listening, especially a shout out
to anybody who listens when these episodes come out on Mondays.
And last week I gave a not so great review
that I got on Apple podcast, a one star review,
so I did want to share a positive one in
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response to that with a positive five star review that
I had just written, and it says, love the podcast
so informative and interesting. Always enjoy listening to Mike and
Kelsey talk about their own personal experiences. To keep up
the good work. I would say their user name, but
it just looks like they just typed on the keyboard.
But if you're listening on Apple Podcasts, you can scroll
down to wherever you're subscribed and just hit that five
(30:12):
star rating. Write a quick little review what do you
think about the podcast? But if you have any complaints,
you can send them over to my Gmail movie my
d a Gmail dot com. And I appear to be
losing my voice, so before I completely blow it out,
that's the episode for this week. Talk to you next
week here on the podcast, and until then, later
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