As the year winds down, Mike gives his Top 5 worst movies of the year that all warned below a 2 out of 5 rating and were a complete waste of time. Mike also looks into what went wrong with the Top 10 Box Office Bombs of the year and how surprisingly not all of them are bad movies. In the movie review, Mike gives his thoughts on the new drama ‘Spoiler Alert’ starring Jim Parsons. And in the Trailer Park, Mike breaks down Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mix Movie Podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike, and I am a guy
who loves movies and occasionally will hate a movie, and that, unfortunately,
is what this episode is about. I'm going to share
with you my top five worst movies of the year.
We'll also get into the biggest box office bombs of
two and what went wrong there, because not every movie
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on that list is actually a bad movie. In the
movie review, we'll talk about a movie called Spoiler Alert,
which is out in theaters now. Yes that is the
title of the movie. It's not a warning. The movie
is called Spoiler Alert and stars Jim Parsons. And then
in the trailer park, we'll talk about the New Guardians
of the Galaxy trailer for Volume three, which is the
final chapter in the trilogy. Thank you for being subscribed
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in listening every single Monday. Shout out to the Monday
Morning Movie crew. Here we go. Let's talk movies 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 walking at him with
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glasses from the Nashville Podcast Networking Movie Movie Podcast. As
we wind down the year, I feel like, or at
least I'm hopeful, that we've seen all of the bad
movies that we're going to get for this year. The
verdict is still out on Avatar too, but I've actually
seen some good things about that movie so far. So
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in a couple of episodes, I will give you my
top ten movies of the year, but I wanted to
dedicate an entire episode two of the Bad because it's
fun to talk about movies that we hate sometimes, and
I feel like there have been few and far between
bad movies this year, which is good overall. But the
movies that made my top five lists were just really bad.
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In some of the worst movies I've seen in a
very long time. I gave out my first ever zero
and some of these movies were so bad that I
couldn't even scrape to other a review. So some of
these I watched and I was like, I don't have
anything positive to say. There's nothing constructively I can break
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down about this movie. That is how bad some of
these were. So I feel like we're dealing with two
polar opposite ends of movies this year, we had some
really great ones. I gave out a five this year,
and then we're going to get into the bad now,
so let's kick it off with number five. The movie
I gave a one out of five rating is more
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bious and it's rare for a Marvel movie to end
up on a list like this. But this isn't the
m c U Marvel. This is the sony side of Marvel.
What I think went wrong with this movie is you're
dealing with the character that nobody really cares about, and
it's hard to get invested in that. And it's also
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about vampires, and there's a very thin line when it
comes to an on screen adaptation of a vampire story.
It's often viewed as being overall pretty cheesy. So then
you take that you put Jared Leto in this, which
he is an actor that oftentimes when he gets cast
in something, it kind of makes me question wanting to
watch it or not. So this was also a movie
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I wasn't rushing into the theater to see. Even though
I'm a huge Marvel fan, even the bad movies I
can find some enjoyment in. This movie served no purpose
in the little world they're trying to create on the
sony side with Venom, with having a small attachment to
Spider Man, I just think it's the more beous character.
He was fine in the Spider Man cartoon, but I
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never really saw him and thought they should make an
entire movie on him and proved that you can't just
make any superhero movie and have a lot of success.
I think the only enjoyment I really got out of
this movie was seeing everybody rip it online, and I
think that's kind of where the interest generated in this is.
Once you build that reputation of just being a bad movie,
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there's no recovering from that. So at number five I
went with Morbius and number four, looking, here, we have
another vampire movie. It is Day Shift, which came out
on Netflix. Stars Jamie Fox and Dave Franco. And now
you take vampires and you add in comedy or an
attempt at comedy, and you're dealing with some tricky waters here.
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So this movie was pretty bad from the very beginning.
It was a movie I really had to force myself
to get through. And you take somebody like Jamie Fox,
who is so charismatic and he is a great leading actor,
but everything just fell short In this movie, I think
it was trying to be too much like a twenty
tens comedy. Maybe that's because Dave Franco was in it,
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but I found his character so utterly annoying it made
the entire plot of the movie unbearable to watch. And
they're both pretty good actors, Jamie Fox especially, he's an
Oscar winning actor, but you put him in a movie
like this and it felt so phoned in and the
story was so dumb, and I think that goes back
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again to the vampires stopped making movies about vampires. The
only benefit from this movie is I was able to
watch it from the comfort of my house and didn't
have to spend any money on a ticket or on
gas to get to the theater. So that is the
only reason this one ranked up a little bit higher
than More Obvious, but both pretty bad, standing at a
one out of five rating for me. Still hopefully you
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avoided this movie too and didn't fall into the traps
that is a Netflix comedy. So at number four is
Day Shift. At number three, I'm going with Disney pluses Pinocchio,
which I also gave a one out of five rating.
You take one of the greatest American actors of our lifetime,
Tom Hanks, and you put him in a starring role,
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and you think, with him and the magic of Disney,
how could you get one of the most beloved fairy
tale stories from Disney of all time? How could it
be bad? It was bad. I don't know who this
movie was for, because what this movie did was take
all of the magic and warmness of the original story
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and completely diluted and take everything away that made that
original one special. I'm just not a fan in general
of all the live action Disney remakes. I would rather
see a Disney sequel live action then them try to
retell a story and feel very much like a cash grab.
To me, the c g I in this movie wasn't
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even that great, and maybe it's because it was a
straight to streaming movie. It kind of feels like a
straight to DVD scenario that we used to have back
in the nineties and two thousand's. That exactly what this
movie is. And I don't know if Disney is just
trying that approach now. They're kind of bringing that back
with the movies they put on Disney Plus, but I
feel like to really build their service, they kind of
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put some quality stuff out there and not just slapping
on an A list actor and a franchise that we
all already know and trying to make us stay as
subscribers over there. So I thought this was a pretty
big misstep for Disney Plus and movie just lacked imagination,
a lack that Disney magic, and was a movie that
probably should not have been made. I hope they don't
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ruin any more titles like they did this movie. So
at number three with the one out of five is Pinocchio.
At number two was a movie I thought was going
to be pretty good. It stars Ben Affleck and none
of the attemas, and it's called Deep Water. This movie
I gave a point five out of five rating. I
may have given it a one in my initial review,
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but thinking more about that movie and more about the
lack of plot, I'm reducing a point five and you
can get a point five out of five. This movie
was supposed to be and was pitched as a psychological trailer.
In the trailer, and I felt like there was going
to be some mystery and some action and a dark
secret that was going to unfold. But let me tell you,
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if you haven't seen Deep Water. Nothing happens in this movie,
absolutely no plot line whatsoever. It's a bunch of people
being sad and angry at each other and cheating on
each other, and Ben Affleck and none of the Arnomas
hooking up and it being so weird and awkward. And
I think Deep Water has one of the worst endings
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I've ever seen in a movie. It was comical. It's
an ending that I could see winding up on YouTube
and ten years and people looking at how ridiculous this
ending was. And this was a movie I just didn't
want to finish, but I knew that there were some
things to talk about to do a review on it,
that I powered through it. But if I didn't have
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this podcast, there is no way I would have finished
watching this movie. That's kind of my role is if
I'm going to rate and review a movie, I gotta
watch it till the very end to give my full
thoughts on it. So I powered through this movie for you.
That is what I do on this podcast. So under
no circumstance, should you ever watch deep Water. If you
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did and enjoyed it, let me know because I would
like to know what other movies you and AI So
at number two, with a point five out of five
rating is deep Water. Before I get into my number one,
here are some dishonorable mentions because I asked this question
on my socials and some of you sent in these
that I don't exactly agree with, but I'll share them here.
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Mackenzie said Jurassic World Dominion, which I agree wasn't the
best movie, but I wouldn't put it on my worst
I did find some enjoyment in that it did come
out in the summer when I wanted a big blockbuster movie.
But I could see if you are a real big
fan of the original, how let down you would have
been by that one, So I wouldn't judge you for
putting that on your worst list. A lot of you
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guys said Bullet Train, which is a movie I actually liked.
I really enjoyed the action in that movie, but I
could see if you were going in expecting more of
like a Quentin Tarantino style action movie and the comedy
didn't really land for you. I could see that movie
being kind of a pain for you to watch. But
I love mindless action movies and I thought that movie
was pretty fun, so that would have leaned more towards
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my best action movies of the year, but all of
our tastes are different. We see Verge on Facebook said
the Monsters movie, which my mom would agree with you
on that one, and Jennifer on Facebook also said The
Minions is the Rise of Grew. I'll admit that wasn't
the best movie, but I don't really expect the Minion
movies to be the best movies ever. But I still
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found some enjoyment in that movie just because I love
how dumb they are. So maybe that's my guilty pleasure
movie of the year. But now at number one, my
worst movie of two with a zero out of five
rating is the movie Amsterdam. Now, the only good thing
I have to say about this movie is I now
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have my worst movie of all time. I get that
question a lot, and Amsterdam, hands down, is the worst
movie I've ever seen and the only movie that I
have ever walked out of the theater. And I was
just telling you that my rule is I have to
watch movie to the very end if I'm going to
review it, and that is the reason I never reviewed
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Amsterdam on this podcast. The movie was also very long
and about an hour and a half in when I
realized there was another hour to come. I was like,
what are they going to do for the rest of
this hour? My wife and I decided let's just leave,
like there's no value in staying and watching this movie.
And that is the first time I have ever done that.
This movie had a lot of red flags, and walking
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in to watch this movie, I saw the poster and
there was no image of any actor. There was nothing
about what the movie was about. It was just all
the A list actors listed. And I told my wife
Kelsey that this movie is going to be bad, because
whenever a movie does that, that means they are trying
to sell you on their star power and not the
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actual contents of this movie. The most surprising thing about
Amsterdam is it was pitched and credited as a mystery comedy.
I down that completely ridiculous because there was nothing funny
about this movie. I will say, in the first ten minutes,
one of the A list actors gets hit by a car,
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and I don't think that moment was supposed to be funny,
but the way it looked was so cheap and ridiculous
that I found only that to be the funny scene
in the entire movie. It felt like the director was
having a hard time wrangling all these A list actors
and giving them any direction whatsoever. It was almost like
you told them, maybe just do whatever you want. There
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was no real script in this movie, and it all
just kind of felt like when you have a really
weird dream and try to tell somebody else about that
dream and you forget a lot of details. That is
what Amsterdam was. So at number one with the lowest
rating of the year, zero zero, Amsterdam is my worst
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movie of two And now I want to go through
the biggest box office bombs of the year. And just
because some of these movies made the list doesn't mean
they are entirely bad movies. And I'll tell you about those,
but these are the movies that had the lowest return
on investment of the year. And number ten is a
movie we talked about earlier more Bus. The movie cost
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seventy five million dollars to make and made about a
hundred and sixty million dollars. So on paper, you think, oh,
they made a lot of that money back. But if
you remember from the episode we did about how movies
make money, that's not all the money they bring home.
The movie theaters take home at least forty of that,
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and then you have to spend another thirty five to
forty million to promote that movie. And not only that,
that movie built a very bad reputation, so anything else
attached to that movie making the sequel is very grim.
You don't get any of those other perks and extras
out of that movie. So that's the number ten bomb
of the year. At number nine is the unbearable weight
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of massive talent from Lionsgate. The movie cost thirty million
dollars to make and only made about thirty million dollars
as well. In the end, it's in the red. And
I actually don't think this was a terrible movie. I
just think this movie didn't really find its audience. I
watched this movie and I enjoyed it, but I also
like the weirdest that is Nicolas Cage, and the movie
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is very meta, so it was almost like, who exactly
is this movie going to appeal to if you're not
just a big Nicolas Cage fan. So I felt like
for that reason, it didn't really resonate with anybody else,
and unless you wanted to watch just a really odd
comedy centered around him, you weren't really telling other people
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that you have to watch this movie, but I actually
don't think this is a bad movie. If you're a
fan of Nicolas Cage and missed this movie, I still
think you should check it out and decide for yourself.
At number eight is The Northman. The movie cost between
seventy and ninety million dollars to make. There was an
official reporting on that, but it only May sixty nine
nice point nine million dollars at the box office, and
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I think that's the price you pay whenever you make
a movie with a lot of visual effects, a lot
of studying cinematography. This movie is based in mythology, so
it just kind of has that Game of Thrones look.
And I'm gonna be honest, when I see a movie
trailer like that, it's really hard for me to get
into it. It's hard for me to be excited and
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put it on my list of movies I want to watch.
So that is not a movie that I would rush
to the theater to see. It's a movie that I
waited until later till I could watch it at home.
And that's just kind of the world we live in now.
I like that you can decide some movies weren't the
big screen. I feel a movie like this is more
a movie I want to watch at home and my
own pacing. But when you spend that much money on
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a movie like this, you're really writing on it to
do well at the box office. But if you don't
generate the interest, people aren't going to see it. So
anytime I see a movie based in mythology, a period
piece movie, I just know those movies are going to struggle,
even though they can be good movies too. At number
seven is the Bob's Burgers movie, which costs thirty eight
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million dollars to make and only made thirty four point
two million. That one hurts another movie that again, it's
not a bad movie. I just don't think a Bob's
Burgers movie was really going to rush people into the
movie theater. It's another movie I waited until it was
available for me to watch at home for free. But
I know it does have a dedicated fan base and
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people really love that show, But I didn't feel as
invested of needing to see that movie in theaters. I
think it's also just a movie that probably would have
been a more natural fit to go straight onto streaming,
probably would have done a little bit better without having
to pay all of that money to get it in theaters,
because it's a niche market. It's the Bob's Burgers fans,
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and you also have to get those fans into the theater.
And it also came out during the summer when a
lot of other big movies were happening. You had Top
Gun out in theaters, you had Jurassic Parks, so people
had to decide what to go watch. So maybe it
was like a counterprogramming thing, but as we see from
the numbers, didn't quite work out for them. At number
six was the movie Bros. Which costs twenty two million
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dollars to make and only made fourteen point seven million dollars.
And I actually really enjoyed Bros. A lot. I thought
it was funny, maybe one of the funniest romantic comedies
I've seen in the last five years. And I think
the problem here is romantic comedies are really hard to
get people in the theaters to watch if you don't
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have an A list actor to get them there. So
unless it's a movie like The Lost City where you
have Channing Tatum and Sandra Bullock, or Ticket to Paradise
when you have Julia Roberts and George Clooney. It's hard
to make people care and go watch a romantic comedy
in theaters. Netflix is having more success because they don't
have that overhead of getting it into a theater. I
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wish more people would have seen this movie because I
found it funny, but unfortunately, at the end of the day,
it the bomb. At number five is Serrao, which costs
thirty million dollars to make and only made six point
four million. That is rough. I think this is another
case of a period movie that nobody cared about. At
number four was Amsterdam, which we were talking about. The
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movie cost eighty million dollars to make and only made
thirty one million dollars. That is a major, major loss
for this movie with so many A list actors. And
I'm not entirely convinced that this movie wasn't made in
order to just be a tax write out for all
these actors, because I believe after I did some digging
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about this is if a movie like this does so poorly,
they can write it off as a loss in their income.
I just wondered, like, how can a movie like this
that is so bad at some point people just not
pull the plug on how does this movie actually come
out when it is so bad? At number three, This
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one surprising to me is light Ear from Disney. It
costs two hundred million dollars to make and only made
two d and twenty six million dollars, so didn't really
recoup a whole lot of that. I actually enjoyed light
Year because it felt like a fun sci fi movie
to me. But I think what most people were expecting
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was to see a continuation in the toy story world,
and that's not what this movie was. And then you
also had the y is Chris Evans the voice of
him and not Tim Allen, and people got angry for
no reason. I think Disney was just trying to do
something different in this origin story, but a lot of
those details really didn't make sense, and the movie got
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pretty harshly criticized within the first couple of weeks, leading
to people not wanting to go see it. And this
is a movie I saw getting criticized before it was
even out, so that's hard going into a release week
which it saw some pretty harsh numbers. It's opening weekend,
I think one of the worst for Disney in a
very long time, and I thought this movie was going
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to be a major hit, and even though I liked it,
I could kind of see that I don't think most
kids would like this movie. It felt more like a
movie geared towards the kids who have grown up since
the original Toy Story. It felt more like a Star
Wars sci fi movie than it did a toy story movie,
so you lose that charm of toy story and therefore
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creates some lack of interest. And again it also had
some hard competition in the summer with other movies out
like Jurassic World and Top Gun Maverick, which just dominated.
And at the end of the day, it was a
rough year for a lot of people. Had all this inflation. People,
you know, we had to be very particular on what
we wanted to go spend our money on at the
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movie theater, and for some people, as it shows, light
Year just wasn't it. At Number two was the disaster
film Moonfall, and you know, I love me a disaster movie.
So I did find some enjoyment in this, but it
was a flop over were all because it costs between
one thirty eight and forty six million and only made
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sixties seven point three million. Dollars for lions Gay. That
is pretty bad, and this movie looked expensive, and I thought,
for the most part, it was a pretty decent disaster film.
They're supposed to be cheesy, they're supposed to be ridiculous,
But this movie, I would say and agree that it
really fell off there in the third act, really fell
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off in the ending and didn't match the rest of
the movie. The movie is about a group of astronauts
and some conspiracy theorists who try to save Earth after
they realized the moon is hurling towards it. And you
even had some a listeners in this one. You had
Halle Berry, Michael Benja. But I think it was all
the harsh reviews they had early on and people who
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don't really get disaster movies that yes, the plot is
supposed to be unbelievable and ridiculous, but I think the
confusion is what turned people off more So. This was
a pretty big loss for lion Gate, losing them about
a hundred and forty million dollars, and at number one
is a movie still out in theaters right now, the
computer animated Disney movie called Strange World. It costs between
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a hundred and thirty and a hundred and eighty five
million dollars to make, and as I'm recording this podcast
has only made forty three million dollars worldwide, which is
a giant loss for Disney. What I think greatly led
to the flop of this movie was the marketing. I
didn't hear a whole lot about this movie, aside from
seeing the trailer back when I watched the movie during
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the summer and I was like, Yeah, that looks all right.
But after that I heard nothing about it aside from
a clip I saw on TikTok between Jake Jillen Hall
and Dennis Quaid where they forgot they were in a
movie together. They forgot they were in the Day After Tomorrow.
That was really the only marketing I saw from Strange World.
I also think that title is pretty forgettable. It almost
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feels like a working title, and the characters don't really
have any distinct qualities about them that made them memorable.
It just kind of felt like, here's another Disney movie
to come out. We'll put it out in November and
people will just go to see it around Thanksgiving, and
as we see, nobody really did. And I thought this
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was another interesting decision for Disney. I don't really understand
their logic into what goes into theaters and what goes
on to Disney Plus, but I think ultimately they made
the wrong move here because they're gonna end up losing
about a hundred and forty million dollars on this movie.
So that is it. What I think are the worst
movies of the year and what has been proven to
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be the biggest box office bombs of the year. If
you think another movie deserved to make the worst list,
let me know. Hit me up at Mike destro on Twitter,
Instagram and TikTok, or shoot me an email movie Mike
d at gmail dot com. Let's get into our movie
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review now. I want to talk about spoiler alert. I
got the tickets for this movie. I walked up to
the guy who scans the tickets, and as he scans them,
he hands me a pack of tissues with the name
of the movie you written across from them. And I
felt like that was a bit ambitious. You go into
what is being dubbed as a sad movie and saying,
here are these tissues because you're gonna need them. That's
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a bold statement, and for me, it's very hard to
cry in a movie. It's very hard for me to
even cry in real life. I wish I had that
emotion that would just come out of me, but it
just doesn't. And sometimes people ask me, like, what's a
good movie to make you cry? I don't know. I'm
terrible to ask that. So you hand me a pack
of tissues saying this movie is going to make me cry.
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I'm gonna hold it to a little bit of a
higher standard. You're telling me that you've made that movie
that's gonna make me feel. Let's see about that. So
before I get into my full review, here is just
a little bit of the trailer from spoiler alert. What
is going on? Are you all right? Come down off
the ledge, Mike, I'm seeing Dr Tomorrow and Fat I'm
afraid the news isn't good Together, I was always afraid
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Kit would break my heart, and eventually he did. He
broke it open. So what this movie is about. It
is a love story. It is based on a real
life memoir by Michael Asilo, and he is a TV
writer and he is a founder of tv Line, which
I'm familiar with. If you've searched out some stories about
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TV shows, you probably read an article from TV Line,
and it's all about his relationship after finding the love
of his life, Kit. They spend fourteen years together and
then find out that Kit has cancer and then are
going through this journey together. So writing all of those
waves of emotions, and I always say, it's all about
the journey the characters go through. Even though you know
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the ending. The movie is called spoiler alert. It's setting
you up knowing what's going to happen to the hero
in this story at the end, but it's all about
what happens in between, and the emotion is that you
feel from that. So me knowing that in the back
of my head what is going to happen didn't really
take away from it. If anything, it made me enjoy
it more because inside, as you see their relationship develop,
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and as you see how their characters are depicted, you think, well,
maybe they change it up, maybe something else happens. So
that is kind of what you're hoping throughout the entire movie,
and it really does make you care about both of them.
And I think what really worked in this movie is
they did a really good job at depicting real life.
It just felt like that slice of life story that
I was looking for and oftentimes when you make a
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romantic comedy romantic drama, everything feels like a fairy tale.
You fall in love, everything is great, and then in
this case, something bad happens and then all these other
things follow after that. But in this movie, not everything
is great throughout the entire movie. It shows the ups
and downs that you would have in a fourteen year relationship,
and I just felt like that added another level. It
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gave these characters a little bit more depth that it
didn't feel like this superficial story. And I think it's
because it is based on a memoir. It is real life.
The entire story just felt more authentic. The movie is
directed by Michael show Walter, who also did a movie
that I really enjoyed called The Big Sick, and that's
probably what I would compare this movie to the most.
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But he's also done things like The Eyes of Tammy Faye.
He directed some episodes of The Dropout, which is weird
to see him doing all these big dramas because I
know him from his Comedy Center show from back in
the day. Michael and Michael have issues, so in my head,
he is like this comedic guy, but to see him
take on all of these other projects. I'm really gaining
a lot of respect from Michael show Walter, so this
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is another great step in his directing career. And then
you have Jim Parsons, who you mainly know as Sheldon
from The Big Bang Theory, which that show only ended
back in ten, so he's not that far removed from it.
And to have such a big iconic role under your
belt that everybody just knows you for. You see him,
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you think Sheldon. A lot of actors who are known
for one role, especially when it comes to TV, have
a really hard time shaking that. But I have to say,
while watching Spoiler Alert, I didn't think of him as Sheldon.
I felt like he easily just transcends that character, so
I didn't find that distracting at all. I wasn't waiting
on him to say bazinga or anything like that. Although
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his character is a little bit nerdy in this movie,
I feel like maybe that's just a little bit of
his personality. Aside from that, I didn't really associate him
with Sheldon at all. So I hope he gets the
opportunity to do more roles like this and doesn't really
get typecast or just memorized as being Sheldon. You also
have Sally Field in this movie. If you need an
actor to go through all the highs and lows of
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a drama like this, you get Sally Fields and she
just crushes this role. She is really perfect as the
mom in this movie. The other thing I really enjoyed
is because he is a TV writer. He writes about
TV shows, he interviews people. A lot of those TV
elements are put into this movie. So some of the
flashbacks from his childhood are him on a TV set.
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They depicted as like a family sitcom, and you learn
more about him throughout these flashbacks in these scenes. I
thought that was a really nice touch to bring it
all together. It was kind of combining my love of
movies and love for TV all into one movie. I
also love the hint of Christmas throughout this movie. Not
entirely a Christmas movie, but the holiday does play a
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part into this story. So if you're looking for something
that's a little bit holiday ish, but not a full
on Christmas movie. So the question is did this movie
make me cry? I say that I have a heart
made of stone, and even if I watched the saddest
thing ever, it's very hard for me to cry, because
it's hard to get that invested in it. But when
it came to spoiler alert, I got the closest I've
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ever been to crying in a movie, probably since Avengers
End Game, which also isn't that long ago, but that
movie was, you know, ten plus years in the making.
I was going to feel emotional in that. Maybe got
little bit misty eyed during No Way Home. But outside
of like all these characters that I know from like
superhero movies, this is really the only movie to do
it based on the story, not based on anything else
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that I came in with before. And there are some
scenes in this that really crush you. It's a very
what I feel like is the realistic depiction of somebody's
fight through cancer. And I'm fortunate enough that I haven't
had to face that with anyone in my family, but
I've seen people around me go through it and know
it's a very difficult thing to say the least. And
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there's one scene in this movie, particularly when the diagnosis
is revealed, and you don't even see the character react
on screen. It's just the sound that he makes after
that that really kind of gets you and makes it
feel more realistic. I found like this movie did that
a lot throughout. It was sometimes the silence or the
choice not to show certain things that were really powerful.
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So shout out to director Michael Showalter for that nice
little touch in that. So the movie did make me
pretty emotional, and I will say it had one of
my favorite uses of a song in a movie in
the last five years. I am a big fan of
sad music. When I looked at my top genre of two,
it was just sad, Like that's all I listened to.
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When I'm sitting here at this desk working on things,
I just listened to sad music. And one of my
favorite artists ever is Julian Baker, and she put out
an album back in called Sprained Ankle, and I remember
listening to this album over and over again and thought,
if I ever make a movie, I'm gonna put one
of these songs in the saddest scene of the movie.
And spoiler Alert did that. They used the title track
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Sprained Ankle in one of the saddest montages in this
movie and it worked perfectly. So the soundtrack just took
this movie on another level for me. And this was
also a movie I wasn't expecting to enjoy as much
as I did it. Honestly, it was a movie that
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my wife was more interested in watching. But I'm glad
I wanted to see it because I think the trailer
didn't really do it justice. It was all those little
details in between that make the story. Yes, it is
sad and emotional, but there's just so much more there
that I hope more people go and check out this movie.
So for spoiler alert, I give it four out of
five tissues. There were moments in this movie where the
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entire theater got quiet and I could just hear people sniffling.
So if you're in need of a good cry, check
out spoiler Alert. It's time to head down to movie
Mike Trail or Paul. Another Marvel trilogy is coming to
an end. Guardians of the Galaxy Volume three will be
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the final chapter in this saga, and this movie. I
feel like it's going to be the most emotional chapter yet.
So before I get into what I think about the
new Guardians of the Galaxy trailer, here is just a
little bit of the preview. We were gone for quite
a while, but no matter what happens next, the Galaxy
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still needs its Guardians. We have been running our whole lives, Pete,
I'm done running Willow fly Away together one last time.
I think the ultimate thing a Marvel movie can do
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is get you in the fields in the trailer. The
only other Marvel movie that has done that recently was
Wakonda Forever, and that movie, of course, is on an
entirely different level. But I think, like Black Panther, Guardians
of the Galaxy is in that same realm of it
feels entirely different from everything else in the m c
U and doesn't really get enough recognition when it comes
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to how emotional all these movies are. Because they are funny,
they have a great soundtrack, they have a really great
cat best, but the Guardians of the Galaxy movie also
take you on an emotional roller coaster learning about Peter
Quill and all the things he's gone through. I felt
like they've really developed his character throughout all of the movies,
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and in this movie it looks like we're going to
get more backstory from some of the characters, including Rocket Raccoon,
who is one of the best Marvel characters, and he's
so witty and raw and honest. In all the movies,
and kind of the jerk. But there are just some
moments where you get a little bit of Rocket Raccoon
and you think, oh man, he is this more in
depth character, and I feel like we're gonna get some
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good backstory on him here. And even in this trailer
you see little baby Rocket Raccoon, kind of like we
saw a baby group, and you know from watching The Mandalorian,
whenever you have a baby something, it's going to be good.
So all of the original cast is back. You have
James Gunn back directing this movie. He directed the other
two movies. He's also done movies like The Suicide Squad.
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He did Peacemaker on HBO Max, so he is involved
in the Marvel side and the d C side. I
think having him behind this movie was very important and
kind of what Ryan Coogler is doing with Black Panther,
I feel like he is doing with Guardians of the Galaxy.
He is making it his own and he puts a
lot of himself into these movies, and that is why
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I think they are so successful and so distinct. And
in this movie, it looks like they go to this
whole new planet. They are on this new spaceship that
looks pretty dope. It's called the Bowie and on this
planet they find these animal hybrids, so they look like humans,
but they also look like animals. So I feel like
they're going on this journey kind of going back to
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some of their roots. Maybe this is where Rocket Raccoon
came from. He's going to see some people he used
to know and hit you on that emotional level. And
it's that line in the trailer that makes me think
somebody is going to die in this movie, if not
more than one person, but when they say we'll all
fly away together one last time into the forever and
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beautiful sky. So if I had to speculate what character,
I think it's going to die, probably Drags. I think
the Instagram post that Batista did after they wrapped filming
on this movie, it felt very final for him. And
I know it was already stated that this was going
to be the last Guardians of the Galaxy movie in
this franchise, but I felt like he was saying goodbye
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to that character. Because they didn't say that the characters
wouldn't go on to be in the m c U
and some other capacity, maybe star Lord Rocket Raccoon and
go into the thor movies or maybe even the Avengers
movies down the line. But I felt like his post
was really saying goodbye to this character the last time
he will ever play Drags, So that could mean that
his character dies in this movie. But from the level
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of emotion in this seeing the villains in this trailer,
I feel like even more people could die. And if
it feels like that really big ending of them doing
something big and triumphant, I feel like you go out
on that note of saying goodbye to more characters. This
franchise has said goodbye in the past is some characters
and led to some pretty emotional moments, So I think
oddly this franchise started out to be the comic relief
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and the fun anything Goes franchise in the m c U,
but I think it's had some of the more emotional
moments out of any of the movies, and a lot
of moments that are just memorable. When all the other
m c U movies kind of get little confusing on
what happened in what movie, these movies continue to feel
very distinct, So I credit James Gunn to that in
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the trailer, we just get little glimpses of the villains.
You have Adam Warlock and the High Evolutionary. You see
them on this kind of weird, fleshy looking monster with
hair growing out of it, So it looks like it
goes into a pretty weird direction as far as the
villains and whatever they're trying to defeat in this But
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you also have some really bright fun colors, which I
also always loaded about the Guardians of the Galaxy movies.
They have this very neon cosmic color palette that plays
very well into all the eighties music in the soundtrack,
So it looks like we'll get more of that in
this movie. And Guarding into the Galaxy. Volume three hits
theaters May five. Will it make us cry? Yeah? Probably
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was this week's edition of Movie bar and that's gonna
do it for another episode here on the podcast. But
before I go, I gotta give my listeners shout out
of the week this week. I went over to Facebook
and a comment that just made my day. The shout
out this week goes to Susan Crawford who commented on
video I posted from the last episode and said, this
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was a great episode. Mike excited to see the new
movie and that is in reference to the review I
did on The Fable Means and the more and more
I thought about that movie, the more and more I
realized how much I really enjoyed it. So if you
haven't seen The Fable Woman's yet, I highly recommend it.
And if you missed that review, you can watch the
entire thing on my YouTube channel YouTube dot com slash
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Mike Distro, or you can check out that clip on
Facebook and TikTok slash mikey de Stro. Next week, I'm
gonna try to get into the spirit and do an
episode on Christmas movies. If there are any specific Christmas
movies you want me to cover or topics inside of
Christmas movies, let me know movie Mike d at gmail
dot com and I we'll talk to you next week.
And until then, go out and watch good movies. Later
Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mix Movie Podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike, and I am a guy
who loves movies and occasionally will hate a movie, and that, unfortunately,
is what this episode is about. I'm going to share
with you my top five worst movies of the year.
We'll also get into the biggest box office bombs of
two and what went wrong there, because not every movie
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on that list is actually a bad movie. In the
movie review, we'll talk about a movie called Spoiler Alert,
which is out in theaters now. Yes that is the
title of the movie. It's not a warning. The movie
is called Spoiler Alert and stars Jim Parsons. And then
in the trailer park, we'll talk about the New Guardians
of the Galaxy trailer for Volume three, which is the
final chapter in the trilogy. Thank you for being subscribed
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in listening every single Monday. Shout out to the Monday
Morning Movie crew. Here we go. Let's talk movies in
a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast.
One man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like
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glasses from the Nashville Podcast Networking Movie Movie Podcast. As
we wind down the year, I feel like, or at
least I'm hopeful, that we've seen all of the bad
movies that we're going to get for this year. The
verdict is still out on Avatar too, but I've actually
seen some good things about that movie so far. So
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in a couple of episodes, I will give you my
top ten movies of the year, but I wanted to
dedicate an entire episode two of the Bad because it's
fun to talk about movies that we hate sometimes, and
I feel like there have been few and far between
bad movies this year, which is good overall. But the
movies that made my top five lists were just really bad.
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In some of the worst movies I've seen in a
very long time. I gave out my first ever zero
and some of these movies were so bad that I
couldn't even scrape to other a review. So some of
these I watched and I was like, I don't have
anything positive to say. There's nothing constructively I can break
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down about this movie. That is how bad some of
these were. So I feel like we're dealing with two
polar opposite ends of movies this year, we had some
really great ones. I gave out a five this year,
and then we're going to get into the bad now,
so let's kick it off with number five. The movie
I gave a one out of five rating is more
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bious and it's rare for a Marvel movie to end
up on a list like this. But this isn't the
m c U Marvel. This is the sony side of Marvel.
What I think went wrong with this movie is you're
dealing with the character that nobody really cares about, and
it's hard to get invested in that. And it's also
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about vampires, and there's a very thin line when it
comes to an on screen adaptation of a vampire story.
It's often viewed as being overall pretty cheesy. So then
you take that you put Jared Leto in this, which
he is an actor that oftentimes when he gets cast
in something, it kind of makes me question wanting to
watch it or not. So this was also a movie
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I wasn't rushing into the theater to see. Even though
I'm a huge Marvel fan, even the bad movies I
can find some enjoyment in. This movie served no purpose
in the little world they're trying to create on the
sony side with Venom, with having a small attachment to
Spider Man, I just think it's the more beous character.
He was fine in the Spider Man cartoon, but I
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never really saw him and thought they should make an
entire movie on him and proved that you can't just
make any superhero movie and have a lot of success.
I think the only enjoyment I really got out of
this movie was seeing everybody rip it online, and I
think that's kind of where the interest generated in this is.
Once you build that reputation of just being a bad movie,
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there's no recovering from that. So at number five I
went with Morbius and number four, looking, here, we have
another vampire movie. It is Day Shift, which came out
on Netflix. Stars Jamie Fox and Dave Franco. And now
you take vampires and you add in comedy or an
attempt at comedy, and you're dealing with some tricky waters here.
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So this movie was pretty bad from the very beginning.
It was a movie I really had to force myself
to get through. And you take somebody like Jamie Fox,
who is so charismatic and he is a great leading actor,
but everything just fell short In this movie, I think
it was trying to be too much like a twenty
tens comedy. Maybe that's because Dave Franco was in it,
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but I found his character so utterly annoying it made
the entire plot of the movie unbearable to watch. And
they're both pretty good actors, Jamie Fox especially, he's an
Oscar winning actor, but you put him in a movie
like this and it felt so phoned in and the
story was so dumb, and I think that goes back
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again to the vampires stopped making movies about vampires. The
only benefit from this movie is I was able to
watch it from the comfort of my house and didn't
have to spend any money on a ticket or on
gas to get to the theater. So that is the
only reason this one ranked up a little bit higher
than More Obvious, but both pretty bad, standing at a
one out of five rating for me. Still hopefully you
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avoided this movie too and didn't fall into the traps
that is a Netflix comedy. So at number four is
Day Shift. At number three, I'm going with Disney pluses Pinocchio,
which I also gave a one out of five rating.
You take one of the greatest American actors of our lifetime,
Tom Hanks, and you put him in a starring role,
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and you think, with him and the magic of Disney,
how could you get one of the most beloved fairy
tale stories from Disney of all time? How could it
be bad? It was bad. I don't know who this
movie was for, because what this movie did was take
all of the magic and warmness of the original story
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and completely diluted and take everything away that made that
original one special. I'm just not a fan in general
of all the live action Disney remakes. I would rather
see a Disney sequel live action then them try to
retell a story and feel very much like a cash grab.
To me, the c g I in this movie wasn't
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even that great, and maybe it's because it was a
straight to streaming movie. It kind of feels like a
straight to DVD scenario that we used to have back
in the nineties and two thousand's. That exactly what this
movie is. And I don't know if Disney is just
trying that approach now. They're kind of bringing that back
with the movies they put on Disney Plus, but I
feel like to really build their service, they kind of
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put some quality stuff out there and not just slapping
on an A list actor and a franchise that we
all already know and trying to make us stay as
subscribers over there. So I thought this was a pretty
big misstep for Disney Plus and movie just lacked imagination,
a lack that Disney magic, and was a movie that
probably should not have been made. I hope they don't
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ruin any more titles like they did this movie. So
at number three with the one out of five is Pinocchio.
At number two was a movie I thought was going
to be pretty good. It stars Ben Affleck and none
of the attemas, and it's called Deep Water. This movie
I gave a point five out of five rating. I
may have given it a one in my initial review,
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but thinking more about that movie and more about the
lack of plot, I'm reducing a point five and you
can get a point five out of five. This movie
was supposed to be and was pitched as a psychological trailer.
In the trailer, and I felt like there was going
to be some mystery and some action and a dark
secret that was going to unfold. But let me tell you,
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if you haven't seen Deep Water. Nothing happens in this movie,
absolutely no plot line whatsoever. It's a bunch of people
being sad and angry at each other and cheating on
each other, and Ben Affleck and none of the Arnomas
hooking up and it being so weird and awkward. And
I think Deep Water has one of the worst endings
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I've ever seen in a movie. It was comical. It's
an ending that I could see winding up on YouTube
and ten years and people looking at how ridiculous this
ending was. And this was a movie I just didn't
want to finish, but I knew that there were some
things to talk about to do a review on it,
that I powered through it. But if I didn't have
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this podcast, there is no way I would have finished
watching this movie. That's kind of my role is if
I'm going to rate and review a movie, I gotta
watch it till the very end to give my full
thoughts on it. So I powered through this movie for you.
That is what I do on this podcast. So under
no circumstance, should you ever watch deep Water. If you
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did and enjoyed it, let me know because I would
like to know what other movies you and AI So
at number two, with a point five out of five
rating is deep Water. Before I get into my number one,
here are some dishonorable mentions because I asked this question
on my socials and some of you sent in these
that I don't exactly agree with, but I'll share them here.
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Mackenzie said Jurassic World Dominion, which I agree wasn't the
best movie, but I wouldn't put it on my worst
I did find some enjoyment in that it did come
out in the summer when I wanted a big blockbuster movie.
But I could see if you are a real big
fan of the original, how let down you would have
been by that one, So I wouldn't judge you for
putting that on your worst list. A lot of you
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guys said Bullet Train, which is a movie I actually liked.
I really enjoyed the action in that movie, but I
could see if you were going in expecting more of
like a Quentin Tarantino style action movie and the comedy
didn't really land for you. I could see that movie
being kind of a pain for you to watch. But
I love mindless action movies and I thought that movie
was pretty fun, so that would have leaned more towards
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my best action movies of the year, but all of
our tastes are different. We see Verge on Facebook said
the Monsters movie, which my mom would agree with you
on that one, and Jennifer on Facebook also said The
Minions is the Rise of Grew. I'll admit that wasn't
the best movie, but I don't really expect the Minion
movies to be the best movies ever. But I still
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found some enjoyment in that movie just because I love
how dumb they are. So maybe that's my guilty pleasure
movie of the year. But now at number one, my
worst movie of two with a zero out of five
rating is the movie Amsterdam. Now, the only good thing
I have to say about this movie is I now
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have my worst movie of all time. I get that
question a lot, and Amsterdam, hands down, is the worst
movie I've ever seen and the only movie that I
have ever walked out of the theater. And I was
just telling you that my rule is I have to
watch movie to the very end if I'm going to
review it, and that is the reason I never reviewed
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Amsterdam on this podcast. The movie was also very long
and about an hour and a half in when I
realized there was another hour to come. I was like,
what are they going to do for the rest of
this hour? My wife and I decided let's just leave,
like there's no value in staying and watching this movie.
And that is the first time I have ever done that.
This movie had a lot of red flags, and walking
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in to watch this movie, I saw the poster and
there was no image of any actor. There was nothing
about what the movie was about. It was just all
the A list actors listed. And I told my wife
Kelsey that this movie is going to be bad, because
whenever a movie does that, that means they are trying
to sell you on their star power and not the
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actual contents of this movie. The most surprising thing about
Amsterdam is it was pitched and credited as a mystery comedy.
I down that completely ridiculous because there was nothing funny
about this movie. I will say, in the first ten minutes,
one of the A list actors gets hit by a car,
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and I don't think that moment was supposed to be funny,
but the way it looked was so cheap and ridiculous
that I found only that to be the funny scene
in the entire movie. It felt like the director was
having a hard time wrangling all these A list actors
and giving them any direction whatsoever. It was almost like
you told them, maybe just do whatever you want. There
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was no real script in this movie, and it all
just kind of felt like when you have a really
weird dream and try to tell somebody else about that
dream and you forget a lot of details. That is
what Amsterdam was. So at number one with the lowest
rating of the year, zero zero, Amsterdam is my worst
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movie of two And now I want to go through
the biggest box office bombs of the year. And just
because some of these movies made the list doesn't mean
they are entirely bad movies. And I'll tell you about those,
but these are the movies that had the lowest return
on investment of the year. And number ten is a
movie we talked about earlier more Bus. The movie cost
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seventy five million dollars to make and made about a
hundred and sixty million dollars. So on paper, you think, oh,
they made a lot of that money back. But if
you remember from the episode we did about how movies
make money, that's not all the money they bring home.
The movie theaters take home at least forty of that,
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and then you have to spend another thirty five to
forty million to promote that movie. And not only that,
that movie built a very bad reputation, so anything else
attached to that movie making the sequel is very grim.
You don't get any of those other perks and extras
out of that movie. So that's the number ten bomb
of the year. At number nine is the unbearable weight
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of massive talent from Lionsgate. The movie cost thirty million
dollars to make and only made about thirty million dollars
as well. In the end, it's in the red. And
I actually don't think this was a terrible movie. I
just think this movie didn't really find its audience. I
watched this movie and I enjoyed it, but I also
like the weirdest that is Nicolas Cage, and the movie
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is very meta, so it was almost like, who exactly
is this movie going to appeal to if you're not
just a big Nicolas Cage fan. So I felt like
for that reason, it didn't really resonate with anybody else,
and unless you wanted to watch just a really odd
comedy centered around him, you weren't really telling other people
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that you have to watch this movie, but I actually
don't think this is a bad movie. If you're a
fan of Nicolas Cage and missed this movie, I still
think you should check it out and decide for yourself.
At number eight is The Northman. The movie cost between
seventy and ninety million dollars to make. There was an
official reporting on that, but it only May sixty nine
nice point nine million dollars at the box office, and
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I think that's the price you pay whenever you make
a movie with a lot of visual effects, a lot
of studying cinematography. This movie is based in mythology, so
it just kind of has that Game of Thrones look.
And I'm gonna be honest, when I see a movie
trailer like that, it's really hard for me to get
into it. It's hard for me to be excited and
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put it on my list of movies I want to watch.
So that is not a movie that I would rush
to the theater to see. It's a movie that I
waited until later till I could watch it at home.
And that's just kind of the world we live in now.
I like that you can decide some movies weren't the
big screen. I feel a movie like this is more
a movie I want to watch at home and my
own pacing. But when you spend that much money on
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a movie like this, you're really writing on it to
do well at the box office. But if you don't
generate the interest, people aren't going to see it. So
anytime I see a movie based in mythology, a period
piece movie, I just know those movies are going to struggle,
even though they can be good movies too. At number
seven is the Bob's Burgers movie, which costs thirty eight
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million dollars to make and only made thirty four point
two million. That one hurts another movie that again, it's
not a bad movie. I just don't think a Bob's
Burgers movie was really going to rush people into the
movie theater. It's another movie I waited until it was
available for me to watch at home for free. But
I know it does have a dedicated fan base and
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people really love that show, But I didn't feel as
invested of needing to see that movie in theaters. I
think it's also just a movie that probably would have
been a more natural fit to go straight onto streaming,
probably would have done a little bit better without having
to pay all of that money to get it in theaters,
because it's a niche market. It's the Bob's Burgers fans,
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and you also have to get those fans into the theater.
And it also came out during the summer when a
lot of other big movies were happening. You had Top
Gun out in theaters, you had Jurassic Parks, so people
had to decide what to go watch. So maybe it
was like a counterprogramming thing, but as we see from
the numbers, didn't quite work out for them. At number
six was the movie Bros. Which costs twenty two million
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dollars to make and only made fourteen point seven million dollars.
And I actually really enjoyed Bros. A lot. I thought
it was funny, maybe one of the funniest romantic comedies
I've seen in the last five years. And I think
the problem here is romantic comedies are really hard to
get people in the theaters to watch if you don't
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have an A list actor to get them there. So
unless it's a movie like The Lost City where you
have Channing Tatum and Sandra Bullock, or Ticket to Paradise
when you have Julia Roberts and George Clooney. It's hard
to make people care and go watch a romantic comedy
in theaters. Netflix is having more success because they don't
have that overhead of getting it into a theater. I
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wish more people would have seen this movie because I
found it funny, but unfortunately, at the end of the day,
it the bomb. At number five is Serrao, which costs
thirty million dollars to make and only made six point
four million. That is rough. I think this is another
case of a period movie that nobody cared about. At
number four was Amsterdam, which we were talking about. The
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movie cost eighty million dollars to make and only made
thirty one million dollars. That is a major, major loss
for this movie with so many A list actors. And
I'm not entirely convinced that this movie wasn't made in
order to just be a tax write out for all
these actors, because I believe after I did some digging
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about this is if a movie like this does so poorly,
they can write it off as a loss in their income.
I just wondered, like, how can a movie like this
that is so bad at some point people just not
pull the plug on how does this movie actually come
out when it is so bad? At number three, This
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one surprising to me is light Ear from Disney. It
costs two hundred million dollars to make and only made
two d and twenty six million dollars, so didn't really
recoup a whole lot of that. I actually enjoyed light
Year because it felt like a fun sci fi movie
to me. But I think what most people were expecting
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was to see a continuation in the toy story world,
and that's not what this movie was. And then you
also had the y is Chris Evans the voice of
him and not Tim Allen, and people got angry for
no reason. I think Disney was just trying to do
something different in this origin story, but a lot of
those details really didn't make sense, and the movie got
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pretty harshly criticized within the first couple of weeks, leading
to people not wanting to go see it. And this
is a movie I saw getting criticized before it was
even out, so that's hard going into a release week
which it saw some pretty harsh numbers. It's opening weekend,
I think one of the worst for Disney in a
very long time, and I thought this movie was going
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to be a major hit, and even though I liked it,
I could kind of see that I don't think most
kids would like this movie. It felt more like a
movie geared towards the kids who have grown up since
the original Toy Story. It felt more like a Star
Wars sci fi movie than it did a toy story movie,
so you lose that charm of toy story and therefore
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creates some lack of interest. And again it also had
some hard competition in the summer with other movies out
like Jurassic World and Top Gun Maverick, which just dominated.
And at the end of the day, it was a
rough year for a lot of people. Had all this inflation. People,
you know, we had to be very particular on what
we wanted to go spend our money on at the
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movie theater, and for some people, as it shows, light
Year just wasn't it. At Number two was the disaster
film Moonfall, and you know, I love me a disaster movie.
So I did find some enjoyment in this, but it
was a flop over were all because it costs between
one thirty eight and forty six million and only made
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sixties seven point three million. Dollars for lions Gay. That
is pretty bad, and this movie looked expensive, and I thought,
for the most part, it was a pretty decent disaster film.
They're supposed to be cheesy, they're supposed to be ridiculous,
But this movie, I would say and agree that it
really fell off there in the third act, really fell
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off in the ending and didn't match the rest of
the movie. The movie is about a group of astronauts
and some conspiracy theorists who try to save Earth after
they realized the moon is hurling towards it. And you
even had some a listeners in this one. You had
Halle Berry, Michael Benja. But I think it was all
the harsh reviews they had early on and people who
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don't really get disaster movies that yes, the plot is
supposed to be unbelievable and ridiculous, but I think the
confusion is what turned people off more So. This was
a pretty big loss for lion Gate, losing them about
a hundred and forty million dollars, and at number one
is a movie still out in theaters right now, the
computer animated Disney movie called Strange World. It costs between
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a hundred and thirty and a hundred and eighty five
million dollars to make, and as I'm recording this podcast
has only made forty three million dollars worldwide, which is
a giant loss for Disney. What I think greatly led
to the flop of this movie was the marketing. I
didn't hear a whole lot about this movie, aside from
seeing the trailer back when I watched the movie during
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the summer and I was like, Yeah, that looks all right.
But after that I heard nothing about it aside from
a clip I saw on TikTok between Jake Jillen Hall
and Dennis Quaid where they forgot they were in a
movie together. They forgot they were in the Day After Tomorrow.
That was really the only marketing I saw from Strange World.
I also think that title is pretty forgettable. It almost
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feels like a working title, and the characters don't really
have any distinct qualities about them that made them memorable.
It just kind of felt like, here's another Disney movie
to come out. We'll put it out in November and
people will just go to see it around Thanksgiving, and
as we see, nobody really did. And I thought this
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was another interesting decision for Disney. I don't really understand
their logic into what goes into theaters and what goes
on to Disney Plus, but I think ultimately they made
the wrong move here because they're gonna end up losing
about a hundred and forty million dollars on this movie.
So that is it. What I think are the worst
movies of the year and what has been proven to
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be the biggest box office bombs of the year. If
you think another movie deserved to make the worst list,
let me know. Hit me up at Mike destro on Twitter,
Instagram and TikTok, or shoot me an email movie Mike
d at gmail dot com. Let's get into our movie
(23:58):
review now. I want to talk about spoiler alert. I
got the tickets for this movie. I walked up to
the guy who scans the tickets, and as he scans them,
he hands me a pack of tissues with the name
of the movie you written across from them. And I
felt like that was a bit ambitious. You go into
what is being dubbed as a sad movie and saying,
here are these tissues because you're gonna need them. That's
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a bold statement, and for me, it's very hard to
cry in a movie. It's very hard for me to
even cry in real life. I wish I had that
emotion that would just come out of me, but it
just doesn't. And sometimes people ask me, like, what's a
good movie to make you cry? I don't know. I'm
terrible to ask that. So you hand me a pack
of tissues saying this movie is going to make me cry.
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I'm gonna hold it to a little bit of a
higher standard. You're telling me that you've made that movie
that's gonna make me feel. Let's see about that. So
before I get into my full review, here is just
a little bit of the trailer from spoiler alert. What
is going on? Are you all right? Come down off
the ledge, Mike, I'm seeing Dr Tomorrow and Fat I'm
afraid the news isn't good Together, I was always afraid
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Kit would break my heart, and eventually he did. He
broke it open. So what this movie is about. It
is a love story. It is based on a real
life memoir by Michael Asilo, and he is a TV
writer and he is a founder of tv Line, which
I'm familiar with. If you've searched out some stories about
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TV shows, you probably read an article from TV Line,
and it's all about his relationship after finding the love
of his life, Kit. They spend fourteen years together and
then find out that Kit has cancer and then are
going through this journey together. So writing all of those
waves of emotions, and I always say, it's all about
the journey the characters go through. Even though you know
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the ending. The movie is called spoiler alert. It's setting
you up knowing what's going to happen to the hero
in this story at the end, but it's all about
what happens in between, and the emotion is that you
feel from that. So me knowing that in the back
of my head what is going to happen didn't really
take away from it. If anything, it made me enjoy
it more because inside, as you see their relationship develop,
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and as you see how their characters are depicted, you think, well,
maybe they change it up, maybe something else happens. So
that is kind of what you're hoping throughout the entire movie,
and it really does make you care about both of them.
And I think what really worked in this movie is
they did a really good job at depicting real life.
It just felt like that slice of life story that
I was looking for and oftentimes when you make a
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romantic comedy romantic drama, everything feels like a fairy tale.
You fall in love, everything is great, and then in
this case, something bad happens and then all these other
things follow after that. But in this movie, not everything
is great throughout the entire movie. It shows the ups
and downs that you would have in a fourteen year relationship,
and I just felt like that added another level. It
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gave these characters a little bit more depth that it
didn't feel like this superficial story. And I think it's
because it is based on a memoir. It is real life.
The entire story just felt more authentic. The movie is
directed by Michael show Walter, who also did a movie
that I really enjoyed called The Big Sick, and that's
probably what I would compare this movie to the most.
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But he's also done things like The Eyes of Tammy Faye.
He directed some episodes of The Dropout, which is weird
to see him doing all these big dramas because I
know him from his Comedy Center show from back in
the day. Michael and Michael have issues, so in my head,
he is like this comedic guy, but to see him
take on all of these other projects. I'm really gaining
a lot of respect from Michael show Walter, so this
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is another great step in his directing career. And then
you have Jim Parsons, who you mainly know as Sheldon
from The Big Bang Theory, which that show only ended
back in ten, so he's not that far removed from it.
And to have such a big iconic role under your
belt that everybody just knows you for. You see him,
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you think Sheldon. A lot of actors who are known
for one role, especially when it comes to TV, have
a really hard time shaking that. But I have to say,
while watching Spoiler Alert, I didn't think of him as Sheldon.
I felt like he easily just transcends that character, so
I didn't find that distracting at all. I wasn't waiting
on him to say bazinga or anything like that. Although
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his character is a little bit nerdy in this movie,
I feel like maybe that's just a little bit of
his personality. Aside from that, I didn't really associate him
with Sheldon at all. So I hope he gets the
opportunity to do more roles like this and doesn't really
get typecast or just memorized as being Sheldon. You also
have Sally Field in this movie. If you need an
actor to go through all the highs and lows of
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a drama like this, you get Sally Fields and she
just crushes this role. She is really perfect as the
mom in this movie. The other thing I really enjoyed
is because he is a TV writer. He writes about
TV shows, he interviews people. A lot of those TV
elements are put into this movie. So some of the
flashbacks from his childhood are him on a TV set.
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They depicted as like a family sitcom, and you learn
more about him throughout these flashbacks in these scenes. I
thought that was a really nice touch to bring it
all together. It was kind of combining my love of
movies and love for TV all into one movie. I
also love the hint of Christmas throughout this movie. Not
entirely a Christmas movie, but the holiday does play a
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part into this story. So if you're looking for something
that's a little bit holiday ish, but not a full
on Christmas movie. So the question is did this movie
make me cry? I say that I have a heart
made of stone, and even if I watched the saddest
thing ever, it's very hard for me to cry, because
it's hard to get that invested in it. But when
it came to spoiler alert, I got the closest I've
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ever been to crying in a movie, probably since Avengers
End Game, which also isn't that long ago, but that
movie was, you know, ten plus years in the making.
I was going to feel emotional in that. Maybe got
little bit misty eyed during No Way Home. But outside
of like all these characters that I know from like
superhero movies, this is really the only movie to do
it based on the story, not based on anything else
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that I came in with before. And there are some
scenes in this that really crush you. It's a very
what I feel like is the realistic depiction of somebody's
fight through cancer. And I'm fortunate enough that I haven't
had to face that with anyone in my family, but
I've seen people around me go through it and know
it's a very difficult thing to say the least. And
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there's one scene in this movie, particularly when the diagnosis
is revealed, and you don't even see the character react
on screen. It's just the sound that he makes after
that that really kind of gets you and makes it
feel more realistic. I found like this movie did that
a lot throughout. It was sometimes the silence or the
choice not to show certain things that were really powerful.
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So shout out to director Michael Showalter for that nice
little touch in that. So the movie did make me
pretty emotional, and I will say it had one of
my favorite uses of a song in a movie in
the last five years. I am a big fan of
sad music. When I looked at my top genre of two,
it was just sad, Like that's all I listened to.
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When I'm sitting here at this desk working on things,
I just listened to sad music. And one of my
favorite artists ever is Julian Baker, and she put out
an album back in called Sprained Ankle, and I remember
listening to this album over and over again and thought,
if I ever make a movie, I'm gonna put one
of these songs in the saddest scene of the movie.
And spoiler Alert did that. They used the title track
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Sprained Ankle in one of the saddest montages in this
movie and it worked perfectly. So the soundtrack just took
this movie on another level for me. And this was
also a movie I wasn't expecting to enjoy as much
as I did it. Honestly, it was a movie that
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my wife was more interested in watching. But I'm glad
I wanted to see it because I think the trailer
didn't really do it justice. It was all those little
details in between that make the story. Yes, it is
sad and emotional, but there's just so much more there
that I hope more people go and check out this movie.
So for spoiler alert, I give it four out of
five tissues. There were moments in this movie where the
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entire theater got quiet and I could just hear people sniffling.
So if you're in need of a good cry, check
out spoiler Alert. It's time to head down to movie
Mike Trail or Paul. Another Marvel trilogy is coming to
an end. Guardians of the Galaxy Volume three will be
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the final chapter in this saga, and this movie. I
feel like it's going to be the most emotional chapter yet.
So before I get into what I think about the
new Guardians of the Galaxy trailer, here is just a
little bit of the preview. We were gone for quite
a while, but no matter what happens next, the Galaxy
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still needs its Guardians. We have been running our whole lives, Pete,
I'm done running Willow fly Away together one last time.
I think the ultimate thing a Marvel movie can do
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is get you in the fields in the trailer. The
only other Marvel movie that has done that recently was
Wakonda Forever, and that movie, of course, is on an
entirely different level. But I think, like Black Panther, Guardians
of the Galaxy is in that same realm of it
feels entirely different from everything else in the m c
U and doesn't really get enough recognition when it comes
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to how emotional all these movies are. Because they are funny,
they have a great soundtrack, they have a really great
cat best, but the Guardians of the Galaxy movie also
take you on an emotional roller coaster learning about Peter
Quill and all the things he's gone through. I felt
like they've really developed his character throughout all of the movies,
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and in this movie it looks like we're going to
get more backstory from some of the characters, including Rocket Raccoon,
who is one of the best Marvel characters, and he's
so witty and raw and honest. In all the movies,
and kind of the jerk. But there are just some
moments where you get a little bit of Rocket Raccoon
and you think, oh man, he is this more in
depth character, and I feel like we're gonna get some
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good backstory on him here. And even in this trailer
you see little baby Rocket Raccoon, kind of like we
saw a baby group, and you know from watching The Mandalorian,
whenever you have a baby something, it's going to be good.
So all of the original cast is back. You have
James Gunn back directing this movie. He directed the other
two movies. He's also done movies like The Suicide Squad.
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He did Peacemaker on HBO Max, so he is involved
in the Marvel side and the d C side. I
think having him behind this movie was very important and
kind of what Ryan Coogler is doing with Black Panther,
I feel like he is doing with Guardians of the Galaxy.
He is making it his own and he puts a
lot of himself into these movies, and that is why
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I think they are so successful and so distinct. And
in this movie, it looks like they go to this
whole new planet. They are on this new spaceship that
looks pretty dope. It's called the Bowie and on this
planet they find these animal hybrids, so they look like humans,
but they also look like animals. So I feel like
they're going on this journey kind of going back to
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some of their roots. Maybe this is where Rocket Raccoon
came from. He's going to see some people he used
to know and hit you on that emotional level. And
it's that line in the trailer that makes me think
somebody is going to die in this movie, if not
more than one person, but when they say we'll all
fly away together one last time into the forever and
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beautiful sky. So if I had to speculate what character,
I think it's going to die, probably Drags. I think
the Instagram post that Batista did after they wrapped filming
on this movie, it felt very final for him. And
I know it was already stated that this was going
to be the last Guardians of the Galaxy movie in
this franchise, but I felt like he was saying goodbye
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to that character. Because they didn't say that the characters
wouldn't go on to be in the m c U
and some other capacity, maybe star Lord Rocket Raccoon and
go into the thor movies or maybe even the Avengers
movies down the line. But I felt like his post
was really saying goodbye to this character the last time
he will ever play Drags, So that could mean that
his character dies in this movie. But from the level
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of emotion in this seeing the villains in this trailer,
I feel like even more people could die. And if
it feels like that really big ending of them doing
something big and triumphant, I feel like you go out
on that note of saying goodbye to more characters. This
franchise has said goodbye in the past is some characters
and led to some pretty emotional moments, So I think
oddly this franchise started out to be the comic relief
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and the fun anything Goes franchise in the m c U,
but I think it's had some of the more emotional
moments out of any of the movies, and a lot
of moments that are just memorable. When all the other
m c U movies kind of get little confusing on
what happened in what movie, these movies continue to feel
very distinct, So I credit James Gunn to that in
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the trailer, we just get little glimpses of the villains.
You have Adam Warlock and the High Evolutionary. You see
them on this kind of weird, fleshy looking monster with
hair growing out of it, So it looks like it
goes into a pretty weird direction as far as the
villains and whatever they're trying to defeat in this But
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you also have some really bright fun colors, which I
also always loaded about the Guardians of the Galaxy movies.
They have this very neon cosmic color palette that plays
very well into all the eighties music in the soundtrack,
So it looks like we'll get more of that in
this movie. And Guarding into the Galaxy. Volume three hits
theaters May five. Will it make us cry? Yeah? Probably
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was this week's edition of Movie bar and that's gonna
do it for another episode here on the podcast. But
before I go, I gotta give my listeners shout out
of the week this week. I went over to Facebook
and a comment that just made my day. The shout
out this week goes to Susan Crawford who commented on
video I posted from the last episode and said, this
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was a great episode. Mike excited to see the new
movie and that is in reference to the review I
did on The Fable Means and the more and more
I thought about that movie, the more and more I
realized how much I really enjoyed it. So if you
haven't seen The Fable Woman's yet, I highly recommend it.
And if you missed that review, you can watch the
entire thing on my YouTube channel YouTube dot com slash
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Mike Distro, or you can check out that clip on
Facebook and TikTok slash mikey de Stro. Next week, I'm
gonna try to get into the spirit and do an
episode on Christmas movies. If there are any specific Christmas
movies you want me to cover or topics inside of
Christmas movies, let me know movie Mike d at gmail
dot com and I we'll talk to you next week.
And until then, go out and watch good movies. Later
Host
Mike D
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