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March 29, 2021 37 mins

Mike asked the question online “Who is your favorite movie duo of all-time?” He gives his top 5 and the Top 5 from listeners. Mike talks to the stars of “A Week Away” on Netflix - Bailee Madison and Kevin Quinn about what it’s like to make a musical, how it made it to Netflix and about what it’s like to have over a million followers online. Plus a spoiler-free review of Mank.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome back to Movie Mix Movie Podcast. I'm
your host Movie Mike. That's me a k a. Mike
D from The Bobby Bones Show, a k a. The
guy who didn't have a whole lot of friends in
high school. Yes, that is me. But this is your
go to source for all things movies, spoiler free, movie reviews,
interviews with actors, directors, and today talking about the greatest

(00:20):
movie duos of all time. I'll also talk to Bailey
Madison and Kevin Quinn from the new movie on Netflix
called A week Away. 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. A man with so

(00:41):
much movie knowledge. He's basically like a walking Audi MTV
with glasses from the Nashville Podcast Networks Movie mis Movie Podcast.
So the question is who is the greatest movie duo
of all time? I put the question out on all
my socials, was going through all the responses and was

(01:02):
really surprised in the diversity of the list. Now, when
I kind of set my top five, I had to
consider a couple of things like who are a pair
of actors that they worked so well together, and maybe
otherwise if they're not a duo, maybe not as good
as a duo on screen, they just are better together.
So that's what I put into my list. And then

(01:23):
I'll also get to what you guys voted as your
top five duos of all time. But I'll start first
with my number five. And I'll start first with my
number five. It is Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, who
I just thought were two of the funniest comedians and
together it just worked. Now they have a very kind
of dynamic relationship personally, like I really think they didn't

(01:45):
talk a whole lot outside of doing movies together, but
on screen they had such great chemistry. And I remember
the first time I saw here No Evil, See No Evil.
This is one of the funniest things ever. Because Richard
Pryor is maybe a little bit before my time, but
U watching his stand up when I was younger, I
was like, this is the funniest thing I've ever seen,
and I feel like he's such a funny comedian. But

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it also transferred into his movies and his roles, and
when he was paired with Gene Wilder, who I feel
kind of bad that he's mainly just known as Willy
Wonka when he's such a great actor, whether he's doing
anything dramatic or in comedy, Like he's a really funny guy,
and he's kind of pegged down as just being Willy Wonka.
But when I saw this movie, I'll admit I was
in that same kind of camp of like, oh, it's uh,

(02:31):
Willy Wonka being funny now, But he's so much more
than that. And they have both since passed, but if
you go back and watch this movie, it still makes
me laugh. And not only that, they did Stir Crazy Together,
which is another great movie with her together, and I
just think them as a duo. I just think they
don't get enough credit as they deserve. So I had
to put them at number five. Blind. Yes I'm really blind, man?

(02:53):
What do you find? Yes? I'm deaf. Yes, I'm deaf.
You really deaf? I'm really deaf? How do you know
what I'm saying because I'm reading your lips? Do you
want a job or don't you? At number four I
had to put an animated duo, And this is a

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duel that I think they only work together, like if
you take one of these characters and put them in
their own movie, wouldn't work. If we took the other
one and try to make it their solo movie, it
wouldn't work. They're a great team, and it is to
Moan and Pumba from The Lion King. I think without
to Moan and Pumba, the Lion King doesn't work because
on the surface of The Lion King, it's kind of
a sad, depressing movie when you think about it, of

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all the bad things that happened in the movie, Simba
basically going out to wither away and die and they
rescue him, and to Moan and Pumba provide the comic
relief for the Lion King. Without them, I don't think
that movie would have worked. I did think it was
interesting whenever they did Lion King one and a half
and told the story from their perspective. I actually thought
that was pretty funny. And I know that was just

(03:57):
a straight to VHS at the time release, and I
hated kind of when Disney does that, when they take
a good, you know, a good concept and only make
it a VHS or straight to DVD release. Oh Man,
back in the day, it was a straight to DVD.
I remember going to I would go to Trader's Village
in Dallas, Texas, actually in Grand Prairie, and I would
go look at all the new Disney vhs is that

(04:20):
would come out at the time, and I would try
to find them like already used. And I think that's
where I got Lion King one and a half. But
that was the only way you could watch these movies.
They didn't come out in theaters a lot of the times.
Disney would just put out sequels straight to home movie.
And again, I've been rallying for this for Disney to
now that they have Disney Plus in a streaming service

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where these movies can go, they should go as these
titles like luckily Disney did put Lion King one and
a half on Disney Plus, so you can go watch
it there if you need your toman and pumba fix toman. Ever,
wonder what those sparkly dots are up there. They're fireflies.

(05:00):
Fire flies that got stuck up on that big, bluish
flat thing. I always thought they were balls of gas
burning billions of miles away. Would you ever? At number three,
I'm doing two actors who are great in their own right.
They do their own great solo movies, are both great

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leading actors, but together there's just something special, and it
is Seth Rogan and James Franco. The first time they
appeared together was actually way back in the day on
a TV show Freaks and Geeks, which is another really
great show if you haven't seen that. They're basically teenagers
on that TV show, still funny, and have since done
some movies together, which I think are probably their best

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in my opinion, because there's just something about them together
that I think they make the other person step up
their game a little bit more. Because James Franco himself,
I don't think he's really known as being a straight
up comedic actor, but when you pair him with Seth Rogan,
I think that side of him comes out a lot
more and you're able to get the wittykind of ridiculous
side of James Sprinkle, which is really amplified in Pineapple Express,

(06:04):
which is one of my favorite movies. But they've also
done This Is The End, the Interview, and The Disaster
Artist together, so I think they also have just a
long line of work in movies together, which makes a
really great duo. I wish they would have made a
sequel to Pineapple Express. They're both really great friends, so
I think whenever you have that kind of bonding relationship

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outside of working together, it really just comes across on
screen being a lot better and more authentic. So in
honor of some great friends together, I'm putting them at
number three. They say, like, don't dip depend and Company, Inc.
I'm totally glad I dipped in your ink, bro. Yeah.
At number two is what I would say is the
most iconic animated duo of all time. We first saw

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them in Toy Story and it is none other than
Woody and Buzz Lightyear, voiced by Tom Hanks and Tim Allen,
which the more I think about it, it's crazy they
were able to get Tom Hanks and Tim Allen to
bo do this movie, both big stars in their own right,
and the first one just took so much time to
make because they were recording it a little bit at

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a time they didn't really have the technology downs, so
there's really old footage of like a young Tom Hanks
voicing Woody, and I also think that on screen, it's
just such a novel duo of a cowboy and a
fictional space ranger based on another character. And the other
great thing about them is throughout all of the four
movies you really see their friendship grow from when they

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first originally didn't get along to them kind of battling
all the other elements of friendship together. That there's a
strong kind of character development in Toy Story that you
don't really give them credit for. They're also just super
easily recognizable and have stood the test of time. They
were popular when I was a kid, and they're still
popular now. I hope they're still popular when I decided

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to have kids so I can get my kids some
Toy Story toys. So I had to put them at
number two, and also got a lot of messages from
you guys as well voting for Woody and Buzz. So
that's an easy one in the number two slot. Toy
you weren't the real Buzz like you're You're You're an
accent figure, you are a child play thing. You are

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a sad, strange little man. And before I get to
number one, I have a couple of honorable mentions and
then we'll get to what you guys voted as the
top five. But I almost put Ryan Gosling and them
a Stone together they've done like three movies together. I
just feel like they have a lot of on screen
chemistry and I feel like if you put them both
in a movie, I can go into it with confidence

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knowing that it's probably gonna be good and I'm going
to enjoy it like I didn't expect to, like La
La Land and I did. Also honorable mentioned Bradley Cooper
and Jennifer Lawrence, who have also done a few movies together.
And again, I think they also have like you almost
believe that they are together and in a relationship when
they are in Silver Lightnings Playbook. They're both Oscar worthy

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actors in any performance that they do, I think, and
I feel like in the last ten years, probably probably
the most believable on screen couple. Yes, even more so
than Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga. So I had to
give them an honorable mention. But at number one, I'm
putting a movie duo that I think together we're fantastic,
and apart, maybe not up to the same standard. A

(09:18):
movie duo that is no longer together because sadly one
of them has passed away, and it is Chris Farley
and David Spade. Whether it be Tommy Boy or Black Sheep.
There were just something so special about these two when
they did movies together, and it's because Chris Farley is
just so physical with this comedy. He gives everything into
every single performance, whether it was on SNL or it

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was in Beverly Hills Ninja. And then you pair him
with David Spade, who is basically the opposite of Chris Farley.
He doesn't do any physical comedy, but he's just kind
of this witty, neurotic kind of pokes fun and jabs
at Chris Farley. And it just worked so well together
in these two movies specifically that I think they were
two actors that people just loved together. And it's just

(10:01):
the saddest thing that Chris Farley passed away. I feel like,
really before he broke out into the mainstream, because you know,
he was actually supposed to be Shrek. He was already
voicing him, and they were actually writing and designing Shrek
to look like Chris Farley, but he passed away before
that movie was ever fully produced, so they shifted to

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Mike Myers. And I think if that would have been
the case if he was still alive, that movie came out.
It would have really skyrocket his career even more than
it already was. And I think he's left behind a
legacy in comedy and one that just really gets highlighted
when he's paired in these movies with David Spade, a
duo that I think just hasn't been recreated over the years.
You really can't touch it. So I put them at

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number one, no questions asked. That's who I would go
with there, don't do it, that guy a little Code,
that guy a little Code, that guy in a little
fat guy, and lettle Go Richard, what's the hell now?

(11:12):
I put this question up on Twitter, Facebook, and my Instagram.
It's all at Mike Destro if you don't follow me there.
I counted up all the numbers and this is what
you guys voted as a top five movie duos of
all time. At number five is Stelma and Louise played
by Susan Sarandon and Gina Davis, which I would agree
is a legendary duo, a movie that I feel like

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it's a reference in our lives for any two best
friends together who would do anything for each other. So
that's an easy number five. Glad you guys voted for
that one. At number four with the next most votes
is Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan and Rush Hour, which
I agree with this one because they did do several
movies together in the Rush Hour franchise, and I think
when you do take two people who are so different

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and put them together, you make them do action, you
make them do comedy, and ends up really working like this,
I feel like that's a great one. In number four.
At number three in the votes is Wayne's World with
Wayne and Gars played by Mike Myers and Dana Carvey,
which I thought about putting in my list, but I
just don't think I'm that big of the Wayne's World
fan as most people are. Like I like the first one.
I think it's funny, the second one it's all right.

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I think as far as the SNL spinoff movies, it's
probably the best, So I give them credit. There is
just not one of my favorites. Has never really been,
but I'll give that to you guys. At number three
at number two with the next most votes is Goose
and Maverick played by Anthony Edwards and Tom Cruise and
Top Gun. Again. I know I'm not the biggest Tom
Cruise fan, but I feel like the one movie I

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do kind of pull for him for isn't Top Gun.
And the crazy thing about the sequel that's supposed to
come out later this year if it doesn't get delayed anymore,
is that Tom Cruise is in it back as Maverick,
but Miles Teller is actually playing the role of Goose's son,
So no Goose in the next one, but it is
Miles Teller playing the Sun, so which is kind of

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moving on. The franchise's still keeping Tom Cruise around because
of course he'll keep himself in a movie. And at
number one with the most votes online was Michael J.
Fox and Christopher Lloyd playing Marty McFly and Doc and
Back to the Future, which makes me think of a
TikTok I saw the other day and somebody asked a question,
if you knew somebody had never seen a movie in
their entire life, what movie would you recommend? And the

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video that had the most views in response to that question,
it was actually Back to the Future because it has
a mix of comedy, it has a mix of sci fi,
and it has a mix of adventure. And I actually
think this is like one of the greatest movies that
has it all. I agree with that. I think it's
Michael J. Fox's best role and without a doubt, Christopher
Lloyd's best role. Put them together, and I would easily

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also put this in a top slot. So this is
also what I considered on my list, but with so
many votes, I felt like it was hands down what
you guys were saying online. So that is your number
one movie duo. Some honorable mentions which were also highly
voted on, where Ron Weasley and Harry Potter, romy and
Michelle Bill and Ted Milo and Otis which I saw

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a good amount of people. They were almost at number
five for Milo. I notice Lelo Win stitched the Blues
Brothers and then Star Wars was kind of split on
who the best duo was there, so I think that
hurts Star Wars a little bit in the votes, but
the one that had the most was of course, Han
Solo and Chewbacca. And speaking of movie duos, I'm actually
gonna be talking to both Kevin Quinn and Bailey Madison.

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They're in a brand new Netflix movie called A week Away.
I'll talk to them after this. I got to get
into a conversation with Bailey Madison and Kevin Quinn. They
are the stars of the brand new musical on Netflix
called A week Away. They also have a huge following
on Instagram, which I have to ask them about. Like

(14:43):
I'm talking over a million followers for Kevin Quinn and
Bailey Madison has over two millions, So I really just
want to know, like do they have notifications on on
their phone? Like I feel like we all have Instagram
on our phone and we get kind of excited every
time we get a notification. But to have that many,
I think you had to turn a mom It would
drive you crazy. So we'll talk about the movie, the
kind of process that goes into making a musical, how

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a movie ends up on Netflix. But before we get
to that, here's just a little bit of the trailer
of A week Away? What's with the name a Weway?
A week away? Every once in a while, somebody's just
a week away from an experience that changed everything for themselves.
Nice to meet you. What's her story? Way out of

(15:27):
trust me? Or that owns the place? And I'm gonna
fit in here? I have to be something I'm not. Well,
this will be fine. Good luck will You're gonna need it?
How are you all doing. Yeah, great to talk to
you guys. I'm on with Bailey Madison and Kevin Quinn

(15:47):
from the new Netflix movie A Week Away. And I
was so excited to watch this movie, and when it
opened up, I didn't realize that you actually filmed the
movie in Nashville, which is where I am right now,
and you'll filmed it back in You'll get to do
anything fun while you were here. I'm in Nashville all
the time. I've probably been maybe twenty five times within
the past four years. I originally started going there to

(16:10):
write music and then ironically shot A week Away there,
and I still go back there to write music. But
whenever I'm in town, I go to like Daddy's Dogs
in the Nations. That's one of my favorite lunch spot.
I'm in the gold I've recently scored Franklin a little
bit more like Franklin and Brentwood. Uh and East for sure.
Spent a lot of time in East. I didn't have

(16:34):
a lot of time off, but I was guarante we
were guaranteed Labor Day weekend, and so on Labor Day weekend,
I texted my friend Katie Stevens, who lived in Nashville
and her husband, and I was like, tell me where
to go quick? These are these are big two days.
I can guarantee that I can see a bit of Nashville,
Like what would you recommend? And I don't know if
you ever heard of Tip a Canoe. It's like thirty

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minutes forty minutes away from like downtown Nashville. And so
I went a public which is great because I grew
up with publics in Florida. And I got like, you know,
sandwich makings and went to Tip a Canale and got
it like a guy whever and and I sent you know,
four hours and and brought like a speaker and listened

(17:15):
to you know, Tennessee Whiskey and Chris Stapleson and made
friends on another canoe and we all like pulled aside
and plam for a minute, and like it was. It
was like a beautiful, beautiful experience. But I adore Nashville
and uh and would would genuinely moved there in a heartbeat.
I love it there. Well, that's awesome. I'm glad you
guys like it here. So I want to talk about

(17:35):
the movie and how you go and just go get
prepared for this movie I know, Kevin, you perform, you
do music. Like, when it comes to doing a musical
versus a normal role, how do you approach that it's
really acting the song? In my opinion, I mean, of course,
you have to treat it like any other film role
where you do the scene, where you find the certain

(17:56):
layers of the character. Um. And I never thought that
those musical moments for any different. You know, I still
try to find layers, even if it just means he's
having a blast. Uh. I just I just wanted there
to be an arc and there to always be something
interesting going on with that character. And I definitely feel
like those musical moments are are great moments that that
showcase that. And do you have to do you go

(18:18):
in and record all this music at once and then
it's just playing back when you're filmmaker. How does that work? No,
I just say, um. So, we start with these demos
of songs, and then we record our own voices on
the demo, and we pretty much record the entire soundtrack
within the course of three or four weeks during rehearsal.
So on top of that, we're doing these choreography lessons

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to the demos and the new recordings as they come in,
and then eventually we get on set and we shoot
a closer Max. It's not quite mastered yet, but we
just sing out loud to it u of the sound
department speaker. It's very it's very arduous process. And while
you're filming the movie, do you have to get it
like completely on one take on for it? Because I

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think you're I feel like your lips sticking to the
song trying to get that right. Is it like a
one take thing and you keep singing the song over
and over and over again? Uh? Yeah, I mean it depends.
It depends on the setups. Sometimes we would we would
give a specific time stamp to the song because we
knew that we only really had to get like a
point of view shot of you know, Kevin's cares you're
looking avery at that specific window. So um oftentimes definitely

(19:24):
for the for the wide lend there, like the crane
shots you were you were dancing with the whole song,
and then uh, if we had to go in and
just pick up certain movements, certain shots, you would say
like play it at a minute and forty two seconds,
you get about a four second leeway and they count
you in and then I would have to know how
to pick up where that is, which actually is sometimes
harder because for me in the beginning, I was like

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memorizing it from start to finish, not really like, oh,
you know, it's not move but at the eighty second marker, yeah,
it's that move with the test looking mark because like
it's a big it's a big mind game you have
to play. But yeah, it just just depended on the shot. So, Bailey,
you co produced this movie. What goes into producing a
movie like this? Uh, well, you know, I was. I

(20:05):
was late to the party when I when I signed
on as a co producer. So our team, you know,
Alan and Steve and and gave room and the whole
the whole crew. Um. Once I signed on to play
Avery I had produced in the past, and um, and
so I think it just it would genuinely, it just
was a really authentic conversation and I felt like I

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genuinely care about this movie so much, and I cared
about it so much back then that I couldn't help
but but have that kind of behind the scenes part
of my head that I wanted to be a part
of it as a whole. So uh, once once that
was be okay, it was It was everything from you know,
once we were done with music or dance rehearsals, I
was you know, on the calls with the team talking
about the scenes or reworking scenes or um, you know,

(20:48):
when you're in the middle of a take, running over
back to video village to ask the question or to
give a note. Um. But it was all so pavilion
and just to learn experience, and I'm so grateful that,
you know, they gave me a steed at the people,
and I think helped me find so much of my
voice that was inside of me that didn't never existed.
But the real fun has honestly been that the after
fact of it all, um, finding our home was Netflix

(21:10):
getting to you know, collaborate and work with them. So
everything from you know, the trailer cuts to poster, to
color correction and and beyond. So I've been like a sponge,
just trying to embrace and learn and choke it in
as much as I can. So you said the movie
was kind of finding its way to Netflix, Was it not?
Was it supposed to be like an original like theatrical
release or when did Netflix kind of become attached to it?

(21:33):
It was independent from what I understand, and maybe Bailey
you know more about this, but it was independent when
I got the audition, and uh, I don't think it
was until we had a rough cut, so not even
like a final cut, but at least a little bit
put together that Netflix even became interested. It was either
that or they had read the script and expressed interests
before we shot it. I'm not sure how it went down,

(21:55):
but I know somewhere along the way from pre production
to completion, Netflix came on board. It was one of
those things where I think Netflix was kind of always
in the back of our heads a dream. It felt
like such a such a great place for it to sit.
And I think, you know, now with the pandemic, none
of us could have none of us could have imagined
a better home for it. But but yeah, I mean

(22:16):
it was you know, it's a reel and walking into
Netflix showing the movie you want to come with the
camp um and so those those meetings, in those waitings
games we're crazy, but UH could not be more overjoyed
that that they're allowing our our musical on their platform
to enter the homes of families, to hopefully get to

(22:37):
touch their hearts, and that is an interesting thing the
way movies have really changed in the past year. We've
gone from being able to watch things in our living
rooms now as opposed to having to go out to
the theater to go see a new movie. As actors,
is that more exciting to you to know that later
down the line, people will be able to watch it
and experience a movie or whatever however you put your

(22:57):
work out there, that they can watch it at home.
With this particular film, absolutely, I think Netflix would be
any kind of theatrical distribution any day. And I just
think it's because this particular film is so consumable and
it feels so commercial in the way it is and
the way it's shot, uh that I feel like kids

(23:19):
are gonna want to watch it as many times as
they can. And I love the idea of them being
able to sit down on a couch and hit play
whenever they want, as opposed to you having, you know,
parents drive them to the local movie theater to pay
eight dollars for a ticket every time they want to
see it. It's just a way better scenario. I have
one final question for you, guys. Um you both have
over a million followers on Instagram. I wonder do you

(23:41):
even have notifications on your phone when you get like
a like or a comment or is that just not existed?
I mean I I posted on Instagram and get off
like very rarely will I comments or you'll see me
like a few things here and there. I deleted my Twitter. Actually,
I just I can't like put every thought that goes
in my head onto a characters. Yeah, I don't know,

(24:05):
I know, I know. I mean, look, social media is,
it's just it's a blessing. It can also be a
really tricky way to navigate. Um, I you know, grateful
to to connect to the keeps on there. And also
I think, especially while we're all cooped up, there's been
so much change happening in our world in the last year,
so the ampleside those voices is always really fun. Um.
But I have my notifications on for for my friends

(24:28):
and family, so I know my mom will likes my
pictures and then I I always I always try and
go through and say hi whenever I can. But but
not that, not that, not all the notification, imagine, not
than that. Yeah, she called me to night. She was like,
I've been on Kevin's profile. It's deep posting I'm mixing
some of his photos. I need to like them. It's
like he has opposed so well. I appreciate the time. Everybody,

(24:54):
go check out A Week Away on Netflix. Just click
it right there, it's right in the living room. Thanks
so much, Like, all right, you have a Let's get
into another Best Picture movie review today. We're talking about Mink,
which is available on Netflix. It's basically the story of
an alcoholic screenwriter who's trying to finish the screenplay of

(25:16):
Citizen Kane, played by Gary Oldman, who I feel is
a very diverse actor. Although this is a movie I
really wasn't that excited to watch, but once he got
the nomination, I was like, all right, I gotta check
it out. But before we get into this review, here's
just a little bit of the trailers. This is a
business where the viab gets nothing for his money but
a memory. What he brought still belongs to the man

(25:38):
who sold it. That's the real magic of the movies
black block all in one film. That's director program Why
I always I thought this movie had all the elements
of what I was going to love in a movie.
It takes place in the nineteen thirties, that's been black

(25:59):
and white, and it's about Gary Oldman's character, who is
a drunk screen writer and he's trying to finish the
screenplay of Citizen Kane. And it's amazing to me how
diverse Gary Oldman is of an actor. He's done everything
from The Dark Knight to this movie too Harry Potter movies.
He can do acting roles that nobody else really can,

(26:21):
and he has such a range, is what I find
about Gary Oldman, and I think he gets little credit
when it comes to that. Just looking at his acting credits,
I don't think there's a role that he can't take on,
especially when it comes to make when he's playing a
character that's half his age, it's a hard thing to do.
And across the board, I felt this movie had a
stacked cast and all these things combined, I felt had

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the perfect things for making a movie. I love movies
sometimes about thanking movies and stories about the creations of
old classics, and this movie it kind of sucked me in.
With a cinematography. It's shot in black and white, so
I think it gives it a different dynamic than anything
I've ever seen. And I feel like this is just
the super artsy choice that the Oscars always make. I

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feel like there's always one Mobe black and white movie
or a movie that just has high praise around it
for the reason it gets nominated, and it's not like
it's a bad movie. There's just nothing engaging about it.
I didn't really care about the characters, even though they
were great actors. I just didn't really care what the
situation was going on with the ballot of him with

(27:25):
the big wigs that the movie companies, and then him
and his personal life with his wife. There was just
nothing that I really thought myself wanting to come back
and watch this movie. And I actually watched this movie
in two parts. It's over two hours long, and I
sat there for an hour and I was like, nothing
has really happened, Like where is the greatness that people
are talking about this movie? So there was nothing that
really made me want to come back and finish it

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other than I had to see if it got any better,
and for me, I don't really think that it did.
I mean, Gary Oldman was great, even Amanda Sifred was great,
but there's no real part of me that would go
recommend this movie. And when it gets put up there
with all the other Best Picture nominees, this is at
the bottom of the list. For me, I feel like
it comes in dead last and out of all the

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Best Picture nominees when you put this one up on
the board, it has the lowest scores all around, from
audience scores and from movie critics. So what I think
is this is a very niche movie, and it's a
movie that the people who vote on the Oscars are
going to love. They're going to love the performances, They're
going to love the cinematography and the direction in this movie.

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But I think for the average person like you and I,
we're gonna watch this movie and not really get it.
And I feel like I have a pretty good range
in what I like. I like anything from an Arts
year movie that has a little bit more purpose to
the big blockbuster superhero movie. So it wasn't really that
for me. But the fact that it earned ten Oscar nominations,

(28:50):
I really think it's a little bit of Hollywood self absorption,
Like it reminded me a little bit how many nominations
La La, La and God, which I did like that movie,
but it was also playing direct to the people who
vote for the Oscar so I think that's why I
got so many nominations. Honestly, if I had to rate it,
I would give it two out of five Old Roles
of Film Time. Now for some movie news. The biggest

(29:13):
thing that came out last week was that Disney announced
a Black Widow will come out in theaters and on
Disney Plus on the same day. It's been pushed back
to July nine. I've been waiting to watch this movie
for a year now, so I'm just excited that it's
finally coming out. It doesn't look like they'll push you
back anymore. Here's the thing, though, Disney is still trying
out this premier access option where they're offering it at

(29:37):
home if you have Disney Plus and it's thirty bucks. Now,
the biggest argument here is would you pay thirty bucks
to watch a movie at home? And I feel like
I would, but I will admit for the first time,
I'm really kind of getting burnt out with the at
home experience. I want to go to the movie theater again,
especially to experience a movie like Black Widow, one that

(29:57):
I think needs to be seen on a really a
big screen, have the really big sound experience with some
other people in the room, because I think a movie
like this just kind of warrants that kind of experience,
So it's not so much the thirty bucks alone. I
think where I kind of have an issue is that
Disney already charges the subscription fee you pay, which is
like over seven bucks to have Disney Plus every single month,

(30:20):
So you're paying thirty bucks on top of what you're
already paying. I think that's why people are a little
bit upset. They're like, hey, HBO Max offers viewers the
chance to watch these brand new movies at home at
no extra cost. The kind of playoff there is that
HBO Max is the most expensive streaming services, so really
they're trying to make their money back in some type

(30:41):
of way, So that part I get. I think for
families it's great. If you have kids, it's probably gonna
cost you a lot more than the thirty seven bucks,
including that subscription fee to take your family out if
you're just watching the movie alone for the sake of
watching the movie. Now, for me, unless it's a movie
I'm gonna watch with Kelsey, we're gonna watch it together,
we're essentially paying fifteen bucks a ticket. Not terrible. Kind

(31:04):
of the convenience be of watching it at home. But
for movies that I'm only going to watch by myself
for the stake of watching for myself to review on
the podcast, that's thirty bucks. So I just don't think
we need to normalize the ability to have Disney charge
us another thirty bucks on top of a subscription fee.
I think they breaking down to twenty. I think I
would be a lot more prone, did not have an

(31:25):
issue with it at all if it was a little
bit less. I think twenty bucks is fair there. But anyway,
they've pushed back some other movies. I don't really want
to say all the dates because I feel like they
changed so many times, but Cruella still may and they
pushed back the other Marvel movie, Shanghai to September three.
Hopefully those all stay the same. Also in movie news,
they released a couple of trailers that I'm excited about.

(31:47):
They did release the Suicide Squad trailer, and I think
it actually has some potential. There's so many actors in
this movie that I feel like they kind of pulled
out all the stops to kind of give people a
second chance at this Suicide Squad. They have James Gunn
directing it. The trailer looks promising, but if you miss
that trailer, here's just a little bit of that true.

(32:08):
What are you guys doing? What you here to say?
You're going to save me? It's a really good plan too. Well,
I can go back inside and you can still do it.
That's patron ledge and I'm so sorry, Harley Quinn. I
hadn't mind the First Suicide Squad. I think it had
a lot more awful reviews than I think it actually was.

(32:29):
They just don't live up to expectations like Marvel does
when it comes to d C. And last week when
I was talking about the Snyder cut of Justice League,
had a lot of people reach out to me and say, hey,
you need to give it a chance, like it's actually
pretty good. So I still feel like people are pretty
split on whether it's good or whether it's not. I
just don't think if you take a movie that was

(32:50):
okay and make it longer, it makes it better. But
I will watch it eventually, you guys convinced me, so
still on my list. Another trailer that came out that
I'm I would say interested to watch, but I feel
like I've already seen it before. It's a movie called
The Stowaway, which is gonna be on Netflix on April
twenty two. It starts Anna Kendrick and it's about a

(33:11):
crew of astronauts who find a stowaway and it's after
they've launched off the Earth's surface. They discover this person
as they are headed to Mars on a two years mission,
and apparently the stowaway has caused them damage to the
ship that cannot be repaired. We only have enough oxygen
board for three people. Everyone on board will suffocate before

(33:32):
we ever make it to Mars for the first time.
I'm also getting a little bit burnt out on space movies.
I love a good space movie. I loved Gravity, I
love dad Astra. I think it's subtly one of my
favorite genres just because I have such a fascination with space,
the potential of aliens. I just think it's one of
the funner things to see on screen. But when I
heard about this movie, it just reminded me exactly of

(33:55):
the Netflix series Away, and it kind of reminds me
of every kind of space movie or series that's come
out since. So I'm gonna predict what this movie is
going to be about. Again, I've only seen the trailer,
but I have a feeling they're going to kind of
play to a formula that other space movies that play too.
So here's what happens. There's some big dramatic intro where
they're kind of figuring out should they go to space

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or not. Somebody wants to pack out, and Kendricks like,
we're going to go to space. They go to space,
they find the stowaway, They learn about the damage the
stowaway has cost to the ship, and then realize one
of them has to go outside of the ship and
try to repair the thing. So they go out. It
almost works, but then something goes wrong and this person
either gets injured or they die at this point, and

(34:38):
then they're all really thinking they're gonna die that they're
not able to fix the ship. They find out some
crazy detail about this stowaway and why they got there,
and then in the midst of the darkest moment of
the movie, they figure out a new plan. They put
it into action, it works, they land safely, and cut
to black. I think that's when that movie is going
to be. I feel like it's on the ver age

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of being an overdone movie genre, but probably not going
to stop me from watching it. And then finally in
movie news, a website is offering a thousand dollars to
binge watch all twenty four James Bond movies before the
release of No Time to Die, the twenty five film,
and the franchise, which comes out on septem And I

(35:20):
would say that a thousand dollars is not enough money
to watch all twenty four James Bond films, but the
winner does get a thousand bucks plus a hundred dollar
Amazon gift card to rent all the movies, and then
a fifty dollar a MC gift card to go see
the new movie when it releases, and you have until
April sixt to apply to that. The only thing I
would do this for is watching all the Marvel movies
leading up to the release, because I kind of do

(35:42):
that on my own anyway. I like to go back
and rewatch some of the movies to kind of know
what's probably going to pop up and kind of get
refreshed with the characters. But I don't feel like you
need to watch all these James Bond movies to know
what's going to happen in the new ones. So a
thousand bucks don't really think it's worth it there, but
if you're a fan of James Bond, you can go
to nerd bear dot com to get signed up for

(36:03):
that and that will do it for movie News. Before
I get out of here, I got to give my
shout out of the week, which I do every single
week to somebody who sends me a d M on Instagram,
tweets me at Mike Destro, a message on my Facebook page,
or you can email me movie Mike d at gmail
dot com. And this week it's actually a special shout
out to the b T and Facebook page. There was
a poll on there that asked which of the Bobby

(36:26):
Bones Show podcast is everyone listened to? At number one
was the Bobby Cast. At number two was Best Bits
of the Week with Morgan, number two, at number three
was four Things with Amy Brown and at number four
Movie Mix Movie Podcast, which I was actually really excited about.
I commented on there that I was honored to be
number four, and I really meant that that that you
have continued to listen to this podcast and support me.

(36:47):
You comment about it, you tweet about it, the things
you like, the things you want to see different. So
I see all those things, and I do take it
into consideration every time I sit down and do this podcast,
so I will be adding that to my resume, the
number four most slack podcast in the Nashville Podcast Network.
Appreciate you all for listening. I hope to talk to
you again next Monday here on the podcast, and until

(37:08):
then later m
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