January 9, 2023 • 39 mins
It’s one of Mike’s favorite times a year, looking at all the movies coming out and talking about what he’s most excited about. From the latest Marvel films to the new Barbie picture…Mike covers all the titles coming to the big screen this year . In the movie review, Mike talks about The Whale starring Brendan Fraiser where he plays obese and reclusive English teacher who tries to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption. Mike also shares his story of dealing with a food addiction and his decision to get healthy and lose 100 pounds. In the Trailer Park, Mike talks about the new horror movie The Evil Dead Rise which looks insanely sinister.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mix Movie Podcast. I
am your host movie Mike. Today I want to share
with you my top ten most anticipated movies of my
favorite time of year where all the movies are in
front of us and nothing has disappointed me yet. In
the movie review, i'll talk about one of my favorite
dramas in the last ten years, The Whale, and in
the trailer park, the Evil Dead franchise has returned. Our
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first look at the Evil Dead Rise will make all
the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.
And even coming from somebody who loves horror movies like me,
I watched this trailer and it was like, oh boy,
here we go. So thank you for being subscribed to
the podcast. Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew.
You guys. Let's talk movies in a world where everyone
and their mother has a podcast. One man stands to
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infiltrate the ears of listeners like never before in a
movie podcast. A man with so much movie knowledge, he's
basically like a walking au MTV classes from the Nashville
Podcast Network. This movie. It is one of my favorite
times of year, the start of the year, and I
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have about three favorite times of the year. When it
comes to movies, it is some are blockbuster season. I
love me some some are blockbusters. It is Oscar movie
season because I like watching all the things that are
gonna get nominated for Oscars. And then it's the very
beginning of the year when you have all this positivity
when it comes to new movies coming out, and that
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is what I wanted to bring to you today. The
movies I am anticipating the most this year. And this
doesn't mean I think all of these movies are going
to be great, but they are the ones that I'm
the most curious about, whether it be the actors involved,
the franchises we are carrying on, the directors, or just movies.
I want to know exactly what they're gonna make a
movie about because there have been very few details and
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I always get asked, what is your favorite movie? And
my answer now is my favorite movie is the one
I'm about to see, because that is what I'm really
all about when it comes to doing this podcast. That's
why I continue to do this is because I love
talking about movies that are coming out. I love giving
people recommendations of things you can go watch in theaters
and experience. Now yes, a lot of these on this
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list happen to be reboots or continuations of franchises, and
some people get annoyed by that, like why can't you
make anything original? And I think when putting together a
list like this, yes, a lot of those are going
to wind up on that because these are the movies
that generate the most interests. They are the movies that
make the most at the box office. And being somebody
who does a movie podcast and I take notes from
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you guys on what you want me to talk about.
A lot of the times, it's all the big bloodbusters,
and that is really what I grew up loving. It
is my initial love of movie reviewing. I love watching
all the big movies, but that doesn't mean I don't
love independent movies. And I think there are so many
great original stories being made and put out right now. Yes,
they are harder to get made and harder to get funding,
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and they also just have a harder time getting promote it.
So when you see big list like this come out
at the beginning of the year, those really don't get
mentioned a whole lot. But later throughout the year you
get these little hidden gems. And I always try to
bring those to you, And I did get this comment
on Facebook from Barry who wrote, this is a brutal
lineup of remakes and retreads what happened to the good
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old days? And I kind of think we could be
living in the good old days right now. I think
three has the ability to be one of the greatest
years in movies, at least since twenty nineteen. We really
haven't had that in a while because of course no
real new movies. One we started getting them around May,
so it was like half a year kind of wasted there,
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and I felt like two was kind of a rebuilding year,
kind of a Frankenstein year, where it was all the
delayed things coming out, so it didn't really have that
unified feeling in film. But I think three has the
ability to do that. So that is why I am
the most excited I've been in a very long time.
So let's get right into this list. And these are
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all release dates as of January ninth, so sometimes things
get shifted around, and hopefully all these stay the same
because I can't take any more delays at this point
in my life. So at number ten, I'm going with Oppenheimer,
which is coming out on July twenty one from director
Christopher Nolan. It is a biopic and I love Christopher
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Nolan's work. Recently I went and watched his very first
movie to his most recent movie, and he just is
a director that no matter what he is working on,
I am going to be interested in. And he is
a director that has earned that right with movies like Interstellar, Inception,
The Dark Night Franchise, even Done Kirk. I am just
a big fan of his vision and his storytelling, even
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though I do think as of late he has become
a little bit more style over substance, especially when it
comes to Tenant, which was a very hard movie to
follow along with. Visually it looked amazing unlike anything I've
ever seen before, but I probably still couldn't tell you
exactly what that movie was about, even though the look
of it was pretty cool. But this movie stars Sillian Murphy,
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who has been in a lot of Christopher Nolan movies,
but he's always a side character. Now he is the
main character in the movie is about the father of
the atomic bomb, and it is Christopher Nolan also returning
to that World War two era, and the cast in
this movie looks insane. From Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert
Towney Jr. Matt Damon, Rommy Malick, Florence Pugh, Benny Safty,
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and the list goes on and on and on, And
I think what really makes a good director is not
only the ability to land all of this talent, but
knowing what to do with it, and I think he
is one of the best at that. So I'm excited
to see Oppenheimer on July. One. At number nine is
a movie called You People, which is coming out on
Netflix pretty soon on January. It's a comedy, and I
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feel like this could possibly be the return to comedies
that we need because it features two of the best
to ever do it, one from the eighties and nineties
with Eddie Murphy and the other from the Two thousands
with Jonah Hill. So this movie is about Jonah Hill
and he is trying to marry Eddie Murphy's daughter. So
maybe it's kind of that classic comedy formula that we're
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familiar with. But while watching the trailer to this movie,
it kind of gave me at the nostalgic feeling to
The Two Thousands, which Jonah Hill is one of my
favorite comedic actors in movies. Like super Bad, The Babysitter Accepted.
He's been in so many iconic titles when it comes
to comedy, and as of recently, he has stepped a
little bit more into dramatic roles. He has really stepped
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into directing, which I loved his documentary Stuts on Netflix,
so as it seems he has gone more in that direction,
I'm really excited to see him in a comedy again.
And I love that the comedy looks a little bit
elevated in this movie. It's not so two thousands. It
feels like a good modern reinvention of that style of movie.
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And I feel like it's been a while since I've
really laughed at Eddie Murphy movie and I've really been
waiting for his big return, and we got a glimpse
of it with Coming to America, the sequel on Amazon.
He's gonna make another Beverly Hills cop movie. But I
love me some Eddie Murphy. I'm a huge fan of
his stand up from back in the day. Loved this
time on SNL. He is an icon as well when
it comes to comedy, So putting these two people together
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in a movie, I am all about it. I hope
it's funny. It also kind of puts that stick in
the ground for Netflix of getting two big A list
actors in a comedy in January. And I think that's
another thing about this slate of movies is all of
these movies are spread around the year so well that
I really love that I don't have to wait until April, May,
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June to get some really great movies. We have a
lot of early stuff coming out in January, and that
makes me excited. So at number nine, I'm going with
you people at number eight. If you asked me maybe
three or four years ago, this movie would have not
made my list, But after watching the trailer at the
end of last year, I'm excited for this one now.
And it is Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,
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coming out on June. It's an adventure movie, it's Harrison Ford,
it's Phoebe waller Bridge. But more importantly, it is the
end of a franchise, the last time Harrison Ford will
ever brand a whip and bear the Indiana Jones name.
And I am just a big fan of franchises ending.
I like the ending to anything, and it's amazing how
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long this franchise has been spread out. The first one
came out forty two years ago. Harrison Ford has been
playing Indiana Jones over four decades. That is an incredible accomplishment,
and still at his age now, is looking great as
a lead in this movie. And this will be a
big summer blockbuster release. This is the type of movie
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I want to go see in the summer. Big NonStop action,
a lot of chase scenes, a lot of fun, and
since it's the last one in the franchise, you know
it's going to hit you on that emotional level. So
at number eight, coming out on June thirty, Indiana Jones
and the Dial of Destiny makes my list at number seven.
A movie I really have no idea what to expect from,
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and that's why it's on my list. Barbie coming out
on July one. It's a comedy directed by Greta Gerwig,
who hasn't let me down yet. I love Ladybird, I
loved Little Women, so I can't wait to see what
she does with Barbie, and I had no idea where
they were going to take this story. I did get
that first look in that teaser trailer, and I'm even
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more curious. And it's supposed to be Margot Robbie as
Barbie leaving the Barbie world and coming into the real world.
Ryan Gosling plays Ken and Will Ferrell plays the bad
guy in this movie. So a lot of good talent
in this one as well. And I remember back when
the Facebook movie came out Social Network, a lot of
people poked fun at that, thinking, man, they're gonna make
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a movie about Facebook, about likes and commenting on people's walls.
That sounds stupid, And then the Social at Work came
out and it was amazing. So I'm kind of thinking
and having the same vibes from Barbie because you have
kind of a ridiculous thing to make a serious movie
about a child's toy. So in my mind, this movie
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will either be a masterpiece or an utter disaster, and
I can't wait to watch it on July one. That
is Barbie at Number six. Coming out on April seven
is the new animated movie, The Super Mario Brothers Movie.
It's a comedy. You have Chris Pratt as Super Mario,
Anya Taylor Joy as Peach, Charlie Day as Luigi, Jack
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Black as Bowser. So the vocal cast in this movie
is pretty stack and I really think that one of
my favorite sonic, The Hedgehog, has kind of opened the
doors for family friendly video game adaptations. I think that
is kind of where this genre has to go. All
of like the serious video game movies haven't really worked. Really.
The only way you can go to make a more
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serious video game movie is to make one like Mortal Kombat,
and that's just a lot of violence, so it's just
a big action movie. So I think this is the
new lane now for video game movies. And if you're
gonna make a video game movie, make one about the
greatest franchise of all time, Super Mario Brothers movie. And
I know a lot of people didn't like the ninet
live action movie, but I love that movie. Yes, it
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wasn't exactly like the video game, which I think is
what people expected, but that movie holds a special place
in my heart. I still remember watching that VHS time
and time again. And I love the look of this movie.
It gives me feelings of playing in sixty four. I'm
hoping to see them utilize all the Super Mario suits
and I just can't wait to see all that action
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on the big screen. I did see that the Super
Mario Brothers Land in California is opening soon, and that
is something I'm trying to convince my wife we need
to go check out this year too. Just a big
super Mario fan. And even if I'm the only adult
in the theater without kids watching this movie, I don't care.
I will be there on April seven. Getting into the
top five now at number five is Guardians of the
Galexy Volume three, coming out on May five, from director
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James Gunn. It's a superhero movie. You have all of
the originals back, Chris Pratt, Zoey's Aldana, Dave Batista, which
this will be the last Guardians of the Galaxy movie,
but more importantly, the last time Dave Batista will ever
play dracks. So regardless of where all the other characters
go after this movie, he is out after this one.
And I've seen him talk about in interviews recently. He's
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ready to be done with it. He's grateful for his
time in Marvel, but he didn't want to be known
just as playing tracks, which is a big dumb character.
He felt like he did what he could with that,
and now he is trying to get into more dramatic roles,
which he's going to be a Knock at the Cabin,
which almost made my list here, and I respect him
for that. So hopefully James Gunn really wraps up this trilogy,
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and I feel like after this movie, he is leaving
Marvel and we'll go and spend his time completely on
d C and trying to fix everything over there. Sadly,
no DC movie made my top ten because I have
yearo confidence in them right now. But I still have
confidence in James Gunn, so I put Guardians of the
Galaxy at number five, and I did find the Holiday
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special pretty good on Disney Plus, but hopefully they held
out and put all the good stuff in the movie
because I'm ready for it. At number four, I'm going
with Killers of the Flower Moon, which is coming out
in May and then it will go to Apple TV
Plus after its theatrical release. I have never seen a
Martin Scorsese movie that I didn't enjoy, and I think
he is do a really big hit because he has
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been out talking about how he kind of hits the
state of film right now. He rips on every single
superhero movie that comes out, So I want to see
what he does with this book adaptation. And you have
Martin Scorsese and you have Leonardo DiCaprio, who are a
match made in heaven. And Leonardo DiCaprio does about one
movie a year now. All he really does is make
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great movies and hang out with twenty three year olds
on yahnts. That is all he does. And as long
as he makes the great movies, I don't care what
he does. And just looking at his last five movies,
Leo is an actor who just doesn't miss He had
don't look up before that Once upon a Time in Hollywood,
The Revenant, Wolf of Wall Street, which Martin Scorsese he
also directed, and The Great Gatsby. So he is so
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selective on the movies he picks, and just looking at
the still of his character in this movie, I feel
like we're about to get Oscar worthy Leo on this
So he had one of the best actors of our lifetime,
one of the greatest directors of all time, who is
do a banger. I cannot wait to see this one.
So that one is at number four, at number three
coming out on March three, it is Creed three. A
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lot of threes going on in this one, but it
is a sports drama starring Michael B. Jordan's also making
his directorial debut, and you have Jonathan Majors and Ryan Coogler,
who directed the first Creed movie. He is known for
directing the Black Panther movies. He's not directing this one,
but he did help on the writing, which I feel
like Creed one was amazing when he directed that, and
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Creed to kind of lacked his vision, It lacked a
little bit of his touch on that story. So I
am glad to see him back. But I just got
done rewatching all of the Creed movies and it really
got me excited again. There is just something so special
about these movies, even though they're a little bit formulaic
and you kind of know what's going to happen. Nothing
gets me excited like a Creed movie. And of course,
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it all goes back to what Sylvester Stallone created with
the entire Rocky franchise, and sadly he will not be
a part of Creed three at all, which I'm curious
to see how that kind of plays out, because Rocky
is such a big part of one and two and
they had some differences and Sylvester Stallone seems to be
pretty salty about the whole situation. Which if you're not aware,
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he has talked about a lot how he sold the
rights to Rocky back in the seventies, which he wrote
and created the story, but he was really just acting
out of necessity and he sold the rights and has
still been able to be a part of all the
movie bees. But it's missing out on a lot of
the paychecks here, So I hate that for him. I
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hate he was in that position to have something that
is cinematic gold and having the only option being to
sell the rights to it. That is tough. That is
probably a thing that he regrets looking back on it,
because I just see Sylvester Saloon and immediately think Rocky.
But looking at isn't that worth He's not hurting so bad.
He's done pretty well for himself, and he is going
to be in The Expendables four, which is coming out
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later this year on September twenty another fun franchise. I'm
probably just surprised as you are that they made four
of those movies already, but I'm curious to see how
Michael B. Jordan's will be, not only in front of
the camera, but now behind the camera. I think Jonathan
Majors is on the rise right now, and he looks
like a very worthy opponent decreed in this movie, and
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I feel like they kind of have to make it
different from one and two, so curious to where they
take the story. So at number three, I'm going with
Creed three. At number two, coming out on December fift
is Wonka. You have Timothy shallow May playing a young
Willy Wonka before he even opens his chocolate factory, but
the movie will still feature a musical number. Is much
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like the original movie, much like the remake. So that
brings up a question that I got from Trish on Facebook,
who said, do we need another Wonka? It was perfect
with Gene Wilder and interestingly weird with Johnny Depp. To that,
I say, I do think we need another Wonka. Willy
Wonka the original with Gene Wilder is one of my
favorite movies of all time. At any given time, it's
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in my top ten or top fifteen, because that movie
is magical in many ways, from the music, from the acting,
from the set design. The fact that that movie was
made in the seventies and still holds up to today
is a feat in itself. But then I found it
really hard to get into the tim Burton version. I
didn't love division on that one. I get that he
makes things cookie and weird, but taking the Willy Wonka
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story and turning it into that kind of left me
with the bad taste in my mouth. So do we
need another Willy Wonka movie? Yes? We do? Is I
still I still have that taste in my mouth from
the Tim Burton one and seeing Timothy shallow May as
Willy Wonka. Although it doesn't really compare it to Gene Wilder,
I feel like it is a much better pick than
Johnny Depp. So as long as they don't have any
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lame musical numbers like Cheerup Charlie, I think it's gonna
be great and at number one. A movie I've been
waiting for for a while now. It was supposed to
already be out, but it is Spider Man Across the
Spider Verse coming out on June second. This movie brings
together all of my favorite things, Spider Man, Marvel, animation,
which I feel like sometimes animated movies are always kind
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of put in a different category. You think, because something
is animated, it's a cartoon, it's for kids. But I
love that into the Spider Verse kind of eliminated that
thought for a lot of people, which I've been saying
for a long time, animation is just another form of art,
and really, when you break it down, it's a lot
more of an intricate process having to draw and create
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every single frame in this movie. The amount of people
who have worked on the Spider Man animated movies is astonishing,
and how lawless and effortless they make it look is
an amazing thing for just somebody like me who loves
all the technical aspects to movies. But it's not only that.
It's that the fact that these stories are also really
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great and powerful and memorable, and it kind of feels
like no rules apply to these movies. You can put
anything you want. And I feel like this movie opened
up the idea of the multiverse and the fact that
anything can happen now in a Marvel movie. So I
cannot wait to see this one. My most anticipated movie
of three comes out on June two, Spider Man Across
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the Spider Verse, and there are more movies coming out,
especially Marvel movies. Ant Man in the Wasp Quantum Mania
comes out on February seventeen. I just find it a
little bit hard to get that excited for an ant
Man movie. I do feel like this one could be
the best in the franchise. I want to see Jonathan
Majors as King the Conqueror, so this is going to
probably in my top fifteen. You also have The Marvels
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coming out on July. Like I mentioned earlier, Knock at
the Cabin from m Night Shamalan is coming out next
month on February three. We have an animated teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles movie, Mutant Mayhem, coming out on August four,
So not a live action one like I probably would prefer,
but you do have Seth Rogan behind this one, and
as big of a teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan as
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he is, I feel like he wants to do justice
to the franchise. One I'm curious about two is Transformers
Rise at the Beasts coming out on June nine. Transformers Movies, Now,
it can be a little hit or miss, but you
do have Pete Davidson and Peter dink Lynch in this one,
so I will give that one a shot. On the
Disney side, we have Elemental coming down on June sixteenth.
Also on June sixteenth, you have The Flash, which if
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that thing ever comes out. I'm just not getting that
excited for any DC movie this year, although Blue Beetle
coming out on August eighteenth, does have my curiosity, mainly
because I know nothing about the character, and sometimes when
I know nothing about the characters, I find those the
most interesting, except when it comes to Morbous Craven. The
Hunter comes out on October six. You have The Exorcist
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coming out on October thirteenth, which could be a good
Halloween time release, even though the original one I feel
like shouldn't be touched. But I'll give that one to try.
I did see a lot of votes for Aquaman and
the Lost Kingdom, which comes out on December, could quite
possibly be the last time we see Jason Momoa as Aquaman.
Sad somehow, they are making another Magic Mike movie, so
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of all the franchises ending in that is another one.
Because Magic Mike's Last Dance comes out on February. We
have a new Solid movie coming out on October. They're
supposed to be Illegally Blonde three, but there are no
real details. I don't even know if they've started filming
this movie what the plot is, but it's still apparently
supposed to come out sometime this year. Also on the
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d C side, you have Shazam Fury of the Gods
coming out on March seventeen. First one is actually pretty good.
Of course, would it be a big year in movies
without another Fast and the Furious movie. No, it wouldn't
be because Fast X comes out on May nine. The
Little Mermaid comes out on May. I just haven't loved
any of the live action remakes. I kind of feel
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like they're a cash grab. But if there's one movie
that could benefit from a live action remake, I'll give
the benefit of the doubt too, Little Mermaid, because that's
such a great movie. I love the cast in this reboot,
so I will give that one a shot. On the
action side, you have John Wick Chapter four coming out
on March four. Again, so many great movies coming out
at different times of the year. I feel like we'll
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always have something good to look forward to no matter
what month we're in. Next month we get the ridiculous
comedy Cocaine Bear, which is based on a true story.
Ray Leota's last movie looks like so I want to
go see that one. It's from director Elizabeth Banks. That
movie looks like a lot of fun. You also have
Scream six coming out on March ten. I told you
guys that the reboot in the series kind of let
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me down, so I'm not getting too excited about one yet.
On March thirty one, Dungeons and Dragons comes out. I
feel like this movie is gonna be hit or miss.
It could either do really well and it's opening weekend,
or completely flop and lose a lot of money just
because there are no real standouts in the cast. To me,
the movie looks very expensive and I often feel like
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all those things together are the recipe for a flop.
You also have Dune Part two coming out on November three,
and finally, the last one I will mention is Mission Impossible,
Dead Reckoning Part one coming out on July. Tom Cruise
really bringing it with the summer blockbusters. I usually don't
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get too excited about his movies, but this trailer looks
pretty good and as much crap as I give him,
I think Tom Cruise knows action, He knows big stunts
and all the ridiculous measures he goes to get these
things on film. I have a little bit of respect,
just a little bit of respect for him, so I
will be checking out this one on a life for
teen so that is the list. I think it will
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be a good no, no, no, a great year in
movies and I can't wait to review them all for you.
Let's get into my spoiler free movie review of the week.
I want to talk about one of the best dramas
I've seen in the last ten years, The Whale, starring
Brendan Fraser, where he plays an English teacher who is
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now completely confined to the walls of his apartment. He
lost a loved one and as a result has entered
into a depression where he is now eating to escape
to cope with his feelings, and he is in the
process of eating himself to death, and in his lowest moment,
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he is trying to reconnect with his daughter in the movie,
played by Sadie Sink, who you would know from Stranger Things,
and just show her how special she is to him
and have one real life moment before he may or
may not pass away due to his obesity. So this
movie hit me on a lot of emotional levels that
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I will get into, but before I get into my
full review of The Whale, here is just a little
bit of the trailer and it had an effect on her.
You haven't seen her since she was eight years old,
and you're going to reconnect with her. I don't like this.
This isn't a good idea. I'm sorry. You say you're
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sorry one more time. I will shop a knife right
into you. I swear to guy, what's it gonna do?
My internal organs are two feet in at least. So.
Brendan Fraser as Charlie does an amazing job and I
have never fallen in love with the character as fast
that I did with Charlie. Right away you learned about
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his story, how he is living in his apartment for
the most part, spends the entirety of his day on
the couch, has everything delivered to him. He is an
English teacher, so he teaches online and hips his camera
off the entire time, so his students have no idea
what he looks like because he is ashamed of himself,
and he doesn't eat too nourish his body in any way.
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He really only eats to escape, and there are several
moments in this movie where you witness Hiss Binge eating
and it's the only time he feels like he has
some kind of control. Over things, and even though he
is on the brink of death, he can't stop it.
And it really shows you how obesity and struggling with
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overeating it's not just to thing of like, oh, you
just eat a lot. It's honestly, in this movie shown
for the first time I've ever seen and described as
a mental illness, and that resonated with me a lot,
because I am somebody who has struggled with my weight.
For the majority of my life, I have been overweight,
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and in the last eight years I have made a
decision to get healthy. But I had my rock bottom moments,
and there were several things in this movie that I
really identified with because I had never seen him portrayed
in a movie. I really love the way they handled that.
Coming from somebody who has dealt with some of these things,
I felt they handled it perfectly. They handled the character
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of Charlie so well because they never poked fun at him.
And I think you could think of a movie called
The Whale, which is also a metaphor for something else
discussed in the movie that I don't want to ruin
for you, but you could easily make a movie like
this and think, ha ha ha, I am laughing at
that guy because he's overreading in no way do you
feel that. So I'm glad that it was taken seriously
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and handled really well. Myself personally that the things I
identified in this movie is in those moments where he
has been eating. I think at a point in my life,
I had a really unhealthy relationship with food, to the
point where I think I was addicted to eating bad
food for me, and I think it's because I felt
like it was the only thing that I could control.
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I was is a very shy and quiet kid and
didn't have a whole lot of friends as a result
of that, and I would always kind of find comfort
in eating. And I think I hit my lowest point,
probably in from the stretch of twenty eleven to like
is when I decided to get healthy and I would
do something called bottoming out. And all my life I've
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been overweight, so I'd always tried to lose weight and
I failed time and time again. So I would have
weekends where I would try to go eat at as
many fast food restaurants in my short little radius around
my apartment and give burgers. I'd get pizza. I knew
I was at my really low point when I was
going to launch on Silver's and even they were looking
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at me like really, dude, like you're gonna eating here.
The thing about food and eating like this is you
have that sense of like, oh, I could control this.
You have this sense of anticipating the food you're going
to get and thinking it's going to be great. But
for me, I would get it, I would eat it,
and then I would immediately feel awful about myself, not
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only physically because of all the grease and sugar I
just state, but also just feeling like, man, like, this
is the low point I'm at. And I was, you know,
at a point where I needed to lose weight because
I weighed myself and then I looked at it, you know,
just to see how I was compared to what I
should be from my height. I'm like five fight I
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was pushing three hundred pounds, and I think it was
seeing on a scale and for my body size that
being obese. That was kind of a wake up call
to me. And I think about this cycle what I
called bottoming out is I think, all right, I'm gonna
eat terribly, get it all out of my system, and
then the next day I'm going to start, but then
that next day it's almost like you need to feel
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and feel that addiction again because it just kind of
keeps coming. And really that's the only thing that made
me feel good. So I would try to eat better,
I would try to exercise, and it didn't work. I
would go back and start doing all my old habits again.
So it was a vicious cycle until one day again,
in that period of my life where I was at
my heaviest was at my lowest, Like there are no
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pictures of me from eleven to like early because I
didn't like being in front of the camera at all.
So that was my low point. And now I have
lost over a hundred pounds and kept it off for
eight plus years now, but I still always have that
feeling of like, man, knowing how my personality works, and
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knowing that I have that feeling too, like Charlie has
in the movie, that I could go back to that.
So I have made a lot of changes in my
life that I feel I still need to fine tune.
But I know it's something that maybe even you listening
right now struggle with and know that it's also a
mental thing too. More than all you just love food
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and you should control that. No, it's not it at all.
So if you've ever felt that, if you're dealing with that,
now I completely sympathy eyes with you, and just know
that I am rooting for you too, and I am
somebody who I didn't think I could do it. I
didn't think I could lose the weight. I didn't think
I could get healthy, and I wanted that so bad
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for Charlie in this movie too, So I just completely
loved his story. I love that the entire movie took
place in one location, all in his apartment, and the
movie is based on a play, so I think a
lot of that has to do with it. It kind
of has that same feeling of a play of all
the characters kind of come in and out, and I
think for that reason, it helps keep the story moving
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along really well. At times, this movie even kind of
feels like a fairy tale. These very elaborate things kind
of happened, and I think that's really important for a
pretty straight ahead drama like this. And not only does
Brendan Fraser give the performance of his career, I think
he deserves the best actor, I think the movie deserves
best Picture, but also the supporting cast is really great,
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and I gotta give it to Sadie Sink, who delivers
such a vicious performance, such a mature performance for somebody
of her age, and at no point that I really
think of her as the girl from Stranger Things with
Kate Bush and her headphones. She really kind of, for
me established herself as a really great young actress who
I think has a lot of potential to do a
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really great job of continuing on in dramas post Stranger
Things and post The Whale. And I think at some
point in this movie, I just felt something crack in
my brain, something crack in my heart made of concrete,
to where I really felt like this movie hit me
in all the fields and probably the closest I've been
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to crying in a movie in a very long time.
And I think that's because I saw a little bit
of myself and Charlie. I know a lot of people
who go through this and are unable to explain their
situation to other people who don't really get it. If
you've never been overweight, you don't really know what it's like.
So I love that this story is out there. So
one word, I just think that this movie is beautiful,
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so if you're looking for a movie to make you feel,
take you on an emotional roller coaster and experience one
of the greatest dramatic characters that you will root for
throughout the entire movie. Look no further than the Whale.
I give it four point five out of five. Charlie's
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it's time to head down the movie try, Laura Paul.
When you talk about the best horror franchises of all time,
I feel like the Evil Dead always gets left out
of that conversation. And these movies are so good. Yes
they're a little bit campy, Yes there can be a
little bit cheesy, but the Evil Dead movies, like, it's
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hard to make a movie to make you feel scared,
but it's even harder to make a movie that has
this sinister feeling, something that just creates this different level
of just like oh, Jump scares no, Like the Evil
Dead movies are actually really scary movies that will give
you nightmares. So the last one came out in ten
years later, now we are getting Evil Dead Rise. The
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movie is about two sisters who find themselves in a
fight for their life when that ancient book comes back
and you have these blood thirsty demons running amok in
a Los Angeles apartment building. This trailer looks utterly terrifying,
and if you are easily scared, I would say maybe
fast forward the next thirty seconds because I want to
play this trailer because I want that feeling again. So
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I'll get into what I think about Evil Dead Rise,
And here is just a little bit of the scary trailer.
You don't look. A big old kiss from you won't
fix ye. So sometimes my biggest concern and comment on
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horror movie trailers are that they probably show all of
the scary parts in the trailer, therefore ruining the movie
experience for me. But I don't think that will be
the case with Evil Dead Rise, because I feel like
this is just that a taste of the horror visuals
that are going to come out of this movie, and
this franchise at general is known for some pretty jarring
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and absurd and sinister visuals when it comes to horror,
and as many horror movies that I've watched in my life,
and feeling like I'm pretty desensitized to feeling scared in movies,
I got chills while watching this trailer. And there's just
something about stories that revolve around demons that I don't
care how strong you feel and your ability to not
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be scared, But after watching a movie like this, you
will think a little bit before you go to sleep
and remember some of these visuals when it comes to
the stabbing, when it comes to the demons with the
creepy look on their face, when it comes to them
eating glass, and you know, just stabbing people. There's just
something so different about these movies that I feel like
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just the style alone really sets themselves apart from any
other horror movie. And maybe it's because I was so
scared by the Evil Dead movie that I've kind of
blacked it out of my memory, but that was a
truly genuinely scary movie theater going experience for me, and
I want that feeling again. I need that feeling again.
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I'm always just looking for a movie that can either
make me feel or make me scared, or make me excited.
All of those levels of emotion are what I look
for when going to see a movie in theaters. And
I feel like the Evil Dead movies don't really use
all those common horror movie tropes. You don't really get
a whole lot of jump scares. It just seems like
some really great horror filmmaking, and it all goes back
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to the original movies which came out in the eighties.
Both one and two are classics. Bruce Campbell is a gym.
Sam Rami and him together are a great duo, which
Sam Raimi did all of the Spider Man movies in
the two thousands. He just did the Doctor Strange into
the Multiverse of Madness, which did have a Bruce Campbell cameo,
so it looks like he is still looking out for
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him and Sam Raimi knows horror. He's not a part
of this one, but I still feel like it is
made with keeping his legacy alive. And the other thing
I loved about the version is it had a strong
female lead and oftentimes you don't really see that in
a horror movie. And in addition to that, it looks
like it's stepping up the horror elements even more in
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this movie. And it also looks that since this movie
is coming out ten years after that one, they're gonna
step it up in every way. So again, that is
Evil Dead Rise coming out on April. Get ready this
week's edition of Movie, and that is gonna do it
for another episode of the podcast, but before I go,
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I gotta give my listeners shout out of the week.
This week, I am going over to Twitter. I got
a tweet from Holligan who said, need to know what
Mike Destro thought of the Menu movie. And I realized
in that tweet that I didn't include The Menu or
also the Fable Men's in my best of two episode.
Sometimes when those movies come out at the end of
the year, I have trouble labeling them as some of
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my favorites, and I feel like that should have at
least made my honorable mentions. And I really enjoyed The Menu.
It was one of my favorite thrillers last year, mainly
because it was so unexpected. I didn't know a whole
lot about the story going into it, and it surprised me.
And it's available now to watch if you missed it
in theaters, it's on HBO Max. So if you're into
thrillers with a little splash of horror, I think you
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should check that one out on HBO Max. So yes,
I did enjoy that one. And if ever you miss
an individual movie review and you don't have time to
go back in the feed and find it, I do
have a YouTube channel, YouTube dot com slash Mike Destro
and all the videos I put up there are just
the individual movie reviews themselves, so spoiler free movie reviews.
If you want to subscribe to that channel, and if
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you want to listener shout out, all you have to
do is tweet me, send me a d M on Instagram,
comment on my Facebook page, or even tag me in
your Instagram story. I'll repost you and I'll shout you
out in the following episode. So thank you for listening.
Thanks everybody who shared with me what movies you are
the most excited about. I took all of those and
kind of made my other list of movies I need
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to make sure to watch so I can give you
guys those reviews. So I hope you have a great
rest of your week, and until next time, go out
and watch good movies and I will talk to you
later
Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mix Movie Podcast. I
am your host movie Mike. Today I want to share
with you my top ten most anticipated movies of my
favorite time of year where all the movies are in
front of us and nothing has disappointed me yet. In
the movie review, i'll talk about one of my favorite
dramas in the last ten years, The Whale, and in
the trailer park, the Evil Dead franchise has returned. Our
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first look at the Evil Dead Rise will make all
the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.
And even coming from somebody who loves horror movies like me,
I watched this trailer and it was like, oh boy,
here we go. So thank you for being subscribed to
the podcast. Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew.
You guys. Let's talk movies in a world where everyone
and their mother has a podcast. One man stands to
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infiltrate the ears of listeners like never before in a
movie podcast. A man with so much movie knowledge, he's
basically like a walking au MTV classes from the Nashville
Podcast Network. This movie. It is one of my favorite
times of year, the start of the year, and I
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have about three favorite times of the year. When it
comes to movies, it is some are blockbuster season. I
love me some some are blockbusters. It is Oscar movie
season because I like watching all the things that are
gonna get nominated for Oscars. And then it's the very
beginning of the year when you have all this positivity
when it comes to new movies coming out, and that
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is what I wanted to bring to you today. The
movies I am anticipating the most this year. And this
doesn't mean I think all of these movies are going
to be great, but they are the ones that I'm
the most curious about, whether it be the actors involved,
the franchises we are carrying on, the directors, or just movies.
I want to know exactly what they're gonna make a
movie about because there have been very few details and
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I always get asked, what is your favorite movie? And
my answer now is my favorite movie is the one
I'm about to see, because that is what I'm really
all about when it comes to doing this podcast. That's
why I continue to do this is because I love
talking about movies that are coming out. I love giving
people recommendations of things you can go watch in theaters
and experience. Now yes, a lot of these on this
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list happen to be reboots or continuations of franchises, and
some people get annoyed by that, like why can't you
make anything original? And I think when putting together a
list like this, yes, a lot of those are going
to wind up on that because these are the movies
that generate the most interests. They are the movies that
make the most at the box office. And being somebody
who does a movie podcast and I take notes from
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you guys on what you want me to talk about.
A lot of the times, it's all the big bloodbusters,
and that is really what I grew up loving. It
is my initial love of movie reviewing. I love watching
all the big movies, but that doesn't mean I don't
love independent movies. And I think there are so many
great original stories being made and put out right now. Yes,
they are harder to get made and harder to get funding,
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and they also just have a harder time getting promote it.
So when you see big list like this come out
at the beginning of the year, those really don't get
mentioned a whole lot. But later throughout the year you
get these little hidden gems. And I always try to
bring those to you, And I did get this comment
on Facebook from Barry who wrote, this is a brutal
lineup of remakes and retreads what happened to the good
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old days? And I kind of think we could be
living in the good old days right now. I think
three has the ability to be one of the greatest
years in movies, at least since twenty nineteen. We really
haven't had that in a while because of course no
real new movies. One we started getting them around May,
so it was like half a year kind of wasted there,
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and I felt like two was kind of a rebuilding year,
kind of a Frankenstein year, where it was all the
delayed things coming out, so it didn't really have that
unified feeling in film. But I think three has the
ability to do that. So that is why I am
the most excited I've been in a very long time.
So let's get right into this list. And these are
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all release dates as of January ninth, so sometimes things
get shifted around, and hopefully all these stay the same
because I can't take any more delays at this point
in my life. So at number ten, I'm going with Oppenheimer,
which is coming out on July twenty one from director
Christopher Nolan. It is a biopic and I love Christopher
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Nolan's work. Recently I went and watched his very first
movie to his most recent movie, and he just is
a director that no matter what he is working on,
I am going to be interested in. And he is
a director that has earned that right with movies like Interstellar, Inception,
The Dark Night Franchise, even Done Kirk. I am just
a big fan of his vision and his storytelling, even
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though I do think as of late he has become
a little bit more style over substance, especially when it
comes to Tenant, which was a very hard movie to
follow along with. Visually it looked amazing unlike anything I've
ever seen before, but I probably still couldn't tell you
exactly what that movie was about, even though the look
of it was pretty cool. But this movie stars Sillian Murphy,
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who has been in a lot of Christopher Nolan movies,
but he's always a side character. Now he is the
main character in the movie is about the father of
the atomic bomb, and it is Christopher Nolan also returning
to that World War two era, and the cast in
this movie looks insane. From Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert
Towney Jr. Matt Damon, Rommy Malick, Florence Pugh, Benny Safty,
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and the list goes on and on and on, And
I think what really makes a good director is not
only the ability to land all of this talent, but
knowing what to do with it, and I think he
is one of the best at that. So I'm excited
to see Oppenheimer on July. One. At number nine is
a movie called You People, which is coming out on
Netflix pretty soon on January. It's a comedy, and I
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feel like this could possibly be the return to comedies
that we need because it features two of the best
to ever do it, one from the eighties and nineties
with Eddie Murphy and the other from the Two thousands
with Jonah Hill. So this movie is about Jonah Hill
and he is trying to marry Eddie Murphy's daughter. So
maybe it's kind of that classic comedy formula that we're
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familiar with. But while watching the trailer to this movie,
it kind of gave me at the nostalgic feeling to
The Two Thousands, which Jonah Hill is one of my
favorite comedic actors in movies. Like super Bad, The Babysitter Accepted.
He's been in so many iconic titles when it comes
to comedy, and as of recently, he has stepped a
little bit more into dramatic roles. He has really stepped
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into directing, which I loved his documentary Stuts on Netflix,
so as it seems he has gone more in that direction,
I'm really excited to see him in a comedy again.
And I love that the comedy looks a little bit
elevated in this movie. It's not so two thousands. It
feels like a good modern reinvention of that style of movie.
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And I feel like it's been a while since I've
really laughed at Eddie Murphy movie and I've really been
waiting for his big return, and we got a glimpse
of it with Coming to America, the sequel on Amazon.
He's gonna make another Beverly Hills cop movie. But I
love me some Eddie Murphy. I'm a huge fan of
his stand up from back in the day. Loved this
time on SNL. He is an icon as well when
it comes to comedy, So putting these two people together
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in a movie, I am all about it. I hope
it's funny. It also kind of puts that stick in
the ground for Netflix of getting two big A list
actors in a comedy in January. And I think that's
another thing about this slate of movies is all of
these movies are spread around the year so well that
I really love that I don't have to wait until April, May,
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June to get some really great movies. We have a
lot of early stuff coming out in January, and that
makes me excited. So at number nine, I'm going with
you people at number eight. If you asked me maybe
three or four years ago, this movie would have not
made my list, But after watching the trailer at the
end of last year, I'm excited for this one now.
And it is Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,
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coming out on June. It's an adventure movie, it's Harrison Ford,
it's Phoebe waller Bridge. But more importantly, it is the
end of a franchise, the last time Harrison Ford will
ever brand a whip and bear the Indiana Jones name.
And I am just a big fan of franchises ending.
I like the ending to anything, and it's amazing how
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long this franchise has been spread out. The first one
came out forty two years ago. Harrison Ford has been
playing Indiana Jones over four decades. That is an incredible accomplishment,
and still at his age now, is looking great as
a lead in this movie. And this will be a
big summer blockbuster release. This is the type of movie
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I want to go see in the summer. Big NonStop action,
a lot of chase scenes, a lot of fun, and
since it's the last one in the franchise, you know
it's going to hit you on that emotional level. So
at number eight, coming out on June thirty, Indiana Jones
and the Dial of Destiny makes my list at number seven.
A movie I really have no idea what to expect from,
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and that's why it's on my list. Barbie coming out
on July one. It's a comedy directed by Greta Gerwig,
who hasn't let me down yet. I love Ladybird, I
loved Little Women, so I can't wait to see what
she does with Barbie, and I had no idea where
they were going to take this story. I did get
that first look in that teaser trailer, and I'm even
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more curious. And it's supposed to be Margot Robbie as
Barbie leaving the Barbie world and coming into the real world.
Ryan Gosling plays Ken and Will Ferrell plays the bad
guy in this movie. So a lot of good talent
in this one as well. And I remember back when
the Facebook movie came out Social Network, a lot of
people poked fun at that, thinking, man, they're gonna make
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a movie about Facebook, about likes and commenting on people's walls.
That sounds stupid, And then the Social at Work came
out and it was amazing. So I'm kind of thinking
and having the same vibes from Barbie because you have
kind of a ridiculous thing to make a serious movie
about a child's toy. So in my mind, this movie
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will either be a masterpiece or an utter disaster, and
I can't wait to watch it on July one. That
is Barbie at Number six. Coming out on April seven
is the new animated movie, The Super Mario Brothers Movie.
It's a comedy. You have Chris Pratt as Super Mario,
Anya Taylor Joy as Peach, Charlie Day as Luigi, Jack
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Black as Bowser. So the vocal cast in this movie
is pretty stack and I really think that one of
my favorite sonic, The Hedgehog, has kind of opened the
doors for family friendly video game adaptations. I think that
is kind of where this genre has to go. All
of like the serious video game movies haven't really worked. Really.
The only way you can go to make a more
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serious video game movie is to make one like Mortal Kombat,
and that's just a lot of violence, so it's just
a big action movie. So I think this is the
new lane now for video game movies. And if you're
gonna make a video game movie, make one about the
greatest franchise of all time, Super Mario Brothers movie. And
I know a lot of people didn't like the ninet
live action movie, but I love that movie. Yes, it
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wasn't exactly like the video game, which I think is
what people expected, but that movie holds a special place
in my heart. I still remember watching that VHS time
and time again. And I love the look of this movie.
It gives me feelings of playing in sixty four. I'm
hoping to see them utilize all the Super Mario suits
and I just can't wait to see all that action
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on the big screen. I did see that the Super
Mario Brothers Land in California is opening soon, and that
is something I'm trying to convince my wife we need
to go check out this year too. Just a big
super Mario fan. And even if I'm the only adult
in the theater without kids watching this movie, I don't care.
I will be there on April seven. Getting into the
top five now at number five is Guardians of the
Galexy Volume three, coming out on May five, from director
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James Gunn. It's a superhero movie. You have all of
the originals back, Chris Pratt, Zoey's Aldana, Dave Batista, which
this will be the last Guardians of the Galaxy movie,
but more importantly, the last time Dave Batista will ever
play dracks. So regardless of where all the other characters
go after this movie, he is out after this one.
And I've seen him talk about in interviews recently. He's
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ready to be done with it. He's grateful for his
time in Marvel, but he didn't want to be known
just as playing tracks, which is a big dumb character.
He felt like he did what he could with that,
and now he is trying to get into more dramatic roles,
which he's going to be a Knock at the Cabin,
which almost made my list here, and I respect him
for that. So hopefully James Gunn really wraps up this trilogy,
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and I feel like after this movie, he is leaving
Marvel and we'll go and spend his time completely on
d C and trying to fix everything over there. Sadly,
no DC movie made my top ten because I have
yearo confidence in them right now. But I still have
confidence in James Gunn, so I put Guardians of the
Galaxy at number five, and I did find the Holiday
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special pretty good on Disney Plus, but hopefully they held
out and put all the good stuff in the movie
because I'm ready for it. At number four, I'm going
with Killers of the Flower Moon, which is coming out
in May and then it will go to Apple TV
Plus after its theatrical release. I have never seen a
Martin Scorsese movie that I didn't enjoy, and I think
he is do a really big hit because he has
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been out talking about how he kind of hits the
state of film right now. He rips on every single
superhero movie that comes out, So I want to see
what he does with this book adaptation. And you have
Martin Scorsese and you have Leonardo DiCaprio, who are a
match made in heaven. And Leonardo DiCaprio does about one
movie a year now. All he really does is make
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great movies and hang out with twenty three year olds
on yahnts. That is all he does. And as long
as he makes the great movies, I don't care what
he does. And just looking at his last five movies,
Leo is an actor who just doesn't miss He had
don't look up before that Once upon a Time in Hollywood,
The Revenant, Wolf of Wall Street, which Martin Scorsese he
also directed, and The Great Gatsby. So he is so
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selective on the movies he picks, and just looking at
the still of his character in this movie, I feel
like we're about to get Oscar worthy Leo on this
So he had one of the best actors of our lifetime,
one of the greatest directors of all time, who is
do a banger. I cannot wait to see this one.
So that one is at number four, at number three
coming out on March three, it is Creed three. A
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lot of threes going on in this one, but it
is a sports drama starring Michael B. Jordan's also making
his directorial debut, and you have Jonathan Majors and Ryan Coogler,
who directed the first Creed movie. He is known for
directing the Black Panther movies. He's not directing this one,
but he did help on the writing, which I feel
like Creed one was amazing when he directed that, and
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Creed to kind of lacked his vision, It lacked a
little bit of his touch on that story. So I
am glad to see him back. But I just got
done rewatching all of the Creed movies and it really
got me excited again. There is just something so special
about these movies, even though they're a little bit formulaic
and you kind of know what's going to happen. Nothing
gets me excited like a Creed movie. And of course,
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it all goes back to what Sylvester Stallone created with
the entire Rocky franchise, and sadly he will not be
a part of Creed three at all, which I'm curious
to see how that kind of plays out, because Rocky
is such a big part of one and two and
they had some differences and Sylvester Stallone seems to be
pretty salty about the whole situation. Which if you're not aware,
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he has talked about a lot how he sold the
rights to Rocky back in the seventies, which he wrote
and created the story, but he was really just acting
out of necessity and he sold the rights and has
still been able to be a part of all the
movie bees. But it's missing out on a lot of
the paychecks here, So I hate that for him. I
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hate he was in that position to have something that
is cinematic gold and having the only option being to
sell the rights to it. That is tough. That is
probably a thing that he regrets looking back on it,
because I just see Sylvester Saloon and immediately think Rocky.
But looking at isn't that worth He's not hurting so bad.
He's done pretty well for himself, and he is going
to be in The Expendables four, which is coming out
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later this year on September twenty another fun franchise. I'm
probably just surprised as you are that they made four
of those movies already, but I'm curious to see how
Michael B. Jordan's will be, not only in front of
the camera, but now behind the camera. I think Jonathan
Majors is on the rise right now, and he looks
like a very worthy opponent decreed in this movie, and
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I feel like they kind of have to make it
different from one and two, so curious to where they
take the story. So at number three, I'm going with
Creed three. At number two, coming out on December fift
is Wonka. You have Timothy shallow May playing a young
Willy Wonka before he even opens his chocolate factory, but
the movie will still feature a musical number. Is much
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like the original movie, much like the remake. So that
brings up a question that I got from Trish on Facebook,
who said, do we need another Wonka? It was perfect
with Gene Wilder and interestingly weird with Johnny Depp. To that,
I say, I do think we need another Wonka. Willy
Wonka the original with Gene Wilder is one of my
favorite movies of all time. At any given time, it's
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in my top ten or top fifteen, because that movie
is magical in many ways, from the music, from the acting,
from the set design. The fact that that movie was
made in the seventies and still holds up to today
is a feat in itself. But then I found it
really hard to get into the tim Burton version. I
didn't love division on that one. I get that he
makes things cookie and weird, but taking the Willy Wonka
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story and turning it into that kind of left me
with the bad taste in my mouth. So do we
need another Willy Wonka movie? Yes? We do? Is I
still I still have that taste in my mouth from
the Tim Burton one and seeing Timothy shallow May as
Willy Wonka. Although it doesn't really compare it to Gene Wilder,
I feel like it is a much better pick than
Johnny Depp. So as long as they don't have any
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lame musical numbers like Cheerup Charlie, I think it's gonna
be great and at number one. A movie I've been
waiting for for a while now. It was supposed to
already be out, but it is Spider Man Across the
Spider Verse coming out on June second. This movie brings
together all of my favorite things, Spider Man, Marvel, animation,
which I feel like sometimes animated movies are always kind
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of put in a different category. You think, because something
is animated, it's a cartoon, it's for kids. But I
love that into the Spider Verse kind of eliminated that
thought for a lot of people, which I've been saying
for a long time, animation is just another form of art,
and really, when you break it down, it's a lot
more of an intricate process having to draw and create
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every single frame in this movie. The amount of people
who have worked on the Spider Man animated movies is astonishing,
and how lawless and effortless they make it look is
an amazing thing for just somebody like me who loves
all the technical aspects to movies. But it's not only that.
It's that the fact that these stories are also really
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great and powerful and memorable, and it kind of feels
like no rules apply to these movies. You can put
anything you want. And I feel like this movie opened
up the idea of the multiverse and the fact that
anything can happen now in a Marvel movie. So I
cannot wait to see this one. My most anticipated movie
of three comes out on June two, Spider Man Across
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the Spider Verse, and there are more movies coming out,
especially Marvel movies. Ant Man in the Wasp Quantum Mania
comes out on February seventeen. I just find it a
little bit hard to get that excited for an ant
Man movie. I do feel like this one could be
the best in the franchise. I want to see Jonathan
Majors as King the Conqueror, so this is going to
probably in my top fifteen. You also have The Marvels
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coming out on July. Like I mentioned earlier, Knock at
the Cabin from m Night Shamalan is coming out next
month on February three. We have an animated teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles movie, Mutant Mayhem, coming out on August four,
So not a live action one like I probably would prefer,
but you do have Seth Rogan behind this one, and
as big of a teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan as
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he is, I feel like he wants to do justice
to the franchise. One I'm curious about two is Transformers
Rise at the Beasts coming out on June nine. Transformers Movies, Now,
it can be a little hit or miss, but you
do have Pete Davidson and Peter dink Lynch in this one,
so I will give that one a shot. On the
Disney side, we have Elemental coming down on June sixteenth.
Also on June sixteenth, you have The Flash, which if
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that thing ever comes out. I'm just not getting that
excited for any DC movie this year, although Blue Beetle
coming out on August eighteenth, does have my curiosity, mainly
because I know nothing about the character, and sometimes when
I know nothing about the characters, I find those the
most interesting, except when it comes to Morbous Craven. The
Hunter comes out on October six. You have The Exorcist
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coming out on October thirteenth, which could be a good
Halloween time release, even though the original one I feel
like shouldn't be touched. But I'll give that one to try.
I did see a lot of votes for Aquaman and
the Lost Kingdom, which comes out on December, could quite
possibly be the last time we see Jason Momoa as Aquaman.
Sad somehow, they are making another Magic Mike movie, so
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of all the franchises ending in that is another one.
Because Magic Mike's Last Dance comes out on February. We
have a new Solid movie coming out on October. They're
supposed to be Illegally Blonde three, but there are no
real details. I don't even know if they've started filming
this movie what the plot is, but it's still apparently
supposed to come out sometime this year. Also on the
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d C side, you have Shazam Fury of the Gods
coming out on March seventeen. First one is actually pretty good.
Of course, would it be a big year in movies
without another Fast and the Furious movie. No, it wouldn't
be because Fast X comes out on May nine. The
Little Mermaid comes out on May. I just haven't loved
any of the live action remakes. I kind of feel
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like they're a cash grab. But if there's one movie
that could benefit from a live action remake, I'll give
the benefit of the doubt too, Little Mermaid, because that's
such a great movie. I love the cast in this reboot,
so I will give that one a shot. On the
action side, you have John Wick Chapter four coming out
on March four. Again, so many great movies coming out
at different times of the year. I feel like we'll
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always have something good to look forward to no matter
what month we're in. Next month we get the ridiculous
comedy Cocaine Bear, which is based on a true story.
Ray Leota's last movie looks like so I want to
go see that one. It's from director Elizabeth Banks. That
movie looks like a lot of fun. You also have
Scream six coming out on March ten. I told you
guys that the reboot in the series kind of let
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me down, so I'm not getting too excited about one yet.
On March thirty one, Dungeons and Dragons comes out. I
feel like this movie is gonna be hit or miss.
It could either do really well and it's opening weekend,
or completely flop and lose a lot of money just
because there are no real standouts in the cast. To me,
the movie looks very expensive and I often feel like
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all those things together are the recipe for a flop.
You also have Dune Part two coming out on November three,
and finally, the last one I will mention is Mission Impossible,
Dead Reckoning Part one coming out on July. Tom Cruise
really bringing it with the summer blockbusters. I usually don't
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get too excited about his movies, but this trailer looks
pretty good and as much crap as I give him,
I think Tom Cruise knows action, He knows big stunts
and all the ridiculous measures he goes to get these
things on film. I have a little bit of respect,
just a little bit of respect for him, so I
will be checking out this one on a life for
teen so that is the list. I think it will
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be a good no, no, no, a great year in
movies and I can't wait to review them all for you.
Let's get into my spoiler free movie review of the week.
I want to talk about one of the best dramas
I've seen in the last ten years, The Whale, starring
Brendan Fraser, where he plays an English teacher who is
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now completely confined to the walls of his apartment. He
lost a loved one and as a result has entered
into a depression where he is now eating to escape
to cope with his feelings, and he is in the
process of eating himself to death, and in his lowest moment,
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he is trying to reconnect with his daughter in the movie,
played by Sadie Sink, who you would know from Stranger Things,
and just show her how special she is to him
and have one real life moment before he may or
may not pass away due to his obesity. So this
movie hit me on a lot of emotional levels that
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I will get into, but before I get into my
full review of The Whale, here is just a little
bit of the trailer and it had an effect on her.
You haven't seen her since she was eight years old,
and you're going to reconnect with her. I don't like this.
This isn't a good idea. I'm sorry. You say you're
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sorry one more time. I will shop a knife right
into you. I swear to guy, what's it gonna do?
My internal organs are two feet in at least. So.
Brendan Fraser as Charlie does an amazing job and I
have never fallen in love with the character as fast
that I did with Charlie. Right away you learned about
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his story, how he is living in his apartment for
the most part, spends the entirety of his day on
the couch, has everything delivered to him. He is an
English teacher, so he teaches online and hips his camera
off the entire time, so his students have no idea
what he looks like because he is ashamed of himself,
and he doesn't eat too nourish his body in any way.
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He really only eats to escape, and there are several
moments in this movie where you witness Hiss Binge eating
and it's the only time he feels like he has
some kind of control. Over things, and even though he
is on the brink of death, he can't stop it.
And it really shows you how obesity and struggling with
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overeating it's not just to thing of like, oh, you
just eat a lot. It's honestly, in this movie shown
for the first time I've ever seen and described as
a mental illness, and that resonated with me a lot,
because I am somebody who has struggled with my weight.
For the majority of my life, I have been overweight,
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and in the last eight years I have made a
decision to get healthy. But I had my rock bottom moments,
and there were several things in this movie that I
really identified with because I had never seen him portrayed
in a movie. I really love the way they handled that.
Coming from somebody who has dealt with some of these things,
I felt they handled it perfectly. They handled the character
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of Charlie so well because they never poked fun at him.
And I think you could think of a movie called
The Whale, which is also a metaphor for something else
discussed in the movie that I don't want to ruin
for you, but you could easily make a movie like
this and think, ha ha ha, I am laughing at
that guy because he's overreading in no way do you
feel that. So I'm glad that it was taken seriously
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and handled really well. Myself personally that the things I
identified in this movie is in those moments where he
has been eating. I think at a point in my life,
I had a really unhealthy relationship with food, to the
point where I think I was addicted to eating bad
food for me, and I think it's because I felt
like it was the only thing that I could control.
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I was is a very shy and quiet kid and
didn't have a whole lot of friends as a result
of that, and I would always kind of find comfort
in eating. And I think I hit my lowest point,
probably in from the stretch of twenty eleven to like
is when I decided to get healthy and I would
do something called bottoming out. And all my life I've
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been overweight, so I'd always tried to lose weight and
I failed time and time again. So I would have
weekends where I would try to go eat at as
many fast food restaurants in my short little radius around
my apartment and give burgers. I'd get pizza. I knew
I was at my really low point when I was
going to launch on Silver's and even they were looking
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at me like really, dude, like you're gonna eating here.
The thing about food and eating like this is you
have that sense of like, oh, I could control this.
You have this sense of anticipating the food you're going
to get and thinking it's going to be great. But
for me, I would get it, I would eat it,
and then I would immediately feel awful about myself, not
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only physically because of all the grease and sugar I
just state, but also just feeling like, man, like, this
is the low point I'm at. And I was, you know,
at a point where I needed to lose weight because
I weighed myself and then I looked at it, you know,
just to see how I was compared to what I
should be from my height. I'm like five fight I
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was pushing three hundred pounds, and I think it was
seeing on a scale and for my body size that
being obese. That was kind of a wake up call
to me. And I think about this cycle what I
called bottoming out is I think, all right, I'm gonna
eat terribly, get it all out of my system, and
then the next day I'm going to start, but then
that next day it's almost like you need to feel
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and feel that addiction again because it just kind of
keeps coming. And really that's the only thing that made
me feel good. So I would try to eat better,
I would try to exercise, and it didn't work. I
would go back and start doing all my old habits again.
So it was a vicious cycle until one day again,
in that period of my life where I was at
my heaviest was at my lowest, Like there are no
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pictures of me from eleven to like early because I
didn't like being in front of the camera at all.
So that was my low point. And now I have
lost over a hundred pounds and kept it off for
eight plus years now, but I still always have that
feeling of like, man, knowing how my personality works, and
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knowing that I have that feeling too, like Charlie has
in the movie, that I could go back to that.
So I have made a lot of changes in my
life that I feel I still need to fine tune.
But I know it's something that maybe even you listening
right now struggle with and know that it's also a
mental thing too. More than all you just love food
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and you should control that. No, it's not it at all.
So if you've ever felt that, if you're dealing with that,
now I completely sympathy eyes with you, and just know
that I am rooting for you too, and I am
somebody who I didn't think I could do it. I
didn't think I could lose the weight. I didn't think
I could get healthy, and I wanted that so bad
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for Charlie in this movie too, So I just completely
loved his story. I love that the entire movie took
place in one location, all in his apartment, and the
movie is based on a play, so I think a
lot of that has to do with it. It kind
of has that same feeling of a play of all
the characters kind of come in and out, and I
think for that reason, it helps keep the story moving
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along really well. At times, this movie even kind of
feels like a fairy tale. These very elaborate things kind
of happened, and I think that's really important for a
pretty straight ahead drama like this. And not only does
Brendan Fraser give the performance of his career, I think
he deserves the best actor, I think the movie deserves
best Picture, but also the supporting cast is really great,
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and I gotta give it to Sadie Sink, who delivers
such a vicious performance, such a mature performance for somebody
of her age, and at no point that I really
think of her as the girl from Stranger Things with
Kate Bush and her headphones. She really kind of, for
me established herself as a really great young actress who
I think has a lot of potential to do a
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really great job of continuing on in dramas post Stranger
Things and post The Whale. And I think at some
point in this movie, I just felt something crack in
my brain, something crack in my heart made of concrete,
to where I really felt like this movie hit me
in all the fields and probably the closest I've been
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to crying in a movie in a very long time.
And I think that's because I saw a little bit
of myself and Charlie. I know a lot of people
who go through this and are unable to explain their
situation to other people who don't really get it. If
you've never been overweight, you don't really know what it's like.
So I love that this story is out there. So
one word, I just think that this movie is beautiful,
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so if you're looking for a movie to make you feel,
take you on an emotional roller coaster and experience one
of the greatest dramatic characters that you will root for
throughout the entire movie. Look no further than the Whale.
I give it four point five out of five. Charlie's
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it's time to head down the movie try, Laura Paul.
When you talk about the best horror franchises of all time,
I feel like the Evil Dead always gets left out
of that conversation. And these movies are so good. Yes
they're a little bit campy, Yes there can be a
little bit cheesy, but the Evil Dead movies, like, it's
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hard to make a movie to make you feel scared,
but it's even harder to make a movie that has
this sinister feeling, something that just creates this different level
of just like oh, Jump scares no, Like the Evil
Dead movies are actually really scary movies that will give
you nightmares. So the last one came out in ten
years later, now we are getting Evil Dead Rise. The
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movie is about two sisters who find themselves in a
fight for their life when that ancient book comes back
and you have these blood thirsty demons running amok in
a Los Angeles apartment building. This trailer looks utterly terrifying,
and if you are easily scared, I would say maybe
fast forward the next thirty seconds because I want to
play this trailer because I want that feeling again. So
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I'll get into what I think about Evil Dead Rise,
And here is just a little bit of the scary trailer.
You don't look. A big old kiss from you won't
fix ye. So sometimes my biggest concern and comment on
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horror movie trailers are that they probably show all of
the scary parts in the trailer, therefore ruining the movie
experience for me. But I don't think that will be
the case with Evil Dead Rise, because I feel like
this is just that a taste of the horror visuals
that are going to come out of this movie, and
this franchise at general is known for some pretty jarring
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and absurd and sinister visuals when it comes to horror,
and as many horror movies that I've watched in my life,
and feeling like I'm pretty desensitized to feeling scared in movies,
I got chills while watching this trailer. And there's just
something about stories that revolve around demons that I don't
care how strong you feel and your ability to not
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be scared, But after watching a movie like this, you
will think a little bit before you go to sleep
and remember some of these visuals when it comes to
the stabbing, when it comes to the demons with the
creepy look on their face, when it comes to them
eating glass, and you know, just stabbing people. There's just
something so different about these movies that I feel like
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just the style alone really sets themselves apart from any
other horror movie. And maybe it's because I was so
scared by the Evil Dead movie that I've kind of
blacked it out of my memory, but that was a
truly genuinely scary movie theater going experience for me, and
I want that feeling again. I need that feeling again.
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I'm always just looking for a movie that can either
make me feel or make me scared, or make me excited.
All of those levels of emotion are what I look
for when going to see a movie in theaters. And
I feel like the Evil Dead movies don't really use
all those common horror movie tropes. You don't really get
a whole lot of jump scares. It just seems like
some really great horror filmmaking, and it all goes back
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to the original movies which came out in the eighties.
Both one and two are classics. Bruce Campbell is a gym.
Sam Rami and him together are a great duo, which
Sam Raimi did all of the Spider Man movies in
the two thousands. He just did the Doctor Strange into
the Multiverse of Madness, which did have a Bruce Campbell cameo,
so it looks like he is still looking out for
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him and Sam Raimi knows horror. He's not a part
of this one, but I still feel like it is
made with keeping his legacy alive. And the other thing
I loved about the version is it had a strong
female lead and oftentimes you don't really see that in
a horror movie. And in addition to that, it looks
like it's stepping up the horror elements even more in
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this movie. And it also looks that since this movie
is coming out ten years after that one, they're gonna
step it up in every way. So again, that is
Evil Dead Rise coming out on April. Get ready this
week's edition of Movie, and that is gonna do it
for another episode of the podcast, but before I go,
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I gotta give my listeners shout out of the week.
This week, I am going over to Twitter. I got
a tweet from Holligan who said, need to know what
Mike Destro thought of the Menu movie. And I realized
in that tweet that I didn't include The Menu or
also the Fable Men's in my best of two episode.
Sometimes when those movies come out at the end of
the year, I have trouble labeling them as some of
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my favorites, and I feel like that should have at
least made my honorable mentions. And I really enjoyed The Menu.
It was one of my favorite thrillers last year, mainly
because it was so unexpected. I didn't know a whole
lot about the story going into it, and it surprised me.
And it's available now to watch if you missed it
in theaters, it's on HBO Max. So if you're into
thrillers with a little splash of horror, I think you
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should check that one out on HBO Max. So yes,
I did enjoy that one. And if ever you miss
an individual movie review and you don't have time to
go back in the feed and find it, I do
have a YouTube channel, YouTube dot com slash Mike Destro
and all the videos I put up there are just
the individual movie reviews themselves, so spoiler free movie reviews.
If you want to subscribe to that channel, and if
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you want to listener shout out, all you have to
do is tweet me, send me a d M on Instagram,
comment on my Facebook page, or even tag me in
your Instagram story. I'll repost you and I'll shout you
out in the following episode. So thank you for listening.
Thanks everybody who shared with me what movies you are
the most excited about. I took all of those and
kind of made my other list of movies I need
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to make sure to watch so I can give you
guys those reviews. So I hope you have a great
rest of your week, and until next time, go out
and watch good movies and I will talk to you
later
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