Mike and Kelsey are back to recap the Best and Worst movies they watched for the months of December and January. Mike shares what franchise let him down and he is ready to pass on to the new generation. Kelsey picks the worst picks that makes Mike question everything about modern filmmaking. In the Movie Review, Mike talks about The Wrecking Crew starring Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista. They play estranged half-brothers who reunite after their father's mysterious death. As they search for the truth, buried secrets reveal a conspiracy threatening to tear their family apart. Mike talks about his love of director Angel Manuel Soto, why this movie would have done well in theaters, his Top 5 Movies set in Hawaii and the one thing he really wished were better! In the Trailer Park, Mike proceeds with caution when talking about his excitement for “Masters of the Universe”. Nicholas Galitzine stars as Adam Glenn (also known as Prince Adam/He-Man), living his life mired in the boredom of corporate America...until someone finds his sword, threatening both Eternia and Earth. Mike shares what he hopes they use from the original animated series and his concern of Jared Leto as Skeletor.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Asmr as we start here, and that sound means it
is time for another episode a Movie Mike's Movie podcast.
I am your host Movie Mike, joined by my wife
and co host Kelsey.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
How are you surviving not thriving in the wake of
the ice storm? The indured elbow, the injured tailbone? Y? Yeah,
we talked about that here right, Yes, I think I
mentioned it.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
You're recovering now and it stept foot outside the house
because everything's still covered in ice. So luckily we did
not lose power.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yes, I want to say we were among the very fortunate, like.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
We so much so I felt guilty.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I felt guilty too. I told a friend that who
had lost power, and she was like, don't feel guilty.
She's like, you can't control it. It truly was, for
those not in Nashville, a situation of circumstance in which
which way the trees fell and which trees fell, honestly.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Because trees are falling around us.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
We have one in our front yard that has a
branch that's like pretty split and cracked and hasn't fallen.
But yeah, I mean there's ones in our backyard. There's
power lines down like across the street from our house.
It really was just a matter of did you have
a tree near your power line?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
But we are good. Your injury is getting better every day.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It is. Yeah, I'm just I'm a shut in right now.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
But we are here to do our first, best and
worst of the month. We're gonna combine December in January.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Two months that somehow felt like.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
In the movie review, we'll be talking about the wrecking Cruise,
Daring Dave Bautista, and Jason Momoa on Prime and in
the trailer park I'll break down the Masters of the
Universe trailer. Because I wasn't the biggest fan of the
animated show, but my brother was. Because he was born
in the eighties. I remember the old school movie. But
I've been excited for this one except for the fact
(01:36):
that Jared Leto.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Is in it.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
You're a Jared lettle It's just hard to be excited
about a movie that he is in right now.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
But I've told the story of seeing him on a
Limes scooter downtown, right.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, I just saw We just saw him randomly, just.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Go yeah, it wasn't even you. You were driving me.
You were dropping me off for dinner with a friend,
and I was like, was that Jared lottn't on a
Lime scooter And we looked up in sure enough thirty
seconds to Mars was in town. I was like, that
was definitely Jared Letto on a limescooter.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I would say, I'm not so much the hater of
his acting.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It just seems him in general even better.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
No, just because I think it's him in any kind
of superhero property where they just need a name and
they're like, let's get Jared Lettle, like in Dallas Buyer's Club.
I love them.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You could get a lot of other mediocre white memory.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
An American psycho.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
He's great.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I think he's a good actor, but I think when
he gets plugged into these big franchises, he's not the
right guy. They probably asked like ten other people and
they're like, all right, let's get Jared Letto. But that
is what we're gonna be talking about. Thank you for
being here, Thank you for being subscribed. Shout out to
the Monday Morning Movie crew at now Let's Talk Movies
Podcast Network, Movie Mikes Movie Podcast. A lot of movies
(02:40):
to talk about, so let's get right into the list.
What just a lot of We watched so many things
in December. So when you December first, then January, Kelsey,
what was your favorite movie the best thing you watched
in December.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
This wasn't surprising to me that it was my favorite, but.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Eternity really good and kind of went under the radar.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I do think so. I think it's on Apple. Yeah, now,
so if you haven't watched it yet, it's either on
Apple at the time that this comes out or coming
to Apple you can.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I think you can only buy it right now. It's
twenty dollars.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I don't know if any movie is worth Yeah, twenty
dollars is a lot. It's like I understand twenty dollars
is a movie ticket, but you kind of get the
experience of going to the movies.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, I will rent it for five ninety nine or
four ninety nine, but that twenty dollars mark still just
seems high if I want to, if it's still that much,
I would have rather seen it in theaters.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Okay, Well, it was my best of the month. It
is available on Apple if you want to spend a
twenty dollars if not, it is really good, and it
is really good. I do think it's a movie you
could watch more than once. So your return on investment
maybe about a ten dollars watch or if you're multiple
people watching it, you could break that down.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
If you look at it that way.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I can girl math this so many ways for you, because.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
If there was a movie like this that I was
going to watch, it would be something that you did
not want to watch and we didn't have time to
go see in theaters. That is the only reason I
would even look at a twenty dollars movie. And I
don't think it justifies just one person, but I forget that.
It's like a movie night and you're scrolling through movies
and you see one of these, like four people watching.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, I was gonna say, if you have a bunch
of girlfriends, guy friends that haven't seen it, invite everyone over.
It's kind of a good like Valentine's Day movie. Have
a little Gallentine's Night. Everyone brings their own snacks. You're
already down, like you're not spending twenty dollars on popcorn. Okay,
so I just made this affordable. There you go, everyone
have everyone chip in. Anyways, fantastic movie. Elizabeth Olsen. I
love her so much. She's so good. She is so good.
(04:29):
Callum Turner, fantastic, Miles Teller, Davine Joy Randolph. I will
watch anything with her in it. I will watch, truly
watch anything. She could be in an infomercial and I'd
watch it. I'm obsessed with her. I think she's phenomenal.
I thought a role in The Holdovers like really cemented
her as a standout. Her role on Only Murders in
(04:51):
the Building, Like, she just is fantastic. She can do comedy,
she can do drama. She can do drama edy, which
was kind of what Eternity was.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Because it's about two people who die and then you
find out. Well it's in the trailer, but she had
a previous husband who died, so then in war thought
that was her the love of her life. And then
she married a new guy, and now she has to
pick one person to spend attorney.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
They're all an eternity like in the pre Eternity together, So.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I did decide the husband who died way back in
the day or the husband who she spent all this
time with and has kids with, has the long life with.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
It's a great it's a great plot. It's a great plot.
I love the set too, like the set design, like
the kind of like hotel that they're in, and I
figured I was gonna love it, But it's also hard
with the movie like that where you think you're gonna
love it and you go in like so anxious that
it's not gonna live up, but it did.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I did see that it will be for free on
Apple on February thirteen.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Okay, I was like, I know it's coming right before
Valentine's Say, like.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
You said, perfect Valentine's Day movie.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
For my best of December, I'm gonna go with Marty
Supreme or.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
If we as we have Juveniley called it in the South,
Party's Party Supreme.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I think in December that was just my favorite theater
experience one because from our regal experience, we got the
free ping pong ball popcorn bucket.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yes, and the guy taking the tickets gave was this
old tip. He was like, you have the app, you
should have the free popcorn bucket, but it was just
a bucket, and then he goes, it doesn't come with popcorn,
but if you tell him that you thought it did,
they'll probably hook you on. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I'm like, I just want the bucket anyway, but thanks
for the tip that was just my favorite theater experience
because they got the free item. The guy next to
me also had the popcorn bucket and for a movie
over two hours, it went by so fast that I
did not want it to end. It had a lot
of action and had a great cast. And if it
weren't for it being such a stack category right now
(06:49):
going into Oscar season, any other year probably would have
won Best Picture. But I just think compared to one
Battle after another, compared to Sinners, I would even probably
throw cinema value in there, and Hamnet, there's just these
heavy hitters around it that it doesn't stand out as much,
although I think Timothy shallow may does stand out as much.
(07:09):
I just think it was so good and entertaining from
start to finish. I mean, it also made my favorite
movies of the year, so in my top ten, so
easily my favorite of December. What about your worst?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
The Family Plan too? It was so bad when you
sent me the list this morning of movies we watched,
I had to like scan my brain to be like,
what was that we watched it? What was it about?
I don't remember anything about it other than that it
kind of takes place at Christmas.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Sort of not really kind of fairly more so in
the poster and in the thumbnail for it, they tried
to make a Christmas tree, and it's like, oh, a
nice little Christmas movie with Mark Wahlberg. A sequel. Maybe
I didn't watch The Family Plan one, but very loosely
based on the Holidays. That was the lowest score from
me for December. I give it a point five out
of five.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It was bad. I think it was tied with that
Netflix movie for your lowest.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Oh yeah, we'll run through these, but yeah, for my
worst of December, I am going with Five Nights at
Freddy's two. I saw it in theaters. I gave it
a one out of five, which I think is the
lowest score of last year that I've given for a
movie I actually went to go see in theaters. Normally,
if I go, yeah, normally, if I go in theaters,
the minimum you were going to get is a two,
because I'm not leaving my house for less than a two.
(08:22):
Five Nights at Freddy's two. I really tried to believe
in this movie because I did not like the first one.
But I feel like it's because I didn't play the game.
I didn't know all the lore behind Five Nights at
Freddy's so interesting.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Kind of the reverse of the Family Plan. Because we
enjoyed the Family Plan one, you didn't like the first
movie this time and you were like, the sequel is
definitely hot to be bad.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I'm going to get it this time, Like I bought
more into it. I realized it wasn't gonna be a
straight ahead horror movie. It's a little bit campy. I
was like, I want to go into this one and
really enjoy it. And I'm like, Josh Hutcherson, I'm gonna
believe in you making a good movie. And he was
bad at it. It was so bad, sad. But then
I know he's going to come back for the Hunger
Games movie, and I'm like, man, that was my worst
(09:03):
of December.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Should we do a run through of everything we watched
in December before we get to.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Lay An do that? First up was Eternity, which I
also loved. I gave it a four out of five.
The Family Plan two I gave a point five. Would
you give that one? Yeah, you've given stuff a zero.
I never go zero. If I finish it, it's a
point five.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
The only thing that I've given a zero was Eddington,
and I stand by the zero. I'm gonna go also
a point five.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Hamnet, Oh so good, very emotional. It's one that I
just keep going back to that I want to live
in those emotions I felt while watching it.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I want to rewatch it. It was almost my best
of December.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Hamnet doesn't have a streaming date yet, but it should
be on Peacock early twenty twenty six. I feel like
before the Auscar it has to so February. Yeah, be
a lookout on Peacock to watch Hamnet. J Kelly on Netflix,
which was the movie with Adam Sandler and George which
I thought I was gonna love more because the movie
(09:55):
is essentially about George Clooney playing a fictionalized version of
himself where he's in his fIF but he's looking back
on his life and thinking, Man, all of my memories
or movies, I didn't spend enough time with my kids.
My relationships are all based in movies. All the things
I remember were just things I was acting out with
other people on screen. What is my life like? What
have I missed out on? And he tries to go
(10:17):
spend some time with his daughter on this European vacation,
and it's really just like a deep dive into his
life and about movies a little bit, but mainly about
an older guy kind of regretting some of the decisions
in his life. And I just thought it was going
to be a little bit more of something that could
be nominated for Best Picture, which I think is what
they were kind of going for.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
You get that many big names on a ticket, and if.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
You get a dramatic Adam Sandler, which he was kind
of funny at times, but not like happy Gilmore funny.
He's kind of the comedic relief a little bit because
he's his manager.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
But he wasn't full uncut gems Adam Sandler.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
And he wasn't like punch drunk love Adam Sandler. He
was kind of just Adam Samer, kind of more normal
Adam Sandler. But I still think it was worthy of
a watch, especially in that third it kind of gets
you a little bit emotional where it leans more into
the life of George Clooney and you feel like that
was a little bit personal for him. I think that
(11:10):
was probably the best part of the entire movie, and
some of the things where they kind of were showing
how movies are made, or you're watching the movie, but
they're also showing a movie set and you're like, oh,
that looks cool, Like that looks fake, And then they
pulled the camera back a little bit and it's just
a film set. That part was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
You know what that reminds me of? That came up
on my TikTok the other day that I rewatched the
ending scene of The Hills.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Oh yeah, watched that. I've only watched that scene. I
haven't seen that whole episode, but when they like pull
it back page it was all a reality show.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I remember watching that and being like, excuse me, So.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
You didn't know leading up to that because I only
know that show primarily because of that scene.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
No, I had no clue, not that it was like
that scripted. I mean, you have an idea about like
reality TV, like producers, but not that it was like
fully on a sound stage.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Yeah, that would have been mine going to watch back
in the day.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
It was incredible television.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I'm gonna watch that now. We watched Oh what Fun
on Prime? Oh yeah, Michelle Pfiffer, which was I feel
like the closest you can get now to a Christmas Classic.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I liked it where.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I think, by normal standards of a movie, not a
great movie, but it's very campy, very fun, doesn't take
itself seriously, has that fun Christmas family dynamic, because it's
about her basically saying, I'm not doing this anymore. My
family is not.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Because all she wants is for them to nominate her
for this like Christmas Extravaganza for One Lucky Mom from
her favorite daytime talk show, and she has sent them
the link. She's even been like, here's the last day
to vote for this, here's.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
The last day.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
All I want, here's the link. This is literally I want,
and no one in her family does it.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Meanwhile, she's making Christmas happen, she's cooking, she's keeping the
family together, she's planning events, and then she just decides,
you know what, Christmas is canceled.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
It was funny.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
We weren't explaining a lot. It was just because really,
any new Christmas movie that comes out, the bar is low.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
The bars low.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
It's so low.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
It's like, you gotta be really good for me to
want to maybe rewatch it the next year. And I
would rewatch that.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
That is one that doesn't enter the category of we
rewatch it every single year. Not yet, but maybe it
gets its trial run next year, watch it again, and
then maybe it kind of works its way in there.
Because the one that always makes it that I really enjoyed.
Probably my favorite rewatch this year Office Christmas Party.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
It always hits listen the like Raunchy Comedies, Office Christmas
Party and Bad Mom's Christmas. And I know you love
Bad Sanda.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
It's Santa.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Yeah, it's not my favorite, but I'll watch Bad Santa
because you watch Bad Mom's Christmas with me. You know,
Bad Mom's Christmas when they steal the tree from the
foot locker from Lady foot Locker and they're running across
the mall, it's genius.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Next up, we watched Avatar, Fire and Ash, which was
really really long. This one felt over three hours long.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I said it when we reviewed it. I felt like
we watched the same movie twice.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yeah, but I gave that one still a three point
five at a five. Although if it wouldn't be for
this podcast, I would tap out of the franchise.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Now I'm going to give it a two point seven
to five. I'm just not letting invest it anymore. I
feel a long time.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
It is really long, and I would say I would
enjoy it more if I were able to watch it
in chunks, but I don't think so. I think the
only way I can watch this movie is sitting in
the theater and not being able to leave or do
anything else.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yeah, no, it was it was too long.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
So if I didn't do this podcast, i'd be like,
I'm not watching these anymore. But because they are still
the biggest movie every year that they come out, I'm
kind of forced to you because I gotta figure out
what is going to happen in the next one and
then see how it kind of changes visually still really.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Good, and then it's like, if I don't go see
it with you, we don't spend Freddy I am.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Therefore, that's three hours of a weekend.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
So therefore I am also forced.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I went to go watch the SpongeBob movie, which I
have to decide which I have now passed the torch
on to the new generation, which I probably should have
done like a decade and a half ago, but I
just realized that they're not for me anymore because I
love the two D SpongeBob and this one is the
three D SpongeBob, it's not the SpongeBob of my childhood.
They also make him way more dumb. And I don't
think SpongeBob is dumb. Patrick is dumb, but.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
SpongeBob wasn't a sentence.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
SpongeBob is still like a sensible character. He is very
self aware in the TV show even just has more
of qualities of an adult than a kid, And in
this movie he was a full on kid. So I
felt like I was like, that's not my SpongeBob. That's
somebody else's SpongeBob, who's probably SpongeBob six years old.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Talk about the staying power of a theme song. Can
sing the whole thing right now.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
There are very few animated shows. I can sing the
whole theme song too. SpongeBob is probably top.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Five, and even the little flute at the end.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Then the bubbles, Yeah, I know, the whole thing. But
I gave that one a two point five out of five.
We went to go see The Housemaid.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Surprisingly liked it entertaining.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I don't say that it's a good movie. Entertain little
cheese Ball at times a little over the top dramatic.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I could have done with a different casting for a
certain role.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
It's one of those movies that I think benefited from
us seeing it in theaters because other people were popping
off and commenting on things, and it very much felt
like a community.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I love Amanda Sayfrey truly.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
She is the best.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
See I feel like underrated and people don't understand just
how talented she is. Have you seen the clip going
around with her and Kelly Clarkson singing together one of
Kelly's songs on Kelly's talk show, Oh My God. If
you haven't seen it, go look it up. It's phenomenal
and it's like I knew she could sing, but like that,
like she covers a Kelly Clarkson song, and Kelly Clarkson
(16:41):
covers other people's songs better than they do it, So
for Amanda Safrey to sing a Kelly Clarkson song phenomenal.
I love her. That also gives it away that the
recast I would like to see is not being that,
and also.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Just an incredible range to think about. She was in
Me and Girls back in the day, and then can
do a movie like The Housemaid, and then can also
just flip over and do the testament of an Lee
like can do it all? We also watched Knives Out
three on Netflix, which I think was really good.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Also agreed.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
We watched Train Dreams on Netflix as well, four point
five out of five for me beautiful.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I would give it the same reading.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Let's move on now to January. Your best for the
month of January.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
People we meet on vacation.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Based on a book? Did you read it?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I did while back, so I don't fully remember the book.
I knew the premise of it, so I wasn't one
of those people who's like they changed so many things,
I don't know what they change. Also, hardcore like book
to movie people MAKEE mad at this. I don't want
to watch the exact same thing that I.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Read a little different.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Yeah, that's fine, it's an adaptation, like take a little
creative liberty. But if something plays out better on screen
than it does in a book, again, I think different
things work better in books than movies. Similar to how
I felt about like how the Hamnet movie was better
than the book because it's very like cerebral and like emotional,
and I just don't feel like the words convey it
like acting like it's fine if they're a little different.
(18:00):
I'm okay with that.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I think you are onto something there, because I think
it is a little underwhelming when you go watch a
movie based on a book and it just plays out
exactly the same way. You don't leave excited because you're like, oh,
this happened, Okay, this is gonna have it. Oh the
whole thing just happened, and then it's open and you're like, okay,
I just saw it visually.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Similar to how, like Harry Potter, the movies don't always
include all the details of the book. That's fine. I
still want to enjoy going back and reading the book,
and I like rewatching the movies, So if they're the
exact same thing, then every year I'm watching and reading
it like four dimes at that point. So I think
being a little different than the book is okay. And
I thought it was really good. It was a rom com, Yeah,
just what I wanted on a weekend about.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Two people who meet their complete opposites and then the
whole movie takes place over ten years, right, and they
get together.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Every summer and go on vacation together as platonic friends.
So I thought it was really good.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah, a movie I wasn't expecting to enjoy. Like I
kind of said, earlier about Christmas movies. When it comes
to Netflix, rom Comes, the bar can be really low,
but I think it's because the source material was probably
pretty good.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Emily Henry, I love her mom coms. She does a
new one every year, like four out of the five
of them already have options for books or TV series.
She's great.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah. I thought the two actors had great on screen chemistry. Yes,
And by about twenty minutes into the movie, I was like,
I'm in. I might have been more invested than you.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
You were just invested because then you decided you didn't
want to fall asleep. Yeah, because we're watching it like
Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
I was like, well watch it. If I don't end
up liking it, I'll pass out. And then I was
like I look over and I.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Was like, are you enjoying it? And You're like, yeah,
so much so that I'm fighting to stay away.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I was like, okay, but I watched the whole thing.
I never fell asleep. For my best of January, I'm
gonna go with no other choice, which we did talk
about in the Oscar episode. It is about a guy
who was working at a company for over twenty years
thinks he has his whole life figured out until he
gets let go from that company and he's struggling to
(19:54):
keep his family from losing their home, struggling to put
food on the table, and what he decides to do
is essentially go on LinkedIn and find other people who
are applying for the job that he wants and take
him out. Yes, because he thinks, Okay, if I can
eliminate the competition of people who are trying to get
the job that I'm trying to get.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
That will make me the only candidate because.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
They're more qualified. If I take them out of the equation,
then I am right up there. So he determines like
who he has to take out. I think the thing
I was most surprised by. I thought it was going
to be a little bit darker because of the subject matter.
I thought it was going to have more of like
a horror movie feel to it.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
It was a dark comedy. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
It leaned way more into the comedy where there was
some violence, but it wasn't glorified and it wasn't too
hardcore and bloody, which you do get a little bit
uncomfortable with some of those things.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, the worst part was like a it involves teeth.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, ah, that is a little bit like that.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Was the only honestly gross part, and that wasn't even
necessarily gory.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
But some of the scenes had more of a comedic
tone than I was expecting, where they played even some
lighthearted music that kind of contrast to what was actually happening.
So it didn't really feel like a guy going on
a murderer's rampage. It felt more like a commentary on
how your company can just kind of kick it to
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the curb and you feel like an expendable employee, how.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
You're just a name to accompanying like an employee number,
and when they don't have use for you anymore, there
you go. It also featured two really cute golden retrievers.
Oh yeah, I love when a movie as cute dogs.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I also found that because it was in another language,
it really allowed me to focus in on all the dialogue.
I'm glad that we saw it in theaters at of course,
with the original audio of the language, because I cannot
watch a movie where they translated to English.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Like dubbed over.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
It loses all emotion. I feel disconnected from it. The
only time I feel differently about that is if it's
an animated movie, because when they do an animated movie
from another country, the US version, oftentimes they'll get real
American actors of the quality who actually take it as
a movie role and learn their characters and deliver it
in a way that matches the emotion, so it's not
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just somebody just kind of overdubbing something. They'll get like
Christian Bale to actually be a part of the American
voice cast. Yes, But in any other situation, if I'm
watching a movie like this, I want to watch it
in the language the way it was intended to be seen,
because I think the emotion comes out and even though
I don't understand the language, when I hear it spoken
in the way that the actor on screen is doing it,
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I feel it. And sometimes you just have to feel
that emotion through the words, even though you don't know
what the words mean.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Also, subtitles keep me engaged. Yeah, doesn't have any reading.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
I mean even now with things we watch in English
sometimes anything in the UK, sometimes you still need the subtitles.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Were ever watching a show right now for the UK.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
It's a different dialect a little bit, and you're like,
I need some subtitles here. I also know a.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Lot of people who are just like I'm at the
age where it's like subtitles on all the time. I
saw a TikTok for somebody who was like, I wish
audiobooks had subtitles, and then they were like, I gotta
get off the internet because somebody was like, so that's
a book. So it was like, so that that is
a book, which was then turned into audio.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
It's funny when we go so far one way, we
think like, oh, we'd been something new. Now that's the
thing we made it certain right, you're worse for January
The Rip? The Rip?
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Yeah, how is the Rip?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
It's like the best Netflix movie in a while?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Get it out of everything we watched in January again,
worst does it mean a bad movie? The worst for
years that I it was the least enjoyable to me.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I wondered if, like the bar has been set so
low that we think The Rip is a really good movie,
or if it came out.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I didn't think it was really because I really enjoyed it,
and insay did enjoy it, but it wasn't like in
my best word, But I.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Think all my enjoyment came from the fact that I
think the bar for original Netflix movies has been set
so low that we accept the bare minimum that it
being a little bit more dynamic, the story actually being compelling,
the acting being pretty good. It kind of falls apart
a little bit in the third act. Has the bar
just got so low that a mid movie like this
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or it would have been a mid movie any other
year outside of the Netflix era and.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
With any other actors. Yeah, I think the names that
they put to it listen. I love that they struck
a deal, and like everyone who works from the film,
if the film does well, because I do think it
was worth a watch. Yeah, it just was my least
favorite of the month. I also didn't watch as many
movies as you this month, so I'm going off of
just the movies I watched. The other things I watched
were stronger.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I will say that did motivate me a little bit
more to watch it. The fact that they struck this deal,
which is a new thing, because the thing about streaming
movies is what they normally do is just give you
a big chunk of money and there's no money to
be made on the back end, which is where a
lot of people got rich from movies where it's like, Okay,
if it does well in theaters, you had these incentives.
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You don't really have that in streaming anymore. And then
working out this deal is monumental because it hasn't happened
before and really only two actors with their name could
make that possible. So I think that did motivate me
a little bit more to watch it, knowing that Netflix
is so much more focused on I think they had
to watch at least five minutes of it to kind
of kick in. So it's more about completion rate to
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Netflix than if you enjoyed it or not, which also
makes me feel weird about movies in the streaming era.
Is it just content? Is it just like how many
people click on it and watch for a certain amount
of time.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Well, the fact that they've even said like you kind
of have to like repeat and have a hook in
the ring because people are multitasking.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
And you notice that more and more, and not just
Netflix movies but shows. You get one big boom at
the beginning, like boom, dead body, boom, here's why you
should watch this movie blood and guts up at the beginning,
Or if it's something romantic, here's a bear butt, something
that entice you in, and it just feels weird because
it kind of feels like a TikTok, like you got
to get that hook in the first five seconds to
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keep somebody from swiping up. Yeah, it's kind of weird
when that's applied to things that are more long form,
and movies are about sitting and enjoying something and building
up to something when you start putting in all these
little tricks and tips to get people just to watch
more rather than creating the movie you intended to create,
which again, it's a business at the end of the day,
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but it just feels weird to me that probably movies
that came out in the nineties or early two thousands
wouldn't have a chance in the streaming era because people
have short attention spans.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Yeah, they do, myself included.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
But for my worst of the month, it's the movie
I reviewed last week, Mercy with Chris Bratt, who I
think that could enter maybe my top ten worst movies
of the decade in the twenty twenties, and ef it's
the bad ones.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Movies are subjective too. Somebody commented on your TikTok that
they loved h kept them on the edge of their seat,
and I'm like, you know, there's a movie for everyone.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
It kept me in my seat from not leaving the theater,
but not the edge of my seat. I really had
to sink into it to not do the SpongeBob meme
like all right, I'm about a head out. All right,
I'm head out. But I could see if you really
love Chris Pratt or you just really love this genre,
because there's something about the plot itself that is enticing.
But I just think overall it was just really slapped
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together and it just had nothing to say that hasn't
been said a hundred times in a movie like this.
For the other things I watched in January, we Buried
the Dead with Daisy Ridley. It is a zombie movie,
but not like a zombie movie that you would expect,
because it has a little bit more emotional depth. It's
about her essentially trying to go find her husband after
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a zombie outbreak, and it's not just her running from zombies.
The zombies are kind of secondary. It's more about her
and a relationship with their husband. I also watched Primate
in theaters, absolutely the Killer Monkey movie. I gave a
three out of five people we met On Vacation. I
gave a four out of five. The Rip I gave
a four out of five. Twenty eight years later, The
Bone Temple was probably my runner up. I gave a
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four point five out of five. And I think that's
all the movies for January. Kind of a slow month
because not a whole lot comes out. You also don't
want to come out when there could be but actually
crazy weather that keeps people from going to the movies.
Which what was Mercy?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I think it made like ten million dollars opening weekend.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I don't know that that many people would have gone.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
To see him. Yeah, it wasn't a lot of hype
in that. All Right, we have gone a little long here,
but we can do our TV show.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
I can do book.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Okay, well I had to go quickly, so rude.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Okay, fine. I have two fiction and a non fiction.
The fiction would be the sequel to the Last Thing
He told Me, which was made into the Apple TV
show with Jennifer Gardner. Oh yeah, the sequel just came
out and it's called The First Time I Saw Him.
And I wasn't expecting to enjoy a sequel that much,
but I loved it. I couldn't put it down, and
I'm curious. It looks like the second season, which comes
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out in February, is going to kind of follow the
sequel but maybe differ a little, so I'm excited to
see what they do there. And then nonfiction, my book
club read The Carpool Detectives, which is about a group
of moms in California that during COVID kind of had
like an existential crisis of like what am I doing
with my life? And they team up and they literally
saw the cold case in California. Those are my books.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
I didn't read any books. I'm still working on the
Hail Mary project.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
It's Project Till Mary, Project.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Till Mary, same thing. It's close enough, okay, but I'm
getting there. You are my TV show. We did watch
His and Hers on Netflix, which that show was frustrating
to me. Why all the characters were doing things that
I thought nobody would do in real life. I know
it's based on a book, right, correct. It just felt
like it was perfectly written, but when you see it
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play out in a show, it didn't make sense to me.
A lot of plot holes, yeah, a little bit over
the top, too, over the top, but still one of
those shows you watch and you think, man, I got
to figure out how this ends.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
My TV show is going to be heated ATVY. I
was a little late to the game, and I waited
until January to watch it, just because I had so
many other shows I was finishing, and I wanted to
give it the full attention it deserved, and it did
indeed deserve my full attention.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Is it getting a season two?
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Yes it is.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
It's the only show I've heard about recently that people
have rewatched oh this season more than once.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Ever, every one has rewatched it, like three to four
times that I know of.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
I can't think of a show in the last even
ten years that I've rewatched. That's the weird part about
TV shows. We don't really rewatch them anymore. I still
rewatch er, but a show that comes out now, like
because I feel like so many more shows right now
are mini series like His and Hers that we just
talked about. Who's gonna if they love that show? Who
would go back and rewatch that?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
I don't feel like that's a genre that's like really
rewatchable though, because you already know the twists. Heated Rivalry
is more of a roman to be a drama. I
feel like that's more. You're not waiting for something to
like the twist to click, or like the plot holes
to be fixed with the plot to thick end, like
you're just kind of watching a story.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I guess the only show that I still want to
rewatch is Stranger Things that's been from the last ten years. Yes,
which you said you would still watch it with me. Yeah, okay,
we had a lot of things to watch, but that
is our best and worst of the month. I'll come
back and give my spoiler free review of The Wrecking Crew.
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Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie review
of The Wrecking Crew, starring Dave Bautista Jason Momoa, directed
by one of my favorite directors, I'm hen Manuel Soto,
who also directed Blue Beetle, which I believe is such
an underrated superhero movie. And I know I'm saying that
with a Mexican bias, because that movie I felt was
made for somebody just like me, one of those movies
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I go back and watch once a year and it
really connects with me. And I believe I'm Hill has
a way of making an action movie that does exactly that.
Connects with the audience where when it comes to the
Wrecking Crew, if any other director did this, it would
just be another run of the mill Amazon Prime movie
that gets thrown up on there, we watch it and
then forget about it in a week or so. But
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there was just something from the very beginning when I
hit play on this movie that it felt different, and
I knew it was made with a director who had
a vision, who knew this movie had to be more
than just two really big, muscly guys running around blowing
things up and fighting bad guys. So what this movie
is about. Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa play brothers, but
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they're strange. But their dad dies and there are some
suspicious details to his death. The authority say it was
a hidden run, but if you look at the details,
it's not quite adding up. So Dave Batista is now
working in the military. At the very beginning of the movie,
he is in this training where he is underwater, just
sitting there for a very long time without breathing, and
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all these other guys he is training are down there
with some kettlebells holding their breath, and that crazy visual
of seeing Dave Bautista who is so ripped up. I
don't even think he is human. He's not even just
a big guy with muscles. To me, he is just
like a chunk of brisket. And I think the hardest
thing in this movie is believing that he is a
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real person, believing that Jason Momoa is a real person,
because they look so unlike any other human that they
stand out so much that the two of them were
destined for starlife. Dave Batista obviously coming from a wrestling background,
and Jason Momoa, where I first saw him in Game
of Thrones, went on to be Aquaman. They are both
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from Hawaii, even though the movie was filmed in New
Zealand looked amazing by the way. Jason Momoa is living
in Oklahoma working in law enforcement, but because of the
death of his dad, he comes to Hawaii for the
very first time in a long time after well, a
lot of crap happened in his childhood, and we learn
all about that. So the stage is set, and then
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you see all these bad people after the both of them,
the Yakuza, like it was in the trailer, show up
to Jason Momoa's house and he takes him down in
nothing but a towel, which I think was such a
great action sequence, even though I kind of already knew
what was going to happen because of watching the trailer.
But the full fight had some really great choreography, people
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getting sliced in ways that I had not seen before.
But I think the thing that really stood out that
made it feel like a unique action sequence was the
fact that Jason Momo did the entire thing in a towel,
made some jokes with his wiener which are at continuation
throughout the entire film. But I think out of everything
that really gives this movie a unique profile is the
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setting of Hawaii and all the people in the cast.
That just gives this movie an entirely different flavor. It
gives it some authenticity, It makes it feel unique, It
makes it stand out, much like when I watch Blue Beetle,
where that cast in a superhero movie to me, has
never been done before so automatically sets itself apart in
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the genre. I got the same thing here. I felt
like it was there in Hawaii, even though they filmed
it in New Zealand, because of all the pieces around
Jason Momoa and Dave Batista and them just sticking out
so much on screen where I felt this movie would
have done and played really well in theaters up until
about the third act, where some of the action sequences
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get a little bit bigger, you get more explosions, you
get more gunfights. I feel like it wasn't until the
third act where I started to see, okay, this is
where maybe the budget was restricted a little bit. It
didn't have that big summer blockbuster feel to it that
most movies like this would have. So all up until
that point, I thought, why was this movie not out
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in theaters? Because you had two great characters where Deve
Batista is very serious, he talks in a very low tone,
almost monotone. Jason Momoa cracks a bunch of jokes, saying
I don't understand what you were saying. They are complete
opposites in this where Jason Momoa is drinking all the time,
making jokes, causing a ruckus, breaking things being the comedic relief.
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It's like the odd couple on screen. So that entire
dynamic worked really well together. And above all, this movie
was a story about two brothers learning to be around
each other again, showing that they still love each other
even though they are half siblings and haven't spoken to
each other in a very long time. That is what
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the root of all the emotions were in this movie,
a story about two brothers learning to come together and
figure out who killed their father. The only thing I
didn't like about the backstory that they created is very
early on they just start telling you all these details
for no reason, saying people's names, where they live. It
just felt a little bit like they were over explaining
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it in the beginning to really set the stage, which
I think it didn't need to do that, because it
did a pretty good job at showing you everything once
we all got going. But I feel like this is
almost a streaming movie device that everybody uses now we've
been talking about on this episode, where you have to
call out things. You have to be so deliberate now
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in all the details, where I feel like that loses
a little bit of the art of filmmaking, where you
know somebody is watching this movie on their phone, on
their tablet, or not paying full attention to it, that
you have to state details like that so much in
the beginning because you look up and you're lost. That
part of it. I did not enjoy. If this movie
would have been made not in the streaming era, probably
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wouldn't have happened, But that really stoock out to me
in the beginning, where they kept going on and on
about all these details to make sure you really knew
what was going on. It just felt like they were
over explaining things. But aside from that, I don't feel
like the movie sacrificed too much to cater more towards
a streaming audience than an in theater experience audience. I
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think the only thing this movie really lacked were a
couple of more plot points where I was so invested
about thirty forty minutes in and I was waiting for
obstacle after obstacle, new details unraveled that would really keep
this story moving along. Because it is a crime thriller,
or at least it tries to be, and you don't
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really learn a whole lot of new details. You have
a little bit of information that you learned early on,
and all these trails that they try to follow and
these clues, and it takes so long to get there,
to the point that by the time it does get
to that final battle, it feels like you haven't taken
that much of a journey with these characters, and that
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was the only thing I really felt that it lacked
was a little bit more development as far as creating
more action, more momentum, to really move this story along,
to really feel that by the time we got to
that final battle, the stakes were really high, and that
final battle was pretty good. They had some extra fighting
sequences in there that I thought. The cinematography really stepped
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itself up, but it just lacked a little bit of
impact because of that failure to develop all of these characters.
And also I just had an issue with the villain.
It just felt a little bit too generic bad guy.
I've seen this villain before in so many action movies.
I haven't seen these two leads. These two characters felt
very unique. Dave Batista and Jason Momoa playing brothers is
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one of the best casting decisions in the streaming era,
but when it came to the villain and the wrecking crew,
it just didn't work for me. It felt so generic
and lackluster. Where you have these two brothers who have
gone through so much and they're trying to figure out
what happened to their dad. You have this big connection
between their families and the island and the people of Hawaii,
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and then you have this very generic villain that feels
like he was pulled right out of the eighties, which
is maybe what this was trying to be an O
two at times, but everything else felt so new and modern.
The villain just didn't work for me. The other things
that stick out to me was the girl who played
Lilo and Lilo and Stitch was also featured in this movie.
The other kid in the family had some of the
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best punk rock t shirts I've ever seen in a movie.
He had a Bad Brain shirt, he had an Operation
IVY shirt. I'm like, who is giving this kid this
amazing music? I would have killed for those shirts at
his age. That was another cool little detail that I loved.
You had a lot of classic rock in the opening
of this movie to really give you that aesthetic of
who Jason Momoa's character was of just wanting to party
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where jackets and ride motorcycles and go to bars and
get in fights. And I love the setting so much
that The Wrecking Crew has now made my top five
movies that take place in Hawaii, because at number five
I have The Wrecking Crew. At number four, I have
Forgetting Sarah Marshall at number three. I have Fifty First
Dates at number two, one of my favorite childhood movies
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of all time, back in the golden era of Disney
Channel movies. Give Me Johnny Tsunami at number two, which
is also where I learned a lot of Hawaiian phrases
that when I was watching The Wrecking Crew, I was like,
that's what Johnny Tsunami's grandpa said. Johnny Tsunami was such
a core movie of my childhood that at the time
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I didn't realize that was representing a culture that at
that time wasn't really well represented in film. That it
took more than twenty years after that movie to get
another centerpiece like The Wrecking Crew. So at number two,
I have Johnny Tsunami and at number one, I have
Lelo and Stitch, the best movie set in Hawaii. Give
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me the animated, give Me the live action. That movie
made me want to go to Hawaii that when I
did go for the first time, I felt like I
was right there inside the movie. I actually stayed at
a Disney resort and they had a Stitch You, and
they had a stitch you well that kind of works.
A stitch statue. It's a stitch you they had a
statue of Stitch that I still go back on my
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phone and find that old picture I took with it.
But hands down the number one movie that takes place
in Hawaii, Lelo and Stitch. So now The Wrecking Crew
is in my top five. And I think when it
comes to an action movie like this, the max score
I could give it that I think it could earn
if it was just the best. At the best is
a four out of five. This movie gets pretty close
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to that. I just wanted some more clues. The ending
just fell a little bit flat for me. So for
The Wrecking Crew, I give it three point five out
of five. Film drives inside to head down to movie
Mike Trailer Park. I have the power. I am trying
to limit my excitement for Masters of the Universe because
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as much as I want to fully buy into it,
I think this is gonna be a great movie. They're
finally gonna get it right. There are so many things
that are red flax to me. One Jared Leto and
he is not in this movie as himself. He did
the motion capture and the voice acting per Skeletor, who
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is just a fantastic villain. But the thing about Skeletor
is I love the version in the animated show from
back in the eighties, who is sassy who has giving
people the business cutting people down with these insults. That
is the Skeletor. I love this Skeletor. I can't remember
when I had him all pleasant day like that meme
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is hilarious to me. Or him just rattling off insult
after insult. He's got sauce on s boob. The only
time I've ever heard of animated villain refer to someone
as a boob. And it gets better. Ramlish idiots, you
couldn't even beat a monthly group of notes. Get over, hey,
you f f But there's no way to take that
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energy and put it into this movie. It feels completely
different than the animated show, feels completely different than the
movie from the eighties with Dolph Lundgren as he Man
that came out back in nineteen eighty seven. In this movie,
it's about he man on Earth named Adam Glenn later
to be known as Prince Adam and he Man. He
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is living just a normal life working a desk job
in corporate America until somebody finds his sword and he
gets to go back home. Because he is obsessed with
all of these things that people are telling him are
just in stories with talking tigers, castles and spaceships, and
he knows someday I'm going to go back home to
where I belong. And then he gets to go back
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home because it's under Earth is going to be under
attack and he has to be the hero. So I
don't know how I feel about that version of this
story of putting him on Earth with normal people. It
really feels like Minecraft to me. So to me, that
feels like it's going to have a little bit more
of This is a movie safe for everybody. When I
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think a Masters of the Universe movie could be so
much more hardcore, skeletor deserves to be so much more hardcore.
But before I get into more, Masters of the Universe
is coming out on June fifth, let's take a look
at the trailer.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
Why did you send me away? I wanted you to
be saying, so I sent you to a place in
that they never find you are. Yes, this obsession with
nerd stuff and sort things, it's not a good look
for human resources. I know it sounds crazy, but that
sort has kind of showed me the way out in
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the fu.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
Sounds pretty good. He looks really good as he Man.
Nicholas Gallatzign plays Adam Glenn slash Prince Adam slash he Man.
I know him primarily from the Amazon movie The Idea
of You, where he played alongside Anne Hathaway. He was
a pop star who was much younger than her. They
meet at Coachella, they start hanging out together. But when
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it comes to his filmography, that is the movie I
know him for the most, but he looks completely different.
He was eating four thousand calories a day, hitting the gym,
heavyweight lifting all those things to put on an incredible
amount of poundage, gained to be he Man, and he
looks fantastic. And to me, he looks only second next
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to Skeletor. I really believe that they spent the entire
budget making sure they got Skeletor and his look downright.
Where once you see his face it is the right texture.
Because in the original movie from the eighties, it looks
like paper machine. It looks really fake, and that takes
you out of it a lot. But here you have
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that same concept of design when it comes to his
face and his wardrobe. But it looks good, really good,
and I just don't know if the performance from Jared
Leto is going to match that because you don't get
any of his dialogue in this. You see his face,
you see a little bit of him fighting he man
at the end, but they have not given us any
(46:32):
glimpse as to how he is going to approach his voice.
So is he going to be like this at all?
I can't remember when I've had him all pleasant day.
Probably not, because that does not fit the vibe of
this movie, even though it does feel a little bit
just like Minecraft, which we just watched, a video game
adaptation that felt very big, larger than life, bold, colorful
(46:57):
characters which you have Battlecat. The green Cat really just
stands out in this trailer. All of the supporting cast
in The Masters of the Universe are very unique designs
that really pop off the screen. So it just kind
of has that same feeling that I don't think it's
gonna have that emotional depth, that level of intensity that
(47:18):
I would want and be excited for in a Master's
of the Universe movie, So I am kind of just
limiting my excitement going into it, thinking it is going
to be a fun popcorn movie this summer it's gonna
have that big screen action, and I still think it's
going to be better than the original. There's no way
it can be worse because I think Jared Letto is
not the star of it. If he was, he man
(47:39):
no way. I wouldn't buy into this at all. And
I want to enjoy this movie. The character designs look good.
Idris Elbow looks good. I was surprised to see him
in a movie of this caliber where he is just
crushing it right now. He can do anything he wants.
He's hijacking planes, he's hijacking anything over on Apple Plus.
And to see him take a role like this leads
(48:00):
me to believe that the script has to be good.
I can't imagine he would just take a paycheck right
now where I feel his career is at such a
high point that he's not going to do a movie
just for the money. At least I am telling myself that.
And I do believe though, that they spent a lot
of money on getting Skeletor right, so much so that
I feel the set design and the world they are
(48:23):
creating here doesn't look as good. Castle Grayskull looks pretty good,
especially in the scene where they cut to and it's
covered in blood. But outside of that, all of the
buildings and some of the extra characters that you can
tell they just kind of replicated in the background looks
a little bit too flimsy. It doesn't feel concrete. They
(48:43):
think we'll just fill in the background. Who is going
to care? You know, who is going to care? I
am going to care because that takes me so much
out of the experience of going to see a movie
in the summer in theaters. I want to be fully immersed.
I don't want this weird trick that they do with
blurring all of the perimeter of the screen to get
(49:03):
you to focus on just the character in the foreground.
That is cheap to me, and I see that here
in this trailer. Hopefully maybe they're finishing up some things
on the special effects department, but I don't want to
see that. I want to be immersed in this world.
I want to feel like I am walking up to
Castle Grayskull myself. Aside from that, everything else looks pretty good.
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I would rate the CGI in this maybe a B
plus upon my first impressions of it. In this two
minute trailer just looks a little flimsy to me, and
I don't want it to remind me anything of the
original movie. Also in this cast, alongside Jared Leto Idris Elba,
you also have Alison Bree as Evil Lynn. I think
(49:48):
she is the most underappreciated character. In this trailer, you
really only get one quick frame of her, and that
is what worries me about this movie. What is the
final product going to be? Can you hype it up?
With all these actors involved in it, With this very
slick trailer really giving us a great snapshot of what
we're going to get out of it without revealing too much.
(50:10):
We get that final frame of he Man yelling out
I have the power and he's totally ripped. You have
the sword. All those things are there. But what is
going to set this movie apart from every other eighties adaptation?
Because the twenty twenties have been so focused on reviving
things from the eighties, from Beatle Jews, from The Running Man,
(50:33):
remakes and sequels and prequels, all the things from the
eighties are being made right now at an alarming rate.
What is going to set this movie apart? I still
don't know what it is. By the look of this trailer.
But hopefully by the time this movie comes out on
June fifth, we will know. And if this movie comes
out and I rate it at least a three point
(50:53):
five out of five, that is a major win. Anything
below that waste of time, a waste of bringing back
this franchise, a waste of what could have been three
point five or more. We're good. I'm happy. That's all
I need. Anything below that, it's gonna feel like a
failure to me. So again, Masters of the Universe comes
(51:14):
out in theaters this summer on June fifth.
Speaker 2 (51:17):
And that was this week's edition of Movie Mike Trailer.
Speaker 1 (51:21):
Bars, and that is gonna do it for another episode
here of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta
give my listeners shout out of the week this week.
I'm going over to my YouTube channel, which is YouTube
dot com slash Mike dshro If you want to go
watch individual movie reviews. Maybe a movie came out in
theaters a couple months ago that I reviewed and it
(51:43):
just came out on streaming, and you want to go
back and find my review and my thoughts on that,
you can find those really easily on my YouTube page,
or you can always find the link down in the
episode notes. This week, I'm going over to the comments
on my twenty eight years later the Bone Temple bit
video and shouting out John D who said best in
(52:04):
the series question mark. Nah, I would rank them in
the order that they came out. First of all, John,
thank you for watching on YouTube. Thanks for the comment.
I could see that, John, if you are somebody who
loved the original format that was created in twenty eight
days later, where twenty eight weeks later the sequel to
(52:24):
that feels very much like a continuation and the same
format of that movie, where twenty eight years later, the
movie that came out last summer could almost be not
even in this franchise just because it has the name.
It doesn't have that much connection to what happened in
those first two movies aside from the rage virus and
the origins of it. But as far as the characters
(52:46):
and where the world is, you could actually change the
name of this and it would still work. It doesn't
really need the connection to those two. So while one
and two very much feel like they have the same formula,
have the same DNA, I feel like twenty eight years
later and the Bone Temple feel like a real refresh.
They also have two entirely different directors, so even between
(53:09):
these last two movies can also feel completely different from
the movie that preceded it. So John, if you were
somebody who fell in love with twenty eight days Later
and wanted more of that, I think that is why
you would rank them that way, because one and two
match so well, and then three and four feel very
much different. But for me, I'm going the Original, then
(53:30):
The Bone Temple, and then twenty eight years later they
came out last year, and then I'm going twenty eight
weeks later. So again, sometimes even just explaining these is
a little bit tough because they just don't really match up.
Kind of like the Fast and the Purious movies. They
go Fast and the Furious, two Past two, Furious Tokyo,
Drift Fast seven Furious. You know, they all just kind
(53:51):
of go all over the place. But appreciate you for
watching and commenting. Thank you right now wherever you're listening,
and until next time, go out and watch good movies
and I will talk to you.
Speaker 2 (54:12):
Yeah,
Asmr as we start here, and that sound means it
is time for another episode a Movie Mike's Movie podcast.
I am your host Movie Mike, joined by my wife
and co host Kelsey.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
How are you surviving not thriving in the wake of
the ice storm? The indured elbow, the injured tailbone? Y? Yeah,
we talked about that here right, Yes, I think I
mentioned it.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
You're recovering now and it stept foot outside the house
because everything's still covered in ice. So luckily we did
not lose power.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yes, I want to say we were among the very fortunate, like.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
We so much so I felt guilty.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I felt guilty too. I told a friend that who
had lost power, and she was like, don't feel guilty.
She's like, you can't control it. It truly was, for
those not in Nashville, a situation of circumstance in which
which way the trees fell and which trees fell, honestly.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Because trees are falling around us.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
We have one in our front yard that has a
branch that's like pretty split and cracked and hasn't fallen.
But yeah, I mean there's ones in our backyard. There's
power lines down like across the street from our house.
It really was just a matter of did you have
a tree near your power line?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
But we are good. Your injury is getting better every day.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It is. Yeah, I'm just I'm a shut in right now.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
But we are here to do our first, best and
worst of the month. We're gonna combine December in January.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Two months that somehow felt like.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
In the movie review, we'll be talking about the wrecking Cruise,
Daring Dave Bautista, and Jason Momoa on Prime and in
the trailer park I'll break down the Masters of the
Universe trailer. Because I wasn't the biggest fan of the
animated show, but my brother was. Because he was born
in the eighties. I remember the old school movie. But
I've been excited for this one except for the fact
(01:36):
that Jared Leto.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Is in it.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
You're a Jared lettle It's just hard to be excited
about a movie that he is in right now.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
But I've told the story of seeing him on a
Limes scooter downtown, right.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, I just saw We just saw him randomly, just.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Go yeah, it wasn't even you. You were driving me.
You were dropping me off for dinner with a friend,
and I was like, was that Jared lottn't on a
Lime scooter And we looked up in sure enough thirty
seconds to Mars was in town. I was like, that
was definitely Jared Letto on a limescooter.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I would say, I'm not so much the hater of
his acting.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It just seems him in general even better.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
No, just because I think it's him in any kind
of superhero property where they just need a name and
they're like, let's get Jared Lettle, like in Dallas Buyer's Club.
I love them.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You could get a lot of other mediocre white memory.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
An American psycho.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
He's great.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I think he's a good actor, but I think when
he gets plugged into these big franchises, he's not the
right guy. They probably asked like ten other people and
they're like, all right, let's get Jared Letto. But that
is what we're gonna be talking about. Thank you for
being here, Thank you for being subscribed. Shout out to
the Monday Morning Movie crew at now Let's Talk Movies
Podcast Network, Movie Mikes Movie Podcast. A lot of movies
(02:40):
to talk about, so let's get right into the list.
What just a lot of We watched so many things
in December. So when you December first, then January, Kelsey,
what was your favorite movie the best thing you watched
in December.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
This wasn't surprising to me that it was my favorite, but.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Eternity really good and kind of went under the radar.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I do think so. I think it's on Apple. Yeah, now,
so if you haven't watched it yet, it's either on
Apple at the time that this comes out or coming
to Apple you can.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I think you can only buy it right now. It's
twenty dollars.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I don't know if any movie is worth Yeah, twenty
dollars is a lot. It's like I understand twenty dollars
is a movie ticket, but you kind of get the
experience of going to the movies.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, I will rent it for five ninety nine or
four ninety nine, but that twenty dollars mark still just
seems high if I want to, if it's still that much,
I would have rather seen it in theaters.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Okay, Well, it was my best of the month. It
is available on Apple if you want to spend a
twenty dollars if not, it is really good, and it
is really good. I do think it's a movie you
could watch more than once. So your return on investment
maybe about a ten dollars watch or if you're multiple
people watching it, you could break that down.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
If you look at it that way.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I can girl math this so many ways for you, because.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
If there was a movie like this that I was
going to watch, it would be something that you did
not want to watch and we didn't have time to
go see in theaters. That is the only reason I
would even look at a twenty dollars movie. And I
don't think it justifies just one person, but I forget that.
It's like a movie night and you're scrolling through movies
and you see one of these, like four people watching.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, I was gonna say, if you have a bunch
of girlfriends, guy friends that haven't seen it, invite everyone over.
It's kind of a good like Valentine's Day movie. Have
a little Gallentine's Night. Everyone brings their own snacks. You're
already down, like you're not spending twenty dollars on popcorn. Okay,
so I just made this affordable. There you go, everyone
have everyone chip in. Anyways, fantastic movie. Elizabeth Olsen. I
love her so much. She's so good. She is so good.
(04:29):
Callum Turner, fantastic, Miles Teller, Davine Joy Randolph. I will
watch anything with her in it. I will watch, truly
watch anything. She could be in an infomercial and I'd
watch it. I'm obsessed with her. I think she's phenomenal.
I thought a role in The Holdovers like really cemented
her as a standout. Her role on Only Murders in
(04:51):
the Building, Like, she just is fantastic. She can do comedy,
she can do drama. She can do drama edy, which
was kind of what Eternity was.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Because it's about two people who die and then you
find out. Well it's in the trailer, but she had
a previous husband who died, so then in war thought
that was her the love of her life. And then
she married a new guy, and now she has to
pick one person to spend attorney.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
They're all an eternity like in the pre Eternity together, So.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I did decide the husband who died way back in
the day or the husband who she spent all this
time with and has kids with, has the long life with.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
It's a great it's a great plot. It's a great plot.
I love the set too, like the set design, like
the kind of like hotel that they're in, and I
figured I was gonna love it, But it's also hard
with the movie like that where you think you're gonna
love it and you go in like so anxious that
it's not gonna live up, but it did.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I did see that it will be for free on
Apple on February thirteen.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Okay, I was like, I know it's coming right before
Valentine's Say, like.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
You said, perfect Valentine's Day movie.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
For my best of December, I'm gonna go with Marty
Supreme or.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
If we as we have Juveniley called it in the South,
Party's Party Supreme.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I think in December that was just my favorite theater
experience one because from our regal experience, we got the
free ping pong ball popcorn bucket.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yes, and the guy taking the tickets gave was this
old tip. He was like, you have the app, you
should have the free popcorn bucket, but it was just
a bucket, and then he goes, it doesn't come with popcorn,
but if you tell him that you thought it did,
they'll probably hook you on. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I'm like, I just want the bucket anyway, but thanks
for the tip that was just my favorite theater experience
because they got the free item. The guy next to
me also had the popcorn bucket and for a movie
over two hours, it went by so fast that I
did not want it to end. It had a lot
of action and had a great cast. And if it
weren't for it being such a stack category right now
(06:49):
going into Oscar season, any other year probably would have
won Best Picture. But I just think compared to one
Battle after another, compared to Sinners, I would even probably
throw cinema value in there, and Hamnet, there's just these
heavy hitters around it that it doesn't stand out as much,
although I think Timothy shallow may does stand out as much.
(07:09):
I just think it was so good and entertaining from
start to finish. I mean, it also made my favorite
movies of the year, so in my top ten, so
easily my favorite of December. What about your worst?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
The Family Plan too? It was so bad when you
sent me the list this morning of movies we watched,
I had to like scan my brain to be like,
what was that we watched it? What was it about?
I don't remember anything about it other than that it
kind of takes place at Christmas.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Sort of not really kind of fairly more so in
the poster and in the thumbnail for it, they tried
to make a Christmas tree, and it's like, oh, a
nice little Christmas movie with Mark Wahlberg. A sequel. Maybe
I didn't watch The Family Plan one, but very loosely
based on the Holidays. That was the lowest score from
me for December. I give it a point five out
of five.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It was bad. I think it was tied with that
Netflix movie for your lowest.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Oh yeah, we'll run through these, but yeah, for my
worst of December, I am going with Five Nights at
Freddy's two. I saw it in theaters. I gave it
a one out of five, which I think is the
lowest score of last year that I've given for a
movie I actually went to go see in theaters. Normally,
if I go, yeah, normally, if I go in theaters,
the minimum you were going to get is a two,
because I'm not leaving my house for less than a two.
(08:22):
Five Nights at Freddy's two. I really tried to believe
in this movie because I did not like the first one.
But I feel like it's because I didn't play the game.
I didn't know all the lore behind Five Nights at
Freddy's so interesting.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Kind of the reverse of the Family Plan. Because we
enjoyed the Family Plan one, you didn't like the first
movie this time and you were like, the sequel is
definitely hot to be bad.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I'm going to get it this time, Like I bought
more into it. I realized it wasn't gonna be a
straight ahead horror movie. It's a little bit campy. I
was like, I want to go into this one and
really enjoy it. And I'm like, Josh Hutcherson, I'm gonna
believe in you making a good movie. And he was
bad at it. It was so bad, sad. But then
I know he's going to come back for the Hunger
Games movie, and I'm like, man, that was my worst
(09:03):
of December.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Should we do a run through of everything we watched
in December before we get to.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Lay An do that? First up was Eternity, which I
also loved. I gave it a four out of five.
The Family Plan two I gave a point five. Would
you give that one? Yeah, you've given stuff a zero.
I never go zero. If I finish it, it's a
point five.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
The only thing that I've given a zero was Eddington,
and I stand by the zero. I'm gonna go also
a point five.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Hamnet, Oh so good, very emotional. It's one that I
just keep going back to that I want to live
in those emotions I felt while watching it.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I want to rewatch it. It was almost my best
of December.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Hamnet doesn't have a streaming date yet, but it should
be on Peacock early twenty twenty six. I feel like
before the Auscar it has to so February. Yeah, be
a lookout on Peacock to watch Hamnet. J Kelly on Netflix,
which was the movie with Adam Sandler and George which
I thought I was gonna love more because the movie
(09:55):
is essentially about George Clooney playing a fictionalized version of
himself where he's in his fIF but he's looking back
on his life and thinking, Man, all of my memories
or movies, I didn't spend enough time with my kids.
My relationships are all based in movies. All the things
I remember were just things I was acting out with
other people on screen. What is my life like? What
have I missed out on? And he tries to go
(10:17):
spend some time with his daughter on this European vacation,
and it's really just like a deep dive into his
life and about movies a little bit, but mainly about
an older guy kind of regretting some of the decisions
in his life. And I just thought it was going
to be a little bit more of something that could
be nominated for Best Picture, which I think is what
they were kind of going for.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
You get that many big names on a ticket, and if.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
You get a dramatic Adam Sandler, which he was kind
of funny at times, but not like happy Gilmore funny.
He's kind of the comedic relief a little bit because
he's his manager.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
But he wasn't full uncut gems Adam Sandler.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
And he wasn't like punch drunk love Adam Sandler. He
was kind of just Adam Samer, kind of more normal
Adam Sandler. But I still think it was worthy of
a watch, especially in that third it kind of gets
you a little bit emotional where it leans more into
the life of George Clooney and you feel like that
was a little bit personal for him. I think that
(11:10):
was probably the best part of the entire movie, and
some of the things where they kind of were showing
how movies are made, or you're watching the movie, but
they're also showing a movie set and you're like, oh,
that looks cool, Like that looks fake, And then they
pulled the camera back a little bit and it's just
a film set. That part was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
You know what that reminds me of? That came up
on my TikTok the other day that I rewatched the
ending scene of The Hills.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Oh yeah, watched that. I've only watched that scene. I
haven't seen that whole episode, but when they like pull
it back page it was all a reality show.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I remember watching that and being like, excuse me, So.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
You didn't know leading up to that because I only
know that show primarily because of that scene.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
No, I had no clue, not that it was like
that scripted. I mean, you have an idea about like
reality TV, like producers, but not that it was like
fully on a sound stage.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Yeah, that would have been mine going to watch back
in the day.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
It was incredible television.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I'm gonna watch that now. We watched Oh what Fun
on Prime? Oh yeah, Michelle Pfiffer, which was I feel
like the closest you can get now to a Christmas Classic.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I liked it where.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I think, by normal standards of a movie, not a
great movie, but it's very campy, very fun, doesn't take
itself seriously, has that fun Christmas family dynamic, because it's
about her basically saying, I'm not doing this anymore. My
family is not.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Because all she wants is for them to nominate her
for this like Christmas Extravaganza for One Lucky Mom from
her favorite daytime talk show, and she has sent them
the link. She's even been like, here's the last day
to vote for this, here's.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
The last day.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
All I want, here's the link. This is literally I want,
and no one in her family does it.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Meanwhile, she's making Christmas happen, she's cooking, she's keeping the
family together, she's planning events, and then she just decides,
you know what, Christmas is canceled.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
It was funny.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
We weren't explaining a lot. It was just because really,
any new Christmas movie that comes out, the bar is low.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
The bars low.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
It's so low.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
It's like, you gotta be really good for me to
want to maybe rewatch it the next year. And I
would rewatch that.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
That is one that doesn't enter the category of we
rewatch it every single year. Not yet, but maybe it
gets its trial run next year, watch it again, and
then maybe it kind of works its way in there.
Because the one that always makes it that I really enjoyed.
Probably my favorite rewatch this year Office Christmas Party.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
It always hits listen the like Raunchy Comedies, Office Christmas
Party and Bad Mom's Christmas. And I know you love
Bad Sanda.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
It's Santa.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Yeah, it's not my favorite, but I'll watch Bad Santa
because you watch Bad Mom's Christmas with me. You know,
Bad Mom's Christmas when they steal the tree from the
foot locker from Lady foot Locker and they're running across
the mall, it's genius.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Next up, we watched Avatar, Fire and Ash, which was
really really long. This one felt over three hours long.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I said it when we reviewed it. I felt like
we watched the same movie twice.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yeah, but I gave that one still a three point
five at a five. Although if it wouldn't be for
this podcast, I would tap out of the franchise.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Now I'm going to give it a two point seven
to five. I'm just not letting invest it anymore. I
feel a long time.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
It is really long, and I would say I would
enjoy it more if I were able to watch it
in chunks, but I don't think so. I think the
only way I can watch this movie is sitting in
the theater and not being able to leave or do
anything else.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yeah, no, it was it was too long.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
So if I didn't do this podcast, i'd be like,
I'm not watching these anymore. But because they are still
the biggest movie every year that they come out, I'm
kind of forced to you because I gotta figure out
what is going to happen in the next one and
then see how it kind of changes visually still really.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Good, and then it's like, if I don't go see
it with you, we don't spend Freddy I am.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Therefore, that's three hours of a weekend.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
So therefore I am also forced.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I went to go watch the SpongeBob movie, which I
have to decide which I have now passed the torch
on to the new generation, which I probably should have
done like a decade and a half ago, but I
just realized that they're not for me anymore because I
love the two D SpongeBob and this one is the
three D SpongeBob, it's not the SpongeBob of my childhood.
They also make him way more dumb. And I don't
think SpongeBob is dumb. Patrick is dumb, but.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
SpongeBob wasn't a sentence.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
SpongeBob is still like a sensible character. He is very
self aware in the TV show even just has more
of qualities of an adult than a kid, And in
this movie he was a full on kid. So I
felt like I was like, that's not my SpongeBob. That's
somebody else's SpongeBob, who's probably SpongeBob six years old.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Talk about the staying power of a theme song. Can
sing the whole thing right now.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
There are very few animated shows. I can sing the
whole theme song too. SpongeBob is probably top.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Five, and even the little flute at the end.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Then the bubbles, Yeah, I know, the whole thing. But
I gave that one a two point five out of five.
We went to go see The Housemaid.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Surprisingly liked it entertaining.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I don't say that it's a good movie. Entertain little
cheese Ball at times a little over the top dramatic.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I could have done with a different casting for a
certain role.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
It's one of those movies that I think benefited from
us seeing it in theaters because other people were popping
off and commenting on things, and it very much felt
like a community.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I love Amanda Sayfrey truly.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
She is the best.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
See I feel like underrated and people don't understand just
how talented she is. Have you seen the clip going
around with her and Kelly Clarkson singing together one of
Kelly's songs on Kelly's talk show, Oh My God. If
you haven't seen it, go look it up. It's phenomenal
and it's like I knew she could sing, but like that,
like she covers a Kelly Clarkson song, and Kelly Clarkson
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covers other people's songs better than they do it, So
for Amanda Safrey to sing a Kelly Clarkson song phenomenal.
I love her. That also gives it away that the
recast I would like to see is not being that,
and also.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Just an incredible range to think about. She was in
Me and Girls back in the day, and then can
do a movie like The Housemaid, and then can also
just flip over and do the testament of an Lee
like can do it all? We also watched Knives Out
three on Netflix, which I think was really good.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Also agreed.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
We watched Train Dreams on Netflix as well, four point
five out of five for me beautiful.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I would give it the same reading.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Let's move on now to January. Your best for the
month of January.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
People we meet on vacation.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Based on a book? Did you read it?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I did while back, so I don't fully remember the book.
I knew the premise of it, so I wasn't one
of those people who's like they changed so many things,
I don't know what they change. Also, hardcore like book
to movie people MAKEE mad at this. I don't want
to watch the exact same thing that I.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Read a little different.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Yeah, that's fine, it's an adaptation, like take a little
creative liberty. But if something plays out better on screen
than it does in a book, again, I think different
things work better in books than movies. Similar to how
I felt about like how the Hamnet movie was better
than the book because it's very like cerebral and like emotional,
and I just don't feel like the words convey it
like acting like it's fine if they're a little different.
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I'm okay with that.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I think you are onto something there, because I think
it is a little underwhelming when you go watch a
movie based on a book and it just plays out
exactly the same way. You don't leave excited because you're like, oh,
this happened, Okay, this is gonna have it. Oh the
whole thing just happened, and then it's open and you're like, okay,
I just saw it visually.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Similar to how, like Harry Potter, the movies don't always
include all the details of the book. That's fine. I
still want to enjoy going back and reading the book,
and I like rewatching the movies, So if they're the
exact same thing, then every year I'm watching and reading
it like four dimes at that point. So I think
being a little different than the book is okay. And
I thought it was really good. It was a rom com, Yeah,
just what I wanted on a weekend about.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Two people who meet their complete opposites and then the
whole movie takes place over ten years, right, and they
get together.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Every summer and go on vacation together as platonic friends.
So I thought it was really good.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah, a movie I wasn't expecting to enjoy. Like I
kind of said, earlier about Christmas movies. When it comes
to Netflix, rom Comes, the bar can be really low,
but I think it's because the source material was probably
pretty good.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Emily Henry, I love her mom coms. She does a
new one every year, like four out of the five
of them already have options for books or TV series.
She's great.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah. I thought the two actors had great on screen chemistry. Yes,
And by about twenty minutes into the movie, I was like,
I'm in. I might have been more invested than you.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
You were just invested because then you decided you didn't
want to fall asleep. Yeah, because we're watching it like
Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
I was like, well watch it. If I don't end
up liking it, I'll pass out. And then I was
like I look over and I.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Was like, are you enjoying it? And You're like, yeah,
so much so that I'm fighting to stay away.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I was like, okay, but I watched the whole thing.
I never fell asleep. For my best of January, I'm
gonna go with no other choice, which we did talk
about in the Oscar episode. It is about a guy
who was working at a company for over twenty years
thinks he has his whole life figured out until he
gets let go from that company and he's struggling to
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keep his family from losing their home, struggling to put
food on the table, and what he decides to do
is essentially go on LinkedIn and find other people who
are applying for the job that he wants and take
him out. Yes, because he thinks, Okay, if I can
eliminate the competition of people who are trying to get
the job that I'm trying to get.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
That will make me the only candidate because.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
They're more qualified. If I take them out of the equation,
then I am right up there. So he determines like
who he has to take out. I think the thing
I was most surprised by. I thought it was going
to be a little bit darker because of the subject matter.
I thought it was going to have more of like
a horror movie feel to it.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
It was a dark comedy. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
It leaned way more into the comedy where there was
some violence, but it wasn't glorified and it wasn't too
hardcore and bloody, which you do get a little bit
uncomfortable with some of those things.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, the worst part was like a it involves teeth.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, ah, that is a little bit like that.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Was the only honestly gross part, and that wasn't even
necessarily gory.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
But some of the scenes had more of a comedic
tone than I was expecting, where they played even some
lighthearted music that kind of contrast to what was actually happening.
So it didn't really feel like a guy going on
a murderer's rampage. It felt more like a commentary on
how your company can just kind of kick it to
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the curb and you feel like an expendable employee, how.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
You're just a name to accompanying like an employee number,
and when they don't have use for you anymore, there
you go. It also featured two really cute golden retrievers.
Oh yeah, I love when a movie as cute dogs.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I also found that because it was in another language,
it really allowed me to focus in on all the dialogue.
I'm glad that we saw it in theaters at of course,
with the original audio of the language, because I cannot
watch a movie where they translated to English.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Like dubbed over.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
It loses all emotion. I feel disconnected from it. The
only time I feel differently about that is if it's
an animated movie, because when they do an animated movie
from another country, the US version, oftentimes they'll get real
American actors of the quality who actually take it as
a movie role and learn their characters and deliver it
in a way that matches the emotion, so it's not
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just somebody just kind of overdubbing something. They'll get like
Christian Bale to actually be a part of the American
voice cast. Yes, But in any other situation, if I'm
watching a movie like this, I want to watch it
in the language the way it was intended to be seen,
because I think the emotion comes out and even though
I don't understand the language, when I hear it spoken
in the way that the actor on screen is doing it,
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I feel it. And sometimes you just have to feel
that emotion through the words, even though you don't know
what the words mean.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Also, subtitles keep me engaged. Yeah, doesn't have any reading.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
I mean even now with things we watch in English
sometimes anything in the UK, sometimes you still need the subtitles.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Were ever watching a show right now for the UK.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
It's a different dialect a little bit, and you're like,
I need some subtitles here. I also know a.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Lot of people who are just like I'm at the
age where it's like subtitles on all the time. I
saw a TikTok for somebody who was like, I wish
audiobooks had subtitles, and then they were like, I gotta
get off the internet because somebody was like, so that's
a book. So it was like, so that that is
a book, which was then turned into audio.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
It's funny when we go so far one way, we
think like, oh, we'd been something new. Now that's the
thing we made it certain right, you're worse for January
The Rip? The Rip?
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Yeah, how is the Rip?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
It's like the best Netflix movie in a while?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Get it out of everything we watched in January again,
worst does it mean a bad movie? The worst for
years that I it was the least enjoyable to me.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I wondered if, like the bar has been set so
low that we think The Rip is a really good movie,
or if it came out.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I didn't think it was really because I really enjoyed it,
and insay did enjoy it, but it wasn't like in
my best word, But I.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Think all my enjoyment came from the fact that I
think the bar for original Netflix movies has been set
so low that we accept the bare minimum that it
being a little bit more dynamic, the story actually being compelling,
the acting being pretty good. It kind of falls apart
a little bit in the third act. Has the bar
just got so low that a mid movie like this
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or it would have been a mid movie any other
year outside of the Netflix era and.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
With any other actors. Yeah, I think the names that
they put to it listen. I love that they struck
a deal, and like everyone who works from the film,
if the film does well, because I do think it
was worth a watch. Yeah, it just was my least
favorite of the month. I also didn't watch as many
movies as you this month, so I'm going off of
just the movies I watched. The other things I watched
were stronger.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I will say that did motivate me a little bit
more to watch it. The fact that they struck this deal,
which is a new thing, because the thing about streaming
movies is what they normally do is just give you
a big chunk of money and there's no money to
be made on the back end, which is where a
lot of people got rich from movies where it's like, Okay,
if it does well in theaters, you had these incentives.
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You don't really have that in streaming anymore. And then
working out this deal is monumental because it hasn't happened
before and really only two actors with their name could
make that possible. So I think that did motivate me
a little bit more to watch it, knowing that Netflix
is so much more focused on I think they had
to watch at least five minutes of it to kind
of kick in. So it's more about completion rate to
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Netflix than if you enjoyed it or not, which also
makes me feel weird about movies in the streaming era.
Is it just content? Is it just like how many
people click on it and watch for a certain amount
of time.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Well, the fact that they've even said like you kind
of have to like repeat and have a hook in
the ring because people are multitasking.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
And you notice that more and more, and not just
Netflix movies but shows. You get one big boom at
the beginning, like boom, dead body, boom, here's why you
should watch this movie blood and guts up at the beginning,
Or if it's something romantic, here's a bear butt, something
that entice you in, and it just feels weird because
it kind of feels like a TikTok, like you got
to get that hook in the first five seconds to
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keep somebody from swiping up. Yeah, it's kind of weird
when that's applied to things that are more long form,
and movies are about sitting and enjoying something and building
up to something when you start putting in all these
little tricks and tips to get people just to watch
more rather than creating the movie you intended to create,
which again, it's a business at the end of the day,
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but it just feels weird to me that probably movies
that came out in the nineties or early two thousands
wouldn't have a chance in the streaming era because people
have short attention spans.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Yeah, they do, myself included.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
But for my worst of the month, it's the movie
I reviewed last week, Mercy with Chris Bratt, who I
think that could enter maybe my top ten worst movies
of the decade in the twenty twenties, and ef it's
the bad ones.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Movies are subjective too. Somebody commented on your TikTok that
they loved h kept them on the edge of their seat,
and I'm like, you know, there's a movie for everyone.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
It kept me in my seat from not leaving the theater,
but not the edge of my seat. I really had
to sink into it to not do the SpongeBob meme
like all right, I'm about a head out. All right,
I'm head out. But I could see if you really
love Chris Pratt or you just really love this genre,
because there's something about the plot itself that is enticing.
But I just think overall it was just really slapped
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together and it just had nothing to say that hasn't
been said a hundred times in a movie like this.
For the other things I watched in January, we Buried
the Dead with Daisy Ridley. It is a zombie movie,
but not like a zombie movie that you would expect,
because it has a little bit more emotional depth. It's
about her essentially trying to go find her husband after
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a zombie outbreak, and it's not just her running from zombies.
The zombies are kind of secondary. It's more about her
and a relationship with their husband. I also watched Primate
in theaters, absolutely the Killer Monkey movie. I gave a
three out of five people we met On Vacation. I
gave a four out of five. The Rip I gave
a four out of five. Twenty eight years later, The
Bone Temple was probably my runner up. I gave a
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four point five out of five. And I think that's
all the movies for January. Kind of a slow month
because not a whole lot comes out. You also don't
want to come out when there could be but actually
crazy weather that keeps people from going to the movies.
Which what was Mercy?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I think it made like ten million dollars opening weekend.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I don't know that that many people would have gone.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
To see him. Yeah, it wasn't a lot of hype
in that. All Right, we have gone a little long here,
but we can do our TV show.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
I can do book.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Okay, well I had to go quickly, so rude.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Okay, fine. I have two fiction and a non fiction.
The fiction would be the sequel to the Last Thing
He told Me, which was made into the Apple TV
show with Jennifer Gardner. Oh yeah, the sequel just came
out and it's called The First Time I Saw Him.
And I wasn't expecting to enjoy a sequel that much,
but I loved it. I couldn't put it down, and
I'm curious. It looks like the second season, which comes
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out in February, is going to kind of follow the
sequel but maybe differ a little, so I'm excited to
see what they do there. And then nonfiction, my book
club read The Carpool Detectives, which is about a group
of moms in California that during COVID kind of had
like an existential crisis of like what am I doing
with my life? And they team up and they literally
saw the cold case in California. Those are my books.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
I didn't read any books. I'm still working on the
Hail Mary project.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
It's Project Till Mary, Project.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Till Mary, same thing. It's close enough, okay, but I'm
getting there. You are my TV show. We did watch
His and Hers on Netflix, which that show was frustrating
to me. Why all the characters were doing things that
I thought nobody would do in real life. I know
it's based on a book, right, correct. It just felt
like it was perfectly written, but when you see it
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play out in a show, it didn't make sense to me.
A lot of plot holes, yeah, a little bit over
the top, too, over the top, but still one of
those shows you watch and you think, man, I got
to figure out how this ends.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
My TV show is going to be heated ATVY. I
was a little late to the game, and I waited
until January to watch it, just because I had so
many other shows I was finishing, and I wanted to
give it the full attention it deserved, and it did
indeed deserve my full attention.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Is it getting a season two?
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Yes it is.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
It's the only show I've heard about recently that people
have rewatched oh this season more than once.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Ever, every one has rewatched it, like three to four
times that I know of.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
I can't think of a show in the last even
ten years that I've rewatched. That's the weird part about
TV shows. We don't really rewatch them anymore. I still
rewatch er, but a show that comes out now, like
because I feel like so many more shows right now
are mini series like His and Hers that we just
talked about. Who's gonna if they love that show? Who
would go back and rewatch that?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
I don't feel like that's a genre that's like really
rewatchable though, because you already know the twists. Heated Rivalry
is more of a roman to be a drama. I
feel like that's more. You're not waiting for something to
like the twist to click, or like the plot holes
to be fixed with the plot to thick end, like
you're just kind of watching a story.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I guess the only show that I still want to
rewatch is Stranger Things that's been from the last ten years. Yes,
which you said you would still watch it with me. Yeah, okay,
we had a lot of things to watch, but that
is our best and worst of the month. I'll come
back and give my spoiler free review of The Wrecking Crew.
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Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie review
of The Wrecking Crew, starring Dave Bautista Jason Momoa, directed
by one of my favorite directors, I'm hen Manuel Soto,
who also directed Blue Beetle, which I believe is such
an underrated superhero movie. And I know I'm saying that
with a Mexican bias, because that movie I felt was
made for somebody just like me, one of those movies
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I go back and watch once a year and it
really connects with me. And I believe I'm Hill has
a way of making an action movie that does exactly that.
Connects with the audience where when it comes to the
Wrecking Crew, if any other director did this, it would
just be another run of the mill Amazon Prime movie
that gets thrown up on there, we watch it and
then forget about it in a week or so. But
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there was just something from the very beginning when I
hit play on this movie that it felt different, and
I knew it was made with a director who had
a vision, who knew this movie had to be more
than just two really big, muscly guys running around blowing
things up and fighting bad guys. So what this movie
is about. Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa play brothers, but
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they're strange. But their dad dies and there are some
suspicious details to his death. The authority say it was
a hidden run, but if you look at the details,
it's not quite adding up. So Dave Batista is now
working in the military. At the very beginning of the movie,
he is in this training where he is underwater, just
sitting there for a very long time without breathing, and
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all these other guys he is training are down there
with some kettlebells holding their breath, and that crazy visual
of seeing Dave Bautista who is so ripped up. I
don't even think he is human. He's not even just
a big guy with muscles. To me, he is just
like a chunk of brisket. And I think the hardest
thing in this movie is believing that he is a
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real person, believing that Jason Momoa is a real person,
because they look so unlike any other human that they
stand out so much that the two of them were
destined for starlife. Dave Batista obviously coming from a wrestling background,
and Jason Momoa, where I first saw him in Game
of Thrones, went on to be Aquaman. They are both
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from Hawaii, even though the movie was filmed in New
Zealand looked amazing by the way. Jason Momoa is living
in Oklahoma working in law enforcement, but because of the
death of his dad, he comes to Hawaii for the
very first time in a long time after well, a
lot of crap happened in his childhood, and we learn
all about that. So the stage is set, and then
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you see all these bad people after the both of them,
the Yakuza, like it was in the trailer, show up
to Jason Momoa's house and he takes him down in
nothing but a towel, which I think was such a
great action sequence, even though I kind of already knew
what was going to happen because of watching the trailer.
But the full fight had some really great choreography, people
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getting sliced in ways that I had not seen before.
But I think the thing that really stood out that
made it feel like a unique action sequence was the
fact that Jason Momo did the entire thing in a towel,
made some jokes with his wiener which are at continuation
throughout the entire film. But I think out of everything
that really gives this movie a unique profile is the
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setting of Hawaii and all the people in the cast.
That just gives this movie an entirely different flavor. It
gives it some authenticity, It makes it feel unique, It
makes it stand out, much like when I watch Blue Beetle,
where that cast in a superhero movie to me, has
never been done before so automatically sets itself apart in
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the genre. I got the same thing here. I felt
like it was there in Hawaii, even though they filmed
it in New Zealand, because of all the pieces around
Jason Momoa and Dave Batista and them just sticking out
so much on screen where I felt this movie would
have done and played really well in theaters up until
about the third act, where some of the action sequences
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get a little bit bigger, you get more explosions, you
get more gunfights. I feel like it wasn't until the
third act where I started to see, okay, this is
where maybe the budget was restricted a little bit. It
didn't have that big summer blockbuster feel to it that
most movies like this would have. So all up until
that point, I thought, why was this movie not out
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in theaters? Because you had two great characters where Deve
Batista is very serious, he talks in a very low tone,
almost monotone. Jason Momoa cracks a bunch of jokes, saying
I don't understand what you were saying. They are complete
opposites in this where Jason Momoa is drinking all the time,
making jokes, causing a ruckus, breaking things being the comedic relief.
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It's like the odd couple on screen. So that entire
dynamic worked really well together. And above all, this movie
was a story about two brothers learning to be around
each other again, showing that they still love each other
even though they are half siblings and haven't spoken to
each other in a very long time. That is what
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the root of all the emotions were in this movie,
a story about two brothers learning to come together and
figure out who killed their father. The only thing I
didn't like about the backstory that they created is very
early on they just start telling you all these details
for no reason, saying people's names, where they live. It
just felt a little bit like they were over explaining
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it in the beginning to really set the stage, which
I think it didn't need to do that, because it
did a pretty good job at showing you everything once
we all got going. But I feel like this is
almost a streaming movie device that everybody uses now we've
been talking about on this episode, where you have to
call out things. You have to be so deliberate now
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in all the details, where I feel like that loses
a little bit of the art of filmmaking, where you
know somebody is watching this movie on their phone, on
their tablet, or not paying full attention to it, that
you have to state details like that so much in
the beginning because you look up and you're lost. That
part of it. I did not enjoy. If this movie
would have been made not in the streaming era, probably
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wouldn't have happened, But that really stoock out to me
in the beginning, where they kept going on and on
about all these details to make sure you really knew
what was going on. It just felt like they were
over explaining things. But aside from that, I don't feel
like the movie sacrificed too much to cater more towards
a streaming audience than an in theater experience audience. I
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think the only thing this movie really lacked were a
couple of more plot points where I was so invested
about thirty forty minutes in and I was waiting for
obstacle after obstacle, new details unraveled that would really keep
this story moving along. Because it is a crime thriller,
or at least it tries to be, and you don't
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really learn a whole lot of new details. You have
a little bit of information that you learned early on,
and all these trails that they try to follow and
these clues, and it takes so long to get there,
to the point that by the time it does get
to that final battle, it feels like you haven't taken
that much of a journey with these characters, and that
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was the only thing I really felt that it lacked
was a little bit more development as far as creating
more action, more momentum, to really move this story along,
to really feel that by the time we got to
that final battle, the stakes were really high, and that
final battle was pretty good. They had some extra fighting
sequences in there that I thought. The cinematography really stepped
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itself up, but it just lacked a little bit of
impact because of that failure to develop all of these characters.
And also I just had an issue with the villain.
It just felt a little bit too generic bad guy.
I've seen this villain before in so many action movies.
I haven't seen these two leads. These two characters felt
very unique. Dave Batista and Jason Momoa playing brothers is
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one of the best casting decisions in the streaming era,
but when it came to the villain and the wrecking crew,
it just didn't work for me. It felt so generic
and lackluster. Where you have these two brothers who have
gone through so much and they're trying to figure out
what happened to their dad. You have this big connection
between their families and the island and the people of Hawaii,
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and then you have this very generic villain that feels
like he was pulled right out of the eighties, which
is maybe what this was trying to be an O
two at times, but everything else felt so new and modern.
The villain just didn't work for me. The other things
that stick out to me was the girl who played
Lilo and Lilo and Stitch was also featured in this movie.
The other kid in the family had some of the
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best punk rock t shirts I've ever seen in a movie.
He had a Bad Brain shirt, he had an Operation
IVY shirt. I'm like, who is giving this kid this
amazing music? I would have killed for those shirts at
his age. That was another cool little detail that I loved.
You had a lot of classic rock in the opening
of this movie to really give you that aesthetic of
who Jason Momoa's character was of just wanting to party
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where jackets and ride motorcycles and go to bars and
get in fights. And I love the setting so much
that The Wrecking Crew has now made my top five
movies that take place in Hawaii, because at number five
I have The Wrecking Crew. At number four, I have
Forgetting Sarah Marshall at number three. I have Fifty First
Dates at number two, one of my favorite childhood movies
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of all time, back in the golden era of Disney
Channel movies. Give Me Johnny Tsunami at number two, which
is also where I learned a lot of Hawaiian phrases
that when I was watching The Wrecking Crew, I was like,
that's what Johnny Tsunami's grandpa said. Johnny Tsunami was such
a core movie of my childhood that at the time
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I didn't realize that was representing a culture that at
that time wasn't really well represented in film. That it
took more than twenty years after that movie to get
another centerpiece like The Wrecking Crew. So at number two,
I have Johnny Tsunami and at number one, I have
Lelo and Stitch, the best movie set in Hawaii. Give
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me the animated, give Me the live action. That movie
made me want to go to Hawaii that when I
did go for the first time, I felt like I
was right there inside the movie. I actually stayed at
a Disney resort and they had a Stitch You, and
they had a stitch you well that kind of works.
A stitch statue. It's a stitch you they had a
statue of Stitch that I still go back on my
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phone and find that old picture I took with it.
But hands down the number one movie that takes place
in Hawaii, Lelo and Stitch. So now The Wrecking Crew
is in my top five. And I think when it
comes to an action movie like this, the max score
I could give it that I think it could earn
if it was just the best. At the best is
a four out of five. This movie gets pretty close
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to that. I just wanted some more clues. The ending
just fell a little bit flat for me. So for
The Wrecking Crew, I give it three point five out
of five. Film drives inside to head down to movie
Mike Trailer Park. I have the power. I am trying
to limit my excitement for Masters of the Universe because
(42:12):
as much as I want to fully buy into it,
I think this is gonna be a great movie. They're
finally gonna get it right. There are so many things
that are red flax to me. One Jared Leto and
he is not in this movie as himself. He did
the motion capture and the voice acting per Skeletor, who
(42:34):
is just a fantastic villain. But the thing about Skeletor
is I love the version in the animated show from
back in the eighties, who is sassy who has giving
people the business cutting people down with these insults. That
is the Skeletor. I love this Skeletor. I can't remember
when I had him all pleasant day like that meme
(42:55):
is hilarious to me. Or him just rattling off insult
after insult. He's got sauce on s boob. The only
time I've ever heard of animated villain refer to someone
as a boob. And it gets better. Ramlish idiots, you
couldn't even beat a monthly group of notes. Get over, hey,
you f f But there's no way to take that
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energy and put it into this movie. It feels completely
different than the animated show, feels completely different than the
movie from the eighties with Dolph Lundgren as he Man
that came out back in nineteen eighty seven. In this movie,
it's about he man on Earth named Adam Glenn later
to be known as Prince Adam and he Man. He
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is living just a normal life working a desk job
in corporate America until somebody finds his sword and he
gets to go back home. Because he is obsessed with
all of these things that people are telling him are
just in stories with talking tigers, castles and spaceships, and
he knows someday I'm going to go back home to
where I belong. And then he gets to go back
(43:58):
home because it's under Earth is going to be under
attack and he has to be the hero. So I
don't know how I feel about that version of this
story of putting him on Earth with normal people. It
really feels like Minecraft to me. So to me, that
feels like it's going to have a little bit more
of This is a movie safe for everybody. When I
(44:20):
think a Masters of the Universe movie could be so
much more hardcore, skeletor deserves to be so much more hardcore.
But before I get into more, Masters of the Universe
is coming out on June fifth, let's take a look
at the trailer.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
Why did you send me away? I wanted you to
be saying, so I sent you to a place in
that they never find you are. Yes, this obsession with
nerd stuff and sort things, it's not a good look
for human resources. I know it sounds crazy, but that
sort has kind of showed me the way out in
(44:54):
the fu.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
Sounds pretty good. He looks really good as he Man.
Nicholas Gallatzign plays Adam Glenn slash Prince Adam slash he Man.
I know him primarily from the Amazon movie The Idea
of You, where he played alongside Anne Hathaway. He was
a pop star who was much younger than her. They
meet at Coachella, they start hanging out together. But when
(45:26):
it comes to his filmography, that is the movie I
know him for the most, but he looks completely different.
He was eating four thousand calories a day, hitting the gym,
heavyweight lifting all those things to put on an incredible
amount of poundage, gained to be he Man, and he
looks fantastic. And to me, he looks only second next
(45:49):
to Skeletor. I really believe that they spent the entire
budget making sure they got Skeletor and his look downright.
Where once you see his face it is the right texture.
Because in the original movie from the eighties, it looks
like paper machine. It looks really fake, and that takes
you out of it a lot. But here you have
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that same concept of design when it comes to his
face and his wardrobe. But it looks good, really good,
and I just don't know if the performance from Jared
Leto is going to match that because you don't get
any of his dialogue in this. You see his face,
you see a little bit of him fighting he man
at the end, but they have not given us any
(46:32):
glimpse as to how he is going to approach his voice.
So is he going to be like this at all?
I can't remember when I've had him all pleasant day.
Probably not, because that does not fit the vibe of
this movie, even though it does feel a little bit
just like Minecraft, which we just watched, a video game
adaptation that felt very big, larger than life, bold, colorful
(46:57):
characters which you have Battlecat. The green Cat really just
stands out in this trailer. All of the supporting cast
in The Masters of the Universe are very unique designs
that really pop off the screen. So it just kind
of has that same feeling that I don't think it's
gonna have that emotional depth, that level of intensity that
(47:18):
I would want and be excited for in a Master's
of the Universe movie, So I am kind of just
limiting my excitement going into it, thinking it is going
to be a fun popcorn movie this summer it's gonna
have that big screen action, and I still think it's
going to be better than the original. There's no way
it can be worse because I think Jared Letto is
not the star of it. If he was, he man
(47:39):
no way. I wouldn't buy into this at all. And
I want to enjoy this movie. The character designs look good.
Idris Elbow looks good. I was surprised to see him
in a movie of this caliber where he is just
crushing it right now. He can do anything he wants.
He's hijacking planes, he's hijacking anything over on Apple Plus.
And to see him take a role like this leads
(48:00):
me to believe that the script has to be good.
I can't imagine he would just take a paycheck right
now where I feel his career is at such a
high point that he's not going to do a movie
just for the money. At least I am telling myself that.
And I do believe though, that they spent a lot
of money on getting Skeletor right, so much so that
I feel the set design and the world they are
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creating here doesn't look as good. Castle Grayskull looks pretty good,
especially in the scene where they cut to and it's
covered in blood. But outside of that, all of the
buildings and some of the extra characters that you can
tell they just kind of replicated in the background looks
a little bit too flimsy. It doesn't feel concrete. They
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think we'll just fill in the background. Who is going
to care? You know, who is going to care? I
am going to care because that takes me so much
out of the experience of going to see a movie
in the summer in theaters. I want to be fully immersed.
I don't want this weird trick that they do with
blurring all of the perimeter of the screen to get
(49:03):
you to focus on just the character in the foreground.
That is cheap to me, and I see that here
in this trailer. Hopefully maybe they're finishing up some things
on the special effects department, but I don't want to
see that. I want to be immersed in this world.
I want to feel like I am walking up to
Castle Grayskull myself. Aside from that, everything else looks pretty good.
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I would rate the CGI in this maybe a B
plus upon my first impressions of it. In this two
minute trailer just looks a little flimsy to me, and
I don't want it to remind me anything of the
original movie. Also in this cast, alongside Jared Leto Idris Elba,
you also have Alison Bree as Evil Lynn. I think
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she is the most underappreciated character. In this trailer, you
really only get one quick frame of her, and that
is what worries me about this movie. What is the
final product going to be? Can you hype it up?
With all these actors involved in it, With this very
slick trailer really giving us a great snapshot of what
we're going to get out of it without revealing too much.
(50:10):
We get that final frame of he Man yelling out
I have the power and he's totally ripped. You have
the sword. All those things are there. But what is
going to set this movie apart from every other eighties adaptation?
Because the twenty twenties have been so focused on reviving
things from the eighties, from Beatle Jews, from The Running Man,
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remakes and sequels and prequels, all the things from the
eighties are being made right now at an alarming rate.
What is going to set this movie apart? I still
don't know what it is. By the look of this trailer.
But hopefully by the time this movie comes out on
June fifth, we will know. And if this movie comes
out and I rate it at least a three point
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five out of five, that is a major win. Anything
below that waste of time, a waste of bringing back
this franchise, a waste of what could have been three
point five or more. We're good. I'm happy. That's all
I need. Anything below that, it's gonna feel like a
failure to me. So again, Masters of the Universe comes
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out in theaters this summer on June fifth.
Speaker 2 (51:17):
And that was this week's edition of Movie Mike Trailer.
Speaker 1 (51:21):
Bars, and that is gonna do it for another episode
here of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta
give my listeners shout out of the week this week.
I'm going over to my YouTube channel, which is YouTube
dot com slash Mike dshro If you want to go
watch individual movie reviews. Maybe a movie came out in
theaters a couple months ago that I reviewed and it
(51:43):
just came out on streaming, and you want to go
back and find my review and my thoughts on that,
you can find those really easily on my YouTube page,
or you can always find the link down in the
episode notes. This week, I'm going over to the comments
on my twenty eight years later the Bone Temple bit
video and shouting out John D who said best in
(52:04):
the series question mark. Nah, I would rank them in
the order that they came out. First of all, John,
thank you for watching on YouTube. Thanks for the comment.
I could see that, John, if you are somebody who
loved the original format that was created in twenty eight
days later, where twenty eight weeks later the sequel to
(52:24):
that feels very much like a continuation and the same
format of that movie, where twenty eight years later, the
movie that came out last summer could almost be not
even in this franchise just because it has the name.
It doesn't have that much connection to what happened in
those first two movies aside from the rage virus and
the origins of it. But as far as the characters
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and where the world is, you could actually change the
name of this and it would still work. It doesn't
really need the connection to those two. So while one
and two very much feel like they have the same formula,
have the same DNA, I feel like twenty eight years
later and the Bone Temple feel like a real refresh.
They also have two entirely different directors, so even between
(53:09):
these last two movies can also feel completely different from
the movie that preceded it. So John, if you were
somebody who fell in love with twenty eight days Later
and wanted more of that, I think that is why
you would rank them that way, because one and two
match so well, and then three and four feel very
much different. But for me, I'm going the Original, then
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The Bone Temple, and then twenty eight years later they
came out last year, and then I'm going twenty eight
weeks later. So again, sometimes even just explaining these is
a little bit tough because they just don't really match up.
Kind of like the Fast and the Purious movies. They
go Fast and the Furious, two Past two, Furious Tokyo,
Drift Fast seven Furious. You know, they all just kind
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of go all over the place. But appreciate you for
watching and commenting. Thank you right now wherever you're listening,
and until next time, go out and watch good movies
and I will talk to you.
Speaker 2 (54:12):
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