Mike and Kelsey are back to recap the Best and Worst Movies of February. Mike shares why he feels personally bad for his worst pic of the month after meeting one of the main actors from the film. Mike and Kelsey also share how they got busted at the movies when going to see Wuthering Heights. In the Movie Review, Mike talks about Scream 7. When a new Ghostface killer emerges in the town where Sidney Prescott has built a new life, her darkest fears are realized as her daughter becomes the next target. Mike talks about why this movie was hard to watch, the awful Ghost Face Mask and if it’s time to kill this franchise. In the Trailer Park, Mike gives his thoughts on Toy Story 5. Everyone’s favorite toys will have to team up once again. This time they’ll need to work together to save Bonnie from her Lilypad smart tablet as screens take over childhood. Mike shares why this feels familiar to Toy Story 1 and why unfortunately Disney-Pixar will never end the series.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I
am your host, Movie Mike, joined by my wife and
cost Kelsey. How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm good. I'm overly caffeinated on accident.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I'm not caffeinated enough. I need to drink another one
right after this, I need to drink more water. I'll
get into a movie review of Scream, which I went
to go watch by myself. I can't believe they made
seven of these movies.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Hey, you want to watch that? And I had the
house to myself to watch the Pit and Needle Point.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It's kind of nice.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
And in the trailer park, I'm going to break down
toy story five and how they're.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
What he's bald spot? Yeah, what he's getting old? I
mean we're all getting old. What did I say earlier
at the container store? Oh the pill boxing pillcase?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
It lights up and you know you're in your thirties
when you open and you go, this is cool.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I thought it was.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
But thank you for being here, Thank you for being subscribed.
Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now
let's talk movies podcast Network Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. All right,
kicking us off, what was the best thing you saw
in February in your opinion.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Obviously it was a movie starring Glenn Powell, How to
Make a Killing.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I'm surprised that movie tanked.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I don't feel like there was much marketing around it either,
because the.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Plot is great. It is like a remake. But I
just I feel like how massive he is as a celebrity.
I'm surprised that doesn't translate always into box office numbers
because he's such a good actor. It's not a bad movie,
it's a great movie. Well, I feel like it's the genre.
Like I kind of feel like people only want him
in like a rom com or he kind of action
(01:30):
You think he kind of well Running Man didn't do
that well either.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
That was also a remake.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yeah, maybe too many remakes.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Maybe the remakes aren't working.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Do you think he should have committed more to the
rom com? I almost know, No, why not?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Because then he never would have done Twisters.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I almost feel like actors now are more strategic about
not being typecast.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, I'm thinking of like examples, because.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
He could have crushed it. He could have done he
could have done anyone, but you too. He could have.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Set it up to I'll take a set complee underrated
Glynn movie. It's so good.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I think people don't realize how hard he's been working
for as long as he has yes where it feels
like he's really starting to pop off now because he's
in all these big roles. But he's been in so
much in the last fifty maybe not fifteen years, but
at least the last decade of really good, solid movies
that he's put in the work. But to some people
just feel like he came out of nowhere. But I
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feel like he has a really good track history of
just giving us good movies.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I think people think that about everyone though. They're like,
you just came out of nowhere, and it's like they've
been working. Maybe you just haven't seen it, but they've
been working.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Same thing with Pedro Pascal, like he kind of came
and then was in every single movie last summer, and
I feel like people thought, man, he's just in everything now,
But he's been consistent since the Game of Thrones.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
You know who's been in a lot that could go away.
Sidney Sweeney, she could go away.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I'm still excited for Euphoria though.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Well yeah, but that's more Zendaia. I feel like I
know she's in it, but Zendeia is the star.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah when it comes to her movies. Ah, but the
Housemaid though she has a franch right there, she could
do because there are multiple books of that, right.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, and she's already gonna do.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I found that movie entertaining.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I liked it, but because of Amanda say Red.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
But I still think with her part of that franchise,
that could be her franchise.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Fine, so that was your best, yeah, how to make
a killing. I was very entertained. I was not bored ever,
didn't even want to get up to go to the bathroom.
It had like dark humor.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
For my best of February, I'm gonna go with Send Help,
which going into that movie, you didn't know if you
were going to like it or not because it's classified
as a horror movie. But it was a lot more campy,
more of us suspense thriller, and all the horror elements
were very over the top and even like the blood
and guts graphic scenes. Yeah, but it was more it
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wasn't as realistic correct, and I feel like when stuff
is more realistic, that's when it freaks you out. A
little bit more like if it's a.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Saw, yes, how much, just like gunshots and like that
sort of.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Stuff which the headshot in movies has just become so
normal now, it's so shocking that I find myself to
feel more and more uncomfortable when I get worried about
a character like man, I don't want to see them die.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Well, I just don't like it. Just I don't like
the sound, and it's in so many movies.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I think there's also an element of experiencing that in
a theater now, where it gets so loud. I don't know.
Sometimes it just makes me a little bit uncomfortable, maybe
just because what's going on in the world at any
given time that it kind of puts you a little
bit on edge. I enjoy the filmmaking aspect of it
because it does bring emotion out in you, but sometimes
I don't like that feeling little too real. I feel
(04:35):
like getting you on board to go see it and
not totally hate it was a big win.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I hadn't seen a single movie in a month, so
I didn't see anything in January. There's nothing good out,
so I think I was just itching go back to
the movies.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, I just really enjoyed it, and I feel like
it brought back, in a good way a fun theater experience,
where for me it's really hard when people recommend a
movie to me that's just fun. So for my rating
on that one, I gave it a four out of five,
which I think was the second highest of the month.
But we'll get into that a little bit later.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
What about your worst It's gotta be crime one on one?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Really? Yes, the Chris Hemsworth, halle Berry, Mark Ruffalo.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Plotless film that had so many different character arcs didn't
need to be included.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Was I entertained? Sure, It's still the worst I saw
this month because it had no plot.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
That was the weird part about it is I was
entertained the entire time, but by the end of it
don't want to ruin it, but by the end of it,
I was like, what was the purpose of that?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
That's what I'm saying. What was the point? Why was
this movie made?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
So what the movie was about? You had it?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Not a plot?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
What's a description? There's three individuals and one crime connects
them all. Chris Hemsworth is like an elusive thief who
is plotting a big heist. Halle Berry is unhappy with
their job, and Mark Ruffalo is obsessed with finding Chris
Hemsworth's character. So it's how all their lives intertwine, all
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revolving one heist, and then you have a lot of
random intentions that don't really make sense throughout the movie.
I feel like it was trying to be more sophisticated
than it was, and I think that's why the plot
ended up not working for me, where I was like,
where did this even go? But still somehow so entertaining
all the way throughout.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I think I kept waiting for it to have like.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
A moment or like a hook or something.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
They kind of and I know they were all connected,
but I was waiting for that like final thread to
reveal itself or be pooled, and it just wasn't. I
think there's a lot of stuff left on the cutting
room floor, which is like how is their stuff left?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Because it was over two hours.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I also think that they kind of changed Chris Hamsworth's
character from beginning to end in a bad way where
I feel like movies have to have this. You have
to know the intentions of every single character in their morale,
and they're like ethics and like what they will do
and what they won't do, and what makes them the
way they are. I feel like they didn't have that
with all the characters, where it was like, Okay, he's
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going to do this this way. He's going to be
so meticulous about every single crime he plots out. His
whole thing is he doesn't leave behind any evidence, he
doesn't hurt anybody, and then by the end of the
movie he doesn't really hold true to all the things
he was in the beginning. It just feels like at
the end they were just like, yeah, let's just do whatever.
Let's just try to make an entertaining ending, and let's
just have things go off the rails because we think
(07:19):
that'd be the best way to close out this movie.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
It almost felt like they brought in like a different
writer midway.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
It was like yeah, it was almost like they split directors,
Like all right, somebody else finished this thing.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
It's like two different films.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, but still but still entertaining. It's like, I wouldn't
tell people not to watch it, which is weird because
I think I don't think we got any benefit of
seeing it in theaters. I think you could watch it
at home and have the same experience. So as much
as I question all the intentions of the film and
the decisions they made with all the characters, I would
(07:51):
still encourage people to kind of make your own judgment
on it whenever it comes to streaming.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
And you can multitask while watching it.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
There's not that crazy Walline throughout that. For my worst
of February, I'm gonna go with I can only imagine
two And I feel bad about it. Why because I
got to meet Milo, who you know from.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Gilmore Girls, This is Us all of his roles.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I only know him from This is Us really, And
when you were like Gilmore Girls instantly, honestly, I didn't
even know he was in that.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Well, yeah, you asked me.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
You were like, oh, do you know, like, do you
remember Vintimilia from This Is Us? And I was like,
do you mean Jess Mariano from Gilmore Girls? Yes, I'm aware.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
How prominent was he in that show? Was he huge?
So he wasn't just like a one season type Carrien?
Oh ah, yeah, I no idea.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
He was one of.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Rory's boyfriends and so many you know the discourse of
when people are like team Dean, team Jess, Team Logan,
have you ever heard any of that discourse?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
No from Gilmore girls, Yes, no, those like.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Her three boyfriends throughout the show, and you are like
very in a camp of which team you are now?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I remember when we went to Universal in Los Angeles,
we drove by like the set. Was it the gazebo? Yes,
that's what it was. And it's one of those shows
I've seen random episodes because it was one of those
just broadcast TV shows that was on and I rewatch
it and I would catch it and then you rewatch
it in the fall. But it's not one that if
you quiz me on any plot lines of any characters,
(09:17):
that I would even fully get. I knew him primarily
from This is Us.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
A great role phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I know he was in Heroes, but I don't really
remember him in that show.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
It was huge in that too, that was right after Gilmore.
That was like his Gilmore than Heroes. Then This is Us, and.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I think I felt bad for not enjoying this movie
after I met him and he was like a really
nice guy. For those who don't know, I also produced
a podcast called the Bobby Cast, and I am always
the one who goes and gets the guests and not
every time do people want to have a conversation with me.
I don't think anything of it, but like instantly, I
just felt like he was like just a genuinely nice
(09:55):
person who like started talking to me like he knew me,
and he was just so nice.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
For There's a lot about people too, about how they
treat anyone else who is not the main person involved
in any type of entity.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
And I think it was because he was arguably one
of the most famous people we've ever had, just because
he's been in TV for so long. Even though, like
I've been mentioning, I'm not the biggest fan of all
these projects, I understood the magnitude of where he is. Yeah,
and for somebody to be that famous, that recognizable, to
be that nice, You're like, why can't everybody else me
(10:29):
this nice? Not saying that we've had a bunch of
people who are jerks, but.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
But I feel like it's always the people.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I mean, you've talked before, You've said that, like Dolly
Parton's one of the nicest people. Garth Brooks, Like, I
think people that are of that level get to that
level because they are genuine and they are kind to everyone,
and it's not an act. It's not a I'm only
nice people to get where I want. But it's just
like that's who they are as people, and that is
how they've gotten to where they are because they're kind
(10:56):
to everyone.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I think that's how you stay at the top of
being that yeah, to be that genuine and it has
to be who you are as a person, because if
it's an act, it's going to run out. It's just
crazy to me that the I don't want to say,
the worst people I've encountered with, the people who have
been the less give a crap about my type of
role are always the people who just have like are
(11:17):
just starting out in their success or maybe have a
little bit of success and they feel like they're a
lot bigger than they are in reality.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I think that the people like Milo, like you imagine
all the projects he's probably ever like auditioned for it,
and he's probably lost some big ones. And I think
it's the people that have gone through the ups and
downs of success that have a better perspective and know
that like any entity in Hollywood or a podcast is
made up of a bunch of people, and like, you
need to be nice, Like have you seen that video
(11:45):
going around with the coach from UCLA asking his players, like,
what's the name of the person who claims today? What's
the name of the people who make your breakfast in
the morning, And he's like, you know, every single person's
name in this building. He's like, that's an order, Like
they are part of our team. They're not cooking just
for you, They're not after you. They are a part
of this organization. And so I think that that mindset
that no one is beneath you. And I think sometimes
(12:06):
when people are starting out they get a little full
of them yepes.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
And they always come back around too, if they have
a long career where they're like, oh, yeah, I should
have been nicer to people, And it's kind of you
learn from experience and by having the negative effects of
treating people that way, that if you end up having success,
you kind of come back around to like, yeah, I
should treat everybody a little bit nicer, or unless you're
just a jerk.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
But I think the longevity in people like Milo, because
I mean Gilmore Girls started in two thousand.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yeah, I mean he was on the Fresh Prince of
bel Air in the nineties. He's been around forever.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
So it's like I think those people who have been
through the ups and downs of success and know like
how fleeting. It's like you probably did Gilmore's and gilmore
Girls and them was like, well, I get another project,
and then Heroes was big, and then it's like, well,
I get another big TV project and you get this
is us.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
So it's like it's never guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah, with actors, I think some people don't realize how
much they have to fight for every single job and
how it's not guaranteed. Where I try to be more
considerate of when I see somebody do a role that
I'm like, really, I'm like, well, they have a big team,
they have a family to feed. Sometimes it's just a paycheck.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Chris Im sort of talked about that recently, about doing
films that maybe aren't like the hardest role or like
the biggest storyline or like the most in depth acting career,
but he's like, I have a dad with Alzheimer's to
care for. I have a family, I have children, and like,
in the same way that a lot of us go
to work some days not wanting to go to work
like it's a job, it's a paycheck, and I know
(13:35):
that there's a lot of discourse around like celebrities being rich,
and I feel like there's been a bunch of discourse
recently with like gofund means for James Vanderbeek and Eric Dane.
But it's like, I don't think that they're all Sure,
are a lot of them better off than most people, Yes,
but are they rolling in it so much that like
medical bills don't affect them at all, And I don't
(13:55):
think that's the case.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah. I think some people don't realize that just because
somebody was famous in the nineties or had a big
role in the two thousands, that they're set for life,
because I think some of these Hollywood jobs we see
as being like they fully made it. Some of these
people didn't make a whole lot of money off those shows.
Or you don't realize that some shows that may be
so impactful through really cutting through pop culture, sometimes they
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were only on like three seasons, and you're like, that'd
be like you having a job for three years and
then you live the rest of your life off of that.
Just because you've become known for those roles doesn't mean
that those roles pay the bills for the rest of
your life.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
I also think and this is a hot take, I'm sure,
but regarding some of the celebrity gofund mees, I don't
think that they're started for like the average working American
to give their last five dollars for the month or
their grocery budget. I think it is a way for
people like Spielberg to give twenty five K, or Haley
Bieberg to give twenty K. Like I don't think it
(14:52):
is meant for people to give everything they have, And
if you want too, that's great. But I've seen the
discourse and I'm like, I think it's interesting. Yes, sure
did they probably have more money than most people would,
they have been fine, But it's like, you don't have
to donate.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
It's a choice to think on that.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
That's true. With that being said, that's why I feel
bad for putting this as my worst of the month.
But I will say I think it's because I wasn't
a fan of the band Mercy Me, and I've been
very open about feeling that the entire biopic genre is
just a little bit stale, So I had no connection
to the artist, and the story itself didn't really resonate
(15:31):
with me overall. Miles's performance was good in it. I
tried to look at it from a not being so
like I don't enjoy this style of movie, being a
little bit more open minded, but at the end of
it just feel bad about it. I would say that
about a lot of the recent music biopicks that we've watched,
(15:52):
Bob Dylan movie, Bored Song, Sung Blue like Springsteen, Springsteen,
like all these That's why I'm really hesitanting about the
Michael Jackson movie coming out this year, because I just
feel that whether it's I Can Only Imagine Two or
any other music bio pick, there's just this formula that
they stick to that I feel has been just overdone.
(16:13):
Like I've watched this movie so many times, the way
they dramatize things around music, I just feel like that
it's not realistic. It always has like this bigger, larger
than life feeling. To me that I just want a
more down to earth, gritty music bio pick that feels
a little bit more set in reality and less just
(16:33):
overly polished and produced. So I think that's just the
problem I've been having with music biopicks, not just this.
This one just happens to be the one of the month,
are you? But those are our best and worst of
the month. When it comes to movies, we always do
TV shows.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I'm gonna wrap my TV show and my book of
the month together, Okay, all right. TV show is Love
Story on FX.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I'm obsessed.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
I think I've talked on here before about my deep
fascination with the Kennedy family, and I will say I
feel bad because I know the but Jack Schlosberg, who
is Jackie Ow and JFK's grandson, so Caroline Kennedy Schlosburg's son,
JFK Junior's nephew, has spoken out that like the family
doesn't really improve.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Of this show. Oh really, Oh my gosh, it's so good.
It's so good.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
So it is the story of JFK Junior and Carolyn
Bassett and it starts this isn't a spoiler. I think
everyone knows that they untimely perished in a plane accident
in ninety nine, but it starts with like that day,
and then you go back through their love story and
it just, oh, I love it so much.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Looks very cinematically. I haven't sat down and watched an
episode with you.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
The soundtrack the way I'm like that looks like a
good show.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
They ended the episode this week with name by the
Goo Goo Dolls and I just died, Okay. So then
my book is white House by the Sea by Kate's
Story s t O R Ey and I did the
audiobook for this, and it is the.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Story of how.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
The Kennedys kind of came to be Synona miss with
Hyanna's port. So it's about how they have their like
big Kennedy compound up there, and just the story of
all the Kennedy's starting with Rose and Joe Senior all
the way.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Through, kind of like the current generation of the Kennedy's. Fascinating.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I talk more about that on my new book instagram, yeah,
that I made. It is Kelsey rod Reads So that's
k E L S E Y R O D R
E A d S. And it is a public instagram
where I'm sharing everything i'm reading book news I'm excited about.
So if you're interested in that, please go follow. It
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also has a link to my good Reads and well StoryGraph.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
We'll link at all in the episode notes too.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Yeah, it's been really fun.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I try to respond to every DM there about books,
so I've had some really good conversations with people about
different books they're reading, what they're all looking forward to.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
It's really fun.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I mean, we always get a great response whenever you
talk about books on here people.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
And I actually I would like to hold on. Let
me go get it from the bookshelf.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Okay, Kelsey is going to the bookshelf. She's pulling a
children's book from there.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
So I would like to highlight this book. It is
called Norman at Your Service.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
And a listener of the pod reached out and this
is about their service dog, Norman, and it's called Norman
at Your Service My First Day and it is adorable
And this is a real picture of Norman.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
He's so cute.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I love the illustrations in the book.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
The illustrations are amazing and it is just about him
being a service dog and it's adorable. So everyone check
out Norman at Your Service.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
And it's at my reading level, which I love. A
picture book for my show and book the show you
have a book? Yeah. The show is Steal with Sophie Turner, Yeah,
which was about her working at a company and then
some people come in to rob the company and then
there's a whole big conspiracy behind it started out great
episode one. I was like, this is intense. I'm in
(19:56):
and then it got.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Could have been a movie. Yeah, it was a kind
of a series.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
One one of those shows that could have been a movie.
This entire series could have been an email where those
first two episodes were great, but then once you realize
where it's going, you're like, that's it. Yeah, but I
feel like we're getting this more and more where it
just feels like streaming services like to stretch out stories
because it keeps people on their platform a little bit longer,
(20:20):
and we're getting mini series where we should have got
something a lot shorter, just because they're like, let's get
more content out of this, which I get it. Things
are expensive.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yeah, we kind of it got to the point where
we're like, oh, we should finish that show.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
There was one episode of it that was completely useless.
It was so boring and went nowhere, and then it
was just one of those shows that I was like,
I need to know how this ends. I could have
stopped probably after three or four, but I just I
could have skipped to the last episode and just figured
it out and like, Okay, that's it. Yeah, so don't
really recommend it. I would probably give it. I like
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Sophie Turner, though, so I'd probably still give it three
out of five offices.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
I love Sophie Turner.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
He's really good. I can't wait to see her in
the New tumb movie. She's gonna be great and form
my book. I did it. I finally finished a book project,
Hail Mary, all four hundred and seventy six pages of it.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I'm so excited that you read it because then we
can have really good discourse about book versus movie when
we go see the movie and i'max in two.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Weeks, i'mac seventy millimeter, which I am so excited about
because it's a massive screen. This is the I think
this is the most excited I've ever been to see
a movie that I've read the book, and this is
only the second one I've ever done.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Became the first.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I read all the Hunger Games books.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Oh, Harry Potter, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Read all the Harry Potter book that's right, okay, But
also when those I don't think I saw you.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Haven't read all the Hunger Games books because there's a
new movie this year I ever read that.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I didn't read the prequels. Do I need to read
those now too. Maybe because I read the I didn't
see all the Harry Potter movies in theaters. Okay, so
that wasn't the same experience of reading the book and
then seeing it in theaters. Hunger Games, I read all
the books before and then went to go see all
the movies in theaters. But I feel because of Project
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Hill Mary being so science heavy and there being some
things that I just didn't understand visually in my head
while reading it the same that I can't wait to
see it. The annoying thing now is I feel like
people are spoiling the story with all the reviews and
the stills from the movie, because if you've read the book,
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it's kind of spoilers to know and to see some
of these things where I guess it's not in context
of just watching it as a movie. But that's also
what motivated me to finish it so quickly. I mean,
I've had like three months to read it at this point,
but it really made me kick it into high gear
because I felt that people were starting to spoil things
more and more because they were showing images that didn't
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line up where I was reading at the moment.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
And I saw the trailer in theaters, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Really upset about the trailer.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Yeah, I think they spoiled too much.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Because they're trying to entice people to come see it,
but what they are using is ruining it for anybody
who wants to read the book beforehand or not know
all those details.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yeah, but just why Sometimes I don't like trailers.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
You know, but I love a space movie. I loved
all the characters. I enjoy reading again where, but it's
so hard. I'm such a slow reader. It's so hard
for me. It took me three months basically to read
this book. But it's it's that feeling you get that
once you're once you want to pick it up because
you you're excited to.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I read plenty of books that I like but take
me a while, but I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Pick back up.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
But then I started.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
I forced myself.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
If I got it from the library, I'll totally do
not finish or d NF as the readers say. But
if I bought it and then it's one, I'm like,
I don't really like.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
I forced myself to push through. You should read some
Stephen King really long though.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah, I kind of feel like over four hundred was hard.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Oh, yeah, some of those are like eight hundred.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, I don't know if I could do that. Maybe
I'll start. I'll go back to like a three hundred
and three thirty book. Yeah, And then to close us out,
let's recap all of the movies we saw in February.
I watched The Wrecking Crew on Amazon, which was the
Jason Momoa Dave Bautista movie. A solid action movie.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Sounds like just a beef.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
It's a lot of muscle, a lot of testostery, beefy guys.
But it was from the director of Blue Beetle, which
I just love him. Loft that movie, so I gave
it a three point five out of five. We finally
watched If I had legs, I'd Kick You on HBO.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Max Read.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yeah, it wasn't as good as I was expecting. Rose
Byrd's performance was top notch, But I feel like I
didn't leave loving that movie a little I don't want
to say too abstract.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
A little too abstracted.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Yeah, maybe it was a little bit. And I like
abstract movies.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
It's kind of one of those where it's like, not
they dance around things, but you hear a character's voice
and you don't see them till the end. You see
a plot point, and it doesn't get like unraveled till
the middle. Like they reveal things throughout the movie instead
of like just showing you and telling you a story.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
It's like things are alluded to and then they reveal them.
And that kind of style isn't my favorite.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
And I got the message of it, but I just
think the overall execution of it, I didn't love.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
A laugh.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
ConA O'Brien is like really making a push to being
an actor lately, is in that he's gonna be in
the New Toy Story movie. I kind of like it.
We watched talked about said Help Wuthering Heights, which I
thought people felt they either loved it or hated it.
I saw a lot of hate.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I have a friend who loved it, and I was like, ooh,
it's kind of bored.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
We went to go see it and we got busted.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Okay, so we immediately walk in and the woman's like,
can I check your bag?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I'm like, excuse me.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
It's reminded me of when we were younger and we
would cross the border and they'd have to like check us.
I was like, oh no, this car has loaded of
fruits and vegetables, and.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
I'm thinking, I have a whole bag of like Boom
Chick popcorn, not cheap Swedish candies that I'm like, please
don't make me throw away.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
I'll go put these in the.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Car because we always take snacks. We're loaded up. Yeah,
we got drinks.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I don't mind movie theater popcorn, but I'm not buying
your eight dollars candy. They don't even have many gluten
free options. Anyways, you have like a drink in my purse,
you have a snack, and I'm like.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
The look on your face. Your eyes got so wide,
and you were like.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Oh, I go, it's just a lot of tampons in there,
which there weren't even any tampons. I have used the
logic before that would have worked if it was a
man checking. It was a woman unfased, and she goes, oh,
it's fine, I just need to make sure you don't
have any alcohol. And then I'm like, oh no, And
I opened the bag. She sees all my snacks and
I was like, okay, cool. So I guess they just
don't want people sneaking and drinks. But I like, I
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literally just go it's a bunch of tampons, because again,
women aren't phased men. I have used that before, sneaking
candy into a different movie.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
That guy turned so bright red and was just like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
You're good, you're in. Do I need to see it? Truly?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
He was like, oh, oh, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
So that trick worked not this time, but yeah, but
then it didn't happen the next time we went. Think
it's maybe just like really busy Friday nights.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah, and I guess that's probably an issue with people
bringing in I don't know, beers and like bottles and
stuff to get drunk at the movies.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Movie theater. Alcohol is expensive, it is.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
I mean, imagine a drink is eight dollars? Could you
imagine a beer at the movie? I haven't drink is
actually more than eight Now it's more than eight. Yeah,
it's like nine dollars with our ten percent Now, I mean, dang,
that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
That's another reason why I don't want to buy snacks
at the movie. It's so expensive.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
I mean, that's why people don't go as much.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
But yeah, so we got busted. We did get but
it was not really busted.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
We talked about crime one on one. I threw some
shade hit songs on Blue which is on Peacock Now.
I gave that one a two point five out of five.
Again just music movies, Yeah, not big on them. Goat
Goat was okay. I think if the animation wasn't as
cool as it was, I wouldn't have enjoyed it as much.
And I love a good kids movie. We were probably
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the only two adults and they were without kids.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
We want to see it on like a Saturday morning,
like eleven.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Yeah. I just think the story was I've seen.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
It before, but nothing seen this film before.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
The Vigils are great because it's the same studio who
does Kpop, Demon Hunters and into the Spider Verse, so
it had that style. But I think maybe it was
the voice acting for me where they it just felt
like they got a bunch of celebrities that I feel
like didn't really feel like all the characters emote. Yeah,
that just didn't quite do it for me.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
I'm ready for Hoppers.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Oh yeah, that comes out this week.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Ready for that.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
That's good to be good. Listen.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
I love an animated movie. We saw the preview for
the new Minions movie.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Yeah, it looks good, hilarious. At one point, one of
them is in the bathroom needing.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Toilet paper and he unwraps a mummy and then the
Mummy Genius Guys, slapstick comedy.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
And then finally we closed out the month with watching
Rental Family, which is now on Hulu. People, I think
this was the most requested movie for us to review. Really. Yeah.
Everybody's like, when you're gonna go see Rentel Family, and
we didn't get a chance to see it, and we
wanted to. We wanted to, and then it was like
the twenty buck rental for a while. But now you
can watch it free on Hulu. So I was like,
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all right, we'll probably gonna watch this movie. People said,
we're gonna love it. I love a good It had
all the things I love. I love Brendan Frasier, I
love movies that are based in Japan. I love lower
budget movies that are just supposed to make you feel good.
And I just didn't. It just didn't connect with me.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
It just didn't have didn't pack a punch.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
It was like almost trying to overly tell an emotional
story because it's about him. He's an actor, moves to
Japan really only gets like a commercial, like a literal
commercial job, and then just starts acting in other people's
lives to like help them out, like acting as like
like a hired Yeah, like a hired great concept, but
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I think overall it's just like kind of like with
crime one on one, I was like, where was the
good part?
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Yeah, it wasn't bad, It just it was a little
it was slower, and I feel like when we watch
a movie at home, to keep my attention, it needs
to be faster paced.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Anything else we want to mention this week?
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Ooh, there's a great run of Saturday Night Live coming
up time. We put this out this past week and
we'll have already been but it's Connor story from Heated
Rivalry and Mumford and Son's excellent combo. I will be
watching the full episode and then this coming week. This
week that this podcast comes out on Saturday, it is
Ryan Gosling and Gorillas. Yes, Yes, And then the following
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week it's Harry Styles doing double duty.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
It's a good run. So are we still some of
the only people who get excited for SNL and watch
it every single week? No, there's something about us that
we just love Live TV.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
I think that's because we like being home. Because let's
tell people, we left the house today for a while. Yeah,
the minute we left the house, I read it. I truly.
We had barely gotten coffee and we were kind of like,
should we go home? But it was like we'd already committed.
Didn't my hair, didn't make up, I put on an outfit.
It's kind of like we have to leave.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
But I think for me, because I watch a lot
of things with intention, I like watching live things because
I don't have to think about it. That's good, Yeah,
because I don't want to have to think about like
what to put on the run time. Sometimes it's nice
just to put on something live and just let it live.
And that's why I like The Housewives, because you can
just let it live. You don't have to think a
lot about it.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Yeah. Oh that's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
If you're not into Bravo, you can fast forward through
me Real Housewives Beverly Hills this season.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
I know some of you have to be watching it.
Rachel Zo saved this show.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Do you know who? Rachel's was no no Idea Fashion Icon.
She had a show on Bravo. She's not getting divorced.
She came in Real Housewives Beverly Hills was getting boring.
She has single handedly revived that show. So if anyone,
if you want to talk about Rachel z O, go
follow my reading Instagram DM me about Rachel Zo because
she saved this franchise, all right.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
She's like a superhero coming save today. Basically, she just
like chaotic or no.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
She just brings like a good new kind of storyline
and they just she took everyone to like the Hampton's
and she's just just like fresh sometimes they need a
new housewife to spice things up.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Well, there you go. There's your reality TV take.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
All right, we'll come back and I'll give my spoiler
free review of Scream seven. Let's get into it now.
A spoiler free movie review of Scream seven. The road
to this movie was atrocious. It was a bumpy ride,
to say the least. Melissa Barrera, who I really enjoy
(32:18):
I thought she brought a breath of fresh air into
a franchise that really needed it, was fired from this movie.
Jenna Ortega left this movie when they were out. I
in essence was out too, because I feel their energy,
their dynamic made this franchise worthy of my time again,
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which the first two were great, three and four Man,
but them coming back in five. Even the naming of
five kind of annoys me. They called it Scream, but
it was early Scream five that was the requel. It
brought the metainess back. It brought all the elements back
that I loved about the first one and modernized it
with a great cast. But with them out and now
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them trying to say, oh, Nev Campbell is back when
she was back in five too, she was only nine
in six. I just felt this entire movie was rushed.
There was no heart in any element of the storytelling.
And Scream seven and it was even worse than I thought.
What this movie is about. You have Nev Campbell, who
I really enjoy. She paved the way for these movies.
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I'm a Nev Campbell fan, but I just think the
writing did her so wrong in this movie. It's about
her moving away, changing her name, trying to get away
from her past completely. She has a daughter now named Tatum,
who was at the same age that Sidney was in
the first movie, and they try to make a big
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deal about that it's happening again. So Sidney's worst nightmare
is coming to life because the killer is back, and
now the killer is going after her daughter. Sidney and
Tatum have a troubled relationship because Sydney is very guarded
about her past, doesn't want to tell her about all
the death that has followed her, and wants to keep
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her daughter as safe as possible. The thing I found
the most unbearable about this movie is how much it
leans into the lore of Scream and reminding you about
all the characters. The way that everybody in this town
treats Sydney like she's some local celebrity that everybody knows
and everybody focuses on. That just doesn't feel like reality
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to me. These don't take place in the real world,
which the first movies did. That was great about those movies,
and those movies with Wes Craven broke the mold on
a genre that was dead, and I think we forget
that when Scream came out it was so groundbreaking because
the slasher movies were oversaturated in the eighties, everybody got
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tired of them. But when Scream came around, it had
that nineties edge. It was meta, it was aware of itself.
It was poking fun at the formula of horror movies
and it changed the game. But now with Scream seven,
it is going against everything that was created in the
original movie and now just being this really weird recurgitation,
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scraping the barrel for any gun of nostalgia, any kind
of just we have this ip, we gotta do something
with it, and it just feels so forced at this point,
there's nothing new to follow. Ghost Face is probably the
worst version we've ever had. The mask looks off, which
the thing I loved about Scream five is they had
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like the weathering on the mask. It looked old and torn,
and when it comes to Scream seven, the mask looks
like they just walked down to Walgreens, grabbed a Scream
mask off the rack, and got that person on set.
The only time this movie ever felt good was in
the opening scene, which was a lot of what we
saw in the trailer and what made me excited for
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the movie because I thought this movie was gonna have
more of an edge. I thought Ghost Bace was gonna
be this hardcore villain and really causing some death and destruction.
But outside of that opening scene, nothing else felt like
a horror movie. It all just felt like a parody
of itself. That opening scene did create some tension, and
I think it's because it really had nothing to do
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with the screen franchise, aside from the fact that you
have two people renting out an Airbnb that is dedicated
to the original murders. It's still meta because they were
talking about the Stab movies and about Sidney Prescott and
giving you the backstory, so just in case you haven't
seen a screen movie, they kind of tell you everything.
Even though that opening scene is still a little bit cheesy,
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I found it worked. It felt like a horror movie,
but the rest of the movie just felt like a
soap opera with some people dying here and there. There
was really only one creative kill in the entire thing,
and even that was more creative in the sense that
it got a bit of a chuckle out of me.
Everything else was buy the book, no imagination to be had.
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It tried to make a small comment on Ai, which
just felt completely crowbarred in that didn't work for me.
I don't think necessarily anybody in it was a bad actor.
I just think they had a really bad script to
work with because I wasn't buying into nev Campbell's performance
Courtney Cox did nothing for me, and they had to
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over explain all these reasons that the people inside of
this story can still exist. And I feel like as
a franchise, once you get to that point, it is
time to hang some things up move on from this story.
You can keep ghosts Face, but if they continue to
harp on the Sidney Prescott storyline, there is going to
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be no other story to tell ever, and it's gonna
get me, who is a casual screen fan, to really
write off this franchise because I don't want to see
it again. I would rather than move on completely. They
need to burn it all to the ground, much like
ghost Face did in that opening scene. That part of
the trailer just had me hype. It gave me hope,
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a false sense of hope that more crazy things like
that were gonna happen. But nothing else topped the opening scene.
So I think they need to burn it all to
the ground. Forget about Sidney Prescott, because it really just
feels like what Halloween did with Lori Strode, but Sidney
Prescott is nowhere near the level of a Lorii Strode.
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I think they need to let that character go move
it to a new town, create a whole new story,
because ghost Face is a great character, but it is
limited so much by still trying to play in this box.
It's gonna be like we're watching the Stab movies inside
of the movie at this point, because throughout the entire thing,
the humans don't feel like humans. At no point whatsoever
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was I buying Joe mcchal as a cop. He plays
Sidney Prescott's husband in Tatum's Dad. There are some people
who should just not be cast as cops. Joe McHale
is one of them. And I'm a fan of Joe McHale.
I love him in community, I love him just as
an actor. But did not work for me whatsoever in
Scream seven because when I saw him in his cop
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uniform trying to be the person in control over all
these situations, I could only see Jeff Winger making jokes,
wearing a leather jacket and talking crap on Brita, Troy,
and Abed. I could not see Joe McHale as a
serious cop, and that was a major problem for me.
I really think this movie represents and it wasn't probably
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its intention, but it represents everything that is wrong in
the movie industry right now, and everything we hate about
reboots and sequels and studios just wanting to sell us
the same thing over and over again, because that is
what we got with Scream seven. We got nothing new.
We got the same thing essentially we got in Scream
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five and six, minus the best parts I did enjoy. However,
Mason Gooding, who is Cuba Gooding Junior son, I think
out of everybody in this cast, he was the best
actor and the only person who I thought, Okay, that
is somebody I would actually like to hear more of
their story and see them a little bit more in
the main plot line of these films because I like
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him a lot aside from everyone else. Scrap it. So
for Scream seven, I say, don't waste your time seeing
it in theaters. If you have been committed to this
franchise for a long time and invested since the nineties
and have seen every single Scream movie like I have,
maybe it's worth it. But for Scream seven, I give
it two out of five knives. It's time to head
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down to Movie Mike Traylor Park. The toys are back
in town. Everybody's favorite animated toys are back in Toy
Story five. This time the big evil villain is a tablet.
We have a lily Pad smart tablet that is taking
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over Bonnie's life, and the toys are afraid they are
going to be replaced by technology. And this is supposed
to be a commentary on today's society. How kids don't
really play with toys anymore. All of the kids want
an iPad and you spend so much time on them,
does it limit your imagination? And in the case of Woodie, Buzz, Jesse, Bullseye,
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the entire Crew four key is back. They fear they're
going to be replaced because Bonnie is now completely obsessed
with the tablet. Even when she hangs out with their
other friends, they are all just on their tablets. So
how do you compete with technology? I think this movie
is trying to say a lot, but in its efforts
to do so, we have the exact same plotline as
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Toy Story one. So I do want to get into
all that, But before I do, here is just a
little bit of the Toy Story five trailer, which is
coming out in theaters on June nineteenth. Let's take a listen.
Is it as bad out there for toys as they say?
Speaker 3 (42:11):
It is.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
We're finding more abandoned toys each day. Text invaded our
house too. I don't know, Jesse. Toys are for play,
but texis for everything.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
I'm losing Bonnie to this device.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Why are you wearing a dress, Weddy? It's called a
puncho for Keith.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Someone needs a bro marker.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
What are you some sort of old man toy?
Speaker 3 (42:36):
What?
Speaker 1 (42:37):
She thanks? You're old because you're bald wedding Bonnie needs
help from someone, at least from the same centry the
Long Toy Day. Even Woody, an animated character, is not
safe from father time. He is losing his hair. What
he's about to get some plastic surgery For this movie,
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you have Tom Hanks for turning is Woody. Tim Allen
is back is buzz light Year. Joan Cusack is back
as Jesse. Greta Lee will be the voice of Lily Pad.
Conan O'Brien is a new part of the movie. He
will play a character named smarty Pants. Tony Hale is
back as Forky. And why I say that they are
making the exact same movie that they made with the
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original toy story is because that is what happened. You
have Woody, who was an old school toy, a cowboy
that all he had was a drawstring. You pull the string,
and he said his catchphrases. But that was Andy's favorite toy.
And then he has a birthday. He gets the buzz
light Year that has all this new technology that none
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of the other toys in Andy's room had. He had
the laser, which was just the light. He had the
wings that could quote unquote make them fly, and they
were all threatened by this new, big, shiny toy in
the cool box. And now thirty plus years after that one,
because that one came out in ninety ninety five, so
now thirty years yars later, the exact same thing is happening.
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It's just so much more advance because now Bonnie has
this new bright and shiny toy, much like Andy did
in part one, and now Jesse is experiencing yet again
the feeling of being replaced and being abandoned by her kid,
and the overall tone of this trailer is a lot
more sad. It feels very final, even more so than
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Toy Story three, because you can even hear it in
Joan Cusack's voice, who is now a little bit older,
which is really interesting to hear how some of these
animated movies are changing. And in my lifetime, I haven't
really experienced somebody stopping because they were wanting to retire,
and I think it's because of the time I was born.
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Like all the original Simpsons cast, for the most part,
is still there. And if I watch an episode of
The Simpsons, especially with Dan Cassineletta, who does the voice
of Homer Simpson, to sound older now, and it's interesting
to see animated characters who are not supposed to age
physically because they are just drawing. They can look the
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exact same way, but you start to hear it in
their voice, and I hear it in Joan Cusack's voice
with Jesse. But I feel overall from this trailer, I'm
getting a very this is a final storyline in this
chapter of all these toys lives, because I can't imagine
that it goes on forever where it already feels like
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they are just making the same movie again. And if
you think about the life cycle of a toy in
this world, this is all they are going to experience.
A new kid gets them, they age out of that kid,
and then they get really sad and have to move on.
But now the reason it's a little bit different is
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not only is the kid aging out, but the world
around them is changing so much that they can't just
move on to a new kid, because that new kid
is still probably going to want to play with the
tablet more than a cowboy, more than a Space Ranger
that is now over thirty years old. Which if Woodi's
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hair is balding or fading away, how has Buzz stayed
in such pristine condition with all the crazy things they
have gone through. Now, the real problem I had with
four was that the toys started to manipulate with the
real world too much. And I think that was the
beauty of one is whenever there was a human around,
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they turned back into toys, and they wouldn't try to
manipulate a whole lot of things because that would give
some indication to the humans that, oh, are these toys alive?
What is actually happening here? Aside from them speaking to
sit and freaking him out, they laid low for the
most part. After rewatching all the toy story movies, I
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had a much different outlook, and I do believe the
toys are a little bit delusional, especially with him to
go with Andy to college. They have no idea how
the real world works, and I think that is something
that we don't address. I also think that Disney gas
lit us in portraying Sid as the villain. I don't
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think Sid did anything wrong, if anything. In the first movie,
Woody is the villain. He is the one who committed
attempted murder on buzz light Year, all because he wanted
to be the toy that Andy got to take with
to Pizza Planet, so he trying to hide him behind
the desk and in turn knocked him out of the house.
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Woody is the one who committed the crime. I don't
see anything on Sid's rap sheet that really makes him
the villain. To me, Sid was just an engineer. He
was just a kid next door. He had no idea
that these toys were alive, no idea. They make it
seem like he was tormenting toys because it was some
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kind of weird pleasure to him to see them experience pain.
He is just a kid living in the normal world
playing with this toys that maybe something is a little
bit on ethical or think is a little bit weird,
But he did nothing wrong because to him they were
inanimate objects. I think Sid was an engineer, not a bully,
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not a villain, but we painted him out that way,
and the toys saw him as a villain because he
was hurting their kind. But he had no idea that
they were living and I guess breathing. I don't know
exactly what the toys do, but they went crazy on
him and traumatized him all because he would, like I said,
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he was an engineer. He would take toys, break them
down and rebuild them in a much different way that
I felt was very creative and innovative. He also didn't
really have any friends. You mean to tell me that Andy,
the kid next door had a huge birthday party and
didn't invite Sid. With all that house, why did they
need such a big house? It was just Andy, his
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baby sister and his mom. They had a massive house,
and why did they not invite Sid. I think Sid
was unfairly picked as the villain and they didn't gets
traumatized for the rest of his life because again, he
was just playing with these toys as an engineer would.
He was strapping a rocket to buzz light here to
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see how high you would go? To study science, that
is what he was doing. And then you have Woody
speaking to him as a toy, completely traumatizing him. Could
you imagine Sid trying to get a girlfriend later in life,
them opening up about things and him being like, one
time this toy talked to me, and all these toys
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that I had created came up from the sandbox. She'd
be like, oh man, I'm gonna get out of this
relationship right now. They ruined Sid's life. He was not
the villain. So that is why I think they are
all a bit delusional. But I do enjoy seeing salty
Woody again because in my rewatch that was something I
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did appreciate. From the first movie. He was a jerk
to Buzz. He had a lot of jealousy, and that
jealousy came out in very funny ways, and it was
the most entertaining version of Woody. And then he became
a little bit softer. He became somebody trying to find
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his purpose, and then he just became the one trying
to hold it all together, trying to hold on to
the past, fearing change. But now he is back to
being a little bit salty. Him and Buzz looks like
they're not going to get along, and we are even
getting basically a recreation of that famous final scene from
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the first movie where it looks like Buzz and Woody
are again going on a chase, ending up on the
back of a car fighting against each other. So to me,
it feels almost like a remake of the first one
with a different kid, but kind of the same concept
them fearing this new technology. But now they're all a
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little bit older, they're wearing down a little bit. So
is this finally going to be the end? Are they
all going to say goodbye? If I had to pick
a favorite final ending to the Toy Story franchise, I
think it all goes back to how it was going
to end before they started messing with the situation in
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Toy Story three. I think they all accept their fate
and they go into the attic. I think they all
get put into a box and get taken up the
stairs and get put up there to live out the
rest of their lives. I think that is best case
scenario for them. I also think that is a way
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that you could still have a Toy Story six where
it's life in the Attic and they maybe try to
do some other adventures that aren't as focused on just
trying to hold on to them, wanting to still be
played with, wanting to still have that same purpose. I
think teaching kids that there are phases of life and
it's not going to remain the same forever. Eventually, you,
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even as a toy, have to grow up, much like
Andy did. Andy grew up, he went to college. He
didn't take his toys with him. Although if you think
about it, at the end of Toy Story three when
he's playing with Bonnie, was anybody else monitoring that, like
just keeping an eye on that? If I was a
neighbor just walking down, like what is that eighteen year
old doing with that kid? So again it picks our
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movie not going to get too far into that, but
again doesn't really feel like reality. But you gotta move
on with your life, and maybe the toys accept that, realize,
you know what, we've had a good run. Let's live
out the rest of our lives. Maybe somebody does. Oh
what if somebody dies in Toy Story five, that could
be it. We get a deathneral a toy funeral. How
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sad would that be? But I think and I hope
this is closing out the chapter if they want to
continue the franchise, which I know Disney would have a
really hard time doing this. You get a new set
of characters, you reboot it, much like you get new Avengers,
you get a new group of toys. Maybe you move
it back like you go back in time. You do
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a multiverse type thing where you go back to the
eighties when kids still love toys. Oh, you could do that,
you could go back in time. But I am still
looking forward to this one more than I thought I was.
I thought I was totally writing it off. I think
it's because the animation looks so good. In that opening
scene that's a dream sequence, it looks like watercolors. A
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lot of the shots look really cinematic and beautiful where
it looks like they are filmed on an actual film camera,
and I have to remember that I'm watching something animated.
The lighting, the color, all the things about the animation
is really what's drawing me into wanting to see this
on the biggest screen possible. I'm gonna take the story
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for what it is, take the message for what they
are trying to tell me, but I think at this
point in my life, I'm always gonna be a little
bit overly critical of it. But again, toy story five
is coming out this summer on June nineteenth, and that
was this week's edition of Movie mich Trailer Parks and
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that is gonna do it for another episode here of
the podcast. But before I go, I gotta get my
listener shout out of the week. This week, I'm going
over to TikTok shouting out Elle, who tagged me in
a comment on a video talking about Nostalogier from the
eighties which I get fed so many nostalogier videos on TikTok,
(54:49):
and L wrote, I just found out that YouTube has
TV that you can stream the actual shows with the
commercials and everything from that era. It'll instantly transport you
to the era. Mike Distro mentioned it on the Bobby
Bone Show Weekend podcast. It is so awesome and I
did mention it there and I'll tell you about it
now because my favorite tradition to do right now on
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Saturday mornings, when I need that kick in nostalgia where
I feel like, oh man, the world's crazy right now,
I just want to be transported back into the late
nineties or early two thousands. On YouTube, if you just
search rewind or Nickelodeon rebroadcast or my personal favorite Disney's
One Saturday Morning, which takes me back to Waksahatchie going
(55:34):
to get my haircut from my cousin's grandma, which is
not related to me, a family friend, but my cousin's
grandma would always have One Saturday Morning playing on a
small tube TV on this old desk, covered and paperwork,
and I would watch it, probably at least an hour
(55:54):
of it while waiting to get my haircut by her,
and just hearing that theme song of One Saturday Monday,
No No, No, No, No Tuesday Wednesday. Hearing that theme song
and hearing the illuminating television instantly takes me back to
my childhood. And if you go on YouTube and search
One Saturday Morning, you can watch the entire broadcast of
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that where it starts with that. Some of them start
with commercials. I'm watching old chipsu Hoy commercials from back
in the day, commercials and products I haven't thought about
in so long, but somebody just ripped an entire broadcast
uploaded it. So whatever you're into, whether it's One Saturday
Morning from Disney that aired on ABC, Nickelodean, Snick, or
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maybe you were into Cartoon Network, they all have these rebroadcasts,
and it feels like you're instantly transported into that time.
And it sounds weird to be excited about watching old commercials,
but it is really fun to do if you just
need that kick in nostalgia. So appreciate you, l I
didn't think that would be anything anybody else what want
to watch except for me, but it sounds like some
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people do, so thank you for sending that comment, tagging
me on TikTok if you want to follow me there,
it's at Mike Distro. If you want to watch individual
movie reviews, just go to YouTube dot com slash Mike Distro.
Thank you all, part of the movie crew, for subscribing,
for listening every single week, for telling a friend, and
until next time, go out and watch good movies and
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I will talk to you later.
Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I
am your host, Movie Mike, joined by my wife and
cost Kelsey. How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm good. I'm overly caffeinated on accident.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I'm not caffeinated enough. I need to drink another one
right after this, I need to drink more water. I'll
get into a movie review of Scream, which I went
to go watch by myself. I can't believe they made
seven of these movies.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Hey, you want to watch that? And I had the
house to myself to watch the Pit and Needle Point.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It's kind of nice.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
And in the trailer park, I'm going to break down
toy story five and how they're.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
What he's bald spot? Yeah, what he's getting old? I
mean we're all getting old. What did I say earlier
at the container store? Oh the pill boxing pillcase?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
It lights up and you know you're in your thirties
when you open and you go, this is cool.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I thought it was.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
But thank you for being here, Thank you for being subscribed.
Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now
let's talk movies podcast Network Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. All right,
kicking us off, what was the best thing you saw
in February in your opinion.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Obviously it was a movie starring Glenn Powell, How to
Make a Killing.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I'm surprised that movie tanked.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I don't feel like there was much marketing around it either,
because the.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Plot is great. It is like a remake. But I
just I feel like how massive he is as a celebrity.
I'm surprised that doesn't translate always into box office numbers
because he's such a good actor. It's not a bad movie,
it's a great movie. Well, I feel like it's the genre.
Like I kind of feel like people only want him
in like a rom com or he kind of action
(01:30):
You think he kind of well Running Man didn't do
that well either.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
That was also a remake.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yeah, maybe too many remakes.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Maybe the remakes aren't working.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Do you think he should have committed more to the
rom com? I almost know, No, why not?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Because then he never would have done Twisters.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I almost feel like actors now are more strategic about
not being typecast.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, I'm thinking of like examples, because.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
He could have crushed it. He could have done he
could have done anyone, but you too. He could have.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Set it up to I'll take a set complee underrated
Glynn movie. It's so good.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I think people don't realize how hard he's been working
for as long as he has yes where it feels
like he's really starting to pop off now because he's
in all these big roles. But he's been in so
much in the last fifty maybe not fifteen years, but
at least the last decade of really good, solid movies
that he's put in the work. But to some people
just feel like he came out of nowhere. But I
(02:23):
feel like he has a really good track history of
just giving us good movies.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I think people think that about everyone though. They're like,
you just came out of nowhere, and it's like they've
been working. Maybe you just haven't seen it, but they've
been working.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Same thing with Pedro Pascal, like he kind of came
and then was in every single movie last summer, and
I feel like people thought, man, he's just in everything now,
But he's been consistent since the Game of Thrones.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
You know who's been in a lot that could go away.
Sidney Sweeney, she could go away.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I'm still excited for Euphoria though.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Well yeah, but that's more Zendaia. I feel like I
know she's in it, but Zendeia is the star.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah when it comes to her movies. Ah, but the
Housemaid though she has a franch right there, she could
do because there are multiple books of that, right.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, and she's already gonna do.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I found that movie entertaining.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I liked it, but because of Amanda say Red.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
But I still think with her part of that franchise,
that could be her franchise.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Fine, so that was your best, yeah, how to make
a killing. I was very entertained. I was not bored ever,
didn't even want to get up to go to the bathroom.
It had like dark humor.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
For my best of February, I'm gonna go with Send Help,
which going into that movie, you didn't know if you
were going to like it or not because it's classified
as a horror movie. But it was a lot more campy,
more of us suspense thriller, and all the horror elements
were very over the top and even like the blood
and guts graphic scenes. Yeah, but it was more it
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wasn't as realistic correct, and I feel like when stuff
is more realistic, that's when it freaks you out. A
little bit more like if it's a.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Saw, yes, how much, just like gunshots and like that
sort of.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Stuff which the headshot in movies has just become so
normal now, it's so shocking that I find myself to
feel more and more uncomfortable when I get worried about
a character like man, I don't want to see them die.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Well, I just don't like it. Just I don't like
the sound, and it's in so many movies.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I think there's also an element of experiencing that in
a theater now, where it gets so loud. I don't know.
Sometimes it just makes me a little bit uncomfortable, maybe
just because what's going on in the world at any
given time that it kind of puts you a little
bit on edge. I enjoy the filmmaking aspect of it
because it does bring emotion out in you, but sometimes
I don't like that feeling little too real. I feel
(04:35):
like getting you on board to go see it and
not totally hate it was a big win.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I hadn't seen a single movie in a month, so
I didn't see anything in January. There's nothing good out,
so I think I was just itching go back to
the movies.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, I just really enjoyed it, and I feel like
it brought back, in a good way a fun theater experience,
where for me it's really hard when people recommend a
movie to me that's just fun. So for my rating
on that one, I gave it a four out of five,
which I think was the second highest of the month.
But we'll get into that a little bit later.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
What about your worst It's gotta be crime one on one?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Really? Yes, the Chris Hemsworth, halle Berry, Mark Ruffalo.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Plotless film that had so many different character arcs didn't
need to be included.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Was I entertained? Sure, It's still the worst I saw
this month because it had no plot.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
That was the weird part about it is I was
entertained the entire time, but by the end of it
don't want to ruin it, but by the end of it,
I was like, what was the purpose of that?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
That's what I'm saying. What was the point? Why was
this movie made?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
So what the movie was about? You had it?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Not a plot?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
What's a description? There's three individuals and one crime connects
them all. Chris Hemsworth is like an elusive thief who
is plotting a big heist. Halle Berry is unhappy with
their job, and Mark Ruffalo is obsessed with finding Chris
Hemsworth's character. So it's how all their lives intertwine, all
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revolving one heist, and then you have a lot of
random intentions that don't really make sense throughout the movie.
I feel like it was trying to be more sophisticated
than it was, and I think that's why the plot
ended up not working for me, where I was like,
where did this even go? But still somehow so entertaining
all the way throughout.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I think I kept waiting for it to have like.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
A moment or like a hook or something.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
They kind of and I know they were all connected,
but I was waiting for that like final thread to
reveal itself or be pooled, and it just wasn't. I
think there's a lot of stuff left on the cutting
room floor, which is like how is their stuff left?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Because it was over two hours.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I also think that they kind of changed Chris Hamsworth's
character from beginning to end in a bad way where
I feel like movies have to have this. You have
to know the intentions of every single character in their morale,
and they're like ethics and like what they will do
and what they won't do, and what makes them the
way they are. I feel like they didn't have that
with all the characters, where it was like, Okay, he's
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going to do this this way. He's going to be
so meticulous about every single crime he plots out. His
whole thing is he doesn't leave behind any evidence, he
doesn't hurt anybody, and then by the end of the
movie he doesn't really hold true to all the things
he was in the beginning. It just feels like at
the end they were just like, yeah, let's just do whatever.
Let's just try to make an entertaining ending, and let's
just have things go off the rails because we think
(07:19):
that'd be the best way to close out this movie.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
It almost felt like they brought in like a different
writer midway.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
It was like yeah, it was almost like they split directors,
Like all right, somebody else finished this thing.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
It's like two different films.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, but still but still entertaining. It's like, I wouldn't
tell people not to watch it, which is weird because
I think I don't think we got any benefit of
seeing it in theaters. I think you could watch it
at home and have the same experience. So as much
as I question all the intentions of the film and
the decisions they made with all the characters, I would
(07:51):
still encourage people to kind of make your own judgment
on it whenever it comes to streaming.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
And you can multitask while watching it.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
There's not that crazy Walline throughout that. For my worst
of February, I'm gonna go with I can only imagine
two And I feel bad about it. Why because I
got to meet Milo, who you know from.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Gilmore Girls, This is Us all of his roles.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I only know him from This is Us really, And
when you were like Gilmore Girls instantly, honestly, I didn't
even know he was in that.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Well, yeah, you asked me.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
You were like, oh, do you know, like, do you
remember Vintimilia from This Is Us? And I was like,
do you mean Jess Mariano from Gilmore Girls? Yes, I'm aware.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
How prominent was he in that show? Was he huge?
So he wasn't just like a one season type Carrien?
Oh ah, yeah, I no idea.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
He was one of.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Rory's boyfriends and so many you know the discourse of
when people are like team Dean, team Jess, Team Logan,
have you ever heard any of that discourse?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
No from Gilmore girls, Yes, no, those like.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Her three boyfriends throughout the show, and you are like
very in a camp of which team you are now?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I remember when we went to Universal in Los Angeles,
we drove by like the set. Was it the gazebo? Yes,
that's what it was. And it's one of those shows
I've seen random episodes because it was one of those
just broadcast TV shows that was on and I rewatch
it and I would catch it and then you rewatch
it in the fall. But it's not one that if
you quiz me on any plot lines of any characters,
(09:17):
that I would even fully get. I knew him primarily
from This is Us.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
A great role phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I know he was in Heroes, but I don't really
remember him in that show.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
It was huge in that too, that was right after Gilmore.
That was like his Gilmore than Heroes. Then This is Us, and.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I think I felt bad for not enjoying this movie
after I met him and he was like a really
nice guy. For those who don't know, I also produced
a podcast called the Bobby Cast, and I am always
the one who goes and gets the guests and not
every time do people want to have a conversation with me.
I don't think anything of it, but like instantly, I
just felt like he was like just a genuinely nice
(09:55):
person who like started talking to me like he knew me,
and he was just so nice.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
For There's a lot about people too, about how they
treat anyone else who is not the main person involved
in any type of entity.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
And I think it was because he was arguably one
of the most famous people we've ever had, just because
he's been in TV for so long. Even though, like
I've been mentioning, I'm not the biggest fan of all
these projects, I understood the magnitude of where he is. Yeah,
and for somebody to be that famous, that recognizable, to
be that nice, You're like, why can't everybody else me
(10:29):
this nice? Not saying that we've had a bunch of
people who are jerks, but.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
But I feel like it's always the people.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I mean, you've talked before, You've said that, like Dolly
Parton's one of the nicest people. Garth Brooks, Like, I
think people that are of that level get to that
level because they are genuine and they are kind to everyone,
and it's not an act. It's not a I'm only
nice people to get where I want. But it's just
like that's who they are as people, and that is
how they've gotten to where they are because they're kind
(10:56):
to everyone.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I think that's how you stay at the top of
being that yeah, to be that genuine and it has
to be who you are as a person, because if
it's an act, it's going to run out. It's just
crazy to me that the I don't want to say,
the worst people I've encountered with, the people who have
been the less give a crap about my type of
role are always the people who just have like are
(11:17):
just starting out in their success or maybe have a
little bit of success and they feel like they're a
lot bigger than they are in reality.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I think that the people like Milo, like you imagine
all the projects he's probably ever like auditioned for it,
and he's probably lost some big ones. And I think
it's the people that have gone through the ups and
downs of success that have a better perspective and know
that like any entity in Hollywood or a podcast is
made up of a bunch of people, and like, you
need to be nice, Like have you seen that video
(11:45):
going around with the coach from UCLA asking his players, like,
what's the name of the person who claims today? What's
the name of the people who make your breakfast in
the morning, And he's like, you know, every single person's
name in this building. He's like, that's an order, Like
they are part of our team. They're not cooking just
for you, They're not after you. They are a part
of this organization. And so I think that that mindset
that no one is beneath you. And I think sometimes
(12:06):
when people are starting out they get a little full
of them yepes.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
And they always come back around too, if they have
a long career where they're like, oh, yeah, I should
have been nicer to people, And it's kind of you
learn from experience and by having the negative effects of
treating people that way, that if you end up having success,
you kind of come back around to like, yeah, I
should treat everybody a little bit nicer, or unless you're
just a jerk.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
But I think the longevity in people like Milo, because
I mean Gilmore Girls started in two thousand.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yeah, I mean he was on the Fresh Prince of
bel Air in the nineties. He's been around forever.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
So it's like I think those people who have been
through the ups and downs of success and know like
how fleeting. It's like you probably did Gilmore's and gilmore
Girls and them was like, well, I get another project,
and then Heroes was big, and then it's like, well,
I get another big TV project and you get this
is us.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
So it's like it's never guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah, with actors, I think some people don't realize how
much they have to fight for every single job and
how it's not guaranteed. Where I try to be more
considerate of when I see somebody do a role that
I'm like, really, I'm like, well, they have a big team,
they have a family to feed. Sometimes it's just a paycheck.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Chris Im sort of talked about that recently, about doing
films that maybe aren't like the hardest role or like
the biggest storyline or like the most in depth acting career,
but he's like, I have a dad with Alzheimer's to
care for. I have a family, I have children, and like,
in the same way that a lot of us go
to work some days not wanting to go to work
like it's a job, it's a paycheck, and I know
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that there's a lot of discourse around like celebrities being rich,
and I feel like there's been a bunch of discourse
recently with like gofund means for James Vanderbeek and Eric Dane.
But it's like, I don't think that they're all Sure,
are a lot of them better off than most people, Yes,
but are they rolling in it so much that like
medical bills don't affect them at all, And I don't
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think that's the case.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah. I think some people don't realize that just because
somebody was famous in the nineties or had a big
role in the two thousands, that they're set for life,
because I think some of these Hollywood jobs we see
as being like they fully made it. Some of these
people didn't make a whole lot of money off those shows.
Or you don't realize that some shows that may be
so impactful through really cutting through pop culture, sometimes they
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were only on like three seasons, and you're like, that'd
be like you having a job for three years and
then you live the rest of your life off of that.
Just because you've become known for those roles doesn't mean
that those roles pay the bills for the rest of
your life.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
I also think and this is a hot take, I'm sure,
but regarding some of the celebrity gofund mees, I don't
think that they're started for like the average working American
to give their last five dollars for the month or
their grocery budget. I think it is a way for
people like Spielberg to give twenty five K, or Haley
Bieberg to give twenty K. Like I don't think it
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is meant for people to give everything they have, And
if you want too, that's great. But I've seen the
discourse and I'm like, I think it's interesting. Yes, sure
did they probably have more money than most people would,
they have been fine, But it's like, you don't have
to donate.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
It's a choice to think on that.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
That's true. With that being said, that's why I feel
bad for putting this as my worst of the month.
But I will say I think it's because I wasn't
a fan of the band Mercy Me, and I've been
very open about feeling that the entire biopic genre is
just a little bit stale, So I had no connection
to the artist, and the story itself didn't really resonate
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with me overall. Miles's performance was good in it. I
tried to look at it from a not being so
like I don't enjoy this style of movie, being a
little bit more open minded, but at the end of
it just feel bad about it. I would say that
about a lot of the recent music biopicks that we've watched,
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Bob Dylan movie, Bored Song, Sung Blue like Springsteen, Springsteen,
like all these That's why I'm really hesitanting about the
Michael Jackson movie coming out this year, because I just
feel that whether it's I Can Only Imagine Two or
any other music bio pick, there's just this formula that
they stick to that I feel has been just overdone.
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Like I've watched this movie so many times, the way
they dramatize things around music, I just feel like that
it's not realistic. It always has like this bigger, larger
than life feeling. To me that I just want a
more down to earth, gritty music bio pick that feels
a little bit more set in reality and less just
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overly polished and produced. So I think that's just the
problem I've been having with music biopicks, not just this.
This one just happens to be the one of the month,
are you? But those are our best and worst of
the month. When it comes to movies, we always do
TV shows.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I'm gonna wrap my TV show and my book of
the month together, Okay, all right. TV show is Love
Story on FX.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I'm obsessed.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
I think I've talked on here before about my deep
fascination with the Kennedy family, and I will say I
feel bad because I know the but Jack Schlosberg, who
is Jackie Ow and JFK's grandson, so Caroline Kennedy Schlosburg's son,
JFK Junior's nephew, has spoken out that like the family
doesn't really improve.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Of this show. Oh really, Oh my gosh, it's so good.
It's so good.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
So it is the story of JFK Junior and Carolyn
Bassett and it starts this isn't a spoiler. I think
everyone knows that they untimely perished in a plane accident
in ninety nine, but it starts with like that day,
and then you go back through their love story and
it just, oh, I love it so much.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Looks very cinematically. I haven't sat down and watched an
episode with you.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
The soundtrack the way I'm like that looks like a
good show.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
They ended the episode this week with name by the
Goo Goo Dolls and I just died, Okay. So then
my book is white House by the Sea by Kate's
Story s t O R Ey and I did the
audiobook for this, and it is the.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Story of how.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
The Kennedys kind of came to be Synona miss with
Hyanna's port. So it's about how they have their like
big Kennedy compound up there, and just the story of
all the Kennedy's starting with Rose and Joe Senior all
the way.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Through, kind of like the current generation of the Kennedy's. Fascinating.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I talk more about that on my new book instagram, yeah,
that I made. It is Kelsey rod Reads So that's
k E L S E Y R O D R
E A d S. And it is a public instagram
where I'm sharing everything i'm reading book news I'm excited about.
So if you're interested in that, please go follow. It
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also has a link to my good Reads and well StoryGraph.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
We'll link at all in the episode notes too.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Yeah, it's been really fun.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I try to respond to every DM there about books,
so I've had some really good conversations with people about
different books they're reading, what they're all looking forward to.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
It's really fun.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I mean, we always get a great response whenever you
talk about books on here people.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
And I actually I would like to hold on. Let
me go get it from the bookshelf.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Okay, Kelsey is going to the bookshelf. She's pulling a
children's book from there.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
So I would like to highlight this book. It is
called Norman at Your Service.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
And a listener of the pod reached out and this
is about their service dog, Norman, and it's called Norman
at Your Service My First Day and it is adorable
And this is a real picture of Norman.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
He's so cute.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I love the illustrations in the book.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
The illustrations are amazing and it is just about him
being a service dog and it's adorable. So everyone check
out Norman at Your Service.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
And it's at my reading level, which I love. A
picture book for my show and book the show you
have a book? Yeah. The show is Steal with Sophie Turner, Yeah,
which was about her working at a company and then
some people come in to rob the company and then
there's a whole big conspiracy behind it started out great
episode one. I was like, this is intense. I'm in
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and then it got.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Could have been a movie. Yeah, it was a kind
of a series.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
One one of those shows that could have been a movie.
This entire series could have been an email where those
first two episodes were great, but then once you realize
where it's going, you're like, that's it. Yeah, but I
feel like we're getting this more and more where it
just feels like streaming services like to stretch out stories
because it keeps people on their platform a little bit longer,
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and we're getting mini series where we should have got
something a lot shorter, just because they're like, let's get
more content out of this, which I get it. Things
are expensive.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yeah, we kind of it got to the point where
we're like, oh, we should finish that show.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
There was one episode of it that was completely useless.
It was so boring and went nowhere, and then it
was just one of those shows that I was like,
I need to know how this ends. I could have
stopped probably after three or four, but I just I
could have skipped to the last episode and just figured
it out and like, Okay, that's it. Yeah, so don't
really recommend it. I would probably give it. I like
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Sophie Turner, though, so I'd probably still give it three
out of five offices.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
I love Sophie Turner.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
He's really good. I can't wait to see her in
the New tumb movie. She's gonna be great and form
my book. I did it. I finally finished a book project,
Hail Mary, all four hundred and seventy six pages of it.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I'm so excited that you read it because then we
can have really good discourse about book versus movie when
we go see the movie and i'max in two.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Weeks, i'mac seventy millimeter, which I am so excited about
because it's a massive screen. This is the I think
this is the most excited I've ever been to see
a movie that I've read the book, and this is
only the second one I've ever done.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Became the first.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I read all the Hunger Games books.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Oh, Harry Potter, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Read all the Harry Potter book that's right, okay, But
also when those I don't think I saw you.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Haven't read all the Hunger Games books because there's a
new movie this year I ever read that.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I didn't read the prequels. Do I need to read
those now too. Maybe because I read the I didn't
see all the Harry Potter movies in theaters. Okay, so
that wasn't the same experience of reading the book and
then seeing it in theaters. Hunger Games, I read all
the books before and then went to go see all
the movies in theaters. But I feel because of Project
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Hill Mary being so science heavy and there being some
things that I just didn't understand visually in my head
while reading it the same that I can't wait to
see it. The annoying thing now is I feel like
people are spoiling the story with all the reviews and
the stills from the movie, because if you've read the book,
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it's kind of spoilers to know and to see some
of these things where I guess it's not in context
of just watching it as a movie. But that's also
what motivated me to finish it so quickly. I mean,
I've had like three months to read it at this point,
but it really made me kick it into high gear
because I felt that people were starting to spoil things
more and more because they were showing images that didn't
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line up where I was reading at the moment.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
And I saw the trailer in theaters, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Really upset about the trailer.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Yeah, I think they spoiled too much.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Because they're trying to entice people to come see it,
but what they are using is ruining it for anybody
who wants to read the book beforehand or not know
all those details.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yeah, but just why Sometimes I don't like trailers.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
You know, but I love a space movie. I loved
all the characters. I enjoy reading again where, but it's
so hard. I'm such a slow reader. It's so hard
for me. It took me three months basically to read
this book. But it's it's that feeling you get that
once you're once you want to pick it up because
you you're excited to.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I read plenty of books that I like but take
me a while, but I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Pick back up.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
But then I started.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
I forced myself.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
If I got it from the library, I'll totally do
not finish or d NF as the readers say. But
if I bought it and then it's one, I'm like,
I don't really like.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
I forced myself to push through. You should read some
Stephen King really long though.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah, I kind of feel like over four hundred was hard.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Oh, yeah, some of those are like eight hundred.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, I don't know if I could do that. Maybe
I'll start. I'll go back to like a three hundred
and three thirty book. Yeah, And then to close us out,
let's recap all of the movies we saw in February.
I watched The Wrecking Crew on Amazon, which was the
Jason Momoa Dave Bautista movie. A solid action movie.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Sounds like just a beef.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
It's a lot of muscle, a lot of testostery, beefy guys.
But it was from the director of Blue Beetle, which
I just love him. Loft that movie, so I gave
it a three point five out of five. We finally
watched If I had legs, I'd Kick You on HBO.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Max Read.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yeah, it wasn't as good as I was expecting. Rose
Byrd's performance was top notch, But I feel like I
didn't leave loving that movie a little I don't want
to say too abstract.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
A little too abstracted.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Yeah, maybe it was a little bit. And I like
abstract movies.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
It's kind of one of those where it's like, not
they dance around things, but you hear a character's voice
and you don't see them till the end. You see
a plot point, and it doesn't get like unraveled till
the middle. Like they reveal things throughout the movie instead
of like just showing you and telling you a story.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
It's like things are alluded to and then they reveal them.
And that kind of style isn't my favorite.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
And I got the message of it, but I just
think the overall execution of it, I didn't love.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
A laugh.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
ConA O'Brien is like really making a push to being
an actor lately, is in that he's gonna be in
the New Toy Story movie. I kind of like it.
We watched talked about said Help Wuthering Heights, which I
thought people felt they either loved it or hated it.
I saw a lot of hate.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I have a friend who loved it, and I was like, ooh,
it's kind of bored.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
We went to go see it and we got busted.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Okay, so we immediately walk in and the woman's like,
can I check your bag?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I'm like, excuse me.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
It's reminded me of when we were younger and we
would cross the border and they'd have to like check us.
I was like, oh no, this car has loaded of
fruits and vegetables, and.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
I'm thinking, I have a whole bag of like Boom
Chick popcorn, not cheap Swedish candies that I'm like, please
don't make me throw away.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
I'll go put these in the.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Car because we always take snacks. We're loaded up. Yeah,
we got drinks.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I don't mind movie theater popcorn, but I'm not buying
your eight dollars candy. They don't even have many gluten
free options. Anyways, you have like a drink in my purse,
you have a snack, and I'm like.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
The look on your face. Your eyes got so wide,
and you were like.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Oh, I go, it's just a lot of tampons in there,
which there weren't even any tampons. I have used the
logic before that would have worked if it was a
man checking. It was a woman unfased, and she goes, oh,
it's fine, I just need to make sure you don't
have any alcohol. And then I'm like, oh no, And
I opened the bag. She sees all my snacks and
I was like, okay, cool. So I guess they just
don't want people sneaking and drinks. But I like, I
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literally just go it's a bunch of tampons, because again,
women aren't phased men. I have used that before, sneaking
candy into a different movie.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
That guy turned so bright red and was just like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
You're good, you're in. Do I need to see it? Truly?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
He was like, oh, oh, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
So that trick worked not this time, but yeah, but
then it didn't happen the next time we went. Think
it's maybe just like really busy Friday nights.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah, and I guess that's probably an issue with people
bringing in I don't know, beers and like bottles and
stuff to get drunk at the movies.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Movie theater. Alcohol is expensive, it is.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
I mean, imagine a drink is eight dollars? Could you
imagine a beer at the movie? I haven't drink is
actually more than eight Now it's more than eight. Yeah,
it's like nine dollars with our ten percent Now, I mean, dang,
that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
That's another reason why I don't want to buy snacks
at the movie. It's so expensive.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
I mean, that's why people don't go as much.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
But yeah, so we got busted. We did get but
it was not really busted.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
We talked about crime one on one. I threw some
shade hit songs on Blue which is on Peacock Now.
I gave that one a two point five out of five.
Again just music movies, Yeah, not big on them. Goat
Goat was okay. I think if the animation wasn't as
cool as it was, I wouldn't have enjoyed it as much.
And I love a good kids movie. We were probably
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the only two adults and they were without kids.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
We want to see it on like a Saturday morning,
like eleven.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Yeah. I just think the story was I've seen.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
It before, but nothing seen this film before.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
The Vigils are great because it's the same studio who
does Kpop, Demon Hunters and into the Spider Verse, so
it had that style. But I think maybe it was
the voice acting for me where they it just felt
like they got a bunch of celebrities that I feel
like didn't really feel like all the characters emote. Yeah,
that just didn't quite do it for me.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
I'm ready for Hoppers.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Oh yeah, that comes out this week.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Ready for that.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
That's good to be good. Listen.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
I love an animated movie. We saw the preview for
the new Minions movie.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Yeah, it looks good, hilarious. At one point, one of
them is in the bathroom needing.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Toilet paper and he unwraps a mummy and then the
Mummy Genius Guys, slapstick comedy.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
And then finally we closed out the month with watching
Rental Family, which is now on Hulu. People, I think
this was the most requested movie for us to review. Really. Yeah.
Everybody's like, when you're gonna go see Rentel Family, and
we didn't get a chance to see it, and we
wanted to. We wanted to, and then it was like
the twenty buck rental for a while. But now you
can watch it free on Hulu. So I was like,
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all right, we'll probably gonna watch this movie. People said,
we're gonna love it. I love a good It had
all the things I love. I love Brendan Frasier, I
love movies that are based in Japan. I love lower
budget movies that are just supposed to make you feel good.
And I just didn't. It just didn't connect with me.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
It just didn't have didn't pack a punch.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
It was like almost trying to overly tell an emotional
story because it's about him. He's an actor, moves to
Japan really only gets like a commercial, like a literal
commercial job, and then just starts acting in other people's
lives to like help them out, like acting as like
like a hired Yeah, like a hired great concept, but
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I think overall it's just like kind of like with
crime one on one, I was like, where was the
good part?
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Yeah, it wasn't bad, It just it was a little
it was slower, and I feel like when we watch
a movie at home, to keep my attention, it needs
to be faster paced.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Anything else we want to mention this week?
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Ooh, there's a great run of Saturday Night Live coming
up time. We put this out this past week and
we'll have already been but it's Connor story from Heated
Rivalry and Mumford and Son's excellent combo. I will be
watching the full episode and then this coming week. This
week that this podcast comes out on Saturday, it is
Ryan Gosling and Gorillas. Yes, Yes, And then the following
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week it's Harry Styles doing double duty.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
It's a good run. So are we still some of
the only people who get excited for SNL and watch
it every single week? No, there's something about us that
we just love Live TV.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
I think that's because we like being home. Because let's
tell people, we left the house today for a while. Yeah,
the minute we left the house, I read it. I truly.
We had barely gotten coffee and we were kind of like,
should we go home? But it was like we'd already committed.
Didn't my hair, didn't make up, I put on an outfit.
It's kind of like we have to leave.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
But I think for me, because I watch a lot
of things with intention, I like watching live things because
I don't have to think about it. That's good, Yeah,
because I don't want to have to think about like
what to put on the run time. Sometimes it's nice
just to put on something live and just let it live.
And that's why I like The Housewives, because you can
just let it live. You don't have to think a
lot about it.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Yeah. Oh that's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
If you're not into Bravo, you can fast forward through
me Real Housewives Beverly Hills this season.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
I know some of you have to be watching it.
Rachel Zo saved this show.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Do you know who? Rachel's was no no Idea Fashion Icon.
She had a show on Bravo. She's not getting divorced.
She came in Real Housewives Beverly Hills was getting boring.
She has single handedly revived that show. So if anyone,
if you want to talk about Rachel z O, go
follow my reading Instagram DM me about Rachel Zo because
she saved this franchise, all right.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
She's like a superhero coming save today. Basically, she just
like chaotic or no.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
She just brings like a good new kind of storyline
and they just she took everyone to like the Hampton's
and she's just just like fresh sometimes they need a
new housewife to spice things up.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Well, there you go. There's your reality TV take.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
All right, we'll come back and I'll give my spoiler
free review of Scream seven. Let's get into it now.
A spoiler free movie review of Scream seven. The road
to this movie was atrocious. It was a bumpy ride,
to say the least. Melissa Barrera, who I really enjoy
(32:18):
I thought she brought a breath of fresh air into
a franchise that really needed it, was fired from this movie.
Jenna Ortega left this movie when they were out. I
in essence was out too, because I feel their energy,
their dynamic made this franchise worthy of my time again,
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which the first two were great, three and four Man,
but them coming back in five. Even the naming of
five kind of annoys me. They called it Scream, but
it was early Scream five that was the requel. It
brought the metainess back. It brought all the elements back
that I loved about the first one and modernized it
with a great cast. But with them out and now
(33:01):
them trying to say, oh, Nev Campbell is back when
she was back in five too, she was only nine
in six. I just felt this entire movie was rushed.
There was no heart in any element of the storytelling.
And Scream seven and it was even worse than I thought.
What this movie is about. You have Nev Campbell, who
I really enjoy. She paved the way for these movies.
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I'm a Nev Campbell fan, but I just think the
writing did her so wrong in this movie. It's about
her moving away, changing her name, trying to get away
from her past completely. She has a daughter now named Tatum,
who was at the same age that Sidney was in
the first movie, and they try to make a big
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deal about that it's happening again. So Sidney's worst nightmare
is coming to life because the killer is back, and
now the killer is going after her daughter. Sidney and
Tatum have a troubled relationship because Sydney is very guarded
about her past, doesn't want to tell her about all
the death that has followed her, and wants to keep
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her daughter as safe as possible. The thing I found
the most unbearable about this movie is how much it
leans into the lore of Scream and reminding you about
all the characters. The way that everybody in this town
treats Sydney like she's some local celebrity that everybody knows
and everybody focuses on. That just doesn't feel like reality
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to me. These don't take place in the real world,
which the first movies did. That was great about those movies,
and those movies with Wes Craven broke the mold on
a genre that was dead, and I think we forget
that when Scream came out it was so groundbreaking because
the slasher movies were oversaturated in the eighties, everybody got
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tired of them. But when Scream came around, it had
that nineties edge. It was meta, it was aware of itself.
It was poking fun at the formula of horror movies
and it changed the game. But now with Scream seven,
it is going against everything that was created in the
original movie and now just being this really weird recurgitation,
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scraping the barrel for any gun of nostalgia, any kind
of just we have this ip, we gotta do something
with it, and it just feels so forced at this point,
there's nothing new to follow. Ghost Face is probably the
worst version we've ever had. The mask looks off, which
the thing I loved about Scream five is they had
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like the weathering on the mask. It looked old and torn,
and when it comes to Scream seven, the mask looks
like they just walked down to Walgreens, grabbed a Scream
mask off the rack, and got that person on set.
The only time this movie ever felt good was in
the opening scene, which was a lot of what we
saw in the trailer and what made me excited for
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the movie because I thought this movie was gonna have
more of an edge. I thought Ghost Bace was gonna
be this hardcore villain and really causing some death and destruction.
But outside of that opening scene, nothing else felt like
a horror movie. It all just felt like a parody
of itself. That opening scene did create some tension, and
I think it's because it really had nothing to do
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with the screen franchise, aside from the fact that you
have two people renting out an Airbnb that is dedicated
to the original murders. It's still meta because they were
talking about the Stab movies and about Sidney Prescott and
giving you the backstory, so just in case you haven't
seen a screen movie, they kind of tell you everything.
Even though that opening scene is still a little bit cheesy,
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I found it worked. It felt like a horror movie,
but the rest of the movie just felt like a
soap opera with some people dying here and there. There
was really only one creative kill in the entire thing,
and even that was more creative in the sense that
it got a bit of a chuckle out of me.
Everything else was buy the book, no imagination to be had.
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It tried to make a small comment on Ai, which
just felt completely crowbarred in that didn't work for me.
I don't think necessarily anybody in it was a bad actor.
I just think they had a really bad script to
work with because I wasn't buying into nev Campbell's performance
Courtney Cox did nothing for me, and they had to
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over explain all these reasons that the people inside of
this story can still exist. And I feel like as
a franchise, once you get to that point, it is
time to hang some things up move on from this story.
You can keep ghosts Face, but if they continue to
harp on the Sidney Prescott storyline, there is going to
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be no other story to tell ever, and it's gonna
get me, who is a casual screen fan, to really
write off this franchise because I don't want to see
it again. I would rather than move on completely. They
need to burn it all to the ground, much like
ghost Face did in that opening scene. That part of
the trailer just had me hype. It gave me hope,
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a false sense of hope that more crazy things like
that were gonna happen. But nothing else topped the opening scene.
So I think they need to burn it all to
the ground. Forget about Sidney Prescott, because it really just
feels like what Halloween did with Lori Strode, but Sidney
Prescott is nowhere near the level of a Lorii Strode.
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I think they need to let that character go move
it to a new town, create a whole new story,
because ghost Face is a great character, but it is
limited so much by still trying to play in this box.
It's gonna be like we're watching the Stab movies inside
of the movie at this point, because throughout the entire thing,
the humans don't feel like humans. At no point whatsoever
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was I buying Joe mcchal as a cop. He plays
Sidney Prescott's husband in Tatum's Dad. There are some people
who should just not be cast as cops. Joe McHale
is one of them. And I'm a fan of Joe McHale.
I love him in community, I love him just as
an actor. But did not work for me whatsoever in
Scream seven because when I saw him in his cop
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uniform trying to be the person in control over all
these situations, I could only see Jeff Winger making jokes,
wearing a leather jacket and talking crap on Brita, Troy,
and Abed. I could not see Joe McHale as a
serious cop, and that was a major problem for me.
I really think this movie represents and it wasn't probably
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its intention, but it represents everything that is wrong in
the movie industry right now, and everything we hate about
reboots and sequels and studios just wanting to sell us
the same thing over and over again, because that is
what we got with Scream seven. We got nothing new.
We got the same thing essentially we got in Scream
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five and six, minus the best parts I did enjoy. However,
Mason Gooding, who is Cuba Gooding Junior son, I think
out of everybody in this cast, he was the best
actor and the only person who I thought, Okay, that
is somebody I would actually like to hear more of
their story and see them a little bit more in
the main plot line of these films because I like
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him a lot aside from everyone else. Scrap it. So
for Scream seven, I say, don't waste your time seeing
it in theaters. If you have been committed to this
franchise for a long time and invested since the nineties
and have seen every single Scream movie like I have,
maybe it's worth it. But for Scream seven, I give
it two out of five knives. It's time to head
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down to Movie Mike Traylor Park. The toys are back
in town. Everybody's favorite animated toys are back in Toy
Story five. This time the big evil villain is a tablet.
We have a lily Pad smart tablet that is taking
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over Bonnie's life, and the toys are afraid they are
going to be replaced by technology. And this is supposed
to be a commentary on today's society. How kids don't
really play with toys anymore. All of the kids want
an iPad and you spend so much time on them,
does it limit your imagination? And in the case of Woodie, Buzz, Jesse, Bullseye,
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the entire Crew four key is back. They fear they're
going to be replaced because Bonnie is now completely obsessed
with the tablet. Even when she hangs out with their
other friends, they are all just on their tablets. So
how do you compete with technology? I think this movie
is trying to say a lot, but in its efforts
to do so, we have the exact same plotline as
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Toy Story one. So I do want to get into
all that, But before I do, here is just a
little bit of the Toy Story five trailer, which is
coming out in theaters on June nineteenth. Let's take a listen.
Is it as bad out there for toys as they say?
Speaker 3 (42:11):
It is.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
We're finding more abandoned toys each day. Text invaded our
house too. I don't know, Jesse. Toys are for play,
but texis for everything.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
I'm losing Bonnie to this device.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Why are you wearing a dress, Weddy? It's called a
puncho for Keith.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Someone needs a bro marker.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
What are you some sort of old man toy?
Speaker 3 (42:36):
What?
Speaker 1 (42:37):
She thanks? You're old because you're bald wedding Bonnie needs
help from someone, at least from the same centry the
Long Toy Day. Even Woody, an animated character, is not
safe from father time. He is losing his hair. What
he's about to get some plastic surgery For this movie,
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you have Tom Hanks for turning is Woody. Tim Allen
is back is buzz light Year. Joan Cusack is back
as Jesse. Greta Lee will be the voice of Lily Pad.
Conan O'Brien is a new part of the movie. He
will play a character named smarty Pants. Tony Hale is
back as Forky. And why I say that they are
making the exact same movie that they made with the
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original toy story is because that is what happened. You
have Woody, who was an old school toy, a cowboy
that all he had was a drawstring. You pull the string,
and he said his catchphrases. But that was Andy's favorite toy.
And then he has a birthday. He gets the buzz
light Year that has all this new technology that none
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of the other toys in Andy's room had. He had
the laser, which was just the light. He had the
wings that could quote unquote make them fly, and they
were all threatened by this new, big, shiny toy in
the cool box. And now thirty plus years after that one,
because that one came out in ninety ninety five, so
now thirty years yars later, the exact same thing is happening.
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It's just so much more advance because now Bonnie has
this new bright and shiny toy, much like Andy did
in part one, and now Jesse is experiencing yet again
the feeling of being replaced and being abandoned by her kid,
and the overall tone of this trailer is a lot
more sad. It feels very final, even more so than
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Toy Story three, because you can even hear it in
Joan Cusack's voice, who is now a little bit older,
which is really interesting to hear how some of these
animated movies are changing. And in my lifetime, I haven't
really experienced somebody stopping because they were wanting to retire,
and I think it's because of the time I was born.
(44:48):
Like all the original Simpsons cast, for the most part,
is still there. And if I watch an episode of
The Simpsons, especially with Dan Cassineletta, who does the voice
of Homer Simpson, to sound older now, and it's interesting
to see animated characters who are not supposed to age
physically because they are just drawing. They can look the
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exact same way, but you start to hear it in
their voice, and I hear it in Joan Cusack's voice
with Jesse. But I feel overall from this trailer, I'm
getting a very this is a final storyline in this
chapter of all these toys lives, because I can't imagine
that it goes on forever where it already feels like
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they are just making the same movie again. And if
you think about the life cycle of a toy in
this world, this is all they are going to experience.
A new kid gets them, they age out of that kid,
and then they get really sad and have to move on.
But now the reason it's a little bit different is
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not only is the kid aging out, but the world
around them is changing so much that they can't just
move on to a new kid, because that new kid
is still probably going to want to play with the
tablet more than a cowboy, more than a Space Ranger
that is now over thirty years old. Which if Woodi's
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hair is balding or fading away, how has Buzz stayed
in such pristine condition with all the crazy things they
have gone through. Now, the real problem I had with
four was that the toys started to manipulate with the
real world too much. And I think that was the
beauty of one is whenever there was a human around,
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they turned back into toys, and they wouldn't try to
manipulate a whole lot of things because that would give
some indication to the humans that, oh, are these toys alive?
What is actually happening here? Aside from them speaking to
sit and freaking him out, they laid low for the
most part. After rewatching all the toy story movies, I
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had a much different outlook, and I do believe the
toys are a little bit delusional, especially with him to
go with Andy to college. They have no idea how
the real world works, and I think that is something
that we don't address. I also think that Disney gas
lit us in portraying Sid as the villain. I don't
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think Sid did anything wrong, if anything. In the first movie,
Woody is the villain. He is the one who committed
attempted murder on buzz light Year, all because he wanted
to be the toy that Andy got to take with
to Pizza Planet, so he trying to hide him behind
the desk and in turn knocked him out of the house.
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Woody is the one who committed the crime. I don't
see anything on Sid's rap sheet that really makes him
the villain. To me, Sid was just an engineer. He
was just a kid next door. He had no idea
that these toys were alive, no idea. They make it
seem like he was tormenting toys because it was some
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kind of weird pleasure to him to see them experience pain.
He is just a kid living in the normal world
playing with this toys that maybe something is a little
bit on ethical or think is a little bit weird,
But he did nothing wrong because to him they were
inanimate objects. I think Sid was an engineer, not a bully,
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not a villain, but we painted him out that way,
and the toys saw him as a villain because he
was hurting their kind. But he had no idea that
they were living and I guess breathing. I don't know
exactly what the toys do, but they went crazy on
him and traumatized him all because he would, like I said,
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he was an engineer. He would take toys, break them
down and rebuild them in a much different way that
I felt was very creative and innovative. He also didn't
really have any friends. You mean to tell me that Andy,
the kid next door had a huge birthday party and
didn't invite Sid. With all that house, why did they
need such a big house? It was just Andy, his
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baby sister and his mom. They had a massive house,
and why did they not invite Sid. I think Sid
was unfairly picked as the villain and they didn't gets
traumatized for the rest of his life because again, he
was just playing with these toys as an engineer would.
He was strapping a rocket to buzz light here to
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see how high you would go? To study science, that
is what he was doing. And then you have Woody
speaking to him as a toy, completely traumatizing him. Could
you imagine Sid trying to get a girlfriend later in life,
them opening up about things and him being like, one
time this toy talked to me, and all these toys
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that I had created came up from the sandbox. She'd
be like, oh man, I'm gonna get out of this
relationship right now. They ruined Sid's life. He was not
the villain. So that is why I think they are
all a bit delusional. But I do enjoy seeing salty
Woody again because in my rewatch that was something I
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did appreciate. From the first movie. He was a jerk
to Buzz. He had a lot of jealousy, and that
jealousy came out in very funny ways, and it was
the most entertaining version of Woody. And then he became
a little bit softer. He became somebody trying to find
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his purpose, and then he just became the one trying
to hold it all together, trying to hold on to
the past, fearing change. But now he is back to
being a little bit salty. Him and Buzz looks like
they're not going to get along, and we are even
getting basically a recreation of that famous final scene from
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the first movie where it looks like Buzz and Woody
are again going on a chase, ending up on the
back of a car fighting against each other. So to me,
it feels almost like a remake of the first one
with a different kid, but kind of the same concept
them fearing this new technology. But now they're all a
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little bit older, they're wearing down a little bit. So
is this finally going to be the end? Are they
all going to say goodbye? If I had to pick
a favorite final ending to the Toy Story franchise, I
think it all goes back to how it was going
to end before they started messing with the situation in
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Toy Story three. I think they all accept their fate
and they go into the attic. I think they all
get put into a box and get taken up the
stairs and get put up there to live out the
rest of their lives. I think that is best case
scenario for them. I also think that is a way
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that you could still have a Toy Story six where
it's life in the Attic and they maybe try to
do some other adventures that aren't as focused on just
trying to hold on to them, wanting to still be
played with, wanting to still have that same purpose. I
think teaching kids that there are phases of life and
it's not going to remain the same forever. Eventually, you,
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even as a toy, have to grow up, much like
Andy did. Andy grew up, he went to college. He
didn't take his toys with him. Although if you think
about it, at the end of Toy Story three when
he's playing with Bonnie, was anybody else monitoring that, like
just keeping an eye on that? If I was a
neighbor just walking down, like what is that eighteen year
old doing with that kid? So again it picks our
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movie not going to get too far into that, but
again doesn't really feel like reality. But you gotta move
on with your life, and maybe the toys accept that, realize,
you know what, we've had a good run. Let's live
out the rest of our lives. Maybe somebody does. Oh
what if somebody dies in Toy Story five, that could
be it. We get a deathneral a toy funeral. How
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sad would that be? But I think and I hope
this is closing out the chapter if they want to
continue the franchise, which I know Disney would have a
really hard time doing this. You get a new set
of characters, you reboot it, much like you get new Avengers,
you get a new group of toys. Maybe you move
it back like you go back in time. You do
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a multiverse type thing where you go back to the
eighties when kids still love toys. Oh, you could do that,
you could go back in time. But I am still
looking forward to this one more than I thought I was.
I thought I was totally writing it off. I think
it's because the animation looks so good. In that opening
scene that's a dream sequence, it looks like watercolors. A
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lot of the shots look really cinematic and beautiful where
it looks like they are filmed on an actual film camera,
and I have to remember that I'm watching something animated.
The lighting, the color, all the things about the animation
is really what's drawing me into wanting to see this
on the biggest screen possible. I'm gonna take the story
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for what it is, take the message for what they
are trying to tell me, but I think at this
point in my life, I'm always gonna be a little
bit overly critical of it. But again, toy story five
is coming out this summer on June nineteenth, and that
was this week's edition of Movie mich Trailer Parks and
(54:29):
that is gonna do it for another episode here of
the podcast. But before I go, I gotta get my
listener shout out of the week. This week, I'm going
over to TikTok shouting out Elle, who tagged me in
a comment on a video talking about Nostalogier from the
eighties which I get fed so many nostalogier videos on TikTok,
(54:49):
and L wrote, I just found out that YouTube has
TV that you can stream the actual shows with the
commercials and everything from that era. It'll instantly transport you
to the era. Mike Distro mentioned it on the Bobby
Bone Show Weekend podcast. It is so awesome and I
did mention it there and I'll tell you about it
now because my favorite tradition to do right now on
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Saturday mornings, when I need that kick in nostalgia where
I feel like, oh man, the world's crazy right now,
I just want to be transported back into the late
nineties or early two thousands. On YouTube, if you just
search rewind or Nickelodeon rebroadcast or my personal favorite Disney's
One Saturday Morning, which takes me back to Waksahatchie going
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to get my haircut from my cousin's grandma, which is
not related to me, a family friend, but my cousin's
grandma would always have One Saturday Morning playing on a
small tube TV on this old desk, covered and paperwork,
and I would watch it, probably at least an hour
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of it while waiting to get my haircut by her,
and just hearing that theme song of One Saturday Monday,
No No, No, No, No Tuesday Wednesday. Hearing that theme song
and hearing the illuminating television instantly takes me back to
my childhood. And if you go on YouTube and search
One Saturday Morning, you can watch the entire broadcast of
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that where it starts with that. Some of them start
with commercials. I'm watching old chipsu Hoy commercials from back
in the day, commercials and products I haven't thought about
in so long, but somebody just ripped an entire broadcast
uploaded it. So whatever you're into, whether it's One Saturday
Morning from Disney that aired on ABC, Nickelodean, Snick, or
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maybe you were into Cartoon Network, they all have these rebroadcasts,
and it feels like you're instantly transported into that time.
And it sounds weird to be excited about watching old commercials,
but it is really fun to do if you just
need that kick in nostalgia. So appreciate you, l I
didn't think that would be anything anybody else what want
to watch except for me, but it sounds like some
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people do, so thank you for sending that comment, tagging
me on TikTok if you want to follow me there,
it's at Mike Distro. If you want to watch individual
movie reviews, just go to YouTube dot com slash Mike Distro.
Thank you all, part of the movie crew, for subscribing,
for listening every single week, for telling a friend, and
until next time, go out and watch good movies and
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I will talk to you later.
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