Mike and Kelsey share their best and worst movies for the month of June. They talk about the best and worst places to sit in the theater, an underrated movie snack, and Mike feeling embarrassed for liking Stitch so much. In the Movie Review, Mike talks about Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. He shares why he thinks the finale to the franchise fell short, why Tom Cruise needs to go back to dramas and will Glen Powell take over the franchise? In the Trailer Park, Mike talks about Keanu Reeves in “Good Fortune,” which is an upcoming comedy from Aziz Ansari. The “John Wick” star plays a well-meaning guardian angel named Gabriel who tries to help Arj, played by Ansari, by swapping his life with a wealthy venture capitalist, played by Seth Rogen.
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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
co host Kelsey. How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
We're here to talk about the best and worst of May.
We'll get into that in the movie review. I'll be
talking about my thoughts on the new Mission Impossible movie.
And in the trailer park there's a new movie with
Aziz on Sari, Seth Rogan, and Keanu Reeves. It's comedy.
Out of all those three actors, who do you like
the most?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Sorry, I'm distracting thinking about how much tweed they.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Spunked on us.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
There. Yeah, probably Soeth Rogan. I do think he's funny.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I'm gonna go Auz he'sum. Sorry, but I think most
people love Keanu Reeves. Not that I don't like Keanu Reeves.
I just think I've been a longer fan of Aziz.
He also hasn't been in a movie in a while,
so I think that's also why I'm excited to see
him back in something. So I'll talk about that. Thank
you for being here, Thank you for being subscribed. Chat
outs on the Monday Morning Movie Crew. And now let's
talk movies from.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
The Nustville podcast Networking is Movie Mike's movie podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Well, jump right in to it. Best of May. What
do you got Thunderbolts? Were you surprised how much you
enjoyed it?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
No, because I always enjoy a Marvel movie. Even if
a Marvel movie is a bad Marvel movie, it's still
a good movie in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
So you don't have superhero fatigue that a lot of
people are complaining about. I don't know if that's a
real thing or just the thing journalists and people online
are talking about, like superhero fatigue.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
No, it was also fun too because we wudn't see
it with my family, so we saw it with my brothers,
and it like kind of took me back to when
I lived in Texas and lived close to them and
we'd go see every Marvel movie together.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
The thing I've had to learn from going to movies
with your family is your family is a back of
the row theater family the top row the row, back
at the back where there's nobody behind you. It's at
the very top. Why is that? Because my dad's a
former cop, so it's a security thing.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
It's a he wants to be able to see his
environment he's just always been the way he has to
sit facing the door of a restaurant. We've just always
been top row. I think they also just like that
there's no one behind.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Them that part. I do kind of like it's it's
a lot higher up than I would I would prefer,
because our normal row is ye.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
But it's still not that high up because it's like
the TRUEUSI recliners. Theaters used to be way taller. There
was one aging myself called Tenseltown off of my thirty five.
I remember that Olderville, and those were like giant because
that was when it was just like the normal stadium seating,
so that you can call it so there were more rows.
(02:26):
Now that it's all like recliners, there's less rows that
you can put in, So I don't even feel like
the further back.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
It's not that high far and the screens have gotten
bigger since back then.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I would much rather be on the back row than
the front row.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I also think the front row isn't that close as
it used to be anymore, because.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But you still can't see that well. You're just like
staring up like you leave.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Your neck hurts because whenever I went to go see minecraft.
I got our normal row, but there was a whole
family taking up the row and they had like young kids,
and I was like, I don't want to make this
a thing of making them move, So I went down
further up where I was in that bottom section, like
in the last row of the bottom section. But even
that wasn't bad, and I could have gone to the
very front row and I wouldn't have had that issue
(03:09):
where I was like, oh my neck heurge.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
After this, I feel like we saw something? Is it
Star Wars? Yes?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Star Oh, don't tell the story. Don't tell the story.
That was when we were long distance, uh, which we
were long distance for two years, and I was.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Coming to town for Christmas and Star Wars movie was
coming out, like right before Christmas, multiple visits. I was like, hey,
should get tickets, and You're like, we don't need to
get tickets, like gaslighting me that it was not going
to sell out.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Oh, they will be fine. Where do we end up
sitting the front row?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yep? And who was right that we should have bought
the tickets sooner? So now never argues with me when
I'm like, let's get the tickets.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
We always get tickets really early. Which I don't know
if a lot of people do that whenever they go like,
we're the type of people whenever they go on sale,
we're like.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
The first people buying tickets. It's also so easy in
the Regal app. This it's not an ad for the
Regal app, but again, Regal, if you would like sponsor us,
let us know and I just do it and we
get the seats we want, just check out with a
little Regal Unlimited easy piecing.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I will say our Regal Unlimited has come into handy
in the last month, like thirty bucks less than thirty bucks.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
It's like twenty nine something. Now. Yeah, we were looking
at we were like, you know what, let's branch out
and go to a different theater, like that's fun in
your thirties. I was like, well, let's go to a
different theater in a different grocery store this weekend, Like genuinely,
I was like, it's gonna be a fun Saturday.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
See how they do popcorn.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
And then we looked at the prices and I said,
never mind, we don't need to have fun elsewhere. It
was like twenty one dollars.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
It's almost our home, matinee, almost our home. Mon regal.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
We can go see a movie every day, we can
see the same movie multiple times. We're gonna go see
Leland Stitching in this weekend.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Oh yeah, I can't wait. And I'm like, in this economy,
gotta save money, I can't do that. I ended up
really enjoying Thunderbolts as well. I think you got back
to what made Marvel so great in phase one, and
I think it sets up where we're going with a
Fantastic four. I do want to get into here later
of all the other movies coming out this summer, but
now I'm excited, which I never really jumped ship on Marvel.
(05:02):
There were some movies here and there since twenty twenty
that I haven't loved.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I think it was disappointing after Captain America, A Brave
New World was not as good as everyone helped. I
think that was kind of like, oh no, like is
Marvel done for?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
But after that, I feel this has taken them an
entirely different direction. The action was back in this where
it was like, oh, this is actually just good fighting
and good just the building of a team again, which
we saw what happened at the end of it. But
I think like this is what they need to do.
They need to stop trying to hold on to all
the old characters from the old Avengers movies and kind
(05:33):
of move on and establish this world, which I think
they did a really good job.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, they're funny. Thing about going to the movie with
my family is just the snacks that they get.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, your family goes all like we do, drinks and
popcorn and they go all out.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
My parents are always like, how do we spend so
much money? And I'm like, that's cause I think my
dad got I think he started with popcorn and a pickle,
which we've discussed this for pickle in a bag. In
a bag are a very big thing at theaters and Texas.
And then I think halfway through the movie he came
back with a hot dog. My youngest brother had a
bag of talkies and a slurpie, and then the older
one had a large popcorn a drink. I and I
(06:08):
know Regal does have like putting air quotes food, but
where I grew up in Texas, there was a theater
he had tater tots and they were so good. Let
me tell you, I'm sure they were frozen out of
a bag and just thrown into the fryar, but you
could get a whole styrofoam container of tater tots. Underrated
movie food.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I mean it's also easy to eat while watching a
movie like It's that is underutilized food and.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Vibe is popcorn like a salty delicious, I.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Would be more inclined to get some tater tots.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah, you don't eat popcorn. It has even when your
braces are going to be off, I don't see eating popcorn.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Which is soon, by the way, for everybody who's been
asking me.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Oh, I didn't know we were gonna exclusive exclusive.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
They're coming off after this airs in like a week
and a half. Yeah, yeah, so maybe I'll be speaking
better without them on. So what would you rate Thunderbolts.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Four and a half on a five?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Bob's good old Bob for my favorite of may would
it be any other movie? Leelo and Stitch, which I
did not give a five out of five because I
think the original was a five out of five doesn't
quite come close to it. I don't think anything's ever
gonna touch that. But do you give it a four
point five out of five? And at the moment of
recording this, we do have tickets to see it again.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I was reviewing our credit card stalment for the month,
and I was like, those regal charges for the Stitch
Merch the most we've ever spent. Like, I don't pay
for popcorn at the movie because I have we have
our regal credits. Like we go to so many movies
that were just always accumulating credits that I always have
a free popcorn.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Or some kind of discount or something, And to pay
for popcorn.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I was like, y'ell around her paying for this.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
It's expensive.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yeah, I see why people complain about going to the
movies now.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
It is expensive.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
And it was a very small portion of popcorn.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
And corn pale as I called it.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, it was a pail. You told the story too
of how I like went on my lunch break to
get the giant thing and then it.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Was still to make sure you could get it there
still in stock. But you know how it would it
worked the other way if you didn't do that.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I know it's fun to surprise you, but it was
just like the day I picked to go, there was
so much traffic and I was regretting every choice I'd
ever made. And then we walk into the theater and
somebody's like walking out with one and they're like, ah,
I was like, are you bleeping kidding me?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
But when it came to the first theater experience, I
think I was judging it so the first close there
have been only a handful of movies I've seen twice
in theaters. Twisters was one in recent history. Blue Beetle
was also one in recent history before Black Panther. Black
Panther because we saw it, you and I and we
(08:33):
saw it with your family, which is kind of the
same deal with Blue Beetle. And I think those are
all the movies I've seen twice in theaters and now
about to be Leelo and Stitch. And it's because whenever
we first went to go see it, I was comparing
it to the original and wondering what they were going
to keep in and what they were going to make
differently that I don't think I fully enjoyed all of it. Yeah,
(08:53):
you were analyzing because I was like, okay, they could
do this all They're going to cut this out. Hey,
this is different, and I had to think of, like,
how's the story going to change if they don't have this.
So I think now that I know what the live
action version is I can go into it and just
enjoy it for what it is, and then it starts
forming into like, oh, this is how I differentiate the two.
But I think the opposite thing kind of happened for
(09:14):
me is where sometimes when they remake a movie I love,
I'm overly critical of it, but I think how much
I love the original. I was almost gonna love it
no matter what. Yeah, so I can see why some
people didn't enjoy it, and they kind of put it
in that category of Disney just trying to cash grab
on all their old properties. But I just can't see
it that way. I even said bit of a bias here,
(09:36):
because I love the first one so much that there's
nothing they could have done that would have made me
hate it. I can't hate too cute, and he was cute.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I was afraid that he was gonna look terrifying like
those first few renderings when they started saying like live action,
I was like, oh no, and then you watch it,
you're like, he's so cute.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I'm when I was mad. I thought it was gonna
happen like whenever they first made the song, like the
Hedgehog movie, and the rendering came out of sonic, and
he looked terrifying, and people online complained about it so
much that they went back and changed his eyes and
changed his mouth, and then he looked cute again.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Listen what people want.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
So I think the fact that Stitch looked good helped
the entire movie, because if you didn't, it would be
really unbelievable, and even more so than the original movie.
I was like, oh, man, like, I wish I hit
my own stitching now because of you, I do. I
come in here every day and I smiled because of
that thing staring back at me.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Your reaction was so pure. It was so I got
home with it. You were in the shower, so I
ran into the house first to make sure you weren't around.
I was like, hello, I'm home. No response. I was like, okay,
I'm good. So I run back out to my car.
I get it, and I come home and I put
it on the counter in the kitchen, and you had
walked past to get something out of the guest bathroom,
(10:49):
and then you turned around and you like locked eyes
with it on the kitchen counter, and you were like.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
What is that? Say, where'd you get it? Where'd you
get that?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Now? I was like where do you think I got it?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
It just looks so lifelike that I was like, wait,
what is happening here? It felt like I was having
a very vivid dream because I'm like, why is Stitch
on the counter right now? But that's gonna be a
core memory for me of you showing up with that randomly.
So I think even though we probably could have got
it on opening.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Night, yeah, I forgot to use a real unlimited discount.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yeah, I think that memory alone is probably worth it.
But again, I'm not the one who had to sit
in traffic, so.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
It was fine. I also was going to support us,
so I.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Made a trip of it. But for Lail and Stitch
after the first viewing, I give it a four point
five out of five. Still can't really go up from there.
I don't think it's going to go down from there.
I think that is where it's going to live forever.
I am excited that with the success of it, they're
probably going to make more of them. And the crazy
thing was well, maybe not that crazy, but I think
(11:51):
the biggest audience that came out for in an opening
weekend was millennials and millennials oh absolutely, So it wasn't
even like this is a family.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Friendly millennials in like Stitch Snuggies.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I think it was like over fifty percent of people
were like our age, will went to go see it,
which made me feel better about it, just because even
with you getting me that popcorn bucket and how big
of a fan I am of Stitch, I kind of
felt like, not a shame, but a little like ah, man,
like this is an adult man so into Stitch. But
I think seeing that there's this entire fan base that
(12:23):
is my same age, and just seeing people on TikTok
post about it, I'm like, oh, everybody's doing this, it
feels more normal.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I also told you not to be ashamed of things
that you enjoy.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I like collect.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I was thinking about this earlier for some random reason.
I was like, we in the age of people making
tiktoks of like things that give me the ick, things
that are in, things that are out Like I understand
the like good natured fun of it, but I also
think those things can be really like hurtful to people
because don't yuck someone's yum. Like I just was like
the things that like some people choose to spend their
(12:53):
money on if it's not how you spend your money.
That's great, Like, just enjoy what you enjoy.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Life's hard enough, so hard to find things hobbies you
want that bring you joy in this life, and just
the way everything has been in the last few years,
it's like, man, if we could just find some kind
of comfort in a blue little creature, why not.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I did use this as a learning point for you.
I was like, see, you want all these different stitches.
They're the same thing, but they serve a different purpose.
That's how I feel buying seventeen blushes.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yeah, if you look in this room, I can see
three different stitches. One that you're holding right now, which
is a stuff stitch, like a weighted stitch. There just
five stitches. There's the popcorn bucket. Oh yeah, there's this
small one.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
There's the one I'm holding in There's two figures. There's
five stitches in here.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Five stitches. I think he's almost up there with Spider
Man in this room. He's getting close.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah. I love your room. I think it's turned out
so cool.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I love it so our worst now, what was the
worst thing you saw in I don't think I'm gonna
like this in May.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Friendship.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I love friendship Tom Robinson, Tim Robinson, sorry.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
But I and I don't mean this rude. I think
people who were lightly more socially awkward enjoyed it because
they see themselves in it.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Is that why I love stuff like this?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I think so. I think that's why you're into like
the rehearsal, like, because it's just like socially awkward people
trying to make their way.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Maybe that's why I love jam Robinson so much.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
To me is that you're not socially awkward around me.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I can't quite explain that, because you're the only person
I can be my true self around where I don't
care what I say or how I say it.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
But it's like I'll post things on instagramm or stories
and like my friends find it hilarious and I'm like,
y'all think he's so quiet, but I'm like, this is
the mic that I get twenty four to seven.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yeah, just whenever I'm around people, even people I do know,
I just feel like in my head so much, and
I think that's why I find comfort in these characters
that like Tim Robinson does. Maybe that's it. Maybe that's
why I love this movie.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
I it just wasn't my brand of humor and it is.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
It's a really hard movie to recommend to say, this
is gonna be funny, you should go see it.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I don't know if it's a I would recommend to
anyone in theaters.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yeah, wait, because the comedy is it's so interesting, peculiar,
and it's so original. But sometimes when you're so original,
a lot of people can find it off putting and
just kind of dismiss it, which I get. And if
you watch his show on Netflix, or if you watch
A Detroiter's which was a Comedy Central show, the Netflix
show is I think you should leave. You kind of
(15:19):
know his brand of humor and I love it. I
love probably Detroiter's more just because it is more character
driven and there's an actual storyline. I think you should leave,
or like really short episodes with a bunch of random skits.
And if you don't know Tim Robinson, he started out
as a writer on SNL, was I think a cast
member for a little bit, but never written. Never really
(15:39):
quite panned out there. I think it's because his brand
of humor was so specific that it didn't really work
on Saturday Night Live, Which.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Is funny because I feel like a lot of things
that SNL does are niche humor, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
But sometimes even like a Kyle Mooney, who I would
say was more successful on SNL than Tim Robinson. His
brand of humor is also so specific that it didn't
really quite take off on SNL as much as maybe
some people thought. But I think Tim Robinson has had
more success outside of it, and this movie was kind
of a culmination of all of his TV shows and
(16:13):
I thought it was good. I still enjoyed it, but
I thought I was gonna love bit more based upon
him being I would say my favorite comedian right now.
So still a really good movie. I thought Paul Rudd
was really good in it too. I just think overall
the story wasn't exactly what I was expecting.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Kate Mara being in it was a surprise to me.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
As far as my worst movie for May, there wasn't
really a bad movie, and I think that's a good
sign for the summer blockbuster season. But the one I
enjoyed the least was Final Destination Bloodlines, which I gave
a three point five out of five. I just think
they kind of ran out of ideas and overall, when
it comes to horror franchises, Final destination isn't my go to.
I also went to go see it alone because you're like,
(16:53):
I don't want to any.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Part of this The only one I've ever seen all
the way through, and I've seen it multiple times because
it was like a go to sleepover movie in my
school's final destination too. It's traumatizing. The only thing I
remember the logs are in that one, right, That's all
I remember, And I can't drive behind anything that has
things that are like tied to it. I will go
around and I feel like that's the most effective marketing
that our generation has ever seen.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
They even brought back that marketing with this movie, and
I think maybe something I missed a little bit was
not seeing it with people, because I think it is
one of those movies where you go with somebody and
you both kind of poke fun at how ridiculous it
is and have that kind of bonding moment. It was
also kind of an empyr theater, so I also like
seeing horror movies like in the middle of the day.
It's just one of the best feelings. But that would
(17:36):
be my worst of the month of May. Overall, not
a bad month that got the lowest rating. What was
your favorite TV.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Show of the month Easy, Overcompensating That was.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
A really funny show. What's the premise of that?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
So it's Benito Skinner, who is a comedian. He has
been doing like sketches and skits for years, and it's
history of being gay in college but no one knows,
so we're still not telling people hiding his identity, and
it's him like trying to navigate college just kind of
like a bro dude, but like being gay and trying.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
To be accepted therefore, over Compensating.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
It was so funny. And I was listening to he
and Mary Beth Burrow and they do a podcast, but
they were on Jake Shane's podcast and he was like,
people are like, oh my god, I need season two now,
and he's like, well, I love that I need You
also know it took seven years to get this first
season made because he'd been writing it for so long
and shopping it around until eight twenty four on Amazon
picked it up.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah, so it was on Prime video. It's kind of
like an artist who has their entire life to write
their first album, yeah, and then they only have like
a year maybe two years to write their second album.
That's hard though, because it is such a good show
and it has the momentum, but you think about how
much goes into it. The soundtrack, Yeah, because every whole
good every episode is the name of a song and
(18:51):
it takes place. Well, it kind of feels like it's
modern day, but if you pay attention to it, it
feels like the early twenty tens.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I think it that's when he was in college. Okay,
because he's my age thirty one. You know how I
pay attention to things whenever something's supposed to be set
in a time period. They were making references to things
that felt modern, like using phrases that we would use now.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
But with all the characters and all the music they
were listening to or the movies they were referencing, I'm like, oh,
this is all stuff from like twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Even the tie in of like Charlie XX was like
her older song.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Yeah, when boom Clap was out back when I met her.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
I think the next day I went to boxing and
we boxed to boom Clap and I was like, Wow,
It's like one of those things when you pay attention
to something and then you start seeing it everywhere.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I really I really enjoyed it. I thought the writing
was really great, and I'm also just really nostalgic for
the twenty tens, which I think was the best time
to be alive. And it reminds me, probably because that's
when I was in college too, and I think just
having something that represents that time. Whenever you're in it,
you don't realize the things you are doing are going
to be the things people remember about this decade. And
(19:54):
now you watch that back and you're like, oh, yeah,
like early social media, how big like go and the
concerts were and being seen by people overall, like relationships
and the way just culture was at that time. You're like, man,
twenty tens, that was a time to be alive.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
I think my peak not peak, but like my favorite
was twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, my senior year. It was
it was the best time. I took all of my
classes with my best friend, Like we were the same
major at the same schedule. We like staggered our classes
so we only had like Tuesday Thursday, so then we'd
like walk on Thursdays, talked about the Trude's on campus.
We would have Margarita's and we'd fill up with the
(20:30):
free chips it's also for dinner and then we'd walk
home because we lived near campus and it was just
the best time. And like twenty six teams when Closer
By the Chainsmokers came out, like nothing will give me
a feeling more than Closer By the Chainsmokers, like just
take me back.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
A lot of great movies around that time too, that
I felt were kind of just core memories as far
as like movies that eventually led to me doing this,
So it was cool to see that represent it represented
in a series.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yeah, I loved it. I highly recommend it on Prime.
Would you give it five out of five?
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Ooh, I've had a five.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I loved it.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I'm gonna go. I watched two shows on HBO in May,
and I kind of feel the same way about both
as far as HBO show is feeling short, which they
both had season finales that I did not know were coming.
It was the Last of Us in the rehearsal, but
that I feel.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Like you just weren't paying attention how many weeks it
had been on because Last of Us had seven episodes. Yes,
I know White Lotus has had in the past, it
only had eight this season. But I got just typical
HBO show, and.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
I feel like that's not enough episodes.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Well, I agree, but it was just so funny that
you were like flabbergout.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I was like, how is this a finale?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I was a cow many episodes, expecting you to say
like four and you're like seven. I was like, that's
an HBO season.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
It's because they came out. They both aired on Memorial
Day weekend and I was like, oh, I can actually
watch these live if I want to. And then I
was like, what time is it air? And they were
like the finale of I'm like the finale, Yeah, you spiraled.
I was like, I was not prepared, Like mentally, I
was like, how is this story on both of these
shows going to be done on this episode? So I
just feel as a whole, like, man, we're not getting
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enough episodes. But then going back when you're talking about
with overcompensating, I feel like these shows are just taking
more and more to make. They're only eight of those, yeah,
and they're at a level where it takes almost as long,
if not longer, like it would to take a movie.
But it's a show. And with the show, we were
expecting to have another season at least by the next year.
But it's now like two or three years before we
have to get another one, let me tell you.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
On the other hand, Secret Lives of Mormon Wives first
season came out in September. This season came on met
and there were ten episodes and they were draging those
plot lines.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Oh yeah, is that the one I heard?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I ate it up, but they were dragging the plot lines.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
So yeah. Overall, I enjoyed the Last of Us Season two.
I thought I was gonna love it because I love
season one. I just felt season one was much more grittier.
This one started to feel more like walking Debtish, which
I'm I'm fatigued on those types of shows, so it
didn't really have a uniqueness to it that I was
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looking for That made it feel like Last of Us.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Don't I don't want to be one of the blast
people's I absolutely don't.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yeah, I would be really bad at it.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
No thank you.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I'm like, we gotta not get food from a grocery store. No,
I would not survive.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I can't online shop and just get things delivered to me.
I have to like forage, no thank you.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
But a cannibal no, well, cannibalism m'd be interested in.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Somebody's gonna sound like that and it's gonna end up somewhere.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I mean, if it came to it at the end
of the world. I dabble.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
It's like that movie was a movie about like the
Argentinian team.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Oh, Society of the Snow, Society of the Snow.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Society of the Snow.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yeah, Society of the Snow. What I say, Society of
the Snow. I wasn't airing the Society Society of the Snow.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
I couldn't. I couldn't handle the graphic nature of the
cannibalism in that one.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
That is the movie that made me realize I could
probably do it. When they start cooking it and it's like,
stop stall, it probably tastes like chicken. To be honest,
how would you know you're a vegan? You have a
ten years. I just think humans tastes like chicken. Let's
get a cannibal on the line. But yeah, any hammer, Hey,
I don't think he actually did or did he do
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that allegedly? But Last of Us Season two, I would
give it a four out of five. Still, I just
felt kind of dipped in the middle and then blindsided
me with the finale being so soon the rehearsal I
would probably give. I rarely give any show of five
out of five, so I would give it a four
point five out of five. That show is so awkward,
and again it's again like it probably why I like it.
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Nathan Fielder is a socially awkward guy, and in the
first season he was working with a bunch of different
people and having them rehearse big things they had coming
up in their life that they were anxious about. In
like the first episode of season one, he's helping out
somebody with trivia night, and then in this season it's
basically him trying to change the rules and aviation and
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make it safer.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
But there was one in the first season where he's
like helping someone think about raising a child. Then they
get like a new child, like every couple of days.
To see the different stages, I think that's the only
episode I've watched.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
And then it just goes layer and layer and gets
more meta and more meta, until it's like, is this
a show? Is this an experiment? What is going on here?
So it kind of blends the lines of reality. So
it's another show kind of like Friendship where I'm not
exactly sure. I would recommend it even though I really
love it. I just feel like you have to be
into that brand of entertainment and humor to I don't
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want to say enjoy it, but just to appreciate.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
It, to even understand it.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Yeah, to understand it. Like if I recommended that to
like my dad or something, he'd be like, I had
no idea what this is. This is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Speaking of your dad, were you looking for Father's Day
gifts for him on Amazon?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Were you looking for gifts for Mexican dads?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I google gifts for Mexican dads on Father's Day.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I went to buy something on Amazon earlier, and because
you use my account, your search history comes up, and
it was like hand soap, I bought a hairclip hips
from Hexecones.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
If you google that, you find that it's a lot
of alcohol based things. There's like a mom white just dads,
and then some are like oddly like oh, a chili
pepper That's just like I don't think that should be
in this search. That feels a little racist, and then
other things. Oh, the funniest part is there were some
things that were like custom, like custom made with your
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last week I can't get custom gifts, fir, and I
was like, I can't do that again. Last year, I
tried to get him a custom hat that was like
his first trucking company that he worked for and his
name on it, and I went to a website I
got it custom made, and they did not send him
the right hat whatsoever. And it was a reputable website.
If it was a reputable website, we won't them. And
(26:44):
instead of sending him one hat like I ordered, they
sent him two different hats that made no sense. One
of them said Angie and his name is Angel, and
he was like, Angie, what is this mean? I think?
The other one said like it.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Was like bats or something. It was like purple with
like bats.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
But even had a word in Spanish. I don't remember
what it was like it was so or something.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Oh yeah, it's bueno.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
I'm like bueno.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
And he was like it was close enough to where
he was like, I think this is probably what they ordered.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
And that's what made it worse is because he thought
made it even funnier. It's like this has my name
on it as far as the address, and this one's
in Spanish and this one's almost my name I'm just
confused why you would send this to me. And all
I did was just send me a picture of it,
and I was like, oh, no, that's not right at all.
And I had to call him and explain. He was like, oh,
that makes more sense.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
And then we also bought him the wrong shoe size
for his birthday, so we didn't really do great on
the gifts.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Yeah, so that's why I googled, and particularly ones that
don't require a size or any customization really limits. Yeah,
so I'll have to go back to Google to find something.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
We can't get him a cooler. No, my family loves
to gift your dad coolers. I think they've gotten him too,
haven't they.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
It's an easy dad gift, like dad to drink beer.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
But they've gotten him. Like, what's that one they got him?
It was like a super It did something cool. It
like had like something on the side or something, you
know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yeah, I don't really know what it is. And as
a bottle opener, it can play music.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
It was something like fancy. And then my grandparents got him.
So that's the other thing. My grandparents love your parents.
When we do a family get together, it's like my parents,
your parents, your siblings, my brothers, and my grandparents, and
they are obsessed with your parents. And so my grandpa
was like at Costco one day and sends me this picture.
He's like, you think Angel would like this? And it's
one of those like metal tubs that you can put
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like ic in and beer in. And I was like, yeah,
I think he wouldn't. He like bought it and took
it him the next time you saw him, and.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
He loves it.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
But yeah, so so no coolers. That's been overdone, overdone,
but done enough, back to the drawing board. If anyone
has good gift ideas for gifts from Mexican to ends,
let us know.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Yeah, let me know. We'll wrap it up with your
book of the month. Easy.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
It was called The Names by Florence Nap. I read
it in forty eight hours. It is this woman who
has a son, and there's a name that her daughter
wants to name the baby, a name that she wants
to name the baby, and a name that her husband
wants to name the baby. So each perspective. So it's
set in chunks of like seven years, so it's like
nineteen eighty seven, seven years later, seven years later all
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the way through like twenty twenty two, I think. But
it's each chapter in that section is told from the
perspective of the kid if he was named each one
of those different names, and how his life would have
been different. It was so good.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Yeah, I it would take a lot for me to
want to read a book of that size, But you're
telling me the premise of that. I was like, oh,
that sounds like a really good book, and even feel
like give us so long. You know how I am
with books.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
It's like three hundred pages.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Yeah, that's like, my that's like a real book. It
takes a lot for me to read a real book
with three hundred pages.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
I wouldn't be surprised if it's on my top ten
of the year.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Would they make a movie?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
I think make a movie of anything these days, but
I think that would be really good.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I would watch it. Almost sounds like it could be
a limited series though, like episode by episode, like the
Oh that I feel like it's a limited No.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Each episode is that seven years? Yeah, and there's like
twenty minute it's each character.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
What would you rate the book?
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Five out of five?
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Ooh, five out of five. You gonna be on the
top ten of the year. Possibly, all right, anything else
for everybody. It's our anniversary. This I guess this week.
This comes out on Monday. Happy anniversary, four years married.
We could have graduated college again.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
I just feel like an old married couple at this
point in a good way. Like it just feels like yeah,
like I don't at this point, I don't even remember
long distance. I don't remember dating.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
It's just like, oh yeah, yeah, long distance seems like
so long ago. And even you living here feels like
five years. I can't remember you not being here.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Yeah, I don't remember it either.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
So happy anniversary.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Thank you. Thank you for my gift that I picked
on and say you the link too, You're welcome and
then made you let me open three weeks early.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Thank you for my gift which came in early and
you made me open immediately. But I love it.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Yeah, I don't do well with gifts.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
You're like, it came in surprise. Here it is, I
did do that, but I do love it.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
And if you're wondering, it's a purse that I said
like to. That's usually my go to gift. We're not
those people that do the like four year I think
four years is fruit fruit. But people do like really
like creative interpretations, like I could have gifted you something
from apple. You know'll do like different interpretations.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Now, like an edible arrangement.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
You could do that. I should be better about that,
Like I know people will like the first year I
think is paper and then it's like cotton. To be honest,
I just find something I like and send it and say,
this is a great reason to get me a gift.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
That works at the universary. Let's get into it now.
A spoiler free movie review of Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning,
which was a bit of a rebrand. It is the
eighth and final installation in this series, the last time
We're ever gonna see at least allegedly, Tom Cruise play
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Ethan Hunt. The movie takes place where the last movie
left off, which was Dead Reckoning Part one. That's why
this movie had a little bit of a rebrand because
that movie ended up underperforming came out at a time
where it was very competitive at the box office. Tom
Cruise was also competing for Imax screens because he is
a big proponent of I got to get these movies
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out in theaters where people can see them and on
the biggest screen possible because he takes a lot of
pride and what they put on the screen and the
links they go to get these incredibly well crafted and
choreographed action sequences that are really the thing to me
that make these movies worthwhile to go see in theater.
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So that is why I have a bit of a
I don't love Tom Cruise movies, but I respect what
he's done for the movie industry. In a post COVID world,
if it wouldn't have been for top Gun Maverick, I
don't know that a lot of theaters would still be here.
So he is still putting out movies that get people
excited to go back to the theater, that keep cinemas alive.
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So I like that aspect of it. But when it
comes to what I see as Tom Cruise, the person,
the actor, and overall his work in the last fifteen years,
I wouldn't call myself the biggest Tom Cruise fan for
a period of my life. If Tom Cruise was in it,
I would kind of be like, I don't think I
want to watch it because of that. But with the
last movie Dead Recording Part one, I really enjoyed it.
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I thought it had some great action, and it had
a moment that was probably a total of five to
six maybe eight seconds of him jumping off a cliff
on a bike that I felt was the moment of
that movie. And how much work went into getting that
one specific shot I thought made it. And it's him
doing those things that excite me and made me interested
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in going to see how they were going to wrap
up this entire franchise which started back in nineteen ninety six.
And I was not just a little bit, but kind
of a lot of bit let down because it just
felt like they were running over the same stuff over
and over again. And in no way should this have
been two movies. This one was almost three hours, say,
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with a one before this, and it was really the
entire story again what this movie is about. It's Ethan
Hunt and the IMF team. They're on a race against
time to fight this thing called the Entity, which is
essentially this rogue AI that has taken over the world.
It's going to cause a bunch of just chaos and
mayhem and war, and if this thing is not stopped,
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we're all not going to be here. So you need
Ethan and his team to stop it. And apparently he's
the only one who can do it by running really
fast and fighting people and getting into situations that only
he knows how to get out of, apparently. And the
problem I had is overall it was too slow and
too boring, aside from the big action sequences, but even
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the problem with those big action sequences in this one
is while they look really expensive and I'm sure they
took a long time to film and there was a
lot of process that went into it, they spent so
much time setting up all of these big action sequences,
I felt that's all it was, and the time in
between all the big moments were boring and slow, and
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my theater and myself just became restless because it was
a lot of exposition, not a lot of action, especially
just because it was retreading everything that happened in the
first one. Because I really hate the trend of splitting
up the last movie in a franchise into two parts.
It is just everybody seems to do it now because
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you film one big movie and you think if you
put it out into two parts, you can make double
the money. I just find it really annoying and cash gravy,
especially because now two parts feel very incomplete, and that
is how this movie started, where they started telling you
and reminding you all the things that happened in the
part before this, because just in case you didn't see it,
or in case you forgot about it already, they have
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to remind you. If you are a big fan of
the franchise and you like sitting down and watching all
of them back to back to back, it's gonna be
so annoying by the time you get to this point
where they're just reverencing things that have happened all throughout
the series. I don't like all the callbacks at the beginning.
It was really disorienting and overall just really boring. And
the problem I had with the story here is that
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it didn't create a sense of urgency like it did
in Part one. It just kind of felt like it
was there, and they were really trying hard to make
an emotional finale for Ethan Hunt. That's really what this was,
him and the team all doing it one last time,
him telling his crew like one last time, I'm not
to ride with me, or something like that. And I
feel like this franchise has lived different lives throughout one
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through three. I kind of see that as a trilogy.
Those carried over into the two thousands, and in the
twenty tens, I almost feel like they became this entirely
different franchise where the story got better. At least, it
got a little bit more cohesive, it formed its identity
a little bit more. It also kind of went the
way of, Okay, we have the franchise this thing. Now
(36:43):
we have a formula that we have to follow to
make a mission impossible movie. You throw in all the
stelf destructing messages. And that was really in the twenty tens,
where Tom Cruise became even more obsessed with doing his
own stunts, with breaking his ankle, jumping from one building
to another. But I really feel like the apex of
that was in Dead Reckoning Part one. That is where
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the good stuff was. That is where just the beautifully
shot moments were that I say, we're even Oscar worthy
and the final Reckoning just felt like the falling action
the entire time, And that was just really hard for
me to sink my teeth into and really ride this
wave of I want to see how this is all
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gonna play out, and I didn't really care what was
gonna happen to Ethan Hunt's character, and I love finales
when it comes to TV shows. I will watch the
finale of a TV show even if I haven't seen
all the seasons, just because I want to know, Oh,
how are they going to wrap this thing up? Will
it hit me emotionally if I am not aware of
all these things that have gone on with all these characters.
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And I love a finale of a movie franchise even
more because it is very monumental to take this story,
to take Ethan Hunt, who has been around since the nineties,
who has been around almost my entire life. I remember
these movies being so in packful as a kid, iconic
moments throughout its entire run. But this just wasn't it.
It lacked that feeling, It lacked that emotion, It lacked
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that creativity, It lacked that finality. It didn't really feel
like this was okay. I am. Well, You're never gonna
be completely satisfied with the ending to anything. There's always
gonna be things unsaid, There's always gonna be better ways
to wrap it up. But as long as I feel satisfied,
I think that is as good of a job as
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you can do as a filmmaker. But in no way
did I really feel satisfied, because it felt like this
movie was playing it safe from beginning to end. Now,
they did give us some good action moments, I think
the scene with the airplanes that you probably saw in
the trailer, but even that didn't hit the same way
that some of the action sequences have in previous films.
They've gone to greater links, So this entire film just
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kind of felt like it was all the extra scenes
that didn't work in anything else that they had done.
What I am excited for is Tom to move on
from Mission Impossible. I don't know exactly what he's going
to do next, or even if this franchise is really
good to be dead, because he says that, But if
they come a knock in with another idea and they
pay him enough money, I could actually see the rumor
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coming to life of Glenn Powell taking over the franchise,
and maybe even not him fully. But you start kind
of rotating who these movies are about, and then eventually
Tom Cruise comes back as Ethan Hunt, and maybe three
or four movies down the line where that feels a
little bit more impactful, much like Robert Donney Jr. Returning
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to the MCU. Tom Cruise at his age in his sixties,
still loves doing these big action movies, So I have
to imagine another Top Gun movie is on the way,
kind of in that same style of him just seeking
that adrenaline. There is serious talks now of him reviving
his character from Tropic Thunder, So I think he's in
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a position where he's just gonna do movies where he
wants to have fun. Hopefully he wants something a little
bit less demanding, because when is the last time you
saw Tom Cruise in a straight ahead drama, in a
rom com or something that maybe earned him an Oscar nomination.
I feel like he does want to get back to
that at some point, and maybe he has this pressure
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on him or feels a need because of his status
as one of the last standing just A plus movie
stars that can really influence people to go out and
pay their hard earned money to spend on a ticket
to go see something in theaters. He feels the need
to create these summer blockbusters, and that if you went
and just did a drama, did something like rain Man,
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did something a little bit more straightforward, it would be
harder for him to promote because this has kind of
been his identity now for over a decade where he's
really just like, here's all these crazy action moments, you
gotta go see them in the big screen. You gotta
go eat your popcorn really aggressively like he does. Maybe
there's just some kind of pressure there, or that's what
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he wants his legacy to be, knowing that he's not
going to be able to do these roles forever. He's
going to get to a point where he can't meet
the demands of an action role like this, which he
still looked really good in this movie. There were a
lot of moments where there was a lot of shirtless
Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise in his underwear running on a treadmill,
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and I think that was also him like saying, hey,
look I still look good. I still got it. It
just really didn't feel like the ending to me that
started back in nineteen ninety six. It feels more like
the ending of the era that started in twenty eleven.
And I knew I wasn't heavily invested in it when
we got to that hour mark, and I was already wondering,
when is this thing going to be over? And by
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the time we got to the two hour mark, I
was ready to get out of there because I now
spent almost six hours on the same plot, and I
was ready to move on. I was about to take
ethan Hunt out myself. And some people might say, oh,
you just don't like long movies. I love long movies.
I have been a long proponent of three hour runtimes.
I want to see the Brutallest that was three and
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a half hours with the intermission. I am not against
long run times. I highly encourage it, especially when it
goes to streaming at home, because you can take it
in how you want. Three and a half hour movie,
break it up into thirty forty five minute increments, and
suddenly it is a limited series, which most people have
no problem binging a limited series in a weekend because
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the nice little digestible portions for you. Do that with
the three hour movie and you'll still find it really enjoyable.
Is just when something does become three hours, you already
have to set this expectation of, Okay, this is going
to be an investment, no matter what. I do. Have
to judge this a little bit differently, because if you
are telling me that you needed three hours to tell
your story, I'll accept that. I'll go watch that, but
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if at any point I feel that that three hours
is unearned and I check out, then you're kind of
in the world to hurt there. Needless to say, the
movie still did really well at the box office. Even
though it couldn't beat My Boy's Stitch in opening weekend,
it was still a best for the French and I
think the more hardcore fans of this franchise were saying
this was a five out of five, a four point
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five out of five. A lot of film bros were
really just gung ho about this movie, so much so
that I thought, what am I missing here? And I
know some of those people are probably watching or listening
now and I'm going to feel the heat for this,
But I am okay with that. I still went to
see it. Would I still go watch another one? Yeah,
because I still think these movies are entertaining and really
benefit from that in theater experience. Where we went to
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see it opening weekend and the entire theater was full,
I would say, pretty close to sold out on opening night.
That is a feat in itself, so I do give
it bonus points for actually getting people out into the
theater for performing better than the movie that came before it,
but still just wasn't quite it for me. I give
Mission Impossible the Final Reckoning three point five out of
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five self destructing messages. It's time to head down to movie.
Mike Trey Lar pau Leanu Reeves out here doing side quests.
He's one of the biggest actors who just randomly will
do a movie that makes you go ha, and then
you watch a trailer and you're like, oh, that actually
(44:10):
makes a lot of sense. It's him and Nicholas Cage
that they can.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
Do it really serious or even just a really big
blockbuster movie like a John Wick and then come out
with a movie that you're like, hmm, they do this
as a favor, but somehow I'm so interested in this.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
Keanu Reeves plays a guardian angel in a movie coming
out called Good Fortune. It is written and directed by
Azi's I'm Sorry. It also stars Seth Rogan. What the
movie is about? Keanu Reeves plays a well meaning but
rather a nept angel named Gabriel who just wants to
make a difference in the world. So he sees this
struggling gig worker played by Aziz I Sorry, who is
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kind of lost in life and wants to help him out,
and tries to prove to him that, well, if you
had money, it wouldn't really solve all your problems, So
let me prove it to you by making you switch
bodies with a really wealthy venture capitalist played by Seth Rogen.
But then it turns out it kind of does solve
all of his problems.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
I like the.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
Premise, even though it's not the most original thing I've
ever seen. I could compare it to three movies right now,
but I think I think this just might work. It's
coming out in theaters on October seventeenth. Before I get
into more about good Fortune, here's just a little bit
of the trailer. Martha. Yes, Gabriel, is there any way
I can have more meaningful duties? I want to guide people.
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I want to change their lives.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
To save a lost soul, that to find a loss soul.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
Arch. I'm an angel. My name is Gabriel. I'm here
to save you. What who the fuck are you? How
do you know my name?
Speaker 2 (45:49):
I'm normally only in charge of saving people from texting
and driva. Wait, you're telling me I have a budget
guardian angel kind of I think.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
The two of them look really great together. Most people
are probably seeing this as a Keanu Reeves movie because
he is such a huge movie star coming off of
the John Wick franchise. I am seeing this as an
ausis on Sorry movie because I've been a huge fan
of his. I've always loved his comedy. I think most
people still associate him with Parks and Rec. And as
much as I love that show, I was such a
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huge fan of his that I don't even associate him
as the guy from Parks and Rec. Because I used
to watch all of his stand up specials, and when
it comes to his TV roles, he hasn't even done
a whole lot of those in a long time. Really.
The last major thing he did was Master of None
on Netflix, which did get two seasons. First season was fantastic,
(46:43):
the second season was a good follow up, and then
kind of fell off. They did another mini series under
the same umbrella of Master and None, but really we
only got two seasons of that show. He went through
some personal stuff dealing with things in the news, and
then he was gonna make another movie back in twenty
twenty two called Being Mortal that starred Bill Murray, but
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then Bill Murray God accuses himself, so that movie got shelved,
never came out, and now this is finally going to
be his directorial debut, and it probably also means a
lot to him that he also wrote the script for
this movie. So getting back to the plot, it all
centers around Gabriel, who one day notices this man down
on his luck. Aziz On Sorry plays a guy who
(47:25):
has hit rock bottom. He is at a Denny's restaurant
and he gets his car Toad, and that is where
Keanu Reeves's character shows up trying to help him out.
He finds out he's working for Seth Rogan doing all
these random jobs, and he's trying to convince him that hey,
even if you had all of your boss's money, it
wouldn't make you any happier. So as an angel, he says, well,
(47:46):
let's make you two swap bodies and see what happens. Well,
it turns out having Seth Rogan's character's money actually does
solve all of his problems. So Gabriel loses his wings
and is sent down to Earth to live among the humans.
And now as On's character takes over Seth Rogan's body
and just gets to live as him now, so a
classic body swap movie which has been done before, so
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it's not like this plot is entirely original. It even
reminds me of one of my favorite body swap and
also Guardian Angel movies, Down to Earth with Chris Rock.
And the reason I see parallels between these two movies,
which Down to Earth came out back in two thousand
and one, and it's just one of those movies from
the two thousands I felt it should have been a hit.
That movie is about Chris Rock's character who plays an
(48:30):
amateur comedian. I see the parallels between him and a
zi'son Sorry in real life. And Chris Rock is another
one of those people who fantastic comedian has had so
much success, but when it comes to his movies, hasn't
really mirrored that same success. Even though I love Down
to Earth, I love Top Five. He's done some pretty
good work in the Gronos movies. You just don't really
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see Chris Rock and consider him to be a movie star.
But in Down to Earth he plays a guy who
dies at a point in his life where he thinks
it is not my time. He convinces an angel that hey,
you guys have made a mistake here. I need to
get back down to earth. So they're like, all right,
we'll work out a deal with you. We'll put you
in a temporary body for now until maybe we can
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find you another body. So they put him in the
body of a rich white guy, and suddenly he is
Chris Rock, acting the same way he was before, but
now in the body of a guy whose wife tried
to kill him, and he gets to do all the
things that he thinks he needed money to do, but
he's still also trying to do comedy. So there's some
great moments in that. There's a little bit of love
(49:35):
and heartfelt moments, but overall, I think the movie just
didn't resonate with audiences, and maybe only resonated with me.
But that is an underrated movie of the two thousands,
in my opinion, and Good Fortune really reminds me of that.
So a lot of people have this question, why don't
they make movies like this anymore, referring to nostalogic movies
that we all grew up loving that maybe weren't the
(49:56):
best reviewed, maybe even are considered box offic off his bombs,
but they are movies that we cherish. They are cult classics.
This feels like one of those movies, and it's maybe
one that's not gonna get a whole lot of attention.
Where this movie might be able to strike wile the
iron is hot is the fact that, of course you
have your big star Keanu Reeves, but also it's coming
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out on October seventeenth, which having a movie like this
come out in October, that's not a horror movie. Counter
program the horror. You beat all the Thanksgiving movies and
definitely beat all the Christmas movies. And I just hate
the fact that a lot of people are gonna watch
this trailer, hear the plot and think, oh, that's just
a streaming movie. If we want more movies like this
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that remind us of the good old days, we gotta
go support them when they are out in theaters. I'm
talking movies like Good Fortune, movies like Friendship, movies like
Riff Raff from earlier this year. I love everything about
it so far, even though I might be having a
little bit of Seth Rogan fatigue. Maybe that's because I'm
coming off the studio and all of his recent projects
(51:01):
just kind of feel like it's Seth Rogan playing himself
over and over again, and maybe that is the secret
formula for him, Like I know how to play this role,
and maybe that's exactly what this movie needs. But it
just kind of feels like he's showing up in these
projects and just being his exact same self, and sometimes
just the characters that he plays and the situations that
(51:22):
he is in I find really annoying. But is that
him just being a good actor? If he is meant
to play an annoying actor doing things that irritate you,
is it getting its point across? Is he really just
doing his job Because it's a lot to invoke an
emotion like that, So maybe he's just really good at it.
But I kind of just want a different look at him.
(51:43):
Even talking about movies that Azielnsari has been in, one
of them was Funny People, which was a big movie
for Seth Rogan that was at a time where he
did have a little bit more of an acting profile.
As far as I can do these comedies like Knocked Up,
but I can also show a little bit of a
different side of me where I'm not just playing the
same character over and over again. Can we get back
to that, Seth Rogan? So other movies mentioned that I
(52:06):
think you should check out if you want to dive
in more to Azieland sorry, or more into body Squat
Movies Thirty Minutes or Less, which was based on a
true story. It also starts Jesse Eisenberg. He plays a
pizza delivery guy who gets a bomb attached to him
and then threatened by the people who put the bomb
on him, who forced him to go rob a bank.
(52:27):
The real life story was wild and tragic. The movie
doesn't exactly follow what happened in real life. It's a
lot more comical and less depressing. But that is a
movie from the twenty tens that I feel is also
underrated and underappreciated and kind of just went under the radar.
Moving forward a decade before that, two thousand and Once
Down to Earth with Chris Rock. If you want some
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two thousands of nostalgia and a movie you probably couldn't
do today, check that one out as well, and that'll
probably que you up for good fortune coming out on
October seventeenth. This week's the tention of movie Li Famer
Bar and that is goo to do it for another
episode here of the podcast. But before I go, I
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got to give my listeners shout out of the week.
Thanks to everybody who has gone over and subscribe to
my YouTube channel, almost to six hundred subscribers, which isn't
a whole lot, but I am on my quest to
get one thousand followers. So if you don't mind, just
go down to the show notes. You can always find
the links to all my social media. Thanks to everybody
who has been sharing the clips from recent episodes. That
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means a lot. This week, I'm actually going over to
Facebook and shouting out Vivian Forward as this week's listener
shout out who commented on my video where I broke
down all of the merch I got from Regal for
Lilo and Stitch and said the Regal bucket looks so cool.
I saw it last week, loved the movie and enjoyed
it even with the slight differences in the storyline from
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the original. Thank you Vivian for that comment. Thank you
for sharing that video. There have been so many split
feelings on Lilo and Stitch. Surprisingly on Facebook a lot
of people. I loved it. When I went over to YouTube,
people were dragging me there, calling me out. I haven't
seen this many people upset about a family friendly movie
in probably ten years, so appreciate that comment. Thank you
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for listening right now wherever you are, and until next time,
go out and watch good movies and I will talk
to you. Waiter
Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike, joined by my wife and
co host Kelsey. How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
We're here to talk about the best and worst of May.
We'll get into that in the movie review. I'll be
talking about my thoughts on the new Mission Impossible movie.
And in the trailer park there's a new movie with
Aziz on Sari, Seth Rogan, and Keanu Reeves. It's comedy.
Out of all those three actors, who do you like
the most?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Sorry, I'm distracting thinking about how much tweed they.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Spunked on us.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
There. Yeah, probably Soeth Rogan. I do think he's funny.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I'm gonna go Auz he'sum. Sorry, but I think most
people love Keanu Reeves. Not that I don't like Keanu Reeves.
I just think I've been a longer fan of Aziz.
He also hasn't been in a movie in a while,
so I think that's also why I'm excited to see
him back in something. So I'll talk about that. Thank
you for being here, Thank you for being subscribed. Chat
outs on the Monday Morning Movie Crew. And now let's
talk movies from.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
The Nustville podcast Networking is Movie Mike's movie podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Well, jump right in to it. Best of May. What
do you got Thunderbolts? Were you surprised how much you
enjoyed it?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
No, because I always enjoy a Marvel movie. Even if
a Marvel movie is a bad Marvel movie, it's still
a good movie in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
So you don't have superhero fatigue that a lot of
people are complaining about. I don't know if that's a
real thing or just the thing journalists and people online
are talking about, like superhero fatigue.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
No, it was also fun too because we wudn't see
it with my family, so we saw it with my brothers,
and it like kind of took me back to when
I lived in Texas and lived close to them and
we'd go see every Marvel movie together.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
The thing I've had to learn from going to movies
with your family is your family is a back of
the row theater family the top row the row, back
at the back where there's nobody behind you. It's at
the very top. Why is that? Because my dad's a
former cop, so it's a security thing.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
It's a he wants to be able to see his
environment he's just always been the way he has to
sit facing the door of a restaurant. We've just always
been top row. I think they also just like that
there's no one behind.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Them that part. I do kind of like it's it's
a lot higher up than I would I would prefer,
because our normal row is ye.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
But it's still not that high up because it's like
the TRUEUSI recliners. Theaters used to be way taller. There
was one aging myself called Tenseltown off of my thirty five.
I remember that Olderville, and those were like giant because
that was when it was just like the normal stadium seating,
so that you can call it so there were more rows.
(02:26):
Now that it's all like recliners, there's less rows that
you can put in, So I don't even feel like
the further back.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
It's not that high far and the screens have gotten
bigger since back then.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I would much rather be on the back row than
the front row.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I also think the front row isn't that close as
it used to be anymore, because.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But you still can't see that well. You're just like
staring up like you leave.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Your neck hurts because whenever I went to go see minecraft.
I got our normal row, but there was a whole
family taking up the row and they had like young kids,
and I was like, I don't want to make this
a thing of making them move, So I went down
further up where I was in that bottom section, like
in the last row of the bottom section. But even
that wasn't bad, and I could have gone to the
very front row and I wouldn't have had that issue
(03:09):
where I was like, oh my neck heurge.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
After this, I feel like we saw something? Is it
Star Wars? Yes?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Star Oh, don't tell the story. Don't tell the story.
That was when we were long distance, uh, which we
were long distance for two years, and I was.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Coming to town for Christmas and Star Wars movie was
coming out, like right before Christmas, multiple visits. I was like, hey,
should get tickets, and You're like, we don't need to
get tickets, like gaslighting me that it was not going
to sell out.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Oh, they will be fine. Where do we end up
sitting the front row?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yep? And who was right that we should have bought
the tickets sooner? So now never argues with me when
I'm like, let's get the tickets.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
We always get tickets really early. Which I don't know
if a lot of people do that whenever they go like,
we're the type of people whenever they go on sale,
we're like.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
The first people buying tickets. It's also so easy in
the Regal app. This it's not an ad for the
Regal app, but again, Regal, if you would like sponsor us,
let us know and I just do it and we
get the seats we want, just check out with a
little Regal Unlimited easy piecing.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I will say our Regal Unlimited has come into handy
in the last month, like thirty bucks less than thirty bucks.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
It's like twenty nine something. Now. Yeah, we were looking
at we were like, you know what, let's branch out
and go to a different theater, like that's fun in
your thirties. I was like, well, let's go to a
different theater in a different grocery store this weekend, Like genuinely,
I was like, it's gonna be a fun Saturday.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
See how they do popcorn.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
And then we looked at the prices and I said,
never mind, we don't need to have fun elsewhere. It
was like twenty one dollars.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
It's almost our home, matinee, almost our home. Mon regal.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
We can go see a movie every day, we can
see the same movie multiple times. We're gonna go see
Leland Stitching in this weekend.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Oh yeah, I can't wait. And I'm like, in this economy,
gotta save money, I can't do that. I ended up
really enjoying Thunderbolts as well. I think you got back
to what made Marvel so great in phase one, and
I think it sets up where we're going with a
Fantastic four. I do want to get into here later
of all the other movies coming out this summer, but
now I'm excited, which I never really jumped ship on Marvel.
(05:02):
There were some movies here and there since twenty twenty
that I haven't loved.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I think it was disappointing after Captain America, A Brave
New World was not as good as everyone helped. I
think that was kind of like, oh no, like is
Marvel done for?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
But after that, I feel this has taken them an
entirely different direction. The action was back in this where
it was like, oh, this is actually just good fighting
and good just the building of a team again, which
we saw what happened at the end of it. But
I think like this is what they need to do.
They need to stop trying to hold on to all
the old characters from the old Avengers movies and kind
(05:33):
of move on and establish this world, which I think
they did a really good job.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, they're funny. Thing about going to the movie with
my family is just the snacks that they get.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, your family goes all like we do, drinks and
popcorn and they go all out.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
My parents are always like, how do we spend so
much money? And I'm like, that's cause I think my
dad got I think he started with popcorn and a pickle,
which we've discussed this for pickle in a bag. In
a bag are a very big thing at theaters and Texas.
And then I think halfway through the movie he came
back with a hot dog. My youngest brother had a
bag of talkies and a slurpie, and then the older
one had a large popcorn a drink. I and I
(06:08):
know Regal does have like putting air quotes food, but
where I grew up in Texas, there was a theater
he had tater tots and they were so good. Let
me tell you, I'm sure they were frozen out of
a bag and just thrown into the fryar, but you
could get a whole styrofoam container of tater tots. Underrated
movie food.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I mean it's also easy to eat while watching a
movie like It's that is underutilized food and.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Vibe is popcorn like a salty delicious, I.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Would be more inclined to get some tater tots.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah, you don't eat popcorn. It has even when your
braces are going to be off, I don't see eating popcorn.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Which is soon, by the way, for everybody who's been
asking me.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Oh, I didn't know we were gonna exclusive exclusive.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
They're coming off after this airs in like a week
and a half. Yeah, yeah, so maybe I'll be speaking
better without them on. So what would you rate Thunderbolts.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Four and a half on a five?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Bob's good old Bob for my favorite of may would
it be any other movie? Leelo and Stitch, which I
did not give a five out of five because I
think the original was a five out of five doesn't
quite come close to it. I don't think anything's ever
gonna touch that. But do you give it a four
point five out of five? And at the moment of
recording this, we do have tickets to see it again.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I was reviewing our credit card stalment for the month,
and I was like, those regal charges for the Stitch
Merch the most we've ever spent. Like, I don't pay
for popcorn at the movie because I have we have
our regal credits. Like we go to so many movies
that were just always accumulating credits that I always have
a free popcorn.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Or some kind of discount or something, And to pay
for popcorn.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I was like, y'ell around her paying for this.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
It's expensive.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yeah, I see why people complain about going to the
movies now.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
It is expensive.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
And it was a very small portion of popcorn.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
And corn pale as I called it.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, it was a pail. You told the story too
of how I like went on my lunch break to
get the giant thing and then it.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Was still to make sure you could get it there
still in stock. But you know how it would it
worked the other way if you didn't do that.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I know it's fun to surprise you, but it was
just like the day I picked to go, there was
so much traffic and I was regretting every choice I'd
ever made. And then we walk into the theater and
somebody's like walking out with one and they're like, ah,
I was like, are you bleeping kidding me?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
But when it came to the first theater experience, I
think I was judging it so the first close there
have been only a handful of movies I've seen twice
in theaters. Twisters was one in recent history. Blue Beetle
was also one in recent history before Black Panther. Black
Panther because we saw it, you and I and we
(08:33):
saw it with your family, which is kind of the
same deal with Blue Beetle. And I think those are
all the movies I've seen twice in theaters and now
about to be Leelo and Stitch. And it's because whenever
we first went to go see it, I was comparing
it to the original and wondering what they were going
to keep in and what they were going to make
differently that I don't think I fully enjoyed all of it. Yeah,
(08:53):
you were analyzing because I was like, okay, they could
do this all They're going to cut this out. Hey,
this is different, and I had to think of, like,
how's the story going to change if they don't have this.
So I think now that I know what the live
action version is I can go into it and just
enjoy it for what it is, and then it starts
forming into like, oh, this is how I differentiate the two.
But I think the opposite thing kind of happened for
(09:14):
me is where sometimes when they remake a movie I love,
I'm overly critical of it, but I think how much
I love the original. I was almost gonna love it
no matter what. Yeah, so I can see why some
people didn't enjoy it, and they kind of put it
in that category of Disney just trying to cash grab
on all their old properties. But I just can't see
it that way. I even said bit of a bias here,
(09:36):
because I love the first one so much that there's
nothing they could have done that would have made me
hate it. I can't hate too cute, and he was cute.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I was afraid that he was gonna look terrifying like
those first few renderings when they started saying like live action,
I was like, oh no, and then you watch it,
you're like, he's so cute.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I'm when I was mad. I thought it was gonna
happen like whenever they first made the song, like the
Hedgehog movie, and the rendering came out of sonic, and
he looked terrifying, and people online complained about it so
much that they went back and changed his eyes and
changed his mouth, and then he looked cute again.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Listen what people want.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
So I think the fact that Stitch looked good helped
the entire movie, because if you didn't, it would be
really unbelievable, and even more so than the original movie.
I was like, oh, man, like, I wish I hit
my own stitching now because of you, I do. I
come in here every day and I smiled because of
that thing staring back at me.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Your reaction was so pure. It was so I got
home with it. You were in the shower, so I
ran into the house first to make sure you weren't around.
I was like, hello, I'm home. No response. I was like, okay,
I'm good. So I run back out to my car.
I get it, and I come home and I put
it on the counter in the kitchen, and you had
walked past to get something out of the guest bathroom,
(10:49):
and then you turned around and you like locked eyes
with it on the kitchen counter, and you were like.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
What is that? Say, where'd you get it? Where'd you
get that?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Now? I was like where do you think I got it?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
It just looks so lifelike that I was like, wait,
what is happening here? It felt like I was having
a very vivid dream because I'm like, why is Stitch
on the counter right now? But that's gonna be a
core memory for me of you showing up with that randomly.
So I think even though we probably could have got
it on opening.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Night, yeah, I forgot to use a real unlimited discount.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yeah, I think that memory alone is probably worth it.
But again, I'm not the one who had to sit
in traffic, so.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
It was fine. I also was going to support us,
so I.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Made a trip of it. But for Lail and Stitch
after the first viewing, I give it a four point
five out of five. Still can't really go up from there.
I don't think it's going to go down from there.
I think that is where it's going to live forever.
I am excited that with the success of it, they're
probably going to make more of them. And the crazy
thing was well, maybe not that crazy, but I think
(11:51):
the biggest audience that came out for in an opening
weekend was millennials and millennials oh absolutely, So it wasn't
even like this is a family.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Friendly millennials in like Stitch Snuggies.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I think it was like over fifty percent of people
were like our age, will went to go see it,
which made me feel better about it, just because even
with you getting me that popcorn bucket and how big
of a fan I am of Stitch, I kind of
felt like, not a shame, but a little like ah, man,
like this is an adult man so into Stitch. But
I think seeing that there's this entire fan base that
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is my same age, and just seeing people on TikTok
post about it, I'm like, oh, everybody's doing this, it
feels more normal.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I also told you not to be ashamed of things
that you enjoy.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I like collect.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I was thinking about this earlier for some random reason.
I was like, we in the age of people making
tiktoks of like things that give me the ick, things
that are in, things that are out Like I understand
the like good natured fun of it, but I also
think those things can be really like hurtful to people
because don't yuck someone's yum. Like I just was like
the things that like some people choose to spend their
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money on if it's not how you spend your money.
That's great, Like, just enjoy what you enjoy.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Life's hard enough, so hard to find things hobbies you
want that bring you joy in this life, and just
the way everything has been in the last few years,
it's like, man, if we could just find some kind
of comfort in a blue little creature, why not.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I did use this as a learning point for you.
I was like, see, you want all these different stitches.
They're the same thing, but they serve a different purpose.
That's how I feel buying seventeen blushes.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yeah, if you look in this room, I can see
three different stitches. One that you're holding right now, which
is a stuff stitch, like a weighted stitch. There just
five stitches. There's the popcorn bucket. Oh yeah, there's this
small one.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
There's the one I'm holding in There's two figures. There's
five stitches in here.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Five stitches. I think he's almost up there with Spider
Man in this room. He's getting close.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah. I love your room. I think it's turned out
so cool.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I love it so our worst now, what was the
worst thing you saw in I don't think I'm gonna
like this in May.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Friendship.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I love friendship Tom Robinson, Tim Robinson, sorry.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
But I and I don't mean this rude. I think
people who were lightly more socially awkward enjoyed it because
they see themselves in it.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Is that why I love stuff like this?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I think so. I think that's why you're into like
the rehearsal, like, because it's just like socially awkward people
trying to make their way.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Maybe that's why I love jam Robinson so much.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
To me is that you're not socially awkward around me.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I can't quite explain that, because you're the only person
I can be my true self around where I don't
care what I say or how I say it.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
But it's like I'll post things on instagramm or stories
and like my friends find it hilarious and I'm like,
y'all think he's so quiet, but I'm like, this is
the mic that I get twenty four to seven.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yeah, just whenever I'm around people, even people I do know,
I just feel like in my head so much, and
I think that's why I find comfort in these characters
that like Tim Robinson does. Maybe that's it. Maybe that's
why I love this movie.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
I it just wasn't my brand of humor and it is.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
It's a really hard movie to recommend to say, this
is gonna be funny, you should go see it.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I don't know if it's a I would recommend to
anyone in theaters.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yeah, wait, because the comedy is it's so interesting, peculiar,
and it's so original. But sometimes when you're so original,
a lot of people can find it off putting and
just kind of dismiss it, which I get. And if
you watch his show on Netflix, or if you watch
A Detroiter's which was a Comedy Central show, the Netflix
show is I think you should leave. You kind of
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know his brand of humor and I love it. I
love probably Detroiter's more just because it is more character
driven and there's an actual storyline. I think you should leave,
or like really short episodes with a bunch of random skits.
And if you don't know Tim Robinson, he started out
as a writer on SNL, was I think a cast
member for a little bit, but never written. Never really
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quite panned out there. I think it's because his brand
of humor was so specific that it didn't really work
on Saturday Night Live, Which.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Is funny because I feel like a lot of things
that SNL does are niche humor, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
But sometimes even like a Kyle Mooney, who I would
say was more successful on SNL than Tim Robinson. His
brand of humor is also so specific that it didn't
really quite take off on SNL as much as maybe
some people thought. But I think Tim Robinson has had
more success outside of it, and this movie was kind
of a culmination of all of his TV shows and
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I thought it was good. I still enjoyed it, but
I thought I was gonna love bit more based upon
him being I would say my favorite comedian right now.
So still a really good movie. I thought Paul Rudd
was really good in it too. I just think overall
the story wasn't exactly what I was expecting.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Kate Mara being in it was a surprise to me.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
As far as my worst movie for May, there wasn't
really a bad movie, and I think that's a good
sign for the summer blockbuster season. But the one I
enjoyed the least was Final Destination Bloodlines, which I gave
a three point five out of five. I just think
they kind of ran out of ideas and overall, when
it comes to horror franchises, Final destination isn't my go to.
I also went to go see it alone because you're like,
(16:53):
I don't want to any.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Part of this The only one I've ever seen all
the way through, and I've seen it multiple times because
it was like a go to sleepover movie in my
school's final destination too. It's traumatizing. The only thing I
remember the logs are in that one, right, That's all
I remember, And I can't drive behind anything that has
things that are like tied to it. I will go
around and I feel like that's the most effective marketing
that our generation has ever seen.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
They even brought back that marketing with this movie, and
I think maybe something I missed a little bit was
not seeing it with people, because I think it is
one of those movies where you go with somebody and
you both kind of poke fun at how ridiculous it
is and have that kind of bonding moment. It was
also kind of an empyr theater, so I also like
seeing horror movies like in the middle of the day.
It's just one of the best feelings. But that would
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be my worst of the month of May. Overall, not
a bad month that got the lowest rating. What was
your favorite TV.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Show of the month Easy, Overcompensating That was.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
A really funny show. What's the premise of that?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
So it's Benito Skinner, who is a comedian. He has
been doing like sketches and skits for years, and it's
history of being gay in college but no one knows,
so we're still not telling people hiding his identity, and
it's him like trying to navigate college just kind of
like a bro dude, but like being gay and trying.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
To be accepted therefore, over Compensating.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
It was so funny. And I was listening to he
and Mary Beth Burrow and they do a podcast, but
they were on Jake Shane's podcast and he was like,
people are like, oh my god, I need season two now,
and he's like, well, I love that I need You
also know it took seven years to get this first
season made because he'd been writing it for so long
and shopping it around until eight twenty four on Amazon
picked it up.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah, so it was on Prime video. It's kind of
like an artist who has their entire life to write
their first album, yeah, and then they only have like
a year maybe two years to write their second album.
That's hard though, because it is such a good show
and it has the momentum, but you think about how
much goes into it. The soundtrack, Yeah, because every whole
good every episode is the name of a song and
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it takes place. Well, it kind of feels like it's
modern day, but if you pay attention to it, it
feels like the early twenty tens.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I think it that's when he was in college. Okay,
because he's my age thirty one. You know how I
pay attention to things whenever something's supposed to be set
in a time period. They were making references to things
that felt modern, like using phrases that we would use now.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
But with all the characters and all the music they
were listening to or the movies they were referencing, I'm like, oh,
this is all stuff from like twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Even the tie in of like Charlie XX was like
her older song.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Yeah, when boom Clap was out back when I met her.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
I think the next day I went to boxing and
we boxed to boom Clap and I was like, Wow,
It's like one of those things when you pay attention
to something and then you start seeing it everywhere.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I really I really enjoyed it. I thought the writing
was really great, and I'm also just really nostalgic for
the twenty tens, which I think was the best time
to be alive. And it reminds me, probably because that's
when I was in college too, and I think just
having something that represents that time. Whenever you're in it,
you don't realize the things you are doing are going
to be the things people remember about this decade. And
(19:54):
now you watch that back and you're like, oh, yeah,
like early social media, how big like go and the
concerts were and being seen by people overall, like relationships
and the way just culture was at that time. You're like, man,
twenty tens, that was a time to be alive.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
I think my peak not peak, but like my favorite
was twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, my senior year. It was
it was the best time. I took all of my
classes with my best friend, Like we were the same
major at the same schedule. We like staggered our classes
so we only had like Tuesday Thursday, so then we'd
like walk on Thursdays, talked about the Trude's on campus.
We would have Margarita's and we'd fill up with the
(20:30):
free chips it's also for dinner and then we'd walk
home because we lived near campus and it was just
the best time. And like twenty six teams when Closer
By the Chainsmokers came out, like nothing will give me
a feeling more than Closer By the Chainsmokers, like just
take me back.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
A lot of great movies around that time too, that
I felt were kind of just core memories as far
as like movies that eventually led to me doing this,
So it was cool to see that represent it represented
in a series.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yeah, I loved it. I highly recommend it on Prime.
Would you give it five out of five?
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Ooh, I've had a five.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I loved it.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I'm gonna go. I watched two shows on HBO in May,
and I kind of feel the same way about both
as far as HBO show is feeling short, which they
both had season finales that I did not know were coming.
It was the Last of Us in the rehearsal, but
that I feel.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Like you just weren't paying attention how many weeks it
had been on because Last of Us had seven episodes. Yes,
I know White Lotus has had in the past, it
only had eight this season. But I got just typical
HBO show, and.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
I feel like that's not enough episodes.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Well, I agree, but it was just so funny that
you were like flabbergout.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I was like, how is this a finale?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I was a cow many episodes, expecting you to say
like four and you're like seven. I was like, that's
an HBO season.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
It's because they came out. They both aired on Memorial
Day weekend and I was like, oh, I can actually
watch these live if I want to. And then I
was like, what time is it air? And they were
like the finale of I'm like the finale, Yeah, you spiraled.
I was like, I was not prepared, Like mentally, I
was like, how is this story on both of these
shows going to be done on this episode? So I
just feel as a whole, like, man, we're not getting
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enough episodes. But then going back when you're talking about
with overcompensating, I feel like these shows are just taking
more and more to make. They're only eight of those, yeah,
and they're at a level where it takes almost as long,
if not longer, like it would to take a movie.
But it's a show. And with the show, we were
expecting to have another season at least by the next year.
But it's now like two or three years before we
have to get another one, let me tell you.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
On the other hand, Secret Lives of Mormon Wives first
season came out in September. This season came on met
and there were ten episodes and they were draging those
plot lines.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Oh yeah, is that the one I heard?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I ate it up, but they were dragging the plot lines.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
So yeah. Overall, I enjoyed the Last of Us Season two.
I thought I was gonna love it because I love
season one. I just felt season one was much more grittier.
This one started to feel more like walking Debtish, which
I'm I'm fatigued on those types of shows, so it
didn't really have a uniqueness to it that I was
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looking for That made it feel like Last of Us.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Don't I don't want to be one of the blast
people's I absolutely don't.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yeah, I would be really bad at it.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
No thank you.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I'm like, we gotta not get food from a grocery store. No,
I would not survive.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I can't online shop and just get things delivered to me.
I have to like forage, no thank you.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
But a cannibal no, well, cannibalism m'd be interested in.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Somebody's gonna sound like that and it's gonna end up somewhere.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I mean, if it came to it at the end
of the world. I dabble.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
It's like that movie was a movie about like the
Argentinian team.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Oh, Society of the Snow, Society of the Snow.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Society of the Snow.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yeah, Society of the Snow. What I say, Society of
the Snow. I wasn't airing the Society Society of the Snow.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
I couldn't. I couldn't handle the graphic nature of the
cannibalism in that one.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
That is the movie that made me realize I could
probably do it. When they start cooking it and it's like,
stop stall, it probably tastes like chicken. To be honest,
how would you know you're a vegan? You have a
ten years. I just think humans tastes like chicken. Let's
get a cannibal on the line. But yeah, any hammer, Hey,
I don't think he actually did or did he do
(24:11):
that allegedly? But Last of Us Season two, I would
give it a four out of five. Still, I just
felt kind of dipped in the middle and then blindsided
me with the finale being so soon the rehearsal I
would probably give. I rarely give any show of five
out of five, so I would give it a four
point five out of five. That show is so awkward,
and again it's again like it probably why I like it.
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Nathan Fielder is a socially awkward guy, and in the
first season he was working with a bunch of different
people and having them rehearse big things they had coming
up in their life that they were anxious about. In
like the first episode of season one, he's helping out
somebody with trivia night, and then in this season it's
basically him trying to change the rules and aviation and
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make it safer.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
But there was one in the first season where he's
like helping someone think about raising a child. Then they
get like a new child, like every couple of days.
To see the different stages, I think that's the only
episode I've watched.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
And then it just goes layer and layer and gets
more meta and more meta, until it's like, is this
a show? Is this an experiment? What is going on here?
So it kind of blends the lines of reality. So
it's another show kind of like Friendship where I'm not
exactly sure. I would recommend it even though I really
love it. I just feel like you have to be
into that brand of entertainment and humor to I don't
(25:27):
want to say enjoy it, but just to appreciate.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
It, to even understand it.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Yeah, to understand it. Like if I recommended that to
like my dad or something, he'd be like, I had
no idea what this is. This is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Speaking of your dad, were you looking for Father's Day
gifts for him on Amazon?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Were you looking for gifts for Mexican dads?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I google gifts for Mexican dads on Father's Day.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I went to buy something on Amazon earlier, and because
you use my account, your search history comes up, and
it was like hand soap, I bought a hairclip hips
from Hexecones.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
If you google that, you find that it's a lot
of alcohol based things. There's like a mom white just dads,
and then some are like oddly like oh, a chili
pepper That's just like I don't think that should be
in this search. That feels a little racist, and then
other things. Oh, the funniest part is there were some
things that were like custom, like custom made with your
(26:23):
last week I can't get custom gifts, fir, and I
was like, I can't do that again. Last year, I
tried to get him a custom hat that was like
his first trucking company that he worked for and his
name on it, and I went to a website I
got it custom made, and they did not send him
the right hat whatsoever. And it was a reputable website.
If it was a reputable website, we won't them. And
(26:44):
instead of sending him one hat like I ordered, they
sent him two different hats that made no sense. One
of them said Angie and his name is Angel, and
he was like, Angie, what is this mean? I think?
The other one said like it.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Was like bats or something. It was like purple with
like bats.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
But even had a word in Spanish. I don't remember
what it was like it was so or something.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Oh yeah, it's bueno.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
I'm like bueno.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
And he was like it was close enough to where
he was like, I think this is probably what they ordered.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
And that's what made it worse is because he thought
made it even funnier. It's like this has my name
on it as far as the address, and this one's
in Spanish and this one's almost my name I'm just
confused why you would send this to me. And all
I did was just send me a picture of it,
and I was like, oh, no, that's not right at all.
And I had to call him and explain. He was like, oh,
that makes more sense.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
And then we also bought him the wrong shoe size
for his birthday, so we didn't really do great on
the gifts.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Yeah, so that's why I googled, and particularly ones that
don't require a size or any customization really limits. Yeah,
so I'll have to go back to Google to find something.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
We can't get him a cooler. No, my family loves
to gift your dad coolers. I think they've gotten him too,
haven't they.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
It's an easy dad gift, like dad to drink beer.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
But they've gotten him. Like, what's that one they got him?
It was like a super It did something cool. It
like had like something on the side or something, you
know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yeah, I don't really know what it is. And as
a bottle opener, it can play music.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
It was something like fancy. And then my grandparents got him.
So that's the other thing. My grandparents love your parents.
When we do a family get together, it's like my parents,
your parents, your siblings, my brothers, and my grandparents, and
they are obsessed with your parents. And so my grandpa
was like at Costco one day and sends me this picture.
He's like, you think Angel would like this? And it's
one of those like metal tubs that you can put
(28:34):
like ic in and beer in. And I was like, yeah,
I think he wouldn't. He like bought it and took
it him the next time you saw him, and.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
He loves it.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
But yeah, so so no coolers. That's been overdone, overdone,
but done enough, back to the drawing board. If anyone
has good gift ideas for gifts from Mexican to ends,
let us know.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Yeah, let me know. We'll wrap it up with your
book of the month. Easy.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
It was called The Names by Florence Nap. I read
it in forty eight hours. It is this woman who
has a son, and there's a name that her daughter
wants to name the baby, a name that she wants
to name the baby, and a name that her husband
wants to name the baby. So each perspective. So it's
set in chunks of like seven years, so it's like
nineteen eighty seven, seven years later, seven years later all
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the way through like twenty twenty two, I think. But
it's each chapter in that section is told from the
perspective of the kid if he was named each one
of those different names, and how his life would have
been different. It was so good.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Yeah, I it would take a lot for me to
want to read a book of that size, But you're
telling me the premise of that. I was like, oh,
that sounds like a really good book, and even feel
like give us so long. You know how I am
with books.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
It's like three hundred pages.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Yeah, that's like, my that's like a real book. It
takes a lot for me to read a real book
with three hundred pages.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
I wouldn't be surprised if it's on my top ten
of the year.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Would they make a movie?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
I think make a movie of anything these days, but
I think that would be really good.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I would watch it. Almost sounds like it could be
a limited series though, like episode by episode, like the
Oh that I feel like it's a limited No.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Each episode is that seven years? Yeah, and there's like
twenty minute it's each character.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
What would you rate the book?
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Five out of five?
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Ooh, five out of five. You gonna be on the
top ten of the year. Possibly, all right, anything else
for everybody. It's our anniversary. This I guess this week.
This comes out on Monday. Happy anniversary, four years married.
We could have graduated college again.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
I just feel like an old married couple at this
point in a good way. Like it just feels like yeah,
like I don't at this point, I don't even remember
long distance. I don't remember dating.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
It's just like, oh yeah, yeah, long distance seems like
so long ago. And even you living here feels like
five years. I can't remember you not being here.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Yeah, I don't remember it either.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
So happy anniversary.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Thank you. Thank you for my gift that I picked
on and say you the link too, You're welcome and
then made you let me open three weeks early.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Thank you for my gift which came in early and
you made me open immediately. But I love it.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Yeah, I don't do well with gifts.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
You're like, it came in surprise. Here it is, I
did do that, but I do love it.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
And if you're wondering, it's a purse that I said
like to. That's usually my go to gift. We're not
those people that do the like four year I think
four years is fruit fruit. But people do like really
like creative interpretations, like I could have gifted you something
from apple. You know'll do like different interpretations.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Now, like an edible arrangement.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
You could do that. I should be better about that,
Like I know people will like the first year I
think is paper and then it's like cotton. To be honest,
I just find something I like and send it and say,
this is a great reason to get me a gift.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
That works at the universary. Let's get into it now.
A spoiler free movie review of Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning,
which was a bit of a rebrand. It is the
eighth and final installation in this series, the last time
We're ever gonna see at least allegedly, Tom Cruise play
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Ethan Hunt. The movie takes place where the last movie
left off, which was Dead Reckoning Part one. That's why
this movie had a little bit of a rebrand because
that movie ended up underperforming came out at a time
where it was very competitive at the box office. Tom
Cruise was also competing for Imax screens because he is
a big proponent of I got to get these movies
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out in theaters where people can see them and on
the biggest screen possible because he takes a lot of
pride and what they put on the screen and the
links they go to get these incredibly well crafted and
choreographed action sequences that are really the thing to me
that make these movies worthwhile to go see in theater.
(32:24):
So that is why I have a bit of a
I don't love Tom Cruise movies, but I respect what
he's done for the movie industry. In a post COVID world,
if it wouldn't have been for top Gun Maverick, I
don't know that a lot of theaters would still be here.
So he is still putting out movies that get people
excited to go back to the theater, that keep cinemas alive.
(32:44):
So I like that aspect of it. But when it
comes to what I see as Tom Cruise, the person,
the actor, and overall his work in the last fifteen years,
I wouldn't call myself the biggest Tom Cruise fan for
a period of my life. If Tom Cruise was in it,
I would kind of be like, I don't think I
want to watch it because of that. But with the
last movie Dead Recording Part one, I really enjoyed it.
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I thought it had some great action, and it had
a moment that was probably a total of five to
six maybe eight seconds of him jumping off a cliff
on a bike that I felt was the moment of
that movie. And how much work went into getting that
one specific shot I thought made it. And it's him
doing those things that excite me and made me interested
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in going to see how they were going to wrap
up this entire franchise which started back in nineteen ninety six.
And I was not just a little bit, but kind
of a lot of bit let down because it just
felt like they were running over the same stuff over
and over again. And in no way should this have
been two movies. This one was almost three hours, say,
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with a one before this, and it was really the
entire story again what this movie is about. It's Ethan
Hunt and the IMF team. They're on a race against
time to fight this thing called the Entity, which is
essentially this rogue AI that has taken over the world.
It's going to cause a bunch of just chaos and
mayhem and war, and if this thing is not stopped,
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we're all not going to be here. So you need
Ethan and his team to stop it. And apparently he's
the only one who can do it by running really
fast and fighting people and getting into situations that only
he knows how to get out of, apparently. And the
problem I had is overall it was too slow and
too boring, aside from the big action sequences, but even
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the problem with those big action sequences in this one
is while they look really expensive and I'm sure they
took a long time to film and there was a
lot of process that went into it, they spent so
much time setting up all of these big action sequences,
I felt that's all it was, and the time in
between all the big moments were boring and slow, and
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my theater and myself just became restless because it was
a lot of exposition, not a lot of action, especially
just because it was retreading everything that happened in the
first one. Because I really hate the trend of splitting
up the last movie in a franchise into two parts.
It is just everybody seems to do it now because
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you film one big movie and you think if you
put it out into two parts, you can make double
the money. I just find it really annoying and cash gravy,
especially because now two parts feel very incomplete, and that
is how this movie started, where they started telling you
and reminding you all the things that happened in the
part before this, because just in case you didn't see it,
or in case you forgot about it already, they have
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to remind you. If you are a big fan of
the franchise and you like sitting down and watching all
of them back to back to back, it's gonna be
so annoying by the time you get to this point
where they're just reverencing things that have happened all throughout
the series. I don't like all the callbacks at the beginning.
It was really disorienting and overall just really boring. And
the problem I had with the story here is that
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it didn't create a sense of urgency like it did
in Part one. It just kind of felt like it
was there, and they were really trying hard to make
an emotional finale for Ethan Hunt. That's really what this was,
him and the team all doing it one last time,
him telling his crew like one last time, I'm not
to ride with me, or something like that. And I
feel like this franchise has lived different lives throughout one
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through three. I kind of see that as a trilogy.
Those carried over into the two thousands, and in the
twenty tens, I almost feel like they became this entirely
different franchise where the story got better. At least, it
got a little bit more cohesive, it formed its identity
a little bit more. It also kind of went the
way of, Okay, we have the franchise this thing. Now
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we have a formula that we have to follow to
make a mission impossible movie. You throw in all the
stelf destructing messages. And that was really in the twenty tens,
where Tom Cruise became even more obsessed with doing his
own stunts, with breaking his ankle, jumping from one building
to another. But I really feel like the apex of
that was in Dead Reckoning Part one. That is where
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the good stuff was. That is where just the beautifully
shot moments were that I say, we're even Oscar worthy
and the final Reckoning just felt like the falling action
the entire time, And that was just really hard for
me to sink my teeth into and really ride this
wave of I want to see how this is all
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gonna play out, and I didn't really care what was
gonna happen to Ethan Hunt's character, and I love finales
when it comes to TV shows. I will watch the
finale of a TV show even if I haven't seen
all the seasons, just because I want to know, Oh,
how are they going to wrap this thing up? Will
it hit me emotionally if I am not aware of
all these things that have gone on with all these characters.
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And I love a finale of a movie franchise even
more because it is very monumental to take this story,
to take Ethan Hunt, who has been around since the nineties,
who has been around almost my entire life. I remember
these movies being so in packful as a kid, iconic
moments throughout its entire run. But this just wasn't it.
It lacked that feeling, It lacked that emotion, It lacked
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that creativity, It lacked that finality. It didn't really feel
like this was okay. I am. Well, You're never gonna
be completely satisfied with the ending to anything. There's always
gonna be things unsaid, There's always gonna be better ways
to wrap it up. But as long as I feel satisfied,
I think that is as good of a job as
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you can do as a filmmaker. But in no way
did I really feel satisfied, because it felt like this
movie was playing it safe from beginning to end. Now,
they did give us some good action moments, I think
the scene with the airplanes that you probably saw in
the trailer, but even that didn't hit the same way
that some of the action sequences have in previous films.
They've gone to greater links, So this entire film just
(38:52):
kind of felt like it was all the extra scenes
that didn't work in anything else that they had done.
What I am excited for is Tom to move on
from Mission Impossible. I don't know exactly what he's going
to do next, or even if this franchise is really
good to be dead, because he says that, But if
they come a knock in with another idea and they
pay him enough money, I could actually see the rumor
(39:14):
coming to life of Glenn Powell taking over the franchise,
and maybe even not him fully. But you start kind
of rotating who these movies are about, and then eventually
Tom Cruise comes back as Ethan Hunt, and maybe three
or four movies down the line where that feels a
little bit more impactful, much like Robert Donney Jr. Returning
(39:35):
to the MCU. Tom Cruise at his age in his sixties,
still loves doing these big action movies, So I have
to imagine another Top Gun movie is on the way,
kind of in that same style of him just seeking
that adrenaline. There is serious talks now of him reviving
his character from Tropic Thunder, So I think he's in
(39:57):
a position where he's just gonna do movies where he
wants to have fun. Hopefully he wants something a little
bit less demanding, because when is the last time you
saw Tom Cruise in a straight ahead drama, in a
rom com or something that maybe earned him an Oscar nomination.
I feel like he does want to get back to
that at some point, and maybe he has this pressure
(40:17):
on him or feels a need because of his status
as one of the last standing just A plus movie
stars that can really influence people to go out and
pay their hard earned money to spend on a ticket
to go see something in theaters. He feels the need
to create these summer blockbusters, and that if you went
and just did a drama, did something like rain Man,
(40:37):
did something a little bit more straightforward, it would be
harder for him to promote because this has kind of
been his identity now for over a decade where he's
really just like, here's all these crazy action moments, you
gotta go see them in the big screen. You gotta
go eat your popcorn really aggressively like he does. Maybe
there's just some kind of pressure there, or that's what
(40:59):
he wants his legacy to be, knowing that he's not
going to be able to do these roles forever. He's
going to get to a point where he can't meet
the demands of an action role like this, which he
still looked really good in this movie. There were a
lot of moments where there was a lot of shirtless
Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise in his underwear running on a treadmill,
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and I think that was also him like saying, hey,
look I still look good. I still got it. It
just really didn't feel like the ending to me that
started back in nineteen ninety six. It feels more like
the ending of the era that started in twenty eleven.
And I knew I wasn't heavily invested in it when
we got to that hour mark, and I was already wondering,
when is this thing going to be over? And by
(41:40):
the time we got to the two hour mark, I
was ready to get out of there because I now
spent almost six hours on the same plot, and I
was ready to move on. I was about to take
ethan Hunt out myself. And some people might say, oh,
you just don't like long movies. I love long movies.
I have been a long proponent of three hour runtimes.
I want to see the Brutallest that was three and
(42:00):
a half hours with the intermission. I am not against
long run times. I highly encourage it, especially when it
goes to streaming at home, because you can take it
in how you want. Three and a half hour movie,
break it up into thirty forty five minute increments, and
suddenly it is a limited series, which most people have
no problem binging a limited series in a weekend because
(42:21):
the nice little digestible portions for you. Do that with
the three hour movie and you'll still find it really enjoyable.
Is just when something does become three hours, you already
have to set this expectation of, Okay, this is going
to be an investment, no matter what. I do. Have
to judge this a little bit differently, because if you
are telling me that you needed three hours to tell
your story, I'll accept that. I'll go watch that, but
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if at any point I feel that that three hours
is unearned and I check out, then you're kind of
in the world to hurt there. Needless to say, the
movie still did really well at the box office. Even
though it couldn't beat My Boy's Stitch in opening weekend,
it was still a best for the French and I
think the more hardcore fans of this franchise were saying
this was a five out of five, a four point
(43:05):
five out of five. A lot of film bros were
really just gung ho about this movie, so much so
that I thought, what am I missing here? And I
know some of those people are probably watching or listening
now and I'm going to feel the heat for this,
But I am okay with that. I still went to
see it. Would I still go watch another one? Yeah,
because I still think these movies are entertaining and really
benefit from that in theater experience. Where we went to
(43:27):
see it opening weekend and the entire theater was full,
I would say, pretty close to sold out on opening night.
That is a feat in itself, so I do give
it bonus points for actually getting people out into the
theater for performing better than the movie that came before it,
but still just wasn't quite it for me. I give
Mission Impossible the Final Reckoning three point five out of
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five self destructing messages. It's time to head down to movie.
Mike Trey Lar pau Leanu Reeves out here doing side quests.
He's one of the biggest actors who just randomly will
do a movie that makes you go ha, and then
you watch a trailer and you're like, oh, that actually
(44:10):
makes a lot of sense. It's him and Nicholas Cage
that they can.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
Do it really serious or even just a really big
blockbuster movie like a John Wick and then come out
with a movie that you're like, hmm, they do this
as a favor, but somehow I'm so interested in this.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
Keanu Reeves plays a guardian angel in a movie coming
out called Good Fortune. It is written and directed by
Azi's I'm Sorry. It also stars Seth Rogan. What the
movie is about? Keanu Reeves plays a well meaning but
rather a nept angel named Gabriel who just wants to
make a difference in the world. So he sees this
struggling gig worker played by Aziz I Sorry, who is
(44:51):
kind of lost in life and wants to help him out,
and tries to prove to him that, well, if you
had money, it wouldn't really solve all your problems, So
let me prove it to you by making you switch
bodies with a really wealthy venture capitalist played by Seth Rogen.
But then it turns out it kind of does solve
all of his problems.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
I like the.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
Premise, even though it's not the most original thing I've
ever seen. I could compare it to three movies right now,
but I think I think this just might work. It's
coming out in theaters on October seventeenth. Before I get
into more about good Fortune, here's just a little bit
of the trailer. Martha. Yes, Gabriel, is there any way
I can have more meaningful duties? I want to guide people.
(45:33):
I want to change their lives.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
To save a lost soul, that to find a loss soul.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
Arch. I'm an angel. My name is Gabriel. I'm here
to save you. What who the fuck are you? How
do you know my name?
Speaker 2 (45:49):
I'm normally only in charge of saving people from texting
and driva. Wait, you're telling me I have a budget
guardian angel kind of I think.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
The two of them look really great together. Most people
are probably seeing this as a Keanu Reeves movie because
he is such a huge movie star coming off of
the John Wick franchise. I am seeing this as an
ausis on Sorry movie because I've been a huge fan
of his. I've always loved his comedy. I think most
people still associate him with Parks and Rec. And as
much as I love that show, I was such a
(46:22):
huge fan of his that I don't even associate him
as the guy from Parks and Rec. Because I used
to watch all of his stand up specials, and when
it comes to his TV roles, he hasn't even done
a whole lot of those in a long time. Really.
The last major thing he did was Master of None
on Netflix, which did get two seasons. First season was fantastic,
(46:43):
the second season was a good follow up, and then
kind of fell off. They did another mini series under
the same umbrella of Master and None, but really we
only got two seasons of that show. He went through
some personal stuff dealing with things in the news, and
then he was gonna make another movie back in twenty
twenty two called Being Mortal that starred Bill Murray, but
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then Bill Murray God accuses himself, so that movie got shelved,
never came out, and now this is finally going to
be his directorial debut, and it probably also means a
lot to him that he also wrote the script for
this movie. So getting back to the plot, it all
centers around Gabriel, who one day notices this man down
on his luck. Aziz On Sorry plays a guy who
(47:25):
has hit rock bottom. He is at a Denny's restaurant
and he gets his car Toad, and that is where
Keanu Reeves's character shows up trying to help him out.
He finds out he's working for Seth Rogan doing all
these random jobs, and he's trying to convince him that hey,
even if you had all of your boss's money, it
wouldn't make you any happier. So as an angel, he says, well,
(47:46):
let's make you two swap bodies and see what happens. Well,
it turns out having Seth Rogan's character's money actually does
solve all of his problems. So Gabriel loses his wings
and is sent down to Earth to live among the humans.
And now as On's character takes over Seth Rogan's body
and just gets to live as him now, so a
classic body swap movie which has been done before, so
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it's not like this plot is entirely original. It even
reminds me of one of my favorite body swap and
also Guardian Angel movies, Down to Earth with Chris Rock.
And the reason I see parallels between these two movies,
which Down to Earth came out back in two thousand
and one, and it's just one of those movies from
the two thousands I felt it should have been a hit.
That movie is about Chris Rock's character who plays an
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amateur comedian. I see the parallels between him and a
zi'son Sorry in real life. And Chris Rock is another
one of those people who fantastic comedian has had so
much success, but when it comes to his movies, hasn't
really mirrored that same success. Even though I love Down
to Earth, I love Top Five. He's done some pretty
good work in the Gronos movies. You just don't really
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see Chris Rock and consider him to be a movie star.
But in Down to Earth he plays a guy who
dies at a point in his life where he thinks
it is not my time. He convinces an angel that hey,
you guys have made a mistake here. I need to
get back down to earth. So they're like, all right,
we'll work out a deal with you. We'll put you
in a temporary body for now until maybe we can
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find you another body. So they put him in the
body of a rich white guy, and suddenly he is
Chris Rock, acting the same way he was before, but
now in the body of a guy whose wife tried
to kill him, and he gets to do all the
things that he thinks he needed money to do, but
he's still also trying to do comedy. So there's some
great moments in that. There's a little bit of love
(49:35):
and heartfelt moments, but overall, I think the movie just
didn't resonate with audiences, and maybe only resonated with me.
But that is an underrated movie of the two thousands,
in my opinion, and Good Fortune really reminds me of that.
So a lot of people have this question, why don't
they make movies like this anymore, referring to nostalogic movies
that we all grew up loving that maybe weren't the
(49:56):
best reviewed, maybe even are considered box offic off his bombs,
but they are movies that we cherish. They are cult classics.
This feels like one of those movies, and it's maybe
one that's not gonna get a whole lot of attention.
Where this movie might be able to strike wile the
iron is hot is the fact that, of course you
have your big star Keanu Reeves, but also it's coming
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out on October seventeenth, which having a movie like this
come out in October, that's not a horror movie. Counter
program the horror. You beat all the Thanksgiving movies and
definitely beat all the Christmas movies. And I just hate
the fact that a lot of people are gonna watch
this trailer, hear the plot and think, oh, that's just
a streaming movie. If we want more movies like this
(50:39):
that remind us of the good old days, we gotta
go support them when they are out in theaters. I'm
talking movies like Good Fortune, movies like Friendship, movies like
Riff Raff from earlier this year. I love everything about
it so far, even though I might be having a
little bit of Seth Rogan fatigue. Maybe that's because I'm
coming off the studio and all of his recent projects
(51:01):
just kind of feel like it's Seth Rogan playing himself
over and over again, and maybe that is the secret
formula for him, Like I know how to play this role,
and maybe that's exactly what this movie needs. But it
just kind of feels like he's showing up in these
projects and just being his exact same self, and sometimes
just the characters that he plays and the situations that
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he is in I find really annoying. But is that
him just being a good actor? If he is meant
to play an annoying actor doing things that irritate you,
is it getting its point across? Is he really just
doing his job Because it's a lot to invoke an
emotion like that, So maybe he's just really good at it.
But I kind of just want a different look at him.
(51:43):
Even talking about movies that Azielnsari has been in, one
of them was Funny People, which was a big movie
for Seth Rogan that was at a time where he
did have a little bit more of an acting profile.
As far as I can do these comedies like Knocked Up,
but I can also show a little bit of a
different side of me where I'm not just playing the
same character over and over again. Can we get back
to that, Seth Rogan? So other movies mentioned that I
(52:06):
think you should check out if you want to dive
in more to Azieland sorry, or more into body Squat
Movies Thirty Minutes or Less, which was based on a
true story. It also starts Jesse Eisenberg. He plays a
pizza delivery guy who gets a bomb attached to him
and then threatened by the people who put the bomb
on him, who forced him to go rob a bank.
(52:27):
The real life story was wild and tragic. The movie
doesn't exactly follow what happened in real life. It's a
lot more comical and less depressing. But that is a
movie from the twenty tens that I feel is also
underrated and underappreciated and kind of just went under the radar.
Moving forward a decade before that, two thousand and Once
Down to Earth with Chris Rock. If you want some
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two thousands of nostalgia and a movie you probably couldn't
do today, check that one out as well, and that'll
probably que you up for good fortune coming out on
October seventeenth. This week's the tention of movie Li Famer
Bar and that is goo to do it for another
episode here of the podcast. But before I go, I
(53:08):
got to give my listeners shout out of the week.
Thanks to everybody who has gone over and subscribe to
my YouTube channel, almost to six hundred subscribers, which isn't
a whole lot, but I am on my quest to
get one thousand followers. So if you don't mind, just
go down to the show notes. You can always find
the links to all my social media. Thanks to everybody
who has been sharing the clips from recent episodes. That
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means a lot. This week, I'm actually going over to
Facebook and shouting out Vivian Forward as this week's listener
shout out who commented on my video where I broke
down all of the merch I got from Regal for
Lilo and Stitch and said the Regal bucket looks so cool.
I saw it last week, loved the movie and enjoyed
it even with the slight differences in the storyline from
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the original. Thank you Vivian for that comment. Thank you
for sharing that video. There have been so many split
feelings on Lilo and Stitch. Surprisingly on Facebook a lot
of people. I loved it. When I went over to YouTube,
people were dragging me there, calling me out. I haven't
seen this many people upset about a family friendly movie
in probably ten years, so appreciate that comment. Thank you
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for listening right now wherever you are, and until next time,
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