January 17, 2026 • 58 mins
Movie Mike shares the Top 10 movies he is most excited to watch in 2026. From the return of the most famous stunt comedy group of idiots to what could be one of the biggest superhero movies of all time. From Toy Story 5, The Odyssey, Avengers Doomsday and more! In the Movie Review, Mike breaks down the horror movie Primate. It’s about a group of friends' tropical vacation turns into a terrifying, primal tale of horror and survival. Mike talks about what made the movie scary, how the movie went horribly wrong and the real life case of a woman who was attacked by a chimp in 2009 and suffered horrific injuries. In the Trailer Park, Mike talks about Madden which is the story of football and video game legend John Madden is about to be told in a new biopic. Mike shares why everyone is hating on Nicolas Cage for looking nothing like Madden.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike. Today, I want to talk
about my top ten most anticipated movies of twenty twenty six.
It looks like it's going to be a fine year
at the box office. In the movie review, I'll be
talking about Primate, which is a horror movie about a
killer monkey who attacks a bunch of people on a
tropical vacation. And in the trailer park, I'll be talking
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about Madden and everybody's problem with Nicholas Cage as John
Madden because it doesn't look like it's up to the
standards of a whole lot of people. So thank you
for being here, thank you for being subscribed. Shout out
to the Monday Morning movie crew, all of you who
listen on release day. And now let's talk movies nic
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Podcast Network. This is movie Mike's Movie Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
We have a big list to get to, so many
great movies coming out in twenty twenty six, so let's
get right into it. The year is going to kick
me right in the nuts because on June twenty sixth,
Jackass five is coming out. If you know me, I
am a huge fan of Jackass. I watched it on MTV.
Got really into Viva Labam. I've seen every.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Single movie multiple times. When Jackass three D came out,
I went to a midnight release. I was still working
on The Bobby Bone Show as an intern during that time,
and Steve O actually came in studio for an interview
to promote that movie. You could tell that I was
just so ecstatic of like, Wow, I'm just starting out
in radio and Steve O from Jackasses here, I've been
watching you on TV from Jackass, and then I got
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really into Viva Labam and then also with Steve O,
I watch Wild Boys. What I think these movies do
not get credit enough for is how unorthodox the format
is because essentially it is just a bunch of random
skits or what now would be YouTube videos or even
TikTok's patched together. There is no continuous storyline in a
Jackass movie. It is seen after seeing Some are longer
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than others. Sometimes they are quick five second bits in
between these bumpers, in between different segments. There is nothing
you can go into the theater to watch that is
like a Jackass movie, but it is an experience. It
has a huge fan base, this community that goes into
the theater just wanting to have a good time and
laugh in a way that makes you uncomfortable, that shows
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you very disgusting things that pushes the limits. I think
they do not get enough credit for how much money
they've been able to make at the box office for
something that on paper probably shouldn't be successful. And I
think it's all because of Johnny Knoxville, who is one
of my idols, and he is the ringleader of this
entire group. He is a modern day bugs Bunny and
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how he orchestrates all these stunts that essentially are like
live action Looney Tunes. And to me, I would say
the franchise really ended with Jackass three D because that
was the last time they were all fully a part
of all the stunts. Because now they are getting older,
and even when they made that movie, they thought that
was gonna be the last one because their bodies couldn't
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take it anymore. But with the last movie, Jackass Forever,
they brought in a new crew, some fresh blood who
were able to do some of the things that they
did early on that their bodies just cannot take. But
still Johnny Knoxville will always have that one big stunt,
whether it's getting attacked by a bull or taking off
on a rocket that almost blows off his entire leg.
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And Johnny Knoxville is now fifty four years old, so
I can't wait until we get to like Jackass eight,
when they are in the retirement room and we go
full circle. He's doing bad Grandpa, except he doesn't have
to put on the prosthetic makeup and face anymore. So
that is why I have this movie at number ten.
I'm a huge Johnny Knoxville and Jackass fan. Jackass five
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unless they might change the title, but right now that's
all the details we know about. It is coming out
on June twenty sixth, right around my birthday, which I
always have an appreciation for any movie coming out on
my birthday weekend because I will be in the theater
for this movie. Jackass five at number ten. At number nine,
you know I love me a good animated movie. Super
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Mario probably a top five video game for me of
all time, and the Super Mario Galaxy movie is coming
out on April third of this year and Mario is
going into space. I loved the Super Mario Galaxy game.
It reminds me of a very pivotal time in my
life which I had a wi. I remember they came
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out in two thousand and six, and probably at least
to me during that time, when I was fifteen years old,
it felt like it was an impossible task to get
a Wii. And I remember I had a cousin who
worked at Walmart, and he would tell my mom whenever
they would get new shipments of weas in. This is
how it was back in the day. And I know
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we've had similar things like this now with the PS five,
at least whenever there was a chip shortage or whenever
a console first launches. But I think we're a lot
better now as far as supplying demand when it comes
to video game consoles. But back in the day, when
the Wei for came out in two thousand and six,
at least for me, it was so hard to get one.
So our cousin who worked at Walmart would let us
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know any time a shipment came in. He couldn't hold
one for us, but he could tell us as soon
as they were in stock, And this was long before
ordering things on the internet or proven things was an option,
So I remember it was probably a year, so maybe
in two thousand and six, maybe even not un till
two thousand and eight did I get my first Wii.
But one of those games I got was Super Mario Galaxy,
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and that was after graduated high school, because I remember
being in college and coming home and sitting in my
dark room, turning up the AC and just getting lost
in this game. Because obviously I grew up playing Super Mario.
But Super Mario Galaxy is such a different game because
it mixes elements of those early Mario games and mixes
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a little bit of Mario on N sixty four and
gives you this entirely different way to play with this character.
And I cannot wait to see how that translates into
the big screen. Because now you have these big cosmic colors.
You have Princess Peach returning Mario in Luigi and now
Princess Daisy, who is a cosmic princess. You have Bowser
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who is now kind of reformed trying to be a
good guy, but his son, Bowser Junior, is coming to
bail him out and he is the new threat. I
also love how improved the animation looks in this one,
just from the trailer alone. It is from the studio
illumination that also does the Minions movies so top tier animation.
I think when it comes to illumination movies, they don't
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get enough credit for how innovative they are in their
techniques for filmmaking and making each one better. Where if
you look at some of the Disney movies in the
last five years, it kind of all just starts to
look the exact same, where it's not really refreshing to
your eyes. It doesn't feel new. It just feels like
the same thing over and over again with slightly different
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character designs. Illumination, on the other hand, gives you these
vastly different worlds with every movie and every title that
come out with and the Super Mario Galaxy Movie specifically
looks like a great improvement. So I am hyped for it,
as you can tell, thirty four year old man so
excited for a family friendly movie. But that is how
much I love this video game and want to see
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it done justice. So at number nine I have the
Super Mario Galaxy Movie coming out on April third. At
number eight, I have The Social Reckoning, which is the
follow up to the Social Network, which was the Facebook
movie that took everybody by surprise. Because when this movie
first came out, everybody was like, why are they making
a stupid Facebook movie? What is next? The LinkedIn movie?
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But it is coming out on October ninth. It is
about a different controversy involving a Wall Street Journal reporter
and a young Facebook engineer who was a whistleblower on
Facebook about some of the data leaks and shady things
that happened. And I believe the twenty tens there were
some trials in like the twenty twenties, but that is
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what this movie is focusing on. Jesse Eisenberg is not
returning as Mark Zuckerberg. Instead, it is Jeremy Strong, you
may know from Succession. Mikey Madison is also in this movie.
Who if you watched Honora, she was the lead in
that and Jeremy Allen White is also a part of
this cast. It is from director and writer Aaron Sorkin,
who also did the first movie. And I think what
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took us all by surprise with the social network was
how great of a story it was. It wasn't a
story just about the creation of Facebook and very bubbly
and fresh. It was just a very intense drama with
some of the best acting of the twenty tens. One
of my favorite scenes of all time in movies is
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the scene where Andrew Garfield's character goes to confront Jesse Eisenberg,
who is Mark Zuckerberg in the movie, at the headquarters
of Facebook, and Mark Zuckerberg is sitting there on his
laptop and what they call the wired in position wherever
he has his headphones on and he's doing some coding,
totally locked in. Whenever somebody is wired in in the movie,
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you can't mess with them, you can't talk to them
because they are so focused and zoned into their work.
And then Andrew Garfield comes in super angry because he
basically gets kicked out of Facebook and screwed over by
Mark Zuckerberg, who Mark Zuckerberg in the movie is one
of the best villains. He is such a jerk, he
is so unlikable. And seeing Andrew Garfield just give this
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incredible performance, this just big speech filled with rage, smashing
that laptop and yelling at Jesse Eisenberg was fantastic. So
I want some more of that. Is it going to
have the same impact as the first one? Probably not.
And with the original director back with some good actors
in the mix. I am excited for it. At number eight,
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I have The Social Reckoning coming out on October ninth.
At number seven, I have Mandalorian and Grogu starring Pedro
Pascal and Sigourney Weaver coming out on May twenty second.
I wonder if Sigourney Weaver could just go by Sigourney,
much like Share, much like Reva, much like Rihanna. I
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don't know any other person, let alone in the entertainment
industry named Sigourney. I would just drop the Weaver if
I was her. I think, if you say Sigourney, you
know who you were talking about, although I wouldn't even
know how to spell Sigourney if it wasn't sitting in
front of me, sig Oh you are any Why but
Sigourney Weaver is in this movie, The Mandalorian. I love
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the TV show, and when I first saw the trailer
to this, I wasn't as excited. But over the break
we went to the movies and I saw it come
on on the big screen, and that is when I
got excited. Because when you just watch it on your
laptop or your phone, it is really hard to make
a distinction between it looking any different than just the
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TV show, So when watching it on my phone or
on my laptop, it didn't really feel like anything special
that warranted the big screen. But then when I saw
it in theaters, it kind of gave me that same
feeling that I did. I mean, it's been a while
now since we've had a Star Wars movie. I think
this will end the five year drought now, and it
gave me that feeling because there really is nothing like
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seeing a Star Wars movie in theaters. Whether you love it,
whether you hate it, it is an event. It brings
out all different types of movie fans, young and old,
grandma's and grandpas. Everybody loves a good Star Wars story.
I really hope that they captured the same energy that
they did in that first season of The Mandalorian. The
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characters were so much stronger and well defined, and of
course Grogu was as cute and cuddly as can be.
That is what everybody went crazy for whenever this show
first came out. Everybody talked about baby Yoda, and they
do focus a little bit too much on that in
the trailer, But I am still hopeful that this will
be another fantastic adventure in the Star Wars World, and
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I'm really hoping it just doesn't feel like a long
episode of the show. But at number seven, I have
Mandalorian and Grogu coming out early summer May twenty second.
At number six, starring Ryan Gosling, I have Project hill
Mary coming out on March twelfth. And I say this
because in this studio right now, over to my right,
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I am looking at a bookshelf and staring back at
me just with these evil eyes. Is my copy given
to me by Kelsey of Project hill Mary that I
said on this podcast I was going to start over
the Christmas break. How many pages do you think I
read of that book so far? Take a guess. If
you answered zero, you would be correct. I haven't even
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cracked it open. I took it with me. It was
in my backpack, burning a hole in my backpack. Over
our trip to Texas. I did not open that book once.
And there was one time after we got back that
I was like, there's nothing really to watch. I watched
every single movie. I don't feel like playing any switch
right now. Let me crack open this book. I still
did not crack that book o, but I am determined
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now that it is what almost three months still away
March twentieth, I still have time, and it is a
beef of your book, so I really wish I would
have started reading it earlier, because the first step to
anything to success is just getting started. Whether it's working out,
whether it's finishing a book, all you have to do
is start. But the book and the movie are about
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an astronaut who wakes up alone on a spaceship with
no memory of how he got there. Earth is facing
a catastrophic threat, so he has to piece together what
his mission is and he uses some unexpected allies, which
I think the trailer might have spoiled some things from
the book, so I won't even mention it now because
I don't want to spoil it to myself. But essentially
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he is trying to save the world, so I will
mark my words. I will start and finish this book
by March twentieth. But that is why I have Project
Mary at number six to really hold me accountable, because
I know I'm gonna feel so excited after I read
the book, and I feel so proud of myself, and
then I get that privilege that only smart people get
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of reading the book and going to see the movie,
and I cannot wait to do that review after and say, man,
the book was so much better than the movie. I'm
finally gonna be that guy. But that's what I have
at number six, getting into the top five. Now I
have at number five Disclosure Day from director Steven Spielberg.
It stars Emily Blunt. It is coming out this summer
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on June twelfth. It is a Steven Spielberg UFO slash
alien movie. It is about Emily Blunt's character who works
as a news anchor in Kansas City, and then you
have some other couple people in the mix two. But
it's all about the humans in the movie grappling with
mysterious alien events and the overwhelming weight of this new
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reality that aliens exist. So there aren't too many other
details about the Plump other than we find out aliens
are real and everybody starts freaking out. I love Steven Spielberg, obviously.
He is such a great director that I feel unfairly
does not get talked about enough, at least in the
film bro community, who dominates TikTok and YouTube about the
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greatest directors of all time, because I think he's put
out so many amazing movies over our lifetime just consistently
that it almost feels like he is in this goaded
position that you feel kind of like a poser. If
you say Steven Spielberg is your favorite director. But if
you think about Jaws, if you think about Jurassic Park,
if you think about et he is responsible for so
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many movies that have sparked so many fandoms and films
that feel so much larger than life than we realize.
He is literally a living legend. And when it comes
to I mean even talk about War of the World,
when you talk about his alien movies, or obviously going
back to Close Encounters of the Third Kind back in
nineteen seventy seven, the list goes on and on of
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movies he has put out that are just banger after banger.
But when it comes to a movie, I've been craving
recently with all the things we've learned in the last
few years about aliens and the idea kind of being
soft launched to us where it's not as crazy as
it was back in the nineties, even back in the
early two thousands, where I was fully into all the
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conspiracy theories about aliens. Now I feel like the idea
of aliens existing isn't as crazy to us as we
realize more and more how much we are just little
pebbles on a floating rock in the grand scheme of
all these things. That I have been craving a movie
like this, and I hope it is my new favorite
alien movie since Signs. Whenever Signs came out back in
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the two thousands, that movie blew my mind. It scared
the crap out of me out of the first alien reveal,
and I'm hoping Disclosure Day builds that same kind of tension.
Who I think Steven Spielberg is the king of that,
and he created this method where you don't show the
monster really until the very end. You give the audience
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little glimpses of it here and there. And obviously he
first did this with Jaws, where it was greatly due
to trying to save money, because he didn't have time
or money to show Jaws the entire time, so instead
you build all the suspense around that character. Sometimes not
seeing the monster is scarier than actually seeing it when
you think about it, you don't realize it why you're
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watching it, But building the music that dun nun donna,
seeing somebody get killed, seeing just the blood from it,
but you don't actually see Jaws in his full glory
until the third act. And I think that is something
that I have learned from watching Steven spielberg movies and
how other directors who have been inspired by his work
as well create a good monster movie. So hopefully that
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is what we get in Disclosure Day, where we get
that same kind of moment we had in Science even
though he didn't do Signs. That is just one of
my favorite examples of an alien reveal where you don't
see them for a while, but when you do, it
is so impactful and it's gonna scare the crap out
of you. So I love Steven Spielberg. Emily Blunt just
happens to be a lot of things right now. I
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think she is a good actor. I wouldn't put her
as one of my favorite actors, but she has a
great agent because she gets into a lot of big
movies right now. So I am excited for this. At
number five, I have Disclosure Day coming out on June twelfth.
At number four from director Christopher Nolan, I have The Odyssey.
It is coming out this summer on July seventeenth. Matt
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Damon plays Odysseus and Tom Holland plays his son, but
essentially Christopher Nolan's epic adaptation of Homer's ancient Greek tale.
The movie follows Odysseus's long and perilous journey home after
the Trojan War. He takes on mythical foes such as
Cyclops and sirens, and he strives to return to his
wife Penelope and his son and a sweeping emotional adventure.
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It looks like it's gonna be quite the cinematic achievement
because The Odyssey is the first major movie ever shot
entirely on Imax seventy millimeter film cameras, which means this
movie is going to look massive. Oppenheimer, which I also
saw in seventy milimeter Imax at one of the only
maybe ten theaters that showed it that way in the
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United States, just happens to be here in Nashville. That
movie was still not shot entirely on that film, which,
when you start talking about film sizes, it basically means
how much information can be put on the big screen.
So seventy milimeter Imax is like the most amount of
information you could put into a single frame. So when
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that gets blasted onto a major screen. It still looks
super rich and vibrant and colorful, so it's the best
looking movie you can get because it's so expensive to do.
The film reels alone to these movies are massive, and
it takes up essentially an entire room. It is so
heavy and difficult to transport. So that is why you
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very rarely see this happen unless it's somebody like Christopher
Nolan who has that type of pool to spend that
amount of money to film a movie like this on film.
That is why I have The Odyssey at number four
coming out on July seventeenth, getting into the top three
now at number three, I have Toy Story five coming
out on June nineteenth. An odd thing I did over
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the Christmas break, I rewatched all four Toy Story movies
because we went home and my sister has Disney Channel,
which I've not sat down to watch Disney Channel in
a really long time. And maybe it's just because it
was Christmas break, but Disney Channel just replaces a lot
of Disney movies and they're just like, this is a
general audience movie, and then they start another one. But
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Toy Story four started and I had not watched this
movie since it came out in theaters. So I sat
down and I watched All a Toy Story four, and
then for some reason after that one. I don't know why,
I ended up watching them all in reverse order, but
after I watched four, I was like, I gotta go
back and watch three. So I watched it at home
on Disney Plus. And when I watched three, I was like, well,
I might as well watch two, and then I went
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back and watched one. So it was an interesting way
to watch them. I don't think I would really recommend it,
because you see the animation get worse coming backwards, but
it did make me feel different about four in the
sense that man Woody is annoying. It is really hard
to root for Woody in four, where he kind of
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becomes obsessed with this idea of still being hung up
on Andy. He cannot move past Andy, even though he
is now living with Bonnie. It still is just so
traumatic to him and keeping everybody together, keeping the status quo.
It's like, Woody, just move on, dude. You're a toy.
You have to accept that. You have to try to
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find some happiness somewhere instead of trying to control everything.
I think I just got a little bit frushra with
his character and watching them in reverse order, seeing that
his character developed in the opposite way. Where in the
first one, I love Woody because he's kind of a jerk.
He is so imperfect in Toy Story one because he
is jealous of Buzz, and I love a jealous Woody.
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He is insulting, He straight up assalts Buzz. He manipulates
all the other toys. I love seeing a flawed Woody,
And whenever he becomes a little bit too boy scout
and trying to be the leader and trying to be
the dad slash mom of the group, he gets a
little bit more annoying from really from three to four.
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In two, he is so worried about being abandoned he
gets shelved after his arm rips, and then with three
again he is worried about not being around all the
other toys. They mistakenly get put out on the curb
as trash. I also have a different perspective on Andy,
and I know I have to kind of suspend disbelief
because I try to put myself in that situation of
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I did not keep any of the same toys from
my childhood all the way up to eighteen, and if
I was eighteen thinking about taking my toys to college,
I started to feel different ways about Andy two. But
all this to say, rewatching all of the Toy Story
movies has me that excited for Toy Story five. And
even though I said I think Toy Story should have
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just been a trilogy, it is to me one through
three that is the franchise. Everything else is just bonus.
I don't consider it canon. I consider it all a
big cash grab. I just have to know what happens
to these characters and how they are going to make
Toy Story five work, which if you haven't seen Toy
Story four, they are going to have to explain a
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lot because in five, what it's all about is their owner, Bonnie,
who is who Andy gave his toys. Two. At the
end of Toy Story three, gets a new toy, except
it's not a toy, it's a lily pad, so it's
supposed to be at least I hope it really dives
into how kids don't really play with toys anymore, which
is crazy. I feel like kids don't play with toys
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as much as they used to. They much rather have
a tablet, which was crazy because Kelsey and I every
single year we adopt a couple of angels and we
buy them gifts and we always look at their once
and selfishly, I always go through and try to find
kids who have similar interest that I did when I
was a kid. So if they like Pokemon, if they
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like Spider Man or Dragon ball Z, I'm going to
pick that kid selfishly because I know I can go
find things that I would have loved as a kid
that I think they would love. But when you started
to look at all the top once to all these kids, tablet, tablet, tablet,
I'm like, man, where's the Pokemon cars? Where are the
power Rangers? Where are the scooters and the skateboards? Well,
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I guess kids now want electric scooters, but that was
crazy to me to see that all these kids, even
younger kids, just want tablet. So I think this movie
is perfectly timed with addressing a real life issue. And
as long as they continue to make toy story movies,
I will still watch them. But for me, the movies
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that define my generation and the movies I will recognize
as the true toy story movies will always be one
through three. Everything now is just extra. At number two,
I'm gonna go with Supergirl, which will feature the return
of Crypto and Millie Alcock as Supergirl. She is twenty
three years old. She is the complete opposite of Superman
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as far as her view is on the world. She
is much more cynical. She is very chaotic and messy.
It looks like a lot of the same energy that
we got in Superman, but instead a fun, little bit
more Guardians of the Galaxy type version. Even though James
Gunn is not directing this movie, so really excited about it.
I think this will be a great year for superhero
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movies because at number one, I have a two way
tie I could not decide, and number one I have
both Avengers Doomsday and Spider Man Brand New Day. Doomsday
is coming out on December eighteenth, and Spider Man Brand
New Day is coming out on July thirty first. I
am obviously a huge Spider Man fan. I have a
Spider Man tattoo on my right arm that my mom
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I think saw for the first time and when I
was home for Christmas, and she wasn't that surprised by it.
She was like, Yeah, when you were a kid, you
would just go around shooting website like Spider Man. I
was like, yeah, my fandom started from a very young age.
So that made me feel even better about getting a tattoo,
because the thing they don't tell you is how crazy
permanent it feels. Obviously it sounds dumb to say, but
you have this realization right after you get a tattoo
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of like, oh man, this thing is good to be
on me forever. I'm glad I picked something I've liked
for a very long time. So her telling me that
reminded me like, oh yeah, I have love dim since
I was a kid. Nothing is going to change, but
Spider Man has always been my number one favorite superhero.
In my top five superheroes, it's spider Man, Batman, the
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Incredible Hulk, Wolverine, and number five changes from time to time.
In the movies, it is iron Man, but I think
in the comics and just overall now I think it
is Cyclops. And that is why Tied at number one
is Avengers Doomsday coming out on December eighteenth, and I
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haven't talked about the teaser trailers that have come out
that I first saw when everybody went to go see Avatar,
we saw the Captain America one that let us know
that Steve Rogers is returning. Captain America appears to have
a baby. Now that's really all. That was him driving
up in a motorcycle, and then you see his shield,
you see his suit, and then you see him holding
a baby. There was a really funny parody somebody did
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that made it look like a medication commercial. They did
like the voiceover. They put the name of the medication
in all the disclaimers and it kind of fit. I
don't really feel like just telling us that somebody is
returning is promotion enough. I think that is very twenty
tens MCU. We need to evolve that a little bit.
But that had been pretty much the case for all
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these teaser trailers, and I wanted to wait for the
first official trailer, which we should get during the Super Bowl,
to fully include it in the trailer park. But since
it is here tied at number one, am I most anticipated.
I'll mention that one the thor one pretty straightforward. He
has a kid that he's taking care of now too.
After Thor Love and Thunder, Chris Hemsworth is bag. He
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looks as ripped up as ever, not as much excitement
there because we just saw Thor pretty recently in at
least a couple of movies, as far as his own
solo movie, and then he also had a cameo in
Deadpool and Wolverine. But the teaser that did get me
really excited that has been the best so far for
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Doomsday was that the X Men are going to be
in Doomsday. But not only that, because you see Professor
X and you see Magneto, who now looks a lot older.
That didn't make me a little bit emotional. But the
big standout of that teaser he got James Marsden back
as Cyclops. But not only that, they got him out
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of that awful leather suit that all the X Men
had in the two thousands that just looked awful. It
just made them look so bland. I get there was
probably a fascination with black leather after the Matrix during
that time, and they didn't want it to look like
the comic book version of the X Men then because
people would have seen it as cheesy, So they had
to make them look cool, and they put them all
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on leather, and I think worked at the time, but
now I just wish they would have looked different much
in this teaser, we have James Marsden in a comic
accurate cyclops suit, the blue and the yellow, and you
see him erupt with this optic blast that had me
so excited, And that was the first time from any
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of this material that I've been this excited that it
hopped all the way up to one. So I couldn't
pick which one to put it one, so I just
put them both here. It's my list, my rules. But
I think those movies are going to be my favorite
of the year no matter what, because I just love
both of those franchises. I rewatch the Avengers movies at
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least once a year. I also rewatch all the Spider
Man movies, not just the Tom Holland ones, but all
of them at least once a year. So I'm getting
two movies to add to my repertoire of movies that
I rewatch all the time that become a part of me.
It's like having a child. These movies are going to
live with me forever. I couldn't pick between the two,
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but I am excited that they do kind of split
the year, Spider Man coming out on July thirty first,
and then Doomsday not coming out until December eighteenth, so
it's like, Okay, I can go these seven months, get
my Spider Man, live off the high of that, and
then get really ramped up for December eighteenth release. So
those are my top ten most anticipated movies of twenty
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twenty six. I will run through all the other big
movies coming out this year. My honorable mentions include Michael,
which is coming out on April twenty fourth, but it's
supposed to be over three hours long. There was even
a cut of this that was almost four hours. There
was talk of splitting this movie up into two movies,
which I think would be a terrible idea. So I
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have a little bit of hesitation, but that doesn't mean
it takes away from my anticipation of wanting to go
see this movie in theaters and see how the final
product turns out. Michael coming out on April twenty fourth,
The Hunger Games, Sunrise on the Reaping coming out on
November twentieth. Street Fighter is coming out on October sixteenth.
That movie looks like it could be terrible, but it
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could just be a lot of fun. The cast has
me a little bit worried because there are some people
in there. I'm like Okay, why did you even put
this person in this movie? So I think that'll just
be I want to know how bad it is going
to be, but it has the potential to be kind
of a sleeper hit. We have Resident Evil coming out
on September eighteenth from Weapons director Zach Craiger. I want
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to see how he follows up that movie, and then
I'll go through the rest as far as when they
are going to come out earliest at the end of
this week. Already we get twenty eight years later, The
Bone Temple. On January sixteenth. We have The Moment starring
Charlie XCX. On January thirtieth. We have Goat, which is
the animated movie coming to us from NBA champion Steph Curry,
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coming out on February thirteenth, from the same studio that
did K Pop Demon Hunters. We have Scream seven coming
out on February twenty seventh. If it doesn't have Melissa
Barrera in it, if it doesn't have Jenna Ortega, I
am less interested in it. But because it is a
part of the Scream franchise, I will check it out.
Nev Campbell isn't it, but she was also at five,
so I don't know why they are making a big
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deal about that. We have the Pixar movie Hoppers coming
out on March sixth. Nate Bargatezi has a movie coming
out on March thirteenth called The bread Winner. The trailer
for that really looks like he's trying to revive two
thousand's family comedies. I just don't know if that could work.
It could be a nice little trip in nostalgia, even
though it is a new movie. But I don't know
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if you're not Adam Sandler know if you can pull
that off. We have the drama coming out on April third.
It's that Robert Pattinson and Zendia romantic comedy. The Devil
Wears prad is coming out on May first. Mortal Kombat
two is coming out on May fifteenth. Masters of the
Universe is coming out on June fifth. I would be
so much more excited for this if Jared Leto was
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not playing skeletor anything he is in. I just assume
is going to be bad. Scary Movie six is coming
out on June twelfth. I feel like parody movies are
kind of having a slow comeback. With a naked gun
last year, I think we could be in a place
where we need a good parody movie like scary movie
six Mega Minions, which is Minions three, coming out on
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July first. The live action Mawana movie is coming out
on July tenth. Not excited about that. Coyote Versus Acme,
which was the movie that got canceled and then brought
back to life, is coming out on August twenty eighth.
DC's clay Face is coming out on September eleventh. Practic
to Go Magic two is coming out on September eighteenth.
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Digger starring Tom Cruise, which looks kind of bizarre. I
don't really know entirely what it's about. The trailer really
said nothing, but it's kind of nice to see Tom
Cruise not doing a movie where he is just running
in the trailer. That's coming out on October second. Meet
the Parents four Fokker in Law is coming out on
November twenty fifth. Narnia the Magician's Nephew from director Greta Gerwig,
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who also did Barbie, is coming out on November twenty sixth.
We have a Jumanji sequel on December eleventh. Basically, The
Rock just needs to make a little bit of Money
Again June Part three did not make my top ten list,
not even an honorable mention. I will go see it,
but I'm just not that excited for it. That's coming
out on December eighteenth. That is the list. I'll come
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back and give my spoiler free review of Primate. Let's
get into it now. A spoiler free movie review of Primeate.
It is about a family who has a pet monkey
named Ben. You have the main character, Lucy, who is
coming home, has been away for quite some time. Some
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of her family kind of resents her for it, but
she's coming back home bringing some of her friends and
they're all gonna hang out in this really nice house.
This is always a problem I have with horror movies
is I didn't fear them a lot as a kid
because I lived in a trailer and I always thought, man,
this can never happen to me, because if anything crazy
went down here, there wouldn't be enough room for anybody
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to run around. So I always found comfort in that,
even though it was broke, we didn't have our own bedrooms.
I slept on the floor until I think I was
maybe fourteen years old. I was like the only thing
I can find satisfaction is there will never be a
situation where any events that go down in a horror
movie can happen in this trailer, because anytime you watch
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one of these movies, they always have a sick house,
and in Primate, I think is one of the sickest
houses I have seen in a horror movie. I don't know,
maybe I'm doing real estate right now because we've been
looking for a place to live. But you have this
awesome house all the way throughout that Ben has all
these rope ladders that he can go up and down,
because essentially this movie is Kujo, but instead of a dog,
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it is a primate, and he has all these things
where he can climb around. He has this iPad that
he can press buttons and communicate with the family. He
has been a beloved member of their family for a
very long time. But you have this amazing view and
at the very bottom there is this pool, which by
the way, Ben cannot swim. I feel like he resents
the rest of the family for that because they're always
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hanging out in this pool. And the house essentially sits
at the bottom of these two clips that you're completely isolated.
The perfect setting for a horror movie. But something happens
to Ben, leading all the family to think there is
something wrong with Ben, which is what they said in
the trailer, and what my favorite quote of the entire
movie is, there is something wrong with Ben. Of course
there's something wrong with Ben. He gets rabies and he
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starts killing people. So now you have Lucy, her sister,
and all of her friends trying to escape Ben, except
they are stuck in this house because Ben is not
going to let them go. That is the situation. So
again like Kujo, when the mom and the daughter are
stuck in the car, they can't get out of it,
the exact same way, except they are in this luxurious house.
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The thing that really stuck out to me about Primate
was its commitment to violence. I think that was the
most satisfying part. Is they did not steer away from
making the kills very gruesome. If it wouldn't have been
for that, I wouldn't have found this movie as entertaining.
Because when all of Ben's victims die, it is very
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satisfying as somebody who likes to watch gruesome horror movie deaths.
They went for it, and sometimes they made me a
little bit uncomfortable because they are very harsh and bloody.
If it didn't have that level of violence, in that
level of gruesomeness, this would have been just the generic
horror movie, because I think the real selling point was
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the fact that it was this monkey that gets rabies
and starts killing people. Because when it came to the story,
it was garbage. It was trash. There was no real
connection that I felt that they had to Ben, because
it really is all of a sudden, she is back home,
and they don't really do a whole lot of explaining
or connection between why they feel like he is so
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much a part of the family. If they would have
had a little bit more of that, which again, this
movie is under ninety minutes. I think it was like
an hour and twenty three minutes. They didn't really have
time to get to that, but they spent about thirty
minutes just focusing on the drama between all the friends
and the family that never really let anywhere. They should
have focused more on why Ben feels like a part
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of the family. Therefore, whenever he switches, they have a
little bit more of a dilemma of oh, man, here's
this person who has been a part of our family.
He feels like a brother to us, but now we
have to escape him and he's trying to kill us.
I never really felt that connection. So while the movie
won me a little bit over with the violence, the
story was really harsh and the acting, oh, the acting
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was brutal. It kind of felt like I was watching
the CW Show. But even the way they reacted to
Bennett times was really infuriating. This is one of those
horror movies that if you go watch it in theaters
or even if you watch it at home, you were
going to be so upset at these characters. And some
people like that type of horror movie where you're like,
why are you doing that, you idiot? You should be
doing the complete opposite, or also just how can you
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be that dumb? The characters felt so dumb and infuriating
that at times I was yelling at the screen, not
because I was enjoying it, but because I was like,
you guys are so dumb. So I think at times
I was rooting for the monkey more than I was
for the humans. The cool thing about the making of
this movie is there is actually somebody inside of the
monkey suit, and depending on how you feel of your
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ability to overlook some scenes where you can clearly tell
that there is a human inside of that monkey costume.
It may lead to you enjoying or not enjoying this
movie because at times the mask does look a little
bit fake. And I'm somebody who has been a proponent
of practical effects, but at times it was very clear
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to me that it was a dude wearing a monkey mask,
especially in some of the action sequences where he has
to move quickly or run. But there is a human
performer inside a band Shout out to Miguel taurus Umba,
who was an actor and a performer and a movement specialist,
which I hadn't heard of until researching some things of
this movie. But he is inside of that suit and
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he gets down low does a really good job at
portraying the monkey. So I think out of anybody in
this movie, he had the best performance because he really
sold me on the movements. It wasn't his fault what
the costume looked like. So I think those practical effects
go a long way, and you can tell the actors
are actually interacting with somebody instead of just interacting with
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the person in a green suit that they're going to
completely change in post production, they are actually getting into
confrontations with Ben. They are struggling with Ben, and I
think that at least adds to the performances when it
came to some of the fights and some of the
kill scenes. So I'm glad that they did that, But
there are times where you're gonna be watching it and think, man,
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this looks a little bit low budget. And the other
thing this movie made me think about who was inspired
by real events, because in two thousand and nine, there
was this woman who got attacked by your friend's chimpanzee.
The woman was named Charlotte Nash and it was a
friends chimp named Travis, and Travis was familiar with Charlote.
He knew Charla. But one of the things that they
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pointed out in primate was there as a moment that
one of the characters is a stranger to Ben and
he gets a little bit aggressive towards her, and the
owner of Ben said, Hey, he doesn't really do well
with strangers. He doesn't recognize you. He might kind of
act a little bit weird, but I promise you he
is a good chimp. In the real life case of
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Charlat and Travis in two thousand and nine, kind of
the same thing happened. They were trying to get Track
back into the house, and Charlotte was trying to lure
him in with his toy Elmo doll because the chimp,
Travis knew Charla knew his Elmo doll. They were just
trying to get him into the house. He had taken
his owner's car keys, which is another parallel between this
real life case and the movie Primate. But Charlotte looked
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a little bit different than what Travis remembered her to
look like. I think her hair had changed a little bit,
and there was just something that he did not recognize
about her, so that's why he attacked her. Travis, the
chimpanzee tore off her hands, tore off her face, leaving
her incredibly disfigured, also left her blonde. She ended up
recovering from her injuries and then in twenty eleven had
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a full facial transplant, which was a crazy story, and
she did go on to be an advocate on why
these animals should not be kept as pets. So this
movie wasn't really inspired by that traumatic event, but while
watching it, that was immediately what came to mind, and
I just had to find the parallels between that real
life story and this fictional story. But this movie did
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win me over a little bit in the third act,
and overall it was exactly what I thought it was
going to be. And I know that sounds a little
bit like an insult. The trailer really told me all
I needed to know. And it is still the month
of January, which is dump month at the box office,
where essentially all the studios are putting out movies that
they don't think would perform well anywhere else because we're
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coming off the holiday season. On TV, you have a
lot of things to watch right now with all the
playoffs going on, so this is usually where they put
a horror movie like this that maybe, just maybe could
find its audience have a little bit of success. But overall,
putting out a movie in January means you don't really
believe in it, so I think because I had about
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a medium level of expectation going into it, and by
the end of it, it gave me what I wanted.
Even though in those first thirty minutes I was like,
this is getting bad. I saw some people getting a
little bit restless in the theater, but by the end
of it, I was like, this was kind of awesome
but also kind of terrible. So for primate, I give
it three out of five bananas. God to head down
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to movie Mike trailer parr. If there's one thing the
Internet is going to do, it's going to be get
upset about the way somebody looks in a biopic. Anytime
one of these comes out, people have so many thoughts
on this person looks nothing like them, And for the
first time, I kind of agree with them because I
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really don't care how much they look like them. To me,
it matters more how much they embody their spirit. But
when it comes to Nicholas Cage as John Madden in
the John Madden Movie, he looks nothing like him. He
has prosthetics, he did not gain weight for the role.
He has a fat suit on instead of going that
extra step. There was no way he was going to
look like him. You never look at Nick Cage and think, man,
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you know who he could play somebody in the movie
John Madden. And for the first time I'm looking at
this trailer, I'm like, it kind of looks like a parody.
And I think that is a hard part of making
the John Madden movie is because he has been parodied
in things for so long. I mean, I think of
Frank Caliendo doing John Madden sometimes and I remember the
actual John Madden. So I feel like this bio pick
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is going to have a little bit of a different
tone to it, and I think that's a good thing
because I think overall the genre is a bit stale
right now. We've had so many biopicks that it just
gets kind of annoying that I'm surprised and excited because
it does feel a little bit refreshing that it's not
a serious take on his life. It is inspired by
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a true story, which is a major difference, meaning it's
probably not going to stick to all of the facts
be completely accurate, but it's going to be a bit
of a more fun story and take on his life.
You also have Christian Bale playing Al Davis, who was
the owner of the Raiders. This movie is coming out
this year on Thanksgiving on Amazon Prime. Before I get
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into more or here is just a little bit of
the Madden trailer. There's only one John Madden. They didn't
make another one. He is one of a kun. Football
wouldn't be football without him. I have no idea where
we are, who we are, where we're coming from, or
who we're throwing through.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
Very interesting.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
Bow. So this movie is going to be about his story,
specifically on his nineteen seventy seven Super Bowl win and
then him shifting from coaching into the broadcast booth, as
well as how he got into the video game industry.
Why I think it is time for a biopick like this?
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I do think, like I mentioned earlier, the genre is
so stale. Well we get biopicks now they are painting
these larger than life characters in a way that really
glamorizes them. This one already feels different to me. One
just because Nicholas Cage looks a little bit Calmon Goal
playing Madden. But then you have Christian Bale, who is
a fantastic actor who really in just this short clip
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really embonnies Al Davis. But I think this is what
the genre needs to do in order to get people
to care. And why are biopicks so attractive to studios?
It's an easy thing. They already have a built in audience.
So whenever a studio is banking and investing money in
a movie, they want to make sure right now that
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there is a fan base for it. There is a
demand for it. That's why we see so many sequels
and prequels and spinoffs. Biopicks still fall in that category
because John matt and the person. While it's not a
brand like Marvel or a Spider Man or Superman, that
type of IP or Harry Potter, it is different because
he is a historical and a public figure who already
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has a built in fan base, not just from him
as a person, but also from the video game, which
I think is what I'm probably more interested in when
it comes to this biopick. I played that all the time.
Madd In two thousand and seven to me was the
best Madden of all time, had the greatest soundtrack. I
played that game so much that there are songs like
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Cartel's Say Anything Else that I will hear out randomly
and it instantly takes me back to playing Madden seven.
And John mulaney in this movie is going to play
Trip Hopkins, who was the person responsible for signing John
Madden to be a spokesperson and consultant for the game
company and the first video game, John Madden Football, came
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out back in nineteen eighty eight, and at that time
there were football video games, but they were very dumb
down versions of what Madden wanted in a video game
because they were not even eleven man rosters. They were
just super simplified and really easy because they wanted to
make it appealing to people who didn't know anything about
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football and didn't want to overcomplicate it. But when they
went to John Madden, he said, I don't want to
do that. I want to make a game that is
so accurate that focuses on the plays and strategy, to
show people the mechanics of what it's like to call
plays and design a game that embody that experience, so you,
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by playing this video game, start to learn about what
it takes to be a coach, essentially, so much so
that so many people play Madden at home will turn
their attention to watching football on Sunday and think, man,
I could coach that. All I have to do is
do what I do with Madden, and I can win
this game. It is not that easy, but in some
regard you do learn some of the basics, and that
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was a big part of what John Madden wanted to do.
He wanted to bring in those things that seemed a
little bit complicated but knew that it would be worth
it in the end to make it as realistic as possible,
and that is the Madden game we know today. I mean,
he even gave EA Sports his playbook and his strategies
so they could build it into the game. So I
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think that is really cool, and they still crank out
those games after every single year. I probably haven't purchased
my a Madden game in three years now, maybe even
four or five. The last five years kind of led together.
But if I could go back and just play one
Madden game for the rest of my life, it would
be Madden two thousand and seven had the best soundtrack
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of all time and the best mini camp mode. In
this supporting cast, you also have Catherine Hahn as John
Madden's wife, Virginia Madden, and like I mentioned earlier, John
Mullaney is going to play Trip Hopkins, who is the
guy at EA Sports that brought John Madden in And
I could just imagine John Mullaney in this movie. Hey John,
I got this idea for a video game, and I
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need JET help. I hope at some point John Mullaney
and Christian Bale cross pass, mainly because I want John
Mullaney to take whatever experience that is because I have
to imagine that Christian Bale on set is just a
very intense presence. And that doesn't mean I think he's
mean or a jerk. I just have to imagine when
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you go onto a set with Christian Bale, that is
something he takes very seriously. When he is there, I
imagine he is so in the zone there to work.
He only wants to work with the most professional of professionals.
And John Mulaney, who is a professional, really good comedian,
has stepped into acting a little bit. I just have
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to imagine that is such an interesting dynamic between them two.
He seems like he would not want to make any
mistake around Christian Bale, and I wonder how Christian Bale's
intensity is, especially with the character like Al Davis, is
around a more comedic person like John Mulaney. You also
have Shane Gillis in the cast, so again, I feel
like this film is going to have a lot of comedy,
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which I think is something that people might not know
they wanted from this movie. And I don't think Nicholas
Cage is going to go too over the top as
far as try to make John Madden seem like a
big comical character, but there are moments in the trailer
where he does feel very John Candy, So maybe he
was channeling a little bit of Madden, a little bit
of John Candy. But I just feel like Nicholas Cage
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is an actor who is a wild card. You never
know what type of role he is going to take
on next. And while he doesn't entirely look like John Madden,
I am ready to go on this ride. But Madden
is coming out at the end of this year, which
is wild to get a trailer so early on in
the year where we basically have to wait eleven months
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for it. But it's coming out Thanksgiving twenty twenty six
on Amazon Prime. And that goes this week's edition of
Movie Mike Trailer Bars, and that is going to do
it for another episode here of the podcast. But before
I go, I got to give my listeners shout out
of the week. This week, I'm going over to my
Instagram dms and shouting out to Jenny who asked me
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a question after I reposted the Avengers teaser that we
were talking about earlier with Cyclops and the X Men,
and she asked, do I have to watch the X
Men to get Avengers Doomsday. I have watched most of
the Avengers movies and the Marvel movies, but do I
need to go back and rewatch the original X Men? Jenny,
thank you for this question, because I think it is
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one I get often every time a new Marvel movie
comes out. I really don't think you need to do
that anymore. The only time you really need to watch
every single Marvel movie is if it's in a phase,
and right now we are in Phase six that kicked
off last year with a fantastic four First Steps, and
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then this year, on the thirty first that we talked
about earlier, you get Spider Man Brand New Day and
Avengers dooms Day is going to be the third movie
in this phase. I think if you only watch phase
by phase, that is really all you need to know.
And I think they've done a better job at making
a lot of these stories a little bit more self contained,
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and they're gonna reference some things here and there, but
it's not gonna leave you completely lost. And if you
go into Avengers Doomsday even without seeing those first two
films in this phase, I do think that you're going
to be completely lost. As far as maybe the first
ten minutes of the movie, but I think they've gotten
to a point where they know everybody is not watching everything.
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Whenever all the shows were coming out on Disney Plus
and those things were connecting, I think they realized that
people got annoyed with that and they weren't watching everything,
and therefore it was confusing when you'd go to the
theater and you feel penalized because you didn't watch something
at home on Disney Plus. It felt like a little
bit too much. I think in order to answer your
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question here, Jenny, you don't really need to go back
and watch The x Men, as far as you need
to watch that in order to understand Doomsday, but I
think the weight of the characters returning in Doomsday will
not have any effect on you, which to me, James
Marsen returning after twenty years is a big deal to me.
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But you also can't go back and build that anticipation.
I think, really now it comes down to how hardcore
of a fan do you want to be where you
don't necessarily need to watch everything to understand it, but
you do need to watch everything in order to feel it,
because when you go through all these things, in real time,
and you spend all these years inside of this franchise,
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jumping with all these characters, that is when you feel
it more.
Speaker 2 (55:17):
So.
Speaker 1 (55:18):
I think they do these things to be a real
service to the fans. But I think strictly as a
viewer of the movie, you don't need to do all
the homework anymore in order to understand it, especially with
you have already watched all the Avengers movies your set,
because really you could just watch all the Avengers movies together,
and I feel like that would be a continuous story. Enough.
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Will you get every single reference? No, but you're not
going to be thirty minutes into the movie thinking what
is happening? I have no idea. That is just not
how these movies work. That's not really how any movie
works unless you don't pay attention and you're on your
phone the entire time. So if you really want to
go back and watch I would say the first three
X Men movies, I would say watch them just because
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they aren't great and I love those characters, but you
don't need to to understand. If you want to be
super informed going into Doomsday, I would say, as long
as you watch Fantastic Four, you will understand what is happening,
and then Spider Man when it comes out in July.
Aside from that, I think you'd be good because Thunderbolts
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was really the ending to not only Phase five, but
a lot of what they were trying that didn't really
work out, going all the way back to Black Widow,
Shang Chi Eternals, Spider Man, No Way Home, Doctor Strange,
in the Multiverse of Madness, Thor Love and Thunder, Black Panther,
Waconda Forever, which to me is kind of adjacent from
everything that kind of stands alone Quantum Mania. They're not
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going to bring anything out of that. Guardians of the
Galaxy Volume three, also in Phase five. Those movies exist
to me in their own world really, even though they connect.
But I feel like that is just a solid trilogy
on its own. The Marvels, you don't need to watch
that Dead Wolverine. While it is a fun and a
big movie inside of the MCU, I don't really feel
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like it connects much. Deadpoole does have some connection to
the X Men, obviously, but there wasn't a whole lot
of plot development or world building as far as the
MCU as a whole. In that movie, so unless you
just want to watch it for pure enjoyment, I don't
think a whole lot is going to carry over, aside
from Wolverine himself, Captain America, Brave New World, even if
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that movie connected, if you don't need to watch that
one and Thunderbolts. I really enjoyed it, and I think
the Thunderbolts obviously are going to return in Doomsday, and
they are billed as the new Avengers. So while not
entirely necessary, if you watch Fantastic Four and just want
to go back a movie before that, go with the Thunderbolts.
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But aside from that, you are good. I think we
are starting fresh, especially with DC right now restarting the
entire thing, and they're gonna feel more at competition that
they ever have the fight between DC and Marvel. I
think they are moving on and let's reset this timeline.
So thank you for this question, thank you all for listening,
thank you for being subscribed, thank you for telling a friend,
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And until next time, go out and watch good movies
and I will talk to you later
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about my top ten most anticipated movies of twenty twenty six.
It looks like it's going to be a fine year
at the box office. In the movie review, I'll be
talking about Primate, which is a horror movie about a
killer monkey who attacks a bunch of people on a
tropical vacation. And in the trailer park, I'll be talking
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We have a big list to get to, so many
great movies coming out in twenty twenty six, so let's
get right into it. The year is going to kick
me right in the nuts because on June twenty sixth,
Jackass five is coming out. If you know me, I
am a huge fan of Jackass. I watched it on MTV.
Got really into Viva Labam. I've seen every.
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Single movie multiple times. When Jackass three D came out,
I went to a midnight release. I was still working
on The Bobby Bone Show as an intern during that time,
and Steve O actually came in studio for an interview
to promote that movie. You could tell that I was
just so ecstatic of like, Wow, I'm just starting out
in radio and Steve O from Jackasses here, I've been
watching you on TV from Jackass, and then I got
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really into Viva Labam and then also with Steve O,
I watch Wild Boys. What I think these movies do
not get credit enough for is how unorthodox the format
is because essentially it is just a bunch of random
skits or what now would be YouTube videos or even
TikTok's patched together. There is no continuous storyline in a
Jackass movie. It is seen after seeing Some are longer
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than others. Sometimes they are quick five second bits in
between these bumpers, in between different segments. There is nothing
you can go into the theater to watch that is
like a Jackass movie, but it is an experience. It
has a huge fan base, this community that goes into
the theater just wanting to have a good time and
laugh in a way that makes you uncomfortable, that shows
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you very disgusting things that pushes the limits. I think
they do not get enough credit for how much money
they've been able to make at the box office for
something that on paper probably shouldn't be successful. And I
think it's all because of Johnny Knoxville, who is one
of my idols, and he is the ringleader of this
entire group. He is a modern day bugs Bunny and
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how he orchestrates all these stunts that essentially are like
live action Looney Tunes. And to me, I would say
the franchise really ended with Jackass three D because that
was the last time they were all fully a part
of all the stunts. Because now they are getting older,
and even when they made that movie, they thought that
was gonna be the last one because their bodies couldn't
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take it anymore. But with the last movie, Jackass Forever,
they brought in a new crew, some fresh blood who
were able to do some of the things that they
did early on that their bodies just cannot take. But
still Johnny Knoxville will always have that one big stunt,
whether it's getting attacked by a bull or taking off
on a rocket that almost blows off his entire leg.
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And Johnny Knoxville is now fifty four years old, so
I can't wait until we get to like Jackass eight,
when they are in the retirement room and we go
full circle. He's doing bad Grandpa, except he doesn't have
to put on the prosthetic makeup and face anymore. So
that is why I have this movie at number ten.
I'm a huge Johnny Knoxville and Jackass fan. Jackass five
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unless they might change the title, but right now that's
all the details we know about. It is coming out
on June twenty sixth, right around my birthday, which I
always have an appreciation for any movie coming out on
my birthday weekend because I will be in the theater
for this movie. Jackass five at number ten. At number nine,
you know I love me a good animated movie. Super
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Mario probably a top five video game for me of
all time, and the Super Mario Galaxy movie is coming
out on April third of this year and Mario is
going into space. I loved the Super Mario Galaxy game.
It reminds me of a very pivotal time in my
life which I had a wi. I remember they came
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out in two thousand and six, and probably at least
to me during that time, when I was fifteen years old,
it felt like it was an impossible task to get
a Wii. And I remember I had a cousin who
worked at Walmart, and he would tell my mom whenever
they would get new shipments of weas in. This is
how it was back in the day. And I know
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we've had similar things like this now with the PS five,
at least whenever there was a chip shortage or whenever
a console first launches. But I think we're a lot
better now as far as supplying demand when it comes
to video game consoles. But back in the day, when
the Wei for came out in two thousand and six,
at least for me, it was so hard to get one.
So our cousin who worked at Walmart would let us
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know any time a shipment came in. He couldn't hold
one for us, but he could tell us as soon
as they were in stock, And this was long before
ordering things on the internet or proven things was an option,
So I remember it was probably a year, so maybe
in two thousand and six, maybe even not un till
two thousand and eight did I get my first Wii.
But one of those games I got was Super Mario Galaxy,
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and that was after graduated high school, because I remember
being in college and coming home and sitting in my
dark room, turning up the AC and just getting lost
in this game. Because obviously I grew up playing Super Mario.
But Super Mario Galaxy is such a different game because
it mixes elements of those early Mario games and mixes
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a little bit of Mario on N sixty four and
gives you this entirely different way to play with this character.
And I cannot wait to see how that translates into
the big screen. Because now you have these big cosmic colors.
You have Princess Peach returning Mario in Luigi and now
Princess Daisy, who is a cosmic princess. You have Bowser
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who is now kind of reformed trying to be a
good guy, but his son, Bowser Junior, is coming to
bail him out and he is the new threat. I
also love how improved the animation looks in this one,
just from the trailer alone. It is from the studio
illumination that also does the Minions movies so top tier animation.
I think when it comes to illumination movies, they don't
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get enough credit for how innovative they are in their
techniques for filmmaking and making each one better. Where if
you look at some of the Disney movies in the
last five years, it kind of all just starts to
look the exact same, where it's not really refreshing to
your eyes. It doesn't feel new. It just feels like
the same thing over and over again with slightly different
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character designs. Illumination, on the other hand, gives you these
vastly different worlds with every movie and every title that
come out with and the Super Mario Galaxy Movie specifically
looks like a great improvement. So I am hyped for it,
as you can tell, thirty four year old man so
excited for a family friendly movie. But that is how
much I love this video game and want to see
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it done justice. So at number nine I have the
Super Mario Galaxy Movie coming out on April third. At
number eight, I have The Social Reckoning, which is the
follow up to the Social Network, which was the Facebook
movie that took everybody by surprise. Because when this movie
first came out, everybody was like, why are they making
a stupid Facebook movie? What is next? The LinkedIn movie?
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But it is coming out on October ninth. It is
about a different controversy involving a Wall Street Journal reporter
and a young Facebook engineer who was a whistleblower on
Facebook about some of the data leaks and shady things
that happened. And I believe the twenty tens there were
some trials in like the twenty twenties, but that is
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what this movie is focusing on. Jesse Eisenberg is not
returning as Mark Zuckerberg. Instead, it is Jeremy Strong, you
may know from Succession. Mikey Madison is also in this movie.
Who if you watched Honora, she was the lead in
that and Jeremy Allen White is also a part of
this cast. It is from director and writer Aaron Sorkin,
who also did the first movie. And I think what
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took us all by surprise with the social network was
how great of a story it was. It wasn't a
story just about the creation of Facebook and very bubbly
and fresh. It was just a very intense drama with
some of the best acting of the twenty tens. One
of my favorite scenes of all time in movies is
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the scene where Andrew Garfield's character goes to confront Jesse Eisenberg,
who is Mark Zuckerberg in the movie, at the headquarters
of Facebook, and Mark Zuckerberg is sitting there on his
laptop and what they call the wired in position wherever
he has his headphones on and he's doing some coding,
totally locked in. Whenever somebody is wired in in the movie,
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you can't mess with them, you can't talk to them
because they are so focused and zoned into their work.
And then Andrew Garfield comes in super angry because he
basically gets kicked out of Facebook and screwed over by
Mark Zuckerberg, who Mark Zuckerberg in the movie is one
of the best villains. He is such a jerk, he
is so unlikable. And seeing Andrew Garfield just give this
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incredible performance, this just big speech filled with rage, smashing
that laptop and yelling at Jesse Eisenberg was fantastic. So
I want some more of that. Is it going to
have the same impact as the first one? Probably not.
And with the original director back with some good actors
in the mix. I am excited for it. At number eight,
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I have The Social Reckoning coming out on October ninth.
At number seven, I have Mandalorian and Grogu starring Pedro
Pascal and Sigourney Weaver coming out on May twenty second.
I wonder if Sigourney Weaver could just go by Sigourney,
much like Share, much like Reva, much like Rihanna. I
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don't know any other person, let alone in the entertainment
industry named Sigourney. I would just drop the Weaver if
I was her. I think, if you say Sigourney, you
know who you were talking about, although I wouldn't even
know how to spell Sigourney if it wasn't sitting in
front of me, sig Oh you are any Why but
Sigourney Weaver is in this movie, The Mandalorian. I love
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the TV show, and when I first saw the trailer
to this, I wasn't as excited. But over the break
we went to the movies and I saw it come
on on the big screen, and that is when I
got excited. Because when you just watch it on your
laptop or your phone, it is really hard to make
a distinction between it looking any different than just the
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TV show, So when watching it on my phone or
on my laptop, it didn't really feel like anything special
that warranted the big screen. But then when I saw
it in theaters, it kind of gave me that same
feeling that I did. I mean, it's been a while
now since we've had a Star Wars movie. I think
this will end the five year drought now, and it
gave me that feeling because there really is nothing like
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seeing a Star Wars movie in theaters. Whether you love it,
whether you hate it, it is an event. It brings
out all different types of movie fans, young and old,
grandma's and grandpas. Everybody loves a good Star Wars story.
I really hope that they captured the same energy that
they did in that first season of The Mandalorian. The
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characters were so much stronger and well defined, and of
course Grogu was as cute and cuddly as can be.
That is what everybody went crazy for whenever this show
first came out. Everybody talked about baby Yoda, and they
do focus a little bit too much on that in
the trailer, But I am still hopeful that this will
be another fantastic adventure in the Star Wars World, and
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I'm really hoping it just doesn't feel like a long
episode of the show. But at number seven, I have
Mandalorian and Grogu coming out early summer May twenty second.
At number six, starring Ryan Gosling, I have Project hill
Mary coming out on March twelfth. And I say this
because in this studio right now, over to my right,
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I am looking at a bookshelf and staring back at
me just with these evil eyes. Is my copy given
to me by Kelsey of Project hill Mary that I
said on this podcast I was going to start over
the Christmas break. How many pages do you think I
read of that book so far? Take a guess. If
you answered zero, you would be correct. I haven't even
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cracked it open. I took it with me. It was
in my backpack, burning a hole in my backpack. Over
our trip to Texas. I did not open that book once.
And there was one time after we got back that
I was like, there's nothing really to watch. I watched
every single movie. I don't feel like playing any switch
right now. Let me crack open this book. I still
did not crack that book o, but I am determined
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now that it is what almost three months still away
March twentieth, I still have time, and it is a
beef of your book, so I really wish I would
have started reading it earlier, because the first step to
anything to success is just getting started. Whether it's working out,
whether it's finishing a book, all you have to do
is start. But the book and the movie are about
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an astronaut who wakes up alone on a spaceship with
no memory of how he got there. Earth is facing
a catastrophic threat, so he has to piece together what
his mission is and he uses some unexpected allies, which
I think the trailer might have spoiled some things from
the book, so I won't even mention it now because
I don't want to spoil it to myself. But essentially
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he is trying to save the world, so I will
mark my words. I will start and finish this book
by March twentieth. But that is why I have Project
Mary at number six to really hold me accountable, because
I know I'm gonna feel so excited after I read
the book, and I feel so proud of myself, and
then I get that privilege that only smart people get
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of reading the book and going to see the movie,
and I cannot wait to do that review after and say, man,
the book was so much better than the movie. I'm
finally gonna be that guy. But that's what I have
at number six, getting into the top five. Now I
have at number five Disclosure Day from director Steven Spielberg.
It stars Emily Blunt. It is coming out this summer
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on June twelfth. It is a Steven Spielberg UFO slash
alien movie. It is about Emily Blunt's character who works
as a news anchor in Kansas City, and then you
have some other couple people in the mix two. But
it's all about the humans in the movie grappling with
mysterious alien events and the overwhelming weight of this new
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reality that aliens exist. So there aren't too many other
details about the Plump other than we find out aliens
are real and everybody starts freaking out. I love Steven Spielberg, obviously.
He is such a great director that I feel unfairly
does not get talked about enough, at least in the
film bro community, who dominates TikTok and YouTube about the
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greatest directors of all time, because I think he's put
out so many amazing movies over our lifetime just consistently
that it almost feels like he is in this goaded
position that you feel kind of like a poser. If
you say Steven Spielberg is your favorite director. But if
you think about Jaws, if you think about Jurassic Park,
if you think about et he is responsible for so
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many movies that have sparked so many fandoms and films
that feel so much larger than life than we realize.
He is literally a living legend. And when it comes
to I mean even talk about War of the World,
when you talk about his alien movies, or obviously going
back to Close Encounters of the Third Kind back in
nineteen seventy seven, the list goes on and on of
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movies he has put out that are just banger after banger.
But when it comes to a movie, I've been craving
recently with all the things we've learned in the last
few years about aliens and the idea kind of being
soft launched to us where it's not as crazy as
it was back in the nineties, even back in the
early two thousands, where I was fully into all the
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conspiracy theories about aliens. Now I feel like the idea
of aliens existing isn't as crazy to us as we
realize more and more how much we are just little
pebbles on a floating rock in the grand scheme of
all these things. That I have been craving a movie
like this, and I hope it is my new favorite
alien movie since Signs. Whenever Signs came out back in
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the two thousands, that movie blew my mind. It scared
the crap out of me out of the first alien reveal,
and I'm hoping Disclosure Day builds that same kind of tension.
Who I think Steven Spielberg is the king of that,
and he created this method where you don't show the
monster really until the very end. You give the audience
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little glimpses of it here and there. And obviously he
first did this with Jaws, where it was greatly due
to trying to save money, because he didn't have time
or money to show Jaws the entire time, so instead
you build all the suspense around that character. Sometimes not
seeing the monster is scarier than actually seeing it when
you think about it, you don't realize it why you're
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watching it, But building the music that dun nun donna,
seeing somebody get killed, seeing just the blood from it,
but you don't actually see Jaws in his full glory
until the third act. And I think that is something
that I have learned from watching Steven spielberg movies and
how other directors who have been inspired by his work
as well create a good monster movie. So hopefully that
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is what we get in Disclosure Day, where we get
that same kind of moment we had in Science even
though he didn't do Signs. That is just one of
my favorite examples of an alien reveal where you don't
see them for a while, but when you do, it
is so impactful and it's gonna scare the crap out
of you. So I love Steven Spielberg. Emily Blunt just
happens to be a lot of things right now. I
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think she is a good actor. I wouldn't put her
as one of my favorite actors, but she has a
great agent because she gets into a lot of big
movies right now. So I am excited for this. At
number five, I have Disclosure Day coming out on June twelfth.
At number four from director Christopher Nolan, I have The Odyssey.
It is coming out this summer on July seventeenth. Matt
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Damon plays Odysseus and Tom Holland plays his son, but
essentially Christopher Nolan's epic adaptation of Homer's ancient Greek tale.
The movie follows Odysseus's long and perilous journey home after
the Trojan War. He takes on mythical foes such as
Cyclops and sirens, and he strives to return to his
wife Penelope and his son and a sweeping emotional adventure.
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It looks like it's gonna be quite the cinematic achievement
because The Odyssey is the first major movie ever shot
entirely on Imax seventy millimeter film cameras, which means this
movie is going to look massive. Oppenheimer, which I also
saw in seventy milimeter Imax at one of the only
maybe ten theaters that showed it that way in the
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United States, just happens to be here in Nashville. That
movie was still not shot entirely on that film, which,
when you start talking about film sizes, it basically means
how much information can be put on the big screen.
So seventy milimeter Imax is like the most amount of
information you could put into a single frame. So when
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that gets blasted onto a major screen. It still looks
super rich and vibrant and colorful, so it's the best
looking movie you can get because it's so expensive to do.
The film reels alone to these movies are massive, and
it takes up essentially an entire room. It is so
heavy and difficult to transport. So that is why you
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very rarely see this happen unless it's somebody like Christopher
Nolan who has that type of pool to spend that
amount of money to film a movie like this on film.
That is why I have The Odyssey at number four
coming out on July seventeenth, getting into the top three
now at number three, I have Toy Story five coming
out on June nineteenth. An odd thing I did over
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the Christmas break, I rewatched all four Toy Story movies
because we went home and my sister has Disney Channel,
which I've not sat down to watch Disney Channel in
a really long time. And maybe it's just because it
was Christmas break, but Disney Channel just replaces a lot
of Disney movies and they're just like, this is a
general audience movie, and then they start another one. But
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Toy Story four started and I had not watched this
movie since it came out in theaters. So I sat
down and I watched All a Toy Story four, and
then for some reason after that one. I don't know why,
I ended up watching them all in reverse order, but
after I watched four, I was like, I gotta go
back and watch three. So I watched it at home
on Disney Plus. And when I watched three, I was like, well,
I might as well watch two, and then I went
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back and watched one. So it was an interesting way
to watch them. I don't think I would really recommend it,
because you see the animation get worse coming backwards, but
it did make me feel different about four in the
sense that man Woody is annoying. It is really hard
to root for Woody in four, where he kind of
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becomes obsessed with this idea of still being hung up
on Andy. He cannot move past Andy, even though he
is now living with Bonnie. It still is just so
traumatic to him and keeping everybody together, keeping the status quo.
It's like, Woody, just move on, dude. You're a toy.
You have to accept that. You have to try to
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find some happiness somewhere instead of trying to control everything.
I think I just got a little bit frushra with
his character and watching them in reverse order, seeing that
his character developed in the opposite way. Where in the
first one, I love Woody because he's kind of a jerk.
He is so imperfect in Toy Story one because he
is jealous of Buzz, and I love a jealous Woody.
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He is insulting, He straight up assalts Buzz. He manipulates
all the other toys. I love seeing a flawed Woody,
And whenever he becomes a little bit too boy scout
and trying to be the leader and trying to be
the dad slash mom of the group, he gets a
little bit more annoying from really from three to four.
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In two, he is so worried about being abandoned he
gets shelved after his arm rips, and then with three
again he is worried about not being around all the
other toys. They mistakenly get put out on the curb
as trash. I also have a different perspective on Andy,
and I know I have to kind of suspend disbelief
because I try to put myself in that situation of
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I did not keep any of the same toys from
my childhood all the way up to eighteen, and if
I was eighteen thinking about taking my toys to college,
I started to feel different ways about Andy two. But
all this to say, rewatching all of the Toy Story
movies has me that excited for Toy Story five. And
even though I said I think Toy Story should have
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just been a trilogy, it is to me one through
three that is the franchise. Everything else is just bonus.
I don't consider it canon. I consider it all a
big cash grab. I just have to know what happens
to these characters and how they are going to make
Toy Story five work, which if you haven't seen Toy
Story four, they are going to have to explain a
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lot because in five, what it's all about is their owner, Bonnie,
who is who Andy gave his toys. Two. At the
end of Toy Story three, gets a new toy, except
it's not a toy, it's a lily pad, so it's
supposed to be at least I hope it really dives
into how kids don't really play with toys anymore, which
is crazy. I feel like kids don't play with toys
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as much as they used to. They much rather have
a tablet, which was crazy because Kelsey and I every
single year we adopt a couple of angels and we
buy them gifts and we always look at their once
and selfishly, I always go through and try to find
kids who have similar interest that I did when I
was a kid. So if they like Pokemon, if they
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like Spider Man or Dragon ball Z, I'm going to
pick that kid selfishly because I know I can go
find things that I would have loved as a kid
that I think they would love. But when you started
to look at all the top once to all these kids, tablet, tablet, tablet,
I'm like, man, where's the Pokemon cars? Where are the
power Rangers? Where are the scooters and the skateboards? Well,
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I guess kids now want electric scooters, but that was
crazy to me to see that all these kids, even
younger kids, just want tablet. So I think this movie
is perfectly timed with addressing a real life issue. And
as long as they continue to make toy story movies,
I will still watch them. But for me, the movies
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that define my generation and the movies I will recognize
as the true toy story movies will always be one
through three. Everything now is just extra. At number two,
I'm gonna go with Supergirl, which will feature the return
of Crypto and Millie Alcock as Supergirl. She is twenty
three years old. She is the complete opposite of Superman
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as far as her view is on the world. She
is much more cynical. She is very chaotic and messy.
It looks like a lot of the same energy that
we got in Superman, but instead a fun, little bit
more Guardians of the Galaxy type version. Even though James
Gunn is not directing this movie, so really excited about it.
I think this will be a great year for superhero
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movies because at number one, I have a two way
tie I could not decide, and number one I have
both Avengers Doomsday and Spider Man Brand New Day. Doomsday
is coming out on December eighteenth, and Spider Man Brand
New Day is coming out on July thirty first. I
am obviously a huge Spider Man fan. I have a
Spider Man tattoo on my right arm that my mom
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I think saw for the first time and when I
was home for Christmas, and she wasn't that surprised by it.
She was like, Yeah, when you were a kid, you
would just go around shooting website like Spider Man. I
was like, yeah, my fandom started from a very young age.
So that made me feel even better about getting a tattoo,
because the thing they don't tell you is how crazy
permanent it feels. Obviously it sounds dumb to say, but
you have this realization right after you get a tattoo
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of like, oh man, this thing is good to be
on me forever. I'm glad I picked something I've liked
for a very long time. So her telling me that
reminded me like, oh yeah, I have love dim since
I was a kid. Nothing is going to change, but
Spider Man has always been my number one favorite superhero.
In my top five superheroes, it's spider Man, Batman, the
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Incredible Hulk, Wolverine, and number five changes from time to time.
In the movies, it is iron Man, but I think
in the comics and just overall now I think it
is Cyclops. And that is why Tied at number one
is Avengers Doomsday coming out on December eighteenth, and I
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haven't talked about the teaser trailers that have come out
that I first saw when everybody went to go see Avatar,
we saw the Captain America one that let us know
that Steve Rogers is returning. Captain America appears to have
a baby. Now that's really all. That was him driving
up in a motorcycle, and then you see his shield,
you see his suit, and then you see him holding
a baby. There was a really funny parody somebody did
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that made it look like a medication commercial. They did
like the voiceover. They put the name of the medication
in all the disclaimers and it kind of fit. I
don't really feel like just telling us that somebody is
returning is promotion enough. I think that is very twenty
tens MCU. We need to evolve that a little bit.
But that had been pretty much the case for all
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these teaser trailers, and I wanted to wait for the
first official trailer, which we should get during the Super Bowl,
to fully include it in the trailer park. But since
it is here tied at number one, am I most anticipated.
I'll mention that one the thor one pretty straightforward. He
has a kid that he's taking care of now too.
After Thor Love and Thunder, Chris Hemsworth is bag. He
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looks as ripped up as ever, not as much excitement
there because we just saw Thor pretty recently in at
least a couple of movies, as far as his own
solo movie, and then he also had a cameo in
Deadpool and Wolverine. But the teaser that did get me
really excited that has been the best so far for
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Doomsday was that the X Men are going to be
in Doomsday. But not only that, because you see Professor
X and you see Magneto, who now looks a lot older.
That didn't make me a little bit emotional. But the
big standout of that teaser he got James Marsden back
as Cyclops. But not only that, they got him out
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of that awful leather suit that all the X Men
had in the two thousands that just looked awful. It
just made them look so bland. I get there was
probably a fascination with black leather after the Matrix during
that time, and they didn't want it to look like
the comic book version of the X Men then because
people would have seen it as cheesy, So they had
to make them look cool, and they put them all
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on leather, and I think worked at the time, but
now I just wish they would have looked different much
in this teaser, we have James Marsden in a comic
accurate cyclops suit, the blue and the yellow, and you
see him erupt with this optic blast that had me
so excited, And that was the first time from any
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of this material that I've been this excited that it
hopped all the way up to one. So I couldn't
pick which one to put it one, so I just
put them both here. It's my list, my rules. But
I think those movies are going to be my favorite
of the year no matter what, because I just love
both of those franchises. I rewatch the Avengers movies at
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least once a year. I also rewatch all the Spider
Man movies, not just the Tom Holland ones, but all
of them at least once a year. So I'm getting
two movies to add to my repertoire of movies that
I rewatch all the time that become a part of me.
It's like having a child. These movies are going to
live with me forever. I couldn't pick between the two,
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but I am excited that they do kind of split
the year, Spider Man coming out on July thirty first,
and then Doomsday not coming out until December eighteenth, so
it's like, Okay, I can go these seven months, get
my Spider Man, live off the high of that, and
then get really ramped up for December eighteenth release. So
those are my top ten most anticipated movies of twenty
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twenty six. I will run through all the other big
movies coming out this year. My honorable mentions include Michael,
which is coming out on April twenty fourth, but it's
supposed to be over three hours long. There was even
a cut of this that was almost four hours. There
was talk of splitting this movie up into two movies,
which I think would be a terrible idea. So I
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have a little bit of hesitation, but that doesn't mean
it takes away from my anticipation of wanting to go
see this movie in theaters and see how the final
product turns out. Michael coming out on April twenty fourth,
The Hunger Games, Sunrise on the Reaping coming out on
November twentieth. Street Fighter is coming out on October sixteenth.
That movie looks like it could be terrible, but it
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could just be a lot of fun. The cast has
me a little bit worried because there are some people
in there. I'm like Okay, why did you even put
this person in this movie? So I think that'll just
be I want to know how bad it is going
to be, but it has the potential to be kind
of a sleeper hit. We have Resident Evil coming out
on September eighteenth from Weapons director Zach Craiger. I want
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to see how he follows up that movie, and then
I'll go through the rest as far as when they
are going to come out earliest at the end of
this week. Already we get twenty eight years later, The
Bone Temple. On January sixteenth. We have The Moment starring
Charlie XCX. On January thirtieth. We have Goat, which is
the animated movie coming to us from NBA champion Steph Curry,
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coming out on February thirteenth, from the same studio that
did K Pop Demon Hunters. We have Scream seven coming
out on February twenty seventh. If it doesn't have Melissa
Barrera in it, if it doesn't have Jenna Ortega, I
am less interested in it. But because it is a
part of the Scream franchise, I will check it out.
Nev Campbell isn't it, but she was also at five,
so I don't know why they are making a big
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deal about that. We have the Pixar movie Hoppers coming
out on March sixth. Nate Bargatezi has a movie coming
out on March thirteenth called The bread Winner. The trailer
for that really looks like he's trying to revive two
thousand's family comedies. I just don't know if that could work.
It could be a nice little trip in nostalgia, even
though it is a new movie. But I don't know
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if you're not Adam Sandler know if you can pull
that off. We have the drama coming out on April third.
It's that Robert Pattinson and Zendia romantic comedy. The Devil
Wears prad is coming out on May first. Mortal Kombat
two is coming out on May fifteenth. Masters of the
Universe is coming out on June fifth. I would be
so much more excited for this if Jared Leto was
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not playing skeletor anything he is in. I just assume
is going to be bad. Scary Movie six is coming
out on June twelfth. I feel like parody movies are
kind of having a slow comeback. With a naked gun
last year, I think we could be in a place
where we need a good parody movie like scary movie
six Mega Minions, which is Minions three, coming out on
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July first. The live action Mawana movie is coming out
on July tenth. Not excited about that. Coyote Versus Acme,
which was the movie that got canceled and then brought
back to life, is coming out on August twenty eighth.
DC's clay Face is coming out on September eleventh. Practic
to Go Magic two is coming out on September eighteenth.
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Digger starring Tom Cruise, which looks kind of bizarre. I
don't really know entirely what it's about. The trailer really
said nothing, but it's kind of nice to see Tom
Cruise not doing a movie where he is just running
in the trailer. That's coming out on October second. Meet
the Parents four Fokker in Law is coming out on
November twenty fifth. Narnia the Magician's Nephew from director Greta Gerwig,
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who also did Barbie, is coming out on November twenty sixth.
We have a Jumanji sequel on December eleventh. Basically, The
Rock just needs to make a little bit of Money
Again June Part three did not make my top ten list,
not even an honorable mention. I will go see it,
but I'm just not that excited for it. That's coming
out on December eighteenth. That is the list. I'll come
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back and give my spoiler free review of Primate. Let's
get into it now. A spoiler free movie review of Primeate.
It is about a family who has a pet monkey
named Ben. You have the main character, Lucy, who is
coming home, has been away for quite some time. Some
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of her family kind of resents her for it, but
she's coming back home bringing some of her friends and
they're all gonna hang out in this really nice house.
This is always a problem I have with horror movies
is I didn't fear them a lot as a kid
because I lived in a trailer and I always thought, man,
this can never happen to me, because if anything crazy
went down here, there wouldn't be enough room for anybody
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to run around. So I always found comfort in that,
even though it was broke, we didn't have our own bedrooms.
I slept on the floor until I think I was
maybe fourteen years old. I was like the only thing
I can find satisfaction is there will never be a
situation where any events that go down in a horror
movie can happen in this trailer, because anytime you watch
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one of these movies, they always have a sick house,
and in Primate, I think is one of the sickest
houses I have seen in a horror movie. I don't know,
maybe I'm doing real estate right now because we've been
looking for a place to live. But you have this
awesome house all the way throughout that Ben has all
these rope ladders that he can go up and down,
because essentially this movie is Kujo, but instead of a dog,
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it is a primate, and he has all these things
where he can climb around. He has this iPad that
he can press buttons and communicate with the family. He
has been a beloved member of their family for a
very long time. But you have this amazing view and
at the very bottom there is this pool, which by
the way, Ben cannot swim. I feel like he resents
the rest of the family for that because they're always
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hanging out in this pool. And the house essentially sits
at the bottom of these two clips that you're completely isolated.
The perfect setting for a horror movie. But something happens
to Ben, leading all the family to think there is
something wrong with Ben, which is what they said in
the trailer, and what my favorite quote of the entire
movie is, there is something wrong with Ben. Of course
there's something wrong with Ben. He gets rabies and he
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starts killing people. So now you have Lucy, her sister,
and all of her friends trying to escape Ben, except
they are stuck in this house because Ben is not
going to let them go. That is the situation. So
again like Kujo, when the mom and the daughter are
stuck in the car, they can't get out of it,
the exact same way, except they are in this luxurious house.
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The thing that really stuck out to me about Primate
was its commitment to violence. I think that was the
most satisfying part. Is they did not steer away from
making the kills very gruesome. If it wouldn't have been
for that, I wouldn't have found this movie as entertaining.
Because when all of Ben's victims die, it is very
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satisfying as somebody who likes to watch gruesome horror movie deaths.
They went for it, and sometimes they made me a
little bit uncomfortable because they are very harsh and bloody.
If it didn't have that level of violence, in that
level of gruesomeness, this would have been just the generic
horror movie, because I think the real selling point was
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the fact that it was this monkey that gets rabies
and starts killing people. Because when it came to the story,
it was garbage. It was trash. There was no real
connection that I felt that they had to Ben, because
it really is all of a sudden, she is back home,
and they don't really do a whole lot of explaining
or connection between why they feel like he is so
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much a part of the family. If they would have
had a little bit more of that, which again, this
movie is under ninety minutes. I think it was like
an hour and twenty three minutes. They didn't really have
time to get to that, but they spent about thirty
minutes just focusing on the drama between all the friends
and the family that never really let anywhere. They should
have focused more on why Ben feels like a part
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of the family. Therefore, whenever he switches, they have a
little bit more of a dilemma of oh, man, here's
this person who has been a part of our family.
He feels like a brother to us, but now we
have to escape him and he's trying to kill us.
I never really felt that connection. So while the movie
won me a little bit over with the violence, the
story was really harsh and the acting, oh, the acting
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was brutal. It kind of felt like I was watching
the CW Show. But even the way they reacted to
Bennett times was really infuriating. This is one of those
horror movies that if you go watch it in theaters
or even if you watch it at home, you were
going to be so upset at these characters. And some
people like that type of horror movie where you're like,
why are you doing that, you idiot? You should be
doing the complete opposite, or also just how can you
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be that dumb? The characters felt so dumb and infuriating
that at times I was yelling at the screen, not
because I was enjoying it, but because I was like,
you guys are so dumb. So I think at times
I was rooting for the monkey more than I was
for the humans. The cool thing about the making of
this movie is there is actually somebody inside of the
monkey suit, and depending on how you feel of your
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ability to overlook some scenes where you can clearly tell
that there is a human inside of that monkey costume.
It may lead to you enjoying or not enjoying this
movie because at times the mask does look a little
bit fake. And I'm somebody who has been a proponent
of practical effects, but at times it was very clear
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to me that it was a dude wearing a monkey mask,
especially in some of the action sequences where he has
to move quickly or run. But there is a human
performer inside a band Shout out to Miguel taurus Umba,
who was an actor and a performer and a movement specialist,
which I hadn't heard of until researching some things of
this movie. But he is inside of that suit and
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he gets down low does a really good job at
portraying the monkey. So I think out of anybody in
this movie, he had the best performance because he really
sold me on the movements. It wasn't his fault what
the costume looked like. So I think those practical effects
go a long way, and you can tell the actors
are actually interacting with somebody instead of just interacting with
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the person in a green suit that they're going to
completely change in post production, they are actually getting into
confrontations with Ben. They are struggling with Ben, and I
think that at least adds to the performances when it
came to some of the fights and some of the
kill scenes. So I'm glad that they did that, But
there are times where you're gonna be watching it and think, man,
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this looks a little bit low budget. And the other
thing this movie made me think about who was inspired
by real events, because in two thousand and nine, there
was this woman who got attacked by your friend's chimpanzee.
The woman was named Charlotte Nash and it was a
friends chimp named Travis, and Travis was familiar with Charlote.
He knew Charla. But one of the things that they
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pointed out in primate was there as a moment that
one of the characters is a stranger to Ben and
he gets a little bit aggressive towards her, and the
owner of Ben said, Hey, he doesn't really do well
with strangers. He doesn't recognize you. He might kind of
act a little bit weird, but I promise you he
is a good chimp. In the real life case of
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Charlat and Travis in two thousand and nine, kind of
the same thing happened. They were trying to get Track
back into the house, and Charlotte was trying to lure
him in with his toy Elmo doll because the chimp,
Travis knew Charla knew his Elmo doll. They were just
trying to get him into the house. He had taken
his owner's car keys, which is another parallel between this
real life case and the movie Primate. But Charlotte looked
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a little bit different than what Travis remembered her to
look like. I think her hair had changed a little bit,
and there was just something that he did not recognize
about her, so that's why he attacked her. Travis, the
chimpanzee tore off her hands, tore off her face, leaving
her incredibly disfigured, also left her blonde. She ended up
recovering from her injuries and then in twenty eleven had
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a full facial transplant, which was a crazy story, and
she did go on to be an advocate on why
these animals should not be kept as pets. So this
movie wasn't really inspired by that traumatic event, but while
watching it, that was immediately what came to mind, and
I just had to find the parallels between that real
life story and this fictional story. But this movie did
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win me over a little bit in the third act,
and overall it was exactly what I thought it was
going to be. And I know that sounds a little
bit like an insult. The trailer really told me all
I needed to know. And it is still the month
of January, which is dump month at the box office,
where essentially all the studios are putting out movies that
they don't think would perform well anywhere else because we're
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coming off the holiday season. On TV, you have a
lot of things to watch right now with all the
playoffs going on, so this is usually where they put
a horror movie like this that maybe, just maybe could
find its audience have a little bit of success. But overall,
putting out a movie in January means you don't really
believe in it, so I think because I had about
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a medium level of expectation going into it, and by
the end of it, it gave me what I wanted.
Even though in those first thirty minutes I was like,
this is getting bad. I saw some people getting a
little bit restless in the theater, but by the end
of it, I was like, this was kind of awesome
but also kind of terrible. So for primate, I give
it three out of five bananas. God to head down
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to movie Mike trailer parr. If there's one thing the
Internet is going to do, it's going to be get
upset about the way somebody looks in a biopic. Anytime
one of these comes out, people have so many thoughts
on this person looks nothing like them, And for the
first time, I kind of agree with them because I
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really don't care how much they look like them. To me,
it matters more how much they embody their spirit. But
when it comes to Nicholas Cage as John Madden in
the John Madden Movie, he looks nothing like him. He
has prosthetics, he did not gain weight for the role.
He has a fat suit on instead of going that
extra step. There was no way he was going to
look like him. You never look at Nick Cage and think, man,
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you know who he could play somebody in the movie
John Madden. And for the first time I'm looking at
this trailer, I'm like, it kind of looks like a parody.
And I think that is a hard part of making
the John Madden movie is because he has been parodied
in things for so long. I mean, I think of
Frank Caliendo doing John Madden sometimes and I remember the
actual John Madden. So I feel like this bio pick
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is going to have a little bit of a different
tone to it, and I think that's a good thing
because I think overall the genre is a bit stale
right now. We've had so many biopicks that it just
gets kind of annoying that I'm surprised and excited because
it does feel a little bit refreshing that it's not
a serious take on his life. It is inspired by
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a true story, which is a major difference, meaning it's
probably not going to stick to all of the facts
be completely accurate, but it's going to be a bit
of a more fun story and take on his life.
You also have Christian Bale playing Al Davis, who was
the owner of the Raiders. This movie is coming out
this year on Thanksgiving on Amazon Prime. Before I get
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into more or here is just a little bit of
the Madden trailer. There's only one John Madden. They didn't
make another one. He is one of a kun. Football
wouldn't be football without him. I have no idea where
we are, who we are, where we're coming from, or
who we're throwing through.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
Very interesting.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
Bow. So this movie is going to be about his story,
specifically on his nineteen seventy seven Super Bowl win and
then him shifting from coaching into the broadcast booth, as
well as how he got into the video game industry.
Why I think it is time for a biopick like this?
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I do think, like I mentioned earlier, the genre is
so stale. Well we get biopicks now they are painting
these larger than life characters in a way that really
glamorizes them. This one already feels different to me. One
just because Nicholas Cage looks a little bit Calmon Goal
playing Madden. But then you have Christian Bale, who is
a fantastic actor who really in just this short clip
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really embonnies Al Davis. But I think this is what
the genre needs to do in order to get people
to care. And why are biopicks so attractive to studios?
It's an easy thing. They already have a built in audience.
So whenever a studio is banking and investing money in
a movie, they want to make sure right now that
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there is a fan base for it. There is a
demand for it. That's why we see so many sequels
and prequels and spinoffs. Biopicks still fall in that category
because John matt and the person. While it's not a
brand like Marvel or a Spider Man or Superman, that
type of IP or Harry Potter, it is different because
he is a historical and a public figure who already
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has a built in fan base, not just from him
as a person, but also from the video game, which
I think is what I'm probably more interested in when
it comes to this biopick. I played that all the time.
Madd In two thousand and seven to me was the
best Madden of all time, had the greatest soundtrack. I
played that game so much that there are songs like
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Cartel's Say Anything Else that I will hear out randomly
and it instantly takes me back to playing Madden seven.
And John mulaney in this movie is going to play
Trip Hopkins, who was the person responsible for signing John
Madden to be a spokesperson and consultant for the game
company and the first video game, John Madden Football, came
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out back in nineteen eighty eight, and at that time
there were football video games, but they were very dumb
down versions of what Madden wanted in a video game
because they were not even eleven man rosters. They were
just super simplified and really easy because they wanted to
make it appealing to people who didn't know anything about
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football and didn't want to overcomplicate it. But when they
went to John Madden, he said, I don't want to
do that. I want to make a game that is
so accurate that focuses on the plays and strategy, to
show people the mechanics of what it's like to call
plays and design a game that embody that experience, so you,
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by playing this video game, start to learn about what
it takes to be a coach, essentially, so much so
that so many people play Madden at home will turn
their attention to watching football on Sunday and think, man,
I could coach that. All I have to do is
do what I do with Madden, and I can win
this game. It is not that easy, but in some
regard you do learn some of the basics, and that
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was a big part of what John Madden wanted to do.
He wanted to bring in those things that seemed a
little bit complicated but knew that it would be worth
it in the end to make it as realistic as possible,
and that is the Madden game we know today. I mean,
he even gave EA Sports his playbook and his strategies
so they could build it into the game. So I
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think that is really cool, and they still crank out
those games after every single year. I probably haven't purchased
my a Madden game in three years now, maybe even
four or five. The last five years kind of led together.
But if I could go back and just play one
Madden game for the rest of my life, it would
be Madden two thousand and seven had the best soundtrack
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of all time and the best mini camp mode. In
this supporting cast, you also have Catherine Hahn as John
Madden's wife, Virginia Madden, and like I mentioned earlier, John
Mullaney is going to play Trip Hopkins, who is the
guy at EA Sports that brought John Madden in And
I could just imagine John Mullaney in this movie. Hey John,
I got this idea for a video game, and I
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need JET help. I hope at some point John Mullaney
and Christian Bale cross pass, mainly because I want John
Mullaney to take whatever experience that is because I have
to imagine that Christian Bale on set is just a
very intense presence. And that doesn't mean I think he's
mean or a jerk. I just have to imagine when
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you go onto a set with Christian Bale, that is
something he takes very seriously. When he is there, I
imagine he is so in the zone there to work.
He only wants to work with the most professional of professionals.
And John Mulaney, who is a professional, really good comedian,
has stepped into acting a little bit. I just have
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to imagine that is such an interesting dynamic between them two.
He seems like he would not want to make any
mistake around Christian Bale, and I wonder how Christian Bale's
intensity is, especially with the character like Al Davis, is
around a more comedic person like John Mulaney. You also
have Shane Gillis in the cast, so again, I feel
like this film is going to have a lot of comedy,
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which I think is something that people might not know
they wanted from this movie. And I don't think Nicholas
Cage is going to go too over the top as
far as try to make John Madden seem like a
big comical character, but there are moments in the trailer
where he does feel very John Candy, So maybe he
was channeling a little bit of Madden, a little bit
of John Candy. But I just feel like Nicholas Cage
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is an actor who is a wild card. You never
know what type of role he is going to take
on next. And while he doesn't entirely look like John Madden,
I am ready to go on this ride. But Madden
is coming out at the end of this year, which
is wild to get a trailer so early on in
the year where we basically have to wait eleven months
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for it. But it's coming out Thanksgiving twenty twenty six
on Amazon Prime. And that goes this week's edition of
Movie Mike Trailer Bars, and that is going to do
it for another episode here of the podcast. But before
I go, I got to give my listeners shout out
of the week. This week, I'm going over to my
Instagram dms and shouting out to Jenny who asked me
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a question after I reposted the Avengers teaser that we
were talking about earlier with Cyclops and the X Men,
and she asked, do I have to watch the X
Men to get Avengers Doomsday. I have watched most of
the Avengers movies and the Marvel movies, but do I
need to go back and rewatch the original X Men? Jenny,
thank you for this question, because I think it is
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one I get often every time a new Marvel movie
comes out. I really don't think you need to do
that anymore. The only time you really need to watch
every single Marvel movie is if it's in a phase,
and right now we are in Phase six that kicked
off last year with a fantastic four First Steps, and
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then this year, on the thirty first that we talked
about earlier, you get Spider Man Brand New Day and
Avengers dooms Day is going to be the third movie
in this phase. I think if you only watch phase
by phase, that is really all you need to know.
And I think they've done a better job at making
a lot of these stories a little bit more self contained,
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and they're gonna reference some things here and there, but
it's not gonna leave you completely lost. And if you
go into Avengers Doomsday even without seeing those first two
films in this phase, I do think that you're going
to be completely lost. As far as maybe the first
ten minutes of the movie, but I think they've gotten
to a point where they know everybody is not watching everything.
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Whenever all the shows were coming out on Disney Plus
and those things were connecting, I think they realized that
people got annoyed with that and they weren't watching everything,
and therefore it was confusing when you'd go to the
theater and you feel penalized because you didn't watch something
at home on Disney Plus. It felt like a little
bit too much. I think in order to answer your
(54:31):
question here, Jenny, you don't really need to go back
and watch The x Men, as far as you need
to watch that in order to understand Doomsday, but I
think the weight of the characters returning in Doomsday will
not have any effect on you, which to me, James
Marsen returning after twenty years is a big deal to me.
(54:52):
But you also can't go back and build that anticipation.
I think, really now it comes down to how hardcore
of a fan do you want to be where you
don't necessarily need to watch everything to understand it, but
you do need to watch everything in order to feel it,
because when you go through all these things, in real time,
and you spend all these years inside of this franchise,
(55:14):
jumping with all these characters, that is when you feel
it more.
Speaker 2 (55:17):
So.
Speaker 1 (55:18):
I think they do these things to be a real
service to the fans. But I think strictly as a
viewer of the movie, you don't need to do all
the homework anymore in order to understand it, especially with
you have already watched all the Avengers movies your set,
because really you could just watch all the Avengers movies together,
and I feel like that would be a continuous story. Enough.
(55:40):
Will you get every single reference? No, but you're not
going to be thirty minutes into the movie thinking what
is happening? I have no idea. That is just not
how these movies work. That's not really how any movie
works unless you don't pay attention and you're on your
phone the entire time. So if you really want to
go back and watch I would say the first three
X Men movies, I would say watch them just because
(56:02):
they aren't great and I love those characters, but you
don't need to to understand. If you want to be
super informed going into Doomsday, I would say, as long
as you watch Fantastic Four, you will understand what is happening,
and then Spider Man when it comes out in July.
Aside from that, I think you'd be good because Thunderbolts
(56:23):
was really the ending to not only Phase five, but
a lot of what they were trying that didn't really
work out, going all the way back to Black Widow,
Shang Chi Eternals, Spider Man, No Way Home, Doctor Strange,
in the Multiverse of Madness, Thor Love and Thunder, Black Panther,
Waconda Forever, which to me is kind of adjacent from
everything that kind of stands alone Quantum Mania. They're not
(56:45):
going to bring anything out of that. Guardians of the
Galaxy Volume three, also in Phase five. Those movies exist
to me in their own world really, even though they connect.
But I feel like that is just a solid trilogy
on its own. The Marvels, you don't need to watch
that Dead Wolverine. While it is a fun and a
big movie inside of the MCU, I don't really feel
(57:06):
like it connects much. Deadpoole does have some connection to
the X Men, obviously, but there wasn't a whole lot
of plot development or world building as far as the
MCU as a whole. In that movie, so unless you
just want to watch it for pure enjoyment, I don't
think a whole lot is going to carry over, aside
from Wolverine himself, Captain America, Brave New World, even if
(57:26):
that movie connected, if you don't need to watch that
one and Thunderbolts. I really enjoyed it, and I think
the Thunderbolts obviously are going to return in Doomsday, and
they are billed as the new Avengers. So while not
entirely necessary, if you watch Fantastic Four and just want
to go back a movie before that, go with the Thunderbolts.
(57:47):
But aside from that, you are good. I think we
are starting fresh, especially with DC right now restarting the
entire thing, and they're gonna feel more at competition that
they ever have the fight between DC and Marvel. I
think they are moving on and let's reset this timeline.
So thank you for this question, thank you all for listening,
thank you for being subscribed, thank you for telling a friend,
(58:09):
And until next time, go out and watch good movies
and I will talk to you later
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