Mike talks about what 10 TV Characters he thinks could get the ‘Mandalorian and Grogu’ treatment and go from streaming TV show to Movie. From Euphoria and Stranger Things to Wednesday and The Boys. Which characters could become billion-dollar movie franchises, and what would their movies actually look like? In the Movie Review, Mike gives his thoughts on The Mandalorian and Grogu. Once a lone bounty hunter, Mandalorian Din Djarin and his apprentice Grogu embark on an exciting new Star Wars adventure. Mike answers the big questions: Does it live up to expectations being the first Star Wars movie in theaters since 2019, did it just feel like one big Mandalorian episode and where will Disney take Star Wars after this? In the Trailer Park, Mike talks about The Rivals of Amziah King. It’s Matthew McConaughey’s first time with a movie in theaters since 2019 .The film follows McConaughey as Amziah, a honey-farmer whose operation is threatened by dangerous rivals played by Kurt Russell.
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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 ten TV characters I think could have their own movie,
because in the review this week, I'm talking about the
Mandalorian and Grogu, which started as a Disney Plus show
now has the full Hollywood picture treatment. So I asked
some ideas for shows that I think could be turned
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into movies if you base them on one character. It
is the first Star Wars movie out in theater since
twenty nineteen, and also in the trailer Park, the first
Matthew McConaughey movie coming out in theaters since twenty nineteen.
We'll be talking about the rivals of the Amaziah King.
Thank you for being here, Thank you for being subscribed.
I still don't have internet, so I hope this episode
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gets to you. Oh but we're getting close, baby, So
thank you for listening. Thank you for being subscribed. I
might have said that already I might be losing my mind,
but what better time to talk about movies than when
you're losing your mind. So and now let's talk movies
from the dust. Podcast network is Movie Mikes Movie Podcast.
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Ten TV characters I believe are built for the big screen,
because if Mando and Grogu can get their own movie,
why not these people. Kicking off the list first at
number ten, I have Rue Bennett from Euphoria played by Zendeia.
I have been a big fan of Euphoria, even in
this current season that I am probably the only one
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enjoying it, even though at times I'm just like, oh man,
I kind of wish they would have ended it with
the last season, But what better thing to do instead
of continuing another season of the show, which I don't
think they could do at this point. We are lucky
to get the current season. Why not turn it into
a movie? And if you just focus on the storyline,
I think you have something there because in this current
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season right now, that is the only thing I care
about Sidney Sweeney as Cassie. I hate that entire storyline
with her and Jacob LELORDI It's not that on board.
It's just I feel they are beating a dead horse
with that storyline, not into it what's soever And because
they are no longer in high school, that built in
drama isn't there. So I think the dynamics of the
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show just don't work. As well as they did before,
because it's not so much about the ensemble cast. It's
kind of just about your biggest stars that you still have,
and all the storylines feel very separate now, So I
think you cut everybody else out and just focus on
Rue because her storyline in this current season is what
is the most entertaining to me. It feels like I'm
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playing Grand Theft Audio. I meant to say Grand Theft Auto,
and I was about to cut that out of the episode,
but that kind of sounds like a cool podcast, doesn't it,
Grand Theft Audio. No, each episode feels like I'm playing
Grand Theft Auto because Rue constantly gets into trouble. She's
dealing with some very shady people. She's going on these
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little missions. I think that in itself would be a
great movie if you just focus on her character. The
thing I love the most about Euphoria is every episode
feels so cinematic. They actually shoot these episodes on film,
which I feel gives it that in the esthetic, it
has richer colors, that has the film grain, and in
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a world of digital photography, especially when it comes to
streaming shows, but in movies too, that gives it a
level of texture that a lot of shows don't have
right now, although I do feel like it was always provocative,
but now it's just kind of getting where they're really
just banking on the shock value and they're showing you
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disgusting things just for the sake of showing you disgusting things.
But I think as they took it back to Rue's
story her dealing with addiction, relationships, recovery. If you think
about movies like Black Swan or Requiem for a Dream
and you give it the Euphoria gen Z aesthetic, I
think it would make for a great A twenty four film.
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If you had to think about box office numbers, where
this is kind of how I rated my list here,
probably wouldn't do mass appeal. It would be more of
an NBA twenty four movie. So if I had to
give it a projection score at a ten, probably a
four out of ten on the return on an investment.
But I think this is something that people would be
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more interested in versus another season of Euphoria, just based
on the reception of this one so far, and those
episodes are already expensive. I believe each one costs several
million dollars on its own, so the production is there.
If they just focused in on one story and didn't
have to worry on that episode format of leaving you
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with a cliffhanger wanting you to come back to the
next episode, I think it would be a great movie.
So at number ten on characters I think are built
for the big screen, give me Rue from Euphoria at
number nine. A little controversial here, and these are all
streaming shows, by the way. I only focused on shows
like The Mandalorian that started out on streaming services that
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I think could make the leap from that. At number nine,
I have Carly Shae from I Carly and you say, oh,
that was on Nickelodeon. No, it was revived in twenty
twenty one on Paramount Plus. So the version I am
focusing on is the streaming only version that was a reboot.
You get Miranda Costro back. You really don't need any
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of the other people to make this work. I believe
you focus on Carly Shea where Miranda costgro is now
in age and it's an entirely different take on the story.
I want to see I Carly the horror movie. Where
my idea for this is you have a fan, a
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fictional fan, not me. This is not me in the situation.
But you have a fan who is obsessed with I Carly,
was a part of the I Carly fan club, maybe
even at one point got on the show or got
a shout out. And they have spent their entire life
completely obsessed with Carly sha and what they want to
do is meet Carly. They've never been able to meet Carly,
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but that is their entire life, and they stalk her
and it gets really creepy, to the point that this
stalker shows up to Carly Shay's house with the intention
of kidnapping them. But what they don't know is this
horror movie has a twist because you find out that
Carly Shea has been equally obsessed with this fan, has
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been tracking them as that person was tracking her. She
was one step ahead of them and organized this entire
thing of leading this person to her house for the
sole intention of capturing this obsessed fan and turning it
in to the next and final I Carly broadcast. It
was this entire psycho plan by Carly Shea to capture
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this person. You think of a barbarian, you think of
something in the Zach Kreiger style where suddenly the person
who was the victim is now the person dishing out
the pain. And I think, right now, with horror being
so hot, if you were to make an hy Carly
movie and paint it as a horror picture, I think
it would do some numbers on the scale, probably a
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five out of ten, where there would be a really
burning fan base that are I Carly fans. It would
be one of those movies that confuses a lot of people,
like the horror movie with Witty the Pooh, all those
classic characters that are now public domain and they're making
horror adaptations to them. That is kind of the idea
I have with this I Carly reboot. I think it
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could work as a horror movie you can lean into
the adult humor a bit more. It reminds me of
that viral clip from a few years ago on TikTok
where Miranda Costcro says she actually does cuss a little,
and then she says the F word and everybody was like, wow,
I cart actually curses. But I think that is the
formula for an I Carly movie. It could work in theaters.
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So at number nine, I have Carly shea for I Carly.
At number eight, I have Kate Bishop from Hawkeye, which
we should have been given another season of that show.
I think they did not want to pay the cast
the money that they deserved for season two of Hawkeye,
So okay, you don't make the other season of the show.
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But I think that character was so strong. We need
to see Hailey Steinfeld in her own movie. And Marvel
has been so bad at giving female superheroes in her
own movie. The Black Widow movie came way too late.
I really loved Captain Marvel, but I just feel like
the Marvel fan base is so critical of these movies.
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That was a good movie, maybe rushed a little bit
because they were trying to fit it in between the
end Game timeline, So maybe the timing just wasn't there.
But again, that has been the problem with every female
superhero character getting their own movie, is they haven't come
at the right time. And maybe it would have been
more of a risk to launch them in the early
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phases because they really didn't know what was going to work.
But I feel that those stories would have had way
more impact in a Phase two, in a Phase three,
and the fact that we got them so much closer
to the end, everything kind of got scrambled and jammed
in there. But Hailey Steinfeld in Hawkeye was so good,
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and I think it's because it had that more youthful energy.
It also dove more into the street level Marvel content
that I think is working right now. I think those
stories are really connecting with people. With Daredevil board Against
season one, in season two, The Punisher, One Last Kill
Special Spider Man that's coming out in July is leaning
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more into that street level crime that I think has
been absent from the Marvel catalog for a long time,
and I think Kate Bishop is who we need to
lead the charge more. On the female side, Hailey Steinfeld
just crushed it last year in Centers, proving that she
does have mass appeal can bring people to the box office.
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She is also in one of the most popular marriages
right now, just had a kid. She tests extremely well
with Marvel fans, and I think if you're gonna put
somebody in that position to have their own movie and
have success, I would put all my money in Hailey Steinfeld.
She was nominated for an Oscar at fourteen years old
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for True Grit. If I had to give it a
box office score, I say I would project this one
at a six out of ten. So at number eight
I have Kate Bishop from Hawkeye. At number seven, sticking
in the Marvel Universe the MCU, I have Cyclops from
X Men ninety seven because I wanted to include an
animated movie on this list. X Men ninety seven really
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changed me as a person. It became one of my
favorite Marvel projects of all time. Easily put it in
the top ten. It was one of those shows that
I appointment watched every single week and was so excited
for it. I cleared my schedule to sit down to
watch every single episode of season one. Season two is
coming out this summer. I believe it is supposed to
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premiere on June thirteenth and then hopefully should be on
Disney Plus soon, but they haven't fully announced that. Ray
Chase voices Cyclops in X Men ninety seven and does
a fantastic job. I think it was that show that
portrayed to people how great of a leader that Cyclops is.
And I think because of the movies, a lot of
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people associate Wolverine with being the leader of the X Men,
But if you read the comics, if you watch this show,
you realize how dominant Cyclops is and how great he
is as being the person in charge running things. Also
just has incredible powers. He has one of the best suits,
which I cannot wait to see James Mars did, and
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a comic accurate Cyclops suit that is something I've been
waiting for since so long. I didn't hate the leather
back in the two thousands, and I think it served
its purpose because if they would have put out an
X Men movie in the two thousands with comic book
accurate suits and colors, I think the public would have
rejected it. I think the all black leather allowed audiences
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to think, this isn't some corny thing that's kind of
hanging on from the nineties. This is something new and cool.
So I think it worked then, but I think now
we don't care about that. We want the things that
remind us of our childhood, and that is the best
representation of the comics, of the video games, all the
things we have in our head of X Men. We
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want to see that now in live action, a full
blown animated mutant war movie with Cyclops as the strategic
leader that fans have always wanted. It was X Men
ninety seven that boosted Cyclops' popularity, and I think now
you have that thirst for this. I also think with
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K Pop Demon Hunters being so successful last year and
people awaiting the next installment of the Spider Verse movies,
I think an animated movie like this could work with
the little bit more of a sophisticated style that is
becoming more popular and acceptable and also making money if
you look at the teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as well,
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also playing off of that same style and showing that
people just don't see these as quote unquote cartoons anymore.
It is an entirely different medium with also anime becoming
more mainstream, where you're seeing those movies now going out
into theaters like Deven Slayer and bringing in real money
because the fans are there, we want this. Nerds will
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put their money where their mouth is and go pay
to see these movies. I think you need to feed
those fans, feed us please. So at number seven, I
have Cyclops from X Men ninety seven. At number six,
I'm going to go with One Piece. I was never
the biggest fan of the anime, even though I had
a friend who kept telling me to watch One Piece.
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I think it was his mission in life to get
me to watch that show because he knew I would
have liked it, but for some reason, I just never
gave it a chance. Because they are so many episodes
of the original anime. It felt so daunting to me
to pick up on a show where I already felt
like I was so behind. But now with a Netflix show,
I finally get it. And I feel like if I
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talked to that friend again and told him I was
now into One Piece, he'd be like, I was telling
you that ten years ago. But I do love the show.
I love the character and the only thing I do
not like about One Piece on Netflix all the scenes
out at Sea, which if you are not familiar with
One Piece, is essentially character named Monkey d Loofy who
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oversees a band of misfits. He is a pirate who
wants to become the king of the pirates, wants to
be the best who's ever lived. Even though he is
a pirate, he does good things. He is very loyal,
he loves his crew, and he is in a go
into a village and burn the whole place down type
of pirate. He's kind of a good pirate where he
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does things that help out people in need. He is
very encouraging, always has a smile on his face and
very much encourages people to pursue their dreams because that
is what he wants to do. Ever since he was
a kid, he wanted to be King of the Pirates,
and now he is on this mission out at sea
to do exactly that. But the one thing I do
not like about One Piece on Netflix are all the
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scenes out at sea that just feel so fake. It
does not look good. I think if you take One
Piece and you give it a big Hollywood budget, the
same budget, you get all the same people who did
all the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, that is who
we need working on One Piece. Where those movies in
the two thousands, they were so captivating and they look
so good. If you go back and rewatch the Pirates
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of the Caribbean movies Curse of the Black Pearl Great,
all the scenes out at sea feel so realistic. How
was something made twenty years ago look better than something
that is made right now. That should not be the case.
And I feel like as we've progressed in some things,
we have regressed in special effects, and I think One
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Piece is a victim of that. Where all the scenes
out at sea should look much better. And if they
did look better and they looked up to the quality
of Pirates of the Caribbean, I think it would make
for a fantastic movie. One Piece is also an international show,
so if you want that mass appeal of having those
worldwide box office ticket sales, this is the franchise you
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want to seek into. One of the best selling comics
in history. Netflix has spent a lot of money on
this TV show. Spend it a little more and get
it up to my standards, even though it's probably up
to your standards and you see things completely differently. I
think this could be one of those events at the
movie theater. So at number six, I have One Piece
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getting into the top five. Now I don't know how
this movie was never made. Peacemaker played by John Ceno
from the show Peacemaker. I think this is easily something
that DC should have done and could have done, probably
after these Suicide Squad from twenty twenty one, but definitely
now with the success of the TV show, especially with
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the last season, which was really good. It's ultra violent,
it's R rated, it also has a lot of comedy
in it. It has an incredible soundtrack, which is very
much a James Gunn style, so it feels like a
suicide squad like the Guardians of the Galaxy. It also
has incredible emotional moments, which the last season of Peacemaker
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was one of the only TV shows in the last
I would say five years to get me emotional, almost
to the point of crying. And John Cena, I think
at times does not get enough credit for how good
he is in those emotional moments. Where I do think
it's because of his relationship with James Gunn and James
Gun's ability to get great performances out of his actors
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and exactly what he wants. I think he makes John
Cena a better actor. I don't think another director could
get that same performance from him. And I've watched a
lot of John Cena movies, and outside of Peacemaker, I
don't think I would necessarily call him a great actor.
But there is one episode, specifically in the last season,
where I thought John Cena has it, he gets it.
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That is his peak moment as an actor, and I
think that is greatly attributed to James Gunn. So if
you take John Cena's star power, which he is still massive,
one of the biggest wrestlers of all time. He's not
wrestling anymore. He's just hosting, which is really weird and
unnecessary in wrestle Mania. And they did leave us wanting
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another season a peacemaker. But I think with them trying
to figure out where this new phase, this new era
of DC is going to go, I think this would
be an easy movie to make that would just earn
them some money. It might not make all the sense
in the world, but I think if you're looking at
Mandalorian and Grogu, which really I think, and at the
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time we're recording this, I have not seen the movie yet.
I will by the time I review it here on
the podcast. But going into that, I thought they are
just instead of making another season, They're just going to
put out the movie. And I think with John cenas
somebody who is so busy taking on so many roles,
maybe it's easier just to get them down for a
movie instead of trying to get them to film an
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entirely new season of a TV show. And I think
it would work. Now if it comes down between this
and them doing another Batman movie, I would take the
Batman movie. But I think I love this character so much,
I think a singular story would be amazing. So at
number five, I have Peacemaker from Peacemaker played by John Cena.
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I would give this one a projected box office potential
score of a seven point five out of ten. At
number four, well, we're going pretty superhero heavy here. I
just think that's what I got to lean into. At
number four, I have Loki from the Loki TV Show,
which you're probably saying, well, Loki has already been in movies,
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but this would be entirely different, because I do think
Loki the TV show gave us an entirely different look
at that character, so much more depth. He to me,
in no way resembled the Loki we first met in
the first Avengers movie. Completely different, has been through so much,
is more sophisticated, does something so heroic that he's no
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longer a real He's just a person navigating all of
these crazy time rips, and he steps up in a
way that I felt was so noble. And what I
loved is that it leans so far into the sci
fi space, with the timelines, the multiverses, the alternate realities.
It almost felt like Marvel's version of Severance and I
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think Loki has now become one of Marvel's most beloved
characters because Tom Hillston has done such a great job
at fully shaping out this character with an incredible performance
in this TV show that I think if you took
that version of Loki and gave him his own cinematic story, like,
that's just easy where I think when it came to
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the last MCU projects like Thunderbolts, that really leaned more
into the action trying to get people behind a new
Avengers team. But I think at the end of the day,
we just want to connect with a character, and I
think you could do that with Loki. And obviously you
would have to throw in some cameos because we've just
been conditioned to that. But if you think about timelines
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and alternate realities and Loki, that really does lend itself
to basically your entire MCU arsenal of all these characters,
which they did that a lot in Dead Pulling Wolverine.
They were able to play around, but it was more
on the comedy side. I think you could have a
much more sophisticated way to bring in characters that fans
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have been craving to see in a major movie and
do it in a way that's not just like, hey,
I'm Chris Evans, everybody. Loki also became one of Disney
Plus's most popular series. And we know Disney loves cashing
in on their most popular series, and they've done it before,
not just with Mandalorian and Grogu, but also Mawana. But
Wana two was initially just the streaming show, and they said,
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you know what, let's repackage that baby up, put it
out of the theaters and make a billion dollars. Why
not do it with some of the Marvel characters. I
am thinking, you take Loki's story and you combine it
with the Blade Runner twenty forty nine Aesthetic, the Ryan
Gossling movie directed by the nievil Nu who is responsible
for all the Dune movies Arrival. Give it that really
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big sci fi epics story. I'm thinking huge sets, incredible lighting,
which the show already had to give it this warm
retro feeling. At number four. I would give this movie
a projected box office potential score of eight out of ten,
and I put it at number four. Give me Loki
at number three because I am hot the finale. I'm
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going with Homelander from The Boys. Some might say the
Butcher would make for a better movie, but I think
the Homelander character was the real standout of the Boys,
the most polarizing. All of the memes and the best
moments from that show came to us from Homelander. I
feel like Butcher became more of my favorite character in
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the last season, but before that, I was all Homelander,
even though I was rooting against him the entire time.
He is one of those characters that you love to hate,
and I don't really think that there's been a movie
like that. There have been anti hero movies, but not
movies based on a villain that you just hate. Homelander
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is a rage bay character. That is what he does.
And if you think about a superhero thriller that leans
into the psychological element from the villain's perspective, I don't
really think I've seen that. If you think about, probably
the closest thing related to it would be like a Joker.
You have one movie based on just a villain who
has gone through some crazy traumatic things, But Joker has
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still felt based in reality because he doesn't have any
crazy powers aside from him being able to manipulate some
people and start a bunch of riots. Another movie that
kind of comes to mind is Brightburn, which is kind
of an underrated dark superhero story. It kind of makeses
elements of that a little bit, but I still think
with Anthony Starr, you go back to maybe even before
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the Seven, still on his rise, but still being a jerk.
I think he is now one of TV's most iconic villains,
one of my favorite villains. Anthony's performance was incredible as Homelander.
I think had some of the weirdest moments in television
of all time. And in a world where we're having
superhero fatigue where it is harder for audiences to get
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excited about DC and Marvel movies, you give people something
incredibly different in theaters. I can just imagine the trailer
and people going nuts for this. And they did do
the event where they had the finale in movie theaters,
which I saw some clips from that. It did look fun.
It kind of had an Avengers Endgame type moment where
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you see people getting excited at moments, and I think
that is something interesting from a show that we've all
just experienced on our own watching on our phones, our tablets,
our TVs at home. That's been such a just me experience.
You take that and put it out into the real world,
and suddenly you were getting to watch all these crazy
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moments with Homelander with an audience, and you're able to
experience that and see other people's reactions. I think heightens
the entire thing. So at number three, I have Homelander
from The Boys getting into our top two now and
number two eleven from Stranger Things. Give me the eleven
movie with Millie Bobby Brown easily. I give this one
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a potential box office score of A nine aut a ten.
And with all man, I think of all the things
that have ended because The Boys just ended, Stranger Things
officially ended. I guess at the start of this year, man,
my entire streaming life is coming to an end. Stranger
Things started in twenty sixteen. Yeah, that is crazy, but
there's obviously still a huge demand for Stranger Things. They
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do have the animated show now on Netflix. But I
think where some of the more passionate fans got a
little crazy there towards the end, with all the theories
of us getting a secret episode that never existed. I
hope there are people still not waiting for that episode,
But could you imagine if they made this a movie,
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whether I feel like you have to make it a
continuation of the story, but a dark, supernatural coming of
age movie following the events of the series I think
would be massive. And Millie Bobby Brown, I believe she's
done with TV. I don't think she wants to do
TV shows anymore. She's leaning into the Inanola Holmes, which
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is getting its third movie. How is that movie an
entire franchise. I don't understand how that movie became a
low key franchise. But obviously she has the long standing
relationship with Netflix. I still don't feel like she has
that one defining role. Obviously she still has a lot
of times. She's very talented. It is really hard for
somebody who has a character that pops off so hard
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becomes a part of the pop culture lexicon, because if
you have something that is a phenomenon, I think it's
unfair to compare everything that you do to that phenomenon
because most people don't create a phenomenon. It is a
very rare thing to achieve that. I hope she doesn't
feel like or other people who maybe experienced that have
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had one role that has been so iconic thinking of
a Daniel Radcliffe or even some of the people in
the MCU, where you have that one thing that people
know you for and define you for. I do think
the problem here is I think she ready to move
on from eleven, where she probably gets tired of answering
Stranger Things questions. She did the finale, she gave her
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all in that. I think she wants to have that
in her past. I think eleven is in her rear
view at this point, unless she just needs the money,
because that's what it all comes down to, if you
just want to see that check hit. And the Stranger
Thing's money to her was really good. I believe she
made a million dollars on that last episode alone, so
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one of Netflix's biggest brands. I saw the story of
how much Stranger Things boosted into the economy of all
the jobs that it created, not just with the merch
and all those things, but just the actual infrastructure of
the show, not just to cast all the people pointing
on that show. It was its own little economy. And
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eleven is just instantly recognizable, and you think about that
eighties soundtrack, that fashion. I think we'll always have an
appetite for that type of nostalgia. You give it that
et feel, you give it another big running up, that
ill moment, that the needle drop moment. I think that
would make for a great in theater experience, which they
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also did that treatment of putting the finale out in
the theater, so it already kind of has that built
in just a little bit. So at number two, TV
characters I think could carry their own movie Give Me
eleven from Stranger Things. Will it happen? Probably not, but
it wouldn't make a lot of money, maybe close into
the billion dollar range. At number one, the movie I
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do believe could make a billion dollars because it could
be a super unexpected but also expected hit, Give Me
Wednesday Atoms from Wednesday played by Jenna Ortega, who does
pretty well at the box office. I think this is,
out of all the movies on this list, the only
one I would give a ten out of ten box
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office potential. I think the appeal of a Tim Burton
show that is catered towards gen z I think right
now would be the perfect time to make this. But
that gothic supernatural mystery comedy I feel like is the
perfect niche where great storytelling meets. I feel like an
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area of fans that is underserved, the weirdos, the goth kids,
the people who I wanted to be friends with growing up.
I didn't have any friends, but I always respected the
goth kids, and it is those people who support and
love this show so much that have made every season
a hit. I believe that this is the most passionate
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fan base that we have had since Harry Potter, and
it's really hard to measure because I don't think anything
will ever meet that level of fandom because at the
time when Harry Potter came out, we weren't living in
the internet culture world where if you had one thing,
it was the most massive thing all the time. Now
there are a thousand things that you could be a
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massive fan of, and they're all great. But I think
this is that new level of has such a wide appeal,
just really hits that nerve with the audience who it
is intended for, and maybe also because it's based in
high school, it still has kind of that Hogwarts vibe.
That is why I feel a Wednesday movie would work
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so well. Yeah, it's basically taking Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, combining it
with Harry Potter and here you go. It's incredibly easy
to market. It basically markets itself. Even that last season
a Wednesday. Soon as that rolled out, you had the
Burger King meal, you had the toys that we were
the aesthetic. It also has the TikTok element, which makes
it easy to market. Had one of the most famous
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dance scenes that went viral in the golden age of TikTok.
I'm already getting nostalgic for like twenty twenties and twenty
twenty one's TikTok, but that is what I think of.
Tim Burton directed multiple episodes of the show. Come back
direct the movie. It has become one of the Netflix's
most watched English speaking shows of all time, so an
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easy plug and play. I would love to see it.
Also Sometimes, for me, even though I do enjoy the show,
I feel like it drags a little bit at times,
and if you condense the episodes into a ninety minute
I feel like it would be a great one hour
and forty six minute movie. I'm all in so at
number one, I have Wednesday Adams from Wednesday of TV
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characters I believe are built for the big screen. I'll
come back I'll give my spoiler free review of The
Mandalorian and Grogu and see how they did turning that
streaming show into a movie. Let's get into it now,
a spoiler free movie review of The Mandalorian and Grogu,
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or as I like to call it, the mid DeLorean,
because that is exactly what this movie is, right down
the middle. At no moment was this movie great, but
it also wasn't terrible. You're gonna have the two sides
of the Star Wars fans, which some people don't like
to hear this who have been a fan for Star
Wars for a long time. It has always been meant
for a younger audience. That's it, plain and simple. And
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when it comes to The Mandalorian and Grogu, I feel
like they went so far into appealing to a younger audience.
It almost felt like Star Wars meets the Minions where
Grogu is still cute, which season one took us all
by storm, won our heart's over with how cute he was,
and I feel like they leaned into that so much
because the action just really isn't there. The overall story,
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not a whole lot happens. It's basically just Mandalorian and
Grogu going on these little missions where there's never any
sense of urgency, which I think was probably my biggest problem.
The movie never gained momentum, and I was worried because
I thought, this is going to feel just like Season
four and one big chunk, and that was the problem.
There was no story here that felt cohesive. If you
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didn't watch seasons one through three, I feel like you
would be lost, You would not know the lore. It
was really hard for me to connect with the characters
because the Mandalorian is tough enough, because it's Pedro Pascal
in a helmet the entire time, and I think that
leap from the small screen to the big screen was
very apparent, and how hard it was to get anything
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else out of this character. And then Grogu, I thought,
didn't look that great. Where if you're looking and watching
on YouTube, this Grogu I haven't here that I got
back when the show first came out in twenty nineteen.
This looks more realistic than when we got in the
Mandalorian in Grogu, where I felt he was too small,
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too robotic, didn't really feel like he was an actual, living,
breathing creature and this looks more realistic than what we
got in the movie. And this was like, I don't know,
thirty forty bucks at Target, So that was crazy to me.
The production value just was not there, and that is
what I was the most worried about because this movie,
it only costs one hundred and sixty million dollars. If
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you look at all the other Star Wars movies, Forest Awakens,
that's a half a billion dollar movie. Even Rogue One
was a two hundred million dollar movie. I felt every
dollar of this movie's budget because the sets looked flat,
all the special effects looked very flat. It felt very monochromatic.
Where's the whimsy, Where's the color that brings to life
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a Star Wars movie? So on a visual level, it
was so uninteresting that I think that is what made
it the hardest to watch. It wasn't the story itself,
it wasn't the lack of action. It was the fact
that it looked like this movie did not warrant the
big screen. If you saw this movie in Imax or
anything crazy like the RPX where your butt jiggles while
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you watch the movie, I feel like it would be
a waste of time. It is not worthy of the
investment to enhance this experience because the product isn't there.
It didn't look good, and that made it hard to
connect with any element of the story because it didn't
have that cinematic feel that I was hoping for, and
even looking around at the reactions in the theater where it
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was a pack theater, I think for the most part
it was a sold out showing. You had a lot
of younger kids and older parents, and that is what
kind of Star Wars is. They bring out everybody, and
these movies do really well because that fan base is there,
the brand is strong. But looking around at all these people,
nobody was really having fun. There were a few chuckles
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here and there once the movie was over, there were
a few solo collapse, but it just was lacking on
that level of excitement, and I think between all the
scenes there was like this really weird breath that every
scene would take going from the next, where I felt
like we were watching things that were unnecessary. The transition
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between scenes felt very awkward, and it took away from
the pacing that if this movie was a roller coaster,
it would just be going on a straight line the
entire time. It'd be a kiddie ride, it'd go up
a little bit. It really felt like the Minions meet
Star Wars. So I do think this is way more
leaning to the younger fan base, which I think is
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what Star Wars is probably trying to bang on right now.
They want to ignite that younger fan base to carry
on Star Wars, to be the ones buying merchandise, wanted
to convince their parents to take them to Disney World.
They don't care about us, That's it. I knew that
going into this. It's been that way for a long time,
where they don't care about the thirty year old fan,
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the forty year old fan, the lifelong fan. They are
looking for those new customers, and I think it's those
people who are gonna be the most mad about this movie.
I'm in no way angry about this. It is exactly
what it was. You are who I thought you were
going to be, Mandaloriid and Grogu, So I'm not even
that let down. I think the most surprising to me
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is just I just felt bored for a majority of
those two hours and kind of surprised how bored I was.
Where even though there were some okay, moments of action.
I think Rod of the Hutt was probably the most
interesting character voiced by Jeremy ellen White. He is the
only one that had a story, that's it. He's the
only one who had any kind of emotional whiplash throughout
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this film. Everything else just kind of felt like they
were just playing into the playfulness and the comedy aspect.
Sigourney Weaver just kind of existed in this movie. It
really just felt like one big episode, which is what
I was worried about. I think I would have rather
had season four, and I think season three was the
indicator it started to feel that way. Season three felt
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very after School Special to me, where it lost the
gravity from season one in season two where there was
much greater action and villains, and started to feel a
little bit more like you would watch on the Disney Channel.
And quite possibly the most offensive thing that the Mandalorian
and Grogu did was give us an eighty dollars popcorn
bucket that had no imagination. And I am somebody who
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loves the popcorn bucket. I talk about it a lot
on this podcast because it is a way that a
lot of movie theaters are making money because you get
a big franchise like Star Wars. You make it because
of the merchandise, and I am not opposed to paying.
I would say fifty dollars is probably my limit on
what I would spend on a popcorn bucket. For this review,
I moved my stitch popcorn bucket to put Grogu behind me,
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just because I felt it was a little bit more fitting.
But that stitch I have was fifty dollars, and why
I feel that was more justified is because it actually
looks like a living, breathing stitch. It's much more innovative
and creative and original, and I think that is what
movies have to do to create a hype around a
popcorn bucket. You look at Dune, you even look at
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Project Hail Mary, or the Super Mario Galaxy movie, the
Yoshi popcorn bucket that people actually were seeking out and
those were selling out. Went to this movie on opening
night and the long line A lot of people there,
a lot of families, a lot of people by popcorn
and drinks. And I look at the popcorn bucket aisle,
which I do like that about Regal. They get you
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in these little aisles where they have all the merchandises
you go through and the entire shelf was covered in
the Mandol popcorn bucket, which was just this bus. I'll
play the video I took of it here if you're
watching on YouTube, and it's the bust of the Mandalorian
with Grogu on his shoulder. Nothing really crazy, felt like
something you could maybe see at five below and in
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the back is where the popcorn goes. Doesn't really hold
a whole lot of popcorn. But this popcorn bucket was
eighty dollars seventy nine ninety nine for a very unoriginal,
basic popcorn bucket. That's not how you do it. That
to me says that they think they could just rip
off Star Wars fans. That is what that eighty dollars
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price tag says to me. They look at us and say,
these suckers are gonna pay eighty bucks because they love
this franchise so much and they were cashing in on
a hype that was not there. And that also coincides
with how I feel about this movie Trinkflation. That is
the world we are living in twenty twenty six, where
we got a product that was based on a show
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I don't want to say that we got for free,
because you pay for Disney Plus, you pay your monthly
or your yearly fee. But we got that exact same
thing on a big screen, where now we have to
pay a premium price depending on where you are. Could
be a fifteen, could be a twenty, could be a
thirty dollars ticket, depending on the experience that you wanted.
So it's like going to the grocery store and paying
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the same amount for that bag of Dorito's, but then
you open up that Doritos and it's mostly air. That
is how I feel about The Mandalorian and Grogu. Where
here it is us paying that same ticket price for
a movie that when we go watch something like The
Force Awakens, that's a five hundred million dollar movie. Here
we are watching The Mandalorian and Grogu that is one
hundred and sixty million dollars movie. And very much feels
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like that they could have been more innovative in the story.
They could have made it more engaging. It doesn't really
cost a whole lot more to write a better story
and give us something that I think we deserved. Instead,
we got shrink flation. We did not get what we
paid for in that ticket price should have just been
season four of The Mandalorian. So for The Mandalorian and Grogu,
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I give it three out of five. Uugh, Rod of
the Huts its side to head down to movie Mike
Traylor Park. The last time Matthew McConaughey was in a
movie that came out in theaters was twenty nineteen The Gentleman,
and since then he's only done streaming movies. The last
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movie I saw him in The Lost Bus Man. No
busses ever really lost. Sometimes they just need to find themselves.
That came out on Apple TV. Good movie. If it
would have came out in theaters, probably would have done
pretty well. My biggest problem with that movie is I
looked up the true story and they took some creative
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liberties on that that do make the story a little bit.
It doesn't really take away from it. But they definitely
gave the Hollywood treatment to The Lost Bus. But he
is one of those actors now that for the most
part puts out B plus two A minus movies consistently.
I think he is at the point of his career
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where he is very selective of all the projects that
he takes. He is also somebody who is really trying
to get Hollywood to shoot movies back in Texas, which
unfortunately this movie was not. It does take place in Oklahoma.
And by the way, we're gonna talk about the Amaziah King,
which he's going to be in at the movie about Honey.
But talking about Matthew McConaughey, first, he generally just puts
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out solid movies. I think he just knows what people
want from him. Especially after he got out of the
whole rom com thing. He came back with some bang.
I mean Interstellar alone. That is his movie in the
twenty tens. He really just changed the trajectory of his
career and the perception from the public Dallas Buyer's Club,
winning his Oscar and now I feel like he can
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kind of just do whatever he wants. But he is
really good in a movie where he can be sweaty
and can get away with wearing blue jeans and a
white T shirt. I think that is a litmus test
for a good looking actor. If you can pull off
white T shirt and jeans combo, you're a good looking actor.
Last actor do that of recent memory, Glenn Powell and
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Matthew McConaughey also looks really good in a sunset, And
if I was him, I would be in a sunset
in every single movie. Him and that orange tint, that
glow of the sun, it just fits perfectly. And we
see that here in the Rivals of the Amaziah King.
This movie is about honey in rural Oklahoma. Matthew McConaughey
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plays Amaziah, a honey farmer whose operation is threatened by
dangerous rivals played by Kurt Russell. Amaziah is excited to
create a family business, but we learn that the honey
game is ruthless. I love movies about an industry that
you have no idea could be a dirty industry and
be a very competitive industry. I would not look at
honey and think, man, there's a story behind that. The
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Rivals of Amaziah King is coming out in theaters on
August fourteenth, Before we get into more about Matthew McConaughey
and his honey, I don't know what what impression was
I doing there? That kind of sounded like Forrest Gump.
I was trying to do, Matthew McConaughey. Matthew McConaughey is, well,
now I sound like Bill Clinton, But okay, The Rivals
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of Amaziah King coming out in theaters on August fourteenth.
Here's just a little bit of the trailer. What's your honey,
quite clover? That's pretty rare crop. God bless us all everyone,
y'all reckon we could talk to Amna times. There's not
a lot of hodeia. Then it doesn't look good. If
you really want to ruin someone's life, you take away everything.
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I would be careful poking around in this business. There's
not full of con people get ready, my little chicky
abas swarm when they are ready for a fight. To me,
it kind of looks like there will be blood. If
I were to retitle this movie, it would be there
will be honey because you have Matthew McConaughey overseeing this
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family business, and you have Kurt Russell as the bad
guy who was gonna tear him down. Kurt Russell is
a great villain. Matthew McConaughey is a great lead that
you can root for. It feels like a role that
was made perfectly for Matthew McConaughey, somebody who can just
hang out connect with people, which is something that he
is so good at. I feel like if I ever
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met him, which I have seen him at Texas football games,
but it's been from a distance. And the first thing
I recognized for Matthew McConaughey is the jacket that he
wears to every single Texas game. I saw that, I
saw people around him. He went into the building so
casually doesn't have security with him. I believe it was
just him and his wife and maybe one of his kids.
So I didn't really want to bother him. And I'm
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sure he gets swarm so much, and I kind of
feel like at a Texas football game, that's his safe
space to not get bothered, for people not to ask
him for pictures maybe from the opposing team, but I
think as a Texas fan, you kind of know he
is there to be the minister of culture and he
doesn't want to hear me go up to him and
be like, I really love doing Dallas Buyers Club. But
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I imagine if I did bother him, he would be
the type of celebrity who wouldn't want to take a selfie.
He would much prefer to have a genuine interaction with you,
because that is what he is so good at. That
is why he is so charming. And has the ability
to just draw you into the words that he speaks.
And if you are just paying attention to what he says,
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I mean you are paying attention to the screen, You
are paying attention to the movie. And he could just
go on some crazy rant and talk about nothing, but
it would sound so entertaining. He just has that power.
I think he is one of the only actors who
has that ability to improv so well that it becomes memorable.
All right, all right? From Days and Confused, that was
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an improv Director Richard Linkley just kind of gave him
the idea of his character, and he processed that and said,
all right, alright, alright, And those were the first lines
he ever spoke into a camera on film. Same thing
with The Wolf of Wall Street. Whenever the scene happens
with him and Leonardo DiCaprio, they have that meeting and
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he's doing that thing banging on his chest. Mmm. That
was the thing that he would do on his own
to build himself up before shooting a take, and that
just became a part of the movie. He just oozes
this natural charisma that is so effortless, and he can
do whatever he wants and us be entertained by it.
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That's why I think this is the perfect role for him.
And this is coming to us from an independent movie studio,
Black Bear, who was doing some really good work right now,
And when I saw that they were behind this movie,
I just watched In the Gray, which we'll probably talk
about in our end of the month recap. But they
have been slowly crushing in what I believe to be
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movies that just connect with America. They are operating in
this space that almost doesn't really exist anymore, where they
do have some big stars, but I think they focus
more on just really solid stories that are heartwarming, that
have drama, that have action, that have all the things
that I think the everyday film going person likes. It's
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not too far off into another hemisphere like the A
twenty four stuff that gets maybe a little bit too
on the other side of what the average person just
wants to go experience in film. And just looking through
their filmography, they put out some really solid movies, and
I don't feel like that's kind of dissing them of saying, well,
they're not fantastic A plus movies, But to just consistently
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put out solid movies that is really hard to do,
because even when it comes to a twenty four, I mean,
I would say one of every three doesn't really move
the needle for me. But looking at some of Black
Bears Studios movies in just saw that a couple of
weeks ago. That's a good movie, very solid, The Ministry
of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Also a Guy Ritchie movie, Solid spa
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Weekend which is coming out later this year. Sing Sing Now,
That's a really good movie. Is an Oscar nominated movie
Somebody I used to know with Alison Brie. Also really solid.
I care a lot, immaculate with Sonny Sweeney. I saw
that one in theaters probably a couple maybe few years ago.
At this point, it is a weird studio because those
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are all movies I enjoyed, but not really ones that
I rush to tell you guys that you got to
go see these movies. I didn't really mean to drag
this studio in any way, but they are almost the
gold standard for a solid three point five to four.
Sing Sing kind of balances them out. That that movie
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was really good. But if you just need to go
into a movie and you don't want to waste your time,
you don't want to waste your money. If you see
the black Bear logo, I think you're gonna get your
money's worth. At least. It might not be your next
favorite movie. Oh, they are definitely not putting this on
their poster. A black Bear movie might not be your
next favorite movie, but you will have a good time.
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It will feel worth it. They're not really like popcorn
movies either. Some of these test you a little bit,
and I think that is what they are going for
with The Amaziah King because it has been described as
just a great crowd pleasing movie. It did premiere earlier
this year at south By Southwest. People are saying it's
a little bit nostalgic but also modern, has kind of
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that Western feel, And before I realized it, just by
watching the trailer, I thought, man, this reminds me of
The marsh King's Daughter that starred Daisy Ridley from Star Wars,
And then I realized that was also a black Bear movie.
I love me a movie set in a marsh in
a creek where the crowdad say anything with water and
real down to earth people and Americans who don't really
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get movies made about them anymore. I love that style
of film. I think It's one of those that maybe
isn't the sexiest genre right now, because we need superheroes,
we need franchises. Horror is obviously having a huge year
this year, and it feels like these movies are probably
even rarer than a comedy these days, which I think
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that is what most people say, like what happened to
all the comedies? Well, what happened to all of the
movies like The Rivals of the Amaziah King, Because that's
what you have here. You have a really sophisticated honey
making operation that sounds probably not something that you would
just be like, I want to watch a movie about
people making honey, but it is Matthew McConaughey overseeing this
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band of misfits. I love a movie about a rag
tag group of individuals. You have people playing in a
bluegrass band. In one scene, you see Matthew McConaughey with
the banjo, which reminds me of the famous story of
him getting busted while hi playing bongos naked in Austin, Texas.
His life takes a turn with his strange foster daughter
unexpectedly returned, so you have some family drama mixed in here.
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She is eager to reconnect, so he brings her into
the family business, and then it's all about the honey game.
We're gonna have sabotage, and then his foster daughter is
going to uncover who is trying to destroy everything that
he has built. We're gonna learn all about the rivals
of the Amaziah King. Well, yeah, hasn't been in a
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movie in theater since twenty nineteen. Matthew McConaughey. The last
movie he was in that he started was The Gentleman,
but he was also in sing two, which came out
in twenty twenty one. I guess they don't count voice acting.
I would I would say he hasn't been in one
since twenty twenty one. Before that in twenty nineteen, he
was also in The Beach Bump, Serenity in twenty nineteen,
had a big twenty nineteen, White Boy Rick in twenty eighteen,
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Singing Part one in twenty sixteen, Gold was another Black
Bear movie in twenty sixteen. I feel like this is
him entering a new era, especially with The Lost Bus
last year. Again, just put him in an orange filter
and I think Matthew McConaughey will have a good time
but again, The Rivals of the Amazia King is coming
out limited release on August fourteenth and then a full
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worldwide release on August twenty first, twenty twenty six. Definitely
gotta check this one out. And that was this week's
edition of Movie Mike Trayler Barr and that is going
to do it for another episode here of the podcast.
But before I go, I gotta get my listeners shout
out of the Week, and man, not many people agreed
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with me about my thoughts. I'm Mortal Kombat too. Looking
through all the comments, everybody thought I was wrong about
Carl Urban being a bad Johnny Cage, which there were
many comments who said just straight up wrong. Disagree he
was a great Johnny Cage. Lol, what are you talking about?
I found the one person who agreed with me, and
maybe I was wrong on that. Again, I didn't come
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into that review with any agenda, just giving you guys
my true opinion. But this week's listening to China of
the Week is the only person who agreed with me,
although I read all the ones who didn't. Ruben Artiz,
who said I agree, love him, but he was bad
in this. To me, it felt like it was something
he didn't really want to do or wasn't into. His
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accent was really bad. At one point I heard him
say OI, and I'm like, bro, wrong franchise. I did
hear a couple of ois in Mortal Kombat. I don't
think both of them were. Carl Urbin might have been
another character, and Carl Urban happened to be in the
same scene. I do remember hearing OI and thinking, hey,
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that's Butcher. But you were right, Rubin. It felt like
he did not want to be there, much like Johnny
Cage in the beginning of the movie where he's at
the comic con style event where he didn't really want
to be there. I feel like the casting of Carl
Urban and Mortal Kombat too felt a little bit where
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just happened to coincide with the final season of The Boys.
Maybe he's using it as a jumping off point to
get more into film, which I will still fully back
a Carl Urban shift from TV to film. I think
he is a great actor, but I just think this
isn't the franchise for him. Although you know they're gonna
make a Mortal Kombat three, so not just shouting out
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Ruben because he was the only person who agreed with me,
but he made a great point, and it's a great
point because I also had the similar outlook on that movie.
So thank you, Ruben, thank you to all for listening
this week, and until next time, go out and watch
good movies and I will talk to you later
Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie Podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike. Today I want to talk
about ten TV characters I think could have their own movie,
because in the review this week, I'm talking about the
Mandalorian and Grogu, which started as a Disney Plus show
now has the full Hollywood picture treatment. So I asked
some ideas for shows that I think could be turned
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into movies if you base them on one character. It
is the first Star Wars movie out in theater since
twenty nineteen, and also in the trailer Park, the first
Matthew McConaughey movie coming out in theaters since twenty nineteen.
We'll be talking about the rivals of the Amaziah King.
Thank you for being here, Thank you for being subscribed.
I still don't have internet, so I hope this episode
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gets to you. Oh but we're getting close, baby, So
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Ten TV characters I believe are built for the big screen,
because if Mando and Grogu can get their own movie,
why not these people. Kicking off the list first at
number ten, I have Rue Bennett from Euphoria played by Zendeia.
I have been a big fan of Euphoria, even in
this current season that I am probably the only one
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enjoying it, even though at times I'm just like, oh man,
I kind of wish they would have ended it with
the last season, But what better thing to do instead
of continuing another season of the show, which I don't
think they could do at this point. We are lucky
to get the current season. Why not turn it into
a movie? And if you just focus on the storyline,
I think you have something there because in this current
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season right now, that is the only thing I care
about Sidney Sweeney as Cassie. I hate that entire storyline
with her and Jacob LELORDI It's not that on board.
It's just I feel they are beating a dead horse
with that storyline, not into it what's soever And because
they are no longer in high school, that built in
drama isn't there. So I think the dynamics of the
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show just don't work. As well as they did before,
because it's not so much about the ensemble cast. It's
kind of just about your biggest stars that you still have,
and all the storylines feel very separate now, So I
think you cut everybody else out and just focus on
Rue because her storyline in this current season is what
is the most entertaining to me. It feels like I'm
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playing Grand Theft Audio. I meant to say Grand Theft Auto,
and I was about to cut that out of the episode,
but that kind of sounds like a cool podcast, doesn't it,
Grand Theft Audio. No, each episode feels like I'm playing
Grand Theft Auto because Rue constantly gets into trouble. She's
dealing with some very shady people. She's going on these
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little missions. I think that in itself would be a
great movie if you just focus on her character. The
thing I love the most about Euphoria is every episode
feels so cinematic. They actually shoot these episodes on film,
which I feel gives it that in the esthetic, it
has richer colors, that has the film grain, and in
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a world of digital photography, especially when it comes to
streaming shows, but in movies too, that gives it a
level of texture that a lot of shows don't have
right now, although I do feel like it was always provocative,
but now it's just kind of getting where they're really
just banking on the shock value and they're showing you
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disgusting things just for the sake of showing you disgusting things.
But I think as they took it back to Rue's
story her dealing with addiction, relationships, recovery. If you think
about movies like Black Swan or Requiem for a Dream
and you give it the Euphoria gen Z aesthetic, I
think it would make for a great A twenty four film.
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If you had to think about box office numbers, where
this is kind of how I rated my list here,
probably wouldn't do mass appeal. It would be more of
an NBA twenty four movie. So if I had to
give it a projection score at a ten, probably a
four out of ten on the return on an investment.
But I think this is something that people would be
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more interested in versus another season of Euphoria, just based
on the reception of this one so far, and those
episodes are already expensive. I believe each one costs several
million dollars on its own, so the production is there.
If they just focused in on one story and didn't
have to worry on that episode format of leaving you
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with a cliffhanger wanting you to come back to the
next episode, I think it would be a great movie.
So at number ten on characters I think are built
for the big screen, give me Rue from Euphoria at
number nine. A little controversial here, and these are all
streaming shows, by the way. I only focused on shows
like The Mandalorian that started out on streaming services that
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I think could make the leap from that. At number nine,
I have Carly Shae from I Carly and you say, oh,
that was on Nickelodeon. No, it was revived in twenty
twenty one on Paramount Plus. So the version I am
focusing on is the streaming only version that was a reboot.
You get Miranda Costro back. You really don't need any
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of the other people to make this work. I believe
you focus on Carly Shea where Miranda costgro is now
in age and it's an entirely different take on the story.
I want to see I Carly the horror movie. Where
my idea for this is you have a fan, a
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fictional fan, not me. This is not me in the situation.
But you have a fan who is obsessed with I Carly,
was a part of the I Carly fan club, maybe
even at one point got on the show or got
a shout out. And they have spent their entire life
completely obsessed with Carly sha and what they want to
do is meet Carly. They've never been able to meet Carly,
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but that is their entire life, and they stalk her
and it gets really creepy, to the point that this
stalker shows up to Carly Shay's house with the intention
of kidnapping them. But what they don't know is this
horror movie has a twist because you find out that
Carly Shea has been equally obsessed with this fan, has
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been tracking them as that person was tracking her. She
was one step ahead of them and organized this entire
thing of leading this person to her house for the
sole intention of capturing this obsessed fan and turning it
in to the next and final I Carly broadcast. It
was this entire psycho plan by Carly Shea to capture
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this person. You think of a barbarian, you think of
something in the Zach Kreiger style where suddenly the person
who was the victim is now the person dishing out
the pain. And I think, right now, with horror being
so hot, if you were to make an hy Carly
movie and paint it as a horror picture, I think
it would do some numbers on the scale, probably a
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five out of ten, where there would be a really
burning fan base that are I Carly fans. It would
be one of those movies that confuses a lot of people,
like the horror movie with Witty the Pooh, all those
classic characters that are now public domain and they're making
horror adaptations to them. That is kind of the idea
I have with this I Carly reboot. I think it
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could work as a horror movie you can lean into
the adult humor a bit more. It reminds me of
that viral clip from a few years ago on TikTok
where Miranda Costcro says she actually does cuss a little,
and then she says the F word and everybody was like, wow,
I cart actually curses. But I think that is the
formula for an I Carly movie. It could work in theaters.
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So at number nine, I have Carly shea for I Carly.
At number eight, I have Kate Bishop from Hawkeye, which
we should have been given another season of that show.
I think they did not want to pay the cast
the money that they deserved for season two of Hawkeye,
So okay, you don't make the other season of the show.
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But I think that character was so strong. We need
to see Hailey Steinfeld in her own movie. And Marvel
has been so bad at giving female superheroes in her
own movie. The Black Widow movie came way too late.
I really loved Captain Marvel, but I just feel like
the Marvel fan base is so critical of these movies.
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That was a good movie, maybe rushed a little bit
because they were trying to fit it in between the
end Game timeline, So maybe the timing just wasn't there.
But again, that has been the problem with every female
superhero character getting their own movie, is they haven't come
at the right time. And maybe it would have been
more of a risk to launch them in the early
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phases because they really didn't know what was going to work.
But I feel that those stories would have had way
more impact in a Phase two, in a Phase three,
and the fact that we got them so much closer
to the end, everything kind of got scrambled and jammed
in there. But Hailey Steinfeld in Hawkeye was so good,
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and I think it's because it had that more youthful energy.
It also dove more into the street level Marvel content
that I think is working right now. I think those
stories are really connecting with people. With Daredevil board Against
season one, in season two, The Punisher, One Last Kill
Special Spider Man that's coming out in July is leaning
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more into that street level crime that I think has
been absent from the Marvel catalog for a long time,
and I think Kate Bishop is who we need to
lead the charge more. On the female side, Hailey Steinfeld
just crushed it last year in Centers, proving that she
does have mass appeal can bring people to the box office.
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She is also in one of the most popular marriages
right now, just had a kid. She tests extremely well
with Marvel fans, and I think if you're gonna put
somebody in that position to have their own movie and
have success, I would put all my money in Hailey Steinfeld.
She was nominated for an Oscar at fourteen years old
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for True Grit. If I had to give it a
box office score, I say I would project this one
at a six out of ten. So at number eight
I have Kate Bishop from Hawkeye. At number seven, sticking
in the Marvel Universe the MCU, I have Cyclops from
X Men ninety seven because I wanted to include an
animated movie on this list. X Men ninety seven really
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changed me as a person. It became one of my
favorite Marvel projects of all time. Easily put it in
the top ten. It was one of those shows that
I appointment watched every single week and was so excited
for it. I cleared my schedule to sit down to
watch every single episode of season one. Season two is
coming out this summer. I believe it is supposed to
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premiere on June thirteenth and then hopefully should be on
Disney Plus soon, but they haven't fully announced that. Ray
Chase voices Cyclops in X Men ninety seven and does
a fantastic job. I think it was that show that
portrayed to people how great of a leader that Cyclops is.
And I think because of the movies, a lot of
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people associate Wolverine with being the leader of the X Men,
But if you read the comics, if you watch this show,
you realize how dominant Cyclops is and how great he
is as being the person in charge running things. Also
just has incredible powers. He has one of the best suits,
which I cannot wait to see James Mars did, and
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a comic accurate Cyclops suit that is something I've been
waiting for since so long. I didn't hate the leather
back in the two thousands, and I think it served
its purpose because if they would have put out an
X Men movie in the two thousands with comic book
accurate suits and colors, I think the public would have
rejected it. I think the all black leather allowed audiences
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to think, this isn't some corny thing that's kind of
hanging on from the nineties. This is something new and cool.
So I think it worked then, but I think now
we don't care about that. We want the things that
remind us of our childhood, and that is the best
representation of the comics, of the video games, all the
things we have in our head of X Men. We
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want to see that now in live action, a full
blown animated mutant war movie with Cyclops as the strategic
leader that fans have always wanted. It was X Men
ninety seven that boosted Cyclops' popularity, and I think now
you have that thirst for this. I also think with
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K Pop Demon Hunters being so successful last year and
people awaiting the next installment of the Spider Verse movies,
I think an animated movie like this could work with
the little bit more of a sophisticated style that is
becoming more popular and acceptable and also making money if
you look at the teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as well,
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also playing off of that same style and showing that
people just don't see these as quote unquote cartoons anymore.
It is an entirely different medium with also anime becoming
more mainstream, where you're seeing those movies now going out
into theaters like Deven Slayer and bringing in real money
because the fans are there, we want this. Nerds will
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put their money where their mouth is and go pay
to see these movies. I think you need to feed
those fans, feed us please. So at number seven, I
have Cyclops from X Men ninety seven. At number six,
I'm going to go with One Piece. I was never
the biggest fan of the anime, even though I had
a friend who kept telling me to watch One Piece.
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I think it was his mission in life to get
me to watch that show because he knew I would
have liked it, but for some reason, I just never
gave it a chance. Because they are so many episodes
of the original anime. It felt so daunting to me
to pick up on a show where I already felt
like I was so behind. But now with a Netflix show,
I finally get it. And I feel like if I
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talked to that friend again and told him I was
now into One Piece, he'd be like, I was telling
you that ten years ago. But I do love the show.
I love the character and the only thing I do
not like about One Piece on Netflix all the scenes
out at Sea, which if you are not familiar with
One Piece, is essentially character named Monkey d Loofy who
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oversees a band of misfits. He is a pirate who
wants to become the king of the pirates, wants to
be the best who's ever lived. Even though he is
a pirate, he does good things. He is very loyal,
he loves his crew, and he is in a go
into a village and burn the whole place down type
of pirate. He's kind of a good pirate where he
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does things that help out people in need. He is
very encouraging, always has a smile on his face and
very much encourages people to pursue their dreams because that
is what he wants to do. Ever since he was
a kid, he wanted to be King of the Pirates,
and now he is on this mission out at sea
to do exactly that. But the one thing I do
not like about One Piece on Netflix are all the
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scenes out at sea that just feel so fake. It
does not look good. I think if you take One
Piece and you give it a big Hollywood budget, the
same budget, you get all the same people who did
all the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, that is who
we need working on One Piece. Where those movies in
the two thousands, they were so captivating and they look
so good. If you go back and rewatch the Pirates
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of the Caribbean movies Curse of the Black Pearl Great,
all the scenes out at sea feel so realistic. How
was something made twenty years ago look better than something
that is made right now. That should not be the case.
And I feel like as we've progressed in some things,
we have regressed in special effects, and I think One
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Piece is a victim of that. Where all the scenes
out at sea should look much better. And if they
did look better and they looked up to the quality
of Pirates of the Caribbean, I think it would make
for a fantastic movie. One Piece is also an international show,
so if you want that mass appeal of having those
worldwide box office ticket sales, this is the franchise you
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want to seek into. One of the best selling comics
in history. Netflix has spent a lot of money on
this TV show. Spend it a little more and get
it up to my standards, even though it's probably up
to your standards and you see things completely differently. I
think this could be one of those events at the
movie theater. So at number six, I have One Piece
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getting into the top five. Now I don't know how
this movie was never made. Peacemaker played by John Ceno
from the show Peacemaker. I think this is easily something
that DC should have done and could have done, probably
after these Suicide Squad from twenty twenty one, but definitely
now with the success of the TV show, especially with
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the last season, which was really good. It's ultra violent,
it's R rated, it also has a lot of comedy
in it. It has an incredible soundtrack, which is very
much a James Gunn style, so it feels like a
suicide squad like the Guardians of the Galaxy. It also
has incredible emotional moments, which the last season of Peacemaker
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was one of the only TV shows in the last
I would say five years to get me emotional, almost
to the point of crying. And John Cena, I think
at times does not get enough credit for how good
he is in those emotional moments. Where I do think
it's because of his relationship with James Gunn and James
Gun's ability to get great performances out of his actors
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and exactly what he wants. I think he makes John
Cena a better actor. I don't think another director could
get that same performance from him. And I've watched a
lot of John Cena movies, and outside of Peacemaker, I
don't think I would necessarily call him a great actor.
But there is one episode, specifically in the last season,
where I thought John Cena has it, he gets it.
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That is his peak moment as an actor, and I
think that is greatly attributed to James Gunn. So if
you take John Cena's star power, which he is still massive,
one of the biggest wrestlers of all time. He's not
wrestling anymore. He's just hosting, which is really weird and
unnecessary in wrestle Mania. And they did leave us wanting
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another season a peacemaker. But I think with them trying
to figure out where this new phase, this new era
of DC is going to go, I think this would
be an easy movie to make that would just earn
them some money. It might not make all the sense
in the world, but I think if you're looking at
Mandalorian and Grogu, which really I think, and at the
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time we're recording this, I have not seen the movie yet.
I will by the time I review it here on
the podcast. But going into that, I thought they are
just instead of making another season, They're just going to
put out the movie. And I think with John cenas
somebody who is so busy taking on so many roles,
maybe it's easier just to get them down for a
movie instead of trying to get them to film an
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entirely new season of a TV show. And I think
it would work. Now if it comes down between this
and them doing another Batman movie, I would take the
Batman movie. But I think I love this character so much,
I think a singular story would be amazing. So at
number five, I have Peacemaker from Peacemaker played by John Cena.
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I would give this one a projected box office potential
score of a seven point five out of ten. At
number four, well, we're going pretty superhero heavy here. I
just think that's what I got to lean into. At
number four, I have Loki from the Loki TV Show,
which you're probably saying, well, Loki has already been in movies,
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but this would be entirely different, because I do think
Loki the TV show gave us an entirely different look
at that character, so much more depth. He to me,
in no way resembled the Loki we first met in
the first Avengers movie. Completely different, has been through so much,
is more sophisticated, does something so heroic that he's no
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longer a real He's just a person navigating all of
these crazy time rips, and he steps up in a
way that I felt was so noble. And what I
loved is that it leans so far into the sci
fi space, with the timelines, the multiverses, the alternate realities.
It almost felt like Marvel's version of Severance and I
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think Loki has now become one of Marvel's most beloved
characters because Tom Hillston has done such a great job
at fully shaping out this character with an incredible performance
in this TV show that I think if you took
that version of Loki and gave him his own cinematic story, like,
that's just easy where I think when it came to
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the last MCU projects like Thunderbolts, that really leaned more
into the action trying to get people behind a new
Avengers team. But I think at the end of the day,
we just want to connect with a character, and I
think you could do that with Loki. And obviously you
would have to throw in some cameos because we've just
been conditioned to that. But if you think about timelines
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and alternate realities and Loki, that really does lend itself
to basically your entire MCU arsenal of all these characters,
which they did that a lot in Dead Pulling Wolverine.
They were able to play around, but it was more
on the comedy side. I think you could have a
much more sophisticated way to bring in characters that fans
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have been craving to see in a major movie and
do it in a way that's not just like, hey,
I'm Chris Evans, everybody. Loki also became one of Disney
Plus's most popular series. And we know Disney loves cashing
in on their most popular series, and they've done it before,
not just with Mandalorian and Grogu, but also Mawana. But
Wana two was initially just the streaming show, and they said,
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you know what, let's repackage that baby up, put it
out of the theaters and make a billion dollars. Why
not do it with some of the Marvel characters. I
am thinking, you take Loki's story and you combine it
with the Blade Runner twenty forty nine Aesthetic, the Ryan
Gossling movie directed by the nievil Nu who is responsible
for all the Dune movies Arrival. Give it that really
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big sci fi epics story. I'm thinking huge sets, incredible lighting,
which the show already had to give it this warm
retro feeling. At number four. I would give this movie
a projected box office potential score of eight out of ten,
and I put it at number four. Give me Loki
at number three because I am hot the finale. I'm
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going with Homelander from The Boys. Some might say the
Butcher would make for a better movie, but I think
the Homelander character was the real standout of the Boys,
the most polarizing. All of the memes and the best
moments from that show came to us from Homelander. I
feel like Butcher became more of my favorite character in
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the last season, but before that, I was all Homelander,
even though I was rooting against him the entire time.
He is one of those characters that you love to hate,
and I don't really think that there's been a movie
like that. There have been anti hero movies, but not
movies based on a villain that you just hate. Homelander
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is a rage bay character. That is what he does.
And if you think about a superhero thriller that leans
into the psychological element from the villain's perspective, I don't
really think I've seen that. If you think about, probably
the closest thing related to it would be like a Joker.
You have one movie based on just a villain who
has gone through some crazy traumatic things, But Joker has
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still felt based in reality because he doesn't have any
crazy powers aside from him being able to manipulate some
people and start a bunch of riots. Another movie that
kind of comes to mind is Brightburn, which is kind
of an underrated dark superhero story. It kind of makeses
elements of that a little bit, but I still think
with Anthony Starr, you go back to maybe even before
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the Seven, still on his rise, but still being a jerk.
I think he is now one of TV's most iconic villains,
one of my favorite villains. Anthony's performance was incredible as Homelander.
I think had some of the weirdest moments in television
of all time. And in a world where we're having
superhero fatigue where it is harder for audiences to get
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excited about DC and Marvel movies, you give people something
incredibly different in theaters. I can just imagine the trailer
and people going nuts for this. And they did do
the event where they had the finale in movie theaters,
which I saw some clips from that. It did look fun.
It kind of had an Avengers Endgame type moment where
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you see people getting excited at moments, and I think
that is something interesting from a show that we've all
just experienced on our own watching on our phones, our tablets,
our TVs at home. That's been such a just me experience.
You take that and put it out into the real world,
and suddenly you were getting to watch all these crazy
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moments with Homelander with an audience, and you're able to
experience that and see other people's reactions. I think heightens
the entire thing. So at number three, I have Homelander
from The Boys getting into our top two now and
number two eleven from Stranger Things. Give me the eleven
movie with Millie Bobby Brown easily. I give this one
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a potential box office score of A nine aut a ten.
And with all man, I think of all the things
that have ended because The Boys just ended, Stranger Things
officially ended. I guess at the start of this year, man,
my entire streaming life is coming to an end. Stranger
Things started in twenty sixteen. Yeah, that is crazy, but
there's obviously still a huge demand for Stranger Things. They
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do have the animated show now on Netflix. But I
think where some of the more passionate fans got a
little crazy there towards the end, with all the theories
of us getting a secret episode that never existed. I
hope there are people still not waiting for that episode,
But could you imagine if they made this a movie,
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whether I feel like you have to make it a
continuation of the story, but a dark, supernatural coming of
age movie following the events of the series I think
would be massive. And Millie Bobby Brown, I believe she's
done with TV. I don't think she wants to do
TV shows anymore. She's leaning into the Inanola Holmes, which
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is getting its third movie. How is that movie an
entire franchise. I don't understand how that movie became a
low key franchise. But obviously she has the long standing
relationship with Netflix. I still don't feel like she has
that one defining role. Obviously she still has a lot
of times. She's very talented. It is really hard for
somebody who has a character that pops off so hard
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becomes a part of the pop culture lexicon, because if
you have something that is a phenomenon, I think it's
unfair to compare everything that you do to that phenomenon
because most people don't create a phenomenon. It is a
very rare thing to achieve that. I hope she doesn't
feel like or other people who maybe experienced that have
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had one role that has been so iconic thinking of
a Daniel Radcliffe or even some of the people in
the MCU, where you have that one thing that people
know you for and define you for. I do think
the problem here is I think she ready to move
on from eleven, where she probably gets tired of answering
Stranger Things questions. She did the finale, she gave her
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all in that. I think she wants to have that
in her past. I think eleven is in her rear
view at this point, unless she just needs the money,
because that's what it all comes down to, if you
just want to see that check hit. And the Stranger
Thing's money to her was really good. I believe she
made a million dollars on that last episode alone, so
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one of Netflix's biggest brands. I saw the story of
how much Stranger Things boosted into the economy of all
the jobs that it created, not just with the merch
and all those things, but just the actual infrastructure of
the show, not just to cast all the people pointing
on that show. It was its own little economy. And
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eleven is just instantly recognizable, and you think about that
eighties soundtrack, that fashion. I think we'll always have an
appetite for that type of nostalgia. You give it that
et feel, you give it another big running up, that
ill moment, that the needle drop moment. I think that
would make for a great in theater experience, which they
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also did that treatment of putting the finale out in
the theater, so it already kind of has that built
in just a little bit. So at number two, TV
characters I think could carry their own movie Give Me
eleven from Stranger Things. Will it happen? Probably not, but
it wouldn't make a lot of money, maybe close into
the billion dollar range. At number one, the movie I
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do believe could make a billion dollars because it could
be a super unexpected but also expected hit, Give Me
Wednesday Atoms from Wednesday played by Jenna Ortega, who does
pretty well at the box office. I think this is,
out of all the movies on this list, the only
one I would give a ten out of ten box
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office potential. I think the appeal of a Tim Burton
show that is catered towards gen z I think right
now would be the perfect time to make this. But
that gothic supernatural mystery comedy I feel like is the
perfect niche where great storytelling meets. I feel like an
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area of fans that is underserved, the weirdos, the goth kids,
the people who I wanted to be friends with growing up.
I didn't have any friends, but I always respected the
goth kids, and it is those people who support and
love this show so much that have made every season
a hit. I believe that this is the most passionate
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fan base that we have had since Harry Potter, and
it's really hard to measure because I don't think anything
will ever meet that level of fandom because at the
time when Harry Potter came out, we weren't living in
the internet culture world where if you had one thing,
it was the most massive thing all the time. Now
there are a thousand things that you could be a
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massive fan of, and they're all great. But I think
this is that new level of has such a wide appeal,
just really hits that nerve with the audience who it
is intended for, and maybe also because it's based in
high school, it still has kind of that Hogwarts vibe.
That is why I feel a Wednesday movie would work
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so well. Yeah, it's basically taking Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, combining it
with Harry Potter and here you go. It's incredibly easy
to market. It basically markets itself. Even that last season
a Wednesday. Soon as that rolled out, you had the
Burger King meal, you had the toys that we were
the aesthetic. It also has the TikTok element, which makes
it easy to market. Had one of the most famous
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dance scenes that went viral in the golden age of TikTok.
I'm already getting nostalgic for like twenty twenties and twenty
twenty one's TikTok, but that is what I think of.
Tim Burton directed multiple episodes of the show. Come back
direct the movie. It has become one of the Netflix's
most watched English speaking shows of all time, so an
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easy plug and play. I would love to see it.
Also Sometimes, for me, even though I do enjoy the show,
I feel like it drags a little bit at times,
and if you condense the episodes into a ninety minute
I feel like it would be a great one hour
and forty six minute movie. I'm all in so at
number one, I have Wednesday Adams from Wednesday of TV
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characters I believe are built for the big screen. I'll
come back I'll give my spoiler free review of The
Mandalorian and Grogu and see how they did turning that
streaming show into a movie. Let's get into it now,
a spoiler free movie review of The Mandalorian and Grogu,
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or as I like to call it, the mid DeLorean,
because that is exactly what this movie is, right down
the middle. At no moment was this movie great, but
it also wasn't terrible. You're gonna have the two sides
of the Star Wars fans, which some people don't like
to hear this who have been a fan for Star
Wars for a long time. It has always been meant
for a younger audience. That's it, plain and simple. And
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when it comes to The Mandalorian and Grogu, I feel
like they went so far into appealing to a younger audience.
It almost felt like Star Wars meets the Minions where
Grogu is still cute, which season one took us all
by storm, won our heart's over with how cute he was,
and I feel like they leaned into that so much
because the action just really isn't there. The overall story,
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not a whole lot happens. It's basically just Mandalorian and
Grogu going on these little missions where there's never any
sense of urgency, which I think was probably my biggest problem.
The movie never gained momentum, and I was worried because
I thought, this is going to feel just like Season
four and one big chunk, and that was the problem.
There was no story here that felt cohesive. If you
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didn't watch seasons one through three, I feel like you
would be lost, You would not know the lore. It
was really hard for me to connect with the characters
because the Mandalorian is tough enough, because it's Pedro Pascal
in a helmet the entire time, and I think that
leap from the small screen to the big screen was
very apparent, and how hard it was to get anything
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else out of this character. And then Grogu, I thought,
didn't look that great. Where if you're looking and watching
on YouTube, this Grogu I haven't here that I got
back when the show first came out in twenty nineteen.
This looks more realistic than when we got in the
Mandalorian in Grogu, where I felt he was too small,
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too robotic, didn't really feel like he was an actual, living,
breathing creature and this looks more realistic than what we
got in the movie. And this was like, I don't know,
thirty forty bucks at Target, So that was crazy to me.
The production value just was not there, and that is
what I was the most worried about because this movie,
it only costs one hundred and sixty million dollars. If
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you look at all the other Star Wars movies, Forest Awakens,
that's a half a billion dollar movie. Even Rogue One
was a two hundred million dollar movie. I felt every
dollar of this movie's budget because the sets looked flat,
all the special effects looked very flat. It felt very monochromatic.
Where's the whimsy, Where's the color that brings to life
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a Star Wars movie? So on a visual level, it
was so uninteresting that I think that is what made
it the hardest to watch. It wasn't the story itself,
it wasn't the lack of action. It was the fact
that it looked like this movie did not warrant the
big screen. If you saw this movie in Imax or
anything crazy like the RPX where your butt jiggles while
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you watch the movie, I feel like it would be
a waste of time. It is not worthy of the
investment to enhance this experience because the product isn't there.
It didn't look good, and that made it hard to
connect with any element of the story because it didn't
have that cinematic feel that I was hoping for, and
even looking around at the reactions in the theater where it
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was a pack theater, I think for the most part
it was a sold out showing. You had a lot
of younger kids and older parents, and that is what
kind of Star Wars is. They bring out everybody, and
these movies do really well because that fan base is there,
the brand is strong. But looking around at all these people,
nobody was really having fun. There were a few chuckles
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here and there once the movie was over, there were
a few solo collapse, but it just was lacking on
that level of excitement, and I think between all the
scenes there was like this really weird breath that every
scene would take going from the next, where I felt
like we were watching things that were unnecessary. The transition
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between scenes felt very awkward, and it took away from
the pacing that if this movie was a roller coaster,
it would just be going on a straight line the
entire time. It'd be a kiddie ride, it'd go up
a little bit. It really felt like the Minions meet
Star Wars. So I do think this is way more
leaning to the younger fan base, which I think is
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what Star Wars is probably trying to bang on right now.
They want to ignite that younger fan base to carry
on Star Wars, to be the ones buying merchandise, wanted
to convince their parents to take them to Disney World.
They don't care about us, That's it. I knew that
going into this. It's been that way for a long time,
where they don't care about the thirty year old fan,
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the forty year old fan, the lifelong fan. They are
looking for those new customers, and I think it's those
people who are gonna be the most mad about this movie.
I'm in no way angry about this. It is exactly
what it was. You are who I thought you were
going to be, Mandaloriid and Grogu, So I'm not even
that let down. I think the most surprising to me
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is just I just felt bored for a majority of
those two hours and kind of surprised how bored I was.
Where even though there were some okay, moments of action.
I think Rod of the Hutt was probably the most
interesting character voiced by Jeremy ellen White. He is the
only one that had a story, that's it. He's the
only one who had any kind of emotional whiplash throughout
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this film. Everything else just kind of felt like they
were just playing into the playfulness and the comedy aspect.
Sigourney Weaver just kind of existed in this movie. It
really just felt like one big episode, which is what
I was worried about. I think I would have rather
had season four, and I think season three was the
indicator it started to feel that way. Season three felt
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very after School Special to me, where it lost the
gravity from season one in season two where there was
much greater action and villains, and started to feel a
little bit more like you would watch on the Disney Channel.
And quite possibly the most offensive thing that the Mandalorian
and Grogu did was give us an eighty dollars popcorn
bucket that had no imagination. And I am somebody who
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loves the popcorn bucket. I talk about it a lot
on this podcast because it is a way that a
lot of movie theaters are making money because you get
a big franchise like Star Wars. You make it because
of the merchandise, and I am not opposed to paying.
I would say fifty dollars is probably my limit on
what I would spend on a popcorn bucket. For this review,
I moved my stitch popcorn bucket to put Grogu behind me,
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just because I felt it was a little bit more fitting.
But that stitch I have was fifty dollars, and why
I feel that was more justified is because it actually
looks like a living, breathing stitch. It's much more innovative
and creative and original, and I think that is what
movies have to do to create a hype around a
popcorn bucket. You look at Dune, you even look at
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Project Hail Mary, or the Super Mario Galaxy movie, the
Yoshi popcorn bucket that people actually were seeking out and
those were selling out. Went to this movie on opening
night and the long line A lot of people there,
a lot of families, a lot of people by popcorn
and drinks. And I look at the popcorn bucket aisle,
which I do like that about Regal. They get you
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in these little aisles where they have all the merchandises
you go through and the entire shelf was covered in
the Mandol popcorn bucket, which was just this bus. I'll
play the video I took of it here if you're
watching on YouTube, and it's the bust of the Mandalorian
with Grogu on his shoulder. Nothing really crazy, felt like
something you could maybe see at five below and in
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the back is where the popcorn goes. Doesn't really hold
a whole lot of popcorn. But this popcorn bucket was
eighty dollars seventy nine ninety nine for a very unoriginal,
basic popcorn bucket. That's not how you do it. That
to me says that they think they could just rip
off Star Wars fans. That is what that eighty dollars
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price tag says to me. They look at us and say,
these suckers are gonna pay eighty bucks because they love
this franchise so much and they were cashing in on
a hype that was not there. And that also coincides
with how I feel about this movie Trinkflation. That is
the world we are living in twenty twenty six, where
we got a product that was based on a show
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I don't want to say that we got for free,
because you pay for Disney Plus, you pay your monthly
or your yearly fee. But we got that exact same
thing on a big screen, where now we have to
pay a premium price depending on where you are. Could
be a fifteen, could be a twenty, could be a
thirty dollars ticket, depending on the experience that you wanted.
So it's like going to the grocery store and paying
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the same amount for that bag of Dorito's, but then
you open up that Doritos and it's mostly air. That
is how I feel about The Mandalorian and Grogu. Where
here it is us paying that same ticket price for
a movie that when we go watch something like The
Force Awakens, that's a five hundred million dollar movie. Here
we are watching The Mandalorian and Grogu that is one
hundred and sixty million dollars movie. And very much feels
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like that they could have been more innovative in the story.
They could have made it more engaging. It doesn't really
cost a whole lot more to write a better story
and give us something that I think we deserved. Instead,
we got shrink flation. We did not get what we
paid for in that ticket price should have just been
season four of The Mandalorian. So for The Mandalorian and Grogu,
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I give it three out of five. Uugh, Rod of
the Huts its side to head down to movie Mike
Traylor Park. The last time Matthew McConaughey was in a
movie that came out in theaters was twenty nineteen The Gentleman,
and since then he's only done streaming movies. The last
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movie I saw him in The Lost Bus Man. No
busses ever really lost. Sometimes they just need to find themselves.
That came out on Apple TV. Good movie. If it
would have came out in theaters, probably would have done
pretty well. My biggest problem with that movie is I
looked up the true story and they took some creative
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liberties on that that do make the story a little bit.
It doesn't really take away from it. But they definitely
gave the Hollywood treatment to The Lost Bus. But he
is one of those actors now that for the most
part puts out B plus two A minus movies consistently.
I think he is at the point of his career
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where he is very selective of all the projects that
he takes. He is also somebody who is really trying
to get Hollywood to shoot movies back in Texas, which
unfortunately this movie was not. It does take place in Oklahoma.
And by the way, we're gonna talk about the Amaziah King,
which he's going to be in at the movie about Honey.
But talking about Matthew McConaughey, first, he generally just puts
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out solid movies. I think he just knows what people
want from him. Especially after he got out of the
whole rom com thing. He came back with some bang.
I mean Interstellar alone. That is his movie in the
twenty tens. He really just changed the trajectory of his
career and the perception from the public Dallas Buyer's Club,
winning his Oscar and now I feel like he can
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kind of just do whatever he wants. But he is
really good in a movie where he can be sweaty
and can get away with wearing blue jeans and a
white T shirt. I think that is a litmus test
for a good looking actor. If you can pull off
white T shirt and jeans combo, you're a good looking actor.
Last actor do that of recent memory, Glenn Powell and
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Matthew McConaughey also looks really good in a sunset, And
if I was him, I would be in a sunset
in every single movie. Him and that orange tint, that
glow of the sun, it just fits perfectly. And we
see that here in the Rivals of the Amaziah King.
This movie is about honey in rural Oklahoma. Matthew McConaughey
(44:45):
plays Amaziah, a honey farmer whose operation is threatened by
dangerous rivals played by Kurt Russell. Amaziah is excited to
create a family business, but we learn that the honey
game is ruthless. I love movies about an industry that
you have no idea could be a dirty industry and
be a very competitive industry. I would not look at
honey and think, man, there's a story behind that. The
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Rivals of Amaziah King is coming out in theaters on
August fourteenth, Before we get into more about Matthew McConaughey
and his honey, I don't know what what impression was
I doing there? That kind of sounded like Forrest Gump.
I was trying to do, Matthew McConaughey. Matthew McConaughey is, well,
now I sound like Bill Clinton, But okay, The Rivals
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of Amaziah King coming out in theaters on August fourteenth.
Here's just a little bit of the trailer. What's your honey,
quite clover? That's pretty rare crop. God bless us all everyone,
y'all reckon we could talk to Amna times. There's not
a lot of hodeia. Then it doesn't look good. If
you really want to ruin someone's life, you take away everything.
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I would be careful poking around in this business. There's
not full of con people get ready, my little chicky
abas swarm when they are ready for a fight. To me,
it kind of looks like there will be blood. If
I were to retitle this movie, it would be there
will be honey because you have Matthew McConaughey overseeing this
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family business, and you have Kurt Russell as the bad
guy who was gonna tear him down. Kurt Russell is
a great villain. Matthew McConaughey is a great lead that
you can root for. It feels like a role that
was made perfectly for Matthew McConaughey, somebody who can just
hang out connect with people, which is something that he
is so good at. I feel like if I ever
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met him, which I have seen him at Texas football games,
but it's been from a distance. And the first thing
I recognized for Matthew McConaughey is the jacket that he
wears to every single Texas game. I saw that, I
saw people around him. He went into the building so
casually doesn't have security with him. I believe it was
just him and his wife and maybe one of his kids.
So I didn't really want to bother him. And I'm
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sure he gets swarm so much, and I kind of
feel like at a Texas football game, that's his safe
space to not get bothered, for people not to ask
him for pictures maybe from the opposing team, but I
think as a Texas fan, you kind of know he
is there to be the minister of culture and he
doesn't want to hear me go up to him and
be like, I really love doing Dallas Buyers Club. But
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I imagine if I did bother him, he would be
the type of celebrity who wouldn't want to take a selfie.
He would much prefer to have a genuine interaction with you,
because that is what he is so good at. That
is why he is so charming. And has the ability
to just draw you into the words that he speaks.
And if you are just paying attention to what he says,
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I mean you are paying attention to the screen, You
are paying attention to the movie. And he could just
go on some crazy rant and talk about nothing, but
it would sound so entertaining. He just has that power.
I think he is one of the only actors who
has that ability to improv so well that it becomes memorable.
All right, all right? From Days and Confused, that was
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an improv Director Richard Linkley just kind of gave him
the idea of his character, and he processed that and said,
all right, alright, alright, And those were the first lines
he ever spoke into a camera on film. Same thing
with The Wolf of Wall Street. Whenever the scene happens
with him and Leonardo DiCaprio, they have that meeting and
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he's doing that thing banging on his chest. Mmm. That
was the thing that he would do on his own
to build himself up before shooting a take, and that
just became a part of the movie. He just oozes
this natural charisma that is so effortless, and he can
do whatever he wants and us be entertained by it.
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That's why I think this is the perfect role for him.
And this is coming to us from an independent movie studio,
Black Bear, who was doing some really good work right now,
And when I saw that they were behind this movie,
I just watched In the Gray, which we'll probably talk
about in our end of the month recap. But they
have been slowly crushing in what I believe to be
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movies that just connect with America. They are operating in
this space that almost doesn't really exist anymore, where they
do have some big stars, but I think they focus
more on just really solid stories that are heartwarming, that
have drama, that have action, that have all the things
that I think the everyday film going person likes. It's
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not too far off into another hemisphere like the A
twenty four stuff that gets maybe a little bit too
on the other side of what the average person just
wants to go experience in film. And just looking through
their filmography, they put out some really solid movies, and
I don't feel like that's kind of dissing them of saying, well,
they're not fantastic A plus movies, But to just consistently
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put out solid movies that is really hard to do,
because even when it comes to a twenty four, I mean,
I would say one of every three doesn't really move
the needle for me. But looking at some of Black
Bears Studios movies in just saw that a couple of
weeks ago. That's a good movie, very solid, The Ministry
of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Also a Guy Ritchie movie, Solid spa
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Weekend which is coming out later this year. Sing Sing Now,
That's a really good movie. Is an Oscar nominated movie
Somebody I used to know with Alison Brie. Also really solid.
I care a lot, immaculate with Sonny Sweeney. I saw
that one in theaters probably a couple maybe few years ago.
At this point, it is a weird studio because those
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are all movies I enjoyed, but not really ones that
I rush to tell you guys that you got to
go see these movies. I didn't really mean to drag
this studio in any way, but they are almost the
gold standard for a solid three point five to four.
Sing Sing kind of balances them out. That that movie
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was really good. But if you just need to go
into a movie and you don't want to waste your time,
you don't want to waste your money. If you see
the black Bear logo, I think you're gonna get your
money's worth. At least. It might not be your next
favorite movie. Oh, they are definitely not putting this on
their poster. A black Bear movie might not be your
next favorite movie, but you will have a good time.
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It will feel worth it. They're not really like popcorn
movies either. Some of these test you a little bit,
and I think that is what they are going for
with The Amaziah King because it has been described as
just a great crowd pleasing movie. It did premiere earlier
this year at south By Southwest. People are saying it's
a little bit nostalgic but also modern, has kind of
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that Western feel, And before I realized it, just by
watching the trailer, I thought, man, this reminds me of
The marsh King's Daughter that starred Daisy Ridley from Star Wars,
And then I realized that was also a black Bear movie.
I love me a movie set in a marsh in
a creek where the crowdad say anything with water and
real down to earth people and Americans who don't really
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get movies made about them anymore. I love that style
of film. I think It's one of those that maybe
isn't the sexiest genre right now, because we need superheroes,
we need franchises. Horror is obviously having a huge year
this year, and it feels like these movies are probably
even rarer than a comedy these days, which I think
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that is what most people say, like what happened to
all the comedies? Well, what happened to all of the
movies like The Rivals of the Amaziah King, Because that's
what you have here. You have a really sophisticated honey
making operation that sounds probably not something that you would
just be like, I want to watch a movie about
people making honey, but it is Matthew McConaughey overseeing this
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band of misfits. I love a movie about a rag
tag group of individuals. You have people playing in a
bluegrass band. In one scene, you see Matthew McConaughey with
the banjo, which reminds me of the famous story of
him getting busted while hi playing bongos naked in Austin, Texas.
His life takes a turn with his strange foster daughter
unexpectedly returned, so you have some family drama mixed in here.
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She is eager to reconnect, so he brings her into
the family business, and then it's all about the honey game.
We're gonna have sabotage, and then his foster daughter is
going to uncover who is trying to destroy everything that
he has built. We're gonna learn all about the rivals
of the Amaziah King. Well, yeah, hasn't been in a
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movie in theater since twenty nineteen. Matthew McConaughey. The last
movie he was in that he started was The Gentleman,
but he was also in sing two, which came out
in twenty twenty one. I guess they don't count voice acting.
I would I would say he hasn't been in one
since twenty twenty one. Before that in twenty nineteen, he
was also in The Beach Bump, Serenity in twenty nineteen,
had a big twenty nineteen, White Boy Rick in twenty eighteen,
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Singing Part one in twenty sixteen, Gold was another Black
Bear movie in twenty sixteen. I feel like this is
him entering a new era, especially with The Lost Bus
last year. Again, just put him in an orange filter
and I think Matthew McConaughey will have a good time
but again, The Rivals of the Amazia King is coming
out limited release on August fourteenth and then a full
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worldwide release on August twenty first, twenty twenty six. Definitely
gotta check this one out. And that was this week's
edition of Movie Mike Trayler Barr and that is going
to do it for another episode here of the podcast.
But before I go, I gotta get my listeners shout
out of the Week, and man, not many people agreed
(54:38):
with me about my thoughts. I'm Mortal Kombat too. Looking
through all the comments, everybody thought I was wrong about
Carl Urban being a bad Johnny Cage, which there were
many comments who said just straight up wrong. Disagree he
was a great Johnny Cage. Lol, what are you talking about?
I found the one person who agreed with me, and
maybe I was wrong on that. Again, I didn't come
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into that review with any agenda, just giving you guys
my true opinion. But this week's listening to China of
the Week is the only person who agreed with me,
although I read all the ones who didn't. Ruben Artiz,
who said I agree, love him, but he was bad
in this. To me, it felt like it was something
he didn't really want to do or wasn't into. His
(55:21):
accent was really bad. At one point I heard him
say OI, and I'm like, bro, wrong franchise. I did
hear a couple of ois in Mortal Kombat. I don't
think both of them were. Carl Urbin might have been
another character, and Carl Urban happened to be in the
same scene. I do remember hearing OI and thinking, hey,
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that's Butcher. But you were right, Rubin. It felt like
he did not want to be there, much like Johnny
Cage in the beginning of the movie where he's at
the comic con style event where he didn't really want
to be there. I feel like the casting of Carl
Urban and Mortal Kombat too felt a little bit where
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just happened to coincide with the final season of The Boys.
Maybe he's using it as a jumping off point to
get more into film, which I will still fully back
a Carl Urban shift from TV to film. I think
he is a great actor, but I just think this
isn't the franchise for him. Although you know they're gonna
make a Mortal Kombat three, so not just shouting out
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Ruben because he was the only person who agreed with me,
but he made a great point, and it's a great
point because I also had the similar outlook on that movie.
So thank you, Ruben, thank you to all for listening
this week, and until next time, go out and watch
good movies and I will talk to you later
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