MOVIE MIKE'S MOVIE PODCAST - Films with Tiny Budgets & Huge Box Office Success + Movie Review: The Invite + Trailer Park: Avengers: Doomsday - The Bobby Bones Show

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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 films with tiny budgets that went on to have
huge box office success. I have twelve of the most
profitable movies of all time. In the movie review, we'll
be talking about The Invite with Seth Rogan and Olivia Wilde.

(00:20):
If you love movies that induce anxiety, this is going
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to a theater or even watching it at home and
the whole time you're like, oh my gosh, this movie
is stressing me out. This might be the one to
really do it for you, because that's what it did
for me. And in the trailer park, I will be
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(00:40):
back last week when the trailer first dropped last Monday.
I'll give you my raw reaction and predictions on what
is going on with the Avengers. Thank you for being here,
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Morning Movie crew. And now let's talk movies.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Podcast Network Movie Podcast Today, we're talking about all the bees,
the business, the bucks, and the blockbusters of Hollywood, I
have twelve extraordinary films that had relatively small budgets.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
All combined, these twelve movies cost ten million dollars to make,
which is unheard of. Typically a normal Hollywood movie probably
cost about sixty five to eighty five million dollars for
a big studio production. Ten million dollars which is what
all these twelve movies combined costs to produce. And they
went on to make millions and millions of dollars at

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the box office. So we'll talk about each movie how
much of a return on investment they had, and I'll
give you some of my thoughts on all these movies.
Whether I like them or not, I kind of appreciate
them all because if they can defy the odds and
make a statement in Hollywood on a small budget. And
number twelve, we have My Big Fat Greek Wedding that

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came out back in two thousand and two. The movie
costs five million dollars to make and went on to
earn three hundred and sixty nine million dollars at the
box office. That is a seventy four times return on investment.
This is the small little rom com that could. This
is a movie that I was exposed to later in life,

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and it wasn't until Kelsey told me how much she
loved this movie. I was like, I've never seen it.
She was like, you've never seen it. This was one
of those movies for her that we had to watch immediately,
and it turns out I love this movie. One of
the most memorable bits of that movie is the whole
Winddix thing and then using it to fix everything. But

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this movie actually started as a one woman stage play
before it became a movie. The original person who wrote
that play and performed in that play actually wrote the
screenplay and she took all of that from her own
Greek American family experiences and traditions. So I think this
is also a great example of of looking at Hollywood

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and thinking, man, there aren't any movies that represent where
I come from the traditions of my people. I don't
see myself represented in any of these stories. Instead of
saying when are they going to make it? You know what,
I'm just going to make it myself. And it ended
up working despite Hollywood saying that they thought audiences would

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have a hard time connecting with the movie centered around
a Greek family because they didn't think the idea was
universal enough. And the interesting thing about My Big Fat
Greek Wedding is, normally movies just care about that opening weekend.
If you see a movie out promoting right now, they
only care about that opening weekend numbers because that is

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typically when you make the most amount of money. Normally
there is anywhere between a forty to sixty percent, sometimes
even up to seventy or eighty percent, depending on word
of mouth whether it is good or bad, but there
is oftentimes a huge drop off from week one to
week two, So everybody focuses on that first week because
rarely do you end up making more money the second week,

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even though we've seen some examples this year. But when
it came to My Big Fat Greek Wedding, this movie
actually grew bigger every week instead of dropping off in
that opening week. It went on to spend months in theaters,
becoming one of the biggest sleeper hits ever. And obviously,
like I mentioned earlier, the wind Deck fixes Everything ended

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up becoming that standalone joke that is one of the
most quoted things of the two thousands. So it wasn't
a movie that Hollywood believed in, but audiences believed in it,
They discovered it, and then refused to let it go.
They told people about it. So at number twelve is
My Big Fat Greek Wedding from two thousand and two,
and number eleven is Saw from two thousand and four

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from director James One, who is now a huge director
when it comes to the horror genre. This movie had
a budget of one point two million dollars and went
on to make one hundred and four million dollars at
the box office. That's an eighty seven x return on
this movie and now has spawned an entire franchise. This

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was the first full feature film from director James Wand
and the entire movie was shot in only eighteen days.
That iconic bathroom location is basically the centerpiece of this
entire movie, so primarily the entire story takes place right there.
And realizing I don't think this is a spoiler. At
this point, it's over twenty years old, which is weird

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because Saw still feels new to me. But to think
that he was there in the room the entire time,
I remember that moment being so mind blowing. I don't
think I saw this movie in theaters because I was
thirteen years old. It was rated R but still the
first time I saw that and jig Saw gets up
and then you learn his entire backstory. That is one
of the most mind blowing moments of the two thousands.

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But that iconic bathroom. It works to tell the story.
But it was also strategic in a way. We don't
have a whole lot of money. We have one point
two million dollars to spend on this thing. How can
we make the most of one location? So again, it
always comes down to creativity when it comes to small budget.
Same way growing up, we didn't have a whole lot,

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but we found ways to be creative to save money.
That is what you have to do. It is scrappy
filmmaking and I love it. I think it is very
inspiring when you can work with very limited resources and
it all comes down to how you tell your story
and how you use what you do have, which I
think something now that we are experiencing on the internet.

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We have been experiencing this for a while now. Anybody
can create anything with your phone. If you want to
have a platform, it's as easy as getting out your
phone and going on TikTok. And I think even when
I was growing up trying to get started in some
kind of content creation. In like the twenty tens late
two thousands, you always felt like you needed to have

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really fancy equipment and lighting and do all these things,
and you thought, oh, man, I could never do that
because I don't have the money to create that. There
are no rules anymore. You could use your phone and
through your own direction and your own creativity, you can
make anything you want to make with just what is
sitting in your pocket. So I think Saw is a

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great example of that. Again, the horror genre is going
to really dominate this list just because it is a
genre that feeds off of creativity. You don't need to
have a whole lot of money to make a great,
powerful story when it comes to horror. So at number eleven,
I have saw from two thousand and four. At number
ten is Napoleon Dynamite. This movie only costs four hundred

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thousand dollars to make six figures to make Napoleon Dynamite.
It went on to make forty six million dollars at
the box office. That is a one hundred and fifteen
X return. Not only was it highly success fool, but
the movie was filmed mostly in Preston, Idaho. It also
doesn't really say when it takes place. It feels very

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old and almost seventies or eighties, but then also feels
modernate times. That is why I feel that Napoleon Dynamite
is kind of a timeless movie. John Heater, who plays
Napoleon Dynamite, was only paid around one thousand dollars for
the movie, and then it went on to be a
huge hit. It sparked his career. He went on to
do Purty Wohlla in Hollywood, and I still see him

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now out talking about Napoleon Dynamite. My favorite story is
how whenever he filmed the dance scene, he made everybody
else leave the set. Only the essential crew could stick around.
So if you're operating a camera or you had to
be there for the actual production of the scene, you
could stay, but everybody else had to go. And he

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didn't have that dance fully figure it out. They just
knew that he had a little bit of dance experience
and this was going to be a very pivotal moment
of the movie, so he kind of freesed the whole thing.
So to this day he says, I really don't know
the dance I couldn't do the dance for you. I
knew the elements I wanted to fit into the dance,
but they just needed something funny. So he's like, Okay,

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I could do this at the school assembly, and that
is what he did. He really only had a few
minutes to figure out the dance before the filming started.
And I also think this movie had a big impact
on comedy even still to this day, if you have
that dead pan style of comedy that I feel a
lot of shows after this and movies too ripped off

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Napoleon Dynamite. Anytime I watch something awkward, I can probably
pinpoint it back to something from Napoleon Dynamite. And this
was another movie that the studio Fox Searchlight in this case,
didn't know how audiences were going to react. And I'm
pretty sure I saw this opening weekend. I know I
saw it in theaters, but I remember there just kind
of being a buzz around it. Maybe I saw a

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trailer or a clip on MTV and thought, Oh, I
want to go see that movie in theaters. My brother
and I went to go see it. I think if
I dug through all the things I still have at
my parents' house, I could find my original Napoleon Dynamite ticket,
but it was through people like me and my brother
going to watch it and then word of mouth. This

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movie just grew bigger and bigger and went on to
be the monster hit that we know now and number
ten is Napoleon Dynamite. At number nine from nineteen seventy six,
it is Rocky. The movie had a one point one
million dollar budget and went on to gross two hundred
and twenty five million dollars at the box office. That

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is a return of two hundred x. Rocky is the
greatest underdog story of all time. And now they're coming
out with I Play Rocky, which is a movie about
the making of Rocky. And it's crazy to see how
those two stories parallel, because the story of Rocky is
Sylvester Stallone wanted to break into Hollywood, but nobody was

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going to hire the guy. So somebody told him, if
you want to be in a movie, write a script
and give yourself the best part, which I think is
the best advice to today. Even if you don't want to
get into something creative, anything that you want to do
in life, just do it yourself and give yourself the
best part. Whether it is actually for a movie, whether

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it's for a business, whatever you want to accomplish in life.
Right now, the biggest thing is owning your own content,
owning your own brand, owning your own company. Take the
Rocky approach, write your own script in life, give yourself
the best part. That is the best advice I can
give you. But that is what Sylvester still owned did
He in a matter of days, wrote the script to Rocky.

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Got it in front of some executives who thought, this
is a great story, there's actually something here. You wrote
this entire thing by yourself. All right, we'll buy it
from you and get somebody to play Rocky. And he's like, no,
I'm gonna play Rocky. I wanna play Rocky. That role
was for me. And they're like, now they threw a
bunch of money at him. Still wouldn't take it because
he knew this is something bigger than just one movie

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that I wrote. This could be my entire career. And
boy was he right, because the movie went on to
spawn an entire franchise and spinoffs, has made over a
billion dollars as a franchise at the box office. And
it all goes back to that underdog story. No better
example of betting on yourself, writing something in three and

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a half days and thinking this is going to be
my ticket. That is a crazy thing to feel. It
is hard to turn down that amount of money and
the fact that it was made for right around a
million dollars. Some movies today will spend a million dollars
just on visual effects, sometimes even for just one sequence.
This entire movie was made for that. At number nine,

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I have Rocky from nineteen seventy six at number eight
in the most profitable movies of all time. Halloween from
nineteen seventy eight, direct by John Carpenter, who is a
legendary horror director, had a budget of three hundred and
twenty five thousand dollars, went on to make seventy million
dollars at the box office. That is a two hundred

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and fifteen X return. This movie was originally called The
Babysitter Murders, which, man, I'm glad that this movie did
not end up being named that because if it would
have been called The Babysitter Murders, I don't think it
would have been as successful. I think a huge reason

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that the Michael Meyers story connects so well is because
it's tied to Halloween, and anytime Halloween rolls around. Even
though it's not really a thing as much now to
watch things on cable, you still want to go back
and watch these. It becomes tradition, just like we watched
Christmas movies around Christmas time. Once the leaves start to
change and it's spooky season, I am for sure going

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to rewatch something in the Halloween franchise. So if it
would have been The Babysitter Murder, it just would have
been another seventies movie, probably just a footnote in John
Carpenter's career. This movie was so low budget that the
mass they used for Michael Myers reportedly only cost a
dollar and ninety eight cents. They went to the store

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they got a cheap Captain Kirk mask, which is William
Shatner from Star Trek, and they ended up modifying that mask.
You can kind of see it in some of the
scenes that are very up close and kind of on
the profile side of him. They took off like the sideburns,
They removed a lot of the features, painted the entire

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thing white, messed with the hair a little bit. Initially
they had some different types of masks. There was like
a clown mask at one point, which would have been awful.
All these small little details ended up making this movie iconic.
And if one of these small details wouldn't have been
in place, I don't think the movie would have worked.
Michael Myers was just referred to as the shape in

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the credits, and there was actually an actor obviously wearing
the mask and wearing the jumpsuit, but they wanted him
to feel more evil than a real person. There was
no Halloween, we wouldn't have Friday the thirteenth, scream a
Nightmare on Elm Street, and so forth. This is the
one that set the blueprint, so was made for very

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little money, not only did well on its own, but
also sparked an entire genre of movie. And even though
it is seen as a scary slasher horror movie that
is violent, a lot of the suspense in this movie
comes from what you don't see and the mystery and
the tension that is created through that iconic music. Not

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only the main theme that we all know that, but
my favorite part of the score is just when Michael
Myers is gating on somebody, which is always kind of
funny because he walks at the same pace the entire time,
and everybody else just kind of freaks out, and they're
fumbling around trying to get their bearings, and there's this

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piano note that just plays that donn don un donn
as he's walking up, gaining on them, and then it
gets a little bit higher. It's like doneinging thing, doneing
thing thing. It's the tension they create with music, which
is what makes this movie even scarier. So at number eight,
I have Halloween from nineteen seventy eight next up on

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my list at number seven, The Texas Trained Saw Massacre
from nineteen seventy four. The movie costs one hundred and
forty thousand dollars to make went on to earn thirty
one million dollars at the box office. That is a
two hundred and twenty one x return on Texas string
Saw Massacre. The movie was partially inspired by the crimes

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of serial killer Edgin, who was also an influence on
movies like Psycho and The Silence of the Lambs. And
despite the title of it being the Texas Chainsaw Massacre,
there's not a whole lot of crazy gore in this
first movie. They obviously get more gory later on, but
a lot of the horror, again, much like in Halloween,

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it comes from what you don't see, creating the atmosphere,
which the atmosphere and the Texas chainsaw massacre is really creepy.
After I saw this movie, obviously I grew up in Texas,
but it made me very weary of the back roads
because you always kind of wonder after watching this when
you're driving down the back roads in Texas or maybe

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another state you lived in the South, you always kind
of wonder what those people are up to that live
out in the middle of nowhere. Sometimes I'll be driving
out like by my parents' house, and there's a good
stretch of miles where there's nothing but one house where
they're pretty far from a gas station or a grocery store,
and you think, man, what is going on in that house?

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And then they have a shed out back, and you're like, oh, man,
the things they could get away with. So watching this
movie it made me a little bit more fearful to
drive around Texas. And for sure I would never stop
pick up a hitchhiker or even stop and ask for
directions in a really small town. I'm just gonna keep
on going. But this movie was actually shot in Texas,

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which is not always the case. But the movie was
shot when it was one hundred degrees outside. So you
probably see some real frustration from some of the actors
because they said it was physically exhausting long production days,
because a lot of making a movie is just sitting
around and waiting, and you're having to make this low
budget movie and sitting around and waiting in the hot

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Texas heat. But it was shot on real locations, including
an old farmhouse, and they did all that to save money.
Leather Face, his mask was created to hide the emotions
of the killer, kind of the same thing with Michael Myers,
that you hide all the expressions from your villain's face. Therefore,
if you just had this blank stare of nothingness, that

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makes it creepier. They also positioned this movie as being
based on real events, which also scared me as a
kid because I thought this actually happened, and I thought, man,
I sure, hope I don't encounter a leather Face growing
up in Texas. But it went on also to be
one of the most influential horror movies ever made at
number seven. The Texas Trainsaw Massacre, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
After you stop screaming, you'll start talking about it.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
At number six. Mad Max from nineteen seventy nine, directed
by George Miller, had a budget of four hundred and
fifty thousand, almost half a million dollars, went on to
make one hundred million dollars at the box office. That
is a two hundred and twenty two x return on investment.

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This was Mel Gibson's first ever major role. It's really
got his career started back in the seventies. A lot
of the vvehicles and stunts were real because well, the
filmmakers couldn't afford real special effects, So I think that
is why this movie probably still holds up a little
bit to this day. Also, to save money, they actually
use real motorcycle gang members as extras, because you think, man,

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we got to create this crazy environment with some really
sketchy people, which I have to imagine probably created some
tension on set. Hopefully they did their research and didn't
have rival gang members working on the same set, but
the stunts were reportedly so dangerous that some insurance companies
refused to cover the production, which is a big thing

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with any kind of movie that has a lot of stunts.
You have crazy insurance just in case something goes wrong,
and if you're working on a less than half a
million dollar budget, probably some things are going to go wrong.
And at the time when this movie came out in
the seventies, it had the Guinness World Record of the
most profitable movie ever made. The success of this movie

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went on to create even bigger movies like Mad Max
Fury Road. Nearly forty years later, we also had to
spin off with Anya Taylor Joy furiosa obviously highly influential
on the post apocalyptic genre in movies. At number six
is Mad Max and number five is Knight of the

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Living Dead from nineteen sixty eight, directed by George a Romero,
who is a huge zombie movie director, had a budget
of about one hundred and fourteen thousand dollars, went on
to make thirty million dollars at the box office. That
is a two hundred and sixty x return on investment.

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The two things I know George A Romero four are
Night of Living Dead all the zombie movies he made.
But also he always wears like big thing glasses. He
essentially created the modern zombie movie because before this, zombie
weren't really a thing like we know them so much
now in pop culture with things like the Walking Dead everything,
and you just know it's a zombie. But before this movie,

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they were just these random supernatural creatures from folklore that
weren't really established as a movie genre. But it was
George A. Romero who reinvented the zombie and turned them
into flesh eating monsters, which is what we know now.
Zombies eat brains and then they turn whoever they eat
into a zombie, therefore creating this whole Okay, now I'm

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a zombie, and now the idea is spreading, and the
idea of a zombie has evolved throughout his movies, where
they're often depicted as being slow creatures that are kind
of dumb and just like brains brains, and then eventually
they get a little bit more intelligent. They start picking
up on things. They're dead, well they're not really dead,

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they're undead, but then they kind of have some brain activity.
They get a little bit smarter when it comes to
how to find humans and how not to fall into
their traps. And then I really love it when the
genre changed and the zombie started to get more regressive
and faster, because there is nothing scarier than a fast zombie.

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But George a Romero made this movie with just a
bunch of his friends and some local actors in Pittsburgh.
The movie was initially filmed in black and white because
it is so much cheaper to do, and the opening
scene with the cemetery was actually filmed in a real cemetery,
which would he give me some feelings of like, oh, man,
should we be doing this? But it was one of

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the first horror movies ever to feature a black lead character.
And then George a Romero ended up using horror as
so much more than just a scary zombie movie. He
used it as a way to break down social issues
through the power of a zombie movie. And actually, due
to a copyright mistake on some of the early prints,

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the movie ended up becoming on accident public domain, and
because of that, it became one of the most widely
distributed horror films in history. In the movie movie has
influenced so many things like Walking Dead that I mentioned earlier,
video games, things like Resident Evil and it all came
from one hundred and fourteen thousand dollars budget, and number
five is Night of the Living dead at number four

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from nineteen ninety nine, I have the blair Witch Project
had a budget of six hundred thousand dollars went on
to make two hundred and forty eight million dollars even
though the initial shoot only cost sixty thousand dollars. And
sometimes I like lose kind of a grasp of money
when I talk about movie budgets because I'm like, six

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hundred thousand dollars that is nothing. But I couldn't even
get six thousand dollars together to film a movie, So
this entire thing is kind of crazy. But that is
a four hundred and thirteen x return on investment. And
like I mentioned, they initially had a sixty thousand dollars
shoot and this was when they just gave all the
actors in the movie handheld cameras and had them shoot things.

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So that's why it feels like found footage that cam
that is actually an authentic thing. This is an example
of a movie that went viral back in the nineties
before going viral was an actual thing. And how they
did that is they presented this movie like it was real.
They created a website claiming that the story of the
blair Witch was real. And that was something I felt

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going into watching this movie that I watched it probably
more as if it were a documentary. So a lot
of people who went to go see initially in theaters
actually thought that those three actors in the movie disappeared.
That's not what happened. The actors in the movie use
their real names to make it feel more authentic. They
spent days alone in the forest while filming, so I

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have to imagine that is kind of terrifying in itself.
And this was one of those movies that changed how
studios marketed movies, not that they were the first to
do it, because, like we mentioned earlier, Texas Chainsaw Massacre
also kind of presented that as a true story. But
I think when you can kind of blend the lines
of what is real and what is fake, which is
probably so much harder to do now with the Internet

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and everybody being like we're getting scammed all the time
and being way more dial into when something is presented
as real but it's actually fake. You probably couldn't get
away with it as much today, But back in the
nineties you could do things like that. At number four,
you have the Better Witch Project, one of the most
profitable movies of all time, and number three is one

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of the more modern entries on the list from twenty fifteen,
which a lot of these have been in the seventies
and eighties and nineties, but now in the twenty tens.
You have The Gallows, which was made on a budget
of one hundred thousand dollars went on to make forty
three million dollars at the box office. That is a
four hundred and thirty x return on investment. This is

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a Blumhouse movie, which Blumhouse is the studio that I
highly credit with really seeing movies as an investment, and
it's kind of like playing the lottery because they know
how profitable the horror genre is. So this studio historically
it makes movies for smaller budgets. Their idea is, okay,

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we spend a million dollars to make this movie. What
if it bombs. Okay, well, we only spend a million dollars.
If we at least make two million dollars, we're making
our money back. If we make three million dollars, all right,
we're profitable. Now. The return on investment is so good
that they take these risks time and time again. But
that does mean that sometimes there are some really bad

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Blumhouse movies. It's not really a studio that I see
the logo and think, ah, I'm gonna watch every Blumhouse
movie very much. So they have to win me over
with their casting and more than just the concept, because
sometimes they just fall flat, not like an A twenty four.
I feel pretty good about going into any A twenty
four movie and thinking, you know, I'm going to get
a pretty good product here. But The Gallows started as

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a short film before being expanded into a full feature,
which in the horror genre that is kind of the
road you go down a lot, especially now with the
YouTube generation where you can put out a ten minute
short on YouTube, get a studio excited about it, and
then you make a full feature length movie. But this
movie was made with no major Hollywood backing. Before Blumhouse

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saw the potential here, they got on board, and what
do they do. They heavily marketed this movie to teenagers
through social media, and that works because you find that
found footage style movies just make the production cheaper and
the formula works time and time again. But the entire
movie is about a cursed high school play allowing filmmakers

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to use real locations because it's easy to find. You
don't have to go to some crazy location or different country.
It can just go to a school that you find
and you can film at. But the success of this
movie showed that people still like simple, self contained horror stories,
which we are still seeing to this day, and we
will see at number two because that number two is

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Obsession from twenty twenty six, directed by Curry Baker. It
cost seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars to make and
went on to earn over four hundred and thirty million
dollars at the box office. That is a five one
hundred and seventy X return. And we're not even talking
about the year as a whole, even though now you

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can watch it for free on Peacock. But this became
and is now the best modern example of a small
budget and big box office return. But not only that,
this movie took over pop culture where even people who
don't particularly like horror movies because it had so much

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of a buzz and it felt like one of those
movies you need to see for yourself. That people who
aren't even horror fans were checking out this movie and
being like, ugh, not entirely for me, but I can
see why people enjoy this, and it's good. It is
just not for me. But this followed the path of
all these other movies that came before, especially What is
going to Be at number one, which I think is

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the holy grail of small budget horror movie turned major
success and full franchise. But even going back to the
Blade witche project, all these simple concepts that they look
easy to do on paper, so just do them, showing
that if you could just have that connection with the audience,
that is all you really need to create massive success.

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And if you can build that word of mouth, that
is so much more value than running a TikTok campaign
then having all your actors go on all the talk
shows and do the entire circuit. It all comes down
to that word of mouth and creating something that people
feel that they need to be a part of and
go see in theaters, otherwise they're going to be left

(30:47):
out of the conversation. So this seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars movie has been annihilating things like Supergirl and
The Mandalorian and Grogu This year, Who's spent two hundred
two hundred and fifty million dollars on producing those movies.
So this is really shaking up Hollywood right now, proving

(31:09):
that you don't need a huge budget to be successful
now and also showing that we crave original stories where
we keep getting fed a lot of franchises, and I
know I'm a part of that. I love Disney, I
love Marvel, I love big franchises as much as anything else.
But I think people who maybe casually go to the movies,

(31:30):
maybe just once a year, and then they just get
fed remakes and reboots and sequels, and you just want
something fresh, and studios just keep saying we need to
sell familiarity, we need to get people back into things
that they remember from their childhood. But Obsession has kind
of shattered all that, and I hope that the studios

(31:51):
have a moment of realization right now, which I think
you're starting to see that we just crave original stories.
We don't need a big budget. We just want something good.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
We just want something good. Obsession is a perfect example
of that. So maybe that'll change and studios will stop
overspending when audiences just really want strong ideas. We don't
need every a list Henter in a movie in order
to enjoy it, just give us something good. But at
number two is Obsession from twenty twenty six, and finally

(32:24):
at number one, the most profitable movie of all time
is Paranormal Activity from two thousand and nine. The movie
was shot initially for fifteen thousand dollars and went on
to make one hundred and ninety three million dollars at

(32:44):
the box office, a nine hundred x return on investment.
That is crazy. So it was initially shot at fifteen
thousand dollars. They did have post production which brought the
budget to about two hundred and fifteen dollars, but that's
still really good. But just looking at that initial fifteen
thousand dollars to make the movie, and Paranormal Activity spawned

(33:09):
the entire reemergence of this genre of found footage. They
weren't the first to do it, but I think in
two thousand and nine they gave everybody the idea, this
is what we need to do because it is very
cheap to make. Obviously influenced by things like Better Witch Project,
but it created such a great formula that maybe ran
its course later in the franchise. But I love paranormal

(33:33):
activity the first movie, and I think it's because I'm
just fascinated with haunted house movies and anything where you
have a really strong, almost demonic or some paranormal force
in a movie. That is probably the freakiest thing to me.
Maybe it's because I struggled a lot with sleep growing up.
I suffered from sleep paralysis. That's something like this happening

(33:56):
to me just freaks me out. It is probably the
most terrifying because it feels like it could actually happen.
I don't think Freddy Krueger is going to come out
of my dreams. A doll probably isn't going to come
to life and chase me down the hallway. But I
just feel like there's something sinister here that feels very real.
The director had actually never made a film before, and

(34:17):
the movie was shot almost entirely in his own house,
which I know later during the pandemic. That idea kind
of came back people filming movies over zoom, but a
crazy concept back in two thousand and nine that now
doesn't feel so crazy anymore. And the entire concept was
built around one simple question, what if the scariest thing

(34:39):
happened in your own bedroom, the place where you're supposed
to feel the most safe. You go to bed and
I you get all curled up, you play your sound machine.
That is your safe place. What if suddenly that safe
place wasn't a safe place anymore and you were terrified
to go to sleep. For a period in my life,
I was terrified to go to sleep when I was

(35:00):
suffering from sleep paralysis, where I just fell at night
like I was awake, I wasn't dreaming. I just felt
like there was this heavy presence on my chest and
I just couldn't move. One time, I remember the worst
it got where I would kind of feel it like
coming in waves, where it felt like there was something
pushing the covers down on me, and I would push

(35:21):
the covers off of me to kind of get it off,
and I'm like, that's not happening. That doesn't feel real,
And then they would come back even harder, and I'm like,
oh no, this is not just in my head. I
actually feel this. But the one time it was so
bad that that was happening, that this force just kind
of came down and I couldn't move my body. And
I remember at the time I was sleeping on the

(35:42):
floor on a mattress, and I felt this entire pressure.
I live with my body and I lived with my
brother at the time, and I remember I could see
him in the other room and I tried to turn
my body. I couldn't. I could only turn my head
a little bit, and I remember turning it to the
left and trying to scream for help. And I was like,

(36:04):
and I try to say help me, and nothing came
out of my mouth. And there were other times where
I heard things like somebody yell hey in my ear
like that freaked me out. And this was after I
saw Paranormal Activity. So then my mind started to going like,
oh no, this house is definitely haunted. My safe place
is no longer a safe place. But this movie is creepy.

(36:26):
Some of the prequels aren't as great where they try
to explain the lore of where this all comes from. Yeah,
that's a little bit too much for me. I just say,
go back to basics to Paranormal Activity one, which is
the most profitable movie ever made. That is the list.
I'll come back and give my spoiler free review of
The Invite. Let's get into it now. A spoiler free

(36:54):
movie review of the Invite, directed by Olivia Wilde, who
I enjoy as a director movies like BookSmart. Don't Worry Darling.
I think she is a director that I take note
of every single movie that she puts out, and this one.
It's hard to say that it's our best movie because
I love BookSmart so much that one put her on
the map. But this is one of those movies that

(37:16):
if you love films that give you anxiety, which I do.
I love going into a theater, sitting in my seat
and feeling uncomfortable, some people don't like that. If you
don't like that feeling, you will not have a good
time watching The Invite because from the very opening scene
you have all this tension between Olivia Wilde and Seth Rogan.
They play a married couple living in a very, very

(37:38):
fancy apartment, and you learn more about the origins of
that apartment and the way they bring out a lot
of this anxiety intention is through the score from the
very opening scene, where you feel it immediately because Seth
Rogan and Olivia Wilde are going through a bit of
a rough patch in their relationship. They are just constantly
arguing through the very beginning of this movie and you

(38:00):
have this score that is almost this very fast paced
jazz music that is at times a little bit too loud,
and it feels so chaotic in your brain where I
was sitting there in my seat feeling uncomfortable because they're
yelling trying to speak over the music, and you think, man,
why didn't they turn down that music in post production?
But I think that was done by design because it's

(38:22):
supposed to give you that emotion. It's supposed to make
you feel the chaoticness of this movie and of their
love story. Olivia Wilde wants to invite their neighbors for dinner,
and their neighbors are Penelope Cruz and Ed Norton. Seth
Rogan doesn't want anything to do with it. He has
some health problems, he doesn't want to be around people.

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But she insists on it because they just fixed up
the apartment and they have been kind of a nuisance
to everybody in the building because it's been loud. So
they kind of want to apologize to their neighbors, have
them over for a nice meal so they can get
to talking and apologize for all that. But Seth Rogen
is very Seth in this movie, and it depends on
how you feel about him? And Seth Rogen basically playing

(39:06):
the same character in every single movie, how do you
feel about it? He is kind of typecast as the
easy going but also easily annoyed stoner with a very
gruff voice. He's very opinionated. He always makes these backhanded
remarks that are his branded comedy, and I do believe
this is Seth Rogan at his best. But it is

(39:27):
so Seth Rogen that if you are kind of tired
of him kind of doing the same thing over and
over again, you might not be a fan of his
performance in this movie, although I do think it is
his most layered performance because even though he's doing the
same thing that he's done recently in like the studio
where he smokes weed, he gets into arguments. He makes

(39:48):
situations way more awkward and intense that they need to be.
The story here fits it so well, and you start
to feel for his character a little bit because he
is a failed musician now working as a music teacher,
and you can feel that he has a lot of
this rage and emotions that he doesn't really know how
to handle, and it all kind of comes out as

(40:10):
aggression because he doesn't really like where he is in
his life, even the origins of the apartment, which you
learned later in the movie. He has all these feelings that, man,
I kind of failed, and now I'm kind of failing
in my relationship, and I really just don't want to
be around these two neighbors who I have had issues
with here in the building. And Olivia Wilde is very

(40:33):
obsessed with this apartment. She spent a lot of money
on all of the furniture and the rugs and really
just wants to show it off. But you learn from
the very opening scene that these two people have a
history together, they have a kid. They've been arguing for
so long, and is this night going to be the
night that breaks them or the knight that solves all

(40:54):
their problems, or are they going to get this couple
over here have the worst night ever and explode everything.
And I know the trailer gave away a lot of
what the actual invite is to do, and I knew
it going into it. I don't want to spoil it
here in this review because maybe you miss that. I
know not everybody watches every single trailer to every single movie,

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So I just want to set the stage of this
movie all leading up to win Penelope Cruise and Ed
Norton come over, because when they get there, they very
much enter that chaotic situation. But it's what happens next
and the actual invite where this movie just makes a
complete one pint eighty and suddenly it feels so different
and it's gonna get an emotion out of you. And

(41:37):
once that happens, you cannot help but be enthralled in
the story. You see the characters completely change, You see
everything kind of go out the window, and there is
so much more on the line, and that is where
it truly becomes like a oh man, this movie really
went there. It's gonna get awkward, and I think that's
what I like about this story. If at any time

(41:59):
there is a bag of awkwardness, this movie is going
to open it up fully and get everything out of
there and present it to you as the audience. This
is a remake of a Spanish film from twenty twenty
called The People Upstairs, And once you learn about these
people upstairs, you're like, oh man, you will start to
question everybody you've ever lived around, Like, man, you never
know what goes on behind those closed doors. I think

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what I love the most about this movie is it
made something very small feel very big because it takes
place primarily in one location. I am always fascinated with
a movie that has very limited sets and very limited
actors because it takes a lot of skill to make
that entertaining. You have four main characters here, you have

(42:45):
one location. They never really leave the apartment, but so
much goes on that the movie goes by really quickly
and you never feel like they cheaped out on any
aspect of this movie, even though it only costs twelve
million dollars. And by the end of this movie, I
just felt like I watch something very poetic. It made
a really great statement on relationships, and I think for

(43:05):
some people if you're going through something, it might be
a little bit triggering because these characters go through a lot.
They have basically a full out therapy session at one
point in this movie. So if you're maybe not in
the best relationship right now, I don't know if this
is the movie to see, because I felt a lot
of people in the theater start to look inward on

(43:28):
themselves because at the beginning of the film, a lot
of people were laughing, having a good time. Because at
the core of this story it is a comedy. There
are comedic things that happen. I don't think it's one
you go into and think, oh, it's gonna be like
Seth Rogan and knocked Up. But there are some funny
elements to it. But then it gets very serious at times,

(43:48):
it gets a little bit dark, and Seth Rogan is
still there to kind of poke the jokes and bring
some life in some of these situations where it's like,
oh man, this is getting a little bit more intense.
This is not exactly what I signed up for. But
the last in the theater got a little bit quieter
to the end. It was kind of like a roller
coaster where it was going up the whole time, we're

(44:09):
all laughing, we're having fun. You come down off that
first big drop, which in the case of this movie
is the reveal of what the invite is, and then
by the end of it, you're just kind of coasting
to the end. You've fully exerted yourself of all your emotions,
all your energy, and then at the very end you're
just kind of coasting there, waiting to get to the

(44:30):
end of the ride, and you've had a great time.
Your face is kind of tingling and then you suddenly
have this realization that the ride is over. That is
how I felt at the end of this movie, watching
the relationship between Olivia Wilde and Seth Rogan, of going
through all these emotions with him and then ending in
a very beautiful place. I think this movie was just

(44:52):
so out of nowhere for me where I thought, Okay,
it's another A twenty four movie. I have been a
fan of Olivia Wilde's work since BookSmart. I thought she
ca came out really strong with that movie. Don't Worry Darling,
with Florence Pugh and Harry Styles, was very ambitious, maybe
a little bit too ambitious. I still enjoyed that theater experience.
I do think it is a very polarizing movie. A

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lot of people didn't understand or just flat out hated
that movie, but I still felt like it was a
very noteworthy film. But when it comes to the invite,
it was the side of her I really didn't expect
because there aren't a lot of bells and whistles. It
is just straight ahead acting, a great score, and just
a really solid story that'll make you look inward, especially

(45:36):
if you're going through something in your relationship right now.
So just a bit of a warning on that. But
for the invite, I'll give it four out of five.
I'll be careful with this rating system. Let's just say apartments.

Speaker 2 (45:49):
It's gone to head down to movie Mike Traylor Park all.

Speaker 1 (45:54):
Right, right, all right. At the time of recording this,
I have not seen the Avengers Doomsday trailer yet. Whenever
you are listening to this, it's probably been out for
a week now. But I wanted to blind react to
Avengers Doomsday coming out in theaters on December eighteenth, my
second most anticipated movie of the year, obviously being a
huge Marvel fan. With Spider Man coming out this week.

(46:15):
Oh my gosh, there's a lot to be excited about,
but there's also a lot to be worried about, and
I want to get into all that. But before we do,
I'm going to blind react to the Avengers Doomsday trailer.
Watching it now for the very first time. You'll hear
me react throughout it. But it is, let's see, two
minutes and twenty five seconds right now. It was posted

(46:38):
and it already has twenty four million views on day one,
not even a full eight hours at the time of
recording this, So all right, I'll hit play and then
we'll talk about it on the other side. So right
now here is the full Avengers doomsday trailer. Save your school.

Speaker 4 (46:57):
All right, something's coming. Let's come in.

Speaker 1 (47:04):
Dress your ex looking at you may not be able to.
Oh that's dousday is done.

Speaker 4 (47:12):
We should be faced with another thing about decision.

Speaker 1 (47:17):
Oh it looks good.

Speaker 4 (47:23):
I've fought with many warriors in my time. You far
then all of us put together, and they.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
Died Anymour's back died face black panthers.

Speaker 4 (47:39):
And threats. That's getting me far less than this one.

Speaker 1 (47:48):
Oh, Cyclops, we go gambit.

Speaker 3 (47:54):
Change Chi think that they sacrifice will be for nothing
if we do low eachilling together.

Speaker 4 (48:02):
Put aside your petty schools.

Speaker 1 (48:07):
Steak looks good.

Speaker 3 (48:08):
I presume nothing except this. If you return, who will return?
Has brothers and his sisters? Ah good, a lot of
my words. We are going to need a miracle.

Speaker 4 (48:35):
Mm hmm. Hey now that's not possible.

Speaker 1 (48:51):
Oh oh okay, venders doomsday Infinity vision. Interesting. Decenumber eighteenth
is doomsday.

Speaker 4 (49:10):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
I have a lot of feelings about this. Okay, First,
I'm gonna go back and listen to what we heard
at the beginning. Which I have to assume is Victor
von Doom. So this is Robert Downey Junior. It should be,
because the accent threw me off.

Speaker 3 (49:26):
Let's hear, before this day is done, we should be
faced with an unting above decision.

Speaker 1 (49:33):
Yeah, because we see doctor Doom there, all right, that
sounds interesting, our first real full look at Doom. Here
are my thoughts on this. It is very Thor heavy,
and that worries me a little bit. So let's get
into the negative first. I think just because we've already
seen this, we've seen Thor go up against Stanos and fail.

(49:55):
I don't know if Thor is the guy I want
to put taking down doctor dou but I have to
imagine it has to be Thor because Chris Hemsworth is
that pillar, the one connecting us to all the original
Avengers movies. He is that guy. He is that prominent
of a character. Chris Hemsworth is that prominent of an actor.

(50:17):
You kind of have to put him there, But I
don't entirely love it. There are some really good shots
of him going up against Doom and basically letting out
all the thunder, and then Victor von Doom just stops
him not even with this full hand. It looks like
maybe two fingers. Then he stops Thor. So if Thor

(50:39):
couldn't take out Thanos, what makes you think that he
needs to be the dude to go up against Doom.
I mean, I'm looking at it right now, two fingers
and he's holding back Thor, who's giving him his awe.
So that shows you how powerful Doom is. I mean,
in the Secret Wars comic, Doom annihilates Thanos, a much

(51:00):
bigger threat than Thanos. I don't think Thor is the
guy to go up against him. But then at the
end of this trailer we see Captain America return. There
is Steve Rogers there with the long hair and the
beard and the bomber jacket, basically in all black, and
he takes Thor's hammer again. He looks good, and we

(51:22):
have to rely on Captain America. He has to be
our savior. He is, I would say, our most powerful leader,
and he was supposed to be gone, but obviously he's
gonna come back, probably because of the money, which that
annoys me a little bit. But as a Marvel moves
into this new phase where they're kind of closing out
this chapter it's gonna get more into mutant heavy territory.

(51:46):
I feel like this really has to be Steve Rogers Goodbye.
It either has to be in Doomsday or it has
to be in Secret Wars. He can't go on past this,
Chris Evans just he has to go. I think that
character is gonna have less impact the more you keep
him around, but I understand why you need him and
why his character is necessary in this trailer and in

(52:09):
this movie. The things that really excite me about this is.

Speaker 4 (52:14):
The X Man.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
I think I'm going to be the most excited to
see all those characters come to life. We see more
of Cyclops in this which you heard me earlier. That
makes me want to freak out because I'm so into
X Men ninety seven right now, which the first season fantastic.
Season two is just as fantastic, and it fleshes out
the X Men in ways we've never had before in

(52:36):
film where the characters were changed a lot. I feel
like it didn't fit the aesthetic the correct way. X
Men ninety seven is the perfect representation of all individual
X Men, particularly with Cyclops. He shines so much more
because you truly see how great of a leader he
is and how powerful he is, and that is what
I want out of this movie, and we get that here.

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Obviously with the first look back when it was first
announced that James Marsen was returning, we saw that optic
blast from Cyclops, but you see it way more here
in this trailer, and that is exciting. Even though I've
already thought that is gonna be the best scene in
the movie, and now I see it here in the trailer,
I still feel like when that happens in theaters, I'm
gonna lose my mind. Because in this trailer you see

(53:20):
him walking out in the comic book accurate suit, highly
influenced by the nineties look of Cyclops, and it looks fantastic.
The fact that James Marsden played him back in the
early two thousands in those first movies and now is
back feels so right. My second favorite thing is Gambit
Fighting Shang Chi, which I maybe a month or so

(53:42):
agosted rewatching shang Chi. I think it came on maybe
we're on vacation on cable or I just started watching
it on the plane or something. But that's movie was
so good, and we have been waiting for Shang Chi too,
for so long to see him return in this and
go up against Gambit, which was probably the best part

(54:02):
of Deadpoll and Wolverine as far as cameos that I
wanted to see go further because Channing Tatum has been
wanting to play Gambit his entire life, and I love
his take on the character. I know he's a bigger,
bulkier dude, but I rather have somebody who is so
passionate about Gambit playing Gambit than somebody that looks just
more like him. I love his take on the character

(54:25):
with the accent, and seeing him here in the suit
with the powers, I think looks fantastic. And then, oddly
what's the least exciting to me is seeing all the
teams come together. You see the Fantastic Four enter the room,
you see the Thunderbolts there, which is basically the new Avengers.
Ant Man is back, we have Anthony Mackie in here.
That's a crazy room. Though, when you see all those

(54:47):
teams together, the Thunderbolts, Fantastic Four and then Thor just
staring them down, I don't think one character in that
room that I'm looking at right now, at about the
thirty nine second mark, I would really be interested in
seeing a solo movie, which is something that is so
different from the early Avengers movies where it was all
about those individual movies and them coming together as a team.

(55:10):
It almost takes this entire room to even give me
a little bit of excitement. So I think that is
indicative of what is going to come from all these
Avengers movies. I am still excited about it. I'm curious
to see how Loki fits in there. Like I mentioned earlier,
what I'm most excited about is the X Men's storyline.
We see mystique in here. It looks like it's going

(55:32):
to be a darker Avengers movie. Just by the tone
the colors of this trailer, I feel like we're going
to lose some people. Somebody has to die by the
end of Doomsday. Is it going to be Captain America?
That would be my heavy favorite. I would put money
on DraftKings on Captain America not making it through this movie.

(55:53):
I also think looking at what is coming before it
and who is not going to be in Doomsday is
another big indicator. Because we have Spider Man coming out
this week, but he is not a part of Doomsday,
and Kevin Fagey did confirm that Brand New Day takes
place before Doomsday. Not necessarily it leads right into it

(56:13):
as far as the MCU timeline, but it is confirmed
that it is set before the events of Doomsday. So
I have to imagine, obviously we're gonna get an end
credit scene in Spider Man and overall where his character
is going is going to lead into Doomsday, but he's
not going to be a part of it. He has
to be a part of Secret Wars, because that is

(56:35):
my favorite moment of Secret Wars is when he gets
the Symbiote suit and he turns into Black Suit Spider Man.
That has to be in Secret Wars. They can't change
it that much. I think. I do like Robert Downey Jr.
Is a villain. I am not as opposed to it
as I initially was thinking. Man, it's gonna feel weird

(56:57):
rooting against Iron Man, or it's gonna feel very odd
seeing Robert Downey Junior back in the MCU after what
happened to Iron Man. It felt cash grabby, It felt cheap.
It felt like the MCU just saying we need Robert
Downey Junior because he is our cash cow. He is
who people pay money to go see. But after watching

(57:17):
this trailer, it makes sense to me. It all looks
like it's gonna work out. The only thing, again, that
is a little bit worrisome is the fact that it
kind of just feels like the remnants of Endgame. So
I need this movie to feel like its own thing.
I needed to have a lot on the line. That's

(57:38):
why I say somebody has to die by the end
of this movie. Otherwise it's gonna start feeling like they're
just holding onto the glory days, which is how I'm
starting to feel about Chris Hemsworth and Chris Heavens. It
kind of feels like people. And again, I love these
two characters, but I have to make a comparison here
that peaked in high school and now still come around
their high school like they crushed it on the football team,

(58:01):
they were one game away from winning state, and now
they're in college, but they still come around to their
high school to relive their glory days and to hang
out with the coaches and their teachers and be like,
oh man, I'm so glad I'm out of this place.
So glad you're out of this place. Why do you
keep hanging around? That's kind of how I feel about it,
and I don't want to feel that way because I'm
gonna be a total fanboy about this movie. I'm just

(58:24):
considering all the options of what we are going to
get out of the MCU, which they are digging further
into the well. They are working on a Nova movie,
which is a lesser known Marvel character, but a fan
favorite and one that people have been asking to have
a Nova film for a long time. First appeared back
in nineteen seventy six in an issue of Super Avengers.

(58:48):
And this is the Marvel formula. They go back through
the archive and find characters they have the movie rights too.
That is how the Avengers were built, because initially Marvel
went bankrupt, they started selling off all their characters. That
is why to this day they don't have the rights
to Spider Man. And that is how they built the
Avengers movies. Is they used all the characters that they

(59:12):
had the rights to to build that team, and they
made it work, and they formed our love for these
characters that not a lot of people were familiar with
unless you were a comic book nerd. And now they're
the ones that everybody roots for and does not want
to let go, And that is what I worry about
with Doomsday. Are we just not ready to let go

(59:33):
of the glory days of Marvel so much so that
we're bringing back the biggest actor to now play a villain.
But I'm excited for it. The run time for this
movie is two hours and forty five minutes. That is
a beefy superhero movie, so there's gonna be a lot
of characters, hopefully a lot of action. With the last

(59:55):
couple of phases not working out so well as far
as financially and being well received by the fan base,
I think including the X Men is going to be
the thing that feels like a breath of fresh air.
Even though that in itself is kind of a reboot
of what started Marvel in film back in the late
nineties and early two thousands, I think that is now

(01:00:18):
what the fans have an appetite for, and with the
MCU focusing on mutant stories after these Avengers movies wrap up,
I think that is what we're gonna get a lot of. Also,
great to see all the Black Panther characters in there. Again,
I am excited for it. On a scale of one
to five of hype, I'm probably out of four right now,

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where I'm more excited for Spider Man. This doesn't feel
like the event yet, because this kind of feels like
setting the stage, reminding people of why we love these movies.
I think the event is gonna be Avenger Secret Wars
that doesn't come out until next year, December seventeenth, twenty
twenty seven. And there you have it. That was my

(01:01:01):
reaction to the Doomsday trailer. And that was this week's
edition of Movie Mike Trailer Parks, and that is going
to do it for another episode here of the podcast.
But before I go, I gotta give my listeners shout
out of the week, which usually comes to us from
a DM a comment on TikTok or YouTube dot com

(01:01:22):
slash Mike Distro. Sometimes I venture over at a Facebook.
But this week we're going old school to the show email,
which is Moviemike d at gmail dot com. And I
am shouting out Amelia, who wrote me an email and said,
Hey Mike. First, thank you for this amazing podcast. I'm
thirty four and I have little kids, so listening to

(01:01:43):
this podcast makes me feel like I get to go
to the movies each week. Second, please give your wife
an Award for her review of The Breadwinner Preach Girl.
Thank you Amelia for that email. I love reading emails
just because in a world where everything is so fast paced,
I feel like an email you really take time to

(01:02:04):
sit down and write it, like back in the day
when they'd get a jar of ink and a quill
pen and just sit there and be like today Captain's
log I saw host in the city like something like that.
That's the only thing we have now is email, Amelia.
I appreciate that. First of all, I love that feedback
because I kind of wonder sometimes the level of movie

(01:02:27):
fan that all you guys are. Some people like me
go to the movies every single week. I know because
I get those dms on Friday night or Saturday, like, oh,
I just went to go see this, can't wait to
hear your review. I always have those people in mind,
just because I feel like a lot of people are
as passionate about this that you go see everything every
week and then you want to hear about it on Monday.

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I like hearing about people who maybe don't even go
to the movies at all, or you wait for it
on streaming and my reviews to you, are you seeing
that movie without seeing that movie, which sounds like your case, Amelia,
where you got a busy life, you got some little ones.
You don't have time to go to the movies all
the time, but you stay in the know of what

(01:03:10):
is good and what is bad, at least in my opinion,
so hopefully someday you do end up watching these And
then second what you said here, Yes, Kelsey was very
blunt in her review of The Breadwinner, which we both
thought that is in the running for the worst movie
of the year. So that is every single month where
we do our recap episode. So appreciate that note. Thank

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you for listening, Thank you for being subscribed and telling
a friend taking in your movies with me. And until
next time, go out and watch good movies and I
will talk to you later

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