We are now halfway through the year and Mike defines his Top 10 movies of 2026 so far. He shares what made these movies stand out, where you can watch them and what is left that’s coming out that has the ability to make the list. In the Movie Review, Mike talks about Moana starring the Rock. It’s Disney's live-action version of the animated movie we've all known and love. Moana answers the Ocean's call and, for the first time, voyages beyond the reef of her home island of Motunui with the infamous demigod Maui. Mike shares why he was reluctant to see it but ultimately what this live action remake is actually a good thing! In the Trailer Park, Mike talks about Nimrods which is a movie based on the early, real-life touring adventures of the punk rock band Green Day. Mike shares the mid-budget music movies it reminds him of and why we don’t get movies like this anymore.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to a Movie Mike's Movie podcast.
I am your host Movie Mike. We are now halfway
through the year, so I have my list of the
top ten movies of twenty twenty six so far. The
number one movie on this list is going to officially
earn its place, and not only my top ten of
the year so far, but my top ten movies of
the entire year in twenty twenty six. In the movie review,
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I was initially going to boycott this movie because just
the thought of it infuriated me so much. But I
thought I owed it to you to go and watch
this movie with my own eyeballs and tell you my
true feelings.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Even though I hated the idea of this so much.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I will give you my review of mo Wana. I
normally do spoiler free, but it is a remake of
a movie that came out ten years ago that falls
within the spoiler window. We're going full all in on Majana,
so I can tell you all the things I felt
about them turning an animated movie that was perfect into
live action. We'll get into the trailer park, but right
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now I'm just trying not to choke on my own rage.
Here so let's get right into it. Let's talk movies
from the.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Nashville podcast Network. This is Movie Mics Movie Podcast.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Twenty twenty six has been a fantastic year for movies.
We are on the up and up, one of the
healthiest years at the box office because there have been
good movies in the last few years that I was
really excited about, but they just haven't.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Had the numbers.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
But now in twenty twenty six, not only do we
have great movies coming out, but people are actually watching
them and they are making studios money. And that is
a good thing because then we can get more original stories,
we get better franchises.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
It is a much better world to live.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
In when the box office is doing well in my opinion.
But this is also my biggest passion. So I have
for you, of all the movies I've rated and reviewed
this year, my top ten movies of the year so far,
which I think this year is on pace to be
the best year in film.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Since twenty nineteen. So let's get right into this list.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
At number ten, I have a movie called Undertone, which
you can now watch on HBO. Max went to see
this movie in theaters. I rated it a four out
of five. This movie is about a podcast host much
like the one you are listening to right now, except
they cover really strange paranormal things. You have one podcast
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host who is a female who lives in a completely
different location than her co host, so you actually never
see her co host. And a big part of this
movie is it is a horror movie for your ears
more than it is your eyes. But she is living
and taking care of her dying mother and they get
sent a bunch of files randomly, and all they have
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are really weird titles to them, and they decide that
on the podcast they're going to listen to all these recordings,
and you end up uncovering this entire creepy story just
through these recordings that they listen to. React to give
their theories on the people involved in these recordings, and
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they listen to them in different recording sessions, and it
gets a little bit more intense and more intense as
they listen to these uncovering something that they find out
they don't really want to be messing with. What they
are listening to is this couple who are documenting their
paranormal encounters.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
And then you start.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
To learn more details about the woman in the recordings,
the man in the recordings, and it starts to kind
of parallel what is going on in one of the
podcasts hosts personal life. This was one I truly felt
benefited from me going to see it in theaters because
I love the big booming sound that is such a
part of this movie. Also being able to be in
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complete darkness, I feel really added to my feeling of fear,
which is really hard for me to a horror movie
at this point. And there was one moment in this
movie where I truly felt like I wasn't alone in
that theater. I remember looking up to the speakers and thinking,
am I gonna look up there?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
As he had demon looking down at me. It was
that freaky.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
But even though I had such a great theater experience,
the thing about this movie that I feel translate so
much to you watching at home. I'm gonna actually give
you an assignment here is that since it is so
focused on what you hear, because visually.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
This movie is I would say fairly average.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
It is a five hundred thousand dollars movie, so on
the lower budget, you're not gonna watch this movie and think,
oh man, that looked amazing.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
It doesn't look that great.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It looks pretty standard, but they go so above and
beyond in the sound design. With all these recordings that
you listen to, it makes it chilling. So, even though
I love the theater experience, if you watch this movie,
and here's your assignment, if you watch this movie in
your house as late as possible, you feel comfortable starting
a movie. For me, at this point, I final start
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a movie by a probably not gonna finish a movie,
but as late as possible for you that it's close
to your bedtime. You turn off all the lights. I
know that sounds freaky, but turn off all the lights.
And this is very important, the most important step. You
don't watch it through the sound on your TV. You
gotta watch it with headphones. So put it on your iPad,
put it on your phone. Which watching a horror movie
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on my iPad is one of my little pleasures in life.
I just find comfort in putting on a horror movie
and putting on my headphones because I love listening to
it a little bit more intensely. If you're listening to
me on your headphones, now it's just a little bit
more of an intimate experience because it's right there in
your ears. I feel like I hear things better when
I watch a movie on my iPad with headphones, So
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do that as late as possible, watch it with headphones on.
But if you truly allow yourself to immerse yourself in
the story, immerse yourself in the sound, and don't turn
it down.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Leave it up, leave the volume up.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I think that is a very important where sometimes if
you get a little bit freaked out, your reaction sometimes
is to turn it down a little bit. Don't turn
it down, don't pause it, commit to it, and I
think you will have a uniquely thrilling and chilling experience
with Undertone. I give that movie a four out of
five on HBO Max at number nine my top ten
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movies at twenty twenty six. I'm going with Michael. I
gave it a four out of five. You can rent
this movie. It is still on the upper side of
the rental fees of twenty bucks, which if you think
back to renting movies at Blockbuster, it is expensive, but
it's so convenient. Although I do think that we romanticize Blockbuster.
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Growing up, we never went to Blockbuster, so I don't
have that experience of like, oh, I love going to
Blockbuster on a Friday night and picking a movie. I
really think we forgot how awful that experience was. It
was so awful that my parents decided we're not going
to be a Blockbuster family. We did not rent movies
growing up. We rented Movie Vie one time, and it
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was not at Blockbuster. It was at a random video
store that happened to be attached to our Walmart that
they opened up and maybe lasted for a little bit.
Because we had some family in town. They were living
in Tennessee. They came to visit us in Texas and
we needed to entertain them, so we rented some movies.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
We read a child's play, and then we rented a bunch.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Of ThunderCats episodes that was just on VHS. And that
was the only time my mom ever allowed us to
rent anything because she thought the idea of spending money
on a rental was absurd, so we never did it.
And she was so worried about late fees, which I
think is something that people forget about that we hated,
at least collectively as a society about Blockbuster is they
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were so bad about late fees. They were incredibly expensive,
and I think we forget how frustrating that was, and
we just think back to oh Man, back when things
were simple.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
You just go at a blockbuster and pick out a movie.
But then we.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Also forget that sometimes the movie you wanted to rent,
like Titanic, that was so in demand, the shells would
be empty and you couldn't go rent Titanic, So instead
you'd have to go rent Turner in Hoots for the
fifteenth time because the movie you really wanted to watch
was not there. You wanted to rent the Matrix. Nah,
no Matrix for you. You got to watch Beethoven again.
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But when it comes to renting movies at home, like
Michael for twenty bucks, it does feel a little bit expensive,
especially if you're just watching it by yourself. But for
a family, twenty bucks at home is way cheaper than
going to the movies. And at the time of recording
this right now, they still have not said when or
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even where Michael is going to stream, which it now
holds the title for the highest grossing bio pick of
all time, which it beat out Oppenheimer.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I always think it is interesting.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
How we define biopicks because even though thematically Oppenheimer is
a biopick. I guess I just don't look at that
as a traditional BIOPI, but that's who would beat out.
In the top five, you have American Sniper at number five.
I also wouldn't fully look at American Sniper and think
bio pick. But when you think about the story, that
is what that is. It is the story of one
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person's life, and a fantastic story at that much like
number four, which is the Passion of the Christ.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I also wouldn't look at.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
That movie and immediately compare it to other things like
Michael and Oppenheimer, but at its core, that is what
the Passion of the Christ is. At number three you
have Bohemian Rhapsody, which is the story of Queen, primarily
focusing on Freddie Mercury. That is just what I think
about more when I think about biopicks, I guess I
often just associated with music biopicks. But then at number
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two you have Oppenheimer and number one is Michael. So
in that top five you have a variety of different biopicks.
If you are just looking purely at music, bio picks
at number five would be straight out of Compton, at
number four would be Elvis.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
At number three would.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Be Rocketman, and then obviously the top two go to
Bohemian Rhapsody and Michael. But I think it's because I
went into this movie not wanting to like it, because
historically I just don't love music biopicks because they feel
so fake to me.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Especially when the family is involved.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
At least in Michael Jackson's case, he is no longer living,
so I feel like that should be a stipulation when
it comes to making a biopick. The person no longer
has to be living. Their life has to be complete
in order for the movie to be complete, because if
they're still alive, it just feels like there's more story
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you can tell. You're not picking the best story, and
I don't want to sacrifice people for the sake of
making a biopic. But I think you should not earn
the right of having a movie made about you until
you're gone. It is something that should be made after you,
and then it's up to the filmmaker to decide what
part of your life they want to tell. In the
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case of Michael, I just thought there's no way this
move movie is going to be good, because at one
point there was a three hour rumored run time there
was talk of them going to put out one movie
and then put out the second movie right after it.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I just thought it was going to.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Be super bloated and surface level, for what I got
was actually a great story. So at number nine I
have Michael, which I gave a four out of five.
At number eight, I have Jackass Best and Last, which
I'm now reaching the four point five at a five territory.
There's no lower score than a four on this list.
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This was the most personal movie theater experience for me,
and the thing I love about the Jackass movies is
they have such an unconventional storytelling style that nobody else does,
that nobody else can replicate and be successful with. Because
there is no narrative in a Jackass movie. It is
a bunch of random clips. At times it feels like
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a documentary with aunch of crazy stuff in the middle.
Now you would say it kind of feels like going
to the theater to watch a collection of YouTube clips,
like if you were just hanging out of your friend's
house having some beers and somebody gets YouTube up on
the TV and just starts finding random videos on YouTube,
kind of like Justin Bieber did at Coachella. Where he
was just like playing his own music videos from YouTube.
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That's kind of how this theater experience feels like. But
it works so well because there is that feeling of
bonding in the theater and that is what I experience,
and I know that not everybody is going to have
that experience, So me putting this one at number eight,
I know is very unique to my list and my
relationship with this franchise because I don't think anybody else
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who hasn't experienced every single movie in theaters, has watched
every single episode of Jackass, is going to have that
same experience. But it is so personal to me. I
felt it in that theater. I've teared up twice. This
movie got to me on an entirely different level that
I was not expecting. So at number eight, I have Jackass,
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Best and Last, which by the way, is still in
theaters now. At number seven, I have twenty eight years
Later The Bone Temple, which is available to watch on Netflix,
and it picks up right after twenty eight Years Later,
which came out last year in twenty twenty five, that
is also on Netflix. And the thing about these movies
is I love the franchise, fantastic franchise, But you don't
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necessarily need to watch any other movie in the twenty
eight franchise to enjoy these two. So if you don't
want to pay to rent the other movies, if they're
on a streaming service that you don't have, but you
do have Netflix, I believe that you could just watch
twenty eight years later first movie that came out in
twenty twenty five, and then go right into twenty eight
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years later The Bone Temple, which came out in twenty
twenty six, and.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
You wouldn't be entirely lost.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Would you have all the details and the lore on
the twenty eight franchise? Probably not, But you could watch
these movies and then if you really love them, like
I do, go back and watch the first movies and
then they'll just kind of feel like prequels to you,
because there's nothing so crazy that happens in those movies
that you're gonna turn on twenty eight years later and
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be lost. But what I love so much about The
Bone Temple was Ray Finds performance, who was a fantastic actor.
I don't want to say he's underrated, because I think
people know how great of an actor he is, but
I think something that isn't appreciated as much with a
actor like Ray Fines is their incredible range an actor
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who can truly become entirely different people, which I know
is the definition of acting.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
But being a great character.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Actor like Ray Findes, I feel is something that we
are not getting that much with the.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Actors of today.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Very few people can do it and pull it off
of being somebody like his character in twenty eight years Later, but.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Also Voldemort and Harry Potter.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
He has a fantastic filmography from the Harry Potter franchise Conclave,
which was fantastic just a couple of years ago. The
Menu another fantastic theater experience that I had because he
is such an intense actor who is so dialed in
in every single performance of portraying these very unique characters
all the time, that he is somebody that if I
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just see his name in a leading role, I'm gonna
go watch that movie and know that I'm gonna get
something truly special and he's gonna give it is all.
Also in twenty fourteen, The Grand Budapest Hotel probably one
of the best Wes Anderson movies, especially of the twenty tens,
but even going back to the nineties with Schindler's List.
Ray Fines is an incredible actor and his performance in
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The Bone Temple was next level. He made this movie.
It was such a uniquely beautiful and horrific movie that
it is very rare to go watch something that has zombies,
that has killing, that has violence. I'm pretty intense violence
in this one. You get a little bit uncomfortable, especially
if you don't like seeing people get sliced up, which
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is something that Ah I've started to struggle with more
as of late. Breaking Bones has always been my number
one thing that is so hard for me to see
on screen. It just it just makes me uncomfortable. I
can't watch it in movies, I can't watch it on
YouTube videos. Coming up at number two in things that
make me uncomfortable on screen, it has to be people
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not being stabbed. I can watch somebody being stabbed, but
a lot of things I've watched recently that's becoming a
little bit more of a trend, especially in horror, it's
people getting sliced up, like slicing their hands, like just
the blood ass but not even the blood.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
It is such an intimate way to inflict pain.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Slicing somebody, because at least stabbing is a little bit quicker.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
But a knife going.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Through skin and tearing things, and then I'm like, oh,
what are you tearing? Are you gonna hit an artery?
It just makes me very uncomfortable. At number three only
because I feel that so many TV shows and movies
use it. Now is puking, and it's not so much
that it makes me uncomfortable, but it makes Kelsey very uncomfortable.
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That would be her number one, And there's been so
much puking and just random things too. There'll be an
animated movie in the character pukes and I'm like, come on,
So puking would be at number three, just because it
makes Kelsey so uncomfortable that it makes me uncomfortable. At
number two it would be flesh getting sliced with a knife.
And at number one it's breaking bones. Nothing is ever
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gonna beat breaking bones for me. But at number seven,
I have twenty eight years later, The Bone Temple, which
you can watch on Netflix. At number six, I have
Toy Story five. It is still in theaters. It'll probably
be on Disney Plus late September, could be later than
that because Disney is gonna try to get all the
money they can from this movie. I gave it a
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four point five out of five. The story in this
movie toys versus Tech, and to me, it is Toy
Story one from the perspective of Jesse and some people
have been saying I'm stupid for comparing it to Toy
Story one, that is completely different. That lily Pad had
much different motives than Buzz light Years had in Toy
Story one, which I just think all the elements of
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this story just line up perfectly. The toy's arrival, them
having to go to a second location, much like a kidnapping.
A toy does not want to go to a second location.
It is the rescuing of the lost toy, much like
you had in Toy Story one, where Buzz ends up
at Sid's house they have to find a way to
get him back.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
They even took the best.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Scene from Toy Story one, which is them trying to
get on the moving truck and Woody and Buzz riding
on the back of the car, then riding on the back.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Of the moving truck. You have that seeing again in
Toy Story five.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
So you cannot tell me that this movie does not
parallel Toy Story one so much. It's all over the place,
but for me, it still works, and I just think
it is crazy to see how much the animation has
evolved from nineteen ninety five to now. Toy Story obviously
being the first ever fully computer animated movie, it has
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come so far, specifically with the design of the animals.
The only thing I wish that they did a little
bit differently is what I loved about Toy Story one
is they incorporated toys that we actually played with as kids,
and that was probably just more a reflection of the
times and it being in its infant stages of this franchise,
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where you had things like troll dolls, you had the
Etcha Sketch and all these other recognizable toys from the nineties,
I mean even mister potato Head and the Piggy Bank.
All those classic toys came to life, and as the
story has evolved from movie to movie, they don't really
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include those toys anymore, and it's probably because they want
to sell more merchandise with their own characters and not
give free advertisement to other toys. They want you to
go to the big box store and buy a Woody
and buy a buzz so that is the only thing.
I kind of wish that they still kept that way,
you would have a little bit of reflection of twenty
twenty six. But I guess in this one they do
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have the tablet, which is going to really stamp this
movie in taking place in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
So at number six, I have Toy Story five.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
At number five I have Hokum, which is available for
you to rent at home for the price of nine
to ninety nine, which isn't terrible. It will likely though,
be on Hulu later this summer, they don't have an
official date.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
But I love this movie.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
It stars Adam Scott who plays a novelist and he
is going out to a remote hotel to scatter his parents' ashes.
And then once he arrives at this hotel, he learns
about a honeymoon suite that is supposedly haunted, and you
learn more about who it is haunted by. And then
while he's at this hotel, he learns and starts experiencing
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some pretty paranormal things as he starts to investigate into
this honeymoon suite.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
And this is a great.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Example of a movie that yes it is about the
horror elements. Has one of the most I would say
scariest images of the year, maybe of the last five.
One single image, one single character that'll freak you out
that all I had to see was that character and thought,
I want to see that movie.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I don't care what the story is.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I remember seeing that in the trailer and I knew
I gotta go see this movie. I also have to
go see it in theaters because I want that experience.
But this is a movie that brings you in with
these haunting images, with this crazy character, this crazy story,
all these crazy moments, but it truly tells you this
story of a writer who goes through something and you
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experience it right there with him. It comes to us
from a Irish filmmaker named Damien McCarthy, which, like I mentioned,
this movie is only available to rent now if you
don't want to pay that ten bucks and if you
don't want to wait until it's available on Hulu. Damian
McCarthy also made a movie that came out in twenty
twenty four called Oddity, and this one is available on Hulu.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
So even though this movie didn't.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Come out this year, I do recommend it because it'll
give you an idea of his style. Of filmmaking, which
it has that overseas feel to it, because as an
Irish filmmaker, he does put a lot of his culture
into his stories, a style of storytelling that I find
really refreshing just to be in a different country. A
lot of his movies do take place in Ireland, which
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just taking a normal story that you would have in
America and putting it in a different country just makes
it feel fresh, because sometimes.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Your typical paranormal story just feels a little bit stale.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
But I knew from the very first scene of Hokum
that it felt different. From the first scene, he wastes
no time sucking you into the story. Does it really
well in Hokum, and also really well in Audity. So
if you don't want to pay the money right now
to rent Hokum, and if you don't want to wait
for Hokum to be available on Hulu, I would say
go check out Audity, which is available on Hulu. Now
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watch that movie first, and if you enjoy his style
of filmmaking and then want to see what I consider
to be the better of the two, then watch Hokum.
But it's a bit more of a subtle form of horror.
At times a bit of a slow burn. There aren't
any crazy jump scares that feel cheap to me. It
is what I feel, a truly haunting form of terror
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that if you allow yourself, much like I mentioned in
my Undertone review, to really sink into it.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Because Adity was one of those movies that.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
I turned off all the lights, put on my headphones
watching on my iPad.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
If it's an experience.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
You are looking for of being scared, watch one of
these movies with all the lights low and headphones. That
is also how I would recommend to watch both Hokum
and Adity. So at number five I have Hocum. At
number four another h movie, I have Hoppers, which I
gave a four point five out of five. This movie
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is available now on Disney Plus. But one of those
just pure joy moments that I had while watching this
movie in theaters. This movie is about scientists discovering how
to transform the human consciousness into robotic animals. It is
essentially an animated version of Avatar, the James Cameron movie.
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Because you have this student named Mabel who uses this
new technology to uncover the mysteries of the animal world.
Because Mabel loves the environment, and wants to save it,
and the big villain in this movie wants.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
To destroy it. So you have the good side, you
have the bad side.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
And the way Mabel discovers that she can make a
true change is by using this technology that she discovers
to infiltrate the animal world in at times a kind
of deceitful way that you learn about more.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
As the story goes along.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
But in order to save the animals, she has to
become an animal. What this movie did such a great
job within the first ten minutes you feel true emotion.
I think Pixar movies in the animated world do this
the best by setting up a story and making you
sob within those first ten minutes. Up was one of
the first movies to do that to me back in
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two thousand and nine, and probably since then. To do
it the most effectively to me would be Hoppers, because
it is so hard to be introduced to a new
character and suddenly feel for them the benefit that something
like a toy story has. By the time you get
to five, you know all the ins and outs of
all these characters, you know their personalities, You've been through
a lot with them. You can feel emotion pretty quickly
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with characters you already know. But here in Hoppers, Mabel
whole new character. But within first ten minutes of this movie,
I'm on four, I'm wanting to cry. And then not
only does it pack in the emotion, but it also
packs in so much humor. Hoppers has one of the
funniest moments in a Pixar movie where I actually laughed
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out loud in the theater. I don't normally do that
during Pixar movies, because even though they are fun lighthearted,
they have comedy. I would say in Toy Story five,
which was probably the least funny in the franchise, I
got some smirks, maybe a nose that's about it. Like
blowing it out of my nose is pretty much the
most signs of laughter that you're gonna get out of
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me during a Pixar movie, except in Hoppers, where there's
one moment.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Don't want to ruin it if you haven't seen it yet.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
About halfway through the movie, I got a genuine laugh
that I felt like a kid again. The animation in
this movie is fantastic. It made the Pixar style feel
fresh again, which in the twenty twenties so far has
been pretty stale as far as everything just kind of
looking the same, and a new Pixar movie comes out
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and it just looks like the movie that just came
out before it.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
This one still.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Has the design that Pixar is famous for and is recognizable,
but I feel it's so much cuter and lifelike when
it comes to the animals, that this is the best
work they have done in animation in a long time.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Movie has a lot of heart, It is weird at.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Times, it is funny, an incredible voice cast, which I
think Dave Franco was a pretty big standout to me
in this movie. So at number four, I have Hoppers,
which you can watch on Disney Plus. At number three
I have Obsession, which you can't watch it for free
anywhere right now, but if you're listening to this episode later,
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starting on July seventeenth, you can watch it for free
on Peacock. I give it a four point five out
of five. I feel like I thought about this movie
for a month after it came out because I was
so inspired by how this movie got made for half
a million dollars and went on to become one of
the most profitable movies of all time. It is now
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the most profitable horror movie of all time. The entire
story of Cain Parsons, who directed this, started out as
a YouTuber making comedy sketches and making horror movies.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I feel like he is setting the.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Standard of what a director needs to do now to
make it on your own, and I find it that
is so inspiring. You don't need to go to film school,
you don't need to get some big studio behind you.
You just need to have a story. You need to
have creative vision, and you need to not be afraid
of being different. And I think that is what Obsession is.
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It feels so unlike any other movie in this genre
and stands out in a good way like a sore
thumb because of the incredible performances and Indian Navarett, who
is the lead in this movie, is now somebody that
everybody wants.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
To work with. There are rumors of her.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Joining the MCU, which after the next two Avengers movies
that come out, which I can't wait for, the MCU
is going to focus more on the Mutants, so we're
gonna see a shift from the Avengers that we know,
leaning more into the X Men, which excites me because
that initially is what drew me into loving Marvel movies.
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It was that first X Men movie back in two
thousand which led me to loving the Spider Man movies
with Toby maguire. So now I feel that is a
great move to make because with all of the Avengers
that we now know and love, like the Thors and
the Captain, America's kind of going away really only coming
back for these movies, that is where you go next.
But now she is in talks of being in the MCU.
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She reportedly had a meeting with the director of the
thunder Bullets movie, who is now going to direct more
movies in the MCU. She also reportedly met with Michael Mann,
who is currently casting for Heat two, which is the
sequel to the nineteen ninety five movie, which is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
So she is.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Having a breakout moment because of this performance. So I
love not only was this movie successful, but what it's
going to do for Cain's career and what it's going
to do for her career because she did not get
rich off this movie, and that was some controversy surrounding
the success of this film because it was kind of
like winning the lottery, and they were able to make
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this movie by not paying people a whole lot And
some people now who are a part of this film
have come out and said, I'm made this amount of
money for this and this is wrong and they screwed
me over. That is one way to react, which I
see that side of it. That is any filmmaking though,
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and in the art sometimes you have to take a risk.
And what I've learned to value more than money, which
money is important. You need to be able to put
foot on the table, need to be able to eat.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
You need to be able to live.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
But in the arts you also have to struggle before
you start making money. And I find it's probably not
the best thing to do of burn Bridges so early on.
Would it have been nice for them to maybe give
some bonuses to the cast and crew because of its success. Yes,
some other YouTubers who have self funded movies, that being
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the key thing. Who have self funded movies like Iron Lung,
they have used the success of that to give bonuses.
But that's also because that came out of their pocket.
It is their money to give back. This movie was
sold to a studio. They don't have that money to
give back to you because it's not self funded. So yes,
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when seeing how much money was made and seeing that, oh,
I only got this amount.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
For it, you feel a little bit burned.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
But you have to turn it into opportunity, which is
when everybody else is doing.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Now.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Any now is going to have a fantastic career because
she is saying that that was not just catching lightning
in a bottle. I am a great actor, and I'm
going to prove it to you. Cast me in our
next project, and I'll prove to you that I'm not
a one hit wonder. She is now going to have
a fantastic career because she made such an impression in
this movie, and she didn't come out immediately saying I
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need to be paid more now because it was successful,
give me my money. She sees the opportunity and the
value in the exposure and proving to people that you're
a great actor. That is worth more than money in
the entertainment world because you're always looking for the next job.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
That is it.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Every actor who puts out a movie, I feel like
their immediate thing is, Man, what is going to be
my next thing? I gotta hop to that next thing
because I have to be able to keep this momentum going.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
But aside from that.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
It is the real world interaction I have had with
Obsession and how it has changed the landscape of film
in twenty twenty six. That is why this movie is
so important to come out right now. At number three,
I have Obsession. At number two, I have the drama
which starts Zendiya and Robert Pattinson. I gave it a
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four point five out of five. It is available to
Rench right now, but it will also be available on Max.
I guess it's HBO Max now they got to quit
changing the name of their platform.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
But it will be available on.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
HBO Max on July thirty first, if you want to
wait for it. This movie has been incredibly hard for
me to talk about. Still don't want to spoil it,
but it all revolves around finding on what the drama is,
and the movie is a story about compassion and unconditional love.
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Think about your boyfriend, your girlfriend, your husband, your wife,
your partner in your life. How would your feelings change
if you learn something wild about their past. That's all
I'm going to say about the plot of this movie.
But character learns a shocking thing about the other person
they're about to get married. There, I think about a
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week away from their wedding, maybe a little bit further out,
but so close to it that it starts to change
their thinking of whether or not.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
It's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
So, if you yourself learned a shocking detail about the
person you were with, how would you react to that?
And I think because it proposes that question and makes
you look inward on yourself a lot of self reflecting.
But this movie evokes a huge emotion in you that
I don't care who you are, if you watch it,
you were going to feel a certain way about it
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because it is very polarizing. There are some things at
times that are hard to watch and we're controversial. But
I think a movie that walks that line, that is
provocative at times but also maintains its integrity and artistry
and not just being shocking for the sake of being
shocking actually a lot of substance. I think this is
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a movie that you either love or hate. It's just
that polar opposites of experiences. You're either going to watch
it and love it like I did, or watch the drama.
I think that's the stupidest thing I've ever watched. I
am offended by that movie, but I love movies that
do that. Those are the best ones, Those are the
ones that stand out. That is why the drama ranks
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so high on this list. I have it at number
two at number one, which is now available after fourth
of July weekend to watch on Amazon. The only movie
I have given a five out of five this year,
it is Project Hail Mary. There aren't any more great
things I can say about this movie other than it
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changed my life. Every single frame of this movie I loved.
And I know not everybody cares about seeing a movie
in seventy millimeter. Most people could care less about that,
but I think that is also what made me love
it more. But in the world of today, where people
just want it available in the easiest format for you
to watch, I love that this movie is now available
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for you to watch.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
At home on Amazon.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
And I think the story is so good that it
doesn't matter how you watch it. It doesn't matter when you
watch it. Just watch this movie because it is the
most heartwarming story, especially if you read the book. It
as something for everybody, also fun for the entire family.
At number one on my list of best movies of
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twenty twenty six. So far, I have Project Hail Mary,
which since it came in at number one on this list,
that means it automatically earns its spot in my top
ten movies of the year, which we still have a
lot of great movies coming out in twenty twenty six,
The Odyssey coming out later this week, Spider Man A
Brand New Day, Avengers Doomsday coming out in December, The
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Hunger Game Sunrise on the Reaping, which that trailer looks fantastic.
I love me a Hunger Games movie, and that one
is all about a young Haymiche. And then one that
I'm not excited about but I know a lot of
people are excited about. We have Dune Part three also
coming back in December. It's gonna go hit to head
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with Avengers Doomsday. Out of those movies, I would say
maybe those first four have the ability to enter in
my top ten, just because I'm pretty excited about those,
especially the Odyssey now after seeing more of that trailer,
can't wait to see that and talk about that next week.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Spider Man Brand New Day.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Yeah, you know that's gonna be an easy to buy
for me.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
But that is the list.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
I'll come back and give my review of Mowanna the
live action version. Why Disney's live action Mowana is actually
a good thing. Even though the trailer looked atrocious. I
think remaking a movie after only ten years is an
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insane thing to do, but because of this movie doing
so poorly at the box office and people rejecting it,
it is actually a good thing because I think this
tells Disney that we don't want this. Nobody asks for
a live action Molwana. The original movie is so great
that this movie strips away everything that made that movie special.
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My relationship with this movie came out back in twenty sixteen,
so normally I keep it spoiler free on the podcast,
but because the story is ten years old.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
I feel the need to just go full on spoilers
in this You've probably seen it.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Mowana is Disney Plus's most successful movie just on the
amount of hours that this movie has been streamed. And
that is why Disney did this. Why would you not
do a live action movie of your biggest hit? And
I really feel like the momentum of this movie came
through streaming because when this first came out in theaters,
I went to go see it.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
I didn't fully get it.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
I like lin Manuel Miranda, and I think his music
was really the driving force that made this movie successful.
And especially after watching the live action version, this is
all about the songs. But when I went to go
see it in theaters, it didn't really give me that
feeling of this is truly something special upon first watch. Instead,
it was through rewatching it and those songs just kind
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of becoming stuck in my head every single time that
I realized the beauty of this story. But it only
translates when it is animated. Because this live action version
is so lifeless. I really feel like this was just
a vanity project by The Rock who is the voice
of Maui, and it truly shows me that he just
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wanted this movie to be made when he was still
at an age where it mates. Then I just feel
like this entire thing was so that he could be
at the front of this movie and not even focus
so much on Mowana, because he really dominates this story.
And the think about The Rock. I like him as
a person. When it comes to his acting, he is
pretty hit or miss. Now when it comes to him
being funny, he is just not that. He is not
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a great comedic actor, and the character of Maui requires
a lot of comedy. Something that comes across so great
in the animated version gives you nothing in the live
action version. The rock is just kind of there, trying
to deliver these lines in a way that on paper
look the exact same, feel the exact same, but don't
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have any connection with the audience. And I think that
is my biggest problem with this movie. I feel nothing.
This movie feels like a cover song. You go to
a bar, you see a cover band. They're playing a
lot of great songs that you know, but it's just
not the same. The emotion is not there, the performances
are not there, and I don't I don't understand the
reason to make a live action version. And I use
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that term very loosely because all the best elements of
Mawana are actually the animated portions of this movie. So
what is even the point of making a live action
version if you're just gonna animate in cgi all the
best parts, all the great characters, like hey hey, all
the best moments that really come to life are so
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much better in the animated version.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
It makes the movie incredibly dull to watch.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
It's very much giving Disney Channel, and I actually think
that even Stevens movie probably look better than the live
action Mojana. There's no depth to these scenes out at
the water, which should be magical, which should feel like
you are right there in the action with Mowana, with
Maui going on this journey. It just felt like two
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characters sitting on a wrap in front of a blue
or maybe a green screen. And there was no reason
to make this live action movie. And the live action
version just takes out the impact of this story because
I never found at any point that I was connecting
with it. If this version would have come out first,
in no way would it have been successful. There's just
no way, because there's nothing that stands out about this
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that says, yes, that is something that should make a
lot of money, that should inspire a lot of people.
Even though I do love the representation in the cast,
which this movie is a meal of empty calories, and
that representation of Polynesian culture is the only thing of
any nutritional value in my opinion, and I actually think
the movie did a better job when they were back
on land.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
But the journey is supposed to.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
Be out at water, and that is where this movie
was really supposed to ramp up, and I found no
benefit in watching this in theaters. It very much felt
like it should have went directly to Disney Plus. And
maybe that is the Disney plan.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
They just put them out in theaters to try to
get a little bit more money out of you. But eventually,
when it goes to Disney Plus, maybe that is when
they'll be satisfied. And then if you just look at
the box office numbers, they spent between two hundred to
two hundred and fifty million dollars on this. That is
a lot of money. Opening weekend made less than fifty million.
That is not good. So maybe the lack of success
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will finally show Disney we don't need to make.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
A live action version to everything.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
Maybe we don't need to put the Rock in a
muscle suit in a really bad wig. Although I will
say throughout the entire movie it looked a little bit
better than it did in the trailer becaes Oh my gosh,
it looked atrocious in that trailer, but it just lacked
all Disney magic. I will gladly rewatch the animated version,
but I will never watch this movie again. For the
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live action Mawana. I give it one point five out
of five hooks.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
It god to head down to movie Mike Trailer Park,
Let's talk about Nimrods.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
It is a Green Day comedy based on the early
and real life touring adventures of the punk band one
of my favorite bands, Green Day. The question I have
for this week's Trailer Park is why don't they make
movies like this anymore, stories about scrappy bands just trying
to make it in the industry. I think the answer
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is actually going to bum you out. And the interesting
thing when this movie was announced, I thought they were
just making the story of Green Day and having Mason
Thames star in this and it was just going to
be kind of a biopick. But they are producers on
this movie instead. After watching this trailer, what it actually
is kind of meta because you have this band who
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meets their idols, Green Day, and then gets offered a
chance to open for them on tour. So you have
a fictional band meeting the real band green Day. Green
Day is making their dreams come true. But green Day,
the producers on this movie, are telling their story through
this fictional band, So not really your traditional bio pick
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I don't think it's gonna feel too self serving. But
the actual story elements that they are using, which we
see them doing drugs, meeting girls in this trailer are
all things that happened to them when they were first
coming up trying to make it as a punk band.
So I think that is an interesting way to do this,
because probably a Green Day biopic on its own isn't
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going to do Michael Numbers. But I think this has
my interest and I felt nostalogic watching this trailer, not
because of Green Day, but because we do not get
films like this anymore. And I do want to talk
about that, but before I do, here is just a
little bit of the Nimrod's trailer, which is coming out
in theaters later this year on August fourteenth.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
Analog Dogs, No, it's Analog Dogs. Is that your phone
number on there?
Speaker 1 (45:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (45:40):
If we just met Green Day liars? Well, is this
the antal Dogs? You're not gonna believe this. TRAYQ will
call it what he loved our demo.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
He invited us to lay to open for them on
New Year's Can I take your car?
Speaker 2 (45:53):
No, because you don't have a license. Come on, how
are we getting her there? We're taking Wayne's car.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
So it does sound a little bit cheesy because you
have green Day there basically meeting them and looks like
a record store, so kind of a meet and greet situation,
and you have green Day acting, Billy Joe Armstrong doing
a little bit of acting, Treecoo doing a little bit
of acting. It's a little too meta for me, but
that's fine. I'm okay with a little bit of cheese.
And I think any kind of story like this is
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just going to have that factor of a group of
kids trying to make it in music, there is always
just this Hollywood element to a story like this that
feels very unbelievable, like out of nowhere, they just meet
the most famous punk band on the planet and suddenly
they are now on their rise.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
To start them.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
So you always have to be suspending disbelief just a
little bit in a story like this in order to
enjoy it, even though in real life there is a
new punk band called The Paradox, which they went viral
on TikTok for covering a green Day song called two
thousand Light Years Away.
Speaker 2 (46:57):
They blew up got.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
Massive, and green Day actually reached out to them and
had them open for them on tour.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
Story blew Up.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
The Paradox is actually a great band, bringing back that
early two thousands even late nineties pop punk sound in
a way that is so refreshing. And if you grew
up loving that music like I did, you could listen
to The Paradox and have a brand new sound that
is from a bunch of twenty year olds, which is
really exciting to me. So in a way, they are
also mirroring a story of something Green Day did in
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real life. They see bands go viral on TikTok and
bring them out on tour, just like they are doing
in this movie. But they are also sharing their real
life experiences when they were touring in a van before
they released their big massive album Dookie, before they dropped
a major doochie, and telling it in a way that
is a coming of age story about three high school
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friends going on a cross country road trip, going out
to Los Angeles and going from playing in a garage
just make a bunch of music that you love with
your friends. Your band name is the Analog Dogs, and
nobody seems to be able to get it right, including
your biggest heroes, and they are trying to score that
major gig and impress all their family and friends and
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probably land some girls along the way, which we see
the love interest in their McKenna grace. So I think
I am biased in being excited about this movie because
I love Green Day. I also love this genre of movie,
and I'm talking about movies about scrappy bands trying to
make it in the music industry, which I know are
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very formulaic and cliche. One of my favorites from the
two thousands is a movie called The Rocker, which starred
Rain Wilson, who was in the office, and that movie
is about him touring with a band that is right
there on the cusp of breaking it big. He is
the drummer, but he does not fit the band. He's
too over the top does drum solos, and they kick
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him out of the band before they get mad simply famous.
So he has to go back to working a normal
job and then goes back to living with his sister
where he meets her son, his nephew, and they start
a band. They're in high school. He's an older, washed
up rocker and he suddenly has a new band to
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try to live out his dream of being a rock
star and then it goes through all those what most
would call cliche moments of them getting the big record deal,
going on tour, shooting the music videos, eventually learning that
the music industry sucks, and wanting to break up.
Speaker 2 (49:33):
And I know it's so formulaic, but I love it.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
And this genre of movie that existed in the two thousands,
and I know there's many more before this, but when
I was growing up, these were the movies I gravitated
towards it because it was my dream to have this
happen in my real life, of getting that big gig
that changed your life. One show can change the world,
which I learned from the School of Rock. And there
were other movies like this, like Band Slam. I would
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even go back to the nineties. That Thing You Do
kind of has that same formula School of Rock, all
these movies that are very inspirational if you yourself wanted
to be a rock star. But the question is why
don't we get these anymore? Because when I watched this
Nimrod trailer, I had all these feelings in nostalgia of
thinking back of putting in the DVD of The Rocker
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and watching that movie, loving all those songs and still
remembering a lot of those songs. But the number one
reason I think is because the industry is changed. In
the seventies, the eighties and the nineties, the dream was simple.
Speaker 2 (50:34):
You start a.
Speaker 1 (50:34):
Band in the garage, you start playing some local clubs,
you get discovered by a record label if you have
the talent, and then you become rock stars. And that
story in itself is perfect for a movie. But now
it is completely changed. Like I mentioned earlier, that banded
the Paradox that went viral on TikTok and then got
to go open up for Green Day.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
That is the new path.
Speaker 1 (50:57):
You get a viral song on TikTok after just uploading
time and time again, or you build your following on
YouTube or Spotify, but it all relies on you going viral.
That you have to become famous before you even sign
a record deal. And at this time right now, that
just isn't a sexy movie. There's nothing about that story
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that's really inspiring. And even with the other shows and
podcasts that I work on, sometimes that story gets a
little boring when somebody comes on and is like, yeah,
I just posted this. I woke up the next day
it had a million views, it's crazy, but that's their story.
Speaker 2 (51:33):
And then it goes viral.
Speaker 1 (51:35):
A bunch of record labels want to sign them, and
then they get signed before they even play a show.
Speaker 2 (51:41):
How are you.
Speaker 1 (51:41):
Going to make a movie out of that? And I
know it's a changing world, we'll have to adapt a
little bit. But I think that is one big reason
why we don't have a lot of these happening right now.
But not only that, the mid budget comedy has really
died and really suffered, and movies like The Rocker, which
cost about fis fifteen to thirty million dollars, those were
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everywhere in the two thousands because studios could pay that
modest amount and get a pretty good return on their investment.
Speaker 2 (52:09):
Even if it did okay in theaters.
Speaker 1 (52:11):
But really, how I watch a lot of these movies
more on DVD and DVD sales is where they made
their money back in rentals. But you don't have that anymore.
And it's not just these music movies, but it's also
the workplace comedies, sports comedies, teen comedies that just don't
have a home anymore because they are not as profitable.
They're not franchises, they don't have IP and they don't
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really have the appeal of you wanting to go to
the theater where you have to see it there very
much lends itself towards streaming, but people just aren't spending
money on movies like this. Number three, music rights are expensive.
That's all you hear right now is how expensive the
music is. That oftentimes that can kill and eat up
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a budget. Like crazy songs cost it a lot to make,
cost a lot to record. Licensing existing songs is really
expensive to shoot. Concert scenes are really expensive because you
have to get a bunch of extras, and that is
why you see a lot in music movies now they
just CEEGI the audience or at times even probably now
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are gonna AI the.
Speaker 2 (53:20):
Audience because those scenes are so expensive.
Speaker 1 (53:23):
Recording sessions, performance choreography, all that stuff adds up and
it really wrecks your budget, making it way more expensive
than just a standard comedy. And in the case of Nimrods,
I think this movie has a chance because Green Day
is one of the most famous rock bands.
Speaker 2 (53:40):
You also have two young.
Speaker 1 (53:41):
Actors who are right there on the cusp of the
new generation in Hollywood, Mason Thames, who just turned nineteen
years old, which is crazy but has already been in
movies like Blackphone one and Black Phone two, Regretting You
and How to Trade In Your Dragon, which I thought
he was really good in. Then you have McKenna Grace,
who is twenty years old. We actually share a birthday.
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I feel like she's been around for a while but
has really had a lot of success in the last
few years. She was also in Regretting You with Mason Thames,
and then she was in Ghostbusters, the one that not
a whole lot of people liked but I enjoyed, Frozen Empire.
She was also in Annabel Comes Home and It Tania
back when she was younger. And I feel like both
of these actors have already done so much but are
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only just getting started. So hopefully this can capture that
gen Z audience that knows that these two actors and
loves them and wants to see them be love interest
in this movie, and then capitalize on all of the
millennials and jen xters who are a fan of Green
Day and want to go see this movie because of them.
Maybe those two audiences could come together and actually make
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this movie a success, maybe showing that there is still
some hope for the mid budget music comedy that I
love so much. But again, Nimrods is coming out in
theaters on August fourteenth.
Speaker 2 (55:01):
And that was this week's edition of Movie mis Trayler Bars.
Speaker 1 (55:08):
And that is gonna do it for another episode here
of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta get
my listeners shout out.
Speaker 2 (55:14):
Of the week.
Speaker 1 (55:15):
This week, I'm going over to YouTube because I posted
a clip on all my socials about me saying that
Johnny Knoxville deserves to be nominated for an oscar and
also win that oscar for his performance in Jackass. Best
and last, a lot of people on Instagram are very supportive.
People everywhere else thought I was an idiot, so I
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went over to YouTube and found somebody who thought I
was the biggest idiot of them all. So this week's
listener shout Out of the Week goes to Daily Phil
who said that is like a kid in school winning
the Talent Show for eating a ladybug, basically implying that
Johnny Knoxville winning an oscar for doing stupid things and
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hurting himself is dumb and should not be honored in
any way. And to that, I said, by the way
to a Talent Show and a kid ate a Ladybug
that shows he has courage, that shows that he values entertainment,
he knows the appeal of shock value. I would vote
for that kid. Maybe it's because I'm dumb and my
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brain cells just working a way of wanting to see
people do crazy and ridiculous things and be honored for it.
But I stand by the fact saying that I think
Johnny Knoxville deserves an OSCAR because the Academy will be
so quick to honor somebody who goes through a crazy
body transformation like Christian Bale for different roles where he
has gained a lot of weight or lost a lot
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of weight. That is always seen as man, look at
that actor really committing putting their body on the line.
That is what Johnny Knoxville does. He doesn't just put
on a bunch of weight and lose a bunch of
weight like all these very acclaimed actors. He literally sacrifices
his brain every single time he makes a jackass film.
And I was just saying he deserves to be rewarded
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for this one being the final one. And I know
they are going to add achievement in stunt design to
the Oscars in twenty twenty eight. But we need this
now and to be for straight up stub performers. Johnny
Knoxville needs to earn it. So appreciate that for voicing
your opinion over there on YouTube, which is a place
that I tread lightly. I tread lightly, folks. But if
you want to follow over there and check out clips
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from the show, the full review from last week of
Kelsey and I doing our best and worst is up
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I will talk to you later
Hello, and welcome back to a Movie Mike's Movie podcast.
I am your host Movie Mike. We are now halfway
through the year, so I have my list of the
top ten movies of twenty twenty six so far. The
number one movie on this list is going to officially
earn its place, and not only my top ten of
the year so far, but my top ten movies of
the entire year in twenty twenty six. In the movie review,
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I was initially going to boycott this movie because just
the thought of it infuriated me so much. But I
thought I owed it to you to go and watch
this movie with my own eyeballs and tell you my
true feelings.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Even though I hated the idea of this so much.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I will give you my review of mo Wana. I
normally do spoiler free, but it is a remake of
a movie that came out ten years ago that falls
within the spoiler window. We're going full all in on Majana,
so I can tell you all the things I felt
about them turning an animated movie that was perfect into
live action. We'll get into the trailer park, but right
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now I'm just trying not to choke on my own rage.
Here so let's get right into it. Let's talk movies
from the.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Nashville podcast Network. This is Movie Mics Movie Podcast.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Twenty twenty six has been a fantastic year for movies.
We are on the up and up, one of the
healthiest years at the box office because there have been
good movies in the last few years that I was
really excited about, but they just haven't.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Had the numbers.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
But now in twenty twenty six, not only do we
have great movies coming out, but people are actually watching
them and they are making studios money. And that is
a good thing because then we can get more original stories,
we get better franchises.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
It is a much better world to live.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
In when the box office is doing well in my opinion.
But this is also my biggest passion. So I have
for you, of all the movies I've rated and reviewed
this year, my top ten movies of the year so far,
which I think this year is on pace to be
the best year in film.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Since twenty nineteen. So let's get right into this list.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
At number ten, I have a movie called Undertone, which
you can now watch on HBO. Max went to see
this movie in theaters. I rated it a four out
of five. This movie is about a podcast host much
like the one you are listening to right now, except
they cover really strange paranormal things. You have one podcast
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host who is a female who lives in a completely
different location than her co host, so you actually never
see her co host. And a big part of this
movie is it is a horror movie for your ears
more than it is your eyes. But she is living
and taking care of her dying mother and they get
sent a bunch of files randomly, and all they have
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are really weird titles to them, and they decide that
on the podcast they're going to listen to all these recordings,
and you end up uncovering this entire creepy story just
through these recordings that they listen to. React to give
their theories on the people involved in these recordings, and
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they listen to them in different recording sessions, and it
gets a little bit more intense and more intense as
they listen to these uncovering something that they find out
they don't really want to be messing with. What they
are listening to is this couple who are documenting their
paranormal encounters.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
And then you start.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
To learn more details about the woman in the recordings,
the man in the recordings, and it starts to kind
of parallel what is going on in one of the
podcasts hosts personal life. This was one I truly felt
benefited from me going to see it in theaters because
I love the big booming sound that is such a
part of this movie. Also being able to be in
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complete darkness, I feel really added to my feeling of fear,
which is really hard for me to a horror movie
at this point. And there was one moment in this
movie where I truly felt like I wasn't alone in
that theater. I remember looking up to the speakers and thinking,
am I gonna look up there?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
As he had demon looking down at me. It was
that freaky.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
But even though I had such a great theater experience,
the thing about this movie that I feel translate so
much to you watching at home. I'm gonna actually give
you an assignment here is that since it is so
focused on what you hear, because visually.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
This movie is I would say fairly average.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
It is a five hundred thousand dollars movie, so on
the lower budget, you're not gonna watch this movie and think,
oh man, that looked amazing.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
It doesn't look that great.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It looks pretty standard, but they go so above and
beyond in the sound design. With all these recordings that
you listen to, it makes it chilling. So, even though
I love the theater experience, if you watch this movie,
and here's your assignment, if you watch this movie in
your house as late as possible, you feel comfortable starting
a movie. For me, at this point, I final start
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a movie by a probably not gonna finish a movie,
but as late as possible for you that it's close
to your bedtime. You turn off all the lights. I
know that sounds freaky, but turn off all the lights.
And this is very important, the most important step. You
don't watch it through the sound on your TV. You
gotta watch it with headphones. So put it on your iPad,
put it on your phone. Which watching a horror movie
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on my iPad is one of my little pleasures in life.
I just find comfort in putting on a horror movie
and putting on my headphones because I love listening to
it a little bit more intensely. If you're listening to
me on your headphones, now it's just a little bit
more of an intimate experience because it's right there in
your ears. I feel like I hear things better when
I watch a movie on my iPad with headphones, So
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do that as late as possible, watch it with headphones on.
But if you truly allow yourself to immerse yourself in
the story, immerse yourself in the sound, and don't turn
it down.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Leave it up, leave the volume up.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I think that is a very important where sometimes if
you get a little bit freaked out, your reaction sometimes
is to turn it down a little bit. Don't turn
it down, don't pause it, commit to it, and I
think you will have a uniquely thrilling and chilling experience
with Undertone. I give that movie a four out of
five on HBO Max at number nine my top ten
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movies at twenty twenty six. I'm going with Michael. I
gave it a four out of five. You can rent
this movie. It is still on the upper side of
the rental fees of twenty bucks, which if you think
back to renting movies at Blockbuster, it is expensive, but
it's so convenient. Although I do think that we romanticize Blockbuster.
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Growing up, we never went to Blockbuster, so I don't
have that experience of like, oh, I love going to
Blockbuster on a Friday night and picking a movie. I
really think we forgot how awful that experience was. It
was so awful that my parents decided we're not going
to be a Blockbuster family. We did not rent movies
growing up. We rented Movie Vie one time, and it
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was not at Blockbuster. It was at a random video
store that happened to be attached to our Walmart that
they opened up and maybe lasted for a little bit.
Because we had some family in town. They were living
in Tennessee. They came to visit us in Texas and
we needed to entertain them, so we rented some movies.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
We read a child's play, and then we rented a bunch.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Of ThunderCats episodes that was just on VHS. And that
was the only time my mom ever allowed us to
rent anything because she thought the idea of spending money
on a rental was absurd, so we never did it.
And she was so worried about late fees, which I
think is something that people forget about that we hated,
at least collectively as a society about Blockbuster is they
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were so bad about late fees. They were incredibly expensive,
and I think we forget how frustrating that was, and
we just think back to oh Man, back when things
were simple.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
You just go at a blockbuster and pick out a movie.
But then we.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Also forget that sometimes the movie you wanted to rent,
like Titanic, that was so in demand, the shells would
be empty and you couldn't go rent Titanic, So instead
you'd have to go rent Turner in Hoots for the
fifteenth time because the movie you really wanted to watch
was not there. You wanted to rent the Matrix. Nah,
no Matrix for you. You got to watch Beethoven again.
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But when it comes to renting movies at home, like
Michael for twenty bucks, it does feel a little bit expensive,
especially if you're just watching it by yourself. But for
a family, twenty bucks at home is way cheaper than
going to the movies. And at the time of recording
this right now, they still have not said when or
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even where Michael is going to stream, which it now
holds the title for the highest grossing bio pick of
all time, which it beat out Oppenheimer.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I always think it is interesting.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
How we define biopicks because even though thematically Oppenheimer is
a biopick. I guess I just don't look at that
as a traditional BIOPI, but that's who would beat out.
In the top five, you have American Sniper at number five.
I also wouldn't fully look at American Sniper and think
bio pick. But when you think about the story, that
is what that is. It is the story of one
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person's life, and a fantastic story at that much like
number four, which is the Passion of the Christ.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I also wouldn't look at.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
That movie and immediately compare it to other things like
Michael and Oppenheimer, but at its core, that is what
the Passion of the Christ is. At number three you
have Bohemian Rhapsody, which is the story of Queen, primarily
focusing on Freddie Mercury. That is just what I think
about more when I think about biopicks, I guess I
often just associated with music biopicks. But then at number
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two you have Oppenheimer and number one is Michael. So
in that top five you have a variety of different biopicks.
If you are just looking purely at music, bio picks
at number five would be straight out of Compton, at
number four would be Elvis.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
At number three would.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Be Rocketman, and then obviously the top two go to
Bohemian Rhapsody and Michael. But I think it's because I
went into this movie not wanting to like it, because
historically I just don't love music biopicks because they feel
so fake to me.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Especially when the family is involved.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
At least in Michael Jackson's case, he is no longer living,
so I feel like that should be a stipulation when
it comes to making a biopick. The person no longer
has to be living. Their life has to be complete
in order for the movie to be complete, because if
they're still alive, it just feels like there's more story
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you can tell. You're not picking the best story, and
I don't want to sacrifice people for the sake of
making a biopic. But I think you should not earn
the right of having a movie made about you until
you're gone. It is something that should be made after you,
and then it's up to the filmmaker to decide what
part of your life they want to tell. In the
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case of Michael, I just thought there's no way this
move movie is going to be good, because at one
point there was a three hour rumored run time there
was talk of them going to put out one movie
and then put out the second movie right after it.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I just thought it was going to.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Be super bloated and surface level, for what I got
was actually a great story. So at number nine I
have Michael, which I gave a four out of five.
At number eight, I have Jackass Best and Last, which
I'm now reaching the four point five at a five territory.
There's no lower score than a four on this list.
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This was the most personal movie theater experience for me,
and the thing I love about the Jackass movies is
they have such an unconventional storytelling style that nobody else does,
that nobody else can replicate and be successful with. Because
there is no narrative in a Jackass movie. It is
a bunch of random clips. At times it feels like
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a documentary with aunch of crazy stuff in the middle.
Now you would say it kind of feels like going
to the theater to watch a collection of YouTube clips,
like if you were just hanging out of your friend's
house having some beers and somebody gets YouTube up on
the TV and just starts finding random videos on YouTube,
kind of like Justin Bieber did at Coachella. Where he
was just like playing his own music videos from YouTube.
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That's kind of how this theater experience feels like. But
it works so well because there is that feeling of
bonding in the theater and that is what I experience,
and I know that not everybody is going to have
that experience, So me putting this one at number eight,
I know is very unique to my list and my
relationship with this franchise because I don't think anybody else
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who hasn't experienced every single movie in theaters, has watched
every single episode of Jackass, is going to have that
same experience. But it is so personal to me. I
felt it in that theater. I've teared up twice. This
movie got to me on an entirely different level that
I was not expecting. So at number eight, I have Jackass,
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Best and Last, which by the way, is still in
theaters now. At number seven, I have twenty eight years
Later The Bone Temple, which is available to watch on Netflix,
and it picks up right after twenty eight Years Later,
which came out last year in twenty twenty five, that
is also on Netflix. And the thing about these movies
is I love the franchise, fantastic franchise, But you don't
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necessarily need to watch any other movie in the twenty
eight franchise to enjoy these two. So if you don't
want to pay to rent the other movies, if they're
on a streaming service that you don't have, but you
do have Netflix, I believe that you could just watch
twenty eight years later first movie that came out in
twenty twenty five, and then go right into twenty eight
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years later The Bone Temple, which came out in twenty
twenty six, and.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
You wouldn't be entirely lost.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Would you have all the details and the lore on
the twenty eight franchise? Probably not, But you could watch
these movies and then if you really love them, like
I do, go back and watch the first movies and
then they'll just kind of feel like prequels to you,
because there's nothing so crazy that happens in those movies
that you're gonna turn on twenty eight years later and
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be lost. But what I love so much about The
Bone Temple was Ray Finds performance, who was a fantastic actor.
I don't want to say he's underrated, because I think
people know how great of an actor he is, but
I think something that isn't appreciated as much with a
actor like Ray Fines is their incredible range an actor
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who can truly become entirely different people, which I know
is the definition of acting.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
But being a great character.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Actor like Ray Findes, I feel is something that we
are not getting that much with the.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Actors of today.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Very few people can do it and pull it off
of being somebody like his character in twenty eight years Later, but.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Also Voldemort and Harry Potter.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
He has a fantastic filmography from the Harry Potter franchise Conclave,
which was fantastic just a couple of years ago. The
Menu another fantastic theater experience that I had because he
is such an intense actor who is so dialed in
in every single performance of portraying these very unique characters
all the time, that he is somebody that if I
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just see his name in a leading role, I'm gonna
go watch that movie and know that I'm gonna get
something truly special and he's gonna give it is all.
Also in twenty fourteen, The Grand Budapest Hotel probably one
of the best Wes Anderson movies, especially of the twenty tens,
but even going back to the nineties with Schindler's List.
Ray Fines is an incredible actor and his performance in
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The Bone Temple was next level. He made this movie.
It was such a uniquely beautiful and horrific movie that
it is very rare to go watch something that has zombies,
that has killing, that has violence. I'm pretty intense violence
in this one. You get a little bit uncomfortable, especially
if you don't like seeing people get sliced up, which
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is something that Ah I've started to struggle with more
as of late. Breaking Bones has always been my number
one thing that is so hard for me to see
on screen. It just it just makes me uncomfortable. I
can't watch it in movies, I can't watch it on
YouTube videos. Coming up at number two in things that
make me uncomfortable on screen, it has to be people
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not being stabbed. I can watch somebody being stabbed, but
a lot of things I've watched recently that's becoming a
little bit more of a trend, especially in horror, it's
people getting sliced up, like slicing their hands, like just
the blood ass but not even the blood.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
It is such an intimate way to inflict pain.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Slicing somebody, because at least stabbing is a little bit quicker.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
But a knife going.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Through skin and tearing things, and then I'm like, oh,
what are you tearing? Are you gonna hit an artery?
It just makes me very uncomfortable. At number three only
because I feel that so many TV shows and movies
use it. Now is puking, and it's not so much
that it makes me uncomfortable, but it makes Kelsey very uncomfortable.
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That would be her number one, And there's been so
much puking and just random things too. There'll be an
animated movie in the character pukes and I'm like, come on,
So puking would be at number three, just because it
makes Kelsey so uncomfortable that it makes me uncomfortable. At
number two it would be flesh getting sliced with a knife.
And at number one it's breaking bones. Nothing is ever
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gonna beat breaking bones for me. But at number seven,
I have twenty eight years later, The Bone Temple, which
you can watch on Netflix. At number six, I have
Toy Story five. It is still in theaters. It'll probably
be on Disney Plus late September, could be later than
that because Disney is gonna try to get all the
money they can from this movie. I gave it a
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four point five out of five. The story in this
movie toys versus Tech, and to me, it is Toy
Story one from the perspective of Jesse and some people
have been saying I'm stupid for comparing it to Toy
Story one, that is completely different. That lily Pad had
much different motives than Buzz light Years had in Toy
Story one, which I just think all the elements of
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this story just line up perfectly. The toy's arrival, them
having to go to a second location, much like a kidnapping.
A toy does not want to go to a second location.
It is the rescuing of the lost toy, much like
you had in Toy Story one, where Buzz ends up
at Sid's house they have to find a way to
get him back.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
They even took the best.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Scene from Toy Story one, which is them trying to
get on the moving truck and Woody and Buzz riding
on the back of the car, then riding on the back.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Of the moving truck. You have that seeing again in
Toy Story five.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
So you cannot tell me that this movie does not
parallel Toy Story one so much. It's all over the place,
but for me, it still works, and I just think
it is crazy to see how much the animation has
evolved from nineteen ninety five to now. Toy Story obviously
being the first ever fully computer animated movie, it has
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come so far, specifically with the design of the animals.
The only thing I wish that they did a little
bit differently is what I loved about Toy Story one
is they incorporated toys that we actually played with as kids,
and that was probably just more a reflection of the
times and it being in its infant stages of this franchise,
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where you had things like troll dolls, you had the
Etcha Sketch and all these other recognizable toys from the nineties,
I mean even mister potato Head and the Piggy Bank.
All those classic toys came to life, and as the
story has evolved from movie to movie, they don't really
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include those toys anymore, and it's probably because they want
to sell more merchandise with their own characters and not
give free advertisement to other toys. They want you to
go to the big box store and buy a Woody
and buy a buzz so that is the only thing.
I kind of wish that they still kept that way,
you would have a little bit of reflection of twenty
twenty six. But I guess in this one they do
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have the tablet, which is going to really stamp this
movie in taking place in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
So at number six, I have Toy Story five.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
At number five I have Hokum, which is available for
you to rent at home for the price of nine
to ninety nine, which isn't terrible. It will likely though,
be on Hulu later this summer, they don't have an
official date.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
But I love this movie.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
It stars Adam Scott who plays a novelist and he
is going out to a remote hotel to scatter his parents' ashes.
And then once he arrives at this hotel, he learns
about a honeymoon suite that is supposedly haunted, and you
learn more about who it is haunted by. And then
while he's at this hotel, he learns and starts experiencing
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some pretty paranormal things as he starts to investigate into
this honeymoon suite.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
And this is a great.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Example of a movie that yes it is about the
horror elements. Has one of the most I would say
scariest images of the year, maybe of the last five.
One single image, one single character that'll freak you out
that all I had to see was that character and thought,
I want to see that movie.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I don't care what the story is.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I remember seeing that in the trailer and I knew
I gotta go see this movie. I also have to
go see it in theaters because I want that experience.
But this is a movie that brings you in with
these haunting images, with this crazy character, this crazy story,
all these crazy moments, but it truly tells you this
story of a writer who goes through something and you
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experience it right there with him. It comes to us
from a Irish filmmaker named Damien McCarthy, which, like I mentioned,
this movie is only available to rent now if you
don't want to pay that ten bucks and if you
don't want to wait until it's available on Hulu. Damian
McCarthy also made a movie that came out in twenty
twenty four called Oddity, and this one is available on Hulu.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
So even though this movie didn't.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Come out this year, I do recommend it because it'll
give you an idea of his style. Of filmmaking, which
it has that overseas feel to it, because as an
Irish filmmaker, he does put a lot of his culture
into his stories, a style of storytelling that I find
really refreshing just to be in a different country. A
lot of his movies do take place in Ireland, which
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just taking a normal story that you would have in
America and putting it in a different country just makes
it feel fresh, because sometimes.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Your typical paranormal story just feels a little bit stale.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
But I knew from the very first scene of Hokum
that it felt different. From the first scene, he wastes
no time sucking you into the story. Does it really
well in Hokum, and also really well in Audity. So
if you don't want to pay the money right now
to rent Hokum, and if you don't want to wait
for Hokum to be available on Hulu, I would say
go check out Audity, which is available on Hulu. Now
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watch that movie first, and if you enjoy his style
of filmmaking and then want to see what I consider
to be the better of the two, then watch Hokum.
But it's a bit more of a subtle form of horror.
At times a bit of a slow burn. There aren't
any crazy jump scares that feel cheap to me. It
is what I feel, a truly haunting form of terror
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that if you allow yourself, much like I mentioned in
my Undertone review, to really sink into it.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Because Adity was one of those movies that.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
I turned off all the lights, put on my headphones
watching on my iPad.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
If it's an experience.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
You are looking for of being scared, watch one of
these movies with all the lights low and headphones. That
is also how I would recommend to watch both Hokum
and Adity. So at number five I have Hocum. At
number four another h movie, I have Hoppers, which I
gave a four point five out of five. This movie
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is available now on Disney Plus. But one of those
just pure joy moments that I had while watching this
movie in theaters. This movie is about scientists discovering how
to transform the human consciousness into robotic animals. It is
essentially an animated version of Avatar, the James Cameron movie.
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Because you have this student named Mabel who uses this
new technology to uncover the mysteries of the animal world.
Because Mabel loves the environment, and wants to save it,
and the big villain in this movie wants.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
To destroy it. So you have the good side, you
have the bad side.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
And the way Mabel discovers that she can make a
true change is by using this technology that she discovers
to infiltrate the animal world in at times a kind
of deceitful way that you learn about more.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
As the story goes along.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
But in order to save the animals, she has to
become an animal. What this movie did such a great
job within the first ten minutes you feel true emotion.
I think Pixar movies in the animated world do this
the best by setting up a story and making you
sob within those first ten minutes. Up was one of
the first movies to do that to me back in
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two thousand and nine, and probably since then. To do
it the most effectively to me would be Hoppers, because
it is so hard to be introduced to a new
character and suddenly feel for them the benefit that something
like a toy story has. By the time you get
to five, you know all the ins and outs of
all these characters, you know their personalities, You've been through
a lot with them. You can feel emotion pretty quickly
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with characters you already know. But here in Hoppers, Mabel
whole new character. But within first ten minutes of this movie,
I'm on four, I'm wanting to cry. And then not
only does it pack in the emotion, but it also
packs in so much humor. Hoppers has one of the
funniest moments in a Pixar movie where I actually laughed
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out loud in the theater. I don't normally do that
during Pixar movies, because even though they are fun lighthearted,
they have comedy. I would say in Toy Story five,
which was probably the least funny in the franchise, I
got some smirks, maybe a nose that's about it. Like
blowing it out of my nose is pretty much the
most signs of laughter that you're gonna get out of
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me during a Pixar movie, except in Hoppers, where there's
one moment.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Don't want to ruin it if you haven't seen it yet.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
About halfway through the movie, I got a genuine laugh
that I felt like a kid again. The animation in
this movie is fantastic. It made the Pixar style feel
fresh again, which in the twenty twenties so far has
been pretty stale as far as everything just kind of
looking the same, and a new Pixar movie comes out
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and it just looks like the movie that just came
out before it.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
This one still.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Has the design that Pixar is famous for and is recognizable,
but I feel it's so much cuter and lifelike when
it comes to the animals, that this is the best
work they have done in animation in a long time.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Movie has a lot of heart, It is weird at.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Times, it is funny, an incredible voice cast, which I
think Dave Franco was a pretty big standout to me
in this movie. So at number four, I have Hoppers,
which you can watch on Disney Plus. At number three
I have Obsession, which you can't watch it for free
anywhere right now, but if you're listening to this episode later,
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starting on July seventeenth, you can watch it for free
on Peacock. I give it a four point five out
of five. I feel like I thought about this movie
for a month after it came out because I was
so inspired by how this movie got made for half
a million dollars and went on to become one of
the most profitable movies of all time. It is now
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the most profitable horror movie of all time. The entire
story of Cain Parsons, who directed this, started out as
a YouTuber making comedy sketches and making horror movies.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I feel like he is setting the.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Standard of what a director needs to do now to
make it on your own, and I find it that
is so inspiring. You don't need to go to film school,
you don't need to get some big studio behind you.
You just need to have a story. You need to
have creative vision, and you need to not be afraid
of being different. And I think that is what Obsession is.
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It feels so unlike any other movie in this genre
and stands out in a good way like a sore
thumb because of the incredible performances and Indian Navarett, who
is the lead in this movie, is now somebody that
everybody wants.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
To work with. There are rumors of her.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Joining the MCU, which after the next two Avengers movies
that come out, which I can't wait for, the MCU
is going to focus more on the Mutants, so we're
gonna see a shift from the Avengers that we know,
leaning more into the X Men, which excites me because
that initially is what drew me into loving Marvel movies.
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It was that first X Men movie back in two
thousand which led me to loving the Spider Man movies
with Toby maguire. So now I feel that is a
great move to make because with all of the Avengers
that we now know and love, like the Thors and
the Captain, America's kind of going away really only coming
back for these movies, that is where you go next.
But now she is in talks of being in the MCU.
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She reportedly had a meeting with the director of the
thunder Bullets movie, who is now going to direct more
movies in the MCU. She also reportedly met with Michael Mann,
who is currently casting for Heat two, which is the
sequel to the nineteen ninety five movie, which is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
So she is.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Having a breakout moment because of this performance. So I
love not only was this movie successful, but what it's
going to do for Cain's career and what it's going
to do for her career because she did not get
rich off this movie, and that was some controversy surrounding
the success of this film because it was kind of
like winning the lottery, and they were able to make
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this movie by not paying people a whole lot And
some people now who are a part of this film
have come out and said, I'm made this amount of
money for this and this is wrong and they screwed
me over. That is one way to react, which I
see that side of it. That is any filmmaking though,
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and in the art sometimes you have to take a risk.
And what I've learned to value more than money, which
money is important. You need to be able to put
foot on the table, need to be able to eat.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
You need to be able to live.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
But in the arts you also have to struggle before
you start making money. And I find it's probably not
the best thing to do of burn Bridges so early on.
Would it have been nice for them to maybe give
some bonuses to the cast and crew because of its success. Yes,
some other YouTubers who have self funded movies, that being
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the key thing. Who have self funded movies like Iron Lung,
they have used the success of that to give bonuses.
But that's also because that came out of their pocket.
It is their money to give back. This movie was
sold to a studio. They don't have that money to
give back to you because it's not self funded. So yes,
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when seeing how much money was made and seeing that, oh,
I only got this amount.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
For it, you feel a little bit burned.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
But you have to turn it into opportunity, which is
when everybody else is doing.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Now.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Any now is going to have a fantastic career because
she is saying that that was not just catching lightning
in a bottle. I am a great actor, and I'm
going to prove it to you. Cast me in our
next project, and I'll prove to you that I'm not
a one hit wonder. She is now going to have
a fantastic career because she made such an impression in
this movie, and she didn't come out immediately saying I
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need to be paid more now because it was successful,
give me my money. She sees the opportunity and the
value in the exposure and proving to people that you're
a great actor. That is worth more than money in
the entertainment world because you're always looking for the next job.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
That is it.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Every actor who puts out a movie, I feel like
their immediate thing is, Man, what is going to be
my next thing? I gotta hop to that next thing
because I have to be able to keep this momentum going.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
But aside from that.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
It is the real world interaction I have had with
Obsession and how it has changed the landscape of film
in twenty twenty six. That is why this movie is
so important to come out right now. At number three,
I have Obsession. At number two, I have the drama
which starts Zendiya and Robert Pattinson. I gave it a
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four point five out of five. It is available to
Rench right now, but it will also be available on Max.
I guess it's HBO Max now they got to quit
changing the name of their platform.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
But it will be available on.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
HBO Max on July thirty first, if you want to
wait for it. This movie has been incredibly hard for
me to talk about. Still don't want to spoil it,
but it all revolves around finding on what the drama is,
and the movie is a story about compassion and unconditional love.
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Think about your boyfriend, your girlfriend, your husband, your wife,
your partner in your life. How would your feelings change
if you learn something wild about their past. That's all
I'm going to say about the plot of this movie.
But character learns a shocking thing about the other person
they're about to get married. There, I think about a
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week away from their wedding, maybe a little bit further out,
but so close to it that it starts to change
their thinking of whether or not.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
It's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
So, if you yourself learned a shocking detail about the
person you were with, how would you react to that?
And I think because it proposes that question and makes
you look inward on yourself a lot of self reflecting.
But this movie evokes a huge emotion in you that
I don't care who you are, if you watch it,
you were going to feel a certain way about it
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because it is very polarizing. There are some things at
times that are hard to watch and we're controversial. But
I think a movie that walks that line, that is
provocative at times but also maintains its integrity and artistry
and not just being shocking for the sake of being
shocking actually a lot of substance. I think this is
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a movie that you either love or hate. It's just
that polar opposites of experiences. You're either going to watch
it and love it like I did, or watch the drama.
I think that's the stupidest thing I've ever watched. I
am offended by that movie, but I love movies that
do that. Those are the best ones, Those are the
ones that stand out. That is why the drama ranks
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so high on this list. I have it at number
two at number one, which is now available after fourth
of July weekend to watch on Amazon. The only movie
I have given a five out of five this year,
it is Project Hail Mary. There aren't any more great
things I can say about this movie other than it
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changed my life. Every single frame of this movie I loved.
And I know not everybody cares about seeing a movie
in seventy millimeter. Most people could care less about that,
but I think that is also what made me love
it more. But in the world of today, where people
just want it available in the easiest format for you
to watch, I love that this movie is now available
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for you to watch.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
At home on Amazon.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
And I think the story is so good that it
doesn't matter how you watch it. It doesn't matter when you
watch it. Just watch this movie because it is the
most heartwarming story, especially if you read the book. It
as something for everybody, also fun for the entire family.
At number one on my list of best movies of
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twenty twenty six. So far, I have Project Hail Mary,
which since it came in at number one on this list,
that means it automatically earns its spot in my top
ten movies of the year, which we still have a
lot of great movies coming out in twenty twenty six,
The Odyssey coming out later this week, Spider Man A
Brand New Day, Avengers Doomsday coming out in December, The
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Hunger Game Sunrise on the Reaping, which that trailer looks fantastic.
I love me a Hunger Games movie, and that one
is all about a young Haymiche. And then one that
I'm not excited about but I know a lot of
people are excited about. We have Dune Part three also
coming back in December. It's gonna go hit to head
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with Avengers Doomsday. Out of those movies, I would say
maybe those first four have the ability to enter in
my top ten, just because I'm pretty excited about those,
especially the Odyssey now after seeing more of that trailer,
can't wait to see that and talk about that next week.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Spider Man Brand New Day.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Yeah, you know that's gonna be an easy to buy
for me.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
But that is the list.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
I'll come back and give my review of Mowanna the
live action version. Why Disney's live action Mowana is actually
a good thing. Even though the trailer looked atrocious. I
think remaking a movie after only ten years is an
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insane thing to do, but because of this movie doing
so poorly at the box office and people rejecting it,
it is actually a good thing because I think this
tells Disney that we don't want this. Nobody asks for
a live action Molwana. The original movie is so great
that this movie strips away everything that made that movie special.
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My relationship with this movie came out back in twenty sixteen,
so normally I keep it spoiler free on the podcast,
but because the story is ten years old.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
I feel the need to just go full on spoilers
in this You've probably seen it.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Mowana is Disney Plus's most successful movie just on the
amount of hours that this movie has been streamed. And
that is why Disney did this. Why would you not
do a live action movie of your biggest hit? And
I really feel like the momentum of this movie came
through streaming because when this first came out in theaters,
I went to go see it.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
I didn't fully get it.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
I like lin Manuel Miranda, and I think his music
was really the driving force that made this movie successful.
And especially after watching the live action version, this is
all about the songs. But when I went to go
see it in theaters, it didn't really give me that
feeling of this is truly something special upon first watch. Instead,
it was through rewatching it and those songs just kind
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of becoming stuck in my head every single time that
I realized the beauty of this story. But it only
translates when it is animated. Because this live action version
is so lifeless. I really feel like this was just
a vanity project by The Rock who is the voice
of Maui, and it truly shows me that he just
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wanted this movie to be made when he was still
at an age where it mates. Then I just feel
like this entire thing was so that he could be
at the front of this movie and not even focus
so much on Mowana, because he really dominates this story.
And the think about The Rock. I like him as
a person. When it comes to his acting, he is
pretty hit or miss. Now when it comes to him
being funny, he is just not that. He is not
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a great comedic actor, and the character of Maui requires
a lot of comedy. Something that comes across so great
in the animated version gives you nothing in the live
action version. The rock is just kind of there, trying
to deliver these lines in a way that on paper
look the exact same, feel the exact same, but don't
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have any connection with the audience. And I think that
is my biggest problem with this movie. I feel nothing.
This movie feels like a cover song. You go to
a bar, you see a cover band. They're playing a
lot of great songs that you know, but it's just
not the same. The emotion is not there, the performances
are not there, and I don't I don't understand the
reason to make a live action version. And I use
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that term very loosely because all the best elements of
Mawana are actually the animated portions of this movie. So
what is even the point of making a live action
version if you're just gonna animate in cgi all the
best parts, all the great characters, like hey hey, all
the best moments that really come to life are so
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much better in the animated version.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
It makes the movie incredibly dull to watch.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
It's very much giving Disney Channel, and I actually think
that even Stevens movie probably look better than the live
action Mojana. There's no depth to these scenes out at
the water, which should be magical, which should feel like
you are right there in the action with Mowana, with
Maui going on this journey. It just felt like two
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characters sitting on a wrap in front of a blue
or maybe a green screen. And there was no reason
to make this live action movie. And the live action
version just takes out the impact of this story because
I never found at any point that I was connecting
with it. If this version would have come out first,
in no way would it have been successful. There's just
no way, because there's nothing that stands out about this
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that says, yes, that is something that should make a
lot of money, that should inspire a lot of people.
Even though I do love the representation in the cast,
which this movie is a meal of empty calories, and
that representation of Polynesian culture is the only thing of
any nutritional value in my opinion, and I actually think
the movie did a better job when they were back
on land.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
But the journey is supposed to.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
Be out at water, and that is where this movie
was really supposed to ramp up, and I found no
benefit in watching this in theaters. It very much felt
like it should have went directly to Disney Plus. And
maybe that is the Disney plan.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
They just put them out in theaters to try to
get a little bit more money out of you. But eventually,
when it goes to Disney Plus, maybe that is when
they'll be satisfied. And then if you just look at
the box office numbers, they spent between two hundred to
two hundred and fifty million dollars on this. That is
a lot of money. Opening weekend made less than fifty million.
That is not good. So maybe the lack of success
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will finally show Disney we don't need to make.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
A live action version to everything.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
Maybe we don't need to put the Rock in a
muscle suit in a really bad wig. Although I will
say throughout the entire movie it looked a little bit
better than it did in the trailer becaes Oh my gosh,
it looked atrocious in that trailer, but it just lacked
all Disney magic. I will gladly rewatch the animated version,
but I will never watch this movie again. For the
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live action Mawana. I give it one point five out
of five hooks.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
It god to head down to movie Mike Trailer Park,
Let's talk about Nimrods.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
It is a Green Day comedy based on the early
and real life touring adventures of the punk band one
of my favorite bands, Green Day. The question I have
for this week's Trailer Park is why don't they make
movies like this anymore, stories about scrappy bands just trying
to make it in the industry. I think the answer
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is actually going to bum you out. And the interesting
thing when this movie was announced, I thought they were
just making the story of Green Day and having Mason
Thames star in this and it was just going to
be kind of a biopick. But they are producers on
this movie instead. After watching this trailer, what it actually
is kind of meta because you have this band who
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meets their idols, Green Day, and then gets offered a
chance to open for them on tour. So you have
a fictional band meeting the real band green Day. Green
Day is making their dreams come true. But green Day,
the producers on this movie, are telling their story through
this fictional band, So not really your traditional bio pick
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I don't think it's gonna feel too self serving. But
the actual story elements that they are using, which we
see them doing drugs, meeting girls in this trailer are
all things that happened to them when they were first
coming up trying to make it as a punk band.
So I think that is an interesting way to do this,
because probably a Green Day biopic on its own isn't
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going to do Michael Numbers. But I think this has
my interest and I felt nostalogic watching this trailer, not
because of Green Day, but because we do not get
films like this anymore. And I do want to talk
about that, but before I do, here is just a
little bit of the Nimrod's trailer, which is coming out
in theaters later this year on August fourteenth.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
Analog Dogs, No, it's Analog Dogs. Is that your phone
number on there?
Speaker 1 (45:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (45:40):
If we just met Green Day liars? Well, is this
the antal Dogs? You're not gonna believe this. TRAYQ will
call it what he loved our demo.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
He invited us to lay to open for them on
New Year's Can I take your car?
Speaker 2 (45:53):
No, because you don't have a license. Come on, how
are we getting her there? We're taking Wayne's car.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
So it does sound a little bit cheesy because you
have green Day there basically meeting them and looks like
a record store, so kind of a meet and greet situation,
and you have green Day acting, Billy Joe Armstrong doing
a little bit of acting, Treecoo doing a little bit
of acting. It's a little too meta for me, but
that's fine. I'm okay with a little bit of cheese.
And I think any kind of story like this is
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just going to have that factor of a group of
kids trying to make it in music, there is always
just this Hollywood element to a story like this that
feels very unbelievable, like out of nowhere, they just meet
the most famous punk band on the planet and suddenly
they are now on their rise.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
To start them.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
So you always have to be suspending disbelief just a
little bit in a story like this in order to
enjoy it, even though in real life there is a
new punk band called The Paradox, which they went viral
on TikTok for covering a green Day song called two
thousand Light Years Away.
Speaker 2 (46:57):
They blew up got.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
Massive, and green Day actually reached out to them and
had them open for them on tour.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
Story blew Up.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
The Paradox is actually a great band, bringing back that
early two thousands even late nineties pop punk sound in
a way that is so refreshing. And if you grew
up loving that music like I did, you could listen
to The Paradox and have a brand new sound that
is from a bunch of twenty year olds, which is
really exciting to me. So in a way, they are
also mirroring a story of something Green Day did in
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real life. They see bands go viral on TikTok and
bring them out on tour, just like they are doing
in this movie. But they are also sharing their real
life experiences when they were touring in a van before
they released their big massive album Dookie, before they dropped
a major doochie, and telling it in a way that
is a coming of age story about three high school
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friends going on a cross country road trip, going out
to Los Angeles and going from playing in a garage
just make a bunch of music that you love with
your friends. Your band name is the Analog Dogs, and
nobody seems to be able to get it right, including
your biggest heroes, and they are trying to score that
major gig and impress all their family and friends and
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probably land some girls along the way, which we see
the love interest in their McKenna grace. So I think
I am biased in being excited about this movie because
I love Green Day. I also love this genre of movie,
and I'm talking about movies about scrappy bands trying to
make it in the music industry, which I know are
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very formulaic and cliche. One of my favorites from the
two thousands is a movie called The Rocker, which starred
Rain Wilson, who was in the office, and that movie
is about him touring with a band that is right
there on the cusp of breaking it big. He is
the drummer, but he does not fit the band. He's
too over the top does drum solos, and they kick
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him out of the band before they get mad simply famous.
So he has to go back to working a normal
job and then goes back to living with his sister
where he meets her son, his nephew, and they start
a band. They're in high school. He's an older, washed
up rocker and he suddenly has a new band to
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try to live out his dream of being a rock
star and then it goes through all those what most
would call cliche moments of them getting the big record deal,
going on tour, shooting the music videos, eventually learning that
the music industry sucks, and wanting to break up.
Speaker 2 (49:33):
And I know it's so formulaic, but I love it.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
And this genre of movie that existed in the two thousands,
and I know there's many more before this, but when
I was growing up, these were the movies I gravitated
towards it because it was my dream to have this
happen in my real life, of getting that big gig
that changed your life. One show can change the world,
which I learned from the School of Rock. And there
were other movies like this, like Band Slam. I would
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even go back to the nineties. That Thing You Do
kind of has that same formula School of Rock, all
these movies that are very inspirational if you yourself wanted
to be a rock star. But the question is why
don't we get these anymore? Because when I watched this
Nimrod trailer, I had all these feelings in nostalgia of
thinking back of putting in the DVD of The Rocker
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and watching that movie, loving all those songs and still
remembering a lot of those songs. But the number one
reason I think is because the industry is changed. In
the seventies, the eighties and the nineties, the dream was simple.
Speaker 2 (50:34):
You start a.
Speaker 1 (50:34):
Band in the garage, you start playing some local clubs,
you get discovered by a record label if you have
the talent, and then you become rock stars. And that
story in itself is perfect for a movie. But now
it is completely changed. Like I mentioned earlier, that banded
the Paradox that went viral on TikTok and then got
to go open up for Green Day.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
That is the new path.
Speaker 1 (50:57):
You get a viral song on TikTok after just uploading
time and time again, or you build your following on
YouTube or Spotify, but it all relies on you going viral.
That you have to become famous before you even sign
a record deal. And at this time right now, that
just isn't a sexy movie. There's nothing about that story
(51:19):
that's really inspiring. And even with the other shows and
podcasts that I work on, sometimes that story gets a
little boring when somebody comes on and is like, yeah,
I just posted this. I woke up the next day
it had a million views, it's crazy, but that's their story.
Speaker 2 (51:33):
And then it goes viral.
Speaker 1 (51:35):
A bunch of record labels want to sign them, and
then they get signed before they even play a show.
Speaker 2 (51:41):
How are you.
Speaker 1 (51:41):
Going to make a movie out of that? And I
know it's a changing world, we'll have to adapt a
little bit. But I think that is one big reason
why we don't have a lot of these happening right now.
But not only that, the mid budget comedy has really
died and really suffered, and movies like The Rocker, which
cost about fis fifteen to thirty million dollars, those were
(52:02):
everywhere in the two thousands because studios could pay that
modest amount and get a pretty good return on their investment.
Speaker 2 (52:09):
Even if it did okay in theaters.
Speaker 1 (52:11):
But really, how I watch a lot of these movies
more on DVD and DVD sales is where they made
their money back in rentals. But you don't have that anymore.
And it's not just these music movies, but it's also
the workplace comedies, sports comedies, teen comedies that just don't
have a home anymore because they are not as profitable.
They're not franchises, they don't have IP and they don't
(52:35):
really have the appeal of you wanting to go to
the theater where you have to see it there very
much lends itself towards streaming, but people just aren't spending
money on movies like this. Number three, music rights are expensive.
That's all you hear right now is how expensive the
music is. That oftentimes that can kill and eat up
(52:57):
a budget. Like crazy songs cost it a lot to make,
cost a lot to record. Licensing existing songs is really
expensive to shoot. Concert scenes are really expensive because you
have to get a bunch of extras, and that is
why you see a lot in music movies now they
just CEEGI the audience or at times even probably now
(53:19):
are gonna AI the.
Speaker 2 (53:20):
Audience because those scenes are so expensive.
Speaker 1 (53:23):
Recording sessions, performance choreography, all that stuff adds up and
it really wrecks your budget, making it way more expensive
than just a standard comedy. And in the case of Nimrods,
I think this movie has a chance because Green Day
is one of the most famous rock bands.
Speaker 2 (53:40):
You also have two young.
Speaker 1 (53:41):
Actors who are right there on the cusp of the
new generation in Hollywood, Mason Thames, who just turned nineteen
years old, which is crazy but has already been in
movies like Blackphone one and Black Phone two, Regretting You
and How to Trade In Your Dragon, which I thought
he was really good in. Then you have McKenna Grace,
who is twenty years old. We actually share a birthday.
(54:03):
I feel like she's been around for a while but
has really had a lot of success in the last
few years. She was also in Regretting You with Mason Thames,
and then she was in Ghostbusters, the one that not
a whole lot of people liked but I enjoyed, Frozen Empire.
She was also in Annabel Comes Home and It Tania
back when she was younger. And I feel like both
of these actors have already done so much but are
(54:26):
only just getting started. So hopefully this can capture that
gen Z audience that knows that these two actors and
loves them and wants to see them be love interest
in this movie, and then capitalize on all of the
millennials and jen xters who are a fan of Green
Day and want to go see this movie because of them.
Maybe those two audiences could come together and actually make
(54:49):
this movie a success, maybe showing that there is still
some hope for the mid budget music comedy that I
love so much. But again, Nimrods is coming out in
theaters on August fourteenth.
Speaker 2 (55:01):
And that was this week's edition of Movie mis Trayler Bars.
Speaker 1 (55:08):
And that is gonna do it for another episode here
of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta get
my listeners shout out.
Speaker 2 (55:14):
Of the week.
Speaker 1 (55:15):
This week, I'm going over to YouTube because I posted
a clip on all my socials about me saying that
Johnny Knoxville deserves to be nominated for an oscar and
also win that oscar for his performance in Jackass. Best
and last, a lot of people on Instagram are very supportive.
People everywhere else thought I was an idiot, so I
(55:38):
went over to YouTube and found somebody who thought I
was the biggest idiot of them all. So this week's
listener shout Out of the Week goes to Daily Phil
who said that is like a kid in school winning
the Talent Show for eating a ladybug, basically implying that
Johnny Knoxville winning an oscar for doing stupid things and
(56:00):
hurting himself is dumb and should not be honored in
any way. And to that, I said, by the way
to a Talent Show and a kid ate a Ladybug
that shows he has courage, that shows that he values entertainment,
he knows the appeal of shock value. I would vote
for that kid. Maybe it's because I'm dumb and my
(56:21):
brain cells just working a way of wanting to see
people do crazy and ridiculous things and be honored for it.
But I stand by the fact saying that I think
Johnny Knoxville deserves an OSCAR because the Academy will be
so quick to honor somebody who goes through a crazy
body transformation like Christian Bale for different roles where he
has gained a lot of weight or lost a lot
(56:43):
of weight. That is always seen as man, look at
that actor really committing putting their body on the line.
That is what Johnny Knoxville does. He doesn't just put
on a bunch of weight and lose a bunch of
weight like all these very acclaimed actors. He literally sacrifices
his brain every single time he makes a jackass film.
And I was just saying he deserves to be rewarded
(57:05):
for this one being the final one. And I know
they are going to add achievement in stunt design to
the Oscars in twenty twenty eight. But we need this
now and to be for straight up stub performers. Johnny
Knoxville needs to earn it. So appreciate that for voicing
your opinion over there on YouTube, which is a place
that I tread lightly. I tread lightly, folks. But if
you want to follow over there and check out clips
(57:27):
from the show, the full review from last week of
Kelsey and I doing our best and worst is up
there YouTube dot com, slash Mike Destro, hit subscribe ring
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Speaker 2 (57:40):
If you don't care about video, just.
Speaker 1 (57:42):
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