Mike and Kelsey are back to break down their Best and Worst Movies they saw in June. Mike talks about the movie that is now in the running for the worst of the year, Kelsey shares her pick for a movie that made her incredibly emotional and they share their experience running into a celeb at the movies this month. In the Movie Review, Mike talks about Jackass: Best and Last. Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O and the rest of the gang return for more outrageous stunts. Mike shares why the movie made him cry twice, if it felt like a rip-off since they used a lot of old footage and is it really the end of the franchise? In the Trailer Park, Mike talks about Whalefall which is about a guy who tries to survive being swallowed by a whale. The trailer looks insane but have they already shown us too much?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike, joined by my wife and
co host Kelsey. How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm so much better than when we were recorded last.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Great about June. Nothing crazy happened month. It is getting hotter.
But aside from that, a lot of great movies to
talk about as we do the best things and worst
things we saw in theaters and streaming and in the
movie review, I will be talking about Jackass. I got emotional.
It was weird of all the movies to make me
emotional this year. I did not expect this one to
(00:31):
do that. And you would have hated it. That's all
I'm gonna say right now. You would have hated it.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
So I wouldn't got my hair. You Sackass, I said,
I'm gonna not partake in this.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
But we'll get into the head. We'll get into the
trailer park. Thank you for being here, Thank you for
being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew.
And now let's talk movies podcast Network Movie Mike's Movie Podcast.
What was the best movie in your opinion for June.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
It's gonna be on streaming and that is voicemails for Isabella.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Netflix talk about movies that made me emotional. That movie
keeps you right in the gonads.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
What is a movie about?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Okay, so it is about. This isn't a spoiler in
the trailer. It's in the trailer. There's a girl who
she is leaving voicemails for her late sister, like just
calling and like trying to stay in touch. And then
I don't want to get me the way.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
But there's a guy and a bit of a romance.
That's all you need to know, and a lot of emotions.
I think she is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
She is the rom com queen, and it is a
rom com. There are some heavier moments, but it is
overarchingly a rom com.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Netflix like getting back to putting out really good rom coms.
They are.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I think that's where they put out two this month.
We'll talk about the other one. It's not my best.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Oh yeah, they should specialize in that because I feel
like rom coms, especially like this, are hard to sell
tickets to. But it doesn't mean we don't want these stories,
which I want. The rom coms take me back to
the early two thousands, which I think this is a
great It kind of has some elements of the early
two thousands, but feels very fresh and modern and something
(02:14):
that I didn't really know I needed. And there were
moments that very early on they were able to establish
a connection between these characters and you feel for them instantly,
which is really hard to do. I think it helps.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
So it's Zoey Deutschen, Nick Robinson or the Leads, and
they have known each other since high school great, and
she used to have a crush on him in high school,
and so I feel like that shared history there made
for such great on screen chemistry because they have a
history together, they know each other their friends, Like I
feel like that was like a safe space for them
to have that chemistry as characters.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Is it hard not to like go back to those
I mean you have to go back to the feelings
when you had a crush on him.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Right, yeah, And she's happily engaged in a relationship. But
it's like, I think you can go back to that,
and like, I think it's easier to play up like
you're not faking a crush on someone like you once
had it and you've been friends, like there's they've been
friends for like fourteen years like there's a shared connection there.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
The only thing and problem I had with this movie
is it's partly said in Austin, Texas, which oh yeah,
that was like a fake setting you were from. I
lived there for seven years. They did not portray Austin
correctly setting.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
One of the best parts of the movie is that
Esti Hyam is one of the music supervisor. Oh yeah,
and the music in that film phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I think an underrated element that is probably expensive, but
having good songs at the right moments, like the perfect things.
There are two Taylor Swift songs in this movie. They're
not been three might have been three. Yeah, that's expensive,
and I think that you know Sdy was like, could.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I get the BFF discount? Can I get the friendship?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Can I use promo code BFF. It's because I feel
like studios don't want to pay a lot to clear
these songs, which is usually the most expensive part or
the unexpected expensive part of a movie is getting a
song cleared. And when a director is putting together a movie,
sometimes they just have a song like place like as
(04:09):
a placeholder, and they're like, I would really love to
get that song, but it's so expensive and oftentimes they
have to go with a different, cheaper song, But I
feel like every song that was included in this movie
fit perfectly.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It's like the Summer I Turned Pretty. They use a
lot of Taylor Swift. Jenny Hahn uses that music budget
a lot of Taylor Swift. And then they had Scott
Street a Phoebe Bridges last year, so like that was
listen you. She's in Songwriting Hall of Fame for a reason.
Her music goes to so many moments. It was like
perfectly done.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
All right, my best for June, I'm gonna go with Tuner.
Oh yeah, which was a movie.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
We saw that at the very beginning of the movie.
I totally forgot about that.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
It was kind of crammed in there at the beginning
of the month. I feel like didn't get the promo
it deserved. But one that we just kind of saw
on a whim on a Sunday, We're like, let's let's
go watch it. We saw the trailer.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
It look good.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
What the movie is about. It's about a guy who
works as a piano tuner. He has a condition where
essentially he is allergic to sounds, but makes him a
fantastic piano tuner. He was also like a prodigy at piano,
but due to his health issues, can't live out his dream,
and you learn more about that in the movie. But
(05:20):
then he discovers that.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Because he's very sensitive to sounds. He's not even allergic
to it, yes, but he's sensitive to where like he
can hear the smallest of noises and it bothers him.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
So he wears like these really big headphones all the
time to kind of help protect his ears. But then
he discovers after his friend Dustin Hoffman in the movie,
who was like a ray of sunshine in this after
he has a bit of an accident, he discovers that
he can crack safes because he can hear when you're turning.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Apparently there's like a latch where the mechanisms go past
each other and you can hear that if you listen
really really really really really carefully. And he's like hyper
sensitive to sound, so he could hear that. So he
learns how to crack safes on YouTube. You can learn
anything on YouTube YouTube university.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
So he learns how to do that turns to a
life of crime but doing something good, and then you
have all the trials and tribulations that come with that,
you get a love interest. He's balancing a new romance.
I love movies where it is good people doing bad
things where you do love that because he is.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You're like wanting him to get away with it.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, And I find this conflict within myself of I'm
rooting for him, but if I knew him in real life,
I'd be like, dude, that's a bad dude.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
That's like what was the movie or Channing Tatum Lives
and the Toys r Us Rufman Rufman, and you like
want him.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
To get away with it. It's like they're criminals, but
they're so charming and good lugging that you're like, you
wanted me to get away with it. But that is
also the power of good storytelling. If a movie can
make you feel empathy or a character who is doing
rather awful and illegal things, that is good storytelling. I
(07:06):
love Leo Woodall.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I feel like in the past few years he has
done some incredible roles White Lotus, he did Prime on
Apple TV, he was in Nuremberg, needed this.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, I think he's popping off right now.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I think he's great. And he and Meghan Faye from
also from white Lotus and the bold type. They make
a great couple.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
This movie is perfect if you love thrillers, which is
up there in like my top three genres where the
only thing I would hold against this movie there's nothing
novel that happens. It is by the books, kind of
a standard thriller, but it's done so well. But it's
novel in that like the price is Yeah, but as
(07:48):
far as like the actual story.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I don't need everyone to rewrite. Yeah, I don't know
if something, if it's not broken, don't fix it.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
It's not going to win an oscar, but it won
my heart.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I think the actors made the movie. Like the performances
were stand out performances.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
And then we're walking out and who do we see?
Keith Urban going to watch a movie on a normal
Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
He was in front of us, and we did that
thing where we can just exchange a look when we
see someone famous, and we just kind of like look
at each other and we're like, did you clock that?
Am I?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Am? I seeing what you're seeing?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
And then that's it.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
He held the door up and for us, he was
very under the radar, very under the radar, which I
wanted to ask him what he thought of it, because
it had like a musical element to it, it had
the action element to it. Obviously he's a musician. I'm like,
does I just.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Saw a TikTok the other day that he apparently pulled
up in his Rolls Royce to a Jenny's. Have you
seen that one? And he was eating ice cream in
his Yeah, and he like gets in his Rolls Royce.
Which it's very confusing because the door's open.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Weird in that.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I'm like, that's how you know a car's fancy. The
doors don't open the right way. I feel like I'd
be like, huh.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, they said he was eating ice cream in his
Rolls Royce for like thirty minutes. Yeah, what a life,
What a life? But very nice he held the door
open for him, he did. I would have given pressure
U tuner. I'm looking at it here. A four out
of five was pressure this month too? Yeah, we'll get
to that. Gosh, I've seen so many movies. But before
(09:10):
we get to that, you're worst of the month.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I have to go disclosure day.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
My biggest letdown of the month. Yeah, you didn't find
it entertaining. What's you found it pretty boring. I just
don't really know what the point of it was.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
And it's like I want to love a Spielberg movie.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I love Spielberg.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I love Spielberg. I love Emily Blunt, I love Colma Domingo.
Oh yeah, Josh O'Connor was great, But there were I
had more questions leaving the movie, and not in like
a it makes you think, but in A there were
like plot holes.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
D now like an open ended Christopher Nolan makes.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Me contemplate life and time and quantum physics.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
No, it was just like I think. The thing I
struggled with the most was it felt very cartoonish. The action,
the villain, and then there's some like animals in it. Yeah,
so oh am I watching snow White? What is happening?
Oh cgi? But I think when it came to the villa,
and that was the biggest problem for me, where it
(10:08):
felt very one dimensional. It wasn't delivered in a way
to me that made me emotional. And I feel like
Spielberg is usually always ahead of his time. I feel
like this movie, if it came out twenty years ago,
maybe would have been the right time for it. Yeah,
but it felt like what is happening so much on
the internet right now. If I open up TikTok, I
(10:29):
could watch something that's more sensational than what happened in
this especially when it comes to aliens, because I'm fascinated
by aliens, love aliens, and this movie didn't even pequk
my interest, and I'm coming from somebody who wanted to watch.
I was so excited for this movie, which was the
hardest thing. Like this was probably top three of my
level of excitement this summer. It was a movie that
(10:50):
I went into a static because I was like, I
want to see how Spielberg does another alien movie, especially
right now where I feel like we need a story
like this, and I was so let down by it.
I knew pretty much within the first twenty minutes that
it was never going to go there because it felt
very off from the start. Yeah, it kind of felt
like we jumped in at a weird point, and I
(11:12):
know it's weird to knock a movie for not answering questions,
but there were a lot of things that didn't make sense,
and therefore I just never felt any attachment to the characters,
to the story, aside from Emily Blunt's character, who I
think was the best.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I mean, Emily Blunn is phenomenal in anything.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
She was acting her butt off to pull some emotion
out of this script, and she did the best job.
But when it came to mixing all the character dynamics together,
it just never really felt in sync and just really
fell flat. And that was a disappointment. So I can
agree with you being that I don't think it's the
worst because on paper it was the worst. For me,
(11:51):
it was one of the worst because it let me down. Yeah,
and that's almost worse when you live, when you let
your parents when you're they're disappointed in you. They're not
mad at you. I'm not mad. I'm disappointed. That's like, yeah,
I'm not mad at Spielberg, but I am disappointed for
my worst of the month. I'm going to Netflix, which
we were just talking about. Now, I know exactly where
you're going. How good their rom coms have been Office
(12:15):
Romance with Jay. I don't know what this movie was,
And I hate to be the person who doesn't like
to have fun, but this movie wasn't even not even fun.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I don't feel like they had chemistry. It's Jalo and
Brett Goldstein. I feel like Brett Goldstein could have chemistry
with a wall.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
A lot of people were saying that it's one of
those movies you have to not think about. How do
you not think about it?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Though even if I don't think about it, it was
still bad.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Because the entire premise of their relationship doesn't make sense
where I understand the romcom genre, I know what I
look for in them. The thing about this one that
it didn't do a good job of is it never
has that friction between them of like, well they won't they.
I think it should have been more of them hating
each other in the beginn and then eventually that love
(13:01):
blossoms out of nowhere. Instead, Brett Goldstein just walked into
her office and sees her and is like, that's the
most beautiful woman I've ever seen. And that's their entire
origin story.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Goo goo ga gays for each other.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
And then that's it. They don't do anything to earn
that the entire time. They just see each other like, Wow,
you're beautiful, You're beautiful.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Even like yeah, seeing people try to defend it, I
was like, you can go into it knowing what it
is and still be like this was bad.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I feel like we ended up hate watching it.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Just I mean, once I'm already halfway through a movie,
I'm committed.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I guess we have to figure out what is happening
at the end of this. And Brett Goldstein's sister had
no reason to be in jail. Oh my god, I
forgot about that LP point, Like that was the most
ridiculous plot point, that his sister was in jail. I
guess I won't spoil why she was in jail, but
it made no sense whatsoever. And then there's like a
full view birth scene. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I did like that character though her assistant, she was funny.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
That was the only good character.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yeah, there were just a lot of things where I
was like, huh, did we need to put this in
the movie.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
But now that is our best, that is our worst.
Will recap all the movies we saw in June. We
kicked it off with Pressure, loved it. World War Two.
I'm sad I did not know that Weather could be
this interesting. Essentially is about D Day and how much
weather played a part in that. Yeah, it changed the
course of history. Okay, we love a movie about weather.
(14:22):
I love a weather disaster film. I guess I didn't
think about it like that.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
It's my favorite kind of a movie about weather.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Volcano after Yeah, which is like everything. I guess we
do love a weather and then World War Two that's
like sign you up. I was like, here I am.
This could have been longer. I guess. There are some
moments where it feels a little bit over dramatic at times,
just because they are like this is life or death.
(14:49):
And then they have like a bunch of maps, but
it is. It is like for World War two, but
I've never seen somebody so intense about weather them essentially
bring in like one of the greatest scientists track about
like how we track storms.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Now, Like this was the nineteen forties, Like yeah, all
they had to go on was patterns and like old
historical documents literally written on parchment.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
That's crazy. They didn't have like digital apps just bring
in Yeah. I mean, now you can bring up your phone,
you can bring up an easy way to track weather.
But back then it was it wasn't like radar on
the TV. And the fact that like that one guy's
job was like just helping out people for like movie sets.
Oh yeah, he's like I got don one of those
(15:35):
and he's like I had them clear and sunny skies
than they thank me for it. I went to the
movie from here. Yeah, but like that wouldn't happen now.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
No, but track the Weather now. Brendan Fraser ever since
he did The Whale come back up century.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yeah, he's really good right now. I would love Georgia
the Jungle to make a comeback. No, let's let's like that. Gosh,
that was one of my favorite movies growing up.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Fantastic, but I think I think it's good to where
it is.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Say no George of the Jungle, No, George of the Jungle.
I saw Back Rooms, which was even though I didn't
fully love the entire thing, it very much felt like
one of the most satisfying movies aesthetically this year because
it just kind of felt like watching one of my
nightmares come to life in a good way. The story itself,
(16:25):
I felt like, they'll get it.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
I don't want my nightmares to come to life.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Oh you don't. That's why I like watching horror movies.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
But also my nightmares really running into people from high
school that I went on to date with, and I'm like,
don't put me down for that.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
My nightmares are much darker than that. But I feel
like I was glad it's one of those movies. I
was glad to be alive when it came out in
theaters because it felt like a moment in history, especially
with that an obsession popping off sof funded films that
I ended up being so successful young filmmakers. I think
those two movies together this year gave horror a fantastic
(17:01):
look that it's not just looked at as like, oh,
the genre that only like weird people are into. It
is the profitable genre. It's one of the most originals,
and now every studio is just going on Reddit and
trying to find this origin story like back rooms to
buy the movie rights too, so they can make the
next big successful movie. So it sparks something in me
(17:22):
that was so inspirational in a way of like you
can do it, Like you can put out things on
YouTube and you have creativity, like you can make a movie.
So even though I don't know, I would fully recommend
that movie because it is so kind of like slow burned, creepy, weird,
(17:42):
not a crazy plot. That movie does leave you asking
a lot of questions in a good way though, because
you like going online and like looking at all these
people's theories of like what actually happened? One of those
type of movies, but you're not gonna watch it from
beginning to end and think like, wow, that was a
really fantastic ride. So I give that one still a
three point five out of five. We saw The Breadwinner
(18:04):
one of the worst movies I've seen all year, and
that's all I'm gonna say. The product placement was infuriating
to me, and that's the only way I saw this
movie getting funding is every single product on screen was
an ad. Yeah, even shark Tank was an ad.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
It was an ad. But yeah, I just and I'll
say it like, I just think the premise was stupid.
I think promoting the idea that a dad doesn't know
where his kids go to school, can't make them food,
can't keep up with the laundry, like, oh, it's just
so old fashioned as a job situate stereotypes.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I also felt that the comedy was geared towards being
family friendly, but the jokes they weren't going to resonate
with kids.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
There's a joke spoiler alert if you want to turn
me down for thirty seconds about Colin jo just killing
his wife.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah, like that's family friendly, it's just not funny. Like
there's like bits of him going to the grocery store
and like trying to decide what eggs to get, Like
a kid is not gonna find that funny. And for
a movie like this, you need jokes that appeal to
a younger audience. You basically need the minions parting. I've
learned that, like you need. A kid's not gonna find
it funny.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
A woman's gonna find it annoying, and if a man
resonates with it, his wife's probably annoyed with them anyways.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
So I just felt like what he was going for
of being like that nostalogic two thousands family comedy is
not there unless you yourself are like an Eddie Murphy,
a Jim Carrey, Steve Martin. He's not cheaper by the dozen,
you know what.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Steve Martin is kind of incompetent and cheaper by the dozen,
and he's a coach and he works long hours and
the kids are getting lost. But like it's done in
a funny way, it's so different. I think the mental
load that women Carrie isn't a joke. It is the
roots or misogyny, and women are made fun of they're
trivialized again all the things I said in the Supergirl
(19:53):
they're not paid enough. Being a mom is an unpaid job.
A lot of people are stay at home moms, Like
in the movie, that's what she is. She's a stay
at home mom. She's doing more work than he's doing
at the Toyota. And I just think that it is
stupid to make a movie because it's not even poking
fun at it, like it's just being it. Like it's
not a self aware movie making fun of these things. Yeah,
(20:15):
it is just him being like, I don't know where
my kids go to school anyways.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I think it's safe to say we probably won't get
a bread win or two. I hope not. I also
saw Masters of the Universe, which didn't do well, but
I enjoyed it. I gave that it did well. There
we saw a power ballad which was Nick Jonas Amazon.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Yeah, just in a good sign. He did have a
lot of studios, like at the opening credits, the more studios.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
It is Paul Rudd who plays in a wedding band.
He was an aspiring rock star back in the day,
and then he meets Nick Jonas, who kind of plays
a fictionalized version of himself with then a boy band
is not trying to do the solo thing. They meet
and write some music together, and then their relationship gets.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Complicated and that song that they write together catchy singing
it for days after.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
It was a perfect length, an hour and a half.
They didn't try to make it more than it needed
to be. Yeah, I don't think anything crazy happened in
the story, which I think is I was expecting it
to go on another level. It felt like a very
just warm, comforting movie.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
It was like a bull of chicken soup. Yeah, It's
just like it was just a good, solid bull of
chicken soup.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Especially if you love music movies, if you want to
hear the same song over it. Yeah, but it was
a good song.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
It was. And I like Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas together,
like I thought they had great like comedic chemistry and timing.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I feel like that's one of those movies that's kind
of good as Slip through the Cracks maybe would do
a little bit better on streaming. Yeah, but I think
worthy of checking out. We talked about Office Romance, talked
about Disclosure to Day, Did you love Toy Story five?
As much as I did. I did. I don't think
I even mentioned the animation style whenever they had like
the scenes where they were, but then it went to
(22:01):
like a different like almost like coloring book. I love
that part of it. Yeah, but I feel like that
movie was really good.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
It had like good bits of nostalgia, and it was
weird thinking about, like these are movies from our childhood,
Like if they make another, we'll be like in the
future be taking our kids to see Toy Story. Still.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I mean, the last one came out twenty nineteen. This
one came out in twenty twenty six, so that's seven years.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Oh yeah, they make another one.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
That's crazy. Yeah, we talked about voicemails for Isabelle. We
did a full review of super Girl last week, so
I think we've covered all the movies in June. What
about TV shows?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I'm gonna go with I'm a Little Late to the
Party per Usual off Campus on Amazon Prime. It's like
a hockey romance shows or having a moment.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah, Netflix is getting one now.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
It was so good.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
It was like the ride amount of like yearning.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
It didn't feel that cheesy to me talk about a
movie that had phenomenal soundtrack like that the supervisor music
supervisor for that excellent.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I feel like Amazon shows and movies usually go all
out on that.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Yeah, and that's like summer I turn pretty. I feel
like they've got the budget, They've got the Amazon money.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
For me, it has to be America's Sweethearts on Netflix,
which is the Dallas Cowboys. You're still giving that the
best thing. That's the only show I completed in June.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
We watched four seasons.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Oh yeah, four seasons. Okay, I'm gonna go four seasons.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Oh and on air Audible.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
I love Calmon Domingo. I love Tina fey Well Forte.
I love how every two episodes is a season, and
like a literal season, literal season of the year. They
go through fall, they got.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
The meteor meteorological season. What would you call it?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I just call it a season. But well, because I
was saying like a season.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
When you're talking about a season within a season of
the TV show, it's kind of confusing.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
I feel like it's a great mix of comedy but
also a lot of emotion. And I think the shorter
episodes is something I love. Yeah, Like, I think it's
really hard for me to start forty five.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
You will watch two thirty minute episodes instead of one
forty five minute. It is a weird thing, which it
is fifteen minutes longer, but it's not.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Just because of the run time. It's because the story
structure wraps up quicker.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
It's trunk.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, so it's like you get in you know the
what this episode is going to be about is a
resolution pretty quickly, and then you move on to the
next one where your brain kind of resets.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
I get it's the same amount of time, but it's
something about the overall arc of the story that helps
me get through it quicker and feels less daunting to
hit play on another one.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Yeah, I loved it. I love that show.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
But my I guess honorable mention that would be The
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader show on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Episodes one through four, Yes, the last two episodes they
read story five through seven cut them out.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I think it's another season. Ah, I don't know, so meta,
which I don't like them.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
It is like the second season of cheer where they've
become these person which to me was surprising because I
always watched the CMT show. But I think I was
in the minority. Like, I don't think that was like
popping off, which.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Is where I like, I started to watch it because
of you. Even though I'm a huge Dallas Cowboys fan,
I was just never like, yeah, the show never appealed
to me.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
And it's them being like I can't go the grocery
store anymore. Which I'm not saying that they don't get recognized,
but it was just too meta. Yeah, it was like,
we are these big personalities. This is a heavy responsibility,
this is a weight.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Yeah. I just feel like once it becomes meta in
that way, it takes the overall integrity away from the
documentary style, which that first season was all about. It
was like breaking the fourth wall. Yeah, the first season
was all about how hard it is to not only
make the squad but also live a life, because back
when that season started, they were getting paid basically nothing,
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and it was so hard on their bodies, so mentally
draining on how critical they are of them them having
to say yes ma'am all the time so weird, and
to think for them not to be fairly compensated, and
how much they sacrifice their bodies that they're.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Like twenty five years old, getting like hip surgery.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
And they're in pain because of the splits, because of
the thunder thunder. But that season was so much more
of a documentary on that also what they have to
experience at games with some fans who probably shouldn't be
around them, yes, and how much it affects their personal
lives aside from the fame now that they're covering. It
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was very much more a raw look. And I also
feel like some of the people hired in the organization
didn't have as much input on that first season didn't
paint them in the best.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
But they're still not executive producers, Like they still don't
have the credit, which is surprising, and they were EPs
on the CMT show.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
I feel like you can get smarter on what you
say on camera.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Or there's certain someone who's also on screen sometimes who
might have a little more pool.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Yeah, if you catch my drifts. Yeah, but I still found,
like you said, the first four episodes entertaining episodes.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Seven were Inner being a super fan about what she
thinks of the tri leaders and some dude who runs
like a memorabilia museum.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Yeah, I was like, what are we doing here? This
season just lost a plot for me because I like
the actual I liked that the earlier seasons got into
them making it and then documenting the entire season of
what actually happens, And maybe they did have a version
of that, but maybe nothing crazy happened throughout the season
that they were relying on these small little details that
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they made way more dramatic than they should have been.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
I even want just the like I want the everyday life.
I want you showing the girls going to their nine
to five and then yes, coming to practice, practicing, and
then going home and brushing their stars off their uniform
of the toothbrush, like I want more of what it
takes to make it in the organization, not just make
it to the team, but keep up with the demands
of like the games and the practice and your real
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life like that, And maybe some of them kind of
shied away from showing their real.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Lives because it has become too much true. And I
think also on a good note for them is they
have been able to make more through social media that
some of them don't have to have those nine to
five jobs anymore.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I just miss although they did bring back some of
the like bad auditions, and I was kind of surprised
they did that like.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Oh yeah they did, especially when you see Casey Musgraves,
he I didn't like that, and you're like, you have
to watch that bag. They did a young girl dirty,
the girl with the bangs, they just roasted her. It
is insane how much they point out little details.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
But if you go back to the earlier seasons, if
you watch the very early CMT seasons, they're not even
finding ways to say like fat nicely. They're like, she
looks fat, she's spilling over in her uniform, she looks terrible,
she needs to drop five pounds.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Like they were ruthless. I just imagine that, which, like,
I don't condone.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I think it was mean. I'm like, so I kind
of thought they did away from like making fun of
bad auditions altogether, and so then when they kind of
brought a few of those out the season, I was like, oh,
we're going back to like kind of the mean girl behavior.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
I just imagine that girl with the bangs watching the
show and being like.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Maybe she got rid of the banks she took away from.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
She just thought it was her performance wasn't as strong,
and they're like it was my bangs. But yeah, unless
you're a huge Dallas Cowboys fan like me, I don't
know if you would find it as entertaining.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
I think people, I mean that's why the show has
been successful.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
But I don't think you could just hop into this season.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Okay, we also have to talk about how they did
that one girl dirty with her hair color.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
I will say what happens to her.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
I will just say that the guy was like, she
would look great with this color, and narrator it was
not her color.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Yeah, not a spoiler. But like in the history of
this show, I think it is brutal that they do
the makeovers and they do have the ability to, because
that is crazy, like if I'm going to change my
appearance very dramatically, like I'm making the team. Yeah, And
the fact that you can go through the makeover process
and then they can still cut you.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
That is that is brutal. And they've done that before
to people. Kelly from Weehawk in New Jersey, they dyed
her hair brown and then they were like, ye're out.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
That's brutal.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
It is brutal. There was an Australian girl this season.
I love her.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Yeah, she was probably my favorite.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
She was awesome.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
What about your book because I read this last month
that I talked about. That's you can go back to
the Supergirl review to hear that I read.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Ten books this month. I think was the final count.
I'm at fifty for the year. My favorite this month
was The Calamity Club by Catherine Stockton, who is the
author of The Help and this is her second book ever,
like The Help was her first book and blew up
and so you it took her.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Like maybe twenty years for this one to come out.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Wow, maybe not that long, but it's six hundred and
fifty pages, so don't let that intimidate you. And it
is character driven, not like plot driven. Because it's so good.
I wanted another six hundred pages.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I could not read a book. I also read it
on my.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Kindle, so you're not like physically holding it and like
then being like, I still have this many pages left.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I did like tell you the percentage though, right or
only if you like turn that the time on. I
have that feature turned off and till for me, it'd
be like, you have fourteen days left. You don't have
enough time left in your life to read this. Look
what II those pictures are? It's still reading, you know.
On this podcast, we don't discourage reading of any kind.
Reading is reading. Okay, oh I wanted to do.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
This is not this person's probably never gonna hear, but
we have to talk about that. TikTok I sent you.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Oh yeah, hit me with it. So there is a.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
School resource officer in Arizona and he works at a
primarily low income middle school. So they're just seventh and
eighth graders and the funding for their end of the
year field trip fell through, and so he used his
own money and he took them all and he rented
out the theater and guys, when the kids found out
they were gonna have to use their own money for snacks,
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some of them got really worried that they weren't gonna happen.
So we bought every kid concessions too, And like this
is a school employee, so like you know, that is
a big chunk of his like monthly income is to
take one hundred and forty four kids, and some.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Of them it was their first movie ever. I literally
sobbed on and I watched this, which is what I
was saying in the Toy Story five view, because that's
what they went to go watch. Like I would have
loved for that movie to have been my first movie ever.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
And but just like the compassion and like he was
gonna make it happen for them, and yeah, it just
was a beautiful story. And we've been to that theater
in Scott Still. That's a very nice movie theater you
take them to, like imagine that being your first experience.
The seats recline, It's nice and cold and dark, the
screen's big. They have great concessions.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Is it Harkins or Hawkins Parkins. Yeah, that's a great
theater show, great Chaine Whish fan out here, because you
walk into the lobby and you see like these giant
screens that are like film strips with all of the
movie posters like rotating. The lobbies are cool because they're
decorated with movie memorabilia.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
They have the best selection of concessions, the drink choices.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
And then the actual theaters themselves are very new modern.
The sound is fantastic. I feel like they upkeep everything
really well that it makes even not watching an IMAX
movie feel like IMAX level because the stadiums are so nice.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
I did see a lot of people being like no
movie theater could have like stepped into help him, like
he's running the whole thing out for a bunch of kids.
Like no one could have been like, here, we'll give
you some concessions, Like maybe they gave him more sponsor
or this for you maybe, but that was really sweet.
And then I saw another video about those little free
libraries and this kid had requested a book and he
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was like, are you able to get this book? And
then she like put it in the little free library
and he discovered it and he like ran back to
his house screaming, and he was so excited. And I
just was like, I love that reading inspires that in kids. Still,
Like I you sent me a study one day about
how the kids are reading like less than ever before,
and that really depressed me. Yeah, it's crazy, it's really sad.
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So if you have kids, please make them read. It
can be a picture book, it can be a graphic novel.
Reading is reading. It can be an audiobook. Because we've
talked about that. I was reading your brain is taking
in the information.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Change my mind on that, Yes, I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
That's how some people. That's the only way some people
read anything else. No, I'm just in much better what
I did debate last month, having you take that part
out where I said we didn't like each other last month,
but I was like anyone who's been in a long
term relationship, you know how that is.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
I got some messages that people knew where we were
coming from.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Okay, I was like, I just was really worried people
were gonna really hate me. But it's like moving is stressful.
Things go wrong, that's just life. I just we still
love each other. We just didn't like each other.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Now we're all back normal, We're great, all right.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
June was a nice month.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
I loved it.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
You got a birthday in June.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Yeah, it feels weird turn in thirty five.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
I don't think that that's that old. No, I'm thirty
two and a half.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
It's like I don't really have a weird thing about
my age. But just like birthdays. Yeah, I don't like birthdays.
But just looking at the number of like how close
I am to forty Now, it's not like, oh man,
I'm gonna be forty. It's just weird thinking.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
That time goes by fast. Yes, it's flying by.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
It's mainly more of a I feel like I'm losing
track of time and it's going by way too quickly.
Then I don't feel sad about like the getting older
side of it, Like that's natural. I'm lucky to be
able to age have a berthaty every year. It's just
weird that it feels like the last ten years just
went by like that, and I feel like what happened?
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Like what happened?
Speaker 2 (35:14):
I mean, yeah, we've been together eight years, so I
feel like the past eight years of.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
The fact that in June we celebrated our five year
anniversary and that felt that's felt like yes, clip of
time like nothing, like nothing, And I'm like, how fast
are the next ten years going to go? Is what
I think about.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
I think about that with my younger brothers, they are
sixteen and twenty. I was thinking about this last night.
They were eight and twelve when you and I started dating.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
They were literal like they were small.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Tiny children, and I'm just like, oh my gosh, it's
going to feel even crazier in the future when we
have kids, Like is this how time goes forever?
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Because it just fly by forever. We're already getting said
about that side of it. But you turned to thirty
five and I celebrated by getting you a buzz like
your car. It was perfect young at heart, and that
our recap of the month. Yeah, much better month. I'm
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a movie Mike. Welcome to Jackass Best and Last spoiler
free movie review. Even though I don't think this is
a movie you can spoil, so just know that going
into this, I'm gonna be a little bit loose with it.
It is what I call a no notes review, meaning
I didn't write anything down. I'm going off pure emotion.
Because of all the things I went to see in
theaters this year, I did not expect for Jackass, Best
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and Last to be the movie to make me cry,
not once, but twice. Because there are two moments where
I was overwhelmed with emotion. It felt like a part
of my childhood coming to an end. Seeing Johnny Knoxville
now not being able to do the thing that he
loves the most that got to me. There's a part
where he gets choked up towards the beginning of the
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movie of him knowing that this is their last Jackass movie,
even though he says that every time he literally cannot
take a concussion, you feel that in him of how
much he wants to continue but really can't. He has
a family he has to think about, and that just
feels like Superman suddenly being vulnerable and being not immortal.
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That felt to me like seeing somebody you grew up
idolizing and loving from those very early days of watching
MTV and inspiring me to at times do things I
probably should not have done, even though the warning is there.
The warning enticed me more to one new crazy things.
Watching that show led me to doing dumb things with
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my cousins. This scar I have on my hand, not
this big scar right here that I got from getting
bit by a black widow and them having to cut
the vet amount. Not that scar, but this other scar
that is now faded because I got it probably when
I was ten years old, was because of Jackass. I
got on a skateboard, found the biggest hill I could find,
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and rode on my belly on a skateboard down like
loge style, but in a way you shouldn't do that.
And I was wearing a sweater like this one, and
it got caught in the wheel of the skateboard, twisted,
and then my hand just drug across the card textas
pavement and left me with this wound that I had
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and had to explain to my mom when I got home.
That is the things that Jackass inspired us to do
even though that warning was there. But not only that,
It's not just because of the crazy things that they did.
It was because this franchise has been a story about
friends bonding. That is the theme throughout this is. Even
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though they find ways to make each other's lives hell,
you can tell that they love each other, even though
at times they probably hated each other. Once the cameras
stopped rolling, and obviously, when everybody's drinking and doing drugs
and doing very naughty things very early on in the
Jackass career, it is going to cause some friction. But
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throughout all these movies, the core group of guys have
this friendship that makes these movies work because if you
look at social media today, if you look at YouTube,
there are a lot of people who have imitated Jackass
and maybe have done to some crazier things, more dangerous things.
But the reason Jackass has worked for so long is
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because it has heart. The show never punches down. A
lot of it is geared towards hurting themselves and poking
fun at themselves, and never in a way that feels
malicious and feels nasty, like it comes from a place
of hate it is, even though so disgusting at times
and very hard rated. There's a lot of nudity, obviously,
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but all male nudity. It is still what I would
consider to be a wholesome franchise because it is about
people having fun and doing things for our entertainment sacrificing
their body. And the reason it has worked for so
long and has now sadly come to an end is
because it is genuinely positive, inclusive and something that you
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don't have to think a whole lot about, obviously, but
it's because of it being so character driven and personality
driven is why this outshines anything that could even try
to imitate it. At this point, getting to relive those
best moments on the big screen again was still fun.
It didn't feel like I was watching something that they
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didn't put a whole lot of effort into. What it
really showed me was that at their age, they just
can't do these crazy stunts anymore. And even though they
have brought in a newer cast to do some of
the things that they would have done back in the day,
I still feel like they want to do it. And
this was almost a documentary style of the entire franchise
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in itself us getting to see things that maybe we
just saw clips of online, especially how this movie opens
up and you realize how crazy it was when this
show started, the things they would do, and why Johnny
Knoxville is the ringleader and the king of it all
because he goes through these crazy links to entertain us.
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And that is why I think, after watching Jackass, Best
and Last, Johnny Knoxville deserves an Oscar because of all
the things he has put his body through, sacrificed his head,
his brain for our entertainment. That deserves to be recognized
with a shiny gold trophy. They need to add a
Stunt Performer category to the Oscars and Johnny Knoxville needs
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to be the first person to receive it because his
performance of him just sacrificing his body deserves to be recognized.
He deserves an award for this and at seeing him
put himself in situations for every single movie that goes bigger,
that goes bolder, that goes more dangerous, just for the
sake of getting the best take and seeing invest in Last,
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how at times he knew he didn't get it and
as much as it pained him to go take two.
He would go take too because he knew the shot
they needed to get to make it worthy to make
the film. It is those things that I feel should
be recognized, and they just don't get recognized. And sadly,
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this is a movie franchise that I feel some people
just look as that's just the jackass guys doing crazy
things and not seeing the beauty in it. And I
got emotional, not only towards the beginning of Johnny Knoxville
saying like this is really the last one. They poke
fun at it later in the movie, but then in
the final act where it felt like the perfect sendoff
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for all these characters, and even though they are real
life people, they feel like movie characters in that final scene.
And they ended it just like they started it, a
very classic jackass bit, and I was looking at them
as if I was looking at the Avengers. You see
your Captain America, you see your Iron Man, you see
your Incredible Hulk, and it was them going into battle
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one last time. It was their Avengers Assemble moment, and
it was perfectly paired with the right song and seeing
the joy on their faces, thinking we never thought we'd
be able to get this far. And have such a
career doing outlandish things for so long them together in
that moment, the only thing missing was Bammar Jara obviously,
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and I'll get into a little bit another emotional thing
that hit me with that. It was a truly great
way to finish off this franchise, for it to come
to an end in such a poetic way, sadly at
a time now where their bodies just cannot take it.
And the funny thing is, since they can't do the
more physically demanding things, it leads them to have to
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be more creative and oftentimes it becomes more disgusting. So
if you are somebody that doesn't like the more disgusting
jackass side with bodily functions, you're probably gonna have not
the best time watching this movie because there are moments
that are very hard to stomach. But it is so
crazy and so outlandish that I loved it. I felt
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like I bonded with everybody in the theater. And it
is one of those movies that it is better to
experience it with an audience among a group of people
who have probably like me, been a fan of this
show for so long, have seen all the movies it
felt in an odd way, like a celebration of life.
Even though they aren't dying, it feels like them saying
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goodbye to this phase of their life. So it kind
of is a way to honor that time coming to
an end, done in a fantastic way where they still
have a lot of fun with the new cast members
doing some fun new bits sprinkled in there. Obviously, I
wish there maybe would have been two more new stunts
or segments in there. And the movie is relatively short
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because I the ending right around an hour and twenty minutes.
But the cool thing that they do is for ten
minutes they're rolling credits and showing you more footage all
the moments when you see Ryan Done on screen. Bill's
got me too, because when he passed away, I feel
like it got really hard for mam Mar Jira and
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has probably led him to the life he is having
now where he has struggled with the loss of his
friend a lot, and I understand that, and I think
seeing Ryan Dunn on screen in a theater in twenty
twenty six felt very much like he is still alive
with us, and it was so great that they included
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him and his most memorable bits in this movie because
it was almost like getting to see him live again,
and I think that was truly special. When I started
watching all the clips of the premiere, seeing Bam Margera's
parents April and Phil on the red carpet, seeing them
embrace with Johnny Knoxville, and thinking that is just your
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best friend interact with your parents, and I think that
is probably weird for them, because they even addressed it
in some interviews how Bam Margira and Johnny Knoxville aren't
on speaking terms and when it came to Jackass Forever,
the movie before this, they cut Bam out of it,
even though he is in some scenes. There was a
big fallout between them. He didn't want to be a
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part of this movie, which I think I was kind
of expecting, like, oh yeah, surprise, Bam is in it.
Even though they do include some of his segments and
he is a part of the movie, he didn't really
want to be associated with it, and his parents, April
and Phil Margira, have said in an interview that they
hope that him and Bam will kind of get over this.
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They think they will, so maybe there's been some communication.
Maybe at this point they have reconciled because this was
actually the first time I've really heard anybody address it
in this capacity. So do I think this is going
to be actually the final Jackass movie? My answer is yes.
I don't think there's a way they could come back
from this one. I think twenty five years about landish
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Things is probably a good run, and they could probably
do spin off films. I still think Johnny Knoxville could
pull off doing Bad Grandpa, which back in the day
he could do that because people weren't as familiar with
the character. He could get away with it.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
He could go.
Speaker 1 (47:23):
Completely incognito because you don't see Bad Grandpa, and I
think Johnny Knoxville, But now I think that character has
become more recognizable that I think people would pick up
on it. So even that would be hard to do.
But he could pick to do a different character. You
could maybe decide to focus on some of the younger
cast and it just kind of becomes a brand. I
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don't think it would have the same effect because a
big part of what makes these movies so special is
that original cast and their friendship and their bond and
us basically growing up with them throughout the last twenty
five years seeing that early footage of them looking so
young is crazy, and it just felt like going through
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my entire life again and remembering where I was in
every point in my life throughout all these Jackass films.
I found myself just sinking into the chair with all
this emotion while I'm watching somebody get hit in the nuts.
And that is a powerful thing to do. And I
think it is a film that is going to be
People aren't even going to call this a film. It
is a movie that is going to be overlooked because
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of that, because it has a very untraditional story structure.
It is just skit after skit, very much documentary style.
There are moments of this movie that aren't even in focus.
But that is the beauty of this It is so
rough on the edges and something that should not have
been successful for this long. To see it have its
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final send off, I think is a beautiful thing. So
for Jackass, best and last, the last time I will
ever review a Jackass movie, I give it four point
five out of five crutches. It's time to head down
to movie Mike trailer Park. There is something I've learned
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from years of doing this segment. If a movie trailer
shows you the entire story from beginning to end. That
often means that movie is not going to be good
because they are hoping that you learn all the parts
of this movie and you're like, Oh, I'm so enticed
to go see it. I'm gonna pay money to get
my butt in that seat. That is what they want.
But oftentimes when they do that, you get to the theater,
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you watch the movie and you think, I've already seen
this entire thing. I saw all the best parts in
the trailer. So if you ever watch a movie and
you know the beginning of the middle in the end
full resolution by the time the two minutes and twenty
seconds is up, probably not going to have the best
theater experience. But I do think Whalefall is an exception
to the rule because they show the best part in
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the trailer. But I am still so excited to see
this because so what whale Fall is about. It is
a modern day take on Jonah. In the whale, you
have this scuba diver who is on the search for
his father's remains, and as he is out there, he
gets swallowed by an eighty foot sixty ton sperm whale
and then only has one hour to escape because that
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is all the oxygen that he has left in his tank.
And in this trailer you'll see what I am assuming
is the best part of the movie, him getting swallowed
by the whale. If you watch this trailer, you see
it and you think, well, they just show the best
part of the trailer. Why would I need to go
see it? But I've never been more excited to go
see a movie, even though I know exactly what is
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going to happen, and I do believe whalefall falls it's
a lot of falling. Whale Fall is in an entirely
different category where just because you know what is going
to happen, and in this case, you've seen the best part,
I still think this is a movie that is going
to have a lot of entertainment value by going to
see it in theaters. So before we get into more,
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here's just a little bit of the Whale Fall trailer
coming out in theaters on October sixteenth.
Speaker 3 (51:10):
Like Teaching six, he can to do all the tools,
he can deal whatever you can want, anything you want,
I think you know what to do.
Speaker 1 (51:32):
Survivors survive. So in this movie you have Austin Abrams
who is popping off right now. I was first introduced
to him probably back in Euphoria, which there were a
lot of characters in Euphoria that were big parts of
the first and second season that they just kind of
said by the end of it, yeah, we don't care
about you anymore. We're not going to give you any closure.
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But he's been in some really good movies since then.
He was in Due Revenge on netfl Flicks, which was
a movie I enjoyed back in twenty twenty two that
also starred Maya Hawk. He was also in a movie
in twenty twenty four called Wolves, which starred Brad Pitt
and George Clooney. So very early on in his career
he has already been in a film with two of
the biggest actors of our lifetime. Even though that was
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a case of the trailer basically showed you the entire
I would say, thirty even forty minutes of that movie
and just spread.
Speaker 3 (52:24):
It all out.
Speaker 1 (52:25):
So that movie was kind of a disappointment, but cool
for him to be in such a star studed movie
very early on in his career. But I think the
movie where he got on a lot of people's radars
was In twenty twenty five, he starred in Weapons. His
character was fantastic in that. Zach Kreiger directed that, So
it makes sense what he's going to be in another
big movie this year, Resident Evil, which comes out on
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September eighteenth. So I would put Austin Abrams in that
bubble right now where people are starting to become a
little bit more familiar with this face he's putting out
and doing really good work. If this movie is successful
and just catches at the right time, which I think
is coming out in October, where we're kind of in
the mood for a spooky movie. This doesn't really have
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that same feeling of a scary October movie, but it
could be a fun bonding experience around that time, especially
for people who don't like traditional horror movies. Because you
don't have monsters, you don't have anything supernatural. You have
something that we can all relate to, a common phobia
that I think freaks people out more than monsters and demons.
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This could be one of those movies that just catches
lighting and a bottle and proves to be really successful
because he's not somebody right now who is just going
to bring in an audience to come see a movie
because it stars Austin Abrams. But if he's a part
of a movie like a big franchise like the Resident
Evil movie or something like Whalefall, where the plot itself,
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the entire concept is the selling point, it doesn't matter
quite frankly who stars in that role. Going to watch
a movie because a guy gets swallowed by a whale
and you want to know if he survives or not.
You also have Josh Brolin, who plays his dad in
this movie, where you see some parallels here between weapons
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they work together there, they work together here. Josh Brolin
a fantastic actor, but he's also not somebody who can
just carry a movie with his name alone. But I
think all these pieces together, if put in the right weekend,
I think this movie could be truly successful. Because it
is one of those trailers that just went viral where
it's not often that people just start sending me a
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trailer to talk about, but this is one that I
got multiple times because it is that interesting. It kind
of reminds me of when one hundred and twenty seven
Hours came out, which is the story about the guy
who got stuck in a rock played by James Franco
based on a true story, which Whale Fall is not
based on a true story. But we all went to
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go watch one hundred and twenty seven hours knowing what
was going to happen. He was going to have to
cut his arm off in order to survive, and just
because we knew that was coming didn't take away from
the shock, It didn't take away from the spectacle, and
did not take away from the enjoyment. That is where
I put Whalefall in that category that you know what
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is going to happen, but it's so compelling that even
though you know what is coming, it doesn't take away
the surprise and the shock and also the fear that
this trailer alone sends through your body. And I think
it's something that we all probably fear and is a
major phobia of ours, of one being out in a
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bunch of open water, which I think is probably my
top fear, especially if you put it at night, just
because you have no idea what is under you, you
can't control anything. I think the fear of drowning obviously
comes into play a lot with that, but that is
my number one fear, And what this trailer does is
combine all the big phobia's open water being at by
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an animal, the dark because once he gets swallowed by
that whale, he can't see anything, suffocating because he is
running unlimited time with only having sixty minutes of oxygen,
claustrophobia because he's going to be in a small space.
In there. You even see another creature that he gets
mixed up with as he's getting swallowed by the whale.
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So you have a double animal attack, and then you
have to learn how to survive inside of a whale.
I was curious, so I looked up the top five
phobias in the United States to see what people are
afraid of, and see a whales makes the list, But
at number five is a fear of spiders, which I
was bitten by a spider as a kid. I mentioned
it briefly during my Jackass review. But I have a
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scar in my hand because a black widow bit me.
My hand was swollen. My parents had no idea what happened.
They took me to the hospital and they found out
that yeah, I got a bit by a spider. It
laid some eggs or some poison in my hand and
they had to slice me open in order to get
the poison out well. And even though I was a
bit by a spider as a kid, doesn't make me
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freak down about spiders. Spider Man, my favorite superhero, so
played no effect on me.
Speaker 3 (57:09):
I have no.
Speaker 1 (57:10):
Problem with spiders. At Number four is a fear of snakes.
I don't like snakes, but I'm not scared of them.
I would pick one up if I had to. I
don't think anybody just wants to find a snake in
their house or in their toilet, but it doesn't give
me that feeling that a lot of people get. Even
if you just mentioned the word snakes, or if you're
around a snake, I'm fine with it. I can be
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in a room with a snake. I don't want to
encounter any animal in my walls or be confronted by
one as I walk out my door, but I don't
consider myself as being a person who fear snakes. And
number three is a fear of enclosed in small spaces,
which I think is what plays into this trailer a lot.
Is what freaks people out. I don't really get that either.
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I think just because the only time I ever find
myself in an enclosed space is maybe when I'm in
an elevator, and I know some other people just have
a hard time feeling that they can't get out of
a situation. I think I'm so chill that I don't
really care about that. Also, as a kid, I had
to get into smaller spaces because there was a period
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of my life where I was the only one who
fit in certain crevices, sometimes having to go underneath the
trailer to get things out of there. I've always just
kind of been put in that situation that small spaces
doesn't really freak me out. At number two is a
fear of public speaking. I had this probably all the
way up until college.
Speaker 2 (58:34):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (58:34):
I would have put this on at number one. Hated
public speaking in school whenever we had to read out loud. Oh,
that was the worst thing ever. Where the entire class
is reading a book and the teachers like, okay, you
take line one. I would be in my head calculating,
all right, what paragraph am I going to get? If
they read two lines, then I'm going to read probably
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for okay. I'll do this mathematics in my head and
then I'll have my lines down. By the time they
get to me. I've already practiced and then the teacher's like, oh,
you read a couple more lines. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
You threw off the entire system. I knew exactly what
lines I was going to read, but now you just
told that kid to read three more extra lines. It
threw my whole system off. That is how my brain
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reacted to public speaking or having to give any kind
of presentation. The odd thing was I went on to
do stand up comedy and had no problem doing that,
which I found was entirely different. I don't know why
if you give me ten people in a room, don't
want to say anything five people even worse. If you
give me five thousand people, I'm fine because I think
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it feels less intimidating when you're like, ah, I can't
control how five thousand people are going to react to this.
I'm fine in that situation because I see five thousand
people as one obstacle versus seeing ten people as ten
different obstacles. Once it becomes a crowd of that size,
you just see it as one thing. So I have
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no problem doing that. But even right now, if you
told me to give some kind of presentation in front
of a group of my peers, I'm out, So I
am right there with having a fear of public speaking,
oddly sort of, and at number one is a fear
of heights. I guess for me, I haven't really found
out if I'm afraid of heights. Probably have a fear
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of falling, but I've never been in a situation where
I've been really up high. I don't think I would
have trouble just being on like a high platform, even
those people in New York City who just climbed to
the top of the Empire State Building. I think I
would be fine if I was harnessed in on a platform.
That doesn't freak me out. Now. I feel like my
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fear of heights would come in if I had to jump,
like bungee jump or skydive, But that's not so much
the fear of heights. That is a fear of jumping
and falling to my death. So I feel like those
two things are kind of different. So if you look
at whalefall, you do have the number three phobia featured
in this trailer, although if it were more common, I
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feel like being swallowed by a whale would enter into
a top five phobia if it was just a little
bit more common, maybe an animal attack. But I think
a lot of people do have a fear of open water.
Sometimes when I take a flight and we're over a
body of water for an extended amount of time, that
freaks me out, just because if you go down in
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the ocean, how are you going to be found? And
maybe not so much during the day, if you can
see the sun, maybe he can be rescued. But being
alone in the ocean, in the dark, in open water
has to be my number one phobia. Now, I do
want to see how he ends up escaping, which I
assume he's gonna escape right or is he gonna die
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in there? Is he gonna run out of time? I
think the fact that he only has sixty minutes of
oxygen plays perfectly into the plot, which I have to
imagine it's going to be about a ninety minute movie.
He just has that feeling when you have a thriller
like this, where there's only so many places the story
can go. Once he gets swallowed, I imagine he'll probably
do that about twenty minutes into the movie, and then
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you get the entire sixty minutes of oxygen, and then
we have ten minutes on the end to kind of
tie things up. The movie is not based on a
true story. It's actually based on a twenty twenty three
survival thriller by author Daniel Krause. He didn't based it
on a true story, but it was inspired by a
viral video of some kayakers in California who were momentarily
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engulfed in the mouth of a humpback whale, which I
have seen this video. It is crazy. And he took
that video and some other real life incidents involving divers
who were briefly, just briefly trapped inside of the mouth
of a whale. But the movie looks great. I'm excited
for Austin Abrams in his career, and even though we've
already seen the best part, I'm still looking forward to
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Whale Fall coming out in theaters on October sixteenth. And
that goes this week's edition of Movie Mike Trailer Bars,
and that is going to do it for another episode
of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta give
my listeners shout out of the week. This week, I'm
going over to YouTube and shouting out to my one
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thousandth subscriber on my YouTube channel. Kenneth Hyatt you are
the one thousand subscriber over there at YouTube dot com
slash Mike Distro, thank you for subscribing and becoming a
part of the movie crew. That was the nicest thing
I saw happen on my YouTube channel last week, because boy,
let me tell you, the comments were atrocious on the
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Supergirl trailer. All of the toxic DC fans came out
and just they just had their own conversation on there.
I didn't engage with it after I saw about the
fifth one just really going at us for not hating Supergirl,
which was a really weird thing. So they went full
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effect over there. On any platform where I posted anything,
I just kind of stopped and clips from that review
because it was just getting nailed every single place. And
it's sad to see what happened to that movie, but
we said what we needed to say about it. If
you miss that review, you can go watch it over
on YouTube. Just don't look at the comments. Just don't
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do it, don't engage with it. I've just learned sometimes
I'm going to post something, it's our truth, it is
how we feel, and I don't have to look at
all the reactions. So appreciate everybody who has subscribed to
the YouTube channel, congrats and shout out to Kenneth were
becoming the one thousand subscriber, but maybe you can become
the two thousands by going over there and doing the same.
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So thank you for doing that, and until next time,
go out and watch good movies and I will talk
to you later
Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike, joined by my wife and
co host Kelsey. How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm so much better than when we were recorded last.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Great about June. Nothing crazy happened month. It is getting hotter.
But aside from that, a lot of great movies to
talk about as we do the best things and worst
things we saw in theaters and streaming and in the
movie review, I will be talking about Jackass. I got emotional.
It was weird of all the movies to make me
emotional this year. I did not expect this one to
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do that. And you would have hated it. That's all
I'm gonna say right now. You would have hated it.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
So I wouldn't got my hair. You Sackass, I said,
I'm gonna not partake in this.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
But we'll get into the head. We'll get into the
trailer park. Thank you for being here, Thank you for
being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew.
And now let's talk movies podcast Network Movie Mike's Movie Podcast.
What was the best movie in your opinion for June.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
It's gonna be on streaming and that is voicemails for Isabella.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Netflix talk about movies that made me emotional. That movie
keeps you right in the gonads.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
What is a movie about?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Okay, so it is about. This isn't a spoiler in
the trailer. It's in the trailer. There's a girl who
she is leaving voicemails for her late sister, like just
calling and like trying to stay in touch. And then
I don't want to get me the way.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
But there's a guy and a bit of a romance.
That's all you need to know, and a lot of emotions.
I think she is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
She is the rom com queen, and it is a
rom com. There are some heavier moments, but it is
overarchingly a rom com.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Netflix like getting back to putting out really good rom coms.
They are.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I think that's where they put out two this month.
We'll talk about the other one. It's not my best.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Oh yeah, they should specialize in that because I feel
like rom coms, especially like this, are hard to sell
tickets to. But it doesn't mean we don't want these stories,
which I want. The rom coms take me back to
the early two thousands, which I think this is a
great It kind of has some elements of the early
two thousands, but feels very fresh and modern and something
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that I didn't really know I needed. And there were
moments that very early on they were able to establish
a connection between these characters and you feel for them instantly,
which is really hard to do. I think it helps.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
So it's Zoey Deutschen, Nick Robinson or the Leads, and
they have known each other since high school great, and
she used to have a crush on him in high school,
and so I feel like that shared history there made
for such great on screen chemistry because they have a
history together, they know each other their friends, Like I
feel like that was like a safe space for them
to have that chemistry as characters.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Is it hard not to like go back to those
I mean you have to go back to the feelings
when you had a crush on him.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Right, yeah, And she's happily engaged in a relationship. But
it's like, I think you can go back to that,
and like, I think it's easier to play up like
you're not faking a crush on someone like you once
had it and you've been friends, like there's they've been
friends for like fourteen years like there's a shared connection there.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
The only thing and problem I had with this movie
is it's partly said in Austin, Texas, which oh yeah,
that was like a fake setting you were from. I
lived there for seven years. They did not portray Austin
correctly setting.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
One of the best parts of the movie is that
Esti Hyam is one of the music supervisor. Oh yeah,
and the music in that film phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I think an underrated element that is probably expensive, but
having good songs at the right moments, like the perfect things.
There are two Taylor Swift songs in this movie. They're
not been three might have been three. Yeah, that's expensive,
and I think that you know Sdy was like, could.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I get the BFF discount? Can I get the friendship?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Can I use promo code BFF. It's because I feel
like studios don't want to pay a lot to clear
these songs, which is usually the most expensive part or
the unexpected expensive part of a movie is getting a
song cleared. And when a director is putting together a movie,
sometimes they just have a song like place like as
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a placeholder, and they're like, I would really love to
get that song, but it's so expensive and oftentimes they
have to go with a different, cheaper song, But I
feel like every song that was included in this movie
fit perfectly.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It's like the Summer I Turned Pretty. They use a
lot of Taylor Swift. Jenny Hahn uses that music budget
a lot of Taylor Swift. And then they had Scott
Street a Phoebe Bridges last year, so like that was
listen you. She's in Songwriting Hall of Fame for a reason.
Her music goes to so many moments. It was like
perfectly done.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
All right, my best for June, I'm gonna go with Tuner.
Oh yeah, which was a movie.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
We saw that at the very beginning of the movie.
I totally forgot about that.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
It was kind of crammed in there at the beginning
of the month. I feel like didn't get the promo
it deserved. But one that we just kind of saw
on a whim on a Sunday, We're like, let's let's
go watch it. We saw the trailer.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
It look good.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
What the movie is about. It's about a guy who
works as a piano tuner. He has a condition where
essentially he is allergic to sounds, but makes him a
fantastic piano tuner. He was also like a prodigy at piano,
but due to his health issues, can't live out his dream,
and you learn more about that in the movie. But
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then he discovers that.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Because he's very sensitive to sounds. He's not even allergic
to it, yes, but he's sensitive to where like he
can hear the smallest of noises and it bothers him.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
So he wears like these really big headphones all the
time to kind of help protect his ears. But then
he discovers after his friend Dustin Hoffman in the movie,
who was like a ray of sunshine in this after
he has a bit of an accident, he discovers that
he can crack safes because he can hear when you're turning.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Apparently there's like a latch where the mechanisms go past
each other and you can hear that if you listen
really really really really really carefully. And he's like hyper
sensitive to sound, so he could hear that. So he
learns how to crack safes on YouTube. You can learn
anything on YouTube YouTube university.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
So he learns how to do that turns to a
life of crime but doing something good, and then you
have all the trials and tribulations that come with that,
you get a love interest. He's balancing a new romance.
I love movies where it is good people doing bad
things where you do love that because he is.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You're like wanting him to get away with it.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, And I find this conflict within myself of I'm
rooting for him, but if I knew him in real life,
I'd be like, dude, that's a bad dude.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
That's like what was the movie or Channing Tatum Lives
and the Toys r Us Rufman Rufman, and you like
want him.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
To get away with it. It's like they're criminals, but
they're so charming and good lugging that you're like, you
wanted me to get away with it. But that is
also the power of good storytelling. If a movie can
make you feel empathy or a character who is doing
rather awful and illegal things, that is good storytelling. I
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love Leo Woodall.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I feel like in the past few years he has
done some incredible roles White Lotus, he did Prime on
Apple TV, he was in Nuremberg, needed this.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, I think he's popping off right now.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I think he's great. And he and Meghan Faye from
also from white Lotus and the bold type. They make
a great couple.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
This movie is perfect if you love thrillers, which is
up there in like my top three genres where the
only thing I would hold against this movie there's nothing
novel that happens. It is by the books, kind of
a standard thriller, but it's done so well. But it's
novel in that like the price is Yeah, but as
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far as like the actual story.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I don't need everyone to rewrite. Yeah, I don't know
if something, if it's not broken, don't fix it.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
It's not going to win an oscar, but it won
my heart.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I think the actors made the movie. Like the performances
were stand out performances.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
And then we're walking out and who do we see?
Keith Urban going to watch a movie on a normal
Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
He was in front of us, and we did that
thing where we can just exchange a look when we
see someone famous, and we just kind of like look
at each other and we're like, did you clock that?
Am I?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Am? I seeing what you're seeing?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
And then that's it.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
He held the door up and for us, he was
very under the radar, very under the radar, which I
wanted to ask him what he thought of it, because
it had like a musical element to it, it had
the action element to it. Obviously he's a musician. I'm like,
does I just.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Saw a TikTok the other day that he apparently pulled
up in his Rolls Royce to a Jenny's. Have you
seen that one? And he was eating ice cream in
his Yeah, and he like gets in his Rolls Royce.
Which it's very confusing because the door's open.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Weird in that.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I'm like, that's how you know a car's fancy. The
doors don't open the right way. I feel like I'd
be like, huh.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, they said he was eating ice cream in his
Rolls Royce for like thirty minutes. Yeah, what a life,
What a life? But very nice he held the door
open for him, he did. I would have given pressure
U tuner. I'm looking at it here. A four out
of five was pressure this month too? Yeah, we'll get
to that. Gosh, I've seen so many movies. But before
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we get to that, you're worst of the month.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I have to go disclosure day.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
My biggest letdown of the month. Yeah, you didn't find
it entertaining. What's you found it pretty boring. I just
don't really know what the point of it was.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
And it's like I want to love a Spielberg movie.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I love Spielberg.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I love Spielberg. I love Emily Blunt, I love Colma Domingo.
Oh yeah, Josh O'Connor was great, But there were I
had more questions leaving the movie, and not in like
a it makes you think, but in A there were
like plot holes.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
D now like an open ended Christopher Nolan makes.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Me contemplate life and time and quantum physics.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
No, it was just like I think. The thing I
struggled with the most was it felt very cartoonish. The action,
the villain, and then there's some like animals in it. Yeah,
so oh am I watching snow White? What is happening?
Oh cgi? But I think when it came to the villa,
and that was the biggest problem for me, where it
(10:08):
felt very one dimensional. It wasn't delivered in a way
to me that made me emotional. And I feel like
Spielberg is usually always ahead of his time. I feel
like this movie, if it came out twenty years ago,
maybe would have been the right time for it. Yeah,
but it felt like what is happening so much on
the internet right now. If I open up TikTok, I
(10:29):
could watch something that's more sensational than what happened in
this especially when it comes to aliens, because I'm fascinated
by aliens, love aliens, and this movie didn't even pequk
my interest, and I'm coming from somebody who wanted to watch.
I was so excited for this movie, which was the
hardest thing. Like this was probably top three of my
level of excitement this summer. It was a movie that
(10:50):
I went into a static because I was like, I
want to see how Spielberg does another alien movie, especially
right now where I feel like we need a story
like this, and I was so let down by it.
I knew pretty much within the first twenty minutes that
it was never going to go there because it felt
very off from the start. Yeah, it kind of felt
like we jumped in at a weird point, and I
(11:12):
know it's weird to knock a movie for not answering questions,
but there were a lot of things that didn't make sense,
and therefore I just never felt any attachment to the characters,
to the story, aside from Emily Blunt's character, who I
think was the best.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I mean, Emily Blunn is phenomenal in anything.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
She was acting her butt off to pull some emotion
out of this script, and she did the best job.
But when it came to mixing all the character dynamics together,
it just never really felt in sync and just really
fell flat. And that was a disappointment. So I can
agree with you being that I don't think it's the
worst because on paper it was the worst. For me,
(11:51):
it was one of the worst because it let me down. Yeah,
and that's almost worse when you live, when you let
your parents when you're they're disappointed in you. They're not
mad at you. I'm not mad. I'm disappointed. That's like, yeah,
I'm not mad at Spielberg, but I am disappointed for
my worst of the month. I'm going to Netflix, which
we were just talking about. Now, I know exactly where
you're going. How good their rom coms have been Office
(12:15):
Romance with Jay. I don't know what this movie was,
And I hate to be the person who doesn't like
to have fun, but this movie wasn't even not even fun.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I don't feel like they had chemistry. It's Jalo and
Brett Goldstein. I feel like Brett Goldstein could have chemistry
with a wall.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
A lot of people were saying that it's one of
those movies you have to not think about. How do
you not think about it?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Though even if I don't think about it, it was
still bad.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Because the entire premise of their relationship doesn't make sense
where I understand the romcom genre, I know what I
look for in them. The thing about this one that
it didn't do a good job of is it never
has that friction between them of like, well they won't they.
I think it should have been more of them hating
each other in the beginn and then eventually that love
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blossoms out of nowhere. Instead, Brett Goldstein just walked into
her office and sees her and is like, that's the
most beautiful woman I've ever seen. And that's their entire
origin story.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Goo goo ga gays for each other.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
And then that's it. They don't do anything to earn
that the entire time. They just see each other like, Wow,
you're beautiful, You're beautiful.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Even like yeah, seeing people try to defend it, I
was like, you can go into it knowing what it
is and still be like this was bad.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I feel like we ended up hate watching it.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Just I mean, once I'm already halfway through a movie,
I'm committed.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I guess we have to figure out what is happening
at the end of this. And Brett Goldstein's sister had
no reason to be in jail. Oh my god, I
forgot about that LP point, Like that was the most
ridiculous plot point, that his sister was in jail. I
guess I won't spoil why she was in jail, but
it made no sense whatsoever. And then there's like a
full view birth scene. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I did like that character though her assistant, she was funny.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
That was the only good character.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yeah, there were just a lot of things where I
was like, huh, did we need to put this in
the movie.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
But now that is our best, that is our worst.
Will recap all the movies we saw in June. We
kicked it off with Pressure, loved it. World War Two.
I'm sad I did not know that Weather could be
this interesting. Essentially is about D Day and how much
weather played a part in that. Yeah, it changed the
course of history. Okay, we love a movie about weather.
(14:22):
I love a weather disaster film. I guess I didn't
think about it like that.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
It's my favorite kind of a movie about weather.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Volcano after Yeah, which is like everything. I guess we
do love a weather and then World War Two that's
like sign you up. I was like, here I am.
This could have been longer. I guess. There are some
moments where it feels a little bit over dramatic at times,
just because they are like this is life or death.
(14:49):
And then they have like a bunch of maps, but
it is. It is like for World War two, but
I've never seen somebody so intense about weather them essentially
bring in like one of the greatest scientists track about
like how we track storms.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Now, Like this was the nineteen forties, Like yeah, all
they had to go on was patterns and like old
historical documents literally written on parchment.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
That's crazy. They didn't have like digital apps just bring
in Yeah. I mean, now you can bring up your phone,
you can bring up an easy way to track weather.
But back then it was it wasn't like radar on
the TV. And the fact that like that one guy's
job was like just helping out people for like movie sets.
Oh yeah, he's like I got don one of those
(15:35):
and he's like I had them clear and sunny skies
than they thank me for it. I went to the
movie from here. Yeah, but like that wouldn't happen now.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
No, but track the Weather now. Brendan Fraser ever since
he did The Whale come back up century.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yeah, he's really good right now. I would love Georgia
the Jungle to make a comeback. No, let's let's like that. Gosh,
that was one of my favorite movies growing up.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Fantastic, but I think I think it's good to where
it is.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Say no George of the Jungle, No, George of the Jungle.
I saw Back Rooms, which was even though I didn't
fully love the entire thing, it very much felt like
one of the most satisfying movies aesthetically this year because
it just kind of felt like watching one of my
nightmares come to life in a good way. The story itself,
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I felt like, they'll get it.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
I don't want my nightmares to come to life.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Oh you don't. That's why I like watching horror movies.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
But also my nightmares really running into people from high
school that I went on to date with, and I'm like,
don't put me down for that.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
My nightmares are much darker than that. But I feel
like I was glad it's one of those movies. I
was glad to be alive when it came out in
theaters because it felt like a moment in history, especially
with that an obsession popping off sof funded films that
I ended up being so successful young filmmakers. I think
those two movies together this year gave horror a fantastic
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look that it's not just looked at as like, oh,
the genre that only like weird people are into. It
is the profitable genre. It's one of the most originals,
and now every studio is just going on Reddit and
trying to find this origin story like back rooms to
buy the movie rights too, so they can make the
next big successful movie. So it sparks something in me
(17:22):
that was so inspirational in a way of like you
can do it, Like you can put out things on
YouTube and you have creativity, like you can make a movie.
So even though I don't know, I would fully recommend
that movie because it is so kind of like slow burned, creepy, weird,
(17:42):
not a crazy plot. That movie does leave you asking
a lot of questions in a good way though, because
you like going online and like looking at all these
people's theories of like what actually happened? One of those
type of movies, but you're not gonna watch it from
beginning to end and think like, wow, that was a
really fantastic ride. So I give that one still a
three point five out of five. We saw The Breadwinner
(18:04):
one of the worst movies I've seen all year, and
that's all I'm gonna say. The product placement was infuriating
to me, and that's the only way I saw this
movie getting funding is every single product on screen was
an ad. Yeah, even shark Tank was an ad.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
It was an ad. But yeah, I just and I'll
say it like, I just think the premise was stupid.
I think promoting the idea that a dad doesn't know
where his kids go to school, can't make them food,
can't keep up with the laundry, like, oh, it's just
so old fashioned as a job situate stereotypes.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I also felt that the comedy was geared towards being
family friendly, but the jokes they weren't going to resonate
with kids.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
There's a joke spoiler alert if you want to turn
me down for thirty seconds about Colin jo just killing
his wife.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah, like that's family friendly, it's just not funny. Like
there's like bits of him going to the grocery store
and like trying to decide what eggs to get, Like
a kid is not gonna find that funny. And for
a movie like this, you need jokes that appeal to
a younger audience. You basically need the minions parting. I've
learned that, like you need. A kid's not gonna find
it funny.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
A woman's gonna find it annoying, and if a man
resonates with it, his wife's probably annoyed with them anyways.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
So I just felt like what he was going for
of being like that nostalogic two thousands family comedy is
not there unless you yourself are like an Eddie Murphy,
a Jim Carrey, Steve Martin. He's not cheaper by the dozen,
you know what.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Steve Martin is kind of incompetent and cheaper by the dozen,
and he's a coach and he works long hours and
the kids are getting lost. But like it's done in
a funny way, it's so different. I think the mental
load that women Carrie isn't a joke. It is the
roots or misogyny, and women are made fun of they're
trivialized again all the things I said in the Supergirl
(19:53):
they're not paid enough. Being a mom is an unpaid job.
A lot of people are stay at home moms, Like
in the movie, that's what she is. She's a stay
at home mom. She's doing more work than he's doing
at the Toyota. And I just think that it is
stupid to make a movie because it's not even poking
fun at it, like it's just being it. Like it's
not a self aware movie making fun of these things. Yeah,
(20:15):
it is just him being like, I don't know where
my kids go to school anyways.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I think it's safe to say we probably won't get
a bread win or two. I hope not. I also
saw Masters of the Universe, which didn't do well, but
I enjoyed it. I gave that it did well. There
we saw a power ballad which was Nick Jonas Amazon.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Yeah, just in a good sign. He did have a
lot of studios, like at the opening credits, the more studios.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
It is Paul Rudd who plays in a wedding band.
He was an aspiring rock star back in the day,
and then he meets Nick Jonas, who kind of plays
a fictionalized version of himself with then a boy band
is not trying to do the solo thing. They meet
and write some music together, and then their relationship gets.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Complicated and that song that they write together catchy singing
it for days after.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
It was a perfect length, an hour and a half.
They didn't try to make it more than it needed
to be. Yeah, I don't think anything crazy happened in
the story, which I think is I was expecting it
to go on another level. It felt like a very
just warm, comforting movie.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
It was like a bull of chicken soup. Yeah, It's
just like it was just a good, solid bull of
chicken soup.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Especially if you love music movies, if you want to
hear the same song over it. Yeah, but it was
a good song.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
It was. And I like Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas together,
like I thought they had great like comedic chemistry and timing.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I feel like that's one of those movies that's kind
of good as Slip through the Cracks maybe would do
a little bit better on streaming. Yeah, but I think
worthy of checking out. We talked about Office Romance, talked
about Disclosure to Day, Did you love Toy Story five?
As much as I did. I did. I don't think
I even mentioned the animation style whenever they had like
the scenes where they were, but then it went to
(22:01):
like a different like almost like coloring book. I love
that part of it. Yeah, but I feel like that
movie was really good.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
It had like good bits of nostalgia, and it was
weird thinking about, like these are movies from our childhood,
Like if they make another, we'll be like in the
future be taking our kids to see Toy Story. Still.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I mean, the last one came out twenty nineteen. This
one came out in twenty twenty six, so that's seven years.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Oh yeah, they make another one.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
That's crazy. Yeah, we talked about voicemails for Isabelle. We
did a full review of super Girl last week, so
I think we've covered all the movies in June. What
about TV shows?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I'm gonna go with I'm a Little Late to the
Party per Usual off Campus on Amazon Prime. It's like
a hockey romance shows or having a moment.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah, Netflix is getting one now.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
It was so good.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
It was like the ride amount of like yearning.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
It didn't feel that cheesy to me talk about a
movie that had phenomenal soundtrack like that the supervisor music
supervisor for that excellent.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I feel like Amazon shows and movies usually go all
out on that.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Yeah, and that's like summer I turn pretty. I feel
like they've got the budget, They've got the Amazon money.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
For me, it has to be America's Sweethearts on Netflix,
which is the Dallas Cowboys. You're still giving that the
best thing. That's the only show I completed in June.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
We watched four seasons.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Oh yeah, four seasons. Okay, I'm gonna go four seasons.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Oh and on air Audible.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
I love Calmon Domingo. I love Tina fey Well Forte.
I love how every two episodes is a season, and
like a literal season, literal season of the year. They
go through fall, they got.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
The meteor meteorological season. What would you call it?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I just call it a season. But well, because I
was saying like a season.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
When you're talking about a season within a season of
the TV show, it's kind of confusing.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
I feel like it's a great mix of comedy but
also a lot of emotion. And I think the shorter
episodes is something I love. Yeah, Like, I think it's
really hard for me to start forty five.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
You will watch two thirty minute episodes instead of one
forty five minute. It is a weird thing, which it
is fifteen minutes longer, but it's not.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Just because of the run time. It's because the story
structure wraps up quicker.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
It's trunk.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, so it's like you get in you know the
what this episode is going to be about is a
resolution pretty quickly, and then you move on to the
next one where your brain kind of resets.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
I get it's the same amount of time, but it's
something about the overall arc of the story that helps
me get through it quicker and feels less daunting to
hit play on another one.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Yeah, I loved it. I love that show.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
But my I guess honorable mention that would be The
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader show on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Episodes one through four, Yes, the last two episodes they
read story five through seven cut them out.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I think it's another season. Ah, I don't know, so meta,
which I don't like them.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
It is like the second season of cheer where they've
become these person which to me was surprising because I
always watched the CMT show. But I think I was
in the minority. Like, I don't think that was like
popping off, which.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Is where I like, I started to watch it because
of you. Even though I'm a huge Dallas Cowboys fan,
I was just never like, yeah, the show never appealed
to me.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
And it's them being like I can't go the grocery
store anymore. Which I'm not saying that they don't get recognized,
but it was just too meta. Yeah, it was like,
we are these big personalities. This is a heavy responsibility,
this is a weight.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Yeah. I just feel like once it becomes meta in
that way, it takes the overall integrity away from the
documentary style, which that first season was all about. It
was like breaking the fourth wall. Yeah, the first season
was all about how hard it is to not only
make the squad but also live a life, because back
when that season started, they were getting paid basically nothing,
(25:47):
and it was so hard on their bodies, so mentally
draining on how critical they are of them them having
to say yes ma'am all the time so weird, and
to think for them not to be fairly compensated, and
how much they sacrifice their bodies that they're.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Like twenty five years old, getting like hip surgery.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
And they're in pain because of the splits, because of
the thunder thunder. But that season was so much more
of a documentary on that also what they have to
experience at games with some fans who probably shouldn't be
around them, yes, and how much it affects their personal
lives aside from the fame now that they're covering. It
(26:25):
was very much more a raw look. And I also
feel like some of the people hired in the organization
didn't have as much input on that first season didn't
paint them in the best.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
But they're still not executive producers, Like they still don't
have the credit, which is surprising, and they were EPs
on the CMT show.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
I feel like you can get smarter on what you
say on camera.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Or there's certain someone who's also on screen sometimes who
might have a little more pool.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Yeah, if you catch my drifts. Yeah, but I still found,
like you said, the first four episodes entertaining episodes.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Seven were Inner being a super fan about what she
thinks of the tri leaders and some dude who runs
like a memorabilia museum.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Yeah, I was like, what are we doing here? This
season just lost a plot for me because I like
the actual I liked that the earlier seasons got into
them making it and then documenting the entire season of
what actually happens, And maybe they did have a version
of that, but maybe nothing crazy happened throughout the season
that they were relying on these small little details that
(27:27):
they made way more dramatic than they should have been.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
I even want just the like I want the everyday life.
I want you showing the girls going to their nine
to five and then yes, coming to practice, practicing, and
then going home and brushing their stars off their uniform
of the toothbrush, like I want more of what it
takes to make it in the organization, not just make
it to the team, but keep up with the demands
of like the games and the practice and your real
(27:51):
life like that, And maybe some of them kind of
shied away from showing their real.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Lives because it has become too much true. And I
think also on a good note for them is they
have been able to make more through social media that
some of them don't have to have those nine to
five jobs anymore.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I just miss although they did bring back some of
the like bad auditions, and I was kind of surprised
they did that like.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Oh yeah they did, especially when you see Casey Musgraves,
he I didn't like that, and you're like, you have
to watch that bag. They did a young girl dirty,
the girl with the bangs, they just roasted her. It
is insane how much they point out little details.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
But if you go back to the earlier seasons, if
you watch the very early CMT seasons, they're not even
finding ways to say like fat nicely. They're like, she
looks fat, she's spilling over in her uniform, she looks terrible,
she needs to drop five pounds.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Like they were ruthless. I just imagine that, which, like,
I don't condone.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I think it was mean. I'm like, so I kind
of thought they did away from like making fun of
bad auditions altogether, and so then when they kind of
brought a few of those out the season, I was like, oh,
we're going back to like kind of the mean girl behavior.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
I just imagine that girl with the bangs watching the
show and being like.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Maybe she got rid of the banks she took away from.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
She just thought it was her performance wasn't as strong,
and they're like it was my bangs. But yeah, unless
you're a huge Dallas Cowboys fan like me, I don't
know if you would find it as entertaining.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
I think people, I mean that's why the show has
been successful.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
But I don't think you could just hop into this season.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Okay, we also have to talk about how they did
that one girl dirty with her hair color.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
I will say what happens to her.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
I will just say that the guy was like, she
would look great with this color, and narrator it was
not her color.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Yeah, not a spoiler. But like in the history of
this show, I think it is brutal that they do
the makeovers and they do have the ability to, because
that is crazy, like if I'm going to change my
appearance very dramatically, like I'm making the team. Yeah, And
the fact that you can go through the makeover process
and then they can still cut you.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
That is that is brutal. And they've done that before
to people. Kelly from Weehawk in New Jersey, they dyed
her hair brown and then they were like, ye're out.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
That's brutal.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
It is brutal. There was an Australian girl this season.
I love her.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Yeah, she was probably my favorite.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
She was awesome.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
What about your book because I read this last month
that I talked about. That's you can go back to
the Supergirl review to hear that I read.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Ten books this month. I think was the final count.
I'm at fifty for the year. My favorite this month
was The Calamity Club by Catherine Stockton, who is the
author of The Help and this is her second book ever,
like The Help was her first book and blew up
and so you it took her.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Like maybe twenty years for this one to come out.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Wow, maybe not that long, but it's six hundred and
fifty pages, so don't let that intimidate you. And it
is character driven, not like plot driven. Because it's so good.
I wanted another six hundred pages.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I could not read a book. I also read it
on my.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Kindle, so you're not like physically holding it and like
then being like, I still have this many pages left.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I did like tell you the percentage though, right or
only if you like turn that the time on. I
have that feature turned off and till for me, it'd
be like, you have fourteen days left. You don't have
enough time left in your life to read this. Look
what II those pictures are? It's still reading, you know.
On this podcast, we don't discourage reading of any kind.
Reading is reading. Okay, oh I wanted to do.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
This is not this person's probably never gonna hear, but
we have to talk about that. TikTok I sent you.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Oh yeah, hit me with it. So there is a.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
School resource officer in Arizona and he works at a
primarily low income middle school. So they're just seventh and
eighth graders and the funding for their end of the
year field trip fell through, and so he used his
own money and he took them all and he rented
out the theater and guys, when the kids found out
they were gonna have to use their own money for snacks,
(31:43):
some of them got really worried that they weren't gonna happen.
So we bought every kid concessions too, And like this
is a school employee, so like you know, that is
a big chunk of his like monthly income is to
take one hundred and forty four kids, and some.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Of them it was their first movie ever. I literally
sobbed on and I watched this, which is what I
was saying in the Toy Story five view, because that's
what they went to go watch. Like I would have
loved for that movie to have been my first movie ever.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
And but just like the compassion and like he was
gonna make it happen for them, and yeah, it just
was a beautiful story. And we've been to that theater
in Scott Still. That's a very nice movie theater you
take them to, like imagine that being your first experience.
The seats recline, It's nice and cold and dark, the
screen's big. They have great concessions.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Is it Harkins or Hawkins Parkins. Yeah, that's a great
theater show, great Chaine Whish fan out here, because you
walk into the lobby and you see like these giant
screens that are like film strips with all of the
movie posters like rotating. The lobbies are cool because they're
decorated with movie memorabilia.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
They have the best selection of concessions, the drink choices.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
And then the actual theaters themselves are very new modern.
The sound is fantastic. I feel like they upkeep everything
really well that it makes even not watching an IMAX
movie feel like IMAX level because the stadiums are so nice.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
I did see a lot of people being like no
movie theater could have like stepped into help him, like
he's running the whole thing out for a bunch of kids.
Like no one could have been like, here, we'll give
you some concessions, Like maybe they gave him more sponsor
or this for you maybe, but that was really sweet.
And then I saw another video about those little free
libraries and this kid had requested a book and he
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was like, are you able to get this book? And
then she like put it in the little free library
and he discovered it and he like ran back to
his house screaming, and he was so excited. And I
just was like, I love that reading inspires that in kids. Still,
Like I you sent me a study one day about
how the kids are reading like less than ever before,
and that really depressed me. Yeah, it's crazy, it's really sad.
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So if you have kids, please make them read. It
can be a picture book, it can be a graphic novel.
Reading is reading. It can be an audiobook. Because we've
talked about that. I was reading your brain is taking
in the information.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Change my mind on that, Yes, I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
That's how some people. That's the only way some people
read anything else. No, I'm just in much better what
I did debate last month, having you take that part
out where I said we didn't like each other last month,
but I was like anyone who's been in a long
term relationship, you know how that is.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
I got some messages that people knew where we were
coming from.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Okay, I was like, I just was really worried people
were gonna really hate me. But it's like moving is stressful.
Things go wrong, that's just life. I just we still
love each other. We just didn't like each other.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Now we're all back normal, We're great, all right.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
June was a nice month.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
I loved it.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
You got a birthday in June.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Yeah, it feels weird turn in thirty five.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
I don't think that that's that old. No, I'm thirty
two and a half.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
It's like I don't really have a weird thing about
my age. But just like birthdays. Yeah, I don't like birthdays.
But just looking at the number of like how close
I am to forty Now, it's not like, oh man,
I'm gonna be forty. It's just weird thinking.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
That time goes by fast. Yes, it's flying by.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
It's mainly more of a I feel like I'm losing
track of time and it's going by way too quickly.
Then I don't feel sad about like the getting older
side of it, Like that's natural. I'm lucky to be
able to age have a berthaty every year. It's just
weird that it feels like the last ten years just
went by like that, and I feel like what happened?
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Like what happened?
Speaker 2 (35:14):
I mean, yeah, we've been together eight years, so I
feel like the past eight years of.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
The fact that in June we celebrated our five year
anniversary and that felt that's felt like yes, clip of
time like nothing, like nothing, And I'm like, how fast
are the next ten years going to go? Is what
I think about.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
I think about that with my younger brothers, they are
sixteen and twenty. I was thinking about this last night.
They were eight and twelve when you and I started dating.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
They were literal like they were small.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Tiny children, and I'm just like, oh my gosh, it's
going to feel even crazier in the future when we
have kids, Like is this how time goes forever?
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Because it just fly by forever. We're already getting said
about that side of it. But you turned to thirty
five and I celebrated by getting you a buzz like
your car. It was perfect young at heart, and that
our recap of the month. Yeah, much better month. I'm
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a movie Mike. Welcome to Jackass Best and Last spoiler
free movie review. Even though I don't think this is
a movie you can spoil, so just know that going
into this, I'm gonna be a little bit loose with it.
It is what I call a no notes review, meaning
I didn't write anything down. I'm going off pure emotion.
Because of all the things I went to see in
theaters this year, I did not expect for Jackass, Best
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and Last to be the movie to make me cry,
not once, but twice. Because there are two moments where
I was overwhelmed with emotion. It felt like a part
of my childhood coming to an end. Seeing Johnny Knoxville
now not being able to do the thing that he
loves the most that got to me. There's a part
where he gets choked up towards the beginning of the
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movie of him knowing that this is their last Jackass movie,
even though he says that every time he literally cannot
take a concussion, you feel that in him of how
much he wants to continue but really can't. He has
a family he has to think about, and that just
feels like Superman suddenly being vulnerable and being not immortal.
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That felt to me like seeing somebody you grew up
idolizing and loving from those very early days of watching
MTV and inspiring me to at times do things I
probably should not have done, even though the warning is there.
The warning enticed me more to one new crazy things.
Watching that show led me to doing dumb things with
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my cousins. This scar I have on my hand, not
this big scar right here that I got from getting
bit by a black widow and them having to cut
the vet amount. Not that scar, but this other scar
that is now faded because I got it probably when
I was ten years old, was because of Jackass. I
got on a skateboard, found the biggest hill I could find,
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and rode on my belly on a skateboard down like
loge style, but in a way you shouldn't do that.
And I was wearing a sweater like this one, and
it got caught in the wheel of the skateboard, twisted,
and then my hand just drug across the card textas
pavement and left me with this wound that I had
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and had to explain to my mom when I got home.
That is the things that Jackass inspired us to do
even though that warning was there. But not only that,
It's not just because of the crazy things that they did.
It was because this franchise has been a story about
friends bonding. That is the theme throughout this is. Even
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though they find ways to make each other's lives hell,
you can tell that they love each other, even though
at times they probably hated each other. Once the cameras
stopped rolling, and obviously, when everybody's drinking and doing drugs
and doing very naughty things very early on in the
Jackass career, it is going to cause some friction. But
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throughout all these movies, the core group of guys have
this friendship that makes these movies work because if you
look at social media today, if you look at YouTube,
there are a lot of people who have imitated Jackass
and maybe have done to some crazier things, more dangerous things.
But the reason Jackass has worked for so long is
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because it has heart. The show never punches down. A
lot of it is geared towards hurting themselves and poking
fun at themselves, and never in a way that feels
malicious and feels nasty, like it comes from a place
of hate it is, even though so disgusting at times
and very hard rated. There's a lot of nudity, obviously,
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but all male nudity. It is still what I would
consider to be a wholesome franchise because it is about
people having fun and doing things for our entertainment sacrificing
their body. And the reason it has worked for so
long and has now sadly come to an end is
because it is genuinely positive, inclusive and something that you
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don't have to think a whole lot about, obviously, but
it's because of it being so character driven and personality
driven is why this outshines anything that could even try
to imitate it. At this point, getting to relive those
best moments on the big screen again was still fun.
It didn't feel like I was watching something that they
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didn't put a whole lot of effort into. What it
really showed me was that at their age, they just
can't do these crazy stunts anymore. And even though they
have brought in a newer cast to do some of
the things that they would have done back in the day,
I still feel like they want to do it. And
this was almost a documentary style of the entire franchise
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in itself us getting to see things that maybe we
just saw clips of online, especially how this movie opens
up and you realize how crazy it was when this
show started, the things they would do, and why Johnny
Knoxville is the ringleader and the king of it all
because he goes through these crazy links to entertain us.
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And that is why I think, after watching Jackass, Best
and Last, Johnny Knoxville deserves an Oscar because of all
the things he has put his body through, sacrificed his head,
his brain for our entertainment. That deserves to be recognized
with a shiny gold trophy. They need to add a
Stunt Performer category to the Oscars and Johnny Knoxville needs
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to be the first person to receive it because his
performance of him just sacrificing his body deserves to be recognized.
He deserves an award for this and at seeing him
put himself in situations for every single movie that goes bigger,
that goes bolder, that goes more dangerous, just for the
sake of getting the best take and seeing invest in Last,
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how at times he knew he didn't get it and
as much as it pained him to go take two.
He would go take too because he knew the shot
they needed to get to make it worthy to make
the film. It is those things that I feel should
be recognized, and they just don't get recognized. And sadly,
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this is a movie franchise that I feel some people
just look as that's just the jackass guys doing crazy
things and not seeing the beauty in it. And I
got emotional, not only towards the beginning of Johnny Knoxville
saying like this is really the last one. They poke
fun at it later in the movie, but then in
the final act where it felt like the perfect sendoff
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for all these characters, and even though they are real
life people, they feel like movie characters in that final scene.
And they ended it just like they started it, a
very classic jackass bit, and I was looking at them
as if I was looking at the Avengers. You see
your Captain America, you see your Iron Man, you see
your Incredible Hulk, and it was them going into battle
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one last time. It was their Avengers Assemble moment, and
it was perfectly paired with the right song and seeing
the joy on their faces, thinking we never thought we'd
be able to get this far. And have such a
career doing outlandish things for so long them together in
that moment, the only thing missing was Bammar Jara obviously,
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and I'll get into a little bit another emotional thing
that hit me with that. It was a truly great
way to finish off this franchise, for it to come
to an end in such a poetic way, sadly at
a time now where their bodies just cannot take it.
And the funny thing is, since they can't do the
more physically demanding things, it leads them to have to
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be more creative and oftentimes it becomes more disgusting. So
if you are somebody that doesn't like the more disgusting
jackass side with bodily functions, you're probably gonna have not
the best time watching this movie because there are moments
that are very hard to stomach. But it is so
crazy and so outlandish that I loved it. I felt
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like I bonded with everybody in the theater. And it
is one of those movies that it is better to
experience it with an audience among a group of people
who have probably like me, been a fan of this
show for so long, have seen all the movies it
felt in an odd way, like a celebration of life.
Even though they aren't dying, it feels like them saying
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goodbye to this phase of their life. So it kind
of is a way to honor that time coming to
an end, done in a fantastic way where they still
have a lot of fun with the new cast members
doing some fun new bits sprinkled in there. Obviously, I
wish there maybe would have been two more new stunts
or segments in there. And the movie is relatively short
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because I the ending right around an hour and twenty minutes.
But the cool thing that they do is for ten
minutes they're rolling credits and showing you more footage all
the moments when you see Ryan Done on screen. Bill's
got me too, because when he passed away, I feel
like it got really hard for mam Mar Jira and
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has probably led him to the life he is having
now where he has struggled with the loss of his
friend a lot, and I understand that, and I think
seeing Ryan Dunn on screen in a theater in twenty
twenty six felt very much like he is still alive
with us, and it was so great that they included
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him and his most memorable bits in this movie because
it was almost like getting to see him live again,
and I think that was truly special. When I started
watching all the clips of the premiere, seeing Bam Margera's
parents April and Phil on the red carpet, seeing them
embrace with Johnny Knoxville, and thinking that is just your
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best friend interact with your parents, and I think that
is probably weird for them, because they even addressed it
in some interviews how Bam Margira and Johnny Knoxville aren't
on speaking terms and when it came to Jackass Forever,
the movie before this, they cut Bam out of it,
even though he is in some scenes. There was a
big fallout between them. He didn't want to be a
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part of this movie, which I think I was kind
of expecting, like, oh yeah, surprise, Bam is in it.
Even though they do include some of his segments and
he is a part of the movie, he didn't really
want to be associated with it, and his parents, April
and Phil Margira, have said in an interview that they
hope that him and Bam will kind of get over this.
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They think they will, so maybe there's been some communication.
Maybe at this point they have reconciled because this was
actually the first time I've really heard anybody address it
in this capacity. So do I think this is going
to be actually the final Jackass movie? My answer is yes.
I don't think there's a way they could come back
from this one. I think twenty five years about landish
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Things is probably a good run, and they could probably
do spin off films. I still think Johnny Knoxville could
pull off doing Bad Grandpa, which back in the day
he could do that because people weren't as familiar with
the character. He could get away with it.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
He could go.
Speaker 1 (47:23):
Completely incognito because you don't see Bad Grandpa, and I
think Johnny Knoxville, But now I think that character has
become more recognizable that I think people would pick up
on it. So even that would be hard to do.
But he could pick to do a different character. You
could maybe decide to focus on some of the younger
cast and it just kind of becomes a brand. I
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don't think it would have the same effect because a
big part of what makes these movies so special is
that original cast and their friendship and their bond and
us basically growing up with them throughout the last twenty
five years seeing that early footage of them looking so
young is crazy, and it just felt like going through
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my entire life again and remembering where I was in
every point in my life throughout all these Jackass films.
I found myself just sinking into the chair with all
this emotion while I'm watching somebody get hit in the nuts.
And that is a powerful thing to do. And I
think it is a film that is going to be
People aren't even going to call this a film. It
is a movie that is going to be overlooked because
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of that, because it has a very untraditional story structure.
It is just skit after skit, very much documentary style.
There are moments of this movie that aren't even in focus.
But that is the beauty of this It is so
rough on the edges and something that should not have
been successful for this long. To see it have its
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final send off, I think is a beautiful thing. So
for Jackass, best and last, the last time I will
ever review a Jackass movie, I give it four point
five out of five crutches. It's time to head down
to movie Mike trailer Park. There is something I've learned
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from years of doing this segment. If a movie trailer
shows you the entire story from beginning to end. That
often means that movie is not going to be good
because they are hoping that you learn all the parts
of this movie and you're like, Oh, I'm so enticed
to go see it. I'm gonna pay money to get
my butt in that seat. That is what they want.
But oftentimes when they do that, you get to the theater,
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you watch the movie and you think, I've already seen
this entire thing. I saw all the best parts in
the trailer. So if you ever watch a movie and
you know the beginning of the middle in the end
full resolution by the time the two minutes and twenty
seconds is up, probably not going to have the best
theater experience. But I do think Whalefall is an exception
to the rule because they show the best part in
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the trailer. But I am still so excited to see
this because so what whale Fall is about. It is
a modern day take on Jonah. In the whale, you
have this scuba diver who is on the search for
his father's remains, and as he is out there, he
gets swallowed by an eighty foot sixty ton sperm whale
and then only has one hour to escape because that
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is all the oxygen that he has left in his tank.
And in this trailer you'll see what I am assuming
is the best part of the movie, him getting swallowed
by the whale. If you watch this trailer, you see
it and you think, well, they just show the best
part of the trailer. Why would I need to go
see it? But I've never been more excited to go
see a movie, even though I know exactly what is
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going to happen, and I do believe whalefall falls it's
a lot of falling. Whale Fall is in an entirely
different category where just because you know what is going
to happen, and in this case, you've seen the best part,
I still think this is a movie that is going
to have a lot of entertainment value by going to
see it in theaters. So before we get into more,
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here's just a little bit of the Whale Fall trailer
coming out in theaters on October sixteenth.
Speaker 3 (51:10):
Like Teaching six, he can to do all the tools,
he can deal whatever you can want, anything you want,
I think you know what to do.
Speaker 1 (51:32):
Survivors survive. So in this movie you have Austin Abrams
who is popping off right now. I was first introduced
to him probably back in Euphoria, which there were a
lot of characters in Euphoria that were big parts of
the first and second season that they just kind of
said by the end of it, yeah, we don't care
about you anymore. We're not going to give you any closure.
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But he's been in some really good movies since then.
He was in Due Revenge on netfl Flicks, which was
a movie I enjoyed back in twenty twenty two that
also starred Maya Hawk. He was also in a movie
in twenty twenty four called Wolves, which starred Brad Pitt
and George Clooney. So very early on in his career
he has already been in a film with two of
the biggest actors of our lifetime. Even though that was
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a case of the trailer basically showed you the entire
I would say, thirty even forty minutes of that movie
and just spread.
Speaker 3 (52:24):
It all out.
Speaker 1 (52:25):
So that movie was kind of a disappointment, but cool
for him to be in such a star studed movie
very early on in his career. But I think the
movie where he got on a lot of people's radars
was In twenty twenty five, he starred in Weapons. His
character was fantastic in that. Zach Kreiger directed that, So
it makes sense what he's going to be in another
big movie this year, Resident Evil, which comes out on
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September eighteenth. So I would put Austin Abrams in that
bubble right now where people are starting to become a
little bit more familiar with this face he's putting out
and doing really good work. If this movie is successful
and just catches at the right time, which I think
is coming out in October, where we're kind of in
the mood for a spooky movie. This doesn't really have
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that same feeling of a scary October movie, but it
could be a fun bonding experience around that time, especially
for people who don't like traditional horror movies. Because you
don't have monsters, you don't have anything supernatural. You have
something that we can all relate to, a common phobia
that I think freaks people out more than monsters and demons.
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This could be one of those movies that just catches
lighting and a bottle and proves to be really successful
because he's not somebody right now who is just going
to bring in an audience to come see a movie
because it stars Austin Abrams. But if he's a part
of a movie like a big franchise like the Resident
Evil movie or something like Whalefall, where the plot itself,
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the entire concept is the selling point, it doesn't matter
quite frankly who stars in that role. Going to watch
a movie because a guy gets swallowed by a whale
and you want to know if he survives or not.
You also have Josh Brolin, who plays his dad in
this movie, where you see some parallels here between weapons
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they work together there, they work together here. Josh Brolin
a fantastic actor, but he's also not somebody who can
just carry a movie with his name alone. But I
think all these pieces together, if put in the right weekend,
I think this movie could be truly successful. Because it
is one of those trailers that just went viral where
it's not often that people just start sending me a
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trailer to talk about, but this is one that I
got multiple times because it is that interesting. It kind
of reminds me of when one hundred and twenty seven
Hours came out, which is the story about the guy
who got stuck in a rock played by James Franco
based on a true story, which Whale Fall is not
based on a true story. But we all went to
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go watch one hundred and twenty seven hours knowing what
was going to happen. He was going to have to
cut his arm off in order to survive, and just
because we knew that was coming didn't take away from
the shock, It didn't take away from the spectacle, and
did not take away from the enjoyment. That is where
I put Whalefall in that category that you know what
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is going to happen, but it's so compelling that even
though you know what is coming, it doesn't take away
the surprise and the shock and also the fear that
this trailer alone sends through your body. And I think
it's something that we all probably fear and is a
major phobia of ours, of one being out in a
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bunch of open water, which I think is probably my
top fear, especially if you put it at night, just
because you have no idea what is under you, you
can't control anything. I think the fear of drowning obviously
comes into play a lot with that, but that is
my number one fear, And what this trailer does is
combine all the big phobia's open water being at by
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an animal, the dark because once he gets swallowed by
that whale, he can't see anything, suffocating because he is
running unlimited time with only having sixty minutes of oxygen,
claustrophobia because he's going to be in a small space.
In there. You even see another creature that he gets
mixed up with as he's getting swallowed by the whale.
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So you have a double animal attack, and then you
have to learn how to survive inside of a whale.
I was curious, so I looked up the top five
phobias in the United States to see what people are
afraid of, and see a whales makes the list, But
at number five is a fear of spiders, which I
was bitten by a spider as a kid. I mentioned
it briefly during my Jackass review. But I have a
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scar in my hand because a black widow bit me.
My hand was swollen. My parents had no idea what happened.
They took me to the hospital and they found out
that yeah, I got a bit by a spider. It
laid some eggs or some poison in my hand and
they had to slice me open in order to get
the poison out well. And even though I was a
bit by a spider as a kid, doesn't make me
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freak down about spiders. Spider Man, my favorite superhero, so
played no effect on me.
Speaker 3 (57:09):
I have no.
Speaker 1 (57:10):
Problem with spiders. At Number four is a fear of snakes.
I don't like snakes, but I'm not scared of them.
I would pick one up if I had to. I
don't think anybody just wants to find a snake in
their house or in their toilet, but it doesn't give
me that feeling that a lot of people get. Even
if you just mentioned the word snakes, or if you're
around a snake, I'm fine with it. I can be
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in a room with a snake. I don't want to
encounter any animal in my walls or be confronted by
one as I walk out my door, but I don't
consider myself as being a person who fear snakes. And
number three is a fear of enclosed in small spaces,
which I think is what plays into this trailer a lot.
Is what freaks people out. I don't really get that either.
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I think just because the only time I ever find
myself in an enclosed space is maybe when I'm in
an elevator, and I know some other people just have
a hard time feeling that they can't get out of
a situation. I think I'm so chill that I don't
really care about that. Also, as a kid, I had
to get into smaller spaces because there was a period
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of my life where I was the only one who
fit in certain crevices, sometimes having to go underneath the
trailer to get things out of there. I've always just
kind of been put in that situation that small spaces
doesn't really freak me out. At number two is a
fear of public speaking. I had this probably all the
way up until college.
Speaker 2 (58:34):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (58:34):
I would have put this on at number one. Hated
public speaking in school whenever we had to read out loud. Oh,
that was the worst thing ever. Where the entire class
is reading a book and the teachers like, okay, you
take line one. I would be in my head calculating,
all right, what paragraph am I going to get? If
they read two lines, then I'm going to read probably
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for okay. I'll do this mathematics in my head and
then I'll have my lines down. By the time they
get to me. I've already practiced and then the teacher's like, oh,
you read a couple more lines. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
You threw off the entire system. I knew exactly what
lines I was going to read, but now you just
told that kid to read three more extra lines. It
threw my whole system off. That is how my brain
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reacted to public speaking or having to give any kind
of presentation. The odd thing was I went on to
do stand up comedy and had no problem doing that,
which I found was entirely different. I don't know why
if you give me ten people in a room, don't
want to say anything five people even worse. If you
give me five thousand people, I'm fine because I think
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it feels less intimidating when you're like, ah, I can't
control how five thousand people are going to react to this.
I'm fine in that situation because I see five thousand
people as one obstacle versus seeing ten people as ten
different obstacles. Once it becomes a crowd of that size,
you just see it as one thing. So I have
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no problem doing that. But even right now, if you
told me to give some kind of presentation in front
of a group of my peers, I'm out, So I
am right there with having a fear of public speaking,
oddly sort of, and at number one is a fear
of heights. I guess for me, I haven't really found
out if I'm afraid of heights. Probably have a fear
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of falling, but I've never been in a situation where
I've been really up high. I don't think I would
have trouble just being on like a high platform, even
those people in New York City who just climbed to
the top of the Empire State Building. I think I
would be fine if I was harnessed in on a platform.
That doesn't freak me out. Now. I feel like my
(01:00:42):
fear of heights would come in if I had to jump,
like bungee jump or skydive, But that's not so much
the fear of heights. That is a fear of jumping
and falling to my death. So I feel like those
two things are kind of different. So if you look
at whalefall, you do have the number three phobia featured
in this trailer, although if it were more common, I
(01:01:03):
feel like being swallowed by a whale would enter into
a top five phobia if it was just a little
bit more common, maybe an animal attack. But I think
a lot of people do have a fear of open water.
Sometimes when I take a flight and we're over a
body of water for an extended amount of time, that
freaks me out, just because if you go down in
(01:01:24):
the ocean, how are you going to be found? And
maybe not so much during the day, if you can
see the sun, maybe he can be rescued. But being
alone in the ocean, in the dark, in open water
has to be my number one phobia. Now, I do
want to see how he ends up escaping, which I
assume he's gonna escape right or is he gonna die
(01:01:46):
in there? Is he gonna run out of time? I
think the fact that he only has sixty minutes of
oxygen plays perfectly into the plot, which I have to
imagine it's going to be about a ninety minute movie.
He just has that feeling when you have a thriller
like this, where there's only so many places the story
can go. Once he gets swallowed, I imagine he'll probably
do that about twenty minutes into the movie, and then
(01:02:08):
you get the entire sixty minutes of oxygen, and then
we have ten minutes on the end to kind of
tie things up. The movie is not based on a
true story. It's actually based on a twenty twenty three
survival thriller by author Daniel Krause. He didn't based it
on a true story, but it was inspired by a
viral video of some kayakers in California who were momentarily
(01:02:29):
engulfed in the mouth of a humpback whale, which I
have seen this video. It is crazy. And he took
that video and some other real life incidents involving divers
who were briefly, just briefly trapped inside of the mouth
of a whale. But the movie looks great. I'm excited
for Austin Abrams in his career, and even though we've
already seen the best part, I'm still looking forward to
(01:02:51):
Whale Fall coming out in theaters on October sixteenth. And
that goes this week's edition of Movie Mike Trailer Bars,
and that is going to do it for another episode
of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta give
my listeners shout out of the week. This week, I'm
going over to YouTube and shouting out to my one
(01:03:14):
thousandth subscriber on my YouTube channel. Kenneth Hyatt you are
the one thousand subscriber over there at YouTube dot com
slash Mike Distro, thank you for subscribing and becoming a
part of the movie crew. That was the nicest thing
I saw happen on my YouTube channel last week, because boy,
let me tell you, the comments were atrocious on the
(01:03:35):
Supergirl trailer. All of the toxic DC fans came out
and just they just had their own conversation on there.
I didn't engage with it after I saw about the
fifth one just really going at us for not hating Supergirl,
which was a really weird thing. So they went full
(01:03:55):
effect over there. On any platform where I posted anything,
I just kind of stopped and clips from that review
because it was just getting nailed every single place. And
it's sad to see what happened to that movie, but
we said what we needed to say about it. If
you miss that review, you can go watch it over
on YouTube. Just don't look at the comments. Just don't
(01:04:16):
do it, don't engage with it. I've just learned sometimes
I'm going to post something, it's our truth, it is
how we feel, and I don't have to look at
all the reactions. So appreciate everybody who has subscribed to
the YouTube channel, congrats and shout out to Kenneth were
becoming the one thousand subscriber, but maybe you can become
the two thousands by going over there and doing the same.
(01:04:37):
So thank you for doing that, and until next time,
go out and watch good movies and I will talk
to you later
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