On this week's episode: Jurassic World Rebirth review and box office, movie theater ads are getting out of control, Dakota Johnson's sleep schedule, Glen Powell is "The Running Man," a look back at Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Total Recall," celebrity guest list for Fan EXPO Boston announced, Kurt Russel visits Arlington, MA for Independence Day, "Phineas and Ferb" appreciation, and more!
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The Hub on Hollywood, hosted by Jamie and James, delves into the thriving film industry in New England. The podcast explores the production of various projects, including commercials, television shows, and full-length feature films.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
This is the Hub on Hollywood and iHeartRadio podcast. I'm
your co host, James Rojas.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I'm the other co host, Jamie Blanco.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
On this week's episode, Jurassic World Rebirth takes a big
chomp out of the box office as well as any
hope that the franchise can be saved. Oh yeah, so
I I went in with with low expectations and I left.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
We'll get into it.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Hello there, Hi. The celebrity guest list for Boston Fan
Expo has been released and we have some We have
a lot of big names coming to town. So very
excited to get into that movie studios. Not so happy,
not so excited for the extra ads that are being
played at movie theaters. I'm looking at you, AMC. We're
all looking at you.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
He's so mad.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah. And an Arnold Schwarzenegger classic is getting the Glen
Powell treatments, all that and more. But Jamie, yes, jeez,
I have to ask you, how much sleep do you
usually get on an average night.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Well, it depends because I work overnights on the weekends.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
But say, I'm not a word.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah, seven eight nine hours.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
It's much better than me. Yeah, crazy hours like that.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, Okay, I get half decent.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah, I guess you have something in common with Dakota Johnson,
because Dakota Johnson. She recently came out talking about what
her sleep schedule looks like, and people are either relating
to it apparently, or they're just fuming mad about it.
Ok So, the Madam Web actress recently talked about how
(01:45):
she prioritizes her sleep in order to function. She says
she needs at least ten hours of sleep and can
easily sleep for fourteen hours.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Wow, she's a cat.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
So she's like in the human form.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
And when I told, you know, my wife about this,
and I had the same reaction. I'm like, on a
on a privileged level, on a certain amount of privilege
to be able to do that.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yes, it is a tremendous privilege because you have to
like not have a job, not have responsibilities during the day,
like not children.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, activities that you need to get to.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
It's like if you're not on a movie set, you're
just But you know what, let's I want. That's a
good thing, though, That is something you should all aspire to.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
If you can give yourself that.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Much, that's great for your body. It's great for your mind,
of course, but let's say ninety nine percent of people
can't actually do.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
That, right, So yeah, I get on average like five
or six. Got to sleep more, I should. But the
thing is like I get up early in the morning,
so you know, wake up around three o'clock in the
morning for work. Yeah, and then I try to go
to bed around like I try to go to bed
around like eight o'clock sometimes turns into a thirty and
(03:08):
then I'll wake up like yeah three, so roughly around
six hours or so. And yeah, I think is my
daughter goes to bed like at seven, and I feel like, okay,
I have I need one hour to be able to
like get things ready for the next day and stuff.
So that kills it, you know, that kills an hour.
And so yeah, I think on average is six hours.
I think I function well enough and you know, overall
(03:28):
pretty good. But yeah, just to hear like somebody gets
at least ten hours, they need at least ten hours
to function, and then fourteen is like there that's a
golden like period.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I would say that's a dream come true.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Yeah. Again, if you don't have kids, and if you
don't work like a typical job like most of us
do cans and do that.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Also, does that even really jive with making movies because
anybody who's ever worked on a movie set ever, they're
all like gnarly, and you know they're running off of
two hours of sleep and coffee and possibly cocaine.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I'm just saying it.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Just there's a lot of caffeine that needs to come
into the picture because you're you're working like sometimes twelve fourteen,
sixteen hour days, having to go back to the hotel
and then short turnaround back in the morning, keep going.
So it's like three months of like of a marathon
where you're barely sleeping and doing all of this work.
(04:28):
So how does she function when she needs to make movies?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
But then again, she is the star, So.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
There is that phrase, and correct me, correct me, because
I'm kind of kind of butcher it. But there's a
lot of busy waiting, like on set, yes, everyone rush,
everybody hurry up and wait, everybody's in a rush and
you're just waiting. So maybe during the downtime she's able
to get in those cat naps those several hours to
do that. But yeah, so she says she doesn't require
fifteen hours of sleep every night, but if her schedule
(04:57):
allows it, doesn't use She doesn't use an alarm clock
and relies on her body's natural rhythm. I'm curious of
what our listeners and viewers like, whether they're like nightly
routine or how many hours they get on a daily basis,
because again, ten to fourteen, that sounds like such a privilege.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
It's like, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Yeah, I'm glad that this was the surprise topic and
not that I pissed off like an entire state again.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
So oh no, that would be a future episode. I'm
sure exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
But Dakota Johnson, good for you. That's great. May all
of us get get that? Yeah, at some point I.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Pray, I pray. Well, you know what, what else is
good for someone? Good for our one of our listeners
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Speaker 1 (07:55):
World absolutely all right. And speaking of taking over the world, yeah,
we have a bunch of celebrities who are gonna be
taking over the Boston Convention Center in August August eighth
through the ninth, sorry, eight through the tenth. And we
have some really we always bring out big name celebrities. Yeah,
and I feel like this year we have so many
and so this is.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
A good one, really great years in the past we have. Yeah,
so who have we got?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
So, of course, a lot, a lot of Star Wars fans.
We have a lot of Star Wars people on this
list too, but Star Wars fans are going to be
really excited to get the chance to meet and greet
Ewan McGregor. Yeah, Hayden Kristensen, he's on here as well.
John Cina, we're burder ter.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Will you even be able to see him?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
You will be able to see the Sena, but he
will be able to ask him questions because he'll be
here for a Q and A, so that's a great
thing to do. I think he'll be there on Saturday,
which will be in ninth. We have a Orlando Bloom.
Of course, he is in the new Jurassic World movie,
which we will be reviewing on this podcast. Also John
Rice Davies who plays the Dwarf, so they're gonna have
the little reunion him and him and Orlando Bloom. I'm
(09:03):
really excited for Simon Peg. Simon Peg is coming to Boston.
That's gonna be really fun tomorrow. Morrison of The Man,
the Mandalorian and and Book of Boba. Here's a Moralist.
We have John Boyega, Jason Isaacs.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Dante Bosco. I'm excited for John Biogo by the way
I just mentioned.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Helen Hunt, Helen Hunt, the original Twista.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Yes, exactly. H. So that's gonna be amazing. James Marsden,
friend of the show.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Uh no, that's James and Marsters of Buffy, The Vampires,
the Fame. He's coming back many just he plays Oh yes,
Manny Gino. He was in the good place and he
was also in The Acolyte the Star Wars. He's like
the main villain from the Acolyte spoilers. So I loved
(09:56):
him in a good place. So happy that he's coming
h Chris for mince Plas, who played you know, iconically mclovin,
Gian Carlo Esposito, DJ Qualls, Danta Danta Bosco.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Dante Bosco. Isn't Dante Bosco?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Oh yeah, Dante Bosco? My title correct?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
The voice of U.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Is also a hook, a lot of a lot of
voiceover stuff. Yeah, I am disappointed. You know, of course,
not every celebrity is going to be able to make it,
so we have some canceled folks who are not arriving.
Christopher Lloyd back to the Future, Fame and many other
great stuff. Ernie Hudson, that'd be a great, great uh
great to have seen Kellen Luits and Peter Fascinelli, who
(10:39):
were both in the Twilight films. They are not able
to make it.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
We are you most excited?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Simon Peg Simon.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Simon Pegg, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Yeah, impossible. Shanna the Dead Hot Fuzz. Like everything he's in,
he's fantastic, So he seems like a great dude too.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, I want to see Helen Hunts.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Helen hunt will be fun.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I want to chat with her. She just seems like
just such a chill person.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yeah, I'm surprised, kind of bummed that she wasn't in Twisters.
That'd be cool. She played like the main you know,
protagonist's character's mom.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Or something like that, you know, or or she's like
the idol that she got to meet one time or something.
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
From the beginning of the movie, she's like running the
team and then she ends up being among those who
get killed.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Oh my gosh, that would be a little much.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Really. The protagonist is like, yeah, I can't do this anymore. Then,
you know, down the road she has get called back
into action.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
You know who else you might get to meet here
in the New England apparently Russell, or at least see him.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Yeah, I don't know how. I don't know if he's
still in town, but he was celebrating the fourth of
July in Arlington, Massachusetts here, I guess he went to
the home of one of his ancestors who fought in
the American Revolution, and so over in Arlington there is
the Jason Russell House and Museum, and it's it's a
sight of a very important battle, one of the bloodiest
(11:55):
battles of that day and in that time. And so
he recently learned out this this ancestry and went there
on the fourth of July and you know, talked to
the historians, talk to the folks who run the museum,
and learn more about this his great great great great
great grandfather, Okay, who was a very many like two, three, four, five,
(12:18):
six greats in their grandfather who he says was instrumental
in changing the world or playing a role in changing
the world. Jason Russell. He actually was killed on his
front porch, on the porch steps during that battle. So yeah,
so really cool again, and.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
They're just chilling on the front porch, Yeah, just.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Saying like, hey, this is history is made and everywhere
in Massachusetts, you know, during that period. So cool, cool
for Kurt Russell, or for anybody really to learn that
they had family who participated in such a you know,
incredible part of our history and the making of our nation.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
I know I can't really trace my family back very far,
but my my husband, I guess the second boat after
the Mayflower, can trace some of his relatives all the
way back to that like that. That's nuts to me
that you can go back that far or farther, but
you won't have to go far. James, if you would
(13:14):
like to see a very special screening of Dogma.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
We were talking about this not far.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
We weren't talking about this not too long ago. Kevin
Smith is going to be coming to New Hampshire, to Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, the Music Hall. This is happening on August first.
He's going to be doing an in person screening of
the cult classic, followed by a live Q and A.
He never does this, so this is a really cool opportunity.
(13:43):
It says, relive the chaos of angels, profits and prophets
who talk too much, and hear from the creator himself.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
So that's really exciting.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
As far as everything that's happened with Dogma historically, where
people really couldn't get their hands on it for the
longest time, and now you finally can.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
And what were we talking about last week? That's happening
with Dogma? Are they doing a sequel.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Or is it just that they're it was just getting
re released, since re released for the first time in
decades that they had the ability or right to do it, exactly.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
So. I it's one of my favorite cult classics and
uh yeah, looking forward to that if we can make it.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Yeah, speaking of cult classics. Yeah, have you seen The
Running Man? No Starry Arnold Schwarzenegger, the novel written by
Stephen King. No, you haven't, so yeah, so yeah. So
the second movie to be based off the novel by
Stephen King is going to be getting a reboots and
it's gonna be starring none other than Glenn Powell. Glen,
(14:50):
I like that, dude. I think it's very charismatic. I
think he does everything I've seen him. Man, he's been good,
He's been really good, and so I'm excited that he
was named as the lead for the Unning Man reboot.
Even more excited, however, learning that the film is going
to be directed by Edgar Wright, who famously has directed
Sean of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Baby Driver, Scott Pilgrim
(15:12):
versus the World last Night in Soho. So this is
going to be really good. The trailer looks amazing already.
So if anybody could fill the boots of Arnold Hoarsenegger,
it's become The Running Man. I think it's Glenn Powell. Okay,
have you seen the trailer.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I have not seen the trailer.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Check out the trailer, and because it looks really good,
and yeah, every now and then, I'm kind of like
they're rebooting another movie. But you know, I've heard mixed
things about The Running Man. You know, people say it's
a cold classic or it is a classic, but others say,
you know, it's not that good. And so my theory
is that, you know, if the movie original movie wasn't
that good or it could be made better, then go
(15:49):
for it. I have problems with them touching perfected, perfect movies, right,
doing a reboot and then just making it just not
as good.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
So you're hoping that they'll that Edgar rat is gonna
come in and just make this better. And he has
such a great track record of making perfect movies and
comedic movies, so that would be a nice touch.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Glenn Powell.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Good for him obviously from top Gun Maverick Twisters anyone,
but you he's on a hot streak right now. It's
got the muscles. Let me just ask you a random question,
right sure, Okay? Because I was scrolling on the internet
as one does, and I saw that there are some
rumors speaking of reboots, that they might be rebooting Indiana Jones.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Oh no, I love it.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
See that's that's that was my reaction too. It's like,
oh god no.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
But then they're like, who could be the next Indiana Jones.
I'm like, could Glenn Powell be the next Indiana Jones?
Or is he too muscly and perfect?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
You know what? I think? I think he's a little
aging out of it. And that's you know, not saying
that he's old. But I think Chris Pratt would have
been a good like reboot because he does like that
kind of thing where or even like a Brennan Fraser.
Now Brendan Fraser's too old right now at this point,
but like at that time, like he has like the
Mummy vibe went during the Mummy movie. Is like he
has like that charm, that charisma, that badass arie. But
(17:12):
also like it's always always it always feels like he's
fighting his way uphill, so like you're ruining for this guy.
And so he always had that personality, and I think
Chris Pratt also had that personality that he could do
something that something that's something similar to like Guardians the Galaxy.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
So vulnerability and flaws.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Yeah and so yeah, so I guess I could see
Glenn Powell doing it, but why would you?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
It was one other suggestion, another actor who's on a
hot streak right.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Now, Tom Holland, No, who's.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Got the uh, he's got the looks, he's got the charisma.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
You might say that he's Tom Cruise.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Oh god, it's not a Tom Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
You might say that he's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Oh, mister Pedro Pascal.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Mister Pedro Pascal, who's on an incredible hot streak, yeah
right now?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Do you think he could be Indiana Jones?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I mean, I love Pedro again, I'm just like, I
don't like the idea of getting rebooted, so really imagining anybody.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Doing it, yeah, other than Harrison. Other than Harrison, it's
obvious and it's not necessary.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
And how would you reboot it? Would you reboot the
same story or just make new stories with indie characters.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
This is going to be like gen Z Indie. Yeah,
I don't know how would that even work?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Even like this rumor, where's it coming from?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I saw it. I saw it, you know, I saw
it online. So that must mean it's true.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I pray that it's not. I pray this not. Well,
you know what is true, uh, the fact that they
just keep keep keep making new Jurassic World movies, beating
the dead, beating the dead dinosaur, you know, sucking the
fossilized remains and oil and hoping to pistling together. And yeah,
I watched it. It came out this past week. And
(19:00):
the thing is, here's the thing. Listen, Jamie, please try
to you. He is like I love Gareth Edwards. He's
the director of Rogue one. He directed the first, like
the new Godzilla movies. He did the the other Space
sci Fi won recently. I forget. I'm forgetting it at
(19:22):
the top of my head. But the thing is he's
really good at at showing scale, and so he's able
to really put large things on display in a very
gray way that makes you, the audience, feel like the
you know, enormity of it.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
You know what's big? Dinosaurs?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
God damn, yeah, so so and so this this seemed
like a good like, Okay, this is a good start,
a good start to putting this this new Jurassic World
rebirth together. And unfortunately, you know, there are some things
that it does right and and I give Gareth Edwards
for that, but there are other things where this is
(20:01):
just falling flat on its face. Basically, for those who
are not familiar with this movie, this is five years
post Jurassic World Dominion, an expedition braves isolated regions along
the Equator to extract no DNA from three massive prehistoric
creatures for a groundbreaking medical breakthrough. Directed by Gareth Edwards,
written by Michael Crichton and David Cope, this stars Scarlett Johansson,
(20:27):
Mahershela Ali, Jonathan Bailey, and Orlando Bloom. So far, on
the run Tomato meters, it has fifty one percent on
the Tomato Meter, seventy two percent on the Popcorn Meter. Again,
audiences generally warm on this, but again, I think it's
if you're looking for if you're looking for a movie
that has awesome dinosaur action sequences, I think you should
(20:54):
go watch this movie because it delivers on the action,
on the dinosaur stuff, on the again, the awe inspiring
beauty of gigantic monsters like again Gareth Edward's strength. That's good.
If you want that, that's all you want, go for it.
If you also want, you know, a clear story, good
(21:16):
dialogue and likable characters, this is not the movie for you.
It fails in that regard.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Shame to hear.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Yeah, feel free to have interjector ask me any questions.
But Rebirth, I would say it's the best of the
Jurassic World movies. But again, the Jurassic World movies already
the bar is solo. But this is like the best
of the World movies.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Okay, because I mean you said you went into it
with low expectations.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, and the thing is so again the spectacle is good.
However you just can't help. But again notice the bad
dialogue yea, the acting that just didn't really seem inspired.
It wasn't the suspense wasn't there, like you kind of know, Okay,
these people are going to die. These people are not
(22:04):
going to die. And there's so many characters that I
don't know it just like there is the veil of
depth for these characters. But if you really just look
at it or think about it for a second, it's like,
this is very shallow.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
None of what you're saying is good.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
None of what I'm saying is good. Another thing, Yeah,
think you for bringing that up. The quips. This feels
like a Marvel movie. Is Scarlett Johansson famously in many
of the Marvel Marvel films? Yeah, And so I think
they try to bring a lot of that quip into
this and a lot of it just doesn't land. And
Scarlett Johansson, she's a great actress, but in this one
it feels like she's just kind of like in it
for the money. It's so bland. The character is so
(22:45):
you know, it's a mercenary, but mercenary with a heart,
which is a knoxymorol. Yeah, and you have all this
stuff again.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Well, it just feels like, you know, with Scarlet in particular,
whenever I see her it takes me out of the
movie because I've seen her in so many things. Right,
But I think maybe perhaps do you think it suffers
from that thing where you do a movie with so
much CGI that you are not connected with what's happening
(23:12):
around you.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I think what made the original Jurassic Park work so well.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
It was a there was very little dialogue when it
came to running away from the dial from the dinosaurs,
and it was just all raw fear and terror and emotion, right,
and you felt that tension. And when you're not connecting
with the danger that you're in and there's no expect
you know that they're going to survive, Like the tension
(23:39):
is gone. Like it's really hard for the audience to
get connected and invested or care.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Because they know the dinosaur's not going to eat her.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Now, I would say there's a part of that, but
also there's the scenes with just here fellow actors where
they're on the boat, no dinosaurs involved, or the museum,
no dinosaurs involved, or they're walking through the forest, the
woods or what have you, no dinosaur's involved. And so
it's just even those moments where there it just falls
very flat. And Yeah, there's a b plot in this
(24:09):
film surrounding a family.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yeah who for idiotic as a kid.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah, for idiotic reasons. There's a dad, a teenage like
a seventeen year old or eighteen year old daughter with
her eighteen year old boyfriend and like this, you know,
a ten year old girl, the little sister, and then
they're sailing across the Atlantic in a in a region
that's known for dinosaurs of every variety land, air, and sea,
and they're like, oh, we're gonna take a fun trip
(24:34):
across the Atlantic as as a final time before you
go to college kind of a thing. And of course
they get taped by dinosaurs. And then the people, like
the Mercenaries, Scarlett Johansson's team, they're like, why the hell
are you sailing over here? It's like yeah, but like,
what are the odds of a dinosaur attacking us? It's like, Hi,
very high, it doesn't even matter if it's low. It's high,
but doesn't even matter if it's low. Why are you
doing this? And so the family b plot portion of
(24:58):
this film, I think they're trying to make reminiscent of
like the Jurassic the original Jurassic Park, where we have
the kids involved and yeah we have like fatherly or
motherly figures kind of there, but it just doesn't land.
They're very annoying and they really don't push the plot forward.
There's one one thing not big spoilers, but Orlando Bloom
he's like the big pharmaceutical guy. They're going to the
(25:19):
island to get dino DNA, so they need to get
a big dinosaur on land, a big dinosaur in the air,
a big dinosaur in the water to cure all these diseases.
And the pharmaceutical guy, Orlando Bloom, he's straightforward. He's like,
we're gonna make a lot of money by doing this.
We're gonna we're also gonna save a lot of lives.
We're also gonna make a lot of money, and so
that's okay, that's believable, not nothing necessarily nefarious. He's telling
(25:41):
you point blank, we want to make a lot of money,
and then this will also help people, so it's a
win win. And so they needed to make him be
like the villain of some sort so you can let
for him to die. And there's like a thing in
that happens in the film where like it this may
be a spoiler, I'm gonna spoil.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
It, okay.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
In the beginning, in the beginning of like the first act,
they're on the mercenaries boat. The family's boat gets capsized.
They get an SOS signal out there, so the mercenaries say, hey,
we got to go, say this family over here, so
they go over there pick them up. Cool. They tell them, Okay,
we get back to the island, we'll do and we'll
radio for help and we'll get somebody to pick you up.
But we're on this mission and you're gonna join us
for this part, or the water part anyway. So there's
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a part where all these dinosaurs are attacking the boat.
It's rocking back and forth. The daughter she's gonna call
like an SOS on the radio, but the Orlando Bloom's character,
he's like, no, like we're we're not supposed to be here,
so you can't like radio win that we're here, and
so he tries to stop her. She like she rips
the radio away. The boat gets hit by dinosaurs. They
(26:41):
both fall down. She slips and like off the edge
of the boat and Orlando falls into like where like
the inside of the boat is, and she's like, hell,
may I'll be I'm falling, and then Orlando just like
like he did. Honestly, he didn't even have time to
get up and try to help her if he wanted to,
but he kind of like, oh, like this would be
very convenient, and she fell and she does slide off
The thing is, it's not like he even kicked her
(27:02):
off the boat. It's not like like he framed her
or anything. And like they both fell and she just
happened to slip and slide in the water. And yeah,
like realistically he did not have enough time to get
up if you wanted to save her. Anyways, that turns
into a whole thing of like, oh that guy, he
was so slimy, and now I'm gonna get him, gonna
I find him when our family reunites with the mercenaries
on the other side of the island, YadA, YadA, yadda.
(27:24):
And so again, it was a very big stretch of
Orlando Bloom is a terrible guy, Like yeah, he's not
the nicest, but like making him be like the big
bad villain of the film. It's like it was a stretch.
And so if if he did literally push her off
the boat, like okay, then he deserves his comeuppins. But
he's basically like, hey, we are all here to get
(27:45):
paid and get and get this Dino DNA and stuff,
and you guys to get in the way. Now you
didn't have to rescue you, but now you guys are
making things worse for us kind of thing exactly. It's
a long story short. I don't know. The Yeah, characters
make dumb, dumb decisions, not likable, likable, not very deep.
There's some moments where like the John Williams music you know,
(28:07):
the original Jurassic Park. No, No, they played it during
you know, of course parts where there's a big dinosaur
and you're supposed to feel oh inspiring, but like if
it felt unearned to play the music, Like you're just
playing the music just to for nostalgic reasons and like
make everybody happy.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
So I don't know, except that nobody was happy.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
The thing is the audience did, like you know, at
the end of the movie, people people clapped, So again,
audiences generally are liking the movie. I I, you know,
there's too many dumb things to ignore for me to
be fully on board. Yeah, Like I said, if you
want good action sequences, big dinosaurs doing stuff and shot
very well and beautifully, go for it. That's all you want.
(28:50):
Go for it, but just be aware like the characterization,
character developments and plot. You know. Okay, it's a Jurassic movie.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
It's exactly.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
But James I I hear tell that there was something
about your screening.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Of the movie. Oh yeah, that made the t Rex in.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Your heart want to come out and like either chomp
some people or kick them off a boat.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Yeah. So this is kind of ties in with our
next topic of things that ruin the movie theater experience.
So what happened basically, and I don't want to rant
too much about it, this is the Rojas ransom. But
but you know, of course, the one of the many
problems of why you know people are not going to
the movie theater is in addition to the prices or
(29:37):
the ads or what have you, the trailers, it's just
other people watching the film with you that are being
human beings that you wish the dinosaur would be in
there for, right, But no, we just had, you know,
we had like a bunch of teenagers. Again, it's summer.
Every day I have to go somewhere. But my thing
is like, like why you go to a movie theater
pay money to like all huddle up in a corner
(29:57):
and talk constantly, like run up and down the back,
like up and down the stairs to the lobby, back
up to the lobby, back up out, out in and
out and then also like the the the youth that
were distracted. They were like flashing their their camera phones
and it was like looking looking for something that fell,
like like the whole movie had like their lights on
(30:20):
looking around like in the corner. I don't know if
they're looking for something or they're just being a holes
or they were just like just constantly talking in the corner.
And then eventually you have somebody saying like, hey, like quiet,
like be quiet, and then one of the one of
the teams the the goal of this of this kid,
he goes, can you respectfully tell me to be quiet? Like? Whoa,
(30:41):
You've been just this entire time and you're demanding that
somebody respectfully tell you to be quiet? Like that makes
no sense. And so that was just one of the
reasons of like if movie theaters can't, you know, hold
their audiences accountable, and then people are going to be like, Okay,
that last expert was terrible because you know, people are annoying.
(31:02):
I'm gonna wait till it comes out on streaming, and
so why would I spend all this money to have
it ruined by by young old what have you ruining
the movie by with their antics?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Get off my movie?
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Long?
Speaker 1 (31:12):
I know I was ranting you know, for much longer
and more passionately with my at home. But but yeah,
it's just one of those things that it's just annoying,
like no one's forcing you to be here. You could leave,
like talk and joke around or run around in the hallway,
like no one's forcing you to not watch this movie,
to be in the movie theater and not watch this
movie and act like animals. So I don't know, so
(31:33):
that bugged me. What also bugs me is more commercials
before the movie begins.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I feel like every few weeks we're talking about this
more and more and more until probably that we're gonna
have like what an hour of commercials before.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
The actual claims. The movie theaters they go to, they
have forty five minutes of like lead up to before
the movie starts, before you know the showtime was supposed
to begin, but you have forty five minutes. But I know,
we were we were talking about how AMC announced they're
going to be adding a commercial during the middle of
the trailers to you know, boost revenue because we need
money to say open. We get that, we think it's
the wrong way to get money, but we heard you,
(32:12):
but we don't like you anyway. So I experienced my
first ad for this Jurassic World movie. First ad in
the middle of the trailer segment.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
So what's the difference between an AD and a trailer?
Speaker 1 (32:23):
So a trailer is for a movie. An ad, there's
a there's an insurance ad. I'm not going to name
the insurance company, but other people online are saying, oh, yeah,
I gotta I got a one minute commercial for this,
or I got one committed commercial for this thing. I
got an insurance commercial, a full minute of some dumb
ass of the insurance. But the thing is so like
(32:46):
you have the very beginning of the movie, you have like, yeah,
you have like maybe a commercial or something or two,
and then the trailers are building up, and you have
twenty minutes of trailers and then that's not including the
welcome to AMC. I'm Nicole Kidman. Here's a Coca Cola
dance commercial that's minute long also, But in between like
the like maybe after the third trailer, uh, they played
(33:09):
the one minute insurance commercial and during that I literally
felt the spirit in me draining out. I'm like, this
is sad, this is this feels like I'm watching, you know,
like something on streaming because nowadays, there are commercials on
what you're streaming, whether it's HBO Max or Amazon Prime
or Netflix or whateveue like ads are popping into things
that you're paying for already. And so not only did
(33:31):
they play an ad, but then you had two more trailers,
and then you had like a teaser trailer for The
Odyssey Christopher Nolan's in the movie, and then you had
the popcorn the Coca Cola, you know, dancing, and then
the race car driving and on the romantic scene commercial.
Then you had Nicole Kidneck coming out and like at
the end of it, it was thirty minutes yes of
like ah, killing me, killing me and sorry, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Go ahead, no sound distract is.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Going to continue by saying this is also destroying movie
studios who are speaking up saying this is hurting their
business because because.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
People don't want to go to the movies because of it.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
So movie studios are speaking up saying they're upset with
AMC Regal Cinemak for increasing the number of non Hollywood
commercials before the movies. They argue that this practice negatively
impacts the movie going experience and reduces the effectiveness of
their marketing efforts because they look at studies and they say,
(34:32):
you know, people after they watch a trailer in the
movie theater, they're you know x more likely to go
watch the film. And so if you have people that
are fuming during the trailers period, and you have commercials
having that negative emotion associated with certain movies or trailers,
people may be less likely to watch it. Not only that,
(34:54):
AMC and some other theaters. Now when you buy a
ticket online, it'll say, hey, warning, account this is when
the the commercials or the trailers start, for example, one
o'clock showtime. This is when the trailers start. Account for
twenty five to thirty minutes. So now people are gonna
see that, and they're gonna come in twenty five minutes
in bypassing missing all the trailers. So they're upset that
(35:15):
like these movie studios and movie theaters are playing all
these ads passing people off like myself during the entire runtime.
But also people that choose to avoid all that they're
missing all the trailers that they're marketing and putting money
into the machine for and they feel like this is
going to negatively affect their bottom line.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
I think it's negatively affected your soul at this point
on another I can I can tell. I mean, yeah,
I hate nothing in this world more literally, nothing else, nothing,
not a single thing more more. This is more infuriating
than commercials, yes, than commercials and ads when you're just
trying to relax and get an ease into it. And
(35:54):
I can absolutely see that I would be really interested
actually to see the science. Yeah, behind, okay, I'm relaxed.
I'm excited about these movie previews. Oh, that looks like
a good movie insurance, Like, yeah, what does that do
like to all of the previews that come after?
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Like, I want to see the actual science.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
I think that for posterity, we should hook you up
to like a brain wave monitor, you know, a heart
rate monitor, and then you know, I'm volunteering you for
more than happy.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
So I'm very biased. This has been a pestering problem
that I'm more than happy for my brainwaves to be read.
And they turned into do.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
You feel like you're at the limit?
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Like, first of all, are are the movie theaters shooting
themselves in the foot with this?
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I think so?
Speaker 3 (36:43):
And do you feel like you are at the limit? Like,
what is your limit for the amount of pre show stuff?
Speaker 1 (36:52):
I think I'm at that point where I'm done watching
trailers in the movie theater. I'm gonna show up at
twenty five minutes past the showtime and just go there
and just do that. The thing is, though, again where
the internet age, where the age of you know, internet's
at a fingertips, So any trailer that comes out, we
see it almost immediately wherever we are on Instagram, Facebook
(37:14):
or you know, YouTube or what have you. So you
know a lot of people don't get their trailers from
the movie theater and so there, but there are still
a lot of people who do. And for example, like
the Christopher Nolan Odyssey teaser trailer, they are only playing
that in theater, so it's not online. So anybody who
wants to, like, who's really looking forward to that movie
(37:34):
and wants to see that, they have to wait through
thirty minutes of BS and more commercials to be able
to watch the thirty second teaser of a Christopher Nolan
next film. Yeah, so I'm at that point where, yeah,
I'm going in twenty five minutes in. Some people online
have been complaining about this, saying that the movie theater
they went to some of them were like, they clock it,
(37:55):
they time it thirty five minutes. One person says forty
five minutes tops of like the the theater manager, and
then he's like, yeah, sometimes that happens. Unfortunately, could they
the managers don't control this, No, they have no say
it's AMC and all these other pree package Yeah yeahah,
And so I wouldn't, you know, lash out at the
employees at the movie theater. But but these companies need
(38:18):
to take note that people are reaching their limits. They're unacceptable, unacceptable.
So please hook up my brain to the study, sit
in my brainwaves, see and see what drives people crazy.
But I think that's a good transition to speak about
another movie that focuses on transmitting things to our brain
(38:38):
waves or vice versa. That's wonderful, and that is you know,
we're talking about what we're watching and what my wife
and I watched. My wife hadn't seen it since like forever.
My first time watching it was total recall. Arnold Warzenegger
came out in nineteen ninety, believe it or not, one
of the most talked about movies you know, of our generation,
of our generation, of our time, and I've never I've
(39:00):
seen it one of those movies I've never had the
time or you know, big interest to check it out.
But my wife said, you know, I watched this. I
loved it. I remember loving it, and I don't remember
much about it, but I want to watch it and yeah,
you know me and moist down, Yeah, down. So we
watched it a couple of days ago, and this was again.
I've heard mixed things, mostly good things about this film.
(39:20):
That is one of the best, better Arnold Schwarzenegger movies,
and so but I know it's the nineties, eighties, nineties movie,
so you know things, expectations are kind of tempered tempered.
So I went in not expecting much. I was. I
was pleasantly surprised. How good of a movie this is.
This is a solid, a solid good movie.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Better than Kindergarten Cop, much better than the Kindergarten Cop.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
But yeah, total recall won't go into it too much.
But it's basically a story of a man who goes
in to have a virtual vacation memories of a planet
Mars experience implanted in his mind. An unexpected and harrowing
series of events forces him to go to the planet
for real and uncover a conspiracy or is he co
(40:06):
Written by Philip Dick, who also wrote Blade Runner and
Minority Report to other great movies. So this is one
of those things where like, I've heard about this movie
for so long, never got around to seeing it, and
I watched it, and I was not disappointed by the hype,
by the good buzz. So my question for you, Jamie,
is there any movie out there that just took you
(40:29):
forever to get around you and we're not disappointed you
actually like, oh, that actually was a really good.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
Movie, Manchester by the Sea. It took me forever to
get around to actually watching it, and it was one
of the best New England movies I've ever seen, most accurate.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
It was really really good.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
The other thing that you and my aunt and the
world have been trying to get me to see is
and Or. I finally watched the first episode.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
And it was good.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
It's good.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
It's good, good God.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
It's a slow build up. Is not one of those
movies or shows or series that like has you know,
like that is top heavy with action or all the
information right now. This is a slow burn, but it's
an incredible that builds up and crescendos into an amazing thing.
And so the journey is really the fun part. So
(41:21):
some people when it first came out were like, oh,
it's kind of the first three episodes are kind of slow,
but it builds up. It constantly gets better and better
and better, and so I keep going.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
You have to keep.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
Hello everybody, Yeah, dang it, No, it's great.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
Well I will I'm glad you're watching in endor. Have
you seen Total Recall?
Speaker 2 (41:41):
I have not watched.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
I recommend it. Watch it with your husband, and again
it's it's it is much better than I expected. My
wife and I like since watching it, have keep keep
talking about theories because it's one of those things of
like was he awake? Was he asleep? Was the real?
Was it not? Was it?
Speaker 2 (41:57):
This?
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (41:58):
That very inptions?
Speaker 1 (42:00):
It really is and so and this is back in
nineteen ninety and so this is a movie that the
graphics still look really good. It's like it takes place
in the in like the future dystopian. You know, gotta
love a dystopian, gotta love a dystopian future. And again,
graphics wise, it's fun. You get all this is where
you know, all the cliche arnold isms from like the
(42:25):
like all that stuff is in there, but it fits
so perfectly, and so I totally recommend total recall.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Awesome, Awesome.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
Another thing that kind of took me a little bit
by surprise is a cartoon that my kids are obsessed
with right now, brand new season up on Disney plus
Phineas and Ferb.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Phineas and Ferb. Do you ever watch that? It's a great,
great cartoon.
Speaker 3 (42:47):
It is a great, great I've never seen it before.
First came out in two thousand and seven and had
four seasons between two thousand and seven and twoy fifteen
twenty fifteen, and then they were done, right, they were
done for a long time until they signed this new
deal with Disney and now they're back with a brand
new season. I started watching this with my with my kids.
(43:10):
It is so it's wholesome, it's fun.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
It's cute, it's very smart, and I love it. I
love it like I want my kids to watch this. Yeah,
it's so cute.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
So it's about Phineas and Ferb, these two step brothers.
Did you know they were stepbrothers. Yeah, there's lore. There's
tons of lore behind this, so that that I thought
that was cool. Perry the Platypum, their pet, Perry the
Platypus who is actually a secret spy. And it's always
start trying to stop doctor Duffin Schmirts. Yeah, Dupin Schmirts.
(43:47):
So that's always really cute, and it's like where's Perry
And then we go off on that adventure with Perry.
And they're always yeah and always you know, creating these
amazing things. They're trying to max of my every single
day of summer and they're going on these adventures and
the sisters trying to bust them always with the with
the mom and it's just it's really wholesome and cute
(44:11):
and what I what I like about it. It's not
about like contentiousness, it's not about drama. It's about kids
having fun and a huge imagination and just and just
having fun.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
Yeah, all of it.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
It's really smart.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
It's one of the better kids cartoons out there. Yeah again,
that you said has been around for a while, you know,
rebooting or recontinuing, I guess. But I got into it,
I think in my early twenties because I watch everything
and so I came across it. I don't know how,
but I was like in my early twenties in college
and I'm like, this is actually this is actually good
for really good for a kids show. It's like again,
(44:45):
it's not like a show where the parents like hate
watching it, like they like they enjoy watching it. I
love watching as well. And I loved it so much,
and my friends knew I loved the show so much.
Is that one of my friends gave me a Perry
Tho Patypus stuffed animal. I lost it. I don't know.
He used to hang in my car, hang in my car,
my old car, and I don't know. I think someone
(45:07):
took you.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
I think he's on a mission.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
He's on a mission. Either someone took him or or
Parry of the Platypus is on a mission. But like
it's a great it's a great idea for a kids show.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
Yeah, and so I'm really glad to see it. It back.
Speaker 3 (45:20):
Parry of the Platypus, he's so cute.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
He's so cute and so awesome. Yeah, he's like like
he pops in and he's not wearing his hats, Like,
who are you like the Platypus exactly and.
Speaker 3 (45:33):
Duffin Schmertz's stories how he was a garden gnome, like
his father forced him to be a garden gnome, when music. Anyways,
it's really really cute, funny stuff. And some people online
again because everything people say online is true, have been
saying that is this the best kids show on Disney
Plus on Disney right now?
Speaker 2 (45:51):
Is it better than Blue? Parents love Bluey too? And
it's all about but Blue is very much.
Speaker 3 (45:58):
About growing and eat mental health stuff, more beautiful.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
Dogs, dogs, more rounded in reality where kids can put
themselves in the scenarios as in like maybe Phoeas and Ferb,
like you know, you.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
Can't imagine you get build a roller coaster.
Speaker 1 (46:15):
In your backyard, spaceship and stuff out of like wooden
doors and like you know, glue.
Speaker 2 (46:20):
Or time machines.
Speaker 1 (46:21):
Yeah, but it's hard. I don't want to go down
the path you could, but I don't want to go
down the path of like comparing? Is Blue better? Phineas
and Ferb? They're both great sharing that that any wisdom
that will bring to you any age can.
Speaker 2 (46:35):
Enjoy exactly, Watch both?
Speaker 1 (46:37):
Watch both? There we go, watch both?
Speaker 3 (46:39):
All right?
Speaker 1 (46:39):
All right? Excellent? Uh well again, thank you so much
for what do you like? Are you? Are you a
big Phoeas and Ferb fan or Blue fan? If not both,
why let us know Also, what are your thoughts on
some of the stuff we've been talking about? Jurassic World?
Have you seen the movie? Do you like it? Am
I right? Or am I right? Or am I wrong?
(47:01):
I would a man if I could be wrong because
people are, you know, generally enjoying it, though not everyone
let us know. Comment down below join the conversation. Also,
what are your thoughts on total recall? All right? Are you?
Did you sleep on this movie also and get around
to finally watching it? If not, what is your total recall?
What movie do you you forever to watch? And then
(47:23):
you're like, man, I should have watched that sooner. Mm hmm,
this is so good. My wife I was telling her
that when we first started dating. I was telling her,
you know, the Henry Cavill movie Man from Uncle Great
Great film, and I was talking about like, we need
to see this. You need to see this, and you're
gonna love it. You're gonna love it. No, no, no, no, no,
it'sok forever for to Okay, find us watch it now.
It's one of her favorite movies, and so it's kind
(47:44):
of one of those things we're like, dang it, Like
why am I sleeping on this? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (47:48):
I feel like it's the title for me and like
the Man from Uncle, it doesn't seem like something I
would like.
Speaker 2 (47:52):
I know, yeah, but you know it's a good movie.
Have people.
Speaker 3 (47:57):
Are people gonna go see Kevin Smith? Are you gonna
go see Kevin Smith?
Speaker 2 (48:00):
And Dogma? And how much do you love Dogma? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (48:03):
Are you a filmmaker in the New England area based
from the New England area?
Speaker 2 (48:08):
Are you an actor, director, stunt person?
Speaker 3 (48:11):
Anyone who works in film is from New England. We
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Speaker 2 (48:17):
Reach out to us. We'll get you on James good
good stuff.
Speaker 1 (48:22):
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another giveaway and you're gonna want to be like, well
rehearsed and practiced.
Speaker 3 (48:46):
We're well on our way to a thousand. That's that's
I think our next milestone there.
Speaker 1 (48:50):
Again again I'm amazed by again the following and those
joining the Hub Club. Last December we had three hundred subscribers. Yeah,
and then three months later we had four hundred, and
then like three months later, like clockwork, another one hundred.
Now we're like five as of this recording of five
thirty one. Yeah, and so thank you so much for
joining us and liking what we do. Maybe our rants
(49:13):
are what you what you like the most, or or
you know, just our you know, local connection to New
England in the filmmaking industry.
Speaker 3 (49:19):
But exactly, but we yeah, no, And I think it's
the rants. I think it's the wisdom.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
It's the reviews.
Speaker 1 (49:26):
Mostly the rants.
Speaker 3 (49:27):
Yeah, mostly the r Yeah, exactly get us mad, but
it gets fun.
Speaker 1 (49:31):
Well until next week. I'm James, I'm Jamie.
Speaker 2 (49:35):
We'll see you there else
This is the Hub on Hollywood and iHeartRadio podcast. I'm
your co host, James Rojas.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I'm the other co host, Jamie Blanco.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
On this week's episode, Jurassic World Rebirth takes a big
chomp out of the box office as well as any
hope that the franchise can be saved. Oh yeah, so
I I went in with with low expectations and I left.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
We'll get into it.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Hello there, Hi. The celebrity guest list for Boston Fan
Expo has been released and we have some We have
a lot of big names coming to town. So very
excited to get into that movie studios. Not so happy,
not so excited for the extra ads that are being
played at movie theaters. I'm looking at you, AMC. We're
all looking at you.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
He's so mad.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah. And an Arnold Schwarzenegger classic is getting the Glen
Powell treatments, all that and more. But Jamie, yes, jeez,
I have to ask you, how much sleep do you
usually get on an average night.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Well, it depends because I work overnights on the weekends.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
But say, I'm not a word.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah, seven eight nine hours.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
It's much better than me. Yeah, crazy hours like that.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, Okay, I get half decent.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah, I guess you have something in common with Dakota Johnson,
because Dakota Johnson. She recently came out talking about what
her sleep schedule looks like, and people are either relating
to it apparently, or they're just fuming mad about it.
Ok So, the Madam Web actress recently talked about how
(01:45):
she prioritizes her sleep in order to function. She says
she needs at least ten hours of sleep and can
easily sleep for fourteen hours.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Wow, she's a cat.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
So she's like in the human form.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
And when I told, you know, my wife about this,
and I had the same reaction. I'm like, on a
on a privileged level, on a certain amount of privilege
to be able to do that.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yes, it is a tremendous privilege because you have to
like not have a job, not have responsibilities during the day,
like not children.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, activities that you need to get to.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
It's like if you're not on a movie set, you're
just But you know what, let's I want. That's a
good thing, though, That is something you should all aspire to.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
If you can give yourself that.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Much, that's great for your body. It's great for your mind,
of course, but let's say ninety nine percent of people
can't actually do.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
That, right, So yeah, I get on average like five
or six. Got to sleep more, I should. But the
thing is like I get up early in the morning,
so you know, wake up around three o'clock in the
morning for work. Yeah, and then I try to go
to bed around like I try to go to bed
around like eight o'clock sometimes turns into a thirty and
(03:08):
then I'll wake up like yeah three, so roughly around
six hours or so. And yeah, I think is my
daughter goes to bed like at seven, and I feel like, okay,
I have I need one hour to be able to
like get things ready for the next day and stuff.
So that kills it, you know, that kills an hour.
And so yeah, I think on average is six hours.
I think I function well enough and you know, overall
(03:28):
pretty good. But yeah, just to hear like somebody gets
at least ten hours, they need at least ten hours
to function, and then fourteen is like there that's a
golden like period.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I would say that's a dream come true.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Yeah. Again, if you don't have kids, and if you
don't work like a typical job like most of us
do cans and do that.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Also, does that even really jive with making movies because
anybody who's ever worked on a movie set ever, they're
all like gnarly, and you know they're running off of
two hours of sleep and coffee and possibly cocaine.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I'm just saying it.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Just there's a lot of caffeine that needs to come
into the picture because you're you're working like sometimes twelve fourteen,
sixteen hour days, having to go back to the hotel
and then short turnaround back in the morning, keep going.
So it's like three months of like of a marathon
where you're barely sleeping and doing all of this work.
(04:28):
So how does she function when she needs to make movies?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
But then again, she is the star, So.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
There is that phrase, and correct me, correct me, because
I'm kind of kind of butcher it. But there's a
lot of busy waiting, like on set, yes, everyone rush,
everybody hurry up and wait, everybody's in a rush and
you're just waiting. So maybe during the downtime she's able
to get in those cat naps those several hours to
do that. But yeah, so she says she doesn't require
fifteen hours of sleep every night, but if her schedule
(04:57):
allows it, doesn't use She doesn't use an alarm clock
and relies on her body's natural rhythm. I'm curious of
what our listeners and viewers like, whether they're like nightly
routine or how many hours they get on a daily basis,
because again, ten to fourteen, that sounds like such a privilege.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
It's like, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Yeah, I'm glad that this was the surprise topic and
not that I pissed off like an entire state again.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
So oh no, that would be a future episode. I'm
sure exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
But Dakota Johnson, good for you. That's great. May all
of us get get that? Yeah, at some point I.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Pray, I pray. Well, you know what, what else is
good for someone? Good for our one of our listeners
and viewers of the hob On Hollywood podcast. As you know,
we recently crossed and we were well into the five
hundred plus subscribers arrange and we you know, put out
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We have to Okay I don't use Max no, sorry,
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Speaker 3 (07:51):
Getting bigger every day. Soon we will have millions and
we will take over the.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
World absolutely all right. And speaking of taking over the world, yeah,
we have a bunch of celebrities who are gonna be
taking over the Boston Convention Center in August August eighth
through the ninth, sorry, eight through the tenth. And we
have some really we always bring out big name celebrities. Yeah,
and I feel like this year we have so many
and so this is.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
A good one, really great years in the past we have. Yeah,
so who have we got?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
So, of course, a lot, a lot of Star Wars fans.
We have a lot of Star Wars people on this
list too, but Star Wars fans are going to be
really excited to get the chance to meet and greet
Ewan McGregor. Yeah, Hayden Kristensen, he's on here as well.
John Cina, we're burder ter.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Will you even be able to see him?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
You will be able to see the Sena, but he
will be able to ask him questions because he'll be
here for a Q and A, so that's a great
thing to do. I think he'll be there on Saturday,
which will be in ninth. We have a Orlando Bloom.
Of course, he is in the new Jurassic World movie,
which we will be reviewing on this podcast. Also John
Rice Davies who plays the Dwarf, so they're gonna have
the little reunion him and him and Orlando Bloom. I'm
(09:03):
really excited for Simon Peg. Simon Peg is coming to Boston.
That's gonna be really fun tomorrow. Morrison of The Man,
the Mandalorian and and Book of Boba. Here's a Moralist.
We have John Boyega, Jason Isaacs.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Dante Bosco. I'm excited for John Biogo by the way
I just mentioned.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Helen Hunt, Helen Hunt, the original Twista.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Yes, exactly. H. So that's gonna be amazing. James Marsden,
friend of the show.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Uh no, that's James and Marsters of Buffy, The Vampires,
the Fame. He's coming back many just he plays Oh yes,
Manny Gino. He was in the good place and he
was also in The Acolyte the Star Wars. He's like
the main villain from the Acolyte spoilers. So I loved
(09:56):
him in a good place. So happy that he's coming
h Chris for mince Plas, who played you know, iconically mclovin,
Gian Carlo Esposito, DJ Qualls, Danta Danta Bosco.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Dante Bosco. Isn't Dante Bosco?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Oh yeah, Dante Bosco? My title correct?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
The voice of U.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Is also a hook, a lot of a lot of
voiceover stuff. Yeah, I am disappointed. You know, of course,
not every celebrity is going to be able to make it,
so we have some canceled folks who are not arriving.
Christopher Lloyd back to the Future, Fame and many other
great stuff. Ernie Hudson, that'd be a great, great uh
great to have seen Kellen Luits and Peter Fascinelli, who
(10:39):
were both in the Twilight films. They are not able
to make it.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
We are you most excited?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Simon Peg Simon.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Simon Pegg, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Yeah, impossible. Shanna the Dead Hot Fuzz. Like everything he's in,
he's fantastic, So he seems like a great dude too.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, I want to see Helen Hunts.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Helen hunt will be fun.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I want to chat with her. She just seems like
just such a chill person.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yeah, I'm surprised, kind of bummed that she wasn't in Twisters.
That'd be cool. She played like the main you know,
protagonist's character's mom.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Or something like that, you know, or or she's like
the idol that she got to meet one time or something.
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
From the beginning of the movie, she's like running the
team and then she ends up being among those who
get killed.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Oh my gosh, that would be a little much.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Really. The protagonist is like, yeah, I can't do this anymore. Then,
you know, down the road she has get called back
into action.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
You know who else you might get to meet here
in the New England apparently Russell, or at least see him.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Yeah, I don't know how. I don't know if he's
still in town, but he was celebrating the fourth of
July in Arlington, Massachusetts here, I guess he went to
the home of one of his ancestors who fought in
the American Revolution, and so over in Arlington there is
the Jason Russell House and Museum, and it's it's a
sight of a very important battle, one of the bloodiest
(11:55):
battles of that day and in that time. And so
he recently learned out this this ancestry and went there
on the fourth of July and you know, talked to
the historians, talk to the folks who run the museum,
and learn more about this his great great great great
great grandfather, Okay, who was a very many like two, three, four, five,
(12:18):
six greats in their grandfather who he says was instrumental
in changing the world or playing a role in changing
the world. Jason Russell. He actually was killed on his
front porch, on the porch steps during that battle. So yeah,
so really cool again, and.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
They're just chilling on the front porch, Yeah, just.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Saying like, hey, this is history is made and everywhere
in Massachusetts, you know, during that period. So cool, cool
for Kurt Russell, or for anybody really to learn that
they had family who participated in such a you know,
incredible part of our history and the making of our nation.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
I know I can't really trace my family back very far,
but my my husband, I guess the second boat after
the Mayflower, can trace some of his relatives all the
way back to that like that. That's nuts to me
that you can go back that far or farther, but
you won't have to go far. James, if you would
(13:14):
like to see a very special screening of Dogma.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
We were talking about this not far.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
We weren't talking about this not too long ago. Kevin
Smith is going to be coming to New Hampshire, to Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, the Music Hall. This is happening on August first.
He's going to be doing an in person screening of
the cult classic, followed by a live Q and A.
He never does this, so this is a really cool opportunity.
(13:43):
It says, relive the chaos of angels, profits and prophets
who talk too much, and hear from the creator himself.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
So that's really exciting.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
As far as everything that's happened with Dogma historically, where
people really couldn't get their hands on it for the
longest time, and now you finally can.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
And what were we talking about last week? That's happening
with Dogma? Are they doing a sequel.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Or is it just that they're it was just getting
re released, since re released for the first time in
decades that they had the ability or right to do it, exactly.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
So. I it's one of my favorite cult classics and
uh yeah, looking forward to that if we can make it.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Yeah, speaking of cult classics. Yeah, have you seen The
Running Man? No Starry Arnold Schwarzenegger, the novel written by
Stephen King. No, you haven't, so yeah, so yeah. So
the second movie to be based off the novel by
Stephen King is going to be getting a reboots and
it's gonna be starring none other than Glenn Powell. Glen,
(14:50):
I like that, dude. I think it's very charismatic. I
think he does everything I've seen him. Man, he's been good,
He's been really good, and so I'm excited that he
was named as the lead for the Unning Man reboot.
Even more excited, however, learning that the film is going
to be directed by Edgar Wright, who famously has directed
Sean of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Baby Driver, Scott Pilgrim
(15:12):
versus the World last Night in Soho. So this is
going to be really good. The trailer looks amazing already.
So if anybody could fill the boots of Arnold Hoarsenegger,
it's become The Running Man. I think it's Glenn Powell. Okay,
have you seen the trailer.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I have not seen the trailer.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Check out the trailer, and because it looks really good,
and yeah, every now and then, I'm kind of like
they're rebooting another movie. But you know, I've heard mixed
things about The Running Man. You know, people say it's
a cold classic or it is a classic, but others say,
you know, it's not that good. And so my theory
is that, you know, if the movie original movie wasn't
that good or it could be made better, then go
(15:49):
for it. I have problems with them touching perfected, perfect movies, right,
doing a reboot and then just making it just not
as good.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
So you're hoping that they'll that Edgar rat is gonna
come in and just make this better. And he has
such a great track record of making perfect movies and
comedic movies, so that would be a nice touch.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Glenn Powell.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Good for him obviously from top Gun Maverick Twisters anyone,
but you he's on a hot streak right now. It's
got the muscles. Let me just ask you a random question,
right sure, Okay? Because I was scrolling on the internet
as one does, and I saw that there are some
rumors speaking of reboots, that they might be rebooting Indiana Jones.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Oh no, I love it.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
See that's that's that was my reaction too. It's like,
oh god no.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
But then they're like, who could be the next Indiana Jones.
I'm like, could Glenn Powell be the next Indiana Jones?
Or is he too muscly and perfect?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
You know what? I think? I think he's a little
aging out of it. And that's you know, not saying
that he's old. But I think Chris Pratt would have
been a good like reboot because he does like that
kind of thing where or even like a Brennan Fraser.
Now Brendan Fraser's too old right now at this point,
but like at that time, like he has like the
Mummy vibe went during the Mummy movie. Is like he
has like that charm, that charisma, that badass arie. But
(17:12):
also like it's always always it always feels like he's
fighting his way uphill, so like you're ruining for this guy.
And so he always had that personality, and I think
Chris Pratt also had that personality that he could do
something that something that's something similar to like Guardians the Galaxy.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
So vulnerability and flaws.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Yeah and so yeah, so I guess I could see
Glenn Powell doing it, but why would you?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
It was one other suggestion, another actor who's on a
hot streak right.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Now, Tom Holland, No, who's.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Got the uh, he's got the looks, he's got the charisma.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
You might say that he's Tom Cruise.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Oh god, it's not a Tom Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
You might say that he's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Oh, mister Pedro Pascal.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Mister Pedro Pascal, who's on an incredible hot streak, yeah
right now?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Do you think he could be Indiana Jones?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I mean, I love Pedro again, I'm just like, I
don't like the idea of getting rebooted, so really imagining anybody.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Doing it, yeah, other than Harrison. Other than Harrison, it's
obvious and it's not necessary.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
And how would you reboot it? Would you reboot the
same story or just make new stories with indie characters.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
This is going to be like gen Z Indie. Yeah,
I don't know how would that even work?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Even like this rumor, where's it coming from?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I saw it. I saw it, you know, I saw
it online. So that must mean it's true.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I pray that it's not. I pray this not. Well,
you know what is true, uh, the fact that they
just keep keep keep making new Jurassic World movies, beating
the dead, beating the dead dinosaur, you know, sucking the
fossilized remains and oil and hoping to pistling together. And yeah,
I watched it. It came out this past week. And
(19:00):
the thing is, here's the thing. Listen, Jamie, please try
to you. He is like I love Gareth Edwards. He's
the director of Rogue one. He directed the first, like
the new Godzilla movies. He did the the other Space
sci Fi won recently. I forget. I'm forgetting it at
(19:22):
the top of my head. But the thing is he's
really good at at showing scale, and so he's able
to really put large things on display in a very
gray way that makes you, the audience, feel like the
you know, enormity of it.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
You know what's big? Dinosaurs?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
God damn, yeah, so so and so this this seemed
like a good like, Okay, this is a good start,
a good start to putting this this new Jurassic World
rebirth together. And unfortunately, you know, there are some things
that it does right and and I give Gareth Edwards
for that, but there are other things where this is
(20:01):
just falling flat on its face. Basically, for those who
are not familiar with this movie, this is five years
post Jurassic World Dominion, an expedition braves isolated regions along
the Equator to extract no DNA from three massive prehistoric
creatures for a groundbreaking medical breakthrough. Directed by Gareth Edwards,
written by Michael Crichton and David Cope, this stars Scarlett Johansson,
(20:27):
Mahershela Ali, Jonathan Bailey, and Orlando Bloom. So far, on
the run Tomato meters, it has fifty one percent on
the Tomato Meter, seventy two percent on the Popcorn Meter. Again,
audiences generally warm on this, but again, I think it's
if you're looking for if you're looking for a movie
that has awesome dinosaur action sequences, I think you should
(20:54):
go watch this movie because it delivers on the action,
on the dinosaur stuff, on the again, the awe inspiring
beauty of gigantic monsters like again Gareth Edward's strength. That's good.
If you want that, that's all you want, go for it.
If you also want, you know, a clear story, good
(21:16):
dialogue and likable characters, this is not the movie for you.
It fails in that regard.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Shame to hear.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Yeah, feel free to have interjector ask me any questions.
But Rebirth, I would say it's the best of the
Jurassic World movies. But again, the Jurassic World movies already
the bar is solo. But this is like the best
of the World movies.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Okay, because I mean you said you went into it
with low expectations.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, and the thing is so again the spectacle is good.
However you just can't help. But again notice the bad
dialogue yea, the acting that just didn't really seem inspired.
It wasn't the suspense wasn't there, like you kind of know, Okay,
these people are going to die. These people are not
(22:04):
going to die. And there's so many characters that I
don't know it just like there is the veil of
depth for these characters. But if you really just look
at it or think about it for a second, it's like,
this is very shallow.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
None of what you're saying is good.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
None of what I'm saying is good. Another thing, Yeah,
think you for bringing that up. The quips. This feels
like a Marvel movie. Is Scarlett Johansson famously in many
of the Marvel Marvel films? Yeah, And so I think
they try to bring a lot of that quip into
this and a lot of it just doesn't land. And
Scarlett Johansson, she's a great actress, but in this one
it feels like she's just kind of like in it
for the money. It's so bland. The character is so
(22:45):
you know, it's a mercenary, but mercenary with a heart,
which is a knoxymorol. Yeah, and you have all this
stuff again.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Well, it just feels like, you know, with Scarlet in particular,
whenever I see her it takes me out of the
movie because I've seen her in so many things. Right,
But I think maybe perhaps do you think it suffers
from that thing where you do a movie with so
much CGI that you are not connected with what's happening
(23:12):
around you.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I think what made the original Jurassic Park work so well.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
It was a there was very little dialogue when it
came to running away from the dial from the dinosaurs,
and it was just all raw fear and terror and emotion, right,
and you felt that tension. And when you're not connecting
with the danger that you're in and there's no expect
you know that they're going to survive, Like the tension
(23:39):
is gone. Like it's really hard for the audience to
get connected and invested or care.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Because they know the dinosaur's not going to eat her.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Now, I would say there's a part of that, but
also there's the scenes with just here fellow actors where
they're on the boat, no dinosaurs involved, or the museum,
no dinosaurs involved, or they're walking through the forest, the
woods or what have you, no dinosaur's involved. And so
it's just even those moments where there it just falls
very flat. And Yeah, there's a b plot in this
(24:09):
film surrounding a family.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yeah who for idiotic as a kid.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah, for idiotic reasons. There's a dad, a teenage like
a seventeen year old or eighteen year old daughter with
her eighteen year old boyfriend and like this, you know,
a ten year old girl, the little sister, and then
they're sailing across the Atlantic in a in a region
that's known for dinosaurs of every variety land, air, and sea,
and they're like, oh, we're gonna take a fun trip
(24:34):
across the Atlantic as as a final time before you
go to college kind of a thing. And of course
they get taped by dinosaurs. And then the people, like
the Mercenaries, Scarlett Johansson's team, they're like, why the hell
are you sailing over here? It's like yeah, but like,
what are the odds of a dinosaur attacking us? It's like, Hi,
very high, it doesn't even matter if it's low. It's high,
but doesn't even matter if it's low. Why are you
doing this? And so the family b plot portion of
(24:58):
this film, I think they're trying to make reminiscent of
like the Jurassic the original Jurassic Park, where we have
the kids involved and yeah we have like fatherly or
motherly figures kind of there, but it just doesn't land.
They're very annoying and they really don't push the plot forward.
There's one one thing not big spoilers, but Orlando Bloom
he's like the big pharmaceutical guy. They're going to the
(25:19):
island to get dino DNA, so they need to get
a big dinosaur on land, a big dinosaur in the air,
a big dinosaur in the water to cure all these diseases.
And the pharmaceutical guy, Orlando Bloom, he's straightforward. He's like,
we're gonna make a lot of money by doing this.
We're gonna we're also gonna save a lot of lives.
We're also gonna make a lot of money, and so
that's okay, that's believable, not nothing necessarily nefarious. He's telling
(25:41):
you point blank, we want to make a lot of money,
and then this will also help people, so it's a
win win. And so they needed to make him be
like the villain of some sort so you can let
for him to die. And there's like a thing in
that happens in the film where like it this may
be a spoiler, I'm gonna spoil.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
It, okay.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
In the beginning, in the beginning of like the first act,
they're on the mercenaries boat. The family's boat gets capsized.
They get an SOS signal out there, so the mercenaries say, hey,
we got to go, say this family over here, so
they go over there pick them up. Cool. They tell them, Okay,
we get back to the island, we'll do and we'll
radio for help and we'll get somebody to pick you up.
But we're on this mission and you're gonna join us
for this part, or the water part anyway. So there's
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a part where all these dinosaurs are attacking the boat.
It's rocking back and forth. The daughter she's gonna call
like an SOS on the radio, but the Orlando Bloom's character,
he's like, no, like we're we're not supposed to be here,
so you can't like radio win that we're here, and
so he tries to stop her. She like she rips
the radio away. The boat gets hit by dinosaurs. They
(26:41):
both fall down. She slips and like off the edge
of the boat and Orlando falls into like where like
the inside of the boat is, and she's like, hell,
may I'll be I'm falling, and then Orlando just like
like he did. Honestly, he didn't even have time to
get up and try to help her if he wanted to,
but he kind of like, oh, like this would be
very convenient, and she fell and she does slide off
The thing is, it's not like he even kicked her
(27:02):
off the boat. It's not like like he framed her
or anything. And like they both fell and she just
happened to slip and slide in the water. And yeah,
like realistically he did not have enough time to get
up if you wanted to save her. Anyways, that turns
into a whole thing of like, oh that guy, he
was so slimy, and now I'm gonna get him, gonna
I find him when our family reunites with the mercenaries
on the other side of the island, YadA, YadA, yadda.
(27:24):
And so again, it was a very big stretch of
Orlando Bloom is a terrible guy, Like yeah, he's not
the nicest, but like making him be like the big
bad villain of the film. It's like it was a stretch.
And so if if he did literally push her off
the boat, like okay, then he deserves his comeuppins. But
he's basically like, hey, we are all here to get
(27:45):
paid and get and get this Dino DNA and stuff,
and you guys to get in the way. Now you
didn't have to rescue you, but now you guys are
making things worse for us kind of thing exactly. It's
a long story short. I don't know. The Yeah, characters
make dumb, dumb decisions, not likable, likable, not very deep.
There's some moments where like the John Williams music you know,
(28:07):
the original Jurassic Park. No, No, they played it during
you know, of course parts where there's a big dinosaur
and you're supposed to feel oh inspiring, but like if
it felt unearned to play the music, Like you're just
playing the music just to for nostalgic reasons and like
make everybody happy.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
So I don't know, except that nobody was happy.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
The thing is the audience did, like you know, at
the end of the movie, people people clapped, So again,
audiences generally are liking the movie. I I, you know,
there's too many dumb things to ignore for me to
be fully on board. Yeah, Like I said, if you
want good action sequences, big dinosaurs doing stuff and shot
very well and beautifully, go for it. That's all you want.
(28:50):
Go for it, but just be aware like the characterization,
character developments and plot. You know. Okay, it's a Jurassic movie.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
It's exactly.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
But James I I hear tell that there was something
about your screening.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Of the movie. Oh yeah, that made the t Rex in.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Your heart want to come out and like either chomp
some people or kick them off a boat.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Yeah. So this is kind of ties in with our
next topic of things that ruin the movie theater experience.
So what happened basically, and I don't want to rant
too much about it, this is the Rojas ransom. But
but you know, of course, the one of the many
problems of why you know people are not going to
the movie theater is in addition to the prices or
(29:37):
the ads or what have you, the trailers, it's just
other people watching the film with you that are being
human beings that you wish the dinosaur would be in
there for, right, But no, we just had, you know,
we had like a bunch of teenagers. Again, it's summer.
Every day I have to go somewhere. But my thing
is like, like why you go to a movie theater
pay money to like all huddle up in a corner
(29:57):
and talk constantly, like run up and down the back,
like up and down the stairs to the lobby, back
up to the lobby, back up out, out in and
out and then also like the the the youth that
were distracted. They were like flashing their their camera phones
and it was like looking looking for something that fell,
like like the whole movie had like their lights on
(30:20):
looking around like in the corner. I don't know if
they're looking for something or they're just being a holes
or they were just like just constantly talking in the corner.
And then eventually you have somebody saying like, hey, like quiet,
like be quiet, and then one of the one of
the teams the the goal of this of this kid,
he goes, can you respectfully tell me to be quiet? Like? Whoa,
(30:41):
You've been just this entire time and you're demanding that
somebody respectfully tell you to be quiet? Like that makes
no sense. And so that was just one of the
reasons of like if movie theaters can't, you know, hold
their audiences accountable, and then people are going to be like, Okay,
that last expert was terrible because you know, people are annoying.
(31:02):
I'm gonna wait till it comes out on streaming, and
so why would I spend all this money to have
it ruined by by young old what have you ruining
the movie by with their antics?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Get off my movie?
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Long?
Speaker 1 (31:12):
I know I was ranting you know, for much longer
and more passionately with my at home. But but yeah,
it's just one of those things that it's just annoying,
like no one's forcing you to be here. You could leave,
like talk and joke around or run around in the hallway,
like no one's forcing you to not watch this movie,
to be in the movie theater and not watch this
movie and act like animals. So I don't know, so
(31:33):
that bugged me. What also bugs me is more commercials
before the movie begins.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I feel like every few weeks we're talking about this
more and more and more until probably that we're gonna
have like what an hour of commercials before.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
The actual claims. The movie theaters they go to, they
have forty five minutes of like lead up to before
the movie starts, before you know the showtime was supposed
to begin, but you have forty five minutes. But I know,
we were we were talking about how AMC announced they're
going to be adding a commercial during the middle of
the trailers to you know, boost revenue because we need
money to say open. We get that, we think it's
the wrong way to get money, but we heard you,
(32:12):
but we don't like you anyway. So I experienced my
first ad for this Jurassic World movie. First ad in
the middle of the trailer segment.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
So what's the difference between an AD and a trailer?
Speaker 1 (32:23):
So a trailer is for a movie. An ad, there's
a there's an insurance ad. I'm not going to name
the insurance company, but other people online are saying, oh, yeah,
I gotta I got a one minute commercial for this,
or I got one committed commercial for this thing. I
got an insurance commercial, a full minute of some dumb
ass of the insurance. But the thing is so like
(32:46):
you have the very beginning of the movie, you have like, yeah,
you have like maybe a commercial or something or two,
and then the trailers are building up, and you have
twenty minutes of trailers and then that's not including the
welcome to AMC. I'm Nicole Kidman. Here's a Coca Cola
dance commercial that's minute long also, But in between like
the like maybe after the third trailer, uh, they played
(33:09):
the one minute insurance commercial and during that I literally
felt the spirit in me draining out. I'm like, this
is sad, this is this feels like I'm watching, you know,
like something on streaming because nowadays, there are commercials on
what you're streaming, whether it's HBO Max or Amazon Prime
or Netflix or whateveue like ads are popping into things
that you're paying for already. And so not only did
(33:31):
they play an ad, but then you had two more trailers,
and then you had like a teaser trailer for The
Odyssey Christopher Nolan's in the movie, and then you had
the popcorn the Coca Cola, you know, dancing, and then
the race car driving and on the romantic scene commercial.
Then you had Nicole Kidneck coming out and like at
the end of it, it was thirty minutes yes of
like ah, killing me, killing me and sorry, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Go ahead, no sound distract is.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Going to continue by saying this is also destroying movie
studios who are speaking up saying this is hurting their
business because because.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
People don't want to go to the movies because of it.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
So movie studios are speaking up saying they're upset with
AMC Regal Cinemak for increasing the number of non Hollywood
commercials before the movies. They argue that this practice negatively
impacts the movie going experience and reduces the effectiveness of
their marketing efforts because they look at studies and they say,
(34:32):
you know, people after they watch a trailer in the
movie theater, they're you know x more likely to go
watch the film. And so if you have people that
are fuming during the trailers period, and you have commercials
having that negative emotion associated with certain movies or trailers,
people may be less likely to watch it. Not only that,
(34:54):
AMC and some other theaters. Now when you buy a
ticket online, it'll say, hey, warning, account this is when
the the commercials or the trailers start, for example, one
o'clock showtime. This is when the trailers start. Account for
twenty five to thirty minutes. So now people are gonna
see that, and they're gonna come in twenty five minutes
in bypassing missing all the trailers. So they're upset that
(35:15):
like these movie studios and movie theaters are playing all
these ads passing people off like myself during the entire runtime.
But also people that choose to avoid all that they're
missing all the trailers that they're marketing and putting money
into the machine for and they feel like this is
going to negatively affect their bottom line.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
I think it's negatively affected your soul at this point
on another I can I can tell. I mean, yeah,
I hate nothing in this world more literally, nothing else, nothing,
not a single thing more more. This is more infuriating
than commercials, yes, than commercials and ads when you're just
trying to relax and get an ease into it. And
(35:54):
I can absolutely see that I would be really interested
actually to see the science. Yeah, behind, okay, I'm relaxed.
I'm excited about these movie previews. Oh, that looks like
a good movie insurance, Like, yeah, what does that do
like to all of the previews that come after?
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Like, I want to see the actual science.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
I think that for posterity, we should hook you up
to like a brain wave monitor, you know, a heart
rate monitor, and then you know, I'm volunteering you for
more than happy.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
So I'm very biased. This has been a pestering problem
that I'm more than happy for my brainwaves to be read.
And they turned into do.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
You feel like you're at the limit?
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Like, first of all, are are the movie theaters shooting
themselves in the foot with this?
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I think so?
Speaker 3 (36:43):
And do you feel like you are at the limit? Like,
what is your limit for the amount of pre show stuff?
Speaker 1 (36:52):
I think I'm at that point where I'm done watching
trailers in the movie theater. I'm gonna show up at
twenty five minutes past the showtime and just go there
and just do that. The thing is, though, again where
the internet age, where the age of you know, internet's
at a fingertips, So any trailer that comes out, we
see it almost immediately wherever we are on Instagram, Facebook
(37:14):
or you know, YouTube or what have you. So you
know a lot of people don't get their trailers from
the movie theater and so there, but there are still
a lot of people who do. And for example, like
the Christopher Nolan Odyssey teaser trailer, they are only playing
that in theater, so it's not online. So anybody who
wants to, like, who's really looking forward to that movie
(37:34):
and wants to see that, they have to wait through
thirty minutes of BS and more commercials to be able
to watch the thirty second teaser of a Christopher Nolan
next film. Yeah, so I'm at that point where, yeah,
I'm going in twenty five minutes in. Some people online
have been complaining about this, saying that the movie theater
they went to some of them were like, they clock it,
(37:55):
they time it thirty five minutes. One person says forty
five minutes tops of like the the theater manager, and
then he's like, yeah, sometimes that happens. Unfortunately, could they
the managers don't control this, No, they have no say
it's AMC and all these other pree package Yeah yeahah,
And so I wouldn't, you know, lash out at the
employees at the movie theater. But but these companies need
(38:18):
to take note that people are reaching their limits. They're unacceptable, unacceptable.
So please hook up my brain to the study, sit
in my brainwaves, see and see what drives people crazy.
But I think that's a good transition to speak about
another movie that focuses on transmitting things to our brain
(38:38):
waves or vice versa. That's wonderful, and that is you know,
we're talking about what we're watching and what my wife
and I watched. My wife hadn't seen it since like forever.
My first time watching it was total recall. Arnold Warzenegger
came out in nineteen ninety, believe it or not, one
of the most talked about movies you know, of our generation,
of our generation, of our time, and I've never I've
(39:00):
seen it one of those movies I've never had the
time or you know, big interest to check it out.
But my wife said, you know, I watched this. I
loved it. I remember loving it, and I don't remember
much about it, but I want to watch it and yeah,
you know me and moist down, Yeah, down. So we
watched it a couple of days ago, and this was again.
I've heard mixed things, mostly good things about this film.
(39:20):
That is one of the best, better Arnold Schwarzenegger movies,
and so but I know it's the nineties, eighties, nineties movie,
so you know things, expectations are kind of tempered tempered.
So I went in not expecting much. I was. I
was pleasantly surprised. How good of a movie this is.
This is a solid, a solid good movie.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Better than Kindergarten Cop, much better than the Kindergarten Cop.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
But yeah, total recall won't go into it too much.
But it's basically a story of a man who goes
in to have a virtual vacation memories of a planet
Mars experience implanted in his mind. An unexpected and harrowing
series of events forces him to go to the planet
for real and uncover a conspiracy or is he co
(40:06):
Written by Philip Dick, who also wrote Blade Runner and
Minority Report to other great movies. So this is one
of those things where like, I've heard about this movie
for so long, never got around to seeing it, and
I watched it, and I was not disappointed by the hype,
by the good buzz. So my question for you, Jamie,
is there any movie out there that just took you
(40:29):
forever to get around you and we're not disappointed you
actually like, oh, that actually was a really good.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
Movie, Manchester by the Sea. It took me forever to
get around to actually watching it, and it was one
of the best New England movies I've ever seen, most accurate.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
It was really really good.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
The other thing that you and my aunt and the
world have been trying to get me to see is
and Or. I finally watched the first episode.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
And it was good.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
It's good.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
It's good, good God.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
It's a slow build up. Is not one of those
movies or shows or series that like has you know,
like that is top heavy with action or all the
information right now. This is a slow burn, but it's
an incredible that builds up and crescendos into an amazing thing.
And so the journey is really the fun part. So
(41:21):
some people when it first came out were like, oh,
it's kind of the first three episodes are kind of slow,
but it builds up. It constantly gets better and better
and better, and so I keep going.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
You have to keep.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
Hello everybody, Yeah, dang it, No, it's great.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
Well I will I'm glad you're watching in endor. Have
you seen Total Recall?
Speaker 2 (41:41):
I have not watched.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
I recommend it. Watch it with your husband, and again
it's it's it is much better than I expected. My
wife and I like since watching it, have keep keep
talking about theories because it's one of those things of
like was he awake? Was he asleep? Was the real?
Was it not? Was it?
Speaker 2 (41:57):
This?
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (41:58):
That very inptions?
Speaker 1 (42:00):
It really is and so and this is back in
nineteen ninety and so this is a movie that the
graphics still look really good. It's like it takes place
in the in like the future dystopian. You know, gotta
love a dystopian, gotta love a dystopian future. And again,
graphics wise, it's fun. You get all this is where
you know, all the cliche arnold isms from like the
(42:25):
like all that stuff is in there, but it fits
so perfectly, and so I totally recommend total recall.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Awesome, Awesome.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
Another thing that kind of took me a little bit
by surprise is a cartoon that my kids are obsessed
with right now, brand new season up on Disney plus
Phineas and Ferb.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Phineas and Ferb. Do you ever watch that? It's a great,
great cartoon.
Speaker 3 (42:47):
It is a great, great I've never seen it before.
First came out in two thousand and seven and had
four seasons between two thousand and seven and twoy fifteen
twenty fifteen, and then they were done, right, they were
done for a long time until they signed this new
deal with Disney and now they're back with a brand
new season. I started watching this with my with my kids.
(43:10):
It is so it's wholesome, it's fun.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
It's cute, it's very smart, and I love it. I
love it like I want my kids to watch this. Yeah,
it's so cute.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
So it's about Phineas and Ferb, these two step brothers.
Did you know they were stepbrothers. Yeah, there's lore. There's
tons of lore behind this, so that that I thought
that was cool. Perry the Platypum, their pet, Perry the
Platypus who is actually a secret spy. And it's always
start trying to stop doctor Duffin Schmirts. Yeah, Dupin Schmirts.
(43:47):
So that's always really cute, and it's like where's Perry
And then we go off on that adventure with Perry.
And they're always yeah and always you know, creating these
amazing things. They're trying to max of my every single
day of summer and they're going on these adventures and
the sisters trying to bust them always with the with
the mom and it's just it's really wholesome and cute
(44:11):
and what I what I like about it. It's not
about like contentiousness, it's not about drama. It's about kids
having fun and a huge imagination and just and just
having fun.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
Yeah, all of it.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
It's really smart.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
It's one of the better kids cartoons out there. Yeah again,
that you said has been around for a while, you know,
rebooting or recontinuing, I guess. But I got into it,
I think in my early twenties because I watch everything
and so I came across it. I don't know how,
but I was like in my early twenties in college
and I'm like, this is actually this is actually good
for really good for a kids show. It's like again,
(44:45):
it's not like a show where the parents like hate
watching it, like they like they enjoy watching it. I
love watching as well. And I loved it so much,
and my friends knew I loved the show so much.
Is that one of my friends gave me a Perry
Tho Patypus stuffed animal. I lost it. I don't know.
He used to hang in my car, hang in my car,
my old car, and I don't know. I think someone
(45:07):
took you.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
I think he's on a mission.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
He's on a mission. Either someone took him or or
Parry of the Platypus is on a mission. But like
it's a great it's a great idea for a kids show.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
Yeah, and so I'm really glad to see it. It back.
Speaker 3 (45:20):
Parry of the Platypus, he's so cute.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
He's so cute and so awesome. Yeah, he's like like
he pops in and he's not wearing his hats, Like,
who are you like the Platypus exactly and.
Speaker 3 (45:33):
Duffin Schmertz's stories how he was a garden gnome, like
his father forced him to be a garden gnome, when music. Anyways,
it's really really cute, funny stuff. And some people online
again because everything people say online is true, have been
saying that is this the best kids show on Disney
Plus on Disney right now?
Speaker 2 (45:51):
Is it better than Blue? Parents love Bluey too? And
it's all about but Blue is very much.
Speaker 3 (45:58):
About growing and eat mental health stuff, more beautiful.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
Dogs, dogs, more rounded in reality where kids can put
themselves in the scenarios as in like maybe Phoeas and Ferb,
like you know, you.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
Can't imagine you get build a roller coaster.
Speaker 1 (46:15):
In your backyard, spaceship and stuff out of like wooden
doors and like you know, glue.
Speaker 2 (46:20):
Or time machines.
Speaker 1 (46:21):
Yeah, but it's hard. I don't want to go down
the path you could, but I don't want to go
down the path of like comparing? Is Blue better? Phineas
and Ferb? They're both great sharing that that any wisdom
that will bring to you any age can.
Speaker 2 (46:35):
Enjoy exactly, Watch both?
Speaker 1 (46:37):
Watch both? There we go, watch both?
Speaker 3 (46:39):
All right?
Speaker 1 (46:39):
All right? Excellent? Uh well again, thank you so much
for what do you like? Are you? Are you a
big Phoeas and Ferb fan or Blue fan? If not both,
why let us know Also, what are your thoughts on
some of the stuff we've been talking about? Jurassic World?
Have you seen the movie? Do you like it? Am
I right? Or am I right? Or am I wrong?
(47:01):
I would a man if I could be wrong because
people are, you know, generally enjoying it, though not everyone
let us know. Comment down below join the conversation. Also,
what are your thoughts on total recall? All right? Are you?
Did you sleep on this movie also and get around
to finally watching it? If not, what is your total recall?
What movie do you you forever to watch? And then
(47:23):
you're like, man, I should have watched that sooner. Mm hmm,
this is so good. My wife I was telling her
that when we first started dating. I was telling her,
you know, the Henry Cavill movie Man from Uncle Great
Great film, and I was talking about like, we need
to see this. You need to see this, and you're
gonna love it. You're gonna love it. No, no, no, no, no,
it'sok forever for to Okay, find us watch it now.
It's one of her favorite movies, and so it's kind
(47:44):
of one of those things we're like, dang it, Like
why am I sleeping on this? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (47:48):
I feel like it's the title for me and like
the Man from Uncle, it doesn't seem like something I
would like.
Speaker 2 (47:52):
I know, yeah, but you know it's a good movie.
Have people.
Speaker 3 (47:57):
Are people gonna go see Kevin Smith? Are you gonna
go see Kevin Smith?
Speaker 2 (48:00):
And Dogma? And how much do you love Dogma? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (48:03):
Are you a filmmaker in the New England area based
from the New England area?
Speaker 2 (48:08):
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Speaker 3 (48:11):
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of the Hub on Hollywood and again, just get in,
get into that routine because we're gonna come around to
(48:42):
another giveaway and you're gonna want to be like, well
rehearsed and practiced.
Speaker 3 (48:46):
We're well on our way to a thousand. That's that's
I think our next milestone there.
Speaker 1 (48:50):
Again again I'm amazed by again the following and those
joining the Hub Club. Last December we had three hundred subscribers. Yeah,
and then three months later we had four hundred, and
then like three months later, like clockwork, another one hundred.
Now we're like five as of this recording of five
thirty one. Yeah, and so thank you so much for
joining us and liking what we do. Maybe our rants
(49:13):
are what you what you like the most, or or
you know, just our you know, local connection to New
England in the filmmaking industry.
Speaker 3 (49:19):
But exactly, but we yeah, no, And I think it's
the rants. I think it's the wisdom.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
It's the reviews.
Speaker 1 (49:26):
Mostly the rants.
Speaker 3 (49:27):
Yeah, mostly the r Yeah, exactly get us mad, but
it gets fun.
Speaker 1 (49:31):
Well until next week. I'm James, I'm Jamie.
Speaker 2 (49:35):
We'll see you there else
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