On this week's episode:
James and Jamie celebrate hitting subscription milestone, chaos erupts at "A Minecraft Movie" theater showings, "A Goofy Movie" 30th anniversary retrospection, "Not Just A Goof" documentary, and more!
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.
The podcast insights into New England’s growing film industry, as well as entertainment news and reviews. Subscribers can access the podcast on the iHeartRadio app and follow the hosts on Instagram and TikTok for updates.
James and Jamie celebrate hitting subscription milestone, chaos erupts at "A Minecraft Movie" theater showings, "A Goofy Movie" 30th anniversary retrospection, "Not Just A Goof" documentary, and more!
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.
The podcast insights into New England’s growing film industry, as well as entertainment news and reviews. Subscribers can access the podcast on the iHeartRadio app and follow the hosts on Instagram and TikTok for updates.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
This is the Hub on Hollywood and iHeartRadio podcast. I'm
her co host James.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Rojas, and I'm Jamie Blanco.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
On this week's episode, we are looking back at the
Goofy Movie, a Goofy movie, which is celebrating. Look, it's
the thirtieth anniversary, and boy do I feel old. A
new documentary is out and it's pretty good. A spoiler
full I'm assuming a full spoiler review of a minecraft movie, right,
because we can do that. I think everybody who's wanted
(00:37):
to see the movie has seen the movie. It's already
made a billion dollars. Yeah, if not, it'll be making
that soon. So we will get into that. The Jersey
Shore coming to the Shore of Boston, Okay, a local
actor coming back to her Boston roots, and a movie
starring the bad boys of Boston coming back to the theaters
over twenty five years after its original release. All that
(01:00):
and more. But first, Jamie, I have to congratulate you
for something.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I have to congratulate you.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Oh wow, Shall we congratulate each other?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah? One, two, three, congratulation four hundred subscribers, four hundred,
over four hundred subscribers. Yes, incredible, it took us like
years to break the three hundred subscriber mark, and then
less than four months to break four hundred, and at
(01:29):
last check at four twenty on a Friday, we've reached
four hundred and fourteen subscribers. Thank you so much, Thank
you so much for everybody who tuned in, who continues
to tune in, and you know, just help us, you know,
get the love of movies out of our system.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Get the passion right for movies, for TV and for
the entertainment that is made here in Boston, right for
our local Massachusetts, New England filmmakers. The great things that
come from here is it's wicked.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
It's wicked, wicked awesome. You know. Speaking of wicked awesome,
I do have surprise for you, So hold on to that.
So and I'm sure you can still hear me. We
have a surprise here. So my wife, my amazing wife,
knows how much work we've been putting into the podcast,
and so she there's also a birthday gift, but also
(02:24):
a gift for both of us. We got hub on
Hollywood hats. Let me walk in closer for those watching
on YouTube, a hub on Hollywood hat. Look at that
that is stitched. That's stitching right there.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
You've just got the best way I do.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I do amazing I do, and so congratulations for us,
and thank you my wife for this amazing gift. Also
got I think you saw the shirts. I wore the
shirt with the hub on Hollywood patch, and I forgot
to bring you the hat. Then I have a hat
for this long. But it's good that we have our
four hundred, four hund subscribers milestone to give you this,
(03:03):
and this gave me an idea.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
What's your idea?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
So we've reached four hundred. If we're able to reach
five hundred subscribers by the end of this year, I
think we should maybe give somebody one of our listeners,
one of our viewers. Maybe not these hats because these
are ours, but another hat, another hat and T shirt
with the hub on Hollywood logo. Will you know, hit
(03:28):
five hundred, whoever comments and subscribes and you know, whatever
criteria we set, then we'll send you guys a shirt
or and or a hat.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
So keep watching the houb on Hollywood. We'll let you
know how you can win some hob on Hollywood merch.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, which is amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
You say, five hundred subscribers by the end of the year.
I think we're going to hit that by the end
of like the spring.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I pray, yeah, I pray that'll be awesome. So again,
thank you so much for those of you subscribing, listening, watching,
and telling your other movie fanatic friends and family about
the podcast. We are at help on Hollywood on all
those social media's as well, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, what else?
What else? I'm on Blue Sky. You're not on Blue Sky? Yea,
(04:15):
you're gonna get on Blue Sky. Yeah, you don't have to.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Whatever the new ones are.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Wherever you are, we.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Are lurking in the background over your shoulder, waiting for
you to subscribe.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
And speaking of lurking behind your shoulder, over your shoulder,
let's talk about movie theaters where everybody is almost lurking
over somebody else's shoulder unless you are in the very
back row. This is some good talk coming out of
Cinema Con in Las Vegas recently. The President and CEO
of the Cinema United Organization, Michael O'Leary, he came out and,
(04:49):
you know, talk to folks talking about the movie theater
going experience. We all know that it's in you know,
quite a bit of trouble hasn't rebounded to pre pandemic
levels or even beyond pre pandemic levels, But he has
an idea. He is suggesting that studios keep their movies
inside the movie theaters for longer than seventeen days. It's
(05:10):
a crazy idea to have to tell studios because that
used to be the normal, where movies would run anywhere
from thirty to forty five days, or even longer if
they're a big hit. But now they're just asking the
bare minimum of like, hey, like, before you rush these
films out onto your streaming services, how about letting them
run in the movie theater. You hear this, do do
(05:32):
you hope or think studios will abide by this suggestion.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I don't expect that they will.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
The landscape has changed so much. Yeah, with streaming and whatnot.
It was hard enough to during the pandemic, right, movies
were just going straight to streaming. Everything was going straight
to streaming, and now we have to pull back from that,
and so the dynamic hasn't even gotten back to regular, right,
(06:03):
So I don't.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Know if having the movies in.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Theaters longer is really going to help the bottom line
so much, because The problem is getting people in the theater,
is getting people to physically go. So I can see
how maybe having it there a little bit longer, right,
making a little bit more money, I can see that,
but you got to get the people there. Well.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
There are some movies where I think this would definitely work,
and for example, in the case of The Knives out
movies for Netflix. Obviously those are Netflix films, but I
believe and correct me if I'm wrong, but they came
out for maybe like a week before they were released
on streaming, and during those times, so you would see
movie theaters packed with people wanting to go see the film.
(06:47):
And so there are films that I think that deserve
their fair run at the theater, O'Leary argues. He says
the longer stays in theaters could help movies be even
more successful when they are eventually made available for home viewing.
I think that word of mouth will help. And you know,
people who are you know, just saying oh, you know,
(07:07):
I'll just wait wait two weeks to watch a movie
at home. It will incentivize people to be like, oh,
the buzz is good, let me go out there and
you know, enjoy this in front of everybody else in
this movie experience.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
There are a lot of I agree, there are a
lot of movies that could have benefited from that. One
in particular was Spirited. Yeah, was that music musical Christmas
movie with Ryan Reynolds and Ferrell that was filmed here
in Boston, and when it came out, it had a
limited theatrical release. It was mostly on streaming. But I
(07:37):
think it would have done so.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Well, especially during Christmas time, especially.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
During Christmas time, and it was such a good movie,
it was such a good movie it deserved more. So
I think in that sense, absolutely, there are lots of
movies that are being made for streaming that are very
high quality that I think would do very well in
the theater.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
But I'm not a businessman.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I don't know how much it costs, you know, to
have the theatrical release over stream and what and yadi,
YadA YadA. But I want movies like Spirited that are
not only just made in New England, but you know
that are of that quality, in that caliber. I want
to see them on the big screen.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, yeah, me too. And I hope that you know,
this is at least part somebuddy's ear to consider having
them you know, stay longer in the movie theater. But
speaking about watching things on the big screen, there's nothing
better than watching amazing stunts on the big screen, whether
it's Jackie Chan fighting twenty thousand people and jumping through
(08:31):
a mall or Tom Cruise clinging onto a literal military
plane at two hundred three hundred miles per hour or
however fast it was. But finally, after years of people
talking about this, the Oscars, they're finally going to be
giving the recognition that stunt men and women finally deserve.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Right after over one hundred years of film. It took
the years, and it took Ryan Gosling. Yeah, Ryan Gosling
movie about stunt men, and the commentary in that was, hey,
look at what these people do and everything that they
go through. Nobody is acknowledged for that, and that sort
of became a talking point.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Last years are half the reason why many people go
to the movie theater. So why not, you know, give
him who gets the credit?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, like, you know, the pretty faced, pretty boy front man.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
The person who doesn't do their own stunts, right, not
talking about you, Tom Cruise, not talking about you Jackie Chan.
Just do your own stunts. So we're talking about everybody
else that rides their coattails. But yeah, the push came
from the director David Leach, as you mentioned, who filmed
who directed The Fall Guy. The last time the Academy
added a category was in twenty twenty four when it
(09:43):
established the Achievement and Casting Award, which would be given
now for the first time at the next year's Oscars. Yeah.
I think this is just about time, and I think
if anything, this one should have been implemented before the
Achievement in Casting Award.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Oh casting one also.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Maybe you know, again stun, I would have expected someone
to be done sooner years before this one. Yeah, but
either way, you know, great, great job for recognizing the
people who literally put their blood, sweat and tears into
making movies.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
So they should call it the Charlie Chaplin Award.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, either Charlie or Buster Keaton. Maybe Buster Keaton Charlie Chaplin.
Also Tom Cruise, like if they can make the Oscar
Trophy look like one of those guys, yeah, or gals
like Michelle Yo. Michelle Yo did a lot of her stunts.
She's very well known for doing a lot of her
own her own you know, dangerous and precarious stunts, so
(10:40):
that that would also be a good nomination for a statue.
I'm not sure this is cann be getting any awards soon,
but uh, you send me this and I and I
have done zero research because I want you to describe
it to me. But Jersey Shore is coming to Boston
sounds like an oxymoron.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah, yeah, something, So.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
The Jersey Shore and oxymoron.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
There you go, exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Sorry, this is the quality why we have four hundred
subscribers right for.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
The right this class of comedy is that are amazing
movie ideas, of which we have many. I would not
have pitched this, however, I would not have pitched a
Jersey Shore in Boston. However, they have just wrapped a
filming or they are wrapping filming again. The look, you
know how the Jersey Shore was a thing in the
two thousands, and over the years there have been other
(11:39):
shows revisiting the cast and the schnookies and the whatever
over the course of their lives and different scenarios and
different things, and it's just a continuation of that.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Okay, So it's the Jersey Shore original cast in Boston. Yeah, oh, okay,
I don't I thought I don't know what I was thinking, like,
are they doing like a brand new people?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Well, that's my understanding. Yeah, I could.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I could be wrong.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I just know that that is what it is called.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
That's what's been filming here, and it is wrapping up short.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
So you've done no research on this.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Either's tight lip stuff, you know.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Okay, I'll take that. I'll accept that. I'll accept that. Okay,
So that that is going to begin filming.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
No, that's ra's rapping. So we're at the end of that.
I think this is the last weekend that they are
filming on that and another show that people may or
may not enjoy on the vein of reality television, yea,
Love is Blind.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I hear a lot of good things about this show. Actually,
I don't know about you, and I don't know if
you've seen anything or what you've heard, but what I
keep hearing is that it's really good and like heartwarming.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Okay, I mean I haven't actually gotten into it, but
I have seen an episode here in an episode there,
and it's about human connection without you know, the physical part.
It's like connecting as human beings and your soul and
you know all that other stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Am I thinking of two different dating shows then is
Love and Love is Blind, the one where their second
cubicles and they they're just speaking to each other.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Yeah, oh you know, were.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
You thinking about like actual blind people.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I was, no, No, I was thinking about Love on
the Spectrum.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Yeah, that's totally that's.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Totally different when you were saying, like, this is about
like you know, like you know, not the physical thing
of it, Like I'm pretty sure I saw clips with
them paying out like in public. But okay, So the
reason why I'm thinking about Love on Love on the
Spectrum is because there's a girl or a woman on
this show, on the season show, who is from Boston
(13:44):
and she's a big lover of the MBTA, the local
train service here, and so that's that's what I was
getting confused by, Like, Okay, Love is Blind and is
happening in Boston, So that just that that connection. Okay, okay,
I'm on board now.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Love on the Spectrum also what they call my love life.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
All right, hopefully we can cut that out. So what
else what we're talking about? Anyways, that's also wrapped.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
It was filming all around the city and it was
very hush hush, but plenty of people caught like the
Cruise and the people from like the film Cruise and
the people from the show in around Town. So that'll
be an interesting one to watch as well when it
eventually comes out. Speaking of eventually coming.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Out, Yeah, that's a good transition for our next topic, Dogma,
the the Kevin Na Say, Kevin James, Kevin Smith, Kevin Smith,
Cold Classic Dogma that came out twenty five years ago.
All these movies thirty plus years, twenty five years. What
that's going on? Where is time going? But Dogma is
(14:51):
going back to the movie theaters. Of course it stars
are Boston boys, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon. This one is
this is one of those movies where people love so much,
but it's so hard or has been so hard to watch,
and you know, let alone, you know, buy a physical copy,
but to stream anywhere or what have you. Because there
(15:11):
are a bunch of legal rights and a lot of
things going on with the studio that I that you know,
far more in depth than I am aware of.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
One of the other crimes of hard yeah, is keeping
keeping Dogma from us. But like you mentioned, lots of
conflict around the release of this and we were talking
before we started recording.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
About the DVDs.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Yeah, being part of that and if if you didn't
get a DVD before a certain point, then you had
no access to this film. And actually the DVDs sell
online or have been selling online for like hundreds of dollars.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I have one, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I have.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I bought it when it was available.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I've had it for a very very long.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Time, and our five hundred subscriber will get it. You
cannot have it, no, no, But I think it was
cool to publicize this was Kevin Smith. He released a
redone trailer of Dogma, so like a revamped, like modern
day trailer of the of the movie, and it looks
really good. Again. You have Alan Rickman, you have Matt Damon,
Ben Affleck, you have Alanis, Alanis Morissett who plays God. Yeah,
(16:18):
Chris Rock, you have Somebody of course, you have you know,
the Jay and Salam Bob characters in there. Really fun
movie that I I have. You know, through the years,
been wanting to see again, but you just can't. You
just physically could not be able to. But Kevin Smith
somehow worked his magic and has been able to get
it back in theaters for a limited release and I'm
sure DVD releases and em.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Streamine seeing a sequel to it either. I mean, yeah,
but it's a pretty perfect movie.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Yeah, it's pretty perfect. Plus, you know, I think the
angels are killed. I don't know, I don't know how
the world works. But yeah, George, George Carlon passed away,
but he's also great in that film that is coming
out in theaters for limited release on June.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I will definitely definitely be there, and it's surprisingly philosophical, spiritual.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
And like Catholics hate.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
It, Buddy Christ, Oh my god, but it's amazing. My
favorite part I just wanted to say before we moved on,
at the very end, when the metronome, you know, goes
up to the girl and it's like, so do.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
You believe now?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
She's like no, but I've got a good idea, you know.
And that's just a really wonderful philosophy. I think they
came out of it. Maybe they're suppressing it because it's
just it's too thoughtful to you know. Anyways, I'm definitely
gonna be there, yeah for.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
That excellent Well, speaking about being there, who showed up
there at her own stopping grounds was none other than
Dorchester native Ao at a Bury. She was in most recently,
of course, the hit Bait the Pit and Show the Bear,
the comedy that that comedic foul Loud Show the Bear,
which is really not a comedy, but that's another discussion. Uh.
(18:05):
But Ao at a Burry she was also in, uh,
what's the one where she's in her brain all the
emotions inside Out? She was inside out too. She was
not anxiety. She was the new blue one, the one
that was kind of like shy or jealous. I forget
what emotion that was, but she was one of the
new emotions. Was it embarrassment, No, embarrassment was the big one.
That was the big kind of like yeah loaf one.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yes, embarrassment, anxiety, envy it may have been. It was envy, envy.
I think it's the little blue one.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Okay, well it's the new one, not from the first one.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Right, Uh No, Envious of the Greenbury.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
And pitch perfect too, pitch perfect Where am I inside?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
No will break to song?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Who was Ao at Abury in Inside Out too?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
According to Cineworld, Ao a debutsy, she voices.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Envy, envy, envy, okay, envy. So she was in that
movie anyway, She's in a lot of stuff. She's like,
she's a great, really fun actress, great actress and award
winning actress as well. She was back in Boston. She
was over at her old school where she graduated twelve
years ago, Boston Latin School, hanging out with none other
than the mayor, Mayor Michelle wou where the mayor actually
(19:20):
sat down with her and was interviewing her on stage
in front of the other students about, you know, her
time in Boston, her time at the school, and what
helped her get to where she is today. And she
talked about, you know, her main message to the students
was just be yourself. I was myself and look where
that got me. And so I think it's great when
you have people like you know, the Matt Damons, the
(19:41):
ben Affleckx, the ao Eda Bury's of Boston coming back
and inspiring people and not forgetting their their roots.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Yeah, and that's wonderful and it's great, always, always great
to see our local actors or local filmmakers making a
big name for themselves and going out there. We've got
some great interviews past and future coming up. So if
you haven't seen, we had Shah Jakhan Jahan Khan not
(20:10):
too long ago, who is in Deli Boys. We have
a few other actors lined up for the weeks ahead,
and we should try to get Ao.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
So I did not cover the story for I was
assigned to a different story when she was in Boston
at the school. But you know, if if I had
been there, I would have dropped our business card. Oh yeah,
and try to get her on the podcast maybe next time.
So we'll reach out to her people and we'll see
what we can do. All right. So I think we
have to talk about what everybody is talking about, whether
(20:40):
they know this world, like yourself or your kids. I'm assuming,
and those like myself who don't know a thing about
it but are just getting inundated by references and memes online.
A Minecraft movie starring Jack Black, Jason Momoa, Emma Meyer Myers,
and some other folks, but it is doing fantastic at
(21:05):
the box office. I no, I'm not a Minecraft person.
I know what it is. I know it's a video game.
It's blocks, you build stuff. It's been going on for
like ten plus years. But I'm not in that world.
Are you in that world?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I'm in that world. I'm in that world through my
son who is nine years old, so he's the.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Exact demographic strange.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
And the things that he can make on this game
are just incredible. Like I remember trying to teach him
one day and I got so frustrated. I like, you know,
I threw it down. I'm like, yeah, for whatever, you know,
we're not going to do. We're just not going to
be Minecraft people. And then like the next day he
had figured out everything. Oh my god, and like he
can build castles and theme parks and cities and it's
(21:47):
just it's incredible the limitless possibilities that you can create
in this game. And you know, there's an entire generation
of kids who have come up on Minecraft, and it's
the per fixed thing to be making into a film
and to be adapting right now. And it shows like
(22:07):
they what the opening weekends surpassed Barbie.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yeah, and Super Mario Brothers movie.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Mm hmm, So I mean it's raking in the cash,
handover fist. This thing is going to be making a
lot of money over over the life of it, over
the seventeen days seventeen days. But James, this movie is
so dumb.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Oh no heard, I've heard. The plot is really not
a plot it's just a thing. It's just a movie
for references and memes and quotes. Right.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
It is absolute mayhem and ridiculousness.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
There's barely a plot.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
And my son has never had so much fun in
the theater. Like this kid was rolling on the floor
in front of me.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
On the sticky floor.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah I know.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Oh no, don't get off, No, don't do that.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
And then like there were parts of this movie where
he was literally shrieking at the top of his lungs.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
I'm like, god, my okay, okay. There's one thing we'll
talk about, like the audience reaction in a bit too,
But like, is that in response to what people are
doing online and meming or it's like a genuine reaction.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
It is a genuine reaction.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I know people are going overboard, not sure if you've
seen those videos.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Oh yeah, no, people are losing their minds. But this
was a genuine reaction to just the utter ridiculousness and
unseeriousness of this movie. And you know what, it works, James,
because if this movie had tried to be serious, it
would have been uh, it would not have worked. It
would have spiraled and burned. It would have been a
(23:46):
dumpster fire if they tried to do yeah, something like that.
But James, the plot quote unquote here is a mysterious
portal pulls four misfits into the overworld, a bizarre cubic
wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they'll
have to master the terrain while embarking on a magical
(24:08):
quest with an unexpected crafter named Steve.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
My name is Steve. Yes.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Everybody went crazy at that part, all the little other
little nine year olds in the theater and a bunch
of the teenagers who are up in the top of
a te some of them might watch us.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
If you watch us, you know what you know? You
know you're the worst, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
But I think the most uninteresting part of this movie
was the plot. I didn't care anything about the plot.
My son didn't care anything about the plot. What really
worked for this movie were all of the Minecraft references,
were the building references and the ways that the world work.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
I know nothing about this game, or the or the movie,
but like the memes and the clips online I've absorbed
through Osmo, like yeah, Flint and Steel.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yes, right, okay, yeah, which you need to make the
nether portal, sure to make the portals to get from
what anyways, but all of those things, all of those
things like the crafting tables and the red stone and
like all of the things that are important to the
gaming dynamics to.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
The eye what was it called?
Speaker 2 (25:24):
What was it called?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Chicken jockey?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Chicken jockey like that, those are the things that people
loved the most and that I wish that they actually
had more of.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
So the director of those references, they.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Needed more of that and less plot. I didn't care
about any of the characters. But no, I mean the
movies that people create for Minecraft, just on like YouTube,
that they make, like these epic adventures that are over
an hour long. They're like feature length movies in that
(25:59):
Minecraft style.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
It's incredible, like as big.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
As your imagination is anything as impossible in Minecraft, And
I think that they could have done more and included more.
There was a great homage to to Techno Blade. Techno Blade,
who is a big Minecraft player streamer YouTuber unfortunately passed
away from cancer twenty three years old, but very famous
(26:24):
and actually you know, one of the people who helped
popularize Minecraft and playing Minecraft on YouTube, and you know
everything that in that realm, so there was one homage
to him, but I would have liked to have seen
more Minecraft YouTubers and more streamers and more people who
are part of that world get included in the story.
(26:45):
The creators mentioned that this is called a Minecraft story
on purpose and not the Minecraft story because they they
wanted to just tell a silly story and not really
get so much into the world. But I want to
see the Minecraft movie. I want to see more of
this stuff. I want to see these people be actual blocks.
So the character design really bothered me. It bothered me
(27:07):
in the trae, you know, like too many Minecraft guys
that go ah like the humans in Minecraft. Uh, the animals,
you know, the characters. I didn't like their fleshy like
over cgi character designs. It all really bothered me. But
(27:30):
the saving grace was this movie didn't give a crap.
It was completely unserious from the very beginning when you
see Jack Black leaping across the screen like a dog
catching frisbees in his mouth and like it was just
other mayhem, and he carried it so well. He went
way over the top and it worked because anything less
(27:54):
than that was not gonna work.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I think I heard that there are too many characters
that all you needed was like maybe Jason Momoa, Steve's
character or Jack Black's character, maybe a third one. But
then they felt people were theorizing that the studio felt
they should add more characters because they weren't all utilized. Well,
here's the thing though, So can you watch one of
the fan made Minecraft movies on YouTube without knowing the
(28:18):
world of Minecraft? Like can you? Can you enjoy it
for a movie itself?
Speaker 3 (28:21):
You absolutely can.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
So that's the thing about this movie. One thing I'm
hearing is that unless you know all these references or
video game you know tactics or you know, I don't
know mcguffin's or what have you, then it's not a
good movie because like you just can't walk into it
watching it where there are a lot of video game adaptation,
like like Super Mario, Like if you're not if you
don't play the video games, you could watch walk into
that movie and understand the world and the characters. And
(28:46):
Mortal Kombat, even though they're not great movies, you kind
of understanding like Okay, you get the world. But here,
one thing I'm hearing is that if you're not in
that knowledgeable about with all these like memes or or
you know, references. Then you're just like, Okay, this is
just a bad movie because the story isn't the plot
isn't good.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yeah, I think they could have done it better, honestly,
Like you said, they could have gone in there and
told a story that was more character centric and takes
you through the world that even people who don't understand
minecraft would have been able to get into it and
understand it. And he would have been able to put
(29:24):
more references into it because you discover it along with
the characters and YadA, YadA, YadA. So I definitely think
it could have been a better movie.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
But it doesn't matter what I say is exactly.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
It doesn't matter what I think. Kids are absolutely eating
it up. Another great feature of this film is again
Jack Black singing, because he has to do that in
every single movie. And I brought a prop Okay, James,
the just you know once again for my kids, the
(29:56):
best song in this movie.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Please don't put it right into the microphone, and that
killed many people's in people's ears.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Okay, I don't have to squeeze it, but you know
you can hear there's a rubber chicken here. You'd like chicken.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Okay, oh you are the way space.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Because in Minecraft, there's this amazing restaurant that you need
to visit, well at least in this terrain, right in
this world that he created, and it's l l LoVa
Chicken Steves Lava Chicken yet Tasty's hill. Oh Mama, Sita,
now you're something something ringing the bell.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Good job again, I don't seek this information out.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
No, you're ringing the bell and then I forget the
rest of it and then it ends with.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Lama jake God.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yeah, I just want to give myself some space because
you know, Jack Black is just very physical to bring
that in.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Okay, So what is this? This? This? What's it called jockey? Chicken?
Chicken Jockey? Because the reason why I asked this, have
you heard the reports and seen the videos of people
losing their minds like but like in an un in
a ironic way, as in there being over the top
and ridiculous and throwing popcorn and screaming and getting on
(31:20):
other people's shoulders and jumping on the chairs and making
like videos and making a big scene of it like
on purpose. Have you heard about one? Have you seen
those videos? And two? Have you heard about police being
called into movie theaters. Yes, because of all this ridiculousness.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Yeah, I saw.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
I saw the memes in the videos and my son
was showing them to me. Chicken Jockey is like one
of the rarest mobs that one. It's these characters that
can spawn in and attack you at night because when
it becomes nighttime in the Minecraft world, then all the
zombies and skeletons and things come out, okay, and people
(31:57):
can create mobs. I guess if you get like more
into Minecraft, it was something that was created by a
fan mobs or mods mob with a b okay it is.
It is distinctive, so it's one of the rarer mobs
that you can get. And I guess when it first
was created, it was like breaking the game because of
the number of chickens and like eggs that it was laying,
(32:20):
and it almost like crashed all of Minecraft. And so
now it's like really really really rare to find and
it's basically a baby zombie writing a chicken. So yeah,
people are getting really excited about that.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
But as far as the cops.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Being called, yeah, I can kind of see the argument
for a just let people have fun like they were.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Too happy, they're having too much fun.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
But if you're causing destruction and you know.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Making like throwing popcorn all over the place, screaming, and
not only that but being kind of dangerous. And now
this is my old man voice coming in. But like
people are on each other's shoulders in these rows of chairs,
which is like already precarious when you're trying to walk
through the row, let alone, somebody's on like like jumping
up and down and on someone's shoulders. And then you
(33:05):
just have like people have shown video of like the
screen being completely paused and like an announcement over the
things saying everybody get out because it's just disruptive. Those
people are not the only ones in there. They have
other people and maybe families watching the movie or wanting to.
And you have all these people acting like all these
young all these youngsters either teenagers or or kids or
(33:26):
young adults acting this way. Okay, we get it. You
want to meet, you want to make something viral, you
want to go you want to be funny and social media.
I get it. That's what you want to do. That
doesn't justify doing it. I don't know. This is my
old man hat right now, but do you remember when
the Minion's movie came out, A bunch of people young adults,
(33:48):
young you know, kids, teens, young adults. They would they
wore like suits, like three piece suits, and they would go,
they'll make it then. So that's like a fun thing
that doesn't disturb anybody else. They're having any there have
a meme. They're making a mema themselves in a way,
but it's not disrupting the experience or whatnot, or you know,
getting out of control. But yeah, you're just watching videos
of people wanting to go viral, wanting to make a
(34:10):
disruption and make a scene just to be stupid.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Chill out, chill out teenagers.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Teenagers right, Well, you know what. The director of Minecraft,
he says, I don't get it. He says, just let them,
let them do their thing. He says, the movie is great.
It comes as videos have gone viral. The director, Jared
Hess says, he's just happy people are finding joy and
going to movie theaters. So I get that. I get
you're happy people are having a good time, but it's
(34:38):
not the kind of time or place to be doing that.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
I think the line is safety and destruction, don't.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
And discretion and human decency for other people wanting to
watch a movie.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
But if you're in the Minecraft movie you maybe want to,
you should extract us.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
No, you're in the movie theater. You're not in the movie.
You're watching the movie in a movie theater, not in it.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
And this is why James is not gonna go watch Minecraft.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
No, no, no goodness, but pro joy.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
But but you recommend your families watching, you.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Know, take your kids, take your kids, and don't expect
a serious movie, but enjoy it and have fun. And
maybe one day they'll they will make the Minecraft movie
because I'd love to see like more references and more
like trueness to the blockular world. You know, that's a
word I just made up. But yeah, we'll see. There
(35:32):
will definitely be a sequel. So there was a great
end credit scene. So there's two like main characters from Minecraft, right,
There's Steve and there's Alex. And at the very end
spoiler alert, we get we get to see Alex or
the back back of her head. So I think we
can definitely expect numero.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Dose excellent, excellent, just what we need. Hey, sorry for
the interruption of the podcast. I am editing right now
and this is the part where my microphone battery dies
and so my audio quality will drop dramatically. What you're
gonna be hearing is me coming from Jamie's microphone, but
it doesn't sound good because Jamie's microphone is pointed to Jamie.
(36:14):
You know, it's still a good you know, despite the
audio quality. The segment is so really fun talking about
a goofy movie and the documentary behind the scenes making
of the movie. It's about just five minutes long, So
if you can deal with my bad audio for that long,
I think it's worth sticking around through the podcast. Okay,
that's enough. Back to the podcast, and I hope you're
enjoying it so far. Bye. But you know what you're
(36:38):
talking about, you know, making a more serious movie, one
movie that is surprisingly takes itself pretty seriously, but it's
still very fun and goofy no pun intended.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Pun intended.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
The Disney which has now become a cult classic film
that many of us in our generation grew up watching
in the nineties. Documentary called Not Just a goof has
come out on Disney Plus. But created by these group
of guys who they adore. They love this movie and
they grew up and they made a documentary about it,
(37:14):
and it's a really good one for those of the
For those I think many people are aware of it,
maybe haven't seen it, but again.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Many in our generation have.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
But a Goofy movie first come ount in nineteen ninety five,
it was in production for two and a half years beforehand,
and even though it was a box office disaster, it
found a huge success at home video on VHS. And
this is one of the movies that I watched growing up.
I was around five years old when it came out,
(37:43):
probably got the VHS around five or six, and one
of those movies that you watch repeatedly. Not only is
it a very fun movie, very fun ne movie, but
it also has has layers. It's a pretty deep movie,
especially for what age you're watching it.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Her history with a.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Goofy movie, Yeah, no, I loved it as a kid.
I watched it plenty. The music again a big, a
big draw. I'm a big power Line fan. This is
what sort of changed my life about the Goofy movie
was watching the character of the singer, the lead singer
(38:25):
from power Line. I remember I was in a giant
mall in Miami called The Incredible Universe, which doesn't exist anymore.
And we were in like a computer store. We were
like in Circuit City, which also doesn't exist anymore. Yeah,
and they were playing they were playing the movie on
(38:47):
the TVs in Circuit City, and I remember seeing the
dancer from power Line and I was like, like, my
jaw was on the floor. That might have been like
a little bit of Jamie's awakening back then, but the music,
they had no right to make the characters as as
sexy as they did, like all of them in there.
I'm just gonna say it.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
My wife, my wife.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
I got my wife to watch it after years of
telling her it was a great movie and it's very
touching and heartfelt.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
And they were watching it.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
In the first like five five seconds and ten seconds
in where it's it's Max's dream sequence.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
With rock sand yeah, like flying from the heavens, she.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Goes, dang, like they're they're really like they're really they're
really sexualizing these games.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Yeah, sexualizing, but it was to that effect of like
man like, they're they're really like, yeah, kind.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Of a hop for each other kind of kind of
a way how they're drawn and stuff, and yeah, rewatching
it like yeah, like they they don't they don't shy
away from that.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
But that's part of like growing up you the other
the opposite sex.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Yeah and uh and yeah exactly. So that was that,
you know for me for this with with this movie,
but also the fun, the music, and it's a good
coming of age. I mean, nobody I think was expecting
for the story between Max and his dad goofy to.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
Be soul heartfelt and real.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
You know, it was a great story and it was
well told and it was a fun adventure. So I mean,
another reason why it is yet again another cult classic
and Goofyo yuk Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
The reason why in this movie watch the documentary if
you've seen the movie, watch the movie first. If you
haven't seen it, but watched the documentary afterwards, and those
who were creating it the movie, they were talking about
how they wanted this to feel like a John Hughes film,
so like they wanted to have that, you know, Ferris
Bueller's Stay Off kind of feel home alone, kind of
(40:46):
like fun grounded, even though that's very women's goal, but
also like the Breakfast Club kind of showing a story
of those in between, like in those tween years, kids anymore,
but they're not fully adults. They're in that in between
stage where they're trying to figure themselves out. They're they're
trying to develop their own identity and and you know,
(41:07):
their own sound. And this is something that Max is
struggling with because in the movie, you know, Max and
Goofy are are growing distant. He wants he wants to
become more independent, and he fears becoming more like his dad, Goofy,
and so he's really kind of pushing those boundaries and
being a little more rebellious while Goofy he understands that
their relationship is strained and and they don't really talk
(41:29):
as much anymore, and he misses the old Max when
he was, you know, younger, and he wants to be
a part of his life as he gets older. But
there's that, you know, that conflict, and it's during their
road trip that they you know, tackle these issues of
why they're they've drifted apart and reuniting and you know,
realizing and appreciating each other for who they are, where
(41:51):
they're who they're becoming. So it's a beautiful story and
the documentary touches on several things, including again trying to
be more grounded for a Disney film because during that.
Speaker 4 (42:00):
Time, you had, you know, The Lion King, you had.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
All these Disney princess movies or fantasy movies, and even
though this is like goofy, they wanted to have it
a grounded story that anybody could relate to, any teenager
can relate to. And they didn't realize how big of
a hit it was for our generation until ten years
ago at a d twenty three Disney event where what
they had like a like a convention or like you
know they have you know, speaking.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
Called panelsk Yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
They had like a panel in a somewhat small room,
but they realized, like it was we had a thousand
people lined up watch this panel and they had to
like you know, have to kick people out because it
was it was it was filled. And that's when they realized, like, oh,
this is actually resonating with so many people.
Speaker 4 (42:45):
They'll have no idea. You know, loved it growing up
and it meant so much for them.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
So to have them realize that and talk about that
and now kind of having this resurgence of this film
being appreciated and they acknowledging the fact it's a lovely
movie from all these different.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
Angles yeah, and for Disney that loves their cash grabs.
As a millennial who loves this movie, I want more merch.
I want power line merch, I want you know the
Max and Roxanne.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
Yes, like I'll buy it.
Speaker 2 (43:17):
Here's my money, please take it. There's not enough, not
enough Goofy movie merch, enough, not enough?
Speaker 4 (43:23):
Well you know what else is not enough time because
we've we've.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Come to the end of the show, but we've covered.
Speaker 4 (43:29):
A lot of great stuff.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
For those of you who are watching, who are listening,
and who have subscribed.
Speaker 4 (43:34):
Because I know you have subscribed, thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
Let us know what your thoughts are on in many
of these topics, including you know a Goofy movie didn't
have a big impact on your life growing up? Or
did you just watch it and are now appreciating it
for what it is?
Speaker 4 (43:50):
Did you watch a Minecraft movie? What are yours thoughts?
Speaker 3 (43:53):
Are you going crazy in the theater?
Speaker 2 (43:54):
Was it you?
Speaker 1 (43:56):
James hates you?
Speaker 3 (43:58):
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Speaker 4 (44:00):
Also, of course, ao ed a Bury.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
It's great for her to return to Boston to the
future generation. Maybe maybe there's a there's a kid in
that auditorium where she was speaking who gets inspired and
is going to be the next AO in the next movie.
So yeah, I think that's everything.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
But yeah, and Ben and Ben and Matt uh dogma,
we you know that's going to be exciting to go
back to the theater and see. And we've got to
get we've got to get them on the show too.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
My Mike died, My Mike died, so uh no, we're
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This is the Hub on Hollywood and iHeartRadio podcast. I'm
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Rojas, and I'm Jamie Blanco.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
On this week's episode, we are looking back at the
Goofy Movie, a Goofy movie, which is celebrating. Look, it's
the thirtieth anniversary, and boy do I feel old. A
new documentary is out and it's pretty good. A spoiler
full I'm assuming a full spoiler review of a minecraft movie, right,
because we can do that. I think everybody who's wanted
(00:37):
to see the movie has seen the movie. It's already
made a billion dollars. Yeah, if not, it'll be making
that soon. So we will get into that. The Jersey
Shore coming to the Shore of Boston, Okay, a local
actor coming back to her Boston roots, and a movie
starring the bad boys of Boston coming back to the theaters
over twenty five years after its original release. All that
(01:00):
and more. But first, Jamie, I have to congratulate you
for something.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I have to congratulate you.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Oh wow, Shall we congratulate each other?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah? One, two, three, congratulation four hundred subscribers, four hundred,
over four hundred subscribers. Yes, incredible, it took us like
years to break the three hundred subscriber mark, and then
less than four months to break four hundred, and at
(01:29):
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four hundred and fourteen subscribers. Thank you so much, Thank
you so much for everybody who tuned in, who continues
to tune in, and you know, just help us, you know,
get the love of movies out of our system.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
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Speaker 1 (02:02):
It's wicked, wicked awesome. You know. Speaking of wicked awesome,
I do have surprise for you, So hold on to that.
So and I'm sure you can still hear me. We
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and so she there's also a birthday gift, but also
(02:24):
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Speaker 3 (02:39):
You've just got the best way I do.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I do amazing I do, and so congratulations for us,
and thank you my wife for this amazing gift. Also
got I think you saw the shirts. I wore the
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to bring you the hat. Then I have a hat
for this long. But it's good that we have our
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(03:03):
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What's your idea?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
So we've reached four hundred. If we're able to reach
five hundred subscribers by the end of this year, I
think we should maybe give somebody one of our listeners,
one of our viewers. Maybe not these hats because these
are ours, but another hat, another hat and T shirt
with the hub on Hollywood logo. Will you know, hit
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You say, five hundred subscribers by the end of the year.
I think we're going to hit that by the end
of like the spring.
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Speaker 1 (04:25):
And speaking of lurking behind your shoulder, over your shoulder,
let's talk about movie theaters where everybody is almost lurking
over somebody else's shoulder unless you are in the very
back row. This is some good talk coming out of
Cinema Con in Las Vegas recently. The President and CEO
of the Cinema United Organization, Michael O'Leary, he came out and,
(04:49):
you know, talk to folks talking about the movie theater
going experience. We all know that it's in you know,
quite a bit of trouble hasn't rebounded to pre pandemic
levels or even beyond pre pandemic levels, But he has
an idea. He is suggesting that studios keep their movies
inside the movie theaters for longer than seventeen days. It's
(05:10):
a crazy idea to have to tell studios because that
used to be the normal, where movies would run anywhere
from thirty to forty five days, or even longer if
they're a big hit. But now they're just asking the
bare minimum of like, hey, like, before you rush these
films out onto your streaming services, how about letting them
run in the movie theater. You hear this, do do
(05:32):
you hope or think studios will abide by this suggestion.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I don't expect that they will.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
The landscape has changed so much. Yeah, with streaming and whatnot.
It was hard enough to during the pandemic, right, movies
were just going straight to streaming. Everything was going straight
to streaming, and now we have to pull back from that,
and so the dynamic hasn't even gotten back to regular, right,
(06:03):
So I don't.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Know if having the movies in.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Theaters longer is really going to help the bottom line
so much, because The problem is getting people in the theater,
is getting people to physically go. So I can see
how maybe having it there a little bit longer, right,
making a little bit more money, I can see that,
but you got to get the people there. Well.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
There are some movies where I think this would definitely work,
and for example, in the case of The Knives out
movies for Netflix. Obviously those are Netflix films, but I
believe and correct me if I'm wrong, but they came
out for maybe like a week before they were released
on streaming, and during those times, so you would see
movie theaters packed with people wanting to go see the film.
(06:47):
And so there are films that I think that deserve
their fair run at the theater, O'Leary argues. He says
the longer stays in theaters could help movies be even
more successful when they are eventually made available for home viewing.
I think that word of mouth will help. And you know,
people who are you know, just saying oh, you know,
(07:07):
I'll just wait wait two weeks to watch a movie
at home. It will incentivize people to be like, oh,
the buzz is good, let me go out there and
you know, enjoy this in front of everybody else in
this movie experience.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
There are a lot of I agree, there are a
lot of movies that could have benefited from that. One
in particular was Spirited. Yeah, was that music musical Christmas
movie with Ryan Reynolds and Ferrell that was filmed here
in Boston, and when it came out, it had a
limited theatrical release. It was mostly on streaming. But I
(07:37):
think it would have done so.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Well, especially during Christmas time, especially.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
During Christmas time, and it was such a good movie,
it was such a good movie it deserved more. So
I think in that sense, absolutely, there are lots of
movies that are being made for streaming that are very
high quality that I think would do very well in
the theater.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
But I'm not a businessman.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I don't know how much it costs, you know, to
have the theatrical release over stream and what and yadi,
YadA YadA. But I want movies like Spirited that are
not only just made in New England, but you know
that are of that quality, in that caliber. I want
to see them on the big screen.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, yeah, me too. And I hope that you know,
this is at least part somebuddy's ear to consider having
them you know, stay longer in the movie theater. But
speaking about watching things on the big screen, there's nothing
better than watching amazing stunts on the big screen, whether
it's Jackie Chan fighting twenty thousand people and jumping through
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a mall or Tom Cruise clinging onto a literal military
plane at two hundred three hundred miles per hour or
however fast it was. But finally, after years of people
talking about this, the Oscars, they're finally going to be
giving the recognition that stunt men and women finally deserve.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Right after over one hundred years of film. It took
the years, and it took Ryan Gosling. Yeah, Ryan Gosling
movie about stunt men, and the commentary in that was, hey,
look at what these people do and everything that they
go through. Nobody is acknowledged for that, and that sort
of became a talking point.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Last years are half the reason why many people go
to the movie theater. So why not, you know, give
him who gets the credit?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, like, you know, the pretty faced, pretty boy front man.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
The person who doesn't do their own stunts, right, not
talking about you, Tom Cruise, not talking about you Jackie Chan.
Just do your own stunts. So we're talking about everybody
else that rides their coattails. But yeah, the push came
from the director David Leach, as you mentioned, who filmed
who directed The Fall Guy. The last time the Academy
added a category was in twenty twenty four when it
(09:43):
established the Achievement and Casting Award, which would be given
now for the first time at the next year's Oscars. Yeah.
I think this is just about time, and I think
if anything, this one should have been implemented before the
Achievement in Casting Award.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Oh casting one also.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Maybe you know, again stun, I would have expected someone
to be done sooner years before this one. Yeah, but
either way, you know, great, great job for recognizing the
people who literally put their blood, sweat and tears into
making movies.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
So they should call it the Charlie Chaplin Award.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, either Charlie or Buster Keaton. Maybe Buster Keaton Charlie Chaplin.
Also Tom Cruise, like if they can make the Oscar
Trophy look like one of those guys, yeah, or gals
like Michelle Yo. Michelle Yo did a lot of her stunts.
She's very well known for doing a lot of her
own her own you know, dangerous and precarious stunts, so
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that that would also be a good nomination for a statue.
I'm not sure this is cann be getting any awards soon,
but uh, you send me this and I and I
have done zero research because I want you to describe
it to me. But Jersey Shore is coming to Boston
sounds like an oxymoron.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah, yeah, something, So.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
The Jersey Shore and oxymoron.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
There you go, exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Sorry, this is the quality why we have four hundred
subscribers right for.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
The right this class of comedy is that are amazing
movie ideas, of which we have many. I would not
have pitched this, however, I would not have pitched a
Jersey Shore in Boston. However, they have just wrapped a
filming or they are wrapping filming again. The look, you
know how the Jersey Shore was a thing in the
two thousands, and over the years there have been other
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shows revisiting the cast and the schnookies and the whatever
over the course of their lives and different scenarios and
different things, and it's just a continuation of that.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Okay, So it's the Jersey Shore original cast in Boston. Yeah, oh, okay,
I don't I thought I don't know what I was thinking, like,
are they doing like a brand new people?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Well, that's my understanding. Yeah, I could.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I could be wrong.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I just know that that is what it is called.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
That's what's been filming here, and it is wrapping up short.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
So you've done no research on this.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Either's tight lip stuff, you know.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Okay, I'll take that. I'll accept that. I'll accept that. Okay,
So that that is going to begin filming.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
No, that's ra's rapping. So we're at the end of that.
I think this is the last weekend that they are
filming on that and another show that people may or
may not enjoy on the vein of reality television, yea,
Love is Blind.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I hear a lot of good things about this show. Actually,
I don't know about you, and I don't know if
you've seen anything or what you've heard, but what I
keep hearing is that it's really good and like heartwarming.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Okay, I mean I haven't actually gotten into it, but
I have seen an episode here in an episode there,
and it's about human connection without you know, the physical part.
It's like connecting as human beings and your soul and
you know all that other stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Am I thinking of two different dating shows then is
Love and Love is Blind, the one where their second
cubicles and they they're just speaking to each other.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Yeah, oh you know, were.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
You thinking about like actual blind people.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I was, no, No, I was thinking about Love on
the Spectrum.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Yeah, that's totally that's.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Totally different when you were saying, like, this is about
like you know, like you know, not the physical thing
of it, Like I'm pretty sure I saw clips with
them paying out like in public. But okay, So the
reason why I'm thinking about Love on Love on the
Spectrum is because there's a girl or a woman on
this show, on the season show, who is from Boston
(13:44):
and she's a big lover of the MBTA, the local
train service here, and so that's that's what I was
getting confused by, Like, Okay, Love is Blind and is
happening in Boston, So that just that that connection. Okay, okay,
I'm on board now.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Love on the Spectrum also what they call my love life.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
All right, hopefully we can cut that out. So what
else what we're talking about? Anyways, that's also wrapped.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
It was filming all around the city and it was
very hush hush, but plenty of people caught like the
Cruise and the people from like the film Cruise and
the people from the show in around Town. So that'll
be an interesting one to watch as well when it
eventually comes out. Speaking of eventually coming.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Out, Yeah, that's a good transition for our next topic, Dogma,
the the Kevin Na Say, Kevin James, Kevin Smith, Kevin Smith,
Cold Classic Dogma that came out twenty five years ago.
All these movies thirty plus years, twenty five years. What
that's going on? Where is time going? But Dogma is
(14:51):
going back to the movie theaters. Of course it stars
are Boston boys, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon. This one is
this is one of those movies where people love so much,
but it's so hard or has been so hard to watch,
and you know, let alone, you know, buy a physical copy,
but to stream anywhere or what have you. Because there
(15:11):
are a bunch of legal rights and a lot of
things going on with the studio that I that you know,
far more in depth than I am aware of.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
One of the other crimes of hard yeah, is keeping
keeping Dogma from us. But like you mentioned, lots of
conflict around the release of this and we were talking
before we started recording.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
About the DVDs.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Yeah, being part of that and if if you didn't
get a DVD before a certain point, then you had
no access to this film. And actually the DVDs sell
online or have been selling online for like hundreds of dollars.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I have one, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I have.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I bought it when it was available.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I've had it for a very very long.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Time, and our five hundred subscriber will get it. You
cannot have it, no, no, But I think it was
cool to publicize this was Kevin Smith. He released a
redone trailer of Dogma, so like a revamped, like modern
day trailer of the of the movie, and it looks
really good. Again. You have Alan Rickman, you have Matt Damon,
Ben Affleck, you have Alanis, Alanis Morissett who plays God. Yeah,
(16:18):
Chris Rock, you have Somebody of course, you have you know,
the Jay and Salam Bob characters in there. Really fun
movie that I I have. You know, through the years,
been wanting to see again, but you just can't. You
just physically could not be able to. But Kevin Smith
somehow worked his magic and has been able to get
it back in theaters for a limited release and I'm
sure DVD releases and em.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Streamine seeing a sequel to it either. I mean, yeah,
but it's a pretty perfect movie.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Yeah, it's pretty perfect. Plus, you know, I think the
angels are killed. I don't know, I don't know how
the world works. But yeah, George, George Carlon passed away,
but he's also great in that film that is coming
out in theaters for limited release on June.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I will definitely definitely be there, and it's surprisingly philosophical, spiritual.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
And like Catholics hate.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
It, Buddy Christ, Oh my god, but it's amazing. My
favorite part I just wanted to say before we moved on,
at the very end, when the metronome, you know, goes
up to the girl and it's like, so do.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
You believe now?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
She's like no, but I've got a good idea, you know.
And that's just a really wonderful philosophy. I think they
came out of it. Maybe they're suppressing it because it's
just it's too thoughtful to you know. Anyways, I'm definitely
gonna be there, yeah for.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
That excellent Well, speaking about being there, who showed up
there at her own stopping grounds was none other than
Dorchester native Ao at a Bury. She was in most recently,
of course, the hit Bait the Pit and Show the Bear,
the comedy that that comedic foul Loud Show the Bear,
which is really not a comedy, but that's another discussion. Uh.
(18:05):
But Ao at a Burry she was also in, uh,
what's the one where she's in her brain all the
emotions inside Out? She was inside out too. She was
not anxiety. She was the new blue one, the one
that was kind of like shy or jealous. I forget
what emotion that was, but she was one of the
new emotions. Was it embarrassment, No, embarrassment was the big one.
That was the big kind of like yeah loaf one.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yes, embarrassment, anxiety, envy it may have been. It was envy, envy.
I think it's the little blue one.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Okay, well it's the new one, not from the first one.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Right, Uh No, Envious of the Greenbury.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
And pitch perfect too, pitch perfect Where am I inside?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
No will break to song?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Who was Ao at Abury in Inside Out too?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
According to Cineworld, Ao a debutsy, she voices.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Envy, envy, envy, okay, envy. So she was in that
movie anyway, She's in a lot of stuff. She's like,
she's a great, really fun actress, great actress and award
winning actress as well. She was back in Boston. She
was over at her old school where she graduated twelve
years ago, Boston Latin School, hanging out with none other
than the mayor, Mayor Michelle wou where the mayor actually
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sat down with her and was interviewing her on stage
in front of the other students about, you know, her
time in Boston, her time at the school, and what
helped her get to where she is today. And she
talked about, you know, her main message to the students
was just be yourself. I was myself and look where
that got me. And so I think it's great when
you have people like you know, the Matt Damons, the
(19:41):
ben Affleckx, the ao Eda Bury's of Boston coming back
and inspiring people and not forgetting their their roots.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Yeah, and that's wonderful and it's great, always, always great
to see our local actors or local filmmakers making a
big name for themselves and going out there. We've got
some great interviews past and future coming up. So if
you haven't seen, we had Shah Jakhan Jahan Khan not
(20:10):
too long ago, who is in Deli Boys. We have
a few other actors lined up for the weeks ahead,
and we should try to get Ao.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
So I did not cover the story for I was
assigned to a different story when she was in Boston
at the school. But you know, if if I had
been there, I would have dropped our business card. Oh yeah,
and try to get her on the podcast maybe next time.
So we'll reach out to her people and we'll see
what we can do. All right. So I think we
have to talk about what everybody is talking about, whether
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they know this world, like yourself or your kids. I'm assuming,
and those like myself who don't know a thing about
it but are just getting inundated by references and memes online.
A Minecraft movie starring Jack Black, Jason Momoa, Emma Meyer Myers,
and some other folks, but it is doing fantastic at
(21:05):
the box office. I no, I'm not a Minecraft person.
I know what it is. I know it's a video game.
It's blocks, you build stuff. It's been going on for
like ten plus years. But I'm not in that world.
Are you in that world?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I'm in that world. I'm in that world through my
son who is nine years old, so he's the.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Exact demographic strange.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
And the things that he can make on this game
are just incredible. Like I remember trying to teach him
one day and I got so frustrated. I like, you know,
I threw it down. I'm like, yeah, for whatever, you know,
we're not going to do. We're just not going to
be Minecraft people. And then like the next day he
had figured out everything. Oh my god, and like he
can build castles and theme parks and cities and it's
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just it's incredible the limitless possibilities that you can create
in this game. And you know, there's an entire generation
of kids who have come up on Minecraft, and it's
the per fixed thing to be making into a film
and to be adapting right now. And it shows like
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they what the opening weekends surpassed Barbie.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yeah, and Super Mario Brothers movie.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Mm hmm, So I mean it's raking in the cash,
handover fist. This thing is going to be making a
lot of money over over the life of it, over
the seventeen days seventeen days. But James, this movie is
so dumb.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Oh no heard, I've heard. The plot is really not
a plot it's just a thing. It's just a movie
for references and memes and quotes. Right.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
It is absolute mayhem and ridiculousness.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
There's barely a plot.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
And my son has never had so much fun in
the theater. Like this kid was rolling on the floor
in front of me.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
On the sticky floor.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah I know.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Oh no, don't get off, No, don't do that.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
And then like there were parts of this movie where
he was literally shrieking at the top of his lungs.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
I'm like, god, my okay, okay. There's one thing we'll
talk about, like the audience reaction in a bit too,
But like, is that in response to what people are
doing online and meming or it's like a genuine reaction.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
It is a genuine reaction.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I know people are going overboard, not sure if you've
seen those videos.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Oh yeah, no, people are losing their minds. But this
was a genuine reaction to just the utter ridiculousness and
unseeriousness of this movie. And you know what, it works, James,
because if this movie had tried to be serious, it
would have been uh, it would not have worked. It
would have spiraled and burned. It would have been a
(23:46):
dumpster fire if they tried to do yeah, something like that.
But James, the plot quote unquote here is a mysterious
portal pulls four misfits into the overworld, a bizarre cubic
wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they'll
have to master the terrain while embarking on a magical
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quest with an unexpected crafter named Steve.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
My name is Steve. Yes.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Everybody went crazy at that part, all the little other
little nine year olds in the theater and a bunch
of the teenagers who are up in the top of
a te some of them might watch us.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
If you watch us, you know what you know? You
know you're the worst, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
But I think the most uninteresting part of this movie
was the plot. I didn't care anything about the plot.
My son didn't care anything about the plot. What really
worked for this movie were all of the Minecraft references,
were the building references and the ways that the world work.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
I know nothing about this game, or the or the movie,
but like the memes and the clips online I've absorbed
through Osmo, like yeah, Flint and Steel.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yes, right, okay, yeah, which you need to make the
nether portal, sure to make the portals to get from
what anyways, but all of those things, all of those
things like the crafting tables and the red stone and
like all of the things that are important to the
gaming dynamics to.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
The eye what was it called?
Speaker 2 (25:24):
What was it called?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Chicken jockey?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Chicken jockey like that, those are the things that people
loved the most and that I wish that they actually
had more of.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
So the director of those references, they.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Needed more of that and less plot. I didn't care
about any of the characters. But no, I mean the
movies that people create for Minecraft, just on like YouTube,
that they make, like these epic adventures that are over
an hour long. They're like feature length movies in that
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Minecraft style.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
It's incredible, like as big.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
As your imagination is anything as impossible in Minecraft, And
I think that they could have done more and included more.
There was a great homage to to Techno Blade. Techno Blade,
who is a big Minecraft player streamer YouTuber unfortunately passed
away from cancer twenty three years old, but very famous
(26:24):
and actually you know, one of the people who helped
popularize Minecraft and playing Minecraft on YouTube, and you know
everything that in that realm, so there was one homage
to him, but I would have liked to have seen
more Minecraft YouTubers and more streamers and more people who
are part of that world get included in the story.
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The creators mentioned that this is called a Minecraft story
on purpose and not the Minecraft story because they they
wanted to just tell a silly story and not really
get so much into the world. But I want to
see the Minecraft movie. I want to see more of
this stuff. I want to see these people be actual blocks.
So the character design really bothered me. It bothered me
(27:07):
in the trae, you know, like too many Minecraft guys
that go ah like the humans in Minecraft. Uh, the animals,
you know, the characters. I didn't like their fleshy like
over cgi character designs. It all really bothered me. But
(27:30):
the saving grace was this movie didn't give a crap.
It was completely unserious from the very beginning when you
see Jack Black leaping across the screen like a dog
catching frisbees in his mouth and like it was just
other mayhem, and he carried it so well. He went
way over the top and it worked because anything less
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than that was not gonna work.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I think I heard that there are too many characters
that all you needed was like maybe Jason Momoa, Steve's
character or Jack Black's character, maybe a third one. But
then they felt people were theorizing that the studio felt
they should add more characters because they weren't all utilized. Well,
here's the thing though, So can you watch one of
the fan made Minecraft movies on YouTube without knowing the
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world of Minecraft? Like can you? Can you enjoy it
for a movie itself?
Speaker 3 (28:21):
You absolutely can.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
So that's the thing about this movie. One thing I'm
hearing is that unless you know all these references or
video game you know tactics or you know, I don't
know mcguffin's or what have you, then it's not a
good movie because like you just can't walk into it
watching it where there are a lot of video game adaptation,
like like Super Mario, Like if you're not if you
don't play the video games, you could watch walk into
that movie and understand the world and the characters. And
(28:46):
Mortal Kombat, even though they're not great movies, you kind
of understanding like Okay, you get the world. But here,
one thing I'm hearing is that if you're not in
that knowledgeable about with all these like memes or or
you know, references. Then you're just like, Okay, this is
just a bad movie because the story isn't the plot
isn't good.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yeah, I think they could have done it better, honestly,
Like you said, they could have gone in there and
told a story that was more character centric and takes
you through the world that even people who don't understand
minecraft would have been able to get into it and
understand it. And he would have been able to put
(29:24):
more references into it because you discover it along with
the characters and YadA, YadA, YadA. So I definitely think
it could have been a better movie.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
But it doesn't matter what I say is exactly.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
It doesn't matter what I think. Kids are absolutely eating
it up. Another great feature of this film is again
Jack Black singing, because he has to do that in
every single movie. And I brought a prop Okay, James,
the just you know once again for my kids, the
(29:56):
best song in this movie.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Please don't put it right into the microphone, and that
killed many people's in people's ears.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Okay, I don't have to squeeze it, but you know
you can hear there's a rubber chicken here. You'd like chicken.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Okay, oh you are the way space.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Because in Minecraft, there's this amazing restaurant that you need
to visit, well at least in this terrain, right in
this world that he created, and it's l l LoVa
Chicken Steves Lava Chicken yet Tasty's hill. Oh Mama, Sita,
now you're something something ringing the bell.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Good job again, I don't seek this information out.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
No, you're ringing the bell and then I forget the
rest of it and then it ends with.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Lama jake God.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yeah, I just want to give myself some space because
you know, Jack Black is just very physical to bring
that in.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Okay, So what is this? This? This? What's it called jockey? Chicken?
Chicken Jockey? Because the reason why I asked this, have
you heard the reports and seen the videos of people
losing their minds like but like in an un in
a ironic way, as in there being over the top
and ridiculous and throwing popcorn and screaming and getting on
(31:20):
other people's shoulders and jumping on the chairs and making
like videos and making a big scene of it like
on purpose. Have you heard about one? Have you seen
those videos? And two? Have you heard about police being
called into movie theaters. Yes, because of all this ridiculousness.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Yeah, I saw.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
I saw the memes in the videos and my son
was showing them to me. Chicken Jockey is like one
of the rarest mobs that one. It's these characters that
can spawn in and attack you at night because when
it becomes nighttime in the Minecraft world, then all the
zombies and skeletons and things come out, okay, and people
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can create mobs. I guess if you get like more
into Minecraft, it was something that was created by a
fan mobs or mods mob with a b okay it is.
It is distinctive, so it's one of the rarer mobs
that you can get. And I guess when it first
was created, it was like breaking the game because of
the number of chickens and like eggs that it was laying,
(32:20):
and it almost like crashed all of Minecraft. And so
now it's like really really really rare to find and
it's basically a baby zombie writing a chicken. So yeah,
people are getting really excited about that.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
But as far as the cops.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Being called, yeah, I can kind of see the argument
for a just let people have fun like they were.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Too happy, they're having too much fun.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
But if you're causing destruction and you know.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Making like throwing popcorn all over the place, screaming, and
not only that but being kind of dangerous. And now
this is my old man voice coming in. But like
people are on each other's shoulders in these rows of chairs,
which is like already precarious when you're trying to walk
through the row, let alone, somebody's on like like jumping
up and down and on someone's shoulders. And then you
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just have like people have shown video of like the
screen being completely paused and like an announcement over the
things saying everybody get out because it's just disruptive. Those
people are not the only ones in there. They have
other people and maybe families watching the movie or wanting to.
And you have all these people acting like all these
young all these youngsters either teenagers or or kids or
(33:26):
young adults acting this way. Okay, we get it. You
want to meet, you want to make something viral, you
want to go you want to be funny and social media.
I get it. That's what you want to do. That
doesn't justify doing it. I don't know. This is my
old man hat right now, but do you remember when
the Minion's movie came out, A bunch of people young adults,
(33:48):
young you know, kids, teens, young adults. They would they
wore like suits, like three piece suits, and they would go,
they'll make it then. So that's like a fun thing
that doesn't disturb anybody else. They're having any there have
a meme. They're making a mema themselves in a way,
but it's not disrupting the experience or whatnot, or you know,
getting out of control. But yeah, you're just watching videos
of people wanting to go viral, wanting to make a
(34:10):
disruption and make a scene just to be stupid.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Chill out, chill out teenagers.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Teenagers right, Well, you know what. The director of Minecraft,
he says, I don't get it. He says, just let them,
let them do their thing. He says, the movie is great.
It comes as videos have gone viral. The director, Jared
Hess says, he's just happy people are finding joy and
going to movie theaters. So I get that. I get
you're happy people are having a good time, but it's
(34:38):
not the kind of time or place to be doing that.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
I think the line is safety and destruction, don't.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
And discretion and human decency for other people wanting to
watch a movie.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
But if you're in the Minecraft movie you maybe want to,
you should extract us.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
No, you're in the movie theater. You're not in the movie.
You're watching the movie in a movie theater, not in it.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
And this is why James is not gonna go watch Minecraft.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
No, no, no goodness, but pro joy.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
But but you recommend your families watching, you.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Know, take your kids, take your kids, and don't expect
a serious movie, but enjoy it and have fun. And
maybe one day they'll they will make the Minecraft movie
because I'd love to see like more references and more
like trueness to the blockular world. You know, that's a
word I just made up. But yeah, we'll see. There
(35:32):
will definitely be a sequel. So there was a great
end credit scene. So there's two like main characters from Minecraft, right,
There's Steve and there's Alex. And at the very end
spoiler alert, we get we get to see Alex or
the back back of her head. So I think we
can definitely expect numero.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Dose excellent, excellent, just what we need. Hey, sorry for
the interruption of the podcast. I am editing right now
and this is the part where my microphone battery dies
and so my audio quality will drop dramatically. What you're
gonna be hearing is me coming from Jamie's microphone, but
it doesn't sound good because Jamie's microphone is pointed to Jamie.
(36:14):
You know, it's still a good you know, despite the
audio quality. The segment is so really fun talking about
a goofy movie and the documentary behind the scenes making
of the movie. It's about just five minutes long, So
if you can deal with my bad audio for that long,
I think it's worth sticking around through the podcast. Okay,
that's enough. Back to the podcast, and I hope you're
enjoying it so far. Bye. But you know what you're
(36:38):
talking about, you know, making a more serious movie, one
movie that is surprisingly takes itself pretty seriously, but it's
still very fun and goofy no pun intended.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Pun intended.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
The Disney which has now become a cult classic film
that many of us in our generation grew up watching
in the nineties. Documentary called Not Just a goof has
come out on Disney Plus. But created by these group
of guys who they adore. They love this movie and
they grew up and they made a documentary about it,
(37:14):
and it's a really good one for those of the
For those I think many people are aware of it,
maybe haven't seen it, but again.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Many in our generation have.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
But a Goofy movie first come ount in nineteen ninety five,
it was in production for two and a half years beforehand,
and even though it was a box office disaster, it
found a huge success at home video on VHS. And
this is one of the movies that I watched growing up.
I was around five years old when it came out,
(37:43):
probably got the VHS around five or six, and one
of those movies that you watch repeatedly. Not only is
it a very fun movie, very fun ne movie, but
it also has has layers. It's a pretty deep movie,
especially for what age you're watching it.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Her history with a.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Goofy movie, Yeah, no, I loved it as a kid.
I watched it plenty. The music again a big, a
big draw. I'm a big power Line fan. This is
what sort of changed my life about the Goofy movie
was watching the character of the singer, the lead singer
(38:25):
from power Line. I remember I was in a giant
mall in Miami called The Incredible Universe, which doesn't exist anymore.
And we were in like a computer store. We were
like in Circuit City, which also doesn't exist anymore. Yeah,
and they were playing they were playing the movie on
(38:47):
the TVs in Circuit City, and I remember seeing the
dancer from power Line and I was like, like, my
jaw was on the floor. That might have been like
a little bit of Jamie's awakening back then, but the music,
they had no right to make the characters as as
sexy as they did, like all of them in there.
I'm just gonna say it.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
My wife, my wife.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
I got my wife to watch it after years of
telling her it was a great movie and it's very
touching and heartfelt.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
And they were watching it.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
In the first like five five seconds and ten seconds
in where it's it's Max's dream sequence.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
With rock sand yeah, like flying from the heavens, she.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Goes, dang, like they're they're really like they're really they're
really sexualizing these games.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Yeah, sexualizing, but it was to that effect of like
man like, they're they're really like, yeah, kind.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Of a hop for each other kind of kind of
a way how they're drawn and stuff, and yeah, rewatching
it like yeah, like they they don't they don't shy
away from that.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
But that's part of like growing up you the other
the opposite sex.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Yeah and uh and yeah exactly. So that was that,
you know for me for this with with this movie,
but also the fun, the music, and it's a good
coming of age. I mean, nobody I think was expecting
for the story between Max and his dad goofy to.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
Be soul heartfelt and real.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
You know, it was a great story and it was
well told and it was a fun adventure. So I mean,
another reason why it is yet again another cult classic
and Goofyo yuk Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
The reason why in this movie watch the documentary if
you've seen the movie, watch the movie first. If you
haven't seen it, but watched the documentary afterwards, and those
who were creating it the movie, they were talking about
how they wanted this to feel like a John Hughes film,
so like they wanted to have that, you know, Ferris
Bueller's Stay Off kind of feel home alone, kind of
(40:46):
like fun grounded, even though that's very women's goal, but
also like the Breakfast Club kind of showing a story
of those in between, like in those tween years, kids anymore,
but they're not fully adults. They're in that in between
stage where they're trying to figure themselves out. They're they're
trying to develop their own identity and and you know,
(41:07):
their own sound. And this is something that Max is
struggling with because in the movie, you know, Max and
Goofy are are growing distant. He wants he wants to
become more independent, and he fears becoming more like his dad, Goofy,
and so he's really kind of pushing those boundaries and
being a little more rebellious while Goofy he understands that
their relationship is strained and and they don't really talk
(41:29):
as much anymore, and he misses the old Max when
he was, you know, younger, and he wants to be
a part of his life as he gets older. But
there's that, you know, that conflict, and it's during their
road trip that they you know, tackle these issues of
why they're they've drifted apart and reuniting and you know,
realizing and appreciating each other for who they are, where
(41:51):
they're who they're becoming. So it's a beautiful story and
the documentary touches on several things, including again trying to
be more grounded for a Disney film because during that.
Speaker 4 (42:00):
Time, you had, you know, The Lion King, you had.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
All these Disney princess movies or fantasy movies, and even
though this is like goofy, they wanted to have it
a grounded story that anybody could relate to, any teenager
can relate to. And they didn't realize how big of
a hit it was for our generation until ten years
ago at a d twenty three Disney event where what
they had like a like a convention or like you
know they have you know, speaking.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
Called panelsk Yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
They had like a panel in a somewhat small room,
but they realized, like it was we had a thousand
people lined up watch this panel and they had to
like you know, have to kick people out because it
was it was it was filled. And that's when they realized, like, oh,
this is actually resonating with so many people.
Speaker 4 (42:45):
They'll have no idea. You know, loved it growing up
and it meant so much for them.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
So to have them realize that and talk about that
and now kind of having this resurgence of this film
being appreciated and they acknowledging the fact it's a lovely
movie from all these different.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
Angles yeah, and for Disney that loves their cash grabs.
As a millennial who loves this movie, I want more merch.
I want power line merch, I want you know the
Max and Roxanne.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
Yes, like I'll buy it.
Speaker 2 (43:17):
Here's my money, please take it. There's not enough, not
enough Goofy movie merch, enough, not enough?
Speaker 4 (43:23):
Well you know what else is not enough time because
we've we've.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Come to the end of the show, but we've covered.
Speaker 4 (43:29):
A lot of great stuff.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
For those of you who are watching, who are listening,
and who have subscribed.
Speaker 4 (43:34):
Because I know you have subscribed, thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
Let us know what your thoughts are on in many
of these topics, including you know a Goofy movie didn't
have a big impact on your life growing up? Or
did you just watch it and are now appreciating it
for what it is?
Speaker 4 (43:50):
Did you watch a Minecraft movie? What are yours thoughts?
Speaker 3 (43:53):
Are you going crazy in the theater?
Speaker 2 (43:54):
Was it you?
Speaker 1 (43:56):
James hates you?
Speaker 3 (43:58):
But please subscribe please.
Speaker 4 (44:00):
Also, of course, ao ed a Bury.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
It's great for her to return to Boston to the
future generation. Maybe maybe there's a there's a kid in
that auditorium where she was speaking who gets inspired and
is going to be the next AO in the next movie.
So yeah, I think that's everything.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
But yeah, and Ben and Ben and Matt uh dogma,
we you know that's going to be exciting to go
back to the theater and see. And we've got to
get we've got to get them on the show too.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
My Mike died, My Mike died, so uh no, we're
all good for the help on Hollywood. I'm James, I'm Jamie.
Speaker 5 (44:40):
See, we'll get better batteries next day.
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