December 15, 2024 • 45 mins
On this week's episode: James and Jamie try solving the mystery drone sightings, give movie tips for a potential alien invasion, review the best "worst" Christmas movie (Jingle All The Way), Jim Carey would reprise "Grinch" role under one condition, and "Kraven the Hunter" is getting eaten alive by movie critics!
New England's film industry is booming with multiple projects constantly under production. Projects include commercials, television shows and full-length feature films. Jamie and James are hosts of The Hub on Hollywood, an iHeartRadio podcast.
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New England's film industry is booming with multiple projects constantly under production. Projects include commercials, television shows and full-length feature films. Jamie and James are hosts of The Hub on Hollywood, an iHeartRadio podcast.
The Hub on Hollywood discusses New England's growing film industry, as well as entertainment news and reviews. SUBSCRIBE & FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM & TikTok! Listen to new episodes of The Hub on Hollywood podcast on the iHeartRadio app!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
It's the Hub on Hollywood and iHeartRadio podcast. I'm your
co host James.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Rojas and I'm Jamie Blanco.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
On this week's episode, we talk about the best worst
Christmas movies there are. There are a lot of bad
ones out there, but these bad ones, they are on
our favor list. Jim Carrey, he's willing to put back
on the Grinch character for a Grinch sequel under one condition.
From Gladiator to Beatle, it's a bird, It's a drone?
(00:37):
Is it Santa Claus? We have no idea, but we're
trying to get down to the bottom of that. All
that and more. But first, Jamie, let's talk about the
movie that everybody is talking about right now. No it's
not Wicked. No, it's not Gladiator too. No it's not
what's that of the movie that just came out Mowana two. Yeah,
(00:57):
it is Craven The Hunter, the latest Spider Less Universe
movie of this entire disaster attempts. First of all, were
you planning hoping to see even The Hunter?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
No, not at all. This is a textbook movie that
did not need to be made. All of the trailers
looked awful. It just looked so ridiculous, enforced, tremendously forced.
I had zero hopes, zero expectations for this movie, and tell.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Me how right I was.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
You are one hundred percent right. Because even though Craven
the Hunter is one of the best villains in all
of comic book history and one of, if not the
most dangerous villain for Spider Man, not even he can
defeat movie critics because they are tearing this Hunter to shreds.
So right now, Craven the Hunter only earned around two
(02:00):
million dollars for its Thursday preview and it's only expected
to make fifteen million or less during its opening weekend.
Not great for Sony, especially because this movie costs around
one hundred and ten million dollars to make. If you
add marketing on top of that, that's around two hundred
(02:21):
million dollars for this film. Yeah, I think this is
the final movie in the again the Spiderless universe, and
it's about time.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
So is it?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
So you said, yeah, Sony, I don't know. I don't
Where do you think they went wrong, James? Because I
have I know where they went wrong. Where do you
think they went wrong with this?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
They rent wrong without Spider Man, they went they went
to make a Spider Man villain universe without the hero,
without the main protagonist, so that there was already a big,
big mistake. They also made a mistake of not letting
Marvel play with these characters and bring them into the
(03:06):
actual MCU where Sony could have you know, they could
have swallowed their ego, swallowed their pride and let Marvel
MCU build out this universe and they would still get
their cut, and you'll still get a big percentage of
that money. But instead they're like, you know what, We're
gonna make our own universe without Spider Man. For some reason,
it failed as predicted.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Oh my gosh, But you know why I think it failed, James,
besides not having Spider Man, which.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Is a nail, one of many manles in this coffin.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Gosh, have you seen the previews, Like this character is
completely inhuman, Like he's so strange, and it's a classic case.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Of showing of telling and not showing. It's like he
is the ultimate hunter, weird pose.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
You know, look at me, I'm so strong, and I'm
so I'm such a hunter, and he hunts people and
I'm hunting people. Like it's just so forced, almost campy,
but not in a fun way, like in a we
were trying to be serious, but we didn't know how to.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Pull off serious way.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
And you've got this guy in this ridiculous outfit who has.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
No real human emotions or.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Doesn't you can't connect to as a human being because
he's just a character, a two dimensional character, and he's
got the pretty face, and he's got like no dirt
on him, like he's out here fighting animals and in
the woods and killing people. And he looks like he
just walked out a wardrobe, like he's like clean face,
(04:43):
clean hair, you know, clean clothes. Everything looks like a
costume and everything is just like, yeah, it's all telling,
not showing.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
It's just silly. It just looked silly from the beginning.
It was a silly But how do movies like this
get made?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Like there's so much money that they pump into these things,
like they should be making our ideas, James, we come
up with great ideas here on the help of Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
We do. Yeah. And the thing is is like the
original plan for Spider Man three, like the MCU Spider
Man with Tom Holland. Rumor has it was that they
were going to the Marvel mcuh They wanted to have
Craven the Hunter be the main antagonists for the third film,
which would have been amazing because again, the Craven and
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Spider Man one of the best comic book stories out there,
Like he is, you know, spoiler alert for people who
don't know the comics or whatnot. But Craven kills Spider
Man and then and that leads to a whole bunch
of other stuff. And so imagine that kind of storyline
where you have this, this super popular version of Spider
Man going up against Craven the Hunter with the character building,
(05:57):
character arc and character development that the mcuten brings to
these comic book characters and bring them to life. Imagine
that kind of movie. Instead, they couldn't get Craven Sony
would not let them have him, and so they went
with the whole multiverse madness kind of roots, which you know,
people they enjoyed. But we got Tom, you know, we
(06:18):
got Andrew Garfield, We've got Tobey Maguire out of it,
which is great. But imagine if Tom Holland would have
been able to get his own awesome epic movie, epic
trilogy that he deserved, and that would have been amazing.
So Aaron Taylor Johnson, he plays Craven the Hunter, and
you know, from what I hear, he does the best
that you can do with the writing that was given
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to him, the script that was given to him. But
everything else, it's a lot of action with no emotion,
no stakes, nothing really behind it. It's just of venear
of entertainment. So not surprised they are expecting to make
less than Madame Webb did in Madame Webb's opening opening
(07:00):
box office weekend. So not good overall. But if you
watched Craven the Hunter in theaters, let us know, leave
a review in our comments. We are at hub on
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(07:22):
what you think about that or why you're not going
to watch the movie. I really want to hear your
thoughts on this.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Tell us why you hate it now, this movie, this
movie I didn't hate, but you know, like we said
in our review last week Gladiator two, we were both
kind of lukewarm on it, like we both had higher
expectations hoping for more.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
There was potential there, but you know, you know, it
is what it was. It is what it is. Paul
Mescal doing his best. I think he may have been miscasts,
but you know, he did a lot of great action stuff.
But he's moving from Gladiator to Beatle. Did you hear
about this, Jamie, No, tell me so. Paul Mescal he
(08:07):
has been announced that he will be playing Paul McCartney
in a Beatles bio. Yeah, which, okay, I think, you know,
I think it works. I think the resemblances is pretty
pretty close. Plus, Paul is a singer of sourts. You know,
he got to start on on the stage, so he
knows how to sing, and he can you know, carry
(08:29):
that stage performance. I think translate that to the film.
I think it's I think this is a good pick.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
The two Paul's okay, well, I think he's definitely more
handsome than the original Paul McCartney.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Jarney no shade against Paul McCartney.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Against Paul. He's gonna come for me now. But no,
you've got the two pauls.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I would be interested to see how miscal looks in
like the mushroom cut, right, and if the girls are
still swooning and throwing, you know, throwing themselves before his feet.
You know, if he's got the mushroom cut going on,
is he going to be doing his own singing? I
know you said that he is a singer, but I
(09:15):
wonder how much singing he's actually going to be doing.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I think if Austin Butler can pull the Elvis songs
and sing them himself, I don't think, you know, cool, Yeah,
then I think then I think Paul will have no
problem singing or playing Paul. Here's the kicker, though, So
the director is going to be Sam Mendez. He's done
a lot of amazing work already, so he's a great director.
(09:41):
But he's not only directing one Beatle biopick, not two, not,
but he's directing four biopicks. That's because they're having each
movie focus on each individual Beatle. Oh my god, there's
gonna be a culmination. There's gonna be a Beatles Avengers moments,
(10:04):
members of the Fab four they're gonna unite, and then
that's gonna be I'm assuming it's gonna be a maybe
a fifth movie where they all assembled and do their thing.
But what are your thoughts on for individual Beatles movies?
Focusing on each individual singer.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
It sounds like a lot of work for Mendos there.
I presume that's going to be over the course of
several years. Right, If these are if these are feature
length films or is this like a mini series or
is this these are actual feature length films?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Full feature length films?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Now, well that means Mendes has secured work in showbiz
for like the next decade.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
So good for him.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Now, the question is will he wear a wig or
will he keep his hair in that gold cut kind
of look. But here's my thing. I think they've already
cast the perfect Beatles already. They just need to bring
those actors back. And you may remember the movie Walk
Hard starring John c Riley.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I don't know that one.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Oh No, watch Walk Hard. It is a hilarious, hilarious comedy,
hilarious movie, kind of a spoof off of Walk the Line,
the Johnny cash By opening Walking Phoenix and Pace Witherspoon.
But this is so much better because if you watch
Walk Hard before watching Walk the Line, you feel like
(11:31):
Walk the Line is a parody of Walk Hard. That's
how amazing this one is. But in that movie, they
cast the Fab four and they had none other than
Paul Rudd playing John Lennon, John Black playing Paul McCartney,
Mister Long playing George Harrison, and Jason Schwartzman as Ringo Starr.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
How no, this exists.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I recommend watching the movie, but you know, you can
also just YouTube the Beatles in Walk Hard and just
watch that section because the resemblance is uncanny for those
who have watched it. I think you don't have to
agree with me with that. Yeah, so there's that.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah, I have one quick question.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
One quick question, James, you you are a lovely singer
as well.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
No, if you could embody you lie, No, it's true.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
If you could embody anyone right and star in a
feature length movie about this singer singer. If you could
embody a singer, who would it be?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
It has to be a real singer. I mean it
could be whatever, not like a singing character. No, no, okay.
If I can embody one singer that I could try
to do justice. Yeah if I was Oh no, I
would have to be lip singing it, but I would do.
(12:56):
If you sent that Fernandez, if I could look, I'd
do that. Where the giants sombrero? Where way get up.
I think it'd be Yeah, that'd be amazing, awesome.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Okay, so we'll be pitching that next Well, we'll get
that screen screenplay going.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Who would you play?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Who would I play?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I mean so many of them have already been done
and done so well, gosh, can I.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Be like Selena's Selena is perfect? But what's that?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah, lady Goa.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yeah, okay, lady Gaga because I could wear like all
the fun get ups and the hair and the makeup thing.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, that would be cool. Let's do Gaga.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Well, speaking of get ups, hair and makeup, that's a
perfect transition to our next topic. Jim Carrey. So, Jim Carrey,
he's doing the press run for Sonic three, which I'm
a fan of this and this third one looks really
really good. But he's doing his you know, his press tour,
so he's answering questions and he got asked if he
would be willing to do a sequel for The Grinch.
(14:04):
I love love that movie, love that version, and he
said he would be willing to do it, but under
one condition, Jamie, Okay, what is that? He does not
want to go under hair and makeup? And all that stuff,
because he has been vocal over the over the years
of how torturous it was to not only every day
(14:28):
sit in a chair for hours and hours putting up
all that makeup, putting on the suit. It was hot,
it was itchy, the makeup, the layer and like makeup,
layer of layer of layer of makeup. They put in contacts,
like green contacts in his eyes that were extremely uncomfortable.
And he does this all day. Not only does he
(14:49):
have to, you know, endure hours of putting it on,
but then dure hours of acting and trying to put
on an actual professional performance. And he actually talked about
he inquired like a torture expert to learn how these
you know, prisoners of war, how they went through torture
(15:11):
and managed to not lose their sanity. Like that's like real,
like that's how bad it was of an experience it
was for him. So he says he's willing to do
it if he was able to do it with a
via mo cap or with c CI, because you know
now they can do miracles with that kind of stuff,
and so he would do it under that condition because
(15:31):
he would not want to endure all that again.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Fortune Carrie yeah. I mean yeah, it can't be truly
truly torturous. People think, you know, making movies is all
glamour and fun and no, man, they.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Work hard hard.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Everyone works works so so hard. But speaking of you,
you've mentioned that The Grinch was one of your favorite
Christmas movies.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Right right, I wouldn't. I want to know, James.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Inquiring minds want to know what is your least favorite
Christmas movie? What is a movie out there that it's
a like are you the Grinch of?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Like?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
What movie are you the Grinch of? That you despise that.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
You would steal Christmas presents from that should have never
been made? Maybe doesn't embody the spirit.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Of the season. We need to know what do we
need to avoid?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I respect the technical technique or skills and everything that
was used to put this movie together or these series
the movies together, but I am not a fan of
the claymation movies like Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, the
Snowman one, the Abominable Snowman. I guess that's still the
(16:55):
Rudoff one. But like those like I just start getting
sleepy and they're just they are of a different era
and as a kid growing up, Like, yeah, you watched it,
but then like year after years back on TV, I'm like,
I can't watch this again because one, all the characters
are really mean. Like I know that's the whole the
gist of Rudolph's story, but like nobody's just like as
(17:17):
an adult watching those movies. And coincidentally, Rudolph was on
TV last night, so I watched a little bit of it,
so that refreshed my memory of like how much I'm
not enjoying this. I respect the technical again nature of
the skill using the claymation and all that other stuff
and whatever, but like I can't. I can't. You cannot
pay me enough to put to make me watch those
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series of movies with the owlves and the reindeer and
all that stuff. It's it's a little classics. That is
a hot take, Yeah, that is a hot take yourself. Well,
which is the least favorite for this movie.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I've got to tread carefully here because there are so
many great movies that people love that they watch every
year for you know, is their entire lives, and there's
a lot of great stuff to pick from, but there
are also some notable stinkers here. I think one that
people reference quite often is the Star Wars Holiday Special.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Where Chebka.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
No. So it's it's one of those things where it's
so bad it's good. It's it's Chewbacca and Hans Solo.
They are trying to get to the Wookie home world
of Kashik to celebrate life Day, and they are impeded
by several you know things, and there's various forms of entertainment.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
There's just it becomes.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Like a variety show, and it's quite quite cringey, quite cringey.
If you haven't seen it, you can see it online,
probably on YouTube and things like that.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
But one movie that.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I would probably never watch again, even though most people
might enjoy this movie and might not care as much perhaps,
but I don't think it aged very well is Look
Who's Talking Now?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
And that's a Christmas movie.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
It is set during the Christmas time, and so it's
right if you remember the original Look Who's Talking? It
was the baby John Travolta. By the time we've gotten
to this sequel, which aired in nineteen ninety three, now
the dogs are talking, the babies are talking, the mom
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loses the job.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
You know. I just think that the mom and Dad
are a terrible couple.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Yeah, they should not.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Be married, isn't.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Bruce Willis the voice of the baby, is he?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
It is possible, but I always thought that like John
Travolta and Christy Ally were like a terrible couple that
shouldn't have really been together. And then you just bring
the babies and the dogs into it and it just
doesn't and then Christmas and all of that.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
So no, I just think that that's maybe one that
people should pass.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
And people do pass because they probably forgot that it
existed entirely. But in general, movies that are more focused
focused on like the commercialization of Christmas tend to rub me.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
The wrong way. So yeah, you might want to avoid those.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yeah, let's see. I guess Bruce Willis isn't. Oh he is.
He has a voice of Mikey in the first one,
but maybe not in the second one. Danny de Vito's
in the second one playing a voice. I don't know
which character he plays, but that's weird. You know, what
still holds up is Three Men and a Baby. That
one very well, Ted Danson, Tom Selleck and Gutenberg what's
(20:57):
the name something Gutenberg? But that holds up very well,
especially just recently having a child in the past year
and a half, a lot a lot of you know,
parental jokes that you can enjoy. In that film, there's.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
A ghost in that movie.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Did you know that there is not a ghost. It's
it's not a ghost, it's a it's a picture of
Ted Danson. Is a cardboard cutout of Ted Danson's one
of his movie characters or stage characters. It's like cut
in half, so it's like folded. It's it's been debunked.
It's a it's a very nice, funny rumor or like myth.
But core to the hub on Hollywood for facts, and
(21:37):
we have each other accountable. I know it's not fun.
Well let's talk about well, let's talk about we will
talk about this, uh this weird kind of drone situation
in in New Jersey. But before I forget, because I
forgot this topic. Did you hear about Malcolm in the Middle.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
James, I did, Thanks to you and you. We're f excited.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
It's amazing. I love, love loved Malcolm in the Middle.
Fantastic show. Again, that's another show. If you go back
watch episodes or clips of it, it holds up so well.
And you know, again seeing it as experiencing it as
a child, you understand like many things through Malcolm and
his brother's eyes. As an adult you see a lot
(22:24):
of things through the parent's eyes. And it's one of
those things where like it transcends different generations and ages,
where everybody can find something funny, relatable and enjoyable, enjoyable
about that show. And so they just announced Frankie Munis,
Brian Cranston, and Jane Kats Merrick. I think that's in's
your last name. Yes, they announced they are coming back
(22:46):
for a continuation, a new season of Malcolm in the Middle,
to see where everybody is after all these years. It's
coming to Disney Plus and it's only going to be
on for I understand four episodes, So only four episodes,
kind of like again updating as to where everybody is
in their life. And I cannot be more excited about this.
(23:07):
So yay Malcolm in the Middle. I love this.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
That's awesome because Freddy Munaz, he was out of acting
for a long time.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
He's a race car driver now.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Right, race car driver, musician. He's in the band is
or was in the band, so he does a lot
of stuff and he made so much money from Malcolm
in the Middle, from agent Cody Banks, from Big Fat
Liar and all these other stuff that he was in
that he made so much money that he was like,
you know what, like, I don't need to do this anymore.
I want to pursue my own my other interests and
hobbies and and you know, live my own life. And yeah,
(23:38):
so great to see him because a lot of child
actors they either you know, maybe involuntarily fade from the spotlight.
He chose, you know what, I did my thing, I
want to do my I want to do something else,
and he had the opportunity and ability to do that
while still intact. So really cool. One thing that's also
really cool is that Frankie Munas has said that Brian Cranston,
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again his who played Hall, his dad on the show,
like periodically checks in on him, Like through all the
years since the show ended, Brian Cranston just calls him
up like every several weeks and like and like, and
I love that relationship that they have, like they're really
the father son thing continued well beyond the show.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Dad and talk about range, right, because I think most
of us like knew Brian Cranston from this show Malcolm
in the Middle, and then we've seen his work sense
and things like Breaking Bad. When Breaking I remember Breaking
Bad when it first started, I'm like, oh, it's the
dad from Malcolm in the Middle, Like this is gonna
be dumb, you know, like this is and then it
(24:46):
became what it was. So I'm excited to see Brian
Cranston in anything now.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
So who go freaky Meanaz? That's wild? That's wild. You
know what else is wild?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
What's wild? Jamie?
Speaker 2 (25:01):
The apparent alien invasion we're in the middle of. Yeah,
is that what's going on with the drones?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Yeah? So apparently there are numerous reports of unmanned aircraft,
these sightings reported all across New Jersey over the past
several weeks. So many reports and so much concern has
grown from this that even the White House is investigating this.
Many talking about how these large drone looking aircraft were
(25:31):
seen flying near sensitive areas like reservoirs in New Jersey
and also military installations. Right now, the White House they
say they're looking into it. They don't believe, they don't
suspect or have any reason to believe that these are
coming from any other country, like an adversary of sorts.
But they are looking into this. But Jamie, when you
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hear about this story, what goes through your head.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
What goes through my head is that what bothers me
about this story is that they're not identified objects, right,
and even the government's like, we're not sure what they are, and.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
They're popping up everywhere.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
And now that hysteria is kind of spreading, there have
been some reports of those kinds of objects being spotted
over Massachusetts as well, right in our area. So that,
of course leads me to only one explanation. Aliens aliens. Right, So, James,
(26:29):
I have here to provide a public service. I feel
like us here on the hob on Hollywood are very
well situated to get people ready for the alien invasion that.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Is apparently inevitable.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Okay, since we are just going to conclude that's what
I am going to conclude that it is. James is
a reputable reporter, right, he has more dignity than I do.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
So I have my theory. I'll explain my theory at
the end.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
But yeah, go ahead, okay, but I have recommendations for you.
There are two scenarios, right, Either they're friendly aliens or
they're not friendly aliens. And I have the quintessential list
of tips for survival for each of these situations, brought
to you by movies, and we're gonna start with friendly
(27:21):
alien invasion movies.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Okay, James, right. I think that the number.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
One friendly alien invasion movie that is probably the most
realistic would be Steven Spielberg's nineteen seventy seven masterpiece, Close
Encounters of the Third Kind. You've got Richard Dreyfus who
was abducted, and he's getting these subliminal images and telepathic
(27:47):
messages and having these metaphysical experiences, and then you know,
eventually the aliens come down.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
It's all these little, you.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Know, little alien people, and they're bringing back all of
these abductees. They're communicating with sound and vibration and telepathy
right in the little spacemen and or children. I think
that that is the first movie you gotta watch, because
I think that's how it's all gonna go down. And
(28:17):
if they're friendly, it's all about the vibrations, having good
that breachance, and you know, just communicating our well being
towards them. They'll communicate their well being towards us. And
I think It'll be fine, don't worry about it. Arrival
is another great one, with Amy Adams playing a linguist
(28:39):
who helps to communicate with an alien spacecraft that has
landed again via sound. So that seems to be like
the thing if you're like a musician or into audio
or whatever, like, you got to find the right frequency
to communicate, Like, that's gonna be your go to. Okay,
we're gonna be communicating via frequency and telepathy.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
This is this is how we're going to do it. Okay.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Then we've got et extraterrestrial which teaches us to have
skittles ready, have candy available.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Weren't they pieces there?
Speaker 5 (29:16):
We go.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Food is a love language.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Yes, it is a galactic love language, especially all right.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
And time exactly. I think they're here for the.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Chocolate, So chocolate at hand ready, uh, for that encounter,
so that you can lure them into your closet and
have a little pet animal friend something.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
If they're funny aliens, right, We're gonna need material for that.
I recommend checking out Mork and Mindy, going back, checking
out that old, that old TV show where Robin Williams
plays the A right, how wonderful would that be if
it was just a race of Robin Williams' is that
(30:07):
was here to put a smile on our faces.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
So I think we should just be ready for that.
Watch more. Can mindy have some Robin william content available?
Make jokes? And my last recommendation is to just you
know what if they're hot? Oh goodness, Earth girls are easy.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Jeff Goldbloom, starting that one, Jim Carrey, Right, Jim Carrey,
Jeff Goldbloom.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
One of the I forget. The last one.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Teaches us that aliens can be chill and cool and
also hot, So we should just be ready to party
if that is the the kind of alien that we get.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
But I thought you were gonna say the movie spies.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Yeah, I'm getting to those. I'm getting.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Yeah, because some times they're not nice, which brings us
to our not friendly alien list.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Okay, but also but also hot but also hot?
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Right, and you could probably speak to this, James right. Okay,
So Species, what what do you think we would learn
from a movie like that?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
To not trust a trust attractive women?
Speaker 3 (31:23):
I guess right, if they look like the chick from Species, No,
but if they look.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Like Jeff Goldbloom yes, Okay, that's the metric. That's the Metricay.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Communication is key, right, but sometimes there's no chance of communication.
Movies like Aliens Alien right, and all of the subsequent ones.
Uh and Signs, it's no chance of communications.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Find their weakness, just yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
And and grab things to stab them with. Fight for
your life, be smart. Signs teaches us to just try
anything in order to find their weakness. You know, throw water,
that's the first thing.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
I guess we gotta.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Try nearby, either for aliens or just for self hydration.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Right right, right.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Mars Attacks teaches us to watch out for handshakes because
their hands might be able to detach and stab us.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
If they're going then you know.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Watch out ves during an alien invasion.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
And ultimately, finally at the end of my list, James,
and then I'll let you chime in on some of
these because you know way more about the horror movies
than I do. Independence Day, Yes, we will not go
quiet into the night. You just need to have that
playing in the background. And again you need to have Jeff.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Goldbloom Yeah, and Will Smith.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
And Will Smith to punchaton punch aliens in the face.
You know, a great a punching still apparently, so you're
gonna want to have slamming. I know that that too
too too. So basically, Jeff Goldbloom is the number one
thing that you need in the event of an alien invasion,
(33:15):
you know, whether they're friendly or not friendly.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Yeah, that's what you got.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
So, James, you know more about the horror alien movies.
Is there any takeaways there that you would like to share?
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Well, the top tier horror alien movie, and our biggest
threats would probably be John Carpenter's the thing, the thing
that can imitate absolutely anybody and transform into monstrossomous monstrasuus.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Oh god, yeah, terrible.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Terrible nightmare fuel that can only be killed potentially with fire. Potentially. Okay, yeah,
that's like worst case scenario because I think they had
done a in movie. They did like a study they
use a program and they said, you know, at this thing,
if the thing escapes from our antiarctic compound and it
spreads to other parts of the earth, like it would
(34:07):
just like kill everything and everybody within a couple of years.
And it's like, you know, moving from one species or
one object or thing to another to another to another,
and it's infiltration skill. Its ability to mimic and infiltrate
anybody or anything is its biggest strength. And yeah, it's
just a horrifying thing. And so if that were to
(34:29):
happen here on Earth, I don't know what you do.
You just shoot yourself into space, I think, and hope
it doesn't reach you.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
You would watch the Hub on Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
That's what you got to watch the Hub on Hollywood
in space. Really quick, quick correction, because again, like I said,
you come to the Hub on Hollywood for facts, it's
Bill Pullman in Independence Day you want to go to.
So yeah, but yeah, no, that's a that's a good list,
you know, covering all the types of potential a that
(35:00):
we would ever have to encounter. I vote for et alien.
That would be nice. That'd be very sweet. Can help
float things away, maybe dishes from the dishwasher into the cabinets,
that'd be cool, I think.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
So yeah, let us know what you think. What do
you think the drones are? My theory wrapping this up.
My theory about the drones, it's it's it's a military project.
It's a military aircraft, military drone that of course, the
White House, the military cannot publicly talk about and so yeah,
it's like one of those things where like the B
(35:34):
two stealth bomber, when when those things were first being
seen and flying over the desert and people were reporting
UFO sidings that the government was like, Oh, we don't
know what it is. We'll look into it. And then
it turns out it's a stealth bomber. Yeah, so theory
is that it's it's government related.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yeah. My husband pulled me down the stairs. I'm gonna
throw them under the bus. While I was on a
call earlier, he's like, what's that in the sky? What's that?
Speaker 4 (36:03):
Look?
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Zoom, man, it's spinning.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
I remember that. I remember that.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
It's it's Venus. You know. It's like it was a
planet that was really bright. No, this happened today before
before we recorded. But before that was that happened again?
Speaker 3 (36:19):
It was the the Elon Musk, the starlights satellites.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
He's really jumpy, he's really jumping.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
You send me that video. I forget if you send
me that video or if I saw it on Instagram.
But you were like, what is that? And like the
straight line of satellites? Yeah, like all white dots. And
to be fair, Jamie, you're not the only one to
have that same reaction. But yeah, if you see a
string of white lights flying across a dark, starry night,
(36:48):
that's just Elon Musk. Yeah, dispatching his satellites around the globe.
I'm sure for good and only good things, right.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
And not spying on you at all.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Absolutely not Well, Jamie, this is a episode. But let's
wrap up with you know, we are still in the hallway.
Here's my second theory, my last theory. It's Santa Claus.
It's Santa Oh, yeah, it's Santo. Yeah, he's just he's out.
He's out scouting locations.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
There's a lot of naughty people this year, so.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Especially in New Jersey. Apparently because he's lingering over New Jersey,
he wants to make sure his list, he know, you know,
he checks it twice. He wants to make sure if
people are naughty or nice. But that brings us back
to our final topic. Let's wrap up with our favorite
worst Christmas movies, the worst of the best, the best
(37:38):
of the worst, and this one my pick. I enjoyed
it so much as a child. There was a big
long gap in between seeing it as a child and
seeing it in recent years. But I think it holds
up for what it is and for what the filmmakers
and the actors were going for. And this is a
(38:02):
a comedy Christmas movie that doesn't take its OFLF too
seriously because it knows what it what it is. And
that movie is none other than Jingle all the Way.
Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Oh my god, that I picked that one too.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
No, you did not, I did.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
I did pick that.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
It's having a resurgence in popularity. I think people are
are are visiting that movie once again and saying, you
know what, that movie wasn't as bad as I remember it.
It's it's good, it's uh, you know, it's not perfect.
It's a it's very what's the word. What's the word?
How do you describe this movie?
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Nostalgic?
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Consumer, nostalogic. Not not only that, but I don't know.
It's slapstick. It's very slapstick and silly, and it works
for those who are unfamiliar, who haven't seen it, or
it's been a while since you've seen it. Jingle all
the Way. It's about a father played by Arnold Schwarzenegger,
who vows to get his son a Turboman action figure
(39:07):
for Christmas, however, every store is sold out and he
must travel all over town and compete with everybody in
order to find one. Intact. The stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad,
Jake Lloyd, Phil Harmon, Rito Wilson, and Jim Belushi. So
many fun facts about this movie. What's your favorite thing
(39:29):
about this movie?
Speaker 2 (39:31):
The end where they were like at the Santa Parade.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
And he has Terrible exactly, Yes, he dresses up as
Terrible Man or whatever and he has to fly around
and yeah, it was a great climax.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
It's a great climax for a movie.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
So you did you know that Sinbad wasn't the first
person that the studio was going for to play the
rival of Arnold. It was actually going to be Joe Peshi.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Oh that would have been fun too.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Because yeah, it would have been fun. But you know,
he had just done Home alone, so you know, he was,
you know, playing more of these like silly Christmas themed movies,
and so they figured, hell, Joe Peshi would be a
great foil, you know, a villain quote against Arnold. But
Arnold was saying, you know what I want Sindbad because
(40:22):
you know Sinbad, you know, he's very funny of course,
but he's also very tall, and so they wanted somebody
that could like like physically kind of compete with Arnold,
even though they didn't really like they didn't fight, but
like not in that kind of sense, but compete with
like they were the same kind of stature. They're both
competing for the same thing, for like a toy for
their for their child and sindbad. He felt that, you know,
(40:46):
having somebody who's known to be family friendly, to be funny,
people could sympathize more with this character instead of somebody
maybe like Joe Peshi, where they were like, oh, this
guy is just an evil, cranky jerk, we really don't
want him to win. That with somebody that you could
also understand, you know where he is coming from, and
have some fun with him, and you know, feel some
(41:06):
sympathy and empathy for this character, and which I think
he totally made possible, made that reality. So that was great.
Jake Lloyd, of course most well known for being Anakin
Skywalker in The Phantom Menace, he was in this movie.
One of my favorite characters and actors in this film
(41:27):
is done is none other than Phil Hardman, who plays
the neighbor who's constantly trying to seduce Rita Wilson put
the googie down, and he's just hilarious, Like my wife,
and I will quote, or at least I will quote
every now and then, like where he like he and
(41:47):
Rita Wilson's characters are in the house, they're just talking
and then they hear people singing outside, and just the
way he goes carolers and just runs to the door,
like this is so funny. Just Phil Harmon's hilarious and
everybody's perfect in this film. So this one, rewatch it.
We already have in Casa de Rojas. We've already watched
(42:08):
this film again, so I'm sure we will probably one
more time before Christmas is over. But Jingle all the
way a movie that deserves recognition after all of these years.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
Absolutely, and I'm with you on that. I'm with you
on that. It's one of the ones that my.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
My family watches every year, while my aunt watches every
single year.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
You don't, you know, you can't, you can't go wrong.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
It's it's a great one for the next generation to
be discovering, especially for that epic ending.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
Yeah good, this storytelling support a they did make a
jingle all the way to starring Larry the Cable Guy.
Not great, but it would It would be funny to
see Arnold come back for like, you know, an official sequel,
because and I think he would do it, just because
he said that during film of this movie he had
the best time of his life, like he thought everybody.
(43:04):
Because they filmed in Minneapolis, they filmed at the Mall
of America, they filmed of course Universal Studios for the
parade area. But he had a blast filming this movie.
So I think this is one that he would be
more than happy to return to or come out of
like semi retirement for.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
So yeah, he could be like the grandpa you know,
yeah this time around. That would be great. That would
be great. What movies do you guys watch every single year?
Do you think deserves to be watched again by the
next generation?
Speaker 2 (43:35):
Or come up?
Speaker 3 (43:36):
What you know, what's a diamond in the rough classic
that doesn't get enough love?
Speaker 1 (43:39):
I think it's bad, but it's not right.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
Let us know in the comments down below so that
we can all partake and we can all share in
your ideas and just have a very merry, jolly holiday
and all of that. Jazz James, because that's what we
bring on the Hub on Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
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(45:02):
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Speaker 3 (45:16):
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It's the Hub on Hollywood and iHeartRadio podcast. I'm your
co host James.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Rojas and I'm Jamie Blanco.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
On this week's episode, we talk about the best worst
Christmas movies there are. There are a lot of bad
ones out there, but these bad ones, they are on
our favor list. Jim Carrey, he's willing to put back
on the Grinch character for a Grinch sequel under one condition.
From Gladiator to Beatle, it's a bird, It's a drone?
(00:37):
Is it Santa Claus? We have no idea, but we're
trying to get down to the bottom of that. All
that and more. But first, Jamie, let's talk about the
movie that everybody is talking about right now. No it's
not Wicked. No, it's not Gladiator too. No it's not
what's that of the movie that just came out Mowana two. Yeah,
(00:57):
it is Craven The Hunter, the latest Spider Less Universe
movie of this entire disaster attempts. First of all, were
you planning hoping to see even The Hunter?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
No, not at all. This is a textbook movie that
did not need to be made. All of the trailers
looked awful. It just looked so ridiculous, enforced, tremendously forced.
I had zero hopes, zero expectations for this movie, and tell.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Me how right I was.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
You are one hundred percent right. Because even though Craven
the Hunter is one of the best villains in all
of comic book history and one of, if not the
most dangerous villain for Spider Man, not even he can
defeat movie critics because they are tearing this Hunter to shreds.
So right now, Craven the Hunter only earned around two
(02:00):
million dollars for its Thursday preview and it's only expected
to make fifteen million or less during its opening weekend.
Not great for Sony, especially because this movie costs around
one hundred and ten million dollars to make. If you
add marketing on top of that, that's around two hundred
(02:21):
million dollars for this film. Yeah, I think this is
the final movie in the again the Spiderless universe, and
it's about time.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
So is it?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
So you said, yeah, Sony, I don't know. I don't
Where do you think they went wrong, James? Because I
have I know where they went wrong. Where do you
think they went wrong with this?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
They rent wrong without Spider Man, they went they went
to make a Spider Man villain universe without the hero,
without the main protagonist, so that there was already a big,
big mistake. They also made a mistake of not letting
Marvel play with these characters and bring them into the
(03:06):
actual MCU where Sony could have you know, they could
have swallowed their ego, swallowed their pride and let Marvel
MCU build out this universe and they would still get
their cut, and you'll still get a big percentage of
that money. But instead they're like, you know what, We're
gonna make our own universe without Spider Man. For some reason,
it failed as predicted.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Oh my gosh, But you know why I think it failed, James,
besides not having Spider Man, which.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Is a nail, one of many manles in this coffin.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Gosh, have you seen the previews, Like this character is
completely inhuman, Like he's so strange, and it's a classic case.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Of showing of telling and not showing. It's like he
is the ultimate hunter, weird pose.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
You know, look at me, I'm so strong, and I'm
so I'm such a hunter, and he hunts people and
I'm hunting people. Like it's just so forced, almost campy,
but not in a fun way, like in a we
were trying to be serious, but we didn't know how to.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Pull off serious way.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
And you've got this guy in this ridiculous outfit who has.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
No real human emotions or.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Doesn't you can't connect to as a human being because
he's just a character, a two dimensional character, and he's
got the pretty face, and he's got like no dirt
on him, like he's out here fighting animals and in
the woods and killing people. And he looks like he
just walked out a wardrobe, like he's like clean face,
(04:43):
clean hair, you know, clean clothes. Everything looks like a
costume and everything is just like, yeah, it's all telling,
not showing.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
It's just silly. It just looked silly from the beginning.
It was a silly But how do movies like this
get made?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Like there's so much money that they pump into these things,
like they should be making our ideas, James, we come
up with great ideas here on the help of Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
We do. Yeah. And the thing is is like the
original plan for Spider Man three, like the MCU Spider
Man with Tom Holland. Rumor has it was that they
were going to the Marvel mcuh They wanted to have
Craven the Hunter be the main antagonists for the third film,
which would have been amazing because again, the Craven and
(05:33):
Spider Man one of the best comic book stories out there,
Like he is, you know, spoiler alert for people who
don't know the comics or whatnot. But Craven kills Spider
Man and then and that leads to a whole bunch
of other stuff. And so imagine that kind of storyline
where you have this, this super popular version of Spider
Man going up against Craven the Hunter with the character building,
(05:57):
character arc and character development that the mcuten brings to
these comic book characters and bring them to life. Imagine
that kind of movie. Instead, they couldn't get Craven Sony
would not let them have him, and so they went
with the whole multiverse madness kind of roots, which you know,
people they enjoyed. But we got Tom, you know, we
(06:18):
got Andrew Garfield, We've got Tobey Maguire out of it,
which is great. But imagine if Tom Holland would have
been able to get his own awesome epic movie, epic
trilogy that he deserved, and that would have been amazing.
So Aaron Taylor Johnson, he plays Craven the Hunter, and
you know, from what I hear, he does the best
that you can do with the writing that was given
(06:39):
to him, the script that was given to him. But
everything else, it's a lot of action with no emotion,
no stakes, nothing really behind it. It's just of venear
of entertainment. So not surprised they are expecting to make
less than Madame Webb did in Madame Webb's opening opening
(07:00):
box office weekend. So not good overall. But if you
watched Craven the Hunter in theaters, let us know, leave
a review in our comments. We are at hub on
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us on YouTube, comment down below and let us know
(07:22):
what you think about that or why you're not going
to watch the movie. I really want to hear your
thoughts on this.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Tell us why you hate it now, this movie, this
movie I didn't hate, but you know, like we said
in our review last week Gladiator two, we were both
kind of lukewarm on it, like we both had higher
expectations hoping for more.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
There was potential there, but you know, you know, it
is what it was. It is what it is. Paul
Mescal doing his best. I think he may have been miscasts,
but you know, he did a lot of great action stuff.
But he's moving from Gladiator to Beatle. Did you hear
about this, Jamie, No, tell me so. Paul Mescal he
(08:07):
has been announced that he will be playing Paul McCartney
in a Beatles bio. Yeah, which, okay, I think, you know,
I think it works. I think the resemblances is pretty
pretty close. Plus, Paul is a singer of sourts. You know,
he got to start on on the stage, so he
knows how to sing, and he can you know, carry
(08:29):
that stage performance. I think translate that to the film.
I think it's I think this is a good pick.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
The two Paul's okay, well, I think he's definitely more
handsome than the original Paul McCartney.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Jarney no shade against Paul McCartney.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Against Paul. He's gonna come for me now. But no,
you've got the two pauls.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I would be interested to see how miscal looks in
like the mushroom cut, right, and if the girls are
still swooning and throwing, you know, throwing themselves before his feet.
You know, if he's got the mushroom cut going on,
is he going to be doing his own singing? I
know you said that he is a singer, but I
(09:15):
wonder how much singing he's actually going to be doing.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I think if Austin Butler can pull the Elvis songs
and sing them himself, I don't think, you know, cool, Yeah,
then I think then I think Paul will have no
problem singing or playing Paul. Here's the kicker, though, So
the director is going to be Sam Mendez. He's done
a lot of amazing work already, so he's a great director.
(09:41):
But he's not only directing one Beatle biopick, not two, not,
but he's directing four biopicks. That's because they're having each
movie focus on each individual Beatle. Oh my god, there's
gonna be a culmination. There's gonna be a Beatles Avengers moments,
(10:04):
members of the Fab four they're gonna unite, and then
that's gonna be I'm assuming it's gonna be a maybe
a fifth movie where they all assembled and do their thing.
But what are your thoughts on for individual Beatles movies?
Focusing on each individual singer.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
It sounds like a lot of work for Mendos there.
I presume that's going to be over the course of
several years. Right, If these are if these are feature
length films or is this like a mini series or
is this these are actual feature length films?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Full feature length films?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Now, well that means Mendes has secured work in showbiz
for like the next decade.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
So good for him.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Now, the question is will he wear a wig or
will he keep his hair in that gold cut kind
of look. But here's my thing. I think they've already
cast the perfect Beatles already. They just need to bring
those actors back. And you may remember the movie Walk
Hard starring John c Riley.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I don't know that one.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Oh No, watch Walk Hard. It is a hilarious, hilarious comedy,
hilarious movie, kind of a spoof off of Walk the Line,
the Johnny cash By opening Walking Phoenix and Pace Witherspoon.
But this is so much better because if you watch
Walk Hard before watching Walk the Line, you feel like
(11:31):
Walk the Line is a parody of Walk Hard. That's
how amazing this one is. But in that movie, they
cast the Fab four and they had none other than
Paul Rudd playing John Lennon, John Black playing Paul McCartney,
Mister Long playing George Harrison, and Jason Schwartzman as Ringo Starr.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
How no, this exists.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I recommend watching the movie, but you know, you can
also just YouTube the Beatles in Walk Hard and just
watch that section because the resemblance is uncanny for those
who have watched it. I think you don't have to
agree with me with that. Yeah, so there's that.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah, I have one quick question.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
One quick question, James, you you are a lovely singer
as well.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
No, if you could embody you lie, No, it's true.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
If you could embody anyone right and star in a
feature length movie about this singer singer. If you could
embody a singer, who would it be?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
It has to be a real singer. I mean it
could be whatever, not like a singing character. No, no, okay.
If I can embody one singer that I could try
to do justice. Yeah if I was Oh no, I
would have to be lip singing it, but I would do.
(12:56):
If you sent that Fernandez, if I could look, I'd
do that. Where the giants sombrero? Where way get up.
I think it'd be Yeah, that'd be amazing, awesome.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Okay, so we'll be pitching that next Well, we'll get
that screen screenplay going.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Who would you play?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Who would I play?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I mean so many of them have already been done
and done so well, gosh, can I.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Be like Selena's Selena is perfect? But what's that?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah, lady Goa.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yeah, okay, lady Gaga because I could wear like all
the fun get ups and the hair and the makeup thing.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, that would be cool. Let's do Gaga.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Well, speaking of get ups, hair and makeup, that's a
perfect transition to our next topic. Jim Carrey. So, Jim Carrey,
he's doing the press run for Sonic three, which I'm
a fan of this and this third one looks really
really good. But he's doing his you know, his press tour,
so he's answering questions and he got asked if he
would be willing to do a sequel for The Grinch.
(14:04):
I love love that movie, love that version, and he
said he would be willing to do it, but under
one condition, Jamie, Okay, what is that? He does not
want to go under hair and makeup? And all that stuff,
because he has been vocal over the over the years
of how torturous it was to not only every day
(14:28):
sit in a chair for hours and hours putting up
all that makeup, putting on the suit. It was hot,
it was itchy, the makeup, the layer and like makeup,
layer of layer of layer of makeup. They put in contacts,
like green contacts in his eyes that were extremely uncomfortable.
And he does this all day. Not only does he
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have to, you know, endure hours of putting it on,
but then dure hours of acting and trying to put
on an actual professional performance. And he actually talked about
he inquired like a torture expert to learn how these
you know, prisoners of war, how they went through torture
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and managed to not lose their sanity. Like that's like real,
like that's how bad it was of an experience it
was for him. So he says he's willing to do
it if he was able to do it with a
via mo cap or with c CI, because you know
now they can do miracles with that kind of stuff,
and so he would do it under that condition because
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he would not want to endure all that again.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Fortune Carrie yeah. I mean yeah, it can't be truly
truly torturous. People think, you know, making movies is all
glamour and fun and no, man, they.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Work hard hard.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Everyone works works so so hard. But speaking of you,
you've mentioned that The Grinch was one of your favorite
Christmas movies.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Right right, I wouldn't. I want to know, James.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Inquiring minds want to know what is your least favorite
Christmas movie? What is a movie out there that it's
a like are you the Grinch of?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Like?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
What movie are you the Grinch of? That you despise that.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
You would steal Christmas presents from that should have never
been made? Maybe doesn't embody the spirit.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Of the season. We need to know what do we
need to avoid?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I respect the technical technique or skills and everything that
was used to put this movie together or these series
the movies together, but I am not a fan of
the claymation movies like Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, the
Snowman one, the Abominable Snowman. I guess that's still the
(16:55):
Rudoff one. But like those like I just start getting
sleepy and they're just they are of a different era
and as a kid growing up, Like, yeah, you watched it,
but then like year after years back on TV, I'm like,
I can't watch this again because one, all the characters
are really mean. Like I know that's the whole the
gist of Rudolph's story, but like nobody's just like as
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an adult watching those movies. And coincidentally, Rudolph was on
TV last night, so I watched a little bit of it,
so that refreshed my memory of like how much I'm
not enjoying this. I respect the technical again nature of
the skill using the claymation and all that other stuff
and whatever, but like I can't. I can't. You cannot
pay me enough to put to make me watch those
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series of movies with the owlves and the reindeer and
all that stuff. It's it's a little classics. That is
a hot take, Yeah, that is a hot take yourself. Well,
which is the least favorite for this movie.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I've got to tread carefully here because there are so
many great movies that people love that they watch every
year for you know, is their entire lives, and there's
a lot of great stuff to pick from, but there
are also some notable stinkers here. I think one that
people reference quite often is the Star Wars Holiday Special.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Where Chebka.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
No. So it's it's one of those things where it's
so bad it's good. It's it's Chewbacca and Hans Solo.
They are trying to get to the Wookie home world
of Kashik to celebrate life Day, and they are impeded
by several you know things, and there's various forms of entertainment.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
There's just it becomes.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Like a variety show, and it's quite quite cringey, quite cringey.
If you haven't seen it, you can see it online,
probably on YouTube and things like that.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
But one movie that.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I would probably never watch again, even though most people
might enjoy this movie and might not care as much perhaps,
but I don't think it aged very well is Look
Who's Talking Now?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
And that's a Christmas movie.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
It is set during the Christmas time, and so it's
right if you remember the original Look Who's Talking? It
was the baby John Travolta. By the time we've gotten
to this sequel, which aired in nineteen ninety three, now
the dogs are talking, the babies are talking, the mom
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loses the job.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
You know. I just think that the mom and Dad
are a terrible couple.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Yeah, they should not.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Be married, isn't.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Bruce Willis the voice of the baby, is he?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
It is possible, but I always thought that like John
Travolta and Christy Ally were like a terrible couple that
shouldn't have really been together. And then you just bring
the babies and the dogs into it and it just
doesn't and then Christmas and all of that.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
So no, I just think that that's maybe one that
people should pass.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
And people do pass because they probably forgot that it
existed entirely. But in general, movies that are more focused
focused on like the commercialization of Christmas tend to rub me.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
The wrong way. So yeah, you might want to avoid those.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yeah, let's see. I guess Bruce Willis isn't. Oh he is.
He has a voice of Mikey in the first one,
but maybe not in the second one. Danny de Vito's
in the second one playing a voice. I don't know
which character he plays, but that's weird. You know, what
still holds up is Three Men and a Baby. That
one very well, Ted Danson, Tom Selleck and Gutenberg what's
(20:57):
the name something Gutenberg? But that holds up very well,
especially just recently having a child in the past year
and a half, a lot a lot of you know,
parental jokes that you can enjoy. In that film, there's.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
A ghost in that movie.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Did you know that there is not a ghost. It's
it's not a ghost, it's a it's a picture of
Ted Danson. Is a cardboard cutout of Ted Danson's one
of his movie characters or stage characters. It's like cut
in half, so it's like folded. It's it's been debunked.
It's a it's a very nice, funny rumor or like myth.
But core to the hub on Hollywood for facts, and
(21:37):
we have each other accountable. I know it's not fun.
Well let's talk about well, let's talk about we will
talk about this, uh this weird kind of drone situation
in in New Jersey. But before I forget, because I
forgot this topic. Did you hear about Malcolm in the Middle.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
James, I did, Thanks to you and you. We're f excited.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
It's amazing. I love, love loved Malcolm in the Middle.
Fantastic show. Again, that's another show. If you go back
watch episodes or clips of it, it holds up so well.
And you know, again seeing it as experiencing it as
a child, you understand like many things through Malcolm and
his brother's eyes. As an adult you see a lot
(22:24):
of things through the parent's eyes. And it's one of
those things where like it transcends different generations and ages,
where everybody can find something funny, relatable and enjoyable, enjoyable
about that show. And so they just announced Frankie Munis,
Brian Cranston, and Jane Kats Merrick. I think that's in's
your last name. Yes, they announced they are coming back
(22:46):
for a continuation, a new season of Malcolm in the Middle,
to see where everybody is after all these years. It's
coming to Disney Plus and it's only going to be
on for I understand four episodes, So only four episodes,
kind of like again updating as to where everybody is
in their life. And I cannot be more excited about this.
(23:07):
So yay Malcolm in the Middle. I love this.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
That's awesome because Freddy Munaz, he was out of acting
for a long time.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
He's a race car driver now.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Right, race car driver, musician. He's in the band is
or was in the band, so he does a lot
of stuff and he made so much money from Malcolm
in the Middle, from agent Cody Banks, from Big Fat
Liar and all these other stuff that he was in
that he made so much money that he was like,
you know what, like, I don't need to do this anymore.
I want to pursue my own my other interests and
hobbies and and you know, live my own life. And yeah,
(23:38):
so great to see him because a lot of child
actors they either you know, maybe involuntarily fade from the spotlight.
He chose, you know what, I did my thing, I
want to do my I want to do something else,
and he had the opportunity and ability to do that
while still intact. So really cool. One thing that's also
really cool is that Frankie Munas has said that Brian Cranston,
(24:01):
again his who played Hall, his dad on the show,
like periodically checks in on him, Like through all the
years since the show ended, Brian Cranston just calls him
up like every several weeks and like and like, and
I love that relationship that they have, like they're really
the father son thing continued well beyond the show.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Dad and talk about range, right, because I think most
of us like knew Brian Cranston from this show Malcolm
in the Middle, and then we've seen his work sense
and things like Breaking Bad. When Breaking I remember Breaking
Bad when it first started, I'm like, oh, it's the
dad from Malcolm in the Middle, Like this is gonna
be dumb, you know, like this is and then it
(24:46):
became what it was. So I'm excited to see Brian
Cranston in anything now.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
So who go freaky Meanaz? That's wild? That's wild. You
know what else is wild?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
What's wild? Jamie?
Speaker 2 (25:01):
The apparent alien invasion we're in the middle of. Yeah,
is that what's going on with the drones?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Yeah? So apparently there are numerous reports of unmanned aircraft,
these sightings reported all across New Jersey over the past
several weeks. So many reports and so much concern has
grown from this that even the White House is investigating this.
Many talking about how these large drone looking aircraft were
(25:31):
seen flying near sensitive areas like reservoirs in New Jersey
and also military installations. Right now, the White House they
say they're looking into it. They don't believe, they don't
suspect or have any reason to believe that these are
coming from any other country, like an adversary of sorts.
But they are looking into this. But Jamie, when you
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hear about this story, what goes through your head.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
What goes through my head is that what bothers me
about this story is that they're not identified objects, right,
and even the government's like, we're not sure what they are, and.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
They're popping up everywhere.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
And now that hysteria is kind of spreading, there have
been some reports of those kinds of objects being spotted
over Massachusetts as well, right in our area. So that,
of course leads me to only one explanation. Aliens aliens. Right, So, James,
(26:29):
I have here to provide a public service. I feel
like us here on the hob on Hollywood are very
well situated to get people ready for the alien invasion that.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Is apparently inevitable.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Okay, since we are just going to conclude that's what
I am going to conclude that it is. James is
a reputable reporter, right, he has more dignity than I do.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
So I have my theory. I'll explain my theory at
the end.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
But yeah, go ahead, okay, but I have recommendations for you.
There are two scenarios, right, Either they're friendly aliens or
they're not friendly aliens. And I have the quintessential list
of tips for survival for each of these situations, brought
to you by movies, and we're gonna start with friendly
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alien invasion movies.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Okay, James, right. I think that the number.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
One friendly alien invasion movie that is probably the most
realistic would be Steven Spielberg's nineteen seventy seven masterpiece, Close
Encounters of the Third Kind. You've got Richard Dreyfus who
was abducted, and he's getting these subliminal images and telepathic
(27:47):
messages and having these metaphysical experiences, and then you know,
eventually the aliens come down.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
It's all these little, you.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Know, little alien people, and they're bringing back all of
these abductees. They're communicating with sound and vibration and telepathy
right in the little spacemen and or children. I think
that that is the first movie you gotta watch, because
I think that's how it's all gonna go down. And
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if they're friendly, it's all about the vibrations, having good
that breachance, and you know, just communicating our well being
towards them. They'll communicate their well being towards us. And
I think It'll be fine, don't worry about it. Arrival
is another great one, with Amy Adams playing a linguist
(28:39):
who helps to communicate with an alien spacecraft that has
landed again via sound. So that seems to be like
the thing if you're like a musician or into audio
or whatever, like, you got to find the right frequency
to communicate, Like, that's gonna be your go to. Okay,
we're gonna be communicating via frequency and telepathy.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
This is this is how we're going to do it. Okay.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Then we've got et extraterrestrial which teaches us to have
skittles ready, have candy available.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Weren't they pieces there?
Speaker 5 (29:16):
We go.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Food is a love language.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Yes, it is a galactic love language, especially all right.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
And time exactly. I think they're here for the.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Chocolate, So chocolate at hand ready, uh, for that encounter,
so that you can lure them into your closet and
have a little pet animal friend something.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
If they're funny aliens, right, We're gonna need material for that.
I recommend checking out Mork and Mindy, going back, checking
out that old, that old TV show where Robin Williams
plays the A right, how wonderful would that be if
it was just a race of Robin Williams' is that
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was here to put a smile on our faces.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
So I think we should just be ready for that.
Watch more. Can mindy have some Robin william content available?
Make jokes? And my last recommendation is to just you
know what if they're hot? Oh goodness, Earth girls are easy.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Jeff Goldbloom, starting that one, Jim Carrey, Right, Jim Carrey,
Jeff Goldbloom.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
One of the I forget. The last one.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Teaches us that aliens can be chill and cool and
also hot, So we should just be ready to party
if that is the the kind of alien that we get.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
But I thought you were gonna say the movie spies.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Yeah, I'm getting to those. I'm getting.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Yeah, because some times they're not nice, which brings us
to our not friendly alien list.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Okay, but also but also hot but also hot?
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Right, and you could probably speak to this, James right. Okay,
So Species, what what do you think we would learn
from a movie like that?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
To not trust a trust attractive women?
Speaker 3 (31:23):
I guess right, if they look like the chick from Species, No,
but if they look.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Like Jeff Goldbloom yes, Okay, that's the metric. That's the Metricay.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Communication is key, right, but sometimes there's no chance of communication.
Movies like Aliens Alien right, and all of the subsequent ones.
Uh and Signs, it's no chance of communications.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Find their weakness, just yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
And and grab things to stab them with. Fight for
your life, be smart. Signs teaches us to just try
anything in order to find their weakness. You know, throw water,
that's the first thing.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
I guess we gotta.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Try nearby, either for aliens or just for self hydration.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Right right, right.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Mars Attacks teaches us to watch out for handshakes because
their hands might be able to detach and stab us.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
If they're going then you know.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Watch out ves during an alien invasion.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
And ultimately, finally at the end of my list, James,
and then I'll let you chime in on some of
these because you know way more about the horror movies
than I do. Independence Day, Yes, we will not go
quiet into the night. You just need to have that
playing in the background. And again you need to have Jeff.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Goldbloom Yeah, and Will Smith.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
And Will Smith to punchaton punch aliens in the face.
You know, a great a punching still apparently, so you're
gonna want to have slamming. I know that that too
too too. So basically, Jeff Goldbloom is the number one
thing that you need in the event of an alien invasion,
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you know, whether they're friendly or not friendly.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Yeah, that's what you got.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
So, James, you know more about the horror alien movies.
Is there any takeaways there that you would like to share?
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Well, the top tier horror alien movie, and our biggest
threats would probably be John Carpenter's the thing, the thing
that can imitate absolutely anybody and transform into monstrossomous monstrasuus.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Oh god, yeah, terrible.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Terrible nightmare fuel that can only be killed potentially with fire. Potentially. Okay, yeah,
that's like worst case scenario because I think they had
done a in movie. They did like a study they
use a program and they said, you know, at this thing,
if the thing escapes from our antiarctic compound and it
spreads to other parts of the earth, like it would
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just like kill everything and everybody within a couple of years.
And it's like, you know, moving from one species or
one object or thing to another to another to another,
and it's infiltration skill. Its ability to mimic and infiltrate
anybody or anything is its biggest strength. And yeah, it's
just a horrifying thing. And so if that were to
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happen here on Earth, I don't know what you do.
You just shoot yourself into space, I think, and hope
it doesn't reach you.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
You would watch the Hub on Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
That's what you got to watch the Hub on Hollywood
in space. Really quick, quick correction, because again, like I said,
you come to the Hub on Hollywood for facts, it's
Bill Pullman in Independence Day you want to go to.
So yeah, but yeah, no, that's a that's a good list,
you know, covering all the types of potential a that
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we would ever have to encounter. I vote for et alien.
That would be nice. That'd be very sweet. Can help
float things away, maybe dishes from the dishwasher into the cabinets,
that'd be cool, I think.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
So yeah, let us know what you think. What do
you think the drones are? My theory wrapping this up.
My theory about the drones, it's it's it's a military project.
It's a military aircraft, military drone that of course, the
White House, the military cannot publicly talk about and so yeah,
it's like one of those things where like the B
(35:34):
two stealth bomber, when when those things were first being
seen and flying over the desert and people were reporting
UFO sidings that the government was like, Oh, we don't
know what it is. We'll look into it. And then
it turns out it's a stealth bomber. Yeah, so theory
is that it's it's government related.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yeah. My husband pulled me down the stairs. I'm gonna
throw them under the bus. While I was on a
call earlier, he's like, what's that in the sky? What's that?
Speaker 4 (36:03):
Look?
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Zoom, man, it's spinning.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
I remember that. I remember that.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
It's it's Venus. You know. It's like it was a
planet that was really bright. No, this happened today before
before we recorded. But before that was that happened again?
Speaker 3 (36:19):
It was the the Elon Musk, the starlights satellites.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
He's really jumpy, he's really jumping.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
You send me that video. I forget if you send
me that video or if I saw it on Instagram.
But you were like, what is that? And like the
straight line of satellites? Yeah, like all white dots. And
to be fair, Jamie, you're not the only one to
have that same reaction. But yeah, if you see a
string of white lights flying across a dark, starry night,
(36:48):
that's just Elon Musk. Yeah, dispatching his satellites around the globe.
I'm sure for good and only good things, right.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
And not spying on you at all.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Absolutely not Well, Jamie, this is a episode. But let's
wrap up with you know, we are still in the hallway.
Here's my second theory, my last theory. It's Santa Claus.
It's Santa Oh, yeah, it's Santo. Yeah, he's just he's out.
He's out scouting locations.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
There's a lot of naughty people this year, so.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Especially in New Jersey. Apparently because he's lingering over New Jersey,
he wants to make sure his list, he know, you know,
he checks it twice. He wants to make sure if
people are naughty or nice. But that brings us back
to our final topic. Let's wrap up with our favorite
worst Christmas movies, the worst of the best, the best
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of the worst, and this one my pick. I enjoyed
it so much as a child. There was a big
long gap in between seeing it as a child and
seeing it in recent years. But I think it holds
up for what it is and for what the filmmakers
and the actors were going for. And this is a
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a comedy Christmas movie that doesn't take its OFLF too
seriously because it knows what it what it is. And
that movie is none other than Jingle all the Way.
Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Oh my god, that I picked that one too.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
No, you did not, I did.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
I did pick that.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
It's having a resurgence in popularity. I think people are
are are visiting that movie once again and saying, you
know what, that movie wasn't as bad as I remember it.
It's it's good, it's uh, you know, it's not perfect.
It's a it's very what's the word. What's the word?
How do you describe this movie?
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Nostalgic?
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Consumer, nostalogic. Not not only that, but I don't know.
It's slapstick. It's very slapstick and silly, and it works
for those who are unfamiliar, who haven't seen it, or
it's been a while since you've seen it. Jingle all
the Way. It's about a father played by Arnold Schwarzenegger,
who vows to get his son a Turboman action figure
(39:07):
for Christmas, however, every store is sold out and he
must travel all over town and compete with everybody in
order to find one. Intact. The stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad,
Jake Lloyd, Phil Harmon, Rito Wilson, and Jim Belushi. So
many fun facts about this movie. What's your favorite thing
(39:29):
about this movie?
Speaker 2 (39:31):
The end where they were like at the Santa Parade.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
And he has Terrible exactly, Yes, he dresses up as
Terrible Man or whatever and he has to fly around
and yeah, it was a great climax.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
It's a great climax for a movie.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
So you did you know that Sinbad wasn't the first
person that the studio was going for to play the
rival of Arnold. It was actually going to be Joe Peshi.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Oh that would have been fun too.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Because yeah, it would have been fun. But you know,
he had just done Home alone, so you know, he was,
you know, playing more of these like silly Christmas themed movies,
and so they figured, hell, Joe Peshi would be a
great foil, you know, a villain quote against Arnold. But
Arnold was saying, you know what I want Sindbad because
(40:22):
you know Sinbad, you know, he's very funny of course,
but he's also very tall, and so they wanted somebody
that could like like physically kind of compete with Arnold,
even though they didn't really like they didn't fight, but
like not in that kind of sense, but compete with
like they were the same kind of stature. They're both
competing for the same thing, for like a toy for
their for their child and sindbad. He felt that, you know,
(40:46):
having somebody who's known to be family friendly, to be funny,
people could sympathize more with this character instead of somebody
maybe like Joe Peshi, where they were like, oh, this
guy is just an evil, cranky jerk, we really don't
want him to win. That with somebody that you could
also understand, you know where he is coming from, and
have some fun with him, and you know, feel some
(41:06):
sympathy and empathy for this character, and which I think
he totally made possible, made that reality. So that was great.
Jake Lloyd, of course most well known for being Anakin
Skywalker in The Phantom Menace, he was in this movie.
One of my favorite characters and actors in this film
(41:27):
is done is none other than Phil Hardman, who plays
the neighbor who's constantly trying to seduce Rita Wilson put
the googie down, and he's just hilarious, Like my wife,
and I will quote, or at least I will quote
every now and then, like where he like he and
(41:47):
Rita Wilson's characters are in the house, they're just talking
and then they hear people singing outside, and just the
way he goes carolers and just runs to the door,
like this is so funny. Just Phil Harmon's hilarious and
everybody's perfect in this film. So this one, rewatch it.
We already have in Casa de Rojas. We've already watched
(42:08):
this film again, so I'm sure we will probably one
more time before Christmas is over. But Jingle all the
way a movie that deserves recognition after all of these years.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
Absolutely, and I'm with you on that. I'm with you
on that. It's one of the ones that my.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
My family watches every year, while my aunt watches every
single year.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
You don't, you know, you can't, you can't go wrong.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
It's it's a great one for the next generation to
be discovering, especially for that epic ending.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
Yeah good, this storytelling support a they did make a
jingle all the way to starring Larry the Cable Guy.
Not great, but it would It would be funny to
see Arnold come back for like, you know, an official sequel,
because and I think he would do it, just because
he said that during film of this movie he had
the best time of his life, like he thought everybody.
(43:04):
Because they filmed in Minneapolis, they filmed at the Mall
of America, they filmed of course Universal Studios for the
parade area. But he had a blast filming this movie.
So I think this is one that he would be
more than happy to return to or come out of
like semi retirement for.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
So yeah, he could be like the grandpa you know,
yeah this time around. That would be great. That would
be great. What movies do you guys watch every single year?
Do you think deserves to be watched again by the
next generation?
Speaker 2 (43:35):
Or come up?
Speaker 3 (43:36):
What you know, what's a diamond in the rough classic
that doesn't get enough love?
Speaker 1 (43:39):
I think it's bad, but it's not right.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
Let us know in the comments down below so that
we can all partake and we can all share in
your ideas and just have a very merry, jolly holiday
and all of that. Jazz James, because that's what we
bring on the Hub on Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
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(45:02):
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for everybody else, I wish you guys have a happy
holidays and stay safe out there. Let us know what
movies you're planning to watch and how you celebrate, and
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As well, exactly subscribe, like, have a great holiday, and
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