07- 07 -23 Line Change: Best Films of 2023

We're halfway through the year and there have been some amazing films.

-Asteroid City
-Oscars Nominees
-Most Disappointing Films
- Most Anticapted Films

Episode Transcript

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We are halfway through the year,and happen peans we are halfway through the
movie calendar. There's almost half thisto go, and we are a couple
of weeks from Barbenheimer. Is that? Hold on? My name is John
Jansen? You follow me at jJanson thirty four, Kevin Fox at Kevin
Fox Junior. There's a million differentsocial media accounts, and we'll get to

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those at the end. But isthis Kevin the official summer of barbon Heimer?
Is that what we're calling this?I think it is. I think
yes. We're just a couple weeksaway from we start off with a hot
take. Can we do a hottake thing? Which one of you more
interested in? Oh? Yeah,I don't know if this is that hot
to take. I'm worsted in Oppenheimer, but I want to say both.

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I think I do. Yeah.The idea of the double feature is Tom
Cruisele's pitching or is that one personsaid on Twitter? You know, yes,
get your coffee, go see Oppenheimer. You know they have lunch and
see Barbie. Yeah. Oh,you mean somebody going you see two movies
in one day or maybe three moviesin one day. I don't know.
I've never done that. Yeah,that's not what you do everything. Yeah,

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I've never done that before. Again. Bonus edition of the Line Change
Best of twenty twenty three so farpod again. My name John Jansen at
j Jansen thirty four. Kevin Foxat Kevin Fox Junior. Are you on
what social media? Are you?Want? To? You on thread or
you on Blue Sky? Where youNo? I feel like that's a bigger
question than what are your favorite movies. I'm yeah, I have not got

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a Blue Sky invite, and I'mjust staying away from Threads. And I
think it's like, right now,I'm taking another Twitter break because every time
I go on there, it justbums me out so much. It's like
I follow all these really interesting people, but the way the algorithm works,
it's like I'll have a week ortwo of fun and then I'll have poisoned
it against Yeah. By the way, Threads is just one giant algorithm.

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It is absolutely terrible. All right, So let's get into movies in twenty
twenty three. Also, it offwith this before we get into some of
the oscars Nomi, because there aresome I just started to realize how many
great directors are coming out with filmsthis year, and it's gonna be really
difficult for even somebody like you knowSelene's song, who I am a big

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fan of at this moment, toget some of those nominees and wins.
But let's just start up with thisfavorite movies in twenty twenty three. If
you have five of them, ifyou have three of them, no matter
what, we'll both go over ours. I'll let you go first, you're
five or however, many favorite filmsof this year so far? Okay,
so my top five of this yearso far? And like the dramatics you

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made that really dramatic. I likethat. That was good. So Astro
City's number one? No, notafter reading what I read in your substack,
no way really Yeah, by theway, great movie, and I
know all the stuff you wrote onthat was fantastic, But yeah, I
really loved it. Okay, sois I don't want to call it a

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tie so local coin all right?Two, we're gonna say it across the
Spider Verse. Nice, okay,nice, Okay, that's gonna be an
Oscars thing. We get to it. Oh yeah, directed that had three
directors, which, surprising me,Jokin does Santos empowers justin Kay Thompson.
Let's see then Mission Impossible Dead ReckoningPart one h directed by Chryst McCory.

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You mean you saw a movie alittle bit earlier than everybody else. Could
you might talk about that as well? Yeah, big big fan um nice.
Then Adele Limb's joy Ride and thenYou're Ride another one that came out
recently. Yeah, I like,was surprised how much I liked. And
then Nicole hall of sent Hallosiners Haloser, you hurt my feelings? Oh nice?

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Nice. I heard Selean song talkingabout that a lot. Um,
So I'll go through my five realquick and they will will talk about all
of these. So number one forme. I don't know if have you
seen Past Lives yet? No?I heard mostly good. That makes things
mostly good? Okay, so I'mgonna tell you that it is. I

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am very good on that one.I've seen it twice. I have absolutely
bawled my eyes out twice. Ithink Past Lives is an amazing movie.
So Past Lives, I'll go AsteroidCity as well. Amazing, amazing,
amazing Wes Anderson film. I thinkwe're both in the same boat where I
wish I would have seen more WesAnderson before I saw Asteroid City. But

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still I was able to get enoughof it to know that that is an
amazing film. There's one that Iknow you will you will not be as
fond of bo Is Afraid. It'sa lot. It is very what you
say, incredulous like it is.It's a lot of like it's itself.
He is trying to do too muchand he knows it's like he's trying to

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self indulge himself into a lot ofthings about I'm glad I see. That's
why I respected a lot. Yeah, oh for sure, it is.
It's funny because I love My favoriteviral meme so far in movies is the
guy who stood up in the movietheater and stood back and said, whoever
liked this movie, don't like bleepoff, like you should not like this

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movie. And I get it likeI saw it and I was. I
was stunned the entire time. Icouldn't settle into it. And he was
like, you know what, Ilike that. I like that I couldn't
settle into it. So that's threefour showing up by Kelly Rickhard. I
know she's done a few other thingsthat have probably been better than showing up
showing up to me though very quiet, very subtle, and man, she

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just knows how to tell a storywithout saying much and then at the end
of it having this amazing scene.So Kelly Rickhart's one of my favorite directors
right now and maybe the biggest surpriseof the year. I'm gonna skip a
lot of these. I love InfinityPool, how to blow up a pop
blind of an age Megan all that, but are you there? God,
it's me Margaret surprised the absolute heckout of me. I thought that was

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going to be your standard where theCrawdads sing, type of like novel interpretation,
and then all of a sudden,Abbey, Ray Fortensen and Rachel McAdams
put in just powerhouse performances and itbecame much more than that. So those
that those five are the best forme. So I want to start off

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with one obviously that I think isgoing to be talked about a lot,
because as I mentioned, a lotof directors. Martin Squorse, he's about
to come out with stuff. EvenMiyazaki. I just remembered it might come
out with something It's Japan in aweek and then it might come into the
US this year. But Wes Anderson. What'd you like so much about Asteroid
City? I mean, I justthought it was so beautiful. It was

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so my initial thoughts as I'll tryto keep it spoiler light. But so
the film starts, it's and youknow, there's the transition, you know,
starts with the black and white,and I'm like, okay, this
is nifty, like without giving awaywho's on screen or what they're talking about,
and just like, Okay, thisis interesting and it's gonna have these

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dual layers that I didn't expect,and that carried through the whole way,
playing with the fourth wall in alot of interesting ways. And then you
know, the next couple of seconds, you get like full color and it's
so vibrant and beautiful and it feelsreal, you know, even though obviously
there's a combination of like models andsets and visual effects, computer generate stuff.

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It all just it came together reallywell. But also just like using
the whole screen, you know,like a lot of films, I don't
I don't know if it's a lotof films, but well, no,
I can say that a lot offilms it feels like they'll they have a
whole screen and they're stuff in thecorners but it doesn't matter, but the

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west and then cinemahotographer Robert Yeoman andreally like draw your eye to like each
corner to see everything that's going on. There's like you know, um site
gags and sign gags, and Ijust thought that was great. It was
gorgeous in that way. And thenit's also you know a combination of meditations
on grief and creativity and all theseinteresting little character studies and um actors playing

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actors playing actors. I mean,it's just it's great. I thought it
has like I feel like like onethought I had about it, which isn't
fair to either of these movies.So one thought I had it was like,
wow, this is what I wantedbo as Afraid to be. And
obviously their tones are totally different,but just in that you say, I
loved Bows Afraid, but I getand I just I don't know. I

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just like, as soon as Ifinished watching it, I was I want
to see like, you know,full disclosure. Like thirty minutes in,
I was like, I need touse the bathroom. And then I just
could not get up because I waslike, I'm not going to miss the
second of this movie, like I'mnot gonna do it, Like I was
happening to me a lot. Bythe way to say, I was like

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sitting during the credits and I waslike, no, I have to watch
all the credits all the sefore.It's so hard to make this beautiful.
Yeah, I will definitely say withthat Asteroid City, it in a very
good way. Took me a whileto settle in, so once I did,
I knew I want to watch thisagain. Like there were so many
things that I may have missed earlyon because it's it's because you're right with

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a bos afraid thing. It's veryfever pitch. There's a lot of things
going on. You're like, you'retrying to catch up with it, and
it's sometimes hard to because there areso many visual things or you know,
story beats that they're throwing at you, and you're like, whoa, slow
down, let me catch up toyou and let me let me understand what
you're trying to tell me. ButI think what Asteroid City did certainly better.
Um, and I loved bows Afraid, Asteroid City was definitely a better

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movie. What I think it dida lot better was it it was it
was so abrasive in trying to tellyou how life was. It just kind
of let it happen because the characterswere very like stoic, and I think
the best two characters were Schwartzman andand Oh my gosh, I'm forgetting Scott
Johansson, like very very like stoicscenes and they're just very calm about,

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hey, our life kind of sucksthing. And while they're saying this,
all of this stuff is going onaround them, like Schwartzman is seeing atomic
dropped bombs and police shootouts, andit felt it felt to me as if
Anderson was like, hey, here'swhat my life was like during the pandemic,
and kind of how we all feltof like, hey, this is

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you know, we're reflecting on ourown personal griefs while also just atomic bombs
are dropping left and right around us. It was. It was great and
I and I love how Asteroid City. There were so many things to take
away from that movie that, likeyou said, interesting me and I felt
the same way with what you weresaying, was like, Okay, well
I didn't get that out of themovie. There's just there's a lot to

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take away from Asteroid City. AndI thought it was really good. So
that was one. And I askedyou this before we started, because there
are two movies so far in thefirst half that I think a very Oscar
worthy. Asteroid City's one of those, and I think it's gonna definitely get
some stuff. The other one youhaven't seen yet. You said you heard
mixed things on Past Lives. SeleneSong put out this incredible movie where she

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wrote this script, had a veryclear idea for it and put out something
that A twenty four tried to pusha lot into. So I will say
a few things and maybe you canjust react off of how I feel about
past lives. A Past lives,certainly it has this you know in young
thing where it's it's kind of tellingyou things like, hey, if you

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brush just shoulders with somebody, thatis fate drawing you into that person.
But sometimes past lives draws closer topeople as we go on, and that's
you know, where we marry andwe have kids with someone, all that
stuff. But Past Live who wasreally good about, you know, going
back into our past lives, intohow we were as kids, how we

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were as twenty year olds, howwe are as thirty year olds, and
kind of progressing us through life,as you know, the certain stages of
our life and how we kind oflet go of some of our lives each
step of the way. And itwas really good in that way, had
a great ending. But I justwant to commend Selene Song for such a

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clear, singular focus on exactly whatshe wanted I bought at the end.
It is certainly not one of thoselike I mentioned Kelly Rickhart and obviously Wes
Anderson we mentioned where man framing isjust pitch perfect and you know everything.
But she wasn't looking at in thatway. It was more of the script
that was telling it than she wastelling it with her her eyes and her

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cinematography. But I think Past Livesalso as this thing of it's a romantic
story. It's a love triangle,and it's this mystery of does she love
this guy more than the other,And it does play into a lot of
It can do casual things, andit can plain to those that really want
to look into more into what thatstory is. And I feel like that

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full three sixty lens is really that'sspecial. That's really hard to do,
I feel you. I so Ijust like, look the movie because I
wanted to check on something because Iheard this in Young Thing, and I'm
saying I didn't realize it starred GrettaLee, who was in Russian Doll and

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I love, a very different roleand you probably have ever seen her yea.
So now I'm like, okay tosee I have to watch this because
I love she's a new girl too. Yeah, Okay, I know this.
Actually I'm gonna go see this maybetomorrow. Yeah, but yeah,
I've heard even the person who,like I said, I've heard mixed mostly
positive things, person who I thinkwasn't in love with it, did you

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know, did like it? Soyeah, I like it interesting this idea,
I don't know, it's really complexto try to draw in ideas about
missed opportunities in life ye into film, And I think that it's really interesting
that that's become That's that's where,like I hope society exists long enough for

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historians and historians of film to lookback at this point, because it's something
that's happening obviously with the big temppole blockbusters, where we've got all these
superhero movies interested in alternate realities,and then we've got that also happening with
you know, an Oscar Winner indiemovie that feels a bit like a comic

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book and everything ever all at once, and you've got this more personal romantic
drama that's also about this. Youknow, what else could life have been?
I mean, it's that was reallyinteresting that we're in movies, I
superhero movies, because I was notthinking that, and that's definitely that.
I think that was almost what anendgame was about, like a missed opportunity
in front, right, Yeah,reconnect on that miss opportunity. Man,

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that's that's really good. So Iwasn't thinking in that way. But yeah,
to bring it back to Marvel,all right, let's let's get into
some disappointments anything, because that wasour favorites. Anything that's just disappointed you
so far that you watched and waslike, man, I wanted that to
be so much better. Okay,So do you want to hear the films
the five films I enjoyed least orlike, or want to give me those?

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If you have those, go ahead, So for me the five worst,
and I'll explain briefly how they alldisappointed me. Um So in that
shance Knock at the Cabin, whichI like that I've never been a huge
fan of his and I just sawthat movie and I had loved I talked
about this, I think on ourOscars pod. But like I love Batista
in it. There's a lot ofstrong performances and it does a good job

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being eerie. But I just reallyfelt like the twist wasn't a twist.
Then I didn't need it, youknow, Ari Aster's both afraid kind of.
I just thought that it was not. It's like, I'm glad he
got to make this movie. Ithink it's important for people to for artists
to get to talk about to expresstheir traumas and there their fetishes and whatever

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else in their art. That's whatit's for. Nonetheless, it was just
like the least subtle hitting me overthe head with your edible complex movie that
I've ever seen. Yeah, therewas some word you described it as like
it was it almost like he wastrying too much to just please himself through
it. I hope I didn't callit self indulgent, but I might.

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No, not self indulgent. Itwasn't indulgent. It was just another word
to say like you were. Certainlyhe was trying to do way too much,
But I like that. I likedthat it was. It was certainly
a very outward expression of him.Here's anxieties about the world and all that
stuff. But certainly it felt likeit was it was maybe um I did
say, you say indulgent, butcertainly close to that. Um not in

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the same not as derogatory in theway, in the way that that sounds.
Yeah, um let's see Air.Um I would I guess Ben afflecks
Air. It's a well directed movie. It's nice to watch. It's just
like I found it so hokey.I hated it. I liked it and

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hated it at all at the sametime. Yeah, there's like I enjoyed
Chris Tucker in it and like MattDay. But it's just like it's it's
like this thing we've got going onnow where corporations have so captured consumers that
it's like they're the protagonists of films, and then we're all supposed to come
away feeling happy because Michael Georgian makesfour hundred million dollars a year without anyone

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work. Got me like at theend, you know how they're doing the
usual like cheesy thing of like this, here's what happened after this point.
Um, so Phil Knight got here'show much he donated to charities and yeah,
yeah, it's like a drop inthe bucket. It's some amount of
money he makes in a month.Yeah, I'm so glad he donated like

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point five percent of his earnings.But I don't think we needed that,
And so yeah, I think we'rein the same We mean you kind of
ended up with the same idea thatit felt like a really cool directed commercial.
Yeah yeah, a beautiful Nike commercialthat you want to buy Adidas a
protest. But you know what's funny, all the people that love Michael Jordan

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and just wanted that out of thatmovie one percent got it. It's just
that anything past that was it didn'tdo anything for me. Um, let's
see, okay what else? Ohum? The Flash, which I should
have had no expectations for, andI was like, well, maybe this
will be a bad movie that Ienjoy, And there were parts of it
I did enjoy, Like people didn'tlike the cgi of the babies. I

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didn't care about that so much,or theg I it wasn't the baby,
it's it's the babies in the microwavetype. I thought that was so funny.
That's great, but I saw thatMe and my brother looked at each
other like, no, where arethey doing this? But there's there's a
real mixed bag on the quality ofthe CGI, and then like, but

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it relies so much on legacy andthat really comes to a head towards the
end um where they start bringing backthe whole history of all comic books on
film. In a way it justfelt really it felt hokey and cheap and
it looked bad. And there weresome parts with like um George Reeves and

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Christopher Reeve especially that felt really likedepressing, and with Nicholas Cage or yeah,
because they were bringing back CGI peoplethat do didn't necessarily agree with that
and you were still alive and there, Yeah, that's just because they were.
It was almost and that was thatwas another It's another corporate thing like
air, like it was because itwas their property that they could do it

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without saying anything. And there's suchweird Yeah, I know, like families
some of the estates had to beinvolved and stuffwere, but it's just like
creatively storytelling why it's not what Iwould have done, But I don't know.
They had like they went through they'vebeen trying to make this movie for
like nine years, half a dozendirectors, who knows how many endings.
So maybe there's a version of thefilm that wouldn't have made me feel so

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bad. Yeah, I was.I mean I was surprised at things like
they explained the multiverse better than anymultiverse movie, that it was a Bollos
spaghetti and all of a sudden itwas explained so easily. It was like,
Oh, that's it, like mydumb brain. And then want a
lot of people kind of scoffed that, like, oh, it's just that
was so dumb. But to me, I was like, okay, so
you simply explained something that we've beenexplained a million times before and simply explained

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it with a bowl apasta. Iwas like, you know, at least
at least you're you're condensing something veryeasy. So quickly I was like,
you know what, I'll give youcredit for that. But then everything else
was, yeah, well it explainslike because it's self contained, it doesn't
have the contradictions that happen with allthe Marvel stuff, or like there's different

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rules for all of them, likein all of the Doctor Strangers that we
see, he looks the same butwe meet three different Spider Man who look
different, and then there's also theSony Spider Man and the Sony Villains stuff,
and then that somehow like crosses over. It's just like, at least
you know what's funny because there's thethe Spider Verse things like the animated ones,

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and obviously what No Way Home didwith all the Spider Verse stuff.
He's like, why didn't they glitchin this No Way Home movie? It
was like, yeah, because theyhaven't yet, because they hadn't thought of
that, because they're different movies.Like somebody was trying to explain that,
like a Marvel a Marvel content creatorwas trying to explain this. I'm like,
there's no explaining it. Just stoppeddoing it. Let it go,

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let it um, let's see.Oh and then a good person which was
like I hadn't seen that, butyeah, that was I'm a I'm a
noted Zach Braff fan because of Scrubs. Yeah, and I know, and
I think he walked into Garden State. I think he really looked into a
decent movie there. Yeah. Ithink this movie it's just like so he

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wrote it, produced it, directedit, and he really needed like a
story editor or something like the overallconcept isn't bad, but the way the
individual events tie together is not good, and like he just it was so
funny because I was like, whyare Florence Pew and Umgan fan this movie?

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But I learned, like, soFlorence Pew and Zach Raff were dating,
and I think they were dating whenthe movie was made, and then
Morgan Freeman had worked with him onsomething else he direct that I didn't know
you directed. Yeah, so it'slike, Okay, You've got these established
relationships, and I just feel likethere's like this whole they have a whole,
Like the film comes to ahead withtheir relationship falling apart, those two

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characters, and then it gets likefixed off screen and then it's just like
what, Like it's supposed to bea movie about relationships, and I don't
think it has a good job withthem, But like there's a part because
I want to see this with mypartner, and she and I are sitting
there and I'm like, I'm like, oh, this is so bad,

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and I'm like, I don't know, she's enjoying it, so I'm trying
to have to say anything and thenseeing something crazy hat that's great, and
she's like, what it starts laughingand I just heard Cago it's not supposed
to be funny. I'm just like, Okay, we're on the same page
here. Yeah, that's fantastic.You know that when you're no, you're
not supposed to be laughing at something, and still you do. Yeah,

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I have dying in the theater.I have three that kind of Disappoin pointed
me. And I usually want togo to see movies and they're gonna be
good. So there aren't many,um but kind of Shinkai. I don't
know if you know many anime movies. Um Suzume was a big one coming
out this year, and it wasa very shameless Miyazaki rip off and I
wasn't a big fan of it.Definitely wanted to do too much of miyazaki

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coming of age stories, and sinceKoto Shinkai has been great with so many
other anime movies that it ends upkind of tying together very well. It
just doesn't get to the same placein a better way that Miyazaki does.
Which, by the way, we'llget to Miyazaki another one inside. I
don't know if you saw that one. Willing Dafoe that was supposed to be
a movie. Everybody was like,Okay, Willing Dafoe's in this indie movie.

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Really good. It got too meta. You know. It's one thing
to be meta, and then whenyou get too meta, it's like,
Okay, now you're circling around andnow you're kind of becoming the thing that
you're kind of saying against. Becauseit was it was about all this hoarding
of art and all that stuff,and then it just became too meta that
it's like, okay, well nowyou're kind of hoarding art right now.

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Now you're kind of becoming that personthat's really pretentious. So I didn't like
Inside, and this one I've beengetting a lot of pushback for. And
I'm not sure if you saw it, but the Super Mario Bros. Movie
was terrible. It was absolutely terrible. It was the Secret Life of Pets
Tommario and what I didn't like aboutit most and this is I guess to

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finally explain what I really didn't likeabout it in a detailed manner. But
it's one thing to have, youknow, the skins, like you have
the Mario character and everything, thecostume and the weeds and the costume and
Bowser and all that, but toneedle drop all of these licensed music in
while you have this iconic video gamesoundtrack, this iconic video game imagery,

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and you're trying to just hammer homeas much mainstream life sins, music and
visuals as you can. I waslike, you're you're sort of taking away
what I like about Mario, andinstead of it feeling like a Mario movie,
it felt like an illumination movie thathad a Mario skin just attached over

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it. And I absolutely hated that. So I know it was a kids
movie. I know I'm not supposedto I'm not trying to make Mario to
be I didn't want it to bethe film of the Year or anything like
that. I just wanted it tobe Mario. And it didn't feel like
it was Mario enough. Well Ididn't see it, but I'll say this,
I think that very often because sociallyand culturally we seem stuck in a

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loop of endless nostalgia, and asa result, people makes me say that.
So people hold on to things andour soul, things from our childhoods
forever, Like it's like the eightieswon't go away, you know, the
sixties won't go away, and soanyway as far as Mario, and so
that applies to like children's art too, And we're constantly told that children's art

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is important for two reasons, alot of reasons, but the two like
categories are like because there's people whoaren't children that like it, and because
children deserve art that's good. Andthat first reason doesn't matter so much as
a second. And I think thatit's true, Like, but there's a
conflict there. It's like people don'twant to criticize it because it's for kids,

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but it's important because it's for kids, Like either hold up to scrutiny
or it doesn't matter. And Ithink the fact that, like I didn't
see it because I'm not that bigin a Mario and I knew it was
gonna It's like I saw the ads, like, well, I know what
this is gonna be. Yeah no, But I was like, well,
I know what this is gonna be. It's not gonna be something like that
I'm going to be into. SoI'm glad that you, as a Mario

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fan, can like feel comfortable andconfident saying that it wasn't good because it
was just a generic illumination. Yes, yeah, that's what it felt like.
It felt like any other menu insecret, like for Pets Movie,
And that's not what I wanted outof that so real quick because we're kind
of running out of time a littlebit here. Any Oscars nominees that you
kind of think of in the firsthalf, For me, I think Past

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Live is going to be because therewere so many big time movies coming out
and directors. I don't know ifit's going to be the everything, everywhere,
All Once movie, but I dothink it's going to get nominated,
Like I think it will be unnominated for Best Picture, Best Director,
Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor.I think it will be nominated for a
lot of those. I don't thinkit's going to win very many because of

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the competition that it has that noteven Everything Ever will All Once kind of
had. I mean, this isa loaded year, but Past Live is
one of those where I think thatis going to be a very Oscars heavy
anything for you. And I thinkSpider Man Asteroid City are definitely too that
I think will will certainly have apresence. I think that it would not

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surprise me if Julia Louis Dreyfus wasnominated for Best Actress for You Hurt.
Yeah, I think that she showsa lot of rights. Such a funny
movie. It's such like it's kindof weird. It's like not quite surreal
because it's supposed to be reality witha little bit of its working slant to
it. And that comes a lotfrom the music and the writing. But
the performances I thought were really good. They elevated writing that wasn't pedestrian necessarily

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but wasn't particularly unorthodox um in someways. And I thought she was great.
And it's it's very I don't know, its naturalistic is the word.
That's kind of how I feel aboutit. I think she'll be nominated.
Um. I think that um herAsteroid City. I could see a lot
of nominees. I wouldn't be surprisedwith Scott Johansone's nominated for Best Actress.

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I think Wes Anderson's definitely gonna geta nod because of who he is,
and this might get Best Picture,but Scott Johanson's a good one. Yeah.
I was gonna say yeah, Icould see Best Picture, Best Director.
Um, I could see screenplay forWes Anderson or I guess it's best.
Yeah, I think also, Ithink I think sometimes so way back

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in the day, I think wetalked about this before they would nominate an
actor for all of their work withina year and so I but and I
don't think that doesn't happen anymore,but I think they. I think it
counts for people's nominations and votes.Um. So for what I'm trying to
get to is I think that MargotRobie or Robbie would also being nominated for

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Best Supporting Actress. And I think, um, because of Asteroid City,
she's gonna do. Yeah, becauseBarbie's gonna come out, And I don't
know if she'll get nominated for BestActress for that, but I think the
momentum of it will tie into herAsteroid City performance, which was amazing.
Yeah, she was so good,so good. Um, let's see what

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else. Okay, So I thinkAcross the Spiderrection will get nominated for Best
Animated Picture. I don't know ifit's pure surprised by I was very surprised.
I kind of hope it doesn't.Um. I don't think it's gonna
be one of the five or ten, but well, maybe it depends on
how many finals they do, andthey've been doing like ten at a time
now, so it might get nominatedfor Best Picture. Um, I don't

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think it is. Okay, everybodyliked it, won't do it anyway.
Yeah, I think they gotta becareful with that because I agree. I
agree, but i'd like I'd liketo cross the Spider verse, but I
agree that got to kind of becareful. Well, now that we're winding
down here a little bit, umyour most anticipated, okay for the rest
of the year, Killers of theFlower Moon. Very excited for that.

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Love Scar Stacey, Love DiCaprio,Um Dune Part two? Um, what
didn't have it on mine? Yeah? Big fan um Oppenheimer, Um Barbie,
which I would not have said ayear ago. But at this point
I'm just a haunting in Venice.I really like Kenneth Brana. Um.

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And then so for which is MichaelMann and Megalopolis by um uhn't Francis for
Kavla they are like expected this year, but there is no release date,
so I don't know if they're actuallycoming this year. But yeah. Oh
and Rebel Moon by Zack Snyder.Oh really Zack Snyder. Yeah, his

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his his movie. He wanted tobe star Wars and star Wars who were
like NASA's like, okay, Ithink have we seen trailers shoe that We're
like, oh, everybody's like that'skind of there was in Vanity Fair or
Varioty. Okay, we saw somekind of a preview for a movie.
We're like, oh, man,that's yeah, yeah, yeah, oh
and I forgot about this one.Um Wes Anderson has another movie based off

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Roald Doll, but it's like thirtyeight minutes something coming to netflixing, so
that would be good. I gottwo. I got a Miyazaki's movie,
How Do You Live? How DoYou Live? I have no idea when
this is gonna come out. Theyhaven't really no trailer, short, no
nothing. It's coming into Japan anda couple of weeks maybe we see it.
Also and foreign film Gout at loveHorne Films, core Eda, who

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did Broker and Choplifters. I thinkit was called as a movie called Monster
that's gonna come out very as soon. I think this year that was that
killed it in some of the festivalsand did very well. So I'm excited
for that. But that's Kevin FoxJunior follow him at Kevin Fox Junior on
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