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August 8, 2025 • 13 mins

Bo and Beth bring on Sean O'Connell to get his thoughts on the recent run of remakes in Hollywood and how nostalgia is playing a major role in brining people back to the movies. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
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with Bo Thompson and Beth Trout. But thank you I
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Speaker 2 (00:36):
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(00:57):
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Speaker 1 (01:01):
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Speaker 2 (01:04):
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Speaker 3 (01:09):
She's a DJ.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Now? Actually, Happy Friday, everybody. And by the way, we
usually talked to Hancock at this time on Fridays. Hancock
is off this week, and so we're lucky to be
able to get on the line right now. He's in
high demand everywhere he goes. From CBR, it is Deputy
editor Sean O'Connell. Happy Friday, Sean.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Hello, my friends, it's going to be with you.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
So since I last talked to you, I've now seen
the summer trifecta I've seen. I saw Jurassic and then
I saw Superman. Then I saw Fantastic Four, So I'm
in the club. The thing that I'm sort of marveling
at is that The Jurassic World is already on digital
as of this week, Like, is that a good thing
for them or because I thought that movie made a
lot of money.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
It made the most money so far of those three
movies globally. Which if you had asked me at the
beginning of the summer which of those three was gonna
die dominate, I would have put the house on Superman
because I kind of thought the Jurassic franchise had played
itself out. But I mean, it just goes to show
that people still want to see digital dinosaurs on the
big screen. And yeah, you're right. I'm stunned that that

(02:15):
movie is available on digital because that's feeding into this
notion you know that people don't have to go to
the movie theaters, they can just wait. I'm gonna I'll
wait and see it on streaming because it's not going
to be available, you know, six months from now. It's
going to be available in a couple of weeks. And
that's what's killing movie theaters. People are not going to
see the movies on the big screen because they know

(02:36):
they're going to be able to get it at home
very quickly, and the studios are doing it to themselves.
It's driving me nut.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
The question is the people still go to the movies
on the big screen to see movies like we're seeing
today and within the last week because I played that
clip coming out of the break there Freakier Friday. Jamie
Lee Curtis is back, and so is Lindsay Lohan. They
originally did the Disney re make Back in two thousand
and three, and now they have a sequel that's out today.

(03:03):
And then of course The Naked Gun with Liam Neeson
in place of Leslie Nielsen that debut last weekend. And
so you have two decidedly, you know, different direction type
movies than the big popcorn summertime movies that we've been
talking about so much already this summer.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Well, they are, but they're Nostaltia and that's what's playing,
you know, at the theaters, and will I think continue?
It's everything old is new again. It's you know, can
we bring back something that you're familiar with? And with
the case of Freaky of Friday, I get it, like
this makes a lot of sense. You're getting the original
stars back. No one's seen Lindsay Lowen in a mainstream
movie in a really long time. Jammie Lee Curtis still

(03:41):
has a great audience. It's a way for parents to
maybe bring their kids to go see something that they
liked growing up. That makes sense. And bod the movie
that has made the most money this year is Lelo
and Fich And so you know, it does show that
families do want to go. I just you know, I
brought my family to go see Fantastic Four, and we

(04:03):
paid for the IMAX screens because we wanted to go
see it, and we were up over one hundred bucks
before we even got to gosit concession stand. So WHOA,
I am well aware that it is very expensive to
bring family to the theaters. So you know, this is
what Hollywood's banking on. Our family's still going to return
and if they're going to do it, it's going to
be this weekend for something like Freakier Friday.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
And well, the Naked Gun too has the nostalgia feel
for people our age who were very excited to see
the first three I guess Naked Guns.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yeah, but I was.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Surprised that this opened to only I think it was
only like seven million dollars domestically.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yeah, I don't know, because again, if you have freak
Your Friday bets, you can sell it on the original
stars are back, you know, with Naked Gun, you're trying
to resell them on a premise with Liam Neeson now
leading it, so there isn't that kind of similiarity. I'll
also tell you leading up to the release of this one,
I tried to get my son to sit down and
watch the original and it played for about twenty minutes

(05:01):
to them and then they were like, onto the next thing.
I still think it's hilarious, but like I'm into that
stupid goofy humor. I just don't know if that plays
for the per modern audience. I don't know if it
still has that kind of hold, and I wish it
did because I think, you know, we need comedies that
are just joke, joke, joke, joke, you know, over and
over and over again, instead of these high concept, you know,

(05:23):
comedies that you have to spend too much time thinking
about what the punchline is going to be. But yeah,
I was a little disappointed and how that and how
that opened it and how it played.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
They're like, Dad, how did they let OJ do this
movie right?

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Right?

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Well, there are so many references in that that that
probably don't even make sense to younger people. I mean,
the royal family in that Get There. There are lots
of things going on in those early movies.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
I know, I know, but but funny is supposed to
be universal, right, Like, if it's a good joke, it
should work for almost everybody, And I don't know if
that's the case necessarily.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
So I had a listener or on the tip line
a few weeks ago text me and he said, Hey,
I love hearing Sean, but do you ever talk about
movies that aren't superhero movies with Shawn and I? As
I always say, you and I have talked so much
over the years because we kind of gravitate towards the
same movies, but you are probably our longest running guest

(06:18):
on this show and even preceding me being here with
Alan Stacy, and you've talked about all kinds of movies
for years. In fact, you're the first person to say
anything about the Substance movie with Demi Moore earlier this year.
But so I said to him, well, look, next time
Sean's on, I will ask him, you know what non
superhero movies would would you recommend this year? And I said,

(06:39):
you're you're free to offer up questions as well, and
he says, okay, that's fair. So, you know, looking back
at this year so far, what are some some off
the beaten path movies or maybe just not you know,
obvious movies that you would point people towards.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
No, No, I love this because the good news is
a lot of the stuff that's been noteworthy from the
beginning of the year is now reaching streaming. Kind of
circling back around to what we were talking about earlier,
is that you can get to see this stuff a
little bit sooner. And so if you have access to
these platforms, the Sinners is still the biggest story of
the year, you know, the Michael B. Jordan re teeming

(07:15):
with Ryan Coogler for a vampire story that if you know,
if you don't know a lot going into it, you know,
keep it, keep it that way and just go into
the experience. It's streaming on HBO Max. But it's a
period horror film. There's a movie that's now available on
digital this week that no one saw and absolutely everyone
needs to. It's called The Life of You.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
I'm so glad you brought it up. I have it.
Look at this, I have it on my screen. I
was going to ask you about it.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
I watched it this weekend. The Life of what Chuck?

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Chuck.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Sorry that sounded like the Life of It.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
I'm so sorry.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
I was going to ask you about this if you
didn't say it. And I watched it this weekend and
it was the movie I didn't know I needed to see.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
It's magnificent.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
It's brilliant.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
I just wish more people knew what it was. I
guess because it's The director is Mike Flanagan, who if
you look up any of his stuff, he's done nothing
but incredible storytelling. It stars Tom Hitdleson and it's an
adaptation of a Stephen King short story. But it's not
a horror film in any way. Shape or formance. It's
more like when Stephen King did like stand by Me

(08:21):
or the shosh Aank Redemption, just these character driven, uplifting stories.
What do we tell people about it? I mean it's
hard to sell, you know, and I almost want people
to go into it cold, because if you don't know
where it's going, it really packs a wall up.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yes, and my advice to everyone is to keep watching
because the first part of it might not make full sense,
but it really unfolds beautifully and everything is tied into
this lovely bow.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, exek you. So it's a story told in three chapters,
and like Beth said, the first one is going to
throw you off a little bit, but pay attention to
the details and follow where it's going. And it's a truly,
truly beautiful story. The third act is magnificent and I
can't recommend it highly enough. So The Life of Chuck

(09:12):
is something I would put on people's radars. Also, just
an offbeat sort of sci fi film is called Companion.
I believe that's on HBO Max as well too. It
stars Jack Quaid and Sophie Thatcher. Definitely worth checking out.
And then if you still want to go to the theaters,
f one. You know, it seems to be the movie
that people keep going back to. It's got a little

(09:33):
bit of that top gun Maverick you know magic to
it that you kind of have to see it in
the big screen because of the way to put you
into the cars and experience the racing and kind of
the way you do with the flying. So there's plenty
of options out there for people who just want to
dig around a little bit.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Okay, so let me turn it around in the other direction.
We're getting towards the end of the summer movie season here,
What else, if anything, are you looking forward to before
the season is over.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
There's a movie called Weapons that's out in theaters this
weekend that I'm actually probably going to go out of
my way to see because I didn't get a chance
to screen it beforehand. Starts Josh Brolin, and it's written
by the guy who did a movie called Barbarian that
came out recently, which had the kid from it I
forget his name. And then after that it's kind of

(10:19):
a drop off, like looking ahead even to like the
fall season and the award Like we're going to get
awards movies.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
You know.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
The Rock is in a film called The Smashing Machine
about the WWE and we're gonna get wicked for good,
which people are really excited about, but that there wasn't
a ton on the horizon where like from now to
the end of the year. I was like, oh my god,
I cannot wait to see that. Like, so there's a
third Avatar coming. If you're still into that world, you know,
we'll find some gems because once you start going through

(10:49):
the fall movie season, the cream rises the crop kind
of thing. But looking at the schedule, there's nothing really
that gets my pulse racing.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
Last thing I'll say we'll work at back around to
h to superhero movies. Fantastic four. I watched the movie,
like I told you, and it has a two post
movie what we call them, they call them the the
post credit scenes. And there's one that I saw. Uh
there's a version of it that's making the rounds online

(11:19):
that's fake, you know what I'm talking about, which no, okay,
the very I'm not going to give it away for
anybody because it's a it's an important and it's a
big deal for what's coming with you know, Avengers Doomsday.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yeah, yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
But there's a version of that that I saw before
I actually saw the movie. I saw it by accident,
and I went in the movie thought I knew what
I was going to see and it wasn't it. But
it just it reinforces like how careful you have to
be now because people, you know, they'll take stuff and
they'll you know, add add AI to them, and it's
it's it's tough to be a movie fan these days.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Ye.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
Well, and so my oldest son, who we watch all
the Marvel movies together and that's kind of our thing.
We didn't get to go opening weekend because I was
in San Diego for Comic Con. So I come back
from the trip and he goes, well, I had Fantastic
four spoiled for me. I said, well, what are you
talking about? And he lists these things that happened. I go,
how did you find out? And he goes, well, I
saw it on TikTok. So he shows me the video
and the video starts and it goes huge spoilers for

(12:14):
Fantastic four, And I said, why didn't you stop watching?
Right then?

Speaker 1 (12:19):
I thought you were going to say, hey, that's not
a spoiler. I'll tell you what happened, because I was there.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
Just this generation.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
Man.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
They spoiler warning and they keep watching it, keep going.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
Well, look, man, we appreciate your time as always. Sean
O'Connell from CBR joins us periodically and I hope you
have a great weekend.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
Thank you guys, talk soon. We love you. Sean.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
And I have to say really really quickly because someone
did text us on the text line that I got
so excited about the movie they couldn't hear the name
of the movie it is. I will say it again.
It's called The Life of Chuck, starring Tom Hittleston. I
did when he said it, I did gasp and I
got scared.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Turn the music down from him, very sorry, turn the
music down here, Life of Chuck, The Life of Chuck.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
There you go.
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