May 3, 2025 • 48 mins
MOVIE MIKE: Mike shares his list of the Top 10 Ryan Gosling movies of all-time. From the roles that defined him, stretched him, and made audiences fall in love with him all over again. He shares what movie he should have won an Oscar for and one of his most underrated performances in his filmography. In the Movie Review, Mike talks about Warfare which was written and directed by Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland. It is based on Mendoza's experiences during the Iraq War as a U.S. Navy SEAL, the film is a re-enactment of an encounter he and his platoon experienced on November 19, 2006 in the wake of the Battle of Ramadi. Mike talks about the powerful use of sound, the 5 military terms he learned from the movie and why he hopes people see it and appreciate our military for all they do. In the Trailer Park, Mike talks about Him from Producer Jordan Peele. It’s a football-centric horror movie about a promising young football player who joins an isolated compound to train under a dynasty team's aging quarterback.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike. Today I want to share
with you what I believe to be are the top
ten Ryan Gossling movies of all time. In the movie review,
a movie that moved me immensely, Warfare based on a
true story set in Iraq in two thousand and six,
in real life account of one Day at War. And
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in the trailer Park, we'll talk about the new horror
movie produced by Jordan Peel called Him. We'll talk about
what a producer does. Thank you for being here, Thank
you for being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday Morning
movie crew. I love you guys. And now let's talk
movies from the Nashville Podcast Network. This is Movie Mike
Movie Podcast. I wanted to dedicate today's episode to one
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of my favorite actors that I feel I have not
highlighted enough. I've been talking recently about how much I
love Leonardo DiCaprio and how I will probably watch anything
that he is in, and I started thinking of who
are the other actors in that category that no matter
what they put out, I'm going to enjoy. And I
started thinking about Ryan Gostling. How every movie he puts
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out is great. And not only that, but when I
look at his filmography, he has such a range of
different genres that he likes to dip his toes in.
Whether it's romance, whether it's thriller, whether it's a comedy,
whether it's sci fi. He can do it all, and
he does it really well, and unlike a lot of actors,
he rarely misses. So I wanted to share with you
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what I believe to be are the top ten Ryan
Gosling movies of all time. But before we get into that,
let's talk about Ryan Gostling when he was just a
boy growing up in Canada who had big dreams of
becoming an actor. His first taste of the spotlight came
when he was just twelve years old after a successful
audition landed him in the Mickey Mouse Club, and suddenly
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he was hanging out with a bunch of future stars
like Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera. That show only
lasted a couple of seasons, but it started to lay
the foundation of his career in entertainment. After that, he
started to get small roles on TV shows like Goosebumps,
which I did revisit on Netflix. He's in the episode
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See Che's and Die, a classic episode. I remember loving
reading those books as a kid and watching the TV show.
The theme song alone always gave me nightmares, But that's
a great episode, and it's always fun to go back
and see somebody before they were famous in that. He
also had a role and Are You Afraid of the Dark.
But his first big breakthrough role that had him at
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the forefront was a two thousand film called The Believer.
Before that, he had also had a small role in
the two thousands movie Remember the Titan, So we started
gaining this momentum, and then in two thousand and four
he landed one of his biggest roles ever, The Notebook,
which went on to be a global sensation. From there,
he started building out an impressive resume in Hollywood, balancing
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what I've been talking about, that indie credibility and also
that blockbuster appeal. Very few actors can pull both of
those things off. Why I love Ryan Gosling. He always
brings that intensity, that vulnerability as well, which is hard
to pair the two together because it's hard to be
an intense character that you believe can kick your butt,
but also a person who can be vulnerable that you
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feel for emotionally, that you can see them like, oh,
pulling back the layers and they can shed a tear
and you feel it too. But he's also incredibly cool,
has charisma out the butt. All those things put together
is the Ryan Gosling signature style. So that is why
I want to share with you this list. Let's get
into it now. At number ten, I have First Man
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from director Damien Chazelle. The movie costs fifty nine million
dollars to make and went on to earn about one
hundred and five million dollars back in twenty eighteen when
it came out. This movie was a look at the
life of the astronaut Neil Armstrong and the legendary space
mission that led him to become the first man to
walk on the Moon on July twentieth, nineteen sixty nine.
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Biopicks are really hard to do, and I thought Ryan
Gosling nailed this role him as Neil Armstrong. I feel
was maybe a little bit too subdued for audiences where
they didn't quite get it, because it's hard to play
somebody that not everybody knows all the things about their personality,
because when somebody plays a famous figure like a musician,
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you know how they are on stage and you know
the manurisms you're looking for. It is really hard to
take on a character like Neil Armstrong where you don't
really know all those idiosyncrasies. But I thought the way
you approached it was very methodical and really powerful, showing
you that not every hero that gets their own biopick
has to be somebody who flips out crazily, has to
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scream like a madman, which I feel maybe that has
held them back on not winning an Oscar, because it
almost feels like anybody who wins Best Actor always has
a role where they're like freaking out and yelling at
somebody and tying that it almost takes that level of
intensity to win an Oscar, and I think a role
like Neil Armstrong was probably a lot harder to pull off.
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So out of all the ten on my list, do
I think this is the one that should have won
him the Oscar? No, but I think this movie was fantastic.
I'm also fascinated with Space. Twenty ten's was pretty big
for space movies. You had movies like First Man and
The Martian and gravity. I mean, Hollywood has always been
obsessed with space, but I really love this movie. So
at number ten, I have First Man. At number nine
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from twenty twenty four, I have The Fall Guy, which
had a budget of one hundred and thirty million dollars
only made one hundred and eighty one million dollars, so
not entirely profitable. It was the movie based on the
TV show from Back in the Day. Ryan Gosling plays
a stuntman who almost has essentially a fatal accident that
takes him out for a while. He retires from being
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a stunt man, but then the love of his life
is directing a movie. She loses her movie star, and
Ryan Gosling comes in to save the day to be
a stuntman on her movie, but also help her find
your star to save the film. I really enjoyed how
meta this movie was because it is a movie about
making a movie. There's a lot of behind the scenes jokes,
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so maybe at times it gets a little bit too meta,
and that's kind of what deterred audiences from it. I
also think at the time this movie came out was
like the start of the blockbuster season. It didn't really
build a lot of hype. Even though you had two
stars with Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling together, I just
think the story was a little bit of a hard sell.
Even though this movie is a lot of fun. Ryan
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Gosling has an amazing time in this doing all the stunts,
a lot of great costumes and fashion, which is always
something I'm infatuated with when it comes to Ryan Gosling,
and I just think he does action in comedy really
well together. And you put both of those things bam
right into this movie. It was everything I wanted from
a Ryan Gosling film. So maybe it's not as groundbreaking
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all of his other work because I like the fact
that he can just have fun in a role, and
that is something he's handled going back and forth with
with all the roles he takes. He takes the fun roll,
he takes the more serious role, and he can go
back and forth and I don't second guess it whatsoever.
At number nine, I have The fall Guy. At number eight.
From two thousand and four, I have The Notebook. Had
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a budget of twenty nine million dollars, made one hundred
and sixteen point two million dollars at the box office.
This is the movie that put him on the map
as far as a list level star. This comes out,
it's a hit. What's interesting about this even though it's
his most famous role, I don't think it's his best.
That's why I put it at number eight. And it
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was his portrayal of Noah and his chemistry with Rachel
McAdams that made it one of the best romantic movies
of all time, but definitely of our generation. This is
the quintessential romance movie for the two thousands that everybody
watched that guys would be a shame that they watched
and enjoyed. And Ryan Gosling could have been that next
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big romance guy because of this movie, much like what
happened with Matthew McConaughey, that started to be the rom
com guy that any rom com that came out and
they needed a nay list star, they would go to McConaughey.
And later in his career he realized, I don't want
to do that anymore. I don't want to be the
rom com guy, and he shifted and stopped taking those roles.
Ryan Gosling easily could have made a bank doing movie
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after movie like this, And I think the Notebook at
times is classified as a rom com even though it's
more drama. But if you google it, it says the
notebook rom com. Ryan Gosling could have been a rom
com guy, but he was very strategic in the roles
he took and didn't typecast himself as this, which I
bet was so tempting to do because that's just money
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on the table, probably throwing bags of cash at him. Ryan,
do this role, you'd be great in it. And he
could have done it and audiences would have accepted that,
but he would not have had as dynamic of a
career if he would have just taken the money. I
think he made the right decision because to me, he
has done so much better work since then. That's why
I have their notebook at number eight. At number seven,
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I have The Big Short from twenty fifteen director Adam McKay.
Movie had a budget of twenty eight million dollars, made
one hundred and thirty two zero point six million dollars
at the box office. What it's about, It's about the bubble.
The bubble in two thousand and six. In two thousand
and seven, a group of investors bet against the US
mortgage market, and their research they discovered how flawed and
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corrupt the market was. They started realizing that the banks
were giving out loans without any restrictions on them. Hey
you want some money, let me give it to you. You
want to buy a house that you're not gonna be
able to afford, I got you. And they saw this bubble,
they saw it was gonna pop, and they saw everything
was gonna come raining down, so they bet against the
US mortgage market. And not only did I enjoy all
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the people involved in this movie, because obviously it's a
great Ryan Gosling role, which is why I have it
at number seven, but it proved to me how he
could stack up against other A List stars, because not
only do you have Ryan Gosling, you have Brad Pitt,
you have Christian Bale, you have Steve Carell. And out
of all those people in this movie sacked with A
List stars, Ryan Gosling still stood out his fourth wall
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breaking narration. He played a very slick guy on Wall Street.
It showcased his versatility and comfort with satirical humor, fast
paced dialogue, and was a part of his collection of
movies in the twenty tens, which I feel if you
could dedicate one actor to an entire decade, twenty tens,
Ryan Gosling, Like that is it for me? I think
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he shines out of any other actor he owned the
twenty tens. If I had one actor from the twenty tens,
it would be Ryan Gosling. One actors from the twenty tens,
it would be Jennifer Lawrence. A fantastic movie that also
teaches you about things you may have no idea about.
I feel like I learned a lot about the economy
from watching The Big Short. Amazing performances at number seven,
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The Big Short at number six from twenty eleven, Crazy Stupid,
Love Again. Twenty ten's Ryan Gosling Is Just Untouchable. Had
a budget of fifty million dollars, made one hundred and
forty six million dollars at the box office. You have,
of course, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell again Emma Stone, and
the two of them have fantastic chemistry together. It's about
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a middle aged husband's life who changes dramatically when his
wife asks him for a divorce. He seeks to rediscover
his manhood with the help of his newfound friend, Jacob
played by Ryan Gosling. Looking to pick up girls, at
bars he is coaching him and this movie has one
of the best twists of any rom com. And even
know the movie is ten years old, I won't spoil it,
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but it is one that the first time I watched it,
I probably audibly gasped. I think this movie is one
of the best examples of his comedic timing, but it
all comes down to his romantic chemistry with Emma Stone.
That scene where she's looking at his abs and she's like,
oh my gosh, what are you photoshopped? I feel that
to most people, this is probably quintessential Ryan Gosling as
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far as his physique. When people have an image of
an actor sometimes and they associate him with one role,
I feel like this is going to be that one
because he's probably in the best shape of his life,
even though it looks really great now, Like if you
saw his abs in Barbie Dude still has it, but
compared with all his other features and the age he
was while he made this movie, I feel like this
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is the poster everybody would put up on their wall
of Ryan Gosling to show how attractive of a man
he is. And I think when we watch actors on
TV or in movies, we associate them with that age always,
so I feel like people have this image of Ryan
Gosling from Crazy Stupid Love that maybe in another twenty
years if you met him out in public, he'd be like, oh, man,
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you don't look quiet like you did back in twenty eleven.
That is unfair to actors because we have associate them,
especially childhood actors, which he is a childhood actor, but
you associate them with the age they were in the
thing that you saw them in, and then you see
him older and you're like, oh, you don't look so
great anymore. Like bro, we all age. We treat them
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so unfairly. But this is a great movie and one
that has great rewatchability. That's why it ranks pretty high
on my list at number six. I have Crazy Stupid
Love at number five from twenty twenty three. It is
Barbie director Greta Gerwig, who is one of my favorite
directors right now. Probably put her in my top ten,
if not my top five. The movie had a budget
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of one hundred and forty five million dollars went on
to make a whopping one point forty four billion with
the Bead. It is Ryan Gosling's highest grossing movie that
he stars in. That says a lot. Kannuff said, also
showcases his incredible vocal talents, a very self aware role
that had such a pop culture moment, and I think
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a large part of that was Ryan Gosling and the
singing it led up to the performance at the Oscars.
Even though I still feel like Margot Robbie is obviously
the star of the movie, it was also the journey
of Ken and their relationship that made it one of
the most memorable and biggest movies of that year, and
it allowed him to have that big mainstream success, finally
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getting a billion dollar movie under his belt. And when
you think about that, that does still introduce you to
new audiences. Even though he was and still is at
the top of his game, everybody knows who Ryan Gosling is,
got him another Oscar nomination. I thought he would have
got close to winning one for this movie, but sadly
he did not. Still at number five, I have Barbie
at number four from twenty sixteen is La La Land.
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Again we find him working with Damian Chazelle. Damien Chazelle
also did movies like Whiplash and Babylon. We mentioned him
earlier When talking about First Man, the movie coused thirty
million dollars to make, which is pretty nuts to make
a movie. They got so much critical acclaim. I would
say out of all the movies in Ryan Gosling's career,
this has the most critical acclaim And it's a rare
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case of having that critical acclaim and also having a
big fan base because the movie made four hundred and
seventy two million dollars at the box office, and this
would be the best showcase of Ryan Gosling's musical talent.
He plays a character named Sebastian who plays piano, again
teaming up with Emma Stone who plays Mia, who is
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an actress, both living in Los Angeles following their passion,
trying to achieve success in their respective fields, and they
find themselves torn between chasing their dreams and their love
for each other, which is just the great dynamic of storytelling.
And I think the relatability to people is what made
this movie really sink in emotionally. Then you also have
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all the fantastic songs, the big musical numbers taking over
the LA Highway. I think this is one of the
best examples of him giving a performance that is charming, flawed,
and just outright human. He was singing, he was dancing,
he was playing piano, he was breaking hearts. He was
doing all the things that make him him and again
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earning him an Oscar nomination. If there is one movie
he should have won an Oscar for, it should have
been This Role. Movie should have won Best Picture. It
did not. There was that entire controversy where they said
it did and then ended up not went to Moonlight,
which I love Moonlight, but I still think this would
have been a better representation of twenty sixteen because I
feel like La La Land is responsible for redefining the
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musical genre, which is back now. If we wouldn't have
had La La Land, we would have never gotten Too
Wicked last year, Wicked two this year, I feel like
it brought back that passion and we had Greatest Showman
in twenty seventeen. I've had a lot of great musicals now.
It is harder now for me not to embrace the musical.
Got me loving musical, so at number four one of
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my favorite musicals. La La Land at number three from
twenty seventeen, followed it up the next year with Blade
Runner twenty forty nine. From director Denivilneuve, who also is
responsible for the Dune franchise, being a director over there.
Movie had a budget of about one point fifty to
one eighty five million dollars made two hundred and fifty
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eight million dollars at the box office. He plays a
young blade Runner named Kay whose discovery of a long
buried secret leads him to track down the former blade Runner,
who is played by Harrison Ford and in this movie
he has been missing for thirty years. Blade Runner twenty
forty nine has my favorite cinematography, my favorite set design
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out of any movie in the twenty tens. If I
could find myself living in one world, it would be
in the future that is Blade Runner twenty forty nine.
I love the world that is built in this movie.
I love the wardrobe, his big jacket. I love the
use of color in this movie. The oranges that are
very deep and burning and contrasting with the blues that
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are cool. Pairing those two together just looks fantastic. You
have Dave Batista in this movie, and it is hard
to make a sequel to a sci fi classic, and
putting Ryan Gosling in this role ensured that it was
gonna work because he gave a fantastic performance as k
I also just love his ring tone in this movie,
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which is the use of Peter in the Wolf, which
was something I learned in music class in elementary school
at d and End. So every time I think about
that tone, every time I think about that song, I
think about Ryan Gosling in Blade Runner twenty forty nine.
I have it at number three. At number two, I
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have The Place Beyond the Pines from twenty twelve from
the same director as Blue Valentine, which is another great
Ryan Gostling movie didn't quite make my list. Had a
budget of fifteen million dollars and went on to make
forty seven million. Also in this movie is Bradley Cooper
and Dane Dehn, who is a very quintessential twenty tens
actor for me. Ryan Gosling plays a stunt writer who
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is traveling around essentially kind of in a traveling circus,
kind of fair type thing. Finds out he got a
girl pregnant played by Eva Mendez, which this is also
the movie that they met on and now have been
married have kids together, but in this movie he accidentally
gets their pregnant, finds out he has a kid leaves
his life of being a stunt driver to settle down
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trying to make ends meet, not really finding luck with
getting a job that could earn him enough money to
take care of his new son, so he decides to
do what any normal person would decide to do, turn
to a life of crime and start robbing banks. And
the movie is a big, deep dive into the vicious
cycle of violence. Also not trying to be like your parents,
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and the way it interweaves all these lives together, from
Ryan Gosling to Bradley Cooper to Dane Dehan, and how
the movie shifts focus two or three times throughout. It's
a very complex way to tell a story. But if
you really sit down, allow yourself to enjoy this movie,
because I don't think it's entirely for everybody, but I
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just love the aesthetic of this movie. And Ryan Gosling's
character is so just infatuating in this where instantly when
you see him on screen, even though he's not a
great guy, you never really root for him. He's so cool.
He has like vintage T shirts, tight black pants, He
rides a motorcycle which is more of a dirt bike.
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He has tattoos, everywhere. I'd say more so than his
other roles. The best he's ever looked at a role,
and quite possibly the best any actor has ever looked
in a movie. He has bleach blonde hair. He's just
so cool because even though you don't like him and
root for him because he is doing bad things, because
he is screwing up time and time again, he's just
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so cool. You're like, man, I want to hang out
with that guy. I can see what even men is
in this movie season him. I can see why after
this movie they became a real couple. He's intoxicating, and
it's those types of people that were meant to be
movie stars that you just can't help but not take
your eyes off of them when they are on screen.
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You hang on to every word. And the interesting thing
about Ryan Gossling that I'll probably get into more in
my Number one is sometimes his characters don't have to
say a lot, but it's that mysteriousness. I mean, also
the fact that he's incredibly good looking, so he doesn't
have to say a whole lot. But to know as
an actor that you can take breath and be subtle
in your performance and really let the character breathe. That
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is just a really hard thing to do, and he
does it so well in this role that proves to
you that he can do something that nobody else really can.
To take a character who you don't like, who is
kind of the antagonist in his own life, but you
still go on a root for him a little bit.
But I love this movie so much. I think it
makes a great statement on the harsh nature of family,
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the hard things that you do just to try to
make it in this world. And I just think it
has such an unorthodox method of storytelling. And there's a
little long it's about two hours and twenty minutes, But
from when you start this movie to when you finish it,
you feel a lot of things. There are always great
things either, and I think it's because for me, I
like movies that don't wrap up how you want them to,
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that maybe at times leave some unanswered questions. And this
is a movie that also where you try to find
where do the good things happen? Sometimes I just like
not good things to happen, because that's how life is.
Not everything works out well in life. Sometimes bad things
happen for no reason whatsoever that you try to explain
and sometimes movies always have to have an explanation, always
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have to have a happy ending, sometimes always have to
have something that you learn. You do really have to
dig deep in this movie to find that lesson because
a lot of it is sad, so it'll kind of
make you depressed if you watch it. But I rewatched
it recently on Netflix, which I don't always like to
say what streaming services all these movies are on, because
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depending on when you listen, they get moves around so much.
So sometimes I use an app called just Watch, where
you can put in any movie title and they tell
you where it's streaming for free, and you can kind
of match that with what services you have. And this
sounds dumb to say, but if you just google it,
that's usually my best way to find where it's streaming
or where you can rent it for pretty cheap. But
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I just love this movie. I want to rip off
his wardrobe from this movie. At number two is the
Place Beyond the PONNDS. I do have some honorable mentions
before I get into my number one, The Nice Guys
from twenty sixteen, which was him and Russell Crowe. I
just think this movie wasn't marketed well it didn't do
so well at the box office, only had a profit
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of about nine million dollars. But that's a really good
movie that just doesn't get enough credit. Remember The Titans,
which we made earlier. I just feel that's not really
a Ryan Gosling movie, even though he is in it.
Also The Gray Man on Netflix, which came out in
twenty twenty two, which was directed by the Russo Brothers,
also starred Chris Sevans, wasn't really critically beloved, but it
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kind of marked his return to this style of action.
He played a rogue Cia assassin. So maybe not the
biggest bright spot in all of his filmography, but came
out at a time that maybe you missed a lot
of movies that came out in twenty twenty two. But
that is still a good watch on Netflix if you
haven't seen it. But at number one from twenty eleven
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and I would put this movie in my top ten
movies of all time, but it makes number one on
this list. It is Drive, which had a budget of
fifteen million dollars, went on to make eighty one point
four million dollars at the box office. Ryan Gosling plays
a mysterious Hollywood action stuntman. I guess he does kind
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of have a history of playing stuntman. Between the Place
Beyond the Pines and the Fog guy. Ah, here's my
dream interview now. I think him. Leonardo DiCaprio and Quentin
Tarantino are topped here. If I ever got to talk
to them would be amazing. I would want to know
what his fascination is with stuntman. Did he want to
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be a stuntman? His character finds himself in some trouble
with some gangsters when he tries to help his neighbor's
husband rob a ponn chopped while serving as his getaway driver.
So that's his thing. He works as a stuntman driving
cars during the day and then he works as the
getaway driver at night. His love interest in this movie
is Carrie Mulligan, and out of all the movies, this
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is the one with his best wardrobe of that iconic jacket.
He's the coolest in this movie. Him leaning up on
the car at night is a fantastic shot him driving
with the gloves, the elevator scene where he basically pummels
the dude right in front of Carry Mulligan. The fact
that he doesn't even have a name in this movie.
He's just known as the Driver. That is it again
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with Ryan Gosling. His roles are always very mysterious and like,
oh what is he thinking? But Drive also contains one
of my favorite uses of songs in a movie. There's
a really beautiful scene where him and Kerry Mulligan go
for a drive driving in Los Angeles with the sun
going down, and you hear the song A Real Hero,
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which is by an artist called College and Electric Youth,
which also feels very twenty tens, but it has like
that eighty synth style to it, that dun dum dum
dum and a Real Hero. I don't really sing a
whole lot, but I can't play clips that is how
that song goes. The moment that that happens in the movie,
I just feel this warm fuzziness inside that makes me
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realize why I love movies so much. Those scenes such
a simple story and to me, has great rewatchability. Even
though it's not really what you would consider to be
a comfort movie to most, it is to me one
of my favorites of all time. I have it as
number one my favorite Ryan Gosling movie. Twenty eleven's drive.
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Thanks to everybody who shared your picks with me on
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or send me an email moviemke d at gmail dot com.
I'll come back with my spoiler free review of Warfare.
Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie review
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of Warfare. Based on a true story about a surveillance
mission gone wrong for a group of American Navy Seals.
This movie is gut wrenching. The action is visceral. It
left me feeling stressed so much throughout this entire movie.
I knew it wasn't gonna be a happy watch just
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by the looks of the trailer. Whenever they show you
at the beginning of the movie where it's all the
soldiers having a good time bonding. This movie starts out
there all watching a music video, they laughing, hanging out.
You just know it's gonna get bad, and it gets
bad really quickly. This movie centers around a Navy seal
platoon who find themselves in a firefight with al Qaeda insurgents.
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They in the middle of the night go to this
house take over it so they can overlook this market
by all these people coming in and out of it.
And while they're in that house, the enemy becomes aware
of their location and they find themselves in an all
out firefight having to be extracted from this location. And
the entire movie is set on one day, November nineteenth,
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two thousand and six, in the wake of the Battle
of Ramandi. I hope I'm saying that correctly. It is
directed by Alex Garland, who last year did Civil War
also for A twenty four and co directed by Raymondoza,
who is the actual leader of this platoon in two
thousand and six, and it's all based on his and
everybody involves real accounts and real memories. That is how
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the story was written. So essentially it is a reenactment
of that day, and you feel it from the very
beginning of the movie. It is so silent and chilling.
I haven't been in a theater where it's been so quiet.
For about twenty to twenty five minutes early on in
the movie, when they're just doing surveillance, you hear people
eating popcorn, swirling their drinks, taking SIPs, and it was
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that quiet, and I struggle with movies that are really
quiet at the beginning, because that's always my snacking time
and I'm like, oh man, I'm over here stuff in
my face, crunching it up, and it's so loud. But
that's how just absent of any sound. The beginning of
this movie was because you hear how quiet they have
to be getting into this house and setting up. They
don't want to alert anybody, so they do it in
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the middle of the night, and they are quiet the
entire time they are doing surveillance until the enemy becomes
aware of their location and they start firing at this house.
That's when it gets really loud. And when I say loud,
this is one of the loudest movies I've seen in theaters,
probably since I remember going to see Venom two and
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for some reason, the it was so loud during the movie.
Whenever cartage was going off, I was like, I think
it's too loud. This was the loudest movie since that.
The gunshots had this level of base that I feel
sorry for any theater that was next to us, because
I'm sure it was overpowering. Probably down the hall you
hear everybody screaming for chicken jockey and we're in here
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experiencing something that felt so real and made me realize
that I don't know stress. Like I sometimes get caught
up into my weeks thinking I have a stressful job,
thinking life is stressful. When I look at what I
have going on in my life, it is nothing like
this one day that all these soldiers experience. That is
true stress. When there is the question of life and death.
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Getting out of a really dangerous situation, not knowing if
you're gonna go home, not knowing if you're gonna be
able to get your brothers out of this situation, that
is real stress. And as soon as I thought there's
no way this scenario could get any more stressful, there
were so many added layers as the story on, and
it just feels like when you hear them talk about
five minutes out, ten minutes out, that feels like an
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eternity to us. Five minutes, ten minutes, no problem, We'll
get you right out of there. But when it comes
to you don't know if you can make it one minute,
much less five minutes, you just realize how stressful all
these situations are. And I think that was just my
biggest takeaway of appreciation for anybody who fights for this country.
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I've always appreciated it because I've always known that I
never had the courage to do that. It takes a
much different type of person to go experience that. It
also got me to thinking about those people coming back
to this country and how we need to be taking
care of them more. Because watching an account like this
in a movie, oh, it's hard to say that it's
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entertaining for us. That is also why I struggled whenever
this trailer first came out, because I saw it and
I thought, that is my favorite type of war movie
that feels like a real life account that has that
gritty nature to it, and I see it as entertainment
because it is a great film. It's polarizing, it's really
has this level of excitement to it. But then you realize,
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in situations when we're talking about real people, this isn't
a made up storyline. This is all from memory. This
is all things that they experienced and what they remember
so vividly from that day. So I struggle sometimes thinking, oh,
this is my favorite type of war movie because it's
awful that people have to go through this. It's just
something I want to show an appreciation for and I
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hope that we watch movies like this and think about
that how we need to appreciate these individuals, not only
support them while they are overseas fighting for this country,
but also when they get back and have to deal
with the aftermath of this. Because while I'm watching this movie,
all I want is for all of them to get
out safely. I'm also starting to think about that's a
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long recovery process when they get back home, pain for them,
medical bills. There are so many added layers to it
that we don't see in this story. So I hope
movies like this do shed more light on how we
treat men and women from the military once they come back.
I think the way they told this story with that
real time account is probably the most impactful way they
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could do this story, because the entire movie just feels
like a journey. It's about ninety minutes long, and it
went by so quickly, and it is a graphic movie.
And that is obviously the main storyline of them fighting
back getting themselves out of there, but there are also
some bigger themes. I think the biggest theme I took
away from it is the theme of brotherhood. How all
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these individuals care for each other. How tight knit of
a group you have to be in these stressful situations,
knowing that everybody is doing their job to their best
of their ability, exceeding expectations, and also realizing the fact
that these are real humans, young men that are going
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through these situations, and you think they have to be superheroes,
they have to not let things affect them. But when
things get so crazy and they're in shock, I was
really grateful that the movie showed how that affects somebody
and how everybody reacts in a different way. They showed
it primarily with Will Poulter's character, who just witnessed something
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heinous and it affected him in a way that he
wasn't expecting to. He was the leader of them and
had to kind of take a step back because he
realized he wasn't good. I also learned five military terms
by watching this movie. Number one, show a force, which
is a demonstration of military power meant to intimidate or
warn the enemy. In the movie, they did this with
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jets flying over where they would fly really low and
quickly across where they were and it would cause just
like this big rush of wind and you see all
this dust and dirt go everywhere, and it would create
a little bit of a chaos, create a little bit
of a shield for them in situations where they were
setting up either them getting out, or they just needed
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the enemy to chill off for a little bit. So
that was probably the thing I had had no idea about,
but show force is number one. Number two was blood sweep.
Whenever a bomb goes off or you're caught in a
firefight and you need to check everybody to make sure
they don't have injuries that maybe they're not aware of,
so you do a blood sweep. You would see them
padding down their brothers to make sure they weren't bleeding
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from an area and not even know it. Because if
you miss something because you're adrenaline is running, maybe you
don't feel it, and maybe you have a really serious
injury that you don't know about, so you do a
blood sweep. Number three was Mike's, which I learned is
not movie Mike's. It is slaying for minutes. Never heard
that before. The one I had heard before and I
was familiar with was clicks, which is kilometers. They use
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that a lot in this movie as well. But that
one I knew Mike's, I did not. Number four was Bradley's,
which is a Bradley Fighting Vehicle also known as a BfV.
It is essentially an armed combat vehicle that they use
heavily armed. It's designed to transport them in and out
of situations. They also support them in battle. And number
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five was OP one, which I didn't know what it
stood for. Had to look it up after the movie,
but it stands for Observation Post number one, which in
this case was the location they set up in this
house that they took over in order to observe, report
on their enemies and potentially direct fire on. So those
are the five terms I learned show Force, Blood, Sweep, Mike's, Bradley's,
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and OP one. There were a lot of cast standouts
in this movie. I would say number one was Joseph Quinn,
who you might know from Stranger Things. He's going to
be in the New Fantastic Four movie this summer. He
is a star on the rise. I probably felt for
his character the most, and I feel like you had
to go to some real links to get this performance
out of them. Will Poulter was also great. Well. A
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lot of people just associate him with the kid from
where the miller's the wait, you guys are getting paid guy.
But he's also a really good actor. The Pharaoh Wona
Tie was also really good. He played Raymondoza, who co
directed the movie. I could tell that he was telling
the story from his perspective as the director because how
they focused on his character. I think that was one
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of the most humanizing elements of the story. He really
won me over. You might know him from Reservation Dogs,
but I think he was one of the newest standouts
of this cast. Michael Gandolfini was also really good in
this movie. He is James Gandalfini's son. I've been watching
actually just finish Daredevil Born Again, which he's also in
that of the two performances that he gives, and Daredevil
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in Warfare Think Here has a pretty good range there.
And also Taylor john Smith, who you might remember from
Where the Crawdads Sing. I would also put him in
my top five from this cast. But overall, I thought
this movie was fantastic. I think it might enter in
as one of my favorite war movies. And I do
have a bias because I find anything that I was
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alive during is just more impactful to me, So anything
from the Iraq War just really stands out above any
other war movie. I think it's also a really important movie,
and it really benefits by seeing it in theaters because
you can feel it. That silence at the beginning is
just so chilling, and how it gets so loud so quickly.
I don't really think that that would translate the same
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way at home. I love that anticipation, I love that
feeling of anxiety. I go to the movies to experience that.
So if you can still go see this movie in theaters,
I give it four point five out of five shows
a force. It's time to head down to movie. Mike
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Tylor Paul. A football movie is not going to be
just a football movie if it's produced by Jordan Peel
was one of my favorite directors working right now. Even
though he's not directing this movie, he's producing this movie,
which I do want to get into what a producer
actually does on a film. I think sometimes you hear
that thrown around, like, oh, George Corney is a producer
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on this, and different producers have different roles. Sometimes a
producer is merely just a name attached to a movie.
They get that credit. Sometimes maybe they pay a certain
amount and they are listed as a producer. Sometimes it's
just a vanity thing. But in the case of Jordan Peele,
it is much different, and we'll get into that. But
the movie we are talking about, it's called Him. It
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is a psychological horror movie. And what the movie is about.
You have this pro quarterback prospect named Cameron Caid. He's
training for the NFL Combine. He goes through a pretty
traumatic experience and then he starts working with Marlon Wayne's character,
who is a legendary quarterback in this world named Isaiah White.
They start working out on his isolated compound. And the
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question that this movie asks how much are you willing
to sacrifice to be the greatest of all time? This
movie is coming out on September nineteenth this year. Before
we get into it more, here's just a little bit
of the hymn trailer. Do you want this? I said,
do you want this?
Speaker 2 (40:10):
If you want to transcend the game, you have to
dig deep your mind, your body, have to be a
sink call it is.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
How hard you're willing to work?
Speaker 2 (40:25):
No days off. Mostly we grind. I'm never good enough.
I'm never good enough. That's how great people think.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Him stars former college wide receiver tay Rick Withers. You
might know him from Atlanta. He's also in the new
I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot, but he
plays a character named Cameron Caid who was a rising
star quarterback who has devoted his life his identity to football.
But on the eve of the Combine, he gets attacked
by an unh H fan and suffers a potentially career
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ending brain trauma. Right when all seems lost, he gets
a call from his hero, Isaiah White played by Marlon Wayans,
who in this movie is a legendary eight time championship
quarterback and cultural megastar. He offers to train Cam at
his isolated compound that he shares with his celebrity influencer wife,
Elise White, who was played by Julia Fox from Uncut Gems.
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You know she was Josh Safti's muse and Uncut Gems.
But as Cam's training accelerates, Isaiah's charisma begins to curdle
into something darker, sending his potential protege down a disorienting
rabbit hole that may cost him more than he bargained for.
This plot sounds fantastic. This trailer looks really good, really slick,
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and since he is a former college athlete, you can
tell in the trailer that he has the athleticism downright,
because sometimes in movies and really in TV shows, you
get somebody who looks the part when they try to
do all the mechanics of throwing of running, it just
doesn't look right. And for me sports movies, I always
get taken out of them whenever you have somebody there
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who just looks that they can't really throw a ball.
In this case, the first thirty forty seconds of this
trailer just look like a straight up Nike ad. It
looks like, it looks dark. You see him just working
so hard up until he has this traumatic event where
you see his head get mashed in by somebody else
and you see his brain kind of slosh around inside
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of his helmet. So I feel like this movie is
also going to be a commentary on CTE, but really
just asking that question, how much are you willing to
sacrifice to be the greatest of all time? Because after
that injury you see in the trailer, you see things
get weird and it looks like we're going to go
on a journey with this character of questioning reality. There
are a lot of scenes where there's a lot of
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fantasy elements where you see these characters who look straight
out of a horror movie attacking him. You see him
at the club and he's partying, but you see people
with these So this trailer has a lot of style.
It is what is referred to as a genre trailer,
where it doesn't give you a whole lot about the plot.
It's really putting it out there to show you the aesthetic,
to give you the vibe, to create that sense of horror.
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Because Marlon Wayans looks unhinged in the best way. I
don't think I've seen him in a movie since Air,
which he was really good in. He had a smaller
role in that, but that was more of a straight
ahead dramatic role. I used to love Wayns Brothers. I
would watch that TV show all the time, one of
the first TV shows that I got on DVD back
when that was huge. Whenever they would have seasons of
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a show on DVD, I was big into collecting those.
Had almost every season of The Simpsons on DVD box set,
and as soon as they put The Wayns Brothers out,
I'm like, we gotta get Season one of the Wayns Brothers.
But I love Marlon Wayans. He is an actor I've
always rooted for. I still think Hollywood did him dirty
when he was supposed to be Robin and Batman Returns
ended up being cut from that film, even though he's
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still made his hundred thousand dollars and actually still gets
royalty checks from that. But let's also talk about what
it means to be a producer on a movie. I'll
use Jordan Peel as an example here because this is
the time when I feel it really matters a producer
in the sense of Jordan Peele, because if you look
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at some of the movies that Jordan Peele has produced recently,
like Monkey Man, Candy Man, Black Klansman, even Keanu in
twenty sixteen, which he also started, and that was I
believe his first credit as a producer, and I feel
like over time it has become a lot different to
say that you have Jordan Peele producing your movie. But
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what a producer's responsibility is, if you're a great producer
like Jordan Peele, they choose and they develop the story,
They hire some creative key talent, some producers even provide
financial backing or they find people to fund the movie.
And in the case of Jordan Peele, where I feel
he really shines is giving create guidance. For Candy Man,
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he was hands on part of the creative force. He
also co wrote that movie and was responsible for shaping
the direction of the movie. He is the overseer, the
guiding light to the director in that case. For Candy
Man and Monkey Man, he played more of the role
of champion. He was a big advocate for that movie.
He saw an early cut of Def Patel's movie and
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was so impressed that he helped him secure a deal
with Universal Pictures. So that another big part of being
a producer is finding somebody to distribute the movie. Jordan
Peel himself has his company Monkey Pop Productions, which also
just putting his production company's name on a movie gives
it that seal of approval. So it's having the connections,
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giving that creative support, having oversight on the project without
shadowing the director's vision. That is the role of a
great producer. But I'm definitely going to be there on
September nineteenth, that check out him said. That was this
Link's edition of movie line bar and that is going
to do it for another episode here of the podcast.
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But before I go, I got to give my listener
shout out of the week. Last week had Ryan Coogler
on the podcast, which was awesome. I was so happy
to see Sinner's Crush at the box office, which shows
that we are taking a step in the right direction.
I want to see more original movies be number one
at the box office, so I'm always going to share
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those reviews with you, always going to share those original
films with you on the Trailer Park. But since we
had an interview last week, we had the secret emoji,
the vampire emoji. This week's listener shout out goes to
Tammy C who hit me with that vampire emoji on
X and said, thank you for taking me down memory
lane with a goofy movie. I watched it after with
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my twelve year old son. He laughed, submission accomplished. I
will watch the documentary Vampire Emoji. That is one of
the coolest messages I've ever sived, because I'm still waiting
for that to have a kid to share a goofy
movie with. But to know that a twelve year old
watched that and enjoyed it and it didn't feel ancient
to them because even rewatching it on Disney Plus, I
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realize now that the animation. I still think the actual
mechanics of the animation is great. There's a lot of
attention to detail. There's one scene that still blew my
mind in a Goofy movie Whenever Goofy is laying down
in the hotel bed depressed, and then the camera pans
in a way where it kind of tilts, and then
it's him driving the car. I thought that was fantastic animation,
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but the style itself feels a little bit dated at times.
So to know because they didn't have the budget, but
to know that a twelve year old watched it, enjoyed
it and could see past that and laughed at the movie,
that is a major win. So thank you for sharing that,
Tammy C. Hope you go and watch and enjoy that
documentary and maybe I can recommend some more classics for
you and your twelve year old son to check out.
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So you're this week's listener shout out of the week.
Thank you everybody for listening, and until next time, go
out and watch good movie. He said, I will talk
to you later.
Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike. Today I want to share
with you what I believe to be are the top
ten Ryan Gossling movies of all time. In the movie review,
a movie that moved me immensely, Warfare based on a
true story set in Iraq in two thousand and six,
in real life account of one Day at War. And
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in the trailer Park, we'll talk about the new horror
movie produced by Jordan Peel called Him. We'll talk about
what a producer does. Thank you for being here, Thank
you for being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday Morning
movie crew. I love you guys. And now let's talk
movies from the Nashville Podcast Network. This is Movie Mike
Movie Podcast. I wanted to dedicate today's episode to one
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of my favorite actors that I feel I have not
highlighted enough. I've been talking recently about how much I
love Leonardo DiCaprio and how I will probably watch anything
that he is in, and I started thinking of who
are the other actors in that category that no matter
what they put out, I'm going to enjoy. And I
started thinking about Ryan Gostling. How every movie he puts
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out is great. And not only that, but when I
look at his filmography, he has such a range of
different genres that he likes to dip his toes in.
Whether it's romance, whether it's thriller, whether it's a comedy,
whether it's sci fi. He can do it all, and
he does it really well, and unlike a lot of actors,
he rarely misses. So I wanted to share with you
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what I believe to be are the top ten Ryan
Gosling movies of all time. But before we get into that,
let's talk about Ryan Gostling when he was just a
boy growing up in Canada who had big dreams of
becoming an actor. His first taste of the spotlight came
when he was just twelve years old after a successful
audition landed him in the Mickey Mouse Club, and suddenly
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he was hanging out with a bunch of future stars
like Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera. That show only
lasted a couple of seasons, but it started to lay
the foundation of his career in entertainment. After that, he
started to get small roles on TV shows like Goosebumps,
which I did revisit on Netflix. He's in the episode
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See Che's and Die, a classic episode. I remember loving
reading those books as a kid and watching the TV show.
The theme song alone always gave me nightmares, But that's
a great episode, and it's always fun to go back
and see somebody before they were famous in that. He
also had a role and Are You Afraid of the Dark.
But his first big breakthrough role that had him at
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the forefront was a two thousand film called The Believer.
Before that, he had also had a small role in
the two thousands movie Remember the Titan, So we started
gaining this momentum, and then in two thousand and four
he landed one of his biggest roles ever, The Notebook,
which went on to be a global sensation. From there,
he started building out an impressive resume in Hollywood, balancing
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what I've been talking about, that indie credibility and also
that blockbuster appeal. Very few actors can pull both of
those things off. Why I love Ryan Gosling. He always
brings that intensity, that vulnerability as well, which is hard
to pair the two together because it's hard to be
an intense character that you believe can kick your butt,
but also a person who can be vulnerable that you
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feel for emotionally, that you can see them like, oh,
pulling back the layers and they can shed a tear
and you feel it too. But he's also incredibly cool,
has charisma out the butt. All those things put together
is the Ryan Gosling signature style. So that is why
I want to share with you this list. Let's get
into it now. At number ten, I have First Man
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from director Damien Chazelle. The movie costs fifty nine million
dollars to make and went on to earn about one
hundred and five million dollars back in twenty eighteen when
it came out. This movie was a look at the
life of the astronaut Neil Armstrong and the legendary space
mission that led him to become the first man to
walk on the Moon on July twentieth, nineteen sixty nine.
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Biopicks are really hard to do, and I thought Ryan
Gosling nailed this role him as Neil Armstrong. I feel
was maybe a little bit too subdued for audiences where
they didn't quite get it, because it's hard to play
somebody that not everybody knows all the things about their personality,
because when somebody plays a famous figure like a musician,
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you know how they are on stage and you know
the manurisms you're looking for. It is really hard to
take on a character like Neil Armstrong where you don't
really know all those idiosyncrasies. But I thought the way
you approached it was very methodical and really powerful, showing
you that not every hero that gets their own biopick
has to be somebody who flips out crazily, has to
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scream like a madman, which I feel maybe that has
held them back on not winning an Oscar, because it
almost feels like anybody who wins Best Actor always has
a role where they're like freaking out and yelling at
somebody and tying that it almost takes that level of
intensity to win an Oscar, and I think a role
like Neil Armstrong was probably a lot harder to pull off.
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So out of all the ten on my list, do
I think this is the one that should have won
him the Oscar? No, but I think this movie was fantastic.
I'm also fascinated with Space. Twenty ten's was pretty big
for space movies. You had movies like First Man and
The Martian and gravity. I mean, Hollywood has always been
obsessed with space, but I really love this movie. So
at number ten, I have First Man. At number nine
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from twenty twenty four, I have The Fall Guy, which
had a budget of one hundred and thirty million dollars
only made one hundred and eighty one million dollars, so
not entirely profitable. It was the movie based on the
TV show from Back in the Day. Ryan Gosling plays
a stuntman who almost has essentially a fatal accident that
takes him out for a while. He retires from being
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a stunt man, but then the love of his life
is directing a movie. She loses her movie star, and
Ryan Gosling comes in to save the day to be
a stuntman on her movie, but also help her find
your star to save the film. I really enjoyed how
meta this movie was because it is a movie about
making a movie. There's a lot of behind the scenes jokes,
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so maybe at times it gets a little bit too meta,
and that's kind of what deterred audiences from it. I
also think at the time this movie came out was
like the start of the blockbuster season. It didn't really
build a lot of hype. Even though you had two
stars with Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling together, I just
think the story was a little bit of a hard sell.
Even though this movie is a lot of fun. Ryan
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Gosling has an amazing time in this doing all the stunts,
a lot of great costumes and fashion, which is always
something I'm infatuated with when it comes to Ryan Gosling,
and I just think he does action in comedy really
well together. And you put both of those things bam
right into this movie. It was everything I wanted from
a Ryan Gosling film. So maybe it's not as groundbreaking
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all of his other work because I like the fact
that he can just have fun in a role, and
that is something he's handled going back and forth with
with all the roles he takes. He takes the fun roll,
he takes the more serious role, and he can go
back and forth and I don't second guess it whatsoever.
At number nine, I have The fall Guy. At number eight.
From two thousand and four, I have The Notebook. Had
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a budget of twenty nine million dollars, made one hundred
and sixteen point two million dollars at the box office.
This is the movie that put him on the map
as far as a list level star. This comes out,
it's a hit. What's interesting about this even though it's
his most famous role, I don't think it's his best.
That's why I put it at number eight. And it
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was his portrayal of Noah and his chemistry with Rachel
McAdams that made it one of the best romantic movies
of all time, but definitely of our generation. This is
the quintessential romance movie for the two thousands that everybody
watched that guys would be a shame that they watched
and enjoyed. And Ryan Gosling could have been that next
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big romance guy because of this movie, much like what
happened with Matthew McConaughey, that started to be the rom
com guy that any rom com that came out and
they needed a nay list star, they would go to McConaughey.
And later in his career he realized, I don't want
to do that anymore. I don't want to be the
rom com guy, and he shifted and stopped taking those roles.
Ryan Gosling easily could have made a bank doing movie
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after movie like this, And I think the Notebook at
times is classified as a rom com even though it's
more drama. But if you google it, it says the
notebook rom com. Ryan Gosling could have been a rom
com guy, but he was very strategic in the roles
he took and didn't typecast himself as this, which I
bet was so tempting to do because that's just money
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on the table, probably throwing bags of cash at him. Ryan,
do this role, you'd be great in it. And he
could have done it and audiences would have accepted that,
but he would not have had as dynamic of a
career if he would have just taken the money. I
think he made the right decision because to me, he
has done so much better work since then. That's why
I have their notebook at number eight. At number seven,
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I have The Big Short from twenty fifteen director Adam McKay.
Movie had a budget of twenty eight million dollars, made
one hundred and thirty two zero point six million dollars
at the box office. What it's about, It's about the bubble.
The bubble in two thousand and six. In two thousand
and seven, a group of investors bet against the US
mortgage market, and their research they discovered how flawed and
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corrupt the market was. They started realizing that the banks
were giving out loans without any restrictions on them. Hey
you want some money, let me give it to you. You
want to buy a house that you're not gonna be
able to afford, I got you. And they saw this bubble,
they saw it was gonna pop, and they saw everything
was gonna come raining down, so they bet against the
US mortgage market. And not only did I enjoy all
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the people involved in this movie, because obviously it's a
great Ryan Gosling role, which is why I have it
at number seven, but it proved to me how he
could stack up against other A List stars, because not
only do you have Ryan Gosling, you have Brad Pitt,
you have Christian Bale, you have Steve Carell. And out
of all those people in this movie sacked with A
List stars, Ryan Gosling still stood out his fourth wall
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breaking narration. He played a very slick guy on Wall Street.
It showcased his versatility and comfort with satirical humor, fast
paced dialogue, and was a part of his collection of
movies in the twenty tens, which I feel if you
could dedicate one actor to an entire decade, twenty tens,
Ryan Gosling, Like that is it for me? I think
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he shines out of any other actor he owned the
twenty tens. If I had one actor from the twenty tens,
it would be Ryan Gosling. One actors from the twenty tens,
it would be Jennifer Lawrence. A fantastic movie that also
teaches you about things you may have no idea about.
I feel like I learned a lot about the economy
from watching The Big Short. Amazing performances at number seven,
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The Big Short at number six from twenty eleven, Crazy Stupid,
Love Again. Twenty ten's Ryan Gosling Is Just Untouchable. Had
a budget of fifty million dollars, made one hundred and
forty six million dollars at the box office. You have,
of course, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell again Emma Stone, and
the two of them have fantastic chemistry together. It's about
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a middle aged husband's life who changes dramatically when his
wife asks him for a divorce. He seeks to rediscover
his manhood with the help of his newfound friend, Jacob
played by Ryan Gosling. Looking to pick up girls, at
bars he is coaching him and this movie has one
of the best twists of any rom com. And even
know the movie is ten years old, I won't spoil it,
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but it is one that the first time I watched it,
I probably audibly gasped. I think this movie is one
of the best examples of his comedic timing, but it
all comes down to his romantic chemistry with Emma Stone.
That scene where she's looking at his abs and she's like,
oh my gosh, what are you photoshopped? I feel that
to most people, this is probably quintessential Ryan Gosling as
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far as his physique. When people have an image of
an actor sometimes and they associate him with one role,
I feel like this is going to be that one
because he's probably in the best shape of his life,
even though it looks really great now, Like if you
saw his abs in Barbie Dude still has it, but
compared with all his other features and the age he
was while he made this movie, I feel like this
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is the poster everybody would put up on their wall
of Ryan Gosling to show how attractive of a man
he is. And I think when we watch actors on
TV or in movies, we associate them with that age always,
so I feel like people have this image of Ryan
Gosling from Crazy Stupid Love that maybe in another twenty
years if you met him out in public, he'd be like, oh, man,
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you don't look quiet like you did back in twenty eleven.
That is unfair to actors because we have associate them,
especially childhood actors, which he is a childhood actor, but
you associate them with the age they were in the
thing that you saw them in, and then you see
him older and you're like, oh, you don't look so
great anymore. Like bro, we all age. We treat them
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so unfairly. But this is a great movie and one
that has great rewatchability. That's why it ranks pretty high
on my list at number six. I have Crazy Stupid
Love at number five from twenty twenty three. It is
Barbie director Greta Gerwig, who is one of my favorite
directors right now. Probably put her in my top ten,
if not my top five. The movie had a budget
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of one hundred and forty five million dollars went on
to make a whopping one point forty four billion with
the Bead. It is Ryan Gosling's highest grossing movie that
he stars in. That says a lot. Kannuff said, also
showcases his incredible vocal talents, a very self aware role
that had such a pop culture moment, and I think
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a large part of that was Ryan Gosling and the
singing it led up to the performance at the Oscars.
Even though I still feel like Margot Robbie is obviously
the star of the movie, it was also the journey
of Ken and their relationship that made it one of
the most memorable and biggest movies of that year, and
it allowed him to have that big mainstream success, finally
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getting a billion dollar movie under his belt. And when
you think about that, that does still introduce you to
new audiences. Even though he was and still is at
the top of his game, everybody knows who Ryan Gosling is,
got him another Oscar nomination. I thought he would have
got close to winning one for this movie, but sadly
he did not. Still at number five, I have Barbie
at number four from twenty sixteen is La La Land.
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Again we find him working with Damian Chazelle. Damien Chazelle
also did movies like Whiplash and Babylon. We mentioned him
earlier When talking about First Man, the movie coused thirty
million dollars to make, which is pretty nuts to make
a movie. They got so much critical acclaim. I would
say out of all the movies in Ryan Gosling's career,
this has the most critical acclaim And it's a rare
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case of having that critical acclaim and also having a
big fan base because the movie made four hundred and
seventy two million dollars at the box office, and this
would be the best showcase of Ryan Gosling's musical talent.
He plays a character named Sebastian who plays piano, again
teaming up with Emma Stone who plays Mia, who is
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an actress, both living in Los Angeles following their passion,
trying to achieve success in their respective fields, and they
find themselves torn between chasing their dreams and their love
for each other, which is just the great dynamic of storytelling.
And I think the relatability to people is what made
this movie really sink in emotionally. Then you also have
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all the fantastic songs, the big musical numbers taking over
the LA Highway. I think this is one of the
best examples of him giving a performance that is charming, flawed,
and just outright human. He was singing, he was dancing,
he was playing piano, he was breaking hearts. He was
doing all the things that make him him and again
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earning him an Oscar nomination. If there is one movie
he should have won an Oscar for, it should have
been This Role. Movie should have won Best Picture. It
did not. There was that entire controversy where they said
it did and then ended up not went to Moonlight,
which I love Moonlight, but I still think this would
have been a better representation of twenty sixteen because I
feel like La La Land is responsible for redefining the
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musical genre, which is back now. If we wouldn't have
had La La Land, we would have never gotten Too
Wicked last year, Wicked two this year, I feel like
it brought back that passion and we had Greatest Showman
in twenty seventeen. I've had a lot of great musicals now.
It is harder now for me not to embrace the musical.
Got me loving musical, so at number four one of
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my favorite musicals. La La Land at number three from
twenty seventeen, followed it up the next year with Blade
Runner twenty forty nine. From director Denivilneuve, who also is
responsible for the Dune franchise, being a director over there.
Movie had a budget of about one point fifty to
one eighty five million dollars made two hundred and fifty
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eight million dollars at the box office. He plays a
young blade Runner named Kay whose discovery of a long
buried secret leads him to track down the former blade Runner,
who is played by Harrison Ford and in this movie
he has been missing for thirty years. Blade Runner twenty
forty nine has my favorite cinematography, my favorite set design
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out of any movie in the twenty tens. If I
could find myself living in one world, it would be
in the future that is Blade Runner twenty forty nine.
I love the world that is built in this movie.
I love the wardrobe, his big jacket. I love the
use of color in this movie. The oranges that are
very deep and burning and contrasting with the blues that
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are cool. Pairing those two together just looks fantastic. You
have Dave Batista in this movie, and it is hard
to make a sequel to a sci fi classic, and
putting Ryan Gosling in this role ensured that it was
gonna work because he gave a fantastic performance as k
I also just love his ring tone in this movie,
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which is the use of Peter in the Wolf, which
was something I learned in music class in elementary school
at d and End. So every time I think about
that tone, every time I think about that song, I
think about Ryan Gosling in Blade Runner twenty forty nine.
I have it at number three. At number two, I
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have The Place Beyond the Pines from twenty twelve from
the same director as Blue Valentine, which is another great
Ryan Gostling movie didn't quite make my list. Had a
budget of fifteen million dollars and went on to make
forty seven million. Also in this movie is Bradley Cooper
and Dane Dehn, who is a very quintessential twenty tens
actor for me. Ryan Gosling plays a stunt writer who
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is traveling around essentially kind of in a traveling circus,
kind of fair type thing. Finds out he got a
girl pregnant played by Eva Mendez, which this is also
the movie that they met on and now have been
married have kids together, but in this movie he accidentally
gets their pregnant, finds out he has a kid leaves
his life of being a stunt driver to settle down
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trying to make ends meet, not really finding luck with
getting a job that could earn him enough money to
take care of his new son, so he decides to
do what any normal person would decide to do, turn
to a life of crime and start robbing banks. And
the movie is a big, deep dive into the vicious
cycle of violence. Also not trying to be like your parents,
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and the way it interweaves all these lives together, from
Ryan Gosling to Bradley Cooper to Dane Dehan, and how
the movie shifts focus two or three times throughout. It's
a very complex way to tell a story. But if
you really sit down, allow yourself to enjoy this movie,
because I don't think it's entirely for everybody, but I
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just love the aesthetic of this movie. And Ryan Gosling's
character is so just infatuating in this where instantly when
you see him on screen, even though he's not a
great guy, you never really root for him. He's so cool.
He has like vintage T shirts, tight black pants, He
rides a motorcycle which is more of a dirt bike.
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He has tattoos, everywhere. I'd say more so than his
other roles. The best he's ever looked at a role,
and quite possibly the best any actor has ever looked
in a movie. He has bleach blonde hair. He's just
so cool because even though you don't like him and
root for him because he is doing bad things, because
he is screwing up time and time again, he's just
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so cool. You're like, man, I want to hang out
with that guy. I can see what even men is
in this movie season him. I can see why after
this movie they became a real couple. He's intoxicating, and
it's those types of people that were meant to be
movie stars that you just can't help but not take
your eyes off of them when they are on screen.
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You hang on to every word. And the interesting thing
about Ryan Gossling that I'll probably get into more in
my Number one is sometimes his characters don't have to
say a lot, but it's that mysteriousness. I mean, also
the fact that he's incredibly good looking, so he doesn't
have to say a whole lot. But to know as
an actor that you can take breath and be subtle
in your performance and really let the character breathe. That
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is just a really hard thing to do, and he
does it so well in this role that proves to
you that he can do something that nobody else really can.
To take a character who you don't like, who is
kind of the antagonist in his own life, but you
still go on a root for him a little bit.
But I love this movie so much. I think it
makes a great statement on the harsh nature of family,
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the hard things that you do just to try to
make it in this world. And I just think it
has such an unorthodox method of storytelling. And there's a
little long it's about two hours and twenty minutes, But
from when you start this movie to when you finish it,
you feel a lot of things. There are always great
things either, and I think it's because for me, I
like movies that don't wrap up how you want them to,
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that maybe at times leave some unanswered questions. And this
is a movie that also where you try to find
where do the good things happen? Sometimes I just like
not good things to happen, because that's how life is.
Not everything works out well in life. Sometimes bad things
happen for no reason whatsoever that you try to explain
and sometimes movies always have to have an explanation, always
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have to have a happy ending, sometimes always have to
have something that you learn. You do really have to
dig deep in this movie to find that lesson because
a lot of it is sad, so it'll kind of
make you depressed if you watch it. But I rewatched
it recently on Netflix, which I don't always like to
say what streaming services all these movies are on, because
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depending on when you listen, they get moves around so much.
So sometimes I use an app called just Watch, where
you can put in any movie title and they tell
you where it's streaming for free, and you can kind
of match that with what services you have. And this
sounds dumb to say, but if you just google it,
that's usually my best way to find where it's streaming
or where you can rent it for pretty cheap. But
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I just love this movie. I want to rip off
his wardrobe from this movie. At number two is the
Place Beyond the PONNDS. I do have some honorable mentions
before I get into my number one, The Nice Guys
from twenty sixteen, which was him and Russell Crowe. I
just think this movie wasn't marketed well it didn't do
so well at the box office, only had a profit
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of about nine million dollars. But that's a really good
movie that just doesn't get enough credit. Remember The Titans,
which we made earlier. I just feel that's not really
a Ryan Gosling movie, even though he is in it.
Also The Gray Man on Netflix, which came out in
twenty twenty two, which was directed by the Russo Brothers,
also starred Chris Sevans, wasn't really critically beloved, but it
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kind of marked his return to this style of action.
He played a rogue Cia assassin. So maybe not the
biggest bright spot in all of his filmography, but came
out at a time that maybe you missed a lot
of movies that came out in twenty twenty two. But
that is still a good watch on Netflix if you
haven't seen it. But at number one from twenty eleven
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and I would put this movie in my top ten
movies of all time, but it makes number one on
this list. It is Drive, which had a budget of
fifteen million dollars, went on to make eighty one point
four million dollars at the box office. Ryan Gosling plays
a mysterious Hollywood action stuntman. I guess he does kind
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of have a history of playing stuntman. Between the Place
Beyond the Pines and the Fog guy. Ah, here's my
dream interview now. I think him. Leonardo DiCaprio and Quentin
Tarantino are topped here. If I ever got to talk
to them would be amazing. I would want to know
what his fascination is with stuntman. Did he want to
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be a stuntman? His character finds himself in some trouble
with some gangsters when he tries to help his neighbor's
husband rob a ponn chopped while serving as his getaway driver.
So that's his thing. He works as a stuntman driving
cars during the day and then he works as the
getaway driver at night. His love interest in this movie
is Carrie Mulligan, and out of all the movies, this
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is the one with his best wardrobe of that iconic jacket.
He's the coolest in this movie. Him leaning up on
the car at night is a fantastic shot him driving
with the gloves, the elevator scene where he basically pummels
the dude right in front of Carry Mulligan. The fact
that he doesn't even have a name in this movie.
He's just known as the Driver. That is it again
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with Ryan Gosling. His roles are always very mysterious and like,
oh what is he thinking? But Drive also contains one
of my favorite uses of songs in a movie. There's
a really beautiful scene where him and Kerry Mulligan go
for a drive driving in Los Angeles with the sun
going down, and you hear the song A Real Hero,
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which is by an artist called College and Electric Youth,
which also feels very twenty tens, but it has like
that eighty synth style to it, that dun dum dum
dum and a Real Hero. I don't really sing a
whole lot, but I can't play clips that is how
that song goes. The moment that that happens in the movie,
I just feel this warm fuzziness inside that makes me
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realize why I love movies so much. Those scenes such
a simple story and to me, has great rewatchability. Even
though it's not really what you would consider to be
a comfort movie to most, it is to me one
of my favorites of all time. I have it as
number one my favorite Ryan Gosling movie. Twenty eleven's drive.
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I'll come back with my spoiler free review of Warfare.
Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie review
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of Warfare. Based on a true story about a surveillance
mission gone wrong for a group of American Navy Seals.
This movie is gut wrenching. The action is visceral. It
left me feeling stressed so much throughout this entire movie.
I knew it wasn't gonna be a happy watch just
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by the looks of the trailer. Whenever they show you
at the beginning of the movie where it's all the
soldiers having a good time bonding. This movie starts out
there all watching a music video, they laughing, hanging out.
You just know it's gonna get bad, and it gets
bad really quickly. This movie centers around a Navy seal
platoon who find themselves in a firefight with al Qaeda insurgents.
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They in the middle of the night go to this
house take over it so they can overlook this market
by all these people coming in and out of it.
And while they're in that house, the enemy becomes aware
of their location and they find themselves in an all
out firefight having to be extracted from this location. And
the entire movie is set on one day, November nineteenth,
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two thousand and six, in the wake of the Battle
of Ramandi. I hope I'm saying that correctly. It is
directed by Alex Garland, who last year did Civil War
also for A twenty four and co directed by Raymondoza,
who is the actual leader of this platoon in two
thousand and six, and it's all based on his and
everybody involves real accounts and real memories. That is how
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the story was written. So essentially it is a reenactment
of that day, and you feel it from the very
beginning of the movie. It is so silent and chilling.
I haven't been in a theater where it's been so quiet.
For about twenty to twenty five minutes early on in
the movie, when they're just doing surveillance, you hear people
eating popcorn, swirling their drinks, taking SIPs, and it was
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that quiet, and I struggle with movies that are really
quiet at the beginning, because that's always my snacking time
and I'm like, oh man, I'm over here stuff in
my face, crunching it up, and it's so loud. But
that's how just absent of any sound. The beginning of
this movie was because you hear how quiet they have
to be getting into this house and setting up. They
don't want to alert anybody, so they do it in
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the middle of the night, and they are quiet the
entire time they are doing surveillance until the enemy becomes
aware of their location and they start firing at this house.
That's when it gets really loud. And when I say loud,
this is one of the loudest movies I've seen in theaters,
probably since I remember going to see Venom two and
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for some reason, the it was so loud during the movie.
Whenever cartage was going off, I was like, I think
it's too loud. This was the loudest movie since that.
The gunshots had this level of base that I feel
sorry for any theater that was next to us, because
I'm sure it was overpowering. Probably down the hall you
hear everybody screaming for chicken jockey and we're in here
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experiencing something that felt so real and made me realize
that I don't know stress. Like I sometimes get caught
up into my weeks thinking I have a stressful job,
thinking life is stressful. When I look at what I
have going on in my life, it is nothing like
this one day that all these soldiers experience. That is
true stress. When there is the question of life and death.
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Getting out of a really dangerous situation, not knowing if
you're gonna go home, not knowing if you're gonna be
able to get your brothers out of this situation, that
is real stress. And as soon as I thought there's
no way this scenario could get any more stressful, there
were so many added layers as the story on, and
it just feels like when you hear them talk about
five minutes out, ten minutes out, that feels like an
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eternity to us. Five minutes, ten minutes, no problem, We'll
get you right out of there. But when it comes
to you don't know if you can make it one minute,
much less five minutes, you just realize how stressful all
these situations are. And I think that was just my
biggest takeaway of appreciation for anybody who fights for this country.
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I've always appreciated it because I've always known that I
never had the courage to do that. It takes a
much different type of person to go experience that. It
also got me to thinking about those people coming back
to this country and how we need to be taking
care of them more. Because watching an account like this
in a movie, oh, it's hard to say that it's
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entertaining for us. That is also why I struggled whenever
this trailer first came out, because I saw it and
I thought, that is my favorite type of war movie
that feels like a real life account that has that
gritty nature to it, and I see it as entertainment
because it is a great film. It's polarizing, it's really
has this level of excitement to it. But then you realize,
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in situations when we're talking about real people, this isn't
a made up storyline. This is all from memory. This
is all things that they experienced and what they remember
so vividly from that day. So I struggle sometimes thinking, oh,
this is my favorite type of war movie because it's
awful that people have to go through this. It's just
something I want to show an appreciation for and I
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hope that we watch movies like this and think about
that how we need to appreciate these individuals, not only
support them while they are overseas fighting for this country,
but also when they get back and have to deal
with the aftermath of this. Because while I'm watching this movie,
all I want is for all of them to get
out safely. I'm also starting to think about that's a
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long recovery process when they get back home, pain for them,
medical bills. There are so many added layers to it
that we don't see in this story. So I hope
movies like this do shed more light on how we
treat men and women from the military once they come back.
I think the way they told this story with that
real time account is probably the most impactful way they
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could do this story, because the entire movie just feels
like a journey. It's about ninety minutes long, and it
went by so quickly, and it is a graphic movie.
And that is obviously the main storyline of them fighting
back getting themselves out of there, but there are also
some bigger themes. I think the biggest theme I took
away from it is the theme of brotherhood. How all
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these individuals care for each other. How tight knit of
a group you have to be in these stressful situations,
knowing that everybody is doing their job to their best
of their ability, exceeding expectations, and also realizing the fact
that these are real humans, young men that are going
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through these situations, and you think they have to be superheroes,
they have to not let things affect them. But when
things get so crazy and they're in shock, I was
really grateful that the movie showed how that affects somebody
and how everybody reacts in a different way. They showed
it primarily with Will Poulter's character, who just witnessed something
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heinous and it affected him in a way that he
wasn't expecting to. He was the leader of them and
had to kind of take a step back because he
realized he wasn't good. I also learned five military terms
by watching this movie. Number one, show a force, which
is a demonstration of military power meant to intimidate or
warn the enemy. In the movie, they did this with
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jets flying over where they would fly really low and
quickly across where they were and it would cause just
like this big rush of wind and you see all
this dust and dirt go everywhere, and it would create
a little bit of a chaos, create a little bit
of a shield for them in situations where they were
setting up either them getting out, or they just needed
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the enemy to chill off for a little bit. So
that was probably the thing I had had no idea about,
but show force is number one. Number two was blood sweep.
Whenever a bomb goes off or you're caught in a
firefight and you need to check everybody to make sure
they don't have injuries that maybe they're not aware of,
so you do a blood sweep. You would see them
padding down their brothers to make sure they weren't bleeding
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from an area and not even know it. Because if
you miss something because you're adrenaline is running, maybe you
don't feel it, and maybe you have a really serious
injury that you don't know about, so you do a
blood sweep. Number three was Mike's, which I learned is
not movie Mike's. It is slaying for minutes. Never heard
that before. The one I had heard before and I
was familiar with was clicks, which is kilometers. They use
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that a lot in this movie as well. But that
one I knew Mike's, I did not. Number four was Bradley's,
which is a Bradley Fighting Vehicle also known as a BfV.
It is essentially an armed combat vehicle that they use
heavily armed. It's designed to transport them in and out
of situations. They also support them in battle. And number
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five was OP one, which I didn't know what it
stood for. Had to look it up after the movie,
but it stands for Observation Post number one, which in
this case was the location they set up in this
house that they took over in order to observe, report
on their enemies and potentially direct fire on. So those
are the five terms I learned show Force, Blood, Sweep, Mike's, Bradley's,
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and OP one. There were a lot of cast standouts
in this movie. I would say number one was Joseph Quinn,
who you might know from Stranger Things. He's going to
be in the New Fantastic Four movie this summer. He
is a star on the rise. I probably felt for
his character the most, and I feel like you had
to go to some real links to get this performance
out of them. Will Poulter was also great. Well. A
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lot of people just associate him with the kid from
where the miller's the wait, you guys are getting paid guy.
But he's also a really good actor. The Pharaoh Wona
Tie was also really good. He played Raymondoza, who co
directed the movie. I could tell that he was telling
the story from his perspective as the director because how
they focused on his character. I think that was one
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of the most humanizing elements of the story. He really
won me over. You might know him from Reservation Dogs,
but I think he was one of the newest standouts
of this cast. Michael Gandolfini was also really good in
this movie. He is James Gandalfini's son. I've been watching
actually just finish Daredevil Born Again, which he's also in
that of the two performances that he gives, and Daredevil
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in Warfare Think Here has a pretty good range there.
And also Taylor john Smith, who you might remember from
Where the Crawdads Sing. I would also put him in
my top five from this cast. But overall, I thought
this movie was fantastic. I think it might enter in
as one of my favorite war movies. And I do
have a bias because I find anything that I was
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alive during is just more impactful to me, So anything
from the Iraq War just really stands out above any
other war movie. I think it's also a really important movie,
and it really benefits by seeing it in theaters because
you can feel it. That silence at the beginning is
just so chilling, and how it gets so loud so quickly.
I don't really think that that would translate the same
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way at home. I love that anticipation, I love that
feeling of anxiety. I go to the movies to experience that.
So if you can still go see this movie in theaters,
I give it four point five out of five shows
a force. It's time to head down to movie. Mike
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Tylor Paul. A football movie is not going to be
just a football movie if it's produced by Jordan Peel
was one of my favorite directors working right now. Even
though he's not directing this movie, he's producing this movie,
which I do want to get into what a producer
actually does on a film. I think sometimes you hear
that thrown around, like, oh, George Corney is a producer
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on this, and different producers have different roles. Sometimes a
producer is merely just a name attached to a movie.
They get that credit. Sometimes maybe they pay a certain
amount and they are listed as a producer. Sometimes it's
just a vanity thing. But in the case of Jordan Peele,
it is much different, and we'll get into that. But
the movie we are talking about, it's called Him. It
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is a psychological horror movie. And what the movie is about.
You have this pro quarterback prospect named Cameron Caid. He's
training for the NFL Combine. He goes through a pretty
traumatic experience and then he starts working with Marlon Wayne's character,
who is a legendary quarterback in this world named Isaiah White.
They start working out on his isolated compound. And the
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question that this movie asks how much are you willing
to sacrifice to be the greatest of all time? This
movie is coming out on September nineteenth this year. Before
we get into it more, here's just a little bit
of the hymn trailer. Do you want this? I said,
do you want this?
Speaker 2 (40:10):
If you want to transcend the game, you have to
dig deep your mind, your body, have to be a
sink call it is.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
How hard you're willing to work?
Speaker 2 (40:25):
No days off. Mostly we grind. I'm never good enough.
I'm never good enough. That's how great people think.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Him stars former college wide receiver tay Rick Withers. You
might know him from Atlanta. He's also in the new
I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot, but he
plays a character named Cameron Caid who was a rising
star quarterback who has devoted his life his identity to football.
But on the eve of the Combine, he gets attacked
by an unh H fan and suffers a potentially career
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ending brain trauma. Right when all seems lost, he gets
a call from his hero, Isaiah White played by Marlon Wayans,
who in this movie is a legendary eight time championship
quarterback and cultural megastar. He offers to train Cam at
his isolated compound that he shares with his celebrity influencer wife,
Elise White, who was played by Julia Fox from Uncut Gems.
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You know she was Josh Safti's muse and Uncut Gems.
But as Cam's training accelerates, Isaiah's charisma begins to curdle
into something darker, sending his potential protege down a disorienting
rabbit hole that may cost him more than he bargained for.
This plot sounds fantastic. This trailer looks really good, really slick,
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and since he is a former college athlete, you can
tell in the trailer that he has the athleticism downright,
because sometimes in movies and really in TV shows, you
get somebody who looks the part when they try to
do all the mechanics of throwing of running, it just
doesn't look right. And for me sports movies, I always
get taken out of them whenever you have somebody there
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who just looks that they can't really throw a ball.
In this case, the first thirty forty seconds of this
trailer just look like a straight up Nike ad. It
looks like, it looks dark. You see him just working
so hard up until he has this traumatic event where
you see his head get mashed in by somebody else
and you see his brain kind of slosh around inside
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of his helmet. So I feel like this movie is
also going to be a commentary on CTE, but really
just asking that question, how much are you willing to
sacrifice to be the greatest of all time? Because after
that injury you see in the trailer, you see things
get weird and it looks like we're going to go
on a journey with this character of questioning reality. There
are a lot of scenes where there's a lot of
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fantasy elements where you see these characters who look straight
out of a horror movie attacking him. You see him
at the club and he's partying, but you see people
with these So this trailer has a lot of style.
It is what is referred to as a genre trailer,
where it doesn't give you a whole lot about the plot.
It's really putting it out there to show you the aesthetic,
to give you the vibe, to create that sense of horror.
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Because Marlon Wayans looks unhinged in the best way. I
don't think I've seen him in a movie since Air,
which he was really good in. He had a smaller
role in that, but that was more of a straight
ahead dramatic role. I used to love Wayns Brothers. I
would watch that TV show all the time, one of
the first TV shows that I got on DVD back
when that was huge. Whenever they would have seasons of
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a show on DVD, I was big into collecting those.
Had almost every season of The Simpsons on DVD box set,
and as soon as they put The Wayns Brothers out,
I'm like, we gotta get Season one of the Wayns Brothers.
But I love Marlon Wayans. He is an actor I've
always rooted for. I still think Hollywood did him dirty
when he was supposed to be Robin and Batman Returns
ended up being cut from that film, even though he's
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still made his hundred thousand dollars and actually still gets
royalty checks from that. But let's also talk about what
it means to be a producer on a movie. I'll
use Jordan Peel as an example here because this is
the time when I feel it really matters a producer
in the sense of Jordan Peele, because if you look
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at some of the movies that Jordan Peele has produced recently,
like Monkey Man, Candy Man, Black Klansman, even Keanu in
twenty sixteen, which he also started, and that was I
believe his first credit as a producer, and I feel
like over time it has become a lot different to
say that you have Jordan Peele producing your movie. But
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what a producer's responsibility is, if you're a great producer
like Jordan Peele, they choose and they develop the story,
They hire some creative key talent, some producers even provide
financial backing or they find people to fund the movie.
And in the case of Jordan Peele, where I feel
he really shines is giving create guidance. For Candy Man,
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he was hands on part of the creative force. He
also co wrote that movie and was responsible for shaping
the direction of the movie. He is the overseer, the
guiding light to the director in that case. For Candy
Man and Monkey Man, he played more of the role
of champion. He was a big advocate for that movie.
He saw an early cut of Def Patel's movie and
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was so impressed that he helped him secure a deal
with Universal Pictures. So that another big part of being
a producer is finding somebody to distribute the movie. Jordan
Peel himself has his company Monkey Pop Productions, which also
just putting his production company's name on a movie gives
it that seal of approval. So it's having the connections,
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giving that creative support, having oversight on the project without
shadowing the director's vision. That is the role of a
great producer. But I'm definitely going to be there on
September nineteenth, that check out him said. That was this
Link's edition of movie line bar and that is going
to do it for another episode here of the podcast.
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But before I go, I got to give my listener
shout out of the week. Last week had Ryan Coogler
on the podcast, which was awesome. I was so happy
to see Sinner's Crush at the box office, which shows
that we are taking a step in the right direction.
I want to see more original movies be number one
at the box office, so I'm always going to share
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those reviews with you, always going to share those original
films with you on the Trailer Park. But since we
had an interview last week, we had the secret emoji,
the vampire emoji. This week's listener shout out goes to
Tammy C who hit me with that vampire emoji on
X and said, thank you for taking me down memory
lane with a goofy movie. I watched it after with
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my twelve year old son. He laughed, submission accomplished. I
will watch the documentary Vampire Emoji. That is one of
the coolest messages I've ever sived, because I'm still waiting
for that to have a kid to share a goofy
movie with. But to know that a twelve year old
watched that and enjoyed it and it didn't feel ancient
to them because even rewatching it on Disney Plus, I
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realize now that the animation. I still think the actual
mechanics of the animation is great. There's a lot of
attention to detail. There's one scene that still blew my
mind in a Goofy movie Whenever Goofy is laying down
in the hotel bed depressed, and then the camera pans
in a way where it kind of tilts, and then
it's him driving the car. I thought that was fantastic animation,
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but the style itself feels a little bit dated at times.
So to know because they didn't have the budget, but
to know that a twelve year old watched it, enjoyed
it and could see past that and laughed at the movie,
that is a major win. So thank you for sharing that,
Tammy C. Hope you go and watch and enjoy that
documentary and maybe I can recommend some more classics for
you and your twelve year old son to check out.
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So you're this week's listener shout out of the week.
Thank you everybody for listening, and until next time, go
out and watch good movie. He said, I will talk
to you later.
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