Our 2024 Year-In-Review! | TNP EP. 141 - The Nerdiest Podcast

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Ariana Grande and the other chick.
I don't even know her name. Cynthia Arevo.
Yes, they both in every interview look insufferable and
I don't want to be around them so thus I don't want to go watch
a three hour long movie about them.
No, but here's the thing. They're supposed to be
insufferable. That's the point of the show.
Well, it doesn't put my butt in.I see so.

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It's about character arc. It doesn't matter.

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Hello and welcome to the Nerdiest Podcast, the show where
nerds talk about nerdy things. I'm one of your hosts, Mr. Nick
Barrett, and as always, I'm joined in person this time for
this big season finale with a little asterisk episode of the
year, my Co host, my ride or die, Mr. Jackson Glass.
And today we are going to be doing our annual tradition of

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our 2024 year in review. So we're going to be talking
about all the movies we've seen this year.
We're also going to talk about amovie we watched together last
night that I think you guys willfind really interesting.
And at the very end of the episode, to wrap things out, ask
the question of whether or not 2024 was a bad year for movies.
But before any of that, Jackson,how have you been?

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Wow, I'm so happy to be here in person.
If you're watching the video, you can see us actually in the
same room. We're going to do the, we're
going to do the the Ariana Grande, Cynthia Rivo, like hand
grab like every like 3 seconds. I'm not doing that.
But it's not. In my contract.
I'm happy to be here. I made a quick trip up here for

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my birthday. My birthday was yesterday of
recording and I turned 21. Wow.
And so we had the rager rager 21st birthday for me, it was
absolutely insane. I came down here and we, we,
that's a brag. We ate at Chili's What?

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And I want to be honest, Chili's, honestly, the triple
dippers is phenomenal. Yeah, that burger I had last
night, I was pretty sick. There's all I thought Chili's
was bad. My local Chili's just closed.
But like, you know, it's probably a location thing
because you know, that was actually kind of boiler.
I think Chili's is bad. I just think it it like there's

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too many Chili's. Yes, you need to have less
Chili's. You need to have like.
And like, bring it down a notch,have them be like at the big
malls and a couple in the big cities and then that's it.
It's got to be a novelty. You're like, oh, cool, Chili's.
And then we had too much Chili's.
So that was really good. And we saw a really cool movie
in the theater. And it's part of the reason, the
one of the main reasons I came down here was to see a movie

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called Interstellar 5555, which we will be doing a quick review
for here in a minute. So everything's been really
chill. I just finished school.
I'm on Christmas break now. And that's pretty much it.
I'm exhausted. And I woke up this morning and
was like, Oh my gosh, nothing isexpected of me.
Like I don't have to go to class.

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I don't have to. I don't have homework.
No, I don't have to. So kind of a surreal feeling,
but I'm, I'm happy to be here. Mr. Nick, how are you today?
Well, tired, yeah. As usual.
I stayed up way too late on Wednesday, and I'm still, like,
recovering from that because I still have to go to work.
That's like the crazy thing about being an adult is like,

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you still have to get up and go to work.
It doesn't matter how late you stay up.
My alarm still goes off at 6:00 AM, and I got to get up and go
to work and be functional. So.
Yeah. And just catching up on that.
I finished recording my last video of the year.
Wow. Well, last scheduled video of
the year, I'm working on anotherone that may or may not come out

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before the end of the year, but it's like a big 2024 anime recap
video, which is the longest script I've ever written.
And I feel so bad for my editor because he has so much work to
do, but he's doing great, doing great, those great things.
So there's that. Just working on content, trying
to find time to relax. I have all this manga back here

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that I'm actually want to sit down and read at some point.
And if you're watching the videoI mentioned the last episode
that I bought Mike here reckonedme a volume 42.
And if you look up there on the shelf right about literally
right above Jackson's head, I have volume 42 on the shelf.
It got here. So that's that was pretty sick
to look in this week. It was a nice surprise to come

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home to one day. So other than that, I'm just
here man. There you go, happy to be here.
I also that reminded me I also got a new computer this week and
it's waiting for me at home. And so hopefully it'll make
podcast endeavours and content endeavours just a little easier.
To not run a ask a 2019 Intel chip to run After Effects.

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That is not ideal. If you've never tried, I cannot
recommend it, but we we saw a pretty cool movie last night and
the we mentioned earlier and there's Interstellar 5555.
Now a little context for this movie.
This movie was released in 2003 and it is a it is an anime
movie. It is an animated Japanese

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animated movie and it is very experimental and fun in the
sense that there is no dialogue to said movie.
It is just front to back the Daft Punk album Discovery,
literally, thus all the songs inorder.
It is just their album and all the music is in it.

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And as a Daft Punk fan, I love Daft Punk.
They're probably like my favorite artist ever.
I've wanted to see this movie for a long time and seeing it in
the theater was super cool. There it is.
Yep, this was the, This was the,I think the right here.
I think it was the 10 year anniversary, 11 year

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anniversary. How long ago was 2003?
No, but the album came out in 2001.
Right, but were they not doing the anniversary for the movie?
No, it was for the album. The album came out in 2001.
Yeah, so it was a something anniversary 23 of the album.
So they put the movie back in theaters for one day only on my
birthday. So I had to go, no, I can't play

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that. We're gonna get copyright
striked. So yeah, the movie's really
interesting. I'm not gonna spoil it to the
best of my ability. Can I put this in my anime
playlist? I mean.
It's not like it's not anime music.

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No. And and it's not like it
originated in the movie. No.
It's like. The movie was literally made for
the album. Yeah.
OK. So it's not so you.
Could but you know the songs. I just love Daft Punk.
So the the movie is a group of aliens that have a band get
kidnapped by an evil music CEO and he brings them to earth and

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they essentially get whitewashedand get thrown into the music
industry. Except for the one guy.
Except for the one guy who was who was black washed.
Yeah, they had to be like, hey, we got to have a little
diversity here. There's one so honestly, general
thoughts. How much?
It was a very weird movie. It yeah, it was a very weird

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movie. I didn't know what to expect
going into it. I was like, huh?
Because all you had told me was like, it's this anime movie that
is Daft Punk. And I'm like, OK, I mean, I like
Daft Punk and like, I, I don't know, I, I haven't really

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listened to Daft Punk. Yeah, like, so to go into this
movie, I was like, okay, sure, whatever.
So we're watching it. And then you were like, oh, by
the way, this has no dialogue. Whatsoever.
I was like, oh. Okay, well this should be
interesting. And then the longer I watched
it, the more like, you don't realize how much not having
dialogue forces you to actually think about what's going on in

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the movie because you're not being told anything.
You're only being shown, which means you have to infer what's
going on either from the lyrics in the song or just what's
happening on screen. So, and I think this movie did a
lot like there, like I said, no telling.
So it had to show everything andthere was still such a full

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unique story in it despite like,not having any doubt.
Right, which is so interesting because I think like we really
live in we really live in the the era of movie that is
entirely tell there is like we're really losing the show
aspect of movies and it's reallyinteresting.

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I was very curious about it because that this movie could be
such a disaster so quickly. Yep.
It could so quickly just be really boring and just feel like
a ton of music videos strung together, which we'll get to in
a minute 'cause that's what theydid at the end Yep we'll get
into that in a second. But the movie is just over an
hour long because it's literallyjust the album front to back.

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But here's the other thing. And I I want your take on too,
is when I was in the theater I was like, oh, it's only an hour.
Like I don't know if it's going to like feel worth it.
But if it was like a 2 hour thing and it was just music and
no dialogue, I really think I would have struggled.

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Yeah, I'm like. At the hour 30 mark, the novelty
would have lost itself on me. Yeah.
And I think it's one of those things that doesn't overstay
it's welcome because towards theend, like, even though I liked
it towards the end, I was like, OK, like, how much longer is
this going to go on? Right.
Like, and I didn't know it was just an album front to back.

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I thought it was like a compilation of the favorite
songs that put everything together.
And what I, what I did appreciate was, and I've talked
about this before of like, if you look back and older like
classic Disney movies, you see how much of A character the
music is. And like the music, if somebody

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gets hit with a frying pan, they're going to put a, a gong
clash in there. And the music is part of the
story. So then this movie takes out all
of the dialogue and the music isthe story.
And you can infer a lot just from the lyrics of like the,
even the limited lyrics that arein 'cause there's not a lot of
vocals, no Daft Punk music. So you have to like interpret

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some of it from the music and then also be like, OK, well,
here's a couple. Like this song has scattered
lyrics because it's this really big character moment for this
one character. And, you know, so to put all
that together, there was a really big twist at the end that
I, I don't know. If I'm not going to spoil it,

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because I really do think it's agreat movie that you should go
see, but it does have a twist that like we were genuinely like
had our jaws to the floor. Yeah.
And like, it made sense. Like, it wasn't A twist that
came out of nowhere. It was like, oh, this is stupid.
Like. It was a good twist.
It was a really. Good twist.
And I was like, OK. OK, I'm in.
That's when I was truly locked in.

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You're like, oh, because the whole time, like because it's an
hour long, it's just music. Like there is a lot of montage
to move the story along, which is just, you know, a nature.
It's just because and and that'sthis movie was kind of hard to
rate because I wasn't going to be like, oh, it dragged in this
part because there is no dialogue and it's like, well, no

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freaking duh. Like that was the point of the.
Movie. It had no dialogue.
But I also think it's interesting this, this is just
genuinely such a good album choice to make this movie with.
Because Daft Punk just they've been making music for years.
If you haven't, there's very experimental and it's so

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interesting. Daft Punk has been experimental
film makers for years. Like they've made a ton of super
weird experimental music videos and stuff, some that we got to
watch after the movie. That was rough, but, well, it
wasn't. It wasn't rough.
It was just like very interesting.
Well, OK, so since it's like it was like a regal event movie,

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they played after the movie. They played like four or five,
like music videos from Daft Punkover the years.
And they played one that was like a dog going through the big
city for song Defunct, which is a great song.
And it was very narrative that it did have dialogue.
But they have like this dog character that's like a human

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with a like a giant Basset Houndhead.
And it was like kind of disturbing, but like cool in a
way. And then they did.
There's a music video for Aroundthe World, which is one of the
more popular songs that was justlike an interpretive dance.
It was kind of weird but I was like.
I was so locked. So encapsulated by it, I was

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like what am I looking at? Why can't I look away?
Because it was like a big, it was like a giant circle.
It kind of looked like a hot tub, but it was covered.
And then it had like stairs thatwent around it.
And it was like these synchronized swimmers were like
dancing around it. But there was also a bunch of
skeletons that were danced. And then there was also like
Robocops. And it was, go look it up.

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It is like it's wild. It's very French.
It's very avant-garde, if you will, to use a pretentious film
term. It has the meson Sen that that
you are looking for. The rat tattoo.
It has the baguette. And so there was another one

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where essentially if you need toknow what like most Daft Punk
music videos are, it was just like the house slash EDM scene
from like 1990 to like 2810 ish was just really, really, really
weird. And they were at the forefront
of that movement. So it was a lot of like people

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with questionable fashion. Like getting parties shut down
was like the main like theme because that's what house music
was. It was like rebellious and it
was like cool and hip. But then like the direction of
their video was super weird because it was like oh, this cop
comes in to shut down this partybut then we focus in on a tomato

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stain on his shirt. And then we have to follow the
process of the tomato from beingplanted as a seed, to growing,
to being harvested, to being shipped off to a store, to being
bought at the store, to being turned into pasta sauce with
step by step instructions on howto make pasta sauce to being put
on the pasta to being put. In the container.

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In a lunch box in this cop car from this cop's mom.
And then he eats it and he spills it because you they're
trying to rush to get to this party.
And then we catch back up and that's it.
Which in a way I think it was Revolution Nine O 9 was the
video for that one. Genuinely so funny, like really
wacky filmmaking stuff. If you're if you want to see

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just like if you just want some entertaining and like wacky
music videos, like go for it 'cause they're so.
Last one they played. I thought that one was really
cool. I think it was like infinite.
It was infinite repeat or something like that.
It was from a so Daft Punk in 2020, early 2021 said they were

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retiring and they retired as a group.
And since then they're they're now their most popular album is
random access Memories, which ismy favorite album of all time.
It's so good. But when the when the 10 year
anniversary for that came out, because it released in 2013,

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when the 10 year anniversary came up, they were like, we're
retired. Let's just release all of our
old demos. So all of the all of the songs
that didn't make it on that album got released on like a
deluxe edition. And one of those songs was was
it infinite? Repeat.
Let me look, I'll look it up real quick.
But it was essentially like a really cool like animated like

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mixed media kind of video where like it started with a circle
and then the circle turned into like a person.
And then the person was like running, but then the person
turned into the robots. And then it turned into and it
was like this whole life cycle. And then it like slowly turned
it back into a circle. And it fit with the song really
well. It's Infinity repeating.
Infinity repeating. Very good song with Julian

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Casablanca. Anyway, if you get the chance to
see Interstellar 5555 if you're into some more like niche.
Like it was very niche. It was.
Very, very. Niche, I will say for a movie
that had absolutely no dialogue,I was so like invested in the

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story for real of these aliens who got kidnapped and like all
of their memories were wiped cause the OK.
If you're a fan of Daft Punk, you've probably seen this movie,
because what was it? Harder, better, faster,
stronger. That one, it's the music video
for that. But we watched the whole movie,
not just that section of it. Was that so?

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Awesome. It's a wild scene when put in
the whole context. Like think about watching the
music video without the context of them getting kidnapped.
You're like, OK, these are like robots or something that are
being built and like manufactured.
But to have the whole context oflike.

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So much deeper than you think. It's so much darker.
It's really, really messed up. Highly recommend going to see
it. It's not like streaming
anywhere. I don't think it's like really
hard let's. Find out.
I bet I can rent it on YouTube. I'm sure yeah, Interstellar

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5555, if you like Daft Punk or if you even just like like house
EDM music, you. Can you can watch it on YouTube
with Kelo concerts for free. Kelo Concerts.
So you can OK, so you can try kilo concerts for free for seven

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days and then and then you can watch it and then cancel after
that. So you can watch it for free on
YouTube. See, let me see.
That's crazy. It's, it's act like genuinely
phenomenal. They have all of the music
videos as a playlist on YouTube though.

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Yeah, but it's not the full experience.
It's not the full experience, but it's virtually the same
thing, right? Virtually, I mean, it's all the
pieces, it's just whether or notyou want to watch the pieces
together because they're all like uploaded.
Unavailable. They're all uploaded by Daft
Punk, like their official music videos, right?

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So. Anyway, highly recommend, Really
really cool theater experience just to listen to one of my
favorite albums all the way through on my birthday.
What? Happened.
I knew it. What so apparently?
It's incredibly hard to remasterthis movie and according to this

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YouTube thumbnail of a video I haven't watched, apparently it
was AI upscaled to remaster and put it back in theaters.
Which is something I was thinking about last night as we
were watching it because I was like, there's some parts of this
where it just like as someone who AI upscales stuff for
thumbnails, like AI upscaling can only do so much.

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Like it has to have the details to work with.
Did we did we watch the upscaledversion?
Yeah. Oh my gosh, I feel so cheated.
Like it's the same thing, right?But I was thinking about that
yesterday because I was like some of this looks like blurry
like they tried to upscale. Right.
But then. Like it didn't really translate.

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And then there were some parts of it where it looked fine and I
was like, wow, this looks reallygood for a 2001 or 2003 anime
movie, right? Like I I've seen anime that came
out in 2003. Like it's it's not great.
It it looks like 2003. So I don't know.
Interesting. Highly recommend.
Interesting, but. Great movie.
So we have a lot to talk about today.

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So we just wanted to throw that cool review in there for you and
honestly kind of spread the wordbecause I think it's a really
underrated movie that is just like what we want.
Want you guys to go see it. But man 2024.
What a year, What a year. We're at the end of it already.
That's crazy. And we're going to get into that
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So that being said, 2024, what ayear, and we're going to talk
about movies and shows. Well, correction, we are going

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to talk about movies and I'm going to talk about shows for
like 2. Seconds Fun fact, I did not
watch any new shows this year. That's not true.
You want I watched Ahsoka Mashal?
Oh. Oshinoko.
Yeah. Demon Slayer season 2.
Yeah, and My Hero Academia. And Ahsoka.

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Ahsoka was last year. Really.
Yeah. No, it was not.
Yes, it was. It was last year because we did
an episode on it last year. Gosh.
So now. That doesn't feel real.
Much like me, the only shows Jackson watched this year was
anime. Welcome to the Club I Was.
Forced to watch them. Well, forced is a bad word.

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More like. Strongly Jeff Goldblum in
Ragnarok. Voluntold.
He's like, I don't like the wordslave.
That's a bad word. Let's see here, I'm not going to
go over my shows too much because it is all anime, but
also I'm going to do my own stream on my own channel.
Like doing a tear list with all the anime I watched this year.

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Some notable mentions I watched how many shows this year?
31, which is down. However, we're halfway through
December so I still have two weeks to add like a bunch more
shows to this list and I probably will cause a bunch of
the seasonal stuff is ending. Some notable highlights I
watched this year. I binged through the entirety of

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My Hero to get caught up for thenew season.
I rewatched Community because they took that off Netflix which
is always good. Oshino Co season 2 is pretty all
right. My Hero season 7 was phenomenal,
and Arcane season 2 certainly was a show that I did in fact

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watch. Season 1 I think is still better
overall. Season 1 or season 2 has its
good moments and there are a couple of good songs on the
soundtrack, but then the rest ofit kind of just falls flat and I
didn't really care for it. There was also a very
unnecessary sex scene in an animated show, by the way.

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Like here's the thing, we all knew it was coming, right?
My bigger frustration with it islike, it's, it's first of all,
it's, it's 2 girls. So like morally I'm opposed to
that. But that aside, let's talk about
the greater context of that episode.
The world is ending. Everything's about to go bad.

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And these like 2 very significant characters who are
essential in this plot to keep the world from ending are just
like getting all freaky in a jail cell.
And I'm like, guys, this. Is.
Not it this one guy really just like put his heart and soul out
here to rally the troops againstthis common enemy and like bring

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everyone together and this is this is how you're spending the
time. All right, whatever.
I just thought it was a really bad placement of like and that's
what made it unnecessary like ifit was that.
Placement of an unnecessary scene.
Yeah, like if it was after the fight, then I'm like, OK,
whatever. At least Like the main conflict
is over and you're not like I was involved with the conflict

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part of it. So then to sidetrack to this
thing, I'm like man. Go back to the to the ooga booga
fight scene I. Just want to see him fight and
smash robots and stuff so other than that I'll end up going
over. I watched how many new shows
this year? 21 and 19 of them were anime.

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Wow. One of the the that one out of
that was Arcane season 2 and theother one was the live action
Avatar. So not a lot of not a lot of
American stuff this year, which is not a tragedy.
Which, you know, there was some American shows that came out
that I heard were good but just weren't my style.

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Gosh, I cannot remember what came out when because I wanted
to say the Bear. But I think that only the second
season came out this year. Guys, I can't freaking keep up
with anything anymore. I'm a boomer.
I have gosh. Anyway, so Nick, how many new
movies did you see this year? Well, that's just a better

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question. How many new movies did I see
last year? OK.
This is really sad. Do you don't know how many?
Do you don't know how many new movies I saw last year?
How many? 24.
Wow. You want to know how many I saw
last year? Yeah, 30.
Holy cow. How many did?
You see this year, you don't know how many new movies I saw
this year, 14. Wow, I saw 13.

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Because even looking back to last year, in 2022, I watched
23. Well, technically, we'll have
seen 15 and 14 respectively nextweek when Sonic 3 comes out.
Of course so. But still.
I even look I look at like 2023 and I see like I watched the

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little the live action Little Mermaid and 80 for Brady in
Cocaine Bear and Five Nights at Freddy's and a haunting in
Venice and Wish and Dungeons andDragons and Super Mario and
Haunted Mansion. I saw the holdovers and
Oppenheimer and Barbie and Across the spider verse and
Guardians 3 and John Wick four. And then this year I'm like, oh.

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How many movies did you watch total this year?
Current total, I'm not even I'm really not close to done because
break is when I start getting back onto the movie.
So as of December 13th today, I'm currently on 119.

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What 119? The movie challenge was last.
Year. No, I know.
OK, I know people, I kid you not.
I was talking to someone the other day who was like, I really
did just watch movies this year and I was like, OK, what are you
at? He's like 285.
And I was like, OK, that's. Like a movie a day, no.

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Literally and I would just respect that grind so much.
Do you want to guess what I'm atfor this?
Year tell me higher or lower OK 30, Higher 50 lower 40, lower
38. A little bit lower. 37, a little
bit lower. 35 Yeah, he's all 35 movies this year.

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And it's including not new to meor like, including rewatch isn't
new to me. Yeah, nine of them were Star
Wars that we watched for the podcast.
That's true. That's true.
That has inflated my number a lot.
I just didn't watch a lot of movies because there wasn't a
lot of stuff in theaters that like caught my attention.

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And then I don't watch movies because I feel like it's such a
big time commitment and it's a harder thing to turn on while
I'm working or while I'm like just chilling at home.
Like I want to like that's why Ialways end up watching more
shows is because it's very easy to turn on a couple episodes of
a show and even though I'll sit there for the same amount of

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time, I have consistent out points instead of saying like,
well, I'm an hour and a half in,might as well just sit and wait
for the next for the for the movie to be over.
So. See, I love turning on movies
while I work, especially if it'sjust like a Pixar movie I've
seen 100 times, man. Or like, it's the time of year
to pop on Hallmark movies while you're watching because they're

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like, not like. I haven't watched The Polar
Express yet this year. Last year I just.
Checked that on Monday. 20/20/23I only watched 117 so my 119 has
already surpassed by total for last year.
Last year was 102, 'cause I I won the challenge and then I

(30:56):
stopped watching movies. You you really did only watch
movies out of spite. I did 'cause I wanted to win.
All right, so. Mama didn't raise no loser.
All right, guys, here is our new2024 movie ranking.
I'd like to also say that I onlysee movies that I think look

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good. And so there are a lot of 2024
movies I didn't see because I didn't think they looked good,
and that's not about that. So do you want to know my lowest
movie of the year? Is it Madame Webb?
No, it's not Madame Webb. I saw a worse movie this year

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than Madame. No, nice try.
Don't. Really try to slip that one in
there. Do you want to know my my lowest
movie of the year? Give me your lowest movie of the
year it. Was the Garfield movie with
Chris Pratt? I forgot how much you didn't
like that movie. I genuinely don't think I've
ever left a movie theater feeling like I wanted my money

(32:06):
back. Like, I considered sending an
e-mail to the studio to be like,what on earth were you thinking?
Because the whole there was no reason it had to be Garfield.
It was like, remember that? Remember that Garfield comic
where he, you know, pulls a heist on the dairy farm and has

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daddy issues? No, it's because it doesn't
exist. OK this movie is stupid.
It's one of the stupidest cash grabbiest movies I've ever seen
in my life. The animation sucks, the story
sucks, the the acting sucks. I like Chris Pratt.
I'm not here to dog on Chris Pratt because he did fine, but
the script sucked. When you say cat on Chris Pratt.

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Oh. That's what I'm saying, yeah.
You wanna just. The Garfield the Garfield movie
wasn't even funny bad. It was just pissed me off bad.
Just bad. Yeah.
All right. Back and forth since we have
back and forth. Go again.
Oh, since you have one more thanI do.

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And then we'll then we'll be good.
To go right guys, ready #8 #13 on my list ranking for the year,
second to worst and other than Madame Webb.
There it is. That's also my number 13.
Yep. What a whole terrible movie.
Dude, we did a whole but like terrible movie kind of in a

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funny way. It's.
Funny bad like like OK for comparison, Morbius was bad bad,
but it was also kind of funny bad like.
Because they made it you. You feel like they made it
unironically and like thought they could no.
But they did, yeah, they they made it like unironically.
We want it to be good. Yeah, so you're like, oh, they

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thought they cooked out this one.
Madam Webb, I feel like, I don'tknow.
I don't think I've ever laughed that hard in a movie theater.
No same. Especially when she comes out at
the end. Dude, dude, I had to like.
I had to cover my mouth. I.
Had to force it. Like I've never had to not laugh

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so hard in a theater when like there's that scene in the end
where she falls in the water. It's not very clear that the
firework hits her in the face. No.
And. And then you like, fade to her
in the hospital. Yeah.
And then she's just sitting there like this and and the
nurse is like, is this your, is this on the family you have?
And she's like, this is all the family.

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I need and then she like turns into freaking like Magneto or
not Magneto, a professor X in the wheelchair.
She has her little little wheelchair with like and she's
blind and it's just like. And before one of the girls
sneezes, she's like, bless you. And she's like, what?
Tattoo and it's like, Oh my. Lord, have mercy.

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Also also like, I don't think I've ever noticed more
continuity errors in a Hollywoodmovie.
Dude, don't even get me started.I, I, we saw this movie to laugh
at it. Yeah, I saw it to laugh, Yeah.
And I I was looking forward to cracking up and I definitely got

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that. I just sometimes I'm really
curious how movies like that getmade, which I know was the topic
of that episode. That we did a whole episode
about like, but like how? Does that make it through the
quality process? Like how does that make it
through quality? Because.
That's objectively bad. It's.
Like did anyone? Have to watch that and be like
well. Well.

(35:40):
Either I get fired or I put my stamp of approval on this.
Like I'll take my job, I don't care.
Also my. Problem like just the just the
idea that like it's, it's a genuine like objectively,
literally no one thinks that this movie is good.
Well, I don't know. Let's do I want to I.

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Want to see five star reviews? There is 9.5000 five star
letterbox. They're all ironic.
Are they though? They're all ironic.
Are they though? Yes, there's no way sort by
highest. Top three movies of all time.
This is peak cinema. Everyone should watch this movie

(36:27):
right now. Possibly the worst film I've
ever see ever seen. 10 out of 10would recommend.
Five stars. Where is my spider?
A deeply autistic woman does everything she possibly can to
avoid becoming the center of a found family sitcom, while Keanu
Reeves playing Solid Snake doingan Agent Smith impression falls
for one all of the classic blunders of Greek myth.

(36:47):
Why are all the good video game movies not based on video games
like this? Literally has QuickTime events
in a checkpoint system even beyond the video game cutscene
freak dream sequences. That's so true.
No, it's true also if you watched our last.
Great. If you watched our last episode

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of their Christmas party, you know that I am a proud owner of
the 4K version of Madam Web on Blu-ray DVD.
What was my review of this movie?
My. I reviewed this film.
Andrew Tate has a weird obsession with high school girls
and goes after them for two hours while the real Spider Man
is born. OK, can I just say like this is

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one of my favorite reviews I've ever done on.
Letterbox from that it's a good one.
I said terrible dubbed audio, jarring visuals, obsession with
teenage girls. This isn't even a superhero
movie, this is just a crappy anime. 5 likes.
Not even wrong. Five likes.
All right, you guys, you guys want to know my next one?
What's your next one hit me with#12?

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Ready #12 for 2024. Venom the last.
Dance. Oh, I didn't see that one.
Tell me about it. I'm going to tell you guys
spoilers for Venom The Last dance.
You shouldn't care. I'm going to tell you how this
movie ends and tell me if you think I'm I'm joking or not.

(38:15):
So the venom part of Eddie freaking dies.
He just like dies in like this supposed to be heroic sacrifice
and it's not so he dies. But the the one of the main
motifs of the movie is that venom really wants to see the
Statue of Liberty. He really, really not not the

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like Tom Hardy Venom, like the Venom Venom.
They're talking about how they're going to escape to New
York because New York is the promised land in all superhero
movies. And so they're going to escape
to New York and they're going tostart a new life together and
it's going to be great. Well, Venom dies before he gets
to see the Statue of Liberty. And it's like really, really

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emotional. And so Eddie, kids, you not dead
serious. Have you seen the movie?
You know, he goes to the Statue of Liberty and reminisces about
their times together in a montage to a Maroon 5 song.

(39:21):
So the song Memories by Maroon 5plays the Here's to the ones
that we lost. Here's to the ones we dream
'cause they're not 'cause the dreams bring back all the
memories. Imagine that over Tom Hardy
wondering up at the Statue of Liberty.
And then we get a clip show of the movie we just watched and

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then it ends. I really wish I was making this
up. Also, do you want to know why
this movie is called The Venom The Last Dance?
Because they dance. Oh, oh, there's so much lore to
the dance, though, because the whole point is, if Venom is like

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the big Venom guy, he can be tracked by this super alien
organization and they're going to try to take him.
So Eddie has to suppress Venom this whole time or else they're
going to get trapped, right? So they go to Las Vegas and
Venom really, really wants to dance with the store lady that

(40:36):
from the first Venom movie and she's in this hotel for some
reason and she's like, come on, live a little.
Let's let's dance is. It called the last dance because
he comes out as big venom and then does the dance and then he
gets trapped. Yes, and that's his last dance.
So he dies after that. Yes.

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So he is like, come on, we have to live a little and he dances
with the store clerk lady to dancing Queen.
So Abba's playing and then he gets snatched and killed in a
final battle because he wanted to dance with the store lady.
I kind. Of want to go see it now you.

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Really. It is genuinely a meme.
I have the movie passion. It's going.
To cost me nothing. It has so much potential though,
which all the Venom movies have so much potential.
And then they just like, and then they just like, squander
it. You know, Venom's not dead
because there was like at the end of one of the Spider Man
movies, there was like a little hint that did like the the.

(41:43):
Oh, the little, like the little but and that's where, and that's
where the Last Dance picks up isfrom that end scene.
Oh well then, never mind. Yeah, and then they did some
stupid like, like villain revealthat went nowhere and they're
like trying to expand the universe.
And literally everyone was like Boo.
And then they said this is the end, like craving is the end of

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the universe. And it was for now.
And we're like, all right, yeah,it's the right.
Look at Sony. They're on a roll this year, by
the way. That's. 3.
Spider Man villain movies in oneyear?
That were all God awful. Well, Madam Webb wasn't a
villain, but. No, she was a villain.
Well, I mean, she did. Someone listed all her crimes,

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like Grand Theft Auto, kidnapping, like abduction of
three minors. Yeah, a lot of other things.
Being in a Madame Web. Reckless driving.
She like, crashed through a sign.
Yeah. Property destruction.
She blew up that building. Yep.
Yep. At the end of the movie, yeah.

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So yeah. All right, so hit me with your,
hit me with your next one. My number 12 is the this is
going to sound bad. This movie is not #12 because I
think it's bad, it's just #12 because it like it had to go
somewhere. But it is unsung hero.
The four King. And country like their family's

(43:08):
story of coming to America. It was a good movie, it was very
well made and I will appreciate it for that.
However, I am a little bit less partial to live action movies
than I am animated ones. And also like that type of like
just intense drama is not my type of movie.

(43:30):
So I'll I'll admit, like I said,objectively very well directed,
very well casted, everyone did agood job.
It told the story very well and was very relatable and
believable. Just not my type of movie,
right. So it's.
Not going to break your top five.
Yeah, just by being the four King and Country movie.

(43:50):
Right. Like, as much as I like the
band, I like them for what they are now and not necessarily
like. Right.
You don't feel obligated to likeit just because it's.
Them I don't feel like, oh, I have to like this movie because
it's the you, right. So that's.
Real, very honest about it. So #8 #11 for me is a movie that

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we saw together that is Despicable Me 4.
In a way, you put Despicable Me 4 below Moana 2.
Yes, I absolutely did what I absolutely did.
All right, elaborate. OK, so Despicable Me 4 was not
bad by any means. I think the animation was really

(44:36):
good. I think it was funny.
But Despicable Me 4, like as a Despicable Me fan, like I really
like the first two movies. The third one was kind of a
miss. And then the 4th 1 is just like,
why are we here? So Despicable Me 4 felt very
much like it was a string of Minion shorts that they didn't

(44:59):
have somewhere, anywhere else toput.
Yes. And so they randomly threw in a
grew storyline that didn't really involve his kids with
grew junior and grew junior because because that's that's
funny. Is it funny?
Or, you know, they just don't. What a relatable dad moment they

(45:20):
don't have. His kid doesn't like him because
he's awkward. Also like if they wanted to do
go that direction they should have aged up his other kids.
Yes, and not made them the same age.
Right, which is so funny becausethe the director was like, yeah,
no, we're we're not going to agethem up, you know, all this
stuff and then like. A week later, a week later,

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well, we're open to we're. Open to this game.
We can do more movies. I was like, Oh my gosh, for the.
Life. Make up your mind bro.
So it was just like, like, it's funny, I think it's enjoyable,
but it's just like, it feels like a string of scenes that
they didn't have somewhere else to put.
It wasn't super cohesive in the way that I in, in the way that

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the other Despicable Me movies are.
I'll just go ahead and talk about it 'cause it's obviously
on my list and a little higher up, but I thought it was OK.
I thought it was funny. I don't know if it was as funny
as like the first or the second one or even the like Rise of
Groo, but I don't know. It was, It was cute.

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I feel like if they were, I think the most diabolical thing
they did in this movie was they wanted to have a French guy be a
cockroach. Right.
OK, that says a lot about Frenchpeople and how.
Illumination. Which is kind of an inside joke
because like Illumination is mainly based in France, right?
So it's kind of like a self dig,right?
Which is. Funny.
The the craziest part was that instead of casting a popular

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French person, they cast Will Ferrell and had him.
Do a French. Accent.
Which is. So weird, there's like prominent
popular French voice actors who could do that and you could see.
And that's what else was frustrating is I was like, when
you make Will Ferrell and Steve Carell not funny, that's when

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you're script sucks. That's hard because they're both
comedy. That's when you're, that's when
you're script sucks. Like, come on.
Because they're funny. Gosh.
What a movie? Where does this one?
ME4 rank on yours? Icky on mine #9.
OK. Now it broke the top ten, but
let's also remember I've only seen thirteen.
Right top 10 is not really. Really the OK, the only part of

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this list that has any sort of substance is top five.
No, for real. Like that's it.
That's the only part that has some semblance of substance of
like, oh, these were better thaneverything else on the.
List I think I've seen I think of these movies I actually
genuinely like would go back to maybe 5 or 6 of.
Them I would go back to my top five.

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Yeah. And that says a lot.
So my next one is one I'm not going to talk about too much
because we just did a whole episode on it.
Moana Two at 11. It was a movie.
It had a lot of its own issues. It to summarize what I said on
that episode, conceptually greatmovie, conceptually great ideas

(48:22):
like having Moana go out and explore like the ocean and try
to reunite with all the other different like Islanders and
people groups and like I think that's great.
But the big downside is it definitely feels like a Disney
Plus original series that got strung together and very
loosely, like sewn up and cut tobe a movie.
And it very much feels that way.And the quality of the movie is

(48:45):
Disney Plus original level. But it's being put up with like
your Tangled, Frozen, Encanto. And financially, it doesn't look
like they're going to learn the lesson they should because it's
like destroyed all of the Thanksgiving box office records.
And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no.

(49:06):
Actually. This is bad.
Let's not do that. No, please don't stop.
Please don't. Make more sequels.
Please don't do this again. But it's like, hey, welcome back
direct to. DVD sequels direct to DVD is so
back. We are so back.
See I also saw a thing today that said that based on how
Mufasa does might determine the direction they take because if

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Moana 2 kills and Mufasa is disappointing then they're going
to learn more towards their animation department and pull
away from the live action. Please, I've never wanted a live
action movie to fail more than the more than this Mufasa movie.
I'm so infuriated by this movie by the way, because do you know
how much hype and how excited everyone would be if we got an

(49:51):
original? Like years after the original
movie? We got an original animated
prequel to The Lion King, one ofthe.
One of Disney. 'S best movies to date.
I know you don't feel that way, but I do.
I would go see a prequel. And it's got Lin Manuel Miranda
on the music. What kind of evil backwards
world do we live in that this disgustingly disingenuous live

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action Lion King prequel will have better music than Moana 2
I? Hate it here.
What I hate it here. And like they just announced the
live action Tangled movie they're doing, they showed a
preview for the live action Liloand Stitch at Moana and then the
first trailer for the Snow Whiteplayed in front of Wiki Which.

(50:38):
Is nightmare fuel. By the way I've seen it, it
looks terrible. No one is going to go see that.
No, I feel so bad because I wantto go see them so that we can
cover them right? But I also don't want to support
Disney. What is the like?
Give them money or put butts in seats.
What's the ethics of buying a ticket for a different movie and
then going to see I feel? Like in this case it's okay.

(51:00):
Like I'm kind of am thinking about getting another ticket for
Sonic and just going into Mufasabut.
Also, like, it's the kind of thing where it's like you have
to make sure the theater is not sold out.
Oh yeah, You got to go on like arandom, random Monday afternoon,
right? Nobody's there.
Right. You have to like really you have
to play the game essentially like you need to know what

(51:22):
you're doing. You can't just walk in on a
Friday night and expect to have an open seat.
Like that's not how this works. Well, it's interesting because
my number 10 is Moana 20. Perfect.
Which like the the idea that Moana 2 is in my top 10 for the
year it makes me want to quit myjob.

(51:44):
Can I put Despicable Me up there?
I'm just saying you. See, at the end of the day,
though, I still enjoyed Moana 2 better than Despicable Me 4
because Despicable Me 4 was likejust kind of like it was good,
but it was just kind of boring where Moana 2 like at least it
was fun bad where I could make fun of it.

(52:05):
Yeah, we did a whole episode about it 2 episodes ago.
If you want to go, give it a want to go give it a listen.
But essentially, I was just so disappointed and I hate that it
demolished the box office because that it showed them that
they can make. Showed them that they can.
That they can throw. And that's the problem.
Crap at the wall and it'll sell and stick anyway.

(52:29):
So hit me with your what are we #9 #1010 Because I just did 10.
Inside out too. Tell me about that.
So I liked the first Inside Out.I thought it was good, one of
Pixar's better movies. I really wanted this one to be
good because Pixar's been kind of on an L streak lately.

(52:51):
And I saw it and honestly, it was a lot better than I thought
it was or than I thought it would be.
And it was very enjoyable. Stuck with a lot of the things
that you like about the first movie while also expanding and
it felt like the emotions that they brought in.
While it makes you ask a lot of questions about like well where

(53:15):
are all of these emotions in theparents head in the 1st movie?
Like if you can kind of put those plot hole questions away
and not think about it too much,which is what I would guarantee
you they want you to do. It's kind of like Monsters
University, yeah. Where it's like, don't really
think about like that aspect of it.
It's fine. It loosely makes sense.
So if you ignore that, I think it's fine.

(53:37):
I like that they brought in the new emotions.
Because I mean, as you're getting older, I mean, we've
both, we've both been there. We've been, you know, teenagers
getting ready to start high school and stuff.
It is definitely not a fun time and the way they portrayed
anxiety I was I was interested to see how they did that because
in modern society there's like 2paths for anxiety.

(54:01):
It can either be this thing thatdoesn't exist and you're just
insane or you let it completely control and run your life.
And the movie didn't dismiss anxiety, but it showed that
anxiety without any other emotion is bad.
Yeah. And when you let anxiety
completely run and take over your life, it is nothing but

(54:24):
negative consequences. And you do things that you
wouldn't normally do just to satiate the anxiety part of your
brain. Like when she was trying to
break into the teacher's office,like it was going against her
core values, her core beliefs. That weren't being pulled up
because of the anxiety takeover.Right, and the anxiety was just
like ignoring it and was like, OK, well, we'll build a new

(54:46):
version of myself that's even better.
And you get into like the peoplepleasing, right.
And I honestly started tearing up at the end when it was like
the the. Tornado.
Anxiety, tornadoes, and like going through all that.
I was like, oh. My God, they're like, oh, me.
What? Oh, that's wild.
So it was good, I enjoyed it. I have thoughts and inside out

(55:09):
too. I'm saving for later.
It's a lot higher on your list, isn't it?
Perhaps OK. So my #9 is in fact the M Night
Shyamalan classic Trap. Now I have an infamous.
I have an infamous angry YouTubereview about this movie if you'd

(55:30):
like to go watch it and it's called Trap Made Me Angry if
you'd like to search it on YouTube.
Honestly, it is Trap is a movie that I kind of want to try again
because the concept is really cool, but I'm just going to be
disappointed again because the idea now also keep in mind, I've
never seen a Shyamalan film which like you know, kind of

(55:53):
which blows a lot of people's minds.
But I also, anytime I like talk about his work, everyone's
always like, it's fine. He's made like like Sixth Sense
and the Village are good. Avatar the Last Airbender.
Oh, absolutely not. So from what I've heard, it
sounds like he's had a spotty, spotty filmography.

(56:17):
And so when I I was just invitedto see trap on a whim and I
thought the concept was dope. So it was in and the whole point
is like this serial killer is ata concert for like essentially
it's their Taylor Swift name is Lady Raven.
And the whole point is he's trapped there and the concert
was set up as a trap for him. Trap.

(56:40):
That's the name of the. Movie.
That's why it's called Trap. But also, and like Josh Hartnett
does great in the movie, but also there's so many plot holes
that it, it, it doesn't make sense.
And I was, I was listening to this, to this interview that
Ryan Johnson did when he talked about Knives Out.
And he said he was like, when you're writing a mystery or a

(57:04):
thriller or like a murder anything, he he was like, This
is why I love genre films. It's like, because you go in
with a preconceived notion of what makes sense and what
doesn't. And he was like, so in a murder
mystery, you know, like in reality, a lot of this stuff
wouldn't necessarily make sense,but you're like, oh, people do

(57:26):
this in murder mysteries. And so I think that's really
insightful, especially when you think about trap and how it's
like, yes, you can piece together like what is happening
and why it's happening in a thriller movie.
And you're like, oh, he's crazy.There's this and that.
But it's also like this concert is literally in broad daylight.

(57:51):
The whole the whole play, it takes place at like noon.
Yeah, the every employee, like, very conveniently gives him all
the information he needs to escape their clutches.
And then the second it gets interesting, he leaves the
concert and abandons the main, the main concept of the film.

(58:11):
And so I really, really, really want it to be a great movie and
it just kind of flopped for me. You can see my 4 view on the
Glass Studios channel. But I just left feeling really
disappointed because it was so much wasted potential for such a
great concept. But it was actually, it really
was just like a 2 hour promo forhis daughter's music because

(58:35):
Lady Raven was played by the director's daughter.
Lol. Lol.
Nep O baby. Nepotism.
It always works. Don't think it doesn't.
My number 9 is Despicable Me 4. We already talked about that, so
I'll jump to #8 hit it, which isa short little short little
anime film I saw a couple monthsago called Look Back, which you

(58:58):
did do a review is on Amazon Prime.
OK. And I think you should watch it.
I think you would like it. It goes a lot into the creative
process and like finding community in creativity because
it's about these two girls who both want to be like manga
artists and stuff. And they one of them is really

(59:21):
good at drawing like characters and the quippy dialogue.
And then the other one is reallygood at drawing backgrounds.
And the first one she like gets really competitive with the
other one because she has like this complex about being the
best. And then they start
collaborating and when they cometogether and combine their
strengths, they make like these crazy insanely good, like manga

(59:44):
one shots together and stuff. And it's about that process.
And then like the natural of like, well, one of them wants to
go to this school and the other one wants to like immediately
get serialized and shown and jump.
And so they kind of split their ways.
But then they stay in contact for a bit And there's a twist
towards the end then I don't want to spoil, but it hit me on
a on a deep emotional level and like everything that happens

(01:00:06):
after that. But it was a really good movie,
very well animated, very different.
It's only like 58 minutes long, not even an hour like it was.
It was short. And also I did appreciate
because I went in, went and saw it in the theater.
They did, like, a director's commentary at the end, and they
interviewed, like, the voice actresses and stuff and just

(01:00:29):
listening to them talk about what they took away from the
story and like how the director was very intentional with like,
OK, well, we're going to do thisand we're going to really put a
big emphasis on the backgrounds in this movie because one of
them is a background artist. And like, trying to find the
best way to bring over the, like, visual storytelling from

(01:00:50):
the manga into this movie was really good.
So I really enjoyed it. I think you should watch it.
Wow, it's on Prime. Yeah, there you go.
Well, everyone, my number 8 was a movie that I forgot existed
until this exact moment, which doesn't bode well, but it was a

(01:01:11):
movie made by John Krasinski. I also forgot about this movie
until. This very stars Ryan Reynolds
and that is if now if what if it's called it's it's like
imaginary friends had a Steve Carell in it.
Lots of SNL people actually super weird.
But if it's good, it's very whimsical.

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It's a good family movie, very heartwarming.
It's the kind of movie that likeit's a very good, it's like a
light in the darkness kind of movie where it's like it's
really fun and really whimsical and really sweet, but it doesn't
have a whole lot more to offer outside of that.

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Now I bet you're wondering why is it so high on your list?
It's not, it's just better than some of the other things I have
seen. It's like it's not high on the
list, but it's also not like. Is 8 really that high on the
list of 14 like? No, no, no.

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So it's just kind of like, wasn't amazing.
No, it was sweet, it was fun, and I liked it.
I really don't know if I'd intentionally turn it on again,
but I would watch it over Moana too.
Yeah, that's fair. So I mean, there's a lot of
things I'd watch Moana one over.Moana I'd watch one over I would

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watch Hamilton over. Moana I would watch.
No, I would not watch The LittleMermaid live action over Moana
I. Wouldn't watch either of those
over Moana too. Dang, all right, what are we at
7:00? Seven my #7 is going to shock
people. #7 will shock you. My number 7 is Deadpool and

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Wolverine. OK.
I. Interesting.
Leaving the theater, I was like,wow, what a four-star
experience. Yeah, when I got home and like a
couple days went by, I was like,wow, what a 3 1/2 star
experience. And then I sat on it a little
longer and I was like, wow, whata three star experience.

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Like I left feeling so hyped. But then I just felt so betrayed
after because like Kevin Feige hyped this up as being an end
game level movie and I went intoit with those expectations,
which by the way, I feel like noone can get upset at me because
this is like the president of Marvel, right, saying this.

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Wasn't a random YouTube, they told us to get excited.
Yeah, this wasn't like a Twitterleaker who's like I've seen the
movie. It's an end game level movie.
Like this was the guy. The only one who would know
that. Hey, this movie is like an end
game level movie and I'm like OK.
I see you. I I like Deadpool, but I also
think, and I've mentioned this before, I was not a big fan of

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the cussing. And I know that's like, oh, you
walk into a Deadpool movie, likewhat do you expect?
And I was like, yeah, they really toned back the sexual
stuff because I've only seen thefirst one.
Yeah. And it had a lot of that in the
first one. Yeah.
And then I heard they turned it back in the second one.
And then they turned it back like there was virtually none of
it in the third one. And I think that was definitely

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cuz it was a Marvel movie and not like a Fox Marvel movie.
So it was good and I like I was fine with the violence.
I usually don't have an issue with the violence and the gore
because I watch anime right? But the cussing like was so
freaky. It was.
Constant. Like if they were able to tone
it back and I saw a graph or a chart that was like, oh, there's

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a hundred and something swear words in or F bombs in this
movie. Yeah.
And it's like, in what world forlike, good writing, do you need
to say the F word that many times?
Like, you don't just admit that you like shoving swear words in
because you think it's funny or it adds some kind of gravitas to

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the scene. Like there's one where Wolverine
and like they're in the car and Wolverines like I hope you die
or no, I hope you don't die because having to live with the
like sad excuse of who you are would be even worse than dying.
But there's like 7 F words crammed in there.

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And it's like, I love what he's saying because it's, it's a very
good dialogue. Yeah, but it's just there's
there were so many swear words thrown in there that I feel like
it brought the quality of the movie down a little bit.
Also, this marketed as like thisis Deadpool's soiree into the
MCU, right? As if he didn't spend 5 minutes
at the beginning of the movie inthe MCU timeline and then go

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back to his own time. Right, just to get rejected by
Jon Favreau. Yeah, and then like all the
stuff with the TVA was kind of irrelevant.
Yes, yes and no. Because it didn't feel like the
TVA from the end of Loki season 2.
It felt like the TVA from the end of Loki season 1.

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Yeah. But this is set after Loki
season 2 because of like who's in power?
That black lady, I don't remember her name.
I didn't see season. Two, but like the officer who's
like she's now in charge. So like, I don't know, it could.
Yeah. Which sucks cuz I like Ryan
Reynolds. I think he's funny.

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I like his Deadpool but I just that movie was not for me.
I have thoughts I'll save for later.
It's also higher. Wow, I'm realizing how different
our lists are the higher up theygo.
Are we at 7? OK #7 for me was a recent movie
and it was the best Christmas pageant ever.

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I actually really enjoyed this movie.
We I grew up reading the best Christmas pageant ever book
every year during Christmas. And I think it was a very like
it was very true to the book. I was very nostalgic for the
story. It was a really like actually
great example of like what good Christian filmmaking can be

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because it was a really good, funny, sweet movie that like
just it just told the Christmas story.
Like it that was it. It wasn't like there was no like
post credit scene. That was like text 10 people
right now. God's not dead.
Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh, drives me insane.

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That is like when like Angel Studios movies come out and the
while it's playing during the credits, it's like, hey, scan
this QR code and send us like and you can pay it forward for
10 people or whatever. And I'm like, I appreciate what
you're doing, but also I've already paid.
A movie. Stop trying to get me to pay
more. I hope they're expensive enough.

(01:07:56):
Said, I hope they pay it forward.
I said, dude, this is a movie theater.
No. So yeah, this movie was not that
It had Lauren Graham and Pete Holmes, I think is one of the
most he's he is really funny andunderrated as a comedian.
And I liked seeing him in this role in this movie.
It's a very sweet family Christmas movie that I like
enjoyed way more than I thought I would.

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And that's kind of like where ithow it landed so high was I was
like, oh, this was just a good fun movie.
And it was like, I would watch this over Despicable Me Trap,
Madam Webb, like Garfield, like it like it was just very
enjoyable and high quality and simple and it did what it sought
out to do and it did it well. That is all I ask of a movie.

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Like it wasn't reinventing the wheel.
It was just sweet and funny and did what it needed to do.
And that's how that's the story of how The Best Christmas
Pageant Ever is my #7 movie of the year.
All right, Chet number six number six, Demon Slayer
commencing Oyaiba to the Hashiratraining, the compilation movie.

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By the way, that should say a lot about the other movies I've
talked about. That a compilation.
That a compilation of two episodes I've already seen and a
third episode that I hadn't seenbut I was going to watch in like
2 months on Crunchyroll is higher than these other movies.
I don't have much to say. I'm not a huge fan of the

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compilation movies honestly. I don't like the idea of just
hastily slapping these things together to give you a little
sneak peek and you still have topay full price like and then
because I did a whole video about it because then like those
comp movies are gone. Yep, forever.
Like they don't get Blu-ray releases.
They don't get special treatmenton Crunchyroll because all they

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are is just compilations to makemoney.
Which is funny because anime fans will complain about recap
episodes and then go make like the demon Slayer compilation
film. That is a recap movie, right?
The like a highest in the box office for that month.
And it's like, what? What do you want?
I thought we all hated recap movies.
You want this or not? So it was all right.

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The season overall was good. I can't wait for you to get
there. Yeah, we're close.
But yeah, that's that's. Man, that's it.
This is where we're at. All right, All right, number
six, you are waiting for it inside out too everyday.
Number six, Inside out I think is one of my favorite Pixar

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movies. I took me really a long time to
remember if Inside Out was Pixaror not Sure, Inside Out was one
of my favorite Pixar movies ever.
I just like I've connected with it from day one as someone
that's moved around a lot and just like the music is
incredible and I love how like it's just genuinely one of the
most creative and heartfelt movies that Pixar has made.

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And I think it's going to go down as like one of those
classics that we talk about forever and Inside Out Two.
I don't love and I hate that we're beating this dead horse.
I don't love that it's the highest grossing animated movie
of all time because it's a sequel that's not as good as the
original. I'm just glad it's not The Lion

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King. It's not the fake live action
Lion King. I'm not jazzed that it's a
sequel either when there's a much better animated movie that
came out this year that I will talk about in a minute.
Yeah, but. But also.
It's not The Lion King anymore getting that fraud out of here.
I'm pouring, I'm pulling the general Hux philosophy of like,
I don't, I don't need you to win.

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I need him to lose. So I just think, I just think I
connect. I connect really well to the
inside out stories. Inside out to like I thought was
really sweet and really good andI thought it was a good
expansion of the universe. And the I I was really, really
pissed off about the voice casting issues because they

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recast disgust and fear. They recast them over money
discrepancy, which is so stupid because Amy Poehler was getting
paid more than they were. And so Bill Hader and Mindy
Kaling were like, hey, we will we'll stay, but we need to get
paid the same amount. And they said never mind and

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just recast it, which is I just.And then it became the highest
grossing animated movie of all time.
So it's like. Disney's shady business
practices get rewarded even moreevery single day.
I hate. It here, I hate it here, but
also like at the end of the day,it's a sweet movie that I would
genuinely watch again. Like I thought it was really
good. Yeah, all.

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Right. We are in top five territory,
guys. Top five.
All right, my #5. Cinco all.
Right guys, I'm going to be so real with you. 4 out of the five
are anime movies. I just.
I just want to. Preface that fully transparent.
They're all animated full transparent, but four out of the
five are anime. So my number 5 is Rascal does

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Not Dream of a Sister of Entering Out which is a sequel
movie to It's like the arc down the line of the Bunny girl
senpai anime. This movie hit me in the feels.
OK. Because this was like it was a
double pack that I saw. And I'll talk about the other
one here in a minute. It's on my list, but a little

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higher up. And it and that one hit me a
little harder. But this one hit me specifically
as someone who has a younger sister because the whole premise
of this movie is like the older brother who you know, has his
girlfriend and like is doing hisown life getting ready to go to
college. His sister, for plot reasons

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that were explained earlier, is like a shut in at home, but she
wants to get out more and do more stuff.
And she goes through like this whole existential crisis of
like, did you love me more when I was this fake person as
compared to who I am now? And like all of just the stuff
with them back and forth hit me emotionally as someone who has a

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younger sister. And like the age gap between
them is very similar to the age gap between me and my sister.
So just that emotional connection to it is what put it
up there. And and other than that, like it
was a really good movie, like very well directed, edited,
animated, like that kind of stuff.
But it was the emotional connection that got it so high.

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That makes sense. That sounds good actually.
I think you'd like the series ifyou could get past the title.
I just remember, like we this has been a joke for so long.
Anyway, ready for my #5I sure aren't.
This is a movie that I really, Ireally think flew under the

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radar in a bad way because I think it was one of the most
bizarre creative endeavours I'veever seen in my life.
And that is, piece by piece, thePharrell Williams.
Documentary. I didn't get a chance to see
that one. So if you don't, if you weren't
in the know, Pharrell Williams made a documentary about his

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life as a biography, but he decided instead of doing it like
a regular documentary, he was they were going to record it
like a regular documentary. So all of the people in it,
they're real people and they're playing themselves and it's just
their testimonies to to the story of Pharrell's life.
And then they took all that audio, edited it down to what

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they wanted and animated it in Lego, which is an interesting
choice. Weird and such an odd choice,
but I really think that that choice and if you've seen the
film, the whole the whole motif is essentially that like he
didn't really like he always wanted to do something different

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and he always wanted to keep innovating and he never wanted
to do what everyone else is doing.
And then having the whole movie in such a bizarre medium just
reinforced that he's still doingthat.
And so I thought it was absolutely brilliant.
If you ever want to see Legos, swear you got to go see this

(01:16:10):
movie because it's wild. Lego Snoop Dogg is here.
Lego, Kendrick Lamar, Lego J. Cole, Lego likes Gwen Stefani,
really, really bizarre stuff. And his story was really
interesting and I thought it wastold really well.
The animation was cool, The music was phenomenal.
Because it's Pharrell. Lego Daft Punk was there.
For a split second I flipped out, but overall I just thought

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it was like wildly creative and like gorgeously done in a way
that I'd never seen before and it fell super under the radar.
So highly recommend going to seethat if you haven't.
All right, Speaking of movies that went so under the radar, so
criminally under the radar, and I'm actually genuinely upset.

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OK. And it should probably be higher
than my number 4, but like I don't.
Know we've readjusted our lists on the air before.
This is my favorite non anime film that came out this year.
Yeah, in Transformers One. Yeah, I you need to watch that.
Movie. I'm gonna see it.
I need to see. It so good it's probably it is

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the best. Well, it's up for rent.
I'm not paying anyway, that's criminal.
It is the best Transformers movie.
It fundamentally understands thecore concepts of love
Transformers and does it so well.
And I think the voice cast is phenomenal because usually like

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as much as I love the Mario movie, that's my comparable when
you bring in celebrities for voice acting, you can walk away
and be like, that was Chris Pratt playing Mario, That was
Charlie Day playing Luigi. Like that was Jack Black playing
Bowser. Like that's what you can walk
away with. But I left this movie being
like, there were a couple of times where I genuinely didn't

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believe it was Chris Hemsworth. Like, that makes sense.
I was. And especially towards the end
of the movie, because of all thecharacter development that
happens, he starts to sound morelike Peter Cullen as he becomes
more of like Optimus Prime. So and then, oh, what's his
name? What's his name?
What's his name? The guy who played Megatron did
a phenomenal job. And I want to actually shout out

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his name properly. Brian Tyree Henry.
He was in bullet train. He was the other guy from bullet
train. Yes, yes, he did a phenomenal
job as Megatron. Like dude.
OK, I need to he. Didn't win an Oscar for that
performance. It was so good.
And what I love about the movie is it somehow fundamentally

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believes in the difference between good and evil.
And they're in there. Like, there is objective good
and objective evil. But then it also fleshes out the
nuance to that of like, yeah, what this guy is doing is evil.
However, we should not repay this evil with more evil because
then you will be just as bad as this person.

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And it's like the one side of like, Optimus is like, hey, we
should like, we shouldn't do this.
And then Megatron's like, but I want justice.
Like I want justice and revenge for everything that happened.
And Optimus is like you're, you're valid for feeling that
way. And I do too.
But we don't need to kill that person because, right, Like you

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don't need to become a murderer to achieve that.
So I, I, I appreciated the nuance to take there.
And I also think it did a good job of not subverting Optimus as
a character because what's her name?
The chick Scarlett Johansson played Elito won because because

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they really try to set her up aslike this like female girl boss,
like girl power. And when you get in into that in
movies nowadays, 9 times out of 10, she'll like undercut and
make the like the lead guy look stupid.
But and she kind of did at the beginning, but it's because he
was kind of stupid, right? Like so there was an aspect of

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it of like. Well, yeah, you kind of deserve
to be undercut. You're not making smart
decisions here. But then as it went on and, you
know, he wised up instead of hercontinuing that, she also wised
up and was like, OK, how can I support you in this role?
And, like, acknowledge that he was the leader they needed and
was able to put herself aside. So there's a lot of really good

(01:20:38):
stuff there. That's cool.
It's just, I'm so sad that this movie went so unnoticed.
Like Paramount, where was the marketing for this movie?
Like this movie was marketed by one guy on Twitter.
One guy. Who just kept?
Jumping in the comments of everything and is like, oh you

(01:20:59):
don't like Joker 2? Have I got a movie for you to
see? And like started getting
acknowledged by Paramount for marketing the movie and he
filled theaters. He got people to go see a movie.
He got box office pushes for this movie and it still failed
and I'm so mad because there is a chance it will never get the

(01:21:20):
sequel that it's set up and I'm just like bro.
Yeah. Why do all the good movies not
make the money? Why does Moana 2 get To succeed
in Transformers? One has to fail.
I have all the good men gone, and where do?
I so I will be buying the Blu-ray at some point because it

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is one I absolutely want to own,but it is a phenomenal movie.
So that's my #4. Good word, good word.
All right #4 Deadpool and Wolverine hit my #4 So let me
tell you, I, I don't think I've been, this was the, the, the

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movie I went into the theater most excited about.
I really did get well. I wasn't mean that was my number
one, but we'll get to that. I was very excited to see this
movie this summer and I went in and it was just like, it was
exactly what I needed it to be. It was violent, it was funny, it

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was quippy, It had a great soundtrack.
You know, I have some plot issues.
There are some plot holes or some whatever, but also at the
end of the day, like it was fun.It was funny like, and everyone
like there's I've heard the opinion thrown around.
They're like Deadpool and Wolverine is everything wrong

(01:22:44):
with Marvel right now. And it's like just compiling
everything that they're doing wrong and throwing it out there.
And I'm just like, no, that's such a bad take because the
whole point was to make fun of what Marvel has been doing.
And he even at the end of the movie, he was like, guys, the
multiverse isn't working. And he said that and it was in

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there and it was like, Oh my God, like.
They're getting self aware they're.
Becoming self aware now one of my favorite Bo Burnham quotes is
he's like being a he he uses a he uses a little more colorful
language. He's like being a self aware
jerk doesn't mean doesn't excuseyou for being a jerk.
And so, you know, being self aware about making sucky movies

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doesn't mean you can't just keepmaking sucky movies.
But also like, I feel like everyone felt very seen and it
was the first time in a long time Marvel had come back.
Because also Ryan Reynolds is like APR Master and he like
marketed this movie so incredibly well.
I will give it. That which at this point is half

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the game. Yeah, people have to know about
your movie. Like Transformers, you can make
the greatest movie of the year, but if nobody knows that it's in
theaters? Then they won't see it.
Doesn't matter. Which is so interesting that
that's where we're at. We could do, I could do a whole
episode on movie promotion, and I'll talk about that on my next

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movie too. But hit me with your #3 Top
three guys, Top three of 2024. #3 is Rascal does not dream of a
knapsack kid. Now this movie, you might be
wondering, why is it higher thanthe other one?
Because this one dove a lot moreinto Sakata.

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He's the main character, his relationship with his mom and a
character. His mom is a character who up
until this point, I think she'd been hospitalized.
And like this, like this movie was her coming home and trying
to find that level of normalcy again after all of the traumatic

(01:24:54):
things that happened. But then it also gets really
introspective because he doesn'tfeel like he's worthy of being
her son. And he kind of just steps back
and lets his sister have that relationship with his mom, which
then makes his mom upset becauseshe's like, well, no, I, I want
to be with both of my kids. Like, I love both of you.

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And it's his like, journey to ultimately discover his own self
worth in being her son. And that hit me emotionally on a
different level. Like that.
I was like almost crying in the theater, dude.
I was like, what the freak man? What?
So it was really good because italso goes into like this stuff

(01:25:41):
with my his girlfriend and like how she's like, I can't fix this
problem for you. Like I can keep you in this like
deluded state of not wanting to address the problem, But what
ultimately is best for you is you need to go out and do that.
And it's a hard decision, but you have to do it.

(01:26:02):
So it was just interesting. It's an incredible movie and I
want to watch them again, but they're not on Blu-ray yet.
Thanks, Japan. But it was it was good.
It was an incredibly emotional movie.
And if I had had my YouTube channel by then, I probably
would have made a video about it.
Dang, you know what? It's not too late.

(01:26:23):
No, it's too late, I don't. Oh OK, I'd have to rewatch them
before I made a full video about.
It but they're not on Blu-ray but.
They're not. All right, guys, top three.
I'd like to apologize if this pisses anyone off #3 is none

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other than Wicked, Which this year?
Listen, it's Wicked's world, andwe're just living in it because
this was the most promoted movieof the year.
Which made me not want to go seeit by the.
Way which like there is something to say for like
marketing backfiring, but also the marketing of this movie was

(01:27:10):
so bizarre where I really felt like I really felt like all the
actors had like trauma bonded insome way.
I well, that's just typical theater kid experience.
No, literally first. OK, not to cut you, right, Let
me hear you. I haven't seen Wicked.
Yeah. So from an outsider's
perspective, I've seen a couple interviews.

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Ariana Grande and the other chick.
I don't even know her name. Cynthia Arevo.
Yes, they both in every interview look insufferable and
I don't want to be around them so thus I don't want to go watch
a three hour long movie about them.
No, but here's the thing. They're supposed to be inside
sufferable. That's the point of the show.
Well, it doesn't put my butt in.I see so.

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It's about character arc. It doesn't matter.
Also I didn't even know when themovie was coming out but before
it did I was already sick of walking in Target and seeing all
of the pink and green. We got wicked bro.
They brought back C DS. Yes.
For we got wicked C, DS, wicked,Funko Pops, Wicked.

(01:28:16):
The book covers wicked cars wicked.
I mean, do you name it? It's got a wicked thing on it.
And I'm like, I'm sick of this already.
I'd OK, Yeah. What's?
Interesting we're seeing a resurgence.
This is more of a news topic than anything else.
Everyone's going back to read the book now and they're
realizing how incredibly screwedup the book is compared to the
musical because the musical on stage is really well done and

(01:28:40):
really compact. Whatever the book is like.
I'm trying to think of the most family friendly way to say this.
I was told they're very spicy books.
There's very it's very spicy andvery graphic and the way that I
was told was it was spicy and graphic in a way that you can
tell was written by a man. Yeah, that messes that.

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I ain't about that lifestyle. So anyway, Wicked, like I see,
I've seen Wicked on stage. I think it's truly like such a
it's such a cool story because it's connected to the Wizard of
Oz, but it's its own thing. But it's honestly better than
The Wizard of Oz as a story wizard.
Of Oz is also. Like it's.

(01:29:26):
Almost 100 years old, I'm not. Here to dog on the Wizard of Oz,
but I think Wicked is a better story, much deeper.
I love the music. I think the music is so good,
but also the fact that they tooklike a $300 million risk on this
movie and it paid off I think isastounding.
And even just the quality of themovie.

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And I think that really what I'mlearning, especially from this
year is if they, if you make a movie where I can tell that you
cared just a little bit, I'm going to really like it.
And I think that's my problem. And we're going to get into this
into this after for a little bitis they cared about Wicked, they

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cared about the sets and they cared about making the music
perfect to making sure all the fans loved it.
And they they cared about who tocast and the casting was
genuinely perfect despite, you know, all the weird interviews.
And I love I love the interview where the interviewer was like,
if if you've seen it on a coupleon online recently, people are

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really taking the time to makingspace, making to hold the space
for the lyrics of defying gravity.
And she's like, Oh my gosh, I, Ididn't know this was happening.
An interview was like, well, I saw it on a couple posts.
And she's like, Oh my gosh, thisis, I hate these kids.

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And it's so funny. Because so annoying.
Because they also did an interview with Variety after
about that interview which is sofunny it.
Was a game interview about the interview.
It was so funny because Cynthia Rivo was like, I didn't know
this was turning into a meme. She was like, genuinely, the
interviewer said that to me and I did not understand a word she

(01:31:14):
said. And she was like, so I've
reacted how I felt like I shouldreact.
She was like, because I didn't want to offend.
And so that's fair, genuinely. And then Ariana Grande was like,
oh, I didn't understand what shewas saying, but she was freaking
out. So I felt like I was missing
something and so genuinely, no one in the room for that

(01:31:35):
interview knew what was. Going on, everyone was not on
the same page there. Wow, that's crazy.
Anyway, Long story short, I think I think like Wicked is one
of those cultural moments that I'm just kind of glad I get to
live in. And so like, it is one of the
defining movies of the year simply just because of its

(01:31:55):
cultural presence. And it's honestly just a really
great. I gave it five stars.
I thought it killed. I loved it.
I cried. At the end you gave out the the
the long coveted 5 star review. How many?
I think I only gave 35 stars this year and it's my top.
Three, I think I only gave one. Can I even give one?

(01:32:16):
Can I feel? Can I like?
Can you change the view so this is so I can see the ratings?
Let's see. My number one is five stars.
No, I lied. My number one is 4 stars.
I did not give a single movie onthis list of five star.
Really. No, the highest was my number

(01:32:39):
two at 4 1/2, but I think that needs to come back down to a
four. Interesting.
OK, I gave my top three were five stars.
Are we with your? Are you at 2:00?
Yep, number two. Number two, spy family code
white, the like spin off little fun filler movie where the whole

(01:33:01):
family gets to go on this like winter vacation and then spy
antics ensue because these Nazi type dudes are trying to bomb
this party. Like and then the family's got
to get together and they got to stop the thing and Anya eats the
the secret bomb code and then these guys kidnap her and force

(01:33:24):
her to poop for like 20 minutes while Lloyd and Yor are
hijacking a plane and trying to get on this blimp.
No, literally that's what happens in the movie.
It's so funny dude. I love this movie, Pete.
What can I say? Absolute cinema.
Martin Scorsese would be a big fan, but it was good.

(01:33:47):
It's a lot of the same stuff that you like with the show of
It's funny, it's wholesome. It like has those like hint of
romantic moments between the twoadults and then Anya's just
there being chaotic energy as usual, being a 5 year old.
So that's all I have to say. It's good.
Fair. There you go.

(01:34:10):
Martin Scorsese would love Spy Family if he had the balls to
watch it. True.
Come on, Martin, pick up your Crunchyroll account.
Let's go. Right, guys. #2 for me #2 give.
Me a Rodos. Any guesses?
No, because I feel like my only guess is going to end up being
your number one. Yeah, though my number 2 is a

(01:34:31):
move. I did do a full YouTube video
about this movie so I won't. Say, oh, that makes much.
Yeah, and it is DreamWorks, the wild robot.
I knew it was kind of which I'llwatch Transformers.
If you watch the Wild Robot, we'll exchange robot movies.
We can do a robot swap. But the wild robot like in a
like I walked into the theatre so incredibly blind and I saw

(01:34:54):
the trailers and I the first time I saw the trailer because I
don't watch trailers outside of the theatre.
I saw the trailer and I leaned over to, I don't even remember
who I was with was probably Amy and leaned over and I said that
movie's going to make me cry. And I was like, I'm going to cry
to that movie. And then I saw in the theaters
and I was like, all right, I'm going to walk in completely

(01:35:15):
blind. I've heard the reviews are good.
Like that's all I know. And I sobbed like the entire
second-half of that movie. And I'm not afraid to say it.
That movie is heart wrenching. And it's all about like the
sacrificial love that parents give for their for their
children. And it's like so real and

(01:35:36):
heartfelt and deep and, and it's, it's Chris Sanders best
movie in my opinion, which is might be a hot take 'cause he
also made How to Train Your Dragon.
He's about to make another How to train your dragon.
Oh, he's not on that one. Yes, he is.
He's not directing it. I don't, no.
I think he is. No, he's not.
'Cause I remember seeing in an interview, he was like, if

(01:35:57):
they're going to make, he was like DreamWorks said they're
making this movie either way. And whether or not I wanted to
be a part of it, I think he's. So if they're going to do it,
I'm going to be there. Make sure they do.
He's working on it, but he's notdirecting it.
Let me see. I didn't think he was directing
it because I remember he there was an article about how like he
gave advice to the actual director.

(01:36:20):
The live action remake is directed by the same guy who did
2. And three.
OK, yeah. So he only made the first one
anyway. The wild robot, 10 out of 10.
I did a whole video on YouTube about it.
Go into the description. Yeah, Chris Sanders is an
executive producer. Yeah, that's what I thought.
All right. Number one.

(01:36:42):
Do you want to guess my number one?
Number one. I don't even think you know
about. This is it a My Hero movie.
Ding, Ding, Ding. Yeah, yeah.
My Hero Academia, You're next ismy number one.
Dude, I have never been like theway you talked about Deadpool,
like being excited, living up toyour expectations, everything

(01:37:02):
you needed. That was me with this movie.
It was a very like, I love my hero.
Wow, shocker. I went and bought the Japanese
copy of the final volume on Amazon.
But I'm a really big Deku fan and this movie did a lot for him
and like gave him a lot of really cool moments.

(01:37:24):
And it was just a fun night for me because I got like the
popcorn bucket and the cup and like all that stuff.
And I went in the theater and watched the movie and it was
like just such a good movie. I think it's one of the better
movies they've done. I am still hesitant to say it's
the best one. I want to watch all of them and
like really take a bird's eye view and figure that out.

(01:37:46):
But I, I do think it's one of the better ones.
It found a really good way to squeeze itself into the
timeline, which is funny becausethe space it's at in the movie,
it's like, see end of season 6, two days movie, 2 days season 7.
Like there's not a lot of time and in order to like a minimize

(01:38:10):
the damage, they go inside this like really weird cruise ship
that's like massive. And it's got all these different
environments and rooms and stuffin it.
So you can still have a myriad of different set pieces in
different locations, but you're not having to actually affect
the world at large, which is already destroyed.
Dude, you know, we we give Marvel movies crap for

(01:38:33):
destroying New York. Yeah.
Anime destroys Japan. Yeah.
Like, it's wild. So overall, just a really,
really good movie. And I'm very sad that I'm going
to have to wait months and months for the Blu-ray to
actually come out because I wantto watch it again now.
Yeah, that's, that's my number one.
It's so fair #1 All right, guys,Number one for me is a movie

(01:38:56):
that I feel like, I feel like also slipped under the radar in
a way because everyone I know that have see has seen this
movie adores it. But people that haven't seen it
just haven't heard of it. And that is the fall guy, Ryan
Gosling and Emily Blunt. Genuinely like if you love

(01:39:17):
movies, if you want to make movies, if you love like behind
the scenes of movies, this is such a good movie because it's
like it's a comedy. It's an action, but it's an
espionage mystery that is literally, but it's a romantic
comedy that takes place like on the set of a movie.

(01:39:38):
And it's so freaking good. And it's it's stayed in my top
spot since I saw it and it hasn't moved since because I saw
it in theaters. And since I saw it in theaters,
I've watched it three other times.
Wow. And so I've seen this movie 4
times this year and I could watch it again right now.

(01:40:00):
It is like genuinely has such a high rewatch ability.
The the story is just really phenomenal.
I got the Blu-ray for I think mybirth, not my birthday.
I got the Blu-ray for some gift.We were, we did Colt stevers and
her there. We did the couple from the movie
for Halloween. Like it's just it's my movie of

(01:40:24):
the year and I'm going to go back and watch it.
Like it. Honestly, I think it's broken
into my top ten overall of like all my favorite movies because
there's not another movie like that.
Like there's very few movies that I could turn on anytime and
want to see it. And there it is, the fall guy.

(01:40:45):
Highly recommend, go watch it. Well, now that we've gone all
the way through that, yeah, let's let's ask the question or
I guess let's answer the question then we asked at the
beginning of the episode, was 2024 a bad year for movies?
Because like we said earlier, comparatively, you watched like
what, how many new movies last year, like 30 or 4010?

(01:41:08):
More. And I only got 15, yeah, or I
only got like 13, yeah. So that's a really big drop.
So also. From last year.
Something to to consider is in 2023 I saw 24 movies and of
those 24 I really like, genuinely really, really enjoyed

(01:41:33):
about 12 of them, which is a really, really cool.
And then this year I saw 14 and really liked maybe six of them,
maybe 5. I'd also like to point out there
were some big movies this year that I didn't see, mainly

(01:41:55):
because like either just wasn't interested or either wasn't
interested or it just didn't appeal to me, or I just didn't
get the time to see it in theaters.
So some big movies that came outthis year that we missed were
Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice.
I've never seen the original 1 either.
Twisters came out, I never got to see that.

(01:42:16):
Godzilla versus Kong came out and I didn't get to.
See that I totally forgot about.That Planet of the Apes, Kingdom
of the Planet of the Apes came out and I didn't get to see
that. I didn't see Quiet Place day
one. I didn't see Gladiator 2.
I heard Alien Rhombus was reallygood and I didn't get to see
that. I didn't get to see Wonka.
I didn't. See how Wonka was last year.

(01:42:38):
No, that was this year. What?
Yeah, I didn't get to see Wonka,I didn't get to see I didn't see
Furiosa, I didn't see Civil War,I didn't see Joker 2 lol
Everyone's going to come up and be like you didn't see Dune Part
2. I'm going to be like, bad.

(01:43:00):
See what I've, what I've heard is that the second one is good
and people that didn't like the first one like the second one.
But honestly, like, I'm just exhausted.
Like I, I'm, I'm too exhausted to see another Dune movie like
it. It's not I'm not going to like
it. I'm sparing your feelings and
mine. I'm not going to like it.

(01:43:22):
I'm not going to see it. So like that that keeping that
in mind based on the reviews forthat one, I definitely miss.
Like I heard Twisters was reallygreat and I know a lot of people
that really liked Wonka. So maybe my opinion would change
if I got to see some of those movies that that made a big box

(01:43:43):
office impact and just generallywere reviewed good.
But at the moment, I really don't think it was a good year
for movies. Yeah, I feel like 1, like you
said, there were a lot of moviesthat didn't interest me that I
didn't end up seeing, like the ones you mentioned.
But even from that list, like there wasn't a single one on

(01:44:06):
there that I felt like, yeah, I need to go see that, right?
Like every movie that I felt like that with is on this list.
Or it's Sonic 3, which comes outnext week.
So yeah, like one, there's that.I also didn't have the movie
pass this year, so I like didn'thave that ability to just go see

(01:44:29):
movies whenever I wanted to. And I went long stretches
without going to the theater, which was weird.
And I've been to the theater more in the last like 2 weeks
than I have the entire year, right?
Which is insane. But I also think there's
something to say for there wasn't a like I'm thinking about

(01:44:49):
last year and all of the music came out last year.
We had like Indiana Jones, Barbie, Oppenheimer, Miraculous
Ladybug. Had to sneak that one in there
like let me let me look at this list and I'll give you like.
Like I saw John Wick four and Guardians three.
Yeah, Guardians 3 and Spiderman was like the summer movie.

(01:45:11):
And the Mario movie came out last year.
Five Nights at Freddy's Dungeonsand Dragons.
Like wish, like, you know. Right, like there were movies
coming out and I feel like 2024 was a lacking some of those
heavy hitters and it feels like a gap year.
Yeah, before like they come backin 2025 with a bunch more of the

(01:45:32):
movies that we what? But even then, I don't know,
man. I really do feel like, like, I
think that's an interesting point that like 2024 didn't have
like a heavy hitter movie where like last year we, I feel like
the heavy hitter was probably Oppenheimer and Barbie were like

(01:45:52):
the movies of the year. And, and you know, Oppenheimer
won best picture of the Oscars. And so I'm kind of like, I'm
also very curious to watch the Oscars this year to be like,
what do we give stuff to? And they always find some random
like indie stuff that we've never seen to give awards to.

(01:46:14):
And then once the nominations come out, I'll watch as much of
that stuff as I can too. But also like the heaviest
hitters of the year, like in my opinion were Deadpool, probably
Deadpool, Wicked and Dune were like the heaviest hitters.
And that's pretty much it. And I think that's an

(01:46:35):
interesting side effect to sequel and remake culture that
we haven't fully considered and fully haven't lived.
The effects of is yes, Inside Out two made a ton of money, but
it's cultural impact was minimal.
And so it's like Moana 2 is making a ton of money but it's
cultural impact is almost non existent.

(01:46:56):
Right. It's like when you have like
100,000 view YouTube video but you have like 20 comments.
Right, exactly. Like, yeah, you have a lot of
views, but nobody really cares enough to leave a comment,
right? So there's that aspect of it
too. And I just, it feels weird
because there was one Marvel movie this year and that was it.

(01:47:18):
And like 1 Marvel. Usually Marvel is like the tent
pole. We haven't had a Star Wars
movies in five years. Right.
But you know. Which is tragic.
We had to bring it up. You know, so I think there's
also something to say for like the tent pole, like.
Big studio. Let's not let's not diminish the
amount of tent pool of movies that Disney used to be putting

(01:47:41):
out every year, right? Like go back and look at any
given year in the mid to early 20 tens.
You'll get like 2 Disney animated movies, a Pixar movie,
a Star Wars movie, multiple Marvel movies.
Like there was always something at least once 1/4 for you to be
in the theater seated watching and you were excited about.

(01:48:04):
Now it's like I've been waiting all year for Sonic 3 and if
something pops up between now and then I'll go see it like.
Yeah. There were a lot of movies on my
list that at the beginning of the year didn't have dates or I
didn't know about at all. And that just kind of like comes
with the territory of being moreanime movies, right?
But even like Transformers 1, like I didn't know that was
coming out until like two monthsbefore it did.

(01:48:27):
And one I do want to mention that I haven't seen yet because
I'm going to see it tomorrow is The Lord of the Rings, War of
the Rohin Reem, or however you say that.
Like, that's probably gonna, I hope that's a big movie.
And I've seen them do like, substantial marketing for that.
Yeah. But then it's also like, to your
point of what's the point of putting all these movies out if

(01:48:51):
you're not gonna market them right?
And you don't and. Marketing is half the game,
which sucks. Well, it's half the budget too,
right? For real.
So it feels like at a certain point, like we were talking
about this in the theater last night, of are certain studios,
Disney trying to sabotage their own movies for the sake of like

(01:49:16):
putting them on streaming like. Yeah.
Was it more profitable for them to cut their losses on Moana 2,
stitch it together, get that boxoffice, and it still ends up on
Disney Plus either way? Like, it was never a question of
whether or not Moana 2 was goingto Disney Plus.
It was a question of was it going straight to Disney Plus or

(01:49:38):
was it getting a theater run andthen going to Disney Plus was
the question. So I don't know.
And then to take like, like I said, Mufasa is going to have
better music than the freaking Moana 2, which is a tragedy.
But at what point does sequel and remake culture become too
much? Like I'm thinking about their

(01:49:59):
slate next year, like Disney's slate next year.
They have like Elio I think is their only original movie next
year and it's Pixar. Elio And then there's the other
what's the Is it the rabbit one?The Beaver one that's like 26
though. Oh, that's not next year.
That's not next year. Yeah.
Because next year is Snow White.I'll look it up if you want to

(01:50:23):
say what you're going to say. I just, I just like, I, I really
don't, I don't love the direction.
And honestly, like Hollywood, Hollywood is a culture.
We need to stop pretending that it's not.
And the Hollywood culture right now is just like, you know, we
can get a ton of money from these things.
And until consumers respond withtheir wallets, it's not going to

(01:50:45):
change and they're just going tokeep degrading everything that
you love. And I was having this
conversation with my younger sister a few days ago or a few
weeks ago and she's 12. And she was like, are she's she
point blank asked me. She said, do you think movies
are bad now? And I was like, or she asked,

(01:51:06):
she was like, do you think that we released good movies this
year? And I said, I think we released
good movies this year because I saw the fall guy, the wild
robot, you know, I thought Deadpool's great Wicked.
But compared to what we used to release in the caliber of
quality we used to release, it'snot even close.

(01:51:27):
And I pulled up, I pulled up thebox office for 2014, which was
10 years ago, by the way, and think about like all the movies
we just said and how like we really only liked like 3 or 4.
And the thing about 2014, when we released Guard in the same
year we released Guardians of the Galaxy, Hunger Games,

(01:51:47):
Mockingjay Part 1, Captain America, The Winter Soldier, The
Lego Movie, Transformers, Age ofextinction, Dawn of the Planet
of the Apes, Big Hero 6, Godzilla, Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles, Interstellar, how to train your Dragon 2, frozen,
like the list goes on. And there's, there's always we,

(01:52:09):
we can't pretend that like everymovie in 2014 was good like,
because that's not true. We've, we've always had
franchise movies. And this year the X-Men days of
Future Past came out. You know, that's when the
Amazing spider man 2 came out. You know, that's when the sequel
to 21 jump St. came out. That's when The Hobbit battle of
five armies came out. And so like, we can't pretend

(01:52:32):
that we were perfect then, but our scales have tilted way
further in the bad sequel remakes and just franchises.
And I'm also not going to pretend that like, you know, if
was good, but it wasn't like life changing, like it wasn't
like, you know, it's not frozen.It's not, you know, so like even

(01:52:55):
even a lot of the like non franchise movies just aren't as
creative. And I'm really curious to see
how long we're going to sit withthis before we see like a great
Hollywood revival. I'm trying to do some math here.
It's OK. I pulled up just Disney slate
for next year. Yeah.
And I want you to just keep a count of how many of these are

(01:53:17):
new original movies that aren't a sequel to anything.
And what is just a remake or a sequel, Right.
So starting off in February, Captain America, Brave New
World, that's a sequel. Sequel, which looks.
By the way. Is Snow White that's a remake?
Looks bad by the way. Then in May is Thunderbolts,

(01:53:40):
which arguably is new. Is new, but is a team up of
pre-existing characters for. For the sake of this list, I'll
say we'll say. It's new.
So that's one and we're 4 moviesin Nice.
Then you have Lilo and Stitch, which is a remake, Leo which is

(01:54:00):
new, so that's two new. Which looks good by the way.
Fantastic Four, which remake? Kind of kind of, it's new for
the MCU, yeah. So I've given the benefit of the
doubt. Freaky or Friday, which is a
sequel. Tron Eris, which is a sequel.

(01:54:21):
Zootopia 2, which is a sequel. Avatar, Fire and Ash, which is a
sequel so out of all of their movies coming out next year,
they have 10 and three of them are new.
And only one of them is truly new.
And only one of them is truly new.
If you don't want to be super conservative and give them.

(01:54:43):
Oh my gosh. A conservative estimate.
No. Some of these I do want to see,
I will say. No same.
I'm going to see most of these. Can we?
Can we please do an episode on Snow White?
I kind of want to see. It I want to see it and then do

(01:55:04):
like a tier list of all of the live action remakes and see just
how far we've come right since Cinderella because Cinderella
like when they made that movie, it was supposed to be this like
how can we improve and. Add.
To the original story and make it better.
And now it's like, well, we hateSnow White because it's not as

(01:55:28):
progressive as we want it to be,so let's fundamentally change
the wheel and make this movie. And it's like, whoa.
OK, there's also something to say for no one asked you to,
like, make the movie. Yeah, no one, no one was like
chomping at the bits for a live action Snow White.
Cause like Snow White's in the public domain and so is
Cinderella. It's like one of those things

(01:55:50):
that you continually like it continually gets remade like the
daily wires doing their own version of Snow White, which is
so weird because they're only doing it because Disney is doing
it and they want to be like antiDisney and I hate.
That no, that's stupid. That's stupider than making a
live action remake like. I also heard some of the
reasoning why they're trying to remake these old ones is because

(01:56:13):
like the original Snow White, the Disney Snow White is about
to go in into public domain. So if they're going to lose
that, then. They want to keep.
They are going to do a new version to essentially overwrite
the old one. So it doesn't matter that it
goes into public domain because they can't do anything about
that. So new merch dropping, new merch

(01:56:36):
drop when that? Movie goes public domain.
And it's just Snow White. We're going to have a white.
We're just going to grade up Snow White.
Over the years, we're just goingto start picking off some of
those early movies. Now, Oh my gosh, that's iconic.
Well, do you have anything else to add?
Was this a bad year for movies? Yes.
Next year is not looking any better.

(01:56:57):
Yeah, well, I don't know. Optimistic.
We have the Minecraft movie, butI'm sorry.
Freaking cameras. I'm sorry, a Minecraft movie.
My bad. Which actually I watched that
second trailer. They should have started with
that. No, for real.
The second trailer made it look so much better.
They shot. Themselves in the foot by trying

(01:57:17):
to like by starting with that like crappy teaser.
I don't know whose idea that was.
Also, Can you imagine if they made them if they released a
Minecraft movie with no trailer and they were just like.
Go see it. Go see it.
The marketing is it's out. Go, go, the release is the
marketing. What a what a wild.
Baller move that would have. Been I was going to say, let me,

(01:57:39):
let me look up what we're excited for next year.
And then I was like, wait. That's our next episode.
That's a whole different. Episode or is it?
Guys? I'm going to be completely
honest, this might not be our last episode.
No promises. We might have a super cool
secret surprise in store. We'll see what happens.
So unless you have anything elseto add.

(01:58:00):
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ranking is, what your thoughts are.
Feel free to send us Adm or dropin the question sticker down
below. Your favorite movie of 20/20/40.
Do you think that this was a badyear for movies?
What are your thoughts? What are your opinions?
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