June 27, 2025 • 19 mins
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"F1"
"Bride Hard"
"Deep Cover"
Honorable Mention:
"Megan 2.0"
"F1"
"Bride Hard"
"Deep Cover"
Honorable Mention:
"Megan 2.0"
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Joel Malcoln for w J and O dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
And you know, we do a lot of hard news here,
we talk a lot of politics, but every once in
a while we've got to keep our priorities straight and
talk about movies. So let's do it with Happerstine, the
movie guy from Pobby Charts paper dot com.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Oh Man promised to not talk politics. Okay, no, we.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, and I don't think you have any this week
that are too political, though you never know. Uh so
tell us, tell us about what I read as Brad
Pitt's vanity project, whatever that means.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Well maybe so, maybe it's hard to miss the similarities
between F One the movie and Top Gun, the blockbuster
Tom Cruise high speed action action picture. F One actually
is set in the world of Formula one Auto Races. Well,
Top Gun is about flyboys, but otherwise they are virtually
(00:52):
the same movie cliched formulas in all, not the fans
of the earlier movie or Auto Races were mind. The
formulaic plot is largely an excuse for some great racing action,
and really it's quite terrific what they do well delivered
by director Joseph Kozinski, He's the guy who helmed Top
(01:12):
Gun Maverick and is produced by the tireless Jerry Bruckheimer. God,
he's been around so a long time, but he's he
did both of the Top Gun movies. Now F one
swaps out Tom Cruise for Brad Pitt as Sonny Hayes
has been Formula one racer with a dark pass? Don't
they all have a dark pass? In the part of
(01:34):
the Formula eking out, Living now traveling about to compete
in lesser races, but out of the blue, Rubin, an
old racing buddy that's Javier bardem reels him back in
to mentor the team in a Gopher Broke literal League competition. Now,
of course, the formula also calls for love interest for
(01:55):
Sonny and Carrie Condon remember her from a Banshee of
Indusher and she feels that role nicely as Kate, the
engineer of the team. But I mean, the whole point
of the movie really is that the racing sequences and
they're they're they're terrific. Puts you in the audience and
(02:16):
the driver's seat going about two hundred miles an hour,
and you wouldn't want it any other way. It's in
theaters and you want to see this one on as
big as screen as possible, maybe even going traveling to
an Imax theater.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
But don't speed on the way to the movies or
on the way home.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
But put on the way home you'll be wanting to speed.
That's the left of time you got to worry about it.
You a movie like that, you talk about to the
Middle and try it on nine to ninety five.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
You talk about Top Gun.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Obviously you mentioned the director is the same guy that
did Top Gun Maverick and producer right, and some of
the same kind of themes in a way, But.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
It's the same movie.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
But is it not?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Is it not more a kind of if you want
to say, it's a copy of anything involving Tom Cruise
Days of Thunder.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I didn't watch Days of Thunder. I'm just going by
what somebody else was saying.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
But we're talking about the older guy and mentoring the
younger guy. Okay, so it's it's much more like Maverick.
So that was Tom Cruise's racing picture from a long
time ago.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
With Nicole Right. I think that was the first film
they worked on together. And I've made that with But
that was.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
The time they were they were a team. Yeah, indeed,
it's not a bad picture.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, I never saw Days of Thunder. You think I'd
be better off watching that than F one?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
They both have been racing the sequences. You might as
well see F one.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
There you actually a cocktail party and not have seen it.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I'm not a big racing fan, car racism, just like whatever,
But you've almost you've pretty much got me sold. I
wasn't really considering this movie, and I like Bride Pitt.
Don't get me wrong, it's just the race stuff didn't
intrigue me. But some of what you said did. And
you said two words that made me really want to
see it. And that's Jerry Bruckheimer. How many Jerry Bruckheimer
(04:10):
produced films are horrible, some of them aren't great, but
he's pretty They're always.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Big and they always do well at the box office.
Some of them are less good than others. But this
is a good one.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
You're probably gonna laugh at me. Con Air is one
of my favorite Jerry Bruckheimer films. The Rock would be
another one.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Well, that's funny you mentioned con Air because the director
of this next movie did con Air.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Oh all right, tell us about it.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
That's fair a segue. Now, Rebel Wilson, She's not the director.
Reben Wilson was one of the best things about Bridesmaids,
the chick click comedy from twenty eleven, so it was
kind of a no brainer to cast her in the
lead of Bride Hard, a terminally unfunny action comedy that
yeah merges brid It's Maids and die Hard. As the
(05:02):
title almost promises, or maybe it warns, I don't know.
Wilson plays Sam, an undercount of her secret as who
he heads to destination wedding of her best friend since childhood, Betsy.
That's Ina Camp, who she teamed up with Wilson on
the Pitch Perfect movies. She should have stopped well, she
was ahead there. The weddings take place in a private
(05:26):
island off of Savannah, Georgia, but the nuptials get interrupted
by the arrival of a pack of heavily armed thugs.
I hate when that happens. That they're apparently after a
palette of gold bars. Don't ask, and soon Sam is
in her best John McLean mode. Now the painful premise
(05:46):
would have been forgotten if only Brideheart had been the
least bit funny. Well, it isn't too bad because it
has a first rate supporting cast, including Anna Chumsky as
the maid of honor and Oscar in her I enjoy Randolph.
She was so good in The Holdovers. Oh yeah, so
ill served here and she's part of the party wedding party.
(06:08):
Brideheart is directed, if that's the word, by a guy
named Simon West. He made con Air and the first
Lara Croft movie, but that was decades ago, and I
guess Bride's Heart is the best thing has been offered lately.
He should have turned it down, but anyway, he completely
(06:28):
fumbles it. Don't bother with Bridehard?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Is it necessarily his fault if the movie's not funny?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I mean, I know he's the director, but it is.
He didn't write the scriptript and.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
But it's the director's job to either you know, massage
the script or get something funny out of his performers.
I mean, Rebel Wilson has been funny in the past,
but she's pushing too hard here. And yeah, I laid
at Simon westfeet.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Here's the problem, all right, So we talk about con
error and and you know, it wasn't really a comedy,
but it had a few moments, uh in it where
it was comedic, and I think my favorite, my favorite
comedy line in that movie is why didn't you put
why didn't you put the bunny in the box?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Well, I think you remember the movie much better than
I did.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Okay, Oh, it's a guy, but it was it was
the guy that he ended up Nicholas Cage's character ended
up having to kill because they get in a fight
because the guy finds out that Nicholas Cage is actually
a good guy prisoner who's going home, and he's trying
to like pretend he's not h I forget the actor's name.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
He's a what's the last time you saw this movie?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Not long ago? It keeps playing, It plays all over Okay, okay,
But anyway, he's got the He finds the box of
stuff and he finds the little bunny that Nicholas Cage
had bought for his little daughter at the prison gift shop,
which I didn't realize they had, but I guess anyway,
and so he takes it out and he you know,
and he sees he says put the bunny in the box,
(08:05):
and then they fight and then he ends.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Up killing him and he and and you know he.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Has to hide the guy's body. He goes, why didn't
you just put the bunny in the box. Anyway, you'd
have to.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Make to catch it next time it's on cable.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Okay, yeah, it's a.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Great I love that very completely, completely unfathomably unfathomably obviously
very made up and nothing that could ever happen by
not but some some people like to criticize that and
gore it could never happen.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Well, it wouldn't be it wouldn't be entertaining.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
If it could happen, we would just have these people
being flown and that would be it. They'd get to
the prison and it would be done. There'd be no movie,
all right, you have you don't have an art house pick,
I don't think, well, not.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Not really, Simon Weston and Rebels'll note could have taken
a few lessons for my next film, which is not
exactly an art hout film, but it's a straight, just
streaming action comedy called Deep Cover and it's available now
on Prime Video. Concerns a trio of would be improvisation comedians, Well,
he's the teacher of the improv class and two of
(09:13):
her less than promising students who get recruited by the
London police to go undercover to fare out an illegal
cigarette scam. Yeah, that's I mean, talk about dubious premises
and then unlike it ever happened, But go with it.
The theory is that undercover cops and improv comics both
(09:35):
have to stay in character at all costs and think
fast under pressure. All right, kind of makes sense, I guess, well,
of course, the three of them. There's the Cat, the
improv coach played by Bryce Dallas Howard. She's really becoming
quite a good actress. Troy the serious, very method actor.
(09:55):
That's Orlando Bloom. He's very funny here. And Hugh failed
off his worker played by Seas Stealing nick O Muhammad.
He's going to be familiar to people who watch the
ted Lasso series. They're soon in over their heads and
their lives are soon at stake. It's dire stuff, but
it's also very funny. Tom Kingsley directs with in a
(10:16):
short hand both for action and his right sense of humor.
It's also got a strong supporting cast that includes Patty
Considine and Ian McShane as cocaine dealers. Love that voice,
I mean find them absolutely. I love clearly deadly serious,
which makes it all the funnier. Deep Cover can be
(10:39):
found on Prime video, as I say, and it's while
we're seeking out.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
So yeah, Ian McShane. I love his voice.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
He's in all the John Wick movies and just that,
and he was in I want to say it was
the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie, maybe even the third,
right right, wasn't in the first one?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
And get back far enough there was a movie called
If It's Tuesday, it must be Belgium. He never had
that goes back way back.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
A go and he's just got one of those.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I mean, obviously I'm guessing he's Irish, but his his
just you know, it doesn't sound like everybody else's voice,
you know, I don't know, there's just something.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
About Indeed, he'll he'll be able to do voiceovers for
a long time.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
All Right.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I got a movie for us that I guess you
didn't You didn't scream you're letting us down? No, based
on the Based on the fifty nine percent splattered Tomato
rotten Tomato score, looks like the filmmakers are letting us
down as well. Uh it is Megan two point zero.
So if they didn't screen it, they didn't screen it.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
There's a reason either I miss I don't think they
screened it.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
There's a reason for that.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Maybe I missed it.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
So I'll read you the Fandango synopsis here. Two years
after Megan, a marvel of artificial intelligence went rogue and
embarked on a murderous and impeccably choreographed rampage obviously the
tongue in cheek here, and was subsequently destroyed. Megan's creator,
(12:08):
Gemma that's Alison Wilson Williams, has become a high profile
author an advocate for government oversight of AI. Meanwhile, Jemma's niece,
Katie Violet McGraw, who's growing up right in front of
her eyes now fourteen, has become a teenager rebelling against
Gemma's over protective rules. Unbeknownst to them, the underlying tech
(12:31):
for Megan has been stolen and misused by a powerful
defense contractor to create a military grade weapon known as Amelia.
I don't know this person who's playing her, so I'm
gonna leave it at that. She was in Pacific Rim
and Pacific Rim Uprising.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I guess the.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Ultimate killer she's the I can't read it. I don't
I don't know how to pronounce the name Evana whatever. Anyway,
the ultimate killer infiltration spy, that's what they're creating her
to be. But as America's self awareness in Amelia's self
(13:10):
awareness increases, she becomes decidedly less interested in taking orders
from humans let's see, or in wow, well this is
so long and I have to sneeze, God bless me, okay,
or in keeping them around with the future of human
existence on the line is way too long a synopsis,
(13:32):
fandango or whoever.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
The main thing is, it's more of the AI paranoia.
I'm going to be a plot point and a lot
of new movies.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Gemma realizes that they're not.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Doing the same old movie for Megan. Point two.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Well, Gemma ends up the only option she has is
to resurrect the killer Megan, So she has to do
that and give her a few upgrades. So here's the thing,
is Megan. Is Megan the good guy now in this
is Megan a antagonist?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Or does she just do what she needs to.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Do to get rid of this enemy bot and then
turn on Gemma again. That's what I'm wanting that's not
in the synopsis. That's just well, then you've.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Got that's the reason to go see the movie.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
So my thoughts from the original Megan, I thought it
was going to be more like a chucky type of movie,
and it was definitely so they're kind of keeping it
in a similar sense. It was definitely more of like
a message picture in my opinion, Did you get that
message message was Well, I mean, you could say the AI,
(14:35):
but also I mean we're just too involved in well,
artificial intelligence.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
But yeah, yeah, the big.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Tech and all of that is just a little out
of hand here, and it could get very out of hand.
And it's you know, it's almost like a cautionary tale
that maybe forty years ago people will be going didn't
they see Megan and Megan two point zero?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
They warned, they warned us.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah, but anyway, Yeah, it's got time.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
You have a new technology, and they got to have
movies that to increase our paranoia about it. And it's
got some of these sounds like they're going off in
a nice new direction.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Yeah, but I guess the the critics aren't aren't buying it.
And let's see, it doesn't have an audience score yet.
Because it's first coming out today, so yeah, and you know,
a couple of the co stars that were in it
from the previous movie or back in this one, in
addition to obviously Allens and Williams and Violet McGraw and
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the people that play Megan, because there is a voice
and then an actress, right, so Megan's Megan's a lot taller,
gets a lot taller. Now I don't know if it's
the same actress.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
We're being ground down by it. Okay, it gets shorter.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
So Megan.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I know that my daughter, actually my thirty two year old,
wants to see this, and I had forgotten it was
coming out.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
So soon, so oh yeah, she.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Might end up ripped up on me.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Too interesting that they didn't.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Maybe i'll catch it over the weekend. Next week, though,
we've got Jurassic Park, and the question is has Jurassic
have the dinosaurs jumped the shark?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I could say yes, obviously, I'll see it.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Steven Spielberg's long since left it. I don't know who's
directing this one, but it looks kind of cheesy from
the trailers I've seen.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Well, based on the title.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
The New Breed or whatever they're calling it something again,
whatever it's called it. Uh, They're they're trying to start
it up again and maybe have another, you know, three.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Another few two films.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I don't think it's gonna make much more. I mean,
it'll make money, but I don't I don't think it's
gonna I don't think it's gonna it's gonna bomb. Basically
based on what they're spending on it, I'm gonna call
that now it's expensive.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
But you know, the special effects are so much more
sophisticated than when this series started decades ago. We'll see,
well we're doing.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Actually, Megan, I believe that Megan is going to I
think Megan is going to win this week.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
PG thirteen, just like one again.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I'll take F one.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, No, I think Megan one. I think Megan is
going to beat Brad Pitt at the theaters. Here's just
a couple of the reasons why they're both at PG thirteen.
So if one of them was ore, if Megan was
our I'd say, you're right. Megan was a very popular believe,
it made a lot of money the first one. This
was very anticipated. Even if people are going to think
(17:42):
it sucks, they've they've been hoping for this movie. They've
been waiting for it. F one kind of comes out
of nowhere with Brad Pitt. Here's the other thing. Megan
two point zero is two hours two hours flat F one,
as you know, because you saw it over two and
a half.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Hours and it feels a bit long.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I I just you know, so you could get more
I mean that little bit of difference, you can get
more people in.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I don't know. I just I think Megan is another.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Screen though, no, it's a I don't think that's a
big factor.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Well my and what's interesting is at my theater there's
actually fewer show times of Megan than F one, so
they're really trying to push F one.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Or I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I know I shouldn't bet you because you won that
last time when you forget what you called and I was,
I guess Salilan to stitch over whatever, yeah, whatever, But anyhow,
I'll put my money down again. I'm saying F one's
going to take the week.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I don't remember you giving me any money from winning
last the last bet. What happened? It's in the mail still,
It's taken a while, aren't we in the same area?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
You know? The post office is not reliable anymore.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Well, I might go ahead, and I might go ahead
and check them both out, and I'll be sure if
you haven't seen it yet, I'll let you know what
my thoughts on Megan.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
I'm gonna try to We'll make you.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
We're gonna make you our Megan Liaison. Report back to
me next week.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
All right, all.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Right, we'll do and I again Megan, Megan number one.
And in fact, it might actually beat the movie that's
coming out next week, So it might beat the dinosaurs.
It might actually next week beat the dinosaurs.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
That you don't think people think people are over the dinosaurs.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
I don't. I think people will see it.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
I don't think as many people will see it that
will see Megan in its second week. And I'm gonna
I'm gonna stand it. So remember that market down and
remember it. I believe Megan wins this week.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Megan wins.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Have your money ready?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Okay, have yours ready? Your envelope ready?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Next week?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
All right? Money in hand, yes, Bye bye
Hey, Joel Malcoln for w J and O dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
And you know, we do a lot of hard news here,
we talk a lot of politics, but every once in
a while we've got to keep our priorities straight and
talk about movies. So let's do it with Happerstine, the
movie guy from Pobby Charts paper dot com.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Oh Man promised to not talk politics. Okay, no, we.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, and I don't think you have any this week
that are too political, though you never know. Uh so
tell us, tell us about what I read as Brad
Pitt's vanity project, whatever that means.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Well maybe so, maybe it's hard to miss the similarities
between F One the movie and Top Gun, the blockbuster
Tom Cruise high speed action action picture. F One actually
is set in the world of Formula one Auto Races. Well,
Top Gun is about flyboys, but otherwise they are virtually
(00:52):
the same movie cliched formulas in all, not the fans
of the earlier movie or Auto Races were mind. The
formulaic plot is largely an excuse for some great racing action,
and really it's quite terrific what they do well delivered
by director Joseph Kozinski, He's the guy who helmed Top
(01:12):
Gun Maverick and is produced by the tireless Jerry Bruckheimer. God,
he's been around so a long time, but he's he
did both of the Top Gun movies. Now F one
swaps out Tom Cruise for Brad Pitt as Sonny Hayes
has been Formula one racer with a dark pass? Don't
they all have a dark pass? In the part of
(01:34):
the Formula eking out, Living now traveling about to compete
in lesser races, but out of the blue, Rubin, an
old racing buddy that's Javier bardem reels him back in
to mentor the team in a Gopher Broke literal League competition. Now,
of course, the formula also calls for love interest for
(01:55):
Sonny and Carrie Condon remember her from a Banshee of
Indusher and she feels that role nicely as Kate, the
engineer of the team. But I mean, the whole point
of the movie really is that the racing sequences and
they're they're they're terrific. Puts you in the audience and
(02:16):
the driver's seat going about two hundred miles an hour,
and you wouldn't want it any other way. It's in
theaters and you want to see this one on as
big as screen as possible, maybe even going traveling to
an Imax theater.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
But don't speed on the way to the movies or
on the way home.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
But put on the way home you'll be wanting to speed.
That's the left of time you got to worry about it.
You a movie like that, you talk about to the
Middle and try it on nine to ninety five.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
You talk about Top Gun.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Obviously you mentioned the director is the same guy that
did Top Gun Maverick and producer right, and some of
the same kind of themes in a way, But.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
It's the same movie.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
But is it not?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Is it not more a kind of if you want
to say, it's a copy of anything involving Tom Cruise
Days of Thunder.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I didn't watch Days of Thunder. I'm just going by
what somebody else was saying.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
But we're talking about the older guy and mentoring the
younger guy. Okay, so it's it's much more like Maverick.
So that was Tom Cruise's racing picture from a long
time ago.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
With Nicole Right. I think that was the first film
they worked on together. And I've made that with But
that was.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
The time they were they were a team. Yeah, indeed,
it's not a bad picture.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, I never saw Days of Thunder. You think I'd
be better off watching that than F one?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
They both have been racing the sequences. You might as
well see F one.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
There you actually a cocktail party and not have seen it.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I'm not a big racing fan, car racism, just like whatever,
But you've almost you've pretty much got me sold. I
wasn't really considering this movie, and I like Bride Pitt.
Don't get me wrong, it's just the race stuff didn't
intrigue me. But some of what you said did. And
you said two words that made me really want to
see it. And that's Jerry Bruckheimer. How many Jerry Bruckheimer
(04:10):
produced films are horrible, some of them aren't great, but
he's pretty They're always.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Big and they always do well at the box office.
Some of them are less good than others. But this
is a good one.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
You're probably gonna laugh at me. Con Air is one
of my favorite Jerry Bruckheimer films. The Rock would be
another one.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Well, that's funny you mentioned con Air because the director
of this next movie did con Air.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Oh all right, tell us about it.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
That's fair a segue. Now, Rebel Wilson, She's not the director.
Reben Wilson was one of the best things about Bridesmaids,
the chick click comedy from twenty eleven, so it was
kind of a no brainer to cast her in the
lead of Bride Hard, a terminally unfunny action comedy that
yeah merges brid It's Maids and die Hard. As the
(05:02):
title almost promises, or maybe it warns, I don't know.
Wilson plays Sam, an undercount of her secret as who
he heads to destination wedding of her best friend since childhood, Betsy.
That's Ina Camp, who she teamed up with Wilson on
the Pitch Perfect movies. She should have stopped well, she
was ahead there. The weddings take place in a private
(05:26):
island off of Savannah, Georgia, but the nuptials get interrupted
by the arrival of a pack of heavily armed thugs.
I hate when that happens. That they're apparently after a
palette of gold bars. Don't ask, and soon Sam is
in her best John McLean mode. Now the painful premise
(05:46):
would have been forgotten if only Brideheart had been the
least bit funny. Well, it isn't too bad because it
has a first rate supporting cast, including Anna Chumsky as
the maid of honor and Oscar in her I enjoy Randolph.
She was so good in The Holdovers. Oh yeah, so
ill served here and she's part of the party wedding party.
(06:08):
Brideheart is directed, if that's the word, by a guy
named Simon West. He made con Air and the first
Lara Croft movie, but that was decades ago, and I
guess Bride's Heart is the best thing has been offered lately.
He should have turned it down, but anyway, he completely
(06:28):
fumbles it. Don't bother with Bridehard?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Is it necessarily his fault if the movie's not funny?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I mean, I know he's the director, but it is.
He didn't write the scriptript and.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
But it's the director's job to either you know, massage
the script or get something funny out of his performers.
I mean, Rebel Wilson has been funny in the past,
but she's pushing too hard here. And yeah, I laid
at Simon westfeet.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Here's the problem, all right, So we talk about con
error and and you know, it wasn't really a comedy,
but it had a few moments, uh in it where
it was comedic, and I think my favorite, my favorite
comedy line in that movie is why didn't you put
why didn't you put the bunny in the box?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Well, I think you remember the movie much better than
I did.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Okay, Oh, it's a guy, but it was it was
the guy that he ended up Nicholas Cage's character ended
up having to kill because they get in a fight
because the guy finds out that Nicholas Cage is actually
a good guy prisoner who's going home, and he's trying
to like pretend he's not h I forget the actor's name.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
He's a what's the last time you saw this movie?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Not long ago? It keeps playing, It plays all over Okay, okay,
But anyway, he's got the He finds the box of
stuff and he finds the little bunny that Nicholas Cage
had bought for his little daughter at the prison gift shop,
which I didn't realize they had, but I guess anyway,
and so he takes it out and he you know,
and he sees he says put the bunny in the box,
(08:05):
and then they fight and then he ends.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Up killing him and he and and you know he.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Has to hide the guy's body. He goes, why didn't
you just put the bunny in the box. Anyway, you'd
have to.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Make to catch it next time it's on cable.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Okay, yeah, it's a.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Great I love that very completely, completely unfathomably unfathomably obviously
very made up and nothing that could ever happen by
not but some some people like to criticize that and
gore it could never happen.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Well, it wouldn't be it wouldn't be entertaining.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
If it could happen, we would just have these people
being flown and that would be it. They'd get to
the prison and it would be done. There'd be no movie,
all right, you have you don't have an art house pick,
I don't think, well, not.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Not really, Simon Weston and Rebels'll note could have taken
a few lessons for my next film, which is not
exactly an art hout film, but it's a straight, just
streaming action comedy called Deep Cover and it's available now
on Prime Video. Concerns a trio of would be improvisation comedians, Well,
he's the teacher of the improv class and two of
(09:13):
her less than promising students who get recruited by the
London police to go undercover to fare out an illegal
cigarette scam. Yeah, that's I mean, talk about dubious premises
and then unlike it ever happened, But go with it.
The theory is that undercover cops and improv comics both
(09:35):
have to stay in character at all costs and think
fast under pressure. All right, kind of makes sense, I guess, well,
of course, the three of them. There's the Cat, the
improv coach played by Bryce Dallas Howard. She's really becoming
quite a good actress. Troy the serious, very method actor.
(09:55):
That's Orlando Bloom. He's very funny here. And Hugh failed
off his worker played by Seas Stealing nick O Muhammad.
He's going to be familiar to people who watch the
ted Lasso series. They're soon in over their heads and
their lives are soon at stake. It's dire stuff, but
it's also very funny. Tom Kingsley directs with in a
(10:16):
short hand both for action and his right sense of humor.
It's also got a strong supporting cast that includes Patty
Considine and Ian McShane as cocaine dealers. Love that voice,
I mean find them absolutely. I love clearly deadly serious,
which makes it all the funnier. Deep Cover can be
(10:39):
found on Prime video, as I say, and it's while
we're seeking out.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
So yeah, Ian McShane. I love his voice.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
He's in all the John Wick movies and just that,
and he was in I want to say it was
the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie, maybe even the third,
right right, wasn't in the first one?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
And get back far enough there was a movie called
If It's Tuesday, it must be Belgium. He never had
that goes back way back.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
A go and he's just got one of those.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I mean, obviously I'm guessing he's Irish, but his his
just you know, it doesn't sound like everybody else's voice,
you know, I don't know, there's just something.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
About Indeed, he'll he'll be able to do voiceovers for
a long time.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
All Right.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I got a movie for us that I guess you
didn't You didn't scream you're letting us down? No, based
on the Based on the fifty nine percent splattered Tomato
rotten Tomato score, looks like the filmmakers are letting us
down as well. Uh it is Megan two point zero.
So if they didn't screen it, they didn't screen it.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
There's a reason either I miss I don't think they
screened it.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
There's a reason for that.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Maybe I missed it.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
So I'll read you the Fandango synopsis here. Two years
after Megan, a marvel of artificial intelligence went rogue and
embarked on a murderous and impeccably choreographed rampage obviously the
tongue in cheek here, and was subsequently destroyed. Megan's creator,
(12:08):
Gemma that's Alison Wilson Williams, has become a high profile
author an advocate for government oversight of AI. Meanwhile, Jemma's niece,
Katie Violet McGraw, who's growing up right in front of
her eyes now fourteen, has become a teenager rebelling against
Gemma's over protective rules. Unbeknownst to them, the underlying tech
(12:31):
for Megan has been stolen and misused by a powerful
defense contractor to create a military grade weapon known as Amelia.
I don't know this person who's playing her, so I'm
gonna leave it at that. She was in Pacific Rim
and Pacific Rim Uprising.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I guess the.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Ultimate killer she's the I can't read it. I don't
I don't know how to pronounce the name Evana whatever. Anyway,
the ultimate killer infiltration spy, that's what they're creating her
to be. But as America's self awareness in Amelia's self
(13:10):
awareness increases, she becomes decidedly less interested in taking orders
from humans let's see, or in wow, well this is
so long and I have to sneeze, God bless me, okay,
or in keeping them around with the future of human
existence on the line is way too long a synopsis,
(13:32):
fandango or whoever.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
The main thing is, it's more of the AI paranoia.
I'm going to be a plot point and a lot
of new movies.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Gemma realizes that they're not.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Doing the same old movie for Megan. Point two.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Well, Gemma ends up the only option she has is
to resurrect the killer Megan, So she has to do
that and give her a few upgrades. So here's the thing,
is Megan. Is Megan the good guy now in this
is Megan a antagonist?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Or does she just do what she needs to.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Do to get rid of this enemy bot and then
turn on Gemma again. That's what I'm wanting that's not
in the synopsis. That's just well, then you've.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Got that's the reason to go see the movie.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
So my thoughts from the original Megan, I thought it
was going to be more like a chucky type of movie,
and it was definitely so they're kind of keeping it
in a similar sense. It was definitely more of like
a message picture in my opinion, Did you get that
message message was Well, I mean, you could say the AI,
(14:35):
but also I mean we're just too involved in well,
artificial intelligence.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
But yeah, yeah, the big.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Tech and all of that is just a little out
of hand here, and it could get very out of hand.
And it's you know, it's almost like a cautionary tale
that maybe forty years ago people will be going didn't
they see Megan and Megan two point zero?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
They warned, they warned us.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah, but anyway, Yeah, it's got time.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
You have a new technology, and they got to have
movies that to increase our paranoia about it. And it's
got some of these sounds like they're going off in
a nice new direction.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Yeah, but I guess the the critics aren't aren't buying it.
And let's see, it doesn't have an audience score yet.
Because it's first coming out today, so yeah, and you know,
a couple of the co stars that were in it
from the previous movie or back in this one, in
addition to obviously Allens and Williams and Violet McGraw and
(15:33):
the people that play Megan, because there is a voice
and then an actress, right, so Megan's Megan's a lot taller,
gets a lot taller. Now I don't know if it's
the same actress.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
We're being ground down by it. Okay, it gets shorter.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
So Megan.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I know that my daughter, actually my thirty two year old,
wants to see this, and I had forgotten it was
coming out.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
So soon, so oh yeah, she.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Might end up ripped up on me.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Too interesting that they didn't.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Maybe i'll catch it over the weekend. Next week, though,
we've got Jurassic Park, and the question is has Jurassic
have the dinosaurs jumped the shark?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I could say yes, obviously, I'll see it.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Steven Spielberg's long since left it. I don't know who's
directing this one, but it looks kind of cheesy from
the trailers I've seen.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Well, based on the title.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
The New Breed or whatever they're calling it something again,
whatever it's called it. Uh, They're they're trying to start
it up again and maybe have another, you know, three.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Another few two films.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I don't think it's gonna make much more. I mean,
it'll make money, but I don't I don't think it's
gonna I don't think it's gonna it's gonna bomb. Basically
based on what they're spending on it, I'm gonna call
that now it's expensive.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
But you know, the special effects are so much more
sophisticated than when this series started decades ago. We'll see,
well we're doing.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Actually, Megan, I believe that Megan is going to I
think Megan is going to win this week.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
PG thirteen, just like one again.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I'll take F one.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, No, I think Megan one. I think Megan is
going to beat Brad Pitt at the theaters. Here's just
a couple of the reasons why they're both at PG thirteen.
So if one of them was ore, if Megan was
our I'd say, you're right. Megan was a very popular believe,
it made a lot of money the first one. This
was very anticipated. Even if people are going to think
(17:42):
it sucks, they've they've been hoping for this movie. They've
been waiting for it. F one kind of comes out
of nowhere with Brad Pitt. Here's the other thing. Megan
two point zero is two hours two hours flat F one,
as you know, because you saw it over two and
a half.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Hours and it feels a bit long.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I I just you know, so you could get more
I mean that little bit of difference, you can get
more people in.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I don't know. I just I think Megan is another.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Screen though, no, it's a I don't think that's a
big factor.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Well my and what's interesting is at my theater there's
actually fewer show times of Megan than F one, so
they're really trying to push F one.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Or I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I know I shouldn't bet you because you won that
last time when you forget what you called and I was,
I guess Salilan to stitch over whatever, yeah, whatever, But anyhow,
I'll put my money down again. I'm saying F one's
going to take the week.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I don't remember you giving me any money from winning
last the last bet. What happened? It's in the mail still,
It's taken a while, aren't we in the same area?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
You know? The post office is not reliable anymore.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Well, I might go ahead, and I might go ahead
and check them both out, and I'll be sure if
you haven't seen it yet, I'll let you know what
my thoughts on Megan.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
I'm gonna try to We'll make you.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
We're gonna make you our Megan Liaison. Report back to
me next week.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
All right, all.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Right, we'll do and I again Megan, Megan number one.
And in fact, it might actually beat the movie that's
coming out next week, So it might beat the dinosaurs.
It might actually next week beat the dinosaurs.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
That you don't think people think people are over the dinosaurs.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
I don't. I think people will see it.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
I don't think as many people will see it that
will see Megan in its second week. And I'm gonna
I'm gonna stand it. So remember that market down and
remember it. I believe Megan wins this week.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Megan wins.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Have your money ready?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Okay, have yours ready? Your envelope ready?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Next week?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
All right? Money in hand, yes, Bye bye
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