July 8, 2025 • 58 mins
We're in the back half of the year, so it's time to rank our 5 favorite movies of the year so far. Joining Sean is Mike Sugars of Psycho-Frame & Church Tongue to breakdown their favorites!
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Speaker 1 (01:00):
The most positive pop culture podcasts in the multiverse middlepoore Nerds.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
For each episode, I have a guest on the podcast.
In your music Heating we talk about the latest and
greatest and entertainment. I'm Sean Mottin. Today we're talking about
our favorite movies of the year. You can see him
this month on tour with Boundaries and Shoot Your Guns.
My co host this week is Mike Sugars of Cycle Frame. Welcome.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Dude's so stoked to have your hair. We have weirdly
known each other for many years through the at this
point probably pretty long time. And for people who don't know,
I used to be a booking agent back in the
day and I used to book church tongue many many
moons years ago. And I want to tell you this
moment I had this year, or I guess last year,
whenever you guys like kind of you guys never broke up,
(01:44):
but you guys kind of all did different things and
then cumulessly came back together recently. And when that happened,
I was like, I dropped them as a band, and
admittedly I felt so bad even after doing it, but
when I saw you guys come back, I felt dumb
for it years later. So I just want you to
(02:05):
know that I hope that brings you so knowing how
dumb I felt, I mean.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
No, that's fine, Like I don't know, like, because the
truth is is that like we were not stirring anybody's
pot for years, like we were we were doing our best,
and like we just wanted to be out there and playing,
and like, you're not the first booking agent that's ever
dropped me.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
So the first time it ever happens, you're like, I'm ruined.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I'm ruined. But by that time, I was like, it's chill.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I mean I've still talked to most of you guys after,
so I didn't feel like it ruined anything, which is nice. No,
it's total, which is nice. I just remember I texted
Chris and then after I was like, I feel so bad,
Oh my god. But I mean, I mean, you guys
won anyway. It's good. I didn't don't even book bands anymore.
So who won that battle?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Not me?
Speaker 5 (02:57):
I guess. So that band's still going. We're still doing ship.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Weather return the show. First time listener, thank you so
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anywhere on social the social media's x threads, TikTok, wherever.
It's all there. It's all there if you want, if
you want to check it out. Before we get into
the pop culture talk, we're gonna kick off the show
like we do every episode, with the Metal Cornerds Song
of the Week. The song of the week this week
is from our guest. This is Cycle Frame with their
latest single black Wave to.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
H I sorry no I story, I'll go short.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
I sorer.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Water walker.
Speaker 7 (04:28):
I said, it's always worry. Yeah way you word.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Said, show your way, got my watch close like yeah yeah,
(05:26):
store dom sare closes down as nice charge your joys
(05:49):
a flag.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
I'm god, I'll tell you a.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Story.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
That's why I start. Yes, Yes, that wore door j w.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, yeah, all over.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
My joy die.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Oh I were your word.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Again. That was Second Frame with their latest single, black
Wave two. And I already told Mike we're not gonna
talk about his band, even though we just talked about
urching a little bit, but they have a new album
coming out again, they're gonna be on tour. He's gonna
plug a little bit of it at the end of
the show is as well. But Mike, I want to
hear is there anything new you've been listening to lately
that you want to shout out?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I do so the new Sangue Sugar Bog song Abhorrent Contraception.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
This song honestly probably changed my life because I i
the band like already, Like I saw them live for
the first time, probably like three years ago. I already
liked the band going into it, but it's just my
first time, and they were awesome live. Like you know,
I have friends in the band.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
YadA, YadA, Right, But when I knew when I found.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Out that they were doing a record with Kurt Blou,
I was already super excited because that, to me, just
that's a good pairings and it's an interesting pairing. So
I've been waiting for this album, these songs, and this
first song is unbelievable. The mix is so good, it's
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so them, but it feels so new to their entire catalog,
and the song is just unrelenting. It's like over five minutes,
which like, I don't think many bands can play over four.
I just think many bands stay under under four.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Just do that.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Few band are allowed to play past four. Bog is
one of them.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
And this song is unbelievable and it has everyone in
both of my bands just like churning the gears because
we're just like, oh my god, they did it. This
is this is like Mozart could not imagine this. That's
I just think it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, that's awesome. That band's so cool. Obviously, I'm live
a good handful of times, and they're always very rad
and very like punishing live in a good way, like
just like sonically punishing. And I love that. I love that.
So it's cool to keep them because, like what you said,
it feels them, but it feels new. Like that's the
best compliment that you can give a band ever, you
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know what I mean, Like, that's that's the goal, right
to stay true to yourself but just get better. So
good for that.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Yeah, it's just it's elevated. It's just good.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Like So if anyone has not heard that song or
you are already into the band, haven't listened to it,
they just put out their best song.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yeah. I loved seeing like the behind the scenes of them,
like teasing the music video, like a few weeks ago.
I was like, on the field, okay, I can fuck
with that. I can fuck with the music. Let's go.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I've never done before, No, never, super new never never
can do it.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
It's pretty crazy. It's pretty insane actually that they that
they coin that. Now everyone's going to start doing it.
If you want to know what I'm listening to, you
can check out the Metal Corners. Pull the Spotify playlist.
You can check the link in the show. It's blow.
It's all the stuff that I like and once I
hear and I like it. But on the playlist really simple.
But if there's some you know there, there'll be some
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music like that that you've probably heard, probably some bands
you ever heard, So go check it out. And it's
not all heavy stuff. I put other stuff on it too.
So if you're worried about that. Some people come on
here and they're like, I'm not in a metal coore band.
Why am I on the show, And I'm like, it's
just a name. It's fine. Yeah, you don't need to
worry about it. You're here, man, you're you're a nerd
and you'd like music. That's that's the criteria. Yeah, it's
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pretty simple, pretty easy. So diving into pop culture stuff,
I want to know what got you into TV, movies, comics,
whatever you involve your life, in your in your spare time.
What is the thing that got you into that stuff.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
I start with like cartoons and anime, so of the
Tsunami era, so like, and I was I am a
loyalist cartoon network fan.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Like I there's like some things from Nickelodeon definitely made
on my radar, Like I love SpongeBob. Everyone loves SpongeBob.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
But there's like like things from many many things from
Nickelodeon or Disney like that that didn't really come on
my radar. I was a cartoon network guy, so like
I was into cartoons, and I was into anime and
then like getting into like.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
TV and movies.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
I was exposed to good movies since before I can remember,
because like like I was seven years old when I
watched the first Predator and because because like we didn't
do like censorship in my house, like my house like
where I grew up, like everyone cuts like sailors. And
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then I get in trouble in elementary school because I'm
walking in saying something like my parents would say and there,
and then they're like, what what's going on here? Why
did this kid just come in here and just say
this was bullshit?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
You know?
Speaker 4 (12:32):
But so it before I can even remember, like I'm
watching good Stuff and I'm watching Predator, I'm watching Alien,
I'm watching and then in comedy, I'm like watching Tommy Boy,
like like the Chris Farley era and stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
So like I really start there.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
But like when I like actually started falling in love
with like shows like outside of that, like I like,
this feels like a weird answer, but like I actually
think the show is like amazing.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Was twenty four the key for Sutherland show?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Okay, yeah I was.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
I was like deeply into that show and I would
watch it every single week with my parents when a
new season is airing and stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
So like started with like twenty four prison Break, Oh Banger,
that show Banger.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
There were some things that like my parents liked that
I didn't really get into, but those two in particular
like really got me.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
And then like I started watching like The Office with them.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
By this time, like middle school, high school era and
then like you know, we loved going to the movies,
so and my dad would take me to like the
movies that I knew he didn't want to see but
I wanted to see, which was nice, Like you know,
seeing Pokemon two thousand in theaters, like you know, my
(14:00):
dad was like, this is a nightmare, but like I
had an awesome time, So like that was chill. That
like first Hulk movie from like I want to say,
two thousand and.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Four, the Angley One.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Yeah, yeah, he and I.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Both walked out of there two thousand and four. I'm
like I'm in the fifth grade or sixth grade or something.
We both walked out and we're like that movie sucked.
But like, yeah, that's that's where it really started because
like that, like my parents were like way into movies
and TV shows.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
So that's that's definitely where it begins. And like I
still to this day, I still love I still love
a flick.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I love that, yeah, because it's hard when I try
to get guests for these kinds of episodes. I know
people aren't as psychotic as I am about media, and
I think now I kind of have a leg up
on people because now I you know, I get paid
to write about TV, so it's you know, it's I've
kind of just like went even deeper into that corner
(15:03):
because it helps enhance like a part of my job.
But I still know people don't casually watch as many
Like I feel like, I'm like, man, I've been slacking
on movies this year. And I looked how many movies
I've watched here, and it's like twenty five from this year. Yeah,
And I was like, Okay, I guess that's probably that's
really good. Yeah, And I'm like, man, I'm slacking. And
(15:24):
I'm like I think about like for the normal person,
they probably go to the theater like a few times
a year, and I'm like trying to go like once
a week. You know, it doesn't happen all the time,
but I try to go a lot.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I love going to the theater. And it's a weird
thing because it wasn't really engrossed in my brain as
like a kid. It was more like a changer thing.
Like my brother started working in movie theater and then
he would just let me into movies. So I would
just go to movies because I had nothing else to do.
So let's get let's get to the top five. So
I'll let you kick off your number five. What do
you what do you got? Number five movies of the
year so far?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Number five? I'm going Final Destination Bloodlines.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Oh this almost made my list, but please please carry on.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
It's good, Like we haven't had a final destination in
a grip like and this is the most final destination
movie you've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
It's it's final destination. If you've seen one, you know
how this is gonna go.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
It's brutal, Like they're like so many like butt clenching moments,
like cool kills. Also like callback, like in a big
way to the logs, like the truck logs like that
debatably like almost everybody's like most memorable scene because like
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what do you think the ratio is of people driving
on the highway.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
They get behind, you know, a.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Truck with logs on the back and they're like no
lane switch, you know, just really really rut stuff. Like
the My favorite kill high key was the trash compactor.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
The way they said.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
The way the setup was so good, but also that
kill is slow and like you just just see it
happen like so brutally, and yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
The setup was awesome. Because like, you know, our our
main character calls it. It's like, look, this thing's gonna
follow over it. It'll hit me, I don't know, maybe
hit this guy and then the soccer ball.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Like and then it happens like that, like it like
the movie just knows what it is, you know, and
like they just execute it perfectly. And if I'm correct,
this is our last appearance ever for Tod. Yeah, Tony Todd.
And it's short, but it's awesome. His last little bit
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of dialogue. You're just like psych he knew, you know,
and it was just cool.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
The crazy thing about that is he was very sick
at the time he filmed this, and I watched an
interview with the directors, and the directors were pretty much like, hey,
they kind of had a blanket for like how they
wanted the scene to go there, but they're like straight
up speak from you as like what you want to say,
and that's what is in the movie. So yeah, like
literally is him saying like goodbye, which is like it
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was already a crushing scene, but like knowing that just
like it's like the nail in the coffin of like damn, wow,
what a profound moment for him to have in something
like that beautiful, beautiful stuff, which is wild to say
about a Final Listen Nation movie, but it's true. It
really is also just the.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Way that they like tied up like his multiple appearances
through through the series and they're just like, this is
why he's still.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Around by the way.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah, you know, like this is how he's like the
expert on yes and everything, and you're just like that
that's nice. Like they just like.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
It.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
And it was such a it was it was cohesive,
it was nice, but it was simple all at the
same time.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Yeah, it was like exactly what I would have wanted
out of a modern Final Destination movie for sure. Yeah,
like they they take the lore, pay tribute to the lore,
but it's not there's like mentions of things, but it's
not a cameo fest of past things now, which sometimes
I can like and I can be down with it
if it has a narrative purpose to it. But if
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you're just kind of just like putting someone for a
pop in the theater, that's when it kind of like loses.
It's with these like nostalogia like legacy sequels, that's where
you can kind of lose me in those and lose
a lot of people in those kind of things too.
And the way that added to the lore was so dope,
and how it all connected and and and the even
(19:49):
just the premonition so to speak in the beginning was
such a cool, new, fresh way to do that. Cause
it's like those movies like hang on that opening scene,
you know what I mean, Like those are that's the thing,
that's the thing to do. And I remember like first
watching it and being like, oh, why are we in
like the fifties or sixties. I'm so confused. I thought
this was a modern time movie. And because there's especially
with horror, out usually only watched like the first trailer
(20:12):
and then I'll stop watching. I feel like horror trailers
give way too much away, so I just usually just
stop watching them because I'm like, usually you only need
to tell me a thing, and I'm in doesn't even matter.
Even with most movies. The only trailers I really watch
are like superhero movie trailers because it's like I don't
care at this point, Like I watch all the breakdown videos,
so it's I don't think they're the trailer's gonna give
me anything in a way that someone theorizing isn't gonna
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give over, right, But mostly everything, I'm just like, sometimes
I don't watch any trailers at all. I'm just like,
I know I'm gonna go see it, don't care, don't
need to watch the trailer. I'll go in as fresh
as possible. Yeah, but yeah, that totally took me back though.
The opening scene so so cool, And I rewatched the
whole franchise leading up to that movie because I wanted to.
I want to be fresh in my brain, and I
think there was a few I haven't watched at that
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point too. But holy shit, finally the Station five has
one of the craziest plot twists I've ever seen a
movie in my entire life.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I don't think I saw five.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I'm not gonna tell you what it is, then go
watch five. Five is fucked, and I'm telling you there's
a plot twist, but there's no way you're gonna guess
what this It is actually insane. It's like probably undertoo
my favorite, or I don't know. I think I like
the new one. The new one's really fucking good.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Like it's it's really good. It's really really good.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
It's honestly just really really good. But go watch five.
They're a on HBO Max. My number five is Predator
Killer of Killers, the animated movie.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I mean, I love, I loved Pray. Pray was unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
So it's the same director, same writer, same guy. I
feel like they've just handed him the keys to the
Predator Castle. And I don't think they could have given
it to anyone better because what this movie does, And
do you know the premise a little bit?
Speaker 3 (21:46):
No, I know it exists, and that I was like, yeah, I'll.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Give you the basic premise. Basic premise is it's kind
of set up first as like an anthology kind of
movie where you see a predator going into a certain
era of time and hunt like humans' greatest warriors. The
first part is like a Viking woman, the second part
is a Samurai, and the third part is like a
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World War two plane fighter, and you see three different
predators go out and hunt these people. And then it
culminates in a way that is so utterly insanely cool,
not even just for what it is, but what it
does for like Predator lore, I cannot wait for you
to watch it, and especially if you love to pray.
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What they set up in this movie is such a
big deal for the future of Predator, and we get
a live action Predator movie later this year, like we
get an alien series this year, like Preator. Alien fans
are fucking like Romulus came out last year, which was yeah, nope,
Like we're just like living in the time right now.
(22:54):
And I have I'm a firm believer you're gonna love
this because I went in with like, oh, this will
be cool and fun, and then after I watch it
being like, holy shit, I did not expect this to
lay all of this stuff out for you. Cool, awesome,
and it's only like an hour and a half. It's
it's pretty short, but it's awesome. And the animation is
like I don't know if you've seen Arcane, the Netflix series,
(23:16):
but the animated series simlar to that. It's super beautiful
and like and it is. People are like, oh man,
I'm so bummed it's animated. They go so hard in
the kills because usually these parts start out with the
humans fighting each other, killing each other, and then the
Prayer just swoops in and starts to fucking murk and everyone.
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
But when the setting is animated, doesn't matter what style
you're going for.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
It is limitless, like and that is like, what can
make like such such beautiful, beautiful animated movies. I am
a firm believer that like an animated movie has all
the potential in the world to be some of the
best shit you've ever seen in your life.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
So I'm way in. Also, let's keep bringing back those
hour and a half movie times.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
I love a quick hour and a half that just
like does it all and you walk away like wholly satisfied.
Is that like kind of a big ask because it
means you have to condense, like you have to do
the work to make that run time worth it.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Sure, I guess. But like we we've had a lot
of epics in the last like ten years, Like like
when I saw Killers of the Flower Moon, amazing movie.
My god, it's long, you know, like it's it's so long,
it's amazing, but it you know, I'm just like, this
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is this is my evening, this is it. This is
all I got, you know. So that's kind of That's
just something I'd love to see more. But yeah, I
will watch this tonight.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I love that. I love that moving Number four. Number
four for me is The Thunderbolts, the latest MSU movie
for now until Fantastic Pork on a few weeks.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
But which I'm very excited for.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Oh I'm so so so excited, so so excited. It's
going to be a wild month for movies this month.
I'm so amped. But what this movie did was, you know,
it took I feel like, in a time where Marvel
is kind of whatever, you know, how people want to
talk about it or whatever, I feel like the ones
that have hit the hardest have been the why are
(25:24):
we making this thing? And then they end up being
the coolest thing ever, kind of like you know, like
Agatha all along, even maybe Loki. I don't know people
were stoked for Loki, but like stuff like that has
kind of been that. It's been like the coolest things.
And here's what happens when you take a team of
people who all worked Prade twenty four and they go, hey,
(25:44):
I want to make an MCU movie, and this is
what happens. It just ends up being a story about
depression and purpose and humanity and ends up being an
Avengers movie serially, which is also.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Really cool, amazing.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
It's just putting out like a masterclass performance of acting
in a Marvel movie, which I mean that's happened before.
Like look at Ardi j and Endgame, like you're in
something that performance wasn't good. Get out of here. That
was great.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
That's a good. Shit, it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
This movie is just I can't wait to see him
as Doom, Like I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I'll watched that dude do anything at this point, you know,
like I think he's proven his merit tenfold at this
point in the acting realm for sure. But yeah, just
you look at this cast too. It's you know, like
you said, Florence Pugh is leading this movie and Sebastian
stands in it, who's also been killing it getting you know,
multiple Golden Globe nominations for different movies and Oscar nominations
(26:38):
and stuff like that, like the dudes on a run
a thousand percent. David Harber's fun as fuck, Like what's
not The Harbor's.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Awesome and honestly, like it's it's a bold and I
think it pays off the bold decision to not lean
on Sebastian and the Winter Soldier as your lead for this.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
For sure.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
He's been in for a long time. He's you know
that the villain of debatably the best MCU movie, like
and just he's he is a big player and to
not lean on him so hard and be like we're
going to do We're going to do Florence.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Is it pays off? It's so good. That was my
number four as well.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Oh look at that.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Yeah, I thought it was really good.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
And I do agree that it is like a project
that is like one of their left field ones, like
you know, like complaints can be made about like how
most of these characters are developed in either series or
you know, movies that maybe didn't get like the attention
they should have, or maybe their movies were lack luster,
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what whatever.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
You want to say, right, but it works. It worked,
and yeah I walked away super satisfied.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
And now the word down the street is that Jake Schreyer,
who directed this movie is gonna be the guy directed
Next Man, which sign me the fuck.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Up, please less please?
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Yeah, absolutely, especially seeing how he approached this movie. You know,
it's it's been cool to see. I mean, James Gunn
always did it because James Gunn is just like a
generational talent, especially when it comes to comic book properties.
But everything that he does is on the page and
then he just translates it to screen. You know, there's
no like, oh, we need to fix in VFX. Like
the VFX is put there on a purpose. That's why
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his movies look so much better than most other ones.
And this movie took that same approach, like a lot
of stuff is done practically. He knew where the VFX
was gonna go. And it's because he came from an
indie background, you know, directed beef and stuff like that.
Like so it's it's I love that we're getting it.
Seems like that was very much the case of Fantastic Four.
Like some of the Galactis shots are the actor in
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a Galactis suit that they made like a miniature city
and he's stomping through and stuff like that. Stuff is
fucking awesome, Like, let's those.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Things translate like they translate on screen.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
They translate, they resonate more like I know, it's like
easy to make a bunch of things and unreal and
be like this is what it's going to look like,
this is the thing we're doing and.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Now we shoot it or whatever.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
But like those things translate when someone goes from paper
straight to screen with it and it's not like a
like an entirely like just in post, like you know,
we're check out this unreal five scene that's you know,
five minutes long or whatever, like like yeah, they have
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to do that, you know, give or take, but like
they executed on this one, and I from everything we've
seen with Fantastic four, just like it looks like they're.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Going to do it again and I'll probably end up
loving it.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
So I am totally here for like a resurgence of
the franchise and like the universe and everything. Like I
have moments that I think are big rolls in the
franchise and everything, but like I never gave up hope.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
I just just want better stuff and I'm seeing better stuff.
So I'm happy about it and that and that is
why I made number four.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Exactly what did you have? A number three?
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Number three Minecraft movie?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Okay, that's high, and it is high.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
I really loved the movie. I just thought it was
I thought I thought it was fun.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
I thought it was hilarious and like it's wholesome and
like especially like not being a fan me not being
a fan of the game is.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Like something that kind of informs like how much I
liked the movie, you.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Know, because like I genuinely did have such a good
time and like seeing it in theaters like while we're
on our off day and and we saw it.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
In Mall of America.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Wow, so like we just had like a really good
day leading up to this and everything, and yeah, the
movie was just hilarious. I rewatched it at home alone
to you know, check to see if I wasn't just like,
I don't know, kind of like buggin' about this movie.
And I was like, no, this is genuinely awesome. It's
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I don't know, the good clean family movie that like
actually hits. Like Jack Black is doing his thing, Jason
Momoas steals the show, and he's hilarious the whole Like
there's there's not one line that he delivers, not just
like you, son of a bitch, you.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
Did it again.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
It's it's so good. It's so good, and and it's fun.
It's inventive. They're not trying to break you know, they're
not trying to reinvent the wheel, and it was just cool.
Set up for a sequel, you know whatever.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Sure it's gonna get one. It made almost a billion.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Dollars, so it's gonna it's gonna get one.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
For for sure, for sure gonna get one. You've convinced me.
I'm gonna watch this movie. Okay, I grappy, It's awesome.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
It's awesome.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
My number three is speaking of legacy sequels twenty eight
years later. It just came out yep, And I know
it's strange. I can't call it divisive because people in
the weird. I'd like to call it like film Twitter
kind of love this movie, including me not to include
myself in film Twitter, but story.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
I don't know. I did.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
I did really love this movie. And then kind of
like general audience has been mixed, for sure. Some the
only criticism I will understand is the last scene of
this movie is very out of pocket, like probably the
most out of pocket bookend too, we have ever seen
in my life. I kind of love that. I thought
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it was so fucking wild. But the thing that I
like about this movie so much is that in an
era again, like I talked about, all these legacy sequels
are predicated in nostalgia and cameos and all that stuff
which is going to come in later movies. In this
in this trilogy of this twenty eight years later thing
that they're working on, which they've already filmed the second one,
which geniusly enough comes out twenty week twenty eight weeks
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after this movie. I thought that was a nice touch. Yeah,
I was like, that's amazing, that's great. But like this
is it's like a story just within the world. It
has really nothing to do with the first two movies whatsoever,
even though there was footage from twenty eight weeks later
interjected in this movie which I caught, and this is
the same thing too, I never watched twenty eight weeks later.
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I watched twenty eight days later. I remember liking it
when I was younger and rewatching it, I was like,
this is like a weird movie, Like this is not
like your typical zombie movie. It's like a very cerebral
type of movie. And I feel like this twenty eight
years is very much of the same, just in a
different way. And as I was watching, I kept being
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my expectations kept getting subverted, like numerous times being like wow,
I didn't think they would go that way. And and
just the way Danny Boyle like he changed the game
back in two thousand and four when he filmed a
horror movie completely on camquarders, and now he's using these
iPhones getting into smaller spaces. There's this crazy rig where
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it's like twenty eight iPhones and it's.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
In this right.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
I've seen the big.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Rigs, and the way they use it is like crazy.
It's like some matrix level action shots that are just
like to me, I feel like he changed the game
again into I think a way people are going to
approach shooting horror movies and maybe even action movies, because
a lot of that that kind of it would be crazy,
like it would shoot a scene and like something would
happen like action wise, and then it would like pan
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around its super fast. It was like it's kind of jarring.
But I was like, I feel like I've never seen
anything like this, Like it was one of those moments,
and I feel like that doesn't happen a lot nowadays.
You know, there's so much media out there and there's
so much history of film and TV and stuff like that.
It's hard to like go into something and feel like
I don't think I've ever seen anything like that. So
that was a really cool aspect and I just really
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dug the story. It's it's so funny because I saw
it at a press screening too, so I saw it
like three days earlier or whatever, and people being like, Oh,
don't tell me, but this is how I think it's
gonna go, and me being like, that's not how it
goes at all. Yeah, And Aaron Taylor Johnson's awesome. I
think he's an awesome actor anyway, He's just been in
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bad stuff. Sometimes he's great. The kid is amazing. The
kid is He's really at the star of the movie,
to be honest. And it feels it's so funny because
twenty eight days later like definitely influenced things like The
Last of Us and The Walking Dead. They all came
out after the comics and the video game came out after,
and now I feel like I've seen the influence. And
I've seen Alex Garland talk with Neil Druckman, and I
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know he's a massive fan of the games and stuff,
and I definitely saw some sort of like the Last
of Us influence on this movie, kind of in a
weird reverse way, but it was really Jody Kolmer was
incredible as Spike's mother, and Ray Fines He's only in
it a little bit, but boy is that dude a
motherfucking steenstealer. And in a role where could come off
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as comical, he actually has like the most profound lines
in the entire movie. And I don't know, like they
found a way to build out the lore in the
world in the moment in time that it's placed in
without being abvert about it. It's a very kind of show,
don't tell kind of thing. And that's kind of what
the twenty eight franchise is like. Twenty eight Days is
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very much that, you know, it's about the devolution of
humanity in a world of infection, and that's what The
Last of Us is about, you know. It's it's never
about the infected people. It's about the humans what always
boils down to even in The Walking Dead, like it
always it's always never about the zombies. It's always about
the people, at least in the best versions of them,
you know. And it's you know, it's about Jim devolving
into like this animalist side of himself. And in this
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it's like about like an island that's stuck in time
and kind of reverted and seeing how they deal with
it and seeing someone kind of break the cycle of
this world that doesn't need to be like that. I'm
excited to see where it goes, I don't know. It
seems like you haven't seen it yet, is what.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
I am seeing it this weekend.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Actually, I look forward to hearing your thoughts on it,
because it has been like and some people saying the
plot doesn't make sense, and I'm like, I don't understand that,
and maybe that's just me. I don't know a lot
of people saying it's like tonally imbalanced, and I'm like
a very big tone guy. I don't know, Like tone
is usually a thing I'm pretty in tune with when
it comes to this stuff, and I can but it's
all perception, or is all perception and everything like that,
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but usually tone is usually a thing that bothers me
pretty bad. And again the ending scene, it's fucking out there.
Well see, so I really fucking out there.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
I have plenty of friends.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
I've seen opinions back and forth about this from like
friends or just you know, random people, and it is
very back and forth, and like me, personally, I have
no expectation of what that is supposed to look like,
because like we're talking about them coming back to this
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thing and the setting is twenty eight years later, and
I'm just like, dude, this could be anything, and that's
kind of the best part.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
So like, I'm just like, I'm an.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
Open book for this one because and like when it
comes to like my expectation or like what I think
this is supposed to be, because I think they just
chose the perfect setting in the right time for their
series to do this, And yeah, I'm just in. So
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I'm kind of and I know that you know, the ending,
you know, takes a hard left and gets weird and stuff,
and I'm just.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
Like, yeah, I want that, like whatever, you know, I'm in.
So I'm excited to see it. I'm sure it's gonna
go pretty high for me by the end of the
year because I love a weird movie. But yeah, I'm
excited for it.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Hell yeah, I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts, good
or bad. I like seeing both sides of the coin,
to be honest. I'm always fascinated by people's perspective on things.
Uh yeah, this stuff interesting, you know what I mean?
Same with music, with anything, anything you can enjoy, it's
always nice to see like where people come from in
a certain way. Moving on to number two, I have
the life of Chuck. It's hard because I feel like
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a lot of people aren't gonna see this movie. It's
a Neon movie. It's a Mike Flanagan movie. He wrote
and wrote the screenplay. It's based on a Stephen King
short story and in a very not it's like not
a horror story at all, like you, I mean. Mike
Flanagan also did Doctor Sleep, which was like a sequel
to The Shining and this is more of which I liked.
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It was great, It was awesome. You Murgregor is a
grown up Dane Torrents awesome. Rebecca first just love dope awesome.
But this one, it's it's hard because it's like it
is a very weird movie because it is kind of
about they tell it in it's a three act structure,
but it's told in reverse and you kind of see
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why by the end of the movie. And it's it
starts off about like a movie about the end of
the world, and the way they portray the end of
the world is like terrifying because I feel like it's
like how it actually would go down, Like it's like
slowly the Internet is working and not working, and people
are scared about the Internet going down. Certain websites start
falling off because you know, like the servers get destroyed
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or whatever, and they do it in it's not like
over it's just like conversational how you find out this info,
like California is like disconnecting from the United States. It's
like stuff that feels like if the world is actually ending,
this is probably what would happen. So that's kind of scary.
But it really is just a movie about life and
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the moments in your life and the people that make
up your life and no matter what you do in
that life, no matter how big or small, doesn't define you.
And how even if the things you do are small,
or you know, you work in an accounting job for
your whole life, but you still build a family or whatever,
like those things can still be great no matter what
level of life you're on. And it's just this really
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like profound, beautiful exploration of that. I read the short
story too. I kind of forgot a lot of it
to me, honest read it like a year ago. I
remember the main gist of it. But yeah, it's just
about these like moments in time and how beautiful that is.
It honestly just makes me think about like being involved
in music, you know, and like I'm sure a lot
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of us can relate to it, like how much stuff
music has given us, you know, friends, relationships, marriages, just
like amazing moments that we often think about. And you know,
it's like whether you see a person once in your life,
twice in your life, you know, a million times in
your life, you kind of always have those things to
share with them, even if it's for like a brief moment,
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and how beautiful that is. And I don't know, it
just hit me like a brick wall. I love stuff
like that. I love beautiful kind of explorations of just
like that, like existentialist shit. So really really beautiful movie.
If you don't catch it in theaters, I'm sure to
end up on a streaming service somewhere eventually. I just
whenever you can watch it, I would just recommend it.
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It's just a beautiful, beautiful movie.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
It is one that is on my.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
Radar because I did see the initial trailer and I
was like, this looks pretty good, so that that is
definitely what I want to see.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
And I am excited that she liked it, because yeah,
that was that was one I wanted.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
To catch, so I will fuck yeah, what did you have?
A number?
Speaker 6 (42:28):
Two?
Speaker 3 (42:28):
Mickey seventeen.
Speaker 4 (42:29):
Robert Pattinson is the director from you know, Parasite, a
bunch of other just amazing, amazing movies. So when I
saw that he was going for one with Robert Pattinson
as the lead, I was sold already at that point.
Speaker 3 (42:47):
And then I saw the first trailer and I was like,
this is gonna be amazing, and I thought it was amazing,
and I love I love Robert and this I love Robert.
Speaker 4 (42:58):
In general, Like if he's done it anything in the
last five years, he's shown us like he is he
is a movie star, Like for sure, he can do
it all. Like we're talking the Batman, the Boy, and
the heron this movie, Tennant the Devil all the time,
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like just so many, so many good movies that he's
been in in the last like five years that I
think he's a generational actor. And sure, I don't know
if everyone regards him as that or if he's gotten
those flowers yet, but I just I love him. And
even seeing him play like two different characters in this
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and like the different tonalities while you're technically.
Speaker 3 (43:47):
Playing the same guy was was super good. I loved
this movie. I loved as well. Why am I forgetting
his name.
Speaker 4 (43:55):
Guy who plays Bruce Banner, Oh, Mark Ruffalo, Mark Ruffalo,
Mark Ruffalo amazing in this movie, Mark Rufflo was so
good a nice movie, Like and I knew he was
gonna be as soon as I saw him come on screen,
Like he had like big teeth and stuff, and I
was like, he is gonna be just a huge piece
of shit in this movie. And he was and he
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immediately delivered and was so good at being a piece
of shit, and like it was so good.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
I love the aliens. They're cute and I knew as
soon as I saw them, I was like, these guys
are not a threat. These guys are awesome, right And
it played.
Speaker 6 (44:35):
Out that way.
Speaker 4 (44:36):
Did the ending go about exactly as they assumed it
would by the time I was getting the third act totally,
But I don't know, I just I just thought it
was so good, super enjoyable. The movie is like funny
and depressing. I don't know, it's just so good and
like going from Parasite into this movie and like the
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very very different tones that they have, Like I just
I just think show like like this, this guy's on.
Speaker 3 (45:06):
A generational run, like just amazing, And yeah, I loved it.
I thought it was awesome, So that was that was
a great time.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
I liked that movie. I didn't love it. I feel
like it was. It's hard because it's like, it's obviously
a very big social commentary, but I feel like the
social commentary is maybe a little too obvious, and maybe
that might be my holding on to Parasite, of how
that's also a very big social commentary, but it's not
that obvious, and it also might be totally you're holding
on the expectation for Parasite, which just got named or
voted the number one movie of the twenty century New
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York Times.
Speaker 3 (45:40):
It is really fucking good.
Speaker 2 (45:43):
Yeah, that movie is unreal incredible and kind of changed
the landscape of like Oscar movies, you know, like having
a completely foreign film win that many Oscars was such
a big deal. I think it paved the way for
movies like everything everywhere all wants to have a run
like it did and stuff like that. So I sure,
I feel like it's such an important movie for a
multitude of reasons. But I mean, I cannot deny that
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Robert Patson was so fun and so weird, and the
accents he can make are like so insane. I can't
even like fathom it. I'm like, how does he make
these noises? It's like, actually so crazy. And then Stephen
Youtan just being a little shitty weirdo acting anything. So
that was it was cool to see him just be
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this weird, little shitty guy.
Speaker 6 (46:28):
He was in a movie.
Speaker 3 (46:31):
I really yeah, he was in Beef, Like, yep, it's
just awesome, awesome.
Speaker 2 (46:37):
He's loved that. Yeah, he's incredible. Okay, number one, what
do you got? Number one?
Speaker 3 (46:44):
I'm bending the rules slightly here. This is this is
the fiscal year of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (46:51):
Oh okay, okay, I see what you did there?
Speaker 4 (46:53):
All right, Okay, came out on Christmas, you know, like
it might as well be a twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (47:00):
Yeah, we're bending the rules a little bit. But amazing movie.
Speaker 4 (47:06):
I thought it was gorgeous and everyone just gives an
amazing performance. Aaron Taylor Johnson back again in the conversation,
Willem Dafoe, what.
Speaker 3 (47:17):
Are we talking about?
Speaker 2 (47:18):
Like most Willem Dafoe roll of all time, of all time?
Speaker 4 (47:22):
This this is like obviously he keeps showing up in
these A twenty four movies like he's he's a fan favorite.
He's he's kind of like how it's kind of like
how Samuel Jackson keeps showing up in I get so
bad with names in movies, Tarantino's Tarantino keeps showing up
in a Tarantino film.
Speaker 2 (47:44):
Like it's just like that, or Leo, you know, like he.
Speaker 4 (47:47):
Keeps showing up in a Tarantino film like things like that,
like that, that is what Willem Dafoe does here. And
I just thought that movie was amazing, Like we got
another unbelievab performance from one of the Edgars brothers, Like
I love him his Nosfaratu.
Speaker 2 (48:07):
I love a Scars Guard. Yeah he's a while.
Speaker 3 (48:10):
Did I say Edgars? I meant Scars Guard.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
I know what you meant.
Speaker 3 (48:13):
You have another amazing performance from a Scar's Guard brother,
and like his transformation into nos Faratu.
Speaker 6 (48:23):
Is so good.
Speaker 3 (48:24):
It's so good, and I just loved it. I thought
it was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (48:28):
Saw it Christmas Day and I also saw Christmas Day too, Yeah,
with my my mom came. That was kind of weird,
but mostly she was like, I have no idea what
the fuck is going on in that movie?
Speaker 6 (48:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (48:41):
Sure, sure, which is really funny. Admittedly, I did not
love that movie. I really like it. I thought it
was well made, a beautiful shot. I actually like the
first third of it quite a bit, and then after
that I kind of fell off. For me, I think
it's mostly Lily Roe's depth. It feels like she's in
a completely different movie. We're gonna talk about tone. I
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feel like she was in a different movie than everyone else.
I also feel like Willem Dafoe is in a different
movie than everyone else. But that's a very Willem Dafoe thing.
He felt like a cartoon character in this movie that,
in my opinion, should have felt like very serious and
dire and dark. And I don't know. I think like
the convulse thing and the drooling just didn't work for me,
which is fine.
Speaker 3 (49:21):
I actually I actually do kind of agree with that
scene in particular.
Speaker 2 (49:26):
I was I was like, okay, yeah, because I.
Speaker 3 (49:32):
Felt like the like everything they had built on top
of that was already like good. But that that is
one scene that I was like, Okay.
Speaker 2 (49:40):
People came over pretty hard on Facebook posting I didn't
like it, and they're like, oh, you just don't get it.
You're not a Robert Eggers fan. And I'm like, I
love Robert Eggers.
Speaker 4 (49:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
Same, I was like, I think he's awesome. I was like,
this is one of my most disbebe movies the year,
and it let me down. I'm like, I'm bummed by this.
It's like this, this is a bummer for me. But
no knocked to anyone who loved it. Like a lot
of people loved it. I think it's it's ungodly well made.
I just think some of the tone within it, and
I really didn't like the ending after the ending was
actually kind of dumb. Weirdly enough, my number one is
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also a vampire movie. It's Sinners the new rhydd not
weird weird.
Speaker 3 (50:17):
Yeah, And I just watched the movie in the summer,
you know.
Speaker 2 (50:21):
Yeah. I just watched this like two days ago. I
missed it in theaters, which I'm bummed. I missed it
in theaters, and I was worried it might get like
over hyped, I guess, and watching it, I remember this
is kind of my experience watching it. Like the first
twenty minutes, I was like, I think this is the
coolest score I've ever heard of my entire life. Just
this kind of like electric rock blues fusion score. I
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was like, this is so cool, and then watching it,
I'm like, this is a really good movie. I'm enjoying it.
And then by the end I was like, oh, okay,
I see what everyone meant. Yeah, this movie is fucking incredible.
Holy shit, I completely leave it by the end, Like
the epilogue ruined me. Just what a fucking cool movie
like and what it I don't know, Like vampires has
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been done so many times, right, We've seen it throughout
our lifetime, and usually they're fucking cool, Like, yeah, gonna
like it. It's gonna be pretty dope at least enjoyable
in somebody share or form. But the way they handled
the vampires in this movie and and what their like
mission was and how they kind of like the hive
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mind thing, I thought was really cool. And I don't
feel like I've seen that done in this way, or
at least not a lot prevalent in vampire media. Maybe
I'm just like a vampire nofice or something, but I
really don't remember many things that handle it the way
that movie did. And there's a scene in the in
the juke Joint where Sammy's playing guitar, and it might
be one of the coolest scenes I've ever seen in
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the movie.
Speaker 3 (51:47):
It's like, so fucking scene, amazing scene. I was like that,
that's that's cinema.
Speaker 2 (51:54):
Yeah. I was like, holy fuck, this is so cool. Yeah.
The practical effects on the vampire were so cool. Like
there's a scene where this vampire is super fucked up
and something's like in its head and I'm like, that
looks sick. And the way some of the one finger
is like a long gay and stuff. I was like,
this is rad. Yeah, cool, And you know, they kept
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some of the classic vampire stuff in there, and I
love them kind of figuring out their vampires and stuff
like that. I thought it was really cool, like the
way they played with those those kind of tropes I
guess or guidelines or whoever you want to call it
for vampire stuff, but right the general a lot. Yeah,
some parts really reminded me of Tarantino in this cool
way that still felt like new and fresh and different.
(52:38):
I get that. Yeah, Like, especially like that the when
you finally get the context of the Tommy gun scene.
I was like, this feels so Tarantino in the coolest way. Yeah.
Cooler is that guy, dude, Like I don't know, like
I know a lot of this stuff has been kind
of ip stuff. You know, he did Creed, which it
is incredible. He did both Black Panther movies, which are great.
(52:59):
This he did this other movie called Fruitball Station, which
admittedly I haven't watched, but I've heard it's great also,
And just like the dude just put out like all hits,
no misses. And it's also cool to.
Speaker 3 (53:11):
See commonality Michael B.
Speaker 2 (53:14):
Jordan's he's like his mutes man like you were talking about,
like like you know, people with Quentin and stuff like that.
He's been in every single cooler movie everyone.
Speaker 3 (53:23):
Yeah, and he's amazing in all of them.
Speaker 2 (53:26):
Yeah, and it's hard to pull off the twin thing
that can be very bad. Yeah, and he killed it.
You can totally tell they're different people even know it's
the same fucking guy. And I know they invented like
new technology for it because obviously most of it's like
a stand in, but they had this like camera I
think it's called like a halo camera, and it goes
around his face and like maps his face so they
(53:46):
can like perfect he ends up doing both takes, but
they do it so you can map your face on it. Yeah,
it looks like it looks incredibly I could never super.
Speaker 3 (53:55):
Impose it onto the other guy kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (53:58):
Yeah, it looked amazing, like and like there's a video
of him explaining because like when it goes that scene
we were talking about, there's a massive aspect ratio shift
and stuff like that, like it was shot completely on film,
Like this, dude, is that dude? Like straight up like
it's it's It's very cool and I'm excited. I think
he's doing Black Panthers three next. But if this is
what he has in store for like original stories, and
(54:20):
I know it was like very connected to his uncle
who like grew up in that area and was like
a blues musician and stuff like that, which is really
cool that it's like rooted in some sense of reality
and like lineage to him. And he even made a
deal with Warner Brothers where like in twenty five years
his family gets the rights to the movie, which is
(54:40):
pretty unheard of. Yeah, but the story is so special
in his family that he wanted them to like own it,
which is like really wild for a major studio to do.
So I guess props for that. And if this is
what he has in store for you, know, original stuff
like yeah, I want more, please keep going.
Speaker 3 (55:00):
Got dehydrated, like please, It's like.
Speaker 2 (55:03):
Yeah, I'm so ready for whatever he's gonna bring to
the table, Like I'm excited what the third Black Panther
movie is gonna look like? For sure, same second the
second one knocked me on my ass. I mean there's
obviously like a lot of real life implications that informed
that story and and made it what it is, and
like that's part of why it's so impactful. But the
movie is a moving movie.
Speaker 3 (55:25):
Yeah, post the very very end, like post credit, oh.
Speaker 2 (55:30):
My god, I was bawling my eyes out that ship.
Speaker 3 (55:33):
That ship hurt. That that ship hurted.
Speaker 2 (55:36):
Even though the opening scene I've never heard a movie
opening scene, why in my life opening.
Speaker 6 (55:42):
Scene is tough.
Speaker 2 (55:44):
Alls I heard was people like sniffling, that's the only
noise you're here. It was that was wild, you know,
seeing that a pack theater opening night and just silence
like that is Yeah, goddamn, But dude, thank you so
much for doing this for me.
Speaker 4 (55:59):
This is awesome, of course, of course, No, I love
I love to talk a flick, I love to consume.
Speaker 3 (56:05):
I'm not fully caught up and everything I want to
consume ever.
Speaker 4 (56:09):
So that's like kind of the best chart about like
talking with people and like talking about the the stuff
that they're into, because like, you know, there are some
things I'm like, maybe.
Speaker 3 (56:20):
I'll get around to it. There's things I miss, you know,
and like maybe I find later whatever. But like I
love it. I love it.
Speaker 2 (56:29):
That's awesome. I I same. I love to hear it.
And it is also it's always an ongoing list of
things to catch up on. I don't think anyone has
ever caught.
Speaker 3 (56:37):
It never ends.
Speaker 2 (56:38):
It never ends, never, and that's the beauty of it.
It's it's it's depressing and beautiful at the same time
because you're like, man, I'll never be caught up at
the same time, You've never want a ship to watch.
That's right, it's a it's a it's a cool thing
to have. But before we out here, plug what you
got going on. Let the people know where they can
find you in the world of Cyco Frame and Church dun.
Speaker 3 (56:58):
So, I have a cycle Frame tour coming up.
Speaker 4 (57:02):
It starts July twenty fifth in Asbury Park, New Jersey,
and we will be on tour across America until August
twenty fourth, and that's with boundaries, stick to your guns
and gates to help. And then shortly after that, I
have a church Town tour also here in the States
(57:24):
that starts September fourth in Knoxville, Tennessee, and we're gonna
end in September fourteenth on Kansas.
Speaker 3 (57:32):
City Shorter one. But we work with what we got.
You know, we got a couple, we got a couple
moving parts with that band, so we make it. We
make it work where we can. Some of those have
been on TV a few times, so, but yeah, that's
what we're doing.
Speaker 4 (57:49):
And in the meantime I will be gaming and watching
stuff up until I go do those things and somewhere
in between on off days or what ever.
Speaker 2 (58:00):
Love that, love that, Yeah, I'll make sure to link
down like a frame in church Stung links down below.
So if you're living under a rock for some reason
then haven't checked them out, go check them out to
stop what you're doing now and go and do that.
And if you want to sport the podcast, smeltconers dot
com or links there and was he placed? If you
want to follow me in my personal account which just
at Sean XM on Instagram and Twitter. Until next time,
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The most positive pop culture podcasts in the multiverse middlepoore Nerds.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
For each episode, I have a guest on the podcast.
In your music Heating we talk about the latest and
greatest and entertainment. I'm Sean Mottin. Today we're talking about
our favorite movies of the year. You can see him
this month on tour with Boundaries and Shoot Your Guns.
My co host this week is Mike Sugars of Cycle Frame. Welcome.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Dude's so stoked to have your hair. We have weirdly
known each other for many years through the at this
point probably pretty long time. And for people who don't know,
I used to be a booking agent back in the
day and I used to book church tongue many many
moons years ago. And I want to tell you this
moment I had this year, or I guess last year,
whenever you guys like kind of you guys never broke up,
(01:44):
but you guys kind of all did different things and
then cumulessly came back together recently. And when that happened,
I was like, I dropped them as a band, and
admittedly I felt so bad even after doing it, but
when I saw you guys come back, I felt dumb
for it years later. So I just want you to
(02:05):
know that I hope that brings you so knowing how
dumb I felt, I mean.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
No, that's fine, Like I don't know, like, because the
truth is is that like we were not stirring anybody's
pot for years, like we were we were doing our best,
and like we just wanted to be out there and playing,
and like, you're not the first booking agent that's ever
dropped me.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
So the first time it ever happens, you're like, I'm ruined.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I'm ruined. But by that time, I was like, it's chill.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I mean I've still talked to most of you guys after,
so I didn't feel like it ruined anything, which is nice. No,
it's total, which is nice. I just remember I texted
Chris and then after I was like, I feel so bad,
Oh my god. But I mean, I mean, you guys
won anyway. It's good. I didn't don't even book bands anymore.
So who won that battle?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Not me?
Speaker 5 (02:57):
I guess. So that band's still going. We're still doing ship.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Weather return the show. First time listener, thank you so
much for tuning in which whatever way you choose to
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or listening to it on your favorite podcasting platform, best
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Helps the podcast Containe a Girl helps more people find
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(03:26):
anywhere on social the social media's x threads, TikTok, wherever.
It's all there. It's all there if you want, if
you want to check it out. Before we get into
the pop culture talk, we're gonna kick off the show
like we do every episode, with the Metal Cornerds Song
of the Week. The song of the week this week
is from our guest. This is Cycle Frame with their
latest single black Wave to.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
H I sorry no I story, I'll go short.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
I sorer.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Water walker.
Speaker 7 (04:28):
I said, it's always worry. Yeah way you word.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Said, show your way, got my watch close like yeah yeah,
(05:26):
store dom sare closes down as nice charge your joys
(05:49):
a flag.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
I'm god, I'll tell you a.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Story.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
That's why I start. Yes, Yes, that wore door j w.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, yeah, all over.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
My joy die.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Oh I were your word.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Again. That was Second Frame with their latest single, black
Wave two. And I already told Mike we're not gonna
talk about his band, even though we just talked about
urching a little bit, but they have a new album
coming out again, they're gonna be on tour. He's gonna
plug a little bit of it at the end of
the show is as well. But Mike, I want to
hear is there anything new you've been listening to lately
that you want to shout out?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I do so the new Sangue Sugar Bog song Abhorrent Contraception.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
This song honestly probably changed my life because I i
the band like already, Like I saw them live for
the first time, probably like three years ago. I already
liked the band going into it, but it's just my
first time, and they were awesome live. Like you know,
I have friends in the band.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
YadA, YadA, Right, But when I knew when I found.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Out that they were doing a record with Kurt Blou,
I was already super excited because that, to me, just
that's a good pairings and it's an interesting pairing. So
I've been waiting for this album, these songs, and this
first song is unbelievable. The mix is so good, it's
(08:38):
so them, but it feels so new to their entire catalog,
and the song is just unrelenting. It's like over five minutes,
which like, I don't think many bands can play over four.
I just think many bands stay under under four.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Just do that.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Few band are allowed to play past four. Bog is
one of them.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
And this song is unbelievable and it has everyone in
both of my bands just like churning the gears because
we're just like, oh my god, they did it. This
is this is like Mozart could not imagine this. That's
I just think it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, that's awesome. That band's so cool. Obviously, I'm live
a good handful of times, and they're always very rad
and very like punishing live in a good way, like
just like sonically punishing. And I love that. I love that.
So it's cool to keep them because, like what you said,
it feels them, but it feels new. Like that's the
best compliment that you can give a band ever, you
(09:42):
know what I mean, Like, that's that's the goal, right
to stay true to yourself but just get better. So
good for that.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Yeah, it's just it's elevated. It's just good.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Like So if anyone has not heard that song or
you are already into the band, haven't listened to it,
they just put out their best song.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yeah. I loved seeing like the behind the scenes of them,
like teasing the music video, like a few weeks ago.
I was like, on the field, okay, I can fuck
with that. I can fuck with the music. Let's go.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I've never done before, No, never, super new never never
can do it.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
It's pretty crazy. It's pretty insane actually that they that
they coin that. Now everyone's going to start doing it.
If you want to know what I'm listening to, you
can check out the Metal Corners. Pull the Spotify playlist.
You can check the link in the show. It's blow.
It's all the stuff that I like and once I
hear and I like it. But on the playlist really simple.
But if there's some you know there, there'll be some
(10:39):
music like that that you've probably heard, probably some bands
you ever heard, So go check it out. And it's
not all heavy stuff. I put other stuff on it too.
So if you're worried about that. Some people come on
here and they're like, I'm not in a metal coore band.
Why am I on the show, And I'm like, it's
just a name. It's fine. Yeah, you don't need to
worry about it. You're here, man, you're you're a nerd
and you'd like music. That's that's the criteria. Yeah, it's
(11:02):
pretty simple, pretty easy. So diving into pop culture stuff,
I want to know what got you into TV, movies, comics,
whatever you involve your life, in your in your spare time.
What is the thing that got you into that stuff.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
I start with like cartoons and anime, so of the
Tsunami era, so like, and I was I am a
loyalist cartoon network fan.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Like I there's like some things from Nickelodeon definitely made
on my radar, Like I love SpongeBob. Everyone loves SpongeBob.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
But there's like like things from many many things from
Nickelodeon or Disney like that that didn't really come on
my radar. I was a cartoon network guy, so like
I was into cartoons, and I was into anime and
then like getting into like.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
TV and movies.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
I was exposed to good movies since before I can remember,
because like like I was seven years old when I
watched the first Predator and because because like we didn't
do like censorship in my house, like my house like
where I grew up, like everyone cuts like sailors. And
(12:18):
then I get in trouble in elementary school because I'm
walking in saying something like my parents would say and there,
and then they're like, what what's going on here? Why
did this kid just come in here and just say
this was bullshit?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
You know?
Speaker 4 (12:32):
But so it before I can even remember, like I'm
watching good Stuff and I'm watching Predator, I'm watching Alien,
I'm watching and then in comedy, I'm like watching Tommy Boy,
like like the Chris Farley era and stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
So like I really start there.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
But like when I like actually started falling in love
with like shows like outside of that, like I like,
this feels like a weird answer, but like I actually
think the show is like amazing.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Was twenty four the key for Sutherland show?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Okay, yeah I was.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
I was like deeply into that show and I would
watch it every single week with my parents when a
new season is airing and stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
So like started with like twenty four prison Break, Oh Banger,
that show Banger.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
There were some things that like my parents liked that
I didn't really get into, but those two in particular
like really got me.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
And then like I started watching like The Office with them.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
By this time, like middle school, high school era and
then like you know, we loved going to the movies,
so and my dad would take me to like the
movies that I knew he didn't want to see but
I wanted to see, which was nice, Like you know,
seeing Pokemon two thousand in theaters, like you know, my
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dad was like, this is a nightmare, but like I
had an awesome time, So like that was chill. That
like first Hulk movie from like I want to say,
two thousand and.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Four, the Angley One.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Yeah, yeah, he and I.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Both walked out of there two thousand and four. I'm
like I'm in the fifth grade or sixth grade or something.
We both walked out and we're like that movie sucked.
But like, yeah, that's that's where it really started because
like that, like my parents were like way into movies
and TV shows.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
So that's that's definitely where it begins. And like I
still to this day, I still love I still love
a flick.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I love that, yeah, because it's hard when I try
to get guests for these kinds of episodes. I know
people aren't as psychotic as I am about media, and
I think now I kind of have a leg up
on people because now I you know, I get paid
to write about TV, so it's you know, it's I've
kind of just like went even deeper into that corner
(15:03):
because it helps enhance like a part of my job.
But I still know people don't casually watch as many
Like I feel like, I'm like, man, I've been slacking
on movies this year. And I looked how many movies
I've watched here, and it's like twenty five from this year. Yeah,
And I was like, Okay, I guess that's probably that's
really good. Yeah, And I'm like, man, I'm slacking. And
(15:24):
I'm like I think about like for the normal person,
they probably go to the theater like a few times
a year, and I'm like trying to go like once
a week. You know, it doesn't happen all the time,
but I try to go a lot.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I love going to the theater. And it's a weird
thing because it wasn't really engrossed in my brain as
like a kid. It was more like a changer thing.
Like my brother started working in movie theater and then
he would just let me into movies. So I would
just go to movies because I had nothing else to do.
So let's get let's get to the top five. So
I'll let you kick off your number five. What do
you what do you got? Number five movies of the
year so far?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Number five? I'm going Final Destination Bloodlines.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Oh this almost made my list, but please please carry on.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
It's good, Like we haven't had a final destination in
a grip like and this is the most final destination
movie you've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
It's it's final destination. If you've seen one, you know
how this is gonna go.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
It's brutal, Like they're like so many like butt clenching moments,
like cool kills. Also like callback, like in a big
way to the logs, like the truck logs like that
debatably like almost everybody's like most memorable scene because like
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what do you think the ratio is of people driving
on the highway.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
They get behind, you know, a.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Truck with logs on the back and they're like no
lane switch, you know, just really really rut stuff. Like
the My favorite kill high key was the trash compactor.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
The way they said.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
The way the setup was so good, but also that
kill is slow and like you just just see it
happen like so brutally, and yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
The setup was awesome. Because like, you know, our our
main character calls it. It's like, look, this thing's gonna
follow over it. It'll hit me, I don't know, maybe
hit this guy and then the soccer ball.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Like and then it happens like that, like it like
the movie just knows what it is, you know, and
like they just execute it perfectly. And if I'm correct,
this is our last appearance ever for Tod. Yeah, Tony Todd.
And it's short, but it's awesome. His last little bit
(17:54):
of dialogue. You're just like psych he knew, you know,
and it was just cool.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
The crazy thing about that is he was very sick
at the time he filmed this, and I watched an
interview with the directors, and the directors were pretty much like, hey,
they kind of had a blanket for like how they
wanted the scene to go there, but they're like straight
up speak from you as like what you want to say,
and that's what is in the movie. So yeah, like
literally is him saying like goodbye, which is like it
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was already a crushing scene, but like knowing that just
like it's like the nail in the coffin of like damn, wow,
what a profound moment for him to have in something
like that beautiful, beautiful stuff, which is wild to say
about a Final Listen Nation movie, but it's true. It
really is also just the.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Way that they like tied up like his multiple appearances
through through the series and they're just like, this is
why he's still.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Around by the way.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah, you know, like this is how he's like the
expert on yes and everything, and you're just like that
that's nice. Like they just like.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
It.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
And it was such a it was it was cohesive,
it was nice, but it was simple all at the
same time.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Yeah, it was like exactly what I would have wanted
out of a modern Final Destination movie for sure. Yeah,
like they they take the lore, pay tribute to the lore,
but it's not there's like mentions of things, but it's
not a cameo fest of past things now, which sometimes
I can like and I can be down with it
if it has a narrative purpose to it. But if
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you're just kind of just like putting someone for a
pop in the theater, that's when it kind of like loses.
It's with these like nostalogia like legacy sequels, that's where
you can kind of lose me in those and lose
a lot of people in those kind of things too.
And the way that added to the lore was so dope,
and how it all connected and and and the even
(19:49):
just the premonition so to speak in the beginning was
such a cool, new, fresh way to do that. Cause
it's like those movies like hang on that opening scene,
you know what I mean, Like those are that's the thing,
that's the thing to do. And I remember like first
watching it and being like, oh, why are we in
like the fifties or sixties. I'm so confused. I thought
this was a modern time movie. And because there's especially
with horror, out usually only watched like the first trailer
(20:12):
and then I'll stop watching. I feel like horror trailers
give way too much away, so I just usually just
stop watching them because I'm like, usually you only need
to tell me a thing, and I'm in doesn't even matter.
Even with most movies. The only trailers I really watch
are like superhero movie trailers because it's like I don't
care at this point, Like I watch all the breakdown videos,
so it's I don't think they're the trailer's gonna give
me anything in a way that someone theorizing isn't gonna
(20:32):
give over, right, But mostly everything, I'm just like, sometimes
I don't watch any trailers at all. I'm just like,
I know I'm gonna go see it, don't care, don't
need to watch the trailer. I'll go in as fresh
as possible. Yeah, but yeah, that totally took me back though.
The opening scene so so cool, And I rewatched the
whole franchise leading up to that movie because I wanted to.
I want to be fresh in my brain, and I
think there was a few I haven't watched at that
(20:54):
point too. But holy shit, finally the Station five has
one of the craziest plot twists I've ever seen a
movie in my entire life.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I don't think I saw five.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I'm not gonna tell you what it is, then go
watch five. Five is fucked, and I'm telling you there's
a plot twist, but there's no way you're gonna guess
what this It is actually insane. It's like probably undertoo
my favorite, or I don't know. I think I like
the new one. The new one's really fucking good.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Like it's it's really good. It's really really good.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
It's honestly just really really good. But go watch five.
They're a on HBO Max. My number five is Predator
Killer of Killers, the animated movie.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I mean, I love, I loved Pray. Pray was unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
So it's the same director, same writer, same guy. I
feel like they've just handed him the keys to the
Predator Castle. And I don't think they could have given
it to anyone better because what this movie does, And
do you know the premise a little bit?
Speaker 3 (21:46):
No, I know it exists, and that I was like, yeah, I'll.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Give you the basic premise. Basic premise is it's kind
of set up first as like an anthology kind of
movie where you see a predator going into a certain
era of time and hunt like humans' greatest warriors. The
first part is like a Viking woman, the second part
is a Samurai, and the third part is like a
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World War two plane fighter, and you see three different
predators go out and hunt these people. And then it
culminates in a way that is so utterly insanely cool,
not even just for what it is, but what it
does for like Predator lore, I cannot wait for you
to watch it, and especially if you love to pray.
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What they set up in this movie is such a
big deal for the future of Predator, and we get
a live action Predator movie later this year, like we
get an alien series this year, like Preator. Alien fans
are fucking like Romulus came out last year, which was yeah, nope,
Like we're just like living in the time right now.
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And I have I'm a firm believer you're gonna love
this because I went in with like, oh, this will
be cool and fun, and then after I watch it
being like, holy shit, I did not expect this to
lay all of this stuff out for you. Cool, awesome,
and it's only like an hour and a half. It's
it's pretty short, but it's awesome. And the animation is
like I don't know if you've seen Arcane, the Netflix series,
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but the animated series simlar to that. It's super beautiful
and like and it is. People are like, oh man,
I'm so bummed it's animated. They go so hard in
the kills because usually these parts start out with the
humans fighting each other, killing each other, and then the
Prayer just swoops in and starts to fucking murk and everyone.
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
But when the setting is animated, doesn't matter what style
you're going for.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
It is limitless, like and that is like, what can
make like such such beautiful, beautiful animated movies. I am
a firm believer that like an animated movie has all
the potential in the world to be some of the
best shit you've ever seen in your life.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
So I'm way in. Also, let's keep bringing back those
hour and a half movie times.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
I love a quick hour and a half that just
like does it all and you walk away like wholly satisfied.
Is that like kind of a big ask because it
means you have to condense, like you have to do
the work to make that run time worth it.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Sure, I guess. But like we we've had a lot
of epics in the last like ten years, Like like
when I saw Killers of the Flower Moon, amazing movie.
My god, it's long, you know, like it's it's so long,
it's amazing, but it you know, I'm just like, this
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is this is my evening, this is it. This is
all I got, you know. So that's kind of That's
just something I'd love to see more. But yeah, I
will watch this tonight.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I love that. I love that moving Number four. Number
four for me is The Thunderbolts, the latest MSU movie
for now until Fantastic Pork on a few weeks.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
But which I'm very excited for.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Oh I'm so so so excited, so so excited. It's
going to be a wild month for movies this month.
I'm so amped. But what this movie did was, you know,
it took I feel like, in a time where Marvel
is kind of whatever, you know, how people want to
talk about it or whatever, I feel like the ones
that have hit the hardest have been the why are
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we making this thing? And then they end up being
the coolest thing ever, kind of like you know, like
Agatha all along, even maybe Loki. I don't know people
were stoked for Loki, but like stuff like that has
kind of been that. It's been like the coolest things.
And here's what happens when you take a team of
people who all worked Prade twenty four and they go, hey,
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I want to make an MCU movie, and this is
what happens. It just ends up being a story about
depression and purpose and humanity and ends up being an
Avengers movie serially, which is also.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Really cool, amazing.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
It's just putting out like a masterclass performance of acting
in a Marvel movie, which I mean that's happened before.
Like look at Ardi j and Endgame, like you're in
something that performance wasn't good. Get out of here. That
was great.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
That's a good. Shit, it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
This movie is just I can't wait to see him
as Doom, Like I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I'll watched that dude do anything at this point, you know,
like I think he's proven his merit tenfold at this
point in the acting realm for sure. But yeah, just
you look at this cast too. It's you know, like
you said, Florence Pugh is leading this movie and Sebastian
stands in it, who's also been killing it getting you know,
multiple Golden Globe nominations for different movies and Oscar nominations
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and stuff like that, like the dudes on a run
a thousand percent. David Harber's fun as fuck, Like what's
not The Harbor's.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Awesome and honestly, like it's it's a bold and I
think it pays off the bold decision to not lean
on Sebastian and the Winter Soldier as your lead for this.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
For sure.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
He's been in for a long time. He's you know
that the villain of debatably the best MCU movie, like
and just he's he is a big player and to
not lean on him so hard and be like we're
going to do We're going to do Florence.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Is it pays off? It's so good. That was my
number four as well.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Oh look at that.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Yeah, I thought it was really good.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
And I do agree that it is like a project
that is like one of their left field ones, like
you know, like complaints can be made about like how
most of these characters are developed in either series or
you know, movies that maybe didn't get like the attention
they should have, or maybe their movies were lack luster,
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what whatever.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
You want to say, right, but it works. It worked,
and yeah I walked away super satisfied.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
And now the word down the street is that Jake Schreyer,
who directed this movie is gonna be the guy directed
Next Man, which sign me the fuck.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Up, please less please?
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Yeah, absolutely, especially seeing how he approached this movie. You know,
it's it's been cool to see. I mean, James Gunn
always did it because James Gunn is just like a
generational talent, especially when it comes to comic book properties.
But everything that he does is on the page and
then he just translates it to screen. You know, there's
no like, oh, we need to fix in VFX. Like
the VFX is put there on a purpose. That's why
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his movies look so much better than most other ones.
And this movie took that same approach, like a lot
of stuff is done practically. He knew where the VFX
was gonna go. And it's because he came from an
indie background, you know, directed beef and stuff like that.
Like so it's it's I love that we're getting it.
Seems like that was very much the case of Fantastic Four.
Like some of the Galactis shots are the actor in
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a Galactis suit that they made like a miniature city
and he's stomping through and stuff like that. Stuff is
fucking awesome, Like, let's those.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Things translate like they translate on screen.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
They translate, they resonate more like I know, it's like
easy to make a bunch of things and unreal and
be like this is what it's going to look like,
this is the thing we're doing and.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Now we shoot it or whatever.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
But like those things translate when someone goes from paper
straight to screen with it and it's not like a
like an entirely like just in post, like you know,
we're check out this unreal five scene that's you know,
five minutes long or whatever, like like yeah, they have
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to do that, you know, give or take, but like
they executed on this one, and I from everything we've
seen with Fantastic four, just like it looks like they're.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Going to do it again and I'll probably end up
loving it.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
So I am totally here for like a resurgence of
the franchise and like the universe and everything. Like I
have moments that I think are big rolls in the
franchise and everything, but like I never gave up hope.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
I just just want better stuff and I'm seeing better stuff.
So I'm happy about it and that and that is
why I made number four.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Exactly what did you have? A number three?
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Number three Minecraft movie?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Okay, that's high, and it is high.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
I really loved the movie. I just thought it was
I thought I thought it was fun.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
I thought it was hilarious and like it's wholesome and
like especially like not being a fan me not being
a fan of the game is.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Like something that kind of informs like how much I
liked the movie, you.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Know, because like I genuinely did have such a good
time and like seeing it in theaters like while we're
on our off day and and we saw it.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
In Mall of America.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Wow, so like we just had like a really good
day leading up to this and everything, and yeah, the
movie was just hilarious. I rewatched it at home alone
to you know, check to see if I wasn't just like,
I don't know, kind of like buggin' about this movie.
And I was like, no, this is genuinely awesome. It's
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I don't know, the good clean family movie that like
actually hits. Like Jack Black is doing his thing, Jason
Momoas steals the show, and he's hilarious the whole Like
there's there's not one line that he delivers, not just
like you, son of a bitch, you.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
Did it again.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
It's it's so good. It's so good, and and it's fun.
It's inventive. They're not trying to break you know, they're
not trying to reinvent the wheel, and it was just cool.
Set up for a sequel, you know whatever.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Sure it's gonna get one. It made almost a billion.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Dollars, so it's gonna it's gonna get one.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
For for sure, for sure gonna get one. You've convinced me.
I'm gonna watch this movie. Okay, I grappy, It's awesome.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
It's awesome.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
My number three is speaking of legacy sequels twenty eight
years later. It just came out yep, And I know
it's strange. I can't call it divisive because people in
the weird. I'd like to call it like film Twitter
kind of love this movie, including me not to include
myself in film Twitter, but story.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
I don't know. I did.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
I did really love this movie. And then kind of
like general audience has been mixed, for sure. Some the
only criticism I will understand is the last scene of
this movie is very out of pocket, like probably the
most out of pocket bookend too, we have ever seen
in my life. I kind of love that. I thought
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it was so fucking wild. But the thing that I
like about this movie so much is that in an
era again, like I talked about, all these legacy sequels
are predicated in nostalgia and cameos and all that stuff
which is going to come in later movies. In this
in this trilogy of this twenty eight years later thing
that they're working on, which they've already filmed the second one,
which geniusly enough comes out twenty week twenty eight weeks
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after this movie. I thought that was a nice touch. Yeah,
I was like, that's amazing, that's great. But like this
is it's like a story just within the world. It
has really nothing to do with the first two movies whatsoever,
even though there was footage from twenty eight weeks later
interjected in this movie which I caught, and this is
the same thing too, I never watched twenty eight weeks later.
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I watched twenty eight days later. I remember liking it
when I was younger and rewatching it, I was like,
this is like a weird movie, Like this is not
like your typical zombie movie. It's like a very cerebral
type of movie. And I feel like this twenty eight
years is very much of the same, just in a
different way. And as I was watching, I kept being
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my expectations kept getting subverted, like numerous times being like wow,
I didn't think they would go that way. And and
just the way Danny Boyle like he changed the game
back in two thousand and four when he filmed a
horror movie completely on camquarders, and now he's using these
iPhones getting into smaller spaces. There's this crazy rig where
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it's like twenty eight iPhones and it's.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
In this right.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
I've seen the big.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Rigs, and the way they use it is like crazy.
It's like some matrix level action shots that are just
like to me, I feel like he changed the game
again into I think a way people are going to
approach shooting horror movies and maybe even action movies, because
a lot of that that kind of it would be crazy,
like it would shoot a scene and like something would
happen like action wise, and then it would like pan
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around its super fast. It was like it's kind of jarring.
But I was like, I feel like I've never seen
anything like this, Like it was one of those moments,
and I feel like that doesn't happen a lot nowadays.
You know, there's so much media out there and there's
so much history of film and TV and stuff like that.
It's hard to like go into something and feel like
I don't think I've ever seen anything like that. So
that was a really cool aspect and I just really
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dug the story. It's it's so funny because I saw
it at a press screening too, so I saw it
like three days earlier or whatever, and people being like, Oh,
don't tell me, but this is how I think it's
gonna go, and me being like, that's not how it
goes at all. Yeah, And Aaron Taylor Johnson's awesome. I
think he's an awesome actor anyway, He's just been in
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bad stuff. Sometimes he's great. The kid is amazing. The
kid is He's really at the star of the movie,
to be honest. And it feels it's so funny because
twenty eight days later like definitely influenced things like The
Last of Us and The Walking Dead. They all came
out after the comics and the video game came out after,
and now I feel like I've seen the influence. And
I've seen Alex Garland talk with Neil Druckman, and I
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know he's a massive fan of the games and stuff,
and I definitely saw some sort of like the Last
of Us influence on this movie, kind of in a
weird reverse way, but it was really Jody Kolmer was
incredible as Spike's mother, and Ray Fines He's only in
it a little bit, but boy is that dude a
motherfucking steenstealer. And in a role where could come off
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as comical, he actually has like the most profound lines
in the entire movie. And I don't know, like they
found a way to build out the lore in the
world in the moment in time that it's placed in
without being abvert about it. It's a very kind of show,
don't tell kind of thing. And that's kind of what
the twenty eight franchise is like. Twenty eight Days is
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very much that, you know, it's about the devolution of
humanity in a world of infection, and that's what The
Last of Us is about, you know. It's it's never
about the infected people. It's about the humans what always
boils down to even in The Walking Dead, like it
always it's always never about the zombies. It's always about
the people, at least in the best versions of them,
you know. And it's you know, it's about Jim devolving
into like this animalist side of himself. And in this
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it's like about like an island that's stuck in time
and kind of reverted and seeing how they deal with
it and seeing someone kind of break the cycle of
this world that doesn't need to be like that. I'm
excited to see where it goes, I don't know. It
seems like you haven't seen it yet, is what.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
I am seeing it this weekend.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Actually, I look forward to hearing your thoughts on it,
because it has been like and some people saying the
plot doesn't make sense, and I'm like, I don't understand that,
and maybe that's just me. I don't know a lot
of people saying it's like tonally imbalanced, and I'm like
a very big tone guy. I don't know, Like tone
is usually a thing I'm pretty in tune with when
it comes to this stuff, and I can but it's
all perception, or is all perception and everything like that,
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but usually tone is usually a thing that bothers me
pretty bad. And again the ending scene, it's fucking out there.
Well see, so I really fucking out there.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
I have plenty of friends.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
I've seen opinions back and forth about this from like
friends or just you know, random people, and it is
very back and forth, and like me, personally, I have
no expectation of what that is supposed to look like,
because like we're talking about them coming back to this
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thing and the setting is twenty eight years later, and
I'm just like, dude, this could be anything, and that's
kind of the best part.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
So like, I'm just like, I'm an.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
Open book for this one because and like when it
comes to like my expectation or like what I think
this is supposed to be, because I think they just
chose the perfect setting in the right time for their
series to do this, And yeah, I'm just in. So
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I'm kind of and I know that you know, the ending,
you know, takes a hard left and gets weird and stuff,
and I'm just.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
Like, yeah, I want that, like whatever, you know, I'm in.
So I'm excited to see it. I'm sure it's gonna
go pretty high for me by the end of the
year because I love a weird movie. But yeah, I'm
excited for it.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Hell yeah, I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts, good
or bad. I like seeing both sides of the coin,
to be honest. I'm always fascinated by people's perspective on things.
Uh yeah, this stuff interesting, you know what I mean?
Same with music, with anything, anything you can enjoy, it's
always nice to see like where people come from in
a certain way. Moving on to number two, I have
the life of Chuck. It's hard because I feel like
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a lot of people aren't gonna see this movie. It's
a Neon movie. It's a Mike Flanagan movie. He wrote
and wrote the screenplay. It's based on a Stephen King
short story and in a very not it's like not
a horror story at all, like you, I mean. Mike
Flanagan also did Doctor Sleep, which was like a sequel
to The Shining and this is more of which I liked.
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It was great, It was awesome. You Murgregor is a
grown up Dane Torrents awesome. Rebecca first just love dope awesome.
But this one, it's it's hard because it's like it
is a very weird movie because it is kind of
about they tell it in it's a three act structure,
but it's told in reverse and you kind of see
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why by the end of the movie. And it's it
starts off about like a movie about the end of
the world, and the way they portray the end of
the world is like terrifying because I feel like it's
like how it actually would go down, Like it's like
slowly the Internet is working and not working, and people
are scared about the Internet going down. Certain websites start
falling off because you know, like the servers get destroyed
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or whatever, and they do it in it's not like
over it's just like conversational how you find out this info,
like California is like disconnecting from the United States. It's
like stuff that feels like if the world is actually ending,
this is probably what would happen. So that's kind of scary.
But it really is just a movie about life and
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the moments in your life and the people that make
up your life and no matter what you do in
that life, no matter how big or small, doesn't define you.
And how even if the things you do are small,
or you know, you work in an accounting job for
your whole life, but you still build a family or whatever,
like those things can still be great no matter what
level of life you're on. And it's just this really
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like profound, beautiful exploration of that. I read the short
story too. I kind of forgot a lot of it
to me, honest read it like a year ago. I
remember the main gist of it. But yeah, it's just
about these like moments in time and how beautiful that is.
It honestly just makes me think about like being involved
in music, you know, and like I'm sure a lot
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of us can relate to it, like how much stuff
music has given us, you know, friends, relationships, marriages, just
like amazing moments that we often think about. And you know,
it's like whether you see a person once in your life,
twice in your life, you know, a million times in
your life, you kind of always have those things to
share with them, even if it's for like a brief moment,
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and how beautiful that is. And I don't know, it
just hit me like a brick wall. I love stuff
like that. I love beautiful kind of explorations of just
like that, like existentialist shit. So really really beautiful movie.
If you don't catch it in theaters, I'm sure to
end up on a streaming service somewhere eventually. I just
whenever you can watch it, I would just recommend it.
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It's just a beautiful, beautiful movie.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
It is one that is on my.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
Radar because I did see the initial trailer and I
was like, this looks pretty good, so that that is
definitely what I want to see.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
And I am excited that she liked it, because yeah,
that was that was one I wanted.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
To catch, so I will fuck yeah, what did you have?
A number?
Speaker 6 (42:28):
Two?
Speaker 3 (42:28):
Mickey seventeen.
Speaker 4 (42:29):
Robert Pattinson is the director from you know, Parasite, a
bunch of other just amazing, amazing movies. So when I
saw that he was going for one with Robert Pattinson
as the lead, I was sold already at that point.
Speaker 3 (42:47):
And then I saw the first trailer and I was like,
this is gonna be amazing, and I thought it was amazing,
and I love I love Robert and this I love Robert.
Speaker 4 (42:58):
In general, Like if he's done it anything in the
last five years, he's shown us like he is he
is a movie star, Like for sure, he can do
it all. Like we're talking the Batman, the Boy, and
the heron this movie, Tennant the Devil all the time,
(43:19):
like just so many, so many good movies that he's
been in in the last like five years that I
think he's a generational actor. And sure, I don't know
if everyone regards him as that or if he's gotten
those flowers yet, but I just I love him. And
even seeing him play like two different characters in this
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and like the different tonalities while you're technically.
Speaker 3 (43:47):
Playing the same guy was was super good. I loved
this movie. I loved as well. Why am I forgetting
his name.
Speaker 4 (43:55):
Guy who plays Bruce Banner, Oh, Mark Ruffalo, Mark Ruffalo,
Mark Ruffalo amazing in this movie, Mark Rufflo was so
good a nice movie, Like and I knew he was
gonna be as soon as I saw him come on screen,
Like he had like big teeth and stuff, and I
was like, he is gonna be just a huge piece
of shit in this movie. And he was and he
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immediately delivered and was so good at being a piece
of shit, and like it was so good.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
I love the aliens. They're cute and I knew as
soon as I saw them, I was like, these guys
are not a threat. These guys are awesome, right And
it played.
Speaker 6 (44:35):
Out that way.
Speaker 4 (44:36):
Did the ending go about exactly as they assumed it
would by the time I was getting the third act totally,
But I don't know, I just I just thought it
was so good, super enjoyable. The movie is like funny
and depressing. I don't know, it's just so good and
like going from Parasite into this movie and like the
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very very different tones that they have, Like I just
I just think show like like this, this guy's on.
Speaker 3 (45:06):
A generational run, like just amazing, And yeah, I loved it.
I thought it was awesome, So that was that was
a great time.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
I liked that movie. I didn't love it. I feel
like it was. It's hard because it's like, it's obviously
a very big social commentary, but I feel like the
social commentary is maybe a little too obvious, and maybe
that might be my holding on to Parasite, of how
that's also a very big social commentary, but it's not
that obvious, and it also might be totally you're holding
on the expectation for Parasite, which just got named or
voted the number one movie of the twenty century New
(45:39):
York Times.
Speaker 3 (45:40):
It is really fucking good.
Speaker 2 (45:43):
Yeah, that movie is unreal incredible and kind of changed
the landscape of like Oscar movies, you know, like having
a completely foreign film win that many Oscars was such
a big deal. I think it paved the way for
movies like everything everywhere all wants to have a run
like it did and stuff like that. So I sure,
I feel like it's such an important movie for a
multitude of reasons. But I mean, I cannot deny that
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Robert Patson was so fun and so weird, and the
accents he can make are like so insane. I can't
even like fathom it. I'm like, how does he make
these noises? It's like, actually so crazy. And then Stephen
Youtan just being a little shitty weirdo acting anything. So
that was it was cool to see him just be
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this weird, little shitty guy.
Speaker 6 (46:28):
He was in a movie.
Speaker 3 (46:31):
I really yeah, he was in Beef, Like, yep, it's
just awesome, awesome.
Speaker 2 (46:37):
He's loved that. Yeah, he's incredible. Okay, number one, what
do you got? Number one?
Speaker 3 (46:44):
I'm bending the rules slightly here. This is this is
the fiscal year of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (46:51):
Oh okay, okay, I see what you did there?
Speaker 4 (46:53):
All right, Okay, came out on Christmas, you know, like
it might as well be a twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (47:00):
Yeah, we're bending the rules a little bit. But amazing movie.
Speaker 4 (47:06):
I thought it was gorgeous and everyone just gives an
amazing performance. Aaron Taylor Johnson back again in the conversation,
Willem Dafoe, what.
Speaker 3 (47:17):
Are we talking about?
Speaker 2 (47:18):
Like most Willem Dafoe roll of all time, of all time?
Speaker 4 (47:22):
This this is like obviously he keeps showing up in
these A twenty four movies like he's he's a fan favorite.
He's he's kind of like how it's kind of like
how Samuel Jackson keeps showing up in I get so
bad with names in movies, Tarantino's Tarantino keeps showing up
in a Tarantino film.
Speaker 2 (47:44):
Like it's just like that, or Leo, you know, like he.
Speaker 4 (47:47):
Keeps showing up in a Tarantino film like things like that,
like that, that is what Willem Dafoe does here. And
I just thought that movie was amazing, Like we got
another unbelievab performance from one of the Edgars brothers, Like
I love him his Nosfaratu.
Speaker 2 (48:07):
I love a Scars Guard. Yeah he's a while.
Speaker 3 (48:10):
Did I say Edgars? I meant Scars Guard.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
I know what you meant.
Speaker 3 (48:13):
You have another amazing performance from a Scar's Guard brother,
and like his transformation into nos Faratu.
Speaker 6 (48:23):
Is so good.
Speaker 3 (48:24):
It's so good, and I just loved it. I thought
it was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (48:28):
Saw it Christmas Day and I also saw Christmas Day too, Yeah,
with my my mom came. That was kind of weird,
but mostly she was like, I have no idea what
the fuck is going on in that movie?
Speaker 6 (48:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (48:41):
Sure, sure, which is really funny. Admittedly, I did not
love that movie. I really like it. I thought it
was well made, a beautiful shot. I actually like the
first third of it quite a bit, and then after
that I kind of fell off. For me, I think
it's mostly Lily Roe's depth. It feels like she's in
a completely different movie. We're gonna talk about tone. I
(49:01):
feel like she was in a different movie than everyone else.
I also feel like Willem Dafoe is in a different
movie than everyone else. But that's a very Willem Dafoe thing.
He felt like a cartoon character in this movie that,
in my opinion, should have felt like very serious and
dire and dark. And I don't know. I think like
the convulse thing and the drooling just didn't work for me,
which is fine.
Speaker 3 (49:21):
I actually I actually do kind of agree with that
scene in particular.
Speaker 2 (49:26):
I was I was like, okay, yeah, because I.
Speaker 3 (49:32):
Felt like the like everything they had built on top
of that was already like good. But that that is
one scene that I was like, Okay.
Speaker 2 (49:40):
People came over pretty hard on Facebook posting I didn't
like it, and they're like, oh, you just don't get it.
You're not a Robert Eggers fan. And I'm like, I
love Robert Eggers.
Speaker 4 (49:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
Same, I was like, I think he's awesome. I was like,
this is one of my most disbebe movies the year,
and it let me down. I'm like, I'm bummed by this.
It's like this, this is a bummer for me. But
no knocked to anyone who loved it. Like a lot
of people loved it. I think it's it's ungodly well made.
I just think some of the tone within it, and
I really didn't like the ending after the ending was
actually kind of dumb. Weirdly enough, my number one is
(50:10):
also a vampire movie. It's Sinners the new rhydd not
weird weird.
Speaker 3 (50:17):
Yeah, And I just watched the movie in the summer,
you know.
Speaker 2 (50:21):
Yeah. I just watched this like two days ago. I
missed it in theaters, which I'm bummed. I missed it
in theaters, and I was worried it might get like
over hyped, I guess, and watching it, I remember this
is kind of my experience watching it. Like the first
twenty minutes, I was like, I think this is the
coolest score I've ever heard of my entire life. Just
this kind of like electric rock blues fusion score. I
(50:44):
was like, this is so cool, and then watching it,
I'm like, this is a really good movie. I'm enjoying it.
And then by the end I was like, oh, okay,
I see what everyone meant. Yeah, this movie is fucking incredible.
Holy shit, I completely leave it by the end, Like
the epilogue ruined me. Just what a fucking cool movie
like and what it I don't know, Like vampires has
(51:05):
been done so many times, right, We've seen it throughout
our lifetime, and usually they're fucking cool, Like, yeah, gonna
like it. It's gonna be pretty dope at least enjoyable
in somebody share or form. But the way they handled
the vampires in this movie and and what their like
mission was and how they kind of like the hive
(51:26):
mind thing, I thought was really cool. And I don't
feel like I've seen that done in this way, or
at least not a lot prevalent in vampire media. Maybe
I'm just like a vampire nofice or something, but I
really don't remember many things that handle it the way
that movie did. And there's a scene in the in
the juke Joint where Sammy's playing guitar, and it might
be one of the coolest scenes I've ever seen in
(51:47):
the movie.
Speaker 3 (51:47):
It's like, so fucking scene, amazing scene. I was like that,
that's that's cinema.
Speaker 2 (51:54):
Yeah. I was like, holy fuck, this is so cool. Yeah.
The practical effects on the vampire were so cool. Like
there's a scene where this vampire is super fucked up
and something's like in its head and I'm like, that
looks sick. And the way some of the one finger
is like a long gay and stuff. I was like,
this is rad. Yeah, cool, And you know, they kept
(52:15):
some of the classic vampire stuff in there, and I
love them kind of figuring out their vampires and stuff
like that. I thought it was really cool, like the
way they played with those those kind of tropes I
guess or guidelines or whoever you want to call it
for vampire stuff, but right the general a lot. Yeah,
some parts really reminded me of Tarantino in this cool
way that still felt like new and fresh and different.
(52:38):
I get that. Yeah, Like, especially like that the when
you finally get the context of the Tommy gun scene.
I was like, this feels so Tarantino in the coolest way. Yeah.
Cooler is that guy, dude, Like I don't know, like
I know a lot of this stuff has been kind
of ip stuff. You know, he did Creed, which it
is incredible. He did both Black Panther movies, which are great.
(52:59):
This he did this other movie called Fruitball Station, which
admittedly I haven't watched, but I've heard it's great also,
And just like the dude just put out like all hits,
no misses. And it's also cool to.
Speaker 3 (53:11):
See commonality Michael B.
Speaker 2 (53:14):
Jordan's he's like his mutes man like you were talking about,
like like you know, people with Quentin and stuff like that.
He's been in every single cooler movie everyone.
Speaker 3 (53:23):
Yeah, and he's amazing in all of them.
Speaker 2 (53:26):
Yeah, and it's hard to pull off the twin thing
that can be very bad. Yeah, and he killed it.
You can totally tell they're different people even know it's
the same fucking guy. And I know they invented like
new technology for it because obviously most of it's like
a stand in, but they had this like camera I
think it's called like a halo camera, and it goes
around his face and like maps his face so they
(53:46):
can like perfect he ends up doing both takes, but
they do it so you can map your face on it. Yeah,
it looks like it looks incredibly I could never super.
Speaker 3 (53:55):
Impose it onto the other guy kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (53:58):
Yeah, it looked amazing, like and like there's a video
of him explaining because like when it goes that scene
we were talking about, there's a massive aspect ratio shift
and stuff like that, like it was shot completely on film,
Like this, dude, is that dude? Like straight up like
it's it's It's very cool and I'm excited. I think
he's doing Black Panthers three next. But if this is
what he has in store for like original stories, and
(54:20):
I know it was like very connected to his uncle
who like grew up in that area and was like
a blues musician and stuff like that, which is really
cool that it's like rooted in some sense of reality
and like lineage to him. And he even made a
deal with Warner Brothers where like in twenty five years
his family gets the rights to the movie, which is
(54:40):
pretty unheard of. Yeah, but the story is so special
in his family that he wanted them to like own it,
which is like really wild for a major studio to do.
So I guess props for that. And if this is
what he has in store for you, know, original stuff
like yeah, I want more, please keep going.
Speaker 3 (55:00):
Got dehydrated, like please, It's like.
Speaker 2 (55:03):
Yeah, I'm so ready for whatever he's gonna bring to
the table, Like I'm excited what the third Black Panther
movie is gonna look like? For sure, same second the
second one knocked me on my ass. I mean there's
obviously like a lot of real life implications that informed
that story and and made it what it is, and
like that's part of why it's so impactful. But the
movie is a moving movie.
Speaker 3 (55:25):
Yeah, post the very very end, like post credit, oh.
Speaker 2 (55:30):
My god, I was bawling my eyes out that ship.
Speaker 3 (55:33):
That ship hurt. That that ship hurted.
Speaker 2 (55:36):
Even though the opening scene I've never heard a movie
opening scene, why in my life opening.
Speaker 6 (55:42):
Scene is tough.
Speaker 2 (55:44):
Alls I heard was people like sniffling, that's the only
noise you're here. It was that was wild, you know,
seeing that a pack theater opening night and just silence
like that is Yeah, goddamn, But dude, thank you so
much for doing this for me.
Speaker 4 (55:59):
This is awesome, of course, of course, No, I love
I love to talk a flick, I love to consume.
Speaker 3 (56:05):
I'm not fully caught up and everything I want to
consume ever.
Speaker 4 (56:09):
So that's like kind of the best chart about like
talking with people and like talking about the the stuff
that they're into, because like, you know, there are some
things I'm like, maybe.
Speaker 3 (56:20):
I'll get around to it. There's things I miss, you know,
and like maybe I find later whatever. But like I
love it. I love it.
Speaker 2 (56:29):
That's awesome. I I same. I love to hear it.
And it is also it's always an ongoing list of
things to catch up on. I don't think anyone has
ever caught.
Speaker 3 (56:37):
It never ends.
Speaker 2 (56:38):
It never ends, never, and that's the beauty of it.
It's it's it's depressing and beautiful at the same time
because you're like, man, I'll never be caught up at
the same time, You've never want a ship to watch.
That's right, it's a it's a it's a cool thing
to have. But before we out here, plug what you
got going on. Let the people know where they can
find you in the world of Cyco Frame and Church dun.
Speaker 3 (56:58):
So, I have a cycle Frame tour coming up.
Speaker 4 (57:02):
It starts July twenty fifth in Asbury Park, New Jersey,
and we will be on tour across America until August
twenty fourth, and that's with boundaries, stick to your guns
and gates to help. And then shortly after that, I
have a church Town tour also here in the States
(57:24):
that starts September fourth in Knoxville, Tennessee, and we're gonna
end in September fourteenth on Kansas.
Speaker 3 (57:32):
City Shorter one. But we work with what we got.
You know, we got a couple, we got a couple
moving parts with that band, so we make it. We
make it work where we can. Some of those have
been on TV a few times, so, but yeah, that's
what we're doing.
Speaker 4 (57:49):
And in the meantime I will be gaming and watching
stuff up until I go do those things and somewhere
in between on off days or what ever.
Speaker 2 (58:00):
Love that, love that, Yeah, I'll make sure to link
down like a frame in church Stung links down below.
So if you're living under a rock for some reason
then haven't checked them out, go check them out to
stop what you're doing now and go and do that.
And if you want to sport the podcast, smeltconers dot
com or links there and was he placed? If you
want to follow me in my personal account which just
at Sean XM on Instagram and Twitter. Until next time,
(58:21):
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