Episode 207: 5th Anniversary & Favorite Movies from 2024

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Ladies and gentlemen, the time has come. Turn your devices
to the maximum volume, sit back, relax, and let's get
Ready to Retro.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Welcome back to the Ready to Retro podcast. It is
episode two o seven. I'm one of your hosts, Max
and returning to Ready to Retro is the Duchess of horror, Chelsea.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
What's up up, everybody?

Speaker 2 (01:01):
It's been a while, it has it's very while since
we recorded Annerer. So okay, and no episode of Radia
Retro would be complete without my cousin Chris.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
Hello, Hello, Hello, Yeah, I'm actually sitting right next to Max.
You are, Yes, we are, because we usually do on zoom.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
But yeah, our knees are touching each other, right, they
literally are.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
He told me to get closer to him, and I
wasn't sure if it was for the podcast or because
he's hitting on me. So you met you one or
the other. I'm okay with either.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well, hey, guys, this is our first episode of twenty
twenty five, and twenty twenty five is like almost halfway over.
We'll get we'll get to that why and all that
good stuff. But first and foremost, welcome back Radio Retro listeners.
We're glad that you're listening to us, and for those
who are listening for the very first time, you are

(01:58):
listening to the fifth anniversary of Ready to Retro it
is officially ce Yeah, yeah, yes, it's May eighth. When
this episode is dropped, we.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
Should get teen Wolf drunk.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
I'm just saying to sell that's a reference to an
old episode. But yeah, it's been five years, Chelsea. When
you hear that, what do you think?

Speaker 3 (02:21):
I just think, Wow, what a different time it was
back then?

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Boy, oh boy, five years ago.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah, yes, and no, it's been it's been a long time.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yes, a lot has happened.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Times, so a lot of good times. Of course.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Hey, we've had a lot of good times here on radio.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
I've been a good time. Good times.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Christopher.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
Oh wow, yes, I've heard I think I've ever heard
you call me Christopher.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Oh you've heard me say? Hey, so Chris. When I
say we've been doing this podcast for five years, what
does that make you think?

Speaker 4 (02:59):
I make I think that makes me think you do
three minus two and that's how long I've been with
you guys.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, I don't know if that makes me think of
math No, because that was that was gone for like
a year so probably five minus one.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
It makes me think math that was like the Max
looks very confused. Honestly, it makes me think, geez, time
flies really, yes, life, life passes you by passes? What
is What does Fais Bueller say at the end of
like time?

Speaker 2 (03:37):
I like that. I like that.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
Was something embarrassing. That was my high school yearbook quote
and I can't even remember it.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Wow. So, Chelsea, did you have a yearbook quote in
your yearbook?

Speaker 3 (03:52):
I did. I think I it was like a doctor
Seuss quote. I think it was the one that was
like those that mine don't matter, and those that don't
matter don't mind, or something like that. I think I
put that as my quote.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
I like that. You want to hear mine? Yeah, I'm
pretty sure it was this. Wait is it anyways, I'm
gonna quote it. I'm gonna quote it. I'm gonna quote it.
That's what I lived my high school life by. I'd
rather be hated for who I am than be loved
for who I am.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
Not. Wow, And what was that from.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Chad Ocho Cinco?

Speaker 4 (04:30):
Isn't that a football player?

Speaker 2 (04:31):
It is, yes, and he's known for, you know, shenanigans
and stuff.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
So dogfighting, No, no, that's Michael Victim.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Okay, yeah, all right, well five years. I know we
didn't really talk about this, but I think when we
have these anniversary episodes, I always ask like, what has
been one of your favorite moments? But I think we
always go back to this one moment, But I want
to ask Chelse, Chelse, what are some of your favorite
moments in these last five years?

Speaker 3 (05:00):
I think I always say the interview with Kurt.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Fuller, Yep, that's the one, and we always say that
we peaked, we peaked at like season two, we did.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
We did?

Speaker 3 (05:11):
That was honestly, I was thinking about that the other
day because I watched like a TikTok of like I
think I said it to you or yeah, real of
him like doing signatures or whatever, and I was.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Like, oh, man, like psych so cool.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
And I'll never forget when he was like, hey, why
did you why did you do this?

Speaker 2 (05:27):
He's like, I don't know because it was COVID.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
Yeah. Max is like I don't even know why you're
doing this, but thanks, He goes, yeah, I don't know
why either.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Really nice. He just seemed like such a nice guy
and I always always remember how how nice he was
for doing that for us, I.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Think that episode is far enough away where if I
listened to it, I kind of enjoy it more than
maybe oh yeah right after, you know what I mean,
like I would actually want to go back because I
don't remember everything we talked about.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
Yeah, that's probably my favorite one too. It's cool.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
What about for you? Chris?

Speaker 4 (06:02):
It's always Team wolf Man teen because that, in my
mind is considered a lost episode, at least in my
mind because I don't remember recording it.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, that was pretty early in the like two months
into the pandemic.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
Was that our first episode?

Speaker 2 (06:21):
It was their second.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
Yeah, there's a lot of White Claw involved, very very
very drunk, and Chelsea was supposed to that was supposed
to be like the first one.

Speaker 4 (06:31):
You led, and man, that was like drinking, drinking and
driving the vehicle of the podcast.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
You don't take over.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
I remember I wasn't as drunk as Chris, but I
was like, you know, I was feeling loose, we'll say,
And then I remember just like sobering up on a
dime and I was just like all right, kicked into gear.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
So Max had to jump in and like handle the
whole thing.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, I don't know anymore.

Speaker 4 (06:57):
But Kurt Fuller would be my top one too.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
See that was three years ago, so since then, it's just.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
We've met.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
We can. Yeah, and it's not to say that our
guests after that weren't as great. Let's not say that,
but it was. You know, Curve Fuller is a cool guy.
We're the Curve Fuller Podcasts.

Speaker 4 (07:22):
I like that we have exclusive rights to him on
our podcast.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Now I don't think we have that all right, So
we've been gone for a while because if you haven't
been following us on social media, which you should at
ready to retro, you guys are probably like where you
guys been. Uh, life hit hard for me personally in January. Well,

(07:49):
my house burned from the LA fires, specifically the Eating
fires that was in Altadenas. So Altadia was, you know,
the home I grew up in. My wife and I
always been around the area. We moved back in the
area twenty eighteen while my mom passed twenty twenty one.

(08:11):
We inherit the home, bought it all that stuff, and yeah,
so it was the beginning this year. I mean to
put this story short. We evacuated. We were actually supposed
to record an episode four Ready to retro. It was
going to be the first episode of the year, and

(08:32):
the power went out and I texted everybody. I was like, hey,
no power because the wind blew out all the the
transformers and all the you know, all the power went out.
And I was like, hey, don't have power, so we
can't record. That sucks. And then literally about twenty minutes later,
I saw that the sky was like orange and yeah,

(08:55):
so we evacuated around eight o'clock because of the wind,
there was no power, and it was just we needed
to not be in that area, not knowing what was
to come to pass. At that point, the fire was
still in the hills and we never would imagine it
coming towards us. So I mean literally it was like

(09:19):
that morning that happened around eight pm. By nine am,
my neighbor texted me and said, hey, Max, the whole
block is gone. Your house is gone, my house is gone.
Everything's gone. So since then it's just been a whirlwind.
I saw a post a few weeks ago. It's like
losing your house has been a full time job. So
between just trying to navigate everything, I mean, losing everything

(09:43):
that you've ever owned, and it's not a partial burn
it was like a total burn, like everything was gone lost,
a car, lost, everything that was in our house, including
things that will never be replaced, like you know, my
wife's wedding dress, some family portraits, letter that my mom wrote,
any heirloom, everything, everything, let alone all my collections, you know,

(10:07):
but other than not just like some childhood stuff. So
we're just trying to navigate. We stayed kind of in
the area. We're in Burbank now as I call Burbunco,
which has been different, and we're just navigating, you know,
the rebuild process and trying to recuperate. So yeah, that's

(10:28):
why we haven't been recording because I literally just haven't
had this space to do that. Any free space honestly
has been just trying to recover from just a traumatic experience,
sleeping or just applying for grants or applying for this money,
or trying to contact this facility or this organization. So yeah,

(10:52):
that's that's where we are. I will say that everybody
wants to ask, oh, you know, I'm glad you guys
are okay. Yeah, we're okay. Like there were unfortunately death's
in the community, actually one happening in on my street,
but we left pretty early for that, so it's just navigating,

(11:12):
you know what's next. So yeah, these last five years
have been crazy personally, and it doesn't seem like it's
letting up yet. But it's that hope that myself, my wife,
we don't have any kids, but my dad lived in
an adu behind us, an additional dwelling unit very popular

(11:33):
here in the La County area. But so yeah, we're
just we're just trying to navigate, and you know, Chris
and Chelsea have been so supportive throughout. I want to
give a shout out to just everybody who either gave
financially or texted or DMed. Really seeing a lot of
people through this platform through podcasting, and it's not just

(11:57):
listeners like it was crazy, just the amount of like
guests that we had that we only spoke to like
once or twice, like gave financially. So I just want
to appreciate that if this is the first time that
you're hearing this and you're like, WHOA, this is kind
of crazy, you can DM on on Radio Retro or

(12:19):
send an email at Ready Retro at gmail dot com
and and you know, willing to talk and you know,
and if you feel led to give. We'll make that
available to to our GoFundMe and all that's just going
to replacing and the build costs. So it's going to
cost about a million dollars to rebuild, which is insane,

(12:40):
but that's just what we're expecting. And so every dollar
matters and every dollar count. So I just want to
say thank you so much for this awesome support that
Ready to Retro has given me and my family.

Speaker 4 (12:56):
We really do.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
Absolutely, yeah, we love you.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah, and uh, you know, I have this desire to
take my podcasting experience and talents and skills if you
want to call it that, with telling stories of people
in our community. And I still want to do that.
It's still, you know, so I on the back burner,
but it's still in motion. So but I wanted to

(13:20):
get Rady to retro. Our fifth anniversary was coming up,
so just wanted to do this first because I felt
like before doing that project, let's let's do this. And
I'll just say like, I don't know what the future,
not to say that ray Retel's ending or anything like that,
but I just don't know how frequent it's going to be.

(13:42):
It's not like we're going back week to week. But
we wanted to do this and we had space to
do it.

Speaker 4 (13:48):
So yeah, I mean, you have a lot going on,
so it's understandable.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:53):
And yeah, I mean hopefully maybe we can at least
do it once a month if we can make that realistic.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
If not, i'd just say move, probably do it as
as much as we can. Yeah, and that makes sense.
So yeah, we're going to do.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
One with all this together in the same spot.

Speaker 4 (14:08):
You got to make your way to l a OC girl,
I'll do it.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
I'll right out there.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Well that's the update for ray to retro and I know, well, guys,
I got to mention Chris got married.

Speaker 4 (14:21):
Yeah, I was gonna mention it, dude, I mean.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
Lord, enough about me, Chris, you got freaking married.

Speaker 4 (14:27):
I got married to the love of my life and
it was me.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
No, I didn't.

Speaker 4 (14:32):
Max was already taken. So I had to go with Lopita.
You had to go with her, yes, because you were taking.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
That was the alternative. Yeah, I mean not bad, not
a bad one though.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
But it was a very very small, quaint wedding in
my uncle's backyard in Colorado. Would you consider it small? Yeah?
It was.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
It was an intimate family wedding.

Speaker 4 (14:53):
There was an intimate family wedding in the beautiful mountains
of Evergreen, Colorado, the middle of winter outside, but thankfully
that day it was warmer than the others. Max actually
drove there.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
I was the only person to drive.

Speaker 4 (15:09):
Yeah, did you drive through the the past? Yeah you did.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (15:14):
So it was perfect because it hadn't snowed there in
like a month and a half, like they're having a
dry season, and two days before the wedding it snowed.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
It snowed right before and after, so we were able
to drive there and back no problem.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
Yeah, so it was beautiful. My grandma took a tumble,
but she's okay. You even mention that. No, I'm just saying,
like it weird. No, no, no, because it's funny. Now she's okay.
But literally two people fall at my wedding, like it
was a vevful. We always laugh about it. Like my

(15:50):
mom's best friend who was there now was put together
my Yeah, that's what I mentioned, Like it was a
themful as hell. Like there was drama, like you know,
Lupita's walking down the aisles. First time we see each
other boom, yeah, and we turn around and there's my
mom's best friend.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
She was like the wedding coordinator kind of, and she
was trying to help with the the dress runner. Yeah
that's what you call, right, the dress runner or whatever,
and ate it hard. And it's small, right, We're on
this like deck in this house.

Speaker 4 (16:24):
I can barely fit like three people. So so she's
walking down the aisle and we hear this and literally
she was going to go help her. I mean I
was going to too.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
The fact that you're telling this podcast is wild.

Speaker 4 (16:40):
I just think it's it's because we talk about all
the time. That was a highlight seeing my wife. Remember
when that lady fell. Yeah, we talk about it a
lot because I don't think I've shown you the pictures.
There's pictures of it, like we have professional photographers. So
you see Judy on the floor. He named her, and

(17:00):
you see everyone with their eyes why and literally did
I say her name?

Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (17:07):
You did, and everyone's mouths dropped. Lupito was literally going
to go help her. But she's like, oh, go call
I'm fine. And then I talked to her the next
day before they left, and I'm like, are you really okay?
She goes, I'm in so much fucking pain. She goes,
but I didn't want to ruin your day, so I

(17:27):
just sucked it up. So yeah, what a chance. But
it was beautiful. It was beautiful. Yeah, and then my
grandma had to go to the hospital. You know. Wow, Well,
you can't believe I'm talking about it.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
No, Chris's wedding was very beautiful. It had a beautiful
landscape in the background. The pictures that they took were
really no, they were really awesome because I've got the
snow on the ground, got these mountains in the background.
Your wife looked beautiful and beautiful, fantastic, You look great.
It was a family affair, you know, it was. It

(18:03):
was great. I was in the party, my sisters and
the party. So Chris's dad and my dad are brothers,
and there's four boys in the family, and they don't
really like hang out a lot. They're just you know,
so it's like they're different people. It's rare for all
of the cousins to get together, so it was like
one I think the last time the cousins all got

(18:26):
together was like my wedding fourteen years ago or something
like that. So yeah, so I also say it was
just like it was a special time.

Speaker 4 (18:32):
Yeah, it was cool because one of my cousins wasn't
supposed to wasn't able to come, and then she showed up,
and then unfortunately another one couldn't come, Christina, because their
cat literally accidentally hung itself. Thankfully, it's okay. I'm just
very I'm being very transparent to my listeners.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
Chris has always had no filter.

Speaker 4 (18:58):
I have no filter, always had neither does my brother.
So I've learned ten plus years of therapy, I've learned
that I just need to speak my mind and what's
on it. You're doing well, all right, But besides hanging cats,
people falling, it was beautiful. No. And the one thing

(19:22):
that was amazing, I don't know if you heard. Two
days later we went skiing to Loveland and it was
ten degrees, which in skiing, if you're bundled up perfectly,
it's really good weather. And it just snowed the entire time.
It was so beautiful. And my wife is Mexican. She
is from Mexico, and a bunch of her her family

(19:46):
had come out. They'd never even seen snow, so like
specifically her aunt was like the cutest thing. We get
to get there, Like the day after snow she came
the earliest and she's like, oh wow, oh, and she's
like like is this realist? Is like stuff I only
see on TV or in the movies. And she had
a great time. So I'm glad she could make it

(20:07):
because she almost didn't come. So yeah, it was amazing
and that's great. Happily married and life's good.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
You didn't do it right though, my wife learn my
very grateful good stuff, very black. So Chelse, Yeah, unlike
my cousin who has no filter. You can filter, however
what you want. But how are you doing? What do

(20:37):
you want to let the listeners know?

Speaker 3 (20:41):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (20:41):
Well, it's been a fun year for me.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
Yeah, I had to I had to move from where
I was living, where I loved it, and so it's
kind of a bummer. And my friend, my roommate moved
back to the East Coast, so that kind of sucks.
So there goes, you know, from such a bummer. But
I guess it depends on how you look at it

(21:07):
currently in between work my choice, I decided, you know,
but I just feel like for me, this is going
to be a year of It's already a year of changes,
but it's going to continue to be a year of changes.
And if you know, some things are out of my control,
some things are in my control. Hell yeah, it's just

(21:28):
a balance.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
So it's actual changes, not like Tupac where he says
I see no changes. Yeah, you know you do have changes.

Speaker 3 (21:36):
Just yeah, exactly, I chose. I chose some of these changes,
not all of them, but I chose some of them.

Speaker 4 (21:41):
Change changes.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
Just rolling with it.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
So far, we're gonna see look at us, guys, twenty
twenty five, we have a very like, very extreme changes
in our lives. Yeah, a big thing, both by choice
and not by choice. So and I had a choice, Yeah,

(22:06):
a choice. I just looked at Chris and I was like,
he goes, yeah, you're choosing this life.

Speaker 4 (22:14):
Yeah, I'm choosing this life.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
You chose the married life. The married life didn't choose you.

Speaker 4 (22:20):
This one this time, this time. I've been married twice.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
Chris all right on that. No, we're gonna take break
and then we're gonna talk about. Chris is just plaining,
all right, we're gonna take them and then we'll come back.
We're gonna talk about twenty twenty four, because I know
it's meddle twenty five, but we want to talk twenty

(22:47):
twenty four Movies because it's one of our favorite episodes
to do the wrap up of the year. So all right, Chris,
you want to do our outro music into the into the.

Speaker 4 (22:59):
Commercials, I'll do the music. Ready, yeah, your favorite one.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
All right, we're back here and ready to retro. So
gave an update on why we haven't recorded in five
So we wanted to do a twenty twenty four wrap
up because this is actually the first episode we always
tend to do. So we're like, you know, rewinding time back.

(23:26):
Where's my sound effect?

Speaker 4 (23:33):
Thank you everybody? So Chelsea, just to give you a description.
We have applause, we have alarm, Max's favorite one, ohd
on alarm, ear horn, grass, drum beat, heartbeat, deep, and
I always say what I like to say is honk
if your horny.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
I wish I could hear these things, but we'll.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
Figure it out next time. Max as a obviously his
old what do you call this soundboard? Yes, burn, so
he has a new one, updated technology. And I tell you,
we forgot to mention that it took we had this
plan to start at like five point thirty. We started
like seven. But Chelsea's not surprised if he wouldn't be
ready to retro a podcast without all this bullshit.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
Yeah, alright, that's just how it goes.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
All right. So typically we do a wrap up of
the year prior. So this is a rewind and thank
you for all your your sounds.

Speaker 4 (24:31):
There, rewind and be kind.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
Okay, Okay, So this is the way we're gonna do it.
It's kind of a hodgepodge because we're all over the
map when it comes to movies. Chelsea doesn't like to rank.
She just likes to talk about the movies. I love
to rank. Chris didn't watch. I don't watch the movies.

Speaker 4 (24:53):
Last year. I did not watch one movie. I watched
three movies in theater, but one was a non it
was a new movie.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
So this is a hodgepodge kind of episode. So let's
start with you, Chelsea. What is the first movie you
want to talk about?

Speaker 3 (25:10):
Okay, let me uh go into Letterbox. I love Letterbox man.

Speaker 4 (25:16):
It's like, really like we need to be friends.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
Be my letterbox friend. What I do is each year,
I I make like a You probably do the same thing,
don't you, Max, where you make like a list of
each year that you watch and stuff. So for twenty
twenty four. What's one I want to talk about? Let's go.
I'm gonna start with like ones I really like, feel
more passionately about.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
Okay, the first one here a tic Hairtic. Ooh yeah good.
I will say it's not on my top ten lists.

Speaker 4 (25:49):
I will say it's not on my list at all.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
Chris, who's in Hairtic? Tell me about Hairtic?

Speaker 3 (25:55):
Yeah? Tell us about Hairtic, Chris.

Speaker 4 (25:57):
The Hairtic is about? Do you guys remember that show
called the Tick. It's about him and the hair. That's
why they called it the hair in the Tick.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
The right answer, right answer? All right, Chelsea? What did
you like about the hair Tick?

Speaker 3 (26:13):
Well? I enjoyed it very much. Kind of hit a
little close to home, right.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
I thought about you a lot.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
I grew up in the Mormon Church, so I was like.

Speaker 4 (26:28):
The Mormon faith.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
Or no, she grew up in the Mormon gingerbread house.

Speaker 4 (26:38):
Sorry, didn't interrupt you, but I'll ask you later.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
Okay, No, I didn't know she grew up more yea,
I was baptized Mormon.

Speaker 4 (26:46):
No I knew that. No, I said, it's the movies
about the Mormon fah.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
Well. Two female Mormon missionaries go to this man's house
to like you know, him to become Mormon and he
has other plans and it's has a lot of good
conversations in the film about like theology and Christianity and religion,

(27:13):
and that's kind of like Honestly, my favorite part of
the movie is is when the people talk more than
actually the horror. I mean, it's a horror film, but
it's more of.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
Like a thriller.

Speaker 3 (27:25):
Discussion. Yeah it Yeah, more discussion was the better part
of the movie than like the actual like horror they're
trapped kind of have to get out kind of thing. Yeah,
that was fine, but I liked more of the talking. Yes,
the dialogue is better, but yeah, I really like that one.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
It's very good. And I'll say this year was like
the Sophie Thatcher year, Like I watched all her stuff
and she's great in the Heretic. I recently also have
been watching Yellow Jackets, so she'saon.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
Did you see Companion?

Speaker 2 (27:56):
I have not, but that's on the list. It's twenty five.
I heard that. But yeah, but yeah, it's great movie,
great choice. I have so much to just say, but
we're gonna move forward. So Chris, do you want to
talk about a movie or do you want to pass.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
I just want to say I thoroughly enjoyed the Heretic.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
Okay, so.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
Chelsea has an idea what's going on?

Speaker 2 (28:22):
Okay, So I will make a disclaimer. This isn't the
best movies. These are just my favorite movies. Okay, So
I'll list them. I have ten, so maybe I'll get
go through some of them quicker than others. I also
have honorable mentions and all this other stuff. Okay, so
number ten. One of the best experiences I had last

(28:43):
year watching a movie was seeing the movie Thelma. That's
the one with the old lady and she gets scammed
and she goes and tries to find her the people
who scan them. So it's with June Squibb, who plays Thelma.
The reason why I enjoyed this so much. It won
It's a funny movie, like twenty twenty four didn't have

(29:05):
a lot of funny movies. In my opinion, this one's hilarious.
But what made this fantastic was Jasmine, myself and her
two grandmas who are both in their eighties. We all
went to see this movie and it was a big
deal for them. One does not go to the movies
at all. She's like, oh, we're going to the show,
and then the other one kind of looks like June

(29:27):
squib So sitting next to them. And there's a scene
in the movie where Thelma talks about how everyone she loves,
all her family, all her friends, they're all dead now.
And then Jasmine grandma goes, oh, that's so true, and
I'm like, oh, my heart, you know, like, but it
was so much fun. It's a great movie to watch.

(29:48):
They like it, they loved it, and they like want
to do it again, like any old like movie like
if eighty was it eighty to Brady, Brady to eighty
whatever that movie, like those movies, we'll probably have to
bring her, grandma. So that's number ten because it was
just a fantastic, fantastic experience. I loved it, and it's

(30:10):
a good movie. Go check it out.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
I'm gonna keep going with the ones I felt most
passionately about and work my way down I guess. I
guess I am kind of.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
So Hairtic is like your favorite movie.

Speaker 3 (30:20):
It's higher, like, you know, I only have like seventeen listed, okay,
and we're doing ten, so I'm kind of doing ones
I liked more than the other ones.

Speaker 4 (30:30):
I would I would like to say something. This is
why I started watching movies. That's something to talk about
on here. I started watching movies this year.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
This is the So you've been on this podcast for
five years, and now you see last.

Speaker 4 (30:43):
Year a lot went on. That was like the first
year I didn't watch.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Sure, busy, Yeah you're busy.

Speaker 4 (30:49):
I'm busy.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
Yes, you're planning a wedding.

Speaker 4 (30:53):
Okay, let's listen here. I'm sorry. I don't mean to
go on a side tangent, but I never want to
be a wedding planner ever. We did everything ourselves. It's
way too much work.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Anyways, that corner, Yeah, yeah, okay, next one.

Speaker 3 (31:07):
Okay, this is probably my favorite movie. Well, yeah, it
was my favorite movie last year. Maybe, okay, no spatu.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Nice Okay, I'll just say it was number eight on
my list. Okay, tell me why you like Nasra. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
I love well, so many things. I love the original
black and white silent film. I love Willem Dafoe. I
love Bill Scar's guard I like all the people they
cast it in the film. I love who's the director.
It's Robert Eggers. The CPIA tone look of the film.

(31:49):
I'm not sure how I felt really about Lily Rose death.
I was kind of like I kept kind of like
sometimes I'm like, oh, she's great. Other times I'm like,
I'm not sure. That was kind of like kind of
hit miss for me. Really like her, but she was
a little all over the place for me?

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Is it because of who she is? Do you past that?

Speaker 3 (32:06):
Some of the acting was I don't know. I mean
it was good, but then there was.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
How about that last scene without giving spoilers, but she
did what was that well? That last scene pretty gnarly?

Speaker 3 (32:16):
Yeah, it was. That was great.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
I did really like you liked that last scene?

Speaker 3 (32:20):
Yeah, I loved it.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
That Okay, that's good cast.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
Yeah, I had a really great cast. Everyone did a
great job. Actually, my favorite scene probably in the whole
movie was when what's his name? It used to be
so good at remembering people's names, Nicholas Holt. He's waiting
for the carriage to arrive, and it's kind of that
is the coolest, you know, the horses are, you know,
coming towards them and everything. Such a well shot. I mean,

(32:55):
it's Robert Eggers, so it's going to be.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
Shot with It's really beautiful.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
I feel and I love vampire stuff, so of course
that's going to be like pretty high on my guest
for of the films that I like. But yeah, I
loved it.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
I love Willon Dafoe anything he's in on down.

Speaker 4 (33:10):
Is this movie like a remake or reboot? Yes, it's
a remake.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
It's a remake of a nineteen twenty two silent film.

Speaker 4 (33:17):
Yeah, I know that one. I guess what would be
the difference of a reboot and a remake.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
I guess I would say this is like a retelling.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
I think it's just really it's as it follows it
pretty it.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
Goes into depth. I mean, like this is like a
two hour movie. The other one was what less than
an hour?

Speaker 3 (33:35):
Yeah? Yeah, I mean what what it really is like,
do you want to get down to it is? It's
it's kind of like a another version of Dracula, but
it's kind of like because Dracula's like copyrighted, so they
couldn't make Dracula back in the day because the guy
wrote Bram Stoker's widow was alive and she wasn't allowing
that to happen. So they kind of made like a

(33:55):
knockoff Dracula that's kind of what it was.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
I don't care if it's nineteen twenty two. He ain't
doing it, So that's what that that is.

Speaker 3 (34:03):
And then it kind of became its own thing, you know.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
So I would say I would have this higher on
my list, but I can't get past that mustache. Ye
hate the mustache. I hate it. I thought the mustache
was a disguise the entire time. I thought he was
gonna like rip it off, because because count Orlock does
not have a mustache, like he has a very distinct

(34:28):
like that must even like at the end of the scene,
you know, when it gets all like round, I was like,
is he gonna like rip off the mustache? The whole
time I was so distractive because I was like, when
he's get to rip off that mustache? I hate that mustache.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
I don't know, he's like undead. You think like they
wouldn't really have like a lot of like it.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
Doesn't make sense, right, Like how does that hear? Yeah? Yeah,
I hated the mustache.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
Virtually has like no hair, but he has like a
thick ass mustache.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
I don't get it. Yeah, he had like a pancho
like yeah, like a ronchetto like Pancho Villa like thick
mustache bro. I couldn't get past it. I don't know, like,
I just was so fixated on it, and I was like,
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
That I understand because it's distracted.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
It is just totally right.

Speaker 3 (35:13):
I agree.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
I thought it was a joke, all right, Okay, okay,
Number one, okay, yeah, what did you want?

Speaker 4 (35:20):
Number one on my list is Wicked. That's the only
movie I saw.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
Was the only movie you saw twenty four?

Speaker 4 (35:29):
Well in theater, no, But the other one was Harry
Potter and my wife's subsess with Harry Potter. So we
saw like the re releases of some of them.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
Harry Potter and Wicked. I don't even know who you
are anymore.

Speaker 4 (35:43):
I didn't. Last year was busy. Last year is busy.
But I saw Wicked.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
It really helps you a lot. Uh, She's really helped you.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Out a lot.

Speaker 4 (35:52):
Yeah. But so my wife really wanted to see Wicked,
and I was like, okay, we have to find time.
So he finally went, and I get there. Because I'm
not like a big musical guy, right, they're okay. I
can never really get into them. It's just not my thing.

(36:12):
Afterried and We're sitting there and I'm like, I hope
someone doesn't start singing during this movie. She goes, what
do you mean? And I was like, wickeds of musical.
She goes, it is?

Speaker 2 (36:22):
I mean, like you didn't want anybody singing in the
in the theater in the audio loud?

Speaker 4 (36:26):
Got it because I have a hard time hearing. That's
why I said it. If I have background noise, I
can't hear the actual audio. And what it's like, I
hate musicals.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
But she liked it, right, she liked it.

Speaker 4 (36:39):
I liked half of it. I thought the second half
is way better than the first.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
That's what everyone says. Yeah, was that your favorite movie
of the year?

Speaker 3 (36:49):
You know what? It was up there? I saw it twice.
Everyone says that I saw the original musical like back
in the day, I watched it.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
But oh in la was uh Menzel? Was it her?

Speaker 3 (37:02):
No, I want to say I saw an six or
something like that. So right now that long it started. Wow,
but it it wasn't like, no, it wasn't the original
cast like the traveling cast. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I
loved it. I loved it.

Speaker 4 (37:21):
My brother. My brother's actually seen it twice for free
and he's been backstage like both times because nice he
I don't know how his friend knew some of the
people there, so that's cool. But he loves that. But
I didn't know that. Most people said that the first
half is Yeah, I think the first half was very cheesy.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
Cheesy for me, huh, I said, that's the general consensus.

Speaker 4 (37:44):
Yeah, the second half I really enjoyed.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
Yeah, so it's not on my list. It was good,
you know. I saw it a little late, so it
was kind of maybe overhyped. But man, I was singing
Defying Gravity a lot for weeks weeks and then when
the Grammys came out again, and I did you know
the music before? No? No, I didn't know anything about it.

(38:07):
So really no, not much like I I like musicals.
I like movie musicals. Play musicals are kind of a blast.

Speaker 3 (38:15):
Did she know about it?

Speaker 2 (38:16):
No, she didn't know much about it, But I will.
You have no filters, Chris, here's me not having filters.
I may or may not have spent tonight all the
way to three in the morning watching TikTok covers of
Defying Gravity and see who could hit the note or not.

(38:36):
They may or may not have that.

Speaker 4 (38:39):
But this is just the first part one, right.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
Yeah, Part two is coming out this year.

Speaker 4 (38:44):
I believe I will watch it. I just hope it's
more like the second half.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
That's good.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
I think it will be. It's going to be more
like Chris.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
It's also not for us like it's a very it's
good to watch. I'm not saying it's not.

Speaker 4 (38:59):
It is.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
It's just great movie. And from what I've heard from
other women, it talks about that dynamic of friendship but
also of competition and all this stuff like it's you,
we're not getting all the nuances.

Speaker 4 (39:14):
Yeah, I'm not like shooting on the movie at all.
It's just it was better than I thought it would be.
It was.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
I enjoyed it. Yeah, Ariana Grunty was fantastic.

Speaker 4 (39:21):
I did too. She was great. And the other thing
I wish, I know, I just wish you would have
watched The Wizard of Oz before because Lupita has never
seen it, so I didn't realize, like you know when
you see well, I mean it's been out for a while,
so uh. But Dorothy and all them walking down the
little bit road in the beginning, like she had no

(39:42):
idea what that was, and of course I'd explained to
her after because I'm really bad at explaining with being
hard of the hearing, and I tend to yell during
the movie, so I try not to explain things. So
but uh, that was number one on my list. Guys,
there you.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
Go one nice so nice.

Speaker 3 (39:59):
That was on my list.

Speaker 4 (40:00):
It was the only thing on my list.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
Number ten was Thelma. Number eight was not for Number
nine for me was Dune Part two. So cinematically amazing
is I think what heard it was? How early in
the year it came out. It came out like in March,
I believe March or April.

Speaker 4 (40:19):
Why does that hurt it?

Speaker 2 (40:21):
Because I think by the time I got to Award
season and the end of the year, a lot of
people forgot actually how good that movie was. Uh, it
was fantastic, Like it was really good. Timothy Shallow may
like he's this he's a star man, he is a
star and his dynamic with Zendia. I haven't watched the show, Cheles.

(40:43):
Have you watched the show on Max show?

Speaker 3 (40:45):
I haven't even finished the first Dune I see.

Speaker 4 (40:49):
Last year I watched Dune on Netflix and I thought
it was amazing.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
So it's I liked it.

Speaker 3 (40:56):
I watched half of it. I just I don't know.

Speaker 4 (40:58):
It's a long movie.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
I definitely think you haven't watched it. Oh dude, I'm
the only one who's watched it. Okay, it's good, watch
it all, right, Chelsea. Another movie.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
Okay. So generally when I I have like a rule
that I normally don't put on letterbox films that I
don't watch in theaters. But I kind of broke out
a couple of times.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
Oh really, so you don't do streaming?

Speaker 3 (41:20):
I don't really. Yeah, I kind of leave it just
for things I actually see the theater interesting. But then
I kind of was like, whatever, now, like, do just
do ones that are like from this year? Whatever?

Speaker 4 (41:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (41:33):
So, and I think you saw this one too, and
it was really really good. But it's called It's What's Inside.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
Yeah. Yeah, one of the biggest surprises I think this
year just came out of nowhere. Tell Chris and our
listeners what it's about, Chelsea.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
Well, yeah, my friend just told me about it randomly
and we've watched it all together. But it's like it's
been a Watson's I've seen it. But basically it's like
friends are all like hanging out at like a house
somebody owns like this big awesome house, and one of
the friends comes in and like has created a machine

(42:12):
that can swap your body into other bodies. Like it's
so it's like Freaky Friday, but like.

Speaker 2 (42:18):
You can do it machine for him.

Speaker 3 (42:21):
There's a machine, yeah, and you like say there, here's us,
and all of a sudden, we can just swap into
each other's bodies because he like can change it. Sometimes
people are lying about whose body they're really in and
then like so like weird things start happening because they're
not telling Some people aren't telling the truth. People are
talking to each other like on the side, saying things

(42:43):
to each It's like some people are in relationships, some
people aren't. Some people used to be like bullied by
certain people, so now they're kind of trying to get
back at each other. It's really cool. The way it's
shot is really neat, Like it's it's very cool because
like somebody will be talking, but then you'll see like
I think there's one like where it's like an echo
of who they really are is like playing against the wall.

(43:05):
Like it's really neat. Like I need to rewatch the
movie because.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
I really did like it. It's like a thriller. I
don't know. It's good. It's on Netflix. What I liked
about it was it's for the most part, a lot
of just young, unknown like actors.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
I don't want to give everything away, but there's like
more twists that like, yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
They're basically playing a game. They're playing, like have you
ever played that game where you have were Wolf? Or
like if you're played that game where you have a
character on your back and you're trying to guess, like
who am I Who's on the back. It's kind of
like that, but your brain is literally in somebody else's body.

Speaker 4 (43:41):
So if I was in your body, that sounds weird.
So I think we showed that one out.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
Yeah no filter, Chris.

Speaker 3 (43:51):
But anyway, I love that movie. I need to watch it.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
Again, probably put my pants if iver you so, and
then switch out and the Suppress. That was a good one.
It was it was different, it was different, it was fresh.
I think I liked it. I liked it solid. Not
on my list. The next one I want to talk

(44:14):
about at number seven is Nickel Boys. Was nominated for
Best Picture this year, did not win. We'll get to
that little later, but Nickel Boys fantastic movie, shot so beautifully,
Like if you want to talk about just innovation and
moving the needle forward as far as cinema, this movie,

(44:35):
I don't know how it didn't get nominated for Best Cinematography.
It's kind of a hard watch. It's about two young
black boys who are in the South and they're kind
of in a it's Jim Crow era and they're like
kind of a correctional facility thing. It's like borderline slavery,
but it's all through the perspective of the boys, so

(44:58):
it's pov with that. It's very emotional because you're seeing
that perspective and just the camera angles like they're looking
down at the ground because they're not making eye contact
with their you know, security guard or police or whatever,
correctional facility, correctional officer and things like that. Again, a

(45:22):
fantastic movie, hard watch. It's not like the easiest to watch.
I should say that I've seen nine out of the
ten nominated movies. The only one I haven't seen is
the brazil one because I want to watch that with
my Brazilian buddy, which we haven't seen that yet. Yeah,
I'm blinking on the name right now, but we know.

Speaker 4 (45:40):
If you need a Brazilian bikini wax.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
Okay, thanks Duane Number seven Nickel Boy's fantastic movie. Definitely
watch it if you haven't, I will, Chelse, is there
another movie you want to talk about?

Speaker 3 (45:53):
Yeah, a lot of people don't like this movie, but
since I grew up the original, I really I saw
it twice. I really liked Beetlejuice. Beetle Juice. I don't
care anything.

Speaker 4 (46:06):
How was it?

Speaker 2 (46:07):
Chris just revealed that he doesn't listen to any radio
ratio podcast.

Speaker 4 (46:12):
If I don't have time to watch movies, you're not
gonna listen to the podcast podcast.

Speaker 3 (46:17):
We did a whole episode about it. It was a
great episode.

Speaker 2 (46:20):
Episode one ninety seven. We did a full on review Beetlejuice.
Beetle Juice with our buddy Nick Cowen.

Speaker 4 (46:27):
Of course I remember now, I remember.

Speaker 3 (46:29):
I remember a super fun episode. Honestly, but yeah, I
mean it's it definitely had flaws. It's not a great film.
I just I love the original film is like one
of my favorite movies of all time. So uh, there's
definitely issues in this, but I had a great time watching.
I think I was pleasantly surprised. I thought I was

(46:49):
gonna hate it. I really set the bar super low
for it.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
It didn't. I watched it.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
I was like, you know what, not bad, not bad?
I have second so low and I was pleasantly surprised.
Didn't hate it. I like that movie. Will I watch
it again and again?

Speaker 2 (47:09):
Probably nice?

Speaker 4 (47:10):
How was Jenna taking it?

Speaker 2 (47:12):
Don't answer that? Tell them to go listen to the episode.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
Yeah, listen to at Work?

Speaker 2 (47:17):
Yeah, because Nick is a I'm.

Speaker 4 (47:20):
Actually in a new position where I can actually listen
to more podcasts.

Speaker 5 (47:23):
So do that.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
Yeah, listen to Yeah everyone, yep, Yeah, all right, Chris,
is there any movies you want to talk about?

Speaker 4 (47:32):
I do want to say something about a movie theater?

Speaker 2 (47:35):
Yeah, I could do that.

Speaker 4 (47:37):
I have you guys ever done forty X?

Speaker 2 (47:41):
Is that the one where the seats vibrating? I have
not it?

Speaker 4 (47:45):
Let me tell you, tell.

Speaker 3 (47:46):
Me about it. When I saw you last time?

Speaker 4 (47:49):
It is not worth it?

Speaker 2 (47:50):
How much? Is It's like thirty bucks? Right?

Speaker 4 (47:52):
So she's my wife's obsessed with Harry Potter, so of
course I'm going to take her to the forty X.
We had never done it. And you know how like
when Imax or like when you're watching the laser screen
or something. They'll do like a little especially Imax. They'll
show you like a preview of the technology of how
Imax really looks and stuff. So they did this for

(48:13):
the chairs, and we had beers in our hands, right,
and these chairs start going up and down and up
and down and up and down, and we lost like
half of our beers. So not worth it.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
Not worth it because but that was the forty experience
you were getting four D.

Speaker 4 (48:28):
They it's more like forty that you spend on alcohol
and you spill it forty dollars on the ground for
d oh.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
I see, yeah, yeah, forty.

Speaker 4 (48:35):
Yeah. The only cool thing is in the rain scene
scenes they have like water dripping.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
I thought that was pretty cool, Like water actually drips
on you.

Speaker 4 (48:42):
The water, it's like it's raining, it's squirting from behind you.

Speaker 3 (48:46):
Does it feel like a theme park ride?

Speaker 4 (48:49):
No?

Speaker 2 (48:51):
Is it like honey Shunk the audience?

Speaker 4 (48:53):
Yeah? Yeah, like that, but just a little more extreme.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
Yeah, more extreme.

Speaker 4 (48:57):
Yeah, it's like moving like cy you know. I'm so
glad there wasn't like, was this one quidditch? I don't
think there's quiddage in this one because I was getting dizzy.
I get dizzy.

Speaker 2 (49:07):
Wait, which one did you watch? There is there's no,
there's no.

Speaker 4 (49:11):
There's there's a lot of like the dragons and yeah,
but they that was more like vibrating and moving. But
the preview, I was like, oh my god.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
Here's my nerd coming in. They canceled the Quiddit season
for the Try Wizard.

Speaker 4 (49:29):
Anyways, Yeah, cool, they recommend it.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
All right, Well, we're gonna take a break and when
we get back, we're gonna finish our lists. All right,
we're back here. I'm ready to retro. So I want
to talk about this next movie. I don't know why
I like I do you know why I liked it.
I'm surprised that when people were talking about their like
ten favorite movies, even horror movies, this one wasn't mentioned

(49:52):
as high as as me. I really enjoyed Late Night
with the Devil. I really liked it, Like it came
out really early. I wonder if the whole AI controversy
kind of changed the perspective of this film. But I
freaking enjoyed a lot. I watched it by myself, and yeah,
like after work sometimes I get off at like one

(50:14):
two o'clock, the perfect time to just catch a film.
That's what I did, and I enjoyed it. I love
the kind of world building it did. It was something
that was unique but kind of familiar. It is a
Possession movie, but done in a different way. I don't know.
I really enjoyed it, Chelsea. I know you saw it.

(50:36):
What do you think of late I watched?

Speaker 3 (50:39):
Did you see it in theater or did you watch it?

Speaker 2 (50:40):
I saw it in theater, Okay, I saw.

Speaker 3 (50:42):
I watched it on shutter and I really liked it.
I mean, it's it's a you can tell. It's like
a smaller independent film for sure. But I like what's
his name, can never say his name? Dave mess David
Maskovskian Mouse. Yeah, he's cool though. I like him. He
has like does comic.

Speaker 2 (51:03):
Books and stuff, but he's super cool.

Speaker 4 (51:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
I thought that it was really good. I loved like
the nineteen I think like nineteen seventies.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
Five, I don't know, seventy seven.

Speaker 3 (51:14):
Yeah, the whole setup of the story was very cool.
I dug it. I dug it. I watched it again.
I liked it a lot.

Speaker 4 (51:20):
I cannot do possession movies. That's one thing that scares me.

Speaker 3 (51:23):
It's that really you can watch this. It's very like
I don't think it's that intense.

Speaker 4 (51:29):
Okay, if I am scared shitless, I'm gonna call you
and okay, fine me pissed because I will cry. It's fine,
I will I will be crying.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
You're not even gonna call me. I'm telling you right now,
you can handle it.

Speaker 2 (51:42):
So that was number six, ChEls, you want to go
you want to defer.

Speaker 3 (51:48):
Because I'll claim that is I'll put that one on
my list.

Speaker 4 (51:51):
Yeah, and I'll defer too. I'll let you do this one.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
I'll do my next all right, I'll go to the
next one. And Cheles, I know a couple of months
ago you haven't seen this. And if you haven't seen this,
I'm gonna be not pissed. I'm just gonna be like,
what are you doing with your life? Number five for
me is the substance.

Speaker 3 (52:09):
I see it.

Speaker 2 (52:10):
I saw it, Okay, so it's number five. Why did
you enjoy it?

Speaker 3 (52:16):
Why did I enjoy it? Oh? Man? It's shot very cool,
very French. I mean the lady director was French. I
don't know it was. I don't know. I feel like
you have more to say about it, but I did
really like it A lot.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
You liked it? You she isn't know why. I like,
I'll take it. I'll take first and foremost. This is
like right there in those eighties body horror like this
is like Castle Freak.

Speaker 4 (52:42):
Kind of a horror movie.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
Okay, yes, the Substance is a horror movie. So it's
Castle Freak. It's not the stuff it is, no, but
good good pool. Yeah, the substance and the stuff. Hey,
I'm actually proud of you. You that's great.

Speaker 4 (52:58):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
Anyways, sorry anyway, so yes, the Substance. I mean, if
you're listen, is it came out, you should probably know.
But Demi Moore she takes like this serum and she
switches consciousness with a another form of herself. It's a
younger self. So fantastic movie. Like and the thing about

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all of the nominated movies that came out this year,
the theme was like the hero or the main protagonists,
whether they were bad or whatever, they were trying to
overcome disempowering men. So it was about these aggressive, like
just assholes, and you know, so that's that's the whole

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thing about the Substance is the the pressures that women
feel as they get older, and Hollywood just kind of
spits them out, so fantastic. It was so gross. Did
you like the end, like when it became just like
a straight up comedy. I heard it kind of lost
people there.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
Yeah, like when she's on the stage with like the mask,
the mask on and.

Speaker 2 (54:11):
Stuff that, and when she like kind of like her
face kind of like a snail just slides across the
Hollywood Walk of Fame at that. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (54:22):
Yeah, well but it's funny because like in the beginning
of the movie, like stuff like lands on her star.
Oh yeah, it kind of brings it back. So yeah, that's.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
It's like puss and nasty stuff and like it's body horror.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
Skin and blood and hair like just everything.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
I will say, I saw it in a theater and
people were having a good time. It was a riot.
People were cracking up, laughing, clapping. It was that's those
are the kind of movies, funny, Those are kind of
movies you got to see in a theater. And this
is why I like try to see movies in theaters
when you can't, because you just don't have that experience

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seeing it on your little That's.

Speaker 4 (55:06):
What I'm doing this year. That's what I'm doing this year.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
Hell yeah, all right, Chelse, next movie I'm gonna go with.

Speaker 3 (55:14):
I liked Long.

Speaker 2 (55:17):
Legs, did you?

Speaker 3 (55:19):
I liked it?

Speaker 2 (55:19):
Let's talk again.

Speaker 3 (55:21):
I had some weird elements to it. I don't think
that everybody appreciated, and honestly, it kind of threw me
at the end a little bit. I was not expecting
the way it was going.

Speaker 2 (55:30):
But in what way.

Speaker 3 (55:33):
I thought it was interesting. I liked the way it looked.
There was a lot of odd acting in it.

Speaker 2 (55:42):
I thought, let me expected, I have no idea what
you're talking about.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
For me, Okay, it's a weird, weird movie.

Speaker 2 (55:57):
It lost me at that point. I was he looked
like missus doubt fire.

Speaker 4 (56:00):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (56:00):
He looked like straight up missus doubt fire. Like I
just it.

Speaker 3 (56:04):
Was really strange.

Speaker 4 (56:05):
But how could that lose? This Fire is the best?

Speaker 2 (56:08):
Yeah, I watch it. I enjoyed it, but it was
was totally overhyped.

Speaker 3 (56:13):
Long Legs.

Speaker 4 (56:15):
Oh is this one with the cage?

Speaker 3 (56:16):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's It was a little overhyped.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
Definitely, definitely. I saw it like second week and it
was like, Oh, it's one of the scariest movies ever.

Speaker 3 (56:24):
Oh, they were really doing it, Like, oh, it's gonna
be so scary and it so.

Speaker 4 (56:27):
It wasn't that scary because I.

Speaker 3 (56:31):
It's kind of it has unfortunately, it has a lot
of goofy kind of I mean, Nicholas Cage, he looks
is kind of funny, like he looks kind of weird,
kind of like I saw people like taking pictures in
the movie, Like there was kids like taking pictures of
the screen because it really funny. Yeah, oh yeah, and
so yeah, and there was kids like laughing in the theater.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
I don't know experience watching it. I know it was
it was.

Speaker 3 (56:58):
Okay, but yeah, I don't know. I liked it. I
bought like a I think I have like a Fangoria
magazine with like an article in it.

Speaker 4 (57:07):
Was scary at all because all I saw about that
I was never scary. Chelsea, you can handle that horror stuff.
I'm a baby. Some stuff scares me. I need to
watch it.

Speaker 3 (57:21):
I liked it. It was weird.

Speaker 4 (57:22):
Though.

Speaker 3 (57:22):
There's a lot of horror movies last year that were
very strange that I don't think most people would really like.
That would be definitely one of them, but I kind
of I don't know, just because they're kind of weird
and kind of them.

Speaker 4 (57:40):
The cage.

Speaker 2 (57:41):
Yeah, okay, it's funny. Like I laughed out loud, and
if I'm laughing out loud, it's a lot of people
laughed out loud. I was like, watch it because it
it comes out of nowhere. I was like, I was
into it, and then I was gone, all right. So
number ten, Thelma, number nine, Dune number eight, Astra number seven,

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Nickel Boys number six, Late Night with the Devil, number five,
The Substance number four. Here's when that came out of
No wordy, guys. I didn't watch it in the theaters.
Idn't even I haven't even know about this because I
was just trying to watch as many twenty twenty four
movies as possible and I found this movie called The Snackshack.
Have you seen the Snackshack? Have you even heard of

(58:24):
the section?

Speaker 3 (58:24):
I've seen the poster of it, because I think you
brought it to our attention.

Speaker 4 (58:29):
Yeah, I think you did, dude.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
It is so good. I've only seen I believe it's
on Prime. That's where I watched it.

Speaker 4 (58:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (58:37):
There is only two movies I saw twice this year.
This is the first one. My favorite movie is the
other one. Uh, snackshack. Just okay, when you talk about
a Max movie, it's gonna be about like there's gonna
be kids in it, or it's gonna be about coming
of age. It's gonna be fun. It's gonna be like

(58:58):
some kind of romance, you know, some kind of like oh,
like I just I don't know. It is like style.
I love just that yeah, that time of life. Man,
not that I peaked or anything, but it was just
like that, that's fun. So it's set in Nebraska City,
nineteen ninety one, and it's about these two kids. I

(59:19):
think they're like sophomores and they take over the neighborhood
snackshack and they're making money. They're like, it's just fun.
It's just a fun movie. It's about like I don't know,
I'm not gonna say it's like super Bad, but it's
kind of that vibe where it's kind of raunchy, kind
of fun, heartfelt. I freaking loved this movie. I showed

(59:40):
it to Jazz and I was just like, we got
to watch this movie. And I'll say that Gabriel LaBelle,
that guy is going places. He was in this and
he was in the Saturday Night Saturday night when he
played Lord Michael's Like.

Speaker 3 (59:55):
I did finally watch that and that was from last year.

Speaker 2 (59:58):
Yeah, so this no hit and because those are the
two movies he did, and he knocked it out of
the park and I really liked. I just liked this movie.
I Nick Robinson's in it, and he was kind of
like that teen heart throb. Then he played like this
kind of former military older guy, kind of the mentor role.

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It's this man.

Speaker 4 (01:00:25):
Problem.

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
Yes, dude, yes see Snackshack. Like I keep telling people
when I watched it. And at my work there's a
lot of cinephiles there, so we're like every time we
see each other, we're like, what did you see? What
did you see?

Speaker 4 (01:00:37):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
And I'm like, have you guys heard of Snackshock? Everyone's
like what Snackshack? And I'm like these cinephiles like I
there's one guy who I work with, he like went
to film school, Like he just he eats up movies.
He didn't he didn't hear about Snackshock. Just to go
to show you how overlooked this movie is. But man,

(01:00:59):
it was like it was in theaters for like a
week or two. It's a very small, very small release,
very limited. Uh watch it, yes, Connor Sherry too. He
plays the main character AJ fantastic movie. Go see Snackshock.
All right, Chris, anything to say, what's your favorite food

(01:01:21):
out of snackshack?

Speaker 4 (01:01:22):
My favorite food out of a snackshock? It really depends,
Like I love my scene.

Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
You're just supposed to come with a short answer. I'm
just trying to invite from.

Speaker 4 (01:01:30):
A snackshack, probably a hot dog?

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
Hot dog? Do you have on your hot dog?

Speaker 3 (01:01:35):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:01:36):
I ketch up? A little bit of ketchup? Not too much,
Gotta have a little bit of sweet mustard and onion.

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
No, no relish, no relish, Okay, I respect like a
little bit of like mayonnaise on your hot dogs sometimes.
I love that.

Speaker 3 (01:01:50):
I've never done that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:52):
You've never done mayonnaise on your mom?

Speaker 4 (01:01:54):
Bro?

Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
Is that just like a Mexican thing?

Speaker 4 (01:01:56):
I think so?

Speaker 3 (01:01:57):
Maybe?

Speaker 4 (01:01:58):
Oh my dad loves it too.

Speaker 2 (01:01:59):
I mean your dad's Mexican? Is he's not Mexican.

Speaker 4 (01:02:02):
But there's some sort of that long story anyways. Literally,
like Lupita cooks her her buns in the mayo, Okay,
like they grill it with the mayo.

Speaker 3 (01:02:15):
That's probably good.

Speaker 4 (01:02:17):
It is if it's fatty. It's good, Chelse.

Speaker 2 (01:02:21):
Another movie you want to talk about, I only have
three more to talk about.

Speaker 4 (01:02:26):
I'm already through my list, so don't worry. Go ahead
and take.

Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
What I did say. Abigail abil is fun.

Speaker 3 (01:02:33):
It's just like comedy horror film that a little vampire
girl ballerina. And uh, it's by the same people who
did the film Ready or Not, which they're getting a
sequel to Ready or Not. I'm excited about that. And
because the whole time I was watching, I was like, Oh,
this reminds me Ready or Not. It's the same same
director or same I think it's two directors. Anyway, my

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Melissa Fun movie, Oh yeah, she's cool the net. The
reason why I think I watched it is because my
biggest celebrity crush is in the film, Dan Stevens.

Speaker 4 (01:03:12):
I love Dan Stevens.

Speaker 2 (01:03:16):
Dan Stevens, this guy, he's a beauty and the beast. Yeah,
he's in Downton.

Speaker 3 (01:03:26):
I love.

Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
I thought you were going to say before you said
Dan Stevens, I thought you were going to say Kevin Durant,
that Durrant dur No.

Speaker 3 (01:03:38):
But I feel like that would be somebody I would.

Speaker 2 (01:03:40):
Also like because he plays he plays the blobs.

Speaker 3 (01:03:49):
Oh yeah, but yeah, Abigail is really fun.

Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
Just I really wish they didn't show the vampire. I
wish they would have kept that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:56):
Under like that a secret. But I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
But how I have seen it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
How how would they have done the trailer to get
people to go in without showing, well.

Speaker 2 (01:04:04):
They got to do good. It would have been a
better It would have been a better payoff because then
I already know it's a vampire movie. Oh that twist
was crazy, like if I was the whole time I
was watching, I was like, I wish I didn't know. Yeah,
and it was like.

Speaker 4 (01:04:16):
A big reveal, but they already revealed it the trailer.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
Yeah, I guess the reveal at the end who she's
related to, because that's.

Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
True that they didn't Yeah, they didn't tell me about that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:27):
But Melissa the Queen, the Queen of horror, Barissa, Melissa Barrera. Yeah,
she's in one of my favorite movies in the Heights,
one of my favorite movies of like the last decade. Okay,
so that's a good one. All right, I'm on number three.
I think this was the movie that I was thinking
that you haven't seen yet and I was appalled. Okay,

(01:04:49):
have you seen it Nora yet?

Speaker 4 (01:04:52):
Bro?

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
No, haven't seen the Best Picture of twenty twenty four.

Speaker 3 (01:04:56):
I know, and it's I feel like I would really
like it, but I just I haven't seen it yet.

Speaker 2 (01:05:01):
Okay, Well, I guess I need to talk about Anora.
So Anora was a Cinderella Story in the Academy Awards
because it won, which is crazy. It's not a Cinderella's
story as a movie nowhere near. But Mikey Madison, this
is this is her coming out party because I think

(01:05:23):
she's gonna be in a lot of movies.

Speaker 4 (01:05:25):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:05:26):
Directed written by Sean Baker. Again. I know his name
because he's Fantastic Florida Project, Florida Project. Yes, and I
believe he's American. So that's good because all this tariff
nonsense stuff, we're gonna need American directors, you know. So
Anora fantastic.

Speaker 4 (01:05:47):
I mean it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:49):
I when it came out, I didn't think it was
going to be nominated. I just heard it was like, oh,
this movie's really good. It's it's it's awesome, it's funny.
I didn't know how funny it was gonna be. Actually,
but I like I took jazz when I said, this
movie's coming out of theaters, we need to watch it
this weekend. So like she didn't really want to watch it.
She's like, we have so much stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:06:09):
An amc. Are you actually paid to go see it?

Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
Because you know what, No, I watched it, Regal, I
watched it. Yeah, I have a list, and they weren't
playing it a list anywhere. So yeah, I actually paid
to see this movie extra money. That's how bad I
wanted to see it. So I think it is gonna
be one of those movies that people will go back to.
The little Russian kid is hilarious in it. I'm not

(01:06:33):
even gonna try to pronounce his last name, but he
plays Ivan in the movie. Just a good movie. It's
it's weirdly a really uh different woman empowerment movie. But
I'm down. You know, sex workers for the win.

Speaker 4 (01:06:49):
Yeah, I saw a young stripper and I was like.

Speaker 2 (01:06:52):
Okay, yeah, she's a sex worker and she does her thing.

Speaker 4 (01:06:55):
You know, is it like pretty woman?

Speaker 2 (01:06:58):
No? But okay, okay, watched it, Chelsea, Seriously, I.

Speaker 3 (01:07:05):
Know I need I haven't the screener. I saw that
screener you're doing do it now?

Speaker 4 (01:07:10):
And I'm a little offended. You're telling her to watch
these things but not me.

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
I don't anticipate you watching.

Speaker 4 (01:07:16):
Will the list?

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
Here's the list. Listen to this episode again and you'll
have the list. All right, that's the longest episode.

Speaker 3 (01:07:24):
The last couple of movie. Now we're getting to like
ones that I liked, but they weren't They weren't that good.
And let's talk about Maxine.

Speaker 4 (01:07:35):
Ude.

Speaker 2 (01:07:35):
What a disappointment.

Speaker 4 (01:07:36):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (01:07:37):
It was a little bit of Maxine. It's the third
movie after the first one was X. Then you have
Pearl Pearls. So this is the third of the of
the franchise. I guess I've never seen Pearl, have only
seen you.

Speaker 2 (01:07:52):
Haven't seen Pearl.

Speaker 3 (01:07:54):
That's the best one, Pearl.

Speaker 4 (01:07:57):
One.

Speaker 3 (01:07:57):
But I like the movie only really because I like
Mia Goth. I like that it's nineteen eighties, you know,
La Hollywood. They filmed so much of this movie on
the Universal back loot, like so much.

Speaker 2 (01:08:11):
I did like it for ad on the tour.

Speaker 3 (01:08:15):
No, I didn't do that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:16):
You didn't do the tour.

Speaker 3 (01:08:17):
I wanted to.

Speaker 2 (01:08:19):
Oh that was somebody else I knew.

Speaker 3 (01:08:21):
I went to Universe. I went to Universal Studios like
around when the movie came out though, I think, but
I didn't do like the specific Naxing tour. But I
liked it. I just like the vibes of it. Like
I said, the ending was kind of eight yeah and uh,
and they they really played up that like the night
Stalker was going to be a part of the movie,
like like the real one during during that time, and

(01:08:45):
that kind of like didn't really play out very well
in the movie.

Speaker 2 (01:08:50):
This was another like religious cult thing.

Speaker 4 (01:08:53):
Was it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
Yeah, kind of like heretic but not not done as
a way.

Speaker 3 (01:08:58):
Yeah, because she was like part of when she grew
up like in a really like strict religious kind of cult.
I guess that you come to find out anyway, But yeah,
I don't know. I like the vibes of the film.
I liked parts of it. Wasn't super strong. A lot
of people are super disappointed because people love people love

(01:09:20):
X and Pearl, they love those, So I think a
lot of people were really left down on this one.
But I like it. I own it. I own it
on DVD. For I got Beetlejuice, Bele Juice and that one.
I did like those all right, go.

Speaker 2 (01:09:35):
Buy a snack check.

Speaker 4 (01:09:39):
You know they're still doing physical media. It is.

Speaker 3 (01:09:42):
Keep buying physical media as much as you can because
the streaming, because it and change things and they take
things off off.

Speaker 4 (01:09:50):
Yeah, they take things off and it's like you can't
watch it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:53):
Yep, it's not reliable for me.

Speaker 2 (01:09:55):
I actually watched all three of these movies in no
yeah five, I think I did. I did I see
I think I saw X last year, and then I
did watch Pearl this year, and then I watched Maxine.
Pearl's amazing, Pearl's great vac scene. I don't know. It
was too it was too different, like it almost should

(01:10:17):
have been its own.

Speaker 3 (01:10:19):
But Pearl and X were very different, like X X
was like you know, but.

Speaker 2 (01:10:23):
It was the same character. Like Maxine is not even anything.
There's no relation to anything. I mean it is and
it's not. I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:10:33):
You know, I've heard of a lot of movies. I've
never heard of these.

Speaker 2 (01:10:37):
Put it on the list, dude, you got to send
it to me. Put it on the list.

Speaker 3 (01:10:42):
It's not I don't think it's scary.

Speaker 2 (01:10:43):
I feel like you, it's not scary.

Speaker 3 (01:10:44):
It's like a definitely handle Maxine, like any that's not
a scary movie. No, it's not really a horror movie.

Speaker 2 (01:10:50):
No, it's not, and I think that's what the problem is.
Number two. For a long time, this was my favorite
movie of the year, and I wish I got more
recognition when it came to Oscar season. Sing Sing Oh
so good, so good. So, if you're not familiar with

(01:11:14):
Sing Sing, it is Coleman Domingo and he is acting
what's straight up felons and people who are incarcerated. Yes,
so he plays this character who it's based off of
a true story and basically it is a drama production, drama,

(01:11:36):
not a club, but program that helps incarcerated men, specifically
most of them that have life sentences, to be artistic,
to be creative. And Coleman Domingo's in it and he's
actually working with acting alongside these real life people who

(01:12:02):
were in this program. And Sing Sing is the name
of the prison. I believe it's in New York. But
when I saw that Coleman Domingo didn't win, I was
outraged because I really thought he I watched them all
Adrian Brody and he talked for six minutes.

Speaker 3 (01:12:20):
And the music up.

Speaker 2 (01:12:22):
Yeah, he come on like Colemen Dimingo, Like, honestly, you
the Brutalist. Okay I I personally was like, okay, I
wasn't a huge fan of the Brutalist, but like, Sing
Sing was so moving. It's based off of a true story,
not that the Brutalist is, and it also is, but again,

(01:12:43):
movie experience. I'm in the theater and it's small. It was,
it was, it was small. At this point, there's like
fifteen people in the theater and in our row, Jasmine
and I there's like a family and they're like clapping
the credits because I was like sitting there through the
credits because it's a lot to digest, and they're clapping

(01:13:05):
and we're like, oh, you know, are you in the movie.
She's like, I'm actually one of the instructors that was
in Sing Sing, and they actually have video of the
real productions that they did, and she would go in
there with the inmates and act alongside them and stuff
and help them with their crafts. So that was just
really cool to see, Hey, we just saw this movie

(01:13:26):
and here's you know, it's not the talking about forty experience.
That is a forty experience.

Speaker 4 (01:13:32):
Yah.

Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
Yeah you know. So she's like, yeah, that's actually me,
and she's like pointing in there's you know, they have
actual footage. So but to go back to the movie,
like it just there's certain movies that like hit you emotionally.
I don't care like how mass you are with your
emotions or anything. Like watching this, it would be very

(01:13:53):
hard to not be moved emotionally in this movie. And
that's not like why I liked it. But it's because
of the characters. It's because of the performances. It's because
of people who the movie is about. You know, these
guys who have nothing to live for, quote unquote, but
they're being so creative and they're working together to put
on this production like it's it's actually quite beautiful. Definitely

(01:14:17):
recommend scene sing sing all right, Chelse. Last movie.

Speaker 3 (01:14:23):
You didn't like this movie? I only watched it because
Dan Stevens is so hot. Movie it's cuckoo. I it's
a weird again yet again, another really strange horror movie.
Dan Stephen wears glasses.

Speaker 2 (01:14:43):
In this one.

Speaker 3 (01:14:45):
So hot. I freaking, he's so cute. I like, I
looked over at my friend a couple of times. I'm like,
I'm so distracted. He's so good looking. During this film,
it's and that's like the main reason why watch it
Because he's.

Speaker 2 (01:15:00):
Just so so see Cuckoo because Dan Stevens hot.

Speaker 3 (01:15:05):
Oh yeah, I mean he's Dan Stevens does speak German
in real life, so he's the right person for the role.

Speaker 4 (01:15:12):
I guess he was.

Speaker 2 (01:15:15):
Where was he born in? He's he's Jewish, he's English,
but he speaks German.

Speaker 3 (01:15:21):
But yeah, because he was in this one German film
called I'm Your Man or whatever, romantic comedy or whatever,
very good. Yeah, and he speaks it's a German film.

Speaker 2 (01:15:32):
So and the guy from a lot of the Rings
and no, it's uh, Dan Stevens, but cuckoo. Yeah, with.

Speaker 3 (01:15:44):
The villain. The villain is like a woman in a
wig with glasses.

Speaker 2 (01:15:49):
It's weird. It's really I said that. I think it was.
It was. It would have been a good like you
know what I didn't. It's that I didn't like it.
I appreciate it because it's not a it's not trying
to do a bunch of things. Right, it's supposed to
be weird. It probably could have been a black mirror episode, right, yeah, okay,

(01:16:11):
but I liked that it wasn't a black mirror episode
that they actually like. It was almost like a half
baked idea and they're like, hey, let's just make it.
And you know what, I thought, like, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:16:22):
I thought that Late Night with the Devil felt like
a Tales from the Crypt episode a little bit. Would
you would you agree?

Speaker 2 (01:16:31):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah? I saw Cuckoo. It was a It
was Cuckoo.

Speaker 4 (01:16:37):
Distracting, very strange.

Speaker 3 (01:16:40):
But Dan Stevens and those glasses.

Speaker 4 (01:16:44):
You found him distracting too.

Speaker 2 (01:16:45):
Absolutely. All right, you guys want to hear my favorite
movie of Please any guesses.

Speaker 4 (01:16:51):
I already know what it is. I already saw your list.

Speaker 2 (01:16:55):
Sorry, he's looking over my shoulder.

Speaker 3 (01:16:57):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (01:16:58):
Guess? Can you guess what we haven't? Haven't I mentioned yet?

Speaker 3 (01:17:04):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:17:06):
It's d D?

Speaker 3 (01:17:09):
What was DD?

Speaker 2 (01:17:10):
You don't even know what is is?

Speaker 3 (01:17:12):
Why does that sound familiar?

Speaker 2 (01:17:14):
It's the movie that came out. Was it like April
or something?

Speaker 4 (01:17:18):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:17:19):
And it was like me, nobody really it's that's that's
the beauty of it. It's about this uh Taiwanese American kid.
It's set here's the thing, guys, It's set in two
thousand and eight. It is similar to Snackshack, but that
was set in nineteen ninety one. This is two thousand

(01:17:39):
and eight.

Speaker 4 (01:17:39):
Why specifically two thousand and.

Speaker 2 (01:17:41):
Eight because the writer and director Sean Waang, he was
the age. It's kind of like a not a biopic,
but it's very inspired by his life. So it's up
in like the Bay Area, not San Francisco, like more Inland.
I'm blanket on the name.

Speaker 3 (01:18:00):
How old is he in two thousand and eight?

Speaker 2 (01:18:02):
He's fourteen, so he's about to be a freshman. Yeah,
so there's His name is Chris Wang. They call him Dede.
I believe it's brother in Taiwanese. Don't quote me on that,
but dude, this movie. I watched it twice. I watched
it in theater and I watched it with Jazmine And

(01:18:23):
it's funny. The two movies I saw twice and with
jazzmin their Max movies. But what's so great about this
is like I spent a lot of time on nostalgia stuff, podcasts, Instagram,
watching movies. There were things in this movie that I
straight up forgot about because of just the time and place.

(01:18:45):
It was like beautiful. There's a lot of aim on
there and he's oh, yes, yes, he's talking with girls
on online chat rooms. Yes, yeah, not chat rooms he's
talking to like you know, but just like the nostalgia
about it, Like there's a there's a scene where he's
starting to talk with Smarter Child, which I totally for aid, yes,

(01:19:11):
you know what I mean, Like I was like, oh.

Speaker 4 (01:19:13):
My god, I forgot about Smarter Child.

Speaker 2 (01:19:15):
I forgot about that bot. And just like the sound
effects when like the door would slam.

Speaker 3 (01:19:22):
Yeah, I loved And this is sort of like the
girl version. But I loved that show Penn fifteen on Hulu.

Speaker 4 (01:19:29):
Oh yeah, yeah, I watched that hilarious so much.

Speaker 3 (01:19:35):
I watched the whole thing because it's girls.

Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
It's yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:19:38):
There they were a little bit older than what I
would have been at that age, Like they're like maybe
like two or three years older, but man, it's the
same thing. They there was an episode where they're on
aim chatting with the you know, a guy from school
and stuff. Coming of age.

Speaker 2 (01:19:55):
I love that show. But yeah, so what I love
about this it's it's a coming int of age story. Yes,
it's about an immigrants family, but it's not an immigrant story,
like you could relate to it regardless of whether your
family immigrated here recently or not. You know, there are
elements to that, but at its core it's about growing up.

(01:20:19):
The main character, Chris, he's fourteen, and he does some
stupid stuff, right, like dumb and there's things that you're
watching you're like, don't do that, like, do not do that,
But of course he does that because he's fourteen, and
it's not like really dumb stuff and over the top stuff.
It's just like insecure stuff or things that you know,

(01:20:41):
as a fourteen year old you would do. Like another
example is he's talking to a girl and his first
inclination is to be vulnerable and to be open to her.
Something happened and he types it out and he erases
it and then it's just like a one word answer,

(01:21:02):
you know. So it's like things like that where it's like, oh, bud,
like you know, but it's so good. I love this
interview that Sean Wing, the director, did on a podcast
it's called the The Big Picture, which is on the
Ringer Network. But he was talking about how he had

(01:21:23):
a lot of friends and family members and he went
through like his MySpace or Facebook and they would take
pictures of they would they would look at pictures from
two thousand and seven, two thousand and eight, and they
replicated those shirts. So there were like T shirts war
and the wardrobe department like reprinted them and they were like,

(01:21:45):
I thought of you, Chris, there's like that one shirt.
Remember every dude Like I didn't wear it, but a
lot of guys did. What the you might have what
the women's the girls' bathroom logo? It was just on
there and it's like company, wasn't it. Maybe I don't
remember his skateboard, so like the kid were was that.
It's just like very of that time.

Speaker 1 (01:22:07):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:22:07):
I was eighteen at that time. I was just graduating
high school. So they just depicted it really well. So yeah,
go give d.

Speaker 4 (01:22:16):
D some love watching twenty was twenty one. But I
can still relate to a lot of that stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:22:21):
Yeah, totally, totally, yeah, because I was like that was
like our era, you know. But so my list number ten, Thelma,
number nine, Dune, number eight, Nastra to number seven, Nickelback Boys.

Speaker 4 (01:22:33):
Nickels Back, Nicole I was had a button for Nickelback.

Speaker 2 (01:22:39):
Six, the Devil, number five, the Substance, number four, Snackshack
number three or number two sings at number one is
d D. I can't believe he say Nickelback Boys. Yeah.
I usually have a documentary on my top ten of
the year, not either didn't justify it, guys, but ones

(01:23:02):
that I really liked this year was The Jim Henson Idea. Man.
I just watched that solid Will and Harper, which is
another great movie with Wolf Ferrell and Harper who used
to be the head writer of SNL and it's talking
about just Harper's coming out as trans great movie, really like,

(01:23:23):
really good. I recently saw doc of Chucky, which is
a full documentary five and a half hours about Chuck five,
not Chuckie Finster. Yeah, like five hours. They go in depth.

Speaker 4 (01:23:36):
So in your number one movie here on this list
is not D. D. Pickles, I assume.

Speaker 2 (01:23:40):
No, no, no no. So that's a really good one.
The worst movie I saw? What was the worst movie
you saw this year? Chelse?

Speaker 3 (01:23:48):
Oh? Trap?

Speaker 4 (01:23:49):
Trap? I was going to say that, Actually, really you
saw I saw Trap?

Speaker 2 (01:23:52):
Didn't you say that? Okay?

Speaker 4 (01:23:53):
Sorry? I rated Trap one star.

Speaker 2 (01:23:56):
I love the first forty five minutes. Once it got
out out of the stadium, it lost me.

Speaker 4 (01:24:02):
It was fucking awful, really bad. I told I was like,
let's watch this. I hear it's good. I think I
just assumed it was good.

Speaker 2 (01:24:12):
I probably I saw a movie way.

Speaker 4 (01:24:14):
Where it said, what is this? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:24:17):
I saw a movie way worse than that. Night Swim, Oh,
so bad it was.

Speaker 3 (01:24:24):
I saw the remake of Salem's Lot on HBO, also
really bad.

Speaker 2 (01:24:31):
There's no way it's as bad as Night Swim. Night
Swim was awful. It was so bad that the only
reason why I kept watching it is because I couldn't
believe how bad it was. I was like, it's got
to get better, It's got it never got.

Speaker 4 (01:24:43):
That's how I felt about Trapp. I kept watching.

Speaker 2 (01:24:45):
There's there's some interesting things about Trap. I saw both
movies Like Trapp, there's some good cinematography. Josh Hartnett is
good to look at.

Speaker 3 (01:24:52):
Josh really hot, he takes his shirt off exactly nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:24:57):
Next one was garbage, horrible, horrible, Yeah, no, horrible. Biggest
surprise the bad aspect Brats. I was not expecting Brats.
That's the documentary, the Brat Pack. It was bad. It

(01:25:20):
was not a good like you know, Judd Nelson wasn't
in it, Wally Ringoll wasn't in it, and basically it
was just like Andrew McCarthy interviewing his friends and like, hey,
I had a really tough time adjusting to like being famous.
You guys too, huh not really not as bad as

(01:25:42):
you did? Oh okay? Like that was the movie right?
It was like, why are we? Why are we doing this?
I wanted it to be good And then biggest surprise
was Furiosa bombing. And I'll be honest, I didn't see
it in theaters, so I'm part of the part it
one time, but I don't know. It was good.

Speaker 4 (01:26:03):
It was good.

Speaker 2 (01:26:04):
I regret not seeing it in theaters. So yeah, twenty
twenty four, guys, Any anything else? Any other movies? No, okay,
I saw. I saw sixty five movies in twenty twenty four,
So last last one. I want to want just okay too.
I want to mention two real quick. Adam Sandler love
you Fun Watch Okay. I gotta give a shout out

(01:26:25):
to the Samement. The other one probably one of the
craziest movie experiences. On my birthday, went out to West Hollywood, Sorry,
went out to West LA and I saw a screening
of Sasquatch Sunsets.

Speaker 3 (01:26:45):
Sasquatch that was really weird.

Speaker 2 (01:26:49):
I dragged Jasmine to see that. And the only reason
why she agreed to see it because it was my birthday.
I was like, we're going to see this, Oh my god.
So what was wild was the director was there and
the person who led this Q and A was Kristen Stewart.
Oh really yeah, And I didn't even know she was

(01:27:09):
gonna be there. And I'm like ten minutes into it
and I'm like taking a picture and I look at
the picture, I'm like, is that Kristen Stewart? And I
guess that was like part of it.

Speaker 4 (01:27:22):
I just see in the movie.

Speaker 2 (01:27:24):
No, she's on the movie, but she like loved this.
But see Sascott's Sunset. Maybe not completely sober, maybe not
completely you know, coherent, you know, maybe a little okay,
maybe a little you know, puffpuff, maybe a little drink drink.
You might enjoy it a little bit more. See it

(01:27:45):
with a bunch of friends. The movie is wild.

Speaker 5 (01:27:47):
I laugh so hard at one part that like the
rest of the theater was a pack theater because the
director was there and like all these weird like film
people were like, Hey, we're gonna see this movie.

Speaker 2 (01:28:00):
It's about it's about Sasquatches, and there's zero dialogue in it.
So there's just like grunting and it's Jesse Eisenberg. Yeah,
there's no dial.

Speaker 4 (01:28:07):
Like the uh, what is it the Wookies.

Speaker 2 (01:28:11):
In yes, exactly, like yeah, yes, but a whole movie
of that and it's Jesse Icesenberg. But there's just one
scene and if you see scene, I laughed so hard.

Speaker 4 (01:28:25):
Was it not like the part where you're supposed to laugh.

Speaker 2 (01:28:27):
No, you were. I laughed way longer because I was like, like,
I think I just couldn't believe this movie. And I
remember got quiet and I had to put my shirt
over my mouth and I was like Snorrity was like
like everybody laughed it ha pause, you know there's those

(01:28:51):
pause and I'm still I'm shaking. I'm laughing so hard.
I was like, because I think I was just like,
what is that movie? What is this movie? I was
more like laughing at the movie than I was at
that scene. But anyways, but yes, Squatch, since it I
can't really recommend it, but as far as an experience,
that was probably top experience. I had to mention it.

(01:29:14):
All right, cool, nice, all right, Well that's a long
episode episode.

Speaker 4 (01:29:20):
Just to clarify, I saw two movies last year. This
year I've already watched.

Speaker 2 (01:29:23):
Wait, you didn't even add Trapped.

Speaker 4 (01:29:26):
Yeah I did, but I think I added it late
because I remember I watched it, I hated it. I
recently just like added it to my list. But this
year I've already I've already watched twenty three this year.

Speaker 2 (01:29:39):
But they're not all from twenty years five. No, so far,
you've I saw.

Speaker 3 (01:29:45):
This year five films in theaters Companion, Hard Eyes, Sinners, Thunderbolts,
and I watched.

Speaker 4 (01:29:51):
You know what, I did watch a movie last year
that I watched that five as well, Alien Romulus, which
I really enjoyed.

Speaker 3 (01:29:57):
Oh shoot, yeah, I forgot, I've.

Speaker 4 (01:29:59):
Got watch that last year?

Speaker 2 (01:30:01):
Yes, saw that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, we did a review
on that. I've watched for in a theater, but I've
watched other I watched a lot of the Academy Award movies,
like in January, February, March, and then now I'm starting
to watch the twenty five movies.

Speaker 4 (01:30:17):
So did you see Elliot Romolas?

Speaker 2 (01:30:18):
I did.

Speaker 4 (01:30:19):
It was really good, it was okay.

Speaker 2 (01:30:23):
Yeah, it's fine. Again. Chris just showed his hand because
we did a Romulus episode, episode two to one, and
that was with our buddy Corey from podcast after anyways,
all right, we need to end this. So this is
our first episode of twenty twenty five. We don't know
when the next episode is going to come out, but

(01:30:43):
I will say that we're in talks with a brand
a new guest, and a movie that celebrated thirty years
this year. And if I say who it is, you
might know who it is. You sure know this movie.
So a little spoiler. I don't even think I've told

(01:31:03):
christ and Chelsea this yet. So no, yeah, all right,
well Chelse, any last words?

Speaker 3 (01:31:11):
Uh no, just that I hope that the rest of
year kids better and how a man.

Speaker 4 (01:31:26):
I will try to watch more movies this year. Okay,
it was my New Year's resolution. So far I'm doing
okay cool in theater, not so sure, but movies.

Speaker 2 (01:31:35):
Yes, you know what my New Year's resolution was, focus
more on the house.

Speaker 3 (01:31:41):
Well you are focusing on.

Speaker 2 (01:31:44):
You know, I got my wish?

Speaker 4 (01:31:45):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:31:47):
Well that ends our episode. It was a long episode,
but we were that's five months in the making.

Speaker 4 (01:31:54):
We need so have you divided? It's really a short
episode if we're making up for the past how many weeks?

Speaker 2 (01:32:00):
Right, yeah? So like five divided by four you know
that's twenty yeah, you know, or five times for twenty
so it's like, you know, yeah, so definitely all right
check out Ready to Rustro dot com. I've been working
on that for like the last six months or so,

(01:32:20):
even before everything went down. It is like kind of
in beta, but there is ways that you can connect
with us. We are trying to do some stuff still.
I would love to do a discord. I would love
to do so a Patreon later and you know, let's
let's do a discord. Yeah, a discord. We're gonna start.

Speaker 4 (01:32:42):
If you've ever seen what's Severance, that's a show as
what's his name? Colkins says, discord makes my dicord, So.

Speaker 2 (01:32:56):
Oh you need succession succession there you go, okay, so yeah, discord.
So let's do a discord. That'll be. That'll be I'm
going forward, So yes, click on Ready to Retro. Hey,
we have merch on there if you have a here's
the thing, the merch store. It's a bunch of random stuff,

(01:33:18):
but it's nostalgic stuff. It's tough fun that I wish
I saw at other T shirt places and haven't, so
if you'd like it. Yeah, if there's like a shirt
out there, and you're like, hey, I don't I've never
seen a shirt from Meet the Needles. Well, you know what,
we might just do it, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:33:35):
Might be the very first Meet the Needles shirt.

Speaker 2 (01:33:37):
Hell yeah, well this is ready to retro. On behalf
of the Dutchess of Horror, my cousin Chris, i'max, we
will see you when we see you, and as all
is ready to directro you had to but that men

(01:34:00):
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