Movie Mike plays Ding Or Dong with all that went down recently at the D23 event where Disney showcased all of their new movies coming out in the next few years. From Toy Story 5 to Frozen 3, Mike shares what he is excited about (DING!) or what he couldn’t care less about (DONG!). Then, Mike talks to Luke Hemsworth and director Dimitri Logothetis about their new movie Gunner which is currently in select Regal Cinemas Theaters and available on Digital. They talk classic action movies, filmmaking on a modest budget, working with Morgan Freeman and growing up with Chris and Liam Hemsworth. In the Movie Review, Mike talks about Alien: Romulus. He shares how impressed he was with Cailee Spaeny as a lead, the great visuals, score but why he still doesn’t consider Alien to be a horror franchise. In the Trailer Park, Mike talks about Saturday Night, the movie about the creation of "Saturday Night Live”.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike. There is so much going
on on this episode. If you're here for the first time, Ah,
you picked a good one because we are bursting out
the themes. We have so much movie content coming out
of our butts. On this week's episode. Have an interview
coming up with Luke Helmsworth. Yes, he is a brother
of Chris and Liam Hemsworth. He is in a new
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movie called Gunner. We'll talk to him about how he
got into shape for that movie. He shares a really
fun story about how he used to write and direct
scenes with him and his brothers when they were growing up.
We'll also talk to the director Demitri All about making
that movie working with Morgan Freeman. But before that, we'll
talk about everything Disney announced at the d twenty three event.
All the new movies coming to Disney will play Dinger
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Dong movies I'm excited about, in movies I could care
less about when it comes to Disney. In the movie
review Alien Romulus trying to revive the Alien franchise, I'll
let you know how they did with that. And in
the trailer Park, we'll take a look at the Saturday
Night Live movie called Well Saturday Night Again. If you're
here for the first time, you picked a good one.
Welcome back to the movie crew, and now let's talk movies.
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Before we get into our interview with Luke Hemsworth and
the director of Gunner, I want to talk about everything
that went down recently at the d twenty three event.
If you're not familiar with it. Essentially, it's like Comic
Con but for Disney, where they get up on stages
and talk about all the movies they have coming out
in the next year to try to get us hype.
But when getting into everything they announced, there's not a
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whole lot of originality here, and that kind of worries me,
just because I feel like Disney was always pushing the
envelope giving us news stories, and now they are really
really hesitant about what they put out In theaters because
they want to put out billion dollar movies like Inside
Out too, and what just keeps working are their known properties.
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So with all these movies getting announced, it just seems like, Okay,
this is all great. Me in my thirties get to
relive my childhood a little bit. But they have given
us some original movies in the last few years, and
they just haven't been as supported and as successful as
some of these other ones. So what we're gonna do
is ding or dong. If it's a ding, that means
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I'm excited for this movie. If it's a dong, I
am kind of checking myself out, don't really care about it.
I'm probably still gonna see it because it's Disney, but
I will not be happy about it. But let's kick
off the list now with Mufassa The Lion King, which
they showed a new trailer of. This movie is coming
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out later this year on December twentieth. It is both
a prequel and a cell overall, I'm gonna give this
movie a dong. I'm just not that excited for it
as much as I was anticipating the twenty nineteen live
action movie, And really that was only because nineteen ninety
four is Lion King is the best Disney movie of
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all time. It's not my favorite, but pound for pound
is the best Disney movie of all time. And really,
with the twenty nineteen version, they just took that movie
and gave it some updated computer generated graphics. It's not
really live action, which is really what frustrates me the
most about the Lion King reboot. So at D twenty
three they did share a little bit more about the
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story gonna be about Mufasa, who is a orphan lion cub,
and how he befriends a young prince Scar and gets
adopted by his family. So I guess that kind of
answers the question of why they are brothers but nothing alike,
which I don't know if lions are supposed to look alike,
but anyway, it answers that question. Not really high for
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this movie. I don't even think it's going to do
as well as the twenty nineteen movie, which was a
billion dollar movie. It just kind of seems like they're
really scraping the barrel to get more out of the
Lion King franchise. It's kind of like when you have
a tube of toothpaste that you should probably throw away,
but you're still so determined to get another couple brushings
out of that last little thing you squeeze out of
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the tube. That is how I feel about Mufasa the
Lion King. So that one gets a dong. Snow White.
They showed the new trailer with Rachel Zeggler, who is
gonna be the new snow White. Galgado is the evil Queen.
It gave us the first taste of Rachel singing whistle
why You Work, which is a classic song. Crazy that
the original movie came out back in nineteen thirty seven,
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the first ever Disney animated movie, back when they would
hand draw every single frame. This movie is coming out
next year, March twenty twenty five. I'm just slightly more
excited for this one than I am Mufasa the Lion King.
But man, there's just something about even the nineteen thirty
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seven version that is special because it has that warmth,
It has that vibrant feeling of real animation, and this
is gonna make me sound so old. I just find
that to be so much more magical, and I feel
like this remake is going to be really lifeless. It
sounds like the filmmaking process has already been chaotic, almost
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like Rachel Zegler doesn't even want to be in this movie,
So I find that entire aspect interesting, But overall, I'm
still giving this one a dog. They also showed another
trailer for ma Wana two, which is coming out this
year on November twenty seventh. Mowana was kind of a
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sleeper hit for me. When I went to go see
it in theaters, I didn't really care for it that much.
Watched it again when they went to streaming, I was like, Okay,
I kind of get it, and now it is one
of my favorite Disney movies of the twenty tens, and
really the last great movie that the rock and I
think if they can capture that same energy as the
first one, bring us some great new songs, I think
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this one is gonna be a hit for them. I
don't think it's gonna be as successful as what inside
Out two was to Inside Out one, but I think
this one could really rival it, because when you look
at what makes movies really great and a hit among families,
it's that soundtrack. Inside Out two doesn't really have that.
That one just hits you more in the fields. But
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I think if this one has a really good soundtrack
that can get people excited about it. It's gonna do
well this one. I give a ding. They also finally
announced the title to the sequel to Freaky Friday. It
is called Sub Creative Freaky or Friday. Lindsay Loewen Coming Back,
Jamie Lee Curtis Coming Back. The movie is set to
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come out in twenty twenty five. I am all for
the Lindsay Lohan revival. She's put out some pretty good
movies on her comeback. It was such a movie icon
from nineteen ninety eight. The parent Trap really solidified her
career in the mid to early two thousands with movies
like Life Size, Get a Clue, Freaky Friday, Confessions of
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a Teenage Drama, Queen Herbie fully Loaded in two thousand
and five, and then someone say that she fell off
a little bit after there. Her personal life probably got
a little bit chaotic. But now she is back and
I am all for the Freaky Friday sequel. Now, when
it comes to live action sequels from Disney that take
place about twenty years after the original, I do have
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some hesitancy, especially with Freaky Friday, which is a perfect
movie and a reflection of two thousand and three. Whenever
you have such a hit that is a hit because
it is a product of that time, it is hard
to do a sequel too. I'm talking about movies like
hocus Pocus, when that original is a classic. Watch it
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every single Halloween. When they did that sequel, it just
really didn't hit the same because it did all the
exact same things from the first movie, and it just
felt so dated. I worry that that is a similar
issue they are going to have with the Freaky Friday sequel.
I feel if the budget isn't right and they're really
cutting quarters just to crank something out to get people excited,
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like hey, they're back together. I'm also really hesitant now
about anything Jamie Lee Curtis is in. I feel like
she is in a phase of her career where she's
doing things for the paycheck, which is fine. She's had
such a long career made some really great movies. I
am forever in debt to her because of the Halloween franchise.
Even though she oddly hates any type of horror movie,
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she talks to trap on them all the time in interviews,
and she just had a really bad bomb with Borderlands,
so hopefully, hopefully this kills her streak of putting out
some lower quality movies. So overall, I am all in
for this movie before they show me otherwise, I give
it a ding. I'm moving on now to the new
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Tron sequel, Tron Ares. It's coming out starring Jared Leto
Evan Peters Greatily. The score will be by nine inch Nails.
The movie is coming out on October tenth, twenty twenty five.
I never really got into Tron. The first movie came
out back in nineteen eighty two, and I feel that
it lands in that category of sci fi movies that
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were just a little ahead of their time, movies like
Tron and Dune, where the source material was there, they
just didn't really have the technology available to them in
the eighties to really make those movies work unless you
were a kid in the eighties, which you really didn't
care about that. But whenever I was exposed to Tron,
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I was a kid in the nineties, probably like late
nineties when I first saw Tron, and it just felt
so dated to me. That was always the issue I
had with eighties movies is they just look so old
to me, which is wild to think, because when I
started watching movie that I really remember was probably the
late nineties, and anything in the eighties just seemed like
(10:05):
it was made so long ago. But if you do
that comparison now in twenty twenty four, you'd be talking
about movies from the twenty tens, movies like Hangover too
that people would be like, Oh, that movie looks so old.
I feel like it's just because technology has gotten so
much better, or maybe I just don't want to believe
that I'm getting older that I don't see those time
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jumps to be as harsh when it comes to a
movie that comes out in twenty twenty four and how
much older it looks compared to something that came out
in twenty ten. I also believe on a movie by
movie basis, sometimes some of that cgi from like two
thousand and eight to twenty ten looks better than stuff
coming out in twenty twenty four. But I think for
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that reason, never really got into Tron. Tron Legacy came
out in twenty ten, and still I just don't fully
understand the concept to it. It doesn't really speak to me.
So for this one with Jared Leto, who recently saw
him on a bird scooter in Nashville. Just seems like
a really peculiar dude and somebody who has had a
(11:09):
pretty interesting film career from Fight Club to Dallas Buyers Club.
But I just don't really see him as an actor
as famous as he is. I also don't really see
him as a musician. I just see him as Jared Leto,
the guy who is famous for kind of being weird,
has been in a lot of movies. His best role
ever is probably Morvious. I wanted to track him down
(11:30):
while I saw him on that bird scooter and say, hey,
when is Morbus two coming out? Man, it's Morgan time.
So for Tron the sequel with Jared Leto, I gotta
give this one a dong. They also showed some footage
from The Mandalorian and Grogu, which will be directed by
Jon Favreau, who is one of my favorite directors. I
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don't really think he gets the credit that he deserves
for how much he did in the MCU, with Iron Man,
everything he's done with The Mandalorian. He has so many
great movies, But I feel like when you talk to
the typical film enthusiasts, they want to talk about Tarantino.
David Fincher, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, nobody really gives Jon
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Favreau the praise that he deserves for creating movies with
huge worlds, being able to blend action and heart and
just do it in a seamless way. So for that
reason and the fact that The Mandalorian is my favorite
Star Wars show, I kind of got into the Alkalite.
(12:37):
I enjoyed that one enough to follow it all the
way through, and not only is it the best Star
Wars show, I feel out of everything they've put out,
including the movies. Even though I love all the movies
with Daisy Ridley, I still feel like it is the
best product to come out of Star Wars in a
very long time. Mandalorian is top tier for me, So
I can't wait to see how that translates into a movie. Fully,
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it will be better than the last season of The Mandalorian,
which is pretty okay. It just started to feel a
little bit more to me like a Saturday morning TV
show where it was kind of hokey, had more of
a vibe that was appealing to kids, which again, that
is kind of what Star Wars is doing in this
era right now. They're trying to build new fans. They
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don't really care about the old krusty dude still trying
to relive the days of the Empire strikes back. They
are in the process of making new fans to continue
the legacy, to continue being a billion dollars media franchise.
So this is what I'm excited for. Even though it
is in the Star Wars franchise, I feel out of
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everything we've been talking about so far. Technically not a sequel,
technically not a reboot. So we'll take that. We'll take that.
I give it a ding. All right, Moving on down
the list, they announced Frozen three, which will be coming
out This is Wild November twenty fourth, twenty twenty seven,
three years from now Thanksgiving twenty twenty seven. This is
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kind of like when you go to the doctor for
a checkup and then they tell you you need to
make another appointment, but it's for a year out, and
it's like, all right, a year from now, what worked
for you, morning or afternoon? I don't know. I'm just
gonna guess let's go in afternoon. Because I'm here now.
I have no idea where I'm going to be in
a year, much less three years, and I think this
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was just kind of a clickbait thing of hey, we
got Frozen three coming out, which, in my opinion, Frozen
two was much better than Frozen one. I feel like
it had the better soundtrack, it had the better story.
So is it possible for a Disney franchise to get
better and better from one to two to three. It's
never really happened. I'd say the closest it came to
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happening was probably Toy Story. Some would argue that Toy
Story two is better than one. I don't think so,
So I think in that case I could make an
argument for that, but I still go one, three, two,
and then I refuse to acknowledge four, and they're coming
out with five, and I'm not happy about that. So
Frozen has the ability to have a A plus one,
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two and three, and now I'm buying into it. I
give it a ding. We'll move through a few more
of these. Zutopia two, they announced that Kishu Kwan, you
may remember from the Goonies, Indiana Jones back in the day,
had a big revival with everything everywhere all at once.
Gave one of the best Oscar speeches in the history
(15:37):
of the Academy Awards. He will be joining Zootopia two
as the creepy, highly venomous viper Gary. I just love
when he gets a role because he's so excited about it.
I just think he is so appreciative of his career
having a revival right now. Just for his sake alone,
I give this movie a ding. They did it. It's
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the Incredibles three with Brad Bird developing it. It took
so long to get an Incredibles two, which was one
of the movies that fans were actually dying to see.
A sequel to that movie still feels new to me,
but it came out in twenty eighteen, six years ago,
so I guess it's time for a sequel to that one.
I'm not really super hype on another Incredibles movie, so
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for that reason, right now, I'm gonna give it a dong.
Mentioned it earlier, but they talked about and revealed Toy
Story five. It's going to take on technology with iPads
and smartphones. You have a bunch of buzz light years malfunctioning.
It seems to me like they are getting away from
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the Andy plotline altogether, which one of my favorite fan
theories on the Internet. Internet does a lot of bad things,
A lot of all things are said on the Internet.
But every now and then you have some fan fiction
that comes out and you're like, man, they should really
make that movie. And they pitched this more for Toy
Story four, for it to be like Andy reconnecting with
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this toys, getting a back, having a really emotional ending.
I don't think we're ever getting a story like that.
I don't think Andy's ever gonna come back have one
last time to play with this toys. I think it
makes sense in a Disney movie, but when you think
about that in real life, could be a little bit
weird to interpret. Although I would love to see something
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like that, it seems like we're never going to get it,
and now they are just kind of continuing fun stories
with the toys that really have nothing to do with
Toy Story one through three. For that reason, and as
much as I love the first one, as much as
I love one, two, three, I feel like this is
a franchise that should be laid to rest and not
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be made into any more sequels. I think, if anything,
they should just make the spin offs make some prequels.
But I guess they tried with buzz Lightyer, and people
hated it and revolted, probably too unfairly, were so heavily
critical about light Year. I really enjoyed light Year, but
for Toy thirty five, I'm giving it a dong A
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couple more to talk about Avatar Fire and Ash. It
is the third movie in the Avatar franchise. I want
to hate on Avatar movies so bad because it just
feels like, how are these movies so successful? And I
didn't get Avatar when it came out back in two
thousand and nine, and it wasn't until later I gave
it a second chance that I really understood the vision
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of James Cameron. So now I love that movie. And
when I went to go see Way of the Water,
it blew me away to think how engaging that movie is.
Has a really good story, strong, strong action, and really
submerges you in the world of Pandora unlike any other movie.
And for a story to be able to keep my
attention for three plus hours, it is really hard to do.
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So on a normal day I would probably say, ha,
so many Avatar movies, but James Cameron hasn't made a
bad one yet. They continue to make a lot of money.
I'm all in on the Avatar franchise. I'm still gonna
get that feeling in my stomach when I see the
runtime of this movie and think, oh no, I'm not
gonna be able to pee for three and a half hours.
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But I will go see it and I will love it.
So I'm giving this movie a ding. And finally, the
clip that everybody sent me on social media, thank you
all for thinking to me when you saw this get
announced Lee Lowens. Stitch, the live action adaptation is coming
out next summer twenty twenty five. They showed the teaser
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of Stitch tearing through the poster, and I have to say,
Stitch looks so much better than I was anticipating. I
thought he was gonna look like this weird, uncute creature.
Because you take what is an unusually cute alien that
just works, you know, strictly animated, and take everything I've
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been saying about the live action remakes through this episode
and throw it out the window. Because Leelo and Stitch
is my favorite Disney movie of all time. Mentioned earlier
that I believe The Lion King is the best Disney
movie of all time, and I can recognize a difference
between the best and my favorite. I don't think Leelo
and Stitch when it comes to all the aspects of it,
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surrounding stories, surrounding animation style, surrounding the soundtrack, But when
it comes to it being my favorite, it just always
has been always identified with the story. I love Stitch.
He is my favorite Disney character. So this or any
other movie, like I was talking about earlier with snow
White or The Lion King, I wouldn't be excited about
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a live action remake. But after seeing Stitch and thinking
he looks much more cuter than I thought he was
going to look, I think they may actually be able
to pull this off. Got to give it a ding.
And that is the recap of the d twenty three
event and all the movies coming out in the next
few years. And now let's get into our interviews talking
(21:05):
about the movie Gunner, which is about a colonel named
Lee Gunner who takes his two sons on a camping
trip trying to reconnect with them, takes their uncle out,
and then they discover some bad drug dealers and uncover
this entire massive drug operation and Gunner spends the rest
of the film trying to get his Sons back by
any means possible. If you are a fan of old
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school action movies, then this might be right up your alley.
It stars Luke Hemsworth, who you may know from Westworld.
He also had a great cameo in Thor, Love and
Thunder as actor Thor and is the brother of both
Chris and Liam Hemsworth. We'll get into that, but first
let's talk with the movies director Dmitri Logo Status, who
did Kickboxer Retaliation ju Jitsu. Will talk filmmaking, we'll talk
(21:50):
action movies right now. Let's talk to Dmitri. I just
watched Gunner, and I have to say it made me
feel nostalgic in a really weird way. Now, my dad
is somebuddy who doesn't watch movies at all. He works,
he comes home, he mows the lawn, he drinks the beer.
Those are all his activities. But the kind of movies
that we would bond over are movies like Gunner, where
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you don't have to think a whole lot. You gotta
shoot him up action and those are the movies I
remember in that genre that we would bond over. The
only thing he would sit down and watch is something
like that. What were those movies for you growing up
that maybe inspired Gunner?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
First of all, with Gunner, you know, you have you know,
it's a Gary Scott Thompson's screenplay, and so Gary Scott
wrote the Fast and Furious, the first two Fast and Furious,
and so he really develops wonderful characters, and I think
you have to have that character. You have to have
that that heart where the character actually cares about his
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family and his children. And remember, the thing that inspires
him to move through all this action is that he
needs to retrieve his children. They've been kidnapped. And so
I think you have to start there. So for me,
you know, growing up, I mean I watched Clint Eastwood.
I watched all of his stuff with Dirty Harry and
there was always a morality to that. I watched Burt Reynolds,
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who was extremely entertaining. You know. Sharky's Machine was one
of my favorite films of all time. So, you know,
I really aspire to bring those characters to the screen
where you know, they're not based on a comic book,
they're not based on a ton of visual effects. They're
based on heart. And I think the character has got
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to be driven by that so, and I think you know,
your father and yourself and everybody else wants to aspire
to be that person when it comes to family and
protecting your family. You want to be able to do
whatever you need to do to do that, and sometimes
that involves punching somebody in the face.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yeah, you brought us something there that I want to
talk to you about. And if you could see from
the background here, I'm obviously a huge fan of comic books,
huge fan of comics by the way, Yeah, and I
feel like I love them so much. But I also
realize the effect they've had on the movie industry is
now a lot of people will go watch a movie
and they expect to see something that's one hundred million
dollars two hundred and fifty million dollars to make. For you,
(24:12):
how do you approach that making a movie with a
smaller budget, knowing that you know audiences are kind of
used to seeing something on the level of the MCU.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Well, so what I try to do is, again, I
try to look at the page. I try to look
at the story. I try to get into the character,
and I think we start there. If I can create
a character that you like and care about as an
independent filmmaker. I think number one, I win, okay, and
if I can win your attention in your heart, that's
a second win. So anything that our leading character does
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when it comes to retrieving his family at that point,
you're going to accept. And I think you know the
expectations now. Hopefully you'll be sitting there as a young man,
older man, woman, et cetera, thinking to yourself, Wow, if
that happened to me, I guess I'd have to do
the same thing. I guess I'd have to do whatever
it takes. You know, I can't be waiting on everybody
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else to try to figure out how to bring my
kids back to me. So that's what I try to do.
I try to stay focused on the heart of the story.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
There were so many just scenes that I just had
really a lot of fun watching. I think from the
opening scene the first bar fight was just like, like,
that's what I came here to see for you. What
was the scene that was like, Okay, that is exactly
how I invisted it. It came out perfect. I'm so
proud of that moment.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Well, I mean, I'm glad you picked the first bar fight.
I thought that was a really good one. I'm not
going to talk about the end because I'd like people
to watch it, but I will tell you there's a
really wonderful sequence that takes place around the fort when
you see the gun going slow motion and stuff like that.
And that's a very complicated sequence that we pulled off
with twenty some odd stunt people. So we had to
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really rehearse that and get that down, and when we
pulled it off, I was amazed and very happy.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
The other one that looked a little bit complex that
probably nailed down was the first encounter, which well, again
won't spoil anything here, but it involves a lot of blades,
Like how does that? How is that whole scene orchestrated of? Like, okay,
this is going to be crazy.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Yeah, Well again, you know, I rehearsed these things with
my stunt team months in advance. So they're in Thailand,
and this is a mutai based martial art, and so
it's all mutai and it's very showy. As you can tell,
it's very cinematic, and so I work that out way
in advance, and then we have a lot of safety
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involved because of the fact that we work out the dance,
so you have to be very careful not to hurt anybody,
and I think again, it shows and we pulled it
off very well.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
I can only imagine how cool it is to work
with somebody as iconic as Morgan Freeman, not just his
presence visually, but just hearing his voice. I imagine it's like,
oh my gosh, it's Morgan Freeman and you being there
having them in your movie. How did that come about
of getting Morgan Freeman?
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Well, I mean, first of all, I wanted a really
likable bad guy, and he can't do better than God.
So Morgan Freeman was terrific at that.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
It was.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
My pleasure to work with Morgan. He's a professional, he
takes it seriously, he really believes in the art of acting,
and he's a lot of fun on set. He likes
to joke around and have a good time. So I
was very, very pleasantly surprised and lucky to be able
to get him for Gunner.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I just imagine he has like still a crazy work schedule,
super in demand. How many days do you get Morgan Freeman?
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Well, normally in this particular character, you know you've got
to be able to shoot him out in less than
a couple of weeks because he's throughout the film, and
so we usually schedule a film around him so that
we can get him out and make sure that we
don't get him hurt.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Going back to talking about some movies that I bonded
with with my dad early on, movies like Predator, blood Sport, Kickboxer,
which you know you worked on some sequels there for you.
If you had to put together a Mount Rushmore of
those type of action movies, what would be on your
Mount Rushmore? Your four movies?
Speaker 4 (28:18):
My god, brother, I mean, I don't know, you just
mentioned a lot of them, but you know the theme
that you have in all of those pictures is again
they're underdogs and they have to take on a challenge
that is climbing Mount Rushmore, as you said, And so
every single one of those characters is terrific from I
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think I mentioned it before, going all the way back
to the Dirty Harry characters, the Clint Eastwood characters in
the Westerns that he did, the Sergio Leone characters that
Sergio created. God, I was thinking about an other wonderful film,
The Red Sun that was that was with Alan DeLong. Okay,
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so you know, all these characters are just the characters
I grew up with.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
For everybody watching and listening, what do you hope they
take away after watching Gunner?
Speaker 4 (29:18):
I hope you have I hope you take the morality away,
and I hope you it instills in you the values
that it comes to be a father. I hope you
have fun, and I hope I get you to relax
for about an hour and a half and just lose
yourself in cinema, which is the goal entirely.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Well, I really appreciate the time. Hope everybody checks it out.
Thanks for talking.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Thank you. I appreciate it too.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Now let's get into our interview with Luke Hemsworth, who
will next be seen in a series called Darkwolf. It
is an Amazon spin off from The Terminal List. He
played Ashley Stubbs in Westworld if you watch that on HBO.
He's also been on TV shows like Young Rock, Got
to Start in Australia and even played his brother Chris
Hemsworth in thor Love and Thunder. Let's talk to Luke Hamsworth.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Can do it man, what's happening.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
I'm doing great. I just watched Gunner and I had
to say I loved your performance in this movie, and
after just seeing all the physical things you went through,
I have to imagine it is tough to get in
shape for a movie like this. What is the first
step you take of? Like, Okay, got a movie coming up,
how do I get ready?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
I was lucky I'd come up. Well, so it's lucky,
and I'm lucky I'd come off another film, a military film.
So the military stuff was in the bank that was
ready to go. We did Worcom with commandos, lots of
lots of gun trying and lots of you know, Adam
being cools, so lots of close quarters combat stuff well,
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you know, like the really fun stuff that you want
to do as an actor. And then finished. And I
was on holiday and Freji and I was playing basketball
in this this this little basketball court and I rolled
my ankle off the edge of the slab and broke
my ankle my tibia and quiet surgery. And we're about
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six weeks, six weeks away from shooting at that storage,
and so I went to I went to a great
surgeon who does a lot of the rugby players here,
and she's like, now we have we have guys who
are you know, two hundred and fifty pounds that we
got running in six weeks, we'll be fine. And I
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was dubious, but I just then it just became about rehabit.
It became about it became about doing low impacts. Uff
did a lot of the bike, you know, not a
lot of running. Surprisingly, I've just lost my light. Sorry,
I got there, you know, A credit to her as
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a as a as a surgeon. And I think having
the date locked in my mind, I was like, I
have to do everything in my power to my child.
I'm able to move promptly, and by the time we
got to shooting, I was I was pretty good. And
there's still complains going on and carefully curated movements and
running in the right places and jumping in the right places.
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But I did everything, you know, that's all me. There's
there's no there's no stunt double there. So I'm pretty
I'm pretty stoked to be able to get to that point.
But it's a it's an ongoing thing, you know. It
never you just never stopped. You always have to have
to keep working on it.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
The movie hooked me in from the very beginning, that
very first fight scene, and I have to imagine that
was probably a lot of fun to shoot for you,
what was the most just fun action sequence out of
the movie.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Yeah, that was a fun one. That's a good one.
I love the scene there's there's one in the steel works,
which I thought was was the most fun. I sort
of get my ass kicked down the hallway trying to
trying to kick some asses back and it's pretty pretty
evenly matched for most of that. That was the great
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that I really love that. Just a really cool environment
all the you know, these massive rusting pots everywhere, and
you know, the things are on fire and sparking, and
that was that was that kind of TERMINI at the
moment for me, like, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Gotta imagine as an actor, doing an American accent is
probably hard. What word would you say in the English language?
An American accent is like the hardest to get down
where it's like, oh, that kind of gives it away
then I'm Australian. There's a few.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
There's a few. Yeah, and very early on in your
career that people who are quite uh you know, quite
liberally telling you that when your accent is bad and
what where.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Is it pumping out?
Speaker 3 (33:47):
One of them for me is is is we said
being in Australia. Where have you been? B w N,
where's the American side been? Where you've been? That's a
dead giveaways is when you're doing your accent and then
those kinds of words in But I actually I got uh,
I got lot let go of a job very early.
And it starts because my accident wasn't good enough, and
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so I spent I spent a lot of time and
effort amerking sure that it's it's as good as good
as they can be, hopefully, hopefully I put all those
things to bread. It's it's kind of been graying now
and people who live here in Astralia like, why does your
accident sound weird? Because there's just americanisms that I've a
part of the way that I speak now.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
I was talking to Dmitri about the movie and how
it was kind of nostalgic for me of reminding me
of movies that I used to watch with my dad,
because not really in the movies at all, but if
you put on an action movie where it's people beating
each other up, he's all in on it. And for you,
who are those action stars that maybe you watch as
a kid of like, oh, someday I want to be
an actor like them in a movie.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Yeah, I mean I love I love Van dam I
love yeah, everything that he did. You know, I remember
watching Kickboxing and quoting every word from blood Sport, and
I think I think I still do with a couple
of my buddies that we used to watch You're with Saloon, Uh,
you know Schwarzenegger. I think, you know, I think Terminator
two and Terminatory Terminator one and two or two of
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the gross movies ever Aliens. Yeah, I I those those
action films of that that era were so fundamental. I
think in my career that were that were a big
part of me wanting to you wanted to just play
as a human bringing too. You know, you're you're out
there emulating these these men who are who are man
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who are getting the job done? Yeah, and doing it
with wonderful one liners out the side of their mouth. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Bruce Lee too.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
I really loved Bruce Lee.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Growing up, I wanted to be a rock star and
my brother and I started a punk band when I
was like thirteen years old. I played guitar, he played drums,
and that was like always a passion of mine and
it was because you know it with me and my
brother doing something. You and your brothers are all actors.
Was that like a thing like you all wanted to
be actors? Or did somebody get the acting bug first?
How did that all just unfold?
Speaker 3 (36:04):
I think we just all loved playing. And you know,
like you said you formed the punk band, I mean
we we would just we would role play. We would
make wooden swords and wooden guns. And my mom would
hide the TV to literally carry the TV downstairs and
put it in the in the wardrobe and we would
have no TV and so we were forced to forced to,
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you know, write our own strips. And we had slug
guns and all sorts of stuff. And would you I
would dress my brothers up and you know, tell them
to run because it will hurt more the closer you are,
you know, Like I think, I think that's a big
part of it. I think a big part of it
is neither none of us who are any good at
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anything else. But I went to university, you know, I
went and studied that. Maybe I started it, but I
think three years of the contemporary arts, imagined in drama,
and then went on too, you know, austraying shop operas
and straining film and television from there and then finally
to the US. But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
What it is.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
I don't know their answer to that other than that,
other than we all like to just we look to
have fun. But you know, I also think I also
think it's excuse my language, you know, acting is acting
is very, very difficult, and I think that's an attractive
part for all of us as well, is that it
mixes both the ability to have a good time with
something that's incredibly precise and an inventive and very hard
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to do it, how to do well.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
So somewhere out there there's a script that you wrote
with all your brothers. Did you guys ever film any
of that? Is there like a video, like a like
a Tesk movie out there? One day?
Speaker 3 (37:48):
I hopes one day, one day that's the dream. There'll
be no action in it will just be three of us.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Thanks for talking with me, Cheers, Mane, Thanks very much.
Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie review
of Alien Romulus. I had pretty low expectations going into
this movie. As a whole. I wouldn't call myself a
fan of the Alien franchise. There are some hardcore, dedicated
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fans of Alien, and I think for me is because
it's always described to me as a horror franchise, and
I love Space, I love Aliens, I love space exploration movies,
but I never really saw Alien as a horror icon.
In my opinion, there are some great moments from the
original movie that I feel transcend that genre, but I
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just don't really go into these movies thinking, oh, I'm
gonna go in and be really scared, And I think
that has to do with how I was introduced to
the horror genre movies like Halloween Night, maren elm Street,
Friday the Thirteenth. I didn't really look at Alien the
same way I looked at those movies. I just wanted
to see how this movie stood on its own. Because
it's supposed to be rebooting the franchise. The only thing
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you really need to know is where this movie takes place.
So Alien came out in nineteen seventy nine, that sequel
came out called Aliens in nineteen eighty six. Alien Romulus
takes place twenty years after the original Alien and in
between Aliens from nineteen eighty six, so it is both
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a sequel and a prequel to the sequel to Aliens.
So even if you had to watch them all, maybe
you would get confused on that timeline. So it is
a more direct sequel to the original one from nineteen
seventy nine than it is just an extension of the franchise.
So they do a pretty good job at letting you
know that. At the beginning of the movie, they say
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it takes place twenty years after, and they show you
some of the imagery that became so iconic from the
original Alien movie. But what Alien Romulus is about. You
have Kaylee Spaney's character, who is working on this planet
where he has to earn a certain amount of credits
to be able to be reassigned to a different planet.
She has an android brother, so he looks human, but
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he is not. He has all these electronics in him.
He has this little slot in the back of his
ear that contains all of his coating. But you'll learn
more exactly why she calls him her brother. And they
are trying to get to this new planet where you
can see the sun. You're supposed to have a better
life there, but it looks like because this company that
they are working for is so horrendous, they are not
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going to be able to leave so they meet this
other group of people who have this idea. They've discovered
this space station that is just roaming and aboard. That
space station has five pods on it, and those five
pods they can use to put themselves into hypersleep. It
takes I believe, eight years to get to this planet
they're trying to get to. They get in those pods,
they go to sleep, and they wake up on a
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better planet. Sounds easy as that. They need her brother
because he is an android. He will be able to
get on the ship and get clearance to where they
need to go. So they decide to go with them
on this to this space station. But what are they
encounter on that space station? Or what are all these
movies about aliens who want to kill you? You have
the face huggers returning. Those are those aliens that get
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on your face, They sit on your face and then
invade your body, which is just a great visual. They
use that a lot in the marketing. That's really all
they needed to show in the poster, which I love
the poster of just that black and red poster with
the face hugger over the character's face. That's what you
need to know about alien you also have the iconic
big alien that has like the little mouth that comes out.
But this movie is not directed by the original director
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Ridley Scott. It is directed by Fede Alvarez. Will also
did movies like Don't Breathe and the reboot to Evil Dead,
and I have to say he did a fantastic job
with this movie. Again, I went into it with pretty
low expectations and I was surprised that how quickly this
movie moved along. What I was telling you about earlier
is probably the first twenty minutes of the movie, and
then you get right into the story, goes right into
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them discovering the aliens on the ship and all of
the chaos that ensues. And with a movie that is
right under two hours, I think I clocked at at
about an hour and fifty one minutes. I thought that
was crucial to it. And the visuals themselves just look
so much better than I was expecting. I love the
rings around the planet that they were inching closer to
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all the scenes on the ship just really made me
feel like the production value was there. The other unexpected
thing that really made me kind of feed into the
vibe of this movie was the score just kind of
chugging there underneath it all. It almost made it feel
magical at times, like I was watching a Harry Potter movie.
Maybe Harry Potter would in two where I was thinking,
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this is supposed to be a horror movie, but it's
kind of giving me that Christmas movie vibe where it
just has like this warm feeling to it. But then
you throw an alien on screen and you're like, oh wait,
it's just made to make those moments feel a little
bit more tense, almost like it softens the blow a
little bit. But again, I love it when a movie
has a good score because that tells me there's been
attention to detail. It didn't really feel to me, which
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is often the problem I have with movies inside of
big franchises that they're just using that alien name to
sell a generic movie. Not the case here. I really
feel like they are trying to reboot this franchise in
a really important way. There were a lot of things
that were odes to the original. It followed a lot
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of the beats of the original movie, but then it
added its own flare to it, and they have to
do that in order to make a seventh film in
this franchise. I did love David Johnson's character. He plays
the Ai brother. I feel like he really did his
homework on the franchise, but also did a really good
job at kind of switching gears in in a way,
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playing two different characters and change personalities and then become
a lead figure in the film. Thought he did a
really good job at that. But hands down, Kaylee Spainey
was my favorite. You might remember her if you watch
Civil War or if you saw Priscilla. She was Priscilla
in that movie, and after watching her in Alien Rombulus,
it showed me that she has what it takes to
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be a great lead. She has an aura about her
that draws you into her character really helped invest me
in the story. I really bought her as an action lead,
and she made the character her own. Even though it
is similar to Sigourney Weaver's character in the original film,
she definitely could have played it the exact same way,
but instead gave us a different look. So it is
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really making me think that she is going to be
around in Hollywood as a lead for a long time.
And even though I enjoyed it, I still don't really
consider it to be a horror movie at no point
was I scared in any way. And I'm not trying
to say this as like nothing scares me. I'm all good,
I'm tough. No, I wanted to be scared. My favorite
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experience at a movie sitting in the middle row during
a horror movie and allowing myself to take in all
of the senses, the sites, the smells, well hopefully not
the smells, but the sound, and allow myself open myself
up to being scared. But I didn't really think that
this movie tried to scare the viewer. I don't really
think that is the intention of the Alien franchise. I
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think it kind of has to have that label on
it because it's not quite just what you go into
expecting from a space movie. It doesn't quite fall in
that genre. But really, to me, it doesn't really fall
in the horror genre either, because yes, it's creepy to
have these killer aliens, and yes there's blood and guts
and acid and all of that, but it doesn't really
have that same tension that I look for in a
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horror movie. They don't really rely on jump scares, which
is great. I often feel like jump scares are just
kind of cheap and put in there to really dupe
the viewer into thinking that it's a scary movie. So
I'm glad that they don't rely on those same cliche
things that would make it just another horror movie. But
people love putting things into a genre, love being able
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to categorize something, so it kind of falls into that
horror sci fi genre. I just think it is a fun,
exciting summer movie to close out the summer blockbuster season
for Alien Romulus. I give it a four out of
five Space Stations. It's time to head down to Movie
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Mike Trailer Hall. The year was nineteen seventy five. This
crew has ninety minutes to get their crap together talking
about Saturday Night Live. The movie is called Saturday Night.
It is about the creation of the show, but more
specifically the ninety minutes leading up to its very first episode,
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first time going on the air live hour and a
half show at the time revolutionary to take a bunch
of twenty year olds were relatively unknown, put them online
TV in a non traditional format sketch show. Is it
gonna work? A couple of reasons I like this movie.
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One kind of feels like a student film. After watching
this trailer, the overall quality is very raw and just
kind of chaotic. But I think that is the vibe
they are trying to give off in this trailer in
this story the chaotic nature of live television. Second thing
is ninety minutes Oh I Love Me in ninety minute comedy.
And this doesn't seem like it's going to be a
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full on ha comedy, biographical bit of dark humor. They're
describing it a little bit as a thriller comedy, which
I think is interesting, and I think that's probably attributing
more to the chaotic nature of the live show. But
I think that is going to work really well. So
I don't think it's supposed to look polished. It's supposed
to feel like it's all over the place because it's
supposed to induce that anxiety that working in live TV has.
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I work in live radio. I know the feeling. Once
you're live, there is no messing up, there are no retakes.
You hit that live on the air boom you are in.
It probably more chaotic back in the seventies on television,
but this movie is taking place at eleven thirty pm
October eleventh, nineteen seventy five. Looks like it's gonna be
centered around Lorne Michaels, who is the creator of Saturday
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Night Live, very first season, very first cast. You're talking
Dan Aykroyd, Belushi, Andy Kaufman, all of the great people
have been saying Saturday Night Live hasn't been good since
the seventies. I think it's had several different iterations that
I have enjoyed. So before I get into more what
I think about this movie, the really impressive cast, the
director that I have a lot of trust in, here's
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just a little bit of the Saturday Night trailer. Look,
my name is Lorne, Michael's on the Crucier Saturday Night.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
The whole night, Yeah, the whole night, Chevy Chase, skilled
a Rader, Dan, I God, how the fuck do you
pronounce this?
Speaker 3 (48:40):
Dack? Really, NBC is lucky to have something as relevant
as a show one they don't even.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
Want sad logicals think that's why they're paying.
Speaker 3 (48:47):
Us all to be here.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
I mean more than ninety minutes of live television.
Speaker 2 (48:50):
Michael, who's twenty year olds who've never.
Speaker 3 (48:52):
Made any we ever stopped in Longerwise, they said, yes.
Speaker 1 (48:57):
They want you to fail, and you can kind of
hear it in that trailer that ticking that as the
speed of their voice gets more and more rapid, that
is the chaotic nature of live television. This movie is
gonna cover the humor, the chaos, and the magic of
the revolution that almost wasn't. I think it's interesting to
make a movie about Saturday Night Live at this point
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in time because Lorne Michaels is still alive, a lot
of these cast members are still alive. But I really
only know about the creation of the story by hearsay,
by legends, and now we're gonna fully get to see
it in a movie. And it looks crazy, It looks chaotic.
You have Jim Henson in there, which I didn't even
know was associated with Saturday Night Live. But in that
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trailer he talks about some of the cast members tying
up Big Bird by his neck, So I assume Jim
Henson was working in the same building in New York
as Saturday Night Live. That sounds fun. Some of the
cast here, it's pretty impressive. You have Gabriel LaBelle as
the lead role of Lorden Michaels. I primarily know him
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from The Fable, where he played a young Steven Spielberg.
Rachel Sennett who I know from bottom. She is hilarious.
She is playing Rosie Schuster. Corey Michael Smith will play
Chevy Chase. Dylan O'Brien as dan Aykroyd. I never looked
at Dylan O'Brien and thought you look like dan Ackroid,
But seeing him in this trailer with the seventies wardrobe,
the singular mustache, he does look and bear a striking
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resemblance to dan Aykroyd, even has his mannerisms down. I
really associate Dylan O'Brien with one of my favorite movies
of twenty twenty, back when only a handful of movies
came out. But he was in a movie called Love
and Monsters, And anytime I see a poster or a
trailer or something about that movie, it instantly takes me
back to twenty twenty. It was a good movie. I
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feel didn't really get a lot of attention because it
came out at a time where we're only streaming movies
at home. But I remember, in a weird year, with
so much uncertainty on my end and a lot of
people's in a lot of sadness, that movie brought me
a lot of There will always be a special place
in my internal movie Show for Love and Monsters, and
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I thought Dylan O'Brien was really great in that, and
I'm hoping him as dan Aykroyd delivers in this. You
have Matt Wood as John Belushi, Nicholas Braun as Andy Kaufman,
and Jim Henson. Which one of my favorite things about
the first ever episode of Saturday Night Live is Andy Kaufman,
which I've seen in other iterations of his story, whether
it be the Netflix documentary Man on the Moon, but
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he did his famous Mighty Mouse sketch on the first
episode of SNL wherever he's up there playing the record
and all he does is said the line here I
come to save the day, Love Andy Kaufman. But I
don't think they're gonna get to the actual episode in
this movie. It seems to be the ninety minutes leading
up to it. I imagine it gets more and more
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chaotic as it goes along. You see people fighting, you
see people throwing things, you see people writing on cameras.
So I have to imagine the very last scene of
this movie is going to be right when it hits
Live on the air, and then the movie is gonna
hit the credits, because it doesn't seem like that is
going to be the story. It seems the story is
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the reason Louren Michaels was put in this situation was
to fail. And also it's directed and co written by
Jason Rightman, who is the dad of Ivan Rightman Rip,
but he is responsible for Ghostbusters one, Two, Twins, Kindergarten,
Cop Meatballs, so Ivan's's dad Jason is directing this movie.
I love a nepo baby again. Don't really have a
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problem with nepotism when it comes to Hollywood, because I
think about it. If somebody accused me of being a
nepo baby, saying my dad's a truck driver. If I
went on to be a truck driver, nobody would be like, ah,
you nepo baby taking over the family business. That's just
what happens. You're around it as a kid, obviously gonna
be drawn to it. So I don't really have a
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problem with nepo babies as long as they own up
to it when they get real deaf and are like no,
like no, just own up to it. It'd be the
same way I would own up to it. If my
dad had his own trucking business, an I were to
take over it, of course other people would have been
there a while would be like, of course the bus
the son is getting the job. But I have no
problem with it with Jason Rightman, the son who was
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directing this movie. He also did Ghostbusters Afterlife, one of
a couple of my favorite movies from the two thousands,
Up in the Air and Juno, so I feel like
we are in the right director's hands for this movie
to get it right. Also, rounding out the cast, you
have Matthew Reese as George Carlin, who was the first
host of Saturday Night Live. Willem Dafoe is playing an
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NBC head executive. You also have JK. Simmons as Milton Burrell.
A lot of people think that Saturday Night Live isn't
funny anymore. I still make it a point to watch
every single week when it is in season. My favorite
episode in the last year has to be when Ryan
Gosling hosted the Beavis and butt Head sketch is still
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one of my favorite and I can't even remember my
last favorite sketch of Saturday Night Live. For me, I
think my favorite era for the show was the twenty tens,
and I don't think they had one specific star during
that time that I would say that was the Asen
Hole that was the best SNL cast member at that time.
Maybe a Kristen Wig, but I think it was a
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collection of that entire cast. It's almost like what happens
in the movie Moneyball. They lose their star player and
they have to build a winning team by strategically putting
together all these players who don't cost a whole lot,
but by finding players who do maybe a couple things,
well maybe only one thing, will they can all add
up to replace that superstar that you were missing. That
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is how I felt about the twenty tens. They didn't
have that one person who was just killing all the
time who was the one star, but all together with
Bill Hayt or Jason Sidekis even Jenny Slayton there who
I loved, Andy Samberg, Fred Armison, Bob moynihan, Jay Farrell,
Seth Myers, Tarren kill him. I'll even throw Amy Poehler
in there. That entire era. A Saturday Night Live was
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my favorite because I kind of got in on the
tail end of everybody from the nineties. And while those
cast members do make my top five SNL cast members
of all time. It was more through watching clips. I remember,
I love getting the SNL DVDs that was the best
of certain cast members. That is how I took in
a lot of their work and also a lot of
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the cast members from the two thousand. So if I
had a top five SNL cast members of all time,
at number five, I would put Keenan Thompson, primarily because
he's been there.
Speaker 2 (55:39):
For so long.
Speaker 1 (55:40):
Keenan Thompson will not go away from SNL. He has
been there for twenty seasons from two thousand and three
to twenty twenty four. I just think the volume of
work that he has put in. I look at all
the famous sketches in the last twenty years and he
is probably in one of them. I also love what
Up with That? Or whenever they do family Feud, and
he'd Steve Harvey. Keenan Thompson has been just in show
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business since he was a kid from Heavyweights, all that
Keenan and Kel, so I would put him at number five.
At number four, I would put Tina Fay, who was
there for nine seasons from nineteen ninety seven to two
thousand and six. I put her in my top five
because I think she was the best at Weekend Update,
and there are a lot of great people who did
Weekend Update. Chevy Chase, obviously, Norm McDonald I would put
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on the list, even though I don't really feel like
people fully appreciated what he did on Weekend Update. Even now,
Colin Jost and Michael Chay are my favorite thing consistently
about Saturday Night Live, but I still think Tina Fey
and Amy Poehler were the best to do it, So
she's at number four. At number three, I would put
Will Ferrell. I think he is in the most iconic
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sketches of the two thousands and as somebody who used
that fame to translate into a stellar movie career. But
he went way beyond SNL. But I would put Will
Ferrell at number three. From nineteen nine to two thousand
and two. At number two, was only there five seasons,
but was so impressionable. Adam Sandler, he was there from
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nineteen ninety one to nineteen ninety five. I think what
I remember more than all of his characters from SNL
were the songs, my favorite being lunch Lady Land Adam
Sandler with the guitar on SNL. It's great at number
one for five seasons from nineteen ninety to nineteen ninety five.
Though one and only Chris Farley, he was never in
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a bad sketch. Down by the River his hands down
the greatest sketch to ever air on Saturday Night Live.
Second place to that would probably be whenever he did
the Columbian Coffee Crystals where he flipped out. Also his
Chippendale Sketch. I love whenever he would interview famous celebrities.
It'd be really awkward talking to Paul McCartney. Hey, you
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remember when you were in the Beatles? You remember that?
That was awesome. They are making a movie about his life,
starring Paul Walter Housa, directed by Josh Gadd, who you
may know well, I guess primarily from the Book of Mormon.
I also remember him from The Rocker, which was a
movie about a rock band that he did with Rain Wilson.
But I guess what most people would probably know him
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for is Frozen. Not me. I remember him from The Rocker,
So yeah, I hope that movie's good. I hope Saturday
Night is good. It is coming out on October eleventh,
Live from New York.
Speaker 2 (58:20):
It's Saturday Night at that for was this week's edition
of movie Li Framer.
Speaker 1 (58:25):
Par and that is going to do it for another
episode here of the podcast, but before I go, I
got to give my listeners shout out of the week.
This week we are going over to the YouTube channel
if you don't know, I post my full spoiler free
reviews over there, so if you don't want to just
listen to it, you can go watch it. I tried
adding a whole new angle, which I think looks pretty slick,
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but again, it's just me doing the editing over here,
so it takes me a little bit longer, so I
would appreciate it if you go check out that word.
But this week's listener shout out goes to Nick Castillo,
who commented on my review of m Night Shyamalan's Trap
and said, not that it helps the overall logic of
the movie, but there is a brief line when Cooper's
daughter says she's so glad that Lady Raven added a
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third show when the Night Show sold out. Love the
podcast listen every single week. I have to say I
think I missed that line, but hearing that being described
sounds so forced in there. I feel like that line
was put in to cover for the reason that it
was taking place during the day. Oh, it's really great
that she added a third show during the day. That
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makes it easier to make this motion picture. I feel
like that was a bit of a cop out, but
thanks Nick for catching that and for commenting and watching
over on YouTube, and for that you are this week's
listener shout out of the week. Thank you movie crew,
And until next time, go out and watch good movies
and I will talk to you later.
Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike. There is so much going
on on this episode. If you're here for the first time, Ah,
you picked a good one because we are bursting out
the themes. We have so much movie content coming out
of our butts. On this week's episode. Have an interview
coming up with Luke Helmsworth. Yes, he is a brother
of Chris and Liam Hemsworth. He is in a new
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movie called Gunner. We'll talk to him about how he
got into shape for that movie. He shares a really
fun story about how he used to write and direct
scenes with him and his brothers when they were growing up.
We'll also talk to the director Demitri All about making
that movie working with Morgan Freeman. But before that, we'll
talk about everything Disney announced at the d twenty three event.
All the new movies coming to Disney will play Dinger
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Dong movies I'm excited about, in movies I could care
less about when it comes to Disney. In the movie
review Alien Romulus trying to revive the Alien franchise, I'll
let you know how they did with that. And in
the trailer Park, we'll take a look at the Saturday
Night Live movie called Well Saturday Night Again. If you're
here for the first time, you picked a good one.
Welcome back to the movie crew, and now let's talk movies.
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one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like
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Before we get into our interview with Luke Hemsworth and
the director of Gunner, I want to talk about everything
that went down recently at the d twenty three event.
If you're not familiar with it. Essentially, it's like Comic
Con but for Disney, where they get up on stages
and talk about all the movies they have coming out
in the next year to try to get us hype.
But when getting into everything they announced, there's not a
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whole lot of originality here, and that kind of worries me,
just because I feel like Disney was always pushing the
envelope giving us news stories, and now they are really
really hesitant about what they put out In theaters because
they want to put out billion dollar movies like Inside
Out too, and what just keeps working are their known properties.
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So with all these movies getting announced, it just seems like, Okay,
this is all great. Me in my thirties get to
relive my childhood a little bit. But they have given
us some original movies in the last few years, and
they just haven't been as supported and as successful as
some of these other ones. So what we're gonna do
is ding or dong. If it's a ding, that means
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I'm excited for this movie. If it's a dong, I
am kind of checking myself out, don't really care about it.
I'm probably still gonna see it because it's Disney, but
I will not be happy about it. But let's kick
off the list now with Mufassa The Lion King, which
they showed a new trailer of. This movie is coming
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out later this year on December twentieth. It is both
a prequel and a cell overall, I'm gonna give this
movie a dong. I'm just not that excited for it
as much as I was anticipating the twenty nineteen live
action movie, And really that was only because nineteen ninety
four is Lion King is the best Disney movie of
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all time. It's not my favorite, but pound for pound
is the best Disney movie of all time. And really,
with the twenty nineteen version, they just took that movie
and gave it some updated computer generated graphics. It's not
really live action, which is really what frustrates me the
most about the Lion King reboot. So at D twenty
three they did share a little bit more about the
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story gonna be about Mufasa, who is a orphan lion cub,
and how he befriends a young prince Scar and gets
adopted by his family. So I guess that kind of
answers the question of why they are brothers but nothing alike,
which I don't know if lions are supposed to look alike,
but anyway, it answers that question. Not really high for
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this movie. I don't even think it's going to do
as well as the twenty nineteen movie, which was a
billion dollar movie. It just kind of seems like they're
really scraping the barrel to get more out of the
Lion King franchise. It's kind of like when you have
a tube of toothpaste that you should probably throw away,
but you're still so determined to get another couple brushings
out of that last little thing you squeeze out of
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the tube. That is how I feel about Mufasa the
Lion King. So that one gets a dong. Snow White.
They showed the new trailer with Rachel Zeggler, who is
gonna be the new snow White. Galgado is the evil Queen.
It gave us the first taste of Rachel singing whistle
why You Work, which is a classic song. Crazy that
the original movie came out back in nineteen thirty seven,
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the first ever Disney animated movie, back when they would
hand draw every single frame. This movie is coming out
next year, March twenty twenty five. I'm just slightly more
excited for this one than I am Mufasa the Lion King.
But man, there's just something about even the nineteen thirty
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seven version that is special because it has that warmth,
It has that vibrant feeling of real animation, and this
is gonna make me sound so old. I just find
that to be so much more magical, and I feel
like this remake is going to be really lifeless. It
sounds like the filmmaking process has already been chaotic, almost
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like Rachel Zegler doesn't even want to be in this movie,
So I find that entire aspect interesting, But overall, I'm
still giving this one a dog. They also showed another
trailer for ma Wana two, which is coming out this
year on November twenty seventh. Mowana was kind of a
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sleeper hit for me. When I went to go see
it in theaters, I didn't really care for it that much.
Watched it again when they went to streaming, I was like, Okay,
I kind of get it, and now it is one
of my favorite Disney movies of the twenty tens, and
really the last great movie that the rock and I
think if they can capture that same energy as the
first one, bring us some great new songs, I think
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this one is gonna be a hit for them. I
don't think it's gonna be as successful as what inside
Out two was to Inside Out one, but I think
this one could really rival it, because when you look
at what makes movies really great and a hit among families,
it's that soundtrack. Inside Out two doesn't really have that.
That one just hits you more in the fields. But
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I think if this one has a really good soundtrack
that can get people excited about it. It's gonna do
well this one. I give a ding. They also finally
announced the title to the sequel to Freaky Friday. It
is called Sub Creative Freaky or Friday. Lindsay Loewen Coming Back,
Jamie Lee Curtis Coming Back. The movie is set to
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come out in twenty twenty five. I am all for
the Lindsay Lohan revival. She's put out some pretty good
movies on her comeback. It was such a movie icon
from nineteen ninety eight. The parent Trap really solidified her
career in the mid to early two thousands with movies
like Life Size, Get a Clue, Freaky Friday, Confessions of
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a Teenage Drama, Queen Herbie fully Loaded in two thousand
and five, and then someone say that she fell off
a little bit after there. Her personal life probably got
a little bit chaotic. But now she is back and
I am all for the Freaky Friday sequel. Now, when
it comes to live action sequels from Disney that take
place about twenty years after the original, I do have
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some hesitancy, especially with Freaky Friday, which is a perfect
movie and a reflection of two thousand and three. Whenever
you have such a hit that is a hit because
it is a product of that time, it is hard
to do a sequel too. I'm talking about movies like
hocus Pocus, when that original is a classic. Watch it
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every single Halloween. When they did that sequel, it just
really didn't hit the same because it did all the
exact same things from the first movie, and it just
felt so dated. I worry that that is a similar
issue they are going to have with the Freaky Friday sequel.
I feel if the budget isn't right and they're really
cutting quarters just to crank something out to get people excited,
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like hey, they're back together. I'm also really hesitant now
about anything Jamie Lee Curtis is in. I feel like
she is in a phase of her career where she's
doing things for the paycheck, which is fine. She's had
such a long career made some really great movies. I
am forever in debt to her because of the Halloween franchise.
Even though she oddly hates any type of horror movie,
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she talks to trap on them all the time in interviews,
and she just had a really bad bomb with Borderlands,
so hopefully, hopefully this kills her streak of putting out
some lower quality movies. So overall, I am all in
for this movie before they show me otherwise, I give
it a ding. I'm moving on now to the new
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Tron sequel, Tron Ares. It's coming out starring Jared Leto
Evan Peters Greatily. The score will be by nine inch Nails.
The movie is coming out on October tenth, twenty twenty five.
I never really got into Tron. The first movie came
out back in nineteen eighty two, and I feel that
it lands in that category of sci fi movies that
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were just a little ahead of their time, movies like
Tron and Dune, where the source material was there, they
just didn't really have the technology available to them in
the eighties to really make those movies work unless you
were a kid in the eighties, which you really didn't
care about that. But whenever I was exposed to Tron,
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I was a kid in the nineties, probably like late
nineties when I first saw Tron, and it just felt
so dated to me. That was always the issue I
had with eighties movies is they just look so old
to me, which is wild to think, because when I
started watching movie that I really remember was probably the
late nineties, and anything in the eighties just seemed like
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it was made so long ago. But if you do
that comparison now in twenty twenty four, you'd be talking
about movies from the twenty tens, movies like Hangover too
that people would be like, Oh, that movie looks so old.
I feel like it's just because technology has gotten so
much better, or maybe I just don't want to believe
that I'm getting older that I don't see those time
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jumps to be as harsh when it comes to a
movie that comes out in twenty twenty four and how
much older it looks compared to something that came out
in twenty ten. I also believe on a movie by
movie basis, sometimes some of that cgi from like two
thousand and eight to twenty ten looks better than stuff
coming out in twenty twenty four. But I think for
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that reason, never really got into Tron. Tron Legacy came
out in twenty ten, and still I just don't fully
understand the concept to it. It doesn't really speak to me.
So for this one with Jared Leto, who recently saw
him on a bird scooter in Nashville. Just seems like
a really peculiar dude and somebody who has had a
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pretty interesting film career from Fight Club to Dallas Buyers Club.
But I just don't really see him as an actor
as famous as he is. I also don't really see
him as a musician. I just see him as Jared Leto,
the guy who is famous for kind of being weird,
has been in a lot of movies. His best role
ever is probably Morvious. I wanted to track him down
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while I saw him on that bird scooter and say, hey,
when is Morbus two coming out? Man, it's Morgan time.
So for Tron the sequel with Jared Leto, I gotta
give this one a dong. They also showed some footage
from The Mandalorian and Grogu, which will be directed by
Jon Favreau, who is one of my favorite directors. I
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don't really think he gets the credit that he deserves
for how much he did in the MCU, with Iron Man,
everything he's done with The Mandalorian. He has so many
great movies, But I feel like when you talk to
the typical film enthusiasts, they want to talk about Tarantino.
David Fincher, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, nobody really gives Jon
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Favreau the praise that he deserves for creating movies with
huge worlds, being able to blend action and heart and
just do it in a seamless way. So for that
reason and the fact that The Mandalorian is my favorite
Star Wars show, I kind of got into the Alkalite.
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I enjoyed that one enough to follow it all the
way through, and not only is it the best Star
Wars show, I feel out of everything they've put out,
including the movies. Even though I love all the movies
with Daisy Ridley, I still feel like it is the
best product to come out of Star Wars in a
very long time. Mandalorian is top tier for me, So
I can't wait to see how that translates into a movie. Fully,
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it will be better than the last season of The Mandalorian,
which is pretty okay. It just started to feel a
little bit more to me like a Saturday morning TV
show where it was kind of hokey, had more of
a vibe that was appealing to kids, which again, that
is kind of what Star Wars is doing in this
era right now. They're trying to build new fans. They
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don't really care about the old krusty dude still trying
to relive the days of the Empire strikes back. They
are in the process of making new fans to continue
the legacy, to continue being a billion dollars media franchise.
So this is what I'm excited for. Even though it
is in the Star Wars franchise, I feel out of
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everything we've been talking about so far. Technically not a sequel,
technically not a reboot. So we'll take that. We'll take that.
I give it a ding. All right, Moving on down
the list, they announced Frozen three, which will be coming
out This is Wild November twenty fourth, twenty twenty seven,
three years from now Thanksgiving twenty twenty seven. This is
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kind of like when you go to the doctor for
a checkup and then they tell you you need to
make another appointment, but it's for a year out, and
it's like, all right, a year from now, what worked
for you, morning or afternoon? I don't know. I'm just
gonna guess let's go in afternoon. Because I'm here now.
I have no idea where I'm going to be in
a year, much less three years, and I think this
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was just kind of a clickbait thing of hey, we
got Frozen three coming out, which, in my opinion, Frozen
two was much better than Frozen one. I feel like
it had the better soundtrack, it had the better story.
So is it possible for a Disney franchise to get
better and better from one to two to three. It's
never really happened. I'd say the closest it came to
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happening was probably Toy Story. Some would argue that Toy
Story two is better than one. I don't think so,
So I think in that case I could make an
argument for that, but I still go one, three, two,
and then I refuse to acknowledge four, and they're coming
out with five, and I'm not happy about that. So
Frozen has the ability to have a A plus one,
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two and three, and now I'm buying into it. I
give it a ding. We'll move through a few more
of these. Zutopia two, they announced that Kishu Kwan, you
may remember from the Goonies, Indiana Jones back in the day,
had a big revival with everything everywhere all at once.
Gave one of the best Oscar speeches in the history
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of the Academy Awards. He will be joining Zootopia two
as the creepy, highly venomous viper Gary. I just love
when he gets a role because he's so excited about it.
I just think he is so appreciative of his career
having a revival right now. Just for his sake alone,
I give this movie a ding. They did it. It's
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the Incredibles three with Brad Bird developing it. It took
so long to get an Incredibles two, which was one
of the movies that fans were actually dying to see.
A sequel to that movie still feels new to me,
but it came out in twenty eighteen, six years ago,
so I guess it's time for a sequel to that one.
I'm not really super hype on another Incredibles movie, so
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for that reason, right now, I'm gonna give it a dong.
Mentioned it earlier, but they talked about and revealed Toy
Story five. It's going to take on technology with iPads
and smartphones. You have a bunch of buzz light years malfunctioning.
It seems to me like they are getting away from
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the Andy plotline altogether, which one of my favorite fan
theories on the Internet. Internet does a lot of bad things,
A lot of all things are said on the Internet.
But every now and then you have some fan fiction
that comes out and you're like, man, they should really
make that movie. And they pitched this more for Toy
Story four, for it to be like Andy reconnecting with
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this toys, getting a back, having a really emotional ending.
I don't think we're ever getting a story like that.
I don't think Andy's ever gonna come back have one
last time to play with this toys. I think it
makes sense in a Disney movie, but when you think
about that in real life, could be a little bit
weird to interpret. Although I would love to see something
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like that, it seems like we're never going to get it,
and now they are just kind of continuing fun stories
with the toys that really have nothing to do with
Toy Story one through three. For that reason, and as
much as I love the first one, as much as
I love one, two, three, I feel like this is
a franchise that should be laid to rest and not
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be made into any more sequels. I think, if anything,
they should just make the spin offs make some prequels.
But I guess they tried with buzz Lightyer, and people
hated it and revolted, probably too unfairly, were so heavily
critical about light Year. I really enjoyed light Year, but
for Toy thirty five, I'm giving it a dong A
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couple more to talk about Avatar Fire and Ash. It
is the third movie in the Avatar franchise. I want
to hate on Avatar movies so bad because it just
feels like, how are these movies so successful? And I
didn't get Avatar when it came out back in two
thousand and nine, and it wasn't until later I gave
it a second chance that I really understood the vision
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of James Cameron. So now I love that movie. And
when I went to go see Way of the Water,
it blew me away to think how engaging that movie is.
Has a really good story, strong, strong action, and really
submerges you in the world of Pandora unlike any other movie.
And for a story to be able to keep my
attention for three plus hours, it is really hard to do.
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So on a normal day I would probably say, ha,
so many Avatar movies, but James Cameron hasn't made a
bad one yet. They continue to make a lot of money.
I'm all in on the Avatar franchise. I'm still gonna
get that feeling in my stomach when I see the
runtime of this movie and think, oh no, I'm not
gonna be able to pee for three and a half hours.
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But I will go see it and I will love it.
So I'm giving this movie a ding. And finally, the
clip that everybody sent me on social media, thank you
all for thinking to me when you saw this get
announced Lee Lowens. Stitch, the live action adaptation is coming
out next summer twenty twenty five. They showed the teaser
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of Stitch tearing through the poster, and I have to say,
Stitch looks so much better than I was anticipating. I
thought he was gonna look like this weird, uncute creature.
Because you take what is an unusually cute alien that
just works, you know, strictly animated, and take everything I've
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been saying about the live action remakes through this episode
and throw it out the window. Because Leelo and Stitch
is my favorite Disney movie of all time. Mentioned earlier
that I believe The Lion King is the best Disney
movie of all time, and I can recognize a difference
between the best and my favorite. I don't think Leelo
and Stitch when it comes to all the aspects of it,
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surrounding stories, surrounding animation style, surrounding the soundtrack, But when
it comes to it being my favorite, it just always
has been always identified with the story. I love Stitch.
He is my favorite Disney character. So this or any
other movie, like I was talking about earlier with snow
White or The Lion King, I wouldn't be excited about
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a live action remake. But after seeing Stitch and thinking
he looks much more cuter than I thought he was
going to look, I think they may actually be able
to pull this off. Got to give it a ding.
And that is the recap of the d twenty three
event and all the movies coming out in the next
few years. And now let's get into our interviews talking
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about the movie Gunner, which is about a colonel named
Lee Gunner who takes his two sons on a camping
trip trying to reconnect with them, takes their uncle out,
and then they discover some bad drug dealers and uncover
this entire massive drug operation and Gunner spends the rest
of the film trying to get his Sons back by
any means possible. If you are a fan of old
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school action movies, then this might be right up your alley.
It stars Luke Hemsworth, who you may know from Westworld.
He also had a great cameo in Thor, Love and
Thunder as actor Thor and is the brother of both
Chris and Liam Hemsworth. We'll get into that, but first
let's talk with the movies director Dmitri Logo Status, who
did Kickboxer Retaliation ju Jitsu. Will talk filmmaking, we'll talk
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action movies right now. Let's talk to Dmitri. I just
watched Gunner, and I have to say it made me
feel nostalgic in a really weird way. Now, my dad
is somebuddy who doesn't watch movies at all. He works,
he comes home, he mows the lawn, he drinks the beer.
Those are all his activities. But the kind of movies
that we would bond over are movies like Gunner, where
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you don't have to think a whole lot. You gotta
shoot him up action and those are the movies I
remember in that genre that we would bond over. The
only thing he would sit down and watch is something
like that. What were those movies for you growing up
that maybe inspired Gunner?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
First of all, with Gunner, you know, you have you know,
it's a Gary Scott Thompson's screenplay, and so Gary Scott
wrote the Fast and Furious, the first two Fast and Furious,
and so he really develops wonderful characters, and I think
you have to have that character. You have to have
that that heart where the character actually cares about his
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family and his children. And remember, the thing that inspires
him to move through all this action is that he
needs to retrieve his children. They've been kidnapped. And so
I think you have to start there. So for me,
you know, growing up, I mean I watched Clint Eastwood.
I watched all of his stuff with Dirty Harry and
there was always a morality to that. I watched Burt Reynolds,
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who was extremely entertaining. You know. Sharky's Machine was one
of my favorite films of all time. So, you know,
I really aspire to bring those characters to the screen
where you know, they're not based on a comic book,
they're not based on a ton of visual effects. They're
based on heart. And I think the character has got
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to be driven by that so, and I think you know,
your father and yourself and everybody else wants to aspire
to be that person when it comes to family and
protecting your family. You want to be able to do
whatever you need to do to do that, and sometimes
that involves punching somebody in the face.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yeah, you brought us something there that I want to
talk to you about. And if you could see from
the background here, I'm obviously a huge fan of comic books,
huge fan of comics by the way, Yeah, and I
feel like I love them so much. But I also
realize the effect they've had on the movie industry is
now a lot of people will go watch a movie
and they expect to see something that's one hundred million
dollars two hundred and fifty million dollars to make. For you,
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how do you approach that making a movie with a
smaller budget, knowing that you know audiences are kind of
used to seeing something on the level of the MCU.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Well, so what I try to do is, again, I
try to look at the page. I try to look
at the story. I try to get into the character,
and I think we start there. If I can create
a character that you like and care about as an
independent filmmaker. I think number one, I win, okay, and
if I can win your attention in your heart, that's
a second win. So anything that our leading character does
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when it comes to retrieving his family at that point,
you're going to accept. And I think you know the
expectations now. Hopefully you'll be sitting there as a young man,
older man, woman, et cetera, thinking to yourself, Wow, if
that happened to me, I guess I'd have to do
the same thing. I guess I'd have to do whatever
it takes. You know, I can't be waiting on everybody
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else to try to figure out how to bring my
kids back to me. So that's what I try to do.
I try to stay focused on the heart of the story.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
There were so many just scenes that I just had
really a lot of fun watching. I think from the
opening scene the first bar fight was just like, like,
that's what I came here to see for you. What
was the scene that was like, Okay, that is exactly
how I invisted it. It came out perfect. I'm so
proud of that moment.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Well, I mean, I'm glad you picked the first bar fight.
I thought that was a really good one. I'm not
going to talk about the end because I'd like people
to watch it, but I will tell you there's a
really wonderful sequence that takes place around the fort when
you see the gun going slow motion and stuff like that.
And that's a very complicated sequence that we pulled off
with twenty some odd stunt people. So we had to
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really rehearse that and get that down, and when we
pulled it off, I was amazed and very happy.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
The other one that looked a little bit complex that
probably nailed down was the first encounter, which well, again
won't spoil anything here, but it involves a lot of blades,
Like how does that? How is that whole scene orchestrated of? Like, okay,
this is going to be crazy.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Yeah, Well again, you know, I rehearsed these things with
my stunt team months in advance. So they're in Thailand,
and this is a mutai based martial art, and so
it's all mutai and it's very showy. As you can tell,
it's very cinematic, and so I work that out way
in advance, and then we have a lot of safety
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involved because of the fact that we work out the dance,
so you have to be very careful not to hurt anybody,
and I think again, it shows and we pulled it
off very well.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
I can only imagine how cool it is to work
with somebody as iconic as Morgan Freeman, not just his
presence visually, but just hearing his voice. I imagine it's like,
oh my gosh, it's Morgan Freeman and you being there
having them in your movie. How did that come about
of getting Morgan Freeman?
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Well, I mean, first of all, I wanted a really
likable bad guy, and he can't do better than God.
So Morgan Freeman was terrific at that.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
It was.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
My pleasure to work with Morgan. He's a professional, he
takes it seriously, he really believes in the art of acting,
and he's a lot of fun on set. He likes
to joke around and have a good time. So I
was very, very pleasantly surprised and lucky to be able
to get him for Gunner.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I just imagine he has like still a crazy work schedule,
super in demand. How many days do you get Morgan Freeman?
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Well, normally in this particular character, you know you've got
to be able to shoot him out in less than
a couple of weeks because he's throughout the film, and
so we usually schedule a film around him so that
we can get him out and make sure that we
don't get him hurt.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Going back to talking about some movies that I bonded
with with my dad early on, movies like Predator, blood Sport, Kickboxer,
which you know you worked on some sequels there for you.
If you had to put together a Mount Rushmore of
those type of action movies, what would be on your
Mount Rushmore? Your four movies?
Speaker 4 (28:18):
My god, brother, I mean, I don't know, you just
mentioned a lot of them, but you know the theme
that you have in all of those pictures is again
they're underdogs and they have to take on a challenge
that is climbing Mount Rushmore, as you said, And so
every single one of those characters is terrific from I
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think I mentioned it before, going all the way back
to the Dirty Harry characters, the Clint Eastwood characters in
the Westerns that he did, the Sergio Leone characters that
Sergio created. God, I was thinking about an other wonderful film,
The Red Sun that was that was with Alan DeLong. Okay,
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so you know, all these characters are just the characters
I grew up with.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
For everybody watching and listening, what do you hope they
take away after watching Gunner?
Speaker 4 (29:18):
I hope you have I hope you take the morality away,
and I hope you it instills in you the values
that it comes to be a father. I hope you
have fun, and I hope I get you to relax
for about an hour and a half and just lose
yourself in cinema, which is the goal entirely.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Well, I really appreciate the time. Hope everybody checks it out.
Thanks for talking.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Thank you. I appreciate it too.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Now let's get into our interview with Luke Hemsworth, who
will next be seen in a series called Darkwolf. It
is an Amazon spin off from The Terminal List. He
played Ashley Stubbs in Westworld if you watch that on HBO.
He's also been on TV shows like Young Rock, Got
to Start in Australia and even played his brother Chris
Hemsworth in thor Love and Thunder. Let's talk to Luke Hamsworth.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Can do it man, what's happening.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
I'm doing great. I just watched Gunner and I had
to say I loved your performance in this movie, and
after just seeing all the physical things you went through,
I have to imagine it is tough to get in
shape for a movie like this. What is the first
step you take of? Like, Okay, got a movie coming up,
how do I get ready?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
I was lucky I'd come up. Well, so it's lucky,
and I'm lucky I'd come off another film, a military film.
So the military stuff was in the bank that was
ready to go. We did Worcom with commandos, lots of
lots of gun trying and lots of you know, Adam
being cools, so lots of close quarters combat stuff well,
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you know, like the really fun stuff that you want
to do as an actor. And then finished. And I
was on holiday and Freji and I was playing basketball
in this this this little basketball court and I rolled
my ankle off the edge of the slab and broke
my ankle my tibia and quiet surgery. And we're about
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six weeks, six weeks away from shooting at that storage,
and so I went to I went to a great
surgeon who does a lot of the rugby players here,
and she's like, now we have we have guys who
are you know, two hundred and fifty pounds that we
got running in six weeks, we'll be fine. And I
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was dubious, but I just then it just became about rehabit.
It became about it became about doing low impacts. Uff
did a lot of the bike, you know, not a
lot of running. Surprisingly, I've just lost my light. Sorry,
I got there, you know, A credit to her as
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a as a as a surgeon. And I think having
the date locked in my mind, I was like, I
have to do everything in my power to my child.
I'm able to move promptly, and by the time we
got to shooting, I was I was pretty good. And
there's still complains going on and carefully curated movements and
running in the right places and jumping in the right places.
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But I did everything, you know, that's all me. There's
there's no there's no stunt double there. So I'm pretty
I'm pretty stoked to be able to get to that point.
But it's a it's an ongoing thing, you know. It
never you just never stopped. You always have to have
to keep working on it.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
The movie hooked me in from the very beginning, that
very first fight scene, and I have to imagine that
was probably a lot of fun to shoot for you,
what was the most just fun action sequence out of
the movie.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Yeah, that was a fun one. That's a good one.
I love the scene there's there's one in the steel works,
which I thought was was the most fun. I sort
of get my ass kicked down the hallway trying to
trying to kick some asses back and it's pretty pretty
evenly matched for most of that. That was the great
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that I really love that. Just a really cool environment
all the you know, these massive rusting pots everywhere, and
you know, the things are on fire and sparking, and
that was that was that kind of TERMINI at the
moment for me, like, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Gotta imagine as an actor, doing an American accent is
probably hard. What word would you say in the English language?
An American accent is like the hardest to get down
where it's like, oh, that kind of gives it away
then I'm Australian. There's a few.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
There's a few. Yeah, and very early on in your
career that people who are quite uh you know, quite
liberally telling you that when your accent is bad and
what where.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Is it pumping out?
Speaker 3 (33:47):
One of them for me is is is we said
being in Australia. Where have you been? B w N,
where's the American side been? Where you've been? That's a
dead giveaways is when you're doing your accent and then
those kinds of words in But I actually I got uh,
I got lot let go of a job very early.
And it starts because my accident wasn't good enough, and
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so I spent I spent a lot of time and
effort amerking sure that it's it's as good as good
as they can be, hopefully, hopefully I put all those
things to bread. It's it's kind of been graying now
and people who live here in Astralia like, why does your
accident sound weird? Because there's just americanisms that I've a
part of the way that I speak now.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
I was talking to Dmitri about the movie and how
it was kind of nostalgic for me of reminding me
of movies that I used to watch with my dad,
because not really in the movies at all, but if
you put on an action movie where it's people beating
each other up, he's all in on it. And for you,
who are those action stars that maybe you watch as
a kid of like, oh, someday I want to be
an actor like them in a movie.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Yeah, I mean I love I love Van dam I
love yeah, everything that he did. You know, I remember
watching Kickboxing and quoting every word from blood Sport, and
I think I think I still do with a couple
of my buddies that we used to watch You're with Saloon, Uh,
you know Schwarzenegger. I think, you know, I think Terminator
two and Terminatory Terminator one and two or two of
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the gross movies ever Aliens. Yeah, I I those those
action films of that that era were so fundamental. I
think in my career that were that were a big
part of me wanting to you wanted to just play
as a human bringing too. You know, you're you're out
there emulating these these men who are who are man
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who are getting the job done? Yeah, and doing it
with wonderful one liners out the side of their mouth. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Bruce Lee too.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
I really loved Bruce Lee.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Growing up, I wanted to be a rock star and
my brother and I started a punk band when I
was like thirteen years old. I played guitar, he played drums,
and that was like always a passion of mine and
it was because you know it with me and my
brother doing something. You and your brothers are all actors.
Was that like a thing like you all wanted to
be actors? Or did somebody get the acting bug first?
How did that all just unfold?
Speaker 3 (36:04):
I think we just all loved playing. And you know,
like you said you formed the punk band, I mean
we we would just we would role play. We would
make wooden swords and wooden guns. And my mom would
hide the TV to literally carry the TV downstairs and
put it in the in the wardrobe and we would
have no TV and so we were forced to forced to,
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you know, write our own strips. And we had slug
guns and all sorts of stuff. And would you I
would dress my brothers up and you know, tell them
to run because it will hurt more the closer you are,
you know, Like I think, I think that's a big
part of it. I think a big part of it
is neither none of us who are any good at
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anything else. But I went to university, you know, I
went and studied that. Maybe I started it, but I
think three years of the contemporary arts, imagined in drama,
and then went on too, you know, austraying shop operas
and straining film and television from there and then finally
to the US. But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
What it is.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
I don't know their answer to that other than that,
other than we all like to just we look to
have fun. But you know, I also think I also
think it's excuse my language, you know, acting is acting
is very, very difficult, and I think that's an attractive
part for all of us as well, is that it
mixes both the ability to have a good time with
something that's incredibly precise and an inventive and very hard
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to do it, how to do well.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
So somewhere out there there's a script that you wrote
with all your brothers. Did you guys ever film any
of that? Is there like a video, like a like
a Tesk movie out there? One day?
Speaker 3 (37:48):
I hopes one day, one day that's the dream. There'll
be no action in it will just be three of us.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Thanks for talking with me, Cheers, Mane, Thanks very much.
Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie review
of Alien Romulus. I had pretty low expectations going into
this movie. As a whole. I wouldn't call myself a
fan of the Alien franchise. There are some hardcore, dedicated
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fans of Alien, and I think for me is because
it's always described to me as a horror franchise, and
I love Space, I love Aliens, I love space exploration movies,
but I never really saw Alien as a horror icon.
In my opinion, there are some great moments from the
original movie that I feel transcend that genre, but I
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just don't really go into these movies thinking, oh, I'm
gonna go in and be really scared, And I think
that has to do with how I was introduced to
the horror genre movies like Halloween Night, maren elm Street,
Friday the Thirteenth. I didn't really look at Alien the
same way I looked at those movies. I just wanted
to see how this movie stood on its own. Because
it's supposed to be rebooting the franchise. The only thing
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you really need to know is where this movie takes place.
So Alien came out in nineteen seventy nine, that sequel
came out called Aliens in nineteen eighty six. Alien Romulus
takes place twenty years after the original Alien and in
between Aliens from nineteen eighty six, so it is both
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a sequel and a prequel to the sequel to Aliens.
So even if you had to watch them all, maybe
you would get confused on that timeline. So it is
a more direct sequel to the original one from nineteen
seventy nine than it is just an extension of the franchise.
So they do a pretty good job at letting you
know that. At the beginning of the movie, they say
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it takes place twenty years after, and they show you
some of the imagery that became so iconic from the
original Alien movie. But what Alien Romulus is about. You
have Kaylee Spaney's character, who is working on this planet
where he has to earn a certain amount of credits
to be able to be reassigned to a different planet.
She has an android brother, so he looks human, but
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he is not. He has all these electronics in him.
He has this little slot in the back of his
ear that contains all of his coating. But you'll learn
more exactly why she calls him her brother. And they
are trying to get to this new planet where you
can see the sun. You're supposed to have a better
life there, but it looks like because this company that
they are working for is so horrendous, they are not
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going to be able to leave so they meet this
other group of people who have this idea. They've discovered
this space station that is just roaming and aboard. That
space station has five pods on it, and those five
pods they can use to put themselves into hypersleep. It
takes I believe, eight years to get to this planet
they're trying to get to. They get in those pods,
they go to sleep, and they wake up on a
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better planet. Sounds easy as that. They need her brother
because he is an android. He will be able to
get on the ship and get clearance to where they
need to go. So they decide to go with them
on this to this space station. But what are they
encounter on that space station? Or what are all these
movies about aliens who want to kill you? You have
the face huggers returning. Those are those aliens that get
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on your face, They sit on your face and then
invade your body, which is just a great visual. They
use that a lot in the marketing. That's really all
they needed to show in the poster, which I love
the poster of just that black and red poster with
the face hugger over the character's face. That's what you
need to know about alien you also have the iconic
big alien that has like the little mouth that comes out.
But this movie is not directed by the original director
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Ridley Scott. It is directed by Fede Alvarez. Will also
did movies like Don't Breathe and the reboot to Evil Dead,
and I have to say he did a fantastic job
with this movie. Again, I went into it with pretty
low expectations and I was surprised that how quickly this
movie moved along. What I was telling you about earlier
is probably the first twenty minutes of the movie, and
then you get right into the story, goes right into
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them discovering the aliens on the ship and all of
the chaos that ensues. And with a movie that is
right under two hours, I think I clocked at at
about an hour and fifty one minutes. I thought that
was crucial to it. And the visuals themselves just look
so much better than I was expecting. I love the
rings around the planet that they were inching closer to
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all the scenes on the ship just really made me
feel like the production value was there. The other unexpected
thing that really made me kind of feed into the
vibe of this movie was the score just kind of
chugging there underneath it all. It almost made it feel
magical at times, like I was watching a Harry Potter movie.
Maybe Harry Potter would in two where I was thinking,
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this is supposed to be a horror movie, but it's
kind of giving me that Christmas movie vibe where it
just has like this warm feeling to it. But then
you throw an alien on screen and you're like, oh wait,
it's just made to make those moments feel a little
bit more tense, almost like it softens the blow a
little bit. But again, I love it when a movie
has a good score because that tells me there's been
attention to detail. It didn't really feel to me, which
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is often the problem I have with movies inside of
big franchises that they're just using that alien name to
sell a generic movie. Not the case here. I really
feel like they are trying to reboot this franchise in
a really important way. There were a lot of things
that were odes to the original. It followed a lot
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of the beats of the original movie, but then it
added its own flare to it, and they have to
do that in order to make a seventh film in
this franchise. I did love David Johnson's character. He plays
the Ai brother. I feel like he really did his
homework on the franchise, but also did a really good
job at kind of switching gears in in a way,
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playing two different characters and change personalities and then become
a lead figure in the film. Thought he did a
really good job at that. But hands down, Kaylee Spainey
was my favorite. You might remember her if you watch
Civil War or if you saw Priscilla. She was Priscilla
in that movie, and after watching her in Alien Rombulus,
it showed me that she has what it takes to
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be a great lead. She has an aura about her
that draws you into her character really helped invest me
in the story. I really bought her as an action lead,
and she made the character her own. Even though it
is similar to Sigourney Weaver's character in the original film,
she definitely could have played it the exact same way,
but instead gave us a different look. So it is
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really making me think that she is going to be
around in Hollywood as a lead for a long time.
And even though I enjoyed it, I still don't really
consider it to be a horror movie at no point
was I scared in any way. And I'm not trying
to say this as like nothing scares me. I'm all good,
I'm tough. No, I wanted to be scared. My favorite
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experience at a movie sitting in the middle row during
a horror movie and allowing myself to take in all
of the senses, the sites, the smells, well hopefully not
the smells, but the sound, and allow myself open myself
up to being scared. But I didn't really think that
this movie tried to scare the viewer. I don't really
think that is the intention of the Alien franchise. I
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think it kind of has to have that label on
it because it's not quite just what you go into
expecting from a space movie. It doesn't quite fall in
that genre. But really, to me, it doesn't really fall
in the horror genre either, because yes, it's creepy to
have these killer aliens, and yes there's blood and guts
and acid and all of that, but it doesn't really
have that same tension that I look for in a
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horror movie. They don't really rely on jump scares, which
is great. I often feel like jump scares are just
kind of cheap and put in there to really dupe
the viewer into thinking that it's a scary movie. So
I'm glad that they don't rely on those same cliche
things that would make it just another horror movie. But
people love putting things into a genre, love being able
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to categorize something, so it kind of falls into that
horror sci fi genre. I just think it is a fun,
exciting summer movie to close out the summer blockbuster season
for Alien Romulus. I give it a four out of
five Space Stations. It's time to head down to Movie
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Mike Trailer Hall. The year was nineteen seventy five. This
crew has ninety minutes to get their crap together talking
about Saturday Night Live. The movie is called Saturday Night.
It is about the creation of the show, but more
specifically the ninety minutes leading up to its very first episode,
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first time going on the air live hour and a
half show at the time revolutionary to take a bunch
of twenty year olds were relatively unknown, put them online
TV in a non traditional format sketch show. Is it
gonna work? A couple of reasons I like this movie.
(46:56):
One kind of feels like a student film. After watching
this trailer, the overall quality is very raw and just
kind of chaotic. But I think that is the vibe
they are trying to give off in this trailer in
this story the chaotic nature of live television. Second thing
is ninety minutes Oh I Love Me in ninety minute comedy.
And this doesn't seem like it's going to be a
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full on ha comedy, biographical bit of dark humor. They're
describing it a little bit as a thriller comedy, which
I think is interesting, and I think that's probably attributing
more to the chaotic nature of the live show. But
I think that is going to work really well. So
I don't think it's supposed to look polished. It's supposed
to feel like it's all over the place because it's
supposed to induce that anxiety that working in live TV has.
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I work in live radio. I know the feeling. Once
you're live, there is no messing up, there are no retakes.
You hit that live on the air boom you are in.
It probably more chaotic back in the seventies on television,
but this movie is taking place at eleven thirty pm
October eleventh, nineteen seventy five. Looks like it's gonna be
centered around Lorne Michaels, who is the creator of Saturday
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Night Live, very first season, very first cast. You're talking
Dan Aykroyd, Belushi, Andy Kaufman, all of the great people
have been saying Saturday Night Live hasn't been good since
the seventies. I think it's had several different iterations that
I have enjoyed. So before I get into more what
I think about this movie, the really impressive cast, the
director that I have a lot of trust in, here's
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just a little bit of the Saturday Night trailer. Look,
my name is Lorne, Michael's on the Crucier Saturday Night.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
The whole night, Yeah, the whole night, Chevy Chase, skilled
a Rader, Dan, I God, how the fuck do you
pronounce this?
Speaker 3 (48:40):
Dack? Really, NBC is lucky to have something as relevant
as a show one they don't even.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
Want sad logicals think that's why they're paying.
Speaker 3 (48:47):
Us all to be here.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
I mean more than ninety minutes of live television.
Speaker 2 (48:50):
Michael, who's twenty year olds who've never.
Speaker 3 (48:52):
Made any we ever stopped in Longerwise, they said, yes.
Speaker 1 (48:57):
They want you to fail, and you can kind of
hear it in that trailer that ticking that as the
speed of their voice gets more and more rapid, that
is the chaotic nature of live television. This movie is
gonna cover the humor, the chaos, and the magic of
the revolution that almost wasn't. I think it's interesting to
make a movie about Saturday Night Live at this point
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in time because Lorne Michaels is still alive, a lot
of these cast members are still alive. But I really
only know about the creation of the story by hearsay,
by legends, and now we're gonna fully get to see
it in a movie. And it looks crazy, It looks chaotic.
You have Jim Henson in there, which I didn't even
know was associated with Saturday Night Live. But in that
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trailer he talks about some of the cast members tying
up Big Bird by his neck, So I assume Jim
Henson was working in the same building in New York
as Saturday Night Live. That sounds fun. Some of the
cast here, it's pretty impressive. You have Gabriel LaBelle as
the lead role of Lorden Michaels. I primarily know him
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from The Fable, where he played a young Steven Spielberg.
Rachel Sennett who I know from bottom. She is hilarious.
She is playing Rosie Schuster. Corey Michael Smith will play
Chevy Chase. Dylan O'Brien as dan Aykroyd. I never looked
at Dylan O'Brien and thought you look like dan Ackroid,
But seeing him in this trailer with the seventies wardrobe,
the singular mustache, he does look and bear a striking
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resemblance to dan Aykroyd, even has his mannerisms down. I
really associate Dylan O'Brien with one of my favorite movies
of twenty twenty, back when only a handful of movies
came out. But he was in a movie called Love
and Monsters, And anytime I see a poster or a
trailer or something about that movie, it instantly takes me
back to twenty twenty. It was a good movie. I
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feel didn't really get a lot of attention because it
came out at a time where we're only streaming movies
at home. But I remember, in a weird year, with
so much uncertainty on my end and a lot of
people's in a lot of sadness, that movie brought me
a lot of There will always be a special place
in my internal movie Show for Love and Monsters, and
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I thought Dylan O'Brien was really great in that, and
I'm hoping him as dan Aykroyd delivers in this. You
have Matt Wood as John Belushi, Nicholas Braun as Andy Kaufman,
and Jim Henson. Which one of my favorite things about
the first ever episode of Saturday Night Live is Andy Kaufman,
which I've seen in other iterations of his story, whether
it be the Netflix documentary Man on the Moon, but
(51:30):
he did his famous Mighty Mouse sketch on the first
episode of SNL wherever he's up there playing the record
and all he does is said the line here I
come to save the day, Love Andy Kaufman. But I
don't think they're gonna get to the actual episode in
this movie. It seems to be the ninety minutes leading
up to it. I imagine it gets more and more
(51:51):
chaotic as it goes along. You see people fighting, you
see people throwing things, you see people writing on cameras.
So I have to imagine the very last scene of
this movie is going to be right when it hits
Live on the air, and then the movie is gonna
hit the credits, because it doesn't seem like that is
going to be the story. It seems the story is
(52:13):
the reason Louren Michaels was put in this situation was
to fail. And also it's directed and co written by
Jason Rightman, who is the dad of Ivan Rightman Rip,
but he is responsible for Ghostbusters one, Two, Twins, Kindergarten,
Cop Meatballs, so Ivan's's dad Jason is directing this movie.
I love a nepo baby again. Don't really have a
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problem with nepotism when it comes to Hollywood, because I
think about it. If somebody accused me of being a
nepo baby, saying my dad's a truck driver. If I
went on to be a truck driver, nobody would be like, ah,
you nepo baby taking over the family business. That's just
what happens. You're around it as a kid, obviously gonna
be drawn to it. So I don't really have a
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problem with nepo babies as long as they own up
to it when they get real deaf and are like no,
like no, just own up to it. It'd be the
same way I would own up to it. If my
dad had his own trucking business, an I were to
take over it, of course other people would have been
there a while would be like, of course the bus
the son is getting the job. But I have no
problem with it with Jason Rightman, the son who was
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directing this movie. He also did Ghostbusters Afterlife, one of
a couple of my favorite movies from the two thousands,
Up in the Air and Juno, so I feel like
we are in the right director's hands for this movie
to get it right. Also, rounding out the cast, you
have Matthew Reese as George Carlin, who was the first
host of Saturday Night Live. Willem Dafoe is playing an
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NBC head executive. You also have JK. Simmons as Milton Burrell.
A lot of people think that Saturday Night Live isn't
funny anymore. I still make it a point to watch
every single week when it is in season. My favorite
episode in the last year has to be when Ryan
Gosling hosted the Beavis and butt Head sketch is still
(54:01):
one of my favorite and I can't even remember my
last favorite sketch of Saturday Night Live. For me, I
think my favorite era for the show was the twenty tens,
and I don't think they had one specific star during
that time that I would say that was the Asen
Hole that was the best SNL cast member at that time.
Maybe a Kristen Wig, but I think it was a
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collection of that entire cast. It's almost like what happens
in the movie Moneyball. They lose their star player and
they have to build a winning team by strategically putting
together all these players who don't cost a whole lot,
but by finding players who do maybe a couple things,
well maybe only one thing, will they can all add
up to replace that superstar that you were missing. That
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is how I felt about the twenty tens. They didn't
have that one person who was just killing all the
time who was the one star, but all together with
Bill Hayt or Jason Sidekis even Jenny Slayton there who
I loved, Andy Samberg, Fred Armison, Bob moynihan, Jay Farrell,
Seth Myers, Tarren kill him. I'll even throw Amy Poehler
in there. That entire era. A Saturday Night Live was
(55:08):
my favorite because I kind of got in on the
tail end of everybody from the nineties. And while those
cast members do make my top five SNL cast members
of all time. It was more through watching clips. I remember,
I love getting the SNL DVDs that was the best
of certain cast members. That is how I took in
a lot of their work and also a lot of
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the cast members from the two thousand. So if I
had a top five SNL cast members of all time,
at number five, I would put Keenan Thompson, primarily because
he's been there.
Speaker 2 (55:39):
For so long.
Speaker 1 (55:40):
Keenan Thompson will not go away from SNL. He has
been there for twenty seasons from two thousand and three
to twenty twenty four. I just think the volume of
work that he has put in. I look at all
the famous sketches in the last twenty years and he
is probably in one of them. I also love what
Up with That? Or whenever they do family Feud, and
he'd Steve Harvey. Keenan Thompson has been just in show
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business since he was a kid from Heavyweights, all that
Keenan and Kel, so I would put him at number five.
At number four, I would put Tina Fay, who was
there for nine seasons from nineteen ninety seven to two
thousand and six. I put her in my top five
because I think she was the best at Weekend Update,
and there are a lot of great people who did
Weekend Update. Chevy Chase, obviously, Norm McDonald I would put
(56:26):
on the list, even though I don't really feel like
people fully appreciated what he did on Weekend Update. Even now,
Colin Jost and Michael Chay are my favorite thing consistently
about Saturday Night Live, but I still think Tina Fey
and Amy Poehler were the best to do it, So
she's at number four. At number three, I would put
Will Ferrell. I think he is in the most iconic
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sketches of the two thousands and as somebody who used
that fame to translate into a stellar movie career. But
he went way beyond SNL. But I would put Will
Ferrell at number three. From nineteen nine to two thousand
and two. At number two, was only there five seasons,
but was so impressionable. Adam Sandler, he was there from
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nineteen ninety one to nineteen ninety five. I think what
I remember more than all of his characters from SNL
were the songs, my favorite being lunch Lady Land Adam
Sandler with the guitar on SNL. It's great at number
one for five seasons from nineteen ninety to nineteen ninety five.
Though one and only Chris Farley, he was never in
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a bad sketch. Down by the River his hands down
the greatest sketch to ever air on Saturday Night Live.
Second place to that would probably be whenever he did
the Columbian Coffee Crystals where he flipped out. Also his
Chippendale Sketch. I love whenever he would interview famous celebrities.
It'd be really awkward talking to Paul McCartney. Hey, you
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remember when you were in the Beatles? You remember that?
That was awesome. They are making a movie about his life,
starring Paul Walter Housa, directed by Josh Gadd, who you
may know well, I guess primarily from the Book of Mormon.
I also remember him from The Rocker, which was a
movie about a rock band that he did with Rain Wilson.
But I guess what most people would probably know him
(58:10):
for is Frozen. Not me. I remember him from The Rocker,
So yeah, I hope that movie's good. I hope Saturday
Night is good. It is coming out on October eleventh,
Live from New York.
Speaker 2 (58:20):
It's Saturday Night at that for was this week's edition
of movie Li Framer.
Speaker 1 (58:25):
Par and that is going to do it for another
episode here of the podcast, but before I go, I
got to give my listeners shout out of the week.
This week we are going over to the YouTube channel
if you don't know, I post my full spoiler free
reviews over there, so if you don't want to just
listen to it, you can go watch it. I tried
adding a whole new angle, which I think looks pretty slick,
(58:47):
but again, it's just me doing the editing over here,
so it takes me a little bit longer, so I
would appreciate it if you go check out that word.
But this week's listener shout out goes to Nick Castillo,
who commented on my review of m Night Shyamalan's Trap
and said, not that it helps the overall logic of
the movie, but there is a brief line when Cooper's
daughter says she's so glad that Lady Raven added a
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third show when the Night Show sold out. Love the
podcast listen every single week. I have to say I
think I missed that line, but hearing that being described
sounds so forced in there. I feel like that line
was put in to cover for the reason that it
was taking place during the day. Oh, it's really great
that she added a third show during the day. That
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makes it easier to make this motion picture. I feel
like that was a bit of a cop out, but
thanks Nick for catching that and for commenting and watching
over on YouTube, and for that you are this week's
listener shout out of the week. Thank you movie crew,
And until next time, go out and watch good movies
and I will talk to you later.
Host
Mike D
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