September 2, 2024 • 48 mins
Mike and Kelsey are back for Movies of the Month for August. They each share the Best and Worst movie they saw and discuss the close to the summer blockbuster season, Blake Lively's celebrity status vs. acting career and a coming of age movie that stirred up some of their childhood traumas. In the Movie Review, Mike and Kelsey talk about Sing Sing starring Colman Domingo. He plays a man who was Imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. He finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men. Mike and Kelsey talk about how the movie packed an emotional punch to the gut. In the Trailer Park, Mike talks about the new comedy "Y2K” that hits theaters December 6th. It's about a bunch of kids trying to survive when machines go haywire and start killing people at midnight on January 1st, 2000.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike, joined by my wife and
co host Kelsey. How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
We're back doing our movies of the month for August.
In the movie review, we'll be talking about Sing Sing,
which was a movie that moved us both yes, and
then in the trailer Park, we'll be talking about a
movie called Y two K that is all about if
Y two K actually happened and all the technology went down.
Were you a little bit too young for Y two K?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I remember you remember the craze of people thinking that
once they went to two thousand that all the computers
were going to shut down.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, because I was almost six, because my birthday is
right after the New Year, so it was five going
on six. I feel like I remember that.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Did you and your mom do anything to prepare?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I feel like my mom probably did. I remember the craze,
but she wasn't like talking to me about it.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I don't think we did anything because we didn't have
anything technological in our house that we were like worried about.
I guess we were more worried about bank shutting down.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I was gonna say I feel like the biggest concern
was banks. My mom worked at a bank for a
long time, so I feel like she was relatively confident
that the banks wouldn't just completely crap out.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
But that's what that movie's about. What if it did happen? Well,
thank you for this.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Was actually kind of like when the Delta system shut down.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
It's true, it's like Southwest right now, still running on
a rolodex.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, that was like, Actually, what why two K would
have been because their system shut down and they're like, well,
can't get you anywhere.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
So we'll get into that. Thank you for listening, Thank
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Speaker 1 (01:46):
Movies of the Month for August. I feel like it's
been one of the best months of the summer.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Interesting, you don't what was your favorite month? July?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Oh, July, I think was my least favorite.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
July had Twisters and Deadpool.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, but that was two and fly Me to the Moon.
I feel like there's so many more in August. I'm
looking at my list here and there's like eight movies.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Interesting, that's a hot take.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I thought August was way stronger, which August is usually
the decline of the summer blockbuster season. But I felt
like there were more hidden gems. I have more floors
in August than I did for July.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I don't agree with that. But the last time I
told you that your take was stupid, someone on the
internet called me a not nice name.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Is it because you love Twisters so much that we've
now seen twice? Possibly we'll see first third time in theaters.
We have a code now to watch it at home,
thanks to everybody at Universal who send us awesome box
if you didn't watch that on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
The greatest package we've ever received.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
But is it because you loved that movie so much?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Now?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
There was just always something to see. It was like
the first weekend we saw just pick well me for
and there was fly Me to the Moon, and there's Twisters.
Then there was Deadpool and Twisters again, like there was
great stuff in July. There was always something. I feel
like this month we kind of had to be like, Okay,
what's coming out this week? What are we going to see?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
And I think it's because we had lower expectations going
into the movies this month that I felt like, oh,
this is a really solid month and more. Before we
get into our favorite and our least favorite, I'll go
through all the movies we saw, and we did see
some movies apart. You saw one without me, I saw
one without you.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
This is correct, suisfactual.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
So going through the list, Trap which you didn't see
with me, the Instigator, which was an at home one,
Dedie Gunner, which was also I watched that one at home.
I had a screener for that alien Romulus, which you
didn't see with me, Sing Sing, and then we closed
it out with Blink twice. I feel like those all
together is a solid month.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
And then I saw it ends with us true.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I think that's better for me.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Okay, I still disagree, but.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
We'll get into our best and the worst. You kick
it off. What was the best thing out of all
these for August?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I'm gonna go one that surprised me, Blink twice.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I was saying that I feel like this is a
movie people are either going to love or hate.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
TikTok is a buzz.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
It's right, it's kind of pull our opposites.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I think any movie, if you are concerned that you're
not gonna like it, you need to watch the trailer.
Were trigger warnings even the trailer, Like I didn't watch
the trailer thinking this is gonna be funny, like you
know that it's gonna be kind of like a creepy
psychological thriller. Reviews compared it to Get Out Before and
(04:13):
people are like, what did I just watch? This was terrible?
There were no warnings, like no, there was a literal
full screen warning before the movie.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
That leads me to believe there is still a select
group of people that would just go watch a movie
based on the A List star, based on the lead.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah. The lady in the TikTok was like, I just
wanted to watch Channing Tatum. It's like okay, which is.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
A bizarre way to go into a movie just because
Channing Tatum, who you probably know from Magic Mic and
maybe haven't seen a Channing Tatum movie since or like
twenty two Jump Street twenty one, Jump Street, Step Up,
and you think, oh, yeah, that movie, you forgot.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
My favorite movie all the time.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I feel like he's had such an evolution as an actor,
primarily being in the rom coms. Then he kind of
shifted into being like the action star, which never really
kicked off. He kind of transitioned into being the comedic star,
which I think was kind of a juxtaposition of you
see him and you don't think comedy, but then he's
really good at comedy at comedy, and now I feel
like he's just making really good movies, having one of
(05:07):
the best years out of any actor.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
He's having a summer.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
So it's weird for me to see somebody go into
just watching a movie and thinking it's gonna be everything
he's done maybe ten fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah, I agree. I think that, Yeah, you just need
to watch the trailer, like if you're concerned at all
about the movie. I also think it was raded R,
wasn't it?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
It was raded R.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Okay, that tells you all you need, That tells you
all you need to know. And yeah, it was disturbing.
That's why there were trigger warnings.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
And if you go into the movie, you see the
trigger warning and think, I don't know if this is
for me. You can go get a refund. I think
a lot of people don't know that. I think it's
within the first twenty to thirty minutes, probably different based
on the theater you go to. You can still get
a refund.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Should have done that when I took my grandma to
Talladay Nights.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
So if you see that at the beginning and think, huh,
I don't know if I'm in for that. I also
feel like that was a little bit rage bait. What
were the other things you enjoyed about this one that
made it your favorite?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I thought the acting was really good. It was a
great cast. Had Adria Ariona from Hitman. She's also having
a great summer. Her and Glenn pal both just movie
after movie.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
You knew Hollywood creeping in there.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Zoe Kravitz was a great director. I feel like the
storytelling was just really good, and it wasn't It wasn't
creepy the whole time. It's kind of a slow burn,
which I enjoyed because, like I do get scared easily.
I've mentioned that I didn't want to watch a psychological
thriller and have my blood pressure up the whole time.
But the first hour kind of built wasn't too scary.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
This was one I was worried for you in the
sense that you don't like anything scary whatsoever. He suspense,
and I thought it was going to be a little
bit too on that more in the get out Us
Jordan Peele type horror that you were not going to
be a fan of. But once we got going into it,
I think this is something you can handle. It's no
crazier than I would say any kind of murdered Netflix
(06:55):
show or anything like that. And I feel like as
an audience, as Americans, we're getting really desensitized to anything
that's overly graphic. Yeah, which is good and bad. I
guess to think, like, oh, we're just so used to
blood and guts and all these things happening on TV
shows and movies that were kind of past that.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I just thought it was really good overall. I enjoyed it.
It kept me kind of wondering what was happening. It
was like I read a lot of thrillers and I
was just talking to you about this because I read
one that was called it mid But I was like,
I read so many thrillers that like reading a thriller,
it's kind of hard to shock me these days, like
I can see the plot twist coming, but a movie
like that, I was like, oh, I didn't see that coming.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, which is also rare for me. I started to
I just do this, I start calling things, I pick
up on little thing, just because I know it's that
type of movie. But there were some moments that were
still surprises even to me. So I think Zoe Kravitz
did an amazing job making their first movie.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, So that was my best of the month.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
My best of the month comes down to two movies,
Alien Romulus and De Dy, Which Alien Romulus was the
most surprising to me because, like we've been talking about
this month, I went in with pretty low expectations and
ended up really enjoying it, even though I'm not the
biggest fan of the Alien franchise as a whole. But
I think when it comes down to my favorite of
the month, it goes to DD just because I haven't
(08:14):
seen a movie take place in that time period done
that well, to just so good, like two thousand and nine.
Two thousand and eight to two thousand and nine is
like a golden year for me, and seeing all those
things that Dedie went through and realizing that also the
director is like my age. So I feel like that
movie was made for somebody exactly my age, also somebody
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who their parents migrated from another country. And it was
also just I won't call it a straight on comedy.
There were some funny parts, but it was kind of
a dramedy. Yeah, where I wouldn't tell somebody go watch
this movie because it's hilarious, but there are funny parts
in it. And I feel like that movie is relatable
to anybody who's ever been a teenager. That's really the
prerequisite for it.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I mean it captured similar to what we talked about,
like eighth grade. It captured which you probably related to
this one more because it was a teenage boy, whereas
I already in eighth grade. But it was like it
captures the essence of that awkward time of being like
thirteen fourteen, eighth grade into ninth grade and my trauma.
But I still haven't forgiven my parents for is that
(09:17):
they moved me in the middle of eighth grade.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Eighth grade was my worst year ever.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
They moved me in the middle of it, which was
incredibly rude and difficult. But I did meet my best friend,
who is still my best friend this day on the
bus and we were like the two weird kids, and
we've been best friends ever since, so that was the
only good thing. But that was some trauma.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I think I lost any friend I made from six
to seventh grade in eighth grade.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Eighth grade is brutal.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
It is so and I don't even know why. It
just got to a point where I just stopped talking
to people because they stopped talking to me.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Everyone thinks that they're better, and then you get to
ninth grade and it's like everyone who was terrible to
you in eighth grade is like, hey, happy first day
of school, and you're like.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Me, I still have the blade of my back from
last year.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
You're like, you've literally spit on me, Like why are
you being nice to me?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah. I remember eating lunch alone a lot in eighth grade,
making friends with people I did not want to be
associated with, just because they'd be the only ones who
would sit around me at lunch, and I just remember
that time being awful.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I also apparently got a lot of hate because I
came in and I was really smart and I would
like raise my hand and answer questions, and I didn't know.
I didn't really fully realize that being smart would put
a target on your back. But sucks to be all
of them because I was smarter than all of them,
and I did graduate third in my class in high school.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
So that's a fun thing to talk about. What were
the things that put a target on your back in
let's just say seventh and eighth grade? You said that one.
For me, one of the big ones was just me
wearing all black all the time, which people associated me
with being emo coth and I would get made fun
of that all the time because I wore all black.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Having a hard to pronounce last name.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Don't know why that just makes you a.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Target because would they make fun of it.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah. I was telling my younger brother the story the
other day, and one time somebody made fun of my
last name, and I was like, sorry, take it up
with my dad, dad and shut them up. Ooh, that
was a good cum.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
That's always like the una reverse card.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah, that like being smart, having a hard to pronounce
last name, and then weirdly like I had a hot mom,
which makes it really difficult to be a teenage.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Girl from the teenage boy or the teenage girl.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
The teenage boy, like, my mom would come have lunch
with me at school and everyone be like, oh man,
who's that. I like, it's my mom. Wait. I could
tell they found my mom more attractive than they found me.
So that was all so difficult.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
That's quite the top three there.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
It was pretty rough for me.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
It was an all black clothing goes hand in hands
being into punk rock. Number two was being chunky. That's
just an easy target. Number three, I guess being Mexican,
just because people expect things out of me or assume
stereotypes about me.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I guess my top was above all those was just
being the new kid, new kid, smart, hard pronounced last name.
I wore glasses. People mocked that.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Hardy never got made fun of for my glasses.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I'm sorry. Yeah, I was the new kid a lot.
That was really difficult.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I was the quiet kid, and I hated it.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I was the new kid often. I think I changed
schools like nine times throughout the course of K through twelve.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah, that's rough, all right. Now, they were through all
of our trauma.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Now that we're through Kelsey's childhood trauma, I thank you
for joining if anyone is a psychologist listening, Please let
me know what's wrong with me.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
But there you godd was my best. Now getting into
our worst. What was the worst thing you saw in August?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Am I going the opposite ento the Spectrum, also done
by one of Taylor Shift's best friends. It ends with Us, which.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
You love book adaptations.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I hated that book. I am not a Colleen Hoover fan.
I'm so sorry to anyone. I am not trying to
yuck your yum. If Colleen Hoover is what gets you
into reading, I'm all for that. Read what makes you happy.
I just there were so many things that I didn't
like about the book, and then going into the movie,
I had very low expectations. So the movie was fine.
I didn't hate it, it just was the not my worst,
(12:57):
my least favorite. The wardrobe was terrible. That was so distracting.
The clothes were awful, Like I don't know how you
make it like lively look bad, but they did.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
People think that doesn't matter. That matters a lot to me.
And you can tell the when it's bad. Sometimes you
can't always tell when it's good, but when it's bad,
you know that it's bad.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
It was like, when they started filming, photos were getting
leaked and everyone's like, maybe this is to throw us off. No,
those were her outfits. I'm like, was this sponsored by Carhart?
That's truly Jenny Slay was great in it.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I love her, great comedian.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah, I just didn't. That was one of those that
I was like, this is gonna be h and I'll
I'll give a trigger warning if you It does deal
with some heavy topics, so if you haven't seen it,
you haven't read the book. And that one didn't have
a trigger warning, So I think that was also people's
issue with it, where it's like Blink twice had one,
it ends with us didn't. And I did kind of
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market it a little bit as a rom com, which
a rom comment is not, so I think the marketing
went astray.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
There's a lot there, So probably only the people who
either watched the trailer or read the book kind of
knew that was coming.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
And I don't even feel like it was that much
in the trailer.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Oh really Yeah, I don't feel like it was really
so kind of with the Chanting Tatum case, maybe some
people were just going to watch it because Blake Lively
was in it.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah, and I there's a lot of like hate surrounding
Lively on the internet, and I mean everyone says things
and interviews people like digging up interviews from like two
thousand and four, everyone stunder said something. But I the
most like statement she was like, grab your girls, where
your florals go see it. And I was like, there's
a lot more to this movie than your girlfriends and
your florals.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I could see that. I saw that more in the
marketing of just marketing towards the female demographic, like kind
of like you said, like a outing movie.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, And I did go see it with some friends,
but one of them had read the book and the
other she was like, I don't care, you can tell
me what happens. So yeah, you had no interest in
seeing them.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Now, how do you feel about Blake Lively as an
A list actor? Because for me, I don't feel like
she has that one defining role in film. Course she's
gossip girl. I think that's primarily where she became a star.
But as far as when it comes to movies, I
like her celebrity almost is bigger than what she has
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done in movies.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I would agree with that. Yeah, I feel like she's
an obviously gossip girl, but then just like being a celebrity,
being a fashion icon, having businesses, friends.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
With Taylor Swift married to Ryan Reynolds.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah, I think a simple favor would probably be one
of her.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, I enjoyed that one bigger ones she.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Did Sister to the Traveling Pants. She was so young
when she did that, but that's like the first thing
I ever saw her. And then yeah, she since Mother's
Age of Adeline was a really good movie.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Because I feel like her movies do pretty well.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
But yeah, she is, in my opinion, an A list celebrity,
not an A list actress.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
For me, my worst of August I think it comes
down to it at home one. I had great experiences.
Out of all the movies we saw in theaters, didn't
rate anything below a three, which is wild. Usually in
the summer, there's one we want to walk out of.
Hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Because there wasn't straight this summer.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
It could possibly happened in September, which is often referred
to as dump months, where studios are just throwing out
titles out there to see what happens. But as far
as August, nothing below a zero and that was traping
below a three, nothing below a three. I've never rated
anything at zero you look at three. Trap was the three,
but I think I had to go with an at
home one. The Instigator was probably the worst movie I
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saw an August New movie, that is, and that's just
because I feel like Casey Affleck and Matt Damon were
kind of wasted in that, which Apple is historic with
getting these movies with big actors and they don't know
what to do with them.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
They keep doing this, and I'm like, Apple, stick to
the TV series because you make some great TV series,
market those like you market your movies because your TV
shows have a better plot line than your movies.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
They have a great show like Presumed Innocent and the
actors do maybe one or two interviews and it's the
best show probably. I'd say it's up there for the
best of the year.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Or the funny one with Rose Burn and Seth Rogen Platonic.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Yes, But yet they put out movies like this and
they have them doing the rounds and they are pretty
subpart I was looking recently at the top ten movies
on Apple right now, and it's like, man, these were
such waste of time movies. They just keep giving movies
to Mark Wahlberg.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
They do.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
They don't really have an identity when it comes to
what kind of movies they make. They always just feel
like these action, family friendly movies that have no grit
to them whatsoever, and they're very bland. And that is
how I felt about The Instigator, where there was enough
in this movie to keep my attention to want to
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finish it, but nothing really happened by the end of it.
It was just like, Okay, what was the point of
all that? And the acting was just flat out terrible
to really well established actors OSCAR nominated and OSCAR winners
in this and we had Jack Harlowe barely giving a
crab in this movie. I forgot he's really trying to
make it as an actor, and I feel like this
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was a bigger role for him, but I just don't
really think he has that. Also, don't feel like he's
that famous anymore. Had like that moment for a little while.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I feel like it's a thirty year old I don't
enjoy Jack Harlow the way gen Z does. Is that
where his fan base is, Yeah, my brothers enjoy his music.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I just couldn't get into it.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
And I love a trend. But yeah, I can't get
into Jack Carlow.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
And I can't really get into him as an actor,
so that one was a bit of a leatdown. But
I'm glad that we didn't see that one in theaters
because that would have been a possible walk out of
the theater moment. We always do a TV show, What
was the best TV show for you? In August?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I'm tuned back into the Real Housewives of Orange County
this season?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
What happens in that I don't watch any of these
except for the Salt Lake City one for a little bit.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
It's just them all arguing with each other. You would
hate it.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah, I can't do the shows where they just yell
at each other and argue in over little things.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
But I think Orange County has been on for like
eighteen years now.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Oh, Beverly Hills are the OG?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Right? No, OC is the OG?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Oh? Okay, that's how much I know.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yeah, OC is the OG? Yeah, eighteen seasons.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
I think what is the plot point in it? Right now?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Two f are feuding because one of them is a
realtor and she rented a house to her friend and
then her friend didn't make payments. And then you also
have two cast members who are dating the same man.
Well one of them dated him previously and then another
one is dating him now and claims that he's like
the love of her life. She also claimed that he
(19:20):
didn't want to be back on reality television, so when
she was invited back on the show, that he said
he would pay her salary, which I don't believe. So, yeah,
that's the.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Drama, which is the one we watched where she was
talking about she has glam everywhere.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
That's Salt Lake City. I have Glama every day. I
have glamed Monaco. Yeah, that's Lisa Barlowe who we saw
at them all one time here. Oh y in head
to Toe Gucci.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, I remember that. He seemed like he'd be on
a reality show.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I feel like that's all I'm watching right now. I
was finishing The Resident which went downhill, and I was like,
see why this got canceled that there's a lot of
good stuff coming out in September. I am ready to
be glued to the Better the Couch. There's tell Me
Lie is season two on Hulu. They're selling Sunset season.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
They don't do any sales anymore.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
There's The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives coming to Hulu,
and then there's a show called English Teacher coming to Fax.
So it's funny. It's a lot of great stuff come
out for me.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
The show I just started watching that I'm the most
interested in is called Kevin kin f Himself. It's on Netflix,
but I think it's originally an AMC show and it
has Annie Murphy from Shit's Creek. The thing I like
about the show is I'm always looking for some show
that does things differently. I just kind of itch for
somebody breaking the format. And the way I was turned
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onto this show was TikTok. Somebody made a video about
it and I was like, oh, I've seen and heard
of that show, but I've never actually sat down and
watched an episode. And what it is is for I
would say maybe fifty percent of the episode. It is
a cheesy two thousand sitcom, like a single camera, very bright,
colorful laugh track, and then it will transition into her
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perspective and it is a very dark, very sad drama
because the husband sees their marriage as one way, like
it would be like in a King of Queens. Everybody
loves Raymond type situation because like the family lives right
next door to them, but she is so miserable in
this that it almost has more of like a breaking
bad feel to it. So for me, I like it
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because I also enjoy those very cheesy two thousand sitcoms,
like according to Jim.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
See, and I would like the dark, miserable drama of it.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And I just like that it keeps going back and
forth between the two because it kind of keeps my
attention of like, oh, it's gonna switch over and then
you'll see it differently. But I don't know if you
would fully be into it because of that cheesiness of
the sitcom. You walked in on me watching and you're like,
what is this.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
The few times I've been in the room, it's been
the cheesy sitcom, and I'm like, I can't do this.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
So it's almost like if they just cut the parts
of the drama which would stand on its own, it
would be an entirely different show, but it would lose
that novel aspect of it. This has been a month
where I haven't really had my go to show alone,
which you usually have shows we watch together and shows
we watch a part, and I don't really have one
that I'm watching alone right now, but I think this
one will probably be my go to. There are two
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seasons of it. It started in twenty twenty two, so I
haven't even looked up if they're like canceled or anything,
just because I don't want it ruined for me yet.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
There you go. I love that you found something.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
What about your book of the month?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
I have two this month, very similar vibe. They are
both about kids go missing in the woods, multiple perspective,
shifting timelines, but two like very different stories. One is
All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker, which
I gave five stars. I think it's gonna be on
like every bestseller list. Flew through that one really good.
And then the other is The God of the Woods
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by Liz Moore, which I think I gave four point
seven to five out of five. So there are both
almost like perfect reads in my opinion, very good. All
the Colors of the Dark I enjoyed reading on my
kindle because it was like six hundred pages, so it
was easy to just like read a couple chapters. God
of the Woods I read in print, also short chapters
and long, but I read it in like three nights
with my trusty book life.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Have you ever readed a book of zero?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
So funny you ask my book club book this month.
I gave it a point five, and I gave it
a point five because the author did write words on
a page. And I can imagine that publishing a book
is difficult. And I'm not going to slander books. But
if you haven't read The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley,
save yourself. At the time, it was I have no words.
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That was how bad it was.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
I don't think I've ever reated a movie a zero.
I think point five if we have left a movie.
I just haven't given it a rating because I was like,
it didn't complete. But that's how bad it is.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
She wrote words on a page, turned it in about
all I can give it credit for. It was I
think the worst book that we've read in book club.
And the worst part is I recommended it because I
was like new thriller. But yeah, that that was a
bad one.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Since you had a book that you did not enjoy,
I'm gonna do a movie I don't recommend that. I
came out earlier this year at Night Swim. I thought
it was gonna be a lot scarier than it was,
and it threw me into a fit of rage. In
some times, Hulu adds new movies and I'm like, ah,
I didn't watch this one in theaters. I gotta watch
it now. Don't waste your time on that one. I
would probably rate that one.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Eh.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I guess I gave it a two point five just
because thirty minutes were good and then the rest of
the movie was trash.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
In two point five, that's still a fifty percent.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I feel like if a movie like that was a movie,
I wasn't even going to finish. But it got to
a point that I was like, I need to see
how this is. Sometimes you just have to know just
for the sake of it, and I was disappointed by it.
So two point five.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Oh, that's another thing we watched. You watch the Era's
tour for the first one.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Oh, yeah, I'm glad that I watched it. I feel
like I went to the concert without actually going to
the concert. The production on just the Concert Special alone
was top tier, and it made me feel like I
was there.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
And that could also because I performed half of it
for you.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Could be the added dancer in the living room. But
I was surprised at how much I felt all the
sentiments from the reviews of you and everybody who went
to that tour saying how amazing it is, then how
great of a performer she is. That that actually came
through on Disney Plus because we did split it up
over three nights, because it is three hours long.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Yeah, because every night you really I'm tired.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
It's also just it wasn't me. It's think to not
watch it. Let's make that clear.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
So I would say it's hard. It would be hard
for me to sit down and watch it all in
when sitting like a three hour movie.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
It was fun in theaters, but it would.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Be yeah, probably different in theaters and way different if
you're actually there. So the fact that we broke it
up over three days and like our increments, I still
enjoyed every single era in that and it made me
appreciate her more as an artist. It also made me
like some of the music more that I didn't know.
I like, like songs out the Lover album m hmm,
which probably spent the least amount of time with Now,
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I like a lot of those songs a lot more
seeing them perform like that.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Yeah, I slit see. I went to the tour. That's
not in my life aside from marrying you, but close
close sucon. I went to see it in theaters. I
watched it with my best friend New York over Christmas,
watched half of it with my best friend in Denver
earlier this year, and then we watched it and then
I I've watched like every night on TikTok when she's live,
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so seen it quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
All in my head is just seeing all the cash
symbols of every time she's cashed in on all of
her fans, from in person, in theaters at home.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Oh yeah, I've given her all my money and that's fine.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Well, I would rate that concert special. I mean, I
don't have anything I didn't enjoy about it. I feel
like it's a different five out of five, just because
it's not the way I would rate a movie. But
it as a concert special five out of five. How
do you get better than that? I mean, all right,
we'll come back and give our spoiler free review of
Sing Sing. I'm going to get into a spoiler free
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movie review now. Sing Sing, starring Coleman Domingo. It's about
him being in prison for a crime He didn't commit.
While he's in prison, he forms a theater group, and
through this theater group, all these men bond acting. And
this was a really powerful movie, a really powerful story.
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And you think prison movie, it's gonna be a gritty, dark,
violent prison movie, but it's not that whatsoever. Now I
don't think that's what I really enjoyed about. This movie
doesn't really focus on the crimes they committed. Some of
them you find out about, some of them you have
no idea about. But it was really focused on the
power of art, the fact that men have a really
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hard time communicating their feelings and expressing them to other people,
the prison system, and just the art of doing something
where you're not really supposed to find beauty and finding
something special, like hey, community through theater with these people
who you wouldn't think would be enjoying acting.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
I have a couple notes. One of the coolest parts
is that most of the cast was portrayed by formally
incarcerated actors, which I thought was a really cool ads
just like depth and truth to the performance. And then
at the end they showed actual footage through program. It
was called I think Rehabilitation through the Arts RTA, and
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they showed them doing these plays and like who some
of these characters were based on. Overall, just a really
emotional movie. I think I cried a couple times. So
well done. The storytelling was incredible, the visuals of just
this like very sterile, cold prison, and then like their
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costumes and the work they put into it. I also
enjoyed it because it wasn't glorifying anything or trying to
say that like they didn't commit crimes, which obviously he
was there. He was wrongly accused and acquitted or tried.
But it wasn't saying like, oh, these men are all angels,
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none of them have ever done anything. It kind of
was like they're this and now they are turning their
lives around. So I just thought it was incredibly well done.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
So what happens at the beginning of the movie, it
is them meeting trying to decide what play they want
to do. Is a writer he has like a book
that was very well known. At the beginning of the movie,
like another prisoner asked him if he could sign his book.
But essentially he is primarily the one who writes these
plays that they do. And then another prisoner decides that
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instead of doing a drama which there experienced drama every
day in their life being in there, He's like, let's
do a comedy because we need to laugh, we need
to do something fun. So the guy that they're working with,
who oversees the group, goes home in a weekend and
writes this entire just wacky play.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
That like they were throwing out ideas, they were like
Egyptians time traveler. He wrote a play that encompasses everything,
and so it's so out there.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
For me as a writer. That was the only unbelievable part.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
That he wrote whole plane he wrote, or that he
managed to fit everything in.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
There, all the things he wrote. And I think just
the fact that he wrote an entire play in a
weekend with lines and everything for everybody incorporated everything, and
then there the entire movie is them just rehearsing the play.
I was like, how did he do that all the
weekend with nothing else to do? But that was the
only portion of the movie. Like, I'm gonna suspend belief
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Also, we should a it's called Sing Sing because it
is based at the prison in New York called Sing Sing.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
So the entire movie is them rehearsing this play, you
find out more about their backstories.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
And then you have Common Domingo trying to appeal his
prison sentence. So that's the other like interwoven plot line.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
And it's almost like that is that is the b
plot line because it's so focused on the play, them
trying to get their characters downright, them trying to teach
acting to people who are not trained in acting whatsoever.
And then throughout I would say the second and third
act is that more raw human emotion coming out of
everybody dealing with things that prisoners deal with, wanting to
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get outside, worrying what life will be like once they
get outside, worrying that they are so just used to
this everyday life that that is all that they should
deserve in life. And there are some moments that hit
me and the gut. I didn't cry like you did,
but I wanted to.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
It was It's very nuanced, and I enjoyed the range
of emotions because it showed the human side and you
have to kind of grapple with Okay, they have done
bad things, they're there for a reason, but also just
this idea of second chances and rehabilitation and who were
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we to play judge like if somebody appeals and it's
like actually able to get out, like that's a judge
has determined that. Like it just was. I truly just
had a lot of emotions and I can't articulate well
how it made me feel.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
I think it was also probably recently watching Presumed Innocent
and thinking more about the legal system of thinking how
sometimes you don't have all the facts.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
You just have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, Like.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
It's just proving that that you could be wrong, but
you could have the better case and put somebody in
prison just because you had a better lawyer, you had more.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Jess Mercy with Vie Jordan just based on a true story.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Which reminds me of a time where I was so
paranoid that I would have to prove my whereabouts for
a period of my life just because I was like,
what if somebody tries to say I was at this
time when a crime took place, that I was very
vigilant about getting receipts or I would like smile at
like security cameras just to know, ay, I was there
at that time at two point fifty one PM, I
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am on that seven to eleven camera just because you
never know when you have to prove it.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Or the fact that you do have a name that
is I don't know some criminals.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Yeah, the same name anytime I go to Mexico, or
anytime I go to Canada, or on even an American Idol.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Lot or even when we came back from Costa Rica.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Yeah, anytime I leave the country.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Try to why my wife helped you.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Honestly, they're like, okay, but I have such a common name,
or somebody who has my name has done some awful
things and is on some list.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
But it's so weird because it's like you have a
passport and like a social Security number and you're not
that person.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
But I get flagged every single That's what's so weird.
It has happened for the last at least eight years,
and it keeps happening, and I don't know what I
can do. Sometimes I want to give them a warning,
saying like hey, this may be good flag, but then
I feel like that's more of a mmm.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah, suspicious to like flag the flag.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Yeah, so it's harder to explain. But maybe that's where
al somewhere someone this is rooted in. But back to
the movie, Coleman Domingo has one of the best voices
in Hollywood, Like just his hearing his voice to me
vocal to just his tone. I could listen to him
like I want an audiobook that he narrates, just because
he has a really good deep voice. He does, and
I don't really hear people talk and think I want
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their voice, But I wish I had his voice. This
podcast would sound much better. I could get voice work,
I'd be more because he has a voice that just
sucks you in and draws you into every single line
that he is saying.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
He's also done theater before.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
And it comes out in this movie.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Yeah, So I feel like you see that he's very
as an actor, like meticulous with this speech.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
And I think my favorite thing, hands down, was, like
were saying earlier, the fact that they use the real
people because it adds this extra layer of authenticity, which
I love it when any director just finds regular, common
people to act in movies, because you get that genuine interaction.
It's not super polished, but it doesn't in this case
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really doesn't need to be. But even like Martin Scorsese
using regular everyday people and Killers of the Flower Moon,
it just feels more natural, feels more authentic, and if
you have a really good director who is able to
get a performance out of somebody who isn't trained, it's
just so much better. So I think out of any
part of this film making process, I think that is
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really what made this movie stand out, because you feel
this bond between them as well, knowing that they've all
gone through this.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
In real life and they're now they're acting it out
for you.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
And then you can see their skills that they learn,
probably through that in prison, actually come out now in
a real movie. So I I just loved every aspect
of that. Just great cast chemistry that I haven't seen
done at this level.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
It was phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
What would you rate, Sing Sing Oh, I'm going to
give it a five, given it a five.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
I felt all the feelings.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Yeah, no notes, I would give it a strong four
point five at a five. And I think this will
this will be a movie that if you go into
with a really open mind, without thinking of the world
and all the other aspects of what it means to
be incarcerated, I think you will really enjoy it. And
also bonus points for Coleman Domingo's voice tone and that
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is our review of Sing Sing.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
It's time to head down to movie Mike Treylor Paul hey.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Man, what if Way TK really brought the robot apocalyps? Yeah, man,
soone should make that movie. That's how I feel Kylo
Mooney's thought process was when hitching the idea of why
two K. If you're not familiar with Kyle Mooney, he
is making his directorial debut in this movie called Y
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two K. He was an SNL cast member that I
feel never really had his moment to shine. And I
think he's a funny guy. He had a lot of
good digital shorts, but I almost feel like his ideas
weren't really prime for television for everybody to find funny.
I almost feel like his brand of comedy are only
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things that he finds funny. But after watching the trailer
for this movie, I kind of feel like it's going
to come through a little bit better in such a wacky,
zany comedy. But of course he put himself in this movie,
and what does he play. He plays a stoner. That
is just how I feel about his brand of humor.
You almost have to be somebody who is doing Bond
grips to really understand I don't want to say the
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greatness that is Kyle Mooney, but his brand of comedy.
But when you look at what type of movie this is,
it takes place New Year's Eve nineteen ninety nine at
a party where everything that had been worrying about that
year when the year changes from nineteen ninety nine to
two thousand, that all machines are gonna shut down. We're
going to have this computer flaw that causes the entire
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world to go berserk. We thought we were going to
lose power, We thought all of our records were going
to go out the window just because we were going
from nineteen ninety nine to two thousand. So this movie
is going to say, hekay, that actually happened. All of
our technology started revolting. Not only did they shut down,
but now they are trying to kill us. So that
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is the premise of this movie. It is an ensemble comedy.
It is packing in a nostalgia punch in the late nineties,
well really late nineties, right at the cusp of the
two thousands. And I actually like that type of nostalgia,
the nostalgia that is much more rooted in the years.
All the references of that time more so than just
bringing back a franchise from nineteen ninety nine or early
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two thousands, I think this is the way to go
to hook in in our generation right now, millennials. So
we'll get into more about this movie, but right now,
here's just a little bit of the Y two K trailer,
which is coming out in theaters this December. In a few.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Hours, you have an excuse to kiss the girl of
your dreams.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
White two K is real selfas on the net, tomagotcha
just drilled towards chick's heads. Come on, we gotta go.
We're experiencing major problems as a result of the watching Fay.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Right down, Bye bye Human Race. We're talking global computer apocalypse.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Sorry, guys, I guess you're so. This movie reminds me
of this is the end from the early twenty tens,
which I feel of That movie was kind of the
book end to all of those late two thousands, mid
two thousands comedies that starred Jonah Hill, Seth Rogan, James Franco.
They were all in that movie playing themselves and it
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kind of had the same remis they all go to
a party and then the zombie apocalypse in that movie
starts happening, and they all try to survive, some of
them die, and it is a different level in that
movie because they are all so famous and also funny.
But here you're working with a relatively unknown cast. You
would recognize a lot of their faces before you recognize
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their name. You have Jaden Martel playing the lead in
this movie, who if you've seen it, he was one
of the kids who grew up to be Bill Hayter.
You also have Rachel Zegler, who was going to be
in the new snow White movie. She was last year
in the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. And then you
also have Julian Dennison, who was the kid in Deadpool two.
He was also in a really great Tako Ytt movie,
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Hunt for the Wilder People with Sam Neil, which came
out also in the early twenty tens. If you haven't
seen that one, I do feel like that is one
of Taiko Watt's batter movies. He's the guy who did
thora Ragnarok, thlor Love and Thunder. Some people hate that movie.
I still enjoy that one, although I haven't gone back
and revisited that movie, so maybe it was just because
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I was itching for a Marvel movie back when that
one came out. The only real injustice I thought that
movie did was wasting Christian Bale as Gore the god Butcher.
We got Christian Baale batman himself, Academy Award winning Christian Bale,
and that villain would just so lackluster. But enough of
the Marvel rant here. It also reminds me of like
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twenty tens party movies, which were a thing. I feel
like everybody in the twenty tens were just partying. Whether
it was the music of just hey, let's party tonight
because we're not gonna get tomorrow. The movies also echoed
that of let's hang out, have big house parties and
go crazy. You get a little bit of a glimpse
of that in this movie where our lead here is
going to this party trying to kiss the girl of
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his dreams, and then midnight strikes and all the technology
starts revolting and killing people. When that started happening, I
was like, Okay, it started reminding me of this is
the end. It started reminding me of Project X. Also
that my name is Earl episode also called White Whenever
kind of along the same lines. This thing happens when really,
it's just I think somebody forgot to pay the electricity bill,
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but they think that the world has shut down and
they all go live in the Superstore. Hilarious episode. My
Name Is Earl is such an underrated TV show. Whenever
I'm feeling like I just need to pick me up,
I go watch episodes of My Name Is Earl. And
this movie is essentially that episode in a longer format.
But once the toys started revolting, once they referenced the
Tamagatchi there, which is an excellent late nineties reference, it
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reminded me of that final battle scene in Small Soldiers
where you have the toys with the nail gun shooting
people throwing flaming tennis balls. If there is a late
nineties nostalgia movie for me that I feel should be remade,
I think it is Small Soldiers. It came out in
nineteen ninety eight. I ate up that VHS. I wanted
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the toys but couldn't afford the toys. I see them
every now and then at the thrift shop and I'm like, oh,
I really wish I could get one of those, but
they're still expensive. Because anything from our childhood now people
are trying to make money off of so I feel
like if they were to remake that movie with the
technology now, they would look so much better. You'd get
the tie in with the toys now, and you'd be
banking much like this. Why two K movie on the
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nostalgia of all those millennials who grew up with that
movie but now have adult money. So I know people
keep saying that Hollywood is out of ideas. They keep
remaking everything. We got Beatle, just Beatle just coming out.
Why can't we get a small Soldier's reboot. The other
interesting cast member in Y two K is Fred Durst,
the lead singer olymp Biscuit. I feel like he is
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slowly trying to get back into acting. I know he
acted for a little bit here and there. I saw
him earlier this year and I saw the TV Glow.
He had a very small role in that you couldn't
even tell it was him. And the only way I
knew it was him going into it because I looked
up the cast and saw Fred Durst is in this movie,
and he plays like a dad who's a deadbeat kind
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of a jerk, and you really only get a quick
glance of his side. But he's like in the shadows
for the majority of his scenes, so I wouldn't really
say that was like a big acting role for him.
It was really more of a small cameo. It kind
of looks like he has more of a role here.
He is in his classic limbiscuit hat turned around that
read one that we all knew him for. I feel like,
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since this movie is taking place in nineteen ninety nine,
he is going to be full on fred Durst. This
movie cost an estimated ten million dollars, which is surprisingly low,
so I feel like they were able to get the
cast pretty cheap, maybe spent the majority of the money
on some of these special effects or actually building some
of these killer robots. This movie feels to me like
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if it came out in nineteen ninety nine when it
is set, it wouldn't have done that well in theaters,
but once it went to VHS and DVD, it would
be one of those movies that would get passed around
and watched and quoted and laughed at and had some
just astronomical DVD sails, much like a movie like Grandma's
Boy that I saw. Nick Schwartz to the comedian and
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he's also has I would say a pretty major role
in that movie on how people riped that movie to
shreds when it first came out, and how the majority
of that cast was really unknown unless you were super
into all the Adam Sandler movies, but the fact that
it was produced by Adam Sandler and he's not actually
in it. It just got terrible, terrible reviews, bombed at
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the box office, but once it went to DVD and VHS,
it crushed dominated made millions of dollars there, And I
think that is kind of the thing that box office
bombs don't have anymore. They don't have that ability to
make the money on the back end. They don't have
the physical media sales, which was a big deal back
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in the day, because when you did bomb in theaters,
if it ended up doing well through word of mouth,
that people actually watching it once they had the time
to didn't spend the money to go see it in theaters,
but maybe rented it from a blockbuster, a rat box.
People would then start going to buy the actual DVD
so they could watch it again at home. You don't
(45:06):
really get that anymore, and I don't really think the
numbers are as generous when it comes to people renting
movies that just came out in theaters at home, that
price is still a little bit expensive unless you're just
itching to watch it right in that moment. I think
that is who it's for. But I feel like most
people wait until it's on a streaming service that they
(45:27):
pay for, because we feel like I'm already paying for Netflix,
I'm paying for Hulu, I'm paying for Max. I'm not
gonna pay on top of that to watch this again.
I'm gonna wait until it falls into one of those
subscription services that I already pay for because I'm not
adding more to this bill. And with all the streaming
services that we are subscribed to, we don't really go
(45:48):
out of our way to find movies that don't exist
on one of these, which is a tough scenario for
movies to be in, because if you come out in
theaters and then don't fall on one of them streamers,
where do your movies go? Do they even exist if
they're not on one of those? Because every now and
then I'll search a movie and when it's not on
(46:09):
one of those streaming services and I have to pay
two three dollars, I'm like, WHOA, this is so weird,
But then I wouldn't have hesitated fifteen years ago to
walk into a store and rent or buy a movie.
It just feels weird paying that little amount of money
on a digital purchase because you don't really feel like
you're getting anything when you could just go to Netflix
and watch it for free and I don't care if
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it's ninety nine cents, seventy nine cents, or just one cent.
It just feels like I have much more of a
thought process when I have to pay any sort of money.
So for a movie like this coming out, original comedy
is not attached to a franchise. If a movie like
this comes out in theaters and doesn't do well, then
studios are gonna say more and more that we can't
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make comedies because they don't make money. The good thing
about this one is that it is an a twenty
four movie that does take risks on smaller budget movies.
They also have a partnership now with Max, so this
movie probably will drop on their services two three months
after it comes out in theaters. But I would say,
(47:13):
as always, if you want to see more movies like this,
if you're somebody who has said why don't they make
great comedies anymore. We got to support more movies like this,
and hopefully Kyle Mooney does a good job in his
directorial debut and doesn't leave us thinking what did I
just watch?
Speaker 2 (47:29):
And that was this week's edition of Movie min Framer par.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
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, and
this week's listeners shout out is Gina Center six six
to two. Oh hopefully I said your last name there correctly,
but she commented on Instagram of a real I posted
from last week's episode with my top ten movie pet peeves.
(47:56):
If you miss that episode, just go back one in
the feed because I was deaf only on one during that.
But she wrote, great podcast as usual. We saw Blink
twice yesterday and did not enjoy it. Way too strange
for me shocked faced emoji, and I said in my
review it is a movie I believe you're either going
to love or you're gonna hate. Anything in the psychological
(48:19):
thriller genre, especially with really dark and sinister images, is
going to have that effect on people and split audiences
in two. But that is why I love movies is
because two people can go watch the exact same movie
and feel differently about it. You can come on a
podcast and talk about it. So thank you Gina. Here
this week's listener shout out of the week. Thank you
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right now listening on your earbuds, you're on a drive,
if you're at the gym, Appreciate you sharing the podcast
with a friend. 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, joined by my wife and
co host Kelsey. How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
We're back doing our movies of the month for August.
In the movie review, we'll be talking about Sing Sing,
which was a movie that moved us both yes, and
then in the trailer Park, we'll be talking about a
movie called Y two K that is all about if
Y two K actually happened and all the technology went down.
Were you a little bit too young for Y two K?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I remember you remember the craze of people thinking that
once they went to two thousand that all the computers
were going to shut down.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, because I was almost six, because my birthday is
right after the New Year, so it was five going
on six. I feel like I remember that.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Did you and your mom do anything to prepare?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I feel like my mom probably did. I remember the craze,
but she wasn't like talking to me about it.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I don't think we did anything because we didn't have
anything technological in our house that we were like worried about.
I guess we were more worried about bank shutting down.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I was gonna say I feel like the biggest concern
was banks. My mom worked at a bank for a
long time, so I feel like she was relatively confident
that the banks wouldn't just completely crap out.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
But that's what that movie's about. What if it did happen? Well,
thank you for this.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Was actually kind of like when the Delta system shut down.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
It's true, it's like Southwest right now, still running on
a rolodex.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, that was like, Actually, what why two K would
have been because their system shut down and they're like, well,
can't get you anywhere.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
So we'll get into that. Thank you for listening, Thank
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Speaker 1 (01:46):
Movies of the Month for August. I feel like it's
been one of the best months of the summer.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Interesting, you don't what was your favorite month? July?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Oh, July, I think was my least favorite.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
July had Twisters and Deadpool.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, but that was two and fly Me to the Moon.
I feel like there's so many more in August. I'm
looking at my list here and there's like eight movies.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Interesting, that's a hot take.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I thought August was way stronger, which August is usually
the decline of the summer blockbuster season. But I felt
like there were more hidden gems. I have more floors
in August than I did for July.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I don't agree with that. But the last time I
told you that your take was stupid, someone on the
internet called me a not nice name.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Is it because you love Twisters so much that we've
now seen twice? Possibly we'll see first third time in theaters.
We have a code now to watch it at home,
thanks to everybody at Universal who send us awesome box
if you didn't watch that on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
The greatest package we've ever received.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
But is it because you loved that movie so much?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Now?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
There was just always something to see. It was like
the first weekend we saw just pick well me for
and there was fly Me to the Moon, and there's Twisters.
Then there was Deadpool and Twisters again, like there was
great stuff in July. There was always something. I feel
like this month we kind of had to be like, Okay,
what's coming out this week? What are we going to see?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
And I think it's because we had lower expectations going
into the movies this month that I felt like, oh,
this is a really solid month and more. Before we
get into our favorite and our least favorite, I'll go
through all the movies we saw, and we did see
some movies apart. You saw one without me, I saw
one without you.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
This is correct, suisfactual.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
So going through the list, Trap which you didn't see
with me, the Instigator, which was an at home one,
Dedie Gunner, which was also I watched that one at home.
I had a screener for that alien Romulus, which you
didn't see with me, Sing Sing, and then we closed
it out with Blink twice. I feel like those all
together is a solid month.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
And then I saw it ends with us true.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I think that's better for me.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Okay, I still disagree, but.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
We'll get into our best and the worst. You kick
it off. What was the best thing out of all
these for August?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I'm gonna go one that surprised me, Blink twice.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I was saying that I feel like this is a
movie people are either going to love or hate.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
TikTok is a buzz.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
It's right, it's kind of pull our opposites.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I think any movie, if you are concerned that you're
not gonna like it, you need to watch the trailer.
Were trigger warnings even the trailer, Like I didn't watch
the trailer thinking this is gonna be funny, like you
know that it's gonna be kind of like a creepy
psychological thriller. Reviews compared it to Get Out Before and
(04:13):
people are like, what did I just watch? This was terrible?
There were no warnings, like no, there was a literal
full screen warning before the movie.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
That leads me to believe there is still a select
group of people that would just go watch a movie
based on the A List star, based on the lead.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah. The lady in the TikTok was like, I just
wanted to watch Channing Tatum. It's like okay, which is.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
A bizarre way to go into a movie just because
Channing Tatum, who you probably know from Magic Mic and
maybe haven't seen a Channing Tatum movie since or like
twenty two Jump Street twenty one, Jump Street, Step Up,
and you think, oh, yeah, that movie, you forgot.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
My favorite movie all the time.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I feel like he's had such an evolution as an actor,
primarily being in the rom coms. Then he kind of
shifted into being like the action star, which never really
kicked off. He kind of transitioned into being the comedic star,
which I think was kind of a juxtaposition of you
see him and you don't think comedy, but then he's
really good at comedy at comedy, and now I feel
like he's just making really good movies, having one of
(05:07):
the best years out of any actor.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
He's having a summer.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
So it's weird for me to see somebody go into
just watching a movie and thinking it's gonna be everything
he's done maybe ten fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah, I agree. I think that, Yeah, you just need
to watch the trailer, like if you're concerned at all
about the movie. I also think it was raded R,
wasn't it?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
It was raded R.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Okay, that tells you all you need, That tells you
all you need to know. And yeah, it was disturbing.
That's why there were trigger warnings.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
And if you go into the movie, you see the
trigger warning and think, I don't know if this is
for me. You can go get a refund. I think
a lot of people don't know that. I think it's
within the first twenty to thirty minutes, probably different based
on the theater you go to. You can still get
a refund.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Should have done that when I took my grandma to
Talladay Nights.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
So if you see that at the beginning and think, huh,
I don't know if I'm in for that. I also
feel like that was a little bit rage bait. What
were the other things you enjoyed about this one that
made it your favorite?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I thought the acting was really good. It was a
great cast. Had Adria Ariona from Hitman. She's also having
a great summer. Her and Glenn pal both just movie
after movie.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
You knew Hollywood creeping in there.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Zoe Kravitz was a great director. I feel like the
storytelling was just really good, and it wasn't It wasn't
creepy the whole time. It's kind of a slow burn,
which I enjoyed because, like I do get scared easily.
I've mentioned that I didn't want to watch a psychological
thriller and have my blood pressure up the whole time.
But the first hour kind of built wasn't too scary.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
This was one I was worried for you in the
sense that you don't like anything scary whatsoever. He suspense,
and I thought it was going to be a little
bit too on that more in the get out Us
Jordan Peele type horror that you were not going to
be a fan of. But once we got going into it,
I think this is something you can handle. It's no
crazier than I would say any kind of murdered Netflix
(06:55):
show or anything like that. And I feel like as
an audience, as Americans, we're getting really desensitized to anything
that's overly graphic. Yeah, which is good and bad. I
guess to think, like, oh, we're just so used to
blood and guts and all these things happening on TV
shows and movies that were kind of past that.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I just thought it was really good overall. I enjoyed it.
It kept me kind of wondering what was happening. It
was like I read a lot of thrillers and I
was just talking to you about this because I read
one that was called it mid But I was like,
I read so many thrillers that like reading a thriller,
it's kind of hard to shock me these days, like
I can see the plot twist coming, but a movie
like that, I was like, oh, I didn't see that coming.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, which is also rare for me. I started to
I just do this, I start calling things, I pick
up on little thing, just because I know it's that
type of movie. But there were some moments that were
still surprises even to me. So I think Zoe Kravitz
did an amazing job making their first movie.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, So that was my best of the month.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
My best of the month comes down to two movies,
Alien Romulus and De Dy, Which Alien Romulus was the
most surprising to me because, like we've been talking about
this month, I went in with pretty low expectations and
ended up really enjoying it, even though I'm not the
biggest fan of the Alien franchise as a whole. But
I think when it comes down to my favorite of
the month, it goes to DD just because I haven't
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seen a movie take place in that time period done
that well, to just so good, like two thousand and nine.
Two thousand and eight to two thousand and nine is
like a golden year for me, and seeing all those
things that Dedie went through and realizing that also the
director is like my age. So I feel like that
movie was made for somebody exactly my age, also somebody
(08:36):
who their parents migrated from another country. And it was
also just I won't call it a straight on comedy.
There were some funny parts, but it was kind of
a dramedy. Yeah, where I wouldn't tell somebody go watch
this movie because it's hilarious, but there are funny parts
in it. And I feel like that movie is relatable
to anybody who's ever been a teenager. That's really the
prerequisite for it.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I mean it captured similar to what we talked about,
like eighth grade. It captured which you probably related to
this one more because it was a teenage boy, whereas
I already in eighth grade. But it was like it
captures the essence of that awkward time of being like
thirteen fourteen, eighth grade into ninth grade and my trauma.
But I still haven't forgiven my parents for is that
(09:17):
they moved me in the middle of eighth grade.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Eighth grade was my worst year ever.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
They moved me in the middle of it, which was
incredibly rude and difficult. But I did meet my best friend,
who is still my best friend this day on the
bus and we were like the two weird kids, and
we've been best friends ever since, so that was the
only good thing. But that was some trauma.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I think I lost any friend I made from six
to seventh grade in eighth grade.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Eighth grade is brutal.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
It is so and I don't even know why. It
just got to a point where I just stopped talking
to people because they stopped talking to me.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Everyone thinks that they're better, and then you get to
ninth grade and it's like everyone who was terrible to
you in eighth grade is like, hey, happy first day
of school, and you're like.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Me, I still have the blade of my back from
last year.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
You're like, you've literally spit on me, Like why are
you being nice to me?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah. I remember eating lunch alone a lot in eighth grade,
making friends with people I did not want to be
associated with, just because they'd be the only ones who
would sit around me at lunch, and I just remember
that time being awful.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I also apparently got a lot of hate because I
came in and I was really smart and I would
like raise my hand and answer questions, and I didn't know.
I didn't really fully realize that being smart would put
a target on your back. But sucks to be all
of them because I was smarter than all of them,
and I did graduate third in my class in high school.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
So that's a fun thing to talk about. What were
the things that put a target on your back in
let's just say seventh and eighth grade? You said that one.
For me, one of the big ones was just me
wearing all black all the time, which people associated me
with being emo coth and I would get made fun
of that all the time because I wore all black.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Having a hard to pronounce last name.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Don't know why that just makes you a.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Target because would they make fun of it.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah. I was telling my younger brother the story the
other day, and one time somebody made fun of my
last name, and I was like, sorry, take it up
with my dad, dad and shut them up. Ooh, that
was a good cum.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
That's always like the una reverse card.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah, that like being smart, having a hard to pronounce
last name, and then weirdly like I had a hot mom,
which makes it really difficult to be a teenage.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Girl from the teenage boy or the teenage girl.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
The teenage boy, like, my mom would come have lunch
with me at school and everyone be like, oh man,
who's that. I like, it's my mom. Wait. I could
tell they found my mom more attractive than they found me.
So that was all so difficult.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
That's quite the top three there.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
It was pretty rough for me.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
It was an all black clothing goes hand in hands
being into punk rock. Number two was being chunky. That's
just an easy target. Number three, I guess being Mexican,
just because people expect things out of me or assume
stereotypes about me.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I guess my top was above all those was just
being the new kid, new kid, smart, hard pronounced last name.
I wore glasses. People mocked that.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Hardy never got made fun of for my glasses.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I'm sorry. Yeah, I was the new kid a lot.
That was really difficult.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I was the quiet kid, and I hated it.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I was the new kid often. I think I changed
schools like nine times throughout the course of K through twelve.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah, that's rough, all right. Now, they were through all
of our trauma.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Now that we're through Kelsey's childhood trauma, I thank you
for joining if anyone is a psychologist listening, Please let
me know what's wrong with me.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
But there you godd was my best. Now getting into
our worst. What was the worst thing you saw in August?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Am I going the opposite ento the Spectrum, also done
by one of Taylor Shift's best friends. It ends with Us, which.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
You love book adaptations.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I hated that book. I am not a Colleen Hoover fan.
I'm so sorry to anyone. I am not trying to
yuck your yum. If Colleen Hoover is what gets you
into reading, I'm all for that. Read what makes you happy.
I just there were so many things that I didn't
like about the book, and then going into the movie,
I had very low expectations. So the movie was fine.
I didn't hate it, it just was the not my worst,
(12:57):
my least favorite. The wardrobe was terrible. That was so distracting.
The clothes were awful, Like I don't know how you
make it like lively look bad, but they did.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
People think that doesn't matter. That matters a lot to me.
And you can tell the when it's bad. Sometimes you
can't always tell when it's good, but when it's bad,
you know that it's bad.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
It was like, when they started filming, photos were getting
leaked and everyone's like, maybe this is to throw us off. No,
those were her outfits. I'm like, was this sponsored by Carhart?
That's truly Jenny Slay was great in it.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I love her, great comedian.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah, I just didn't. That was one of those that
I was like, this is gonna be h and I'll
I'll give a trigger warning if you It does deal
with some heavy topics, so if you haven't seen it,
you haven't read the book. And that one didn't have
a trigger warning, So I think that was also people's
issue with it, where it's like Blink twice had one,
it ends with us didn't. And I did kind of
(13:45):
market it a little bit as a rom com, which
a rom comment is not, so I think the marketing
went astray.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
There's a lot there, So probably only the people who
either watched the trailer or read the book kind of
knew that was coming.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
And I don't even feel like it was that much
in the trailer.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Oh really Yeah, I don't feel like it was really
so kind of with the Chanting Tatum case, maybe some
people were just going to watch it because Blake Lively
was in it.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah, and I there's a lot of like hate surrounding
Lively on the internet, and I mean everyone says things
and interviews people like digging up interviews from like two
thousand and four, everyone stunder said something. But I the
most like statement she was like, grab your girls, where
your florals go see it. And I was like, there's
a lot more to this movie than your girlfriends and
your florals.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I could see that. I saw that more in the
marketing of just marketing towards the female demographic, like kind
of like you said, like a outing movie.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, And I did go see it with some friends,
but one of them had read the book and the
other she was like, I don't care, you can tell
me what happens. So yeah, you had no interest in
seeing them.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Now, how do you feel about Blake Lively as an
A list actor? Because for me, I don't feel like
she has that one defining role in film. Course she's
gossip girl. I think that's primarily where she became a star.
But as far as when it comes to movies, I
like her celebrity almost is bigger than what she has
(15:03):
done in movies.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I would agree with that. Yeah, I feel like she's
an obviously gossip girl, but then just like being a celebrity,
being a fashion icon, having businesses, friends.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
With Taylor Swift married to Ryan Reynolds.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah, I think a simple favor would probably be one
of her.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, I enjoyed that one bigger ones she.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Did Sister to the Traveling Pants. She was so young
when she did that, but that's like the first thing
I ever saw her. And then yeah, she since Mother's
Age of Adeline was a really good movie.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Because I feel like her movies do pretty well.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
But yeah, she is, in my opinion, an A list celebrity,
not an A list actress.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
For me, my worst of August I think it comes
down to it at home one. I had great experiences.
Out of all the movies we saw in theaters, didn't
rate anything below a three, which is wild. Usually in
the summer, there's one we want to walk out of.
Hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Because there wasn't straight this summer.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
It could possibly happened in September, which is often referred
to as dump months, where studios are just throwing out
titles out there to see what happens. But as far
as August, nothing below a zero and that was traping
below a three, nothing below a three. I've never rated
anything at zero you look at three. Trap was the three,
but I think I had to go with an at
home one. The Instigator was probably the worst movie I
(16:21):
saw an August New movie, that is, and that's just
because I feel like Casey Affleck and Matt Damon were
kind of wasted in that, which Apple is historic with
getting these movies with big actors and they don't know
what to do with them.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
They keep doing this, and I'm like, Apple, stick to
the TV series because you make some great TV series,
market those like you market your movies because your TV
shows have a better plot line than your movies.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
They have a great show like Presumed Innocent and the
actors do maybe one or two interviews and it's the
best show probably. I'd say it's up there for the
best of the year.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Or the funny one with Rose Burn and Seth Rogen Platonic.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Yes, But yet they put out movies like this and
they have them doing the rounds and they are pretty
subpart I was looking recently at the top ten movies
on Apple right now, and it's like, man, these were
such waste of time movies. They just keep giving movies
to Mark Wahlberg.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
They do.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
They don't really have an identity when it comes to
what kind of movies they make. They always just feel
like these action, family friendly movies that have no grit
to them whatsoever, and they're very bland. And that is
how I felt about The Instigator, where there was enough
in this movie to keep my attention to want to
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finish it, but nothing really happened by the end of it.
It was just like, Okay, what was the point of
all that? And the acting was just flat out terrible
to really well established actors OSCAR nominated and OSCAR winners
in this and we had Jack Harlowe barely giving a
crab in this movie. I forgot he's really trying to
make it as an actor, and I feel like this
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was a bigger role for him, but I just don't
really think he has that. Also, don't feel like he's
that famous anymore. Had like that moment for a little while.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I feel like it's a thirty year old I don't
enjoy Jack Harlow the way gen Z does. Is that
where his fan base is, Yeah, my brothers enjoy his music.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I just couldn't get into it.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
And I love a trend. But yeah, I can't get
into Jack Carlow.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
And I can't really get into him as an actor,
so that one was a bit of a leatdown. But
I'm glad that we didn't see that one in theaters
because that would have been a possible walk out of
the theater moment. We always do a TV show, What
was the best TV show for you? In August?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I'm tuned back into the Real Housewives of Orange County
this season?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
What happens in that I don't watch any of these
except for the Salt Lake City one for a little bit.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
It's just them all arguing with each other. You would
hate it.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah, I can't do the shows where they just yell
at each other and argue in over little things.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
But I think Orange County has been on for like
eighteen years now.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Oh, Beverly Hills are the OG?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Right? No, OC is the OG?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Oh? Okay, that's how much I know.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yeah, OC is the OG? Yeah, eighteen seasons.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
I think what is the plot point in it? Right now?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Two f are feuding because one of them is a
realtor and she rented a house to her friend and
then her friend didn't make payments. And then you also
have two cast members who are dating the same man.
Well one of them dated him previously and then another
one is dating him now and claims that he's like
the love of her life. She also claimed that he
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didn't want to be back on reality television, so when
she was invited back on the show, that he said
he would pay her salary, which I don't believe. So, yeah,
that's the.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Drama, which is the one we watched where she was
talking about she has glam everywhere.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
That's Salt Lake City. I have Glama every day. I
have glamed Monaco. Yeah, that's Lisa Barlowe who we saw
at them all one time here. Oh y in head
to Toe Gucci.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, I remember that. He seemed like he'd be on
a reality show.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I feel like that's all I'm watching right now. I
was finishing The Resident which went downhill, and I was like,
see why this got canceled that there's a lot of
good stuff coming out in September. I am ready to
be glued to the Better the Couch. There's tell Me
Lie is season two on Hulu. They're selling Sunset season.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
They don't do any sales anymore.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
There's The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives coming to Hulu,
and then there's a show called English Teacher coming to Fax.
So it's funny. It's a lot of great stuff come
out for me.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
The show I just started watching that I'm the most
interested in is called Kevin kin f Himself. It's on Netflix,
but I think it's originally an AMC show and it
has Annie Murphy from Shit's Creek. The thing I like
about the show is I'm always looking for some show
that does things differently. I just kind of itch for
somebody breaking the format. And the way I was turned
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onto this show was TikTok. Somebody made a video about
it and I was like, oh, I've seen and heard
of that show, but I've never actually sat down and
watched an episode. And what it is is for I
would say maybe fifty percent of the episode. It is
a cheesy two thousand sitcom, like a single camera, very bright,
colorful laugh track, and then it will transition into her
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perspective and it is a very dark, very sad drama
because the husband sees their marriage as one way, like
it would be like in a King of Queens. Everybody
loves Raymond type situation because like the family lives right
next door to them, but she is so miserable in
this that it almost has more of like a breaking
bad feel to it. So for me, I like it
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because I also enjoy those very cheesy two thousand sitcoms,
like according to Jim.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
See, and I would like the dark, miserable drama of it.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And I just like that it keeps going back and
forth between the two because it kind of keeps my
attention of like, oh, it's gonna switch over and then
you'll see it differently. But I don't know if you
would fully be into it because of that cheesiness of
the sitcom. You walked in on me watching and you're like,
what is this.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
The few times I've been in the room, it's been
the cheesy sitcom, and I'm like, I can't do this.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
So it's almost like if they just cut the parts
of the drama which would stand on its own, it
would be an entirely different show, but it would lose
that novel aspect of it. This has been a month
where I haven't really had my go to show alone,
which you usually have shows we watch together and shows
we watch a part, and I don't really have one
that I'm watching alone right now, but I think this
one will probably be my go to. There are two
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seasons of it. It started in twenty twenty two, so I
haven't even looked up if they're like canceled or anything,
just because I don't want it ruined for me yet.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
There you go. I love that you found something.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
What about your book of the month?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
I have two this month, very similar vibe. They are
both about kids go missing in the woods, multiple perspective,
shifting timelines, but two like very different stories. One is
All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker, which
I gave five stars. I think it's gonna be on
like every bestseller list. Flew through that one really good.
And then the other is The God of the Woods
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by Liz Moore, which I think I gave four point
seven to five out of five. So there are both
almost like perfect reads in my opinion, very good. All
the Colors of the Dark I enjoyed reading on my
kindle because it was like six hundred pages, so it
was easy to just like read a couple chapters. God
of the Woods I read in print, also short chapters
and long, but I read it in like three nights
with my trusty book life.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Have you ever readed a book of zero?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
So funny you ask my book club book this month.
I gave it a point five, and I gave it
a point five because the author did write words on
a page. And I can imagine that publishing a book
is difficult. And I'm not going to slander books. But
if you haven't read The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley,
save yourself. At the time, it was I have no words.
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That was how bad it was.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
I don't think I've ever reated a movie a zero.
I think point five if we have left a movie.
I just haven't given it a rating because I was like,
it didn't complete. But that's how bad it is.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
She wrote words on a page, turned it in about
all I can give it credit for. It was I
think the worst book that we've read in book club.
And the worst part is I recommended it because I
was like new thriller. But yeah, that that was a
bad one.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Since you had a book that you did not enjoy,
I'm gonna do a movie I don't recommend that. I
came out earlier this year at Night Swim. I thought
it was gonna be a lot scarier than it was,
and it threw me into a fit of rage. In
some times, Hulu adds new movies and I'm like, ah,
I didn't watch this one in theaters. I gotta watch
it now. Don't waste your time on that one. I
would probably rate that one.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Eh.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I guess I gave it a two point five just
because thirty minutes were good and then the rest of
the movie was trash.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
In two point five, that's still a fifty percent.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I feel like if a movie like that was a movie,
I wasn't even going to finish. But it got to
a point that I was like, I need to see
how this is. Sometimes you just have to know just
for the sake of it, and I was disappointed by it.
So two point five.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Oh, that's another thing we watched. You watch the Era's
tour for the first one.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Oh, yeah, I'm glad that I watched it. I feel
like I went to the concert without actually going to
the concert. The production on just the Concert Special alone
was top tier, and it made me feel like I
was there.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
And that could also because I performed half of it
for you.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Could be the added dancer in the living room. But
I was surprised at how much I felt all the
sentiments from the reviews of you and everybody who went
to that tour saying how amazing it is, then how
great of a performer she is. That that actually came
through on Disney Plus because we did split it up
over three nights, because it is three hours long.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Yeah, because every night you really I'm tired.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
It's also just it wasn't me. It's think to not
watch it. Let's make that clear.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
So I would say it's hard. It would be hard
for me to sit down and watch it all in
when sitting like a three hour movie.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
It was fun in theaters, but it would.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Be yeah, probably different in theaters and way different if
you're actually there. So the fact that we broke it
up over three days and like our increments, I still
enjoyed every single era in that and it made me
appreciate her more as an artist. It also made me
like some of the music more that I didn't know.
I like, like songs out the Lover album m hmm,
which probably spent the least amount of time with Now,
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I like a lot of those songs a lot more
seeing them perform like that.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Yeah, I slit see. I went to the tour. That's
not in my life aside from marrying you, but close
close sucon. I went to see it in theaters. I
watched it with my best friend New York over Christmas,
watched half of it with my best friend in Denver
earlier this year, and then we watched it and then
I I've watched like every night on TikTok when she's live,
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so seen it quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
All in my head is just seeing all the cash
symbols of every time she's cashed in on all of
her fans, from in person, in theaters at home.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Oh yeah, I've given her all my money and that's fine.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Well, I would rate that concert special. I mean, I
don't have anything I didn't enjoy about it. I feel
like it's a different five out of five, just because
it's not the way I would rate a movie. But
it as a concert special five out of five. How
do you get better than that? I mean, all right,
we'll come back and give our spoiler free review of
Sing Sing. I'm going to get into a spoiler free
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movie review now. Sing Sing, starring Coleman Domingo. It's about
him being in prison for a crime He didn't commit.
While he's in prison, he forms a theater group, and
through this theater group, all these men bond acting. And
this was a really powerful movie, a really powerful story.
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And you think prison movie, it's gonna be a gritty, dark,
violent prison movie, but it's not that whatsoever. Now I
don't think that's what I really enjoyed about. This movie
doesn't really focus on the crimes they committed. Some of
them you find out about, some of them you have
no idea about. But it was really focused on the
power of art, the fact that men have a really
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hard time communicating their feelings and expressing them to other people,
the prison system, and just the art of doing something
where you're not really supposed to find beauty and finding
something special, like hey, community through theater with these people
who you wouldn't think would be enjoying acting.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
I have a couple notes. One of the coolest parts
is that most of the cast was portrayed by formally
incarcerated actors, which I thought was a really cool ads
just like depth and truth to the performance. And then
at the end they showed actual footage through program. It
was called I think Rehabilitation through the Arts RTA, and
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they showed them doing these plays and like who some
of these characters were based on. Overall, just a really
emotional movie. I think I cried a couple times. So
well done. The storytelling was incredible, the visuals of just
this like very sterile, cold prison, and then like their
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costumes and the work they put into it. I also
enjoyed it because it wasn't glorifying anything or trying to
say that like they didn't commit crimes, which obviously he
was there. He was wrongly accused and acquitted or tried.
But it wasn't saying like, oh, these men are all angels,
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none of them have ever done anything. It kind of
was like they're this and now they are turning their
lives around. So I just thought it was incredibly well done.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
So what happens at the beginning of the movie, it
is them meeting trying to decide what play they want
to do. Is a writer he has like a book
that was very well known. At the beginning of the movie,
like another prisoner asked him if he could sign his book.
But essentially he is primarily the one who writes these
plays that they do. And then another prisoner decides that
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instead of doing a drama which there experienced drama every
day in their life being in there, He's like, let's
do a comedy because we need to laugh, we need
to do something fun. So the guy that they're working with,
who oversees the group, goes home in a weekend and
writes this entire just wacky play.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
That like they were throwing out ideas, they were like
Egyptians time traveler. He wrote a play that encompasses everything,
and so it's so out there.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
For me as a writer. That was the only unbelievable part.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
That he wrote whole plane he wrote, or that he
managed to fit everything in.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
There, all the things he wrote. And I think just
the fact that he wrote an entire play in a
weekend with lines and everything for everybody incorporated everything, and
then there the entire movie is them just rehearsing the play.
I was like, how did he do that all the
weekend with nothing else to do? But that was the
only portion of the movie. Like, I'm gonna suspend belief
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Also, we should a it's called Sing Sing because it
is based at the prison in New York called Sing Sing.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
So the entire movie is them rehearsing this play, you
find out more about their backstories.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
And then you have Common Domingo trying to appeal his
prison sentence. So that's the other like interwoven plot line.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
And it's almost like that is that is the b
plot line because it's so focused on the play, them
trying to get their characters downright, them trying to teach
acting to people who are not trained in acting whatsoever.
And then throughout I would say the second and third
act is that more raw human emotion coming out of
everybody dealing with things that prisoners deal with, wanting to
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get outside, worrying what life will be like once they
get outside, worrying that they are so just used to
this everyday life that that is all that they should
deserve in life. And there are some moments that hit
me and the gut. I didn't cry like you did,
but I wanted to.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
It was It's very nuanced, and I enjoyed the range
of emotions because it showed the human side and you
have to kind of grapple with Okay, they have done
bad things, they're there for a reason, but also just
this idea of second chances and rehabilitation and who were
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we to play judge like if somebody appeals and it's
like actually able to get out, like that's a judge
has determined that. Like it just was. I truly just
had a lot of emotions and I can't articulate well
how it made me feel.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
I think it was also probably recently watching Presumed Innocent
and thinking more about the legal system of thinking how
sometimes you don't have all the facts.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
You just have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, Like.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
It's just proving that that you could be wrong, but
you could have the better case and put somebody in
prison just because you had a better lawyer, you had more.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Jess Mercy with Vie Jordan just based on a true story.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Which reminds me of a time where I was so
paranoid that I would have to prove my whereabouts for
a period of my life just because I was like,
what if somebody tries to say I was at this
time when a crime took place, that I was very
vigilant about getting receipts or I would like smile at
like security cameras just to know, ay, I was there
at that time at two point fifty one PM, I
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am on that seven to eleven camera just because you
never know when you have to prove it.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Or the fact that you do have a name that
is I don't know some criminals.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Yeah, the same name anytime I go to Mexico, or
anytime I go to Canada, or on even an American Idol.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Lot or even when we came back from Costa Rica.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Yeah, anytime I leave the country.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Try to why my wife helped you.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Honestly, they're like, okay, but I have such a common name,
or somebody who has my name has done some awful
things and is on some list.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
But it's so weird because it's like you have a
passport and like a social Security number and you're not
that person.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
But I get flagged every single That's what's so weird.
It has happened for the last at least eight years,
and it keeps happening, and I don't know what I
can do. Sometimes I want to give them a warning,
saying like hey, this may be good flag, but then
I feel like that's more of a mmm.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah, suspicious to like flag the flag.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Yeah, so it's harder to explain. But maybe that's where
al somewhere someone this is rooted in. But back to
the movie, Coleman Domingo has one of the best voices
in Hollywood, Like just his hearing his voice to me
vocal to just his tone. I could listen to him
like I want an audiobook that he narrates, just because
he has a really good deep voice. He does, and
I don't really hear people talk and think I want
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their voice, But I wish I had his voice. This
podcast would sound much better. I could get voice work,
I'd be more because he has a voice that just
sucks you in and draws you into every single line
that he is saying.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
He's also done theater before.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
And it comes out in this movie.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Yeah, So I feel like you see that he's very
as an actor, like meticulous with this speech.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
And I think my favorite thing, hands down, was, like
were saying earlier, the fact that they use the real
people because it adds this extra layer of authenticity, which
I love it when any director just finds regular, common
people to act in movies, because you get that genuine interaction.
It's not super polished, but it doesn't in this case
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really doesn't need to be. But even like Martin Scorsese
using regular everyday people and Killers of the Flower Moon,
it just feels more natural, feels more authentic, and if
you have a really good director who is able to
get a performance out of somebody who isn't trained, it's
just so much better. So I think out of any
part of this film making process, I think that is
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really what made this movie stand out, because you feel
this bond between them as well, knowing that they've all
gone through this.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
In real life and they're now they're acting it out
for you.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
And then you can see their skills that they learn,
probably through that in prison, actually come out now in
a real movie. So I I just loved every aspect
of that. Just great cast chemistry that I haven't seen
done at this level.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
It was phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
What would you rate, Sing Sing Oh, I'm going to
give it a five, given it a five.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
I felt all the feelings.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Yeah, no notes, I would give it a strong four
point five at a five. And I think this will
this will be a movie that if you go into
with a really open mind, without thinking of the world
and all the other aspects of what it means to
be incarcerated, I think you will really enjoy it. And
also bonus points for Coleman Domingo's voice tone and that
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is our review of Sing Sing.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
It's time to head down to movie Mike Treylor Paul hey.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Man, what if Way TK really brought the robot apocalyps? Yeah, man,
soone should make that movie. That's how I feel Kylo
Mooney's thought process was when hitching the idea of why
two K. If you're not familiar with Kyle Mooney, he
is making his directorial debut in this movie called Y
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two K. He was an SNL cast member that I
feel never really had his moment to shine. And I
think he's a funny guy. He had a lot of
good digital shorts, but I almost feel like his ideas
weren't really prime for television for everybody to find funny.
I almost feel like his brand of comedy are only
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things that he finds funny. But after watching the trailer
for this movie, I kind of feel like it's going
to come through a little bit better in such a wacky,
zany comedy. But of course he put himself in this movie,
and what does he play. He plays a stoner. That
is just how I feel about his brand of humor.
You almost have to be somebody who is doing Bond
grips to really understand I don't want to say the
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greatness that is Kyle Mooney, but his brand of comedy.
But when you look at what type of movie this is,
it takes place New Year's Eve nineteen ninety nine at
a party where everything that had been worrying about that
year when the year changes from nineteen ninety nine to
two thousand, that all machines are gonna shut down. We're
going to have this computer flaw that causes the entire
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world to go berserk. We thought we were going to
lose power, We thought all of our records were going
to go out the window just because we were going
from nineteen ninety nine to two thousand. So this movie
is going to say, hekay, that actually happened. All of
our technology started revolting. Not only did they shut down,
but now they are trying to kill us. So that
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is the premise of this movie. It is an ensemble comedy.
It is packing in a nostalgia punch in the late nineties,
well really late nineties, right at the cusp of the
two thousands. And I actually like that type of nostalgia,
the nostalgia that is much more rooted in the years.
All the references of that time more so than just
bringing back a franchise from nineteen ninety nine or early
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two thousands, I think this is the way to go
to hook in in our generation right now, millennials. So
we'll get into more about this movie, but right now,
here's just a little bit of the Y two K trailer,
which is coming out in theaters this December. In a few.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Hours, you have an excuse to kiss the girl of
your dreams.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
White two K is real selfas on the net, tomagotcha
just drilled towards chick's heads. Come on, we gotta go.
We're experiencing major problems as a result of the watching Fay.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Right down, Bye bye Human Race. We're talking global computer apocalypse.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Sorry, guys, I guess you're so. This movie reminds me
of this is the end from the early twenty tens,
which I feel of That movie was kind of the
book end to all of those late two thousands, mid
two thousands comedies that starred Jonah Hill, Seth Rogan, James Franco.
They were all in that movie playing themselves and it
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kind of had the same remis they all go to
a party and then the zombie apocalypse in that movie
starts happening, and they all try to survive, some of
them die, and it is a different level in that
movie because they are all so famous and also funny.
But here you're working with a relatively unknown cast. You
would recognize a lot of their faces before you recognize
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their name. You have Jaden Martel playing the lead in
this movie, who if you've seen it, he was one
of the kids who grew up to be Bill Hayter.
You also have Rachel Zegler, who was going to be
in the new snow White movie. She was last year
in the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. And then you
also have Julian Dennison, who was the kid in Deadpool two.
He was also in a really great Tako Ytt movie,
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Hunt for the Wilder People with Sam Neil, which came
out also in the early twenty tens. If you haven't
seen that one, I do feel like that is one
of Taiko Watt's batter movies. He's the guy who did
thora Ragnarok, thlor Love and Thunder. Some people hate that movie.
I still enjoy that one, although I haven't gone back
and revisited that movie, so maybe it was just because
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I was itching for a Marvel movie back when that
one came out. The only real injustice I thought that
movie did was wasting Christian Bale as Gore the god Butcher.
We got Christian Baale batman himself, Academy Award winning Christian Bale,
and that villain would just so lackluster. But enough of
the Marvel rant here. It also reminds me of like
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twenty tens party movies, which were a thing. I feel
like everybody in the twenty tens were just partying. Whether
it was the music of just hey, let's party tonight
because we're not gonna get tomorrow. The movies also echoed
that of let's hang out, have big house parties and
go crazy. You get a little bit of a glimpse
of that in this movie where our lead here is
going to this party trying to kiss the girl of
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his dreams, and then midnight strikes and all the technology
starts revolting and killing people. When that started happening, I
was like, Okay, it started reminding me of this is
the end. It started reminding me of Project X. Also
that my name is Earl episode also called White Whenever
kind of along the same lines. This thing happens when really,
it's just I think somebody forgot to pay the electricity bill,
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but they think that the world has shut down and
they all go live in the Superstore. Hilarious episode. My
Name Is Earl is such an underrated TV show. Whenever
I'm feeling like I just need to pick me up,
I go watch episodes of My Name Is Earl. And
this movie is essentially that episode in a longer format.
But once the toys started revolting, once they referenced the
Tamagatchi there, which is an excellent late nineties reference, it
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reminded me of that final battle scene in Small Soldiers
where you have the toys with the nail gun shooting
people throwing flaming tennis balls. If there is a late
nineties nostalgia movie for me that I feel should be remade,
I think it is Small Soldiers. It came out in
nineteen ninety eight. I ate up that VHS. I wanted
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the toys but couldn't afford the toys. I see them
every now and then at the thrift shop and I'm like, oh,
I really wish I could get one of those, but
they're still expensive. Because anything from our childhood now people
are trying to make money off of so I feel
like if they were to remake that movie with the
technology now, they would look so much better. You'd get
the tie in with the toys now, and you'd be
banking much like this. Why two K movie on the
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nostalgia of all those millennials who grew up with that
movie but now have adult money. So I know people
keep saying that Hollywood is out of ideas. They keep
remaking everything. We got Beatle, just Beatle just coming out.
Why can't we get a small Soldier's reboot. The other
interesting cast member in Y two K is Fred Durst,
the lead singer olymp Biscuit. I feel like he is
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slowly trying to get back into acting. I know he
acted for a little bit here and there. I saw
him earlier this year and I saw the TV Glow.
He had a very small role in that you couldn't
even tell it was him. And the only way I
knew it was him going into it because I looked
up the cast and saw Fred Durst is in this movie,
and he plays like a dad who's a deadbeat kind
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of a jerk, and you really only get a quick
glance of his side. But he's like in the shadows
for the majority of his scenes, so I wouldn't really
say that was like a big acting role for him.
It was really more of a small cameo. It kind
of looks like he has more of a role here.
He is in his classic limbiscuit hat turned around that
read one that we all knew him for. I feel like,
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since this movie is taking place in nineteen ninety nine,
he is going to be full on fred Durst. This
movie cost an estimated ten million dollars, which is surprisingly low,
so I feel like they were able to get the
cast pretty cheap, maybe spent the majority of the money
on some of these special effects or actually building some
of these killer robots. This movie feels to me like
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if it came out in nineteen ninety nine when it
is set, it wouldn't have done that well in theaters,
but once it went to VHS and DVD, it would
be one of those movies that would get passed around
and watched and quoted and laughed at and had some
just astronomical DVD sails, much like a movie like Grandma's
Boy that I saw. Nick Schwartz to the comedian and
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he's also has I would say a pretty major role
in that movie on how people riped that movie to
shreds when it first came out, and how the majority
of that cast was really unknown unless you were super
into all the Adam Sandler movies, but the fact that
it was produced by Adam Sandler and he's not actually
in it. It just got terrible, terrible reviews, bombed at
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the box office, but once it went to DVD and VHS,
it crushed dominated made millions of dollars there, And I
think that is kind of the thing that box office
bombs don't have anymore. They don't have that ability to
make the money on the back end. They don't have
the physical media sales, which was a big deal back
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in the day, because when you did bomb in theaters,
if it ended up doing well through word of mouth,
that people actually watching it once they had the time
to didn't spend the money to go see it in theaters,
but maybe rented it from a blockbuster, a rat box.
People would then start going to buy the actual DVD
so they could watch it again at home. You don't
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really get that anymore, and I don't really think the
numbers are as generous when it comes to people renting
movies that just came out in theaters at home, that
price is still a little bit expensive unless you're just
itching to watch it right in that moment. I think
that is who it's for. But I feel like most
people wait until it's on a streaming service that they
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pay for, because we feel like I'm already paying for Netflix,
I'm paying for Hulu, I'm paying for Max. I'm not
gonna pay on top of that to watch this again.
I'm gonna wait until it falls into one of those
subscription services that I already pay for because I'm not
adding more to this bill. And with all the streaming
services that we are subscribed to, we don't really go
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out of our way to find movies that don't exist
on one of these, which is a tough scenario for
movies to be in, because if you come out in
theaters and then don't fall on one of them streamers,
where do your movies go? Do they even exist if
they're not on one of those? Because every now and
then I'll search a movie and when it's not on
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one of those streaming services and I have to pay
two three dollars, I'm like, WHOA, this is so weird,
But then I wouldn't have hesitated fifteen years ago to
walk into a store and rent or buy a movie.
It just feels weird paying that little amount of money
on a digital purchase because you don't really feel like
you're getting anything when you could just go to Netflix
and watch it for free and I don't care if
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it's ninety nine cents, seventy nine cents, or just one cent.
It just feels like I have much more of a
thought process when I have to pay any sort of money.
So for a movie like this coming out, original comedy
is not attached to a franchise. If a movie like
this comes out in theaters and doesn't do well, then
studios are gonna say more and more that we can't
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make comedies because they don't make money. The good thing
about this one is that it is an a twenty
four movie that does take risks on smaller budget movies.
They also have a partnership now with Max, so this
movie probably will drop on their services two three months
after it comes out in theaters. But I would say,
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as always, if you want to see more movies like this,
if you're somebody who has said why don't they make
great comedies anymore. We got to support more movies like this,
and hopefully Kyle Mooney does a good job in his
directorial debut and doesn't leave us thinking what did I
just watch?
Speaker 2 (47:29):
And that was this week's edition of Movie min Framer par.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
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, and
this week's listeners shout out is Gina Center six six
to two. Oh hopefully I said your last name there correctly,
but she commented on Instagram of a real I posted
from last week's episode with my top ten movie pet peeves.
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If you miss that episode, just go back one in
the feed because I was deaf only on one during that.
But she wrote, great podcast as usual. We saw Blink
twice yesterday and did not enjoy it. Way too strange
for me shocked faced emoji, and I said in my
review it is a movie I believe you're either going
to love or you're gonna hate. Anything in the psychological
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thriller genre, especially with really dark and sinister images, is
going to have that effect on people and split audiences
in two. But that is why I love movies is
because two people can go watch the exact same movie
and feel differently about it. You can come on a
podcast and talk about it. So thank you Gina. Here
this week's listener shout out of the week. Thank you
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right now listening on your earbuds, you're on a drive,
if you're at the gym, Appreciate you sharing the podcast
with a friend. And until next time, go out and
watch good movies and I will talk to you later.
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