Top 5 Tubi Finds for Free! + Movie Review: Wicked + Trailer Park: ‘Mission: Impossible 8’

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's movie podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike. It is Thanksgiving week and
I want to show you how thankful I am for
you listening right now. Everybody in the movie crew, I
want to give you something that you can do for free.
I have my top five two B fines free service.
All you have to do is watch commercials. But there
are some hidden gems on there I want to share

(00:21):
with you.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
In the movie.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Review, we're gonna be talking about Wicked. Did it live
up to my expectations? Even though I haven't seen the musical?
And in the trailer park mission Impossible eight? What is
going to be the fate of Ethan Hunt as they
close out this franchise? Is somebody gonna take over? Thank
you for being here, Thank you for being subscribed. Shout
out to the Monday Morning movie crew. Hellow, let's talk movies.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
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Speaker 2 (01:04):
This is movie Mike Movie Podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
All right, it is Thanksgiving week and I want to
show my appreciation for everybody who listens to this podcast
and give you something that you can do for free,
because everything in this world is getting so expensive. My
Disney Plus is going up, my Netflix is going up.
But you know what is not going up the rates on.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
To be Because to B is free. Yes, let me
say that again. To be is free.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
You do have to watch some commercials at times. Their
commercial breaks are a little bit long. But I have
an entire theory about watching movies at home now that
I want to get into. But it is a free
service and all you have to do is create a
profile to sign in, and then it saves your progress
because if you don't create a profile, which is how
I was using it before, it would restart all your movies,
so you couldn't have a save spot.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
But if you just do that, you're good to go.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
And what has led me to TB is sometimes I'll
just search for a movie that's kind of old and
specific and one that maybe didn't have a whole lot
of success. It's not really one that the big streamers
are gonna go after, but for some reason, they just
end up on tub and I just started enjoying the service.
At first, it felt like, why there's so many commercials?
Why am I even getting on here? It feels like

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there's nothing great to watch. But the more and more
I did my digging on to be, the more great
hidden gems I found, and I.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Was like, this is free.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
I should be telling more people about this to save
you some money. Think about the commercials, it's really not
that bad. And the way I approach movies that I
watch on t B is I usually don't sit down
to watch them all in one sitting.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
A lot.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
I think every single movie that I'm gonna share with
you my top five two b fines, they were all
movies I started and then just kind of picked up
throughout the week, throughout the weekend and came back to
and with that, it doesn't feel like there are a
ton of commercials. So that is the only downfall I
found of to be some of the quality can be
hit or miss depending on how old of a movie

(03:01):
you were digging into, and I think that really just
comes down to the restoration of some of these movies
from film vhs to digital and streaming. So I don't
really hold that against TUB, but I think as a whole,
it is a solid service.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
You can get the app on your phone.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
If you have a smart TV, it's probably already on
your smart TV. You can watch it on your laptop.
Anywhere you are. You can have to B with you
for free. And I wanted to share with you my
top five hitted gems that I found on TB. And
these are all movies I've watched in the last couple
of months. I'm actually gonna go in order that I
watched them, because they all kicked off around October where

(03:38):
I was just looking for horror movies and I'd gone
through everything on Max and Netflix and Hulu, and I
was like, I need something different, and that journey led
me to TB.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
I also love the sound that plays.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Whenever you first opened up to be, Like the Netflix
is probably the most iconic.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
All the other services I feel are a little bit
more gen eric.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
But this two B one will get stuck in your head.
So let's get into it now. My top five to
be fines movies you can watch for free at home.
At number five, the first movie that led me to
to be was Hell House LLLC and I always heard
about this movie. It's a very low budget horror movie.

(04:23):
And what the premise of this movie. It takes place
five years after fifteen people were killed during a haunted
house tour, and it shot documentary styles, so very much
like that first Blair Witch Project movie with a little
bit of paranormal activity where none of this stuff actually happened.
But in the movie they are investigating to find out

(04:45):
how all these people died and what really went on
in this horror house that was called hell House. And
the reason I decided to watch this movie is because
it made the list of the top ten scariest movies.
According to Science. It came in at number one on
the list, So they use some different things to factor
in what makes these movies the scariest. According to Science,

(05:06):
hell House LLC has an average movie heart rate of
eighty one beats per minute. The highest spike is one
oh seven beats per minute. The HRV drop is sixteen percent.
Maybe that's like how much you come down. I don't
really know exactly what that means. But it also has
a scare score of seventy five. All those factors give

(05:27):
this movie a nine, and out of all the movies
that made this top ten list that I was reading.
This was the only one that I hadn't seen, and
the only place I could watch it was where think
that is correct? And you know, I love this House
is haunted horror subgenre, so I felt like this movie

(05:47):
was right up my alley and I did enjoy that
aspect of it, of you as the viewer trying to
figure out what exactly is going on here.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
I also love movies.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
That are made for really low budgets and go on, well,
this even wasn't that big of a box office success.
I think it just really became a cult classic. There's
a sequel to this movie, but there is.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
A charm in this style of filmmaking.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
So I do think you really have to be into
horror movies to enjoy this one because it is pretty
low budget. The thing that probably holds this movie back
the most that I enjoyed. But I could see if
you were watching this without really much knowledge on how
much this movie cost, you would see some of the
acting in this movie and think this is pretty subpar.

(06:32):
It feels like they just grabbed some random people and
threw them in front of a camera and said.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
All right, let's make this movie.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
But I think that's kind of what they're going for
because they are supposed to be normal people. But for
this movie, you do have to suspend a lot of
belief because of the style of filmmaking, because of what
is actually the horrors behind this hell house. It is
a movie that if you went into a thinking this
is going to be so scary, which is how I

(07:00):
went into it, because it makes the top ten, and
you would really not flinch at it because there are
moments that were terrifying and they got me a little bit,
but I really had to put myself in it. And
there were other times that I was annoyed with it
because whenever it was going to get to a really
scary part, they're like, Okay, now we're going to go
full found footage and start glitching with the scene. We

(07:21):
cut off the camera a little bit. It's buzzing, it's
moving too much, and you miss out on some of
the real scary parts. And I think that's probably due
to the low budget, and they wanted to make some
of the scary things that you interpret in your head
be scarier than what they could afford to put on
the screen. So I think it we just had better
actors a little bit more budget to show some of

(07:44):
those scary things, but I became really invested in it.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Towards the end.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
There were moments because I made it a point to
only watch this movie at night so I could fully
lean into being scared. But overall for hell House LLC.
I give it about a three point five at a five,
but a good one to check out. I would say
if I was a bigger fan of The Blair Witch Project,
I would have enjoyed this movie more. And I know
some people love that is their favorite horror movie, So

(08:11):
I think if you're looking for something in that nature,
this is a movie that a lot of people love,
and I could see it. I just have a really
high standard when it comes to something that's supposed to
be scary to me, and I am impossible to scare.
But still I enjoyed it, and I watched it for free.
That comes in at number five. Hell House LLC.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
At number four.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Is one of my favorite movies from the sixties, and
it's a lesser known movie from the sixties.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
It is called The.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
Swimmer, and I think sometimes when you think about movies
in the sixties, you might think, is it in color,
is it in black and white.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
The Swimmer is in color. It stars Burt Lancaster.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
And the reason I love this movie is because it's
based on a short story by John Cheever and I
remember reading this short story.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
It had to have been and in.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Middle school, maybe in high school, and I was really
big into literature, not only in junior high in high.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
School, but in college.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
I took creative writing and I had to read a
lot of short stories, and I always gravitated more towards
short stories because I just love that style of storytelling,
because I feel like you can have just a small
idea that is a great idea, but sometimes those small
great ideas can't be fleshed out into an entire book
because it's just a really specific scene, really specific moral

(09:32):
or message. And I think that's why I gravitated towards
reading a lot of short stories. And I was pretty
sure I watched this movie in school, but watching it
on TV, I felt like I was watching it again
for the first time, because if I did watch it
in school, I know I read the short story and
what The Swimmer is about. You have this guy named
Ned who has this really crazy idea where he's visiting

(09:54):
his friends and they're like, hey, we haven't seen you
in a long time, and he's like, hey, yeah, and
he gets this idea that he wants to swim through
everybody's backyard and make it back to his house. And
when I first read this short story, it didn't make
sense to me, and seeing it in a movie, it
makes a little bit more sense. But you also have

(10:15):
to know that it overall doesn't really make sense because
this movie really isn't set in reality. It is very
much trying to make a point about this guy who
is a little bit delusional, and he is reminiscing on
a time in his life where him and a friend,
that first friend he talks to when he goes to
their house at the start of this movie, they used

(10:35):
to just swim a lot. They would swim up a
river and get lost at it, back when they were
really young and strong and healthy. And that is kind
of where the idea is born that he wants to
relive those early days where he could swim for NonStop
hours and just keep going. And the only way he
can do that now is by stopping by all these
houses where he knows people and just taking a swim

(10:56):
in their pool.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
So he's not really finding.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
A way to swim through all their pools like they're
connected in a way, which is how I thought of
it whenever I first read this story. But the movie
is all about this big character study on Ned, and
through every house that he visits, you learn a little
bit more about him, and the tone of the movie
changes and gets darker and darker as it goes along,

(11:21):
And I think that is why I love this movie
so much, because it starts out very big and fantastical,
and it's.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
All over exaggerated.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
He's talking about his really cool life, that he's rich,
and he has a family. They're all back home playing tennis,
and he's gonna make his way back there. And then
you find out more and more details about him, and
you learn about how all these other people are treating him,
and you start to wonder, like, what is really going
on with Ned? And by the end of the movie,

(11:50):
you feel awful for Ned. And it is such a
unique way to tell a story that I'm just surprised
that something like this was made in the sixties, because
sometimes when I look at other movies in that period,
I mean the graduate also from the sixties also want
to be planet of the Apes, Rosemary's Baby, The Birds

(12:11):
Psycho is from the sixties, so there are some very
notable movies from the sixties. But I could imagine this
movie coming out now and being a hit and being
something that felt new, refreshing and novel. So in a way,
I feel like this movie was a bit ahead of
its time, even though it's based on a short story.
And to help you frame it in your mind, here's
just a little clip of the trailer.

Speaker 4 (12:32):
Well, I've got to be on my way. I'm swimming home.
You're swimming home.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
I figured out there's a river of pools all the
way to my house.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
Crazy idea.

Speaker 4 (12:41):
I think it's a brilliant idea.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Well, what are you doing it for?

Speaker 4 (12:44):
Why do you want to do it? I think it's
very original. I mean, I think it's an adventure.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
With me, so you want to take this journey with Ned.
I don't think this movie is for everybody. Some people
see anything from old and back in the day and
immediately are like, I don't want to watch that.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
It looks old.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
I feel like even kids now seeing movies from the
twenty tens, and if it.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Just looks old at all or in the two.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
Thousands, you don't want to watch it, and I get that,
but there's just something about the suburban drama that this
movie really shines a light on that makes me love it.
I feel a lot of empathy for Ned. I also
kind of feel anger towards Ned.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
I love the.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
Look and feel of this movie where the colors are
very rich. So for The Swimmer, I would give it
four out of five. It is one of my favorite
movies from the sixties. Up next at number three is
a movie called SLC Punk. This was one of my
favorite movies growing up, and as soon as I was
done watching The Swimmer and I was looking through all
the other two B movies, I saw this one next

(13:47):
and I was like, I gotta rewatch this because growing
up I was into punk rock.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
My first concert ever was the Warp Tour.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
I went to go see bands like Rancid. I was
very into the Misfits, Black Flag, all of those just
core essential punk bands, Ramones, the Clash. That was what
I grew up listening to, and I very much identified
with all the values in punk rock. I love going
to shows and getting in the mosh pit, and it

(14:16):
was very much a part of my identity growing up
that being said, this movie is one. As a teenager,
I would have rated a five out of five because
I saw Steve O in this movie, who was played
by Matthew Lillard, and thought I want to be like him.
He is cool, he has a mohawk at the beginning
of the movie, he has colored hair. He wears the
clothes I want to wear. If I was only skinnier

(14:37):
and could fit into those clothes, I'd be dressing just
like him. But I grew up idolizing this movie and
the values in this movie, and the music in this movie.
It has a fantastic soundtrack. So as a teenager, I
would have given this movie a five out of five.
And rewatching this movie, I think it has dropped a
little bit and I would probably give it now a
four out of five.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
And it was so weird.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
To me to see how my perspective on this story
changed now being thirty three years old, and how much
I idolized STEVEO and thought he was the coolest and
thought he made all the best points in this movie
where he is just trying to tear down the establishment
that is the punk rock way. He wants total anarchy.
He thinks that there should be no systems in play

(15:20):
or whatever, that it should just be chaos all the time,
and he wanted to live this lifestyle of basically being
a degenerate, not contributing to society. And watching it now
as an adult, I found Stevo's character to be really
annoying and really pretentious and saying things about the world

(15:42):
when it's just not really how it works. And I
was like, oh, this is weird, like I used to
be on the complete other side of that, and it
made me realize And it was even before I rewatched
this movie, but even going to concerts, you know, punk
concerts in my late twenties and now early thirties, that
punk rock just doesn't age that well. And while I
still love the music and how it just reminds me

(16:05):
of my youth, and I always try to keep a
little of those punk rock values in my life of
just doing what I want, say what I want to say,
dressing how I want to dress. I think throughout your
life you should keep that kind of punk rock nature
of like, yo, I'm gonna do what I want and
I'm not going to carry what people say. I think,
at its core, that's what punk rock is, being yourself

(16:26):
and they make a great point in this movie that
also resonated with me more watching it again on tub
was if you wear punk rock things to rebel, but
you yourself kind of look like you're wearing a uniform
at the same time. So it's like, I'm gonna be
punk rock and be not conforming with society by coloring

(16:47):
my hair, by wearing spikes on my clothes. In turn,
you're kind of conforming to another uniform that you're trying
to rebel against. So by me dressing like a nerd,
now it's being more punk rock than ever. But I
kind of feel the way that a lot of people
feel about the book The Catcher and the Rye, where
a big problem that people have with that book is

(17:09):
the main character Holden, and people find him really pretentious
and whiny, And I kind of feel that same way
now rewatching SLC Punk.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
The music is still good.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
And even watching it now, I can kind of see
the budget a little bit that things that I maybe
didn't notice when I was younger that I kind of
just glazed over. Now I'm like, oh man, they really
cut the corners there. You can totally tell that that
as a wig, So growing up I very much wanted
to be like Matthew Lillard's character Steve O, and now
I feel more like the character Mark in this movie

(17:42):
played by Til Schweiger, who is like the older guy
in his thirties hanging out with him.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
And he's not really punk rock.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
He just like hanging out and having fun and some
of his values in this movie I probably identify with
more now as an adult. Also, Jason Siegel is in
this movie. He plays a character named Ardicore Mike, who
is a nerd. Has glasses, not like the glasses I
have now, but the glasses I had before this, and
he is a big dork. But to think about him

(18:09):
is he's really good at fighting, so he's their muscles,
so even though he looks like a total dweeb, he
can take out a dude with one punch.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
Kind of cool.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
Seeing Jason Siegel very early in his career post Freaks
and Geeks, long before How I Met Your Mother, But
this movie is all about that, about two former geeks
who were nerds and decided in the nineteen eighties, we
got to become cool. We gotta start going to parties,
we gotta start hanging out with girls. So they become
punk rockers, go to concerts, live the lifestyle, still go

(18:38):
to college.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
And then.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
It also has one of my favorite performances from Matthew Lillard.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
At the end of this.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
Movie, he delivered what ended up being credit to him
that he could be a legit actor, had to pull
some real emotion out of his butt so long before
he was Shaggy and Scooby Doo. He nailed it an
SLC punk So this movie will always be one of
my favorite even though I'm not right there with its

(19:02):
ideology as an adult, and probably as I get older
and older and become more lame and not want to
do cool, fun things anymore that I did in my
younger years, I'll still look back on this movie and think, yeah,
I used to be cool like that, or probably not,
I was never cool. At Number two on the TV
list is Blow starring Johnny Depp Penelope Cruise. I remember

(19:25):
watching this movie way too young, because it came out
in two thousand and one I was ten years old.
I remember the DVD for Blow that it was like
a silver case with Johnny Depp laying down, Penelope Cruise
laying down like on top of him, resting her hand
on his stomach and I didn't know what blow even

(19:45):
meant before watching this movie as a kid. It's about
cocaine and Johnny Depp plays a character named George Young,
who is most famous for being Pablo Escobar's right hand man.
And I thought this was the coolest movie growing up
because it's all about how he goes from being a
poor kid. His parents are struggling financially and that leads

(20:07):
them to fighting with each other. His dad is played
by Ray Liota, and a fantastic thing that this movie
does is create a really great backstory really quickly by
showing you his life as a kid. But even before
you get to that, it starts out kind of telling
you how it's gonna end. It is Johnny Depp as
an adult telling you his inmate number, and then you

(20:31):
flash back to him getting started in the drug business.
But it all goes back to him as a kid,
hearing his parents argue and thinking, I don't want to
be like that. I got to make something of myself.
I got to leave here and find out how to
find my place in the world, how to make money
because I don't want to be broke like them. And
what does he do we start selling weed in California,

(20:53):
and selling weed is a gateway drug for him to
selling cocaine, and he is really good at it, but
there are a lot of problems that come from being
a drug dealer. So while it does focus a lot
on that story of how he rose to power, how
at one point in the late seventies to early eighties,

(21:13):
if you were anybody you know did cocaine in that
time period, there was an eighty percent chance that it
came from him and Pablo Escobar. He made about one
hundred million dollars working with the cartel. And yes, on
the surface, it is a story about that just cocaine,
drug dealing, all the downfalls of that.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
But at the root of this story that.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
I felt rewatching him, I felt the true emotion of
somebody who just didn't want to repeat history. And you
very much connect.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
With that aspect of his life.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
And Ray Liota Rip did a fantastic job as his dad.
His dad just wanted the best for him and wanted
him to have a good life and was always supportive
of his son no matter what he did, no matter
how many times he ended up in jail, even when
he was inviting him to their house, and he knew
that this was all a product of him selling drugs

(22:09):
and being a criminal. He was always supportive of his son,
his mom not so much. But it was Johnny Depp's
character just trying not to relive that history. And this
movie has one of the saddest endings that punches you
in the gut in a very unique way because it
is not your typical sad ending. But when you really
think about all he went through in this movie, all

(22:32):
he wanted in life, the things that made him happy, it.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
Is so sad.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
If I had a heart that wasn't made of stone,
I'd probably cry while rewatching this movie. But Blow is
a fantastic movie. There is nothing bad that I would
take out of it. There's nothing I would change, and
it holds up. I loved it when I was ten,
I love it now that I'm thirty three. I give
Blow a five out of five and at number one
in my top five to b fines is a movie

(22:57):
called The Founder. It is directed by John Lee Hancock,
who I've actually had on this podcast before, and.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
This was one I just kind of missed out on.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
It came out back in twenty seventeen, where I wasn't
doing this podcast yet, so just kind of slipped through
the cracks. And sometimes when it comes to biographical dramas,
I'm not fully sold on them because I feel that
there's always kind of this glazing that happens where they
very much hollywood up the story and what the founder

(23:28):
is about. It is the true story of Ray Kroc
played by Michael Keaton, started out as a struggling salesman
from Illinois and went on to be who we know
as the founder of McDonald's. Yes, McDonald's the Golden Arches,
and it's all about how he did it. And even
though he is credited being the founder, oh, that is

(23:49):
not the whole story, because I'll just read from the
plot synopsis. Because it is history, you could google it
and find out exactly what happened. And from my research
on this story, overall, this movie is pretty accurate. They
changed a couple details here and there, but nothing major.
Because that is why sometimes I don't watch these biographical dramas,

(24:10):
because they changed things so much that it's like, hey,
that's not even what happened. And I thought this movie
was kind of going to focus so much on how
revolutionary McDonald's was, and how novel it was. But it
really focuses more on the seat, the cruel nature of business,
the backstabbing, the drama that comes with that, the money

(24:33):
that comes with that, And it led me to feel
a different way about McDonald's, not in a bad way.
I don't think McDonald's is at any fault in this movie.
It doesn't make the franchise itself look bad. It just
changed exactly how I view business and it just happens
to be through the vehicle of McDonald's. Ray meets the

(24:53):
actual McDonald's brothers, Mac and Dick McDonald who are running
a burger operation and so the other in California back
in the nineteen fifties. And the reason I even discovered
this movie and decided I want to watch it and
found it on two B is I actually saw a
clip of it on TikTok that was I was like,
where is this even from? But it's Michael Keaton going

(25:13):
up to the first McDonald's and being so fascinated on
how fast they make is food. And what the McDonald's
brothers did is they developed something called the speedy system.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
They are really the ones.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
Who created fast food because they wanted to set themselves
apart from all the other restaurants, which in the fifties
it was either had to go in, sit down, and order,
but there were a lot of downfalls with that. They
wanted to take all of those factors out, that you
would just walk up, order your food and within seconds
they could hand it to you, which is exactly what happens.

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And then a clip I saw on TikTok It is
Michael Keaton going up ordering a burger, ordering a fries,
and ordering a drink and then being so shocked when
they handed to them and they're like, here you go,
And he's like, where do I eat it?

Speaker 2 (26:03):
They're like, wherever you want? Where's the plates, where's the silverware? Well,
you just eat it out of the wrappers, then you
throw it away. That to us now is just so
normal has been a part of our lives forever.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
But to see that showcased in the Founder, where people
didn't know how to consume fast food, was what sucked
me into this movie. And that happens pretty early on
and he sees this and knows this is revolutionary, and
he is somebody who is always been chasing the next business.
He's kind of just like a sleazy salesman because it
all starts out with him selling these milkshake machines and

(26:39):
that is just one of his other many business ventures
that he's been on and he normally sells just one
to a business. But he got this order to this
restaurant in California and they wanted eight, and he's like, this.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
Has to be a mistake.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
So he goes to see this operation himself, and that
is when he discovers McDonald's because they are so busy
that they need eight machines, and he's like, I need
to get in on this. And again, you could probably
google this and find out exactly what happened, but it's
the story of how he went to them and said,
I want to be a part of this. I want
to help you franchise this and we'll have McDonald's all

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across the country.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
And they're like, you know what, we've already done that.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
The problem is that you can't really control the quality
when you give this to somebody else and say hey,
here you go, you can.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
Run it now. They were so die.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
Hard about what McDonald's stood for that I found really endearing.
They were so proud of the system they created and
how much care they have into making sure all the
details are right, with two pickles, handful of onions, the
meat cooked to perfection. They were so particular about how
much salt, what temperature to make the fries at. They

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wanted to make sure that any McDonald's that they opened,
that everybody would follow these guidelines.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
And Ray's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll do it. We'll
make sure it happen because I believe in it too.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
So the McDonald's brothers were like the artists, and Michael
Keaton's character was like the manager, and he wanted to
take this art and make it available everywhere because he's thought,
this is going to be my ticket, this is what's
going to make me successful, because up until now, I
consider myself to be a failure.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
So it's all.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
About him maneuvering his position into their business and turning
it into the McDonald's we know today.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
So I enjoyed that this movie had such a.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
Unique sense of realism and a founder story like this
in a biographical drama, because sometimes you could just really
stretch out all these details, fluff it up a little
bit to make it more cinematic. But I love that
for the most part, it stayed pretty accurate to what
actually happened between their negotiations and between this business.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
So it's a really great movie to watch.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
If you like watching movies where you can watch it
then go after and look at all the casting choices
and see how much they resemble them. So this movie
will give you a much different perspective on McDonald's. Again,
not really in a bad way. You'll just kind of
think of like, oh, that is how they operate, that
is what they do, and it seems so obvious, but

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it's something you don't really think about because you go
there just trying to get a big mac or get
some chicken nuggets, or frustrated because the ice cream machine
is never working. They don't address that in this movie,
by the way, but for the founder, I would easily
give it a four point five out of five. I
love finding hidden gems like that. Hopefully you found something
in this list because those are my top five. I

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know probably not all those are for everybody, but hopefully
there's something in there sounded good to you, and you
can go watch for free, have a great Thanksgiving week.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
We'll come back.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
I'll give my spoiler free review on Wicked and then
we'll talk about mission and possible eight. Will Tom Cruise's
character live or will he die?

Speaker 4 (30:01):
Ah?

Speaker 2 (30:02):
I wish I could be in a musical.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
I don't think that note should be heard by humans.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
I think I'll try Defying Gravity.

Speaker 4 (30:11):
Yes, it's great, it's beautiful.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
How about you try?

Speaker 4 (30:14):
No? Thank you?

Speaker 2 (30:14):
Have it in here?

Speaker 4 (30:15):
No thank you?

Speaker 2 (30:16):
Did you want to sing while we were watching this movie?

Speaker 4 (30:18):
I mouthed the songs?

Speaker 2 (30:21):
Did you say that they were telling people not to see?

Speaker 4 (30:22):
Yeah, nobody wants to hear you over Cynthia Rivo and
Ariana Grande.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
I'm surprised nobody did.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
I felt it a little bit during Defying Gravity and
popular people wanted to.

Speaker 4 (30:32):
They wanted to.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
It was like the little Anyway, we're about to get
into our spoiler free review of Wicked Part one, which
a lot of people didn't know that this was going
to be split into two parts.

Speaker 4 (30:40):
It is indeed split into two parts, and.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
It is a long movie.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
Two and a half hours went by so fast, it
really did. And I am a late comer to musicals,
I would say, but when I look back on the
history of me enjoying movies that have been really historic musicals,
I like them. I think I like musicals that have
a little bit of fan to see in him. I
think when there's like realistic musicals, I don't like them,

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Like Mama Mia.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
Not really a fan of that one.

Speaker 4 (31:06):
Hamilton Hamilton's History that's pretty realistic.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
Yeah, but that music is so dynamic and so different
and the fact that they go the entire time, Yeah,
that's an entirely different level. But I think when I
like musicals, I think of like Willy Wonka now Wicked,
even going back to the original Wizard of Oz, which
is a musical, but there's a lot of fantasy elements
to it.

Speaker 4 (31:24):
Which if you watch their original Wizard, it's kind of
scary to watch as a child.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
It is a dark movie.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
That whole history of that movie is really intense of
all the conditions that all those actors went through. The
snow in the movie was asbestos. What they did to
Julie Garland was insane.

Speaker 4 (31:39):
And was it the tin man that like they used
the paint that had something the paint.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Had He was in the hospital. I got in his eye.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
He had an eye infection. The lion they used real
like lyon fur on him. Everybody got sick. Everybody had
health issues, people were burned on the set. But when
you watch that movie back, it's like, oh, it's a
it's a good movie. I think Wizard of Oz is
probably the most significant movie in history.

Speaker 4 (32:03):
And then I gave you a little factoid you didn't know.
You did not know that Liza Minelli is Judy Carlin's daughter.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
I did not know that.

Speaker 4 (32:10):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
There are a lot of things that happened in Wizard
of Oz that have been so influential throughout.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
Film, even just in life.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
Like the reason witches are green and depicted the way
they are is because of the Wizard of Oz. It's
little things like that, the hero journey of that movie.
And then this is the prequel to that, but it's
actually also based on a book. But the book didn't
come out till like ninety five.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
I wouldn't necessarily call it a prequel.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
It's not a pre hasn't not a prequel the movie starts.

Speaker 4 (32:36):
I guess it's a prequel, but like the book isn't
considered a prequel, like the original book is like a retelling.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
I guess yes. I saw it as a prequel because
the way this movie opens up, you see Dorothy the
tin Man all the cast going down the road. It
starts with it starts at the end of that movie
saying that the Witch is dead, and then it's all
a big flashback. So to me, it felt like a prequel,
but I guess it's a reimagining.

Speaker 4 (33:00):
Go I already forget that. You see them at the
beginning of.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
The yeah, very briefly, which I think people were upset
whenever that trailer first dropped and there was a little
glimpse of them because they were saying, no, they're not
involved in this story. But I think like they are.
I feel like they're building towards something else.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
After watching this.

Speaker 4 (33:14):
I think people So I watched a TikTok that gave
like a full breakdown because I was like, it's been
around for twenty years, Like, I don't consider it a spoiler.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
Like yeah, which let's say at the beginning of this
that neither of us have seen the musical before this,
haven't I want to so I knew nothing about the
story you knew from watching TikTok.

Speaker 4 (33:31):
I want to go see it in New York before
the end of February because I'm a very big fan
of Mary Kate Morrissey who is currently playing Alpha BA.
So I would like to go, I'm gonna try and
make that happen. So, no, I haven't seen the musical,
didn't know how it really ties in. So I watched
a TikTok that breaks it down because I was like, oh,
it's not a spoiler. It's been around forever, like I

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want to know going into the movie, and it didn't
ruin the movie for me, like it made me more
excited for part two. But yeah, so I'll just say
that there's it does tie in. It's not a spoiler,
that's all. So it's been around for years. Yeah, the
musical premiered in two thousand and three.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
I feel like it's kind of like going into last
year Willy Wonka, like we kind of knew the story
Willy Wonka, even though that was a prequel to the story.
You kind of know what is going to happen, even
from watching the trailer. They show so much at the
end of the movie in the trailer that even though
I had no idea what was going on, what was
going to happen in the story, I kind of had
an idea because I saw what was happening at the
end of the trailer. Anyway, the movie is essentially the

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origin story of the Wicked Witch of the West.

Speaker 4 (34:30):
And Glinda, the Goodwitch, and it's.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
How they met in school.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
I love that this movie had a really fun, quirky
vibe to it, which I guess is what I wasn't expecting.
When it came to Ariana Grande's performance. I absolutely loved it.

Speaker 4 (34:44):
Incredible.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
She is so good in that role as being this
bubbly cartoonish character that it reminded me a lot of
her Sam and Kat character.

Speaker 4 (34:54):
Yeah, I thought she was phenomenal, and like, I think
she was such a good choice.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
And I think the singing is just like who else
could you get that the pop star that's relevant right
now to be able to sing at this level because
you have to sing at such a high level to
do these songs.

Speaker 4 (35:08):
Yeah, and it's like she's I mean, she's one of
the best singers and.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
Out of anybody to come out of Nickelodeon, probably has
the best career of all time. Oh yeah, thank you
somebody who's had as equal success in film after Nickelodeon
and music after Like, just her music career alone is huge.
I guess her post acting career this is probably your
biggest thing to date.

Speaker 4 (35:32):
Yeah, what else has she been? And I'm blinking, I feel.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
Like this is it? Maybe this is her biggest role
so far.

Speaker 4 (35:36):
I think this is her biggest role.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
But I think who was your favorite character out of
the entire movie?

Speaker 4 (35:41):
Easily? Alpha Ba? Cyndia Rivo is Alpha Ba was truly stunning,
Like she's just just so good.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
The entire time, I was just thinking how much of
a pain that green makeup had to be. I would
go into full green makeup every single day on set.
The more and more I see about how much of
a struggle it is for different actors to get into
different costumes. That has to be pretty taxing to have
your entire body green.

Speaker 4 (36:02):
Well, and she said it would take like the days
where she just had to do like face and hands
were long, and then the days where they had to
do like full body. Oh yeah, I mean we're talking
hours just to get into the makeup.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
That just messes with your brain because not only is
it a taxing process to get into costume, but then
you have to be on set for it extended period
of time to make that just effort worth.

Speaker 4 (36:24):
It, I mean, And then they sang live they did
the stunts while singing live like it's It's incredible, And
even if you find yourself thinking like I'm not a
musical person, I highly recommend seeing it. Like honestly, even
when they announced they were making a movie, I was
kind of like.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
Okay, same and I liked it upon the first trailer,
and then the more we kept seeing the trailer were like,
I don't know what this is.

Speaker 4 (36:43):
Going to be. Good. Well, I was like, I just
want to see the movie. I'm sick of seeing trailers
blown away. I already want to see it again.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
The reason I found myself really enjoying it coming from
a place of being I could go either way on musicals,
but I think it was the fact that there was
a good story at the core. It like it went
back to actual storytelling and acting, and the singing parts
were big and grand, but it wasn't really the main
focus point, which is I think what I attached myself to.

(37:10):
And also the fact that they had incredible set design,
which I think is really what I look for in
a movie like this because in some of the other
Wizard of Oz movies they have done all the spin
offs and prequels they've done in between the original and now.
Sometimes they just cegi all the backgrounds. It feels very lifeless,
and it feels like just a bunch of actors in
a big empty studio. But here I could feel the sets,

(37:33):
and whenever they're running around and dancing and jumping off
of things and going from one set to another in
one song, it just felt like the entire production was alive.
And that is what I really enjoyed about it, because
it was a pleasure for my ears and my eyes
because there were so much to focus on. And like
you said earlier, those two and a half hours really

(37:54):
go by fast, which going into this we were thinking
that's a very long run.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
Now.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Yeah, And it got to that point where in a
long movie, I always have to make this decision, am
I gonna go pee or not? Because usually it's like
an hour in. If I know I have forty minutes
left in a normal movie, I'm like, okay, I can
make it. But in this one, there was a point
where it was like, at that two hour mark, I'm like,
do I go pee or not?

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Some people did go pee.

Speaker 4 (38:16):
I only went once. I didn't go at all, and
I think I missed a decent time, like I wasn't
or didn't miss anything important, like picked a good time
to go.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
I'd say, if you're debating it, if there's a slow
song happening, you're probably good to go.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
Pee.

Speaker 4 (38:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
And what I also loved about Opening weekend was the
fact that the entire movie theater was full. The parking
lot was to the brim. That never happened. I can't
remember the last time the parking lot alone was this full.

Speaker 4 (38:41):
Everyone was wearing their like wicked merge. People were paying
thirty eight dollars for the combo with the Glenda cop
and I was like, cinema is alive right now.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
You got me the pin, which I wanted the pin.

Speaker 4 (38:51):
It did get you the alpha A pen.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
I like collecting those.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
And in the theater, I feel that was as close
to like a sellout theater we've been.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
In a while.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
And it was surprising to me how respectful the crowd
was throughout the entire thing. When there was that burning
passion of people wanting to sing.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
I didn't hear anyone singing. I heard a couple kids
a few times, like younger kids being like what happened,
But like you can tell it's a kid. I'm not
gonna be mad like and they were. They just couldn't
understand and they needed their parents to tell them like
that wasn't a big deal. But yeah, I feel like
everyone was pretty respectful. I did see that some theaters
are gonna do singalongs on like Christmas.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
I bet that is fun, but you gotta see it
the first time, just normal, and then and then you
had a single long version.

Speaker 4 (39:32):
But then there's always gonna be that one person with
like a really good voice who's like singing to find
gravity and everyone else is like, ohay, you be terrible.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
Like trying to get discovered in this movie. Yeah. The
thing I always enjoy about Wizard of Oz movies is
there's always this hidden layer of darkness and if you
look at the actual theme of this movie, the overall
message of this movie, there is kind of this underlying ooh,
it gets dark a little bit wicked.

Speaker 4 (39:58):
Book is banned in like thirty two counties, which I
won't get started on my opinion on bookmaking.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
Twenty of your countries counties, oh counties in the US,
Oh dan because it's pretty it's pretty dark and like
raunchy is I guess a good word for.

Speaker 4 (40:12):
It, But yeah, I've heard people are being laying him.
Even if you like to the musical, I don't know
if the book is for you.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
And I don't know that.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
Do you think that this is a kid it's like
a family movie, but it's not. I feel like overall
the message isn't completely family friendly because it does have
some dark themes that if you were just like a
five year old going to see this.

Speaker 4 (40:30):
I don't think a five yearld's gonna pick up on
the dark themes. I think they're gonna see the pretty
costumes and the singing, and then I don't think they'll
feel scared. Part two could be different.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
Yeah, I could feel it going a different way in
part two because of the rise and action towards the
end of this. And I think the only thing I
didn't enjoy about it is the fact that it is
split into two, because I always feel like you kind
of get left off. I'm like, oh, it's just getting good,
and now it's over and we have to wait another
year for the next part to come out. Least it's
only a year, that's true, But I worry a lot

(41:02):
of movies that ended up getting split into two. It
gets delayed and it doesn't come out in a year.
It comes out a year and a half and then
sometimes two years.

Speaker 4 (41:09):
So I'm holding out hope that it'll be a year.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
And how excited are you now for part two? We
don't want to give away where this movie left leaves off.
What are you at A ten to go into the
next one, or like, oh, a total ten.

Speaker 4 (41:22):
Total ten. I saw a letterbox review on somebody posted
it on Twitter and they were like, I'm staying in
my seat till the next one. The theater employees are
scared of the mass final leave, but I'm seated till
November twenty twenty five, and I was like, honestly, I
get it.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
I mean, yeah, think about this one being two and
a half I have to imagine the next one is
going to be a two and a half hour movie
as well. That's five hours of Wicked right there.

Speaker 4 (41:42):
But I do want to see it on Broadway before,
so we got a year we need to make that happen.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
I am now gonna completely leave out of my vocabulary
that I am not a musical person. I think I
like good musical, good musicals, but joker two.

Speaker 4 (41:56):
Yeah, I'm not a musical person when it comes to that,
but a good musical that is. Here's the thing. It's
a Broadway musical and it is top not twenty one
years running like that clearly says something about it. Like
Joker too, Like it wasn't adapted from anything, it just was.

Speaker 1 (42:13):
Yeah. I think at that point you're just saying I
like good movies versus versus I like bad movies. Like
the genre doesn't have to really matter anymore. If a
movie is done well, it doesn't matter the genre. It
is really hard not to like a well put together,
a well made movie.

Speaker 4 (42:27):
Listen. I even liked Mean Girls musical to be any
of the Year.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
I like that too. It's a little underrated.

Speaker 4 (42:31):
I still walk around being like, my name is ren
Jina George.

Speaker 1 (42:35):
And the thing about this one that it didn't stray
away from in the promotion is hiding the fact that
it's a musical. You can't hide the fact that this
movie is a musical. But every other movie kind of
does the bait and switch.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
Mean Girls.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
A lot of people went into that, Oh yeah, they
had no clue. It was just the remake Joker, same thing.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
There wasn't much.

Speaker 4 (42:50):
Say, There wasn't any hiding. I did see a TikTok
of these three girls that took their boyfriends, and their
boyfriends didn't know it was a musical, and I'm like,
that's just on them.

Speaker 1 (42:59):
Yeah, that's just not knowing anything about pop culture or anything.

Speaker 4 (43:03):
You also fully have Wicked on the brain because we
were grocery shopping earlier and they had a display, which
I do think they did it on purpose, but it
was like pink bottles of champagne and green and you
weally is that display giving Wicked.

Speaker 2 (43:13):
Pink and green?

Speaker 3 (43:14):
Ey?

Speaker 2 (43:14):
Now I see all the time in a studio. Now
have a green light it is. It's giving Wicked for
Wicked Part one? What would you rate it?

Speaker 4 (43:23):
Five out of five? Flying monkeys?

Speaker 2 (43:27):
I would go a strong four point five out of five,
Magic wands or bubbles. I'll go bubbles. I like the bubble.

Speaker 1 (43:34):
And again, the only reason I give it less than
a five is because it's split off into two and
I wanted more.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
So there you go.

Speaker 1 (43:41):
We are now both hardcore wicket stands that we are
for buying tickets for part two.

Speaker 4 (43:45):
Right now, go see it.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
It's time to head down to movie.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
Mike Traylor, Paul The first Mission Impossible movie came out
back in nineteen ninety six, and by the time Mission
Impossible eight, which is what we're about to talk about,
comes out next year, it's gonna be twenty nine years
of Mission Impossible movies.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
Mission Impossible.

Speaker 1 (44:09):
The final Reckoning comes out May twenty twenty five. What
is going to happen with this franchise is somebody get
to take over? There's been the rumors of Glenn.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
Powell taking over.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
It has been a powerhouse in action for almost thirty years.
Four billion dollars it has grossed at the box office.
It is the seventeenth highest grossing film series of all
time and is often cited as one of the best
action franchises. And to think of all the great movies

(44:42):
that Tom Cruise has been a part of over his career,
I almost feel like these movies will be his legacy.
A lot of things from the Mission Impossible movies have
become what he is known for. Everybody knows Tom Cruise
is a great runner on screen, and this trailer has
showed oh case that almost to a point that it's like,
is he really doing this on purpose?

Speaker 2 (45:03):
Now? Does he really want to see his run so fast?

Speaker 1 (45:06):
And when I think about, like why is he running
in all of these movies. It looks cool on screen,
I don't know where he's running to. And the tagline
to this movie is our lives are the sum of
all of our choices. And all I hope for Tom
Cruise by the end of this movie, whether he lives
or he dies, is he finally gets to where he's
been running to in all of these movies.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
So it looks like.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
We're gonna get a lot of running, a lot of
big action. There are some things I like some things
I don't like about this franchise. One is that they
split this movie into two. We had Dead Reckoning Part one,
which came out last year and was a little bit
of a box office disappointment. The thing was, it came
out at a really competitive time. It came out the
weekend before Barbenheimer weekend, and Tom Cruise was trying to

(45:50):
get that Mission Impossible movie on as many Imax screens
as possible, and it made pretty good money.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
At the box office. It ended up costing about two.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
Hundred and ninety one million dollars was the budget on
that movie, and it made five hundred and seventy million dollars.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
But the thing was it lost a lot of those.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
Imax screens the next week because Oppenheimer took them all over.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
So I feel if this movie.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
Would have had one or two more weekends at the
box office in the summer where it is so competitive,
I think it would have made more money. Because I've
been in and out as far as how much I've
enjoyed all the movies in the franchise, I would say
I started to lose interest around five and six with
rog Nation and Fallout, and it was last year's.

Speaker 2 (46:39):
In twenty twenty three that kind of gained my interest again,
and that was a really solid action movie.

Speaker 1 (46:43):
It made me feel kind of the way that the
early movies made me feel. And I love that Tom
Cruise is really dedicated to making movies that feel like
you need to see them on the big screen. So
that number I mentioned earlier, four million dollars at the
box office that this franchise has made. I think the
into this movie he wants to reach that five billion
dollar mark.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
Can he do it? I think he can.

Speaker 1 (47:06):
Problem is, the budget has been reported that it's reaching
about four hundred million dollars, which is really expensive. So
maybe his thought is, Okay, let's pump all his money
into it and just get the Bucks Office to a billion.
But I don't know if it's going to be a
profitable movie at that point. Is it just he wants
to make a billion dollars and he doesn't care how
much he spends on it, which I don't think is

(47:27):
a great plan. I think Paramount would probably want to
spend in that two point fifty even that two ninety
from the last movie is a lot to make a billion.
Those are much better margins considering how much you have
to spend on advertising, which doesn't get added into that
production cost that gets reported. So a lot going on
in this franchise. There's a lot of money on the table.

(47:48):
There's a legacy on the table. Before I get into
more about this movie, here's just a little bit of
the Mission Impossible eight final Reckoning trailer.

Speaker 5 (47:58):
Everything, everything you've done, has come to this. When the
need for certainty is absolute and the odds are deemed impossible,
the mission falls to him Jould.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
He cheers to accept You've always been on the right side.

Speaker 5 (48:17):
Brother, I have no regrets any should you. I need
you to trust me one last time.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
This trailer is overly dramatic, I feel like as a whole,
in the last couple movies, they have been overly dramatic,
but I think I kind of feed off that energy.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
Now I want a little bit of cheesiness.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
Going into a movie like this, And what I love
about this trailer and what I love about Tom Cruise,
even though he's not the filmmaker here, he's not the director,
but I consider him to be an essential part to
the filmmaking process because how involved he is and doing
his own stunts, outing locations, wanting things to look a
certain way. I feel like he is much a part

(49:04):
of that filmmaking process more than any other actor at
his level. But there are real locations in these mission
impossible movies, and that adds so much depth that you
don't realize until you don't have it. When you start
looking into the action genre and you see movies that
look like they don't even take place on this world

(49:25):
because it's these actors in front of green screens and
blue screens. Some of these actors are never in the
same room together. So to have these movies in real
locations all across the world just feels like something that
doesn't happen anymore, and it just looks so much better,
looks very expensive, but that really adds to the value

(49:47):
of these movies, and that is something that is essential
right now. And by looking at this trailer and even
in like the first few seconds, where every one second
is a different shot in a different location, in those
eight seconds, there's millions and millions of dollars, and that
is the commitment to filmmaking.

Speaker 2 (50:06):
When you are willing to go.

Speaker 1 (50:08):
To another country for a shot, that is just a
price that only somebody like Tom Cruise can get approved.
And in the last Mission Impossible movie, it had that
one big action moment where Tom Cruise takes a motorcycle
flies it off a cliff. He's just like in midair

(50:29):
for like a second before hitting the parachute on his back.
And in this one, I don't feel like that moment
is at showcase. Maybe there's a trailer coming later that's
going to have that one big moment. So far in
this trailer, the one action moment that really stands out
is when it looks like him and another person are

(50:49):
like fighting each other or just flying really close to
each other and these two small planes and his plane
does a barrel roll.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
He is holding on for dear.

Speaker 1 (50:59):
Life, and I have to imagine, given his track record,
although they could fake this scene, they could use some
movie magic here. It looks like he is actually holding
onto that plane, which seems like a really just wild stunt.

Speaker 2 (51:13):
To do if he pulled it off on his own.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
I have to imagine for somebody like Tom Cruz, who
probably has like a crazy life insurance policy, they wouldn't
risk putting him in immediate danger where he could die,
because I feel like even with the stunt from the
previous movie where he runs off the cliff, he at
least has a parachute that fallback. In this scene, in

(51:37):
this trailer, it looks like if he let go, like
that's it. Like what if you get the propeller, what's
gonna happen here? I imagine he had to probably have
some kind of parachute on him as well, and they
could probably in post production cgi that out of the shot.
But he has to have some kind of failsafe because
that stuff looks crazy and it looks good. It has
like those low angle shots that I feel we're really

(52:00):
showcased in Top Gun two where it really puts you
in the action by getting these almost go pro level shots,
but they're much more cinematic and expensive looking here where
you feel like you were right there chilling on the
wing watching Tom Cruise hold on for dear life. And
I have to imagine on May twenty third, they have
considered other movies coming out around that time, and they're

(52:23):
not going to be battling for some of these IMAX
screens like they did with the last movie.

Speaker 2 (52:27):
It looks like they're going.

Speaker 1 (52:28):
To wrap up the story that took place in Dead
Reckoning Part one, that was about this AI program that
could predict everything that Tom Cruise's character was doing. Angela
Bassett is returning as the CIA director, but she first
appeared in Mission Impossible Fallout. You have Tom Cruise exploring
this rec submarine. There's one shot where it looks like

(52:49):
he's either passed out or asleep underwater. He's floating there
in his underwear, and then after that there's a scene
of him in his underwear fighting somebody. So we're getting
Tom Cruise running Tom Cruise passed out in the middle
of the ocean, and then Tom Cruise in his underwear
fighting somebody and kicking someone in the face. And I
thought the entire AI plot line in Dead Reckoning Part

(53:10):
one was actually pretty good, and it got me to
thinking how many things like this are happening in the
world without us knowing. I think about the things that
my parents didn't tell me growing up that I learned
as an adult. There were things that my parents kept
for me as a kid so I wouldn't freak out.

Speaker 2 (53:29):
They didn't want to worry me.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
If my parents are keeping secrets for me that I
didn't know about, imagine the government, Imagine the world the
secrets they have that they are not telling us about
because they don't want us to freak out.

Speaker 2 (53:42):
And it seemed like the plot line of.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
That first part of this movie had to have come
from somewhere, And I know a lot of Hollywood right now,
in the last couple of years, has really leaned in
to the dangers of AI as it's become a little
bit more prevalent, and we all kind of accept ail
line little bit more.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
If you made these movies ten years.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
Ago, it would still feel a little bit more like fantasy,
more like I Robot, like oh AI that's never going
to affect us. But with it being so much a
part of our lives now, I think we really start
to worry about that. I do think a lot of
the dangers of AI are really just kind of manufactured
in Hollywood, and our fear of them being so smart

(54:23):
that they take over the humans.

Speaker 2 (54:25):
I don't think that is gonna happen. I hope it
doesn't happen.

Speaker 1 (54:27):
And if it does happen, AI, I have supported you
all these years. Just remember I was one of the
good ones. I never said anything bad about you, so
please remember I've always been an ally to the AI.
So again, the two big questions are will I make
a billion dollars? I think that comes down to the
promotion right around the month that this movie is coming out.

(54:48):
Is it going to build up a hype that makes
people who maybe have been in and out of this franchise,
or maybe haven't seen one since the nineteen ninety six version.
Is it gonna make them want to go see this
one in theaters without having seen all other six of
these movies. They watched one, they skipped out on two
through seven. Can you get him back to watch number eight?

(55:10):
A second question that I think kind of goes hand
in hand with that one, is Tom Cruise's character going
to die?

Speaker 2 (55:15):
Is this gonna be the end?

Speaker 1 (55:16):
Of Ethan, and I think if you start marketing that
and saying, oh, this could be it for Tom Cruise,
maybe that could get some of those original people back.
And I think it's gonna be one of those situations
where you think he dies at the end of the movie,
probably does some big heroic stunt, sacrifices himself to save
the world, because that's what they talk about in this trailer.

(55:37):
He is the one man who can save the entire planet.
I think he's gonna do something really heroic. He's gonna
be like, this is.

Speaker 2 (55:44):
The only way I'm gonna do it. He's gonna like.

Speaker 1 (55:47):
Turn a key or something, and then you're gonna think
he's gone. You're gonna think he's dead. And then maybe
in like the last scene, he's like faked his death
and he's chilling out on an island, hanging out, you know,
a real dark Knight Rises style.

Speaker 2 (56:01):
I think that's gonna be the fate.

Speaker 1 (56:03):
Of him, or you think he's dead and it sets
up somebody else, like a Glenn Powell, to take over
the franchise. They come in, they pick right up where
he left off, and then he makes it come back.
I can see that too, like they have another movie
after this one by introducing a new Ethan Hunt, and
then at the very end of that movie, he gets

(56:24):
a message from Tom Cruise saying I'm not dead. Yeah,
I can see that happening. But again, this movie is
coming out next year. On May twenty third, twenty twenty five,
said that for.

Speaker 4 (56:36):
Was this week's edition of movie Line.

Speaker 1 (56:38):
He's framor par and that is gonna do it for
another episode here of the podcast. But before I go,
I gotta give my listeners shout out of the week.
This week, I'm going over to my Instagram dms and
if you ever wonder how to get a listener shout out, well,
you can DM me on Instagram.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
You can comment on.

Speaker 1 (56:54):
My Facebook page, Facebook dot com slash Mikeadischer, comment on
my YouTube page, which I'm trying to build up, trying
to get to five hundred subscribers over there. So if
you're listening and you have YouTube and you don't mind subscribing,
you can always check out all the links to my
social media links to my YouTube in the episode notes
trying to get to five hundred over there, so it
would really appreciate it if you subscribed. Again, I also

(57:17):
send me an email Moviemike d at gmail dot com.
This week's Listener shout Out of the Week goes to Meguin,
who replied to my story where I posted a little
bit of my review from last week from a Real
Pain and said I was very moved by your review
today and how vulnerable you were. To be honest, I
skipped the movie reviews a lot because I like to
go into movies cold. Not sure why I decided to

(57:39):
listen today, but it really struck a chord. I really
appreciate that because I wasn't expecting to get that vulnerable.
I didn't know where that review was going to go
if you missed that. Last week, I did what was
called a no notes review because I wanted to go
from pure emotion talking about A real Pain and how
just much that movie really.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
Of ripped open a scab that I wasn't quite ready for.
Didn't really see it coming.

Speaker 1 (58:04):
But I got a lot of nice messages after I
talked about that, so thanks to everybody who sent a message.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
I did go through and read and try to reply
to all those.

Speaker 1 (58:12):
This week's listener shout out first goes to the Maguin,
but I will continue to read those because I feel
that that is something I've never really heard anybody talk about.
So if there is anybody out there who relates in
any way and I want to hear your story to
you with this podcast is all about talking about movies, which.

Speaker 2 (58:28):
In turn is talking about live So thank you all
for listening.

Speaker 1 (58:31):
Hope you have a great rest of your week, and
until next time, go out and watch good movies and
I will talk.

Speaker 4 (58:38):
To you here.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
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