It’s time for the Christmas special! Mike shares his Top 5 R-Rated Christmas movies meanwhile Kelsey shares the movies she wants to show their future kids. They also talk about their favorite Christmas movies as kids and why this season has felt less Christmassy. In the Movie Review, Mike talks about Carry-On starring Jason Bateman and Taron Egerton. It's about a TSA agent who gets blackmailed by a mysterious passenger who threatens to smuggle a dangerous package onto a plane on Christmas Eve. Mike talks about why you’d enjoy this movie more if you don’t expect it to be realistic, Jason Bateman as a bad guy and what he would do in this situation. In the Trailer Park, Mike goes in BLIND to watch James Gunn’s Superman Trailer. The movie will be out July 11, 2025 and Mike wants to know if this movie and James Gunn’s vision will get DC on the right track?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I
am your host's Movie Mike, joined by my wife and
coast Kelsey. How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm not in the Christmas spirit right now because.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
It's the Christmas episode.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I just got home from running errands and someone made
eye contact with me and stole my parking spot in
the Target parking lot, sitting in there and blinker on
and she just zipped right in. And I'm telling you
took the Christmas spirit out of me a little bit.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
That's breaking code because I.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Already don't like having to run errands during Christmas time
because everyone just loses their mind. It's like we all
forget that the meaning of Christmas is like joy and cheer,
and everyone becomes a grimlin in public.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
It's like, you know how all rules kind of go
out the window at the airport.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Yeah, but I almost feel like there's more social decorum
at the airport than there is at a Target over
Christmas or the mall.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Sometimes I feel people just kind of lose their minds
in the airport and you act differently and I give
people grace. I feel like that is everywhere right now
leading up to Christmas. People are just acting a fool,
being inconsiderate, and just because everybody's stressed.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
We got home the other day from finish Christmas shopping
and running errands, and we were both like, I don't
want to leave the house ever again.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
And I have like a not even just the social battery,
but a battery of like dealing with people and stressful
situations out in public and waiting in line.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I don't want to go grocery shopping. We have to
get it done today.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I can't do it anymore. Give me out of here,
give me out of the store.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
So it's fine.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I just it's still a little fresh that everyone is chaos.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It's gonna fine. We're gonna talk about Christmas movies and
joy myself into the spirit.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
You're gonna share three movies that what you make you
want to have kids to watch them? No, explain this.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Excite me about like having a family someday and the
experiencing the holidays as a family.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
And I'm going to share my favorite R rated Christmas
movies that we've been watching. We're full Christmas. We were
to Christmas what as soon as Thanksgiving was over?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
No, we waited, we didn't start watching Christmas Moviesumber one Hit. No,
we don't watch Christmas movie still the first week of
Christmas or December, like the full first week. Okay, I
guess December first is a Sunday. That next week, then.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
We've been watching a lot of Christmas movies, so we'll
share that. Speaking about Christmas movies, I'll give you my
spoiler free review of carry On, which is an action Christmas.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Movie which you just called Suitcase.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I just thought it was called the Suitcase.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
The other day. You were like, are we.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Gonna watch the Suitcase movie? And I was like, huh,
And I was like.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Oh, carry On.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
You wrote in my notes review Suitcase Suitcase. And in
the trailer park we'll talk about Superman the new trailer.
And I'm gonna go into this one blind. At the
time of recording it, I not have watched it. I'm
gonna hit play hit record here so i can have
my genuine reaction because I think it's gonna be one
of the biggest movie trailers in a long time. And
(02:48):
thank you for being here, Thank you for being subscribed.
Chat to the Monday Morning Movie crew. It's Christmas week, y'all.
Let's play some Christmas music.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Maybe Christmas and no.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Public domain Christmas music qu the public do man Christmas music.
And now let's talk movies. Movie Mike Movie podcast. You
go first, you have three movies.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
You are going first?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Oh you want me to go first?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Literally, just cramped this before you get record.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I forgot. I'm like, I'm like Dory finding Dory.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You Literally we just sat here and went over a
game plan with.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Your son Nintendo. Oh, Chicko Chico. All right. I have
my top five R rated Christmas movie at number five.
I added this one because of you. It is Bad
Mom's Christmas from twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
You can watch this movie now on Netflix. I would
say some of the R rated Christmas movies were ones
I'm a later adopter of. And this is the newest one,
well not the newest one, but the one that had
been out a while I hadn't seen, probably would have
never seen. But you love this movie. You love the
Bad Moms franchise.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
It makes me giggle so hard. It's just it's so good.
The second one, Bad Mom's Chrism. This the cast is amazing.
You have all their moms. It's like them dealing with
the holidays. I mean everything about it, from the tree,
she steals, from the foot locker, Kenny g.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Just all of it.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah, And the reason I wanted to do R rated
Christmas movies is because I feel that they are an
underappreciated subgenre of Christmas movie because you have your wholesome ones,
you have your classics, you have your black and white movies.
But there's something about a rawchy Christmas movie that's just
like a juxtaposition of here's a holiday that is so
coveted and wholesome and then having people curse and fight
(04:35):
and there's I guess there's not nudity in this one,
but to be vulgar, there's almost almost nudity.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
There's a waxer and then you have a Santa in
like a speedo. They're almost nudity in this one.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
So I enjoyed this movie watching it every single year now.
So I decided to include it in my top five
because we have a repertoire of movies now that we
watch every single Christmas and this is not.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
One it is.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It was the first one we watched this year.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, it's kicked it off.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
It's funny and it's Christmasy, but it's not like watch
it on like Christmas Eve, you can, but like it
kind of kick starts the holiday season.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
And I have a way that I like to watch
Christmas movies. I like to roll them out in a
specific way. I like to start with the funnier, more
uplifting ones that you don't have to me, you don't
feel super like Christmas yet, And then I have the
Christmas movies that feel a little bit more warm and cozy,
and I associate with, Okay, this is when the entire
world is shut down. I can only focus on this,
(05:34):
and they feel more like the season to Christmas that
we save those closer to the holiday. I think we
can even still watch them after Christmas. But I feel
you gotta start with funny ones, so I always like
to throw in the R rated movies early on. At
number four, I have Friday After Next from two thousand
and two, which you can watch on tub, which is
low key one of my favorite streaming services. You know.
I love Famy because it's free. All you have to
(05:56):
do is watch commercials and there are a lot of
I would say forgotten movies on there, movies that I
randomly saw on the two thousands of think where can
I watch that movie. It's probably on tub and Friday
After Next is the last Friday movie they made, and
the plot of this one is essentially the plot of
that new movie coming out one of them days in January. Goney,
(06:16):
whenever that trailer came out, I was like, Oh, that
very much feels like they're almost remaking Friday without remaking Friday.
And in Friday After Next, that's what happens to them.
They have their apartment broken into at the beginning of
the movie by Ghetto Santa. He steals all their stuff,
steals their money out of their speakers, and then they're
running the risk of getting evicted. And I remember the
first time I watched this movie, I thought it was
(06:36):
hilarious because I love the original Friday movie. My mom
loves the original Friday movie.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
You and my family, when we first started dating and
you met, my family bonded over loving the Friday movies.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
It's a great movie. My mom will quote that movie
at work and people are like, why do you know
Friday and the sequel to that Friday After Next? I can't.
It's not the same as the first one before. Some reason,
I like this one more because I guess it's Christmas
Y still funny. I don't know if they're ever going
to make another Friday movie. Apparently it's still in the
(07:09):
works with ice Cube, but this has one of my
favorite comedic scenes from an R rated Christmas movie of
all time. Put that one at number four. At number
three from twenty twenty two, I have Violent Night, which
you can either rent it or watch it on Stars
not Stars, I don't know where you find stars.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I think I didn't watch that one with you, right.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
No, it's with David Harber who is from Stranger Things, Yes,
and it is an R rated action Christmas movie where
he plays Santa and he has to come and save
this family who they're this rich family and there's this
terrorist organization that wants to break into their house and
still their millions and millions of dollars. And he's awesome.
(07:49):
He's like a superhero, takes bullets. I would say, if
you remove Christmas and the fact that he's saying it,
it's still just a straight on good action movie. And
I didn't want to give this movie a chance because
I thought it looked kind of dumb, kind of the
same way I felt Red One look pretty dumb.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You refuse to watch out.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
We still haven't watched it. At the moment of recording
this episode, we have still not watched.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Went too hard. It's giving argyle almost.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah, and it did really well on Amazon Prime, like
it rolled out and a lot of people watched it.
We're gonna watch it eventually. I feel at this point,
or should I not watch it at all? Because I
went so hard on hating that movie.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I mean, we could watch it, we could watch it,
not tell.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Anyone anybody, but I kind of thought I kind of
felt the same way whenever they were making this movie.
Didn't see it in theaters. But last Christmas I watched
it and I was like, that's actually a great movie.
I'm kind of disappointed I didn't go see it in theaters.
John Liquizamo is a good villain in that, and I
think David Harbor, I mean, he's kind of becoming an
(08:48):
action star. He's gonna be in The Thunderbolts next year,
so he kind of has that action I mean yeah,
and he was in obviously Black Widow, so I thought
he was good in it. I think it hasn't become
one that I have rewatched yet, so I don't know.
It's a watch every year.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Movie but it comes in number three. Interesting, but you
haven't rewatched it.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Yeah, but I really liked it, and I think it's
because it doesn't feel like a Christmas movie. It just
feels like a good action movie. So I don't think
necessarily every Christmas movie has to be one that you
rewatch every single year. Eventually I'll rewatch it again, but
I think it was so impactful the first time I
watched it really resonated with me. Have that one at
number three at number two from twenty sixteen. You can
(09:31):
watch it on Hulu Office Christmas Party.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
God, it's so funny.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
It is so funny.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
It's so funny.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Twenty sixteen was a very, I felt, pivotal year for
me watching and reviewing movies. That was kind of where
I got my start of reviewing movies on Snapchat. And
I watched so many movies in twenty sixteen. But I
did not watch this movie when it came out. I
just never really thought about it, and it feels very
twenty sixteen to me. With the soundtrack, even the cast,
like TJ. Miller in this movie, JS Baman, the entire
(10:01):
it just feels very twenty sixteen to me. Which right
now in twenty I guess the end of twenty twenty four,
going into twenty twenty five. Sometimes you don't really yet
to be like five to seven years away from a
year to feel like, ah, what that year was, Like.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I refuse to believe that was eight years ago.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Yeah, it feels like it was last week because.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
That's when I graduated college.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Nope, I refuse so now being removed from it, I
look at even fashion choices from twenty sixteen, like all
that feels very twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
My pictures from twenty sixteen, I look, I'm like that
was a choice.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
It's a very significant time now, which is all affinity.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Scarves for still a thing.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
We all had them. Maybe we're still rocking them, and
that's fine. My mom I did earlier this year when
we went to New York. She came to Nashville first,
and she was like rearranging her suitcase and I was like,
you are not taking that to New York. I was like,
we're getting rid of that, We're leaving that behind. In
twenty sixteen, we're leaving that behind.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I think it's hard for us as millennials that, but
that was a very formative time.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
For our life closer by the Chainsmokers.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
And like everything then felt so new. It takes me
back that if you got really into that time and
associating that with a very good part of your life,
it's easy to still live in that. I feel that
I lived in twenty sixteen, probably until the pandemic.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Twenty sixteen was simultaneously it had. The first half of
the year was like the best ever in the second
half of the year was terrible. First half of the
year was my last semester of college. I was taking
like three classes. We were going to Happy Hour like
every other day. I was working just enough to like
buy some groceries and pay for my gas.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Was great. I had nothing to do.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I took up a running I got really into running,
and then the second half of the year it took
my first ever post grad job and it just did
not work out. So it's funny that I look at
that year with such a like druxtaposition of like that
was the best of times and it was the worst
of times.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
It was a hard year for me in terms that
at the beginning of I mean kind of like you
split it into two. At the beginning of the year,
I had no idea what I was going to do.
And then right around the time I was graduating, I
got the job offer to come here, and then in
May twenty sixteen, I moved here and pretty much hit
the ground running. But it was kind of that I
have no idea what I'm gonna do when I finished college.
(12:13):
I've had this plan for years now, I don't know
if it's going to work out. And eventually the timing
did work out, and within me graduating, I in about
a week packed up my entire car and moved here.
And then I was like, oh, whole new life now.
And then the rest of that year is kind of
a blur, but I just associated with me going to
the movies a lot and reviewing a lot of movies
on Snapchat, which was a lot bigger at the time.
(12:34):
I mean, I guess it's bigger now with teenagers, but
I feel like with adults now, we don't really use it.
Remember we had that streak forever.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Oh we almost had a thousand, but what happened It
was Christmas? Yeah, it was when that explosion happened here.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
We lost cell like no cell, and we lost.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Our Snapchat streak, like even living together.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
What I forgot about. That's why we lost it.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah, that's so I brought it up. Speaking of Christmas,
that was such a bummer Christmas because we had all
these plans. We had just cooked breakfast or a brunch
or whatever you call it, whatever the time was.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I guess we couldn't go home because that was COVID
and I think someone in my family had gotten sick,
and so we were like, we'll just stay here because
we're going to road trip anyways. So we were like,
we'll just stay home. We were like, it's our engaged Christmas.
We'll make it great. So we make brunch, we have
matching pj's, we're gonna watch movies.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yeah, because it was unfortunate for us that we had
the carrier that went down, also the internet service that
went down.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Oh, we also had already opened all of our presence.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
So we had nothing to look forward to.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
That was that was a sucky Christmas.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
We couldn't it's hard not having internet, but you can
get by with your phone and having it as a
hot spot. We didn't even have that. We couldn't do anything.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
We couldn't even like contact people to tell them like, hey,
we're good.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
We resorted how did we contact people?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
We would get like spots of signal.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Yeah, and then we watched things on Blu Ray.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
But then we also like somehow got an any.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Connection yeah, like a free connection yeah, and so we
were able to like we want That's when we started
ted Lasso. But we watched it on our iPad just
like probably the only thing that worked. And I was like, well,
I got books on my Kendle. Sorry you're bored.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, what a time. But anyway, Office Christmas Party great movie.
It's hilarious. It's just about the really what it sounds like. Yeah,
they have an office Christmas party, trying to save the company.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
And Jennifer Aniston is the evil older sister.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
She's the boss trying to stop them from having the party.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
TJ.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Miller is the brother who owned I guess se he
oversees that oversees the branch and wants to give his
employees like the best Christmas party, give him a bonus,
and she's like, no, we're got the fire like one
hundred people and then they have I think also at
that time in the twenty tens, there were a lot
of epic party movies where it was all about just
(14:48):
people partying, drinking and doing ridiculous things. And I think
also that feels very twenty sixteen to me. But if
you like raunchy Christmas movies with a lot of comedians,
Kate McKinnon is funny in this.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
She's so funny. I love Kate McKinnon with a passion
her in.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
This movie and in Barbie. I'm supprised she's not in.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
More movies put Kate McKinnon in.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I think she needs to be like a lead in
the comedy you heard It here, You heard It here?
That's at number two office Christmas Party. Watch it on Hulu,
but at number.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
One the og can I guess yeah, Bad Santa.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
It'll it'll never leave the number one spot from two
thousand and three. You can watch it for free on Pluto. Pluto.
You can watch it for free on Pluto.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Which is another service like too b.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah, I haven't explored as much on Pluto.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Tell everyone who you love watching Bad Santa with every
year your grandpa. It's also one of his favorite movies.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
This movie brings people together. More specifically, it brings men
together who maybe don't like watching Christmas movies. And it
is a very inappropriate movie and sometimes I would feel
uncomfortable watching, Like I probably wouldn't watch this with my
just because I would feel uncomfortable during some scenes. But
for some reason, with your grandpa, totally good.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
No, the two of you just sit there and laugh
the whole time. And I'm like, this is so dumb.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
It is dumb.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I don't love that one. I'll watch it, but I
don't love.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
It, not even the sandwiches.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Isn't there a part where has a munch like snot
on his face. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Move, he's in his face and he has a chocolate.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yeah, no, I don't. I don't do that.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Billy he peas himself. Yeah, there's just so many great quotes.
John Ridder's in it. I think this was John Ridders's
last movie. Bernie Mack was in it, who also passed away.
That is also weird. Starting to watch Christmas movies where my.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Good yeah, like everyone and else.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah, all the people are starting to pass away.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Ed Asner, Bob Newhart, James Kahn.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
You're like, oh man, these are starting to fade away
and become classics, and some of these people are no
longer here. There's like a scene in those movies where
it's like, oh, everybody in the scene is no longer here,
sad so but anyway, if you want to laugh, I
feel like this has become a classic. It is like
the went essential R rated Christmas movie. If you're gonna
watch an R rated Christmas movie, the go to is
Bad Santa. I remember watching it for the first time
(17:07):
and laughing so hard during the boxing scene where they're
trying to teach him how to fight, so we can,
you know, fight back against the bullies. Hilarious. It's still funny.
I laugh all the time during this movie. At number one,
it is Bad Santa. Your list now, all right, a
more wholesome list.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I was just thinking about all the movies we watch
and the ones that like make me excited to have
a family and then like our kids be grown up
and start having kids, so that like when we're older
later in life and like have like an extended family,
like kids, grandkids, obviously the family stone.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I don't want five kids though. As fun as our Christmas.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Seems, it's a lot of kids.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
It's a lot of kids, but just like the like
everyone being together and like Christmas morning and like everyone
having different ornaments on the tree, Like I just love
like the tradition of it, because it's like if we
never had that, it would just be USO on Christmas morning,
and that feels kind of sad. Yeah, not to say
that if it's just you on Christmas morning, you should
(18:10):
feel sad, But I like spending Christmas with a lot
of people.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I think it also comes down in that movie the House,
they get that of the right house for that.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
You're right, they do have the quintessence. It's an awesome house,
quintessential Christmas house.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
That feels like a good Christmas house, Like, aside from
the home alone house, that's a good house.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
It is a good one.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Next up, I have Almost Christmas with Danny Glover Gabrielle
Union Money. Again it's just like everyone coming home and
like things go so awry in that movie and it's
so chaotic, but again they do have a good Christmas house.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I think it's all these nice house house I think
I actually just want a nice house toff Christmas.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
That's the thing about movies that I get upset with.
I never saw my home represented in any movie, not
Christmas movies, not even horror movies. I always felt that.
I always felt that horrific things would never happened to
me because they always happen to people in big houses.
I'm like, I'm good. If there's a ghost here, I'm
gonna see them. Where you get a hide in this trailer?
Where's that ghost gotta hide? Like, yo, you we're here,
gonna pay rent. But that horror movies and also Christmas
(19:13):
movies because they have giant houses, like seeing the Home
Alone House, I'm like, man, they have nice houses. They
haven't made, but there is something about people coming together
for Christmas, like older siblings. And I think you experienced
that more now because you've always been the older sibling.
But with my family you experienced like, oh I'm the youngest, see.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
And then you have it the other way with my family. Yeah,
I never had you were never the older sibling. So
it's fun.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
We're kind of like in the middle now we have both.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
And then my third movie, trying to pick, I mean,
I think it just follows the same theme. It's this
Christmas that one has Iatris Elba, Regina King, and Loretta
Divine and again just a nice house and a bunch
of siblings.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yeah, kind of crazy that Eatris Elba is in You
look at his earlier work and now that he gets
like major, major roles. But looking back at him two
thousand and seven in this movie, I kind of forget
that he was in Thor he's kind of like hijacked.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, that was such a good show on Apple.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I feel like they should have made him James Bond.
I feel like he got robbed out of that role.
But he is like a huge star but has all
these little nugget roles throughout his career. But yeah, again,
the big house, it just kind of comes back to that.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
You're right, it's all yeah, no one's because even like
the smaller houses are like portrayed like in Bad Mom's Christmas,
like Catherine Han and her son live in a smaller
house and she's like the one that doesn't celebrate Christmas
or house like the lesser than Christmas subliminal messaging of
nice houses.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
The nice houses because they feel cozy. When you have
the big house and then you have all the people
filling it during Christmas, that just feels like ah, Chris.
I mean, even going back to like Christmas vacation in
the Grizzwold House another good house Callisters.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Flowed that thing up with life Oh, yeah, we haven't
watched that one yet.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, we haven't.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Still have quite a few to watch.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
The one I am looking forward to you that I
would add to your list is nothing like The Holidays,
which is also older siblings coming home for.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Their last siblings though so I made it. Yeah, only
three of them.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
But it's a full house. I feel like once everybody's
in there. Also, out of all these Christmas movies, it's
the one I see myself and my family represented the most.
That is another one that I had not watched until
you were like, we got to watch this movie, and
that one has become one of my favorites. I would say,
now that's like a top five Christmas movie for me
that I look forward to watching every single year.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
But that one we have to watch closer to Christmas.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
That is a closer to Christmas movie that is either
twenty third or twenty fourth, like close to Christmas. I
guess we're probably doing, yeah, traveling, so maybe earlier than that.
It does feel weird this year with Christmas being on Wednesday. Yeah,
and like how the work week ends the time recording
this at all halready happened already or guess at the
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time I put this out, it have all already happened,
or see, I have the Christmas brain right now.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
We are recording this before, but when it comes out
it will be closer.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I forget how time works. Apparently apparently when you're listening
to this, it's the twenty third and all this stuff
would have already happened already. But it just feels like
once the work weekends you get to Christmas, it just
feels so much closer. And then Christmas in the middle
of the week. I just feel we're gonna have a
weird start to twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I had people emailing being like, so, does anyone want
to meet on the thirtieth? No, no, no they don't personally, no,
not yawking me and I will be out. I will
be on PTO. You will get my out of office.
Somebody was like, the end of the year, no.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
One wants to meet on the thirtieth.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
No.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Work, Like, if you are working, that's like independent work days,
like have a Christmas movie on and like clean out
your inbox.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
That's not like have a meeting.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
So you circle back after the holidays, they're still New
Year's that's not We're not after the holidays yet.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
So looking at your list, if you were gonna make
one pick of your favorite Christmas movie as a kid,
so not even thinking about us having kids, of just
what was your favorite Christmas movie to watch every year?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Else?
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Early on two thousand and three, Yeah, I guess, yeah,
I guess that lines up more.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
With your age.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
I was nine then, still a classic, so good.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
We Yeah, we've already rewatched that one. I feel like
that one is kind of in the middle after we've
gotten our comedies out of the way.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
We watched that one Saturday after we dealt with everyone
at the moment.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
That's a good calming movie because we came home but.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
We just kind of stared at each other and we
were like, I guess we should watch something happy.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Elf, because we Yeah, even though it is a comedy,
it's not like how I would associate some of these
other Christmas comedies that we've been talking about. But it's
so it's such a classic and we've seen it so
many times that to me, it feels like watching Christmas wallpaper,
Like it's just there, it's warm, it's comforting, you know
what you're gonna get, and it's just like you just
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take it in.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
We also, so we still need to rewatch Daddy's Home
too as well. Ah yeah, it's a good Christmas one,
a good.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Dumb Christmas one for me. I think my favorite Christmas
movie as a kid was Christmas Eve on Sesame Street.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
It's still your favorite Christmas movie.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I still love it. Which it's not even like a
real movie. It didn't come out in theaters or anything.
It's really just a Sesame Street Christmas special. But I
associate that with my family now because we were never
really home during Christmas. We would always leave to Mexico
like the twenty second, like as soon as I was
done with school and I had those two weeks off,
we were gone. So we would do small gifts the
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day before we left, and then later once we actually
started celebrating Christmas and staying in the sights.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Why'd you just become Australian.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
I don't know. I've been diving into an Australian accent recently. Okay,
staying into the sights all right. But we would watch
Christmas eve on because we watched it when I was
a kid. But then it was our tradition of when
we would unwrapped gifts.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I was gonna say, we still have it on it
your yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Family, every time we start doing gifts, we throw on
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street because it's funny. And I
love you about the meeting of Christmas because I always
go back to the Burton Earni situation where they each
sell their prize possessions to get somebody else a thing
for their prize possession and then neither of them have
their prize possession. Oh that's good stuff right there. That
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teaches you all about Christmas.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
I love Sesame Street. It's a great show.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
You see. You might go away because it's on HBO
and they have currently not renewed it.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Why would you break this to me on the podcast.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Because that's sad because we were I was literally singing
a Sesame Street song earlier, I got a new way
to walk, Walk Walk, and you were like, oh, Sesame
Street and it's weird. How much stuff I actually remember
from that watching it growing up.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
My little brother would watch.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
He was picking into Elmo's World and there was a
I'll say, hello.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Try an egg on the cement? Did so call day? Yeah?
It literally is just stuck in my brain like.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
That is how my older brother and sister learned English.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Can't you sessme street?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Yeah, they can't. I don't think they will. I think
it's one of those things where it's an institution that
even if they lost by not resigning, it would get
picked up somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I can't believe you brought this news to me here.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
This is I just just read it like a few
days ago, and I was waiting on me because I'm like,
they're not going to get rid of mean time to
go process this all right? Well that is all our
Christmas talk. Merry Christmas. Everybody say obsessed to my street?
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Can I start a like change dot org petition?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah? Bring back Elmo. Let's get into it now. A
spoiler free movie review of carry On. Sorry Jason Bateman
and Taron Egerton. This movie is essentially die Hard in
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an airport, and while I was watching carry On, it
reminded me how impactful die Hard was on a genre.
And we're at a time in the year where a
lot of people are saying is die Hard a Christmas
movie or not? And after watching carry On, I am
fully committing to Diehard. It's a Christmas movie to me,
as long as the movie takes place around Christmas. It
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is a Christmas movie. And I say that because for
the most part, Christmas movies are really cheesy and the
only thing they really bank on is you watching them
around Christmas time and building this relationship with them. Because
Christmas movies at their core aren't good movies. I enjoy them.
There is a comfort to them. They are predictable. But
if you just picked apart Christmas movies for having a
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good first third at like all the things that make
a movie good and make a movie impactful, they're not
inside a Christmas movie. But I don't think that is
the purpose of Christmas movies. So there are people who
want to fight for certain movies to say those are
Christmas movies because there's a Christmas stree in it. At
one point, this person is wearing green, they reference Christmas.
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Therefore is it a Christmas movie? I think people say
that is because if you don't enjoy that formula, you
don't like predictability, you have a rough time around the
Holidays finding a movie of any kind of substance or
fitting into what you enjoy. So I think that is
why there are such a passionate group calling Diehard a
Christmas movie. And I think what Carrie On did was okay. Hey,
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people debate on whether or not Diehard is a Christmas movie.
We're gonna make a movie just like that and center
it on Christmas Eve. Therefore, this is a Christmas movie.
So to me, carry On is going to be a
new Christmas classic. Now is it the best movie you
ever know? But now that it is established itself as
a Christmas movie, I'm going to put this in that genre.
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So I think going into it, I guess I had
higher expectations as far as the level of acting. Karen
Egerton the read actor, great singer, great performer, and I
just thought from seeing him in the case Kingsman movie,
seeing him in Rocketman, that there was going to be
a little bit more depth to his character than you have.
Jason Bateman, who kind of a chameleon now and I
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think Ozark we saw a much different side of him.
He's an anti hero. He's somebody you root for even
though he's not doing good things, and he's done things
like arrested, development off his Christmas party Game Night, and
I think for the most part, when you look at
Jason Bateman, you think comedy, but I really think, oh,
he's a good actor. And his character is convincing in
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this movie. So you have two great actors, Tarren Egerton
Jason Bateman. I thought I was gonna get a little
bit more on the level of acting. But if you
look at the plot of this movie, if you look
at the story, the action, the element of you have
to suspend disbelief to enjoy this movie. I think what
was on the page in this script doesn't matter who
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you put in this movie. You can't really make it
any more believable. You couldn't get Leonardo DiCaprio in there,
you couldn't get Meryl Streep in there and make this
a more believable movie. So I think with me having
expectations on the level of acting, but then also realizing
that this is a Christmas movie, I was able to
settle into this movie and find it super entertaining. Is
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it a great movie? No? Is it one I really recommend.
I think I do, and I think it's a good
movie for people who don't like Christmas movies but need
something Christmasy to watch around this time of year. Because
I still think that speG thirteen on Netflix easily accessible
to people. I think a lot of people are going
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to give this movie a chance around the holidays. I
think it is a good pick to put on and
you can please most people in your family. I start
thinking about my dad in these situations, who doesn't like movies.
I don't think he's ever just sat down by himself
and intentionally watched a movie. He's been in the room
when we watch movies. He'll go to the movie theater
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with us, but he will go to sleep as soon
as he has done with his popcorn. I think if
we put carry On on the TV around Christmas time,
he would watch it. He would get invested in it.
I think you could follow along the plot line pretty easily.
So if I'm putting my dad in this room, I'm
thinking of families across America, families across the world watching
carry On. I think there is something for everybody, except
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the people who don't like movies that are really unbelievable.
And there is an interesting dynamic in this movie because
the whole plot line is Jason Bateman plays a bad guy.
He is trying to get this suitcase onto this plane.
You don't know what is in it, you don't know
his intentions, but he uses tered Egerton as the conduit
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to get this bag on because he blackmails them. He
threatens him, he has somebody go through drop this earpiece
in a bin. He puts it in his ear because
he gets a text from Jason Bateman, and then the
whole thing unfolds, and that is essentially the whole movie.
I guess I die Hard, but in an airport where
he is trying to save everybody on the plane, save
everybody in this airport, and be the hero. Taron Egerton
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is kind of not down on his luck, but he
is in a low point of his life, even though
he has a girlfriend who also works at the airport.
She's pregnant, which that plot line was a little bit
cliched of Oh, here's a guy just trying to make
it in this world. His girlfriend is pregnant. Now he
has something to lose. So I think, going back to
what I said earlier, it's just everything that was on
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the page that was a little bit unbelievable. But I
think once you settle into that and take it for
what it is, it is an entertaining ride. But don't
go into it, or you shouldn't have gotten into it
if you've already seen it expecting it to be based
in reality, because if you've ever been in an airport,
if you've ever taken a flight at any point in
your life, you know how secure it is there. You
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can't leave a bag unattended without somebody flagging it. You
can't do anything in an airport without somebody noticing. They're
always watching. They will shut the place down if they're
anything suspicious that. It's just the world we live in now.
Watching this movie, all that goes out the window because
anything goes in this airport. There are people running around.
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There are a lot of crazy things that happened that
if you witness this in an airport, the plot wouldn't
have moved along because Okay, game's over. That's it, We're
done here, everybody go home. There is no more threat.
I did start putting myself into the situation of if
I was tearing Eggerston's character and I was being blackmailed
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I was a TSA agent. My initial thing was I
just take the earpiece out, Like, if I take it out,
I know they can text me, but I could ignore that.
I don't think I would keep it in the whole time.
Oh you're threatening me on this earpiece? There goes out.
What are you gonna do now, But then I guess
you have this need to be a hero. I'm sure
they would just ramp up the threats more and more,
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and they probably wouldn't in there. They would keep texting
you even the next day and the next day. I
don't think that that would be sufficient enough to get
this level of criminal out, but that is my immediate reaction. Hey,
just take this at your piece out end of movie.
But of course if you did that, you wouldn't have
a movie. So you do have to suspend disbelief while
watching this movie. And if you're not in a position
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to do that, you're not gonna have a good time.
I wouldn't say it's the same way I approach a
Fast and the Furious movie at this point where first couple,
even the first three, we're still based in reality, but
now by Fast ten they are essentially superheroes. It's so
over the top, and that is what we go for
now watching a Fast and the Furious movie. We want
to see big, dumb action and something that could never
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happen in a million years, Like dom Treto is not
going down the canyon with it fully in flames, and
he's gonna ride off on a car. Just no scratches,
be totally good, that's not gonna happen. But you don't
really question that those movies. It is not that level
of unbelievable, And I think that's why it just kind
of walks that line. If they would have refined it
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just a little bit and made it a little bit
more gritty. I mean, and if you look at the
intentions of Jason Bateman's character, who at the beginning of
the movie is very threatening and ominous, I think if
they would have kept that tone from that opening scene,
it would have had a much different vibe. And it
started just to feel a little bit too cat and
Mouse and a little bit too like oh eighties action movie,
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and maybe not rush some of the things, because I
felt that some of the details of the plot were
kind of crammed in there. They didn't really know how
to land the plane. As far as the plot in
this movie where it was good, I was invested. I
was there heartbeat and riding with the action, and then
they were like, Okay, what are we gonna do here?
How is this movie going to end? Is it going
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to have a bummer ending? Is it going to have
a happy ending? I think at the end of it,
they were just trying to figure out how to tie
this whole thing up and just slapped an ending on there.
I bet from what they shot from this movie, there
has to be an alternate ending. It just feels like
one of those movies that if you had it on DVD,
they would say, here's the ending that you saw in theaters,
and here's the alternate end, and here's this other alternate ending.
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Out of all the movies that came out in Netflix
this year, this is the only one that I felt
I could have gone to the theater to see and
had a better experience. I think this is as close
as they've been this year, not of all time. I'd
say the first time they had this was with bird
Box back in the day. But this was the first
time this year that I felt, man, they could have
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put this movie out in theaters, maybe made some money
at the box office, because I think it was at
that quality level. You had the stars attached to it,
you had the compelling plot, you had the twist and turns,
you had the big action. The ridiculous of course mixed
in there as well. But this was the first time
I felt from a Netflix original in twenty twenty four
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that they were actually making something impactful, and of all
the movies they put out this year, I think this
will be one that people will revisit because it is
a Christmas action movie. Next year they could bump it
up there at the top, and I think people will
rewatch it after the holiday season, maybe not as much
because it is still rooted in Christmas time, and I
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think they were kind of banking on that. But if
I would have seen this in theaters, I think I
would have enjoyed it more and maybe even rated it higher,
because it kind of has that feeling of, oh, if
you watch this on the big screen, fully engulfed in
the sound and the vision of it, maybe it would
have hit a little bit harder and felt a little
less cheesy, just maybe. So for that reason, I did
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mump it down a little bit. And again, I know
some people will watch this movie and think this is stupid.
But even if you think it's stupid, I still think
it's a movie that you end up completing. May hate
it by the end of it, but it is that
engaging and the story just keeps giving you piece by
piece of like, oh, well, I gotta see what happens. Now, Well,
now that I've seen what happens, I gotta figure out
what they're gonna do here, And before you know it,
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you've ended up watching the whole movie. So for carry On,
I thought I was going to a little bit more,
but still enjoy it. Recommend it if you haven't seen
it yet, especially if you have somebody you like my
dad in your life who doesn't really like Christmas movies,
doesn't really like any movie, and just want something a
little bit mindless and fun and some cool action and
fight sequences. For carry On, I give it three point
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five out of five suitcases. It's time to head down
to movie Mike Trailer Paul, I'm for the first time
ever going in and blind to a trailer park. We're
about to talk about the new Superman trailer, the much
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anticipated Superman trailer. Rarely do you see people online getting
so hype for a trailer, just the trailer. There's only
one other trailer that I'll talk about later that I
can remember the exact place, the exact time I was
at in my life for a trailer, but there was
so much hype around this one. And to let you
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in on when I'm recording this. It is Thursday, the
day the trailer dropped at the time of recording, as
it came out eight hours ago. I've had a crazy day.
This is the first time I've been able to sit
down and watch this trailer. I've been avoiding it all day.
Four thirty pm Central Time. The trailer at the moment
of recording this has thirteen million views, which is a
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pretty substantial number. And since it is such a big trailer,
and since this is such a big important piece in
what DC is doing with James Gunn taking over as
trying to be there, Kevin Feige trying to direct them,
trying to create some cohesiveness among the DC films, and
this is going to be there. Hey, here we go.
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This is our big title character, arguably the most famous superhero,
the original og superhero. Every kid wanted to be Superman.
Everybody knows whose Superman is. I would say DC has
the more iconic characters Batman, Superman. Those are so huge
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that I still think that those reaches are stronger and
more w then the Marvel character. I mean, they're probably
comparable at this point, especially with Spider Man, but I
still feel like going back to the original movie how
that was like the first big superhero movie. I feel
that this needs to be good for everything else to work.
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And from what I've learned studying what Marvel did, it
is really important that your first film where you're trying
to set the stage lands. If Ironman didn't land back
in two thousand and eight, the MCU would have never
been creative created sorry, And I think that is what
they are trying to do now. They are at a
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bit of a disadvantage because the bad taste in everybody's
mouth from all the DC movies is still going to
be there. So you have to get it across to
the average person that we're doing something new here. I
know all of our nerves are well invested, we know
what's going on, we know what to expect, we know
that they're doing something different. But to the average person
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who doesn't follow that, and you're just gonna see, Oh,
this trailer is coming out, there's a new Superman movie
coming out? Oh DC again? Is it gonna be like
Black Adam? So they have to make a great trailer
to get people to want to watch this. It's coming
out next year. I don't even have all my notes
in front of me, right now. I'll get into that after,
but I wanted to go into the super Raw. I'm
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looking at the YouTube description. It comes out on July eleventh.
They say it begins Superman only in theaters twenty twenty
five film for Imax, which is exciting to me to
I'm at a hit play for the first time. It
is a two minute and twenty second trailer. I normally
don't play a full trailer, but I'm gonna play it.
I'm gonna react to it in real time, and then
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we'll talk about it afterwards. Here we go. I'm excited
for this. Let's go. I've never done it like this before,
so let's see how this goes. I'm gonna hit play
on the Superman trailer.
Speaker 4 (41:55):
Looks good so far smashes into the ice.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Dang is that the dragon.
Speaker 4 (42:04):
Ball z pos It looks good. M so it looks hurt.
Last said the Clark Kent.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Dang, this already feels epic From James Gun it says, oh,
it's laying looks good. Oh boy, looks good. As Clark
Kent and Superman do from Twisters. It kind of has
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that small fill feel a little bit but modernized. Dang,
that still looks good calling his dog.
Speaker 4 (43:03):
Oh, somebody begets his dog.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
Dang, Superman in the snow looks amazing.
Speaker 4 (43:09):
He have it his dog craped. Op gave me home
action shots.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
Yeah, this movie looks epic. Nicholas Halt, Superman Yang. He
doesn't look like a good guy. Villa does look good.
I love the cosmic color. Haggan his dog dragging him. Oh,
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the flight scene. The flight scene, it's a good fine
them music, the little ode to the original only indeed, okay,
a lot to unpack here, immediate reaction. That is a
fantastic trailer. I know. Last week I gave the Trailer
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of the Year to twenty eight years later. This beat it.
This is the best trailer of the year and the
only other trailer I can remember appointment watching like this
was the No Way Home trailer. I was in Costa Rica.
We went out to dinner, and we were driving back
from the restaurant to our hotel, and I was trying
to watch it in the back of the van, and
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I didn't have great cell service because we were in
Costa Rica. But that was the last time I remembered like,
I need to see this trailer immediately when it drops
and that was, for the longest time, the most viewed
trailer of all time until the Deadpool and Wolverine trailer
came out earlier this year. But this movie look look fantastic.
You have David corn Sweat as Clark Kent and Superman.
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He looks fantastic. I primarily know him from Twisters. While
he was filming that movie, he actually found out that
he got the Superman part. And I think some people
had hesitation because he's really not a big name. But
I think that's what you have to go with right now.
And I think you also want to have a younger Superman.
Just by the look of this story looked by the
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feel of it, I think he works. And I think
this version of Superman it's about twenty five years old,
so definitely. I think that's why I had that feeling
that it feels a little bit Smallville to me, and
I think you have a lot of inspiration to draw from.
You obviously have the og Christopher Reeves originals. You have
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the Zach Snyder verse version of Superman, which I enjoy.
I feel like that gets a little bit more hate
than it deserves. The first Man of Steel movie was good.
I enjoy that one. I think it was just Superman
and all the rest of the movies in Justice League
and Batman Versus Superman, where it just wasn't really put
to the justice of the character. You have Rachel Brossahan
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as Lois Lane. She looks fantastic. She's being described as
fiercely intelligent and feisty in this movie. Nicholas Whole as
Lex Luthor. I think, out of everything in this trailer,
it was the least convincing, and it's mainly it's hard
to put somebody in a ball cap and have it
look believable. But he is gonna play Lex Luthor, who
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in this version is a businessman and obviously the arch
nemesis of Superman. What I took away from this trailer
is people are gonna have a problem with Superman. There's
one scene that I saw where somebody throws something at
Superman's head, So maybe there's gonna be kind of a
Batman situation where some people like him, some people don't.
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He has to convince people that he is a good guy,
that he is a hero. Going back to that open
scene in this trailer of seeing him being broken down
and bloody and barely able to breathe, and his dog
Crypto has to come to his rescue. You have to
feel like something serious is gonna go down. It looks
like there's a good amount of villains in this story.
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I saw this big monster ripping through Metropolis, so I
feel like there's gonna be some real threats here. You
have some of James Gunn's calling cards in there. You
see some people that he always works with. Those actors
are in there. You already know who to expect. But
I think what I really felt that he pulled from
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some of his other movies was the Last Guardians of
the Galaxy movie, which I loved the way he used
color in that movie, and I think obviously he drew
a lot of inspiration for that movie from two thousand
and one A Space Odyssey. But I kind of got
those vibes here in this Superman trailer where there are
a lot of cosmic colors. That moment that we all
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saw that first picture of Superman in the suit with
him in his apartment and you saw like that kind
of almost planet like backdrop. I actually saw that come
to life in this trailer, and it looked really good,
and at the moment of recording this and what I
know of coming out in twenty twenty five, which there
are a lot of great movies coming out, I think
twenty twenty five is gonna be the stronger year of
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twenty four and twenty five. I think this could quite
possibly be the best movie of next year, and that's
exciting for me as a comic book fan and as
a comic book movie fan in an era where people
are starting to get burnt out on the genre, and
I think it's time for Superman to rise up. Because
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he's not even my favorite character. I wouldn't even put
him in my top five superhero characters. I am more
of a Marvel stand. The only DC character I would
put in my top five is Batman. He's top three.
But I think it was because in the era I
grew up in, I didn't really have my Superman, and
a lot of people people I see reacting to this,
(49:01):
some of my friends are people who grew up in
the eighties and they had that first iteration of Superman
and they're a little bit more attached to that. I
think that's the same way I have such an attachment
to Spider Man because I grew up with the animated
show from the nineties, and then in the early two
thousands we had the Toby Maguire versions, and I've had
an iteration every decade since that. I have a much
(49:23):
closer relationship with that character. And to me, Superman has
always felt like a little bit of a boy scout.
To me, he never really had real problems. That was
a lot of early DC comic book characters that they
were just well, they were superheroes and they were not
of this planet, and the average person probably couldn't relate
to these characters. And that is what set Marvel apart,
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because you had characters like the Fantastic Four who are
a family, but they're very dysfunctional. They fought with each other,
they had issues with money, same thing with Spider Man.
They had issues with girls and issues with their kids,
like all these things that made these characters feel three dimensional,
and it was they just happen to have superpowers. When
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it comes to DC characters, it is so focused on
their superpowers and they just happen to be human or whatever.
So I think this is gonna be a very important
piece in DC's future, and they have a lot of
movies coming out in twenty twenty five, this will be
their one. Twenty twenty six, they have a Supergirl movie
(50:29):
coming out called Woman of Tomorrow. They announced Clayface coming
out also in twenty twenty six. They also announced Batman,
The Brave and the Bold, which I don't know how
they're gonna start differentiating between the Batman. We know the Penguin.
We know they've been talking about it's gonna be dc
Els Worlds, but I feel like at some point that's
(50:50):
gonna be hard not to merge the two. They also
have The Authority coming out to be announced, and there's
a swamp Thing movie also allegedly coming out, so there
is some potential here. And allegedly this movie costs anywhere
between two hundred and fifty to three hundred million dollars
to make. James Gunn hasn't fully confirmed that, but this
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is part of chapter one called Monsters and Gods. I'm
in it for this one. It's coming out on July eleventh,
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (51:20):
And that was this week's edition of Movie Mine Trailer Park.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
There we go our first ever raw trailer park. Let
me know if you enjoy when I do it that way.
I think it only works with really big movie trailers.
And that was all from the dome. I had some
notes here that I made beforehand, but I just wanted
to give you my raw reaction, So maybe I'll do
that more in the future for more big trailers dropping
That is going to do it for another week here
(51:45):
on the podcast. But before I go, I got to
give my listeners shout out of the week. How do
you get a listener shout out of the week? You
can comment on my Instagram, TikTok, Facebook find all those
in the show notes. But this week I'm going over
to my email. Movie Mike at gmail dot com got
an email from Andy who said, dear movie Mike, at
your suggestion, I watched The Swimmer on TUB last night
(52:08):
and was not disappointed. What a mind bender. Thanks for
the suggestion. I give it five out of five swimming pools.
I really enjoy your podcast on Walks with My Dog
and Long Drive. Signed Andy, I appreciate that. I love
me some tub. I love that movie. I'm glad somebody
else watched The Swimmer and enjoyed it and made me
feel like I wasn't crazy for enjoying that. So thank
(52:30):
you for emailing in. Andy. Hopefully maybe you checked out
some other things on twob and maybe I'll do another
to Be Fines episode next year because I keep going
back to TV. But I hope you have a great
rest of your week. It is Christmas week, Tomorrow is
Christmas Eve, they I got Christmas, and then it'll be
New Year's This will be the last fully new episode
of the year. Next week I'll have my top five
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interviews of twenty twenty four. I'll also talk about who
was on my bucket list of dream people I would
love to interview, and then at the beginning of next year,
I will have my full episode on my top movies
of the entire year. I wanted to wait until everything
came out in twenty twenty four because there are still
a lot of big movies coming out. I wanted to
(53:14):
have a full grasp on the year before I did
that episode. Appreciate you. Hope you have a great Christmas,
a great rest of your week, 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's Movie Mike, joined by my wife and
coast Kelsey. How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm not in the Christmas spirit right now because.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
It's the Christmas episode.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I just got home from running errands and someone made
eye contact with me and stole my parking spot in
the Target parking lot, sitting in there and blinker on
and she just zipped right in. And I'm telling you
took the Christmas spirit out of me a little bit.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
That's breaking code because I.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Already don't like having to run errands during Christmas time
because everyone just loses their mind. It's like we all
forget that the meaning of Christmas is like joy and cheer,
and everyone becomes a grimlin in public.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
It's like, you know how all rules kind of go
out the window at the airport.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Yeah, but I almost feel like there's more social decorum
at the airport than there is at a Target over
Christmas or the mall.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Sometimes I feel people just kind of lose their minds
in the airport and you act differently and I give
people grace. I feel like that is everywhere right now
leading up to Christmas. People are just acting a fool,
being inconsiderate, and just because everybody's stressed.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
We got home the other day from finish Christmas shopping
and running errands, and we were both like, I don't
want to leave the house ever again.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
And I have like a not even just the social battery,
but a battery of like dealing with people and stressful
situations out in public and waiting in line.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I don't want to go grocery shopping. We have to
get it done today.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I can't do it anymore. Give me out of here,
give me out of the store.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
So it's fine.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I just it's still a little fresh that everyone is chaos.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It's gonna fine. We're gonna talk about Christmas movies and
joy myself into the spirit.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
You're gonna share three movies that what you make you
want to have kids to watch them? No, explain this.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Excite me about like having a family someday and the
experiencing the holidays as a family.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
And I'm going to share my favorite R rated Christmas
movies that we've been watching. We're full Christmas. We were
to Christmas what as soon as Thanksgiving was over?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
No, we waited, we didn't start watching Christmas Moviesumber one Hit. No,
we don't watch Christmas movie still the first week of
Christmas or December, like the full first week. Okay, I
guess December first is a Sunday. That next week, then.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
We've been watching a lot of Christmas movies, so we'll
share that. Speaking about Christmas movies, I'll give you my
spoiler free review of carry On, which is an action Christmas.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Movie which you just called Suitcase.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I just thought it was called the Suitcase.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
The other day. You were like, are we.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Gonna watch the Suitcase movie? And I was like, huh,
And I was like.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Oh, carry On.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
You wrote in my notes review Suitcase Suitcase. And in
the trailer park we'll talk about Superman the new trailer.
And I'm gonna go into this one blind. At the
time of recording it, I not have watched it. I'm
gonna hit play hit record here so i can have
my genuine reaction because I think it's gonna be one
of the biggest movie trailers in a long time. And
(02:48):
thank you for being here, Thank you for being subscribed.
Chat to the Monday Morning Movie crew. It's Christmas week, y'all.
Let's play some Christmas music.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Maybe Christmas and no.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Public domain Christmas music qu the public do man Christmas music.
And now let's talk movies. Movie Mike Movie podcast. You
go first, you have three movies.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
You are going first?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Oh you want me to go first?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Literally, just cramped this before you get record.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I forgot. I'm like, I'm like Dory finding Dory.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You Literally we just sat here and went over a
game plan with.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Your son Nintendo. Oh, Chicko Chico. All right. I have
my top five R rated Christmas movie at number five.
I added this one because of you. It is Bad
Mom's Christmas from twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
You can watch this movie now on Netflix. I would
say some of the R rated Christmas movies were ones
I'm a later adopter of. And this is the newest one,
well not the newest one, but the one that had
been out a while I hadn't seen, probably would have
never seen. But you love this movie. You love the
Bad Moms franchise.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
It makes me giggle so hard. It's just it's so good.
The second one, Bad Mom's Chrism. This the cast is amazing.
You have all their moms. It's like them dealing with
the holidays. I mean everything about it, from the tree,
she steals, from the foot locker, Kenny g.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Just all of it.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah, And the reason I wanted to do R rated
Christmas movies is because I feel that they are an
underappreciated subgenre of Christmas movie because you have your wholesome ones,
you have your classics, you have your black and white movies.
But there's something about a rawchy Christmas movie that's just
like a juxtaposition of here's a holiday that is so
coveted and wholesome and then having people curse and fight
(04:35):
and there's I guess there's not nudity in this one,
but to be vulgar, there's almost almost nudity.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
There's a waxer and then you have a Santa in
like a speedo. They're almost nudity in this one.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
So I enjoyed this movie watching it every single year now.
So I decided to include it in my top five
because we have a repertoire of movies now that we
watch every single Christmas and this is not.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
One it is.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It was the first one we watched this year.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, it's kicked it off.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
It's funny and it's Christmasy, but it's not like watch
it on like Christmas Eve, you can, but like it
kind of kick starts the holiday season.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
And I have a way that I like to watch
Christmas movies. I like to roll them out in a
specific way. I like to start with the funnier, more
uplifting ones that you don't have to me, you don't
feel super like Christmas yet, And then I have the
Christmas movies that feel a little bit more warm and cozy,
and I associate with, Okay, this is when the entire
world is shut down. I can only focus on this,
(05:34):
and they feel more like the season to Christmas that
we save those closer to the holiday. I think we
can even still watch them after Christmas. But I feel
you gotta start with funny ones, so I always like
to throw in the R rated movies early on. At
number four, I have Friday After Next from two thousand
and two, which you can watch on tub, which is
low key one of my favorite streaming services. You know.
I love Famy because it's free. All you have to
(05:56):
do is watch commercials and there are a lot of
I would say forgotten movies on there, movies that I
randomly saw on the two thousands of think where can
I watch that movie. It's probably on tub and Friday
After Next is the last Friday movie they made, and
the plot of this one is essentially the plot of
that new movie coming out one of them days in January. Goney,
(06:16):
whenever that trailer came out, I was like, Oh, that
very much feels like they're almost remaking Friday without remaking Friday.
And in Friday After Next, that's what happens to them.
They have their apartment broken into at the beginning of
the movie by Ghetto Santa. He steals all their stuff,
steals their money out of their speakers, and then they're
running the risk of getting evicted. And I remember the
first time I watched this movie, I thought it was
(06:36):
hilarious because I love the original Friday movie. My mom
loves the original Friday movie.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
You and my family, when we first started dating and
you met, my family bonded over loving the Friday movies.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
It's a great movie. My mom will quote that movie
at work and people are like, why do you know
Friday and the sequel to that Friday After Next? I can't.
It's not the same as the first one before. Some reason,
I like this one more because I guess it's Christmas
Y still funny. I don't know if they're ever going
to make another Friday movie. Apparently it's still in the
(07:09):
works with ice Cube, but this has one of my
favorite comedic scenes from an R rated Christmas movie of
all time. Put that one at number four. At number
three from twenty twenty two, I have Violent Night, which
you can either rent it or watch it on Stars
not Stars, I don't know where you find stars.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I think I didn't watch that one with you, right.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
No, it's with David Harber who is from Stranger Things, Yes,
and it is an R rated action Christmas movie where
he plays Santa and he has to come and save
this family who they're this rich family and there's this
terrorist organization that wants to break into their house and
still their millions and millions of dollars. And he's awesome.
(07:49):
He's like a superhero, takes bullets. I would say, if
you remove Christmas and the fact that he's saying it,
it's still just a straight on good action movie. And
I didn't want to give this movie a chance because
I thought it looked kind of dumb, kind of the
same way I felt Red One look pretty dumb.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You refuse to watch out.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
We still haven't watched it. At the moment of recording
this episode, we have still not watched.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Went too hard. It's giving argyle almost.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah, and it did really well on Amazon Prime, like
it rolled out and a lot of people watched it.
We're gonna watch it eventually. I feel at this point,
or should I not watch it at all? Because I
went so hard on hating that movie.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I mean, we could watch it, we could watch it,
not tell.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Anyone anybody, but I kind of thought I kind of
felt the same way whenever they were making this movie.
Didn't see it in theaters. But last Christmas I watched
it and I was like, that's actually a great movie.
I'm kind of disappointed I didn't go see it in theaters.
John Liquizamo is a good villain in that, and I
think David Harbor, I mean, he's kind of becoming an
(08:48):
action star. He's gonna be in The Thunderbolts next year,
so he kind of has that action I mean yeah,
and he was in obviously Black Widow, so I thought
he was good in it. I think it hasn't become
one that I have rewatched yet, so I don't know.
It's a watch every year.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Movie but it comes in number three. Interesting, but you
haven't rewatched it.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Yeah, but I really liked it, and I think it's
because it doesn't feel like a Christmas movie. It just
feels like a good action movie. So I don't think
necessarily every Christmas movie has to be one that you
rewatch every single year. Eventually I'll rewatch it again, but
I think it was so impactful the first time I
watched it really resonated with me. Have that one at
number three at number two from twenty sixteen. You can
(09:31):
watch it on Hulu Office Christmas Party.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
God, it's so funny.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
It is so funny.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
It's so funny.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Twenty sixteen was a very, I felt, pivotal year for
me watching and reviewing movies. That was kind of where
I got my start of reviewing movies on Snapchat. And
I watched so many movies in twenty sixteen. But I
did not watch this movie when it came out. I
just never really thought about it, and it feels very
twenty sixteen to me. With the soundtrack, even the cast,
like TJ. Miller in this movie, JS Baman, the entire
(10:01):
it just feels very twenty sixteen to me. Which right
now in twenty I guess the end of twenty twenty four,
going into twenty twenty five. Sometimes you don't really yet
to be like five to seven years away from a
year to feel like, ah, what that year was, Like.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I refuse to believe that was eight years ago.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Yeah, it feels like it was last week because.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
That's when I graduated college.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Nope, I refuse so now being removed from it, I
look at even fashion choices from twenty sixteen, like all
that feels very twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
My pictures from twenty sixteen, I look, I'm like that
was a choice.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
It's a very significant time now, which is all affinity.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Scarves for still a thing.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
We all had them. Maybe we're still rocking them, and
that's fine. My mom I did earlier this year when
we went to New York. She came to Nashville first,
and she was like rearranging her suitcase and I was like,
you are not taking that to New York. I was like,
we're getting rid of that, We're leaving that behind. In
twenty sixteen, we're leaving that behind.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I think it's hard for us as millennials that, but
that was a very formative time.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
For our life closer by the Chainsmokers.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
And like everything then felt so new. It takes me
back that if you got really into that time and
associating that with a very good part of your life,
it's easy to still live in that. I feel that
I lived in twenty sixteen, probably until the pandemic.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Twenty sixteen was simultaneously it had. The first half of
the year was like the best ever in the second
half of the year was terrible. First half of the
year was my last semester of college. I was taking
like three classes. We were going to Happy Hour like
every other day. I was working just enough to like
buy some groceries and pay for my gas.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Was great. I had nothing to do.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I took up a running I got really into running,
and then the second half of the year it took
my first ever post grad job and it just did
not work out. So it's funny that I look at
that year with such a like druxtaposition of like that
was the best of times and it was the worst
of times.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
It was a hard year for me in terms that
at the beginning of I mean kind of like you
split it into two. At the beginning of the year,
I had no idea what I was going to do.
And then right around the time I was graduating, I
got the job offer to come here, and then in
May twenty sixteen, I moved here and pretty much hit
the ground running. But it was kind of that I
have no idea what I'm gonna do when I finished college.
(12:13):
I've had this plan for years now, I don't know
if it's going to work out. And eventually the timing
did work out, and within me graduating, I in about
a week packed up my entire car and moved here.
And then I was like, oh, whole new life now.
And then the rest of that year is kind of
a blur, but I just associated with me going to
the movies a lot and reviewing a lot of movies
on Snapchat, which was a lot bigger at the time.
(12:34):
I mean, I guess it's bigger now with teenagers, but
I feel like with adults now, we don't really use it.
Remember we had that streak forever.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Oh we almost had a thousand, but what happened It
was Christmas? Yeah, it was when that explosion happened here.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
We lost cell like no cell, and we lost.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Our Snapchat streak, like even living together.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
What I forgot about. That's why we lost it.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah, that's so I brought it up. Speaking of Christmas,
that was such a bummer Christmas because we had all
these plans. We had just cooked breakfast or a brunch
or whatever you call it, whatever the time was.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I guess we couldn't go home because that was COVID
and I think someone in my family had gotten sick,
and so we were like, we'll just stay here because
we're going to road trip anyways. So we were like,
we'll just stay home. We were like, it's our engaged Christmas.
We'll make it great. So we make brunch, we have
matching pj's, we're gonna watch movies.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yeah, because it was unfortunate for us that we had
the carrier that went down, also the internet service that
went down.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Oh, we also had already opened all of our presence.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
So we had nothing to look forward to.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
That was that was a sucky Christmas.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
We couldn't it's hard not having internet, but you can
get by with your phone and having it as a
hot spot. We didn't even have that. We couldn't do anything.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
We couldn't even like contact people to tell them like, hey,
we're good.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
We resorted how did we contact people?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
We would get like spots of signal.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Yeah, and then we watched things on Blu Ray.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
But then we also like somehow got an any.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Connection yeah, like a free connection yeah, and so we
were able to like we want That's when we started
ted Lasso. But we watched it on our iPad just
like probably the only thing that worked. And I was like, well,
I got books on my Kendle. Sorry you're bored.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, what a time. But anyway, Office Christmas Party great movie.
It's hilarious. It's just about the really what it sounds like. Yeah,
they have an office Christmas party, trying to save the company.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
And Jennifer Aniston is the evil older sister.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
She's the boss trying to stop them from having the party.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
TJ.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Miller is the brother who owned I guess se he
oversees that oversees the branch and wants to give his
employees like the best Christmas party, give him a bonus,
and she's like, no, we're got the fire like one
hundred people and then they have I think also at
that time in the twenty tens, there were a lot
of epic party movies where it was all about just
(14:48):
people partying, drinking and doing ridiculous things. And I think
also that feels very twenty sixteen to me. But if
you like raunchy Christmas movies with a lot of comedians,
Kate McKinnon is funny in this.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
She's so funny. I love Kate McKinnon with a passion
her in.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
This movie and in Barbie. I'm supprised she's not in.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
More movies put Kate McKinnon in.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I think she needs to be like a lead in
the comedy you heard It here, You heard It here?
That's at number two office Christmas Party. Watch it on Hulu,
but at number.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
One the og can I guess yeah, Bad Santa.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
It'll it'll never leave the number one spot from two
thousand and three. You can watch it for free on Pluto. Pluto.
You can watch it for free on Pluto.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Which is another service like too b.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah, I haven't explored as much on Pluto.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Tell everyone who you love watching Bad Santa with every
year your grandpa. It's also one of his favorite movies.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
This movie brings people together. More specifically, it brings men
together who maybe don't like watching Christmas movies. And it
is a very inappropriate movie and sometimes I would feel
uncomfortable watching, Like I probably wouldn't watch this with my
just because I would feel uncomfortable during some scenes. But
for some reason, with your grandpa, totally good.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
No, the two of you just sit there and laugh
the whole time. And I'm like, this is so dumb.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
It is dumb.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I don't love that one. I'll watch it, but I
don't love.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
It, not even the sandwiches.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Isn't there a part where has a munch like snot
on his face. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Move, he's in his face and he has a chocolate.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yeah, no, I don't. I don't do that.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Billy he peas himself. Yeah, there's just so many great quotes.
John Ridder's in it. I think this was John Ridders's
last movie. Bernie Mack was in it, who also passed away.
That is also weird. Starting to watch Christmas movies where my.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Good yeah, like everyone and else.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah, all the people are starting to pass away.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Ed Asner, Bob Newhart, James Kahn.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
You're like, oh man, these are starting to fade away
and become classics, and some of these people are no
longer here. There's like a scene in those movies where
it's like, oh, everybody in the scene is no longer here,
sad so but anyway, if you want to laugh, I
feel like this has become a classic. It is like
the went essential R rated Christmas movie. If you're gonna
watch an R rated Christmas movie, the go to is
Bad Santa. I remember watching it for the first time
(17:07):
and laughing so hard during the boxing scene where they're
trying to teach him how to fight, so we can,
you know, fight back against the bullies. Hilarious. It's still funny.
I laugh all the time during this movie. At number one,
it is Bad Santa. Your list now, all right, a
more wholesome list.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I was just thinking about all the movies we watch
and the ones that like make me excited to have
a family and then like our kids be grown up
and start having kids, so that like when we're older
later in life and like have like an extended family,
like kids, grandkids, obviously the family stone.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I don't want five kids though. As fun as our Christmas.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Seems, it's a lot of kids.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
It's a lot of kids, but just like the like
everyone being together and like Christmas morning and like everyone
having different ornaments on the tree, Like I just love
like the tradition of it, because it's like if we
never had that, it would just be USO on Christmas morning,
and that feels kind of sad. Yeah, not to say
that if it's just you on Christmas morning, you should
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feel sad, But I like spending Christmas with a lot
of people.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I think it also comes down in that movie the House,
they get that of the right house for that.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
You're right, they do have the quintessence. It's an awesome house,
quintessential Christmas house.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
That feels like a good Christmas house, Like, aside from
the home alone house, that's a good house.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
It is a good one.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Next up, I have Almost Christmas with Danny Glover Gabrielle
Union Money. Again it's just like everyone coming home and
like things go so awry in that movie and it's
so chaotic, but again they do have a good Christmas house.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I think it's all these nice house house I think
I actually just want a nice house toff Christmas.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
That's the thing about movies that I get upset with.
I never saw my home represented in any movie, not
Christmas movies, not even horror movies. I always felt that.
I always felt that horrific things would never happened to
me because they always happen to people in big houses.
I'm like, I'm good. If there's a ghost here, I'm
gonna see them. Where you get a hide in this trailer?
Where's that ghost gotta hide? Like, yo, you we're here,
gonna pay rent. But that horror movies and also Christmas
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movies because they have giant houses, like seeing the Home
Alone House, I'm like, man, they have nice houses. They
haven't made, but there is something about people coming together
for Christmas, like older siblings. And I think you experienced
that more now because you've always been the older sibling.
But with my family you experienced like, oh I'm the youngest, see.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
And then you have it the other way with my family. Yeah,
I never had you were never the older sibling. So
it's fun.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
We're kind of like in the middle now we have both.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
And then my third movie, trying to pick, I mean,
I think it just follows the same theme. It's this
Christmas that one has Iatris Elba, Regina King, and Loretta
Divine and again just a nice house and a bunch
of siblings.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yeah, kind of crazy that Eatris Elba is in You
look at his earlier work and now that he gets
like major, major roles. But looking back at him two
thousand and seven in this movie, I kind of forget
that he was in Thor he's kind of like hijacked.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, that was such a good show on Apple.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I feel like they should have made him James Bond.
I feel like he got robbed out of that role.
But he is like a huge star but has all
these little nugget roles throughout his career. But yeah, again,
the big house, it just kind of comes back to that.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
You're right, it's all yeah, no one's because even like
the smaller houses are like portrayed like in Bad Mom's Christmas,
like Catherine Han and her son live in a smaller
house and she's like the one that doesn't celebrate Christmas
or house like the lesser than Christmas subliminal messaging of
nice houses.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
The nice houses because they feel cozy. When you have
the big house and then you have all the people
filling it during Christmas, that just feels like ah, Chris.
I mean, even going back to like Christmas vacation in
the Grizzwold House another good house Callisters.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Flowed that thing up with life Oh, yeah, we haven't
watched that one yet.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, we haven't.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Still have quite a few to watch.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
The one I am looking forward to you that I
would add to your list is nothing like The Holidays,
which is also older siblings coming home for.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Their last siblings though so I made it. Yeah, only
three of them.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
But it's a full house. I feel like once everybody's
in there. Also, out of all these Christmas movies, it's
the one I see myself and my family represented the most.
That is another one that I had not watched until
you were like, we got to watch this movie, and
that one has become one of my favorites. I would say,
now that's like a top five Christmas movie for me
that I look forward to watching every single year.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
But that one we have to watch closer to Christmas.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
That is a closer to Christmas movie that is either
twenty third or twenty fourth, like close to Christmas. I
guess we're probably doing, yeah, traveling, so maybe earlier than that.
It does feel weird this year with Christmas being on Wednesday. Yeah,
and like how the work week ends the time recording
this at all halready happened already or guess at the
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time I put this out, it have all already happened,
or see, I have the Christmas brain right now.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
We are recording this before, but when it comes out
it will be closer.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I forget how time works. Apparently apparently when you're listening
to this, it's the twenty third and all this stuff
would have already happened already. But it just feels like
once the work weekends you get to Christmas, it just
feels so much closer. And then Christmas in the middle
of the week. I just feel we're gonna have a
weird start to twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I had people emailing being like, so, does anyone want
to meet on the thirtieth? No, no, no they don't personally, no,
not yawking me and I will be out. I will
be on PTO. You will get my out of office.
Somebody was like, the end of the year, no.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
One wants to meet on the thirtieth.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
No.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Work, Like, if you are working, that's like independent work days,
like have a Christmas movie on and like clean out
your inbox.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
That's not like have a meeting.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
So you circle back after the holidays, they're still New
Year's that's not We're not after the holidays yet.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
So looking at your list, if you were gonna make
one pick of your favorite Christmas movie as a kid,
so not even thinking about us having kids, of just
what was your favorite Christmas movie to watch every year?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Else?
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Early on two thousand and three, Yeah, I guess, yeah,
I guess that lines up more.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
With your age.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
I was nine then, still a classic, so good.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
We Yeah, we've already rewatched that one. I feel like
that one is kind of in the middle after we've
gotten our comedies out of the way.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
We watched that one Saturday after we dealt with everyone
at the moment.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
That's a good calming movie because we came home but.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
We just kind of stared at each other and we
were like, I guess we should watch something happy.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Elf, because we Yeah, even though it is a comedy,
it's not like how I would associate some of these
other Christmas comedies that we've been talking about. But it's
so it's such a classic and we've seen it so
many times that to me, it feels like watching Christmas wallpaper,
Like it's just there, it's warm, it's comforting, you know
what you're gonna get, and it's just like you just
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take it in.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
We also, so we still need to rewatch Daddy's Home
too as well. Ah yeah, it's a good Christmas one,
a good.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Dumb Christmas one for me. I think my favorite Christmas
movie as a kid was Christmas Eve on Sesame Street.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
It's still your favorite Christmas movie.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I still love it. Which it's not even like a
real movie. It didn't come out in theaters or anything.
It's really just a Sesame Street Christmas special. But I
associate that with my family now because we were never
really home during Christmas. We would always leave to Mexico
like the twenty second, like as soon as I was
done with school and I had those two weeks off,
we were gone. So we would do small gifts the
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day before we left, and then later once we actually
started celebrating Christmas and staying in the sights.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Why'd you just become Australian.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
I don't know. I've been diving into an Australian accent recently. Okay,
staying into the sights all right. But we would watch
Christmas eve on because we watched it when I was
a kid. But then it was our tradition of when
we would unwrapped gifts.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I was gonna say, we still have it on it
your yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Family, every time we start doing gifts, we throw on
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street because it's funny. And I
love you about the meeting of Christmas because I always
go back to the Burton Earni situation where they each
sell their prize possessions to get somebody else a thing
for their prize possession and then neither of them have
their prize possession. Oh that's good stuff right there. That
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teaches you all about Christmas.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
I love Sesame Street. It's a great show.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
You see. You might go away because it's on HBO
and they have currently not renewed it.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Why would you break this to me on the podcast.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Because that's sad because we were I was literally singing
a Sesame Street song earlier, I got a new way
to walk, Walk Walk, and you were like, oh, Sesame
Street and it's weird. How much stuff I actually remember
from that watching it growing up.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
My little brother would watch.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
He was picking into Elmo's World and there was a
I'll say, hello.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Try an egg on the cement? Did so call day? Yeah?
It literally is just stuck in my brain like.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
That is how my older brother and sister learned English.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Can't you sessme street?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Yeah, they can't. I don't think they will. I think
it's one of those things where it's an institution that
even if they lost by not resigning, it would get
picked up somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I can't believe you brought this news to me here.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
This is I just just read it like a few
days ago, and I was waiting on me because I'm like,
they're not going to get rid of mean time to
go process this all right? Well that is all our
Christmas talk. Merry Christmas. Everybody say obsessed to my street?
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Can I start a like change dot org petition?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah? Bring back Elmo. Let's get into it now. A
spoiler free movie review of carry On. Sorry Jason Bateman
and Taron Egerton. This movie is essentially die Hard in
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an airport, and while I was watching carry On, it
reminded me how impactful die Hard was on a genre.
And we're at a time in the year where a
lot of people are saying is die Hard a Christmas
movie or not? And after watching carry On, I am
fully committing to Diehard. It's a Christmas movie to me,
as long as the movie takes place around Christmas. It
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is a Christmas movie. And I say that because for
the most part, Christmas movies are really cheesy and the
only thing they really bank on is you watching them
around Christmas time and building this relationship with them. Because
Christmas movies at their core aren't good movies. I enjoy them.
There is a comfort to them. They are predictable. But
if you just picked apart Christmas movies for having a
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good first third at like all the things that make
a movie good and make a movie impactful, they're not
inside a Christmas movie. But I don't think that is
the purpose of Christmas movies. So there are people who
want to fight for certain movies to say those are
Christmas movies because there's a Christmas stree in it. At
one point, this person is wearing green, they reference Christmas.
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Therefore is it a Christmas movie? I think people say
that is because if you don't enjoy that formula, you
don't like predictability, you have a rough time around the
Holidays finding a movie of any kind of substance or
fitting into what you enjoy. So I think that is
why there are such a passionate group calling Diehard a
Christmas movie. And I think what Carrie On did was okay. Hey,
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people debate on whether or not Diehard is a Christmas movie.
We're gonna make a movie just like that and center
it on Christmas Eve. Therefore, this is a Christmas movie.
So to me, carry On is going to be a
new Christmas classic. Now is it the best movie you
ever know? But now that it is established itself as
a Christmas movie, I'm going to put this in that genre.
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So I think going into it, I guess I had
higher expectations as far as the level of acting. Karen
Egerton the read actor, great singer, great performer, and I
just thought from seeing him in the case Kingsman movie,
seeing him in Rocketman, that there was going to be
a little bit more depth to his character than you have.
Jason Bateman, who kind of a chameleon now and I
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think Ozark we saw a much different side of him.
He's an anti hero. He's somebody you root for even
though he's not doing good things, and he's done things
like arrested, development off his Christmas party Game Night, and
I think for the most part, when you look at
Jason Bateman, you think comedy, but I really think, oh,
he's a good actor. And his character is convincing in
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this movie. So you have two great actors, Tarren Egerton
Jason Bateman. I thought I was gonna get a little
bit more on the level of acting. But if you
look at the plot of this movie, if you look
at the story, the action, the element of you have
to suspend disbelief to enjoy this movie. I think what
was on the page in this script doesn't matter who
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you put in this movie. You can't really make it
any more believable. You couldn't get Leonardo DiCaprio in there,
you couldn't get Meryl Streep in there and make this
a more believable movie. So I think with me having
expectations on the level of acting, but then also realizing
that this is a Christmas movie, I was able to
settle into this movie and find it super entertaining. Is
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it a great movie? No? Is it one I really recommend.
I think I do, and I think it's a good
movie for people who don't like Christmas movies but need
something Christmasy to watch around this time of year. Because
I still think that speG thirteen on Netflix easily accessible
to people. I think a lot of people are going
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to give this movie a chance around the holidays. I
think it is a good pick to put on and
you can please most people in your family. I start
thinking about my dad in these situations, who doesn't like movies.
I don't think he's ever just sat down by himself
and intentionally watched a movie. He's been in the room
when we watch movies. He'll go to the movie theater
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with us, but he will go to sleep as soon
as he has done with his popcorn. I think if
we put carry On on the TV around Christmas time,
he would watch it. He would get invested in it.
I think you could follow along the plot line pretty easily.
So if I'm putting my dad in this room, I'm
thinking of families across America, families across the world watching
carry On. I think there is something for everybody, except
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the people who don't like movies that are really unbelievable.
And there is an interesting dynamic in this movie because
the whole plot line is Jason Bateman plays a bad guy.
He is trying to get this suitcase onto this plane.
You don't know what is in it, you don't know
his intentions, but he uses tered Egerton as the conduit
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to get this bag on because he blackmails them. He
threatens him, he has somebody go through drop this earpiece
in a bin. He puts it in his ear because
he gets a text from Jason Bateman, and then the
whole thing unfolds, and that is essentially the whole movie.
I guess I die Hard, but in an airport where
he is trying to save everybody on the plane, save
everybody in this airport, and be the hero. Taron Egerton
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is kind of not down on his luck, but he
is in a low point of his life, even though
he has a girlfriend who also works at the airport.
She's pregnant, which that plot line was a little bit
cliched of Oh, here's a guy just trying to make
it in this world. His girlfriend is pregnant. Now he
has something to lose. So I think, going back to
what I said earlier, it's just everything that was on
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the page that was a little bit unbelievable. But I
think once you settle into that and take it for
what it is, it is an entertaining ride. But don't
go into it, or you shouldn't have gotten into it
if you've already seen it expecting it to be based
in reality, because if you've ever been in an airport,
if you've ever taken a flight at any point in
your life, you know how secure it is there. You
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can't leave a bag unattended without somebody flagging it. You
can't do anything in an airport without somebody noticing. They're
always watching. They will shut the place down if they're
anything suspicious that. It's just the world we live in now.
Watching this movie, all that goes out the window because
anything goes in this airport. There are people running around.
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There are a lot of crazy things that happened that
if you witness this in an airport, the plot wouldn't
have moved along because Okay, game's over. That's it, We're
done here, everybody go home. There is no more threat.
I did start putting myself into the situation of if
I was tearing Eggerston's character and I was being blackmailed
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I was a TSA agent. My initial thing was I
just take the earpiece out, Like, if I take it out,
I know they can text me, but I could ignore that.
I don't think I would keep it in the whole time.
Oh you're threatening me on this earpiece? There goes out.
What are you gonna do now, But then I guess
you have this need to be a hero. I'm sure
they would just ramp up the threats more and more,
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and they probably wouldn't in there. They would keep texting
you even the next day and the next day. I
don't think that that would be sufficient enough to get
this level of criminal out, but that is my immediate reaction. Hey,
just take this at your piece out end of movie.
But of course if you did that, you wouldn't have
a movie. So you do have to suspend disbelief while
watching this movie. And if you're not in a position
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to do that, you're not gonna have a good time.
I wouldn't say it's the same way I approach a
Fast and the Furious movie at this point where first couple,
even the first three, we're still based in reality, but
now by Fast ten they are essentially superheroes. It's so
over the top, and that is what we go for
now watching a Fast and the Furious movie. We want
to see big, dumb action and something that could never
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happen in a million years, Like dom Treto is not
going down the canyon with it fully in flames, and
he's gonna ride off on a car. Just no scratches,
be totally good, that's not gonna happen. But you don't
really question that those movies. It is not that level
of unbelievable, And I think that's why it just kind
of walks that line. If they would have refined it
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just a little bit and made it a little bit
more gritty. I mean, and if you look at the
intentions of Jason Bateman's character, who at the beginning of
the movie is very threatening and ominous, I think if
they would have kept that tone from that opening scene,
it would have had a much different vibe. And it
started just to feel a little bit too cat and
Mouse and a little bit too like oh eighties action movie,
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and maybe not rush some of the things, because I
felt that some of the details of the plot were
kind of crammed in there. They didn't really know how
to land the plane. As far as the plot in
this movie where it was good, I was invested. I
was there heartbeat and riding with the action, and then
they were like, Okay, what are we gonna do here?
How is this movie going to end? Is it going
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to have a bummer ending? Is it going to have
a happy ending? I think at the end of it,
they were just trying to figure out how to tie
this whole thing up and just slapped an ending on there.
I bet from what they shot from this movie, there
has to be an alternate ending. It just feels like
one of those movies that if you had it on DVD,
they would say, here's the ending that you saw in theaters,
and here's the alternate end, and here's this other alternate ending.
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Out of all the movies that came out in Netflix
this year, this is the only one that I felt
I could have gone to the theater to see and
had a better experience. I think this is as close
as they've been this year, not of all time. I'd
say the first time they had this was with bird
Box back in the day. But this was the first
time this year that I felt, man, they could have
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put this movie out in theaters, maybe made some money
at the box office, because I think it was at
that quality level. You had the stars attached to it,
you had the compelling plot, you had the twist and turns,
you had the big action. The ridiculous of course mixed
in there as well. But this was the first time
I felt from a Netflix original in twenty twenty four
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that they were actually making something impactful, and of all
the movies they put out this year, I think this
will be one that people will revisit because it is
a Christmas action movie. Next year they could bump it
up there at the top, and I think people will
rewatch it after the holiday season, maybe not as much
because it is still rooted in Christmas time, and I
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think they were kind of banking on that. But if
I would have seen this in theaters, I think I
would have enjoyed it more and maybe even rated it higher,
because it kind of has that feeling of, oh, if
you watch this on the big screen, fully engulfed in
the sound and the vision of it, maybe it would
have hit a little bit harder and felt a little
less cheesy, just maybe. So for that reason, I did
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mump it down a little bit. And again, I know
some people will watch this movie and think this is stupid.
But even if you think it's stupid, I still think
it's a movie that you end up completing. May hate
it by the end of it, but it is that
engaging and the story just keeps giving you piece by
piece of like, oh, well, I gotta see what happens. Now, Well,
now that I've seen what happens, I gotta figure out
what they're gonna do here, And before you know it,
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you've ended up watching the whole movie. So for carry On,
I thought I was going to a little bit more,
but still enjoy it. Recommend it if you haven't seen
it yet, especially if you have somebody you like my
dad in your life who doesn't really like Christmas movies,
doesn't really like any movie, and just want something a
little bit mindless and fun and some cool action and
fight sequences. For carry On, I give it three point
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five out of five suitcases. It's time to head down
to movie Mike Trailer Paul, I'm for the first time
ever going in and blind to a trailer park. We're
about to talk about the new Superman trailer, the much
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anticipated Superman trailer. Rarely do you see people online getting
so hype for a trailer, just the trailer. There's only
one other trailer that I'll talk about later that I
can remember the exact place, the exact time I was
at in my life for a trailer, but there was
so much hype around this one. And to let you
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in on when I'm recording this. It is Thursday, the
day the trailer dropped at the time of recording, as
it came out eight hours ago. I've had a crazy day.
This is the first time I've been able to sit
down and watch this trailer. I've been avoiding it all day.
Four thirty pm Central Time. The trailer at the moment
of recording this has thirteen million views, which is a
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pretty substantial number. And since it is such a big trailer,
and since this is such a big important piece in
what DC is doing with James Gunn taking over as
trying to be there, Kevin Feige trying to direct them,
trying to create some cohesiveness among the DC films, and
this is going to be there. Hey, here we go.
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This is our big title character, arguably the most famous superhero,
the original og superhero. Every kid wanted to be Superman.
Everybody knows whose Superman is. I would say DC has
the more iconic characters Batman, Superman. Those are so huge
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that I still think that those reaches are stronger and
more w then the Marvel character. I mean, they're probably
comparable at this point, especially with Spider Man, but I
still feel like going back to the original movie how
that was like the first big superhero movie. I feel
that this needs to be good for everything else to work.
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And from what I've learned studying what Marvel did, it
is really important that your first film where you're trying
to set the stage lands. If Ironman didn't land back
in two thousand and eight, the MCU would have never
been creative created sorry, And I think that is what
they are trying to do now. They are at a
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bit of a disadvantage because the bad taste in everybody's
mouth from all the DC movies is still going to
be there. So you have to get it across to
the average person that we're doing something new here. I
know all of our nerves are well invested, we know
what's going on, we know what to expect, we know
that they're doing something different. But to the average person
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who doesn't follow that, and you're just gonna see, Oh,
this trailer is coming out, there's a new Superman movie
coming out? Oh DC again? Is it gonna be like
Black Adam? So they have to make a great trailer
to get people to want to watch this. It's coming
out next year. I don't even have all my notes
in front of me, right now. I'll get into that after,
but I wanted to go into the super Raw. I'm
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looking at the YouTube description. It comes out on July eleventh.
They say it begins Superman only in theaters twenty twenty
five film for Imax, which is exciting to me to
I'm at a hit play for the first time. It
is a two minute and twenty second trailer. I normally
don't play a full trailer, but I'm gonna play it.
I'm gonna react to it in real time, and then
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we'll talk about it afterwards. Here we go. I'm excited
for this. Let's go. I've never done it like this before,
so let's see how this goes. I'm gonna hit play
on the Superman trailer.
Speaker 4 (41:55):
Looks good so far smashes into the ice.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Dang is that the dragon.
Speaker 4 (42:04):
Ball z pos It looks good. M so it looks hurt.
Last said the Clark Kent.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Dang, this already feels epic From James Gun it says, oh,
it's laying looks good. Oh boy, looks good. As Clark
Kent and Superman do from Twisters. It kind of has
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that small fill feel a little bit but modernized. Dang,
that still looks good calling his dog.
Speaker 4 (43:03):
Oh, somebody begets his dog.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
Dang, Superman in the snow looks amazing.
Speaker 4 (43:09):
He have it his dog craped. Op gave me home
action shots.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
Yeah, this movie looks epic. Nicholas Halt, Superman Yang. He
doesn't look like a good guy. Villa does look good.
I love the cosmic color. Haggan his dog dragging him. Oh,
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the flight scene. The flight scene, it's a good fine
them music, the little ode to the original only indeed, okay,
a lot to unpack here, immediate reaction. That is a
fantastic trailer. I know. Last week I gave the Trailer
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of the Year to twenty eight years later. This beat it.
This is the best trailer of the year and the
only other trailer I can remember appointment watching like this
was the No Way Home trailer. I was in Costa Rica.
We went out to dinner, and we were driving back
from the restaurant to our hotel, and I was trying
to watch it in the back of the van, and
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I didn't have great cell service because we were in
Costa Rica. But that was the last time I remembered like,
I need to see this trailer immediately when it drops
and that was, for the longest time, the most viewed
trailer of all time until the Deadpool and Wolverine trailer
came out earlier this year. But this movie look look fantastic.
You have David corn Sweat as Clark Kent and Superman.
(45:05):
He looks fantastic. I primarily know him from Twisters. While
he was filming that movie, he actually found out that
he got the Superman part. And I think some people
had hesitation because he's really not a big name. But
I think that's what you have to go with right now.
And I think you also want to have a younger Superman.
Just by the look of this story looked by the
(45:26):
feel of it, I think he works. And I think
this version of Superman it's about twenty five years old,
so definitely. I think that's why I had that feeling
that it feels a little bit Smallville to me, and
I think you have a lot of inspiration to draw from.
You obviously have the og Christopher Reeves originals. You have
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the Zach Snyder verse version of Superman, which I enjoy.
I feel like that gets a little bit more hate
than it deserves. The first Man of Steel movie was good.
I enjoy that one. I think it was just Superman
and all the rest of the movies in Justice League
and Batman Versus Superman, where it just wasn't really put
to the justice of the character. You have Rachel Brossahan
(46:09):
as Lois Lane. She looks fantastic. She's being described as
fiercely intelligent and feisty in this movie. Nicholas Whole as
Lex Luthor. I think, out of everything in this trailer,
it was the least convincing, and it's mainly it's hard
to put somebody in a ball cap and have it
look believable. But he is gonna play Lex Luthor, who
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in this version is a businessman and obviously the arch
nemesis of Superman. What I took away from this trailer
is people are gonna have a problem with Superman. There's
one scene that I saw where somebody throws something at
Superman's head, So maybe there's gonna be kind of a
Batman situation where some people like him, some people don't.
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He has to convince people that he is a good guy,
that he is a hero. Going back to that open
scene in this trailer of seeing him being broken down
and bloody and barely able to breathe, and his dog
Crypto has to come to his rescue. You have to
feel like something serious is gonna go down. It looks
like there's a good amount of villains in this story.
(47:17):
I saw this big monster ripping through Metropolis, so I
feel like there's gonna be some real threats here. You
have some of James Gunn's calling cards in there. You
see some people that he always works with. Those actors
are in there. You already know who to expect. But
I think what I really felt that he pulled from
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some of his other movies was the Last Guardians of
the Galaxy movie, which I loved the way he used
color in that movie, and I think obviously he drew
a lot of inspiration for that movie from two thousand
and one A Space Odyssey. But I kind of got
those vibes here in this Superman trailer where there are
a lot of cosmic colors. That moment that we all
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saw that first picture of Superman in the suit with
him in his apartment and you saw like that kind
of almost planet like backdrop. I actually saw that come
to life in this trailer, and it looked really good,
and at the moment of recording this and what I
know of coming out in twenty twenty five, which there
are a lot of great movies coming out, I think
twenty twenty five is gonna be the stronger year of
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twenty four and twenty five. I think this could quite
possibly be the best movie of next year, and that's
exciting for me as a comic book fan and as
a comic book movie fan in an era where people
are starting to get burnt out on the genre, and
I think it's time for Superman to rise up. Because
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he's not even my favorite character. I wouldn't even put
him in my top five superhero characters. I am more
of a Marvel stand. The only DC character I would
put in my top five is Batman. He's top three.
But I think it was because in the era I
grew up in, I didn't really have my Superman, and
a lot of people people I see reacting to this,
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some of my friends are people who grew up in
the eighties and they had that first iteration of Superman
and they're a little bit more attached to that. I
think that's the same way I have such an attachment
to Spider Man because I grew up with the animated
show from the nineties, and then in the early two
thousands we had the Toby Maguire versions, and I've had
an iteration every decade since that. I have a much
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closer relationship with that character. And to me, Superman has
always felt like a little bit of a boy scout.
To me, he never really had real problems. That was
a lot of early DC comic book characters that they
were just well, they were superheroes and they were not
of this planet, and the average person probably couldn't relate
to these characters. And that is what set Marvel apart,
(49:45):
because you had characters like the Fantastic Four who are
a family, but they're very dysfunctional. They fought with each other,
they had issues with money, same thing with Spider Man.
They had issues with girls and issues with their kids,
like all these things that made these characters feel three dimensional,
and it was they just happen to have superpowers. When
(50:09):
it comes to DC characters, it is so focused on
their superpowers and they just happen to be human or whatever.
So I think this is gonna be a very important
piece in DC's future, and they have a lot of
movies coming out in twenty twenty five, this will be
their one. Twenty twenty six, they have a Supergirl movie
(50:29):
coming out called Woman of Tomorrow. They announced Clayface coming
out also in twenty twenty six. They also announced Batman,
The Brave and the Bold, which I don't know how
they're gonna start differentiating between the Batman. We know the Penguin.
We know they've been talking about it's gonna be dc
Els Worlds, but I feel like at some point that's
(50:50):
gonna be hard not to merge the two. They also
have The Authority coming out to be announced, and there's
a swamp Thing movie also allegedly coming out, so there
is some potential here. And allegedly this movie costs anywhere
between two hundred and fifty to three hundred million dollars
to make. James Gunn hasn't fully confirmed that, but this
(51:12):
is part of chapter one called Monsters and Gods. I'm
in it for this one. It's coming out on July eleventh,
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (51:20):
And that was this week's edition of Movie Mine Trailer Park.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
There we go our first ever raw trailer park. Let
me know if you enjoy when I do it that way.
I think it only works with really big movie trailers.
And that was all from the dome. I had some
notes here that I made beforehand, but I just wanted
to give you my raw reaction, So maybe I'll do
that more in the future for more big trailers dropping
That is going to do it for another week here
(51:45):
on the podcast. But before I go, I got to
give my listeners shout out of the week. How do
you get a listener shout out of the week? You
can comment on my Instagram, TikTok, Facebook find all those
in the show notes. But this week I'm going over
to my email. Movie Mike at gmail dot com got
an email from Andy who said, dear movie Mike, at
your suggestion, I watched The Swimmer on TUB last night
(52:08):
and was not disappointed. What a mind bender. Thanks for
the suggestion. I give it five out of five swimming pools.
I really enjoy your podcast on Walks with My Dog
and Long Drive. Signed Andy, I appreciate that. I love
me some tub. I love that movie. I'm glad somebody
else watched The Swimmer and enjoyed it and made me
feel like I wasn't crazy for enjoying that. So thank
(52:30):
you for emailing in. Andy. Hopefully maybe you checked out
some other things on twob and maybe I'll do another
to Be Fines episode next year because I keep going
back to TV. But I hope you have a great
rest of your week. It is Christmas week, Tomorrow is
Christmas Eve, they I got Christmas, and then it'll be
New Year's This will be the last fully new episode
of the year. Next week I'll have my top five
(52:53):
interviews of twenty twenty four. I'll also talk about who
was on my bucket list of dream people I would
love to interview, and then at the beginning of next year,
I will have my full episode on my top movies
of the entire year. I wanted to wait until everything
came out in twenty twenty four because there are still
a lot of big movies coming out. I wanted to
(53:14):
have a full grasp on the year before I did
that episode. Appreciate you. Hope you have a great Christmas,
a great rest of your week, and until next time,
go out and watch good movies and I will talk
to you later.
Host
Mike D
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