It’s been a while but Mike and Kelsey are back to break down their best and worst movies of the last 2 months. Kelsey hurts Mike’s feelings by picking one of her favorites as her worst, Mike shares why he thinks Tom Hardy isn’t the lead he thinks he is, and a movie that blew both of their minds with little expectation going into it. In the Movie Review, Mike gives his thoughts on the Accountant 2 starring Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal. Ben is back as forensic accountant Christian Wolff who now teams up with his estranged but highly lethal brother to track down mysterious assassins. Mike tries to understand what went so wrong with this movie, how it downgraded from the original, and why somehow he still wants them to turn it into a trilogy. In the Trailer Park, Mike talks about the reboot/sequel of I Know What You Did Last Summer. He gives his thoughts on Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddy Prince Jr returning, how Madelyn Cline looks as the lead, why it won’t have as much success as Scream in 2022 and how he feels differently about the original after rewatching it on Netflix.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's movie podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike joined with my wife and
co host Kelsey. How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
It's been a while. We haven't done a best and
Worst of the month and two months.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yeah, we kind of skipped March.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
We had a lot of interviews, a lot of things
going on. But we're gonna do all of our March
in April. Picks. In the movie review, I'll be talking
about The Accountant too, and in the trailer park I'll
break down the I Know what you did last summer
new trailer twenty twenty five version, which was.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Also a great song by Shawn Mendez and Kamila Kabaa.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I Know what you did last summer.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I didn't know that was a song. I know what
you did.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
It was like a hit years ago.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I really remember that song.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Was that song? Let's see? Oh my god, this song
is ten years on.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
That song is ten I've never heard of it, you
said a few years ago.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Because I thought it was like a few years ago.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Well we were. This movie's almost thirty years old.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I feel personally attacked right now.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Wow, should we just start the episode now that we
feel attacked.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Now that I qualify for a Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Thank you for being here, thank you for being subscribed.
Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now
let's stop feeling old. Let's talk movies from the Nashville
Podcast Network and this is Movie Mike Movie Podcast. Getting
into our best and worst of March and April. Kelsey
kick us off. The best movie you watched in March.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Was Ballad of Wallace Island.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Would you like about that movie?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
It was quirky.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
It feels like it's been so long since I've seen
that movie. I watched that movie twice because I watched
it to interview them, and then I watched it again
at the Bell Court.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
It was great.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I love it, and I think seeing it in a
full room at the Bell Court like that just adds something
to a movie.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
We've never seen a bad movie there, we haven't. I
feel like I got to know them as people by
watching that movie and then kind of seeing that how
hard they work to get that movie made, and then
it being a full theater that night was just kind
of like cool.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, it was like you're getting to watch people like
realize their dream.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
And I think that's something people don't realize when we
especially doing it podcast like this, of all the movie
reviewers and movie influencers, you forget there's real people behind
these movies because we're so caught up in the big
blockbusters with big studios attached to it, and it doesn't
quite matter as much on a personal level. But when
it's an independent film, where in that case it was
(02:18):
something they wrote themselves start in a short and then
got it turned into a full length picture, that's a
really big deal. So I always try to whenever I
do review smaller budget movies, kind of put that out
there because I kind of view them a little bit
differently because there's a lot that goes into it, a
lot of butt, sweat and tears.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I'm not even gonna ask if you just said butt,
sweat and tears, but sweat and tears moving on your
best of the month, well.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I was gonna say. I also loved the music in
that movie. Yeah, the music was great, which was another
added level. And Carrie Mulligan, who is the.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Wife of I don't know why you're quizzing me, you're the.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
No I'm giving you this fun fact because you always
give it to me.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Marcus Mumford, thank you this is how you finally learned it.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah, and he also visited the set. She brought her
baby on set and they're gonna write a song about it.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
For my best of March, I'm gonna go with Black Bag,
which I gave a four point five out of five.
It was the spy movie with Michael Fastbender and Cate Blanchett.
Or's a Blanchette. It's probably neither of us, I think,
I say Blanchett. And this was a movie you did
not go see with me. I think you were in
Colorado this weekend.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, I didn't even know it existed.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I feel like you would like this movie.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah. I saw the trailer after and I was like,
why'd you go see something that I would have liked.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I was in between this the Scars Guard movie where
he breaks into like a ride share or like a
smart car and then gets locked into it, and the
Looney Tunes movie, and then when I put I think
I was also going to see maybe Last Breath. There
was like four movies that I was kind of on
the fence on that weekend, and I was like, I'm
gonna go see a Black Bag just because I've kind
(03:48):
of been. I mean, we started Slower Horses or is
a slow Horses Slow Horses, and I was kind of
in that, like I want to see something spy related.
But this was a ninety minute thriller that wasted no
time getting to the action, and it had just a
really good script because for the most part, it's all
dialogue and Michael Fastbender's kind of superpower in the movie.
(04:09):
He's not a superhero, but he's a spy. Is like
he can tell if somebody's lying or not. So the
entire thing is just him grilling people and finding out
the truth. But his wife gets accused of espionage or treason.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yeah, I'm mind you went to see the About Me,
But that.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Was my best also because whenever you go into a
movie and you have pretty low expectations.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
And then it turns out to be good, you're like wow.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
It's also with a lot of people saying that movies
are getting longer and longer, I feel like, for the
most part the movies we've been going to see him
in ninety minutes. I almost feel like with movies not
making as much and then being harder to make, they
are getting a little bit shorter. The budget is having
to be stretched a little bit more so, I really
think movies are getting kind of shorter again. What was
(04:50):
your worst for the month of March?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
My worst of the month might offend you. Why Mickey seventeen?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
That was your worst of the month.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I was bored.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Oh that was what? That was almost my favorite. I
had to battle between that and Black Bag.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I know.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Was it two sci fi for you? Or was the
Robert Pattinson.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I didn't love him in it.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I feel like his character was tough. I feel like
the story was you really had to kind of want
it to be good.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Yeah, and I like sci fi. I don't have a
problem with sci fi. I watched the sci Fi Channel
for years. Like I like that, it just was it
wasn't for me.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
It took me a while to settle into that movie
the first thirty forty minutes, which is a lot. It's
a long time. I know, it's a lot. I wasn't
fully into it. But by the second and third act
I found myself really enjoying it. And for me, it's
always how a movie leaves me. Because I left feeling like, Okay,
that was good and his character got there. But I
think a lot of it just felt a little bit.
(05:49):
It was very ambitious, and I think Bong Juneo is
that kind of director. He's a very nerdy guy, and
I feel with a success of Parasite, this being the
follow up to that movie, he had the power to
make anything that he wanted.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
It's like there's an audience for everything, and I just
wasn't the audience for that. I think when I don't
like something, that doesn't mean that it's not for someone
else or that it's not a good film.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I just wasn't the audience for it.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
In the same way that I can read a book
and not love it and other people think it's the
best book ever, or a book I really enjoy someone's like, oh,
I hated that everyone's different tastes. I was not who
that movie was made for.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
And I think I'll enjoy it more once I rewatch
it again. I think that's gonna be one of those
movies that you kind of got to sit with, but
not an instant classic. And also, I mean it was
still number one that week it came out, but it
was like, I think it made nine million dollars. It
didn't really make a whole lot.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
And it's always making a million.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Nice right in a weekend. Yeah, but I think when
it costs like fifty million, it's not really profitable. Yeah,
So I don't think it was as good as I
was expecting because I've been waiting for that movie for
almost two years now. It's been delayed and delayed again.
Oh yeah, it does hurt me a little bit. I
apologize for my worst of the month of March. It's
I gave it a two point five out of five,
(07:02):
and I think even that was a little bit generous.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
What's that on IMDb these days? Let's see, it was.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Like the lowest rated IMDb movie maybe ever for sure
of the year. But I think it was at like
a one and that and they're one point. Yeah, their
scale is out of a ten. Yeah, So that's even
worse than what I gave it because there have been
worse Disney live action remakes. Pinocchio was probably the worst
in my opinion, the live action.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
That's why I'm word going into Leilo and Stitch.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
You'll like anything with Stitch.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah, I still laugh at the regal thing when Stitch
comes out and it's like in the roller coaster.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
We've seen it so many times now and it's still funny.
It's still funny, So I think you'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
But I think Lelo and Stitch is gonna be How
they're doing these others where it's seen for seeing the
entire movie, meaning where it's pretty much them remaking it
exactly all the way through, Like they have the comparison
of the intro to that movie is the exact same
as the animated I kind of like it to be
a little bit different because then it just feels like, oh,
we're just yeah, it's literally just copying it.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, a remake.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
There's nothing. I like it when they remake it but
add some other elements to it, maybe change the story
a little bit. But I guess then they worry more
about people being upset that they change the story. I'd
rather than change the story.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, I don't feel like changing the story is bad.
It's like everyone being annoyed with like the casting for
the Harry Potter Show. I'm like, I don't want the
movies in show form, Like, give me something a little different.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Now, I'm moving on to April, which, hey, it's a
lot in March. I'll recap everything at the end, But
what was your best for April?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Easily warfare.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yeah, that's pretty powerful. It was incredible, and you don't
really well, you don't like horror violence, but when it
comes to war violence, where do you stand? Because some
of it's pretty graphic.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I can watch that more than a horror I still
get like really stressed out knowing that something bad is
probably about to happen.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
It's suspense.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Usually for me, it's a very stressful movie. There were
moments where I could tell you were anticipating something bad
happening and you were kind of looking away.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, it's just the like I don't like the stress,
like the build up. And usually in a war movie,
you know, I think I'm always like stressed. I'm like,
oh my god, somebody's about to step.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
On an ID.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
It's usually in a war movie what stresses me the
most because it's like, all of a sudden, you're like,
oh okay, it's I mean, it's war, but you're like,
nothing terrible is happening in this frame, and then they
make one wrong step and you're just like, oh my god,
everything's about to blow up.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
That's what I get stressed.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
About, and watching this, I didn't want anything bad to
happen to anybody but I knew if that happened, it
wouldn't be a movie. It'd be like, oh, everybody got
away and know everything was fine.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Well, especially in a story of war like and it
being a true story, you're like kind of feel like
something's bad's gonna happen at some point.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Did you get kind of teary eyed at the ending?
Whenever they show the real life photos of the people, God.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
You know I did.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
That's yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Every time every time they show any movie where it's
like based on service members and then they show the
real people and like they're f families and them in
uniform or them overseas, cry like a baby every time
it's something about it.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Especially Joseph Quinn, the person he portrayed, seeing him at
the end of it was just like, oh man, because
again when you watch a movie, you forget that not
always war movies depict real people. They usually depict real events.
But this was, yeah, all real accounts, how they experienced it,
all memories. Oh yeah, that just makes that movie even
more impactful. So still highly recommend Warfare. It should probably
(10:28):
be out on streaming soon you haven't seen it in theaters,
but also seeing it in theaters, it added to that
level of how loud it got because it started so loud,
but it started so quiet.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
There were like ten minutes of just like silence at
the beginning, and I think that's when I was like, Oh,
this is gonna turn bad.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
It was that. Yeah, it built that tension, built that anticipation,
and then it was just like so loud.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
It was funny too seeing Will Poulter as like a
serious character because I will never not see him as
the kid from where the millers wrapping waterfalls, and I
know that that's probably not the role he wants to
be known for, especially when he gets bit by a
spider down there.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah, it is hard for actors to get known for
one thing, but I also think that some actors are
happy for that.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
He was great in this serious role.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
It was like so different to see him, but it
just in my head, I just was expecting him to
be like, No, a.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Lot of false.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
But it's also a cool thing to have a piece
of movie history that everybody remembers. That's hard to do.
Those come maybe like a handful of times out of
every decade, and that is one of them. His character.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
He got so many from like the twenty tens era,
there's like Hangover Ye Bridesmaids, We're the Millers, No regrets,
not even one letter like that movie alone.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I love that movie.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
It's like an unexpected hit too. I think it's kind
of the aura around that movie has built up over time,
because I don't think it was as big when it
first came out, But now when you look back on
twenty ten's comedy, it is right up there, top tier funny.
For my best of April, I'm gonna go with Sinners.
I gave it a four point five out of five,
and I stand by that. Almost perfect for me.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
It's getting great reviews and like making so much money
at the box office.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Did really well. Opening weekend had one of the lowest
drops between week one and week two. I think it
was only six percent, which that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
That is crazy, Like.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Whenever a Marvel movie comes out, usually from week one
to two is like a thirty to forty five percent drop.
To only drop six percent is amazing.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yeah, that's huge and one of huge in the sense
of good for them.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
It's also an original movie, so also proving to people
that you still want to see original movies in theaters.
Huge for Ryan Coogler, who is about to be at
that level of make.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Whatever you want, whatever you want work. You're just hands
him a check, blank check.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
And I'm excited because I think he's about to get
to a point in his career where he's going to
be able to work with every actor where they're going
to start pursuing him, not that they already probably haven't,
but I think he's at that level now with The
Black Panther one and two, with The Creed, well he
didn't direct two or three, but he directed one is
known for that, And now with Sinner's being so.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Huge, it's gonna be the road centers, right.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Yeah, He's gonna have everybody come to him wanting to
be a part of a Ryan Coogler movie, which.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Has to be such a cool feeling, which.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Is exciting for him. And I also think that maybe
next movie he does, he doesn't have Michael B. Jordan
because he's been in everything.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Oh yeah, he has been in everything he's done.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
And not only that.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I just made that connection and.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
He's like, you know what I'm gonna do on Sinners
Too one but to Michael B.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Jordan's listen, and nobody complained about to Michael B.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Jordan's It worked really well. Have I ever told.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
You that I'm like one degree of separation away from
Michael B Jordan.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Because he lights? Okay? Yes?
Speaker 3 (13:45):
And the woman that played his mom, I worked at
a boutique in high school and she was a client.
Came in and the owner knew her and like introduced me,
and she was like, cause he's a big fan of
Friday Night Lights. And I was like, oh my gosh,
you played Michael B Jordan's mom.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I mean, he said a long career from I mean
being a kid actor. I mean, I love when he
was in Chronicle, he was in the Fantastic four movie reboot.
Now he's still in the MCU. But yeah, that was
my best for April. Now you're worst of April.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
I won't say too much because it's what you're gonna review,
but it's got to be the accountant too.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
What was the plot like? After we left?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
It was one of those that I went through and
I was like, was I just confused? The plot had
so many holes that I don't know that it was
a plot.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Do you regret rewatching the first one? Because I also
think we rewatched it going into it. I don't think
we needed to, yeah, because I feel like it had
no connection. But I feel like if we didn't watch it,
we would have been like, are we lost because we
didn't watch.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
It at sixteen watching that, we watched it on like
Saturday night, hadn't seen it in a while. I just
was expecting a little bit more. Man Affleck hasn't really
known anything good. Layne Laine has he fallen from Grace.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Air was good, although he didn't have a huge role
in that. But that was twenty two.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the Nike movie. But he
also my head goes to Air, Bud different Air. But
then he also did the Robert Rodriguez movie.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
That was really bad. Oh my god, one of the
worst movies that we saw that year. Let me remember
what it's called.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah, that was bad.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Hypnotic.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
That was bad.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I'd rather drink hypnotic than watch hypnotic.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
But that did The Way Back?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Was that what it was called, The Way Back? Where
you play the alcoholic coach?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yeah, I'm just like, he's come a long way from
Goodwill hunting.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I'd rather see him direct. At this point, I.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Did laugh because there was a clip. I think it
was maybe for the account too. Did it premiere at
south By or there was something at south By.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
The premiere there, but they did have a screening there.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
But there was a premiere that he was at recently,
and he was like, Jennifer Lopez's kids are here, and
I was like, he has to call her by our
first and last name because he's been married to do
Jennifer's The benefit two point zero is a lot.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
I forgot. That's over.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
It's over. But yeah, the accountant too. They needed to
crunch some numbers and not make that film.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
I'll leave it at that. I'll give my full review
here coming up in a second. My worst for April.
I'm gonna go with Havoc on Netflix, which was the
Tom Hardy generic action movie.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
You're like, do you have any interest in watching this?
And I was like, absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
It was one of those ones that I just kicked
on Netflix the weekend it came out, and I was like,
I like Tom Hardy, kind of like Ben Affleck. I
haven't seen him in something good in a while. Twenty
ten's Tom Hardy was great, but aside from the Venom franchise.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Which the last one was the last one.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Was not good. I'd say even two was Hey, I
enjoyed too. I enjoyed it, but I don't think it
was as good as one. But Tom Hardy is a
really good hector. Like going back to I mean even
him as Bane.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I was just about to say Bane and to see.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
His transfer, I mean he was an inception. Whischer's really good,
but to kind of see his transformation now to he's
at that level of star that can do movies like
this where he's pretty much the main lead and like
there's no other I mean, Forest Whitaker was also in
this movie.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
It's kind of even Chris Hemsworth a little bit.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
He can't really do anything else.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Yeah, I think he's kind of pigeonholed himself.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
But I think he's going to action star in his role.
I don't think he's that guy. I think he's more
of a drama That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I think he's pigeonholed himself into action.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Yeah, but he doesn't fit there. Why is he doing
I guess the paycheck money. The paycheck is probably pretty
good because I would rather do a Netflix movie like
this where I'm the main focus. You put on Netflix
and you see your face. But I almost think he's
a better supporting actor than a lead.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
It's a hot take.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I think he's a better supporting actor all the movies.
I love him. I have liked him more as a
supporting actor, but when it comes to anything that he's
started outside of Venom, like, he just hasn't really brought it.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Dunkirk Supporting Actor, The Revenant Actor nominated for Oscar. He's
the Academy Awards or Oscars? Right, Why do we have
so many names for everything? I get very he's.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Getting away from ever being nominated for another Oscar with
the roles he's taken lately. Wow, And I like him.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
He seems like a good juice fired shots fired.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I think it's also just me with Netflix Original movies
that with this movie, they tried really hard to give
it an identity and give it a cool style. It's
like semi futuristic kind of dystopia.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Using bike raders.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Ah See, he was better in that. I didn't love
that movie, but I feel like drama. He was the
best character in that over Austin Butler.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Okay, he's in that Mobland show on Paramount. I've heard
that's good.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
It's him.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
The one streaming service we don't have.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yeah, there was something else in Paramount that I wanted
to watch this we might need to get that.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I could go back and watch a bunch of Nickelodeon shows,
which was the reason we got that. In the beginning.
When it first came out, I was like, I want
to go back and watch Rocko's Modern Life. But now
a lot of that stuff is on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Are you watching dragon Ball? You don't have time to
watch anything else?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yeah, I still have like two hundred episodes of dragon
Ball Togo, but that was my worst of April. I'm
gonna run through now all the things we saw on
the last two months.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I'm gonna take a nap while you do that, because
there's so many.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Mickey seventeen kicked off the month Novacane, which is also good.
I gave that one a three point five out of
five The Electric State. Talking about Netflix original movies, there's
a lot in March, the Ballot of wall As Island,
Snow White, Black Bag. I went back and watched Heretic,
which came on came out in theaters last year, but
was on Max. I really like that horror movie it's
(19:24):
about count me out. It's with Hugh Grant. I can
never remember his name. I always want to call him
Pierce of BROSDA, but I think you just said Piers
Broze in a.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
While ago talking about Mom Blands.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I forget. But he plays a really sinister guy in that.
Max has some really good movies out right now that
came out in theaters either late last year or early
this year. I think they have some of the best
theater to streaming service movies. Hell of a Summer. Also
enjoyed that slasher movie, and then we watched The Alexander
No Good, Very Bad Day road Trip on Disney Plus.
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Because there were so many Mexican actors in that, I'm like,
I gotta support my people, not dead. It couldn't. It
kind of reminded me of like those old Strake s movies.
It was cute, not like top level, like I could
see why they put it on Disney Plus. But if
you had like younger kids, I feel like it's pretty good. Yeah,
there's some funny, dope moments in that. I laughed in
April Minecraft Sinners Warfare Companion, which was another.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
You forgot one in April, What the Drop the Drop,
I forget or just drop Drop.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I forgot about Drop and that was.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
It was my runner up to Best. I really liked
it and that was.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Pretty campy horror, but you wanted a sense all right, borderline.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
It wasn't like Slasher though.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yeah, I guess it was more suspense than horror. I
forgot about Drop and I watched.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Some behind the same clip of like Meghan Fakey filming,
and I feel like when you see the behind the scenes,
it makes it a little less scary.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I forgot about Drop, which is another one in April.
I think that one was like the second week of April. Companion,
which was another movie that got added to MAC with
Jack Quade and he dates a AI robot kind of
a horror movie. That one was also good, and then
one that almost made my favorite for April, The Amateur
(21:12):
with Remy Mallick. I really liked it and it was
again kind of like Black Bag in the same style.
He plays a guy who is whose wife gets killed,
so then he wants to train with the CIA to
avenge her death. He works for the CIA, yeah, but
he wants to be like a desk job, like an analyst.
But then he wants to be like field agent assassin.
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What's the guy's name, John Barenthal. Yeah, he wants to
be like him, and oh.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yeah he wasn't that I forgot.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
We already saw very briefly in it, like he's in it.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
He's very briefly in everything and like everything ever.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Any action movie, they need a ripped up dude to
play like an enforcer.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
And the bear.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Bear that's him as well. Uh, do you have a
TV show for.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
The Did we finish talking about The Amateur? We got
side talks about John Barenthal.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Well, yeah, sure, it was good. I think it'll probably
be out. I don't think it's in theaters any more,
probably limited showtimes and once it goes to streaming.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
If you like CIA, which I love a CIA type movie.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I knew I liked that movie from like the first
five minutes and.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
You didn't even want I was like, let's go see
The Amateur and you're like, what is that?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Yeah, the name doesn't really entice you to go see it.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
It's a great Saturday afternoon movie. We saw Warfare Friday
night and The Amateur Saturday.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Anything with the something you have to sell me on? Okay,
but yeah that ended up being really good. I gave
it a four out of five. I would agree with
that your TV show for the last two months.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
In the last two months, oh my gosh, what if
I watched Pulse on Netflix was a medical show. It
does not hold a candle to the pit. The pit
I will sing it's praises all the livelong day. But
Pulse was. It was enjoyable, it was entertaining. I kept
hitting the next episode.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
NETFLIXX had some good stuff lately. Mine is Black Mirror
season seven, which I.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Want reputable in my show.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Watch the entire season in about a weekend, and.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Some of it about how I do a Netflix show.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
And with those I feel like Black Mirror is essentially
just short films. I mean one of them is an
hour and a half straight up movie. Another episode is
like an hour, and I think it feels less like
a TV show to me than it's just all these
ideas directors have and they basically tell an entire story
in forty fifty minutes, so it doesn't really feel like
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a TV show format, which I think is what a
lot of people really like. But I think when you
tell somebody it's the TV show, they're more enticed to
watch an entire season in a weekend than if you
tell somebody to watch a two and a half hour movie. Yeah,
you have a book.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Oh gosh, what have I been reading lately?
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I just finished Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green, which
sounds like a very terrifying title, but it's an incredible book.
It's about like the history of tuberculosis as a disease,
but also like a tale of humanity. Really good if
you like public health, feel like social justice, I highly
recommend that. I also had one called Jackie by Don Tripp,
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and it's a fictionalized version of Jackie Kennedy's life, So
it's like all the things we know, but then the
author kind of like fills in the blank of like
the behind the scenes taking history and kind of fictionalizing it.
And she even said in the beginning, She's like, there's
so many like biographies, true stories about Jackie Kennedy. I
set out to do my own. It's really interesting. I'm
always on a Kennedy family kick, so it's just so
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fascinating to me. Still reading Harry Potters, I haven't gone
back to Half Flood Prince in a while.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
We're going to bed earlier. Really cuts into my reading time.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I read a book.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
You did read a book.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
The first book I've finished in probably three years. I
read the Markommas memoir Fahrenheit one eighty two Golf Clubs.
Not only that, I read it in like three days
you did.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I was very impressed how many pictures were in it.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
There were only pictures in between the chapters. Each chapter
would start with an old photo and maybe like another photo,
so it was like three hundred and sixty six pages.
Maybe they were split up in a sh chapters, which
also made it easy. Do you think they do that
for dumb people like me? You're not dumb, but people
like me who a chapter feels daunting. Yes, because I
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know that, okay, I can read this chapter and keep going.
I can stop sooner. I have the completion thing where
I need to finish in on a chapter. I can't
finish in between a chapter.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Same unless I'm really falling asleep, and then I know
I'm enough to go back and reread that same chapter tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Then I'll cut it in half.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
But when it's short chapters, I'm like, all right, I
can knock this out, and then I feel more accomplished
because I've only read like thirty pages, but I've read
like three or four chapters.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Oh. Another book I read, Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson.
That was my book club book last month.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Really Good Good Dirt.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Yeah, that one. I was like, I feel like I
haven't been reading. I read two five hundred page books
like at the same time. It was the Jackie Kennedy
one and then another one that I wouldn't really recommend,
And it took me a while to get through both
of those. So if people were like, wow, she hasn't
put out a book of you in a while, it's
because I was reading two really long ones and one
was physical, but the Jackie Kennedy one was on my
Kendle and so I didn't realize that it was five
hundred pages, so I didn't know how long it was
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when I got into it.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Kind of like spending cash versus using a credit.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Card, yes, or even debit card.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Yeah, you see it go away.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
You're like when I like need, if I'm like considering
buying something, and I'm like, could I put this on
the debit card and not feel guilty? If it's a no,
then I'm like, oh, I probably shouldn't be buying it anyways.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Anything else before we go, Oh I'm tired, all right,
come back. Give my spoiler free review of The Accountant
to Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie
review of The Accountant to the follow up from the
twenty sixteen movie that everybody was waiting for, right, I
don't think so. And I think that could be a
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bit of a problem going into this sequel, because there
wasn't much anticipation for it whenever it got announced. Whenever
I saw the trailer, I was like, huh, interesting, not
really a movie I would think needed a sequel. But
in this movie, Ben Affleck is teaming up with his
brother John Burnhal once again. He is the autistic accountant
who in the first one was known for laundering money
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for bad people cartels. He take their money, wash it
along the way, did a bunch of bad things because
he was really hardcore. He had a dad who instilled
this toughness into him. He had a military background, and
he knew because his son was autistic, that he wasn't
going to have an easy life as far as people
accepting him. He knew he was going to be bullied,
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so in a really extreme way, he had him do
all this crazy training, so he had these two very
unique sets of skills where he could take some numbers,
analyze them, see things that other people couldn't, and then
he could also kill people from like one hundred two
hundred feet away in a very wild assassination style, really
highly trained in combat. And some people didn't even enjoy
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the first one. I loved it. I thought the action
in that one was really good. There was a lot
of mysteriousness to Christian Wolf, paired with Anna Kendrick, who
I thought balanced it perfectly. I thought overall the story
in the first one was really good, but where it
really shined was the action. I just think that contrast
of having somebody who would sit at a desk working
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on numbers and then had this secret life of being
a stone cold killer was what made that movie captivating. Now,
when you move on to the Accountant to it just
didn't quite transfer the same way. And what this movie
is about. An old acquaintance gets murdered and Christian Wolf
wants to solve this case and he realizes, I'm gonna
need some more power here, so let me call on
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my estranged brother once again, John Burnhalt, to help me
figure this thing out to help me take down some
evil people. Once again, you're dealing with drug dealers, you're
dealing with the cartel. But there was just something about
the plot that overall didn't make sense and never really
won me over. And I found myself having a problem
ten minutes into this movie, where a full ten minutes
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went by and we never saw Christian Wolf. And I
don't know why that bothered me so much, but it
kind of was an indicator of what was to come
throughout the rest the movie, because ten minutes in, we
don't see Ben Affleck, we don't see John Burnhal. They're
trying to create this backstory going into it, and it
just didn't quite work for me. And otherwise that wouldn't
matter ten minutes go by, Who cares. You get to
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your star later and you start building the story. But
what that was an indicator of to me, it felt
like this movie wasn't edited properly. And I know maybe
I don't have the right criteria of background to comment
on editing, but I can tell when the pacing is
off in a movie and when the scenes drag on
just a little bit too long, and this movie is
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right around the two hour and five minute mark, it
just felt like they were really trying to drag things
out and didn't really have that much of a story.
So maybe for another movie, not having your main character
in the first ten minutes isn't as detrimental to the
rest of the movie, But here it showed me that
they were really trying to stretch out what plot they
did have, because it never really amounted to anything, and
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they were trying to build upon all these things and
create twists and turns that never really paid off. So
I think overall the plot just didn't really make sense.
To the point that Kelsey and I were talking about
the movie after and we both enjoyed it. For the
most part. It was entertaining. The lady next to us
was loving it, and she was making me enjoy it more.
She was probably an older woman, maybe in her mid
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to late fifties. She was having a good time that
made me have a good time more. But when Kelsey
and I talked about it after, we were like, that movie
really didn't make sense, Like what was the plot here?
Kelsey said, it kind of felt like the movie was
written by AI And overall, what really kept me from
loving this movie was the lack of action for an
action movie. Didn't really have that much action that I
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was expecting because it was so great in the first one.
Had a lot of firefights, had a lot of Christian
wolf hand to hand combat, which is what I think
set this movie apart when it came out back in
twenty sixteen. His character was a lot more subdued in
this movie. Wasn't really beating up people, wasn't really going
after people up until about Act three, and even in
Act three it was probably the last ten to fifteen
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minutes where it really got good where it really was
the level of action I was expecting for The Accountant too,
for a movie that really ramped up how much they
spent on it. The first one costs forty four million
and went on to make one hundred and fifty five
million dollars at the box office. This one cost eighty
million dollars to make and then the opening weekend only
made twenty four point five million dollars. And what this
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movie decided to do differently was lean more into the comedy.
There was a lot of John Burnhal and Ben Affleck
hanging out roasting each other like brothers do, which was fine,
but just wasn't what I was looking for in this story,
especially from John Burnenthal, who there's one scene where he
has his shirt off for an extended amount of time
for really no reason other than like, oh man, John
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Burnhal was really ripped up. I started thinking about him
as the Punisher. At one point, him and Ben Affleck
were driving in a truck and I thought, man, that's
Batman and the Punisher in one car, and the amount
of action that's happening doesn't quite add up to that.
I love John Burnhal in a role like this. He
does like that classic kind of rage thing that he does.
I feel like that's why you paid any amount to
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John Byrnthal to get him into a movie to do
that didn't even do that. Maybe it's because I'm also
coming off of not exactly getting what I wanted out
of his character and Daredevil Born Again that I really
wanted him to go balls to the wall in this movie.
It also lead more into their relationship as brothers, and
me being so close with my brother and feeling some
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things maybe that they felt. Because they get into this
whole breakdown of their relationship, how they were not talking
to each other for a very long time, how they
wouldn't even seek each other out, and above anything in
the plot and who they're trying to track down in
this case that they're trying to solve. I think that
was kind of the main point about this movie. Was
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not about the fighting, not about the money laundering, not
about catching criminals. It was about two people kind of
just coming together and learning to be others again after
going through a pretty traumatic childhood. And if that's what
this movie would have been from the very beginning, I
think it would have been haut stronger. But it's the
fact that it was trying to do so many things,
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trying to do a level of thriller that was just
above the pay grade of the writing and directing in
this movie, even though you have the same director from
the first movie, it just wasn't quite there. It's almost
like if you have a favorite band who puts out
such a solid debut album that you really love that album,
and then in that next album they just changed their
sound completely, and it's like there's some threads of what
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I liked about this band, but it just doesn't feel
like the same band anymore. I think that is exactly
how I feel about The Accountant too, and I think
in another ten years, we're gonna look back on The
Accountant one and think, oh, that was a good movie,
and it's gonna be a sequel that we kind of
forget about, like, oh, they made an Accountant too, Why
don't I remember this? Because it's gonna be pretty unmemorable.
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With that being said, I think I want one more.
I think I want The account in three. I don't
think we'll get there, especially since it took so long
to make two. I don't think we'll get to three.
But I think I enjoy where the characters ended up,
and I kind of want to see the story shift.
I kind of want Christian Wolf to go through something
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that really tests him. And I think that is what
really I didn't enjoy about it is I never felt
like his character was tested. That is what I need
in a sequel. I need him to make a really
big decision. I need him to be on the brink
of breaking down because he has such a pass that
is so convoluted, that is so wrapped up with bad people,
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and I never really felt like he was in a
situation where he wasn't going to be able to get
himself out of because the stakes were never that high,
and there was never that Okay, let's go and do
this moment, because everything was just kind of all right,
we're cruising here, We're hanging out with John Berthol and
Ben Affleck. It never felt like there was anything on
the lawne. So it never achieved any level of greatness
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and never achieved what made the first one something memorable.
I wish I would have enjoyed this movie as much
as the woman next to me in this theater. It
was also a full theater, which is also probably a
testament to the man Affleck name. An A list star
at his level still gets people in the seats, but
unless you have a great product, it's not really gonna
hold up. I will give him some bonus points for
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incorporating his Spanish in this which if you've ever heard
Ben Affleck speak Spanish in an interview, he speaks it flawlessly.
He speaks Spanish better than j Lo. So I found
myself as a Mexican enjoying that, even though the Mexican
characters in this movie didn't really pay him out to
be good people. So overall just kind of a letdown
for the accountant to I give it two point five
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out of five airstreams, it's time to head down to
movie mics. Traylor Paul, what are you waiting for? I
don't know. I had to get that out of my
system because we're talking about I Know What You Did
Last Summer, and know the year is not nineteen ninety seven,
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it is twenty twenty five. They're rebooting it. This is
what I would call, and what I learned to be
called a requel, a movie that is both a reboot
and a sequel, because in twenty twenty two they did
this with screen. They were rebooting the franchise but also
bringing back legacy characters. So what a requel does restarts
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that franchise in some ways, but it also builds upon
the established lore, turns characters that we all know from
the original and previous movies, but it is not a
direct continuation of that first initial movie or that second sequel,
because in the case of I Know What You Did
Last Summer, it was the first one in ninety seven,
then they did I Still Know What You Did Last
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Summer in ninety eight, and then in two thousand and six.
Not a lot of people watch this movie, but they
did I'll Always Know What You did last summer. They
could have done this with every season. They also could
have done this with holidays. I would have watched the
Mexican version of this movie like, I know what you
did less single than Mayo Holmes. I'm gonna get my
machete and cut you off full. So if they run
out of ideas, they could always switch to different seasons,
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switch to holidays. And then for me it gets confusing
because if this one is successful and then they make
a sequel to the requel of Boy, we're adding a
whole lot of layers here. But you have the og
Cash returning, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddy Prince Junior. The two
of them together both look fantastic. Sarah Michelle Geller sadly
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is not returning, and since this movie is well over
ten years old, her character dies so she can't come back.
The director of this movie tried to get her to
come back, would say, oh, come up with some way
to bring you back from the dead. She's like, my
character's dead, doesn't make sense. I want to honor the
legacy of this movie and honor the lore. She's dead.
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She's not coming back, which is surprising to me because
she is married to Freddy Prince Junior, also to reboot
one of the biggest movies of your career. I feel like,
no matter what, you would want to be part of it.
I don't think I would be above destroying that lore
and saying, you know what, they want me back, I
could use the paycheck, I'll come back, because I think
we would accept it as an audience, especially with the
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multiverse happening right now. I feel like nobody has ever
dead in anything. But maybe it was also a bit
of a contract thing, because even Jennifer love Hewitt held
out because they didn't want to give her the money
she deserved. Without her presence, it wouldn't have been the same.
Her moment in this trailer is huge. It's almost like
a superhero reveal to have her in this movie in
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this scene, So perhaps to her for holding out, But
what you have here is essentially what happened in the
original group of teenagers. They really emphasize the sex appeal
on all fronts in this trailer. But one faithful summer,
they're out partying, they kill somebody and they form a
pack saying we're gonna take this to our grave. We're
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telling nobody we're gonna dump this body and move on
with our lives. But then fast forward the next summer.
One of them dies, and then they get a note
saying I Know what you did last summer, and the
killer with the fish hook and the whole fisherman outfit
with the trench code and the hat that hides their
face starts picking them off one by one. I do
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have a lot of thoughts how there are some plot
holes now by making this a requel. But you have
Madeline Klein, who you would probably know from Outer Banks
as the star role in this movie. It's coming out
this summer on July eighteenth. Before I get into more,
here's just a little bit of the I Know what
you Did last Summer twenty twenty five trailer.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Do you think this is some kind of carbod What
if someone saw it happened?
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Did you need to handle this?
Speaker 2 (39:54):
This isn't the first time there's been violence like this
in south FORDA.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
It's not going to stop. Someone is coming after us.
I need your help. I just have one question, Oh
what did you do last summer? Ah'm Jennifer love you it.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
She's back.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Okay, here's the problem I have. In that clip you
heard Freddy Prince Junior saying this isn't the first time
this violence has happened, And then you hear Jennifer love Hewitt.
They're asking for her help. She's like, what did you
guys do last summer? The reason this made sense in
Scream when they did this is because it was somebody
being a copycat killer in the same town, using the
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same costume that that person did to do these killings.
But now with I know what you did last summer.
But in this case, what are the odds that another
group of teenagers are gonna kill somebody? Keep it a secret?
And then that person comes back saying, I know what
you did last summer. It is a harder thing to replicate,
not really the same thing as a copycat killer. The
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ghost s face killer. Even though this person is dressed
the same way. They have the hook, which is a
really cool weapon. By the way, I don't think he
gets enough credit for that. I don't think the outfit
is recognizable enough to be up there with one of
the best slasher characters. But I'm all for seeing people
getting paled. At the very beginning of this trailer, you
see Madeleine's boyfriend get this harpoon spear through the chest.
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You see other people getting slashed with the hook, So
it's really taking us back to those ninety Slasher days.
And then while watching this trailer, I started to feel
like the entire concept was a little bit hokey, and
I thought back to that nineteen ninety seven version that
I watched as a kid and thought, this is amazing.
This is top level horror. And I was kind of
surprised because the trailer from Back of the Day is
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actually kind of cheesy, and I don't remember it being
this way. I also remember loving the movie Voiceover Guy,
and I was probably one of those people like, why
don't we do the movie Voiceover Guy anymore? But when
I go back and listen to it now, it sounds
so dated. So let's go back to nineteen ninety seven.
If I were doing this podcast back then and doing
the trailer, park, here's the clip I would play for
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the last year.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
Four friends have kept a secret? Are you on drugs?
Speaker 3 (42:09):
No?
Speaker 2 (42:09):
Something? What is wrong? I've had rough here, but not
all secrets stay buried. Somebody sent this to me.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
Oh my god, someone knows. I know what you did
last summer. Ooh what they thought?
Speaker 3 (42:22):
Would be a new beginning.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
Toast to us is becoming a dead end.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Somebody tried to kill you last night.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
We have to go to the police. What are you
wedding war? There's that famous line. It's just funny hearing
that guy. But I think overall, I am excited for
this movie. If they didn't have Jennifer love Hewett, I
would not be interested in all. I would have said burned.
This movie doesn't need to be seen. It is just
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a cash grab. But by bringing her back, by bringing
back Freddie Prince Junior, that makes it interesting to me.
It's all those people who remember the feeling they had
from watching that first movie. It is very much a
Friday night weekend movie to me. Go to the theater,
everybody from high school talking about it. And I wasn't
even in high school during this time. I was probably
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six years old in ninety seven when it came out.
But it was one of those movies that I just
remember watching once it went to VHS and I thought,
oh man, all those cool teenagers get to go see
R rated movies. They're sneaking. This was one of those
movies for me. So finally I will not have to
bring a parent or guardian to go see and I
Know What You Did Last Summer movie in theaters, and
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I was kind of surprised by watching this trailer. They
put Madeline Kline front and center, and I was like, man,
why are they making this movie so sexual? And then
I went back and rewatched the original, which is on
Netflix right now if you haven't seen it in a while,
or if you're like me and wanted to be reacquainted
with the franchise going into the requel this summer. And
while watching that movie, I thought, oh, no, they did
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this back in the nineties. They knew what they were
doing with Jennifer love Hewitt and some of those outfits,
which I know she was outspoken about how she was
sexualized a lot in her early career. So when looking
at this trailer compared to the old movie, it's really
nothing knew that they're doing. I also forgot that Johnny
Galecki was in the original I Know What You Did
Last Summer and Bridget Wilson, who I knew primarily from
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Billy Madison and she was also in Immortal Kombat movie
in the nineties, forgot she was in this as well.
I don't think it's going to be as good as
Scream was in twenty twenty two and have as much
success with rebooting that franchise. I also think the Scream
fan base is a lot stronger because I know what
you did last summer is a great movie, but it
doesn't have that same fan base. It doesn't have the
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ghost Face mascot to really champion the movie, and I
almost feel like it was a product of the times
when these types of movies Slashers in particular, but also
the teenage drama and hookup element were huge. I don't
feel like we get as many movies like this right now,
so I don't know how successful it is going to be.
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But Madeline Klein does have a pretty big fan base
because of Netflix, because of Outer Banks, much like they
won over the gen Z audience with Jenna Ortega and Scream.
But now she's not a part of that anymore. So
I don't see that franchise having the same success beyond that,
but I'm curious to see how it does at the
box office. But again, this movie is coming out later
this summer on July eighteenth.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Head That for was this week's edition of Movie by
Tramer Bar and.
Speaker 1 (45:24):
That is going to do it for another episode here
of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta give
my listeners shout out of the week. This week, I'm
going over to my Instagram DMS and I'm shouting out
Mickey Jones who sent me this really nice message. Mickey said, well,
as part of the Monday Morning Movie Crew, it is
all some level of entertainment with the movie industry. I
(45:45):
am here every Monday for entertainment. I wasn't expecting the
seriousness of the interview on the Oklahoma City bombing. With
being an Oklahoma and with the thirtieth year anniversary, you
delivered a great interview with mister Tillman and Agent Lamar.
Seriously wanted to say thank you. It is a huge
part of modern day history for a lot of us,
and you did an outstanding job on the interview. Respect
(46:07):
and admiration, Mickey. I really appreciate that message because I
really didn't know how that interview was going to go.
I didn't realize the serious level it was gonna take
on because up until at that point, I've only interviewed
people who have played roles. It's been fiction, and you
can ask him about everything within that movie because it's
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all fair game. We're just talking about characters. But there
when talking to Walter, it was much different because he
wasn't a character in a movie. He was in a
documentary film. But it was asking him about his real
life and realizing he had these real emotions attached to it,
and being aware of his emotions that if I asked
him about something that was pretty serious, you had to
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know that you're not just asking somebody about a role
they played in a movie. You're asking them to dig
through all these memories in their life and sometimes things
they don't want to talk about. So I appreciate that message. Mickey,
you're this week's listener shout out of the week. If
you miss that interview, it's a couple episodes now maybe
three episodes back in the feed. Highly recommend you check
that out. You can also watch it on my YouTube
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being here, and until next time, go out and watch
good movies and I will talk to you later
Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's movie podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike joined with my wife and
co host Kelsey. How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
It's been a while. We haven't done a best and
Worst of the month and two months.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yeah, we kind of skipped March.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
We had a lot of interviews, a lot of things
going on. But we're gonna do all of our March
in April. Picks. In the movie review, I'll be talking
about The Accountant too, and in the trailer park I'll
break down the I Know what you did last summer
new trailer twenty twenty five version, which was.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Also a great song by Shawn Mendez and Kamila Kabaa.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I Know what you did last summer.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I didn't know that was a song. I know what
you did.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
It was like a hit years ago.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I really remember that song.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Was that song? Let's see? Oh my god, this song
is ten years on.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
That song is ten I've never heard of it, you
said a few years ago.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Because I thought it was like a few years ago.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Well we were. This movie's almost thirty years old.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I feel personally attacked right now.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Wow, should we just start the episode now that we
feel attacked.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Now that I qualify for a Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Thank you for being here, thank you for being subscribed.
Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now
let's stop feeling old. Let's talk movies from the Nashville
Podcast Network and this is Movie Mike Movie Podcast. Getting
into our best and worst of March and April. Kelsey
kick us off. The best movie you watched in March.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Was Ballad of Wallace Island.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Would you like about that movie?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
It was quirky.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
It feels like it's been so long since I've seen
that movie. I watched that movie twice because I watched
it to interview them, and then I watched it again
at the Bell Court.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
It was great.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I love it, and I think seeing it in a
full room at the Bell Court like that just adds something
to a movie.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
We've never seen a bad movie there, we haven't. I
feel like I got to know them as people by
watching that movie and then kind of seeing that how
hard they work to get that movie made, and then
it being a full theater that night was just kind
of like cool.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, it was like you're getting to watch people like
realize their dream.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
And I think that's something people don't realize when we
especially doing it podcast like this, of all the movie
reviewers and movie influencers, you forget there's real people behind
these movies because we're so caught up in the big
blockbusters with big studios attached to it, and it doesn't
quite matter as much on a personal level. But when
it's an independent film, where in that case it was
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something they wrote themselves start in a short and then
got it turned into a full length picture, that's a
really big deal. So I always try to whenever I
do review smaller budget movies, kind of put that out
there because I kind of view them a little bit
differently because there's a lot that goes into it, a
lot of butt, sweat and tears.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I'm not even gonna ask if you just said butt,
sweat and tears, but sweat and tears moving on your
best of the month, well.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I was gonna say. I also loved the music in
that movie. Yeah, the music was great, which was another
added level. And Carrie Mulligan, who is the.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Wife of I don't know why you're quizzing me, you're the.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
No I'm giving you this fun fact because you always
give it to me.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Marcus Mumford, thank you this is how you finally learned it.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah, and he also visited the set. She brought her
baby on set and they're gonna write a song about it.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
For my best of March, I'm gonna go with Black Bag,
which I gave a four point five out of five.
It was the spy movie with Michael Fastbender and Cate Blanchett.
Or's a Blanchette. It's probably neither of us, I think,
I say Blanchett. And this was a movie you did
not go see with me. I think you were in
Colorado this weekend.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, I didn't even know it existed.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I feel like you would like this movie.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah. I saw the trailer after and I was like,
why'd you go see something that I would have liked.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I was in between this the Scars Guard movie where
he breaks into like a ride share or like a
smart car and then gets locked into it, and the
Looney Tunes movie, and then when I put I think
I was also going to see maybe Last Breath. There
was like four movies that I was kind of on
the fence on that weekend, and I was like, I'm
gonna go see a Black Bag just because I've kind
(03:48):
of been. I mean, we started Slower Horses or is
a slow Horses Slow Horses, and I was kind of
in that, like I want to see something spy related.
But this was a ninety minute thriller that wasted no
time getting to the action, and it had just a
really good script because for the most part, it's all
dialogue and Michael Fastbender's kind of superpower in the movie.
(04:09):
He's not a superhero, but he's a spy. Is like
he can tell if somebody's lying or not. So the
entire thing is just him grilling people and finding out
the truth. But his wife gets accused of espionage or treason.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yeah, I'm mind you went to see the About Me,
But that.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Was my best also because whenever you go into a
movie and you have pretty low expectations.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
And then it turns out to be good, you're like wow.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
It's also with a lot of people saying that movies
are getting longer and longer, I feel like, for the
most part the movies we've been going to see him
in ninety minutes. I almost feel like with movies not
making as much and then being harder to make, they
are getting a little bit shorter. The budget is having
to be stretched a little bit more so, I really
think movies are getting kind of shorter again. What was
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your worst for the month of March?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
My worst of the month might offend you. Why Mickey seventeen?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
That was your worst of the month.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I was bored.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Oh that was what? That was almost my favorite. I
had to battle between that and Black Bag.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I know.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Was it two sci fi for you? Or was the
Robert Pattinson.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I didn't love him in it.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I feel like his character was tough. I feel like
the story was you really had to kind of want
it to be good.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Yeah, and I like sci fi. I don't have a
problem with sci fi. I watched the sci Fi Channel
for years. Like I like that, it just was it
wasn't for me.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
It took me a while to settle into that movie
the first thirty forty minutes, which is a lot. It's
a long time. I know, it's a lot. I wasn't
fully into it. But by the second and third act
I found myself really enjoying it. And for me, it's
always how a movie leaves me. Because I left feeling like, Okay,
that was good and his character got there. But I
think a lot of it just felt a little bit.
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It was very ambitious, and I think Bong Juneo is
that kind of director. He's a very nerdy guy, and
I feel with a success of Parasite, this being the
follow up to that movie, he had the power to
make anything that he wanted.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
It's like there's an audience for everything, and I just
wasn't the audience for that. I think when I don't
like something, that doesn't mean that it's not for someone
else or that it's not a good film.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I just wasn't the audience for it.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
In the same way that I can read a book
and not love it and other people think it's the
best book ever, or a book I really enjoy someone's like, oh,
I hated that everyone's different tastes. I was not who
that movie was made for.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
And I think I'll enjoy it more once I rewatch
it again. I think that's gonna be one of those
movies that you kind of got to sit with, but
not an instant classic. And also, I mean it was
still number one that week it came out, but it
was like, I think it made nine million dollars. It
didn't really make a whole lot.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
And it's always making a million.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Nice right in a weekend. Yeah, but I think when
it costs like fifty million, it's not really profitable. Yeah,
So I don't think it was as good as I
was expecting because I've been waiting for that movie for
almost two years now. It's been delayed and delayed again.
Oh yeah, it does hurt me a little bit. I
apologize for my worst of the month of March. It's
I gave it a two point five out of five,
(07:02):
and I think even that was a little bit generous.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
What's that on IMDb these days? Let's see, it was.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Like the lowest rated IMDb movie maybe ever for sure
of the year. But I think it was at like
a one and that and they're one point. Yeah, their
scale is out of a ten. Yeah, So that's even
worse than what I gave it because there have been
worse Disney live action remakes. Pinocchio was probably the worst
in my opinion, the live action.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
That's why I'm word going into Leilo and Stitch.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
You'll like anything with Stitch.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah, I still laugh at the regal thing when Stitch
comes out and it's like in the roller coaster.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
We've seen it so many times now and it's still funny.
It's still funny, So I think you'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
But I think Lelo and Stitch is gonna be How
they're doing these others where it's seen for seeing the
entire movie, meaning where it's pretty much them remaking it
exactly all the way through, Like they have the comparison
of the intro to that movie is the exact same
as the animated I kind of like it to be
a little bit different because then it just feels like, oh,
we're just yeah, it's literally just copying it.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, a remake.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
There's nothing. I like it when they remake it but
add some other elements to it, maybe change the story
a little bit. But I guess then they worry more
about people being upset that they change the story. I'd
rather than change the story.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, I don't feel like changing the story is bad.
It's like everyone being annoyed with like the casting for
the Harry Potter Show. I'm like, I don't want the
movies in show form, Like, give me something a little different.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Now, I'm moving on to April, which, hey, it's a
lot in March. I'll recap everything at the end, But
what was your best for April?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Easily warfare.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yeah, that's pretty powerful. It was incredible, and you don't
really well, you don't like horror violence, but when it
comes to war violence, where do you stand? Because some
of it's pretty graphic.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I can watch that more than a horror I still
get like really stressed out knowing that something bad is
probably about to happen.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
It's suspense.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Usually for me, it's a very stressful movie. There were
moments where I could tell you were anticipating something bad
happening and you were kind of looking away.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, it's just the like I don't like the stress,
like the build up. And usually in a war movie,
you know, I think I'm always like stressed. I'm like,
oh my god, somebody's about to step.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
On an ID.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
It's usually in a war movie what stresses me the
most because it's like, all of a sudden, you're like,
oh okay, it's I mean, it's war, but you're like,
nothing terrible is happening in this frame, and then they
make one wrong step and you're just like, oh my god,
everything's about to blow up.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
That's what I get stressed.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
About, and watching this, I didn't want anything bad to
happen to anybody but I knew if that happened, it
wouldn't be a movie. It'd be like, oh, everybody got
away and know everything was fine.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Well, especially in a story of war like and it
being a true story, you're like kind of feel like
something's bad's gonna happen at some point.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Did you get kind of teary eyed at the ending?
Whenever they show the real life photos of the people, God.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
You know I did.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
That's yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Every time every time they show any movie where it's
like based on service members and then they show the
real people and like they're f families and them in
uniform or them overseas, cry like a baby every time
it's something about it.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Especially Joseph Quinn, the person he portrayed, seeing him at
the end of it was just like, oh man, because
again when you watch a movie, you forget that not
always war movies depict real people. They usually depict real events.
But this was, yeah, all real accounts, how they experienced it,
all memories. Oh yeah, that just makes that movie even
more impactful. So still highly recommend Warfare. It should probably
(10:28):
be out on streaming soon you haven't seen it in theaters,
but also seeing it in theaters, it added to that
level of how loud it got because it started so loud,
but it started so quiet.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
There were like ten minutes of just like silence at
the beginning, and I think that's when I was like, Oh,
this is gonna turn bad.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
It was that. Yeah, it built that tension, built that anticipation,
and then it was just like so loud.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
It was funny too seeing Will Poulter as like a
serious character because I will never not see him as
the kid from where the millers wrapping waterfalls, and I
know that that's probably not the role he wants to
be known for, especially when he gets bit by a
spider down there.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah, it is hard for actors to get known for
one thing, but I also think that some actors are
happy for that.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
He was great in this serious role.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
It was like so different to see him, but it
just in my head, I just was expecting him to
be like, No, a.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Lot of false.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
But it's also a cool thing to have a piece
of movie history that everybody remembers. That's hard to do.
Those come maybe like a handful of times out of
every decade, and that is one of them. His character.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
He got so many from like the twenty tens era,
there's like Hangover Ye Bridesmaids, We're the Millers, No regrets,
not even one letter like that movie alone.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I love that movie.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
It's like an unexpected hit too. I think it's kind
of the aura around that movie has built up over time,
because I don't think it was as big when it
first came out, But now when you look back on
twenty ten's comedy, it is right up there, top tier funny.
For my best of April, I'm gonna go with Sinners.
I gave it a four point five out of five,
and I stand by that. Almost perfect for me.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
It's getting great reviews and like making so much money
at the box office.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Did really well. Opening weekend had one of the lowest
drops between week one and week two. I think it
was only six percent, which that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
That is crazy, Like.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Whenever a Marvel movie comes out, usually from week one
to two is like a thirty to forty five percent drop.
To only drop six percent is amazing.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yeah, that's huge and one of huge in the sense
of good for them.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
It's also an original movie, so also proving to people
that you still want to see original movies in theaters.
Huge for Ryan Coogler, who is about to be at
that level of make.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Whatever you want, whatever you want work. You're just hands
him a check, blank check.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
And I'm excited because I think he's about to get
to a point in his career where he's going to
be able to work with every actor where they're going
to start pursuing him, not that they already probably haven't,
but I think he's at that level now with The
Black Panther one and two, with The Creed, well he
didn't direct two or three, but he directed one is
known for that, And now with Sinner's being so.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Huge, it's gonna be the road centers, right.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Yeah, He's gonna have everybody come to him wanting to
be a part of a Ryan Coogler movie, which.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Has to be such a cool feeling, which.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Is exciting for him. And I also think that maybe
next movie he does, he doesn't have Michael B. Jordan
because he's been in everything.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Oh yeah, he has been in everything he's done.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
And not only that.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I just made that connection and.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
He's like, you know what I'm gonna do on Sinners
Too one but to Michael B.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Jordan's listen, and nobody complained about to Michael B.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Jordan's It worked really well. Have I ever told.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
You that I'm like one degree of separation away from
Michael B Jordan.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Because he lights? Okay? Yes?
Speaker 3 (13:45):
And the woman that played his mom, I worked at
a boutique in high school and she was a client.
Came in and the owner knew her and like introduced me,
and she was like, cause he's a big fan of
Friday Night Lights. And I was like, oh my gosh,
you played Michael B Jordan's mom.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I mean, he said a long career from I mean
being a kid actor. I mean, I love when he
was in Chronicle, he was in the Fantastic four movie reboot.
Now he's still in the MCU. But yeah, that was
my best for April. Now you're worst of April.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
I won't say too much because it's what you're gonna review,
but it's got to be the accountant too.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
What was the plot like? After we left?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
It was one of those that I went through and
I was like, was I just confused? The plot had
so many holes that I don't know that it was
a plot.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Do you regret rewatching the first one? Because I also
think we rewatched it going into it. I don't think
we needed to, yeah, because I feel like it had
no connection. But I feel like if we didn't watch it,
we would have been like, are we lost because we
didn't watch.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
It at sixteen watching that, we watched it on like
Saturday night, hadn't seen it in a while. I just
was expecting a little bit more. Man Affleck hasn't really
known anything good. Layne Laine has he fallen from Grace.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Air was good, although he didn't have a huge role
in that. But that was twenty two.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the Nike movie. But he
also my head goes to Air, Bud different Air. But
then he also did the Robert Rodriguez movie.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
That was really bad. Oh my god, one of the
worst movies that we saw that year. Let me remember
what it's called.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah, that was bad.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Hypnotic.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
That was bad.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I'd rather drink hypnotic than watch hypnotic.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
But that did The Way Back?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Was that what it was called, The Way Back? Where
you play the alcoholic coach?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yeah, I'm just like, he's come a long way from
Goodwill hunting.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I'd rather see him direct. At this point, I.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Did laugh because there was a clip. I think it
was maybe for the account too. Did it premiere at
south By or there was something at south By.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
The premiere there, but they did have a screening there.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
But there was a premiere that he was at recently,
and he was like, Jennifer Lopez's kids are here, and
I was like, he has to call her by our
first and last name because he's been married to do
Jennifer's The benefit two point zero is a lot.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
I forgot. That's over.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
It's over. But yeah, the accountant too. They needed to
crunch some numbers and not make that film.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
I'll leave it at that. I'll give my full review
here coming up in a second. My worst for April.
I'm gonna go with Havoc on Netflix, which was the
Tom Hardy generic action movie.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
You're like, do you have any interest in watching this?
And I was like, absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
It was one of those ones that I just kicked
on Netflix the weekend it came out, and I was like,
I like Tom Hardy, kind of like Ben Affleck. I
haven't seen him in something good in a while. Twenty
ten's Tom Hardy was great, but aside from the Venom franchise.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Which the last one was the last one.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Was not good. I'd say even two was Hey, I
enjoyed too. I enjoyed it, but I don't think it
was as good as one. But Tom Hardy is a
really good hector. Like going back to I mean even
him as Bane.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I was just about to say Bane and to see.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
His transfer, I mean he was an inception. Whischer's really good,
but to kind of see his transformation now to he's
at that level of star that can do movies like
this where he's pretty much the main lead and like
there's no other I mean, Forest Whitaker was also in
this movie.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
It's kind of even Chris Hemsworth a little bit.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
He can't really do anything else.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Yeah, I think he's kind of pigeonholed himself.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
But I think he's going to action star in his role.
I don't think he's that guy. I think he's more
of a drama That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I think he's pigeonholed himself into action.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Yeah, but he doesn't fit there. Why is he doing
I guess the paycheck money. The paycheck is probably pretty
good because I would rather do a Netflix movie like
this where I'm the main focus. You put on Netflix
and you see your face. But I almost think he's
a better supporting actor than a lead.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
It's a hot take.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I think he's a better supporting actor all the movies.
I love him. I have liked him more as a
supporting actor, but when it comes to anything that he's
started outside of Venom, like, he just hasn't really brought it.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Dunkirk Supporting Actor, The Revenant Actor nominated for Oscar. He's
the Academy Awards or Oscars? Right, Why do we have
so many names for everything? I get very he's.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Getting away from ever being nominated for another Oscar with
the roles he's taken lately. Wow, And I like him.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
He seems like a good juice fired shots fired.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I think it's also just me with Netflix Original movies
that with this movie, they tried really hard to give
it an identity and give it a cool style. It's
like semi futuristic kind of dystopia.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Using bike raders.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Ah See, he was better in that. I didn't love
that movie, but I feel like drama. He was the
best character in that over Austin Butler.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Okay, he's in that Mobland show on Paramount. I've heard
that's good.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
It's him.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
The one streaming service we don't have.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yeah, there was something else in Paramount that I wanted
to watch this we might need to get that.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I could go back and watch a bunch of Nickelodeon shows,
which was the reason we got that. In the beginning.
When it first came out, I was like, I want
to go back and watch Rocko's Modern Life. But now
a lot of that stuff is on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Are you watching dragon Ball? You don't have time to
watch anything else?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yeah, I still have like two hundred episodes of dragon
Ball Togo, but that was my worst of April. I'm
gonna run through now all the things we saw on
the last two months.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I'm gonna take a nap while you do that, because
there's so many.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Mickey seventeen kicked off the month Novacane, which is also good.
I gave that one a three point five out of
five The Electric State. Talking about Netflix original movies, there's
a lot in March, the Ballot of wall As Island,
Snow White, Black Bag. I went back and watched Heretic,
which came on came out in theaters last year, but
was on Max. I really like that horror movie it's
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about count me out. It's with Hugh Grant. I can
never remember his name. I always want to call him
Pierce of BROSDA, but I think you just said Piers
Broze in a.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
While ago talking about Mom Blands.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I forget. But he plays a really sinister guy in that.
Max has some really good movies out right now that
came out in theaters either late last year or early
this year. I think they have some of the best
theater to streaming service movies. Hell of a Summer. Also
enjoyed that slasher movie, and then we watched The Alexander
No Good, Very Bad Day road Trip on Disney Plus.
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Because there were so many Mexican actors in that, I'm like,
I gotta support my people, not dead. It couldn't. It
kind of reminded me of like those old Strake s movies.
It was cute, not like top level, like I could
see why they put it on Disney Plus. But if
you had like younger kids, I feel like it's pretty good. Yeah,
there's some funny, dope moments in that. I laughed in
April Minecraft Sinners Warfare Companion, which was another.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
You forgot one in April, What the Drop the Drop,
I forget or just drop Drop.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I forgot about Drop and that was.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
It was my runner up to Best. I really liked
it and that was.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Pretty campy horror, but you wanted a sense all right, borderline.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
It wasn't like Slasher though.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yeah, I guess it was more suspense than horror. I
forgot about Drop and I watched.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Some behind the same clip of like Meghan Fakey filming,
and I feel like when you see the behind the scenes,
it makes it a little less scary.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I forgot about Drop, which is another one in April.
I think that one was like the second week of April. Companion,
which was another movie that got added to MAC with
Jack Quade and he dates a AI robot kind of
a horror movie. That one was also good, and then
one that almost made my favorite for April, The Amateur
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with Remy Mallick. I really liked it and it was
again kind of like Black Bag in the same style.
He plays a guy who is whose wife gets killed,
so then he wants to train with the CIA to
avenge her death. He works for the CIA, yeah, but
he wants to be like a desk job, like an analyst.
But then he wants to be like field agent assassin.
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What's the guy's name, John Barenthal. Yeah, he wants to
be like him, and oh.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yeah he wasn't that I forgot.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
We already saw very briefly in it, like he's in it.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
He's very briefly in everything and like everything ever.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Any action movie, they need a ripped up dude to
play like an enforcer.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
And the bear.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Bear that's him as well. Uh, do you have a
TV show for.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
The Did we finish talking about The Amateur? We got
side talks about John Barenthal.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Well, yeah, sure, it was good. I think it'll probably
be out. I don't think it's in theaters any more,
probably limited showtimes and once it goes to streaming.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
If you like CIA, which I love a CIA type movie.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I knew I liked that movie from like the first
five minutes and.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
You didn't even want I was like, let's go see
The Amateur and you're like, what is that?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Yeah, the name doesn't really entice you to go see it.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
It's a great Saturday afternoon movie. We saw Warfare Friday
night and The Amateur Saturday.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Anything with the something you have to sell me on? Okay,
but yeah that ended up being really good. I gave
it a four out of five. I would agree with
that your TV show for the last two months.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
In the last two months, oh my gosh, what if
I watched Pulse on Netflix was a medical show. It
does not hold a candle to the pit. The pit
I will sing it's praises all the livelong day. But
Pulse was. It was enjoyable, it was entertaining. I kept
hitting the next episode.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
NETFLIXX had some good stuff lately. Mine is Black Mirror
season seven, which I.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Want reputable in my show.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Watch the entire season in about a weekend, and.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Some of it about how I do a Netflix show.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
And with those I feel like Black Mirror is essentially
just short films. I mean one of them is an
hour and a half straight up movie. Another episode is
like an hour, and I think it feels less like
a TV show to me than it's just all these
ideas directors have and they basically tell an entire story
in forty fifty minutes, so it doesn't really feel like
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a TV show format, which I think is what a
lot of people really like. But I think when you
tell somebody it's the TV show, they're more enticed to
watch an entire season in a weekend than if you
tell somebody to watch a two and a half hour movie. Yeah,
you have a book.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Oh gosh, what have I been reading lately?
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I just finished Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green, which
sounds like a very terrifying title, but it's an incredible book.
It's about like the history of tuberculosis as a disease,
but also like a tale of humanity. Really good if
you like public health, feel like social justice, I highly
recommend that. I also had one called Jackie by Don Tripp,
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and it's a fictionalized version of Jackie Kennedy's life, So
it's like all the things we know, but then the
author kind of like fills in the blank of like
the behind the scenes taking history and kind of fictionalizing it.
And she even said in the beginning, She's like, there's
so many like biographies, true stories about Jackie Kennedy. I
set out to do my own. It's really interesting. I'm
always on a Kennedy family kick, so it's just so
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fascinating to me. Still reading Harry Potters, I haven't gone
back to Half Flood Prince in a while.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
We're going to bed earlier. Really cuts into my reading time.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I read a book.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
You did read a book.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
The first book I've finished in probably three years. I
read the Markommas memoir Fahrenheit one eighty two Golf Clubs.
Not only that, I read it in like three days
you did.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I was very impressed how many pictures were in it.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
There were only pictures in between the chapters. Each chapter
would start with an old photo and maybe like another photo,
so it was like three hundred and sixty six pages.
Maybe they were split up in a sh chapters, which
also made it easy. Do you think they do that
for dumb people like me? You're not dumb, but people
like me who a chapter feels daunting. Yes, because I
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know that, okay, I can read this chapter and keep going.
I can stop sooner. I have the completion thing where
I need to finish in on a chapter. I can't
finish in between a chapter.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Same unless I'm really falling asleep, and then I know
I'm enough to go back and reread that same chapter tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Then I'll cut it in half.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
But when it's short chapters, I'm like, all right, I
can knock this out, and then I feel more accomplished
because I've only read like thirty pages, but I've read
like three or four chapters.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Oh. Another book I read, Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson.
That was my book club book last month.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Really Good Good Dirt.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Yeah, that one. I was like, I feel like I
haven't been reading. I read two five hundred page books
like at the same time. It was the Jackie Kennedy
one and then another one that I wouldn't really recommend,
And it took me a while to get through both
of those. So if people were like, wow, she hasn't
put out a book of you in a while, it's
because I was reading two really long ones and one
was physical, but the Jackie Kennedy one was on my
Kendle and so I didn't realize that it was five
hundred pages, so I didn't know how long it was
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when I got into it.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Kind of like spending cash versus using a credit.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Card, yes, or even debit card.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Yeah, you see it go away.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
You're like when I like need, if I'm like considering
buying something, and I'm like, could I put this on
the debit card and not feel guilty? If it's a no,
then I'm like, oh, I probably shouldn't be buying it anyways.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Anything else before we go, Oh I'm tired, all right,
come back. Give my spoiler free review of The Accountant
to Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie
review of The Accountant to the follow up from the
twenty sixteen movie that everybody was waiting for, right, I
don't think so. And I think that could be a
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bit of a problem going into this sequel, because there
wasn't much anticipation for it whenever it got announced. Whenever
I saw the trailer, I was like, huh, interesting, not
really a movie I would think needed a sequel. But
in this movie, Ben Affleck is teaming up with his
brother John Burnhal once again. He is the autistic accountant
who in the first one was known for laundering money
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for bad people cartels. He take their money, wash it
along the way, did a bunch of bad things because
he was really hardcore. He had a dad who instilled
this toughness into him. He had a military background, and
he knew because his son was autistic, that he wasn't
going to have an easy life as far as people
accepting him. He knew he was going to be bullied,
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so in a really extreme way, he had him do
all this crazy training, so he had these two very
unique sets of skills where he could take some numbers,
analyze them, see things that other people couldn't, and then
he could also kill people from like one hundred two
hundred feet away in a very wild assassination style, really
highly trained in combat. And some people didn't even enjoy
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the first one. I loved it. I thought the action
in that one was really good. There was a lot
of mysteriousness to Christian Wolf, paired with Anna Kendrick, who
I thought balanced it perfectly. I thought overall the story
in the first one was really good, but where it
really shined was the action. I just think that contrast
of having somebody who would sit at a desk working
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on numbers and then had this secret life of being
a stone cold killer was what made that movie captivating. Now,
when you move on to the Accountant to it just
didn't quite transfer the same way. And what this movie
is about. An old acquaintance gets murdered and Christian Wolf
wants to solve this case and he realizes, I'm gonna
need some more power here, so let me call on
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my estranged brother once again, John Burnhalt, to help me
figure this thing out to help me take down some
evil people. Once again, you're dealing with drug dealers, you're
dealing with the cartel. But there was just something about
the plot that overall didn't make sense and never really
won me over. And I found myself having a problem
ten minutes into this movie, where a full ten minutes
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went by and we never saw Christian Wolf. And I
don't know why that bothered me so much, but it
kind of was an indicator of what was to come
throughout the rest the movie, because ten minutes in, we
don't see Ben Affleck, we don't see John Burnhal. They're
trying to create this backstory going into it, and it
just didn't quite work for me. And otherwise that wouldn't
matter ten minutes go by, Who cares. You get to
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your star later and you start building the story. But
what that was an indicator of to me, it felt
like this movie wasn't edited properly. And I know maybe
I don't have the right criteria of background to comment
on editing, but I can tell when the pacing is
off in a movie and when the scenes drag on
just a little bit too long, and this movie is
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right around the two hour and five minute mark, it
just felt like they were really trying to drag things
out and didn't really have that much of a story.
So maybe for another movie, not having your main character
in the first ten minutes isn't as detrimental to the
rest of the movie, But here it showed me that
they were really trying to stretch out what plot they
did have, because it never really amounted to anything, and
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they were trying to build upon all these things and
create twists and turns that never really paid off. So
I think overall the plot just didn't really make sense.
To the point that Kelsey and I were talking about
the movie after and we both enjoyed it. For the
most part. It was entertaining. The lady next to us
was loving it, and she was making me enjoy it more.
She was probably an older woman, maybe in her mid
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to late fifties. She was having a good time that
made me have a good time more. But when Kelsey
and I talked about it after, we were like, that movie
really didn't make sense, Like what was the plot here?
Kelsey said, it kind of felt like the movie was
written by AI And overall, what really kept me from
loving this movie was the lack of action for an
action movie. Didn't really have that much action that I
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was expecting because it was so great in the first one.
Had a lot of firefights, had a lot of Christian
wolf hand to hand combat, which is what I think
set this movie apart when it came out back in
twenty sixteen. His character was a lot more subdued in
this movie. Wasn't really beating up people, wasn't really going
after people up until about Act three, and even in
Act three it was probably the last ten to fifteen
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minutes where it really got good where it really was
the level of action I was expecting for The Accountant too,
for a movie that really ramped up how much they
spent on it. The first one costs forty four million
and went on to make one hundred and fifty five
million dollars at the box office. This one cost eighty
million dollars to make and then the opening weekend only
made twenty four point five million dollars. And what this
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movie decided to do differently was lean more into the comedy.
There was a lot of John Burnhal and Ben Affleck
hanging out roasting each other like brothers do, which was fine,
but just wasn't what I was looking for in this story,
especially from John Burnenthal, who there's one scene where he
has his shirt off for an extended amount of time
for really no reason other than like, oh man, John
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Burnhal was really ripped up. I started thinking about him
as the Punisher. At one point, him and Ben Affleck
were driving in a truck and I thought, man, that's
Batman and the Punisher in one car, and the amount
of action that's happening doesn't quite add up to that.
I love John Burnhal in a role like this. He
does like that classic kind of rage thing that he does.
I feel like that's why you paid any amount to
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John Byrnthal to get him into a movie to do
that didn't even do that. Maybe it's because I'm also
coming off of not exactly getting what I wanted out
of his character and Daredevil Born Again that I really
wanted him to go balls to the wall in this movie.
It also lead more into their relationship as brothers, and
me being so close with my brother and feeling some
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things maybe that they felt. Because they get into this
whole breakdown of their relationship, how they were not talking
to each other for a very long time, how they
wouldn't even seek each other out, and above anything in
the plot and who they're trying to track down in
this case that they're trying to solve. I think that
was kind of the main point about this movie. Was
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not about the fighting, not about the money laundering, not
about catching criminals. It was about two people kind of
just coming together and learning to be others again after
going through a pretty traumatic childhood. And if that's what
this movie would have been from the very beginning, I
think it would have been haut stronger. But it's the
fact that it was trying to do so many things,
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trying to do a level of thriller that was just
above the pay grade of the writing and directing in
this movie, even though you have the same director from
the first movie, it just wasn't quite there. It's almost
like if you have a favorite band who puts out
such a solid debut album that you really love that album,
and then in that next album they just changed their
sound completely, and it's like there's some threads of what
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I liked about this band, but it just doesn't feel
like the same band anymore. I think that is exactly
how I feel about The Accountant too, and I think
in another ten years, we're gonna look back on The
Accountant one and think, oh, that was a good movie,
and it's gonna be a sequel that we kind of
forget about, like, oh, they made an Accountant too, Why
don't I remember this? Because it's gonna be pretty unmemorable.
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With that being said, I think I want one more.
I think I want The account in three. I don't
think we'll get there, especially since it took so long
to make two. I don't think we'll get to three.
But I think I enjoy where the characters ended up,
and I kind of want to see the story shift.
I kind of want Christian Wolf to go through something
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that really tests him. And I think that is what
really I didn't enjoy about it is I never felt
like his character was tested. That is what I need
in a sequel. I need him to make a really
big decision. I need him to be on the brink
of breaking down because he has such a pass that
is so convoluted, that is so wrapped up with bad people,
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and I never really felt like he was in a
situation where he wasn't going to be able to get
himself out of because the stakes were never that high,
and there was never that Okay, let's go and do
this moment, because everything was just kind of all right,
we're cruising here, We're hanging out with John Berthol and
Ben Affleck. It never felt like there was anything on
the lawne. So it never achieved any level of greatness
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and never achieved what made the first one something memorable.
I wish I would have enjoyed this movie as much
as the woman next to me in this theater. It
was also a full theater, which is also probably a
testament to the man Affleck name. An A list star
at his level still gets people in the seats, but
unless you have a great product, it's not really gonna
hold up. I will give him some bonus points for
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incorporating his Spanish in this which if you've ever heard
Ben Affleck speak Spanish in an interview, he speaks it flawlessly.
He speaks Spanish better than j Lo. So I found
myself as a Mexican enjoying that, even though the Mexican
characters in this movie didn't really pay him out to
be good people. So overall just kind of a letdown
for the accountant to I give it two point five
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out of five airstreams, it's time to head down to
movie mics. Traylor Paul, what are you waiting for? I
don't know. I had to get that out of my
system because we're talking about I Know What You Did
Last Summer, and know the year is not nineteen ninety seven,
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it is twenty twenty five. They're rebooting it. This is
what I would call, and what I learned to be
called a requel, a movie that is both a reboot
and a sequel, because in twenty twenty two they did
this with screen. They were rebooting the franchise but also
bringing back legacy characters. So what a requel does restarts
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that franchise in some ways, but it also builds upon
the established lore, turns characters that we all know from
the original and previous movies, but it is not a
direct continuation of that first initial movie or that second sequel,
because in the case of I Know What You Did
Last Summer, it was the first one in ninety seven,
then they did I Still Know What You Did Last
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Summer in ninety eight, and then in two thousand and six.
Not a lot of people watch this movie, but they
did I'll Always Know What You did last summer. They
could have done this with every season. They also could
have done this with holidays. I would have watched the
Mexican version of this movie like, I know what you
did less single than Mayo Holmes. I'm gonna get my
machete and cut you off full. So if they run
out of ideas, they could always switch to different seasons,
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switch to holidays. And then for me it gets confusing
because if this one is successful and then they make
a sequel to the requel of Boy, we're adding a
whole lot of layers here. But you have the og
Cash returning, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddy Prince Junior. The two
of them together both look fantastic. Sarah Michelle Geller sadly
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is not returning, and since this movie is well over
ten years old, her character dies so she can't come back.
The director of this movie tried to get her to
come back, would say, oh, come up with some way
to bring you back from the dead. She's like, my
character's dead, doesn't make sense. I want to honor the
legacy of this movie and honor the lore. She's dead.
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She's not coming back, which is surprising to me because
she is married to Freddy Prince Junior, also to reboot
one of the biggest movies of your career. I feel like,
no matter what, you would want to be part of it.
I don't think I would be above destroying that lore
and saying, you know what, they want me back, I
could use the paycheck, I'll come back, because I think
we would accept it as an audience, especially with the
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multiverse happening right now. I feel like nobody has ever
dead in anything. But maybe it was also a bit
of a contract thing, because even Jennifer love Hewitt held
out because they didn't want to give her the money
she deserved. Without her presence, it wouldn't have been the same.
Her moment in this trailer is huge. It's almost like
a superhero reveal to have her in this movie in
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this scene, So perhaps to her for holding out, But
what you have here is essentially what happened in the
original group of teenagers. They really emphasize the sex appeal
on all fronts in this trailer. But one faithful summer,
they're out partying, they kill somebody and they form a
pack saying we're gonna take this to our grave. We're
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telling nobody we're gonna dump this body and move on
with our lives. But then fast forward the next summer.
One of them dies, and then they get a note
saying I Know what you did last summer, and the
killer with the fish hook and the whole fisherman outfit
with the trench code and the hat that hides their
face starts picking them off one by one. I do
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have a lot of thoughts how there are some plot
holes now by making this a requel. But you have
Madeline Klein, who you would probably know from Outer Banks
as the star role in this movie. It's coming out
this summer on July eighteenth. Before I get into more,
here's just a little bit of the I Know what
you Did last Summer twenty twenty five trailer.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Do you think this is some kind of carbod What
if someone saw it happened?
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Did you need to handle this?
Speaker 2 (39:54):
This isn't the first time there's been violence like this
in south FORDA.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
It's not going to stop. Someone is coming after us.
I need your help. I just have one question, Oh
what did you do last summer? Ah'm Jennifer love you it.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
She's back.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Okay, here's the problem I have. In that clip you
heard Freddy Prince Junior saying this isn't the first time
this violence has happened, And then you hear Jennifer love Hewitt.
They're asking for her help. She's like, what did you
guys do last summer? The reason this made sense in
Scream when they did this is because it was somebody
being a copycat killer in the same town, using the
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same costume that that person did to do these killings.
But now with I know what you did last summer.
But in this case, what are the odds that another
group of teenagers are gonna kill somebody? Keep it a secret?
And then that person comes back saying, I know what
you did last summer. It is a harder thing to replicate,
not really the same thing as a copycat killer. The
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ghost s face killer. Even though this person is dressed
the same way. They have the hook, which is a
really cool weapon. By the way, I don't think he
gets enough credit for that. I don't think the outfit
is recognizable enough to be up there with one of
the best slasher characters. But I'm all for seeing people
getting paled. At the very beginning of this trailer, you
see Madeleine's boyfriend get this harpoon spear through the chest.
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You see other people getting slashed with the hook, So
it's really taking us back to those ninety Slasher days.
And then while watching this trailer, I started to feel
like the entire concept was a little bit hokey, and
I thought back to that nineteen ninety seven version that
I watched as a kid and thought, this is amazing.
This is top level horror. And I was kind of
surprised because the trailer from Back of the Day is
(41:43):
actually kind of cheesy, and I don't remember it being
this way. I also remember loving the movie Voiceover Guy,
and I was probably one of those people like, why
don't we do the movie Voiceover Guy anymore? But when
I go back and listen to it now, it sounds
so dated. So let's go back to nineteen ninety seven.
If I were doing this podcast back then and doing
the trailer, park, here's the clip I would play for
(42:04):
the last year.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
Four friends have kept a secret? Are you on drugs?
Speaker 3 (42:09):
No?
Speaker 2 (42:09):
Something? What is wrong? I've had rough here, but not
all secrets stay buried. Somebody sent this to me.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
Oh my god, someone knows. I know what you did
last summer. Ooh what they thought?
Speaker 3 (42:22):
Would be a new beginning.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
Toast to us is becoming a dead end.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Somebody tried to kill you last night.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
We have to go to the police. What are you
wedding war? There's that famous line. It's just funny hearing
that guy. But I think overall, I am excited for
this movie. If they didn't have Jennifer love Hewett, I
would not be interested in all. I would have said burned.
This movie doesn't need to be seen. It is just
(42:50):
a cash grab. But by bringing her back, by bringing
back Freddie Prince Junior, that makes it interesting to me.
It's all those people who remember the feeling they had
from watching that first movie. It is very much a
Friday night weekend movie to me. Go to the theater,
everybody from high school talking about it. And I wasn't
even in high school during this time. I was probably
(43:12):
six years old in ninety seven when it came out.
But it was one of those movies that I just
remember watching once it went to VHS and I thought,
oh man, all those cool teenagers get to go see
R rated movies. They're sneaking. This was one of those
movies for me. So finally I will not have to
bring a parent or guardian to go see and I
Know What You Did Last Summer movie in theaters, and
(43:33):
I was kind of surprised by watching this trailer. They
put Madeline Kline front and center, and I was like, man,
why are they making this movie so sexual? And then
I went back and rewatched the original, which is on
Netflix right now if you haven't seen it in a while,
or if you're like me and wanted to be reacquainted
with the franchise going into the requel this summer. And
while watching that movie, I thought, oh, no, they did
(43:54):
this back in the nineties. They knew what they were
doing with Jennifer love Hewitt and some of those outfits,
which I know she was outspoken about how she was
sexualized a lot in her early career. So when looking
at this trailer compared to the old movie, it's really
nothing knew that they're doing. I also forgot that Johnny
Galecki was in the original I Know What You Did
Last Summer and Bridget Wilson, who I knew primarily from
(44:15):
Billy Madison and she was also in Immortal Kombat movie
in the nineties, forgot she was in this as well.
I don't think it's going to be as good as
Scream was in twenty twenty two and have as much
success with rebooting that franchise. I also think the Scream
fan base is a lot stronger because I know what
you did last summer is a great movie, but it
doesn't have that same fan base. It doesn't have the
(44:37):
ghost Face mascot to really champion the movie, and I
almost feel like it was a product of the times
when these types of movies Slashers in particular, but also
the teenage drama and hookup element were huge. I don't
feel like we get as many movies like this right now,
so I don't know how successful it is going to be.
(44:57):
But Madeline Klein does have a pretty big fan base
because of Netflix, because of Outer Banks, much like they
won over the gen Z audience with Jenna Ortega and Scream.
But now she's not a part of that anymore. So
I don't see that franchise having the same success beyond that,
but I'm curious to see how it does at the
box office. But again, this movie is coming out later
this summer on July eighteenth.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Head That for was this week's edition of Movie by
Tramer Bar and.
Speaker 1 (45:24):
That is going to do it for another episode here
of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta give
my listeners shout out of the week. This week, I'm
going over to my Instagram DMS and I'm shouting out
Mickey Jones who sent me this really nice message. Mickey said, well,
as part of the Monday Morning Movie Crew, it is
all some level of entertainment with the movie industry. I
(45:45):
am here every Monday for entertainment. I wasn't expecting the
seriousness of the interview on the Oklahoma City bombing. With
being an Oklahoma and with the thirtieth year anniversary, you
delivered a great interview with mister Tillman and Agent Lamar.
Seriously wanted to say thank you. It is a huge
part of modern day history for a lot of us,
and you did an outstanding job on the interview. Respect
(46:07):
and admiration, Mickey. I really appreciate that message because I
really didn't know how that interview was going to go.
I didn't realize the serious level it was gonna take
on because up until at that point, I've only interviewed
people who have played roles. It's been fiction, and you
can ask him about everything within that movie because it's
(46:28):
all fair game. We're just talking about characters. But there
when talking to Walter, it was much different because he
wasn't a character in a movie. He was in a
documentary film. But it was asking him about his real
life and realizing he had these real emotions attached to it,
and being aware of his emotions that if I asked
him about something that was pretty serious, you had to
(46:51):
know that you're not just asking somebody about a role
they played in a movie. You're asking them to dig
through all these memories in their life and sometimes things
they don't want to talk about. So I appreciate that message. Mickey,
you're this week's listener shout out of the week. If
you miss that interview, it's a couple episodes now maybe
three episodes back in the feed. Highly recommend you check
that out. You can also watch it on my YouTube
(47:13):
channel YouTube dot com slash Mike Dstro. You can always
find all those links in the episode notes. Thank you
again for being subscribed and listening every single Monday. It
just released day for brand new episodes. If you're listening,
maybe over on the Bobby Bone Show feed search movie
Mike's wherever you're listening to podcasts right now, iHeartRadio, Spotify,
Apple Podcasts and hit subscribe right there. Thank you for
(47:36):
being here, and until next time, go out and watch
good movies and I will talk to you later
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Mike D
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