December 22, 2025 • 52 mins
Welcome to the inaugural Mikey Awards! The members of the Mike-ademy (aka Movie Mike) voted on some of the highlights and lowlights of the year in film for 2025. What will take home the award for Biggest Cash Grab, Most Overrated Movie, Pop Culture Movie Moment, and more!In the Movie Review, Mike talks about Avatar: Fire and Ash directed by James Cameron. The conflict on Pandora escalates as Jake and Neytiri's family encounter a new, aggressive Na'vi tribe. Was it worth the 3+ hour runtime, the breathtaking visuals, and why are the blue people oddly attractive? In the Trailer Park, Mike breaks down The Drama starring Robert Pattinson and Zendaya . The movie follows a couple whose relationship takes a major unexpected turn before their wedding. Will they have chemistry together?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I
(00:02):
am your host Movie Mike, joined by my wife and
co host Kelsey. How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm great.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
We're gonna do what I call the Mikey's Okay, the
end of the Year Awards.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Have you ever done these before?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
I've always wanted to do it, and I'm like, it
sounds kind of dumb, But why do I not want
to do something dumb on this podcast? Since when do
I not want to do something dumb? I have like
dumb categories. Then I have like the real categories at
the end. Okay, So we'll get into that. In the
movie review, I'll be talking about Avatar, Fire and Nash
all three hours and fifteen minutes of it. And what
I'm looking forward to is the Avengers Doomsday trailer where
(00:35):
it looks like Captain America is coming back. They're like
four different versions of it.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Are they showing the trailer before?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Avatar? And it's like, so we actually have to be
there to watch the trailer?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Do you have to be there? Because there's the one
trailer that's showing this week with Chris Evans, and then
there are four different ones showing four separate weeks. It'll
eventually all get leaked online. But it's kind of like
a if you want to see it in theaters, you
have to go watch Avatar four times as like twelve hours.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, that's a lot of the day Avatar more than once.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
With regal a limited. Technically we could go just watch
the trailer and leave, but again, it'll probably be all
on the internet within a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Okay, next time we go see a movie, what's the
next one we'll see? Like Marty Supreme. We go to
Avatar that's showing at the same time. We watch the trailers,
and then we go over to Marty suprem exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
There we go in the trailer park. We'll be talking
about Robert Patinson and Zendiya in the drama.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Which I keep playing the wedding, but.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
They look great together. We'll talk about that. Thank you
for being here, Thank you for being subscribed. Shout out
to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now let's talk
movies from the Nashville Podcast Network. This is Movie Mike
Movie Podcast to the Awards show music which only I
can hear because you don't have head votes.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, earlier you asked me can you hear that, and
I was like, am I supposed to be here?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Where are you? Voices? Welcome to the first ever Mikey Awards,
where I'm just handing out different categories. This is what
I think. We're the best and some of the worst
of the year. I don't think most award shows do that.
They hand out awards for the worst. I guess say
that's why it's a mix of everything. But I want
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to start it out with what I think was the
best theater experience of the year. I'm gonna go with Weapons,
and that's because we all watched it together. It was me,
you and your two younger brothers.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yes, you all forced me to go see this film.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
And you hate horror movies mm hmm. And I made
an agreement with you that I would tell you when
it was going to be scary so you could look away.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yes, and by lookaway you mean literally hide under a jracket,
which is what I did.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
But I think overall, because of those factors, and because
of how good the movie was of keeping me entertained,
keeping the suspense going. When I look back on my
best experiences of the year, that was it. They had
all the things that I want out of a summer
blockbuster movie where it brought people together. There was that
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feeling in the theater that even though you're in a
room of strangers, you felt this bond because we were
all anticipating things. There were moments that everybody kind of
gasped at once, and I think that is why I
still love going to the movies. That was the best
theater experience of the year. Next up the biggest disappointment.
I went with The Smashing Machine, just because I thought
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it was going to have a little bit more of
an impact, be a little bit more dramatic.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I was boring.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
It was so so boring. I was just waiting for
that movie to really hit, for there to be that
one moment that I felt was the Rocks kind of
shining moment. It was really cute up to be his
Even though he did get nominated for a Golden Globe.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I would have liked to have been punched to say
for that film.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
There was just nothing that entertaining about it. Nothing stood
out about his character, which it is based on a
real guy. I just think they didn't get the story.
They should have made some stuff up, which I know
it was pretty accurate to his real life, but it's like.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
If his life was interesting enough to make a movie,
how did that not translate in the film.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
My runner up of biggest disappointment of the year was
I Know what You did Summer And I don't know
why I convinced myself that was going to be good,
but it was just kind of nostalgia Bate. Next up
the best pop culture moment of the year, I went
with Minecraft's Chicken Jockey. That was my favorite thing to
watch on TikTok where that scene took a life of
its own, and that is something you can't create through marketing.
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It felt so organic. It made headlines in the news
because theaters didn't really embrace it because people were acting
too much of a fool.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Chicken Jockey is equivalent to six seven to me, and
that I don't understand either one of them. And I
know that makes me sound so old right now, but
that is what I feel.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
But there at least is a little bit of lore
to Minecraft and the Chicken Jockey.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You never explained it, and the whole just walked around
the house going chicken Jockey.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Oh yeah, you didn't go see this with me?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Right? No?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I remember in Denver.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I went to go see that movie alone and there
was a family in our usual seat, like you reserve seats,
but it was like a mom and her three maybe
four kids, and I was like, I'm not gonna make
them move, so I had to go down to the bottom,
which I kind of. I don't mind the front row.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Do we ever tell the story of that time that
someone was in our seats and we pointed it out
to them and they were like, well, there's a lot
of other open seats, and I just look at them
go and go, okay.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Go send them.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, you're right, there are a lot of other open seats,
but I picked these.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
A lot of people complain about what movie theaters don't
get right the reserve seating. I think they need to
get more credit for that. Of house so good.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Gone are the days I remember going to again. Back
back in ye old days, there was a theater in Flugerville,
Texas called Tenseltown, right off the highway. I remember having
to get there like forty five minutes before a movie
to get the spots you owned.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Now we roll up fifteen minutes after.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
The movie started, after the movie started.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
After the trailers, Oh okay, start.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Time if we can time it out perfect, we show
up final trailer hits.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
We're timing it to get there and not watch any trailers.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Which at our regue, what's about twenty five minutes after
its advertised starting. Yeah, it's so great. Reserve seating is great.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Recliners, That's what I was going to say.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I don't think it is so hard to go back
to stadium seating.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Where the only place will do it is the Bell Court.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yes, because that's a whole different experience. But there are
some regals that still have stadium seating, and if you
get one of those theaters, you're like, what year is this?
This is so uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, now I will say it.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Our regal seats are a little the leathers cracked, they're
not in the best condition, but they still recline.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I did seem already Supremus two and a half hours,
So that'll definitely be a.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yeah, you need to recline for two and reclined for.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Two and a half hours.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I will also say the theater we go to with
my parents, that theater's on the next level and that
has the swivel trays to put your snacks in front.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Of that is pretty next level.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Now if we could get that at Regal, because it's like,
you know, I'm laying back, but my drink is in
the cup holder and I gotta like sit up.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah. I think there's this a cinemark and it like
swivels the tray.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Cinem marks are nice.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
This is next level.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I used to love cine marks in Texas, but we
don't really have them here.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I don't have any. Yeah, it's not a thing here.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
But that was my pop culture moment of the year.
Runner up was the Weapons Running Kid, because for about
a week I loved watching those videos and then I
would do it. But that was another good one.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Do you think people that listen to this podcast know
like how weird you are?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Now?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Not a chance, because I'm just imagining.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
We've already told him you walked around the house going
chicken jockey, and now you're telling me did.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
The weapons run around the house?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
And I feel like people are just like, uh, I
mean the year before that, it was no where I
went around the whole house doing that all the time.
Chicken jockey that went on for a month, that was
at least a month minimum.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yeah, I am subject to a lot of these weird whims.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
My best action scene of the year goes to the
chase scene in one battle after another. Yes, it was
so intense and so powerful, just the way that they
film that.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
The like winding Road. Yeah, yeah, it's so good.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Just visually it created this even though you're watching a
two D screen, it felt like I was fully in
that moment.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
It was almost optical illusion.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
It just like felt like you were in it, and
it like simulated motion even though you weren't moving.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
My award for committing to the bit is Emma Stone
for shaving her head in Bogonia.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
That is a commitment to the bit.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Can you imagine shaving your head for a movie and
what you actually see in Bogonia is the moment that
she shaved her head.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I mean, she probably got paid multimillions. I do that
for a couple of million.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, she'll probably get an Oscar for it. Yeah, she's
gonna get a Mikey for it. But that doesn't really matter.
But that is next level. That to me is somebody
who takes a role and says I'm gonna give everything
I can to this no matter what it does.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
That to me, is way easier than a physical transformation
of having to gain or lose weight.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Though, Yeah, shaving your head, that's that's one.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I'm done.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
You go home with that, she had to tell her daughter.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Yeah, but it's like you shave it, that's done, and
then it grows back. Gaining or losing weight is like
a whole, like grueling physical process.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I'm like, shaving your head.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
If a movie required me to shave my head or
do a physical transformation, shave my head.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
She has a great shaved head though.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yeah, that's the thing. She's like so stunning that it's
almost like she can pull off the shaved head. So
it's like not a big deal.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
But there's also like wigs and which she.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Did wear for a while because she kept it hidden. Yeah,
she had to get the clippers. No, I just got
a fresh bob hair. Looks great, by the way, thank you.
Next up on my award list, I have the most
over hated movie of the year. It is Going to
the Electric State, which was Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt.
Oh the Netflix one, Yes, which it's about like a
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futuristic world robots. I just feel like a lot of
people hated this movie for no reason.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Where Chris Pratt.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I think it's Chris Pratt. I like Millie Bobby Brown
obviously from Stranger Things. I don't really think she's found
her role yet or even what genre she's good at
outside of it. She's taken on a lot of movies
where I feel it was almost more important that she
had the lead role in it than the movie itself. Okay,
that's just how I take like some of the things
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that she's taken on. It is like, I want to
be a movie star. I'm going to take these roles
that are big, put me in the title card, But
I don't think they necessarily speak to what she is
good at yet. I don't think she's found that yet.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah, but she's also only like twenty one.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Oh yeah, she's really she's got time, She's she's gonna
be fine. But I actually ended up enjoying this movie
where I thought it was one of those things where
the narrative was just created so early on that the
movie was trash that everybody kind of piled on. And
I think it was victim of one of those It
has such a low score on that ratings website that
everybody kind of believes it and then just kind of
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piles on it, where even if you did end up
enjoying it and came out and said I actually liked
that movie, you would feel like you were going to
be an outcast.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
So was it a lot of like online narrative of
it being like this is trash and then that narrative
kind of spreads. It reminds me of I think Rolling
Stone just published it an article about how all of
that hate about Taylor Shift's new album was manufactured by
like several bots and then it spread.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
A lot of things.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Do you think that's kind of like this, Like a
couple people say it's terrible and then that narrative just spreads.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yes, I have a theory kind of what you were
saying is that competing studios do this to downplay other
movies and get the negative.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I press, Oh, I'm sure because algorithms now too.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
You put a couple things out there in rapid succession,
and that's all your algorithm is.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
And it's also you in your algorithm will get all
the negative reviews before you get any of the positive,
because the negative are evoking emotion and getting people in
the comments. Yep, where even if you just watch one
of those, you keep getting another video, another video like
right after that, and suddenly you've seen three videos about
why the Electric States sucks and you now believe, Oh,
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that's a bad movie. I'm not gonna go watch it.
I think a lot of movies have been victim to
this where maybe they're not the best movie of all time,
but they are not worth the amount of hate, and
the hate narrative is easier to push than enjoying something.
Kind of on a mid level, it's very interesting. Yeah,
I think we get controlled a lot like that, oh
for spots, just saying all these things in the comments,
and then other people responding to bots, and then it
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just increases from there. But I think also with the
marvel In DC feud, I have a feeling that a
lot of that stuff was review bombing. I think that
was a tactic that they had to when one movie
came out from the other studio, they would review bomb,
either get bought, or just give people to say negative things,
therefore lessening the brand of the other. I feel like
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that happens, which is not crazy to think.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yeah, I mean it's okay, it's not the exact same thing,
but a similar thing I can look at is if
you go on Sephora and you look at a product
and say it has four point seven stars, like one
thousand reviews. So if you turn off incentivized reviews, you'll
find it only has like ten reviews, but a lot
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of those people and I listen, I've signed up so
many things online that sometimes I get like for things
from makeup brands, and I write a review, but I'm
very honest in my review. But that's another way that
if you turn off like incentivized reviews, you see that
like ten people have reviewed it and five of them
hate the product, but it's like nine hundred reviews of
people who got it for free to write a review,
and they think, oh, I have to say I like it.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
We're all being lied to.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I means, yeah, it's like digital manipulation and marketing.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
There's also that dead Internet theory where the majority of
things online is either AI or just bots, and we're
not really interacting with the whole lot of people. Yeah,
that's weird to think about it too.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I mean, I guess that's why they say, like, get
out and have real conversations.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
You touch grass, go touch grass for best shot of
the year. I have one of the final moments in
Sinners with Michael B. Jordan and Miles Canton where they
have like the flames in their face. I think that
was the single best image of the year. I don't
want to say too much about what happens because it's
in the third act. I don't want spoil it. But
if you haven't seen Sinners, I think out of every
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movie this year had the best cinematography, where there were
so many just one shot moments that I feel like
I could take a picture of and put them on
the wall because they were shot so well.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
You and my little brother both loved that movie.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
It was really good visually, the music, the acting, everything
about that movie was great. I know a lot of
people said it felt like a from Dust Till Dawn
kind of rip off, but I love both movies. Why
would I not want another version of that movie?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
I was gonna say, in the age of everything being remade,
everything's reading.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Being inspired by something.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Yeah, has anyone had an original talk? I also have
to say people, there's gonna be a hot take. Somebody's
gonna go online and say I'm terrible for this, and
that's fine. People who are complaining about things that are
not original are also the ones like having AI make
them a grocery list.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I'm sorry, I said it.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
If you're having chat GPT make you a grocery list,
like I don't know, not like a meal plan, like
that's different, but like a basic grocery list. You're probably
also getting mad that an idea is inspired by something else.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Like with songs, people get lawsuits over making a song
that sounds similar to another four chords and yeah, there
are only so many notes, only so many chords that
eventually you're going to step on another song by just
using all those same notes. I think almost the same
thing with movies. If you really break down what a
movie is about, there are only so many ways to
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tell a story, like the hero story, the redemption story
that a lot of movies probably are different versions of
other movies. If you look at Star Wars and you
look at Harry Potter, the bass is the basis is
the basis. The basis of those stories are kind of
the same, the chosen one. Yeah, but people don't really
get sued for that unless you straight up steal a script,
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which there have been some cases of that of like, oh,
that's way too close.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
It's probably similar to like why some musicians can't listen
to a lot of other music because then they're like,
did I come up with this on my own? It's
the same idea of I mean even like I'll take
an example of writing like research papers in grad school,
Like you go and read other published scientific literature, and
you kind of get the narrative of what's out there,
and then you write your own, and then at some
point you're like, did I come up with this sentence?
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Or you have read a sentence like two days ago,
and then you think of it, and then you're like, oh,
that's a great sentence.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I thought of it.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Like sometimes your brain just doesn't know. So, I mean,
I don't think all things are necessarily a rip off.
I think they can be inspired by. Also a lot
of times people make original movies.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
And they flop.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah, so then it's like, why is anyone creating anything
original anymore?
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I mean, if you look at this year, people say
there aren't original movies anymore. There was some great original
movies this year that nobody watched.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Yeah, probably because they don't get the buzz of the
ones that have the backing of a big studio, which
is movies that are either reboots, sequels, or similar to
other things.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
The movies that are getting Happy Meal tie ins aren't
necessarily all the original movies. It's the familiar ones. There's
this line that you have to walk of, like what
feels familiar and what feels original.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
And like at the same time, what's gonna get butts
and seats to watch a movie?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
All right? My next category, I have best Animal, and
I'm going with Indy from A Good Boy, which was
the horror movie from the perspective of the dog.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Kind of surprisasure.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
You didn't go Crypto, but I guess Crypto wasn't like
a real dog. It was based on James Gunn's dog.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, they use like images of his real dog, cgi dog.
This is a real dog. I don't even know what
kind of dog this is. And Nova Scotia duck Tolling Retriever.
It looks like Golden Retriever but cuter. It's like smaller.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Can he be an airbud?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
It is coming out next summer. Next up, I have
biggest cash grab. Do you know what it is?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
What month did it come out in?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
I think August? You saw it. It was a one
night or maybe two night thing. Hamilton, No kind of
close in the vein. I don't know Taylor Swift The
Official Party Life of a Showgirl.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
First of all, that came out in October, okay October.
Oh yeah, and you also went to see it, so
everything about that statement was in correct.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
What I'm saying, you went to see it. I was
there and you were there.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Okay, I could have guessed if you had the right month. Okay,
we need a new producer on this.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I was going up the dough. I forgot that came
out in October third now you yeah, Now I remember.
I have that date stuck in my head.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Because that's also the day we got engaged, and it's
mean girls time.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
It felt hot when that movie came out, but I
guess October wasn't that hot.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I was set up to not get that answer.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, that was a cash.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Grab, total cash grab. But it made fifty million dollars globally. Uh.
I feel like she is a master of repurposing everything,
which while watching the Disney documentary, I didn't realize how
long it had been since she actually toured. Yeah, so
now I see why that tour was such a big
deal and she.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Used the money to buy her Master's pack.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
I mean, listen, I love Taylor stuff, but I will
admiss everything is a cash grab everything.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Sometimes I like to call her my capitalist queen.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I've gotten off the train of like seventeen vinyl variants,
eight thousand new merch items for every album.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
It's a lot. It's a lot.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
And that is the only reason I felt that was
a big cash grab where maybe some fans got ripped
off a little bit because of the lyric videos, where
I thought it was going to be like a full
visual element to every single song. Yeah, those are images
on loops, yeah, shot with her iPhone, yes, and bad backgrounds.
The actual documentary part I thought was cool.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
There wasn't enough there to build like a cinematic event.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yeah. It was basically like maybe twenty thirty minutes of
that making of that music video and then everything else
kind of sprinkled in. But now I just have the
face of Ophelia stuck in my head where I just
I go back to that. Yeah, that showing.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
But it's like the doc you serious, is what we
really wanted.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Yeah, something that is so much better, that's really good,
and that we didn't have to pay money in the
theaters for because.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
We already paid for Disney Plus.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yeah. Yeah, because that wasn't even the thing we could
use our Regal unlimited for because we had to pay.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
We bought extra ticks. But it was like a fun event.
We went with friends. It was a social thing.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
We got a glow stick wristband.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yeah, I mean we knew it wasn't going to be
anything the Earth Showering.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Yeah. For best popcorn bucket, I have the Leelo and
Stitch popcorn bucket, which is the Stitch from Regal that
you got me.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Yes, I did.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I literally went on my lunch break one day and
bought it because I was afraid it was going to
sell out.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I just have that memory of me coming home and
Stitch being on the kitchen counter.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
No, I hit it in the car. You came home.
I hit it in the car.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
You went to take a shower, and while you were showering,
I ran and got it out of the car and
I put it on the kitchen counter and you turned
around and like saw it out of the corner of
your eye and then you like did a double take, and.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I was like surprise, And because it looks so lifelike,
it was like Stitch was actually on the kitchen calendar
because we were going to see it opening night on
Friday at like seven, and I was like, man, they
could possibly sell.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Out before then, and anyw how about you wanted it?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
And if we would have waited, wouldn't have got it?
So best popcorn bucket of the Year probably Ever, I
don't think anything could get better than that Best Wife
of the Year, because a lot of them come out
and they look cool. But then I think to myself,
where am I going to put that?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
About you? A lot of like random stitch things.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
It's the number one thing you can buy me that
I'll like no matter what, no matter what it is.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Yeah, I bought you a Stitch calendar about your little
stitch figure, a stitch ornament, and just buy a lot
of stitch things.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
We will get to the meat of the awards now,
the real ones for best the Vegan Meat, the vegan Meat.
For Best Supporting Actor, I'm gonna go Benicio del Toro.
In one battle after another, he's so good. He was
just hilarious in it, his little dance whenever he gets
pulled over, him having the little small beers, like everything
about his character just felt so genuine to him that
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nobody else could have played that.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Yeah, he was fantastic in that role.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Not only does he win on this award show, but
I hope he wins at the big award show, the
Golden Globes and the Oscars. My runner up for that
was Jacob Alordi in Frankenstein, which is still considered a
supporting role. He is up for the Golden Globe, but
I think that role for him is cool because he's
kind of painted as like I mean, he's a really
good actor, but I don't think he's been given a
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role where he just had to go through that big
of a transformation where not really based on his looks.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I was gonna say most of his roles, he's just like.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Detractive, hood looking guy like in the new Margot rob Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Wuthering Heights, Euphoria, Kissing Booth, like anything he's been in.
He's just like tall, attractive man Saltburn. Yes, forgot about
that film, which I.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Can't believe the new season of Euphoria is actually coming out.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
I know you hypothesized on this podcast that it would
never exist.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I didn't think it would ever come out, even seeing
the posters for it. I'm like, man, it's really coming
out filmed? Is it really going to come out? But
it looks like we're actually going to get it. But
he was a runner up for me for Best Supporting
Actress also from One Battle after Another. I have Chase Infinnity,
who was Leonardo DiCaprio's daughter in that movie, so good.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Breakout Star of the Year All Around Superstar.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Which is available on Max now if you missed that
in theaters. For runner up in that category, I have
Emily Blunt in The Smashing Machine, which I think she
just had the best performance Overhall in that where if
it wouldn't have been for her character, the reason I
give her runner up, I wouldn't have had any emotional
attachment to anybody at all. Okay, I think it was
her performance that saved that movie, that made The Rock better.
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So if The Rock ever ends up winning any award
for that, it's because of her. She made him look better.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I'm just thinking about Emily Blunt, and then it just
made me remember The Devil Worst Product two is coming
out next year.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
It's me a great year for movies and TV next year.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
A lot of sequel, a lot of number twos for
Best Actor again, I'm going back to one battle after another.
Have Leonardo DiCaprio.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
I hope he wins an Oscar for this, like for
all the years he didn't win an Oscar, and then
he didn't get it till The Revenant. Like he's done
so many incredible roles. I think he deserves an Oscar
for this.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I don't think he fully deserved it for The Remnant.
I just think the Academy thought it's kind of his time.
We've been keeping him from winning this for a long time.
That it was more of like here you go, here's
your award now. But out of all his performances, it's
not his strongest. That's not even one that I go
back and think, I haven't watched it.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Oh it's good because I know there's something about getting
eaten by a bear and it's two graphics.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Like you probably should have won for Wolf of Wall
Street over that Titanic. Yeah, there's so many other iconic
roles Jack, but I think one battle after another will
be fully deserved, just him nailing the Mexican whistle and
being able to speak Spanish, which he learned from like
his landscape or perfect I haven't heard a more authentic
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portrayal in a movie of this scale before. For runner up,
I would go with Michael B. Jordan Sinners, which he
played two characters.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Have you watched the actors on actors Michael B. Jordan
and Jesse Plemons yet?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
No, I've seen clips of it.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
We need to watch that.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
I it's crazy to think that they both got their
start on Friday Night Lights.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah. I saw when he was saying that Michael B.
Jordan was like the new blood or no, wait, yes,
yes he was. He came in later, right, Yeah, yeah.
I never watched that show though, but.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
There's been some good pairings. No Friday Night Lightriday Night
Actors On.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I do like actors on actors.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
You never watched Friday Night Light.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
No, not a single episode.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
And I've watched The Simpsons for you.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I've watched the movie Friday Night Lights.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I love Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
The movie made me want to go back to high
school to play football.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
The TV shows so so, so, so, so, so so
so good.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
For best female actor, I have Emma Stone in Bagonia.
We were talking about her earlier, just their commitment. Her
character in that movie is so powerful and I've never
hated but also loved a character more at the same time,
because she plays like a CEO that is not necessarily
a good person, not necessarily a bad person, but she
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makes you feel a lot of things.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
I would like to see her do some things other
than yourgo's films, though. I think I'd like to see
emmastone back in like a rom com or just like
a regular drama and la Land, Yeah, just not as
out there as a Yorgos like she's done three. I
think we I'm gonna take a little break from Yorgos
to do little something else.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
That's probably the max. I feel like he gets amused,
stays with them for a while. I think he probably
moves on after this, especially if she wins another Oscar.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I think we should.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I think I think they move on after this. For
runner up in that category, I have Jesse Buckley and Hamlet.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I can't even talk about that performance. It was so stunning, phenomenal,
I get on it. I could see either one of
them winning an Oscar for that.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Yeah, I think it's between them too.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Like Jesse Buckley's performance was so freaking good.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I think she has the better shot just from the
Academy on just the strict acting skills, yes, but I
think overall, with when it goes into the movie and
everything around it, I think Emma Stone given her history
as well, I could see her winning it over her.
For Best Director, I have Paul Thomas Anderson also from
One Battle After Another. Runner up in that category, I
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have Zach Kreiger from Weapons, and finally best directorial Debut,
I have Eva Victor for Sorry Baby, which she wrote
and directed that movie Channel from a Lot of Personal Experience,
which this movie is also on HBO Max if you
haven't seen it. It's about a grad student turned professor
who goes through something pretty traumatic. Won't tell you all
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the details, but it's really powerful and I just really
enjoyed the way she handled the story and it really
felt like somebody pouring out a project that they've probably
been thinking about their entire life, where I feel like
you only get that one first movie to really show
you everything about you was a director, and I think
she nailed it with Sorry Baby.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
I loved that movie.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Runner up though, I do have the director of Twin Liss,
who was also starred and wrote and directed that.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Movie, also a really good one.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yeah. I think that was also one that came out.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
It was one I was not expecting to love so much.
Knew nothing about it and went in and was like,
this is so good.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah. James Sweeney directed and starred in that movie. I
knew nothing about it going into it. I think I
saw maybe half of the trailer, kind of went in blind.
For the most part, I just knew it was about
two people meeting in a support group for people who
have lost a twin sibling. That's all I really knew.
And then it goes almost into a psychological thriller. There's
some comedy in there, some lot of drama.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Yeah, I wasn't expecting some of the ways in which
in which it turned.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Visually it also looked good.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Yeah. That was one of those that we were just
kind of like, all right, we'll go see it, we'll
really see anything anything, and then we end up liking
a lot of them.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
That is the first ever Mikey Awards. All right, congrats
to all the people who won. Even though you'll never.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Know they'll be getting their prize mailed to them.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
They'll be mailed to you in fourteen business days. Let's
get into it now. A spoiler free movie review of
Avatar Fire and Ash. Was it worth the over three
hour runtime. I sat down in the theater completely packed.
Was nice to see so many people come together for
a movie I don't know anybody else is excited for.
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And I think that's how I feel about the Avatar franchise.
These movies do really well at the box office, crushing
it internationally. But if I went out on the street
to try to find one individual fan of Avatar, I
don't know that I could do it. Do people just
love these movies in secret? It's kind of like The Weekend,
who was one of the biggest artists on the planet.
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But I do not know a single person whose favorite
artist is The Weekend. Where are these people? Maybe if
you're a fan of somebody like The Weekend, even Imaginedins,
maybe Nickelback or Avatar, you love these things so much,
but you don't feel the need to scream it from
the rooftops. You don't feel the need to go on
social media and proclaim your love for these types of
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artists and franchise. But when it comes to who shows up,
who puts their butt in the seats? Making James Cameron
not look like a complete psychopath? Spending four hundred million
dollars to make a movie like this. You are there,
you are showing up, you are keeping the movie theaters
alive across the world, and I commend you for that.
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But maybe I would just like to run into one
another Avatar fan. For me, When the first one came
out back in two thousand and nine, I thought it
was so overhyped. I hated the three D trend that
it created, because after Avatar made a splash using that technology,
all the movies that followed in the twenty ten started
doing it, and I hated that trend. It really wasn't
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until Way of Water came out a few years ago
that I understood it and went back watched the and
I thought, oh, I was missing out a lot on
this because I was so focused on the three D aspects.
But they are big, epic movies, big fights, big everything
about them is epic. That is what James Cameron does
so well, big scores. I loved Way of Water in theaters,
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so going into this one, I am probably the most
excited I have ever been. That being said, the movie
did let me down just a little bit. But before
I get into the negative, I do want to talk
about the positive because I sat down in that theater
at seven to twenty six pm on a Friday night.
I did not leave until ten thirty five pm is
when the credits rolled. That is a long time. I
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thought Avatar one and two they warranted that run times.
I was advocating for these movies. Seeing it really makes
a big difference seeing these movies in theaters because you
hear that a lot. Actors say it all the time.
Directors say it all the time. You need to get
to the biggest screen possible to take in this movie.
And sometimes that's not true. That's just the thing they say.
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It's a marketing thing. They want you to spend your
money too from their projects to go see these movies
to allow them to continue to do this, But not
every time. Are these characters? Are these stories actually enhanced
by seeing them on the largest screen possible. When it
comes to Avatar, Fire and Ash, if you do not
see this movie in theaters, you are not seeing it
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in the right way. I was so blown away at
the opening sequence that my mind was scrambled a little bit,
and it is so hard for me to witness anything
nowadays that feels like something I haven't experienced. Just doesn't
happen to create something that I can ingest in my
eyeballs without wearing three D glasses because I didn't see
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this movie in three D. That felt so immersive. It
was kind of like if you go to somebody's house
and they don't know they have that weird motion thing
on their four KTV. The first time I ever saw
a four KTV, I was blown away because it looked
like a soap opera, like the person was actually inside
the box. It must have been what people felt like
back when TV was first created, and they were like
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scared that the thing was going to rush out at them,
or the waves were going to come through their TV,
the train was going to come through. That is how
I felt the first time I saw four KTV. I'm like,
why are these people so crisp? Why is that motion
so weird looking? And I know that's the setting. Now
you can turn off and if you see somebody with
that on their TV, now you're like, why are you
watching things like this? But when I sat down to
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watch Fire and Ash, I had that same feeling again,
and it felt so weird because it was a little discombobulating,
and it took me a few maybe even ten minutes
to get fully adjusted to it, because the action does
start out a lot of it in the air, and
I think that is when it's the most evident, where
you see these creatures flying across the screen and there
is so much depth this motion. It is so crisp,
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and I've never witnessed something in a movie theater that
felt more real life than real life, and I think
that is something that movies are always trying to emulate.
How can we make it feel like this is actually
happening before you. This movie felt more HD than anybody
sitting or standing right in front of me that I
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could actually lean out and touch. It is this crazy
amount of hyperrealism where the first time I've truly felt
and seen and witnessed all that movie budget used on screen,
and I realize why these movies are so expensive to make,
which I've been probably in the behind the scenes of
this movie the most I've been in any movie so
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far this year, because I think, out of everything, it
is the technical aspects that I'm so drawn to, more
so than the story itself. When it comes to anything
involving Avatar, this one, it really just felt like the
best parts of one and the best parts of two
rehashed where now you have these fire people, you have
this new villain who it's a pretty good threat, a
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very psychotic person who just wants to see the world burn.
But when it comes to the motivations in this movie,
the story behind it of Jake and his fans, it
is the exact same thing from Away Water. You have
the bad guys trying to capture the good guys, and
they're just constantly on the run, and it's the same
plot point just played out over and over again. Now
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that doesn't mean it's not entertaining. I just need something different.
At this point where the first hour I was totally in.
If this movie would have been two hours long, I
would have left completely satisfied hype. I would have been
just so excited about it, because in those first sixty
minutes you get this fast paced action where one thing
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is happening after another, these really great big battles, where
these amazing visuals just keep my eye on the screen
the entire time, so much color, so much rich action
and motion that I was completely drawn into and just
completely sucked into this world. Now about the two hour mark,
it just started to become a little bit repetitive. I
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started to lose interest in some of these characters. It
felt more comical. There are interactions, and people in the
theater were excited clapping at moments. There's a moment going
into the third act that feels a little bit triumphant.
Fell a little flat for me, But there were other
people fully invested in it, so I could see the
people who were big fans of this franchise actually get
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what they wanted out of it. And maybe you do
just want the same thing over and over again. I
say that as a Marvel and DC fan, where if
you break down those movies, Kyda is the same thing
over and over again. But I think what separates those
two is the characters, where I understand the reason why
these characters are the way they are. These movies do
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so well internationally, and you can translate these movies into
any language and it makes sense. And I think almost
that type of filmmaking, which obviously is to make the
most amount of money out of your product, makes me
feel just less connected with those characters, and it's just
not as novel anymore. Whenever, back in two thousand and
seeing this blue creature that's oddly attractive in a weird
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way because they're wearing no clothing aside from this little
piece covering their boobs. Why do these characters even have boobs?
And why are they running around and basically nothing. That
was a lot more novel back in two thousand and nine.
Now in twenty twenty five, where we've seen this now
for over nine hours, we have a part four and
a part five on the way, it is a little
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bit less novel, And I know they're gonna change a
bit of the format, switching narrators going into four and five,
and maybe that'll make it feel a little bit more fresh,
because the way this entire movie was sold to me
was the fire and ash elements, which there was a
lot of fire and ash, but I was looking for
a complete change in the landscape of these movies where
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I felt a lot of it went back to the
places we've already visited before INDI visuals, we've already seen.
It's almost like if you go to dinner, you get
a really great dish, that first bite you take is amazing,
But if you have this giant platter of it that
is thirty hours long, you're eventually gonna get tired of
that taste. No matter how great it was in those
first few bites, even the biggest Sunday, by the end
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of it you get kind of sick of it. And
by the end of this movie I was full. I
had a virtual stomach ache, just because it was so
much to take in at once, and for the first
time ever in an Avatar movie, maybe in any James
Cameron movie. I just felt like it was not worth
that three hour and ten minute runtime. And I think
at his age in his seventies now, he is somebody
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who is more interested in the technology aspect of making
a movie, even more so than the storytelling, even though
he is somebody who has really great attention to detail,
down to the score, down to the movements, down to
the lighting, down to everything. But I think hearing him
talk about this movie saying that he doesn't care about
practical effects at all, that he hasn't done that since Titanic.
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He is much more interested in the art of illusion,
which that is what he believes that filmmaking is. And
I do agree with him on some aspects, because when
it came to some of the characters, especially the villains,
they were straight cornball at times where I was laughing
more at them than I was with them. Felt completely
one dimensional in such a three D movie. And the
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whole time I was watching Avatar, Fire and Nash, I
thought to myself, if I sold TVs for a living,
on every TV screen in my store, I would be
playing Avatar Fire and Nash because I have to imagine
this is the way you sell a TV. Look at
all these color changes, look at all this motion. I
could imagine going to somebody's house who has a lot
of money, has a really big TV, and they wanted
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to show off to me their old, huge sound system
to show me how much money they paying for their TV.
They are going to have a field day with these movies,
which is all really great, But then you have to think,
I wonder how James Cameron feels when somebody is inevitably
just going to watch this on like a TikTok stream
or something. Does that throw all of it work just
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out the window? I think, I just have to hold
this movie to an entirely different standard, with it being
one of the most expensive movies ever made and it
not living up to my expectations from one or two.
For Avatar, Fire and Ash, I give it three point
five out of five fire arrows. It's time to head
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down to movie Mike Trey Lar Paul. Two actors who
I do not get tired of, Zendaya and Robert Pattinson,
and both of them have a massive twenty twenty six
I think could be a banner year for Zendia maybe
for Robert Pattinson too. They're gonna be in a new
A twenty four movie coming out next year called The Drama.
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They play a couple who just got engaged, all geared
up for their marriage to have this big wedding, and
then one of them finds out a dark secret about
the other and it throws their life into chaos. It
is being de described as a romantic comedy, but I
tell you, after watching this trailer, I don't feel romantic
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comedy vibes at all, maybe just a little bit, because
it is about love to people who seemingly love each other,
even though in this trailer there is a lot of tension.
They're getting their pictures taken and the couple is having
a real hard time connected with each other. The photographer
is trying to get them to appear as if they
love each other, and there is something hiding underneath, and
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you have to assume when this trailer takes place, when
this photo shoot takes place, one of them already knows
the secret about the other because they're acting weird. They
do not look like they are in love. So by
my feel of this trailer doesn't feel like your traditional
romantic comedy, which I think that genre has shifted a
little bit where people associate some of the best romantic
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comedies with those of the two thousands, where I feel
they were the best. You're Matthew mcconaugheyes, all that era
of romantic comedies. I feel they have a vall a
little bit because I don't think people want a traditional
comedy anymore. So you have to give something a little
bit more that you can chew on as the viewer.
While the love is at the forefront of this movie,
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it is all the scenes that cuts to in between
that I think is going to give this movie a
totally different feeling, like there's something going on. Did somebody
murder somebody? I want to know, but it's called the drama.
Before I get into more, And also about all the
big movies that both Zendaiya and Robert Patinson have coming
up next year. Here is just a little bit of
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the drama trailer.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
Am I sent some some nerves, a little camera shy.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
Let's do a little warm up so we're feeling repped
up and comfortable for your wedding day.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Hi, Charlie, move a little closer to your bride to be.
What's your favorite thing about amma?
Speaker 1 (41:48):
She's beautiful, funny, this is straight serious, and she has.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
The best law. Okay, good, good, Amma. I love that
he's carrying understanding, open mind.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
Burgh. That's good okay. So hold on to those thoughts
to smile naturally how you would smile in life. So
you see them having this photo shoot later, it looks
like they are fighting with each other. You hear somebody
get slapped there in the trailer, and it looks like
the most chaotic moment of this movie is gonna come
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in the third act when they actually get married. Just
by my understanding of this trailer and what the movie
is about, it looks like it's all gonna build up
and you're gonna wonder, at least I hope you are
wondering as the viewer, are they gonna get married? Are
they going to call it off? But you do see
them finally at what appears to be the ceremony at
the end. At one point, Robert Pattinson is covered in blood,
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So is somebody gonna get in a fight? I kind
of hope she figures out he's some psycho killer and
then she's worried about the well being of her life.
Maybe she's gonna be his next victim. But I have
to imagine it's gonna be something a little bit more like,
tell me this about yourself, and now I'm questioning everything.
I do think they look good together as a couple.
Oddly enough, this is coming after me seeing Don My Love,
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which was almost a similar situation between Robert Pattinson and
Jennifer Lawrence, where they were in a very toxic relationship
they were married with the kid. That one was a
little bit more of a fantasy. I feel like this
one is gonna be a lot more grounded in reality.
But I think as a couple they make sense. To me.
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They look good together. They have Robert Pattinson in these
very nerding glasses, so you have mj over here from
Spider Man dating a nerdy version of Bruce Wayne. But
I think it works. I think it is believable and
I think them too on screen together is something I
wasn't expecting in a romantic comedy like this. And if
you look at all the movies they have coming out
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in twenty twenty six could be a banner year for Zendeya.
She has The Drama which this movie is coming out
on April third. She is also going to be in
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, which my hype is starting to
build for that movie. Whenever I heard Christopher Nolan was
doing The Odyssey and I saw the first glimpse of
the trailer look kind of boring to me, I thought,
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how are you gonna make that story interesting? But as
I see more and more photos from the set, more posters,
more of that starts to roll out, and I'm starting
to get a little bit more excited about that one
big mythic adventure. She is also going to be in
Spider Man Brand New Day, which I cannot wait for that.
I think some of the footage linked online, I don't
want to see any of that. I don't want any
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of that ruin. I don't want to see it until
it's the full trailer in all of its glory, because
to me, that is going to be really exciting. She
is also going to be in Dune Part three. That
is three massive movies. Well, maybe the drama is not
a massive movie, but it's still a noteworthy a twenty
four movie, but two of the biggest movies of the
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year she is going to be in. But then she
is going to be in one of the biggest TV
events that I thought would never happen, Euphoria Season three.
That is an amazing run in twenty twenty six. Erzendaya,
I have to imagine she is so in demand, has
a crazy filming schedule to get all these in within
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probably two to three years. That is wild. But then
you look at Robert Pattinson. He's also going to be
in The Odyssey. He is also going to be in
Dune Part three, and he is also going to be
in the Drama. Hopefully he is working in there filming
for The Batman two, which that script is freshly done.
Hopefully that movie ends up being made before he just
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doesn't want to do it anymore or maybe gets aged
out of the role. So both of these actors are
two people who I feel have had different waves in
their career. Where Robert Pattinson obviously was known for Twilight,
and I think it took people a really long time
to not see him as that up to all the
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way when he did The Batman that I still saw
people saying, I can't watch The Batman because I can
only see him as Edward Colin. But he has done
so many fantastic movies that I don't even associate him
with those movies anymore. And I saw Twilight when it
came out in theaters for the first time back in
two thousand and eight, and I have greatly shifted from
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his performances in movies like The Lighthouse and Tenant in
Good Time, in The Batman, obviously, in Mickey seventeen, so
many things where he has taken these big risks. He
has an amazing skill set as an actor, a fantastic range,
I would say at his level, has one of the
best ranges in Hollywood. And on the other end, Zendaya,
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I feel the exact same way about which if you
look at all those projects she is a part of
next year, they are all vastly different. Whether it's on
the small screen, which he started out as a Disney
kid and then evolved with with her major role in
the MCU and is now doing movies like Challengers. The
drama can really do it all at a major scale,
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and for anybody working right now. I feel like she
still has that classic Hollywood aura where she's not online
a whole lot. I don't really know a whole lot
about her personal life. I know she is engaged to
Tom Holland, but they're not super public. You don't see
them posting tiktoks together. You'll get the occasional set photo.
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But I feel like she has that old school Hollywood
star energy because she is still so mysterious. She really
only comes out for award shows or fashion events, and
I think some of that is a little bit important
now when it comes to wanting people to go to
the theater to pay to see you. If you see
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some of these people all the time online. They're posting
every day every update going on in their life, and
you see it, you see them on podcasts, it's not
as much of an event to go pay money to
see them in theaters. When it comes to Zenday Up,
if you want to see her, you have to go
in theaters to see her. When it comes to the Rock,
which completely just throwing him out there, you will see
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him all the time on the internet. Why are you
gonna go see him in the Smashing Machine? So I
think there is a little bit something there when it
comes to these actors. Keep them hidden just a little bit,
make their appearance noteworthy. I think that does play into
the box office and seeing them together in this trailer,
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I love the rawness of it. I feel like we're
really gonna get a great grasp on just their down
to the bone acting skills, and I think both of
them together is gonna make for an incredible ride. I
really want to know why Robert Pattinson ends up so
bloody and if they actually end up getting married. It
is coming to us from director Christopher Borglee, who also
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directed Dream Scenario with Nick Cage, which was a movie
A lot of people told me they did not like,
and I had to go watch it for myself. I
wasn't able to catch it in theaters, but as soon
as it went on streaming, I watched it and I
still really enjoyed it. I think I would have loved
it even more if people didn't tell me how bad
it was. But it does kind of give me an
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idea of Christopher Borgli's mind. So I think this isn't
going to be what everybody is expecting it to, especially
if you are a fan of Robert Pattinson and Zendia's
other work. His movies do blend a lot of things
that are surreal. They are dark comedies, so I even
feel that them billing this as a romantic comedy is
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going to give people a much different expectation. But I
know going into it, I am going to see something
probably delivered in a way that I haven't before, and
that is taking a risk, that is swinging for the fences.
You could have a home run with this, or it
could be another case of putting two A list actors
together and striking out. But again, this movie is coming
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out next year. On April twenty twenty six, said that
for was this week's edition of movie by tram or
Bar and that is gonna do it for another episode
here of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta
get my listeners shout out of the week this week,
I'm going over to my YouTube channel, which is YouTube
dot com slash Mike Distro a comment for my last
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movie review, which I broke down five nights at Freddy's two.
Not only did I break down the movie. I also
broke down myself, and surprisingly, not a whole lot of
the young audience that really jumped on me last time
returned to bash me for this one. I think for
the most part, we all agreed that Five Nights at
Freddy's two was not a great movie. But Robert on
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YouTube said, thank you for saving me from seeing this movie.
With so many movies being released, your reviews helped me
eliminate those not worthy. Appreciate you watching on YouTube, Robert,
And that is what I tried to do. And I
also try not to rip a movie to shreds without
telling you who would be a fan of this movie.
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If I don't like a movie, I usually try to
identify who this movie could have been for. Sometimes I
know that some things are just not made for me.
It was never, no matter how good it was, going
to connect with me as a person. I think also,
if you listen to this podcast, you know a little
bit of my sensibilities and what I like and what
I don't like. So I always try to be upfront
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with you if I don't like it, but also if
you like maybe this other director or this type of actor,
why you still might enjoy said film. That I'm reviewing
that week. But when it comes to five nights at
Freddy's two, unless you are a diehard fan of that
video game, I don't really think you are going to
find much. They're still rooting for Josh Hutcherson, but I
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appreciate that, Robert. I'm always trying to save you guys
a little bit of money, at least from going to
see the not so great movies in theaters and then
maybe giving them a shot whenever they come to streaming.
So she ate that next week I'll do my top
five interviews of twenty twenty five, and then later in
the week, on Kelsey's birthday, actually, we'll do a special
episode where she breaks down her top ten books. Switch
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to formats and we'll do her top ten books of
twenty twenty five. So thank you for listening, 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
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am your host Movie Mike, joined by my wife and
co host Kelsey. How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm great.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
We're gonna do what I call the Mikey's Okay, the
end of the Year Awards.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Have you ever done these before?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
I've always wanted to do it, and I'm like, it
sounds kind of dumb, But why do I not want
to do something dumb on this podcast? Since when do
I not want to do something dumb? I have like
dumb categories. Then I have like the real categories at
the end. Okay, So we'll get into that. In the
movie review, I'll be talking about Avatar, Fire and Nash
all three hours and fifteen minutes of it. And what
I'm looking forward to is the Avengers Doomsday trailer where
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it looks like Captain America is coming back. They're like
four different versions of it.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Are they showing the trailer before?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Avatar? And it's like, so we actually have to be
there to watch the trailer?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Do you have to be there? Because there's the one
trailer that's showing this week with Chris Evans, and then
there are four different ones showing four separate weeks. It'll
eventually all get leaked online. But it's kind of like
a if you want to see it in theaters, you
have to go watch Avatar four times as like twelve hours.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, that's a lot of the day Avatar more than once.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
With regal a limited. Technically we could go just watch
the trailer and leave, but again, it'll probably be all
on the internet within a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Okay, next time we go see a movie, what's the
next one we'll see? Like Marty Supreme. We go to
Avatar that's showing at the same time. We watch the trailers,
and then we go over to Marty suprem exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
There we go in the trailer park. We'll be talking
about Robert Patinson and Zendiya in the drama.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Which I keep playing the wedding, but.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
They look great together. We'll talk about that. Thank you
for being here, Thank you for being subscribed. Shout out
to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now let's talk
movies from the Nashville Podcast Network. This is Movie Mike
Movie Podcast to the Awards show music which only I
can hear because you don't have head votes.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, earlier you asked me can you hear that, and
I was like, am I supposed to be here?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Where are you? Voices? Welcome to the first ever Mikey Awards,
where I'm just handing out different categories. This is what
I think. We're the best and some of the worst
of the year. I don't think most award shows do that.
They hand out awards for the worst. I guess say
that's why it's a mix of everything. But I want
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to start it out with what I think was the
best theater experience of the year. I'm gonna go with Weapons,
and that's because we all watched it together. It was me,
you and your two younger brothers.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yes, you all forced me to go see this film.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
And you hate horror movies mm hmm. And I made
an agreement with you that I would tell you when
it was going to be scary so you could look away.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yes, and by lookaway you mean literally hide under a jracket,
which is what I did.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
But I think overall, because of those factors, and because
of how good the movie was of keeping me entertained,
keeping the suspense going. When I look back on my
best experiences of the year, that was it. They had
all the things that I want out of a summer
blockbuster movie where it brought people together. There was that
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feeling in the theater that even though you're in a
room of strangers, you felt this bond because we were
all anticipating things. There were moments that everybody kind of
gasped at once, and I think that is why I
still love going to the movies. That was the best
theater experience of the year. Next up the biggest disappointment.
I went with The Smashing Machine, just because I thought
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it was going to have a little bit more of
an impact, be a little bit more dramatic.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I was boring.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
It was so so boring. I was just waiting for
that movie to really hit, for there to be that
one moment that I felt was the Rocks kind of
shining moment. It was really cute up to be his
Even though he did get nominated for a Golden Globe.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I would have liked to have been punched to say
for that film.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
There was just nothing that entertaining about it. Nothing stood
out about his character, which it is based on a
real guy. I just think they didn't get the story.
They should have made some stuff up, which I know
it was pretty accurate to his real life, but it's like.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
If his life was interesting enough to make a movie,
how did that not translate in the film.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
My runner up of biggest disappointment of the year was
I Know what You did Summer And I don't know
why I convinced myself that was going to be good,
but it was just kind of nostalgia Bate. Next up
the best pop culture moment of the year, I went
with Minecraft's Chicken Jockey. That was my favorite thing to
watch on TikTok where that scene took a life of
its own, and that is something you can't create through marketing.
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It felt so organic. It made headlines in the news
because theaters didn't really embrace it because people were acting
too much of a fool.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Chicken Jockey is equivalent to six seven to me, and
that I don't understand either one of them. And I
know that makes me sound so old right now, but
that is what I feel.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
But there at least is a little bit of lore
to Minecraft and the Chicken Jockey.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You never explained it, and the whole just walked around
the house going chicken Jockey.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Oh yeah, you didn't go see this with me?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Right? No?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I remember in Denver.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I went to go see that movie alone and there
was a family in our usual seat, like you reserve seats,
but it was like a mom and her three maybe
four kids, and I was like, I'm not gonna make
them move, so I had to go down to the bottom,
which I kind of. I don't mind the front row.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Do we ever tell the story of that time that
someone was in our seats and we pointed it out
to them and they were like, well, there's a lot
of other open seats, and I just look at them
go and go, okay.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Go send them.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, you're right, there are a lot of other open seats,
but I picked these.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
A lot of people complain about what movie theaters don't
get right the reserve seating. I think they need to
get more credit for that. Of house so good.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Gone are the days I remember going to again. Back
back in ye old days, there was a theater in Flugerville,
Texas called Tenseltown, right off the highway. I remember having
to get there like forty five minutes before a movie
to get the spots you owned.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Now we roll up fifteen minutes after.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
The movie started, after the movie started.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
After the trailers, Oh okay, start.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Time if we can time it out perfect, we show
up final trailer hits.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
We're timing it to get there and not watch any trailers.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Which at our regue, what's about twenty five minutes after
its advertised starting. Yeah, it's so great. Reserve seating is great.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Recliners, That's what I was going to say.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I don't think it is so hard to go back
to stadium seating.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Where the only place will do it is the Bell Court.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yes, because that's a whole different experience. But there are
some regals that still have stadium seating, and if you
get one of those theaters, you're like, what year is this?
This is so uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, now I will say it.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Our regal seats are a little the leathers cracked, they're
not in the best condition, but they still recline.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I did seem already Supremus two and a half hours,
So that'll definitely be a.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yeah, you need to recline for two and reclined for.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Two and a half hours.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I will also say the theater we go to with
my parents, that theater's on the next level and that
has the swivel trays to put your snacks in front.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Of that is pretty next level.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Now if we could get that at Regal, because it's like,
you know, I'm laying back, but my drink is in
the cup holder and I gotta like sit up.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah. I think there's this a cinemark and it like
swivels the tray.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Cinem marks are nice.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
This is next level.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I used to love cine marks in Texas, but we
don't really have them here.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I don't have any. Yeah, it's not a thing here.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
But that was my pop culture moment of the year.
Runner up was the Weapons Running Kid, because for about
a week I loved watching those videos and then I
would do it. But that was another good one.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Do you think people that listen to this podcast know
like how weird you are?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Now?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Not a chance, because I'm just imagining.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
We've already told him you walked around the house going
chicken jockey, and now you're telling me did.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
The weapons run around the house?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
And I feel like people are just like, uh, I
mean the year before that, it was no where I
went around the whole house doing that all the time.
Chicken jockey that went on for a month, that was
at least a month minimum.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yeah, I am subject to a lot of these weird whims.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
My best action scene of the year goes to the
chase scene in one battle after another. Yes, it was
so intense and so powerful, just the way that they
film that.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
The like winding Road. Yeah, yeah, it's so good.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Just visually it created this even though you're watching a
two D screen, it felt like I was fully in
that moment.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
It was almost optical illusion.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
It just like felt like you were in it, and
it like simulated motion even though you weren't moving.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
My award for committing to the bit is Emma Stone
for shaving her head in Bogonia.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
That is a commitment to the bit.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Can you imagine shaving your head for a movie and
what you actually see in Bogonia is the moment that
she shaved her head.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I mean, she probably got paid multimillions. I do that
for a couple of million.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, she'll probably get an Oscar for it. Yeah, she's
gonna get a Mikey for it. But that doesn't really matter.
But that is next level. That to me is somebody
who takes a role and says I'm gonna give everything
I can to this no matter what it does.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
That to me, is way easier than a physical transformation
of having to gain or lose weight.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Though, Yeah, shaving your head, that's that's one.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I'm done.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
You go home with that, she had to tell her daughter.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Yeah, but it's like you shave it, that's done, and
then it grows back. Gaining or losing weight is like
a whole, like grueling physical process.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I'm like, shaving your head.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
If a movie required me to shave my head or
do a physical transformation, shave my head.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
She has a great shaved head though.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yeah, that's the thing. She's like so stunning that it's
almost like she can pull off the shaved head. So
it's like not a big deal.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
But there's also like wigs and which she.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Did wear for a while because she kept it hidden. Yeah,
she had to get the clippers. No, I just got
a fresh bob hair. Looks great, by the way, thank you.
Next up on my award list, I have the most
over hated movie of the year. It is Going to
the Electric State, which was Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt.
Oh the Netflix one, Yes, which it's about like a
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futuristic world robots. I just feel like a lot of
people hated this movie for no reason.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Where Chris Pratt.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I think it's Chris Pratt. I like Millie Bobby Brown
obviously from Stranger Things. I don't really think she's found
her role yet or even what genre she's good at
outside of it. She's taken on a lot of movies
where I feel it was almost more important that she
had the lead role in it than the movie itself. Okay,
that's just how I take like some of the things
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that she's taken on. It is like, I want to
be a movie star. I'm going to take these roles
that are big, put me in the title card, But
I don't think they necessarily speak to what she is
good at yet. I don't think she's found that yet.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah, but she's also only like twenty one.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Oh yeah, she's really she's got time, She's she's gonna
be fine. But I actually ended up enjoying this movie
where I thought it was one of those things where
the narrative was just created so early on that the
movie was trash that everybody kind of piled on. And
I think it was victim of one of those It
has such a low score on that ratings website that
everybody kind of believes it and then just kind of
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piles on it, where even if you did end up
enjoying it and came out and said I actually liked
that movie, you would feel like you were going to
be an outcast.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
So was it a lot of like online narrative of
it being like this is trash and then that narrative
kind of spreads. It reminds me of I think Rolling
Stone just published it an article about how all of
that hate about Taylor Shift's new album was manufactured by
like several bots and then it spread.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
A lot of things.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Do you think that's kind of like this, Like a
couple people say it's terrible and then that narrative just spreads.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yes, I have a theory kind of what you were
saying is that competing studios do this to downplay other
movies and get the negative.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I press, Oh, I'm sure because algorithms now too.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
You put a couple things out there in rapid succession,
and that's all your algorithm is.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
And it's also you in your algorithm will get all
the negative reviews before you get any of the positive,
because the negative are evoking emotion and getting people in
the comments. Yep, where even if you just watch one
of those, you keep getting another video, another video like
right after that, and suddenly you've seen three videos about
why the Electric States sucks and you now believe, Oh,
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that's a bad movie. I'm not gonna go watch it.
I think a lot of movies have been victim to
this where maybe they're not the best movie of all time,
but they are not worth the amount of hate, and
the hate narrative is easier to push than enjoying something.
Kind of on a mid level, it's very interesting. Yeah,
I think we get controlled a lot like that, oh
for spots, just saying all these things in the comments,
and then other people responding to bots, and then it
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just increases from there. But I think also with the
marvel In DC feud, I have a feeling that a
lot of that stuff was review bombing. I think that
was a tactic that they had to when one movie
came out from the other studio, they would review bomb,
either get bought, or just give people to say negative things,
therefore lessening the brand of the other. I feel like
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that happens, which is not crazy to think.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yeah, I mean it's okay, it's not the exact same thing,
but a similar thing I can look at is if
you go on Sephora and you look at a product
and say it has four point seven stars, like one
thousand reviews. So if you turn off incentivized reviews, you'll
find it only has like ten reviews, but a lot
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of those people and I listen, I've signed up so
many things online that sometimes I get like for things
from makeup brands, and I write a review, but I'm
very honest in my review. But that's another way that
if you turn off like incentivized reviews, you see that
like ten people have reviewed it and five of them
hate the product, but it's like nine hundred reviews of
people who got it for free to write a review,
and they think, oh, I have to say I like it.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
We're all being lied to.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I means, yeah, it's like digital manipulation and marketing.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
There's also that dead Internet theory where the majority of
things online is either AI or just bots, and we're
not really interacting with the whole lot of people. Yeah,
that's weird to think about it too.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I mean, I guess that's why they say, like, get
out and have real conversations.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
You touch grass, go touch grass for best shot of
the year. I have one of the final moments in
Sinners with Michael B. Jordan and Miles Canton where they
have like the flames in their face. I think that
was the single best image of the year. I don't
want to say too much about what happens because it's
in the third act. I don't want spoil it. But
if you haven't seen Sinners, I think out of every
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movie this year had the best cinematography, where there were
so many just one shot moments that I feel like
I could take a picture of and put them on
the wall because they were shot so well.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
You and my little brother both loved that movie.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
It was really good visually, the music, the acting, everything
about that movie was great. I know a lot of
people said it felt like a from Dust Till Dawn
kind of rip off, but I love both movies. Why
would I not want another version of that movie?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
I was gonna say, in the age of everything being remade,
everything's reading.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Being inspired by something.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Yeah, has anyone had an original talk? I also have
to say people, there's gonna be a hot take. Somebody's
gonna go online and say I'm terrible for this, and
that's fine. People who are complaining about things that are
not original are also the ones like having AI make
them a grocery list.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I'm sorry, I said it.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
If you're having chat GPT make you a grocery list,
like I don't know, not like a meal plan, like
that's different, but like a basic grocery list. You're probably
also getting mad that an idea is inspired by something else.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Like with songs, people get lawsuits over making a song
that sounds similar to another four chords and yeah, there
are only so many notes, only so many chords that
eventually you're going to step on another song by just
using all those same notes. I think almost the same
thing with movies. If you really break down what a
movie is about, there are only so many ways to
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tell a story, like the hero story, the redemption story
that a lot of movies probably are different versions of
other movies. If you look at Star Wars and you
look at Harry Potter, the bass is the basis is
the basis. The basis of those stories are kind of
the same, the chosen one. Yeah, but people don't really
get sued for that unless you straight up steal a script,
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which there have been some cases of that of like, oh,
that's way too close.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
It's probably similar to like why some musicians can't listen
to a lot of other music because then they're like,
did I come up with this on my own? It's
the same idea of I mean even like I'll take
an example of writing like research papers in grad school,
Like you go and read other published scientific literature, and
you kind of get the narrative of what's out there,
and then you write your own, and then at some
point you're like, did I come up with this sentence?
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Or you have read a sentence like two days ago,
and then you think of it, and then you're like, oh,
that's a great sentence.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I thought of it.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Like sometimes your brain just doesn't know. So, I mean,
I don't think all things are necessarily a rip off.
I think they can be inspired by. Also a lot
of times people make original movies.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
And they flop.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah, so then it's like, why is anyone creating anything
original anymore?
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I mean, if you look at this year, people say
there aren't original movies anymore. There was some great original
movies this year that nobody watched.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Yeah, probably because they don't get the buzz of the
ones that have the backing of a big studio, which
is movies that are either reboots, sequels, or similar to
other things.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
The movies that are getting Happy Meal tie ins aren't
necessarily all the original movies. It's the familiar ones. There's
this line that you have to walk of, like what
feels familiar and what feels original.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
And like at the same time, what's gonna get butts
and seats to watch a movie?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
All right? My next category, I have best Animal, and
I'm going with Indy from A Good Boy, which was
the horror movie from the perspective of the dog.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Kind of surprisasure.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
You didn't go Crypto, but I guess Crypto wasn't like
a real dog. It was based on James Gunn's dog.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, they use like images of his real dog, cgi dog.
This is a real dog. I don't even know what
kind of dog this is. And Nova Scotia duck Tolling Retriever.
It looks like Golden Retriever but cuter. It's like smaller.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Can he be an airbud?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
It is coming out next summer. Next up, I have
biggest cash grab. Do you know what it is?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
What month did it come out in?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
I think August? You saw it. It was a one
night or maybe two night thing. Hamilton, No kind of
close in the vein. I don't know Taylor Swift The
Official Party Life of a Showgirl.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
First of all, that came out in October, okay October.
Oh yeah, and you also went to see it, so
everything about that statement was in correct.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
What I'm saying, you went to see it. I was
there and you were there.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Okay, I could have guessed if you had the right month. Okay,
we need a new producer on this.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I was going up the dough. I forgot that came
out in October third now you yeah, Now I remember.
I have that date stuck in my head.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Because that's also the day we got engaged, and it's
mean girls time.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
It felt hot when that movie came out, but I
guess October wasn't that hot.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I was set up to not get that answer.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, that was a cash.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Grab, total cash grab. But it made fifty million dollars globally. Uh.
I feel like she is a master of repurposing everything,
which while watching the Disney documentary, I didn't realize how
long it had been since she actually toured. Yeah, so
now I see why that tour was such a big
deal and she.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Used the money to buy her Master's pack.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
I mean, listen, I love Taylor stuff, but I will
admiss everything is a cash grab everything.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Sometimes I like to call her my capitalist queen.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I've gotten off the train of like seventeen vinyl variants,
eight thousand new merch items for every album.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
It's a lot. It's a lot.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
And that is the only reason I felt that was
a big cash grab where maybe some fans got ripped
off a little bit because of the lyric videos, where
I thought it was going to be like a full
visual element to every single song. Yeah, those are images
on loops, yeah, shot with her iPhone, yes, and bad backgrounds.
The actual documentary part I thought was cool.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
There wasn't enough there to build like a cinematic event.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yeah. It was basically like maybe twenty thirty minutes of
that making of that music video and then everything else
kind of sprinkled in. But now I just have the
face of Ophelia stuck in my head where I just
I go back to that. Yeah, that showing.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
But it's like the doc you serious, is what we
really wanted.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Yeah, something that is so much better, that's really good,
and that we didn't have to pay money in the
theaters for because.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
We already paid for Disney Plus.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yeah. Yeah, because that wasn't even the thing we could
use our Regal unlimited for because we had to pay.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
We bought extra ticks. But it was like a fun event.
We went with friends. It was a social thing.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
We got a glow stick wristband.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yeah, I mean we knew it wasn't going to be
anything the Earth Showering.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Yeah. For best popcorn bucket, I have the Leelo and
Stitch popcorn bucket, which is the Stitch from Regal that
you got me.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Yes, I did.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I literally went on my lunch break one day and
bought it because I was afraid it was going to
sell out.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I just have that memory of me coming home and
Stitch being on the kitchen counter.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
No, I hit it in the car. You came home.
I hit it in the car.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
You went to take a shower, and while you were showering,
I ran and got it out of the car and
I put it on the kitchen counter and you turned
around and like saw it out of the corner of
your eye and then you like did a double take, and.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I was like surprise, And because it looks so lifelike,
it was like Stitch was actually on the kitchen calendar
because we were going to see it opening night on
Friday at like seven, and I was like, man, they
could possibly sell.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Out before then, and anyw how about you wanted it?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
And if we would have waited, wouldn't have got it?
So best popcorn bucket of the Year probably Ever, I
don't think anything could get better than that Best Wife
of the Year, because a lot of them come out
and they look cool. But then I think to myself,
where am I going to put that?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
About you? A lot of like random stitch things.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
It's the number one thing you can buy me that
I'll like no matter what, no matter what it is.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Yeah, I bought you a Stitch calendar about your little
stitch figure, a stitch ornament, and just buy a lot
of stitch things.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
We will get to the meat of the awards now,
the real ones for best the Vegan Meat, the vegan Meat.
For Best Supporting Actor, I'm gonna go Benicio del Toro.
In one battle after another, he's so good. He was
just hilarious in it, his little dance whenever he gets
pulled over, him having the little small beers, like everything
about his character just felt so genuine to him that
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nobody else could have played that.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Yeah, he was fantastic in that role.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Not only does he win on this award show, but
I hope he wins at the big award show, the
Golden Globes and the Oscars. My runner up for that
was Jacob Alordi in Frankenstein, which is still considered a
supporting role. He is up for the Golden Globe, but
I think that role for him is cool because he's
kind of painted as like I mean, he's a really
good actor, but I don't think he's been given a
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role where he just had to go through that big
of a transformation where not really based on his looks.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I was gonna say most of his roles, he's just like.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Detractive, hood looking guy like in the new Margot rob Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Wuthering Heights, Euphoria, Kissing Booth, like anything he's been in.
He's just like tall, attractive man Saltburn. Yes, forgot about
that film, which I.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Can't believe the new season of Euphoria is actually coming out.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
I know you hypothesized on this podcast that it would
never exist.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I didn't think it would ever come out, even seeing
the posters for it. I'm like, man, it's really coming
out filmed? Is it really going to come out? But
it looks like we're actually going to get it. But
he was a runner up for me for Best Supporting
Actress also from One Battle after Another. I have Chase Infinnity,
who was Leonardo DiCaprio's daughter in that movie, so good.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Breakout Star of the Year All Around Superstar.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Which is available on Max now if you missed that
in theaters. For runner up in that category, I have
Emily Blunt in The Smashing Machine, which I think she
just had the best performance Overhall in that where if
it wouldn't have been for her character, the reason I
give her runner up, I wouldn't have had any emotional
attachment to anybody at all. Okay, I think it was
her performance that saved that movie, that made The Rock better.
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So if The Rock ever ends up winning any award
for that, it's because of her. She made him look better.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I'm just thinking about Emily Blunt, and then it just
made me remember The Devil Worst Product two is coming
out next year.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
It's me a great year for movies and TV next year.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
A lot of sequel, a lot of number twos for
Best Actor again, I'm going back to one battle after another.
Have Leonardo DiCaprio.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
I hope he wins an Oscar for this, like for
all the years he didn't win an Oscar, and then
he didn't get it till The Revenant. Like he's done
so many incredible roles. I think he deserves an Oscar
for this.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I don't think he fully deserved it for The Remnant.
I just think the Academy thought it's kind of his time.
We've been keeping him from winning this for a long time.
That it was more of like here you go, here's
your award now. But out of all his performances, it's
not his strongest. That's not even one that I go
back and think, I haven't watched it.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Oh it's good because I know there's something about getting
eaten by a bear and it's two graphics.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Like you probably should have won for Wolf of Wall
Street over that Titanic. Yeah, there's so many other iconic
roles Jack, but I think one battle after another will
be fully deserved, just him nailing the Mexican whistle and
being able to speak Spanish, which he learned from like
his landscape or perfect I haven't heard a more authentic
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portrayal in a movie of this scale before. For runner up,
I would go with Michael B. Jordan Sinners, which he
played two characters.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Have you watched the actors on actors Michael B. Jordan
and Jesse Plemons yet?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
No, I've seen clips of it.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
We need to watch that.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
I it's crazy to think that they both got their
start on Friday Night Lights.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah. I saw when he was saying that Michael B.
Jordan was like the new blood or no, wait, yes,
yes he was. He came in later, right, Yeah, yeah.
I never watched that show though, but.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
There's been some good pairings. No Friday Night Lightriday Night
Actors On.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I do like actors on actors.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
You never watched Friday Night Light.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
No, not a single episode.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
And I've watched The Simpsons for you.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I've watched the movie Friday Night Lights.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I love Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
The movie made me want to go back to high
school to play football.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
The TV shows so so, so, so, so, so so
so good.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
For best female actor, I have Emma Stone in Bagonia.
We were talking about her earlier, just their commitment. Her
character in that movie is so powerful and I've never
hated but also loved a character more at the same time,
because she plays like a CEO that is not necessarily
a good person, not necessarily a bad person, but she
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makes you feel a lot of things.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
I would like to see her do some things other
than yourgo's films, though. I think I'd like to see
emmastone back in like a rom com or just like
a regular drama and la Land, Yeah, just not as
out there as a Yorgos like she's done three. I
think we I'm gonna take a little break from Yorgos
to do little something else.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
That's probably the max. I feel like he gets amused,
stays with them for a while. I think he probably
moves on after this, especially if she wins another Oscar.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I think we should.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I think I think they move on after this. For
runner up in that category, I have Jesse Buckley and Hamlet.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I can't even talk about that performance. It was so stunning, phenomenal,
I get on it. I could see either one of
them winning an Oscar for that.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Yeah, I think it's between them too.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Like Jesse Buckley's performance was so freaking good.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I think she has the better shot just from the
Academy on just the strict acting skills, yes, but I
think overall, with when it goes into the movie and
everything around it, I think Emma Stone given her history
as well, I could see her winning it over her.
For Best Director, I have Paul Thomas Anderson also from
One Battle After Another. Runner up in that category, I
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have Zach Kreiger from Weapons, and finally best directorial Debut,
I have Eva Victor for Sorry Baby, which she wrote
and directed that movie Channel from a Lot of Personal Experience,
which this movie is also on HBO Max if you
haven't seen it. It's about a grad student turned professor
who goes through something pretty traumatic. Won't tell you all
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the details, but it's really powerful and I just really
enjoyed the way she handled the story and it really
felt like somebody pouring out a project that they've probably
been thinking about their entire life, where I feel like
you only get that one first movie to really show
you everything about you was a director, and I think
she nailed it with Sorry Baby.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
I loved that movie.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Runner up though, I do have the director of Twin Liss,
who was also starred and wrote and directed that.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Movie, also a really good one.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yeah. I think that was also one that came out.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
It was one I was not expecting to love so much.
Knew nothing about it and went in and was like,
this is so good.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah. James Sweeney directed and starred in that movie. I
knew nothing about it going into it. I think I
saw maybe half of the trailer, kind of went in blind.
For the most part, I just knew it was about
two people meeting in a support group for people who
have lost a twin sibling. That's all I really knew.
And then it goes almost into a psychological thriller. There's
some comedy in there, some lot of drama.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Yeah, I wasn't expecting some of the ways in which
in which it turned.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Visually it also looked good.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Yeah. That was one of those that we were just
kind of like, all right, we'll go see it, we'll
really see anything anything, and then we end up liking
a lot of them.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
That is the first ever Mikey Awards. All right, congrats
to all the people who won. Even though you'll never.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Know they'll be getting their prize mailed to them.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
They'll be mailed to you in fourteen business days. Let's
get into it now. A spoiler free movie review of
Avatar Fire and Ash. Was it worth the over three
hour runtime. I sat down in the theater completely packed.
Was nice to see so many people come together for
a movie I don't know anybody else is excited for.
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And I think that's how I feel about the Avatar franchise.
These movies do really well at the box office, crushing
it internationally. But if I went out on the street
to try to find one individual fan of Avatar, I
don't know that I could do it. Do people just
love these movies in secret? It's kind of like The Weekend,
who was one of the biggest artists on the planet.
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But I do not know a single person whose favorite
artist is The Weekend. Where are these people? Maybe if
you're a fan of somebody like The Weekend, even Imaginedins,
maybe Nickelback or Avatar, you love these things so much,
but you don't feel the need to scream it from
the rooftops. You don't feel the need to go on
social media and proclaim your love for these types of
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artists and franchise. But when it comes to who shows up,
who puts their butt in the seats? Making James Cameron
not look like a complete psychopath? Spending four hundred million
dollars to make a movie like this. You are there,
you are showing up, you are keeping the movie theaters
alive across the world, and I commend you for that.
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But maybe I would just like to run into one
another Avatar fan. For me, When the first one came
out back in two thousand and nine, I thought it
was so overhyped. I hated the three D trend that
it created, because after Avatar made a splash using that technology,
all the movies that followed in the twenty ten started
doing it, and I hated that trend. It really wasn't
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until Way of Water came out a few years ago
that I understood it and went back watched the and
I thought, oh, I was missing out a lot on
this because I was so focused on the three D aspects.
But they are big, epic movies, big fights, big everything
about them is epic. That is what James Cameron does
so well, big scores. I loved Way of Water in theaters,
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so going into this one, I am probably the most
excited I have ever been. That being said, the movie
did let me down just a little bit. But before
I get into the negative, I do want to talk
about the positive because I sat down in that theater
at seven to twenty six pm on a Friday night.
I did not leave until ten thirty five pm is
when the credits rolled. That is a long time. I
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thought Avatar one and two they warranted that run times.
I was advocating for these movies. Seeing it really makes
a big difference seeing these movies in theaters because you
hear that a lot. Actors say it all the time.
Directors say it all the time. You need to get
to the biggest screen possible to take in this movie.
And sometimes that's not true. That's just the thing they say.
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It's a marketing thing. They want you to spend your
money too from their projects to go see these movies
to allow them to continue to do this, But not
every time. Are these characters? Are these stories actually enhanced
by seeing them on the largest screen possible. When it
comes to Avatar, Fire and Ash, if you do not
see this movie in theaters, you are not seeing it
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in the right way. I was so blown away at
the opening sequence that my mind was scrambled a little bit,
and it is so hard for me to witness anything
nowadays that feels like something I haven't experienced. Just doesn't
happen to create something that I can ingest in my
eyeballs without wearing three D glasses because I didn't see
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this movie in three D. That felt so immersive. It
was kind of like if you go to somebody's house
and they don't know they have that weird motion thing
on their four KTV. The first time I ever saw
a four KTV, I was blown away because it looked
like a soap opera, like the person was actually inside
the box. It must have been what people felt like
back when TV was first created, and they were like
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scared that the thing was going to rush out at them,
or the waves were going to come through their TV,
the train was going to come through. That is how
I felt the first time I saw four KTV. I'm like,
why are these people so crisp? Why is that motion
so weird looking? And I know that's the setting. Now
you can turn off and if you see somebody with
that on their TV, now you're like, why are you
watching things like this? But when I sat down to
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watch Fire and Ash, I had that same feeling again,
and it felt so weird because it was a little discombobulating,
and it took me a few maybe even ten minutes
to get fully adjusted to it, because the action does
start out a lot of it in the air, and
I think that is when it's the most evident, where
you see these creatures flying across the screen and there
is so much depth this motion. It is so crisp,
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and I've never witnessed something in a movie theater that
felt more real life than real life, and I think
that is something that movies are always trying to emulate.
How can we make it feel like this is actually
happening before you. This movie felt more HD than anybody
sitting or standing right in front of me that I
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could actually lean out and touch. It is this crazy
amount of hyperrealism where the first time I've truly felt
and seen and witnessed all that movie budget used on screen,
and I realize why these movies are so expensive to make,
which I've been probably in the behind the scenes of
this movie the most I've been in any movie so
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far this year, because I think, out of everything, it
is the technical aspects that I'm so drawn to, more
so than the story itself. When it comes to anything
involving Avatar, this one, it really just felt like the
best parts of one and the best parts of two
rehashed where now you have these fire people, you have
this new villain who it's a pretty good threat, a
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very psychotic person who just wants to see the world burn.
But when it comes to the motivations in this movie,
the story behind it of Jake and his fans, it
is the exact same thing from Away Water. You have
the bad guys trying to capture the good guys, and
they're just constantly on the run, and it's the same
plot point just played out over and over again. Now
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that doesn't mean it's not entertaining. I just need something different.
At this point where the first hour I was totally in.
If this movie would have been two hours long, I
would have left completely satisfied hype. I would have been
just so excited about it, because in those first sixty
minutes you get this fast paced action where one thing
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is happening after another, these really great big battles, where
these amazing visuals just keep my eye on the screen
the entire time, so much color, so much rich action
and motion that I was completely drawn into and just
completely sucked into this world. Now about the two hour mark,
it just started to become a little bit repetitive. I
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started to lose interest in some of these characters. It
felt more comical. There are interactions, and people in the
theater were excited clapping at moments. There's a moment going
into the third act that feels a little bit triumphant.
Fell a little flat for me, But there were other
people fully invested in it, so I could see the
people who were big fans of this franchise actually get
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what they wanted out of it. And maybe you do
just want the same thing over and over again. I
say that as a Marvel and DC fan, where if
you break down those movies, Kyda is the same thing
over and over again. But I think what separates those
two is the characters, where I understand the reason why
these characters are the way they are. These movies do
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so well internationally, and you can translate these movies into
any language and it makes sense. And I think almost
that type of filmmaking, which obviously is to make the
most amount of money out of your product, makes me
feel just less connected with those characters, and it's just
not as novel anymore. Whenever, back in two thousand and
seeing this blue creature that's oddly attractive in a weird
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way because they're wearing no clothing aside from this little
piece covering their boobs. Why do these characters even have boobs?
And why are they running around and basically nothing. That
was a lot more novel back in two thousand and nine.
Now in twenty twenty five, where we've seen this now
for over nine hours, we have a part four and
a part five on the way, it is a little
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bit less novel, And I know they're gonna change a
bit of the format, switching narrators going into four and five,
and maybe that'll make it feel a little bit more fresh,
because the way this entire movie was sold to me
was the fire and ash elements, which there was a
lot of fire and ash, but I was looking for
a complete change in the landscape of these movies where
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I felt a lot of it went back to the
places we've already visited before INDI visuals, we've already seen.
It's almost like if you go to dinner, you get
a really great dish, that first bite you take is amazing,
But if you have this giant platter of it that
is thirty hours long, you're eventually gonna get tired of
that taste. No matter how great it was in those
first few bites, even the biggest Sunday, by the end
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of it you get kind of sick of it. And
by the end of this movie I was full. I
had a virtual stomach ache, just because it was so
much to take in at once, and for the first
time ever in an Avatar movie, maybe in any James
Cameron movie. I just felt like it was not worth
that three hour and ten minute runtime. And I think
at his age in his seventies now, he is somebody
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who is more interested in the technology aspect of making
a movie, even more so than the storytelling, even though
he is somebody who has really great attention to detail,
down to the score, down to the movements, down to
the lighting, down to everything. But I think hearing him
talk about this movie saying that he doesn't care about
practical effects at all, that he hasn't done that since Titanic.
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He is much more interested in the art of illusion,
which that is what he believes that filmmaking is. And
I do agree with him on some aspects, because when
it came to some of the characters, especially the villains,
they were straight cornball at times where I was laughing
more at them than I was with them. Felt completely
one dimensional in such a three D movie. And the
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whole time I was watching Avatar, Fire and Nash, I
thought to myself, if I sold TVs for a living,
on every TV screen in my store, I would be
playing Avatar Fire and Nash because I have to imagine
this is the way you sell a TV. Look at
all these color changes, look at all this motion. I
could imagine going to somebody's house who has a lot
of money, has a really big TV, and they wanted
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to show off to me their old, huge sound system
to show me how much money they paying for their TV.
They are going to have a field day with these movies,
which is all really great, But then you have to think,
I wonder how James Cameron feels when somebody is inevitably
just going to watch this on like a TikTok stream
or something. Does that throw all of it work just
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out the window? I think, I just have to hold
this movie to an entirely different standard, with it being
one of the most expensive movies ever made and it
not living up to my expectations from one or two.
For Avatar, Fire and Ash, I give it three point
five out of five fire arrows. It's time to head
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down to movie Mike Trey Lar Paul. Two actors who
I do not get tired of, Zendaya and Robert Pattinson,
and both of them have a massive twenty twenty six
I think could be a banner year for Zendia maybe
for Robert Pattinson too. They're gonna be in a new
A twenty four movie coming out next year called The Drama.
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They play a couple who just got engaged, all geared
up for their marriage to have this big wedding, and
then one of them finds out a dark secret about
the other and it throws their life into chaos. It
is being de described as a romantic comedy, but I
tell you, after watching this trailer, I don't feel romantic
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comedy vibes at all, maybe just a little bit, because
it is about love to people who seemingly love each other,
even though in this trailer there is a lot of tension.
They're getting their pictures taken and the couple is having
a real hard time connected with each other. The photographer
is trying to get them to appear as if they
love each other, and there is something hiding underneath, and
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you have to assume when this trailer takes place, when
this photo shoot takes place, one of them already knows
the secret about the other because they're acting weird. They
do not look like they are in love. So by
my feel of this trailer doesn't feel like your traditional
romantic comedy, which I think that genre has shifted a
little bit where people associate some of the best romantic
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comedies with those of the two thousands, where I feel
they were the best. You're Matthew mcconaugheyes, all that era
of romantic comedies. I feel they have a vall a
little bit because I don't think people want a traditional
comedy anymore. So you have to give something a little
bit more that you can chew on as the viewer.
While the love is at the forefront of this movie,
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it is all the scenes that cuts to in between
that I think is going to give this movie a
totally different feeling, like there's something going on. Did somebody
murder somebody? I want to know, but it's called the drama.
Before I get into more, And also about all the
big movies that both Zendaiya and Robert Patinson have coming
up next year. Here is just a little bit of
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the drama trailer.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
Am I sent some some nerves, a little camera shy.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
Let's do a little warm up so we're feeling repped
up and comfortable for your wedding day.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Hi, Charlie, move a little closer to your bride to be.
What's your favorite thing about amma?
Speaker 1 (41:48):
She's beautiful, funny, this is straight serious, and she has.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
The best law. Okay, good, good, Amma. I love that
he's carrying understanding, open mind.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
Burgh. That's good okay. So hold on to those thoughts
to smile naturally how you would smile in life. So
you see them having this photo shoot later, it looks
like they are fighting with each other. You hear somebody
get slapped there in the trailer, and it looks like
the most chaotic moment of this movie is gonna come
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in the third act when they actually get married. Just
by my understanding of this trailer and what the movie
is about, it looks like it's all gonna build up
and you're gonna wonder, at least I hope you are
wondering as the viewer, are they gonna get married? Are
they going to call it off? But you do see
them finally at what appears to be the ceremony at
the end. At one point, Robert Pattinson is covered in blood,
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So is somebody gonna get in a fight? I kind
of hope she figures out he's some psycho killer and
then she's worried about the well being of her life.
Maybe she's gonna be his next victim. But I have
to imagine it's gonna be something a little bit more like,
tell me this about yourself, and now I'm questioning everything.
I do think they look good together as a couple.
Oddly enough, this is coming after me seeing Don My Love,
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which was almost a similar situation between Robert Pattinson and
Jennifer Lawrence, where they were in a very toxic relationship
they were married with the kid. That one was a
little bit more of a fantasy. I feel like this
one is gonna be a lot more grounded in reality.
But I think as a couple they make sense. To me.
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They look good together. They have Robert Pattinson in these
very nerding glasses, so you have mj over here from
Spider Man dating a nerdy version of Bruce Wayne. But
I think it works. I think it is believable and
I think them too on screen together is something I
wasn't expecting in a romantic comedy like this. And if
you look at all the movies they have coming out
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in twenty twenty six could be a banner year for Zendeya.
She has The Drama which this movie is coming out
on April third. She is also going to be in
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, which my hype is starting to
build for that movie. Whenever I heard Christopher Nolan was
doing The Odyssey and I saw the first glimpse of
the trailer look kind of boring to me, I thought,
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how are you gonna make that story interesting? But as
I see more and more photos from the set, more posters,
more of that starts to roll out, and I'm starting
to get a little bit more excited about that one
big mythic adventure. She is also going to be in
Spider Man Brand New Day, which I cannot wait for that.
I think some of the footage linked online, I don't
want to see any of that. I don't want any
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of that ruin. I don't want to see it until
it's the full trailer in all of its glory, because
to me, that is going to be really exciting. She
is also going to be in Dune Part three. That
is three massive movies. Well, maybe the drama is not
a massive movie, but it's still a noteworthy a twenty
four movie, but two of the biggest movies of the
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year she is going to be in. But then she
is going to be in one of the biggest TV
events that I thought would never happen, Euphoria Season three.
That is an amazing run in twenty twenty six. Erzendaya,
I have to imagine she is so in demand, has
a crazy filming schedule to get all these in within
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probably two to three years. That is wild. But then
you look at Robert Pattinson. He's also going to be
in The Odyssey. He is also going to be in
Dune Part three, and he is also going to be
in the Drama. Hopefully he is working in there filming
for The Batman two, which that script is freshly done.
Hopefully that movie ends up being made before he just
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doesn't want to do it anymore or maybe gets aged
out of the role. So both of these actors are
two people who I feel have had different waves in
their career. Where Robert Pattinson obviously was known for Twilight,
and I think it took people a really long time
to not see him as that up to all the
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way when he did The Batman that I still saw
people saying, I can't watch The Batman because I can
only see him as Edward Colin. But he has done
so many fantastic movies that I don't even associate him
with those movies anymore. And I saw Twilight when it
came out in theaters for the first time back in
two thousand and eight, and I have greatly shifted from
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his performances in movies like The Lighthouse and Tenant in
Good Time, in The Batman, obviously, in Mickey seventeen, so
many things where he has taken these big risks. He
has an amazing skill set as an actor, a fantastic range,
I would say at his level, has one of the
best ranges in Hollywood. And on the other end, Zendaya,
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I feel the exact same way about which if you
look at all those projects she is a part of
next year, they are all vastly different. Whether it's on
the small screen, which he started out as a Disney
kid and then evolved with with her major role in
the MCU and is now doing movies like Challengers. The
drama can really do it all at a major scale,
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and for anybody working right now. I feel like she
still has that classic Hollywood aura where she's not online
a whole lot. I don't really know a whole lot
about her personal life. I know she is engaged to
Tom Holland, but they're not super public. You don't see
them posting tiktoks together. You'll get the occasional set photo.
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But I feel like she has that old school Hollywood
star energy because she is still so mysterious. She really
only comes out for award shows or fashion events, and
I think some of that is a little bit important
now when it comes to wanting people to go to
the theater to pay to see you. If you see
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some of these people all the time online. They're posting
every day every update going on in their life, and
you see it, you see them on podcasts, it's not
as much of an event to go pay money to
see them in theaters. When it comes to Zenday Up,
if you want to see her, you have to go
in theaters to see her. When it comes to the Rock,
which completely just throwing him out there, you will see
(48:13):
him all the time on the internet. Why are you
gonna go see him in the Smashing Machine? So I
think there is a little bit something there when it
comes to these actors. Keep them hidden just a little bit,
make their appearance noteworthy. I think that does play into
the box office and seeing them together in this trailer,
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I love the rawness of it. I feel like we're
really gonna get a great grasp on just their down
to the bone acting skills, and I think both of
them together is gonna make for an incredible ride. I
really want to know why Robert Pattinson ends up so
bloody and if they actually end up getting married. It
is coming to us from director Christopher Borglee, who also
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directed Dream Scenario with Nick Cage, which was a movie
A lot of people told me they did not like,
and I had to go watch it for myself. I
wasn't able to catch it in theaters, but as soon
as it went on streaming, I watched it and I
still really enjoyed it. I think I would have loved
it even more if people didn't tell me how bad
it was. But it does kind of give me an
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idea of Christopher Borgli's mind. So I think this isn't
going to be what everybody is expecting it to, especially
if you are a fan of Robert Pattinson and Zendia's
other work. His movies do blend a lot of things
that are surreal. They are dark comedies, so I even
feel that them billing this as a romantic comedy is
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going to give people a much different expectation. But I
know going into it, I am going to see something
probably delivered in a way that I haven't before, and
that is taking a risk, that is swinging for the fences.
You could have a home run with this, or it
could be another case of putting two A list actors
together and striking out. But again, this movie is coming
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out next year. On April twenty twenty six, said that
for was this week's edition of movie by tram or
Bar and that is gonna do it for another episode
here of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta
get my listeners shout out of the week this week,
I'm going over to my YouTube channel, which is YouTube
dot com slash Mike Distro a comment for my last
(50:21):
movie review, which I broke down five nights at Freddy's two.
Not only did I break down the movie. I also
broke down myself, and surprisingly, not a whole lot of
the young audience that really jumped on me last time
returned to bash me for this one. I think for
the most part, we all agreed that Five Nights at
Freddy's two was not a great movie. But Robert on
(50:43):
YouTube said, thank you for saving me from seeing this movie.
With so many movies being released, your reviews helped me
eliminate those not worthy. Appreciate you watching on YouTube, Robert,
And that is what I tried to do. And I
also try not to rip a movie to shreds without
telling you who would be a fan of this movie.
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If I don't like a movie, I usually try to
identify who this movie could have been for. Sometimes I
know that some things are just not made for me.
It was never, no matter how good it was, going
to connect with me as a person. I think also,
if you listen to this podcast, you know a little
bit of my sensibilities and what I like and what
I don't like. So I always try to be upfront
(51:26):
with you if I don't like it, but also if
you like maybe this other director or this type of actor,
why you still might enjoy said film. That I'm reviewing
that week. But when it comes to five nights at
Freddy's two, unless you are a diehard fan of that
video game, I don't really think you are going to
find much. They're still rooting for Josh Hutcherson, but I
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appreciate that, Robert. I'm always trying to save you guys
a little bit of money, at least from going to
see the not so great movies in theaters and then
maybe giving them a shot whenever they come to streaming.
So she ate that next week I'll do my top
five interviews of twenty twenty five, and then later in
the week, on Kelsey's birthday, actually, we'll do a special
episode where she breaks down her top ten books. Switch
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to formats and we'll do her top ten books of
twenty twenty five. So thank you for listening, and until
next time, go out and watch good movies and I
will talk to you later
Host
Mike D
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