Ranking ALL 11 Spider-Man Movies + Movie Review: The End of Oak Street + Trailer Park: Primetime

Movie Mike ranks all 11 theatrical Spider-Man movies from Tobey Maguire's original trilogy and Andrew Garfield's two films to Tom Holland's MCU movies and the animated Spider-Verse films. Plus the messy Spider-man  rights, controversy of who actually created the character, and how did Jake Gyllenhaal almost play Spider-Man before becoming Mysterio?! In the Movie Review, Mike talks about The End of Oak Street starring Anne Hathaway. It’s about a mysterious cosmic event that rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports a family’s neighborhood to someplace unknown. Mike talks about why it’s no Jurassic Park but that’s a good thing, Anne Hathaway’s great physical performance and why it caught him by surprise.  In the Trailer Park, Mike talks about Primetime starring Robert Pattinson as former "To Catch a Predator" host Chris Hansen during the height of the show's success. Mike talks about the amazing run Robert Pattinson is having and wonders how some actors feel about being cast as the ‘predators’? 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What is the best Spider Man movie of all time?
That is the question. Welcome back to movie Mike's movie Podcast.
I am your host movie Mike, and today I will
be ranking all eleven Spider Man movies. I just watched
Brand New Day in theaters for the second time, so
I now know Spider Man movies worst to best. We'll
get into that in the movie review. This year, I
am trying to watch all five New and Hathaway movies

(00:23):
coming out in theaters. I am on number four or five,
The End of Oak Street, which is about this entire
neighborhood that gets transported into a crazy new environment where
their dinosaurs there. Is it good or was it all
a hype? And in the trailer park we'll be talking
about Prime Time, which is the movie about to Catch
a Predator where Robert Pattinson plays Chris Hansen and I

(00:45):
have a very interesting question when it comes to maybe
some conflict, some mixed feelings that certain actors feel when
being cast in this movie. So we'll get into that.
Thank you for being here, Thank you for being subscribed.
Shout out to them Monday Morning Movie Crew. And now
let's talk movies podcast. Movie Mikes Movie Podcast I am

(01:10):
going to rank all eleven Spider Man movies from worst
to best. But before we get into that, let's talk
about the controversy over who actually created Spider Man. You
think Marvel creator, you probably think stan Lee Rip He
is credited with so many Marvel superheroes as being the
sole creator. Back in the sixties, he developed something called

(01:32):
the Marvel method, where stan Lee would give an artist
a brief description or a verbal idea about a character
he wanted to create, and then the artists would break
down the pacing of the comic, they would plot out
the action, they would draw all the pages completely on
their own, and then stan Lee would just see the

(01:53):
final pages at the very end. And the controversy surrounds
the character of Spider Man because if you've heard stan
Lee talk about how he came up with the idea,
he essentially saw a fly on the wall climbing surfaces
and think that would be a really cool superpower. So
he started working out a bunch of bug names, and

(02:13):
he ended up coming up with Spider Man, and he
put the dash in between the spider and the man
so it would look different than Superman, which everybody was
gonna say, Oh, it just looks like Superman. But what
stan Lee wanted to do is create a relatable hero
who was worried about real life things like money, school,
and family. And at first his publisher rejected the idea

(02:36):
because they thought people hate spiders. No one's gonna want
to root for a superhero named Spider Man. And if
you make the character a teenager, that's not gonna work either,
because teenagers are only sidekicks. Look at Batman and Robin.
Robin is just a sidekick, and a superhero could not
have personal problem. So what happened is stan Lee ended

(02:58):
up cramming Spider Man in to a comic book series
called Amazing Fantasy. So he made his debut in Amazing
Fantasy fifteen. The series was going to be canceled anyway,
but it turns out people loved Spider Man. It became
an instant hit and a massive bestseller, and before you
knew it, it became the Spider Man that we know today.

(03:20):
So that is the origin story you've probably heard. But
when talking about the Marvel method, stan Lee didn't draw
Spider Man. He came up with the idea the storyline,
all the things about his parents dying and Uncle Ben
all those things about Spider Man, but it was actually
Steve Didgo who drew the design of Spider Man. When

(03:43):
it came to the blue and red colors, the webbing
on the suit, all those things were credited to did Go.
So you have stan Lee created the initial concept Peter
Parker as a basic character, the name Spider Man, teenage
superhero with real problems. That concept and the dialogue, the captions,
and the editorial direction, that is what stan Lee did.

(04:04):
But it was Steve Didco, the artist who created the
actual design Spider Man's costume, the way he moved from
frame to frame inside of the comic. A lot of
that visual storytelling big major contributions to the plot. There
was a lot of bad bun between these guys all
surrounding the character of Spider Man and who actually created him.

(04:26):
Is it the person who is the face of the
company with the actual idea behind the character, or is
it the person who actually brought the character to life
through art. And it's hard to say which one is
more important, because if it wasn't for the great design
that Steve did Co did, and it looked like a
lame character, the character of Spider Man would have died
in the sixties. But if it wouldn't have been for

(04:48):
stan Lee's great storytelling and giving Peter Parker the qualities
that we all know and love Spider Man for, you
could have had the best looking character ever, but without
the story dead. So that is the origins of our
actual hero into the real world. Let's kick it off
now with number eleven. What I think is the worst
Spider Man movie. And it hurts me to say because

(05:08):
I love Andrew Garfield, but it is easily the Amazing
Spider Man from twenty twelve, even though I love the
suit and I think Andrew Garfield's physicality in this movie
is really great. He looked amazing in the suit. I
think Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone are a perfect pairing.
They have such a great chemistry together. I think without

(05:29):
that this movie would have been a total bomb. And
I'll even say at the beginning of this episode, I
love every single one of these movies. I would watch
them on repeat no matter what. So I really don't
think to me, there is a traditionally bad film inside
of the Spider Man series. But when you have eleven movies,
you have to have something at the bottom but I

(05:50):
would rank all these They're like my children. I couldn't
cast away a child. But when it comes to which
one just doesn't hold up that I'm the least excited
to go back and Rewatch, it always comes down to
The Amazing Spider Man from twenty twelve, because at this point,
I myself was tired of the origin story. We know

(06:11):
how Spider Man got his powers, we know how he
loses Uncle Ben, we know all those things that we
kind of got tired of even by this point, and
I just didn't want to see that again. That is
why this movie in the first act just kind of
feels like a chore, and why I enjoyed The Amazing
Spider Man too. Better. Fun fact about this movie, Josh Hutcherson,

(06:33):
who you would know as Peter Malark from The Hunger Games,
actually really wanted this role and was genuinely heartbroken when
he did not get cast as Peter Parker. But luckily,
just months later he got that iconic role in The
Hunger Games. I think that probably worked out better for
him because if it wouldn't have been Andrew Garf. Well, actually,
let me think about this a little bit more, because

(06:53):
another problem I have with these movies is Andrew Garfield
is way too good looking any skateboards and it is
it's so easy to believe that he could get Gwyn
Stacy no matter what. I think. What I love about
Toby Maguire is you believe that he is a nerd
that could not land his next door neighbor Mary Jane Watson.
That dynamic makes sense. But when you see Andrew Garfield

(07:14):
Emma Stone, you're like, Ah, they're two beautiful people. Of
course they're gonna hook up. I think that contrast would
have been a little bit better if it would have
been Josh Hutcherson in this role. I think his build
also looks like Spider Man. Stan Lee didn't want Spider
Man to have a big physique, didn't want him to
be very tall. That is a primary reason why he
thought Tom Holland was perfect for the character, because he

(07:37):
saw his body and thought that is what Spider Man
looks like, and that is a big appeal to the
character and being a teenager. So it kind of would
work maybe a little bit better. But I just love
Andrew Garfield so much and how deeply he wanted to
play the character. I think we ended up getting the
right Peter Parker here. I think it comes down to

(07:59):
the storytelling, and I think it comes down to the
issues with Marvel and the Spider Man rights that we'll
get into when we talk about the next movie. But
at number eleven, I have the Amazing Spider Man from
twenty twelve. At number ten, I have the Amazing Spider
Man two from twenty fourteen. I just have to put
these at the bottom. And the crazy thing about this

(08:19):
movie is it actually has one of the best Spider
Man scenes out of any movie. It is just in
one of the messiest Spider Man movies of all time,
because you still have Andrew Garfield and Emma still with
fantastic chemistry. And the reason I ranked this one before
I ranked number one is because you don't have that
origin story. It gets right to the action. You have

(08:40):
Jamie Fox in there, and maybe his character design was
a little bit off. He's oddly blue, but I still
enjoyed his performance of being a nerd and being somebody
who kind of got obsessed with Spider Man. But it
has the best scene out of almost any Spider Man movie,
gwyn Stacy's. It is so impactful. It happens at the

(09:02):
very beginning of the movie, and then once you get
to No Way Home, you realize how much this affected
Andrew Garfield's Peter Parker heartbreaking. The most heartbreaking thing is
we did not get a follow up to this movie,
so she just dies. One element that totally got cut
from the movie with shy Len Woodley. She was actually
cast as Mary Jane. If you google The Amazing Spider

(09:26):
Man two, you see her listed all the cast because
she was supposed to be in this movie. You can
go see some test footage between her and Andrew Garfield,
but director Mark Webbs said it was a creative decision
that they had to streamline the story to just focus
on Peter and Gwen's relationship, that they ended up cutting

(09:46):
out her character completely. She'd only filmed a few scenes
with Andrew Garfield, and there were some backyard scenes where
Peter was talking to mj over a fence, so very
much that dynamic that they had in Spider Man one.
There was a motorcycle that was never filmed, but we
did not get to see Shaleene Wooee in The Amazing

(10:06):
Spider Man two. I think that love triangle would have
made for a good dynamic. I don't know if that's
something that we could eventually get back into the Spider
Man movies. That's all I'll say about that. I think
a big reason why Andrew Garfield Spider Man movies weren't
great was because they were rushed, And it all comes
down to who actually owned Spider Man. Because Marvel back
in nineteen ninety nine was not the Marvel we know today.

(10:29):
They were almost bankrupt. So what do you do when
you were facing bankruptcy. You sell off the exclusive movie
rights to all your major characters, and they sold Spider
Man to Sony Pictures for a mere seven million dollars.
Sony got Spider Man for seven million dollars. So Sony
even to this day owns the Spider Man movie rights. Later,

(10:53):
Disney bought Marvel, but Sony still has the exclusive movie
rights to Spider Man. But there are some stipulation even
though Disney and Marvel still own Spider Man himself, and
that comes down to the actual character, not the film rights,
but things like comic books, merchandise, all that business. Disney
and Marvel still own that, but Sony as a part

(11:15):
of this deal, they have to keep making Spider Man movies.
So under these terms, they have to start production on
a new qualifying Spider Man movie within three years and
nine months of the previous release, and there's also a
deadline on when the movie can actually come out, so
they have a deadline on when they need to start
production on it, and then a qualifying Spider Man movie

(11:37):
needs to be released within about five years and nine
months before the previous one. That is why basically everybody
says that Sony needs to put out a new Spider
Man movie every five years. So that is why you
keep seeing Spider Man movies pop up all the time,
and why some are just bad because if they don't
put out these bad movies and they have nothing else

(11:59):
to release, that means that they could forfeit the rights
back to Marvel and Sony would lose out on so
much money. That is why these movies were rushed is
because there was initially supposed to be a Spider Man
for with Toby Maguire Sam Raimi. Spider Man For was
originally supposed to come out on May sixth, twenty eleven,

(12:20):
before Sony Pictures can that project, and therefore they had
a haul but to get out another Spider Man movie,
and that is why we ended up with the Amazing
Spider Man one. So unfortunately, that is why at number
ten and eleven are the amazing Spider Man movies. At
number nine is where I have Spider Man Homecoming from

(12:41):
twenty seventeen. This was Tom Holland's debut. I remember going
to see this movie in theaters when it first came out,
and I was so excited. And the positives I felt
after watching it is I finally felt they got Peter
Parker wright. Because Tom Holland was younger. He had that
energy that was very bright and bubbly, bright eyed and

(13:05):
bushy tailed. He brought so much joy to Peter Parker.
He brought the nerdiness back. We had just had the
more emo, kind of laid back Peter Parker with Andrew Garfield,
and now we had the nerd. I loved, absolutely loved
that they skipped the origin story. We never see Tom

(13:25):
Holland become Spider Man. No radioactive Spider bites him. We
don't see Uncle Ben die, We don't go through all
those things that we've already seen so many times and
we're fatigued by. They just hop right into the story.
He's Spider Man problem with that though, is they tied
it in with everything going on with the Avengers, and

(13:46):
this movie is still heavily heavily rooted in Iron Man.
Robert Danny Junr is there. He got paid so much
money to basically be in three scenes in this movie,
and it just has the Avengers fingerprints all over this thing.
I thought Michael Keaton was great as Vulture. We even

(14:06):
get a Donald Glover cameo in there, which, if you
know the lore behind Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino, at
one point in the twenty tens, there was a big
campaign for Donald Glover to be Spider Man, and he
really played into that, lead into that. He did a
bit on Community where he was wearing Spider Man pajamas,

(14:28):
so being cast in this movie was kind of a
nod to that, and then he was later in one
of the animated Spider Man movies. I don't know what
they're do with Miles Morales right now. He's probably a
little bit too old to play that character, but I
hope they keep Donald Glover around. But that was one
of the things that I was so excited about. Marvel
reportedly received over seven thousand audition tapes in their search

(14:49):
for Peter Parker. Tom Holland eventually made it through multiple
rounds and said he auditioned eight times and what his
strategy was during the videos that he sent in. He
did backflips. And you forget how physical this role is
even seeing now how much physical preparation he does for
every single movie, how ripped he is. I think that
is what makes him such a great Spider Man. But

(15:13):
ultimately why I ranked this movie solow is because it
feels more like Spider Man in the MCU rather than
its own Spider Man movie. So at number nine I
have Spider Man Homecoming from twenty seventeen. At number eight,
I have Spider Man three from two thousand and seven. Yes,
it is messy, but it's still better than everything I
ranked below it. Sandman is great. You have Peter versus Harry.

(15:38):
There is still some incredible action, some great resolution in
this chapter. There are some odd choices like why does
Peter Parker suddenly become emo and start dancing in the
streets of New York City. I don't even mind that
so much. I think that has become such a mimable
moment that it gives this movie its identity. Was a

(15:58):
little bit cringe whenever we saw it all for the
first time back in two thousand and seven. Yes, but
I think it's such a big part of Spider Man
Lord Now I love it for that. The thing I
do not like about Spider Man three, Venom is my
favorite villain, not only my favorite Spider Man villain, but
I'd say top five comic book villain of all time.

(16:19):
Sam Raimi, the director of this one, did not want
Venom in this movie. He had plans for different Spider
Man villains, but the studio demanded it because they knew
fans wanted to see Venom, so they wanted to make
a lot of money. They wanted to do the merchandising.
They wanted Venom in this movie, and the Venom we
got was not right tofrad Grace as Eddie Brock, probably

(16:43):
one of the worst castings in all of comic book
movie history, but I was so excited to see Venom.
He's also not in it that much. It felt so
tacked on and wasted, and I think it kind of
killed a character, much like what happen into The Incredible
Hulk with Ed Norton. I feel like, unfortunately, Venom has

(17:05):
fallen into that pit of we're never going to get
a great on screen depiction of him because this movie
didn't do a justice. And I think now with the
Tom Hardy movies, he just kind of feels like a joke.
He's not supposed to be a joke. And I know
they try to paint him as this anti hero because

(17:26):
he is such a popular character, but you want people
to root for him. Vendom needs to be ruthless. His
teeth needs to be gangly and misshapen in all different sizes.
He needs to be bigger and more ripped, Like if
you had Alan Richson, who plays Reacher, as Venom, that
would be a fantastic casting. So it wasn't the dance moves.

(17:47):
It wasn't the fact that Spider Man was over after
this installment. For me, the reason I ranked this movie
so low is because they wasted my favorite villain. At
number eight, I have Spider Man at number seven. I
have Spider Man Far from Home. In twenty nineteen, I
just rewatched this movie and I thought, man, this movie's

(18:08):
really good. And I remember seeing it in theaters and
having my mind blown by mysterio. I thought Jake Gillenhall
did a fantastic job as a villain. And the thing
about Jake Gillenhall, at one point he was almost Spider
Man because after the success of Spider Man Won, Toby
maguire wanted more money and he was holding out till
the very end, and at one point they thought of

(18:31):
recasting him, and Jake Gillenhall's name was thrown in the mix.
So many years later, it's kind of ironic that he
ended up being a villain inside of the MCU. But
I actually think Far from Home has a lot of
really great action and the only thing I really don't
like about this movie is the fact that Spider Man

(18:52):
is very rarely in the iconic suit. He's Spider Monkey,
He's just Peter Parker for a majority of the film.
You don't really get a whole lot of Spider Man
until that final act. And then again, it suffers from
what Homecomings suffered from, is it feels like the piece
right after Endgame. It is a hard movie to follow

(19:14):
because Endgame has the death of Tony Stark and this
is Peter Parker dealing with that. And I think this
is probably my favorite installment when it comes to the
development of Peter Parker in MJ's relationship, where he is
trying the entire time to tell MJ how he feels
about her. You also see them with the back and forth,

(19:36):
the will they won't they, them finally sharing their first kiss.
This is a pivotal movie into their entire love story
that develops into their love story and No Way Home
and eventually into brand new day. But this is an
important piece to that puzzle. But again it is still
weak because it is dependent on Tony Stark. I think

(19:57):
mysterios motivation is a little bit generic times guy who's
mad at his boss. It doesn't really have a whole
lot of weight inside of the MCU. It very much
just kind of feels like the aftermath of Endgame. So
I think the biggest problem this movie has it doesn't
really have its true identity. And the best part of

(20:19):
this movie is how it sets up No Way Home.
Still a really great installment. I find a lot of
joy in rewatching this movie. At number seven, I have
Far from Home from twenty nineteen. At number six, I
have Spider Man into the Spider Verse from twenty eighteen.
I believe is the most inventive Spider Man movie of

(20:40):
all time. Even though it's not my favorite. I truly
respect and love this movie so much. At one point
it was my favorite. Probably right after I saw this,
I was like, that's the best Spider Man movie ever
because I love animation and it is so next level
and Into the Spider Verse. It gave us miles morales.
It has one of the best songs written for a

(21:00):
movie of all time. Sunflower not only a great movie song,
but if you look at the most streamed songs in
the world and in America, it is crossover and goes
beyond this movie. So you have that incredible soundtrack, incredible score,
has great humor. You have different Spider Men, which at

(21:21):
this time the multiverse was really just starting to pop off.
This is where a lot of that I feel was
rooted in and showing that this could be successful of
showing the same character but in different worlds from different universes.
That is what Into the Spider Verse gave us. It
showed us that being different comes with a lot of challenges,
but if you nail it, there are so many benefits

(21:44):
to being unlike anything that has ever been made before.
The animation was so crazy and took so much time,
and that is why we are still waiting on another installment,
But Miles Morales, I think has inspired so many kids
to see themselves in a superhero and I think that
is one of the things that has really resonated with me.

(22:07):
And this was one of those movies early on that
I realized man representation really is important. It was into
the Spider Verse and Black Panther that both actually happened
to come out in twenty eighteen. Was the first time
I really felt like, Man, I don't see anybody who's
not a white guy in these roles. The only weakness
I see is sometimes I feel the entire Spider Verse

(22:28):
concept overshadows Miles Morales a little bit, where I think
in the follow up to this, when you get more
of his story, more, you get that definitive Spider Man moment,
and in this one it was more about creating the
idea and creating the world. But a fantastic film. At
number six, I have into the Spider Verse getting into

(22:54):
the top five. Now at number five I have Spider
Man No Way Home from twenty twenty one. I think
this is the best Spider Man event, not necessarily the
best Spider Man movie, which I think is why some
people would fight me on this because you're remembering your emotions.
The fact that you get three Spider Man that is
next level. That is something I did not think whatever happened.

(23:16):
I didn't think they could get Toby Maguire back. I
didn't think Andrew Garfield could come back, much less get
them all together in one scene. Still gives me chill
bumps when they're all swinging together. The hard part about
rewatching this movie is seeing those spots that they left
in for crowd reaction. It feels a little bit awkward

(23:37):
rewatching this one before Brand New Day. It's a little
bit awkward when you first see Andrew Garfield and there's
kind of a pause for no reason. But they put
that in because they knew theaters were gonna go crazy.
People were gonna go nuts. I just think that moment
hasn't aged the best, and that is why this movie
ranks a little bit lower to me. Now, what I

(23:58):
changed that, No, because that moment is embedded in my
head where I have very few movie memories from going
to see movies in theaters that I can remember exactly
how I felt every single time. That is one of
those moments. So I would not take that away from
this movie, And I think another thing that hurts this
movie obviously doesn't hurt it too much because it's still

(24:21):
in my top five because having all those villains come back,
having all the three Spider Man just kind of trump
everything else that I feel negative towards this movie. But
I think the fact that this movie was made during
the pandemic. It feels like a COVID production where there's
a lot of questionable CGI. The one moment that sticks
out to me every time is when Andrew Garfield goes

(24:44):
to Saves and Deya where he gets this redemption moment.
When he sticks that landing, it looks bad. It is
so stiff, and you can tell that it's a three
D rendering of Andrew Garfield. Some of these visual moments
are hard to watch, but it doesn't take away from
the emotion of that scene of him finally getting his

(25:05):
redemption because of what happened to Gwenn Stacy and his
final installment. And then he's holding MJ and she's like,
are you okay? Man? I know you just saved me,
but I think you need a moment here. So all
of the emotion that this movie gives you overshadows all
of the tech aspects because you get that full effect

(25:27):
of oh, man, this is something that we just never
thought could happen. So at number five, I have no
way home. At number four, I have across the Spider
Verse from twenty twenty three, and primarily because it is
such an advancement in animation from the first one to
the second one. Even though this story is not complete,
this movie is loaded up. It is a chunky story,

(25:50):
It is a long run time for an animated movie.
The animation is insane. You have multiple animation styles in
any given frame, and I love seeing Miles grow so
much in this movie where he is more comfortable with
his powers. He is really owning the Spider Man's story
and across the Spider Verse and then Gwen's story. Oh,

(26:11):
at the beginning, the animation is beautiful, but I think
focusing so much on her character early on in that
first act where I remember watching it for the first
time in theaters and thinking, man, they're spending a lot
of time on Gwen's story. But it ends up becoming
so powerful and adds so much depth to this. So,
like I mentioned earlier, the only real negative part about
these first two installments is it feels like at times

(26:33):
Miles Morales is overshadowed because you have all these other characters,
But I think it doesn't hurt it too much because
all these other characters aren't really great. Has the fantastic soundtrack,
it is able to put things in that are comedic
without them feeling gimmicky, which I think is something that
MCU has kind of just like needed to get away

(26:55):
from of trying to be comedies. I don't need my
superhero movies to have comedic elements anymore, especially after watching
Brand New Day. I think that Marvel humor just kind
of needs to be pushed to the side. If by chance,
something happens to be funny, that's fine, but I think
we need to get away from that. But I think
in the Spider Verse movies, the comedy fits in a

(27:16):
little bit more naturally. And the only weak part about
this installment is it just feels like half a movie.
It ends and you're like, I need to see the
next part, And we were supposed to get it just
months after this one. I think it was initially supposed
to come out early twenty twenty four, and here we
are in twenty twenty six and it's supposed to come
out next year, in twenty twenty seven, but I'm not
believing it until there's a firm release date. I don't

(27:38):
even want to mention it, just because every time I
mention it, they're like, oh, it's actually pushed back to
another three months, another six months. You know what, You'll
get it eventually. So the only thing I hold against
this movie is it is one half. But once the
second movie is out and then on streaming, oh you
better believe I'm gonna watch all these movies in one
sitting because it'll finally be complete. So at number I

(28:00):
have Across the Spider Verse from twenty twenty three. At
number three, I have Spider Man from two thousand and two.
This was the movie that changed my life. It established
the modern superhero movie template, which I know before this
movie you had Blade and I'm primarily talking in Marvel
and making superhero movies a little bit more mainstream. Yes,

(28:23):
I know you had the Batman movies, you had the
X Men movies, but I think it was Spider Man
that truly proved that they could be something mainstream. Then
when it comes to Toby maguire as Peter Parker, he
was just extremely relatable, and to think the first time
you see him without a shirt that was like the
best physique ever in the two thousands, and then now

(28:43):
looking at the extreme links that Tom Holland or even
like Hugh Jackman in Wolverine and Deadpool have to go
through to now look ripped. I just remember seeing Toby
Maguire and thinking that dude does not look human. Look
how ripped he is. And now by today's standards, he
would just be average. You'd have people on TikTok ripping

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his body to shreds at this point of being like, oh,
this dude needs to get back into the gym. That
is how much the world has changed. But Willem Defoe's
Green Goblin is a classic, I think, the best Spider
Man villain in the films, even though it should be Venom,
but that is his definitive villain, which is something that
Tom Holland has a problem with now he doesn't really

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have his definitive villain. The origin story is incredibly efficient,
even though it is the one that we all know,
this is the one that is the standard. It has
probably the best on screen kiss in any superhero movie,
and maybe really any or maybe not any movie. Total
bias here, but the upside down kiss between Mary Jane

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and Spider Man perfect and the fact that Leonardo DiCaprio
at one point was considered for the role a Spider Man,
but it was back with James Cameron, the Titanic director
was developing a Spider Man movie that was much different.
That would have been really weird. That movie had as
Spider Man love scene, which would have been incredibly awkward.
The only question I have about this one, and why

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I put it at three and maybe if you asked
me three four years ago would have been maybe two
or one, is would this movie still be well received
if it came out today. I don't think so that.
I think if this movie came out now, it would
be mid And that is a sad thing to say,
but I think our expectations of a superhero movie have
changed so much. We would think that not much happened

(30:29):
in this story. It We'd be like, where are all
the cameos? Where's everybody else in this movie? Why is
somebody not revealed here? Where's the post credit scene? I
don't think Spider Man from two thousand and two would
be well received in twenty twenty six. But I love
this movie. At number three is Spider Man. At number
two is where I have Spider Man brand new day.

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I'm not saying it's the most important Spider Man movie,
but I'm saying it is the movie I have had
the most fun watching, the only movie on this list
that I have seen twice in theaters, and I loved
it even more the second time. We finally have Tom
Holland existing as Spider Man, with no references to Tony Stark,

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no Iron Man. All that is out the window. We
don't need that. It is Tom Holland Spider Man in
his own world. Do we have some other side characters, yes,
but it's not the focal point. It is Peter being
full time Spider Man, completely dedicating every single day to
fighting crime. Maybe a little bit too much because he
is burning the candle at both ends. He's not listening

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to his body. He is a workaholic. He is Spider
Man twenty four to seven, and a lot of the
movie is him dealing with the repercussions of that, and
it's the consequences of no Way Home. The emotional stakes
are at an all time high where it truly feels like
there's something on the line. In this movie, you have

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so much fantastic, well choreographed action that builds through every
every action sequence that happens. It's all important. Where I
feel sometimes in MCU movies now that the action is
just kind of filler. I love the New Avengers movie,
but I feel like some of those fighting sequences are
just there for the sake of Okay, we need a

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fighting sequence here. We're not really focused on the storytelling
at this point, but we just need a fighting sequence.
Let's put it in here. Not the case with Brand
New Day. Every fight scene is important. You have a
great villain. You also have just the right amount of humor.
Ja I was mentioning earlier, I don't want comedy in
the MCU anymore, but Spider Man does it so well

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because in the comics, in the nineties animated show that
I grew up watching, that is what Spider Man has.
That is his personality. He is quick witted, he says
things that just make you laugh because he is a teenager.
But he's not trying to be a stand up comedian.
It's not trying to be a comedy movie. But this
movie has the right amount of little comedic moments that

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are just there for the taking, and they happen. They
don't feel forced. So it is all the best elements
of Spider Man. You have a true Spider Man test
of the constant struggle. Can you be Spider Man? Can
you be Peter Parker? Are you allowed to have a
normal life or do you just have to succumb to
the life of a superhero. I would go watch this

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movie a third time. It is also making a buttload
of money, on track to make over two billion dollars
at least at the time of recording this, it could
have probably already hit that by this point. One of
the biggest superhero movies of all time, but also one
of the highest grossing movies of all time. I did
see Rosario Dawson said she filmed a scene that got cut,

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which has been a theme throughout this episode, and I
am interested to see what happens with her character because
she was a part of the Daredevil Netflix show. So
now I'm curious what other things we've been robbed of.
But I think this proves that Tom Holland I'll say
it is the best Spider Man, and even though he's

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not at number one with this movie, I feel like
my love for Brand New Day could grow, and I
did account for a little bit that I have some
recency bias just because I've just seen it twice. I'm
super hype on it. I have the popcorn bucket, I
have the cup, I have three T shirts I got
from Target from the Brand New Day collection that I
am so hype on this movie. So I felt like

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if I put it at number one, that would just
be me fully coming off of the hype when what
is at number one has been number one on my
list for a very long time now. But I think
this one is going to be very hard to beat
when it comes to Tom Holland doing another Spider Man movie,
which I do hope we get. As of now, they're
saying it's not off the table, but if we do

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get another one, it's going to be a very long time,
which if you look at the time between No Way
Home twenty twenty one Brand New Day twenty twenty six,
at least five years. At least five years, that's where
we are, so hopefully we're all still alive then. But
at number one, I have Spider Man two from two
thousand and four. Not only is it the best Spider

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Man movie of all time. It is what I believe
to be the most perfect superhero movie of all time.
It is such a complete story in the Spider Man
franchise because you cut out and you don't need any
more Oregon story. It gets right to it at the
very beginning of this movie. It also has the perfect

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balance of Peter Parker in Spider Man. It recreates one
of my favorite comic book covers of all time, Spider
Man No More, where you see Toby Maguire throw away
the Spider Man suit, him walking away in the alley
with a suit peeking out of the trash, a fantastic
and important moment in the Spider Man's story. Doc Ok

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is not the best villain inside of Toby maguire Spider Man.
It still goes to Green Goblin. But doc Ok is
simply not just evil. There is a lot of tragedy
to him, which I feel fleshes him out a little
bit more than the Green Goblin. I love. Alfred Molina
has my favorite quote from any Spider Man villain, the

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power of the Sun in the palm of my hand,
which that comes back later in No Way Home. And
I think the train sequence is such an important sequence
and so iconic of him trying to save all the
people on the runaway train, him throwing out the webs,
attaching himself to the buildings and trying to stop it
with his feet, showing how strong Spider Man is, almost

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ripping off his arms in the process, and then falling
and having the citizens of New York catch him. And
he does this without wearing a mask, which is super
important in the Spider Man's story of remaining anonymous, and
then all the people rally behind him. It is that
sense of New York, that sense of community, and even

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they tell him, hey, we're not going to tell anybody
who you are, they're surprised to see he is so young.
That is such a fantastic scene and so important that
that is why this movie ranks at the top of
my list. You also have a pretty tragic love story
where Peter Parker finally has the girl of his dreams
and MJ but because he is Spider Man, it is

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causing this distance between them, and eventually that distance is
too big and she ends up going with another dude.
And then you have his best friend, Harry Osborne, who
hates Spider Man and blaming him for his father's death
and all these things, all these relatable problems that he
is facing, causes his powers to randomly fail, the iconic

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scene of him not being able to swing his web
and then hurting his back, which again comes back up
later in No Way Home, leading him to decide that
he doesn't want to be Spider Man anymore. So it
is the ultimate test of Peter Parker, the true example
of what it means to be Spider Man and my
favorite superhero from beginning to end. So at number one,

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I have the best Spider Man movie of all time,
Spider Man two from two thousand and four. I'll come
back and give my spoiler free movie review of the
End of Oak Street. The End of Oak Street proves
that nobody, unless your name is Steven Spielberg, can make

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a dinosaur movie. But I think what I enjoyed and
respected of the End of Oak Street is it wasn't
trying to It didn't try to do a Steven Spielberg impression,
even though at times this movie felt very I would
say Amblen esque. But I think anytime we see dinosaurs
now we just constantly associated with Jurassic Park because they

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did it the best but there are even some weird
legalities on how much your dinosaurs can look like Steven
Spielberg dinosaurs, which I think is why we are never
going to get a masterful dinosaur movie that tops Jurassic Park.
It's just not going to happen. But the end of
Oak Street, I feel understood that and instead gave me

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something completely different. What this movie is about. You have
a suburban family, miss Anne Hathaway and mister McGregor. They
are living in this what seems like the perfect eighties town.
Their kids are growing up, they have a son, they
have a daughter. Everything seems perfect. They live on Oak Street,
where everybody is smiling, driving their cars and having a

(39:36):
good old time. Except you start to see everything is
not what it seems because mom Denise and dad greg
are actually going through a bit of a rough patch,
and you learn that they're trying to keep their marital
problems from their kids, but the kids are picking up
on it. You find their family at a bit of
a crossroads of are they gonna separate? And as this

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family drama is developing, all of a sudden, out of nowhere,
their entire street gets transported to this completely different prehistoric world.
What they start to experience are these bizarre flashes that
come out of nowhere. They're very intense. It gets very quiet,
and then these prehistoric things start popping out. You have
prehistoric plants, you have prehistoric poop, and they're trying to

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figure out what is going on in their neighborhood until
one day the flashes so large and they wake up
and realize they're not on Oak Street anymore, and instead
their entire street is now surrounded by this prehistoric forest.
You have dinosaurs just flying out of nowhere, running around
like crazy, terrorizing the neighborhood. What surprised me the most

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about this movie is how much fun it was, and
I think that was hard for me. Oh I hate
going into a movie when somebody tells me it's just
gonna be fun, just have a good time, because that
always tells me that it's not that good. And I
think if I knew that going into this movie, I
would have fell a little bit differently. It was an
adjustment period of me getting used to the type of

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action because I think what I know unfairly from dinosaur
movies is what I've learned from Jurassic Park, and what
the end of Oak Street does we get a lot
of broad daylight dinosaurs, And what I found is that
broad daylight dinosaurs are not as scary, are not as intense.
It adds a bit of a comedic element to it
when you see them terrorizing people in broad daylight. What

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Jurassic Park does so well is create that intensity where
sometimes you don't even see the dinosaur. You just hear it.
You see maybe it's snout, you see a foot, But
it builds upon that tension of when you can't really
see them in the dark. Primarily that was due to
in the nineties when the first movie came out a
lot of limitations when it came to the CGI used
a lot of practical effects. Real dinosaurs were built in

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that movie, so it was masking the filmmaking process. In
the end of Oak Street, you have very advanced computer
graphics that can just put the dinosa wherever it needs
to be. But what I found is that takes away
kind of from the mystique and the aura of the
dinosaur because they are on screen for a majority of
the time. So if you're somebody who watches Jurassic Park

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and thinks, man, this needs more dinosaurs, it's a dinosaur movie.
The end of Oak Street gives you that, So I
think what this movie tried to do differently is not
do a Jurassic Park impression, but instead build this world
where dinosaurs are there just like every other animal. It's
a little bit less intense because in Jurassic Park, when
a dinosaur is on screen, it is very memorable, it

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is very calculated. In this movie, they are around all
the time that it starts to feel normal, and I
think what it ended up doing was making the dinosaurs
feel like less of a threat and it became less
of a dinosaur movie and more a story about this
family going through something traumatic, which I think the entire
movie was kind of a metaphor because you see their

(42:55):
marriage falling apart at the beginning of the movie, and
then suddenly they can't think about it anymore because they
have to survive. They have to be a family. Mom, dad, sister,
brother all have to work together to find a way
out of what seems like an impossible situation. The other
thing I enjoyed about the end of Oak Street is

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they don't spend a lot of time explaining what happened,
because I think this is a story that could have
fallen in that pit of them trying to uncover why
they got transported into this prehistoric world, trying to uncover
this mystery. It is just a mystery for the sake
of being a mystery, and I commend them for doing
that because I think oftentimes these stories fall so much

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into wanting to explain every single detail through a long
drawn out backstory, boring the audience. This movie trimmed a
lot of the fat. Being right around under an hour
and forty minutes, I think was great. It packs a
lot of action into that time. It doesn't spend a
lot of time on the why. It just focuses on

(43:58):
the now. A big fan of eliminating the boring backstory
and just giving us the meat. Like a good punk
rock song, you trim all the fat, you give me
the three chords, wham bam, get me in, get me out,
and leave me with something to chew on, and I
think that is what this story had. My biggest problem
with the end of Oak Street is I feel the
action lacked a lot of intensity. There were moments where

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I felt them really trying to put the foot on
the gas, but it never really quite got there. It
became less about the dinosaurs and more about the people.
And I think when I accepted that fact, and I
really leaned into Anne Hathaway's performance, who has been having
a fantastic year, Once it leaned more into their story
and them just banding together as a family trying to

(44:41):
save their neighborhood. Once I understood the mission, it really
allowed me to enjoy the story more, where it's more
about what they are going through as a family than
them trying to run away from dinosaurs. The style very
much felt like a throwback to me of those action
comedies from the eighties and the nineties and less like
what I was expecting from a twenty twenty six dinosaur movie.

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But it kind of just shows you that it is
so hard to make a dinosaur movie because Jurassic Park
has left such an impression on us that that's kind
of what we expect. But it wasn't like my last
worst dinosaur movie, sixty five with Adam Driver, that was
a really bad time. In that movie, I felt the
dinosaurs were completely wasted. I think the dinosaurs in the

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end of Oak Street actually looked pretty good and probably
more what actual dinosaurs looked. You see some feathered dinosaurs
which according to science is probably more what they look
like like big chickens instead of the t rex that
we know from Jurassic Park. They also have to walk
that line because they can't copy the designs exactly from
Jurassic Park, otherwise Steven Spielberg is gonna sue them. So

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for me, my love of dinosaurs was reignited earlier this
year with coincidentally, Steven Spielberg put out a documentary on
Netflix about dinosaurs, and it really helped me kind of
frame how long dinosaurs were act living. And I always
thought that once the asteroid hit all dinosaurs were gone immediately,
but knowing them that some of them had to suffer

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in the process and went on living on a desolate
planet searching for food. Eventually, the biggest and strongest did
die out. From that, I think it helped me put
into perspective how old this world actually is and how
many cycles of life we have been through, because I
just kind of thought that all dinosaurs lived at the
exact same time, but the Earth has changed climates all

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throughout history and the dinosaurs have adapted. There were some
that only thrived in hot environments. When it got colder,
there were some that adapted to that. They grew feathers,
they grew wasts to keep themselves warm, and then when
the world got hot again, those started dining out. So
it helped me grasp that concept of not all dinosaurs
were living at the exact same time and they didn't

(46:52):
all die once the asteroid hit. That reignited my love
for dinosaurs. That's why I was excited going into this movie.
I ended up really falling for these characters. I think
this movie reminded me how great and Hathaway is in
a physical role. Truly one of the best actors working
right now. I have one more of her movies to
complete my Ann Hathaway gauntlet this year, because she's released five.

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Verity is coming out at the end of the year,
so then I'll probably do a ranking of all and
Hathaway movies that came out in twenty twenty six. But
for the end of Oakstreet, it teeters on that line
of being a three point five and being a four.
I think seeing it in theaters did kind of push
it over into the four territory. If none of this
sounds enticing to you, if you're not into dinosaur movies,

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if you don't like I don't really want to call
it cheesy action, but almost family friendly action. Even though
it does get a little bit bloody at times you
do see people die in the movie, it still doesn't
feel as intense as I was expecting it to feel
when it came to the violence. But if you don't
like that and don't end up seeing it in theaters,

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I feel the streaming experience is probably more a three
point five. But for me, after seeing the end of
Oak Street in theaters, I give it four out of five.
Dinosaur clause, it's time to head down to movie Mike
Traylor Park. This is one of the most interesting movies
dropping this year to me because it is about a

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show that I consider kind of a guilty pleasure show.
And I'll tell you why. If ever, there was something
going wrong in my life where maybe I didn't get
a job I was going after that I interviewed for Girl,
I asked out said, nah, I'm good. If I just
ever felt like, man, I'm not doing well in life,

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I would go watch To Catch a Predator because I
would watch this show and think, man, at least I'm
not that guy. What I learned from To Catch a
Predator aside from the fact that these are just horrible
dudes and the most just people on this planet. You
do not want to exist doing the most heinous of crime.
Aside from that, it made me value my freedom because

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immediately I thought, well, the thing about to catch a
predator is they were always told by Chris Hansen that
you are free to leave at anytime because he's not
an officer. He has no way of keeping these people here.
And I think we kind of forgot that this was
just a TV show. And I love that the trailer
shows that that it was just a TV show, meant

(49:25):
to be sensational, meant to get ratings. But it made
me value my freedom because I always watched the show,
I thought, man, at least I'm not that guy, because
that guy is the worst guy and he is blasted
on national television. As long as I don't find myself
in that chair from across Chris Hansen, I am doing
okay in Live. So whenever I was feeling down like

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life was just a struggle, I always thought it could
be worse, and it made me value my freedom because
as soon as they left, even though Chris Hansen himself
couldn't do anything, they had police on the other side
of that door, waiting for them to get Sometimes they
start running, sometimes they would go peacefully. But in that moment,
I realized, Man, the thing I value the most in

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life is not being for something just horrendous. But let's
talk about Prime Time starring Robert Pattinson, and this movie
will follow the show during the height of its success.
You have a former NBC Universal chief playing himself in
this movie, telling Chris Hansen, I don't really like your show,

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but America loves it. You also have one of my
favorite artists in this movie that I cannot wait to see.
She's kind of like flirted with the idea of being
an actor, started out doing commercials, but I cannot wait
for this A big year for her. We'll talk about that.
And the question I have for this trailer, park is
would you have an issue being cast as one of

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the predators into Catch a Predator? It is coming out
in theaters on September twenty fifth. Before I get into more,
here is just a little bit of the I'm Time trailer.
Are you sure your parents are known? I'm sure? Big
Night plan. Who are you? She have a seat right there.

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I'm Chris Hansen with Dayline NBC, and we're doing a
story on adults who try to meet teens online. You
see how this looks, right. I don't really like your show,
but America loves it, so I need to move you.
To Catch a Predator nine pm, Primetime gotta be bigger
than Lost. So this movie will take place during the

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height of the show's success from two thousand and four
to two thousand and seven, when it ran on Dateline
in BC. First up, let's talk about that question. If
you were an actor who got cast and your agent
comes to you saying, I got a great role for you.
It is a movie called Primetime about Chris Hansen and
To Catch a Predator And you're like, oh, man, yes,

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am I gonna be playing Chris Hansen? No, you're not
gonna be playing Chris Hansen? All right? Am I gonna
be playing like one of the guys who gets hired
to come be one of the kids. But you're really
an adult. Nope, don't tell me I'm one of the predators.
Am I one of the predators? Yes, you are one
of the predators. And that is actually what happened to
Tony rev LOWRII, who you might know as Flash in
the Spider Man Tom Holland series, even though he wasn't

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in the last movie. What you heard in that trailer
was him being one of the predators going over to
what he believed to be was an underage kids house,
and then you see him being confronted by Robert Pattinson.
I would have some dilemmas with this because think about
it as an actor also, at this level, it's probably
hard to get a good job, a good gig that's

(52:44):
just like solid. It's gonna have some visibility. Here you are,
it's an a twenty four film. You're starring alongside Robert Pattinson,
who is having a fantastic year. We'll get into that
here in a second. But it's a legit role, and
you are playing a predator. Think about acting as well.
That is what you are doing. You aren't acting, You
are not this real person. You are just putting on

(53:06):
a costume, putting on a face, and portraying one of
these people. The problem when it comes to predators, I
have to imagine it's gonna be so hard for them
to be associated with that. I think about the process
I'm having to go out and promote this movie because
you're already in the trailer. It's one of the predators.
And the weird part is you can play a murderer

(53:28):
in a movie and nobody thinks twice about it. That
is so common. You play a bad guy, you're killing people,
you're doing awful things. Because you even think about World
War two movies, somebody has to play Hitler and actors have,
but for some reason, when it comes to portraying a predator,
it just feels different, like it is hard to disassociate.
It is hard not to say, I don't know if

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I want to take that role. Like me, as a
straight man, i'd have no problem being cast in a movie.
Or I have to play a gay guy. I could
do that no problem in that sense. I am just acting.
But it would be so hard for me to take
this role, just because I feel this is one of
those things where kind of like Harry Potter always gets
known for playing Harry Potter. Daniel Radcliffe, I think this

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is unfortunately one of those roles that is just going
to go down in your resume that people are not
going to be able to differentiate and they're gonna look
at you a different way. I think eventually I would
say you know what, this is a great opportunity. I
want to be in a movie with Robert Pattinson. At
the end of the day, it is just acting, I

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honestly think, more so than the public perception. It is
the fact that a casting director or maybe the director
themselves looked at a picture of you or saw an
audition tape and said, Yep, that's our Predator. This is
gonna sell my movie. Cast them right away and pay
the money. I think that's what gets to me is
just the fact that somebody could look at me and
say like, oh, yeah, Predator, you need one. That is

(54:57):
the guy for you. But starring alongside Robert Pattinson, I
think for me would take all that away. That the
money obviously, And when it comes to Robert Pattinson, I
think I would just want to work with him because
he has been crushing it lately. I think if you
look at his last five roles earlier this year, he
was in The Odyssey, which I think he had the

(55:18):
standout quote for that movie, somebody get these beggers out
of here like that is one of the quotes I
see a lot on TikTok big important role in that movie.
Even though he's not the main star. I think his
character was so impactful and so memorable that movie is
going to do wonders for his career as far as
people not thinking that he is Edward Cullen in every

(55:41):
single movie, because just in these last five films that
I'm going to talk about, I think it has taken
all the way to this one to The Odyssey for
people to see him differently. Earlier this year, he was
in the Drama, which is fantastic, one of my top
five movies of the year as of now. Die My
Love was a movie he did last year with Jennifer

(56:03):
Lawrence that I thought he gave us all of that movie.
I think that movie was not as weird as I
needed it to be. It was about their relationship, which
is very toxic. They live out in the middle of nowhere.
The movie is very abstract, and his character is not
a likable person whatsoever. In that I still think that

(56:23):
movie showed how good of an actor he is. Him
and Jennifer Lawrence, pound for pound, are two of the
best actors working in Hollywood right now. I just think
the story wasn't that strong in that movie. It was
probably not really meant for me anyway, but still showing
us that he is not afraid to take a role
that takes him out of his comfort zone. Before that,

(56:45):
Mickey seventeen from twenty twenty five as well wasn't well received.
I think the movie itself was a little bit more
style than substance. I enjoyed that movie in theaters, but
I feel like it was at the end of it
a little bit hard to connect with just because it
was a little bit more comedic. But I think what
we got in that was showing us that Robert Pattinson

(57:06):
has kind of a knack for accents, and you hear
it here also in Primetime where he's doing an impression
of Chris Hansen. He is really good at that, and
I don't think he gets enough credit for all of
the different accents that he uses because I think some
people even forget he's not American, but he knows an
American accent really well. He does a Chris Hanson accent

(57:27):
and impression really well in Primetime. And Mickey seventeen was
a role unlike anything we'd ever seen him in before,
a lot more comedic, and his voice in that was
truly unique in one of the standout qualities from his
performance and before that, in twenty twenty two, he was
Bruce Wayne and Batman in The Batman, and I think

(57:49):
that is the movie, even in twenty twenty two that
people still saw him as Edward Collen. I remember when
that movie came out, people were like, it is just
hard for me to see anybody else but Edward as
the Batman, and especially with that version of the Batman
being a little bit more emo because he has like
the face paint under his eyes. He's a little bit

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more moody, kind of more of a recluse. He's not
really the playboy Bruce Wayne that we all know from
the previous films, and I think maybe that didn't help
his case. But he has been in so many great movies.
Talk about The Lighthouse, you talk about movies like Good Time,
where he has given really incredible performances. I think he

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is an actor who values working with great directors and
taking roles that challenge him. And I feel like he
looks at his filmography as this body of work where
he needs to fit in these different holes that he
hasn't filled in before. He's like, all right, I've done
my big franchises. I want to do a really low
budget movie with just meet another ALUs star. I want

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to do a movie that's totally wacky and out of nowhere,
and I feel like him stepping into doing a bio
pic of soul Worts is another box that he's just
trying to check in his vast history of doing great movies.
He is one of those bankable actors for me that
I can trust just because he is in it. His
name alone draws me to a film that I will

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watch every single thing that he puts out, because I
don't know that I would be super excited about this
movie if he wasn't attached to it. I love that
the trailer shows that the show was meant to be sensational,
and you see them pull back the curtain and show
Chris Hansen kind of getting amped up and being excited,

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because when I watched this show back in the day,
I always thought that they were serving justice in a
very just black and white way, that they were only
doing this because it was the right thing to do.
I think us as viewers, that's what we thought. We
in our hits thought these are awful people. They would
show all of their exchanges online, which was disgusting. And

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then the actual confrontations then were just so I think
alarming to us because they actually get them there with
the decoy in the beginning, which I think was the
most bizarre thing. And this movie is going to show
how actually this was a dangerous situation because you didn't
really have somebody who was trained to do this, even

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though they had law enforcement waiting for them outside. It
was a TV production. Things could have gone wrong, and
later in the history of the show, they did go wrong.
That is why it went off the air, and I
have to imagine they are going to discuss that and
address that in this movie. But this trailer shows me
that they were just creating a TV show that he

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wanted to be bigger than Lost. He cared about ratings,
He cared about those things, and that was a big
motivation behind the show. So I watched it thinking, oh,
they're just serving justice. This is fantastic, which it was
great that they were showing these people for who they were,
posing the dangers of the internet and having parents be

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more aware of what their kids are doing online. We
thought that that was just a public service. This is
out here just to inform us, but it was really
behind the scenes them creating something sensational that was kind
of like watching a car wreck where we all turn
our heads to watch it because it's so tragic and something.
For some reason, we can't look away from those awkward

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interactions and them getting tackled by law enforcement. We watched
that because we couldn't look away because it was so disgusting,
because it was so harmful. But behind the scenes, they
weren't just creating a TV show. So I think this
movie will open our eyes a little bit if they
haven't been opened to how there are always motivations behind

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things that people put out, and it's usually money fame.
So just keep your eyes open whenever you're being sold
something that is seen as just them doing something good
for the sake of doing something good. Always look at
their intentions and where the money leads. Follow that trail
and you will find the true intention. The other thing

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I am excited about when it comes to prime Time
is Phoebe Bridgers is a cast member in this movie.
I am a huge fan of Phoebe Bridgers' music and
have been for a very long time. She has blown
up now she's about to go on an arena tour.
Just put out a new album this Friday that I
am completely loving sad music. Not even just sad music,

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but depressing music is my favorite genre. They're sad music
and then they're just depressing music that you listen to
and just feel depressed all over again listening to it.
I love her music. And I was just searching through
my email recently and I found a receipt from a
Phoebe Bridges show from twenty eighteen. I believe where I
pay twenty eight dollars to see your live and now

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tickets to see her are minimum like one hundred and
fifty at an arena show just shows you the power
of inflation. That I thought, eh, I don't know if
I can pay that much because I feel like sad
music and depressing music doesn't really translate to an arena show.
So I thought, you know what, I might just sit
this one out. I've seen her live before, but she
is one of my favorite artists. She was in a

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movie that came out a couple of years ago, or
maybe a few years ago at this point, called I
Saw the TV Glow where she's kind of been stepping
into acting. Even though she didn't have a line in
that movie, she was actually a part of a band
that was performing where some of the characters went to
She had a song on the soundtrack. And when she
started out, she actually started out doing commercials. I think

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if you searched it on YouTube, she did like a
commercial for Taco Bell back in the day. But I
would say top five artists for me, and a lot
of my top five artists have recently ventured into acting.
Phoebe Bridges I put on that list, Tyler to the
Creator I put on that list, and Bad Bunny. All
those people are in my top five musicians have now

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kind of stepped their way into acting. We were all
so seeing a lot of actors kind of set their
foot into the music door recently. So I'm excited to
see her performance in this movie. It's a big year
for her because, like I mentioned, that album that just
came out on Friday was our first album in six years,
and I would just put out into the universe. I

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would love to have Phoebe Ritters on this show to
talk about her role in Primetime, see if we can
make that happen. But if you like sat depressing music,
I recommend checking out her album from Well. She has
the new album, but my favorite album is Punisher. Kyoto
is probably one of my favorite songs of all time.
But this is one of the movies I'm the most

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curious about this year. It is coming out in theaters
on September twenty fifth. And that was this week's edition
of Movie Mike Trailer Bars, and that is going to
do it for another episode here of the podcast. But
before I go, I gotta give my listeners shout out
of the week this week. I'm going over to my

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Instagram comments. I posted a real last week talking to
director Lee Kirk, who has Nimrods, a Green Day comedy,
out in theaters this week. If you missed that interview,
just go back one in the feed. But I am
shouting out Tyler, who left me a comments on a
clip of that interview and said you did an awesome
job on your interview with Lee. Great episode. Thank you

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everybody who sent in nice comments and messages about that
interview Lee with somebody that I watch Nimrods. I love
that movie. I think he's a really great dude and
thought you guys should get to know him as well.
So if you're still looking for someone to go watch
in theaters and you've already seen Spider Man once and
twice like I have. I love Green Day, Go check
out Nimrods. But thank you for listening, thank you for

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being subscribed, and until next time, go out and watch
good movies and I will talk to you Ter