August 1, 2025 • 7 mins
Dr. Bob Thompson has the latest entertainment news including Naked Gun reboot premiers today!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone line is
our Friday favorite. At the same time, it's doctor Bob Thompson,
Professor of Pop Culture, Syracuse University, Doctor Bob Boy. The
big story when it comes to streaming has been Happy
Gilmore too. Last weekend I think was the debut weekend
Bob and it broke Netflix.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, it was what forty six point seven million views?
I guess is the number were using this. I think
Netflix's biggest opening ever. It's got a long way to
go to catch some of the other movies overall, but
their biggest opening ever. And this is what he's done them.
What ten or eleven Netflix original movies over the years,
(00:43):
Murder Mystery and what was it called Hustle the week
of and my favorite and a lot of people don't
agreement with me on this, but Hube Halloween I thought
was a really good Halloween movie.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I you know what, that's funny you said that too.
It was.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
We watched it came out a couple of years ago.
And he's got a weird kind of voice and accent
in it, but he's, uh, it is, it's charming, and
it's it's really well done, and he's got a lot
of cameos, which seems to be his secret sauces. He
has all of his actor you know, buddies and pals
in these movies, and there's a bunch of them in
Happy Gimwore as well.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, and if you draw the line on weird accent
and voice for Adam Sandler, that draws the line through
about everyone of the film, right. But yeah, that that
Halloween one, it was and you know kind of that
was one of his early direct for Netflix, if I'm
not mistaken anyway. To me, it captured that whole look
(01:39):
and the colors of what the Hollyween of my childhood
in the late sixties was was like, even though it
wasn't set there anyway. So for whatever it is, And
the reviews are almost I think you even mentioned this
last week. The reviews are all, you know, this is
the stupidest thing in the world.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
But dot I loved it, right.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Adam Sandler, As you know, I hate that it sounds
like a completely overwrought comparison, but guys like Chaplain who
completely carved out their own kind of look and style
and all that kind of thing. For whatever else you
say about Adam Sandler, nobody else makes an Adam Sandler
(02:21):
movie like Adam Sandler does.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
It's well said, It's true. He definitely has a style
and a feel. And also so he had the success
with Happy Gilmore too, and people are also going back
and watching the nineteen ninety six original Happy Gillmore too.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
That's like a top ten ovie on Netflix as well.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
You're right, I read about that. I think it's number
three on the global top ten Netflix week Yeah, this week,
and that was what nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yep, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I'm glad you brought that up.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, so let's go to the big screen.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You've got Well Fantastic four expecting to be number one
of the box office again this weekend. And you've got
the You've got this, the reboot of The Naked Gun
starring this odd couple of Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
And I think they're actually a couple now too.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah. I mean, this Naked Gun thing goes back a
long way in movies, of course, back to eighty eight
and then the couple more in the nineties. And I'm
sure you remember this the TV show which started it
all back in nineteen ninety two, and it was one
of those situations where it became a cult classic. People
(03:30):
talked about it, but it only went six episodes. That
was back when you could make a really great TV show,
but if you didn't get like twenty million people to
watch it, it got canceled. And shows like that. You
couldn't get twenty million people, None of the Wire wouldn't
have stayed on the air. The breaking bad when the
(03:51):
Sopranos wouldn't have made it back in that period. But anyway,
it went six episodes. They're not as good as the
movies would be when they started out later. But this
scene's been going since nineteen eighty two if you count that.
And that wasn't called naked gun. It was called police squad.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
That's right, Police squad, and.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Of course color, police squad in.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Color, that's right, Leslie Nielson. Of course, I think he
was really was the secret sauce in bringing those movies
to life. And now Liam Neeson will play Frank Dredden Junior.
We'll see how that goes this week with Pamela Anderson.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I've scene he looks like he's really managing to carry
his way. You're right, it's kind of like, how can
how can anybody do this, but that's not Leslie Nielsen.
But the clips I've scene looked pretty look pretty good.
I'm hoping to see it before the weekend.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah, let us well when we talk again next time,
let us know how that is. And movies that are
coming out shortly, The new Wakanda and the Avatar trailers
are out.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
What do you think about those?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah, well, the Avatar promo drops just drup today and
that's the four episode animated series, but it's done by
executive produced anyway by the director of Avatars, so that's
Disney plus and that looks really beautiful, I mean, lush animation,
and of course Will Conda's got that whole look to it.
(05:18):
The third Black Panther movie doesn't have a date yet,
although they just announced that they're trying to create a
role for Denzel Washington and there was some speculation that
might be out by twenty twenty seven. But while you're
waiting for that third Black Panther movie, Eyes of Wakanda debuts.
I think I'm not sure what it's actually coming out,
(05:40):
but anyway, we saw it. Actually, I think that not
just the trailer, I think that show drops today. I
think you can watch those four episodes today. I'm better
go check that anyway. Avatar the third movie, which, as
you remember, the second movie was what Way of the
Water or Way of Water whatever? That was used to
(06:00):
be this third movie was They were supposed to be together,
but it got so long, I guess they decided to
break it into two. And that comes out the nineteenth
December nineteenth, So that'll be the third movie. Do you
remember back in what was that nine something like that,
when that first one came out. That was to me
(06:20):
when three D truly became mature.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
That was a big deal when that first one came out. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I mean, three D has been around for a long time,
and there had been other three D movies, but that
was like the three D reaching adulthood. And I'm one
of the few people who actually got a three D television.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Set, did you really?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
And of course they were a pain. You had to
put these The TV set was expensive enough, and then
each one of these electronic glasses godless you had to
put on were like one hundred and fifty dollars apiece,
so if you had you know, four people over, it
was a very expensive process. But I remember they only
made a few three D DVDs back then, and then
(07:02):
Avatar was one of them, So I remember whenever anybody
would come over, I'd pull out the glasses that movie.
I must have seen it a hundred times because that
and The Great Gatsby were the only ones I had.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Where is that TV? Now, Bob? Is it you?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I have not had it on for a while, but
it's uh still. It never broke down, so it ought
to still be uh functional. Sometimes things you don't use
a lot quit working. Yeah, I have a car in
my driveway that will testify to that.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Actually, yeah, hey Bob, how much they weren't bad those
three three D movies or three D TVs at about
the twenty twelve era.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
We're we're not that bad.
On the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone line is
our Friday favorite. At the same time, it's doctor Bob Thompson,
Professor of Pop Culture, Syracuse University, Doctor Bob Boy. The
big story when it comes to streaming has been Happy
Gilmore too. Last weekend I think was the debut weekend
Bob and it broke Netflix.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, it was what forty six point seven million views?
I guess is the number were using this. I think
Netflix's biggest opening ever. It's got a long way to
go to catch some of the other movies overall, but
their biggest opening ever. And this is what he's done them.
What ten or eleven Netflix original movies over the years,
(00:43):
Murder Mystery and what was it called Hustle the week
of and my favorite and a lot of people don't
agreement with me on this, but Hube Halloween I thought
was a really good Halloween movie.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I you know what, that's funny you said that too.
It was.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
We watched it came out a couple of years ago.
And he's got a weird kind of voice and accent
in it, but he's, uh, it is, it's charming, and
it's it's really well done, and he's got a lot
of cameos, which seems to be his secret sauces. He
has all of his actor you know, buddies and pals
in these movies, and there's a bunch of them in
Happy Gimwore as well.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, and if you draw the line on weird accent
and voice for Adam Sandler, that draws the line through
about everyone of the film, right. But yeah, that that
Halloween one, it was and you know kind of that
was one of his early direct for Netflix, if I'm
not mistaken anyway. To me, it captured that whole look
(01:39):
and the colors of what the Hollyween of my childhood
in the late sixties was was like, even though it
wasn't set there anyway. So for whatever it is, And
the reviews are almost I think you even mentioned this
last week. The reviews are all, you know, this is
the stupidest thing in the world.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
But dot I loved it, right.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Adam Sandler, As you know, I hate that it sounds
like a completely overwrought comparison, but guys like Chaplain who
completely carved out their own kind of look and style
and all that kind of thing. For whatever else you
say about Adam Sandler, nobody else makes an Adam Sandler
(02:21):
movie like Adam Sandler does.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
It's well said, It's true. He definitely has a style
and a feel. And also so he had the success
with Happy Gilmore too, and people are also going back
and watching the nineteen ninety six original Happy Gillmore too.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
That's like a top ten ovie on Netflix as well.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
You're right, I read about that. I think it's number
three on the global top ten Netflix week Yeah, this week,
and that was what nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yep, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I'm glad you brought that up.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, so let's go to the big screen.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You've got Well Fantastic four expecting to be number one
of the box office again this weekend. And you've got
the You've got this, the reboot of The Naked Gun
starring this odd couple of Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
And I think they're actually a couple now too.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah. I mean, this Naked Gun thing goes back a
long way in movies, of course, back to eighty eight
and then the couple more in the nineties. And I'm
sure you remember this the TV show which started it
all back in nineteen ninety two, and it was one
of those situations where it became a cult classic. People
(03:30):
talked about it, but it only went six episodes. That
was back when you could make a really great TV show,
but if you didn't get like twenty million people to
watch it, it got canceled. And shows like that. You
couldn't get twenty million people, None of the Wire wouldn't
have stayed on the air. The breaking bad when the
(03:51):
Sopranos wouldn't have made it back in that period. But anyway,
it went six episodes. They're not as good as the
movies would be when they started out later. But this
scene's been going since nineteen eighty two if you count that.
And that wasn't called naked gun. It was called police squad.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
That's right, Police squad, and.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Of course color, police squad in.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Color, that's right, Leslie Nielson. Of course, I think he
was really was the secret sauce in bringing those movies
to life. And now Liam Neeson will play Frank Dredden Junior.
We'll see how that goes this week with Pamela Anderson.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I've scene he looks like he's really managing to carry
his way. You're right, it's kind of like, how can
how can anybody do this, but that's not Leslie Nielsen.
But the clips I've scene looked pretty look pretty good.
I'm hoping to see it before the weekend.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah, let us well when we talk again next time,
let us know how that is. And movies that are
coming out shortly, The new Wakanda and the Avatar trailers
are out.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
What do you think about those?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah, well, the Avatar promo drops just drup today and
that's the four episode animated series, but it's done by
executive produced anyway by the director of Avatars, so that's
Disney plus and that looks really beautiful, I mean, lush animation,
and of course Will Conda's got that whole look to it.
(05:18):
The third Black Panther movie doesn't have a date yet,
although they just announced that they're trying to create a
role for Denzel Washington and there was some speculation that
might be out by twenty twenty seven. But while you're
waiting for that third Black Panther movie, Eyes of Wakanda debuts.
I think I'm not sure what it's actually coming out,
(05:40):
but anyway, we saw it. Actually, I think that not
just the trailer, I think that show drops today. I
think you can watch those four episodes today. I'm better
go check that anyway. Avatar the third movie, which, as
you remember, the second movie was what Way of the
Water or Way of Water whatever? That was used to
(06:00):
be this third movie was They were supposed to be together,
but it got so long, I guess they decided to
break it into two. And that comes out the nineteenth
December nineteenth, So that'll be the third movie. Do you
remember back in what was that nine something like that,
when that first one came out. That was to me
(06:20):
when three D truly became mature.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
That was a big deal when that first one came out. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I mean, three D has been around for a long time,
and there had been other three D movies, but that
was like the three D reaching adulthood. And I'm one
of the few people who actually got a three D television.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Set, did you really?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
And of course they were a pain. You had to
put these The TV set was expensive enough, and then
each one of these electronic glasses godless you had to
put on were like one hundred and fifty dollars apiece,
so if you had you know, four people over, it
was a very expensive process. But I remember they only
made a few three D DVDs back then, and then
(07:02):
Avatar was one of them, So I remember whenever anybody
would come over, I'd pull out the glasses that movie.
I must have seen it a hundred times because that
and The Great Gatsby were the only ones I had.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Where is that TV? Now, Bob? Is it you?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I have not had it on for a while, but
it's uh still. It never broke down, so it ought
to still be uh functional. Sometimes things you don't use
a lot quit working. Yeah, I have a car in
my driveway that will testify to that.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Actually, yeah, hey Bob, how much they weren't bad those
three three D movies or three D TVs at about
the twenty twelve era.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
We're we're not that bad.
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