In this episode, Movie Mike and Kelsey share the best and worst movies they watched in the last month. They also added movies they have reviewed after seeing them in theaters but are now available for you to stream at home. In the movie review, Mike gives his thoughts on Hulu’s alien invasion thriller called “No One Will Save You” and why he split on how he feels about the movie. In the Trailer Park, Mike is hyped about the first look at The Toxic Adventure and breaks down the history of the B-Horror Movie. Mike also shares why he thinks of the first look at images from Joker 2 which is coming out a year from now.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike, joined this week by my
wife and coas Kelsey. How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm great.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
You ready to talk about the movies we've seen in
the last thirty days.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yeah, it just feels like hows another month gone by?
R els feel like we get to this point in
the year and like times, just like flying.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
It's about to just evaporate. But yes, we'll get into
all of our best and worst picks of the month.
In the movie review, I'll be talking about No One
Will Save You, the movie that I feel like infiltrated
social media and everybody was going crazy for. So I'll
give you my thoughts on that movie. We'll get into
the trailer park. We'll do all that. Thank you for listening,
Thank you for being subscribed, Shout out to the Monday
(00:37):
Morning Movie crew. And now let's talk movies.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
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Speaker 1 (01:03):
All right, our best and worst. We'll be talking about
movies that we watched in September, which overall was a
pretty slow month for movies. I think out of all
the months of us going to the movies, this year
was probably the least amount of time we spent there. Yeah.
I feel like it's because right at the end of summer,
with August, you get all the great movies, all those
(01:25):
final summer blockbusters coming out, and then things just kind
of slow down. In September, it inevitably becomes a dumb month,
which is where studios just put out movies that aren't
really anticipated to do very well. So it's kind of
like a hodgepodge of here's some random movies to come
out and take it for what you will.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
But again, I also wonder why put out a movie
you don't think it's going to do well? Are they
all tax right offs?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Not?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Maybe not do well isn't the way to put it.
But it's you put it out at a time where
it's less competitive because you have all the summer movies
where everybody's just fighting every single weekend, and then when
people go back to work, go back to school, back
on a normal schedule. In September, it's like, hey, let's
put out some movies that we really don't have any
(02:11):
other place in the year to put them because we
already missed out on the January February window.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah, because it's weird because then you start like November.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Oh yeah, we're about to get into some good stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
And then you like ramp up and then you've got
Oscar Contenders. Spring's a little slower, and then you've got summer. Seeah,
I guess for a couple months in the spring, and
then like a month or so.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
And I's in the fall. I still think my favorite
time of the year is summer blockbuster season. I mean,
we went to the movies so much this summer.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I love Summer Blockbuster season. But I also really like
all the ones that come out in November December.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, I feel like that's where the really the best
movies come out. You get one or two, like really
impactful summer movies that everybody loves that I feel like
this year only will I guess Barbie and Oppenheimer will
be probably in contention for Oscars. But yeah, in that
November December window, you get some really great ones. So
we're going to talk about our best and worst of September.
(03:04):
You want to start it off, I can do that.
What was your best movie you saw?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Okay? Well, it's actually going to be a movie that
only I saw. You did not go see it with me.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Which is a rare occurrence. And I think a question
I get a lot is do you go see every
single movie.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
With me unless it's scary?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah? And then this is the first time in a
long time where you've gone to seeing a movie without me.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yes. I had a friend in town and she loves
like a good indie movie as well. She always goes
to south By sees all the films that come out.
So we went to see Scrapper at the Bellcourt, you know,
my favorite place. I always give it a shout up,
not an ad, just love it.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
What is it about?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Okay? So it's about this little girl and her mom
passes away and she's like living on her own, trying
to raise herself, and her biological dad shows up and
is back in the picture. Under our thirty. Not a
huge plot line. It just was so cute and well
done and heartwarming, and the actress that played the little
girl was a and yeah, it was just kind of
(04:02):
the story of like, young guy not ready to be
a father dips out, the mom passes away, and he's like,
I guess I should step up and be a father now,
and just kind of them learning to live with each
other because this little girl is truly trying to raise herself.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I think the thing I love about seeing movies at
the Bell Court is they always have great trailers. And
that was a trailer for whom we went to go
see A Believe of Fire. Yes, and I knew immediately
that I wanted to see that one as well, but
you got to go see it without me, And I
feel like that's a movie that just by the trailer,
it kind of gives me that vibe of just being
a really great, like slice of life story.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yes, that's a great way to describe it, a slice
of life.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Like just from the trailer, it kind of reminded me
of like a Little Miss Sunshine or Juno. Was it
anything like that.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah, I would say it's in kind of the same
vein of like an independence doesn't really have a genre
type movie.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I love just like classic independent movies, even if they
are not cliche, but very quintessential indie movie like that.
I just love that those movies speak to me.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
The only thing I so. I love seeing it at
the Bell Court and it was upstairs in the screening room, which.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Oh, it's a really small, small room.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
The only problem is the aisles only have one way
in and one way out, and there was a couple
sitting on the end of an aisle. We asked to
go buy them. I put my stuff down and then
I had to go back to the bathroom, and they
were annoyed every time somebody got up, like to the
point where the girl sitting the furthest in would just
climb over the seats because we were all scared of
this couple. And I did almost pee my pants because.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I I can't do that.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Grown woman was scared to go past them because they
just give looks. And I was like, I'm sorry. You
said on the end, what did you expect here? So
I would dog off half a point for the experience
for that.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Overall, what would you rate the movie?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Four out of five?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Stolen Bikes Okay, I got to see that when it
comes out on streaming. My best of the last month
has to be Bottoms So Good. It was the highest
rated movie I had at a four point five and
even thinking about it now, it still makes me laugh.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
It's available to rint now and I want to watch
it again.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I feel like it has a chance to become an
iconic comedy. It's so good because it's for me. It's
up there on the list with Like Me and Girls,
Super Bad, like all those type of movies that everybody
just names their favorite comedies and you always have the
same list. This, I feel, is a solid contender that
more people need to see. And it was a little
(06:28):
bit of a bummer that it came out at a
time when the strike was still going on and they
didn't fully get to promote it. And also because it
is a lower budget, more independent film, I feel like
that had stuff going against it as well. But now
I just want everybody to see this movie and realize,
like there are still great comedies being made right now,
(06:49):
which is happening less and less, so whenever one does
come out that really moves me in a way of
it not only being funny, but being original, having a
unique voice. I just think more people need to see
this movie.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I love this movie so much that I'm going to
do something you don't even know. I'm about to do this.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Okay, what is it?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Okay? So I have decided that I want people to
be able to watch this movie. So when you Mike
Destro on Instagram, post your reel for the week. Everyone listening,
if you want a chance to watch Bottoms, comment a
popcorn emoji and we will pick one random winner and
we will venmo you the money to rent this movie.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I love it so good, I love it so yeah.
I go comment on my last reel popcorn emoji, popcorn emoji,
and I'll randomly pick somebody and venmo you money to
watch this movie.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
We will use a random generator on the internet. It
will not just be like us with our eyes closed.
We will truly randomly and we will send you the money.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
All right, I like that? Give it away a movie
on this week's episode. So those are our best movies.
Now let's talk about some worst, because since September was
a slow month and Bottoms was at the top with
a four point five, I feel like we're going to
have a pretty low on what the worst was of
the month. So you want to kick us off. Was
the worst thing you saw in the last month, And again,
(08:02):
it doesn't have to be bad, it's just the worst because.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
My least favorite, Hunting in Venice. It just follows a formula.
I knew what to expect, similar to Murder on the Nile,
Death on the Orient Express, Murder on the.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Reverse those Death on the Nile, Murder on the Orient Express.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Okay, there we go.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
There're so generic.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
There's so generic. Yeah, it follows a formula. It's it
is what it is.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah. And I also felt like that one was just
not as novel as the other two. No, And I
think it was because it was trying to be so
scary that it made all the other aspects of the
movie kind of boring. And then by the time it
gets to the end of it, you really don't care
who did it. The reveeal happens and you're like, Okay,
that's cool. Next thing. And also with all the other movies,
(08:47):
there was just more action to them, especially Death on
the Nile, because they stop at different locations throughout the
entire movie.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I thing The Nile was so good, so I think
I was expecting Hunting in Venice to be equally good.
I do. I loved Tina Fey though.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah, but even her character in the movie was so Yeah,
she was the best part.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
She was the best part.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, I would agree with you on that one. It
just wasn't. I guess because we had expectations going into it.
Maybe we had zero expectations. We would have enjoyed it
a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Also, I almost fell asleep, I like reclined. I pulled
my hood over my eyes, and I was like, all right,
nap time for my.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Worst of the month. Since you took a hunting in Venice.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Okay, well you took bottom, so I'm.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Gonna have to go with my big fat Greek wedding three.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I knew you were gonna pick that up.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
You did.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah, you had no interest in watching the franchise anyways,
and we.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Watched every single one. So here are my thoughts on
the Yeah, we.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Watched them all in a week because I tried to
get you to watch the first one a year ago
and fifteen minutes and you said I'm bored. So you
had to watch them all a week.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
So here's my thoughts on the entire franchise.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Hit me with it.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
I thought the first one was gonna be a lot
better than it was.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
It was great for its time. It was unexpectedly funny.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I guess that's why because I knew the movie and
was aware of it so much that I thought it
was going to be like one of the best rom
comms of all time, because just the poster of that
movie is embedded in my head from seeing the DVDs
so much like Hastings. That is a movie I just
remember seeing and people renting and talking about so much.
I thought it was gonna be up there on like
You've Got Mail or Sleepless in Seat, like those type
(10:18):
of rom coms. Is always where I put that in
before even watching it, and after watching it with you,
I just didn't see why it was so iconic at
the time and why people love it so much. And
it took me probably until the second movie to really
get to enjoy the characters and understand the dynamic and
understand the comedy. But I felt like between one and
(10:39):
two it kind of took a downturn. But surprisingly, I
feel like the third one is the best of the
entire franchise because you already know all these characters. The
story is a lot more emotional, and I feel like
a lot more fun. You don't have the dad, That's true.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
And that's not a spoiler, because he literally in the description.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
He died in real life, and that's the entire premise
of the.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Movie with the wind deck.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
So it took me all the way to the third
movie to enjoy them. So I feel like if they
made another one, I.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Hope they don't.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
You don't, really, I didn't even want a third.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah it is I don't even know that I want
a second. I really thought it was a great standalone
hit Bridesmaids. They knew they would ruin if they made
another one. Sometimes things are better left at one.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
It is an unexpected movie trilogy. I think that's going
back to what I was saying is I didn't see
how impactful the first one was to require a part two,
which the story in that one. I felt it just
wasn't the best whatsoever. There was more of a story
in three, and a reason to make it because of
what actually happened with the actor who plays a dead
in real life. So there was something there, and that
movie had more of a payoff than the second one.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
But I guess they couldn't go from one to three
because a lot of life would have happened.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Yeah, the entire timeline of the story doesn't. It jumps around.
It does from the very all. The other reason about
the first movie is because it jumps so much from
them meeting to having a kid. There's such a big
of a time jump.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
From the first to the second.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yeah, they were like fourteen years in between.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
And then the next one comes and then it's like
she's in college, but they like had her in the first,
so it just seems like, yeah, that is it's a
little bit all like they should have made these all
into the two thousands, and it probably would have been better.
Maybe I would agree.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I did love that Joey Fatone was still in it.
I love his character. I do like Sister You're great.
Do enjoy the fact that they bring back all of
the cast, Yeah, and they're really good about that.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
And I think that's important to it. If they just
swapped out characters or recasted characters, it would seem even
more of a cash grab. But I do enjoy that
fact that, a it's all the same characters, so it
kind of feels like you're growing with them.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I also feel like maybe it's different watching it as
a woman, because the first one is like she's approaching
thirty and her dad's like, Tula, you're gonna be onwed Spinster,
you're getting so old no children, and like, man, I
know I'm married, but I'm about to be thirty in
a few months, and I'm like, cool, thirty sounds awesome.
I don't feel old, but I think, yeah, I think
that's the part of it that's like makes the first
(13:01):
one like unexpected romantic comedy is that it's not the
woman putting yourself in this box, like I feel like
in a lot of rom comes women they're like, I'm
gonna be single forever. But in this case, it's like
her Greek dad being like, you must marry and carry
on the family legacy.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
And it's also one of the only few movies that
I know that really highlights Greek families and their culture.
And it is cool to watch a movie and get
to know about something I really don't know a whole
lot about. And coming from a Mexican background, I kind
of feel like there's some similarities there as far as
how close you are to your family. They all live
next door to yeah, the whole living with each other.
(13:34):
Like in Mexican culture, it's normal to live with your
parents until you're married.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I think most cultures, multi generational homes are common except.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
For America House. It's like, hey, you're eighteen, get out
of here. It's and it's weird if you are living
with your parents and you're in your mid to late
twenties or even thirties.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Yeah, that's true. That's a good point.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I have cousins. They didn't move out, so they were
in their forties.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I joke that my youngest brother's gonna be like that.
He's just gonna mak like a little like cave. But
I also think he's gonna, I don't know, invest in crypto.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah, that's because he wants to chill forever. I do
have some honorable mentions. I am going to get to
the movie review No One Will Save You, which honestly
could have been my best of the month, but I
want to have a full dedicated review to that.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Is that when you watched on TV, it is Saturday morning. Yeah,
I was like, doesn't sound familiar. Don't think I tuned in?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yeah, that is a horror movie that you would not
be interested in. But I'll give you my full thoughts
on that here in a bit. And I did want
to mention some movies that we've reviewed previously that are
now available to stream that everybody.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Needs to go see Theater Camp.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Theater Camp is on Hulu, and I think that is
one that we both loved and another great comedy of
this also.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I want to watch it again already, and kind of like.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
The same way that Bottoms is. It's very niche.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
It's so camp, but not like in the way of
like actual camp, just like I don't know how else to.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
And the humor is a lot different than that one
because it's it's so specific to what it's like to
be a theater kid. But even if you're not, it's
just a movie.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
And I feel like if you were just a weird
kid in any capacity, I think that's why you're the
cool popular kid. Maybe you're not gonna get it, but
maybe you have like a secret interest in theater and
you couldn't pursue it because you were the cool popular kid.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
And that is a movie. I would love to see
a sequel too. I rarely say that, but they should
make a Theater Camp two.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I would watch that, like the camp's been up and
running again for like two years.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Yeah, just take exactly where it left off and start
with a new one. You can introduce new cast member.
They're just potential there for it to be another one.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
But that kind of feels like when they started spinning
off Pitch Perfect, So maybe not.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I wouldn't mind seeing it, but it probably doesn't need
a sequel is the category that that movie falls into.
But if you want to check that one out, it's
on Hulu, which is my go to for movies right now.
Netflix is so much Here is something that you could
watch in theaters but at home. With the A list stars,
they have more of I guess not necessarily franchises, but
(15:56):
they feel like they're making their own franchises, but also
Max because they have all the Warner Brothers stuff, but
that doesn't really feel like originals to me. It just
feels like, hey, they get all the Warner Brothers on
their streaming service, but the other ones. To mention Mutant Mayhem.
The Ninja Turtles animated movie is now on Paramount Plus,
which was one of my favorites of the summer.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Also great. I loved it, didn't think I would.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
And you are not a Ninja Turtles fan whatsoever. Prior
to that, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
It was the one thing I just never really got into.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
And then also the Haunted Mansion is now on Disney Plus,
which was a movie that we just didn't really have
anything else to go watch in theaters, had low expectations,
but it is a pretty good family Halloween movie, which
the reason they put that out earlier this summer was
so now that it kind of matches up with being
available in October around spooky season. Very smart of them,
(16:49):
And it's a weird thing for Disney to take a
hit like that because they did lose some money at
the box office, but now we'll maybe make it back
up with people streaming it.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I loved the original Haunted Mansion with Eddie Murphy. Yeah,
that was also an unexpected hit.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I feel like and I think the Disney model is
changing a bit, and it feels like every time a
new Disney movie comes out in theaters, it doesn't do
as well as it does, but then whenever it goes
on to Disney Plus, it has this whole new life.
Like Elemental was their most stream movie, but when it
first came out, everybody was saying it was a flop.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Well that's also because some of their new I'm doing
quotes are just remakes.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Yeah, Little Mermaid got streamed a bunch too, Like millions of.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
People you watched it without me. I think I'm gonna
set that one up.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
But then they also have Wish coming out later this year.
It looks so generic and it just looks like, here's
a fairytale movie. So I feel like that's gonna be
the same issue there that it's not gonna do so
great in theaters. People are complaining about Disney and say
they're failing, they're losing money, and then it'll come out
on streaming and be their highest stream movie again.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Well, yeah, because you think about it, most parents aren't
taking little kids to this.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
One, it's hard to sit. I know a lot of
theaters will do like a kid screening of things like
on the weekends, where like it's literally your kid can
run around and be loud, like that's what the screening's for,
because you can't expect a small child to sit there
for a couple hours to watch a movie. Also, it's
expensive to go to movies. Yeah, I think if you
have multiple kids and they all want snacks and tickets.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
And it's way easier to watch it on Disney Plus exactly.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
So I think that's also why they don't do well
in theaters.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I do think there needs to be more of an
experience with movie theaters. Okay, like you said the kids
only screenings. I also saw whenever the Paw Patrol movie
came out, they had dog screenings where you could bring
your dog and watch a movie.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Are you being serious right now?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yeah, Paw Patrol head dog screening where you bring your dog.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Interesting. I would expect that for Blue because if Blue
came out with the movie, because Blue is filmed and
the colors, the dogs can.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
See Blue has it going on. I need to watch that.
I know it's a kid show, but everybody loves it.
But I just feel like adding another thing for audiences
to have to go to the theater. And it doesn't
have to be anything crazy, but even something like that where.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Their Taylor Swift concert film. You'll be dressing up. I
will be wearing my Friendship bracelets, and I probably will
be buying the exclusive popcorn bucket and cup for you
Guessed It nineteen eighty nine, which.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Is actually not a bad price. I've wanted to get
into collecting the popcorn.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
No, we don't have the space for it exactly.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
That's why I don't, especially because when you look at them,
they look so cool. But then you spend I mean
some of those are get up to forty fifty bucks.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
You also don't eat popcorn. Let's a lot popcorn to
expect me to eat.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
But I just want the I just want the thing.
I want the thing to hold it. Because they came
out with really cool ones for like Transformers, which was can.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
You buy just the bucket Sands popcorn?
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Exactly?
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Cane.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Oh yeah, whenever the Post Malone exclusive cups came to Canes,
you went to get one for me out of my
way because there was only one that I wanted. It
was the pink one with his animated character on it.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I went out of my way during lunch one day
to Canes. Parked, walked into Canes, smelled overwhelmingly aggressive, like
fried chicken. I stand there in line, I get up
there and I just want the cup, and they're like,
we can't sell it to you. You have to buy
a combo. And I'm like, well, I'm not buying a
twelve dollars meal that neither one of us can eat
because it's not vegan or gluten free. So I did
not get a cup, and I was very annoyed that
you have to purchase the Comboat to then upgrade to
(20:07):
the cup, and I'm like, can I not just buy.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
The I know yem cup? But luckily my sister got
me one. I'm looking at it right now. It's in
the studio here. And also my brother got me the
Cowboys one with post malone, so I now have two cups.
But I think you can just buy the popcorn things
by themselves because a lot of people resell them online.
So there were some really like the Dark Knight well
(20:29):
I guess not the Dark Knight one, but the Batman
one was also really cool. But yeah, where am I
going to put all this stuff? My space is already we.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Could start filling up here popcorn container collection. But yes,
I agree there needs to be something to movie experiences.
So why I like Alamo Drafthouse when they do the
like quote alongs.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I feel like directors. I saw one director recently saying
that more movies need to just be made in imax
because that's also gives you a reason to go to
the theater, which, if you think about our experience with
going to see Oppenheimer this summer, like a large driving
force of that was the fact that we saw at
one of the only seventy millimeters screenings in the entire country,
And there's just something to watching something that's actually huge
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and that you can't have at home because a lot
of people now have the money to replicate or get
pretty close to the movie theater experience. With a big screen,
big sound system, you can get pretty close. And the
thing has always been you go to the movies to
watch them the way they were intended to. But if
you're able to get that experience really close at home,
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you have to take it up another level and put
it in imax on a giant screen and even bigger sound.
So I do think there's something of that of just
a filmmaking process needs to change a little bit, to
go back to creating something that's worthy of the big
screen and not just saying see it on the big
screen will give us a reason to see it on
the big screen.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Or things that create such buzz and excitement that you
end up like a packed theater, like think about like
Black Panther a lot. I'm trying to think of another
one that we've seen recently. Well, Barbie Oppenheimer Barbe was crazy,
So it's like that, Yeah, things that create buzz. I
feel like that drives people to want.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
To see it, which is another hard thing to do.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah, the Taylor Swift one, I mean she could Taylor
Shift could put out a video of her reading the
phone book, charge me fifty dollars and say I could
only see it in theaters, and well I would.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Well, all right, anything else you want to say before
you go?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I'm trying to think if we had any TV Honorable mentions,
but I feel like we've watched things.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I feel like I'm just calling out of love with
TV shows right now because we have started so many
things that I haven't finished. I started one piece on
Netflix on my account and I haven't gone back to finish.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Now my Netflix things that I want to watch anime.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I haven't started any of the latest Star Wars series,
even though people seem to enjoy them. There are so
many things I have, like one two episodes down that
I just haven't found myself going back to. Like the
Morning Show. We do need to catch up on that thum,
but I feel like we're going to feel the effects
of the strike and things not coming out for a while,
so time to hop back into those.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
It's go more girls rewatch season. Oh yeah, start a fall,
you just turn it on the.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
TV wise, Okay, my go to speaking of TV shows,
in the two thousand me off there, my go to
has been My Name is Earl because it's old and comforting.
Oh and I love I love that show. When it
first came out, it's so annoying. It is not annoying,
it is so annoying.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
And every time you turn on an episode, I go
in the other room.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Only started on the living room TV. You always somehow
claim the living room by just starting my Name is Earl,
knowing I won't sit out there with you, but.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
That is my go to show. Right now, that's the best,
the worst of the month. We'll come back and talk
about No One Will Save You. We'll come back, We'll
come back. Let's get into a spoiler free movie review.
I have been waiting to talk about No One Will
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Save You for so long. I watched it the very
first weekend it came out and have been marinating with
my thoughts because I'm really split on this movie. The
movie is about a girl named Brinn who goes out
to the home that she grew up in and one
night she gets woken up by these strange noises, and
those strange noises just happen to be alien, so it
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is an alien invasion thriller. Brinn is played by Caitlin Dever,
who you may know from BookSmart. She was also in
Ticket to Paradise last year with George Clooney and Julia Roberts,
a really great young actress who I think has a
lot of potential. There are so many things I love
about this movie, but there are also a lot of
things that I just had issues with. So let's dive
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into it. Without revealing all the details behind the plot
of this movie, but essentially what you have. She goes
out to this house that she grew up in and
you learn a little bit about her backstory of why
she is there, and she is very much a recluse,
which I really identified a lot with her character with
a couple of things, really enjoying not being around a
whole lot of people. I think if I could, if
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I really had the choice, and if me and my
wife Kelsey weren't so used to city life at this point,
I could see myself going out and living in a
house like this, where you're just away from everything, you
have no neighbors, You walk out into your front porch
and you hear nothing. That part of this movie. I
just really enjoyed just having the silence and not having
to hear or see anybody, which is kind of my
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dream scenario. The other thing about her character and really
this entire movie is there is very limited dialogue, and
I think that creates a very interesting dynamic throughout this
entire thing. Usually what you go to watch a movie
is to hear the character speak and also see a
lot of action depending on the film, but in this case,
it is really all action and very very few lines
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spoken throughout the entire movie. But I find that to
be really powerful because a lot of the tension is
implied a lot of the scenarios, you as the audience
member have to really draw your own conclude usions on
exactly what is happening in this movie, and it makes
all of her interactions with the aliens throughout this film
to be that much more impactful and really creates that
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feeling of her being alone, which going back to the
title of the movie, no One Will Save You. It
very much plays into that because there is nobody around
her to help her or to save her, and it
makes you feel pretty helpless, and I think that is
why this movie is creating a lot of buzz, because
it really came out at the perfect time. With so
much that has been revealed about aliens just this year,
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I feel they have kind of been soft launch, not
only in America but also in different parts of the country,
with Mexico saying, hey, look we have a paper mache alien.
They exist. So I feel like, right now we're all
kind of itching for a movie like this, And it
reminded me probably a little bit of an old Twilight
Zone episode, but with a much more modern feel to it.
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And this movie has an interesting road of how it
even came to be. The movie was directed by Brian Duffield,
who it's actually his second ever feature film, but he
is a known producer and writer of movies like Loving Monsters,
which is a movie I just quint essentially associate with
twenty twenty during the heat of the pandemic, when there
were no movies coming out. I thought that movie was
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a bright spot in my year of being an actual
new movie I was being able to watch at home.
He was behind that one. He also produced Cocaine Bear,
which came out earlier this year, and he actually wrote
this movie back out in twenty eighteen, and it was
actually supposed to come out earlier after twenty eighth Century
Studios bought the rights to it. But then you have
a little movie come out called Note from director Jordan Peele,
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which has to do with what with Aliens, and they
were worried that audiences were going to find these two
films to be too similar. Therefore, putting one against the other,
maybe you get a little alien fatigue and nobody wants
to go see this movie because they just watch Nope.
And really you don't want to go against Jordan Peele
because whatever he puts out is going to get way
more attention and dominate at the box office. But this
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movie finally found its home. It's finally out, which Brian
has had such an interesting career of being a writer
and being a producer and really just all of his
projects being so delayed with the pandemic. So it's really
cool to see him now flourish as a director and
have a really solid film on his hands. And an
alien invasion thriller is something I didn't really know I
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needed in my life. As much as I love aliens
and believe in them. As much as I love horror movies,
I really wasn't going into this movie expecting it to
have just that kind of feeling. Feels like a horror movie,
but instead of a Michael Myers or Freddy Kueger type,
the villain is an alien, which to me is way
more haunting. I've never really seen an alien shown on
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screen this much. The first act was so haunting, and
I was immediately sucked into this movie. But as the
plot developed and as we got to know more about
these aliens and they had more interactions, it started to
lose steam a little bit for me, especially in the
third act, And I just have a thing with movies
falling apart in that third act where you build up
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all this you have me on the horror aspect, you
have me on the thriller aspect. But I just really
wanted this movie to bring it home. In the end,
it bit off a little bit more than it could
chew if they would have kept it just a little
bit simpler, dumbed it down just a little bit. I
felt like it went a little too meta in the
third act to try and create this really broad, overarching
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statement on exactly what happened with Caitlin Devers's character in
this movie, it lost me a little bit and took
away that excitement I had from the very beginning of
the film and faded out there towards the end that
it almost would have been a perfect movie for me.
And the way I thought about this movie is I
love the buzz that it created because this is the
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type of movie that you tell your friends about who
want to watch a thriller because they are so fun
to discuss afterwards. It reminds me of some of my
favorite horror movies or even the more recent movies like
Smiles that have created a buzz. Megan that have created
a buzz. It has that same type of feel to it,
and I wanted to, like I said earlier, to be
my next favorite movie, had all of my favorite things
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going for it, but it just fell off so hard
and let me a little bit disappointed that I thought
this could have been it. It's kind of like if
you were a coach to a football team and you
had a player who was so dedicated would show up
on time. You want to put them in the game
every single time, for every single play, but they're just
not that great at what you really need them to do.
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They're not going to win you the game, so you
have to put in a different player. That is how
I felt after watching this movie, as much as I
wanted to root for it, as much as I wanted
to say all the things about this movie and just
let me thinking so close, but now cigar Ah, although
it is one of the most dynamic movies I have
seen in a long time, to make such a statement,
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to create some really haunting and unsettling visuals, to give
me the feeling that I'm watching something familiar, because it's
not an unhurt thing to watch an alien invasion thriller,
or even one with a little bit more of a
horror element to it. But it still felt novel to me,
felt very fresh and new compared to everything else in
this space right now. But I still think it's a
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movie that I still highly recommend, but know that you
might not entirely love it if one you don't buy
into the idea of aliens, two you're kind of squeamish
when it comes to any kind of horror movie. Because
if you're somebody who lives alone or lives out in
the country like I used to, I could see watching
this movie and then having a little bit of trouble
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going to sleep at night and you hear any kind
of sound in the other room, it may freak you
out a little bit. But it is one of those
movies that you're either gonna love or you're gonna hate,
but you have to really watch it and decide for
yourself because it's kind of that polarizing of a movie.
I just love a movie that creates any kind of
a buzz that gets people talking, not a whole lot
of marketing, really, any marketing whatsoever. It just popped up
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on Hulu one day and I thought, I need to
watch that, and then I see a lot of people
now talking about it on TikTok. So for a movie
to come out like that and generate this word of
mouth buzz, I think that's really important. And it's going
to be a significant film of the year and one
that people will probably continue to discover throughout this year.
And I hope maybe not a direct sequel, but another
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movie similar to this. I think the director Brian Duffield
has really found an interesting lane here because it's not
quite as cinematic as Nope, which he was worried it
was going to be compared to but it has its
unique style and even though it is a quote unquote
streaming only movie, it doesn't really have that direct to
video lower budget vibe to it. And it also just
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reinforces my belief that Hulu has the best original content
right now. With everything they are doing and all the
things they are scooping up over there with twentieth century studios.
I know if I go over to their click on
their latest movie, I'm going to watch something interesting. I'm
going to watch something compelling. Whether or not I love
it completely is up to me, but I know that
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it's not just going to be like something they throw
on Netflix or worse, Amazon Prime. So if you're looking
for one streaming service to invest with based on original
movies alone, my go to pick is still Hulu. And
for no one will save You, I will give it
three point five out of five Flying Saucers.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
It's time to head down to movie Mike Trey Lar Paul.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
I have been waiting for the first look at The
Toxic Avenger since this movie was announced. The original one
came out in nineteen eighty four and it is my
favorite B horror movie of all time. What exactly is
a B horror movie. It's a movie that doesn't look
that good. The actors can't really act. All of the
special effects are practical effects, so they are done very cheaply. Essentially,
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it's just people throwing blood into a bucket and then
throwing it onto the actors. So it's very low budget,
very low grade, but there is a charm to that.
And I think the reason I love the original so
much is because as a kid, I wanted to be
a director, and horror movies always just folk to young
directors because you could make them on a relatively low budget.
So movies like The Toxic Avenger or really any Trauma Film,
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which is the company that produces Toxic Avenger movies and
a lot of other very strange and weird and vile
horror movies. They're the ones who told me that I
could go online figure out how to make fake blood,
which I found out as a kid that corn syrup
and food colorings, particularly red dye, makes a pretty convincing
looking blood for a really low price. But why I
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love the Toxic Avenger is because he is an unlikely superhero.
His origin story is that of he is a nerd
who gets tricked into wearing a tow to two gets
chased from a second story and falls into a pit
of acid and then turns into this disgusting superhero. And
even though he has been bullied and tormented and now
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has his entire human state change for the worst, he
still wants to help people and he is still the
of Traumaville And the reason this movie has my curiosity
and my interest because normally this isn't a movie I
would recommend because it is so low budget, because it
is so vile. Really, anything in the Trauma space are
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some of the most disturbing movies I've ever seen that
you really have to be into some low grade humor,
into some low grade special effects. But there are some
hardcore film fans who do find the charm in these movies.
And now it is getting a big studio treatment, which
is unheard of because as a part of the cast
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of this movie, playing the Toxic Avenger himself is the
one and only Peter Dinklitch, who you would know from
Game of Thrones, and just his name alone being added
to this movie makes me feel like it's not just
gonna be some RinkyDink b horror movie. You also have
Kevin Bacon and Elijah Wood who are all a part
of this cast. So I think it's gonna be a
very fun movie, and by the looks of this trailer,
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it is gonna have that same campiness that they had
back in the eighties. So I don't think these films
are gonna be for everybody one because they are so
over the top and so disgusting to be quite honest,
but also because I feel like when movies play into
the campiness that it can turn off a lot of
people of thinking this is dumb and this is cheesy.
So I think it's gonna be a big treat for
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the really hardcore fans of the original film like myself,
but hoping that the fact that actors like Elijah Wood
and Kevin Bacon are attached to it and Peter d
English of course, that it will open the scope up
and allow other people to enjoy the greatness that is
a Toxic Avenger film. So, before I get into more details,
here's just a little bit of the Toxic Avenger trailer.
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And there are still no leads as to the identity
of the freaky folk here remains at large. Sir, what
did you see last night? Her gunshots, soft blood, and
just all that had his arm pore off like wet
bread and the creature will run off of them. Nine
the Toxic Avenger. That's what the kids are calling him.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
I think it's swell.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
So the trailer alone is very not safe for work,
a lot of bad words, a lot of violence. But
you do get the first glimpse of Peter Dinklich who
ends up becoming the Toxic Avenger. And it's still very
ominous in this teaser, but it just has this very
quintessential trouma vibe that I have been looking for in films.
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But you do get that first look of Peter Dinklich
as the Toxic Avenger, and it wasn't really what I
had in my mind because it looks like they took
an entirely different approach on the look of the character
and the thing I was excited to see most because
there was an image that came out recently of Elijah
Wood in this movie who looks utterly ridiculous. And he
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is an actor who I just feel like needs to
be a part of this movie because he takes so
much pride in his roles. He's a really good character
actor and I feel a very underappreciated talent in Hollywood.
He did so many great movies as a child actor,
and the course was one of the biggest movie stars
on the planet as a part of the Lord of
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the Rings franchise. But I feel like he's been more
selective in his work and the roles he does take
on are ones he has to be passionate about. But
I always just see him giving one hundred percent in
every single one of his movies. So he is an
actor that I pay attention to when he puts out
a film. So I'm really excited to see him take
on this role in this movie, which just at first
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look at this reminded me of the first time I
saw Colin Farrell as the Penguin and the Batman because
he looks pretty unrecognizable. So what this movie is about.
You have Peter Dinklitch who plays Winston, who goes on
to become the Toxic Avenger, So it looks like he's
going to be an older take on the character, who
is a teenager in the original nineteen eighty four film.
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He is a widower struggling to raise a step son
and then his job gets taken over by an evil
corporate jerk played by Kevin Bacon, who won't pay for
their health insurance. Winston fights back and, like it happened
in the original, fall into a vat of toxic waste.
There is still no official release date on this movie.
They're gonna be showing it at some film festivals and
kind of gauging audience interest, so hopefully it comes out
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next year. But if I had to rate my excitement
level on this movie two three, four, it is at
a five. I am so excited to see this big
screen adaptation because the first movie had a budget of
half a million dollars half a million dollars, and this
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movie now has a far far larger budget than that,
so much more room to play around with. Although I
do love those practical effects in the first one, even
though they look pretty bad and sometimes hard to watch
in a lot of these movies, I still believe that
practical effects age better than special effects. If I go
back and watch some practical effects from the eighties or
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even the seventies, I feel like those hold up so
much more than the early days of computers, when people
were still trying to figure out how to put special
effects in movies. Some of that stuff just looks horrendous.
But again, the movie is called The Toxic Avenger, expected
to come out next year. Another thing I wanted to
mention there is no fool teaser or trailer or anything
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attached to this one so far, but I have been
loving every single image from The Joker Too, which is
supposed to come out a year from now. Hopefully that's
still the case, but director Todd Phillips posted an image
recently of Joaquin Phoenix in the rain with these colored
umbrellas around him. There's also a picture of him and
Lady Gaga having this like menacing stare into each other's
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eyes with the Jokers makeup like smeared all across his face.
She looks great. Joaquin Phoenix looks as unstable as he
did in the first one. So I feel like the
sequel is going to be a lot weirder than the
first one because it is a musical, which I'm having
an easier time now wrapping the thought of that around
my brain as I see the images from the movie,
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and it reminds me of what I love the most
about the first one is that you, as the viewer,
were questioning all the things that the Joker was going
through and whether or not they were actually happening in
real life or they were all just happening in his head.
So I think that movie is going to play into
this as well. Of maybe the more dramatic scenes and
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straight ahead things will be the things actually happening in
real life, and then all of the over the top
things that would happen in his head may be portrayed
in a musical. That is what I'm taking away from
just seeing the stills of this movie, because there's two
different vibes. There's the more serious, gritty looks at both
of the characters, and there's the others that look a
little bit more like a fantasy, a really dark and
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twisted fantasy, but a fantasy nonetheless. So that is the
first look at the Joker wanted to throw that into
this segment.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
And that was this week's edition of movie Line.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Frame or Bar, And that is going to do it
for another episode here of the podcast. But before I go,
I got to give my listener shout out of the
week this week. I'm going going over to my email,
which you can reach me at Moviemike d at gmail
dot com. Got a really nice email from Michael, who wrote,
I am a fairly recent subscriber. I spend a lot
of time in my car for work, and your podcast
(42:12):
always entertains me. Plus it gives me a lot of
insight on movies I may or may not have seen
because of your podcast, which I learned about on the
Bobby Bone Show. I've also started following you on TikTok
at Facebook. I will say, to boost your ego a little.
You're the only podcast I follow. Otherwise I wouldn't even
listen to a podcast. Otherwise I wouldn't even listen to
a podcast because I find them boring. I've been binging
(42:33):
all your shows, and the latest one I heard about
was your wish to become a Rotten Tomatoes critic. I
believe you do enough on your own and don't sell
yourself short. Keep doing what you're doing, and you have
one more faithful subscriber. I will see you later. Really
appreciate that, Michael. It means the world to me that
you did literally everything you could possibly do to be
subscribed to the podcast, to email in, to follow me
(42:56):
on social media. These kind of emails make my day
because sometimes I feel like I do these episodes I
put them out to the world, and then I think
did that even matter? Do people even care? So if
one person cares, if Michael, you are the only one,
it makes doing this podcast worth it. So appreciate that.
And I think I'm going to apply to Rotten Tomatoes
(43:18):
one more time next year whenever submissions open up, and
I think after that I'm done. I may be done now,
I may get to that application next year and think
I don't want to do it anymore, because it's true.
The relationship I build with you guys here in my
honest movie reviews means more to me than being a
legit Rotten Tomatoes critic could ever be. I think at
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this point it's just that I've been wanting to do
it for so long, been talking about it for so long.
It would just be gratifying to finally have that. But
I don't long for it as much as I used to.
So again, thank you Michael for this email. You were
this week's listener of the week. Thank you listening right
now to this podcast, for being subscribed, for telling a friend.
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And until the next time, go out and watch good
movies and I will talk to you later.
Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike, joined this week by my
wife and coas Kelsey. How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm great.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
You ready to talk about the movies we've seen in
the last thirty days.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yeah, it just feels like hows another month gone by?
R els feel like we get to this point in
the year and like times, just like flying.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
It's about to just evaporate. But yes, we'll get into
all of our best and worst picks of the month.
In the movie review, I'll be talking about No One
Will Save You, the movie that I feel like infiltrated
social media and everybody was going crazy for. So I'll
give you my thoughts on that movie. We'll get into
the trailer park. We'll do all that. Thank you for listening,
Thank you for being subscribed, Shout out to the Monday
(00:37):
Morning Movie crew. And now let's talk movies.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast,
one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like
never before in a movie podcast. A man with so
much movie knowledge, he's basically like a walking IMTB with glasses.
From the Nashville Podcast Network, this movie Mike Movie.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
All right, our best and worst. We'll be talking about
movies that we watched in September, which overall was a
pretty slow month for movies. I think out of all
the months of us going to the movies, this year
was probably the least amount of time we spent there. Yeah.
I feel like it's because right at the end of summer,
with August, you get all the great movies, all those
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final summer blockbusters coming out, and then things just kind
of slow down. In September, it inevitably becomes a dumb month,
which is where studios just put out movies that aren't
really anticipated to do very well. So it's kind of
like a hodgepodge of here's some random movies to come
out and take it for what you will.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
But again, I also wonder why put out a movie
you don't think it's going to do well? Are they
all tax right offs?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Not?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Maybe not do well isn't the way to put it.
But it's you put it out at a time where
it's less competitive because you have all the summer movies
where everybody's just fighting every single weekend, and then when
people go back to work, go back to school, back
on a normal schedule. In September, it's like, hey, let's
put out some movies that we really don't have any
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other place in the year to put them because we
already missed out on the January February window.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah, because it's weird because then you start like November.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Oh yeah, we're about to get into some good stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
And then you like ramp up and then you've got
Oscar Contenders. Spring's a little slower, and then you've got summer. Seeah,
I guess for a couple months in the spring, and
then like a month or so.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
And I's in the fall. I still think my favorite
time of the year is summer blockbuster season. I mean,
we went to the movies so much this summer.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I love Summer Blockbuster season. But I also really like
all the ones that come out in November December.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, I feel like that's where the really the best
movies come out. You get one or two, like really
impactful summer movies that everybody loves that I feel like
this year only will I guess Barbie and Oppenheimer will
be probably in contention for Oscars. But yeah, in that
November December window, you get some really great ones. So
we're going to talk about our best and worst of September.
(03:04):
You want to start it off, I can do that.
What was your best movie you saw?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Okay? Well, it's actually going to be a movie that
only I saw. You did not go see it with me.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Which is a rare occurrence. And I think a question
I get a lot is do you go see every
single movie.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
With me unless it's scary?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah? And then this is the first time in a
long time where you've gone to seeing a movie without me.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yes. I had a friend in town and she loves
like a good indie movie as well. She always goes
to south By sees all the films that come out.
So we went to see Scrapper at the Bellcourt, you know,
my favorite place. I always give it a shout up,
not an ad, just love it.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
What is it about?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Okay? So it's about this little girl and her mom
passes away and she's like living on her own, trying
to raise herself, and her biological dad shows up and
is back in the picture. Under our thirty. Not a
huge plot line. It just was so cute and well
done and heartwarming, and the actress that played the little
girl was a and yeah, it was just kind of
(04:02):
the story of like, young guy not ready to be
a father dips out, the mom passes away, and he's like,
I guess I should step up and be a father now,
and just kind of them learning to live with each
other because this little girl is truly trying to raise herself.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I think the thing I love about seeing movies at
the Bell Court is they always have great trailers. And
that was a trailer for whom we went to go
see A Believe of Fire. Yes, and I knew immediately
that I wanted to see that one as well, but
you got to go see it without me, And I
feel like that's a movie that just by the trailer,
it kind of gives me that vibe of just being
a really great, like slice of life story.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yes, that's a great way to describe it, a slice
of life.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Like just from the trailer, it kind of reminded me
of like a Little Miss Sunshine or Juno. Was it
anything like that.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah, I would say it's in kind of the same
vein of like an independence doesn't really have a genre
type movie.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I love just like classic independent movies, even if they
are not cliche, but very quintessential indie movie like that.
I just love that those movies speak to me.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
The only thing I so. I love seeing it at
the Bell Court and it was upstairs in the screening room, which.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Oh, it's a really small, small room.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
The only problem is the aisles only have one way
in and one way out, and there was a couple
sitting on the end of an aisle. We asked to
go buy them. I put my stuff down and then
I had to go back to the bathroom, and they
were annoyed every time somebody got up, like to the
point where the girl sitting the furthest in would just
climb over the seats because we were all scared of
this couple. And I did almost pee my pants because.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I I can't do that.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Grown woman was scared to go past them because they
just give looks. And I was like, I'm sorry. You
said on the end, what did you expect here? So
I would dog off half a point for the experience
for that.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Overall, what would you rate the movie?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Four out of five?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Stolen Bikes Okay, I got to see that when it
comes out on streaming. My best of the last month
has to be Bottoms So Good. It was the highest
rated movie I had at a four point five and
even thinking about it now, it still makes me laugh.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
It's available to rint now and I want to watch
it again.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I feel like it has a chance to become an
iconic comedy. It's so good because it's for me. It's
up there on the list with Like Me and Girls,
Super Bad, like all those type of movies that everybody
just names their favorite comedies and you always have the
same list. This, I feel, is a solid contender that
more people need to see. And it was a little
(06:28):
bit of a bummer that it came out at a
time when the strike was still going on and they
didn't fully get to promote it. And also because it
is a lower budget, more independent film, I feel like
that had stuff going against it as well. But now
I just want everybody to see this movie and realize,
like there are still great comedies being made right now,
(06:49):
which is happening less and less, so whenever one does
come out that really moves me in a way of
it not only being funny, but being original, having a
unique voice. I just think more people need to see
this movie.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I love this movie so much that I'm going to
do something you don't even know. I'm about to do this.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Okay, what is it?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Okay? So I have decided that I want people to
be able to watch this movie. So when you Mike
Destro on Instagram, post your reel for the week. Everyone listening,
if you want a chance to watch Bottoms, comment a
popcorn emoji and we will pick one random winner and
we will venmo you the money to rent this movie.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I love it so good, I love it so yeah.
I go comment on my last reel popcorn emoji, popcorn emoji,
and I'll randomly pick somebody and venmo you money to
watch this movie.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
We will use a random generator on the internet. It
will not just be like us with our eyes closed.
We will truly randomly and we will send you the money.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
All right, I like that? Give it away a movie
on this week's episode. So those are our best movies.
Now let's talk about some worst, because since September was
a slow month and Bottoms was at the top with
a four point five, I feel like we're going to
have a pretty low on what the worst was of
the month. So you want to kick us off. Was
the worst thing you saw in the last month, And again,
(08:02):
it doesn't have to be bad, it's just the worst because.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
My least favorite, Hunting in Venice. It just follows a formula.
I knew what to expect, similar to Murder on the Nile,
Death on the Orient Express, Murder on the.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Reverse those Death on the Nile, Murder on the Orient Express.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Okay, there we go.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
There're so generic.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
There's so generic. Yeah, it follows a formula. It's it
is what it is.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah. And I also felt like that one was just
not as novel as the other two. No, And I
think it was because it was trying to be so
scary that it made all the other aspects of the
movie kind of boring. And then by the time it
gets to the end of it, you really don't care
who did it. The reveeal happens and you're like, Okay,
that's cool. Next thing. And also with all the other movies,
(08:47):
there was just more action to them, especially Death on
the Nile, because they stop at different locations throughout the
entire movie.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I thing The Nile was so good, so I think
I was expecting Hunting in Venice to be equally good.
I do. I loved Tina Fey though.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah, but even her character in the movie was so Yeah,
she was the best part.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
She was the best part.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, I would agree with you on that one. It
just wasn't. I guess because we had expectations going into it.
Maybe we had zero expectations. We would have enjoyed it
a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Also, I almost fell asleep, I like reclined. I pulled
my hood over my eyes, and I was like, all right,
nap time for my.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Worst of the month. Since you took a hunting in Venice.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Okay, well you took bottom, so I'm.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Gonna have to go with my big fat Greek wedding three.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I knew you were gonna pick that up.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
You did.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah, you had no interest in watching the franchise anyways,
and we.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Watched every single one. So here are my thoughts on
the Yeah, we.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Watched them all in a week because I tried to
get you to watch the first one a year ago
and fifteen minutes and you said I'm bored. So you
had to watch them all a week.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
So here's my thoughts on the entire franchise.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Hit me with it.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
I thought the first one was gonna be a lot
better than it was.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
It was great for its time. It was unexpectedly funny.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I guess that's why because I knew the movie and
was aware of it so much that I thought it
was going to be like one of the best rom
comms of all time, because just the poster of that
movie is embedded in my head from seeing the DVDs
so much like Hastings. That is a movie I just
remember seeing and people renting and talking about so much.
I thought it was gonna be up there on like
You've Got Mail or Sleepless in Seat, like those type
(10:18):
of rom coms. Is always where I put that in
before even watching it, and after watching it with you,
I just didn't see why it was so iconic at
the time and why people love it so much. And
it took me probably until the second movie to really
get to enjoy the characters and understand the dynamic and
understand the comedy. But I felt like between one and
(10:39):
two it kind of took a downturn. But surprisingly, I
feel like the third one is the best of the
entire franchise because you already know all these characters. The
story is a lot more emotional, and I feel like
a lot more fun. You don't have the dad, That's true.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
And that's not a spoiler, because he literally in the description.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
He died in real life, and that's the entire premise
of the.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Movie with the wind deck.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
So it took me all the way to the third
movie to enjoy them. So I feel like if they
made another one, I.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Hope they don't.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
You don't, really, I didn't even want a third.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah it is I don't even know that I want
a second. I really thought it was a great standalone
hit Bridesmaids. They knew they would ruin if they made
another one. Sometimes things are better left at one.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
It is an unexpected movie trilogy. I think that's going
back to what I was saying is I didn't see
how impactful the first one was to require a part two,
which the story in that one. I felt it just
wasn't the best whatsoever. There was more of a story
in three, and a reason to make it because of
what actually happened with the actor who plays a dead
in real life. So there was something there, and that
movie had more of a payoff than the second one.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
But I guess they couldn't go from one to three
because a lot of life would have happened.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Yeah, the entire timeline of the story doesn't. It jumps around.
It does from the very all. The other reason about
the first movie is because it jumps so much from
them meeting to having a kid. There's such a big
of a time jump.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
From the first to the second.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yeah, they were like fourteen years in between.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
And then the next one comes and then it's like
she's in college, but they like had her in the first,
so it just seems like, yeah, that is it's a
little bit all like they should have made these all
into the two thousands, and it probably would have been better.
Maybe I would agree.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I did love that Joey Fatone was still in it.
I love his character. I do like Sister You're great.
Do enjoy the fact that they bring back all of
the cast, Yeah, and they're really good about that.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
And I think that's important to it. If they just
swapped out characters or recasted characters, it would seem even
more of a cash grab. But I do enjoy that
fact that, a it's all the same characters, so it
kind of feels like you're growing with them.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I also feel like maybe it's different watching it as
a woman, because the first one is like she's approaching
thirty and her dad's like, Tula, you're gonna be onwed Spinster,
you're getting so old no children, and like, man, I
know I'm married, but I'm about to be thirty in
a few months, and I'm like, cool, thirty sounds awesome.
I don't feel old, but I think, yeah, I think
that's the part of it that's like makes the first
(13:01):
one like unexpected romantic comedy is that it's not the
woman putting yourself in this box, like I feel like
in a lot of rom comes women they're like, I'm
gonna be single forever. But in this case, it's like
her Greek dad being like, you must marry and carry
on the family legacy.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
And it's also one of the only few movies that
I know that really highlights Greek families and their culture.
And it is cool to watch a movie and get
to know about something I really don't know a whole
lot about. And coming from a Mexican background, I kind
of feel like there's some similarities there as far as
how close you are to your family. They all live
next door to yeah, the whole living with each other.
(13:34):
Like in Mexican culture, it's normal to live with your
parents until you're married.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I think most cultures, multi generational homes are common except.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
For America House. It's like, hey, you're eighteen, get out
of here. It's and it's weird if you are living
with your parents and you're in your mid to late
twenties or even thirties.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Yeah, that's true. That's a good point.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I have cousins. They didn't move out, so they were
in their forties.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I joke that my youngest brother's gonna be like that.
He's just gonna mak like a little like cave. But
I also think he's gonna, I don't know, invest in crypto.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah, that's because he wants to chill forever. I do
have some honorable mentions. I am going to get to
the movie review No One Will Save You, which honestly
could have been my best of the month, but I
want to have a full dedicated review to that.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Is that when you watched on TV, it is Saturday morning. Yeah,
I was like, doesn't sound familiar. Don't think I tuned in?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yeah, that is a horror movie that you would not
be interested in. But I'll give you my full thoughts
on that here in a bit. And I did want
to mention some movies that we've reviewed previously that are
now available to stream that everybody.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Needs to go see Theater Camp.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Theater Camp is on Hulu, and I think that is
one that we both loved and another great comedy of
this also.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I want to watch it again already, and kind of like.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
The same way that Bottoms is. It's very niche.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
It's so camp, but not like in the way of
like actual camp, just like I don't know how else to.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
And the humor is a lot different than that one
because it's it's so specific to what it's like to
be a theater kid. But even if you're not, it's
just a movie.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
And I feel like if you were just a weird
kid in any capacity, I think that's why you're the
cool popular kid. Maybe you're not gonna get it, but
maybe you have like a secret interest in theater and
you couldn't pursue it because you were the cool popular kid.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
And that is a movie. I would love to see
a sequel too. I rarely say that, but they should
make a Theater Camp two.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I would watch that, like the camp's been up and
running again for like two years.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Yeah, just take exactly where it left off and start
with a new one. You can introduce new cast member.
They're just potential there for it to be another one.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
But that kind of feels like when they started spinning
off Pitch Perfect, So maybe not.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I wouldn't mind seeing it, but it probably doesn't need
a sequel is the category that that movie falls into.
But if you want to check that one out, it's
on Hulu, which is my go to for movies right now.
Netflix is so much Here is something that you could
watch in theaters but at home. With the A list stars,
they have more of I guess not necessarily franchises, but
(15:56):
they feel like they're making their own franchises, but also
Max because they have all the Warner Brothers stuff, but
that doesn't really feel like originals to me. It just
feels like, hey, they get all the Warner Brothers on
their streaming service, but the other ones. To mention Mutant Mayhem.
The Ninja Turtles animated movie is now on Paramount Plus,
which was one of my favorites of the summer.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Also great. I loved it, didn't think I would.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
And you are not a Ninja Turtles fan whatsoever. Prior
to that, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
It was the one thing I just never really got into.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
And then also the Haunted Mansion is now on Disney Plus,
which was a movie that we just didn't really have
anything else to go watch in theaters, had low expectations,
but it is a pretty good family Halloween movie, which
the reason they put that out earlier this summer was
so now that it kind of matches up with being
available in October around spooky season. Very smart of them,
(16:49):
And it's a weird thing for Disney to take a
hit like that because they did lose some money at
the box office, but now we'll maybe make it back
up with people streaming it.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I loved the original Haunted Mansion with Eddie Murphy. Yeah,
that was also an unexpected hit.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I feel like and I think the Disney model is
changing a bit, and it feels like every time a
new Disney movie comes out in theaters, it doesn't do
as well as it does, but then whenever it goes
on to Disney Plus, it has this whole new life.
Like Elemental was their most stream movie, but when it
first came out, everybody was saying it was a flop.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Well that's also because some of their new I'm doing
quotes are just remakes.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Yeah, Little Mermaid got streamed a bunch too, Like millions of.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
People you watched it without me. I think I'm gonna
set that one up.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
But then they also have Wish coming out later this year.
It looks so generic and it just looks like, here's
a fairytale movie. So I feel like that's gonna be
the same issue there that it's not gonna do so
great in theaters. People are complaining about Disney and say
they're failing, they're losing money, and then it'll come out
on streaming and be their highest stream movie again.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Well, yeah, because you think about it, most parents aren't
taking little kids to this.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
One, it's hard to sit. I know a lot of
theaters will do like a kid screening of things like
on the weekends, where like it's literally your kid can
run around and be loud, like that's what the screening's for,
because you can't expect a small child to sit there
for a couple hours to watch a movie. Also, it's
expensive to go to movies. Yeah, I think if you
have multiple kids and they all want snacks and tickets.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
And it's way easier to watch it on Disney Plus exactly.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
So I think that's also why they don't do well
in theaters.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I do think there needs to be more of an
experience with movie theaters. Okay, like you said the kids
only screenings. I also saw whenever the Paw Patrol movie
came out, they had dog screenings where you could bring
your dog and watch a movie.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Are you being serious right now?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yeah, Paw Patrol head dog screening where you bring your dog.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Interesting. I would expect that for Blue because if Blue
came out with the movie, because Blue is filmed and
the colors, the dogs can.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
See Blue has it going on. I need to watch that.
I know it's a kid show, but everybody loves it.
But I just feel like adding another thing for audiences
to have to go to the theater. And it doesn't
have to be anything crazy, but even something like that where.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Their Taylor Swift concert film. You'll be dressing up. I
will be wearing my Friendship bracelets, and I probably will
be buying the exclusive popcorn bucket and cup for you
Guessed It nineteen eighty nine, which.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Is actually not a bad price. I've wanted to get
into collecting the popcorn.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
No, we don't have the space for it exactly.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
That's why I don't, especially because when you look at them,
they look so cool. But then you spend I mean
some of those are get up to forty fifty bucks.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
You also don't eat popcorn. Let's a lot popcorn to
expect me to eat.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
But I just want the I just want the thing.
I want the thing to hold it. Because they came
out with really cool ones for like Transformers, which was can.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
You buy just the bucket Sands popcorn?
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Exactly?
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Cane.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Oh yeah, whenever the Post Malone exclusive cups came to Canes,
you went to get one for me out of my
way because there was only one that I wanted. It
was the pink one with his animated character on it.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I went out of my way during lunch one day
to Canes. Parked, walked into Canes, smelled overwhelmingly aggressive, like
fried chicken. I stand there in line, I get up
there and I just want the cup, and they're like,
we can't sell it to you. You have to buy
a combo. And I'm like, well, I'm not buying a
twelve dollars meal that neither one of us can eat
because it's not vegan or gluten free. So I did
not get a cup, and I was very annoyed that
you have to purchase the Comboat to then upgrade to
(20:07):
the cup, and I'm like, can I not just buy.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
The I know yem cup? But luckily my sister got
me one. I'm looking at it right now. It's in
the studio here. And also my brother got me the
Cowboys one with post malone, so I now have two cups.
But I think you can just buy the popcorn things
by themselves because a lot of people resell them online.
So there were some really like the Dark Knight well
(20:29):
I guess not the Dark Knight one, but the Batman
one was also really cool. But yeah, where am I
going to put all this stuff? My space is already we.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Could start filling up here popcorn container collection. But yes,
I agree there needs to be something to movie experiences.
So why I like Alamo Drafthouse when they do the
like quote alongs.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I feel like directors. I saw one director recently saying
that more movies need to just be made in imax
because that's also gives you a reason to go to
the theater, which, if you think about our experience with
going to see Oppenheimer this summer, like a large driving
force of that was the fact that we saw at
one of the only seventy millimeters screenings in the entire country,
And there's just something to watching something that's actually huge
(21:11):
and that you can't have at home because a lot
of people now have the money to replicate or get
pretty close to the movie theater experience. With a big screen,
big sound system, you can get pretty close. And the
thing has always been you go to the movies to
watch them the way they were intended to. But if
you're able to get that experience really close at home,
(21:32):
you have to take it up another level and put
it in imax on a giant screen and even bigger sound.
So I do think there's something of that of just
a filmmaking process needs to change a little bit, to
go back to creating something that's worthy of the big
screen and not just saying see it on the big
screen will give us a reason to see it on
the big screen.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Or things that create such buzz and excitement that you
end up like a packed theater, like think about like
Black Panther a lot. I'm trying to think of another
one that we've seen recently. Well, Barbie Oppenheimer Barbe was crazy,
So it's like that, Yeah, things that create buzz. I
feel like that drives people to want.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
To see it, which is another hard thing to do.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah, the Taylor Swift one, I mean she could Taylor
Shift could put out a video of her reading the
phone book, charge me fifty dollars and say I could
only see it in theaters, and well I would.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Well, all right, anything else you want to say before
you go?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I'm trying to think if we had any TV Honorable mentions,
but I feel like we've watched things.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I feel like I'm just calling out of love with
TV shows right now because we have started so many
things that I haven't finished. I started one piece on
Netflix on my account and I haven't gone back to finish.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Now my Netflix things that I want to watch anime.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I haven't started any of the latest Star Wars series,
even though people seem to enjoy them. There are so
many things I have, like one two episodes down that
I just haven't found myself going back to. Like the
Morning Show. We do need to catch up on that thum,
but I feel like we're going to feel the effects
of the strike and things not coming out for a while,
so time to hop back into those.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
It's go more girls rewatch season. Oh yeah, start a fall,
you just turn it on the.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
TV wise, Okay, my go to speaking of TV shows,
in the two thousand me off there, my go to
has been My Name is Earl because it's old and comforting.
Oh and I love I love that show. When it
first came out, it's so annoying. It is not annoying,
it is so annoying.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
And every time you turn on an episode, I go
in the other room.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Only started on the living room TV. You always somehow
claim the living room by just starting my Name is Earl,
knowing I won't sit out there with you, but.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
That is my go to show. Right now, that's the best,
the worst of the month. We'll come back and talk
about No One Will Save You. We'll come back, We'll
come back. Let's get into a spoiler free movie review.
I have been waiting to talk about No One Will
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Save You for so long. I watched it the very
first weekend it came out and have been marinating with
my thoughts because I'm really split on this movie. The
movie is about a girl named Brinn who goes out
to the home that she grew up in and one
night she gets woken up by these strange noises, and
those strange noises just happen to be alien, so it
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is an alien invasion thriller. Brinn is played by Caitlin Dever,
who you may know from BookSmart. She was also in
Ticket to Paradise last year with George Clooney and Julia Roberts,
a really great young actress who I think has a
lot of potential. There are so many things I love
about this movie, but there are also a lot of
things that I just had issues with. So let's dive
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into it. Without revealing all the details behind the plot
of this movie, but essentially what you have. She goes
out to this house that she grew up in and
you learn a little bit about her backstory of why
she is there, and she is very much a recluse,
which I really identified a lot with her character with
a couple of things, really enjoying not being around a
whole lot of people. I think if I could, if
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I really had the choice, and if me and my
wife Kelsey weren't so used to city life at this point,
I could see myself going out and living in a
house like this, where you're just away from everything, you
have no neighbors, You walk out into your front porch
and you hear nothing. That part of this movie. I
just really enjoyed just having the silence and not having
to hear or see anybody, which is kind of my
(25:28):
dream scenario. The other thing about her character and really
this entire movie is there is very limited dialogue, and
I think that creates a very interesting dynamic throughout this
entire thing. Usually what you go to watch a movie
is to hear the character speak and also see a
lot of action depending on the film, but in this case,
it is really all action and very very few lines
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spoken throughout the entire movie. But I find that to
be really powerful because a lot of the tension is
implied a lot of the scenarios, you as the audience
member have to really draw your own conclude usions on
exactly what is happening in this movie, and it makes
all of her interactions with the aliens throughout this film
to be that much more impactful and really creates that
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feeling of her being alone, which going back to the
title of the movie, no One Will Save You. It
very much plays into that because there is nobody around
her to help her or to save her, and it
makes you feel pretty helpless, and I think that is
why this movie is creating a lot of buzz, because
it really came out at the perfect time. With so
much that has been revealed about aliens just this year,
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I feel they have kind of been soft launch, not
only in America but also in different parts of the country,
with Mexico saying, hey, look we have a paper mache alien.
They exist. So I feel like, right now we're all
kind of itching for a movie like this, And it
reminded me probably a little bit of an old Twilight
Zone episode, but with a much more modern feel to it.
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And this movie has an interesting road of how it
even came to be. The movie was directed by Brian Duffield,
who it's actually his second ever feature film, but he
is a known producer and writer of movies like Loving Monsters,
which is a movie I just quint essentially associate with
twenty twenty during the heat of the pandemic, when there
were no movies coming out. I thought that movie was
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a bright spot in my year of being an actual
new movie I was being able to watch at home.
He was behind that one. He also produced Cocaine Bear,
which came out earlier this year, and he actually wrote
this movie back out in twenty eighteen, and it was
actually supposed to come out earlier after twenty eighth Century
Studios bought the rights to it. But then you have
a little movie come out called Note from director Jordan Peele,
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which has to do with what with Aliens, and they
were worried that audiences were going to find these two
films to be too similar. Therefore, putting one against the other,
maybe you get a little alien fatigue and nobody wants
to go see this movie because they just watch Nope.
And really you don't want to go against Jordan Peele
because whatever he puts out is going to get way
more attention and dominate at the box office. But this
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movie finally found its home. It's finally out, which Brian
has had such an interesting career of being a writer
and being a producer and really just all of his
projects being so delayed with the pandemic. So it's really
cool to see him now flourish as a director and
have a really solid film on his hands. And an
alien invasion thriller is something I didn't really know I
(28:18):
needed in my life. As much as I love aliens
and believe in them. As much as I love horror movies,
I really wasn't going into this movie expecting it to
have just that kind of feeling. Feels like a horror movie,
but instead of a Michael Myers or Freddy Kueger type,
the villain is an alien, which to me is way
more haunting. I've never really seen an alien shown on
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screen this much. The first act was so haunting, and
I was immediately sucked into this movie. But as the
plot developed and as we got to know more about
these aliens and they had more interactions, it started to
lose steam a little bit for me, especially in the
third act, And I just have a thing with movies
falling apart in that third act where you build up
(28:59):
all this you have me on the horror aspect, you
have me on the thriller aspect. But I just really
wanted this movie to bring it home. In the end,
it bit off a little bit more than it could
chew if they would have kept it just a little
bit simpler, dumbed it down just a little bit. I
felt like it went a little too meta in the
third act to try and create this really broad, overarching
(29:21):
statement on exactly what happened with Caitlin Devers's character in
this movie, it lost me a little bit and took
away that excitement I had from the very beginning of
the film and faded out there towards the end that
it almost would have been a perfect movie for me.
And the way I thought about this movie is I
love the buzz that it created because this is the
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type of movie that you tell your friends about who
want to watch a thriller because they are so fun
to discuss afterwards. It reminds me of some of my
favorite horror movies or even the more recent movies like
Smiles that have created a buzz. Megan that have created
a buzz. It has that same type of feel to it,
and I wanted to, like I said earlier, to be
my next favorite movie, had all of my favorite things
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going for it, but it just fell off so hard
and let me a little bit disappointed that I thought
this could have been it. It's kind of like if
you were a coach to a football team and you
had a player who was so dedicated would show up
on time. You want to put them in the game
every single time, for every single play, but they're just
not that great at what you really need them to do.
(30:26):
They're not going to win you the game, so you
have to put in a different player. That is how
I felt after watching this movie, as much as I
wanted to root for it, as much as I wanted
to say all the things about this movie and just
let me thinking so close, but now cigar Ah, although
it is one of the most dynamic movies I have
seen in a long time, to make such a statement,
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to create some really haunting and unsettling visuals, to give
me the feeling that I'm watching something familiar, because it's
not an unhurt thing to watch an alien invasion thriller,
or even one with a little bit more of a
horror element to it. But it still felt novel to me,
felt very fresh and new compared to everything else in
this space right now. But I still think it's a
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movie that I still highly recommend, but know that you
might not entirely love it if one you don't buy
into the idea of aliens, two you're kind of squeamish
when it comes to any kind of horror movie. Because
if you're somebody who lives alone or lives out in
the country like I used to, I could see watching
this movie and then having a little bit of trouble
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going to sleep at night and you hear any kind
of sound in the other room, it may freak you
out a little bit. But it is one of those
movies that you're either gonna love or you're gonna hate,
but you have to really watch it and decide for
yourself because it's kind of that polarizing of a movie.
I just love a movie that creates any kind of
a buzz that gets people talking, not a whole lot
of marketing, really, any marketing whatsoever. It just popped up
(31:52):
on Hulu one day and I thought, I need to
watch that, and then I see a lot of people
now talking about it on TikTok. So for a movie
to come out like that and generate this word of
mouth buzz, I think that's really important. And it's going
to be a significant film of the year and one
that people will probably continue to discover throughout this year.
And I hope maybe not a direct sequel, but another
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movie similar to this. I think the director Brian Duffield
has really found an interesting lane here because it's not
quite as cinematic as Nope, which he was worried it
was going to be compared to but it has its
unique style and even though it is a quote unquote
streaming only movie, it doesn't really have that direct to
video lower budget vibe to it. And it also just
(32:34):
reinforces my belief that Hulu has the best original content
right now. With everything they are doing and all the
things they are scooping up over there with twentieth century studios.
I know if I go over to their click on
their latest movie, I'm going to watch something interesting. I'm
going to watch something compelling. Whether or not I love
it completely is up to me, but I know that
(32:56):
it's not just going to be like something they throw
on Netflix or worse, Amazon Prime. So if you're looking
for one streaming service to invest with based on original
movies alone, my go to pick is still Hulu. And
for no one will save You, I will give it
three point five out of five Flying Saucers.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
It's time to head down to movie Mike Trey Lar Paul.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
I have been waiting for the first look at The
Toxic Avenger since this movie was announced. The original one
came out in nineteen eighty four and it is my
favorite B horror movie of all time. What exactly is
a B horror movie. It's a movie that doesn't look
that good. The actors can't really act. All of the
special effects are practical effects, so they are done very cheaply. Essentially,
(33:44):
it's just people throwing blood into a bucket and then
throwing it onto the actors. So it's very low budget,
very low grade, but there is a charm to that.
And I think the reason I love the original so
much is because as a kid, I wanted to be
a director, and horror movies always just folk to young
directors because you could make them on a relatively low budget.
So movies like The Toxic Avenger or really any Trauma Film,
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which is the company that produces Toxic Avenger movies and
a lot of other very strange and weird and vile
horror movies. They're the ones who told me that I
could go online figure out how to make fake blood,
which I found out as a kid that corn syrup
and food colorings, particularly red dye, makes a pretty convincing
looking blood for a really low price. But why I
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love the Toxic Avenger is because he is an unlikely superhero.
His origin story is that of he is a nerd
who gets tricked into wearing a tow to two gets
chased from a second story and falls into a pit
of acid and then turns into this disgusting superhero. And
even though he has been bullied and tormented and now
(34:52):
has his entire human state change for the worst, he
still wants to help people and he is still the
of Traumaville And the reason this movie has my curiosity
and my interest because normally this isn't a movie I
would recommend because it is so low budget, because it
is so vile. Really, anything in the Trauma space are
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some of the most disturbing movies I've ever seen that
you really have to be into some low grade humor,
into some low grade special effects. But there are some
hardcore film fans who do find the charm in these movies.
And now it is getting a big studio treatment, which
is unheard of because as a part of the cast
(35:34):
of this movie, playing the Toxic Avenger himself is the
one and only Peter Dinklitch, who you would know from
Game of Thrones, and just his name alone being added
to this movie makes me feel like it's not just
gonna be some RinkyDink b horror movie. You also have
Kevin Bacon and Elijah Wood who are all a part
of this cast. So I think it's gonna be a
very fun movie, and by the looks of this trailer,
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it is gonna have that same campiness that they had
back in the eighties. So I don't think these films
are gonna be for everybody one because they are so
over the top and so disgusting to be quite honest,
but also because I feel like when movies play into
the campiness that it can turn off a lot of
people of thinking this is dumb and this is cheesy.
So I think it's gonna be a big treat for
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the really hardcore fans of the original film like myself,
but hoping that the fact that actors like Elijah Wood
and Kevin Bacon are attached to it and Peter d
English of course, that it will open the scope up
and allow other people to enjoy the greatness that is
a Toxic Avenger film. So, before I get into more details,
here's just a little bit of the Toxic Avenger trailer.
(36:38):
And there are still no leads as to the identity
of the freaky folk here remains at large. Sir, what
did you see last night? Her gunshots, soft blood, and
just all that had his arm pore off like wet
bread and the creature will run off of them. Nine
the Toxic Avenger. That's what the kids are calling him.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
I think it's swell.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
So the trailer alone is very not safe for work,
a lot of bad words, a lot of violence. But
you do get the first glimpse of Peter Dinklich who
ends up becoming the Toxic Avenger. And it's still very
ominous in this teaser, but it just has this very
quintessential trouma vibe that I have been looking for in films.
(37:24):
But you do get that first look of Peter Dinklich
as the Toxic Avenger, and it wasn't really what I
had in my mind because it looks like they took
an entirely different approach on the look of the character
and the thing I was excited to see most because
there was an image that came out recently of Elijah
Wood in this movie who looks utterly ridiculous. And he
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is an actor who I just feel like needs to
be a part of this movie because he takes so
much pride in his roles. He's a really good character
actor and I feel a very underappreciated talent in Hollywood.
He did so many great movies as a child actor,
and the course was one of the biggest movie stars
on the planet as a part of the Lord of
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the Rings franchise. But I feel like he's been more
selective in his work and the roles he does take
on are ones he has to be passionate about. But
I always just see him giving one hundred percent in
every single one of his movies. So he is an
actor that I pay attention to when he puts out
a film. So I'm really excited to see him take
on this role in this movie, which just at first
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look at this reminded me of the first time I
saw Colin Farrell as the Penguin and the Batman because
he looks pretty unrecognizable. So what this movie is about.
You have Peter Dinklitch who plays Winston, who goes on
to become the Toxic Avenger, So it looks like he's
going to be an older take on the character, who
is a teenager in the original nineteen eighty four film.
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He is a widower struggling to raise a step son
and then his job gets taken over by an evil
corporate jerk played by Kevin Bacon, who won't pay for
their health insurance. Winston fights back and, like it happened
in the original, fall into a vat of toxic waste.
There is still no official release date on this movie.
They're gonna be showing it at some film festivals and
kind of gauging audience interest, so hopefully it comes out
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next year. But if I had to rate my excitement
level on this movie two three, four, it is at
a five. I am so excited to see this big
screen adaptation because the first movie had a budget of
half a million dollars half a million dollars, and this
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movie now has a far far larger budget than that,
so much more room to play around with. Although I
do love those practical effects in the first one, even
though they look pretty bad and sometimes hard to watch
in a lot of these movies, I still believe that
practical effects age better than special effects. If I go
back and watch some practical effects from the eighties or
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even the seventies, I feel like those hold up so
much more than the early days of computers, when people
were still trying to figure out how to put special
effects in movies. Some of that stuff just looks horrendous.
But again, the movie is called The Toxic Avenger, expected
to come out next year. Another thing I wanted to
mention there is no fool teaser or trailer or anything
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attached to this one so far, but I have been
loving every single image from The Joker Too, which is
supposed to come out a year from now. Hopefully that's
still the case, but director Todd Phillips posted an image
recently of Joaquin Phoenix in the rain with these colored
umbrellas around him. There's also a picture of him and
Lady Gaga having this like menacing stare into each other's
(40:36):
eyes with the Jokers makeup like smeared all across his face.
She looks great. Joaquin Phoenix looks as unstable as he
did in the first one. So I feel like the
sequel is going to be a lot weirder than the
first one because it is a musical, which I'm having
an easier time now wrapping the thought of that around
my brain as I see the images from the movie,
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and it reminds me of what I love the most
about the first one is that you, as the viewer,
were questioning all the things that the Joker was going
through and whether or not they were actually happening in
real life or they were all just happening in his head.
So I think that movie is going to play into
this as well. Of maybe the more dramatic scenes and
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straight ahead things will be the things actually happening in
real life, and then all of the over the top
things that would happen in his head may be portrayed
in a musical. That is what I'm taking away from
just seeing the stills of this movie, because there's two
different vibes. There's the more serious, gritty looks at both
of the characters, and there's the others that look a
little bit more like a fantasy, a really dark and
(41:40):
twisted fantasy, but a fantasy nonetheless. So that is the
first look at the Joker wanted to throw that into
this segment.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
And that was this week's edition of movie Line.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Frame or Bar, And that is going to do it
for another episode here of the podcast. But before I go,
I got to give my listener shout out of the
week this week. I'm going going over to my email,
which you can reach me at Moviemike d at gmail
dot com. Got a really nice email from Michael, who wrote,
I am a fairly recent subscriber. I spend a lot
of time in my car for work, and your podcast
(42:12):
always entertains me. Plus it gives me a lot of
insight on movies I may or may not have seen
because of your podcast, which I learned about on the
Bobby Bone Show. I've also started following you on TikTok
at Facebook. I will say, to boost your ego a little.
You're the only podcast I follow. Otherwise I wouldn't even
listen to a podcast. Otherwise I wouldn't even listen to
a podcast because I find them boring. I've been binging
(42:33):
all your shows, and the latest one I heard about
was your wish to become a Rotten Tomatoes critic. I
believe you do enough on your own and don't sell
yourself short. Keep doing what you're doing, and you have
one more faithful subscriber. I will see you later. Really
appreciate that, Michael. It means the world to me that
you did literally everything you could possibly do to be
subscribed to the podcast, to email in, to follow me
(42:56):
on social media. These kind of emails make my day
because sometimes I feel like I do these episodes I
put them out to the world, and then I think
did that even matter? Do people even care? So if
one person cares, if Michael, you are the only one,
it makes doing this podcast worth it. So appreciate that.
And I think I'm going to apply to Rotten Tomatoes
(43:18):
one more time next year whenever submissions open up, and
I think after that I'm done. I may be done now,
I may get to that application next year and think
I don't want to do it anymore, because it's true.
The relationship I build with you guys here in my
honest movie reviews means more to me than being a
legit Rotten Tomatoes critic could ever be. I think at
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this point it's just that I've been wanting to do
it for so long, been talking about it for so long.
It would just be gratifying to finally have that. But
I don't long for it as much as I used to.
So again, thank you Michael for this email. You were
this week's listener of the week. Thank you listening right
now to this podcast, for being subscribed, for telling a friend.
(44:00):
And until the next time, go out and watch good
movies and I will talk to you later.
Host
Mike D
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