November 3, 2025 • 51 mins
Mike and Kelsey are back to recap the best and worst movies they saw in October. Mike shares why he is worried about his mental state as he has found himself rooting for the villains in movies lately. Kelsey shares what book to movie adaption was a total cringe fest. Mike also shares what scene made him unexpectedly emotional. In the Movie Review, Mike talks about Bugonia starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons. It’s about two conspiracy-obsessed men kidnap the CEO of a major company when they become convinced that she's an alien who wants to destroy Earth. Mike talks about why Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons performances were next level, whether it was worth it to see in 35 mm and why he is okay with overhyping this movie. In the Trailer Park, Mike talks about Send Help starring Rachel McAdams. She plays an overworked and unappreciated employee belittled by her boss, played by Dylan O’Brien. The feuding co-workers crash-land on a deserted island and have to work together or die trying. Mike talks about each of their biggest movies and resurgences, Sam Rami's signature style and why this wouldn't be a nightmare if it happened to him.
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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 by my wife and
co host Kelsey. How are you good?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Except the ring light is a grassive tonight, and I
don't know if it's just because I've been in my
dark office in front of the computer all day, but
I feel like I need sunglasses for this.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
But we are here to do our best and worst
of October?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
How is it? We're like it's Christmas now.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
And then in the movie review we'll be talking about Bogonia.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's a very hard first syllable.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Bogunia Baghani, Bogonia with you're just saying about a couple
of dudes who are really into conspiracy theories, so they
capture a CEO and they think she's an alien. And
in the trailer park we'll talk about Send Help with
Dylan O'Brien and Rachel McAdams, which I'm really enjoying Dylan
O'Brien right now.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
It's a Dylan O'Brien resurgence.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
It's a big year for him.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
That was actually the first trailer that we hadn't seen before.
It was like a fresh trailer because we see all
of the trailers because we go the so much. But
we sat down and saw that one and we were like, oh,
I haven't seen this one.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
We'll break it into the trailer. We'll break that down in
the trailer park. Thank you for being here, Thank you
for being subscribed. Shat to the Monday Morning Movie Crew.
And now let's talk movies from the Nashville Podcast Network.
This movie Mike Movie Podas. Let's hop right into it.
Best and worse for October. What do you have is
(01:23):
your best?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Best? Was The Lost Bus?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Do you think we both enjoyed this movie so much
because we love disaster movies?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yes, But then I was also like bummed to know
that they did dramatize.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
A lot of it, a lot of it, which is
kind of expected when you have a disaster movie that
is based on true events. Normally it's not, but if
you think of the disaster genre, it has to go
to big links to make it entertaining.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
The next level. So I understand, and I'm glad all
of that didn't happen in real life. Let me be clear,
very glad. There were not a bunch of school children
on a bus in like active flames.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
That is true, but you do feel more for them,
thinking that it was true, which it was based on
the Paradise Fires.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yes, in twenty eighteen, which is weird that there was
another one this year the Palisades.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Very similar. Yes, but it was a true story about
a bus driver who got some children to safety. But
some of the things that happened that were really heroic
did not actually happen in real life.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah. Again, glad for the children, but was like, oh man,
this dude's a real hero. Still a hero. Oh my gosh,
like traumatizing. But Matthew mcconnor, he was great. I think
that was the perfect role for him. Oh absolutely, where he.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Is somebody who could do like an Oscar level performance
right now, but then he can also do a really
good just straight ahead. I'm your leading man. I'm gonna
take this bus where no one else can take. This bus?
Is a bus ever lost? That's kind of turning into
like Bill Clinton. He's like right in the middle of
Bill Clinton and like a stoner. But I really enjoyed it.
(02:56):
But I also love disaster movies.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
We do love a disaster.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I don't think The Day After Tomorrow is seen as
a good movie. I don't think Twister is up there
in most people's like, this is just a great movie.
It's not there Volcano. I don't think people think, oh,
that is cinema.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
When watching Volcano, you're just like saying fantastic films.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Dante's peak. It's like, oh, my great disaster movies, Geo Storm,
good one, the San Andreas with the Rock, like any
disaster movie and Slaps, those are all great, and it's another.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
One with Rock.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I watched multiple Rock. Yeah, there was a whole period
of rock disaster films. Yeah, Rampage really wasn't a disaster film.
It was like a video game that nobody really felt
was a great adaptation. But I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I thought it was cool how his son was actually
in the movie and his mom was in the movie.
And then by the end of it, I was like, man,
I just feel like I went on that ride with them.
I feel like I came out of change person. And
it was one of those where I think my raid
was just a little bit too high, because I do
love the disaster genre that much. What did you give it?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Did I give it?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I think you said like a perfect score.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I did not say it perfect.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
You were like five after we watched it, which there's
always that period of right after you watch it.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I'm gonna go four and a half.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Buzzes probably coming down from it. I will give it
four out of five.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
America Ferrera was also great.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Now I won't even say it never.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Mind, don't ruin it. It's still a good movie.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
But it's on Apple Plus, which is no longer Apple
TV Plus, which is confusing. Everybody keeps changing their names brands,
HBO Max, I still have the old app from before
they changed to just Max, keep changing. I have both,
so I don't know. They're gonna keep everything and keep
changing it. Eventually everything is just gonna be one service.
It's gonna be cable again. It's all getting confusing. And
I got tricked into getting Paramount Plus. It's all annoying.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah I did say that eighty dollar charge.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
That was annoying. I got bamboozled. But now I'm gonna
go back and wae.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Now you have to explain why you got bamboozled. You
can't just say you got well.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I couldn't get the Cowboys game, and they were like,
get Paramount Plus and watch the cowboysting on the Broncos.
I was like right, let me get Paramount Plus. But
it's still same with like Hulu, where if you're not
in the region, you can't watch it. But the big
banner showed Dak Prescott's face that you could watch.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
It now after having seen the game? Are we really
that sad we couldn't get it?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I was even more annoying because it was so the
game was terrible. I wasted eight dollars. But now I
can watch old Nickelodeon shows because that's really all. Like,
I see that everyone want to watch on Paramount Plus.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Oh wait, did don't they have Fly on us?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah? Really good Taylor Sheridan shows.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
We should watch that.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Well, we got a month to watch it, okay. I
also canceled a crunchy role.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
You enjoyed that, Yeah, but actually haven't watched it.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I haven't watched it. That's like six bucks. I had
to justify the bank for Paramount Plus.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I think it was actually the same price.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I feel like we need a clean house and all
of our streaming services, but but there's nothing else we
could get rid of.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
No, we watch a lot of TV.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
We use them and movies of course from this podcasts.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
We actually we spend money there because it's too expensive
tole pouse and do anything else.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
We just watch things for my best of the month.
I'm gonna go Roofman. It was so good and I
think this is one that I would go back and
maybe bump it up a little bit. I gave it
a four out of five initially.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Oh, I gave it a four and a half.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I think I'm going four and a half now because
it is a movie that I've told other people to
go watch. They have gone to see it and enjoyed it,
which is really hard to do McDonald Tosh Browns. I
think because it made me feel compassion for somebody who
isn't necessarily a good person, isn't really a hero, but
I was rooting for them. And I've had this really
(06:33):
weird thing lately where I start to root for the
bad person in the movies that we've been watching.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Okay, I have a layer to add to that, Okay,
hit me with it. So I think it was on
Kate Kennedy's podcast this week, she was talking to some
friends about the heist at the Louver.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
The Louver and she taught them, but she was like.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
No one was hurt, So like, do you kind of
root or like find entertainment in this.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I think that's what's happening right now, is I think
we saw that as a fictional situation. So I was
rooting for them to get away for some reason, because
nobody was harmed, at least to my knowledge.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Also, weren't all of those things probably stolen from someone
before they ended?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
They were steel, That's what they.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Were talking about. They were like, weren't those all like
colonized from someone else?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I mean in fact that they did it in seven
minutes before anybody knew what was going on with security.
They didn't hold anybody hostage in the loop. Like they
got away on scooters scooters, scooters and just came out.
They got away on scooters and then they got caught
trying to hop a flight.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I mean that that is a bad form of transportation
to take when you're like on the LAMB because.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Scooter, no a flight?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Oh like a scooter no, Like I don't they're in Europe,
take a train.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
That's true. Yeah, there's too many things you have to go.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Through, so much facial recognition.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Oh that too. I just think of like booking the flight.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
No, but like your passport and doesn't something flag in
the system, probably when you're on it for robbing a
famous museum.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, don't fly, dumb way to get out? Take a boat. Yeah.
I always thought a good way to get away from
a crime.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I think allegedly you gotta say allegedly.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Allegedly get away from a crime. Yeah, well, because I run.
I always thought if you fled a scene of the
crime in running clothes, would they think that you were escaping?
You gotta blend in, Like if you just saw somebody
in like Nike shorts, the tank top with a running
hat and headphones and running shoes.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
But if there's no one else, yeah, you're getting implicated.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
It depends where it is, Like downtown, a busy downtown
and you just see somebody running, Do you automatically think
that person is running for just committing a crime. No,
there you go. It's an easy not an easy way,
but it could help because if you just see a
guy in normal clothes running down the street, you're gonna think,
why is that guy running? It raises some red flags.
(08:55):
If you see a guy in workout clothes going for
a jog.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Look like picking up your pace and looking over your shoulder,
then you look, you got a slow girl, and then
you're just like looking over the shoulder for safety.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, you're like, that's a that's a normal thing.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
But that is my best of the month. I think
it's because it was based on a true story. I
like Channing Tatum.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Listen, that was That was a good Chanting Tatum movie.
I've been a Channing Tatum van since two thousand and six.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
That's true. I'm a late adopter, not until twenty one,
Jump Street.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Step Up, She's the Man, two of my favorite films
of all time.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I think he's happen. I don't want to say a renaissance,
because I don't really think he ever went away. But
he's entering a really good pocket of movies right now.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
He's entering a pocket where he's showcasing seeing his acting
skills more than his body. I'll magic mic because.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
He I mean, he lost seventy pounds for this movie,
which that one scene where he's like almost naked, that's
really the only time you can tell he looks just
a little bit more like I.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Think he said he's like he can't do a big
I read an article where he said, like big transformations
like that are just too hard.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
That's why I say people who do that should be
up for oscars because I don't think people realize how
hard that is. And some people say they're own, you
tried losing five pounds, it's not really to put on
muscle to play a superhero, which he is. Gambit Now,
I think it is just as hard as anything else
enacting when it comes to transforming your body for a role.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
But I will also say they have the resources. Yeah,
I mean if you wait, the trainer, you have the chef, like,
that's your job is getting in shape that you're not
doing a nine to five, and then also go into
the gym and then make yourself a dinner. You're got
to the store for yourself. So I do think you
have if you have all the resources at your disposal,
and that is your job is to get in shape
for your role.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Dang, you just took away the oscar. Well, it's part
of the job description. I forgot about that part. That's
all they have to do, yeah, which I think we
forget with actors sometimes that's their entire job to do
these things for these roles.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
And I understand it's still physically demanding.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
But you have still not easy.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
You give someone making a meal plan and being like,
this is how much protein you need, this is how
many calories. You have a trainer watching your form, guiding you,
being like today we're doing this, Like you're being led
to the goal. You're the one doing the physical work,
but you have someone like providing you all of the
other things needed to reach the goal.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
You don't have to worry about anything else. Yeah, you
don't have the grocery shop for yourself. Could you imagine
not having a grocery shop?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Love, I think that every week when we're like, what
day should we go to the grocery store? Listen, We've
become Friday evening grocery shoppers.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
This is the weirdest thing that guys.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
It's kind of great.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
It is amazing.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I would do that in grad school, mostly because I
would have run out of food by Friday, and I
would stop and get like frozen pizza and a bottle
of wine and like my groceries for the week, and
then it was done.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Our perfect Friday night now is eating at home, getting
groceries and getting in a Friday night movie.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
But it's like the other we go to the store,
then we eat because we will have maybe gotten something
that we wanted for dinner. True, and then we go
to a movie and then we're home by like nine pm.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
The best Friday night in your thirties, it really is.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
It's so nice. Yeah, it's great, but it is kind
of funny because you look around the other grocery shoppers
or like people in town for like Bachelor Bchelotte party
is buying like so much white claw and like bags
of tortilla chips. We've got like tofu and blueberries in
the cart.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Isn't that the best grocery run the Friday night on
a trip in a grocery store that feels foreign.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
To you, Yes, we love doing that.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
In scott Stick, you buy all these things that you're
probably not gonna eat, and you're like, this is so fun.
We buy so much to look at this straight at
these snacks, and then by the end of your trip
you're like, why did we get these?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
We did that a couple of years ago the first
time we went to Scott's Stone. We bought way too
much and then we were like walking around the resort
on our last day, Hey, does anyone want this cooler
full of stuff? We promise it's not weird. We just
bought too.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Much, too much stuff that is a rare aesthetic the
grocery store run at the start of a trip. I
remember that as a.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Kid, possibilities are endless.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
You have all the fun on the hurd, all the anticipation,
and then by the end of it you're like so sad.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah, you get the special snacks that you can only
have on vacation.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Good times, all right, our worst than the month? What
do you got?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I fear I'm going to offend people with this.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Okay, I'm ready for this. I think we're gonna be
different these because both of us saw some movies that
the other did not see. I have to preface this, Okay.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I don't necessarily I don't want to say books are bad,
because I think anything that gets you into reading it's great.
I personally don't find anything from the Colleen Hoover books,
and I think the movie adaptations have just been rough.
And I saw regretting you this weekend, and I am
indeed regretting seeing that film, not regretting. I go with
two of my friends. We've made it a thing now
(13:26):
to see all of her movie adaptations. When I tell you,
we were audibly giggling it wasn't a comedy. It was,
in fact a drama. It got to the point where
like people were just making out loud commentary in the theater,
Like one of the characters said something and a girl
next to us just goes, oh God, Like it was
that level.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
That's the next level. I haven't experienced something like that
and forever.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
It was a theater of mostly women and then the
significant others that got dragged to.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
It, which I would have gone to see this movie.
I saw the trailer and I was like, yeah, already
it's interesting. Yeah you're but you were already booked.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I was booked, booked and busy this weekend.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
It just left so much to it, just was so
full of tropes, and like the dialogue was bad, and
they did the thing where like when the characters text
each other, they not only put the text bubble on
the screen, but then the character reads it, so it's like, hey,
what's up and then the guy's like not much? What
about You like that level of like dumb dialogue. If
you like Colleen Hoover books, I think you might enjoy
(14:23):
the film. Maybe not. I feel like seeing it on
screen is different than reading it because reading it. You
can kind of make characters in your head m but
then once you see it play out, I would say
it was making money, but it's actually not. The budget
was like thirty million, and I think it made under thirteen.
It had a fifteen percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
That's see. I thought it was gonna be one of
those movies that maybe I wouldn't like, but there is
an audience for well, I feel like you are the
closer to the audience and you still don't like it.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah, So I went in critical and it was like
I knew it wasn't going to be great, but I
was like lower than I expected. I looked over one
of my friends at one point only with people watching
this on YouTube see, but she was just like like
we were just what is happening?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Was it ever good? Like did it start out promising
or was it bad? From the beginning.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
It was one of those where it was like I
had to go the bathroom in a certain point and
I was like, oh, I don't really want to miss
what comes, just because it was kind of like what's
gonna happen? But now from the beginning, yeah, it's kind
of like who what bills did Dave Franco have to
pay to do this film.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I mean, he's about to get that now you see me.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
About to get now you see me three. Yeah, it
just I can't say anything without giving it away. It's
just so tropy. I mean I think by watching if
you watch the trailer, you'll immediately pick up on the trope.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
What I picked up from the trailer is it's people
talking like nobody would talk in real.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Life, correct, and just the plot of like what it's about.
And I made a joke at one point about like
what if this turns out to be this? And I
came back from the bathroom. My friend leaned over and
she was like, you were right, this turned out to
be this And I was like, oh god, that was
like a bad joke. Can't believe that actually happened. So yeah, just.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Overly dramatic, bad acting, unbelievable, all the bad things. What
do you rate it? You've given things a zero before.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I mean, like I said, it kept my interest. It
was not Eddington, so.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
It had some entertainment value.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah. I was kind of like, so bad, it's good.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Oh that's that's rough. Though I don't feel like that
should be so bad it's good movie.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I mean, I don't think it was supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I think it was supposed to be so good. It's
good they were trying to make a good movie.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I'm going to go one point five lollipops.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
It's pretty low.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
For my worst of the month, I'm going to go
with Good Fortune, which is the Asison Sorry, Seth Rogan,
Keanu Reeves.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Movie where you were excited to see that.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I was. It has a bunch of people that I like.
I'm a fan of all three of those people. The
movie would have been good if it came out in
like twenty eleven. Oh, it just felt like those it's
an insult.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
It felt like it's almost as bad of an insult
is so bad it's good.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I guess so I didn't think it was. That's exactly
how that movie made me feel, where it was like
the remnants of a Judd Appetito movie. And I think
I was just so surprised for Azi's I'm Sorry directorial debut.
Why make this movie like there was? The story itself
was like his character down on his luck, was trying
to be like a documentary editor that wasn't working out.
(17:12):
So he's working as like a door dasher is living
in his car, and then he meets Seth Rogan's character,
who is like a tech bro lives in a giant mansion,
has a bunch of family money. And then at his
lowest point, he gets a guardian angel, which is Keanu
Reeves and he's like kind of an entry level angel
and he switches bodies of disease and Seth Rogan. So
(17:34):
now Seth Rogan's broke and AZ's character is rich and
then he's like, Okay, now you live this life and
you're gonna see it's not as glamorous as it is
now that you're rich. Turns out it solved all of
his problems, and that's really the whole movie. And it
tried to make like a lot of commentary on like
how hard it is for people right now door dashing
and economy. Yeah, basically that's what the whole movie was,
(17:54):
but it just didn't really land on any element, Like
the comedy wasn't that funny with Seth Rogen. Yeah, Seth
Rogan was basically the same thing he's been in the
studio platonic. It was like all this he's been a lot.
It's I feel like he forgot like what character he
was supposed to be, just like I'm just gonna be
seth rogen And it didn't really land on an emotional
level like it's supposed to be it's a wonderful lifetime
(18:17):
situation or something. It just didn't really have anything to it.
And it was ninety minutes long and it felt so long.
By about forty five minutes, I was like, I don't
even really care how this movie ends. I just think
it was because I went into it thinking it was
gonna be a funny movie and left just kind of disappointed.
I also went and had the entire theater to myself,
so there was no camaraderie, camaraderie, no interaction, which has
(18:40):
helped with comedies lately that we've gone to see, Like
when you see can hear other people laughing and enjoying it?
It kind of makes it more funny. And I think
the fact that it was kind of like going to
see stand up and being the only person in the
crowd and it's like, WHOA, this is weird. This doesn't
feel right.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
I should also had regarding you was two hours two hours?
Oh man, Yeah, it's two hours flat. At least this
was ninety minutes. Yeah, it was. And it got to
the point at the end where I just kept looking
at my friend Courtney, and I was like, it's going
to be over soon, right, Like I know it's two hours,
but it has to be over seas, right.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I could wrap this up early. But yeah, I would
give Good Fortune two point five out of five. I'm
not even sure it's a streamer. I feel like the
movie should have focused entirely on Keanu Reeves had just
been from his point of view, because the other two
guys just were not cutting it. Would you have been
offended if I would have put the Taylor Swift party
as my worst No.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Because I don't feel like our theater experience was what
some people had in their parties, Like everyone sat and
just kind of watched where it was like I wanted
a little more like outer seats dancing. I honestly wouldn't
have expected you to go. You kind of got roped
into going.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
But I wanted to experience it. I just thought it
was going to be more of a cinematic event.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Which I think is what her docuseries is gonna be.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
This was more of a listening party. I think the
thing that made me want to put it as my
worst was that all the lyric music videos had had
a loop.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
It was a loo yeah, and it was a little like,
I don't know, motion sickness.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
They weren't even great visualizations.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
No, yeah I didn't. I mean, it wasn't my favorite
thing that I saw. It was more just to like
go with Friends made me kind of like appreciate the
album more. I liked the behind the scenes. I like
tearing her explain the songs. If it had been any longer,
I'd have been like, Okay, wrap this up. Now. The
docu series I'm already sat for, but that.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Won't be in theaters. That'll just be Disney.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Plus come frove my own home.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
See. I wanted more of that. I think if we're
going to go to the theater to watch something and
pay money for it, which that was the one we
had to actually pay for because our Regal and Limited
doesn't cover some of those live events or the special events. Yeah,
we did pay for that, and I was like man
cash grab. Going through all the other movies of October,
good Boy, I gave a three out of five. I
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still need to do my favorite movie Dogs episode. I
think you should be on that one, but Good Boy
is definitely up there. We talked about the Taylor Swift
movie Smashing Machine. Four out of five is what I
gave that one. You would give that lower?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
How low?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Three?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Oh that sound not terrible.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
It's failing.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
The Lost Bus, which we talked about. I have it
at a four out of five. I maybe could have
bumped it up a little bit more, but then I
was like, am I just two in two disaster films?
Roof Man, which made my best of the month four
point five out of five? The Woman in the Cabin
ten or The Woman in Cabin The.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Woman in Cabin ten starring care Nightley on Netflix.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Thank you. That was pretty good. That was like a
Sunday night movie. We watched it. I loved the book
A real cozy nothing too.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
I thought that movie was cozy because it was like
different definitions, right, is a cozy thriller?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
You try to figure out why she feels like she's
going crazy? But I gave that one three out of five.
After The Hunt.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
The Julia roberts IOA Debris, I thought it was gonna
be better.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Yeah, listening the Dark Academia, it's too long. There was
too much talking.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
It was the delivery of that movie, the style of
which everybody spoke and all the all the sequences together
just fell a little bit weird.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Yeah, it wasn't. It's the same director that did Challengers,
and it wasn't as action packed, Like you couldn't have
that kind of style without the action of Challengers.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Yeah, it felt like watching like the paints of a
masterpiece dry, where I was like, I know, this is
a really good painting, but I'm just watching it dry,
and then by the end of it you're like, Okay,
I get the story. That was good, but the delivery
was just a little bit boring and drawn out.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I need to know where she taught how to get
that apartment they lived in.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Because that was amazing, fantastic. They had a room where
all they do is listen to music. You know how
much money you have to have to have a room
where you just listen to music. They also didn't have kids,
that's true.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
They have a lot of rooms in the house.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
They have a swinging door to their kitchen. That was
so cool. These little things that I noticed about fancy
people in rich people's houses. I watched Play Dirty on Amazon,
which is a mark Wahlberg movie kind of the opposite
of Good Fortune. I went into it with really low expectations,
thinking Mark Wahlberg were just gonna play the same Mark
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Wahlberg again and again. It's actually no bad three out
of five on that one. I watched Honey Don't on Peacock,
which was the Margaret Quayley Aubrey Plaza movie, same director
who did Driveaway Dolls. It almost feels like a sequel
to that movie, same kind of style, even though it's
set in modern day. It feels like a fifties detective movie.
Not as bad as people were saying. I give that
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one a three out of five. I tried to watch
Megan two point oh also on Peacock, so bad I
couldn't finish it.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Alison Williams was also in that. She's the common factor
regretting you and I love Alison Williams.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
I started Megan two point oh twice and couldn't get
past fifteen minutes because it was so bad.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
You started Megan two point oh two point oh times.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Yeah, and it still can't get there and then deliver
me from nowhere. Bruce Springsteen movie three point five out
of five Your TV show for the month, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Mister Glenn Powell in Chad Powers.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Could you call that one a cozy comedy? Yes, cause
it's not so hilarious that you're like, oh my gosh,
you have to watch this show.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
It is so funny, like slapstick humor, but it's it's
an elevated humor, which is almost harder to do.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
It's as close as you can get to great comedy
in twenty twenty five when it comes to a series, Yes,
where the writing is good, the performances are good, but
maybe the story is a little bit too crazy to
be believable. Therefore you could find it a little bit
cornball at times.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Yeah, but it's He's funny, He's great as Chad Powers.
Steve Soon's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I like that they actually use real college football teams
and it's not they're not all made up. It makes
it feel a little bit more realistic where they're actually
playing Georgia and all those kind of little pieces that
are like, Okay, maybe this could exist in this world
for TV show. I have Peacemaker season two. I love
the entire series up until the end because I think
what is happening now is James Gunn is starting to
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do with DC what Marvel does and has everything connect
to each other. And I felt like towards the end
of the season, it was just queuing up the next
Superman movie. So it almost felt like, oh man, we
did not get the best entire season because this is
building towards something now. But very rarely do I watch
a superhero show and have real emotions. But there's one
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scene in particular where I felt like crying because Peacemaker
goes through so much turmoil, has so much trauma, and
there was this moment where John Cena just kind of
let it all out, and I've never seen that side
of John Cena, and I felt so bad for his character.
I was like, wow, Like I did not expect something
to have this much emotional depth.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
It is really hard to get you to cry.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Yeah, you usually take superhero movies though, like Endgame, That'll
give me Spider Man, no Way home, That'll get me
real life.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Man.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
I'm good your book for the month.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I read a lot of books this month. I read
like ten or eleven. I've alread hit My goal for
the year I was seventy five and I'm in seventy six.
I'm Going to Go My Friends by Frederick Bachman, who
is wrote A Man called Ove, which is what a
man called Auto with Thommas Banks, was based on My Friends.
Was so good. And maybe it was just I was
in like a emotional mood when I read it, But
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it just made me feel so many things. It's not
oh yeah, I remember you reading me an excerpt from it.
It's not super like plot driven necessarily, it's the characters.
But I had started it. I was reading it each
night and then I picked up on page like one
thirty a couple of weeks ago and read it until
eleven PM and finished because I was like, I can't
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put this down, So I'm gonna go with that one.
But I read a lot of good ones.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
What was it called again, my Friends?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Read a lot of good ones? So there was another one.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
I also read The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, which it's
about this older woman named Sybil and she like writes
and emails people, and the whole book is like her
letters and emails. It just was really good. It was
one of those characters that you're like, oh, I'm gonna
think about this for a long time after I read it.
Some books I read, and then the next day somebody's like,
what was that about? I don't know, check out the synopsis.
I'm gotta readn't tell you.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yeah. I feel that way about movies sometimes.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
When you said I don't even remember what the Bruce
Springsteen movie was called, I remember the name. When you
said that earlier, I was like, what was that movie?
Speaker 1 (27:02):
The way that I do reviews, I get so invested
in one movie for a very brief period of time,
like two days, that is all I'm consumed with, and
then after those two days, it just kind of leaves
my head until, like I randomly think of another movie
it connects to you.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I've been reading a lot of good books lately, though.
There's been quite a few, and I think I've updated
my good Reads with all of them for those who follow.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Should we put that in the notes? Yes, we'll put
that in there.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Anything else, No, I gotta go put her Christmas Tree up? Yeah,
so early listen it brings me joy.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
It's November and you're like, Christmas Tree.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Do you not remember during the pandemic when we put
it up in April and left it up for.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Quite some time. We're very depressed at that time. But yes,
that was very early.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I'm just saying it brings joy sparks joy especially it's
like so gray this week here, I need just like
twinkle lights.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
All right, I'll come back and I'll give my spoiler
free review of ill On. Yeah, now you're saying differently Boganya.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
No.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Earlier it was Bougonia. Now you're saying Bogonia, Bogonia. Which
syllable are you renunciating Bogona? All right? Please tell me.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie review
of Bogonia, one of my most anticipated movies of the
year from director Yorgoslante Moos, Starring Emma Stone Jesse Plemons.
What this movie is about. Emma Stone plays a high
profile CEO at a pharmaceutical company. Jesse Plemons plays a
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guy who is obsessed with conspiracy theories. He has been
just diving into all of these theories about Emma Stone's
character and why he believes that she is an alien
hiding in plane site and what does he decide to do?
He decides to take action. He along with his cousin,
capture Emma Stone at the beginning of the movie and
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then hold her hostage. The movie is adapted from a
two thousand three movie from South Korea called Save the
Green Planet. And that's really all you need to know.
This movie was truly something special. And sometimes I'm guarded
a little bit when talking about a movie that I
love so much because I worry about overhyping it to you.
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This is the case. I'm gonna tell you right now,
I am going to over hype the crap out of
this movie because I loved it so much. Great movies
suspend you in time and make you feel truly like
you have escaped this world that we are living in.
Just so happens to be a movie about somebody being
accused of being an alien and wanting to contact their
mother's ship. But that is truly something so special if
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you just think about what watching a movie is, which
I've had a really weird just realization as everything's gone
to digital, you're really just watching a file being put
on the screen. Although in this case, we saw it
at the Bellcourt here in Nashville on thirty five millimeters,
so I did get that level of warm to it.
I love that Right at the beginning of the movie,
you see that little circle in the right corner of
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the screen wherever they put that film real on, so
it did have that level of warmth to it seeing
it in thirty five millimeters, which I would highly recommend
you get all those rich colors, And I think, what
the Yorgoslantinos movie that really benefits from it. But when
you just think about what watching a movie is, as
you're sitting in front of a screen and you're having
information put into your eyeballs, it is very rare to
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be sitting in that seat having that process done where
you truly feel something that makes you question your morals.
And I was talking about earlier how I've been going
through this thing recently where I start to feel for
the bad person in the movie. I don't want to
call them villains, because I don't think they're always villains,
but Jesse Plemmon's character is an anti hero, and throughout
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this movie it will have you questioning who you believe
and who you are rooting for. And I found myself
feeling very empathetic towards this character learning all the details
about why he is doing this that I started rooting
for him. But then I thought if this happened in
the real world, I would not be rooting for this guy.
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And the question this movie raises is jesse Plemmon's character
a madman or is he somebody that is seeing something
that nobody else can see? And then you have Emma Stone,
who did nothing wrong. She's just a high profile CEO.
Some people have problems with those types of people because
of how rich she is, because in order to get
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to that level of power, you probably have to do
some shady things. Very rarely you don't, but in this
case you get to know her character and then suddenly
she is being kidnapped, so she did nothing wrong. But
I also found myself rooting for him more, rooting for
her more. It'll have you just questioning your entire reality
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when it comes to who is in the right here?
Who is in the wrong. Do you believe that she
is an alien like jesse Plemon's character thinks that she is,
or is he somebody who has just been in this
echo chamber? That is a result of him spending so
much time online reading all these theories, only having the
negative thoughts in his head reinforced, therefore making it build
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up so much in his head that he thought kidnapping
a CEO was actually the right thing. To do because
he's just trying to save the world. When it comes
to Yorgoslantio's movies, he is a director that is an
acquired taste, but his movies feel so authentically him, and
I think of his most recent movies, this is the
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most easily digestible where I couldn't really recommend you of
Poor Things unless you're into really weird movies with a
lot of nudity. Kinds of Kindness was even a bit
of a hard sell on me. My introduction to him
was back with the Lobster. I didn't entirely love that one,
but then when I saw the Favorite, I was like, Okay,
I understand this guy. Now, I get it. Which he
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has been working with Emma Stone now for a while,
so I feel like there there's a lot of trust there.
And to do a movie like this, to do any
of his previous movies, you need to have a lot
of trust. Because Emma Stone actually shaved her head for Begonia.
You actually see it happen in this movie when she
is captured, which was also in the trailer, they shave
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her head. That is Emma Stone committing to this role
for lack of a better word, That is Oscar stuff
right there. I wish I could curse. I'm not going
to curse. But that is what that level of acting is.
That is why she is an Academy Award winner because
it takes that level of dedication. She didn't know what
was going to be hiding for her underneath her head
once she shaved it. And I did see that after
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she shaved her head, she realized she had these two
moles that she got removed because she couldn't live with it.
I could not shave my head fully because I know,
I know I have a weird head underneath this hair
that is just lopsided. Probably a role. I probably have
some mold or some weird things going on there. I
know I have some scars I got when I was
a kid. I know it's probably not as crazy for
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a guy to have to shave their head for a role,
but that is next level stuff. It is the thing
she is willing to do to change her body for
a role. But not only that, she is somebody who
is such a dial in actor. Her and Jesse Plemmons
together was so magnificent to watch their back and forth
on screen, where there are these two forces just butting
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heads against each other, where her character is so great
at communicating and so great at diffusing a situation. She
portrays a CEO in a way I haven't seen done before,
where you know, every conversation she has has to end
the way that she wants it to. And this was
probably the first time in her life as a character
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where she was met with resistance, where she didn't know
what to say. She didn't know how to get out
of this situation, but she didn't have this catalog of
how to work with somebody who was not mentally stable.
That was a really interesting dynamic to watch when it
comes to asking for this movie completely nailed it. And
I know your Ghosts has been working with both of
those actors for a very long time. And you may think, well,
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he just went to his muses and put them two
together in a movie, so maybe not the most adventurous casting,
but you realize why it works so well because they
were just having these conversations and it felt like you
were watching a bomb go off. And quite possibly one
of the most surprising things is that Bogonia didn't have
any crazy nudity, and that is quite the accomplishment coming
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off of poor things and kinds of kindness, which was
loaded chock full of it. I would say, that's your
ghost's calling card is hey, you know, would make this
scene better. Let's make these two people naked. Not the
case with Bogonia. This movie is so absurd in the
best way. And there was this one particular moment where
I felt it go next level where there was this
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switch in my brain that said, Okay, this is a
good movie. This is a good movie, and this scene
in particular flip that switch and went to a great movie.
Because I look at everybody involved in this they're just
all on a different playing field when it comes to storytelling,
when it comes to acting, when it comes to dedication,
when it comes to just treating every scene like this
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is the scene. There were so many instances of that
throughout the entire film, where this is a movie that
I feel is going to have a high rewatchability for
me because there are gonna be things that I want
to go back and see that I missed. I also
think this movie proposes so many questions that you can
dive into and have your own theories on. Even the
title of the movie itself is a little bit ambiguous,
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where they named it this for a particular reason, but
it can also be open to interpretation, especially once you
watch the film, you find out what happens, you get
all these questions answered, then you can ask more questions,
and that is a sign of a great film, a
movie that stays with you and leaves some things open
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for your own interpretation, which I think lately a lot
of films have been playing it so safe, where they
tell you every single thing, every single detail, every little
thing ends up with a nice little bow, want it
by the end of it, And I think that is boring,
and some people want every single question answered. I'm not
one of those people. I think great art should be
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open ended, and I wish more directors took that risk.
And I think sometimes because of maybe that Marvel movie
mentality where we don't have all these questions answered by
the end of it, we don't get a post credit
scene teeing up the next movie, we feel a little
bit ripped off. I love those instances. Use your imagination, people.
I only think the hard sell of this movie is
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the fact that it is kind of a weird concept,
even though it is what I believe to be your
goss at least of this decade his most digestible work.
I still think this movie will be a little bit
off putting to some, but these are the types of
movies I seek out. I have to have at least
one of these every single year to inspire me again,
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to make it feel like I'm not watching the same
thing over and over and talking about the same types
of movies again and again. This movie is a full
course meal to me. It has the appetizer, the amazing entree,
the wonderful dessert, maybe even a little cup of cappuccino
at the end. This movie has it all. And if
you end up watching it or have seen it already
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and didn't enjoy it, what do you enjoy it? I
really want to know. Maybe you are not into the
idea of conspiracy theories, maybe you don't like aliens, maybe
you just don't like this form of storytelling. For me,
I feel this movie had it all. It was so
close to perfection. I even got this little commemorative film strip,
which is really cool with some big scenes from the movie.
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If you're watching on YouTube, you can see me holding it,
although it doesn't show up that great on camera. But
I was such a nerd for this movie. Going into
it that I saw they were gonna have these limited
editions and you know, anything collectible I got to get
my hands on. We got there probably twenty minutes early,
and I was like, man, I hope they don't run
out of those strips. They still had a lot of them.
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I think I was the only one excited for this,
but pretty cool. I love any kind of little piece
of memorabilia now that we don't have ticket stubs, like
all my ticket stubs that are in my regal lamp,
since we don't have those, and I don't buy a
whole lot of popcorn buckets just because I have the
big stitch one in the studio and it kind of
takes up all to space. I love these little things
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that they can do to give you something to take
home from the movie. So for Begonia, it is rare
for me to give out of five. I'm not gonna
do it here. It is really close. But I am
just so hype coming off this movie. The fact that
I went in with such high expectations and those expectations
were not only met, but I feel like even exceeded
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at moments because it took it to the next level.
For Bogonia. I give it four point five out of
five shaved heads. It's time to head down to movie mics.
Traylor Paul. What if you survived a plane crash ended
up on a desert island. On that desert island, there
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was one other person, But it is the person in
life that you hate the most. That is the premise
of this new movie starring Rachel McAdams Dylan O'Brien. It's
called Send Help because their relationship is not good in
this and they are coworkers. Dylan O'Brien plays her boss.
He is a jerk. He belittles her at work, makes
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fun of her appearance, makes fun of the way that
she smells. She hates this guy. They go on a
work trip together. He's even a jerk on the plane
to other people. Plane goes down. They are the only
two survivors end up on a desert island, and suddenly
there is now a shift in who is in power
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because Rachel McAdams's character is really good at surviving. She
can hunt, she can fish, she can do all these
things in order to survive on this island by herself
and need his help because he gets injured in this
plane crash, and then he still thinks that this is
just the office. I can treat her the exact same
way I am her boss. But suddenly she's like, out here,
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you're not my boss. I'm the one keeping us alive.
Now you have to listen to me. What would you
do in that situation? I am lucky enough. If I
was trapped on a desert island with my boss, I
would not be in a nightmare situation. Aside from not
having Wi Fi and air conditioning, we would have a
good time. But before we get into more about why
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I love these two actors coming together, it's from director
Sam Raimi, who I'm also a big fan of. Here's
just a little bit of the Send Help trailer coming
out on January thirtieth, The Coach join the Land of
the Living? How long keep it out?
Speaker 2 (41:51):
Day and a half? If you tried making a distress
signal or a bigger.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
Fire, I was busy trying to keep us alive, but
getting us out of here.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
That should be your focus, not being Susie homemaker over here.
What did you just said to me?
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Let's not forget I'm your boss, you work for me.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
We're not in the office anymore. Bradley.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
That line goes hard right there. We're not in the
office anymore, Bradley, and you can hear the shift in
her character right there, and then you see her get
really dark and you start wondering, how did she learn
all these skills? How does she know how to cut
the head off of a bore? How does she know
how to hunt with this spear that she just built herself.
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There has to be some kind of crazy backstory to
her and something that makes her snap to now quite
possibly being a person who has taking out their boss
on their radar. Dylan O'Brien and Rachel McAdams look great together.
I feel like they are both underappreciated actors. What I
always like to do is go over to IMDb and
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see what they list as their top four movies, which
I think the way they kind of determined those is
the ones that people search for the most on their website.
But for Rachel McAdams it is The Notebook, obviously, Mean Girls,
Regina George, obviously Red Eye, and the Vow. For Dylan O'Brien.
First one is actually not a movie, Teen Wolf, the
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TV show which I was not that big a fan of.
I feel like I'm more of a twenty twenties fan
of Dylan O'Brien, especially what he's doing now with this
movie coming out next year, and Twin List was one
of my favorite just hidden gems that I found earlier
this year. So I don't really associate him with Teen
Wolf The Maze Runner, I think is what the most
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people associate Dylan O'Brien with, even though when it comes
to dystopian science fiction movies, those aren't my go to.
I'm more of a Hunger Games guy, and I know
those movies aren't entirely the same, completely different franchises, but
during that period of time where I feel like all
those movie rights got bottom and they all got released
in the twenty tens, those kind of run to get
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other with all those But I'm definitely more of a
Hunger Games guy. But I know he made a lot
of money and gained a lot of recognition through those movies.
I associate him more with the year of twenty twenty.
Love and Monsters was probably my favorite movie to come
out of the COVID era. I got into this period
of my life where every Saturday morning I would look
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forward to a new movie that I could watch at
home that was not coming out in theaters, and that
became my kind of comfort during that time where I
looked forward to it. I so greatly missed that in
theater experience, and that was the closest thing I had
to go into the movies where I kept my phone
out of the room, had the soundbar on as loud
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as it could go, much like it would in the movies,
and I was just so appreciative of having a new movie.
This movie in particular, I felt kind of just did
not register with most much like everything that came out
pretty much between the year twenty twenty and twenty twenty two,
that is kind of a weird time period. It wasn't
really until No Way Home that it kind of broke
(45:04):
all that. We kind of started going back to normal
after that movie came out. But this movie, I feel,
really got me through a terrible mental state and I
love Dylan O'Brien in it. So if you haven't seen
Love in Monsters and you like post apocalyptic adventure action movies,
I highly recommend it. Although probably the association I have
(45:25):
with it makes the movie a lot better in my
book than it actually is, so I think it is
one that I probably wouldn't revisit for that reason, but
it is on Paramount Plus, and now that I got
suckered into a Paramount Plus subscription, maybe I'll finally go
back and rewatch that. But it is good just to
see him back on the big screen. Twin List was
a movie starring him that I saw earlier this year.
(45:47):
I think could be one of my favorite performances of
twenty twenty five. It was one that I went into
with very little expectation and very rarely do I not
watch a trailer at all before going to see a movie,
and that was one of them. I only read the description.
It's about two guys that meet in a support group
and become friends, and then one of them has a
(46:09):
dark secret that you learn about. That movie had a
little bit of comedy, it had a little bit of drama.
It also had like this weird turn where it almost
turned into a thriller, had some suspense in there. Overall,
just quite the journey. So it's cool to see Dylan
O'Brien back on the big screen. Also for Rachel McAdams,
who was so huge in the mid two thousands, so
(46:31):
much so that she had to take a couple of
years off, and she turned down roles in The Devilware's
Prada and Iron Man. She needed a little bit of
time away from the fame and the public scrutiny. And
I feel like she has also taken some really great
roles in the twenty twenties. But then, when you think
about this movie, you have Dylan O'Brien and Rachel McAdams,
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and if this were any other director, this would have
turned into a homecom. They would have crash landed, try
to survive on this desert island, and they probably would
have fallen in love. Except you have Sam Raimi behind
the camera, who notoriously got to start in horror with
the movie The Evil Dead, which is a low budget
(47:12):
cult classic in the horror world. Also went on to
do Evil Dead too, an Army of Darkness. But then
what he became the most famous for, at least in
my eyes, was the Spider Man trilogy in the two thousands,
a lot different than what he did in his horror
era and his Western era, and that just kind of
took him on an entirely different level. He also did
(47:34):
Drag Me in a Hell in two thousand and nine,
Oz the Great and Powerful in twenty thirteen, which was
the Wizard of Oz prequel starring James Franco, which was
actually not bad. I remember seeing that one in theaters,
and I also just have a big fascination with anything
Wizard of Oz. The original is just such a mysterious
movie to me, and such an odd piece in movie
(47:56):
history because of how significant it is to culture. But
how there's this weird dark side behind the making of
that movie. I've always just been fascinated with anything Wizard
of Oz, so probably to most people that wasn't a
great movie, But in twenty thirteen, I was really a
big fan of James Franco as well, so that movie
hit with me. He also did Doctor Strange in the
(48:18):
Multiverse of Madness back in twenty twenty two, which was
essentially a horror Marvel movie, and he had all of
his trademarks in there, the big eye inside of Doctor
Strange's forehead, which he always has close ups on eyes.
If you look at all of his movies, from Spider
Man to even in the trailer to Send Help, there
(48:39):
is one scene where you see Rachel McAdams almost entirely
covered in blood. Her face is all messed up and
it looks like she's missing an eye, so he always
has this signature shot a big zoom man on a
character's eye in Doctor Strange. A lot of people do
refer to that one as one of the worst moments
in CGI in the Marvel Cinematic Use universe. So to me,
(49:01):
this movie feels like a little bit of Castaway, a
little bit of Lord of the Flies. There was also
a movie that came out in twenty twenty two, and
like I mentioned, that was also one of those forgotten years,
Triangle of Sadness, where this kind of happens. It's about
these really rich people who go out on an excursion
on a yacht and then they get caught in a
(49:21):
big storm. The boat goes down and all of the
survivors end up on a desert island much like here,
and send help. And it almost feels, just by watching
this trailer like they took the third act of that
movie and made an entire, big budget movie out of it.
A Triangle of Sadness was a little bit of a
niche movie, but that is another movie to check out
(49:42):
if you missed it, and you have no problem watching
scenes of people vomiting profusely that is a major part
of that movie. So two movies you might have missed
in the last five years just based on the time
that they came out that we've talked about Love and
Monsters with Dylan O'Brien from twenty twenty and Triangle a
Sadness from twenty twenty two, which you can watch on Hulu.
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Watch those movies and then go see Send Help in
theaters on January thirtieth. Head that Bar was this week's
edition of Movie by Framer Bar and that is gonna
do it for another episode here of the podcast. Before
I go, I gotta give my listeners shout out of
the week this week. I'm going over to Instagram and
shouting out Megwin as this week's listener shout out of
(50:27):
the Week because she posted in her story last week
screenshot over listening to the episode about the ten actors
who were totally hated by their entire cast, along with
the Springsteen movie review. I reposted because she tagged me
in her Instagram story and said Michael Jackson picks up
Thor's hammer a bunch of crying emojis, which was a
quote from that episode, and said thanks Mike d Stroper.
(50:48):
The laugh to start the week. I got a lot
of pushback on that idea. Nobody likes that, especially over
on YouTube. People on YouTube do not hesitate to call
you an idiot. I just thought that would be interesting.
I still stand by that I want a musician multiverse.
But thanks Meg Win for listening every single week, and
thank you right now wherever you are listening to this
week's episode. Hope you have a great rest of your week,
(51:09):
and until next time, go out and watch good movies
and I will talk to you later.
Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie Podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike, joined by my wife and
co host Kelsey. How are you good?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Except the ring light is a grassive tonight, and I
don't know if it's just because I've been in my
dark office in front of the computer all day, but
I feel like I need sunglasses for this.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
But we are here to do our best and worst
of October?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
How is it? We're like it's Christmas now.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
And then in the movie review we'll be talking about Bogonia.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's a very hard first syllable.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Bogunia Baghani, Bogonia with you're just saying about a couple
of dudes who are really into conspiracy theories, so they
capture a CEO and they think she's an alien. And
in the trailer park we'll talk about Send Help with
Dylan O'Brien and Rachel McAdams, which I'm really enjoying Dylan
O'Brien right now.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
It's a Dylan O'Brien resurgence.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
It's a big year for him.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
That was actually the first trailer that we hadn't seen before.
It was like a fresh trailer because we see all
of the trailers because we go the so much. But
we sat down and saw that one and we were like, oh,
I haven't seen this one.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
We'll break it into the trailer. We'll break that down in
the trailer park. Thank you for being here, Thank you
for being subscribed. Shat to the Monday Morning Movie Crew.
And now let's talk movies from the Nashville Podcast Network.
This movie Mike Movie Podas. Let's hop right into it.
Best and worse for October. What do you have is
(01:23):
your best?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Best? Was The Lost Bus?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Do you think we both enjoyed this movie so much
because we love disaster movies?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yes, But then I was also like bummed to know
that they did dramatize.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
A lot of it, a lot of it, which is
kind of expected when you have a disaster movie that
is based on true events. Normally it's not, but if
you think of the disaster genre, it has to go
to big links to make it entertaining.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
The next level. So I understand, and I'm glad all
of that didn't happen in real life. Let me be clear,
very glad. There were not a bunch of school children
on a bus in like active flames.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
That is true, but you do feel more for them,
thinking that it was true, which it was based on
the Paradise Fires.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yes, in twenty eighteen, which is weird that there was
another one this year the Palisades.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Very similar. Yes, but it was a true story about
a bus driver who got some children to safety. But
some of the things that happened that were really heroic
did not actually happen in real life.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah. Again, glad for the children, but was like, oh man,
this dude's a real hero. Still a hero. Oh my gosh,
like traumatizing. But Matthew mcconnor, he was great. I think
that was the perfect role for him. Oh absolutely, where he.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Is somebody who could do like an Oscar level performance
right now, but then he can also do a really
good just straight ahead. I'm your leading man. I'm gonna
take this bus where no one else can take. This bus?
Is a bus ever lost? That's kind of turning into
like Bill Clinton. He's like right in the middle of
Bill Clinton and like a stoner. But I really enjoyed it.
(02:56):
But I also love disaster movies.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
We do love a disaster.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I don't think The Day After Tomorrow is seen as
a good movie. I don't think Twister is up there
in most people's like, this is just a great movie.
It's not there Volcano. I don't think people think, oh,
that is cinema.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
When watching Volcano, you're just like saying fantastic films.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Dante's peak. It's like, oh, my great disaster movies, Geo Storm,
good one, the San Andreas with the Rock, like any
disaster movie and Slaps, those are all great, and it's another.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
One with Rock.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I watched multiple Rock. Yeah, there was a whole period
of rock disaster films. Yeah, Rampage really wasn't a disaster film.
It was like a video game that nobody really felt
was a great adaptation. But I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I thought it was cool how his son was actually
in the movie and his mom was in the movie.
And then by the end of it, I was like, man,
I just feel like I went on that ride with them.
I feel like I came out of change person. And
it was one of those where I think my raid
was just a little bit too high, because I do
love the disaster genre that much. What did you give it?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Did I give it?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I think you said like a perfect score.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I did not say it perfect.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
You were like five after we watched it, which there's
always that period of right after you watch it.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I'm gonna go four and a half.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Buzzes probably coming down from it. I will give it
four out of five.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
America Ferrera was also great.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Now I won't even say it never.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Mind, don't ruin it. It's still a good movie.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
But it's on Apple Plus, which is no longer Apple
TV Plus, which is confusing. Everybody keeps changing their names brands,
HBO Max, I still have the old app from before
they changed to just Max, keep changing. I have both,
so I don't know. They're gonna keep everything and keep
changing it. Eventually everything is just gonna be one service.
It's gonna be cable again. It's all getting confusing. And
I got tricked into getting Paramount Plus. It's all annoying.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah I did say that eighty dollar charge.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
That was annoying. I got bamboozled. But now I'm gonna
go back and wae.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Now you have to explain why you got bamboozled. You
can't just say you got well.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I couldn't get the Cowboys game, and they were like,
get Paramount Plus and watch the cowboysting on the Broncos.
I was like right, let me get Paramount Plus. But
it's still same with like Hulu, where if you're not
in the region, you can't watch it. But the big
banner showed Dak Prescott's face that you could watch.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
It now after having seen the game? Are we really
that sad we couldn't get it?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I was even more annoying because it was so the
game was terrible. I wasted eight dollars. But now I
can watch old Nickelodeon shows because that's really all. Like,
I see that everyone want to watch on Paramount Plus.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Oh wait, did don't they have Fly on us?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah? Really good Taylor Sheridan shows.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
We should watch that.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Well, we got a month to watch it, okay. I
also canceled a crunchy role.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
You enjoyed that, Yeah, but actually haven't watched it.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I haven't watched it. That's like six bucks. I had
to justify the bank for Paramount Plus.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I think it was actually the same price.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I feel like we need a clean house and all
of our streaming services, but but there's nothing else we
could get rid of.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
No, we watch a lot of TV.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
We use them and movies of course from this podcasts.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
We actually we spend money there because it's too expensive
tole pouse and do anything else.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
We just watch things for my best of the month.
I'm gonna go Roofman. It was so good and I
think this is one that I would go back and
maybe bump it up a little bit. I gave it
a four out of five initially.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Oh, I gave it a four and a half.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I think I'm going four and a half now because
it is a movie that I've told other people to
go watch. They have gone to see it and enjoyed it,
which is really hard to do McDonald Tosh Browns. I
think because it made me feel compassion for somebody who
isn't necessarily a good person, isn't really a hero, but
I was rooting for them. And I've had this really
(06:33):
weird thing lately where I start to root for the
bad person in the movies that we've been watching.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Okay, I have a layer to add to that, Okay,
hit me with it. So I think it was on
Kate Kennedy's podcast this week, she was talking to some
friends about the heist at the Louver.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
The Louver and she taught them, but she was like.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
No one was hurt, So like, do you kind of
root or like find entertainment in this.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I think that's what's happening right now, is I think
we saw that as a fictional situation. So I was
rooting for them to get away for some reason, because
nobody was harmed, at least to my knowledge.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Also, weren't all of those things probably stolen from someone
before they ended?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
They were steel, That's what they.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Were talking about. They were like, weren't those all like
colonized from someone else?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I mean in fact that they did it in seven
minutes before anybody knew what was going on with security.
They didn't hold anybody hostage in the loop. Like they
got away on scooters scooters, scooters and just came out.
They got away on scooters and then they got caught
trying to hop a flight.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I mean that that is a bad form of transportation
to take when you're like on the LAMB because.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Scooter, no a flight?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Oh like a scooter no, Like I don't they're in Europe,
take a train.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
That's true. Yeah, there's too many things you have to go.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Through, so much facial recognition.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Oh that too. I just think of like booking the flight.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
No, but like your passport and doesn't something flag in
the system, probably when you're on it for robbing a
famous museum.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, don't fly, dumb way to get out? Take a boat. Yeah.
I always thought a good way to get away from
a crime.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I think allegedly you gotta say allegedly.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Allegedly get away from a crime. Yeah, well, because I run.
I always thought if you fled a scene of the
crime in running clothes, would they think that you were escaping?
You gotta blend in, Like if you just saw somebody
in like Nike shorts, the tank top with a running
hat and headphones and running shoes.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
But if there's no one else, yeah, you're getting implicated.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
It depends where it is, Like downtown, a busy downtown
and you just see somebody running, Do you automatically think
that person is running for just committing a crime. No,
there you go. It's an easy not an easy way,
but it could help because if you just see a
guy in normal clothes running down the street, you're gonna think,
why is that guy running? It raises some red flags.
(08:55):
If you see a guy in workout clothes going for
a jog.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Look like picking up your pace and looking over your shoulder,
then you look, you got a slow girl, and then
you're just like looking over the shoulder for safety.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, you're like, that's a that's a normal thing.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
But that is my best of the month. I think
it's because it was based on a true story. I
like Channing Tatum.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Listen, that was That was a good Chanting Tatum movie.
I've been a Channing Tatum van since two thousand and six.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
That's true. I'm a late adopter, not until twenty one,
Jump Street.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Step Up, She's the Man, two of my favorite films
of all time.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I think he's happen. I don't want to say a renaissance,
because I don't really think he ever went away. But
he's entering a really good pocket of movies right now.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
He's entering a pocket where he's showcasing seeing his acting
skills more than his body. I'll magic mic because.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
He I mean, he lost seventy pounds for this movie,
which that one scene where he's like almost naked, that's
really the only time you can tell he looks just
a little bit more like I.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Think he said he's like he can't do a big
I read an article where he said, like big transformations
like that are just too hard.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
That's why I say people who do that should be
up for oscars because I don't think people realize how
hard that is. And some people say they're own, you
tried losing five pounds, it's not really to put on
muscle to play a superhero, which he is. Gambit Now,
I think it is just as hard as anything else
enacting when it comes to transforming your body for a role.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
But I will also say they have the resources. Yeah,
I mean if you wait, the trainer, you have the chef, like,
that's your job is getting in shape that you're not
doing a nine to five, and then also go into
the gym and then make yourself a dinner. You're got
to the store for yourself. So I do think you
have if you have all the resources at your disposal,
and that is your job is to get in shape
for your role.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Dang, you just took away the oscar. Well, it's part
of the job description. I forgot about that part. That's
all they have to do, yeah, which I think we
forget with actors sometimes that's their entire job to do
these things for these roles.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
And I understand it's still physically demanding.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
But you have still not easy.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
You give someone making a meal plan and being like,
this is how much protein you need, this is how
many calories. You have a trainer watching your form, guiding you,
being like today we're doing this, Like you're being led
to the goal. You're the one doing the physical work,
but you have someone like providing you all of the
other things needed to reach the goal.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
You don't have to worry about anything else. Yeah, you
don't have the grocery shop for yourself. Could you imagine
not having a grocery shop?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Love, I think that every week when we're like, what
day should we go to the grocery store? Listen, We've
become Friday evening grocery shoppers.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
This is the weirdest thing that guys.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
It's kind of great.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
It is amazing.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I would do that in grad school, mostly because I
would have run out of food by Friday, and I
would stop and get like frozen pizza and a bottle
of wine and like my groceries for the week, and
then it was done.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Our perfect Friday night now is eating at home, getting
groceries and getting in a Friday night movie.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
But it's like the other we go to the store,
then we eat because we will have maybe gotten something
that we wanted for dinner. True, and then we go
to a movie and then we're home by like nine pm.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
The best Friday night in your thirties, it really is.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
It's so nice. Yeah, it's great, but it is kind
of funny because you look around the other grocery shoppers
or like people in town for like Bachelor Bchelotte party
is buying like so much white claw and like bags
of tortilla chips. We've got like tofu and blueberries in
the cart.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Isn't that the best grocery run the Friday night on
a trip in a grocery store that feels foreign.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
To you, Yes, we love doing that.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
In scott Stick, you buy all these things that you're
probably not gonna eat, and you're like, this is so fun.
We buy so much to look at this straight at
these snacks, and then by the end of your trip
you're like, why did we get these?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
We did that a couple of years ago the first
time we went to Scott's Stone. We bought way too
much and then we were like walking around the resort
on our last day, Hey, does anyone want this cooler
full of stuff? We promise it's not weird. We just
bought too.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Much, too much stuff that is a rare aesthetic the
grocery store run at the start of a trip. I
remember that as a.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Kid, possibilities are endless.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
You have all the fun on the hurd, all the anticipation,
and then by the end of it you're like so sad.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah, you get the special snacks that you can only
have on vacation.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Good times, all right, our worst than the month? What
do you got?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I fear I'm going to offend people with this.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Okay, I'm ready for this. I think we're gonna be
different these because both of us saw some movies that
the other did not see. I have to preface this, Okay.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I don't necessarily I don't want to say books are bad,
because I think anything that gets you into reading it's great.
I personally don't find anything from the Colleen Hoover books,
and I think the movie adaptations have just been rough.
And I saw regretting you this weekend, and I am
indeed regretting seeing that film, not regretting. I go with
two of my friends. We've made it a thing now
(13:26):
to see all of her movie adaptations. When I tell you,
we were audibly giggling it wasn't a comedy. It was,
in fact a drama. It got to the point where
like people were just making out loud commentary in the theater,
Like one of the characters said something and a girl
next to us just goes, oh God, Like it was
that level.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
That's the next level. I haven't experienced something like that
and forever.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
It was a theater of mostly women and then the
significant others that got dragged to.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
It, which I would have gone to see this movie.
I saw the trailer and I was like, yeah, already
it's interesting. Yeah you're but you were already booked.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I was booked, booked and busy this weekend.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
It just left so much to it, just was so
full of tropes, and like the dialogue was bad, and
they did the thing where like when the characters text
each other, they not only put the text bubble on
the screen, but then the character reads it, so it's like, hey,
what's up and then the guy's like not much? What
about You like that level of like dumb dialogue. If
you like Colleen Hoover books, I think you might enjoy
(14:23):
the film. Maybe not. I feel like seeing it on
screen is different than reading it because reading it. You
can kind of make characters in your head m but
then once you see it play out, I would say
it was making money, but it's actually not. The budget
was like thirty million, and I think it made under thirteen.
It had a fifteen percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
That's see. I thought it was gonna be one of
those movies that maybe I wouldn't like, but there is
an audience for well, I feel like you are the
closer to the audience and you still don't like it.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah, So I went in critical and it was like
I knew it wasn't going to be great, but I
was like lower than I expected. I looked over one
of my friends at one point only with people watching
this on YouTube see, but she was just like like
we were just what is happening?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Was it ever good? Like did it start out promising
or was it bad? From the beginning.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
It was one of those where it was like I
had to go the bathroom in a certain point and
I was like, oh, I don't really want to miss
what comes, just because it was kind of like what's
gonna happen? But now from the beginning, yeah, it's kind
of like who what bills did Dave Franco have to
pay to do this film.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I mean, he's about to get that now you see me.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
About to get now you see me three. Yeah, it
just I can't say anything without giving it away. It's
just so tropy. I mean I think by watching if
you watch the trailer, you'll immediately pick up on the trope.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
What I picked up from the trailer is it's people
talking like nobody would talk in real.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Life, correct, and just the plot of like what it's about.
And I made a joke at one point about like
what if this turns out to be this? And I
came back from the bathroom. My friend leaned over and
she was like, you were right, this turned out to
be this And I was like, oh god, that was
like a bad joke. Can't believe that actually happened. So yeah, just.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Overly dramatic, bad acting, unbelievable, all the bad things. What
do you rate it? You've given things a zero before.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I mean, like I said, it kept my interest. It
was not Eddington, so.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
It had some entertainment value.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah. I was kind of like, so bad, it's good.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Oh that's that's rough. Though I don't feel like that
should be so bad it's good movie.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I mean, I don't think it was supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I think it was supposed to be so good. It's
good they were trying to make a good movie.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I'm going to go one point five lollipops.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
It's pretty low.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
For my worst of the month, I'm going to go
with Good Fortune, which is the Asison Sorry, Seth Rogan,
Keanu Reeves.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Movie where you were excited to see that.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I was. It has a bunch of people that I like.
I'm a fan of all three of those people. The
movie would have been good if it came out in
like twenty eleven. Oh, it just felt like those it's
an insult.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
It felt like it's almost as bad of an insult
is so bad it's good.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I guess so I didn't think it was. That's exactly
how that movie made me feel, where it was like
the remnants of a Judd Appetito movie. And I think
I was just so surprised for Azi's I'm Sorry directorial debut.
Why make this movie like there was? The story itself
was like his character down on his luck, was trying
to be like a documentary editor that wasn't working out.
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So he's working as like a door dasher is living
in his car, and then he meets Seth Rogan's character,
who is like a tech bro lives in a giant mansion,
has a bunch of family money. And then at his
lowest point, he gets a guardian angel, which is Keanu
Reeves and he's like kind of an entry level angel
and he switches bodies of disease and Seth Rogan. So
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now Seth Rogan's broke and AZ's character is rich and
then he's like, Okay, now you live this life and
you're gonna see it's not as glamorous as it is
now that you're rich. Turns out it solved all of
his problems, and that's really the whole movie. And it
tried to make like a lot of commentary on like
how hard it is for people right now door dashing
and economy. Yeah, basically that's what the whole movie was,
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but it just didn't really land on any element, Like
the comedy wasn't that funny with Seth Rogen. Yeah, Seth
Rogan was basically the same thing he's been in the
studio platonic. It was like all this he's been a lot.
It's I feel like he forgot like what character he
was supposed to be, just like I'm just gonna be
seth rogen And it didn't really land on an emotional
level like it's supposed to be it's a wonderful lifetime
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situation or something. It just didn't really have anything to it.
And it was ninety minutes long and it felt so long.
By about forty five minutes, I was like, I don't
even really care how this movie ends. I just think
it was because I went into it thinking it was
gonna be a funny movie and left just kind of disappointed.
I also went and had the entire theater to myself,
so there was no camaraderie, camaraderie, no interaction, which has
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helped with comedies lately that we've gone to see, Like
when you see can hear other people laughing and enjoying it?
It kind of makes it more funny. And I think
the fact that it was kind of like going to
see stand up and being the only person in the
crowd and it's like, WHOA, this is weird. This doesn't
feel right.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
I should also had regarding you was two hours two hours?
Oh man, Yeah, it's two hours flat. At least this
was ninety minutes. Yeah, it was. And it got to
the point at the end where I just kept looking
at my friend Courtney, and I was like, it's going
to be over soon, right, Like I know it's two hours,
but it has to be over seas, right.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I could wrap this up early. But yeah, I would
give Good Fortune two point five out of five. I'm
not even sure it's a streamer. I feel like the
movie should have focused entirely on Keanu Reeves had just
been from his point of view, because the other two
guys just were not cutting it. Would you have been
offended if I would have put the Taylor Swift party
as my worst No.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Because I don't feel like our theater experience was what
some people had in their parties, Like everyone sat and
just kind of watched where it was like I wanted
a little more like outer seats dancing. I honestly wouldn't
have expected you to go. You kind of got roped
into going.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
But I wanted to experience it. I just thought it
was going to be more of a cinematic event.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Which I think is what her docuseries is gonna be.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
This was more of a listening party. I think the
thing that made me want to put it as my
worst was that all the lyric music videos had had
a loop.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
It was a loo yeah, and it was a little like,
I don't know, motion sickness.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
They weren't even great visualizations.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
No, yeah I didn't. I mean, it wasn't my favorite
thing that I saw. It was more just to like
go with Friends made me kind of like appreciate the
album more. I liked the behind the scenes. I like
tearing her explain the songs. If it had been any longer,
I'd have been like, Okay, wrap this up. Now. The
docu series I'm already sat for, but that.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Won't be in theaters. That'll just be Disney.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Plus come frove my own home.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
See. I wanted more of that. I think if we're
going to go to the theater to watch something and
pay money for it, which that was the one we
had to actually pay for because our Regal and Limited
doesn't cover some of those live events or the special events. Yeah,
we did pay for that, and I was like man
cash grab. Going through all the other movies of October,
good Boy, I gave a three out of five. I
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still need to do my favorite movie Dogs episode. I
think you should be on that one, but Good Boy
is definitely up there. We talked about the Taylor Swift
movie Smashing Machine. Four out of five is what I
gave that one. You would give that lower?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
How low?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Three?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Oh that sound not terrible.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
It's failing.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
The Lost Bus, which we talked about. I have it
at a four out of five. I maybe could have
bumped it up a little bit more, but then I
was like, am I just two in two disaster films?
Roof Man, which made my best of the month four
point five out of five? The Woman in the Cabin
ten or The Woman in Cabin The.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Woman in Cabin ten starring care Nightley on Netflix.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Thank you. That was pretty good. That was like a
Sunday night movie. We watched it. I loved the book
A real cozy nothing too.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
I thought that movie was cozy because it was like
different definitions, right, is a cozy thriller?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
You try to figure out why she feels like she's
going crazy? But I gave that one three out of five.
After The Hunt.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
The Julia roberts IOA Debris, I thought it was gonna
be better.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Yeah, listening the Dark Academia, it's too long. There was
too much talking.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
It was the delivery of that movie, the style of
which everybody spoke and all the all the sequences together
just fell a little bit weird.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Yeah, it wasn't. It's the same director that did Challengers,
and it wasn't as action packed, Like you couldn't have
that kind of style without the action of Challengers.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Yeah, it felt like watching like the paints of a
masterpiece dry, where I was like, I know, this is
a really good painting, but I'm just watching it dry,
and then by the end of it you're like, Okay,
I get the story. That was good, but the delivery
was just a little bit boring and drawn out.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I need to know where she taught how to get
that apartment they lived in.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Because that was amazing, fantastic. They had a room where
all they do is listen to music. You know how
much money you have to have to have a room
where you just listen to music. They also didn't have kids,
that's true.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
They have a lot of rooms in the house.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
They have a swinging door to their kitchen. That was
so cool. These little things that I noticed about fancy
people in rich people's houses. I watched Play Dirty on Amazon,
which is a mark Wahlberg movie kind of the opposite
of Good Fortune. I went into it with really low expectations,
thinking Mark Wahlberg were just gonna play the same Mark
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Wahlberg again and again. It's actually no bad three out
of five on that one. I watched Honey Don't on Peacock,
which was the Margaret Quayley Aubrey Plaza movie, same director
who did Driveaway Dolls. It almost feels like a sequel
to that movie, same kind of style, even though it's
set in modern day. It feels like a fifties detective movie.
Not as bad as people were saying. I give that
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one a three out of five. I tried to watch
Megan two point oh also on Peacock, so bad I
couldn't finish it.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Alison Williams was also in that. She's the common factor
regretting you and I love Alison Williams.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
I started Megan two point oh twice and couldn't get
past fifteen minutes because it was so bad.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
You started Megan two point oh two point oh times.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Yeah, and it still can't get there and then deliver
me from nowhere. Bruce Springsteen movie three point five out
of five Your TV show for the month, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Mister Glenn Powell in Chad Powers.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Could you call that one a cozy comedy? Yes, cause
it's not so hilarious that you're like, oh my gosh,
you have to watch this show.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
It is so funny, like slapstick humor, but it's it's
an elevated humor, which is almost harder to do.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
It's as close as you can get to great comedy
in twenty twenty five when it comes to a series, Yes,
where the writing is good, the performances are good, but
maybe the story is a little bit too crazy to
be believable. Therefore you could find it a little bit
cornball at times.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Yeah, but it's He's funny, He's great as Chad Powers.
Steve Soon's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I like that they actually use real college football teams
and it's not they're not all made up. It makes
it feel a little bit more realistic where they're actually
playing Georgia and all those kind of little pieces that
are like, Okay, maybe this could exist in this world
for TV show. I have Peacemaker season two. I love
the entire series up until the end because I think
what is happening now is James Gunn is starting to
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do with DC what Marvel does and has everything connect
to each other. And I felt like towards the end
of the season, it was just queuing up the next
Superman movie. So it almost felt like, oh man, we
did not get the best entire season because this is
building towards something now. But very rarely do I watch
a superhero show and have real emotions. But there's one
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scene in particular where I felt like crying because Peacemaker
goes through so much turmoil, has so much trauma, and
there was this moment where John Cena just kind of
let it all out, and I've never seen that side
of John Cena, and I felt so bad for his character.
I was like, wow, Like I did not expect something
to have this much emotional depth.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
It is really hard to get you to cry.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Yeah, you usually take superhero movies though, like Endgame, That'll
give me Spider Man, no Way home, That'll get me
real life.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Man.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
I'm good your book for the month.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I read a lot of books this month. I read
like ten or eleven. I've alread hit My goal for
the year I was seventy five and I'm in seventy six.
I'm Going to Go My Friends by Frederick Bachman, who
is wrote A Man called Ove, which is what a
man called Auto with Thommas Banks, was based on My Friends.
Was so good. And maybe it was just I was
in like a emotional mood when I read it, But
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it just made me feel so many things. It's not
oh yeah, I remember you reading me an excerpt from it.
It's not super like plot driven necessarily, it's the characters.
But I had started it. I was reading it each
night and then I picked up on page like one
thirty a couple of weeks ago and read it until
eleven PM and finished because I was like, I can't
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put this down, So I'm gonna go with that one.
But I read a lot of good ones.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
What was it called again, my Friends?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Read a lot of good ones? So there was another one.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
I also read The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, which it's
about this older woman named Sybil and she like writes
and emails people, and the whole book is like her
letters and emails. It just was really good. It was
one of those characters that you're like, oh, I'm gonna
think about this for a long time after I read it.
Some books I read, and then the next day somebody's like,
what was that about? I don't know, check out the synopsis.
I'm gotta readn't tell you.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yeah. I feel that way about movies sometimes.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
When you said I don't even remember what the Bruce
Springsteen movie was called, I remember the name. When you
said that earlier, I was like, what was that movie?
Speaker 1 (27:02):
The way that I do reviews, I get so invested
in one movie for a very brief period of time,
like two days, that is all I'm consumed with, and
then after those two days, it just kind of leaves
my head until, like I randomly think of another movie
it connects to you.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I've been reading a lot of good books lately, though.
There's been quite a few, and I think I've updated
my good Reads with all of them for those who follow.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Should we put that in the notes? Yes, we'll put
that in there.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Anything else, No, I gotta go put her Christmas Tree up? Yeah,
so early listen it brings me joy.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
It's November and you're like, Christmas Tree.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Do you not remember during the pandemic when we put
it up in April and left it up for.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Quite some time. We're very depressed at that time. But yes,
that was very early.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I'm just saying it brings joy sparks joy especially it's
like so gray this week here, I need just like
twinkle lights.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
All right, I'll come back and I'll give my spoiler
free review of ill On. Yeah, now you're saying differently Boganya.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
No.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Earlier it was Bougonia. Now you're saying Bogonia, Bogonia. Which
syllable are you renunciating Bogona? All right? Please tell me.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie review
of Bogonia, one of my most anticipated movies of the
year from director Yorgoslante Moos, Starring Emma Stone Jesse Plemons.
What this movie is about. Emma Stone plays a high
profile CEO at a pharmaceutical company. Jesse Plemons plays a
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guy who is obsessed with conspiracy theories. He has been
just diving into all of these theories about Emma Stone's
character and why he believes that she is an alien
hiding in plane site and what does he decide to do?
He decides to take action. He along with his cousin,
capture Emma Stone at the beginning of the movie and
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then hold her hostage. The movie is adapted from a
two thousand three movie from South Korea called Save the
Green Planet. And that's really all you need to know.
This movie was truly something special. And sometimes I'm guarded
a little bit when talking about a movie that I
love so much because I worry about overhyping it to you.
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This is the case. I'm gonna tell you right now,
I am going to over hype the crap out of
this movie because I loved it so much. Great movies
suspend you in time and make you feel truly like
you have escaped this world that we are living in.
Just so happens to be a movie about somebody being
accused of being an alien and wanting to contact their
mother's ship. But that is truly something so special if
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you just think about what watching a movie is, which
I've had a really weird just realization as everything's gone
to digital, you're really just watching a file being put
on the screen. Although in this case, we saw it
at the Bellcourt here in Nashville on thirty five millimeters,
so I did get that level of warm to it.
I love that Right at the beginning of the movie,
you see that little circle in the right corner of
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the screen wherever they put that film real on, so
it did have that level of warmth to it seeing
it in thirty five millimeters, which I would highly recommend
you get all those rich colors, And I think, what
the Yorgoslantinos movie that really benefits from it. But when
you just think about what watching a movie is, as
you're sitting in front of a screen and you're having
information put into your eyeballs, it is very rare to
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be sitting in that seat having that process done where
you truly feel something that makes you question your morals.
And I was talking about earlier how I've been going
through this thing recently where I start to feel for
the bad person in the movie. I don't want to
call them villains, because I don't think they're always villains,
but Jesse Plemmon's character is an anti hero, and throughout
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this movie it will have you questioning who you believe
and who you are rooting for. And I found myself
feeling very empathetic towards this character learning all the details
about why he is doing this that I started rooting
for him. But then I thought if this happened in
the real world, I would not be rooting for this guy.
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And the question this movie raises is jesse Plemmon's character
a madman or is he somebody that is seeing something
that nobody else can see? And then you have Emma Stone,
who did nothing wrong. She's just a high profile CEO.
Some people have problems with those types of people because
of how rich she is, because in order to get
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to that level of power, you probably have to do
some shady things. Very rarely you don't, but in this
case you get to know her character and then suddenly
she is being kidnapped, so she did nothing wrong. But
I also found myself rooting for him more, rooting for
her more. It'll have you just questioning your entire reality
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when it comes to who is in the right here?
Who is in the wrong. Do you believe that she
is an alien like jesse Plemon's character thinks that she is,
or is he somebody who has just been in this
echo chamber? That is a result of him spending so
much time online reading all these theories, only having the
negative thoughts in his head reinforced, therefore making it build
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up so much in his head that he thought kidnapping
a CEO was actually the right thing. To do because
he's just trying to save the world. When it comes
to Yorgoslantio's movies, he is a director that is an
acquired taste, but his movies feel so authentically him, and
I think of his most recent movies, this is the
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most easily digestible where I couldn't really recommend you of
Poor Things unless you're into really weird movies with a
lot of nudity. Kinds of Kindness was even a bit
of a hard sell on me. My introduction to him
was back with the Lobster. I didn't entirely love that one,
but then when I saw the Favorite, I was like, Okay,
I understand this guy. Now, I get it. Which he
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has been working with Emma Stone now for a while,
so I feel like there there's a lot of trust there.
And to do a movie like this, to do any
of his previous movies, you need to have a lot
of trust. Because Emma Stone actually shaved her head for Begonia.
You actually see it happen in this movie when she
is captured, which was also in the trailer, they shave
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her head. That is Emma Stone committing to this role
for lack of a better word, That is Oscar stuff
right there. I wish I could curse. I'm not going
to curse. But that is what that level of acting is.
That is why she is an Academy Award winner because
it takes that level of dedication. She didn't know what
was going to be hiding for her underneath her head
once she shaved it. And I did see that after
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she shaved her head, she realized she had these two
moles that she got removed because she couldn't live with it.
I could not shave my head fully because I know,
I know I have a weird head underneath this hair
that is just lopsided. Probably a role. I probably have
some mold or some weird things going on there. I
know I have some scars I got when I was
a kid. I know it's probably not as crazy for
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a guy to have to shave their head for a role,
but that is next level stuff. It is the thing
she is willing to do to change her body for
a role. But not only that, she is somebody who
is such a dial in actor. Her and Jesse Plemmons
together was so magnificent to watch their back and forth
on screen, where there are these two forces just butting
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heads against each other, where her character is so great
at communicating and so great at diffusing a situation. She
portrays a CEO in a way I haven't seen done before,
where you know, every conversation she has has to end
the way that she wants it to. And this was
probably the first time in her life as a character
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where she was met with resistance, where she didn't know
what to say. She didn't know how to get out
of this situation, but she didn't have this catalog of
how to work with somebody who was not mentally stable.
That was a really interesting dynamic to watch when it
comes to asking for this movie completely nailed it. And
I know your Ghosts has been working with both of
those actors for a very long time. And you may think, well,
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he just went to his muses and put them two
together in a movie, so maybe not the most adventurous casting,
but you realize why it works so well because they
were just having these conversations and it felt like you
were watching a bomb go off. And quite possibly one
of the most surprising things is that Bogonia didn't have
any crazy nudity, and that is quite the accomplishment coming
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off of poor things and kinds of kindness, which was
loaded chock full of it. I would say, that's your
ghost's calling card is hey, you know, would make this
scene better. Let's make these two people naked. Not the
case with Bogonia. This movie is so absurd in the
best way. And there was this one particular moment where
I felt it go next level where there was this
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switch in my brain that said, Okay, this is a
good movie. This is a good movie, and this scene
in particular flip that switch and went to a great movie.
Because I look at everybody involved in this they're just
all on a different playing field when it comes to storytelling,
when it comes to acting, when it comes to dedication,
when it comes to just treating every scene like this
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is the scene. There were so many instances of that
throughout the entire film, where this is a movie that
I feel is going to have a high rewatchability for
me because there are gonna be things that I want
to go back and see that I missed. I also
think this movie proposes so many questions that you can
dive into and have your own theories on. Even the
title of the movie itself is a little bit ambiguous,
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where they named it this for a particular reason, but
it can also be open to interpretation, especially once you
watch the film, you find out what happens, you get
all these questions answered, then you can ask more questions,
and that is a sign of a great film, a
movie that stays with you and leaves some things open
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for your own interpretation, which I think lately a lot
of films have been playing it so safe, where they
tell you every single thing, every single detail, every little
thing ends up with a nice little bow, want it
by the end of it, And I think that is boring,
and some people want every single question answered. I'm not
one of those people. I think great art should be
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open ended, and I wish more directors took that risk.
And I think sometimes because of maybe that Marvel movie
mentality where we don't have all these questions answered by
the end of it, we don't get a post credit
scene teeing up the next movie, we feel a little
bit ripped off. I love those instances. Use your imagination, people.
I only think the hard sell of this movie is
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the fact that it is kind of a weird concept,
even though it is what I believe to be your
goss at least of this decade his most digestible work.
I still think this movie will be a little bit
off putting to some, but these are the types of
movies I seek out. I have to have at least
one of these every single year to inspire me again,
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to make it feel like I'm not watching the same
thing over and over and talking about the same types
of movies again and again. This movie is a full
course meal to me. It has the appetizer, the amazing entree,
the wonderful dessert, maybe even a little cup of cappuccino
at the end. This movie has it all. And if
you end up watching it or have seen it already
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and didn't enjoy it, what do you enjoy it? I
really want to know. Maybe you are not into the
idea of conspiracy theories, maybe you don't like aliens, maybe
you just don't like this form of storytelling. For me,
I feel this movie had it all. It was so
close to perfection. I even got this little commemorative film strip,
which is really cool with some big scenes from the movie.
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If you're watching on YouTube, you can see me holding it,
although it doesn't show up that great on camera. But
I was such a nerd for this movie. Going into
it that I saw they were gonna have these limited
editions and you know, anything collectible I got to get
my hands on. We got there probably twenty minutes early,
and I was like, man, I hope they don't run
out of those strips. They still had a lot of them.
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I think I was the only one excited for this,
but pretty cool. I love any kind of little piece
of memorabilia now that we don't have ticket stubs, like
all my ticket stubs that are in my regal lamp,
since we don't have those, and I don't buy a
whole lot of popcorn buckets just because I have the
big stitch one in the studio and it kind of
takes up all to space. I love these little things
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that they can do to give you something to take
home from the movie. So for Begonia, it is rare
for me to give out of five. I'm not gonna
do it here. It is really close. But I am
just so hype coming off this movie. The fact that
I went in with such high expectations and those expectations
were not only met, but I feel like even exceeded
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at moments because it took it to the next level.
For Bogonia. I give it four point five out of
five shaved heads. It's time to head down to movie mics.
Traylor Paul. What if you survived a plane crash ended
up on a desert island. On that desert island, there
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was one other person, But it is the person in
life that you hate the most. That is the premise
of this new movie starring Rachel McAdams Dylan O'Brien. It's
called Send Help because their relationship is not good in
this and they are coworkers. Dylan O'Brien plays her boss.
He is a jerk. He belittles her at work, makes
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fun of her appearance, makes fun of the way that
she smells. She hates this guy. They go on a
work trip together. He's even a jerk on the plane
to other people. Plane goes down. They are the only
two survivors end up on a desert island, and suddenly
there is now a shift in who is in power
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because Rachel McAdams's character is really good at surviving. She
can hunt, she can fish, she can do all these
things in order to survive on this island by herself
and need his help because he gets injured in this
plane crash, and then he still thinks that this is
just the office. I can treat her the exact same
way I am her boss. But suddenly she's like, out here,
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you're not my boss. I'm the one keeping us alive.
Now you have to listen to me. What would you
do in that situation? I am lucky enough. If I
was trapped on a desert island with my boss, I
would not be in a nightmare situation. Aside from not
having Wi Fi and air conditioning, we would have a
good time. But before we get into more about why
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I love these two actors coming together, it's from director
Sam Raimi, who I'm also a big fan of. Here's
just a little bit of the Send Help trailer coming
out on January thirtieth, The Coach join the Land of
the Living? How long keep it out?
Speaker 2 (41:51):
Day and a half? If you tried making a distress
signal or a bigger.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
Fire, I was busy trying to keep us alive, but
getting us out of here.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
That should be your focus, not being Susie homemaker over here.
What did you just said to me?
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Let's not forget I'm your boss, you work for me.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
We're not in the office anymore. Bradley.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
That line goes hard right there. We're not in the
office anymore, Bradley, and you can hear the shift in
her character right there, and then you see her get
really dark and you start wondering, how did she learn
all these skills? How does she know how to cut
the head off of a bore? How does she know
how to hunt with this spear that she just built herself.
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There has to be some kind of crazy backstory to
her and something that makes her snap to now quite
possibly being a person who has taking out their boss
on their radar. Dylan O'Brien and Rachel McAdams look great together.
I feel like they are both underappreciated actors. What I
always like to do is go over to IMDb and
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see what they list as their top four movies, which
I think the way they kind of determined those is
the ones that people search for the most on their website.
But for Rachel McAdams it is The Notebook, obviously, Mean Girls,
Regina George, obviously Red Eye, and the Vow. For Dylan O'Brien.
First one is actually not a movie, Teen Wolf, the
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TV show which I was not that big a fan of.
I feel like I'm more of a twenty twenties fan
of Dylan O'Brien, especially what he's doing now with this
movie coming out next year, and Twin List was one
of my favorite just hidden gems that I found earlier
this year. So I don't really associate him with Teen
Wolf The Maze Runner, I think is what the most
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people associate Dylan O'Brien with, even though when it comes
to dystopian science fiction movies, those aren't my go to.
I'm more of a Hunger Games guy, and I know
those movies aren't entirely the same, completely different franchises, but
during that period of time where I feel like all
those movie rights got bottom and they all got released
in the twenty tens, those kind of run to get
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other with all those But I'm definitely more of a
Hunger Games guy. But I know he made a lot
of money and gained a lot of recognition through those movies.
I associate him more with the year of twenty twenty.
Love and Monsters was probably my favorite movie to come
out of the COVID era. I got into this period
of my life where every Saturday morning I would look
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forward to a new movie that I could watch at
home that was not coming out in theaters, and that
became my kind of comfort during that time where I
looked forward to it. I so greatly missed that in
theater experience, and that was the closest thing I had
to go into the movies where I kept my phone
out of the room, had the soundbar on as loud
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as it could go, much like it would in the movies,
and I was just so appreciative of having a new movie.
This movie in particular, I felt kind of just did
not register with most much like everything that came out
pretty much between the year twenty twenty and twenty twenty two,
that is kind of a weird time period. It wasn't
really until No Way Home that it kind of broke
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all that. We kind of started going back to normal
after that movie came out. But this movie, I feel,
really got me through a terrible mental state and I
love Dylan O'Brien in it. So if you haven't seen
Love in Monsters and you like post apocalyptic adventure action movies,
I highly recommend it. Although probably the association I have
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with it makes the movie a lot better in my
book than it actually is, so I think it is
one that I probably wouldn't revisit for that reason, but
it is on Paramount Plus, and now that I got
suckered into a Paramount Plus subscription, maybe I'll finally go
back and rewatch that. But it is good just to
see him back on the big screen. Twin List was
a movie starring him that I saw earlier this year.
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I think could be one of my favorite performances of
twenty twenty five. It was one that I went into
with very little expectation and very rarely do I not
watch a trailer at all before going to see a movie,
and that was one of them. I only read the description.
It's about two guys that meet in a support group
and become friends, and then one of them has a
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dark secret that you learn about. That movie had a
little bit of comedy, it had a little bit of drama.
It also had like this weird turn where it almost
turned into a thriller, had some suspense in there. Overall,
just quite the journey. So it's cool to see Dylan
O'Brien back on the big screen. Also for Rachel McAdams,
who was so huge in the mid two thousands, so
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much so that she had to take a couple of
years off, and she turned down roles in The Devilware's
Prada and Iron Man. She needed a little bit of
time away from the fame and the public scrutiny. And
I feel like she has also taken some really great
roles in the twenty twenties. But then, when you think
about this movie, you have Dylan O'Brien and Rachel McAdams,
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and if this were any other director, this would have
turned into a homecom. They would have crash landed, try
to survive on this desert island, and they probably would
have fallen in love. Except you have Sam Raimi behind
the camera, who notoriously got to start in horror with
the movie The Evil Dead, which is a low budget
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cult classic in the horror world. Also went on to
do Evil Dead too, an Army of Darkness. But then
what he became the most famous for, at least in
my eyes, was the Spider Man trilogy in the two thousands,
a lot different than what he did in his horror
era and his Western era, and that just kind of
took him on an entirely different level. He also did
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Drag Me in a Hell in two thousand and nine,
Oz the Great and Powerful in twenty thirteen, which was
the Wizard of Oz prequel starring James Franco, which was
actually not bad. I remember seeing that one in theaters,
and I also just have a big fascination with anything
Wizard of Oz. The original is just such a mysterious
movie to me, and such an odd piece in movie
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history because of how significant it is to culture. But
how there's this weird dark side behind the making of
that movie. I've always just been fascinated with anything Wizard
of Oz, so probably to most people that wasn't a
great movie, But in twenty thirteen, I was really a
big fan of James Franco as well, so that movie
hit with me. He also did Doctor Strange in the
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Multiverse of Madness back in twenty twenty two, which was
essentially a horror Marvel movie, and he had all of
his trademarks in there, the big eye inside of Doctor
Strange's forehead, which he always has close ups on eyes.
If you look at all of his movies, from Spider
Man to even in the trailer to Send Help, there
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is one scene where you see Rachel McAdams almost entirely
covered in blood. Her face is all messed up and
it looks like she's missing an eye, so he always
has this signature shot a big zoom man on a
character's eye in Doctor Strange. A lot of people do
refer to that one as one of the worst moments
in CGI in the Marvel Cinematic Use universe. So to me,
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this movie feels like a little bit of Castaway, a
little bit of Lord of the Flies. There was also
a movie that came out in twenty twenty two, and
like I mentioned, that was also one of those forgotten years,
Triangle of Sadness, where this kind of happens. It's about
these really rich people who go out on an excursion
on a yacht and then they get caught in a
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big storm. The boat goes down and all of the
survivors end up on a desert island much like here,
and send help. And it almost feels, just by watching
this trailer like they took the third act of that
movie and made an entire, big budget movie out of it.
A Triangle of Sadness was a little bit of a
niche movie, but that is another movie to check out
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if you missed it, and you have no problem watching
scenes of people vomiting profusely that is a major part
of that movie. So two movies you might have missed
in the last five years just based on the time
that they came out that we've talked about Love and
Monsters with Dylan O'Brien from twenty twenty and Triangle a
Sadness from twenty twenty two, which you can watch on Hulu.
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Watch those movies and then go see Send Help in
theaters on January thirtieth. Head that Bar was this week's
edition of Movie by Framer Bar and that is gonna
do it for another episode here of the podcast. Before
I go, I gotta give my listeners shout out of
the week this week. I'm going over to Instagram and
shouting out Megwin as this week's listener shout out of
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the Week because she posted in her story last week
screenshot over listening to the episode about the ten actors
who were totally hated by their entire cast, along with
the Springsteen movie review. I reposted because she tagged me
in her Instagram story and said Michael Jackson picks up
Thor's hammer a bunch of crying emojis, which was a
quote from that episode, and said thanks Mike d Stroper.
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The laugh to start the week. I got a lot
of pushback on that idea. Nobody likes that, especially over
on YouTube. People on YouTube do not hesitate to call
you an idiot. I just thought that would be interesting.
I still stand by that I want a musician multiverse.
But thanks Meg Win for listening every single week, and
thank you right now wherever you are listening to this
week's episode. Hope you have a great rest of your week,
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and until next time, go out and watch good movies
and I will talk to you later.
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