Mike and Kelsey share their picks for the Best and Worst films they’ve seen this month. They let you know what you should check out that you may have missed and what to avoid to save you time and money. Mike and Kelsey also share their favorite movie news story including a report on why Disney hasn’t had a billion-dollar movie this year. In the Movie Review, Mike gives his thoughts on Godzilla Minus One and why it's one of the best movies of the year. In this story, Japan is already devastated by the war when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster. Mike shares why he oddly loves Godzilla, how the movie was more dramatic than he was expecting, how it crushed it on a 15 million dollar budget and why you shouldn't let the fact that the film is in Japanese keep you from seeing it. In the Trailer Park, Mike talks about Furiosa which is a part of the Mad Max saga. The film stars Anna Taylor Joy and Chris Hemsworth and looks stellar but does it have a story to match Mad Max Fury Road?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And I want and two and hello and welcome back
to movie Mike's movie podcast. I am your host Movie Mike,
and what you hear there is the joining sounds of
cracking a cold brew with my wife and coach Kelsey.
Oh there we go. Not sponsored, by the way.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
No, we just truly have Hybrid set up on subscription.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Today. We're here to talk about the best and worst
movies for November that we've seen. I also want to
get into how Disney has not made a billion dollar
movie this year, dum and in the movie review Ooh,
you set it up perfectly. I'm gonna be talking about
god Zella on minus one. And in the trailer park
we have a look at a new mad Max Fury
Saga movie starring Chris Hemsworth and Anya Taylor Joy. Thank
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you for being here, shout out to the Monday Morning
Movie crew. And now let's talk movies.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast,
one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like
never before in a movie podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
A man with so much movie knowledge.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
He's basically like walking IMTB with glasses from the Nashville
Podcast Network.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
In cases movie Mike Movie Podcast. We'll kick it off.
What was the best movie you saw this month?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Easy? The Holdovers.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
What made you excited to see that movie going into it?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I honestly don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah, you wanted to watch more than I did because
I trailed that.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
The Bellcourt was doing a thirty five millimeter screening and
we ended up not seeing it there. But anytime they
do something in thirty five millimeters, I'm like, Oh, it
has to be good.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It's on film.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
And The Holdovers is about this kid who goes to
a boarding school. He's supposed to go home for the holidays,
but his parents suck.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
A group of kids. That's why they're called the holdovers.
They hold over from one semester to the next. They
don't go home for the holidays.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
So he gets stuck there with another group of people
who have nowhere to go for the holidays. And Paulo
gia Maadi is a teacher there who also gets stuck
doing that job of taking care of all the holdovers
and bonding with them. But he is such a not
like teacher who gives really hard homework and assignments that
he translates that into their vacation of Hey we're all
going to do schoolwork.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
But you also have the supporting cast, which was amazing.
You had the cook who had just recently lost her
son and she was grappling with like the first holidays
without him. It just they kind of became like a
little makeshift family. I loved it. It warmed my heart.
There were laughs, It was touching, and it takes a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
For me to go into a movie knowing that I
wasn't excited about, primarily because I don't like Paul Giamonni
we know, no, I don't think people on this podcast
know that I don't like Paul Giamani. Ever since two
thousand and four Sideways, I heard him do an interview
where he was pretty disrespectful to a fan who was
just a fan of that film, and ever since then,
I just had this feeling that he wasn't that great
(02:46):
of a guy. That made me not enjoy any of
the movies he's been in.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
But you like Christian Bales movies, and he has the
Notorious Rant, which he has a terrible human.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
In that case, I can separate the art from the artists.
But with Paul Giamani, I also don't like the roles
he takes, and I also feel like he ruins movies
by being in them. Okay, when he was in Spider
Man two as Rhino, it made me hate that movie.
Even though I love Spider Man, I was Apologiamondy's in it.
I don't care for it, and everybody just when I
said that, I feel like everybody has this undying love
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for him, and I was like, what role does he
have that really defines him that makes him such a
great actor. But while watching this movie, I think it
helped that you're not really supposed to like his character,
and I think he plays that really well. He plays
unlikable so well that it didn't make me like him,
but it made me enjoy his character in this story.
And I feel there was so much just well roundedness
(03:39):
from every single character that it made me enjoy the
movie so much more, and how much they connected with
each other, and how much it was like an unorthodox
story of unlikely characters put together, which is what I like.
Nobody in this movie looks like a movie star, but
the story is so good and the message is so heartwarming,
and it's a great movie for or people like me
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who don't necessarily love Christmas movies that you can enjoy.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
It also had depth overall as a movie.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah, I don't think I was on the verge of tears,
but there were definitely elements of the story that made
me like, oh man, that sucks. And out of any
movie that I've seen this year, I never felt a
bond like this that I did with these characters that
you enjoy going through their entire journey and seeing where
they end up at the end of this film, you
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truly feel invested. It almost felt like I went to
school with them and experienced it with him, because that's
how well their characters were written and how great of
a performances that they had that it made me feel
like I was there with them. So I think that
is a feat in itself and maybe something kind of
a long shot, but it could have some Oscar attention there.
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But I love the little details that had even in
the opening scene of showing Paul Giamatti's office and all
the little things that show you the kind of person
he is, Like showing you the things that are in
his bathroom, the things laying down on his desk, and
the way he receives other people. It kind of tells
you all you need to know without even saying anything.
So I think, just from a filmmaking standpoint, this movie
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just really shines. So I also think there's something to
going into a movie having very little expectations and leaving
loving it.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I did have to drag you to it.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, I did not want to see it. It was
a movie that just didn't really speak to me. But
I'm so glad that we ended up watching it.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
But in this household, it's like when parents ask their
kid to try one bite of food, you have to
try the movie.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I just hate it. We can leave.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
For my best movie of November, I went with The Killer,
which is on Netflix, in a movie I haven't even
fully reviewed on the podcast and has Michael Fassbender who
plays an assassin, and the movie is so interesting because
there's very little dialogue throughout the entire movie, and it's
very much just him having monologues inside his head. Because
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as an assassin, the movie shows you that there's a
lot of times that you're just in solitude, waiting, why
are you looking at me?
Speaker 4 (05:59):
So weird because I didn't watch the movie, so I'm
excusing myself from this review, but I just it doesn't
sound good.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Oh but It's the thing is I love movies that
build a lot of tension. I say that all the time.
You could probably take a drink every time I say tension,
But that's what this movie does, because it's a psychological
thriller that just takes you inside the mind of a killer.
It starts out with him trying to kill somebody, it
goes wrong, and then the company that hires him out
to other people turned the tables and try to kill him,
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and then he goes all the way around the world
kind of on a cat and mouse game. But I
just loved everything about this movie. It's also from the
director who did Fight Club and Gone Girls, so if
you like movies like that, it's a lot of the
same that you would expect from David Fincher, and some
really great fight scenes too. So I know a lot
of it is like the waiting and thinking game, but
there's also just a lot of action. It's a very
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good balance of both of them. And for Netflix, who
really hasn't had that many hits this year.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
More flops, more flops, more flops than bops.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
It was a movie that I started and had to
finish immediately. There's so many movies that have come out
on Netflix that I start and sometimes just never go
back to because they're not that great.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
For TV shows, we do that a lot.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I think we have more TV shows we've started, oh,
definitely this year than things we've actually finished.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I've been doing a lot of these, like six things
to get to Know Me on my Instagram story, and
there was one for six series to get to Know Me,
and I couldn't do it. I feel like I've fallen
out of love with TV so much lately that I
couldn't think of my six favorite shows anymore. The Simpsons
that's all I had, really lost, that's one. And Jackass,
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That's really all I had. And I felt like putting
Jackass is one of my favorite shows of all time
felt a little bit weird. But that question is so
easy for me to answer when it comes to movies
that I would have to pick a certain genre. When
it came to TV shows of my lifetime, I couldn't
even think of six that I would say that I
just love anymore.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
SpongeBob SquarePants.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, there's a lot of great comedy in Sponge, but
I don't watch it any well. I mean sometimes I.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Definitely still Watchpongebob sometimes don't lie.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, but anyway, Yeah, The Killer on Netflix is a
movie I highly recommend, and I know some people just
want to watch something at home. If you haven't seen
it yet, you gotta check it out. Now, let's talk
about the worst movies we saw in November. What do
you have?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I have Napoleon?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I do you're gonna do? Now? This is a movie
I drug you to go see.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I know that I come on here and I talk
about every book that I love, those historical fiction, and
I have decided I like historical fiction about the ladies
because here's the problem with like war movies and things
like that. It's just a bunch of dumb men holding swords,
yelling charge at each other.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
That is essentially what Napoleon is.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
That was the whole movie. There's a graphic scene that
involves an animal perishing.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Okay, when you said graphic scene, I thought you meant
the hooking up part. No, that was that was also graphic,
and there one of those and.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Children walked in on accident right after that.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Traumatizing.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
No, but there's a sad you know, with an animal.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
There's also we talked about this and I would truly
love if somebody knows the reason for this, please educate me.
But what was the point of like the drum line
in war times? Because we just put those men on
the front with the drums with no weapons, and were
they just like providing a soundtrack letting them know they're coming.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah. So there's a big fight scene where Napoleon is
leading the French army and then you see all these people,
you know, armed with guns, and then there are people
on the front lines just with big drums, just for
ambiance to make it scary.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
But yeah, I know I left historical fiction.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Now, if we had talked about, like the story of
his wife, we had done one from her perspective, I.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Thought that would have been a better movie.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Would have been great.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Vanessa Kirby would have been amazing in a like starring
feature film like that. So if we had done one
from the point of view of the woman, but just
Napoleon himself, he was also so emo. He cried a lot.
Let me put it out there. I have nothing against
men having feelings. I love it, but he just would
cry all the time, like he'd say something and then
even start weeping.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I think it was a big movie to say something
very small, like a small statement, not hating on his
size or anything, but it was really just a movie
made to show you that, hey, Napoleon was always just
searching for validation. That was the summary of that entire movie.
You could have done that in an hour and a half.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I was so bored.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Yeah, And that was one I thought I was going
to love. I love Joaquin Phoenix, I love Ridley Scott.
But I found myself being bored in that and gave
it a two point five out of five.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
I even asked you going into it, I said, am
I going to enjoy this? And you said, I think
you will.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I thought I was going to.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I need you to eat.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Those words, because I was me eating the words.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I did not enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
So that was your worst. My worst was The Marvels,
which I also gave it two point five at a five.
Kind of along the same lines is I had higher
expectations going into this.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Movie, more entertaining than Napoleon.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
It was more entertaining, smart women, but it was so
much just down the middle that nothing really was changed
after that movie. That that's fair. I found myself like,
what was the point of that? As much as I
love the actual Captain Marvel character, I just felt that
in the MCU right now, it felt like such a misstep.
(11:10):
And I always love the second part and a superhero story,
I always feel like it's so much stronger because you're
really supposed to get underneath that character's skin to the
point that it makes your break whether or not they
want to be the superhero. There was nothing on the
line in that movie, and some things just felt all
out ridiculous, like the cats. The cats, and yeah, that
(11:33):
was like the funnest part of the movie. But then
I think it's also coming off the heels of Secret Invasion,
which is by far the worst Disney plus Marvel series
they have ever made.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Also a flop. Couldn't even get through the first episode.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I watched that entire thing and hated it, especially I
did the season finale was terrible news to me. And
then they brought in the scrolls from that into this
movie again, and I just find those characters so insufferable
and boring that on screen, It's just like, why am
I watching this?
Speaker 4 (12:06):
This is not me making fun of the way you talk.
I thought you said squirrels, and my brain was like
they brought in Squirrels.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
There was Squirrels. No a squirrel from Bokemon, no scroll.
It's a dumb character and it's all.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Squirrels spelled like Travis Kelsey's sweet lazy writing.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Oh No, I opened. I opened to that box.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
So more so than any other movie we saw in November,
that was one that just left me with disappointment and
a character I wanted to root for.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I'm not mad, I'm disappointed.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I am I'm just disappointed in it, and I didn't
want to come at it as the typical dude in
his basement type person who just hates on any female
led superhero movie.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
We have a basement, Yeah, we do have a basement.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I'm just saying I'm not the guy in the basement.
We don't own a basement. But it just feels like
when I go through the comments on TikTok, it's like
those dudes who just hate female led movies. And I
didn't want to be a part of that group. But
I also couldn't in good faith say that I love
that movie or loved aspects of it. So I hope,
if anything, there is redemption later for the Captain Marvel
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character and just creating a whole new storyline that makes
more sense.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
If you're gonna be a dude in the basement, can
you be like Paul Dannel in Dumb Money? Can you
be that dude in the basement and make us a
lot of money?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I think about that movie a lot too, too.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
It was so good.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I was thinking of like how transparent he was with
showing how much he invested it, having that spreadsheet, and
how cool that aspect of.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Pete Davidson was so funny.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
That was a really good movie. I feel like we're again,
like we were saying earlier because of the strike, didn't
get promoted as much as it should have been. I
feel like that is one that's going to go through
the cracks this year of being one of the best comedies, A.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Great role for Shalene Woodley.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
All around almostaid the same thing all around Dumb Money.
We'll go throwback review here, go back to last month. Yeah,
I was gonna mention that so far in twenty twenty three,
Disney has not made a billion dollar movie. And this
includes Pixar, this includes Star Wars, this includes Marvel movies,
everything that Disney owns, and this is the first time
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this has happened since twenty fourteen, not counting the pandemic
years of twenty twenty and twenty twenty one. The reason
I feel that this is important is because it shows
you that Disney doesn't have that rain that they once did,
and having a billion dollar movie is very impactful because
that shows you that it's kind of the new gold standard.
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If you're able to make a billion dollars at the
box office, that shows that you have the secret formula
to get people in the seats. And the fact that
Disney has not had one this year. The closest one
was Guardians of the Galaxy Volume three, which made eight
hundred and forty five million, and Wish so far has
made like fifty million dollars is a big flop. What
(14:49):
I think this says more so than the Marvel side,
I think that is in a whole different phase right
now that's going to bounce back next year with Wolverine
and Deadpool teaming up. I think I think it really speaks
to the animated side of Disney and then becoming so
reliant on their properties that are just the most known
and not really putting the same amount of money into
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these new properties that they're trying to make.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
I feel like they're not hiring fresh talent, or as
we saw with the writers strike, they're not paying their
good talent enough. It is true, they are probably hounding
their talent to just push out content. And if you
have a quick turnaround, if you just demand something from someone,
you're gonna squash their creativity because creativity takes time. So
(15:35):
I feel like they're either not giving people a break,
not paying them enough.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Well, we know they're not paying them enough.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I also think they're just not finding the best stories. Yeah,
not too with a movie like Wish that's supposed to
honor the one hundred years of Disney. And even for
me saying that I would love to see a movie
use two D animation again, just seeing that trailer made
me realize that two D animation looks so dated. And
to think about a kid right now that wants to
go something in theaters that they're going to love, want
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to sing along to, two D just doesn't really do it.
You could do a scene maybe in two D to make,
you know, a fun little moment, but going back to
that just feels like reverting back to an odd time.
And also just the way they invest in stories. Now
when you look at their other big movies that they
spend a lot of money on and lost money on
Indiana Jones and The Tail of Destiny, which wasn't a
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bad movie.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I was not. I enjoyed it more than I thought
I would.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
But it lost so much money. And it's just them
going back to what works. But now going back to
what has worked in theaters is not working anymore. What
are you gonna do? Even The Little Mermaids still still
failed to meet expectations, even though that did probably better
than all of their other remakes. It just feels like
they're missing out on something here. It's really time for
(16:47):
them to almost take a step back and think, Okay,
what are we gonna do here? And even the CEO,
Bob Iiger, came out and said, we're getting back to
quality over quantity. When you look at the history of
the statements he has made, he has said that year
and year like we're gonna and they don't do it.
They say they're gonna work on the quality, but they're not.
They are a money making machine and just going to
put out things that are so uninspired. And I say
(17:10):
this knowing that I'm an adult in my thirties talking
about Disney movies. But still they make movies for the
entire family. They are making films that appeal to kids,
but that parents are going to also pay money and
take the entire family out to go see, and they're
not doing that. Therefore, I'm putting myself in that category.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
But they also make movies like Indiana Jones is not
meant for kids. Yes, a lot of the Marvel movies
are geared towards adults.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
That's true. I also think they are having this issue
where they want to also appeal to gen Z, which
is kind of what they did with the Marvels and
Miss Marvel's character, and it almost feels like they're trying
a little bit too.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Hard for anything appeal to gen Z.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah, they doesn't care.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
They're unimpressed. And I say that having two brothers that
are gen Z.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
They're unimpressed by anything, absolutely anything.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
They're just like, okay, I don't care whatever else. Yeah. So,
maybe in the twenty tens, they set this really high
bar for themselves, making movies that just generated so much
revenue and really cemented themselves as the force they are now.
But as that force starts to slip a little bit
more and more, and you look at some of the
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other movies that have made a billion dollars this year.
Super Mario Brothers movie was just a lot of fun
with a known franchise, and it took what that video
game was and brought it to life on the big screen.
Barbie and Oppenheimer were also just really great movies that
at the core of it, even though Barbie was rooted
in a known product, it wasn't really rooted in a franchise,
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so it still felt fresh. Nothing on the Disney side
feels fresh anymore, and it's going to take a lot
to get back to that. But it hurts them when
they do have something that's fresh, but they are kind
of weary about taking the risk on it. They just
throw it on Disney Plus and therefore loses out on
all the profits.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
To get all philosophical, but I feel like this happens
in any area market, not just movies. Like Disney was
this juggernaut kind of slowly not becoming that anymore. Think
about social media, Facebook, the heyday, MySpace, all these things
were like a juggernaut of their time, and now they're
just going to fall into the wayside. So I feel
like that's anything. Something reaches a height of popularity and
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it doesn't always stand the test of time. And I
get that Disney's different. It's been around forever. It's to
the test of time, bigger company than just like a
social media brand. But I feel like it's kind of
cyclical and trends.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I think it's just a fact, like you said that
Disney has been around for one hundred years, that they
are held to a different standard. They have had their
dark periods when they were xeroxing all their backgrounds and
their animation felt lifeless. They had to have the renaissance
in the nineties, which they reinvented themselves, took another dip
in the two thousands, came back strong in the twenty tens.
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So yeah, maybe this is their twenty twenties decade to
kind of take down until twenty thirty is maybe when
they rise again.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
The other thing, too, is it's like the stories are
out there.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I know that, Yeah, they are still.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Have great stories.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
So I don't know like what Disney needs to do
to find those and hire the talent and the people
that have those stories because they're out there, because people
are smart.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Oh yeah, they need to go on Reddit of people
who write fan fiction about Toy Story. On Reddit, I
read what is or would have been the best ending
to Toy Story ever, and I still think about it,
and they didn't do it, and now they're making Toy
Story five and it'll never be done.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
The story reminds me of the Reddit thread with the
girls that she read Harry Potter fan fiction and thought
it was the real book, but it was a a
rawnchy fan fiction.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
She thought that was the real Harry Potter. It's my
favorite story of all time.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Oh, clarify, not all fan fiction is raunchy, because I
know that Fifty Shades of Gray was like fan fiction
of Twilight.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
I was gonna I feel like you gotta clarify that girl.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Well, toy story it was just like Andy grows up
and then wants all this toy back and then the
way he you know whatever, is not sexy at all.
But anyway, that is our best and worst of the month.
Anything else you want to say before we go.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
I need to go put together and we still have
one month left of the year of my best books
of the year, because I am going to do that
episode again because I did get very nice feedback from
people that they enjoyed it, So if you like to read,
we'll be recording that in the next few weeks, probably
put it out, maybe.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Right before Christmas breaks, so we have a lot.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Yeah, we have to do best movies of the year,
worst movies of the year. There's a lot of stuff
to get to you.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
But my books will put that one out so people
can read over Christmas break.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
And then I am about to completely nerd out about
god Zilla Minus one. And sometimes when I nerd out
so much about a movie, people don't know the level
of like, oh, is it just he loves it so much?
You did not want to see it?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
No, that's not true.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
You were not a Godzilla fan.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
I didn't watch the trailer. I had no clue what
the movie was about. I just said, Kylie Napoleon, am
I going to enjoy this?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
And this one?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
You did not lead me astrang. I did enjoy god
Zilla Minus one. I had an emotional connection to some
of the characters.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
There you go as I get into my fully nerded
out in review.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
But it was one of the most annoying movies we've
been in a while because there were teenagers in the
back and not to sound like a grumpy old almost
thirty year old. But they talked the whole time, and
they were on their phones and they had that like
text thing that the light goes off on your phone,
and so just like every few minutes, they were just loud.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah, we usually have pretty good luck when it comes
to respectful audiences in movies, and that was probably I mean,
if that's the rowdiest it gets, I'll take it. But
it was a little bit distracting.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I would imagine they didn't know that it was subtitled.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
And they're like, I have to read is this.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Part of your review?
Speaker 4 (22:39):
How we talked about even with subtitles, you can get
the humor. Do you dive into better reviewers me saying
that a spoiler you can get this.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
No, you can say that.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
We were talking on the way.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Home about how even in a different language, without the
same inflection as the English language, you can tell when
someone's being funny and like the tone in which they're
trying to say it, just from the subtitles. And it
was weird because I didn't think about it until you
said that. But there was like some like dry humor
parts where you read it as dry humor even though
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they were speaking Japanese and the subtitles were in English,
and again the inflection isn't the same.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, the movie got a few good laughs out of me,
and I chuckled. I don't know Japanese, but yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I thought that was a cool way that, like humor translates.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
There you go. You have Kelsey's review. I'll come back
with mine after this a movie review. I cannot wait
to do Godzilla minus one. I now realize that I've
been a low key fan of the famous monster since
I was a kid. I really think my relationship started
back with my older brother got a Godzilla toy at
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a yard sale and it was a hand me down
that I got from him, and I would play with
that all the time. I remember having bubble bats where
I would play with the Godzilla like, oh, look at
him terrorizing the people. And then in the late nineties
and ninety eight, whenever the Matthew Broadery Godzilla version came out,
my mom was working at Taco Bell and they had
the best toys, and I remember they had this big
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collector's cup that had Godzilla wrapped around it, and I
told my mom, please get your hands on one of those,
and she did, and I loved it. So I think
as kids we are always just drawn towards dinosaurs, and
Godzilla being the coolest one of them all having a
really historic past. There's been over thirty Godzilla films, and
over the course of them, they've all kind of been similar,
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and you kind of know what to expect going into
a Godzilla movie. It's a big, crazy monster. You have
the atom bomb, you have his fiery breath, and he
destroys cities and people go running and then in the
end they defeat the monster. That is basically the formula
for every single Godzilla movie, and most recently in the
twenty tens, we've had a little bit more of a
sophisticated look at the creature, trying to make it more cinematic,
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more Hollywood like, but still kind of been along the
same lines of you don't really go watch a Godzilla
movie to have a change or influence your life. Big
fun action, big mind suns, that's what you get. But
with this one, we have it going back in the
hands of Japanese filmmakers, where I think the franchise truly
shines with the people who created it, and this movie
takes place in a bombed out Tokyo post World War Two.
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It focuses on one character who went to war was
a Kama Kazi pilot, ended up not dying in war
and returning home after a crazy encounter with Godzilla where
he is traumatized he is dealing with PTSD, goes home
and essentially gets scolded because he went to war as
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a Kama Kazi pilot but returned home with his life
which was not supposed to happen. So he has all
of this weighing on his soul, combined with the fact
that he's now terrorized and living with this fear of
a Godzilla. You gets the job as a mind sweeper
in order to help out this woman he met who
was taking care of this young child, and they start
to form this little family, and that is where our
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character story really begins. Now, the thing I was not
expecting about this movie was the human element where it
really shines. Because all this stuff I've been telling you,
I haven't really told you about how good Godzilla is
in this movie, because it was so well rounded and
so three dimensional that it made me forget that I
was watching a monster film, and this movie really attacked
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it on every single level of the filmmaking process. But
at its core, this movie had heart, had story, and
had characters that I was so invested in. And that
is really what movies this year and then really the
past five years have struggled with, is there needs to
be something on the line. And this movie was only
made for fifteen million dollars, but that's really all you
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need to accomplish is create a mission for a character
that has you rooting for him, and in this movie,
you are rooting the entire time for him to be
the hero in this story. So he is here just
out living this normal life, trying to do this job
to earn some money that is a relatively dangerous job.
And then Godzilla keeps popping up here and there. So
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now that we've told you about our character and the
story we have going here, let's talk about Godzilla, who
in this movie looks the best he has ever looked.
And what I really loved about Godzilla minus one is
that maybe it was the fact that it was made
for fifteen million dollars, but in the last few Godzilla
movies I've watched, which I have enjoyed, God Delivers's Cang
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was a fun time, but in those movies, I don't
really feel like they have the look and the essence
of the character of Godzilla down in those movies. In
this one, I really felt like Godzilla had personality, Godzilla
head swagger, Godzilla had an identity, and it felt like
there was weight behind the actions he was doing and
acting in a very intelligent way that I haven't really
seen in recent additions to the Godzilla franchise. But every
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single time he was on screen, it was important there
was the right amount of monster to non monster ratio
in this movie, because sometimes we just get a bunch
of Godzilla where he's running around the entire time, and
you just get used to it. It becomes a norm
and it doesn't feel like a spectacle when he's on
the screen. Every time I'm in this movie, when Godzilla
is on screen, you care about it because I love
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the way his attacks were so articulate, almost like he
plotted them out of coming up. He's going to terrorize
and then he's going back. He was like a really
well dialed in quarterback almost who knew what they wanted
to do, knew how they wanted to score the touchdown,
went out there and scored the touchdown. And then got
off the field. That is exactly how Godzilla was in
this movie, and I loved him for it. And I
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referenced the size earlier that in this one he was
a little bit more agile, and he grew throughout the
entire movie, which really made it more impactful. As the
tension grew, Godzilla grew with it. He became more of
a threat, and he became even more of an unstoppable force.
And the thing I was not expecting was to actually
feel terror from this monster, where other times it just
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kind of feels like big dumb fun Whenever Godzilla is
on screen, you're rooting for him to tear down buildings
and breathe fire. But I was actually genuinely scared throughout
this movie, and I wasn't really expecting it to have
any kind of a horror element to it, but this
one was truly terrifying that it made me feel like
what would happen if Godzilla actually existed the rain of
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terror he would go on the amount of destruction he
would create, not even just from his feet, but even
his tail whipping around and crashing buildings, and the way
people reacted to his actions in this movie felt so
real and genuine. To me, it is the best I've
ever seen Godzilla look. So it all goes back to
that human element, and it also just goes back to
the filmmaking process in this movie, where like I was
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saying earlier, all the recent iterations of Godzilla had been
very dark and eerie, and you don't really get a
full picture of Godzilla the way I wanted to be seen.
Had this really classic monster like vibe to it, but
it was very bright and colorful, to the point that
when Godzilla was on screen, he was very much the
focal point, primarily in the scenes that take place in
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the water. That just looked beautiful seeing Godzilla rip through water,
and that is truly where the character shines because he
is creature of the ocean. And that was also the
reason I felt scared, because there's one part where they're
in this really small boat out in this open water
and you have this terrorizing monster. You feel the most
vulnerable in that situation, and the movie puts you right
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there in that action. My only regret of this movie
was not seeing it in Imax, because it truly truly
warranted the big screen, and even bigger screen that I
went to go see it on because not only were
the visuals so big, the soundtrack and the score and
the music and the special effects all added this other
level that really puts you in that seat. I mean,
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whenever a monster has its own theme music, you know
you're in for a good time. And whenever this track hit,
I genuinely got goosebumps. And how just classic monster movie
is that theme? I'm gonna play it again just because
I love it so much. But then you have that
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combined with the terrorizing roar that is Godzilla, the roar
we all know and love, but more sophisticated. And then
it has some of the best chase scenes I've ever seen,
not just in a God'zilla movie, but in any movie really.
With the soundtrack that just packs in the tension building it.
Listen to that soundtrack, It's so simple, a few charging notes.
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They just adds a little bit more layers each time.
It is a treat for the eyes, a treat for
the ears. And to say that this was the best
Godzilla movie ever would be easy. This is one of
the best movies of the year. I'm looking right in
the camera as I say this. This movie Godzilla minus
one is one of the best movies of the year,
and there is nothing I can say that would take
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away from any level of enjoyment. The movie comes in
a right under two hours, and it's the only movie
this year that left me wanting more. And I would say,
if you take apart all the little things, if I
were just looking at this strictly from the viewpoint of
a critic, I would probably give it a four point
five out of five. But I have not stopped thinking
about this movie and how it's going to impact this genre.
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And then I go back to the fifteen million dollar
budget and it's made about thirty million dollars at the
global box office, which is amazing. And to think that
you could make a movie like this that looks so big,
looks so cinematic, has Hollywood written all over it, even
though it was made in Japan for only fifteen million dollars,
that is astonishing to me. And then you look at
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the fact that the movie is in Japanese and I
watched it with English subtitles and there was nothing lost
in that translation. Like the director of Parasite said after
winning the Oscar, once you overcome the one inch tall
barrier of subtitles, you'll be introduced to so many more
amazing films. You cannot say it any better than that.
You should not let the fact that a movie is
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in another language keep you from enjoying it. And what
I loved about this is that even though it was
in another language and I was having to read and interpret,
there was nothing lost on the characters themselves. I could
easily tell and define each of those characters for you
because of how good the acting was. But the movie
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had it all. It had a great opening, which I
love in a monster movie. It had character development, it
had great character arches, beautiful cinematography, a beautiful score. There
is nothing bad I can say about this movie. I
will say I could see why this movie is not
for everybody, and even Kelsey who went with me, this
is not a movie she would ever go see you
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on her own, but she ended up enjoying it. She
doesn't like any type of horror movies, but it was
that human element that sucked her in. And yes, maybe
in the beginning there were some kind of brutal not
really rated R kill scenes from Godzilla, even though it's
not overly bloody in any way. I think again, it
goes back to that human element in the story and
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the characters that had her in as a non Godzilla.
So just by checking all the boxes without any other influence,
this movie is easily a four point five out of five.
But due to the fact that I have not stopped
thinking about it, I want to go watch it again.
I definitely got to see it in Imax because I
didn't realize how big this movie was going to look
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on a fifteen million dollar budget, and the fact that
it left me wanting more. That is the biggest factor
in my rating. When I went to go see the
two other movies I've given a five out of five.
Oppenheimer was one. At three hours. I loved it completely.
I still stand by that five out of five, but
I was good after that. Same with Barbie. I love
that entire movie, but after it was over, I was
(34:37):
good on it. I don't even need a sequel there.
On Oppenheimer, obviously you will do that, but on Barbie,
I don't need a sequel for God's Silla minus one.
I could have been in that theater for another hour
because it was so great, and I want to see
a sequel to this story. So I don't normally hand
these out This is only my third of the year,
maybe fifth or sixth in the entire time I've been
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doing this podcast. But for god Godzilla minus one, I
give it five out of five Godzilla Roars. Give it
five out of five roars. You gotta go see it.
And I don't even say that often when I close
a review, because do what you want to do with
your money. I just tell you how I feel about movies.
But I honestly feel this is a movie everybody needs
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to see an experience, and even though it is a
part of a legacy franchise, it still doesn't feel to
me like that same category of everything being a remake
in a reboot, because it's such a fresh take. So
do yourself a favor. Check out Godzilla minus one.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
It's time to head down to movie Mike trailer pauls.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
It is rare that I watched a trailer and just
drool over it. But the new Mad Max trailer is
a prequel, and I'm not the biggest fan of prequels.
It has me drooling, and I don't even consider myself
a huge fan of the franchise. I didn't really love
the original one back in the seventies or all the
sequels from the eighties, but when Mad Max Fury Road
came out, it changed my entire perspective on the franchise,
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which a least their own Tom Hardy. Their performances in
that movie match with the visuals and all the awesome vehicles.
That movie was an unexpected hit for me, And honestly,
I didn't even know this movie was coming. I knew
they had some things in the works, but I thought
we would have a sequel to that movie before we
got the prequels. So I'm not the biggest fan of prequels.
(36:34):
I told you guys when talking about Hunger Games The
Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, because I always feel like
we do a deep dive into a character and focus
on such a minute part of the entire story that
I often feel like prequels are always just a bit
of a cash grab. But this movie is called Fury Yosa.
It's part of the Mad Max saga. It's a standalone film.
The movie stars Anya Taylor Joy, who you may know
(36:54):
from The Queen's Gambit. She is really crushing it right
now as a new actress. I loved her in the Menu,
playing the character that Charlie starone played in Fury Road,
except the younger version. It's kind of her origin story.
You also have Chris Hemsworth, who is store but has
really been looking for where he's gonna go post MCU,
and I think this could be a great fit for him.
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The movie is coming out next year on May twenty fourth.
The official description says it's about a young Furiosa. She
is snatched from the green Place of many mothers and
into the hands of a biker horde led by the
warlord Dementius. Essentially her trying to get back home through
the wasteland. So a similar concept to all the other
Mad Max movies. It's essentially one big epic road trip.
(37:38):
So before I get into Morrow, what I think about Furiosa.
Here is just a little bit of the trailer. Whatever
you have to do, however long it takes, Promise me
you'll find your way home. Fury yourselves. Give me this promise?
Why stop origenis hi there up the darkest of the joy?
Speaker 4 (38:02):
Did you have it in you?
Speaker 2 (38:03):
And I might get epic?
Speaker 1 (38:07):
So I honestly did not know that this movie was coming,
therefore making this a delight and a treat. I honestly
thought we would get a sequel to Fury Road before
we had a movie like this a prequel. But after
diving into this trailer, I am really excited for this movie.
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It looks a lot more cinematic than Fury Road, almost
to the point where it looks too cinematic. It almost
looks like a video game brought to life. And watching
it on my laptop and on my phone, it looks
a little bit weird, I gotta say, but I think
that that is going to demand a big screen. It
looks so perfect. Probably if you go watch this movie
in imax, it just has such a large landscape in
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the Mad Max world that this is a movie that
needs to be made right now to give people like
you and I have reason to go in theaters to
experience a movie like this. Because of the visuals and
because of the soundtrack, it looks very glossy, So I
really think they stepped it up from Mad Max Fury
Road until now. And this movie is directed by the
same director, George Miller, who has done them all since
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the nineteen seventies, So making this a part of the
saga looks like a part of a plan to create
this entire Mad Max universe, which I don't know that
there's the biggest fandom for these type of movies, but
when you go watch them, you can deny how entertaining
they are. What I really love about this is I
already knew Anya Taylor Droy is a great actress, and
I'm excited to see how she does in a big,
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epic action movie like this, and from the shots of
her covered in dirt or riding underneath one of these vehicles,
it looks amazing. I have to say the person I'm
most interested in to see how this plays into the
trajectory of his career is Chris Hemsworth, who I was
just saying is probably gonna someday regret playing Thor because
he's going to continue to be typecasts that big muscly
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dude really only known for doing one thing. But I
feel like in this role he has found one that
he looks the part but is also able to show
a different side of his acting skills, playing a very
quirky character through the use of costume, his hair, but
most importantly his makeup and the work on his nose,
he looks unrecognizable that until I was one hundred percent
sure that it was him in this movie. After he
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shared the trailer on Instagram, I could have been convinced
that was somebody else. So I think this definitely will
be his best role he has taken post MCU. So
I will encourage you if you've not seen Mad Max
Fury Road, which came out back in twenty fifteen, to
go check out that movie, because probably, like you, if
you haven't seen it by now, you probably haven't had
a whole lot of interest in this franchise, which I
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didn't at the time it came out. But that movie
is so fun and cinematic and was so unexpected for
me to be a hit not only among just the
general movie going audience, but also critically acclaimed with Oscar nominations,
which is a very rare thing to happen for a
movie like that. So the only concern I have with
the prequel is it's going to be hard to replicate
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that same kind of praise, because I do think a
big part of that was the leads in that movie.
Charlie the Roan and Tom Hardy together just on paper,
is a much stronger duo than Anya Taylor Joy and
Chris Hemsworth. So it does look like this prequel is
going to lean in a little bit more to the
quirkiness and play up the visuals a lot more. So
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will it be as Oscar worthy? I don't think so.
But this movie looks a lot more fun to me
just based on this trailer. So I'm hoping that the
intention of this movie is to play towards the fans
of Fury Road more so than the critics. So I
think if they're able to execute that, there's much more
of a success straight as far as building a fan
base and making all of these chapters in this saga
working out in the long run. Again, this movie is
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coming out on May twenty fourth, and twenty twenty four
is already shaping up to look like a really great
year in film.
Speaker 4 (41:48):
Said.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
That was this week's edition of movie Line Tramer.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Bar and that's gonna do it for another episode here
of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta give
my listeners shout out of the week for this week.
I'm going over to Instagram and a couple people who
tag me in their story, so it's a double listener
shout out. So this was the week that all of
the stats came out with all of the music and podcast,
everybody listened to the most. So my shout outs go
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to Taylor Lewis and Keegan O'Donnell, who I was in
both of their top five most listen to podcasts for
twenty twenty three. Thank you for listening. Thank you for
tagging me in your Instagram story. If I've made anybody
else's top five, I'm looking for a number one here.
So if I made your number one most listen to
podcasts of the year and you have Instagram, share that
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and tag me in it, and I will give you
next week's listener shout out. But this week it goes
out to Keegan O'Donnell and Taylor Lewis. Thank you guys
for listening. Also, thank you to the movie crew and
you listening right now for listening every single week. We
are in the best time of movies right now. We
have Oscar season coming up right around the corner, and
then we get into the start of the year and
I start looking forward to all the movies coming out
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in twenty twenty four. So now is a really great
time to be subscribed and listening to the podcast. So
thank you, have a great rest of your week, and
until next time, go out and watch good movies, and
I will talk to you later.
And I want and two and hello and welcome back
to movie Mike's movie podcast. I am your host Movie Mike,
and what you hear there is the joining sounds of
cracking a cold brew with my wife and coach Kelsey.
Oh there we go. Not sponsored, by the way.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
No, we just truly have Hybrid set up on subscription.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Today. We're here to talk about the best and worst
movies for November that we've seen. I also want to
get into how Disney has not made a billion dollar
movie this year, dum and in the movie review Ooh,
you set it up perfectly. I'm gonna be talking about
god Zella on minus one. And in the trailer park
we have a look at a new mad Max Fury
Saga movie starring Chris Hemsworth and Anya Taylor Joy. Thank
(00:40):
you for being here, shout out to the Monday Morning
Movie crew. And now let's talk movies.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast,
one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like
never before in a movie podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
A man with so much movie knowledge.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
He's basically like walking IMTB with glasses from the Nashville
Podcast Network.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
In cases movie Mike Movie Podcast. We'll kick it off.
What was the best movie you saw this month?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Easy? The Holdovers.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
What made you excited to see that movie going into it?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I honestly don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah, you wanted to watch more than I did because
I trailed that.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
The Bellcourt was doing a thirty five millimeter screening and
we ended up not seeing it there. But anytime they
do something in thirty five millimeters, I'm like, Oh, it
has to be good.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It's on film.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
And The Holdovers is about this kid who goes to
a boarding school. He's supposed to go home for the holidays,
but his parents suck.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
A group of kids. That's why they're called the holdovers.
They hold over from one semester to the next. They
don't go home for the holidays.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
So he gets stuck there with another group of people
who have nowhere to go for the holidays. And Paulo
gia Maadi is a teacher there who also gets stuck
doing that job of taking care of all the holdovers
and bonding with them. But he is such a not
like teacher who gives really hard homework and assignments that
he translates that into their vacation of Hey we're all
going to do schoolwork.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
But you also have the supporting cast, which was amazing.
You had the cook who had just recently lost her
son and she was grappling with like the first holidays
without him. It just they kind of became like a
little makeshift family. I loved it. It warmed my heart.
There were laughs, It was touching, and it takes a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
For me to go into a movie knowing that I
wasn't excited about, primarily because I don't like Paul Giamonni
we know, no, I don't think people on this podcast
know that I don't like Paul Giamani. Ever since two
thousand and four Sideways, I heard him do an interview
where he was pretty disrespectful to a fan who was
just a fan of that film, and ever since then,
I just had this feeling that he wasn't that great
(02:46):
of a guy. That made me not enjoy any of
the movies he's been in.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
But you like Christian Bales movies, and he has the
Notorious Rant, which he has a terrible human.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
In that case, I can separate the art from the artists.
But with Paul Giamani, I also don't like the roles
he takes, and I also feel like he ruins movies
by being in them. Okay, when he was in Spider
Man two as Rhino, it made me hate that movie.
Even though I love Spider Man, I was Apologiamondy's in it.
I don't care for it, and everybody just when I
said that, I feel like everybody has this undying love
(03:16):
for him, and I was like, what role does he
have that really defines him that makes him such a
great actor. But while watching this movie, I think it
helped that you're not really supposed to like his character,
and I think he plays that really well. He plays
unlikable so well that it didn't make me like him,
but it made me enjoy his character in this story.
And I feel there was so much just well roundedness
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from every single character that it made me enjoy the
movie so much more, and how much they connected with
each other, and how much it was like an unorthodox
story of unlikely characters put together, which is what I like.
Nobody in this movie looks like a movie star, but
the story is so good and the message is so heartwarming,
and it's a great movie for or people like me
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who don't necessarily love Christmas movies that you can enjoy.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
It also had depth overall as a movie.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah, I don't think I was on the verge of tears,
but there were definitely elements of the story that made
me like, oh man, that sucks. And out of any
movie that I've seen this year, I never felt a
bond like this that I did with these characters that
you enjoy going through their entire journey and seeing where
they end up at the end of this film, you
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truly feel invested. It almost felt like I went to
school with them and experienced it with him, because that's
how well their characters were written and how great of
a performances that they had that it made me feel
like I was there with them. So I think that
is a feat in itself and maybe something kind of
a long shot, but it could have some Oscar attention there.
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But I love the little details that had even in
the opening scene of showing Paul Giamatti's office and all
the little things that show you the kind of person
he is, Like showing you the things that are in
his bathroom, the things laying down on his desk, and
the way he receives other people. It kind of tells
you all you need to know without even saying anything.
So I think, just from a filmmaking standpoint, this movie
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just really shines. So I also think there's something to
going into a movie having very little expectations and leaving
loving it.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I did have to drag you to it.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, I did not want to see it. It was
a movie that just didn't really speak to me. But
I'm so glad that we ended up watching it.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
But in this household, it's like when parents ask their
kid to try one bite of food, you have to
try the movie.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I just hate it. We can leave.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
For my best movie of November, I went with The Killer,
which is on Netflix, in a movie I haven't even
fully reviewed on the podcast and has Michael Fassbender who
plays an assassin, and the movie is so interesting because
there's very little dialogue throughout the entire movie, and it's
very much just him having monologues inside his head. Because
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as an assassin, the movie shows you that there's a
lot of times that you're just in solitude, waiting, why
are you looking at me?
Speaker 4 (05:59):
So weird because I didn't watch the movie, so I'm
excusing myself from this review, but I just it doesn't
sound good.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Oh but It's the thing is I love movies that
build a lot of tension. I say that all the time.
You could probably take a drink every time I say tension,
But that's what this movie does, because it's a psychological
thriller that just takes you inside the mind of a killer.
It starts out with him trying to kill somebody, it
goes wrong, and then the company that hires him out
to other people turned the tables and try to kill him,
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and then he goes all the way around the world
kind of on a cat and mouse game. But I
just loved everything about this movie. It's also from the
director who did Fight Club and Gone Girls, so if
you like movies like that, it's a lot of the
same that you would expect from David Fincher, and some
really great fight scenes too. So I know a lot
of it is like the waiting and thinking game, but
there's also just a lot of action. It's a very
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good balance of both of them. And for Netflix, who
really hasn't had that many hits this year.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
More flops, more flops, more flops than bops.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
It was a movie that I started and had to
finish immediately. There's so many movies that have come out
on Netflix that I start and sometimes just never go
back to because they're not that great.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
For TV shows, we do that a lot.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I think we have more TV shows we've started, oh,
definitely this year than things we've actually finished.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I've been doing a lot of these, like six things
to get to Know Me on my Instagram story, and
there was one for six series to get to Know Me,
and I couldn't do it. I feel like I've fallen
out of love with TV so much lately that I
couldn't think of my six favorite shows anymore. The Simpsons
that's all I had, really lost, that's one. And Jackass,
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That's really all I had. And I felt like putting
Jackass is one of my favorite shows of all time
felt a little bit weird. But that question is so
easy for me to answer when it comes to movies
that I would have to pick a certain genre. When
it came to TV shows of my lifetime, I couldn't
even think of six that I would say that I
just love anymore.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
SpongeBob SquarePants.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, there's a lot of great comedy in Sponge, but
I don't watch it any well. I mean sometimes I.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Definitely still Watchpongebob sometimes don't lie.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, but anyway, Yeah, The Killer on Netflix is a
movie I highly recommend, and I know some people just
want to watch something at home. If you haven't seen
it yet, you gotta check it out. Now, let's talk
about the worst movies we saw in November. What do
you have?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I have Napoleon?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I do you're gonna do? Now? This is a movie
I drug you to go see.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I know that I come on here and I talk
about every book that I love, those historical fiction, and
I have decided I like historical fiction about the ladies
because here's the problem with like war movies and things
like that. It's just a bunch of dumb men holding swords,
yelling charge at each other.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
That is essentially what Napoleon is.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
That was the whole movie. There's a graphic scene that
involves an animal perishing.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Okay, when you said graphic scene, I thought you meant
the hooking up part. No, that was that was also graphic,
and there one of those and.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Children walked in on accident right after that.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Traumatizing.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
No, but there's a sad you know, with an animal.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
There's also we talked about this and I would truly
love if somebody knows the reason for this, please educate me.
But what was the point of like the drum line
in war times? Because we just put those men on
the front with the drums with no weapons, and were
they just like providing a soundtrack letting them know they're coming.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah. So there's a big fight scene where Napoleon is
leading the French army and then you see all these people,
you know, armed with guns, and then there are people
on the front lines just with big drums, just for
ambiance to make it scary.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
But yeah, I know I left historical fiction.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Now, if we had talked about, like the story of
his wife, we had done one from her perspective, I.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Thought that would have been a better movie.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Would have been great.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Vanessa Kirby would have been amazing in a like starring
feature film like that. So if we had done one
from the point of view of the woman, but just
Napoleon himself, he was also so emo. He cried a lot.
Let me put it out there. I have nothing against
men having feelings. I love it, but he just would
cry all the time, like he'd say something and then
even start weeping.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I think it was a big movie to say something
very small, like a small statement, not hating on his
size or anything, but it was really just a movie
made to show you that, hey, Napoleon was always just
searching for validation. That was the summary of that entire movie.
You could have done that in an hour and a half.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I was so bored.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Yeah, And that was one I thought I was going
to love. I love Joaquin Phoenix, I love Ridley Scott.
But I found myself being bored in that and gave
it a two point five out of five.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
I even asked you going into it, I said, am
I going to enjoy this? And you said, I think
you will.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I thought I was going to.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I need you to eat.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Those words, because I was me eating the words.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I did not enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
So that was your worst. My worst was The Marvels,
which I also gave it two point five at a five.
Kind of along the same lines is I had higher
expectations going into this.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Movie, more entertaining than Napoleon.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
It was more entertaining, smart women, but it was so
much just down the middle that nothing really was changed
after that movie. That that's fair. I found myself like,
what was the point of that? As much as I
love the actual Captain Marvel character, I just felt that
in the MCU right now, it felt like such a misstep.
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And I always love the second part and a superhero story,
I always feel like it's so much stronger because you're
really supposed to get underneath that character's skin to the
point that it makes your break whether or not they
want to be the superhero. There was nothing on the
line in that movie, and some things just felt all
out ridiculous, like the cats. The cats, and yeah, that
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was like the funnest part of the movie. But then
I think it's also coming off the heels of Secret Invasion,
which is by far the worst Disney plus Marvel series
they have ever made.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Also a flop. Couldn't even get through the first episode.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I watched that entire thing and hated it, especially I
did the season finale was terrible news to me. And
then they brought in the scrolls from that into this
movie again, and I just find those characters so insufferable
and boring that on screen, It's just like, why am
I watching this?
Speaker 4 (12:06):
This is not me making fun of the way you talk.
I thought you said squirrels, and my brain was like
they brought in Squirrels.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
There was Squirrels. No a squirrel from Bokemon, no scroll.
It's a dumb character and it's all.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Squirrels spelled like Travis Kelsey's sweet lazy writing.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Oh No, I opened. I opened to that box.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
So more so than any other movie we saw in November,
that was one that just left me with disappointment and
a character I wanted to root for.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I'm not mad, I'm disappointed.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I am I'm just disappointed in it, and I didn't
want to come at it as the typical dude in
his basement type person who just hates on any female
led superhero movie.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
We have a basement, Yeah, we do have a basement.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I'm just saying I'm not the guy in the basement.
We don't own a basement. But it just feels like
when I go through the comments on TikTok, it's like
those dudes who just hate female led movies. And I
didn't want to be a part of that group. But
I also couldn't in good faith say that I love
that movie or loved aspects of it. So I hope,
if anything, there is redemption later for the Captain Marvel
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character and just creating a whole new storyline that makes
more sense.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
If you're gonna be a dude in the basement, can
you be like Paul Dannel in Dumb Money? Can you
be that dude in the basement and make us a
lot of money?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I think about that movie a lot too, too.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
It was so good.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I was thinking of like how transparent he was with
showing how much he invested it, having that spreadsheet, and
how cool that aspect of.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Pete Davidson was so funny.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
That was a really good movie. I feel like we're again,
like we were saying earlier because of the strike, didn't
get promoted as much as it should have been. I
feel like that is one that's going to go through
the cracks this year of being one of the best comedies, A.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Great role for Shalene Woodley.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
All around almostaid the same thing all around Dumb Money.
We'll go throwback review here, go back to last month. Yeah,
I was gonna mention that so far in twenty twenty three,
Disney has not made a billion dollar movie. And this
includes Pixar, this includes Star Wars, this includes Marvel movies,
everything that Disney owns, and this is the first time
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this has happened since twenty fourteen, not counting the pandemic
years of twenty twenty and twenty twenty one. The reason
I feel that this is important is because it shows
you that Disney doesn't have that rain that they once did,
and having a billion dollar movie is very impactful because
that shows you that it's kind of the new gold standard.
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If you're able to make a billion dollars at the
box office, that shows that you have the secret formula
to get people in the seats. And the fact that
Disney has not had one this year. The closest one
was Guardians of the Galaxy Volume three, which made eight
hundred and forty five million, and Wish so far has
made like fifty million dollars is a big flop. What
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I think this says more so than the Marvel side,
I think that is in a whole different phase right
now that's going to bounce back next year with Wolverine
and Deadpool teaming up. I think I think it really speaks
to the animated side of Disney and then becoming so
reliant on their properties that are just the most known
and not really putting the same amount of money into
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these new properties that they're trying to make.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
I feel like they're not hiring fresh talent, or as
we saw with the writers strike, they're not paying their
good talent enough. It is true, they are probably hounding
their talent to just push out content. And if you
have a quick turnaround, if you just demand something from someone,
you're gonna squash their creativity because creativity takes time. So
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I feel like they're either not giving people a break,
not paying them enough.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Well, we know they're not paying them enough.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I also think they're just not finding the best stories. Yeah,
not too with a movie like Wish that's supposed to
honor the one hundred years of Disney. And even for
me saying that I would love to see a movie
use two D animation again, just seeing that trailer made
me realize that two D animation looks so dated. And
to think about a kid right now that wants to
go something in theaters that they're going to love, want
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to sing along to, two D just doesn't really do it.
You could do a scene maybe in two D to make,
you know, a fun little moment, but going back to
that just feels like reverting back to an odd time.
And also just the way they invest in stories. Now
when you look at their other big movies that they
spend a lot of money on and lost money on
Indiana Jones and The Tail of Destiny, which wasn't a
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bad movie.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I was not. I enjoyed it more than I thought
I would.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
But it lost so much money. And it's just them
going back to what works. But now going back to
what has worked in theaters is not working anymore. What
are you gonna do? Even The Little Mermaids still still
failed to meet expectations, even though that did probably better
than all of their other remakes. It just feels like
they're missing out on something here. It's really time for
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them to almost take a step back and think, Okay,
what are we gonna do here? And even the CEO,
Bob Iiger, came out and said, we're getting back to
quality over quantity. When you look at the history of
the statements he has made, he has said that year
and year like we're gonna and they don't do it.
They say they're gonna work on the quality, but they're not.
They are a money making machine and just going to
put out things that are so uninspired. And I say
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this knowing that I'm an adult in my thirties talking
about Disney movies. But still they make movies for the
entire family. They are making films that appeal to kids,
but that parents are going to also pay money and
take the entire family out to go see, and they're
not doing that. Therefore, I'm putting myself in that category.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
But they also make movies like Indiana Jones is not
meant for kids. Yes, a lot of the Marvel movies
are geared towards adults.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
That's true. I also think they are having this issue
where they want to also appeal to gen Z, which
is kind of what they did with the Marvels and
Miss Marvel's character, and it almost feels like they're trying
a little bit too.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Hard for anything appeal to gen Z.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah, they doesn't care.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
They're unimpressed. And I say that having two brothers that
are gen Z.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
They're unimpressed by anything, absolutely anything.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
They're just like, okay, I don't care whatever else. Yeah. So,
maybe in the twenty tens, they set this really high
bar for themselves, making movies that just generated so much
revenue and really cemented themselves as the force they are now.
But as that force starts to slip a little bit
more and more, and you look at some of the
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other movies that have made a billion dollars this year.
Super Mario Brothers movie was just a lot of fun
with a known franchise, and it took what that video
game was and brought it to life on the big screen.
Barbie and Oppenheimer were also just really great movies that
at the core of it, even though Barbie was rooted
in a known product, it wasn't really rooted in a franchise,
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so it still felt fresh. Nothing on the Disney side
feels fresh anymore, and it's going to take a lot
to get back to that. But it hurts them when
they do have something that's fresh, but they are kind
of weary about taking the risk on it. They just
throw it on Disney Plus and therefore loses out on
all the profits.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
To get all philosophical, but I feel like this happens
in any area market, not just movies. Like Disney was
this juggernaut kind of slowly not becoming that anymore. Think
about social media, Facebook, the heyday, MySpace, all these things
were like a juggernaut of their time, and now they're
just going to fall into the wayside. So I feel
like that's anything. Something reaches a height of popularity and
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it doesn't always stand the test of time. And I
get that Disney's different. It's been around forever. It's to
the test of time, bigger company than just like a
social media brand. But I feel like it's kind of
cyclical and trends.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I think it's just a fact, like you said that
Disney has been around for one hundred years, that they
are held to a different standard. They have had their
dark periods when they were xeroxing all their backgrounds and
their animation felt lifeless. They had to have the renaissance
in the nineties, which they reinvented themselves, took another dip
in the two thousands, came back strong in the twenty tens.
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So yeah, maybe this is their twenty twenties decade to
kind of take down until twenty thirty is maybe when
they rise again.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
The other thing, too, is it's like the stories are
out there.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I know that, Yeah, they are still.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Have great stories.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
So I don't know like what Disney needs to do
to find those and hire the talent and the people
that have those stories because they're out there, because people
are smart.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Oh yeah, they need to go on Reddit of people
who write fan fiction about Toy Story. On Reddit, I
read what is or would have been the best ending
to Toy Story ever, and I still think about it,
and they didn't do it, and now they're making Toy
Story five and it'll never be done.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
The story reminds me of the Reddit thread with the
girls that she read Harry Potter fan fiction and thought
it was the real book, but it was a a
rawnchy fan fiction.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
She thought that was the real Harry Potter. It's my
favorite story of all time.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Oh, clarify, not all fan fiction is raunchy, because I
know that Fifty Shades of Gray was like fan fiction
of Twilight.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
I was gonna I feel like you gotta clarify that girl.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Well, toy story it was just like Andy grows up
and then wants all this toy back and then the
way he you know whatever, is not sexy at all.
But anyway, that is our best and worst of the month.
Anything else you want to say before we go.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
I need to go put together and we still have
one month left of the year of my best books
of the year, because I am going to do that
episode again because I did get very nice feedback from
people that they enjoyed it, So if you like to read,
we'll be recording that in the next few weeks, probably
put it out, maybe.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Right before Christmas breaks, so we have a lot.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Yeah, we have to do best movies of the year,
worst movies of the year. There's a lot of stuff
to get to you.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
But my books will put that one out so people
can read over Christmas break.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
And then I am about to completely nerd out about
god Zilla Minus one. And sometimes when I nerd out
so much about a movie, people don't know the level
of like, oh, is it just he loves it so much?
You did not want to see it?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
No, that's not true.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
You were not a Godzilla fan.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
I didn't watch the trailer. I had no clue what
the movie was about. I just said, Kylie Napoleon, am
I going to enjoy this?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
And this one?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
You did not lead me astrang. I did enjoy god
Zilla Minus one. I had an emotional connection to some
of the characters.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
There you go as I get into my fully nerded
out in review.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
But it was one of the most annoying movies we've
been in a while because there were teenagers in the
back and not to sound like a grumpy old almost
thirty year old. But they talked the whole time, and
they were on their phones and they had that like
text thing that the light goes off on your phone,
and so just like every few minutes, they were just loud.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah, we usually have pretty good luck when it comes
to respectful audiences in movies, and that was probably I mean,
if that's the rowdiest it gets, I'll take it. But
it was a little bit distracting.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I would imagine they didn't know that it was subtitled.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
And they're like, I have to read is this.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Part of your review?
Speaker 4 (22:39):
How we talked about even with subtitles, you can get
the humor. Do you dive into better reviewers me saying
that a spoiler you can get this.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
No, you can say that.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
We were talking on the way.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Home about how even in a different language, without the
same inflection as the English language, you can tell when
someone's being funny and like the tone in which they're
trying to say it, just from the subtitles. And it
was weird because I didn't think about it until you
said that. But there was like some like dry humor
parts where you read it as dry humor even though
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they were speaking Japanese and the subtitles were in English,
and again the inflection isn't the same.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, the movie got a few good laughs out of me,
and I chuckled. I don't know Japanese, but yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I thought that was a cool way that, like humor translates.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
There you go. You have Kelsey's review. I'll come back
with mine after this a movie review. I cannot wait
to do Godzilla minus one. I now realize that I've
been a low key fan of the famous monster since
I was a kid. I really think my relationship started
back with my older brother got a Godzilla toy at
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a yard sale and it was a hand me down
that I got from him, and I would play with
that all the time. I remember having bubble bats where
I would play with the Godzilla like, oh, look at
him terrorizing the people. And then in the late nineties
and ninety eight, whenever the Matthew Broadery Godzilla version came out,
my mom was working at Taco Bell and they had
the best toys, and I remember they had this big
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collector's cup that had Godzilla wrapped around it, and I
told my mom, please get your hands on one of those,
and she did, and I loved it. So I think
as kids we are always just drawn towards dinosaurs, and
Godzilla being the coolest one of them all having a
really historic past. There's been over thirty Godzilla films, and
over the course of them, they've all kind of been similar,
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and you kind of know what to expect going into
a Godzilla movie. It's a big, crazy monster. You have
the atom bomb, you have his fiery breath, and he
destroys cities and people go running and then in the
end they defeat the monster. That is basically the formula
for every single Godzilla movie, and most recently in the
twenty tens, we've had a little bit more of a
sophisticated look at the creature, trying to make it more cinematic,
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more Hollywood like, but still kind of been along the
same lines of you don't really go watch a Godzilla
movie to have a change or influence your life. Big
fun action, big mind suns, that's what you get. But
with this one, we have it going back in the
hands of Japanese filmmakers, where I think the franchise truly
shines with the people who created it, and this movie
takes place in a bombed out Tokyo post World War Two.
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It focuses on one character who went to war was
a Kama Kazi pilot, ended up not dying in war
and returning home after a crazy encounter with Godzilla where
he is traumatized he is dealing with PTSD, goes home
and essentially gets scolded because he went to war as
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a Kama Kazi pilot but returned home with his life
which was not supposed to happen. So he has all
of this weighing on his soul, combined with the fact
that he's now terrorized and living with this fear of
a Godzilla. You gets the job as a mind sweeper
in order to help out this woman he met who
was taking care of this young child, and they start
to form this little family, and that is where our
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character story really begins. Now, the thing I was not
expecting about this movie was the human element where it
really shines. Because all this stuff I've been telling you,
I haven't really told you about how good Godzilla is
in this movie, because it was so well rounded and
so three dimensional that it made me forget that I
was watching a monster film, and this movie really attacked
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it on every single level of the filmmaking process. But
at its core, this movie had heart, had story, and
had characters that I was so invested in. And that
is really what movies this year and then really the
past five years have struggled with, is there needs to
be something on the line. And this movie was only
made for fifteen million dollars, but that's really all you
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need to accomplish is create a mission for a character
that has you rooting for him, and in this movie,
you are rooting the entire time for him to be
the hero in this story. So he is here just
out living this normal life, trying to do this job
to earn some money that is a relatively dangerous job.
And then Godzilla keeps popping up here and there. So
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now that we've told you about our character and the
story we have going here, let's talk about Godzilla, who
in this movie looks the best he has ever looked.
And what I really loved about Godzilla minus one is
that maybe it was the fact that it was made
for fifteen million dollars, but in the last few Godzilla
movies I've watched, which I have enjoyed, God Delivers's Cang
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was a fun time, but in those movies, I don't
really feel like they have the look and the essence
of the character of Godzilla down in those movies. In
this one, I really felt like Godzilla had personality, Godzilla
head swagger, Godzilla had an identity, and it felt like
there was weight behind the actions he was doing and
acting in a very intelligent way that I haven't really
seen in recent additions to the Godzilla franchise. But every
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single time he was on screen, it was important there
was the right amount of monster to non monster ratio
in this movie, because sometimes we just get a bunch
of Godzilla where he's running around the entire time, and
you just get used to it. It becomes a norm
and it doesn't feel like a spectacle when he's on
the screen. Every time I'm in this movie, when Godzilla
is on screen, you care about it because I love
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the way his attacks were so articulate, almost like he
plotted them out of coming up. He's going to terrorize
and then he's going back. He was like a really
well dialed in quarterback almost who knew what they wanted
to do, knew how they wanted to score the touchdown,
went out there and scored the touchdown. And then got
off the field. That is exactly how Godzilla was in
this movie, and I loved him for it. And I
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referenced the size earlier that in this one he was
a little bit more agile, and he grew throughout the
entire movie, which really made it more impactful. As the
tension grew, Godzilla grew with it. He became more of
a threat, and he became even more of an unstoppable force.
And the thing I was not expecting was to actually
feel terror from this monster, where other times it just
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kind of feels like big dumb fun Whenever Godzilla is
on screen, you're rooting for him to tear down buildings
and breathe fire. But I was actually genuinely scared throughout
this movie, and I wasn't really expecting it to have
any kind of a horror element to it, but this
one was truly terrifying that it made me feel like
what would happen if Godzilla actually existed the rain of
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terror he would go on the amount of destruction he
would create, not even just from his feet, but even
his tail whipping around and crashing buildings, and the way
people reacted to his actions in this movie felt so
real and genuine. To me, it is the best I've
ever seen Godzilla look. So it all goes back to
that human element, and it also just goes back to
the filmmaking process in this movie, where like I was
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saying earlier, all the recent iterations of Godzilla had been
very dark and eerie, and you don't really get a
full picture of Godzilla the way I wanted to be seen.
Had this really classic monster like vibe to it, but
it was very bright and colorful, to the point that
when Godzilla was on screen, he was very much the
focal point, primarily in the scenes that take place in
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the water. That just looked beautiful seeing Godzilla rip through water,
and that is truly where the character shines because he
is creature of the ocean. And that was also the
reason I felt scared, because there's one part where they're
in this really small boat out in this open water
and you have this terrorizing monster. You feel the most
vulnerable in that situation, and the movie puts you right
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there in that action. My only regret of this movie
was not seeing it in Imax, because it truly truly
warranted the big screen, and even bigger screen that I
went to go see it on because not only were
the visuals so big, the soundtrack and the score and
the music and the special effects all added this other
level that really puts you in that seat. I mean,
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whenever a monster has its own theme music, you know
you're in for a good time. And whenever this track hit,
I genuinely got goosebumps. And how just classic monster movie
is that theme? I'm gonna play it again just because
I love it so much. But then you have that
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combined with the terrorizing roar that is Godzilla, the roar
we all know and love, but more sophisticated. And then
it has some of the best chase scenes I've ever seen,
not just in a God'zilla movie, but in any movie really.
With the soundtrack that just packs in the tension building it.
Listen to that soundtrack, It's so simple, a few charging notes.
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They just adds a little bit more layers each time.
It is a treat for the eyes, a treat for
the ears. And to say that this was the best
Godzilla movie ever would be easy. This is one of
the best movies of the year. I'm looking right in
the camera as I say this. This movie Godzilla minus
one is one of the best movies of the year,
and there is nothing I can say that would take
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away from any level of enjoyment. The movie comes in
a right under two hours, and it's the only movie
this year that left me wanting more. And I would say,
if you take apart all the little things, if I
were just looking at this strictly from the viewpoint of
a critic, I would probably give it a four point
five out of five. But I have not stopped thinking
about this movie and how it's going to impact this genre.
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And then I go back to the fifteen million dollar
budget and it's made about thirty million dollars at the
global box office, which is amazing. And to think that
you could make a movie like this that looks so big,
looks so cinematic, has Hollywood written all over it, even
though it was made in Japan for only fifteen million dollars,
that is astonishing to me. And then you look at
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the fact that the movie is in Japanese and I
watched it with English subtitles and there was nothing lost
in that translation. Like the director of Parasite said after
winning the Oscar, once you overcome the one inch tall
barrier of subtitles, you'll be introduced to so many more
amazing films. You cannot say it any better than that.
You should not let the fact that a movie is
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in another language keep you from enjoying it. And what
I loved about this is that even though it was
in another language and I was having to read and interpret,
there was nothing lost on the characters themselves. I could
easily tell and define each of those characters for you
because of how good the acting was. But the movie
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had it all. It had a great opening, which I
love in a monster movie. It had character development, it
had great character arches, beautiful cinematography, a beautiful score. There
is nothing bad I can say about this movie. I
will say I could see why this movie is not
for everybody, and even Kelsey who went with me, this
is not a movie she would ever go see you
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on her own, but she ended up enjoying it. She
doesn't like any type of horror movies, but it was
that human element that sucked her in. And yes, maybe
in the beginning there were some kind of brutal not
really rated R kill scenes from Godzilla, even though it's
not overly bloody in any way. I think again, it
goes back to that human element in the story and
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the characters that had her in as a non Godzilla.
So just by checking all the boxes without any other influence,
this movie is easily a four point five out of five.
But due to the fact that I have not stopped
thinking about it, I want to go watch it again.
I definitely got to see it in Imax because I
didn't realize how big this movie was going to look
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on a fifteen million dollar budget, and the fact that
it left me wanting more. That is the biggest factor
in my rating. When I went to go see the
two other movies I've given a five out of five.
Oppenheimer was one. At three hours. I loved it completely.
I still stand by that five out of five, but
I was good after that. Same with Barbie. I love
that entire movie, but after it was over, I was
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good on it. I don't even need a sequel there.
On Oppenheimer, obviously you will do that, but on Barbie,
I don't need a sequel for God's Silla minus one.
I could have been in that theater for another hour
because it was so great, and I want to see
a sequel to this story. So I don't normally hand
these out This is only my third of the year,
maybe fifth or sixth in the entire time I've been
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doing this podcast. But for god Godzilla minus one, I
give it five out of five Godzilla Roars. Give it
five out of five roars. You gotta go see it.
And I don't even say that often when I close
a review, because do what you want to do with
your money. I just tell you how I feel about movies.
But I honestly feel this is a movie everybody needs
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to see an experience, and even though it is a
part of a legacy franchise, it still doesn't feel to
me like that same category of everything being a remake
in a reboot, because it's such a fresh take. So
do yourself a favor. Check out Godzilla minus one.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
It's time to head down to movie Mike trailer pauls.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
It is rare that I watched a trailer and just
drool over it. But the new Mad Max trailer is
a prequel, and I'm not the biggest fan of prequels.
It has me drooling, and I don't even consider myself
a huge fan of the franchise. I didn't really love
the original one back in the seventies or all the
sequels from the eighties, but when Mad Max Fury Road
came out, it changed my entire perspective on the franchise,
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which a least their own Tom Hardy. Their performances in
that movie match with the visuals and all the awesome vehicles.
That movie was an unexpected hit for me, And honestly,
I didn't even know this movie was coming. I knew
they had some things in the works, but I thought
we would have a sequel to that movie before we
got the prequels. So I'm not the biggest fan of prequels.
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I told you guys when talking about Hunger Games The
Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, because I always feel like
we do a deep dive into a character and focus
on such a minute part of the entire story that
I often feel like prequels are always just a bit
of a cash grab. But this movie is called Fury Yosa.
It's part of the Mad Max saga. It's a standalone film.
The movie stars Anya Taylor Joy, who you may know
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from The Queen's Gambit. She is really crushing it right
now as a new actress. I loved her in the Menu,
playing the character that Charlie starone played in Fury Road,
except the younger version. It's kind of her origin story.
You also have Chris Hemsworth, who is store but has
really been looking for where he's gonna go post MCU,
and I think this could be a great fit for him.
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The movie is coming out next year on May twenty fourth.
The official description says it's about a young Furiosa. She
is snatched from the green Place of many mothers and
into the hands of a biker horde led by the
warlord Dementius. Essentially her trying to get back home through
the wasteland. So a similar concept to all the other
Mad Max movies. It's essentially one big epic road trip.
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So before I get into Morrow, what I think about Furiosa.
Here is just a little bit of the trailer. Whatever
you have to do, however long it takes, Promise me
you'll find your way home. Fury yourselves. Give me this promise?
Why stop origenis hi there up the darkest of the joy?
Speaker 4 (38:02):
Did you have it in you?
Speaker 2 (38:03):
And I might get epic?
Speaker 1 (38:07):
So I honestly did not know that this movie was coming,
therefore making this a delight and a treat. I honestly
thought we would get a sequel to Fury Road before
we had a movie like this a prequel. But after
diving into this trailer, I am really excited for this movie.
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It looks a lot more cinematic than Fury Road, almost
to the point where it looks too cinematic. It almost
looks like a video game brought to life. And watching
it on my laptop and on my phone, it looks
a little bit weird, I gotta say, but I think
that that is going to demand a big screen. It
looks so perfect. Probably if you go watch this movie
in imax, it just has such a large landscape in
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the Mad Max world that this is a movie that
needs to be made right now to give people like
you and I have reason to go in theaters to
experience a movie like this. Because of the visuals and
because of the soundtrack, it looks very glossy, So I
really think they stepped it up from Mad Max Fury
Road until now. And this movie is directed by the
same director, George Miller, who has done them all since
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the nineteen seventies, So making this a part of the
saga looks like a part of a plan to create
this entire Mad Max universe, which I don't know that
there's the biggest fandom for these type of movies, but
when you go watch them, you can deny how entertaining
they are. What I really love about this is I
already knew Anya Taylor Droy is a great actress, and
I'm excited to see how she does in a big,
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epic action movie like this, and from the shots of
her covered in dirt or riding underneath one of these vehicles,
it looks amazing. I have to say the person I'm
most interested in to see how this plays into the
trajectory of his career is Chris Hemsworth, who I was
just saying is probably gonna someday regret playing Thor because
he's going to continue to be typecasts that big muscly
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dude really only known for doing one thing. But I
feel like in this role he has found one that
he looks the part but is also able to show
a different side of his acting skills, playing a very
quirky character through the use of costume, his hair, but
most importantly his makeup and the work on his nose,
he looks unrecognizable that until I was one hundred percent
sure that it was him in this movie. After he
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shared the trailer on Instagram, I could have been convinced
that was somebody else. So I think this definitely will
be his best role he has taken post MCU. So
I will encourage you if you've not seen Mad Max
Fury Road, which came out back in twenty fifteen, to
go check out that movie, because probably, like you, if
you haven't seen it by now, you probably haven't had
a whole lot of interest in this franchise, which I
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didn't at the time it came out. But that movie
is so fun and cinematic and was so unexpected for
me to be a hit not only among just the
general movie going audience, but also critically acclaimed with Oscar nominations,
which is a very rare thing to happen for a
movie like that. So the only concern I have with
the prequel is it's going to be hard to replicate
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that same kind of praise, because I do think a
big part of that was the leads in that movie.
Charlie the Roan and Tom Hardy together just on paper,
is a much stronger duo than Anya Taylor Joy and
Chris Hemsworth. So it does look like this prequel is
going to lean in a little bit more to the
quirkiness and play up the visuals a lot more. So
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will it be as Oscar worthy? I don't think so.
But this movie looks a lot more fun to me
just based on this trailer. So I'm hoping that the
intention of this movie is to play towards the fans
of Fury Road more so than the critics. So I
think if they're able to execute that, there's much more
of a success straight as far as building a fan
base and making all of these chapters in this saga
working out in the long run. Again, this movie is
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coming out on May twenty fourth, and twenty twenty four
is already shaping up to look like a really great
year in film.
Speaker 4 (41:48):
Said.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
That was this week's edition of movie Line Tramer.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Bar and that's gonna do it for another episode here
of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta give
my listeners shout out of the week for this week.
I'm going over to Instagram and a couple people who
tag me in their story, so it's a double listener
shout out. So this was the week that all of
the stats came out with all of the music and podcast,
everybody listened to the most. So my shout outs go
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to Taylor Lewis and Keegan O'Donnell, who I was in
both of their top five most listen to podcasts for
twenty twenty three. Thank you for listening. Thank you for
tagging me in your Instagram story. If I've made anybody
else's top five, I'm looking for a number one here.
So if I made your number one most listen to
podcasts of the year and you have Instagram, share that
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and tag me in it, and I will give you
next week's listener shout out. But this week it goes
out to Keegan O'Donnell and Taylor Lewis. Thank you guys
for listening. Also, thank you to the movie crew and
you listening right now for listening every single week. We
are in the best time of movies right now. We
have Oscar season coming up right around the corner, and
then we get into the start of the year and
I start looking forward to all the movies coming out
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in twenty twenty four. So now is a really great
time to be subscribed and listening to the podcast. So
thank you, have a great rest of your week, and
until next time, go out and watch good movies, and
I will talk to you later.
Host
Mike D
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