In this episode, Movie Mike talks about the greatest movie quotes of all-time….according to him! He picks movie quotes that have resonated in his life, breaks them down and explains their impact on him personally. Mike also reviews a movie that he waited for the hype to die down on “Knives Out” plus he discusses who will think will be the most successful actor from the Marvel movies post-Avengers.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to Movie mis Movie Podcast. I
am movie mic on Twitter and Instagram at Mike Destro
and if you don't follow me on Twitter, you should.
Why you ask well, because every single week I put
out the topic of what I'm gonna talk about in
a tweet and then I take all of your responses
because I want to know what you're thinking on the subject.
And the question I tweeted out this week was what
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are your favorite all time movie quotes? So I read
through all the responses and I was just kind of
cool to see what movie lines resonate with all of
you guys. And why did that? Because I just know
that movies are so impactful in our lives and I
just wanted to see what lines resonate with you guys.
Because in this episode, I'm gonna explain some movie quotes
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that I've developed a relationship with over my life, either
because when I watched them, I was in a certain
state of mind and they stuck out to me, or
just because they've influenced other parts of my life and
why I am the way I am. So I'll get
into those. I also finally watched the movie that people
were telling me about months ago. It had a lot
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of hype when it first came out. It's called Knives Out.
Maybe you've seen it by now, but if you're looking
for something to watch relatively newish, I'll give my opinions
on that because I'll just say I was pleasantly surprised
with that movie. And then I'm also going to get
into the Avengers and the actors who played the main
Avengers in the first movie and what I think they
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will do post Avengers now that they're all done with
those And the reason that came to me was because
in the movie Knives Out, Chris Evans is in it,
who plays Captain America, and I actually saw him for
the first time, is not being Captain America. So I
was wondering, you know, who of them is going to
have the most successful career post Avengers. So I'll get
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In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast,
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one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like
never before in a movie podcast. A man with so
much movie knowledge, he's basically like a walking I MTV
with glasses from the Nashville Podcast Network. This is movie movie.
They say you can tell a lot about somebody by
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their favorite movie book. Now, I don't know who says that.
I think it just made it up to fit this episode.
But I feel like I asked this question on Twitter
and had a bunch of different responses. So if you're
not following me on Twitter, go and do that at
Mike Distro because I usually put the topic out there
each week, and I like you get just grasp on
what you guys think about the topic I'm gonna cover
and when I before I head into it. I just
kind of have what you guys think and then what
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I already had planned. So when it comes to movie quotes,
I think we have an attachment to a movie. First
of all, the time we saw that the first time
we saw that movie, it's gonna hit us in a
different way. And what I think is cool is that
they're really famous movies that we all just remember these
one lines of the movie and they've become iconic movie quote.
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Everything from like may the Force be with you two
like you're killing me Smalls or nobody puts baby in
the corner. There's just some iconic movie quotes out of
the entire film history that I'm not going to cover
them in that way. What I did is I picked
movie quotes that have resonated in my life, and either
it was because what I was going through at the
time when I watched the movie, or I've just kind
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of started to use them in like my everyday vocabulary
and I use them just when I'm trying to describe,
like going to the store. They're just sometimes movie quotes
get embedded so much into my head that I almost
forget that their movie quotes, and they become a part
of my life and the way I speak. So what
I did is I did a mixture of that movie
quotes that I just think on their own they're written
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in a really great, great way that this is like
some writing on the screenwriter's part and the director's part
to make these a memorable moment in the movie. And
there are other ones that I just find myself using
all the time. So I want to start with arguably
my favorite movie of all time is The Dark Knight,
just because it's just a really great telling of the
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Batman story and everything about the movie. I think it's
pretty perfect. And I still hold true to believing that
Joachin Phoenix was the best Joker, just because I feel
like he was a little more into that role and
a little more he got to explore a lot more
than Heath Ledger did. Now I think The Dark Knight
as a whole is it's a better movie. Just it's
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a better movie. So and I think that He's Ledger's
performance is more iconic more so surrounding everything that happened
to him. And I think it's because you just get
little bursts of the Joker in that movie, and he's
very mysterious in it. And I think that's kind of
why it worked so well in that movie. I think
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if you would have had more of that Joker, it
wouldn't have been as powerful. And what makes that performance
so powerful is that you hang on to everything that
he says in the movie, and it's it's not even
just what he says, but it's how he says it.
Like the lip smacking that he's Ledger got down for
that movie was incredible, and I'm not denying that, and
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I think it adds more weight to his words. So
I could have picked a bunch of Joker quotes. I
kind of have some of my favorites and I'll get
to my ultimate favorite one, but everything from like him saying,
like you want to know how I got these cars?
I think that's a really great line. And what I
love about that line that something really cool they do
in the movie is he brings back that story and
retells it in different ways to where you never really
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know the origin of the Joker, because every time he
asked somebody if they want to know about these scars,
he gives a different story. So I think that's a
really cool line and it kind of adds to the
chaos that is the Joker. Another cool line he says
is if you're good at something, never do it for free.
Would you kind of get the grasp of Joker in
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this of how he is crazy and how he is
doing all these things to terrorize the city of Gotham,
terrorized Batman, and even that he's doing it, he's making
this big, you know, stash of money do they show
and he ends up just destroying his Like he doesn't
care about money. He doesn't really care about that, And
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it's kind of weird that he says this line to
be good it's something, to never do it for free,
when he really doesn't care about money, Like he just
literally wants to create chaos in this entire movie. And
there's even another quote of Michael Caine saying there's some
people in the world who just want to watch the
world burn, and that is another line that shows how
just crazy Joker is. But my favorite is when they're
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in the hospital. It's Joker and he's dressed up in
the nurses uniform and Harvey Dent is essentially turning into
two Face. He says, do I really look like a
guy with a plan and then goes on to say
this do I really look like a guy with a plan.
You know what I am. I'm a dog chasing cars.
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I wouldn't know what to do with one if I
caught it, you know, I just do things. And I
think it's just that line of him saying I'm a
dog chasing cars, which gives a great representation of what
the joker is, and it's meant to be that he's
just going after people, doing these crazy, heinous things, causing destruction,
but he really has no plan, he has no outside
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motive other than creating chaos. And I think in all
of these lines together, all of these quotes, it shows
that and that line alone it's so powerful in that
movie and really stuff with me, and that's why it's
one of my favorite movie quotes. Alright. My next one
comes from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Jim Carey
in a bit of a darker, more serious role playing
this guy named Joe Barrish. And I think why identified
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so much with this movie in this movie quote that
I'm gonna get to is because I was younger at
the time when this movie came out and didn't really
have a whole lot of luck with girls that still
would argue that I'm not the best when it comes
to speaking to anybody, really, but especially girls when I
was younger. And there's this scene at the very beginning
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of the movie where he first sees Clementine in the movie,
played by Kate Winslett. And he sees there and he's
just very shy and quiet and kind of keeping to himself,
not paying any or running to draw any attention to
himself that he's looking at her, and he writes this
line and it's just narration over it, but he says,
why do I fall in love with every woman I
see that shows me the least bit of attention? Here's
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the line from the actual movie, Why do I fall
in love with every WOMANLY see who shows me the
last bit of attention? And I remember that that line
stuck with me the very first time I watched this
because I think as a guy without a lot of
luck with, you know, talking to girls and kind of
putting yourself out there, that's a real emotion that you
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feel almost you see anybody who shows you any kind
of attention and you think like, oh, man, like this
could be something, this could maybe be like I have
a chance here, or it's just something that you create
these scenarios in your mind and these situations that are
probably never gonna happen. Why because you don't say anything.
You sit there and you write it out and you
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draw up these scenarios and situations, but you're so kind
of shy and inside your own feelings that it crippled
you from even having that kind of experience. And that
line stuck with me so much that even now as
I go back and watch that movie, it still hits
me in a different way. And I think it just
speaks a lot to us as humans of always being
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afraid to put ourselves out there and always kind of
being afraid and wondering what if. And I think a
lot of you know anything, but not even just love,
but we worry about regretting things later down the line,
and we have these kind of feelings of you falling
in love with people, are feeling away about some kind
of opportunity because it shows you some kind of attention
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and you don't know how to take that, and you
fear like if putting yourself out there, you're going to
get rejected. And maybe I dove in really part of
core into this one specific line, but it's just something
that I felt of like I wouldn't meet somebody and
instantly think like this is gonna be the person I've
been like the rest of my life with. And I
just remember that very early on and being I mean,
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I was a teenager, and you think that a lot
of like I was watching a lot of romantic movies,
and the way movies picture and place things together is
that's how kind of things happen. You meet somebody and
then you move on to happily ever after, And I
don't think that's the way life works. And I think
for me, I just remember a lot of people giving
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me advice at this point in my life when of
like I was trying to get out there and you know,
date people and be more vulnerable of the whole advice
of being yourself, and that was really hard for me
to take on because I was like, why would I
want to beat myself? Like I'm so weird and not
put together and nobody would ever like that version of me,
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And I just felt like I couldn't grab anybody's attention
by being myself. So I don't know anyway, that's a
real deep dive into how my inner mechanics were when
I heard this line and why it ends up being
one of my favorite movie quotes mainly because it kind
of makes me feel sad again and in that moment
again when I felt like that. But also I just
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think it kind of opens people up to realizing that
some people it is harder to put yourself out there
and it is harder to express your feeling to somebody,
especially when you're meeting somebody randomly and just you think like, oh,
that person, I could talk to that person and you
feel this way inside. That was a perfectly just really
small detail of that movie that really stuck with me,
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and that's why it's one of my favorites. All right,
let's go over now to a comedy. One of my
favorite comedic movies of all time, but not only that,
really just one of my favorite movies of all time.
It's This is Spinal Tap, which is a mockumentary about
a fictitious rock and roll band that comes to America
and kind of wants to go back to the glory
days of their band where they were super famous. But
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they get here and they realize, well, we're not that
famous over here. And what I love about this movie
is it's funny in a way that's not your typical comedy.
So a lot of just straight on funny movies like
I don't know, super Bad, Knocked Up, those kind of movies.
Bridesmaids are just straight up like, oh, here's a bunch
of like funny lines and a bunch of funny situations.
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This one it's a lot different because it's working in
that mockum entery space. But I don't want to say
that it's like smart comedy, because it's almost so dumb
but done in such a great way that it works.
And it's just these little things that are things you
don't really ever think about being funny, but in the
movie it just works so well, and I find it
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it's influenced my humor altogether. If I'm any ounds of
funny in any of the things I do, it's because
of this movie and this style of comedy. And one
of the favorite scenes in the movie of Mine is
when Christopher guests, who plays Nigel in the movie. He's
a member of the band's Final Tap and he's showing
the director of the mockumentary, which is Rob Reiner in it,
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all of his guitars and he goes into this room
and he's just going one by one explaining all these guitars,
and it's where the iconic line comes from. This one
goes to eleven on your guitar. Where can you go
from there? Well, I don't know where. Exactly what we
do is if we need that extra push over the cliff.
You know, we didn't put it off to exactly one.
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Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten
be the top number and make that a little louder
these eleven And this is actually a line that I
just kind of I worked into my everyday vocabulary. I
just use it whenever anybody brings up turning any kind
of volume up to loud, turning anything up loud, or
doing anything to the max volume. I'm like, I'll say,
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either take it to eleven, or like, oh, this one
goes to eleven. Like I just point that out all
the time. And like I said, it's not really a
super funny quote on its own, but just the idea
behind it and his character in the movie makes it funny.
And it's a scene I watched that no matter when
I watched it, I'm gonna laugh. So one of my
favorite movie quotes of all time, all right, Going over
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now to one of my favorite gangster movies, my all
time favorite Martin Scored Casey movie. It's Good Fellas. And
there's something about gangster movies that just breed ground for
great movie quotes. Anything from like Scarface, The Godfather, all
those kind of gangster movies. These guys just kind of
speak in movie quotes. Yes, I said these guys because
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they do. Wise guys and these guys, all of these movies,
these are a bunch of movie clothes that sometimes you
see taking out of context for real life gangsters to
like put on a T shirt and wear and look
really cool in Um. I know, a bunch of people
I went to high school with basically thought that Scarface
was like a documentary of how they should live their life.
So what I loved about this movie is because I
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think it does the best representation of the rise and
fall of somebody in a gang and that whole mob lifestyle.
You could argue Scarface, but I think this one just
has a better grasp on and overall like organized crime
and all these kind of guys who just were in
the heyday of it and then just saw the fall
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of all the things just crashing there's some great movie
quotes in here, and anything from never rat on your
friends and always keep your mouth shut, which is probably
something you can see on a T shirt somewhere. But
I think my favorite one has to be one that
comes from the opening scene, mainly because the opening scene
is really just sets the stage and it kind of
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starts out somewhere in the middle of the movie because
it ends up going back in time of a young
Henry Hill in the movie and his rise to becoming
a gangster. But the very opening scene is them driving
in a car and there's a dude in the trunk,
so then they get out, pull over the guy still alive,
and it proceeds to Joe Pesci essentially stabbing the guy
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to death. Very brutal scene, and that just kind of
sets the tone of what Goodfellas is going to be
and how kind of brutal it was. And there's a
line that ray Leiota says, and it's right before the
music hits, and it's a freeze frame on ray Leio
to his face and it's him saying, as far back
as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.
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Now that's a freaking cool line. As far back as
I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.
I don't think it gets any coolers in the headline
in a gangster mob movie. It just works so well
with the way the coloring of the movie is all red,
and then it goes back into the old days of
him as a kid, and it just really kind of
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paints that picture and sets that stage of good Fellas
all right. And if you listen to this podcast from
the very first episode, you would know that I am
a very big Marble fan. I've seen all the movies.
I was very sad when The Avengers ended. And it
wouldn't be a list of my favorite movie quotes if
it wasn't including a Avengers quote. And mine comes actually
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from the original Avengers, and it's Mark Ruffalo in the
movie playing Bruce Banner. I remember hearing this quote and
reacting to it in theaters when I first saw it.
And it's whenever Mark Ruffalo is still Bruce Banner and
they're already starting to fight in New York City, and
the whole time they've been waiting for him to into
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the whole and he can't. And it's at this point
where he holds out for the first time, and it's
such a great moment in the movie, and I think
gives me the feeling that I kind of ended up
looking for in every single Marvel movie, that feeling of like, oh,
this is the moment we've been waiting for, Like they've
been struggling all this time, and there's finally this, like okay,
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this is where they're going to go off and eventually
defeat the villain. So it's Bruce Banner walking up. He's
walking away and they're like what are you doing, Like
how are you going to whold count? And he's like, well,
what you guys don't know is that I'm always angry.
Sucking better, that might be a really good time for
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you to get angry. That's my secret chap. I'm always angry.
And I think why that's kind of a favorite movie
quote for me is because I've kind of taken that
quote and applied it to my life over the years,
and in a way it's been in different kind of
phases of my life. And it's not that I'm always angry.
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I feel like for me, it's sometimes that I'm always
sad and sometimes I say things and I do things,
um that kind of reflect my sadness, and it's kind
of kind of hidding deep in there. I feel like
I'm the wholk. Sometimes I feel like I have this
suppressed energy inside me that's always kind of there, but
I only let out in different aspects of my life.
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And I feel sometimes for me, it's like making jokes
or doing comedy that sometimes that comes from a sense of,
you know, not essentially being angry, but sometimes being sad,
and that's always kind of in there, and you never
really get over that in your life, and you carry
that kind of stuff kind of stuff with you, and
there's moments where you can kind of let it out
and it either comes out negatively or sometimes it comes
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out in a performance like I would do comedy and
it would be like the one time that I would
go out on a stage and perform and it would
be me taking that sadness, taking that anxiety that I
have and kind of letting it out and being an
extrovert for the one time in my life. And it
was people coming up to me afterwards like you're always
so quiet all the time, Like how can you go
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out and do something like that's so extroverted, Like aren't
you scared? And I was like, no, Like, that's the
only time that I am not scared, Like when I'm
on a stage and there are thousands of people there
and it's just me up there, I don't feel like
alone in that time. Like I feel like that's my
time to kind of holk out in a way and
do a performance and let out all these things that
have been inside of me this entire time and go
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out and do that. And I kind of feel like
that's the Hulk, and that's what he's showing in this
scene of like this whole time, he's been hiding on
inside himself, this really strong creature that can essentially defeat
all these bad guys, but it's been inside of him,
and it's finally where he has kind of this moment
of clarity and seeing all this destruction going on that
he's like, you know what, this has been inside of
me the whole time, Like I've just been controlling it.
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And I've just always kind of identified with the Hulk
in that way, and I think we can all kind
of see a bit of his character in our own lives,
and I think watching that in that moment, it just
kind of clicked with me, and I think you know what,
like I too, I'm always sad, I too am always angry,
or Stephen sometimes like I too always hungry. Like all
these emotions that you're probably always having and battling inside
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yourself all the time, you have them and they come
out in different ways. So yeah, that's my favorite of
interest quote. And that's why, very kind of serious reason
that it's my favorite quote. But that's why it's stuck
with me. And then not to end it on that note,
another one of my favorite movie quotes. It was actually
improvised for a movie Midnight Cowboys starring Dustin Hoffman, and
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you've probably heard it. I'm walking here, I'm walking are walking.
The reason I love that one so much is because
it's something I use in everyday life. When I'm crossing
the street anywhere, or even just like bumping into somebody anywhere,
I'll say i'm walking here, And I think I actually
knew the quote before I watched the movie, and I
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kind of like it when that happens, because there's a
lot of movie quotes that get referenced and parodied and
other things that you don't know where it's from, and
then you kind of find out where it's from. That's
what happened with me with this movie. But what I
love about this is that Dustin Hoffman actually improvised that
line because they were filming in New York City for
this movie and he was actually walking across the street
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having a conversation. And in the movie he walks with
the limp, and he actually did like a method acting
thing where he took like pebbles and put it into
his shoes so he would actually walk with a limp
and not forget. But in this scene, allegedly as the
as Dustin Hoffman has said in interviews that he was
walking doing the scene and this cab came out of nowhere,
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wasn't supposed to and essentially almost hits him. So he
does the famous line, bangs on the on the taxicab
AND's like, hey, I'm walking here, I'm walking here. And
the director of the movie said that that line was
written into the movie. They don't say whether or not
the the taxi cab driver was actually supposed to run
into him. Maybe he was just supposed to say it
to somebody else. But I like those improvised scenes and
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movies where somebody is so into character that they don't
break it. Even when something goes wrong. I think there's
a very cool examples of that over history. One of
my favorite ones that led to a really great movie quote.
All right, gonna get into a movie review now one.
I'm a little late to the game on I'll admit,
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But at the time that this movie came out, I
was really into watching all the Best Picture nominees and
there was just so much stuff coming out that I
was going to see in theaters. Wow. I was actually
watching movies and theaters when this movie came out, But
it just kind of slipped through the cracks. And I
think what happened with this one is it had a
bunch of initial hype. And what happens whenever a movie
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is so hyped up that you have these kind of
two waves. You have the people who initially see it
and give it the great reviews, and it kind of
builds up the hype. So, first of all, to even
receive that kind of hype, a movie has to be good.
And then you get that second wave of people who
go to see it based on the hype and the
buzz that it's created. But at that point it's already
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held to a whole different standard because you have all
these people saying, Oh, this is a really great movie.
You need to go see it. But then people, when
you go into it like that, you're gonna want to
not like it to a certain extent because you're like,
all right, this better be great. People told me it
was good, and you go into it a little bit
I think a little bit cynical, because then you have
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the people giving the reviews of like, oh, it's over hyped,
it's not that great. But for a movie to be overhyped,
that means a buzz and a hype had to be created.
So I think any movie that's ever reviewed as being overhyped,
it's still a good movie regardless. So I feel like
those people are a little snobby sometimes in their reviews,
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And I can get when you think a movie isn't
as great as everybody says, But I think for a
movie to build any kind of hype, it's good anyway.
I ranted it long enough without telling you the time
out of the movie. It's called Knives Out. Maybe you've
seen it by now, maybe you haven't. And I think
right now we're all kind of trying to find good
movies to watch with not a whole lot of new
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things coming out with everything is still being shut down,
but here's one that's still pretty new they can go
back and watch. And before I get into my full review,
here's just a little bit of Knives Out of his family.
Is that what you're suggesting? Twisting the Knos think one another?
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So yeah, I remember seeing this preview for other movies
I was watching at the time and thinking, I don't
really know what this movie is about or where it's
gonna go. And maybe it's just the title Knives Out
doesn't really give a whole lot of what the movie
is going to be about. But what really stuck out
to me in the beginning was the cast in this
You have Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Jamie Lee, Curtis, Don Johnson.
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So all these really great actors put into a movie.
You kind of think, like, how could it be a
bad movie if you have all these really great actors?
And I think that's first of all, what stands out
in this movie is the performances are really great and
the actors are really great, so you already have that
level of acting. But I feel like where this movie
really kind of stands apart is how it was done
and so the story itself is a murder mystery of
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the whole time you're watching, you're trying to figure out
who did the crime in this movie, so the movie
is essentially about It's a detective played by Daniel Craig
who was hired to investigate the death of a family
member in this case, the grandfather slash father of the
people in the movie, and he is trying to figure
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out who did it because they're ruling it first of
all as a suicide, but he investigates there being something
else to it and being a mystery behind the murder mystery,
which I think Daniel Craig does a really great job
in this movie. It's really weird seeing him do like
a southern Kentucky accent in this movie, like you almost
expect him to be James Bond. But I really liked
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his character in it, and I feel like this movie
had a really slippery slope to play with here because
he is playing like a different accent. There's just a
lot of like it's not really like campy or cookie
in a way, but you could almost fall into it
being cheesy, and I don't think it ever does that.
So I really like Daniel Craig in it. I really
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like the main character played by the Ottamas and even
Chris Evans, which I thought it was gonna be hard
for me to not see him as Captain America. And
it's actually another segment I want to do after this
about that, just because I found that he was convincing
in this movie enough to mean not to be watching
it the entire time and like thinking like, oh man,
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he's about to turn into Captain America. Like I actually
saw him as an actor in this movie that could
go on to maybe do other things outside of the Avengers.
But what I really liked about this movie is it
kind of felt like I was figuring out things that
I went away like I was trying to solve it
the entire time. Like I found myself thinking like, well,
maybe this person did it and here's their motive, or
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maybe this person did it and this there's a moment
that's kind of a fun thing to do while watching
a movie, like you're trying to figure it out on
your own, and there's just kind of a lot of
anticipation of this. You're like, it's not that you wanted
to end because you wanted to be over. You wanted
to kind of keep going and moving faster because you're
ready to see what ends up happening. And I think
that's a really great thing to kind of build a
pace to the movie to where you're interested in it
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and you actually want to see how it's good at
and you never really lose that interest of like, I
don't even care just in the movie. No, I think
it kept my attention all the way through, and I
won't ruin the ending, but I found it was very satisfying.
And not only that, I feel like there's not a
whole lot of plot holes in this movie. Sometimes when
you do a movie like this, like a murder investigation
or any kind of thing where you're figuring stuff out
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and putting pieces together, you're like, oh, well, if they
did this, then how come they didn't explain this. I
felt like everything in the movie was explained by the end,
which is a very rare you get at the end
of the movie. Sometimes do you feel like, well, they
didn't explain that entire thing, and what does that mean.
I feel like every loose end was either explained or
addressed in the ending, and also everything paid off in
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this movie. Sometimes that movies build something up and then
at the very end it either means nothing or they
never addressed it. Again. I felt like all the little
things and all the little Easter eggs hidden throughout this movie,
at the very end, you were kind of rewarded and
of like, oh, all those things actually meant something and
were to represent something, and it led to them figuring
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out what actually happened, and it led to the end
of the movie. I felt very satisfied at the end
of this movie, which is not something I get from
every single kind of mystery or kind of thriller like this.
So I give it four out of five knives, just
because I found it to be a very novel approach
to this type of movie. I really liked the cast,
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and I was just all satisfied. And if you want
to rent something right now, I would recommend this if
you haven't seen it yet, and if you have seen it,
send me an Instagram message or a tweet thinking if
you thought the ending was as satisfying as I did,
or if you didn't end up thinking that it was
over humped, it wasn't that good, let me know, all right.
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And the last thing I want to talk about, which
I kind of hit on in the Knives Out review
is about Chris Evans, which I hope I didn't call
him Chris Hemsworth on that they get kind of interchanged
in my heart because um of the Avengers movies, and
it actually kind of all fits in because Chris Hemsworth.
I actually saw him recently in a different movie. And
why I want to talk about them is because I
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feel like they're at a point to where it's like,
what are we gonna do after the Avengers? Now? The
Avengers were such a big movie franchise and so iconic,
and it's what all they've been known for for the
last ten plus years, and now they're gonna all go
on to have separate movie careers and star in their
own movies. And I kind of wonder who's going to
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be the most successful, because we really know Chris Evans,
we know Chris Hemsworth as their Marvel characters. We see
them as Captain America, we see them as Door, we
see Robert Downey Jr. Now As Iron Man, we see
Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, and
Scarlett Johanson as Black Widows. So that's who I'm all
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kind of putting on this list is those original Avengers
because they created such an impactful group on together on screen,
and now after the Avengers are gonna go on to
do their own, separate movies where they start on their own.
So I want to know who's going to be the
most successful, And here's the list that I came up with.
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I'll start at the top and work my way down
of who I think will be the most successful after
the Avengers and who I think will be the least successful.
So first of all, Number one, I feel like easily
has to be Scarlett Johansson basically because she was a
movie star way before the Avengers. She'll go on to
be a big movie star after the Avengers. Just last
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year alone, she was in three huge movies. She was
in Avengers, Endgame, A Marriage Story, and Captain Marvel, which
were all huge movies last year that she all started
and had a role in. I think she's doing pretty good.
Just last year a loan, and she's nowhere in near
of the end of her career. At the peak of
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her career, she could go on another ten years being
in iconic roles, and she was an iconic roles way
before this. I just think that she's a great actress,
has a great range. She could be a black widow,
but then she could be in a marriage story and
do a straight on just like dramatic role. And while
though she's maybe not as highly paid as Robert Downey Jr.
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I just think over time she fits into where she
can move into these big Hollywood productions and play action
roles and then also go and do really like smaller
indie movies or just movies where that would lead her
to winning an Oscar. Stuff like that I think is
where she falls in and where I think she will
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go on to be the most successful. At number two.
I'm gonna go with Chris Evans. Now. It was really
hard for me for a while, did not see him
as Captain America, and I think it was knives out
that kind of has me thinking, like, Okay, he can
do other things. And now he's in other movies and
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he's even in an Apple TV show now called Defending
Jake Up, and I can kind of see him breaking
out and being a little bit more of a serious actor.
He's only thirty eight. I think he has that type
of range if he takes the right amount of roles,
I think he can go on and do a little
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more and has a bit of more of advantage over
some of the other people. I think he's kind of
next up. He's not He wasn't really well known before
the Avengers, but I think he has the platform now,
the notoriety now to kind of pick and choose what
rules he takes. I think he plays it just right.
He'll go on to do some really great stuff. At
number three. I'm gonna have to put Chris Hemsworth now.
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I watched him in Extraction, and the weird part about
that is I really just saw him his Store, Like
he looks different and he acts different, like I think
he has some range there, Like I think he's a
good actor, but I just feel like he is so
much Store that it's going to be a little hard
for him to break out of that. Now. The good
thing about that is I think it translates so well
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into where he's kind of going with action roles. I
don't think so much that it's translated into where he's
kind of trying to be funny and other ones like
he did the Minute Black movie, which was a big bomb.
And I think he's kind of the type of actor
who if he takes one or two more bad roles,
people might start to question him and being like, well,
can he really be anything else than Door? I think
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he's fine right now, and I think that he's so
famous that he will be okay over time, like you've
never got another movie again, he would be all right.
But I think he has to be very careful that
thinks he picks if he wants to remain as successful
as he's been. At number four, I'm gonna have to
put Robert Downey Jr. Because well, he was already a
great actor even before he was Iron Man, but he
was so iconic as Iron Man, and we see him
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so much now because he puts so much of his
real personality into Iron Man, and he almost became Iron Man,
Like we see him like an interviews and just out
down the street, and we think of him as Iron Man,
and it's hard to get that image out of our
heads seeing him and other roles. But not only that,
what he follows up Avengers Endgame with was the Doctor
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Doolittle movie, And I felt like that movie was just
a paycheck for him. I don't know really why he
wanted to do something like that. I just thought it
was an interesting choice for him to go to being
an Avenger and being Iron Man to wanting to be
Doctor Doolittle. I felt like a move for him would
have been to go on straight into like a really
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dramatic kind of oscar chasing type role, or even just
like waiting a minute before he doesn't in the movie,
to take on something to be like, oh, we haven't
seen Robert Downey Jr. In a minute, and now he's
like in this really acclaimed movie. Like I think that
would have been a great move for him to do.
But instead he went and did Dr Doolittle, and I
don't know, maybe think a little less of him. And
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it's not that I don't think he can be a
comedic actor. He's done some really great comedic roles before.
I just don't think that was the best step for
him to do right after he did The Avengers, And
it kind of just makes me question of what kind
of roles is he gonna want to do after this,
Like how are we going to see him any differently?
But he's still one of the highest paid actors living
right now, so I think he'll be doing okay for now.
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And at number five and six, I feel they're a
little bit interchangeable, but I'll think I'll put Jeremy Renner
just above Mark Ruffalo because I feel Jeremy Renner can
kind of be that action star too. That also bridges
the gap between comedy. He's been in a few recently,
and I think Mark Ruffalo has kind of been a
whole different space to where before this I really liked
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him and like his romantic comedies, rom coms, his dramatic movies.
I just feel like they're both at that level in
status to where they're gonna want to be the star
of a movie. And I feel like Jeremy Renner has
a little bit more of places to go when it
comes to that he can be in action movies and
be believable. But for Mark Ruffalo, he kind of has
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to almost go into this different kind of space of
where if he's he gonna do rom coms again, or
because you can't really see him as an action star,
like he wasn't The Avengers, because that wasn't his character
in the movie, like the Hulk. Yes, he was a
big action part of The Avengers, but Bruce Banner himself
was a very smart and serious guy, so I don't
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feel like that's a perfect crossover for him. So I
think he's just right below Jeremy Renner. Even at the moment.
He doesn't really have any rules in the bank or
anything coming out soon, and so I think maybe later
down the line he'll kind of get back into it.
But I think he is at the bottom of the list.
But if you're gonna be at the bottom of any list, uh,
this one ain't so bad, all right. And that's the
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episode for this week. Before I hop out of here,
I gotta give my Instagram Twitter shout out of the week,
and this week it is going to at Carly Underscore
Mitchell on Instagram, who tweeted that I was one of
her favorite new podcasts that she's listening to. So I've
been seeing actually a lot of you guys come over
for the first time and check out the podcast. That
means a lot to me. That means you're either telling
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your friends or you're finding this somehow. And the fact
that you came over and listen to it, and a
lot of people making it a part of your Monday
routine or at some point listening to the podcast out
on a walk or out on your drive, that means
a lot to me. And to see all of your
tweets and all of your Instagram messages. I try to
apply to those as often as I do. But the
easiest thing to do is just tag me an Instagram
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and I see all of those for sure because I
get tagged him and I'll see him. And that's how
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Just send me a tweet that you're listening to the podcast.
I hope you enjoyed this episode, and if you haven't,
let me know. Just tweet me your favorite movie quote
with a gift. That's always good. All right, I'll talk
to you guys next week later. Greatest trick the Devil
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ever pulled, who was convincing the world he didn't exist,
and like that, he's gone.
Hello, and welcome back to Movie mis Movie Podcast. I
am movie mic on Twitter and Instagram at Mike Destro
and if you don't follow me on Twitter, you should.
Why you ask well, because every single week I put
out the topic of what I'm gonna talk about in
a tweet and then I take all of your responses
because I want to know what you're thinking on the subject.
And the question I tweeted out this week was what
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are your favorite all time movie quotes? So I read
through all the responses and I was just kind of
cool to see what movie lines resonate with all of
you guys. And why did that? Because I just know
that movies are so impactful in our lives and I
just wanted to see what lines resonate with you guys.
Because in this episode, I'm gonna explain some movie quotes
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that I've developed a relationship with over my life, either
because when I watched them, I was in a certain
state of mind and they stuck out to me, or
just because they've influenced other parts of my life and
why I am the way I am. So I'll get
into those. I also finally watched the movie that people
were telling me about months ago. It had a lot
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of hype when it first came out. It's called Knives Out.
Maybe you've seen it by now, but if you're looking
for something to watch relatively newish, I'll give my opinions
on that because I'll just say I was pleasantly surprised
with that movie. And then I'm also going to get
into the Avengers and the actors who played the main
Avengers in the first movie and what I think they
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will do post Avengers now that they're all done with
those And the reason that came to me was because
in the movie Knives Out, Chris Evans is in it,
who plays Captain America, and I actually saw him for
the first time, is not being Captain America. So I
was wondering, you know, who of them is going to
have the most successful career post Avengers. So I'll get
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one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like
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They say you can tell a lot about somebody by
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their favorite movie book. Now, I don't know who says that.
I think it just made it up to fit this episode.
But I feel like I asked this question on Twitter
and had a bunch of different responses. So if you're
not following me on Twitter, go and do that at
Mike Distro because I usually put the topic out there
each week, and I like you get just grasp on
what you guys think about the topic I'm gonna cover
and when I before I head into it. I just
kind of have what you guys think and then what
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I already had planned. So when it comes to movie quotes,
I think we have an attachment to a movie. First
of all, the time we saw that the first time
we saw that movie, it's gonna hit us in a
different way. And what I think is cool is that
they're really famous movies that we all just remember these
one lines of the movie and they've become iconic movie quote.
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Everything from like may the Force be with you two
like you're killing me Smalls or nobody puts baby in
the corner. There's just some iconic movie quotes out of
the entire film history that I'm not going to cover
them in that way. What I did is I picked
movie quotes that have resonated in my life, and either
it was because what I was going through at the
time when I watched the movie, or I've just kind
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of started to use them in like my everyday vocabulary
and I use them just when I'm trying to describe,
like going to the store. They're just sometimes movie quotes
get embedded so much into my head that I almost
forget that their movie quotes, and they become a part
of my life and the way I speak. So what
I did is I did a mixture of that movie
quotes that I just think on their own they're written
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in a really great, great way that this is like
some writing on the screenwriter's part and the director's part
to make these a memorable moment in the movie. And
there are other ones that I just find myself using
all the time. So I want to start with arguably
my favorite movie of all time is The Dark Knight,
just because it's just a really great telling of the
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Batman story and everything about the movie. I think it's
pretty perfect. And I still hold true to believing that
Joachin Phoenix was the best Joker, just because I feel
like he was a little more into that role and
a little more he got to explore a lot more
than Heath Ledger did. Now I think The Dark Knight
as a whole is it's a better movie. Just it's
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a better movie. So and I think that He's Ledger's
performance is more iconic more so surrounding everything that happened
to him. And I think it's because you just get
little bursts of the Joker in that movie, and he's
very mysterious in it. And I think that's kind of
why it worked so well in that movie. I think
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if you would have had more of that Joker, it
wouldn't have been as powerful. And what makes that performance
so powerful is that you hang on to everything that
he says in the movie, and it's it's not even
just what he says, but it's how he says it.
Like the lip smacking that he's Ledger got down for
that movie was incredible, and I'm not denying that, and
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I think it adds more weight to his words. So
I could have picked a bunch of Joker quotes. I
kind of have some of my favorites and I'll get
to my ultimate favorite one, but everything from like him saying,
like you want to know how I got these cars?
I think that's a really great line. And what I
love about that line that something really cool they do
in the movie is he brings back that story and
retells it in different ways to where you never really
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know the origin of the Joker, because every time he
asked somebody if they want to know about these scars,
he gives a different story. So I think that's a
really cool line and it kind of adds to the
chaos that is the Joker. Another cool line he says
is if you're good at something, never do it for free.
Would you kind of get the grasp of Joker in
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this of how he is crazy and how he is
doing all these things to terrorize the city of Gotham,
terrorized Batman, and even that he's doing it, he's making
this big, you know, stash of money do they show
and he ends up just destroying his Like he doesn't
care about money. He doesn't really care about that, And
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it's kind of weird that he says this line to
be good it's something, to never do it for free,
when he really doesn't care about money, Like he just
literally wants to create chaos in this entire movie. And
there's even another quote of Michael Caine saying there's some
people in the world who just want to watch the
world burn, and that is another line that shows how
just crazy Joker is. But my favorite is when they're
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in the hospital. It's Joker and he's dressed up in
the nurses uniform and Harvey Dent is essentially turning into
two Face. He says, do I really look like a
guy with a plan and then goes on to say
this do I really look like a guy with a plan.
You know what I am. I'm a dog chasing cars.
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I wouldn't know what to do with one if I
caught it, you know, I just do things. And I
think it's just that line of him saying I'm a
dog chasing cars, which gives a great representation of what
the joker is, and it's meant to be that he's
just going after people, doing these crazy, heinous things, causing destruction,
but he really has no plan, he has no outside
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motive other than creating chaos. And I think in all
of these lines together, all of these quotes, it shows
that and that line alone it's so powerful in that
movie and really stuff with me, and that's why it's
one of my favorite movie quotes. Alright. My next one
comes from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Jim Carey
in a bit of a darker, more serious role playing
this guy named Joe Barrish. And I think why identified
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so much with this movie in this movie quote that
I'm gonna get to is because I was younger at
the time when this movie came out and didn't really
have a whole lot of luck with girls that still
would argue that I'm not the best when it comes
to speaking to anybody, really, but especially girls when I
was younger. And there's this scene at the very beginning
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of the movie where he first sees Clementine in the movie,
played by Kate Winslett. And he sees there and he's
just very shy and quiet and kind of keeping to himself,
not paying any or running to draw any attention to
himself that he's looking at her, and he writes this
line and it's just narration over it, but he says,
why do I fall in love with every woman I
see that shows me the least bit of attention? Here's
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the line from the actual movie, Why do I fall
in love with every WOMANLY see who shows me the
last bit of attention? And I remember that that line
stuck with me the very first time I watched this
because I think as a guy without a lot of
luck with, you know, talking to girls and kind of
putting yourself out there, that's a real emotion that you
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feel almost you see anybody who shows you any kind
of attention and you think like, oh, man, like this
could be something, this could maybe be like I have
a chance here, or it's just something that you create
these scenarios in your mind and these situations that are
probably never gonna happen. Why because you don't say anything.
You sit there and you write it out and you
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draw up these scenarios and situations, but you're so kind
of shy and inside your own feelings that it crippled
you from even having that kind of experience. And that
line stuck with me so much that even now as
I go back and watch that movie, it still hits
me in a different way. And I think it just
speaks a lot to us as humans of always being
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afraid to put ourselves out there and always kind of
being afraid and wondering what if. And I think a
lot of you know anything, but not even just love,
but we worry about regretting things later down the line,
and we have these kind of feelings of you falling
in love with people, are feeling away about some kind
of opportunity because it shows you some kind of attention
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and you don't know how to take that, and you
fear like if putting yourself out there, you're going to
get rejected. And maybe I dove in really part of
core into this one specific line, but it's just something
that I felt of like I wouldn't meet somebody and
instantly think like this is gonna be the person I've
been like the rest of my life with. And I
just remember that very early on and being I mean,
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I was a teenager, and you think that a lot
of like I was watching a lot of romantic movies,
and the way movies picture and place things together is
that's how kind of things happen. You meet somebody and
then you move on to happily ever after, And I
don't think that's the way life works. And I think
for me, I just remember a lot of people giving
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me advice at this point in my life when of
like I was trying to get out there and you know,
date people and be more vulnerable of the whole advice
of being yourself, and that was really hard for me
to take on because I was like, why would I
want to beat myself? Like I'm so weird and not
put together and nobody would ever like that version of me,
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And I just felt like I couldn't grab anybody's attention
by being myself. So I don't know anyway, that's a
real deep dive into how my inner mechanics were when
I heard this line and why it ends up being
one of my favorite movie quotes mainly because it kind
of makes me feel sad again and in that moment
again when I felt like that. But also I just
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think it kind of opens people up to realizing that
some people it is harder to put yourself out there
and it is harder to express your feeling to somebody,
especially when you're meeting somebody randomly and just you think like, oh,
that person, I could talk to that person and you
feel this way inside. That was a perfectly just really
small detail of that movie that really stuck with me,
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and that's why it's one of my favorites. All right,
let's go over now to a comedy. One of my
favorite comedic movies of all time, but not only that,
really just one of my favorite movies of all time.
It's This is Spinal Tap, which is a mockumentary about
a fictitious rock and roll band that comes to America
and kind of wants to go back to the glory
days of their band where they were super famous. But
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they get here and they realize, well, we're not that
famous over here. And what I love about this movie
is it's funny in a way that's not your typical comedy.
So a lot of just straight on funny movies like
I don't know, super Bad, Knocked Up, those kind of movies.
Bridesmaids are just straight up like, oh, here's a bunch
of like funny lines and a bunch of funny situations.
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This one it's a lot different because it's working in
that mockum entery space. But I don't want to say
that it's like smart comedy, because it's almost so dumb
but done in such a great way that it works.
And it's just these little things that are things you
don't really ever think about being funny, but in the
movie it just works so well, and I find it
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it's influenced my humor altogether. If I'm any ounds of
funny in any of the things I do, it's because
of this movie and this style of comedy. And one
of the favorite scenes in the movie of Mine is
when Christopher guests, who plays Nigel in the movie. He's
a member of the band's Final Tap and he's showing
the director of the mockumentary, which is Rob Reiner in it,
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all of his guitars and he goes into this room
and he's just going one by one explaining all these guitars,
and it's where the iconic line comes from. This one
goes to eleven on your guitar. Where can you go
from there? Well, I don't know where. Exactly what we
do is if we need that extra push over the cliff.
You know, we didn't put it off to exactly one.
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Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten
be the top number and make that a little louder
these eleven And this is actually a line that I
just kind of I worked into my everyday vocabulary. I
just use it whenever anybody brings up turning any kind
of volume up to loud, turning anything up loud, or
doing anything to the max volume. I'm like, I'll say,
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either take it to eleven, or like, oh, this one
goes to eleven. Like I just point that out all
the time. And like I said, it's not really a
super funny quote on its own, but just the idea
behind it and his character in the movie makes it funny.
And it's a scene I watched that no matter when
I watched it, I'm gonna laugh. So one of my
favorite movie quotes of all time, all right, Going over
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now to one of my favorite gangster movies, my all
time favorite Martin Scored Casey movie. It's Good Fellas. And
there's something about gangster movies that just breed ground for
great movie quotes. Anything from like Scarface, The Godfather, all
those kind of gangster movies. These guys just kind of
speak in movie quotes. Yes, I said these guys because
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they do. Wise guys and these guys, all of these movies,
these are a bunch of movie clothes that sometimes you
see taking out of context for real life gangsters to
like put on a T shirt and wear and look
really cool in Um. I know, a bunch of people
I went to high school with basically thought that Scarface
was like a documentary of how they should live their life.
So what I loved about this movie is because I
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think it does the best representation of the rise and
fall of somebody in a gang and that whole mob lifestyle.
You could argue Scarface, but I think this one just
has a better grasp on and overall like organized crime
and all these kind of guys who just were in
the heyday of it and then just saw the fall
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of all the things just crashing there's some great movie
quotes in here, and anything from never rat on your
friends and always keep your mouth shut, which is probably
something you can see on a T shirt somewhere. But
I think my favorite one has to be one that
comes from the opening scene, mainly because the opening scene
is really just sets the stage and it kind of
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starts out somewhere in the middle of the movie because
it ends up going back in time of a young
Henry Hill in the movie and his rise to becoming
a gangster. But the very opening scene is them driving
in a car and there's a dude in the trunk,
so then they get out, pull over the guy still alive,
and it proceeds to Joe Pesci essentially stabbing the guy
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to death. Very brutal scene, and that just kind of
sets the tone of what Goodfellas is going to be
and how kind of brutal it was. And there's a
line that ray Leiota says, and it's right before the
music hits, and it's a freeze frame on ray Leio
to his face and it's him saying, as far back
as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.
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Now that's a freaking cool line. As far back as
I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.
I don't think it gets any coolers in the headline
in a gangster mob movie. It just works so well
with the way the coloring of the movie is all red,
and then it goes back into the old days of
him as a kid, and it just really kind of
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paints that picture and sets that stage of good Fellas
all right. And if you listen to this podcast from
the very first episode, you would know that I am
a very big Marble fan. I've seen all the movies.
I was very sad when The Avengers ended. And it
wouldn't be a list of my favorite movie quotes if
it wasn't including a Avengers quote. And mine comes actually
(17:38):
from the original Avengers, and it's Mark Ruffalo in the
movie playing Bruce Banner. I remember hearing this quote and
reacting to it in theaters when I first saw it.
And it's whenever Mark Ruffalo is still Bruce Banner and
they're already starting to fight in New York City, and
the whole time they've been waiting for him to into
(18:00):
the whole and he can't. And it's at this point
where he holds out for the first time, and it's
such a great moment in the movie, and I think
gives me the feeling that I kind of ended up
looking for in every single Marvel movie, that feeling of like, oh,
this is the moment we've been waiting for, Like they've
been struggling all this time, and there's finally this, like okay,
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this is where they're going to go off and eventually
defeat the villain. So it's Bruce Banner walking up. He's
walking away and they're like what are you doing, Like
how are you going to whold count? And he's like, well,
what you guys don't know is that I'm always angry.
Sucking better, that might be a really good time for
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you to get angry. That's my secret chap. I'm always angry.
And I think why that's kind of a favorite movie
quote for me is because I've kind of taken that
quote and applied it to my life over the years,
and in a way it's been in different kind of
phases of my life. And it's not that I'm always angry.
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I feel like for me, it's sometimes that I'm always
sad and sometimes I say things and I do things,
um that kind of reflect my sadness, and it's kind
of kind of hidding deep in there. I feel like
I'm the wholk. Sometimes I feel like I have this
suppressed energy inside me that's always kind of there, but
I only let out in different aspects of my life.
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And I feel sometimes for me, it's like making jokes
or doing comedy that sometimes that comes from a sense of,
you know, not essentially being angry, but sometimes being sad,
and that's always kind of in there, and you never
really get over that in your life, and you carry
that kind of stuff kind of stuff with you, and
there's moments where you can kind of let it out
and it either comes out negatively or sometimes it comes
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out in a performance like I would do comedy and
it would be like the one time that I would
go out on a stage and perform and it would
be me taking that sadness, taking that anxiety that I
have and kind of letting it out and being an
extrovert for the one time in my life. And it
was people coming up to me afterwards like you're always
so quiet all the time, Like how can you go
(20:08):
out and do something like that's so extroverted, Like aren't
you scared? And I was like, no, Like, that's the
only time that I am not scared, Like when I'm
on a stage and there are thousands of people there
and it's just me up there, I don't feel like
alone in that time. Like I feel like that's my
time to kind of holk out in a way and
do a performance and let out all these things that
have been inside of me this entire time and go
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out and do that. And I kind of feel like
that's the Hulk, and that's what he's showing in this
scene of like this whole time, he's been hiding on
inside himself, this really strong creature that can essentially defeat
all these bad guys, but it's been inside of him,
and it's finally where he has kind of this moment
of clarity and seeing all this destruction going on that
he's like, you know what, this has been inside of
me the whole time, Like I've just been controlling it.
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And I've just always kind of identified with the Hulk
in that way, and I think we can all kind
of see a bit of his character in our own lives,
and I think watching that in that moment, it just
kind of clicked with me, and I think you know what,
like I too, I'm always sad, I too am always angry,
or Stephen sometimes like I too always hungry. Like all
these emotions that you're probably always having and battling inside
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yourself all the time, you have them and they come
out in different ways. So yeah, that's my favorite of
interest quote. And that's why, very kind of serious reason
that it's my favorite quote. But that's why it's stuck
with me. And then not to end it on that note,
another one of my favorite movie quotes. It was actually
improvised for a movie Midnight Cowboys starring Dustin Hoffman, and
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you've probably heard it. I'm walking here, I'm walking are walking.
The reason I love that one so much is because
it's something I use in everyday life. When I'm crossing
the street anywhere, or even just like bumping into somebody anywhere,
I'll say i'm walking here, And I think I actually
knew the quote before I watched the movie, and I
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kind of like it when that happens, because there's a
lot of movie quotes that get referenced and parodied and
other things that you don't know where it's from, and
then you kind of find out where it's from. That's
what happened with me with this movie. But what I
love about this is that Dustin Hoffman actually improvised that
line because they were filming in New York City for
this movie and he was actually walking across the street
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having a conversation. And in the movie he walks with
the limp, and he actually did like a method acting
thing where he took like pebbles and put it into
his shoes so he would actually walk with a limp
and not forget. But in this scene, allegedly as the
as Dustin Hoffman has said in interviews that he was
walking doing the scene and this cab came out of nowhere,
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wasn't supposed to and essentially almost hits him. So he
does the famous line, bangs on the on the taxicab
AND's like, hey, I'm walking here, I'm walking here. And
the director of the movie said that that line was
written into the movie. They don't say whether or not
the the taxi cab driver was actually supposed to run
into him. Maybe he was just supposed to say it
to somebody else. But I like those improvised scenes and
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movies where somebody is so into character that they don't
break it. Even when something goes wrong. I think there's
a very cool examples of that over history. One of
my favorite ones that led to a really great movie quote.
All right, gonna get into a movie review now one.
I'm a little late to the game on I'll admit,
(23:25):
But at the time that this movie came out, I
was really into watching all the Best Picture nominees and
there was just so much stuff coming out that I
was going to see in theaters. Wow. I was actually
watching movies and theaters when this movie came out, But
it just kind of slipped through the cracks. And I
think what happened with this one is it had a
bunch of initial hype. And what happens whenever a movie
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is so hyped up that you have these kind of
two waves. You have the people who initially see it
and give it the great reviews, and it kind of
builds up the hype. So, first of all, to even
receive that kind of hype, a movie has to be good.
And then you get that second wave of people who
go to see it based on the hype and the
buzz that it's created. But at that point it's already
(24:09):
held to a whole different standard because you have all
these people saying, Oh, this is a really great movie.
You need to go see it. But then people, when
you go into it like that, you're gonna want to
not like it to a certain extent because you're like,
all right, this better be great. People told me it
was good, and you go into it a little bit
I think a little bit cynical, because then you have
(24:29):
the people giving the reviews of like, oh, it's over hyped,
it's not that great. But for a movie to be overhyped,
that means a buzz and a hype had to be created.
So I think any movie that's ever reviewed as being overhyped,
it's still a good movie regardless. So I feel like
those people are a little snobby sometimes in their reviews,
(24:49):
And I can get when you think a movie isn't
as great as everybody says, But I think for a
movie to build any kind of hype, it's good anyway.
I ranted it long enough without telling you the time
out of the movie. It's called Knives Out. Maybe you've
seen it by now, maybe you haven't. And I think
right now we're all kind of trying to find good
movies to watch with not a whole lot of new
(25:09):
things coming out with everything is still being shut down,
but here's one that's still pretty new they can go
back and watch. And before I get into my full review,
here's just a little bit of Knives Out of his family.
Is that what you're suggesting? Twisting the Knos think one another?
(25:30):
So yeah, I remember seeing this preview for other movies
I was watching at the time and thinking, I don't
really know what this movie is about or where it's
gonna go. And maybe it's just the title Knives Out
doesn't really give a whole lot of what the movie
is going to be about. But what really stuck out
to me in the beginning was the cast in this
You have Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Jamie Lee, Curtis, Don Johnson.
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So all these really great actors put into a movie.
You kind of think, like, how could it be a
bad movie if you have all these really great actors?
And I think that's first of all, what stands out
in this movie is the performances are really great and
the actors are really great, so you already have that
level of acting. But I feel like where this movie
really kind of stands apart is how it was done
and so the story itself is a murder mystery of
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the whole time you're watching, you're trying to figure out
who did the crime in this movie, so the movie
is essentially about It's a detective played by Daniel Craig
who was hired to investigate the death of a family
member in this case, the grandfather slash father of the
people in the movie, and he is trying to figure
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out who did it because they're ruling it first of
all as a suicide, but he investigates there being something
else to it and being a mystery behind the murder mystery,
which I think Daniel Craig does a really great job
in this movie. It's really weird seeing him do like
a southern Kentucky accent in this movie, like you almost
expect him to be James Bond. But I really liked
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his character in it, and I feel like this movie
had a really slippery slope to play with here because
he is playing like a different accent. There's just a
lot of like it's not really like campy or cookie
in a way, but you could almost fall into it
being cheesy, and I don't think it ever does that.
So I really like Daniel Craig in it. I really
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like the main character played by the Ottamas and even
Chris Evans, which I thought it was gonna be hard
for me to not see him as Captain America. And
it's actually another segment I want to do after this
about that, just because I found that he was convincing
in this movie enough to mean not to be watching
it the entire time and like thinking like, oh man,
(27:43):
he's about to turn into Captain America. Like I actually
saw him as an actor in this movie that could
go on to maybe do other things outside of the Avengers.
But what I really liked about this movie is it
kind of felt like I was figuring out things that
I went away like I was trying to solve it
the entire time. Like I found myself thinking like, well,
maybe this person did it and here's their motive, or
(28:05):
maybe this person did it and this there's a moment
that's kind of a fun thing to do while watching
a movie, like you're trying to figure it out on
your own, and there's just kind of a lot of
anticipation of this. You're like, it's not that you wanted
to end because you wanted to be over. You wanted
to kind of keep going and moving faster because you're
ready to see what ends up happening. And I think
that's a really great thing to kind of build a
pace to the movie to where you're interested in it
(28:28):
and you actually want to see how it's good at
and you never really lose that interest of like, I
don't even care just in the movie. No, I think
it kept my attention all the way through, and I
won't ruin the ending, but I found it was very satisfying.
And not only that, I feel like there's not a
whole lot of plot holes in this movie. Sometimes when
you do a movie like this, like a murder investigation
or any kind of thing where you're figuring stuff out
(28:50):
and putting pieces together, you're like, oh, well, if they
did this, then how come they didn't explain this. I
felt like everything in the movie was explained by the end,
which is a very rare you get at the end
of the movie. Sometimes do you feel like, well, they
didn't explain that entire thing, and what does that mean.
I feel like every loose end was either explained or
addressed in the ending, and also everything paid off in
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this movie. Sometimes that movies build something up and then
at the very end it either means nothing or they
never addressed it. Again. I felt like all the little
things and all the little Easter eggs hidden throughout this movie,
at the very end, you were kind of rewarded and
of like, oh, all those things actually meant something and
were to represent something, and it led to them figuring
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out what actually happened, and it led to the end
of the movie. I felt very satisfied at the end
of this movie, which is not something I get from
every single kind of mystery or kind of thriller like this.
So I give it four out of five knives, just
because I found it to be a very novel approach
to this type of movie. I really liked the cast,
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and I was just all satisfied. And if you want
to rent something right now, I would recommend this if
you haven't seen it yet, and if you have seen it,
send me an Instagram message or a tweet thinking if
you thought the ending was as satisfying as I did,
or if you didn't end up thinking that it was
over humped, it wasn't that good, let me know, all right.
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And the last thing I want to talk about, which
I kind of hit on in the Knives Out review
is about Chris Evans, which I hope I didn't call
him Chris Hemsworth on that they get kind of interchanged
in my heart because um of the Avengers movies, and
it actually kind of all fits in because Chris Hemsworth.
I actually saw him recently in a different movie. And
why I want to talk about them is because I
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feel like they're at a point to where it's like,
what are we gonna do after the Avengers? Now? The
Avengers were such a big movie franchise and so iconic,
and it's what all they've been known for for the
last ten plus years, and now they're gonna all go
on to have separate movie careers and star in their
own movies. And I kind of wonder who's going to
(31:03):
be the most successful, because we really know Chris Evans,
we know Chris Hemsworth as their Marvel characters. We see
them as Captain America, we see them as Door, we
see Robert Downey Jr. Now As Iron Man, we see
Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, and
Scarlett Johanson as Black Widows. So that's who I'm all
(31:25):
kind of putting on this list is those original Avengers
because they created such an impactful group on together on screen,
and now after the Avengers are gonna go on to
do their own, separate movies where they start on their own.
So I want to know who's going to be the
most successful, And here's the list that I came up with.
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I'll start at the top and work my way down
of who I think will be the most successful after
the Avengers and who I think will be the least successful.
So first of all, Number one, I feel like easily
has to be Scarlett Johansson basically because she was a
movie star way before the Avengers. She'll go on to
be a big movie star after the Avengers. Just last
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year alone, she was in three huge movies. She was
in Avengers, Endgame, A Marriage Story, and Captain Marvel, which
were all huge movies last year that she all started
and had a role in. I think she's doing pretty good.
Just last year a loan, and she's nowhere in near
of the end of her career. At the peak of
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her career, she could go on another ten years being
in iconic roles, and she was an iconic roles way
before this. I just think that she's a great actress,
has a great range. She could be a black widow,
but then she could be in a marriage story and
do a straight on just like dramatic role. And while
though she's maybe not as highly paid as Robert Downey Jr.
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I just think over time she fits into where she
can move into these big Hollywood productions and play action
roles and then also go and do really like smaller
indie movies or just movies where that would lead her
to winning an Oscar. Stuff like that I think is
where she falls in and where I think she will
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go on to be the most successful. At number two.
I'm gonna go with Chris Evans. Now. It was really
hard for me for a while, did not see him
as Captain America, and I think it was knives out
that kind of has me thinking, like, Okay, he can
do other things. And now he's in other movies and
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he's even in an Apple TV show now called Defending
Jake Up, and I can kind of see him breaking
out and being a little bit more of a serious actor.
He's only thirty eight. I think he has that type
of range if he takes the right amount of roles,
I think he can go on and do a little
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more and has a bit of more of advantage over
some of the other people. I think he's kind of
next up. He's not He wasn't really well known before
the Avengers, but I think he has the platform now,
the notoriety now to kind of pick and choose what
rules he takes. I think he plays it just right.
He'll go on to do some really great stuff. At
number three. I'm gonna have to put Chris Hemsworth now.
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I watched him in Extraction, and the weird part about
that is I really just saw him his Store, Like
he looks different and he acts different, like I think
he has some range there, Like I think he's a
good actor, but I just feel like he is so
much Store that it's going to be a little hard
for him to break out of that. Now. The good
thing about that is I think it translates so well
(34:38):
into where he's kind of going with action roles. I
don't think so much that it's translated into where he's
kind of trying to be funny and other ones like
he did the Minute Black movie, which was a big bomb.
And I think he's kind of the type of actor
who if he takes one or two more bad roles,
people might start to question him and being like, well,
can he really be anything else than Door? I think
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he's fine right now, and I think that he's so
famous that he will be okay over time, like you've
never got another movie again, he would be all right.
But I think he has to be very careful that
thinks he picks if he wants to remain as successful
as he's been. At number four, I'm gonna have to
put Robert Downey Jr. Because well, he was already a
great actor even before he was Iron Man, but he
was so iconic as Iron Man, and we see him
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so much now because he puts so much of his
real personality into Iron Man, and he almost became Iron Man,
Like we see him like an interviews and just out
down the street, and we think of him as Iron Man,
and it's hard to get that image out of our
heads seeing him and other roles. But not only that,
what he follows up Avengers Endgame with was the Doctor
(35:43):
Doolittle movie, And I felt like that movie was just
a paycheck for him. I don't know really why he
wanted to do something like that. I just thought it
was an interesting choice for him to go to being
an Avenger and being Iron Man to wanting to be
Doctor Doolittle. I felt like a move for him would
have been to go on straight into like a really
(36:04):
dramatic kind of oscar chasing type role, or even just
like waiting a minute before he doesn't in the movie,
to take on something to be like, oh, we haven't
seen Robert Downey Jr. In a minute, and now he's
like in this really acclaimed movie. Like I think that
would have been a great move for him to do.
But instead he went and did Dr Doolittle, and I
don't know, maybe think a little less of him. And
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it's not that I don't think he can be a
comedic actor. He's done some really great comedic roles before.
I just don't think that was the best step for
him to do right after he did The Avengers, And
it kind of just makes me question of what kind
of roles is he gonna want to do after this,
Like how are we going to see him any differently?
But he's still one of the highest paid actors living
right now, so I think he'll be doing okay for now.
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And at number five and six, I feel they're a
little bit interchangeable, but I'll think I'll put Jeremy Renner
just above Mark Ruffalo because I feel Jeremy Renner can
kind of be that action star too. That also bridges
the gap between comedy. He's been in a few recently,
and I think Mark Ruffalo has kind of been a
whole different space to where before this I really liked
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him and like his romantic comedies, rom coms, his dramatic movies.
I just feel like they're both at that level in
status to where they're gonna want to be the star
of a movie. And I feel like Jeremy Renner has
a little bit more of places to go when it
comes to that he can be in action movies and
be believable. But for Mark Ruffalo, he kind of has
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to almost go into this different kind of space of
where if he's he gonna do rom coms again, or
because you can't really see him as an action star,
like he wasn't The Avengers, because that wasn't his character
in the movie, like the Hulk. Yes, he was a
big action part of The Avengers, but Bruce Banner himself
was a very smart and serious guy, so I don't
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feel like that's a perfect crossover for him. So I
think he's just right below Jeremy Renner. Even at the moment.
He doesn't really have any rules in the bank or
anything coming out soon, and so I think maybe later
down the line he'll kind of get back into it.
But I think he is at the bottom of the list.
But if you're gonna be at the bottom of any list, uh,
this one ain't so bad, all right. And that's the
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episode for this week. Before I hop out of here,
I gotta give my Instagram Twitter shout out of the week,
and this week it is going to at Carly Underscore
Mitchell on Instagram, who tweeted that I was one of
her favorite new podcasts that she's listening to. So I've
been seeing actually a lot of you guys come over
for the first time and check out the podcast. That
means a lot to me. That means you're either telling
(38:37):
your friends or you're finding this somehow. And the fact
that you came over and listen to it, and a
lot of people making it a part of your Monday
routine or at some point listening to the podcast out
on a walk or out on your drive, that means
a lot to me. And to see all of your
tweets and all of your Instagram messages. I try to
apply to those as often as I do. But the
easiest thing to do is just tag me an Instagram
(38:58):
story at Mike d Stro that you're listening to the podcast,
and I see all of those for sure because I
get tagged him and I'll see him. And that's how
you get Instagram shout out or a Twitter shout out.
Just send me a tweet that you're listening to the podcast.
I hope you enjoyed this episode, and if you haven't,
let me know. Just tweet me your favorite movie quote
with a gift. That's always good. All right, I'll talk
to you guys next week later. Greatest trick the Devil
(39:19):
ever pulled, who was convincing the world he didn't exist,
and like that, he's gone.
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