July was a big month of movies. Mike and Kelsey reveal their best and worst for the month as the summer blockbuster season was in full effect. What shined through the rest and what fizzled out on the big screen? In the Movie Review, Mike talks about The Naked Gun starring Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson. He was hesitant to see it so did it change his mind? Can a spoof movie still work in 2025? Was it actually fun? And how crazy that it was under 1 hour and 15 minutes! In the Trailer Park, Mike breaks down Avatar: Fire and Ash from Director James Cameron that comes out only in theaters December 19. Mike talks about how James Cameron first came up with the idea in the 90s, why they make so much money and can we handle there more 3+ hour movies until 2031?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike joined, but my wife and
co host Kelsey, how are you.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm great.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
It is the end of July. I heard a sad
statistic is the reason time goes by faster when you're
older is because you start or stop recording good memories.
Because when you're younger, like everything is new and you
remember all these things, and then when you get older,
you have less of those big experiences, so it feels
like time moves faster. And I know every time we
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sit down and do these episodes, we're like, how is
another month past?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
July went simultaneously slow and fast because there were like
five work weeks in it because the way the month
started so that was it made the work month feel long,
even though I was on vacation for a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
But there were a lot of good movies which we
had to get into.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
So many movies.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I watched so many movies, and I read a lot
of books this month, So forgive me if things are
jumbled in.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah, I'm looking at the list of not even just
movies we saw in theaters, but just of the entire
month that I want to recap it was a lot.
In the movie review, I'll be talking about the movie
I didn't think I was gonna go see in theater
is the Naked gud oh Man. That trailer looks so dumb,
but I gotta see for myself. And in the trailer park,
I'll be talking about Avatar Fire and Ash, which is
Avatar three, which is over three hours long. I believe
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three hours and twelvewelve minutes minutes. Yes, same as the
Avatar three. Yeah, so we'll talk about that. Thank you
for being here, Thank you for being subscribed. Shout out
to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now let's talk
movies from the Nastville podcast networking this movie, Mike Movie.
Let's hop right into it. Our best and worst for
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the month of July. Kick us off with your best pick.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I know it was a month of blockbusters.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Big, big, big, big blockbusters.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
But I have a feeling you're gonna take my okay,
favorite blockbuster, so I'm gonna go favorite non blockbuster. Sorry Baby,
which was an indie film by Eva Eva Victor.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
It was phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
It was very like heartfelt, made you feel things, made
you think, and just really well done. Kind of like
a bite sense of humor, like it wasn't outwardly like
lol funny.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
But how would you describe the plot of the movie.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Well, I don't want to give anything away, even though
it's probably in the description.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I'll put it up just so we can have it.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Agnes, the main character, goes through something difficult and in.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
The description that you say, something bad happens to Agnes,
something bad.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
And it's about how her friend supporting her and her
life and just kind of like a just like a
year in the lifeish kind of goes.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Through different seasons slice of life Fish. Yeah, this is
a movie that makes me love movies. It's the type
of movie that I just seek out and to me,
even though this movie deals with some heavier topics at times,
it felt really comforting to me. I described this movie
as putting on your favorite hoodie on a fall day,
where it's like this movie just feels like it was
made just for me. Even though I don't directly relate
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to all the characters, it just feels so personal. And
she wrote and directed this movie and starred in it.
To me, it feels like, even though it is her
first film, her masterpiece already because they say, you have
like when it comes to artists, your entire life to
write your first album. This one I felt she made
so personal and it's a movie that only she could make.
It just feels like it just directly from her brain
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onto the screen.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
It was Yeah, it was wonderful.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
That was a Bell Court showing because we love seeing
Indieflix there.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I also feel like this is a movie that doesn't
think less of the viewer because there were a lot
of things that were implied, yes where yeah, through very
strategic forms of cinematography where it'll show a situation and
then kind of take you out of it and you
kind of assume, like what happens during those moments, And
I think that's just so much more impactful. So yeah,
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I also really love this movie. One that kind of
snuck under the radar. Age twenty four movies are interesting
because they always have like an early premiere in the year,
and then they have like a mid time release, and
then they have like a four release. So I never
know when to let people know about these movies because
then we talk about them and then they're not out
yet for everybody.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Well, we saw the trailer for it. I feel like
forever ago.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
And then by the time we saw it, it didn't
officially come out for like two to three weeks. Yeah,
so it like just came out fully, like on the
twenty sixth or something. So that is one that if
you can go see it at an independent theater local
to you. Maybe some bigger chains habit, but not really.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I mean it was in the regal apps.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
It just never had they never had that time, So
try to find your independent theater or later. It'll probably
eventually come to HBO Max because they get a lot
of the A twenty four movies. But it is a
really great one that if you're just looking for something
completely original and different, it's good.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
It gave me the same feeling of like when we
left Past Lives, where I'm like, I love an original concept.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, and even though it's nothing like groundbreaking or novel,
it feels new and it feels just different than all
the other big blockbuster movies that we saw this this summer.
So I like the balance that we had. We had
the big movies and then we had the smaller movies.
Even though some of the smaller movies we didn't love,
but there was a lot of contrast in July for
my best it was the one you were talking about
(05:03):
that you could have also taken Superman. It was so good,
it was just my When we were watching it, I
felt something change in my brain, and that's only happened
maybe three or four times in the last five years.
And even when we first left, I was like, I
told you, I was like, that movie was perfect. There
was nothing wrong about it that if I would have
rated that movie immediately after getting up getting up out
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of my seat, I would have given it a five.
And then the more I thought about it compared to
some other of my favorite superhero movies, and also the
fact that they could expand the world a little bit
and we're probably gonna get a better Superman movie with
this cast, I was like, Okay, I'll leave a little
bit of room for growth, but it's almost it's almost perfect.
And it was interesting to see how many people hated
(05:47):
Superman now, where I think it was a lot of
those people who were Zack Snyder fans who like the
more ripped up, hardcore, take no prisoner Superman that they
hated what James Gunn did to the character now is
that Superman had hard And I was like, do you
not like somebody with the moral conscience, which is all
what Superman is about. Do you not like movies that
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are fun and have interesting music throughout? Do you not
like cool looking characters like Man? I get it if
it's not for you, if you don't like superhero movies.
But if you hate this movie, I don't think I
could be friends with you.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I don't see any reason to hate it. I thought
the casting was phenomenal. Nicholas Holt as Lex Luthor was
ten out of ten casting, David corn Sweat, Rachel Brosnahan
and again I always love when James Gunn puts Sean
Gunn in a little meg well Kirk appearance for the
Elmore Girl fans.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
It was also one that I wanted to go and
watch again. Yeah, just haven't had time so much to
see because easily any other week, because like we saw
Lelo and Stitching Theaters twice. That was great.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Still love Twisters and Theater twice.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
It's been harder this blockbuster season to go back and
watch movies twice because there have been so many new movie.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
No, we just don't have the time.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
My favorite weeks right now in July have been weeks
when I've watched four new movies in a weekend and
I'm like, oh, this is so good right now, And
my new favorite thing is to go at nine am
and go watch a Mattineo, a horror movie that you
don't want to watch. Yeah, So it was just finding
time to get all these movies in. So what was
your worst for the month?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Speaking of A twenty four, Love you a twenty four?
I was Eddington.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
This was what I got asked a lot about. Like
when you're gonna review Eddington, I wanted you here so
we could both give our opinion on it. What did
you hate about it?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I would like to say, what the bleep was that movie?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
It was a lot more boring than I was expecting
with having Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal, and.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
It got unnecessarily stupidly violent.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
So the movie is essentially it takes place in the
summer of twenty twenty and is about the small fictional
town ride in the midst of the pandemic. And what
I just found myself not interested in is I didn't
want to relive that time. As soon as they got
into all the things, and it wasn't like they added
any extra context to it or did it for an
artistic reason. It was almost just documenting exactly what happened,
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why people were fighting with each other.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yeah, it was still like I'm not wearing a mask
in a grocery store. And I was like, I think
five years is actually too.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Soon, and it didn't feel like the right time to
make this movie that I found the first fifty minutes
of it very uninteresting because that's all it was.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yeah, the first fifty minutes, because the movie is like
over two and a half hour.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
It was like two twenty maybe two eighteen, and that
first hour drag.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I thought it was even longer than that.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Was it longer.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I feel like it was longer, let's see, because it
was like one hundred and forty three.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I think it was like two hours and twenty five minutes. Yeah,
that was a long movie. It's so long and very
little happens in that first hour and then it just
kind of goes off the rails where I like this director.
He also did Hereditary, He also did a Midsommar, which
are very interesting horror movies. But I kind of think
he should go back to doing horror movies.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I feel like this this was kind of a horror movie.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, it kind of was. I feel like this was
him trying to make a Quentin Tarantino style movie, or
trying to make his own version of No Country for
Old Men. Because where this movie takes you, I don't
want to ruin anything, but where the action kind of unfolded,
I feel like it kind of takes like that modern
western type vibe crime thriller, but it was doing a
(09:28):
really bad impression of it with characters that you just
didn't care about whatsoever, and then just kind of made
no sense and said no statement at the end.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Of it, and then it had like low budget gore.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yeah, that's kind of a stylistic choice. I think that's
kind of his style. Where it didn't, I think it's
done for effect. But on a movie of this scale,
it does look a little bit like it's low quality,
But I think it's on purpose. I think it's meant
to be more shocking.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I hated it.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I found myself sitting in the in the seat wanting
to leave very bad. I was very uncomfortable throughout the
majority of this movie just because there was nothing. There
was no characters that I was following along their storyline
or rooting for the story just felt like reliving a
really bad time in the world. Maybe in fifteen years
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or twenty years we're more far removed from this, I
would have cared more about it. But I just think
overall this movie was really just uninteresting and not worth
the two hour and twenty five minute runtime. Now, especially
with I mean I like both of these actors and
now I'm a Stone and I'm a Stone and Austin
I mean, I don't really like Austin Butler, but you
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have that many people in this movie, you think somebody
would have given a performance that was worthy of Like, Okay,
I can see why they were I thought it was
still bad, so yeah, I can co sign on your
worst of the month.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
If we had seen that on a regal, we would
have left.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Because we had the unlimited in it.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
But we've actually bought tickets for it, so it was
kind of like, oh, I mean, we financially committed to this.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Right right when we're at that point of wanting to leave,
and I was gonna tell you, like you want to go,
something interesting did happen and I was like, Okay, maybe
it's going somewhere now, And it didn't really go anywhere.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I'm currently reading a book that I feel similarly about,
and I'm not even going to like say the name
and recommend it on this podcast. I wanted to not
finish it, but I bought it, and so I can't
bring myself to not finish something that I bought.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
So I'm like powering through.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I have a third left, and I need to finish
it today and just be done with it. It's one
of those where like I don't want to see dread
that sounds dramatic, but like I pick it up and
I'm like, oh, I've got to read this.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
It was like homework, yes, but eating your vegetables is
a kid, Yes, I understand that. And I have the
role of if I don't finish a movie, I can't
review it because it feels incomplete. It's like they put
out their art. If I don't at least put in
my effort of finishing the whole project, then I can't
talk about it fairly. I mean, I can say it
was so bad I didn't finish it, but that's all
I could say.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I probably would have sad, nicer things if I had
done to finish that movie.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
But that brings me to my worst of the month,
which was The Old Guard to on Netflix?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Is that what you watched on the flight home from vacation.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
How was my face while watching this movie in physical pain?
It was so And the thing about Netflix movies, there
are a couple of things. Is one they're just inherently bad.
Two is they come out so far between the other
one that I forgot what happened in the Old Guard one.
I kind of forgot the premise of it, what the
characters were about. So they didn't do a really good
job at resetting that which I was. It took me
(12:23):
maybe about ten minutes to remember exactly, Oh, yeah, they
did this, and this is the story behind them. Essentially
they live forever. That's why they're the Old Guard. But
this movie was so B level action movie and tre
least their own is a good actor be.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
As generous from what I looked over on your screen.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Because it felt like a movie that would come on
Saturday afternoons on a random channel, not even on cable,
but on broadcast TV that I used to watch as
a kid, like an old eighties movie. The acting was
so bare minimum. The special effects in this movie were
just straight. I probably could have made it's better special
effects on cap cut on my phone because I was like,
(13:04):
that's just a green screen. This looks so bad, and
all of this action just felt so generic. I hate
when I watch action movies and people are just fighting
for the sake of fighting. There's no purpose to It's
like they're a hospives yes, where you hate watching them
with me? No, I just mean like there's a certain
action movie where where two characters fight and there's a reason,
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there's an emotional weight to it, they're fighting for a
very specific reason. In this movie, it just felt like, Okay,
we need an action sequence here, so these people are
gonna fight and then there's gonna be a chase scene
and that it was just filler. Every fight scene just
felt like filler, from the very beginning. The first opening
fight scene where they're like going to break into some house,
it just felt ridiculous. Flame fight scene.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
No, just like filler movies.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Oh yes, that is kind of what they do where
they get big stars like a Trulis thrown and now
are building these kind of franchises that they have where
they put out these movies originally like three or four
years ago and now four years later they're like, let's
make a sequel to it. So they're trying to build
these fan bases on these franchises. They don't have a
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fan base.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Which speaking of filler movies that did have a fan.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Base, Happy Gomore two, Yes, that was That was an
honorable mention because I gave The Old Guard a one
out of five, which is really low, and I gave
Happy Gomore two. I like giving movies the number that
it's in, so I give it a two out of five.
So I'm like the review is in the title, But
I was so surprised of how many people found joy
(14:33):
in this movie.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Let me tell you, Taylor Swift did not watch the
whole thing, despite what her Instagram story said. I think
she watched what did she rate it thirteen out of
ten because thirteen's her number. I think she watched old
traviy scenes and was like, all right, he was.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
In it more than I anticipated him. Bad Bunny, Yeah,
I still like Bad Buddy at it. Oh.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
I loved Bad Bunny on it.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
But aside from that, it was too many cameos.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
It was so it was just cameos and callbacks.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
That's all it was, and that is what I dislike
about it the most. And I think that is what
people found enjoyment in which I don't understand. This movie
felt like exhibition. To me, some people like watching movies
to be reminded about other movies. I hate that.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
It felt almost like product placement, but with actors.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yeah. Well, I mean the first one had some product
placement in it with the whole subway thing.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Yeah, but this one more just like the actors were
the product.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah that's true. Oh yeah, because it just felt like
when it came out that it was like the biggest
movie in Netflix, had the biggest debut. It's like, yeah, well,
you have all these celebrities who have millions of followers
on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I mean, we had like Alex Earl in it.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
It was like, so strategically you put all these people
in it to get so many people to watch it,
because then you have like the WWE fanbase, and you
have post alone in it.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I already forgot he was in it.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
The biggest I mean, Bad Bunny is one of the
biggest artists in the world, not just in the United States.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Taylor Swift, well, I mean people watched for but yeah
the door she posted about it.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
So I hate comedy. I hate legacy comedy movies because
it's never gonna be as funny as the original. It
kind of tarnishes what you love about the first one.
And I know I sound like I don't like having fun.
I do like having fun. But it even takes me
back to whenever they made Dumb and Dumber two, the sequel,
where all they did was do the gags from the
first one. Is like, hey, remember what we did in
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the first one, Let's do it again. And even when
this movie started out, I was like, Okay, maybe we're
gonna get a real story here, and it felt a
little bit like, Okay, he's actually going through some things here.
And then by maybe twenty minutes into it, it just
kind of goes off the rails and they're just doing
a bunch of random jokes. It felt like a mid
SNL episode.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I did love the Sandler's Whole family, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
See. I cannot like his movies, but I can like
Adam Samer. I love Adam Sandlor because when you think
about it on the grand scale, and you'll look at
what he's doing, he is making art with his friends
and he's putting his family in it.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
So wowing the best time he is, he just gets
to He gets to do what he wants.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
And he makes a lot of money for it, and
he gets to spend time with his family. Because, if
you think about it, if you're an actor working like
he does on this on this amount of movies that
would take you away from your family, he's able to
put them in his movies. So he's working and he's
spending time with his family. It's like Jerry Jones with
a cowboy. He's like, this is why I built this
because I get to have this team that's my dream.
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But I also get to work with my family. So
the whole time I'm working, I'm spending time with them.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Oh yes, the Jones family, but it's a family.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
But he does that, and then he also brings a
super loyal friends. Even though they probably don't get along
all the time, he still brings them back because he
knows people love those characters. He keeps them working, he
gives them jobs, you can kind of put a little
spark into their career again. So I do respect him
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as an actor, as a business person, as somebody who
is making movies that he wants to make. I mean,
going back to Billy Madison, that was like the first
movie he had some creative control over, and to go
from doing that to doing this where he's like, this
is how I'm gonna make movies. It's still resonating with people,
and I don't want to say like, oh, you're dumb
for liking this movie. I wasn't for us. I just
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wanted a real plot. I wanted a real plot, like
a real reason to make a sequel to this, because
I think the story is there. I think it was
there in the beginning, and then it was just like,
let's just kind of parody all these things now. And
I guess I didn't like the golfers. There were too
many people who were not actors in significant roles.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yes did yep, the whole.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
That's why when you do have like a cool random cameo,
it's usually small and brief. But when you have those
people who don't act or not known for acting, it
makes it harder to watch because there you can obviously
tell that they are not good actors. Mainly, the Golfers
took me out of it because they were in it
so heavily.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I already honestly forgot they were in Nice.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Scotti, Scheffler and a bunch of the people on his team. Yeah.
I think that was probably was just like, okay, too
much of this which the first movie. It was a
golf movie, but it was all just about him.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Yeah, we didn't need actual PGA tour golfers.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
But that was an honorable mention for my worst of
the month. I did hate the Old Guard Wars, though.
I'll go through the list of all the movies we
watched in July. I started with Old Guard, watching it
on the plane coming back from vacation. We also watched
Jurassic World Rebirth, which I gave a two point five
out of five also generous, pretty low on the scale,
and watched Superman four point five out of five. I
(19:24):
watched Opus on HBO Max, which is a movie with
au A Debris that I wanted to watch in theaters
early this year. It's a horror movie where she's like
a music writer and then goes out to cover this
artist who's kind of like a Prince type artist and
is making their first album for a very long time.
But then it gets kind of weird. It just kind
of falls in that category of a lot of movies
(19:47):
right now where like somebody goes out to like a
weird retreat and there's like these weird things happening behind
the scenes, so it just kind of felt generic to me.
Eddington we gave a two at a five. Would you
rate that one? Oh?
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I give Addington a zero zero. I have never wanted
to leave a movie so bad.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
No nutritional value whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Wow, it was two and a half hours of my
life that I won't get back.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I don't think I've ever rated anything a zero before.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
I don't think I've read books a zero Most of
the time. I'm like, you put words on a page
with this, I'm too angry about it.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
So my two is generous.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
It's extremely generous.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
I gave I know what you did last summer a
two out of five.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
What's a twos?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yeah, there's a high contrast because I gave Sorry Baby
a four out of five.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
So good.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
The assessment which I watched on Hulu, which is with
Scarlet Witch, the other Olson sister, Elizabeth Olsen, Elizabeth Olsen,
the overall story wasn't as good as I thought it
was going to be. Like, the movie looked really good.
It's from a French director, so I think it kind
of had a bit of an arty vibe, but essentially
her and her husband live in like the not so
(20:52):
distant future where you have to pass an assessment test
to have a kid. So the whole thing is like
somebody coming to their house and evaluating whether or not
they're allowed to have a kid. Could we implement that,
oh maybe fifty years in the future. But I gave
that one a three point five out of five, fantastic four,
a four. I gave it a four out of five.
Would you give that one?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I think a four.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I also watched a movie called Dangerous Animals. I gave
it a three point five out of five. It's about
these people who go out into like a shark tour
in the ocean, and then they find out the guys
the serial killer.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
You also called them movie like three different names when
you were trying to tell me you were like dangerous trenches,
dangerous waters, water in the trend, gary sharks.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
But Dangerous Animals is a good kind of mid level
horror movie. It was just incredibly frustrating when you watch
horror movies and you're like, why are you doing this?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
So I don't watch.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Them, and then oh hi. I gave a three point
five out of five, which I was surprised that nobody
was laughing when we went to go see that movie.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
That was one of those that I don't know if
people watch.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
The trailer, it's like an anti rom com, but I
think people thought it was straight on wrong.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I think people thought they were getting the rom com because.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
It's about a girl who goes on an away trip
with this guy she's been dating for like three or
four months, and at the very start of it he
tells her like, oh, I don't want to be in
a relationship.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Well, and it's in the trailer, but it's like our
first tripoy is a couple, and he's like, what, I
love Molly Gordon.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
So then she chains him up to the bed and
she says, Okay, I'm gonna keep you here for was
it a day? Twelve hours? And if I can convince
you of what life would be like with me as
a girlfriend, you can make your decision after that. So
it's kind of like the movie Misery, wherever she ties
up James conn in the bed for well, she just
keeps him there. But it's kind of that inspired, but
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like the gen Z version of that, where she's just
trying to get this guy to be in a relationship
with her. Yeah, I thought it was funny. We were
the only but people in the entire theater laughing, which
is that's not.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
The first time that's ever happened to us.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Yeah, but it's supposed to be. It was funny.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
It was funny. I'm telling you.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
I don't think people watch the trailer, so I think
they were like, when when does the rom come?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I think the rom come is a very interesting genre
right now because the people who want to go experience
rom coms are trying to remember those of the two thousands,
and they very much changed. Like material Lists, I would
consider a rom com, But when I did that review,
people are like, that's not a rom com. It doesn't
have the traditional things that a rom com has. So
I think it has evolved, much like the horror genre
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has evolved. How would you rate the three Pedro Pascal
movies that we watched the summer, because we've watched material
Lists which came out at the start of the summer,
We watched Eddington, and then we watched Fantastic Four, which
came out within a week of each other.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Fantastic Four number one, Materials number two, and then I'm
not even rating Eddington.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
It's off the board.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I'll rate and I'll put it as exist. After watching
all those movies without revealing anything about how much they
are specifically in it, can you feel that he is
a little bit overworked right now?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Yeah, because he's busy.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
If you'll go to a theater and you see which
Pedro Pescal movie do you want to watch, you see
him on three different posters like how did he have
enough time?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
And he's booked them busy.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Yeah, I definitely feel it in Eddington that maybe he
fit that in between those movies. Maybe he like went
back and forth a little bit, or he's like, Pedro's
here this amount of days you have him for this movie.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
I feel like that's how it is.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Because whenever we went to the Baby Girl screening with
Nicole Kinman, she kind of talked about what it's like
to do an a twenty four movie. Yes, where you're
you have a lot longer days, but they're very It's
less of a schedule because you have less days to
do it, but the days are longer, so it is
a little bit more demanding because of the smaller budget.
I would have to imagine that's what it was like
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filming both of those A twenty.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Four Meetings with Cemeterialists was A twenty four as.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Well, So I kind of want him to be in
less things moving forward, just because he was in Last
of Us this year, He's in a lot. He is
so hot right now that people are starting to get
sick of him. I worry that because I still like him.
I like him in everything, but I don't want him
to reach that level of Chris Pratt where people just
feel like he's in everything and they ye, they also.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Just hate Chris Pratt for others.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Yeah, I guess it could be a little bit of
Chris Pratt, but I.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Think it's like Chris Brad is a person honestly that
people don't like it. And it wasn't a lot, but
I think there's like more on the personal side.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
But I feel like people hated it when he was
cast as Mario and then as like Garfield, and like,
did they just get Chris Pratt for everything? And he
doesn't put any effort into it?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
And those are also movies. Really do you just need
like a paycheck? Brow everything's good, you're not making the mortgage.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
But you did send me that story of Pedro Pascal's
allegedly his role being reduced a little bit in the
next Avengers movie, which I saw the director say that
he was never really cue up to be like the
star in the head of the new Avengers team. So
I don't really think we know what that's going to be.
And me kind of knowing from just reading the comics
where Doomsday and Cuitecret Wars are going, We're gonna have
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a lot of characters come together. So I don't really
think there's gonna be one even one team that's kind
of the main in either of those movies, because I
think it's about to get very large. So I think
it's gonna be a lot different than Infinity War to Endgame,
where it's gonna be just so many people in it.
We saw the chair announcement. You saw how many chairs
were at that thing when they were like, all these
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people are gonna be in this movie.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
I would also like to go back to what you
said that I sent you that story. Yes I did.
I do a lot of unpaid intern work for this.
I would just like to pat myself on that. I
find a lot of stories for you.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
That was a good one. Thank you, Because I think
people are wondering now after watching Fantastic for how it's
gonna feed in because the only next movie in Marvel
what that we're getting is the Spider Man movie and
then Doomsday. Which one are you more excited for? I
think you know my answer.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
I love Spider Man.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
I'm gonna go spider.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
I'm going Spider Man too, just because we've never had
an actor who has played Spider Man get a fourth movie.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Tom Hollins's about to be the Petropascal of next summer.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Yeah, he's gonna be Oh yeah, the Odyssey trailer. Mm hmmm,
he's gonna be in a lot him And'sendaya together. Do
you have a TV show for this month? Because I
do not. I have not finished the show. And it's
weird that we live in an age where we still
have slow seasons for TV shows. You think there's gould
be great stuff coming out all year round, just because
of the way streaming works. But I guess even streaming
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services kind of take a slow down during the summer.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
I do I bene all of Jenny and Georgia.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Oh yeah, I've watched episodes here and there. I've kind
of pieced it together just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
It's nothing groundbreaking. It's good though.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
I was glad that I had three seasons to benge
and now I'm like, oh, I have to wait. But
then I started The Marvelous Missus Masel, which again is
also an older one. Also glad that I have all
of that to bene, but I was like, I need
more Rachel Brosnahan after Superman. So I'm watching that and
that's delightful so far.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
The only thing I'm watching currently is the WWE show
on Netflix, which is like the documentary it's supposed to
be like the behind the scenes stuff they never wanted
or stuff we would never show you of them, kind
of breaking the illusion of how real wrestling is the
fourth wall, which I think has kind of been broken
in modern wrestling, where they show you exactly like how
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strategic everything is, like how everything's on a calendar, every
single movement and plot line is as all these people
behind it.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Honestly, that's really upsetting to me why it's so fake.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I mean, the storylines are fake, but people still get injured,
Like whenever somebody gets hurt in real life, they have
to write it into the show. But it is interesting
because they do talk about some of the wrestlers go
to the writers and they want to know before a match,
am I gonna win? Or am I gonna lose? And
sometimes they don't know. I don't like them, it's just weird.
That part of it is kind of weird because they
are performers. It is sports entertainment. But then you have
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to think, like, man, I can't even win this match
if I want to, because it's it's determined, it's written
in the script because they have all these plot lines
they need to play out over all these big events.
So I find that part interesting. But I also find
I'm not as turned off by the fact that it's
not quote unquote real, that it's fake, because yes, it
is kind of like a soap opera. But it's interesting
(28:52):
to see these people want to reach a level of
success and the only people that are in the way
are the writers because they become the ww champion. You
can't just become the champion. They have to say you
are now worthy of doing this, and we're going to
write you in. So that part is crazy. You have
a book, I do my book club read project Hail
Mary oh Am, I going to have a really hard
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time reading it.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Not a really hard time.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
But I will say someone who has a science background,
there were even things and my background's not like molecular
biology like he is in the book, but I have
a pretty good understanding of scientific concepts and even some
things I was like, I gotta remember what that is.
And then there were there's some things that you just
can't even visualize, so you just have to accept it
and be like, Okay, I'm accepting that this exists, but
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I don't know what it looks like in my head,
if that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Did you go back and watch the trailer after fish it?
Are you excited for it? Does it fit? Does it
look like what you kind of thought? Even though you
kind of saw the trailer a little bit.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
But I would try to go to the bathroom every
time the trailer came. Yeah, because I really didn't want.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
You're not going to watch it, But we didn't think
about when we'd go to the movies that they'd give
us like to get out of here.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah, I'm very excited for it.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
It actually helped having seen a little bit of the
trailer because I read the book in Gossling's voice.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
I read it as like Ken Barbie.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
See whenever I read Hunger Games, it was before the
movies came out, and I didn't associate Jennifer Lawrence at
all with that character, and to the point that when
I watched the movie, I was like, you're not Catnus
and that's not what I pictured in my home. But
the movie comes out on March twentieth, twenty twenty six,
so I have I have some time to read it.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Yeah, I have faith in you.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
I'm going to read it and I want to experience that.
Even though I've already seen the trailer and people say
there are some spoilers in.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
There, not that many, though nothing that like it's like, oh,
you shouldn't read the book, Like I still think you
will appreciate having read the book.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
I'm good then, but you do have to not read
it fast.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
But I feel like you have to keep the momentum
so you don't forget the things because it's very detailed.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Okay, once I'm in a book, I'm good.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
I wouldn't know.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I havn't seen you read one, Like if I could
just sit down, like probably we go on our trip,
if I take it with me and I'm on a plane,
and that's all I have like that's when I do
my best reading because I'm like, what else am I
gonna do? Okay, so that is my next task and
six am flight. Yes, it could happen anything else. No,
(31:17):
it's hot, it's fine. I'm so over the heat. Yeah,
I'm gonna go jump into a cold bath right now.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Our water doesn't get cold.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
I got a new water heater, which we will appreciate
in the winter. But you're right, like I find myself.
I don't even turn it over to the hot side
because it's not hot.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
It it's not cold.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
I turn it down as cold as it will go.
But then it gets like really like like no water,
and then you're just turning it off. I'm like, oh man,
get colder. All right. I'll come back and give my
spoiler free review of The Naked Gun. Let's get into
it now. A spoiler free movie review of The Naked
Gun starring Liam Neeson, although I might be a little
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bit just loose on the term spoiler free because I
don't really think this is going to be a movie
that I can spoil. I think talking about some of
the comedic elements that I actually ended up enjoying, which
I thought I was going to hate this movie. I
saw the trailer for it, and I thought, that looks
so dumb. The scene in particular that almost kept me
from watching this movie was whenever you see the girl
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enter the bank and then turn into leem Neeson and
then start fighting people. I thought, no way could a
parody movie be good in twenty twenty five. I also
don't know how much of the fan base was really
itching for another one of these movies, except maybe the
couple next to me in the theater. They were probably
a good twenty to thirty years older than me. The
original came out back in nineteen eighty eight, so it's
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been thirty seven years. Those people might have been waiting
for this movie. Me in particular, I was not. But
it does come to us from director Akiva Schaeffer, who
I had faith in. I just didn't think the actual
movie was going to be good. But I am here
to admit I was wrong. The Naked Gun is actually
a funny movie. And let me tell you why I
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think it works now. I'm gonna relate it to a
recent comedy Legacy sequel that we got Happy Gilmore too.
Even in the Sandler verse, it was a lot of
just recalling old things they did in that movie. Here
it's something completely different, because a Naked Gun actually builds
its own world where everything is ridiculous in the best way.
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This movie is a Looney Tunes cartoon brought to life
with a lot of great writing, a lot of great
jokes per minute. So consistently throughout this entire movie, you're
getting joke after joke, recurring bit after recurring bit. But
not only things in the foreground. You're getting things in
the background, small little details put in there to make
you laugh. Now, are all of them huge big moments
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that are gonna have you on the floor of the
theater laughing, split in your side. No, but it consistently
just tries to make you laugh. It commits to every
single joke, a lot of play on words, which I
kind of think is the DNA of this franchise, and
a lot of it just work, and I was not
expecting it to. From the very beginning, the very opening sequence,
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I was like, Okay, I'm in for this ride. And
it honestly didn't take me a long time to believe
in Liam Neeson in this role, which I thought was
going to be the hardest part, because I just see
him as the taken guy. Really, but what this movie
is about. He is investigating a bank robbery and then
it starts investigating a car crash somebody died, but Pamela
(34:25):
Anderson's character was the brother of the guy who died
in the crash and said, I don't think he killed himself.
I think there's somebody else behind it. And that's really it.
A very minimal plot of him just trying to figure
out who the bad guy is and how this crime unfolded,
and what you get through all of that is a
series of comedic events that just work. Liam Neeson was great.
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I thought Pamela Anderson was really great in this role
as well. They have some pretty good on screen chemistry.
She also has surprisingly some really good comedic timing. But
hands down my favorite part of this movie was Paul
Walter Houser, who I believe just owns every that he
does right now. He was just in The Fantastic Four
as the mole Man. I also loved him, and I
think you should leave the Tim Robinson show. He is
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somebody who I believe is one of the best new
faces in comedy and it's great to see him start
to get bigger roles. I think now that people are
becoming a little bit more familiar with him, they're like, Oh,
isn't that the guy from Richard Jewel. He's actually pretty funny.
I think his character should have had a little bit
more of a presence, because anytime his character was on screen,
I loved it. There were three reoccurring bits that I
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love now. I said I wasn't going to give away
any spoilers, and I don't really think this is spoiling anything,
but these are the type of things that are inside
of a Naked Gun movie at number three. At number
three is whenever they are at risk of getting shut down,
immediately Paul walter Hauser is standing out front with his
box and his spirit Halloween sign goes up behind him.
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I thought that was hilarious. At number two, whenever they
were investigating the car crash and they're trying to get
it out of the water. Liam Neeson does a terrible
job at investigating, and then they're like, all right, nothing
else to see here, and you think they're going to
be smart in the way that they pull out the car,
but then the guy working the crane literally has like
the claw from the claw machine. And then pulls it up,
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And that is the best representation of this movie. It
goes all in and allows everything to be ridiculous. But
number one, my favorite bit in the movie is they
keep making fun of how in action movies and cop
movies they always get a fresh cup of coffee. So
they're getting a fresh cup and then immediately get another
fresh cup, and then the cups keep getting bigger and
bigger and bigger, And I just thought that was funny
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the way they committed to that. And my final question
about this movie does length matter? Because this movie was
over before I knew it, And I think that's also
what led to my enjoyment, is because the humor will
start to wear on you a little bit because it
kind of starts to be the same thing over and over,
and even though you really enjoy it for those first
thirty to forty five minutes, it starts to reach a
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point of like, Okay, this is still funny, and I
get that they're still firing off jokes and firing off jokes,
but it does get a little less and less novel
as it goes along. But before I knew it, this
movie was over. It was under one hour and fifteen minutes,
which I think is probably the lowest run time I've
ever seen in theaters, and I ended up loving it.
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I think different categories of movies do require different run times. Now,
if a movie is just good, all out good, no
bad things to say about it, it can go on
as long as it wants. But if a movie is
kind of teetering on the line of I don't know
if I like this, I don't know if I'm really
committed to it, the runtime can be very influential. And
before this movie, I would say a great comedy run
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time is ninety minutes. But if you could make a
movie in one hour and fifteen minutes, I think it
has to be as ridiculous as The Naked Gun. But
one hour in fifteen minutes is also pretty good, because,
like I said, it kind of tricks your mind into thinking,
I'm a little bit over this. Oh it's already over.
Everybody's leaving, all right, I'm good. I think I enjoyed
that because it got me out of there really quickly,
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said what it needed to say, did all the gags,
and didn't waste time trying to build anything else that
didn't need to For an art house, movie I feel
is right around the one hour and forty minute range.
Art House movies are usually a little bit lower budget,
the story is kind of stretched out a little bit more,
and anything more than an hour and forty minutes starts
to feel a little taxing to me. A horror movie,
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I think right now needs to be one hour and
forty five minutes. I think that is the sweet spot
for horror enough to really build that story in the
first twenty minutes, really ramp up in that forty minute mark,
and then really start to go off the rails about
that one hour, one hour and ten minute mark, and
those final thirty to twenty minutes give you a great
final battle. I think one forty five is the perfect
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runtime for a horror movie. When it comes to superhero movies,
I used to say two and a half hours, but
recently I think right around that two hour mark, which
is what DC and Marvel are both starting to do,
is kind of that sweet spot. Maybe it's because we
have a little bit of superhero fatigue, but I think
two hours, maybe even one fifty five is the perfect
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vic amount right now for a superhero movie. Now, if
it's an Avengers level movie, I'm okay with the two
forty five for Secret Wars, I will give you another
three hours for that one. And speaking in run times,
I feel like I've talked about this movie too long
at this point because the movie was only one hour
and fifteen minutes and I'm still hearing abbit about it.
So for The Naked Gun, because it proved me wrong,
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I get it three point five out of five big
old coffy cups. It's time to head down to movie.
Mike Trey lar Pard, how much Avatar can we take?
Because Fire and Ashes coming out of this year on
December nineteenth. We have another one coming out in twenty
twenty nine with Avatar four, and then Avatar five comes
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out in twenty thirty one. Before this, in twenty twenty two,
we got The Way Water, but there was a big
gap between one and two because Avatar came out back
in two thousand and nine. And not only are these
movies mapped out from now until twenty thirty one, they
are also girthy movies. Avatar one two hours and forty
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two minutes, just flirting with that three hour runtime, The
Way of Water three hours and twelve minutes, Fire and
Ash the exact same runtime of three hours and twelve minutes.
I can only imagine four and five are gonna be
at least three hours and twelve minutes. So not only
do we have five of these movies, but we also
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have to prepare ourselves before we go watch these movies
in theaters, limit our liquids beforehand, plot out when is
a good time to go to the bathroom. And what
I've learned from the Way of Water is pretty much
every act is an hour. So if you have to
go pee while watching Avatar, A thing I do with
every single movie I go watch is I time in it.
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So I would say, right when that first hour is
wrapping up, maybe go five minutes into the next hour,
just in case there's like a big action sequence. But
every hour is pretty much an act. So if you
have to go pee, go in that fifty five to
one oh five range and add that to the two
hour mark, and then you kind of got to stay
at three hour mark. But this is a lot of Avatar,
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and it's a very polarizing franchise because I think we wonder,
how do these movies make so much money, why are
they so successful, and why are we getting so many
of these? But In this one, we have a new
tribe leader who is the new villain in this movie,
who looks pretty menacing. Her name is Verring. I believe
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it is how you pronounce that she is the villain.
In Fire and Ash, she is tormenting Jake Sully and
his family as he attempts to protect her from her wrath.
She looks how you would imagine a villain look in
an Avatar movie. Still has the blue skin, but also
has white, black and red body paint, so it kind
of has like a warrior vibe, which they all kind
of have a warrior vibe. I saw the trailer when
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I went to go see Fantastic Four, and I saw
that in Imax, so I got to experience it just
a little bit, get that little taste of what the
this is gonna look like on the big screen, and
I liked it. This third installment introduces the Ash people,
described as fierce fire wielding warriors who dance around blazing
pits of flame. I would also describe myself that way,
except I'm not blue, I'm brown, baby. But I want
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to dive into Avatar. Why is it so successful? Why
does James Caermon just put all of his time and
energy into these movies, and why is this going to
be the legacy that he leaves behind. Before we get
into all of that, here's just a little bit of
the Avatar three trailer.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
You cannot live like.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
This baby in hate. If there's something you can't do it,
then you must do it.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
No, no, no, that's fine. Then we will find another way.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
Your goddess has no a Meniunia. So it looks like
we are picking up from wherever Way of Water left off,
which in that one they had to leave Pandora, leave
their home, go out to live with these people who
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are water based, hit the Way of Water and still
have to battle this difficult war against the humans. It
kind of looks like the same thing happening here again,
constantly on the run, constantly just trying to protect their children.
When it comes to Avatar movies, I was a hater
in the beginning, but now seeing a lot of movies
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use very very suspicious techniques when it comes to just
getting special effects passable, and that has become unacceptable to me.
Whenever I see a special effect that looks like it
could have been fine tuned to see it on the
big screen, just look mediocre. I just really start to
hold it against these movies when they continue to do that.
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They continue to rush their production to get this movie
out sooner and cut corners when it comes to the
special effects. But James Cameron does not do that. Each
one of these movies is so immersive. Whether it's the visuals,
whether it's the score, whether it's the acting, it is
all at the top of its game constantly. So it's
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so reliable on its ability to create a spectacle that
it has audiences still pouring in to go watch these
movies in theaters because they are an event. And I
do believe this is a passion project of James Cameron.
He wrote the first treatment to Avatar back in nineteen
ninety four when it was called Project eight eighty. From
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that eighty page treatment, he began working on a screenplay
for this fictional universe in early two thousand and six,
with a movie finally coming out in two thousand and nine.
So from when he first wrote the initial draft to
when he actually started developing the screenplay, including the language,
including this whole fictional universe of Pandora, that was over
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a decade, and then three years later Avatar came out
in two thousand and nine, and then another decade plus
three years go by before we got the sequel to
that movie. And I find it interesting when people put
the classification of a passion project on somebody's work. Oftentimes
that means it is something that they are doing just
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for the love of doing it, even though it is
not financially successful. I think artists hate that term because
of the connotation that, oh, I'm just doing this as
a passion project, meaning I would do this even if
I wasn't getting paid. I don't care if it's successful.
I just need to get this creativity out of my
head and onto a screen or onto a canvas, and
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I don't care if it ever sees a dime. But
even though this is a passion project for James Cameron,
these movies have the opposite effect. They are some of
the highest grossing movies of all time. And why is that.
It's not only because they are successful in the United States,
which the biggest movies in the world are often American movies.
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We only look at the numbers here, but if you
look at the numbers specifically for Avatar one, only twenty
six point nine percent of the money made at the
box office was domestic. The other seventy three point one
percent came from the international box office. And that is
the gold that James Cameron has struck. And I would
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hate to say that the movie is so middle of
the road that it appeals to everybody, because I don't
think these are mediocre movies. I just think he is
the master filmmaker and knows how to create a story
that has a wide appeal. And when it comes to
the Avatar movies, they are blue people. They are not
specific to anybody. You could argue the fact that we
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could all see a little bit of ourselves in these
people because they are blue and alien like. You don't
associate a race to them because it has that sci
fi element. And due to the fact that because you
don't see American actors on the screen, even though the
people voicing them and doing the motion capture for them
are for the most part American people. But all you
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have to do is have actors who speak different languages
go in and do the voice acting to fit any country.
Because these movies are huge in China, France, over in
the UK and Spain. They do so well over there
because of that, So it's not just because it's the
middle of the road that it doesn't offend too many people.
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There are just a lot of elements in Avatar that
appeal to not only different people around the world, but
also inside of demographics. It appeals to the older audience.
It appeals to the twenty thirty year olds who are
into the sci fi element. That's where I follow in.
And then it even appeals to kids because well, technically
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it's kind of animated and bright and colorful, very immersive,
and there's a lot of action. So they're also not
so artsy that they turn people off, and they're also
not so bottom of a barrel lowest common denominator that
maybe somebody who is turned off by those type of movies,
those aka popcorn movies, still feels challenged by a movie
(48:19):
like this, still feels like they're getting something out of
it that they can sink their teeth into and not
just watching something dumb and mindless like a Fast and
the Furious movie, which also does well internationally. But I
am a huge proponent of these movies now, but I
will say I still have to psych myself up to
go and watch a movie that's three hours and fifteen
minutes even though I do not mind a long runtime
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on a movie if it is warranted, and James Cameron
has proved to me that it is warranted, that he
can hold my attention and my overall curiosity for that
entire runtime. But I still have to psych myself up
because there's something about going to the movies. Go in
and it's daytime, and you come out and it's dark,
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You're like, man, how long was I in there? Because
then you factor in the twenty five to thirty minutes
of previews, and then that's like a four hour event
with the driving, So that will eat up your entire
weekend when you go watch Avatar in December. But I
still think it is worth it. I've still enjoyed all
of these movies, and I think I will continue to
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enjoy four and five. So I am all in for Avatar,
Fire and Ash coming out on December nineteenth.
Speaker 2 (49:33):
Said that was this week's edition of movie Line Tramer
bar Ah.
Speaker 1 (49:38):
And that is gonna be the episode for this week.
That'll do it. But before I go, I'm gonna give
my listener shout out of the week this week, I'm
going over to TikTok, which you can follow me over there.
Put the link in the episode notes. If you search
Mike Dstro you can find me on TikTok. For some reason,
I can't change my username, guys, but it is me.
(49:59):
I promise I'm going over to I posted some clips
from my Fantastic Four review, which is a movie that
I still want to go watch again in theaters to
experience it. I still also need to go and watch
Superman again in theaters. So as soon as I'm through
all these movies coming out in August that look really good,
(50:19):
I will go back and rewatch some of the ones
from July. But this week I'm going over to TikTok
and shouting out Mayo Ketchup, which is a fantastic user
name who commented on that Fantastic Four video of me
talking about how much I love the suits and said
I'm gonna say Eternals have much better suits, but don't
(50:40):
fight me. Listen, Mayo ketchup. That is a hot take
for sure, maybe one of the hottest ever. Like ho hot, hot,
hot hot, because the Eternals. Oh, because aside from the
storytelling in that movie, one of the things I dislike
the most were the suits. And I'm big into figure
collect and every single figure from the Eternal's movie, all
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the action figures that were made in preparation for that
because they thought it was going to be a huge success.
They are still sitting on shelves in discount stores across America.
They are burning the pegs of any allays that you
go to because people just don't want them. And why
do they don't want them is because the suits are terrible.
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Superhero suits are what sell comic books, They're what make
people buy tickets to go watch them in theaters. They
sell t shirts, they sell merchandise because if a superhero
has a cool suit, you want to see that suit,
you want to see that logo. And man, that is
such a hot take, because I feel like nothing about
those suits stands out, the fact that pretty much all
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of them are the same, just different colors. They look
so boring to me. But to say something like that,
that is so bold, to stand up for a movie
that so many people people just dislike. I applaud you,
Mayo Ketchup. You said not to fight you about this,
so I won't fight you. I will counter you with
saying how bad the suits are, But I respect your
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opinion to say that, so thank you for listening, thank
you for being subscribed, And until next time, go out
and watch good movies and I will talk to you
later
Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike joined, but my wife and
co host Kelsey, how are you.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm great.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
It is the end of July. I heard a sad
statistic is the reason time goes by faster when you're
older is because you start or stop recording good memories.
Because when you're younger, like everything is new and you
remember all these things, and then when you get older,
you have less of those big experiences, so it feels
like time moves faster. And I know every time we
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sit down and do these episodes, we're like, how is
another month past?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
July went simultaneously slow and fast because there were like
five work weeks in it because the way the month
started so that was it made the work month feel long,
even though I was on vacation for a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
But there were a lot of good movies which we
had to get into.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
So many movies.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I watched so many movies, and I read a lot
of books this month, So forgive me if things are
jumbled in.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah, I'm looking at the list of not even just
movies we saw in theaters, but just of the entire
month that I want to recap it was a lot.
In the movie review, I'll be talking about the movie
I didn't think I was gonna go see in theater
is the Naked gud oh Man. That trailer looks so dumb,
but I gotta see for myself. And in the trailer park,
I'll be talking about Avatar Fire and Ash, which is
Avatar three, which is over three hours long. I believe
(01:14):
three hours and twelvewelve minutes minutes. Yes, same as the
Avatar three. Yeah, so we'll talk about that. Thank you
for being here, Thank you for being subscribed. Shout out
to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now let's talk
movies from the Nastville podcast networking this movie, Mike Movie.
Let's hop right into it. Our best and worst for
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the month of July. Kick us off with your best pick.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I know it was a month of blockbusters.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Big, big, big, big blockbusters.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
But I have a feeling you're gonna take my okay,
favorite blockbuster, so I'm gonna go favorite non blockbuster. Sorry Baby,
which was an indie film by Eva Eva Victor.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
It was phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
It was very like heartfelt, made you feel things, made
you think, and just really well done. Kind of like
a bite sense of humor, like it wasn't outwardly like
lol funny.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
But how would you describe the plot of the movie.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Well, I don't want to give anything away, even though
it's probably in the description.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I'll put it up just so we can have it.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Agnes, the main character, goes through something difficult and in.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
The description that you say, something bad happens to Agnes,
something bad.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
And it's about how her friend supporting her and her
life and just kind of like a just like a
year in the lifeish kind of goes.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Through different seasons slice of life Fish. Yeah, this is
a movie that makes me love movies. It's the type
of movie that I just seek out and to me,
even though this movie deals with some heavier topics at times,
it felt really comforting to me. I described this movie
as putting on your favorite hoodie on a fall day,
where it's like this movie just feels like it was
made just for me. Even though I don't directly relate
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to all the characters, it just feels so personal. And
she wrote and directed this movie and starred in it.
To me, it feels like, even though it is her
first film, her masterpiece already because they say, you have
like when it comes to artists, your entire life to
write your first album. This one I felt she made
so personal and it's a movie that only she could make.
It just feels like it just directly from her brain
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onto the screen.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
It was Yeah, it was wonderful.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
That was a Bell Court showing because we love seeing
Indieflix there.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I also feel like this is a movie that doesn't
think less of the viewer because there were a lot
of things that were implied, yes where yeah, through very
strategic forms of cinematography where it'll show a situation and
then kind of take you out of it and you
kind of assume, like what happens during those moments, And
I think that's just so much more impactful. So yeah,
(03:40):
I also really love this movie. One that kind of
snuck under the radar. Age twenty four movies are interesting
because they always have like an early premiere in the year,
and then they have like a mid time release, and
then they have like a four release. So I never
know when to let people know about these movies because
then we talk about them and then they're not out
yet for everybody.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Well, we saw the trailer for it. I feel like
forever ago.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
And then by the time we saw it, it didn't
officially come out for like two to three weeks. Yeah,
so it like just came out fully, like on the
twenty sixth or something. So that is one that if
you can go see it at an independent theater local
to you. Maybe some bigger chains habit, but not really.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I mean it was in the regal apps.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
It just never had they never had that time, So
try to find your independent theater or later. It'll probably
eventually come to HBO Max because they get a lot
of the A twenty four movies. But it is a
really great one that if you're just looking for something
completely original and different, it's good.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
It gave me the same feeling of like when we
left Past Lives, where I'm like, I love an original concept.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, and even though it's nothing like groundbreaking or novel,
it feels new and it feels just different than all
the other big blockbuster movies that we saw this this summer.
So I like the balance that we had. We had
the big movies and then we had the smaller movies.
Even though some of the smaller movies we didn't love,
but there was a lot of contrast in July for
my best it was the one you were talking about
(05:03):
that you could have also taken Superman. It was so good,
it was just my When we were watching it, I
felt something change in my brain, and that's only happened
maybe three or four times in the last five years.
And even when we first left, I was like, I
told you, I was like, that movie was perfect. There
was nothing wrong about it that if I would have
rated that movie immediately after getting up getting up out
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of my seat, I would have given it a five.
And then the more I thought about it compared to
some other of my favorite superhero movies, and also the
fact that they could expand the world a little bit
and we're probably gonna get a better Superman movie with
this cast, I was like, Okay, I'll leave a little
bit of room for growth, but it's almost it's almost perfect.
And it was interesting to see how many people hated
(05:47):
Superman now, where I think it was a lot of
those people who were Zack Snyder fans who like the
more ripped up, hardcore, take no prisoner Superman that they
hated what James Gunn did to the character now is
that Superman had hard And I was like, do you
not like somebody with the moral conscience, which is all
what Superman is about. Do you not like movies that
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are fun and have interesting music throughout? Do you not
like cool looking characters like Man? I get it if
it's not for you, if you don't like superhero movies.
But if you hate this movie, I don't think I
could be friends with you.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I don't see any reason to hate it. I thought
the casting was phenomenal. Nicholas Holt as Lex Luthor was
ten out of ten casting, David corn Sweat, Rachel Brosnahan
and again I always love when James Gunn puts Sean
Gunn in a little meg well Kirk appearance for the
Elmore Girl fans.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
It was also one that I wanted to go and
watch again. Yeah, just haven't had time so much to
see because easily any other week, because like we saw
Lelo and Stitching Theaters twice. That was great.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Still love Twisters and Theater twice.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
It's been harder this blockbuster season to go back and
watch movies twice because there have been so many new movie.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
No, we just don't have the time.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
My favorite weeks right now in July have been weeks
when I've watched four new movies in a weekend and
I'm like, oh, this is so good right now, And
my new favorite thing is to go at nine am
and go watch a Mattineo, a horror movie that you
don't want to watch. Yeah, So it was just finding
time to get all these movies in. So what was
your worst for the month?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Speaking of A twenty four, Love you a twenty four?
I was Eddington.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
This was what I got asked a lot about. Like
when you're gonna review Eddington, I wanted you here so
we could both give our opinion on it. What did
you hate about it?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I would like to say, what the bleep was that movie?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
It was a lot more boring than I was expecting
with having Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal, and.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
It got unnecessarily stupidly violent.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
So the movie is essentially it takes place in the
summer of twenty twenty and is about the small fictional
town ride in the midst of the pandemic. And what
I just found myself not interested in is I didn't
want to relive that time. As soon as they got
into all the things, and it wasn't like they added
any extra context to it or did it for an
artistic reason. It was almost just documenting exactly what happened,
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why people were fighting with each other.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yeah, it was still like I'm not wearing a mask
in a grocery store. And I was like, I think
five years is actually too.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Soon, and it didn't feel like the right time to
make this movie that I found the first fifty minutes
of it very uninteresting because that's all it was.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yeah, the first fifty minutes, because the movie is like
over two and a half hour.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
It was like two twenty maybe two eighteen, and that
first hour drag.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I thought it was even longer than that.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Was it longer.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I feel like it was longer, let's see, because it
was like one hundred and forty three.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I think it was like two hours and twenty five minutes. Yeah,
that was a long movie. It's so long and very
little happens in that first hour and then it just
kind of goes off the rails where I like this director.
He also did Hereditary, He also did a Midsommar, which
are very interesting horror movies. But I kind of think
he should go back to doing horror movies.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I feel like this this was kind of a horror movie.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, it kind of was. I feel like this was
him trying to make a Quentin Tarantino style movie, or
trying to make his own version of No Country for
Old Men. Because where this movie takes you, I don't
want to ruin anything, but where the action kind of unfolded,
I feel like it kind of takes like that modern
western type vibe crime thriller, but it was doing a
(09:28):
really bad impression of it with characters that you just
didn't care about whatsoever, and then just kind of made
no sense and said no statement at the end.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Of it, and then it had like low budget gore.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yeah, that's kind of a stylistic choice. I think that's
kind of his style. Where it didn't, I think it's
done for effect. But on a movie of this scale,
it does look a little bit like it's low quality,
But I think it's on purpose. I think it's meant
to be more shocking.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I hated it.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I found myself sitting in the in the seat wanting
to leave very bad. I was very uncomfortable throughout the
majority of this movie just because there was nothing. There
was no characters that I was following along their storyline
or rooting for the story just felt like reliving a
really bad time in the world. Maybe in fifteen years
(10:16):
or twenty years we're more far removed from this, I
would have cared more about it. But I just think
overall this movie was really just uninteresting and not worth
the two hour and twenty five minute runtime. Now, especially
with I mean I like both of these actors and
now I'm a Stone and I'm a Stone and Austin
I mean, I don't really like Austin Butler, but you
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have that many people in this movie, you think somebody
would have given a performance that was worthy of Like, Okay,
I can see why they were I thought it was
still bad, so yeah, I can co sign on your
worst of the month.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
If we had seen that on a regal, we would
have left.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Because we had the unlimited in it.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
But we've actually bought tickets for it, so it was
kind of like, oh, I mean, we financially committed to this.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Right right when we're at that point of wanting to leave,
and I was gonna tell you, like you want to go,
something interesting did happen and I was like, Okay, maybe
it's going somewhere now, And it didn't really go anywhere.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I'm currently reading a book that I feel similarly about,
and I'm not even going to like say the name
and recommend it on this podcast. I wanted to not
finish it, but I bought it, and so I can't
bring myself to not finish something that I bought.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
So I'm like powering through.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I have a third left, and I need to finish
it today and just be done with it. It's one
of those where like I don't want to see dread
that sounds dramatic, but like I pick it up and
I'm like, oh, I've got to read this.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
It was like homework, yes, but eating your vegetables is
a kid, Yes, I understand that. And I have the
role of if I don't finish a movie, I can't
review it because it feels incomplete. It's like they put
out their art. If I don't at least put in
my effort of finishing the whole project, then I can't
talk about it fairly. I mean, I can say it
was so bad I didn't finish it, but that's all
I could say.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I probably would have sad, nicer things if I had
done to finish that movie.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
But that brings me to my worst of the month,
which was The Old Guard to on Netflix?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Is that what you watched on the flight home from vacation.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
How was my face while watching this movie in physical pain?
It was so And the thing about Netflix movies, there
are a couple of things. Is one they're just inherently bad.
Two is they come out so far between the other
one that I forgot what happened in the Old Guard one.
I kind of forgot the premise of it, what the
characters were about. So they didn't do a really good
job at resetting that which I was. It took me
(12:23):
maybe about ten minutes to remember exactly, Oh, yeah, they
did this, and this is the story behind them. Essentially
they live forever. That's why they're the Old Guard. But
this movie was so B level action movie and tre
least their own is a good actor be.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
As generous from what I looked over on your screen.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Because it felt like a movie that would come on
Saturday afternoons on a random channel, not even on cable,
but on broadcast TV that I used to watch as
a kid, like an old eighties movie. The acting was
so bare minimum. The special effects in this movie were
just straight. I probably could have made it's better special
effects on cap cut on my phone because I was like,
(13:04):
that's just a green screen. This looks so bad, and
all of this action just felt so generic. I hate
when I watch action movies and people are just fighting
for the sake of fighting. There's no purpose to It's
like they're a hospives yes, where you hate watching them
with me? No, I just mean like there's a certain
action movie where where two characters fight and there's a reason,
(13:24):
there's an emotional weight to it, they're fighting for a
very specific reason. In this movie, it just felt like, Okay,
we need an action sequence here, so these people are
gonna fight and then there's gonna be a chase scene
and that it was just filler. Every fight scene just
felt like filler, from the very beginning. The first opening
fight scene where they're like going to break into some house,
it just felt ridiculous. Flame fight scene.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
No, just like filler movies.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Oh yes, that is kind of what they do where
they get big stars like a Trulis thrown and now
are building these kind of franchises that they have where
they put out these movies originally like three or four
years ago and now four years later they're like, let's
make a sequel to it. So they're trying to build
these fan bases on these franchises. They don't have a
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fan base.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Which speaking of filler movies that did have a fan.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Base, Happy Gomore two, Yes, that was That was an
honorable mention because I gave The Old Guard a one
out of five, which is really low, and I gave
Happy Gomore two. I like giving movies the number that
it's in, so I give it a two out of five.
So I'm like the review is in the title, But
I was so surprised of how many people found joy
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in this movie.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Let me tell you, Taylor Swift did not watch the
whole thing, despite what her Instagram story said. I think
she watched what did she rate it thirteen out of
ten because thirteen's her number. I think she watched old
traviy scenes and was like, all right, he was.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
In it more than I anticipated him. Bad Bunny, Yeah,
I still like Bad Buddy at it. Oh.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
I loved Bad Bunny on it.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
But aside from that, it was too many cameos.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
It was so it was just cameos and callbacks.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
That's all it was, and that is what I dislike
about it the most. And I think that is what
people found enjoyment in which I don't understand. This movie
felt like exhibition. To me, some people like watching movies
to be reminded about other movies. I hate that.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
It felt almost like product placement, but with actors.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yeah. Well, I mean the first one had some product
placement in it with the whole subway thing.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Yeah, but this one more just like the actors were
the product.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah that's true. Oh yeah, because it just felt like
when it came out that it was like the biggest
movie in Netflix, had the biggest debut. It's like, yeah, well,
you have all these celebrities who have millions of followers
on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I mean, we had like Alex Earl in it.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
It was like, so strategically you put all these people
in it to get so many people to watch it,
because then you have like the WWE fanbase, and you
have post alone in it.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I already forgot he was in it.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
The biggest I mean, Bad Bunny is one of the
biggest artists in the world, not just in the United States.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Taylor Swift, well, I mean people watched for but yeah
the door she posted about it.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
So I hate comedy. I hate legacy comedy movies because
it's never gonna be as funny as the original. It
kind of tarnishes what you love about the first one.
And I know I sound like I don't like having fun.
I do like having fun. But it even takes me
back to whenever they made Dumb and Dumber two, the sequel,
where all they did was do the gags from the
first one. Is like, hey, remember what we did in
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the first one, Let's do it again. And even when
this movie started out, I was like, Okay, maybe we're
gonna get a real story here, and it felt a
little bit like, Okay, he's actually going through some things here.
And then by maybe twenty minutes into it, it just
kind of goes off the rails and they're just doing
a bunch of random jokes. It felt like a mid
SNL episode.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I did love the Sandler's Whole family, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
See. I cannot like his movies, but I can like
Adam Samer. I love Adam Sandlor because when you think
about it on the grand scale, and you'll look at
what he's doing, he is making art with his friends
and he's putting his family in it.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
So wowing the best time he is, he just gets
to He gets to do what he wants.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
And he makes a lot of money for it, and
he gets to spend time with his family. Because, if
you think about it, if you're an actor working like
he does on this on this amount of movies that
would take you away from your family, he's able to
put them in his movies. So he's working and he's
spending time with his family. It's like Jerry Jones with
a cowboy. He's like, this is why I built this
because I get to have this team that's my dream.
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But I also get to work with my family. So
the whole time I'm working, I'm spending time with them.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Oh yes, the Jones family, but it's a family.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
But he does that, and then he also brings a
super loyal friends. Even though they probably don't get along
all the time, he still brings them back because he
knows people love those characters. He keeps them working, he
gives them jobs, you can kind of put a little
spark into their career again. So I do respect him
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as an actor, as a business person, as somebody who
is making movies that he wants to make. I mean,
going back to Billy Madison, that was like the first
movie he had some creative control over, and to go
from doing that to doing this where he's like, this
is how I'm gonna make movies. It's still resonating with people,
and I don't want to say like, oh, you're dumb
for liking this movie. I wasn't for us. I just
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wanted a real plot. I wanted a real plot, like
a real reason to make a sequel to this, because
I think the story is there. I think it was
there in the beginning, and then it was just like,
let's just kind of parody all these things now. And
I guess I didn't like the golfers. There were too
many people who were not actors in significant roles.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yes did yep, the whole.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
That's why when you do have like a cool random cameo,
it's usually small and brief. But when you have those
people who don't act or not known for acting, it
makes it harder to watch because there you can obviously
tell that they are not good actors. Mainly, the Golfers
took me out of it because they were in it
so heavily.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I already honestly forgot they were in Nice.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Scotti, Scheffler and a bunch of the people on his team. Yeah.
I think that was probably was just like, okay, too
much of this which the first movie. It was a
golf movie, but it was all just about him.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Yeah, we didn't need actual PGA tour golfers.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
But that was an honorable mention for my worst of
the month. I did hate the Old Guard Wars, though.
I'll go through the list of all the movies we
watched in July. I started with Old Guard, watching it
on the plane coming back from vacation. We also watched
Jurassic World Rebirth, which I gave a two point five
out of five also generous, pretty low on the scale,
and watched Superman four point five out of five. I
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watched Opus on HBO Max, which is a movie with
au A Debris that I wanted to watch in theaters
early this year. It's a horror movie where she's like
a music writer and then goes out to cover this
artist who's kind of like a Prince type artist and
is making their first album for a very long time.
But then it gets kind of weird. It just kind
of falls in that category of a lot of movies
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right now where like somebody goes out to like a
weird retreat and there's like these weird things happening behind
the scenes, so it just kind of felt generic to me.
Eddington we gave a two at a five. Would you
rate that one? Oh?
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I give Addington a zero zero. I have never wanted
to leave a movie so bad.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
No nutritional value whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Wow, it was two and a half hours of my
life that I won't get back.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I don't think I've ever rated anything a zero before.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
I don't think I've read books a zero Most of
the time. I'm like, you put words on a page
with this, I'm too angry about it.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
So my two is generous.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
It's extremely generous.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
I gave I know what you did last summer a
two out of five.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
What's a twos?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yeah, there's a high contrast because I gave Sorry Baby
a four out of five.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
So good.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
The assessment which I watched on Hulu, which is with
Scarlet Witch, the other Olson sister, Elizabeth Olsen, Elizabeth Olsen,
the overall story wasn't as good as I thought it
was going to be. Like, the movie looked really good.
It's from a French director, so I think it kind
of had a bit of an arty vibe, but essentially
her and her husband live in like the not so
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distant future where you have to pass an assessment test
to have a kid. So the whole thing is like
somebody coming to their house and evaluating whether or not
they're allowed to have a kid. Could we implement that,
oh maybe fifty years in the future. But I gave
that one a three point five out of five, fantastic four,
a four. I gave it a four out of five.
Would you give that one?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I think a four.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I also watched a movie called Dangerous Animals. I gave
it a three point five out of five. It's about
these people who go out into like a shark tour
in the ocean, and then they find out the guys
the serial killer.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
You also called them movie like three different names when
you were trying to tell me you were like dangerous trenches,
dangerous waters, water in the trend, gary sharks.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
But Dangerous Animals is a good kind of mid level
horror movie. It was just incredibly frustrating when you watch
horror movies and you're like, why are you doing this?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
So I don't watch.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Them, and then oh hi. I gave a three point
five out of five, which I was surprised that nobody
was laughing when we went to go see that movie.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
That was one of those that I don't know if
people watch.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
The trailer, it's like an anti rom com, but I
think people thought it was straight on wrong.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I think people thought they were getting the rom com because.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
It's about a girl who goes on an away trip
with this guy she's been dating for like three or
four months, and at the very start of it he
tells her like, oh, I don't want to be in
a relationship.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Well, and it's in the trailer, but it's like our
first tripoy is a couple, and he's like, what, I
love Molly Gordon.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
So then she chains him up to the bed and
she says, Okay, I'm gonna keep you here for was
it a day? Twelve hours? And if I can convince
you of what life would be like with me as
a girlfriend, you can make your decision after that. So
it's kind of like the movie Misery, wherever she ties
up James conn in the bed for well, she just
keeps him there. But it's kind of that inspired, but
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like the gen Z version of that, where she's just
trying to get this guy to be in a relationship
with her. Yeah, I thought it was funny. We were
the only but people in the entire theater laughing, which
is that's not.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
The first time that's ever happened to us.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Yeah, but it's supposed to be. It was funny.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
It was funny. I'm telling you.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
I don't think people watch the trailer, so I think
they were like, when when does the rom come?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I think the rom come is a very interesting genre
right now because the people who want to go experience
rom coms are trying to remember those of the two thousands,
and they very much changed. Like material Lists, I would
consider a rom com, But when I did that review,
people are like, that's not a rom com. It doesn't
have the traditional things that a rom com has. So
I think it has evolved, much like the horror genre
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has evolved. How would you rate the three Pedro Pascal
movies that we watched the summer, because we've watched material
Lists which came out at the start of the summer,
We watched Eddington, and then we watched Fantastic Four, which
came out within a week of each other.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Fantastic Four number one, Materials number two, and then I'm
not even rating Eddington.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
It's off the board.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I'll rate and I'll put it as exist. After watching
all those movies without revealing anything about how much they
are specifically in it, can you feel that he is
a little bit overworked right now?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Yeah, because he's busy.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
If you'll go to a theater and you see which
Pedro Pescal movie do you want to watch, you see
him on three different posters like how did he have
enough time?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
And he's booked them busy.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Yeah, I definitely feel it in Eddington that maybe he
fit that in between those movies. Maybe he like went
back and forth a little bit, or he's like, Pedro's
here this amount of days you have him for this movie.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
I feel like that's how it is.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Because whenever we went to the Baby Girl screening with
Nicole Kinman, she kind of talked about what it's like
to do an a twenty four movie. Yes, where you're
you have a lot longer days, but they're very It's
less of a schedule because you have less days to
do it, but the days are longer, so it is
a little bit more demanding because of the smaller budget.
I would have to imagine that's what it was like
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filming both of those A twenty.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Four Meetings with Cemeterialists was A twenty four as.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Well, So I kind of want him to be in
less things moving forward, just because he was in Last
of Us this year, He's in a lot. He is
so hot right now that people are starting to get
sick of him. I worry that because I still like him.
I like him in everything, but I don't want him
to reach that level of Chris Pratt where people just
feel like he's in everything and they ye, they also.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Just hate Chris Pratt for others.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Yeah, I guess it could be a little bit of
Chris Pratt, but I.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Think it's like Chris Brad is a person honestly that
people don't like it. And it wasn't a lot, but
I think there's like more on the personal side.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
But I feel like people hated it when he was
cast as Mario and then as like Garfield, and like,
did they just get Chris Pratt for everything? And he
doesn't put any effort into it?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
And those are also movies. Really do you just need
like a paycheck? Brow everything's good, you're not making the mortgage.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
But you did send me that story of Pedro Pascal's
allegedly his role being reduced a little bit in the
next Avengers movie, which I saw the director say that
he was never really cue up to be like the
star in the head of the new Avengers team. So
I don't really think we know what that's going to be.
And me kind of knowing from just reading the comics
where Doomsday and Cuitecret Wars are going, We're gonna have
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a lot of characters come together. So I don't really
think there's gonna be one even one team that's kind
of the main in either of those movies, because I
think it's about to get very large. So I think
it's gonna be a lot different than Infinity War to Endgame,
where it's gonna be just so many people in it.
We saw the chair announcement. You saw how many chairs
were at that thing when they were like, all these
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people are gonna be in this movie.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
I would also like to go back to what you
said that I sent you that story. Yes I did.
I do a lot of unpaid intern work for this.
I would just like to pat myself on that. I
find a lot of stories for you.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
That was a good one. Thank you, Because I think
people are wondering now after watching Fantastic for how it's
gonna feed in because the only next movie in Marvel
what that we're getting is the Spider Man movie and
then Doomsday. Which one are you more excited for? I
think you know my answer.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
I love Spider Man.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
I'm gonna go spider.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
I'm going Spider Man too, just because we've never had
an actor who has played Spider Man get a fourth movie.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Tom Hollins's about to be the Petropascal of next summer.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Yeah, he's gonna be Oh yeah, the Odyssey trailer. Mm hmmm,
he's gonna be in a lot him And'sendaya together. Do
you have a TV show for this month? Because I
do not. I have not finished the show. And it's
weird that we live in an age where we still
have slow seasons for TV shows. You think there's gould
be great stuff coming out all year round, just because
of the way streaming works. But I guess even streaming
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services kind of take a slow down during the summer.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
I do I bene all of Jenny and Georgia.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Oh yeah, I've watched episodes here and there. I've kind
of pieced it together just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
It's nothing groundbreaking. It's good though.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
I was glad that I had three seasons to benge
and now I'm like, oh, I have to wait. But
then I started The Marvelous Missus Masel, which again is
also an older one. Also glad that I have all
of that to bene, but I was like, I need
more Rachel Brosnahan after Superman. So I'm watching that and
that's delightful so far.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
The only thing I'm watching currently is the WWE show
on Netflix, which is like the documentary it's supposed to
be like the behind the scenes stuff they never wanted
or stuff we would never show you of them, kind
of breaking the illusion of how real wrestling is the
fourth wall, which I think has kind of been broken
in modern wrestling, where they show you exactly like how
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strategic everything is, like how everything's on a calendar, every
single movement and plot line is as all these people
behind it.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Honestly, that's really upsetting to me why it's so fake.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I mean, the storylines are fake, but people still get injured,
Like whenever somebody gets hurt in real life, they have
to write it into the show. But it is interesting
because they do talk about some of the wrestlers go
to the writers and they want to know before a match,
am I gonna win? Or am I gonna lose? And
sometimes they don't know. I don't like them, it's just weird.
That part of it is kind of weird because they
are performers. It is sports entertainment. But then you have
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to think, like, man, I can't even win this match
if I want to, because it's it's determined, it's written
in the script because they have all these plot lines
they need to play out over all these big events.
So I find that part interesting. But I also find
I'm not as turned off by the fact that it's
not quote unquote real, that it's fake, because yes, it
is kind of like a soap opera. But it's interesting
(28:52):
to see these people want to reach a level of
success and the only people that are in the way
are the writers because they become the ww champion. You
can't just become the champion. They have to say you
are now worthy of doing this, and we're going to
write you in. So that part is crazy. You have
a book, I do my book club read project Hail
Mary oh Am, I going to have a really hard
(29:15):
time reading it.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Not a really hard time.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
But I will say someone who has a science background,
there were even things and my background's not like molecular
biology like he is in the book, but I have
a pretty good understanding of scientific concepts and even some
things I was like, I gotta remember what that is.
And then there were there's some things that you just
can't even visualize, so you just have to accept it
and be like, Okay, I'm accepting that this exists, but
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I don't know what it looks like in my head,
if that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Did you go back and watch the trailer after fish it?
Are you excited for it? Does it fit? Does it
look like what you kind of thought? Even though you
kind of saw the trailer a little bit.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
But I would try to go to the bathroom every
time the trailer came. Yeah, because I really didn't want.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
You're not going to watch it, But we didn't think
about when we'd go to the movies that they'd give
us like to get out of here.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah, I'm very excited for it.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
It actually helped having seen a little bit of the
trailer because I read the book in Gossling's voice.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
I read it as like Ken Barbie.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
See whenever I read Hunger Games, it was before the
movies came out, and I didn't associate Jennifer Lawrence at
all with that character, and to the point that when
I watched the movie, I was like, you're not Catnus
and that's not what I pictured in my home. But
the movie comes out on March twentieth, twenty twenty six,
so I have I have some time to read it.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Yeah, I have faith in you.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
I'm going to read it and I want to experience that.
Even though I've already seen the trailer and people say
there are some spoilers in.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
There, not that many, though nothing that like it's like, oh,
you shouldn't read the book, Like I still think you
will appreciate having read the book.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
I'm good then, but you do have to not read
it fast.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
But I feel like you have to keep the momentum
so you don't forget the things because it's very detailed.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Okay, once I'm in a book, I'm good.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
I wouldn't know.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I havn't seen you read one, Like if I could
just sit down, like probably we go on our trip,
if I take it with me and I'm on a plane,
and that's all I have like that's when I do
my best reading because I'm like, what else am I
gonna do? Okay, so that is my next task and
six am flight. Yes, it could happen anything else. No,
(31:17):
it's hot, it's fine. I'm so over the heat. Yeah,
I'm gonna go jump into a cold bath right now.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Our water doesn't get cold.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
I got a new water heater, which we will appreciate
in the winter. But you're right, like I find myself.
I don't even turn it over to the hot side
because it's not hot.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
It it's not cold.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
I turn it down as cold as it will go.
But then it gets like really like like no water,
and then you're just turning it off. I'm like, oh man,
get colder. All right. I'll come back and give my
spoiler free review of The Naked Gun. Let's get into
it now. A spoiler free movie review of The Naked
Gun starring Liam Neeson, although I might be a little
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bit just loose on the term spoiler free because I
don't really think this is going to be a movie
that I can spoil. I think talking about some of
the comedic elements that I actually ended up enjoying, which
I thought I was going to hate this movie. I
saw the trailer for it, and I thought, that looks
so dumb. The scene in particular that almost kept me
from watching this movie was whenever you see the girl
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enter the bank and then turn into leem Neeson and
then start fighting people. I thought, no way could a
parody movie be good in twenty twenty five. I also
don't know how much of the fan base was really
itching for another one of these movies, except maybe the
couple next to me in the theater. They were probably
a good twenty to thirty years older than me. The
original came out back in nineteen eighty eight, so it's
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been thirty seven years. Those people might have been waiting
for this movie. Me in particular, I was not. But
it does come to us from director Akiva Schaeffer, who
I had faith in. I just didn't think the actual
movie was going to be good. But I am here
to admit I was wrong. The Naked Gun is actually
a funny movie. And let me tell you why I
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think it works now. I'm gonna relate it to a
recent comedy Legacy sequel that we got Happy Gilmore too.
Even in the Sandler verse, it was a lot of
just recalling old things they did in that movie. Here
it's something completely different, because a Naked Gun actually builds
its own world where everything is ridiculous in the best way.
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This movie is a Looney Tunes cartoon brought to life
with a lot of great writing, a lot of great
jokes per minute. So consistently throughout this entire movie, you're
getting joke after joke, recurring bit after recurring bit. But
not only things in the foreground. You're getting things in
the background, small little details put in there to make
you laugh. Now, are all of them huge big moments
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that are gonna have you on the floor of the
theater laughing, split in your side. No, but it consistently
just tries to make you laugh. It commits to every
single joke, a lot of play on words, which I
kind of think is the DNA of this franchise, and
a lot of it just work, and I was not
expecting it to. From the very beginning, the very opening sequence,
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I was like, Okay, I'm in for this ride. And
it honestly didn't take me a long time to believe
in Liam Neeson in this role, which I thought was
going to be the hardest part, because I just see
him as the taken guy. Really, but what this movie
is about. He is investigating a bank robbery and then
it starts investigating a car crash somebody died, but Pamela
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Anderson's character was the brother of the guy who died
in the crash and said, I don't think he killed himself.
I think there's somebody else behind it. And that's really it.
A very minimal plot of him just trying to figure
out who the bad guy is and how this crime unfolded,
and what you get through all of that is a
series of comedic events that just work. Liam Neeson was great.
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I thought Pamela Anderson was really great in this role
as well. They have some pretty good on screen chemistry.
She also has surprisingly some really good comedic timing. But
hands down my favorite part of this movie was Paul
Walter Houser, who I believe just owns every that he
does right now. He was just in The Fantastic Four
as the mole Man. I also loved him, and I
think you should leave the Tim Robinson show. He is
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somebody who I believe is one of the best new
faces in comedy and it's great to see him start
to get bigger roles. I think now that people are
becoming a little bit more familiar with him, they're like, Oh,
isn't that the guy from Richard Jewel. He's actually pretty funny.
I think his character should have had a little bit
more of a presence, because anytime his character was on screen,
I loved it. There were three reoccurring bits that I
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love now. I said I wasn't going to give away
any spoilers, and I don't really think this is spoiling anything,
but these are the type of things that are inside
of a Naked Gun movie at number three. At number
three is whenever they are at risk of getting shut down,
immediately Paul walter Hauser is standing out front with his
box and his spirit Halloween sign goes up behind him.
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I thought that was hilarious. At number two, whenever they
were investigating the car crash and they're trying to get
it out of the water. Liam Neeson does a terrible
job at investigating, and then they're like, all right, nothing
else to see here, and you think they're going to
be smart in the way that they pull out the car,
but then the guy working the crane literally has like
the claw from the claw machine. And then pulls it up,
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And that is the best representation of this movie. It
goes all in and allows everything to be ridiculous. But
number one, my favorite bit in the movie is they
keep making fun of how in action movies and cop
movies they always get a fresh cup of coffee. So
they're getting a fresh cup and then immediately get another
fresh cup, and then the cups keep getting bigger and
bigger and bigger, And I just thought that was funny
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the way they committed to that. And my final question
about this movie does length matter? Because this movie was
over before I knew it, And I think that's also
what led to my enjoyment, is because the humor will
start to wear on you a little bit because it
kind of starts to be the same thing over and over,
and even though you really enjoy it for those first
thirty to forty five minutes, it starts to reach a
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point of like, Okay, this is still funny, and I
get that they're still firing off jokes and firing off jokes,
but it does get a little less and less novel
as it goes along. But before I knew it, this
movie was over. It was under one hour and fifteen minutes,
which I think is probably the lowest run time I've
ever seen in theaters, and I ended up loving it.
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I think different categories of movies do require different run times. Now,
if a movie is just good, all out good, no
bad things to say about it, it can go on
as long as it wants. But if a movie is
kind of teetering on the line of I don't know
if I like this, I don't know if I'm really
committed to it, the runtime can be very influential. And
before this movie, I would say a great comedy run
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time is ninety minutes. But if you could make a
movie in one hour and fifteen minutes, I think it
has to be as ridiculous as The Naked Gun. But
one hour in fifteen minutes is also pretty good, because,
like I said, it kind of tricks your mind into thinking,
I'm a little bit over this. Oh it's already over.
Everybody's leaving, all right, I'm good. I think I enjoyed
that because it got me out of there really quickly,
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said what it needed to say, did all the gags,
and didn't waste time trying to build anything else that
didn't need to For an art house, movie I feel
is right around the one hour and forty minute range.
Art House movies are usually a little bit lower budget,
the story is kind of stretched out a little bit more,
and anything more than an hour and forty minutes starts
to feel a little taxing to me. A horror movie,
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I think right now needs to be one hour and
forty five minutes. I think that is the sweet spot
for horror enough to really build that story in the
first twenty minutes, really ramp up in that forty minute mark,
and then really start to go off the rails about
that one hour, one hour and ten minute mark, and
those final thirty to twenty minutes give you a great
final battle. I think one forty five is the perfect
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runtime for a horror movie. When it comes to superhero movies,
I used to say two and a half hours, but
recently I think right around that two hour mark, which
is what DC and Marvel are both starting to do,
is kind of that sweet spot. Maybe it's because we
have a little bit of superhero fatigue, but I think
two hours, maybe even one fifty five is the perfect
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vic amount right now for a superhero movie. Now, if
it's an Avengers level movie, I'm okay with the two
forty five for Secret Wars, I will give you another
three hours for that one. And speaking in run times,
I feel like I've talked about this movie too long
at this point because the movie was only one hour
and fifteen minutes and I'm still hearing abbit about it.
So for The Naked Gun, because it proved me wrong,
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I get it three point five out of five big
old coffy cups. It's time to head down to movie.
Mike Trey lar Pard, how much Avatar can we take?
Because Fire and Ashes coming out of this year on
December nineteenth. We have another one coming out in twenty
twenty nine with Avatar four, and then Avatar five comes
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out in twenty thirty one. Before this, in twenty twenty two,
we got The Way Water, but there was a big
gap between one and two because Avatar came out back
in two thousand and nine. And not only are these
movies mapped out from now until twenty thirty one, they
are also girthy movies. Avatar one two hours and forty
(40:06):
two minutes, just flirting with that three hour runtime, The
Way of Water three hours and twelve minutes, Fire and
Ash the exact same runtime of three hours and twelve minutes.
I can only imagine four and five are gonna be
at least three hours and twelve minutes. So not only
do we have five of these movies, but we also
(40:27):
have to prepare ourselves before we go watch these movies
in theaters, limit our liquids beforehand, plot out when is
a good time to go to the bathroom. And what
I've learned from the Way of Water is pretty much
every act is an hour. So if you have to
go pee while watching Avatar, A thing I do with
every single movie I go watch is I time in it.
(40:47):
So I would say, right when that first hour is
wrapping up, maybe go five minutes into the next hour,
just in case there's like a big action sequence. But
every hour is pretty much an act. So if you
have to go pee, go in that fifty five to
one oh five range and add that to the two
hour mark, and then you kind of got to stay
at three hour mark. But this is a lot of Avatar,
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and it's a very polarizing franchise because I think we wonder,
how do these movies make so much money, why are
they so successful, and why are we getting so many
of these? But In this one, we have a new
tribe leader who is the new villain in this movie,
who looks pretty menacing. Her name is Verring. I believe
(41:31):
it is how you pronounce that she is the villain.
In Fire and Ash, she is tormenting Jake Sully and
his family as he attempts to protect her from her wrath.
She looks how you would imagine a villain look in
an Avatar movie. Still has the blue skin, but also
has white, black and red body paint, so it kind
of has like a warrior vibe, which they all kind
of have a warrior vibe. I saw the trailer when
(41:53):
I went to go see Fantastic Four, and I saw
that in Imax, so I got to experience it just
a little bit, get that little taste of what the
this is gonna look like on the big screen, and
I liked it. This third installment introduces the Ash people,
described as fierce fire wielding warriors who dance around blazing
pits of flame. I would also describe myself that way,
except I'm not blue, I'm brown, baby. But I want
(42:15):
to dive into Avatar. Why is it so successful? Why
does James Caermon just put all of his time and
energy into these movies, and why is this going to
be the legacy that he leaves behind. Before we get
into all of that, here's just a little bit of
the Avatar three trailer.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
You cannot live like.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
This baby in hate. If there's something you can't do it,
then you must do it.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
No, no, no, that's fine. Then we will find another way.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
Your goddess has no a Meniunia. So it looks like
we are picking up from wherever Way of Water left off,
which in that one they had to leave Pandora, leave
their home, go out to live with these people who
(43:19):
are water based, hit the Way of Water and still
have to battle this difficult war against the humans. It
kind of looks like the same thing happening here again,
constantly on the run, constantly just trying to protect their children.
When it comes to Avatar movies, I was a hater
in the beginning, but now seeing a lot of movies
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use very very suspicious techniques when it comes to just
getting special effects passable, and that has become unacceptable to me.
Whenever I see a special effect that looks like it
could have been fine tuned to see it on the
big screen, just look mediocre. I just really start to
hold it against these movies when they continue to do that.
(44:01):
They continue to rush their production to get this movie
out sooner and cut corners when it comes to the
special effects. But James Cameron does not do that. Each
one of these movies is so immersive. Whether it's the visuals,
whether it's the score, whether it's the acting, it is
all at the top of its game constantly. So it's
(44:22):
so reliable on its ability to create a spectacle that
it has audiences still pouring in to go watch these
movies in theaters because they are an event. And I
do believe this is a passion project of James Cameron.
He wrote the first treatment to Avatar back in nineteen
ninety four when it was called Project eight eighty. From
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that eighty page treatment, he began working on a screenplay
for this fictional universe in early two thousand and six,
with a movie finally coming out in two thousand and nine.
So from when he first wrote the initial draft to
when he actually started developing the screenplay, including the language,
including this whole fictional universe of Pandora, that was over
(45:06):
a decade, and then three years later Avatar came out
in two thousand and nine, and then another decade plus
three years go by before we got the sequel to
that movie. And I find it interesting when people put
the classification of a passion project on somebody's work. Oftentimes
that means it is something that they are doing just
(45:29):
for the love of doing it, even though it is
not financially successful. I think artists hate that term because
of the connotation that, oh, I'm just doing this as
a passion project, meaning I would do this even if
I wasn't getting paid. I don't care if it's successful.
I just need to get this creativity out of my
head and onto a screen or onto a canvas, and
(45:51):
I don't care if it ever sees a dime. But
even though this is a passion project for James Cameron,
these movies have the opposite effect. They are some of
the highest grossing movies of all time. And why is that.
It's not only because they are successful in the United States,
which the biggest movies in the world are often American movies.
(46:13):
We only look at the numbers here, but if you
look at the numbers specifically for Avatar one, only twenty
six point nine percent of the money made at the
box office was domestic. The other seventy three point one
percent came from the international box office. And that is
the gold that James Cameron has struck. And I would
(46:33):
hate to say that the movie is so middle of
the road that it appeals to everybody, because I don't
think these are mediocre movies. I just think he is
the master filmmaker and knows how to create a story
that has a wide appeal. And when it comes to
the Avatar movies, they are blue people. They are not
specific to anybody. You could argue the fact that we
(46:55):
could all see a little bit of ourselves in these
people because they are blue and alien like. You don't
associate a race to them because it has that sci
fi element. And due to the fact that because you
don't see American actors on the screen, even though the
people voicing them and doing the motion capture for them
are for the most part American people. But all you
(47:16):
have to do is have actors who speak different languages
go in and do the voice acting to fit any country.
Because these movies are huge in China, France, over in
the UK and Spain. They do so well over there
because of that, So it's not just because it's the
middle of the road that it doesn't offend too many people.
(47:37):
There are just a lot of elements in Avatar that
appeal to not only different people around the world, but
also inside of demographics. It appeals to the older audience.
It appeals to the twenty thirty year olds who are
into the sci fi element. That's where I follow in.
And then it even appeals to kids because well, technically
(47:58):
it's kind of animated and bright and colorful, very immersive,
and there's a lot of action. So they're also not
so artsy that they turn people off, and they're also
not so bottom of a barrel lowest common denominator that
maybe somebody who is turned off by those type of movies,
those aka popcorn movies, still feels challenged by a movie
(48:19):
like this, still feels like they're getting something out of
it that they can sink their teeth into and not
just watching something dumb and mindless like a Fast and
the Furious movie, which also does well internationally. But I
am a huge proponent of these movies now, but I
will say I still have to psych myself up to
go and watch a movie that's three hours and fifteen
minutes even though I do not mind a long runtime
(48:42):
on a movie if it is warranted, and James Cameron
has proved to me that it is warranted, that he
can hold my attention and my overall curiosity for that
entire runtime. But I still have to psych myself up
because there's something about going to the movies. Go in
and it's daytime, and you come out and it's dark,
(49:03):
You're like, man, how long was I in there? Because
then you factor in the twenty five to thirty minutes
of previews, and then that's like a four hour event
with the driving, So that will eat up your entire
weekend when you go watch Avatar in December. But I
still think it is worth it. I've still enjoyed all
of these movies, and I think I will continue to
(49:25):
enjoy four and five. So I am all in for Avatar,
Fire and Ash coming out on December nineteenth.
Speaker 2 (49:33):
Said that was this week's edition of movie Line Tramer
bar Ah.
Speaker 1 (49:38):
And that is gonna be the episode for this week.
That'll do it. But before I go, I'm gonna give
my listener shout out of the week this week, I'm
going over to TikTok, which you can follow me over there.
Put the link in the episode notes. If you search
Mike Dstro you can find me on TikTok. For some reason,
I can't change my username, guys, but it is me.
(49:59):
I promise I'm going over to I posted some clips
from my Fantastic Four review, which is a movie that
I still want to go watch again in theaters to
experience it. I still also need to go and watch
Superman again in theaters. So as soon as I'm through
all these movies coming out in August that look really good,
(50:19):
I will go back and rewatch some of the ones
from July. But this week I'm going over to TikTok
and shouting out Mayo Ketchup, which is a fantastic user
name who commented on that Fantastic Four video of me
talking about how much I love the suits and said
I'm gonna say Eternals have much better suits, but don't
(50:40):
fight me. Listen, Mayo ketchup. That is a hot take
for sure, maybe one of the hottest ever. Like ho hot, hot,
hot hot, because the Eternals. Oh, because aside from the
storytelling in that movie, one of the things I dislike
the most were the suits. And I'm big into figure
collect and every single figure from the Eternal's movie, all
(51:05):
the action figures that were made in preparation for that
because they thought it was going to be a huge success.
They are still sitting on shelves in discount stores across America.
They are burning the pegs of any allays that you
go to because people just don't want them. And why
do they don't want them is because the suits are terrible.
(51:29):
Superhero suits are what sell comic books, They're what make
people buy tickets to go watch them in theaters. They
sell t shirts, they sell merchandise because if a superhero
has a cool suit, you want to see that suit,
you want to see that logo. And man, that is
such a hot take, because I feel like nothing about
those suits stands out, the fact that pretty much all
(51:49):
of them are the same, just different colors. They look
so boring to me. But to say something like that,
that is so bold, to stand up for a movie
that so many people people just dislike. I applaud you,
Mayo Ketchup. You said not to fight you about this,
so I won't fight you. I will counter you with
saying how bad the suits are, But I respect your
(52:11):
opinion to say that, so thank you for listening, thank
you for being subscribed, And until next time, go out
and watch good movies and I will talk to you
later
Host
Mike D
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