Mike and Kelsey break down a big month of movies. They share their best and worst films for the month of August which saw everything from Lindsay Lohan returning to the big screen to Mike dragging Kelsey to the horror movie of the year despite hating Halloween movies. Mike also talks about what he believes will be the worst movie of the decade. In the Movie Review, Mike talks about Caught Stealing starring Austin Butler, Regina King, Zoë Kravitz and Bad Bunny. It’s about a burned-out ex-baseball player who unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous struggle for survival amidst the criminal underbelly of 1990s New York City, forced to navigate a treacherous underworld he never imagined. Mike talks about Austin Butler’s performance as a lead, did the movie change Mike’s perception based on the trailer and why Bad Bunny and Action Bronson stole the show. In the Trailer Park, Mike talks about Good boy. It’s a horror film told entirely from the perspective of a dog. How the internet changed the trajectory of this movie and why horror is king in 2025.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's movie podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike, and we are here to
talk about our best and worst of August.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
How are you great?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
I couldn't be better.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
We got that hint of like fall.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I made pumpkin muffins this week. I got the pumpkin
candles out. I'm thriving. It's one of those where you're
like those memes where it's like I didn't hate life,
I just needed it to be twenty degrees cooler. And
I felt that in my soul. There was a chill
in the air this week, and I was like, oh, okay.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
But we are here to talk about all of the
movies we watched in August, which were a lot a
lot of movies. In the movie review, I'll be talking
about Cott Stealing. How do you feel about Austin Butler
going into this movie.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I've had a heart change this week. I was little,
and by a little, I mean a lot sick of him.
After Elvis, it was just like Austin Butler everywhere. I'm
back to finding him endearing, mainly because I saw an
interview where he did was bike Riders just last year? Yeah, okay,
he did an interview with this journalist and she mentioned
having a pet bunny, and then he did an interview
(00:56):
with her this week for Cott Stealing, and he remembered
that she's the one with the pet bunny. And I
was like, that's pretty cool of him for being someone
at his level, and I'm back to finding him not
obnoxious anymore. But it was. It was a hard two years.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
And in the trailer park, we'll be talking about a
horror movie that went viral about a dog.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
It's a horror movie from the perspective of the dog.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I feel like you need to stop saying that word horror.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
That's the genre, though you got a real horrord because
I don't want to say scary movie.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Scary movie might be better.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
It's not a genre. Though scary movie is not a genre. Well, anyway,
let's talk movies.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Let's do it from the Nashville Podcast Network This movie
Mike Movie pot.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
All right, our best and worst movies of August.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Kick us off, Kelsey with the best thing you saw
this month?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I want to go freak your Friday.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Probably what I expected from you, but not what I
expected to be one of the best movies of August.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
That's what I expected from you? Could you basic be you.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Love two thousands, pop culture? You love Lindsay Lohan.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Lindsay Lohan renaissance is healing me.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
And this is her first time she's been in theaters
aside from some cameo. Was like her first starring role
since I think twenty nineteen, which doesn't sound like that
long ago, but it's like seven years ago at this point.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Six years movie since then.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
How'd you feel about her performance?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I thought she was great, Like, put Lilo in everything again,
put her in. I think it's a breath of fresh air.
I love that she is still acting. You know, she
had some really hard years. She's come back, she's married,
she has a kid. Now she's like thriving in a
better place. And you could see that, Like I felt
like she had fun filming the movie, Like it just
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seemed like everyone had fun.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I was expecting it to be another Disney cash grab,
given it's not a remake, but it is a legacy sequel.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I thought it was just going to be them doing
the same thing over again, not really adding a whole
lot to the story.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
And what I was most surprised by is there was
an actual reason to make this movie.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah, you have.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Her character now older, she has a daughter, Jamie what
always forgetting to be Curtis? I would say Jamie Presley
because I've been watching my name is zero Jamie Lee.
Curtis is now that the grandma, and it's all the
younger people now switching with the older people. So you
got double the freaky Friday, making it freaky your Friday.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I gotta say, though, John Michael Murray, what about him? Listen?
I was a Lucas girl when I watched One Tree Hill.
He was such a heart throb. He gives me the ick,
like mega ick, Like I feel embarrassed for him when
he is on my screen.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Is it because you think he's clinging on to his
heart throbbedness from the two thousands? Okay, so he's hanging
on for dear life with those blonde highlights.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Blond highlights, those frosted tips. It really is like he
is hanging on to Lucas Scott. He left the show
in like season six, like two thousand and nine, so
we're sixteen years later and he is still he is
clinging to that life raft.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I did say.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
The thing I hated the most about this movie was
the fact that it made him even a little bit
more relevant again, just because I feel like he's one
of those people who has been around for so long
and now it's like, Okay, now I'm back in a
movie that was a hitden a.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Canadian TV show right now, that's even too cheesy for
me to watch. No offense, if you watch it, I
if I get bored, I probably will, But just the
clips I see, I'm like, oh, it's like that cringe.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
We're just like, yeah, he's one that I don't like
watching in interviews at all because of what he since.
He's like, name an actor who hasn't had a downfall
in their career.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I can name a lot of actors.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, but I mean he was in everything like Cinderella's Story,
he was in Gilmore Girls, he was in One Tree Hill,
he was in the original Freaky Friday. Like he had
a time of really being the heart throb of the
early two thousands, and that time is.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
What would you rate it?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Four out of five? What kind of guitarists? You play?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
A Fender? I think it's a telecaster. I'm pretty sure
a telecaster.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Okay, four out of five telecasters.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
For my Best of the Month, it is the movie
I drug you to see it as weapons, which I
gave a four point five out of five.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I was bullied into seeing that movie because it wasn't
just you. My brothers were in town.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And half of the people wanted to go see it.
Half of the people were against going to see a
horror movie.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
And I made the mistake of sitting next to my
fifteen year old brother, So every time I covered my
face with my jacket, he pulled it off my face,
but look I for him. I had my eyes closed too.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
That was the deal I made going into it.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I would warn you anytime a scary part would come up,
and I did that, And really the only way I
can tell that is anytime it goes dark. Anytime there's
nighttime scenes in a horror movie, you're probably about to
enter into a scary, usually some kind of jump scare.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
It got less scary as I understood the plot more.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Did you end up enjoying it because you don't like
horror movies at all?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Wouldn't say I enjoyed it, but I didn't hate it.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Was I right in gearing you towards that it wasn't
gonna be like a full on and there were some parts.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I don't even like suspense. I don't like that heart
pounding feeling. I don't need that As a woman. I
feel that when I'm walking down show. I don't need
a movie to see that. I don't need to feel
like somebody's lurking behind me in the theater.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Don't.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I truly don't. I really don't.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Well, I gave it a four point five out of five.
What would you give it?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I mean, for what it was three out of five.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I'll take that, Yeah, and I'll never force you to
go see another horror movie again.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
It was you know what I watch if I want
to be scared? What the news?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
That's true, there's not much worse you can get than
watching the news. I just look outside in our windows
sometimes and there's nothing scarier than that in the real world.
That's why you get to be an adult and you're like,
I'm not scared about some killer clown anymore. I'm scared
about these interest rates. But that is our best of August.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
What do you have for the worst.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Okay, so we're gonna switch gears from scary movies. I'm
gonna go with one that came out on Netflix at
the beginning of the month. I downloaded it, thought I
was gonna watch it on my flight to Denver at
the start of the month, ended up reading a book,
never got around to watching it, and then I saw
that the book was on Unlimited, so was like, I'm
gonna download it, and I started reading it the other night.
It is My Oxford Dear. The book is by Julia Wheeland.
(07:06):
The book I thought was good, predictable. I don't want
to say what it reminds you of. It's similar to
some other books that are kind of out there you
can see where it's going, but good and easy read.
The book was good. The movie, what did I watch
it was they rushed the story. They changed too many
things about the character there was It was just like
the main plot point just kind of like came out
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of nowhere. It was bad. It was just bad.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I tried to watch it with you, and I'll watch anything.
I didn't even feel like it was a movie in
those first twenty minutes. It felt like they were trying
to make a series and they ran out of ideas
and were like, Okay, let's just cut our losses and
turn this into a movie.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Thank you for that. Tea up to my next point.
I think that I am now on the book to
TV mini series pipeline now. The only one that I
didn't kind of like was the last thing he told
me on Apple, the Jennifer Garner one. They kind of
dragged that one out, but they could have just made
it less episodes. I think that a book to mini series,
I'm talking we were liars and Amazon Prime. The summer
I turned pretty. I feel like there's more, but I'm
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forgetting them. That's better to me because you have more
time to develop the plot.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Big Little Lives, Big Little Lives.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Great one, Thank you U. Nine Perfect Strangers, anything in
that realm. You have time to develop the characters. This
was just like word vomit in a movie, almost, which
does have me excited for the Harry Potter mini series.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I think that's going to crush now.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I think that the Harry Potter movies were great. They
had the privilege of a gigantic budget, set, design, directors,
all the things I think in Netflix has much more
limited budget. But I also think in a movie like
My Oxford Near where you didn't really need that big
of a cent, you could have done it better. But
I think I'm now team booked to mini series. Anyways,
(08:49):
that was my worst of the month.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
What would you rate it?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I know, one point five on A five, it's yeah,
that's pretty bad. Supreme amone. I feel like a trailing me.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
A two is still watchable. A two is still like
I watched this. There was nothing I really took away
from it, but I didn't hate it.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I think this actually would have been better on an
airplane with an in flight glass of like any movie. Yeah,
it was funny because I posted on my Instagram after
I read the book that I was going to watch
the movie and I was like curious to see how
they compare. And I had a lot of people being like,
they don't and they were like, I actually didn't read
the book, but I'm just going to tell you the
movie you didn't compare. Anyways, the book was so much
better per usual. I don't think I've ever seen anything
(09:28):
where the book wasn't better.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
The only historic example I could think of is there's
a Forrest Gump book that it was based on, but
I don't think a lot of people know about that.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Aside from that, I really can't name another one. There's
probably some really weird Obscure Ones, probably.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
For my worst of the month.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
It is not only the worst movie I saw in August,
but I think it is going to be the worst
movie of the decade.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
It is War of the Worlds, which.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I already forgot.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
You watched it, I kind of.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I really only watched it at a spite because I
saw it nobody talking about it online. It is the
Amazon movie with ice Cube about the end of the world.
And the thing that a lot of people didn't realize
at the time of watching it is it was actually
made back in twenty twenty during the pandemic, which makes
more sense because it takes place pretty much all over Zoom,
not even Zoom Microsoft teams.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
I have enough teams calls. Did they do the team sound? Yes?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Oh, the teams sound they have like FaceTime called Witch.
When done right, I think can be entertaining, like a
movie like Searching. That movie was good. There was some
direction behind it. There was a story behind that that
made that movie engaging. There are movies like Unfriended, which
is one of my favorite horror movies, kind of my
guilty pleasure horror movie.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
It's all over Skype.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Again, not a great movie, but there's something about that
way that movie is put together and the story is
told that.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Makes it interesting.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
There's really nothing interesting about War of the Worlds. I
give it a point five. At a five, it is
so bad. There are moments that you see ice Cube
speaking like he's reading straight off the script, and even
the trailer of the movie you can see the green
screen reflect in his glasses. His acting performance is so flat,
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which I have to imagine if the film during the pandemic,
it was just him probably on a team's call with
the director and them just giving him the lines and
him just recording it. So it feels really disconnected. And
there are moments where bad things happen to the people
he supposedly loves in the movie, and he has like
zero reactions, Like what you would feel if your candy
(11:35):
bar fell on the floor versus what something traumatic that
your person that you care about is going through.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Okay, but your candy bar on the floor could be dramatic.
Should we rethink about Jurassic.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
That spawned the whole movie could be dramatic. But it
was also crazy that there was no press done for
this movie. It just kind of came out on Amazon
was number one for a while and then really is
through wordlts, through word of mouth. Yeah, I mean, you
can do whatever you want making something number one in
year old platform that's really all just deployed heart make
(12:08):
people think like, oh, this is actually pretty good. None
of the actors did any promotion for it, so I
have to imagine Amazon was just sitting on it for
a while and just said, you know what, let's put
this thing out and see what happens. But I also
think they kind of won because there were so many
forced Amazon ads inside of the movie. At one point
they send somebody a two hundred dollars Amazon gift card.
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One of the main characters works for Amazon as a
delivery driver, so at one point, ice Cube goes online
to Amazon dot Com and orders a USB drive and
he's like, I'll have it ship through Amazon Air.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
And they're like, what is that it.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Is that that's so bad?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
So I really think that they kind of got their
money's worth here. And I also think that there's kind
of something going on in the world right now where
bad negativity on your brand is also good. There is
some promotion that, I mean, it's people talking about it
you might pay for where if you put out something
that is so inherently bad, or you do something knowing
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that it's going to spark a negative reaction. I almost
think in a way that is more successful than a
mediocre ad where you maybe reach like ten percent of
who you were trying to reach. It is a very
delicate thing to walk because it could blow up in
your face and you kill your entire brand. But I
think in this case, Amazon's probably not gotta hurt from this.
(13:32):
And now, as I mentioned that it is one of
the worst movies of the decade, whenever people do lists
or talk about the worst movies they've ever seen, this
is going to be on that list, and then it's
inherently going to make people talk about Amazon.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
So I think it's kind.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Of a lose win situation where yeah, you lose by
making a really bad product, but you also win in
all the free advertisement.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Which does Amazon even need advertisement in this moo?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Like they have football games on their platform now, they
have everything.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
They don't need any advertisement.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Which I told everybody whenever they started making movies that
you don't want your movie studio also being the people
who deliver you toilet paper. At one point, it's gonna
get bad because they're gonna try to sell you things
like I also don't enjoy the fact that you watch
things on Amazon and there's ads where you can click
in to buy something. It's gonna get to the point
where it's like you'll see an actor wearing an outfit
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and you'll see a little blip pop up on Amazon,
like do you want to buy this?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Do you want these sunglasses?
Speaker 3 (14:31):
My thing because I've been watching the Marvelous Missus maisl
on Amazon and about the ads that they show where
you can just like click to buy. We all know
I'm an easy sell. None of the products are good.
They're recommending to me stuff i'd never buy. I'm like,
show me something I'll actually buy in it, I probably
click to buy it, but not that the algorithm has
not figured out what I want to buy Yeteah.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
It's not quite there yet. But let's recap all of August.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
A lot of movies, A lot of movies. I think
it's almost thirteen fourteen new movies.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I didn't see all those.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I saw The Naked Gun in theaters, which I was
surprised by how good it actually was. I love Paul
Walter Houser gave it a three point five out of five,
although I did see Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson say
that they faked that romance to kind of sell the movie.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I never bought into it.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I didn't buy it. There's no way I didn't buy.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
It make sense at all.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I saw Together, which I also gave a three point
five out of five, which was dubbing itself the horror
movie of the year. It spoke too soon because Weapons
came out the weekend after that were The World, which
I mentioned Weapons, which I gave so far the horror
movie of the year. K Pop Demon Hunters I gave
a four out of five. I've been listening to the
soundtrack now, which is fantastic. They did announce that they're
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already working on the sequel.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
To that movie.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Great.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
And then came the day where I saw three movies
in one day, four movies actually, but three movies in theaters.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yes I saw.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
I watched the pick Up at home that morning, which
is the Pete Davidson movie with Eddie Murphy, which was
pretty mediocre gve. I gave a two out of five.
I just don't think that Eddie Murphy is going to
do anything worthy or that matches up to what he
used to be, and that's coming off of last year's
Beverly Hills Top four. It's just like he's kind of
phoning it in. And I don't really think that Pete
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Davidson has found his lane in comedy when it comes
to movies like King of Staten Island was probably his
best movie because it's the most hymn, but there's nothing
really memorable about his performance in that movie. I also
watched Nobody two in theaters that morning. That was my
first movie of the day, and then you came home,
and then I came home. I gave that movie a
four out of five. I had lunch, and then I
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went to go see tmn T the Original in theaters,
which if it wouldn't have been for weapons, I don't
really classify it as a new movie because I'd seen
it before, but that would have been my experience of
the month. Gave it a five out of five. It's
one of my top ten of all time. And then
ended the day with Freaky Your Friday, which I gave
before out of five, so.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
That was four. That was a great day for me.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
That was a really good day for you.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
It was like a movie marathon. I didn't think I
could do it.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I think it was the fact that all those movies
were relatively short. Nobody Too was like a little over
ninety minutes if that TMNT is under ninety minutes. Freaky
Friday was probably the longest one out of all those,
around an hour forty five ish. So I think it
was that they weren't super long. That didn't make me
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lose my mind.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
But I was like, I'd just be sitting at home anyway,
watching mindless things on probably TikTok. I have trouble if
I don't know what I want to watch, I can't
commit to anything.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
It ends up being King of Ahell or my name
is Earl.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, I'm almost over key the Hill.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
We also watch Relay, which was a movie we kind
of went into not knowing anything about.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I had no clue. I read the description about ten times,
still didn't get it.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
It's essentially about a guy whose job is to be
the negotiator between like an evil company and their whistleblower. Yes,
they The relay part is they call into like this
third party.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Uses a relay service, which is used for typically people
who are hard of hearing. They have a device where
they type in their message and then the relay reads
it to the person on the other end of the call.
The person on the other end of the call tells
it back to the relay person and then they type
out to the person that's hard of hearing. But he
uses that to communicate with people, so they never hear
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his voice or figure out idiots.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
And in this case he's just communicating between both people.
It was really good.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Ended up thinking it was great, and I think it
was because we knew nothing about it. I even don't
want to reveal too much about it here just because
I feel like that adds to the experience.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
It was kind of like how we felt about The
Amateur Jammy Mallick.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Kind of similar. It's not really a spy.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Movie like the That's what I love, but it's like
that techie criminal side. It's a very I don't want
to say there's anything about it that stands out so beautifully,
like this is one of the best movies of the year,
but it's so solid in what it sets out to
do and it was well done that it just feels
like like it's as good as you can get in
a movie of this genre. With it being like one
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of the best movies of all time, which is a
weird thing to say, but it's a solid three point
five out of five, is the only way I can
put it.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
It was a great cast too, Lily James, Sam Worthington, Rizamod.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
And I think there's something about going into a movie
not knowing much at all and having pretty low expectations
that pretty early on you can tell like, Okay, the
acting is there, the story is there, nothing is happening
that is something that I haven't seen before or completely novel, but.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
It just kind of is satisfying.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
It's like a like a like a good ham and
cheese sandwich where you're not gonna like rave about a
ham and cheese sandwich, but if it hits just right
and you're hungry, like that's why it's a staple in
a lot of people's lunch.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
You were a ham and cheese guy.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah that turkey, Oh really?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah. I still eat a turkey sandwich.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
But I didn't like cold sandwiches, so I would, oh
my god, here we go.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I would melt the cheese in the microwave, and I
would also toast the bread.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
So fun thing is that you won't need anything cold.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Nothing cold.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
It is so weird unless it's like ice cream like
supposed to Yes, stuff that is supposed to be cold,
I'll eat cold.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
But like cold vegetables are my mortal enemy.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Vegetables are.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I love vegetables, but if I'm going to eat them,
they have to be warm.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Like a cold salad is just my nightmare.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Like I'll eat it because at times when we go
out to eat at certain places where it's hard to
find vegan options, that's all you got, And I'm okay
with that at times, but I would never go out
of my way to eat a cold salad.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
It's so weird to me. We won't even get into
this debate round and round.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
So I'll warm things up to make it better. Everything
is better warm. If it's a lunchtime food or a
dinner time food, it's better warm. I don't really think
so I do, Okay, I disagree, Like what's that soup
that's cold?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Is it good?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Spot show?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Like I would have warm that up.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Then that's just tomato soup exactly.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Everything is better warm.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
And then we also watched Night Always Comes, which was
with Vanessa Kirby on Netflix. It started out like I
was like, oh, this is good. You have Vanessa Kirby.
She's trying to make money to buy a house, trying
to save her family from getting evicted, and it's kind
of like the pursuit of happiness with a little bit
of more of an edge. She's not really trying to
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get a job, she's just trying to raise a certain
amount of money. And then and then it just like
went off the off the rails.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
When it lost the plot when Julia Fox came Just
say it hate to say when Julia Fox came in
and you're like, oh, here we go.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
It's because like it got to a point where there
were no repercussions for her actions where she was doing
things that were crazy and outlandish and they were getting
away and there was just like no, like.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Hey, what about that thing going on like that.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
I'm sure there's a fire still happening over here that
she said, and we're not going to address that. It
was just kind of moving on one thing to the next,
and just it was really frustrating. And I like Vanessa Kirby,
but overall that movie was just not it for me,
but a pretty like if you have nothing else to watch,
give it twenty to twenty five minutes and if you
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don't like it after that, just click out of it.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
And then finally we wrapped it up with the map
that leads to You.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
The only thing that kept me from not liking this
movie is I never felt like the two leads had
any chemistry. And that's that's the whole selling point of
this movie.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
It was kJ Appa and Madelinekline.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Which I think separately they're both good actors. Put together,
I just never really felt it. And you're supposed to
feel like there's this just instant connection to them.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Something that draw and it was like, I just don't
feel it.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
It gets emotional, well, it's supposed to be emotional at
times because of what is happening with both of their characters.
I just thought it was really romanticizing the going to
Europe in your twenties and like having fun. I was
like I could kind of see that, like I could
see if I was wanting to watch something that was
just making me want to escape and think like how
fun that life would be.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Watch the Wizza McQuire movie.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah, but that was like the first twenty minutes of
just them hanging out and really doing nothing, and then
maybe almost closer to the half way point of the movie,
their star to be a little bit of a plot,
but I just never felt that connection with either of
them that it just kind of faded into the background
for me. And then I also just hate movies whenever
they have they pull in like a social media aspect,
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like when somebody pulls out a phone and then suddenly
they're recording a TikTok. That just always just disturbs me
for some reason because I'm like, that is going to
age so poorly. We're gonna watch this movie in fifteen
years and things of TikTok. Why are we putting tiktoks
and things. It's like whenever you watch a movie now
from the two thousands and they have like a big
camera with like film in itt or like a DVD player,
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or somebody whips out and they're like typing in T
nine and you're like, oh, that just ages so.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Poorly, Okay, But the scene in Cinderella Story when she
t nine's l ol iconic.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Or there's like that music video I think it's a
Nelly music video and Kelly Rowland is like sending a
text but it's like an.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Excel switch it's my favorite.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
It's like, oh my gosh, that age is so terribly
So if I were to make a movie, I would
not include any kind of technology that would date it because.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
It's a bold statement.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Because that way, I think that's the time. No, I
don't think you do that.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I think you if you want a movie to be
a classic, you don't put any technology in it, because
that is instantly going to place it into like, oh,
I know exactly when this movie was made.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Take you can already tell me it's made based on
like the film Clas.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I don't think you can.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I think one of my favorites of all time, The
Dark Knight two thousand and eight. You could watch that
movie in another thirty years and you would still think
it's current because there's no major things that stand out.
Maybe some stuff at the end when Batmobile, Nah, I
think it'll still look current.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Okay, maybe I don't think Batman has ever looked current
because he has all this technology that doesn't exist. I
don't think superhero movies ever look current. So I think
that's in a league of its own.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I just think that movie is gonna it's going to
age perfectly. Maybe some of the scenes with Morgan freemantwards
the end with like the screens, maybe we get to
a point we don't even.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Use screens anymore. But a movie like Me and Girls.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I know Tina Face said that she didn't put anything
in that would really date that movie, And when we
went to rewatch it in the summer at that outdoor
movie thing, I paid attention to that, and the only
thing that stick out.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
To me or some of the slurs.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
The slurs were bad.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
They were like, she was like so deliberate and not
using certain things to date it to the two thousands,
which it does hold up. Maybe some of the even
the fashion I feel like was did a pretty good
job of not making it super like two thousands.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
But there are some words they say in.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Me and Girls are You're like, oh, they can't say
that anymore. That's an early two thousands movie. But aside
from that, I can't say that anymore.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Okay, do you want to talk about TV?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Or do you want to talk about the most searched
millennial pop culture things?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
I didn't know I had options. I wasn't prepared for this, Like.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
TV, just like what we watched, it's all kinds of
things that are the most search.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
No, no, I'm asking you said, did I want to talk
about two? Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Well, we always do like our best TV shows, Well,
can we do both? Okay?
Speaker 3 (25:52):
I already said it earlier. Marvelous, Missus masl It's great.
I love it. I love anything that Amy Sherman Palladino does.
Rachel Brosnhan's fantastic in it. It's great, it's funny, it's witty.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
The only TV show I've completed is Wednesday Season two,
Part one at the time of recording this. Wednesday's Season
two Part two is coming out later this week. I
really hate that Netflix splits up things into two parts.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
That is dumb, and they do it with their big franchises.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
They're doing it again with Stranger Things, because right when
you get to that point of like, ah, I'm so
back into this show, you gotta wait like another month
for the next part.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Ye, but I'm sold on that show.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Popular Rights the most searched millennial pop culture things action
movie is Transformers from two thousand and seven. Do you
feel like that's a millennial movie?
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Yes? God, forget that exists.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Really with Shila buff and Megan Fox.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
It's one of my favorites, and I didn't realize that
it's a millennial thing.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I mean, it makes sense. I love that movie. I
just that kind of surprises me, like I would expect
fast and furious.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Yeah, I kind of think more early two thousands. It
doesn't feel as millennial to me, but we're millennials. Two
thousand and sevens Transformers is the action movie millennials comedy movie.
Super Bad Also two thousand and seven.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Just makes me think of my little brother.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
You love super Bad. I feel like that movie has
transcended to gen z.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Oh he wears a shirt with mclovin on it.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Because I feel like mclovin is like a character that
is just bigger than any school.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
And I'm like, has none of your teachers seen super Bad?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
It doesn't feel millennial to me. Also, I feel like
late two thousands isn't.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
No that feels millennial to me.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Okay, maybe I just don't want some of these things
to feel old, because now millennials just sounds bad. It's
like a bad word, teen movie. Bring it on from
two thousand. Oh, that's millennial.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
These not spirit fingers. These are spirit fingers.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
That is such a good.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
That is like Quintessentially we watch them.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
That is like what I think.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
About when I think of when I was just dying
to go to the movie as a kid, to be cool,
like in Walks. Actually we didn't have much, but we
had Buffalo Creek with six screens on it. That was
like the place to be on Friday nights. And I
think of bring it on when I think about those times.
Great movie the kids show is Nick Junior's Wonder Pets.
Never was a Wonder Pets kid.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
One of my brothers was Wonder Pets. Wonder Pets. Oh
no way.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, I guess that's like the millennial probably, Yeah, that.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Leans more towards like two thousand and eight nine, like
the later end and I could sing it though.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
The sitcom for millennials Still Standing from CBS. It aired
from two thousand and two to two thousand and six.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
I know the show, but what millennials was watching still Standing?
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I did watch Still Standing?
Speaker 3 (28:33):
I did, but who was googling that? It's one of
those shows that Jamie Gertz Ywister Twister.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
I forgot how many episodes of this show I watched.
It would just not be one that I would think
that's a millennial show or one that I even care
to remember.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Every think friends, Yeah, yeah, I don't standing.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
I would even say where did you get the office?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
It's Google. People are googling still Standing. The American rock
band for millennials Creed. I guess millennials are a bunch
of divorced dads. Yeah, I don't mind Creed, like I'm
not a Creed hater, but I don't seek out their music.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Didn't they have a Creed cruise?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
They did?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Yeah, it was like the same ship that then had
their McMahon's cruise did and she was basically yeah, it
was a bunch of divorced dads one week, and then
a bunch of wine drung middle aged next.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
I like Scott's stab. He's a nice guy.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
I'll see him sometimes at the gym I go to,
which I won't give up his spot, but if you
have to imagine, I'm also going there too. It's not
that nice of the gym. But he's a nice guy.
He'll go in there with the hoodie on and nobody
talks to him, nobody messes with him. They don't realize
that arms wide open.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Guys right over.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
There, but I don't really see them as a millennial
band like Daughtry emo band my Chemical Romance? Does it
get more millennial than My Chemical Romance?
Speaker 3 (29:54):
When I was a young boy, I just remember listening
to that on the bus headphones in just Welcome to
the Black Parade.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
I used to be a My Chemical Romance.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Hater because they weren't even enough to me. They were
mainstream and they sold out. Like I went to go
see I bought tickets to my Chemical Romance and Alkaline Trio,
and I was such a hardcore Alkale Trio fan that
I left before My Chemical Romance went on and.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
I get something.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
My brother and I gave our wristbands to the pit
to some other people walking in, and they were like,
what are you crazy? I bet those people the best
story ever that we got these for free. The mixed
gender band Evanessence. I didn't know that was a category.
A mixed gender band? What a weird category? Ban Who
is googling this best mixed gender bands and Vanessence? I'm
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offended by this. Next one one hit Wonders Bowling for Soup.
They are not a one hit wonder to me. Come
back to Texas, but they claim their only hint is
nineteen eighty five that came out in two thousand and four.
They have Girl all the Bad Guys Want almost they
have so many hits.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
The Phineas and Verb theme song, Yes, that is offensive.
I think infensive.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
We will not have bowling for soup slander in this
house on this podcast rapper Lil Wayne, I agree with that.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
The Carter three in two thousand and eight was a
very influential album on me. He was like the biggest
thing from like two thousand and eight to like twenty ten,
twenty eleven. He was doing every guest spot on every song. Yeah,
I can see that one. Yeah hip hop song Country
Grammar by Nelly from two thousand, that feels pretty early
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two thousand, Like I associate Nelly with the early two thousands.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Prom dress maybe you can speak on this one. I
didn't go to prom.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Zebra print was zebra print a big thing for prom dresses.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
I feel like two thousand and five to two thousand
and nine. Maybe I went to prom in twenty twelve
and mine was like gold sequin many dress. It was
not zebra print.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
But yeah, unfortunately that was snacks yo. They were the
yogurt covered fruit snack never eate them.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I'm familiar with them because I like watching those those
nostalgia videos on or It's like two thousand snacks and
we're like, I hate that, I hate that. Yeah, we
watched those a lot, so I'm familiar with those, but
I don't think i've ever had had them. And finally,
the teen magazine for millennials. Oh, seventeen, Oh, I know it.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Seventeen loved seventeen.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
You remember how big magazines were in the two thousands.
I still love a magazine like I used to read
Alternative Press Thrasher magazine, But I just remember I enjoyed
looking at all the covers even though I didn't read them.
J fourteen was one, right, Oh, J fourteen Tiger Beat,
Tiger Beat Cosmo Girl, because I remember in the early
two thousands a lot of the bands I liked kind
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of transcended into those magazines as well, like Blank within
eighty two, some forty one, Good Charlotte would also be
on the covers of those magazines, and then I'd be like,
I want to read the interview with them, and I'm like,
I don't think this magazine is really for me.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Seventeen, Oh God, I loved so much out a subscription.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Isn't that kind of what thirteen going on? Thirty?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
The magazine she works for? Is that kind of like
what seventeen is?
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Is?
Speaker 3 (33:08):
I still read a magazine? I mean I read them
on my iPad, but I will buy a magazine and
an airport.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
All right?
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Anything else we want to talk about? That was the
list of the most searched millennial pop culture things.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
I'm trying to think of my best book of the month.
Hold on, I don't even remember what I've read this month.
Hold please, I'm going to go with the Secret History
of Audrey James.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Is that about?
Speaker 3 (33:28):
It's a World War two surprise. I know everyone's shocked.
I gave it five stars. I think it's one of
It's probably one of my favorites. With you. I'm currently
reading a really good book. I don't normally talk about
a book before I finish it, but it's called the
Book of Lost Hours. Kind of sci fi e But
it's like the idea that there are these people called
the Timekeepers, where they put people's memories in a book
and it goes back and forth between well, it starts
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in nineteen thirty eight Germany, and then it goes to
nineteen sixty five in Boston, so it spans like World
War two and Cold War era, and it's about how
people have been like a racing history and how they're
trying to like save that, Like there were Nazis who
would go into this like space called like the time
space and they would erase what they did in World
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War Two. Only few chapters in, but it's really good.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
All right, Well that is our best and worst of August.
That is millennial things, books and TV shows.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
We've covered it all.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
What a good TV shows coming out. It's about to
be don't have to leave the house season, which I
already hit football and good TV shows and.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Just still good movies coming out and it's cooler, so
then you like don't have to run out.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
We get to the point where we're like, I don't
want to pay for our own a seed around all day,
Let's go see a movie. But we're getting to the
point where it's like, oh, I actually want to stay.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Home stand let's get into it now.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
A spoiler free movie review of Cot Stealing starring Austin Butler,
Zoe Kravitz, Vincent Dinafrio, Action Bronson, Leave Shriver, Bad Bunny
Regina King. This movie is stacked directed by Darren air Ronofsky,
who has done movies like Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan,
Mother the Whale, and this is unlike any of those movies,
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definitely leans more into the action. What this movie is about.
Austin Butler plays a burnt out baseball player who is
now just working as a bartender, trying to keep his
life somewhat together. He has some drinking problems, and this
dude loves baseball. He is a big San Francisco Giants fan.
He worships the team. He calls his mom all the
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time to talk about baseball. Even when stuff starts going
wrong in his life and it feels like his whole
world is falling apart, he still wants to know how
they are doing every day. Are they going to make
the playoffs? How many games back are they? That is
a major priority for him, which I think shouldn't be.
He has this really great girl in his life. He
has a chance to kind of get his life back together,
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but then everything changes when his neighbor asks him to
watch his cat because he has to go out of town.
And then it turns out his neighbor who he's kind
of friends with, is into some really bad things. There
are some people after him, and now Austin Butler's character
is tangled up in all of it, and he is
now in it by association. And what I enjoy about
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this movie is it feels like a very realistic action movie.
Because I was worried that cot Stealing was going to
turn Austin Butler into something he wasn't, into an action star.
That's not what this movie does. The way the story
unfolds is that it's happening to him as if he
was just a regular person that this would happen to.
Despite the fact that he is so good looking, especially
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walking around in his underwear throughout the majority of the
opening of this movie, You're like, man, that is so unfair.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Dude has it all.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
But aside from his looks in his physique, everything that
happens to his character is something that could happen to
you and I, and I'm glad that they didn't turn
him into some big superhero who just started out of
nowhere taking down people left and right. So I think
that part of it made it feel like a very
realistic action movie where there were some action sequences, but
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it didn't feel like they were overly choreographed, which sometimes
when you watch an action movie and you just feel
like it's a little bit too slick and they're getting
into fights that you know they would not win, it
just feels a little bit too unrealistic. But there is
a big level of rawness throughout this film, and I'm
not even talking about all the hooking up scenes, which
is kind of Aaronovsky's calling card. There's always a lot
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of nudity scenes in his movies that make his films
movies you do not want to sit down and watch
with your parents. If you were somebody who made the
mistake of watching Black Swan with your mom, with your grandma,
even sometimes with your dad, that stuff gets uncomfortable. He
is definitely a director where you know there is gonna
be nudity. It is pretty out there and forward at
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the beginning of this film. So that's kind of his
calling card. But what he is also great at capturing
is very unique characters that are people that you don't
want to take your eyes off throughout the entire film.
And that is what I get here, because after watching
Cot Stealing, I still don't believe that Austin Butler is
some great actor. He is on that level of you
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put his name in a movie and it's a film
of note. But I still don't believe he has the
acting chops to be the best leading man. But I
don't really think this movie required that. But out of
all the Austin Butler films I've watched, from Elvis to Doune,
every single one of his performances, this has to be
my favorite, even though I don't think that is saying
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a whole lot. Although I still see these little pockets
of him not being able to convey some emotion when
it comes to anything that is a little bit more dramatic.
I just don't get that from him. Because in this film,
his character is dealing with this trauma that sometimes comes
out whenever he is sleeping. He wakes up very violently
because of these nightmares that he is having, and there
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was always those moments where he was trying to convey
this sense of like I just woke up from a
nightmare that I didn't believe it, And maybe that was
by design, maybe it was supposed to come off that
way in the movie, But just those little glimpses of like,
I don't know if he's that good of an actor,
if he's just getting all these roles right now because
he is a hot name. He is so attractive and
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looks like a movie star. I don't know if he
has the acting chops to really compete with some of
the best names in Hollywood as being the next big thing.
I don't think he is quite there yet. Somebody who
I am really surprised by every time they show up
in a movie now is Bad Bunny all ben Neathough
like seeing him in this role, really own it, and
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I think this was the character for him. He is
playing a guy who was very threatening but also very chill.
I really enjoyed Bad Bunny's performance in this. Him alongside
Action Bronson was something I didn't know I needed. I'm
huge fans of both of their music. I remember seeing
Action Bronze it at south By Southwest maybe twenty fifteen,
twenty fourteen. He looks so different than he used to
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look like back in the day.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
He's dropped a lot of weight.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
He's become kind of a fitness influencer now, and me
also being a former big guy, I like to see
our own succeed, so it's so cool seeing him now
alongside such big stars like Bad Bunny and Regina King
in a scene. I loved his character Amtrak. I wish
there would have been more of him in this movie.
I hope he gets more roles because of cot stealing.
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The other major props I have to give to this
film is the fact that the trailer did not set
you up for anything. Really, the trailer only captures, I
would say, the first maybe ten minutes of this movie.
In a world where if you don't have the IP
in an action franchise, you have to almost cram in
the entire story in a two and a half minute
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trailer and then still convince those people we just showed
you the entire movie, but we also want you to
go in theaters now and pay money to go see this.
That is saying a lot this movie to keep back
all of the best parts when it comes to the action,
when it comes to how this story unfolds, and all
the twists and turns and great just character development, and
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not put it into the trailer.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
BRA vow to them for doing.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
That, because you easily could have put that all at
the forefront, put it more in the marketing. But they
knew they had a good story on their hands and
didn't need to do that to its detriment. Though, going
into it, I thought it was just gonna feel like
a generic action type movie.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
I wasn't that excited.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
My expectations were pretty low, and if it wouldn't have
been for a bit of slower weekend at the box office.
Because you had Caught Stealing, you had the Toxic Avenger,
you had Jaws come back into theaters. You also had
Leelo and Stitch coming back into theaters. There wasn't that
much that I was ready to sink my teeth into
so passionately that I was like, I like Austin Butler. Okay,
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I love Zoe Kravitz. I'm a huge bad Bunny fan.
Let's go see how all of this comes together. So
out of everything, it was just a big surprise, a
very fun ride, some really great sin shots that I
wasn't expecting. There are some scenes of just Austin Butler
walking down these alley ways that look fantastic. At times,
it feels like it transforms into an entirely different movie
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visually and aesthetically. That part was also really pleasing to
my eyeballs. For cot Stealing, I give it four out
of five Giants Hats not big oversized hats the baseball team,
the Giants.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
It's time to head down to movie Mike trailer, Paul.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
This is quite possibly one of my favorite stories about
movies this year. The movie is called good Boy. It
is a horror movie from the perspective of a dog.
He sees his owner being overtaken by these supernatural, demonic spirits.
But because this movie went so viral, the trailer dropped.
I heard about it maybe a month or two ago,
(42:52):
and just the concept alone, I'm in. There have been
horror movies like this recently. But the trailer came out,
I had about a million views in four days. The
studio behind at IFC said, you know what we now
believe in this movie. We're taking this from a small
independent release since it went viral, now putting it in
a full theatrical release. That means going to be in hundreds,
(43:14):
maybe thousands of theaters across the country. And the movie
is super low budget. I couldn't even find an official budget.
Has to be less than five million, maybe even less
than one million. But now this could be the movie
that could And I think this is something that filmmakers
are aspiring to do is make art that people are
talking about, because once this trailer went viral, you had
(43:36):
Google searches going up over does the Dog and Good
Boy Live, which is what everybody wants to know. I
have to imagine though, it is already named one of
the most heartbreaking horror films of twenty twenty five, and
that is just kind of giving you an indication of
probably what is going to happen to the dog. I
(43:58):
know some people have some mixed feelings, probably more on
the other end. You never want to see an animal
get hurt, even in a movie. It's like in John Wick,
how his dog dies at the beginning of the movie
that inspires his entire run of avenging his death. Nobody
cared about the tens to hundreds of people killed over
the course of the John Wick franchise, But you kill
(44:19):
that dog and suddenly it's like, oh man, I can't
even be a part of that movie. The movie is
coming out on October third. Before I get into more,
here's just a little bit of the viral Good Boy trailer.
There's not a whole lot of audio, because again, the
dog is the main character, but it gives you a
sense of the feel of this.
Speaker 4 (44:37):
Movie, I guess I'm next. I Shall never come here.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
Creepy, right.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
So it's about a loyal dog who moves into a
house out in the woods with his owner, Todd, only
to find that supernatural forces have been lurking in the shadows.
As a dark entity threatens his human companion, the brave
dog must fight to protect the one he loves the most.
Of course, it's going to be the dog trying to
save the day here. This movie is only seventy two minutes,
(45:32):
which is just a little bit over an hour if
you factor in credits. Credits are usually five to seven minutes,
so probably looking at just a little bit over an hour.
So I have to imagine this movie gets right to
it and then we find out what is taking over
his owner's body and what happens to Indy in the
(45:52):
movie Who is the Dog? This movie was written and
directed by Ben Leonbergh and it stars his real life.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
Dog named Indy, who also plays Indy in the movie.
And Indy is.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
Such a good actor. He has no CGI enhancements in
the movie. There's no dialogue added. All of his emotion
is just conveyed from his owner's filmmaking abilities. Airbud could
never do that, and Airbud is coming back into theaters
next summer in twenty twenty six. Airbud needs all the CGI,
Airbud needs the trailer. Airbud requires catering. He has an assistant.
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Indie went in knocked out this role and is quite
possibly good to win an Oscar for the best dog
in a movie. That's a made up category, but they
should add it in just for Indy and the film
reminds me of a couple of big horror movies that
have made an impact in the genre using really original ideas.
One is Skinna Marink, which is about two children who
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wake up in the middle of the night their dad
is missing. All the windows indoors in their home have vanished.
It's a very experimental horror movie and is it the
most entertaining of all time? No, but I love it
for its ingenuity and what it did to the genre
to say, here is something that has been done before,
a weird thing going on inside a house. Well, let's
(47:10):
package it and tell it in a way that this
story has not been told before. Another one was Presence
from earlier this year, which that is a horror movie
from the perspective of the actual demonic force haunting the house.
So you have this family move in, and you basically
have this view from like a drone perspective inside the house,
(47:30):
and you learn about the family just by observing them
in a kind of creeper way from the perspective of
that demonic force. And again, not the most entertaining movie
of all time. They showed a lot of the horror
elements in the trailer that the overall movie just didn't
really deliver on. But still I loved how original that
story felt. It was enough to get me to go
(47:52):
to the theater to watch it. And I think that
is what you have to do in horror right now,
unless you have the big budget or the big ip
to appeal to a lot of people of like, oh,
let's go see the new Conjuring movie. Let's go see
what Michael Myers is up to now that he's like
sixty five years old, getting the senior citizen discount but
still killing babysitters around the block. If you can't do that,
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and you don't have that as a filmmaker to rely on,
you have to create stories like this that are gonna
get people online buzzing about it, because when I look
at this trailer without the viral success, without looking at
the view count, it looks like a kind of generic
movie as far as the technical aspects, I would think, oh,
this is maybe a movie that somebody did as a
(48:35):
school project. But all of that gets thrown out the
window now that it's having its moment. And I think
that is what is great about the Internet right now.
Whether it's a movie, whether it's a song, whether it's
just a painting, if you can create that moment on
the Internet that leads to actually getting butts and seats,
because that is a big thing. You see people with
(48:55):
a lot of followers on TikTok, but can they get
people to pay money to go see them. I've in
concert same deal here with a movie. It has the
attention to people because the search does the Dog and
Good Boy Die spiked by more than two thousand percent.
Speaker 2 (49:10):
I think the fact that we're not.
Speaker 1 (49:12):
Too far away from the release coming out in about
a month now on October third, it's now about can
you capitalize on that and get people to pay money
to go see it in theaters and then through word
of mouth spread how good it ended up being to
get other people to go witness it, because I have
to imagine aside from this virality, good Boy doesn't have
(49:34):
a whole lot of money to spend on marketing. But
I think that is what is inspiring to me that
a movie like this can still exist, and I think
it should be inspiration to a lot of young filmmakers
that if you just have an idea and you are
able to tell a story that only you can tell,
because the director here used his own dog, and if
you can make something that only you can make that
(49:56):
nobody else has made before, and tell it in a
way that only you can tell it. Because his relationship
with his dog is what makes this movie work.
Speaker 2 (50:04):
The fact that he was able.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
To direct a dog. Can you even direct a dog?
Like a dog really doesn't know how to take direction? Like,
all right, Indy, I'm gonna need you to give me
a little bit more emotion here react to this dark
entity in the corner. No, but he probably has a
great relationship with his dog, has trained him. He knows
his mannerisms, He knows how to get him to look
a certain way, he knows how to get him to
(50:28):
walk along a certain paths to make a camera shot work.
So this is a movie that only he could make
with his dog, and the dog is adorable. I saw
them two together. It is a picture perfect dog. So
I think as a movie lover, that is what is inspiring.
I think to the big corporations, the big studios, this
is inspiring to them because they see money. Because historically
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horror movies cost way less than any other genre and
there is a big return on investment. You can spend
less than a million dollars and if you have that success,
you can make twenty to thirty maybe even fifty million
dollars at the box office just opening weekend.
Speaker 2 (51:06):
A loan, bam, big money. So studios are getting excited
about this. It reminds me.
Speaker 1 (51:11):
Of one of the biggest profit margins of all time,
Paranormal Activity.
Speaker 2 (51:15):
The first movie was made for only fifteen.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
Thousand dollars, but it went on to make one hundred
and ninety four million dollars worldwide.
Speaker 2 (51:25):
That is the example. That is like winning the lottery.
Speaker 1 (51:28):
It is very rare for a movie to do that.
I would say probably the best most recent example is
the Terrifier franchise, because those movies are really just your
B horror level movies with very raw and brutal practical
effects that they don't look the most realistic, but that's
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not what they are meant to look like. But that
movie also created a moment, was made for a little
amount of money, and has now spawned a franchise that
I think, according to some stories I've read recently, we'll
be wrapping up with the fourth movie.
Speaker 2 (52:03):
The first one was.
Speaker 1 (52:04):
Good, the first one was novel two is okay, and
then the third one and I'm like, I don't really
need to know more about art the Clown.
Speaker 2 (52:10):
So if you want originality right now, you have to
look to Horror.
Speaker 1 (52:14):
It is crushing it in twenty twenty five, and I
think that success will carry on into twenty twenty six.
And again Good Boy comes down in theaters on October third.
Speaker 4 (52:23):
Jeez.
Speaker 1 (52:24):
And that was this week's edition of Movie by Frame
or Bar and that is going to do it for
another episode here of the podcast. Before I go, I
got to give my listeners shout out of the week.
You can get a listener shout out of the week
just by sending me an email at moviemke dat gmail
dot com, dm me on Instagram, or tweet at me
is it still tweeting even though it's X. But this
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week I'm going over to X and shouting out Joel,
who wrote me and said, this might be an unpopular opinion,
but going to the movies alone is better than going
with someone. You don't have to worry about whether they
like the movie, and you don't have to deal with
anyone asking questions during it. Love the podcast always listening
Monday Morning, and Joel posted a screenshot of his app
(53:08):
listening to last week's episode at nine to twenty six am.
Speaker 2 (53:11):
So, Joel, you are a part of the Monday Morning
Movie crew.
Speaker 1 (53:15):
My favorite thing to see on Mondays is somebody sending
me a screenshot listening to the podcast bright and Early.
Speaker 2 (53:21):
So I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (53:22):
And I got a lot of messages last week about
how much people enjoy going to the movies alone, and
that made me feel good that people aren't afraid to
do it, because you should do it more. You should
just have that experience to yourself. If you've never gone
to the movies alone but you wanted to, this is
your second sign to go and do that. So thank you, Joel,
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Thank you to everybody who is a part of the
Monday Morning movie crew, 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, and we are here to
talk about our best and worst of August.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
How are you great?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
I couldn't be better.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
We got that hint of like fall.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I made pumpkin muffins this week. I got the pumpkin
candles out. I'm thriving. It's one of those where you're
like those memes where it's like I didn't hate life,
I just needed it to be twenty degrees cooler. And
I felt that in my soul. There was a chill
in the air this week, and I was like, oh, okay.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
But we are here to talk about all of the
movies we watched in August, which were a lot a
lot of movies. In the movie review, I'll be talking
about Cott Stealing. How do you feel about Austin Butler
going into this movie.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I've had a heart change this week. I was little,
and by a little, I mean a lot sick of him.
After Elvis, it was just like Austin Butler everywhere. I'm
back to finding him endearing, mainly because I saw an
interview where he did was bike Riders just last year? Yeah, okay,
he did an interview with this journalist and she mentioned
having a pet bunny, and then he did an interview
(00:56):
with her this week for Cott Stealing, and he remembered
that she's the one with the pet bunny. And I
was like, that's pretty cool of him for being someone
at his level, and I'm back to finding him not
obnoxious anymore. But it was. It was a hard two years.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
And in the trailer park, we'll be talking about a
horror movie that went viral about a dog.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
It's a horror movie from the perspective of the dog.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I feel like you need to stop saying that word horror.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
That's the genre, though you got a real horrord because
I don't want to say scary movie.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Scary movie might be better.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
It's not a genre. Though scary movie is not a genre. Well, anyway,
let's talk movies.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Let's do it from the Nashville Podcast Network This movie
Mike Movie pot.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
All right, our best and worst movies of August.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Kick us off, Kelsey with the best thing you saw
this month?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I want to go freak your Friday.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Probably what I expected from you, but not what I
expected to be one of the best movies of August.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
That's what I expected from you? Could you basic be you.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Love two thousands, pop culture? You love Lindsay Lohan.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Lindsay Lohan renaissance is healing me.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
And this is her first time she's been in theaters
aside from some cameo. Was like her first starring role
since I think twenty nineteen, which doesn't sound like that
long ago, but it's like seven years ago at this point.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Six years movie since then.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
How'd you feel about her performance?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I thought she was great, Like, put Lilo in everything again,
put her in. I think it's a breath of fresh air.
I love that she is still acting. You know, she
had some really hard years. She's come back, she's married,
she has a kid. Now she's like thriving in a
better place. And you could see that, Like I felt
like she had fun filming the movie, Like it just
(02:35):
seemed like everyone had fun.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I was expecting it to be another Disney cash grab,
given it's not a remake, but it is a legacy sequel.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I thought it was just going to be them doing
the same thing over again, not really adding a whole
lot to the story.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
And what I was most surprised by is there was
an actual reason to make this movie.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah, you have.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Her character now older, she has a daughter, Jamie what
always forgetting to be Curtis? I would say Jamie Presley
because I've been watching my name is zero Jamie Lee.
Curtis is now that the grandma, and it's all the
younger people now switching with the older people. So you
got double the freaky Friday, making it freaky your Friday.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I gotta say, though, John Michael Murray, what about him? Listen?
I was a Lucas girl when I watched One Tree Hill.
He was such a heart throb. He gives me the ick,
like mega ick, Like I feel embarrassed for him when
he is on my screen.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Is it because you think he's clinging on to his
heart throbbedness from the two thousands? Okay, so he's hanging
on for dear life with those blonde highlights.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Blond highlights, those frosted tips. It really is like he
is hanging on to Lucas Scott. He left the show
in like season six, like two thousand and nine, so
we're sixteen years later and he is still he is
clinging to that life raft.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I did say.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
The thing I hated the most about this movie was
the fact that it made him even a little bit
more relevant again, just because I feel like he's one
of those people who has been around for so long
and now it's like, Okay, now I'm back in a
movie that was a hitden a.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Canadian TV show right now, that's even too cheesy for
me to watch. No offense, if you watch it, I
if I get bored, I probably will, But just the
clips I see, I'm like, oh, it's like that cringe.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
We're just like, yeah, he's one that I don't like
watching in interviews at all because of what he since.
He's like, name an actor who hasn't had a downfall
in their career.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I can name a lot of actors.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, but I mean he was in everything like Cinderella's Story,
he was in Gilmore Girls, he was in One Tree Hill,
he was in the original Freaky Friday. Like he had
a time of really being the heart throb of the
early two thousands, and that time is.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
What would you rate it?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Four out of five? What kind of guitarists? You play?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
A Fender? I think it's a telecaster. I'm pretty sure
a telecaster.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Okay, four out of five telecasters.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
For my Best of the Month, it is the movie
I drug you to see it as weapons, which I
gave a four point five out of five.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I was bullied into seeing that movie because it wasn't
just you. My brothers were in town.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And half of the people wanted to go see it.
Half of the people were against going to see a
horror movie.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
And I made the mistake of sitting next to my
fifteen year old brother, So every time I covered my
face with my jacket, he pulled it off my face,
but look I for him. I had my eyes closed too.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
That was the deal I made going into it.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I would warn you anytime a scary part would come up,
and I did that, And really the only way I
can tell that is anytime it goes dark. Anytime there's
nighttime scenes in a horror movie, you're probably about to
enter into a scary, usually some kind of jump scare.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
It got less scary as I understood the plot more.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Did you end up enjoying it because you don't like
horror movies at all?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Wouldn't say I enjoyed it, but I didn't hate it.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Was I right in gearing you towards that it wasn't
gonna be like a full on and there were some parts.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I don't even like suspense. I don't like that heart
pounding feeling. I don't need that As a woman. I
feel that when I'm walking down show. I don't need
a movie to see that. I don't need to feel
like somebody's lurking behind me in the theater.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Don't.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I truly don't. I really don't.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Well, I gave it a four point five out of five.
What would you give it?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I mean, for what it was three out of five.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I'll take that, Yeah, and I'll never force you to
go see another horror movie again.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
It was you know what I watch if I want
to be scared? What the news?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
That's true, there's not much worse you can get than
watching the news. I just look outside in our windows
sometimes and there's nothing scarier than that in the real world.
That's why you get to be an adult and you're like,
I'm not scared about some killer clown anymore. I'm scared
about these interest rates. But that is our best of August.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
What do you have for the worst.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Okay, so we're gonna switch gears from scary movies. I'm
gonna go with one that came out on Netflix at
the beginning of the month. I downloaded it, thought I
was gonna watch it on my flight to Denver at
the start of the month, ended up reading a book,
never got around to watching it, and then I saw
that the book was on Unlimited, so was like, I'm
gonna download it, and I started reading it the other night.
It is My Oxford Dear. The book is by Julia Wheeland.
(07:06):
The book I thought was good, predictable. I don't want
to say what it reminds you of. It's similar to
some other books that are kind of out there you
can see where it's going, but good and easy read.
The book was good. The movie, what did I watch
it was they rushed the story. They changed too many
things about the character there was It was just like
the main plot point just kind of like came out
(07:28):
of nowhere. It was bad. It was just bad.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I tried to watch it with you, and I'll watch anything.
I didn't even feel like it was a movie in
those first twenty minutes. It felt like they were trying
to make a series and they ran out of ideas
and were like, Okay, let's just cut our losses and
turn this into a movie.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Thank you for that. Tea up to my next point.
I think that I am now on the book to
TV mini series pipeline now. The only one that I
didn't kind of like was the last thing he told
me on Apple, the Jennifer Garner one. They kind of
dragged that one out, but they could have just made
it less episodes. I think that a book to mini series,
I'm talking we were liars and Amazon Prime. The summer
I turned pretty. I feel like there's more, but I'm
(08:06):
forgetting them. That's better to me because you have more
time to develop the plot.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Big Little Lives, Big Little Lives.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Great one, Thank you U. Nine Perfect Strangers, anything in
that realm. You have time to develop the characters. This
was just like word vomit in a movie, almost, which
does have me excited for the Harry Potter mini series.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I think that's going to crush now.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I think that the Harry Potter movies were great. They
had the privilege of a gigantic budget, set, design, directors,
all the things I think in Netflix has much more
limited budget. But I also think in a movie like
My Oxford Near where you didn't really need that big
of a cent, you could have done it better. But
I think I'm now team booked to mini series. Anyways,
(08:49):
that was my worst of the month.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
What would you rate it?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I know, one point five on A five, it's yeah,
that's pretty bad. Supreme amone. I feel like a trailing me.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
A two is still watchable. A two is still like
I watched this. There was nothing I really took away
from it, but I didn't hate it.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I think this actually would have been better on an
airplane with an in flight glass of like any movie. Yeah,
it was funny because I posted on my Instagram after
I read the book that I was going to watch
the movie and I was like curious to see how
they compare. And I had a lot of people being like,
they don't and they were like, I actually didn't read
the book, but I'm just going to tell you the
movie you didn't compare. Anyways, the book was so much
better per usual. I don't think I've ever seen anything
(09:28):
where the book wasn't better.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
The only historic example I could think of is there's
a Forrest Gump book that it was based on, but
I don't think a lot of people know about that.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Aside from that, I really can't name another one. There's
probably some really weird Obscure Ones, probably.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
For my worst of the month.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
It is not only the worst movie I saw in August,
but I think it is going to be the worst
movie of the decade.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
It is War of the Worlds, which.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I already forgot.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
You watched it, I kind of.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I really only watched it at a spite because I
saw it nobody talking about it online. It is the
Amazon movie with ice Cube about the end of the world.
And the thing that a lot of people didn't realize
at the time of watching it is it was actually
made back in twenty twenty during the pandemic, which makes
more sense because it takes place pretty much all over Zoom,
not even Zoom Microsoft teams.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
I have enough teams calls. Did they do the team sound? Yes?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Oh, the teams sound they have like FaceTime called Witch.
When done right, I think can be entertaining, like a
movie like Searching. That movie was good. There was some
direction behind it. There was a story behind that that
made that movie engaging. There are movies like Unfriended, which
is one of my favorite horror movies, kind of my
guilty pleasure horror movie.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
It's all over Skype.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Again, not a great movie, but there's something about that
way that movie is put together and the story is
told that.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Makes it interesting.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
There's really nothing interesting about War of the Worlds. I
give it a point five. At a five, it is
so bad. There are moments that you see ice Cube
speaking like he's reading straight off the script, and even
the trailer of the movie you can see the green
screen reflect in his glasses. His acting performance is so flat,
(11:11):
which I have to imagine if the film during the pandemic,
it was just him probably on a team's call with
the director and them just giving him the lines and
him just recording it. So it feels really disconnected. And
there are moments where bad things happen to the people
he supposedly loves in the movie, and he has like
zero reactions, Like what you would feel if your candy
(11:35):
bar fell on the floor versus what something traumatic that
your person that you care about is going through.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Okay, but your candy bar on the floor could be dramatic.
Should we rethink about Jurassic.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
That spawned the whole movie could be dramatic. But it
was also crazy that there was no press done for
this movie. It just kind of came out on Amazon
was number one for a while and then really is
through wordlts, through word of mouth. Yeah, I mean, you
can do whatever you want making something number one in
year old platform that's really all just deployed heart make
(12:08):
people think like, oh, this is actually pretty good. None
of the actors did any promotion for it, so I
have to imagine Amazon was just sitting on it for
a while and just said, you know what, let's put
this thing out and see what happens. But I also
think they kind of won because there were so many
forced Amazon ads inside of the movie. At one point
they send somebody a two hundred dollars Amazon gift card.
(12:32):
One of the main characters works for Amazon as a
delivery driver, so at one point, ice Cube goes online
to Amazon dot Com and orders a USB drive and
he's like, I'll have it ship through Amazon Air.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
And they're like, what is that it.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Is that that's so bad?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
So I really think that they kind of got their
money's worth here. And I also think that there's kind
of something going on in the world right now where
bad negativity on your brand is also good. There is
some promotion that, I mean, it's people talking about it
you might pay for where if you put out something
that is so inherently bad, or you do something knowing
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that it's going to spark a negative reaction. I almost
think in a way that is more successful than a
mediocre ad where you maybe reach like ten percent of
who you were trying to reach. It is a very
delicate thing to walk because it could blow up in
your face and you kill your entire brand. But I
think in this case, Amazon's probably not gotta hurt from this.
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And now, as I mentioned that it is one of
the worst movies of the decade, whenever people do lists
or talk about the worst movies they've ever seen, this
is going to be on that list, and then it's
inherently going to make people talk about Amazon.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
So I think it's kind.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Of a lose win situation where yeah, you lose by
making a really bad product, but you also win in
all the free advertisement.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Which does Amazon even need advertisement in this moo?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Like they have football games on their platform now, they
have everything.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
They don't need any advertisement.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Which I told everybody whenever they started making movies that
you don't want your movie studio also being the people
who deliver you toilet paper. At one point, it's gonna
get bad because they're gonna try to sell you things
like I also don't enjoy the fact that you watch
things on Amazon and there's ads where you can click
in to buy something. It's gonna get to the point
where it's like you'll see an actor wearing an outfit
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and you'll see a little blip pop up on Amazon,
like do you want to buy this?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Do you want these sunglasses?
Speaker 3 (14:31):
My thing because I've been watching the Marvelous Missus maisl
on Amazon and about the ads that they show where
you can just like click to buy. We all know
I'm an easy sell. None of the products are good.
They're recommending to me stuff i'd never buy. I'm like,
show me something I'll actually buy in it, I probably
click to buy it, but not that the algorithm has
not figured out what I want to buy Yeteah.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
It's not quite there yet. But let's recap all of August.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
A lot of movies, A lot of movies. I think
it's almost thirteen fourteen new movies.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I didn't see all those.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I saw The Naked Gun in theaters, which I was
surprised by how good it actually was. I love Paul
Walter Houser gave it a three point five out of five,
although I did see Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson say
that they faked that romance to kind of sell the movie.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I never bought into it.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I didn't buy it. There's no way I didn't buy.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
It make sense at all.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I saw Together, which I also gave a three point
five out of five, which was dubbing itself the horror
movie of the year. It spoke too soon because Weapons
came out the weekend after that were The World, which
I mentioned Weapons, which I gave so far the horror
movie of the year. K Pop Demon Hunters I gave
a four out of five. I've been listening to the
soundtrack now, which is fantastic. They did announce that they're
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already working on the sequel.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
To that movie.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Great.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
And then came the day where I saw three movies
in one day, four movies actually, but three movies in theaters.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yes I saw.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
I watched the pick Up at home that morning, which
is the Pete Davidson movie with Eddie Murphy, which was
pretty mediocre gve. I gave a two out of five.
I just don't think that Eddie Murphy is going to
do anything worthy or that matches up to what he
used to be, and that's coming off of last year's
Beverly Hills Top four. It's just like he's kind of
phoning it in. And I don't really think that Pete
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Davidson has found his lane in comedy when it comes
to movies like King of Staten Island was probably his
best movie because it's the most hymn, but there's nothing
really memorable about his performance in that movie. I also
watched Nobody two in theaters that morning. That was my
first movie of the day, and then you came home,
and then I came home. I gave that movie a
four out of five. I had lunch, and then I
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went to go see tmn T the Original in theaters,
which if it wouldn't have been for weapons, I don't
really classify it as a new movie because I'd seen
it before, but that would have been my experience of
the month. Gave it a five out of five. It's
one of my top ten of all time. And then
ended the day with Freaky Your Friday, which I gave
before out of five, so.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
That was four. That was a great day for me.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
That was a really good day for you.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
It was like a movie marathon. I didn't think I
could do it.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I think it was the fact that all those movies
were relatively short. Nobody Too was like a little over
ninety minutes if that TMNT is under ninety minutes. Freaky
Friday was probably the longest one out of all those,
around an hour forty five ish. So I think it
was that they weren't super long. That didn't make me
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lose my mind.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
But I was like, I'd just be sitting at home anyway,
watching mindless things on probably TikTok. I have trouble if
I don't know what I want to watch, I can't
commit to anything.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
It ends up being King of Ahell or my name
is Earl.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, I'm almost over key the Hill.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
We also watch Relay, which was a movie we kind
of went into not knowing anything about.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I had no clue. I read the description about ten times,
still didn't get it.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
It's essentially about a guy whose job is to be
the negotiator between like an evil company and their whistleblower. Yes,
they The relay part is they call into like this
third party.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Uses a relay service, which is used for typically people
who are hard of hearing. They have a device where
they type in their message and then the relay reads
it to the person on the other end of the call.
The person on the other end of the call tells
it back to the relay person and then they type
out to the person that's hard of hearing. But he
uses that to communicate with people, so they never hear
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his voice or figure out idiots.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
And in this case he's just communicating between both people.
It was really good.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Ended up thinking it was great, and I think it
was because we knew nothing about it. I even don't
want to reveal too much about it here just because
I feel like that adds to the experience.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
It was kind of like how we felt about The
Amateur Jammy Mallick.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Kind of similar. It's not really a spy.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Movie like the That's what I love, but it's like
that techie criminal side. It's a very I don't want
to say there's anything about it that stands out so beautifully,
like this is one of the best movies of the year,
but it's so solid in what it sets out to
do and it was well done that it just feels
like like it's as good as you can get in
a movie of this genre. With it being like one
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of the best movies of all time, which is a
weird thing to say, but it's a solid three point
five out of five, is the only way I can
put it.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
It was a great cast too, Lily James, Sam Worthington, Rizamod.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
And I think there's something about going into a movie
not knowing much at all and having pretty low expectations
that pretty early on you can tell like, Okay, the
acting is there, the story is there, nothing is happening
that is something that I haven't seen before or completely novel, but.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
It just kind of is satisfying.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
It's like a like a like a good ham and
cheese sandwich where you're not gonna like rave about a
ham and cheese sandwich, but if it hits just right
and you're hungry, like that's why it's a staple in
a lot of people's lunch.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
You were a ham and cheese guy.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah that turkey, Oh really?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah. I still eat a turkey sandwich.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
But I didn't like cold sandwiches, so I would, oh
my god, here we go.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I would melt the cheese in the microwave, and I
would also toast the bread.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
So fun thing is that you won't need anything cold.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Nothing cold.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
It is so weird unless it's like ice cream like
supposed to Yes, stuff that is supposed to be cold,
I'll eat cold.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
But like cold vegetables are my mortal enemy.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Vegetables are.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I love vegetables, but if I'm going to eat them,
they have to be warm.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Like a cold salad is just my nightmare.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Like I'll eat it because at times when we go
out to eat at certain places where it's hard to
find vegan options, that's all you got, And I'm okay
with that at times, but I would never go out
of my way to eat a cold salad.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
It's so weird to me. We won't even get into
this debate round and round.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
So I'll warm things up to make it better. Everything
is better warm. If it's a lunchtime food or a
dinner time food, it's better warm. I don't really think
so I do, Okay, I disagree, Like what's that soup
that's cold?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Is it good?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Spot show?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Like I would have warm that up.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Then that's just tomato soup exactly.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Everything is better warm.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
And then we also watched Night Always Comes, which was
with Vanessa Kirby on Netflix. It started out like I
was like, oh, this is good. You have Vanessa Kirby.
She's trying to make money to buy a house, trying
to save her family from getting evicted, and it's kind
of like the pursuit of happiness with a little bit
of more of an edge. She's not really trying to
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get a job, she's just trying to raise a certain
amount of money. And then and then it just like
went off the off the rails.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
When it lost the plot when Julia Fox came Just
say it hate to say when Julia Fox came in
and you're like, oh, here we go.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
It's because like it got to a point where there
were no repercussions for her actions where she was doing
things that were crazy and outlandish and they were getting
away and there was just like no, like.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Hey, what about that thing going on like that.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
I'm sure there's a fire still happening over here that
she said, and we're not going to address that. It
was just kind of moving on one thing to the next,
and just it was really frustrating. And I like Vanessa Kirby,
but overall that movie was just not it for me,
but a pretty like if you have nothing else to watch,
give it twenty to twenty five minutes and if you
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don't like it after that, just click out of it.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
And then finally we wrapped it up with the map
that leads to You.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
The only thing that kept me from not liking this
movie is I never felt like the two leads had
any chemistry. And that's that's the whole selling point of
this movie.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
It was kJ Appa and Madelinekline.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Which I think separately they're both good actors. Put together,
I just never really felt it. And you're supposed to
feel like there's this just instant connection to them.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Something that draw and it was like, I just don't
feel it.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
It gets emotional, well, it's supposed to be emotional at
times because of what is happening with both of their characters.
I just thought it was really romanticizing the going to
Europe in your twenties and like having fun. I was
like I could kind of see that, like I could
see if I was wanting to watch something that was
just making me want to escape and think like how
fun that life would be.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Watch the Wizza McQuire movie.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah, but that was like the first twenty minutes of
just them hanging out and really doing nothing, and then
maybe almost closer to the half way point of the movie,
their star to be a little bit of a plot,
but I just never felt that connection with either of
them that it just kind of faded into the background
for me. And then I also just hate movies whenever
they have they pull in like a social media aspect,
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like when somebody pulls out a phone and then suddenly
they're recording a TikTok. That just always just disturbs me
for some reason because I'm like, that is going to
age so poorly. We're gonna watch this movie in fifteen
years and things of TikTok. Why are we putting tiktoks
and things. It's like whenever you watch a movie now
from the two thousands and they have like a big
camera with like film in itt or like a DVD player,
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or somebody whips out and they're like typing in T
nine and you're like, oh, that just ages so.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Poorly, Okay, But the scene in Cinderella Story when she
t nine's l ol iconic.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Or there's like that music video I think it's a
Nelly music video and Kelly Rowland is like sending a
text but it's like an.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Excel switch it's my favorite.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
It's like, oh my gosh, that age is so terribly
So if I were to make a movie, I would
not include any kind of technology that would date it because.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
It's a bold statement.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Because that way, I think that's the time. No, I
don't think you do that.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I think you if you want a movie to be
a classic, you don't put any technology in it, because
that is instantly going to place it into like, oh,
I know exactly when this movie was made.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Take you can already tell me it's made based on
like the film Clas.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I don't think you can.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I think one of my favorites of all time, The
Dark Knight two thousand and eight. You could watch that
movie in another thirty years and you would still think
it's current because there's no major things that stand out.
Maybe some stuff at the end when Batmobile, Nah, I
think it'll still look current.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Okay, maybe I don't think Batman has ever looked current
because he has all this technology that doesn't exist. I
don't think superhero movies ever look current. So I think
that's in a league of its own.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I just think that movie is gonna it's going to
age perfectly. Maybe some of the scenes with Morgan freemantwards
the end with like the screens, maybe we get to
a point we don't even.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Use screens anymore. But a movie like Me and Girls.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I know Tina Face said that she didn't put anything
in that would really date that movie, And when we
went to rewatch it in the summer at that outdoor
movie thing, I paid attention to that, and the only
thing that stick out.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
To me or some of the slurs.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
The slurs were bad.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
They were like, she was like so deliberate and not
using certain things to date it to the two thousands,
which it does hold up. Maybe some of the even
the fashion I feel like was did a pretty good
job of not making it super like two thousands.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
But there are some words they say in.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Me and Girls are You're like, oh, they can't say
that anymore. That's an early two thousands movie. But aside
from that, I can't say that anymore.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Okay, do you want to talk about TV?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Or do you want to talk about the most searched
millennial pop culture things?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
I didn't know I had options. I wasn't prepared for this, Like.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
TV, just like what we watched, it's all kinds of
things that are the most search.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
No, no, I'm asking you said, did I want to talk
about two? Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Well, we always do like our best TV shows, Well,
can we do both? Okay?
Speaker 3 (25:52):
I already said it earlier. Marvelous, Missus masl It's great.
I love it. I love anything that Amy Sherman Palladino does.
Rachel Brosnhan's fantastic in it. It's great, it's funny, it's witty.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
The only TV show I've completed is Wednesday Season two,
Part one at the time of recording this. Wednesday's Season
two Part two is coming out later this week. I
really hate that Netflix splits up things into two parts.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
That is dumb, and they do it with their big franchises.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
They're doing it again with Stranger Things, because right when
you get to that point of like, ah, I'm so
back into this show, you gotta wait like another month
for the next part.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Ye, but I'm sold on that show.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Popular Rights the most searched millennial pop culture things action
movie is Transformers from two thousand and seven. Do you
feel like that's a millennial movie?
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Yes? God, forget that exists.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Really with Shila buff and Megan Fox.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
It's one of my favorites, and I didn't realize that
it's a millennial thing.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I mean, it makes sense. I love that movie. I
just that kind of surprises me, like I would expect
fast and furious.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Yeah, I kind of think more early two thousands. It
doesn't feel as millennial to me, but we're millennials. Two
thousand and sevens Transformers is the action movie millennials comedy movie.
Super Bad Also two thousand and seven.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Just makes me think of my little brother.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
You love super Bad. I feel like that movie has
transcended to gen z.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Oh he wears a shirt with mclovin on it.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Because I feel like mclovin is like a character that
is just bigger than any school.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
And I'm like, has none of your teachers seen super Bad?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
It doesn't feel millennial to me. Also, I feel like
late two thousands isn't.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
No that feels millennial to me.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Okay, maybe I just don't want some of these things
to feel old, because now millennials just sounds bad. It's
like a bad word, teen movie. Bring it on from
two thousand. Oh, that's millennial.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
These not spirit fingers. These are spirit fingers.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
That is such a good.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
That is like Quintessentially we watch them.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
That is like what I think.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
About when I think of when I was just dying
to go to the movie as a kid, to be cool,
like in Walks. Actually we didn't have much, but we
had Buffalo Creek with six screens on it. That was
like the place to be on Friday nights. And I
think of bring it on when I think about those times.
Great movie the kids show is Nick Junior's Wonder Pets.
Never was a Wonder Pets kid.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
One of my brothers was Wonder Pets. Wonder Pets. Oh
no way.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, I guess that's like the millennial probably, Yeah, that.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Leans more towards like two thousand and eight nine, like
the later end and I could sing it though.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
The sitcom for millennials Still Standing from CBS. It aired
from two thousand and two to two thousand and six.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
I know the show, but what millennials was watching still Standing?
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I did watch Still Standing?
Speaker 3 (28:33):
I did, but who was googling that? It's one of
those shows that Jamie Gertz Ywister Twister.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
I forgot how many episodes of this show I watched.
It would just not be one that I would think
that's a millennial show or one that I even care
to remember.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Every think friends, Yeah, yeah, I don't standing.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
I would even say where did you get the office?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
It's Google. People are googling still Standing. The American rock
band for millennials Creed. I guess millennials are a bunch
of divorced dads. Yeah, I don't mind Creed, like I'm
not a Creed hater, but I don't seek out their music.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Didn't they have a Creed cruise?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
They did?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Yeah, it was like the same ship that then had
their McMahon's cruise did and she was basically yeah, it
was a bunch of divorced dads one week, and then
a bunch of wine drung middle aged next.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
I like Scott's stab. He's a nice guy.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
I'll see him sometimes at the gym I go to,
which I won't give up his spot, but if you
have to imagine, I'm also going there too. It's not
that nice of the gym. But he's a nice guy.
He'll go in there with the hoodie on and nobody
talks to him, nobody messes with him. They don't realize
that arms wide open.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Guys right over.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
There, but I don't really see them as a millennial
band like Daughtry emo band my Chemical Romance? Does it
get more millennial than My Chemical Romance?
Speaker 3 (29:54):
When I was a young boy, I just remember listening
to that on the bus headphones in just Welcome to
the Black Parade.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
I used to be a My Chemical Romance.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Hater because they weren't even enough to me. They were
mainstream and they sold out. Like I went to go
see I bought tickets to my Chemical Romance and Alkaline Trio,
and I was such a hardcore Alkale Trio fan that
I left before My Chemical Romance went on and.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
I get something.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
My brother and I gave our wristbands to the pit
to some other people walking in, and they were like,
what are you crazy? I bet those people the best
story ever that we got these for free. The mixed
gender band Evanessence. I didn't know that was a category.
A mixed gender band? What a weird category? Ban Who
is googling this best mixed gender bands and Vanessence? I'm
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offended by this. Next one one hit Wonders Bowling for Soup.
They are not a one hit wonder to me. Come
back to Texas, but they claim their only hint is
nineteen eighty five that came out in two thousand and four.
They have Girl all the Bad Guys Want almost they
have so many hits.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
The Phineas and Verb theme song, Yes, that is offensive.
I think infensive.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
We will not have bowling for soup slander in this
house on this podcast rapper Lil Wayne, I agree with that.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
The Carter three in two thousand and eight was a
very influential album on me. He was like the biggest
thing from like two thousand and eight to like twenty ten,
twenty eleven. He was doing every guest spot on every song. Yeah,
I can see that one. Yeah hip hop song Country
Grammar by Nelly from two thousand, that feels pretty early
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two thousand, Like I associate Nelly with the early two thousands.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Prom dress maybe you can speak on this one. I
didn't go to prom.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Zebra print was zebra print a big thing for prom dresses.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
I feel like two thousand and five to two thousand
and nine. Maybe I went to prom in twenty twelve
and mine was like gold sequin many dress. It was
not zebra print.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
But yeah, unfortunately that was snacks yo. They were the
yogurt covered fruit snack never eate them.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I'm familiar with them because I like watching those those
nostalgia videos on or It's like two thousand snacks and
we're like, I hate that, I hate that. Yeah, we
watched those a lot, so I'm familiar with those, but
I don't think i've ever had had them. And finally,
the teen magazine for millennials. Oh, seventeen, Oh, I know it.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Seventeen loved seventeen.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
You remember how big magazines were in the two thousands.
I still love a magazine like I used to read
Alternative Press Thrasher magazine, But I just remember I enjoyed
looking at all the covers even though I didn't read them.
J fourteen was one, right, Oh, J fourteen Tiger Beat,
Tiger Beat Cosmo Girl, because I remember in the early
two thousands a lot of the bands I liked kind
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of transcended into those magazines as well, like Blank within
eighty two, some forty one, Good Charlotte would also be
on the covers of those magazines, and then I'd be like,
I want to read the interview with them, and I'm like,
I don't think this magazine is really for me.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Seventeen, Oh God, I loved so much out a subscription.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Isn't that kind of what thirteen going on? Thirty?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
The magazine she works for? Is that kind of like
what seventeen is?
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Is?
Speaker 3 (33:08):
I still read a magazine? I mean I read them
on my iPad, but I will buy a magazine and
an airport.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
All right?
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Anything else we want to talk about? That was the
list of the most searched millennial pop culture things.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
I'm trying to think of my best book of the month.
Hold on, I don't even remember what I've read this month.
Hold please, I'm going to go with the Secret History
of Audrey James.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Is that about?
Speaker 3 (33:28):
It's a World War two surprise. I know everyone's shocked.
I gave it five stars. I think it's one of
It's probably one of my favorites. With you. I'm currently
reading a really good book. I don't normally talk about
a book before I finish it, but it's called the
Book of Lost Hours. Kind of sci fi e But
it's like the idea that there are these people called
the Timekeepers, where they put people's memories in a book
and it goes back and forth between well, it starts
(33:50):
in nineteen thirty eight Germany, and then it goes to
nineteen sixty five in Boston, so it spans like World
War two and Cold War era, and it's about how
people have been like a racing history and how they're
trying to like save that, Like there were Nazis who
would go into this like space called like the time
space and they would erase what they did in World
(34:11):
War Two. Only few chapters in, but it's really good.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
All right, Well that is our best and worst of August.
That is millennial things, books and TV shows.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
We've covered it all.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
What a good TV shows coming out. It's about to
be don't have to leave the house season, which I
already hit football and good TV shows and.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Just still good movies coming out and it's cooler, so
then you like don't have to run out.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
We get to the point where we're like, I don't
want to pay for our own a seed around all day,
Let's go see a movie. But we're getting to the
point where it's like, oh, I actually want to stay.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Home stand let's get into it now.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
A spoiler free movie review of Cot Stealing starring Austin Butler,
Zoe Kravitz, Vincent Dinafrio, Action Bronson, Leave Shriver, Bad Bunny
Regina King. This movie is stacked directed by Darren air Ronofsky,
who has done movies like Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan,
Mother the Whale, and this is unlike any of those movies,
(35:08):
definitely leans more into the action. What this movie is about.
Austin Butler plays a burnt out baseball player who is
now just working as a bartender, trying to keep his
life somewhat together. He has some drinking problems, and this
dude loves baseball. He is a big San Francisco Giants fan.
He worships the team. He calls his mom all the
(35:30):
time to talk about baseball. Even when stuff starts going
wrong in his life and it feels like his whole
world is falling apart, he still wants to know how
they are doing every day. Are they going to make
the playoffs? How many games back are they? That is
a major priority for him, which I think shouldn't be.
He has this really great girl in his life. He
has a chance to kind of get his life back together,
(35:51):
but then everything changes when his neighbor asks him to
watch his cat because he has to go out of town.
And then it turns out his neighbor who he's kind
of friends with, is into some really bad things. There
are some people after him, and now Austin Butler's character
is tangled up in all of it, and he is
now in it by association. And what I enjoy about
(36:13):
this movie is it feels like a very realistic action movie.
Because I was worried that cot Stealing was going to
turn Austin Butler into something he wasn't, into an action star.
That's not what this movie does. The way the story
unfolds is that it's happening to him as if he
was just a regular person that this would happen to.
Despite the fact that he is so good looking, especially
(36:36):
walking around in his underwear throughout the majority of the
opening of this movie, You're like, man, that is so unfair.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Dude has it all.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
But aside from his looks in his physique, everything that
happens to his character is something that could happen to
you and I, and I'm glad that they didn't turn
him into some big superhero who just started out of
nowhere taking down people left and right. So I think
that part of it made it feel like a very
realistic action movie where there were some action sequences, but
(37:04):
it didn't feel like they were overly choreographed, which sometimes
when you watch an action movie and you just feel
like it's a little bit too slick and they're getting
into fights that you know they would not win, it
just feels a little bit too unrealistic. But there is
a big level of rawness throughout this film, and I'm
not even talking about all the hooking up scenes, which
is kind of Aaronovsky's calling card. There's always a lot
(37:27):
of nudity scenes in his movies that make his films
movies you do not want to sit down and watch
with your parents. If you were somebody who made the
mistake of watching Black Swan with your mom, with your grandma,
even sometimes with your dad, that stuff gets uncomfortable. He
is definitely a director where you know there is gonna
be nudity. It is pretty out there and forward at
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the beginning of this film. So that's kind of his
calling card. But what he is also great at capturing
is very unique characters that are people that you don't
want to take your eyes off throughout the entire film.
And that is what I get here, because after watching
Cot Stealing, I still don't believe that Austin Butler is
some great actor. He is on that level of you
(38:09):
put his name in a movie and it's a film
of note. But I still don't believe he has the
acting chops to be the best leading man. But I
don't really think this movie required that. But out of
all the Austin Butler films I've watched, from Elvis to Doune,
every single one of his performances, this has to be
my favorite, even though I don't think that is saying
(38:30):
a whole lot. Although I still see these little pockets
of him not being able to convey some emotion when
it comes to anything that is a little bit more dramatic.
I just don't get that from him. Because in this film,
his character is dealing with this trauma that sometimes comes
out whenever he is sleeping. He wakes up very violently
because of these nightmares that he is having, and there
(38:53):
was always those moments where he was trying to convey
this sense of like I just woke up from a
nightmare that I didn't believe it, And maybe that was
by design, maybe it was supposed to come off that
way in the movie, But just those little glimpses of like,
I don't know if he's that good of an actor,
if he's just getting all these roles right now because
he is a hot name. He is so attractive and
(39:14):
looks like a movie star. I don't know if he
has the acting chops to really compete with some of
the best names in Hollywood as being the next big thing.
I don't think he is quite there yet. Somebody who
I am really surprised by every time they show up
in a movie now is Bad Bunny all ben Neathough
like seeing him in this role, really own it, and
(39:37):
I think this was the character for him. He is
playing a guy who was very threatening but also very chill.
I really enjoyed Bad Bunny's performance in this. Him alongside
Action Bronson was something I didn't know I needed. I'm
huge fans of both of their music. I remember seeing
Action Bronze it at south By Southwest maybe twenty fifteen,
twenty fourteen. He looks so different than he used to
(39:59):
look like back in the day.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
He's dropped a lot of weight.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
He's become kind of a fitness influencer now, and me
also being a former big guy, I like to see
our own succeed, so it's so cool seeing him now
alongside such big stars like Bad Bunny and Regina King
in a scene. I loved his character Amtrak. I wish
there would have been more of him in this movie.
I hope he gets more roles because of cot stealing.
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The other major props I have to give to this
film is the fact that the trailer did not set
you up for anything. Really, the trailer only captures, I
would say, the first maybe ten minutes of this movie.
In a world where if you don't have the IP
in an action franchise, you have to almost cram in
the entire story in a two and a half minute
(40:44):
trailer and then still convince those people we just showed
you the entire movie, but we also want you to
go in theaters now and pay money to go see this.
That is saying a lot this movie to keep back
all of the best parts when it comes to the action,
when it comes to how this story unfolds, and all
the twists and turns and great just character development, and
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not put it into the trailer.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
BRA vow to them for doing.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
That, because you easily could have put that all at
the forefront, put it more in the marketing. But they
knew they had a good story on their hands and
didn't need to do that to its detriment. Though, going
into it, I thought it was just gonna feel like
a generic action type movie.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
I wasn't that excited.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
My expectations were pretty low, and if it wouldn't have
been for a bit of slower weekend at the box office.
Because you had Caught Stealing, you had the Toxic Avenger,
you had Jaws come back into theaters. You also had
Leelo and Stitch coming back into theaters. There wasn't that
much that I was ready to sink my teeth into
so passionately that I was like, I like Austin Butler. Okay,
(41:47):
I love Zoe Kravitz. I'm a huge bad Bunny fan.
Let's go see how all of this comes together. So
out of everything, it was just a big surprise, a
very fun ride, some really great sin shots that I
wasn't expecting. There are some scenes of just Austin Butler
walking down these alley ways that look fantastic. At times,
it feels like it transforms into an entirely different movie
(42:10):
visually and aesthetically. That part was also really pleasing to
my eyeballs. For cot Stealing, I give it four out
of five Giants Hats not big oversized hats the baseball team,
the Giants.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
It's time to head down to movie Mike trailer, Paul.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
This is quite possibly one of my favorite stories about
movies this year. The movie is called good Boy. It
is a horror movie from the perspective of a dog.
He sees his owner being overtaken by these supernatural, demonic spirits.
But because this movie went so viral, the trailer dropped.
I heard about it maybe a month or two ago,
(42:52):
and just the concept alone, I'm in. There have been
horror movies like this recently. But the trailer came out,
I had about a million views in four days. The
studio behind at IFC said, you know what we now
believe in this movie. We're taking this from a small
independent release since it went viral, now putting it in
a full theatrical release. That means going to be in hundreds,
(43:14):
maybe thousands of theaters across the country. And the movie
is super low budget. I couldn't even find an official budget.
Has to be less than five million, maybe even less
than one million. But now this could be the movie
that could And I think this is something that filmmakers
are aspiring to do is make art that people are
talking about, because once this trailer went viral, you had
(43:36):
Google searches going up over does the Dog and Good
Boy Live, which is what everybody wants to know. I
have to imagine though, it is already named one of
the most heartbreaking horror films of twenty twenty five, and
that is just kind of giving you an indication of
probably what is going to happen to the dog. I
(43:58):
know some people have some mixed feelings, probably more on
the other end. You never want to see an animal
get hurt, even in a movie. It's like in John Wick,
how his dog dies at the beginning of the movie
that inspires his entire run of avenging his death. Nobody
cared about the tens to hundreds of people killed over
the course of the John Wick franchise, But you kill
(44:19):
that dog and suddenly it's like, oh man, I can't
even be a part of that movie. The movie is
coming out on October third. Before I get into more,
here's just a little bit of the viral Good Boy trailer.
There's not a whole lot of audio, because again, the
dog is the main character, but it gives you a
sense of the feel of this.
Speaker 4 (44:37):
Movie, I guess I'm next. I Shall never come here.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
Creepy, right.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
So it's about a loyal dog who moves into a
house out in the woods with his owner, Todd, only
to find that supernatural forces have been lurking in the shadows.
As a dark entity threatens his human companion, the brave
dog must fight to protect the one he loves the most.
Of course, it's going to be the dog trying to
save the day here. This movie is only seventy two minutes,
(45:32):
which is just a little bit over an hour if
you factor in credits. Credits are usually five to seven minutes,
so probably looking at just a little bit over an hour.
So I have to imagine this movie gets right to
it and then we find out what is taking over
his owner's body and what happens to Indy in the
(45:52):
movie Who is the Dog? This movie was written and
directed by Ben Leonbergh and it stars his real life.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
Dog named Indy, who also plays Indy in the movie.
And Indy is.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
Such a good actor. He has no CGI enhancements in
the movie. There's no dialogue added. All of his emotion
is just conveyed from his owner's filmmaking abilities. Airbud could
never do that, and Airbud is coming back into theaters
next summer in twenty twenty six. Airbud needs all the CGI,
Airbud needs the trailer. Airbud requires catering. He has an assistant.
(46:27):
Indie went in knocked out this role and is quite
possibly good to win an Oscar for the best dog
in a movie. That's a made up category, but they
should add it in just for Indy and the film
reminds me of a couple of big horror movies that
have made an impact in the genre using really original ideas.
One is Skinna Marink, which is about two children who
(46:49):
wake up in the middle of the night their dad
is missing. All the windows indoors in their home have vanished.
It's a very experimental horror movie and is it the
most entertaining of all time? No, but I love it
for its ingenuity and what it did to the genre
to say, here is something that has been done before,
a weird thing going on inside a house. Well, let's
(47:10):
package it and tell it in a way that this
story has not been told before. Another one was Presence
from earlier this year, which that is a horror movie
from the perspective of the actual demonic force haunting the house.
So you have this family move in, and you basically
have this view from like a drone perspective inside the house,
(47:30):
and you learn about the family just by observing them
in a kind of creeper way from the perspective of
that demonic force. And again, not the most entertaining movie
of all time. They showed a lot of the horror
elements in the trailer that the overall movie just didn't
really deliver on. But still I loved how original that
story felt. It was enough to get me to go
(47:52):
to the theater to watch it. And I think that
is what you have to do in horror right now,
unless you have the big budget or the big ip
to appeal to a lot of people of like, oh,
let's go see the new Conjuring movie. Let's go see
what Michael Myers is up to now that he's like
sixty five years old, getting the senior citizen discount but
still killing babysitters around the block. If you can't do that,
(48:13):
and you don't have that as a filmmaker to rely on,
you have to create stories like this that are gonna
get people online buzzing about it, because when I look
at this trailer without the viral success, without looking at
the view count, it looks like a kind of generic
movie as far as the technical aspects, I would think, oh,
this is maybe a movie that somebody did as a
(48:35):
school project. But all of that gets thrown out the
window now that it's having its moment. And I think
that is what is great about the Internet right now.
Whether it's a movie, whether it's a song, whether it's
just a painting, if you can create that moment on
the Internet that leads to actually getting butts and seats,
because that is a big thing. You see people with
(48:55):
a lot of followers on TikTok, but can they get
people to pay money to go see them. I've in
concert same deal here with a movie. It has the
attention to people because the search does the Dog and
Good Boy Die spiked by more than two thousand percent.
Speaker 2 (49:10):
I think the fact that we're not.
Speaker 1 (49:12):
Too far away from the release coming out in about
a month now on October third, it's now about can
you capitalize on that and get people to pay money
to go see it in theaters and then through word
of mouth spread how good it ended up being to
get other people to go witness it, because I have
to imagine aside from this virality, good Boy doesn't have
(49:34):
a whole lot of money to spend on marketing. But
I think that is what is inspiring to me that
a movie like this can still exist, and I think
it should be inspiration to a lot of young filmmakers
that if you just have an idea and you are
able to tell a story that only you can tell,
because the director here used his own dog, and if
you can make something that only you can make that
(49:56):
nobody else has made before, and tell it in a
way that only you can tell it. Because his relationship
with his dog is what makes this movie work.
Speaker 2 (50:04):
The fact that he was able.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
To direct a dog. Can you even direct a dog?
Like a dog really doesn't know how to take direction? Like,
all right, Indy, I'm gonna need you to give me
a little bit more emotion here react to this dark
entity in the corner. No, but he probably has a
great relationship with his dog, has trained him. He knows
his mannerisms, He knows how to get him to look
a certain way, he knows how to get him to
(50:28):
walk along a certain paths to make a camera shot work.
So this is a movie that only he could make
with his dog, and the dog is adorable. I saw
them two together. It is a picture perfect dog. So
I think as a movie lover, that is what is inspiring.
I think to the big corporations, the big studios, this
is inspiring to them because they see money. Because historically
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horror movies cost way less than any other genre and
there is a big return on investment. You can spend
less than a million dollars and if you have that success,
you can make twenty to thirty maybe even fifty million
dollars at the box office just opening weekend.
Speaker 2 (51:06):
A loan, bam, big money. So studios are getting excited
about this. It reminds me.
Speaker 1 (51:11):
Of one of the biggest profit margins of all time,
Paranormal Activity.
Speaker 2 (51:15):
The first movie was made for only fifteen.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
Thousand dollars, but it went on to make one hundred
and ninety four million dollars worldwide.
Speaker 2 (51:25):
That is the example. That is like winning the lottery.
Speaker 1 (51:28):
It is very rare for a movie to do that.
I would say probably the best most recent example is
the Terrifier franchise, because those movies are really just your
B horror level movies with very raw and brutal practical
effects that they don't look the most realistic, but that's
(51:50):
not what they are meant to look like. But that
movie also created a moment, was made for a little
amount of money, and has now spawned a franchise that
I think, according to some stories I've read recently, we'll
be wrapping up with the fourth movie.
Speaker 2 (52:03):
The first one was.
Speaker 1 (52:04):
Good, the first one was novel two is okay, and
then the third one and I'm like, I don't really
need to know more about art the Clown.
Speaker 2 (52:10):
So if you want originality right now, you have to
look to Horror.
Speaker 1 (52:14):
It is crushing it in twenty twenty five, and I
think that success will carry on into twenty twenty six.
And again Good Boy comes down in theaters on October third.
Speaker 4 (52:23):
Jeez.
Speaker 1 (52:24):
And that was this week's edition of Movie by Frame
or Bar and that is going to do it for
another episode here of the podcast. Before I go, I
got to give my listeners shout out of the week.
You can get a listener shout out of the week
just by sending me an email at moviemke dat gmail
dot com, dm me on Instagram, or tweet at me
is it still tweeting even though it's X. But this
(52:46):
week I'm going over to X and shouting out Joel,
who wrote me and said, this might be an unpopular opinion,
but going to the movies alone is better than going
with someone. You don't have to worry about whether they
like the movie, and you don't have to deal with
anyone asking questions during it. Love the podcast always listening
Monday Morning, and Joel posted a screenshot of his app
(53:08):
listening to last week's episode at nine to twenty six am.
Speaker 2 (53:11):
So, Joel, you are a part of the Monday Morning
Movie crew.
Speaker 1 (53:15):
My favorite thing to see on Mondays is somebody sending
me a screenshot listening to the podcast bright and Early.
Speaker 2 (53:21):
So I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (53:22):
And I got a lot of messages last week about
how much people enjoy going to the movies alone, and
that made me feel good that people aren't afraid to
do it, because you should do it more. You should
just have that experience to yourself. If you've never gone
to the movies alone but you wanted to, this is
your second sign to go and do that. So thank you, Joel,
(53:43):
Thank you to everybody who is a part of the
Monday Morning movie crew, and until next time, go out
and watch good movies and I will talk to you
later
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