In this episode, Movie Mike takes you through the world of superhero suits. He explains why he doesn’t like Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine costume from the Deadpool 3 set and shares his list of the "Top 10 Best Superhero Suits of All-Time." Mike dives deep into the realm of spandex and capes and a look back at the most iconic designs that have become legendary. In the Spoiler-free Movie Review, Mike shares his thoughts on "Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One," discussing intense action sequences, Tom Cruise's daredevil stunts and the franchise as a whole. And in the Trailer Park, Mikes talks about the first look at “Wonka” starring Timothée Chalamet. The original is one of his Top 10 movies of all-time so he shares his thoughts on what he thinks about this perspective on the classic story now focusing on a young Wonka and Timothée Chalamet’s approach to the character.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I
am fired up today.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I saw the.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
First look of Hugh Jackman returning as Wolverine and Deadpool three,
and I didn't like it. So I want to share
with you what I think are good suits. Not only
good suits, but the best suits of all time. I
have my top ten best superhero suits in movies. In
the movie review, we'll be talking about Mission Impossible, Dead
Reckoning Part one. You got Tom Cruise flying around doing
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his own stunts. Didn't live up to my expectations, which
quite frankly pretty low. Not the biggest fan of Mission Impossible,
but this one had my attention. And in the trailer
Park we'll be talking about Wonka, one of my favorite
movies of all time is getting a prequel, and by
the first looks of it, I don't hate it. So
thank you for being here. Shout out to the Monday
Morning Movie crew, and now let's talk movies.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast,
one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like
never before in a movie podcast. A man with so
much movie knowledge, he's basically like a walking IMDb with glasses.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
From the Nashville Podcast Network. This is Movie Mike's movie podcast.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Let's get into the inspiration behind this episode. So a
photo was posted last week. It's Hugh Jackman returning as
Wolverine in Deadpool three, which is coming out next year,
and this is the first look we have at the suit.
When this movie was first announced that he would be
returning as the character, my immediate reaction was, we were
finally gonna get the comic book accurate Wolverine suit, you know,
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the one. It's yellow and blue, it's sleeveless, it has
his muscles ripping out. It also has the iconic pointy
helmet and then the weird boots with the pointy tips
and all the things that make it look so iconic.
And it's a look I greatly associate with the time
I got into X Men, the cartoon from the nineties,
and it's the version we never got in the movies.
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And quite frankly, the original suits and all the X
Men movies were pretty terrible. They were so leather heavy,
And I think the reason is because in the early
two thousands, Marvel was not what it was today. It
was really trying to establish itself in the real world. Therefore,
when you deal with realism, you can't really throw a
bunch of actors into spandex.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
People wouldn't really take it seriously.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
So I think for that reason, the costumes in those
X Men movies really suffered because it really wasn't what
comic book fans wanted. But that and Sam Raimi Spider
Man allowed it to break into the mainstream and we
all got comfortable with the idea of a superhero suit.
And now in the twenty twenties, it is much more
just acceptable to do a very comic book accurate suit
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that can be a little bit more cartoony, a little
bit more fun, because really that's what we all have
been itching for. So after seeing this first look of
Hugh Jackman in this suit.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I didn't like it. I don't think it looks.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
As comic accurate as everybody is saying. I think it's
a really hard thing to do because again I am
associating it with the Wolverine cartoon from that early series
and also the comic books, and everybody's saying it looks
exactly like it.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I don't really.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
See it, maybe in the little details on the side.
As far as the Wolverine marks, but to me, it
just looks like he is in a motorcycle racing suit.
It looks like it's about a hop onto a bike,
not about to kick someone's butt.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
And also the colors are a little bit off.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yes, it is completely yellow, which is cool to see
him in that they finally committed to that, but it's
not blue and yellow. It's blue and black, so he
kind of looks like a bumblebee. And I've seen different
versions of this picture taken off the internet, and some
people have changed the colors themselves, but in the original
photo that was posted, it looks black and yellow, black
and yellow, black and yellow, And I think it's bad
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because I don't immediately look at this suit and think Wolverine.
But to the left of him you have Deadpool, and
I think that is really why the design is the
way it is, because it looks more of a reflection
of the world that Deadpool lives in, which is much
more of a tactical suit has kind of these panels,
but that is really what that Deadpool suit is in
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the comic books, and he has one of the best
comic book accurate suits, So I feel like they had
the same approach with Wolverine and it just doesn't look
the same. So yes, I wanted him to be in
yellow spandex, much like they made the joke back in
X Men in two thousand and two when Cyclops jokingly
tells him, what would you prefer to wear yellow spandex?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I would, So I don't see those same comic book
accurate details, especially with the boots. He is straight up
just wearing motocross boots in this suit. It looks nothing
like the ones from the comics or the cartoon. So
I am not nerding out over this costume, but I
don't think it will affect my feeling going into this
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movie because up until this point, the Deadpool movies have
not let me down. So I also don't know how
often this suit is going to be used in the
entire movie.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
It's just a picture. It's worth a thousand words.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
We don't know if this is just one gag scene
where maybe Deadpool was telling them, hey, why don't you
get in the yellow super old time sake and they
have this one little montage of him in the yellow suit.
So I am not fully believing anything until we get
that first trailer and see what he's actually going to
look like in the movie. Maybe once it's on screen
it looks better, but right now I am not a fan.
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So instead of talking an entire episode about bad suits,
which is an entirely different episode that I'll do in
the future, I want to talk about my top ten
best superhero suits of all time. The only rules for
this episode is it must be in a movie on
the big screen adaptation, and I am not including villains
into this. And I'm also not including suits that are
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entirely cgi, So the Hulk isn't really a suit, it's
an entire person, so he will not be on my list.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
So let's get into the list.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
At number ten, I have Patty Jenkins Wonder Woman from
twenty seventeen. The reason I love this suit is because
it is the right amount of comic book accurate and
also so the right amount of a tactical suit that
actually has the functionality, and the Wonder Woman's suit is
one that would be so easy to make it cheesy
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and make it not look good on screen. And this
suit is also the right amount of sexy because when
they made the first suit worn by Linda Carter, that
version was actually based on lingerie. However, Gal Gadot's suit
was actually based on Roman armor, and that is the
feeling you get in this movie. She looks awesome, but
she also looks like she can pummel your face in.
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And I love every time this suit is on screen.
From the very first moment I saw her in the suit,
I knew they had cast Wonder Woman perfectly. And most
times I don't feel that way. I always feel like, ah,
you should have cast this person, should have cast that person.
But gal Gado is the perfect casting. You have the
strapless red plated armor, the blue skirt, the gold head piece,
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and the armor on the hands and the arms. It's
all just worked together perfectly. I think I just loved
the color palette two of the red, blue and the gold.
So at number ten, I have Wonder Woman suit from
twenty seventeen. At number nine, I have Christopher Nolans The
Dark Knight, the batsuit worn by Christian Bale in two
thousand and eight. And this suit was so highly influential
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on every comic book movie adaptation that would come after it.
And when you look historically at the Batman suit, it
was always one of the most comic book accurate suits.
But the problem with that is it wasn't as practical
to the actor playing Batman, because if you remember, in
the early iterations of the suit, there was always a
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problem with Batman turning his head.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
He couldn't swivel his neck.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
He'd had to turn his entire body, and sometimes that
looks very awkward on camera. But the reason for that
is because in the comic books, the entire thing is
just connected what Christopher Nolan's Batman suit first did, and
Batman begins and then greatly improved on that, and the
Dark Knight was fixing that problem with some upgrades making
it look more like it was a suit designed by
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the military. It looked like it could take a bullet,
unlike the rubber suit in the late eighties and early nineties.
I even loved it, even though there was less emphasis
on the Batman logo in the center. I also just
loved the spikes pointing out of the sleeves. This suit
just worked on so many levels, and I feel like
so many superhero movies took inspiration from this suit and
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how tactical it could be, especially with the iteration we
had in twenty twenty two with the Batman, which is
much more of a ragged Batman suit. That suit could
not have existed if it wasn't for Christopher Nolans. So
at number nine I have the Dark Knight suit from
two thousand and eight. At number eight, I have Tim
Miller's Deadpoole costume from twenty sixteen worn by Ryan Reynolds.
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And this is a big upgrade from the one we
got in X Men origins Wolverine that looked terrible. His
mouth was sown shut and it looked nothing like the
comic books. And the dead Pot suit is just so
incredibly faithful to the source material. It essentially looks like
Deadpool just leapt off of a comic book page right
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onto the big screen. You add some texture to it,
and that is what you get in the first Deadpool movie.
So I think if Deadpool was one of my more
favorite superheroes, this one maybe would have ranked higher. There's
just something about it when it's on screen. Maybe it's
all the red that just immediately makes your eyes go
and stay there.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I also love that.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
The white eyes allow Ryan Reynolds's character and his voice
acting to really shine because they are so expressive on
this suit and such a big part of it. Since
it doesn't have a mouth, so I feel that part
of this suit allows it to be much more animated
and larger than live So that is just a great detail,
combined with the rugged belt, the swords on the back,
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and the fact that he's always holding two guns. So
this suit looks awesome and it is the perfect look
for an R rated movie. And even though it is
so comic book accurate, there's still a sense of realism
to it, and I think that's why it's worked so well,
and I'm glad they haven't really changed a whole lot
in what we're seeing from Deadpool three. So at number
eight from twenty sixteen, I'm going with Deadpool. Moving on
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to number seven, I have the Russo Brothers Captain America
suit from Civil War in twenty sixteen, worn by Chris Evans. Now,
what you had with the early Captain America suits was
a much more comic book accurate suit with the red,
white and blue.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
And the helmet.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
But what I loved about Captain America more than any
other superhero suit is its evolution over time. It went
from a much more cartoony look to a very much
more rugged and more defined, subdued look over every single
appearance in every single movie. And the reason I love
that so much with Captain America is it greatly reflects
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the character development of Steve Rodgers, because his character was
so bright eyed and bushy tailed in the first movie,
and then over time, with every single battle, he became
very much more weighed down with life and all the
things he has been through, all the things he felt
like he missed out on, and his costume reflected that
in every single iteration. But where I loved it the
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most wasn't Civil War, because he still had the red, white,
and blue, but the red was almost a blood red
that was a lot more subtle. Same with the white,
it wasn't really off white. It was just a very
dirty white that almost had like this spray painted black
over it. You still had the classic helmet with the A,
but everything was just kind of worn looking. So this
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felt like the suit that was a reflection of the
transition of his character and it was just a little
bit different than it was in Age of Ultron. So
at number seven, I have Captain America suit from Civil War.
At number six, I have the og Sam Raimi Spider
Man suit worn by Toby maguire in two thousand and two,
I don't think I appreciated this suit as much as
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I do now into No Way Home, because now I
feel that this suit is so classic looking. And I
was saying earlier when talking about X Men, that these
suits needed to look very realistic, they needed to look
less cartoony to be able to break into the mainstream.
And I almost feel that Spider Man in two thousand
and two was kind of the in between of both
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of those ideas. You wanted to make a Spider Man
suit that comic book fans would love, but also one
that would just look good on screen and not just
feel like a live action cartoon. And what I love
about Sam Raimi's Spider Man is all the shots when
it's actually placed into a real world situation, so it's
Spider Man on the street after his first save in
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the movie. I remember the first time I saw that
and I was like, Wow, Spider Man actually exists like
this in our real world.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
They finally did it.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I love the raised web detailing. I think that is
kind of the main staple of this costume that gives
it this almost three D look throughout the suit, so
it very much looks like the classic Spider Man look
without feeling cheesy in any way. So, out of the
three major on screen portrayals of this suit, this is
the most classic. This is the og This is the
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one at number six, Sam Raimi's Spider Man suit from
two thousand and two getting into the top five. Now
at number five, I have Tim Burton's Batman Returns the
batsuit from nineteen ninety two worn by Michael Keaton. Now,
this one is really just an improvement on the nineteen
eighty nine suit, which you may say is the more
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iconic one. It is really the one that was more
used in the Flash movie we had earlier this year,
but I felt like the nineteen ninety two suit was
an improvement. If you put them side by side, they
are very similar. The improvements I'm talking about are the
ones related to the armor. In the nineteen eighty nine version,
especially with the avs, it looks just like Batman has
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some ripped up abs. They improved on that in the
nineteen ninety two version and it looks more like he
is wearing armor, which I think is a much more
sleeker look. And I think all around, the nineteen ninety
two version just looks so much better on camera. But
my favorite detail about this suit that I wish another
Batman suit would incorporate is the iconic logo with the
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yellow background. That is a symbol I look at and
think Batman, and maybe it's not the most practical of suits.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
What I was saying earlier.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Is a big setback to this suit is the fact
that you have to turn your entire body to turn
your head. It looks a little bit awkward, but I'll
give that up for it looking so comic book accurate.
You have the colors, you have the tactical belt, you
have the best ears, all the gizmos and gadgets, and
that gold belt are perfect. So at number five, I
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have Tim Burton's Batman Returns batsuit. Moving on to number four,
I have Zack Snyder's Man of Steel, the Superman's suit
worn by Henry cavill in twenty thirteen. Now, don't get
me wrong, the nineteen seventy nine Christopher Reeve costume is iconic,
but it's incredibly cheesy. Sometimes two comic book accurate can
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be cheesy. That's okay. What this suit did was take
inspiration from that suit but greatly improve on it. And
what I love about the Man of Steel suit is
it looks much more like something an alien would wear,
which that is what Clark Kent is.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
That is what Superman is.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
He is an alien from another planet who comes to Earth.
This is more accurate of what he would wear. He
wouldn't just be wearing very bright blue and red span
dex with a big S on it with a yellow background.
He would be wearing something more like this, very skin tight,
kind of scaly looking, with the more subdued.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Blue and red. But my favorite detail about this suit
is the logo.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Instead of being a nest that means Superman, it's a
Kryptonian symbol and the S is actually the symbol for Hope,
so it's a lot fatter. It kind of looks like
a snake in a way, maybe a nandaconda. And I
think that is the detail that really sets this suit apart.
I mean also the fact that Henry Cavill has the
body of a god and when he puts this suit on,
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he looks like a force to be reckoned with. And
it's my favorite cape suit in my top three. There
won't be any superhero suits with cape suits, but the
best superhero to wear a cape because He's one who
actually needs it is Superman.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
He flies, he needs a cape.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
And I think a great superhero suit should be inspirational
to not only adults like me who are nerds and
new podcasts, but to kids. And I think the Superman
suit is inspirational. I could imagine a kid even now,
stumbling upon twenty thirteen's Man of Steel and thinking I
want to be Superman for Halloween. That is the sign
of a great costume. So because the design stays true
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to its core, it has that familiarity, but it also
just feels much more majestic.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
That is why I put it at number four.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Zack Snyder's Man of Steel the Superman suit worn by
Henry Cavill moving into the top three. At number three,
I have Jon Favreau's iron Man two. It is the
Mark four suit worn by the one and only Tony
Stark played by Robert Downey Junior in twenty twelve. So
a brief history on the Iron Man's suit as far
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as the movies. The Mark one was the one he
made in the cave. The Mark two was the first
one he made after escaping the cave. It was the
essentially the prototype Iron Man suit, but it was the
one that was entirely silver, and then the Mark three
was the one in the two thousand and eight Iron Man,
and that was the suit that very much paid homage
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to the comic books.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
To me, it looked a little.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Bit more softer and rounded edges, So I felt like
the Mark four in Iron Man two was such an
improvement on it.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
And I think it is the perfect suit.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Because it keeps that iconic red and gold color scheme
but has a bit of a sleeker design. It's a
lot more streamlined. There's a lot more detail in the
chest and the ribcage and the ab area, and the
helmet just looks so much better, a little bit less cartoony.
And this is even though I love the Ironman movie
way more. I rewatched iron Man two recently and feel
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like it's a little bit forgettable, but I could not
stop looking at how good the suit looked. I also
love this one because it still has the circular core
in the middle. Before they started messing around with that
and it turned into a triangle, sometimes went back to
a circle, but this one just overall had the right
amount of everything, the right amount of red and gold,
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the right amount of functionality, and overall is my favorite
Ironman suit, and that is why I put it at
number three. Jon Favreau's Ironman suit from iron Man two.
At number two, I have Ryan Coogler's Black Panther from
twenty eighteen. It is the Black Panther suit worn by
Chadwick Boseman, and the first time we had a get
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this on the big screen was his first appearance in
Civil War, which was a great suit, and I felt
like his suit was such a breath of fresh air
and marvel at the time because everybody was just starting
to look the same. We had been with these characters
for so long, and you throw Black Panther on the
big screen and it looks so different than every other suit.
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So every time he was on screen in Civil War,
I just wanted more, and that is exactly what I
got in the Black Panther movie. The suit also requires
a large amount of special effects to make it look believable,
and they did an incredible job doing that, bringing vibranium
to life. It appears almost lightweight in skin tight, but
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also looks extremely durable and looks like it could take
the beating that it does every time T'Challa gets into
a fight. So you have this basically entirely black, full
body suit with these metallic materials all throughout it, paired
with the feline detail, the ears on the mask, the
claud gloves, all of it just works together and looks
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like it's made for a king. It's made to look
exactly like what he is. He is a king who
is also a soldier. And I also love that much
of the costume design is an homage to different African tribes.
The Black Panther Suit is actually in the National Museum
of African American History and Culture.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
So the fact that the.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Suit also honors history and the way that the suit
compliments T'Challa's wardrobe when he's not wearing the Black Panther Suit,
just what he wears in normal everyday life throughout the movie.
That is something that no other superhero really has, because
even when he's not wearing the suit, you know that
T'Challa is Black Panther.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
And it's also my favorite suit that works well without
a helmet.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I think my favorite scenes are where it's just T'Challa
wearing the suit without a helmet. Maybe it's because I
get to see Chadwick Boseman's face and that just makes
me happy. So at number two, I have Ryan Coogler's
Black Panther suit worn by Chadwick Poseman.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
But at number one, my favorite superhero suit.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Of all time is Mark Webb's amazing Spider Man suit
from twenty twelve worn by Andrew Garfield. And I know
this Spider Man suit isn't for everybody, but I feel
like it was made just for me, because, like I
was saying earlier, the Toby Maguire suit is the classic look.
The Tom Holland suit is the more modern look, which
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actually I'm not the biggest fan of that suit on
its own. It's a little bit too cartoony, a little
bit too cgi for me. I love those movies, but
I could do with a different suit in the Tom
Holland movies. But when it comes to Andrew Garfield in
his suit, there is nothing I don't like about it
and only things I love about it. I think my
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favorite detail about this suit is the texture. It just
looks like I want to touch it. And maybe that's
the issue a lot of people have with this suit,
that textured surface, but for me, it just looks so
great on on screen. It looks so good when he's
in action, but also just when he's on the street
or in an alleyway walking down it.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
It just sticks out to me.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
It has a slightly rougher and tactical feel, but I
feel like it adds a sense of realism to the
character and enhances.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
The overall costume.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
It's just so striking to me, and I feel like
this suit did what it was supposed to do. It
was coming just a decade later that they were revamping
and rebooting Spider Man. You had to make it different.
Some people also had an issue with the eyes, but
I love the eyes, especially that scene where you get
the first real up close look at it. He's on
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the side of the building, almost selfie style, and.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
You get this suit in all its glory.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
This is the best Spider Man suit, hands down, because
it looks like one that cannot only take a beating,
but also deliver a beating because it has so much
emphasis on the muscles of Peter Parker. And I feel
like it was an incredible downgrade from the amazing Spider
Man to Tom Holland Spider Man suit. What I was
saying back in the twenty tens, my feelings on this
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suit and loving it. I feel like people only have
those feelings now after No Way Home, and there's much
more an appreciation for Andrew Garfield's amazing Spider Man one
and two because we've had some time to sit on him,
we had time to realize that they really got it
right in those movies, and the real travesty is we
never got a third one. So that is it My
top ten superhero suits of all time. I have a
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few honorable mentions. I was gonna say either Thor or
Captain America suit from Infinity War. Really, every single suit
in that movie looks perfect. They're all so rugged and
dark to reflect the feelings and emotions in that movie.
That really could pick any single character in Infinity War,
and that could be the best one. My other honorable
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mention that's probably gonna be controversial is the black Adam suit.
I didn't love that movie. I didn't love the character,
but that suit is undeniably good looking.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
It's skin tight, it's.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Scaly, and maybe I just have a fascination because in
my personal life I wear a lot of black. I
just thought the suit looked good, the Rock looked good
wearing it. He just didn't really deliver on any other aspect.
Also in my honorable Mentions, I would put nineteen ninety
eight's Blade, which I feel like doesn't get enough credit
as being one of the first influential Marvel movies. Wesley
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Snipes is Blade is so good, but nobody ever mentions him.
Also in my honorable Mentions, I would have the Symbiote
suit from Spider Man three in two thousand and seven.
It's my favorite suit in the comic books and in
the video games, and I'm really looking forward to the
look of it in the new Spider Man game coming
out this year. Actually, as I plot out my Marvel tattoo,
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that is on my vision board for the tattoo I
want to get. So maybe it's not so much how
it looked in the movie, but really what that suit
means to me. That's why I had to give it
an honorable mention. But that's the list. We'll come back
and talk about Mission Impossible Dead Reckon Part one after
this about to get into a spoiler free movie review,
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Let's talk about Mission Impossible Dad Reckoning Part one. That
title is a mouthful. You could just call it Mission
Impossible seven. A couple of things that I have holding
me against fully loving this movie going into it. One
Historically I have not loved all of Tom Cruise's action movies.
When I look to an action star, I don't really
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look to Tom Cruise, and it kind of conflicts with
the way I feel with him as a person historically.
But I try to separate the art from the artist.
So I did that going into this movie, and I
think I was able to do it. But over the
course of these seven films now, I haven't really loved
any one of them. In particular, going back to nineteen
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ninety six, that one was probably the best one in
my opinion, because it was really the only time I
cared about a Mission Impossible movie. But it's crazy now
that Tom Cruise has been playing Ethan Hunt for over
twenty seven years and this one is by far some
of the best action I have seen in any single
Mission Impossible movie. Which they had really gone out of
my brain space for much of the two thousand's and
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it really wasn't until Ghost Protocol that they got on
my radar again, but I would only watch them when
they would come out on streaming. This was my first
time in a very long time to go see a
Mission Impossible movie in theaters, and I have to say
it is quite the ride. We have come a long
way since nineteen ninety six. So what this movie is about,
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Ethan Hunt and his team are back and they are
trying to track down this dangerous weapon before it gets
into the hands of the wrong people. Essentially, they are
trying to find this key, this very complex key that
in order to unlock something that it goes to, you
have to have two different sides of the key. You
put them together and then they light up, and that
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is able to unlock something. And through the course of
this film you find out what exactly that is, why
all these evil people are trying to get their hands
on it, and all the mayhem that goes down in
the process.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
So I got a little bit.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Worried at the beginning of this movie. It had almost
a cheesy tone to me. It reminded me more of
the Mission Impossible TV show than what I wanted in
a big Hollywood adaptation. But by the close of that
opening sequence, that all went out the window, and it
was a heck of an intro. It was a really
big exclamation point that really got me invested in the
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story early on and really The plotline of this entire
movie is pretty basic, but in this case it actually
worked so unlike in a Fast and the Furious franchise
movie where it's just a bunch of big, dumb action.
I really felt like Dead Recording Part one had a
lot of refined action. It was almost as if Tom
Cruise and the director sat down and watched a lot
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of Christopher Nolan movies. Maybe they watched Dunkirk Tennant and
went back and watched Inception and thought we need to
take with Christopher Nolan does so well in his movies
as far as the action aspect, not really try to
make anything that cinematic, but take those action elements and
put it into a mission impossible movie.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
So that is why I think this movie just sets
itself apart, because.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Oftentimes when I go see an action movie, I think
it's just gonna be one of those movies where you
turn your brain off, you watch a bunch of things
explode and crash into each other and that's really it.
But for some reason, this movie felt a little bit
different to me, like there was a lot of intention,
and I think that really comes through in this movie.
Not so much with the plot line, but I think
more with the characters with their story, trying to add
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a little bit of an emotional element to it. Then
when you come in with all of the action, you
can really bring it home. And I wouldn't say the
cinematography in this movie is very artistic. It almost felt
like watching a nat GEO show. It almost felt like
in moments that there was just a GoPro or like
a really bare minimum camera attached to the side of
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the car, or a hatched to a motorcycle, or in
the big sequence that we were all waiting for from
the trailer, whenever Tom Cruise does that jump, it really
felt like they were wanting to give you that feeling
that you were a part of the action. And I
think that's something Tom Cruise is really trying to bring
home right now as well. It also had a decent
amount of comedy. Now it wasn't a lot of funny
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situations or like they were just writing jokes to fit
in there. It was just these situations where the action
was so intense, they had this little moment of levity.
Another thing that really set this movie apart is there
was much more of an emphasis on a score than
there was just songs on a soundtrack, unlike in a
Fast and the Furious movie where you get a lot
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of em dance music late nineties, early two thousand songs.
This movie was really intentional on the score, so it
added this little bit of texture that made the action
just seem a little bit more elegant at times when
there was maybe a fight scene going on, or just
Tom Cruise running down on I thought, if you didn't
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have that music behind it, it would seem so cheesy
and so unrealistic that if you just zoomed out as
like a bystander looking at this situation, they'd be like,
why is that guy running down the street so fast?
Why are they fighting under bridge? It would seem so weird.
But that score makes all the difference. A couple of
questions I had about Tom Cruise after watching this movie.
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I wonder if he runs in some kind of specialized
shoe because this is some of his best running to date.
I know he has just become known for that of
Tom Cruise running in movies. He runs really well, but
he's always in like a full suit whenever he does
this running. So I wonder if he has some dress
shoes designed by Nike, because as a runner myself.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
I have to be in the right shoes to go
for a run.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
And if ever I try any different shoes that I'm
not used to, my feet get all blistered. So I
always run in the exact same shoes. So I wonder
if he has, like some specially designed shoes that look
like dress shoes but are actually running shoes.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
I was looking. They look like dress used.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
To me, So if he doesn't, I give him an
a plus for athleticism in this movie. I also wonder
if he uses some kind of filter, since he has
final say on the cut of this movie, because not
only in this movie, but also in Top Gun Maverick,
he looks very shimmery, he looks very bright, He looks
about ten years younger in some of these shots compared
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to his co stars. And he even made a statement
last week that he thought about using daging for an
opening sequence where it flashes back to him way back
in the day. I think maybe they were going to
even put him in the eighties and use some daging
to make him look how old he was back in
the eighties, but decided against it because he thought that
in some aspects d aging is good, but sometimes it's
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not the best. I'm not convinced he doesn't really use
that as some of his movies now, because there are
some scenes where I was paying attention to it and
it kind of looked like there was a Snapchat filter
on him. And my third question about Tom Cruise, I
wonder does he feel emotions anymore? Sometimes he feels a
little bit robotic to me. And he does action movies. Well,
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we see him on the screen and he looks like
he belongs there. But I wonder if, over the course
of his career, being a superstar, being at this level
that nobody else has at, if he's lost what it
feels like to feel normal human emotions. There are sometimes
he interacts with some of the other actors in this
movie that it makes me.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Think like, is he a robot? Is he okay?
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Would he be able to do a rom com in
the twenty twenties or is he so far removed from
feeling love that he wouldn't know how to do it anymore?
Because there are some moments that I know I'm looking
at one of the best actors of our lifetime, one
of the most bangable Hollywood stars ever, But I wonder
if he actually has the capabilities just to feel love,
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just to have the ability to connect emotionally with some
other characters here, because I didn't really feel that from him,
and a little bit it kept me from humanizing Ethan whatsoever,
which I don't really think you need that in this movie.
You just need to have a character who is larger
than life and able to do all these crazy things.
So maybe it was just because the character didn't require it,
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but for me, I didn't see it in him.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
But one thing Tom.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Cruise does know is exactly what we want to see.
He is kind of like mister Beast on YouTube, who
is so good at making videos that get millions and
millions of views because he gets right to it, He
gets right to the action, he puts it in the
title what you see is what you get, and just
has this really great pulse on what people want to
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see on the internet.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Tom Cruise is like that with Hollywood. He backs it.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Up with his commitment to stunts, which there was a
lot of great stunts in this movie, and there were
never really instances where I saw that he used the
stunt double, So maybe they used it very specifically if
they ended up making the final cut, but especially with
that scene that we were all waiting for, the one
where he makes that big jump and then parachutes onto
the train that we saw in the trailer. That was
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such a great sequence, but there was also emotion and
reasoning leading up to that moment. If you just threw
that stunt in a random movie but had no context
to it, it would be meaningless. But it really meant
a lot to the movie. So it's not like this
great scene just comes out of nowhere and just exists
for the sake of existing. There was a lot leading
up to that moment, and it looks so great on camera,
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and even though I had already seen it all over
the trailer, I still really enjoyed that moment and was
probably my favorite thing. It's kind of like the chorus
in a song. You know it's coming, but once it
gets there, you still want to sing along.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
That was that scene to me.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Tom Cruise is also really good at finding great co stars,
which every single co star in this movie was great.
From Haley Atwell, who I really know as Agent Carter,
s i' Morales, who I know as Bob from Lahabahamba.
The whole time he was on screen, I just wanted
to scream. Richie Simon Peg who has been a part
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of these movies since two thousand and six, which is
surprising to me, mainly because I still just see him
as Sean of the Dead, but he brought a lot
of the comedic aspect to this movie. Vanessa Kirby was
also really great in this movie, and of course being Raims,
and the movie did pretty well at the box office.
It opened on Wednesday of this past week and brought
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home eighty million dollars in the United States, and what
I'm looking at now is two hundred and thirty five
million dollars worldwide. So an interesting move for them to
open the movie on a Wednesday. I wonder if that
was strategically done knowing that an actors strike was coming
and that once that hit, Tom Cruise wouldn't be able
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to promote the movie anymore, which is a pretty interesting
wrinkle in a lot of movies coming out in the
next two weeks, especially as we go into Barbie Oppenheimer.
But overall, it's a pretty big win, per mission impossible,
probably not going to achieve that same level of status
as Top Gun two, crossing that billion dollar mark. I
just think there wasn't that much of a demand for
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another mission impossible movie, and that was much more of
an event that this could ever be. It'll probably get
in the seven hundred maybe eight hundred million dollar mark
at best, I would think. But the movie did leave
me wanting more, and I went into it knowing it
was a part one of two. Part two is scheduled
to come out June twenty eighth, twenty twenty four, next year. Again,
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not sure how the strike is going to affect that,
which I thought we would be okay, But up until
this last week, I didn't realize that if actors go
on strike, they also can't promote their projects. So that
is really the only reason I could see this being
pushed back, maybe just a little bit, because the promotion
was so heavy on this movie that if he wasn't
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able to promote it in the same way, there's no
chance they're putting this out. You remember how many times
they delayed Top Gun to They held onto that movie
for like two years, and even at two hours and
forty three minutes, it didn't feel that long to me.
Now I was left wanting more in the sense of
I'm ready for part two, But I felt like at
two hours and forty three minutes.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
That was all I needed here.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
It went by really quickly after it got started a
little bit slow in that opening sequence and then just
trying to establish a little bit of story at the
start of the movie. But after that it was pretty
consistent NonStop action throughout the entire movie and had one
of the best third acts and a blockbuster of this
level that I've seen.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
There were moments that I was literally at the edge
of my seat.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Very rarely while watching an action movie, do I think,
are they gonna be able to do this?
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Are they gonna be able to pull this off? Is
this the end for Ethan Hunt?
Speaker 1 (37:42):
That is how I felt, and that is the sign
of a great action thriller. So for Dead Reckoning Part one,
I give it four out of five parachutes.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
It's time to head down to movie.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Mike, Traylor, Paul, come with me and you'll be in
a world pure imagination.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Take a look and you'll see.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Yes, the trailer is out for Wonka and if you
know me, WILLI Wanka in the Chocolate Factory is a
top ten film for me ever since I was a kid.
Given the movie came out in the seventies, it's before
my time, but I just associated with my childhood and
I've always viewed it as one of the best movies
of all time. Gene Wilder is such an amazing actor,
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and what he did with Willy Wonka, I felt could
never be touched. And that is particularly the reason I
did not enjoy the Tim Burton version with Johnny Depp
as Willy Wonka.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
It was too weird and kooky.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
I didn't like his approach to playing Willy Wonka, and
I had so many issues with that movie, the soundtrack,
the way they interpreted the songs, and where it really
just fell apart for me was the look of the
Oopa lupas and just using the same person over and over.
I just thought the whole thing was terrible. So when
I heard they were making a prequel to the movie,
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I was hesitant because I didn't want to see them
do it again. I didn't want to see somebody try
to do what Gene Wilder did. I wanted somebody to
come in with a fresh approach and make it completely different,
and I thought that focusing on a young Willy Wonka
would allow me to be able to enjoy it and
not compare it to Gene Wilder playing Willy Wonka, And
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after getting the first look of this trailer and seeing
the way Timothy shallow May is going to approach Wonka.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
I think I'm in on this. It felt magical to me.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
This movie is coming out later this year, in December,
and I think it's going to be a hit. So
before I get into more of my thoughts about Wonka,
here is just a little bit of the trailer.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
I've spent the past seven years traveling the world perfecting
my craft.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
You see, I'm something of a magician, invendor, and chocolate maker.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
So quiet up and listen down. Scratch that reverse it.
So you're the funny little man who's been following me,
I will have you know that I am a perfectly
respectable size number one. Now allow me to refresh your memory.
Oh I don't think I want to hear that today.
I've started dancing now once we've started the constant. So
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let's break down this trailer. What this movie is going
to be.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
It is a prequel to the movie we all know,
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and it is about
a young Willy Wonka played by Timothy shallow May. By
the looks of the trailer, it all happens as he
is just getting the idea to not even open a factory,
but just open a store. So it's way before he
even has his own line of chocolate, and way before
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he even meets the Umplumpus and whenever. The first look
of Timothy shallow May came out in the Willy Wonka costume,
I thought it looked pretty good, but now seeing the trailer,
I think the costume looks perfect. I even really love
the look of Hugh Grant as an oopa lump But
even though it is cgi, I'm glad they went back
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to the classic look of the upa Lumpa and have
it looking as close to those original costumes that original look.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
I think that is going to be a big part
of it.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
I'm curious to see how they approach the songs in
this movie, because you can't really do all the same
songs from the original movie because it plays so much
into what happens throughout the factory. The only song I
could see them incorporating into this movie is Pure Imagination,
the one I was seeing at the beginning of this segment,
because I think it would be kind of a cool
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approach to show how Willie Wanka got into singing. It's
not really addressed in the original movie. He just burst
into song and out of nowhere, just has all these
amazing thoughts, like pure imagination. But you don't think of
him as a songwriter. You don't think of him as
the person who created these songs. He is just some
guy who is really eccentric and likes making chocolate. I
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think it would be interesting to dive into the other
parts of his brain and maybe he does.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
Come up with songs.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Maybe there is some kind of origin story to the
musical side of Willy Wonka. To me, it almost feels
more like a fairy tale than the original. To me,
maybe because of this more musical aspect that it has,
and more being on the origin story of the character
rather than the contest and focusing on the kids who
come to the factory. It has this kind of Christmas
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feel to it. And maybe that's just because I'm associating
it with the movie coming out in December, that it
just has this warm and fuzzy feeling to me that
gives me that kind of sense of the first time
I watched it as a kid. It's gonna be hard
for me not to compare Timothy shallow May's performance to
Gene Wilder. Just by watching this trailer, I think even
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the first time I watched it all the way through,
I felt a little off about it, especially in the
beginning part where he makes a reference to a gene
Wilder line that strike that reverse it, I think out loud.
Speaker 2 (42:57):
I said to myself, Oh no when.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
I first heard that, because I felt that they were
just going to take all the phrases and the mannerisms
from the first movie and just implant them into this prequel.
And I thought that would be a terrible thing to do,
because we would just be associating it with the original one.
From what I've seen, is almost a halfway point between
what Gene Wilder did and what Johnny Depp did. Johnny
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Depp was so quirky, and I think a lot of
that was due to Tim Burton's direction and the feel
of his movies that was so weird and very cartoonish,
and Gene Wilder just had this really fown to earth
approach to it. And even though the Willy Wonka character
in that original movie is a larger than life, very
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out there character, you still felt he was somewhat grounded
in reality and could exist in this real world unlike
the Johnny Depp version, And I think Timothy Chalomay's character
in this entire movie will be somewhere in the middle
because it looks like it will have some fantasy aspects
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to it. You see the people floating after eating the
candy in this trailer, and also just the look of
the Oopa Lupas in this looks more like a mythical
character than it does in the original movie. So I
just feel like it has that whimsical Wonka feel that
I was looking.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
For, and I just love the look of it more than.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
I was expecting it to. Again, whenever you touch one
of my favorite movies of all time, I'm always gonna
be a little extra critical because I do think the
first movie is a perfect movie. Even with that cheer
up Charlie song in there that I always felt like
made the movie drag a little bit, I still think
the first one is a perfect movie.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
And I'm also just not the biggest fan of prequels.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
It seems like a lazy approach to carrying on a franchise,
but I think there was so much mystery behind Willy
Wonka that we really had no knowledge of his previous
life and you learned everything throughout the movie and had
no backstory whatsoever. I kind of like it that way
because makes that movie much more of a mystery and
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makes them so much weirder. Really, the only look you
had into him as a person was at the very
end of that movie, when you're looking in his office
and it's this weird collection of items that are all
split in half. That is really the first look you
get at Willy Wonka as just the normal Willy Wonka
and not the one putting on this tour and being
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a host. So I think if they can take the
energy of that scene and those characteristics and show us
how we get to that, I think this is gonna
be a great movie. Again, this is coming out on
December fifteenth, later this year, So if you want to
view Paradise, simply look around and view it. Anything you
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want to do it, want to change.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
The world, There's nothing true.
Speaker 3 (45:52):
At that point was next week's edition of Movie by
tram or Bar.
Speaker 1 (45:57):
I wasn't really trying to sing there as just one
of my favorite songs of all time. If I was
a gifted singer, that would be the first song I
would cover.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
What a great song. Anyway, that's gonna do it for this.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Week's episode of I just have to say that because
I know somebody's gonna say in the.
Speaker 2 (46:10):
Comments, were you really trying to sing in that episode?
Speaker 1 (46:13):
No?
Speaker 2 (46:14):
I was not.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
I just love Willy Wonka and I wish I could sing.
I wish I could sing. But anyway, that is the
episode for this week. But before I go, I gotta
give my listeners shout out of the week, and this
week I'm going over to Twitter, which basically feels like
an elephant graveyard at this point. I probably pull it
up maybe still once, maybe twice a day, but not
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a whole lot of activity going on over there. I'm
much more of a threads person now, so if you
don't follow me there, I am at Mike Distro on
every single form of social media. I will add my
thread account to the episode notes as well. But this
week's listener shout out is to Jenna Alexis, who reposted
and tagged me in an article that said over twenty
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thousand AMC stubs members have bought tickets to see both
Barbie and Oppenheimer on the same day and above it.
In the tweet, she wrote, we need to know which
Mike Distro will be seeing first. So thank you Jenna
for that tweet, because I am so excited for both
of these movies going into this weekend of movies. I
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was probably more excited for Barbie. That is the movie
I put in my top ten anticipated movies of the summer,
and Oppenheimer was down there in the honorable mentions. But
through the last few weeks of promotion, which they haven't
really joint promoted each other, they just both happen to
be Warner Brothers movies coming out on the same day.
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And because of that and the fact that they are
just such opposite movies it's pink and black next to
each other, it has really put them in the minds
of everybody, which are you gonna see you first? Are
you gonna see them both together? And the fact that
this is the story I think is a great thing
for movies. The Barbie Oppenheimer double feature is the moment
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we needed for pop culture, and I really think Barbie
has done the best thing with marketing that I've seen
in the last few years. Other great marketing tactics that
come to mind have been whenever Smile had the girl
out at the MLB Games doing the promotion, just standing
there looking maniacal. That is great movie promotion. Barbie has
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done an amazing job at social media and just letting
everybody know that this movie is coming out. And Oppenheimer,
on the other hand, hasn't really done a whole lot
other than being associated with it and coming out on
the same day. So I hope both of these movies succeed.
And to answer your question, there's a long way to
get around that. But I'm going to see Barbie first
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on the Friday it comes out, and the next day
I Am going to see Oppenheimer on Saturday in iMac
seventy millimeter, which is the highest quality you can see
this movie. Here in Nashville, we just happen to have
one of the twenty IMAX theaters that are showing it
in seventy and that's out of this entire country of
the United States, They're only twenty theaters showing it that way,
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so I'm very lucky to have one right down the road.
I actually believe that Christopher Nolan himself paid for this
location of Regal to have their IMAX theater fix to
be able to show it in seventy milimeters.
Speaker 2 (49:19):
Because this movie is massive on film.
Speaker 1 (49:22):
The Imax film prints are eleven miles long and they
weigh six hundred pounds, and it takes a special room
and a special type of projector to show a movie
in this high equality because the room gets all hot.
Speaker 2 (49:35):
Very few movies.
Speaker 1 (49:36):
Are shown like this, and I love seeing movies on
real film. It really adds a difference to me, and
maybe just a bit of a snob when it comes
to the quality of movies, and any chance I get
to watch a movie being shown on thirty five millimeter
or seventy milimeter, I'm.
Speaker 2 (49:52):
All in on it. So thanks Jennifer that tweet. Thanks
to you for listening.
Speaker 1 (49:55):
Let me know which movie you're gonna watch first, or
if you're gonna watch them both together.
Speaker 2 (50:00):
I hope you have a great rest of your week
Speaker 1 (50:01):
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 fired up today.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I saw the.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
First look of Hugh Jackman returning as Wolverine and Deadpool three,
and I didn't like it. So I want to share
with you what I think are good suits. Not only
good suits, but the best suits of all time. I
have my top ten best superhero suits in movies. In
the movie review, we'll be talking about Mission Impossible, Dead
Reckoning Part one. You got Tom Cruise flying around doing
(00:26):
his own stunts. Didn't live up to my expectations, which
quite frankly pretty low. Not the biggest fan of Mission Impossible,
but this one had my attention. And in the trailer
Park we'll be talking about Wonka, one of my favorite
movies of all time is getting a prequel, and by
the first looks of it, I don't hate it. So
thank you for being here. Shout out to the Monday
Morning Movie crew, and now let's talk movies.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast,
one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like
never before in a movie podcast. A man with so
much movie knowledge, he's basically like a walking IMDb with glasses.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
From the Nashville Podcast Network. This is Movie Mike's movie podcast.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Let's get into the inspiration behind this episode. So a
photo was posted last week. It's Hugh Jackman returning as
Wolverine in Deadpool three, which is coming out next year,
and this is the first look we have at the suit.
When this movie was first announced that he would be
returning as the character, my immediate reaction was, we were
finally gonna get the comic book accurate Wolverine suit, you know,
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the one. It's yellow and blue, it's sleeveless, it has
his muscles ripping out. It also has the iconic pointy
helmet and then the weird boots with the pointy tips
and all the things that make it look so iconic.
And it's a look I greatly associate with the time
I got into X Men, the cartoon from the nineties,
and it's the version we never got in the movies.
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And quite frankly, the original suits and all the X
Men movies were pretty terrible. They were so leather heavy,
And I think the reason is because in the early
two thousands, Marvel was not what it was today. It
was really trying to establish itself in the real world. Therefore,
when you deal with realism, you can't really throw a
bunch of actors into spandex.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
People wouldn't really take it seriously.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
So I think for that reason, the costumes in those
X Men movies really suffered because it really wasn't what
comic book fans wanted. But that and Sam Raimi Spider
Man allowed it to break into the mainstream and we
all got comfortable with the idea of a superhero suit.
And now in the twenty twenties, it is much more
just acceptable to do a very comic book accurate suit
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that can be a little bit more cartoony, a little
bit more fun, because really that's what we all have
been itching for. So after seeing this first look of
Hugh Jackman in this suit.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I didn't like it. I don't think it looks.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
As comic accurate as everybody is saying. I think it's
a really hard thing to do because again I am
associating it with the Wolverine cartoon from that early series
and also the comic books, and everybody's saying it looks
exactly like it.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I don't really.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
See it, maybe in the little details on the side.
As far as the Wolverine marks, but to me, it
just looks like he is in a motorcycle racing suit.
It looks like it's about a hop onto a bike,
not about to kick someone's butt.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
And also the colors are a little bit off.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yes, it is completely yellow, which is cool to see
him in that they finally committed to that, but it's
not blue and yellow. It's blue and black, so he
kind of looks like a bumblebee. And I've seen different
versions of this picture taken off the internet, and some
people have changed the colors themselves, but in the original
photo that was posted, it looks black and yellow, black
and yellow, black and yellow, And I think it's bad
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because I don't immediately look at this suit and think Wolverine.
But to the left of him you have Deadpool, and
I think that is really why the design is the
way it is, because it looks more of a reflection
of the world that Deadpool lives in, which is much
more of a tactical suit has kind of these panels,
but that is really what that Deadpool suit is in
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the comic books, and he has one of the best
comic book accurate suits, So I feel like they had
the same approach with Wolverine and it just doesn't look
the same. So yes, I wanted him to be in
yellow spandex, much like they made the joke back in
X Men in two thousand and two when Cyclops jokingly
tells him, what would you prefer to wear yellow spandex?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I would, So I don't see those same comic book
accurate details, especially with the boots. He is straight up
just wearing motocross boots in this suit. It looks nothing
like the ones from the comics or the cartoon. So
I am not nerding out over this costume, but I
don't think it will affect my feeling going into this
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movie because up until this point, the Deadpool movies have
not let me down. So I also don't know how
often this suit is going to be used in the
entire movie.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
It's just a picture. It's worth a thousand words.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
We don't know if this is just one gag scene
where maybe Deadpool was telling them, hey, why don't you
get in the yellow super old time sake and they
have this one little montage of him in the yellow suit.
So I am not fully believing anything until we get
that first trailer and see what he's actually going to
look like in the movie. Maybe once it's on screen
it looks better, but right now I am not a fan.
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So instead of talking an entire episode about bad suits,
which is an entirely different episode that I'll do in
the future, I want to talk about my top ten
best superhero suits of all time. The only rules for
this episode is it must be in a movie on
the big screen adaptation, and I am not including villains
into this. And I'm also not including suits that are
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entirely cgi, So the Hulk isn't really a suit, it's
an entire person, so he will not be on my list.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
So let's get into the list.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
At number ten, I have Patty Jenkins Wonder Woman from
twenty seventeen. The reason I love this suit is because
it is the right amount of comic book accurate and
also so the right amount of a tactical suit that
actually has the functionality, and the Wonder Woman's suit is
one that would be so easy to make it cheesy
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and make it not look good on screen. And this
suit is also the right amount of sexy because when
they made the first suit worn by Linda Carter, that
version was actually based on lingerie. However, Gal Gadot's suit
was actually based on Roman armor, and that is the
feeling you get in this movie. She looks awesome, but
she also looks like she can pummel your face in.
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And I love every time this suit is on screen.
From the very first moment I saw her in the suit,
I knew they had cast Wonder Woman perfectly. And most
times I don't feel that way. I always feel like, ah,
you should have cast this person, should have cast that person.
But gal Gado is the perfect casting. You have the
strapless red plated armor, the blue skirt, the gold head piece,
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and the armor on the hands and the arms. It's
all just worked together perfectly. I think I just loved
the color palette two of the red, blue and the gold.
So at number ten, I have Wonder Woman suit from
twenty seventeen. At number nine, I have Christopher Nolans The
Dark Knight, the batsuit worn by Christian Bale in two
thousand and eight. And this suit was so highly influential
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on every comic book movie adaptation that would come after it.
And when you look historically at the Batman suit, it
was always one of the most comic book accurate suits.
But the problem with that is it wasn't as practical
to the actor playing Batman, because if you remember, in
the early iterations of the suit, there was always a
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problem with Batman turning his head.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
He couldn't swivel his neck.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
He'd had to turn his entire body, and sometimes that
looks very awkward on camera. But the reason for that
is because in the comic books, the entire thing is
just connected what Christopher Nolan's Batman suit first did, and
Batman begins and then greatly improved on that, and the
Dark Knight was fixing that problem with some upgrades making
it look more like it was a suit designed by
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the military. It looked like it could take a bullet,
unlike the rubber suit in the late eighties and early nineties.
I even loved it, even though there was less emphasis
on the Batman logo in the center. I also just
loved the spikes pointing out of the sleeves. This suit
just worked on so many levels, and I feel like
so many superhero movies took inspiration from this suit and
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how tactical it could be, especially with the iteration we
had in twenty twenty two with the Batman, which is
much more of a ragged Batman suit. That suit could
not have existed if it wasn't for Christopher Nolans. So
at number nine I have the Dark Knight suit from
two thousand and eight. At number eight, I have Tim
Miller's Deadpoole costume from twenty sixteen worn by Ryan Reynolds.
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And this is a big upgrade from the one we
got in X Men origins Wolverine that looked terrible. His
mouth was sown shut and it looked nothing like the
comic books. And the dead Pot suit is just so
incredibly faithful to the source material. It essentially looks like
Deadpool just leapt off of a comic book page right
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onto the big screen. You add some texture to it,
and that is what you get in the first Deadpool movie.
So I think if Deadpool was one of my more
favorite superheroes, this one maybe would have ranked higher. There's
just something about it when it's on screen. Maybe it's
all the red that just immediately makes your eyes go
and stay there.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I also love that.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
The white eyes allow Ryan Reynolds's character and his voice
acting to really shine because they are so expressive on
this suit and such a big part of it. Since
it doesn't have a mouth, so I feel that part
of this suit allows it to be much more animated
and larger than live So that is just a great detail,
combined with the rugged belt, the swords on the back,
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and the fact that he's always holding two guns. So
this suit looks awesome and it is the perfect look
for an R rated movie. And even though it is
so comic book accurate, there's still a sense of realism
to it, and I think that's why it's worked so well,
and I'm glad they haven't really changed a whole lot
in what we're seeing from Deadpool three. So at number
eight from twenty sixteen, I'm going with Deadpool. Moving on
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to number seven, I have the Russo Brothers Captain America
suit from Civil War in twenty sixteen, worn by Chris Evans. Now,
what you had with the early Captain America suits was
a much more comic book accurate suit with the red,
white and blue.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
And the helmet.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
But what I loved about Captain America more than any
other superhero suit is its evolution over time. It went
from a much more cartoony look to a very much
more rugged and more defined, subdued look over every single
appearance in every single movie. And the reason I love
that so much with Captain America is it greatly reflects
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the character development of Steve Rodgers, because his character was
so bright eyed and bushy tailed in the first movie,
and then over time, with every single battle, he became
very much more weighed down with life and all the
things he has been through, all the things he felt
like he missed out on, and his costume reflected that
in every single iteration. But where I loved it the
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most wasn't Civil War, because he still had the red, white,
and blue, but the red was almost a blood red
that was a lot more subtle. Same with the white,
it wasn't really off white. It was just a very
dirty white that almost had like this spray painted black
over it. You still had the classic helmet with the A,
but everything was just kind of worn looking. So this
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felt like the suit that was a reflection of the
transition of his character and it was just a little
bit different than it was in Age of Ultron. So
at number seven, I have Captain America suit from Civil War.
At number six, I have the og Sam Raimi Spider
Man suit worn by Toby maguire in two thousand and two,
I don't think I appreciated this suit as much as
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I do now into No Way Home, because now I
feel that this suit is so classic looking. And I
was saying earlier when talking about X Men, that these
suits needed to look very realistic, they needed to look
less cartoony to be able to break into the mainstream.
And I almost feel that Spider Man in two thousand
and two was kind of the in between of both
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of those ideas. You wanted to make a Spider Man
suit that comic book fans would love, but also one
that would just look good on screen and not just
feel like a live action cartoon. And what I love
about Sam Raimi's Spider Man is all the shots when
it's actually placed into a real world situation, so it's
Spider Man on the street after his first save in
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the movie. I remember the first time I saw that
and I was like, Wow, Spider Man actually exists like
this in our real world.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
They finally did it.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I love the raised web detailing. I think that is
kind of the main staple of this costume that gives
it this almost three D look throughout the suit, so
it very much looks like the classic Spider Man look
without feeling cheesy in any way. So, out of the
three major on screen portrayals of this suit, this is
the most classic. This is the og This is the
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one at number six, Sam Raimi's Spider Man suit from
two thousand and two getting into the top five. Now
at number five, I have Tim Burton's Batman Returns the
batsuit from nineteen ninety two worn by Michael Keaton. Now,
this one is really just an improvement on the nineteen
eighty nine suit, which you may say is the more
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iconic one. It is really the one that was more
used in the Flash movie we had earlier this year,
but I felt like the nineteen ninety two suit was
an improvement. If you put them side by side, they
are very similar. The improvements I'm talking about are the
ones related to the armor. In the nineteen eighty nine version,
especially with the avs, it looks just like Batman has
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some ripped up abs. They improved on that in the
nineteen ninety two version and it looks more like he
is wearing armor, which I think is a much more
sleeker look. And I think all around, the nineteen ninety
two version just looks so much better on camera. But
my favorite detail about this suit that I wish another
Batman suit would incorporate is the iconic logo with the
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yellow background. That is a symbol I look at and
think Batman, and maybe it's not the most practical of suits.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
What I was saying earlier.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Is a big setback to this suit is the fact
that you have to turn your entire body to turn
your head. It looks a little bit awkward, but I'll
give that up for it looking so comic book accurate.
You have the colors, you have the tactical belt, you
have the best ears, all the gizmos and gadgets, and
that gold belt are perfect. So at number five, I
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have Tim Burton's Batman Returns batsuit. Moving on to number four,
I have Zack Snyder's Man of Steel, the Superman's suit
worn by Henry cavill in twenty thirteen. Now, don't get
me wrong, the nineteen seventy nine Christopher Reeve costume is iconic,
but it's incredibly cheesy. Sometimes two comic book accurate can
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be cheesy. That's okay. What this suit did was take
inspiration from that suit but greatly improve on it. And
what I love about the Man of Steel suit is
it looks much more like something an alien would wear,
which that is what Clark Kent is.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
That is what Superman is.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
He is an alien from another planet who comes to Earth.
This is more accurate of what he would wear. He
wouldn't just be wearing very bright blue and red span
dex with a big S on it with a yellow background.
He would be wearing something more like this, very skin tight,
kind of scaly looking, with the more subdued.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Blue and red. But my favorite detail about this suit
is the logo.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Instead of being a nest that means Superman, it's a
Kryptonian symbol and the S is actually the symbol for Hope,
so it's a lot fatter. It kind of looks like
a snake in a way, maybe a nandaconda. And I
think that is the detail that really sets this suit apart.
I mean also the fact that Henry Cavill has the
body of a god and when he puts this suit on,
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he looks like a force to be reckoned with. And
it's my favorite cape suit in my top three. There
won't be any superhero suits with cape suits, but the
best superhero to wear a cape because He's one who
actually needs it is Superman.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
He flies, he needs a cape.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
And I think a great superhero suit should be inspirational
to not only adults like me who are nerds and
new podcasts, but to kids. And I think the Superman
suit is inspirational. I could imagine a kid even now,
stumbling upon twenty thirteen's Man of Steel and thinking I
want to be Superman for Halloween. That is the sign
of a great costume. So because the design stays true
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to its core, it has that familiarity, but it also
just feels much more majestic.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
That is why I put it at number four.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Zack Snyder's Man of Steel the Superman suit worn by
Henry Cavill moving into the top three. At number three,
I have Jon Favreau's iron Man two. It is the
Mark four suit worn by the one and only Tony
Stark played by Robert Downey Junior in twenty twelve. So
a brief history on the Iron Man's suit as far
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as the movies. The Mark one was the one he
made in the cave. The Mark two was the first
one he made after escaping the cave. It was the
essentially the prototype Iron Man suit, but it was the
one that was entirely silver, and then the Mark three
was the one in the two thousand and eight Iron Man,
and that was the suit that very much paid homage
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to the comic books.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
To me, it looked a little.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Bit more softer and rounded edges, So I felt like
the Mark four in Iron Man two was such an
improvement on it.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
And I think it is the perfect suit.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Because it keeps that iconic red and gold color scheme
but has a bit of a sleeker design. It's a
lot more streamlined. There's a lot more detail in the
chest and the ribcage and the ab area, and the
helmet just looks so much better, a little bit less cartoony.
And this is even though I love the Ironman movie
way more. I rewatched iron Man two recently and feel
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like it's a little bit forgettable, but I could not
stop looking at how good the suit looked. I also
love this one because it still has the circular core
in the middle. Before they started messing around with that
and it turned into a triangle, sometimes went back to
a circle, but this one just overall had the right
amount of everything, the right amount of red and gold,
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the right amount of functionality, and overall is my favorite
Ironman suit, and that is why I put it at
number three. Jon Favreau's Ironman suit from iron Man two.
At number two, I have Ryan Coogler's Black Panther from
twenty eighteen. It is the Black Panther suit worn by
Chadwick Boseman, and the first time we had a get
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this on the big screen was his first appearance in
Civil War, which was a great suit, and I felt
like his suit was such a breath of fresh air
and marvel at the time because everybody was just starting
to look the same. We had been with these characters
for so long, and you throw Black Panther on the
big screen and it looks so different than every other suit.
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So every time he was on screen in Civil War,
I just wanted more, and that is exactly what I
got in the Black Panther movie. The suit also requires
a large amount of special effects to make it look believable,
and they did an incredible job doing that, bringing vibranium
to life. It appears almost lightweight in skin tight, but
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also looks extremely durable and looks like it could take
the beating that it does every time T'Challa gets into
a fight. So you have this basically entirely black, full
body suit with these metallic materials all throughout it, paired
with the feline detail, the ears on the mask, the
claud gloves, all of it just works together and looks
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like it's made for a king. It's made to look
exactly like what he is. He is a king who
is also a soldier. And I also love that much
of the costume design is an homage to different African tribes.
The Black Panther Suit is actually in the National Museum
of African American History and Culture.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
So the fact that the.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Suit also honors history and the way that the suit
compliments T'Challa's wardrobe when he's not wearing the Black Panther Suit,
just what he wears in normal everyday life throughout the movie.
That is something that no other superhero really has, because
even when he's not wearing the suit, you know that
T'Challa is Black Panther.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
And it's also my favorite suit that works well without
a helmet.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I think my favorite scenes are where it's just T'Challa
wearing the suit without a helmet. Maybe it's because I
get to see Chadwick Boseman's face and that just makes
me happy. So at number two, I have Ryan Coogler's
Black Panther suit worn by Chadwick Poseman.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
But at number one, my favorite superhero suit.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Of all time is Mark Webb's amazing Spider Man suit
from twenty twelve worn by Andrew Garfield. And I know
this Spider Man suit isn't for everybody, but I feel
like it was made just for me, because, like I
was saying earlier, the Toby Maguire suit is the classic look.
The Tom Holland suit is the more modern look, which
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actually I'm not the biggest fan of that suit on
its own. It's a little bit too cartoony, a little
bit too cgi for me. I love those movies, but
I could do with a different suit in the Tom
Holland movies. But when it comes to Andrew Garfield in
his suit, there is nothing I don't like about it
and only things I love about it. I think my
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favorite detail about this suit is the texture. It just
looks like I want to touch it. And maybe that's
the issue a lot of people have with this suit,
that textured surface, but for me, it just looks so
great on on screen. It looks so good when he's
in action, but also just when he's on the street
or in an alleyway walking down it.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
It just sticks out to me.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
It has a slightly rougher and tactical feel, but I
feel like it adds a sense of realism to the
character and enhances.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
The overall costume.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
It's just so striking to me, and I feel like
this suit did what it was supposed to do. It
was coming just a decade later that they were revamping
and rebooting Spider Man. You had to make it different.
Some people also had an issue with the eyes, but
I love the eyes, especially that scene where you get
the first real up close look at it. He's on
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the side of the building, almost selfie style, and.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
You get this suit in all its glory.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
This is the best Spider Man suit, hands down, because
it looks like one that cannot only take a beating,
but also deliver a beating because it has so much
emphasis on the muscles of Peter Parker. And I feel
like it was an incredible downgrade from the amazing Spider
Man to Tom Holland Spider Man suit. What I was
saying back in the twenty tens, my feelings on this
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suit and loving it. I feel like people only have
those feelings now after No Way Home, and there's much
more an appreciation for Andrew Garfield's amazing Spider Man one
and two because we've had some time to sit on him,
we had time to realize that they really got it
right in those movies, and the real travesty is we
never got a third one. So that is it My
top ten superhero suits of all time. I have a
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few honorable mentions. I was gonna say either Thor or
Captain America suit from Infinity War. Really, every single suit
in that movie looks perfect. They're all so rugged and
dark to reflect the feelings and emotions in that movie.
That really could pick any single character in Infinity War,
and that could be the best one. My other honorable
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mention that's probably gonna be controversial is the black Adam suit.
I didn't love that movie. I didn't love the character,
but that suit is undeniably good looking.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
It's skin tight, it's.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Scaly, and maybe I just have a fascination because in
my personal life I wear a lot of black. I
just thought the suit looked good, the Rock looked good
wearing it. He just didn't really deliver on any other aspect.
Also in my honorable Mentions, I would put nineteen ninety
eight's Blade, which I feel like doesn't get enough credit
as being one of the first influential Marvel movies. Wesley
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Snipes is Blade is so good, but nobody ever mentions him.
Also in my honorable Mentions, I would have the Symbiote
suit from Spider Man three in two thousand and seven.
It's my favorite suit in the comic books and in
the video games, and I'm really looking forward to the
look of it in the new Spider Man game coming
out this year. Actually, as I plot out my Marvel tattoo,
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that is on my vision board for the tattoo I
want to get. So maybe it's not so much how
it looked in the movie, but really what that suit
means to me. That's why I had to give it
an honorable mention. But that's the list. We'll come back
and talk about Mission Impossible Dead Reckon Part one after
this about to get into a spoiler free movie review,
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Let's talk about Mission Impossible Dad Reckoning Part one. That
title is a mouthful. You could just call it Mission
Impossible seven. A couple of things that I have holding
me against fully loving this movie going into it. One
Historically I have not loved all of Tom Cruise's action movies.
When I look to an action star, I don't really
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look to Tom Cruise, and it kind of conflicts with
the way I feel with him as a person historically.
But I try to separate the art from the artist.
So I did that going into this movie, and I
think I was able to do it. But over the
course of these seven films now, I haven't really loved
any one of them. In particular, going back to nineteen
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ninety six, that one was probably the best one in
my opinion, because it was really the only time I
cared about a Mission Impossible movie. But it's crazy now
that Tom Cruise has been playing Ethan Hunt for over
twenty seven years and this one is by far some
of the best action I have seen in any single
Mission Impossible movie. Which they had really gone out of
my brain space for much of the two thousand's and
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it really wasn't until Ghost Protocol that they got on
my radar again, but I would only watch them when
they would come out on streaming. This was my first
time in a very long time to go see a
Mission Impossible movie in theaters, and I have to say
it is quite the ride. We have come a long
way since nineteen ninety six. So what this movie is about,
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Ethan Hunt and his team are back and they are
trying to track down this dangerous weapon before it gets
into the hands of the wrong people. Essentially, they are
trying to find this key, this very complex key that
in order to unlock something that it goes to, you
have to have two different sides of the key. You
put them together and then they light up, and that
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is able to unlock something. And through the course of
this film you find out what exactly that is, why
all these evil people are trying to get their hands
on it, and all the mayhem that goes down in
the process.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
So I got a little bit.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Worried at the beginning of this movie. It had almost
a cheesy tone to me. It reminded me more of
the Mission Impossible TV show than what I wanted in
a big Hollywood adaptation. But by the close of that
opening sequence, that all went out the window, and it
was a heck of an intro. It was a really
big exclamation point that really got me invested in the
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story early on and really The plotline of this entire
movie is pretty basic, but in this case it actually
worked so unlike in a Fast and the Furious franchise
movie where it's just a bunch of big, dumb action.
I really felt like Dead Recording Part one had a
lot of refined action. It was almost as if Tom
Cruise and the director sat down and watched a lot
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of Christopher Nolan movies. Maybe they watched Dunkirk Tennant and
went back and watched Inception and thought we need to
take with Christopher Nolan does so well in his movies
as far as the action aspect, not really try to
make anything that cinematic, but take those action elements and
put it into a mission impossible movie.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
So that is why I think this movie just sets
itself apart, because.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Oftentimes when I go see an action movie, I think
it's just gonna be one of those movies where you
turn your brain off, you watch a bunch of things
explode and crash into each other and that's really it.
But for some reason, this movie felt a little bit
different to me, like there was a lot of intention,
and I think that really comes through in this movie.
Not so much with the plot line, but I think
more with the characters with their story, trying to add
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a little bit of an emotional element to it. Then
when you come in with all of the action, you
can really bring it home. And I wouldn't say the
cinematography in this movie is very artistic. It almost felt
like watching a nat GEO show. It almost felt like
in moments that there was just a GoPro or like
a really bare minimum camera attached to the side of
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the car, or a hatched to a motorcycle, or in
the big sequence that we were all waiting for from
the trailer, whenever Tom Cruise does that jump, it really
felt like they were wanting to give you that feeling
that you were a part of the action. And I
think that's something Tom Cruise is really trying to bring
home right now as well. It also had a decent
amount of comedy. Now it wasn't a lot of funny
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situations or like they were just writing jokes to fit
in there. It was just these situations where the action
was so intense, they had this little moment of levity.
Another thing that really set this movie apart is there
was much more of an emphasis on a score than
there was just songs on a soundtrack, unlike in a
Fast and the Furious movie where you get a lot
(29:40):
of em dance music late nineties, early two thousand songs.
This movie was really intentional on the score, so it
added this little bit of texture that made the action
just seem a little bit more elegant at times when
there was maybe a fight scene going on, or just
Tom Cruise running down on I thought, if you didn't
(30:01):
have that music behind it, it would seem so cheesy
and so unrealistic that if you just zoomed out as
like a bystander looking at this situation, they'd be like,
why is that guy running down the street so fast?
Why are they fighting under bridge? It would seem so weird.
But that score makes all the difference. A couple of
questions I had about Tom Cruise after watching this movie.
(30:22):
I wonder if he runs in some kind of specialized
shoe because this is some of his best running to date.
I know he has just become known for that of
Tom Cruise running in movies. He runs really well, but
he's always in like a full suit whenever he does
this running. So I wonder if he has some dress
shoes designed by Nike, because as a runner myself.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
I have to be in the right shoes to go
for a run.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
And if ever I try any different shoes that I'm
not used to, my feet get all blistered. So I
always run in the exact same shoes. So I wonder
if he has, like some specially designed shoes that look
like dress shoes but are actually running shoes.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
I was looking. They look like dress used.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
To me, So if he doesn't, I give him an
a plus for athleticism in this movie. I also wonder
if he uses some kind of filter, since he has
final say on the cut of this movie, because not
only in this movie, but also in Top Gun Maverick,
he looks very shimmery, he looks very bright, He looks
about ten years younger in some of these shots compared
(31:24):
to his co stars. And he even made a statement
last week that he thought about using daging for an
opening sequence where it flashes back to him way back
in the day. I think maybe they were going to
even put him in the eighties and use some daging
to make him look how old he was back in
the eighties, but decided against it because he thought that
in some aspects d aging is good, but sometimes it's
(31:45):
not the best. I'm not convinced he doesn't really use
that as some of his movies now, because there are
some scenes where I was paying attention to it and
it kind of looked like there was a Snapchat filter
on him. And my third question about Tom Cruise, I
wonder does he feel emotions anymore? Sometimes he feels a
little bit robotic to me. And he does action movies. Well,
(32:06):
we see him on the screen and he looks like
he belongs there. But I wonder if, over the course
of his career, being a superstar, being at this level
that nobody else has at, if he's lost what it
feels like to feel normal human emotions. There are sometimes
he interacts with some of the other actors in this
movie that it makes me.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Think like, is he a robot? Is he okay?
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Would he be able to do a rom com in
the twenty twenties or is he so far removed from
feeling love that he wouldn't know how to do it anymore?
Because there are some moments that I know I'm looking
at one of the best actors of our lifetime, one
of the most bangable Hollywood stars ever, But I wonder
if he actually has the capabilities just to feel love,
(32:49):
just to have the ability to connect emotionally with some
other characters here, because I didn't really feel that from him,
and a little bit it kept me from humanizing Ethan whatsoever,
which I don't really think you need that in this movie.
You just need to have a character who is larger
than life and able to do all these crazy things.
So maybe it was just because the character didn't require it,
(33:12):
but for me, I didn't see it in him.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
But one thing Tom.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Cruise does know is exactly what we want to see.
He is kind of like mister Beast on YouTube, who
is so good at making videos that get millions and
millions of views because he gets right to it, He
gets right to the action, he puts it in the
title what you see is what you get, and just
has this really great pulse on what people want to
(33:37):
see on the internet.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Tom Cruise is like that with Hollywood. He backs it.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Up with his commitment to stunts, which there was a
lot of great stunts in this movie, and there were
never really instances where I saw that he used the
stunt double, So maybe they used it very specifically if
they ended up making the final cut, but especially with
that scene that we were all waiting for, the one
where he makes that big jump and then parachutes onto
the train that we saw in the trailer. That was
(34:04):
such a great sequence, but there was also emotion and
reasoning leading up to that moment. If you just threw
that stunt in a random movie but had no context
to it, it would be meaningless. But it really meant
a lot to the movie. So it's not like this
great scene just comes out of nowhere and just exists
for the sake of existing. There was a lot leading
up to that moment, and it looks so great on camera,
(34:27):
and even though I had already seen it all over
the trailer, I still really enjoyed that moment and was
probably my favorite thing. It's kind of like the chorus
in a song. You know it's coming, but once it
gets there, you still want to sing along.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
That was that scene to me.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Tom Cruise is also really good at finding great co stars,
which every single co star in this movie was great.
From Haley Atwell, who I really know as Agent Carter,
s i' Morales, who I know as Bob from Lahabahamba.
The whole time he was on screen, I just wanted
to scream. Richie Simon Peg who has been a part
(35:02):
of these movies since two thousand and six, which is
surprising to me, mainly because I still just see him
as Sean of the Dead, but he brought a lot
of the comedic aspect to this movie. Vanessa Kirby was
also really great in this movie, and of course being Raims,
and the movie did pretty well at the box office.
It opened on Wednesday of this past week and brought
(35:22):
home eighty million dollars in the United States, and what
I'm looking at now is two hundred and thirty five
million dollars worldwide. So an interesting move for them to
open the movie on a Wednesday. I wonder if that
was strategically done knowing that an actors strike was coming
and that once that hit, Tom Cruise wouldn't be able
(35:42):
to promote the movie anymore, which is a pretty interesting
wrinkle in a lot of movies coming out in the
next two weeks, especially as we go into Barbie Oppenheimer.
But overall, it's a pretty big win, per mission impossible,
probably not going to achieve that same level of status
as Top Gun two, crossing that billion dollar mark. I
just think there wasn't that much of a demand for
(36:05):
another mission impossible movie, and that was much more of
an event that this could ever be. It'll probably get
in the seven hundred maybe eight hundred million dollar mark
at best, I would think. But the movie did leave
me wanting more, and I went into it knowing it
was a part one of two. Part two is scheduled
to come out June twenty eighth, twenty twenty four, next year. Again,
(36:26):
not sure how the strike is going to affect that,
which I thought we would be okay, But up until
this last week, I didn't realize that if actors go
on strike, they also can't promote their projects. So that
is really the only reason I could see this being
pushed back, maybe just a little bit, because the promotion
was so heavy on this movie that if he wasn't
(36:48):
able to promote it in the same way, there's no
chance they're putting this out. You remember how many times
they delayed Top Gun to They held onto that movie
for like two years, and even at two hours and
forty three minutes, it didn't feel that long to me.
Now I was left wanting more in the sense of
I'm ready for part two, But I felt like at
two hours and forty three minutes.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
That was all I needed here.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
It went by really quickly after it got started a
little bit slow in that opening sequence and then just
trying to establish a little bit of story at the
start of the movie. But after that it was pretty
consistent NonStop action throughout the entire movie and had one
of the best third acts and a blockbuster of this
level that I've seen.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
There were moments that I was literally at the edge
of my seat.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Very rarely while watching an action movie, do I think,
are they gonna be able to do this?
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Are they gonna be able to pull this off? Is
this the end for Ethan Hunt?
Speaker 1 (37:42):
That is how I felt, and that is the sign
of a great action thriller. So for Dead Reckoning Part one,
I give it four out of five parachutes.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
It's time to head down to movie.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Mike, Traylor, Paul, come with me and you'll be in
a world pure imagination.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Take a look and you'll see.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Yes, the trailer is out for Wonka and if you
know me, WILLI Wanka in the Chocolate Factory is a
top ten film for me ever since I was a kid.
Given the movie came out in the seventies, it's before
my time, but I just associated with my childhood and
I've always viewed it as one of the best movies
of all time. Gene Wilder is such an amazing actor,
(38:31):
and what he did with Willy Wonka, I felt could
never be touched. And that is particularly the reason I
did not enjoy the Tim Burton version with Johnny Depp
as Willy Wonka.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
It was too weird and kooky.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
I didn't like his approach to playing Willy Wonka, and
I had so many issues with that movie, the soundtrack,
the way they interpreted the songs, and where it really
just fell apart for me was the look of the
Oopa lupas and just using the same person over and over.
I just thought the whole thing was terrible. So when
I heard they were making a prequel to the movie,
(39:06):
I was hesitant because I didn't want to see them
do it again. I didn't want to see somebody try
to do what Gene Wilder did. I wanted somebody to
come in with a fresh approach and make it completely different,
and I thought that focusing on a young Willy Wonka
would allow me to be able to enjoy it and
not compare it to Gene Wilder playing Willy Wonka, And
(39:29):
after getting the first look of this trailer and seeing
the way Timothy shallow May is going to approach Wonka.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
I think I'm in on this. It felt magical to me.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
This movie is coming out later this year, in December,
and I think it's going to be a hit. So
before I get into more of my thoughts about Wonka,
here is just a little bit of the trailer.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
I've spent the past seven years traveling the world perfecting
my craft.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
You see, I'm something of a magician, invendor, and chocolate maker.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
So quiet up and listen down. Scratch that reverse it.
So you're the funny little man who's been following me,
I will have you know that I am a perfectly
respectable size number one. Now allow me to refresh your memory.
Oh I don't think I want to hear that today.
I've started dancing now once we've started the constant. So
(40:18):
let's break down this trailer. What this movie is going
to be.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
It is a prequel to the movie we all know,
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and it is about
a young Willy Wonka played by Timothy shallow May. By
the looks of the trailer, it all happens as he
is just getting the idea to not even open a factory,
but just open a store. So it's way before he
even has his own line of chocolate, and way before
(40:43):
he even meets the Umplumpus and whenever. The first look
of Timothy shallow May came out in the Willy Wonka costume,
I thought it looked pretty good, but now seeing the trailer,
I think the costume looks perfect. I even really love
the look of Hugh Grant as an oopa lump But
even though it is cgi, I'm glad they went back
(41:04):
to the classic look of the upa Lumpa and have
it looking as close to those original costumes that original look.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
I think that is going to be a big part
of it.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
I'm curious to see how they approach the songs in
this movie, because you can't really do all the same
songs from the original movie because it plays so much
into what happens throughout the factory. The only song I
could see them incorporating into this movie is Pure Imagination,
the one I was seeing at the beginning of this segment,
because I think it would be kind of a cool
(41:35):
approach to show how Willie Wanka got into singing. It's
not really addressed in the original movie. He just burst
into song and out of nowhere, just has all these
amazing thoughts, like pure imagination. But you don't think of
him as a songwriter. You don't think of him as
the person who created these songs. He is just some
guy who is really eccentric and likes making chocolate. I
(41:56):
think it would be interesting to dive into the other
parts of his brain and maybe he does.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
Come up with songs.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Maybe there is some kind of origin story to the
musical side of Willy Wonka. To me, it almost feels
more like a fairy tale than the original. To me,
maybe because of this more musical aspect that it has,
and more being on the origin story of the character
rather than the contest and focusing on the kids who
come to the factory. It has this kind of Christmas
(42:25):
feel to it. And maybe that's just because I'm associating
it with the movie coming out in December, that it
just has this warm and fuzzy feeling to me that
gives me that kind of sense of the first time
I watched it as a kid. It's gonna be hard
for me not to compare Timothy shallow May's performance to
Gene Wilder. Just by watching this trailer, I think even
(42:46):
the first time I watched it all the way through,
I felt a little off about it, especially in the
beginning part where he makes a reference to a gene
Wilder line that strike that reverse it, I think out loud.
Speaker 2 (42:57):
I said to myself, Oh no when.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
I first heard that, because I felt that they were
just going to take all the phrases and the mannerisms
from the first movie and just implant them into this prequel.
And I thought that would be a terrible thing to do,
because we would just be associating it with the original one.
From what I've seen, is almost a halfway point between
what Gene Wilder did and what Johnny Depp did. Johnny
(43:21):
Depp was so quirky, and I think a lot of
that was due to Tim Burton's direction and the feel
of his movies that was so weird and very cartoonish,
and Gene Wilder just had this really fown to earth
approach to it. And even though the Willy Wonka character
in that original movie is a larger than life, very
(43:42):
out there character, you still felt he was somewhat grounded
in reality and could exist in this real world unlike
the Johnny Depp version, And I think Timothy Chalomay's character
in this entire movie will be somewhere in the middle
because it looks like it will have some fantasy aspects
(44:02):
to it. You see the people floating after eating the
candy in this trailer, and also just the look of
the Oopa Lupas in this looks more like a mythical
character than it does in the original movie. So I
just feel like it has that whimsical Wonka feel that
I was looking.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
For, and I just love the look of it more than.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
I was expecting it to. Again, whenever you touch one
of my favorite movies of all time, I'm always gonna
be a little extra critical because I do think the
first movie is a perfect movie. Even with that cheer
up Charlie song in there that I always felt like
made the movie drag a little bit, I still think
the first one is a perfect movie.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
And I'm also just not the biggest fan of prequels.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
It seems like a lazy approach to carrying on a franchise,
but I think there was so much mystery behind Willy
Wonka that we really had no knowledge of his previous
life and you learned everything throughout the movie and had
no backstory whatsoever. I kind of like it that way
because makes that movie much more of a mystery and
(45:02):
makes them so much weirder. Really, the only look you
had into him as a person was at the very
end of that movie, when you're looking in his office
and it's this weird collection of items that are all
split in half. That is really the first look you
get at Willy Wonka as just the normal Willy Wonka
and not the one putting on this tour and being
(45:23):
a host. So I think if they can take the
energy of that scene and those characteristics and show us
how we get to that, I think this is gonna
be a great movie. Again, this is coming out on
December fifteenth, later this year, So if you want to
view Paradise, simply look around and view it. Anything you
(45:43):
want to do it, want to change.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
The world, There's nothing true.
Speaker 3 (45:52):
At that point was next week's edition of Movie by
tram or Bar.
Speaker 1 (45:57):
I wasn't really trying to sing there as just one
of my favorite songs of all time. If I was
a gifted singer, that would be the first song I
would cover.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
What a great song. Anyway, that's gonna do it for this.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Week's episode of I just have to say that because
I know somebody's gonna say in the.
Speaker 2 (46:10):
Comments, were you really trying to sing in that episode?
Speaker 1 (46:13):
No?
Speaker 2 (46:14):
I was not.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
I just love Willy Wonka and I wish I could sing.
I wish I could sing. But anyway, that is the
episode for this week. But before I go, I gotta
give my listeners shout out of the week, and this
week I'm going over to Twitter, which basically feels like
an elephant graveyard at this point. I probably pull it
up maybe still once, maybe twice a day, but not
(46:36):
a whole lot of activity going on over there. I'm
much more of a threads person now, so if you
don't follow me there, I am at Mike Distro on
every single form of social media. I will add my
thread account to the episode notes as well. But this
week's listener shout out is to Jenna Alexis, who reposted
and tagged me in an article that said over twenty
(46:57):
thousand AMC stubs members have bought tickets to see both
Barbie and Oppenheimer on the same day and above it.
In the tweet, she wrote, we need to know which
Mike Distro will be seeing first. So thank you Jenna
for that tweet, because I am so excited for both
of these movies going into this weekend of movies. I
(47:18):
was probably more excited for Barbie. That is the movie
I put in my top ten anticipated movies of the summer,
and Oppenheimer was down there in the honorable mentions. But
through the last few weeks of promotion, which they haven't
really joint promoted each other, they just both happen to
be Warner Brothers movies coming out on the same day.
(47:39):
And because of that and the fact that they are
just such opposite movies it's pink and black next to
each other, it has really put them in the minds
of everybody, which are you gonna see you first? Are
you gonna see them both together? And the fact that
this is the story I think is a great thing
for movies. The Barbie Oppenheimer double feature is the moment
(48:00):
we needed for pop culture, and I really think Barbie
has done the best thing with marketing that I've seen
in the last few years. Other great marketing tactics that
come to mind have been whenever Smile had the girl
out at the MLB Games doing the promotion, just standing
there looking maniacal. That is great movie promotion. Barbie has
(48:21):
done an amazing job at social media and just letting
everybody know that this movie is coming out. And Oppenheimer,
on the other hand, hasn't really done a whole lot
other than being associated with it and coming out on
the same day. So I hope both of these movies succeed.
And to answer your question, there's a long way to
get around that. But I'm going to see Barbie first
(48:43):
on the Friday it comes out, and the next day
I Am going to see Oppenheimer on Saturday in iMac
seventy millimeter, which is the highest quality you can see
this movie. Here in Nashville, we just happen to have
one of the twenty IMAX theaters that are showing it
in seventy and that's out of this entire country of
the United States, They're only twenty theaters showing it that way,
(49:06):
so I'm very lucky to have one right down the road.
I actually believe that Christopher Nolan himself paid for this
location of Regal to have their IMAX theater fix to
be able to show it in seventy milimeters.
Speaker 2 (49:19):
Because this movie is massive on film.
Speaker 1 (49:22):
The Imax film prints are eleven miles long and they
weigh six hundred pounds, and it takes a special room
and a special type of projector to show a movie
in this high equality because the room gets all hot.
Speaker 2 (49:35):
Very few movies.
Speaker 1 (49:36):
Are shown like this, and I love seeing movies on
real film. It really adds a difference to me, and
maybe just a bit of a snob when it comes
to the quality of movies, and any chance I get
to watch a movie being shown on thirty five millimeter
or seventy milimeter, I'm.
Speaker 2 (49:52):
All in on it. So thanks Jennifer that tweet. Thanks
to you for listening.
Speaker 1 (49:55):
Let me know which movie you're gonna watch first, or
if you're gonna watch them both together.
Speaker 2 (50:00):
I hope you have a great rest of your week
Speaker 1 (50:01):
And until next time, go out and watch good movies
and I will talk to you later.
Host
Mike D
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