It’s been a busy month already but it’s time to talk about Mike and Kelsey’s Best and Worst Movies for the month of September. In the Movie Review, Mike talks about the Wild Robot. Why it is one of his favorite animated movies of the year, the exceptional visuals, emotional moments and voice cast standouts. Mike also expresses why he loves that the movie didn’t stray away from teaching kids about death. In the Trailer Park, Mike talks about director Bong Joon Ho's "Mickey 17" is a sci-fi thriller that stars Robert Pattinson as an "expendable" employee named Mickey Barnes. It’s a follow up to his Best Picture winner ‘Parasite’ and Robert Pattinson as you’ve never seen him before.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's movie podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike. Today it is movies of
the month of September. I know it's a little bit late,
but Kelsey is here. How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I'm good. I have to know what happened right before
we started?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
What happened? Okay? Okay?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I asked you you were getting a coffee out of
the fridge, because we always have a coffee while recording this.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, or sometimes I have wined peningilmon.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Time we record the bit, always a beverage.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
But this is the afternoon, so it is coffee at
the moment. So I asked you to grab me a
coffee out of the fridge. You grab this coffee, and
then I am in the bathroom sitting down to pee,
and you walk into the bathroom with my coffee as
if you were fully expecting me to take it on
the toilet. And I looked at you, like, what why
are you bringing this to me? I you're gonna say that,
I said, bring me a coffee. I said, grab me
a coffee, as then get it out of the fridge
(00:45):
for me, because you were already getting one for yourself.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
To me, that implies I would like for you to
bring me a coffee, and I took the coffee.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
To you, but we were also about to record. Why
didn't you just bring it into the office. Why bring
it to me while I moment.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Because the way we are with caffeine, we need it.
Now you want a coffee, I'm bringing you right to
you wherever you are, whether you're on the can, whether
you're outside, no matter where you are, I am bringing
you that coffee.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I did not need it on the toilet, but thank
you for that express delivery.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
That's how I work. Anyway, we're going to get into
a movie review. I actually recorded a while ago for
The Wild Robot, just because I wanted my raw emotions
after watching that movie. We'll get into the trailer park,
so a lot to talk about.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
We also just both said that we felled off the rails,
so this is gonna be one of those episodes if.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
You can't tell by now. Thank you for being here,
thank you for being subscribed, Shout out to the Monday
Morning Movie crew, and now let's talk movies.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
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Speaker 1 (01:59):
I watched more movies in September out of any month
this year.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Watched a lot of movies.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I went you were away for I feel like a week,
and I went to the movies like two times during that.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I went to New York. It was great.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
September is also where horror movies start. So I went
to the movies a lot without you because you're like, nah,
ain't doing that?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah I was. I was like, I'm going to Broadway.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
You can go see a horror movie tonight, which if
you get the chance to see The Outsiders on Broadway,
so freaking good.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
How close is it to the movie or how close
to the book?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
About the same from what I remember. I bought a
copy of the book to reread it. Yeah, pretty similar.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It was great.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
The cast was really cool. The special effects for the
show were really neat. There's like some like fighting scenes
like in Rain, but it was like real rain on
the stage, but like didn't get like the audience wet.
It's really cool.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
So I love Broadway shows.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
You're going to reread the book, rewatch the movie.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I'll rewatched the movie. I loved the movie.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I haven't seen it since like in school we all
read that book and watched the movie. Yeah, probably since then.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Rob low is in it.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, Tom Cruise, Patrick.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Swayze, Amelio.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, it's a great cast.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Great film.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
But anyway, and we're here to talk about best and
worst of September. I know we're a little late, but
we had some interviews to get to in last week's episode.
If you missed that, go check that out. If you're
a big Nightmare on Elm Street fan, go check out
that episode. But what was the best movie in your
opinion for September.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I'm curious to see Easy My Old Ass with Aubrey
Plaza so good and.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Mazie Stella directed by Megan Park who a lot of
people know where she was on the Secret Life for
the American Teenager, which was now the campiest shows of
all time. But yeah, she's written and directed two really
great films now on The Fallout, which was on HBO
Max which inna Worteka, right yep, great film, and then
this one, which was a completely different direction A lot
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more lighthearted.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
She's really good. Like I didn't really know what to expect.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I was worried that it was gonna be one of
those where you see all the funny parts in the trailer,
but it was so heartwarming and heartfelt, and the people
behind us after the movie was overclapped to cover the
sound of them crying.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
We rarely hear that clapping in movies right.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Now, Yeah, I can't think of the last one.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Even in the last superhero movies that we've gone to,
there hasn't been clapping like Wolverine Deadpool.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Personally, I clapped at the end of Twister, but.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I feel like that whole clapping has kind of gone away.
I was kind of surprised to hear that, but that
movie is emotional. It's a really good coming of age
story done in a different way. What happens is main
character takes some mushrooms, causing her to hallucinate, has a
really bad trip, and Aubrey Plaza comes in as the
older version of herself, the forty year old version of herself,
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to tell her teenage self some advice, and she's able
to communicate with her from the future. I love that
the movie existed in reality, but also nobody questioned what
was happening yeah, and never.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Were like, how are you calling yourself in the future.
It just was like it wasn't a plot line. It
just was the plot.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And I like movies that do that. It's like, hey,
this is the facts. Don't think too much into it,
suspend belief and allow yourself to enjoy it. And that
movie was a lot more emotional than I was expecting.
I feel in the last couple of movies we saw
in theaters, aside from Joker, I had oddly emotional experiences
of almost crying, like getting really emotional. There's one specific
moment in this movie that will just hit you like
(05:12):
a ton of bricks. The only thing I wish it
had more was Abrey Plaza.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I just wish it was longer. Yeah, I wanted more
of the movie in general.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
And I think it's because Plaza is such a big star.
I feel like she was probably there for maybe a week.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Well, she's also in like Everything Under the Center. Now
she's an Agatha along Megalopolis. It's not how he's saying.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, it's a lot of words in one.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I feel like her filming schedule was pretty tight, but
this was filmed like years ago.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, I just feel like I wanted more of her
whole plot line in that movie, and I feel like
that's kind of how they sold it. Even if you
watched the trailer, you think it's gonna be a lot
more of their interactions, but I think they use her
name to get people into it. But once you're there,
it's a really good story that you probably couldn't sell
without her attached to it. Yeah, it was great, And
I also love movies that take place over the summer, like.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
At Summer Camp movie, and it's.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Odd time for it to come out in September at
the end of summer, but it kind of gives you
that warm feeling. I feel like she was.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Preparing to go off to school, so I feel like
the movie was probably kind of set like mid August,
so to come out into September it is not that off.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
It did remind me of that period in life right
before college, of me being really excited to leave. And
at the time I was leaving, my older brother was
also going to move from waksay Atchie to Austin with me,
so it was my parents about to be empty nesters
and while I was excited. My brother was excited to leave.
I didn't realize the strain and the sadness that my
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mom was experiencing, because I remember like telling her, Hey,
we're we're leaving soon. We had to do something fun
before we leave, And I remember her telling me like,
I don't want to think about that right now, Like
you keep bringing this up of like you leaving, Like
I don't. This is not fun for me.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
So sad thinking of your mom. My experience was a
complete opposite. My parents had a two year old and
a six year old, and they were My mom and
I were at that age real like an eighteen year
old girl, you just like get along better with your
mom when you.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Move out too much in the equation right now.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah, we were just like butting heads too much, and
so we got along much better after I moved out.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
It's like bye, So it wasn't as emotional for you
to leave, Like, no, not at all. She had a
kindergartener and a toddler where they're tears shit still, I mean,
she'll going off to college.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I also only went thirty minutes from home, and my
dad worked in Austin and would pick me up when
I wanted to come out for the weekend.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I guess that's a little different. We moved two and
a half almost three hours away.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I think there were tears of joy.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I really think my mom now when I moved to Nashville,
there were tears like when I moved out of state.
But when I went through college, I think my mom
was just kind of like.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yeah, I guess with you not being that far away,
it doesn't feel like like thirty minutes they could drive
to see you. They did often, my parents couldn't drive
the two and a half hours on a weekend.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Like my dad worked in Austin, like ten minutes from campus.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Ye like easy driving my ag. But I remember whenever
my oldest sister they're left for college, my dad was
a wreck. Like my dad is an oddly emotional person
and it takes a lot to kind of make him well.
Maybe in his later years he's a little more like
he lets it flow. But the first time I ever
saw my dad cry was whenever my sister went to college.
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He was the first one to go, and I just
remember him like sitting on the couch just crying. It
was so sad, and I don't think he felt that
exact same way once we left, just because he was
a little bit more prepared for it. Also, we were
his boys, so I think he.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Was in his grocery bill got cheaper.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, oh yeah, that too, So I think it was
a little bit more prepared for us to leave. I
think there's probably just something about your first leaving. First. Wait,
you were the first, and you were the first daughter.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Again, you were the baby.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Yeah, I was the oldest, and the age Japs were huge,
like they literally my youngest brother was two when I
went to college. I don't think they had the capacity.
And he was also an evil child, so they were
on their hands full with that one.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Okay, now when he leaves you, my mom is a, yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Hard that's gonna be. That's gonna be the one.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yeah, if he does leave, he might just live in
the basement, become the next Michael Dell Bill Gates.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
But yeah, that was our experience leaving home. For my
best of September, I'm between two movies. I am between
the Wild Robot and I Am between the Substance.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
If you don't go Wild Robot, I'm shocked you felt
things in that movie I did.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And I'm gonna get into my full review here in
a minute. But I think I'm gonna go with The
Substance just because I went into that movie not knowing
anything about it. If you didn't listen to that review,
it's essentially about Debbie Moore's character. She turns fifty years old.
She has like this morning fitness workout show, and Dennis
Quait is her boss, and on her fiftieth birthday he
(09:48):
fires her because thinks her star is passed. They need
to move on to something new and fresh. And then
Demi Moore's character gets into a car accident. While she's
at the doctor, there's this weird medical dude who works
as an assistant and tells her about this black market
drug called the Substance that you take it and it
creates a better version of yourself. It essentially goes into
(10:10):
your DNA and spawns out another human, and that other
human in the movie happens to be Margaret Quayley. And
then the catch is that every seven days they have
to switch back, So for a week she's living as
Demi Moore, and then for the next week she's living
as Margaret Quayley. And then you find that all about
the struggle of going back and forth, big feminism movie.
(10:31):
It's a big commentary on how Hollywood treats women who
age in the industry.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Which like Demi Moore has aged so beautifully.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
She has she this is her best role, and I
feel like she took it for a very specific reason,
maybe because she's felt some of these things in her
career and I can only imagine how awful people in
power in Hollywood are towards women casting women that I
feel like roles for women at her point in her
career are probably harder to come by than roles for men.
(11:02):
I mean, even look at this movie. Dennis quated like
seventy something, yeah, and he's still getting a lot of work.
And I feel like she probably took this to have
that commentary of like, this is something that's actually happening,
and yes, this is a really bizarre way to make
this point, but it's a point we want to make.
And it was a movie that I felt, for the
first time in a while, had like a lot to
say and did it in a really unique way, and
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it really committed to its craziness. Because it's not for everybody.
I think you would go watch it and think the
heck is going on? Here, you have people turning into
weird monsters, you have all these supernatural events. The end
of the movie is like completely throwing everything against the wall.
So it does all those things to kind of appease
to like the horror fan. But I felt like the
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message of it was something that I walked away with thinking, oh,
that's actually a really cool and interesting way to say that.
And I had no idea the movie is gonna affect
me as much as it did.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Two quick notes that don't necessarily up to the movie,
but it's cast. I watched a clip on tech Talk
of Demi Moore's interview with I Think It's like CBS
Sunday Mornings talking about life with like Bruce Willis now,
and it just was so beautiful of like where they're
meeting him, where he's at and like with his journey
with dementia, and she talked about she was like, I'm
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trying not to dwell on like the Bruce I used
to know, and like finding the joy of where he
is and it was so sweet. And then there's a
really funny clip of Margaret Queley on Fallon talking about
how like all of her movies this year, Driveway Dolls
kinds of kindness and the substance. And she's like, none
of my family can see any of these. She's like,
I'm probably naked in most of them. She's like, can't
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take anyone to see them.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, her whole introduction in this movie, her first scene,
she's almost naked for Oh, it's say a good four
or five minutes.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
So it was just that's a funny clip. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I don't think I have any interest in seeing the movie. Love.
Both of them don't want to see it.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah. I think that's another reason, is like some people
have a feeling about nudity in movies. I feel like
in this movie.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Well, that's not why I don't see it.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
No, But I'm just saying first clarifying, I'm just adding
all the reasons, is that all the strikes that this
movie has against itself. Yeah, there's the horror element, which
there's some things in this movie that were a little
unsettling to me, but I like the fact that they
made me feel certain ways. You know, I have a
weird thing about bones breaking. Anytime there's any kind of
video where I know somebody's bones gonna break, I won't
watch it. Is there just something about that feeling and
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about that anticipation.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Is that why you wouldn't look at my foot last
year when I broke broke it.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
That's different because that's not it snapping, but like something
like somebody's skateboarding. I don't want to see that. I
don't want to hear it. That just strikes a nerve
with me. And there's some of that in this movie.
So there's those horror elements, but also the nudity, which
would keep some people away from watching it. But I
think it's used in a way to show vulnerability in
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this movie, like the fact. I think they used prosthetics too,
so I don't know if that was actually king.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Margaret Quaily said that her chest was enhanced.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
But it seems like it's just them putting themselves out there.
Even though if you don't know going into it that
it's probably all prosthetics, you think, man, really, that's a lot.
That's a big commitment. I just imagine, like as an
actor being in those situations. You think you're just watching
it as the viewer, there's nobody there, but if you
look behind the camera, there's all these.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Seven thousand people there.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
It's like when people have to film like intimate scenes
and I'm just like that that sounds awful.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Everybody seeing your kibbles and bits is like, like, what
is like, how do you even call it?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Ever?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Again?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Kibbles and bits?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I stop.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I don't think you realize how hard it is to
have chemistry come across on screen. Oh yeah, because you're
interacting with this person across from you, trying to have
this connection and have that come across on screen. Meanwhile,
there are lights on you, there are people running around, and.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
You're also faking a connection. Yes, that's the thing too,
is it's like you're That's where people say acting is
so weird because you like have to emotionally get into
the part, but you're like not trying to fall in
love with this person, but you have to portray that
you are in love.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I think, yeah, I think that's the hardest thing to do.
That's why a lot of romcoms fail is because people
are unable to have that chemistry, which it's so reliant on.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I'll talk more about that too when I talk about
my favorite TV show for the month, because that comes
back into play.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
All right, well we'll get into our worst now, what
was your worst for September?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
It's got to be the Uglies. The Uglies. Listen, think
it is the Uglies.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Chase Stokes is great, Naderbanks, I'm a big fan of
him and Kelsey Ballerini. Love them big Stan, love Joey
King and everything she does. It wasn't them, it was
just the movie. And also the fact that they cast
a brief from selling Sunset and Apart really took it
down a notch incredibility.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I forgot about that. Yeah, the cast in this movie
was all over the place. It felt like Netflix just
taking from their own personal pool and putting everybody in
a project. And I felt like the casting just wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
And the sets weren't it horrible either.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
This movie has been in production hell since like the
early two thousand.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Yeah, because I Boo came out in like two thousand
and six.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
It felt like a movie that should have come out
in and the teen dystopian era, like the twenty tens
with The Hunger Game Divergent.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yeah, it was very in that camp.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
It was in that era, But to come out now
and look as awful as it did is so just like,
why was this even made? The CGI and special effects
looked like a bunch of green screen. They filmed this
whole thing in Georgia pretty much, so it felt just
like very cold, and just the level of the quality
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of all the action was just so poor and it
felt like something that was made for like a two
thousand's music video because it was so bad, and that
just kept me completely out of enjoying any aspect of it.
And I'm sure the plot makes more sense in the
book and has some kind of connection with the reader
that it warranted a movie to be made, but on screen,
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the plot just kind of made no sense.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Yeah, I remember enjoying the book, but I did not
enjoy the movie.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
The makeup that they used to make them pretty was weird, frightening, frightening.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
It was like the old like YouTube makeup influencer era
before everyone like kind of settled on a more natural look.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
And there is a sequel book, right, Pretties. I don't
see that being made.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I think we gotta just put the pen in that,
which is.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Sad because I think Joey King has wanted to be
in this movie for a long time. It was one
that was probably important to her to like, this is
one of my favorite books. I wanted to be the
star of this movie and just the product, which is
not where it's at. For my worst of the month,
I'm going to go to a theater experience. And for
the most part, I enjoyed every single movie in theaters.
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There were some that stood out to me more so. Really,
my worst is just my least favorite, and it would
have to be Speak No Evil with James McAvoy.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Which you also saw while I was going.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I did, and it's not that it was a bad movie.
I would still even recommend this movie. It was just
one I feel I didn't need to see in theaters
to enjoy it. I could have watched this movie at
home and had probably the same experience, maybe even a
scarier experience, because I would be in a more vulnerable state.
Sometimes when you watch movies about things that could actually
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happen in real life, it's just scarier at home, thinking
there'd be somebody out the window right now, like trying
to do this to me.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
That's why I don't watch them.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Yeah, I guess that's I guess what freaks you out
more is things that could happen in real life. Yeah,
which like this. The villain in the movie is really
just a psychotic person. It's nothing supernatural.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Yeah, and that could happen.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah, that freaks me out sometimes. I just think about
how big the world is and the fact that you've
probably gone through the grocery store and run into somebody
that's just like, what do they do when they get home?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I don't like this discussion, okay, but.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
That is my least favorite of the month, just because
I feel like, if you didn't see it in theaters,
you didn't really miss anything. Comes onto some streaming service,
you can watch it and enjoy it. But at this point,
now being a few weeks out from watching it, it's
kind of forgettable. But it was kind of like a
roller coaster. I enjoyed it in the moment, got off
the ride. That was fun, ready to move on.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Never once if I thought that I'm getting off her
roller coaster.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Oh you also hate roller coasters?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
For your TV show, it was your favorite of the month.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I go Nobody Wants This with Adam Brody and Kristen
Bell on Netflix ten out of ten. Binged it so funny,
so cute. I loved and I've seen a lot of
discourse about this online that people liked that it was
a healthy example of a relationship. Like, it wasn't like
a toxic guy gas lighting. It was a woman who's
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probably been told she's too much and like one of
the things he says, and this isn't a spoiler, but
he literally tells her like I can handle you. And
it's like, that's what every girl, including myself, has always
been told, that she talks too much, blah blah blah
blah blah. Like I I think that's what every girl
wants to hear, is that someone can handle you.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I didn't watch the show with you, maybe caught glimpses
of it here and there, but I have seen that meme.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And the soundtrack is great. Yeah, opens with the him song.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Francis the Lights is the closing song, which I read
on a couple episodes.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Actually, I think that's on several.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I recognized his voice just because he did a song
with Chance the Rapper back when Chance.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
The Rapper Blowing up.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Now, I mean I went back and listen to it.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
It's so good.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
But yeah, that and that's the what I was talking
about earlier about chemistry. Adam Brody and Kristen Bell have
been friends forever. They did a movie a while back.
Aaron Foster, who created the show, knew she wanted Kristen Bell,
and Kristen was like, I knew that the male lead
had to be Adam, Like we have a friendship, we
have a rapport, we have a connection. And I think
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that's why it came across so well, is because they
like had existing like friendship chemistry and also like Adam
Brody is just like if anything ever came out about him,
like being terrible, I would be heartbroken because Adam Brody
has played like the sweetest, kindest character on every TV show.
He was Dave for gil'sk Young Gilmore Girls, who was
Lane's best boyfriend. He was Seth Cohen on the OC
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and now he's the hot rabbi.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
He's kind of having a bit of a resurgence. Or
did he ever really go to me? I guess he
kind of did, but yeah, he kind of went away
for a little bit.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
But yeah, I see, and Layton Measter like kind of
stepped away and had kids and we're doing their own thing. Also,
like for every millennial girl, the fact that Seth Cohen
married Blair Waldorf from Gossip Girl just still.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Blows my mind.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
And I know that some of you listening will be
like yeah, and then others will be.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yeah? I don't fully get that reference, but I get
it now. They're characters from.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
He was on The OC, which was huge, like two
thousand and three to two thousand and six. She was
on Gossip Girl, which was like two thousand and seven
ish whatever era. Yeah, and they were like one of
the big characters. And like, so to have two of
your favorite like teen drama, I mean that was the
era of great team dramas. You had the OC, Wintrey Hill,
Gossip Girl, Veronica Mars, Kristen Bell, like and the fact
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you have two people from different shows that married each other.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
It's just chef'skiss and Kristen Bell has just been famous forever.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yeah, yeah, she was.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Her wardrobe was fantastic. That's probably because she wore a
lot of stuff from Aaron Foster's brand. God bless the
people on TikTok who were doing the Lord's work and
are like here so you can buy everything that Kristen
Belt wore in the show. Because I am saving links
left and right.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
It reminded me of our other show, The Good Place
that I really loved, and I feel like that show
dominated for a while, but now I don't hear anybody
talk about how good that show was.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Apparently one of the co stars in that mide a
guest appearance on this show. She played Janet on The
Good Place.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Okay, yeah, I remember, yeah, And that show had one
of my favorite finales of the last ten years in television.
Oh you know, I love a good series finale, but
that was one that I actually invested in because I'd
seen every season and that was a show that, like,
I don't watch broadcast, we don't really watch broadcast TV anymore,
any major networks, but I would watch every single episode
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of that show because I was just had to know
how it ended.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Nobody wants this. Highly recommend I want a second season immediately. Also,
the supporting characters were so funny, the ones playing their siblings.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
It had everything.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
It was lighthearted, great writing, was funny, made me lol,
great soundtrack.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
It couldn't get enough for me.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
That same weekend you finished that entire show, I finished
the entire Vince McMahon show, Mister McMahon on Netflix. I
randomly turned it on. We're about to leave, like on
a Friday to go out, and I was like, I
don't really care to watch this. But before that, Vince
McMahon had put out a statement about saying he didn't
agree with everything in the show, and that was really
the only thing that enticed me. I was like, well,
he just kind of has a problem with this. Maybe
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there's something in there now, the fact that he was nuts. Yeah,
And within the first twenty minutes, I was like, Oh,
this is good. But I also grew up on wrestling,
like in the late nineties, that's all I watched. That
was like my identity for a while. I loved it.
And the thing about the documentary, it doesn't pain him
out to be a good guy whatsoever. He did some
pretty awful things. But I felt a really weird way
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knowing that wrestling was targeted towards kids at that time,
which was me and some of the really awful things
I was exposed to, and I just like, and it
kind of made me feel weird, thinking like something that
I watch actually had an effect on my mental state
and like the way I think about things. And I
felt a little bit violated just because it wasn't the
violence or anything, but it was like some of the
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like depictions of how they treated women, and some of
the awful storylines that were really insensitive that I feel
that I'm glad that I don't think like that anymore,
But I could see somebody who was younger and more
impressionable and saw those things and never really grew from that,
would continue to think those things. So I felt in
that moment, like it's it is important what kids are
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exposed to, especially with something like that that they're like, no,
it's for adults, but they're clearly marketing towards kids because
there's action figures, there's all this merchandise clearly geared towards kids,
but they're putting really adult themes in there that It
just made me question in second guests things when we
eventually have kids, of the things that we expose them to.
(24:55):
But now wrestling is different, it's a lot more family friendly.
They don't have any of that there anymore. They've really
changed the brand of bit just because can't really do
stuff like that anymore. Some of the storylines were wild,
and as a kid, I was just like, oh, yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Yeah, I mean it's crazy how what you watch like
does change your brain chemistry. I've told the story in
here before how I was banned from watching Rugrats for
a hot minute because I acted like Angelica.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Even when I was a kid before wrestling, it was
the Simpsons. My mom was like, you guys, can't watch that,
and that was eat my shorts, you know, and bart
pulling his pants down shows.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
But little does she know that the Simpsons in this room.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
And that was the worst thing to parents in the nineties,
and they got a lot worse in the late nineties
and early two thousands, which was when wrestling was in
his heyday.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Which the rise of like MTV shows, yeah, TV reality shows.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Yeah, But that was the first time that I thought, dang,
they actually got me a little bit. But glad I
don't think that anymore. It did affect me too much.
But just to know that my little brain was taking
in these things and like, oh this is fun, push
her down. Oh my gosh. But what was your book
for the month of September.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
It is going to be Blue Sisters by Coco Mellers.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
It's a story, I say, Coco Mellon, I know it does.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Something that Coco Mellers.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
It's a story of four sisters, one of whom has
recently passed away, and it's just a story about how
they all deal differently with their grief and it is
like not wrapped up with pretty bow at the end.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I really loved her writing.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
I read a really interesting piece I think it was
in Cosmopolitan magazine that the author did and about how
getting sober like really improved her writing because she was
actually able to connect with her feelings more instead of
like hiding them with alcohol.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
And so it was a really really good book. I
loved it.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
And what was your job news?
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
I got a new job, very exciting, same company, just
a different role, like a new team. Very excited. I
don't really want to talk too much about it because
no one's really going to care because I do nerdy things.
But I did get a new job after job hunting
for quite some time, and I'm very proud of you.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
It's not like I'm hiding my job.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
I just like, yeah, we're not say like she works here,
here are work hours, this is when she has lunch.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
But I do get to go into the office one
day a week, which is gonna be so nice because
I can finally wear all those clothes I've been buying
for four years and have human interaction and stop speaking
to the Stray Cats, because I was losing my mind
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
We love our straight cats around here.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
We do love our street cuts.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Speaking to stray Cats. Gotta come back and give my
raw and spoiler free review of the Wild Robot because
there's animals in it. Not cats, but there's animals in it.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
It's an interesting tie in. But all right, it's a
segue around here, effort. I can't speak. Also, I would
like to say that you were like I started the
wrestling documentary before we were going to go out on
a Friday.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
We went to True Food at six pm.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Hey, that's going out and you're thirty.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
But you were like, before we went out on a Friday,
and I was like, what did we do that? I
was like, we went to True Food at six pm.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
We're about to hit the bars downtown and get in
some little wrestling.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
We are about to go to dinner at four forty
five pm.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Oh. I love a happy hour because it's happy hour,
and we love to save money because then we can
eat more for the same.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Price counted food. The one problem I have going out
to eat a restaurants that we experience is they're always
surprised when we eat all our food, Like, oh, you
really crushed that. Why do I go out to eat?
Speaker 3 (28:07):
We have gotten a lot of comments and I'm like,
I specifically gom hungry, Like.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Do you not want to sell food and have people
eat all of it? That means it's good.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Also, it's usually at like vegan places, and I'm like, yeah,
have made a plans. It takes seventeen dishes to fill
me up. I'm sorry that I needed twelve cauliflower wings.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Well, someone was hungry, really enjoyed that.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I do hate that comment.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Yeah, I'm like, don't judge me.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
That's why my generation had eating disorders because everyone was like, wow,
fourteen mini cookies, not speaking from experience, and I'm like, yes,
bring me more.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Yeah, I'm like mm, I'm like that was half price.
I'll take another one.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Hook it up.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
All right, I gotta go get ready for dinner.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
All right, we'll be back. Let's get into it now.
A spoiler free movie review of The Wild Robot. I've
been waiting to talk about this movie for a while.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
I'm recording this just a couple of days removed from
watching the movie. It's already at the box office. It
is from one of my favorite writer directors in animation.
Chris Sanders a friend of the podcast. If you're not
familiar with the work of Chris Sanders, all I need
to say is he is the creator and voice of
Stitch and Lee Loo and Stitch. That entire story came
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from his mind. So with just that movie alone, he
has cemented himself in the world of animation as being
one of the best to do it. Chris Sanders knows
how to evoke emotion and The Wild Robot is based
on a book series which is a trilogy. In this movie,
you have a character named Roz who is a robot
who gets shipwrecked on this island. You have these otters
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who discover this huge, big parcel that this robot was in.
They start messing with it and activate this robot. Roz
is programmed to finish and complete its task. It is
a helper robot, so anybody who needs help, they are
there to help and they're not gonna leave until you
are satisfied with your performance of your ro's robot. But
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crash lands on this planet and there's all these different
animals there, and Roz is just trying to find her purpose,
going up to different animals seeing who needs help, but
everybody rejects her because they think she is a monster.
They think she is there to kill them. Then she
stumbles upon this orphan baby gostling and suddenly this baby
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gosling becomes her new task. And what does she have
to do. She has to make sure that the gostling
is able to swim, is able to find food, and
is able to fly by the fall, so in turn
becoming the gosling's mother. And before I get into the
amazing voice acting all the emotion I felt in this movie,
let's start with the visual aspect. One of the most
visually stunning animated movies in the last five years. It
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is up there with the end of the Spider Verse
movies as far as making you feel like you were
watching a story book come to life. And I think
that's the animation I'm drawn to right now. It is
combining different animation styles to make something very bright and vibrant,
and much like the Spider Verse movies where they essentially
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made a comic book come to life, those first two
movies essentially look like you took the pages of a
comic book and pulled them right out and animated them.
Combined a lot of different animation styles to do that
that movie is on an entirely different level, on an
entirely different budget. Along those same lines, that's what The
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Wild Robot did. Took these almost watercolor illustrations from the
book and brought it to life in a breath taking way.
It's amazing lighting, amazing character design, and every single frame
in The Wild Robot. I could take a still from
and put it up on this wall because it looks
so beautiful. And I often think that the actual animation
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style in a kid's movie often gets like way down
on the equation. You think, let's just slap a bunch
of things together, the kids won't notice. This movie proves
to me that you can make a better animated movie
that kids are going to enjoy and they are going
to pay attention to. This movie looks absolutely stunning from
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beginning to end, and it's almost a little bit like
you have to wrap your head around the animation style
because it looks so unique. The movie feels so different,
but by the very end of it, you are completely
in that world, completely submersed, and very rarely in animated
movies do I not want them to end. And that
is really one of the only negative things I can
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say about this movie is I wish it would have
been longer, and I also loved how Raw's weathered as
the movie went along. Started out fresh out the box,
and throughout the movie gets a little bit more worn down.
You get all of the dirt on her, the moss
start to grow around her, and that really shows the
evolution of her character and all that she goes through
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and what the message of this movie is of how
an adopted parent, or even a single parent goes through
so much for their kids to succeed, in Roz's case,
literally putting herself on the brink of death in order
to have this baby Gossling live a better life. And
that brings me to my next and probably most important
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part of this movie is the emotional punch that this
movie packs. And from the very beginning of the movie,
I loved how it committed to teaching kids about death
and embracing what actually happens in nature, what actually happens
in the real world, because at the root of the story,
it's all about survival, sadness, and hope. There's some joy
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in there too, But it felt almost like, oh, they're
really going here, They're going to talk about how you
can die in the wild, how all these animals are
trying not to be eaten, and how the food chain works.
And that felt really refreshing to me in a kid's movie,
because I would say in the last five to six
animated movies that I've seen in theaters geared towards everything
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is always rooted in happiness. There is a little bit
of conflict and turmoil, but it's like you shave down
all of the edges so that nobody gets hurt. And
I can understand that, especially for younger kids, which there
were some younger kids in this audience, that maybe the
overall emotional level was maybe a little bit too advanced
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for them, because I think some kids go into an
animated movie probably three or four years old, maybe five
years old, and they just want to see colorful characters
doing fun things that they can laugh at and want
to watch over and over again. But then you have
kids who are a little bit older. I go back
to a time where I was taking in movies like
Toy Story The Lion King in the late nineties, where
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I was becoming more in tune with my emotions, and
movies for me were a source of information and a
source of me being able to learn lessons that my
parents could not teach me. Whenever it came to learning
about the more emotional things like death, love, things you
should probably be taught to by your parents, mine struggled
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a little bit sitting me down and talking about some
of those things. So I would go to movies to
be able to learn about these emotions and how to
process them. I go back to watching The Lion King
at four five six years old and learning about death.
I watch Toy Story, and I learned about the feeling
of being abandoned. And it's the power of filmmaking to
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make stories that are going to resonate with kids. Talking
twenty five years later, I'm sitting here still talking about
how those movies change my life. And I think that
is what The Wild Robot is going to be for kids.
You're going to remember this movie after seeing it in
theaters with your parents, and that is so important because
I often feel that an animation, especially right now. There
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was a trailer that played before The Wild Robot. I
won't say the name of the movie, I won't even
say the studio, but I will say it had a
voice cast with just a bunch of random celebrities. The
animation itself looked lifeless, and it looked like they just
dumped some money onto this movie without any real intention
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of making something that was going to resonate with kids.
They just want to cash in little cash grab. You
throw out this random animated movie, throw some celebrities in there,
have them do a couple of interviews about it, and
you maybe make a quick book. But a kid is
going to forget about that movie as soon as they
leave the theater. They're not gonna want to rewatch that movie.
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The Wild Robot is not that it is going to
stay in the minds of kids. They're gonna want to
watch this movie again. They're gonna want to see a sequel,
and hopefully, being that it is a trilogy, you have
the books to base it off of that it gets
an entire series of movies. The other thing I loved
about it is it had this very childlike sense of
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mystery that even me as an adult, was very enticed by.
Read the book going into this, so I didn't know
what was going to happen, but it was putting together
the pieces and for a movie geared towards kids, I
didn't find it to be that predictable, especially since it
was dealing with things like death and despair, that I
didn't know how everything was going to turn out because
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they don't really paint it in a certain way that
everything is going to play off nicely for every single character. Again,
won't spoil the end for you, but you find out
from the very beginning on how Ras even discovers bright
Bill knowing that probably anything can happen, and as soon
as she discovers the other fox of knowing like, hey,
death is right around the corner, you know that they're
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in the wild and all these elements are not being
straight away from Death is always just right there hanging
over your head, much like it is an adult life,
and that what we all worry about. But it's the
sense of mystery that for me, I put myself more
in the position of Ras of now, they have this
kid who is their responsibility, and they want to see
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them succeed. They are an adopted single parent just trying
to do the best for their kid and not really
having all the tools and not knowing how to process
emotions because they are a robot, but trying to dig
deep and feel something and It really made me think
about my mom and all the struggles she had to
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go through to make sure that me and my brother
and sister had what we needed. And this movie really
shines a light on the toll that raising kids has
on parents, how much it wears you down physically, how
much it wears you down mentally, and how it can
just drain you of everything. But just knowing that your
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kid can just have a maybe one percent chance at
making it a life makes it all worth it. So
it is a big commentary on motherhood and me not
being female. I totally grasp onto that and made me
want to call my mom immediately after leaving the theater
and thanking her for every single thing she had ever
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done for me. I think for a younger audience, they're
probably going to see themselves a little bit more as
bright Bill, because bright Bill is trying to navigate this
world that they don't fit in with because they have
a parent who is being described by the other people
on this desert island as a monster, and bright Bill
is raised in a way that's not very traditional. All
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the other geese find bright Bill to be an outcast,
a weirdo, and they beat them up for that. So
I think the younger audience is going to grasp onto that,
whether they feel like that or maybe they've been treating
a kid unfairly just for being different, which I hope
the movie benefits both sides. For those who are more
like bright Bill feel like, oh, that's somebody like me.
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I can identify with that, and somebody who identifies as
maybe one of the bullies, think maybe I should do that.
Maybe I don't know the entire story here and don't
know what they are going through, and maybe I should
be a little bit more conscious of learning about somebody
who doesn't look like me. And again, I don't want
to make it sound like this movie is completely depressing
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and you're gonna be crying the whole time. I just
want to put an emphasis on we shouldn't stray away
from exposing kids to sadness. It is a very real emotion,
and sadness isn't a bad thing to feel. You're supposed
to feel those emotions and learn how to process those emotions.
And I think if I learned that at a younger age,
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I probably wouldn't be in some of the positions I
am now where it is hard for me to speak
about the things going on inside here unless I'm talking
about it in a movie review. So I think that
is just the most polarizing feeling from the movie. But
there are a lot of fun moments and a lot
of sci fi as well. And I've said all these
great things about this movie without even talking talking about
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the amazing voice acting. Lupita Niago plays Roz, who does
a fantastic job of showing the evolution of the character,
going from being a factory set robot to a fully
fleshed out mom By the end of this movie. You
hear it in her voice that is top tier voice acting,
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much like you would if you were on screen the
entire time. Lupita Niago does that with her voice across
the board. To me, it felt like everybody really understood
the assignment, got into that vocal booth, really packed in
the emotion, and really had fun with the characters, whether
it was Pedro Pascal as Fink, Catherine O'Hara as the
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mom Possum, Mark Hamill as the Big Brown Bear, or
Ving Raims as Thunderbolt. What I really look for in
any movie, especially one with a lot of action and adventure,
even in animation. I always want to find that real
triumphant moment, that moment in a movie where I want
to stand up in my seat cheer and applaud, even
though that's not really me in a movie. I find
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clapping to be a little bit cheesy and a little
bit forced at times, But I want that feeling that
makes me feel excited that if I was a clapper
or a cheerer, that I would want to get up
out of my seat, that big excitement moment that makes
you think, yes, finally. I always look for that in movies.
Often find that a lot in superhero movies, not as
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much as of late, but this movie had that. There's
one moment in particular where Maren Morris wrote a song
specifically for this movie. When that song hits, I felt
something so warm take over my body and it felt
like in that moment, I was watching something truly special.
I got emotional, not in a way that I was
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going to cry because it was sad, but just because
I was overwhelmed with this happiness and feeling like, oh,
how could something that's just a bunch of frames and
moving pictures and actors voicing make me feel like this?
And that felt really special, and that is the power
of filmmaking, the power of animation, because if this was
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a live action movie, by no means would it have
the same effect. And that is why I'm such a
huge proponent of animation, because it could take your mind
to places that you never knew that were possible. And
the wild Robot, even though it's based on a book,
it isn't a huge ip. It's not like it's Willy
Wonka and the Chocolate Factory or Cat in the Hat.
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So it's also inspiring to me that a movie like
this that's not based on a toy or based on
something that everybody knows, that feels like a remake or
part of a franchise that's already established, can still exist,
come out be number one at the box office opening weekend,
and have not only people like me ranting and raving
about it, but it also connecting with the audience that
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it was intended for. When it comes to the score,
it is almost so close to being perfect. I've never
rated an animated movie a five out of five. I
take my ratings very very seriously, and even though I
love this movie with so much of my heart, I
still couldn't give it that perfect score. It is almost there,
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but it is a strong four point five out of
five goslings almost there at the five out of five,
and maybe upon that second or third rewatch for me,
or maybe if they do make that sequel, they do
make that part three, Part two, or maybe part three
could hit there at that five out of five for me.
So maybe I'm saying this in hopes that they do
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make more movies, build a nice little franchise before the
Wild Robot. I give it four point five out of five.
Speaker 4 (44:43):
It's time to head down to movie Mike Trey, Lark Paul.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
The best movies to me are ones that feel like
dreams come to life. I have some wild, reoccurring dreams
that I would love to see somebody take my ideas
from these dreams to turn him into a movie. And
I feel like if there was one director that could
do that, it would be Bong June Hoe, who is
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an incredibly creative and gifted director. And I feel like
he really got the appreciation for his work, obviously after
winning Best Director for Parasite. I think after he won
that dropped an amazing speech telling everybody not to be
afraid of subtitles. More people went back and started discovering
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his films and now he is ready to do it
again with a new movie called Mickey seventeen coming out
on January thirty first, twenty twenty five. It stars Robert
Pattinson who plays a character named Mickey Barnes. It is
a sci fi thriller with a little bit of comedy.
This trailer is very lighthearted, but Robert Pattinson plays Mickey.
His character signs up to be inexpendable and gets sent
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out on these dangerous missions on this ice planet where
the result of all these missions is him dying, and
through him dying, these scientists are able to learn a
lot about how to advance humans, and once one version
of them dies, they replace some Here attains a lot
of his memories and then things get crazy whenever it
looks like they throw him into a hole that incinerates him.
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But then he wakes up one day and realizes they
are now duplicates. He wakes up next to himself and
they have to decide what do they do with the duplicates.
So the reason it's called Mickey seventeen, it happens to
be the seventh time he is replicated. That's when things
go wrong. Joining Robert Pattinson in this cast is Stephen Yune,
Mark Ruffalo, Tony Collette. The movie sets out to answer
(46:33):
the question what does it feel like to die? Before
I get into more about Mickey seventeen, here is a
little bit of the trailer. Nothing was working out and
I wanted to get off of Earth.
Speaker 2 (46:42):
You're planning to be inexpendable.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
Yeah, once you die, would print a new version of
your body.
Speaker 3 (46:47):
Every time you die, we learned something new, and humanity
moves forward.
Speaker 1 (46:52):
Oh he's lying, fine, biggie, it's not looking very good
for you. Yeah, I'm sure you're used to it by now,
But what's it feel like to die? Even on my
seventeenth go round?
Speaker 4 (47:06):
I hate dying.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
I first talked about this movie back when I did
my episode at the start of the year of my
most anticipated movies of the year, back when it was
set to come out this year and now has been
pushed to the beginning of next year, which I'm okay with.
I thought it was going to have a more dramatic
sci fi feel, but instead it looks like we're getting
a sci fi comedy, which is unique, which is fresh,
and I definitely think the song by Dean Martin. Ain't
(47:31):
that a kick in the head used in this trailer
really gives you a much different feeling, but not only
shows you the importance of music in movies but also
in trailers, because that sets the tone for me of
what to expect going into this film. And I have
to say, Robert Pattinson is not only the king of genres,
he is also the king of accents, because if you
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just played that audio, you have no idea that is
Robert Pattinson. You coulda pick him out of a lineup
if I told you just by playing that audio. There's
an a list actor in this role. You can never
guess it. And he's been doing this now for a
long time, not only altering the way that he looks
in different costumes and taking on these entirely different personalities,
which is what acting is. But sometimes I feel actors
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get comfortable in doing what they do best and continuing
to give audiences more of that, and sometimes they dip
into a little bit more dramatic things, but rarely show
you so many different looks, so many different accents, like
Robert Pattinson has done in his career. And it's still
wild to me that people still associate him with Edward
(48:34):
from Twilight because he's come so far since then. I
think it's because how massive that movie was. It was huge,
it was everywhere, it was worldwide. It is very rare
for an actor to get a legacy film like that,
to the point that if he didn't do any other
movie beyond Twilight, he could still be in the minds
(48:54):
of people for years to come because of how important
that movie was to pop culture. But since then, I
feel he has stepped a little bit away from being
in those big blockbuster movies. He still does them, but
I feel like he has become very passionate about doing
unique movies like this that really challenge him as an actor.
In just the last five years, he has done everything
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from movies like Devil All the Time to The Batman
and now a sci fi comedy like this. He's even
done animated movies. So here's a little clip of all
the different accents that he has done over the years.
What's you sure have absolutely no function whatsoever. It's pathetic
and I see plenty of meat, red meat laid out
(49:34):
on this tape. What's happened has happened, which is an
expression of faith in the mechanics of the world.
Speaker 3 (49:41):
I want to know she is, what she has to
do with this murder.
Speaker 1 (49:43):
Don't let me hurt you, of course I can't. But
your mother is not dead. Stop flopping, be old. So
with Robert Pattinson alone in the cast, this was going
to be a go to movie for me. But then
you have director Bom Juho, who creates these cinematic experiences
that you have to go experience in theaters. And that
(50:06):
is how I feel after watching this trailer. It is
meant to be seen on the big screen. There is
spectacle here, and this is the fun I like. And
I got a little bit of heat last week talking
about Red One and how much I hated that trailer
and how I was kind of being a hater all
over that episode last week. And I'm always open to criticism.
People felt that I was a little bit too hard
(50:27):
of that trailer and missed out that it's just supposed
to be holiday fun. And I'm not blind to the
idea that some movies are just supposed to be fun
movies for the sake of enjoyment, popcorn movies. I'm all
for those movies, but sometimes I feel that fun is
passed off on the filmmakers being lazy. How can we
make this movie just be like, oh, it's just supposed
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to be fun as a way to say, ah, we
just didn't really care too much about the process of
this movie, the actual filmmaking. Let's just say it's a
movie where you're supposed to have fun. You're supposed to
be ignore the bad cgi, you're supposed to ignore the
bad acting because it is fun. And this is coming
from somebody who loves the Fast and the Furious movies
because those are big, dumb fun, but they lean into it.
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So there are some exceptions to the rule. But there
are also movies now like this Mickey seventeen, which it
is that same kind of fun. It's Robert Pattinson, how
you maybe really haven't seen them in a very lighthearted way,
playing kind of a kooky character. You could hear it
in his voice there. You can see it in his
performance if you go watch the trailer. So this movie
shows you you can still have fun but also make
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something fun and unique and original. So fun doesn't always
have to be this is the best we can do.
Don't think too much about it. Well, I wouldn't think
too much about it if I'm not spending my time
and my money on this. So I think when you
are providing audiences with quote unquote fun, you have to
be sure that you are also providing them with fun
that is worth paying for. And I think that's what
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Mickey seventeen is going to be. And this trailer just
really sets you up to go on that him discovering
the duplicate, the fallout that comes with that. It looks
like some people are upset. You see other duplicate, sometimes
triplets and beyond. So I think there's gonna be a
moral dilemma on how to get rid of these people.
But it looks great to me so far. I wonder
where it's going to rank on my favorite Bangju home films.
(52:17):
I would say number one easily has to be Parasite.
That movie has great rewatchability, was a really impactful movie
going experience for me. Was also one that completely shattered
the way I feel about foreign films and having to
read subtitles. I would say number two has to be
snow Piercer with Chris Evans. The entire world that is
created in that movie is fantastic, A great mix of
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awesome performances. From actors, but also a lot of really
good intense action. And number three would have to be
Oak Joke, which has a lot more fantasy, unique animals,
unique premise. You see little glimpses of that movie. I
feel in the trailer for Mickey seventeen, So I feel
like this movie is going to be kind of a
culmination and picking all of bangju homes signature movie making
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aspects from all of his films horror, sci fi, comedy, drama.
I think this one will have it all again. It
is coming out next year in theaters on January thirty first,
And for those who still haven't given Robert Pattinson a
chance since Twilight, maybe this is your next opportunity. At
that p was this week's edition of Movie by Frame
(53:22):
or Park and that is gonna do it for another
episode here of the podcast. And like I was saying before,
I always get pretty passionate. Either way, I'm either all
about a movie or I'm all about hating a movie.
And that is the pleasure I find in watching movies.
I want movies to evoke a reaction in me. Either way.
When a movie is just mid I think what to
(53:43):
waste the time? Because you gave me something that isn't
even worth talking about. I would rather you put out
a terrible movie that I want to rip to shreds
than a movie that I just watch and think, eh,
that was all right. No real standouts, and I know
I could probably be annoying. You're not supposed to agree
with everything I say in this podcast, but just know
it is my true emotion, my true feelings, without any influence,
(54:07):
so you're always getting the real deal here. If you
don't agree with me, I welcome you to share your
opinion hit me up on any platform because that is
what makes doing this podcast fun. But before I go,
I got to give my listeners shout out of the week.
We had a secret emoji last week with the Nightmare
on Elm Street interview. So much great response from that.
Appreciate everybody for checking out that episode. Went through all
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the Facebook and YouTube and Twitter and TikTok comments to
find this week's listener shout out of the week that
use that emoji, and it is going to Lori Weber,
who commented with the skull emoji and said, awesome interview.
I loved how you use numbers to facilitate the questions.
Great job. Thank you, Lori. I had to really think
about how to approach that interview because I imagine after
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forty years of talking about a nightmare on Elm Street,
they have probably heard every single question and probably at
that point where they are sick of talking of the
same story again and again. So I thought if I
could just approach it with a different angle, it would
make it more enjoyable for them. But they were great together.
If you missed that interview, just go back one in
the feed and check that out. And if you still
want to comment on those clips on social media, maybe
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I'll still pull a listener shout out of the Week
from a comment over there. But until next time, go
out and watch good movies and I will talk to
you later.
Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's movie podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike. Today it is movies of
the month of September. I know it's a little bit late,
but Kelsey is here. How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I'm good. I have to know what happened right before
we started?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
What happened? Okay? Okay?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I asked you you were getting a coffee out of
the fridge, because we always have a coffee while recording this.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, or sometimes I have wined peningilmon.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Time we record the bit, always a beverage.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
But this is the afternoon, so it is coffee at
the moment. So I asked you to grab me a
coffee out of the fridge. You grab this coffee, and
then I am in the bathroom sitting down to pee,
and you walk into the bathroom with my coffee as
if you were fully expecting me to take it on
the toilet. And I looked at you, like, what why
are you bringing this to me? I you're gonna say that,
I said, bring me a coffee. I said, grab me
a coffee, as then get it out of the fridge
(00:45):
for me, because you were already getting one for yourself.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
To me, that implies I would like for you to
bring me a coffee, and I took the coffee.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
To you, but we were also about to record. Why
didn't you just bring it into the office. Why bring
it to me while I moment.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Because the way we are with caffeine, we need it.
Now you want a coffee, I'm bringing you right to
you wherever you are, whether you're on the can, whether
you're outside, no matter where you are, I am bringing
you that coffee.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I did not need it on the toilet, but thank
you for that express delivery.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
That's how I work. Anyway, we're going to get into
a movie review. I actually recorded a while ago for
The Wild Robot, just because I wanted my raw emotions
after watching that movie. We'll get into the trailer park,
so a lot to talk about.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
We also just both said that we felled off the rails,
so this is gonna be one of those episodes if.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
You can't tell by now. Thank you for being here,
thank you for being subscribed, Shout out to the Monday
Morning Movie crew, and now let's talk movies.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
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Speaker 1 (01:59):
I watched more movies in September out of any month
this year.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Watched a lot of movies.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I went you were away for I feel like a week,
and I went to the movies like two times during that.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I went to New York. It was great.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
September is also where horror movies start. So I went
to the movies a lot without you because you're like, nah,
ain't doing that?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah I was. I was like, I'm going to Broadway.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
You can go see a horror movie tonight, which if
you get the chance to see The Outsiders on Broadway,
so freaking good.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
How close is it to the movie or how close
to the book?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
About the same from what I remember. I bought a
copy of the book to reread it. Yeah, pretty similar.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It was great.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
The cast was really cool. The special effects for the
show were really neat. There's like some like fighting scenes
like in Rain, but it was like real rain on
the stage, but like didn't get like the audience wet.
It's really cool.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
So I love Broadway shows.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
You're going to reread the book, rewatch the movie.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I'll rewatched the movie. I loved the movie.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I haven't seen it since like in school we all
read that book and watched the movie. Yeah, probably since then.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Rob low is in it.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, Tom Cruise, Patrick.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Swayze, Amelio.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, it's a great cast.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Great film.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
But anyway, and we're here to talk about best and
worst of September. I know we're a little late, but
we had some interviews to get to in last week's episode.
If you missed that, go check that out. If you're
a big Nightmare on Elm Street fan, go check out
that episode. But what was the best movie in your
opinion for September.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I'm curious to see Easy My Old Ass with Aubrey
Plaza so good and.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Mazie Stella directed by Megan Park who a lot of
people know where she was on the Secret Life for
the American Teenager, which was now the campiest shows of
all time. But yeah, she's written and directed two really
great films now on The Fallout, which was on HBO
Max which inna Worteka, right yep, great film, and then
this one, which was a completely different direction A lot
(03:44):
more lighthearted.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
She's really good. Like I didn't really know what to expect.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I was worried that it was gonna be one of
those where you see all the funny parts in the trailer,
but it was so heartwarming and heartfelt, and the people
behind us after the movie was overclapped to cover the
sound of them crying.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
We rarely hear that clapping in movies right.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Now, Yeah, I can't think of the last one.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Even in the last superhero movies that we've gone to,
there hasn't been clapping like Wolverine Deadpool.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Personally, I clapped at the end of Twister, but.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I feel like that whole clapping has kind of gone away.
I was kind of surprised to hear that, but that
movie is emotional. It's a really good coming of age
story done in a different way. What happens is main
character takes some mushrooms, causing her to hallucinate, has a
really bad trip, and Aubrey Plaza comes in as the
older version of herself, the forty year old version of herself,
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to tell her teenage self some advice, and she's able
to communicate with her from the future. I love that
the movie existed in reality, but also nobody questioned what
was happening yeah, and never.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Were like, how are you calling yourself in the future.
It just was like it wasn't a plot line. It
just was the plot.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And I like movies that do that. It's like, hey,
this is the facts. Don't think too much into it,
suspend belief and allow yourself to enjoy it. And that
movie was a lot more emotional than I was expecting.
I feel in the last couple of movies we saw
in theaters, aside from Joker, I had oddly emotional experiences
of almost crying, like getting really emotional. There's one specific
moment in this movie that will just hit you like
(05:12):
a ton of bricks. The only thing I wish it
had more was Abrey Plaza.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I just wish it was longer. Yeah, I wanted more
of the movie in general.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
And I think it's because Plaza is such a big star.
I feel like she was probably there for maybe a week.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Well, she's also in like Everything Under the Center. Now
she's an Agatha along Megalopolis. It's not how he's saying.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, it's a lot of words in one.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I feel like her filming schedule was pretty tight, but
this was filmed like years ago.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, I just feel like I wanted more of her
whole plot line in that movie, and I feel like
that's kind of how they sold it. Even if you
watched the trailer, you think it's gonna be a lot
more of their interactions, but I think they use her
name to get people into it. But once you're there,
it's a really good story that you probably couldn't sell
without her attached to it. Yeah, it was great, And
I also love movies that take place over the summer, like.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
At Summer Camp movie, and it's.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Odd time for it to come out in September at
the end of summer, but it kind of gives you
that warm feeling. I feel like she was.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Preparing to go off to school, so I feel like
the movie was probably kind of set like mid August,
so to come out into September it is not that off.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
It did remind me of that period in life right
before college, of me being really excited to leave. And
at the time I was leaving, my older brother was
also going to move from waksay Atchie to Austin with me,
so it was my parents about to be empty nesters
and while I was excited. My brother was excited to leave.
I didn't realize the strain and the sadness that my
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mom was experiencing, because I remember like telling her, Hey,
we're we're leaving soon. We had to do something fun
before we leave, And I remember her telling me like,
I don't want to think about that right now, Like
you keep bringing this up of like you leaving, Like
I don't. This is not fun for me.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
So sad thinking of your mom. My experience was a
complete opposite. My parents had a two year old and
a six year old, and they were My mom and
I were at that age real like an eighteen year
old girl, you just like get along better with your
mom when you.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Move out too much in the equation right now.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah, we were just like butting heads too much, and
so we got along much better after I moved out.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
It's like bye, So it wasn't as emotional for you
to leave, Like, no, not at all. She had a
kindergartener and a toddler where they're tears shit still, I mean,
she'll going off to college.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I also only went thirty minutes from home, and my
dad worked in Austin and would pick me up when
I wanted to come out for the weekend.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I guess that's a little different. We moved two and
a half almost three hours away.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I think there were tears of joy.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I really think my mom now when I moved to Nashville,
there were tears like when I moved out of state.
But when I went through college, I think my mom
was just kind of like.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yeah, I guess with you not being that far away,
it doesn't feel like like thirty minutes they could drive
to see you. They did often, my parents couldn't drive
the two and a half hours on a weekend.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Like my dad worked in Austin, like ten minutes from campus.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Ye like easy driving my ag. But I remember whenever
my oldest sister they're left for college, my dad was
a wreck. Like my dad is an oddly emotional person
and it takes a lot to kind of make him well.
Maybe in his later years he's a little more like
he lets it flow. But the first time I ever
saw my dad cry was whenever my sister went to college.
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He was the first one to go, and I just
remember him like sitting on the couch just crying. It
was so sad, and I don't think he felt that
exact same way once we left, just because he was
a little bit more prepared for it. Also, we were
his boys, so I think he.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Was in his grocery bill got cheaper.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, oh yeah, that too, So I think it was
a little bit more prepared for us to leave. I
think there's probably just something about your first leaving. First. Wait,
you were the first, and you were the first daughter.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Again, you were the baby.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Yeah, I was the oldest, and the age Japs were huge,
like they literally my youngest brother was two when I
went to college. I don't think they had the capacity.
And he was also an evil child, so they were
on their hands full with that one.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Okay, now when he leaves you, my mom is a, yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Hard that's gonna be. That's gonna be the one.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yeah, if he does leave, he might just live in
the basement, become the next Michael Dell Bill Gates.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
But yeah, that was our experience leaving home. For my
best of September, I'm between two movies. I am between
the Wild Robot and I Am between the Substance.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
If you don't go Wild Robot, I'm shocked you felt
things in that movie I did.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And I'm gonna get into my full review here in
a minute. But I think I'm gonna go with The
Substance just because I went into that movie not knowing
anything about it. If you didn't listen to that review,
it's essentially about Debbie Moore's character. She turns fifty years old.
She has like this morning fitness workout show, and Dennis
Quait is her boss, and on her fiftieth birthday he
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fires her because thinks her star is passed. They need
to move on to something new and fresh. And then
Demi Moore's character gets into a car accident. While she's
at the doctor, there's this weird medical dude who works
as an assistant and tells her about this black market
drug called the Substance that you take it and it
creates a better version of yourself. It essentially goes into
(10:10):
your DNA and spawns out another human, and that other
human in the movie happens to be Margaret Quayley. And
then the catch is that every seven days they have
to switch back, So for a week she's living as
Demi Moore, and then for the next week she's living
as Margaret Quayley. And then you find that all about
the struggle of going back and forth, big feminism movie.
(10:31):
It's a big commentary on how Hollywood treats women who
age in the industry.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Which like Demi Moore has aged so beautifully.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
She has she this is her best role, and I
feel like she took it for a very specific reason,
maybe because she's felt some of these things in her
career and I can only imagine how awful people in
power in Hollywood are towards women casting women that I
feel like roles for women at her point in her
career are probably harder to come by than roles for men.
(11:02):
I mean, even look at this movie. Dennis quated like
seventy something, yeah, and he's still getting a lot of work.
And I feel like she probably took this to have
that commentary of like, this is something that's actually happening,
and yes, this is a really bizarre way to make
this point, but it's a point we want to make.
And it was a movie that I felt, for the
first time in a while, had like a lot to
say and did it in a really unique way, and
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it really committed to its craziness. Because it's not for everybody.
I think you would go watch it and think the
heck is going on? Here, you have people turning into
weird monsters, you have all these supernatural events. The end
of the movie is like completely throwing everything against the wall.
So it does all those things to kind of appease
to like the horror fan. But I felt like the
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message of it was something that I walked away with thinking, oh,
that's actually a really cool and interesting way to say that.
And I had no idea the movie is gonna affect
me as much as it did.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Two quick notes that don't necessarily up to the movie,
but it's cast. I watched a clip on tech Talk
of Demi Moore's interview with I Think It's like CBS
Sunday Mornings talking about life with like Bruce Willis now,
and it just was so beautiful of like where they're
meeting him, where he's at and like with his journey
with dementia, and she talked about she was like, I'm
(12:15):
trying not to dwell on like the Bruce I used
to know, and like finding the joy of where he
is and it was so sweet. And then there's a
really funny clip of Margaret Queley on Fallon talking about
how like all of her movies this year, Driveway Dolls
kinds of kindness and the substance. And she's like, none
of my family can see any of these. She's like,
I'm probably naked in most of them. She's like, can't
(12:35):
take anyone to see them.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, her whole introduction in this movie, her first scene,
she's almost naked for Oh, it's say a good four
or five minutes.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
So it was just that's a funny clip. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I don't think I have any interest in seeing the movie. Love.
Both of them don't want to see it.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah. I think that's another reason, is like some people
have a feeling about nudity in movies. I feel like
in this movie.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Well, that's not why I don't see it.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
No, But I'm just saying first clarifying, I'm just adding
all the reasons, is that all the strikes that this
movie has against itself. Yeah, there's the horror element, which
there's some things in this movie that were a little
unsettling to me, but I like the fact that they
made me feel certain ways. You know, I have a
weird thing about bones breaking. Anytime there's any kind of
video where I know somebody's bones gonna break, I won't
watch it. Is there just something about that feeling and
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about that anticipation.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Is that why you wouldn't look at my foot last
year when I broke broke it.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
That's different because that's not it snapping, but like something
like somebody's skateboarding. I don't want to see that. I
don't want to hear it. That just strikes a nerve
with me. And there's some of that in this movie.
So there's those horror elements, but also the nudity, which
would keep some people away from watching it. But I
think it's used in a way to show vulnerability in
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this movie, like the fact. I think they used prosthetics too,
so I don't know if that was actually king.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Margaret Quaily said that her chest was enhanced.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
But it seems like it's just them putting themselves out there.
Even though if you don't know going into it that
it's probably all prosthetics, you think, man, really, that's a lot.
That's a big commitment. I just imagine, like as an
actor being in those situations. You think you're just watching
it as the viewer, there's nobody there, but if you
look behind the camera, there's all these.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Seven thousand people there.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
It's like when people have to film like intimate scenes
and I'm just like that that sounds awful.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Everybody seeing your kibbles and bits is like, like, what
is like, how do you even call it?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Ever?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Again?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Kibbles and bits?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I stop.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I don't think you realize how hard it is to
have chemistry come across on screen. Oh yeah, because you're
interacting with this person across from you, trying to have
this connection and have that come across on screen. Meanwhile,
there are lights on you, there are people running around, and.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
You're also faking a connection. Yes, that's the thing too,
is it's like you're That's where people say acting is
so weird because you like have to emotionally get into
the part, but you're like not trying to fall in
love with this person, but you have to portray that
you are in love.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I think, yeah, I think that's the hardest thing to do.
That's why a lot of romcoms fail is because people
are unable to have that chemistry, which it's so reliant on.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I'll talk more about that too when I talk about
my favorite TV show for the month, because that comes
back into play.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
All right, well we'll get into our worst now, what
was your worst for September?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
It's got to be the Uglies. The Uglies. Listen, think
it is the Uglies.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Chase Stokes is great, Naderbanks, I'm a big fan of
him and Kelsey Ballerini. Love them big Stan, love Joey
King and everything she does. It wasn't them, it was
just the movie. And also the fact that they cast
a brief from selling Sunset and Apart really took it
down a notch incredibility.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I forgot about that. Yeah, the cast in this movie
was all over the place. It felt like Netflix just
taking from their own personal pool and putting everybody in
a project. And I felt like the casting just wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
And the sets weren't it horrible either.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
This movie has been in production hell since like the
early two thousand.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Yeah, because I Boo came out in like two thousand
and six.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
It felt like a movie that should have come out
in and the teen dystopian era, like the twenty tens
with The Hunger Game Divergent.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yeah, it was very in that camp.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
It was in that era, But to come out now
and look as awful as it did is so just like,
why was this even made? The CGI and special effects
looked like a bunch of green screen. They filmed this
whole thing in Georgia pretty much, so it felt just
like very cold, and just the level of the quality
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of all the action was just so poor and it
felt like something that was made for like a two
thousand's music video because it was so bad, and that
just kept me completely out of enjoying any aspect of it.
And I'm sure the plot makes more sense in the
book and has some kind of connection with the reader
that it warranted a movie to be made, but on screen,
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the plot just kind of made no sense.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Yeah, I remember enjoying the book, but I did not
enjoy the movie.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
The makeup that they used to make them pretty was weird, frightening, frightening.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
It was like the old like YouTube makeup influencer era
before everyone like kind of settled on a more natural look.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
And there is a sequel book, right, Pretties. I don't
see that being made.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I think we gotta just put the pen in that,
which is.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Sad because I think Joey King has wanted to be
in this movie for a long time. It was one
that was probably important to her to like, this is
one of my favorite books. I wanted to be the
star of this movie and just the product, which is
not where it's at. For my worst of the month,
I'm going to go to a theater experience. And for
the most part, I enjoyed every single movie in theaters.
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There were some that stood out to me more so. Really,
my worst is just my least favorite, and it would
have to be Speak No Evil with James McAvoy.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Which you also saw while I was going.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I did, and it's not that it was a bad movie.
I would still even recommend this movie. It was just
one I feel I didn't need to see in theaters
to enjoy it. I could have watched this movie at
home and had probably the same experience, maybe even a
scarier experience, because I would be in a more vulnerable state.
Sometimes when you watch movies about things that could actually
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happen in real life, it's just scarier at home, thinking
there'd be somebody out the window right now, like trying
to do this to me.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
That's why I don't watch them.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Yeah, I guess that's I guess what freaks you out
more is things that could happen in real life. Yeah,
which like this. The villain in the movie is really
just a psychotic person. It's nothing supernatural.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Yeah, and that could happen.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah, that freaks me out sometimes. I just think about
how big the world is and the fact that you've
probably gone through the grocery store and run into somebody
that's just like, what do they do when they get home?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I don't like this discussion, okay, but.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
That is my least favorite of the month, just because
I feel like, if you didn't see it in theaters,
you didn't really miss anything. Comes onto some streaming service,
you can watch it and enjoy it. But at this point,
now being a few weeks out from watching it, it's
kind of forgettable. But it was kind of like a
roller coaster. I enjoyed it in the moment, got off
the ride. That was fun, ready to move on.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Never once if I thought that I'm getting off her
roller coaster.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Oh you also hate roller coasters?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
For your TV show, it was your favorite of the month.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I go Nobody Wants This with Adam Brody and Kristen
Bell on Netflix ten out of ten. Binged it so funny,
so cute. I loved and I've seen a lot of
discourse about this online that people liked that it was
a healthy example of a relationship. Like, it wasn't like
a toxic guy gas lighting. It was a woman who's
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probably been told she's too much and like one of
the things he says, and this isn't a spoiler, but
he literally tells her like I can handle you. And
it's like, that's what every girl, including myself, has always
been told, that she talks too much, blah blah blah
blah blah. Like I I think that's what every girl
wants to hear, is that someone can handle you.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I didn't watch the show with you, maybe caught glimpses
of it here and there, but I have seen that meme.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And the soundtrack is great. Yeah, opens with the him song.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Francis the Lights is the closing song, which I read
on a couple episodes.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Actually, I think that's on several.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I recognized his voice just because he did a song
with Chance the Rapper back when Chance.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
The Rapper Blowing up.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Now, I mean I went back and listen to it.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
It's so good.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
But yeah, that and that's the what I was talking
about earlier about chemistry. Adam Brody and Kristen Bell have
been friends forever. They did a movie a while back.
Aaron Foster, who created the show, knew she wanted Kristen Bell,
and Kristen was like, I knew that the male lead
had to be Adam, Like we have a friendship, we
have a rapport, we have a connection. And I think
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that's why it came across so well, is because they
like had existing like friendship chemistry and also like Adam
Brody is just like if anything ever came out about him,
like being terrible, I would be heartbroken because Adam Brody
has played like the sweetest, kindest character on every TV show.
He was Dave for gil'sk Young Gilmore Girls, who was
Lane's best boyfriend. He was Seth Cohen on the OC
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and now he's the hot rabbi.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
He's kind of having a bit of a resurgence. Or
did he ever really go to me? I guess he
kind of did, but yeah, he kind of went away
for a little bit.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
But yeah, I see, and Layton Measter like kind of
stepped away and had kids and we're doing their own thing. Also,
like for every millennial girl, the fact that Seth Cohen
married Blair Waldorf from Gossip Girl just still.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Blows my mind.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
And I know that some of you listening will be
like yeah, and then others will be.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yeah? I don't fully get that reference, but I get
it now. They're characters from.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
He was on The OC, which was huge, like two
thousand and three to two thousand and six. She was
on Gossip Girl, which was like two thousand and seven
ish whatever era. Yeah, and they were like one of
the big characters. And like, so to have two of
your favorite like teen drama, I mean that was the
era of great team dramas. You had the OC, Wintrey Hill,
Gossip Girl, Veronica Mars, Kristen Bell, like and the fact
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you have two people from different shows that married each other.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
It's just chef'skiss and Kristen Bell has just been famous forever.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yeah, yeah, she was.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Her wardrobe was fantastic. That's probably because she wore a
lot of stuff from Aaron Foster's brand. God bless the
people on TikTok who were doing the Lord's work and
are like here so you can buy everything that Kristen
Belt wore in the show. Because I am saving links
left and right.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
It reminded me of our other show, The Good Place
that I really loved, and I feel like that show
dominated for a while, but now I don't hear anybody
talk about how good that show was.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Apparently one of the co stars in that mide a
guest appearance on this show. She played Janet on The
Good Place.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Okay, yeah, I remember, yeah, And that show had one
of my favorite finales of the last ten years in television.
Oh you know, I love a good series finale, but
that was one that I actually invested in because I'd
seen every season and that was a show that, like,
I don't watch broadcast, we don't really watch broadcast TV anymore,
any major networks, but I would watch every single episode
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of that show because I was just had to know
how it ended.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Nobody wants this. Highly recommend I want a second season immediately. Also,
the supporting characters were so funny, the ones playing their siblings.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
It had everything.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
It was lighthearted, great writing, was funny, made me lol,
great soundtrack.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
It couldn't get enough for me.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
That same weekend you finished that entire show, I finished
the entire Vince McMahon show, Mister McMahon on Netflix. I
randomly turned it on. We're about to leave, like on
a Friday to go out, and I was like, I
don't really care to watch this. But before that, Vince
McMahon had put out a statement about saying he didn't
agree with everything in the show, and that was really
the only thing that enticed me. I was like, well,
he just kind of has a problem with this. Maybe
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there's something in there now, the fact that he was nuts. Yeah,
And within the first twenty minutes, I was like, Oh,
this is good. But I also grew up on wrestling,
like in the late nineties, that's all I watched. That
was like my identity for a while. I loved it.
And the thing about the documentary, it doesn't pain him
out to be a good guy whatsoever. He did some
pretty awful things. But I felt a really weird way
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knowing that wrestling was targeted towards kids at that time,
which was me and some of the really awful things
I was exposed to, and I just like, and it
kind of made me feel weird, thinking like something that
I watch actually had an effect on my mental state
and like the way I think about things. And I
felt a little bit violated just because it wasn't the
violence or anything, but it was like some of the
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like depictions of how they treated women, and some of
the awful storylines that were really insensitive that I feel
that I'm glad that I don't think like that anymore,
But I could see somebody who was younger and more
impressionable and saw those things and never really grew from that,
would continue to think those things. So I felt in
that moment, like it's it is important what kids are
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exposed to, especially with something like that that they're like, no,
it's for adults, but they're clearly marketing towards kids because
there's action figures, there's all this merchandise clearly geared towards kids,
but they're putting really adult themes in there that It
just made me question in second guests things when we
eventually have kids, of the things that we expose them to.
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But now wrestling is different, it's a lot more family friendly.
They don't have any of that there anymore. They've really
changed the brand of bit just because can't really do
stuff like that anymore. Some of the storylines were wild,
and as a kid, I was just like, oh, yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Yeah, I mean it's crazy how what you watch like
does change your brain chemistry. I've told the story in
here before how I was banned from watching Rugrats for
a hot minute because I acted like Angelica.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Even when I was a kid before wrestling, it was
the Simpsons. My mom was like, you guys, can't watch that,
and that was eat my shorts, you know, and bart
pulling his pants down shows.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
But little does she know that the Simpsons in this room.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
And that was the worst thing to parents in the nineties,
and they got a lot worse in the late nineties
and early two thousands, which was when wrestling was in
his heyday.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Which the rise of like MTV shows, yeah, TV reality shows.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Yeah, But that was the first time that I thought, dang,
they actually got me a little bit. But glad I
don't think that anymore. It did affect me too much.
But just to know that my little brain was taking
in these things and like, oh this is fun, push
her down. Oh my gosh. But what was your book
for the month of September.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
It is going to be Blue Sisters by Coco Mellers.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
It's a story, I say, Coco Mellon, I know it does.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Something that Coco Mellers.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
It's a story of four sisters, one of whom has
recently passed away, and it's just a story about how
they all deal differently with their grief and it is
like not wrapped up with pretty bow at the end.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I really loved her writing.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
I read a really interesting piece I think it was
in Cosmopolitan magazine that the author did and about how
getting sober like really improved her writing because she was
actually able to connect with her feelings more instead of
like hiding them with alcohol.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
And so it was a really really good book. I
loved it.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
And what was your job news?
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
I got a new job, very exciting, same company, just
a different role, like a new team. Very excited. I
don't really want to talk too much about it because
no one's really going to care because I do nerdy things.
But I did get a new job after job hunting
for quite some time, and I'm very proud of you.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
It's not like I'm hiding my job.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
I just like, yeah, we're not say like she works here,
here are work hours, this is when she has lunch.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
But I do get to go into the office one
day a week, which is gonna be so nice because
I can finally wear all those clothes I've been buying
for four years and have human interaction and stop speaking
to the Stray Cats, because I was losing my mind
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
We love our straight cats around here.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
We do love our street cuts.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Speaking to stray Cats. Gotta come back and give my
raw and spoiler free review of the Wild Robot because
there's animals in it. Not cats, but there's animals in it.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
It's an interesting tie in. But all right, it's a
segue around here, effort. I can't speak. Also, I would
like to say that you were like I started the
wrestling documentary before we were going to go out on
a Friday.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
We went to True Food at six pm.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Hey, that's going out and you're thirty.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
But you were like, before we went out on a Friday,
and I was like, what did we do that? I
was like, we went to True Food at six pm.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
We're about to hit the bars downtown and get in
some little wrestling.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
We are about to go to dinner at four forty
five pm.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Oh. I love a happy hour because it's happy hour,
and we love to save money because then we can
eat more for the same.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Price counted food. The one problem I have going out
to eat a restaurants that we experience is they're always
surprised when we eat all our food, Like, oh, you
really crushed that. Why do I go out to eat?
Speaker 3 (28:07):
We have gotten a lot of comments and I'm like,
I specifically gom hungry, Like.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Do you not want to sell food and have people
eat all of it? That means it's good.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Also, it's usually at like vegan places, and I'm like, yeah,
have made a plans. It takes seventeen dishes to fill
me up. I'm sorry that I needed twelve cauliflower wings.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Well, someone was hungry, really enjoyed that.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I do hate that comment.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Yeah, I'm like, don't judge me.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
That's why my generation had eating disorders because everyone was like, wow,
fourteen mini cookies, not speaking from experience, and I'm like, yes,
bring me more.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Yeah, I'm like mm, I'm like that was half price.
I'll take another one.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Hook it up.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
All right, I gotta go get ready for dinner.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
All right, we'll be back. Let's get into it now.
A spoiler free movie review of The Wild Robot. I've
been waiting to talk about this movie for a while.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
I'm recording this just a couple of days removed from
watching the movie. It's already at the box office. It
is from one of my favorite writer directors in animation.
Chris Sanders a friend of the podcast. If you're not
familiar with the work of Chris Sanders, all I need
to say is he is the creator and voice of
Stitch and Lee Loo and Stitch. That entire story came
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from his mind. So with just that movie alone, he
has cemented himself in the world of animation as being
one of the best to do it. Chris Sanders knows
how to evoke emotion and The Wild Robot is based
on a book series which is a trilogy. In this movie,
you have a character named Roz who is a robot
who gets shipwrecked on this island. You have these otters
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who discover this huge, big parcel that this robot was in.
They start messing with it and activate this robot. Roz
is programmed to finish and complete its task. It is
a helper robot, so anybody who needs help, they are
there to help and they're not gonna leave until you
are satisfied with your performance of your ro's robot. But
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crash lands on this planet and there's all these different
animals there, and Roz is just trying to find her purpose,
going up to different animals seeing who needs help, but
everybody rejects her because they think she is a monster.
They think she is there to kill them. Then she
stumbles upon this orphan baby gostling and suddenly this baby
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gosling becomes her new task. And what does she have
to do. She has to make sure that the gostling
is able to swim, is able to find food, and
is able to fly by the fall, so in turn
becoming the gosling's mother. And before I get into the
amazing voice acting all the emotion I felt in this movie,
let's start with the visual aspect. One of the most
visually stunning animated movies in the last five years. It
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is up there with the end of the Spider Verse
movies as far as making you feel like you were
watching a story book come to life. And I think
that's the animation I'm drawn to right now. It is
combining different animation styles to make something very bright and vibrant,
and much like the Spider Verse movies where they essentially
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made a comic book come to life, those first two
movies essentially look like you took the pages of a
comic book and pulled them right out and animated them.
Combined a lot of different animation styles to do that
that movie is on an entirely different level, on an
entirely different budget. Along those same lines, that's what The
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Wild Robot did. Took these almost watercolor illustrations from the
book and brought it to life in a breath taking way.
It's amazing lighting, amazing character design, and every single frame
in The Wild Robot. I could take a still from
and put it up on this wall because it looks
so beautiful. And I often think that the actual animation
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style in a kid's movie often gets like way down
on the equation. You think, let's just slap a bunch
of things together, the kids won't notice. This movie proves
to me that you can make a better animated movie
that kids are going to enjoy and they are going
to pay attention to. This movie looks absolutely stunning from
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beginning to end, and it's almost a little bit like
you have to wrap your head around the animation style
because it looks so unique. The movie feels so different,
but by the very end of it, you are completely
in that world, completely submersed, and very rarely in animated
movies do I not want them to end. And that
is really one of the only negative things I can
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say about this movie is I wish it would have
been longer, and I also loved how Raw's weathered as
the movie went along. Started out fresh out the box,
and throughout the movie gets a little bit more worn down.
You get all of the dirt on her, the moss
start to grow around her, and that really shows the
evolution of her character and all that she goes through
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and what the message of this movie is of how
an adopted parent, or even a single parent goes through
so much for their kids to succeed, in Roz's case,
literally putting herself on the brink of death in order
to have this baby Gossling live a better life. And
that brings me to my next and probably most important
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part of this movie is the emotional punch that this
movie packs. And from the very beginning of the movie,
I loved how it committed to teaching kids about death
and embracing what actually happens in nature, what actually happens
in the real world, because at the root of the story,
it's all about survival, sadness, and hope. There's some joy
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in there too, But it felt almost like, oh, they're
really going here, They're going to talk about how you
can die in the wild, how all these animals are
trying not to be eaten, and how the food chain works.
And that felt really refreshing to me in a kid's movie,
because I would say in the last five to six
animated movies that I've seen in theaters geared towards everything
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is always rooted in happiness. There is a little bit
of conflict and turmoil, but it's like you shave down
all of the edges so that nobody gets hurt. And
I can understand that, especially for younger kids, which there
were some younger kids in this audience, that maybe the
overall emotional level was maybe a little bit too advanced
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for them, because I think some kids go into an
animated movie probably three or four years old, maybe five
years old, and they just want to see colorful characters
doing fun things that they can laugh at and want
to watch over and over again. But then you have
kids who are a little bit older. I go back
to a time where I was taking in movies like
Toy Story The Lion King in the late nineties, where
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I was becoming more in tune with my emotions, and
movies for me were a source of information and a
source of me being able to learn lessons that my
parents could not teach me. Whenever it came to learning
about the more emotional things like death, love, things you
should probably be taught to by your parents, mine struggled
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a little bit sitting me down and talking about some
of those things. So I would go to movies to
be able to learn about these emotions and how to
process them. I go back to watching The Lion King
at four five six years old and learning about death.
I watch Toy Story, and I learned about the feeling
of being abandoned. And it's the power of filmmaking to
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make stories that are going to resonate with kids. Talking
twenty five years later, I'm sitting here still talking about
how those movies change my life. And I think that
is what The Wild Robot is going to be for kids.
You're going to remember this movie after seeing it in
theaters with your parents, and that is so important because
I often feel that an animation, especially right now. There
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was a trailer that played before The Wild Robot. I
won't say the name of the movie, I won't even
say the studio, but I will say it had a
voice cast with just a bunch of random celebrities. The
animation itself looked lifeless, and it looked like they just
dumped some money onto this movie without any real intention
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of making something that was going to resonate with kids.
They just want to cash in little cash grab. You
throw out this random animated movie, throw some celebrities in there,
have them do a couple of interviews about it, and
you maybe make a quick book. But a kid is
going to forget about that movie as soon as they
leave the theater. They're not gonna want to rewatch that movie.
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The Wild Robot is not that it is going to
stay in the minds of kids. They're gonna want to
watch this movie again. They're gonna want to see a sequel,
and hopefully, being that it is a trilogy, you have
the books to base it off of that it gets
an entire series of movies. The other thing I loved
about it is it had this very childlike sense of
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mystery that even me as an adult, was very enticed by.
Read the book going into this, so I didn't know
what was going to happen, but it was putting together
the pieces and for a movie geared towards kids, I
didn't find it to be that predictable, especially since it
was dealing with things like death and despair, that I
didn't know how everything was going to turn out because
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they don't really paint it in a certain way that
everything is going to play off nicely for every single character. Again,
won't spoil the end for you, but you find out
from the very beginning on how Ras even discovers bright
Bill knowing that probably anything can happen, and as soon
as she discovers the other fox of knowing like, hey,
death is right around the corner, you know that they're
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in the wild and all these elements are not being
straight away from Death is always just right there hanging
over your head, much like it is an adult life,
and that what we all worry about. But it's the
sense of mystery that for me, I put myself more
in the position of Ras of now, they have this
kid who is their responsibility, and they want to see
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them succeed. They are an adopted single parent just trying
to do the best for their kid and not really
having all the tools and not knowing how to process
emotions because they are a robot, but trying to dig
deep and feel something and It really made me think
about my mom and all the struggles she had to
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go through to make sure that me and my brother
and sister had what we needed. And this movie really
shines a light on the toll that raising kids has
on parents, how much it wears you down physically, how
much it wears you down mentally, and how it can
just drain you of everything. But just knowing that your
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kid can just have a maybe one percent chance at
making it a life makes it all worth it. So
it is a big commentary on motherhood and me not
being female. I totally grasp onto that and made me
want to call my mom immediately after leaving the theater
and thanking her for every single thing she had ever
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done for me. I think for a younger audience, they're
probably going to see themselves a little bit more as
bright Bill, because bright Bill is trying to navigate this
world that they don't fit in with because they have
a parent who is being described by the other people
on this desert island as a monster, and bright Bill
is raised in a way that's not very traditional. All
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the other geese find bright Bill to be an outcast,
a weirdo, and they beat them up for that. So
I think the younger audience is going to grasp onto that,
whether they feel like that or maybe they've been treating
a kid unfairly just for being different, which I hope
the movie benefits both sides. For those who are more
like bright Bill feel like, oh, that's somebody like me.
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I can identify with that, and somebody who identifies as
maybe one of the bullies, think maybe I should do that.
Maybe I don't know the entire story here and don't
know what they are going through, and maybe I should
be a little bit more conscious of learning about somebody
who doesn't look like me. And again, I don't want
to make it sound like this movie is completely depressing
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and you're gonna be crying the whole time. I just
want to put an emphasis on we shouldn't stray away
from exposing kids to sadness. It is a very real emotion,
and sadness isn't a bad thing to feel. You're supposed
to feel those emotions and learn how to process those emotions.
And I think if I learned that at a younger age,
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I probably wouldn't be in some of the positions I
am now where it is hard for me to speak
about the things going on inside here unless I'm talking
about it in a movie review. So I think that
is just the most polarizing feeling from the movie. But
there are a lot of fun moments and a lot
of sci fi as well. And I've said all these
great things about this movie without even talking talking about
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the amazing voice acting. Lupita Niago plays Roz, who does
a fantastic job of showing the evolution of the character,
going from being a factory set robot to a fully
fleshed out mom By the end of this movie. You
hear it in her voice that is top tier voice acting,
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much like you would if you were on screen the
entire time. Lupita Niago does that with her voice across
the board. To me, it felt like everybody really understood
the assignment, got into that vocal booth, really packed in
the emotion, and really had fun with the characters, whether
it was Pedro Pascal as Fink, Catherine O'Hara as the
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mom Possum, Mark Hamill as the Big Brown Bear, or
Ving Raims as Thunderbolt. What I really look for in
any movie, especially one with a lot of action and adventure,
even in animation. I always want to find that real
triumphant moment, that moment in a movie where I want
to stand up in my seat cheer and applaud, even
though that's not really me in a movie. I find
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clapping to be a little bit cheesy and a little
bit forced at times, But I want that feeling that
makes me feel excited that if I was a clapper
or a cheerer, that I would want to get up
out of my seat, that big excitement moment that makes
you think, yes, finally. I always look for that in movies.
Often find that a lot in superhero movies, not as
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much as of late, but this movie had that. There's
one moment in particular where Maren Morris wrote a song
specifically for this movie. When that song hits, I felt
something so warm take over my body and it felt
like in that moment, I was watching something truly special.
I got emotional, not in a way that I was
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going to cry because it was sad, but just because
I was overwhelmed with this happiness and feeling like, oh,
how could something that's just a bunch of frames and
moving pictures and actors voicing make me feel like this?
And that felt really special, and that is the power
of filmmaking, the power of animation, because if this was
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a live action movie, by no means would it have
the same effect. And that is why I'm such a
huge proponent of animation, because it could take your mind
to places that you never knew that were possible. And
the wild Robot, even though it's based on a book,
it isn't a huge ip. It's not like it's Willy
Wonka and the Chocolate Factory or Cat in the Hat.
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So it's also inspiring to me that a movie like
this that's not based on a toy or based on
something that everybody knows, that feels like a remake or
part of a franchise that's already established, can still exist,
come out be number one at the box office opening weekend,
and have not only people like me ranting and raving
about it, but it also connecting with the audience that
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it was intended for. When it comes to the score,
it is almost so close to being perfect. I've never
rated an animated movie a five out of five. I
take my ratings very very seriously, and even though I
love this movie with so much of my heart, I
still couldn't give it that perfect score. It is almost there,
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but it is a strong four point five out of
five goslings almost there at the five out of five,
and maybe upon that second or third rewatch for me,
or maybe if they do make that sequel, they do
make that part three, Part two, or maybe part three
could hit there at that five out of five for me.
So maybe I'm saying this in hopes that they do
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make more movies, build a nice little franchise before the
Wild Robot. I give it four point five out of five.
Speaker 4 (44:43):
It's time to head down to movie Mike Trey, Lark Paul.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
The best movies to me are ones that feel like
dreams come to life. I have some wild, reoccurring dreams
that I would love to see somebody take my ideas
from these dreams to turn him into a movie. And
I feel like if there was one director that could
do that, it would be Bong June Hoe, who is
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an incredibly creative and gifted director. And I feel like
he really got the appreciation for his work, obviously after
winning Best Director for Parasite. I think after he won
that dropped an amazing speech telling everybody not to be
afraid of subtitles. More people went back and started discovering
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his films and now he is ready to do it
again with a new movie called Mickey seventeen coming out
on January thirty first, twenty twenty five. It stars Robert
Pattinson who plays a character named Mickey Barnes. It is
a sci fi thriller with a little bit of comedy.
This trailer is very lighthearted, but Robert Pattinson plays Mickey.
His character signs up to be inexpendable and gets sent
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out on these dangerous missions on this ice planet where
the result of all these missions is him dying, and
through him dying, these scientists are able to learn a
lot about how to advance humans, and once one version
of them dies, they replace some Here attains a lot
of his memories and then things get crazy whenever it
looks like they throw him into a hole that incinerates him.
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But then he wakes up one day and realizes they
are now duplicates. He wakes up next to himself and
they have to decide what do they do with the duplicates.
So the reason it's called Mickey seventeen, it happens to
be the seventh time he is replicated. That's when things
go wrong. Joining Robert Pattinson in this cast is Stephen Yune,
Mark Ruffalo, Tony Collette. The movie sets out to answer
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the question what does it feel like to die? Before
I get into more about Mickey seventeen, here is a
little bit of the trailer. Nothing was working out and
I wanted to get off of Earth.
Speaker 2 (46:42):
You're planning to be inexpendable.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
Yeah, once you die, would print a new version of
your body.
Speaker 3 (46:47):
Every time you die, we learned something new, and humanity
moves forward.
Speaker 1 (46:52):
Oh he's lying, fine, biggie, it's not looking very good
for you. Yeah, I'm sure you're used to it by now,
But what's it feel like to die? Even on my
seventeenth go round?
Speaker 4 (47:06):
I hate dying.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
I first talked about this movie back when I did
my episode at the start of the year of my
most anticipated movies of the year, back when it was
set to come out this year and now has been
pushed to the beginning of next year, which I'm okay with.
I thought it was going to have a more dramatic
sci fi feel, but instead it looks like we're getting
a sci fi comedy, which is unique, which is fresh,
and I definitely think the song by Dean Martin. Ain't
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that a kick in the head used in this trailer
really gives you a much different feeling, but not only
shows you the importance of music in movies but also
in trailers, because that sets the tone for me of
what to expect going into this film. And I have
to say, Robert Pattinson is not only the king of genres,
he is also the king of accents, because if you
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just played that audio, you have no idea that is
Robert Pattinson. You coulda pick him out of a lineup
if I told you just by playing that audio. There's
an a list actor in this role. You can never
guess it. And he's been doing this now for a
long time, not only altering the way that he looks
in different costumes and taking on these entirely different personalities,
which is what acting is. But sometimes I feel actors
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get comfortable in doing what they do best and continuing
to give audiences more of that, and sometimes they dip
into a little bit more dramatic things, but rarely show
you so many different looks, so many different accents, like
Robert Pattinson has done in his career. And it's still
wild to me that people still associate him with Edward
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from Twilight because he's come so far since then. I
think it's because how massive that movie was. It was huge,
it was everywhere, it was worldwide. It is very rare
for an actor to get a legacy film like that,
to the point that if he didn't do any other
movie beyond Twilight, he could still be in the minds
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of people for years to come because of how important
that movie was to pop culture. But since then, I
feel he has stepped a little bit away from being
in those big blockbuster movies. He still does them, but
I feel like he has become very passionate about doing
unique movies like this that really challenge him as an actor.
In just the last five years, he has done everything
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from movies like Devil All the Time to The Batman
and now a sci fi comedy like this. He's even
done animated movies. So here's a little clip of all
the different accents that he has done over the years.
What's you sure have absolutely no function whatsoever. It's pathetic
and I see plenty of meat, red meat laid out
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on this tape. What's happened has happened, which is an
expression of faith in the mechanics of the world.
Speaker 3 (49:41):
I want to know she is, what she has to
do with this murder.
Speaker 1 (49:43):
Don't let me hurt you, of course I can't. But
your mother is not dead. Stop flopping, be old. So
with Robert Pattinson alone in the cast, this was going
to be a go to movie for me. But then
you have director Bom Juho, who creates these cinematic experiences
that you have to go experience in theaters. And that
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is how I feel after watching this trailer. It is
meant to be seen on the big screen. There is
spectacle here, and this is the fun I like. And
I got a little bit of heat last week talking
about Red One and how much I hated that trailer
and how I was kind of being a hater all
over that episode last week. And I'm always open to criticism.
People felt that I was a little bit too hard
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of that trailer and missed out that it's just supposed
to be holiday fun. And I'm not blind to the
idea that some movies are just supposed to be fun
movies for the sake of enjoyment, popcorn movies. I'm all
for those movies, but sometimes I feel that fun is
passed off on the filmmakers being lazy. How can we
make this movie just be like, oh, it's just supposed
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to be fun as a way to say, ah, we
just didn't really care too much about the process of
this movie, the actual filmmaking. Let's just say it's a
movie where you're supposed to have fun. You're supposed to
be ignore the bad cgi, you're supposed to ignore the
bad acting because it is fun. And this is coming
from somebody who loves the Fast and the Furious movies
because those are big, dumb fun, but they lean into it.
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So there are some exceptions to the rule. But there
are also movies now like this Mickey seventeen, which it
is that same kind of fun. It's Robert Pattinson, how
you maybe really haven't seen them in a very lighthearted way,
playing kind of a kooky character. You could hear it
in his voice there. You can see it in his
performance if you go watch the trailer. So this movie
shows you you can still have fun but also make
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something fun and unique and original. So fun doesn't always
have to be this is the best we can do.
Don't think too much about it. Well, I wouldn't think
too much about it if I'm not spending my time
and my money on this. So I think when you
are providing audiences with quote unquote fun, you have to
be sure that you are also providing them with fun
that is worth paying for. And I think that's what
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Mickey seventeen is going to be. And this trailer just
really sets you up to go on that him discovering
the duplicate, the fallout that comes with that. It looks
like some people are upset. You see other duplicate, sometimes
triplets and beyond. So I think there's gonna be a
moral dilemma on how to get rid of these people.
But it looks great to me so far. I wonder
where it's going to rank on my favorite Bangju home films.
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I would say number one easily has to be Parasite.
That movie has great rewatchability, was a really impactful movie
going experience for me. Was also one that completely shattered
the way I feel about foreign films and having to
read subtitles. I would say number two has to be
snow Piercer with Chris Evans. The entire world that is
created in that movie is fantastic, A great mix of
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awesome performances. From actors, but also a lot of really
good intense action. And number three would have to be
Oak Joke, which has a lot more fantasy, unique animals,
unique premise. You see little glimpses of that movie. I
feel in the trailer for Mickey seventeen, So I feel
like this movie is going to be kind of a
culmination and picking all of bangju homes signature movie making
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aspects from all of his films horror, sci fi, comedy, drama.
I think this one will have it all again. It
is coming out next year in theaters on January thirty first,
And for those who still haven't given Robert Pattinson a
chance since Twilight, maybe this is your next opportunity. At
that p was this week's edition of Movie by Frame
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or Park and that is gonna do it for another
episode here of the podcast. And like I was saying before,
I always get pretty passionate. Either way, I'm either all
about a movie or I'm all about hating a movie.
And that is the pleasure I find in watching movies.
I want movies to evoke a reaction in me. Either way.
When a movie is just mid I think what to
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waste the time? Because you gave me something that isn't
even worth talking about. I would rather you put out
a terrible movie that I want to rip to shreds
than a movie that I just watch and think, eh,
that was all right. No real standouts, and I know
I could probably be annoying. You're not supposed to agree
with everything I say in this podcast, but just know
it is my true emotion, my true feelings, without any influence,
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so you're always getting the real deal here. If you
don't agree with me, I welcome you to share your
opinion hit me up on any platform because that is
what makes doing this podcast fun. But before I go,
I got to give my listeners shout out of the week.
We had a secret emoji last week with the Nightmare
on Elm Street interview. So much great response from that.
Appreciate everybody for checking out that episode. Went through all
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the Facebook and YouTube and Twitter and TikTok comments to
find this week's listener shout out of the week that
use that emoji, and it is going to Lori Weber,
who commented with the skull emoji and said, awesome interview.
I loved how you use numbers to facilitate the questions.
Great job. Thank you, Lori. I had to really think
about how to approach that interview because I imagine after
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forty years of talking about a nightmare on Elm Street,
they have probably heard every single question and probably at
that point where they are sick of talking of the
same story again and again. So I thought if I
could just approach it with a different angle, it would
make it more enjoyable for them. But they were great together.
If you missed that interview, just go back one in
the feed and check that out. And if you still
want to comment on those clips on social media, maybe
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I'll still pull a listener shout out of the Week
from a comment over there. But until next time, go
out and watch good movies and I will talk to
you later.
Host
Mike D
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