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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie Podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike, joined by my wife and
co host Kelsey. How are you good?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I think feel like I have a multi vitamin stuck
in my throat. No, thank you, good Burpio. Well it's
either that or I got a nice latan. I get
cinnamon in them, and I think the barista heard like
cinnamon challenge, so I think I'm just drinking straight cloves
of cinnamon. Through this.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
We are here to talk about a very specific topic,
movies that can only be watched on a two thousand
and four Chevrolet Tahos built in DVD player.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Very passionate.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
It is the longest episode title we have ever dove into.
But somebody posted this on x and even though it's
so specific, we all know exactly what that means. If
you grew up in the two thousands, I guess I
also you didn't have a built in Oh we'll get
into that. We'll get into that. In the movie review,
we'll be talking about Paul Thomas Anderson's one Battle after
(00:52):
Another was it worth the almost three hour runtime? And
in the trailer park we will be talking about Mandalorian
and grogu. Is it gonna be anything different than the
TV show or is it just Disney trying to cash
in on another Disney Plus show turned to movie, which
they do. But thank you for being here, Thank you
for being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew.
(01:15):
And now let's talk movies from the Nashville Podcast Network.
This is Movie Mike Movie Podcast. All right. The topic
is movies that can only be watched on a two
thousand and four Chevrolet Tahos built in DVD player. What
were you saying earlier?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I said, I didn't think that you had a built
in DVD player.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
We did not have a DVD player. I was envious
to those people because it looks so cool. I remember
driving on the highway and seeing other people watch movies
and I'm like, man, they're living in the future.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
We got one when my younger brother was born, the
middle brother, two thousand and six, two thousand and seven.
It was a Ford expedition. I'd had like a portable
DVD player as a kid that I watched. But yeah,
the age of a build in in the car, it's
a younger brother.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
That it's long gone now though, because it's all phones
I've maybe seen some minivans now that still have built
in screens, but it's a very two thousands thing.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Listen. I don't hate the luxuries of a minivan. I
don't think I ever want to drive a minivan, but
I don't hate the luxuries.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I think I have something selected on my Uber whenever
we request the ride that we need a bigger vehicle
like Uber Excel. We always get a mini ban A
lot of time in New York, though we get a minivan.
I don't mind it clutch in.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
New York because you don't have time to open a door,
and you can't open a door into the street or
you're gonna get taken out. So the minivan, it just
pulls up. They just slide it open and off you go.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
It's comfortable. If you were to watch a movie in there,
I think it's it feels like you're in a little movie.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Here's in the captain's chairs in the second row.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I don't hate it.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I don't hate I don't hate being in one, but
I want to drive one.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
No.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, so we never had the built in DVD player,
but we had I had, like what you were describing,
the small DVD player that was portable, which I think
in the early two thousands those became.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Really popular and they'd skipped like a CD.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Oh Man and I had like the bare minimum one
that you could get from Walmart. It wasn't even it
wasn't a Sony, it wasn't a Phillips. It was some
weird brand that probably existed. It was just it was soorny,
I think. But the thing I hated about it is
the battery life on it was terrible. Yeah, the actual
(03:26):
appeal of the portable DVD player was that you could
watch it anywhere. But I think for maybe a solid
maybe month, the battery was good that you could watch
it for the actual runtime of a movie. But after
a while it became something that I could only watch
if I had it plugged in. So we would take
it on road trips to Mexico, which that's a sixteen
(03:47):
hour road trip. I could probably watch two movies before
it died, But that's tragic. That is my experience with
portable movies that I'm going to get into my list later.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
But I'll be curious to see if any of the
ones that my little brother loved are on this this
I was ten in two thousand and four.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
In two thousand and four I was thirteen.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, so then like two I feel like two thousand
and four to like two thousand and eight, we're like
peak car movie years.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
It was peaked DBD years, where that doesn't really happen anymore.
And I think, what we're going to see on this list,
it's going to be a movie that couldn't be made
today because a lot of these were movies that whenever
they came out in theaters, probably weren't the best received
whenever it comes to critics scores, whenever it comes to
box office performance. But a lot of these movies made
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their money not from opening weekend or its theatrical run.
It was the DVD sales. Because that is something that
doesn't exist anymore. Because the movie comes out now in theaters,
it doesn't make money, really can't recoup it when it
goes to streaming. But back then there was so much
money in the physical media sales, and we don't have
that anymore. So I think that is something that we're
(04:57):
going to see here, how a movie can become a
cold hit through kind of a delayed people discovering it,
which now the delayed is people discovering it on streaming,
but now there's just no money in it. But let's
get into this list now, all right. The first one
that comes up on the thread is The Pacifier with
Ben Diesel. This is a perfect example of a movie
(05:19):
that cannot be made today.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Listen kind of loved that movie.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
There's an entire genre of these type of movies with.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Diesel, don't they hate each other? They hate each other
and then yeah, because then the rock was in like
the Tooth Fairy exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
So there is this entire and it's specifically kids movies
that we don't really get like this anymore. And I
feel really bad for anybody growing up now that won't
experience this type of family friendly, not too serious, but
just something that's so nostalgic that I don't think we're
really having it anymore because it's not really profitable like
(05:57):
it used to be. So I think this entire list,
we're gonna see these type of I don't want to
call them bless movies, but just movies that, how dare
you can only appreciate if you were the key demographic
when they came out and you associate really great memories
with because of them just being something that you would
watch in the backseat of a head rest, but the
(06:18):
pacifier is first up on the list. Next up is
over the Hedge from DreamWorks.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Oh my god, this was literally my little brother's car movie.
Great film, honestly kind of hilarious, which the cover does
say a laugh out loud funny. I will concur I
need to go back and rewatch it.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
It is so dumb funny. From the same people who
brought you Shrek. This is like just peak two thousands
to me. Love this movie. An animated movie about animals
that is so ridiculous like this. I remember the trailer
being everywhere when this movie came out. This movie says
to me, you're gonna go to Walmart and see this
on the shelves and want to buy it.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Walmart had a great five dollars DVD bin.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Oh that was my I love the five dollars DVD bin.
When you would just go in, you would scan the
things at the top and I would just like to
grab my hand and like dig all the way to
the bottom just to see what would come out. Next
up on the list, are we there yet? With ice Cube?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Incredible.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
It's also like a road trip movie while you're planning
a road trip. See, this is the movie that ice
Cube needs to go back to doing, like the Family
Friendly ice Cube, which I think it kind of got
away from a little bit because.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
They do a sequel. Are we done yet? Not as good? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
They did it. I guess he did a run to
a family friendly films. Maybe he kind of burn out
on doing those type of movies. But anything is better
than War of the World. Yeah, are we there yet
as a good one? What about the game plan?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
That's the rock? That's the other one I was thinking
of too, the game plan Tooth Fairy?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Did I make better? He did do the Tooth Fairy yet?
Well that could be further down on the left with
the gameplay. If we're looking at the posters here, it's
basically the same poster as the pacifier it is. It's
the exact same thing, and that just feels like the
two thousands to me. It's a white, just plain background.
You have the lead and then you have the kid.
It looks nostalgic to me, and that's look nostalgic And
(08:04):
how we gotten so far away from We can't even
do simple movie poster designs like this anymore. Everything is
floating heads. Everything just looks like everything's made in Cambo. Yeah,
we're even just something simple like this that looks like
you could go to the movies and see it outside
and be enticed to go watch that. You would see
this poster and want to see it again, exactly. I
am all about this with the dog at the bottom
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and then you have the tag on you half his
size twice the trouble and that's the same girl now
who was just in the wrong Paris. I was gonna
say that you took my fount Well you can take
it away. No, that's fine. Yeah. Whenever we watched that,
I was like, I'm pretty sure I recognize that kid
from something. Yeah, she was a child actress. To come
out like that's so wild that twenty years ago was
(08:48):
two thousand and five, Like that feels weird. That makes
me feel more because a lot of those movies still
feel relevant to me. And to think that a kid
in high school now that feels like maybe even not
even high school, like people in their twenties, that to
them is movies to us that came out in the eighties,
which felt ancient to us. That is that's I'm gonna
keep going.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Well, It's also like we're in the time where there's
like a renaissance of people who were famous in our youth,
like Hillary Duff's making new music, Lindsay lohands back, and
I'm like, how are we already on the second run
of some of these people?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
We're in the comeback era. You know what I saw
the other day that also made me feel old? What
it was like?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It said, No, Dancing with the Stars isn't cool again,
You're just now the target demograph fit?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Is that true? Because we've been watching that every week now,
which I think we.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Had like a little I mean, after Bobby did it
and you like lived it, I feel like we were
a little like I can't do Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I never watched it until I experienced it live. Never
I never watched it until he was on it. Never
saw a single episode. I had no idea how the
show really worked up until that season. I didn't know
anything about Dancing with the Stars lore And then I
went from knowing nothing about the show to going to
every single taping what was live wasn't a taping, every
single taping of every single episode for season twenty seven,
(10:09):
And now I think when I watch it. It's kind
of like reminiscing on a weird part of my life
where I was in the audience and I know how
everything works. It just reminds me of like getting there
super early, going through security.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
We were long distance then, so like i'd call you
while you were I was walking to my car after works.
It was like five o'clock my time, and because they
would be getting to the studio, it was weird.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I started to know the security people there. Everybody was
nice to me. I look forward to finding out where
they were going to see this because they always see
all the contestants, family and friends and like this all together.
So I was always with people that I knew. And
then it was cool getting like tagged on social media
like I see on TV.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
It was a very weird time. We had just started
dating that year, and then I'd be like, well, there's
my boyfriend in the audience of Dancing with the Stars.
I tried telling someone the other day and I was like,
this is about to be the most unrelatable star I
have ever told. But yeah, now apparently we're just the
target demograph. Yeah, because we're seated every week. I am
here for it.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I guess we're just the key demographic now.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
And then Robert Irwin, although everyone was I guess he
said something in his like what's it called the packet
or whatever they show before the package package, and I
guess he was like, I wasn't alive in two thousand
and everyone was.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Like, oh, oh yeah. It's interesting. How that show works
is basically they set up each dance while those are running,
so not only is it for the TV show, it's
also for the stage to be able to move all
those pieces. It was cool seeing how fast they could
move that because they have like I think those things
are like maybe a minute, maybe ninety seconds, and that
(11:47):
entire ninety second is spent just getting everything on stage
as they need, getting people out of the way, and
getting the couple set, and then as soon as they
are done and they move over to where they accept
their scores, they get everything out of the way. So
that was always really cool to see how fast they
could do that.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
All right back to the top of it, hands all right, distracted.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Next on the list, Daddy Daycare. Another funny one Eddie
Murphy in a family comedy is something he needs to
go back to as well.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Put him an ice cube in a family comedy, put
them together. This was like the grown Ups Sarah too.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Yeah, that was also that time.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
It's like grown ups Daddy Daycare. Yeah, all of those
like kind of slapstick comedies.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Also on the list The Haunted Mansion with Eddie Murphy
another good one. I wasn't as into this one. I
loved it. You don't really like Halloween movies though.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah, but I liked the Honed Mansion. It was a
Disney movie.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, it's not scary. That's a that's a ride correct
at Disney. Never been to Disney. We know you go
over this time unaccompanied minors man. Not the greatest, yeah
that I remember this one. Not one that I have
really great memories of snow Dogs with Cuba Gooding Junior excellent.
(12:56):
That is a classic that feels like a two thousand
and four Chevy ride like Mike.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Also great.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
What about Cheaper by the Dozen two? Not as funny
as the first one. Yeah, I'm more of a Cheaper
by the Dozen, but because of you, I love Cheaper
by the Dozen one. I think that whenever this one
came out, it was probably more in the prime time
for a DVD.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah. It also I feel like that's when sequels for
direct to DVD.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yeah, the direct to DVD sequel that just wasn't as good.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
It was like the sequel to DVD pipeline.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Next up Agent Cody Banks with Frankie Munaz and Hillary Duff.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
This era was Hillary Duff's time to shine.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Remember how cool all these people were to us? Yeah,
she's still cool to me, but I mean, like these
people were so unattainable to us as kids, and people
now don't have that, they don't struggle with that. That's
a good point because to me, Frankie Munaz was like
the biggest thing on the planet because the movies like
this because of Malcolm in the Middle, but you could
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only seen them in this movie.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Or if they were on the cover of like J fourteen,
and that was it.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Oh, that was a good magazine. I remember J fourteen
mainly because Tiger Beat. Yeah, because some of the two
thousands bands I was into kind of crossed over into
like big pop culture. So I remember, like I wanted
to see like a blank Naty two article and they
just happened to be in J fourteen.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I was just a basic beast, so I was reading
those all the time. Oh my God, these.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Two Alvin and the Chipmunks and Happy Feet.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Oh my gosh, similar to Over the Hedge. Happy few
More was my youngest brother because he had an obsession
with penguins as a child, and then they both like
Dovin and the Chipmunks.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I remember finding Alvin in the Chipmunks really annoying, but
I love the movie Alvin Simon. I think it was
because of how popular the movie got.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yeah, it did get really popular.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
And they did the Squeak Wool and then it was
just the constant and perioding of all the songs that
just became. I was two into Alvin and the Chipmunk's
mania that it got a little like I'm so sick
of them.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Jesse McCartney was one of the Chipmunks.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
He was who are the other was? Weren't they all somebody?
Let's see that.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Well, of course they were all someone, but.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Like all somebody famous because Jason Lee was the human
in it. Yeah, Justin Long was Alvin.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
M and then Matthew Grey Goodblur from Criminal Minds he
was Simon, and then Jesse McCarney was Theodore.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I know they're all somebody, but I meant you said
it weren't.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
They all someone Sometimes.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
They just get voice actors and it's like they do
a really good job, but you don't really know who
the name is. I meant that they are all somebody
that we would know because they're actors.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I walk around sometimes still singing that one part of
Happy Feet that they when they did the don't push me,
I am close to the little penguin does it close
to the edge? You trying not to lose my cool?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Times were just better whenever Happy Feet was real kicking
and screaming with Farrell. I feel like this was the
start of his downturn a little bit. Yeah, because when
whenever he started doing the family friendly comedy.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Recession Indicator, Yeah, I feel like he.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Was just trying to cash a check at this point
where I wasn't the key demographic when this movie came out,
I was like getting the teen era now. So whenever
I saw Will Ferrell starting to do movies like this,
I'm like, ah, I don't want him in that. I
want him in old school r V.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
You know who loves this movie?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Who? It's a family member of mine? Can you guess people?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Because of the r V.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
People loves somebody loves this movie. We have to watch
it at Christmas.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Whenever I was looking through this list, I'm like, something
sticks out to me about r V and it's not
the part that I remember watching it.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
He loves this movie.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
It is a great film. He really likes when they
have to empty the septic tank.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeah, that he thinks that part's pretty funny. I mean
that part was in the trailer. That part sold me.
And the next block we have Madagascar to escape after
escape to Africa. Ah, I see what they did there.
I don't really remember this one. I was never big
escape Africa. To escape to Africa, I found Madagascar movies
really annoying when never the moment movie thing. I couldn't
(17:15):
stand Madagascar. I was more of a dislander when it
came to DreamWorks movie. I even had to come around
to Shrek a little bit because it was so what
I was talking about earlier. There was so much Shrek
everywhere that it became annoying.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I feel like DreamWorks movies were really annoying but really effective,
Like they know how to make a kid addicted to something.
So it was those little music moments that just really
annoyed me. So I was never big on Madagascar The Penguins.
I never really found that funny. I wasn't a big
DreamWorks kid again the Penguins.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
My little brother went through penguin obsession. There's the tooth
fair Fair.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I knew it right there at the bottom. A great
family comedy.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
You don't get endorsements like that anymore.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
That is my dream to be a quote like that
on a movie poster. But I don't say things like that.
You don't. I would never just call something a great
family comedy.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
And I also don't feel like that sells the movie.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
It really does. And that is my problem with these
quotes is whenever you see this, it's something so generic,
like astonishing, and it's somebody from like the Times breathtaking.
I wouldn't feel comfortable reviewing a movie like that with
something so generic like a bold vision, and that's what
they want. And if I see that on a poster,
it's not going to maybe want to go see that movie.
(18:30):
I like to say things that are so oddly specific
to my experience watching that movie. So maybe my takes
on even like a simplified take, would not fit well
on a poster because they don't like to use butt drenching,
which I feel as a movie that induces anxiety. That's
my favorite way to describe a movie. Excuse me, what
butt drenching? Butt drenching because you get so anxious from
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it that you start to sweat in your seat at
the movies, and therefore it is a butt drenching movie
because by the end of it, your butt is drenched
and sweat. Okay, next week, but that's why I will
never be on a boaster.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Kangaroo Jack. Little brother left this one also for everyone.
I really do have little brothers and they really did
love these movies. It's not just me, I promise ye,
little brother love this. We have a twelve and sixteen
year age gap. So yeah, I did love these as
like a twelve and sixteen year old, but my little
brothers were watching them.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Kangaroo Jack was a little bit of a bait and
switch where kangaroo Jack really wasn't in kangaroo Jack that much. Yeah,
like this easily could have been like a rated R
adult movie.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I don't know what the poster gets me.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Grown ups.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
There we go.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I told you you knew grown up to be on
this list. I was kind of a Light a late
adapter to the Grown Ups franchise.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
We watched it again during the pandemic.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
And it maybe that was just a dark time where
I needed something stupid and funny. But I finally came
around to Grown Ups. I think it was because, like
I was mentioning with Will Ferrell earlier, I felt like
the Grown Ups franchise were a little bit of the
downfall of Adam Sandler making really really low brown movies
that where he got into like don't mess with his
O hand territory.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
That was bad.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
But the first Grown Ups is great, Like you still
kind of have to be in that mentality of Okay,
it's not gonna be the Adam Sandler I grew up with.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
It's so funny, though, but if you're.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Able to turn your brain off and you need a
movie that is something that will please the whole family,
which is hard to do, which is what Adam Sandler
does really well. Grown Ups is where it's at kind
of want to rewatch it. There's the three, right or
the just two?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
I think it's just two. Okay, if they stopped after two.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
They should make another one because it's really just an
excuse for Adam Sandler to go out to an island
or somewhere be like Happy Gil morning. It would just
be a bunch of ads, a bunch of cameos. Yeah, yeah,
I think we're good with two The Spy next Door
with Jackie chan I don't really remember this one. No,
this was probably when I saw the trailer two and
never saw it in theaters. Undercover Brother, that's a classic,
(20:51):
although I don't really feel like that fits.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
The I'm like, that's not a watch in the back
of your mom's car.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yeah, this is.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Some of these are getting a little too.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Like, yeah, because this isn't a kid's movie at all.
Spy Kids, Now, that's a kid's movie. Robert Rodriguez, like
that is just that is peak.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
It's an Austin, Texas institution there.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
If you look back at the CG. I though, on
the Spy Kids movies, it's crazy to think as kids
how high tech we thought these movies were. The now
mimable moment whenever he hits like the the glasses that
like zoom in, those green glasses that like another one
keeps it appearing. That was so cool to us as kids.
And if you go back and watch the CGI, you're like, man,
(21:32):
Shark Boy and Lava Girl look pretty bad, and it
was later.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
To think that a Junie is married to Mecan trainer. Oh,
a child looks just like him.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
And the Spy kids. We also have Finding Nemo, which
I think not only was that a backseat DVD player movie,
that was just an everywhere movie that was a watch
in school movie. I associate that a lot with movies
we'd watch in school. I think this whole slide right
here is movies I associate with watching in school. Stuart
Little Yes with Jonathan Lipniki class, and that's one that
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it wasn't a movie we would watch for educational purposes.
It was a reward day movie.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Do you ever look back now, I don't know if
I've said this before. Do you ever wonder if those
days your teacher put on a movie, if they were
like hungover.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I never thought about that until right now, because now
we are at the age of seeing your.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Teachers ever went to a happy hour and had a
little too much fun and had to teach the next day.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
I think that could have been a thing because we
were in elementary school in the two thousands, yeah, where
that was probably a little bit more acceptable wouldn't happen
now if somebody came in hungover.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Doesn't remind me of faite movie is bad teacher.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yeah, But thinking about that now, that could quite honestly
be the reason that our teachers would roll out that
big cart and turn down the light and they would
just be at their desk grading papers or working on
some lesson planned. And we're here watching Stuart Little and
finding Nemo for no apparent reason, because there's no work
it there's nothing.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
They weren't like historical, they weren't like English.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
We weren't taking notes.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
There was a test off snow arithmetic. If you're a teacher,
you don't have to say if you've done it, but
if you could let us know, confirm or deny, yeah,
I'm curious.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Just throw like the shades emoji in like comments yes.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yes, and yeah, and just let us know.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Just throw the shop admit to it, even if you're
especially if you're like not a teacher anymore. Like Statue
of libert limitations say libertations, Statue of liberty, Statue of liberty,
you could say it after ten years according to the
Statue of Liberty.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Is the Statue of liberty.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Emoji I don't know, because.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
If that that's what I want people to put.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
There is a statue of liberty.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Okay, if you or someone you know rolled in the
television because you were a little too hungover, please leave
a statue of liberty emoji.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Statue of Liberty says ten years Big Fat Liar Apology.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Recently rewatched this. I did.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
It's because whenever we watched a hold of I was like,
maybe against maybe I was unfair in my hatred towards
Paul Giamatti because I've been a long Paul Giamati hater
because whenever Sideways came out, I remember him doing an
interview where he started to get annoyed by people giving
him or low, which was a big thing in that movie,
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and he's like, everybody does it, and I think they
they're the first one to do it, and he gets so
annoyed by it, and me, I saw that as him
being ungrateful for his fame because it just.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Feels like an easy, like stick for the movie.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
And it's like, dude, you were in a movie where
that was your thing. You just got free wine to
have somebody who just wanted to do something nice and
knows your work and is a fan of your work
that you got so annoyed by that, which I could
get that if somebody has something that they're known for,
they start to get just inundated with it, Like I
think Jason Biggs from American Pie. Anytime there's pie around,
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like people are gonna point it out to him. But
I think to have a role like that that is
so impactful, you got to embrace it. And to see
him just being kind of annoying about the way he
handled it, I always hated him for that.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
It's giving Jacob Lordi in the Kissing Booth. Yeah again,
Like I get that it could be annoying, Suck it
up and smile. It probably bought you some nice things
in life.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
It really did. And I think anything you do that
is public facing you have to embrace it, and the
minute you start being annoyed by it, maybe it's time
not to do it anymore.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah, it's a good point.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
We'll wrap up with some here. I also have some
of my own, because I think we're start seeing some
repeats on this list. Taxi with Queen Latifa and Jimmy Fallon. Again,
this doesn't feel like Yeah, I think we're getting towards here.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I think people just started putting in their favorite movie
from the two thousands.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Yeah. I came up with my list of not movies
that I watched on the Tahoe DVD player because we
didn't have one. I have movies that I watched on
portable DVD player that we got from the bootleg flea
market in Mexico, because that is what I associate with
this time period where we would go to Mexico everyday
Christmas and there was something called the tan Geese, which
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is essentially like a flea market in Mexico, and it
only happened on Thursdays, and we would go and they
would sell bootleg DVDs. But these were movies that we got.
I think most of most all of them were in Spanish,
so they were movies that I watched for the first
time in Spanish on a small DVD player.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
So was this someone recording on their handheld camcorder in
the theater and then they put it on a.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
DV Glad you asked that question. Sometimes yes it was,
and you would hear people coughing, you would see it
shake a little bit. Some of them were actual movie files,
but they were still in Spanish. Okay, so it depended
you didn't know, because you would just get you would
just get the DVD.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Kind of feels like a blind box.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Yeah, kind of like a blind box. You don't know
what experience you're about to walk into, because you would
either buy it in a case where they just printed
it on just the standard computer printer and like slid
it in there, or it would just be the actual
disc with like a label printed on it, and that
it was just the risk you were running.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
I feel like we have to start with the one
your mom feels the most guilty about having the bootleg
copy of.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
First up on my list The Passion of the Christ,
which I watched for the first time on a bootleg
DVD on a portable DVD player in Mexico in Spanish.
In Spanish. I think this one was one where somebody
went in with a video camera because I remember it
being not completely centered and at times it would like
move a little bit and you see the seats. But
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we watched the entire thing on this DVD player, and
my mom felt bad about it. She was like, I
don't know I feel about watching a story about Jesus
on a bootleg DVD that we probably paid the equivalent
of like two American dollars.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
For I mean the money. Also, like, wasn't going to
a church you think about it, it was going to Hollywood. Yeah,
So I actually don't know if the guilt there was warranted.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
But this is the only time I've watched this movie,
so I remember enjoying it. I remember the ending, even
though I knew how it was going to end spoiler alert.
But I remember it really affecting me because I was like,
man to see it.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Oh, I think everyone, I think, and to be a
kid when it came out. Yeah, reading and seeing.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I mean it's rated R. So the brutality of it
was something that I wasn't expecting. And I think that's
also something that affected my mom a little bit. That
scene was just hard for her to watch. And then
the whole dilemma of the way we got this DVD.
I think she was just like, I can't watch this
movie anymore. But that is to me peak watching things
on a portable DVD player. I also have Supersized Me,
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which was the documentary about Morgan Spurlock eating McDonald's for
every single meal for a period of time, and what
we found out later was that he was also battling
alcoholism during this so a lot of the effects that
he attributed to him eating McDonald's all the time from
the weight gain him barfing, was not just the food
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he was eating, but also the fact that he was
drinking and not really showing the audience that. So that's
a weird one to look back on and remember.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
How but also don't eat fast footed for every yeah,
every day.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
But it was one that I look back on now, like, man,
it just doesn't feel like a valid movie anymore because
there were some things going on behind the scenes. So
but rip to him. We also have Spider Man two,
which we actually just went this past weekend to go
see in theaters. We saw two point one. That one
I watched for the first time in Spanish. But I
think this one, no, this one was also one that
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they recorded handheld, because I remember, I think there's a
scene that was missing whenever I think doc owc first
goes to attack people missing they went to the bath
and I remember not seeing that until later until I
actually watched it on a real DVD. And I'll say, man,
I miss like a whole ten minutes of this movie
because a.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Guy film and it had to go pee, he had
to get snacks.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
But I also didn't fully understand all the dialogue in
Spanish when I watched this one, so whenever I watched
it again in English, it was kind of like watching
it for the first time. And you've since watched it
seven every single every single time that I don't have
I have anything to watch, I'm always itching to go
watch the Spider Man movies.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
It made me buy tickets like minute anallence, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I was like, I gotta go see it. With New
Footage two point one Gothica, which was a movie with
Halle Berry. Oh that one which was really weird, and
I think that was one that was an actual rip
of the file. But that just wasn't really a good movie.
But I just remember watching that on that DVD player
and then that's pretty much my entire list mine.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
We're all in the in the Twitter list.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
What a good time two thousand and four.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Thanks for simpler, but that is the list.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
I'll come back and I give my spoiler free review
of One Battle after Another. Let's get into it now.
A spoiler free movie review of One Battle after Another
starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Anicio del Toro, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
The movie is about a character named Bob who was
an American revolutionary. Takes place at the beginning of the
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movie in what could some describe as his glory days
of being a revolutionary, fighting back against the government, trying
to liberate some people, blowing things up, and then it
kind of jump cuts to about him fifteen years later,
has a daughter now is trying to maintain a normal
family dynamic. But then a member from his past played
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by Sean Penn, who is the bad guy in this movie,
creeps back into his life, and suddenly he goes from
being kind of a burnt out nobody who just gets
stoned all the time, reminiscing on his days as a revolutionary,
suddenly he is back in it. All of his old
friends come back together in order to save each other,
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keep each other from being in some cases taken out,
in some cases captured. Leonardo DiCaprio on the run the
entire time, and that's what makes this movie exciting. Paul
Thomas Anderson really hasn't done an action movie like this.
He's done really big epic movies like There Will Be Blood.
He's done comedy movies like Liquorage Pizza. Back in the day,
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was known for movies like Boogie Nights, but this is
his first time really stepping into what I feel is
his most commercial film. So going into any Paul Thomas
Anderson movie, my question is is it going to warrant
the runtime? And I feel like that is a slap
of the face to him as a visionary that us
as audiences now we think about those types of things
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because we think about how is this going to fit
into my day? And maybe just because I'm in my
thirties now and I'm like, man, if I go watch
three hour movie, It's going to take out my entire
Friday night. And as soon as this movie started, all
of those concerns went way out the window. Before I
knew it, I was an hour into this movie before
I knew it. Again, we were at the two hour mark,
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and then it ends up being even though it's listed
as two hours and fifty minutes, right around two and
a half hours, this entire movie flew by, and that
was the sign to me that it's a good movie.
I don't have to question his run times anymore. There
is so much action from beginning to end, as there
were so many storylines to follow, because while you're following
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Leonardo DiCaprio and his daughter, which I think at the
core of this movie, it is a movie about father
and daughter dynamic, so you have things like that going on,
you also have Sean Penn's character, who is the villain
in this movie, trying to track down Leonardo DiCaprio. His
character was very much to me giving off Christoph Walton
and glorious bastards, not as intense, not as oscar worthy,
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but that was the cat and mouse dynamic that I
needed in this movie that really made me love it.
And his character is intense but also comical, which I
think is something that maybe some people aren't expecting from
a Paul Thomas Anderson movie, who he does comedy really well.
And I did think that this was going to be
a little bit more of a visceral action movie, just
given the fact that it is about a group of
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revolutionaries who at the beginning of the film do blow
up a lot of things. They have a lot of
intentions of anarchy and chaos, and I thought that was
going to be a little bit more evident throughout the
entire film. And while there is a lot of action
in it, there's also a lot of comedy in it,
so it has this really unique balance going back and
forth between the two. I think in our theater, which
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was a pack theater on a Friday night, there were
a lot of laughs. Sometimes I was confused at what
people were laughing at because I didn't find it to
be as comical as some of the other people in
our audience. So maybe there was some things that were
going a little bit over my head. Even maybe I'm
not smart enough to get some of the jokes. I
didn't see it as full on as a comedy as
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some other people did. To me, it did at moments
kind of feel like Pineapple Express because Leonardo DiCaprio's character
is a stoner. Some could say this is the best
action stoner that has ever been created. But in Pineapple Express,
Seth Rogan plays a guy named Dale Denton who is
a process server. I saw a lot of parallels between
Dale Denton and Bob played by Leonardo DiCaprio that I
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was like, this is almost a more serious version of
that movie, because I was the it was going to
have more of a tone of There will be Blood
by Paul Thomas Anderson, the fact that you have one
of the best actors of all time, Leonardo DiCaprio, who
has that range, who can be a little bit more intense.
This was an entirely different look at Leo. He was
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comical in a way I wasn't expecting he was a
hero at times. But it was almost like Bob wasn't
really set up to be a hero. He was set
up a little bit more to be the comic relief,
to be the dad that did care about his daughter
but also just did not have his life together. And
there are moments where are like, come on, Bob, just
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get it together, get out of the bathrobe, and be
a little bit more heroic. But that's not the story
that was being told here. I would think if there
was one real hero out of the entire film, it
was Benicio del Toro, which my only real complaint with
this movie is I wanted more of him because I
love their dynamic together, them driving in the car, drinking
and driving. Those were the moments that made me feel
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like it was Seth Rogan and James Springo in Pineapple
Express doing dumb things, and it was really cool to
see a movie like this on an incredibly vast cinematic level,
that vision combined with all the comedic elements and giving
me things on screen that I've never seen before. Because
while in somebody else's hands this could have been just
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another generic action movie, you truly see the vision take
shape throughout every scene, having so much intent, all the
storylines working together as one, a true cinematic experience that
is one that you seek out movies like this in
your life. And you realize now maybe more than ever,
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how much Hollywood right now is a director's game. But
you see with the movies that have really impacted audiences
this year, Sinners Weapons Now one battle after another. I'll
even throw highest Lowis in there from Spike Lee. But
it's these directors who are standing out more than just Ip.
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In my opinion, I think original stories are alive and
well and they are right here in front of you.
So I think that is the direction Hollywood needs to go.
Invest more in directors, allow them to make the movies
that they want to make, because boy, this was his
most expensive movie ever, and it puts a lot of
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trust in him to create something that is also gonna
make money. So that's the line you have to walk.
The movie also had a fantastic score that was used
so well throughout. You have this theme song almost driving
all the action in one battle after another. Which the
last movie where the score was so evident that it
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was distracting to me was Highest to Lois, and that
is an example of when it is used correctly and
when I believe it is used incorrectly. And highest to Lois,
it was so distracting and it changed the feeling of
every single because it was so overbearing with this orchestra.
It made it feel so lesser than what was actually
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happening on the screen. But here it added to the intensity.
It added to that franticness, It added to that feeling
of anxiety, just that dun chugging all the way throughout
the film. A lot of Auscar nominations are going to
be thrown out for this movie. I don't think it
is one that is going to warrant an automatic win
for Leonardo DiCaprio. He'll probably be nominated, but I don't
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think he is giving Best Actor in this I think
it's because Bob's character doesn't have the greatest amount of range.
He does his comedic thing really well throughout, and there
are moments where Leonardo shines in a way that he
never has. But I don't think that warrants a win
for Best Actor. I think Benicio del Toro will get
Supporting Actor. If anybody is a clear winner here, I
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think Paul Thomas Anderson for Best Director and Best Score.
Those were the two elements that really stood out to me.
Cinematograph could also be one where they take home an oscar.
Because this movie looked beautiful. They filmed a lot of
it in California and El Paso. I love every single
scene that took place in El Paso. They also use
a lot of non actors, which I love it when
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directors use this because it adds to the level of authenticity.
Where you have somebody like Sean Penn interacting with other
people who are not actors. That gives you that taste
of the community, a taste of that environment, that adds
to that sense of realism. One of my favorite examples
of this was No Country for Old Men, where the
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Coen Brothers use a lot of people throughout this small
town in Texas as the actual people in that town.
Paul Thomas Anderson did the same thing here, and it
makes those interactions just feel that much more authentic. Chase
Infinity was also great as Leonardo DiCaprio's daughter. She was
fantastic and presumed innocent. I think she is somebody who
is going to have a really great career in Hollywood.
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But my favorite thing about One Battle after Another is
I believe it has the best chase scene in ten years.
Before this, my number one chase scene in the last
ten years was Penguin being chased by the Batman with
Robert Pattinson and Colin Farrell. But without giving up too much,
the chas sing in the third act is the best
chasing I've seen since. Is it a masterpiece? No, but
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it's really close. And it's so hard for me to
give out a perfect score because right now I believe
that a perfect score comes with time. This does feel
like a movie that has a great rewatchability factor, So
quite possibly down the line, I could look back on
this and think, oh, that truly was a masterpiece. But
for now I give One Battle after Another a four
point five out of five Bathrobes.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
It's time to head down to movie Mike.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Trey Lar Paul for the first time in seven years
Star Wars. Why am I saying that weird. I think
it's because my dad says it as Star Wars. Star
Wars is returning to the box office next year May
twenty second, twenty twenty six, we are getting the Mandalorian
and gro Good. I feel like the fan base is
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pretty split on this movie, and I think it's the
fans who have been there since day one, maybe not
even day one, back in the seventies. It is those
people who have a hard time accepting that Star Wars
has and always will be aimed towards a younger audience,
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making movies that sell toys and inspiring young people with
these stories. That is overall what Star Wars has done.
If you were a kid when the original trilogy came out,
that is probably the best memories you associate with the franchise.
That is your baby. If you were a kid in
the late nineties, early two thousands, the prequel trilogy, oh
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those are your babies. If now you are somebody who
just discovered Star Wars in the last saga that so
many people hate, that's still going to be your baby.
And in ten years that is what is going to
be recognized as some of the best Star Wars films.
Not right now, because people still hate on it a lot,
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and I think that's why people are so split on
this show. And I call it a show because it
has roots on Disney Plus, and to those people, I
think this feels like just season four of The Mandalorian
on the big screen, and we'll get into all the
things that Disney has going on right now with their
Disney Plus model. But I still think the majority of
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the hate is those people who still want these movies
to be the films of their childhood and it is
never going to be like that. But whenever the sequel
trilogy came out, that is where I started to go
see all of them in theaters and then went back
and revisited all the Star Wars movies and did a
deep dive. It is those movies that were the conduit
to me even being able to associate myself with the
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Star Wars fandom. Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, The Rise
of Skywalker. I love those movies, and you can't really
say that in Star Wars culture, it seems because for
the most part, everybody believes that the writing was so terrible.
A lot of people hate Ray I found them to
be really enjoyable. And that is what got me into
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The Mandalorian, because without those movies, I don't think I
would have been interested in a show about a character
I had no idea about. Is because of those movies,
whenever The Mandalorian first premiered, I was like, I'm going
to check that out, And to date, it is my
favorite of all the Star Wars shows because I feel
it is the perfect balance of the original trilogy and
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what it needs to evolve to in order to survive.
Season one came out back in twenty nineteen, Season two
came out in twenty twenty, and season three was already
a couple of years ago, came out in twenty twenty
three was what I believe to be the weakest of
all the seasons, And now it all kind of makes
sense because I think that was the bridge to get
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us to this movie. But I think now it makes sense.
The official description of the movie reads, the Evil Empire
has fallen and the Imperial Warlreds remain scattered throughout the galaxy.
As the fledging New Republic works to protect everything the
Rebellion fought for. They have enlisted the help of legendary
Mandalorian bounty hunter played by Pedro Pascal and his young
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apprentice Grogu. So Pedro Pascal is returning, Jeremy Allen White
is going to play job of the hutsun Rata I
believe that you pronounce it. Sigourney Weaver is also in
this movie. So before we talk about this more and
why everybody is so split on this, here's just a
little bit of the Mandalorian and Grogu trailer.
Speaker 3 (44:51):
Progressive fuck good shot David.
Speaker 1 (45:10):
So not a whole lot of dialogue in this trailer. Overall.
The trailer is pretty short, under two minutes. I think
it's like a minute and a half. You see some fighting,
you see a big lizard monster, you see the ataighties
go down, you see the Mandalorian fighting, some people flying,
all the things you would expect in a Mandalorian trailer.
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You do get that first glimpse of Jeremy Allen White
voicing Rata, which I think that scene was pretty cool.
Aside from that, they're not giving us too many specific
details about what is going on where the Mandalorian is
in his journey where they're trying to break into. You
do see Grogu try out a couple of different things,
which I think that is probably the most entertaining part
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of the Mandalorian is just seeing Grogu be cute and
do silly little things like here you see him trying
to use the force to get a snack. You see
him swimming, which I was like, oh man, you gotta
put the little guy in some water and make him swim.
And then you also see what I believe is going
to be the GIF or meme worthy moment of Grogu
kind of eating some kind of popcorn like snack. It
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looks like it's in a popcorn tin and he's just
munching on it. You kind of heard it in the
clip there, But that just tells me the man who
eating Grogu is going to have a sick popcorn bucket.
I want a Rod of the Hut popcorn bucket right now.
I'm already putting myself on the pre order list for that.
I would love something like that of Grogu holding a
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popcorn bucket. I have to imagine that has to be
the tie in now, because I think the thing to
have is a cool popcorn bucket in twenty twenty five,
so definitely in twenty twenty six. My main issue with
this trailer. Is it looks exactly like the TV show visually?
And I have to think about it because I don't
want to be an I rational fan. Here. Is it
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that this movie looks just like a TV show or
the TV show looks so good that it looks like
a movie. I actually think the TV show looks so
good that it looks like a movie, and this just
looks I don't know if they can make it look
any better without changing the aesthetic. Because as much as
I would love some film green on this to make
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it look more like a seventy Star Wars film, to
have that rich, bold look, they filmed this for IMAX.
They wanted to look big. They wanted to look crystal clear.
The way they make these shows and Star Wars movies
is using that big led screen for a lot of
these backgrounds. So I think they have to look a
very specific way because obviously they're not going to some
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planet outside of this world to film these movies. They're
doing it in a studio with a big screen that
they could project anything on to give it that depth.
But I think that requires a specific kind of camera
that you can't really make it look like those practical
effects and how they feel in the original trill where
everything most everything was something tangible. But if you look
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at how much they spend on seasons of The Mandalorian,
to make season one costs about one hundred to one
hundred and twenty million dollars, which is pretty expensive. Episodes
range from about fifteen to twenty million dollars alone. That
is a small movie budget in itself, and this movie
cost about one hundred and sixty six million dollars, So
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I feel like it's a little bit comparable, adding a
little bit there to maybe make it more cinematic, maybe
do some things that they haven't done in the TV show.
I think that is the issue I'm having with watching
this trailer, is that it just doesn't feel as epic
to me. And then you have to think about the
Disney Plus model, which it's also releasing on Memorial Day weekend,
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the same weekend that this year Leelo and Stitch came out.
Leilo and Stitch was initially going to be a Disney
Plus series, not the first time they've done that. Also
with Mwana two was also gonna be a Disney Plus series.
But they put those movies out in theaters, and what
did they do. They made a lot of money Leilo
and Stitch highest grossing movie of the year, hitting that
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billion mark. I think they are trying that again because
if they are spending so much money on The Mandalorian
and the return on investment is okay on Disney, it
is a big exclusive for them. Probably a big reason
that people subscribe to Disney Plus is to watch The Mandalorian.
It is that big of a show. But if they
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could create a movie instead that goes to the box
office and brings home a billion dollars, that is worth
so much more. You create a moment like Lelo and
Stitch did this year where people were filling on the theaters,
But do audiences want that from a Star Wars film
or we already conditioned to watching this at home. I
(49:54):
think that is the difference here because Mawana came out
in theaters. First, came out in theaters again, so that
is what we were conditioned to. Same with Leelo and
Stitch with a movie back in the day came out
in theaters. No real difference there. This is a show
that only exists on Disney Plus. If it feels exactly
the same, even though it could be great and I
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think a lot of people who have a problem with
that will still go watch it in theaters and still
love it. Even if it's great, people are still gonna
say that was exactly like the TV show that was
just season four on the big screen. But you made
me pay more money for it. You made me driving
my car to the theater, You made me buy the
popcorn bucket. Look at all these extra things you made
(50:37):
me buy. That is going to be the difference here.
And when this movie comes out, it'll be the first
Star Wars movie in theaters in seven years. How is
that going to be received? Because they've had some hits,
they've had some misses. Solo didn't do so well. Even
though I love Donald Glover Eslando, Rogue One was probably
the best out of all those movies. Even though I
(50:59):
loved the sequel trilogy, Rogue One is just a fantastic
movie on its own. You don't have to know anything
else about Star Wars. It is just a great movie.
And then the other thing, Pedro Pascal. I feel like
his reception among audiences is a little bit different now.
I feel like this doesn't have as much of an
(51:19):
effect on people's Pedro fatigue because He's not really seen
a whole lot. Unless the Mandalorian takes off his helmet,
you hear his voice, but he does it so differently
that you could honestly disassociate and not realize that you
were at a Pedro Pascal movie another time. Because apparently,
if he doesn't make a movie that comes out in
theaters every three months, he like turns back into a
(51:41):
pumpkin or something. I don't think that'll be a major
issue here, but that is another bit of rumblings that
I hear from the split fan base right now. And
then it is directed by John Favreau, who created The Mandalorian,
who was a fantastic director. Obviously, we know him for
the Iron Man movies, for directing those, for being happy,
but I kind of feel like The Mandalorian is his baby,
(52:03):
and I trust him with making something worthy of the
big screen that it's going to be epic, even though
everything right now telling me this doesn't feel like it
warrants a movie. It almost feels like a meeting that
could have been an email, but I want to be
proven wrong. The other really weird thing that I'll critique
about this is I hate the font I am all
(52:24):
about a good movie poster font, but I hate the
font that the title of the movie is in. It
almost looks like a reused font that Disney has already
used before. Just the color scheme of it doesn't feel
right to me. It doesn't feel like it looks good
on the poster. And they did release like a kind
(52:44):
of hand drawn, hand painted looking poster that's supposed to
look a little bit nostalgic. But I just can't get
over the font. These little things that I'm finding that
I'm hoping in the end just mean nothing. But The
Mandalorian comes out in theaters next year on May twenty second,
twenty twenty six. PA head that for us.
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This week's edition of Movie by Framer.
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Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie Podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike, joined by my wife and
co host Kelsey. How are you good?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I think feel like I have a multi vitamin stuck
in my throat. No, thank you, good Burpio. Well it's
either that or I got a nice latan. I get
cinnamon in them, and I think the barista heard like
cinnamon challenge, so I think I'm just drinking straight cloves
of cinnamon. Through this.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
We are here to talk about a very specific topic,
movies that can only be watched on a two thousand
and four Chevrolet Tahos built in DVD player.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Very passionate.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
It is the longest episode title we have ever dove into.
But somebody posted this on x and even though it's
so specific, we all know exactly what that means. If
you grew up in the two thousands, I guess I
also you didn't have a built in Oh we'll get
into that. We'll get into that. In the movie review,
we'll be talking about Paul Thomas Anderson's one Battle after
(00:52):
Another was it worth the almost three hour runtime? And
in the trailer park we will be talking about Mandalorian
and grogu. Is it gonna be anything different than the
TV show or is it just Disney trying to cash
in on another Disney Plus show turned to movie, which
they do. But thank you for being here, Thank you
for being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew.
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And now let's talk movies from the Nashville Podcast Network.
This is Movie Mike Movie Podcast. All right. The topic
is movies that can only be watched on a two
thousand and four Chevrolet Tahos built in DVD player. What
were you saying earlier?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I said, I didn't think that you had a built
in DVD player.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
We did not have a DVD player. I was envious
to those people because it looks so cool. I remember
driving on the highway and seeing other people watch movies
and I'm like, man, they're living in the future.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
We got one when my younger brother was born, the
middle brother, two thousand and six, two thousand and seven.
It was a Ford expedition. I'd had like a portable
DVD player as a kid that I watched. But yeah,
the age of a build in in the car, it's
a younger brother.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
That it's long gone now though, because it's all phones
I've maybe seen some minivans now that still have built
in screens, but it's a very two thousands thing.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Listen. I don't hate the luxuries of a minivan. I
don't think I ever want to drive a minivan, but
I don't hate the luxuries.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I think I have something selected on my Uber whenever
we request the ride that we need a bigger vehicle
like Uber Excel. We always get a mini ban A
lot of time in New York, though we get a minivan.
I don't mind it clutch in.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
New York because you don't have time to open a door,
and you can't open a door into the street or
you're gonna get taken out. So the minivan, it just
pulls up. They just slide it open and off you go.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
It's comfortable. If you were to watch a movie in there,
I think it's it feels like you're in a little movie.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Here's in the captain's chairs in the second row.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I don't hate it.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I don't hate I don't hate being in one, but
I want to drive one.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
No.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, so we never had the built in DVD player,
but we had I had, like what you were describing,
the small DVD player that was portable, which I think
in the early two thousands those became.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Really popular and they'd skipped like a CD.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Oh Man and I had like the bare minimum one
that you could get from Walmart. It wasn't even it
wasn't a Sony, it wasn't a Phillips. It was some
weird brand that probably existed. It was just it was soorny,
I think. But the thing I hated about it is
the battery life on it was terrible. Yeah, the actual
(03:26):
appeal of the portable DVD player was that you could
watch it anywhere. But I think for maybe a solid
maybe month, the battery was good that you could watch
it for the actual runtime of a movie. But after
a while it became something that I could only watch
if I had it plugged in. So we would take
it on road trips to Mexico, which that's a sixteen
(03:47):
hour road trip. I could probably watch two movies before
it died, But that's tragic. That is my experience with
portable movies that I'm going to get into my list later.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
But I'll be curious to see if any of the
ones that my little brother loved are on this this
I was ten in two thousand and four.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
In two thousand and four I was thirteen.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, so then like two I feel like two thousand
and four to like two thousand and eight, we're like
peak car movie years.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
It was peaked DBD years, where that doesn't really happen anymore.
And I think, what we're going to see on this list,
it's going to be a movie that couldn't be made
today because a lot of these were movies that whenever
they came out in theaters, probably weren't the best received
whenever it comes to critics scores, whenever it comes to
box office performance. But a lot of these movies made
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their money not from opening weekend or its theatrical run.
It was the DVD sales. Because that is something that
doesn't exist anymore. Because the movie comes out now in theaters,
it doesn't make money, really can't recoup it when it
goes to streaming. But back then there was so much
money in the physical media sales, and we don't have
that anymore. So I think that is something that we're
(04:57):
going to see here, how a movie can become a
cold hit through kind of a delayed people discovering it,
which now the delayed is people discovering it on streaming,
but now there's just no money in it. But let's
get into this list now, all right. The first one
that comes up on the thread is The Pacifier with
Ben Diesel. This is a perfect example of a movie
(05:19):
that cannot be made today.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Listen kind of loved that movie.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
There's an entire genre of these type of movies with.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Diesel, don't they hate each other? They hate each other
and then yeah, because then the rock was in like
the Tooth Fairy exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
So there is this entire and it's specifically kids movies
that we don't really get like this anymore. And I
feel really bad for anybody growing up now that won't
experience this type of family friendly, not too serious, but
just something that's so nostalgic that I don't think we're
really having it anymore because it's not really profitable like
(05:57):
it used to be. So I think this entire list,
we're gonna see these type of I don't want to
call them bless movies, but just movies that, how dare
you can only appreciate if you were the key demographic
when they came out and you associate really great memories
with because of them just being something that you would
watch in the backseat of a head rest, but the
(06:18):
pacifier is first up on the list. Next up is
over the Hedge from DreamWorks.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Oh my god, this was literally my little brother's car movie.
Great film, honestly kind of hilarious, which the cover does
say a laugh out loud funny. I will concur I
need to go back and rewatch it.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
It is so dumb funny. From the same people who
brought you Shrek. This is like just peak two thousands
to me. Love this movie. An animated movie about animals
that is so ridiculous like this. I remember the trailer
being everywhere when this movie came out. This movie says
to me, you're gonna go to Walmart and see this
on the shelves and want to buy it.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Walmart had a great five dollars DVD bin.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Oh that was my I love the five dollars DVD bin.
When you would just go in, you would scan the
things at the top and I would just like to
grab my hand and like dig all the way to
the bottom just to see what would come out. Next
up on the list, are we there yet? With ice Cube?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Incredible.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
It's also like a road trip movie while you're planning
a road trip. See, this is the movie that ice
Cube needs to go back to doing, like the Family
Friendly ice Cube, which I think it kind of got
away from a little bit because.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
They do a sequel. Are we done yet? Not as good? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
They did it. I guess he did a run to
a family friendly films. Maybe he kind of burn out
on doing those type of movies. But anything is better
than War of the World. Yeah, are we there yet
as a good one? What about the game plan?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
That's the rock? That's the other one I was thinking
of too, the game plan Tooth Fairy?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Did I make better? He did do the Tooth Fairy yet?
Well that could be further down on the left with
the gameplay. If we're looking at the posters here, it's
basically the same poster as the pacifier it is. It's
the exact same thing, and that just feels like the
two thousands to me. It's a white, just plain background.
You have the lead and then you have the kid.
It looks nostalgic to me, and that's look nostalgic And
(08:04):
how we gotten so far away from We can't even
do simple movie poster designs like this anymore. Everything is
floating heads. Everything just looks like everything's made in Cambo. Yeah,
we're even just something simple like this that looks like
you could go to the movies and see it outside
and be enticed to go watch that. You would see
this poster and want to see it again, exactly. I
am all about this with the dog at the bottom
(08:27):
and then you have the tag on you half his
size twice the trouble and that's the same girl now
who was just in the wrong Paris. I was gonna
say that you took my fount Well you can take
it away. No, that's fine. Yeah. Whenever we watched that,
I was like, I'm pretty sure I recognize that kid
from something. Yeah, she was a child actress. To come
out like that's so wild that twenty years ago was
(08:48):
two thousand and five, Like that feels weird. That makes
me feel more because a lot of those movies still
feel relevant to me. And to think that a kid
in high school now that feels like maybe even not
even high school, like people in their twenties, that to
them is movies to us that came out in the eighties,
which felt ancient to us. That is that's I'm gonna
keep going.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Well, It's also like we're in the time where there's
like a renaissance of people who were famous in our youth,
like Hillary Duff's making new music, Lindsay lohands back, and
I'm like, how are we already on the second run
of some of these people?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
We're in the comeback era. You know what I saw
the other day that also made me feel old? What
it was like?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It said, No, Dancing with the Stars isn't cool again,
You're just now the target demograph fit?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Is that true? Because we've been watching that every week now,
which I think we.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Had like a little I mean, after Bobby did it
and you like lived it, I feel like we were
a little like I can't do Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I never watched it until I experienced it live. Never
I never watched it until he was on it. Never
saw a single episode. I had no idea how the
show really worked up until that season. I didn't know
anything about Dancing with the Stars lore And then I
went from knowing nothing about the show to going to
every single taping what was live wasn't a taping, every
single taping of every single episode for season twenty seven,
(10:09):
And now I think when I watch it. It's kind
of like reminiscing on a weird part of my life
where I was in the audience and I know how
everything works. It just reminds me of like getting there
super early, going through security.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
We were long distance then, so like i'd call you
while you were I was walking to my car after works.
It was like five o'clock my time, and because they
would be getting to the studio, it was weird.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I started to know the security people there. Everybody was
nice to me. I look forward to finding out where
they were going to see this because they always see
all the contestants, family and friends and like this all together.
So I was always with people that I knew. And
then it was cool getting like tagged on social media
like I see on TV.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
It was a very weird time. We had just started
dating that year, and then I'd be like, well, there's
my boyfriend in the audience of Dancing with the Stars.
I tried telling someone the other day and I was like,
this is about to be the most unrelatable star I
have ever told. But yeah, now apparently we're just the
target demograph. Yeah, because we're seated every week. I am
here for it.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I guess we're just the key demographic now.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
And then Robert Irwin, although everyone was I guess he
said something in his like what's it called the packet
or whatever they show before the package package, and I
guess he was like, I wasn't alive in two thousand
and everyone was.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Like, oh, oh yeah. It's interesting. How that show works
is basically they set up each dance while those are running,
so not only is it for the TV show, it's
also for the stage to be able to move all
those pieces. It was cool seeing how fast they could
move that because they have like I think those things
are like maybe a minute, maybe ninety seconds, and that
(11:47):
entire ninety second is spent just getting everything on stage
as they need, getting people out of the way, and
getting the couple set, and then as soon as they
are done and they move over to where they accept
their scores, they get everything out of the way. So
that was always really cool to see how fast they
could do that.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
All right back to the top of it, hands all right, distracted.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Next on the list, Daddy Daycare. Another funny one Eddie
Murphy in a family comedy is something he needs to
go back to as well.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Put him an ice cube in a family comedy, put
them together. This was like the grown Ups Sarah too.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Yeah, that was also that time.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
It's like grown ups Daddy Daycare. Yeah, all of those
like kind of slapstick comedies.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Also on the list The Haunted Mansion with Eddie Murphy
another good one. I wasn't as into this one. I
loved it. You don't really like Halloween movies though.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah, but I liked the Honed Mansion. It was a
Disney movie.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, it's not scary. That's a that's a ride correct
at Disney. Never been to Disney. We know you go
over this time unaccompanied minors man. Not the greatest, yeah
that I remember this one. Not one that I have
really great memories of snow Dogs with Cuba Gooding Junior excellent.
(12:56):
That is a classic that feels like a two thousand
and four Chevy ride like Mike.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Also great.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
What about Cheaper by the Dozen two? Not as funny
as the first one. Yeah, I'm more of a Cheaper
by the Dozen, but because of you, I love Cheaper
by the Dozen one. I think that whenever this one
came out, it was probably more in the prime time
for a DVD.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah. It also I feel like that's when sequels for
direct to DVD.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yeah, the direct to DVD sequel that just wasn't as good.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
It was like the sequel to DVD pipeline.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Next up Agent Cody Banks with Frankie Munaz and Hillary Duff.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
This era was Hillary Duff's time to shine.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Remember how cool all these people were to us? Yeah,
she's still cool to me, but I mean, like these
people were so unattainable to us as kids, and people
now don't have that, they don't struggle with that. That's
a good point because to me, Frankie Munaz was like
the biggest thing on the planet because the movies like
this because of Malcolm in the Middle, but you could
(14:00):
only seen them in this movie.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Or if they were on the cover of like J fourteen,
and that was it.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Oh, that was a good magazine. I remember J fourteen
mainly because Tiger Beat. Yeah, because some of the two
thousands bands I was into kind of crossed over into
like big pop culture. So I remember, like I wanted
to see like a blank Naty two article and they
just happened to be in J fourteen.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I was just a basic beast, so I was reading
those all the time. Oh my God, these.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Two Alvin and the Chipmunks and Happy Feet.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Oh my gosh, similar to Over the Hedge. Happy few
More was my youngest brother because he had an obsession
with penguins as a child, and then they both like
Dovin and the Chipmunks.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I remember finding Alvin in the Chipmunks really annoying, but
I love the movie Alvin Simon. I think it was
because of how popular the movie got.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yeah, it did get really popular.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
And they did the Squeak Wool and then it was
just the constant and perioding of all the songs that
just became. I was two into Alvin and the Chipmunk's
mania that it got a little like I'm so sick
of them.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Jesse McCartney was one of the Chipmunks.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
He was who are the other was? Weren't they all somebody?
Let's see that.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Well, of course they were all someone, but.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Like all somebody famous because Jason Lee was the human
in it. Yeah, Justin Long was Alvin.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
M and then Matthew Grey Goodblur from Criminal Minds he
was Simon, and then Jesse McCarney was Theodore.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I know they're all somebody, but I meant you said
it weren't.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
They all someone Sometimes.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
They just get voice actors and it's like they do
a really good job, but you don't really know who
the name is. I meant that they are all somebody
that we would know because they're actors.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I walk around sometimes still singing that one part of
Happy Feet that they when they did the don't push me,
I am close to the little penguin does it close
to the edge? You trying not to lose my cool?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Times were just better whenever Happy Feet was real kicking
and screaming with Farrell. I feel like this was the
start of his downturn a little bit. Yeah, because when
whenever he started doing the family friendly comedy.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Recession Indicator, Yeah, I feel like he.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Was just trying to cash a check at this point
where I wasn't the key demographic when this movie came out,
I was like getting the teen era now. So whenever
I saw Will Ferrell starting to do movies like this,
I'm like, ah, I don't want him in that. I
want him in old school r V.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
You know who loves this movie?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Who? It's a family member of mine? Can you guess people?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Because of the r V.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
People loves somebody loves this movie. We have to watch
it at Christmas.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Whenever I was looking through this list, I'm like, something
sticks out to me about r V and it's not
the part that I remember watching it.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
He loves this movie.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
It is a great film. He really likes when they
have to empty the septic tank.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeah, that he thinks that part's pretty funny. I mean
that part was in the trailer. That part sold me.
And the next block we have Madagascar to escape after
escape to Africa. Ah, I see what they did there.
I don't really remember this one. I was never big
escape Africa. To escape to Africa, I found Madagascar movies
really annoying when never the moment movie thing. I couldn't
(17:15):
stand Madagascar. I was more of a dislander when it
came to DreamWorks movie. I even had to come around
to Shrek a little bit because it was so what
I was talking about earlier. There was so much Shrek
everywhere that it became annoying.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I feel like DreamWorks movies were really annoying but really effective,
Like they know how to make a kid addicted to something.
So it was those little music moments that just really
annoyed me. So I was never big on Madagascar The Penguins.
I never really found that funny. I wasn't a big
DreamWorks kid again the Penguins.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
My little brother went through penguin obsession. There's the tooth
fair Fair.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I knew it right there at the bottom. A great
family comedy.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
You don't get endorsements like that anymore.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
That is my dream to be a quote like that
on a movie poster. But I don't say things like that.
You don't. I would never just call something a great
family comedy.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
And I also don't feel like that sells the movie.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
It really does. And that is my problem with these
quotes is whenever you see this, it's something so generic,
like astonishing, and it's somebody from like the Times breathtaking.
I wouldn't feel comfortable reviewing a movie like that with
something so generic like a bold vision, and that's what
they want. And if I see that on a poster,
it's not going to maybe want to go see that movie.
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I like to say things that are so oddly specific
to my experience watching that movie. So maybe my takes
on even like a simplified take, would not fit well
on a poster because they don't like to use butt drenching,
which I feel as a movie that induces anxiety. That's
my favorite way to describe a movie. Excuse me, what
butt drenching? Butt drenching because you get so anxious from
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it that you start to sweat in your seat at
the movies, and therefore it is a butt drenching movie
because by the end of it, your butt is drenched
and sweat. Okay, next week, but that's why I will
never be on a boaster.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Kangaroo Jack. Little brother left this one also for everyone.
I really do have little brothers and they really did
love these movies. It's not just me, I promise ye,
little brother love this. We have a twelve and sixteen
year age gap. So yeah, I did love these as
like a twelve and sixteen year old, but my little
brothers were watching them.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Kangaroo Jack was a little bit of a bait and
switch where kangaroo Jack really wasn't in kangaroo Jack that much. Yeah,
like this easily could have been like a rated R
adult movie.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I don't know what the poster gets me.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Grown ups.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
There we go.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I told you you knew grown up to be on
this list. I was kind of a Light a late
adapter to the Grown Ups franchise.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
We watched it again during the pandemic.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
And it maybe that was just a dark time where
I needed something stupid and funny. But I finally came
around to Grown Ups. I think it was because, like
I was mentioning with Will Ferrell earlier, I felt like
the Grown Ups franchise were a little bit of the
downfall of Adam Sandler making really really low brown movies
that where he got into like don't mess with his
O hand territory.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
That was bad.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
But the first Grown Ups is great, Like you still
kind of have to be in that mentality of Okay,
it's not gonna be the Adam Sandler I grew up with.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
It's so funny, though, but if you're.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Able to turn your brain off and you need a
movie that is something that will please the whole family,
which is hard to do, which is what Adam Sandler
does really well. Grown Ups is where it's at kind
of want to rewatch it. There's the three, right or
the just two?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
I think it's just two. Okay, if they stopped after two.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
They should make another one because it's really just an
excuse for Adam Sandler to go out to an island
or somewhere be like Happy Gil morning. It would just
be a bunch of ads, a bunch of cameos. Yeah, yeah,
I think we're good with two The Spy next Door
with Jackie chan I don't really remember this one. No,
this was probably when I saw the trailer two and
never saw it in theaters. Undercover Brother, that's a classic,
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although I don't really feel like that fits.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
The I'm like, that's not a watch in the back
of your mom's car.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yeah, this is.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Some of these are getting a little too.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Like, yeah, because this isn't a kid's movie at all.
Spy Kids, Now, that's a kid's movie. Robert Rodriguez, like
that is just that is peak.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
It's an Austin, Texas institution there.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
If you look back at the CG. I though, on
the Spy Kids movies, it's crazy to think as kids
how high tech we thought these movies were. The now
mimable moment whenever he hits like the the glasses that
like zoom in, those green glasses that like another one
keeps it appearing. That was so cool to us as kids.
And if you go back and watch the CGI, you're like, man,
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Shark Boy and Lava Girl look pretty bad, and it
was later.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
To think that a Junie is married to Mecan trainer. Oh,
a child looks just like him.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
And the Spy kids. We also have Finding Nemo, which
I think not only was that a backseat DVD player movie,
that was just an everywhere movie that was a watch
in school movie. I associate that a lot with movies
we'd watch in school. I think this whole slide right
here is movies I associate with watching in school. Stuart
Little Yes with Jonathan Lipniki class, and that's one that
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it wasn't a movie we would watch for educational purposes.
It was a reward day movie.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Do you ever look back now, I don't know if
I've said this before. Do you ever wonder if those
days your teacher put on a movie, if they were
like hungover.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I never thought about that until right now, because now
we are at the age of seeing your.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Teachers ever went to a happy hour and had a
little too much fun and had to teach the next day.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
I think that could have been a thing because we
were in elementary school in the two thousands, yeah, where
that was probably a little bit more acceptable wouldn't happen
now if somebody came in hungover.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Doesn't remind me of faite movie is bad teacher.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yeah, But thinking about that now, that could quite honestly
be the reason that our teachers would roll out that
big cart and turn down the light and they would
just be at their desk grading papers or working on
some lesson planned. And we're here watching Stuart Little and
finding Nemo for no apparent reason, because there's no work
it there's nothing.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
They weren't like historical, they weren't like English.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
We weren't taking notes.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
There was a test off snow arithmetic. If you're a teacher,
you don't have to say if you've done it, but
if you could let us know, confirm or deny, yeah,
I'm curious.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Just throw like the shades emoji in like comments yes.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yes, and yeah, and just let us know.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Just throw the shop admit to it, even if you're
especially if you're like not a teacher anymore. Like Statue
of libert limitations say libertations, Statue of liberty, Statue of liberty,
you could say it after ten years according to the
Statue of Liberty.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Is the Statue of liberty.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Emoji I don't know, because.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
If that that's what I want people to put.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
There is a statue of liberty.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Okay, if you or someone you know rolled in the
television because you were a little too hungover, please leave
a statue of liberty emoji.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Statue of Liberty says ten years Big Fat Liar Apology.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Recently rewatched this. I did.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
It's because whenever we watched a hold of I was like,
maybe against maybe I was unfair in my hatred towards
Paul Giamatti because I've been a long Paul Giamati hater
because whenever Sideways came out, I remember him doing an
interview where he started to get annoyed by people giving
him or low, which was a big thing in that movie,
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and he's like, everybody does it, and I think they
they're the first one to do it, and he gets so
annoyed by it, and me, I saw that as him
being ungrateful for his fame because it just.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Feels like an easy, like stick for the movie.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
And it's like, dude, you were in a movie where
that was your thing. You just got free wine to
have somebody who just wanted to do something nice and
knows your work and is a fan of your work
that you got so annoyed by that, which I could
get that if somebody has something that they're known for,
they start to get just inundated with it, Like I
think Jason Biggs from American Pie. Anytime there's pie around,
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like people are gonna point it out to him. But
I think to have a role like that that is
so impactful, you got to embrace it. And to see
him just being kind of annoying about the way he
handled it, I always hated him for that.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
It's giving Jacob Lordi in the Kissing Booth. Yeah again,
Like I get that it could be annoying, Suck it
up and smile. It probably bought you some nice things
in life.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
It really did. And I think anything you do that
is public facing you have to embrace it, and the
minute you start being annoyed by it, maybe it's time
not to do it anymore.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah, it's a good point.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
We'll wrap up with some here. I also have some
of my own, because I think we're start seeing some
repeats on this list. Taxi with Queen Latifa and Jimmy Fallon. Again,
this doesn't feel like Yeah, I think we're getting towards here.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I think people just started putting in their favorite movie
from the two thousands.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Yeah. I came up with my list of not movies
that I watched on the Tahoe DVD player because we
didn't have one. I have movies that I watched on
portable DVD player that we got from the bootleg flea
market in Mexico, because that is what I associate with
this time period where we would go to Mexico everyday
Christmas and there was something called the tan Geese, which
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is essentially like a flea market in Mexico, and it
only happened on Thursdays, and we would go and they
would sell bootleg DVDs. But these were movies that we got.
I think most of most all of them were in Spanish,
so they were movies that I watched for the first
time in Spanish on a small DVD player.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
So was this someone recording on their handheld camcorder in
the theater and then they put it on a.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
DV Glad you asked that question. Sometimes yes it was,
and you would hear people coughing, you would see it
shake a little bit. Some of them were actual movie files,
but they were still in Spanish. Okay, so it depended
you didn't know, because you would just get you would
just get the DVD.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Kind of feels like a blind box.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Yeah, kind of like a blind box. You don't know
what experience you're about to walk into, because you would
either buy it in a case where they just printed
it on just the standard computer printer and like slid
it in there, or it would just be the actual
disc with like a label printed on it, and that
it was just the risk you were running.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
I feel like we have to start with the one
your mom feels the most guilty about having the bootleg
copy of.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
First up on my list The Passion of the Christ,
which I watched for the first time on a bootleg
DVD on a portable DVD player in Mexico in Spanish.
In Spanish. I think this one was one where somebody
went in with a video camera because I remember it
being not completely centered and at times it would like
move a little bit and you see the seats. But
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we watched the entire thing on this DVD player, and
my mom felt bad about it. She was like, I
don't know I feel about watching a story about Jesus
on a bootleg DVD that we probably paid the equivalent
of like two American dollars.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
For I mean the money. Also, like, wasn't going to
a church you think about it, it was going to Hollywood. Yeah,
So I actually don't know if the guilt there was warranted.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
But this is the only time I've watched this movie,
so I remember enjoying it. I remember the ending, even
though I knew how it was going to end spoiler alert.
But I remember it really affecting me because I was like,
man to see it.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Oh, I think everyone, I think, and to be a
kid when it came out. Yeah, reading and seeing.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I mean it's rated R. So the brutality of it
was something that I wasn't expecting. And I think that's
also something that affected my mom a little bit. That
scene was just hard for her to watch. And then
the whole dilemma of the way we got this DVD.
I think she was just like, I can't watch this
movie anymore. But that is to me peak watching things
on a portable DVD player. I also have Supersized Me,
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which was the documentary about Morgan Spurlock eating McDonald's for
every single meal for a period of time, and what
we found out later was that he was also battling
alcoholism during this so a lot of the effects that
he attributed to him eating McDonald's all the time from
the weight gain him barfing, was not just the food
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he was eating, but also the fact that he was
drinking and not really showing the audience that. So that's
a weird one to look back on and remember.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
How but also don't eat fast footed for every yeah,
every day.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
But it was one that I look back on now, like, man,
it just doesn't feel like a valid movie anymore because
there were some things going on behind the scenes. So
but rip to him. We also have Spider Man two,
which we actually just went this past weekend to go
see in theaters. We saw two point one. That one
I watched for the first time in Spanish. But I
think this one, no, this one was also one that
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they recorded handheld, because I remember, I think there's a
scene that was missing whenever I think doc owc first
goes to attack people missing they went to the bath
and I remember not seeing that until later until I
actually watched it on a real DVD. And I'll say, man,
I miss like a whole ten minutes of this movie
because a.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Guy film and it had to go pee, he had
to get snacks.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
But I also didn't fully understand all the dialogue in
Spanish when I watched this one, so whenever I watched
it again in English, it was kind of like watching
it for the first time. And you've since watched it
seven every single every single time that I don't have
I have anything to watch, I'm always itching to go
watch the Spider Man movies.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
It made me buy tickets like minute anallence, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I was like, I gotta go see it. With New
Footage two point one Gothica, which was a movie with
Halle Berry. Oh that one which was really weird, and
I think that was one that was an actual rip
of the file. But that just wasn't really a good movie.
But I just remember watching that on that DVD player
and then that's pretty much my entire list mine.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
We're all in the in the Twitter list.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
What a good time two thousand and four.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Thanks for simpler, but that is the list.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
I'll come back and I give my spoiler free review
of One Battle after Another. Let's get into it now.
A spoiler free movie review of One Battle after Another
starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Anicio del Toro, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
The movie is about a character named Bob who was
an American revolutionary. Takes place at the beginning of the
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movie in what could some describe as his glory days
of being a revolutionary, fighting back against the government, trying
to liberate some people, blowing things up, and then it
kind of jump cuts to about him fifteen years later,
has a daughter now is trying to maintain a normal
family dynamic. But then a member from his past played
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by Sean Penn, who is the bad guy in this movie,
creeps back into his life, and suddenly he goes from
being kind of a burnt out nobody who just gets
stoned all the time, reminiscing on his days as a revolutionary,
suddenly he is back in it. All of his old
friends come back together in order to save each other,
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keep each other from being in some cases taken out,
in some cases captured. Leonardo DiCaprio on the run the
entire time, and that's what makes this movie exciting. Paul
Thomas Anderson really hasn't done an action movie like this.
He's done really big epic movies like There Will Be Blood.
He's done comedy movies like Liquorage Pizza. Back in the day,
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was known for movies like Boogie Nights, but this is
his first time really stepping into what I feel is
his most commercial film. So going into any Paul Thomas
Anderson movie, my question is is it going to warrant
the runtime? And I feel like that is a slap
of the face to him as a visionary that us
as audiences now we think about those types of things
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because we think about how is this going to fit
into my day? And maybe just because I'm in my
thirties now and I'm like, man, if I go watch
three hour movie, It's going to take out my entire
Friday night. And as soon as this movie started, all
of those concerns went way out the window. Before I
knew it, I was an hour into this movie before
I knew it. Again, we were at the two hour mark,
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and then it ends up being even though it's listed
as two hours and fifty minutes, right around two and
a half hours, this entire movie flew by, and that
was the sign to me that it's a good movie.
I don't have to question his run times anymore. There
is so much action from beginning to end, as there
were so many storylines to follow, because while you're following
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Leonardo DiCaprio and his daughter, which I think at the
core of this movie, it is a movie about father
and daughter dynamic, so you have things like that going on,
you also have Sean Penn's character, who is the villain
in this movie, trying to track down Leonardo DiCaprio. His
character was very much to me giving off Christoph Walton
and glorious bastards, not as intense, not as oscar worthy,
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but that was the cat and mouse dynamic that I
needed in this movie that really made me love it.
And his character is intense but also comical, which I
think is something that maybe some people aren't expecting from
a Paul Thomas Anderson movie, who he does comedy really well.
And I did think that this was going to be
a little bit more of a visceral action movie, just
given the fact that it is about a group of
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revolutionaries who at the beginning of the film do blow
up a lot of things. They have a lot of
intentions of anarchy and chaos, and I thought that was
going to be a little bit more evident throughout the
entire film. And while there is a lot of action
in it, there's also a lot of comedy in it,
so it has this really unique balance going back and
forth between the two. I think in our theater, which
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was a pack theater on a Friday night, there were
a lot of laughs. Sometimes I was confused at what
people were laughing at because I didn't find it to
be as comical as some of the other people in
our audience. So maybe there was some things that were
going a little bit over my head. Even maybe I'm
not smart enough to get some of the jokes. I
didn't see it as full on as a comedy as
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some other people did. To me, it did at moments
kind of feel like Pineapple Express because Leonardo DiCaprio's character
is a stoner. Some could say this is the best
action stoner that has ever been created. But in Pineapple Express,
Seth Rogan plays a guy named Dale Denton who is
a process server. I saw a lot of parallels between
Dale Denton and Bob played by Leonardo DiCaprio that I
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was like, this is almost a more serious version of
that movie, because I was the it was going to
have more of a tone of There will be Blood
by Paul Thomas Anderson, the fact that you have one
of the best actors of all time, Leonardo DiCaprio, who
has that range, who can be a little bit more intense.
This was an entirely different look at Leo. He was
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comical in a way I wasn't expecting he was a
hero at times. But it was almost like Bob wasn't
really set up to be a hero. He was set
up a little bit more to be the comic relief,
to be the dad that did care about his daughter
but also just did not have his life together. And
there are moments where are like, come on, Bob, just
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get it together, get out of the bathrobe, and be
a little bit more heroic. But that's not the story
that was being told here. I would think if there
was one real hero out of the entire film, it
was Benicio del Toro, which my only real complaint with
this movie is I wanted more of him because I
love their dynamic together, them driving in the car, drinking
and driving. Those were the moments that made me feel
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like it was Seth Rogan and James Springo in Pineapple
Express doing dumb things, and it was really cool to
see a movie like this on an incredibly vast cinematic level,
that vision combined with all the comedic elements and giving
me things on screen that I've never seen before. Because
while in somebody else's hands this could have been just
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another generic action movie, you truly see the vision take
shape throughout every scene, having so much intent, all the
storylines working together as one, a true cinematic experience that
is one that you seek out movies like this in
your life. And you realize now maybe more than ever,
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how much Hollywood right now is a director's game. But
you see with the movies that have really impacted audiences
this year, Sinners Weapons Now one battle after another. I'll
even throw highest Lowis in there from Spike Lee. But
it's these directors who are standing out more than just Ip.
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In my opinion, I think original stories are alive and
well and they are right here in front of you.
So I think that is the direction Hollywood needs to go.
Invest more in directors, allow them to make the movies
that they want to make, because boy, this was his
most expensive movie ever, and it puts a lot of
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trust in him to create something that is also gonna
make money. So that's the line you have to walk.
The movie also had a fantastic score that was used
so well throughout. You have this theme song almost driving
all the action in one battle after another. Which the
last movie where the score was so evident that it
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was distracting to me was Highest to Lois, and that
is an example of when it is used correctly and
when I believe it is used incorrectly. And highest to Lois,
it was so distracting and it changed the feeling of
every single because it was so overbearing with this orchestra.
It made it feel so lesser than what was actually
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happening on the screen. But here it added to the intensity.
It added to that franticness, It added to that feeling
of anxiety, just that dun chugging all the way throughout
the film. A lot of Auscar nominations are going to
be thrown out for this movie. I don't think it
is one that is going to warrant an automatic win
for Leonardo DiCaprio. He'll probably be nominated, but I don't
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think he is giving Best Actor in this I think
it's because Bob's character doesn't have the greatest amount of range.
He does his comedic thing really well throughout, and there
are moments where Leonardo shines in a way that he
never has. But I don't think that warrants a win
for Best Actor. I think Benicio del Toro will get
Supporting Actor. If anybody is a clear winner here, I
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think Paul Thomas Anderson for Best Director and Best Score.
Those were the two elements that really stood out to me.
Cinematograph could also be one where they take home an oscar.
Because this movie looked beautiful. They filmed a lot of
it in California and El Paso. I love every single
scene that took place in El Paso. They also use
a lot of non actors, which I love it when
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directors use this because it adds to the level of authenticity.
Where you have somebody like Sean Penn interacting with other
people who are not actors. That gives you that taste
of the community, a taste of that environment, that adds
to that sense of realism. One of my favorite examples
of this was No Country for Old Men, where the
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Coen Brothers use a lot of people throughout this small
town in Texas as the actual people in that town.
Paul Thomas Anderson did the same thing here, and it
makes those interactions just feel that much more authentic. Chase
Infinity was also great as Leonardo DiCaprio's daughter. She was
fantastic and presumed innocent. I think she is somebody who
is going to have a really great career in Hollywood.
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But my favorite thing about One Battle after Another is
I believe it has the best chase scene in ten years.
Before this, my number one chase scene in the last
ten years was Penguin being chased by the Batman with
Robert Pattinson and Colin Farrell. But without giving up too much,
the chas sing in the third act is the best
chasing I've seen since. Is it a masterpiece? No, but
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it's really close. And it's so hard for me to
give out a perfect score because right now I believe
that a perfect score comes with time. This does feel
like a movie that has a great rewatchability factor, So
quite possibly down the line, I could look back on
this and think, oh, that truly was a masterpiece. But
for now I give One Battle after Another a four
point five out of five Bathrobes.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
It's time to head down to movie Mike.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Trey Lar Paul for the first time in seven years
Star Wars. Why am I saying that weird. I think
it's because my dad says it as Star Wars. Star
Wars is returning to the box office next year May
twenty second, twenty twenty six, we are getting the Mandalorian
and gro Good. I feel like the fan base is
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pretty split on this movie, and I think it's the
fans who have been there since day one, maybe not
even day one, back in the seventies. It is those
people who have a hard time accepting that Star Wars
has and always will be aimed towards a younger audience,
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making movies that sell toys and inspiring young people with
these stories. That is overall what Star Wars has done.
If you were a kid when the original trilogy came out,
that is probably the best memories you associate with the franchise.
That is your baby. If you were a kid in
the late nineties, early two thousands, the prequel trilogy, oh
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those are your babies. If now you are somebody who
just discovered Star Wars in the last saga that so
many people hate, that's still going to be your baby.
And in ten years that is what is going to
be recognized as some of the best Star Wars films.
Not right now, because people still hate on it a lot,
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and I think that's why people are so split on
this show. And I call it a show because it
has roots on Disney Plus, and to those people, I
think this feels like just season four of The Mandalorian
on the big screen, and we'll get into all the
things that Disney has going on right now with their
Disney Plus model. But I still think the majority of
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the hate is those people who still want these movies
to be the films of their childhood and it is
never going to be like that. But whenever the sequel
trilogy came out, that is where I started to go
see all of them in theaters and then went back
and revisited all the Star Wars movies and did a
deep dive. It is those movies that were the conduit
to me even being able to associate myself with the
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Star Wars fandom. Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, The Rise
of Skywalker. I love those movies, and you can't really
say that in Star Wars culture, it seems because for
the most part, everybody believes that the writing was so terrible.
A lot of people hate Ray I found them to
be really enjoyable. And that is what got me into
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The Mandalorian, because without those movies, I don't think I
would have been interested in a show about a character
I had no idea about. Is because of those movies,
whenever The Mandalorian first premiered, I was like, I'm going
to check that out, And to date, it is my
favorite of all the Star Wars shows because I feel
it is the perfect balance of the original trilogy and
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what it needs to evolve to in order to survive.
Season one came out back in twenty nineteen, Season two
came out in twenty twenty, and season three was already
a couple of years ago, came out in twenty twenty
three was what I believe to be the weakest of
all the seasons, And now it all kind of makes
sense because I think that was the bridge to get
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us to this movie. But I think now it makes sense.
The official description of the movie reads, the Evil Empire
has fallen and the Imperial Warlreds remain scattered throughout the galaxy.
As the fledging New Republic works to protect everything the
Rebellion fought for. They have enlisted the help of legendary
Mandalorian bounty hunter played by Pedro Pascal and his young
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apprentice Grogu. So Pedro Pascal is returning, Jeremy Allen White
is going to play job of the hutsun Rata I
believe that you pronounce it. Sigourney Weaver is also in
this movie. So before we talk about this more and
why everybody is so split on this, here's just a
little bit of the Mandalorian and Grogu trailer.
Speaker 3 (44:51):
Progressive fuck good shot David.
Speaker 1 (45:10):
So not a whole lot of dialogue in this trailer. Overall.
The trailer is pretty short, under two minutes. I think
it's like a minute and a half. You see some fighting,
you see a big lizard monster, you see the ataighties
go down, you see the Mandalorian fighting, some people flying,
all the things you would expect in a Mandalorian trailer.
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You do get that first glimpse of Jeremy Allen White
voicing Rata, which I think that scene was pretty cool.
Aside from that, they're not giving us too many specific
details about what is going on where the Mandalorian is
in his journey where they're trying to break into. You
do see Grogu try out a couple of different things,
which I think that is probably the most entertaining part
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of the Mandalorian is just seeing Grogu be cute and
do silly little things like here you see him trying
to use the force to get a snack. You see
him swimming, which I was like, oh man, you gotta
put the little guy in some water and make him swim.
And then you also see what I believe is going
to be the GIF or meme worthy moment of Grogu
kind of eating some kind of popcorn like snack. It
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looks like it's in a popcorn tin and he's just
munching on it. You kind of heard it in the
clip there, But that just tells me the man who
eating Grogu is going to have a sick popcorn bucket.
I want a Rod of the Hut popcorn bucket right now.
I'm already putting myself on the pre order list for that.
I would love something like that of Grogu holding a
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popcorn bucket. I have to imagine that has to be
the tie in now, because I think the thing to
have is a cool popcorn bucket in twenty twenty five,
so definitely in twenty twenty six. My main issue with
this trailer. Is it looks exactly like the TV show visually?
And I have to think about it because I don't
want to be an I rational fan. Here. Is it
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that this movie looks just like a TV show or
the TV show looks so good that it looks like
a movie. I actually think the TV show looks so
good that it looks like a movie, and this just
looks I don't know if they can make it look
any better without changing the aesthetic. Because as much as
I would love some film green on this to make
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it look more like a seventy Star Wars film, to
have that rich, bold look, they filmed this for IMAX.
They wanted to look big. They wanted to look crystal clear.
The way they make these shows and Star Wars movies
is using that big led screen for a lot of
these backgrounds. So I think they have to look a
very specific way because obviously they're not going to some
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planet outside of this world to film these movies. They're
doing it in a studio with a big screen that
they could project anything on to give it that depth.
But I think that requires a specific kind of camera
that you can't really make it look like those practical
effects and how they feel in the original trill where
everything most everything was something tangible. But if you look
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at how much they spend on seasons of The Mandalorian,
to make season one costs about one hundred to one
hundred and twenty million dollars, which is pretty expensive. Episodes
range from about fifteen to twenty million dollars alone. That
is a small movie budget in itself, and this movie
cost about one hundred and sixty six million dollars, So
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I feel like it's a little bit comparable, adding a
little bit there to maybe make it more cinematic, maybe
do some things that they haven't done in the TV show.
I think that is the issue I'm having with watching
this trailer, is that it just doesn't feel as epic
to me. And then you have to think about the
Disney Plus model, which it's also releasing on Memorial Day weekend,
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the same weekend that this year Leelo and Stitch came out.
Leilo and Stitch was initially going to be a Disney
Plus series, not the first time they've done that. Also
with Mwana two was also gonna be a Disney Plus series.
But they put those movies out in theaters, and what
did they do. They made a lot of money Leilo
and Stitch highest grossing movie of the year, hitting that
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billion mark. I think they are trying that again because
if they are spending so much money on The Mandalorian
and the return on investment is okay on Disney, it
is a big exclusive for them. Probably a big reason
that people subscribe to Disney Plus is to watch The Mandalorian.
It is that big of a show. But if they
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could create a movie instead that goes to the box
office and brings home a billion dollars, that is worth
so much more. You create a moment like Lelo and
Stitch did this year where people were filling on the theaters,
But do audiences want that from a Star Wars film
or we already conditioned to watching this at home. I
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think that is the difference here because Mawana came out
in theaters. First, came out in theaters again, so that
is what we were conditioned to. Same with Leelo and
Stitch with a movie back in the day came out
in theaters. No real difference there. This is a show
that only exists on Disney Plus. If it feels exactly
the same, even though it could be great and I
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think a lot of people who have a problem with
that will still go watch it in theaters and still
love it. Even if it's great, people are still gonna
say that was exactly like the TV show that was
just season four on the big screen. But you made
me pay more money for it. You made me driving
my car to the theater, You made me buy the
popcorn bucket. Look at all these extra things you made
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me buy. That is going to be the difference here.
And when this movie comes out, it'll be the first
Star Wars movie in theaters in seven years. How is
that going to be received? Because they've had some hits,
they've had some misses. Solo didn't do so well. Even
though I love Donald Glover Eslando, Rogue One was probably
the best out of all those movies. Even though I
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loved the sequel trilogy, Rogue One is just a fantastic
movie on its own. You don't have to know anything
else about Star Wars. It is just a great movie.
And then the other thing, Pedro Pascal. I feel like
his reception among audiences is a little bit different now.
I feel like this doesn't have as much of an
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effect on people's Pedro fatigue because He's not really seen
a whole lot. Unless the Mandalorian takes off his helmet,
you hear his voice, but he does it so differently
that you could honestly disassociate and not realize that you
were at a Pedro Pascal movie another time. Because apparently,
if he doesn't make a movie that comes out in
theaters every three months, he like turns back into a
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pumpkin or something. I don't think that'll be a major
issue here, but that is another bit of rumblings that
I hear from the split fan base right now. And
then it is directed by John Favreau, who created The Mandalorian,
who was a fantastic director. Obviously, we know him for
the Iron Man movies, for directing those, for being happy,
but I kind of feel like The Mandalorian is his baby,
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and I trust him with making something worthy of the
big screen that it's going to be epic, even though
everything right now telling me this doesn't feel like it
warrants a movie. It almost feels like a meeting that
could have been an email, but I want to be
proven wrong. The other really weird thing that I'll critique
about this is I hate the font I am all
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about a good movie poster font, but I hate the
font that the title of the movie is in. It
almost looks like a reused font that Disney has already
used before. Just the color scheme of it doesn't feel
right to me. It doesn't feel like it looks good
on the poster. And they did release like a kind
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of hand drawn, hand painted looking poster that's supposed to
look a little bit nostalgic. But I just can't get
over the font. These little things that I'm finding that
I'm hoping in the end just mean nothing. But The
Mandalorian comes out in theaters next year on May twenty second,
twenty twenty six. PA head that for us.
Speaker 2 (53:01):
This week's edition of Movie by Framer.
Speaker 1 (53:04):
Bar and that is going to do it for another
episode here of the podcast. But before I go, I
got to give my listener shout out of the week
this week. I'm going over to Instagram. I posted a
reel for my Zach Kregor interview that I did last
week the director of Weapons, and I said comment with
the hot dog emoji, and I will pick somebody as
next week's listener shout out of the Week. So this
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week's listener shout out goes to Gina, who commented with
four hot dog emojis and said, Mike, quick question, does
it help your ratings more if we access your podcast
directly on the iHeart app versus accessing it on the
BBS link in the app? I try to go to
your podcast directly because it seems that would be better
for you. Question mark shrug it emoji. Thank you Gina
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first of all for listening to last week's episode, for
commenting on the reel, and for asking that question, because
it's a great question. The answer is, wherever you listen,
it helps. Doesn't matter if it's directly subscribed to the
movie Mike's Movie podcast feed or if you listen on
the Bobby Bone Show feed, which I know a lot
of people do. It all helps put gas in the car.
(54:10):
So wherever you're listening, I don't want to change your habits.
What I prefer is that you are subscribed to the
actual movie Mike's Movie podcast feed, whether it be on
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, wherever you get your podcast, just
because that ensures that you get every single brand new episode.
So if you are subscribed there, it means like we're friends,
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like we're good like, oh, you you're a writer. Die.
You are in this for the long run. If I
put up a bonus episode, you're gonna get that on
that feed, because sometimes it won't go up on the
BBS feed because you know, my favorite thing is somebody
who posts on Twitter or Instagram listening and it's a
screenshot that way. I know I see my logo down there,
so I love that. But wherever you listen means the
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world to me, no matter how you do it. So
appreciate you Gena for asking that question. It makes to
everybody for listening this week and until next time, go
out and watch good movies and I will talk to
you later.
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