Mike got a question from a listener that read: Someone comes out of a 10 year coma. What movies do you recommend they see? Mike gives his Top 10 list of movies he would put on the list that came out in the last 10 years. In the movie review, Mike talks about the new Aubrey Plaza movie Emily the Criminal which is a crime-thriller. And in the trailer park, Mike shares a new Zac Efron movie called “The Greatest Beer Run Ever” based on a true story and coming to Apple and theaters this fall.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to Movie mis Movie Podcast. I
am your host movie Mike, and today we have a
listener inspired topic. We are covering the subject that's gonna
appeal to so many people, movies to watch after you
just woke up from a tenure coma. I'll explain the
rules on the topic. Today. In the movie review, we'll
talk about one of the most exhilarating movies I've seen
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the last five years, Emily the Criminals during Aubrey Plaza,
who I feel is an underrated actress, and I'll get
more into that. And then in the trailer park, we
have a new zac Efron movie coming to Apple TV
plus called the Greatest Beer Run Ever, and the premise
sounds completely ridiculous, but it is based on a true story,
so has me a little bit more curious to see
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what old zac Efron is up to. Thanks everybody for
being subscribed to the podcast, listening every single Monday. Shout
out to the Monday Morning movie crew. Let's talk movies.
In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast,
one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like
never both or in a movie podcast, a man with
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so much movie knowledge. He's basically like a walking aud
M David with glasses from the Nashville Podcast Network Movie
Movie Podcast. So I love it when you send in questions.
And this week's topic is inspired by a tweet I
got from at my father Hates Me, which is an
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excellent Twitter handle. I would love to impact the psychology
behind that Twitter handle, but that's probably for a different podcast.
But they wrote from at my father Hates Me Movie mic,
someone comes out of a tenure coma, what five movies
do you recommend they see? Now? Not only was it
hard for me to do just five, but I thought
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this would be a great podcast topic, so I decided
to extend it to ten. The rules I put into
place for this list is, hypothetically this person who went
into a coma, I'm having them go in on January one,
so they didn't see any movie we that came out
in twenty twelve and they woke up yesterday. Those are
the rules I made up and I'm playing by. So
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basically it goes January one, this person goes into a
coma and then yesterday woke up, Oh man, what a coma?
I should probably catch up on a lot of life things,
but Hey, movie, Mike, what movie should I watch? This
is what I would recommend. And when I put this
list together, I didn't just want to include my favorite movies.
I thought of this person who just woke up and
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missed out on ten years of film. So this list
isn't necessarily my top ten movies of the last ten years.
It's more if I was curating a list, if I
was stacking up literal like blue rays or queuing up
a streaming playlist for movies, these are the movies I
would pick to take them on the entire wave of
emotions I felt in the last ten years. You gotta
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have the big triumphant cinematic moments. You have to have
some of the emotional moments. You have to have some
of the heartwarming moments. Gotta throw in some scares in there.
So I put this from ten to one as kind
of how I would curate this movie watching playlist. Without
a doubt, there will be some honorable mentions, and I
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even pulled some that you submitted in on Twitter and
Instagram and Facebook. So let's get into the list. At
number ten, I'm gonna put top Gun Maverick, which came
out this year. I feel like, that's a good place
to start at number ten, because this is a movie
that came almost thirty years after the original one, and
it was just such a big moment in cinematic history
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this year, grossing so much money at the box office,
but just the impact that's had on people getting back
into the movie theater and just the impact that this
movie has had bringing in all different types of movie fans.
You have the older crowd, the younger crowd being exposed
to this franchise, and then you just have people who
just want to go experience something with a lot of thrills,
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a lot of fun. And I think this movie just
really nailed it this year. And I think that's what
this movie did for a lot of people. It was
reinvigorating of like those classic movie moments, and it was
one of the first movies in a long time that
so many people have just talked about how much they
loved it, how almost everybody I know that I went
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to go see this movie in theaters didn't have anything
bad to say about it. And I also just think
it would be a really nice street to wake up
to an unexpected thing, to come out of a coma
and there be a Top Gun sequel and one you
didn't have to wait through all the delays like we did.
So at number ten, I'm going with Top Gun Maverick.
At number nine, I'm going back to and I'm putting
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in Blade Runner. This is one of the most aesthetically pleasing,
practical effects using and best sci fi thriller I've seen
in a very long time. It kind of took away
all my feelings that I had before of Blade Runner,
and I think a lot of that is due to
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how slick this movie looks. The cinematography in this is exquisite,
and I love that they used a lot of practical effects.
They actually built the sets for this movie, so it
has just overall a more authentic feel. It doesn't feel
like I'm watching a movie that was just manufactured in
a warehouse. There's just some realness to it. There's some
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grit to it. I really like Ryan Gosling as Officer
K in this. I think this is the type of
role that he does really well, and he's really good
at playing the stoic but also dominant action star and
I think perfect casting with him. You have another Artemus
Mackenzie Davis and also Jared Leto, who plays a really
weird character in this movie, and overall, I just feel
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like it's a pretty weird person, so a perfect casting
there as well. And then you also have Harrison Ford
back from the original Blade Runner, which came out in
two and I just felt like, this is when this
movie should have been made now. To make a movie
like this back in the eighties was very em shouts,
and I know the eighties were kind of obsessed with
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this dystopian type future and kind of predicting what everything
was going to look like. So I just felt like
coming out in seventeen, the technology was there. So if
I was curating this list for this person coming out
of this coma and they were coming down off the
high of Top Gun Maverick, I think that's where you
slide in a movie like this because it's just so different.
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I feel like it's the perfect blend of sci fi.
It's the perfect blend of action and a movie I
think that came out in the last ten years that
probably everybody should see. A number eight. I am already
anticipating the hate I'm going to get for putting this
movie on my list, but for how this movie made
me feel. For what it did for the franchise and
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all the hype leading into this movie. There was nothing
bad I felt watching this movie. It was all the
negative reviews and the fandom coming out later of how
much they hated this entire trilogy. But at number eight,
I'm going with Star Wars. The Force Awakens from this
movie felt so nostalgic to me, and I am a
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what I would say, a casual Star Wars fan. I
love the original trilogy Star Wars A New Hope is
my favorite Star Wars movie, and The Force Awakens, I
felt was so nostalgic and to me did a really
great job at kind of being an ode to that movie.
Out of all of the movies in the last trilogy,
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I felt like The Force Awakens did the best job
out of capturing that original energy in that movie. And
I just think you can't deny seeing Chewbacca and seeing
Han Solo come back in this movie. That is a
movie memory that I just haven't forgotten. There are maybe
ten overall in my life that I just remember the
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moment I experienced that for the first time and seeing
them come back, even as a pretty casual Star Wars fan,
that meant something to me seeing those original characters, seeing
R two, D two and C three p O, seeing
Princess Leia, but then also introducing a new cast of
characters with Ray and Finn and then Adam Driver as
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Kylo Wren. I just felt like this movie had a
lot of heart, It had a lot of nostalgia, It
has that big Star Wars energy, and it played out
so well on the big screen. So I think, to
this person waking up from this coma, they would appreciate
seeing a new Star Wars movie. And I'll leave it
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to this coma patient to decide how they feel about it.
But I just think it's such a noteworthy movie. It's
one I think doesn't get the credit it deserves because
there is just so much hate from the fandom. But
at number eight, I'm going with Star Wars The Force
Awakens and number seven. Now, I think it's time for
a horror movie. And I addled between two movies to
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put on the list here. The Conjuring From is one
of my favorite horror movies, not just in the last
ten years, but probably of all time. I just love
things that deal with the paranormal, things that deal with
the undead, and I thought that movie did a really
great job at building suspense and actually scaring me, which
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is very hard to do. That movie has stuck with me,
but maybe it's because I've been on such a Jordan
Peel kick and you're probably getting tired of me talking
about Jordan Peel. But I'm gonna put at number seven
from sen get Out because I think this movie has horror,
but it also kind of transcends that and even if
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you're not a fan of the horror genre, you can
enjoy this movie. And I think, to this coma patient
who is waking up, I'm trying to curate this list
giving you things you haven't seen before. You've probably seen
something similar to a conjuring in the other years you
were alive and watching movies. And but if I was
the one coming out of a coma, I think I
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would want something a little bit more novel, a little
bit more groundbreaking and thought provoking, also provide me with
some scares, which I think get Out does do pretty well.
Not full on gory, violent scares, but it's a little
bit more suspense and thriller, and it's a movie that
I feel audiences, for the most part, really enjoyed. It
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also did really well with the critics and set Jordan
Peel up for having the career he is having now.
So at number seven, I am going with get Out.
From moving on now to number six, I think it's
time for something a little bit more uplifting, a little
bit more cheerful and heartwarming. I am going to go
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and keep it in and give you Pixars Coco. I
think this is the most important Pixar film in the
last ten years, which I kind of have this maybe
rose colored glasses when it comes to Pixar because I
associated with my childhood, I associated so much with their
early on hits. But just looking at the Pixar movies
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from the last ten years, Coco was without a doubt
the best one. But I don't feel like they've had
another really strong, stone cold hit in the last ten years.
And I just find myself generally enjoying every single Pixar
movie that comes out. They don't make bad movies, well
maybe except one on this less than the last ten years,
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but I feel like in the last ten years they've
been a little bit mediocre. Going back from twelve, they
had Brave the Monsters University Inside Out, which I feel
like is the second best also probably could have qualified
on this list, but Coco just beats it out. The
Good Dinosaur, which was a rare flop for Pixar, and
then you have Finding Dory, Cars three, Coco, which I
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have here on my list, The Incredibles too, that was
another good one and one that came way way after
the original Toy Story four, which probably didn't need to happen.
And then in you had Onward, which was probably the
weakest aside from the Good Dinosaur movie. I was expecting
to like a lot more than I did. And then
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you have Soul, which they kind of got away from
making movies for kids, Luca which was good, but I
don't feel like we'll really care about that movie in
ten years. Turning Red, which was a bright spot this year,
and I feel like it kind of got screwed over
just being put on Disney. Plus that movie should have
had a full theater release, and then you have light Year.
So just looking at all those movies, combining them all together,
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it looks like, yeah, a bunch of great Pixar movies,
But when you kind of pick apart one by one,
none of those are really that long lasting. I feel
like we associate pis are a lot more with the
early two thousand's. But out of that list, Coco was
a movie that maybe it was because it had Mexican
heritage in it, and I saw a lot of my family,
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I saw my culture rippers in it in a Pixar movie.
It had music, it had imagery from the Day of
the Dead, but also just really built some of the
funnest and most unique Pixar characters in a very long time.
And even though yes, it was speaking to somebody who
is from my culture as a Mexican American, but I
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think it also just transcended that and just provided a
really good story. So I think if this person was
waking up out of a coma, they need to see Coco.
They need to have those feelings, they need to feel
those emotions. Maybe they need to cry a little, get
it all out of their system because it's been just
built up there for so long. So I think if
there was one Pixar movie because I needed one on
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my list, I will easily go with Coco. From now,
we've made it to the top five. So, going back
to this original question from at my father Hates Me,
the five movies I would recommend to this person who
just came out of a ten year coma and we
are looking into two and I'm putting The Batman and
for five. I was talking earlier about movie moments that
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I have experienced in the last ten years that have
just become a part of me, a part of me
that I just remember and have kind of stored in
my brain as these are moments that something like you
know when you learn something, there's a wrinkle that is
created in your brain. I have that with movies, and
The Batman provided me with another movie moment this year,
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and it's that's chasing between the Batman and the Penguin
and seeing the Batmobile rise from the flames, and it's
just the most heroic part out of that entire movie,
where the penguin thinks he's getting away, looks in his
review mirror and there's the Batman. That scene got me
so hype that at that point in that movie got
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turned to my wife and said, this is the best
thing I've ever seen. And I know it was in
the moment of that, but that's truly how I felt.
It created this movie memory for me that I will
never forget, and I want this person coming out of
this tenure Coma to experience that, and that it's also
a movie that I didn't realize not everybody was going
to love. I had this feeling of like, everybody's gonna
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love this, It's gonna make so much money, be number one,
and I can't see it any other way. And it
felt like it wasn't as well received, and I still
find that mind blowing. I feel like that was the
perfect movie. It was taking Batman unlike we've seen him ever.
I mean, maybe a little bit like The Dark Guy,
but it was just so re and fighting to the
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franchise and created something different and it had a reason
to be made. And I loved it so much that
I find it crazy that people didn't love it as
much as I did, that people had problems with it.
But I still think, to this person coming out of
this tanure Coma, they have to experience that movie moment.
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So I'm putting The Batman at number five. At number four,
I haven't put a Marvel movie on this list yet,
and it's hard to do because there are so many
Marvel movies that came out in the last ten years.
Basically the entire phase like leading up to End Game.
So what do you put on here? Do you put
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the original Avengers from? Do you put a solo movie
so this person waking up doesn't have to watch every
other movie to get it. Or do you go with
the biggest and the best. And in my heart, I
wanted to go with the Avengers from, which is the
one that really kicked off what Marvel came to be.
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But again, I'm thinking about movie moments here. I'm thinking
about great things in cinema, and I just couldn't not
put Avengers Endgame at number four from nineteen and I
get that this person is going to be a little
confused if they didn't see the first Avengers up to
they've only really seen Thor Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk.
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And then you also come in halfway between Infinity War,
which is actually my favorite Avengers movie. But I think
in this three and a half hour movie, you're gonna
get it. I hope you get it. I just think,
even without seeing all the previous movies, that moment where
all the Avengers come out to help Captain America, I
need you to feel that. So I needed to put
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this on my list. So at number four, I'm going
Within Game at number three. We're staying in one of
my favorite years of movies, nineteen, and I'm going to
put the most important foreign film in the last ten years.
I'm going with Parasite. Assuming this person waking up from
this comma is American and only speaks English will have
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to read the subtitles to understand this movie. But I
think that will provide this person with an unexpected treat
And I think now when I watch a movie from
another country and I have to read and pay attention
to subtitles, it makes me understand the cont x more.
It allows me to not miss things that maybe sometimes
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I would in a normal movie because I am paying
attention to not only every single sentence that is read
of dialogue, but sometimes down to the word. And you
kind of see a script on the screen and it
makes a little bit more sense of how important every
word and a movie is, which is something you don't
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really think about. Every word in a script should have
some importance when it's a really good movie like that
is just a sign of great writing. And I think
that's what Parasite did really well. This movie shattered so
many records when it came out, and very much deserved
the Best Picture Award, so it's one I would have
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to include on this list, putting it at number three.
At number two, we're going to and I wasn't putting
a whole lot of Marvel on this list, like I
said earlier, because they are so interconnected, but this movie
is a standalone movie. If you missed out on the
other Spider Man movies that happened in the last ten years,
you don't really need them. At number two, I'm going
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with spider Man into the Spider Verse, which is personally
my favorite spider Man film. Even though I think spider
Man two is the best spider Man film, I can
differentiate the two and knowing that spider Man two checks
off all the boxes for me more of what makes
a great spider Man film. But I just love spider
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Man Into the spider Verse so much because it is
so different, because it creates this really fun world to explore.
The artistic direction and the attention to detail in this
movie is unreal. The voice acting is top notch. And
I know Spider Man sometimes gets criticized for having so
many reincarnations, like how many more Spider Man films do
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we need? How many more Batman films do we need, well,
we need as many as we can get, as long
as they keep reinventing themselves. I'm down for all the
reincarnations of any super a hero. But this movie did
something that I really wasn't expecting it to do in
being so well received among the critics, which is a
hard thing to do. I feel like fans love this
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movie so much, but it's often just held to such
a higher standard of being an Oscar nominated and an
Oscar winning film. It won Best Animated Feature in nineteen
and is one of the Spider Man movies that I've
rewatched the most, especially in the last ten years. So
I feel really good putting this one at number two,
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especially in this slot, coming down from a foreign film,
providing you with a little bit more fun in an
animated movie, and especially getting to what I'm about to
put at number one. But before I get to that,
some honorable mentions I want to throw out. I almost
thought of putting everything everywhere, all at once from this year.
I thought of throwing a musical from seventeen La La Land.
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Baby Driver was another great movie in seventeen, Really close
to making it was all so the suicide Squad, which
I really enjoyed. Another great movie from d C. Wolf
of Wall Street almost made the list. I debated on
uncut gems, Ready Player one, and Black Panther is probably
one that if it wouldn't have been for Top Gun
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coming out this year, I would have put yet another
Marvel movie towards the bottom of my list. I do
have some picks from listeners. Justin Words tweeted me and
his five movies are Joker, from which I rewatched recently,
and that movie is a pretty big bummer, and I
just thought, for this person coming out of this coma,
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I couldn't do that to him. He also has trained
to boost On from seventeen, a great zombie movie. Dave
made a maze from Crushed the Skull from and Coco
at twenty seventeen make Justin's list. And then Robert Herrick
on Facebook just came at me with the Marvel movies,
putting The Avengers from twelve and then Age of Ultron,
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Black Panther, Infinity War, and and Game all on his list,
which I could have easily done, but I didn't want
to bombard this person with just hey, here are the
great Marvel movies I love watch these, but thank you
Justin and Robert for your five movie pick submissions. And
now we've made it to number one, and from I
am going with Christopher Nolan's Interstellar. Interstellar is a movie
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that I've lived with now for eight years. I rewatched
it earlier this year and had a new fascination with it.
There are very few movies that do that for me,
and I credit that to Christopher Nolan. He is so
ambitious in his filmmaking of creating things that we've never
seen before, and usually the first time we watch them
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don't fully understand, whether it be Inception, whether it be Tenant,
which came out and a lot of people didn't really like.
Maybe in another years I'll fully get that one, or
even Memento back in the day. There's just something about
a Christopher Nolan film that invokes a lot of thought,
and Interstellar is one of the most important sci fi
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movies ever made. It has all my favorite things, timelines, wormholes,
space travel, Matthew McConaughey, pickup trucks, and it takes you
on an emotional journey. It takes you on this sci
fi journey and raises so many questions about our existence
about life itself, about science, and I felt like there
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was a lot of science in this movie and a
lot of pretty complex theories and concepts. And I think
the reason I rewatched this movie this year because it
gets referenced in thor Love and Thunder, and it made
me think about it again, and rewatching it kind of
brought back all those same feelings. It even led me
to do another deep dive this year and read some
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more theories about this movie and what kind of a
movie does that? Like? What kind of a movie could
you watch back in and still be thinking about in
So to this person coming out of this coma who
missed out on this, I'll leave them with that movie
at number one to shatter their mind and make them
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think about the world differently. And they'll probably watch this
movie and like myself, and not fully get it. Maybe
revisit it back and watch it again, maybe have to
do a little Google search and find some theories on
the movie and then get into a whole another discussion
and thread of science and time and space. And that's
all from a movie. So that is my number one
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that has been my list. If there are any you
think I should have added or should have included hit
me up at Mike Destro on Twitter or send me
an email movie Mike d at gmail dot com. Thanks
again to my father hates me for that question. If
you have a question or topic idea for an epis
so it hit me up to send them my way.
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Let's get into a movie review now. I want to
talk about Emily The Criminal, which stars Aubrey Plaza. You
may know her from Parks and Wreck. She's also been
in Ingrid Goes West, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates,
and she is one of my favorite late night talk
show guests because she is so quirky and weird and
just feels very authentic and also isn't like fully in
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the Hollywood machine, at least it feels that way. So
I find that she picks projects that means something to her,
and I'll go as far as saying that I think
she is in the prime of her career right now.
In this movie, she plays a character named Emily who
has a staggering amount of student debt about seventy k
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which is a lot, and she is trying to find
a job to help her pay off that debt, but
she also has a criminal history. She has some things
on her record that make it very difficult to get
a higher paying job, and then all kind of changes
when she gets involved in this organization and involved in
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a bit of organized crime that has to do with
buying things with stolen credit cards. We'll get into this
full spoiler free review, but here's just a little bit
of the Emily the Criminal trailer. How are you I
need a real job just to like pay my loans. Emily,
let me hook you up in the next hour. You
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will make two cash, but you have to do something
in won't be in danger, but you will be breaking
the law. Yo, you gotta pay for that. Sorry, let's say,
are you gonna pay for that? Oh my god? Sorry? Man?
Tomorrow you have the option to do another job. Okay,
what do I have to do? So what you heard
in that trailer was the very start of the movie.
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I love that the movie opens up explaining how crippling
this debt is, and I think what this movie was
trying to do was, in a very kind of exaggerated way,
show how some people deal with desperation, how some people
deal with this issue in society of the unwillingness to
give some people a second chance. And her character has
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these things on her record that she's not proud of
that every employer she goes to just can't really look past.
And she has this seventy K student debt that she's
struggling to pay off. It keeps building more and more
interest on it, and it's getting to a point that
it's going to breakers. She has reached a breaking point
in this movie, and she's also struggling with trying to
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land her dream job. So we kind of find her
struggling in every area of her life. She's not living
in the best situation. She has even an issue with
her friend who works at her dream company doing her
dream job of working in design. So then she stumbles
upon this business to where what you heard in there
was she was offered two hundred dollars to go to
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the store and purchase something with an illegal credit card.
And then after coming off of that thrill, she realizes, well,
if everybody else has kind of counted me out, no
one's really given me a chance. I'm going now to
force my own future and force my way out of
this debt. And the entire movie kind of shows all
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the highs and lows that come with working in a
business like this and follows along Emily as she goes
from somebody who was down on her luck to now
maybe being able to get out of her financial struggles.
What I really enjoyed about this movie is it felt
very authentic. It didn't have this Hollywood style approach to
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a movie like this, a crime thriller that felt just
a little bit more authentic. It was really just the
telling of a story of somebody down on their luck,
a person who was is unable to get their second
chance from society. So it's a commentary on how we
don't offer somebody like this with a criminal past a
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second chance. And yes, the movie is a little bit exaggerated,
and I feel like if you're looking at this movie
just on the plot points and picking apart the little
details about it, like, yes, is seventy K in student
debt a lot? Yeah, that's a lot. That's enough to
stress you out and something that a lot of people
in this country deal with. Is that enough to drive
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somebody to a life of crime? Probably not, But for
the sake of the movie, it provides a pretty good
plot point to see how in Emily's case, yeah, that
was enough to kind of push her over the edge
and want to do something like this. So some of
the actions of her character in this movie are a
little bit exaggerated and maybe come out of nowhere, but
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I think that ramps up and builds to the tension
in this movie that it was trying to create. It
was trying to create a good thriller, so sometimes you
do have to over exaggerate things, and I think one
of my favorite things that this movie does is build
that tension. I think this was the most stressed I
felt in a movie theater since Uncut Gems. If you've
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seen Uncut Gems, you remember it was a character just
making bad decision after bad decision, and in your mind
watching this, you're like, why are you doing that? Like
this is gonna all blow up in your face. Just
stop while you're ahead. That is also how I felt
while watching Emily the Criminal. So it's like watching something
like that unfold and it's just beautiful and entertaining to
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watch and kind of a sick and twisted way. And
Emily the Criminal is this character who just gets pushed
to her limits, she can't take it anymore. And I
think Aubrey Plaza just plays that character so well and
for somebody who's known primarily as a comedic actor, which
I really don't see her as that anymore. She's kind
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of shown me her performances in Ingrid Goes West, in
Black Bear, and then this movie really solidifying that is
that she does have a darker side to her acting abilities.
And there's a moment in this movie where you just
kind of see her snap and I see her go
into this level of acting that I've never really seen
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in her before. So I think she does darker roles
really well. She is not only on my list of
underrated actors but also one now that I will watch
any movie that she's in. There are very few actors
that I just follow along to their career, doesn't really
matter what the project is they're taking on. I just
know that I'm going to watch it because I'm such
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a fan of their work, and Aubrey Plaza is one
of those actors for me. And I do think this
movie is worth seeing in theaters because of that thrill
that it provides. Now, this is an independent movie, had
a lower budget. I think it's maybe cross the million
dollar mark at this point, so it may not be
going around you, but if it is showing at a
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small local theater around you. I had to go to
my local theater to watch this movie, and I just
found myself really enjoying the experience. So if you like so,
if you're a fan of thrillers, I think this is
one you will really enjoy. It's a movie that has
really great pacing. I think a large part of that
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is due to it's ninety minute runtime. I think that's
the final thing I'll leave you. One that I loved
about this movie is it cut out all the fat
that a normal movie like this may have. Like that's
why I felt it was the most un Hollywood thriller
that I've seen. It just gets right to the action,
and instead of providing backstory on Emily, it just showed
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me through her actions. Do you see this character grow
throughout the movie that you don't need to provide any
additional backstory of how she got all this debt, how
she got all those things on a record, which a
normal movie probably would provide and think, oh we need
to set all these things up. You just get a
glimpse at her life right when this is all happening.
So that probably eliminated a good twenty thirty minutes that
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didn't need to exist. So at ninety minutes has the
perfect amount of action, the perfect amount of suspense, and
the perfect amount of I can't believe this is happening?
And how is she going to get out of this one?
I will give Emily the Criminal easily four point five
out of five credit cards. It's time to head down
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to movie Mike La Paul. Yes, it is today. I
want to talk about a new movie coming out on
Apple and in theaters this fall. It's called the Greatest
Beer Run Ever. And the plot of this movie sounds
pretty ridiculous, and you think, I can't believe they're making
a movie about this, But it's actually based on a
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true story. It follows the real life journey of a
guy named Chickie Donohue played by Efron, who wants to
support his friends fighting in the Vietnam War. So he
gets this idea to do something crazy, and that crazy
thing is go and deliver them American beer. Yeah, sounds
completely made up. I've never heard of this story before,
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and I've been reading about it now and it almost
feels like such a Zac Efron movie to me that
I just assumed it was fictional. But knowing that this
actually happened based on a true story really has my curiosity.
And the fact that it's coming from Apple and we'll
be streaming on Apple TV Plus excites me also for
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a couple of reasons. So before I get into this
full breakdown of the trailer, here's just a little bit
of it. I'd like to go over Vietnam, track down
all the boys in the neighborhood and give him. I
could do that. What he's not serious. He's hammered looking
at him. The man stone sober, that's his fifth beer.
Maybe talks I'm going to Vietnam and I'm bringing a beer. Yeah,
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a chief, no chance you have a ship had to
Vietnam tonight. It's not gonna be easy, but I'm gonna
show him that this country is still behind her. You're
gonna get yourself killed over there. It's like you said,
everyone's doing something, I'm doing nothing. So this movie is
about this guy named Chickie Donahue, a real person who
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wanted to give his friends fighting in Vietnam more than beer.
He wanted to give them hope. So he went over
delivered them beer in the hopes that someday they would
all be able to return home once the war was over.
That's a great premise for a movie, even if it
was fictional, But the fact that this is based on
a real life person makes it that much better. And
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I guess why. I thought it was fictional and didn't
pay too much attention to the trailer when it first
came out, and it just kind of felt like another
zac Efron roll to me. It reminded me of movies
I've seen him in, like Mike and David, Wedding Dates, Neighbors,
that awkward moment we are your friend. Zac Efron plays
a really good, overly confident, good looking party guy like
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That's kind of how I have him typecast sometimes, so
I felt like this was just the perfect film for him.
I'm not necessarily a fan of zac Efron. I don't
dislike him. I just find his movies usually have such
ridiculous premises that those plot lines alone keep me from
wanting to watch the movie. But when I do end
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up doing so, I think to myself, Hey, that was
actually a pretty good movie. A little dumb, yes, but
it provided me with some laughs. He always just has
a really good on screen energy that makes it entertaining
and makes me want to watch, and in my head,
I just hold him to be like a higher level actor,
But just looking at some of the movies he's been in,
I don't know why I have that respect for him,
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not that he's really earned it, especially after seeing him
in bay Watch, which is a movie that I didn't
walk out on, but I started to stream it and
couldn't finish it. So that is kind of the level
of actor. I have zac Efron down ass. He really
crushed it in the tens playing characters like this, But
I feel like watching this trailer, it does have that
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fun element to it, but I think he has a
chance to show a little bit more of his acting abilities.
Maybe he's really leaning now into his thirties, which he
is thirty four now, but could probably still play a
college frat boy if he really wanted to. But I
feel like this movie has a little bit more of
an emotional side that we kind of heard in the trailer.
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There he plays the guy who feels like he's not
really doing anything with his life. All his friends are
over fighting in a war, their wives means something, and
to him, he feels like he's not doing anything. So
he thinks that delivering them beer, as ridiculous as it sounds,
will provide them with some hope. And it's the one
thing that he can do to have something significant and
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do something positive in his life. Acting alongside zac Efron
in this movie, you have Russell Row Bill Murray, who
you actually heard in that trailer, but he had an
unrecognizable accident playing a bartender. So three pretty well known
actors and this will be coming out on Apple TV
Plus and in theaters on September. And I think that's
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an important thing too. I keep bringing up Apple TV
Plus it's kind of being the underdog when it comes
to movies or content in general, and where they really
excel at is getting high profile actors to do movies
on their streaming service. Bill Murray, he's already done a
couple of movies over on Apple TV Plus. They have
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movies with Tom Hanks, and I just feel like, even
though they don't have the quantity of content over there,
when it comes to their movies, they have the name recognition,
but they also have really unique stories and also just
really visually appealing movies. And I know that's a weird
thing to really be invested in in a streaming service.
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But when you watch a show or movie v on
Apple TV Plus, it looks stunning. I feel like they
just have a higher quality standard when it comes to
the cameras they use, the colors are that much more rich.
I know, I'm really kind of geeking out here, but
they look more stunning than anything on Netflix, Hulu or
HBO Max. So I feel like where they really take
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pride in is providing us with really crisp, beautiful looking films,
beautiful looking TV shows, And that means something to me,
especially in two where as much as our technology has advanced,
quality is kind of going out the window a little bit.
We're kind of fine and used to like zoom quality calls,
used to just iPhone footage on TikTok. It just means
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something a little bit more, at least to me, when
the art of the cinematography, the art of the quality
is shown to be a priority, and I get that
on Apple TV Plus, and I feel like they're looking
out for us there. Now. They just need like a
really solid hit all around to really kind of solidify
them in the game. Will this one be it? Probably not,
but I think it looks like a pretty good bright
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spot for them. I did watch a movie on there
recently called Chascha Real Smooth with Dakota Johnson kind of
the same deal. Felt like a high profile actor in
a really crisp film. So if you're looking for one
to watch now over there, I recommend that one. And
that is a bonus movie recommendation here inside the Trailer Park.
But again, the Greatest Beer Run ever comes out on
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September in theaters and streaming on Apple TV plus. This
makes a dish of movie bar and that's gonna do
it for another episode here of the podcast. But before
I go, every single week I give my listeners shout
out to one of you who tweets me, sends me
a d M on Instagram, or shoots me an email
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movie Mike d at gmail dot com. If you ever
forget any of that, or just want to click a link,
just scroll down into the episode notes of this podcast
and you can get it there. But today I am
shouting out Connor, whose mom Danny tweeted me a screenshot
of a text message, and Connor wrote and his text
message to his mom. If you want to watch Thor
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without watching it, listen to movie Mike spoiler review. It's
a perfect take. That is the best screenshot I've ever
seen of a text message. So I appreciate you listening, Connor,
and you did a couple of things there. You gave
a unsolicited recommendation to a podcast, which I love anytime
anybody shares this with a friend or family member or
in this case, your mom. I love that also that
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you're recommending a spoiler episode. But I would also say
at the start of those that if you didn't have
any plans on watching this movie and enjoy having a
movie spoiled, those episodes are great for you too, so
be like Connor and recommend that to those people in
your life. Essentially, the spoiler episodes are saving you the
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twelve or four cheating bugs at the movies. So shout
out this week goes to Connor, who listens on his
bus ride to school. Have a great school year, you
know what will ensure that you have a great school
year listening to every episode of the podcast. Thank you
all for listening this week, and I will talk to
you next time here on the podcast. And until then,
go out and watch good movies and I will talk
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to you later.
Hello, and welcome back to Movie mis Movie Podcast. I
am your host movie Mike, and today we have a
listener inspired topic. We are covering the subject that's gonna
appeal to so many people, movies to watch after you
just woke up from a tenure coma. I'll explain the
rules on the topic. Today. In the movie review, we'll
talk about one of the most exhilarating movies I've seen
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the last five years, Emily the Criminals during Aubrey Plaza,
who I feel is an underrated actress, and I'll get
more into that. And then in the trailer park, we
have a new zac Efron movie coming to Apple TV
plus called the Greatest Beer Run Ever, and the premise
sounds completely ridiculous, but it is based on a true story,
so has me a little bit more curious to see
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what old zac Efron is up to. Thanks everybody for
being subscribed to the podcast, listening every single Monday. Shout
out to the Monday Morning movie crew. Let's talk movies.
In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast,
one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like
never both or in a movie podcast, a man with
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so much movie knowledge. He's basically like a walking aud
M David with glasses from the Nashville Podcast Network Movie
Movie Podcast. So I love it when you send in questions.
And this week's topic is inspired by a tweet I
got from at my father Hates Me, which is an
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excellent Twitter handle. I would love to impact the psychology
behind that Twitter handle, but that's probably for a different podcast.
But they wrote from at my father Hates Me Movie mic,
someone comes out of a tenure coma, what five movies
do you recommend they see? Now? Not only was it
hard for me to do just five, but I thought
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this would be a great podcast topic, so I decided
to extend it to ten. The rules I put into
place for this list is, hypothetically this person who went
into a coma, I'm having them go in on January one,
so they didn't see any movie we that came out
in twenty twelve and they woke up yesterday. Those are
the rules I made up and I'm playing by. So
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basically it goes January one, this person goes into a
coma and then yesterday woke up, Oh man, what a coma?
I should probably catch up on a lot of life things,
but Hey, movie, Mike, what movie should I watch? This
is what I would recommend. And when I put this
list together, I didn't just want to include my favorite movies.
I thought of this person who just woke up and
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missed out on ten years of film. So this list
isn't necessarily my top ten movies of the last ten years.
It's more if I was curating a list, if I
was stacking up literal like blue rays or queuing up
a streaming playlist for movies, these are the movies I
would pick to take them on the entire wave of
emotions I felt in the last ten years. You gotta
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have the big triumphant cinematic moments. You have to have
some of the emotional moments. You have to have some
of the heartwarming moments. Gotta throw in some scares in there.
So I put this from ten to one as kind
of how I would curate this movie watching playlist. Without
a doubt, there will be some honorable mentions, and I
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even pulled some that you submitted in on Twitter and
Instagram and Facebook. So let's get into the list. At
number ten, I'm gonna put top Gun Maverick, which came
out this year. I feel like, that's a good place
to start at number ten, because this is a movie
that came almost thirty years after the original one, and
it was just such a big moment in cinematic history
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this year, grossing so much money at the box office,
but just the impact that's had on people getting back
into the movie theater and just the impact that this
movie has had bringing in all different types of movie fans.
You have the older crowd, the younger crowd being exposed
to this franchise, and then you just have people who
just want to go experience something with a lot of thrills,
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a lot of fun. And I think this movie just
really nailed it this year. And I think that's what
this movie did for a lot of people. It was
reinvigorating of like those classic movie moments, and it was
one of the first movies in a long time that
so many people have just talked about how much they
loved it, how almost everybody I know that I went
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to go see this movie in theaters didn't have anything
bad to say about it. And I also just think
it would be a really nice street to wake up
to an unexpected thing, to come out of a coma
and there be a Top Gun sequel and one you
didn't have to wait through all the delays like we did.
So at number ten, I'm going with Top Gun Maverick.
At number nine, I'm going back to and I'm putting
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in Blade Runner. This is one of the most aesthetically pleasing,
practical effects using and best sci fi thriller I've seen
in a very long time. It kind of took away
all my feelings that I had before of Blade Runner,
and I think a lot of that is due to
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how slick this movie looks. The cinematography in this is exquisite,
and I love that they used a lot of practical effects.
They actually built the sets for this movie, so it
has just overall a more authentic feel. It doesn't feel
like I'm watching a movie that was just manufactured in
a warehouse. There's just some realness to it. There's some
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grit to it. I really like Ryan Gosling as Officer
K in this. I think this is the type of
role that he does really well, and he's really good
at playing the stoic but also dominant action star and
I think perfect casting with him. You have another Artemus
Mackenzie Davis and also Jared Leto, who plays a really
weird character in this movie, and overall, I just feel
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like it's a pretty weird person, so a perfect casting
there as well. And then you also have Harrison Ford
back from the original Blade Runner, which came out in
two and I just felt like, this is when this
movie should have been made now. To make a movie
like this back in the eighties was very em shouts,
and I know the eighties were kind of obsessed with
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this dystopian type future and kind of predicting what everything
was going to look like. So I just felt like
coming out in seventeen, the technology was there. So if
I was curating this list for this person coming out
of this coma and they were coming down off the
high of Top Gun Maverick, I think that's where you
slide in a movie like this because it's just so different.
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I feel like it's the perfect blend of sci fi.
It's the perfect blend of action and a movie I
think that came out in the last ten years that
probably everybody should see. A number eight. I am already
anticipating the hate I'm going to get for putting this
movie on my list, but for how this movie made
me feel. For what it did for the franchise and
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all the hype leading into this movie. There was nothing
bad I felt watching this movie. It was all the
negative reviews and the fandom coming out later of how
much they hated this entire trilogy. But at number eight,
I'm going with Star Wars. The Force Awakens from this
movie felt so nostalgic to me, and I am a
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what I would say, a casual Star Wars fan. I
love the original trilogy Star Wars A New Hope is
my favorite Star Wars movie, and The Force Awakens, I
felt was so nostalgic and to me did a really
great job at kind of being an ode to that movie.
Out of all of the movies in the last trilogy,
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I felt like The Force Awakens did the best job
out of capturing that original energy in that movie. And
I just think you can't deny seeing Chewbacca and seeing
Han Solo come back in this movie. That is a
movie memory that I just haven't forgotten. There are maybe
ten overall in my life that I just remember the
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moment I experienced that for the first time and seeing
them come back, even as a pretty casual Star Wars fan,
that meant something to me seeing those original characters, seeing
R two, D two and C three p O, seeing
Princess Leia, but then also introducing a new cast of
characters with Ray and Finn and then Adam Driver as
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Kylo Wren. I just felt like this movie had a
lot of heart, It had a lot of nostalgia, It
has that big Star Wars energy, and it played out
so well on the big screen. So I think, to
this person waking up from this coma, they would appreciate
seeing a new Star Wars movie. And I'll leave it
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to this coma patient to decide how they feel about it.
But I just think it's such a noteworthy movie. It's
one I think doesn't get the credit it deserves because
there is just so much hate from the fandom. But
at number eight, I'm going with Star Wars The Force
Awakens and number seven. Now, I think it's time for
a horror movie. And I addled between two movies to
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put on the list here. The Conjuring From is one
of my favorite horror movies, not just in the last
ten years, but probably of all time. I just love
things that deal with the paranormal, things that deal with
the undead, and I thought that movie did a really
great job at building suspense and actually scaring me, which
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is very hard to do. That movie has stuck with me,
but maybe it's because I've been on such a Jordan
Peel kick and you're probably getting tired of me talking
about Jordan Peel. But I'm gonna put at number seven
from sen get Out because I think this movie has horror,
but it also kind of transcends that and even if
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you're not a fan of the horror genre, you can
enjoy this movie. And I think, to this coma patient
who is waking up, I'm trying to curate this list
giving you things you haven't seen before. You've probably seen
something similar to a conjuring in the other years you
were alive and watching movies. And but if I was
the one coming out of a coma, I think I
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would want something a little bit more novel, a little
bit more groundbreaking and thought provoking, also provide me with
some scares, which I think get Out does do pretty well.
Not full on gory, violent scares, but it's a little
bit more suspense and thriller, and it's a movie that
I feel audiences, for the most part, really enjoyed. It
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also did really well with the critics and set Jordan
Peel up for having the career he is having now.
So at number seven, I am going with get Out.
From moving on now to number six, I think it's
time for something a little bit more uplifting, a little
bit more cheerful and heartwarming. I am going to go
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and keep it in and give you Pixars Coco. I
think this is the most important Pixar film in the
last ten years, which I kind of have this maybe
rose colored glasses when it comes to Pixar because I
associated with my childhood, I associated so much with their
early on hits. But just looking at the Pixar movies
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from the last ten years, Coco was without a doubt
the best one. But I don't feel like they've had
another really strong, stone cold hit in the last ten years.
And I just find myself generally enjoying every single Pixar
movie that comes out. They don't make bad movies, well
maybe except one on this less than the last ten years,
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but I feel like in the last ten years they've
been a little bit mediocre. Going back from twelve, they
had Brave the Monsters University Inside Out, which I feel
like is the second best also probably could have qualified
on this list, but Coco just beats it out. The
Good Dinosaur, which was a rare flop for Pixar, and
then you have Finding Dory, Cars three, Coco, which I
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have here on my list, The Incredibles too, that was
another good one and one that came way way after
the original Toy Story four, which probably didn't need to happen.
And then in you had Onward, which was probably the
weakest aside from the Good Dinosaur movie. I was expecting
to like a lot more than I did. And then
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you have Soul, which they kind of got away from
making movies for kids, Luca which was good, but I
don't feel like we'll really care about that movie in
ten years. Turning Red, which was a bright spot this year,
and I feel like it kind of got screwed over
just being put on Disney. Plus that movie should have
had a full theater release, and then you have light Year.
So just looking at all those movies, combining them all together,
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it looks like, yeah, a bunch of great Pixar movies,
But when you kind of pick apart one by one,
none of those are really that long lasting. I feel
like we associate pis are a lot more with the
early two thousand's. But out of that list, Coco was
a movie that maybe it was because it had Mexican
heritage in it, and I saw a lot of my family,
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I saw my culture rippers in it in a Pixar movie.
It had music, it had imagery from the Day of
the Dead, but also just really built some of the
funnest and most unique Pixar characters in a very long time.
And even though yes, it was speaking to somebody who
is from my culture as a Mexican American, but I
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think it also just transcended that and just provided a
really good story. So I think if this person was
waking up out of a coma, they need to see Coco.
They need to have those feelings, they need to feel
those emotions. Maybe they need to cry a little, get
it all out of their system because it's been just
built up there for so long. So I think if
there was one Pixar movie because I needed one on
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my list, I will easily go with Coco. From now,
we've made it to the top five. So, going back
to this original question from at my father Hates Me,
the five movies I would recommend to this person who
just came out of a ten year coma and we
are looking into two and I'm putting The Batman and
for five. I was talking earlier about movie moments that
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I have experienced in the last ten years that have
just become a part of me, a part of me
that I just remember and have kind of stored in
my brain as these are moments that something like you
know when you learn something, there's a wrinkle that is
created in your brain. I have that with movies, and
The Batman provided me with another movie moment this year,
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and it's that's chasing between the Batman and the Penguin
and seeing the Batmobile rise from the flames, and it's
just the most heroic part out of that entire movie,
where the penguin thinks he's getting away, looks in his
review mirror and there's the Batman. That scene got me
so hype that at that point in that movie got
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turned to my wife and said, this is the best
thing I've ever seen. And I know it was in
the moment of that, but that's truly how I felt.
It created this movie memory for me that I will
never forget, and I want this person coming out of
this tenure Coma to experience that, and that it's also
a movie that I didn't realize not everybody was going
to love. I had this feeling of like, everybody's gonna
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love this, It's gonna make so much money, be number one,
and I can't see it any other way. And it
felt like it wasn't as well received, and I still
find that mind blowing. I feel like that was the
perfect movie. It was taking Batman unlike we've seen him ever.
I mean, maybe a little bit like The Dark Guy,
but it was just so re and fighting to the
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franchise and created something different and it had a reason
to be made. And I loved it so much that
I find it crazy that people didn't love it as
much as I did, that people had problems with it.
But I still think, to this person coming out of
this tanure Coma, they have to experience that movie moment.
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So I'm putting The Batman at number five. At number four,
I haven't put a Marvel movie on this list yet,
and it's hard to do because there are so many
Marvel movies that came out in the last ten years.
Basically the entire phase like leading up to End Game.
So what do you put on here? Do you put
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the original Avengers from? Do you put a solo movie
so this person waking up doesn't have to watch every
other movie to get it. Or do you go with
the biggest and the best. And in my heart, I
wanted to go with the Avengers from, which is the
one that really kicked off what Marvel came to be.
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But again, I'm thinking about movie moments here. I'm thinking
about great things in cinema, and I just couldn't not
put Avengers Endgame at number four from nineteen and I
get that this person is going to be a little
confused if they didn't see the first Avengers up to
they've only really seen Thor Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk.
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And then you also come in halfway between Infinity War,
which is actually my favorite Avengers movie. But I think
in this three and a half hour movie, you're gonna
get it. I hope you get it. I just think,
even without seeing all the previous movies, that moment where
all the Avengers come out to help Captain America, I
need you to feel that. So I needed to put
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this on my list. So at number four, I'm going
Within Game at number three. We're staying in one of
my favorite years of movies, nineteen, and I'm going to
put the most important foreign film in the last ten years.
I'm going with Parasite. Assuming this person waking up from
this comma is American and only speaks English will have
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to read the subtitles to understand this movie. But I
think that will provide this person with an unexpected treat
And I think now when I watch a movie from
another country and I have to read and pay attention
to subtitles, it makes me understand the cont x more.
It allows me to not miss things that maybe sometimes
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I would in a normal movie because I am paying
attention to not only every single sentence that is read
of dialogue, but sometimes down to the word. And you
kind of see a script on the screen and it
makes a little bit more sense of how important every
word and a movie is, which is something you don't
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really think about. Every word in a script should have
some importance when it's a really good movie like that
is just a sign of great writing. And I think
that's what Parasite did really well. This movie shattered so
many records when it came out, and very much deserved
the Best Picture Award, so it's one I would have
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to include on this list, putting it at number three.
At number two, we're going to and I wasn't putting
a whole lot of Marvel on this list, like I
said earlier, because they are so interconnected, but this movie
is a standalone movie. If you missed out on the
other Spider Man movies that happened in the last ten years,
you don't really need them. At number two, I'm going
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with spider Man into the Spider Verse, which is personally
my favorite spider Man film. Even though I think spider
Man two is the best spider Man film, I can
differentiate the two and knowing that spider Man two checks
off all the boxes for me more of what makes
a great spider Man film. But I just love spider
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Man Into the spider Verse so much because it is
so different, because it creates this really fun world to explore.
The artistic direction and the attention to detail in this
movie is unreal. The voice acting is top notch. And
I know Spider Man sometimes gets criticized for having so
many reincarnations, like how many more Spider Man films do
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we need? How many more Batman films do we need, well,
we need as many as we can get, as long
as they keep reinventing themselves. I'm down for all the
reincarnations of any super a hero. But this movie did
something that I really wasn't expecting it to do in
being so well received among the critics, which is a
hard thing to do. I feel like fans love this
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movie so much, but it's often just held to such
a higher standard of being an Oscar nominated and an
Oscar winning film. It won Best Animated Feature in nineteen
and is one of the Spider Man movies that I've
rewatched the most, especially in the last ten years. So
I feel really good putting this one at number two,
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especially in this slot, coming down from a foreign film,
providing you with a little bit more fun in an
animated movie, and especially getting to what I'm about to
put at number one. But before I get to that,
some honorable mentions I want to throw out. I almost
thought of putting everything everywhere, all at once from this year.
I thought of throwing a musical from seventeen La La Land.
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Baby Driver was another great movie in seventeen, Really close
to making it was all so the suicide Squad, which
I really enjoyed. Another great movie from d C. Wolf
of Wall Street almost made the list. I debated on
uncut gems, Ready Player one, and Black Panther is probably
one that if it wouldn't have been for Top Gun
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coming out this year, I would have put yet another
Marvel movie towards the bottom of my list. I do
have some picks from listeners. Justin Words tweeted me and
his five movies are Joker, from which I rewatched recently,
and that movie is a pretty big bummer, and I
just thought, for this person coming out of this coma,
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I couldn't do that to him. He also has trained
to boost On from seventeen, a great zombie movie. Dave
made a maze from Crushed the Skull from and Coco
at twenty seventeen make Justin's list. And then Robert Herrick
on Facebook just came at me with the Marvel movies,
putting The Avengers from twelve and then Age of Ultron,
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Black Panther, Infinity War, and and Game all on his list,
which I could have easily done, but I didn't want
to bombard this person with just hey, here are the
great Marvel movies I love watch these, but thank you
Justin and Robert for your five movie pick submissions. And
now we've made it to number one, and from I
am going with Christopher Nolan's Interstellar. Interstellar is a movie
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that I've lived with now for eight years. I rewatched
it earlier this year and had a new fascination with it.
There are very few movies that do that for me,
and I credit that to Christopher Nolan. He is so
ambitious in his filmmaking of creating things that we've never
seen before, and usually the first time we watch them
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don't fully understand, whether it be Inception, whether it be Tenant,
which came out and a lot of people didn't really like.
Maybe in another years I'll fully get that one, or
even Memento back in the day. There's just something about
a Christopher Nolan film that invokes a lot of thought,
and Interstellar is one of the most important sci fi
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movies ever made. It has all my favorite things, timelines, wormholes,
space travel, Matthew McConaughey, pickup trucks, and it takes you
on an emotional journey. It takes you on this sci
fi journey and raises so many questions about our existence
about life itself, about science, and I felt like there
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was a lot of science in this movie and a
lot of pretty complex theories and concepts. And I think
the reason I rewatched this movie this year because it
gets referenced in thor Love and Thunder, and it made
me think about it again, and rewatching it kind of
brought back all those same feelings. It even led me
to do another deep dive this year and read some
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more theories about this movie and what kind of a
movie does that? Like? What kind of a movie could
you watch back in and still be thinking about in
So to this person coming out of this coma who
missed out on this, I'll leave them with that movie
at number one to shatter their mind and make them
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think about the world differently. And they'll probably watch this
movie and like myself, and not fully get it. Maybe
revisit it back and watch it again, maybe have to
do a little Google search and find some theories on
the movie and then get into a whole another discussion
and thread of science and time and space. And that's
all from a movie. So that is my number one
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that has been my list. If there are any you
think I should have added or should have included hit
me up at Mike Destro on Twitter or send me
an email movie Mike d at gmail dot com. Thanks
again to my father hates me for that question. If
you have a question or topic idea for an epis
so it hit me up to send them my way.
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Let's get into a movie review now. I want to
talk about Emily The Criminal, which stars Aubrey Plaza. You
may know her from Parks and Wreck. She's also been
in Ingrid Goes West, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates,
and she is one of my favorite late night talk
show guests because she is so quirky and weird and
just feels very authentic and also isn't like fully in
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the Hollywood machine, at least it feels that way. So
I find that she picks projects that means something to her,
and I'll go as far as saying that I think
she is in the prime of her career right now.
In this movie, she plays a character named Emily who
has a staggering amount of student debt about seventy k
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which is a lot, and she is trying to find
a job to help her pay off that debt, but
she also has a criminal history. She has some things
on her record that make it very difficult to get
a higher paying job, and then all kind of changes
when she gets involved in this organization and involved in
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a bit of organized crime that has to do with
buying things with stolen credit cards. We'll get into this
full spoiler free review, but here's just a little bit
of the Emily the Criminal trailer. How are you I
need a real job just to like pay my loans. Emily,
let me hook you up in the next hour. You
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will make two cash, but you have to do something
in won't be in danger, but you will be breaking
the law. Yo, you gotta pay for that. Sorry, let's say,
are you gonna pay for that? Oh my god? Sorry? Man?
Tomorrow you have the option to do another job. Okay,
what do I have to do? So what you heard
in that trailer was the very start of the movie.
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I love that the movie opens up explaining how crippling
this debt is, and I think what this movie was
trying to do was, in a very kind of exaggerated way,
show how some people deal with desperation, how some people
deal with this issue in society of the unwillingness to
give some people a second chance. And her character has
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these things on her record that she's not proud of
that every employer she goes to just can't really look past.
And she has this seventy K student debt that she's
struggling to pay off. It keeps building more and more
interest on it, and it's getting to a point that
it's going to breakers. She has reached a breaking point
in this movie, and she's also struggling with trying to
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land her dream job. So we kind of find her
struggling in every area of her life. She's not living
in the best situation. She has even an issue with
her friend who works at her dream company doing her
dream job of working in design. So then she stumbles
upon this business to where what you heard in there
was she was offered two hundred dollars to go to
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the store and purchase something with an illegal credit card.
And then after coming off of that thrill, she realizes, well,
if everybody else has kind of counted me out, no
one's really given me a chance. I'm going now to
force my own future and force my way out of
this debt. And the entire movie kind of shows all
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the highs and lows that come with working in a
business like this and follows along Emily as she goes
from somebody who was down on her luck to now
maybe being able to get out of her financial struggles.
What I really enjoyed about this movie is it felt
very authentic. It didn't have this Hollywood style approach to
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a movie like this, a crime thriller that felt just
a little bit more authentic. It was really just the
telling of a story of somebody down on their luck,
a person who was is unable to get their second
chance from society. So it's a commentary on how we
don't offer somebody like this with a criminal past a
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second chance. And yes, the movie is a little bit exaggerated,
and I feel like if you're looking at this movie
just on the plot points and picking apart the little
details about it, like, yes, is seventy K in student
debt a lot? Yeah, that's a lot. That's enough to
stress you out and something that a lot of people
in this country deal with. Is that enough to drive
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somebody to a life of crime? Probably not, But for
the sake of the movie, it provides a pretty good
plot point to see how in Emily's case, yeah, that
was enough to kind of push her over the edge
and want to do something like this. So some of
the actions of her character in this movie are a
little bit exaggerated and maybe come out of nowhere, but
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I think that ramps up and builds to the tension
in this movie that it was trying to create. It
was trying to create a good thriller, so sometimes you
do have to over exaggerate things, and I think one
of my favorite things that this movie does is build
that tension. I think this was the most stressed I
felt in a movie theater since Uncut Gems. If you've
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seen Uncut Gems, you remember it was a character just
making bad decision after bad decision, and in your mind
watching this, you're like, why are you doing that? Like
this is gonna all blow up in your face. Just
stop while you're ahead. That is also how I felt
while watching Emily the Criminal. So it's like watching something
like that unfold and it's just beautiful and entertaining to
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watch and kind of a sick and twisted way. And
Emily the Criminal is this character who just gets pushed
to her limits, she can't take it anymore. And I
think Aubrey Plaza just plays that character so well and
for somebody who's known primarily as a comedic actor, which
I really don't see her as that anymore. She's kind
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of shown me her performances in Ingrid Goes West, in
Black Bear, and then this movie really solidifying that is
that she does have a darker side to her acting abilities.
And there's a moment in this movie where you just
kind of see her snap and I see her go
into this level of acting that I've never really seen
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in her before. So I think she does darker roles
really well. She is not only on my list of
underrated actors but also one now that I will watch
any movie that she's in. There are very few actors
that I just follow along to their career, doesn't really
matter what the project is they're taking on. I just
know that I'm going to watch it because I'm such
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a fan of their work, and Aubrey Plaza is one
of those actors for me. And I do think this
movie is worth seeing in theaters because of that thrill
that it provides. Now, this is an independent movie, had
a lower budget. I think it's maybe cross the million
dollar mark at this point, so it may not be
going around you, but if it is showing at a
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small local theater around you. I had to go to
my local theater to watch this movie, and I just
found myself really enjoying the experience. So if you like so,
if you're a fan of thrillers, I think this is
one you will really enjoy. It's a movie that has
really great pacing. I think a large part of that
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is due to it's ninety minute runtime. I think that's
the final thing I'll leave you. One that I loved
about this movie is it cut out all the fat
that a normal movie like this may have. Like that's
why I felt it was the most un Hollywood thriller
that I've seen. It just gets right to the action,
and instead of providing backstory on Emily, it just showed
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me through her actions. Do you see this character grow
throughout the movie that you don't need to provide any
additional backstory of how she got all this debt, how
she got all those things on a record, which a
normal movie probably would provide and think, oh we need
to set all these things up. You just get a
glimpse at her life right when this is all happening.
So that probably eliminated a good twenty thirty minutes that
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didn't need to exist. So at ninety minutes has the
perfect amount of action, the perfect amount of suspense, and
the perfect amount of I can't believe this is happening?
And how is she going to get out of this one?
I will give Emily the Criminal easily four point five
out of five credit cards. It's time to head down
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to movie Mike La Paul. Yes, it is today. I
want to talk about a new movie coming out on
Apple and in theaters this fall. It's called the Greatest
Beer Run Ever. And the plot of this movie sounds
pretty ridiculous, and you think, I can't believe they're making
a movie about this, But it's actually based on a
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true story. It follows the real life journey of a
guy named Chickie Donohue played by Efron, who wants to
support his friends fighting in the Vietnam War. So he
gets this idea to do something crazy, and that crazy
thing is go and deliver them American beer. Yeah, sounds
completely made up. I've never heard of this story before,
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and I've been reading about it now and it almost
feels like such a Zac Efron movie to me that
I just assumed it was fictional. But knowing that this
actually happened based on a true story really has my curiosity.
And the fact that it's coming from Apple and we'll
be streaming on Apple TV Plus excites me also for
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a couple of reasons. So before I get into this
full breakdown of the trailer, here's just a little bit
of it. I'd like to go over Vietnam, track down
all the boys in the neighborhood and give him. I
could do that. What he's not serious. He's hammered looking
at him. The man stone sober, that's his fifth beer.
Maybe talks I'm going to Vietnam and I'm bringing a beer. Yeah,
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a chief, no chance you have a ship had to
Vietnam tonight. It's not gonna be easy, but I'm gonna
show him that this country is still behind her. You're
gonna get yourself killed over there. It's like you said,
everyone's doing something, I'm doing nothing. So this movie is
about this guy named Chickie Donahue, a real person who
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wanted to give his friends fighting in Vietnam more than beer.
He wanted to give them hope. So he went over
delivered them beer in the hopes that someday they would
all be able to return home once the war was over.
That's a great premise for a movie, even if it
was fictional, But the fact that this is based on
a real life person makes it that much better. And
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I guess why. I thought it was fictional and didn't
pay too much attention to the trailer when it first
came out, and it just kind of felt like another
zac Efron roll to me. It reminded me of movies
I've seen him in, like Mike and David, Wedding Dates, Neighbors,
that awkward moment we are your friend. Zac Efron plays
a really good, overly confident, good looking party guy like
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That's kind of how I have him typecast sometimes, so
I felt like this was just the perfect film for him.
I'm not necessarily a fan of zac Efron. I don't
dislike him. I just find his movies usually have such
ridiculous premises that those plot lines alone keep me from
wanting to watch the movie. But when I do end
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up doing so, I think to myself, Hey, that was
actually a pretty good movie. A little dumb, yes, but
it provided me with some laughs. He always just has
a really good on screen energy that makes it entertaining
and makes me want to watch, and in my head,
I just hold him to be like a higher level actor,
But just looking at some of the movies he's been in,
I don't know why I have that respect for him,
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not that he's really earned it, especially after seeing him
in bay Watch, which is a movie that I didn't
walk out on, but I started to stream it and
couldn't finish it. So that is kind of the level
of actor. I have zac Efron down ass. He really
crushed it in the tens playing characters like this, But
I feel like watching this trailer, it does have that
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fun element to it, but I think he has a
chance to show a little bit more of his acting abilities.
Maybe he's really leaning now into his thirties, which he
is thirty four now, but could probably still play a
college frat boy if he really wanted to. But I
feel like this movie has a little bit more of
an emotional side that we kind of heard in the trailer.
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There he plays the guy who feels like he's not
really doing anything with his life. All his friends are
over fighting in a war, their wives means something, and
to him, he feels like he's not doing anything. So
he thinks that delivering them beer, as ridiculous as it sounds,
will provide them with some hope. And it's the one
thing that he can do to have something significant and
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do something positive in his life. Acting alongside zac Efron
in this movie, you have Russell Row Bill Murray, who
you actually heard in that trailer, but he had an
unrecognizable accident playing a bartender. So three pretty well known
actors and this will be coming out on Apple TV
Plus and in theaters on September. And I think that's
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an important thing too. I keep bringing up Apple TV
Plus it's kind of being the underdog when it comes
to movies or content in general, and where they really
excel at is getting high profile actors to do movies
on their streaming service. Bill Murray, he's already done a
couple of movies over on Apple TV Plus. They have
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movies with Tom Hanks, and I just feel like, even
though they don't have the quantity of content over there,
when it comes to their movies, they have the name recognition,
but they also have really unique stories and also just
really visually appealing movies. And I know that's a weird
thing to really be invested in in a streaming service.
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But when you watch a show or movie v on
Apple TV Plus, it looks stunning. I feel like they
just have a higher quality standard when it comes to
the cameras they use, the colors are that much more rich.
I know, I'm really kind of geeking out here, but
they look more stunning than anything on Netflix, Hulu or
HBO Max. So I feel like where they really take
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pride in is providing us with really crisp, beautiful looking films,
beautiful looking TV shows, And that means something to me,
especially in two where as much as our technology has advanced,
quality is kind of going out the window a little bit.
We're kind of fine and used to like zoom quality calls,
used to just iPhone footage on TikTok. It just means
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something a little bit more, at least to me, when
the art of the cinematography, the art of the quality
is shown to be a priority, and I get that
on Apple TV Plus, and I feel like they're looking
out for us there. Now. They just need like a
really solid hit all around to really kind of solidify
them in the game. Will this one be it? Probably not,
but I think it looks like a pretty good bright
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spot for them. I did watch a movie on there
recently called Chascha Real Smooth with Dakota Johnson kind of
the same deal. Felt like a high profile actor in
a really crisp film. So if you're looking for one
to watch now over there, I recommend that one. And
that is a bonus movie recommendation here inside the Trailer Park.
But again, the Greatest Beer Run ever comes out on
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September in theaters and streaming on Apple TV plus. This
makes a dish of movie bar and that's gonna do
it for another episode here of the podcast. But before
I go, every single week I give my listeners shout
out to one of you who tweets me, sends me
a d M on Instagram, or shoots me an email
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movie Mike d at gmail dot com. If you ever
forget any of that, or just want to click a link,
just scroll down into the episode notes of this podcast
and you can get it there. But today I am
shouting out Connor, whose mom Danny tweeted me a screenshot
of a text message, and Connor wrote and his text
message to his mom. If you want to watch Thor
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without watching it, listen to movie Mike spoiler review. It's
a perfect take. That is the best screenshot I've ever
seen of a text message. So I appreciate you listening, Connor,
and you did a couple of things there. You gave
a unsolicited recommendation to a podcast, which I love anytime
anybody shares this with a friend or family member or
in this case, your mom. I love that also that
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you're recommending a spoiler episode. But I would also say
at the start of those that if you didn't have
any plans on watching this movie and enjoy having a
movie spoiled, those episodes are great for you too, so
be like Connor and recommend that to those people in
your life. Essentially, the spoiler episodes are saving you the
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twelve or four cheating bugs at the movies. So shout
out this week goes to Connor, who listens on his
bus ride to school. Have a great school year, you
know what will ensure that you have a great school
year listening to every episode of the podcast. Thank you
all for listening this week, and I will talk to
you next time here on the podcast. And until then,
go out and watch good movies and I will talk
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to you later.
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