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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 I want to
talk about the top ten summer blockbusters of the two
thousand and tens. I have my wife Kelsey here, how
are you. We both love summer blockbuster movies. We're right
in the middle of summer blockbuster season, so I felt
like this was the perfect time to do this topic.
In the movie review, we'll talk about the new Jurassic
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Park movie, and in the Trailer Park we finally got
the first look at The Rock as Black Adam. So,
a lot of good movies coming out this summer, a
lot of good movies coming out for the rest of
the year. I'm excited. Are you excited? I'm excited? Why
am I so excited? Well? All right, shout out to
the Monday Morning Movie crew for listening, Thanks for being
subscribed to the podcast. You guys already know what this is.
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Let's talk movies in a world where everyone and their
mother has a podcast. One man stands to infiltrate the
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networkinges MO Movie Podters. So I've been going off on
summer blockbuster season for a while. Now on the podcast,
we've got now two big summer blockbuster movies and a
little history lesson. The first ever summer blockbuster was in
nineteen seventy five. You know what it was, Steven Spielberg
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movie about a big creature wreaking havoc on a beach.
You know that movie Jaws that is credited as the
first one. Other people credit Star Wars in nineteen seventy
seven is also being one of the first big ones.
But now we every summer, we just come to expect
big summer blockbuster movies, and not only are they movies
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making a bunch of money during the summer, but oftentimes
they're the number one movie out of the entire year.
So what will be doing on this episode of this
new summer series is this week we'll be looking at
the top highest grossing movies of the tents. And if
you listening to this enjoy this series, we'll go back
and do the two thousands, and then if you really
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enjoy the series, we'll do the nineties and as far
back as we could go, it would be the eighties,
because if it started in the mid seventies, that's all
we really have to go. And for the purpose of
this list, we are going to defund the summer blockbuster
season as kicking off on the first weekend of May
and then wrapping up on the first weekend of September.
Starting it out first. Now with the year, I'm gonna
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give you three movies. All you have to do is
name which one you think made the most of the
box office? All right, first movie is Toy Story three,
second movie is iron Man two, and third movie is
Twilight Eclipse. Which one do you think made the most
at the box office? Iron Man too, It is not
iron Man two. That comes in at number two with
three and twelve million. Below that is Twilight with three
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hundred million. At number one was Toy Story three, making
four hundred and eighty million dollars adjusted for inflation. That
is so. I remember how big Toy Story three was,
and I think it was a combination of the original
one coming out in the nineties. So everybody that was
a kid either had kids of their own now or
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they were just at that point in their life where
they wanted to go back and relive their childhood. So
you had the people who loved it way back in
the day, and then of course everybody taking their kids,
and you can never really roll out a kid's movie
at the box office. Which I think is we go
through this entire list, we're gonna see a lot of
superhero movies, big action movies. Kids movies just dominate, and
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then the occasional comedy will make the list. But Toy
Story three, I think, out of these three movies, if
I can only keep one, that would be the one.
I feel like you kind of just gave away some answers.
She told me, kids movies and superheroes do well. How
am I supposed to guess? Well, they're all gonna be
in there just looking at the different types of movies.
That's what we're going to see. You'll still have to
pick which one. Which one would you keep? If you
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can only pick one of those, why for the rest
of your life, I mean, neither of them, you can
pick none. No, I'm deciding between iron Man and Toy Story.
Iron Man two wasn't the best one, but I think
it was because it was coming off of Iron Man,
which was so good. Iron Man two was pretty forgettable.
I guess Toy Story because someday when we have kids
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like we can watch Toy Story with them, all four
of them, all four No, No, all four of the
Toy Story movies for the kids. I wish everyone could
have just seen my face. No, all four Toy Story
movies that all four children. All right, let's move on
to eleven. I'll give you the three movies you tell
me the highest grossing one? Was it Transformers? Dark of
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the Moon? Was it Harry Potter and the Deathly Hellos
Part two? Or was it Hangover Part two? For sure?
Not Hangover Part two? Okay, for sure? Not it is
Harry Potter. At number one was Harry Potter, which made
four and thirty two point six million dollars almost half
a billion. At number two, Dark Sides of the Moon
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made three eighty one million, and then at number three,
The Hangover Part two made two four million, which is
a lot of money for a comedy. For a comedy sequel, yeah,
I shouldn't have even been made. I agree. Well, Hangover
two is basically the exact same thing as The Hangover.
Hangover was a little bit more of a unexpected success.
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It was just so big and everybody loved it when
it came out that the demand was so high to
make a sequel. So I think those numbers are just
reflective on everybody loving the first one and wanted to
go see the second one. Regardless they sold out and
just wanted money. I mean, look at Christin Wiggs, she
refuses to write a Bridesmaids too. Yeah, but I don't
think they sold out. I think they bought in. They
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made so much money off of that trilogy. But yes,
a trilogy that probably didn't deserve to be made. But
I still enjoy every single Hangover movie. I don't think
they're all. I think the first one is the best
first and it you know, thing else can really touch
that one. But every one that came after that, two
and three I still enjoy. I think it's because of
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the characters. It's still entertaining. Would I recommend them to
anybody if you haven't seen them, not two or three one.
But I just think as a trilogy, it's a it's weak,
it's very just Hangover one, do it two more times?
Make your money. Yeah, Transformers, those movies dominated so much
of the box office when they came out. Were these
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stole the ones? With Schila Buff and Fox. Yes, Dark
of the Moon still had Megan Fox and Shila Buff
and these movies were so popular, but now kind of
forgotten about. I think it's because later they stopped being
good and either Mark Wahlberg in there and people stopped caring.
Amazing how popular they were at the height of everybody's interest,
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but now I don't really go back and want to
watch your Transformers movie. And then Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows Part two, that's the final one, Like obviously
it's gonna dominate the box office with the final one
came out in two thousand eleven. Yes, when we were
looking at this list version, we're gonna go back twenty
years and you were like, that's two thousand and two. Eiphany,
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that twenty years ago was two thousand and two, and
I feel old. Let's move on now to twelve. I'll
give you the three movies Great summer graduated high school.
Do you think it was The Dark Knight Rises, The
Amazing Spider Man or The Avengers Dark Knight Rises. The
answer is at number one, making six hundred and ninety
two million dollars domestically The Avengers and then coming in
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Right below that at four hundred and forty eight million
was The Dark Knight Rises, and then at number three
was The Amazing Spider Man two d and sixty two million.
Looking at twelve, I feel like this is pretty representative
of what has been successful at the box office for
a very long time. You have three superhero movies in
the top three summer blockbuster movies, one basically being a
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compilation album of all the best superheroes and the first
time we've ever seen a movie like that, Dark Knight
Rises being a follow up to one of the I
would say, the greatest comic book movie ever made. And
then The Amazing Spider Man, which wasn't as well received
by critics, but I felt like die hard Spider Man
fans like myself still enjoyed it, but still made two
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d and sixty two million dollars. That's still a lot
of money, so kind of proving that even if you
make a movie that everybody doesn't love, you'll still go
out to see it because it is Spider Man. Of
those three, I think the one I go back to
the most it's probably Dark Knight Rises. Yeah, it's like
one of your favorite movies, and Dark Knight Dark Knight
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is my all time favorite, but I feel like Dark
Knight Rises is right up there as well. I was
getting them confused. I forgot that there's just a Dark
Knight and then a Dark Knight Rises, And I remember
seeing that one in theaters for the first time and
thinking that Bain was such a more ferocious villain than
Joker was. I felt like Joker was so unique based
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on the way that Heath Ledger played him and everything
surrounding him. But as far as the movie going experience,
like I had such a I want Bain to fail
so much in Dark Knight Rises, and it kind of
got something a little bit out of me more than
I did when I watched The Dark Knight for the
first time. Going back now and rewatching both of them,
I still think that Dark Knight Heath Letters performance can't
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be touched. So that is moving on now to which
one do you think made the most iron Man three,
Despicable Me Too or Man of Steel Despicable Mean Too?
That would be incorrect. At number one. It's iron Man three,
making four and forty million dollars at the box office
that summer. Despicable Wade came in two three and seventy
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six million, and then at number three would be Man
of Steel with two d and nine million. Yeah, I
didn't love Man of Steel when it first came out.
I found myself rewatching it now and being a little
bit more in the Superman and character now that Henry
Cowell is not even going to play him anymore. It's
kind of weird to go back and enjoy that now.
And I know so many people love that Man is
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Steel movie, but I just failed to get into that hype.
I'm a little bit more into the DC hype right now,
and I find myself liking a lot more of the
animated stuff with you have seen me get into recently.
I just find it a little bit more entertaining. I
find the stories better in the animated stuff, But as
far as the on screen newer Batman and Superman stuff,
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they have not been my favorite. Despicab will be too, however,
I love that movie. There's something about minions that just
makes me happy, and I think makes everybody happy. And
then iron Man three was probably the biggest let down
for me because iron Man was so popular in he
was basically carrying the Avengers. Iron Man three just left
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a lot to be desired. I feel like Iron Man
three is probably one of the weakest Marvel movies all together.
So it's kind of weird of Iron Man being so
high up there and then two and three kind of
being in my lower tier of Marvel movies. But as
Iron Man going on, Now you have is it Guardians
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of the Galaxy, Is it Maleficent or is it Transformers
Age of Extinction? Guardians of the Galaxy hands town That
is correct, not only the number one highest grossing movie
of the summer, but also the highest grossing movie of
the entire year, making three hundred and seventy one million
dollars at the box office. Transformers Age of Extinction made
two forty five million, and Maleficent made two hundred and
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forty one million dollars. Never really got into the live
action Disney Maleficent, all those kind of movies. I've still
never seen it. I always just see the trailers and
they look so boring to me. I don't really like
period pieces, and I don't really like old Disney movies
placed in like weird fairy tale times. I just had
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no desire to see it. And then you have Transformer Man.
I was checked out of it by then and then
Guarding into the Galaxy one of the top tier Marvel movies.
Unexpectedly funny, Yes, yes, and especially at a time where
all the other solo movies were just so serious, it
was fun and refreshing. And I think that's kind of
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what made me love James Gunn and he did such
a great job in those and I can't wait to
see what he's gonna do with volume three. I didn't
think I would love that going into it. I was
like a green girl like trees don't name groot and
a raccoon like that's stupid. And now I love those movies.
I felt like a lot of people had that similar
feeling going into it of you know, Bradley Cooper playing
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a raccoon, but there's so much that goes into that character.
Vin Diesel saying one word and getting paid millions to
do that. I am moving on now to do you
think the highest grossing movie was Avengers, Age of Ultron
Inside Out or Jurassic War Old Avengers Age of Ultron
came in at number two, four hundred and fifty nine million,
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and right above it is Jurassic World, making seven hundred
and twelve million dollars at the box office. At number
three was Inside Out with three d and fifty six million.
Seven told. That's even more than Avejurs made. It's a
lot of money. Yeah, And I find it pretty surprising
how much the Jurassic World and the original Jurassic Park
movies make. I think what they have going for them
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is kind of what we saw some other parts of
this list of you have the people who are just
fans of Jurassic Park. It's a big franchise. Yeah, it's
a continuation of that, So there's a lot more people
already invested in it and gonna go see it, kind
of like we saw with Top Gun. Now everybody who
loves that movie in the eighties went back and flocks
to see it now. So I think it's also one
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of the most perfect types of summer blockbuster movies. Big
dinosaurs on the screen, running around chasing humans. You don't
really need to understand a whole lot, like that's all
you need. And I think for me, that's what I
kind of go to the movies in the summer looking for.
I want to turn my brain off. I don't want
to think about the problems of the outside world. I
want to see something completely out there and not think
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about it for two hours. So I think that's why
those Jurassic Park movies do so well. And later in
the movie review, we'll see if it helds up two
expectations this time around. Moving on to sixteen, do you
think it was Finding Dory, Captain America Civil War or
the Secret Life of Pets. I'm gonna go Captain America
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Civil War that came in at number two, making four
hundred and eight million dollars. At number one making five
hundred and six million dollars, was Finding Dorry. Yeah, I
guess I shouldn't know that kids movies. You can't movies
the last time and it was wrong. So I give
up on this game. But it's a follow up to
Finding Nemo, which came out in two thousand and three.
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You kind of have the same thing going here thirteen
years later. And three podcast just making me feel like
I need to go like put on my wrinkle cream.
Out of those three, most surprising is the Secret Life
of Pets number three with three and sixty eight million dollars.
That is shocking because it is a new movie, and
I guess it's maybe the Pet Angle. It's from DreamWorks
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who is Hit or Miss on their animated movies. I
did go see that movie in theaters mainly because Louis c.
K was a voice in it and Kevin Hart, so
it had that aspect of comedians doing voices in that. Okay,
so it still had grown men going to see it,
So we still had a factor there. Yeah, moving on
now to seventeen. Do you think it was Spider Man Homecoming,
Guardians of the Galaxy Too, or Wonder Woman? All three
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superhero movies? Which one do you think made the most?
Spider Man to Homecoming was second? Andrew Garfield one is
this is the first Tom Holland one. That's right, That's right, okay,
and then Guardians of the Galaxy Too? And Wonder Woman?
Which one made the most in seventeen. I'm gonna go
Guardians of the Galaxy Too. That one came in at
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number two, nine million. Below that was Spider Man Homecoming
with three thirty four million. At number one with four
hundred and fifteen million dollars was a wonder Woman and
this was the first big win for d C. This
movie put gal Gadot on the map, put director Patty
Jenkins runton center. And I think it kind of gave everybody, Uh,
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I guess younger girls who haven't had a movie to
look at a character and be like, hey, that's me,
Like that could be me. I think this was that
first glimpse at that, and I loved it so much
because after Batman Versus Superman, which was such a bad movie,
she was the only kind of glimmering hope to come
from that, like, oh, wonder Woman is actually awesome. So
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I loved Wonder Woman and was kind of taken back
at how much people didn't like Wonder Woman and how
that movie was one of the ones that came out
streaming and in theaters but at a time where theaters
weren't really happening anymore. So they lost a lot of
money on that movie. So it's kind of a big
drastic fall to go from having the number one movie
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of the summer to having one that people now regard
as one of the worst superhero movies of all time.
So that kind of sucks. But yeah, Guardians of the
Galaxy to was another great addition, and then Spider Man
Homecoming was awesome because I felt like they finally got
Peter Parker right, and I remember having that emotion coming
out of it like he's back. I guess after the
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Andrew Garfield movies, a lot of people were checked out
of people making Spider Man movies. I still like Andrew
Garfields too. I like him more now than I did
when he was doing those movies. Like going back now
seeing him in that role, it kind of makes me
a little bit like I should have given him more
credit back then. But I'm sure he doesn't sleep at
night because yeah him credit, he knows. Alright. Moving on
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now to which one do you think made the most?
Was it Incredibles Too, Deadpool two, or Jurassic World fall
in Kingdom? Okay, see here we've got Jurassic World, which
is a nostalgia, but we also have Incredible too. I'm
gonna Incredible two is everyone was excited for that to
come out. Well, at number three would be Deadpool two
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eighteen million, and then at number two making four hundred
and seventeen million was Jurassic World Falling Kingdom. So you
were correct. Number one was Incredibles To, making six hundred
and eight million dollars at the box office according to
box office Mojo, and that is Yeah, that's an nostalgia
factor and also a sequel that people were asking for
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forever the Incredibles, and Pixar rarely does sequels. Took forever
for Finding Dory, took forever for The Incredibles too, So
when they do make a sequel, they know that people
are going to want a story that lives up to
the original, and they're gonna spend time to get that right,
spend time to make the animation worthy of how being
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an updated version, and then also know whenever they put
it out is just going to dominate. So that's a
pretty big win for pick Sary having the biggest movie
of the summer going against Jurassic World making also half
a billion dollars, and we've made it to the final year.
On the list ten, which movie made the most? Was
it The Lion King, the live action version, Toy Story four,
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or Spider Man Far From Home? Which one made the
most in twenty nineteen. Spider Man Spider Man came in
at number three. Far From Home made three and ninety
million dollars, Toy Story four made four hundred and thirty
four million dollars, and at number one, You Don't Roll
Out Disney making five hundred and forty three million dollars.
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Was The Lion King. You have a face of disgust.
I just don't think that should have been number one. Yeah,
I feel like that was a very forgettable live action
Disney movie. But I think The Lion King is arguably
so many people's favorite Disney movie of all time. And
there was so much hype around this from the soundtrack,
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from everybody who they cast to voice it, and also
it was a relatively I mean, it wasn't a brand
new concept, but I remember a lot of people wondering
what does a live action Lion King movie even mean?
Like are they going to get real animals and Mike
com up? But it was basically just paid more to
see that. I would have paid more to see that.
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I mean, can Zoo do that? I'm sure there's like
YouTube videos like that where people would just record animals
and overdub. That probably would have been a little bit
more entertaining. Because the weird thing about it is they
made the exact same movie, didn't really change a whole
lot about it, but it was just like they gave
it an h D feel. So what it lost for
me was the charm of the original. It didn't have
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a warmth to it. It didn't really have a connection
to the characters. You just had like these animated, realistic
looking animals acting out basically a big dramatic I think
something like that, where like you have people like voicing
The Lion King does better on Broadway. Yeah, like the
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Lion King on Broadway. I've heard it's phenomenal. I would
like to see that someday. So I feel like, couldn't
we have cast those people and done it like Broadway
a little more theatrical? You say yes? And number two
with Toy Story four, I didn't love that one. I
felt like it was a movie that didn't really need
to be made. Toy Story three left a perfect ending
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to a trilogy. There is some fun elements to Toy
Story four, but that's probably everybody just kind of wanting
a little bit more of the characters to go back
and watch that one, to make that with such a
bag success. And then Spider Man Far from Home. I mean,
you know how much I love all those movies. So
we saw it together. We was like one of the
first like summer blockbusters we have to see because things
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when we were still long distance A great one to
see together. And now if you're wondering where does Avengers
Endgame rank in nineteen It came out in April, so
it is the summer blockbuster day. But that one made
eight hundred and fifty eight million dollars, so almost a
billion dollars in the United States alone, So that is insane.
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And then since we are here at the end of
the twenty tens and it would be a long time
before we could do the twenties, we'll look at what
do you think the highest grossing movie of summer was?
Nothing really came out that summer. Yeah, everything kind of
stopped around March. There's like one movie that came out
in the summer but only made fifty eight million dollars.
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What do you think it was? I'm trying to remember
what came out. Did Tennant come out that year? It
is Tenant? And that was kind of weird because it
came out on HBO Max and then very few theaters,
and that's mainly because Christopher Nolan just wanted to see
it shown in theaters. I felt like they should have
held that movie a little bit, probably would have done better.
Probably would have done better because we didn't really get
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that feeling of it. I would have paid more attention
if I was in the theater and couldn't have used phone,
I got lost in the first ten minutes and checked out.
It's already a difficult movie to understand, and when you're
at home and watching a movie that's difficult to understand,
it's very easy to to now. I feel like I
would have at least maybe enjoyed it a little bit
more seeing it in the theater, But it's also one
I haven't revisited since, so who knows. And then in
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one what do you think? The number one highest grossing
movie was of the summer, Black Widow, that is correct,
making a hundred and eighty three million dollars at the
box office. At number two was the first movie we
saw back in theaters, and it was nine f nine
making a hundred and seventy three million dollars. And then
at number three, just about closing out the summer, coming
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out in August, was Free Guy, making a twenty one
million dollars. This is kind of where stuff started to
come back, but it was mainly all the movies that
got delayed from starting to release. So I feel like
one is a weird year because it should have been
twenties basically, and nothing really felt like it had rhyme
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and reason to the release schedule. It was just like,
what can come out, what feels comfortable releasing on this weekend,
what's going to keep getting delayed? What's going to come
out on Disney Plus at the same time or HBO
Max at the same time. So that's also a really
weird year to look at, and I feel like, looking
at two now, this is going to be the comeback
year where everything looks a little bit normal. So far,
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dominating the box office is dr Strange. Top Gun is
right below it, but it's also just had less of
a theatrical run so far. So I feel like that
maybe the number one movie of the summer for the year.
They've got Jurassic Jurassic coming out, Jurassic World, Durrassical the names,
Jurassic thor Thor coming out. But I feel out of
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all the summer movies, the one that will probably win
his Top Gun and that has the ability to be
the number one highest grossing movie of the year. Great movie.
I would see it again. I would too, and not
just because my teller takes us right now, Okay, that's
what you liked in that movie. All right, if you
enjoyed that, let us know and maybe next week or
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the following week we'll do the two thousand's. Ye'll see
what works in my schedule. All right, we'll see. And
now it's time for a spoiler free movie review talking
about Jurassic World Dominion, which was one of my most
anticipated movies of the summer. The trailer really banked in
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on the nostalgia factor, bringing back Jeff Goldbloom, Sam Neil,
Laura Dern, and that's why I was excited about it.
So did it live up to those expectations? Let's talk
about that. But before we get into this review, here's
just a little bit of the Jurassic World Dominion trailer.
If our world is gonna survives, matters is what we do? Now?
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How can you use your expertise? You come out on
what a baby raptor. I made a promise we would
bear home. You've made a promise toward dinosaur. Yeah, boy.
So let's talk about what this movie is about. It
is the finale of the saga of the Jurassic World movies,
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and you find yourself back with the old characters from
the original movie. So Sam Neil and Laura Derner back,
you have Jeff gold Bloom back and it's kind of
like the Old School meets the New School with Chris Pratt.
They are again trying to save the world. It takes
place four years after the last Jurassic Park movie, and
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now that that island has been destroyed, all of the
dinosaurs are kind of living among the humans, which I
thought was cool and I actually wanted to see more of.
You have the O G Jurassic Park crew trying to
save the world from this evil corporation, and then you
have Chris Pratt, as you heard in that trailer, trying
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to reunite the raptor named Blue with their child. So
it's those two stories coming together informing in this movie,
and I gotta say that plot left a lot to
be desired. It felt very disjointed at times, where you
have two completely different things going on at the same time,
you don't really get invested in either one of them.
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Laura Dern and Sam Neil are cool to see back
together again, but banking off the nostalgia factor, it didn't
really cash in at any point, which we've seen movies
do this fairly recently, just earlier this year. Also from
the nineties Scream came out, and it was kind of
like that team getting back together for one last mission.
That's what you kind of find here, But it didn't
really feel like much of a reason to get them
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back together, and the whole thing just kind of came
together quickly, so when they first came on screen, I
didn't really have that feeling of like, oh, they're back
like I have in other movies. Some people gave a
little like one to clap, like a failed big cheering moment,
so that didn't feel completely like a big moment to me,
and there were a lot of nostalgic moment It's little
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easter eggs as an ode to the original movie, but
for a movie that's almost two and a half hours long,
it's not going to keep my interests by just telling
me and reminding me how cool the original one was.
So it got us all back there to relive that
kind of original movie, but didn't really form enough to
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kind of update it. And they're trying to kind of
really force this plot of the old school meets the
news school, and I just didn't really find it working
for a movie that's almost two and a half hours long.
I found myself bored at moments, and I don't think
this is a bad movie. Like I don't leave the
theater after seeing this movie thinking, I, you know, got
ripped off. It's still a fairly entertaining movie. But for
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it's something that had so much action and so many
things happening, cool visuals, and I'll get into the more
about the dinosaurs, you just don't really care and never
really get invested in the story. And I think that's
what the original Jurassic Park did so well, also what
The Lost World did so well. And I think the
problem I had with this movie is there was no
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imagination when it came to how they showed the action
with the dinosaurs. The original movie, it was so much
more of a treat when you actually had the dinosaurs
on screen. And I know that's a little bit more
because that movie came out in the nineties. The technology
was still so new they basically developed it to make
that movie. That they also couldn't afford to put the
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dinosaurs on the screen the whole time. But what that
created was some tension because when the t Rex is
on screen, it's very important, and he's not there all
the time, So when he is on screen, you pay attention,
and I think that's what I love about some you know,
monster movies. Anything to that aspect, is you can't give
everything away the entire time because they're just gonna be
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coming another character on screen. It's not really going to
be a treat when they pop out, because they're just
they're kind of thrown in in this movie, so there
was no tension, there was no suspense, and that led
to it just kind of feeling like a bunch of
action thrown together and the dinosaur has just happened to
be there. Although in this movie they do look the
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best they have ever looked. The c g I has
greatly advanced since the nineties. I think they definitely did
some research on more of what dinosaurs really would have
looked like. I like the you know, the scaly look
with the feathers, the talents, the the clause. I thought
the dinosaur visuals were really great, but it wasn't enough
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to keep me interested in the entire time they get chased.
It's kind of just running through the exact same motions
of all the other ones. But the scenes didn't really
carry any weight. I never really found myself carrying like,
how are they going to get out of this situation.
Things that just happened, and I'd be like, Oh, that's fine,
and it's not a terrible movie. I think it's because
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I had such high expectations going into it that I
don't think I enjoyed it as much as I thought
I would. But I went with my wife, who hasn't
seen all of the Jurassic Park or Jurassic World movies.
She had very low expectations going into this, and she
enjoyed it way more than she thought she was going to.
Probably liked it more than I did. So if you
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go into it with low expectations, maybe you'll like it
a little bit more. But still, yes, it's not a
terrible movie. I don't think it deserves to get dragged
as much as it has been. Calling it the worst
dressing World movie of all time not gonna be wrong.
It's still fun and entertaining to see dinosaurs on the
screen attacking people, biting people's limbs off. The big action
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sequences are still fun. It just doesn't have that same
charm that I was expecting from something that's supposed to
be the conclusion to this saga. I just think because
literally on the poster it says the epic conclusion to
the saga, and I was like, all right, I'm ready
to see this. I'm ready for them to kind of
bring back all those cool moments, do something very innovative.
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Do it something that brings out all the imagination and
makes these dinosaurs come to life. And I didn't get that.
So there's no epic nous to this that they are boasting.
So maybe I overhyped this one for myself and is
why I found myself a little bit bored and interested
in it. I think what they made this movie for
were the hardcore fans of Jurassic Park and Jurassic World,
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who were going to love all the little easter eggs
and love seeing all those characters back together again. So
I think if you're a die hard fan of the
Jurassic Park series, you'll still find some enjoyment in this
and probably like it more than I did. I wouldn't
call myself the most hardcore fan. If I had to
rank all my favorite Jurassic Park movies, I probably put
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The Lost World at number one, followed by the Original
and number two, But then at number three I would
have put Jurassic World, which I felt was a really
good way to reboot the series. And I think I
just find the plot in those so much more interesting
because it's built around the actual old park and having
you know, being reaped at the park and real people
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having to deal with these dinosaurs they just went to
see them, Like, that's a lot more entertaining. The visuals
that come back to me from the originals is like
in the Lost World, whenever the t Rex is loose
in California and he goes and is terrorizing the city,
and I just have that visual of the t Rex
going down the street going to a gas station in
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the seventies six ball, just rolling down the street, Like
I like seeing dinosaurs in the real world, in real
life situations. And I think that's what made those movies
so great. It was because it was a little bit
more like what if dinosaurs existed in our world. We
did see that a little bit here in Dominion, and
there was no scenes like that that really stood out
to me in this movie. But I do have a
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glimmer of hope here in that there's some kid out
there who this will be their favorite movie and they'll
watch this and want to go watch all the original
ones and become a fan of Jurassic Park, and maybe
thirty years down the line be directing the new reincarnated
reboot of this franchise again, and I'll be back to
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watch that one. I will say, though, I think the
best part of the entire movie is Jeff gold Bloom's performance.
He is the comic relief in this and he has
some pretty good lines, and it's just so very Jeff
gold Bloom that without him I probably would have gave
it an even lower rating. But for me Jurassic World dominion,
I give it three at a five raptor clause. It
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is now time for the part of the podcast where
I break down a movie trailer of a film coming
to you very soon in theaters or streaming online in
a segment called It's time to Head down to Movie,
and today we are looking at the new d C
movie called Black Adam. It starts Dwayne the Rock Johnson.
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He plays an anti hero, and after getting a bigger
glimpse at not only what the Rock as a superhero
is going to look like in this, but also getting
to know more about the character who I am not
that familiar with, I have to say I think this
is the DC movie that I'm anticipating the most. I'll
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get into all that here in a second, but here's
some of the Black Adam trailer. I was a slave
until I died. Then I was reborn to God. My
son sacrificed his life to save me. Now I kneel
before no one. Heroes don't kill people, well I do so.
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The first thing after watching this trailer, I thought to myself, Man,
if it would have had the treatment that the Rock
wanted and it got an R rating, this movie would
be amazing. But it has the PG thirteen rating, so
I still think it's going to be good. It does
have a grittier feel. So what I learned now about
Black Adam the movie is about his character, who is
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called test Adam. He is born into enslavement sometime it
kind of takes place in the distant past, and then
he gets killed by the people who capture him, brought
back to life by his son with this bolt of
lightning and turns into Black Adam. His son actually dies
from the ritual. But now Black Adom has these powers
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that are basically the qualities of Superman. He has a
super strength, he can fly, but he doesn't have the
same moral structure, as you heard in that trailer is
heroes don't kill people, but Black Adam does. So that's
where I feel like this is gonna have a little
bit more of a grittier feel. The trailer has a
little bit of humor mixed in with that, so to me,
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this movie almost feels like a grittier Superman movie, which
I am told lead into and I think the Rock
was made for this role. I'm surprised he hasn't been
in a title superhero role like this before. And I
think from being able to watch the entire journey of
the movie on his Instagram has really led to me
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having such high interest in it because literally from when
he got the role, to his training for the role,
getting super ripped up for it, all the behind the
scenes photos, it makes me a little bit more invested
in just seeing him and seeing all the hard work
he puts into this, because even though he's in so
many movies and it feels like we always see the
Rock in something, you forget how hard that guy works.
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And when I see him in this suit, it's insane
looking of how bulky and strong he is and how
much of a god he looks like. And then mix
that with the black suit that's super skin tight. It
basically looks like it's painted on him, And I'm curious
to see how his acting abilities change a little bit
in the superhero role. He's a little bit or serious.
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How he takes on a grid year role. If he's
going to essentially be the Rock like he is in
every other movie, or he's going to show us something different.
By this trailer, I don't get a big glimpse of
his acting capabilities in this and how he's going to
play the character. It's a little bit ominous, doesn't give
a whole lot about the story, but it does build
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interest in the action, and it does build interest in
the character. So I am excited about that. This movie,
Black Adam, comes out October twenty one and is the
DC movie that I'm most excited about seeing up on
the DC slate. They also have coming out Chasm Theory
of the Gods later this year. Further down the line,
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we're gonna get a Batgirl movie, the New Aquaman, The Flash,
and then Blue Beetlee And before this, I think the
DC movie I was most excited about it ended up
delivering was Joker in nineteen, which I felt existed in
an entirely different universe that was such a darker and
grittier world that I don't think Black Adam will go there.
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I think it'll kind of stay in the world, appealing
to most people who want to go see a superhero
movie and not the depressing movie that Joker was. The
other exciting thing I do want to mention is the
Joker sequel has been confirmed. Todd Phillips posted a picture
of the front of the script. He posted a picture
of Joaquin Phoenix reading the script. No other details about
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it except that it's called Joker Fully a dou I
think it's how you say it. I think it's French,
and that translates to an identical or similar mental disorder
affecting two or more individuals. So it sounds like it's
Joaquin Phoenix's character, Arthur Fleck dealing with multiple personalities here,
dealing with him as the Joker and also dealing with
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him as Arthur, and maybe we see a big clash
between those two people, which sounds like a recipe for
a great movie. There's been rumors that Harley Quinn will
make an appearance in this movie, probably not the Margot
Robbie Harley Quinn. So I am curious to see how
they follow up Joker, which really wasn't going to get
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a sequel. It was supposed to be a standalone film,
but I think because it was so successful in being
the highest grossing R rated movie of all time, it's
really hard to leave that money on the table. And
if Joaquin Phoenix and Todd Phillips, the director, both believe
there's more story to be told, which I really want
to believe that is the reason they decided to do
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another movie and not just take away from the masterpiece
that I believe that Joker was. I try not to
use that title very often. There maybe two or three
films in the last ten years that I would consider masterpieces.
Joker would be one of them. So that's some cool
stuff coming up soon from d C. This makes edition
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and that's going to do it for another week here
on the podcast. But before I hop out of here,
every single week, I gotta give my listeners shout out,
And on this episode, I'm going over to my Twitter
Tammy see tweeted listen to your latest podcast yesterday. And
the only movie I haven't seen was Uncut Gems because
I wasn't sure about serious Adam Sandler. I watched it.
(41:20):
I loved it. Thanks for putting me onto this love
the podcast. Keep up the good work. Appreciate that. Tammy C.
Thanks for listening to last week's Adam Sandler episode. If
you missed that one, just go one back in the
feed and see what movies I ranked as my top
five best and worst Adam Sandler movies in my opinion.
Hope you have a great rest of your week, and
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until next time, go out and watch good movies. I'll
talk to you later.
Hello, and welcome back to Movie mis Movie Podcast. I
am your host movie Mike, and today I want to
talk about the top ten summer blockbusters of the two
thousand and tens. I have my wife Kelsey here, how
are you. We both love summer blockbuster movies. We're right
in the middle of summer blockbuster season, so I felt
like this was the perfect time to do this topic.
In the movie review, we'll talk about the new Jurassic
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Park movie, and in the Trailer Park we finally got
the first look at The Rock as Black Adam. So,
a lot of good movies coming out this summer, a
lot of good movies coming out for the rest of
the year. I'm excited. Are you excited? I'm excited? Why
am I so excited? Well? All right, shout out to
the Monday Morning Movie crew for listening, Thanks for being
subscribed to the podcast. You guys already know what this is.
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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 before in a movie podcast.
A man with so much movie knowledge, he's basically like
a walking Audi mtvie who's blaster from the Nashville podcast
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networkinges MO Movie Podters. So I've been going off on
summer blockbuster season for a while. Now on the podcast,
we've got now two big summer blockbuster movies and a
little history lesson. The first ever summer blockbuster was in
nineteen seventy five. You know what it was, Steven Spielberg
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movie about a big creature wreaking havoc on a beach.
You know that movie Jaws that is credited as the
first one. Other people credit Star Wars in nineteen seventy
seven is also being one of the first big ones.
But now we every summer, we just come to expect
big summer blockbuster movies, and not only are they movies
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making a bunch of money during the summer, but oftentimes
they're the number one movie out of the entire year.
So what will be doing on this episode of this
new summer series is this week we'll be looking at
the top highest grossing movies of the tents. And if
you listening to this enjoy this series, we'll go back
and do the two thousands, and then if you really
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enjoy the series, we'll do the nineties and as far
back as we could go, it would be the eighties,
because if it started in the mid seventies, that's all
we really have to go. And for the purpose of
this list, we are going to defund the summer blockbuster
season as kicking off on the first weekend of May
and then wrapping up on the first weekend of September.
Starting it out first. Now with the year, I'm gonna
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give you three movies. All you have to do is
name which one you think made the most of the
box office? All right, first movie is Toy Story three,
second movie is iron Man two, and third movie is
Twilight Eclipse. Which one do you think made the most
at the box office? Iron Man too, It is not
iron Man two. That comes in at number two with
three and twelve million. Below that is Twilight with three
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hundred million. At number one was Toy Story three, making
four hundred and eighty million dollars adjusted for inflation. That
is so. I remember how big Toy Story three was,
and I think it was a combination of the original
one coming out in the nineties. So everybody that was
a kid either had kids of their own now or
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they were just at that point in their life where
they wanted to go back and relive their childhood. So
you had the people who loved it way back in
the day, and then of course everybody taking their kids,
and you can never really roll out a kid's movie
at the box office. Which I think is we go
through this entire list, we're gonna see a lot of
superhero movies, big action movies. Kids movies just dominate, and
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then the occasional comedy will make the list. But Toy
Story three, I think, out of these three movies, if
I can only keep one, that would be the one.
I feel like you kind of just gave away some answers.
She told me, kids movies and superheroes do well. How
am I supposed to guess? Well, they're all gonna be
in there just looking at the different types of movies.
That's what we're going to see. You'll still have to
pick which one. Which one would you keep? If you
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can only pick one of those, why for the rest
of your life, I mean, neither of them, you can
pick none. No, I'm deciding between iron Man and Toy Story.
Iron Man two wasn't the best one, but I think
it was because it was coming off of Iron Man,
which was so good. Iron Man two was pretty forgettable.
I guess Toy Story because someday when we have kids
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like we can watch Toy Story with them, all four
of them, all four No, No, all four of the
Toy Story movies for the kids. I wish everyone could
have just seen my face. No, all four Toy Story
movies that all four children. All right, let's move on
to eleven. I'll give you the three movies you tell
me the highest grossing one? Was it Transformers? Dark of
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the Moon? Was it Harry Potter and the Deathly Hellos
Part two? Or was it Hangover Part two? For sure?
Not Hangover Part two? Okay, for sure? Not it is
Harry Potter. At number one was Harry Potter, which made
four and thirty two point six million dollars almost half
a billion. At number two, Dark Sides of the Moon
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made three eighty one million, and then at number three,
The Hangover Part two made two four million, which is
a lot of money for a comedy. For a comedy sequel, yeah,
I shouldn't have even been made. I agree. Well, Hangover
two is basically the exact same thing as The Hangover.
Hangover was a little bit more of a unexpected success.
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It was just so big and everybody loved it when
it came out that the demand was so high to
make a sequel. So I think those numbers are just
reflective on everybody loving the first one and wanted to
go see the second one. Regardless they sold out and
just wanted money. I mean, look at Christin Wiggs, she
refuses to write a Bridesmaids too. Yeah, but I don't
think they sold out. I think they bought in. They
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made so much money off of that trilogy. But yes,
a trilogy that probably didn't deserve to be made. But
I still enjoy every single Hangover movie. I don't think
they're all. I think the first one is the best
first and it you know, thing else can really touch
that one. But every one that came after that, two
and three I still enjoy. I think it's because of
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the characters. It's still entertaining. Would I recommend them to
anybody if you haven't seen them, not two or three one.
But I just think as a trilogy, it's a it's weak,
it's very just Hangover one, do it two more times?
Make your money. Yeah, Transformers, those movies dominated so much
of the box office when they came out. Were these
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stole the ones? With Schila Buff and Fox. Yes, Dark
of the Moon still had Megan Fox and Shila Buff
and these movies were so popular, but now kind of
forgotten about. I think it's because later they stopped being
good and either Mark Wahlberg in there and people stopped caring.
Amazing how popular they were at the height of everybody's interest,
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but now I don't really go back and want to
watch your Transformers movie. And then Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows Part two, that's the final one, Like obviously
it's gonna dominate the box office with the final one
came out in two thousand eleven. Yes, when we were
looking at this list version, we're gonna go back twenty
years and you were like, that's two thousand and two. Eiphany,
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that twenty years ago was two thousand and two, and
I feel old. Let's move on now to twelve. I'll
give you the three movies Great summer graduated high school.
Do you think it was The Dark Knight Rises, The
Amazing Spider Man or The Avengers Dark Knight Rises. The
answer is at number one, making six hundred and ninety
two million dollars domestically The Avengers and then coming in
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Right below that at four hundred and forty eight million
was The Dark Knight Rises, and then at number three
was The Amazing Spider Man two d and sixty two million.
Looking at twelve, I feel like this is pretty representative
of what has been successful at the box office for
a very long time. You have three superhero movies in
the top three summer blockbuster movies, one basically being a
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compilation album of all the best superheroes and the first
time we've ever seen a movie like that, Dark Knight
Rises being a follow up to one of the I
would say, the greatest comic book movie ever made. And
then The Amazing Spider Man, which wasn't as well received
by critics, but I felt like die hard Spider Man
fans like myself still enjoyed it, but still made two
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d and sixty two million dollars. That's still a lot
of money, so kind of proving that even if you
make a movie that everybody doesn't love, you'll still go
out to see it because it is Spider Man. Of
those three, I think the one I go back to
the most it's probably Dark Knight Rises. Yeah, it's like
one of your favorite movies, and Dark Knight Dark Knight
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is my all time favorite, but I feel like Dark
Knight Rises is right up there as well. I was
getting them confused. I forgot that there's just a Dark
Knight and then a Dark Knight Rises, And I remember
seeing that one in theaters for the first time and
thinking that Bain was such a more ferocious villain than
Joker was. I felt like Joker was so unique based
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on the way that Heath Ledger played him and everything
surrounding him. But as far as the movie going experience,
like I had such a I want Bain to fail
so much in Dark Knight Rises, and it kind of
got something a little bit out of me more than
I did when I watched The Dark Knight for the
first time. Going back now and rewatching both of them,
I still think that Dark Knight Heath Letters performance can't
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be touched. So that is moving on now to which
one do you think made the most iron Man three,
Despicable Me Too or Man of Steel Despicable Mean Too?
That would be incorrect. At number one. It's iron Man three,
making four and forty million dollars at the box office
that summer. Despicable Wade came in two three and seventy
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six million, and then at number three would be Man
of Steel with two d and nine million. Yeah, I
didn't love Man of Steel when it first came out.
I found myself rewatching it now and being a little
bit more in the Superman and character now that Henry
Cowell is not even going to play him anymore. It's
kind of weird to go back and enjoy that now.
And I know so many people love that Man is
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Steel movie, but I just failed to get into that hype.
I'm a little bit more into the DC hype right now,
and I find myself liking a lot more of the
animated stuff with you have seen me get into recently.
I just find it a little bit more entertaining. I
find the stories better in the animated stuff, But as
far as the on screen newer Batman and Superman stuff,
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they have not been my favorite. Despicab will be too, however,
I love that movie. There's something about minions that just
makes me happy, and I think makes everybody happy. And
then iron Man three was probably the biggest let down
for me because iron Man was so popular in he
was basically carrying the Avengers. Iron Man three just left
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a lot to be desired. I feel like Iron Man
three is probably one of the weakest Marvel movies all together.
So it's kind of weird of Iron Man being so
high up there and then two and three kind of
being in my lower tier of Marvel movies. But as
Iron Man going on, Now you have is it Guardians
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of the Galaxy, Is it Maleficent or is it Transformers
Age of Extinction? Guardians of the Galaxy hands town That
is correct, not only the number one highest grossing movie
of the summer, but also the highest grossing movie of
the entire year, making three hundred and seventy one million
dollars at the box office. Transformers Age of Extinction made
two forty five million, and Maleficent made two hundred and
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forty one million dollars. Never really got into the live
action Disney Maleficent, all those kind of movies. I've still
never seen it. I always just see the trailers and
they look so boring to me. I don't really like
period pieces, and I don't really like old Disney movies
placed in like weird fairy tale times. I just had
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no desire to see it. And then you have Transformer Man.
I was checked out of it by then and then
Guarding into the Galaxy one of the top tier Marvel movies.
Unexpectedly funny, Yes, yes, and especially at a time where
all the other solo movies were just so serious, it
was fun and refreshing. And I think that's kind of
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what made me love James Gunn and he did such
a great job in those and I can't wait to
see what he's gonna do with volume three. I didn't
think I would love that going into it. I was
like a green girl like trees don't name groot and
a raccoon like that's stupid. And now I love those movies.
I felt like a lot of people had that similar
feeling going into it of you know, Bradley Cooper playing
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a raccoon, but there's so much that goes into that character.
Vin Diesel saying one word and getting paid millions to
do that. I am moving on now to do you
think the highest grossing movie was Avengers, Age of Ultron
Inside Out or Jurassic War Old Avengers Age of Ultron
came in at number two, four hundred and fifty nine million,
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and right above it is Jurassic World, making seven hundred
and twelve million dollars at the box office. At number
three was Inside Out with three d and fifty six million.
Seven told. That's even more than Avejurs made. It's a
lot of money. Yeah, And I find it pretty surprising
how much the Jurassic World and the original Jurassic Park
movies make. I think what they have going for them
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is kind of what we saw some other parts of
this list of you have the people who are just
fans of Jurassic Park. It's a big franchise. Yeah, it's
a continuation of that, So there's a lot more people
already invested in it and gonna go see it, kind
of like we saw with Top Gun. Now everybody who
loves that movie in the eighties went back and flocks
to see it now. So I think it's also one
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of the most perfect types of summer blockbuster movies. Big
dinosaurs on the screen, running around chasing humans. You don't
really need to understand a whole lot, like that's all
you need. And I think for me, that's what I
kind of go to the movies in the summer looking for.
I want to turn my brain off. I don't want
to think about the problems of the outside world. I
want to see something completely out there and not think
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about it for two hours. So I think that's why
those Jurassic Park movies do so well. And later in
the movie review, we'll see if it helds up two
expectations this time around. Moving on to sixteen, do you
think it was Finding Dory, Captain America Civil War or
the Secret Life of Pets. I'm gonna go Captain America
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Civil War that came in at number two, making four
hundred and eight million dollars. At number one making five
hundred and six million dollars, was Finding Dorry. Yeah, I
guess I shouldn't know that kids movies. You can't movies
the last time and it was wrong. So I give
up on this game. But it's a follow up to
Finding Nemo, which came out in two thousand and three.
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You kind of have the same thing going here thirteen
years later. And three podcast just making me feel like
I need to go like put on my wrinkle cream.
Out of those three, most surprising is the Secret Life
of Pets number three with three and sixty eight million dollars.
That is shocking because it is a new movie, and
I guess it's maybe the Pet Angle. It's from DreamWorks
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who is Hit or Miss on their animated movies. I
did go see that movie in theaters mainly because Louis c.
K was a voice in it and Kevin Hart, so
it had that aspect of comedians doing voices in that. Okay,
so it still had grown men going to see it,
So we still had a factor there. Yeah, moving on
now to seventeen. Do you think it was Spider Man Homecoming,
Guardians of the Galaxy Too, or Wonder Woman? All three
(15:40):
superhero movies? Which one do you think made the most?
Spider Man to Homecoming was second? Andrew Garfield one is
this is the first Tom Holland one. That's right, That's right, okay,
and then Guardians of the Galaxy Too? And Wonder Woman?
Which one made the most in seventeen. I'm gonna go
Guardians of the Galaxy Too. That one came in at
(16:01):
number two, nine million. Below that was Spider Man Homecoming
with three thirty four million. At number one with four
hundred and fifteen million dollars was a wonder Woman and
this was the first big win for d C. This
movie put gal Gadot on the map, put director Patty
Jenkins runton center. And I think it kind of gave everybody, Uh,
(16:25):
I guess younger girls who haven't had a movie to
look at a character and be like, hey, that's me,
Like that could be me. I think this was that
first glimpse at that, and I loved it so much
because after Batman Versus Superman, which was such a bad movie,
she was the only kind of glimmering hope to come
from that, like, oh, wonder Woman is actually awesome. So
(16:47):
I loved Wonder Woman and was kind of taken back
at how much people didn't like Wonder Woman and how
that movie was one of the ones that came out
streaming and in theaters but at a time where theaters
weren't really happening anymore. So they lost a lot of
money on that movie. So it's kind of a big
drastic fall to go from having the number one movie
(17:10):
of the summer to having one that people now regard
as one of the worst superhero movies of all time.
So that kind of sucks. But yeah, Guardians of the
Galaxy to was another great addition, and then Spider Man
Homecoming was awesome because I felt like they finally got
Peter Parker right, and I remember having that emotion coming
out of it like he's back. I guess after the
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Andrew Garfield movies, a lot of people were checked out
of people making Spider Man movies. I still like Andrew
Garfields too. I like him more now than I did
when he was doing those movies. Like going back now
seeing him in that role, it kind of makes me
a little bit like I should have given him more
credit back then. But I'm sure he doesn't sleep at
night because yeah him credit, he knows. Alright. Moving on
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now to which one do you think made the most?
Was it Incredibles Too, Deadpool two, or Jurassic World fall
in Kingdom? Okay, see here we've got Jurassic World, which
is a nostalgia, but we also have Incredible too. I'm
gonna Incredible two is everyone was excited for that to
come out. Well, at number three would be Deadpool two
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eighteen million, and then at number two making four hundred
and seventeen million was Jurassic World Falling Kingdom. So you
were correct. Number one was Incredibles To, making six hundred
and eight million dollars at the box office according to
box office Mojo, and that is Yeah, that's an nostalgia
factor and also a sequel that people were asking for
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forever the Incredibles, and Pixar rarely does sequels. Took forever
for Finding Dory, took forever for The Incredibles too, So
when they do make a sequel, they know that people
are going to want a story that lives up to
the original, and they're gonna spend time to get that right,
spend time to make the animation worthy of how being
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an updated version, and then also know whenever they put
it out is just going to dominate. So that's a
pretty big win for pick Sary having the biggest movie
of the summer going against Jurassic World making also half
a billion dollars, and we've made it to the final year.
On the list ten, which movie made the most? Was
it The Lion King, the live action version, Toy Story four,
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or Spider Man Far From Home? Which one made the
most in twenty nineteen. Spider Man Spider Man came in
at number three. Far From Home made three and ninety
million dollars, Toy Story four made four hundred and thirty
four million dollars, and at number one, You Don't Roll
Out Disney making five hundred and forty three million dollars.
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Was The Lion King. You have a face of disgust.
I just don't think that should have been number one. Yeah,
I feel like that was a very forgettable live action
Disney movie. But I think The Lion King is arguably
so many people's favorite Disney movie of all time. And
there was so much hype around this from the soundtrack,
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from everybody who they cast to voice it, and also
it was a relatively I mean, it wasn't a brand
new concept, but I remember a lot of people wondering
what does a live action Lion King movie even mean?
Like are they going to get real animals and Mike
com up? But it was basically just paid more to
see that. I would have paid more to see that.
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I mean, can Zoo do that? I'm sure there's like
YouTube videos like that where people would just record animals
and overdub. That probably would have been a little bit
more entertaining. Because the weird thing about it is they
made the exact same movie, didn't really change a whole
lot about it, but it was just like they gave
it an h D feel. So what it lost for
me was the charm of the original. It didn't have
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a warmth to it. It didn't really have a connection
to the characters. You just had like these animated, realistic
looking animals acting out basically a big dramatic I think
something like that, where like you have people like voicing
The Lion King does better on Broadway. Yeah, like the
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Lion King on Broadway. I've heard it's phenomenal. I would
like to see that someday. So I feel like, couldn't
we have cast those people and done it like Broadway
a little more theatrical? You say yes? And number two
with Toy Story four, I didn't love that one. I
felt like it was a movie that didn't really need
to be made. Toy Story three left a perfect ending
(21:28):
to a trilogy. There is some fun elements to Toy
Story four, but that's probably everybody just kind of wanting
a little bit more of the characters to go back
and watch that one, to make that with such a
bag success. And then Spider Man Far from Home. I mean,
you know how much I love all those movies. So
we saw it together. We was like one of the
first like summer blockbusters we have to see because things
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when we were still long distance A great one to
see together. And now if you're wondering where does Avengers
Endgame rank in nineteen It came out in April, so
it is the summer blockbuster day. But that one made
eight hundred and fifty eight million dollars, so almost a
billion dollars in the United States alone, So that is insane.
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And then since we are here at the end of
the twenty tens and it would be a long time
before we could do the twenties, we'll look at what
do you think the highest grossing movie of summer was?
Nothing really came out that summer. Yeah, everything kind of
stopped around March. There's like one movie that came out
in the summer but only made fifty eight million dollars.
(22:34):
What do you think it was? I'm trying to remember
what came out. Did Tennant come out that year? It
is Tenant? And that was kind of weird because it
came out on HBO Max and then very few theaters,
and that's mainly because Christopher Nolan just wanted to see
it shown in theaters. I felt like they should have
held that movie a little bit, probably would have done better.
Probably would have done better because we didn't really get
(22:55):
that feeling of it. I would have paid more attention
if I was in the theater and couldn't have used phone,
I got lost in the first ten minutes and checked out.
It's already a difficult movie to understand, and when you're
at home and watching a movie that's difficult to understand,
it's very easy to to now. I feel like I
would have at least maybe enjoyed it a little bit
more seeing it in the theater, But it's also one
I haven't revisited since, so who knows. And then in
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one what do you think? The number one highest grossing
movie was of the summer, Black Widow, that is correct,
making a hundred and eighty three million dollars at the
box office. At number two was the first movie we
saw back in theaters, and it was nine f nine
making a hundred and seventy three million dollars. And then
at number three, just about closing out the summer, coming
(23:41):
out in August, was Free Guy, making a twenty one
million dollars. This is kind of where stuff started to
come back, but it was mainly all the movies that
got delayed from starting to release. So I feel like
one is a weird year because it should have been
twenties basically, and nothing really felt like it had rhyme
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and reason to the release schedule. It was just like,
what can come out, what feels comfortable releasing on this weekend,
what's going to keep getting delayed? What's going to come
out on Disney Plus at the same time or HBO
Max at the same time. So that's also a really
weird year to look at, and I feel like, looking
at two now, this is going to be the comeback
year where everything looks a little bit normal. So far,
(24:25):
dominating the box office is dr Strange. Top Gun is
right below it, but it's also just had less of
a theatrical run so far. So I feel like that
maybe the number one movie of the summer for the year.
They've got Jurassic Jurassic coming out, Jurassic World, Durrassical the names,
Jurassic thor Thor coming out. But I feel out of
(24:46):
all the summer movies, the one that will probably win
his Top Gun and that has the ability to be
the number one highest grossing movie of the year. Great movie.
I would see it again. I would too, and not
just because my teller takes us right now, Okay, that's
what you liked in that movie. All right, if you
enjoyed that, let us know and maybe next week or
(25:07):
the following week we'll do the two thousand's. Ye'll see
what works in my schedule. All right, we'll see. And
now it's time for a spoiler free movie review talking
about Jurassic World Dominion, which was one of my most
anticipated movies of the summer. The trailer really banked in
(25:27):
on the nostalgia factor, bringing back Jeff Goldbloom, Sam Neil,
Laura Dern, and that's why I was excited about it.
So did it live up to those expectations? Let's talk
about that. But before we get into this review, here's
just a little bit of the Jurassic World Dominion trailer.
If our world is gonna survives, matters is what we do? Now?
(25:50):
How can you use your expertise? You come out on
what a baby raptor. I made a promise we would
bear home. You've made a promise toward dinosaur. Yeah, boy.
So let's talk about what this movie is about. It
is the finale of the saga of the Jurassic World movies,
(26:14):
and you find yourself back with the old characters from
the original movie. So Sam Neil and Laura Derner back,
you have Jeff gold Bloom back and it's kind of
like the Old School meets the New School with Chris Pratt.
They are again trying to save the world. It takes
place four years after the last Jurassic Park movie, and
(26:34):
now that that island has been destroyed, all of the
dinosaurs are kind of living among the humans, which I
thought was cool and I actually wanted to see more of.
You have the O G Jurassic Park crew trying to
save the world from this evil corporation, and then you
have Chris Pratt, as you heard in that trailer, trying
(26:55):
to reunite the raptor named Blue with their child. So
it's those two stories coming together informing in this movie,
and I gotta say that plot left a lot to
be desired. It felt very disjointed at times, where you
have two completely different things going on at the same time,
you don't really get invested in either one of them.
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Laura Dern and Sam Neil are cool to see back
together again, but banking off the nostalgia factor, it didn't
really cash in at any point, which we've seen movies
do this fairly recently, just earlier this year. Also from
the nineties Scream came out, and it was kind of
like that team getting back together for one last mission.
That's what you kind of find here, But it didn't
really feel like much of a reason to get them
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back together, and the whole thing just kind of came
together quickly, so when they first came on screen, I
didn't really have that feeling of like, oh, they're back
like I have in other movies. Some people gave a
little like one to clap, like a failed big cheering moment,
so that didn't feel completely like a big moment to me,
and there were a lot of nostalgic moment It's little
(28:00):
easter eggs as an ode to the original movie, but
for a movie that's almost two and a half hours long,
it's not going to keep my interests by just telling
me and reminding me how cool the original one was.
So it got us all back there to relive that
kind of original movie, but didn't really form enough to
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kind of update it. And they're trying to kind of
really force this plot of the old school meets the
news school, and I just didn't really find it working
for a movie that's almost two and a half hours long.
I found myself bored at moments, and I don't think
this is a bad movie. Like I don't leave the
theater after seeing this movie thinking, I, you know, got
ripped off. It's still a fairly entertaining movie. But for
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it's something that had so much action and so many
things happening, cool visuals, and I'll get into the more
about the dinosaurs, you just don't really care and never
really get invested in the story. And I think that's
what the original Jurassic Park did so well, also what
The Lost World did so well. And I think the
problem I had with this movie is there was no
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imagination when it came to how they showed the action
with the dinosaurs. The original movie, it was so much
more of a treat when you actually had the dinosaurs
on screen. And I know that's a little bit more
because that movie came out in the nineties. The technology
was still so new they basically developed it to make
that movie. That they also couldn't afford to put the
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dinosaurs on the screen the whole time. But what that
created was some tension because when the t Rex is
on screen, it's very important, and he's not there all
the time, So when he is on screen, you pay attention,
and I think that's what I love about some you know,
monster movies. Anything to that aspect, is you can't give
everything away the entire time because they're just gonna be
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coming another character on screen. It's not really going to
be a treat when they pop out, because they're just
they're kind of thrown in in this movie, so there
was no tension, there was no suspense, and that led
to it just kind of feeling like a bunch of
action thrown together and the dinosaur has just happened to
be there. Although in this movie they do look the
(30:12):
best they have ever looked. The c g I has
greatly advanced since the nineties. I think they definitely did
some research on more of what dinosaurs really would have
looked like. I like the you know, the scaly look
with the feathers, the talents, the the clause. I thought
the dinosaur visuals were really great, but it wasn't enough
(30:33):
to keep me interested in the entire time they get chased.
It's kind of just running through the exact same motions
of all the other ones. But the scenes didn't really
carry any weight. I never really found myself carrying like,
how are they going to get out of this situation.
Things that just happened, and I'd be like, Oh, that's fine,
and it's not a terrible movie. I think it's because
(30:55):
I had such high expectations going into it that I
don't think I enjoyed it as much as I thought
I would. But I went with my wife, who hasn't
seen all of the Jurassic Park or Jurassic World movies.
She had very low expectations going into this, and she
enjoyed it way more than she thought she was going to.
Probably liked it more than I did. So if you
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go into it with low expectations, maybe you'll like it
a little bit more. But still, yes, it's not a
terrible movie. I don't think it deserves to get dragged
as much as it has been. Calling it the worst
dressing World movie of all time not gonna be wrong.
It's still fun and entertaining to see dinosaurs on the
screen attacking people, biting people's limbs off. The big action
(31:38):
sequences are still fun. It just doesn't have that same
charm that I was expecting from something that's supposed to
be the conclusion to this saga. I just think because
literally on the poster it says the epic conclusion to
the saga, and I was like, all right, I'm ready
to see this. I'm ready for them to kind of
bring back all those cool moments, do something very innovative.
(31:59):
Do it something that brings out all the imagination and
makes these dinosaurs come to life. And I didn't get that.
So there's no epic nous to this that they are boasting.
So maybe I overhyped this one for myself and is
why I found myself a little bit bored and interested
in it. I think what they made this movie for
were the hardcore fans of Jurassic Park and Jurassic World,
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who were going to love all the little easter eggs
and love seeing all those characters back together again. So
I think if you're a die hard fan of the
Jurassic Park series, you'll still find some enjoyment in this
and probably like it more than I did. I wouldn't
call myself the most hardcore fan. If I had to
rank all my favorite Jurassic Park movies, I probably put
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The Lost World at number one, followed by the Original
and number two, But then at number three I would
have put Jurassic World, which I felt was a really
good way to reboot the series. And I think I
just find the plot in those so much more interesting
because it's built around the actual old park and having
you know, being reaped at the park and real people
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having to deal with these dinosaurs they just went to
see them, Like, that's a lot more entertaining. The visuals
that come back to me from the originals is like
in the Lost World, whenever the t Rex is loose
in California and he goes and is terrorizing the city,
and I just have that visual of the t Rex
going down the street going to a gas station in
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the seventies six ball, just rolling down the street, Like
I like seeing dinosaurs in the real world, in real
life situations. And I think that's what made those movies
so great. It was because it was a little bit
more like what if dinosaurs existed in our world. We
did see that a little bit here in Dominion, and
there was no scenes like that that really stood out
to me in this movie. But I do have a
(33:49):
glimmer of hope here in that there's some kid out
there who this will be their favorite movie and they'll
watch this and want to go watch all the original
ones and become a fan of Jurassic Park, and maybe
thirty years down the line be directing the new reincarnated
reboot of this franchise again, and I'll be back to
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watch that one. I will say, though, I think the
best part of the entire movie is Jeff gold Bloom's performance.
He is the comic relief in this and he has
some pretty good lines, and it's just so very Jeff
gold Bloom that without him I probably would have gave
it an even lower rating. But for me Jurassic World dominion,
I give it three at a five raptor clause. It
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is now time for the part of the podcast where
I break down a movie trailer of a film coming
to you very soon in theaters or streaming online in
a segment called It's time to Head down to Movie,
and today we are looking at the new d C
movie called Black Adam. It starts Dwayne the Rock Johnson.
(34:57):
He plays an anti hero, and after getting a bigger
glimpse at not only what the Rock as a superhero
is going to look like in this, but also getting
to know more about the character who I am not
that familiar with, I have to say I think this
is the DC movie that I'm anticipating the most. I'll
(35:18):
get into all that here in a second, but here's
some of the Black Adam trailer. I was a slave
until I died. Then I was reborn to God. My
son sacrificed his life to save me. Now I kneel
before no one. Heroes don't kill people, well I do so.
(35:49):
The first thing after watching this trailer, I thought to myself, Man,
if it would have had the treatment that the Rock
wanted and it got an R rating, this movie would
be amazing. But it has the PG thirteen rating, so
I still think it's going to be good. It does
have a grittier feel. So what I learned now about
Black Adam the movie is about his character, who is
(36:11):
called test Adam. He is born into enslavement sometime it
kind of takes place in the distant past, and then
he gets killed by the people who capture him, brought
back to life by his son with this bolt of
lightning and turns into Black Adam. His son actually dies
from the ritual. But now Black Adom has these powers
(36:32):
that are basically the qualities of Superman. He has a
super strength, he can fly, but he doesn't have the
same moral structure, as you heard in that trailer is
heroes don't kill people, but Black Adam does. So that's
where I feel like this is gonna have a little
bit more of a grittier feel. The trailer has a
little bit of humor mixed in with that, so to me,
(36:54):
this movie almost feels like a grittier Superman movie, which
I am told lead into and I think the Rock
was made for this role. I'm surprised he hasn't been
in a title superhero role like this before. And I
think from being able to watch the entire journey of
the movie on his Instagram has really led to me
(37:16):
having such high interest in it because literally from when
he got the role, to his training for the role,
getting super ripped up for it, all the behind the
scenes photos, it makes me a little bit more invested
in just seeing him and seeing all the hard work
he puts into this, because even though he's in so
many movies and it feels like we always see the
Rock in something, you forget how hard that guy works.
(37:38):
And when I see him in this suit, it's insane
looking of how bulky and strong he is and how
much of a god he looks like. And then mix
that with the black suit that's super skin tight. It
basically looks like it's painted on him, And I'm curious
to see how his acting abilities change a little bit
in the superhero role. He's a little bit or serious.
(38:00):
How he takes on a grid year role. If he's
going to essentially be the Rock like he is in
every other movie, or he's going to show us something different.
By this trailer, I don't get a big glimpse of
his acting capabilities in this and how he's going to
play the character. It's a little bit ominous, doesn't give
a whole lot about the story, but it does build
(38:21):
interest in the action, and it does build interest in
the character. So I am excited about that. This movie,
Black Adam, comes out October twenty one and is the
DC movie that I'm most excited about seeing up on
the DC slate. They also have coming out Chasm Theory
of the Gods later this year. Further down the line,
(38:43):
we're gonna get a Batgirl movie, the New Aquaman, The Flash,
and then Blue Beetlee And before this, I think the
DC movie I was most excited about it ended up
delivering was Joker in nineteen, which I felt existed in
an entirely different universe that was such a darker and
grittier world that I don't think Black Adam will go there.
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I think it'll kind of stay in the world, appealing
to most people who want to go see a superhero
movie and not the depressing movie that Joker was. The
other exciting thing I do want to mention is the
Joker sequel has been confirmed. Todd Phillips posted a picture
of the front of the script. He posted a picture
of Joaquin Phoenix reading the script. No other details about
(39:30):
it except that it's called Joker Fully a dou I
think it's how you say it. I think it's French,
and that translates to an identical or similar mental disorder
affecting two or more individuals. So it sounds like it's
Joaquin Phoenix's character, Arthur Fleck dealing with multiple personalities here,
dealing with him as the Joker and also dealing with
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him as Arthur, and maybe we see a big clash
between those two people, which sounds like a recipe for
a great movie. There's been rumors that Harley Quinn will
make an appearance in this movie, probably not the Margot
Robbie Harley Quinn. So I am curious to see how
they follow up Joker, which really wasn't going to get
(40:12):
a sequel. It was supposed to be a standalone film,
but I think because it was so successful in being
the highest grossing R rated movie of all time, it's
really hard to leave that money on the table. And
if Joaquin Phoenix and Todd Phillips, the director, both believe
there's more story to be told, which I really want
to believe that is the reason they decided to do
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another movie and not just take away from the masterpiece
that I believe that Joker was. I try not to
use that title very often. There maybe two or three
films in the last ten years that I would consider masterpieces.
Joker would be one of them. So that's some cool
stuff coming up soon from d C. This makes edition
(40:59):
and that's going to do it for another week here
on the podcast. But before I hop out of here,
every single week, I gotta give my listeners shout out,
And on this episode, I'm going over to my Twitter
Tammy see tweeted listen to your latest podcast yesterday. And
the only movie I haven't seen was Uncut Gems because
I wasn't sure about serious Adam Sandler. I watched it.
(41:20):
I loved it. Thanks for putting me onto this love
the podcast. Keep up the good work. Appreciate that. Tammy C.
Thanks for listening to last week's Adam Sandler episode. If
you missed that one, just go one back in the
feed and see what movies I ranked as my top
five best and worst Adam Sandler movies in my opinion.
Hope you have a great rest of your week, and
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until next time, go out and watch good movies. I'll
talk to you later.
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