Movie Mike debuts a new game called Ticket or Skip It? He shares big announcements that have been shared recently and whether he’d buy a ticket to see it or skip it because it doesn’t seem like it’d be good. He gives his thoughts on the new Star Wars trilogy, Denzel Washington in Black Panther 3 and Glen Powell possibly taking over for Tom Cruise in the Mission Impossible franchise. In the Movie Review, Mike talks about A Real Pain starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin where they play mismatched cousins that reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their grandmother. Mike talks about how the movie struck an odd nerve in him and why he thinks it’ll be nominated for an Oscar. In the Trailer Park, Mike talks about "Dear Santa" starring Jack Black and Post Malone. It’s a new Farrelly Brothers movie about a kid who writes a letter to Santa, but thanks to a misspelling, he summons SATAN instead.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's movie podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike today, gonna put my money
where my mouth is, playing a game called ticket or
skip it. All these big movies that got announced in
the last week, Oh man, there's been just movie news
oozing out my pores. I'm gonna let you know what,
I buy a ticket to them because I'm excited, or
want to skip them because they don't really interest me
that much. In the movie review, we'll be talking about
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A Real Pain, which is directed and stars Jesse Eisenberg,
my favorite fast talker. And in the trailer park we'll
be talking about a new Christmas movie coming out later
this year with Jack Black and a cameo from my
favorite artist, Post Malone. It's called Dear Santa. Thank you
for being here, thank you for being subscribed, Shout out
to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now you know
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what we're gonna do. Let's talk movies.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
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.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
A man with so much movie knowledge.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
He's basically like oh IMTB with glasses from the Nashville
Podcast Network. This is Movie Mike Movie Podcast.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
It is time to play ticket or skip it. I
have a lot of movie projects that have been announced
in the last week or so. We're gonna run through
them and I'll give you my verdict, ticket or skip it?
What I want to buy a ticket to go watch
this movie in theaters? Or what I want to skip
it all together? Let's get right into it. I think
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the biggest movie project that got announced in the last
week that has all the nerds, myself included, in a tizzy.
They have announced a new Star Wars trilogy is in
the works, and I think the thing that people are
the most upset about is that it's not continuing on
with the Skywalker saga that all finished up, and the
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way Star Wars movies have always been released in chapters
and one, two in three have all been together. So
you have the originals from back in the s seventies
and eighties, and then you have the prequels to those
that came out in the late nineties and early two thousands,
and then you have the Skywalker saga that came out
in the twenty tens that right now everybody hates, but
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give it twenty years and everybody is going to love them,
maybe because so many people hated that project, which really
is any Star Wars project right now. This new trilogy
that they are working on will focus on an entirely
new story, new characters for the most part, and there's
no real word on when it takes place. The thing
about it, though, is they said that Ray played by
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Daisy Ridley, is going to have a role in several
of these Star Wars movies that are being developed, So again,
it's still unclear on who is going to be in
these movies when they are going to take place. Will
it be way out in the future from when the
Skywalker saga happened. I think that is a possibility. I
really don't see it taking place right after and picking
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up in a timeframe that we saw Ray in. And
I have been one of the only people, at least
in my friend group and online who has been a
fan of the Daisy Ridley movies. They really reignited my
I don't even say my love of Star Wars. I
enjoy Star Wars, but they are not my go to
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sci fi franchise. And after watching those movies in theaters,
I was like, oh, this is what movies should be
right now, big fun action. Don't think too much about it.
But for the people who love the Star Wars lore
and live and breathe that grew up with those original movies,
I think there are some elements of the story that
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felt like a little bit of a slap in the
face to you. You could credit some lazy writing here
and there, but I still think at the core those
movies did really well for me as a casual Star
Wars fan, especially with the Force Awakened. That was a
big moment, a big cinematic moment that maybe kind of
went down from the second and third movie, But altogether
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I really enjoyed that trilogy, So I would have been
a fan if they would have done one more. But
I think what they want to do is shift the
model a little bit and take maybe what has been
working over on Disney Plus, which there have been some
really solid Star Wars franchises over there. The Mandalorian has
been my favorite so far, which there is also a
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Mandalorian movie in the work, so I don't think they
are lumping it together with this trilogy. Maybe we see
the Mandalorian in this trilogy, but I don't think so.
I think for the most part they're gonna keep all
those things separate in different timelines. But this trilogy is
being developed by Simon Kinberg, who is one of the
creative minds behind the X Men movies. So oh man,
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if they could give it an X Men flair to it,
I think that would be awesome. But like I mentioned earlier,
the Mandalorian and Grogu movie is supposed to come out
on May twenty second, twenty twenty six, and these other
Star Wars movies are supposed to come out on December eighteenth,
twenty twenty six and Summer seventeenth, twenty twenty seven. So
still in way early developmental stages, but glad to know
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that these movies are coming for a new Star Wars trilogy.
I'm gonna buy a ticket to it. I am all
in on seeing more Star Wars movies on the big
screen and keeping the medium Star Wars characters to Disney. Plus,
I think it'll be interesting to see how the Mandalorian
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transfers onto the big screen because that last season, oh
it started to feel kind of like a Saturday morning,
very family friendly TV show, which I just thought there
was more on the line in that first season more
that you've learned about the character, and now it just
kind of has this formula of, oh, here's a problem
in this episode, let's figure it out, and it's all
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wrapped up in a nice little bow by the end
of it. So hopefully they bring back some of that
energy from the first season to give you some real
grit to the character, some better action and fighting sequences. Otherwise,
so why do I care about seeing it on the
big screen when I could just go back and watch
season one? All right? All right? Moving on now to
our next project. Tom Cruise reportedly wants Glenn Powell, Yes,
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Glenn Powell from Twisters, from Hitman, Anyone but you. He
wants Glenn to replace him as the lead in the
Mission Impossible franchise after It looks like Tom Cruise is
maybe going to dip out after the next one, which
that trailer just dropped recently. Maybe I'll feature that in
the trailer park next week. And it seems like they
have become friends because they were both in Top Gun together,
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and I really think that Tom Cruise maybe somehow sees
himself in Glenn Powell, even though Glenn Powell, I feel
is a much better looking actor. Obviously at this point
in his career, Glenn is still in his thirties, has
nowhere near the success and recognizability and bankability that Tom
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Cruise head at that age. But I also think right
now we live in a world where it's so hard
to create big movies. But if there is somebody on
the cusp of that of being that big a level actor,
it is somebody like Glynn Powell. So maybe Tom Cruise
recognizes that a little bit. He's been on a string
of hit after hit movie. I would say his last
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three movies all together, we're just banger after banger. So
maybe Tom Cruise looks at him and says, Okay, I
can't do these movies forever. Because Tom Cruise is notorious
for doing all of his own stunts, breaking his ankle
as he jumps from one building to another, riding off
ramps and motorcycles and throwing in mid air and shooting
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off a parachute in order to win. And I think
that does add a lot of great production value to
a movie like this that you need people to go
see on the big screen in order for it to
be profitable. So to get people back into the seats
you have to give him a reason to and Tom
Cruise is really good at that. Even though I don't
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really like him as a person. I find him a
little bit off putting. I don't think I would want
to be in a room with Tom Cruise. I mean,
I would interview him, because that would be awesome. He's
had so many great movies. But I think if it
was just like, oh, you want to hang out with
the Hollywood actor, Yeah, do you want to hang out
with Tom Cruise? I think I'm good. But in the
case of Tom Cruise, I can kind of separate the
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art from the artists because as much as I love
movies and will always encourage people to go to the
theater to enjoy a movie, to really be able to
escape and take it in and it's full glory, that
is really what I support him on and believe he
is trying to keep alive. He brought back a shot
of blood into our old krusty cinema body with top gun,
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and I was kind of surprised about the numbers from
the Last Mission Impossible movies, because I did think that
was a big, fun movie, but it didn't really live
up to expectations. So I wonder what this next installment
is going to do at the box office, and whether
or not there will be a franchise left on the
table for Glenn Powell to even pick up. But somebody
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did ask him about it, and he reportedly said his
mom would never let him do that, which leads me
to believe if you give an answer like that, in
the back of your head, you know you can't say
anything and you have to make a joke. So I
do think there is some truth to this. He has
probably had a conversation. Maybe it's not set in stone,
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maybe he can't talk about it yet, but I think
there probably is at least a conversation, just based on
what I've seen from him and Tom Cruise. But the
ruling here is what I pay for a ticket or
what I skip it to see Glenn Powell in a
Mission Impossible movie. I don't even think that is a question.
I for sure would buy a ticket to that I
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did see, though the Mission Impossible movie has had a
lot of difficulties. Apparently it has a budget approaching four
hundred million dollars and they're already done filming this movie.
It's all in post production, so maybe they're doing some
crazy special effects, maybe to close it out. They're making
a three hour movie. But that is a huge, huge budget,
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and if it does cross that four hundred million dollar mark,
it'll be the fourth film to do so. Oh my gosh,
that is just so much money. I would feel this
immense pressure for it to be a hit. It is
almost like an NFL team at the beginning of the season.
And I could say this as a Cowboys fan that
if you go into a season and the goal of
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that season is either we win a Super Bowl or
we are a laughing stock, that is kind of the
situation you are in here. You can't put this movie
out that has cost four hundred million dollars make fifty
million dollars your opening weekend. You either have to have
a smash hit on your hands or just cut your
losses at this point, but the only other movies that
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have cost over four hundred million dollars have been Star Wars,
The Force Awakens, Star Wars, The Rise of Skywalker, and
Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom. I forget how expensive those Jurassic
World movies are because of all the special effects, But
all those movies have come to us in the last
ten years. That is just a scary amount of money
to pay for a movie. Next up, I know I've
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talked about this before in the Trailer Park, but recently
a new trailer for Captain America Brave New World came out,
and the big takeaway from this is we got a
better look at Harrison Ford as Red Hulk. If you're
not familiar with what is going on in this Captain America,
Anthony Mackie has taken over for Chris Evans. He is
the new Captain America. If you didn't watch the Disney
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Plus show, I don't really recommend you go back and
watch it. You might learn some things about where the
character is going into this movie, but I don't think
they will be expecting everybody to have seen that show.
And hopefully they reset everything within like the verse five
minutes to do a quick little recap so we can
move on to the next chapter of Captain America. But
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in this movie, Harrison Ford is trying to become resident.
He tries the team up and befriend Captain America even
though they have butted heads in the past, and the
result of Harrison Ford's character He's thunder Bolt Ross who
eventually turns into the Red Hulk, and now we get
to see what he looks like as the Red Hulk,
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and I am surprisingly really excited about it. And I
always liked every iteration of the Hulk, even back to
the original with Eric Bannon. I'm talking only in movies,
not the old school Hulk TV show, But in that version,
we had some very cool, comic accurate things about the Hulk,
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of how high he could jump, how strong he really was,
how fast he could run. I think overall the story
and we weren't really at the best place with CGI
when that movie came out, so I do think there
were some things that really hindered that movie and made
it look too cheesy for audiences to take seriously, which
has kind of always been the struggle of the Incredible Hulk.
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And then in two thousand, the Ed Norton version. I
love that movie, and that was the kicking off of
the MCU before it was the MCU, and still people
did not enjoy that version of the Hulk, and I
do think the look of the Hulk wasn't quite there yet,
and what they changed from that version of the Hulk
to the Mark Ruffalo version of the Hulk is now
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they do the mapping on the face, so you're actually
seeing the actor's face on the Hulk when he hulks out.
So you have this connection between the two characters where
it's not just Okay, I am the human version here
and then when I'm the Hulk, I am this completely
different person. And I think it shows even better with
the Harrison Ford version where it doesn't look as goofy,
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and I think the Hulk needs to be mean, the
Hulk needs to be angry, and in a lot of
the verse, well it wasn't even a lot of the versions,
but in the versions that came later of the Hulk
with smart Hulk, which I don't think they should have
ever done, that really kind of killed the character. But
he started to become more friendly, he started to become
more in tune with his emotions, and I want the
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Hulk who is just an all out just rage ball,
can't listen to anybody, smashes everything, is a force to
be reckoned with the strongest avenger on the field. I
want that version of the Hulk. So seeing this evil
red version of the Hulk really excites me because we
might finally get that grit. And even though he is
the villain and you're probably not going to root for him.
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I want to see that fight now with him and
Captain America. And when you think about Captain America, like,
what real power does Anthony Mackie's version of Captain America
have Because he wasn't given the same serum as Steve Rogers.
He just kind of like, hey, here's the shield, now
here you go. Now you're Captain America. Is that really
all it takes? I hope they answer that question in
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this movie. And I was already sold on this movie
before that, but now I'm not only buying one ticket,
I'm buying two tickets. I don't know why I need
two tickets, but I'm so sold. I am buying two
tickets to this new Captain America movie. All right, Moving
on now, there is an Idle Hands remake in the
works at Sony. Idle Hands is what I believe to
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be a forgotten film from nineteen ninety nine. It is
a horror comedy, which you don't really get much these days,
and Idle Hands is very much a movie that if
you did not experience it when it first came out,
if you weren't young when this movie came out. It's
not a movie you can go back in twenty twenty
four and watch and think, oh, that is a really
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well done movie. And every time around Halloween time it
is a movie I always watch. It was on Amazon,
so I did actually watch this on Halloween this year,
and now so many years later, it doesn't quite hold
up as much as I remember it being so funny
and being one of my favorite movies as a teenager.
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I think it was my impressionable mind back then that
found things funnier and I want to remember the memory
of when I first experienced this movie, and I think
a remake of that is going to go nowhere. And
attached to this project, you have Finn Wolfhard who is
writing the script, and you would know Finn Wolfhard from
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Stranger Things, which, Oh, that final season is coming out
next year and I cannot wait for that. I think.
I don't want to say Stranger Things is an underrated show,
because it's quite possibly one of the most overrated shows
on Netflix. But I think a lot of people who
were so invested in the first and second season have
kind of dipped out by this point. But that last
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season was one of my favorite seasons of any show
I've ever seen on Netflix, and I'm so excited for
the finale of this and essentially each episode is going
to be a movie that is kind of the level
that Stranger Things is at now, every episode of the movie.
That's how I view it. I don't really see that
as a TV show. A lot of TV shows now
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really kind of walk those lines of being just short
films or being one big, long film split up into chapters.
That's really all it is now. I think those best
TV shows are really just good movies in disguise and
more digestible format, because everybody has a problem with long
movies these days, but nobody has a problem with watching
eight episodes of a show. But anyway, he is attached
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to this project. He is writing it along with Billy Burke,
and they might codirect this movie. This is a definite
skippet for me. I just don't like reimaginations of cult
classics because there is nothing you can do to make
this movie better. It is what it is. And I
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hate that cliche phrase, but you are never going to
live up to the memory of something that was so
niched back in nineteen ninety nine. What this movie is
even about is ridiculous and does it make sense? And
as I was rewatching it, I was like, oh man,
this movie is just all over the place, but it's
funny for the time in a world where movies could
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just be fun for the sake of being fun, where
you didn't have to explain things. Essentially, it is about
Devin Salwas's character, who is a stoner, has no ambitions
in life, has a big crush on the girl who
lives across the street, who is played by Jessica Alba.
He gets possessed by this demonic force where he is
no longer able to control his hand, and his hand
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just wants to kill people. That's pretty much it. He
kills his best friends, they come back as zombies, and
it's all the highjinks they get into together. It is
a very animated stoner comedy from the nineties that is
so so nineties. And I think this is a movie
that will not benefit from a remake. It wouldn't benefit
from a sequel or a prequel because I don't think
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it was a big enough movie to really get people
caring about it. There are some movies that should just
be let be, don't mess with them. They were good
for the times. I don't want to tarnish the memory
of this movie, so I am definitely gonna skip it.
Next up on the Ducket, Denzel Washington revealed that he
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is going to star in Black Panther three. When I
first thought about this, I thought that was immediate ticket,
and then I think more about it. Denzel Washington in
a Black Panther three movie that I really didn't know
where they were on developing this movie, but he said.
Ryan Kugler, who is the director of one and two
in the Black Panther franchise, is currently writing a role
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for Denzel. I immediately was like, oh, yes, this is
an immediate Yes, I'd buy a ticket to this, And
then I thought about whenever the MCU brought in one
of the best actors of our generation and completely wasted him,
and that was Christian Bale as Gore, the god butcher
in Thor, Love and Thunder. Now, Ryan Kugler is a
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much better director than in Taikoba Titi, who I feel
has just after Ragnarok and him having success with that
movie and being able to do another Thor movie and
really now being able to do any movie he wants
to direct, at least in his world of like comedy,
and I think he really wanted to tank the character.
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I almost feel like that movie was a bit of
a joke to him, thinking I'll just do whatever I want.
They can't help me know that. He took one of
the best actors, Christian Bale, who has been in a
comic book movie. He has been Batman. But I feel
like Christopher Nolan's Batman is a much different world than
anything in the MCU. And if there was anything in
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the MCU that I would compare it to, it would
be Black Panther because it's a little bit more set
with a serious dramatic tone, especially with all that happened
in the real world that had to mirror itself onto
the plot of Black Panther two. But I just fear
that an actor of his caliber just doesn't compute in
the MCU. As much as you think, oh, yeah, you
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put a really great actor in the MCU, it's going
to be a success, I don't think that is a
guarantee because there is a different method of acting required
for MCU movies. There just is. Just because you're a
great actor doesn't mean you are a great actor in
the MCU. And what you see is a lot of
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the people who had success in the MCU times struggle
crossing back over into having a career out of these
superhero movies because you could be so good in these
and so typecast know exactly how to play all these characters,
create these larger than life people that only exist in
the pages of comic books and on the big screen
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inside of a franchise that has just a dedicated fan base.
But outside of that, sometimes it's hard to get taken seriously.
And I think the reverse of that is also an
issue that sometimes you can have an actor who is
so good at all these things. Denzel was out here
probably going to get an Oscar nomination for Glad eight
or two. Haven't even seen it yet, but it just
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seems like from what people have been saying, he's going
to get another Oscar nomination and add to his collection
of Oscars. And he even said that he is going
to retire after this next batch of films, Black Panther
three being one of them. He's going to be in
a movie about a military leader named Hannibal. He's going
to be in a new film with Steve McQueen, a
film adaptation of Othello I think that's how you say it.
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And he's going to be in a King Lear project,
and after that probably seeing Denzel dip out, which isn't
too surprising giving that as one, two, three, four five
projects movies can take one sometimes one and a half
to two years, so you're looking at about a decade
of working right there. Denzel is currently sixty nine years old,
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so yeah, I could see him around eighty saying yeah,
it's time to hang it up. So that could be
the next decade for him. Maybe he does another one
or two after that, but I could see him having
a good next decade and then saying, hey, I've had
my run. I have all these oscars. There's nothing else
I need to say. There's nothing else I need to
do to prove anything to people. Some other actors I
think should retire Harrison Ford and I know I'm excited
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for him to be in this next Captain American movie,
but dude is eighty two. I feel like he has
earned the respect, made the funny, been so many iconic
over his life, from Indiana Jones to Hans Solo, Blade Runner,
all these things that he has done. I think he
would leave behind such a great legacy if he retired
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within the next year or two. Tom Hanks, I also
think he should retire, especially after seeing his very mediocre
films in the last five with A Man called Otto
being his best film so far, but no way rivaling
anything he has done in his prime or even in
the two thousands, even in the twenty tens he was better.
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And he's only sixty eight years old. But I think
he should retire from acting and focus on directing. That's
kind of where I wanted to see Tom Hanks right now,
because if he keeps taking roles like here and movies
with a very limited cast, which is really all he
kind of does now. If you look at the last
five movies he did, it is really just him a
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co star and like a handful of supporting characters. I
want big Tom Hanks movies with elaborate casts. I think
the closest he got to that was in Elvis. So
I'd say Tom Hanks retired, just start directing some movies,
throw your sons in there and call out a day.
I also think I don't know how he hasn't retired
at this point, but Clint Eastwood, he's ninety four years
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old and for the most part. He's just a director now,
but there are a lot of movies still that he
directs and stars in. At ninety four years old. I
just think that he is set on not slowing down
because he believes that once you've slowed down, that is
kind of punching your ticket. But man, dude looks tired
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ninety four years old. What a legacy he has had.
I think you should enjoy it. I don't really I
want to see new Clint Eastwood movies anymore, especially when
it looks like it's so detrimental to his health. But
that's what he likes to do. I just couldn't imagine
myself at ninety four years old still wanting to work.
And I guess being able to make movies is a
dream and probably one of the coolest jobs. At the
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level that he is at, where he calls all the shots,
he can make any movie he wants. But man, I'm
calling it quits. So for that reason, back to Denzel,
I don't think I am an immediate ticket for this movie.
I don't really know the direction they are going to
go in with the next Black Panther movie. And I
think the reason Part two was so impactful was because
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of the death of Chadwick Boseman. Now, unless Danzel is
going to come in and so now becoming the new
Black Panther, maybe I'm in. Could you imagine Black Panther
dropping the F word like Denzel does now that I
would buy a ticket for. But I think as of now,
when I really think about it, Denzel and Black Panther three,
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As of now, I'm gonna skip it. All right. I
got a couple more things here to talk about. Ice
Age six is in production with the original cast returning. Okay,
why didn't y'all tell me that they made ice Age
three through five? If you would have put a gun
to my head a week ago before this news came
out and said how many Ice Age movies are there,
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I'd probably say two. I don't really remember anything past
Ice Age two, and I think this was a franchise
that really got run into the ground. But now that
Disney has bought Ice Age, oh man, they're about to
further run it into the ground. Ice Age one came
out back in two thousand and two, and that was
a peak time for DVDs where you could have a
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movie come out in theaters do really well but where
it became ingrained into American culture was through those DVD
sales rentals raning movies back in the day, which oh,
there's still a red box by my house that apparently
you could just go in and ask certain locations that
have red boxes and you could take the whole thing
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because they're having to pay to have these removed. They
don't want to pay to have them removed. Supposedly depending
on the location that it's at. Some are at Walgreens,
a lot of them are at Walgreens or CBS, but
apparently there are some that are like built into the
structures of certain buildings, so they're just going to be
there forever. But apparently you can go and say, hey,
I want to take this off your hands, because I
did see somebody on Reddit with a red box in
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their hand. What I do want to do is they're
still for the most part working, and you can go
and just get a free DVD because if you put
your credit card in to pay for it, it's not
connected to any business anymore. They're completely bankrupt. But back
at a time when DVDs were just king in the
early two thousands, Ice Age was one of those movies
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that I just remember watching so much because it was
one of like the four DVDs that we had at
our our school when we would have movie day. Ice
Age two came out in two thousand and six, and
after that, I don't really know, but John liqu was
almost coming back, Ray Romano's coming back, Dennis Leary. For me,
this isn't easy, I'm gonna skip it. And I don't
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really feel like Ice Age is a highly praised franchise.
So unless the goal of these movies is to introduce
them to a new audience that I really don't think
kids now are going to get or really care about.
Unless you bring in some gen z actors to voice
some of these characters, I don't see this movie doing
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particularly well. And also I don't really want to live
in a world where Disney owns every animated franchise, which
even back in the day, I feel like a lot
of people assumed anything that was animated, anything that was
like an animal story, you just kind of assumed it
was Disney. Even some people think that Shrek is Disney,
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but it's not as DreamWorks. So I think the big
animation studios that are left have just been competing with
Disney for so long, and now Disney is taking over
some of these properties that they bought up whenever twentieth
Century Fox went under. So I just don't want to
live in a world where everything is a Disney character,
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because as we see now with Disney, their model really
isn't hey, let's make some new, fun, innovative characters and
movie franchises and take risks. No, they just want to
do sequels and sequels on movies that are gonna make
them billions of dollars. So I don't want to see
that model spread out over all of these franchises. And
really we do not need a nice Age six all right?
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And last stup, god Zella Minus one. The team behind
that movie is making a follow up. Takashi Yamazaki, who
directed that movie, who I love him as a director.
I love that he is so much a believer in
American movies that when he got interviewed at the Oscars
about what are his favorite movies of all time, he
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listed big, fun movies like Back to the Future, which
most times when you ask any director, it's always something
very niche and specific and old and indie. But to
hear the creators of God's Ella minus one go on
the red carpet and say their favorite movies of all
time were Alien, Blade, Runner, Jurassic Park, and Back to
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the Future. Just really inspired me to have filmmakers who
are innovative in their own right believe in just big,
fun Hollywood movies that at the core of what movies
are the most essential to us, like those are the foundation.
We can't continue on in cinema without having movies like that.
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And I know everybody wants to win an Oscar, to
have a little Indie darling, to have something that's really
sophisticated and mind altering to people's lives in that way.
But there's also so much greatness in creating the next
Jurassic Park, in creating the next Back to the Future,
that I'm glad there are still minds out there looking
to make movies like that to be impactful and hopefully
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bringing on a new ip. And I know I'm talking
about the team behind Godzilla Minus one, which has one
of the biggest just numbers of movies inside of this
franchise's like sixty Godzilla movies. But still there is that
need to create these big Hollywood blockbusters. So for that reason,
I am all in on whatever they're cooking up. I
don't even need to hear the details to know I
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am buying a ticket to that. All right, I'll come
back and give my spoiler free review of A Real Pain,
and in the trailer park we'll talk about the new
Christmas comedy with Jack Black and Post Malone called Dear Santa.
Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie review
of A Real Pain starring Kirion Colkin and Jesse Eisenberg,
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also written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg. This is what
I'm going to call a no notes review, and it
has a lot to do this movie, which i'll get into.
I don't know how emotional I'm gonna get during this review,
but for those watching on YouTube, I usually have this
iPad right in front of me. You can't see it,
but I'm usually looking down at it because I make
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a lot of notes about all the movie reviews I do.
Because I want to give my most knowledgeable approach to
every single movie review, even though I don't get a
whole lot into, like all the technical aspects and what
like a real acclaimed movie critic would talk about. I
want to be prepared so it doesn't seem like I
just come on here and go off the fly, go
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on whatever, and just like spit things out because I
like to be prepared, because I think it's important for
me doing this show and for you listening that I
give a crap about what I'm doing. I know what
I'm talking about, even though I feel a lot of
my reviews come from pure emotion that I think that
is how I approach movie reviews, how movies make me feel,
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because I know that that is my truth. What I
heard one time Quentin Tarantino talking about one of his
favorite movie reviewers, or his favorite movie reviewer of all time,
who he asked why she never wrote a book or
talked about it more, and she was like, because I
give a piece of myself away in every single movie
review I do. And that is what I like to
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do here, because on the surface, this is a movie
podcast where I come on here, talk about mood reviews,
make fun of movies, rise up, maybe glaze some movies
here and there. But I also like to give you
a little bit of myself because talking about movies is
talking about life. And I think if I could get
through to some people who are maybe hesitanting about checking
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out the podcast, thinking, ah, I don't watch movies, like
movies are dead. I don't need to do that just
because you don't watch movies, that's like saying you don't
want to experience life. Sometimes movies unearthed things that I
didn't know was like built up inside of me, And
that is exactly what A real pain did. It was
almost like it reminded me of when I'd be cooking
out with my dad and he never used charcoal. He
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would always use real wood, take forever to burn. It
always had to add an hour to the cook time
whenever we were supposed to start, but it would burn forever,
and sometimes into the night. When we're gonna put out
the fire, you think it's completely out, and then you
move it just a little bit, move it a little
bit more, and suddenly this big, roaring fire is happening
all again, just because you kind of picked at it
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a little bit. I feel like that is what this
movie did to me. And the reason I have a
no notes review is because I feel like, when I
think about these characters and what it just really struck
a chord with. You have two very opposite people here.
Jesse Eisenberg plays a character named David Harry and Cochin
plays a character named Benji. They are cousins. They are
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at this point and they're like mid to late thirties
where they're kind of had a falling out, and you
learn more and more details about their relationship as the
movie unfolds. But the movie starts with them going on
a trip because their grandmother just died. They're going to
poll In and it's the first time they've seen each
other in a very long time. And what I loved
about the start of this movie is within five minutes,
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you know all the details about these characters that you
need to know. And that was a really strong opening
because starts out with Jesse Eisenberg's character driving to the airport.
He's in an uber and he calls his cousin like
five times because he is so anxious and just telling them, Hey,
there's traffick here. If you haven't left yet, I hope
you've left by now, Hey calling you again. Don't want
to leave it another message, And that tells you everything
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you need to know about that character, being very high stressed,
just very tightly wound, worrying about every single detail on
this trip. And then you have Kirie and Colkin's character,
who hasn't replied any of his phone calls, hasn't listened
to any of his messages, and he's just hanging out
at the airport. He's like, Yeah, I've been here for
like a couple hours, a few hours because I like
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to come here and people watch. So that really tells
you the complete opposite nature of both of these characters.
And the more and more you learn about each of them,
the more I realize how much I am like Jesse
Eisenberg's character. And I have to say, it didn't make
me feel that good, because that's something I've been struggling
with recently, because being so anxious and worried about just
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the little parts of life and having things in order,
worrying about your job. In this movie, he is married,
also has a very young son, So not at that
phase of my life yet. But all of the characteristics
of Jesse Eisenberg I saw myself in, and all the
characteristics of Benji played by Kirie and Coulkin, I saw
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what I've been trying to achieve my entire adult life.
And there's some moments in this movie where they butt
head so much because they're so different and you could
say they're like a no odd couple, but I feel
like that's such an old reference to an old movie
of like what's really clean and one's really messy? How
will they get together? It's not really like that. It's
more that Jesse Eisenberg has changed over the course of
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his life to be more adult because he is in
his mid to late thirties, and Kirian Colkin is very
much just still care free and has a much different
approach to life. Doesn't give a crap about anything, and
that is something that I have strived to be a
little bit more. I would love to be bore care free,
and not just because I feel like I would have
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less stress. I think I would always carry the stress
with me because that is something I've had since a
very young age. But I think there are moments in
this movie that I thought, I want to be more
charismatic and be able to light a room up when
I walk into it, and I feel that that is
something that I've just tried to do. But because over
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the course of my life, I've always been known as
the quiet guy, which I hate. I mean, I come
on here and I talk forty five minutes to an
hour a week about movies and I could do that
every single day and I would still be the quiet guy.
And there was something about this movie bringing out Benji's
character of him being able to connect with people. That
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is something I've been just trying to do my entire
life of if I ever we'll hang out with a
new group of people, oh, I feel very tense. That
is hard for me to make new friends in a
small group big groups. I go on stage and tell jokes.
That's no problem to me. I'm connecting that way because
to me, that doesn't feel real. You give me five
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hundred people, a thousand people, it doesn't matter. I've done
that before. That is easy to me. But but connecting with
just a small group of people, I can't do it.
And if I went to hang out with people like
for a weekend and like hey, here's Mike, and you
hang out for the entire weekend, I don't feel like
I would bond with those people. And I feel that
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that is something I've tried to do because I have
met people that I enjoy after just an hour a
meeting with them, and I want to be around them more.
I want to know what they have thoughts about and
there are people I like so instantly that I always
wish that I could be that type of person. Some
of my friends are those type of people who can
just talk to anybody, strike up a conversation, and get
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all these he details out of people because they are
so warm and friendly and inviting. And there's a moment
in this movie where Kirian Colkin learns something about the
other members of this tour group that they go on,
because they go on this trip to Poland, but they
are joining this tour guide who has like a very
interesting cast of people with him, and you have Kirian
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Colkin's character who is learning all these things about other
people because he's genuinely curious. He likes talking to people,
and they all start to like him. Some of them
don't like him for that same reason, but some of
them form like a really strong relationship with him, just
because he has that warm nature, that charismatic nature. Who
he is somebody who just comes into a room says
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what he says, and people connect with that. And I've
always wanted to do that because I feel, over the
course of my life that sometimes I feel that people
just don't like me, not just that they don't like me.
It's that I don't do enough things for people to
have an opinion on me, where I don't say a
whole lot. I don't put a lot out there. So
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it's not that people don't like me because like I
don't like that guy. It's just because I feel that
I kind of blend into the background sometimes that people
don't like me, but they also don't like they don't
hate me, and I think that's almost worse. That is
something I've just been fighting because, like I said, going
back to that example, if if you met people, spend
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a weekend with them, I feel like I'm so forgettable
for that reason. And I think people genuinely think I'm
a nice person. I'm a nice guy, but there's just
something about not being able to connect with people in
that way that I've been striving to do my entire
adult life, maybe even since I was a teenager, Like
I didn't have friends then, but I feel like even
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growing up now, like I just want to have that.
And there are moments in this movie where it really
was like, did they make this movie just for me?
Jesse Eisenberg, did you like hack into my computer and
find all my journals and all my notes and listen
to this podcast. Of all these things I've struggled with,
and I haven't watched a movie that just nailed that
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aspect of my life, because this is probably something I
should talk about in therapy, but it just really struck
a chord with me and unnersed something in me that
I really felt some type of way after watching this movie,
thinking more and more about just this year I've been
struggling with this and thinking this, and to see it
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play out in this way and to see it that
it is something that other people struggle with was really
something I don't even want to say refreshing, but just
something I needed to know that there are other people
out there who are like this. Like all my entire life,
I've been a David and I've just been trying to
be a Benji. And then getting back to the movie
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a little bit, I think the reason this message came
across so well is because they are both fantastic actors.
Jesse Eisenberg, I feel, has been a little little bit typecast.
I feel like he's gotten away from it now. But
Mark Zuckerberg that he played him in the Social Network
and that was like his role when I think of
Mark Zuckerberg, I think of Jesse Eisenberg, and then from there,
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I also think of him in Zombie Land, where he's
kind of the same person a little bit or an Adventureland,
and throughout the course of his movies he is that
kind of nervous energy person, a very fast talker. I
don't even know how you teach that, or how you
learn that, or how to take a character on like that,
Like I don't know if Brad Pitt could play somebody
like that, that's just not in his arsenal. But this
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is the role that was just perfectly Jesse Eisenberg. And
you have Kirie and Colkin, who is a fantastic actor.
You probably know him most as Mcolay Colchin's brother or
if you watch Succession, which I never watched that show,
but he's a really great actor, and I feel he's
having success in his later part of his thirties and
forties now, and you can tell just how much every
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role he does now that he really kind of absorbs.
And I've heard stories of him being really great at
learning dialogue, like he would go onto the set of
Succession and they would completely change all the lines on them,
like Day of and like, oh, we changed all your lines,
so you're gonna have to relearn these real quick. He
would sit down in the makeup chair and by the
end of his makeup session he would already have him
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figure it out. So there's something in his brain that
he can absorb lines and memorize them really well and
then completely nail the emotion because he has so much
emotion throughout this entire movie where he goes on the
highest highs, where he's just wanting to have fun and
doing things out of pocket and making funny jokes that
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aren't really jokes. So if you're into dark comedies, you'll
very much be into his humor. You see more examples
of how different they are. There's one scene in particular
where Benji wants to take kind of funny pictures at
a serious monument and Jesse Eisenberg character like, now, we
shouldn't do that. It feels disrespectful, but he starts doing
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it anyway. Jesse Eisenberg's taking the pictures, but then everybody
else in the tour group joins in and it's a
big fun moment, and then Jesse Eisenberg's character is just
there taking the pictures, never gets in on the fund,
so you see more of that throughout the movie. And
I think it's Kiri and Kolkin's ability to do drama
really well but also to have like this really good
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comedic timing that I think he is going to get
a nomination for Best Supporting Actor in this movie. I
feel like this movie is also a shoe in to
get a Best Picture nomination because it feels very novel
to me. I haven't really seen a movie like this
where there's not some grand plot like what I told
you earlier, that's the entire movie. They go on this trip,
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they have all these connections. There is a lot of dialogue,
but the dialogue is really important, and you have two
people who are just really great at having this chemistry
that even though they're cousins, they kind of feel like
brother So maybe a little bit too, I saw a
bit of my brother and myself in this because that's
kind of our personalities, a little bit like I'm one way,
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I would say very much, my brother is more of
like Akiri and Kolkin in this movie, So maybe I
saw some parallels there too, like even the trip itself,
because there are some really heavy moments where they go
to concentration camps, and it takes this other emotional level
that I wasn't really expecting it to go on. So
as you're feeling bad for both of these characters, you
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also feel bad for the world. And I haven't seen
a movie have this course of action from beginning to
end and also only be an hour and twenty two minutes.
Like before you think twice about this movie, it is over.
So for a real pain, I give it four point
five out of five. I would say that point five
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is more of the emotional impact that had on me,
So for any other person who doesn't struggle with that,
it's probably still a four out of five. A really
great movie, though definitely it out. If you want to
get in early on some of the movies they're going
to be nominated for Best Picture.
Speaker 2 (46:07):
It's time to head down to movie Mike treylor Paul I.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
Gotta tell you something that blew my mind. Jack Black,
who's in this new movie called Dear Santa that we're
about to talk about. He is only worth fifty million
dollars at least according to the Internet. Sometimes these things
aren't completely right, but it kind of gives you a
ballpark on what a celebrity is worth. You know, Jack
Black listed at fifty million dollars. I've been watching Jack
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Black since I was a kid at School of Rock,
pick A, Destiny, Shallow, How He's been in so many
movies and as a blade, I feel like he's only
doing video game adaptations, massive movie star, tropic thunder like.
The list goes on and on for movies that Jack
Black has been in, and to only have a fifty
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million dollar network seems absurd to me. Maybe some of
his movies have been smaller budget cult classics, but he's
had some massive movies King Kong that was kind of
like a differensona Jack Black. It just kind of blew
my mind that at the level he is that in
his career having I guess he doesn't always have top
billing in movies. For the most part, he is a
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bankable movie star. I feel like it should be in the
one hundred like Doubles. At at least. That blew my mind.
But the movie we are here to talk about today
is Dear Santa, is coming out next week on Paramount Plus. Yes,
it is a straight to streaming platform movie, which I
don't feature in the trailer park a lot now that
I think about it, and not by design. Really. It's
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hard to build hype around a streaming movie now, but
they one caught my eye for a couple of reasons.
One because I like Jack Black hasn't really been in
a great comedy recently. I feel like he's kind of
in that stage of his career where he's just trying
to make some money. I think a lot of these
actors get to that point where they have been famous
for so long, maybe feel like I just wanna be
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able to go in and do a good jump and
make some money so I can leave behind a really
big nest egg for my family. And I can't be
mad at them for that. I can be mad at
them when they make me sit through mediocre movies, but
I can't be mad at them for securing that bag.
But what Dear Sanna is about to beat? A kid
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who writes a letter to Santa innocent enough, except kid
not so bright. He misspells Sanna and he writes Satan.
So instead of getting his wishes to Sanna, Satan gets
his letters and grant some three wishes, and at the
end of those three wishes pretty much makes the deal
that hey You're gonna have an awesome life right now
while we're hanging out. But then I'm gonna take your soul.
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Also in this movie, Keegan Michael Key, who is just
in everything since he's been in Key and Peel. If
there's any animated movie that comes out, Keegan Michael Key
is gonna be a voice on that. You also have
post Malon, which I'm gonna get into my entire breakdown
of his filmography. But right now, here's just a little
bit of the Dear Santa trailer. My friend are getting
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three wishes. They stole that from me. By the way,
after you make your wishes, I'm taking your soul.
Speaker 2 (49:12):
You ain't never had a friend like me.
Speaker 1 (49:15):
Okay, that I may have stolen from Aladdin. Now we're
even let me show you a few of the things
that could do for you. Now, this movie has a
pretty low budget thirty million dollars, which isn't a whole
lot to work with. There. I imagine a lot of
that went to not even paying post Malone, but probably
paying Jack Black. I really want to see a larger
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role here for post Malone. I'm not sure we're going
to get it here. It kind of feels like what
they featured so far in the trailer is really just
maybe an extended cameo, which is really all his filmography
has been up to this point. But I'll get into
more of that here in a second. It does look
a little cheap, though, and I'm having to look past
that because I don't want to sound like this curmudgeon
who hates on anything that resembles any kind of fun.
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And when I look at this movie specifically and look
who's behind it, you have the Fairy Brothers who did
movies like Dumb and Dumber, who did a lot of
movies like the ones I mentioned earlier with Jack Black
Shallow how they've also are responsible for the Something about
Mary Stuck on You fever pitch earlier this year, Ricky
Stanicky movies like Me, Myself and Irene. They have a
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large library of comedy movies. And if you look at
their comedy specifically, all those movies are stupid movies. Dumb
and Dumber on Paper is a stupid movie. And I
love how all the premises to their movies start. They're
about something that if you just saw it written on paper,
if you just read the script, you read the plots.
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Synopsis that is funny. It is really hard to take
a plot synopsis that is funny and flesh it out
into an entire feature film. That is kind of how
I'm feeling about this movie. It sounds funny of just
to say, hey, what if a kid just misspelled something
and he wrote dear satan instead of dear. That sounds
like a funny idea. But I almost feel like when
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they were starting to make this movie and thought, oh, man,
is this strong enough to make an entire film? And
I feel like me on any other day, if I
saw the trailer for this, I would rip it to
shreds and think, God, this is dumb, this is a
waste of time. But I started to consider all of
the pieces here. Jack Black, who really I feel like
he just wants to spread joy with this movie. He
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wants to bring people things that are gonna make you
smile and gonna make you happy. And I'm okay with
it in this situation because it's only a thirty million
dollar movie. It's nothing crazy. And I do think we
have gotten away from movies just being allowed to be
fun for the sake of being fun, where you don't
have to think about him a whole lot, especially a
movie like this completely geared towards kids I do have.
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There's still a little bit of me that can't get
over how bad this CGI looks. It looks in parts
of this trailer that Jack Black is not even there,
like he's entirely green screened into scenes where they maybe
I couldn't get him on set for a day, they filmed
the scene and then digitally put him into this scene,
and the makeup on his face even looks digital, which
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is weird. That is an entire pet peeve I have
of movies now using CGI to CGI in things that
you could just go to the store and buy it,
and makes me just go insane. But I'm looking past
all that because I just want to be thinking back
to me as a kid, and that is exactly where
I put myself in this situation. If I was ten
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years old, maybe eight years old, and I saw the
trailer for this movie, how would myself react to that?
I think at that age, I would think this is
hilarious and I would love it, and this would be
a movie that I would watch at that time in
my life and enjoy, and somebody older like me would say, ah,
that's a bad movie. And this is gonna get bad reviews.
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I can guarantee you it's going to be a thirty
to twenty percenter on the review site that I don't
name because they don't want me a part of their
review site. But the more I thought about The Fairly Brothers,
and I thought it'd be un fair to say this
looks stupid when I like some of their other stupid movies.
I Love Dumb and Dumber. I put it in my
Desert Island movie I Love Me Myself and Irene, And
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because when I first watched those movies as an impressionable
kid teenager. Whenever I saw those movies, they were funny
to me, and this movie is probably going to be
funny to somebody. And if you look at some of
the comedy elements in this trailer, you do see the
Fairly Brothers in there. You can see their comedy there.
And it's just us who haven't really aged with their films.
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But I do like that they are still committed to it,
although I'm still really holding it against them how much
they let me down on the Three Stooges movie that
I thought was gonna be great, because I grew up
loving the Three Stooges, even though they're way before my time.
It was just the TV show my dad and I
just bonded over and I was like, Oh, they're probably
gonna make it into a movie. I hold that against them,
and I hold Dumb and Dumber two. But looking back
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on some of their early work, I mean, Stuck on You,
I thought was the funniest thing ever because it's such
a dumb premise, and that's what they commit to, stupid
premises and spending millions of dollars on them. So I
do think we need directors like them who still want
to bring that innocent joy to movies. Not every movie
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has to be serious, but I think you still have
to take into consideration giving the audiences something worth paying
for or something worth spending their time on if they
already have this surface. So there is a fine line
to walk between oh, it's just a fun movie, you
don't have to think too much about it, but there's
still some artistry that has to go into it, actual writing,
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actual jokes, actual punchlines that are going to be memorable
and going to be worthy of somebody's time. So it
can just be fun, turn your brain off, don't think
too much. About it, but there also has to be
some intention there, because that is what actually makes it
a good movie. And I can't really remember the last
time I saw a good Paramount plus original. I think
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the last one I Want was a Good Burger Too,
and that movie let me down. It felt like just
a TV special. It was more just the nostalgia surrounding
that cult classic that even peauked interest in me wanting
to watch that movie. But I want to see post
Malone have a little bit more of a role in
this movie. And looking at all the movies he's done
so far, I've seen them all. I've seen every single movie,
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and for the most part, they have really just been
glorified cameos. I don't think he was really trying to
be a legit actor. I would love him too. I
think he gets off for things and it sounds fun
to do. If I was that famous, that rich and famous,
I would take every single offer to do anything like
this because it's fun and it's awesome. But I've seen
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him in Spencer Confidential in twenty twenty, Wrath of Man,
which was probably my least favorite of all these Good
Morning Teenage Muwan Ninja Turtles was great, but he had
a very limited role. He was rightfully refille that last year.
I think he should do more animated work up until
this point. I think that's probably a best role so far.
He was also in Roadhouse earlier this year, which that
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appearance let mean down a lot. He was heartily in
that barely had a line. And the thing I enjoyed
about this trailer is I was actually getting to see
post Malone like he really is because he is playing himself.
And I think that's what a director, a writer, or
whoever is casting him in these movies need to pitch
to him a role where he gets to be himself,
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because he gets typecast as the criminal because he is
a dude, has a lot of tattoos, he looks really hardcore,
but if you really know him and watch him on
social media, he's a really kind and sweet guy and
a funny guy and has this kind of I don't
care energy and just on stage, it's very fun dancing around.
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And you see that a little bit in this trailer,
and I think that is what would really translate onto
the big screen into a movie. Capture that and put
that in a movie, make his character be more like
he is in real life, and I think it would
be great, So I hope he has a little bit
more screen time in this movie. Has a pretty significant
amount of screen time in this trailer, which probably more
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than I've seen him from his appearance as another movie,
so that is a good sign. But it kind of
looks like they go to a post Malone concert he
turns into post Malone Jack Black's character does, so I
don't know how long that whole sequence will play out,
but I hope it's pretty extensive. But again, in the
movie is called Deer Santa and it's coming out next
week on Paramount Plus on November twenty fifth. And that
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was this week's edition of Movie Lin Tramer Park and
that is gonna do it for another episode here of
the podcast. But before I go, I gotta give my
listeners shout out of the week. This was a funny one.
Shout out to Joel on X who wrote, just in
case you missed it at Mike Distro, Red One is
coming out on November fifty laughing crying emoji and Joel
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posted a picture of a giant display on Red Because
I've been ripping that movie to shreds ever since I
featured into the trailer Park. It caught some strays last
week during the trailer park, and I did not go
watch it this weekend. I couldn't commit myself to it.
I wanted to commit to the bit and go and
watch it and rip it to shreds. That movie is
two hours. I just couldn't put myself through it. There
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are some movies I just decide that I'm gonna protest.
That was one this year. The Crow was one earlier
this year, and I feel like when I commit to
protesting a movie, I have to follow through with that
bit and not go see that movie. Even though I
am a movie reviewer, a movie enthusiast. I will watch
it eventually when it comes out to streaming, or if
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we get to the holidays and I have nothing else
to watch. I will commit to going to the theater then,
but I won't give it the satisfaction of going opening
weekend and proving to them that all these random advertisements
worked on me because they didn't. But appreciate you join
getting it on that joke and getting another A little
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jab in there for Red One shoving that movie down
our throats. So if you want to see who got
the last laugh, there I wouldn't even report their numbers,
but go look at them, go look how it's in theaters,
and then pay attention to the fallout that is going
to come in the next couple weeks. And pay attention
whenever they immediately slap that thing on Amazon and say
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Red one is now available to watch at home, and
then see how the Rock is going to react and
what his next role is going to be. But I
guess M one to two is coming out soon too,
so I think it'll be all right. So thank you
Joel for sending that in. Appreciate you for listening. Appreciate
you all for listening, for spending any amount of time
with me, especially if you've made it to the end
of this podcast. Thank you so much from the bottom
of my heart. And until next time, go out and
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watch good movies and I will talk to you here.
Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's movie podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike today, gonna put my money
where my mouth is, playing a game called ticket or
skip it. All these big movies that got announced in
the last week, Oh man, there's been just movie news
oozing out my pores. I'm gonna let you know what,
I buy a ticket to them because I'm excited, or
want to skip them because they don't really interest me
that much. In the movie review, we'll be talking about
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A Real Pain, which is directed and stars Jesse Eisenberg,
my favorite fast talker. And in the trailer park we'll
be talking about a new Christmas movie coming out later
this year with Jack Black and a cameo from my
favorite artist, Post Malone. It's called Dear Santa. Thank you
for being here, thank you for being subscribed, Shout out
to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now you know
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what we're gonna do. Let's talk movies.
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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.
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A man with so much movie knowledge.
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He's basically like oh IMTB with glasses from the Nashville
Podcast Network. This is Movie Mike Movie Podcast.
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It is time to play ticket or skip it. I
have a lot of movie projects that have been announced
in the last week or so. We're gonna run through
them and I'll give you my verdict, ticket or skip it?
What I want to buy a ticket to go watch
this movie in theaters? Or what I want to skip
it all together? Let's get right into it. I think
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the biggest movie project that got announced in the last
week that has all the nerds, myself included, in a tizzy.
They have announced a new Star Wars trilogy is in
the works, and I think the thing that people are
the most upset about is that it's not continuing on
with the Skywalker saga that all finished up, and the
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way Star Wars movies have always been released in chapters
and one, two in three have all been together. So
you have the originals from back in the s seventies
and eighties, and then you have the prequels to those
that came out in the late nineties and early two thousands,
and then you have the Skywalker saga that came out
in the twenty tens that right now everybody hates, but
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give it twenty years and everybody is going to love them,
maybe because so many people hated that project, which really
is any Star Wars project right now. This new trilogy
that they are working on will focus on an entirely
new story, new characters for the most part, and there's
no real word on when it takes place. The thing
about it, though, is they said that Ray played by
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Daisy Ridley, is going to have a role in several
of these Star Wars movies that are being developed, So again,
it's still unclear on who is going to be in
these movies when they are going to take place. Will
it be way out in the future from when the
Skywalker saga happened. I think that is a possibility. I
really don't see it taking place right after and picking
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up in a timeframe that we saw Ray in. And
I have been one of the only people, at least
in my friend group and online who has been a
fan of the Daisy Ridley movies. They really reignited my
I don't even say my love of Star Wars. I
enjoy Star Wars, but they are not my go to
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sci fi franchise. And after watching those movies in theaters,
I was like, oh, this is what movies should be
right now, big fun action. Don't think too much about it.
But for the people who love the Star Wars lore
and live and breathe that grew up with those original movies,
I think there are some elements of the story that
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felt like a little bit of a slap in the
face to you. You could credit some lazy writing here
and there, but I still think at the core those
movies did really well for me as a casual Star
Wars fan, especially with the Force Awakened. That was a
big moment, a big cinematic moment that maybe kind of
went down from the second and third movie, But altogether
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I really enjoyed that trilogy, So I would have been
a fan if they would have done one more. But
I think what they want to do is shift the
model a little bit and take maybe what has been
working over on Disney Plus, which there have been some
really solid Star Wars franchises over there. The Mandalorian has
been my favorite so far, which there is also a
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Mandalorian movie in the work, so I don't think they
are lumping it together with this trilogy. Maybe we see
the Mandalorian in this trilogy, but I don't think so.
I think for the most part they're gonna keep all
those things separate in different timelines. But this trilogy is
being developed by Simon Kinberg, who is one of the
creative minds behind the X Men movies. So oh man,
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if they could give it an X Men flair to it,
I think that would be awesome. But like I mentioned earlier,
the Mandalorian and Grogu movie is supposed to come out
on May twenty second, twenty twenty six, and these other
Star Wars movies are supposed to come out on December eighteenth,
twenty twenty six and Summer seventeenth, twenty twenty seven. So
still in way early developmental stages, but glad to know
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that these movies are coming for a new Star Wars trilogy.
I'm gonna buy a ticket to it. I am all
in on seeing more Star Wars movies on the big
screen and keeping the medium Star Wars characters to Disney. Plus,
I think it'll be interesting to see how the Mandalorian
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transfers onto the big screen because that last season, oh
it started to feel kind of like a Saturday morning,
very family friendly TV show, which I just thought there
was more on the line in that first season more
that you've learned about the character, and now it just
kind of has this formula of, oh, here's a problem
in this episode, let's figure it out, and it's all
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wrapped up in a nice little bow by the end
of it. So hopefully they bring back some of that
energy from the first season to give you some real
grit to the character, some better action and fighting sequences. Otherwise,
so why do I care about seeing it on the
big screen when I could just go back and watch
season one? All right? All right? Moving on now to
our next project. Tom Cruise reportedly wants Glenn Powell, Yes,
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Glenn Powell from Twisters, from Hitman, Anyone but you. He
wants Glenn to replace him as the lead in the
Mission Impossible franchise after It looks like Tom Cruise is
maybe going to dip out after the next one, which
that trailer just dropped recently. Maybe I'll feature that in
the trailer park next week. And it seems like they
have become friends because they were both in Top Gun together,
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and I really think that Tom Cruise maybe somehow sees
himself in Glenn Powell, even though Glenn Powell, I feel
is a much better looking actor. Obviously at this point
in his career, Glenn is still in his thirties, has
nowhere near the success and recognizability and bankability that Tom
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Cruise head at that age. But I also think right
now we live in a world where it's so hard
to create big movies. But if there is somebody on
the cusp of that of being that big a level actor,
it is somebody like Glynn Powell. So maybe Tom Cruise
recognizes that a little bit. He's been on a string
of hit after hit movie. I would say his last
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three movies all together, we're just banger after banger. So
maybe Tom Cruise looks at him and says, Okay, I
can't do these movies forever. Because Tom Cruise is notorious
for doing all of his own stunts, breaking his ankle
as he jumps from one building to another, riding off
ramps and motorcycles and throwing in mid air and shooting
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off a parachute in order to win. And I think
that does add a lot of great production value to
a movie like this that you need people to go
see on the big screen in order for it to
be profitable. So to get people back into the seats
you have to give him a reason to and Tom
Cruise is really good at that. Even though I don't
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really like him as a person. I find him a
little bit off putting. I don't think I would want
to be in a room with Tom Cruise. I mean,
I would interview him, because that would be awesome. He's
had so many great movies. But I think if it
was just like, oh, you want to hang out with
the Hollywood actor, Yeah, do you want to hang out
with Tom Cruise? I think I'm good. But in the
case of Tom Cruise, I can kind of separate the
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art from the artists because as much as I love
movies and will always encourage people to go to the
theater to enjoy a movie, to really be able to
escape and take it in and it's full glory, that
is really what I support him on and believe he
is trying to keep alive. He brought back a shot
of blood into our old krusty cinema body with top gun,
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and I was kind of surprised about the numbers from
the Last Mission Impossible movies, because I did think that
was a big, fun movie, but it didn't really live
up to expectations. So I wonder what this next installment
is going to do at the box office, and whether
or not there will be a franchise left on the
table for Glenn Powell to even pick up. But somebody
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did ask him about it, and he reportedly said his
mom would never let him do that, which leads me
to believe if you give an answer like that, in
the back of your head, you know you can't say
anything and you have to make a joke. So I
do think there is some truth to this. He has
probably had a conversation. Maybe it's not set in stone,
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maybe he can't talk about it yet, but I think
there probably is at least a conversation, just based on
what I've seen from him and Tom Cruise. But the
ruling here is what I pay for a ticket or
what I skip it to see Glenn Powell in a
Mission Impossible movie. I don't even think that is a question.
I for sure would buy a ticket to that I
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did see, though the Mission Impossible movie has had a
lot of difficulties. Apparently it has a budget approaching four
hundred million dollars and they're already done filming this movie.
It's all in post production, so maybe they're doing some
crazy special effects, maybe to close it out. They're making
a three hour movie. But that is a huge, huge budget,
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and if it does cross that four hundred million dollar mark,
it'll be the fourth film to do so. Oh my gosh,
that is just so much money. I would feel this
immense pressure for it to be a hit. It is
almost like an NFL team at the beginning of the season.
And I could say this as a Cowboys fan that
if you go into a season and the goal of
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that season is either we win a Super Bowl or
we are a laughing stock, that is kind of the
situation you are in here. You can't put this movie
out that has cost four hundred million dollars make fifty
million dollars your opening weekend. You either have to have
a smash hit on your hands or just cut your
losses at this point, but the only other movies that
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have cost over four hundred million dollars have been Star Wars,
The Force Awakens, Star Wars, The Rise of Skywalker, and
Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom. I forget how expensive those Jurassic
World movies are because of all the special effects, But
all those movies have come to us in the last
ten years. That is just a scary amount of money
to pay for a movie. Next up, I know I've
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talked about this before in the Trailer Park, but recently
a new trailer for Captain America Brave New World came out,
and the big takeaway from this is we got a
better look at Harrison Ford as Red Hulk. If you're
not familiar with what is going on in this Captain America,
Anthony Mackie has taken over for Chris Evans. He is
the new Captain America. If you didn't watch the Disney
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Plus show, I don't really recommend you go back and
watch it. You might learn some things about where the
character is going into this movie, but I don't think
they will be expecting everybody to have seen that show.
And hopefully they reset everything within like the verse five
minutes to do a quick little recap so we can
move on to the next chapter of Captain America. But
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in this movie, Harrison Ford is trying to become resident.
He tries the team up and befriend Captain America even
though they have butted heads in the past, and the
result of Harrison Ford's character He's thunder Bolt Ross who
eventually turns into the Red Hulk, and now we get
to see what he looks like as the Red Hulk,
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and I am surprisingly really excited about it. And I
always liked every iteration of the Hulk, even back to
the original with Eric Bannon. I'm talking only in movies,
not the old school Hulk TV show, But in that version,
we had some very cool, comic accurate things about the Hulk,
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of how high he could jump, how strong he really was,
how fast he could run. I think overall the story
and we weren't really at the best place with CGI
when that movie came out, so I do think there
were some things that really hindered that movie and made
it look too cheesy for audiences to take seriously, which
has kind of always been the struggle of the Incredible Hulk.
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And then in two thousand, the Ed Norton version. I
love that movie, and that was the kicking off of
the MCU before it was the MCU, and still people
did not enjoy that version of the Hulk, and I
do think the look of the Hulk wasn't quite there yet,
and what they changed from that version of the Hulk
to the Mark Ruffalo version of the Hulk is now
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they do the mapping on the face, so you're actually
seeing the actor's face on the Hulk when he hulks out.
So you have this connection between the two characters where
it's not just Okay, I am the human version here
and then when I'm the Hulk, I am this completely
different person. And I think it shows even better with
the Harrison Ford version where it doesn't look as goofy,
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and I think the Hulk needs to be mean, the
Hulk needs to be angry, and in a lot of
the verse, well it wasn't even a lot of the versions,
but in the versions that came later of the Hulk
with smart Hulk, which I don't think they should have
ever done, that really kind of killed the character. But
he started to become more friendly, he started to become
more in tune with his emotions, and I want the
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Hulk who is just an all out just rage ball,
can't listen to anybody, smashes everything, is a force to
be reckoned with the strongest avenger on the field. I
want that version of the Hulk. So seeing this evil
red version of the Hulk really excites me because we
might finally get that grit. And even though he is
the villain and you're probably not going to root for him.
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I want to see that fight now with him and
Captain America. And when you think about Captain America, like,
what real power does Anthony Mackie's version of Captain America
have Because he wasn't given the same serum as Steve Rogers.
He just kind of like, hey, here's the shield, now
here you go. Now you're Captain America. Is that really
all it takes? I hope they answer that question in
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this movie. And I was already sold on this movie
before that, but now I'm not only buying one ticket,
I'm buying two tickets. I don't know why I need
two tickets, but I'm so sold. I am buying two
tickets to this new Captain America movie. All right, Moving
on now, there is an Idle Hands remake in the
works at Sony. Idle Hands is what I believe to
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be a forgotten film from nineteen ninety nine. It is
a horror comedy, which you don't really get much these days,
and Idle Hands is very much a movie that if
you did not experience it when it first came out,
if you weren't young when this movie came out. It's
not a movie you can go back in twenty twenty
four and watch and think, oh, that is a really
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well done movie. And every time around Halloween time it
is a movie I always watch. It was on Amazon,
so I did actually watch this on Halloween this year,
and now so many years later, it doesn't quite hold
up as much as I remember it being so funny
and being one of my favorite movies as a teenager.
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I think it was my impressionable mind back then that
found things funnier and I want to remember the memory
of when I first experienced this movie, and I think
a remake of that is going to go nowhere. And
attached to this project, you have Finn Wolfhard who is
writing the script, and you would know Finn Wolfhard from
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Stranger Things, which, Oh, that final season is coming out
next year and I cannot wait for that. I think.
I don't want to say Stranger Things is an underrated show,
because it's quite possibly one of the most overrated shows
on Netflix. But I think a lot of people who
were so invested in the first and second season have
kind of dipped out by this point. But that last
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season was one of my favorite seasons of any show
I've ever seen on Netflix, and I'm so excited for
the finale of this and essentially each episode is going
to be a movie that is kind of the level
that Stranger Things is at now, every episode of the movie.
That's how I view it. I don't really see that
as a TV show. A lot of TV shows now
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really kind of walk those lines of being just short
films or being one big, long film split up into chapters.
That's really all it is now. I think those best
TV shows are really just good movies in disguise and
more digestible format, because everybody has a problem with long
movies these days, but nobody has a problem with watching
eight episodes of a show. But anyway, he is attached
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to this project. He is writing it along with Billy Burke,
and they might codirect this movie. This is a definite
skippet for me. I just don't like reimaginations of cult
classics because there is nothing you can do to make
this movie better. It is what it is. And I
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hate that cliche phrase, but you are never going to
live up to the memory of something that was so
niched back in nineteen ninety nine. What this movie is
even about is ridiculous and does it make sense? And
as I was rewatching it, I was like, oh man,
this movie is just all over the place, but it's
funny for the time in a world where movies could
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just be fun for the sake of being fun, where
you didn't have to explain things. Essentially, it is about
Devin Salwas's character, who is a stoner, has no ambitions
in life, has a big crush on the girl who
lives across the street, who is played by Jessica Alba.
He gets possessed by this demonic force where he is
no longer able to control his hand, and his hand
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just wants to kill people. That's pretty much it. He
kills his best friends, they come back as zombies, and
it's all the highjinks they get into together. It is
a very animated stoner comedy from the nineties that is
so so nineties. And I think this is a movie
that will not benefit from a remake. It wouldn't benefit
from a sequel or a prequel because I don't think
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it was a big enough movie to really get people
caring about it. There are some movies that should just
be let be, don't mess with them. They were good
for the times. I don't want to tarnish the memory
of this movie, so I am definitely gonna skip it.
Next up on the Ducket, Denzel Washington revealed that he
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is going to star in Black Panther three. When I
first thought about this, I thought that was immediate ticket,
and then I think more about it. Denzel Washington in
a Black Panther three movie that I really didn't know
where they were on developing this movie, but he said.
Ryan Kugler, who is the director of one and two
in the Black Panther franchise, is currently writing a role
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for Denzel. I immediately was like, oh, yes, this is
an immediate Yes, I'd buy a ticket to this, And
then I thought about whenever the MCU brought in one
of the best actors of our generation and completely wasted him,
and that was Christian Bale as Gore, the god butcher
in Thor, Love and Thunder. Now, Ryan Kugler is a
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much better director than in Taikoba Titi, who I feel
has just after Ragnarok and him having success with that
movie and being able to do another Thor movie and
really now being able to do any movie he wants
to direct, at least in his world of like comedy,
and I think he really wanted to tank the character.
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I almost feel like that movie was a bit of
a joke to him, thinking I'll just do whatever I want.
They can't help me know that. He took one of
the best actors, Christian Bale, who has been in a
comic book movie. He has been Batman. But I feel
like Christopher Nolan's Batman is a much different world than
anything in the MCU. And if there was anything in
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the MCU that I would compare it to, it would
be Black Panther because it's a little bit more set
with a serious dramatic tone, especially with all that happened
in the real world that had to mirror itself onto
the plot of Black Panther two. But I just fear
that an actor of his caliber just doesn't compute in
the MCU. As much as you think, oh, yeah, you
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put a really great actor in the MCU, it's going
to be a success, I don't think that is a
guarantee because there is a different method of acting required
for MCU movies. There just is. Just because you're a
great actor doesn't mean you are a great actor in
the MCU. And what you see is a lot of
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the people who had success in the MCU times struggle
crossing back over into having a career out of these
superhero movies because you could be so good in these
and so typecast know exactly how to play all these characters,
create these larger than life people that only exist in
the pages of comic books and on the big screen
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inside of a franchise that has just a dedicated fan base.
But outside of that, sometimes it's hard to get taken seriously.
And I think the reverse of that is also an
issue that sometimes you can have an actor who is
so good at all these things. Denzel was out here
probably going to get an Oscar nomination for Glad eight
or two. Haven't even seen it yet, but it just
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seems like from what people have been saying, he's going
to get another Oscar nomination and add to his collection
of Oscars. And he even said that he is going
to retire after this next batch of films, Black Panther
three being one of them. He's going to be in
a movie about a military leader named Hannibal. He's going
to be in a new film with Steve McQueen, a
film adaptation of Othello I think that's how you say it.
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And he's going to be in a King Lear project,
and after that probably seeing Denzel dip out, which isn't
too surprising giving that as one, two, three, four five
projects movies can take one sometimes one and a half
to two years, so you're looking at about a decade
of working right there. Denzel is currently sixty nine years old,
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so yeah, I could see him around eighty saying yeah,
it's time to hang it up. So that could be
the next decade for him. Maybe he does another one
or two after that, but I could see him having
a good next decade and then saying, hey, I've had
my run. I have all these oscars. There's nothing else
I need to say. There's nothing else I need to
do to prove anything to people. Some other actors I
think should retire Harrison Ford and I know I'm excited
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for him to be in this next Captain American movie,
but dude is eighty two. I feel like he has
earned the respect, made the funny, been so many iconic
over his life, from Indiana Jones to Hans Solo, Blade Runner,
all these things that he has done. I think he
would leave behind such a great legacy if he retired
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within the next year or two. Tom Hanks, I also
think he should retire, especially after seeing his very mediocre
films in the last five with A Man called Otto
being his best film so far, but no way rivaling
anything he has done in his prime or even in
the two thousands, even in the twenty tens he was better.
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And he's only sixty eight years old. But I think
he should retire from acting and focus on directing. That's
kind of where I wanted to see Tom Hanks right now,
because if he keeps taking roles like here and movies
with a very limited cast, which is really all he
kind of does now. If you look at the last
five movies he did, it is really just him a
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co star and like a handful of supporting characters. I
want big Tom Hanks movies with elaborate casts. I think
the closest he got to that was in Elvis. So
I'd say Tom Hanks retired, just start directing some movies,
throw your sons in there and call out a day.
I also think I don't know how he hasn't retired
at this point, but Clint Eastwood, he's ninety four years
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old and for the most part. He's just a director now,
but there are a lot of movies still that he
directs and stars in. At ninety four years old. I
just think that he is set on not slowing down
because he believes that once you've slowed down, that is
kind of punching your ticket. But man, dude looks tired
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ninety four years old. What a legacy he has had.
I think you should enjoy it. I don't really I
want to see new Clint Eastwood movies anymore, especially when
it looks like it's so detrimental to his health. But
that's what he likes to do. I just couldn't imagine
myself at ninety four years old still wanting to work.
And I guess being able to make movies is a
dream and probably one of the coolest jobs. At the
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level that he is at, where he calls all the shots,
he can make any movie he wants. But man, I'm
calling it quits. So for that reason, back to Denzel,
I don't think I am an immediate ticket for this movie.
I don't really know the direction they are going to
go in with the next Black Panther movie. And I
think the reason Part two was so impactful was because
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of the death of Chadwick Boseman. Now, unless Danzel is
going to come in and so now becoming the new
Black Panther, maybe I'm in. Could you imagine Black Panther
dropping the F word like Denzel does now that I
would buy a ticket for. But I think as of now,
when I really think about it, Denzel and Black Panther three,
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As of now, I'm gonna skip it. All right. I
got a couple more things here to talk about. Ice
Age six is in production with the original cast returning. Okay,
why didn't y'all tell me that they made ice Age
three through five? If you would have put a gun
to my head a week ago before this news came
out and said how many Ice Age movies are there,
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I'd probably say two. I don't really remember anything past
Ice Age two, and I think this was a franchise
that really got run into the ground. But now that
Disney has bought Ice Age, oh man, they're about to
further run it into the ground. Ice Age one came
out back in two thousand and two, and that was
a peak time for DVDs where you could have a
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movie come out in theaters do really well but where
it became ingrained into American culture was through those DVD
sales rentals raning movies back in the day, which oh,
there's still a red box by my house that apparently
you could just go in and ask certain locations that
have red boxes and you could take the whole thing
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because they're having to pay to have these removed. They
don't want to pay to have them removed. Supposedly depending
on the location that it's at. Some are at Walgreens,
a lot of them are at Walgreens or CBS, but
apparently there are some that are like built into the
structures of certain buildings, so they're just going to be
there forever. But apparently you can go and say, hey,
I want to take this off your hands, because I
did see somebody on Reddit with a red box in
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their hand. What I do want to do is they're
still for the most part working, and you can go
and just get a free DVD because if you put
your credit card in to pay for it, it's not
connected to any business anymore. They're completely bankrupt. But back
at a time when DVDs were just king in the
early two thousands, Ice Age was one of those movies
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that I just remember watching so much because it was
one of like the four DVDs that we had at
our our school when we would have movie day. Ice
Age two came out in two thousand and six, and
after that, I don't really know, but John liqu was
almost coming back, Ray Romano's coming back, Dennis Leary. For me,
this isn't easy, I'm gonna skip it. And I don't
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really feel like Ice Age is a highly praised franchise.
So unless the goal of these movies is to introduce
them to a new audience that I really don't think
kids now are going to get or really care about.
Unless you bring in some gen z actors to voice
some of these characters, I don't see this movie doing
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particularly well. And also I don't really want to live
in a world where Disney owns every animated franchise, which
even back in the day, I feel like a lot
of people assumed anything that was animated, anything that was
like an animal story, you just kind of assumed it
was Disney. Even some people think that Shrek is Disney,
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but it's not as DreamWorks. So I think the big
animation studios that are left have just been competing with
Disney for so long, and now Disney is taking over
some of these properties that they bought up whenever twentieth
Century Fox went under. So I just don't want to
live in a world where everything is a Disney character,
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because as we see now with Disney, their model really
isn't hey, let's make some new, fun, innovative characters and
movie franchises and take risks. No, they just want to
do sequels and sequels on movies that are gonna make
them billions of dollars. So I don't want to see
that model spread out over all of these franchises. And
really we do not need a nice Age six all right?
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And last stup, god Zella Minus one. The team behind
that movie is making a follow up. Takashi Yamazaki, who
directed that movie, who I love him as a director.
I love that he is so much a believer in
American movies that when he got interviewed at the Oscars
about what are his favorite movies of all time, he
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listed big, fun movies like Back to the Future, which
most times when you ask any director, it's always something
very niche and specific and old and indie. But to
hear the creators of God's Ella minus one go on
the red carpet and say their favorite movies of all
time were Alien, Blade, Runner, Jurassic Park, and Back to
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the Future. Just really inspired me to have filmmakers who
are innovative in their own right believe in just big,
fun Hollywood movies that at the core of what movies
are the most essential to us, like those are the foundation.
We can't continue on in cinema without having movies like that.
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And I know everybody wants to win an Oscar, to
have a little Indie darling, to have something that's really
sophisticated and mind altering to people's lives in that way.
But there's also so much greatness in creating the next
Jurassic Park, in creating the next Back to the Future,
that I'm glad there are still minds out there looking
to make movies like that to be impactful and hopefully
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bringing on a new ip. And I know I'm talking
about the team behind Godzilla Minus one, which has one
of the biggest just numbers of movies inside of this
franchise's like sixty Godzilla movies. But still there is that
need to create these big Hollywood blockbusters. So for that reason,
I am all in on whatever they're cooking up. I
don't even need to hear the details to know I
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am buying a ticket to that. All right, I'll come
back and give my spoiler free review of A Real Pain,
and in the trailer park we'll talk about the new
Christmas comedy with Jack Black and Post Malone called Dear Santa.
Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie review
of A Real Pain starring Kirion Colkin and Jesse Eisenberg,
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also written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg. This is what
I'm going to call a no notes review, and it
has a lot to do this movie, which i'll get into.
I don't know how emotional I'm gonna get during this review,
but for those watching on YouTube, I usually have this
iPad right in front of me. You can't see it,
but I'm usually looking down at it because I make
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a lot of notes about all the movie reviews I do.
Because I want to give my most knowledgeable approach to
every single movie review, even though I don't get a
whole lot into, like all the technical aspects and what
like a real acclaimed movie critic would talk about. I
want to be prepared so it doesn't seem like I
just come on here and go off the fly, go
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on whatever, and just like spit things out because I
like to be prepared, because I think it's important for
me doing this show and for you listening that I
give a crap about what I'm doing. I know what
I'm talking about, even though I feel a lot of
my reviews come from pure emotion that I think that
is how I approach movie reviews, how movies make me feel,
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because I know that that is my truth. What I
heard one time Quentin Tarantino talking about one of his
favorite movie reviewers, or his favorite movie reviewer of all time,
who he asked why she never wrote a book or
talked about it more, and she was like, because I
give a piece of myself away in every single movie
review I do. And that is what I like to
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do here, because on the surface, this is a movie
podcast where I come on here, talk about mood reviews,
make fun of movies, rise up, maybe glaze some movies
here and there. But I also like to give you
a little bit of myself because talking about movies is
talking about life. And I think if I could get
through to some people who are maybe hesitanting about checking
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out the podcast, thinking, ah, I don't watch movies, like
movies are dead. I don't need to do that just
because you don't watch movies, that's like saying you don't
want to experience life. Sometimes movies unearthed things that I
didn't know was like built up inside of me, And
that is exactly what A real pain did. It was
almost like it reminded me of when I'd be cooking
out with my dad and he never used charcoal. He
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would always use real wood, take forever to burn. It
always had to add an hour to the cook time
whenever we were supposed to start, but it would burn forever,
and sometimes into the night. When we're gonna put out
the fire, you think it's completely out, and then you
move it just a little bit, move it a little
bit more, and suddenly this big, roaring fire is happening
all again, just because you kind of picked at it
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a little bit. I feel like that is what this
movie did to me. And the reason I have a
no notes review is because I feel like, when I
think about these characters and what it just really struck
a chord with. You have two very opposite people here.
Jesse Eisenberg plays a character named David Harry and Cochin
plays a character named Benji. They are cousins. They are
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at this point and they're like mid to late thirties
where they're kind of had a falling out, and you
learn more and more details about their relationship as the
movie unfolds. But the movie starts with them going on
a trip because their grandmother just died. They're going to
poll In and it's the first time they've seen each
other in a very long time. And what I loved
about the start of this movie is within five minutes,
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you know all the details about these characters that you
need to know. And that was a really strong opening
because starts out with Jesse Eisenberg's character driving to the airport.
He's in an uber and he calls his cousin like
five times because he is so anxious and just telling them, Hey,
there's traffick here. If you haven't left yet, I hope
you've left by now, Hey calling you again. Don't want
to leave it another message, And that tells you everything
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you need to know about that character, being very high stressed,
just very tightly wound, worrying about every single detail on
this trip. And then you have Kirie and Colkin's character,
who hasn't replied any of his phone calls, hasn't listened
to any of his messages, and he's just hanging out
at the airport. He's like, Yeah, I've been here for
like a couple hours, a few hours because I like
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to come here and people watch. So that really tells
you the complete opposite nature of both of these characters.
And the more and more you learn about each of them,
the more I realize how much I am like Jesse
Eisenberg's character. And I have to say, it didn't make
me feel that good, because that's something I've been struggling
with recently, because being so anxious and worried about just
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the little parts of life and having things in order,
worrying about your job. In this movie, he is married,
also has a very young son, So not at that
phase of my life yet. But all of the characteristics
of Jesse Eisenberg I saw myself in, and all the
characteristics of Benji played by Kirie and Coulkin, I saw
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what I've been trying to achieve my entire adult life.
And there's some moments in this movie where they butt
head so much because they're so different and you could
say they're like a no odd couple, but I feel
like that's such an old reference to an old movie
of like what's really clean and one's really messy? How
will they get together? It's not really like that. It's
more that Jesse Eisenberg has changed over the course of
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his life to be more adult because he is in
his mid to late thirties, and Kirian Colkin is very
much just still care free and has a much different
approach to life. Doesn't give a crap about anything, and
that is something that I have strived to be a
little bit more. I would love to be bore care free,
and not just because I feel like I would have
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less stress. I think I would always carry the stress
with me because that is something I've had since a
very young age. But I think there are moments in
this movie that I thought, I want to be more
charismatic and be able to light a room up when
I walk into it, and I feel that that is
something that I've just tried to do. But because over
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the course of my life, I've always been known as
the quiet guy, which I hate. I mean, I come
on here and I talk forty five minutes to an
hour a week about movies and I could do that
every single day and I would still be the quiet guy.
And there was something about this movie bringing out Benji's
character of him being able to connect with people. That
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is something I've been just trying to do my entire
life of if I ever we'll hang out with a
new group of people, oh, I feel very tense. That
is hard for me to make new friends in a
small group big groups. I go on stage and tell jokes.
That's no problem to me. I'm connecting that way because
to me, that doesn't feel real. You give me five
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hundred people, a thousand people, it doesn't matter. I've done
that before. That is easy to me. But but connecting with
just a small group of people, I can't do it.
And if I went to hang out with people like
for a weekend and like hey, here's Mike, and you
hang out for the entire weekend, I don't feel like
I would bond with those people. And I feel that
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that is something I've tried to do because I have
met people that I enjoy after just an hour a
meeting with them, and I want to be around them more.
I want to know what they have thoughts about and
there are people I like so instantly that I always
wish that I could be that type of person. Some
of my friends are those type of people who can
just talk to anybody, strike up a conversation, and get
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all these he details out of people because they are
so warm and friendly and inviting. And there's a moment
in this movie where Kirian Colkin learns something about the
other members of this tour group that they go on,
because they go on this trip to Poland, but they
are joining this tour guide who has like a very
interesting cast of people with him, and you have Kirian
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Colkin's character who is learning all these things about other
people because he's genuinely curious. He likes talking to people,
and they all start to like him. Some of them
don't like him for that same reason, but some of
them form like a really strong relationship with him, just
because he has that warm nature, that charismatic nature. Who
he is somebody who just comes into a room says
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what he says, and people connect with that. And I've
always wanted to do that because I feel, over the
course of my life that sometimes I feel that people
just don't like me, not just that they don't like me.
It's that I don't do enough things for people to
have an opinion on me, where I don't say a
whole lot. I don't put a lot out there. So
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it's not that people don't like me because like I
don't like that guy. It's just because I feel that
I kind of blend into the background sometimes that people
don't like me, but they also don't like they don't
hate me, and I think that's almost worse. That is
something I've just been fighting because, like I said, going
back to that example, if if you met people, spend
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a weekend with them, I feel like I'm so forgettable
for that reason. And I think people genuinely think I'm
a nice person. I'm a nice guy, but there's just
something about not being able to connect with people in
that way that I've been striving to do my entire
adult life, maybe even since I was a teenager, Like
I didn't have friends then, but I feel like even
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growing up now, like I just want to have that.
And there are moments in this movie where it really
was like, did they make this movie just for me?
Jesse Eisenberg, did you like hack into my computer and
find all my journals and all my notes and listen
to this podcast. Of all these things I've struggled with,
and I haven't watched a movie that just nailed that
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aspect of my life, because this is probably something I
should talk about in therapy, but it just really struck
a chord with me and unnersed something in me that
I really felt some type of way after watching this movie,
thinking more and more about just this year I've been
struggling with this and thinking this, and to see it
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play out in this way and to see it that
it is something that other people struggle with was really
something I don't even want to say refreshing, but just
something I needed to know that there are other people
out there who are like this. Like all my entire life,
I've been a David and I've just been trying to
be a Benji. And then getting back to the movie
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a little bit, I think the reason this message came
across so well is because they are both fantastic actors.
Jesse Eisenberg, I feel, has been a little little bit typecast.
I feel like he's gotten away from it now. But
Mark Zuckerberg that he played him in the Social Network
and that was like his role when I think of
Mark Zuckerberg, I think of Jesse Eisenberg, and then from there,
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I also think of him in Zombie Land, where he's
kind of the same person a little bit or an Adventureland,
and throughout the course of his movies he is that
kind of nervous energy person, a very fast talker. I
don't even know how you teach that, or how you
learn that, or how to take a character on like that,
Like I don't know if Brad Pitt could play somebody
like that, that's just not in his arsenal. But this
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is the role that was just perfectly Jesse Eisenberg. And
you have Kirie and Colkin, who is a fantastic actor.
You probably know him most as Mcolay Colchin's brother or
if you watch Succession, which I never watched that show,
but he's a really great actor, and I feel he's
having success in his later part of his thirties and
forties now, and you can tell just how much every
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role he does now that he really kind of absorbs.
And I've heard stories of him being really great at
learning dialogue, like he would go onto the set of
Succession and they would completely change all the lines on them,
like Day of and like, oh, we changed all your lines,
so you're gonna have to relearn these real quick. He
would sit down in the makeup chair and by the
end of his makeup session he would already have him
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figure it out. So there's something in his brain that
he can absorb lines and memorize them really well and
then completely nail the emotion because he has so much
emotion throughout this entire movie where he goes on the
highest highs, where he's just wanting to have fun and
doing things out of pocket and making funny jokes that
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aren't really jokes. So if you're into dark comedies, you'll
very much be into his humor. You see more examples
of how different they are. There's one scene in particular
where Benji wants to take kind of funny pictures at
a serious monument and Jesse Eisenberg character like, now, we
shouldn't do that. It feels disrespectful, but he starts doing
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it anyway. Jesse Eisenberg's taking the pictures, but then everybody
else in the tour group joins in and it's a
big fun moment, and then Jesse Eisenberg's character is just
there taking the pictures, never gets in on the fund,
so you see more of that throughout the movie. And
I think it's Kiri and Kolkin's ability to do drama
really well but also to have like this really good
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comedic timing that I think he is going to get
a nomination for Best Supporting Actor in this movie. I
feel like this movie is also a shoe in to
get a Best Picture nomination because it feels very novel
to me. I haven't really seen a movie like this
where there's not some grand plot like what I told
you earlier, that's the entire movie. They go on this trip,
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they have all these connections. There is a lot of dialogue,
but the dialogue is really important, and you have two
people who are just really great at having this chemistry
that even though they're cousins, they kind of feel like
brother So maybe a little bit too, I saw a
bit of my brother and myself in this because that's
kind of our personalities, a little bit like I'm one way,
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I would say very much, my brother is more of
like Akiri and Kolkin in this movie, So maybe I
saw some parallels there too, like even the trip itself,
because there are some really heavy moments where they go
to concentration camps, and it takes this other emotional level
that I wasn't really expecting it to go on. So
as you're feeling bad for both of these characters, you
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also feel bad for the world. And I haven't seen
a movie have this course of action from beginning to
end and also only be an hour and twenty two minutes.
Like before you think twice about this movie, it is over.
So for a real pain, I give it four point
five out of five. I would say that point five
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is more of the emotional impact that had on me,
So for any other person who doesn't struggle with that,
it's probably still a four out of five. A really
great movie, though definitely it out. If you want to
get in early on some of the movies they're going
to be nominated for Best Picture.
Speaker 2 (46:07):
It's time to head down to movie Mike treylor Paul I.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
Gotta tell you something that blew my mind. Jack Black,
who's in this new movie called Dear Santa that we're
about to talk about. He is only worth fifty million
dollars at least according to the Internet. Sometimes these things
aren't completely right, but it kind of gives you a
ballpark on what a celebrity is worth. You know, Jack
Black listed at fifty million dollars. I've been watching Jack
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Black since I was a kid at School of Rock,
pick A, Destiny, Shallow, How He's been in so many
movies and as a blade, I feel like he's only
doing video game adaptations, massive movie star, tropic thunder like.
The list goes on and on for movies that Jack
Black has been in, and to only have a fifty
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million dollar network seems absurd to me. Maybe some of
his movies have been smaller budget cult classics, but he's
had some massive movies King Kong that was kind of
like a differensona Jack Black. It just kind of blew
my mind that at the level he is that in
his career having I guess he doesn't always have top
billing in movies. For the most part, he is a
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bankable movie star. I feel like it should be in the
one hundred like Doubles. At at least. That blew my mind.
But the movie we are here to talk about today
is Dear Santa, is coming out next week on Paramount Plus. Yes,
it is a straight to streaming platform movie, which I
don't feature in the trailer park a lot now that
I think about it, and not by design. Really. It's
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hard to build hype around a streaming movie now, but
they one caught my eye for a couple of reasons.
One because I like Jack Black hasn't really been in
a great comedy recently. I feel like he's kind of
in that stage of his career where he's just trying
to make some money. I think a lot of these
actors get to that point where they have been famous
for so long, maybe feel like I just wanna be
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able to go in and do a good jump and
make some money so I can leave behind a really
big nest egg for my family. And I can't be
mad at them for that. I can be mad at
them when they make me sit through mediocre movies, but
I can't be mad at them for securing that bag.
But what Dear Sanna is about to beat? A kid
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who writes a letter to Santa innocent enough, except kid
not so bright. He misspells Sanna and he writes Satan.
So instead of getting his wishes to Sanna, Satan gets
his letters and grant some three wishes, and at the
end of those three wishes pretty much makes the deal
that hey You're gonna have an awesome life right now
while we're hanging out. But then I'm gonna take your soul.
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Also in this movie, Keegan Michael Key, who is just
in everything since he's been in Key and Peel. If
there's any animated movie that comes out, Keegan Michael Key
is gonna be a voice on that. You also have
post Malon, which I'm gonna get into my entire breakdown
of his filmography. But right now, here's just a little
bit of the Dear Santa trailer. My friend are getting
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three wishes. They stole that from me. By the way,
after you make your wishes, I'm taking your soul.
Speaker 2 (49:12):
You ain't never had a friend like me.
Speaker 1 (49:15):
Okay, that I may have stolen from Aladdin. Now we're
even let me show you a few of the things
that could do for you. Now, this movie has a
pretty low budget thirty million dollars, which isn't a whole
lot to work with. There. I imagine a lot of
that went to not even paying post Malone, but probably
paying Jack Black. I really want to see a larger
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role here for post Malone. I'm not sure we're going
to get it here. It kind of feels like what
they featured so far in the trailer is really just
maybe an extended cameo, which is really all his filmography
has been up to this point. But I'll get into
more of that here in a second. It does look
a little cheap, though, and I'm having to look past
that because I don't want to sound like this curmudgeon
who hates on anything that resembles any kind of fun.
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And when I look at this movie specifically and look
who's behind it, you have the Fairy Brothers who did
movies like Dumb and Dumber, who did a lot of
movies like the ones I mentioned earlier with Jack Black
Shallow how they've also are responsible for the Something about
Mary Stuck on You fever pitch earlier this year, Ricky
Stanicky movies like Me, Myself and Irene. They have a
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large library of comedy movies. And if you look at
their comedy specifically, all those movies are stupid movies. Dumb
and Dumber on Paper is a stupid movie. And I
love how all the premises to their movies start. They're
about something that if you just saw it written on paper,
if you just read the script, you read the plots.
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Synopsis that is funny. It is really hard to take
a plot synopsis that is funny and flesh it out
into an entire feature film. That is kind of how
I'm feeling about this movie. It sounds funny of just
to say, hey, what if a kid just misspelled something
and he wrote dear satan instead of dear. That sounds
like a funny idea. But I almost feel like when
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they were starting to make this movie and thought, oh, man,
is this strong enough to make an entire film? And
I feel like me on any other day, if I
saw the trailer for this, I would rip it to
shreds and think, God, this is dumb, this is a
waste of time. But I started to consider all of
the pieces here. Jack Black, who really I feel like
he just wants to spread joy with this movie. He
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wants to bring people things that are gonna make you
smile and gonna make you happy. And I'm okay with
it in this situation because it's only a thirty million
dollar movie. It's nothing crazy. And I do think we
have gotten away from movies just being allowed to be
fun for the sake of being fun, where you don't
have to think about him a whole lot, especially a
movie like this completely geared towards kids I do have.
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There's still a little bit of me that can't get
over how bad this CGI looks. It looks in parts
of this trailer that Jack Black is not even there,
like he's entirely green screened into scenes where they maybe
I couldn't get him on set for a day, they filmed
the scene and then digitally put him into this scene,
and the makeup on his face even looks digital, which
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is weird. That is an entire pet peeve I have
of movies now using CGI to CGI in things that
you could just go to the store and buy it,
and makes me just go insane. But I'm looking past
all that because I just want to be thinking back
to me as a kid, and that is exactly where
I put myself in this situation. If I was ten
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years old, maybe eight years old, and I saw the
trailer for this movie, how would myself react to that?
I think at that age, I would think this is
hilarious and I would love it, and this would be
a movie that I would watch at that time in
my life and enjoy, and somebody older like me would say, ah,
that's a bad movie. And this is gonna get bad reviews.
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I can guarantee you it's going to be a thirty
to twenty percenter on the review site that I don't
name because they don't want me a part of their
review site. But the more I thought about The Fairly Brothers,
and I thought it'd be un fair to say this
looks stupid when I like some of their other stupid movies.
I Love Dumb and Dumber. I put it in my
Desert Island movie I Love Me Myself and Irene, And
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because when I first watched those movies as an impressionable
kid teenager. Whenever I saw those movies, they were funny
to me, and this movie is probably going to be
funny to somebody. And if you look at some of
the comedy elements in this trailer, you do see the
Fairly Brothers in there. You can see their comedy there.
And it's just us who haven't really aged with their films.
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But I do like that they are still committed to it,
although I'm still really holding it against them how much
they let me down on the Three Stooges movie that
I thought was gonna be great, because I grew up
loving the Three Stooges, even though they're way before my time.
It was just the TV show my dad and I
just bonded over and I was like, Oh, they're probably
gonna make it into a movie. I hold that against them,
and I hold Dumb and Dumber two. But looking back
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on some of their early work, I mean, Stuck on You,
I thought was the funniest thing ever because it's such
a dumb premise, and that's what they commit to, stupid
premises and spending millions of dollars on them. So I
do think we need directors like them who still want
to bring that innocent joy to movies. Not every movie
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has to be serious, but I think you still have
to take into consideration giving the audiences something worth paying
for or something worth spending their time on if they
already have this surface. So there is a fine line
to walk between oh, it's just a fun movie, you
don't have to think too much about it, but there's
still some artistry that has to go into it, actual writing,
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actual jokes, actual punchlines that are going to be memorable
and going to be worthy of somebody's time. So it
can just be fun, turn your brain off, don't think
too much. About it, but there also has to be
some intention there, because that is what actually makes it
a good movie. And I can't really remember the last
time I saw a good Paramount plus original. I think
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the last one I Want was a Good Burger Too,
and that movie let me down. It felt like just
a TV special. It was more just the nostalgia surrounding
that cult classic that even peauked interest in me wanting
to watch that movie. But I want to see post
Malone have a little bit more of a role in
this movie. And looking at all the movies he's done
so far, I've seen them all. I've seen every single movie,
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and for the most part, they have really just been
glorified cameos. I don't think he was really trying to
be a legit actor. I would love him too. I
think he gets off for things and it sounds fun
to do. If I was that famous, that rich and famous,
I would take every single offer to do anything like
this because it's fun and it's awesome. But I've seen
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him in Spencer Confidential in twenty twenty, Wrath of Man,
which was probably my least favorite of all these Good
Morning Teenage Muwan Ninja Turtles was great, but he had
a very limited role. He was rightfully refille that last year.
I think he should do more animated work up until
this point. I think that's probably a best role so far.
He was also in Roadhouse earlier this year, which that
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appearance let mean down a lot. He was heartily in
that barely had a line. And the thing I enjoyed
about this trailer is I was actually getting to see
post Malone like he really is because he is playing himself.
And I think that's what a director, a writer, or
whoever is casting him in these movies need to pitch
to him a role where he gets to be himself,
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because he gets typecast as the criminal because he is
a dude, has a lot of tattoos, he looks really hardcore,
but if you really know him and watch him on
social media, he's a really kind and sweet guy and
a funny guy and has this kind of I don't
care energy and just on stage, it's very fun dancing around.
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And you see that a little bit in this trailer,
and I think that is what would really translate onto
the big screen into a movie. Capture that and put
that in a movie, make his character be more like
he is in real life, and I think it would
be great, So I hope he has a little bit
more screen time in this movie. Has a pretty significant
amount of screen time in this trailer, which probably more
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than I've seen him from his appearance as another movie,
so that is a good sign. But it kind of
looks like they go to a post Malone concert he
turns into post Malone Jack Black's character does, so I
don't know how long that whole sequence will play out,
but I hope it's pretty extensive. But again, in the
movie is called Deer Santa and it's coming out next
week on Paramount Plus on November twenty fifth. And that
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was this week's edition of Movie Lin Tramer Park and
that is gonna do it for another episode here of
the podcast. But before I go, I gotta give my
listeners shout out of the week. This was a funny one.
Shout out to Joel on X who wrote, just in
case you missed it at Mike Distro, Red One is
coming out on November fifty laughing crying emoji and Joel
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posted a picture of a giant display on Red Because
I've been ripping that movie to shreds ever since I
featured into the trailer Park. It caught some strays last
week during the trailer park, and I did not go
watch it this weekend. I couldn't commit myself to it.
I wanted to commit to the bit and go and
watch it and rip it to shreds. That movie is
two hours. I just couldn't put myself through it. There
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are some movies I just decide that I'm gonna protest.
That was one this year. The Crow was one earlier
this year, and I feel like when I commit to
protesting a movie, I have to follow through with that
bit and not go see that movie. Even though I
am a movie reviewer, a movie enthusiast. I will watch
it eventually when it comes out to streaming, or if
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we get to the holidays and I have nothing else
to watch. I will commit to going to the theater then,
but I won't give it the satisfaction of going opening
weekend and proving to them that all these random advertisements
worked on me because they didn't. But appreciate you join
getting it on that joke and getting another A little
(59:00):
jab in there for Red One shoving that movie down
our throats. So if you want to see who got
the last laugh, there I wouldn't even report their numbers,
but go look at them, go look how it's in theaters,
and then pay attention to the fallout that is going
to come in the next couple weeks. And pay attention
whenever they immediately slap that thing on Amazon and say
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Red one is now available to watch at home, and
then see how the Rock is going to react and
what his next role is going to be. But I
guess M one to two is coming out soon too,
so I think it'll be all right. So thank you
Joel for sending that in. Appreciate you for listening. Appreciate
you all for listening, for spending any amount of time
with me, especially if you've made it to the end
of this podcast. Thank you so much from the bottom
of my heart. And until next time, go out and
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watch good movies and I will talk to you here.
Host
Mike D
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