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Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie podcast, your
go to source for all things movies, and I am
your host Movie Mike and this is one of my
favorite episodes to do every single year. My top ten
most anticipated movies of two. Will break these down, give
you all the release states pending any further delays, which
I'm not looking forward to, but we'll get into all that.
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From the Nashville Podcast Network is Movie Movie Podcast. I
think two is going to be a year for movies,
and I don't think we've had a great year for
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movies since twenty nine. Of course, changed the world completely,
and it turns out one really wasn't the bounce back
I was expecting. We really didn't get any big blockbusters
until summer. But NOWE I have some pretty big expectations
all these movies on this list. Just by these top
ten alone, I think it's gonna be a great year
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for movies. And I'm recording this the week of January tenth,
so at the time, these are all current release states.
If you're listening later, maybe some of these have changed,
hopefully not. But let's get right into the list. At
number ten, I am going with the new Jordan Peele
movie called Nope, coming out on July two. I'm a
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big fan of Jordan Peel's work. I think he really
won me over with get Out, which was a really
great suspense horror movie that came out back in twenty seventeen,
and since then he's also given us Us that came
out in twenty nineteen, and now two he has his
new third full feature and there's really not a whole
lot of details about this movie yet aside from the poster,
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but given a great track record that he has to
get Out in US, I just love the mind of
Jordan Peele. I love the vision that he has in
his movies. I love the one word titles, so I
almost like when you don't know a whole lot of
details about a movie, but going into it knowing that
you love the director, knowing that you love their style.
And I'm just a big fan of horror movies. I
can't wait to see this movie and hear more about it.
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So at number ten, I'm going with nope. At number
nine is a movie that was supposed to come out
on July twelve. It's been delayed so much. I think
this was even on my list last year. But at
number nine, I'm putting Top Gun to Maverick, which is
coming out on May two. Like I said, it was
supposed to come out on twenty nineteen, that got postponed
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to June twenty and then was supposed to come out
in one and is now hopefully coming out in two.
And for me, I'm not even the biggest Top Gun fan.
I would go as far to say is I'm really
not a fan and of any Tom Cruise movie, to
be honest, But knowing how much he put into this
movie to make it great and to make a sequel
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to a movie like Top Gun, That's why I'm interested
in it. I'm curious to see how well this movie
plays out. And I asked this question on Twitter and Facebook,
and I feel like a lot of you agree with me.
Is you're wanting to see this movie. We've been waiting
to see it for so long, to the point to
where I wondered if this movie even still existed, and
just knowing the kind of person that Tom Cruise is
when he's making a movie, he goes to extreme lengths
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to his own stunts. He learned how to fly the
planes in this movie to make it seem more realistic,
and the training that the actors went through to make
this movie as realistic as possible. I'm looking forward to
seeing that. And from the trailers that I've seen, the
cinematography looks pretty groundbreaking on this movie. It really looks
like it's gonna make you feel like you're in that
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setting there with the characters. So I also think that
is why they have delayed this movie so much, is
because it does warrant the big screen, and also, as
a Tom cruisees ego, he wants it to be a
blockbusters success internationally, and he wants the most people to
be able to see it and go to the movies.
He's a big proponent of that, so it looks like
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he will end up getting his way on this release again.
That comes out on MAO, so that would be a
big summer release, and I'm putting that one at number nine.
At number eight, I'm going with The Flash, which is
coming out on November four. And if it wasn't for
me watching the Snyder cut of Justice League over the break,
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I probably wouldn't have put this on my list. But
I finally had time to watch that movie, and I
remember when I saw the Justice League in theater when
it first came out. The Flash was really the only
new character that I was excited about. I was already
into Wonder Woman because of her cameo and Batman versus Superman,
but he was the new character that came from Justice
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League that I was like, Oh, that's actually like a
fun character, has a cool superpower, a portrayal of that.
It's almost like d C. Spider Man in a way.
And after watching the Snyder cut of Justice League, which
I was really kind of hesitant to watching, I put
it off for a very long time because I didn't
want to watch a four hour long movie. But it
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was able to flesh out the characters a lot more
than I was expecting the Flash included, So coming off
of watching that and anticipating and seeing some things I'm
seeing around this movie, like Michael Keaton cast is Bruce Wayne,
I think this will be a very critical step for
d C and their success kind of going into this year.
And I think if they're able to make the Flash
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work and for audiences to like to Flash, that would
be a pretty big win for them. So I'm curious
to see how this one plays out. So at number eight,
I'm going with the Flash. At number seven, I'm going
with a very anticipated sequel for a lot of reasons,
and it is Black Panther Waconda Forever, coming out on
November eleven, and I think, above everything, this movie is
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going to have a very big emotional connection with people
because of the passing of Chadwick Boseman and the decision
to not recast anybody to play Black Panther, instead focusing
on the character of a sister in the movie. So
I really want to see how they addressed that in
the movie, what villains they will bring into the movie,
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but above all, to see if it kind of meets
up to the standard that Black Panther created, the critical
acclaimed that it acquired after it came out, and now
being kind of noted as one of Marvel's most respected franchises.
I'm really hoping the movie does well. Can't wait to
see this one, so I put it at number seven.
At number six is maybe a movie you didn't think
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I would put on this list because I'm not really
that big of a fan of it. I think the
first one is actually one of the most overrated movies
of all time. But at number six, I'm going with
Avatar Too, from director James Cameron, coming out on December six,
And the reason I put that on my list is
because I'm just curious to see how a sequel does.
That comes thirteen years after of a movie that really
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changed the landscape of film back in two nine when
it came out because it did, you know, use some
different technology. Three D really became a thing after Avatar
and above the story above, the characters like that just
all really meant nothing to me in that movie. It
was the visual aspect of Avatar which made it so successful.
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Because I think here, thirteen years after, it's not really
a movie people want to go back and watch. I
rarely hear anybody talking about Oh I randomly put on
Avatar the other day. That doesn't really happen. So that
kind of came and win. Three D was a real
trendy thing, a real kind of a fat of filmmaking
for a while. But I haven't seen a three D
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movie in a very long time. I never really got
into it. So here in a movie that was so
record breaking because of the technology used, you come out
with a sequel thirteen years later, which is a weird
time to come out with the sequel. You either have
to have it, I feel like a few years after
or like way way later, kind of like top Gun
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to where people are like, oh, yeah, I remember that movie. Um,
I really want to see a sequel Like this is
kind of at a weird time to where it's not
super recent, but it's also like not a nostalgia thing.
So I'm just curious to see how Avatar to performs
at the box office. That's why I'm anticipating this one.
I just want to see if it even meets up
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to that first one, if people even care about this anymore.
And I am kind of predicting that it's going to fail.
Living up to that same hype. The only thing I
feel like Avatar two has going for it is the
release date. Coming out around the holidays, it's the big
time where people are going to the movie theater. It's
also a big time for Oscar Worthy movies. I think
I'll have a little bit more of a gauge once
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the trailer for Avatar two comes out and seeing what
it looks like. But at number six, one of my
most anticipated movies of the year is Avatar to getting
into the top five now. I think the reason this
one is made my top five is because it's coming
off of Spider Man No Way Home and a Number
five is Doctor Strange Into the Multiverse of Madness, coming
out on May six, directed by Sam Raimi, who did
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the original Spider Man trilogy with Toby maguire and before
whenever Marvel announced all of its big movies coming out
over the next few years. I remember seeing Doctor Strange
Into the Multiverse of Madness and not being excited at
all about this movie. I just haven't been the biggest
fan of Doctor Strange. I thought him in the Avengers
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movies was alright, solo film, nothing really to write home about.
But seeing him in Spider Man No Way Home and
how he connects that story into this movie. I'm a
lot more excited about this one. And this is the
first movie I've seen that's taken not only for movies
in the m c U, but also from the Disney
plus Marvel shows. And having Spider Man No Way Home
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as a lead into this movie really kind of helps
build a hype around It helps people who maybe haven't
seen the original Doctor Strange, like me, aren't the biggest
fan of his character, want to see this movie. So
at number five, I'm going with Doctor Strange into the
Multiverse of Madness. At number four is a movie that
I think will really play on my heart strings and
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I'll feel like a kid again watching this movie. And
it is a light Year starring Chris Evans, coming out
on June seventeen, and there's a lot of reasons I'm
excited about this movie. I think they are fully done
making what we know as Toy Story movies. They should
have ended it at Toy Story three would have been perfect,
but we got Toy Story four just kind of just
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the epilogue on the entire franchise. But now we're seeing
movies inside of the Toy Story universe, but completely their
own stories, and that's what this one is about. You
have Chris Evans voicing buzz light Year, and it's not
the toy. This is instead they described it as this
is the movie that Andy from Toy Story watched that
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made him want to own a buzz Lightyear toy. So
it's based on buzz Lightyear the person, not Buzz Lightyear
the toy, which is why it's not voiced by Tim Allen.
And this movie has been described as a love letter
to sci fi. It's said to pull a lot of
inspiration from Star Wars, and if you take a character
like buzz light Year inside of this Toy Story, world
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member Zurg and all these other cool sci fi elements
that have only been toys up to now, you get
really the makings of a great animated sci fi story.
And I love that they have Chris Evans as Buzz Lightyear.
I think he will bring a lot of life to
the character. And if a Buzz Lightyear prequel proved to
be successful, maybe we get a woody prequel and who
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knows other characters from Toy Story, But at number four,
I'm going with light Year coming out on June. All right,
coming up next, I'll give be my top three most
anticipated movies of two and also a bunch of honorable
mentions because there's really a lot of great movies coming
out this year. We'll do that after this. All right,
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back here with my top three most anticipated movies of
two and at number three is spider Man Across the
Spider Verse Part one. Now, spider Man Into the Spider
Verse was one of my favorite theater experiences in a
very long time, because, if you know by listening to
this podcast, Spider Man is my favorite superhero and I
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felt like watching Spider Man Into the Spider Verse was
like seeing my nerdiest, wildest dreams of Spider Man as
a kid, and what a Spider Man movie could be
really come to life. And that movie really kind of
changed what I come to expect from an animated movie,
what I come to expect from any kind of superhero story,
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and really made me feel more connected to a Spider
Man origin story than I've really ever been, and it's
why it's my favorite Spider Man movie personally. So I'm
really excited to see how they continue this story, how
they choose to build out this entire world because I
almost feel like it's a really big playground where anything
can happen. There are no rules of what characters you
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can incorporate, of what storyline you have to follow. There's
no expectations set of what a Spider Man movie should be.
And I feel like this movie is really for the fans,
like the hardcore fans of Spider Man and the hardcore
fans of animation and at the core of Spider Man
into the Spider Verse. It's just a really good movie
that you can watch over and over again. So this
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one comes out on October seven, and I hope it
is everything we're wanting it to be. At number two
is another movie that was supposed to come out last year,
but as of now, I've been following on socials and
all the news. It looks like it is all good
to go for February four, and it is Jackass Forever Now.
Jackass premiered on MTV back in two thousands, and I
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was nine years old and it completely changed how I
view comedy. And I was thinking about this, and I
think Johnny Knoxville and the Jackass screw don't get enough
credit for what they bring to comedy and how Jackass
and the movie franchise really changed Internet humor and really
changes what we find funny. Like they are the o
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g s when it comes to pranks, when it comes
to doing stupid things that harm yourself. But at the
heart of Jackass, what I loved about them and their
pranks and their takes on humor is it all was
geared towards making fun of themselves, to inflicting paint on themselves,
sometimes just getting reactions out of people. It was never
hurtful anyway, or like these dumb YouTube pranks where it's like, oh,
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I just punched you in the face, but at the
prank because I'm filming good for YouTube like that. It's
nothing like that. And what I loved when they switched
from Jackass the TV shows to Jackass the movies is
they were able to do whatever they want completely uncensored.
But not only that, the Jackass movies really tear down
any rules when it comes to filmmaking. It's straight up
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skit after skit after skit, and it's hilarious, but it
doesn't have to follow up plu online. When you watch
a Jackass movie, it's unlike watching anything else, and it's
an experience in theaters where you're laughing with other people,
where you're cringing with other people. I mean, just is
a really fun time. And I know the stars of
Jackass just kept getting asked over and over and over,
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will you make another movie? We make another movie now
that you're older, And I love that they're going through
with this being in their forties and their fifties. In
a way, I feel like they kind of adapted to that.
They also brought in some new cast members to be
a part of it, and I was watching a trailer
for it and seeing the new cast members, and it's
so cool to see people like me who grew up
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watching them on MTV and watching the movies now being
a part of it and hanging out with them and
seeing these larger than life characters and doing dumb things
with them while making a movie. I feel like that
aspect to it is really good to kind of bring
it full circle for me while watching this movie. So
at number two coming out next month on February four,
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I'm going with Jackass forever. And at number one is
a movie. With every clip I see of it, everything
I read about it, I get more and more excited
about it. And it is The Batman, coming out on
March fourth, and this looks like a Batman movie unlike
one we've ever seen before. I know people would argue
that it kind of looks like the Christopher Nolan, darker,
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grittier Batman, but the vibe I get from watching the
trailers to The Batman, not only does it have this darker,
grittier tone, I feel like Batman, the character himself in
this movie, played by Robert Pattinson, almost doesn't even have
like a hero vibe. And that's what I'm hoping comes
out of The Batman is it doesn't feel like a
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comic book movie, doesn't feel like a superhero movie. From
what I've seen, it almost looks like Batman isn't as
beloved in this story. It looks like the storyline focuses
a little bit more on people questioning his status as
a vigilante. And the villains in this movie don't feel
as comic book to me. You know, I felt like
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Joker and Bain were a lot larger than live characters,
but in this movie, the Penguin and the Riddler have
almost more of a realistic feel to them, like they're
just crazy people that could be living in our world now,
and I really like the style of how they look
in this movie, and not only that, it looks a
lot more violent. You didn't really get a whole lot
of blood in the Dark Knight trilogy, but I'm kind
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of feeling that here. I'm feeling like we could see
Batman actually take out some people. I know killing is
not necessarily his thing, but I'm kind of getting this
tormented vibe from the way Robert Pattinson looks in this
but once against the official rating they're saying PG thirteen,
But man, if this movie ends up being right at
our I could definitely see it going there. The movie
I'm most anticipating this year is The Batman on March fourth,
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but there are really some other great movies coming out
this year that also in my honorable mentions. Also from Marvel,
you have thor Love and Thunder coming out on July eight.
You have Jared Letto as More Bious, which is supposed
to come out this month on the twenty, but has
now been delayed until April one. I can't wait to
see what universe that movie falls into. Another movie from
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d C with the Rock Black Adam comes out on
July nin The Rock got super ripped up for that movie.
If you follow him on Instagram, he went to very
extreme links to look like a ripped up superhero. And
that's saying a lot from somebody at the stature of
the Rock already, But I think that one could be good.
Martin Scorsesey has a movie coming out this year, hopefully
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Killers of the Flower Moon with Leonardo DiCaprio. You have
the new Screen movie coming out this Friday, Sonic the
Hedgehog two on April eight. Jurassic World Dominion comes out
on June, which is always a fun summer franchise. You
have the Elvis movie with Tom Hanks coming out on June.
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Mission Impossible seven coming out on September could be a
very big year for Tom Cruise that both of his
movies come out on time. And then you also have
Halloween Ends coming out on October. I wasn't the biggest
fan of Halloween Kills, and I feel like they probably
made both of these movies at the exact same time,
but hopefully Halloween Ends is the better half. I'm just
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such a big Michael Myers fans that's a big fan
of the original Halloween that I have to see every
Michael Myers movie. And above all, I'm just happy that
we have a lot of new movies coming out in May.
Everyone's box office numbers match the anticipation. There's another movie
you're excited to see this year. Just send me a
tweet at Mike Destro, comment on my Facebook page, or
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send me an email movie Mike d at gmail dot com.
I want to get into a spoiler free movie review. Now,
let's talk about Liquorice Pizza to the new coming of
age comedy drama starring Alana Heim and Cooper Hoffman, who
was actually the son of Philip Seymour Hoffman. I have
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a lot of opinions about this movie. I've never felt
so con linked while watching a movie. And before I
get into my full review, here's just a little bit
of the trailer. So, how did you become such a
hotshot action showman? That's what I'm meant to do. Our
Rhodes took us here. They're not my director. Do you
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really want to see my boobs? Can touch them? See tomorrow.
So what this movie is about Alana Heim's character who
if you're not familiar with her, she is a member
of the Rock band him and here's a little bit
of their song, Little of Your Love. She plays a
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five year old woman who meets this fifteen year old
kid played by Cooper Hoffman, and he is this up
and coming actor. He's been in like this famous production
of this TV show. And they meet at school. She
is working for this company who does photographs and takes
like your book photos for the school, and they developed
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this relationship where he likes her and she kind of
plays into it. And it's that's why I felt so
conflicted of watching this movie, because she states that she
is at least twenty five years old, and she clearly
knows that he is fifteen years old. Now, the relationship
in the movie is him trying to win her over
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him trying to get Alana Heim's character to like him.
And I just felt a little bit conflicted about the
age gap, because while the movie does a good job
at portraying, you know and otherwise taking out age out
of it. It's a good love story, it's just weird
to say. It was hard for me to root for
them because of that age gap. And I know it's
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said in the seventies, and I know as I watched
the movie play out. It almost seems innocent enough, but
it's still that's what it is, that the ten year
age gap between these two character terrs. So while I
enjoyed the comedic aspect of it, it was just hard
for me to be fully invested in that part of
the movie. What I did really enjoy about this movie
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was one the aesthetic of it. I watched it in
thirty five millimeter, which, if you're not familiar with film formats,
it's basically what the vinyl experience is to music for movies,
and this movie was originally shot in thirty five millimeter,
which has been around forever. It's basically like was the
standard back in the day when you're shooting on film,
and now it's kind of kind of like vinyl is.
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Like people who are really hardcore about making movies and
sticking to that aesthetic, people like Quentin Tarantino or in
this case, Paul Thomas Anderson who directed Liquorice Pizza. It's
really valuing how your movie is shot and also how
it's shown. And what I kind of took away from
watching this movie is I was just almost more interested
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in the aesthetic of this movie, and the reason I
really wanted to go watch it was mainly because how
it looked, and when you watch something in thirty five millimeter,
it feels very warm. You see the grain on the screen,
you see the crackling. At one point I was looking
for it and I noticed when they switched from one
reel to the next, because there's a little bit of
like jitter on the screen. So the movie nerd in
Me and the film nerd in Me really love that
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aspect of it. Now, that's all due to Paul Thomas Anderson,
who directed this. He's also actually directed a lot of
music videos for him, which is a lot of reason
of the casting of Allana Heim and also her sisters.
The other members of him are also featured in this movie,
and their parents. The thing I didn't like about this movie,
aside from the questionable relationship, was for such an indie
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feeling movie, for such a you know, kind of just
a slice of life movie, it was pretty long at
two hours in thirteen minutes, and it felt two hours
and thirteen minutes. I felt like in the last twenty
minutes I was like, Okay, we can kind of wrap
this thing up. It's just hard when a movie that
kind of has such a slow pace as this movie
does continues to go on and on and on. I
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feel this way when I watch Judd Apatel movies. It
almost feels like a little self serving to the director
to keep you there that long. I don't know, it's
kind of Paul Thomas Anderson's thing. He has made nine
feature films and only two of those come in at
under two hours. So for this one. If this movie
would have been an hour forty five an hour fifty max,
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I probably would have liked it a lot more. But
aside from that, it is a fun movie. I thought
they captured the seventies in Los Angeles pretty well. It
almost romanticized that period of time, and it really captured
kind of the feeling what it would be like living
in Los Angeles in those times. It kind of reminded
me also a little bit of Once Upon a Time
in Hollywood, even though that movie was said in nineteen
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sixty nine. I almost felt like I was watching Once
Upon a Time in Hollywood crossed with Napoleon Dynamite. It
just had that kind of feel to me. And then
I really loved that a lot of actors in this
were unknown actors. For some of them, their very first
time acting like the leads alta Heim and Cooper Hoffman,
but then had like this splash of a list actors
with Bradley Cooper, whose character was pretty hilarious. His whole
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plot line in the movie was probably my favorite, and
Sean Penn also had a pretty good part in the movie.
So when it comes down to it, I did like
this movie, but I don't think it's for everybody. And
I know I'm in a very kind of indie Oscar
season right now, so unless you're super into those kinds
of movies, I don't think this is the movie for you.
And again, it was just so hard to be fully
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invested in this movie given that age gap. It's just
a weird feeling when you forget that and you're just
taking it in for the movie that it is the
relationship to portraying. You're like, oh, I hope this works
out in the end, and you're only wait a minute, no,
that's illegal. So I probably would have rated this a
little bit higher if they would have just given them
normal ages in a normal relationship, But then you wouldn't
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have this movie. So what I would give Licorice pizza
is three at a five pinball machines. It's still in
theaters now, but if you really wanted to see it,
you could probably just wait till you can rent it
or stream it online. So that's my review of the movie.
And I do want to mention that I was recently
rejected by Rotten Tomatoes again and appreciate everybody with the
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comments online. If you want to see my rejection email,
I actually tweeted it out on my Twitter at mikedistro,
just to show you know, sometimes you got to share
your your fails and your losses in life. And this
has been the second time I'd applied to Rotten Tomatoes.
And the real reason they gave me is that I
didn't have a big enough body of work. I haven't
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been doing something for what they describe as needing two
years of reviewing experience. I've been doing this podcast now
for over two years. I've also on the Bobby Bones Show,
been reviewing movies since I started in Nashville back in
so I almost feel like they didn't look at my application.
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And for me, it's not even the biggest goal of
like wanting to be a Rotten Tomatoes critic. I mean,
I have this podcast where I do my reviews and
I share them with you. I have you guys here,
So it's kind of just been that Raw Tomatoes was
like the first thing that really inspired me to review movies.
It's the reason I started reviewing them on Snapchat and
Instagram back in the day, which eventually evolved into me
starting this podcast. And I think for me, I would
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just like to be able to contribute to that number
for all the movies I watch, you know, that percentage score,
which I know a lot of people who don't listen
to this podcast or you want to see another movie
that you're gonna check out, like we go to Rotten
Tomatoes sometimes, and I think it would just be cool
to add that other level of having some credibility to
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this podcast, to be unapproved Rotten Tomatoes critic. But I
guess this year is in my year. They said I
could submit again in September, so I will. Maybe after
doing this podcast for almost three years, they'll accept me.
But thanks everybody for the support on that, Thanks everybody
for the comments and the tweets. I'm just here to say,
don't give up on your dreams. If you don't get
invited to the party, just throw your own party. All
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right now, it's time for the part of the podcast
where I break down movie trailers of movies coming to
you very soon in theaters and on streaming, in a
segment we call it's time to head down to movie
Mike Trail Laura Paul and this episode has been very
focused on new movies. So there's only one trailer I
really want to share with you this week, and it's
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a movie called Moonfall, which is in the disaster film category,
which I feel is a very underrated category. And I'll
get into that all here in a second, but here's
just a little bit of Moonfall, which is a movie
about an astronaut and a conspiracy theorist traveling into outer
space to stop the Moon from crashing into the Earth. Yes,
that's what it's about. Here's a little bit of Moonfall.
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I needed to get me in touch with NASA immediately. Well,
NASA and I aren't really on speaking terms these days.
That will change when you tell them that the moon
is out of all the snow. Need to panic, No crazy,
Why are they lying about all this? It's too late
to stop. OK. So, immediately after watching this trailer, I
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kind of thought it was a twin film of Don't
Look Up, which a twin film is. Whenever Hollywood rushes
to put out basically the exact same movie around the
same time. We see this a lot, and they're competing
to get you know, the box office numbers to get
it out there first, so obviously and Don't Look Up,
you have the comic coming towards Earth, and here it's
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kind of the same thing, but with the moon. The
difference about this movie, I feel it leans a little
bit away from like the satirical look and that kind
of comedy to kind of more of the disaster film
element with a little bit of comedy too. And the
reason I feel disaster movies are underrated is because they're
not really meant to be taken that seriously. They're almost
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like a guilty pleasure category for me. Movies I don't
expect to go into watching the best thing I ever watched,
but seeing something soil verdic list as a plot of
people trying to stop the moon crashing into the Earth
and just seeing what that looks like visually, like it's
almost like a dream you would have in seeing a
movie made about that, and this one, I feel like
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it's a little bit self aware and plays into that
with you acting in it, the jokes they make, and
I hope that it's not taking itself too seriously because
it looks kind of dumb. To be honest, it looks
almost so dumb though that I love it for that.
It's a charming quality of the disaster film. And Moonfall
comes out on February four, so we don't have a
lot of time to wait to see this movie. Kind
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of a slow time for movie trailers right now. So
that's all I wanted to share with you on this episode.
This makes addition of movie laws, so that will do
it for this week's episode. But of course, every single
week I give a shout out to a listener who
tweeted me, send me a d M, send me an email,
Movie Mike d at gmail dot com. It's my shout
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out to the movie crew, which are the listeners of
this podcast. This week, I'm going over to Twitter and
this tweet is from at Adam Kramer thirty five, who
tweeted me a picture of his car dashboard and it
said listening to the podcast while waiting to get my
oil change. Adam, I see you checking out the top
five interviews. Hopefully it was able to make the mind
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numbing experience of waiting for your oil to get changed
a little bit more bearable. So shout out to Adam.
I encourage those pictures. Let me know how and why
you're listening. I also had another tweet I wanted to
share from Michelle Coleman, who tweeted me and said, listening
to your podcast and need your advice. Started watching The
Suicide Squad on the plane forty minutes in and loved it.
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Do I finish watching that one or go back and
watch the original Suicide Squad first? And I said, well,
if you were forty minutes into the Suicide Squad, which
is the James Gunn version that came out last year,
you're gonna love the rest of that movie. That was
one of my favorite movies last year. And honestly, it's
a much better movie than the original Suicide Squad. And
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the thing about these Suicide Squad is you don't need
to watch the original to get that one at all.
I feel like it's pretty self contained. Maybe you don't
have as much backstory on some of the characters, but
that entire movie lives in that world. Now, if you
finished watching the Suicide Squad and just completely love the concept.
Don't want to see more about those characters. Go back
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and watch the original one, which came out back in
but be prepared that it's not up to that same quality.
I don't think Suicide Squad deserved as much as the
hate as it got. I think it's still a pretty
fun movie, but it just didn't exactly capture what that
movie could have been. So appreciate that question. If you
have a movie question that you want me to answer,
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I'll do them here. Just tweet me or send me
an email. Thanks everybody for listening. I hope you have
a great rest of your week. Go out and watch
good movies, and I'll talk to you next week. Later