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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mix Movie Podcast. I
am your host movie Mike. Today I want to share
with you what I think are the top ten Tom
Hanks characters of all time. And that's because in the
movie review we'll talk about his new movie. My wife
Kelsey would join me to talk about a man called Auto.
And in the trailer Park we'll talk about Netflix flex
in that muscle showing all their movies coming out in
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and I'll break down where they shine and where they
need improvement. Thank you for being subscribed and listening to
the podcast. Shout out to the Monday Morning movie crew. Hey,
now let's talk movies. In a world where everyone and
their mother has a podcast, one man stands to infiltrate
the ears of listeners like never before in a movie podcast.
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A man with so much movie knowledge, he's basically like
a walking on MTV with classes from the Nashville Podcast
Networks Movie Movie Podcacast. Tom Hanks has been in at
least eighty movies, and out of those eight movies, he
rarely plays a character twice. So he has so many
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memorable roles, some more memorable than others. So I want
to break down what I think are his top ten
characters that he's ever done of all time. Now that
doesn't mean that all of these characters make up his
best movies of all time. I just think when you
look at these individual performances, what these characters have meant
to cinema, What these characters have meant to his career overall,
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these are the ones that stand out to me most
for one reason or another. So let's get right into
this list. At number ten, I'm going with Colonel Tom
Parker from Elvis, which came out last year. And this
is Tom Hanks unlike any way we've seen him before
in a couple of ways. One is because he was
playing a villain. Out of all those eighty roles that
he's been in, he very rarely plays a villain. I
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think maybe a total of five times he has been
the bad guy in a movie. But as much as
I love Tom Hanks in his sixties, even more so
than that, I love Tom Hanks as a villain, I
guess because he just always has this America's dad had
good guy all around, just universally love, not even just
in America, but in the entire world. So seeing a
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person like that play somebody so vile like Colonel Tom
Parker was enjoyable for me, and he's also unrecognizable with
the visual effects, the makeup, and the thing I love
the most is the way he talks as Colonel Tom Parker,
which I didn't know much about the guy aside from
the fact that he would sell not only Elvis pins,
but I hate Elvis pins. That was like the biggest
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fun fact I knew about Colonel Tom Parker. But after
seeing this movie, I realized how much he held back
Elvis in being a global superstar and how he contributed
to the fall and death of Elvis. And I also
just love how important his narration was to the feeling
of this movie kind of felt like a fairy tale.
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So that was another contributing factor that I put him
at number ten. I am the legendary Colonel Tom Parker,
so it's that creepy that he talks that I love,
so at number ten. Colonel Parker from Elvis at Number
nine is a movie he has a smaller role in,
but there are no small parts. There are only small
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actors and the character and I'm talking about is Mr
White in That Thing You Do. That Thing You Do
is about a fictional band that has this huge hit
called Well that Thing You Do, and Mr White is
the person who signs them to a record deal and
becomes their manager. And I guess you could kind of
debate whether or not he is a good guy or
a bad guy in this movie. He's not entirely likable,
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but he is playing somebody that is taking all those
characteristics of the music industry and how ruthless it is,
and how even though he appears to have the best
interest of this band in mind as they are rising
to start him, really he's only looking out for himself
so much like he was in Elvis. That's a lot
of what Mr White is in That Thing You Do.
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And this is my favorite scene at the end of
the movie, when he tells Shades, the drummer of the
on'e Eions a k a. The wonder that you guys
are finished. It's a very common tale. Well maybe for you,
but I was in a band and we still have
a hit record. Yeah you do one hit Wonders. It's
a very common tale. My first time in a real
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recording studio, you want to hang around for a while,
okay by me, but you're out of the hotel. This afternoon,
you can't help that. I love a ruthless Tom Hanks.
So at number nine, Mr White from That Thing to Do.
At number eight from the movie Big, his character Josh,
and it all comes down to one scene for me
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and Big, the one that completely embodies the entire message
of this movie, the entire feeling of this movie, and
that reminds me that Tom Hanks is the only one
that could pull off an adult playing a kid. And
it is the famous piano scene where he stumbles onto
this big keyboard on the ground and just starts playing it,
and one of the most memorable scenes from the eighties
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where someone argue Tom Hanks was at his best. So
I love that scene. I love Tom Hanks in this
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entire movie. At number eight is Josh from Big. At
number seven, I would think this is one of the
most demanding roles that Tom Hanks has taken on, and
it is Chuck from cast Away. And as we move
up on this list, I wanted to pick roles that
I believe that only he could pull off, and cast
Away is a movie where it's for the most part,
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just him on screen the entire time, So you have
to be really captivating, you have to be really charming
in a variety of ways, and you just have to
be interesting to watch, and that is exactly what Tom
Hanks does and cast Away, and there is a scene
in this movie that still makes me cringe a little bit,
and it's where he performs the tooth extraction. I remember
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watching this movie for the first time and having such
a hard time getting through this scene, and it still
kind of makes me cringe a little bit. And I
am going to play just a small clip of it,
just because I wanted to share that example of how
believable Tom Hanks made all of the little scenes in
this movie and made them so memorable. And this movie
heavily relied on moments like this. And in this movie,
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Chuck is the only person who could have a meaningful
relationship with a volleyball and make it so memorable. And
the character turned a white volleyball with a blood stain
on it into one of the most iconic props of
all times. So at number seven is Chuck from Castaway.
At number six, I'm going with Fred Rogers from a
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Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Tom Hanks as the beloved Mr. Rogers,
and a lot of the was anticipation for me because
I had already seen Won't You Be My Neighbor, which
I actually believe is a better movie as a documentary
than it is a feature film. So this is a
case where I actually like the documentary better than I
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liked the movie. But I love Tom Hanks as Mr Rogers,
and I think when that was first announced, I thought,
when an excellent casting. So a lot of this was
anticipation for me of what this movie could have been.
And I feel like him playing that character is more
iconic than the movie itself because he really brought Fred
Rogers to life. But what a beautiful day in the
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neighborhood the movie was about was more so his relationship
with this writer and this writer's story of doing a
feature on Mr Rogers. And it really wasn't a full
on biopic like I was expecting. So we got that
in the documentary, didn't really get that in the movie.
I actually wanted more Mr Rogers in the Mr Rogers
movie than we got. But all of the scenes with
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Tom Hanks on screen as Mr Rogers, I thought outward magic,
especially seeing them recreate the intro to his show, It's
a Beautiful Day in the beautiful day. Could you mind?
It's a neighbor lead day in this beauty the neighbor
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League day for it? Who knew Tom Hanks could sing? So?
At number six is Tom Hanks as Mr Rogers. At
number five is the most recent addition to this list,
and it is Auto from A Man Called Auto. I
don't want to say a whole lot about this now
because we will get more into it in the movie review.
And maybe it's a little bit of recency bias that
I just watched this movie and loved it so much,
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and it also showed me that he keeps getting and
becoming a better and better actor. It is something you
can continue to get better at, no matter how many
oscars you have, no matter the billions of dollars you've
made at the box office. I think every single role
can make an actor that much better, to the point
that Tom Hanks could probably even look back at movies
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he did in the eighties and the nineties and be like,
oh man, I'm such a better actor now than I
ever was then. And I think A Man called Auto
is an example of that. The way he can bring
characters to life, that is what makes his role so
memorable and I think he really did that in A
Man called Auto, So I put that one at number five.
At number four is a character I felt that was
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most unlike anything he had ever done, and it is
Victor in the Terminal. This is when I feel that
not a lot of people put on their favorite Tom
Hanks movies. It is based on a true story, an
actual guy who lived in an airport for years and
I'm talking years and years and years after being exiled
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from his country. Such a unique story and such a
unique approach that Tom Hanks had to playing this real
life person. So many great moments throughout this entire film,
but the scene that still gets me is at the
very beginning of the movie, whenever r is in the
airport and he first realizes what is happening with this country,
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when it first kind of sets in with them that
oh this is bad in my life is about to change.
And this is Victor in that moment. I'm so people downstairs,
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if that doesn't get you a little bit, well maybe
you don't have a heart like I do. But still
a great movie. So I put Victor from the Terminal
at number four. Now we're getting into the top three.
I think when I sit down to watch the Tom
Hanks movie. I want something that's gonna make me laugh.
I love comedic Tom Hanks. So at number three, I
went with Jimmy Dougan from a League of their Own,
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who was one of the most lovable jerks ever portrayed
on the big screen. He is the manager of the
team in the League of their Own who is a
watched up baseball player, and he doesn't take they are
doing seriously at all. He just gets drunk and falls
asleep and the dugout and goes from being that type
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of person to being somebody who's really invested not only
in the game they are playing, but also invested in
their lives. So I think seeing that turn in Jimmy
Dougan is what turns them into that lovable jerk. But
for me, it's all the funny moments that Jimmy Dugan has,
whether it's yelling at the umpire or my favorite moment
is when he finally nails that kid in the face
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with a baseball glove. We're gonna win. Yeah, it is
a classic Tom Hanks laugh that just makes you laugh.
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So at number three, Jimmy Dugan from a League of
their Own at number two. Speaking of hilarious laughs, I
have to go with the iconic Woody from Toy Story,
and I feel like some people think that actors take
on roles in animated movies because it's easy money. All
you have to do is sit in a booth and
read some lines and you get that bag. But I
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don't think that has ever been the situation with Tom
Hanks in Toy Story. I feel like him and Tim
Allen both had such a passion for doing these movies,
and they were on board in Toy Story in the
very early stages they started making this movie in the
early nineties of them just reading lines, and this movie
went through a lot of different changes and didn't really
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become the Toy Story we know now until they developed
this computer animation technology, Toy Story becoming the first computer
animated movie. And it's not just that technology in the animation.
It's all about the memorable voice acting in a Toy
Story and Tom Hanks really bringing the character of Woody
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to life. And there is so much inflection and Tom
Hanks voice as Woody that I find it more memorable
than any other character I've listed so far. And one
of my favorite examples of This is when Woody and
Buzz are getting in the argument on their way to
Pizza Planet. And here's that moment. You are toy. You
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weren't the real Buzz like you're You're you're an accent figure.
You are a child plaything. And in my head, I
can just picture Tom Hanks looking like a complete madman
delivering those lines. So don't tell me it's just an
actor getting in a booth reading some words on a page.
That is acting. Before I get to number one, which
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you've probably guessed at this point, but there are some
honorable mentions. Captain Miller from Saving Private Ryan is actually
one of my favorite Tom Hanks movies, but not my
favorite character of his, so that didn't make the list.
Ray Peterson from The Bourbs, which is one that a
lot of you sent in when I posted this question
on social media. This one, eily, would have made my
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top fifteen. A lot of you also said Paul in
The Green Mile, which I think the movie itself and
the message in that movie far exceeds Tom Hanks's performance.
The one I would really give it to in The
Green Mile is Michael Clark Duncan. He makes that movie.
And then a lot of you also said his character
in Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Male. I'm not
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that into romcom Tom Hanks. So those didn't quite make
my list, but at number one, it is the most
iconic character he has ever played, easily the most iconic
character from the nineties, and in all of film it
is the one, the only Forest Gump. It's funny that,
looking back on this, you think no one else could
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have played Forrest Gump, even though John Travolta was actually
the studio's first choice for the part. I couldn't imagine
this movie with John Travolta, and it was Tom Hanks's
ability to bring this larger than life character to the
big screen and make us all fall in love with him.
At times, I almost feel like it transcends Tom Hanks
as a person. It's as if he did such a
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good job playing Forrest Gump that I believe just somewhere
in America Forrest Gump exists. He's not just the character
in the movie. He's actually like a real life person
out there. So that is quite the accomplishment. I mean,
what scene could you pick from Forrest Gump if you
had to pick just one. There's so many moments. There's
so many lines, so many things that you could pull
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from this movie. But my favorite scene out of the
entire movie has to be the running scene. I love
the story how this entire scene came together. The filmmakers
had to go behind the back of the studio to
get this entire thing shot because they actually do go
to all of those locations in the United States, and
you think that would be so expensive to film to
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get an entire crew there. What they really did was
just take a couple of people with the camera at
different times throughout the year and got all of these shots.
So the links they had to go just to get
this montage and then Tom Hanks narration bringing it all together.
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go
for a little run. So I ran to the end
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of the road and when I got there, maybe I'd
run through the end of turn today partner brings from
when I got there, I thought, maybe I just run
across Greenbow County. So that is it. My top ten
Tom Hanks characters of all time. If you have one
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you want to add to the list. You can always
get into conversation on my Twitter at Mike Destro on
my Facebook page, Facebook dot com slash Mike Destro and
those links are always in the episode notes and coming up,
my wife Kelsey would join me for our movie review
of a man called Auto. We'll keep it spoiler free.
We'll do that next. I'm gonna get into a spoiler
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free movie review. Now I'm joined by my wife Kelsey.
How are you great? You're ready to talk about a
man called Auto? Love to this movie? So this movie
is about Tom hank character. He's this grumpy old guy
who just lost his wife and now he just goes
around kind of being rude to everybody. Is that how
you would describe his character. He's a little bit of
like a curmudgeon and he lives in this small little community.
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And I wasn't expecting it to go from light to
dark as the movie did. It did, but it didn't
go like it was dark, but it's hard to describe,
like the darkness never really felt as dark because it
was just like interwoven and then it would be over
and like interrupted. The weird part of this movie is
it goes from these very dark scenes of this guy
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who is dealing with these very dark thoughts. He's dealing
with this. Basically, the reason he is so grumpy is
because he's depressed and grieving the loss of his wife,
and it goes from depicting that, which I think they
do actually a really great job of showing what it
feels like to be in that situation, and somebody who
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has a dealt with depression like I have, like that
that's a great depiction of it, of feeling like you're
in a really dark place, but then sometimes when you're
with other people, you're able to snap out of it.
And when they showed that, I was like, Wow, I
haven't really seen that in a movie of this caliber before,
and I wasn't really expecting, especially from Tom Hanks. I
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never questioned his ability as an actor, but I think
just him doing a movie like that kind of spoke
to me in a way. Yeah, and I felt like
it really depicted like the raw feelings of grief. And
this isn't a spoiler, but one of the lines that
he says was his wife was his whole life, and
he's like, there's no life after her, and I just
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broke my heart. So he's dealing with that at the
beginning of the movie, and then this family moves in
across the street. The mom is Marisol, and they're a
Mexican American family, And that's kind of where he changes
his perspective on life. He has now these people living
across the street, and he's trying to help them out
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also well do aling with all these things that he's
going through. So it's the back and forth. And what
I really liked about his character was all the little
things he still did even though he was so grumpy,
making his rounds, which is what he does every day,
even though he is not really loving life right now,
every day he still does the same thing. He shovels
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his walk. He goes all around, he picks up all
the things that have been put in the wrong spots
and recycling and puts them in the correct container. It
basically goes around and is a jerk to everybody. Yeah,
and it's unlike I kind of like Tom Hanks in
his sixties more than I liked him in any other
decade of his life. Tom. It really I don't think
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he's taken the best movies in his sixties, but the
roles he has really nailed I really enjoy I love
me sixty year old Tom Hanks. But this was one
of his best movies. It really was. In the last
ten years, I've been pretty hit or miss when it
comes to enjoying Tom Hanks movies, but this one, the
character alone, which I talked about in the segment before
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this all my favorite Tom Hank characters quickly made it
into my top five, but maybe even this movie made
it into my top ten Tom Hanks movies of all time.
Which it is still a feel good movie, but it's
not really a kids movie at all. No, there's some dark,
dark parts. So what else did you enjoy about this?
I thought all the neighbors were just like such a
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fun like cast of characters. They were just like quirky
and I just I loved I loved Tom made me
feel like all of the emotions like I I've sat
on here before that I am not a crier during movies,
and I have cried in two movies, like in the
past month during the Whale and then this, and I'm like, man,
these got me, like they really got me. I don't
think I ended up crying, but it really made me
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feel I think you said the last movie that did
this for you was probably Wonder. That movie got me. Yeah,
it made me feel the range of emotions the exact
same range of emotions that Wonder did. The other part
I was thinking about this movie is you know with
the family who moves across town that you know their Mexican.
I always have a little bit of trouble enjoying how
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a director would perceive a Mexican American family just because
I am. I always feel like it's a little bit
like overheightened on all, like the inflections in the language,
the references to food. It always feels like almost like
a not stereotype of what I'm used to, or just
the way kind of like a caricature. But I felt
like this movie required that since it is based on
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a book. I feel like when you make a movie
based on a book, all those characters are kind of
fleshed out that way because that's what you kind of
have to do with the book. You really have to
amplify all their qualities. So when it comes to them,
you know, saying words in Spanish, I feel like that
has to exist in the book version, and then they
took a lot from that to make this movie. So
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I was okay with it because even when it came
to some of the other neighbors like the guy who
exercises at the same time every day, the way he
walks and the way he talks like that was also
a heightened version of that kind of neighbor. So I
felt like all those things fit together where they were
all supposed to be really big, larger than life characters
in order to get this story across. So I was
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good with it there. I found those moments really kind
of endearing, and I felt like it was pretty authentic
when it even came to like the foods that they
talked about, so I actually really like that part. I
haven't read the book yet, but I don't know if
the family in the book is Mexican American because the
book is set in Sweden. The author or it's called
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a man called Ov, probably pronouncing that wrong. Should ask
my sweetest friend Nick, but I'm I'm on the wait
list of the library to read it. Normally I do
book first in the movie, but went off script here.
I guess I didn't realize how much I needed this
movie until we watched it. And I feel like this
movie will go pretty overlooked this year because it came
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out in January, and even though you have Tom Hanks,
a list actor, big name. I feel like this is
one that's good is slipped through the cracks for a
lot of people. But everybody I've seen who has gone
to see it has loved it. It's just weird when
such a great movie like this comes out so early
in the year that you almost wanted to get more attended.
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And I know Tom Hanks is fine, He's not struggling
to make money, but I just feel like a movie
like this deserves to be It's not even about the
success of the movie. It's just like, you need to
go see this movie. It is so good and there
are very few movies that come out that tell a
story and depict certain things, and it would just be
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beneficial for more people to see to understand this that.
That is the reason I feel like more people should
go check this movie out. So if you're on the
fence about it now, we both highly recommend it. If
you just need something to make you laugh, need something
that will make you cry a little bit, and need
just a really unusual character that you will be rooting
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for and really enjoying, Like even though he is a jerk,
he is so lovable and endearing and it just comes
off as being just funny. All the things he does
kind of reminded me of my grandpa of people a
little bit. Really, this is kind of like, while watching this,
this is what I realized that I want to be
when I'm older. Grumpy grumpy, not even not so much
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the grumpy part, but just the part that has like
these routines, Like once we're retired, we can do whatever
we want. I feel like I will fall into a
routine like Auto diad of doing the same thing all
the time. We're already such routine people. I don't see
that change. I know, I just feel like myself getting
more and more into it. And it also brought up
the question that we talked about if one like when
one of us goes before the other. No, we're going
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to talk about this. It makes me sad if I
put myself in the same situation as Auto. I've already
told you that I'm going to be the guy who
goes to the waffle house with the picture of you.
That is going to be when I picked the picture. Now, like,
can we just have like a set photo that I approve? Yeah,
that's always my fear of dying the photo. You guys
are gonna using me in my funeral. Pick a good one.
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Please some wedding photos. But that is what I thought about.
Two other takeaways from this movie is you have Truman
Hanks making his acting debut Love Me a Neppo Baby,
so he plays the younger version of Tom Hanks character.
He plays young Otto, and I actually thought he was
pretty good in it. It worked. It's weird having a
very famous dad and now him able to cast his
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kid in a movie to play the younger version of himself.
And it's also weird that his son is twenty seven,
which Tom Hanks was twenty four when he made his
acting debut. But it's just weird to see like a
younger version of him and then picture of where Tom
Hanks was at his career in that time. But it's
the same with Colin Hanks, I feel like because he
looks so much like Tom too. Yeah, Colin Hanks looks
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exactly like him. Colin is like a carbon copy. And
I feel like if you didn't know going into it
that it was his son, you could probably think of
it after like, oh, it wasn't like I forgot yeah,
because they don't look Yes, there's a lot similarities and
once you. Yeah, it could just be Oh, they found
a guy who looks exactly close to Tom Banks, but
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you wouldn't think he's a son. But I thought he
did a pretty good job. I don't know if he
like really wants to get into acting, because it is
his debut role. He's in his twenties, almost in his thirties.
I don't know if he like wants to do this.
It's just weird to have your dad be one of
the most famous actors of all time and then you
go and do acting and everybody kind of judges you
compared to him. And I feel like a lot of
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people call out Neppo babies online because oh, you only
get to do that because of who your dad is.
And I feel like we say that because it's entertainment
and what they're doing is something that's already difficult to
get into. But if I started truck driving, nobody would
say that to me, like, oh, you're only being a
truck driver because you're dead. Is a truck driver about
like anyone whose dad is like a CEO of something,
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And although I guess maybe we'd call them out, it
happens all the time. I think the other thing is
it's about like what you grow up around. Like a
lot of actors kids go the opposite way and they're like,
I grew up around this, I don't want to do is.
But I think when you're surrounded by that, like you
just kind of start to learn the craft. I don't
think it's just you're thrown into it. Like it comes
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with a lot of its own scrutiny. Like there's probably
a lot of people that are like, I don't want
the public eye. I'm out. Yeah, Like you have to
willingly choose that, I think. And also because your dad
is so famous or your mom is so famous, it
doesn't automatically me and you're going to have a successful career.
It opens up a lot of doors, yes, but there
are other kids of famous actors who have done one
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movie and hasn't really taken off in an acting career.
So you also have to have the ability. Yeah, there
has to be talent. Yeah, you have still have to
have talent, You have to be likable, and you're also
always just battling people comparing you to your parents. So
I almost feel like if you're gonna do it and
you have to almost completely separate yourself, some people will
go by a different last name, or do something that's
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no way associated with their parents. You went. The other
route is in a movie with his dad, which I
think is pretty cool, Like I would take up that
opportunity to do something like that, so I can't hate
on him. I thought he was good in it. What
would you rate a man called auto four point seven
five out of five luchadores almost perfect? It was so good.
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I it just it made me feel I know I
keep saying that, but it warmed my heart. It felt
like a hug. It felt like I described it like
those chicken soup for the soul books that had all
the like heartwarming stories. That's what it felt like. It
felt like I just read an entire chicken soup for
the whole book. I am not one that is always
searching out, or even at all searching out just to
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feel good movie. That's your least favorite. It is my
least like Christmas movies and feel good movies, or the
movies that I don't really like. If somebody just has
a movie is fun to watch, and that's my two
favorite categories, probably not as into it. So I would
give this one four out of five, at which I
think is when she gave him in the in the
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in the movie, and I just think that is the
max level I can give for a movie like this.
Normally I look for things to challenge me a little bit,
more movies that I like question after I watch him
and alter my chemical state a little bit. Here it
gave you a challenge. It made you feel emotional, that
is true, and that is why I gave it a
four out of five. So it did bring out emotions
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in me. It made me further one to see Tom
Hanks do more movies like this in his sixties, Like
I hope he doesn't do anymore like action adventure movies
or anything where like Tom Hanks off the I'm Out
of the Sea era of Tom Hanks. I just want
to see him do more movies like this because he
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does it so well. So we both highly recommend a
man called Auto. It's time head down to movie. Trailer
Park is a little bit different this week because it's
not an individual movie we are looking at. It is
an entire streaming service and Netflix has been doing the recently.
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At the beginning of the year, they put out this
hype trailer to really kind of flex their muscle at
all the movies coming to Netflix this year, and it
works on me. I get excited when I see this
trailer come out and Netflix is releasing forty nine new
movies in three And I remember when they made this
declaration pretty recently. I think it was in the last
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couple of years that they would be releasing a brand
new movie every single week, and I thought that is
so ambitious, and as a movie fan, that really excited me.
You mean, there's always something new I can look forward
to on Netflix. And in that first year when they
did that, I was like, Okay, I kind of see
what they're doing here. Some of these aren't really worth it,
but I couldn't respect the ambition. I can respect making
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that statement. So before I get into more what I
think about this Netflix trailer, here's just a small little
bit of it and them showcasing some of their movies.
This one in particular is Murder Mystery to an Extraction
to procedure. There you go, thank you. That's nice to hear. Okay, okay,
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and whatever I need to be to keep her safe
and you feel coming out. So let's talk about where
Netflix shines first in this trailer. I think what they
are trying to show the world is we can get
a list actors. That is what we do at Netflix.
So all the actors they showcase in this trailer, you
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got Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Chris Hemsworth, Gal Gad Nicole Kidman.
The list goes on and on. Chris Evans. You're just
throwing out a list actors in this trailer, and you think, man,
Netflix really just isn't a streaming service anymore. They are
a force to be reckoned with. And they are showing
this now even more so in three with getting sequels
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to their biggest movies with their biggest stars. So I
think that is where Netflix shines. And criticism that the
movie industry gets in general is that everything is a remake,
everything is a superhero movie. But Netflix has taken on
a lot of new intellectual properties, a lot of new franchises.
Murder Mystery too, that's a Netflix original that was born
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on Netflix. So is Extraction too. So they are not
just getting these big A list actors to do reboots
to their movies. They are making new titles. I would
argue when it comes to the quality of movie, it's
a little bit hit or miss, even though you get
a big actor, doesn't mean it's going to be a
great movie. Sometimes these movies are pretty forgettable for me.
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When I go and know that I'm going to watch
a really interesting movie on a streaming service that's an original,
I tend to go to Hulu. They feel a little
bit more independent, but I think they have some more
novel movies over there aside from what Netflix is doing.
Where else they shine is action. I think action movies
are getting harder and harder to sell to an audience,
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especially when you're not working with the well known franchise.
But Netflix takes those risks and they are willing to
spend the money you need to make a great action movie,
all the big explosions with that a list actor. Netflix
has done it. The only problem I have is I
don't really get that same level of excitement watching an
action movie on Netflix. I kind of need that rumble
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of the big screen. So even movies I did enjoy
from them, like Gray Man, I thought that was a
great action movie, but I just felt like I missed
that in theater experience. So they have them there for you,
it's just not the same experience, at least to me.
Where else they shine rom comms. I think they own
rom comms like this is where I tend to go.
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If I'm going to watch a rom com, I want
to watch it at home. Did I enjoy Ticket to
Paradise last year in theaters? Yeah, but you also had
Julia Roberts and George Coney in that movie. They are
undeniably charming. They can bring out people to a theater,
but when it comes to just a new, smaller, independent
rom com, I'm not really going to the movie theater
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to see that. Maybe that's some bias for me, but
I wouldn't mind watching it at home. They've already released
a couple of trailers for their rom coms this year,
the one with Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher. I'm gonna
be checking that one out on Netflix, but I probably
wouldn't go to the theater to watch that one. So
I think that is where Netflix shines. They also shine
with Adam Sandler. For some reason, they paid him millions
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and millions of dollars to put out movies exclusively on Netflix,
and they claim that the most people watch Adam sandler
movies above any other of their movies. I love Adam Sandler.
I haven't particularly loved any of his Netflix original movies,
but I'm not hating him on getting that bag. Now.
Where they need some improvement, I would say sci fi.
They really haven't had a sci fi hit on Netflix.
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They did have the Adam Project last year with Ryan Reynolds,
which they've also done a lot of movies with Ryan Reynolds. Again,
those haven't particularly been my favorite yet. I just really
feel like they haven't really invested in a great sci
fi story yet. Nothing has won me over to this point.
And they also have been stepped into the superhero space,
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probably for the reason that they don't have any rights
to any Marvel or d C characters, so they would
have to go the route of creating their own superheroes,
which they have that more in their series. Of course,
they used to have all of the Marvel Defender characters
like Daredevil and Jessica Jones, but now those are over
on Disney. Plus they do kind of have it on
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the series side with the Umbrella Academy, but when it
comes to having their own big superhero movies that come
out in the summer, they don't really have that. I
do find it interesting though, that Netflix does put out
summer blockbusters. They don't have to. There's not really a
reason for them to put them out in the summer.
Theaters do that because it makes sense when people are
off work and they're going through the movies more. You
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put out the biggest movies there. But a lot of
these movies that are those big summer action type movies
also come out in the summer on Netflix. Interesting move there.
Maybe they're really trying to compete with just traditional cinema
and they all so don't really have a whole lot
of animated movies, at least when it comes to their
original movies. My favorite one to this point has been
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The Mitchell's Versus the Machines, and that's actually really good,
but the only good one I felt they've ever had.
And maybe they're trying to solve that a little bit,
because they do have a movie coming out on November
twenty two called Leo. It's animated and you have Adam
Sandler as a voice of the main character, so there
they go back to the Adam Sandler train. Other movies
they have coming out this year, they have one with
John Boyega and Jamie Fox called They Cloned Tyrone coming
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out on July twenty one. You have that Gal Gadot
movie Hart of Stone coming out on August eleven, a
new Kevin Hart movie coming out called Lift on August
twenty five. Billy Bobby Brown is in a fantasy epic
called Damsel that comes out on October. Emily Blunt and
Chris Heavens are in a crime drama called Pain Hustlers
coming out on October. Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron are
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in the romance called A Family Affair coming out on November.
And they also have a psith I fantasy epic directed
by Zack Snyder, who did a lot of the d
C stuff. It's called Rebel Moon, coming out on December.
So maybe that could be their big sci fi movie
that I've been wanting. And Netflix is also pretty good
at having one Oscar contender every year. I think that
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is an attempt to legitimize themselves and show people that
you don't have to put movies out the traditional way
to also bring home some oscars. So it looks like
a pretty good slate for three. To get the full
field for this, I would encourage you to check out
this trailer on YouTube that was this leaks edition of
movie bar and that's gonna do it for another episode
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here of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta
give my listeners shout out, which I do every single week,
and this week it is coming from my Instagram comments.
I got a comment from Actually on my review of
The Whale, who said, thank you for sharing your story, Mike,
Shame and hiding leads to much more of the same.
You sharing your story is guaranteed to make someone feel
less alone and ashamed. So thank you, Actually, and thank
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you to everybody who shared some really nice comments and
messages on my review of The Whale, which if you
miss that, it is one of my favorite dramas released
in the last five years, starring Brendan Fraser, and I
know at this point I probably overhyped the movie. I
just love it so much, so if you haven't checked
it out yet, I highly recommend The Whale still and
if you miss that review or any other movie review,
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you can always check them out. Individual movie reviews are
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Destro or find the link in the episode notes. Thanks
for listening. I hope you have a great risk of
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movies later
Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mix Movie Podcast. I
am your host movie Mike. Today I want to share
with you what I think are the top ten Tom
Hanks characters of all time. And that's because in the
movie review we'll talk about his new movie. My wife
Kelsey would join me to talk about a man called Auto.
And in the trailer Park we'll talk about Netflix flex
in that muscle showing all their movies coming out in
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and I'll break down where they shine and where they
need improvement. Thank you for being subscribed and listening to
the podcast. Shout out to the Monday Morning movie crew. Hey,
now let's talk movies. In a world where everyone and
their mother has a podcast, one man stands to infiltrate
the ears of listeners like never before in a movie podcast.
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A man with so much movie knowledge, he's basically like
a walking on MTV with classes from the Nashville Podcast
Networks Movie Movie Podcacast. Tom Hanks has been in at
least eighty movies, and out of those eight movies, he
rarely plays a character twice. So he has so many
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memorable roles, some more memorable than others. So I want
to break down what I think are his top ten
characters that he's ever done of all time. Now that
doesn't mean that all of these characters make up his
best movies of all time. I just think when you
look at these individual performances, what these characters have meant
to cinema, What these characters have meant to his career overall,
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these are the ones that stand out to me most
for one reason or another. So let's get right into
this list. At number ten, I'm going with Colonel Tom
Parker from Elvis, which came out last year. And this
is Tom Hanks unlike any way we've seen him before
in a couple of ways. One is because he was
playing a villain. Out of all those eighty roles that
he's been in, he very rarely plays a villain. I
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think maybe a total of five times he has been
the bad guy in a movie. But as much as
I love Tom Hanks in his sixties, even more so
than that, I love Tom Hanks as a villain, I
guess because he just always has this America's dad had
good guy all around, just universally love, not even just
in America, but in the entire world. So seeing a
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person like that play somebody so vile like Colonel Tom
Parker was enjoyable for me, and he's also unrecognizable with
the visual effects, the makeup, and the thing I love
the most is the way he talks as Colonel Tom Parker,
which I didn't know much about the guy aside from
the fact that he would sell not only Elvis pins,
but I hate Elvis pins. That was like the biggest
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fun fact I knew about Colonel Tom Parker. But after
seeing this movie, I realized how much he held back
Elvis in being a global superstar and how he contributed
to the fall and death of Elvis. And I also
just love how important his narration was to the feeling
of this movie kind of felt like a fairy tale.
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So that was another contributing factor that I put him
at number ten. I am the legendary Colonel Tom Parker,
so it's that creepy that he talks that I love,
so at number ten. Colonel Parker from Elvis at Number
nine is a movie he has a smaller role in,
but there are no small parts. There are only small
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actors and the character and I'm talking about is Mr
White in That Thing You Do. That Thing You Do
is about a fictional band that has this huge hit
called Well that Thing You Do, and Mr White is
the person who signs them to a record deal and
becomes their manager. And I guess you could kind of
debate whether or not he is a good guy or
a bad guy in this movie. He's not entirely likable,
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but he is playing somebody that is taking all those
characteristics of the music industry and how ruthless it is,
and how even though he appears to have the best
interest of this band in mind as they are rising
to start him, really he's only looking out for himself
so much like he was in Elvis. That's a lot
of what Mr White is in That Thing You Do.
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And this is my favorite scene at the end of
the movie, when he tells Shades, the drummer of the
on'e Eions a k a. The wonder that you guys
are finished. It's a very common tale. Well maybe for you,
but I was in a band and we still have
a hit record. Yeah you do one hit Wonders. It's
a very common tale. My first time in a real
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recording studio, you want to hang around for a while,
okay by me, but you're out of the hotel. This afternoon,
you can't help that. I love a ruthless Tom Hanks.
So at number nine, Mr White from That Thing to Do.
At number eight from the movie Big, his character Josh,
and it all comes down to one scene for me
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and Big, the one that completely embodies the entire message
of this movie, the entire feeling of this movie, and
that reminds me that Tom Hanks is the only one
that could pull off an adult playing a kid. And
it is the famous piano scene where he stumbles onto
this big keyboard on the ground and just starts playing it,
and one of the most memorable scenes from the eighties
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where someone argue Tom Hanks was at his best. So
I love that scene. I love Tom Hanks in this
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entire movie. At number eight is Josh from Big. At
number seven, I would think this is one of the
most demanding roles that Tom Hanks has taken on, and
it is Chuck from cast Away. And as we move
up on this list, I wanted to pick roles that
I believe that only he could pull off, and cast
Away is a movie where it's for the most part,
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just him on screen the entire time, So you have
to be really captivating, you have to be really charming
in a variety of ways, and you just have to
be interesting to watch, and that is exactly what Tom
Hanks does and cast Away, and there is a scene
in this movie that still makes me cringe a little bit,
and it's where he performs the tooth extraction. I remember
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watching this movie for the first time and having such
a hard time getting through this scene, and it still
kind of makes me cringe a little bit. And I
am going to play just a small clip of it,
just because I wanted to share that example of how
believable Tom Hanks made all of the little scenes in
this movie and made them so memorable. And this movie
heavily relied on moments like this. And in this movie,
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Chuck is the only person who could have a meaningful
relationship with a volleyball and make it so memorable. And
the character turned a white volleyball with a blood stain
on it into one of the most iconic props of
all times. So at number seven is Chuck from Castaway.
At number six, I'm going with Fred Rogers from a
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Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Tom Hanks as the beloved Mr. Rogers,
and a lot of the was anticipation for me because
I had already seen Won't You Be My Neighbor, which
I actually believe is a better movie as a documentary
than it is a feature film. So this is a
case where I actually like the documentary better than I
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liked the movie. But I love Tom Hanks as Mr Rogers,
and I think when that was first announced, I thought,
when an excellent casting. So a lot of this was
anticipation for me of what this movie could have been.
And I feel like him playing that character is more
iconic than the movie itself because he really brought Fred
Rogers to life. But what a beautiful day in the
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neighborhood the movie was about was more so his relationship
with this writer and this writer's story of doing a
feature on Mr Rogers. And it really wasn't a full
on biopic like I was expecting. So we got that
in the documentary, didn't really get that in the movie.
I actually wanted more Mr Rogers in the Mr Rogers
movie than we got. But all of the scenes with
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Tom Hanks on screen as Mr Rogers, I thought outward magic,
especially seeing them recreate the intro to his show, It's
a Beautiful Day in the beautiful day. Could you mind?
It's a neighbor lead day in this beauty the neighbor
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League day for it? Who knew Tom Hanks could sing? So?
At number six is Tom Hanks as Mr Rogers. At
number five is the most recent addition to this list,
and it is Auto from A Man Called Auto. I
don't want to say a whole lot about this now
because we will get more into it in the movie review.
And maybe it's a little bit of recency bias that
I just watched this movie and loved it so much,
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and it also showed me that he keeps getting and
becoming a better and better actor. It is something you
can continue to get better at, no matter how many
oscars you have, no matter the billions of dollars you've
made at the box office. I think every single role
can make an actor that much better, to the point
that Tom Hanks could probably even look back at movies
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he did in the eighties and the nineties and be like,
oh man, I'm such a better actor now than I
ever was then. And I think A Man called Auto
is an example of that. The way he can bring
characters to life, that is what makes his role so
memorable and I think he really did that in A
Man called Auto, So I put that one at number five.
At number four is a character I felt that was
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most unlike anything he had ever done, and it is
Victor in the Terminal. This is when I feel that
not a lot of people put on their favorite Tom
Hanks movies. It is based on a true story, an
actual guy who lived in an airport for years and
I'm talking years and years and years after being exiled
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from his country. Such a unique story and such a
unique approach that Tom Hanks had to playing this real
life person. So many great moments throughout this entire film,
but the scene that still gets me is at the
very beginning of the movie, whenever r is in the
airport and he first realizes what is happening with this country,
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when it first kind of sets in with them that
oh this is bad in my life is about to change.
And this is Victor in that moment. I'm so people downstairs,
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if that doesn't get you a little bit, well maybe
you don't have a heart like I do. But still
a great movie. So I put Victor from the Terminal
at number four. Now we're getting into the top three.
I think when I sit down to watch the Tom
Hanks movie. I want something that's gonna make me laugh.
I love comedic Tom Hanks. So at number three, I
went with Jimmy Dougan from a League of their Own,
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who was one of the most lovable jerks ever portrayed
on the big screen. He is the manager of the
team in the League of their Own who is a
watched up baseball player, and he doesn't take they are
doing seriously at all. He just gets drunk and falls
asleep and the dugout and goes from being that type
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of person to being somebody who's really invested not only
in the game they are playing, but also invested in
their lives. So I think seeing that turn in Jimmy
Dougan is what turns them into that lovable jerk. But
for me, it's all the funny moments that Jimmy Dugan has,
whether it's yelling at the umpire or my favorite moment
is when he finally nails that kid in the face
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with a baseball glove. We're gonna win. Yeah, it is
a classic Tom Hanks laugh that just makes you laugh.
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So at number three, Jimmy Dugan from a League of
their Own at number two. Speaking of hilarious laughs, I
have to go with the iconic Woody from Toy Story,
and I feel like some people think that actors take
on roles in animated movies because it's easy money. All
you have to do is sit in a booth and
read some lines and you get that bag. But I
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don't think that has ever been the situation with Tom
Hanks in Toy Story. I feel like him and Tim
Allen both had such a passion for doing these movies,
and they were on board in Toy Story in the
very early stages they started making this movie in the
early nineties of them just reading lines, and this movie
went through a lot of different changes and didn't really
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become the Toy Story we know now until they developed
this computer animation technology, Toy Story becoming the first computer
animated movie. And it's not just that technology in the animation.
It's all about the memorable voice acting in a Toy
Story and Tom Hanks really bringing the character of Woody
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to life. And there is so much inflection and Tom
Hanks voice as Woody that I find it more memorable
than any other character I've listed so far. And one
of my favorite examples of This is when Woody and
Buzz are getting in the argument on their way to
Pizza Planet. And here's that moment. You are toy. You
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weren't the real Buzz like you're You're you're an accent figure.
You are a child plaything. And in my head, I
can just picture Tom Hanks looking like a complete madman
delivering those lines. So don't tell me it's just an
actor getting in a booth reading some words on a page.
That is acting. Before I get to number one, which
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you've probably guessed at this point, but there are some
honorable mentions. Captain Miller from Saving Private Ryan is actually
one of my favorite Tom Hanks movies, but not my
favorite character of his, so that didn't make the list.
Ray Peterson from The Bourbs, which is one that a
lot of you sent in when I posted this question
on social media. This one, eily, would have made my
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top fifteen. A lot of you also said Paul in
The Green Mile, which I think the movie itself and
the message in that movie far exceeds Tom Hanks's performance.
The one I would really give it to in The
Green Mile is Michael Clark Duncan. He makes that movie.
And then a lot of you also said his character
in Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Male. I'm not
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that into romcom Tom Hanks. So those didn't quite make
my list, but at number one, it is the most
iconic character he has ever played, easily the most iconic
character from the nineties, and in all of film it
is the one, the only Forest Gump. It's funny that,
looking back on this, you think no one else could
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have played Forrest Gump, even though John Travolta was actually
the studio's first choice for the part. I couldn't imagine
this movie with John Travolta, and it was Tom Hanks's
ability to bring this larger than life character to the
big screen and make us all fall in love with him.
At times, I almost feel like it transcends Tom Hanks
as a person. It's as if he did such a
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good job playing Forrest Gump that I believe just somewhere
in America Forrest Gump exists. He's not just the character
in the movie. He's actually like a real life person
out there. So that is quite the accomplishment. I mean,
what scene could you pick from Forrest Gump if you
had to pick just one. There's so many moments. There's
so many lines, so many things that you could pull
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from this movie. But my favorite scene out of the
entire movie has to be the running scene. I love
the story how this entire scene came together. The filmmakers
had to go behind the back of the studio to
get this entire thing shot because they actually do go
to all of those locations in the United States, and
you think that would be so expensive to film to
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get an entire crew there. What they really did was
just take a couple of people with the camera at
different times throughout the year and got all of these shots.
So the links they had to go just to get
this montage and then Tom Hanks narration bringing it all together.
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go
for a little run. So I ran to the end
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of the road and when I got there, maybe I'd
run through the end of turn today partner brings from
when I got there, I thought, maybe I just run
across Greenbow County. So that is it. My top ten
Tom Hanks characters of all time. If you have one
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you want to add to the list. You can always
get into conversation on my Twitter at Mike Destro on
my Facebook page, Facebook dot com slash Mike Destro and
those links are always in the episode notes and coming up,
my wife Kelsey would join me for our movie review
of a man called Auto. We'll keep it spoiler free.
We'll do that next. I'm gonna get into a spoiler
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free movie review. Now I'm joined by my wife Kelsey.
How are you great? You're ready to talk about a
man called Auto? Love to this movie? So this movie
is about Tom hank character. He's this grumpy old guy
who just lost his wife and now he just goes
around kind of being rude to everybody. Is that how
you would describe his character. He's a little bit of
like a curmudgeon and he lives in this small little community.
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And I wasn't expecting it to go from light to
dark as the movie did. It did, but it didn't
go like it was dark, but it's hard to describe,
like the darkness never really felt as dark because it
was just like interwoven and then it would be over
and like interrupted. The weird part of this movie is
it goes from these very dark scenes of this guy
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who is dealing with these very dark thoughts. He's dealing
with this. Basically, the reason he is so grumpy is
because he's depressed and grieving the loss of his wife,
and it goes from depicting that, which I think they
do actually a really great job of showing what it
feels like to be in that situation, and somebody who
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has a dealt with depression like I have, like that
that's a great depiction of it, of feeling like you're
in a really dark place, but then sometimes when you're
with other people, you're able to snap out of it.
And when they showed that, I was like, Wow, I
haven't really seen that in a movie of this caliber before,
and I wasn't really expecting, especially from Tom Hanks. I
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never questioned his ability as an actor, but I think
just him doing a movie like that kind of spoke
to me in a way. Yeah, and I felt like
it really depicted like the raw feelings of grief. And
this isn't a spoiler, but one of the lines that
he says was his wife was his whole life, and
he's like, there's no life after her, and I just
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broke my heart. So he's dealing with that at the
beginning of the movie, and then this family moves in
across the street. The mom is Marisol, and they're a
Mexican American family, And that's kind of where he changes
his perspective on life. He has now these people living
across the street, and he's trying to help them out
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also well do aling with all these things that he's
going through. So it's the back and forth. And what
I really liked about his character was all the little
things he still did even though he was so grumpy,
making his rounds, which is what he does every day,
even though he is not really loving life right now,
every day he still does the same thing. He shovels
(19:19):
his walk. He goes all around, he picks up all
the things that have been put in the wrong spots
and recycling and puts them in the correct container. It
basically goes around and is a jerk to everybody. Yeah,
and it's unlike I kind of like Tom Hanks in
his sixties more than I liked him in any other
decade of his life. Tom. It really I don't think
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he's taken the best movies in his sixties, but the
roles he has really nailed I really enjoy I love
me sixty year old Tom Hanks. But this was one
of his best movies. It really was. In the last
ten years, I've been pretty hit or miss when it
comes to enjoying Tom Hanks movies, but this one, the
character alone, which I talked about in the segment before
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this all my favorite Tom Hank characters quickly made it
into my top five, but maybe even this movie made
it into my top ten Tom Hanks movies of all time.
Which it is still a feel good movie, but it's
not really a kids movie at all. No, there's some dark,
dark parts. So what else did you enjoy about this?
I thought all the neighbors were just like such a
(20:22):
fun like cast of characters. They were just like quirky
and I just I loved I loved Tom made me
feel like all of the emotions like I I've sat
on here before that I am not a crier during movies,
and I have cried in two movies, like in the
past month during the Whale and then this, and I'm like, man,
these got me, like they really got me. I don't
think I ended up crying, but it really made me
(20:44):
feel I think you said the last movie that did
this for you was probably Wonder. That movie got me. Yeah,
it made me feel the range of emotions the exact
same range of emotions that Wonder did. The other part
I was thinking about this movie is you know with
the family who moves across town that you know their Mexican.
I always have a little bit of trouble enjoying how
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a director would perceive a Mexican American family just because
I am. I always feel like it's a little bit
like overheightened on all, like the inflections in the language,
the references to food. It always feels like almost like
a not stereotype of what I'm used to, or just
the way kind of like a caricature. But I felt
like this movie required that since it is based on
(21:28):
a book. I feel like when you make a movie
based on a book, all those characters are kind of
fleshed out that way because that's what you kind of
have to do with the book. You really have to
amplify all their qualities. So when it comes to them,
you know, saying words in Spanish, I feel like that
has to exist in the book version, and then they
took a lot from that to make this movie. So
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I was okay with it because even when it came
to some of the other neighbors like the guy who
exercises at the same time every day, the way he
walks and the way he talks like that was also
a heightened version of that kind of neighbor. So I
felt like all those things fit together where they were
all supposed to be really big, larger than life characters
in order to get this story across. So I was
(22:09):
good with it there. I found those moments really kind
of endearing, and I felt like it was pretty authentic
when it even came to like the foods that they
talked about, so I actually really like that part. I
haven't read the book yet, but I don't know if
the family in the book is Mexican American because the
book is set in Sweden. The author or it's called
(22:31):
a man called Ov, probably pronouncing that wrong. Should ask
my sweetest friend Nick, but I'm I'm on the wait
list of the library to read it. Normally I do
book first in the movie, but went off script here.
I guess I didn't realize how much I needed this
movie until we watched it. And I feel like this
movie will go pretty overlooked this year because it came
(22:52):
out in January, and even though you have Tom Hanks,
a list actor, big name. I feel like this is
one that's good is slipped through the cracks for a
lot of people. But everybody I've seen who has gone
to see it has loved it. It's just weird when
such a great movie like this comes out so early
in the year that you almost wanted to get more attended.
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And I know Tom Hanks is fine, He's not struggling
to make money, but I just feel like a movie
like this deserves to be It's not even about the
success of the movie. It's just like, you need to
go see this movie. It is so good and there
are very few movies that come out that tell a
story and depict certain things, and it would just be
(23:34):
beneficial for more people to see to understand this that.
That is the reason I feel like more people should
go check this movie out. So if you're on the
fence about it now, we both highly recommend it. If
you just need something to make you laugh, need something
that will make you cry a little bit, and need
just a really unusual character that you will be rooting
(23:56):
for and really enjoying, Like even though he is a jerk,
he is so lovable and endearing and it just comes
off as being just funny. All the things he does
kind of reminded me of my grandpa of people a
little bit. Really, this is kind of like, while watching this,
this is what I realized that I want to be
when I'm older. Grumpy grumpy, not even not so much
(24:18):
the grumpy part, but just the part that has like
these routines, Like once we're retired, we can do whatever
we want. I feel like I will fall into a
routine like Auto diad of doing the same thing all
the time. We're already such routine people. I don't see
that change. I know, I just feel like myself getting
more and more into it. And it also brought up
the question that we talked about if one like when
one of us goes before the other. No, we're going
(24:40):
to talk about this. It makes me sad if I
put myself in the same situation as Auto. I've already
told you that I'm going to be the guy who
goes to the waffle house with the picture of you.
That is going to be when I picked the picture. Now, like,
can we just have like a set photo that I approve? Yeah,
that's always my fear of dying the photo. You guys
are gonna using me in my funeral. Pick a good one.
(25:00):
Please some wedding photos. But that is what I thought about.
Two other takeaways from this movie is you have Truman
Hanks making his acting debut Love Me a Neppo Baby,
so he plays the younger version of Tom Hanks character.
He plays young Otto, and I actually thought he was
pretty good in it. It worked. It's weird having a
very famous dad and now him able to cast his
(25:24):
kid in a movie to play the younger version of himself.
And it's also weird that his son is twenty seven,
which Tom Hanks was twenty four when he made his
acting debut. But it's just weird to see like a
younger version of him and then picture of where Tom
Hanks was at his career in that time. But it's
the same with Colin Hanks, I feel like because he
looks so much like Tom too. Yeah, Colin Hanks looks
(25:45):
exactly like him. Colin is like a carbon copy. And
I feel like if you didn't know going into it
that it was his son, you could probably think of
it after like, oh, it wasn't like I forgot yeah,
because they don't look Yes, there's a lot similarities and
once you. Yeah, it could just be Oh, they found
a guy who looks exactly close to Tom Banks, but
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you wouldn't think he's a son. But I thought he
did a pretty good job. I don't know if he
like really wants to get into acting, because it is
his debut role. He's in his twenties, almost in his thirties.
I don't know if he like wants to do this.
It's just weird to have your dad be one of
the most famous actors of all time and then you
go and do acting and everybody kind of judges you
compared to him. And I feel like a lot of
(26:26):
people call out Neppo babies online because oh, you only
get to do that because of who your dad is.
And I feel like we say that because it's entertainment
and what they're doing is something that's already difficult to
get into. But if I started truck driving, nobody would
say that to me, like, oh, you're only being a
truck driver because you're dead. Is a truck driver about
like anyone whose dad is like a CEO of something,
(26:47):
And although I guess maybe we'd call them out, it
happens all the time. I think the other thing is
it's about like what you grow up around. Like a
lot of actors kids go the opposite way and they're like,
I grew up around this, I don't want to do is.
But I think when you're surrounded by that, like you
just kind of start to learn the craft. I don't
think it's just you're thrown into it. Like it comes
(27:09):
with a lot of its own scrutiny. Like there's probably
a lot of people that are like, I don't want
the public eye. I'm out. Yeah, Like you have to
willingly choose that, I think. And also because your dad
is so famous or your mom is so famous, it
doesn't automatically me and you're going to have a successful career.
It opens up a lot of doors, yes, but there
are other kids of famous actors who have done one
(27:29):
movie and hasn't really taken off in an acting career.
So you also have to have the ability. Yeah, there
has to be talent. Yeah, you have still have to
have talent, You have to be likable, and you're also
always just battling people comparing you to your parents. So
I almost feel like if you're gonna do it and
you have to almost completely separate yourself, some people will
go by a different last name, or do something that's
(27:52):
no way associated with their parents. You went. The other
route is in a movie with his dad, which I
think is pretty cool, Like I would take up that
opportunity to do something like that, so I can't hate
on him. I thought he was good in it. What
would you rate a man called auto four point seven
five out of five luchadores almost perfect? It was so good.
(28:13):
I it just it made me feel I know I
keep saying that, but it warmed my heart. It felt
like a hug. It felt like I described it like
those chicken soup for the soul books that had all
the like heartwarming stories. That's what it felt like. It
felt like I just read an entire chicken soup for
the whole book. I am not one that is always
searching out, or even at all searching out just to
(28:34):
feel good movie. That's your least favorite. It is my
least like Christmas movies and feel good movies, or the
movies that I don't really like. If somebody just has
a movie is fun to watch, and that's my two
favorite categories, probably not as into it. So I would
give this one four out of five, at which I
think is when she gave him in the in the
(28:55):
in the movie, and I just think that is the
max level I can give for a movie like this.
Normally I look for things to challenge me a little bit,
more movies that I like question after I watch him
and alter my chemical state a little bit. Here it
gave you a challenge. It made you feel emotional, that
is true, and that is why I gave it a
four out of five. So it did bring out emotions
(29:17):
in me. It made me further one to see Tom
Hanks do more movies like this in his sixties, Like
I hope he doesn't do anymore like action adventure movies
or anything where like Tom Hanks off the I'm Out
of the Sea era of Tom Hanks. I just want
to see him do more movies like this because he
(29:38):
does it so well. So we both highly recommend a
man called Auto. It's time head down to movie. Trailer
Park is a little bit different this week because it's
not an individual movie we are looking at. It is
an entire streaming service and Netflix has been doing the recently.
(30:01):
At the beginning of the year, they put out this
hype trailer to really kind of flex their muscle at
all the movies coming to Netflix this year, and it
works on me. I get excited when I see this
trailer come out and Netflix is releasing forty nine new
movies in three And I remember when they made this
declaration pretty recently. I think it was in the last
(30:22):
couple of years that they would be releasing a brand
new movie every single week, and I thought that is
so ambitious, and as a movie fan, that really excited me.
You mean, there's always something new I can look forward
to on Netflix. And in that first year when they
did that, I was like, Okay, I kind of see
what they're doing here. Some of these aren't really worth it,
but I couldn't respect the ambition. I can respect making
(30:45):
that statement. So before I get into more what I
think about this Netflix trailer, here's just a small little
bit of it and them showcasing some of their movies.
This one in particular is Murder Mystery to an Extraction
to procedure. There you go, thank you. That's nice to hear. Okay, okay,
(31:07):
and whatever I need to be to keep her safe
and you feel coming out. So let's talk about where
Netflix shines first in this trailer. I think what they
are trying to show the world is we can get
a list actors. That is what we do at Netflix.
So all the actors they showcase in this trailer, you
(31:28):
got Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Chris Hemsworth, Gal Gad Nicole Kidman.
The list goes on and on. Chris Evans. You're just
throwing out a list actors in this trailer, and you think, man,
Netflix really just isn't a streaming service anymore. They are
a force to be reckoned with. And they are showing
this now even more so in three with getting sequels
(31:51):
to their biggest movies with their biggest stars. So I
think that is where Netflix shines. And criticism that the
movie industry gets in general is that everything is a remake,
everything is a superhero movie. But Netflix has taken on
a lot of new intellectual properties, a lot of new franchises.
Murder Mystery too, that's a Netflix original that was born
(32:15):
on Netflix. So is Extraction too. So they are not
just getting these big A list actors to do reboots
to their movies. They are making new titles. I would
argue when it comes to the quality of movie, it's
a little bit hit or miss, even though you get
a big actor, doesn't mean it's going to be a
great movie. Sometimes these movies are pretty forgettable for me.
(32:36):
When I go and know that I'm going to watch
a really interesting movie on a streaming service that's an original,
I tend to go to Hulu. They feel a little
bit more independent, but I think they have some more
novel movies over there aside from what Netflix is doing.
Where else they shine is action. I think action movies
are getting harder and harder to sell to an audience,
(32:59):
especially when you're not working with the well known franchise.
But Netflix takes those risks and they are willing to
spend the money you need to make a great action movie,
all the big explosions with that a list actor. Netflix
has done it. The only problem I have is I
don't really get that same level of excitement watching an
action movie on Netflix. I kind of need that rumble
(33:20):
of the big screen. So even movies I did enjoy
from them, like Gray Man, I thought that was a
great action movie, but I just felt like I missed
that in theater experience. So they have them there for you,
it's just not the same experience, at least to me.
Where else they shine rom comms. I think they own
rom comms like this is where I tend to go.
(33:41):
If I'm going to watch a rom com, I want
to watch it at home. Did I enjoy Ticket to
Paradise last year in theaters? Yeah, but you also had
Julia Roberts and George Coney in that movie. They are
undeniably charming. They can bring out people to a theater,
but when it comes to just a new, smaller, independent
rom com, I'm not really going to the movie theater
(34:01):
to see that. Maybe that's some bias for me, but
I wouldn't mind watching it at home. They've already released
a couple of trailers for their rom coms this year,
the one with Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher. I'm gonna
be checking that one out on Netflix, but I probably
wouldn't go to the theater to watch that one. So
I think that is where Netflix shines. They also shine
with Adam Sandler. For some reason, they paid him millions
(34:23):
and millions of dollars to put out movies exclusively on Netflix,
and they claim that the most people watch Adam sandler
movies above any other of their movies. I love Adam Sandler.
I haven't particularly loved any of his Netflix original movies,
but I'm not hating him on getting that bag. Now.
Where they need some improvement, I would say sci fi.
They really haven't had a sci fi hit on Netflix.
(34:46):
They did have the Adam Project last year with Ryan Reynolds,
which they've also done a lot of movies with Ryan Reynolds. Again,
those haven't particularly been my favorite yet. I just really
feel like they haven't really invested in a great sci
fi story yet. Nothing has won me over to this point.
And they also have been stepped into the superhero space,
(35:06):
probably for the reason that they don't have any rights
to any Marvel or d C characters, so they would
have to go the route of creating their own superheroes,
which they have that more in their series. Of course,
they used to have all of the Marvel Defender characters
like Daredevil and Jessica Jones, but now those are over
on Disney. Plus they do kind of have it on
(35:26):
the series side with the Umbrella Academy, but when it
comes to having their own big superhero movies that come
out in the summer, they don't really have that. I
do find it interesting though, that Netflix does put out
summer blockbusters. They don't have to. There's not really a
reason for them to put them out in the summer.
Theaters do that because it makes sense when people are
off work and they're going through the movies more. You
(35:46):
put out the biggest movies there. But a lot of
these movies that are those big summer action type movies
also come out in the summer on Netflix. Interesting move there.
Maybe they're really trying to compete with just traditional cinema
and they all so don't really have a whole lot
of animated movies, at least when it comes to their
original movies. My favorite one to this point has been
(36:08):
The Mitchell's Versus the Machines, and that's actually really good,
but the only good one I felt they've ever had.
And maybe they're trying to solve that a little bit,
because they do have a movie coming out on November
twenty two called Leo. It's animated and you have Adam
Sandler as a voice of the main character, so there
they go back to the Adam Sandler train. Other movies
they have coming out this year, they have one with
John Boyega and Jamie Fox called They Cloned Tyrone coming
(36:32):
out on July twenty one. You have that Gal Gadot
movie Hart of Stone coming out on August eleven, a
new Kevin Hart movie coming out called Lift on August
twenty five. Billy Bobby Brown is in a fantasy epic
called Damsel that comes out on October. Emily Blunt and
Chris Heavens are in a crime drama called Pain Hustlers
coming out on October. Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron are
(36:54):
in the romance called A Family Affair coming out on November.
And they also have a psith I fantasy epic directed
by Zack Snyder, who did a lot of the d
C stuff. It's called Rebel Moon, coming out on December.
So maybe that could be their big sci fi movie
that I've been wanting. And Netflix is also pretty good
at having one Oscar contender every year. I think that
(37:16):
is an attempt to legitimize themselves and show people that
you don't have to put movies out the traditional way
to also bring home some oscars. So it looks like
a pretty good slate for three. To get the full
field for this, I would encourage you to check out
this trailer on YouTube that was this leaks edition of
movie bar and that's gonna do it for another episode
(37:38):
here of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta
give my listeners shout out, which I do every single week,
and this week it is coming from my Instagram comments.
I got a comment from Actually on my review of
The Whale, who said, thank you for sharing your story, Mike,
Shame and hiding leads to much more of the same.
You sharing your story is guaranteed to make someone feel
less alone and ashamed. So thank you, Actually, and thank
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you to everybody who shared some really nice comments and
messages on my review of The Whale, which if you
miss that, it is one of my favorite dramas released
in the last five years, starring Brendan Fraser, and I
know at this point I probably overhyped the movie. I
just love it so much, so if you haven't checked
it out yet, I highly recommend The Whale still and
if you miss that review or any other movie review,
(38:23):
you can always check them out. Individual movie reviews are
up on my YouTube page YouTube dot com slash Mike
Destro or find the link in the episode notes. Thanks
for listening. I hope you have a great risk of
your weekend. Until next time, go out and watch good
movies later
Host
Mike D
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