November 24, 2025 • 54 mins
Apparently in movie history, there are only 2 actors to have 3 Number 1 films in a year. This sounds crazy! So Movie Mike investigates to find out if that is actually true and breaks down what actors he thinks have had the single best year run in movies from his research. In the Movie Review, Mike talks about Wicked: For Good. Now demonized as the Wicked Witch of the West, Elphaba lives in exile in the Ozian forest, while Glinda resides at the palace in Emerald City, reveling in the perks of fame and popularity. As an angry mob rises against the Wicked Witch, she'll need to reunite with Glinda to transform herself, and all of Oz, for good. Mike shares why he felt it could have been one movie, Arianda Grande and Cynthia Erivo difference in performances, how it compares to the Broadway musical but why he loves what the franchise has done for the movie theater experience. In the Trailer Park, Mike talks about Super Mario Galaxy starring Chris Pratt and Anya Taylor-Joy. He shares why he thinks about the new voice actors joining the cast and where it ranks on his list of most anticipated video game movies and his favorite Super Mario games.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike. Today, I want to break
down what actor had the single best year run at
the box office. In the movie review the highly anticipated
sequel Wicked for Good.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Did it live up to the hype?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
And I'll compare it to my experience going to see
it on Broadway for the first time this summer. And
in the trailer park, I'll be breaking down Super Mario
Galaxy and my list of the top five most anticipated
video game adaptations.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Thank you for being here, thank you for being subscribed.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now
let's talk movies from.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
The Nushville Podcast Network. This is movie Mike's Movie Podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
As apparently in movie history there are only two actors
to have three number one movies in a year.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
That sounded crazy to me. I saw this headline everywhere.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I saw the memes, not only on Facebook, which you
always can't believe it usually lies over there, but I
also saw it on TikTok, I saw it on Reddit.
I saw this everywhere, and I thought that sounds like
a record that could be broken. And I know that
number one movies don't really have as much weight to them.
Right now, there have been a few movies that have
been number one this year and made less than ten
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million dollars, right around that eight million dollar range. So
sometimes when you see movies saying we're the number one
movie in the country, it is not the same that
it was ten years ago. But I thought, with all
these big properties happening around the same time right now,
there had to have been one actor who has broken
that record since nineteen ninety four, and I found a couple.
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I don't know why the Internet is lying to you,
but let's get into it. Going back to nineteen ninety four,
this is the gold standard. Jim Carrey had three number
one movies in this year, which nineteen ninety four is
historically one of the best movies in film of all time.
With movies like The Lion King, Pulp Fiction, Shawshank, Redemption,
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Forrest Gump all coming out in nineteen ninety one four,
it goes down in the history books as being one
of the best. And Jim Carrey was responsible for three
number one movies that year. The Mask, Dumb and Dummer,
and Ace Spentra all came out this year, And I think,
what we're gonna see as we go through all these actors,
is some of the movies are gonna be a little
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bit debatable. In this instance, the Mask, Dumb and Dumber,
and Ace Spentira, I don't think are debatable. That they
are all great movies and are all classics from the nineties.
If Jim Carrey was your favorite actor, I would not
flinch if you told me those are your top three
Jim Carrey movies. I love all three of those movies.
Dumb and Dumber is my favorite comedy of all time.
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The Mask is so wacky and it still holds up
even though it is so inherently nineties with the dance
moves and Cameron Diaz, I still think that is a
classic movie. And Ace Ventura. The fact that all three
of these movies are still so different but all still
so very Jim Carrey is amazing. So that is a
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really hard year to beat. So apparently nobody else was
able to do this until twenty twenty five. Mason Thames,
who that name might not be super familiar to you,
but he had three number one movies this year, although
one is debatable. There is some discrepancies in the numbers
per my research, but Mason Thames start in the How
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to Train Your Dragon live remake, which I thought was
a good movie to me, kind of kicked off the
summer even though it was number one for two weeks.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I almost feel like that movie.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Didn't have as big of an impact on some other
movies as far as seeping into pop culture because I
enjoyed it. I am still a bigger fan of the
animated movies, although I think with the success of the
first one, if they're able to get a bit of
a bigger budget on How To Train Your Dragon two,
because the stories do get a little bit darker as
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they go into two and three, I think maybe I
could enjoy that one more. But I still think the
whimsical dragon fighting and writing nature lends itself more to
the animated versions, especially when it comes to Toothless, who
is still it's just not as cute when it's a
live action and I have a big problem with live
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action right now. I'm not even going to talk about
the Mowana teaser for the live action movie. I am
so just upset about that because the original came out
in twenty sixteen, and now next year in twenty twenty
six we are already getting a remake to that, and
I didn't mean to go on this tangent, but it's
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so frustrating to me, and I know that I am
part of the problem because this year, Leelo It's Ditch
is going to probably be in my top ten movies
of the year. And that is what they did with
that movie. They banked on her nostalgia. They went to
something that they know is going to make money, and
Mowana is the highest stream movie on Disney Plus of
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all time. So that is why Mowana Too ended up
coming out in theaters, even though it was just to
be a Disney Plus series, but they made a billion
dollars off of that. Why would they not go to
their number one movie when The Rock is still able
to play Maui. That's another thing. They just got the
Rock to play Maui. But that does not feel even
like a live action movie to me, and I think
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that is the most frustrating part of it is when
it comes to their live action remakes of snow White
or The Lion King or The Jungle Book, they're not
really live action because they still rely so much on animation.
And that is what I felt watching that Mawana teaser.
It looks exactly shot per shot like Mowana one, and
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it almost looks less than almost a parody of because
you have actual humans instead of animated characters. But that
is why I always am a bigger fan of the
animation than the live action remake.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
So how to train your dragon?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Going back to that, I didn't mean to go into
this Disney tangent, but again, if you don't like something
and you hate remakes and you hate Disney doing this,
the way you get your message across is by not
going to see those movies in theaters and not giving
them your money.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
But I am guilty of it. I still do it.
I did it twice this year. I would to see
that Leelod Stitch movie twice in theaters. So I am
also part of the problem.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I can't support the franchises I want and it not
be an indication to them that people are okay with this.
But again, I'll always be a fan of the animated version. First,
why don't they do it the reverse way? They come
out with live action movies and then make an animated movie.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Just doesn't work that way.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
But anyway, Mason Names was the lead and how to
Train Your Dragon.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
He played Hiccup.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
He was also in The Black Phone two this year
and Regretting You, even though there was a bit of
a discrepancy with the numbers between two of those movies,
because Black Phone two and Regretting You were actually in
theaters at the same time, And even when I saw
the reports of the week of the first week of November,
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everybody said that Regretting You was a number one movie,
and then some people said that the Black Phone two
ended up beating it out. But the numbers I looked
up still say Regretting You that week made eight point
one million and Black Phone two made eight million, so
it's really close. But in the end, Mason Thames wins
because he was in both of those movies and is
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quietly having one of the best years in Hollywood. So
he is the one credited as being the first one
to have three number one movies at the box office
in one year since Jim Carrey did it. And the
only discrepancy I can see sometimes with some of the
ones that I found is they don't distinguish.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Doesn't mean that they.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Have to have a leading role in that movie, because
if you look at Jim Carrey and Mason Thames. They
all had leading roles in all three of those movies.
And if you have a supporting role, is that still
enough to earn you this same recognition? Because what I
found was in twenty twenty one, Zea had three number
one movies. Zendea was in Space Jam a New Legacy,
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and again, you don't have to like these movies for
them to be number one movies, because that was pretty bad.
But she was also in Dune Part one in twenty
twenty one and Spider Man No Way Home. Granted that
was in twenty twenty one, a post COVID year where
the box office still wasn't fully open, but all three
of those movies are attributed to having a number one
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in some capacity, at least to the standards of twenty
twenty one, but I guess not enough to earner a
recognition on this list. She was also in Malcolm and
Marie that year on Netflix, which I believe was also
a number one Netflix movie.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Not the best movie, but again, a number one is
a number one.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I think she also has a chance of achieving this
next year, in twenty twenty six, she is going to
be in Dune Part three, could easily be a number one.
She's going to be in Spider Man Brand New Day.
I would say right now that is going to be
a number one. And she's also going to be in
The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan, which people are already
selling out showings to. That first week of movies for
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the Odyssey could easily be.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
A number one.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
So if she doesn't get recognized for twenty twenty one,
I think twenty twenty six could also be the year
for her. She's also going to be in a movie
called The Drama with Robert Pattinson, which was an a
twenty four romantic comedy.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I don't think that one's screams number.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
One to me, but that could have her in the
running for having one of the best years next year
in twenty twenty six. Somebody else that I found Ben
Stiller in two thousand and four. This is an insane year,
and I do not know how he is not credited
with having multiple number one movies in this year, because
this one is undeniable. He had the leading role in
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all three of these movies that came out in two
thousand and four. In their opening weekends, all went number one.
Along came Polly Dodgeball, a true underdog story, and Meet
the Fockers. But not only that, ben Stiller all put
out in this year Starsky and Hutch, which I remember
seeing that movie in theaters and seeing the duet scene
for the first time. Two thousands were a great time
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for Ben Stiller, so was it a number one movie
at the box office, but a number one movie for
a lot of thirteen year olds like myself at that time.
He also had a cameo in Anchorman The Legend of
Ron Burgundy, the scene wherever all the news stations fight
with each other. I believe he worked for the Spanish
news station. So even though he wasn't a star in
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that movie, just the cameo, he was still a part
of another number one movie. An insane year for Ben
Stiller in two thousand and four, having so much success
at the box office. I don't know why, how I
kind of forget that Ben Steller has all of these
pillars in comedy in the two thousands. Sometimes I always
just think of Will Ferrell when it comes to comedic
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actors dominating around this time, But look at those movies
that is undeniable. I do not know why he is
not in this conversation, so I am here to say
justice for Ben Stiller. So those were the three actors
I found that had three number one movies in a year.
But I also went through and found actors who I
believe have at least two or more movies that are
great that all came out within one year. Which of
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these actors do you think had the best year at
the box office or on streaming? Because you get to
a point where it all kind of blends together, and
a number one movie is a number one movie high
up on my list, if not number one on my list.
Of the people we haven't talked about yet, as Scarlett Johanson.
In twenty nineteen, she was in Avengers Endgame, Jojo Rabbit
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Marriage Story, and also had a post credit scene in
Captain Marvel. With those three movies, Scarlett Johanson tops the
Forbes list of the ten highest paid actors of the year,
making fifty six million dollars, and that was mostly from
her work just as Black Widow in the MCU. And
why she ranks up so high on my list as
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having one of the best years for an actor is
because you have a little bit of everything in those
movies where you have the big cinematic superhero movies, but
then you have a marriage story which is just a
straight ahead drama with fantastic acting, which shows you how
just two people Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver can just
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have these conversations and feel so powerful, and just to
see two people yelling one person crying in a scene
can move you emotionally with just raw acting power. And
it's the same person who's also acting as a black widow.
And then Jojo Rabbit, which is a satirical comedy that
you go through all these stages with her character as well,
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which that movie is about a kid named Jojo who
is a German boy and he finds out that his mom,
who was a single mom, is hiding this Jewish girl
in their attic and it goes from being this whimsical
comedy to having some really tragic turns. And I think
I also just have a great love for the year
of twenty nineteen with all of the fantastic accomplishments of
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that year, and Scarlet Johnson to me, was one of.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Those focal points of that year. And if it wouldn't
have been.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
For twenty twenty, I kind of wonder what her trajectory
would have been like with all those three great movies
that she was doing right there, being on the edge
of closing out her time in the MCU, with Black
Widow being delayed and finally coming out.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
If she did Jurassic World this year just for the
money or that was something that she truly believed in.
But I can't help but wonder how it would have
impacted her career if everything wouldn't have shut down in
twenty twenty and twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two.
Kind of feeling like a wash, But she would be
in my running of actors who have had the best
single year, because since then I don't think it would
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have been until now twenty twenty five that another actor
would have a shot at this title. Pedro Pascal put
out three big movies this year, Materialists, Eddington, and The
Fantastic Four. All three of those movies were not Number one.
Two of those movies I really enjoyed, and one of
them I wish were not on this list.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
But Pedro Pascal this year.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Has really infiltrated the minds of people, so much so
that some people are sick of them. If you went
to the movies this summer, and you stood outside where
all the posters are. You could say, let's see the
new Pedro Pascal movie, and you would not know which
one you were talking about.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Do you want to see.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Materialists, you want to see Eddington? Do you want to
see Fantastic Four? Pick your Pedro Pascal movie that you
want to watch. I think he is at that level
where you're gonna be a little bit sick of him.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I don't think Eddington.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Really set out to be a movie that was going
to shatter box office records, which I think is a
distinction in twenty twenty five that a lot of people
are realizing that. I know the purpose of a movie
is to make money, but I think sometimes it is
just necessary for the art to get out there to
make a statement that not every movie has to achieve
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financial success to be a good movie. I think we're
a little bit obsessed with that. I kind of get
annoyed sometimes when I see a movie like Robert Pattinson
and Jennifer Lawrence's latest movie, Die My Love, which came out.
I didn't entirely love it, but I thought that movie
made a great statement and it was a very important
movie that for some reason I cannot stop thinking about,
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even though I wouldn't really recommend it. But all the
headlines that came out after that movie were saying that
movie stars are dead because Die My Love.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Bombs at the box office.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I just don't think that that movie was set up
to be a number one movie. I don't think that
is the expectation for every single big project. And in
this case, two A list actors were attached to it.
They were really excited about it, they were really passionate
about it. They did a lot of press for that movie.
But I just don't think the subject matter was set
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up to lend itself to the masses. They weren't doing
collabse at Popeyes like five Nights that Freddy's is doing now.
I don't think it was supposed to be a movie
of that caliber. I think some movies like this just
can't have that same kind of success. Maybe if it
came out twenty years ago or in the nineties, you
might have a little bit of a different story here.
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But I think with our attention spans getting shorter and
shorter and not wanting to branch out into watching something
that might make you feel a little bit uncomfortable, or
might be a little bit more of a slow burn.
I don't see that movie as a failure in my eyes.
I just think sometimes it's hard to see a movie
with two people you really like and a concept you
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still not fully enjoy just kind of get ripped to shreds.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
And we only attribute financial.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Success to good movies, which if you look back on
movies that we grew up with in the nineties and
two thousands, some of those movies that we all loved
bombed at the box office. Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factor,
the original from the seventies, bombed at the box office,
but it's still considered a classic. I think it's going
to be harder now for us to even have Colt
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classics anymore, because if a movie like Di My Love
does bad at the box office, people now just see
it as bad, and then when it goes onto a
streaming service, you know, even if you don't remember the
stories of that movie bombing at the box office, a
lot of these streaming services put the rotten Tomato score,
or we just look at it ourselves and think, oh,
that has a bad score, that didn't do very well.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
It's not a good movie. I shouldn't give it a chance.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
That is another reason that I just don't think we
could have cult classics anymore. But Pedro Pascal in twenty
twenty five made an impact. Josh Brolin, also in twenty
twenty five, is having an impact. He was in Weapons,
which was a number one movie this year. He was
in The Running Man, which man just lost out to
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Now You See Me, Now You Don't for being number one.
I think the filmmakers behind that, Edgar Wright, probably saw
that as a bit of a fail. But you can't
deny the power of magic, which we didn't go see
that movie. We saw both of those movies in theaters
last weekend, and we'll get into that next week on
our recap with the Best and Worst of November. But
Josh Brolin had a pretty good shot if Running Man
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would have been number one, because he is also going
to be in the New Knives Out movie coming out
later this year, which we'll have a small opening at
the box office because Netflix does that sometimes, but it
is still going to be a number one Netflix movie.
Since we were just talking about Jennifer Lawrence, I will
include her on this list. I think she was dominant
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in the twenty tens. In twenty twelve, she put out
The Hunger Games Silver Linings Playbook. I could honestly stop
right there and say give her the award. I'm not
even handing out awards in this episode. But then she
was also in the House at the End of the Street,
which I think just happened to come out in twenty
twelve because that doesn't really match all the other movies.
That feels like a movie that was maybe on the
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back burner and they're like, all right, she's hot right now,
everybody wants to see Jennifer Lawrence in a movie.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Let's put this out now.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
That movie did not do as well, but still with
Silver Lightings Playbook and The Hunger Games both, that is
a pretty hot year. And I feel like, to me,
that is when I accepted Jennifer Lawrence as being the
bankable A List star, because after that, in twenty thirteen,
she put out The Devil, you know, Catching Fire, and
American Hustle all in that same year, and then went
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on to have another great twenty fourteen, putting out X Men,
Days of Future Past, Serena, and Mockingjay all came out
that year, So collectively, that three year run is pretty impressive.
If I were to put one of those years on
this list, I would put twenty twelve. Speaking of the
twenty tens, in twenty eleven, Ryan Gosling had a pretty
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good run. He put out Crazy Stupid Love, Drive, which
is one of my favorite movies of all time, not
just favorite Ryan Gosling movies. Depending on the day, that
would make my top ten list of best movies of
all time. He was also in the IDEs of March.
All three of those movies have positive scores. Crazy Stupid
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Love has a seventy nine percent, The IDEs of March
has an eighty three percent, and Drive has a ninety
three percent score. This is where Ryan Gosling really started
to prove himself as being somebody who could achieve a
wide range of characters, from people who are really smooth
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talking to a character and Drive that rarely said any words,
didn't even have a name. He was just a driver.
And not that Ryan Gosling ever went away, but I
feel like he has kind of transformed himself with movies
like Barbie and The Fall Guy. I am curious to
see where he goes next. He does have the Hail
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Mary project coming out next year. I almost feel like
he just wants to do movies that are interesting to him.
He doesn't seem like a guy who cares so much
about box office financial success, which is important to an actor.
But he's not really taking these roles that other actors
of his caliber could take just to earn himself a payday.
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He could easily do a bunch of random action movies
or more rom coms, but I see him being more
deliberate with the roles he is taking now in the
twenty twenties that I'm curious to see where he goes
after the hil Mary project and after his Star Wars
movie that is coming out in twenty twenty seven. A
lot of good stuff from Ryan Gossing still coming out.
If we go way back to the seventies, Jack Nicholson
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in nineteen seventy five had three standout movies, The Passenger,
The Fortune, and one of his best movies of all time,
One flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, And I kind of
thought there would be more actors of his caliber have
runs like this throughout their career. But I think why
this is so rare is because oftentimes actors just have
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one big movie a year. When you look at some
of the big names like Leonardo DiCaprio, even Jennifer Lawrence
now has really shifted to basically doing one big movie
a year and maybe another small cameo or smaller part,
or just a smaller budget movie that they film in
a much smaller window of time. But I was so
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interested in finding out about actors like Robert de Niro
and all these even Tom Cruise or Leonardo DiCaprio, when
you go look at their filmography, a lot of times
it's just one, maybe two other years for some of
these bigger actors that you would be more familiar with.
Nineteen eighty three, Tom Cruise had The Outsiders, risky Business
and all the right moves. In twenty thirteen, Leonardo DiCaprio
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had The Great Gatsby and The Wolf of Wall Street,
two of his biggest movies came out in twenty thirteen.
But for the most part, every other year, especially in
the last ten years, he only does one big movie
a year. Takes all of his time, it takes all
of his energy. In twenty ten he did happen to
put out Shutter Island and Inception, but throughout his entire career.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Those are the years we had two.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Multiple big hits come out in a year. Have other
actors like Will Ferrell in two thousand and three, who
had Old School in ELF that was really at the
start of his career where whenever he got cast for
ELF that was seen as a big risk. He was
just the guy from SNL and just happened to blow
up after that and had an amazing run in the
two thousands. Orlando Bloom also in two thousand and three
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was in The Lord of the Rings, The Return of
the King and Pirates of the Caribbeing The Curse of
the Black Pearl, two of the biggest franchises of the
two thousands. Orlando Bloom probably could have stopped working altogether
after finishing out those two franchises. Nicole Kidman in two
thousand and one was in Mulan Rouge and the Others
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and Birthday Girl in ninety three. I was kind of
surprised Tom Hanks did not have a bigger year than
nineteen ninety three, where he was in Sleepless in Seattle
and Philadelphia. Timothy Chalomagne in twenty seventeen, this is kind
of like what I was describing earlier with Jennifer Lawrence
in twenty twelve, To Me at the Shalome really registered
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in my head. In twenty seventeen, he was in Call
Me by Your Name, Hot Summer Nights, Lady Birds, and Hostiles.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Just with Lady Bird alone, I was.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Like, who is this Timothy shallow May kid? And why
am I so drawn to him every time he is
on screen? And then Call Me by Your Name kind
of changed everything I thought about him and made me
look at Peaches in a much different way after that,
even the Rock is pretty much just in one, maybe
two big movies a year, despite him working all the
time and always promoting a movie. The year where he
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actually had three big hits at one time in a
year was twenty thirteen with Paint and Gain, which I
love that movie him and Anthony Mackie, a very chaotic
action movie and really ridiculous. Also Mark Wahlberg in that
That is kind of one of those underrated movies of
the twenty tens for me that I could just throw
one and kind of watch as a comfort, just because
it's so ridiculous and so dumb, but a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
He was also in Fast and Furious six and g.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Joe Retali, So maybe not the most quality when it
comes to the movies he put out that year, but
definitely mattered in quantity in regard to the theme of
this week's episode. Somebody who also does not get the
credit they deserve is Samuel L.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Jackson.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
In twenty nineteen, dude has been in over one hundred
and fifty one movies, and in twenty nineteen he was
in Captain Marvel, he was in Spider Man Far from Home,
he was in Glass, he was in Shaft, and he
also had a voice over cameo in Star Wars The
Rise of Skywalker. Now I think it's because in all
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those movies he did not have a lead role in.
But Samuel L. Jackson, if he cannot get this recognition,
who else has a chance? He is acting in every
single movie all the time. Somebody else who I believe
has a shot of having the record in twenty twenty
six is Tom Holland kind of like Zendaya. He's also
going to be in The Odyssey, Spider Man, Brand New Day.
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There is speculation he is going to be in Avengers
Dooms Day.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
At the end of the year.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Maybe Brand New Day is going to be more of
a lead in into Doom's Day than we think.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
There's not a whole lot on that.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Now. I can't really speculate too much, but the last
time I was so convinced that a Spider Man was
not going to be in a movie was in No
Way Home and I was like, there's no way Toby
Maguire and Andrew Garfield are going to be in it,
and then they showed up. So now I don't doubt anything,
Especially with him being on the tail end of being
Spider Man, I could see him being a part of it,
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unless they decide to end Brand New Day in a
really tragic way.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I kind of feel like.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
You gotta keep Spider Man around, especially with Robert Downey
Junior now going to be Doctor Doom. Could you imagine
that moment on screen of Peter Parker seeing Iron Man
Tony Stark as Doctor Doom. That would be a scene
for the Ages. Finally, somebody I have to recognize as
I close out this episode, Old Schwarzenegger. Well, we've been
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talking about a lot of his movies recently because of
The Running Man and because of Predator. I did not
realize the run that he went on in the eighties,
because I think I was just kind of past real
action star Arnold Schwarzenegger growing up in the nineties. I
was more aware of his Kindergarten Cop Last Action Hero
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jingle all the way him.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
As mister Freeze.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
That was more my Arnold Schwarzenegger that I grew up with.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
But if you go back and look.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
At his run in the eighties, he didn't have a
year where you put out three number one movies in
a year, but he was so consistent from about nineteen
eighty two all the way, I would say to the
year two thousand.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Look at his movies.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
In nineteen eighty two was his breakout with Conan the Barbarian,
followed that up in nineteen eighty four with Conan the
Destroyer and The Terminator. A huge nineteen eighty four for him.
Next year in eighty five, he was in Red Sonja
Commando than An eighty six, Raw Deal, eighty seven, Predator,
and The Running Man. Had both of those in one
year in eighty eight, Red Heat and Twins in ninety
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Total Recall and Kindergarten Cop ninety one, Terminator two, Judgment
Day ninety three, Last Action Hero ninety four, True Lives
in Junior, ninety six, Eraser and Jingle all the Way,
ninety seven he was Mister Freeze, and Batman and Robin.
In ninety nine he was an End of Days, and
then in two thousand he was in the sixth Day.
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That is an historic run. You could argue that maybe
there's a solid seven years in there, but I think,
just looking at not only box office numbers but historical
relevance to all of that body of work, that so
many of those are standouts of both the eighties and
the nineties, I kind of forget how much of a
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star Arnold Schwarzenegger was, and I can now see why
he went on to have a run in politics, because
look how famous he was. And now it makes more
sense to me why he recently became a billionaire. Look
at this body of works. He made millions and millions
of dollars, not only from his upfront salary, but can
you imagine some of the back end deals on some
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of these movies. So as we celebrate actors with historic
runs at the box office, I wanted to include Arnold
Schwarzenegger on this list. But who do you think out
of all these people women talking about or maybe there's
someone I missed who has had the single best one
year at the box office. Let me know and I'll
come back and give my spoiler free review of Wicked
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for Good.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Let's get into it now.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
A spoiler free movie review of Wicked for Good one
of the most anticipated movies of the year, and I
will say the only reason there will be spoilers in
this review, even though it's always spoiler free if you
haven't seen part one. First of all, what are you
doing here? And where have you been? But just going
into part two, there's gonna be spoilers. Just by watching
the trailer alone, it already ruined some things for you.
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If you haven't seen the first one, I will say,
if you go into part two without seeing part one
fairly recently, you will be a little bit confused. Luckily,
we did watch part one maybe a month or so ago,
and even that I was like, wait a minute, where
exactly is that one leave off? We also Kelsey and
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I went to New York and saw Wicket on Broadway
for the first time ever, and that was amazing. So
I was going into it being pretty refreshed on everything.
But even in the first ten to fifteen minutes I
was still getting adjusted to remembering exactly what was going on.
So if I could have been a part of those
screenings where they showed you part one rolled right into
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part two, I would have felt fully fresh. But that
would have been a long day at the movies. So
where this movie starts out, you have Alphaba exile. She
is now pronounced as the Wicked Witch of the West.
She is living out in the forest, and then you
have Glinda, who was living in a palace in Emerald
City soaking up all the fame and popularity as all
the people are really mad at Alphaba and want to
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see her taken down, and Glinda is caught between finally
having all the popularity that she wants and wanting to.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Help her friend.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
So that's really all I want to get into about
the plot of this movie, because once you get into it.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Is just pretty much spoilers galore, which I.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Do have an issue with how this movie was set up,
And before I get into what I didn't like about
this movie, because I think there was a fair amount
that I ended up not enjoying about it, which was
probably a bit on me because I went into it
with such high expectations.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
But Let's talk about the good first, because.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
I do love the energy this movie has created that
was palpable in just the movie theater lobby. I can
always tell how successful a movie is going to be
based on how packed the parking lot is, because for
the most part, we go to Regal. We have Regal Unlimited,
so we can go see as many movies as we
want every single month. So every week when we drive
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up and I see how full the parking lot is,
I kind of get an indication that is my.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Box office kind of pulse.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Because if I drive up there and I can't find
my favorite parking spot, I know that that is good
for business because there are so many people here. There
are tons of showings that the theater basically just has
to put one on every thirty minutes starting. And that
is what I felt, just by parking and then going
into the lobby seeing how all out the theater went
for it, just because they know that there's going to
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be so many people there. They had this marketplace, they
had a costume contest. When you wait in line, people
are dressed up. There are people there of all different
walks of life. I saw moms and dads, sons and daughters,
all these people that this movie brings together. There was
a former bachelor Rett in the line to get snacks
for this movie.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
It just brings everybody out.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
And I love that about the Wicked franchise, any franchise
that can do this, because this is what the box
office needs right now, and it proves to you that
it's not dead. As much as people online want to
say that movie theaters are going away. To create an
environment like this is something I've really only seen two
or three times in the last maybe three to four years.
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Barbie Oppenheimer Weekend that was one where you had people
going dressed up in pink some people and all black
going to see both of those movies in the same weekend.
That is the energy I crave. We walked into a
fully almost sold out showing, which is rare right now,
and I think that adds a lot to the movie
theater experience because for a movie like this that has
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a lot of big musical moments, there was clapping throughout,
which made it more enjoyable to me, which reminded me
more of when we saw it on Broadway. It felt
a little bit as close as you can get to
a live show in the movie, theater, so everything surrounding
it is what I love that even if I didn't
enjoy the movie as much, that definitely brings it up
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a level in my book. But now let's talk about
what I didn't like, which I didn't want to tear
down so much, because it's not that I hated the movie,
it's just, if you know me from this podcast, I
have a problem when one story gets split up into
two movies, and I had such a high expectation that
it wasn't going to be the case for this That
story itself is so big that they couldn't quite possibly
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contain it into one film, which the first part was
about two hours and forty minutes close to that, probably
less with credits. This one was right around two hours
and seven minutes without counting credits, so you're looking at
almost five hours, less than five hours of Wicked. But
by watching Wicked for Good, it didn't feel as complete
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to me as Wicked Part one, where this entire movie
kind of felt like the falling action because if you
just look at the structure of both of these movies, part.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
One has it all.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
It has the beginning, the middle, and the end does
kind of end where it leaves you wanting more.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
But that is a complete movie. That is a complete story.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
You get the entire scope of Alpha character in that movie,
which is what Part one was. And I guess I
wasn't expecting Part two to really just be Glenda's story,
which is really where her character was fleshed out.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
You had her as a.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Kid, you had all of the struggles going on in
her mind and in her relationships, and I felt that
Alphaba's story was kind of on the back burner a
little bit. Cynthia Arrivo's best performance was in Part one,
and I don't feel like Ariana Grande stepped it up
to her level in Part two to really justify this
movie being split up into two. And there were a
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lot of things that they tried to cram in there,
but I just don't think it was strong enough. All
the best songs were in Part one, all the best
set design also, which is what I love about this
franchise is that this movie feels unlike anything that you
can go see in the theater right now, because it
has texture, real sets, them singing live where it seems
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like a lot of things you go see in theaters
right now, or things you watch at home on streaming
just feel so flat, like there's nothing that's going on
on those sets that you could actually physically touch. And
I think just that level of texture, that level of
depth in all these frames John Cheo's vision of just
creating a big spectacle, especially when it comes to anything
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regarding Wizard of Oz, which is one of the most
monumental films in history. I think honoring that by putting
as many real sets and real costume design that really
adds to the artistry of these movies is what we
need more of. We need more visionaries doing movies on
this scale. So Wow, I didn't fully love Part two
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and felt like it was a complete story. I get
why they did it because this movie shattered and crushed
it at the box office, being one of the biggest
movies of the year, made over two hundred and twenty
eight million dollars worldwide, which is incredible. It is now
the biggest Broadway adaptation since Well Part one. So I
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understand why they did it because I think most studios
are trying to generate as much money out of their
ip so it makes sense to me. And as much
as I want to hate on it for creating this
moment again just a year after. I understand it and
if we do need to split movies like this into
two to keep the theater alive and to keep these
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types of moments every single year. Although I do want
the three hour and thirty minute version, because if you
go see the Broadway production, that is about two hours
and forty five minutes, you got to intermission there. I
want the Avatar agreament. I want to see this movie
cut down and put into an under three hour version
because you can take some stuff out and really create
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that unified story that you get when watching the musical.
And it is weird for me to say that I
enjoyed the musical more than the movie. I'd never thought
I would be that guy. I never thought I would
go see a musical on Broadway, let alone go see
the movie and then say, well, the musical was so
much better. I kind of feel like how most people
do when they read the book before going to watching
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the movie. I feel so elitist in saying that I
love the Broadway production so much more. But obviously, when
you were there, you see the people performing it, you
realize that they are live right there and they do
multiple showings a day that they're so just honed in
on their craft. It is just amazing to watch, and
while watching it live in person, you feel like you
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went to Oz.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
I don't feel like I went.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
To Oz while watching this movie, and in a film
that does immerse you in the characters and immerse you
in this world, I was surprised by that. I felt
like all the connections it tried to make to Wizard
of Oz were a little bit crammed in there where
the storyline just got a little bit too convoluted with
some of the songs they.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Added in there.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
I didn't really feel the emotional impact then I did
when I watched it live, although I found that stuff
really fascinating. Probably my favorite part. It was kind of
like seeing cameos in a Marvel movie. There were some
moments that Cynthia Rivo really felt like a superhero to me.
All of the flying action sequences were amazing, and the
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battles and the flames, all the magic and the spells.
That was my favorite part of the movie. I just
wish there was a little bit more of that. I
wish there was a little bit more depth to her
character in this version. Even though I enjoyed Ariana Grande.
I just feel like she didn't have her one defying
moment like Cynthia Arrivo did in Part one. There was
no defying gravity moment, there was no popular moment. Even
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though the songs were still really good in this it
just didn't have as much of an impact, but still
a really great movie, one of the best of the
year for wicked for good, I give it four out
of five bubbles.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
It's time to head down to movie Mike Trey Lar Paul.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
So many things that I loved about The Super Mario
Gala see trailer. It is coming out next year on
April third. I think the thing that stands out the
most is it is obvious to me that since the
first one was such a big success, making one point
three six billion dollars at the box office back in
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twenty twenty three, that they have more money to play
with in this sequel, because if you look at the
character design, it looks so fantastic. I love the way
that Bowser looks like you could reach into the screen
and pull him out and he would be this three
D object that you could manipulate like a figure. Because
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you can see the level of detail on his skin,
whereas you can see the scaliness of his dinosaur lizard skin.
That is a sign of they are really pulling out
all the big guns when it comes to the character design,
and also the fact that the villains are getting bigger
and bigger. This world is expanding. I feel like they
could get to an Avengers level type of movie when
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it comes to the Super Mario World. Now, myself personally,
who was first introduced to Super Mario in the nineties
and early two thousands, I would have loved for them
to have done a s NES Super Mario World movie
or an N sixty four Mario movie. But I see
from watching this trailer that they are catering to a
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much younger audience who have been continuing to play these
Super Mario video games or have just been introduced in
the last ten to fifteen years. That is who they
are making these movies for. And I have to understand
that that I'm not the key demographic they're gonna get
us anyway, because they are banking on all the millennials
and Gen X who grew up with these video games
to just go because they want to see the things
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from their childhood play out so they're gonna get our
money regardless, especially those who have kids, and you can
go and say, oh, this is the game I played
as a kid, and now you can play it too.
So I do love that this franchise spans several different
generations and seeing this trailer and now me accepting that
I won't get that N sixty four movie or that
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Super Mario World movie, that this is going to open
up Nintendo to be able to do a lot in
this world because the first one was such a huge
success in twenty twenty three. If you get another smash
hit on your hands, another billion dollar movie with this one,
it is going to prove to Illumination, who also makes
all the Minions movies, that there is a big demand
for these and they can stretch their wings out a
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little bit and start focusing on maybe the Luigi character,
some of the other side characters, or focus more on
other Nintendo properties. So I want to get into more
about what is going on in this movie and with
other movies that are video game adaptations that I am
excited about. But again, this is coming out next year
on April third. Here's just a little bit of the
Super Mario Galaxy trailer.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
What do you think love the colors? It's trash a
da you're look at my nice say night. I'll stop
your bow.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
I'm sorry about that. That's the old Bowser talking. Anyway,
I need my eight hours or else I really turn
into a monster. I'm Bowser Junior, and I'm gonna be
taking my father now.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
So Super Mario Galaxy is picking up right where the
last movie left off. So not a case of you
could just hop into the franchise right now and understand
what is going on. You do have to go back
and watch the Super Mario Brothers movie, but what is
going on in this one. Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, and
Toad are going out on an adventure, going into space,
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going across the galaxy, and they have to face off
now against Bowser's son, Bowser Junior, who in this trailer
you hear Bowser, but his voice is higher because he
has been shrunken down. He is living in this little
castle that's like a toy house, where he is now
taken upon the hobby of painting. So that is what
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he is showing off to Luigi and Mario in that trailer.
He's just focusing on still being obsessed with Princess Peach,
trying to channel his anger into creating art. So there's
one painting he makes that is of Mario as a skeleton,
so dead Mario. But then the painting he shows him
there is him all buffed up with Princess Peach because
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he is still obsessed with her. But now Bowser Junior
his son, who is a little bit more hardcore. He
is trying to free as father and.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
Get him back to his normal size.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
So you have Chris Pratt coming back as Mario, Anya
Taylor Joy as Princess Peach, who I think she does
a fantastic job voice acting in this movie. Charlie Day
is probably the best voice actor out of anybody who
you would know from It's always Sonny in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
He is back as Luigi.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Jack Black is returning as Bowser Keegan, Michael Key is Toad.
Now joining the cast is Ben saff who just directed
The Smashing Machine. He was also the villain and Happy
Gilmore too. So he is one of those rare people
who is doing acting and directing at a high level,
even though to me he is primarily a director. He
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has done a lot of movies with his brother like
Good Time Uncut Gems. I think that is really inspiring
to see somebody who has had so much success creating
really powerful and dynamic movies now moving into a place
where he can do these big Hollywood roles like a
happy Gilmore too and now a part of a major
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animated franchise, and not one of those people who just
has a huge name that lends itself to an animated
movie because that's what they do.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
Sometimes, like Chris Pratt.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
As Mario is more of a marketing thing because you still,
even though it's an animated movie, you need that a
list star to sell it, to go around and do press.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
That is why you get a guy like Chris Pratt.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
A lot of people were really upset whenever he was
first announced as Mario after the first movie. I was
okay with it because you don't want Mario to sound
like the video game character for a ninety plus minute movie.
I think he actually works. Is he's the best choice
of all time? No, But for somebody like a Ben Saftey,
he doesn't have a huge name that is gonna get
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people to go watch it just because Ben Saftie is
voicing the character, so he is somebody that is actually
bringing that level that you heard there in that trailer
of somebody who was actually putting a lot of emphasis,
a lot of passion behind an animated role. And that
is what I love, because I think in order to
really bring these characters to life, it's not just about
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sitting and in recording booth that anybody could do and
just sitting there and recording your lines. Even Jack Black,
who is a well seasoned actor, he is perfect for
animation because he is so just animated himself that he
puts that same amount of passion into voice acting. I think,
maybe unfairly I said Charlie Day was the best voice
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actor in this movie. I kind of forgot how great
Jack Black is as Bowser, But I do think his
character is going to be not as dominant as he
was in the first one, and they're going to focus
more on Bowser Junior. Then you have Bree Larson coming
in as Rosalina. I like Bree Larson as an actor.
I think she had a pretty raw deal when it
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came to the Captain Marvel movie. The whole timing of
that just felt a little bit off. And then what
the Marvels didn't really do her any favors, but I
still really enjoy her as an actor and can't wait
to see how that translates into animation. The thing about
these movies that I love is that it is not
the male characters that are the most dominant. I think
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the more inspiring characters, especially to young kids, are a
Princess Peach and I think in this one, you see
in the trailer Rosalina who has some really cool powers,
as you see Bowser Junior take on his role as
the Prowler where he almost turns entirely metal and has
this big machine body that she is taking on with
her powers, and see seeing the female characters in these
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movies not need the help of Mario or Luigi, being
able to stand up to threats like Bowser, I think
that is really inspiring for a young generation because you
do not get that a lot, especially not in live
action movies where it's few and far between. Now that
we get strong female leads that show kids that not
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all these heroes have to be men, that women do
not always need to be saved. So maybe something you
don't expect to find in a Super Mario movie where
you think it is just an animated movie, about a
video game. I think these movies are more impactful than
we think. When it comes to my top five most
anticipated video game movies, Super Mario Galaxy definitely makes the
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top five, but it is not number one. And number
five I have Mortal Kombat two, which is supposed to
come out next year, even though it's been delayed a
little bit. I thought the first one was good, not great,
but I see a lot of potential. There definitely a
major upgrade from the Mortal Kombat movies back rup in
the nineties.
Speaker 2 (49:00):
Even though those movies.
Speaker 1 (49:01):
Are hilariously cheesy and still entertaining because they do represent
a big part of my childhood, I do like now
seeing how much more hardcore these video games are, so
I have that one at number five. At number four,
Five Nights at Freddy's two, which is coming out next
month on December fifth.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
I was a huge hater of the first.
Speaker 1 (49:20):
One, and never have I received so much negative feedback
on a review. Then when I first talked about Five
Nights at Freddy's, because I just did not get it,
did not understand the lower of Five Nights at Freddy's.
I think I went into that movie just expecting a
horror movie, and I was like, this isn't scary at all,
what are they doing? But now I understand it more.
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I understand the campingness of it, and after watching the
trailer for two, I think, Okay, I can go into
it with a much different state of mind and enjoy
it a lot more and hopefully, maybe just a little bit,
we get some more scares in there. At number three,
I have Street Fighter, which is coming out next year
on October sixteenth. I think I'm just really into Marvel
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versus Capcom right now. The video game, which was an
arcade game back in the day that I used to
play every time we went to CCS. There is a
place here in Nashville that actually has the real arcade
version of it, and I don't think we could ever
get a movie adaptation of that because of all the
licensing of all the characters in Marvel and Capcom. So
I think just getting on the Capcom side with the
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Street Fighter characters, I am just itching for that. Even
though back in the day when the Street Fighter movie
first came out that was a pretty big fail. That
is one we don't really talk about a whole lot.
So hopefully they get it right with this one. It
does have a lot of interesting people in the cast
WWE wrestlers like Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns. You also
have Orville Peck in there, Jason Momoa, Eric Andre Andrew
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Schultz in fifty cent, just to name a few. So
hopefully they're brewing up something good on the Street Fighter franchise,
or it could be a straight utter disaster.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
It's gonna go either way.
Speaker 1 (51:02):
But that's why I have it at number three because
I just want to see what happens. And number two
is where I would put Super Mario Galaxy. I think
out of all the movies on the list, it is
going to be the best because the first one delivered
so much. I have no reason to doubt that the
second one will not be on that same.
Speaker 2 (51:18):
Caliber of movie.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
But for number one on the list, which is The
Legend of Zelda, supposed to come out on May seven,
twenty twenty seven, I have it there because I.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
Have no idea what to expect.
Speaker 1 (51:29):
They did post last week the first shots in our
first look of the live action movie, which is just
Zelda and Link sitting out in the field, doesn't really
tell you a whole lot. Part of me had a
little bit of worry that they give us these first
looks so early on. I almost don't even want to
see it until it's a full trailer. But because that
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is such a major franchise, and one if they get right,
like I've been talking about this whole time, really opens
itself up or Nintendo to make all different types of
movies because the fan base is there. I mean, I
think what we all would love is a Smash Brothers movie.
If they could build Hump to an Avengers style movie
where everybody comes together for a big fight, that would
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be amazing. Or just a straight ahead Mario Kart movie.
I'm talking f one level of detail, make it live
action while we're at it, like the SNL's get they did.
That would also be a really fun time. Some other
anticipated video game adaptations are Sonic The Hedgehog four, supposed
to come out in twenty twenty seven, Resonant Evil, which
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is directed by Zach Kreiger, who did weapons really interested
how they're going to reboot that franchise, especially because he
is attached to that movie, and Return to Silent Hill
is coming out next year on January twenty sixth. But
out of all these movies, I think only one has
the chance to cross that billion dollar mark. It is
Super Mario Galaxy coming out on April third.
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Anthony Mackie is Captain America right now. When I think
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filled out Do you remember that reveal of Chris Evans
going from being the scrawny guy to being the full
Here's Captain America with the serum, And I just feel
like Glenn Powell is built a little different. Obviously super
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ripped up, big arms, incredible abs. I'm getting a little
bit too into the detail's ear, but I just think
he has more of the build for Cyclops, because.
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Cyclops his nickname was Slim, who has a little bit
more of that spelt body type. I could just see
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Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike. Today, I want to break
down what actor had the single best year run at
the box office. In the movie review the highly anticipated
sequel Wicked for Good.
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Did it live up to the hype?
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And I'll compare it to my experience going to see
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in the trailer park, I'll be breaking down Super Mario
Galaxy and my list of the top five most anticipated
video game adaptations.
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As apparently in movie history there are only two actors
to have three number one movies in a year.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
That sounded crazy to me. I saw this headline everywhere.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I saw the memes, not only on Facebook, which you
always can't believe it usually lies over there, but I
also saw it on TikTok, I saw it on Reddit.
I saw this everywhere, and I thought that sounds like
a record that could be broken. And I know that
number one movies don't really have as much weight to them.
Right now, there have been a few movies that have
been number one this year and made less than ten
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million dollars, right around that eight million dollar range. So
sometimes when you see movies saying we're the number one
movie in the country, it is not the same that
it was ten years ago. But I thought, with all
these big properties happening around the same time right now,
there had to have been one actor who has broken
that record since nineteen ninety four, and I found a couple.
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I don't know why the Internet is lying to you,
but let's get into it. Going back to nineteen ninety four,
this is the gold standard. Jim Carrey had three number
one movies in this year, which nineteen ninety four is
historically one of the best movies in film of all time.
With movies like The Lion King, Pulp Fiction, Shawshank, Redemption,
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Forrest Gump all coming out in nineteen ninety one four,
it goes down in the history books as being one
of the best. And Jim Carrey was responsible for three
number one movies that year. The Mask, Dumb and Dummer,
and Ace Spentra all came out this year, And I think,
what we're gonna see as we go through all these actors,
is some of the movies are gonna be a little
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bit debatable. In this instance, the Mask, Dumb and Dumber,
and Ace Spentira, I don't think are debatable. That they
are all great movies and are all classics from the nineties.
If Jim Carrey was your favorite actor, I would not
flinch if you told me those are your top three
Jim Carrey movies. I love all three of those movies.
Dumb and Dumber is my favorite comedy of all time.
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The Mask is so wacky and it still holds up
even though it is so inherently nineties with the dance
moves and Cameron Diaz, I still think that is a
classic movie. And Ace Ventura. The fact that all three
of these movies are still so different but all still
so very Jim Carrey is amazing. So that is a
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really hard year to beat. So apparently nobody else was
able to do this until twenty twenty five. Mason Thames,
who that name might not be super familiar to you,
but he had three number one movies this year, although
one is debatable. There is some discrepancies in the numbers
per my research, but Mason Thames start in the How
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to Train Your Dragon live remake, which I thought was
a good movie to me, kind of kicked off the
summer even though it was number one for two weeks.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I almost feel like that movie.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Didn't have as big of an impact on some other
movies as far as seeping into pop culture because I
enjoyed it. I am still a bigger fan of the
animated movies, although I think with the success of the
first one, if they're able to get a bit of
a bigger budget on How To Train Your Dragon two,
because the stories do get a little bit darker as
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they go into two and three, I think maybe I
could enjoy that one more. But I still think the
whimsical dragon fighting and writing nature lends itself more to
the animated versions, especially when it comes to Toothless, who
is still it's just not as cute when it's a
live action and I have a big problem with live
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action right now. I'm not even going to talk about
the Mowana teaser for the live action movie. I am
so just upset about that because the original came out
in twenty sixteen, and now next year in twenty twenty
six we are already getting a remake to that, and
I didn't mean to go on this tangent, but it's
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so frustrating to me, and I know that I am
part of the problem because this year, Leelo It's Ditch
is going to probably be in my top ten movies
of the year. And that is what they did with
that movie. They banked on her nostalgia. They went to
something that they know is going to make money, and
Mowana is the highest stream movie on Disney Plus of
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all time. So that is why Mowana Too ended up
coming out in theaters, even though it was just to
be a Disney Plus series, but they made a billion
dollars off of that. Why would they not go to
their number one movie when The Rock is still able
to play Maui. That's another thing. They just got the
Rock to play Maui. But that does not feel even
like a live action movie to me, and I think
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that is the most frustrating part of it is when
it comes to their live action remakes of snow White
or The Lion King or The Jungle Book, they're not
really live action because they still rely so much on animation.
And that is what I felt watching that Mawana teaser.
It looks exactly shot per shot like Mowana one, and
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it almost looks less than almost a parody of because
you have actual humans instead of animated characters. But that
is why I always am a bigger fan of the
animation than the live action remake.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
So how to train your dragon?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Going back to that, I didn't mean to go into
this Disney tangent, but again, if you don't like something
and you hate remakes and you hate Disney doing this,
the way you get your message across is by not
going to see those movies in theaters and not giving
them your money.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
But I am guilty of it. I still do it.
I did it twice this year. I would to see
that Leelod Stitch movie twice in theaters. So I am
also part of the problem.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I can't support the franchises I want and it not
be an indication to them that people are okay with this.
But again, I'll always be a fan of the animated version. First,
why don't they do it the reverse way? They come
out with live action movies and then make an animated movie.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Just doesn't work that way.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
But anyway, Mason Names was the lead and how to
Train Your Dragon.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
He played Hiccup.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
He was also in The Black Phone two this year
and Regretting You, even though there was a bit of
a discrepancy with the numbers between two of those movies,
because Black Phone two and Regretting You were actually in
theaters at the same time, And even when I saw
the reports of the week of the first week of November,
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everybody said that Regretting You was a number one movie,
and then some people said that the Black Phone two
ended up beating it out. But the numbers I looked
up still say Regretting You that week made eight point
one million and Black Phone two made eight million, so
it's really close. But in the end, Mason Thames wins
because he was in both of those movies and is
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quietly having one of the best years in Hollywood. So
he is the one credited as being the first one
to have three number one movies at the box office
in one year since Jim Carrey did it. And the
only discrepancy I can see sometimes with some of the
ones that I found is they don't distinguish.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Doesn't mean that they.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Have to have a leading role in that movie, because
if you look at Jim Carrey and Mason Thames. They
all had leading roles in all three of those movies.
And if you have a supporting role, is that still
enough to earn you this same recognition? Because what I
found was in twenty twenty one, Zea had three number
one movies. Zendea was in Space Jam a New Legacy,
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and again, you don't have to like these movies for
them to be number one movies, because that was pretty bad.
But she was also in Dune Part one in twenty
twenty one and Spider Man No Way Home. Granted that
was in twenty twenty one, a post COVID year where
the box office still wasn't fully open, but all three
of those movies are attributed to having a number one
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in some capacity, at least to the standards of twenty
twenty one, but I guess not enough to earner a
recognition on this list. She was also in Malcolm and
Marie that year on Netflix, which I believe was also
a number one Netflix movie.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Not the best movie, but again, a number one is
a number one.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I think she also has a chance of achieving this
next year, in twenty twenty six, she is going to
be in Dune Part three, could easily be a number one.
She's going to be in Spider Man Brand New Day.
I would say right now that is going to be
a number one. And she's also going to be in
The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan, which people are already
selling out showings to. That first week of movies for
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the Odyssey could easily be.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
A number one.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
So if she doesn't get recognized for twenty twenty one,
I think twenty twenty six could also be the year
for her. She's also going to be in a movie
called The Drama with Robert Pattinson, which was an a
twenty four romantic comedy.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I don't think that one's screams number.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
One to me, but that could have her in the
running for having one of the best years next year
in twenty twenty six. Somebody else that I found Ben
Stiller in two thousand and four. This is an insane year,
and I do not know how he is not credited
with having multiple number one movies in this year, because
this one is undeniable. He had the leading role in
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all three of these movies that came out in two
thousand and four. In their opening weekends, all went number one.
Along came Polly Dodgeball, a true underdog story, and Meet
the Fockers. But not only that, ben Stiller all put
out in this year Starsky and Hutch, which I remember
seeing that movie in theaters and seeing the duet scene
for the first time. Two thousands were a great time
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for Ben Stiller, so was it a number one movie
at the box office, but a number one movie for
a lot of thirteen year olds like myself at that time.
He also had a cameo in Anchorman The Legend of
Ron Burgundy, the scene wherever all the news stations fight
with each other. I believe he worked for the Spanish
news station. So even though he wasn't a star in
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that movie, just the cameo, he was still a part
of another number one movie. An insane year for Ben
Stiller in two thousand and four, having so much success
at the box office. I don't know why, how I
kind of forget that Ben Steller has all of these
pillars in comedy in the two thousands. Sometimes I always
just think of Will Ferrell when it comes to comedic
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actors dominating around this time, But look at those movies
that is undeniable. I do not know why he is
not in this conversation, so I am here to say
justice for Ben Stiller. So those were the three actors
I found that had three number one movies in a year.
But I also went through and found actors who I
believe have at least two or more movies that are
great that all came out within one year. Which of
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these actors do you think had the best year at
the box office or on streaming? Because you get to
a point where it all kind of blends together, and
a number one movie is a number one movie high
up on my list, if not number one on my list.
Of the people we haven't talked about yet, as Scarlett Johanson.
In twenty nineteen, she was in Avengers Endgame, Jojo Rabbit
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Marriage Story, and also had a post credit scene in
Captain Marvel. With those three movies, Scarlett Johanson tops the
Forbes list of the ten highest paid actors of the year,
making fifty six million dollars, and that was mostly from
her work just as Black Widow in the MCU. And
why she ranks up so high on my list as
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having one of the best years for an actor is
because you have a little bit of everything in those
movies where you have the big cinematic superhero movies, but
then you have a marriage story which is just a
straight ahead drama with fantastic acting, which shows you how
just two people Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver can just
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have these conversations and feel so powerful, and just to
see two people yelling one person crying in a scene
can move you emotionally with just raw acting power. And
it's the same person who's also acting as a black widow.
And then Jojo Rabbit, which is a satirical comedy that
you go through all these stages with her character as well,
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which that movie is about a kid named Jojo who
is a German boy and he finds out that his mom,
who was a single mom, is hiding this Jewish girl
in their attic and it goes from being this whimsical
comedy to having some really tragic turns. And I think
I also just have a great love for the year
of twenty nineteen with all of the fantastic accomplishments of
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that year, and Scarlet Johnson to me, was one of.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Those focal points of that year. And if it wouldn't
have been.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
For twenty twenty, I kind of wonder what her trajectory
would have been like with all those three great movies
that she was doing right there, being on the edge
of closing out her time in the MCU, with Black
Widow being delayed and finally coming out.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
If she did Jurassic World this year just for the
money or that was something that she truly believed in.
But I can't help but wonder how it would have
impacted her career if everything wouldn't have shut down in
twenty twenty and twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two.
Kind of feeling like a wash, But she would be
in my running of actors who have had the best
single year, because since then I don't think it would
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have been until now twenty twenty five that another actor
would have a shot at this title. Pedro Pascal put
out three big movies this year, Materialists, Eddington, and The
Fantastic Four. All three of those movies were not Number one.
Two of those movies I really enjoyed, and one of
them I wish were not on this list.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
But Pedro Pascal this year.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Has really infiltrated the minds of people, so much so
that some people are sick of them. If you went
to the movies this summer, and you stood outside where
all the posters are. You could say, let's see the
new Pedro Pascal movie, and you would not know which
one you were talking about.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Do you want to see.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Materialists, you want to see Eddington? Do you want to
see Fantastic Four? Pick your Pedro Pascal movie that you
want to watch. I think he is at that level
where you're gonna be a little bit sick of him.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I don't think Eddington.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Really set out to be a movie that was going
to shatter box office records, which I think is a
distinction in twenty twenty five that a lot of people
are realizing that. I know the purpose of a movie
is to make money, but I think sometimes it is
just necessary for the art to get out there to
make a statement that not every movie has to achieve
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financial success to be a good movie. I think we're
a little bit obsessed with that. I kind of get
annoyed sometimes when I see a movie like Robert Pattinson
and Jennifer Lawrence's latest movie, Die My Love, which came out.
I didn't entirely love it, but I thought that movie
made a great statement and it was a very important
movie that for some reason I cannot stop thinking about,
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even though I wouldn't really recommend it. But all the
headlines that came out after that movie were saying that
movie stars are dead because Die My Love.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Bombs at the box office.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I just don't think that that movie was set up
to be a number one movie. I don't think that
is the expectation for every single big project. And in
this case, two A list actors were attached to it.
They were really excited about it, they were really passionate
about it. They did a lot of press for that movie.
But I just don't think the subject matter was set
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up to lend itself to the masses. They weren't doing
collabse at Popeyes like five Nights that Freddy's is doing now.
I don't think it was supposed to be a movie
of that caliber. I think some movies like this just
can't have that same kind of success. Maybe if it
came out twenty years ago or in the nineties, you
might have a little bit of a different story here.
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But I think with our attention spans getting shorter and
shorter and not wanting to branch out into watching something
that might make you feel a little bit uncomfortable, or
might be a little bit more of a slow burn.
I don't see that movie as a failure in my eyes.
I just think sometimes it's hard to see a movie
with two people you really like and a concept you
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still not fully enjoy just kind of get ripped to shreds.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
And we only attribute financial.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Success to good movies, which if you look back on
movies that we grew up with in the nineties and
two thousands, some of those movies that we all loved
bombed at the box office. Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factor,
the original from the seventies, bombed at the box office,
but it's still considered a classic. I think it's going
to be harder now for us to even have Colt
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classics anymore, because if a movie like Di My Love
does bad at the box office, people now just see
it as bad, and then when it goes onto a
streaming service, you know, even if you don't remember the
stories of that movie bombing at the box office, a
lot of these streaming services put the rotten Tomato score,
or we just look at it ourselves and think, oh,
that has a bad score, that didn't do very well.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
It's not a good movie. I shouldn't give it a chance.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
That is another reason that I just don't think we
could have cult classics anymore. But Pedro Pascal in twenty
twenty five made an impact. Josh Brolin, also in twenty
twenty five, is having an impact. He was in Weapons,
which was a number one movie this year. He was
in The Running Man, which man just lost out to
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Now You See Me, Now You Don't for being number one.
I think the filmmakers behind that, Edgar Wright, probably saw
that as a bit of a fail. But you can't
deny the power of magic, which we didn't go see
that movie. We saw both of those movies in theaters
last weekend, and we'll get into that next week on
our recap with the Best and Worst of November. But
Josh Brolin had a pretty good shot if Running Man
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would have been number one, because he is also going
to be in the New Knives Out movie coming out
later this year, which we'll have a small opening at
the box office because Netflix does that sometimes, but it
is still going to be a number one Netflix movie.
Since we were just talking about Jennifer Lawrence, I will
include her on this list. I think she was dominant
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in the twenty tens. In twenty twelve, she put out
The Hunger Games Silver Linings Playbook. I could honestly stop
right there and say give her the award. I'm not
even handing out awards in this episode. But then she
was also in the House at the End of the Street,
which I think just happened to come out in twenty
twelve because that doesn't really match all the other movies.
That feels like a movie that was maybe on the
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back burner and they're like, all right, she's hot right now,
everybody wants to see Jennifer Lawrence in a movie.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Let's put this out now.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
That movie did not do as well, but still with
Silver Lightings Playbook and The Hunger Games both, that is
a pretty hot year. And I feel like, to me,
that is when I accepted Jennifer Lawrence as being the
bankable A List star, because after that, in twenty thirteen,
she put out The Devil, you know, Catching Fire, and
American Hustle all in that same year, and then went
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on to have another great twenty fourteen, putting out X Men,
Days of Future Past, Serena, and Mockingjay all came out
that year, So collectively, that three year run is pretty impressive.
If I were to put one of those years on
this list, I would put twenty twelve. Speaking of the
twenty tens, in twenty eleven, Ryan Gosling had a pretty
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good run. He put out Crazy Stupid Love, Drive, which
is one of my favorite movies of all time, not
just favorite Ryan Gosling movies. Depending on the day, that
would make my top ten list of best movies of
all time. He was also in the IDEs of March.
All three of those movies have positive scores. Crazy Stupid
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Love has a seventy nine percent, The IDEs of March
has an eighty three percent, and Drive has a ninety
three percent score. This is where Ryan Gosling really started
to prove himself as being somebody who could achieve a
wide range of characters, from people who are really smooth
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talking to a character and Drive that rarely said any words,
didn't even have a name. He was just a driver.
And not that Ryan Gosling ever went away, but I
feel like he has kind of transformed himself with movies
like Barbie and The Fall Guy. I am curious to
see where he goes next. He does have the Hail
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Mary project coming out next year. I almost feel like
he just wants to do movies that are interesting to him.
He doesn't seem like a guy who cares so much
about box office financial success, which is important to an actor.
But he's not really taking these roles that other actors
of his caliber could take just to earn himself a payday.
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He could easily do a bunch of random action movies
or more rom coms, but I see him being more
deliberate with the roles he is taking now in the
twenty twenties that I'm curious to see where he goes
after the hil Mary project and after his Star Wars
movie that is coming out in twenty twenty seven. A
lot of good stuff from Ryan Gossing still coming out.
If we go way back to the seventies, Jack Nicholson
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in nineteen seventy five had three standout movies, The Passenger,
The Fortune, and one of his best movies of all time,
One flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, And I kind of
thought there would be more actors of his caliber have
runs like this throughout their career. But I think why
this is so rare is because oftentimes actors just have
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one big movie a year. When you look at some
of the big names like Leonardo DiCaprio, even Jennifer Lawrence
now has really shifted to basically doing one big movie
a year and maybe another small cameo or smaller part,
or just a smaller budget movie that they film in
a much smaller window of time. But I was so
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interested in finding out about actors like Robert de Niro
and all these even Tom Cruise or Leonardo DiCaprio, when
you go look at their filmography, a lot of times
it's just one, maybe two other years for some of
these bigger actors that you would be more familiar with.
Nineteen eighty three, Tom Cruise had The Outsiders, risky Business
and all the right moves. In twenty thirteen, Leonardo DiCaprio
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had The Great Gatsby and The Wolf of Wall Street,
two of his biggest movies came out in twenty thirteen.
But for the most part, every other year, especially in
the last ten years, he only does one big movie
a year. Takes all of his time, it takes all
of his energy. In twenty ten he did happen to
put out Shutter Island and Inception, but throughout his entire career.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Those are the years we had two.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Multiple big hits come out in a year. Have other
actors like Will Ferrell in two thousand and three, who
had Old School in ELF that was really at the
start of his career where whenever he got cast for
ELF that was seen as a big risk. He was
just the guy from SNL and just happened to blow
up after that and had an amazing run in the
two thousands. Orlando Bloom also in two thousand and three
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was in The Lord of the Rings, The Return of
the King and Pirates of the Caribbeing The Curse of
the Black Pearl, two of the biggest franchises of the
two thousands. Orlando Bloom probably could have stopped working altogether
after finishing out those two franchises. Nicole Kidman in two
thousand and one was in Mulan Rouge and the Others
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and Birthday Girl in ninety three. I was kind of
surprised Tom Hanks did not have a bigger year than
nineteen ninety three, where he was in Sleepless in Seattle
and Philadelphia. Timothy Chalomagne in twenty seventeen, this is kind
of like what I was describing earlier with Jennifer Lawrence
in twenty twelve, To Me at the Shalome really registered
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in my head. In twenty seventeen, he was in Call
Me by Your Name, Hot Summer Nights, Lady Birds, and Hostiles.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Just with Lady Bird alone, I was.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Like, who is this Timothy shallow May kid? And why
am I so drawn to him every time he is
on screen? And then Call Me by Your Name kind
of changed everything I thought about him and made me
look at Peaches in a much different way after that,
even the Rock is pretty much just in one, maybe
two big movies a year, despite him working all the
time and always promoting a movie. The year where he
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actually had three big hits at one time in a
year was twenty thirteen with Paint and Gain, which I
love that movie him and Anthony Mackie, a very chaotic
action movie and really ridiculous. Also Mark Wahlberg in that
That is kind of one of those underrated movies of
the twenty tens for me that I could just throw
one and kind of watch as a comfort, just because
it's so ridiculous and so dumb, but a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
He was also in Fast and Furious six and g.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Joe Retali, So maybe not the most quality when it
comes to the movies he put out that year, but
definitely mattered in quantity in regard to the theme of
this week's episode. Somebody who also does not get the
credit they deserve is Samuel L.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Jackson.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
In twenty nineteen, dude has been in over one hundred
and fifty one movies, and in twenty nineteen he was
in Captain Marvel, he was in Spider Man Far from Home,
he was in Glass, he was in Shaft, and he
also had a voice over cameo in Star Wars The
Rise of Skywalker. Now I think it's because in all
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those movies he did not have a lead role in.
But Samuel L. Jackson, if he cannot get this recognition,
who else has a chance? He is acting in every
single movie all the time. Somebody else who I believe
has a shot of having the record in twenty twenty
six is Tom Holland kind of like Zendaya. He's also
going to be in The Odyssey, Spider Man, Brand New Day.
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There is speculation he is going to be in Avengers
Dooms Day.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
At the end of the year.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Maybe Brand New Day is going to be more of
a lead in into Doom's Day than we think.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
There's not a whole lot on that.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Now. I can't really speculate too much, but the last
time I was so convinced that a Spider Man was
not going to be in a movie was in No
Way Home and I was like, there's no way Toby
Maguire and Andrew Garfield are going to be in it,
and then they showed up. So now I don't doubt anything,
Especially with him being on the tail end of being
Spider Man, I could see him being a part of it,
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unless they decide to end Brand New Day in a
really tragic way.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I kind of feel like.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
You gotta keep Spider Man around, especially with Robert Downey
Junior now going to be Doctor Doom. Could you imagine
that moment on screen of Peter Parker seeing Iron Man
Tony Stark as Doctor Doom. That would be a scene
for the Ages. Finally, somebody I have to recognize as
I close out this episode, Old Schwarzenegger. Well, we've been
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talking about a lot of his movies recently because of
The Running Man and because of Predator. I did not
realize the run that he went on in the eighties,
because I think I was just kind of past real
action star Arnold Schwarzenegger growing up in the nineties. I
was more aware of his Kindergarten Cop Last Action Hero
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jingle all the way him.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
As mister Freeze.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
That was more my Arnold Schwarzenegger that I grew up with.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
But if you go back and look.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
At his run in the eighties, he didn't have a
year where you put out three number one movies in
a year, but he was so consistent from about nineteen
eighty two all the way, I would say to the
year two thousand.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Look at his movies.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
In nineteen eighty two was his breakout with Conan the Barbarian,
followed that up in nineteen eighty four with Conan the
Destroyer and The Terminator. A huge nineteen eighty four for him.
Next year in eighty five, he was in Red Sonja
Commando than An eighty six, Raw Deal, eighty seven, Predator,
and The Running Man. Had both of those in one
year in eighty eight, Red Heat and Twins in ninety
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Total Recall and Kindergarten Cop ninety one, Terminator two, Judgment
Day ninety three, Last Action Hero ninety four, True Lives
in Junior, ninety six, Eraser and Jingle all the Way,
ninety seven he was Mister Freeze, and Batman and Robin.
In ninety nine he was an End of Days, and
then in two thousand he was in the sixth Day.
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That is an historic run. You could argue that maybe
there's a solid seven years in there, but I think,
just looking at not only box office numbers but historical
relevance to all of that body of work, that so
many of those are standouts of both the eighties and
the nineties, I kind of forget how much of a
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star Arnold Schwarzenegger was, and I can now see why
he went on to have a run in politics, because
look how famous he was. And now it makes more
sense to me why he recently became a billionaire. Look
at this body of works. He made millions and millions
of dollars, not only from his upfront salary, but can
you imagine some of the back end deals on some
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of these movies. So as we celebrate actors with historic
runs at the box office, I wanted to include Arnold
Schwarzenegger on this list. But who do you think out
of all these people women talking about or maybe there's
someone I missed who has had the single best one
year at the box office. Let me know and I'll
come back and give my spoiler free review of Wicked
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for Good.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Let's get into it now.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
A spoiler free movie review of Wicked for Good one
of the most anticipated movies of the year, and I
will say the only reason there will be spoilers in
this review, even though it's always spoiler free if you
haven't seen part one. First of all, what are you
doing here? And where have you been? But just going
into part two, there's gonna be spoilers. Just by watching
the trailer alone, it already ruined some things for you.
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If you haven't seen the first one, I will say,
if you go into part two without seeing part one
fairly recently, you will be a little bit confused. Luckily,
we did watch part one maybe a month or so ago,
and even that I was like, wait a minute, where
exactly is that one leave off? We also Kelsey and
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I went to New York and saw Wicket on Broadway
for the first time ever, and that was amazing. So
I was going into it being pretty refreshed on everything.
But even in the first ten to fifteen minutes I
was still getting adjusted to remembering exactly what was going on.
So if I could have been a part of those
screenings where they showed you part one rolled right into
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part two, I would have felt fully fresh. But that
would have been a long day at the movies. So
where this movie starts out, you have Alphaba exile. She
is now pronounced as the Wicked Witch of the West.
She is living out in the forest, and then you
have Glinda, who was living in a palace in Emerald
City soaking up all the fame and popularity as all
the people are really mad at Alphaba and want to
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see her taken down, and Glinda is caught between finally
having all the popularity that she wants and wanting to.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Help her friend.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
So that's really all I want to get into about
the plot of this movie, because once you get into it.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Is just pretty much spoilers galore, which I.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Do have an issue with how this movie was set up,
And before I get into what I didn't like about
this movie, because I think there was a fair amount
that I ended up not enjoying about it, which was
probably a bit on me because I went into it
with such high expectations.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
But Let's talk about the good first, because.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
I do love the energy this movie has created that
was palpable in just the movie theater lobby. I can
always tell how successful a movie is going to be
based on how packed the parking lot is, because for
the most part, we go to Regal. We have Regal Unlimited,
so we can go see as many movies as we
want every single month. So every week when we drive
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up and I see how full the parking lot is,
I kind of get an indication that is my.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Box office kind of pulse.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Because if I drive up there and I can't find
my favorite parking spot, I know that that is good
for business because there are so many people here. There
are tons of showings that the theater basically just has
to put one on every thirty minutes starting. And that
is what I felt, just by parking and then going
into the lobby seeing how all out the theater went
for it, just because they know that there's going to
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be so many people there. They had this marketplace, they
had a costume contest. When you wait in line, people
are dressed up. There are people there of all different
walks of life. I saw moms and dads, sons and daughters,
all these people that this movie brings together. There was
a former bachelor Rett in the line to get snacks
for this movie.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
It just brings everybody out.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
And I love that about the Wicked franchise, any franchise
that can do this, because this is what the box
office needs right now, and it proves to you that
it's not dead. As much as people online want to
say that movie theaters are going away. To create an
environment like this is something I've really only seen two
or three times in the last maybe three to four years.
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Barbie Oppenheimer Weekend that was one where you had people
going dressed up in pink some people and all black
going to see both of those movies in the same weekend.
That is the energy I crave. We walked into a
fully almost sold out showing, which is rare right now,
and I think that adds a lot to the movie
theater experience because for a movie like this that has
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a lot of big musical moments, there was clapping throughout,
which made it more enjoyable to me, which reminded me
more of when we saw it on Broadway. It felt
a little bit as close as you can get to
a live show in the movie, theater, so everything surrounding
it is what I love that even if I didn't
enjoy the movie as much, that definitely brings it up
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a level in my book. But now let's talk about
what I didn't like, which I didn't want to tear
down so much, because it's not that I hated the movie,
it's just, if you know me from this podcast, I
have a problem when one story gets split up into
two movies, and I had such a high expectation that
it wasn't going to be the case for this That
story itself is so big that they couldn't quite possibly
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contain it into one film, which the first part was
about two hours and forty minutes close to that, probably
less with credits. This one was right around two hours
and seven minutes without counting credits, so you're looking at
almost five hours, less than five hours of Wicked. But
by watching Wicked for Good, it didn't feel as complete
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to me as Wicked Part one, where this entire movie
kind of felt like the falling action because if you
just look at the structure of both of these movies, part.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
One has it all.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
It has the beginning, the middle, and the end does
kind of end where it leaves you wanting more.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
But that is a complete movie. That is a complete story.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
You get the entire scope of Alpha character in that movie,
which is what Part one was. And I guess I
wasn't expecting Part two to really just be Glenda's story,
which is really where her character was fleshed out.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
You had her as a.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Kid, you had all of the struggles going on in
her mind and in her relationships, and I felt that
Alphaba's story was kind of on the back burner a
little bit. Cynthia Arrivo's best performance was in Part one,
and I don't feel like Ariana Grande stepped it up
to her level in Part two to really justify this
movie being split up into two. And there were a
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lot of things that they tried to cram in there,
but I just don't think it was strong enough. All
the best songs were in Part one, all the best
set design also, which is what I love about this
franchise is that this movie feels unlike anything that you
can go see in the theater right now, because it
has texture, real sets, them singing live where it seems
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like a lot of things you go see in theaters
right now, or things you watch at home on streaming
just feel so flat, like there's nothing that's going on
on those sets that you could actually physically touch. And
I think just that level of texture, that level of
depth in all these frames John Cheo's vision of just
creating a big spectacle, especially when it comes to anything
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regarding Wizard of Oz, which is one of the most
monumental films in history. I think honoring that by putting
as many real sets and real costume design that really
adds to the artistry of these movies is what we
need more of. We need more visionaries doing movies on
this scale. So Wow, I didn't fully love Part two
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and felt like it was a complete story. I get
why they did it because this movie shattered and crushed
it at the box office, being one of the biggest
movies of the year, made over two hundred and twenty
eight million dollars worldwide, which is incredible. It is now
the biggest Broadway adaptation since Well Part one. So I
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understand why they did it because I think most studios
are trying to generate as much money out of their
ip so it makes sense to me. And as much
as I want to hate on it for creating this
moment again just a year after. I understand it and
if we do need to split movies like this into
two to keep the theater alive and to keep these
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types of moments every single year. Although I do want
the three hour and thirty minute version, because if you
go see the Broadway production, that is about two hours
and forty five minutes, you got to intermission there. I
want the Avatar agreament. I want to see this movie
cut down and put into an under three hour version
because you can take some stuff out and really create
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that unified story that you get when watching the musical.
And it is weird for me to say that I
enjoyed the musical more than the movie. I'd never thought
I would be that guy. I never thought I would
go see a musical on Broadway, let alone go see
the movie and then say, well, the musical was so
much better. I kind of feel like how most people
do when they read the book before going to watching
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the movie. I feel so elitist in saying that I
love the Broadway production so much more. But obviously, when
you were there, you see the people performing it, you
realize that they are live right there and they do
multiple showings a day that they're so just honed in
on their craft. It is just amazing to watch, and
while watching it live in person, you feel like you
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went to Oz.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
I don't feel like I went.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
To Oz while watching this movie, and in a film
that does immerse you in the characters and immerse you
in this world, I was surprised by that. I felt
like all the connections it tried to make to Wizard
of Oz were a little bit crammed in there where
the storyline just got a little bit too convoluted with
some of the songs they.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Added in there.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
I didn't really feel the emotional impact then I did
when I watched it live, although I found that stuff
really fascinating. Probably my favorite part. It was kind of
like seeing cameos in a Marvel movie. There were some
moments that Cynthia Rivo really felt like a superhero to me.
All of the flying action sequences were amazing, and the
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battles and the flames, all the magic and the spells.
That was my favorite part of the movie. I just
wish there was a little bit more of that. I
wish there was a little bit more depth to her
character in this version. Even though I enjoyed Ariana Grande.
I just feel like she didn't have her one defying
moment like Cynthia Arrivo did in Part one. There was
no defying gravity moment, there was no popular moment. Even
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though the songs were still really good in this it
just didn't have as much of an impact, but still
a really great movie, one of the best of the
year for wicked for good, I give it four out
of five bubbles.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
It's time to head down to movie Mike Trey Lar Paul.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
So many things that I loved about The Super Mario
Gala see trailer. It is coming out next year on
April third. I think the thing that stands out the
most is it is obvious to me that since the
first one was such a big success, making one point
three six billion dollars at the box office back in
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twenty twenty three, that they have more money to play
with in this sequel, because if you look at the
character design, it looks so fantastic. I love the way
that Bowser looks like you could reach into the screen
and pull him out and he would be this three
D object that you could manipulate like a figure. Because
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you can see the level of detail on his skin,
whereas you can see the scaliness of his dinosaur lizard skin.
That is a sign of they are really pulling out
all the big guns when it comes to the character design,
and also the fact that the villains are getting bigger
and bigger. This world is expanding. I feel like they
could get to an Avengers level type of movie when
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it comes to the Super Mario World. Now, myself personally,
who was first introduced to Super Mario in the nineties
and early two thousands, I would have loved for them
to have done a s NES Super Mario World movie
or an N sixty four Mario movie. But I see
from watching this trailer that they are catering to a
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much younger audience who have been continuing to play these
Super Mario video games or have just been introduced in
the last ten to fifteen years. That is who they
are making these movies for. And I have to understand
that that I'm not the key demographic they're gonna get
us anyway, because they are banking on all the millennials
and Gen X who grew up with these video games
to just go because they want to see the things
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from their childhood play out so they're gonna get our
money regardless, especially those who have kids, and you can
go and say, oh, this is the game I played
as a kid, and now you can play it too.
So I do love that this franchise spans several different
generations and seeing this trailer and now me accepting that
I won't get that N sixty four movie or that
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Super Mario World movie, that this is going to open
up Nintendo to be able to do a lot in
this world because the first one was such a huge
success in twenty twenty three. If you get another smash
hit on your hands, another billion dollar movie with this one,
it is going to prove to Illumination, who also makes
all the Minions movies, that there is a big demand
for these and they can stretch their wings out a
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little bit and start focusing on maybe the Luigi character,
some of the other side characters, or focus more on
other Nintendo properties. So I want to get into more
about what is going on in this movie and with
other movies that are video game adaptations that I am
excited about. But again, this is coming out next year
on April third. Here's just a little bit of the
Super Mario Galaxy trailer.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
What do you think love the colors? It's trash a
da you're look at my nice say night. I'll stop
your bow.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
I'm sorry about that. That's the old Bowser talking. Anyway,
I need my eight hours or else I really turn
into a monster. I'm Bowser Junior, and I'm gonna be
taking my father now.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
So Super Mario Galaxy is picking up right where the
last movie left off. So not a case of you
could just hop into the franchise right now and understand
what is going on. You do have to go back
and watch the Super Mario Brothers movie, but what is
going on in this one. Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, and
Toad are going out on an adventure, going into space,
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going across the galaxy, and they have to face off
now against Bowser's son, Bowser Junior, who in this trailer
you hear Bowser, but his voice is higher because he
has been shrunken down. He is living in this little
castle that's like a toy house, where he is now
taken upon the hobby of painting. So that is what
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he is showing off to Luigi and Mario in that trailer.
He's just focusing on still being obsessed with Princess Peach,
trying to channel his anger into creating art. So there's
one painting he makes that is of Mario as a skeleton,
so dead Mario. But then the painting he shows him
there is him all buffed up with Princess Peach because
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he is still obsessed with her. But now Bowser Junior
his son, who is a little bit more hardcore. He
is trying to free as father and.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
Get him back to his normal size.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
So you have Chris Pratt coming back as Mario, Anya
Taylor Joy as Princess Peach, who I think she does
a fantastic job voice acting in this movie. Charlie Day
is probably the best voice actor out of anybody who
you would know from It's always Sonny in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
He is back as Luigi.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Jack Black is returning as Bowser Keegan, Michael Key is Toad.
Now joining the cast is Ben saff who just directed
The Smashing Machine. He was also the villain and Happy
Gilmore too. So he is one of those rare people
who is doing acting and directing at a high level,
even though to me he is primarily a director. He
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has done a lot of movies with his brother like
Good Time Uncut Gems. I think that is really inspiring
to see somebody who has had so much success creating
really powerful and dynamic movies now moving into a place
where he can do these big Hollywood roles like a
happy Gilmore too and now a part of a major
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animated franchise, and not one of those people who just
has a huge name that lends itself to an animated
movie because that's what they do.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
Sometimes, like Chris Pratt.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
As Mario is more of a marketing thing because you still,
even though it's an animated movie, you need that a
list star to sell it, to go around and do press.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
That is why you get a guy like Chris Pratt.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
A lot of people were really upset whenever he was
first announced as Mario after the first movie. I was
okay with it because you don't want Mario to sound
like the video game character for a ninety plus minute movie.
I think he actually works. Is he's the best choice
of all time? No, But for somebody like a Ben Saftey,
he doesn't have a huge name that is gonna get
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people to go watch it just because Ben Saftie is
voicing the character, so he is somebody that is actually
bringing that level that you heard there in that trailer
of somebody who was actually putting a lot of emphasis,
a lot of passion behind an animated role. And that
is what I love, because I think in order to
really bring these characters to life, it's not just about
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sitting and in recording booth that anybody could do and
just sitting there and recording your lines. Even Jack Black,
who is a well seasoned actor, he is perfect for
animation because he is so just animated himself that he
puts that same amount of passion into voice acting. I think,
maybe unfairly I said Charlie Day was the best voice
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actor in this movie. I kind of forgot how great
Jack Black is as Bowser, But I do think his
character is going to be not as dominant as he
was in the first one, and they're going to focus
more on Bowser Junior. Then you have Bree Larson coming
in as Rosalina. I like Bree Larson as an actor.
I think she had a pretty raw deal when it
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came to the Captain Marvel movie. The whole timing of
that just felt a little bit off. And then what
the Marvels didn't really do her any favors, but I
still really enjoy her as an actor and can't wait
to see how that translates into animation. The thing about
these movies that I love is that it is not
the male characters that are the most dominant. I think
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the more inspiring characters, especially to young kids, are a
Princess Peach and I think in this one, you see
in the trailer Rosalina who has some really cool powers,
as you see Bowser Junior take on his role as
the Prowler where he almost turns entirely metal and has
this big machine body that she is taking on with
her powers, and see seeing the female characters in these
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movies not need the help of Mario or Luigi, being
able to stand up to threats like Bowser, I think
that is really inspiring for a young generation because you
do not get that a lot, especially not in live
action movies where it's few and far between. Now that
we get strong female leads that show kids that not
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all these heroes have to be men, that women do
not always need to be saved. So maybe something you
don't expect to find in a Super Mario movie where
you think it is just an animated movie, about a
video game. I think these movies are more impactful than
we think. When it comes to my top five most
anticipated video game movies, Super Mario Galaxy definitely makes the
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top five, but it is not number one. And number
five I have Mortal Kombat two, which is supposed to
come out next year, even though it's been delayed a
little bit. I thought the first one was good, not great,
but I see a lot of potential. There definitely a
major upgrade from the Mortal Kombat movies back rup in
the nineties.
Speaker 2 (49:00):
Even though those movies.
Speaker 1 (49:01):
Are hilariously cheesy and still entertaining because they do represent
a big part of my childhood, I do like now
seeing how much more hardcore these video games are, so
I have that one at number five. At number four,
Five Nights at Freddy's two, which is coming out next
month on December fifth.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
I was a huge hater of the first.
Speaker 1 (49:20):
One, and never have I received so much negative feedback
on a review. Then when I first talked about Five
Nights at Freddy's, because I just did not get it,
did not understand the lower of Five Nights at Freddy's.
I think I went into that movie just expecting a
horror movie, and I was like, this isn't scary at all,
what are they doing? But now I understand it more.
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I understand the campingness of it, and after watching the
trailer for two, I think, Okay, I can go into
it with a much different state of mind and enjoy
it a lot more and hopefully, maybe just a little bit,
we get some more scares in there. At number three,
I have Street Fighter, which is coming out next year
on October sixteenth. I think I'm just really into Marvel
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versus Capcom right now. The video game, which was an
arcade game back in the day that I used to
play every time we went to CCS. There is a
place here in Nashville that actually has the real arcade
version of it, and I don't think we could ever
get a movie adaptation of that because of all the
licensing of all the characters in Marvel and Capcom. So
I think just getting on the Capcom side with the
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Street Fighter characters, I am just itching for that. Even
though back in the day when the Street Fighter movie
first came out that was a pretty big fail. That
is one we don't really talk about a whole lot.
So hopefully they get it right with this one. It
does have a lot of interesting people in the cast
WWE wrestlers like Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns. You also
have Orville Peck in there, Jason Momoa, Eric Andre Andrew
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Schultz in fifty cent, just to name a few. So
hopefully they're brewing up something good on the Street Fighter franchise,
or it could be a straight utter disaster.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
It's gonna go either way.
Speaker 1 (51:02):
But that's why I have it at number three because
I just want to see what happens. And number two
is where I would put Super Mario Galaxy. I think
out of all the movies on the list, it is
going to be the best because the first one delivered
so much. I have no reason to doubt that the
second one will not be on that same.
Speaker 2 (51:18):
Caliber of movie.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
But for number one on the list, which is The
Legend of Zelda, supposed to come out on May seven,
twenty twenty seven, I have it there because I.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
Have no idea what to expect.
Speaker 1 (51:29):
They did post last week the first shots in our
first look of the live action movie, which is just
Zelda and Link sitting out in the field, doesn't really
tell you a whole lot. Part of me had a
little bit of worry that they give us these first
looks so early on. I almost don't even want to
see it until it's a full trailer. But because that
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is such a major franchise, and one if they get right,
like I've been talking about this whole time, really opens
itself up or Nintendo to make all different types of
movies because the fan base is there. I mean, I
think what we all would love is a Smash Brothers movie.
If they could build Hump to an Avengers style movie
where everybody comes together for a big fight, that would
(52:15):
be amazing. Or just a straight ahead Mario Kart movie.
I'm talking f one level of detail, make it live
action while we're at it, like the SNL's get they did.
That would also be a really fun time. Some other
anticipated video game adaptations are Sonic The Hedgehog four, supposed
to come out in twenty twenty seven, Resonant Evil, which
(52:38):
is directed by Zach Kreiger, who did weapons really interested
how they're going to reboot that franchise, especially because he
is attached to that movie, and Return to Silent Hill
is coming out next year on January twenty sixth. But
out of all these movies, I think only one has
the chance to cross that billion dollar mark. It is
Super Mario Galaxy coming out on April third.
Speaker 2 (53:00):
Wid That was this week's edition of Movie by Framer.
Speaker 1 (53:06):
Bar and that is gonna do it for another episode
here of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta
give my listeners shout out of the week loving YouTube
right now.
Speaker 2 (53:14):
Thank you everybody who has subscribed in the last week.
Speaker 1 (53:17):
So I'm going over there to find the listener shout
out of the week if you want to hop on
board and go watch individual movie reviews and interviews from
the podcast YouTube dot com slash Mike Distro, where you
can always find the links to my YouTube channel and
all my socials in the episode notes of this podcast.
But this week's listener shout out goes to Omega Agent
(53:38):
sixty nine, who commented on my review of The Running
Man and said Glenn Powell should be the new Captain America.
He needs it now. Plus it's a good salary and
Marvel is looking to recast Omega Agent sixty nine. I
think a case could be made unfairly. I cannot see
anybody else but Chris Evans in that role, even the
(54:00):
Anthony Mackie is Captain America right now. When I think
of like classic Captain America, I think of a more
filled out Do you remember that reveal of Chris Evans
going from being the scrawny guy to being the full
Here's Captain America with the serum, And I just feel
like Glenn Powell is built a little different. Obviously super
(54:20):
ripped up, big arms, incredible abs. I'm getting a little
bit too into the detail's ear, but I just think
he has more of the build for Cyclops, because.
Speaker 2 (54:28):
Cyclops his nickname was Slim, who has a little bit
more of that spelt body type. I could just see
the suit working more for him.
Speaker 1 (54:35):
But again, I wouldn't be mad on either front of
getting a Glenn Powell Cyclops or a Captain America. I
just think he would fit in so well. So thank
you Omega aged sixty nine, for watching over there and
commenting on YouTube, and thank you right now wherever you
are listening, and until next time, go out and watch
good movies and I will talk to you later.
Host
Mike D
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