May 13, 2025 • 29 mins
ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – The Weekend Box Office AND a review on the newest entry into the ‘Karate Kid’ franchise ‘Karate Kid: Legends’…PLUS – A look at “What’s On The Tube” - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
We're live on YouTube still at mister m'kelly. We're live
on Instagram at mister Mokelly, and we're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. Got to say, it might be a
decent summer. And yes, it's spring as far as our
calendar is concerned, but as far as box office season goes,
we are now into the summer box office season.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
It might be a decent summer.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And I say decent because the rest of the movies
until August have to perform as well. When it could
be a decent summer for movie theaters. And for movie
theaters to do well, they need to have hit movies.
They need to have movies that people are willing to
see multiple times. They need to have movies that people
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are willing to tell their friends about, tell their family about.
They need to have movies which are something that people
are willing to see during the week, take time out
of their day instead of waiting til three weeks for
it to show up on streaming.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
You have that in a movie.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Is like movie like Sinners, which came in number two
in its fourth week, which is really unheard of.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
With another twenty two point one.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Million dollars and a per screen average just below the
number one movie of Thunderbolts or New Adventures, whatever you
want to call it.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
If you don't know what I'm talking about, see the movie.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
A lot of good word of mouth for Sinners. I
don't know how much you're on social media, but everybody
who I know who posts about it says they went
into it kind of cold and they absolutely loved it
and are recommending everybody see it.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And this is going to be part of my final thoughts.
Part of being able to go into a movie cold
is there is no active reference point.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
It's not a remake, it's not a reboot.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Now, there may be some familiar elements to it, but
it is still new. It is a completely original idea,
which helps a lot of people where it's like, oh it's.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Not another Marvel movie.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Oh it's another Reba, Oh it's another Jurassic Park movie.
You don't have any of that weighing it down. The
prior expectations or the prior failures, or the prior indifference.
You don't have any of that. So centers and also
it wasn't up against any major movies. I think it's
it's debut week. Yep, Nope, And that's part of the
reason why you'll release a movie in April as opposed
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to May, June or July. There's less competition. You can
own the box office, and that's what it's done. But
here's something else that not a lot of people are
talking about. It's presently in thirty five hundred theaters, which
is still far below below like a major Marvel movie,
which will be in forty four hundred theaters. In other words,
there is still room for it to grow. And when
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it first came out it was only in thirty one
hundred theaters. It is still in its fourth week, adding
theaters which are showing it. There was so much more
growth which was available to it, but people didn't know
about it. There were theaters, I guess who were shy
and didn't want to give up a space for it.
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And now other theaters are catching up, which is prolonging
its box office run. It's made two hundred and eighty
five million dollars worldwide.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
And if I'm not mistaken, they're actually talk of after
I believe next week, bringing the centers back for a
quick run. Yes, yeah, it's either this week or not.
I know it was supposed to be in between Thunderbolts
and Mission Impossible, so Mission Impossible is the twenty eighth,
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so that's the last week. So it's probably this coming
weekend that they're going to do another Imax run on
centers because people I think people are literally going to
the theaters demanding like, hey, I didn't get to catch
this on on Imax, which everyone says is makes all
the difference in the world. I've seen it regular I
need to see Imax.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
The movie added one hundred and fifty five screens this week,
after it adding another one hundred and fifty or so
screens the week prior. It is gaining in momentum. It
isn't slowing down, of course. The number one movie this
week Thunderbolts. It brought in another thirty two million. It's
worldwide total it's two hundred and seventy one million. It
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did not have this much of a drop off as
Captain America Brave New World, but they're still kind of
neck and neck as far as the overall box office
and where it may finish up. It's still, though an
improvement as far as the perception of Marvel, the feeling
that they're getting back to basics, getting back to what
made Marvel, the beneuth that it is, as far as
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making movies event movies that people want to turn out
and see in the first week and not be disappointed
with characters that either we know about, we care about,
we are now starting to love. And it was moving
in the right direction. And I keep telling people in twilta.
You've heard me say it. If you care about movie theaters,
you should be rooting for these movies to do well. Yes, yeah,
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Beyond these top two movies which are doing well, you
have a Minecraft movie which is still hanging around. It's
in a six week It's brought in another seven point
six million. It broke the nine hundred million dollar barrier plateau.
It'll probably they'll probably push it to a billion. They'll
do something to get the last ninety billion. They'll you know,
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I'm not saying that they'll buy the tickets, but they'll
probably buy the tickets. I'm saying that's what movie theaters,
movie studios do.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Yeah, you're not gonna let it just sit at like
nine hundred ten million.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
No, not that number.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Four is The Accountant Too, which is showing some legs
for a movie which was not heavily advertised. It's at
eighty three million worldwide. I don't think the budget could
have been more than forty forty five million. There wasn't
a lot to the movie. I liked it. Clown in
a Cornfield? Is that a horror movie? Mark it is?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
I kind of want to see that. I got it,
but I'm not saying it looks good.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
A fading miss western town in which friend of the Clown,
a symbol of bygone success, re emerges as a terrifying scourge.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
It looks like it in a cornfield, so like Children
of the corn meets it.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
It kind of sounds like that Terrifier, like an offshoot
of that Terrifier series. Yeah, what could go wrong? It's
surefire hit brought in three point six million.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
I mean, you know, clowns, cornfields things that no one likes.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Clowns are scary, even outside of cornfields. So I'm in.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Shadow Force bombed shadow Force really yeah, it all brought
in two point one million.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
You know, I was really pulling for them. And that's.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yarry Washington Washington and Omar Sai yeah, I'm not a
big fan of Omar, so I'm just being honest.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I've watched his wretch movies. It's just like that.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I don't think he has a screen presence. And Shadow
Forest had a budget of sixty billion. They're not going
to make their money back. But I don't think it
was well promoted either. I knew about it, but it
wasn't like I saw it everywhere. Now here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
I thought Shadow Forest was literally an Amazon Prime movie.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I didn't know it was coming to theaters.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I thought it was Extreaming property too, because there was
no buzz around it at all at all. And that's
basically it as far as the main story is coming
out of the movies. But you want these movies to
do well. I don't know what's coming up in the
near future. What's next next. We have Leelo and Stitch
coming up, and we have watched that well. I mean,
(07:43):
I know it's not for you, but we have Lelo
and Stitches. I think the next big summer movie coming.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
That is Watch four Fantastic four of course, and then
we have a Superman knew us to take a new
trailer drops for that, like the full trailer drops for
that tomorrow, along with finally the trail oh no, no Wednesday,
finally the trailer for Ironheart.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
But that's a D plus series. I gotta say this,
and I say this regrettably. I saw a recent screening
of Karate Kid Legends. Did you?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
And let me just say this, I am all things
Karate Kid. Tell me it was good? This was was.
It should have been on Netflix. It just should have been.
It's just I think it was.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
I think it was like the production of it was
rated Netflix to begin with. I think it was the
people who did Cobra Kai did this.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
But this, I don't want to give away too much.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
All the goodwill of Cobra Kai that had built up,
they didn't use that to propel the movie. The movie
might as well been in a different universe.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Saying this, And so it's not like the Jayda Smith
Karate Kid.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
No, that was a much better movie than this, much better.
But I mean just not connected. It's not connected. Really.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
They try to make these oblique references, but it's not
really connected. And it follows the Karate Kid in nineteen
eighty four, almost beat for beat, the villain the whole
fish out of Water.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
You can see it in the trailer that we're showing
right now on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
You know, coming from a different place, doesn't have any friends,
struggles to make friends, get some fights because he can't
make friends, and then the girl that he has eyes four,
is the ex girlfriend of the bully. I'm just it's
literally like Karate Kid nineteen eighty four. It's just come on,
and all this is in the trailer. It's just oh
my gosh, it's just yeah, yeah, And see.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
It's tough because the onliest people who would be going
to see this is those who are fans of the
original Karate Kid and want to see if there's any
more nostalgia to eke out that we've been growing to
love with Cobra Kai or recent Cobra Kai inductees who've
been brought into the Cobra Kai world.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
And the villain is one tenth any of the villains
in any of the movies or TV series.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
He's not even a bad boy, Mike Barnes, No, not
even close it.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I just can't believe that this guy is the baddest
dude in all of New York City. I just did
not buy it. Someone would ragged all that dude in
a Heartbeat, Heartbeat. He is not the most intimidating person
out there they could have found for the role. Not
that I want to beat up a teenager, but come on,
you think through teenager's eyes, you could have found someone
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we gotta go to break. I'm just saying it's rated Netflix.
It's Later with mo Kelly. We're live on YouTube. We're
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Speaker 1 (10:34):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (10:40):
It's Later with mo Kelly. We're live on YouTube, We're
live on Instagram right now. We're still live on the
iHeartRadio app everywhere. In last segment, we're talking movies, as
we've been known to do. But I also talked about
me being able to see the movie Karate Kid Legends early,
and I went in, Oh, I wanted to love the
movie because of how appreciative I was of Cobra Kai,
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the fan servicing, letting us know where everyone was essential
to the series. And I believe that this movie Karate
Kid Legends is not going to get made without the
success and the interest which had been generated by Cobra
Kai is the direct reflection of the resurgence of the brand, and.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I saw it and it was like, hmm.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Mark was saying, sometimes this is too much of a
good thing, and it's like, yes, it is the law
of diminishing returns here, And if you don't know, the
law of diminishing returns is the more you get of something,
the less enjoyable, the less valuable, the less meaningful.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
It gets to be.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Like if I always use the analogy of eating hot
dogs on Memorial Day or the Fourth of July, the
first hot dog, the second hot dog, great, get to
the third or fourth, Not so much.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
You're going right to the tube stakes for this analogy.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
I was happy like anybody else to see all the
Karate Kid people back, But then it was just like,
we don't need this much. I mean, I don't need
it to drag out ad infinitum into their sixties.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Okay, but the last season I definitely felt that. In
other words, they I called it they had run out
of story to tell. But I was thinking it would
be a good way to pass the baton to this movie. Yeah,
and you all, you have these new characters, none of
which they used in the movie. You have these storylines,
none of which they used in the movie and it.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Was just nothing. What okay?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Now?
Speaker 5 (12:35):
And this is not a spoiler because he's in the
trailer that Daniel Son from a Karate Kid and then
Cobra Kai is in this movie.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Correct.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
How does nothing from Cobra Kai translate or Daniel doesn't
say anything like hey, so I'd love to help out.
But when I'm working on these kids and we're building,
you know, rebuilding.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Miyagi dough, no, I will say this and it's not
really a spoiler. Ralph Bachio is not even in the
movie until the third act.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
How is that possible? What is correct? I don't understand correct?
Why do it? Because the trailer would have you believe
he's all through the movie.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
I thought he was a central point in the movie,
like there is nothing happening.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
There's some plot points in there is a plot point, yes,
that's central to the movie, but he his character, does
not even make it appearance until the third act.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
I want a class action lawsuit now.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I don't know how you can do a Karate Kid
Legends movie. Now, Jackie Chan is all through it, all
through it beginning, middle end, But the way they market
it is, you know, Ralph Baccio has an equal role
to play.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Is heavily featured in the trailer. He is not heavily featured.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
He was heavily featured in the marketing approach, the lead up,
even the announcement. It was Ralph Machio who was talking
about Cobra Kai, who brought Jackie chan All and said, hey,
we've got a major announcement we are doing.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
It's almost like they got Ralph macha available for three
or four days to shoot when he wasn't doing Cobra Kai,
and said, can we do some scenes with you real quick?
Because he's only in three or four scenes in the movie,
three or four location scenes. You know, you could tell, like, okay,
they just threw this in there.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
That is Garbia.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
There is one end credit scene Cobra Kai, and that
was better than the movie.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I'm sorry, I wanted to like it. That's bad.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Yeah, I don't want to tell you because I want
you to see it for yourself. Yeah, but who's gonna
get off the couch and go to this now? Like
I already wasn't so inclined to, but now there's no way.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Wait for Netflix. Yeah, it'll be on Netflix. It will
be you know, I don't know. Look, so it's not legendary.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
No, it's not legendary. It's not.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
And I don't even know why they call it even legends,
because use you have to have legends, I e legends.
He doesn't right make that connection to call it legends. Yeah,
it'd be it'd be different if you had the whole
cavalcade of characters of previous movies, or you had not
a Hilary Swank. There there are no cameos in this movie.
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Hilary Swank does not make a cameo. No kidding me, No,
Jaden Smith does not make a cameo in this movie.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
But then why is mister Han in the movie?
Speaker 5 (15:29):
If Jaden Smith isn't in it, you're at least got
to tell me that James Smith he was judging the
competition because he won the last.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
They don't even make mention of child dre He does
not exist. Only with the exception of oh, you can
see how the events of that karate kid propelled mister Han,
you know, not to drink anymore whatever, to be a
you know, a semi productive citizen.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Wouldn't you love it if they had some martial arts
royalty and something like this like get sam O hung
in it, Get get Cynthia rough Rock, have some fun cameos.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
The choreography was much better than anything Karate Kid, so
I was fine with that. You could tell Jackie Chan, oh,
he must have done all these things because it looked
very much like a Jackie Chan movie, using the props
and all types of gadgets and weapons that seem like
you know, it was well choreographed.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
He's still terrific even though he's whatever senior agent. All
his bones and joints are probably dust by now.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Well, he has a moment. He has more than one
moment in the movie. I will say that just to
let you know I'm still Jackie Chan. Stick with Drunken
Master two. Okay, but this is going to hurt your heart.
I don't know how to put it in another way.
It's going to hurt oh man, I might just have
a heart attack and just die right there. I'm sad
right now.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I can't get in good conscience say hey, go run
out and see this. You'll always have rumble in the Bronx,
and I think everything is judged against that.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Honestly, you're listening to later with Mo Kelly on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
It's later with Moke Kelly.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
We're live on YouTube, We're live on Instagram, the iHeartRadio app.
I'm curious to know what are you guys watching. I
talked about what I was watching or watch. I finally
got around to seeing the Amateur. I actually liked it.
It was a bit long in the tooth that some
of the scenes could have been shortened, but I did
like the slow burned, slow build to its conclusion.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
It's fun. It's not a classic, but it's well worth
a watch. And now you should watch the original from
I think around the early eighties.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I will, I will. I definitely want to check it out.
Robbie Mallick is a small dude. I just really realized
in this movie. He's a small dude. Yeah, he's not
a big Jason Statham type. And it's a good role
for him because the character has to find ways to
get revenge while not being an unkillable machine.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Right, And it made sense.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
You want to see that size disparity in all this,
you know it made sense. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. Stephan,
What are you checking out these days?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Well, I just.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
I just finished the Hunting Party, and it's essentially like
a kind of formulaic show, but essentially there's this inside
job of an explosion at a prison that held like
the biggest serial killers and then this woman has to
go out and find them.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Just finished it.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
The first episode has like twists beyond like it just
kept going each break. I was like, damn, what's going
to be left of the show. So that was really good.
And I just started poker Face that's really good. Which
one is that that's with Natasha Leone and she knows
how to read people, so she knows when people are
lying and the same thing. First episode. Man, it just
keeps turning around left and right. And I just finished
(18:46):
the second episode pretty good on Peacock Mark Runner.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Anything specific, Well, I'm working my way through that terrific
French spy program called The Bureau, which is what the
agency YEP based on. So I'm on season two of
that now. And I also over the weekend caught up
with an absolutely magnificent piece of trash from the seventies
called Golden Needles, directed by Robert Klaus who did Enter
the Dragon, which is the all time classic martial arts film,
(19:10):
and it's got Jim Kelly in it, and it's got
a killer score by Lalo Schiffrin. I don't know how
I had never seen this before, but it popped up
free on Roku dot dot two weeks after I had
bought the Blu ray Watch. But if you're into that stuff,
it's really a little gem and Jim Kelly's in it,
(19:31):
but Joe Don Baker is the protagonist, and I am
fascinated by how he became a big star in the
seventies because he's such a dope in this. You gotta
see it tee.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
I have only had time for one thing, and one
thing only, and that was Andor this week.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
And oh yes, glorious, absolutely glorious.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
For those who don't know, and Or is a Star
Wars Disney Plus streaming show, and they are dropping three
episodes every week on a Tuesday, So they have episodes one, two, three,
then four, five, six, seven, eight nine. We just saw seven,
eight nine. They're twelve in this season and it's the
final season. Because of continuity, you know that it can't
(20:14):
go any further. But episode seven, eight and nine last
week that could have been a movie on its own
quality and pacing.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Yes, absolutely, anyone who is a fan of Rogue One,
anyone who is a fan of a level of storytelling
in the world of Star Wars. We all grew up
with Star Wars as kids. We watch Star Wars now
we are adults trying to make sense of a lot
of the childlike decisions that Kathleen Kennedy has made where
(20:48):
she doesn't seem to recognize that the fandom for Star
Wars has grown up. We're adults now, and or and
or is every single.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Thing that we as adults have been just cravy.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
See that's a great point because Star Wars, and this
was the fear of Star Wars fans when it was
sold by Lucas to Disney, that it was going to
be disneyfied, it was going to be four kids, it
was going to abandon the base, the fan based, the
original fan base, who were obviously adults at that point.
I saw Star Wars when I was seven, in nineteen
(21:22):
seventy seven, and so when Lucas sold it in the
early two thousands, I think, you know, we're all adults
at that point.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
We've seen the prequels. We wanted more.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Whether we liked the prequels or not, we still wanted
a degree of maturity in the movies. Instead, we got
more Disney than anything, and a lot of the subsequent
TV shows felt more Disney than they did Lucas, Star
Wars and Or for example, and obviously the Mandalorian those
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were more traditional Star Wars pieces. Yeah, we got to
enjoy and and Or probably is the most cerebral, intellectual,
complain storytelling that they've ever done since they moved to Disney.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
But that doesn't mean it's dull though it's really it's tense, oh,
very tense.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
It was shocking the things that happened in episode eight.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
It was absolutely shocking.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
And nine literally had me on the edge of my seat, like,
oh my God, Like it's one of those things that
you may think you know what's about to happen, but
watching it in that moment, I was so tense, like
how are they going to get away with this?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
And I forgot enough. It was intense, but it was
also violent. It was uncharacteristically violent for a Star Wars property.
It's one thing when you're blasting someone into oblivion and
outer space, so you're cutting someone with a lightsaber, it
wasn't It's not.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
The same type of violence. This was up close.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
You could feel it, you get you know, people are
getting ragged alled. It's just it was different presentation of
what we had known or come to know as Star Wars.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Now, let Tony Gilroy, who's running this, do anything he
wants in the Star Wars universe. Now it really makes
you reevaluate all the other stuff in light of how
good this is.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Oh Mark, you and I were talking about for fans
of House of Cards and how this and Or is
a much more sophisticated level of storytelling. If you're a
fan of House of Cards, you may recognize a familiar
name and bo Willhelman. As far as who is the
original executive producer if I'm not mistaken of House of
Cars or Chief Writers something like that series creator, and
(23:33):
he's also one of the executive producers for Rogue one,
you can tell as far as communicating the whole palace intrigue,
the sophisticated workings of a quote unquote government and how
that plays out. You can see the parallels between House
of Cards and and Or.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
It's so good and it I'm not kidding when I
say it makes you rethink some things, Like we were
talking about this off there there's a scene where one
of the galactic politicians is grabbed out of the Senate
by stormtroopers, and it's absolutely chilling because these aren't the stormtroopers,
who are just a bunch of boobs who can't hit
anything with their blasters. This is like authoritarianism taking shape
(24:14):
before your eyes, and you can see how somebody becomes
part of the rebellion against the empire. And I just
can't recommend this highly enough. It's probably the best Star
Wars thing that's been made apart from the first two.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
This is something I talked about with you two, Aul
real quickly before we go to break. We always heard
about the rebellion, Yeah, and you think about in an
intergalactic sense, how can there actually be a rebellion. We
don't know what's going on on Pluto right now, or
Jupiter or whatever, nor do we care. But this brings
it down to a level where you understood because of
the autocracy and authoritarianism. You can see how a rebellion
(24:50):
will grow out of what the Empire was doing to
people and doing to planets.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
On a very, very i'll say personal level.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
It's pretty on the nose because this comes on the
heels of us seeing people dragged out of like city
council meetings. Yes, we're asking a tough question.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Yes, dragged out of cars for suspicion of not being
a us citizendant, dragged out of their homes and all
that looks.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
A lot like that. No, but it's making it, let's
be honest.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
It's making a commentary about a lot of things going
on in the world. And not to give it all away,
but there are lines and speeches about I don't want
to say, I don't want to give it away.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Well man, Mathma's big speeches. Yeah, pivotal moment of the episode.
It's in and thinking about a lot of stuff in
our world. Yeah, and the repercussions from that as well,
because things come at a cost. When when authoritarian start,
authoritarianism starts to take over, the people who speak out
against it risk everything, and that's depicted in this.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I think it's tomorrow at six o'clock we'll get the
final three episodes of the season and series all night.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Yeah, Yeah, we're gonna have to do it.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
And before we get out here.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Yeah, I'm gonna say this final thought, I can't do
it two and a half minutes. That's my fault for
just getting off the clock and everything. But I had
a pretty decent weekend. You ever have those weekends where
you may be busy, but maybe you get a better
quality sleep, maybe get some exercise in. I didn't feel
as if I didn't have a weekend. And that's the
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hardest part of a Monday, where you come in and
you feel like I never left this place.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I didn't do anything.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
I just I went to sleep Friday and then all
of a sudden, it was like Monday morning. Didn't feel
that So that was a plus for me. And you know,
I had a chance to watch the movies over the
weekend as well. So that's what I plan to do
tonight when I get home, watch some more movies and
see what's out there. Now that I'm getting a little
bit more time, I'm also in the process of producing
(26:55):
and scheduling this martial arts tournament. I made a couple
of passing references to it Southern California hop Keto Invitational Tournament,
the first annual, which is going to be in Torrents
on May twenty fourth, So I don't have a lot
of free time to begin with.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
That's part of it.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
So in between teaching classes, getting ready for this tournament,
doing the show, working on the YouTube, doing social media.
Did TV this morning. That's another thing I forgot. I
did Spectrum News at twelve o'clock today. It's been pretty
busy for me. Pretty busy. I think you were still
a sleep mark. You love to chronically overbook yourself. I
(27:31):
like rest on the weekends. And you know what I do,
because usually when I book myself or agree to do something,
I usually think about how I feel in a moment. Yeah, sure,
I'll get up tomorrow at five in the morning whatever
to do TV Spectrum because I'm wide awake, and then
I realize, ooh, I'm not going to feel this way
when I wake up tomorrow at five in the morning,
(27:52):
for example.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Yeah, you're right on that regard. In that regard, I say, yes,
way too much.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Sleep in, watch the movie, get some reading done, have
a cocktail.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I have nothing on my schedule tomorrow morning. Thank goodness.
Finally I can stay up as late as I want,
like a kid at a candy store, and I don't
have to get up in the morning. You know, knock
on wood, I might even have a cocktail. Who You're
good enough, you mo are enough. You don't need to
constantly be in motion. Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who
is the brightest of them all? Come on, mirror, Come on,
(28:25):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
We're live on YouTube still at mister m'kelly. We're live
on Instagram at mister Mokelly, and we're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. Got to say, it might be a
decent summer. And yes, it's spring as far as our
calendar is concerned, but as far as box office season goes,
we are now into the summer box office season.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
It might be a decent summer.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And I say decent because the rest of the movies
until August have to perform as well. When it could
be a decent summer for movie theaters. And for movie
theaters to do well, they need to have hit movies.
They need to have movies that people are willing to
see multiple times. They need to have movies that people
(00:50):
are willing to tell their friends about, tell their family about.
They need to have movies which are something that people
are willing to see during the week, take time out
of their day instead of waiting til three weeks for
it to show up on streaming.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
You have that in a movie.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Is like movie like Sinners, which came in number two
in its fourth week, which is really unheard of.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
With another twenty two point one.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Million dollars and a per screen average just below the
number one movie of Thunderbolts or New Adventures, whatever you
want to call it.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
If you don't know what I'm talking about, see the movie.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
A lot of good word of mouth for Sinners. I
don't know how much you're on social media, but everybody
who I know who posts about it says they went
into it kind of cold and they absolutely loved it
and are recommending everybody see it.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And this is going to be part of my final thoughts.
Part of being able to go into a movie cold
is there is no active reference point.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
It's not a remake, it's not a reboot.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Now, there may be some familiar elements to it, but
it is still new. It is a completely original idea,
which helps a lot of people where it's like, oh it's.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Not another Marvel movie.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Oh it's another Reba, Oh it's another Jurassic Park movie.
You don't have any of that weighing it down. The
prior expectations or the prior failures, or the prior indifference.
You don't have any of that. So centers and also
it wasn't up against any major movies. I think it's
it's debut week. Yep, Nope, And that's part of the
reason why you'll release a movie in April as opposed
(02:30):
to May, June or July. There's less competition. You can
own the box office, and that's what it's done. But
here's something else that not a lot of people are
talking about. It's presently in thirty five hundred theaters, which
is still far below below like a major Marvel movie,
which will be in forty four hundred theaters. In other words,
there is still room for it to grow. And when
(02:52):
it first came out it was only in thirty one
hundred theaters. It is still in its fourth week, adding
theaters which are showing it. There was so much more
growth which was available to it, but people didn't know
about it. There were theaters, I guess who were shy
and didn't want to give up a space for it.
(03:13):
And now other theaters are catching up, which is prolonging
its box office run. It's made two hundred and eighty
five million dollars worldwide.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
And if I'm not mistaken, they're actually talk of after
I believe next week, bringing the centers back for a
quick run. Yes, yeah, it's either this week or not.
I know it was supposed to be in between Thunderbolts
and Mission Impossible, so Mission Impossible is the twenty eighth,
(03:45):
so that's the last week. So it's probably this coming
weekend that they're going to do another Imax run on
centers because people I think people are literally going to
the theaters demanding like, hey, I didn't get to catch
this on on Imax, which everyone says is makes all
the difference in the world. I've seen it regular I
need to see Imax.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
The movie added one hundred and fifty five screens this week,
after it adding another one hundred and fifty or so
screens the week prior. It is gaining in momentum. It
isn't slowing down, of course. The number one movie this
week Thunderbolts. It brought in another thirty two million. It's
worldwide total it's two hundred and seventy one million. It
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did not have this much of a drop off as
Captain America Brave New World, but they're still kind of
neck and neck as far as the overall box office
and where it may finish up. It's still, though an
improvement as far as the perception of Marvel, the feeling
that they're getting back to basics, getting back to what
made Marvel, the beneuth that it is, as far as
(04:51):
making movies event movies that people want to turn out
and see in the first week and not be disappointed
with characters that either we know about, we care about,
we are now starting to love. And it was moving
in the right direction. And I keep telling people in twilta.
You've heard me say it. If you care about movie theaters,
you should be rooting for these movies to do well. Yes, yeah,
(05:15):
Beyond these top two movies which are doing well, you
have a Minecraft movie which is still hanging around. It's
in a six week It's brought in another seven point
six million. It broke the nine hundred million dollar barrier plateau.
It'll probably they'll probably push it to a billion. They'll
do something to get the last ninety billion. They'll you know,
(05:38):
I'm not saying that they'll buy the tickets, but they'll
probably buy the tickets. I'm saying that's what movie theaters,
movie studios do.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Yeah, you're not gonna let it just sit at like
nine hundred ten million.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
No, not that number.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Four is The Accountant Too, which is showing some legs
for a movie which was not heavily advertised. It's at
eighty three million worldwide. I don't think the budget could
have been more than forty forty five million. There wasn't
a lot to the movie. I liked it. Clown in
a Cornfield? Is that a horror movie? Mark it is?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
I kind of want to see that. I got it,
but I'm not saying it looks good.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
A fading miss western town in which friend of the Clown,
a symbol of bygone success, re emerges as a terrifying scourge.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
It looks like it in a cornfield, so like Children
of the corn meets it.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
It kind of sounds like that Terrifier, like an offshoot
of that Terrifier series. Yeah, what could go wrong? It's
surefire hit brought in three point six million.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
I mean, you know, clowns, cornfields things that no one likes.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Clowns are scary, even outside of cornfields. So I'm in.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Shadow Force bombed shadow Force really yeah, it all brought
in two point one million.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
You know, I was really pulling for them. And that's.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yarry Washington Washington and Omar Sai yeah, I'm not a
big fan of Omar, so I'm just being honest.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I've watched his wretch movies. It's just like that.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I don't think he has a screen presence. And Shadow
Forest had a budget of sixty billion. They're not going
to make their money back. But I don't think it
was well promoted either. I knew about it, but it
wasn't like I saw it everywhere. Now here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
I thought Shadow Forest was literally an Amazon Prime movie.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I didn't know it was coming to theaters.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I thought it was Extreaming property too, because there was
no buzz around it at all at all. And that's
basically it as far as the main story is coming
out of the movies. But you want these movies to
do well. I don't know what's coming up in the
near future. What's next next. We have Leelo and Stitch
coming up, and we have watched that well. I mean,
(07:43):
I know it's not for you, but we have Lelo
and Stitches. I think the next big summer movie coming.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
That is Watch four Fantastic four of course, and then
we have a Superman knew us to take a new
trailer drops for that, like the full trailer drops for
that tomorrow, along with finally the trail oh no, no Wednesday,
finally the trailer for Ironheart.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
But that's a D plus series. I gotta say this,
and I say this regrettably. I saw a recent screening
of Karate Kid Legends. Did you?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
And let me just say this, I am all things
Karate Kid. Tell me it was good? This was was.
It should have been on Netflix. It just should have been.
It's just I think it was.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
I think it was like the production of it was
rated Netflix to begin with. I think it was the
people who did Cobra Kai did this.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
But this, I don't want to give away too much.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
All the goodwill of Cobra Kai that had built up,
they didn't use that to propel the movie. The movie
might as well been in a different universe.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Saying this, And so it's not like the Jayda Smith
Karate Kid.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
No, that was a much better movie than this, much better.
But I mean just not connected. It's not connected. Really.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
They try to make these oblique references, but it's not
really connected. And it follows the Karate Kid in nineteen
eighty four, almost beat for beat, the villain the whole
fish out of Water.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
You can see it in the trailer that we're showing
right now on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
You know, coming from a different place, doesn't have any friends,
struggles to make friends, get some fights because he can't
make friends, and then the girl that he has eyes four,
is the ex girlfriend of the bully. I'm just it's
literally like Karate Kid nineteen eighty four. It's just come on,
and all this is in the trailer. It's just oh
my gosh, it's just yeah, yeah, And see.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
It's tough because the onliest people who would be going
to see this is those who are fans of the
original Karate Kid and want to see if there's any
more nostalgia to eke out that we've been growing to
love with Cobra Kai or recent Cobra Kai inductees who've
been brought into the Cobra Kai world.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
And the villain is one tenth any of the villains
in any of the movies or TV series.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
He's not even a bad boy, Mike Barnes, No, not
even close it.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I just can't believe that this guy is the baddest
dude in all of New York City. I just did
not buy it. Someone would ragged all that dude in
a Heartbeat, Heartbeat. He is not the most intimidating person
out there they could have found for the role. Not
that I want to beat up a teenager, but come on,
you think through teenager's eyes, you could have found someone
(10:26):
we gotta go to break. I'm just saying it's rated Netflix.
It's Later with mo Kelly. We're live on YouTube. We're
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Speaker 1 (10:34):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
It's Later with mo Kelly. We're live on YouTube, We're
live on Instagram right now. We're still live on the
iHeartRadio app everywhere. In last segment, we're talking movies, as
we've been known to do. But I also talked about
me being able to see the movie Karate Kid Legends early,
and I went in, Oh, I wanted to love the
movie because of how appreciative I was of Cobra Kai,
(11:05):
the fan servicing, letting us know where everyone was essential
to the series. And I believe that this movie Karate
Kid Legends is not going to get made without the
success and the interest which had been generated by Cobra
Kai is the direct reflection of the resurgence of the brand, and.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I saw it and it was like, hmm.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Mark was saying, sometimes this is too much of a
good thing, and it's like, yes, it is the law
of diminishing returns here, And if you don't know, the
law of diminishing returns is the more you get of something,
the less enjoyable, the less valuable, the less meaningful.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
It gets to be.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Like if I always use the analogy of eating hot
dogs on Memorial Day or the Fourth of July, the
first hot dog, the second hot dog, great, get to
the third or fourth, Not so much.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
You're going right to the tube stakes for this analogy.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
I was happy like anybody else to see all the
Karate Kid people back, But then it was just like,
we don't need this much. I mean, I don't need
it to drag out ad infinitum into their sixties.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Okay, but the last season I definitely felt that. In
other words, they I called it they had run out
of story to tell. But I was thinking it would
be a good way to pass the baton to this movie. Yeah,
and you all, you have these new characters, none of
which they used in the movie. You have these storylines,
none of which they used in the movie and it.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Was just nothing. What okay?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Now?
Speaker 5 (12:35):
And this is not a spoiler because he's in the
trailer that Daniel Son from a Karate Kid and then
Cobra Kai is in this movie.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Correct.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
How does nothing from Cobra Kai translate or Daniel doesn't
say anything like hey, so I'd love to help out.
But when I'm working on these kids and we're building,
you know, rebuilding.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Miyagi dough, no, I will say this and it's not
really a spoiler. Ralph Bachio is not even in the
movie until the third act.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
How is that possible? What is correct? I don't understand correct?
Why do it? Because the trailer would have you believe
he's all through the movie.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
I thought he was a central point in the movie,
like there is nothing happening.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
There's some plot points in there is a plot point, yes,
that's central to the movie, but he his character, does
not even make it appearance until the third act.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
I want a class action lawsuit now.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I don't know how you can do a Karate Kid
Legends movie. Now, Jackie Chan is all through it, all
through it beginning, middle end, But the way they market
it is, you know, Ralph Baccio has an equal role
to play.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Is heavily featured in the trailer. He is not heavily featured.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
He was heavily featured in the marketing approach, the lead up,
even the announcement. It was Ralph Machio who was talking
about Cobra Kai, who brought Jackie chan All and said, hey,
we've got a major announcement we are doing.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
It's almost like they got Ralph macha available for three
or four days to shoot when he wasn't doing Cobra Kai,
and said, can we do some scenes with you real quick?
Because he's only in three or four scenes in the movie,
three or four location scenes. You know, you could tell, like, okay,
they just threw this in there.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
That is Garbia.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
There is one end credit scene Cobra Kai, and that
was better than the movie.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I'm sorry, I wanted to like it. That's bad.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Yeah, I don't want to tell you because I want
you to see it for yourself. Yeah, but who's gonna
get off the couch and go to this now? Like
I already wasn't so inclined to, but now there's no way.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Wait for Netflix. Yeah, it'll be on Netflix. It will
be you know, I don't know. Look, so it's not legendary.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
No, it's not legendary. It's not.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
And I don't even know why they call it even legends,
because use you have to have legends, I e legends.
He doesn't right make that connection to call it legends. Yeah,
it'd be it'd be different if you had the whole
cavalcade of characters of previous movies, or you had not
a Hilary Swank. There there are no cameos in this movie.
(15:20):
Hilary Swank does not make a cameo. No kidding me, No,
Jaden Smith does not make a cameo in this movie.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
But then why is mister Han in the movie?
Speaker 5 (15:29):
If Jaden Smith isn't in it, you're at least got
to tell me that James Smith he was judging the
competition because he won the last.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
They don't even make mention of child dre He does
not exist. Only with the exception of oh, you can
see how the events of that karate kid propelled mister Han,
you know, not to drink anymore whatever, to be a
you know, a semi productive citizen.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Wouldn't you love it if they had some martial arts
royalty and something like this like get sam O hung
in it, Get get Cynthia rough Rock, have some fun cameos.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
The choreography was much better than anything Karate Kid, so
I was fine with that. You could tell Jackie Chan, oh,
he must have done all these things because it looked
very much like a Jackie Chan movie, using the props
and all types of gadgets and weapons that seem like
you know, it was well choreographed.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
He's still terrific even though he's whatever senior agent. All
his bones and joints are probably dust by now.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Well, he has a moment. He has more than one
moment in the movie. I will say that just to
let you know I'm still Jackie Chan. Stick with Drunken
Master two. Okay, but this is going to hurt your heart.
I don't know how to put it in another way.
It's going to hurt oh man, I might just have
a heart attack and just die right there. I'm sad
right now.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I can't get in good conscience say hey, go run
out and see this. You'll always have rumble in the Bronx,
and I think everything is judged against that.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Honestly, you're listening to later with Mo Kelly on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
It's later with Moke Kelly.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
We're live on YouTube, We're live on Instagram, the iHeartRadio app.
I'm curious to know what are you guys watching. I
talked about what I was watching or watch. I finally
got around to seeing the Amateur. I actually liked it.
It was a bit long in the tooth that some
of the scenes could have been shortened, but I did
like the slow burned, slow build to its conclusion.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
It's fun. It's not a classic, but it's well worth
a watch. And now you should watch the original from
I think around the early eighties.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I will, I will. I definitely want to check it out.
Robbie Mallick is a small dude. I just really realized
in this movie. He's a small dude. Yeah, he's not
a big Jason Statham type. And it's a good role
for him because the character has to find ways to
get revenge while not being an unkillable machine.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Right, And it made sense.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
You want to see that size disparity in all this,
you know it made sense. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. Stephan,
What are you checking out these days?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Well, I just.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
I just finished the Hunting Party, and it's essentially like
a kind of formulaic show, but essentially there's this inside
job of an explosion at a prison that held like
the biggest serial killers and then this woman has to
go out and find them.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Just finished it.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
The first episode has like twists beyond like it just
kept going each break. I was like, damn, what's going
to be left of the show. So that was really good.
And I just started poker Face that's really good. Which
one is that that's with Natasha Leone and she knows
how to read people, so she knows when people are
lying and the same thing. First episode. Man, it just
keeps turning around left and right. And I just finished
(18:46):
the second episode pretty good on Peacock Mark Runner.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Anything specific, Well, I'm working my way through that terrific
French spy program called The Bureau, which is what the
agency YEP based on. So I'm on season two of
that now. And I also over the weekend caught up
with an absolutely magnificent piece of trash from the seventies
called Golden Needles, directed by Robert Klaus who did Enter
the Dragon, which is the all time classic martial arts film,
(19:10):
and it's got Jim Kelly in it, and it's got
a killer score by Lalo Schiffrin. I don't know how
I had never seen this before, but it popped up
free on Roku dot dot two weeks after I had
bought the Blu ray Watch. But if you're into that stuff,
it's really a little gem and Jim Kelly's in it,
(19:31):
but Joe Don Baker is the protagonist, and I am
fascinated by how he became a big star in the
seventies because he's such a dope in this. You gotta
see it tee.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
I have only had time for one thing, and one
thing only, and that was Andor this week.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
And oh yes, glorious, absolutely glorious.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
For those who don't know, and Or is a Star
Wars Disney Plus streaming show, and they are dropping three
episodes every week on a Tuesday, So they have episodes one, two, three,
then four, five, six, seven, eight nine. We just saw seven,
eight nine. They're twelve in this season and it's the
final season. Because of continuity, you know that it can't
(20:14):
go any further. But episode seven, eight and nine last
week that could have been a movie on its own
quality and pacing.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Yes, absolutely, anyone who is a fan of Rogue One,
anyone who is a fan of a level of storytelling
in the world of Star Wars. We all grew up
with Star Wars as kids. We watch Star Wars now
we are adults trying to make sense of a lot
of the childlike decisions that Kathleen Kennedy has made where
(20:48):
she doesn't seem to recognize that the fandom for Star
Wars has grown up. We're adults now, and or and
or is every single.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Thing that we as adults have been just cravy.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
See that's a great point because Star Wars, and this
was the fear of Star Wars fans when it was
sold by Lucas to Disney, that it was going to
be disneyfied, it was going to be four kids, it
was going to abandon the base, the fan based, the
original fan base, who were obviously adults at that point.
I saw Star Wars when I was seven, in nineteen
(21:22):
seventy seven, and so when Lucas sold it in the
early two thousands, I think, you know, we're all adults
at that point.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
We've seen the prequels. We wanted more.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Whether we liked the prequels or not, we still wanted
a degree of maturity in the movies. Instead, we got
more Disney than anything, and a lot of the subsequent
TV shows felt more Disney than they did Lucas, Star
Wars and Or for example, and obviously the Mandalorian those
(21:50):
were more traditional Star Wars pieces. Yeah, we got to
enjoy and and Or probably is the most cerebral, intellectual,
complain storytelling that they've ever done since they moved to Disney.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
But that doesn't mean it's dull though it's really it's tense, oh,
very tense.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
It was shocking the things that happened in episode eight.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
It was absolutely shocking.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
And nine literally had me on the edge of my seat, like,
oh my God, Like it's one of those things that
you may think you know what's about to happen, but
watching it in that moment, I was so tense, like
how are they going to get away with this?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
And I forgot enough. It was intense, but it was
also violent. It was uncharacteristically violent for a Star Wars property.
It's one thing when you're blasting someone into oblivion and
outer space, so you're cutting someone with a lightsaber, it
wasn't It's not.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
The same type of violence. This was up close.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
You could feel it, you get you know, people are
getting ragged alled. It's just it was different presentation of
what we had known or come to know as Star Wars.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Now, let Tony Gilroy, who's running this, do anything he
wants in the Star Wars universe. Now it really makes
you reevaluate all the other stuff in light of how
good this is.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Oh Mark, you and I were talking about for fans
of House of Cards and how this and Or is
a much more sophisticated level of storytelling. If you're a
fan of House of Cards, you may recognize a familiar
name and bo Willhelman. As far as who is the
original executive producer if I'm not mistaken of House of
Cars or Chief Writers something like that series creator, and
(23:33):
he's also one of the executive producers for Rogue one,
you can tell as far as communicating the whole palace intrigue,
the sophisticated workings of a quote unquote government and how
that plays out. You can see the parallels between House
of Cards and and Or.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
It's so good and it I'm not kidding when I
say it makes you rethink some things, Like we were
talking about this off there there's a scene where one
of the galactic politicians is grabbed out of the Senate
by stormtroopers, and it's absolutely chilling because these aren't the stormtroopers,
who are just a bunch of boobs who can't hit
anything with their blasters. This is like authoritarianism taking shape
(24:14):
before your eyes, and you can see how somebody becomes
part of the rebellion against the empire. And I just
can't recommend this highly enough. It's probably the best Star
Wars thing that's been made apart from the first two.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
This is something I talked about with you two, Aul
real quickly before we go to break. We always heard
about the rebellion, Yeah, and you think about in an
intergalactic sense, how can there actually be a rebellion. We
don't know what's going on on Pluto right now, or
Jupiter or whatever, nor do we care. But this brings
it down to a level where you understood because of
the autocracy and authoritarianism. You can see how a rebellion
(24:50):
will grow out of what the Empire was doing to
people and doing to planets.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
On a very, very i'll say personal level.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
It's pretty on the nose because this comes on the
heels of us seeing people dragged out of like city
council meetings. Yes, we're asking a tough question.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Yes, dragged out of cars for suspicion of not being
a us citizendant, dragged out of their homes and all
that looks.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
A lot like that. No, but it's making it, let's
be honest.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
It's making a commentary about a lot of things going
on in the world. And not to give it all away,
but there are lines and speeches about I don't want
to say, I don't want to give it away.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Well man, Mathma's big speeches. Yeah, pivotal moment of the episode.
It's in and thinking about a lot of stuff in
our world. Yeah, and the repercussions from that as well,
because things come at a cost. When when authoritarian start,
authoritarianism starts to take over, the people who speak out
against it risk everything, and that's depicted in this.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I think it's tomorrow at six o'clock we'll get the
final three episodes of the season and series all night.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Yeah, Yeah, we're gonna have to do it.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
And before we get out here.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Yeah, I'm gonna say this final thought, I can't do
it two and a half minutes. That's my fault for
just getting off the clock and everything. But I had
a pretty decent weekend. You ever have those weekends where
you may be busy, but maybe you get a better
quality sleep, maybe get some exercise in. I didn't feel
as if I didn't have a weekend. And that's the
(26:26):
hardest part of a Monday, where you come in and
you feel like I never left this place.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I didn't do anything.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
I just I went to sleep Friday and then all
of a sudden, it was like Monday morning. Didn't feel
that So that was a plus for me. And you know,
I had a chance to watch the movies over the
weekend as well. So that's what I plan to do
tonight when I get home, watch some more movies and
see what's out there. Now that I'm getting a little
bit more time, I'm also in the process of producing
(26:55):
and scheduling this martial arts tournament. I made a couple
of passing references to it Southern California hop Keto Invitational Tournament,
the first annual, which is going to be in Torrents
on May twenty fourth, So I don't have a lot
of free time to begin with.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
That's part of it.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
So in between teaching classes, getting ready for this tournament,
doing the show, working on the YouTube, doing social media.
Did TV this morning. That's another thing I forgot. I
did Spectrum News at twelve o'clock today. It's been pretty
busy for me. Pretty busy. I think you were still
a sleep mark. You love to chronically overbook yourself. I
(27:31):
like rest on the weekends. And you know what I do,
because usually when I book myself or agree to do something,
I usually think about how I feel in a moment. Yeah, sure,
I'll get up tomorrow at five in the morning whatever
to do TV Spectrum because I'm wide awake, and then
I realize, ooh, I'm not going to feel this way
when I wake up tomorrow at five in the morning,
(27:52):
for example.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Yeah, you're right on that regard. In that regard, I say, yes,
way too much.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Sleep in, watch the movie, get some reading done, have
a cocktail.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I have nothing on my schedule tomorrow morning. Thank goodness.
Finally I can stay up as late as I want,
like a kid at a candy store, and I don't
have to get up in the morning. You know, knock
on wood, I might even have a cocktail. Who You're
good enough, you mo are enough. You don't need to
constantly be in motion. Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who
is the brightest of them all? Come on, mirror, Come on,
(28:25):
come on, mirror. Mark silence from the mirror. I thought
we were getting along for a more thought. Let's not
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