Marky Mark at the Movies

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In a world where movies rely onmarketing more than ever to connect with audiences,
one podcast aims to make sense ofit all. This is movies and
marketing. Next Saturday Night, where'ssending that to the future? Go ahead,
make my day? How about now? You're crazy Dutch bastard. What

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we've got here is failure. Youmel gate, take a look around.
Where's the crush all about? Orwe might as well good time? I
am an agent. The big questionon everyone's mind have you ever seen anything

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like Mark Wahlberg's performance in The Happening? I mean, have we ever had
anything like that on our planet?In the world of acting? What is
there another specimen like that? Ithink he has a very unique presence on
film for sure. In general,Yeah, yeah, but I mean in

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The Happening that's taken to another placeentirely, where he's acting in a way
that a human being I don't thinkhas ever acted before, not inside of
a movie or outside of a movie. Yeah, it's it's very awkward.
Hello, my name is Elliott Moore. Just going to talk in a very

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positive manner, giving off good vibes. We're just here to use the bathroom,
and we're just gonna leave. Oh, that's okay, talking to a
plastic plan. I'm still doing it. Very very awkward. That's the best

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way to describe I think the performance, not only by him, but I
think by a lot of the castin that movie. It's to everyone and
you leave feeling uncomfortable. You're uncomfortablewatching it most of the time. But
it has become funny because of that. I think it's become a cult classic,
you know, cult comedy classic ifyou will. Yeah, the movie's

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hilarious because of one what it's about, to the performances, and three I
mean, yeah, Mark Wahlberg,the fact that he's the guy at the
center of it. In general,his performances can teeter on the unintentionally hilarious,
and I think that's a lot ofwhen an actor or actress is kind

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of one dimensional. It can becomefunny when they try to branch out and
do something where they're not let's justsay, in his case, where they're
not in Boston, because he hasa very strong Boston accent. Yeah,
he seems like a certain you know, he seems like a certain type of
person. I kind of use thethough I think Keanu Read is a much

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better actor. In many ways,that comparison is apt. In some ways,
there was a long time where peoplewould be like, he's very wooden
in his acting. You know,he can only do so much. I
remember when he was in the movieDracula, people were like way out of
place, throwing this guy like inthe eighteen hundreds or something whenever that was
set. Wahlberg's like that in alot of ways. You put him in

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the wrong, you know part hereally just kind of sticks out like sore
thumb because he kind of has thislike, you know, kind of like
naive, tough guy persona that you'relike, you he can't go too far
out of that box, or you'relike, eh, I don't know if
I'm buying it. Let's kind ofget where we're going here. On today's

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episode, we're talking about Marky Mark. Ake. We're talking about Mark Wahlberg
aka Marky Mark. Why why arewe doing this? Patrick? Well,
for the youngsters out there who don'tknow this, you say Marky Mark,
but we should say Marky Mark inthe Funky Bunch because that was the musical

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group how he got his start,right. Yeah, gen Z probably has
no idea who Marky Mark and theFunky Bunch is, but in my mind
he's forever Marky Mark. You know, he gave us good vibrations. Come
on, come on, come on, feel it? Feel it? So
anyway, yeah, to that point, the reason why we're doing this is
Mark Wahlberg has a new movie comingout called Arthur the King, about a

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guy who's competing in an endurance raceand makes friends with a dog. Wow,
that's two two things. That's twothings. It's not just a race,
it's not just a dog that we'reputting him together. And if you
haven't seen the trailer, I recommendit. I thought when we first talked

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about this it sounded jokey one.The title seemed a little weird too the
premise, But watching the trailer,I'm like, this might be a tear
jerker for me. Do you cry? I felt a little choked up watching
that trailer. You like running andyou like dogs. Yeah. See here's

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the thing. Don't let the dogdie. If they let the dog die
in the movie, I'm gonna hateit. But if it's a good,
feel good story, I would begood. I mean, it still might
make you choke up. But anyway, long story short, Arthur the King
let us down this pathway. Thisalso marks quote unquote Marx Mark Wahlberg's thirty

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years since his feature film debut inRenaissance Man with Danny DeVito, all the
way back again. Going to theyoungsters out there who don't remember Markey Mark
at the Funky Bunch nineteen ninety four, that movie came out. Thirty years
of Marky Mark, Yeah, Markeymarket the movies at the Movies, Yeah,

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yeah, we got it. Definitelydefine that. So we thought it
would be a good time to lookback on his film career and the many
gifts if you want to call himthat, He's given us over the years,
so many gifts. So let megive you some career highlights here before
we dive into sharing some of ourfavorite Marky Market The Movie's moments. Here's
a quick rundown some career highlights.Mark was born in nineteen seventy one.

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He's fifty two years old. Aswe mentioned, got his first role in
nineteen ninety four when he was twentythree years old, just a youngster.
Things snowballed quickly from there. Nineteenninety five, he appears with another fellow
up and comer, Leonardo DiCaprio,in the Basketball Diaries Little Movie There nineteen

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ninety six. Gets his first starringrole and a minor hit the movie Fear,
with another up and comer, ReeseWitherspoon. Nineteen ninety seven, he
plays the lead role in the Oscarnominated Boogie Knights. It's kind of a
memorable film for a lot of people. He's got one the Oscar nomination himself

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in two thousand and six, aBest Supporting Actor nomination for The Departed.
Some people, maybe it's just me, think this is one of the most
ridiculous Oscar nominations of all time.But it's still it's on his resume.
It's a good one. It's anomination. It wasn't a winner, so
that makes a big difference. Nomination, not a win, but forever inked

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in history. Oscar nominee Mark Wahlberg. Yeah. Mark's top five grossing movies
at the domestic box office a quarterto the numbers. Number one Transformers Age
of Extinction, one of Patrick's favoritesfrom twenty fourteen, made two hundred and

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forty five million. Man those Transformersmovies. Number two ted from twenty twelve,
comedy about a man and his teddybear, two hundred and nineteen million
for that one. Number three,going all the way back to the year
two thousand for the Perfect Storm onehundred and eighty three million. Number four,

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we've got two thousand and one's Planetof the Apes, not the new
Planet of the Apes that were prettygood, but an older one that was
not very good that made one hundredand eighty million. I like he said,
not the newer ones that were prettygood. No, not those ones
that people like. Uh. AndNumber five Daddy's Home from twenty fifteen with

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Will Ferrell that made one hundred andfifty million. So some good performers there.
You can see the kind of thepocket that Mark lives in. Notable
on that list. Fear you know, with Reese Witherspoon gave us I think
one of Mark's first catchphrases or memes. Do you remember that, Patrick,
Yeah, he kind of tries toget in and he's like, shall let

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me know fucking off and he says, all could have been different, mister
Walker. You should have allowed natureto take its course, and the end
it will anyway. I'd like towatch that movie again. I think that
movie is creepy but also probably entertaining. You know to watch it for what

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it is. Yeah, probably wouldnot be as good as it was in
nineteen ninety five, but no,but I think it's kind of like a
teen movie, right, you know. It's one of those where you show
it to like a fourteen, fifteen, sixteen year old, they're probably be
like, yeah, it was realcrazy. He was trying to get in
the house. What why did youjust let him in? I am like

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a nice kid, understand all right. So now what we're gonna do is,
we've got a few categories. Well, we're gonna pick some of our
favorite our favorite Marky Mark movie moments. We've got three different categories here built

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out that we're gonna discuss. We'vegot favorite Marky Mark movie hit, We've
got favorite Marky Mark movie flop,and we've got favorite Marky Mark movie quote.
So we're gonna go through each ofthese categories and share our favorite picks
in those categories. So we'll startout with favorite Marky Mark movie hit.

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You want to kick that one offfor us? Patrick, I would love
love to start this off. Sodid you say the caveat? I did
not say the caveat. You bettersay the caveat. This is a big
one. I think we need toexplain the audience though, because we love
and our love of the Happening,it would be easy for us to pick

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from that movie every category for everycategory. Yeah. I mean, it's
just it's so good in its badness, So we decided to disqualify that from
our picks. We have to choosesomething other than the Happening, removing it
from contention. So sorry, what'shis name? M Night, Shyamalan and
Mark Nothing come on, guys andHappening fans that all those people who tuned

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in just to hear us talk aboutthe Happening, Hey, guess what,
it's not happening. Yeah, sonailed it. Nailed it. My favorite
Marky Mark movie hit. A hitto a degree has to be. It
has to be the Italian Job fromMay thirtieth of two thousand and three,

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which I might add a thirtieth twothousand and three would have qualified the Italian
Job for our summer movie draft.That would have been eligible. I'm pretty
sure Memorial Day Weekend right, Yeah, based on the original nineteen sixty nine
movie with the same name. Thetwo thousand and three version raked in one

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hundred and six million US and Canadaworldwide one hundred and seventy six with a
sixty million dollars budget. So it'snot super high in terms of like it
wasn't in the top five that youpicked, for example, to talk about,
but it was a fairly successful movie. So while it's not as big
as hit, it does have apretty favorable IMDb score, for example,

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seven out of ten, Rotten Tomatoesscore, seventy two percent, eighty percent
audience score. But really what we'retalking about here is the success and Mark's
role in this movie and how itcould be successful. Right if it was
successful, and I think at thetime he had a pretty big part in

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the marketing of this movie. Becauseif we're talking about something just as simple
as the movie Posters, right shouldgive you an indication of an actor's role
in that movie. He gets splithalf and half with Charlie's, then I
would say, right there off thebat, he's got like a fifty percent
stake in the movie. Right,He's the top name listed, with Charlie's

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just below him, Edward Norton justbelow her. And while I'm not saying
he's the sole reason the movie wasmarketable, I think it came at a
time where he was very in demandfor a variety of reasons, because I
mean it did have other great talentin there. I know we had talked
about, like what's his percentage interms of on screen? Does most of

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the movie revolve around him or doesit rely on other actors. I think
Edward Norton has a role in there, Charlie's the on, even Donald Sutherland
has a pretty minor role most stuff. Seth Green's in this movie. So
it's got a really pretty diverse castin here, like a strong cast for
what it is, like action hassome comedy to it. But I think

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going back, Mark Walbert had abig hand in its success. I think
it's a very good pick. I'lltell you this was in very close contention
for my favorite as well. AndI think what this movie does, it's
kind of the beginning of this,well maybe not totally the beginning of this,
because he's done this throughout his career, and I think he's been very

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smart about it. As mentioned,maybe not always the strongest actor, you
know, nobody. I don't knowif anybody would look at him and be
like he's the best, you know, he's not. Daniel Day Lewis.
He's not Robert de Niro necessarily,but he's got something. What he was
been smart about throughout his career,and this movie is a great example of
it. Is he's like, I'mgoing to work in the movies where I'm

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on a team, I'm working withlike a cast. I'm either partnering with
somebody who's another like good actor,or I'm a team of people in that
movie. So it's not just usuallyme on my own, like leading a
movie and it's sinking or failing onme. And there's like multiple examples.
You just go down as IMDb andyou see a lot of times his best
movies, he's usually like him andlike a cast of a few other prominent

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names in there, pretty savvy,moved by him, and I think that's
what's kind of kept him in thespotlight over these years. To be a
good scientist, you must have arespectful awe for the laws of nature and
the Italian job. I remember whenthis movie came out and going to see
it in the theater and being likethat was much better than I expected it

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to be. Yeah, it does. It has a pleasant outcome. When
you leave, you feel like thatwas good and delivers the goods. One
thing I think is undervalued and wetalk about in business right and marketing is
the taglines, you know, themessage, the marketing message. I'd like

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to focus a little bit more onthat because we don't always we don't always
see them, even though they're onthe posters. Most of the time,
we don't always talk about them.But this one had some good ones like
Steal the Day five point thirty threeand also get in, get out,
get even. I love those taglinesthat they sort of marketed with the movie.

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So it was a It was avery very successful marketing effort, I
think for The Italian Job. Andagain it was a remake, so it
had something to sort of build offof, but maybe something that a lot
of people hadn't seen because it's thatfar removed from that nineteen sixty nine movie.
A little bonus quiz question for you, do you remember the song that

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closed out The Italian Job over theclosing credits. I don't know why this
sticks in my head, but itdoes. If you said it, I
probably remember it because I've seen thatmovie a million times. I feel like
it's a remake of a song bya band you know well and like by
of a classic rock song. Idon't know, I can't think of it

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all off and coming. I believeit was money the Pink Floyd song done
by Velvet Revolver, you know,Stone Tuble Pilots, Yeah, Wiland and
I think somebody from Guns and Roseswas in that band. I do kind
of remember that. Yeah, Idon't know why that sticks out in my
head. Yeah, an interesting bitof trivia. All the actors did most

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of their own stunts, even drivingdown the stairs in the La Metro in
this movie. No, I thoughtthat was interesting. This is that time
before CGI took over, and itfeels very practical everything that happens. You
know, if the listeners have neverseen this movie, all of the action
sequences and what made this movie popularat the time where they were all driving

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these little mini coopers. Yeah,and that was like a huge push and
I think everybody was sort of drawnto that at the time. I think
at Skyrocketed the Mini Cooper, theMini Cooper. Yeah, yeah, that's
a great pick. So I'll tellyou For mine, it actually came down
to four different movies for me,and that was one. I'll tell you
about the movie I picked and thenI'll kind of tell you the other two.

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It really came down I had tothink, I'm like, what am
I actually doing here, and I'dbe like, oh, okay, I'm
picking my favorite. When I hadto rethink that, then I'm like,
okay, it's kind of easy whenI go back to realizing my favorite.
Thinking about the other movies, theykind of fell into different categories. But
my favorite is the twenty ten movieThe Fighter. And this movie made ninety

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four million dollars at the US boxoffice off of a twenty five million dollar
budget. It was a good sizehit. It was critically well received,
got some Oscar nominations. This wasa passion project for Mark Wahlberg too.
He was attached to it for multipleyears. He was a producer on the
movie. He was trying to getit made with multiple different directors before he

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actually got it done. So he'svery involved in it. He was very
involved in the promotions of the movie. And he was a big fan of
This is the story of Mickey Ward, who was a real boxer. He
was a fan of this guy whenhe was younger, so that's why he
was very attached to this story.And they both came from Boston. As
we mentioned earlier, that's where kindof Mark Mark grew up. So I

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saw this in the theater when itcame out, and I was actually kind
of blown away by the acting andthe energy and even the comedy in it.
And I think a lot of peoplewere too. It was they were
kind of surprised this was something differentthan what they expected when they saw like
a boxing movie with Mark Wahlberg comingout ended up getting nominated for seven Academy
Awards. Wahlberg did not get aBest Actor. Some people thought he should

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have been in that conversation, buthe didn't end up getting one, but
he did get a Best Picture nominationas producer of the movie. He's at
the center of this movie. It'sanother example of you know, like you're
talking about a large cast, somereally good actors in here. Christian Bale.
If you look at the cover art, it's him and Christian Bale and

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Mark Wahlberg. He's got the topbilling, but Bail's actually a little more
prominent despite Wahlberg getting the top billing, And I think that tells you something
about the type of person he is, you know, as this Hollywood personality.
He's willing to take a back seat. He doesn't necessarily have to be
the guy. You know, He'swilling to play the straight man and let

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these other actors kind of jump inand get more of the showy parts,
you know, and just do likeI'm just the regular guy in the center
of this, and he is inthis movie. You know, he is
the core of it. He's theguy you root for while all these crazy
things are happening around him. Doyou remember The Fighter? What are your
thoughts about The Fighter? Yeah?No, I like that movie. I

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only saw it once, so youknow, it's one of those movies where,
unlike The Italian Job that I've seenprobably dozens of times, especially because
they replayed it over and over againon cable for many years, this one,
though, I liked the movie.And here's the thing, you know,
I think the other great actors whohe pairs with in them overshadow him

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a lot, and therefore, likein that movie, I think Christian Bale,
the spotlight was on him. Yeah, you can't argue with that.
I mean it can be a testamentto the well played strategy that he has
by going into these movies and beingpaired with other great actors or you can
look at it as a lot ofbad luck because because you know, you're

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not getting the cred that you maybewant or in some cases probably deserve a
little bit. Yeah, I thinkhe's almost the guy who lifts the other
people up though, you know whatI mean. He's like, you're Scottie
Pippen, He's like, great guyto have on your team. I'm awful
lot of credit there. I don'tknow, but okay, maybe a little
maybe a little too much. Sothe other two movies when I was trying

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to think about this that were inclose contention, besides The Italian Job,
besides The Fighter, I came closeon the Other Guys, which I think
is the best market Mark comedy,and then I think is the peak market
Mark movie. He's probably his peakmoment is twenty thirteen's Loan Survivor forty million
dollar budget makes one hundred and twentyfive million. I think he's really leading

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that movie. If you look atthe poster of that one, that's his
face, that's really all him.It's a very good movie, very intense
movie. That might be what youwould say when he actually, you know,
his marketing and his market potential justkind of hit it's high. Yeah,
that's a tough movie to watch too, it is. Yeah, Yeah,

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I think what you chose is good. It's got a good story.
It's a little easier, a littleeasier to swallow. Well movie, it's
my true favorite, So yeah,it goes in the right path. What
about flops? What's your favorite flop? All right, this is where I
had a That's where I had alot of difficulty. He doesn't have a
lot of flops, So the choiceI made is probably going to be subjective

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in terms of a flop. Idon't think it's a true flop in the
truest sense of the word. Right. I thought about Fear honestly for a
moment. Because that movie didn't actuallydo very well. I think it has
a little bit more of a cultfollowing now today. I think it was
a small movie though, Yeah,so I think it I think comparative.

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I'm guessing its budget was fairly lowfor the time. Yeah, but I
ended up going with Shooter from twothousand and five. That was a summer
movie. Did forty seven million USin Canada, ninety five million global,
fourteen million dollar opening. Here's theflop part. This is why it's sort
of classified for me, forty sevenmillion US in Canada had a sixty one

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million dollar budget. Yeah, thatdefinitely classifies. And you know again that's
not even including marketing and all thattoo. And it's about Bob Lee Swagger,
who was a much older character inthe book, and the sort of
pitched is like a Harrison Ford ageat the time, and they rewrote some

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of this to be a younger guybecause I guess in the original story he
was a veteran of the Vietnam War. This is all interesting trivia. I
don't know if you know this,but but they had to move it.
He was in a different war thatfit Mark Wahlberg's age in this movie.
Reason why it's my favorite flop is, you know, this is a good

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watchable movie. His role in thismovie, whether you want to call it
a flop or a success, becauseit's my favorite. He's at the core.
He's at the core of this movie. It's about him the whole thing.
You know. It's kind of likethat Justice Revenge story. It's got
an IMDb score seven out of ten, forty eight Tomato Meter by the way,

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but eighty percent audience score, soit's pretty good, pretty high there
by the way tagline yesterday was abouthonor, Today is about justice. I've
never seen this movie, and Iremember seeing previews for them and being like,
yeah, it looks pretty standard,but it also looks, you know,
kind of enjoyable. I don't knowhow this one, especially the time

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that came out, how this oneslipped through my grasp. But like a
lot of people, I guess Ijust never never saw it. It fits
that mold shooter. Is it agreat title? Maybe not? The title
is a lot of the problem.Could the problem also be is this Wahlberg
missing his you know, supporting casthere. I mean pretty much. It's

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got Danny Glover in it for abrief bit, but it's mostly him.
That's not enough. Yeah, there'sa there's a woman in there that's sort
of his love interest. Yeah,love interest. It's got an older guy
in there that I know I've seenin other things. I want to say,
he's like the Oatmeal guy. Youknow, he's a Wilford Brimley.
He's like him. You'd recognize himif you saw him. The poor man's

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Wilford Brimley. It is, itis, It is exactly the poor man's
Wilford Brimley. I'm gonna put thatone on my watch list now, all
right, shooter, sh all right. So my favorite flop again, taking
kind of a different approach here,two thousand and four is I Heart Huckabees.

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This movie US box office on thisthirteen million on a budget of twenty
million. Now, this one nota starring you know, Marky Mark not
at the center of this movie.He's more of a side character. But
this, I will say is probablymy favorite Mark Wahlberg role in anything.

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I think it's the best acting he'sactually done in a movie real. He
plays a fireman with kind of ananti petroleum philosophy who's experiencing an existential crisis.
So he's kind of this odd character. He rides his bike to fires
because you know, he's having someproblems with the oil industry. He's got

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crazy hair, he's just a littlelittle spastic, little off. So it's
very divergent from the typical Wahlberg role, but a good funny use of his
persona. It's a very odd,very strange movie, but worth seeking out
for Wahlberg alone. Can't really say, you know, Wahlberg was responsible for

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this movie underperforming, as he's partof this large cast that's you know,
it's got Naomi Watts and Dustin Hoffmanand Jude Law. So he was really
just kind of a blip in themarketing. You know, you just kind
of see his name amongst a bunchof other people. So he wasn't really
respond ulip before failing or not failing. He was just kind of a piece
of this larger ensemble. But thiswas another movie he did with the director

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David o' russell, who he didThree Kings with before this, and he
would do The Fighter with after this, so this is kind of a bridge
to that movie also. But Ithink he's done some of his probably his
best actual acting work with David o'russell, So that's the connection there.
Like you and my shooter pick,I've never seen this movie, so I'm

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interested to see this now. Imight have to watch it, just because
I was just watching the trailer andit looks interesting. It's definitely interesting.
I mean, there's nothing else likeit is. One thing I can say
about it, but I heart Huckabees. Yeah, I don't know. The
title could have hurt its box office. I'm not I think the title definitely

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hurt its box office. Numbers forsure. Well, the last category for
today is none other than the favoriteyours and my favorite Marky Mark movie quote,
the Big One. So this onewas tough. This one was tough,
way tougher than I thought it wasgonna be, mainly because a we

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took out the happening. We tookout the happening, and that killed all
the quotes. Basically, he's nota guy who says a lot of you
know, just taglines are just youknow, quotable material. He says dialogue,
right, he does in some casebetter than others. Uh yeah when
he says dialogue. But the happeningyou could have used every line it was.

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Yeah, the whole thing was agiant example of what happens when you
want to just make one liners thatare hilarious and they were meant to be
serious. I had a tough timewith this because I thought it was going
to be easy, because I'm like, you know, his performances have that
quality to them. You know,we always use what no, you know

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what no, So I thought aboutthe other guys because it has great usable
quotes. But I know I've usedat least one of them before on the
podcast. So I eliminated that frommy list. There was a small bit
in Two Guns where he played withDenzel Washington, what are you doing?
They're torturing chickens, man, whatare you eating? Chick out? But

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it's not the same thing. Okay, weird, weird scene, weird movie,
actually weird movie altogether, but thatwasn't what I picked. What I
picked was from twenty thirteen's Pain andGain, which, if you haven't seen
it, it's very bizarro movie.I don't really know how to describe it

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other than it's funny, but it'sactually pretty dark. It's a pretty dark
movie, and it's kind of sadwhen you watch it, but it has
these like little bits of comedy goldin there because it positions these these guys
who are end up becoming criminals whoare bodybuilders as sort of big oafs,

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you know, big dummies, andthey do these stupid things that get them
caught eventually, right, And it'sbased on a real life story. This
movie, I just want to preface, you know, I know this is
about a quote, but this moviedid fifty million US eighty seven global twenty
million dollar opening, had a twentysix million dollar budget, so it actually

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fifty million. It wasn't really asuccess, but it was decent anyway.
The quote he's playing basketball with thesekids, tell you, mama, what
the hell you doing on the groundher, Well, it's supposed to hurt.
That pains was going to save yourlife yourselves. Remember it hurts,

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and that's where they get strong.It's called pain and game. Russ,
You don't be a little You're gonnaman up, you better because right now
your sister's stronger. Give me yourhand. Get up. What are you
looking at, you little chubby broad? Don't I have all memore? I
see my mother driving up and downthe street looking at me. I'll be
your step father by a weekend.That's the part. I'll be your stepfather
by the weekend, I think isthe clutch. So again, I mean,
it's all pretty good, and it'sgot the name of the movie in

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it, which I love. Yeah, you can't fault a quote from any
actor. No, when they're inthe movie and they're quote in the movies
title you got you say the nameof the movie, you automatically get points.
Yeah. Yeah. Tagline also inthat movie is pretty good. Their
American dream is bigger than yours becausethey wanted to be big, jacked up
bodybuilders. That's pretty great. Sofor my favorite quote, I had to

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go I don't know if this isstepping on what you used before, but
I did. I had to goback to the other guys, the other
guys, which has so many goodquotes, and you know, I went
to the number one, which isthe one that's been memed a thousand times
of Mark Wahlberg across the internet,across the internet, across the Internet,

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which is, you can't keep mecooped up in here. Okay, I
I have a peacock. You gottalet me far his character Terry Hoyts and
the other guy's pretty simple. Wasthat the one you used me for?
No, I use the one wherehe they're sitting at the desk and he's
talking to Will Ferrell and he's likehe needs I'm if I was a lion?

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Yeah, that one, yeah,and the tuna yeah. And then
and then Will Ferrell you know,goes off and he's like, that's not
how that's not how you envisioned itgoing or whatever, Yeah, which is
a great scene, and that Ieven you know the beginning of that.
I almost even picked the part wherehe just says to Will stop humming that
song because I, for some reasonI find hilarious whenever he actually like freaks

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out. Yeah, he's usually kindof like such a like low key personality.
Whenever he's like screaming, I justfind it, in general pretty funny.
Yeah. He he has a lotof good moments in that movie.
Like that movie in general is actuallya very good movie, good comedy.
To your point earlier, it's probablyone of the best comedies I think he's

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been in. But his I ama peacock, you gotta let me fly,
And then he drop kicks. It'snot really a dropkick. It's more
like a high kick to a watercooler, and it starts kind of like
freaking out around the office. Veryfunny moment. I'll tell you my runner
up another funny moment. More ofthe writing in this is just super funny.

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From my other probably favorite Wallberg movie, which is Boogie Knights. I
love Boogie Knights, the line,all that stuff, you know, but
I mean, god, what canyou expect when you're on top? You
know. It's like Napoleon when hewas the king. You know, people
would just constantly trying to conquer him, you know, in the Roman Empire.
So it's history repeating itself all overagain. Yeah. You know.

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The thing about the you know,just kind of wrapping up this idea of
Mark Wahlberg is we joke about it, and we joke about his kind of
range. I think the change thathe has, you know, is maybe
not totally justified. I think youknow, everybody thought Keanu sounded and felt

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like a surfer or a dumb guy. Yeah, even though he's not a
dumb guy. Now you're limited bythat. They're limited by the perceptions that
people have of them. And youknow, in some way you get dinged
by trying different things, yeah,versus kind of staying in your lane.
Yeah, and being like old andtrying to step outside. I think is

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commendable. So I appreciate the factthat, like, you know, Mark
Wlbery, I mean, he's gota variety, a huge, huge variety
in his acting repertoire. If youlook down that list, it's varied for
sure. Like there's comedy, there'saction, there's drama, there's father Stu.
I don't even understand what that is. But I mean he's found he's

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found a range he can that hecan work in, you know, what
I mean. He's not doing Shakespeare. He's not, you know, trying
to play like Daniel day Lewis parts. He knows where he can work,
but he's like mixing up the genresand stuff like that. So I appreciate
what he's kind of figured out.Although I would say Father Stu, I
feel like he's trying to be Danielday Lewis there. He might be,

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he might be. Our last segment, we're going to wrap up with our
box office predictions for Arthur the King. How much do you think it's gonna
make at the US box office?Number? I'm gonna go with sixty five
million? WHOA is that too high? I don't know. I'm going lower.

(36:43):
I'm going a little lower, allright? One dollar? Oh?
Is this the price is right?Again? All right? I see how
it is. I say, yeah, I'm gonna go forty five million.
I'm going a little under. I'lltell you I got Father STUDID twenty million.
I don't think. We don't thinkit's going to do Father's stew numbers
Dog with Channing Tatum did sixty million. That kind of supports your you're there,

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I'm gonna split the difference. Fortyfive people think a dog movie.
Yeah, people love a good dogmovie. I think I think people want
to see this movie mainly because it'sgot a really cute dog in it.
But the title's awful, it is. I mean, you know, Channing
Tatums movie at least had dog inthe title. Yeah, Arthur the King.

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People are going to be like,is this about King Arthur? I
mean it's about flower. Do youthink they you think it would have been
better as Arthur the Dog? Ithink it would have had a better chance.
Yeah, really, or uh,dog the King? I mean need
dog in the title. It's upthere with huckabeesh. Here's a great question,

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better better title? What's your bettertitle? I would call it a
four legged race. That's that's reallygood. I was just thinking like something
like dog racing. But that's that'smisleading. It's not a dog race.
And then you get clumped in withCuba Goodding Junior and snow dogs. Snow

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dogs? Is it a dog sled? No, it's not. No four
legged race, though I think hasmerit. I mean, that's that's excellent.
Yeah, just came up with thatoff the top of my head.
This is what we do for aliving shed because you and I do this
all the time, just brainstorm.Probably too late for them to change it,
but I would still change it.I would just go around to where

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the posters are up in the theatersand just kind of scribble it out.
I'm pretty sure it comes out thisweekend. That would be hilarious if,
for you know, they just scratchit out. Yeah. Well, I
think we'll see how that how ournumbers turn out. But you might be
closer because you're under I mean wehaven't made that. You can't go over

(38:58):
rule yet. Then I'm definitely winthis one because I think it's gonna be
sixty five. I think it's gonnabe close. I think we're both in
range, so it's just a matterof who's closer. Yeah. All right,
Well, that's it for today's episodeof Movies and Marketing. Until next
time, let's fade to black.I'll be back. He's done coming back.