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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to the first official new episode

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Speaker 1: of movie Mike's Movie Podcast in twenty twenty six. I

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Speaker 1: am your host Movie Mike. Today, I want to share

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Speaker 1: the movie review, I'll be talking about Marty Supreme and

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Speaker 1: Timothy Chalomay's incredible performance that I wonder how much of

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Speaker 1: his real personality did he put into this very over

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Speaker 1: the top, overly confident character. Also, instead of the trailer park,

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Speaker 1: I'll give you my top five worst movies of the year.

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Speaker 1: These are movies I think you should avoid at all costs.

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Speaker 1: And then finally I will wrap up this episode. Per

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Speaker 1: listener request, I will give my thoughts on the Stranger

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Speaker 1: Things finale. There will be a spoiler warning at the

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Speaker 1: end of the episode because since it was such a

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Speaker 1: and you are wanting to, I'll give you that warning,

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Speaker 1: but it'll be towards the very end of the episode

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Speaker 1: in case you don't want to hear that. So thank

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Speaker 1: you for being here, Thank you for being subscribed. Here

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Speaker 1: we go for another year, and now let's talk movies

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Speaker 1: from the Nashville podcast network. This is Movie Mike Movie Podcasts.

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Speaker 1: Gonna hop right into this list. But all I want

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Speaker 1: to say, twenty twenty five was the best year in

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Speaker 1: film since twenty nineteen. We had so many original movies,

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Speaker 1: which if you are still complaining that we don't have

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Speaker 1: I really think twenty twenty five proved you wrong. Were

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Speaker 1: they all successful? No, But just because the movie doesn't

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Speaker 1: that movie is not good. So original stories are getting

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Speaker 1: a shot now. I think we are craving that more

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Speaker 1: than ever. But obviously the big titles are still gonna

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Speaker 1: get a lot of the attention. So all the lists

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Speaker 1: my top ten most anticipated movies of twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna see all the franchises on those lists, because

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Speaker 1: Number ten is an original movie F one from Apple

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Speaker 1: which if you want to watch it, it is available

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Speaker 1: It stars Jesse Buckley and Paul Meskal. It is a

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Speaker 1: I have Weapons at number one. The movie I did

437
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Speaker 1: talk a lot about during the Mikey Awards. It Goes

438
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Speaker 1: to One Battle after Another, which is available now on

439
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Speaker 1: HBO Max, from director Paul Thomas Anderson. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio,

440
00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:48,919
Speaker 1: Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, and Chase Infinity.

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Speaker 1: It is about a former revolutionary who gets forced back

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00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:56,800
Speaker 1: into action dealing with these corrupt military figures, so now

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00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:59,320
Speaker 1: he and his daughter are on the run. If you

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Speaker 1: have never seen a Paul Thomas Anderson movie, who has

445
00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:05,639
Speaker 1: also done movies like There Will Be Blood, Punch, Drunk Love,

446
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,600
Speaker 1: Boogie Knights. I think this is a great place to

447
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Speaker 1: start because it is his most action forward movie, also

448
00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:17,479
Speaker 1: has a great deal of comedy, but also shows you

449
00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:21,600
Speaker 1: how he sets himself apart from every other director and

450
00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:25,720
Speaker 1: how he creates these big cinematic movies that are going

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Speaker 1: to live on forever. And it is the only movie

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Speaker 1: on this list that I think will have the greatest

453
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Speaker 1: amount of longevity if you think about those movies that

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Speaker 1: they put into the Library of Congress that serve as

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Speaker 1: these national monuments of movies that really set themselves apart.

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Speaker 1: I think, out of every movie on this list, One

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Speaker 1: Battle after Another is the only one that could be

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Speaker 1: in consideration for that, because while the movie is politically charged,

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Speaker 1: at the core of it, it is a story about

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Speaker 1: a father and daughter and their relationship, how it's not

461
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,840
Speaker 1: always the easiest, the sacrifices each of them have made,

462
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Speaker 1: and then you have all these other layers resting on

463
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Speaker 1: top of that. But also has one of the best

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Speaker 1: third acts and also one of the greatest chase scenes

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Speaker 1: of all time. So at number one, my number one

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Speaker 1: movie of twenty twenty five I have one battle after another.

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Speaker 1: Some honorable mentions I'll run through here. K Pop Demon Hunters,

468
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Speaker 1: which I do believe is the animated movie of the year,

469
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Speaker 1: should easily win the Oscar in that category, was very

470
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Speaker 1: close to making my list. Like I mentioned earlier, Thunderbolts

471
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Speaker 1: was really close there as well. Roof Man, which I

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Speaker 1: also really enjoyed with Channing Tatum, which is the real

473
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Speaker 1: story about the guy who robbed a bunch of McDonald's

474
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Speaker 1: by cutting a hole into the roof and then later

475
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Speaker 1: in his life lived inside of Toys r Us for months.

476
00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,000
Speaker 1: I also really wanted to include the live action Lee

477
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Speaker 1: Low and Stitch because I am a huge fan of

478
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Speaker 1: the original animated movie. Was also one of the only

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Speaker 1: movies I saw twice in theaters last year because I

480
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:55,639
Speaker 1: loved it so much. Also ended up seeing Zutopia twice

481
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:58,199
Speaker 1: in theater, so Disney really got her money with our

482
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Speaker 1: nostalgia there. But when I had all the together and

483
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Speaker 1: had a really hard time narrowing it down to ten,

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Speaker 1: couldn't quite includely Low and Stitch on the list. I

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Speaker 1: also really loved Warfare, which I feel like people didn't

486
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Speaker 1: talk about enough, but that is available on HBO Max

487
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Speaker 1: I feel like a really gritty war movie that takes

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Speaker 1: place during the Iraq War in two thousand and six.

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Speaker 1: Also almost include twin List, which I talked about in

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Speaker 1: the Mikey Awards episode and why I believe that to

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Speaker 1: be one of the big standouts of original movies last year.

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Speaker 1: Wicked for Good I also really enjoyed. Also the new

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Speaker 1: Knives Out movie Wake Up Dead Man, I ended up

494
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Speaker 1: really enjoying and would rank it right after the original movie.

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Speaker 1: So that is my list. I'll come back and give

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Speaker 1: my spoiler free thoughts on Marty Supreme. Let's get into

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Speaker 1: it now. A Sports Supreme movie review of Marty Supreme.

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Speaker 1: I just banged my Marty Supreme ping pong ball popcorn bucket.

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Speaker 1: That's kind of hard to say on the microphone here

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Speaker 1: because I do want to talk about, not to start,

501
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Speaker 1: but later in this review, the amazing marketing behind this movie.

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00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:06,440
Speaker 1: Even though this movie costs a lot of money to make,

503
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 1: I feel like so much of the marketing was so

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Speaker 1: innovative and probably one of the best campaigns I've seen

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Speaker 1: this year. Because this movie, I think is a hard sell,

506
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 1: because if you just look at this movie on paper,

507
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:23,479
Speaker 1: it sounds a little bit ridiculous a movie loosely based

508
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:27,399
Speaker 1: on a real life person about table tennis. And I

509
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,199
Speaker 1: think the way a lot of people feel about this

510
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 1: movie going into it is how Marty Supreme in the

511
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Speaker 1: movie felt about his sport, where he had to convince

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Speaker 1: people that he was an athlete, because at that time

513
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:43,919
Speaker 1: when this movie takes place, wasn't really seen as a

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Speaker 1: real thing. Even now, if you were to say you

515
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Speaker 1: were a professional ping pong player, it would still be

516
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Speaker 1: a wild thing to say, we're just now accepting pick

517
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Speaker 1: a ball. I don't think we ever fully embraced ping pong,

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00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:56,680
Speaker 1: at least in America. But I do want to get

519
00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:00,359
Speaker 1: back to the fantastic marketing job that I think they

520
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,640
Speaker 1: did with making this movie a vibe. More so than

521
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:05,200
Speaker 1: you need to go see this movie because who was

522
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,479
Speaker 1: in it, but you do have one of the biggest

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00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:12,680
Speaker 1: actors working right now, Timothy Challamey, who was the driving

524
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 1: force behind this movie and making me want to see

525
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:18,439
Speaker 1: it him saying that this movie is next level. How

526
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,440
Speaker 1: much time he spent practicing table tennis for this movie

527
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 1: way back in like twenty nineteen, after I think the

528
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 1: French Dispatch he was already practicing table tennis in between

529
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,200
Speaker 1: filming all of his movies. While he was doing Wonka,

530
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:34,399
Speaker 1: he was also going and practicing table tennis, and I

531
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 1: think that added a lot to his performance in this movie,

532
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 1: where I thought, man, when does it cut away to

533
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 1: his stunt double? When do they do a little bit

534
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 1: of CGI to get his performance in there? And it

535
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 1: turns out he had been training for so long. There's

536
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:51,159
Speaker 1: this one sequence where he does all these different types

537
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 1: of trick shots. That was one of my favorite parts

538
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 1: of the movie, and that really allowed me to zone

539
00:27:56,359 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 1: into how hard he worked to play table tennis. And

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Speaker 1: Timothy Schallomy is that type of guy. It comes down

541
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Speaker 1: to how intense do you want your actor to be. Now,

542
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 1: I don't want a method actor who is going to

543
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 1: ruin the lives of his co stars, but I do

544
00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:16,639
Speaker 1: want somebody who is that passionate about one role and

545
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: making it the biggest thing ever, especially a movie about

546
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Speaker 1: table tennis. And Timothy Schallomy is that guy. Whether he's

547
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:27,359
Speaker 1: playing Bob Dylan, whether he's playing Willy Wanka, whether he's

548
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: playing Marty Supreme, he embraces every aspect of those characters

549
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 1: because he knows that these are the stories that are

550
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 1: going to live on forever. He didn't even want to

551
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 1: stunt double in this movie. He said, if there is

552
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 1: going to be a bear butt in Marty Supreme, it

553
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 1: is going to be my bare butt. So when watching

554
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 1: this movie, I found that it was his performance that

555
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:56,480
Speaker 1: was so intoxicating that drew me into every scene, every

556
00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 1: action sequence. It was him. So what this movie is about.

557
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 1: It's about a man, Marty Supreme, who is obsessed with

558
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 1: table tennis. He wants to be not only the best

559
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 1: in the United States, but the best in the world,

560
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 1: and he is so close. He feels like he just

561
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 1: needs that one big victory and he is going to

562
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 1: be the face of the sport. He is going to

563
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 1: be on the weedies box and everybody. It's not so

564
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 1: much that they don't believe him. It's that they don't

565
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: believe that table tennis is a real sport and a

566
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 1: real thing, even though it is huge overseas, which is

567
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 1: where he's trying to go compete. They just see him

568
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 1: as a guy who really doesn't have a job because

569
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 1: being a professional ping pong player is not a real thing.

570
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 1: At the start of the movie, he is working as

571
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 1: a shoe salesman, just trying to get enough money to

572
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 1: pay for his ticket to go and compete in the finals.

573
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,479
Speaker 1: That is what he is trying to do. Every single

574
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 1: decision that he makes is to have enough money to

575
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 1: play table tennis at all costs. Any moment he just

576
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 1: sees this opportunity to earn any amount of cash to

577
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,760
Speaker 1: put towards his goal, he is going to take it,

578
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 1: and he makes some really awful, terrible decisions on the way,

579
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Speaker 1: which I think when you look at a Josh Safty movie,

580
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 1: that is what he does best, pulling out these characters

581
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 1: who you, as the viewer, almost hate because you're not

582
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 1: really rooting for Marti Supreme because he is kind of

583
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: a bad guy. He is so obsessed with his idea

584
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 1: of being the best in the world that it impedes

585
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 1: him on just being a good human. And while watching

586
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 1: this movie, I found it interesting that at times I

587
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 1: did not want him to succeed because he was burning

588
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 1: all these relationships, these people who have helped them out

589
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 1: and probably genuinely want the best for him, but he

590
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 1: is so obsessed with being the best failure does not

591
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 1: enter his mind that he is willing to push them

592
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 1: all to the side because he almost doesn't even see

593
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 1: these humans as humans. He just sees them as these

594
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 1: people in his way, and if they can't get him

595
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,840
Speaker 1: to where he wants to be, he wants nothing to

596
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 1: do with you. He will push you aside as soon

597
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 1: as you are not an asset to him. He doesn't

598
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: care about you. So there are a lot of flaws

599
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 1: in his personality. He is overly confident, which I think

600
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,479
Speaker 1: is something that Timothy shallow May plays really well, and

601
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: I think that is the thing we forget about him,

602
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,560
Speaker 1: of how confident he is as a person and as

603
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Speaker 1: an actor that he is the best. So I wonder

604
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 1: if some of his real life personality came out a

605
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 1: little bit in his character in showing how relentless he is,

606
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 1: because I think that is what the message of this

607
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 1: movie is, of how relentless you need to be in

608
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 1: order to achieve greatness. And at what price are you

609
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 1: willing to pay? Are you willing to give up your

610
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 1: entire life, your entire existence to be the best in

611
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 1: the world. And if you are, you're going to have

612
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 1: to realize that you're gonna make a lot of people mad,

613
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: you are going to ruin some relationships so even though

614
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 1: you are willing to make those sacrifices, oh man, it's

615
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 1: not a great life. And he is overly confident, smug,

616
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:17,720
Speaker 1: so condescending to people, but it's that driving force that

617
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 1: allows him to even get in the realm and the

618
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 1: conversation of being the best at table tennis. This movie

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Speaker 1: is paired with a fantastic score that really brings it

620
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: all together and adds to that level of anxiety that

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Speaker 1: you feel as the viewer, because I think that is

622
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 1: what I love about Josh Saffi movies like Good Time,

623
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 1: like Uncut Gems. It's that feeling of being uncomfortable, of

624
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 1: feeling like at any moment, crap is gonna hit the fan,

625
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 1: somebody is going to end up incapacitated, or something irreversible

626
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,080
Speaker 1: is going to happen, and you're gonna be traumatized, because

627
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 1: it is that foundation underneath all these scenes, this score.

628
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: They're just kind of driving making things feel so much

629
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 1: more intense than maybe they really are, which is really

630
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 1: this entire movie because you have these really big moments,

631
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: because it is a sports drama of people playing table tennis,

632
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 1: and there's just this odd level of intensity that Josh

633
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 1: Safti is able to create because if you were just

634
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 1: to look at this as a spectator, if you were

635
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 1: inside this movie, it wouldn't feel that intense. You're just

636
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 1: witnessing two people playing table tennis. But in this movie,

637
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 1: it feels like the biggest thing in the world, like

638
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 1: all eyes are turned on this moment, like it has

639
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 1: a whole lot of impact. But even though this would

640
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 1: just be a minor story in everybody else's life, that

641
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 1: is it Marty Supreme or the small circle around him.

642
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: This would just be somebody on a Saturday, Hey, you

643
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 1: want to go watch a ping pong championship. Sure I'll

644
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 1: go with you, just a way to kill an afternoon.

645
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 1: But to him it is everything. And I love that juxtaposition,

646
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 1: that contrast of having somebody obsessed with something that is

647
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 1: their entire world, but to other people it is just

648
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 1: something very minor in your life, which I think is

649
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,719
Speaker 1: something that we all experience now. Things on the internet,

650
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: people on YouTube, people on TikTok, Instagram. We all have

651
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 1: these really specialized interests. For me, it's movies. For other

652
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 1: people it could be gardening. Maybe to some it is

653
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:21,880
Speaker 1: running in fitness. All these little areas of expertise that

654
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,799
Speaker 1: you can have, and passions and interests that to you,

655
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 1: those are your entire life. You probably have celebrities within

656
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 1: all those interests that are just celebrities to you. The

657
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:36,720
Speaker 1: biggest YouTubers in the world and streamers might mean everything

658
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 1: to you but mean nothing to somebody else. And I

659
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 1: think that is why this movie resonates today. He is

660
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 1: fighting for something that he is the only one who

661
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 1: really cares about, and in the grand scheme of things,

662
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 1: in the whole scope of the world, it really doesn't

663
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 1: mean anything. And I think that is what makes this

664
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 1: movie even more impactful, is that it takes something as

665
00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 1: trivial as table tennis and makes it feel massive, like

666
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 1: it should be filling stadiums. That is the sign of

667
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 1: creating a compelling story, where if you look at his

668
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 1: brother's movie from earlier this year in twenty twenty five,

669
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:16,319
Speaker 1: Ben Safty with The Smashing Machine also felt like it

670
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 1: was taking somebody's story in a specialized field in that

671
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 1: world being UFC, but the story wasn't there. There was

672
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 1: nothing compelling about Mark Kerr in The Smashing Machine like

673
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 1: there was about Marty Supreme, two people who kind of

674
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 1: had the same personalities in both of their minds. They

675
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 1: could not see failure, They only saw winning. But it

676
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:40,760
Speaker 1: was the ability to create a compelling story that sets

677
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 1: Marty Supreme not only apart from The Smashing Machine, but

678
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: making Josh Safti the superior Safty brother and to me saying,

679
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 1: that's where the talent is because my favorite film of

680
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:54,400
Speaker 1: both of theirs was Uncut Gems and it was that

681
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 1: level of anxiety that that movie created, and I felt

682
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 1: that again in Marty Supreme, but did not even come

683
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 1: close to feeling that in The Smashing Machine. Another thing

684
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: that Josh Saftie does well is not only giving you

685
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 1: the big A list stars with Timothy Shallomey and Gwyneth Paltrow,

686
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 1: but also putting in these other pieces to make the

687
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: movie feel authentic, but giving you these cameos of like,

688
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 1: why is this person even in this movie? Why is

689
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 1: Shark Tanks Kevin O'Leary the jerk rich husband in this movie?

690
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 1: But somehow it makes perfect sense. But when you put

691
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 1: all these pieces together, having Gwyneth Paltrow act alongside Kevin O'Leary,

692
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,839
Speaker 1: it creates a great contrast and creates these moments that

693
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 1: you don't feel or see anywhere else. Tyler the Creator

694
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,239
Speaker 1: is in this movie one of my favorite rappers of

695
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:44,759
Speaker 1: all time. If you are watching on YouTube and have

696
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: been subscribed to the channel, you have seen his album

697
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 1: in the background of my studio here call me if

698
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 1: you get lost for I don't know, probably a year

699
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 1: and a half, two years, as long as I've had

700
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:57,759
Speaker 1: this YouTube channel. Seeing him in this movie making his

701
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 1: big screen debut was exciting to me, but also that

702
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:04,319
Speaker 1: he did a really good job. Him and Marty Supreme's

703
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 1: friendship in this movie was something that I could have

704
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 1: just watched that story unfold. My only real big beef

705
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,400
Speaker 1: with his character was that he was not in the

706
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 1: movie more because I really saw anytime those two were

707
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 1: together on screen it felt like a really great buddy comedy,

708
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 1: which the entire Marty Supreme movie had a lot of

709
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:27,240
Speaker 1: different elements throughout it, a big drama, some comedy, some crime,

710
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:30,359
Speaker 1: a little bit of thriller. Overall, just a really fun,

711
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 1: entertaining experience from beginning to end. Even though it did

712
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 1: feel a little bit long at almost two and a

713
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 1: half hours long, it really wasn't until that two hour

714
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,799
Speaker 1: mark that I was even aware of the runtime that

715
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 1: is usually my signal in my brain whenever I think, Okay,

716
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 1: when's this movie gonna end? And I check my clock

717
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:48,919
Speaker 1: because I start my timer at the beginning of every

718
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 1: single movie I go see in theaters. And it was

719
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:53,439
Speaker 1: right around two hours where I thought, when's this movie

720
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 1: going to wrap up? So I did feel the runtime

721
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:58,720
Speaker 1: a little bit. But before we hop out of this review,

722
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 1: let's talk about the marketing where I got this for

723
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:05,400
Speaker 1: free at Regal. If you bought your tickets on the app,

724
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 1: you got a free Marty Supreme popcorn bucket, which this

725
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 1: is pretty simple. It's just a big orange, pink punk

726
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 1: ball with a flattened bottom so it can sit on

727
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,839
Speaker 1: a shelf or if you're watching in the theater, which

728
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:20,880
Speaker 1: the guy next to me also had one, it was

729
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 1: sit in your lap and not roll off. But if

730
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 1: you look at all the marketing surrounding Marty Supreme, that

731
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 1: is how you create a vibe for a movie. Where

732
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 1: I think some movies have gotten it wrong. It's not

733
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 1: so much about telling people how great your movie is,

734
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: who is in it an amazing performance, they're going to

735
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:40,840
Speaker 1: be nominated for Oscars. I think people don't care about that. Again,

736
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 1: going back to The Smashing Machine, just because these two

737
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 1: movies kind of have a lot of parallels. To me.

738
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 1: The Smashing Machine, that's what all the marketing was. The

739
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 1: rock is in it, one of the most famous people

740
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 1: in the world, giving his Rawlis performance. He's going to

741
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: get nominated for all of the awards for this. People

742
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 1: don't care about that. People want to feel like they

743
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:03,400
Speaker 1: are a part of something. They want a movie to

744
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 1: have a vibe. Much like if you were just going

745
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 1: to follow somebody on social media, you want to follow

746
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 1: them because they're cool, because they have a vibe to them.

747
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:14,120
Speaker 1: That is what the marketing of Marty Supreme did. Giving

748
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:18,759
Speaker 1: all those celebrities that warm up windbreaker jacket that I

749
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 1: now am searching out. I was looking on stock x

750
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,720
Speaker 1: but it's like ten thousand dollars fifteen thousand dollars, crazy amount.

751
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:26,839
Speaker 1: That just had me interested in the movie from a

752
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:31,440
Speaker 1: fashion standpoint. Seeing Tom Brady, Kid, Cuddy Kardashians, all these

753
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:35,360
Speaker 1: people wearing this Marty Supreme jacket and obviously Timothy Shalomey

754
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,840
Speaker 1: wearing it as well, got my interest. It started to

755
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:41,279
Speaker 1: create this vibe that, hey, this movie is something that

756
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 1: cool people are also a part of I want to

757
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 1: be a part of that too. Instead of doing traditional

758
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 1: billboards that every single movie does, they said, nah, forget that,

759
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 1: We're gonna put orange blimps all up throughout the country,

760
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 1: and not just in a big city every single time.

761
00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:59,800
Speaker 1: We're going to put them in random cities across the

762
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:04,239
Speaker 1: so that people see these, they take videos of them,

763
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,479
Speaker 1: and they post them on the Internet because that gets

764
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 1: people talking. So probably that same amount of money they

765
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 1: could have spent on just billboards, make that three D,

766
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 1: you put it out in the real world, put it

767
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:15,360
Speaker 1: on a blimp. I loved it. They committed to a

768
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: color palette too, with this bright orange that sticks out everywhere.

769
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 1: And if you're just going which I know people don't

770
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 1: really do this, just walk down like the halls of

771
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:26,880
Speaker 1: a movie theater or outside a movie theater where all

772
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 1: the posters, this bright orange is going to stick out

773
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:33,319
Speaker 1: to you in posters, but also on social media. You

774
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:35,920
Speaker 1: see this color when you're scrolling through, you're probably gonna

775
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:38,360
Speaker 1: stop on it. And not only that, but they also

776
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 1: did a fake over fifteen minute zoom call that went viral,

777
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 1: which was Timothy Schallomey throwing out all these ridiculous promotional

778
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:51,560
Speaker 1: ideas for Marty Supreme, like painting the statue of Liberty Orange.

779
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:54,840
Speaker 1: They put that out in its entirety, which is a

780
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 1: crazy thing to do, especially now with the concern of

781
00:40:58,000 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 1: anything that you put out on social media has to

782
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 1: be so people's attention spans are getting shorter and shorter.

783
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:06,320
Speaker 1: But you put out a fifteen plus minute, almost seventeen

784
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 1: minute zoom call that's essentially a piece of promotional content.

785
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:13,800
Speaker 1: But people didn't know is this real? Was this fake?

786
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 1: Is this something that wasn't supposed to be uploaded online?

787
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 1: And it was that creates a moment. So there were

788
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:23,319
Speaker 1: all these little things that they did that were just

789
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:26,959
Speaker 1: a little bit different, nothing too crazy, Not all those

790
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 1: were even that expensive, but it created these moments that

791
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:32,879
Speaker 1: made you feel like you wanted to be a part

792
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 1: of this just because it was generating interest. And I

793
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,399
Speaker 1: think that is a lesson in movie marketing that other

794
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:41,760
Speaker 1: films need to learn from. It's not just about putting

795
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:44,839
Speaker 1: out a really slick trailer and paying for all these

796
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:48,759
Speaker 1: TikTok ads. It's about creating a vibe and energy and

797
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 1: building a brand for your movie that people want to

798
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:53,759
Speaker 1: be a part of. I will also say, as I

799
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:56,879
Speaker 1: wrap up this review, Ted Williams, the cameo he had

800
00:41:56,880 --> 00:42:00,240
Speaker 1: in Marty Supreme was probably my favorite out of every buddy.

801
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 1: If you remember Ted Williams from a viral video from

802
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:05,440
Speaker 1: the twenty tens, he was the man with the golden

803
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:07,880
Speaker 1: voice who was out on the street just asking people

804
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:10,879
Speaker 1: for money. A guy took a video of him and say, hey,

805
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 1: I'll give you some money, but hey, do that thing

806
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 1: with your voice. And he was a broadcaster back in

807
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:17,880
Speaker 1: the day, and you see him standing there on the

808
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:21,400
Speaker 1: street corner and suddenly you hear this amazing, booming voice

809
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 1: that sounds like it should be on radio stations across America.

810
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:28,720
Speaker 1: He went viral, that video changed his life, and seeing

811
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 1: him in Marty's Supreme just brought this sense of joy

812
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 1: to my face because he is one of those people

813
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:37,239
Speaker 1: that went viral when going viral still meant something, where

814
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 1: it meant that everybody in the country knew who you

815
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:43,359
Speaker 1: were after getting millions of views. And to see him

816
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:45,840
Speaker 1: and all of the ups and downs in his life

817
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:50,360
Speaker 1: of getting off the street, having success again, having money,

818
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 1: losing it all again, and now to be in a

819
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:55,359
Speaker 1: movie where you look so genuinely happy to be there,

820
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:57,840
Speaker 1: happy to be on screen, and his cameo'll fit in

821
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 1: perfect with all these other people who aren't really actors

822
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:02,440
Speaker 1: but got their shan to be in a movie of

823
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: this level. The Ted Williams cameo just made me happy.

824
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 1: So when it comes to Marty Supreme, I give it

825
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:13,799
Speaker 1: four point five out of five Ping Pong balls my

826
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,720
Speaker 1: top five worst movies of the year. These were movies

827
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 1: I found to be unbearable. But my one role that

828
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: I have is I have to complete a movie in

829
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 1: order to review it and include it in this section

830
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: every single year, because if I only watch half a

831
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 1: movie and can't get through it because it's so bad,

832
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:33,360
Speaker 1: I don't count it. Because I didn't officially finish it,

833
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 1: I cannot put it towards this list. Or if I

834
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 1: walk out of a movie, which I did not walk

835
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:41,880
Speaker 1: out of one single movie in twenty twenty five. I

836
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 1: got close, but never walked out of a movie. So

837
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:48,840
Speaker 1: all of these I watched to completion. In some cases,

838
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:52,240
Speaker 1: I hate watch some of these movies because I knew

839
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 1: about my role and if I didn't finish it, I

840
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 1: couldn't include it. So I powered through and was petty

841
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 1: enough to finish the movie just so I could included

842
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 1: on this list and count it towards my worst of

843
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:05,400
Speaker 1: the year. So these are movies I think you should

844
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:09,080
Speaker 1: avoid because sometimes they repopulate on streaming services like maybe

845
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:12,400
Speaker 1: you should watch this movie. Do not waste your time

846
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:14,839
Speaker 1: on these, and if you did and enjoyed them, more

847
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 1: power to you. But this is my top five list

848
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 1: of the worst movies of twenty twenty five, starting at

849
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:25,759
Speaker 1: number five. The Old Guard. I do not know why

850
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 1: I hate this franchise so much, why they are really

851
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:32,960
Speaker 1: trying to force this action franchise on Netflix, but I

852
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:36,399
Speaker 1: cannot get into it whatsoever. I thought the first one

853
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:39,839
Speaker 1: was so generic. I was surprised they made The Old

854
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:42,400
Speaker 1: Guard too, which at least their own and I like

855
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:44,799
Speaker 1: her as an actor, but this movie is not it.

856
00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:49,359
Speaker 1: The action in this is so nineteen eighties and does

857
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:53,279
Speaker 1: not fit in twenty twenty five. There's nothing interesting about it.

858
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 1: I mean, how do you take a movie about immortal

859
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:58,719
Speaker 1: warriors and make it boring? These people who have been

860
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:02,880
Speaker 1: fighting for centuries trying to protect the world, and somehow

861
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:07,239
Speaker 1: you focus on this story that is so unbearable and

862
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:11,279
Speaker 1: the ending was tear rub bowl at number five, I

863
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 1: had the old guard to do not waste your time

864
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:16,600
Speaker 1: on this one. We're gonna see a theme here, because

865
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:19,760
Speaker 1: I think the hardest genre right now to make good

866
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:23,360
Speaker 1: is action movies, even more so than comedy movies. I

867
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:27,359
Speaker 1: can find some redeeming qualities in any comedy movie. Those

868
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:30,320
Speaker 1: also get made less. But for some reason, action movies

869
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:32,799
Speaker 1: just feel so bad right now if you do not

870
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:36,200
Speaker 1: have a great director. Because at number four, I have

871
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 1: Back in Action with Cameron Diaz and Jamie Fox, which

872
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 1: was another Netflix action movie, and this was one that

873
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:45,239
Speaker 1: came out towards the beginning of last year. And you

874
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:48,920
Speaker 1: see Cameron Diaz and Jamie Fox's face together on a

875
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:51,920
Speaker 1: thumbnail and you want to click that because of their

876
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:55,480
Speaker 1: star power. Also, Cameron Diaz came out of retirement for

877
00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:57,400
Speaker 1: this movie. They paid her a lot of money, but

878
00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:00,719
Speaker 1: to see her in a new movie in such a

879
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 1: long time should have been unevent, but it was not.

880
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:08,280
Speaker 1: They played two former CIA agents who are now living

881
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:11,400
Speaker 1: in a suburban life, which is almost the premise to

882
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:15,719
Speaker 1: every single action movie that stars two actors who are

883
00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:18,840
Speaker 1: bigger in the nineties and two thousands. That's kind of

884
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: the Okay, what can we do with them now because

885
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 1: they're a bit older. Well, let's have them in a

886
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 1: family setting. Nobody knows their secret agents. But then their

887
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:29,879
Speaker 1: pass is going to come crawling back and suddenly they

888
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:33,399
Speaker 1: have to do CIA and Assassin things again, but now

889
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:36,320
Speaker 1: they're doing it like a minivan. There was no chemistry

890
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 1: whatsoever in this movie between Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx,

891
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 1: so many cliches, bad cgi and no surprises. There was

892
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 1: no fun to be had. And back in action, I

893
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:50,759
Speaker 1: have that one at number four. At number three is

894
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 1: another action movie, Bridehard with Rebel Wilson, which is essentially

895
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:58,920
Speaker 1: die Hard, but at a wedding. She plays a secret

896
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:02,760
Speaker 1: agent who has had an interesting relationship with her friends

897
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 1: because she is always gone because her job requires her

898
00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 1: to go places and be a secret agent, and she

899
00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 1: can't tell anybody, so it causes a strain on their

900
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:16,759
Speaker 1: friendship because she has to leave a lot without any explanation,

901
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:19,400
Speaker 1: And obviously, if you are friends with somebody and they

902
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 1: keep ditching you, not telling you where they are going,

903
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:26,040
Speaker 1: you start to see them as a bad friend. But nonetheless,

904
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:28,239
Speaker 1: she is a part of her friend's wedding and then

905
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 1: it gets taken over all the wedding guests get held hostage,

906
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:33,880
Speaker 1: and then you find out more details why it happened,

907
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:37,239
Speaker 1: but she has to step into secret agent mode and

908
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:41,239
Speaker 1: take down the criminals. Speaking of bad CGI and bad

909
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:44,319
Speaker 1: action movies, a lot of bad CGI. But it also

910
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:47,320
Speaker 1: tried to work in some comedy, and when the comedy's

911
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 1: not working and the action wasn't exciting, the whole movie

912
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:53,920
Speaker 1: just feels like a mess. It tries to be a

913
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:57,360
Speaker 1: wedding rom com but then also obviously tries to be

914
00:47:57,560 --> 00:48:02,080
Speaker 1: a diehard parody. It wasn't over the top enough to

915
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 1: be ridiculous funny and not serious enough to feel like,

916
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 1: oh man, this is kind of a crazy situation when

917
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:11,600
Speaker 1: if you think about it, if you went to a

918
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:14,479
Speaker 1: wedding and suddenly it was taken over by a bunch

919
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:17,719
Speaker 1: of hardcore dudes with guns and tattoos and big muscles,

920
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:22,280
Speaker 1: that would be a terrifying situation, And in any other tone,

921
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:25,719
Speaker 1: this movie would be a lot more serious. There would

922
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:29,240
Speaker 1: be more consequences. If somebody got shot at a wedding,

923
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:32,800
Speaker 1: that would be a really big deal. But here everybody

924
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:34,920
Speaker 1: kind of shrugs it off. It feels normal to a

925
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 1: lot of people, so again, the tone just was not

926
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:40,759
Speaker 1: right for this movie to create any kind of sense

927
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:43,759
Speaker 1: of realism, and it wasn't wacky enough to feel like

928
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:47,359
Speaker 1: a slapstick comedy. So at number three, I have Brideheart

929
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 1: at number two again the same premise pretty much as

930
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 1: back in Action The Family Planned too. How did this

931
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:58,320
Speaker 1: movie get a sequel on Apple TV as Mark Wahlberg

932
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:01,759
Speaker 1: who is essentially playing the same person he's played in

933
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:04,759
Speaker 1: every single movie in the last three years, which Mark

934
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:07,760
Speaker 1: Wahlberg has kind of just turned into a streaming actor

935
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:10,920
Speaker 1: where I don't remember the last time I paid money

936
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:14,360
Speaker 1: to go to the theater to see a Mark Wahlberg movie.

937
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:16,879
Speaker 1: And I have to imagine he is doing pretty well

938
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:20,799
Speaker 1: doing all these movies on Apple and Amazon Prime, but

939
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:23,640
Speaker 1: he's not really at that level anymore where he is

940
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:26,400
Speaker 1: even trying to put out a movie in theaters. Maybe

941
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:29,360
Speaker 1: he doesn't really care about that aspect anymore and he

942
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:31,759
Speaker 1: just wants to see the check clear. He wants to

943
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:34,520
Speaker 1: go around and promote these movies, post them on Instagram,

944
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:37,480
Speaker 1: and he likes that lifestyle without them having to have

945
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:40,839
Speaker 1: a theatrical release. But much like the movies we were

946
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:44,239
Speaker 1: talking about on this list, he plays somebody who used

947
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:47,240
Speaker 1: to be a secret agent and now he is trying

948
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:50,359
Speaker 1: to live a normal family life. But obviously in the sequel,

949
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:53,239
Speaker 1: his family has now figured out about his past and

950
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:55,319
Speaker 1: they're a little bit more okay with it, and I

951
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 1: almost think that makes this sequel worse them knowing and

952
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:02,320
Speaker 1: him not having to keep it a secret about his past.

953
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 1: Kit Harrington from Game of Thrones is in this movie

954
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:08,360
Speaker 1: who plays one of the worst villains of all time,

955
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:11,480
Speaker 1: where not worse than that he is a bad person

956
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:15,000
Speaker 1: and a good villain, just a really terrible villain all

957
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:17,960
Speaker 1: the way around. I hate a villain who is so

958
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:22,000
Speaker 1: flimsy that it feels like, why is this person even

959
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:25,600
Speaker 1: a threat? Why is anybody even caring about taking this

960
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:29,520
Speaker 1: guy down? Because his entire plan made no sense. It

961
00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:34,040
Speaker 1: just felt really lazy. The jokes were atrocious, to the

962
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:37,040
Speaker 1: point that I don't even think they were trying to

963
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 1: make this movie funny for its audience, which is trying

964
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 1: to be like a family friendly action movie. But this

965
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 1: entire movie felt like a waste of time. And the

966
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:48,359
Speaker 1: only reason I finished it is because I knew if

967
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 1: I didn't, I couldn't include it on this list. But

968
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:52,759
Speaker 1: this is awful, and they also kind of tried to

969
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:55,359
Speaker 1: make it a Christmas movie and there was very little

970
00:50:55,480 --> 00:50:58,279
Speaker 1: Christmas in it. So after this one, I'm out. If

971
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:00,600
Speaker 1: they make the Family Plan three, I am not going

972
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:03,800
Speaker 1: to torture myself through that. I'll still give Mark Wahlberg

973
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:07,360
Speaker 1: a chance. He's put out some okay streaming movies in

974
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:10,839
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, but this franchise is not it.

975
00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 1: I'm ready for it to be done. But at number

976
00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:17,879
Speaker 1: one the worst movie of twenty twenty five, War of

977
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:22,120
Speaker 1: the World's on Prime Video with ice Cube Eva Longoria.

978
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:24,399
Speaker 1: This movie was never supposed to see the light of day.

979
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 1: They made it during the pandemic. The only reason I

980
00:51:27,080 --> 00:51:29,960
Speaker 1: watched this is because TikTok convinced me that it was

981
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:32,440
Speaker 1: so bad, the worst movie ever made. And it was

982
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:34,120
Speaker 1: almost to the point that I was like, I don't

983
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:36,720
Speaker 1: even want to spend my time watching something so bad.

984
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:40,759
Speaker 1: But I had to know for myself, because sometimes when

985
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:43,880
Speaker 1: things get beaten so much online, it's kind of a

986
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:47,440
Speaker 1: snowball effect of everybody hyping up how bad a movie is.

987
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:50,760
Speaker 1: That maybe sometimes I think it can't be that bad.

988
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:54,840
Speaker 1: War of the World is that bad? The entire movie

989
00:51:54,880 --> 00:52:00,400
Speaker 1: takes place over Microsoft teams, not even Zoom or Sky

990
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 1: Microsoft teams. It is so ridiculous in the way that

991
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:09,239
Speaker 1: ice Cube is essentially sitting in an office trying to

992
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:14,240
Speaker 1: prevent an alien invasion and the entire world crumbling around

993
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:18,280
Speaker 1: him from a chair in his laptop, and he's hacking

994
00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:23,040
Speaker 1: into phones, hacking into security cams, sending people Amazon gift cards.

995
00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:26,480
Speaker 1: It really felt like a big Amazon commercial because they

996
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 1: incorporate all these things of like, oh, we got to

997
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:32,640
Speaker 1: get him something quick, let's get on Amazon dot com.

998
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:36,360
Speaker 1: We'll send it via drone. The entire thing was wild.

999
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 1: The movie is also literally unfinished. There are parts where

1000
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:44,360
Speaker 1: you can see the green screen reflection in ice Cube's eyes.

1001
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:48,680
Speaker 1: I think his worst performance ever because the director wasn't

1002
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:51,719
Speaker 1: even in the room with him. It sounds entirely like

1003
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:55,120
Speaker 1: ice Cube just has his script sitting a little bit

1004
00:52:55,160 --> 00:52:58,440
Speaker 1: off camera and he is just reading it like, oh man,

1005
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:01,320
Speaker 1: the world is really going going down here. Let me

1006
00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:03,799
Speaker 1: hump on my computer and see if I can take

1007
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:08,319
Speaker 1: these guys down. Click. There is some crazy reactions that

1008
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:11,440
Speaker 1: he has to really serious things, and I don't want

1009
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:13,600
Speaker 1: to ruin at all. If you decide to go watch

1010
00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:15,960
Speaker 1: this movie, but there are moments where he should be

1011
00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 1: a lot more sad or shocked, and he has just

1012
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:22,480
Speaker 1: such a flat delivery. And I can't believe they put

1013
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:24,920
Speaker 1: this together and actually put it out into the world.

1014
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:29,680
Speaker 1: But the only redeeming quality this movie had is I

1015
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:32,480
Speaker 1: now have a go to answer whenever somebody asked me

1016
00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:35,120
Speaker 1: what is the worst movie I have ever watched? So

1017
00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:38,560
Speaker 1: not only the worst movie of the last year, but

1018
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:41,760
Speaker 1: now goes down on my list of the worst movie

1019
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:45,560
Speaker 1: of all time. I can't believe this movie was even made.

1020
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:49,360
Speaker 1: Some of my honorable mentions include The Accountant two, which

1021
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:52,600
Speaker 1: I think just because I had higher expectations for it.

1022
00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:56,160
Speaker 1: Because The Accountant one is a good movie, does action

1023
00:53:56,320 --> 00:54:01,239
Speaker 1: pretty well, has some intense moments. Nefflex character in that

1024
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:04,759
Speaker 1: movie just felt more like a unique person, and in

1025
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 1: the account At too, he felt more like a cartoon character.

1026
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:09,759
Speaker 1: So I don't think it's one of the worst movies ever.

1027
00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:13,440
Speaker 1: It's just a huge decline from one to two that

1028
00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:16,839
Speaker 1: it surprised me and disappointed me. I will also put

1029
00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:18,759
Speaker 1: in my honorable mentions, I know what you did last

1030
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:21,400
Speaker 1: summer Again, it was more so that I was disappointed

1031
00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:25,560
Speaker 1: in this requel. Happy Gilmore Too was also a big disappointment.

1032
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:28,399
Speaker 1: Although I didn't really expect that movie to be good.

1033
00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:31,160
Speaker 1: From the moment that the trailer dropped and I saw

1034
00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:33,520
Speaker 1: how much they were focusing on all the cameos, I

1035
00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:36,000
Speaker 1: knew there was no way it was going to live

1036
00:54:36,080 --> 00:54:39,600
Speaker 1: up to expectations or be anything close to the original

1037
00:54:39,640 --> 00:54:42,400
Speaker 1: Happy Gilmore, and I have to kind of just accept

1038
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 1: that that was just supposed to be a fun movie,

1039
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:48,480
Speaker 1: turn your brain off, have some nostalgia, but I really

1040
00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:51,720
Speaker 1: wish that that entire thing would have been handled differently,

1041
00:54:51,760 --> 00:54:54,800
Speaker 1: because the first maybe twenty minutes of the movie had potential,

1042
00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 1: and then it just quickly said, Okay, we're just gonna

1043
00:54:57,040 --> 00:54:59,360
Speaker 1: do whatever we want. Throw in bad Bunny and Travis

1044
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:03,560
Speaker 1: Kelce also an honorable mentioned Good Fortune with Aziz I'm sorry,

1045
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:07,400
Speaker 1: Seth Rogan and Keanu Reeves. Again, I think this movie

1046
00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:10,360
Speaker 1: was just the fact that I had higher expectations because

1047
00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:13,120
Speaker 1: I love all three of those actors, and the movie

1048
00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:15,799
Speaker 1: just did not deliver. Was not that funny, was not

1049
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:17,680
Speaker 1: that interesting, and felt like it should have come out

1050
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:24,280
Speaker 1: probably fifteen years ago. But that is the list. Before

1051
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:26,359
Speaker 1: I go, I got to get my listeners shout out

1052
00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:29,200
Speaker 1: of the week. This week, I'm going over to my

1053
00:55:29,320 --> 00:55:33,000
Speaker 1: Instagram dms and shouting out Kendra, who actually asked me

1054
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:35,960
Speaker 1: a question. She said, I need to know your thoughts

1055
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:38,400
Speaker 1: on this season of Stranger Things. I know it's not

1056
00:55:38,480 --> 00:55:41,600
Speaker 1: a movie, but please do a review in an episode.

1057
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:44,520
Speaker 1: I do want to talk about it because I have

1058
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:47,319
Speaker 1: been watching Stranger Things since twenty sixteen along with a

1059
00:55:47,320 --> 00:55:49,759
Speaker 1: lot of people, and it's crazy to me that this

1060
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:53,600
Speaker 1: is only the fifth season in nine years, because twenty

1061
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:55,960
Speaker 1: twenty six would have been the tenth anniversary of Stranger

1062
00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:58,080
Speaker 1: Things ended in twenty twenty five, so in the almost

1063
00:55:58,280 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 1: ten years this show is ex that we've only got

1064
00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:04,239
Speaker 1: five seasons. I think about forty episodes, and I have

1065
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:06,560
Speaker 1: been invested in it for so long, and I think

1066
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:09,680
Speaker 1: every season has been great. It is rare that a

1067
00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:14,120
Speaker 1: show maintains the level of quality that I believe Stranger

1068
00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:17,759
Speaker 1: Things has maintained over the years. I love season one,

1069
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:22,080
Speaker 1: Season two was okay, love season three. Season four was

1070
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:27,640
Speaker 1: my favorite by far. I really really enjoyed season five.

1071
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:30,280
Speaker 1: I was so close to it being my favorite season

1072
00:56:30,360 --> 00:56:32,920
Speaker 1: out of all of them. And if you want to

1073
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:34,759
Speaker 1: hop out of this right now, I will get a

1074
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:38,120
Speaker 1: little bit into spoiler territory. But I also feel like

1075
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:40,680
Speaker 1: it was such a huge moment in pop culture. I

1076
00:56:40,719 --> 00:56:43,200
Speaker 1: could not get away from seeing stranger things on my feed.

1077
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:46,560
Speaker 1: If for some reason, you haven't watched the finale yet,

1078
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:49,520
Speaker 1: or if you haven't started the show at all, and

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Speaker 1: it wouldn't take you that long to start from the

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Speaker 1: very beginning to the end. Now, I will get into

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Speaker 1: spoiler territory here now, so thank you for listening. You

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Speaker 1: won't get the full sign off, but I will get

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00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:03,440
Speaker 1: my thoughts. Now you have been warned. All right, spoiler

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00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:08,920
Speaker 1: territory here now. I thought that season five lacks some

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00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:12,719
Speaker 1: intensity where season four was so building up to this

1086
00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:16,080
Speaker 1: amazing moment. Vecna. In season four, I thought, was this

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Speaker 1: unstoppable force. He became my favorite villain. I thought, how

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00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:21,760
Speaker 1: are they going to get out of this? How are

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00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:24,400
Speaker 1: they going to defeat Vecna? There were so many great

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00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:27,480
Speaker 1: moments with Max and all the characters in season four

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00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 1: just shined Eddie all the things that season four is

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00:57:31,160 --> 00:57:33,360
Speaker 1: still my favorite of all time because I feel like

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00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 1: that was where all the best action was the best fighting.

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00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:40,560
Speaker 1: It was an impossible task to finish this show with

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00:57:40,720 --> 00:57:42,960
Speaker 1: all the things that happened with COVID and all the

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00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:45,080
Speaker 1: things getting spread out, the kids getting older, which I

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00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:48,320
Speaker 1: also think was a big factor, Millie Bobby Brown becoming

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00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:51,800
Speaker 1: such a huge star, everybody starting to branch out that

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00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:55,600
Speaker 1: I am surprised and just grateful we got this conclusion

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00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:58,280
Speaker 1: that I feel closed out the series in a really

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00:57:58,320 --> 00:58:02,520
Speaker 1: good way. But it was possible task. My expectations were

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00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:05,800
Speaker 1: so high because of how big the action got in

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00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:09,800
Speaker 1: season four, and I felt like the intensity just wasn't

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00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:13,080
Speaker 1: there in season five. It was more a way of

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00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:16,760
Speaker 1: closing out their story, and he became less about Vecna

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00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:20,320
Speaker 1: and more about all the characters saying goodbye to their childhood.

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00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:23,280
Speaker 1: Because I did not like the way Vecna went out.

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00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:27,240
Speaker 1: It was too easy. He became so little of a threat,

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00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:31,360
Speaker 1: and the actual last fight between him and the entire

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00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:35,440
Speaker 1: crew of Stranger Things just felt really quick and rushed,

1111
00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:37,720
Speaker 1: and they were focusing so much on all the side

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00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:40,160
Speaker 1: characters that I thought, are they trying to make a

1113
00:58:40,200 --> 00:58:42,480
Speaker 1: spinoff series here? But they're not going to do that.

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00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:44,880
Speaker 1: There is a spinoff series coming, but it's not going

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00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:47,760
Speaker 1: to be set in the same town with the same characters.

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00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:49,680
Speaker 1: I really thought that's why they were spending so much

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00:58:49,680 --> 00:58:53,000
Speaker 1: time building up all these side characters and not focusing

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00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 1: on the main cast. And it just felt like I

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00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:01,480
Speaker 1: wanted more bloodshed, which maybe that's cynic in me. I

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00:59:01,520 --> 00:59:04,680
Speaker 1: wanted to see more of the main characters die. I

1121
00:59:04,760 --> 00:59:09,040
Speaker 1: am in the camp of I believe that Eleven actually died.

1122
00:59:09,400 --> 00:59:13,520
Speaker 1: I think the story that Mike told himself was just

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00:59:13,560 --> 00:59:16,600
Speaker 1: to make himself feel better, and that's what he told

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00:59:16,720 --> 00:59:20,640
Speaker 1: all the other kids. That she survived and she is

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00:59:20,680 --> 00:59:26,680
Speaker 1: out there living somewhere peacefully in a countryside somewhere, and

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00:59:26,720 --> 00:59:28,480
Speaker 1: that was the only way that they could move on.

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00:59:29,080 --> 00:59:32,600
Speaker 1: I do love the sentiment there, though, because, like I said,

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Speaker 1: I think the reason some people are upset the way

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00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:37,200
Speaker 1: it went out. And even though I don't like how

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00:59:37,320 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 1: easy it was to defeat Vekna, it wasn't a story

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00:59:40,880 --> 00:59:43,360
Speaker 1: about that. It wasn't a story about the upside down.

1132
00:59:43,560 --> 00:59:47,520
Speaker 1: The real story was about people growing up and saying

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00:59:47,520 --> 00:59:50,480
Speaker 1: goodbye to their childhood, and in order for them to

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00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:53,440
Speaker 1: move on into this next phase of life, that is

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00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:55,520
Speaker 1: what had to happen. And I do believe that she

1136
00:59:55,600 --> 00:59:58,840
Speaker 1: actually died, not initially though Initially I was like ah,

1137
00:59:58,880 --> 01:00:01,400
Speaker 1: she's still alive. And I think that's also what I

1138
01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:05,280
Speaker 1: didn't want to happen. I wanted things to feel final.

1139
01:00:05,680 --> 01:00:08,040
Speaker 1: I didn't want this kind of door open and at

1140
01:00:08,080 --> 01:00:10,800
Speaker 1: the end, if she was going to die, I wanted

1141
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:13,120
Speaker 1: her to actually die, because then it felt like nothing

1142
01:00:13,160 --> 01:00:15,680
Speaker 1: was ever on the line. But I do love the

1143
01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:18,800
Speaker 1: way they wrapped it up with that final campaign. I

1144
01:00:18,840 --> 01:00:21,880
Speaker 1: thought it was a great sendoff. I got emotional during

1145
01:00:21,920 --> 01:00:24,479
Speaker 1: that scene with Elle and Mike. I didn't fully cry,

1146
01:00:24,480 --> 01:00:27,080
Speaker 1: but I got a little teary eye just because that

1147
01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:31,600
Speaker 1: was the moment that was them saying goodbye. Although whenever

1148
01:00:31,640 --> 01:00:34,000
Speaker 1: it was like still an hour left and they'd already

1149
01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:35,800
Speaker 1: defeated VECDA, I'm like, where are we going to go

1150
01:00:35,840 --> 01:00:38,320
Speaker 1: from here? I just felt like things started to get

1151
01:00:38,320 --> 01:00:41,439
Speaker 1: a little bit too convenient. Even when Steve was going down,

1152
01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:43,840
Speaker 1: I wanted him to really die. So again, I think

1153
01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:46,040
Speaker 1: it was a little bit the synic in me that

1154
01:00:46,200 --> 01:00:49,240
Speaker 1: wanted to see all these fires just go out and

1155
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:53,040
Speaker 1: there'd be some real turmoil in order to feel like, Okay,

1156
01:00:53,080 --> 01:00:55,960
Speaker 1: this was an ending. I didn't really want a twist

1157
01:00:55,960 --> 01:00:58,720
Speaker 1: of any kind. I just wanted people to go and

1158
01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:02,320
Speaker 1: it have a little bit more emotional weight, but instead

1159
01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:06,320
Speaker 1: it ended as a service to the fans. It ended

1160
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:08,920
Speaker 1: in a way that I think made the most people happy.

1161
01:01:09,440 --> 01:01:13,200
Speaker 1: I do really love that they really emphasized how big

1162
01:01:13,320 --> 01:01:15,280
Speaker 1: the fan base was and how much they tried to

1163
01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:17,520
Speaker 1: give back to everybody. So I think to those people

1164
01:01:17,520 --> 01:01:20,400
Speaker 1: who are on an entirely different level of fandom when

1165
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:22,920
Speaker 1: it comes to stranger things, which I don't think I'm

1166
01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:26,200
Speaker 1: at that top ten level, I think those people got

1167
01:01:26,240 --> 01:01:28,920
Speaker 1: what they really wanted for me, where it's not my tier,

1168
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:31,800
Speaker 1: one of the things I'm a fan of. I felt

1169
01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:35,000
Speaker 1: like it was really good. I would give it when

1170
01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:38,360
Speaker 1: it comes to season five as a whole four out

1171
01:01:38,400 --> 01:01:41,760
Speaker 1: of five Vecna's and I still believe that season four

1172
01:01:41,880 --> 01:01:45,000
Speaker 1: was a five out of five. Overall. I still think

1173
01:01:45,040 --> 01:01:47,960
Speaker 1: it is one of the best TV shows of all time,

1174
01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:51,520
Speaker 1: easily the best Netflix show of all time. But it

1175
01:01:51,600 --> 01:01:54,120
Speaker 1: makes me excited that we can still get this in

1176
01:01:54,160 --> 01:01:57,160
Speaker 1: the streaming era, because I think that long running shows

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01:01:57,200 --> 01:01:59,720
Speaker 1: like this are gonna go away. Even though there were

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01:01:59,760 --> 01:02:02,760
Speaker 1: only five seasons, it did span over ten years, and

1179
01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:04,920
Speaker 1: in a world where we're getting so many just quick

1180
01:02:05,160 --> 01:02:08,480
Speaker 1: limited releases, it is hard to have a show have

1181
01:02:08,600 --> 01:02:13,200
Speaker 1: success over seasons like this, I feel like a Stranger

1182
01:02:13,320 --> 01:02:16,000
Speaker 1: Things taking place over ten years, where you get to

1183
01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:18,520
Speaker 1: see these actors grow up so much, might be a

1184
01:02:18,560 --> 01:02:20,320
Speaker 1: relic of the past. So to me, it was also

1185
01:02:20,400 --> 01:02:23,280
Speaker 1: kind of staying good behind at that because you can't

1186
01:02:23,320 --> 01:02:27,440
Speaker 1: really go and see that many long running shows anymore,

1187
01:02:28,000 --> 01:02:31,120
Speaker 1: just because people get famous and then they want to

1188
01:02:31,160 --> 01:02:33,760
Speaker 1: go do other big things, which I hope all these

1189
01:02:33,800 --> 01:02:37,840
Speaker 1: people have success outside of Stranger Things. Obviously, Millie Bobby

1190
01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:40,360
Speaker 1: Brown is probably the biggest breakout star, but then you

1191
01:02:40,400 --> 01:02:43,560
Speaker 1: have Maya Hawk, you have beIN Wolfhart. I think I

1192
01:02:43,560 --> 01:02:46,400
Speaker 1: would like to see them all have success, even though

1193
01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:48,680
Speaker 1: a lot of them are probably set up for life

1194
01:02:48,720 --> 01:02:51,840
Speaker 1: now after this. I think Millie Bobby Brown made the

1195
01:02:51,880 --> 01:02:54,640
Speaker 1: most in season five, making one point two to five

1196
01:02:54,680 --> 01:02:58,160
Speaker 1: million dollars per episode, and then you had like Hopper

1197
01:02:58,680 --> 01:03:01,160
Speaker 1: making one point two million, and all the other casts

1198
01:03:01,200 --> 01:03:03,520
Speaker 1: still made pretty good money. I think it was like

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01:03:03,560 --> 01:03:07,320
Speaker 1: eight seventy five. The next tier was like seven hundred thousand,

1200
01:03:07,800 --> 01:03:11,760
Speaker 1: and then like half a mil per episode, So they're

1201
01:03:11,800 --> 01:03:15,160
Speaker 1: doing all right. But that was my thoughts on the finale.

1202
01:03:15,320 --> 01:03:17,120
Speaker 1: Kelsey and I are now going to start it from

1203
01:03:17,120 --> 01:03:19,520
Speaker 1: the very beginning because she has never seen it. But

1204
01:03:19,600 --> 01:03:21,600
Speaker 1: I think we can get through it pretty quick because

1205
01:03:21,600 --> 01:03:23,640
Speaker 1: there are that many seasons when you look at it.

1206
01:03:23,720 --> 01:03:26,720
Speaker 1: So thank you for joining me in twenty twenty six.

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01:03:26,800 --> 01:03:29,280
Speaker 1: I hope you stick around a while. Tell a friend

1208
01:03:29,560 --> 01:03:31,560
Speaker 1: if you want to go subscribe to the YouTube channel

1209
01:03:31,880 --> 01:03:35,360
Speaker 1: YouTube dot com slash Mike Distro And until next time,

1210
01:03:35,920 --> 01:03:38,200
Speaker 1: go out and watch good movies and I will talk

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01:03:38,240 --> 01:03:39,280
Speaker 1: to you later