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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I

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Speaker 1: am your host Movie Mike Today it's a ranking episode.

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Speaker 1: I am ranking all thirteen movies in the DC Extended Universe.

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Speaker 1: A lot of DC talk on this episode because also

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Speaker 1: in the spoiler Free movie review, we're talking about the

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Speaker 1: new one Shazam Fury of the Gods. I don't think

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Speaker 1: it deserves all the criticism. And then in the trailer Park,

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Speaker 1: a new comedy starring Jennifer Lawrence. Most surprising thing, they're

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Speaker 1: as funny as a person she is. She hasn't done

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Speaker 1: a leading role in a comedic movie, so this one

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Speaker 1: has a lot of promise to it. And I've been

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Speaker 1: burned by comedies a lot recently, but I think this

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Speaker 1: one could be the one. It could be the one. Everybody,

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Speaker 1: all right, thank you for listening, Thank you for being subscribed.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now

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Speaker 1: let's talk movies. In a world where everyone and their

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Speaker 1: mother has a podcast, one man stands to infiltrate the

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Speaker 1: ears of listeners like never before in a movie podcast,

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Speaker 1: A man with so much movie knowledge, he's basically like

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Speaker 1: a walking Audien TV glasses from the Nistril Podcast Networking

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Speaker 1: movie mis movie podcast. The question is what is the

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Speaker 1: best DCU movie of all time? We're gonna rank them

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Speaker 1: from worse to best. There have been thirteen movies in

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Speaker 1: the DC Extended Universe, So when it comes to superhero movies,

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Speaker 1: you have the two sides Marvel, which is your Ironman's,

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Speaker 1: your Spider Man's, your Thor's, your Captain Americas. And on

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Speaker 1: So that's what separates the two when it comes to critics,

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Speaker 1: in audiences, and box office numbers for that matter, DC

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Speaker 1: tends to be the one that it has never given

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Speaker 1: the benefit of the doubt. They have the most recognizable superheroes,

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Speaker 1: but sometimes kind of their slogan has been maybe they'll

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Speaker 1: get it right next time. The movies just haven't gone

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Speaker 1: the way they wanted them to and it reflects on

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Speaker 1: their DC Extended Universe. So we'll get into this list

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Speaker 1: the roles here. We are only ranking DC EU movies,

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Speaker 1: so there have only been thirteen. None of the movies

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Speaker 1: and what they are now calling their else worlds will

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Speaker 1: be mentioned on this list, so you won't find Joker,

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Speaker 1: We also won't get into all the animated movies, but

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Speaker 1: because there's some great stuff there that I think you

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Speaker 1: and it's surprisingly the second highest grossing DCEU movie. I'm

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Speaker 1: going with Batman Versus Superman Donna Justice from twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 1: It is directed by Zack Snyder, who is all over

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Speaker 1: And also they haven't really had their golden age yet

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Speaker 1: At number twelve is last year's Black Adam, directed by

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Speaker 1: going with twenty sixteen's Suicide Squad, directed by David Ayer.

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Speaker 1: And it also gave us Harley Quinn, which I felt

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Speaker 1: until Captain Marvel. Black Widow got her solo film way

432
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Speaker 1: late until twenty twenty, so they are way behind on that.

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Speaker 1: But as we see, there is so much to explore

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Speaker 1: there with all these characters, so I apply law DC

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Speaker 1: for that. To me, Wonder Woman has become their title character,

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Speaker 1: more so than Superman, more so than dcu's Batman, and

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Speaker 1: more so than Aquaman. She is at the top of

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Speaker 1: the list because my number one and number two aren't

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Speaker 1: solo movies. She has the best origin story movie out

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Speaker 1: of any of them, and has an origin story that

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Speaker 1: for sure will stand the test of time. I think

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Speaker 1: it's because it was surprisingly a more mature look for

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Speaker 1: DC and that is why I did so well. While

444
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Speaker 1: it seemed like everything else they were doing was on

445
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Speaker 1: fire and failing and they weren't getting anything right, Wonder

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Speaker 1: Woman in twenty seventeen was nailed perfectly, so that's why

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Speaker 1: I put it at number three. At number two from

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, I have Zach Snyder's Justice League from

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Speaker 1: director Zach Snyder. The movie cost seventy million dollars to make.

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Speaker 1: Where does that number come from? It's in the reshoot.

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Speaker 1: So this is the director's cut of the original Justice

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Speaker 1: League from twenty seventeen, which that movie had a lot

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Speaker 1: of obstacles to over come. He jumped out from directing

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Speaker 1: that because he didn't like the way it was going.

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Speaker 1: He didn't feel like the final cut was a representation

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Speaker 1: of his work. So as a result, they did the reshoots.

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Speaker 1: They spent the money, and what we have as a

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Speaker 1: four hour Justice League movie with new special effects, a

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Speaker 1: new score, new editing, and new material, and it completely

460
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Speaker 1: changed the tone of the film. I'm usually not the

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Speaker 1: biggest fan of director cuts. I just feel like they

462
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Speaker 1: feel a little bit self indulgent and they just make

463
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Speaker 1: something longer for the sake of making things longer because

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Speaker 1: they think all these things should be in it. And

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Speaker 1: sometimes I feel like it should be cut for a reason.

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Speaker 1: You're making a movie, you're not making a full on

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Speaker 1: mini series. But in the case of The Justice League,

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Speaker 1: it really worked for me and I was sucked into

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Speaker 1: all four hours of this movie. And what Zack Snyder's

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Speaker 1: Justice League was able to do is flesh out all

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Speaker 1: these characters and give them all backstories, in particular the

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Speaker 1: backstory of Cyborg, which his entire story was basically cut

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Speaker 1: out of the Justice League movie. And what a cool

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Speaker 1: character to get to dive into his backstory, and it

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Speaker 1: makes everything he goes through in the Justice League that

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Speaker 1: much more impactful. And this movie felt more like they

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Speaker 1: were a team, and I was getting into that earlier

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Speaker 1: with the Justice League. You never really had that moment

479
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Speaker 1: that they were very unified that they were actually this team.

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Speaker 1: You just needed time to flesh it out. Because you

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Speaker 1: really get that in Zack Snyder's Justice League. So it

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Speaker 1: is a heavy investment. I would say, don't view it

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Speaker 1: as something you have to sit down and dedicate four

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Speaker 1: hours too. In the world of streaming, run times really

485
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Speaker 1: don't mean anything to me anymore because you can pause

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Speaker 1: whenever you want. To think of it as a mini

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Speaker 1: series as opposed to a four hour long movie. Once

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Speaker 1: I was able to wrap that around my head and

489
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Speaker 1: dive into it, I ended up loving it. I think

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Speaker 1: it is a redemption for all the other misfires that

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Speaker 1: Zack Snyder had over his time with DC. So this

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Speaker 1: one got it right. At number two. I have Zack

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Speaker 1: Snyder's Justice League from twenty twenty one. I do have

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Speaker 1: some honorable mentions before we get into number one in

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Speaker 1: the DC else world, which James Gunn is saying that

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Speaker 1: these movies will have nothing to do with all the

497
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Speaker 1: other DC EU movies, which gets a little bit confusing

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Speaker 1: and is also in part to why some people have

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Speaker 1: problems with DC. But the Batman from twenty twenty two

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Speaker 1: with Robert Pattinson won't be a part of any of

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Speaker 1: these other movies, and also The Joker from twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: If I was making a full DC list, that would

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Speaker 1: be at number one and number two respectively. Those movies

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Speaker 1: have an entirely different tone. I love that they exist

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Speaker 1: in an entirely different world, So it just kind of

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Speaker 1: makes you wonder, why can't they just make all those

507
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Speaker 1: movies like this? Also honorable mention to Batgirl, which was

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Speaker 1: completely scrapped. I just can't believe that we are never

509
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Speaker 1: going to see that movie. It's completely done, but we

510
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Speaker 1: can't see it. On the animated side, we have the

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Speaker 1: Death of Superman, which is an animated DC movie from

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen and my favorite Superman movie of all time.

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Speaker 1: It's dark, it's gritty, and don't let animation keep you

514
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Speaker 1: from watching that movie. My mouth was on the floor

515
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Speaker 1: after watching that movie because how good it was. I

516
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,879
Speaker 1: didn't think I could be inspired again by a superhero movie.

517
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Speaker 1: That movie changed my opinion on that. Also on the

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Speaker 1: animated side, Batman the Dark Knight Returns Part one and

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Speaker 1: two from twenty twelve and twenty thirteen. This is the

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Speaker 1: story of an older Batman coming out of retirement in

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Speaker 1: order to fight crime in Gotham. Again, I just love

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Speaker 1: this story, and I was thinking how Christian Bale right

523
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 1: now is forty nine years old and Gary Oldman is

524
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Speaker 1: sixty five years old, so in about five six years,

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Speaker 1: their ages will perfectly line up with the story in

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Speaker 1: this movie. So Christian Bale at fifty five coming back

527
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Speaker 1: to play Batman, Gary Oldman in his seventies coming back

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Speaker 1: to play Commissioner Gordon. They already have the story here

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Speaker 1: DC ball as in your Court on that one use

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Speaker 1: that property. And then also as we look ahead in DC,

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Speaker 1: we have some more movies out later this year which

532
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Speaker 1: will see where these fall into the rankings. But we

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Speaker 1: have The Flash coming out on June sixteenth. Tom Cruise

534
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:11,399
Speaker 1: allegedly watched The Flash and loved it. I love that

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Speaker 1: Tom Cruise is keeping up with all movies coming out

536
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Speaker 1: right now. It seems like other actors don't care about

537
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 1: any other movie unless they are in it, but he

538
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Speaker 1: is out there speaking up for films, speaking up for cinema,

539
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Speaker 1: and keeping people in the movie theaters. We also have

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Speaker 1: Blue Beetle coming out on August eighteenth of this year,

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Speaker 1: which is about a Mexican teenager who finds an alien

542
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Speaker 1: beetle that gives him superpowered armor. As a former Mexican teenager,

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to see what that movie is all about.

544
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Speaker 1: You also have Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom coming out

545
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Speaker 1: on Christmas Day, and then announced a couple weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: James Gunn will be directing Superman Legacy coming out in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, and maybe that'll be the quintessential Superman

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Speaker 1: movie we've been looking for all along. But at number one,

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Speaker 1: speaking of James Gunn, I have The Suicide Squad twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one, which James Gunn directed. The movie cost one

551
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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five million dollars to make and only

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00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 1: it made one hundred and sixty eight million, So on paper,

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Speaker 1: this movie is a flop, But I loved everything about

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Speaker 1: the Suicide Squahad. You have your famous cast as supervillains

555
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Speaker 1: Harley Quinn, Blood Sport Peacemaker, and one of my favorites,

556
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Speaker 1: King Shark, voiced by Sylvester Stallone. James Gunn came in

557
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Speaker 1: and said, I will do it myself. And on the surface,

558
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Speaker 1: this is just another brutal superhero movie. A lot of guts,

559
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Speaker 1: a lot of blood, a ridiculous body count, and some

560
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Speaker 1: of the most intense gore that I've ever seen in

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Speaker 1: a superhero movie. But James Gunn knows storytelling, and he

562
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Speaker 1: knows how to create memorable characters that you can identify with,

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Speaker 1: characters you really care about by the end of his story.

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Speaker 1: And that is what this movie did. Each one of

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Speaker 1: the characters in this Suicide Squad have their own unique

566
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Speaker 1: character sticks, and you are fully able to get a

567
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Speaker 1: grasp on all their lives and the roles they play

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Speaker 1: on the team. Unlike it had been done in the

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Speaker 1: DC universe up to this movie, it did what a

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Speaker 1: Suicide Squad movie was supposed to do. Take some unlikely heroes,

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Speaker 1: people who have done bad things, and make them characters

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Speaker 1: you want to root for. And never in my life

573
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Speaker 1: have I been so emotionally attached to a character that

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Speaker 1: doesn't even have a face. But King Shark in this

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Speaker 1: movie almost had me in tears. There's one part in

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Speaker 1: this movie where something unfortunate happens to him and I

577
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Speaker 1: found myself saying, oh no, not King Shark, don't let

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Speaker 1: him get hurt. And it also has one of my

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Speaker 1: favorite visuals in any DCU movie, maybe any superhero movie.

580
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Speaker 1: But again, what am I a fan of big, colorful

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Speaker 1: visuals And the perfect example in this movie is during

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Speaker 1: Harley Quinn's escape. You have her yelling and screaming and

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Speaker 1: a burst of color just comes out behind her with

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Speaker 1: all these flowers and petals and birds. Such a beautiful moment.

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Speaker 1: I love the color palette in this movie. If you're

586
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Speaker 1: playing the color palette drinking game every time I mentioned one,

587
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 1: take a drink right now. But this movie was it

588
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Speaker 1: for me. What hurt this movie probably in the long run,

589
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Speaker 1: is we just had Suicide Squad five years before, and

590
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 1: everybody was like, which is which? But for those who

591
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 1: actually watched this movie realized how great it was. And

592
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Speaker 1: it also gave us one of the best superhero TV shows,

593
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Speaker 1: the spinoff on HBO Max Peacemaker, which I can't wait

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Speaker 1: for season two. So far in DC's plans, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: look like there's another Suicide Squad movie in the works,

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Speaker 1: but I hope that changes because it is number one

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Speaker 1: in my heart. If you have an opinion on my

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Speaker 1: ranking system, you think another movie should have been higher,

599
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 1: another one should have been lower, hit me up movie

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Speaker 1: Mike d at gmail dot com, or find the links

601
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Speaker 1: to all my socials in that episode notes of this podcast.

602
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Speaker 1: Let's get into a spoiler free movie review. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk about Shazam Fury of the Gods. What were

604
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Speaker 1: my expectations going into this equal I would say right

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Speaker 1: in the middle. I love DC characters. I think they

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Speaker 1: have some of the best comic book characters, the most

607
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Speaker 1: iconic comic book characters of all time, if you will.

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Speaker 1: But when it comes to their movies, when it comes

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Speaker 1: to their story execution, they are hit or missed. So now,

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Speaker 1: going into every DC movie, I just want to be entertained,

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Speaker 1: and since I have that medium expectation, I can really

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Speaker 1: be swayed either way. I could leave thinking, oh, that

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Speaker 1: was actually a fun, really good time I need to

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Speaker 1: tell people about that, or the complete opposite of they

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Speaker 1: did it again. So which one will be the fate

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Speaker 1: of Shazam Fury of the Gods will get into that.

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Speaker 1: So before we get into my full thoughts on this movie,

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Speaker 1: here is just a little bit of the Shazam Fury

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Speaker 1: of the Gods trailer. A lot has changed in the

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Speaker 1: last few years. The Wizard gave me superpowers, but then

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Speaker 1: everybody got superpowers started. Fun of Gottom knowing him all right,

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Speaker 1: here's the situation started. Fun of Dodom not all same.

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Speaker 1: In the daughter's about us are coming to hunt us

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Speaker 1: children stold the power of the Gods. He ripped it

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Speaker 1: from my father's school. Okay, I feel like maybe I

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Speaker 1: should be riding all this down. That was the powers child.

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Speaker 1: Your world will not for Vitress. So what this movie

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Speaker 1: is about? It picks up after the last Jazam. You

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Speaker 1: have Billy Batson and he's still trying to learn all

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Speaker 1: about his powers. He struggles being a teenage kid and

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Speaker 1: having this alter ego as Shazam. He is still living

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Speaker 1: with all of his foster siblings and they are now

633
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Speaker 1: kind of in this position of the friendly neighborhood superheroes.

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Speaker 1: They are this team going around and helping people in

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Speaker 1: the city of Philadelphia. And then you have these three

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Speaker 1: new villains that they are taking on, these ancient gods

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Speaker 1: who are back trying to get the powers that they

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Speaker 1: stole from them. So the powers that now live inside

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Speaker 1: Billy Batts and all his siblings, whenever they say Shazam,

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Speaker 1: they turn into super heroes. Those belong to these three women,

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Speaker 1: and they are upset about it. So they get into

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Speaker 1: a big battle trying to get their powers back, and

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Speaker 1: then they want to destroy the world, because that is

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Speaker 1: what all superhero villains do, right, So let's go to

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Speaker 1: the beginning of this movie. Again. We'll keep it spoiler free,

646
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Speaker 1: but I thought this movie had a really good opening,

647
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 1: one of the best DCU openings that I've seen in

648
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:24,279
Speaker 1: the last five films, because they didn't waste a whole

649
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 1: lot of time with a lot of backstory. Now, whenever

650
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:29,799
Speaker 1: you have a sequel to a superhero movie, I tend

651
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: to enjoy that one a lot better because I think

652
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 1: as superhero fans, we're a little bit tired of the

653
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 1: origin story. We don't need to be told in every

654
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 1: single movie how they got their powers. We've seen that

655
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 1: again and again and again. We're kind of tired of

656
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 1: that in part one, so part two always begins where

657
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:49,280
Speaker 1: they already have their powers. We know how it works.

658
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: It doesn't really matter. I don't even think you need

659
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 1: to see Shazam one to fully enjoy Shazam two. They

660
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:57,919
Speaker 1: do a pretty good job at resetting that entire movie

661
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: within a couple of flashbacks, almost like one or two

662
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 1: minute scenes, and you basically know what happens, what is

663
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: going on here. So if you are hesitant of going

664
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:08,920
Speaker 1: to see the sequel before seeing the first one, just

665
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 1: go see the second one. So I thought it had

666
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:13,360
Speaker 1: a really good opening of getting right to the villains

667
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 1: trying to get these powers back, really setting the stage

668
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:18,279
Speaker 1: at what was to come, and really showing that they

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00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 1: were going to be a threat. And that is what

670
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:22,800
Speaker 1: I felt in this entire movie. You always look for

671
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 1: that struggle with the villain. Are your heroes going to

672
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,799
Speaker 1: be able to overpower them and stop their evil plan?

673
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: And throughout this entire movie, I found myself saying a

674
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 1: lot how are they going to get out of this one?

675
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 1: These villains seem pretty intense. There are three of them,

676
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:39,880
Speaker 1: so it's going to be hard for all these characters

677
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:42,839
Speaker 1: who are really just figuring out their powers. They're really

678
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 1: just kids at heart to defeat these people who have

679
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 1: been around for thousands of years. What I really love

680
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 1: that this movie was filled with was big fu and

681
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 1: fun visuals. It's weird to say that this movie kind

682
00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 1: of went back to the root of superhero movies, but

683
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:02,400
Speaker 1: that's why I felt it felt like a Marvel movie

684
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: in that regard from two thousand and eight, those early

685
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:09,399
Speaker 1: ones that are set in reality, set in a US city.

686
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 1: For some reason, we've really gotten away from that. Everything

687
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 1: now is being fought in space, in the multiverse, in

688
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 1: the quantum realm. To get a superhero movie put back

689
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 1: into a very iconic city, it really added this level

690
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 1: that just felt familiar but fun and fresh at the

691
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 1: same time. In particular, the scene where they are trying

692
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 1: to save all these people from this collapsing bridge, it

693
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 1: felt very much like a classic superhero moment that we

694
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:39,959
Speaker 1: haven't seen in a DC movie in a while. Because

695
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 1: they always focus on these ancient stories. They go back

696
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:47,720
Speaker 1: and do these really long backstories, going back through history,

697
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 1: and it really takes away from what makes a superhero

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00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 1: movie fun. That was my biggest takeaway from this movie.

699
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 1: It is just a fun movie. Is it one of

700
00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 1: the most thought provoking push the envelope type superhero movies? No,

701
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 1: And I think that's why some people are ripping this movie.

702
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 1: It didn't really need to be that. When it comes

703
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:10,840
Speaker 1: down to it, I just want a movie that is entertaining.

704
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 1: Superhero movies are a big passion of mine, and at

705
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 1: the end of watching a superhero movie, is it an

706
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 1: entertaining movie? That is all that matters to me in

707
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 1: a superhero movie, and that is exactly what Shazam Theory

708
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: of the Gods was. I also realize now that this

709
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:31,719
Speaker 1: movie is very much geared towards a younger audience, and

710
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 1: I think that is great. It really reminded me of

711
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:37,239
Speaker 1: the first time I saw the Power Rangers movie in

712
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:40,359
Speaker 1: theaters as a kid. There's some resemblance between the Power

713
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:43,320
Speaker 1: Rangers and all the characters in Shazam. They all have

714
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 1: their own individual power, They're all related to a color.

715
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:51,760
Speaker 1: They all have these alter egos, so whenever they change

716
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 1: into their superhero state, it's a lot different than who

717
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 1: they are as kids. So there's the color and the

718
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 1: power correlation between the two, and I thought that really

719
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 1: worked from me. So if I were to see this

720
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:04,959
Speaker 1: movie back when I was eight, nine, ten years old.

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00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:07,799
Speaker 1: This would be one of my favorites. Watching this movie

722
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 1: made me realize there is something special, something so fun

723
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:17,120
Speaker 1: about a caped superhero, and that is what DC does best. Superman, Batman, Shazam,

724
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 1: Black Eye, Adam all have a cape and there's just

725
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:23,880
Speaker 1: something so dynamic about a caped superhero. The only problem

726
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 1: I find with some of DC's characters right now, it's

727
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,880
Speaker 1: a little bit hard to distinguish them all. Shazam, to me,

728
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: resembles three other characters on the big screen, kind of

729
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 1: looks like a red Superman, also basically the same thing

730
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,799
Speaker 1: as Black Adam, but with the red association, I can

731
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 1: also see a little bit of the flash in him.

732
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:44,440
Speaker 1: So sometimes distinguishing all the characters, I feel like for

733
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:47,320
Speaker 1: the general audience, you may get a little bit confused.

734
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 1: And that is the thing that DC is probably facing

735
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 1: right now, because over on the Marvel side, they are

736
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 1: all very distinct characters. You know their origin stories to

737
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:59,399
Speaker 1: a t. When you get over into DC, sometimes it's

738
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 1: a little bit hard to do, and I think that

739
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 1: hurts them when trying to create this bigger world with

740
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 1: all these different characters. And some of them are just

741
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:08,799
Speaker 1: a little bit too similar. Going back to this movie

742
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 1: being geared towards a younger audience, that really came through

743
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:14,840
Speaker 1: in the overall message of this movie. It's Billy Batts

744
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 1: it in his struggle of why do I even have

745
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:20,240
Speaker 1: these powers? Do I deserve them? I have no idea

746
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 1: what I am even doing. I don't know what to

747
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 1: do with this, And when he's facing these villains, he

748
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 1: feels very much like a kid and has this imposter syndrome.

749
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:32,879
Speaker 1: I think that's a bold message to put out two kids,

750
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 1: because they're going to feel that throughout their entire life.

751
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 1: Even me as an adult, watching this still struck a

752
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 1: little bit of a chord with me. Sometimes you feel

753
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:43,920
Speaker 1: like you are not worthy of things. Sometimes you feel

754
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 1: like you are in over your head. And if this

755
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 1: movie did one thing was showing a kid watching this

756
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:51,839
Speaker 1: that sometimes all you need to do is be given

757
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 1: a shot. And that was a great message to put

758
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 1: in this movie. So aside from the big, fun visuals,

759
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 1: kind of getting back to a classic superhero vibe, not

760
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 1: really reinventing the genre, but making just a fun, fresh

761
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 1: feeling movie, I thought what really came through was this

762
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 1: movie had a lot of heart, and I think that's

763
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:12,879
Speaker 1: important for a superhero movie to have right now, even

764
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 1: myself as an adult, just hearing that sometimes people just

765
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 1: need a shot to show you who they really are,

766
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:20,480
Speaker 1: to show you that they can really pull something off,

767
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 1: even I needed to hear that. A couple other things

768
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 1: I enjoyed about this movie is that there were a

769
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Speaker 1: lot of civilian casualties. And sometimes in superhero movies a

770
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,279
Speaker 1: lot of the violence is a little bit implied. But

771
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 1: people died in this movie, people as in just random

772
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 1: individual civilians, and their deaths weren't really brutal in any way,

773
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 1: but it was a little bit surprising. And I want

774
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 1: to give a shout out to the extras in this movie.

775
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:51,560
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever talked about extras in a review,

776
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:55,240
Speaker 1: but it really adds a difference when an extra gives

777
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:57,760
Speaker 1: a really great performance, and I saw that in this movie.

778
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:00,919
Speaker 1: There were several extras that just had some really great

779
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 1: reactions to what was going on, because sometimes I think

780
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,959
Speaker 1: the reactions of extras and superhero movies is a little

781
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:10,840
Speaker 1: bit underplayed. You have a villain ripping through a city,

782
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,720
Speaker 1: buildings on fire, cars are being thrown around this mystical

783
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:18,080
Speaker 1: creature riding around on a dragon, and then you look

784
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 1: at the extras in a normal movie and they're just like,

785
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,840
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, what is happening. In Chaseamn Fury of

786
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:28,120
Speaker 1: the Gods, there were legit reactions with screams and faces

787
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:31,399
Speaker 1: of terror, and that is something I wanted to recognize.

788
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:34,600
Speaker 1: It made me believe like, Oh, they're really buying into this.

789
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:37,880
Speaker 1: So I hope these extras were paid a substantial amount

790
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 1: of money because they really added some great texture to

791
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 1: the background of a superhero movie that I have not

792
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 1: seen done to date. So a round of applause to

793
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:48,239
Speaker 1: all the extras in this movie. If you're watching this

794
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:51,840
Speaker 1: or listening to this, you're probably not, but I see you.

795
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:55,320
Speaker 1: Obviously some big standouts in the cast. I would have

796
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:58,880
Speaker 1: to give the performance of the entire movie to Helen Mirren,

797
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:01,279
Speaker 1: who I did not really see it in her to

798
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 1: be a villain in a superhero movie, but she was

799
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 1: probably my favorite part. Of course, Zachary Levi is just

800
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 1: a really likable actor, and I love how he is

801
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 1: able to capture the emotions of a teenager and put

802
00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 1: that into the character of Shazam. It's a bit of

803
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 1: a bummer to me that this movie didn't do as

804
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 1: well at the box office it's opening weekend. Probably a

805
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:28,839
Speaker 1: couple contributing factors. Number one being March has been incredibly

806
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:32,279
Speaker 1: stacked for movies, one of my favorite movie months and

807
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 1: probably the last two years since movies really bounced back

808
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:39,359
Speaker 1: after the pandemic. You had Create three, you had Screamed six,

809
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:43,239
Speaker 1: John Wick four, Cocaine. Barrett had its moment in February

810
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:45,319
Speaker 1: that I felt was carried over by word of mouth

811
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:48,279
Speaker 1: into March. You have March madness going on in the

812
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 1: sports world, So I feel like, as Americans, we have

813
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:54,799
Speaker 1: so many things to watch that Shazam got sandwiched in there,

814
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 1: and it opened to thirty point five million dollars, and

815
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:00,680
Speaker 1: that is down from the original, which opened fifty three

816
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:04,440
Speaker 1: point five million dollars back in twenty nineteen. So a

817
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 1: thirty point five million dollar opening for a movie that

818
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 1: costs one hundred and ten million dollars to make isn't great.

819
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:15,320
Speaker 1: It doesn't deserve the criticism it's received online. The director

820
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 1: who also directed the first one even made a statement

821
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:22,120
Speaker 1: on Twitter which I found a little bit heartbreaking. David F. Samberg,

822
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:25,320
Speaker 1: who directed the movie, said he is done with superhero

823
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 1: movies for a while because he couldn't take the criticism.

824
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:31,600
Speaker 1: It was like, we actually made a good movie. I

825
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:34,399
Speaker 1: don't know why it's not doing so well. And it's

826
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:37,000
Speaker 1: hard to come on the defense for something like this

827
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:40,000
Speaker 1: when the numbers aren't there, but for something you are

828
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 1: so passionate about and works so hard to make a

829
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 1: movie to be proud of, and you actually make something

830
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:49,560
Speaker 1: in those parameters that's a really good movie. And now

831
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 1: because of a low Rotten Tomato score, people who aren't

832
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 1: going to watch it. It just almost feels like DC

833
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 1: movies are set up to fail and that no matter what,

834
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:02,520
Speaker 1: people are to say bad things about him. Maybe even

835
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 1: my own personal theory that other studios pay to review

836
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 1: bomb them there I said it. I feel like they

837
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 1: just come at such a disadvantage and for this one,

838
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:16,319
Speaker 1: they don't really deserve it. But David F. Sandberg said

839
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 1: he is going back not doing superhero movies. He will

840
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 1: now focus on horror movies, so I'll be down to

841
00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 1: watch those. I hope that the reputation of this movie

842
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:27,600
Speaker 1: doesn't carry over to that and people don't want to

843
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 1: hire them because I think he's a great director. I

844
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 1: think where you have to look at for this movie

845
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:35,760
Speaker 1: is what audiences are saying about it, people who actually

846
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:38,279
Speaker 1: would to see the movie, because it has a high

847
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:40,320
Speaker 1: audience score, and it has a high score with me

848
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 1: for Shazam two Fury of the Gods, I give it

849
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 1: four out of five Lightning Bolts a movie that is

850
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 1: filled with laughs, f you and fun visuals, great superhero action,

851
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 1: and a movie that has a lot of heart. It's

852
00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:02,879
Speaker 1: time to head down to movie My. I'm not gonna

853
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:06,160
Speaker 1: say it. I'm not gonna say it. I'm gonna say it.

854
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:09,719
Speaker 1: This could be the comedy I've been looking for for

855
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:11,919
Speaker 1: so long. I am on a quest for the next

856
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 1: great comedy, the best comedy in the last five years.

857
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:18,359
Speaker 1: This could be it. I'm saying it now. I don't

858
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 1: want to say it, but after watching the trailer for

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Speaker 1: No Hard Feelings, this feels like a return to the

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Speaker 1: two thousands, even twenty tens comedy. And I've said that

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Speaker 1: about a couple movies recently and they haven't lived up

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Speaker 1: to that expectation. I thought you people would Jonah Hill

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Speaker 1: and Eddie Murphy was going to be that. But this movie,

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Speaker 1: I truly feel like it could be it everybody. The

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Speaker 1: movie is about Jennifer Lawrence's character. She plays an uber

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Speaker 1: driver who is desperate for money after her card gets repossessed,

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Speaker 1: so she takes a job from an ad she saw

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Speaker 1: on Craigslist. There's this rich couple and they're trying to

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Speaker 1: find someone to date their socially awkward teenage son before

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Speaker 1: he goes off to college. I love a zany premise

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Speaker 1: to a raunchy movie. This movie comes out on June

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Speaker 1: twenty third, twenty twenty three, so it is my birthday weekend.

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Speaker 1: I would love to spend it with a comedy like this.

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Speaker 1: So before we get into my full thoughts about no

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Speaker 1: hard feelings, here's just a little bit of the trailer.

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Speaker 1: Need to car date our son this summer and bring

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Speaker 1: him out of his shell before college. N X change,

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Speaker 1: We'll give you a buick regal date is in quote.

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Speaker 1: Gotta be a joke, right, He's just been so worried

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Speaker 1: about our son. He's going to Princeton in the fall. Well,

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Speaker 1: I've heard of it. You know. We tried everything to

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Speaker 1: bring him out of his shell. He doesn't come out

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Speaker 1: of his room and he doesn't talk to girls, drink,

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Speaker 1: so when you say date him, do you mean date

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Speaker 1: him or date him? Yes, datum datum hark, I'll dat

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Speaker 1: his brains out. He volunteers at the animal shelter. Hi,

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Speaker 1: mind if I touch your meaner what you talk? So

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Speaker 1: I've watched this trailer a few times now, first when

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Speaker 1: it first hit social media, and then again in theaters

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Speaker 1: I think it was before the screen movie, and I

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Speaker 1: saw a reaction that I haven't seen from a trailer

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Speaker 1: in a while. And that reaction is people actually laughed

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Speaker 1: at a comedy from a trailer. I haven't seen that,

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Speaker 1: and so long it fell new. It felt fresh to me.

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Speaker 1: What is this emotion coming out of these people's mouths

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Speaker 1: around me? It is but the sound of laughter. I

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Speaker 1: love the sound of laughter. And it reminded me one

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Speaker 1: of my favorite things growing up used to be the newest,

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Speaker 1: the latest, raunchy comedy, starting back with my obsession with

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Speaker 1: the American Pie movies, moving on to movies in the

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Speaker 1: two thousands like Super Bad, forty year Old Virgin, Role Models,

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Speaker 1: all those movies that were a dream to the young

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Speaker 1: adult mind. Those are the movies I felt that everybody

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Speaker 1: watched and everybody talked about. When one of these movies

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Speaker 1: came out on a Friday night. It was the movie

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Speaker 1: that all the cool kids went over the weekend and saw,

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Speaker 1: and we're back telling us about on Monday at school.

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Speaker 1: And this is a premise that very much resembles one

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Speaker 1: like that to me. And then you have Jennifer Lawrence,

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Speaker 1: who it's just a naturally funny person. I don't know

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Speaker 1: why I said naturally funny, but she is a naturally

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Speaker 1: funny person in interviews, and you've seen glimpses of her

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Speaker 1: humor in her roles. But she's mainly known for dramas,

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Speaker 1: for horror movies, for action sci fi movies, superhero movies.

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Speaker 1: She's been in the X Men movies, and she hasn't

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Speaker 1: done a full blown comedy like this, and it looks

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Speaker 1: like a natural fit. It almost looks like, I know,

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Speaker 1: we always have this skewed interpretation of what celebrities are,

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Speaker 1: but to me, she is a lot like this character

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Speaker 1: in this movie. And hopefully it's not a movie where

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Speaker 1: all the funny things happen in the trailer. So you

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Speaker 1: have the nerdy, awkward teenage son played by newcomer Andrew

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Speaker 1: bars Feldman. Also some familiar names here, Matthew Broderick places Dad.

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Speaker 1: I think every comedy I've loved recently in the last

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Speaker 1: three years has been a dark comedy. Some movies like

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Speaker 1: Unpregnant from HBO, Max Palm Springs on Hulu in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty is a little bit more of a romantic comedy.

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Speaker 1: Some other dark comedies I liked to have been I

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Speaker 1: Love My Dad, also on Hulu, which is a great

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Speaker 1: cringeworthy comedy that came out last year, and Not Okay,

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Speaker 1: another cringeworthy dark comedy that came out on Hulu last year.

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Speaker 1: Netflix has been trying to make some solid comedies over there,

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Speaker 1: with movies like Do Revenge on the big screen though

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Speaker 1: Jackass for My Jackass Guys Keeping comedy Alive, But that's

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Speaker 1: an entirely different brand of comedy. So the comedy genre

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Speaker 1: is a hurting and I don't find myself being on

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Speaker 1: the search for comedy movies anymore. Again, they were my

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Speaker 1: favorite genre of movie growing up, and maybe it's just

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Speaker 1: a reflection of our teenage cells, ourselves and our twenties

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Speaker 1: that we tend to like movies that are just funny.

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Speaker 1: And now I am in an era of my life

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Speaker 1: where I like movies that are a little bit more

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Speaker 1: thought provoking, and I'm just looking for movies that haven't

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Speaker 1: been done before. And the comedy genre is just really

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Speaker 1: hard to reinvent yourself. So I think what this movie

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Speaker 1: will set out to do is showcase what made those

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Speaker 1: movies great and throw all those rules out the window

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Speaker 1: and just make a fun movie for people to actually

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Speaker 1: go to the theater to watch. With an actor like

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Speaker 1: Jennifer Lawrence, who is one of the highest grossing female

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Speaker 1: actors of all time, I think you can do that.

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Speaker 1: She is the Sandra Bullock of my generation. She can

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Speaker 1: do no wrong and she can do it all. I

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Speaker 1: love an actor who can do movies and has an

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Speaker 1: Oscar under their name, but they are not above doing

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Speaker 1: a comedy like this, a straight on, raunchy comedy. So

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to this one. It comes out on

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Speaker 1: June twenty third, this summer. This week's edition of Body

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Speaker 1: and That'll do it for another episode here of the podcast.

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Speaker 1: But before I go, I gotta give my listeners shout

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Speaker 1: out of the week, and this week's official Movie Crew

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Speaker 1: listener is Missy, who sent me a DM on Instagram.

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Speaker 1: And Missy is proof that everybody who is a member

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Speaker 1: of the movie crew. Is just a nice person because

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Speaker 1: Missy gives me feedback from time to time, and it's

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Speaker 1: always super positive, straight on, constructive criticism, and that is

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Speaker 1: something I need. That is something that helps me grow.

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Speaker 1: I know I have a weird speaking pattern. I probably

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Speaker 1: say words weird all the time. Sometimes my mind moves

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Speaker 1: faster than my mouth, and I'm just trying to get

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Speaker 1: all these thoughts out on once. So in that regard,

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Speaker 1: I probably shouldn't have a podcast that I do by myself,

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Speaker 1: but here I am. But Missy had this to say

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Speaker 1: about last week's Quintin Tarantino episode. She said, listening to

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Speaker 1: today's episode, you talk about pulp fiction being nonlinear, wanting

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Speaker 1: to let you know it's pronounced linear rather than linear.

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Speaker 1: I totally agree with what Bobby says about not knowing

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Speaker 1: how to say something because we've only read it. Hope

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Speaker 1: this helps. In my head. I knew it was linear,

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Speaker 1: but I guess when I recorded that episode I said linear,

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Speaker 1: and now I'm all messed up because none of that

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Speaker 1: makes sense to me anymore. But the correct pronunciation is linear.

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Speaker 1: There we go. Thank you, Missy. I'm sure that is

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Speaker 1: only one of many words I have mispronounced over the years,

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Speaker 1: but I did post a video recently that had a

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Speaker 1: lot of negative feedback, so much so that I had

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Speaker 1: to post a follow up video addressing that negative feedback.

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Speaker 1: So if you miss that, it is on my Instagram

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Speaker 1: at my destro if you want to go check that out.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to this week's episode. We'll be

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Speaker 1: back talking about john Wick four next week. Hope you

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Speaker 1: joined me then, And until next time, go out and

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Speaker 1: watch good movies and I will talk to you later.