1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,560 Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. We 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:06,840 Speaker 1: are going back to school on this episode and celebration 3 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:10,080 Speaker 1: of all the kids and college students going back to school, 4 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 1: I have for you my top ten high school and 5 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 1: college movies of all time. In the movie review, I'll 6 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:20,079 Speaker 1: be talking about DC's Blue Beetle, a movie that warned 7 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 1: my little Mexican heart. And in the trailer Park, we'll 8 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 1: be talking about a sequel to an unexpected comedy hit, 9 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 1: Vacation Friends Too, coming to you soon on Hulu. Thank 10 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:32,520 Speaker 1: you for being subscribed, thank you for listening to the podcast. 11 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:35,280 Speaker 1: And now, movie Crew, let's talk movies. 12 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 2: In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast, 13 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:43,159 Speaker 2: one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like 14 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:47,199 Speaker 2: never before in a movie podcast. A man with so 15 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:52,880 Speaker 2: much movie knowledge, he's basically like a walking IMTB with glasses. 16 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 2: From the Nashville Podcast Network. 17 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 3: This is Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. 18 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 1: The summer is winding down, Kids are going back to school, 19 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: college kids are filling up targets so I can't get 20 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:08,640 Speaker 1: my almond milk, and I want to share with you 21 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:12,959 Speaker 1: my top ten high school and college movies of all time. 22 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 1: That's right. It is time to go. 23 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:16,040 Speaker 3: Back to a school. 24 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 1: Back to a school. So let's break down the rules 25 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:22,680 Speaker 1: for this list. Similar to an episode I did last 26 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 1: week about the top summer movies of all time, these 27 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 1: movies completely have to embody the high school and or 28 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 1: college experience. I almost day a top five college, I 29 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 1: almost date a top five high school. But I realized, 30 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 1: in the spirit of back to school, let's combine them 31 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 1: all together to give you the ultimate experience to relive 32 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:45,880 Speaker 1: your high school or college days. First of all, they 33 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 1: have to take place in high school or college, and 34 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 1: as I go through this list, I will relate different 35 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: movies to my life. And I'm also throwing out the 36 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 1: rule no sports movies. I feel like those are in 37 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 1: a completely different genre, So you won't find any sports 38 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:02,200 Speaker 1: movies on my list superhero movies. So let's kick it 39 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 1: off at number ten. I have a movie from twenty 40 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 1: twelve call Project X. Even though I was out of 41 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 1: high school in the twenty tens, I feel like this 42 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:13,240 Speaker 1: movie is a complete representation of what was going on 43 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 1: at that time. The movie is about three friends who 44 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 1: are basically nobody's in high school. They are seniors, and 45 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 1: they are trying to make their mark on the legacy 46 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 1: of their high school career. So what do they do. 47 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 1: They throw the ultimate party of all time, completely shutting 48 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: down their entire neighborhood. At one point there's police and helicopters. 49 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 1: It's a very extreme case of a party. But growing 50 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 1: up and going to parties in high school that I 51 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:44,120 Speaker 1: was not invited to, I very much felt like what 52 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 1: these three kids felt like in this movie, a complete nobody, 53 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 1: an outcast, and somebody who just wanted to do one 54 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 1: thing to leave an impression on your entire class. And 55 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:55,800 Speaker 1: the movie starts out innocent enough, and then it just 56 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 1: keeps escalating and escalating until pretty much this party is 57 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 1: going to ruin not only their college life, but probably 58 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:05,640 Speaker 1: their life after this. And I think this movie is 59 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 1: a great representation of the twenty tens, where it seemed 60 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: like everybody was just partying. If you turn on the radio, 61 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:14,520 Speaker 1: everything was like, let's live life like it's gonna and 62 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 1: to nine, let's go to the club. Everything was so 63 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:20,239 Speaker 1: dance centric and just let's live in the moment and 64 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 1: everything is gonna be fine. And now a decade later, 65 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: I'm looking at myself and thinking everything was not fine, 66 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:29,080 Speaker 1: Pitt Bull. We are struggling now, and it's all because 67 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:30,799 Speaker 1: you told me to party in the twenty tens, like 68 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 1: there was no tomorrow, but now there are repercussions. But 69 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 1: there's one song on this soundtrack that just I feel 70 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 1: like couldn't spark anybody who grew up or went to 71 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: college or high school in the twenty tens, and it 72 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: is the Steve Aoki remix of Kid Cut He's Pursuit 73 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 1: of Happiness. Like that's all I need to hear to 74 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: invoke the emotions of the twenty tens, just those few notes. 75 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 1: So this is such a fun movie, maybe one you 76 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 1: miss because it was one that just kind of came 77 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 1: out in a mix of all these outlandish comedies in 78 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 1: the twenty tens, kind of writing the cote tails of 79 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: everybody wanting another hangover. But I love this movie so much, 80 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: so at number ten, I have Project X. At number nine, 81 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 1: I'm going back to two thousand and four, and it 82 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:19,039 Speaker 1: is Napoleon Dynamite, which I feel greatly in capsules the 83 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:22,360 Speaker 1: awkwardness of high school, and that is how I described 84 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: my high school experience. I was the elite level of 85 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 1: awkward in high school because I didn't speak much, and 86 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:31,600 Speaker 1: when you don't speak much in high school, you very 87 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 1: much become an outsider. I was very much in this 88 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:37,480 Speaker 1: weird position, kind of like Napoleon Dynamite in this movie. 89 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 1: But unlike Napoleon Dynamite. I think like my bullying kind 90 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:43,359 Speaker 1: of weird off in high school, and I was just 91 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 1: weird for the sake of being weird. But I think 92 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 1: it was because the fact that I didn't really say 93 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 1: a whole lot that I didn't really have a whole 94 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:51,359 Speaker 1: lot of people just go out of their way to 95 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:54,480 Speaker 1: ridicule me like they do Napoleon Dynamite. But I was 96 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 1: just so far in the background that I kind of 97 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 1: just evaporated into nothingness. I almost didn't exist in high 98 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:03,520 Speaker 1: school because I was so awkward. I didn't say enough 99 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 1: things for people to have an opinion on me. I 100 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:09,240 Speaker 1: just kind of existed and went through everyday feeling kind 101 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 1: of invisible. There were a lot of lunches alone and 102 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 1: a lot of time I just spent inside my head. 103 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:17,279 Speaker 1: So I feel like when Napoleon Dynamite came out, I 104 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:19,839 Speaker 1: felt like, man, there is a character who is kind 105 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 1: of like me. If I was a little bit more 106 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 1: outgoing and ridiculous. With my awkwardness that was all hiding 107 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: inside of me, I would very much be a Napoleon Dynamite. 108 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:31,279 Speaker 1: And what I love about Napoleon Dynamite and the way 109 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 1: it represents high school is it's so quirky, it's so 110 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:37,279 Speaker 1: off the wall. And also when this movie came out, 111 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 1: it became such a cultural impact that we were quoting 112 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 1: every single line from this movie, like this one your 113 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 1: moone goes to college. And for some reason there were 114 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 1: all these quotes that became so big that at the 115 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 1: time I didn't even fully get it, Like why is 116 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,640 Speaker 1: this quote so memorable your moone goes to college? I 117 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:57,039 Speaker 1: don't know, but I hear that and it immediately puts 118 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 1: me back into watching Napoleon Dynamite. And why I feel 119 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 1: this movie embodies the high school experience is because it's 120 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 1: all about those awkward years. It's about being weird. It's 121 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 1: about doing something ridiculous like running for president when you 122 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 1: have no chance of winning. It's also about having crushes 123 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 1: on people out of your league, very much identified with 124 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:17,839 Speaker 1: Pedro in this movie, trying to go for the most 125 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 1: popular girl in school and failing completely. Also because there 126 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:23,919 Speaker 1: was a language barrier, which I also feel on another level. 127 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:27,039 Speaker 1: So at number nine, I have the quirkiest high school 128 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:30,560 Speaker 1: movie of all time, Napoleon Dynamite. At number eight, we're 129 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:33,359 Speaker 1: going back to the eighties, a decade that was just 130 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 1: filled with so many high school and college movies, I 131 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,719 Speaker 1: think because they were relatively cheap to make, and also 132 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 1: at that time, we're just speaking so much to people 133 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: going to watching movies. So it was very much a 134 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,480 Speaker 1: representation of that generation, which every good high school and 135 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: college movie should be, but one that I feel is 136 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:54,560 Speaker 1: a little bit off the wall and almost doesn't even 137 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:56,840 Speaker 1: fit in with the category of all the movies of 138 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:00,160 Speaker 1: the eighties that were four teenagers at that time. It's 139 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:04,719 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six Back to School starring Rodney Dangerfield. He 140 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:08,479 Speaker 1: plays this self made millionaire and he has this successful 141 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 1: chain of plus sized clothing stores, which is such a 142 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 1: bizarre plot, but you think of Rodney Dangerfield, one of 143 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 1: the greatest comedians of all time, and that is a 144 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 1: role that only he could do. And he is trying 145 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 1: to help his son who is going through college not 146 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 1: having a good time. Rodney Dangerfield's character is going through 147 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 1: a lot personally as well, so he decides to go 148 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: back to school with the Sun, and he enters college 149 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 1: as a student himself. So it's almost like the reverse 150 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 1: of Billy Madison. And to me, this represents college in 151 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 1: the eighties and very much a snapshot into what you 152 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: could get away with in the eighties. But I feel 153 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 1: like Rodney Dangerfield's comedy, even though maybe at today's standards, 154 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 1: isn't always politically correct, it always had a very wholesome 155 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:52,360 Speaker 1: attitude to it and you could very much get the 156 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 1: idea of that in the trailer for this movie back 157 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty six. 158 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:57,040 Speaker 3: Well, I should dream I'm going to college. 159 00:07:57,160 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 2: This is the way I always pitched, Clint, When did. 160 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: You dream going to college? 161 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 3: When I used to fast for the high school man? 162 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 1: Lot of woman. She is the teacher. 163 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 3: I know, I like teaching. Do something Ruin and I 164 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 3: could do it over again. What do you say you 165 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 3: and I have done it tonight? 166 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 1: Nactually I'd like to join you, but I have class tonight. 167 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 3: Why don't you call me some time when you have 168 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 3: no class? 169 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 1: So, if you're just a fan of classic comedian humor, 170 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 1: this is such a fun movie to watch, and I 171 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 1: feel still holds up pretty well. So at number eight. 172 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 1: I have Back to School starring Rodney Dangerfield at number seven. 173 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 1: Another movie from the eighties, I have Stand in Deliver. 174 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:34,520 Speaker 1: I wanted to put a little bit more of a 175 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:38,840 Speaker 1: serious high school movie and one that greatly represents the 176 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 1: struggles that Mexican Americans like myself have in high school. 177 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:45,959 Speaker 1: The reason I feel this movie is a great representation 178 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 1: of high school from the perspective of somebody who either 179 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 1: has parents that come here from another country or you 180 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,520 Speaker 1: yourself have come here from another country and are trying 181 00:08:55,559 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 1: to assimilate to American culture in a system that isn't 182 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 1: really geared towards you or your success. And that is 183 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 1: what you see in Stand and Deliver. You have Edward 184 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 1: James Almost's character, who plays the East LA math teacher 185 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:15,839 Speaker 1: trying to motivate this group of students living in LA 186 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 1: to take their AP calculus very serious, to try and 187 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:22,320 Speaker 1: get them to go from not caring about school to 188 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 1: testing highly an AP calculus in their senior year. So 189 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 1: you have all these students that do want a better life, 190 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 1: but they just never had a teacher tell them that 191 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 1: they had it in them. I feel like growing up 192 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:36,880 Speaker 1: I saw kids make really bad decisions and ended up 193 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:39,840 Speaker 1: in jail or in prison, and I realized that I 194 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 1: didn't really want that for myself, and growing up, I 195 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 1: didn't really have a whole lot of examples to teach 196 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:48,800 Speaker 1: me how to do things correctly. My sister was the 197 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:51,959 Speaker 1: first female and the first person ever on any sides 198 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,559 Speaker 1: of my family, my mom's side or my dad's side. 199 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:56,880 Speaker 1: She was the first one to go to college and 200 00:09:56,960 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 1: to graduate college, and I ended up becoming the first male. 201 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:02,840 Speaker 1: And we didn't really have any kind of roadmap to 202 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:06,960 Speaker 1: go on because my parents came here when they were teenagers. 203 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 1: They didn't make it out of elementary school, so they 204 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 1: didn't go to high school, much less college. So really 205 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:15,440 Speaker 1: what I relied on was having teachers tell me that 206 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 1: there was something more out there for me. I think 207 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:20,560 Speaker 1: the first time I ever had that was in elementary school. 208 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:22,360 Speaker 1: I had a teacher named Miss Jeter, who was the 209 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 1: first one to speak to me in a way that, 210 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 1: even in the third grade, felt like I wasn't just 211 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:30,720 Speaker 1: a kid. And she recognized my background and my culture 212 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 1: and didn't really try to change that but rather make 213 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:37,080 Speaker 1: that the thing that made me special, and was the 214 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:39,760 Speaker 1: first one to see potential in me, and I think 215 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 1: that was the first example for me that somebody actually 216 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 1: cared about me, much like Hymen Escalanta did and Stand 217 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:49,960 Speaker 1: and Deliver, and that's probably why Edward James almost received 218 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:52,680 Speaker 1: an Oscar nomination for this role. So one of my 219 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 1: favorite movies and a great depiction of high school life 220 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:59,839 Speaker 1: for Latinos. That's why number seven my pick is Stand 221 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:04,080 Speaker 1: and Deliver. At number six, I Have Never Been Kissed. 222 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:07,079 Speaker 1: It's about Drew Barrymore's character who plays a reporter named 223 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:09,880 Speaker 1: Josie who goes back to high school to do an 224 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 1: investigative piece and discover the real life of teenagers in 225 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:16,840 Speaker 1: high school in the nineties, and through this assignment, she 226 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:20,240 Speaker 1: is able to relive high school, but instead of being 227 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:23,360 Speaker 1: the most unpopular person in high school, she's able to 228 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 1: turn the tables now that she is an adult and 229 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 1: tries to become the most popular person in high school. 230 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:31,240 Speaker 1: The crazy thing about this movie is, first of all, 231 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:34,280 Speaker 1: growing up, this was the high school experience I wanted. 232 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:36,640 Speaker 1: I was eight years old when I first saw this movie, 233 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:39,680 Speaker 1: and I thought, I want to be a teenager. I 234 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:41,559 Speaker 1: want to go to high school because everything is going 235 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:43,679 Speaker 1: to be cool. And by the time I got to 236 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:46,439 Speaker 1: high school, I realized that it's not as cool as 237 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:48,840 Speaker 1: it's made out to see. The other crazy thing to 238 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 1: me looking back on this movie now is at the time, 239 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:54,560 Speaker 1: this was such a ridiculous thing and unheard of. But 240 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:57,600 Speaker 1: now it seems like every few months I see a 241 00:11:57,679 --> 00:12:00,440 Speaker 1: story about this happening. In real life, there is a 242 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 1: twenty five or thirty year old going back to high 243 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 1: school and posing as a student. And at the time 244 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:10,160 Speaker 1: when this movie came out, the plot seems so believable. 245 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:12,440 Speaker 1: To me, you rooted for her to be able to 246 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 1: get that final kiss at the baseball game. Looking back 247 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 1: on it now, this would never happened in real life. 248 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,199 Speaker 1: She would be in jail. It would be all over 249 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 1: TikTok with all these theories, and in no multiverse would 250 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:28,400 Speaker 1: that final scene happen. But since it's a movie and 251 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:31,199 Speaker 1: you can throw out all the real world stuff, it's 252 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 1: a great one. So at number six, I have never 253 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:37,439 Speaker 1: been kissed. At number five, we're going back to the seventies, 254 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:40,840 Speaker 1: and it's one of the most classic college movies of 255 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:45,079 Speaker 1: all time. I have nineteen seventy eight's Animal House from 256 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:49,080 Speaker 1: National Lampoon. It's a movie about two fraternities going head 257 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:51,560 Speaker 1: to head. One is the group of misfits and the 258 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 1: other is a group of handsome young men who want 259 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 1: to take them down. You learn a lot about life 260 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:00,960 Speaker 1: in Animal House. You learn about fraternity sorority life politics, 261 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:04,600 Speaker 1: and a lot of party culture, which the first time 262 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:07,360 Speaker 1: I watched this movie, I thought this is exactly what 263 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 1: college was going to be. Partying non stop and then 264 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:14,400 Speaker 1: every now and then going to class. But I thought 265 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:17,720 Speaker 1: college was going to be a non stop or ride 266 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 1: like this, and it turns out it's really not that. 267 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:22,760 Speaker 1: And I think it's because I didn't really have the 268 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 1: traditional college experience. When I graduated high school in two 269 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:30,199 Speaker 1: thousand and nine, I first went to community college. I 270 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:33,240 Speaker 1: knew I wanted to get out of Waxahatchie, Texas, my hometown, 271 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:36,600 Speaker 1: because for me, I just needed to see the world 272 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 1: a little bit more. I needed to go be on 273 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:41,920 Speaker 1: my own to fully experience life and find my own way. 274 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 1: And I knew staying there I would get too comfortable, 275 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:47,560 Speaker 1: I would never pursue the things I wanted to pursue 276 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 1: in life. And that's fine for some people, but for me, 277 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:52,720 Speaker 1: I knew I needed to get out of there. If 278 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:55,680 Speaker 1: I ever wanted a chance of pursuing what I want 279 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:58,440 Speaker 1: to do now. So I left Waxahatchie and I moved 280 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:00,679 Speaker 1: to Austin, Texas. And you think, oh, you probably went 281 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:04,080 Speaker 1: to the University of Texas first, or maybe even Texas State, 282 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:05,960 Speaker 1: But that's not what I did. I went to community 283 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:09,199 Speaker 1: college first. I went to Austin Community College shout out 284 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 1: to the river Bats, because I really needed to figure 285 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:13,800 Speaker 1: out what I wanted to do. I think that time 286 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:17,320 Speaker 1: in your life is so crazy. You're seventeen, eighteen years 287 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:19,840 Speaker 1: old and you have to decide what you want to 288 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:21,520 Speaker 1: do for the rest of your life. What do you 289 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:24,760 Speaker 1: want to go study? That was so overwhelming to me 290 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:28,240 Speaker 1: that I realized I just needed to go to community college, 291 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:31,120 Speaker 1: knock out my basics, and after a couple of years 292 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 1: reassess and figured out exactly what I wanted to pursue. 293 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 1: And even then I was still like, I still have 294 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 1: no idea what to do. I took so many different 295 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 1: classes and so many different majors that I just ended 296 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:44,720 Speaker 1: up getting all over the place. So I think for 297 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:47,320 Speaker 1: that reason, since I didn't live in a dorm, not 298 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:49,680 Speaker 1: only in those first two years, but ever, I never 299 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:52,600 Speaker 1: had this party experience like an Animal House or in 300 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:55,320 Speaker 1: like all those classic college movies where you're just meeting 301 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 1: people and partying and it's all just one fun wild ride. 302 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:01,560 Speaker 1: I never really had that at community college. I transferred 303 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 1: to Texas State, and even then I was working. I 304 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:09,240 Speaker 1: was interning, so the time I was on college campus, 305 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:12,200 Speaker 1: I was just there to go to class, do my homework, 306 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 1: and go back and do it all over again. So 307 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 1: I never really fully experienced that college life. Not to 308 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:20,120 Speaker 1: say I didn't party a little bit, but it wasn't 309 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:22,480 Speaker 1: the fun partying like you see an Animal House. It 310 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:24,840 Speaker 1: was really just hanging out with my friends and boweling 311 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 1: off steam on the weekends. So I feel like if 312 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:31,000 Speaker 1: there's one thing I regretted for my college years, was 313 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 1: not going to live on campus at least for a 314 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:37,040 Speaker 1: year or two. Correct me if I'm wrong. Maybe I 315 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:39,560 Speaker 1: feel like I'm missing something because I just thought that 316 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 1: college was supposed to be like Animal House, so therefore 317 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:45,480 Speaker 1: I thought I failed. An Animal House has one of 318 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:49,040 Speaker 1: my favorite comedic scenes of all time, Whenever the krusty, 319 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 1: bitter old dean is reading their midterm grades and they 320 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 1: are all terrible. 321 00:15:54,440 --> 00:16:02,680 Speaker 3: Mister mister Bluetowsky zero point zero. You're out finished at 322 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:06,240 Speaker 3: Faber expelled. I want you off this campus at nine 323 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:09,480 Speaker 3: o'clock Monday morning. And I'm sure you'll be happy to 324 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:13,400 Speaker 3: know that I have notified your local draft boards and 325 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 3: told them that you are now all all eligible for 326 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 3: military service. 327 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: So that is why I have Animal House from nineteen 328 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:24,600 Speaker 1: seventy eight at number five. At number four, I have 329 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: Super Bad. The choke hold this movie had when it 330 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 1: came out in two thousand and seven on everybody. I 331 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 1: feel like it was the last raunchy comedy of this era. 332 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 1: It was the most successful comedy of two thousand and seven. 333 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 1: Back when multiple comedies were coming out a year, I 334 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:44,600 Speaker 1: feel like at least every few weeks you would get 335 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 1: a new comedy in theaters. It's just not like that anymore. 336 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:51,480 Speaker 1: The reason this movie was so successful was because of 337 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:54,400 Speaker 1: the cast. You had Jonah Hill, you had Michael Sarah, 338 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:58,080 Speaker 1: You have Christopher Mints plus as mclovin. You have Judd 339 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 1: Apatow producing the movie. You have seth Rogan and Bill Hayter. 340 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 1: It is an amazing comedic cast. It's like the Avengers 341 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 1: of comedy. And the premise really wasn't anything different from 342 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 1: the raunchy teen comedies that came before it. It's a 343 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 1: bunch of high school kids trying to lose their V card, 344 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:19,240 Speaker 1: much like nineteen ninety nine's American Pie. I think what 345 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:21,680 Speaker 1: made this movie so great was all of the memorable 346 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 1: lines and quotes, which I feel like ran rampant in 347 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 1: the two thousands. Every single comedy that came out was 348 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:30,480 Speaker 1: just the banger with a quote that could easily be 349 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:33,960 Speaker 1: slapped onto a T shirt, thrown onto a bumper sticker, 350 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 1: but most importantly be repeated by every single high school 351 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:41,879 Speaker 1: after they saw a movie like super Bad. This movie 352 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:44,360 Speaker 1: was so over the top. I love that it takes 353 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:47,639 Speaker 1: place entirely in one day, but I feel like the 354 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 1: character that really stole the show in this movie was 355 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 1: the one and only. 356 00:17:54,359 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 3: Nice. 357 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:58,480 Speaker 1: Although I do feel a little bit like this movie 358 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:02,919 Speaker 1: suffered from being overhyped, so I very much feel like 359 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:06,199 Speaker 1: it was right time, right place for this movie to 360 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:08,720 Speaker 1: come out in two thousand and seven, which is overall 361 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 1: one of my favorite years of film of all time, 362 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:13,480 Speaker 1: if not my favorite year. I always kind of go 363 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:16,400 Speaker 1: back and forth between two thousand and seven, twenty nineteen, 364 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 1: or nineteen ninety four, but this year was just so 365 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:22,760 Speaker 1: formative on my taste that it will always be a 366 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:25,920 Speaker 1: classic for me. It taught me about partying, It taught 367 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:28,359 Speaker 1: me about underage drinking. In the end, it taught me 368 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 1: a lot about being myself. So at number four, I 369 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:34,960 Speaker 1: have Super Bad getting into the top three. Now at 370 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 1: number three, I have two thousand and fours Mean Girls. 371 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:41,520 Speaker 1: This movie is great from beginning to end. I can 372 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:44,320 Speaker 1: hop into this movie at any point, whether it be 373 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:46,840 Speaker 1: thirty minutes in in the last ten minutes, and I 374 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:49,199 Speaker 1: sit down and watch the rest of this movie. It 375 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:52,920 Speaker 1: has a great cast with Tina Fay, Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams. 376 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:54,680 Speaker 1: It has the memorable lines. 377 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:55,680 Speaker 3: She doesn't even go here. 378 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:58,399 Speaker 1: And what I love about Mean Girls, and the reason 379 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 1: I feel it really encap sure is that high school experience. 380 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:04,919 Speaker 1: Is it so much speaks to the clicks that you 381 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 1: have in high school, and not just that, but how 382 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:11,920 Speaker 1: important it was to fit in and be accepted by everybody. 383 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:15,359 Speaker 1: And that's what Lindsay Lohan's character goes through in this movie. 384 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:18,639 Speaker 1: And at first she doesn't fit in with the popular crowd, 385 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:21,480 Speaker 1: the plastics, and she starts hanging out with who would 386 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:23,880 Speaker 1: end up being her truest friends, and she just didn't 387 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:26,520 Speaker 1: really realize it at the time. And together they get 388 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:30,040 Speaker 1: the idea to infiltrate the plastics and bring their reign 389 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 1: of terror down, but during that process, she ends up 390 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:37,800 Speaker 1: becoming a plastic herself, forgets about the plan, and ends 391 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:41,320 Speaker 1: up letting down her first friends down in the process. 392 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:44,159 Speaker 1: And I think, what this movie taught me about high school? 393 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:47,880 Speaker 1: Is it so important just to be yourself and not 394 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:51,639 Speaker 1: caring about what other people think. My biggest regret I 395 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,320 Speaker 1: told you in college, Well, it's not partying enough, not 396 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:58,040 Speaker 1: partying in the traditional college sense. But my biggest regret 397 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 1: in high school was caring so much about what people 398 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:05,200 Speaker 1: thought about me. I think I actually would have had 399 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:08,199 Speaker 1: more friends in high school, or any friends in high school, 400 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:10,960 Speaker 1: if I just wouldn't have cared about what the people 401 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 1: I was trying to impress thought about me. I wanted 402 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:17,040 Speaker 1: to be cool, even though I wasn't cool. I should 403 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:19,439 Speaker 1: have just accepted the fact that I was kind of 404 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 1: a weirdo, kind of a loser into music that nobody 405 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:25,360 Speaker 1: else liked. I dressed in all black, so people thought 406 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:28,840 Speaker 1: I was some emo goth kid. I should have just 407 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,800 Speaker 1: owned that and been friends with the other people like 408 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:34,879 Speaker 1: me and stop trying to impress these people that I 409 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 1: was never going to win over. And I think what 410 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:40,439 Speaker 1: I learned in Mean Girls is that small group of 411 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:43,880 Speaker 1: friends you have that maybe aren't the coolest to everybody, 412 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 1: but they are so loyal and they know you better 413 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:50,919 Speaker 1: than anybody. Be friends with those people, hang out with 414 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,960 Speaker 1: those people, and don't care what anybody else thinks, because 415 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 1: in the end, those are going to be the people 416 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:59,159 Speaker 1: who will always have your back. And high school is 417 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 1: so fleeting that I'm not friends with anybody I was 418 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 1: friends with still in high school. I hardly even talk 419 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:07,160 Speaker 1: to them. The only time I really see those people 420 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,600 Speaker 1: now is on Facebook. But I think I would have 421 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:11,480 Speaker 1: had a much better time if I would have just 422 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:15,000 Speaker 1: allowed myself to accept who I was and be friends 423 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:16,680 Speaker 1: with who I wanted to be friends with. And I 424 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 1: probably would have had a better time in high school 425 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:20,880 Speaker 1: and probably even had a girlfriend in high school, which 426 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,520 Speaker 1: I never did. So Mean Girls taught us about clicks, 427 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:26,440 Speaker 1: It taught us about being cool, but most important about 428 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 1: finding your true friends. And that is why I have 429 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:32,480 Speaker 1: it at number three. At number two from two thousand 430 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:35,960 Speaker 1: and three. I have old school talk about a movie 431 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 1: with an amazing cast, Will Ferrell, Luke Wilson, Vince Vaughn, 432 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:42,359 Speaker 1: directed by Todd Phillips, who would go on to direct 433 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 1: movies like The Hangover, Joker, War Dogs. He also makes 434 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 1: cameos in a lot of his movies, but he had 435 00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:52,639 Speaker 1: a really tight grip on the comedy genre. And to me, 436 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 1: this is the best college movie of all time because 437 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,720 Speaker 1: it's about these guys who are all friends in college 438 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:02,760 Speaker 1: and going back and reliving those days now in their 439 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:06,400 Speaker 1: late thirties and forties. And it's a story about underdogs. 440 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:10,320 Speaker 1: They go and recruit these non traditional students we're at 441 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:13,159 Speaker 1: risk of getting evicted from their house. It has the 442 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:16,320 Speaker 1: classic crusty, bitter old dean played by Jeremy Piven. And 443 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:19,119 Speaker 1: what you learn in this movie about life. It's all 444 00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:22,480 Speaker 1: about the ups and downs of post college life, accepting 445 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:24,880 Speaker 1: your fate as an adult. It also teaches you more 446 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:30,280 Speaker 1: about fraternity and sorority life, college politics, and party culture. Also, 447 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 1: so many memorable lines in this movie. I think the 448 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 1: scene everybody thinks of is Will Ferrell going streaking. We're 449 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 1: going streaking, Snoop, snoop a loop, But My favorite line 450 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:43,520 Speaker 1: in any comedy really is always the most obscure line 451 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:46,439 Speaker 1: that I end up quoting time and time again. And 452 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:49,120 Speaker 1: it's always something that's not even meant as a joke, 453 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:51,399 Speaker 1: but for some reason I just pick up on it 454 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:53,679 Speaker 1: and then use it later in my life. And my 455 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 1: favorite line and the entire movie of Old School is 456 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,359 Speaker 1: whenever they are taking their test trying to prove the 457 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:02,119 Speaker 1: Dean wrong, and they are taking the actual, like written, 458 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 1: standardized test, and it's a scene where they're all sitting 459 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 1: in the classroom and they're all cheating on this test, 460 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:10,240 Speaker 1: and it's very obvious because they all have an ear piece, 461 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:12,800 Speaker 1: and anytime the person down the line, which I think 462 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:14,639 Speaker 1: in the movie is already laying as one of the 463 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:17,520 Speaker 1: guys feeding them the answers, they go and put their 464 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:20,399 Speaker 1: fingers up to their ear like they clearly have an 465 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,880 Speaker 1: earpiece and are listening to somebody give them the answers. 466 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:25,399 Speaker 1: But still, somehow Jeremy Piven doesn't pick up on it. 467 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:27,560 Speaker 1: And there's a moment that Vince Vaughn just says this 468 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:32,840 Speaker 1: very sly quiet line where he is essentially patronizing the 469 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 1: Dean and commending him on giving them such a great test, 470 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 1: good test. That's what I say, good test, good test. 471 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:43,199 Speaker 1: You probably can't even hear in that clip, but he 472 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:47,879 Speaker 1: whispers good test, good test. So I guess I've been 473 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:50,560 Speaker 1: talking about how I want to go back and redo 474 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,480 Speaker 1: my college experience. Maybe I'm just ten years away from 475 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:57,280 Speaker 1: recreating old school. But at number one, it's not a 476 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:00,439 Speaker 1: college movie. It is a high school movie. It is 477 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 1: from nineteen eighty five. It is The Breakfast Club. And 478 00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:06,879 Speaker 1: the reason I picked and put The Breakfast Club at 479 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:10,199 Speaker 1: number one is because if this movie didn't exist, a 480 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:13,119 Speaker 1: lot of these other movies I've been talking about would 481 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:17,920 Speaker 1: not exist. It essentially became the blueprint of a teenage 482 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:22,160 Speaker 1: drama slash comedy, and it's the movie that really created 483 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:25,240 Speaker 1: and gave that voice to that generation in the eighties. 484 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:30,159 Speaker 1: It's also because the movie represents every single stereotype in 485 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,560 Speaker 1: high school. You have the bad boy, you have the 486 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,919 Speaker 1: rich sorority girl, you have the jock, you have the nerd, 487 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:39,480 Speaker 1: and you have the weirdo slash basket case. And it's 488 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:44,359 Speaker 1: about all those stereotypes coming together and realizing that they 489 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,359 Speaker 1: are not much different than each other. And I'm glad 490 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,720 Speaker 1: by the time I went to high school, this old 491 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:53,439 Speaker 1: school mentality started to change. There were still clicks, but 492 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,959 Speaker 1: it didn't really feel like a jock couldn't be friends 493 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,560 Speaker 1: with a weirdo, where a rich kid couldn't be friend 494 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,639 Speaker 1: with a poor kid. I think later in the two thousands, 495 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:03,880 Speaker 1: we all became a little bit more accepting of each 496 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:07,920 Speaker 1: other and is probably an entirely different game right now 497 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 1: in high school, where none of the stuff that happened 498 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 1: in movies from back in the day even exists anymore. 499 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 1: So I feel like we have very much advanced in 500 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,480 Speaker 1: a society. But I feel like this movie was so 501 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,879 Speaker 1: important in the eighties to show we're not really that different. 502 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:22,960 Speaker 1: We don't need to hate each other just because of 503 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:26,560 Speaker 1: the stereotype we belonged to. But it did. After you 504 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,040 Speaker 1: watch it, you think to yourself, who are you in 505 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,760 Speaker 1: this movie? I would have been the weirdo his hands down, 506 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:34,760 Speaker 1: I would have been that one. I just would have 507 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,240 Speaker 1: been the quiet weirdo. But it has a lot of 508 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:41,520 Speaker 1: great comedy throughout this movie. Probably my favorite scene is 509 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 1: Bender facing off with the principal. Eat my shorts. 510 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:51,720 Speaker 2: You just bought yourself another Saturday Misty, Oh crushed, You 511 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:52,679 Speaker 2: just bought one more. 512 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,080 Speaker 1: Right there, well on free the Saturday after that. Beyond that, 513 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:56,520 Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to check my calendar. 514 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:57,800 Speaker 3: Good, are you through? 515 00:25:58,240 --> 00:25:59,960 Speaker 1: No, I'm doing society a favor. 516 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 3: So that's another one. Right now. 517 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:04,359 Speaker 1: I've got you for the rest of your natural foreign life. 518 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:06,840 Speaker 3: If you don't watch your step, you want another one? 519 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,680 Speaker 1: Yes, you got it. You got another one right there. 520 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:12,240 Speaker 1: That's another one, pal, And not only that, you have 521 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,399 Speaker 1: one of the best uses of a song in a 522 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:18,000 Speaker 1: movie with the fizz bump and the closing credits to match. 523 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:26,120 Speaker 1: So at number one, the best high school and or 524 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:30,200 Speaker 1: college movie of all time, it is nineteen eighty five's 525 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:33,600 Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club. There were so many honorable mentions I 526 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:37,200 Speaker 1: didn't get to. Nineteen ninety eight Can't Hardly Wait is 527 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:40,240 Speaker 1: also one of my favorites because I feel like, unlike 528 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,200 Speaker 1: all the other teen movies of the nineties, this one 529 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 1: feels the least mean spirited to me. It also has 530 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:49,240 Speaker 1: Jennifer Love Hewitt, who I feel like was the heart 531 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 1: throb of the nineties and my crush growing up. I 532 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 1: also wanted to throw in BookSmart from twenty nineteen because 533 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:58,560 Speaker 1: I feel like it is the modern version of Super Bad. 534 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,639 Speaker 1: From the female perspective. I also just love movies that 535 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:04,600 Speaker 1: take place entirely in one day. You also have two 536 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,720 Speaker 1: thousand and eight's The House Bunny, Legally Blonde from two 537 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,320 Speaker 1: thousand and one, The Edge of Seventeen, which is a 538 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:13,080 Speaker 1: really good high school movie with Hailey Steinfeld. On the 539 00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:16,240 Speaker 1: college side, you have Goodwill hunting the Social Network, and 540 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,480 Speaker 1: another great woman from the two thousands, Accepted, which is 541 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:22,240 Speaker 1: pretty dumb when you think about it, but it has 542 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 1: a lot of charm to it. So that is my list. 543 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,399 Speaker 1: I'll come back and give my spoiler free movie review 544 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 1: a Blue Beetle, and then we'll talk about Vacation Friends too. 545 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,159 Speaker 1: Let's get into it now, a spoiler free movie review. 546 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,680 Speaker 1: I want to talk about DC's Blue Beetle, and before 547 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:42,000 Speaker 1: I even get into this review, I have to issue 548 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:47,200 Speaker 1: a Mexican bias alert because I know, as a Mexican 549 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:49,920 Speaker 1: American going into this movie, I was going to enjoy 550 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:53,440 Speaker 1: it more than the average person. Because you have your 551 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:57,479 Speaker 1: first Latino star in a DC superhero movie, Jim Reyes 552 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:01,080 Speaker 1: played by Zola Marithuena. You have a Latino right director 553 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:04,399 Speaker 1: and primarily Latino cast, so I feel like for me, 554 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 1: this is the first time I'm really seeing my people 555 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:10,720 Speaker 1: represented on the big screen in my favorite genre. Why 556 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:12,479 Speaker 1: is it taken so long? So there were a lot 557 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:14,480 Speaker 1: of things in this movie that just hit with me, 558 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:17,960 Speaker 1: that made me realize they made this movie exactly for 559 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:21,840 Speaker 1: people like me. All of the references, even the music 560 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,439 Speaker 1: and the character names. I just knew that they had me. 561 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:26,760 Speaker 1: Even when I walked into the theater. Our entire row 562 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 1: was taken out by a Mexican family, and that just 563 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 1: warmed my heart as well. You had a mom, dad, brother, cousin, 564 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,040 Speaker 1: and a baby. I'm not the biggest fan of always 565 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:37,960 Speaker 1: bringing babies into PG thirteen rated movies, but I asked 566 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,280 Speaker 1: the kid what his name was and he said Porfino Mondragon. 567 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:41,920 Speaker 1: So I'm like, all right, let him in. So what 568 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 1: this movie is about. Our main character is named Jim 569 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,720 Speaker 1: Rees and his life is changed forever after this alien 570 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 1: relic chooses him as a symbiotic host and he becomes 571 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:54,320 Speaker 1: the Blue Beetle. If you had to compare this movie 572 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 1: to a Marvel movie, it's probably a lot like Ant Man. 573 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,080 Speaker 1: So I feel like if anybody has a reason and 574 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,080 Speaker 1: they're not gonna like this movie, it's because maybe you 575 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:04,600 Speaker 1: didn't like ant Man. Maybe there's just something about making 576 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,480 Speaker 1: a superhero movie about an insect that people get turned 577 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:09,880 Speaker 1: off by, unless you're Spider Man. But the comic book 578 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:13,120 Speaker 1: elitist will say that Blue Beetle came out before ant Man, 579 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,600 Speaker 1: But I always look at it from a film perspective, 580 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 1: and whenever they first debuted on the big screen. What 581 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 1: I did enjoy about Blue Beetle is it was a 582 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:23,440 Speaker 1: very good representation of what a kid like Hymen would 583 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 1: go through having this thing take over his body and 584 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:29,640 Speaker 1: transforming him into a superhero and navigating how to use 585 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:31,360 Speaker 1: these powers. I feel like there were a lot of 586 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:34,040 Speaker 1: moments in this movie that represented what I would do 587 00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:37,040 Speaker 1: in the situation of figuring out how to fight, not 588 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,320 Speaker 1: wanting to kill other people, and overall just being overwhelmed 589 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,640 Speaker 1: by the process, which is something I feel like is 590 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,400 Speaker 1: it really represented in movies. Throughout this entire movie, you 591 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,160 Speaker 1: see Hymen really struggle with it and have to come 592 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,560 Speaker 1: to his own to be able to harness the powers 593 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:53,280 Speaker 1: of the Blue Beetle and therefore become the Blue Beetle. 594 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,320 Speaker 1: So I felt like there was a lot of growth 595 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:57,520 Speaker 1: in his character, and that was just one of the 596 00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:00,280 Speaker 1: ways I related to his character in the movie. He 597 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 1: is the first in his family to go and graduate college. 598 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:04,360 Speaker 1: That is where we find him at the start of 599 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,880 Speaker 1: this movie. He just gets home from college and then 600 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,280 Speaker 1: his parents deliver some pretty bad news that they're going 601 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 1: through a lot of financial struggles. His dad is having 602 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,880 Speaker 1: some health issues, so his world kind of comes crumbling 603 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 1: down as he's trying to start his new life. He 604 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:19,480 Speaker 1: feels like he has now let his parents down and 605 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:22,160 Speaker 1: is trying to find a way to support his family. 606 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,160 Speaker 1: And this is where I'm going to get into the 607 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:27,560 Speaker 1: biased stuff, because I felt like him and his family 608 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:31,200 Speaker 1: was such a great representation of the Mexican American family 609 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:34,440 Speaker 1: that I've not seen portrayed at this level on the 610 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:38,200 Speaker 1: big screen in a big Hollywood production. I always feel 611 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:42,120 Speaker 1: like Mexican American characters are minimized, and sometimes we are 612 00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:46,160 Speaker 1: caricatures or just bad versions of what Mexican life is 613 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 1: really like. But there were so many things in this 614 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,840 Speaker 1: movie that felt authentic to me that I could tell 615 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:53,959 Speaker 1: that there were Latino actors trying to really portray things 616 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:57,200 Speaker 1: and put things in this movie that Mexicans actually do, 617 00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:01,520 Speaker 1: that Mexicans actually listen to. That Mexicans actually even trucks 618 00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:05,840 Speaker 1: that Mexicans actually drive. This was all represented in this movie. 619 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,840 Speaker 1: I feel like George Lopez's character was a great representation 620 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 1: of that. His name is Rudy. I have a brother 621 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:12,920 Speaker 1: named Rudy, So right off the bat, I was like, 622 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,280 Speaker 1: that could be my brother right there. And from the 623 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:17,360 Speaker 1: very first time he was on screen, he pulled up 624 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,120 Speaker 1: in his trug listening to Lostocanas that Tijuana and I 625 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,400 Speaker 1: was like, that would be the equivalent if you grew 626 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,000 Speaker 1: up listening to country music and it never heard an 627 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,640 Speaker 1: Alan Jackson song in a movie and that was the 628 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:29,520 Speaker 1: first time you heard it. That is how it felt 629 00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,200 Speaker 1: to me. And then when it comes to the language, 630 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 1: which is a big part of this movie, I love 631 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,680 Speaker 1: that Blue Beetle committed to using Spanish throughout the movie 632 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,760 Speaker 1: and at times the Spanish wasn't even subtitles, and that 633 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,520 Speaker 1: felt more authentic to me because a lot of the 634 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,240 Speaker 1: stuff sometimes doesn't translate. I think if you grow up 635 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,200 Speaker 1: speaking Spanish, there are just some phrases we use that 636 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,400 Speaker 1: if you tried to translate it to English, it just 637 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,960 Speaker 1: wouldn't really make sense. But it makes sense to us. 638 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,640 Speaker 1: It's a pretty big risk. Using that much Spanish in 639 00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:58,920 Speaker 1: a movie, you could turn a lot of people off, 640 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,840 Speaker 1: but I love the commitment to it. They also balanced 641 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:04,560 Speaker 1: it pretty well with using Spanglish, going back and forth 642 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:07,720 Speaker 1: between English and Spanish, which is something that Mexican American 643 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,960 Speaker 1: families are just accustomed to. When your parents are from Mexico, 644 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,960 Speaker 1: your grandparents are from Mexico, you grow up in America. 645 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,760 Speaker 1: Primarily you start learning English because you go to school here, 646 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,480 Speaker 1: but your parents still speak Spanish, and then through them 647 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 1: going to work and living in this country for an 648 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,840 Speaker 1: extended period of time, they start to learn English. And 649 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:29,600 Speaker 1: the way we just communicate is mixing it all together. Oftentimes, 650 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,040 Speaker 1: when I call my mom, sometimes I'll speak to her 651 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,440 Speaker 1: in English, She'll speak back to me in Spanish. When 652 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:36,440 Speaker 1: I talk to my dad, kind of the same, or 653 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,880 Speaker 1: sometimes we just go back and forth a lot. You 654 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,760 Speaker 1: could have an entire sentence where every other word is 655 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,160 Speaker 1: in a different language, and for some reason we just 656 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,239 Speaker 1: get it. It works for us, and that is what 657 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,640 Speaker 1: was shown a lot in Blue Beetle. And it never 658 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,920 Speaker 1: felt forced or cheesy to me, which always turns me 659 00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:54,480 Speaker 1: off in a movie when they have to overemphasize words 660 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:58,360 Speaker 1: like Dorothia Thaco and stuff like that, I just rather 661 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,360 Speaker 1: than not use it at all. But in this case, 662 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,200 Speaker 1: I loved every instance of it. Everything from the way 663 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,560 Speaker 1: that their house looked they had the Vidhican that Juada 664 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,800 Speaker 1: Lupe on the wall, from the TV shows they were watching, 665 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:11,480 Speaker 1: from the music they were listening to. Like I mentioned before, 666 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,680 Speaker 1: everything about it just felt so authentic. And then it 667 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,160 Speaker 1: comes to the characters, which I did really a little 668 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,360 Speaker 1: bit with himaed like I said earlier, being the only 669 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,000 Speaker 1: male in my family to go and graduate college. But 670 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,520 Speaker 1: he's also just like really good looking, so there was 671 00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:28,080 Speaker 1: other things about his personality that wasn't exactly me. But 672 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,320 Speaker 1: the character that just kind of struck with me so 673 00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:36,080 Speaker 1: much was the dad. If my dad was taken out 674 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,200 Speaker 1: of the real world and put onto the big screen, 675 00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:40,520 Speaker 1: it would be Heima's dad, and I felt like his 676 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:44,040 Speaker 1: character was so important for me just feeling this emotional 677 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:48,120 Speaker 1: connection to this film. Without the Dad, I probably wouldn't 678 00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:50,800 Speaker 1: have felt this movie as much in my heart. But 679 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,400 Speaker 1: just the way he acted, the way he cared about 680 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:56,120 Speaker 1: his family, even just the way he spoke and the 681 00:33:56,120 --> 00:34:00,320 Speaker 1: way he looked that real just blue collar, working hard 682 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,680 Speaker 1: to provide for his family mentality that is my dad. 683 00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,200 Speaker 1: The character here is probably a little bit more positive 684 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,799 Speaker 1: than my dad. My dad curses a lot more and 685 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:12,160 Speaker 1: isn't as poignant with his feelings, but deep down, that 686 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,040 Speaker 1: is exactly my dad. Especially the scene where he was 687 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,120 Speaker 1: having a heart to heart with his son and he 688 00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:18,960 Speaker 1: was drinking a beer and telling him not to tell 689 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,759 Speaker 1: his mom. I've had many instances of that with my dad. 690 00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:23,640 Speaker 1: And that's all I'll say about his dad. I do 691 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:27,720 Speaker 1: want to give a spoiler version of this review getting 692 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,000 Speaker 1: all the topics, and I'll talk more about his dad 693 00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:32,719 Speaker 1: as I'm going to start get emotional thinking about this 694 00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,200 Speaker 1: movie again, which is something I really wasn't expecting for 695 00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:37,720 Speaker 1: this movie to do. But I will share the line 696 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,480 Speaker 1: about coming to this country and he said that crossing 697 00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,160 Speaker 1: the border is hard, but you know what's harder than 698 00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:46,680 Speaker 1: twenty years after, and that was so true. I thought 699 00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,040 Speaker 1: of my dad, who came here as a teenager. He 700 00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:53,960 Speaker 1: worked all these various jobs, from cleaning escalators to doing maintenance, 701 00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:57,400 Speaker 1: to being a mechanic doing yard work, and finally found 702 00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:59,799 Speaker 1: his way being a truck driver and has now done 703 00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:03,120 Speaker 1: that for over thirty years. So yes, coming to this 704 00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:06,440 Speaker 1: country is hard, but what's even harder is building a 705 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,319 Speaker 1: life here and doing all the things to achieve that 706 00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,480 Speaker 1: American dream. So that line is one of my favorite 707 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,520 Speaker 1: lines in any DC movie, and also just the fact 708 00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:19,160 Speaker 1: that we finally have our own superhero. Now the hard 709 00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:21,160 Speaker 1: part comes in is I don't know what's going to 710 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:24,160 Speaker 1: happen to Blue Beetle after this is not really connected 711 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:28,239 Speaker 1: with the DCEU. We have Aquaman coming later this year, 712 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,680 Speaker 1: and it seems like James Gunn is just gonna scrap 713 00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:34,760 Speaker 1: everything and start new with Superman and building all these characters. 714 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:36,680 Speaker 1: So I don't know what's going to happen with Blue Beetle. 715 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:40,280 Speaker 1: Will we get another movie? Probably not, And it hurts 716 00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:43,440 Speaker 1: even more that it didn't really make much at the 717 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:46,879 Speaker 1: box office, which it wasn't really expected to. They didn't 718 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:50,480 Speaker 1: really spend that much on marketing or promotion. The budget 719 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:53,120 Speaker 1: was one hundred and four million and it opened to 720 00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:57,040 Speaker 1: forty three million dollars worldwide, which isn't great, and out 721 00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:01,319 Speaker 1: of all the DCEU domestic opening weekends, it is at 722 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:04,000 Speaker 1: the bottom. It is behind the Flash, it is behind 723 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:07,600 Speaker 1: Shazam two. Blue Beetle only opened to twenty four point 724 00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:10,200 Speaker 1: five million dollars in the United States. But when I 725 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,440 Speaker 1: look at all these DCEU movies, everything from Man of 726 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:17,719 Speaker 1: Steel to Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman, Justice League, Aquaman, the 727 00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,680 Speaker 1: First Zam, Birds of Prey, the only thing I would 728 00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:26,239 Speaker 1: rank higher than this movie is the Suicide Squad. That's 729 00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:28,919 Speaker 1: the only one. Maybe Man of Steel given the day. 730 00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:31,680 Speaker 1: Maybe it's because I just watched Blue Beetle and I 731 00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:35,080 Speaker 1: have recency bias, but it was just so good that 732 00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,279 Speaker 1: I feel like the money that it's made doesn't really 733 00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:41,319 Speaker 1: represent the film. And then it's a rare case and 734 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,120 Speaker 1: I come on here and often I try not to 735 00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:47,200 Speaker 1: just all out bash DC. I always give them the 736 00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:49,640 Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt because they have such great characters. 737 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:51,560 Speaker 1: And this is the case where I don't even feel 738 00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,880 Speaker 1: that it's getting that much hate. It just didn't really 739 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,719 Speaker 1: do that well because people weren't hyped about it, and 740 00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:58,839 Speaker 1: you also have the strike going on, they couldn't really 741 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:02,799 Speaker 1: promote it as much. The summer blockbuster season is also 742 00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:05,880 Speaker 1: dwindling down right now that I feel like maybe it 743 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:07,640 Speaker 1: wasn't the right time for it to come out. But 744 00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:10,359 Speaker 1: also it's hard to sell a brand new character, and 745 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,440 Speaker 1: it's also speaking to a very niche audience if you 746 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,279 Speaker 1: are focusing on the Mexican demographic. But I feel like 747 00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:18,239 Speaker 1: this is a movie everybody should get a shot too, 748 00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:21,680 Speaker 1: because I want to see more characters like this on 749 00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:24,760 Speaker 1: the big screen. Doesn't always have to be a superhero movie, 750 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:28,480 Speaker 1: but I just love big blockbusters with Mexican faces and 751 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:30,959 Speaker 1: it it just makes me happy. So now it comes 752 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,799 Speaker 1: down to what I will rate Blue Beetle. Let me 753 00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:39,200 Speaker 1: remind you of my Mexican bias. I would honestly say 754 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:43,400 Speaker 1: if I was a Mexican and if I hadn't related 755 00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,799 Speaker 1: with all of these characters, it would probably on its 756 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:51,000 Speaker 1: own be a three or a three point five at best. 757 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:54,480 Speaker 1: But the fact that this movie really got me emotionally, 758 00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:57,040 Speaker 1: and I was so invested in all these characters and 759 00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,200 Speaker 1: it felt so familiar to me, and it brought so 760 00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,880 Speaker 1: much joy to see things that I've never seen in 761 00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:05,919 Speaker 1: a movie from my background, from my culture. I saw 762 00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:09,239 Speaker 1: me in this movie, I saw my dad in this movie, 763 00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:13,080 Speaker 1: and I left the theater just completely riding a high 764 00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:17,160 Speaker 1: that I had never really felt before. So again, probably 765 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,200 Speaker 1: a three to you if you're not Mexican, maybe a 766 00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:22,719 Speaker 1: three point five if you just love DC. But I'm 767 00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:26,479 Speaker 1: gonna give a Blue Beetle a four point five out 768 00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:29,960 Speaker 1: of five Scaubs. And I will say at times the 769 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,480 Speaker 1: acting is a little bit cheesy. That is probably what 770 00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:35,840 Speaker 1: kept me a little bit out of it in the beginning. 771 00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:37,920 Speaker 1: I'd say in that first ten to fifteen minutes, it 772 00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,120 Speaker 1: felt a little bit like a cheesy action movie to me, 773 00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:42,880 Speaker 1: Like there's a big, dark villain and then you have 774 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:45,360 Speaker 1: this nice kid and then they're all going to clash together. 775 00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:47,759 Speaker 1: And I was worried about that. But once the action 776 00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:51,000 Speaker 1: got going at the end of that first act, I 777 00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:53,680 Speaker 1: felt like that cheesiness kind of went away. It creeps 778 00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:55,919 Speaker 1: back every now and then, and this movie doesn't really 779 00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:59,320 Speaker 1: go way beyond the superhero formula. It stays pretty close 780 00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:01,760 Speaker 1: to it. So again, this is with the Mexican bias, 781 00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:05,239 Speaker 1: also with it hitting me more emotionally, which I will 782 00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:08,920 Speaker 1: explain more in the spoiler review. So probably on a 783 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,360 Speaker 1: normal day I would have given it a four, but 784 00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:13,800 Speaker 1: because of the impact it had on me, I'm sticking 785 00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:20,879 Speaker 1: with that four point five out of five scaubs. It's 786 00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:26,360 Speaker 1: time to head down to movie. Mike treylar par Vacation Friends, 787 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:30,160 Speaker 1: who is coming out soon on Hulu. Depending on when 788 00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:32,319 Speaker 1: you're listening to this on August twenty fifth, it could 789 00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:35,600 Speaker 1: be coming out this Friday, or it could already be out. 790 00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:38,400 Speaker 1: And this is a sequel. I was not expecting to 791 00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,880 Speaker 1: be as excited as I am. It's a very rare category, 792 00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:46,439 Speaker 1: where the first one. I don't want to say it's 793 00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:49,680 Speaker 1: a great comedy because it's so ridiculous. And if it 794 00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:51,480 Speaker 1: was a movie I would recommend to you and say 795 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,080 Speaker 1: this is a funny movie, you would probably watch it 796 00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:57,960 Speaker 1: and think, Mike, what in your right mind are you thinking? 797 00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:01,239 Speaker 1: Because it's so cheesy. It's so over the top at 798 00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:05,520 Speaker 1: times cringeworthy. But for some reason, I just kept thinking 799 00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:08,759 Speaker 1: about Vacation Friends, and after watching it, I thought that 800 00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:11,520 Speaker 1: was a good time. It didn't really test anything as 801 00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:14,640 Speaker 1: far as the levels of comedy or push the envelope 802 00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:17,680 Speaker 1: on cinema, but sometimes you just want a movie so 803 00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,680 Speaker 1: ridiculous that you can turn your brain off, not think 804 00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:25,600 Speaker 1: about anything except every ridiculous action that is happening, and thinking, 805 00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:28,359 Speaker 1: you know what, that was a fun time. It accomplished 806 00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:30,600 Speaker 1: what it needed to do. I didn't go to the 807 00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,560 Speaker 1: theater to see it, so no harm done. And then 808 00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,839 Speaker 1: watching the trailer for Vacation Friends Too, I thought they 809 00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:40,640 Speaker 1: might actually have something here, and I'll explain more why 810 00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:42,680 Speaker 1: that could be the case. But the premise of this 811 00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,680 Speaker 1: movie in the first one is it's just this couple 812 00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:48,640 Speaker 1: who goes on vacation and ends up making friends with 813 00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:51,120 Speaker 1: this other couple who are a lot of fun on vacation, 814 00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:54,239 Speaker 1: even though they get into some pretty sticky situations. But 815 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:56,920 Speaker 1: then the vacation ends and they end up wanting to 816 00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,600 Speaker 1: be friends in real life. So it's you are all 817 00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:02,040 Speaker 1: right vacation, but I don't really want to be friends 818 00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:05,200 Speaker 1: with you in my real adult life. So the plot 819 00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:09,040 Speaker 1: of Vacation Friends Too is them reuniting again on the 820 00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:12,640 Speaker 1: vacation and going on another ridiculous adventure. This will looks 821 00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:14,759 Speaker 1: a little bit more action packed. The fact that the 822 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,080 Speaker 1: first one was I guess a moderate success that they 823 00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:19,160 Speaker 1: could make a sequel. They got a little bit more 824 00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,160 Speaker 1: money to play around with in the budget, and it 825 00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:24,160 Speaker 1: almost looks more like a comedy action movie now. So 826 00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:26,600 Speaker 1: here is just a little bit of Vacation Friends Too. 827 00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:29,760 Speaker 1: Look at us all together again. 828 00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:32,040 Speaker 3: We just wanted to give you, guys a Real heardy Moon? 829 00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:39,560 Speaker 1: Just sound this crawling under a table? He's Clingy's the 830 00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:45,040 Speaker 1: reason I've never seen that much water come up a 831 00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:47,680 Speaker 1: person before. Did I throw up a lot? But hole 832 00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:54,319 Speaker 1: threw up bud? So who would have thought that Lil 833 00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:58,040 Speaker 1: Real and John Cena would be a great on screen 834 00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:01,719 Speaker 1: comedy duo and be a pair that I would want 835 00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:04,319 Speaker 1: to see in another installment of a movie that is 836 00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:07,680 Speaker 1: utterly ridiculous. And I have no shame in saying that 837 00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:10,239 Speaker 1: this is a comedy I enjoy, even though I know 838 00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:13,640 Speaker 1: on paper it isn't a great comedy. How I would 839 00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:16,040 Speaker 1: compare this if you went to a restaurant and ordered 840 00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:18,719 Speaker 1: dessert and they gave you a little Debbie snack, you 841 00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:21,440 Speaker 1: would say, this is not what I was expecting. I 842 00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:25,440 Speaker 1: was expecting some gourmet dessert created by a chef. But 843 00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:27,480 Speaker 1: if you ate that little Debbie snack, whether it be 844 00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:30,439 Speaker 1: a honey bun or a brownie or a Swiss cake roll, 845 00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:32,360 Speaker 1: you would eat it and think, you know, that's actually 846 00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,440 Speaker 1: pretty good. It's just not what I was expecting in 847 00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:36,839 Speaker 1: this moment, but it gets the job done, and little 848 00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:39,640 Speaker 1: Debbie snacks are really nobody's favorite dessert. But if you're 849 00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:41,719 Speaker 1: at a gas station, you have nothing else to eat. 850 00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,080 Speaker 1: You eat it and enjoy it. It reminds you of 851 00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:47,600 Speaker 1: your childhood vacation. Friends Too is the little Debbie Snacks 852 00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:50,720 Speaker 1: of comedy. Probably has a little bit too much sugar. 853 00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:53,399 Speaker 1: You're not really a fan of all the ingredients because 854 00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:56,200 Speaker 1: what they do to your body, so overall it's probably 855 00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,680 Speaker 1: not the best for you. But there's just something about 856 00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:01,040 Speaker 1: the way it goes down that really hits that spot. 857 00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:04,600 Speaker 1: I almost feel like it is the new Hangover getting 858 00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:07,160 Speaker 1: a sequel now. I feel like it has the potential 859 00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:10,000 Speaker 1: to be a new franchise Like that, it will never 860 00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:12,960 Speaker 1: reach the level of popularity or cultural impact that a 861 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:16,359 Speaker 1: Hangover has because it has less star power. It also 862 00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:19,120 Speaker 1: has less eyes on it. Being a twentieth century Studios 863 00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:22,799 Speaker 1: film debuting exclusively on Hulu, I just feel like no 864 00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:25,520 Speaker 1: comedy is ever going to have that big of an 865 00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:28,520 Speaker 1: impact anymore as it did in the two thousands. But 866 00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:30,880 Speaker 1: I really got to give it to twentieth century studios 867 00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:33,839 Speaker 1: of really knowing their lane when it comes to comedies. 868 00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:37,239 Speaker 1: They're not really putting out anything completely groundbreaking, But I 869 00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:39,960 Speaker 1: feel like anybody who just needs that it scratched of 870 00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:44,120 Speaker 1: having a new comedy. They're very much feeding that audience, 871 00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:46,920 Speaker 1: so they kind of found their niche here and really 872 00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:49,799 Speaker 1: just going after that dynamic of comedy, and it can 873 00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:52,720 Speaker 1: be all types of comedies, whether it be just wacky, 874 00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:56,719 Speaker 1: over the top comedies like this, stark comedies, more sophisticated comedies. 875 00:43:56,760 --> 00:44:00,719 Speaker 1: They're very much just owning that genre right now. I 876 00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:03,120 Speaker 1: feel like that is why Hulu has creeped up into 877 00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:05,840 Speaker 1: one of my favorite streaming services, because they are taking 878 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:08,440 Speaker 1: chances on movies like this, and this has been one 879 00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:10,719 Speaker 1: of the first cases of me seeing a sequel to 880 00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:13,760 Speaker 1: one of their comedies. So it's coming out on Hulu 881 00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:17,200 Speaker 1: on August twenty fifth. It takes place just months after 882 00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:19,680 Speaker 1: the original Vacation Friends, so if you haven't seen that 883 00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:22,279 Speaker 1: one yet, I would say start with that one and 884 00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:24,919 Speaker 1: if you're completely turned off by it in the first 885 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:27,719 Speaker 1: thirty minutes, you're probably not going to like the rest 886 00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:29,759 Speaker 1: of it. But if you end up enjoying it, then 887 00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:33,240 Speaker 1: I think you'll be like me and be excited oddly 888 00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:36,319 Speaker 1: for Vacation Friends too. They're also throwing Steve Buscemi in 889 00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:39,040 Speaker 1: the cast now, so either they're doing something right or 890 00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:41,440 Speaker 1: all these actors are just doing these movies to get 891 00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:45,480 Speaker 1: a paycheck. At that for this week's edition of Movie Lin, 892 00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:48,640 Speaker 1: Frame or Bar and that's gonna do it for another 893 00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:51,200 Speaker 1: episode here of the podcast. But before I go, I 894 00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:53,960 Speaker 1: gotta give my listeners shout out of the week. This 895 00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:56,280 Speaker 1: week we are going over to Twitter because I posted 896 00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:59,600 Speaker 1: the question what is your favorite high school or college 897 00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,040 Speaker 1: movie of time to get an idea of what you 898 00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:04,279 Speaker 1: had to say? And this week's listener shout out is 899 00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:06,440 Speaker 1: to Gina Blade, who replied with her top three that 900 00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:10,120 Speaker 1: include The Breakfast Club, sixteen Candles, and Fast Times at 901 00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:12,920 Speaker 1: Ridgemont High. Like I said, the eighties were a great 902 00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:15,799 Speaker 1: time for high school movies. Fast Times at Ridgemont High 903 00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,440 Speaker 1: probably should have made my honorable mentions. My favorite thing 904 00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:21,239 Speaker 1: about that movie is Sean Penn started a trend with 905 00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:25,120 Speaker 1: the slip on checkered vands after his character wore them 906 00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:28,240 Speaker 1: in that movie. It was on the poster, everybody started 907 00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:31,200 Speaker 1: wearing the checkered vans, and look, forty years later, they're 908 00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:34,760 Speaker 1: still popular. So thank you Gino for sharing your top three, 909 00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:37,799 Speaker 1: Thank you for listening, and until next time, go out 910 00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:40,640 Speaker 1: and watch good movies. And I will talk to you later.