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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I am

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Speaker 1: your host Movie Mike, joined this week by my wife

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Speaker 1: and cost Kelsey. How are you.

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Speaker 2: I'm great. It's Christmas time.

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Speaker 1: Ready to talk about Christmas movies.

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Speaker 2: Always ready to talk Christmas movies.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna give you our Christmas watching guide list. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk about poor things in the movie review, and then

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Speaker 1: we have another endo world type movie in the trailer park,

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Speaker 1: a movie called Civil War. Do you think they're trying

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Speaker 1: to hint us off about something with all the end

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Speaker 2: I don't know, because we did just see the Tesla

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Speaker 2: recall today. Yes, and there is a part. I don't

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Speaker 2: really feel like it's a spoiler because I think it's in

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Speaker 2: the trailer, but there's some issues and leave the world

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Speaker 2: Those Five days later, they were like, we're gonna.

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Speaker 1: Recall those and here's another end of world movies. So

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Speaker 1: we'll talk about that trailer. Thank you for being subscribed.

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Speaker 1: We're so close to Christmas, so we had to get

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Speaker 1: this episode in and now let's talk movies in.

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Speaker 3: A world where everyone and their mother has a podcast,

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Speaker 3: one man stands to info the ears of listeners like

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Speaker 3: never before in a movie podcast. A man with so

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Speaker 3: much movie knowledge, he's basically like.

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Speaker 1: A walking IMTV with glasses. From the Nashville Podcast.

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Speaker 3: Network, this is Movie Mike's Movie podcast.

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Speaker 1: All right, it's time to reveal our Christmas watching guide

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Speaker 1: that we have developed in the last few years. My

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Speaker 1: history with Christmas movies, I wasn't the biggest watcher of them,

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Speaker 1: every year, and that's what we're gonna go through. Do

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Speaker 1: you think it's weird that there are certain movies I

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Speaker 1: don't want to watch until, like, very close to Christmas,

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Speaker 2: I get it. Some that are more like, oh, this

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Speaker 1: I feel like when I'm still working actively, I can't

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Speaker 1: Christmas and what we kicked it off with this year,

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Speaker 1: watching season from two thousand and eight. Four Christmases And

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Speaker 1: this was a movie I hadn't watched until you came around.

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Speaker 1: I hadn't watched it. It was the thing that we're

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Speaker 1: and that was a time that I did not care

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Speaker 1: So this is the movie with Reese Witherspoon and Vince

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Speaker 2: It's so funny because it's kind of what we did

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Speaker 1: It's a highly quotable movie, which is also a mark

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Speaker 2: It's absolutely the scene where they're playing taboo. The taboo

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Speaker 1: But this is a movie that you really can't touch.

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Speaker 2: It's like Bridesmaids, and I've said that before. It's my

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's very few Christmas. Well, yeah, that's why they

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Speaker 2: So we're talking Office Christmas Party.

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Speaker 1: And that, Yeah, that's exactly what this movie is. You

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Speaker 2: I know I've told this story before, and people who've

442
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Speaker 2: listened for years are gonna roll their eyes and be

443
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Speaker 2: like Kell. So we know this. But when I moved

444
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Speaker 2: in the eighth grade, I moved in the middle of

445
00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:59,159
Speaker 2: the year between semesters, but the school I was moving

446
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Speaker 2: to their finals yet in the school I came from

447
00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:06,080
Speaker 2: finished finals, so I finished on like a December nineteenth,

448
00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:09,080
Speaker 2: per usual, But then I wasn't starting my new school

449
00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:11,399
Speaker 2: until like January eighteenth, so I had like a full

450
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Speaker 2: month off we moved. I watched Step Up every single day,

451
00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:20,120
Speaker 2: but I alternated it and every other day I would

452
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Speaker 2: watch the version of the commentary for a month straight.

453
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Speaker 2: I don't know why I could watch that movie, but

454
00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:27,800
Speaker 2: I literally every day would start it and it would

455
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Speaker 2: either be the day with commentary or without.

456
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Speaker 1: Now they need to make a Step Up Christmas so

457
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Speaker 1: you can have another one to watch. No Step Up Christmas.

458
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Speaker 1: Start my songs, No towerk in the Deck the Halls.

459
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Speaker 2: Channing Tatamarty did magic mic.

460
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Speaker 1: We don't need I need a Christmas magic mic. Then,

461
00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:46,679
Speaker 1: and now we're getting super close to Christmas. Your favorite

462
00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:49,840
Speaker 1: Christmas movie of all time that you and your Mom Bondover.

463
00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:51,119
Speaker 2: Is Family Stone.

464
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Speaker 1: I saw that this was rated the number one Christmas

465
00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:56,439
Speaker 1: movie that people hate. I don't know why it is.

466
00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:57,560
Speaker 2: I just kind of hate.

467
00:19:57,680 --> 00:19:59,800
Speaker 1: It's not my favorite Christmas movie. I love it so

468
00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:01,919
Speaker 1: because you love it so much. But I think it's

469
00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:03,720
Speaker 1: a good movie. Like, I don't know why people hate

470
00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:04,320
Speaker 1: on this movie.

471
00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:07,840
Speaker 2: Sarah Juska Parker's character is but I define its obnoxious.

472
00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:11,160
Speaker 1: Just because you find a character obnoxious, you can't hold

473
00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:13,480
Speaker 1: it against the movie. If she is supposed to be

474
00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:18,200
Speaker 1: playing an obnoxious character, she is doing her part. So therefore,

475
00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:20,680
Speaker 1: like that's part of the movie. I'm fine with it.

476
00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:22,000
Speaker 1: I stand by this movie.

477
00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:26,840
Speaker 2: I love this movie. The cast again, Wilson's ensemble cast,

478
00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:34,800
Speaker 2: Rachel McAdams, Diane Keaton, Dermot mulroney, Clear Danes. It's just

479
00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:35,760
Speaker 2: so good.

480
00:20:36,119 --> 00:20:38,520
Speaker 1: I enjoy it. And this one feels like, oh, we're

481
00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:40,399
Speaker 1: getting close to Christmas to me when we decide to

482
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Speaker 1: watch this one. And I think it's also you having

483
00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:45,399
Speaker 1: that memory with your mom. I feel like those movies

484
00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:48,200
Speaker 1: are really like that's the special part of Christmas movies,

485
00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:52,480
Speaker 1: not so much the movies themselves, because I feel like

486
00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:55,600
Speaker 1: on their own they're not the greatest piece of like

487
00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:59,399
Speaker 1: this is cinematic gold, but it's the memories we associate

488
00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:01,439
Speaker 1: with them, the piece we watched them with is what

489
00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:04,600
Speaker 1: makes them great. That's why next to this one, I

490
00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:07,840
Speaker 1: would put Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, which came out

491
00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:10,439
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy eight. And I don't know why this

492
00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:13,960
Speaker 1: became my families like go to Christmas movie. I just

493
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Speaker 1: think because maybe we didn't watch a whole lot of

494
00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:21,159
Speaker 1: Christmas movies, but we all loved Sesame Street that this

495
00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:23,760
Speaker 1: is the one that we would put on every single

496
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Speaker 1: year when we would unwrap presents on Christmas Morning. Of

497
00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:29,639
Speaker 1: course that happened like later in life, we would always

498
00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:31,480
Speaker 1: go to Mexico every single year, so we didn't really

499
00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:34,680
Speaker 1: have traditional Christmas on Christmas Day. But later, like in

500
00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:38,240
Speaker 1: my teenage and early twenties years, we got on eBay

501
00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:39,919
Speaker 1: found a Blu ray up or I think it was

502
00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,280
Speaker 1: just a regular DVD of this movie, and would just

503
00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:44,680
Speaker 1: put it on on a loop every day Christmas morning.

504
00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:48,359
Speaker 1: And the story is simple. Big Bird is trying to

505
00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:51,040
Speaker 1: figure out how Sanna gets down the chimney, and it's

506
00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:54,439
Speaker 1: like so wholesome and so seventies and all the songs

507
00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,560
Speaker 1: on this soundtrack are like amazing, And it's also like

508
00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:01,080
Speaker 1: a time capsule to like a real wholesome time as

509
00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:03,960
Speaker 1: far as like, I mean, the seventies were what they were,

510
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:07,160
Speaker 1: but like Sesame Street during that time was like groundbreaking

511
00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:09,400
Speaker 1: of the things they taught kids.

512
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Speaker 2: I love Sesame Street. It is one of I think

513
00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:17,320
Speaker 2: the greatest things to happen to kids in America. It's

514
00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:23,600
Speaker 2: where I learned so much. I had like books after

515
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:25,880
Speaker 2: my dad passed away when I was little. There were

516
00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:28,760
Speaker 2: like several Sesame Street books about like grief, Like there

517
00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:31,520
Speaker 2: was one called I think It's either We'll miss you

518
00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:33,080
Speaker 2: mister Hooper mm hmm.

519
00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:35,080
Speaker 1: Oh, mister Hooper when he passed away, Yeah he's in.

520
00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,800
Speaker 2: And it was like that truly. They taught kids so

521
00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:42,160
Speaker 2: many things, like just life issues and putting it on

522
00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:44,600
Speaker 2: like a child level. And I love Sesame Street. And

523
00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:47,879
Speaker 2: our future children will watch Sesame Street and if they

524
00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:49,320
Speaker 2: don't like it, they will learn to like it. I

525
00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:50,720
Speaker 2: will put them in front of the TV and I

526
00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:53,720
Speaker 2: will be like screen time until you like this Big

527
00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:54,400
Speaker 2: Yellow bird.

528
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Speaker 1: And what I love about this is what it teaches

529
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Speaker 1: you about gift giving. Burt and Ernie are trying to

530
00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:03,080
Speaker 1: find gifts for each other, and Bert sells his prize

531
00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:06,359
Speaker 1: possession in order to buy Ernie a gift, and Ernie

532
00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:09,879
Speaker 1: sells his prize possession in order to get Bert a gift. Obviously,

533
00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,000
Speaker 1: Ernie's favorite thing is his rubber ducky, and Bert wants

534
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:15,240
Speaker 1: to buy him a soap dish to put his rubber ducky,

535
00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:19,080
Speaker 1: but Ernie sells his rubber ducky so he could get

536
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:24,399
Speaker 1: a cigar box for Bert's prize paper clip collection. So

537
00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:27,040
Speaker 1: then there they are without their own thing that they

538
00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:29,640
Speaker 1: had bought the other person for. And then mister Hooper

539
00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:31,960
Speaker 1: comes in and gives them the thing that he sold

540
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 1: for them to be able to buy the gift, my

541
00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:40,680
Speaker 1: paper clips. Oh mister Hooper, thank you Clipbert. How did

542
00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:44,040
Speaker 1: mister Hooper get your paper clip collection? Never mind, Ernie,

543
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:47,560
Speaker 1: just open your present. Yeah, yeah, let's see what Let's

544
00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:50,520
Speaker 1: see what you have. Let's you that's it. Oh that's

545
00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,480
Speaker 1: not that's rubber ducky.

546
00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:55,360
Speaker 2: So cute wholesome?

547
00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:57,359
Speaker 1: Is that? Sorry? I spoiled it for you. But the

548
00:23:57,359 --> 00:23:58,560
Speaker 1: movie came out in the seventies.

549
00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:02,520
Speaker 2: The movie is forty five years old at this point. Sorry,

550
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:05,440
Speaker 2: I haven't seen it, you might be missing out.

551
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 1: And then the one we usually say for Christmas Day

552
00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:12,240
Speaker 1: is how the Grinch Stole Christmas and a movie, I

553
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:16,119
Speaker 1: feel like this has the best representation of what Christmas

554
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:20,119
Speaker 1: is supposed to be about, like including everybody, the true

555
00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:22,520
Speaker 1: meaning of Christmas, even when you take away all the presents.

556
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,000
Speaker 1: It's just about being around the people that you love

557
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,199
Speaker 1: and care about. And that's what the Grinch learns in

558
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:30,640
Speaker 1: this movie. That's why his heart grows. But also just aesthetically,

559
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:34,119
Speaker 1: this movie just looks so good and so wholesome like Christmas.

560
00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 1: It looks like it was literally ripped out of the

561
00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 1: pages of a Doctor Seus's book and put onto the screen.

562
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,520
Speaker 1: So I know the movie went through so much to

563
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:47,360
Speaker 1: do that. Jim Carrey went through literally torture to get

564
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:51,119
Speaker 1: into that Grinch makeup. So the amount of work that

565
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,320
Speaker 1: they put in to make this movie great will help

566
00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:55,399
Speaker 1: it stand the test of time. We'll go on to

567
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 1: watch this one forever.

568
00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:58,800
Speaker 2: I can't imagine having to sit there for that makeup

569
00:24:58,800 --> 00:24:59,240
Speaker 2: every day.

570
00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:01,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was hours and hours that he had to

571
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,919
Speaker 1: go through CIA training of how to deal with torture

572
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:07,240
Speaker 1: because it was so bad. I can't do anything with

573
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:08,479
Speaker 1: anything around my eyes.

574
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,600
Speaker 2: I don't even put on makeup every day, and mine

575
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:15,119
Speaker 2: is not because it takes like fifteen minutes and I'm like, nope,

576
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:15,720
Speaker 2: not today.

577
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:19,159
Speaker 1: Now we'll get to some honorable mentions in the R

578
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 1: rated category. I love Bad Sana. One of my favorite

579
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:25,320
Speaker 1: memories is watching it with your gray parents.

580
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:27,960
Speaker 2: I was just about to say you and Pee Pauw

581
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 2: love Bad Sanna.

582
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:31,880
Speaker 1: As soon as I knew that he loved this movie too,

583
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:33,359
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, we're gonna be good. This is

584
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:34,040
Speaker 1: gonna be great.

585
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:36,159
Speaker 2: And my grandfather is not one of many words. He's

586
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:39,080
Speaker 2: quiet man, doesn't really say much. You don't really know

587
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 2: what he's thinking. But when he watches Bad Sana, he

588
00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:45,359
Speaker 2: laughs and he has this like wheeze laugh when you

589
00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:48,480
Speaker 2: think something's so funny. So it's just like you cackling

590
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:50,359
Speaker 2: and him wheezing, and it just brings me joy.

591
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 1: It's a great movie, except they made a sequel to

592
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:54,920
Speaker 1: it in twenty sixteen, and we don't talk about that one.

593
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:55,720
Speaker 1: It's not good at all.

594
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:57,480
Speaker 2: We don't don't talk about that.

595
00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:00,879
Speaker 1: Also on the R rated side is bad how do

596
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 1: you say it?

597
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 2: Bad?

598
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:02,000
Speaker 1: Bad?

599
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:02,760
Speaker 2: Mom's Christmas?

600
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:02,960
Speaker 3: Bad?

601
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:03,919
Speaker 1: Mom's Christmas.

602
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 2: I freaking love that movie.

603
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:09,000
Speaker 1: There's just something to an R rated runjie Christmas movie.

604
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:12,680
Speaker 2: I Yeah, I think it's it's so good. I also

605
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:14,960
Speaker 2: am sitting here thinking, like, I feel like we just

606
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,400
Speaker 2: watched these movies. But I'm like, that was a year ago. Yeah,

607
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:20,359
Speaker 2: that was truly a year ago. But yeah, that one's great.

608
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 2: It's just like the chaos of getting ready for Christmas

609
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,560
Speaker 2: and things go wrong and all their moms come into

610
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:31,360
Speaker 2: town and their moms are I mean, Cheryl Hines, Susan Sarandon,

611
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:35,440
Speaker 2: and Christine Burnsky. It's so funny.

612
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:38,880
Speaker 1: It's funny. One that I might add into my repertoire

613
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:41,479
Speaker 1: of R rated Christmas movie is Violet Night, which came

614
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:44,560
Speaker 1: out last year with David Harbor, where he plays Santa

615
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:49,560
Speaker 1: Claus that rescues this family who gets held hostage by

616
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:51,920
Speaker 1: these people who are trying to rob them. They're very wealthy,

617
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,880
Speaker 1: and it's like an action style R rated Christmas movie,

618
00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:58,159
Speaker 1: which I ended up enjoying it a lot. It's a

619
00:26:58,200 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 1: lot more wholesome than you would expect.

620
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take myself out of the running to watch

621
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:02,200
Speaker 2: that one.

622
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 1: I'll watch that one on my own.

623
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 2: Another honorable mention for me that you don't watch with

624
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 2: me because I made you watch it once and you

625
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 2: fall asleep is The Holiday.

626
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: Oh, I fell asleep again.

627
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,760
Speaker 2: I love The Holiday. Such a good movie. I don't

628
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:20,000
Speaker 2: know how you could fall asleep during that.

629
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:25,240
Speaker 1: Okay, well, is there a better movie on yet?

630
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 2: Wow? Okay, Well that's my honorable mention because.

631
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:32,439
Speaker 1: I love it. And there's also a category of movies

632
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:35,719
Speaker 1: that feel Christmas y even though they're not Christmas movies,

633
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 1: and that's where I put Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,

634
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 1: which Christmas is a part of that movie, but I

635
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:45,400
Speaker 1: guess something about watching Harry Potter just has like that

636
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,480
Speaker 1: warm feeling also because it I don't know, takes place

637
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: in the Gold Dime.

638
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 2: Christmas was a big part of each book, and it

639
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,160
Speaker 2: was my favorite part of each book, and I'm still

640
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,400
Speaker 2: to this day mad that it didn't get a bigger

641
00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 2: part in the movies.

642
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:00,800
Speaker 1: I still feel like those Christian Yeah, I guess they

643
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 1: are pretty quick.

644
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:03,879
Speaker 2: They're very short, they're longer in the book.

645
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,959
Speaker 1: So I add that movie into the Christmas ye category.

646
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:10,480
Speaker 1: And along those same lines, the final one I would

647
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,879
Speaker 1: put in as Batman Returns, which also takes place around

648
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,480
Speaker 1: Christmas time, and you got the big Christmas tree in there.

649
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,679
Speaker 1: So that's another movie that I feel like people argue like,

650
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:21,640
Speaker 1: it's it a Christmas movie. It's not a Christmas It's

651
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 1: not a Christmas movie. Dieheart is not a Christmas movie.

652
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 1: You can put in Christmas elements in a movie, but

653
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 1: it doesn't make them Christmas. But hey, watch what you

654
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:30,040
Speaker 1: want around the holidays.

655
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 2: That is our Christmas movie watching guide. We had a

656
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 2: lot of movies to watch.

657
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's get to it. Let's go, let's get into

658
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: it now. A spoiler free movie review of Poor Things

659
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 1: starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe. Going into this movie,

660
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 1: I just wanted to watch something weird, and that is

661
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Speaker 1: exactly what I got while watching Poor Things. I would

662
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Speaker 1: say even weirder than I expected, because if you just

663
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 1: watched the trailer alone, you really don't know what to

664
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Speaker 1: expect from this movie. They don't reveal a whole lot

665
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 1: about the plot, which I ended up enjoying. So in

666
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 1: this review, I also don't want to tell you every

667
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 1: single thing that happens in the movie, because I think

668
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 1: this is one of the films that you really enjoy

669
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Speaker 1: more not knowing a whole lot about going into it,

670
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: and I love those type of films. So if you

671
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 1: end up thinking this movie might be for you, I

672
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 1: still want you to enjoy all those elements like I did.

673
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Speaker 1: There are some warnings I have to give because of

674
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Speaker 1: some of the subject matter, and I'll get into just

675
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 1: the plot points they discuss in the trailer and maybe

676
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 1: the overarching themes of what this movie is supposed to

677
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Speaker 1: leave you with. But all the details that come out

678
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Speaker 1: throughout this movie and the journey that you go on

679
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Speaker 1: is quite interesting, so I can see why they didn't

680
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 1: reveal a whole lot in the trailer. Also, given the

681
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Speaker 1: fact that this movie ended up being a lot more

682
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Speaker 1: R rated than I was expecting, even in the trailer

683
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 1: you get a little glimpse of some of the R

684
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Speaker 1: rated stuff. I didn't know that that was going to

685
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: be a major plot point in this entire movie. So

686
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Speaker 1: what this movie is about. You have Emma Stone's character

687
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Speaker 1: who was brought back to life by this really weird

688
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 1: scientist played by Willi Dafoe, and in the trailer you

689
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 1: hear him talk about her not really being all there,

690
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 1: but she is rapidly getting smarter and becoming more like

691
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Speaker 1: a normal human. But she gets sick of living at

692
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Speaker 1: home with him and feeling trapped that she decides to

693
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Speaker 1: run away with the lawyer played by Mark Ruffalo, who

694
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Speaker 1: is a great character in this movie, and it's all

695
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 1: the adventures they go on together and really just her

696
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 1: journey on trying to be liberated and win her independence back.

697
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Speaker 1: So I want to get into first the look of

698
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Speaker 1: this movie, which was probably my favorite thing. Next to

699
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Speaker 1: the acting. This movie looks like you were to go

700
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Speaker 1: inside my brain and rip apart one of my dreams

701
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Speaker 1: that I had. That is what I loved about this movie.

702
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 1: It not only felt like but also look like nothing

703
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 1: I had ever seen before. And that's what made this

704
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 1: movie so enticing to watch, because throughout the entire movie,

705
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Speaker 1: Emma Stone's character is traveling to different cities, to different countries,

706
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Speaker 1: and each one has this own unique palette that makes

707
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Speaker 1: the entire movie just so interesting to watch. But you

708
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 1: also have a lot of great cinematography and the use

709
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Speaker 1: of this fish eye lens that has this really great

710
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 1: effect when they're pushing in on characters and having this

711
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 1: really kind of skewed look. It really kind of attributes

712
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Speaker 1: to the entire weirdness of this movie, going back to

713
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Speaker 1: Willem Dafoe as a scientist and creates all these weird

714
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Speaker 1: hybrid animals. Pair of that with the look of this lens,

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Speaker 1: it just looks incredible. It goes back and forth between

716
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Speaker 1: black and white, which gives it a really old school,

717
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 1: almost monster movie type vibe, to a really bright and

718
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Speaker 1: vivid color palette, which you know, I love, and the

719
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 1: blues in this movie are so blue that I just

720
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Speaker 1: want to dive into them, sleep in them, wrap myself

721
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Speaker 1: in them. Like the color palette on this movie is

722
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Speaker 1: everything that I look for. And then you pair it

723
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Speaker 1: with Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo, who have great outstanding

724
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Speaker 1: chemistry in this movie, both just incredible actors. Emma Stone

725
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Speaker 1: proves why she has won an Academy Award. Mark Ruffalo

726
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 1: proves that he is not just the incredible Hulk. I

727
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 1: was just watching Zodiac with Mark Ruffle and I was

728
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 1: just reminded of all the different types of characters that

729
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: he can play and in this one where and really

730
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 1: all the actors in this movie horror flexing this stage

731
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 1: actor type quality to their characters. Because this movie very

732
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 1: much plays out like a play, but in a good way.

733
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Speaker 1: Like all of the scenes and all of the dialogue

734
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 1: has a very fluid vibe to it that feels like

735
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 1: it was so relwahearsed and all just happened in one take,

736
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 1: even though probably not the case whatsoever, But it had

737
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 1: that off Broadway vibe to me, which also made me

738
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Speaker 1: enjoy it even more so. Emma Stone crushed it. Mark

739
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:37,719
Speaker 1: Ruffalo was great, But Willem Dafoe is a modern Marvel.

740
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Speaker 1: He can do it all, who has also dipped his

741
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 1: toes in the MCU playing the Green Goblin. He just

742
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: does weird so well and has these really just big

743
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 1: facial expressions that have been the key to him as

744
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: an actor. But I feel like this is a role

745
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 1: that he was just made to play, of this really

746
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: weird scientist and doing all of these crazy things and

747
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 1: looking just completely almost unrecognizable. But he has a voice

748
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: that just above all things, you could take away his mannerisms.

749
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Speaker 1: His voice alone is just so great. I wish he

750
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Speaker 1: did more voice acting and talking about the weirdness. This

751
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: leads me to the biggest warning I have to give

752
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Speaker 1: about poor things, because I know some people feel different

753
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 1: about sexual things in a movie, and I, for one,

754
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 1: don't have an issue with it, but even I found

755
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: myself thinking, why are they putting all of these sex

756
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 1: scenes in this movie? And I don't want to reveal

757
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 1: too much about the plot, but in the description it

758
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 1: says that Emma Stone's character is trying to be liberated,

759
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Speaker 1: and a lot of the plot points have to do

760
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Speaker 1: with her expressing herself sexually and finding things out about

761
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Speaker 1: her body, even very early on when she's still in

762
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 1: this weird developmental stage, but also later when she runs

763
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Speaker 1: away with the lawyer and then gets a job later

764
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Speaker 1: that there is a lot of sex in this movie.

765
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Speaker 1: So even me where I feel comfortable with it, I

766
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 1: had to question why the director decided to put so

767
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 1: much of it in this movie, and also just Emma Stone,

768
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:09,360
Speaker 1: who would agree to do a movie like this? I

769
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 1: feel like there had to be a very specific reason,

770
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Speaker 1: and by the end of the movie, I do think

771
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Speaker 1: I found it now. When put into a movie correctly,

772
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Speaker 1: it has an effect that leads on to a big message.

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Speaker 1: Earlier this year, I was given the assignment of watching

774
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Speaker 1: a movie called Showgirls from the nineties that just had

775
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:29,920
Speaker 1: a bunch of nudity and hooking up, but there was

776
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 1: no real reason for it. It was just there for

777
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 1: the sake of making an NC seventeen movie. But in

778
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 1: Poor Things, it had a reason to it, and it

779
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:43,360
Speaker 1: had to do with the development of Emma Stone's character

780
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 1: of becoming this liberated person. So I think it had

781
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: a bit of a shock value, but it very much

782
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:53,879
Speaker 1: showed a purpose, and it very much showed how her

783
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 1: character was reacting to be and suppress her entire life,

784
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:01,919
Speaker 1: and the movie ended up having this message of equality

785
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 1: and liberation and it really kind of had to put

786
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:09,919
Speaker 1: that in there to get that point across. So all

787
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 1: of the hooking up in this movie does survey purpose,

788
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 1: but warning there is a lot of it. If there's

789
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 1: a case where you see it in the trailer, it's

790
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 1: probably a pretty good indication that the rest of the

791
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:21,799
Speaker 1: movie is going to have a lot of it. So

792
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 1: I'm quite honestly surprised that it only has an R rating.

793
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:27,760
Speaker 1: I guess due to the fact that it was mostly

794
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:31,280
Speaker 1: done more comedic and to serve a purpose and also

795
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:33,880
Speaker 1: for shock value. It didn't really feel like they were

796
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:36,840
Speaker 1: putting it in for the sake of it being risky

797
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 1: or for the sake of it being scandalous. So this

798
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:41,959
Speaker 1: is a movie I went into with pretty high expectations,

799
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 1: giving the director, giving the cast, and just giving the

800
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 1: initial reaction from the trailer. And it's also one I

801
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 1: didn't research a whole lot going into it, because, like

802
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:52,799
Speaker 1: I said, I felt like it was one and was

803
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:54,719
Speaker 1: proven right that I didn't want to know a whole

804
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 1: lot about going into it, And hopefully I didn't reveal

805
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 1: too much about the plot in this review. Keep it

806
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 1: spoiler free here. I like to keep that element of surprise,

807
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 1: and I really ended up enjoying this movie, the visuals,

808
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 1: the acting, how the score alone gave this movie its

809
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 1: own identity, and I really think that this movie will

810
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 1: go on to be nominated for a lot of Oscars.

811
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 1: I think Emma Stone will probably be looking at another

812
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:20,360
Speaker 1: nomination for Best Actress. I don't think she'll win that

813
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:23,880
Speaker 1: award because this Oscar season is going to be pretty

814
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 1: heavy going on, and given the subject matter here, I

815
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 1: don't think there was enough to qualify her for another win,

816
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:34,320
Speaker 1: but she'll definitely be nominated. And the movie didn't disappoint

817
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: as being one of the weirdest movies I've seen all year,

818
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 1: so for poor things. I give it four out of

819
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 1: five science experiments.

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00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:47,760
Speaker 3: It's time to head down to movie Mike Traylor Park.

821
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Speaker 1: Everybody's freaking out, man, because the new A twenty four

822
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 1: trailer called The Civil War. People in the comments are

823
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 1: convinced that they are trying to warn us about something.

824
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,840
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the case. I think this is

825
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: all because Hollywood tends to make the same type of movie.

826
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 1: They get fixated on a topic, and I can show

827
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: you some examples that just happened. But anyway, before I

828
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:16,319
Speaker 1: get into that, before I assure you that we're all

829
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 1: gonna be fine, hopefully, I'm gonna tell you about a

830
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 1: movie called Civil War that stars Kirsten Duntz and her

831
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: husband Jesse Plemons. She plays a war journalist who is

832
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: traveling across the United States during a civil war. Nick

833
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:33,320
Speaker 1: Offerman plays the President and her husband Jesse Plemons plays

834
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 1: a guy that does not see eye to eye with her,

835
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 1: so it's kind of cool to see them playing opposite

836
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: of each other. But the entire story revolves around her

837
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 1: trying to get into Washington, d c. During the Civil

838
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: War in the United States. The movie is set to

839
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 1: come out on April twenty six, twenty twenty four, and

840
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 1: it looks amazing. There are a lot of implications surrounding

841
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:54,840
Speaker 1: this film. We'll get into why this is an important

842
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 1: and much different film from a twenty four and whether

843
00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 1: or not this is indication that we're gonna go into

844
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:01,799
Speaker 1: a civil war. So a lot of things to cover here.

845
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 1: But before I get into that, here is just a

846
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 1: little bit of the civil war trailer.

847
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 3: Nineteen states have succeeded in the United States Army and

848
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:09,440
Speaker 3: rams of activity.

849
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 1: White House issued warnings to the Western forces as well

850
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 1: as the Florida allion.

851
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 2: He doesn't wear it. There's like a pretty huge civil

852
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:19,279
Speaker 2: war going on all across America. We just try to

853
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 2: stay out with what we see on the news. Seems

854
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 2: like it's for the boss. I thought I was spending

855
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 2: a warning house, don't hear that?

856
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 1: Here we are. There's some kind of misunderstanding here right,

857
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 1: Well you're American? Okay, okay, what kind of American are you?

858
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 1: That is a great line from Jesse Plemmons there at

859
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 1: the end. So he is playing somebody who looks like

860
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 1: he's about to take out Kirsten Dunn's and the people

861
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 1: that she is traveling with also In that trailer you

862
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 1: have the guy who played Pablo Escobar and nauticals, so

863
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:54,720
Speaker 1: the movie has a great cast and a great premise.

864
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 1: In that trailer is exactly how you do it. You

865
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,879
Speaker 1: evoke e motion in the comment. You get people sharing

866
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: this movie because it is based on something that could

867
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 1: probably but probably won't happen in the United States, and

868
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:09,880
Speaker 1: you get this idea out there, and you're gonna have

869
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:13,320
Speaker 1: a lot of theories going building buzz around this movie.

870
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 1: But really they are just making a movie for the

871
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,759
Speaker 1: sake of entertainment and for the sake of starting a conversation.

872
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:21,319
Speaker 1: And the reason I think this is happening now, it's

873
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 1: not because they are trying to warn us of something.

874
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:25,359
Speaker 1: You really think they would put that in a movie

875
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:26,920
Speaker 1: if they were trying to warn us in something, No,

876
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 1: they would not do that. It is because Hollywood tends

877
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Speaker 1: to have a fascination with the same kind of topic,

878
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 1: usually around the same time. Just last week, what did

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00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 1: I do in the movie review Leave the World Behind,

880
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 1: which was about the world ending with political implications. Now,

881
00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: just a week after that movie was released, this trailer

882
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 1: dropped the same way that a couple of weeks I

883
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:53,799
Speaker 1: reviewed Godzilla minus one, and less than a week after that,

884
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 1: we had the trailer for Godzilla and calng teaming up

885
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,799
Speaker 1: against each other. So I really think it's because Hollywood

886
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,719
Speaker 1: tends to strike while the iron is hot, and if

887
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 1: some topic is popular, they're gonna release their trailer to

888
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: get more people onto the next thing. We've seen this

889
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 1: happen throughout the entire history of cinema. Think back to

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00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:16,320
Speaker 1: the late two thousand early twenty tens, when Hollywood was

891
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 1: again obsessed with the end of the world. Instead of

892
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:21,759
Speaker 1: it being a political thing, it was more like the

893
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 1: world was gonna implode on itself or a natural disaster.

894
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:26,359
Speaker 1: I think the movie is like twenty twelve. All those

895
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:29,760
Speaker 1: type of movies came out around then. We're still here,

896
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: so rest assured. It is really just a cycle. In

897
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:37,879
Speaker 1: writing of Hollywood. Is to the reason that why all

898
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:40,280
Speaker 1: of these movies are coming out right now, and also

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00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:43,360
Speaker 1: the timing just kind of adds up. Look at what

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00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:46,240
Speaker 1: happened in the United States in twenty twenty and early

901
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, you give it a couple of years

902
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,799
Speaker 1: after that. Given the timeline and the strike, right now

903
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:54,480
Speaker 1: is about the time that movies pertaining to that civil

904
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 1: kind of unrest would start to come out. So I

905
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 1: really think it is a timing thing. But if you

906
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 1: go in the comments of the last review I did

907
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 1: for Leave the World Behind on Instagram and TikTok, you'd

908
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 1: be convinced otherwise because there are a lot of conspiracy

909
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 1: theorists on there saying they're trying to warn us. And

910
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 1: what I have to say regarding to that is, if

911
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:13,480
Speaker 1: the world is gonna end, I'm good with it. I'm

912
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 1: tired of paying bills. The only thing that would bum

913
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:17,359
Speaker 1: me out is I'm gonna miss out on a lot

914
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:19,400
Speaker 1: of Marvel movies that have been pushed to twenty twenty

915
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:22,360
Speaker 1: five and GTA six. I gotta be here for GTA six.

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Speaker 1: The other interesting thing about this trailer is that A

917
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 1: twenty four, the studio who is putting this out, is

918
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 1: trying to get into more action movies and big property movies.

919
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 1: A twenty four is known for being the little indie

920
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 1: darlings that put out movies like Uncut Gems, Ladybird, Hereditary, Moonlight,

921
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 1: The Witch Midsma one of my favorite movies that I

922
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:47,439
Speaker 1: like but don't recommend, but do recommend, And they put

923
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 1: out a lot of movies that tend to lose money.

924
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 1: Just this year alone, they lost so much money on

925
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 1: the Joaquin Phoenix movie bo Is Afraid and Past Lives,

926
00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 1: even though I love that movie will probably make one

927
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 1: of my top movies of the year, didn't really generate

928
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:05,320
Speaker 1: a lot of revenue. So as a whole, the studio

929
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:09,719
Speaker 1: has a lot of critical acclaim but not a lot

930
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 1: of capital to put back into their studio. So what

931
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 1: they're trying to do now is make more movies like this,

932
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 1: more movies like Civil War that are still in their brand,

933
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:20,760
Speaker 1: because if you look at this trailer, it doesn't feel

934
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 1: like a full on action movie. It still has that

935
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 1: horror element that you go to expect for a twenty

936
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:29,240
Speaker 1: four film, but this movie has the potential to reach

937
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 1: a wider audience given the subject matter. So I think

938
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 1: this is a really great step for them to have

939
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 1: movies that come out that still feel like them, but

940
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 1: can also make them some more money, so they can

941
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 1: make movies like First Cow, which is a movie essentially

942
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 1: about a cow, because those are the two extremes you

943
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:47,440
Speaker 1: work with inside of a twenty four. You have the

944
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 1: big movies like Everything Everywhere all at once, and you

945
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 1: literally have movies like First Cow and Lamb that are

946
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 1: so niche, and you have to watch those movies and

947
00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 1: they're quite often boring sometimes and then you don't even

948
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:01,799
Speaker 1: understand them at the So I think this is a

949
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 1: move in the right direction for them in order for

950
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 1: them to be sustainable as a movie studio, which we

951
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 1: all need A twenty four in our lives because they've

952
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 1: really made some of the most impactful movies of the

953
00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 1: last five years. The other interesting thing that coincides with

954
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 1: this is they just announced that A twenty four is

955
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Speaker 1: making a movie starring The Rock. He's gonna play a

956
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 1: MMA fighter in a movie called The Smashing Machine from

957
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 1: filmmaker Ben Safti, who is part of the Saftie Brothers,

958
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 1: who also worked on movies like Good Time and Uncut Gems.

959
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:34,359
Speaker 1: So I think that's a really interesting pairing. I think

960
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:37,920
Speaker 1: The Rock maybe saw Batista getting all this praise for

961
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:41,480
Speaker 1: doing movies outside of his comfort zone and really not

962
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 1: being known as a WWE wrestler anymore. I just see

963
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 1: Dave Batista as an actor now because the Guardians of

964
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:50,680
Speaker 1: the Galaxy and Knock at the Cabin, this is The

965
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:52,920
Speaker 1: Rock trying to prove to us that hey, I can

966
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 1: do movies like that too, So I'm really interested to

967
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:59,000
Speaker 1: see that of him showing his actual acting abilities and

968
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:02,279
Speaker 1: not playing the same character over and over again. So

969
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 1: I'm pretty high for that. I also love the Safti

970
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 1: brothers as directors, so hopefully if anybody can do it,

971
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:10,360
Speaker 1: it would be Ben Safti to get a great performance

972
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:12,400
Speaker 1: out of the rock. So with movies like that, with

973
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Speaker 1: movies like Civil War, I think I'm really interested to

974
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Speaker 1: see where A twenty four is going over the next

975
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:20,799
Speaker 1: few years. But again, this movie is coming out on

976
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Speaker 1: April twenty sixth, twenty twenty four, and I don't think

977
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:26,840
Speaker 1: I hope we don't have to worry about an actual

978
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 1: civil war breaking out in between.

979
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Speaker 2: Then if that for was this week's edition of Movie Line.

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Speaker 1: Framer Park and that is going to do it for

981
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Speaker 1: another episode here of the podcast. But before I go,

982
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Speaker 1: I gotta get my listeners shout out of the week,

983
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Speaker 1: and last week we had an interview with the director

984
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Speaker 1: of The Fugitive. So last week the secret emoji to

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Speaker 1: comment with or dm me with was the Kapamoji. So

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Speaker 1: this week's listener shout out goes out to Gloria and Morono.

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Speaker 1: You are this week's listener shout out of the week

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Speaker 1: and to everybody listening. Hope you have a great rest

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Speaker 1: of your week. Hope you have a great merry Christmas,

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00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:02,839
Speaker 1: be Holidays. No matter what you are doing this week,

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Speaker 1: I hope you have fun, have some time off, but

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Speaker 1: most importantly, oh go out and watch good movies. And

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Speaker 1: until next time, I will talk to you later