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

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Speaker 1: am your host Movie Mike. Today we are going full nostalgia.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about the VHS tape, the most

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Speaker 1: expensive VHS tapes of all time, and the last movies

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Speaker 1: to ever be released on the video home system from

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Speaker 1: different genres. Again, nostalgia will be the death of me.

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Speaker 1: In the movie review, we'll be talking about together with

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Speaker 1: Alison Brie and Dave Franco, It's a new horror movie.

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Speaker 1: And in the trailer Park we'll be talking about can

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Speaker 1: Pixar comeback with their new movie Hoppers or are they

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Speaker 1: destined to fail time and time again. Now, thank you

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Speaker 1: for being here, thank you for being subscribed, Shout out

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Speaker 1: to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now let's talk

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Speaker 1: movies from the Dustroe Podcast Network. This is Movie Mike

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Speaker 1: Movie Podcast. The VHS Tape was developed in Japan and

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Speaker 1: released in nineteen seventy one. We got it here in

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Speaker 1: the United States in nineteen seventy seven, because we're always

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Speaker 1: a little bit behind Japan. They're always limiting in the future.

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Speaker 1: But it was dominant in the nineteen eighties, in the

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Speaker 1: nineteen nineties and fizzled out right around the mid two thousands.

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Speaker 1: I just associate watching VHS tapes with my childhood. It

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Speaker 1: all goes back to I didn't have a whole lot

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Speaker 1: of friends when I was a kid. My friends were

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Speaker 1: the VHS tapes that I would borrow from family and

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Speaker 1: friends because again, unless we were buying them at a

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Speaker 1: garage sale or the flea market. All talk about my

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Speaker 1: favorite place to go as a kid, Traders Village in

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Speaker 1: Grand Prairie, Texas. We were there every Sunday, and I

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Speaker 1: would always flock to all the people selling VHS tapes

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Speaker 1: because that was the only place that we could afford them.

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Speaker 1: We weren't affording those Walmart prices because they were overly priced,

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Speaker 1: and different movies had different prices. Obviously, a movie like

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Speaker 1: The Lion King was going to be more expensive, but

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Speaker 1: then a lower tier movie like the straight to VHS

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Speaker 1: That's why that movie was so accessible is because they

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Speaker 1: today don't have this. They have no idea the joy

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Speaker 1: that you would get when your teacher would haul in

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Speaker 1: to these giant Zena TVs or whatever brand your school had,

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Speaker 1: At number eight is Ghostbusters, that had a copy cell

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Speaker 1: It really goes back to watching Disney movies. I think

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Speaker 1: whenever all of the trailers play it and they're like, oh,

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Speaker 1: come on, I gotta fast forward through all of these,

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Speaker 1: which is something we don't have to deal with anymore now.

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Speaker 1: Our equivalent of that if you watch on a streaming

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Speaker 1: service and you don't pay for the act free version,

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Speaker 1: you have to sit through commercials, but you watch all

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Speaker 1: the trailers and then Disney finally hits you with this,

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Speaker 1: and it just feels magical because you know the show

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Speaker 1: is about a start, and no all our feature presentation.

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Speaker 1: Take me back for just one day. I'd do it

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Speaker 1: all different. I'd watch way more movies. All right, we'll

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Speaker 1: come back and give a spoiler free movie review of Together.

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Speaker 1: Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie review

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Speaker 1: of Together, starring real life married couple Alison Brie and

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Speaker 1: Dave Franco. I'm actually a fan of both of these actors.

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Speaker 1: Alison Bree since way back in Community. She was also

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Speaker 1: really great and glowed. Dave Franco, have been watching him

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Speaker 1: since super Bad, also great in twenty one Jump Street.

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Speaker 1: A lot of great twenty tens comedy movies from Dave Franco.

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Speaker 1: But what this movie is about. They play a couple

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Speaker 1: who has been together for about ten years. He is

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Speaker 1: an aspiring musician has been trying ever since they've been

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Speaker 1: together to make it big, but he just quite hasn't

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Speaker 1: gotten there, just got dropped from his label. She just

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Speaker 1: got a job as a small town school teacher. So

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Speaker 1: they are moving away from the big city upstate New York.

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Speaker 1: He's kind of leaving behind his dreams. They've been kind

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Speaker 1: of on the fringes of their relationship, not really connecting

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Speaker 1: emotionally or connecting physically, and they're almost hoping that this

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Speaker 1: move is going to save everything. But again, he just

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Speaker 1: feels like I got a hold on to this career

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Speaker 1: that I'm building, and she just wants to move on

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Speaker 1: and be with him. So that is kind of the

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Speaker 1: premise of this movie. They moved to a small town

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Speaker 1: where it seems like everything is quiet and comfortable. It's

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Speaker 1: out in the country. The small town vibe is really

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Speaker 1: showcasing the cinematography. I love a good aerial shot of

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Speaker 1: some trees that really kind of puts you into a

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Speaker 1: small town horror movie like this and you just get

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Speaker 1: this really grand scope that I was a fan of.

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Speaker 1: There were a lot of really great shots that were

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Speaker 1: just establishing all the scenes in this movie, a lot

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Speaker 1: of big zoomed in moments, especially from like behind them.

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Speaker 1: It just kind of gave me feeling of like a

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Speaker 1: classic horror movie, which is really what this movie is

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Speaker 1: at its core. It is a body horror movie because, well,

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Speaker 1: you see it in the poster, you see it in

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Speaker 1: the trailer. They encounter something that has this weird curse,

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Speaker 1: and then their bodies just kind of keep sticking to

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Speaker 1: each other, so it becomes the ultimate thing to bring

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Speaker 1: them together and they try to uncover exactly what is

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Speaker 1: going on with their bodies and why each of them

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Speaker 1: are starting to go crazy. Which this movie sounded like

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Speaker 1: it was going to be right up my alley, especially

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Speaker 1: coming off of one of the best body horror movies

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Speaker 1: of all time last year with The Substance. I wanted

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Speaker 1: more of that. I wanted gruesomeness on the poster they

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Speaker 1: put Horror Movie of the Year, So my expectations were

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Speaker 1: way up there, wanting it to be on the level

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Speaker 1: of something like The Substance, and I didn't quite get

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Speaker 1: that I really believe this movie stood in its way

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Speaker 1: so much, and they were really trying to paint this

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Speaker 1: backstory in this mystery read all that was kind of

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Speaker 1: hidden in this town and going on. They even opened

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Speaker 1: up with that that I felt like it was a

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Speaker 1: detriment to the movie because they kept over explaining things,

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Speaker 1: which I believe Alison Brie and Dave Franco do have

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Speaker 1: great chemistry, obviously being married. I think both of them

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Speaker 1: are good actors, but it almost felt like some of

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Speaker 1: the dialogue was so forced and their characters were being

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Speaker 1: a little bit too analytical at times, trying to just

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Speaker 1: paint this backstory where I just wanted them to experience

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Speaker 1: these things and show us more of that gruesomeness, because

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Speaker 1: that is exactly what was just lacking in this movie,

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Speaker 1: more of those moments that were supposed to churn your stomach.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to leave this movie disgusted, and I did not.

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Speaker 1: I got something different, though, and I don't think that

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Speaker 1: is bad. I got a story about two people trying

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Speaker 1: to navigate these waters where one of them really wants

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Speaker 1: to make this relationship work, and question are they really

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Speaker 1: doing the right thing and exactly what are they fighting

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Speaker 1: for if you've invested ten year in a relationship, is

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Speaker 1: it only worth keeping because you've invested those ten years

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Speaker 1: If you were trying just so hard to make things

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Speaker 1: work and forcing it, do you really love the other

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Speaker 1: person or are you just comfortable? Because this movie is

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Speaker 1: about a couple who maybe shouldn't be together, forced to

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Speaker 1: come together. So I think the overall metaphor and overarching

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Speaker 1: message of what they were trying to say, they got

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Speaker 1: that through. But it's a horror movie, and I wanted

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Speaker 1: more of the horror elements because that is great. I

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Speaker 1: think to make a horror movie that has a little

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Speaker 1: bit more substance, I'm all here for it because I

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Speaker 1: enjoyed both of these characters. I thought what they were

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Speaker 1: going through was really interesting, maybe even relatable to some people.

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Speaker 1: It just never really reached its full potential. And the

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Speaker 1: horror imagery was fantastic when it was there, but to me,

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Speaker 1: it was just few and far between. So for me,

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Speaker 1: this was a case of a movie that overpromised and underdelivered,

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Speaker 1: and I wouldn't be holding it to that high of

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Speaker 1: a standard if they did. Put that at the very

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Speaker 1: top of the poster. If you call yourself horror movie

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Speaker 1: of the year, and you use that quote. A lot

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Speaker 1: of movies have done that in the last couple of years.

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Speaker 1: I think Long Legs did it last year. Long Legs

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Speaker 1: lived up to that potential now that I think about it.

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Speaker 1: They're both neon movies, so maybe they just get any

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Speaker 1: review that calls them horror movie of the year. That's

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Speaker 1: what I just got to start saying in my reviews,

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Speaker 1: horror movie of the year. I'll say that for every

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Speaker 1: horror movie. Maybe that's what I need to do to

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Speaker 1: get my reviews picked up, because oftentimes I call movies

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Speaker 1: butt drenching that are really stressful. But I don't think

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Speaker 1: movies to do is I want to put that on

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Speaker 1: their posters. Although I would have known what I was

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Speaker 1: getting into more if I would have seen together butt

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Speaker 1: drenching Movie of the Year, as heard on Movie Mike's

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Speaker 1: Movie podcast. Put that on a poster. And I do

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Speaker 1: still love Alison Bria Dave Franco. I think they should

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Speaker 1: do more movies together. They have worked together in films

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Speaker 1: in the past. I think there's an entirely different level

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Speaker 1: of chemistry when it's two people who have been together

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Speaker 1: and married for so long that that just comes across

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Speaker 1: so natural. So even though their characters in this movie

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Speaker 1: kind of have conflicting feelings about each other, you can

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Speaker 1: still tell how much chemistry they have together naturally, and

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Speaker 1: that really sold this story. I'm all for horror movies

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Speaker 1: with the message, but you also have to deliver on

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Speaker 1: the elements of horror. So for Together, I give it

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Speaker 1: three point five out of five Bus Saws because as

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Speaker 1: soon as I left the theater, I thought, I have

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Speaker 1: never seen a more three point five out of five

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Speaker 1: movie because it was so close there it Maybe just

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Speaker 1: a couple of more scenes could have made me love

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Speaker 1: this movie and reached that four. Because to me, a

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Speaker 1: four I have to love parts of it and then

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Speaker 1: maybe not like some other parts. Four point five is

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Speaker 1: I really love a lot of it, but there are

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Speaker 1: just a couple of things that keep me from fully

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Speaker 1: committing to a five. A three point five is like

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Speaker 1: there was just nothing about it that I completely loved.

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Speaker 1: I was so close to being there, but still so strong.

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Speaker 1: I've never met a more three point five out of

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Speaker 1: five movie than Together. It's time to head down to movie.

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Speaker 1: Mike Treylar, Paul is Pixar cook or is there something

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Speaker 1: else going on here? Is it a lack of originality?

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Speaker 1: Are we tired of the same animation style? Is there

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Speaker 1: new movie? Hoppers gonna be the one to get them

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Speaker 1: back on top? That is what we are here to

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Speaker 1: talk about today. Hoppers is coming out in theaters on

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Speaker 1: March twenty six, twenty twenty six. You have Bobby moynihan,

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Speaker 1: John Hamm among this cast. What this movie is about.

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Speaker 1: It's about a group of scientists who discover a way

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Speaker 1: to mind hop into robot animal bodies. So essentially they

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Speaker 1: are able to take your mind, or your consciousness at least,

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Speaker 1: and put it into a very cute, cuddly creature, and

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Speaker 1: then that creature can go out into the world and

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Speaker 1: not only interact with these animals, but be able to

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Speaker 1: speak their languages. I think this is something we probably

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Speaker 1: all thought of as kids, and I think that is

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Speaker 1: what Pixar is good about doing. At least they were

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Speaker 1: early on of creating ideas like what if you could

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Speaker 1: do this? What if toys had feelings? What if cars

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Speaker 1: had feelings? And obviously Disney and Pixar are no strangers

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Speaker 1: to animal movies, but what if humans could go into

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Speaker 1: these bodies and interact with other animals. So that is

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Speaker 1: what we are here to talk about. We'll get into

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Speaker 1: what Pixar has been doing so far in the twenty twenties.

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Speaker 1: I have a theory on who the bad guy is here.

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Speaker 1: But before we get into that, here's just a little

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Speaker 1: bit of the Hoppers trailer. We've done it, Mabel, after

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Speaker 1: years of work. This revolutionary technology gives us unprecedented access

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Speaker 1: to the animal world. We put this into this. So

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Speaker 1: let me get this straight. You created a fake animal, yes,

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Speaker 1: which makes the other animals think you're an animals. Yes, guys,

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Speaker 1: this is like Avatar. This is nothing like Avatar. Be careful.

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Speaker 1: What hey, how you do? I understand you? So this

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Speaker 1: got me there. So this movie is about a character

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Speaker 1: named Mabel. She finds out that this construction company wants

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Speaker 1: to tear down this local animal habitat, so she uses

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Speaker 1: this technology to take over the body of a beaver

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Speaker 1: in order to fight back. So Mabel is a huge

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Speaker 1: animal lover and wants to use technology to place her

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Speaker 1: consciousness into this robotic beaver to uncover the mysteries within

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Speaker 1: the animal world and beyond her imagination. So what you

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Speaker 1: see in the trailer is she realizes she's a beaver.

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Speaker 1: I love the shot of the beaver running and everything

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Speaker 1: else kind of going frantic behind her. It feels a

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Speaker 1: little bit fresh for Pixar, and aside from the humans,

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Speaker 1: which I think Pixar humans are always gonna look like

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Speaker 1: Pixar humans, and I think that is just there. This

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Speaker 1: is our animation style, this is what characters look like

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Speaker 1: in a Pixar world. You're not really going to change

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Speaker 1: a whole lot there, because if you do, then it

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Speaker 1: doesn't feel like Pixar. But when it comes to the

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Speaker 1: animals here, they look fantastic. The fur on the bear,

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Speaker 1: the fur on the beavers looks so lifelike. And sometimes

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Speaker 1: Pixar isn't as photorealistic as other animated movies. But I

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Speaker 1: think the animation team crushed it here because I feel

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Speaker 1: like I could jump into this trailer and touch all

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Speaker 1: of these animal creatures and they would be as soft

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Speaker 1: as they look on screen. So I think that is

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Speaker 1: a big win here, because I think something that people

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Speaker 1: have been criticizing in these Pixar movies lately is the

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Speaker 1: animation just kind of all looks the same. And I

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Speaker 1: do think there are some factors here because a lot

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Speaker 1: of Pixar animators all went to a very famous art

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Speaker 1: school called cal Arts. If you've listened to the episode

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Speaker 1: I did with the creator of Lee Low and Stitch,

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Speaker 1: Chris Sanders, he went there, he met a lot of

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Speaker 1: other famous people, or at least people who went on

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Speaker 1: to be famous, and they all learned this cal Arts

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Speaker 1: animation style that is very specific. It's very simplistic. I

650
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: would say the best example of that are recent movies

651
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 1: like Luca and Turning Red, which some people think has

652
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 1: just kind of simplified the character design and has maybe

653
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 1: created a little bit too of a unified look where

654
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:15,919
Speaker 1: none of these movies look as exciting. They look more

655
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 1: like Disney Plus originals, and they look like something you

656
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:20,760
Speaker 1: would want to pay money to go see in theaters.

657
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 1: If you don't have a great character design or a

658
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 1: boarding character design that doesn't translate into other sales that

659
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 1: you need for animated movies, it doesn't make people want

660
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,840
Speaker 1: to buy a popcorn bucket, a big old cup in

661
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:36,399
Speaker 1: the movie theater, or even beyond that, the toys at

662
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 1: Target and Walmart and t shirts. If you just have

663
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 1: very unmemorable characters that kids aren't really good to attach

664
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:47,240
Speaker 1: themselves to, or even adults aren't going to attach themselves

665
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 1: to And I think that is another issue here. But

666
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: is it the animation style, is it Pixar or is

667
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 1: it the overarching company of Disney? And I think we

668
00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:01,800
Speaker 1: forgot that. Disney acquired Pixar beat on May fifth, two

669
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 1: thousand and six. Pixar at the time was valued at

670
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:09,720
Speaker 1: seven point four billion dollars. The deal made Steve Jobs,

671
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: who he didn't start Pixar, but he did acquire Pixar

672
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,959
Speaker 1: back in nineteen eighty six. In two thousand and six,

673
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,399
Speaker 1: it made him the largest individual shareholder, and that's where

674
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 1: he made a lot of his money. But if I

675
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:26,320
Speaker 1: were to make a movie about the downfall of Pixar

676
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 1: in the twenty twenties, and if I was going to

677
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:32,240
Speaker 1: have a place of villain, I think it would be Disney,

678
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:34,880
Speaker 1: not only with Pixar, but also with what we're seeing

679
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 1: with Marvel, where I feel like they're less focused on

680
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:43,960
Speaker 1: making things that are dynamic, unique and creative and out

681
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 1: of the box and more focused on just things that

682
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,320
Speaker 1: are going to make them money, which I get. Movies

683
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:51,359
Speaker 1: are a business. That is what they are in the

684
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:55,360
Speaker 1: business of doing, putting out big blockbuster hits that translate

685
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 1: into ticket sales, translate into merch sales, but most importantly

686
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 1: into people wanting to visit Disney in California and Florida,

687
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:08,799
Speaker 1: which is a major thing. Sometimes we forget that as

688
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:11,840
Speaker 1: people who love movies, that they can oftentimes just be

689
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:15,759
Speaker 1: commercials for their Disney properties. If we look at all

690
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 1: the Pixar and Disney movies they put out since twenty twenty,

691
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:21,239
Speaker 1: which obviously the pandemic is going to throw a lot

692
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 1: of things off here, they have been very unmemorable. Onward

693
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 1: came out on March six, twenty twenty. That was the

694
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:31,840
Speaker 1: last movie in theaters I ever saw that year. Soul

695
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 1: came out in December of that year, but it was

696
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 1: a Disney Plus only release, and then the next year,

697
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 1: this is where they really started to shift and started

698
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:41,840
Speaker 1: just putting things out on Disney Plus. But I feel

699
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 1: like this is where their originality just really started to lack,

700
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:48,440
Speaker 1: and that war on us as Disney and Pixar fans.

701
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:51,920
Speaker 1: Luca came out in twenty twenty one Disney Plus only.

702
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 1: I will say I did enjoy Luca, and I think

703
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:59,319
Speaker 1: the animation style was specific to telling a story like that.

704
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:01,839
Speaker 1: I think it fit, but overall, when you look at

705
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 1: the characters and look at the animation design, it's not

706
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,480
Speaker 1: as bright and vibrant as some of the other things

707
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:10,839
Speaker 1: inside of the Pixar world. Turning Red was also a

708
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: good movie that came out in twenty twenty two, also

709
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 1: just on Disney Plus and then later they tried to

710
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:18,240
Speaker 1: push it out in the theaters. Also a great story,

711
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 1: but I think the animation was just fine, and just

712
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 1: fine was not good enough to make that movie a hit.

713
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:27,839
Speaker 1: Light Year came out in June of twenty twenty two,

714
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 1: which there was a whole other reason that people were

715
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 1: upset about this movie. I think that maybe was a

716
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:37,240
Speaker 1: little bit too ambitious, but again, they weren't trying anything

717
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 1: completely original. They were just trying to make a standalone

718
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 1: movie still in that toy story world. I just don't

719
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:46,879
Speaker 1: think light Year was probably the best person to make

720
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:49,360
Speaker 1: that with. They should have made a woody movie that

721
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 1: would have crushed. It would have made people happy. It

722
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:55,360
Speaker 1: would have been less of them having to explain why

723
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,799
Speaker 1: he's not voiced by Tim Allen, why it's not about

724
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:01,360
Speaker 1: the toy, why it's actually about the person that inspired

725
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:04,319
Speaker 1: the toy. It was all just confusing for people. But

726
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 1: that movie did not do well for them. Elemental again

727
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 1: was just a middle of the road movie, and that

728
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 1: one just didn't really have a lot of hype going

729
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 1: into it. The story was fine, and fine again is

730
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,919
Speaker 1: not good enough. I think some people unfairly maybe didn't

731
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:20,839
Speaker 1: watch that movie or just didn't even know when it

732
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 1: came out. Did much better when it went to Disney

733
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:26,240
Speaker 1: Plus than it did in theaters, But I think overall

734
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 1: that story was just fine at best. Inside out too,

735
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,399
Speaker 1: that's kind of a no brainer, going back to their

736
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,320
Speaker 1: pool of great movies from the twenty tens, that movie

737
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:38,359
Speaker 1: did well. Was a billion dollar movie for them. And

738
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,640
Speaker 1: the sad thing is to some people who say they

739
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 1: want to see new original ideas and then they put

740
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 1: out a sequel to a very beloved movie, then they're like, Okay,

741
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 1: we're not going to get another original for a while,

742
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:52,839
Speaker 1: because whenever they make sequels, that's when they're making all

743
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:56,360
Speaker 1: their money. And then Elio came out earlier this year

744
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:59,240
Speaker 1: in June. Its numbers were pretty dismal, and that'll probably

745
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: come out on Disney Plus probably towards the end of September,

746
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 1: even though they haven't announced that yet. But if you

747
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:06,919
Speaker 1: look at all these movies, you start to see a theme.

748
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 1: And yes, the pandemic throws off the twenty twenty year,

749
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:11,839
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one year a little bit, but that

750
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 1: bled into twenty twenty two. But what I see is

751
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 1: not what made Picksar so memorable in the beginning. If

752
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:21,319
Speaker 1: you think back to the first Toy Story movie, you

753
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:23,400
Speaker 1: think back to A Bugs Life, you think back to

754
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 1: the first Cards movie, which was right around the time

755
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 1: that Disney bought them, Monsters Inc. Finding Nemo, the Incredibles.

756
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:34,840
Speaker 1: All of these movies had great stories, great character designs

757
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 1: that all look different from each other. But what does

758
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 1: Disney like to do. They like to make things that

759
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 1: feel like they're all a part of the same brand.

760
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 1: They all have this synergy. So now everything since twenty

761
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 1: twenty has started to look the same. Out of all

762
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 1: those movies I mentioned there from the twenty twenties, they

763
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:56,120
Speaker 1: all look like they could be made by the exact

764
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 1: same team, by the exact same people, And I think

765
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 1: that makes a animated movies seem interesting. And then you

766
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:05,360
Speaker 1: see on the other side of animation, with movies like

767
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: Transformers One, the New Teenage Mutant, Ninja Turtles animated movie

768
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 1: into the Spider Verse, where they're being so much more

769
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:15,280
Speaker 1: ambitious with their animation. As you can tell, I love animation,

770
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:19,319
Speaker 1: and I feel like out of all styles of filmmaking,

771
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 1: there is a whole other world that we can explore here,

772
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:24,879
Speaker 1: because I feel that it is a world where there's

773
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 1: so much room for creativity. We haven't seen the best

774
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 1: animated movie yet. I think we should be getting the

775
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 1: best animated movies right now in the twenty twenties, and

776
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 1: I just haven't seen that because they're relying on their

777
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:41,879
Speaker 1: properties at work. We're going to get a Toy Story five, six, seven, eight, nine,

778
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 1: and ten because they continue to do well and we

779
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:48,719
Speaker 1: still are curious about those movies. I'll still go end

780
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 1: up seeing those movies, but we're not going to get

781
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:56,480
Speaker 1: anything completely different as long as Disney says, these are

782
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 1: the movies we need to make and this is what

783
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 1: they need to look like, and we're gonna put out

784
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:03,439
Speaker 1: movies like Ilio, not really market it a whole lot,

785
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: not really give it a fighting chance, and then use

786
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:09,399
Speaker 1: that as an example of Look, we tried to give

787
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 1: you an original movie, but you didn't go support it.

788
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,799
Speaker 1: So here you go, here's Car sixty seven, and what

789
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 1: do you know? We lost Nemo again and we have

790
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 1: to find him for the sixteenth time. Is there a

791
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:23,360
Speaker 1: solution here? I don't think so. I think we support

792
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 1: the things we want to support. I'm never gonna tell

793
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:27,840
Speaker 1: anybody how to spend your money when it comes to

794
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:30,919
Speaker 1: watching things in theaters. Go watch the things you want

795
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 1: to watch, but just know that your money carries a

796
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 1: lot of way to it in the decision making of

797
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 1: what gets greenlit, what continues to have SEQL after sequel,

798
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 1: and what movies and ideas they deem aren't worth the

799
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 1: time or money. But that being said, I do think

800
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 1: Hoppers is a step in the right direction. I think

801
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:54,279
Speaker 1: the story is interesting, and even though there's not one

802
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:57,400
Speaker 1: character I think will be the new poster child for Pixar.

803
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 1: I do think it's gonna give people a reason to

804
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:02,399
Speaker 1: go into the theater and not feel like you could

805
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:04,959
Speaker 1: just wait and go and watch it on Disney Plus

806
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:07,800
Speaker 1: whenever it is about three or four months old. And finally,

807
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:10,800
Speaker 1: just because I've been rattling off all of my passionate

808
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:13,919
Speaker 1: thoughts about animation, I did wonder if I could put

809
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 1: my brain into an animal like this and then go

810
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:19,920
Speaker 1: live in their habitat be able to speak to them.

811
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 1: I don't want no funny business though. That was the

812
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:26,880
Speaker 1: one problem I had with picking this animal, because animals,

813
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:29,279
Speaker 1: well they're animals. They're to do things that you don't

814
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 1: want them to do, whether you do it or not,

815
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 1: So no funny business involved. I would want to be

816
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 1: my favorite animal of all time on Orca. I've loved

817
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 1: orcas ever since I was a kid. I still want

818
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 1: to go well watching up in Seattle, the Pacific Northwest.

819
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:47,439
Speaker 1: I think that would be amazing just to be able

820
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 1: to see an orca in the wild, not at SeaWorld,

821
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:53,640
Speaker 1: even though that is where my love of these animals

822
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 1: did develop. SeaWorld not a great place for them. Ever

823
00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 1: since I saw Blackfish, I was like, I can't support

824
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 1: the place. That documentary did change me a lot. But

825
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 1: I've also seen a lot of other great documentaries about

826
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 1: orcas that do give me hope, and that also just

827
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:11,480
Speaker 1: show you how smart a animals they are, Like they

828
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:16,759
Speaker 1: mourn they're dead, and they're just incredibly resourceful. Even that

829
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 1: one summer where they were crashing boats and terrorizing some humans,

830
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 1: I was still team Orca because I was like, humans

831
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:25,319
Speaker 1: had to have done something wrong. Somebody killed an orca

832
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:29,440
Speaker 1: and they wanted vengeance. Number two would probably be an owl,

833
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 1: just because I feel like they're very majestic. I identify a

834
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:37,720
Speaker 1: lot with them being nocturnal. Misunderstood. I didn't get attacked

835
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 1: by one a couple of years ago on a run

836
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 1: because I was out very early in the morning. I

837
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 1: was wearing a white hat, so I was convinced they

838
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:47,279
Speaker 1: thought I was a rabbit or something. And again, I

839
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 1: love owl so much, I'll put that blame on me.

840
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 1: And number three would definitely be a cat, because like cats,

841
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:55,959
Speaker 1: I am very independent. I will come to you only

842
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 1: when I need a little bit of love. I may

843
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 1: bite you, I may scratch you. Ultimately, I do love you,

844
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:04,320
Speaker 1: even though I probably don't say it every day. Bonus

845
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:07,040
Speaker 1: points for being able to lock myself. But again, Hoppers

846
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:11,479
Speaker 1: is coming out in theaters on March sixth, twenty twenty six. Geez,

847
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:15,400
Speaker 1: And that was this week's edition of Movie Lin Tramer

848
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:18,240
Speaker 1: Bar and that is gonna do it for another episode

849
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 1: here of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta

850
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: give my listeners shout out of the week. This week,

851
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:27,320
Speaker 1: I'm going over to X and shouting out Melody Smith,

852
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:30,360
Speaker 1: who commented on a post I made about last week's episode.

853
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 1: Kelsey and I talked about Project Hail Mary. She read

854
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 1: it for her book club, has now gone and watched

855
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:38,240
Speaker 1: the trailer in full and looking forward to that movie

856
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 1: coming out next March. Melody said, I highly recommend listening

857
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:47,320
Speaker 1: to Project Hail Mary. The audio version is great. Melody,

858
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 1: I never even thought of that, And to be honest,

859
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:53,439
Speaker 1: I've never listened to a book on audiobook. I don't

860
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 1: know why. My brother is super into listening to biographies

861
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 1: and he tells me about it all the time. I

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Speaker 1: when I see that a book is like sixty eight

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Speaker 1: hours on an audio book, I don't know if I

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Speaker 1: could bring myself to listen to it. And also sometimes

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Speaker 1: when I listen to things, I tend to zone out,

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Speaker 1: so I feel like I would kind of forget things.

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Speaker 1: If I were going on a long road trip, I

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Speaker 1: would definitely do that, because I do enjoy listening to

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Speaker 1: a bunch of podcasts. When I do that, and I

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Speaker 1: really allow myself to get into that world, and that

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Speaker 1: is where I do my best listening but Melody, I

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Speaker 1: do think that's an interesting thing. But I'm really going

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Speaker 1: to push myself to read that book because I am

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Speaker 1: determined to read and finish a book and go see

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Speaker 1: that movie in theaters. That is my goal. But Melody,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate looking out. If it gets grim there and

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Speaker 1: I think I'm not going to be able to finish

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Speaker 1: this book, we're getting closer to that movie coming out

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Speaker 1: in theaters, I'm like, all right, I got to speed

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Speaker 1: this thing up and listen to the audiobook. I will

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Speaker 1: do that. So I appreciate that message. Thank you, Melody,

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Speaker 1: Thank you right now for listening wherever you are in

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Speaker 1: your car at the gym. Thank you for not listening

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Speaker 1: to an audiobook and listening to this podcast. And until

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Speaker 1: next time, go out and watch good movies and I

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Speaker 1: will talk to you later