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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. If you're listening early on

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Speaker 1: release day, the oscars happened last night. I'm gonna talk

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Speaker 1: brand new episode every single week, so I'm gonna do

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Speaker 1: my normal episode here as well. Forbes put out a

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Speaker 1: list last week of the highest paid actors for twenty

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Speaker 1: list at all. Then in the movie review, we'll talk

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Speaker 1: about Adam Sandler's latest Netflix movie called Spaceman. It combines

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Speaker 1: itself with our topic because I'm gonna let you know

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Speaker 1: whether or not he is worth the millions and millions

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Speaker 1: the trailer park, we'll be talking about a movie based

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Speaker 1: on a video game called Borderlands. Was an insanely popular

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Speaker 1: video game that I have the cover just memorized in

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Speaker 1: my head even though I never really played it. But

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Speaker 1: I'll give you my thoughts on it from a non

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Speaker 1: fan of the franchise. So thank you for being here.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew, and now

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Speaker 1: let's talk movies.

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Speaker 2: In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast,

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Speaker 1: From the Nashville Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Network, this is Movie Mike's Movie podcast.

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Speaker 1: Orbes put out their list of the ten highest paid

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Speaker 1: actors in twenty twenty three, and of these ten actors,

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Speaker 1: they have made four hundred and forty nine million dollars

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Speaker 1: combined almost half a billion dollars, which to me proves

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Speaker 1: the theory that I have had. I still think the

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Speaker 1: real bankability and true test of an actor is can

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Speaker 1: you sell tickets? Therefore, are you able to demand more

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Speaker 1: money from the studio and then get more money on

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Speaker 1: the back end. So I still think that movies rank

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Speaker 1: fact that all ten actors on this list are primarily

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Speaker 1: the landscape of Hollywood right now. So in order to

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Speaker 1: make this list, Forbes conducted a lot of interviews with agents, lawyers,

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Speaker 1: at here. They also subtracted fees for representation, which is

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Speaker 1: although some actors do not have all three of those.

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Speaker 1: And on this list, actors were credited for money they

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Speaker 1: So say Margot Robbie, who is probably going to get

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Speaker 1: So before I get into this list, let's just talk

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Speaker 1: then he also continued to receive streaming and on demand

437
00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:24,680
Speaker 1: profits from twenty twenty two's Top Gun Maverick, which saw

438
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Speaker 1: a lot of that increase in twenty twenty three once

439
00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:31,080
Speaker 1: it finally hit streaming. And he will continue to make

440
00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:33,199
Speaker 1: more money because he just signed a big deal with

441
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Speaker 1: Warner Brothers to develop all these new movies. So the

442
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:40,280
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise empire is only going to grow. And even

443
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Speaker 1: though I don't love all of his movies, I do

444
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Speaker 1: love that he had a big part to play in

445
00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:50,359
Speaker 1: saving Hollywood post COVID with the amount of money that

446
00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:54,920
Speaker 1: top gun Maverick earned, but also just eased audiences back

447
00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:58,239
Speaker 1: into the theaters when it really really was needed. I

448
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Speaker 1: have to give him credit for Thatnumber three, with forty

449
00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:03,879
Speaker 1: five million dollars is Tom Cruise at number two, with

450
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:07,440
Speaker 1: a gross income last year of seventy eight million dollars,

451
00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:11,120
Speaker 1: taking home fifty nine million dollars. Is the one the

452
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Speaker 1: only Margo Robbie, who is the youngest person to be

453
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Speaker 1: on this list by a decade at thirty three years old,

454
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Speaker 1: which is weird for me because she's only one year

455
00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:24,640
Speaker 1: older than me, and to think that she's making that

456
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Speaker 1: insane amount of money. I know I shouldn't compare ages

457
00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:30,960
Speaker 1: and status, but man, just to think somebody else around

458
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Speaker 1: the same age as me is not only worldwide famous

459
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Speaker 1: but also made fifty nine million dollars last year. I'm

460
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 1: going to stop thinking about it because I just start

461
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,480
Speaker 1: thinking about what I could do with all of that money.

462
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Speaker 1: But I love the representation here of a female not

463
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Speaker 1: only being in the top ten, but being in the

464
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Speaker 1: top five, so close to number one, which I honestly

465
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Speaker 1: think she could be Number one. If not for the

466
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Speaker 1: fact that actor number one has been around for so

467
00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,919
Speaker 1: long and has a really big deal in place, she

468
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Speaker 1: is number one in my heart. And when I think

469
00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 1: this list needs more is female actors. What I also

470
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,719
Speaker 1: think this list needs more of is Black, Mexican and

471
00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 1: Asian actors, who are fairly absent from this list. I

472
00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:14,879
Speaker 1: think that shows us that Hollywood is still a primarily

473
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Speaker 1: white male dominated industry, because on this list, if you're

474
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Speaker 1: not a white male, you either have to be Margot Robbie,

475
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Speaker 1: Jennifer Aniston, or Denzel Washington to be considered. So again,

476
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Speaker 1: shout out here to Margot Robbie, who is really cashed

477
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Speaker 1: in on Barbie, which made one point four or five

478
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Speaker 1: billion dollars at the box office. There's also tons of

479
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Speaker 1: money attached to licensing and partnerships, and she is also

480
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:39,879
Speaker 1: a producer on the movie, so she is cashed in

481
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Speaker 1: roughly twelve point five percent of all the back end profits,

482
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Speaker 1: which Forbes in this article has estimated is worth more

483
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Speaker 1: than sixty million dollars. She also has a really successful

484
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Speaker 1: production company called Lucky Chap that put out Saltburn last year,

485
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:59,480
Speaker 1: so she's also raking in money producing movies and in

486
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Speaker 1: February she just signed a new exclusive first look deal

487
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Speaker 1: with Warner Brothers, the studio behind Barbie, So she's going

488
00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:08,600
Speaker 1: to keep getting those checks. She's going to start producing

489
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:10,760
Speaker 1: more and more movies and making more money off of that.

490
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Speaker 1: And I think that Margot Robbie is really just getting started,

491
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Speaker 1: despite the fact that she has already been around for

492
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Speaker 1: over a decade, just grinding and putting out consistently good

493
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Speaker 1: movies time and time again. At number two fifty nine

494
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Speaker 1: million dollars is Margot Robbie. At number one, with a

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Speaker 1: gross income of ninety seven million dollars, taking home seventy

496
00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 1: three million dollars is the Sandman. Adam Sandler signed a

497
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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty million dollar four movie deal with

498
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Speaker 1: Netflix back in twenty fourteen. He's fifty seven years old

499
00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:45,960
Speaker 1: now and has started in eight movies for Netflix and

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00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 1: produced more through his company Happy Madison, which has made

501
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,359
Speaker 1: a lot of great movies and also a lot of stinkers.

502
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 1: But the majority of his backlog, which are primarily all comedies,

503
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Speaker 1: are all now licensed through Netflix, so they have become

504
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 1: the home of Adam Sandler, which last year on Netflix

505
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:07,240
Speaker 1: he put out Murder Mystery two You're so not invited

506
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Speaker 1: to my bar Mitzvah, and the animated movie Leo, which

507
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,080
Speaker 1: has been a really big hit with kids and families.

508
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,119
Speaker 1: But the other thing they accounted for inside of this

509
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 1: seventy three million dollars is the money he made off

510
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Speaker 1: of touring, which he did forty four stand up comedy

511
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:24,199
Speaker 1: shows in twenty twenty three. Me and Kelsey saw him.

512
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,520
Speaker 1: It was a great show, But I kind of don't

513
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 1: think that should be included here. Even though it is performing.

514
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:33,280
Speaker 1: It is entertainment, but I don't really think that is

515
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 1: the same as starring in a movie or starring in

516
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Speaker 1: the TV show. I imagine that he made a lot of

517
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 1: money millions off that tour. They don't have the exact

518
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Speaker 1: numbers here, but in my heart, Margot Robbie is at

519
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Speaker 1: number one. Because Sandler has had this deal in place

520
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 1: for so long now that it's gonna be hard for

521
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,879
Speaker 1: anybody to beat him, because nobody is getting that deal.

522
00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 1: The Netflix CEO said whenever they re upped Adam Sandler's

523
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 1: deal back in twenty two, there is no such thing

524
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,920
Speaker 1: as too much Adam Sandler, So that shows you they're

525
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,959
Speaker 1: going to continue to pay him boatloads and boatloads of money,

526
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,880
Speaker 1: and the great thing about it is it gives him

527
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 1: a lot of creative control. Just look at the movies

528
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,720
Speaker 1: he did last year. You have an animated movie, you

529
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:19,919
Speaker 1: have a movie that's a little bit more of a

530
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:23,159
Speaker 1: snapshot of his life. You have one that's just fun,

531
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 1: over the top action with Jennifer Aniston. And now what

532
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 1: he's doing with the sci fi movie Spaceman, which we'll

533
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 1: get into later in the review. He can really do

534
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,639
Speaker 1: whatever he wants, which puts him in a great place.

535
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 1: Because I feel like which as an actor puts him

536
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 1: in a great place. He can do movies where he

537
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 1: takes all his friends on vacation and gets paid for

538
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 1: it and gets a movie out of it. I feel

539
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,160
Speaker 1: like it can be hit or miss with us, though,

540
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:49,600
Speaker 1: because to see a bad Adam Sandler movie isn't really

541
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,639
Speaker 1: out of the realm of possibilities on any given occasion.

542
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 1: But you can't deny his bank ability. At number one,

543
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Speaker 1: seventy three million dollars is Adam Sandler, who am I

544
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 1: surprised wasn't on the list? I would have to say

545
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 1: Ryan Reynolds. But when you look at the movies he

546
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 1: put out last year he was pretty non existent in

547
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 1: the box office game kind of took the year off,

548
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 1: But this year he's coming back strong with Deadpool and Wolverine,

549
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 1: and if so, he will probably enter the top ten

550
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 1: next year. Also surprised The Rock isn't on here. He

551
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,199
Speaker 1: has taken a little bit of a step back from acting,

552
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:27,680
Speaker 1: focusing more on his tequila company on the XFL. Maybe

553
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:31,120
Speaker 1: it's because Black Adam did not go as well as

554
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 1: he thought, and maybe he was planning for being in

555
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:37,720
Speaker 1: more DC projects. Doesn't look like that's gonna be the case.

556
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 1: So he is going to be in a new A

557
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 1: twenty four film that I hope we get a little

558
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 1: bit more of a serious side from Dwayne the Rock Johnson.

559
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 1: And again, this list wasn't accounting for all of the

560
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 1: endorsements that he gets, probably amount of money that he

561
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 1: makes off on Instagram, because honestly, that alone would probably

562
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 1: put him in the top ten. Also surprised that Mark

563
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 1: Wahlberg was not on the list. He put out some

564
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,960
Speaker 1: movies last year that I guess to do so well,

565
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 1: and I thought maybe the Apple TV Plus movie he

566
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 1: did alone would warn him a really big payday. I

567
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: don't think he deserves to be on the top ten list,

568
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 1: but just surprise, his name wasn't there. And who do

569
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 1: I think will be there soon? Look no further than

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00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 1: the cast of Dunes, Zendeia, Austin Butler, Anya Taylor Joy,

571
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,959
Speaker 1: and Timothy Shalomey. I think are right there on the

572
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 1: cusp of being the new A list actors in Hollywood.

573
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Speaker 1: The bankable names, the one everybody recognizes. But they're all

574
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 1: still fairly young right now and not in a point

575
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 1: in their career where they can negotiate like some of

576
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:38,479
Speaker 1: these heavy hitters. They can't really get money on the

577
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 1: back end the way that a Sandler or a Tom

578
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 1: Cruise does. But I think they will be there eventually,

579
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 1: and I am all here for it because we need

580
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 1: fresh blood and we have it. We have some really

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Speaker 1: great talent with just the Doune cast alone. So that

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Speaker 1: is the list. We'll come back and talk about Spaceman

583
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Speaker 1: on Netflix with the number one highest paid actor of

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00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, Adam Sandler. Listen, what's the movie. Let's

585
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 1: get into it now. A spoiler free review of Spaceman

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Speaker 1: on Netflix, starring the seventy three million dollar making Adam Sandler.

587
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Speaker 1: Is he worth the vast amount of money that Netflix

588
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: has invested in him in over the years, and I

589
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 1: am a huge Adam Sandler fan, so much so that

590
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: in the early stages of this podcast I had to

591
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 1: enlist the rule that I would have to stop talking

592
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 1: about Adam Sandler so much, because I mentioned him in

593
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 1: literally every single episode, and a very nice member of

594
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 1: the movie crew was like, dude, you gotta stop mentioning

595
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 1: Adam Sandler. And in regard to Spaceman, I was very

596
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:42,080
Speaker 1: interested and intrigued by this movie. When the trailer first dropped,

597
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 1: I included it here on the Trailer Park because that

598
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 1: is the type of movie I love to see Adam

599
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 1: Sandler in, the more dramatic side of him, which I

600
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,240
Speaker 1: think he does really well. I listened to him recently

601
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Speaker 1: on Conan O'Brien's podcast talking about how we decided to

602
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 1: make that switch knowing that he wanted to have a

603
00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 1: longstanding career in movies, and credits a lot of that

604
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 1: to Paul Thomas Anderson, who was able to put him

605
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 1: in Punch Drunk Glove, which everybody saw and thought, oh,

606
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: the Sandman can do different things, but he really hasn't

607
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 1: done a sci fi movie like this, and you pair

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00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 1: him up with an amazing cast with Carrie Mulligan and

609
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Speaker 1: Paul Dano, who if you just look at that lineup,

610
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 1: that is like my dream lineup. I have loved Carry

611
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,959
Speaker 1: Mulligan ever since Drive, and Paul Dano has also become

612
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 1: one of my favorite actors with The Riddler, The Fableman's

613
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 1: Dumb Money. He is another actor who can do it all,

614
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 1: from drama to comedy and comic book movies. So all

615
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: this cast together and then in one of my favorite genres.

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00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: I love movies about space and isolation. But what we

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00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 1: learned in this movie and what you've learned from past

618
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:50,440
Speaker 1: sci fi movies, those are really hard movies to do

619
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: because space and isolation can quickly turn boring because really

620
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 1: the trouble that space movies have is that they are

621
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 1: so isolated and have such a limited case that it

622
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 1: creates this level of boredom that you're trying to represent,

623
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 1: because in space it is boring. I've never been to space,

624
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 1: I've never talked to an astronaut, but the way it

625
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 1: is depicted it is very isolating, It is very lonely.

626
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: It is very hard on the body to be that

627
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: far away from humanity is a whole nother level of isolation.

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00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 1: And when you start to showcase that, it's going to

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00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 1: be really hard to create a captivating movie. So you

630
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: have to have a really really strong story and a

631
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 1: really strong lead to make it work. Did it work

632
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 1: in this case? Sad to say it did not, But

633
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 1: I'll tell you more about why it did it. When

634
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 1: it comes to Spaceman, the movie costs forty million dollars

635
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 1: to make. Not that bad really when you look at it. Primarily,

636
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 1: what a space movie spends a lot of the budget

637
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 1: on is just the dynamics of creating a space ship

638
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 1: and also creating the weightlessness of somebody in space. Just

639
00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 1: having that effect them tethered throughout the entire movie is

640
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 1: extremely expensive. I've come to learn by researching these movies.

641
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 1: And this movie did a very average job on creating

642
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: something that looked like we hadn't seen it before in

643
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 1: a space movie. I almost wish it had a little

644
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 1: bit more of a dynamic presence. He is half a

645
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: year into this space mission. He is the furthest away

646
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 1: from any human in history to go way out into Jupiter.

647
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:26,719
Speaker 1: He is investigating this really mysterious cloud that has formed.

648
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 1: It is like this purple cosmic presence and the sky

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00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 1: that they can see from the earth. The movie takes

650
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 1: place in a retro futuristic version of the nineties, and

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Speaker 1: it really deals with isolation in Adam Sandler's character being

652
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 1: described as the loneliest person in the world because he

653
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 1: is so far away from the love of his life

654
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:52,120
Speaker 1: and they're not only separated in distance, but also separated emotionally. Essentially,

655
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,719
Speaker 1: what this movie is about isolation and the crumbling of

656
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 1: a relationship. And I don't think Adam Sandler was strong

657
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 1: enough to really pull it off. And I've loved him

658
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: in the dramatic roles I've been mentioning, but I think

659
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 1: this one required another level of acting that I realized

660
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:09,759
Speaker 1: he just didn't really have it in him. And that

661
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 1: hurts me to say, because he did an amazing job

662
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 1: in movies like Uncut Gems, where I thought he deserved

663
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: an Oscar. That one had a lot more action. I

664
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 1: felt like he really owned that character. But in this case,

665
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: seeing him as a spaceman was a little bit unbelievable

666
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: for me from the very beginning, just him floating around

667
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,279
Speaker 1: on the spaceship, but even just seeing a photo of

668
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 1: him in the astronaut uniform. I just couldn't buy into

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00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 1: the fact that Adam Sandler, this really wacky guy, was

670
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 1: a spaceman. And in other times I've been able to

671
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:43,840
Speaker 1: look past that, but it was really hard in this

672
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 1: situation just hearing him deliver some of this dialogue. Found

673
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: it really unbelievable in probably an unfair way, just because

674
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:54,480
Speaker 1: of the association I have with him. I do like

675
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 1: some of the avenues that the movie tried to explore

676
00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 1: with commentary on the human condition, but also on corporate sponsorship,

677
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 1: because in the movie, they prioritize his cameras working more

678
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 1: than they prioritize his toilet working. Because they are live

679
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:12,319
Speaker 1: streaming this entire thing. They have these weird sponsorship things

680
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,319
Speaker 1: that he has to read and do commercials while he's

681
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:17,759
Speaker 1: in space, so they never really got back to a

682
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 1: whole lot of that. I thought that would have been

683
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 1: a cooler angle to approach the live stream aspect, kind

684
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 1: of more like a Truman Show vibe of people that

685
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:30,280
Speaker 1: were also invested in his relationship. The appeal of watching

686
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,360
Speaker 1: him in space and people being able to control things,

687
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:35,360
Speaker 1: I think really would have been a cool way to

688
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,920
Speaker 1: make this movie more interesting. I know it's based on

689
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 1: a novel, so they were probably following the source material more,

690
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: but that light was going off in my head of

691
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 1: they had a great opportunity here to make this movie

692
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:48,840
Speaker 1: a little bit more interesting, because, quite honestly, it felt

693
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:52,399
Speaker 1: like his character and funny people who was kind of

694
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: a version of Adam Sandler, and in that movie they

695
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:58,359
Speaker 1: make fun of the movie roles he takes on because

696
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 1: they're so over the top and wacky. This almost felt

697
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:03,840
Speaker 1: like one of those movies that it would cut to

698
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:05,840
Speaker 1: him like I just did this sci fi movie and

699
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:09,920
Speaker 1: it's him looking at a place in a spacesuit, and overall,

700
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: when making a movie that deals with isolation, I felt

701
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 1: isolated and bored while watching it. This movie should have

702
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,400
Speaker 1: been retitled The Sandman Talks to a Spider because that

703
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,919
Speaker 1: is what Paul Dano voices in this movie. It's this

704
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:28,360
Speaker 1: weird alien, futuristic spider looking thing that comes onto a

705
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:31,400
Speaker 1: ship and they formed this really weird relationship and it

706
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 1: tries so hard to reach this emotional level that doesn't

707
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 1: really quite get there. And I love Paul Dano. I

708
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,400
Speaker 1: think he did the best job that he could with

709
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 1: this role, but I found the character so annoying and

710
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:47,719
Speaker 1: so uninteresting just a look and design of it. It

711
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 1: felt like a first draft to me, and maybe it's

712
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 1: because I wanted it to look more like an alien.

713
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:56,320
Speaker 1: I just thought the idea of a spider crawling around

714
00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: didn't really match with all the other aspects of the movie,

715
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:02,839
Speaker 1: and the dialogue was so repetitive. I hated the way

716
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:06,919
Speaker 1: he kept calling Adam Sandler's character skinny human, kept saying

717
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 1: it over and over again. I was about to shut

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00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:11,880
Speaker 1: off my TV and stop watching it because I was

719
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 1: so annoyed by that line and quite frankly bored with

720
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 1: the entire story, which leads me to my next point.

721
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 1: Is the only reason I continue to watch this movie

722
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:23,360
Speaker 1: to the very end is because of the cast. So

723
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:26,240
Speaker 1: when you start to think about is Adam Sandler worth

724
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: the money that Netflix pays him with the over five

725
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 1: hundred hours that Netflix viewers spend with his movies for

726
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 1: this reason alone, he is worth it because what they

727
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 1: value so much is completion rate. Somebody to start and

728
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 1: finish a movie on Netflix, that is the goal, and

729
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:44,919
Speaker 1: that is the only reason I finished this movie because

730
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:47,320
Speaker 1: I wanted to see how Adam Sandler was going to

731
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 1: get out of this what the conclusion was going to be,

732
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:52,319
Speaker 1: and that was very underwhelming to me too. But I

733
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 1: think that is the reason you pay him a lot

734
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,799
Speaker 1: of money, because people are going to Netflix to watch

735
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 1: an Adam Sandler movie. It's still number one on their

736
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:04,439
Speaker 1: streaming service after over a week of being out again.

737
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:06,359
Speaker 1: I don't really know how they determined that they could

738
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 1: easily boost it, like, oh, look, it's number one, the

739
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 1: most people are watching it. They could lie about it

740
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 1: just because they want to promote that movie the most.

741
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 1: So I don't fully believe in that top ten ragging

742
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 1: on Netflix, but it's the metrics we have to go

743
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 1: on because they really don't share how many people watch

744
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,880
Speaker 1: their movies. You really only get stats like the amount

745
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 1: of hours that Netflix users have been watching Adam Sandler movies.

746
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:30,000
Speaker 1: He ranks up there in the top. So overall, I

747
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: just don't think this role was in the range of

748
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 1: the Sandman. You have to be an actor on the

749
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 1: level of like Sandra Bullock and Gravity, Brad Pitt and

750
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 1: ad Astra to really be able to show something so isolating.

751
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 1: Outer space movies are a really, really tough category, and

752
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:50,760
Speaker 1: I just felt like he didn't have all the tools

753
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:53,279
Speaker 1: in his acting abilities to pull this movie off, and

754
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 1: the overall story really wasn't helping him carry. Mulligan was

755
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:58,760
Speaker 1: still fantastic in it. She can really do no wrong

756
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: in my eyes, It's just I wasn't really buying into

757
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 1: their love story. It was also cool to see Conalney

758
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 1: r aka Rod from the Big Bank Theory. It took

759
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 1: me a second to realize it was him, so I

760
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 1: think that is another sign that, hey, he can do

761
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 1: roles outside of the Big Bank Theory and not seem

762
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 1: so distracting. He was the guy communicating with Adam Sandler's

763
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 1: character throughout, so not the most outstanding of supporting roles,

764
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 1: but it was just nice to see somebody familiar in

765
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:25,839
Speaker 1: a much different space. I was going into this movie

766
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 1: expecting to love it ended up having a pretty mediocre time.

767
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:32,320
Speaker 1: For space Man, I give it two out of five

768
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 1: Space Suits. It's time to head down to movie.

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Speaker 2: Mike Trey lar.

770
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Speaker 1: Par I think video game adaptations are the hottest they've

771
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 1: ever been right now. They are a cash cow in

772
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:53,400
Speaker 1: the movie industry because you already have a built in audience,

773
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:57,239
Speaker 1: and usually a built in audience of nerds, which I

774
00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:01,239
Speaker 1: love some video game adaptation myself, so I am one

775
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:05,239
Speaker 1: of those nerds. When it comes to Borderlands, I am

776
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 1: familiar with the game, but I never played it myself.

777
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 1: I would see a lot of people who would rave

778
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 1: on and on about this game. I really don't know

779
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 1: much about it, aside from it always having a really

780
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:20,520
Speaker 1: cool cover with a very unique character. But Borderlands is

781
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:23,880
Speaker 1: a video game set and an abandoned fictional planet of Pandora,

782
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 1: where people search for a mysterious relic. This movie has

783
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 1: been in development since way back in twenty fifteen and

784
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:34,919
Speaker 1: is now set to come out on August ninth by Lionsgate.

785
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 1: It is directed by Eli Roth, who is known for

786
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 1: really bloody horror movies like Hostile one Hostile two. He

787
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:46,400
Speaker 1: also recently did Thanksgiving, which is available now on Netflix.

788
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 1: He was also the Bear Jew in Inglorious Bastards. When

789
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 1: I go watch an Eli roths movie, I know it's

790
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,480
Speaker 1: gonna be a little bit left of center, especially when

791
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 1: it comes to the gore. So I am surprised by

792
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:00,400
Speaker 1: the PG thirteen rating on this movie given the violent

793
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 1: nature of the video game, and just given what I

794
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 1: expect from him as a director. But I know the

795
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:08,279
Speaker 1: reason they do that is to cast a wider net

796
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 1: and not close anybody off. Who is probably gonna be

797
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 1: the key demographic in a movie like this, the younger

798
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 1: audience who played the video game. But that gives me

799
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 1: one strike against this movie, because I think a film

800
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 1: like this would really benefit from being able to show

801
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:24,520
Speaker 1: more of the violence, more of the blood, and I

802
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 1: already know it's going to be scaled back a little bit,

803
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:28,400
Speaker 1: so we're not going to see that in this movie.

804
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 1: So it's going to have to really ramp up the

805
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 1: action given the fact that they will only be able

806
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 1: to get one effort out of this movie. The movie

807
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,359
Speaker 1: cost an estimated one hundred to one hundred and ten

808
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:40,400
Speaker 1: million dollars. Looks like a lot of cgi work we

809
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:43,080
Speaker 1: have going on in this one. So before I get

810
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 1: into more of my thoughts on Borderlands, here is just

811
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,800
Speaker 1: a little bit of the trailer. God, I hate this planet.

812
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 1: What does that smell? Pusquash color the window? I don't

813
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:59,840
Speaker 1: want him roll the window. It's peak, it's peap like,

814
00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:06,280
Speaker 1: it's call pis wash. I'm gonna get today. This movie,

815
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,920
Speaker 1: to me looks like suicide Squad meets Guardians of the

816
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: Galaxy doing a mad Max impression, and that's a pretty

817
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 1: impressive cast list with Kate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, who you

818
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 1: heard here in that clip. Kevin Hart being in this

819
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 1: movie is probably my biggest concern because anytime Kevin Hart

820
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 1: is in a movie, he plays the exact same character.

821
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:31,040
Speaker 1: And there is not one Kevin Hart movie that I

822
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 1: can honestly say that I am a big fan of.

823
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:35,919
Speaker 1: I would probably have to go all the way back

824
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:38,759
Speaker 1: to his cameo in The Forty Year Old Virgin, but

825
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:42,400
Speaker 1: that was way early on in his career, and unless

826
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 1: he's working with the Rock like in Central Intelligence or Jumanji,

827
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 1: I'm just not the biggest fan of his comedic work.

828
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:52,400
Speaker 1: I honestly don't even find him that funny as a comedian.

829
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 1: I think he did one special early on that I

830
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:57,920
Speaker 1: found funny, but ever since then, I am kind of

831
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 1: surprised of how big of a household name he's become

832
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 1: doing arenas, doing stadiums at the level he is doing.

833
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 1: Props to him for being able to cash in on that,

834
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 1: but that is exactly what I feel when he takes

835
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 1: on a movie role, is he does it more for

836
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:17,359
Speaker 1: a status symbol and more for money than he does

837
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:20,399
Speaker 1: for the love of making movies. As you've probably learned

838
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:23,640
Speaker 1: by listening to this podcast, I enjoy actors who take

839
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:27,240
Speaker 1: a little bit more of appreciation for the craft of acting,

840
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:29,439
Speaker 1: or fake it really well and are really just doing

841
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:31,800
Speaker 1: it for the money and the attention. Visually, the movie

842
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 1: does appeal to me. It has this cosmic color palette.

843
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 1: It looks like it's gonna have very big action that

844
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:39,799
Speaker 1: demands the big screen, which I'm always a big fan of.

845
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 1: It doesn't really look that funny to me. I took

846
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 1: that one clip from the trailer to show probably the

847
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 1: funniest moment they are trying to showcase. I just feel

848
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:54,360
Speaker 1: like that scene has been written before. Those interactions, that punchline,

849
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:57,240
Speaker 1: I have seen that in a comedy like this before,

850
00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 1: so it doesn't really show me the unique perspective, the

851
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 1: unique take that this is going to have on a

852
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 1: video game adaptation. Just from that line, it really looks

853
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 1: like comedy by the numbers. It's really given me street

854
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:11,839
Speaker 1: fighter vibes from back in the day, and video game

855
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:15,319
Speaker 1: adaptations recently have been pretty hit or miss. I think

856
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 1: it also has to do with how much you played

857
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:21,400
Speaker 1: the video game and are a fan of the franchise.

858
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:25,240
Speaker 1: That greatly leads to the enjoyment of the movie. Because

859
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:27,279
Speaker 1: when I came on and did my review of Five

860
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 1: Nights at Freddy's, much like Borderlands, I wasn't familiar with

861
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 1: that game aside from seeing people talk about it on

862
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:36,320
Speaker 1: Reddit and see clips on YouTube. I did not enjoy

863
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 1: that movie, and I got so much hate from the

864
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 1: fan base that made that movie a success because I

865
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 1: just didn't get that. But you also have TV adaptations

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Speaker 1: and we've also seen some really big success with at

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Speaker 1: to fun video game adaptations is Sonic the Hedgehog, which

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Speaker 1: we're getting the third part this year. I think that

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Speaker 1: really blends making a movie that's fun for kids and

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Speaker 1: and two thousands. But either way, when you do a

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Speaker 1: Also in this cast you have Jamie Lee, Curtis, Bobby Lee.

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Speaker 1: But the person I think who is going to crush

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Speaker 1: a character named Claptrap. Jack Black is a great voice actor.

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Speaker 1: I just went to go see Kung Fu Panda four

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Speaker 1: And I think it's because to be a great voice actor,

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Speaker 1: and voice acting of making his voice sound a little

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Speaker 1: some effects on his voice there, but there's a lot

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Speaker 1: zany character like he's doing here in Borderlands. He also

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Speaker 1: he is probably going to perform better than any actor

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Speaker 1: are giving his character the Rocket Raccoon treatment that they

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Speaker 1: did Bradley Cooper and Guardians at the Galaxy. This movie

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Speaker 1: have their Rocket Raccoon type character, they have their group

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Speaker 1: Peter Quill. So to me, this this movie doesn't really

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Speaker 1: borrowing a lot of inspiration from other superhero movies and

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Speaker 1: video game movies. I feel like overall this will be

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Speaker 1: a fun, average movie unless you're a huge fan of

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Speaker 1: the video game. I hope they proved me wrong in that,

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Speaker 1: But again, it is coming out later this year on

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Speaker 1: August ninth.

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Speaker 2: At that point was this week's edition of Movie Line

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Speaker 2: tramor Bar and.

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Speaker 1: That is gonna do it for another episode here of

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Speaker 1: the podcast. But again, don't forget to look out for

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Speaker 1: the special bonus Oscar coverage that I will be posting

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Speaker 1: here later in the week to recap everything that happened

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Speaker 1: at the Oscars and see if I was right or

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Speaker 1: not all my predictions. Before I go, I got to

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Speaker 1: give my listeners shout out of the week. This week,

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Speaker 1: I am going over to my YouTube channel, which is

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Speaker 1: YouTube dot com slash Mike dstro. If you ever forget

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Speaker 1: that or forget any of my social links, it is

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Speaker 1: always in the episode notes of every single podcast. But

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Speaker 1: this week's listener shout out goes to Sash, who commented

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Speaker 1: on my interview with the director of Wonka and said, Wow,

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Speaker 1: interviewing directors of big movies is such an achievement. Here's

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Speaker 1: two more great things to come from you and your channel.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Sash. Which the weird thing about YouTube is

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Speaker 1: I find that people just go and watch my reviews

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Speaker 1: on YouTube and maybe don't even listen to the full

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Speaker 1: episodes of this podcast. So it's cool to have a

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Speaker 1: new audience over there just discovering it from the individual

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Speaker 1: movie reviews. So if you ever miss one of those,

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Speaker 1: you can always go watch them on YouTube. Be sure

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Speaker 1: comments rate the videos. That also helps more people discover

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Speaker 1: my channel. There therefore bringing people back to the podcast

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Speaker 1: and become a part of the movie crew. So I'd

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Speaker 1: really appreciate that if there's a specific review you enjoyed,

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Speaker 1: host it on Instagram story, share that link, help spread

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Speaker 1: the love because that goes a long way. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for listening, thank you for being subscribed, and until next time,

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Speaker 1: go out and watch good movies and I will talk

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Speaker 1: to you later.