1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,680 Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie Podcast. I 2 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:04,320 Speaker 1: am your host Movie Mike. Today, I want to share 3 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 1: with you what I think are the top seven opening 4 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 1: scenes in superhero movies of all time. I went through 5 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:11,319 Speaker 1: all my favorites and picked out the ones I think 6 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 1: are the most iconic. In the movie review, I'll let 7 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:18,279 Speaker 1: you know how I felt about Joaquin Phoenix's performance in Napoleon. 8 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 1: And then the trailer park. We have a new horror 9 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:23,240 Speaker 1: movie that looks so creepy from Blumhouse because it has 10 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 1: to do with a kid, a teddy bear, and an 11 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 1: imaginary friend all in one. I saw this trailer and 12 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 1: I thought, can't wait to talk about this one. Thank 13 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:32,280 Speaker 1: you for being here, thank you for being subscribed. Shout 14 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:35,560 Speaker 1: out to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now let's 15 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:36,200 Speaker 1: talk movies. 16 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 2: In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast, 17 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:44,199 Speaker 2: one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like 18 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:48,199 Speaker 2: never before in a movie podcast. A man with so 19 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 2: much movie knowledge, he's basically like a walking IMTB with glasses. 20 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 1: From the Nashville Podcast Network. 21 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 2: This is Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. 22 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 1: This great opening scene sets the tone for a superhero movie. 23 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:10,040 Speaker 1: Those first five, seven, sometimes ten minutes, in my opinion, 24 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:12,959 Speaker 1: are the most important minutes. If you don't have me 25 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,680 Speaker 1: hooked in in that opening sequence, I'm not ready to 26 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 1: take the ride. I think if you look at all 27 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 1: of the superhero flops in the last ten years, it's 28 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:24,240 Speaker 1: probably because they have a weak opening scene. So I 29 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 1: went through all my favorite superhero movies, both DC and Marvel. 30 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: Out of every single one, which seven have the best 31 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:36,040 Speaker 1: opening superheroes scenes. I rated them based upon how iconic 32 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 1: they think they are, the cinematography, the music, how they 33 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 1: set the tone for the entire movie, the level of action, 34 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 1: and just overall entertainment level, and how these scenes changed 35 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 1: the landscape of superhero movies. So let's get right into 36 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 1: the list. At number seven, I have the opening scene 37 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: from The Dark Knight Rises back in twenty twelve. What 38 00:01:57,400 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: happens in this opening scene is Bane and his henchmen 39 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 1: and get captured by the CIA, and the CIA captors 40 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 1: are trying to get this information out of them. They 41 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 1: have these bags over their heads, so in that very 42 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 1: opening moment, you don't realize or know that it's Bane 43 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:15,119 Speaker 1: until he starts speaking. Bain had this entire thing orchestrated 44 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 1: and he was going to turn the tables on them. 45 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:20,519 Speaker 1: So what this opening scene does is set the tone 46 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 1: for Bain and how smart he actually is and clues 47 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 1: us into the type of threat he is going to 48 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 1: be throughout this entire movie, where he is always just 49 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:32,680 Speaker 1: one step ahead of Batman and looks like a force 50 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 1: that cannot be taken down. Aside from what this opening 51 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:40,800 Speaker 1: scene establishes with the plot, just visually really gave it 52 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:44,120 Speaker 1: a different feel than The Dark and Knight. Now. Christopher 53 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: Nolan also shot The Dark Knight Rises for Imax, but 54 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 1: I feel like he really flexed it in this opening 55 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:52,520 Speaker 1: sequence more so than The Dark Knight because you have 56 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: these really beautiful shots up in the sky with the 57 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 1: one plane going and the other plane coming on top 58 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 1: of this plane to take over and then crash the plane, 59 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: and Christopher Nolan just always knows how to add value 60 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 1: on the screen and make use of these cameras to 61 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 1: really put you in that situation. It also has two 62 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 1: of my favorite quotes from Bain out of the entire movie. 63 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 1: First up is this one, no one cared who I 64 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:17,680 Speaker 1: was till I put on the Mars, which is a 65 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 1: really great commentary on the psychology and just the nature 66 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 1: of humans that you could take somebody who otherwise doesn't 67 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 1: really alert your interests, doesn't really set off any red flags. 68 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:32,080 Speaker 1: But the minute they do something a little bit different, 69 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:34,640 Speaker 1: like put on a mask or color their hair weird, 70 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 1: I feel like us as a society just gravitate to 71 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:39,119 Speaker 1: that and say, this is weird, this is different, why 72 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 1: are you doing this? So it even reminds me of 73 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: musicians who kind of have like a gimmicky thing that 74 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: becomes the thing they get known for, and it's just 75 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 1: a way to get attention on your music. Maybe you 76 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 1: have a weird hairstyle, you do something weird on stage 77 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 1: that it just is so polarizing that people gravitate towards 78 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: that you hook them in, but then you keep them 79 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 1: around with your music. I think that's just what we 80 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 1: do as a society. In this case, Bain having the 81 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 1: mask makes him feel like more of a threat, makes 82 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: him feel like more of a mystery, and the entire 83 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 1: time the CIA is trying to get answers out of 84 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 1: him of why he is wearing the mask. My other 85 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:15,000 Speaker 1: favorite quote in this sequence is this one the fire Arisals, 86 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,719 Speaker 1: which also sets the tone of the action that will 87 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:21,719 Speaker 1: follow this sequence. So those are two of my top 88 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 1: four quotes from Bain in this entire movie. The other 89 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:28,039 Speaker 1: two would be this one, punishment must be most be 90 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:31,040 Speaker 1: and of course this one. Oh do you think Doc 91 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:37,479 Speaker 1: loses your ally? You merely adopted the doc. I was 92 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 1: born in it, molded by it. Bain is just such 93 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:45,719 Speaker 1: a great villain and it was really just showcased and 94 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 1: highlighted in this opening sequence. That's why I put The 95 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 1: Dark Knight Rises at number seven and number six from 96 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight. I have a movie that is so 97 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 1: overlooked in Marble really when it comes to the superhero 98 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 1: genre for what it did back in the nineties. The 99 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 1: movie is Blade. Wesley Snipes did an incredible job capturing 100 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 1: the energy of this vampire slayer superhero, and this opening 101 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 1: sequence feels so nineteen ninety eight, but that is what 102 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 1: I love it. It starts out with this guy who 103 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 1: goes to a nightclub and then realizes that everybody in 104 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:22,719 Speaker 1: this club our vampires. Once blood starts coming out of 105 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 1: the sprinkler system, everybody's covered in blood, and I just 106 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 1: can imagine that this scene was a nightmare to film 107 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:32,120 Speaker 1: because your entire body is covered in red. They probably 108 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 1: took forever to get this off of their skin, but 109 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 1: it was so worth it because of that visual of 110 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: it just spraying down and covering everybody. And then you 111 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 1: look over at all the faces of people and they 112 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 1: have their vampire teeth, And just as it looks like 113 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: our guys about to go down and become a victim 114 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 1: of these vampires, outcomes Blade in the nick of time 115 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 1: and he disposes every single vampire in sight. But the 116 00:05:56,080 --> 00:05:58,599 Speaker 1: great thing about this opening sequence, and the great thing 117 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 1: about Blade, is how cool he is. He's taking out 118 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:07,160 Speaker 1: these people in the coolest way. He's killing these vampires 119 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 1: in the coolest way possible with his blades, with his 120 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 1: silver bullets, and he does it so cool, calm and collected, 121 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:18,239 Speaker 1: making it feel unlike any superhero adaptation we have seen. 122 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 1: And this was just in nineteen ninety eight, but even 123 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 1: until now, no one has really recaptured the energy of Blade. 124 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 1: So what this opening sequence did was create an exciting 125 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:32,480 Speaker 1: change in the genre and showing that they could be ultraviolent, 126 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:35,280 Speaker 1: dark and cool, which I feel is now more of 127 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:39,159 Speaker 1: the space that DC is operating in. And I'm hoping 128 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 1: with the Blade remake they do with Maherschela Ali that 129 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:44,800 Speaker 1: they go back to the basics here, because if you 130 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 1: go back and watch this movie, some of the special 131 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 1: effects may not hold up, like when he kills a 132 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 1: vampire and they burst into flames and evaporate. It looks 133 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:57,920 Speaker 1: very nineteen ninety eight. But the overall action and the 134 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 1: overall just tone of the character is so perfect. If 135 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 1: they could just replicate that and update those small little 136 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:08,160 Speaker 1: special effects without putting him into this whole entirely different 137 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: sci fi world which he doesn't really need to go in, 138 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 1: he could be a very much grounded character. If they 139 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 1: are able to do that with a new version of Blade, 140 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 1: it could honestly be one of the best Marvel movies 141 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:22,560 Speaker 1: in years, because it's R rated. At the time, it 142 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 1: was the first R rated Marvel movie. Now we've had 143 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 1: Deadpool and Logan, and it's just so hard to do 144 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 1: vampire movies because they come across so cheesy naturally in film. 145 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:36,119 Speaker 1: I feel like if you could just strip everything down 146 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 1: and keep it so cool again. So I just wanted 147 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 1: to show some recognition to one of the best superhero 148 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 1: movies that often gets overlooked, and a great opening sequence 149 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:49,600 Speaker 1: at number six is Blade at number five from twenty fourteen. 150 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:53,200 Speaker 1: I'm going with Guardians of the Galaxy. Not only is 151 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 1: it a great opening sequence of Peter Quill showing us 152 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 1: exactly who he is dancing to this song on an 153 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 1: abandoned planet as these kicking aliens using them as microphones, 154 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 1: you really learn everything you need to know about the 155 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 1: character's personality. And that is what I love about a 156 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 1: great opening sequence. Time and time again, the Guardians of 157 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: the Galaxy franchise has done this. It really became their thing, 158 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: even with two and with three having that big, fun 159 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: opening sequence. But this scene came at a time where 160 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 1: Marvel really needed it in twenty fourteen. And why I 161 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 1: included this scene on my list is because this represents 162 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 1: the tonal shift that Marvel had at this time, where 163 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 1: it was becoming not dark in the sense of like 164 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:44,680 Speaker 1: a grittier tone, but it was very much focused on war, 165 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:47,920 Speaker 1: very much focused on all the friction between the characters, 166 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 1: and there needed to be some levity now. They always 167 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 1: had like the cheesy one off remarks from superheroes that 168 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 1: became known as you know, superhero comedy lines. Always just 169 00:08:57,200 --> 00:08:59,360 Speaker 1: that one little quick moment that It made us all laugh, 170 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:04,080 Speaker 1: but over the movies were still fairly serious. And what 171 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:07,960 Speaker 1: Guardians of the Galaxy was. It became the franchise that 172 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 1: was known for just having fun and doing things differently 173 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:13,960 Speaker 1: and being so rooted in sci fi, and that is 174 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:18,319 Speaker 1: exactly what this opening scene represents. It became the blueprint 175 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:21,040 Speaker 1: for the rest of the MCU. Even until now, it 176 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 1: is still writing off of the momentum that this scene 177 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 1: in this movie created back in twenty fourteen. Without this 178 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:31,440 Speaker 1: scene and Guardians of the Galaxy, the MCU would have 179 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:34,959 Speaker 1: failed in the twenty tens. It needed the Guardian of 180 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 1: the Galaxy to make everything work, to connect everything, to 181 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 1: bring that fun energy and bring characters in that we 182 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 1: really cared about. But it was this scene that kicked 183 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 1: it all off. You have our hero singing along. We 184 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 1: all knew we were into something fun and something special. 185 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:54,079 Speaker 1: So at number five, I have Guardians of the Galaxy. 186 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 1: At number four, we'll move it ahead just one year, 187 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:00,960 Speaker 1: staying in the MCU, I have the opening scene from 188 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 1: Avengers Age of Oltron, which I also included this on 189 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 1: my list because I feel overall, when you look at 190 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 1: all the Avengers movies, this one is often viewed as 191 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:12,840 Speaker 1: being the worst, but I've gone back time and time 192 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:15,240 Speaker 1: again to rewatch Age of Oldtron, and I think that 193 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 1: isn't a true statement. There's a lot that happens in 194 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:21,600 Speaker 1: this movie that is so important throughout the entire Infinity saga, 195 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 1: and I really feel like at its core, Age of 196 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 1: Oltron is a great movie. It just wasn't what we 197 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 1: wanted at the time that it came out. But if 198 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:32,840 Speaker 1: you go back and rewatch all the Avengers movies in order, 199 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 1: it is so strong and the opening sequence is one 200 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 1: of my favorites. Because of the action in this one, 201 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:41,960 Speaker 1: the Avengers are already a thing, and I always say 202 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: part two in a superhero movie is sometimes better than 203 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 1: part one because no origin story needed. It's already established 204 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 1: that they are your team and you get right into action. 205 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 1: It is top tier. You have every single character showing 206 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:59,320 Speaker 1: what makes them amazing in just the first ten minutes 207 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 1: of this movie. The incredible Hold has the best fight 208 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 1: sequence he has ever had in any movie in Avengers 209 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:08,959 Speaker 1: Age of Ultron, and he has always been a special 210 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 1: character for me, even though his solo movies often get 211 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 1: over criticized. Seeing him at his best is just there's 212 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:21,200 Speaker 1: nothing better than that. But hands down, the best moment 213 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:24,200 Speaker 1: in this opening scene is when they are all lunging 214 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 1: forward and it's the full Avengers team in like a 215 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 1: small little slow mo maybe one, two, maybe three seconds, 216 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 1: but you see every single hero in action lunging forward, 217 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:40,840 Speaker 1: and it is the best action frame in any Avengers movie. Yeah, 218 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:44,720 Speaker 1: you could say the Avengers first assembling in the first movie, 219 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,720 Speaker 1: or then an endgame when you have everybody on screen. 220 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 1: But if you just took one single image, if I 221 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 1: just wanted one frame photo on my wall, it would 222 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 1: be this one with all of our characters here lunging forward. 223 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 1: It gives all six members a time to shine and 224 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:02,199 Speaker 1: gave us this gem of a moment from Captain America 225 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:05,480 Speaker 1: and Ironman calling him out language Jarvis, what's the few 226 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:09,440 Speaker 1: from upstairs? Twit a second? No one else is going 227 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:11,800 Speaker 1: to do with the fact that KP just said language 228 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 1: I know. And then shortly after that it gave us 229 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 1: one of the darkest scenes in the entire Avengers movies. 230 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:22,680 Speaker 1: Whenever Tony Stark has the vision that all of the 231 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 1: Avengers are dead, I love it. That's why I put 232 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 1: Age of Ultron at number four, at number three is 233 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:31,920 Speaker 1: the movie that blew my mind at twelve years old, 234 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,960 Speaker 1: sitting in the movie theater thinking this scene was so 235 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:39,280 Speaker 1: well executed, and it's from a franchise again that I 236 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:42,080 Speaker 1: feel doesn't get the recognition it deserves. But you know 237 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 1: who's going to give it to him. I'm going to 238 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:46,680 Speaker 1: give it to him. The movie is X two X 239 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:49,400 Speaker 1: Men United. It came out in two thousand and three, 240 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:52,320 Speaker 1: and it's the scene where night Crawler attacks the Oval 241 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 1: Office and attempts to take out the President and as 242 00:12:55,840 --> 00:13:01,240 Speaker 1: a result, creating a full fledged war between humans and mutants, 243 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:04,800 Speaker 1: and also just shows you how powerful one single mutant 244 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 1: can be in attack mode. This scene captures how exciting 245 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:12,840 Speaker 1: and thrilling these movies were, at least in the first three. 246 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:15,560 Speaker 1: But it starts out at the White House, which just 247 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 1: anything that takes place at the White House has a 248 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 1: little bit more weight to me because it seems like 249 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 1: a place that nobody should be allowed to go. So 250 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 1: seeing something like this take place in a movie, it 251 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 1: really puts you thinking of this crazy situation that what 252 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 1: if mutants were actually real? What if superheroes were a 253 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:36,079 Speaker 1: thing in the real world, how would we protect ourselves 254 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:38,120 Speaker 1: from them? But it starts at the White House. You 255 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:41,000 Speaker 1: have this mysterious man who is approached by security and 256 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 1: it turns out to be Nightcrawler. First you see his tail, 257 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:46,320 Speaker 1: then you see his powers where he can teleport. You 258 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 1: see like this cloud, a wiggly smoke where he once was, 259 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:52,320 Speaker 1: and then he ends up in a new location and 260 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:55,800 Speaker 1: as he's working through all of the Secret Service, he's 261 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:58,680 Speaker 1: trying to make his way to the Oval Office. He 262 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:01,760 Speaker 1: makes it to the Oval Office, takes out everybody in there, 263 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:05,680 Speaker 1: is about to stab the President, but then get shot, 264 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:10,079 Speaker 1: teleports away, but leaves behind the message Mutant freedom now. 265 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:12,560 Speaker 1: So this opening scene was to post to show us 266 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 1: the tension between the mutants and the humans, which is 267 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:19,479 Speaker 1: the most important plot point in all of these original 268 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: X Men movies. But what I love about this opening 269 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:26,160 Speaker 1: scene is how much it still holds up to today. 270 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 1: There was so much attention to detail in creating comic 271 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:34,480 Speaker 1: book accurate representations on the big screen with these X 272 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 1: Men movies, so they spent so much time and effort 273 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:40,600 Speaker 1: and money in makeup. And I love the detail you 274 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 1: see on Nightcrawler's face as he's opening up his mouth. 275 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:45,440 Speaker 1: You see his sharp teeth and it would be one 276 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 1: thing just to paint him entirely blue, but they also 277 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 1: add these little details on his skin that are almost 278 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 1: like raised tattoos all over his face to give him 279 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 1: that next level of details. They did the same thing 280 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 1: with Rebecca Romain as Mystique, and the decis to do 281 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: that and not try and v effects Nightcrawler is what 282 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 1: makes this opening sequence great. And then you also have 283 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 1: the music happening behind all of this action that takes 284 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:24,120 Speaker 1: it to another level. My god, and something you may 285 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:26,960 Speaker 1: not notice after watching it for the first time, but 286 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:32,560 Speaker 1: Nightcrawler doesn't actually kill anybody in that opening sequence, which 287 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:36,640 Speaker 1: is later revealed his moral dilemma of killing humans and 288 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:39,160 Speaker 1: really shows that he was just there to send a 289 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:42,480 Speaker 1: message to end all of the mutant hate. So this 290 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 1: scene was so exciting, so thrilling. I love it when 291 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 1: movies get right to the action in that very opening sequence. 292 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 1: That's why I put it at number three. At number two, 293 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:54,160 Speaker 1: I'm keeping it in the X Men world, but we're 294 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 1: moving all the way to twenty seventeen with Logan this movie. 295 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:01,960 Speaker 1: Oh I put this entire movie in my top five 296 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:06,320 Speaker 1: superhero movies of all time because of Hugh Jackman's performance 297 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:10,520 Speaker 1: because of the entire story of an age Wolverine and 298 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 1: his powers are fading, but he has all this rage 299 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:16,360 Speaker 1: and him still just trying to live a normal life 300 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:20,040 Speaker 1: and after living a long, long life, not being able 301 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:24,040 Speaker 1: to fight like he once used to regenerate as quickly 302 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 1: as he could, He's trying to take care of Professor Xavier. 303 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 1: There's just something about an age superhero that just really 304 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 1: hits me in the gut. But the art of this 305 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:38,400 Speaker 1: opening sequence was so attention getting, and I think it's 306 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 1: because this movie was rated R that we finally had 307 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 1: Wolverine unleashed unlike ever before. So I feel like this 308 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 1: is where we truly got to see the grit of 309 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:51,760 Speaker 1: the character and how brutal he could be. So what 310 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:54,400 Speaker 1: happens in this opening scene is we find out that 311 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:57,920 Speaker 1: Wolverine is now working as a chauffeur, driving around people 312 00:16:57,960 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 1: who are getting drunk in the back of his limb. 313 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 1: He decides to take a nap in his limo and 314 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 1: then finds these people trying to steal the rims and 315 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:08,920 Speaker 1: tires off of his car. He confronts them, and as 316 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:11,399 Speaker 1: he confronts them, they cut them off mid sentence. And 317 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 1: just shoot them, and they think, oh, that's over. We 318 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 1: kill the guy. Now, let's get his rims. But what 319 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 1: they don't expect is to him to get up and 320 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 1: start fighting him. And my favorite part in this opening 321 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:25,159 Speaker 1: scene is where they start to overtake him. They're just 322 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:28,679 Speaker 1: jumping in kicking him, and he gets so filled with 323 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:32,240 Speaker 1: rage that he just unleashes. And in that moment of 324 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:36,280 Speaker 1: him unleashing, we see what a rated R Wolverine movie 325 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:47,440 Speaker 1: is going to be. So you see him take the 326 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:50,080 Speaker 1: blades that are coming out of his hands and just 327 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:53,879 Speaker 1: rip people to shreds, tear off ligaments, and it is 328 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:57,679 Speaker 1: so brutal and so bloody, and I love it. It 329 00:17:57,800 --> 00:17:59,760 Speaker 1: lets you know that you're in for a much more 330 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:02,800 Speaker 1: harm sure look at the character, and a much more 331 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:07,200 Speaker 1: violent approach to a superhero movie that we have ever seen. 332 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 1: And as shocking as that violence was, it made this 333 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:15,639 Speaker 1: movie special and remains a perfect opening to a superhero movie. 334 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:18,720 Speaker 1: And I would say the best X Men movie of 335 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:22,000 Speaker 1: all time. And if it wasn't for number one, this 336 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:24,320 Speaker 1: easily could have been up there as well. But that 337 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:27,080 Speaker 1: is number two. Before I get to that number one, 338 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:30,600 Speaker 1: I do have some honorable mentions Deadpool from twenty sixteen, 339 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:34,600 Speaker 1: the entire slow mo joke sequence and then seeing all 340 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:38,160 Speaker 1: of the cliches listed of superhero movies, which is really 341 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:40,439 Speaker 1: what that movie did, and the statement it made of 342 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:43,440 Speaker 1: poking fun of the entire genre that even at that time, 343 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:47,360 Speaker 1: back in twenty sixteen, felt oversaturated and kind of played out. 344 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:49,240 Speaker 1: So that was a fun moment. You also have the 345 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:52,880 Speaker 1: opening sequence from Batman nineteen eighty nine that was important 346 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 1: because the Batman character was viewed as very jokey before that, 347 00:18:57,160 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 1: and Tim Burton was even seen as kind of a 348 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:03,439 Speaker 1: living start to make a serious superhero movie until you 349 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:05,800 Speaker 1: saw that opening sequence and you realize, oh, this is 350 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:07,879 Speaker 1: the tone we're going for here. This is not going 351 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 1: to be Adam West doing a dance number. So that 352 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:14,240 Speaker 1: movie's opening sequence was really important. From twenty twenty one, 353 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:17,639 Speaker 1: I also love the Suicide Squads opening sequence from James Gunn. 354 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:20,680 Speaker 1: I love that it took all the time to establish 355 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:23,440 Speaker 1: these characters at the very beginning, only to have them 356 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:27,480 Speaker 1: all wiped out in really hilarious and violent ways in 357 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:31,000 Speaker 1: that opening. So those are a couple honorable mentions, but 358 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:34,919 Speaker 1: at number one is one I would say is not only, 359 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:39,080 Speaker 1: hands down the best opening scene in a superhero movie 360 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:44,440 Speaker 1: quite honestly might be my favorite opening scene to any 361 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:47,639 Speaker 1: movie of all time. It is from two thousand and 362 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 1: eight The Dark Night, easily the opening scene I have 363 00:19:51,119 --> 00:19:54,119 Speaker 1: watched the most out of this entire list. Sometimes I 364 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:56,720 Speaker 1: just go and watch this scene because of how good 365 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:59,640 Speaker 1: it is. And after this scene ended, I remember seeing 366 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:02,720 Speaker 1: it in the and looking around and feeling like everybody 367 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:05,359 Speaker 1: knew the ride we were about to get into. And 368 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:08,719 Speaker 1: this was before we all knew how impactful Heath Ledger's 369 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:11,399 Speaker 1: Joker was going to be. We didn't really know it 370 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:14,280 Speaker 1: and didn't really feel it until his opening scene. But 371 00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:17,719 Speaker 1: what happens in this opening scene is you have this 372 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:20,760 Speaker 1: group of criminals, all wearing these clown masks, and they 373 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 1: are trying to carry out a heist of this bank, 374 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:27,000 Speaker 1: and they all have very specific jobs throughout this entire heist, 375 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:29,720 Speaker 1: and they keep talking about their boss, the Joker, and 376 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:33,440 Speaker 1: as they all performed their individual jobs, they all get 377 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 1: taken out by another guy. So what this opening scene 378 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:41,760 Speaker 1: shows is the sophistication of Joker, but also the fact 379 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,960 Speaker 1: that he doesn't care about anything and all he wants 380 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:49,119 Speaker 1: to do is watch the world burn because throughout that 381 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:52,240 Speaker 1: entire process of one getting taken out by the other, 382 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 1: who was left standing at the end it is Joker 383 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:58,760 Speaker 1: and his ability to kill members of his crew without 384 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 1: even flinching. Is probably my favorite part of the opening 385 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:05,520 Speaker 1: scene is a true representation of the character. But my 386 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 1: favorite moment of the scene is whenever it's finally revealed 387 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 1: that it's Heath Ledger behind one of these masks. You 388 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:14,800 Speaker 1: have his interaction with the owner of the bank, and 389 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:17,679 Speaker 1: then his escape as he hops onto the bus and 390 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:20,560 Speaker 1: drives it right into traffic. This scene is a ten 391 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 1: out of ten. I'm betting the Joker told you to 392 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 1: kill me soon as we loaded the cash. No, no, no, no, 393 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:32,080 Speaker 1: I killed the bus driver. Bus driver, look at you. 394 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:33,480 Speaker 1: What do you believe it? 395 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:34,200 Speaker 2: Huh? 396 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 1: What I believe? Whatever doesn't kill you simply makes your stranger. 397 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:47,399 Speaker 1: What this opening scene taught me is that it really 398 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:51,399 Speaker 1: goes all back to basics on creating tension and making 399 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 1: a meaningful open to a movie that starts out cold. 400 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:57,720 Speaker 1: And I credit this all to Christopher Nolan, who I 401 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:00,359 Speaker 1: mentioned earlier when talking about The Dark Knight. Right is 402 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 1: also here in The Dark Knight. There are no special 403 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 1: effects going on as far as fancy techniques, no lens, flare, 404 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,720 Speaker 1: no closeups on any of the characters, but yet does 405 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:13,919 Speaker 1: a great job of pacing and making you feel it 406 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 1: and making each moment seem so significant, And even if 407 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:20,200 Speaker 1: you took away all the action from this opening scene, 408 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 1: it has my favorite single frame from any opening of 409 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,639 Speaker 1: Jokers standing on that corner with a mask in his 410 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:29,560 Speaker 1: hand and a Duffel bag in the other hand, just 411 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:33,639 Speaker 1: slightly looking over his shoulder. That one frame is all 412 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,320 Speaker 1: I need to know about the Joker and all I 413 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 1: need to know about the Dark Knight. You can capture 414 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:42,199 Speaker 1: that in one frame, you deserve every single oscar. So 415 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 1: that is the list my top seven opening scenes in 416 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:47,439 Speaker 1: superhero movies. If you want to let me know one 417 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:49,680 Speaker 1: you think I missed or one you think should be rated, 418 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,600 Speaker 1: hire hit me up on email moviemke d at gmail 419 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:55,359 Speaker 1: dot com, or find all my socials in the episode 420 00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:57,919 Speaker 1: notes we'll come back, we'll talk about Napoleon, and then 421 00:22:57,960 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 1: the trailer park, we'll talk about a new scary movie 422 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:05,800 Speaker 1: called Imaginary. Let's get into it now. A spoiler free 423 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 1: movie review of Napoleon. I will let you know that 424 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,399 Speaker 1: I had really high expectations going into this movie because 425 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 1: look at the cast and the leading role as Napoleon Bonaparte. 426 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:19,080 Speaker 1: You have Joaquin Phoenix, who is arguably one of my 427 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:23,080 Speaker 1: favorite actors still working today. He's been in Her Walk 428 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,920 Speaker 1: the Line, he was the Joker, he was in Gladiator, 429 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:30,199 Speaker 1: so many movies that I'm always just automatically attaching myself 430 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:32,760 Speaker 1: to any new project that he has coming up, and 431 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 1: I feel highly invested into seeing how it plays out 432 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,480 Speaker 1: into his career and where it fits in between all 433 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 1: of his movies. You also have Vanessa Kirby playing his 434 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 1: wife Josephine in this movie. You may know her from 435 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:47,040 Speaker 1: The Crown. Most recently just saw her in Dead Reckoning 436 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:49,159 Speaker 1: Part one and I thought she was fantastic in that. 437 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 1: But then you have the director Ridley Scott, who has 438 00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:55,880 Speaker 1: done movies like Alien, Thelma and Louise, Gladiator, so it's 439 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 1: working with Joaquin Phoenix again, also movies like Blade Runner, 440 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:01,600 Speaker 1: the list of on and on, and he's a director 441 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:05,760 Speaker 1: who has a very high variety of different types of movies, 442 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:07,680 Speaker 1: and I love those type of directors who is really 443 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,800 Speaker 1: not just typecast as doing one thing really well. He 444 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,119 Speaker 1: can do action, he can do romantic movies, he can 445 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,880 Speaker 1: do war movies. He can really do it all. As 446 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,200 Speaker 1: of late, his last two films haven't been the biggest 447 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 1: fan of But I thought him taking on the story 448 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 1: of Napoleon in a big epic war movie was gonna 449 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 1: be his bread and butter. And with a movie like this, 450 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:29,399 Speaker 1: I thought it was going to rattle me. And in 451 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:31,639 Speaker 1: the end, it didn't really do it. So what this 452 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:35,119 Speaker 1: movie was about was the rise and fall of Napoleon, 453 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:37,719 Speaker 1: how he went from nothing to having it all and 454 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:39,760 Speaker 1: then to losing it all. It takes place in the 455 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:43,480 Speaker 1: late seventeen hundreds and early eighteen hundreds, and you start 456 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:46,879 Speaker 1: out getting to see how brutal this movie is, and 457 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:50,359 Speaker 1: Kelsey went with me. I told her she would probably 458 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 1: enjoy this movie because she loves history, but she didn't 459 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:57,000 Speaker 1: want something to be so overly gruesome, and I was like, 460 00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:00,159 Speaker 1: that's gonna be fine, you're gonna love it. With in 461 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:02,480 Speaker 1: the first five minutes, they used the guillotine to slice 462 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,240 Speaker 1: somebody's head off, and that really set the tone of 463 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:07,639 Speaker 1: the entire movie of how brutal it was going to be. 464 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:12,200 Speaker 1: The war scenes are very bloody, very detailed, very gruesome. 465 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:16,840 Speaker 1: Very shocking, which isn't a surprise coming from Ridley Scott, 466 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 1: But I honestly thought that was where this movie shined 467 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,359 Speaker 1: because I feel like this is where they spent the 468 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:25,040 Speaker 1: majority of the budget to make these war scenes look 469 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 1: really good. The war scenes really reminded me of Game 470 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:30,840 Speaker 1: of Thrones, those being the best episodes whenever they spent 471 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,720 Speaker 1: a lot of money to make those wars and battles 472 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:35,720 Speaker 1: look really good. But a lot of the movie dealt 473 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 1: with that, when Napoleon and the French army and these 474 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:41,800 Speaker 1: really crazy battles where there were a lot of casualties 475 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 1: and really shows you the recklessness that was Napoleon. And 476 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:48,040 Speaker 1: aside from that, the movie served as a character study 477 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:51,199 Speaker 1: and a look into the life off the battlefield with 478 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 1: his relationship with Josephine, who they had a really troublesome, 479 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:59,000 Speaker 1: all you would say toxic relationship, but even looking back 480 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 1: in the late seventeen hundreds early eighteen hundreds, I wonder 481 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:04,840 Speaker 1: if this was just the norm. To say the least, 482 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:07,439 Speaker 1: their relationship was toxic. There was a lot of cheating, 483 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:10,359 Speaker 1: there was a lot of arguments, a lot of abuse, 484 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,320 Speaker 1: a lot of him being angry at her for not 485 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,719 Speaker 1: loving him more so on the forefront, the way all 486 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:20,680 Speaker 1: the French people see him as this very powerful, reckless, 487 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:24,680 Speaker 1: fearless leader, and then behind closed doors he was a 488 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:28,320 Speaker 1: lot more sensitive than you would expect. Very melancholy is 489 00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:31,680 Speaker 1: how he describes himself in the movie. The other interesting 490 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:35,520 Speaker 1: thing about their relationship, and really this entire movie is 491 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 1: the weird levels of comedy that I was not expecting. 492 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:41,440 Speaker 1: There were just things that were oddly funny in between them, 493 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,640 Speaker 1: arguing that I found the entire theater laughing. At one 494 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:46,720 Speaker 1: scene in particular, I had to write down a line 495 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 1: where Napoleon said Destiny has brought me to the slam 496 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:53,040 Speaker 1: chop and I just loved that line. That was very 497 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:56,040 Speaker 1: memorable and just something that I wasn't really expecting for 498 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,480 Speaker 1: it to have any kind of levity. It did feel 499 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:00,800 Speaker 1: a little bit out of place, but I was like, Okay, 500 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,399 Speaker 1: if they're trying to bring some humor into this movie 501 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:09,240 Speaker 1: that's relatively dark, dismal, gruesome and bloody, I'll take it. 502 00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:13,439 Speaker 1: So when it came to the acting, I don't know 503 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,399 Speaker 1: if it was just because I expected more from Jaquin 504 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,000 Speaker 1: Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby for the matter, which I think 505 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,080 Speaker 1: she was actually the one with the better performance throughout 506 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:24,400 Speaker 1: this entire movie. I don't know if it was them 507 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 1: and their chemistry or really what I think it was 508 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:30,439 Speaker 1: was just the nature of this story and trying to 509 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,560 Speaker 1: depict these characters from the late seventeen hundreds and early 510 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,840 Speaker 1: eighteen hundreds, and I just think this is how people 511 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,880 Speaker 1: acted back in the day. Because the acting was so subtle, 512 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:43,600 Speaker 1: it felt a little bit boring to me. So I 513 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:48,160 Speaker 1: really think they were playing the characters right just them themselves. 514 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 1: Weren't that interesting to learn about. And I think for me, 515 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,840 Speaker 1: I already come out a place where I really don't 516 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,680 Speaker 1: like period pieces, but I'm open to them. I got 517 00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,440 Speaker 1: a little bored here in there. About ninety minutes into 518 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 1: the movie, I felt myself becoming more invested and thinking, Okay, 519 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,199 Speaker 1: I think they're getting somewhere. I think there's actually going 520 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,480 Speaker 1: to be a big payoff here. And then I kind 521 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:09,720 Speaker 1: of realized that it was kind of going to be 522 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,639 Speaker 1: a lot of the same thing. So I didn't really 523 00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:16,119 Speaker 1: necessarily hate it, but definitely was expecting a lot more. 524 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 1: Even when it came to the visuals, there was a 525 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,520 Speaker 1: lot left to be desired because Apple Films right now 526 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,359 Speaker 1: are crushing it. Visually, anything I sit down to watch 527 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:28,119 Speaker 1: that comes from Apple, I just know that it's going 528 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,919 Speaker 1: to have a higher quality to it. I don't know 529 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,760 Speaker 1: what standards they have when it comes to filming and 530 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:36,720 Speaker 1: editing and the cameras they use, but they always just 531 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 1: look like a step above what anybody else is doing 532 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,280 Speaker 1: right now. But when it came to this movie, it 533 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:45,040 Speaker 1: felt and looked a little bit generic, like a normal 534 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:47,880 Speaker 1: war movie, and I was expecting it to look more 535 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:51,239 Speaker 1: like a spectacle, something that demanded the big screen. If not, 536 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:53,960 Speaker 1: I could have just waited to watch this on Apple TV. Plus, 537 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,480 Speaker 1: when it comes out down the line probably goes back 538 00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,040 Speaker 1: to what I said earlier that they spent so much 539 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 1: on the battles that maybe there just wasn't enough money 540 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:04,520 Speaker 1: to go around at the end of the day. So 541 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,600 Speaker 1: I really felt that this movie could have looked better, 542 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,880 Speaker 1: especially since Ridley Scott worked with a cinematographer that has 543 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:11,680 Speaker 1: been his go to in a lot of his movies 544 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,600 Speaker 1: that have looked the part, but where the cinematography lack. 545 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 1: I found myself loving the wardrobe Napoleon had drip. I 546 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,760 Speaker 1: was a dude in the late seventeen hundreds early eighteen hundreds. 547 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 1: I would want that same look you mean, the big, 548 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:26,360 Speaker 1: weird looking hat, the emperor uniform. I would want to 549 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,960 Speaker 1: look like Napoleon. I feel like if this movie would 550 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:31,640 Speaker 1: have been forty five minutes less, I would have loved it. 551 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,440 Speaker 1: I want the opposite of the director's cut. I want 552 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:36,840 Speaker 1: all the fat taken out and give me just the 553 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,160 Speaker 1: meat of this movie and what I need to know 554 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 1: about Napoleon and take out some of the stuff that 555 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:45,000 Speaker 1: just felt a little bit boring period piece, especially for 556 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:48,080 Speaker 1: a movie that costs almost two hundred million dollars to make. 557 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,160 Speaker 1: They could have saved themselves some cash there. I did 558 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,000 Speaker 1: love what Ridley Scott said in response to some critics 559 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,480 Speaker 1: who said the movie wasn't completely historically accurate, and he said, 560 00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:00,880 Speaker 1: when I have issues with historians, I ask, excuse me, mate, 561 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:01,560 Speaker 1: were you there? 562 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:02,040 Speaker 2: No? 563 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,960 Speaker 1: Well, then shut the blink up. Which is just funny 564 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,920 Speaker 1: because you have to take some liberties in making a 565 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,840 Speaker 1: movie about history, and there was so much research he 566 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:15,240 Speaker 1: did while making this movie, and of course you're gonna 567 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:19,600 Speaker 1: embellish some things to make a more cinematically appealing. So 568 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:21,760 Speaker 1: I don't really have any issue with that. And I 569 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 1: just know when going to watch a movie about something 570 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,480 Speaker 1: that happened in history, it's probably not all gonna be 571 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,520 Speaker 1: down to the facts. If they did, it would probably 572 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:33,040 Speaker 1: be a much more boring movie, not just in this 573 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:36,200 Speaker 1: movie's case, but any movie in history. So I really 574 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:39,200 Speaker 1: don't think this movie is for everybody, unless like me, 575 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:42,520 Speaker 1: you're a big Joaquin Phoenix fan, or you're just really 576 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:47,320 Speaker 1: into war dramas. Kelsey did not enjoy this movie whatsoever, 577 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:50,200 Speaker 1: so I think that's also a pretty good indicator of 578 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,840 Speaker 1: somebody who is not a fan of this type of movie, 579 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,440 Speaker 1: because it was over the top gory and graphic. There 580 00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:00,080 Speaker 1: was one scene in particular, there's not any graphic nudity, 581 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,280 Speaker 1: but there is you know what happens. There was a 582 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:04,480 Speaker 1: scene that went down and then forty five seconds later 583 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,560 Speaker 1: this family walked in, and I was like, if they 584 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,960 Speaker 1: would have walked in just a minute earlier, probably looking 585 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,760 Speaker 1: for the Trolls movie, they would have been traumatized. So 586 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,680 Speaker 1: that's also letting you know what else to expect from 587 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,440 Speaker 1: this movie. But in the end, I did find myself 588 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:20,640 Speaker 1: enjoying the movie. I just thought it was gonna be 589 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,400 Speaker 1: a movie that would stick with me, especially going into 590 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,240 Speaker 1: Oscar season, I thought that Joaquin Phoenix would maybe have 591 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:29,120 Speaker 1: another Oscar worthy performance, we would have a Best Director 592 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,880 Speaker 1: nomination here. I don't even think that's the case. So 593 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,240 Speaker 1: for Napoleon, in honor of one of the most gruesome 594 00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:37,560 Speaker 1: scenes in the movie where his horse gets taken out, 595 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:43,680 Speaker 1: I give it three out of five horses. It's time 596 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:45,240 Speaker 1: to head down to movie. 597 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:46,800 Speaker 2: Mike Trey Lar Paul. 598 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,800 Speaker 1: If there's a kid in a horror movie talking to 599 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,120 Speaker 1: a demonic presence, I'm all in. I don't care how 600 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,360 Speaker 1: good or bad the movie is. I just know I'm 601 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:57,240 Speaker 1: going to like it because that is all playing to 602 00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:59,360 Speaker 1: my taste in horror movies. And that is exactly what 603 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:03,000 Speaker 1: we have here. And the new Blumhouse movie called Imaginary, 604 00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,320 Speaker 1: it's about a kid who gets really attached to this 605 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,120 Speaker 1: teddy bear, but the teddy bear is talking to her. 606 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:14,200 Speaker 1: So before I get into some more creepy moments from Imaginary, 607 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,600 Speaker 1: here's just a little bit of the trailer. And every 608 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:20,120 Speaker 1: culture has entities that tether to the young. We call 609 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:26,760 Speaker 1: them imaginary friends. You are always saying with your imaginary friend. 610 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:31,120 Speaker 1: When the connection with severb, the entity becomes in rage, 611 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,520 Speaker 1: he says he's right behind you. Can I hang out 612 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:42,880 Speaker 1: with your imaginary friend? He's not imaginary, He's not your friend. 613 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:45,760 Speaker 1: So what this movie is about. You have a character 614 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,560 Speaker 1: named Jessica who moves back into her childhood home with 615 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 1: her family and her youngest stepdaughter is named Alice. She 616 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:56,240 Speaker 1: develops this eerie attachment with a stuffed bear named Chauncey, 617 00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,040 Speaker 1: which Chauncey is just a weird, creepy name, and you 618 00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,920 Speaker 1: know there's gonna be some crazy backstory to Chauncey. But 619 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,120 Speaker 1: she finds them in the basement and then they start 620 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,680 Speaker 1: playing all these games together, and she has this list 621 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:09,760 Speaker 1: that she's talking about of all these things that Chauncey 622 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:13,120 Speaker 1: wants her to do, and they get creepier and creepier 623 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,560 Speaker 1: as you go down the line of things. One of 624 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:19,440 Speaker 1: them involves her having to hurt herself. In the trailer, 625 00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:22,440 Speaker 1: you see her pull this board out of a fence 626 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:24,680 Speaker 1: that has a nail on it, and then she puts 627 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:26,880 Speaker 1: the board down and it looks like she stabs her 628 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:28,680 Speaker 1: hand right through the nail. So there are a lot 629 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:30,560 Speaker 1: of things I love about this movie. Just going back 630 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,160 Speaker 1: to Blumhouse, who I feel is taking a lot of 631 00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:36,240 Speaker 1: risk and horror right now. If you're not familiar with Blumhouse. 632 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:38,600 Speaker 1: Earlier this year, they brought us Megan and they also 633 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,240 Speaker 1: put out five nights at Freddy's pretty recently. And even 634 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:44,800 Speaker 1: though I didn't entirely love that movie, I can respect 635 00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:49,160 Speaker 1: how much money that movie made on a really modest budget. 636 00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:52,320 Speaker 1: And that is the beauty of horror movies is as 637 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:55,760 Speaker 1: long as you have a great concept a unique style, 638 00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:59,400 Speaker 1: you can turn a little bit of money into a 639 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,600 Speaker 1: whole lot of money at the box office. So it 640 00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:06,200 Speaker 1: is a great genre for your return on investment. And 641 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:07,840 Speaker 1: then if you make one that you didn't spend a 642 00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:09,480 Speaker 1: whole lot of money on and then it didn't do 643 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:11,399 Speaker 1: so well and people hate it, well at least they're 644 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,439 Speaker 1: not out a whole lot of money. I also learned 645 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,600 Speaker 1: that from Jason Blum, who was a guest shark on 646 00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:17,920 Speaker 1: Shark Tank. He did the Halloween episode and told his 647 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:21,400 Speaker 1: entire life story and how he created Blumhouse. So that 648 00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:23,480 Speaker 1: as another pleasure of mine sitting down on a Friday 649 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:27,200 Speaker 1: night and watching Shark Tank. But going back to Imaginary, 650 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:29,920 Speaker 1: it feels like a film that needs to be seen 651 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,760 Speaker 1: in a full theater on a Friday night. In this trailer, 652 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,600 Speaker 1: it has what I call a oh heck no moment. 653 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:39,120 Speaker 1: Clean that up a little bit for the young ears listening, 654 00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,759 Speaker 1: but it has that moment where the teddy Bear is 655 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,680 Speaker 1: sitting in a hallway. You have this teenager on the 656 00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:46,799 Speaker 1: other end thinking how did this teddy bear get here? 657 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,480 Speaker 1: And then the teddy Bear starts to move. That is 658 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:52,000 Speaker 1: a situation where, if it were in the real world, 659 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:54,200 Speaker 1: you would just high tail it out of there and 660 00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:57,400 Speaker 1: not look back. But instead the kid stays there. The 661 00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:00,560 Speaker 1: teddy Bear gets closer and closer and closer, and then 662 00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,680 Speaker 1: a quick second you see it kind of erupt into 663 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:07,120 Speaker 1: this monstrous villain that we're probably gonna learn about. I'm 664 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,959 Speaker 1: sure there's gonna be one big final battle scene where 665 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,520 Speaker 1: it goes from being just this creepy little teddy bear 666 00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:15,720 Speaker 1: to being the full fledged monster that is hidden inside 667 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,719 Speaker 1: of it. So the reason I say it feels like 668 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:20,640 Speaker 1: a film that needs to be seen on a Friday 669 00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,839 Speaker 1: night in a full theater is because movies like this 670 00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,920 Speaker 1: in the horror genre need to be experienced with people 671 00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,080 Speaker 1: to reach their full potential, and I really think that 672 00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,680 Speaker 1: is what Blumhouse is trying to do. Get Away from 673 00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:34,839 Speaker 1: the streaming only releases and focus so much on that 674 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,280 Speaker 1: in theater experience, which is so important to horror movies 675 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,520 Speaker 1: because it's so much more scary watching it in a big, 676 00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:45,160 Speaker 1: dark theater surrounded by other people. Because what you get 677 00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:46,920 Speaker 1: in a theater like that that you don't get at 678 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:50,200 Speaker 1: home is other people's reactions, and that is a big 679 00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:53,520 Speaker 1: part of it. If you hear someone else getting scared 680 00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:55,520 Speaker 1: at a moment, it may make you get a little 681 00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:58,360 Speaker 1: bit scared. It just adds this level of intensity. But 682 00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:01,719 Speaker 1: also what Blumhouse does in their movies is provide a 683 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:04,720 Speaker 1: little bit of comedy, like we saw with Megan, which 684 00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:07,120 Speaker 1: I've told you before that I feel like horror movies 685 00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:09,520 Speaker 1: like this are the new comedy genre because of that 686 00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:12,680 Speaker 1: juxtaposition of it being scary but also the fun part 687 00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:15,560 Speaker 1: about it being scary, it turns into it being funny. 688 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:17,880 Speaker 1: That is what Megan did so well. This kind of 689 00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:21,640 Speaker 1: feels like taking that same energy of Megan, repackaging it 690 00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:24,960 Speaker 1: up and making a movie like this so essentially ripping 691 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:28,319 Speaker 1: themselves off before we get Megan too. Even going back 692 00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,560 Speaker 1: to that oh heck no moment I was talking about 693 00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,359 Speaker 1: that just very much reminds me of a slasher movie 694 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,600 Speaker 1: from the nineties or a supernatural movie from the early 695 00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:38,359 Speaker 1: two thousands that was just so much more impactful when 696 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:40,879 Speaker 1: you go see it in theaters. So does this movie 697 00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,000 Speaker 1: look like it's gonna be the greatest thing ever in 698 00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:45,759 Speaker 1: the horror genre? No, but it looks like a lot 699 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:48,680 Speaker 1: of fun. And even though they showed a lot of 700 00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:52,120 Speaker 1: the plot in this trailer, I pretty much know, give 701 00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:54,960 Speaker 1: or take what's gonna happen beginning to end, it is 702 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,880 Speaker 1: still a ride I want to go on. I also 703 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:01,120 Speaker 1: love the use of the Temptations in the trailer. You know, 704 00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:03,600 Speaker 1: when you get a slowed down pop song from back 705 00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:06,000 Speaker 1: in the day in a trailer, you're in for a 706 00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:09,120 Speaker 1: scary time. So again, the movie is called Imaginary and 707 00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,720 Speaker 1: it's coming out in theaters next year on March eighth. 708 00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:15,279 Speaker 2: Head that for us next week's edition of Movie by 709 00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:16,680 Speaker 2: Framer Park. 710 00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,440 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's gonna do it for another episode here 711 00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:21,879 Speaker 1: of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta give 712 00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:24,680 Speaker 1: my listeners shout out of the week. And usually these 713 00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:27,240 Speaker 1: shout outs of the week come to us from email 714 00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,360 Speaker 1: movie Mike d at gmail dot com or a DM 715 00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:33,520 Speaker 1: or comment on TikTok or YouTube, which if you don't 716 00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,240 Speaker 1: follow me there, you can check out individual movie reviews 717 00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:40,200 Speaker 1: at YouTube dot com. Slash Mike Dstro This was an 718 00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:42,960 Speaker 1: in person listener shout out because I was on a 719 00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:46,279 Speaker 1: run one day on a Monday after I left the 720 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:49,919 Speaker 1: radio show, met someone out on the trail. Somebody coming 721 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:52,520 Speaker 1: down the other way just shout at Mike d Hey, 722 00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:57,040 Speaker 1: I'm listening to your podcast right now, and unfortunately, listener 723 00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:58,560 Speaker 1: of the week, I did not get your name. It 724 00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:01,319 Speaker 1: was a very quick interaction, but one that was really 725 00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:03,680 Speaker 1: meaningful because not only did I run into you on 726 00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:05,840 Speaker 1: a Monday, which is when I put out in new episodes, 727 00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,600 Speaker 1: but you just happened to be listening to the podcast 728 00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,200 Speaker 1: in that very moment. A lot of things had to 729 00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:13,840 Speaker 1: go right that day for that exchange to happen. So 730 00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:16,080 Speaker 1: I did not get your name, but you looked very 731 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:18,160 Speaker 1: much like an elite athlete. You were running with your 732 00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:20,240 Speaker 1: shirt off, and you were listening to a great podcast. 733 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,520 Speaker 1: So you are this week's listener shout out of the week, 734 00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:25,040 Speaker 1: Shirtless runner. That is what I'm calling you, and thank 735 00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:27,200 Speaker 1: you to listening right now, for telling a friend, for 736 00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:31,320 Speaker 1: being subscribed, being here every single Monday until next time. 737 00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:34,000 Speaker 1: Go out and watch good movies and I will talk 738 00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:35,600 Speaker 1: to you later.