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Speaker 1: Are, and we are here to talk about our best

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Speaker 1: and worst movies of the entire summer. I have my

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Speaker 1: favorite one, I have my worst one. I have some

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Speaker 1: honorable mentions. Overall, a pretty good summer, which we'll get

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Speaker 1: into more later in the episode. I'll be giving my

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Speaker 1: not it's just baiting us into some nostalgia. So ready

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Speaker 1: to talk about movies? And now let's talk movies.

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Speaker 1: From the Nashville Podcast.

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

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Speaker 1: We are back and we're gonna talk about our best

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Speaker 1: and worst movies of the summer. The summer blockbuster season

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Speaker 1: officially kicks off the first weekend of May and just

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Speaker 1: wrapped up this past weekend on Labor Day weekend. So overall,

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Speaker 1: I thought it was a really solid summer blockbuster season,

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Speaker 1: the best since the pandemic, which isn't the hardest thing

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Speaker 1: to do because twenty one really didn't count. Twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: two still felt like it was kind of like not

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Speaker 1: fully enforced. But this summer was so stacked to the

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Speaker 1: point that some movies suffered because just massive movies were

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Speaker 1: it was really hard for me to pick a favorite

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Speaker 2: Yes and no. I had a lot of movies that

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Speaker 1: And I think that's what we're gonna say here our favorite,

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Speaker 1: the one we enjoyed the most and for our own

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Speaker 2: My favorite was a little foreign film called Past Lives.

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Speaker 1: Which was a movie I didn't expect to love as

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Speaker 1: much as I did because it's so simple but get

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Speaker 2: It was so good, so so, so so good. I

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Speaker 2: think we also only saw it because our AC was

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Speaker 2: was like, oh, this is showing. I've heard good things

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Speaker 1: And it has such a simple message and the overall

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Speaker 1: storytelling in that movie is just no bells and whistles,

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Speaker 2: If that's not reason enough to pay them, please get

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Speaker 1: So yes, But if all the movies that are slated

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Speaker 1: What was your worst movie of the summer?

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Speaker 2: It was one that we attempted to see recently and

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Speaker 2: But we left we left it, and that was Strays. Now, Listen,

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Speaker 2: But it looked funny, like a raunchy funny, but like

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And it was raunchy without purpose, that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it just felt it was just weird. I think

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Speaker 1: that movie.

440
00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:06,000
Speaker 2: And your mom had so much fun. I just love

441
00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:07,040
Speaker 2: going anywhere with your.

442
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Speaker 1: Mom, And so that one probably could have made my

443
00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:12,359
Speaker 1: favorite given if I had have done this episode in

444
00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:16,000
Speaker 1: another month or two. But I still stand by Barbie

445
00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:18,440
Speaker 1: is my favorite of the summer. Anything else you would

446
00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:20,800
Speaker 1: like to say as we close out this portion of

447
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Speaker 1: the podcast.

448
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Speaker 2: Normally I give a book recommendation, but I'm gonna be honest,

449
00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:26,359
Speaker 2: I was really bad at tracking what I read this

450
00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:30,280
Speaker 2: past month's so I don't remember what I read in August. Sorry, everyone,

451
00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:32,080
Speaker 2: that's probably on my good Reads somewhere.

452
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would give a book recommendation of a book

453
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Speaker 1: I want to see turned into a movie, which is

454
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Speaker 1: a graphic novel. I just read Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

455
00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:43,280
Speaker 1: The Last Road in which I'm also looking at right

456
00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:45,959
Speaker 1: now because they have it on my booksack. But it

457
00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:49,800
Speaker 1: is one of the darkest, if not the darkest origin story,

458
00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,840
Speaker 1: not even an origin story, but Ninja Turtle story of

459
00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:56,560
Speaker 1: all time. I highly recommend it. And that's somebody who

460
00:20:57,359 --> 00:21:00,800
Speaker 1: can rarely start and finish a book. But I think

461
00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:03,840
Speaker 1: a movie is probably coming because they're going to turn

462
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Speaker 1: it into a video game, but it would be essentially

463
00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:10,440
Speaker 1: taking the Ninja Turtle story and making a dark Knight

464
00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:12,800
Speaker 1: esque adaptation, very brutal.

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Speaker 2: From what you told me about it, Yeah, you did

466
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Speaker 2: read it quickly on the plane.

467
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Speaker 1: So if you are like me and have trouble starting

468
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Speaker 1: and finishing something and also want something in the level

469
00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:26,800
Speaker 1: of superheroes, great one to check out. All right, Well,

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Speaker 1: we'll come back and talk about Grand Tarismo and then

471
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Speaker 1: we'll get into Good Burger. Two. Let's get into it

472
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Speaker 1: now a spoiler free movie review. I want to talk

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Speaker 1: about Grand Turismo, which is a much different video game

474
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Speaker 1: adaptation from a movie that I have seen. So the

475
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Speaker 1: movie is the real life story of Yon Martin Burrough,

476
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Speaker 1: who was this kid who was just a gamer and

477
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Speaker 1: got really good at this video game, Grand Tarismo, which

478
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Speaker 1: is a racing game that is so accurate with the

479
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Speaker 1: dynamics and the science behind it that it's almost like

480
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Speaker 1: you're actually driving a race car, but with a PlayStation controller.

481
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Speaker 1: And that is the premise of this movie because Yon

482
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Speaker 1: is just a gamer trying to figure out what to

483
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Speaker 1: do in his life. His parents want him to go

484
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Speaker 1: to college, but he is so obsessed with racing and

485
00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:14,320
Speaker 1: so obsessed with gaming that he knows this is his

486
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Speaker 1: passion and he wants to follow it. He wants to

487
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Speaker 1: be the best at this video game, Grand Tarismo, so

488
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Speaker 1: he can go on and do this as his career.

489
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Speaker 1: At that same time, Grand Turismo, the video game decides

490
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Speaker 1: to have a contest where they are looking for the

491
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Speaker 1: best player in the video game, whoever gets the highest score,

492
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Speaker 1: and they will take a group of those people to

493
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Speaker 1: actually train to drive. Because there are millions of players

494
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Speaker 1: all across the world and they want the best. Why

495
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Speaker 1: do they want to do this, well to promote the

496
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Speaker 1: video game, to promote Sony, but also to get young

497
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Speaker 1: Blood into racing and have this whole kind of cross

498
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Speaker 1: promotion synergy thing going on. So it's this big contest

499
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Speaker 1: that's trying to build hype around racing and tap into

500
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Speaker 1: this market that has been overlooked, and that is what

501
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Speaker 1: we findy on. So this movie is an underdog story.

502
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,480
Speaker 1: It's a racing sport movie. The thing I felt was

503
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:07,160
Speaker 1: a little bit off about this movie was the tone.

504
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Speaker 1: I want to talk about tone, which is something that

505
00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:12,959
Speaker 1: feels like a little elusive, but if tone is just

506
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:16,600
Speaker 1: a little bit off, it can really change my viewing

507
00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:20,000
Speaker 1: experience of a movie. I felt like the tone was

508
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Speaker 1: just a little bit off in this movie. Because this

509
00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:26,720
Speaker 1: movie isn't a bad movie by any means, And forgive

510
00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,560
Speaker 1: me for using this reference while talking about a racing movie,

511
00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:31,560
Speaker 1: it just kind of feels like this movie is stuck

512
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Speaker 1: in second gear basically all the way up until the end.

513
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Speaker 1: And I think it's because of the tone. This movie

514
00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:41,160
Speaker 1: didn't really know how it wanted to say, It knew

515
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,400
Speaker 1: exactly what it wanted to say because it is based

516
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Speaker 1: on a true story. The real life of Yan is

517
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Speaker 1: pretty remarkable, even though it's a much more condensed They

518
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,160
Speaker 1: take some liberties like any movie based on a true

519
00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:55,080
Speaker 1: story does. So it knew what it wanted to say,

520
00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:57,760
Speaker 1: it just didn't know how it wanted to say it.

521
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Speaker 1: And it's because of the tone, because at times this

522
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,400
Speaker 1: this movie felt a little bit over dramatic, and when

523
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:06,399
Speaker 1: you get into a sports movie, especially a racing movie,

524
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 1: you're gonna fall into all of these cliches, and it

525
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 1: just felt like they were trying to oversell the emotion

526
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 1: through the acting and through the direction, and even through

527
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Speaker 1: the look of this movie. I felt if this movie

528
00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:19,720
Speaker 1: would have had a little bit of a lighter tone

529
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Speaker 1: and maybe appealed more to like an eight or ten

530
00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:25,320
Speaker 1: year old, it would have had a much better effect

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Speaker 1: on the viewer. So I felt like, for me, this

532
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:31,200
Speaker 1: movie didn't know who it was talking to, and at

533
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Speaker 1: times I did feel inspired by his story. I think

534
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Speaker 1: the entire thing is remarkable, like I was just saying,

535
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Speaker 1: but I just don't know who they were trying to

536
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Speaker 1: get the message across to and who they were trying

537
00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:44,640
Speaker 1: to inspire by watching this movie. I just think if

538
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,280
Speaker 1: it would have been a little bit more lighthearted and

539
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:50,600
Speaker 1: geared towards the people who actually played this game and

540
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Speaker 1: incorporate more things from the video game in this movie,

541
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Speaker 1: it would have just had a much more fun experience

542
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Speaker 1: for me, and I think a much more fun experience

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Speaker 1: for the younger audience who this movie really should have

544
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Speaker 1: brought in. It should be inspiring kids now who are gamers,

545
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 1: and I think that's what this movie missed out on,

546
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:10,639
Speaker 1: because that is the most inspirational part about this movie

547
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,080
Speaker 1: to me, the fact that they took a gamer who

548
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Speaker 1: is just so good at what he did behind the

549
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Speaker 1: wheel in his bedroom and he went on to do

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Speaker 1: something amazing in the real world. That is the inspiring story.

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00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:25,359
Speaker 1: That is the message you want to get across the kids,

552
00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:28,919
Speaker 1: because really that is remarkable when you think about the

553
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Speaker 1: fact that at least that part of this movie actually happened.

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Speaker 1: They took a kid who was just great at the

555
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Speaker 1: video game and put that to the test, and all

556
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Speaker 1: the implications that come with that, all of the criticism

557
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 1: you get with that of oh, you're just some gamercare

558
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:44,760
Speaker 1: you don't have what it takes to compete with us.

559
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 1: And then in the movie, you see what actually happens

560
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Speaker 1: in that situation. It just felt a little bit too

561
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Speaker 1: serious to me. And this movie just found itself in

562
00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:57,880
Speaker 1: an unusual position where yes, it is a video game adaptation,

563
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Speaker 1: but is a true story. So really trying to sell

564
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:04,040
Speaker 1: the story of Yan. But the movie is called Grand Turismo,

565
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,879
Speaker 1: it should incorporate more of the video game. I wanted

566
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,920
Speaker 1: to see more about how his mind works and how

567
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Speaker 1: he adapted that into his actual performance as a racer.

568
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 1: So the first act suffered by having the wrong tone,

569
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Speaker 1: but the movie had a formula that lent itself to

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Speaker 1: building to that moment. It's a racing movie. What happens

571
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Speaker 1: in a racing movie. They race? What do you want

572
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,120
Speaker 1: to do in a racing movie? You want to come

573
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Speaker 1: in first. That is exactly what this movie is. So

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Speaker 1: you as the viewer, experienced that with Yan, go through

575
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Speaker 1: all these trials and tribulations of him trying to get

576
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Speaker 1: better and better as a racer leading up to the

577
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Speaker 1: final race, which in this case is a twenty four

578
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Speaker 1: hour race, the same race we saw in another racing

579
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Speaker 1: movie called Ford v. Ferrari. And I was trying to

580
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Speaker 1: put in my head where this movie ranked within other

581
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Speaker 1: racing movies, and it occurred to me that racing movies

582
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Speaker 1: are down there towards the bottom on my least favorite

583
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Speaker 1: genre of movie. I never really thought about it before,

584
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:04,479
Speaker 1: but racing movies really just aren't that great because they

585
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,240
Speaker 1: are a cliche, because they are a little bit cheesy

586
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:10,200
Speaker 1: and sometimes over dramatic. And for some reason, I thought

587
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: there would be this long list of great racing movies.

588
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,200
Speaker 1: And as I'm scanning all these racing movies, I thought

589
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,400
Speaker 1: to myself, Man, I'm really not missing out a whole

590
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:19,919
Speaker 1: lot here, And really this movie kind of creeped up

591
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 1: there because there's really not that many things to compare

592
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,439
Speaker 1: it to. So Ford v. Ferrari would be my favorite

593
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,640
Speaker 1: racing movie. It didn't really have to do a whole

594
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 1: lot to become one of my favorites. But that one

595
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,080
Speaker 1: is in a much different category than this movie, with

596
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 1: a much better director and a much better cast. And

597
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 1: you're probably screaming to yourself Days of Thunder or maybe

598
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 1: trying to throw in some fast in the Furious movies.

599
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 1: I'm just talking about traditional racing movies. They're really just

600
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 1: not that great. So unless you are super into racing movies,

601
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:52,160
Speaker 1: which I would like to meet you, because I would

602
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 1: like to know you're on more racing movies and why

603
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:57,119
Speaker 1: you really enjoy them, or unless you're gonna cheat and

604
00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 1: say Talladegan Knights is one of the best racing movies

605
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: of all time, I would almost let that one pass.

606
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 1: I would let that pass. Is a great racing movie.

607
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,160
Speaker 1: But I will say even though it felt a little

608
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,200
Speaker 1: bit predictable, and I say that knowing that it's based

609
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 1: on a true story and you can google it, look

610
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 1: it up on Wikipedia. I did see Yan doing some

611
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:19,120
Speaker 1: interviews before the Writer's strike talking about how he actually

612
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 1: got to be the stunt driver in a movie about him,

613
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 1: So I did think there are some cool aspects of it.

614
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:29,400
Speaker 1: But after watching this movie, I thought to myself, did

615
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 1: I really need to see this?

616
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:31,119
Speaker 2: Like?

617
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 1: Did this really change me in any way? And I

618
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:36,720
Speaker 1: know this movie isn't really getting the best reviews from

619
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 1: critics even though audiences love it. I get that I'm

620
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 1: right in the middle of both of those. I can

621
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 1: see some elements from a critical standpoint of why this

622
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 1: movie isn't great, But I do see a lot of

623
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 1: entertainment value in this movie because at the end of it,

624
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 1: you know, what it left racing my heart, and it's

625
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 1: because of that formula. You get to that final race

626
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 1: and you're so invested in it you want to see

627
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 1: the entire thing through. Even though I felt this movie

628
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 1: was a little bit long, going over two hours, if

629
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 1: this would have been a ninety minute racing movie, I

630
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 1: would have loved it. I would have come on here

631
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 1: and told you you need to go see this movie,

632
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 1: and you're missing out by not going to watch Grand Tarismo. Instead,

633
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 1: it spent so much time with all this backstory, we

634
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 1: could have really chopped down all of the weird awkwardness,

635
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 1: over dramaticness of that first act built up more to

636
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 1: what we wanted to see, all these gamers coming together

637
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 1: and learning how to race, and then just get to

638
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 1: the final race. So I won't deny that the movie

639
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 1: had a lot of heart. I'm inspired by Yan's story,

640
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 1: but the way it was told was very stereotypical and

641
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 1: it didn't really know how to say it. So I

642
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 1: think that's what kept this movie back from being great.

643
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 1: So initially, when I was first going through my rating

644
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 1: on this movie, I had it had about a three

645
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 1: point five. But the more I realized what this movie

646
00:29:56,560 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 1: could have been and how much more inspirational it could

647
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:04,560
Speaker 1: have left audiences and really even inspired some kids to

648
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 1: maybe not become racers, but maybe take more pride in

649
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 1: the fact that they are nerd video gamers. And I

650
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:13,760
Speaker 1: say that as a nerd video gamer, that you could

651
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 1: go on to do things that people don't expect you

652
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 1: to do. I think that's the biggest message of this

653
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 1: movie of because this movie does speak to the way

654
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 1: people pay their dues and the way you look at

655
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 1: certain people and how they come up that there's kind

656
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: of just this old guard. It could be that there's

657
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Speaker 1: always this old guard, could be in racing, could be

658
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 1: in music, could be in comedy, of you have to

659
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 1: do things this way because this is how we do it,

660
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 1: this is how you become legitimate. And this kind of

661
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:42,080
Speaker 1: throws everything out the window, saying, you know what, I

662
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 1: can do it in my own way, and maybe I

663
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 1: can beat you doing it. That is what the message

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Speaker 1: of this movie is. In the movie, it didn't do

665
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Speaker 1: the best at the box office. It had this weird

666
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 1: thing where it delayed its premier day and then had

667
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Speaker 1: this two weeks of like sneak previews trying to create

668
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Speaker 1: some word of mouth. So with that sixty million dollar

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Speaker 1: budget and made twenty one million dollars in the US

670
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 1: and fifty eight million dollars worldwide, So overall the numbers

671
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:11,720
Speaker 1: represent just about what this movie is. So going back

672
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 1: to the rating system, if I had to give Grand

673
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 1: Turismo a rating, it was at that three point five,

674
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:20,440
Speaker 1: but I talked myself out of it. I give it

675
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 1: three out of five racing helmets, And there weren't really

676
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 1: any standouts in the cast. The story kind of overshadowed

677
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 1: every single individual character. Orlando Bloom felt like a very

678
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 1: odd choice as the one orchestrating this entire contest. David Harber,

679
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 1: who you would know as Hopper from Stranger Things, really

680
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 1: gave it as all, but he's probably the one who

681
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: contributed to the most cliches in this movie. Stylistically looked

682
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: pretty good, but at times it just felt like a

683
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 1: Sony PlayStation ad and they were just trying to bring

684
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Speaker 1: people back to buy their product, which, hey, capitalism.

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Speaker 2: It's time to head down to movie.

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Speaker 1: Mike Treylar Paul is good Burger too? Just nostalgia? Bate,

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Speaker 1: I say it is, and I'll tell you why, the

688
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 1: fact that this movie is not coming out in theaters

689
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 1: is a bad sign. Nickelodeon is deciding to make this

690
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 1: a Paramount Plus exclusive, so just trying to build hype

691
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Speaker 1: around the nostalgia and the fact that it's based on

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Speaker 1: a movie slash TV show that came out when we

693
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Speaker 1: were kids, and trying to push us all to the

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Speaker 1: Paramount Plus streaming service, which is the only one that

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00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 1: I don't currently subscribe to. And I think it's because

696
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 1: they keep putting out movies like Good Burger two. I

697
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 1: it's nostalgia bait and I don't like this. I think

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00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 1: in order to make a movie that comes twenty five

699
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 1: or thirty years after, that has to be a little

700
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Speaker 1: bit more of a demand or there has to be

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Speaker 1: a reason for this movie to be made. And quite honestly,

702
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 1: I'm surprised that Keenan is behind this movie and would

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Speaker 1: even agree to do this movie, because I feel he

704
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Speaker 1: has grown so far in his career. He's built so

705
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 1: much on Saturday Night Live, and I feel like now

706
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Speaker 1: as he's kind of on the way out of Saturday

707
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 1: Night Live, which I'm surprised he's still on that show,

708
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 1: but he's trying to get more into TV shows where

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00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,880
Speaker 1: he is the Star and into movies. I mean, even

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00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 1: though he did fat Alber back in the day, which

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00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 1: I thought was actually pretty good, but I feel like

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00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:28,719
Speaker 1: this is a weird step for him. This would be

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00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 1: like justin Timberlake going back to n SYNC, which if

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00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: you follow TikTok and all the news going on there,

715
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,480
Speaker 1: he might actually do that. But I just feel like

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Speaker 1: this isn't the move I was expecting Keenan to go in,

717
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 1: who I think is a good actor, who was one

718
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 1: of the best childhood actors of all time and has

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00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 1: had a really fruitful career doing things that we all love.

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Speaker 1: And I think whenever they did the sketch of this

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Speaker 1: on Saturday Night Live and that was the end of it,

722
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 1: we didn't really need to see anything else. There's really

723
00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 1: not a whole lot to explore. And I'm a big

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Speaker 1: nick kid. Above all the other networks that were made

725
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 1: for kids, that I think was the best one growing

726
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 1: up in the nineties and early two thousands, it is

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Speaker 1: the only one that I really cared to watch. They

728
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:14,759
Speaker 1: had great TV shows, whether it be live action or

729
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: the ones I love the most were the animated cartoons,

730
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 1: and it was a network that felt not like it

731
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 1: was run by adults making things that kids would like.

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00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 1: It felt very much like it was kids making content

733
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Speaker 1: for other kids, even though that wasn't the case. But

734
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Speaker 1: it just very much spoke to my inner child more

735
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 1: than Disney Channel or more than Cartoon Network. But when

736
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 1: it comes to movies, yeah, Disney Channel really had that

737
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:43,840
Speaker 1: on lock with They're not really being that many great

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Speaker 1: Nickelodeon original movies that aired on the network or the

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00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 1: ones that come out in theaters. The first ever Nickelodeon

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00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 1: movie came out in nineteen ninety six, and it was

741
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 1: Harry Get the Spy. What I remember the most about

742
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 1: that movie it was the first time I'd ever seen

743
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Speaker 1: an orange VHS tape. For those listening who were born

744
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 1: after the nineties, a VHS tape is this big rectangle

745
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: that you would put into a VCR, which is a

746
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,920
Speaker 1: player much like well, you don't even have CDs anymore.

747
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:15,359
Speaker 1: It was this other big box that you would put

748
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,799
Speaker 1: this little box into press play and you could watch

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Speaker 1: a movie. And Nickelodeon made all of their movies on

750
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:25,360
Speaker 1: orange VHS tapes because orange was the color of the network,

751
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 1: and it really stood out on the shelf, especially when

752
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 1: it didn't have a case. But Good Burger was the

753
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,359
Speaker 1: second Nickelodeon movie that came out on July twenty fifth,

754
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven, and is really the cult classic of

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00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 1: all the Nickelodeon films, although I really wouldn't put the

756
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 1: later Nickelodeon films in that same category when you get

757
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,439
Speaker 1: to movies like not Your Libe, and I wouldn't even

758
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 1: really categorize the Ninja Turtles movies as Nickelodeon movies even

759
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 1: though they're owned by Nickelodeon. So for all these reasons,

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00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 1: I just don't think this movie is going to be

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00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,239
Speaker 1: very good because I feel like they are taking less

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00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:02,440
Speaker 1: of a risk putting it on Paramount Plus, and to me,

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00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 1: that just feels like a straight to video approach to

764
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: putting out a movie like this. And if you don't

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00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 1: get that reference, you are also not getting my VHS reference.

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Speaker 1: Straight to video means when a studio would make a

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00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 1: lesser quality sequel and just put it out on VHS

768
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 1: or on DVD because they didn't want to spend the

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00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: money on marketing and all the other added costs to

770
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 1: put it out in theaters because it was a lesser product.

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00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,399
Speaker 1: So I've already told you why this movie isn't going

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00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,479
Speaker 1: to be great, but I'll probably still check it out.

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00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 1: I haven't even played the trailer yet, so here's just

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00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 1: a little bit of the Good Burger to trailer. Hey,

775
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 1: hey man, you're almost car burging me to that. The

776
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 1: New Adventures of that in starts now. Welcome the good

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00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 1: Barker home.

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00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:50,360
Speaker 4: The gun Barker can't.

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00:36:55,760 --> 00:37:00,840
Speaker 1: Water, I think, so, oh yeah, that's water for me, thanks.

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00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:03,840
Speaker 2: So.

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00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 1: Good Burger originated as a sketch on the Nickelodeon series

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00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 1: All That, which starred Keenan and Kel, who also had

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00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 1: their own Nickelodeon show called Keenan and Kel. But Good

784
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 1: Burger spun off into the movie that came out in

785
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven and had some pretty good box office success,

786
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:25,360
Speaker 1: making about twenty four million dollars on an eight million

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00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 1: dollar budget. And the crazy thing Growing Up is as

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Speaker 1: much as I love Nickelodeon, as much as I love

789
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:35,320
Speaker 1: Keenan and Kell, was probably my favorite live action Nickelodeon show.

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00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:38,799
Speaker 1: I didn't really love Good Burger. I didn't think the

791
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,439
Speaker 1: sketch on All That was particularly funny. Kel Mitchell as

792
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 1: ed was never one of my favorite Nickelodeon characters. So

793
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 1: when I first saw the movie, I thought it was

794
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 1: really just very alright. And I think the reason I'm

795
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 1: so against this movie is I've been burned in the

796
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: past of movies that were reboots of my favorite childhood

797
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 1: TV shows or carrots, and they just turn out to

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00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 1: be not good. You even heard it there in that trailer.

799
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 1: It's that same kind of humor, but done by somebody

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00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 1: twenty five years age. It just does not hit the same.

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00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 1: The only redeeming quality there is about this movie is

802
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 1: it is bringing back some of the original Good Burger casts,

803
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: who are some of the Nickelodeon ogs, Josh Server and

804
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 1: my favorite Lori Beth, who was a staple of Nickelodeon's

805
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 1: in the nineties, and you wonder what happened to her

806
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 1: after the two thousands, because she was on that network

807
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 1: so much, whether it be on All that or all

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00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 1: the Nickelodeon game shows. That is what I loved about Nickelodeon.

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00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:42,560
Speaker 1: It made people like Lori Beth a star who had

810
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:46,800
Speaker 1: such great comedic timing and were such great comedic character actors.

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Speaker 1: And I haven't really seen her anything past the two thousand,

812
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 1: so I can't wait to see her role in this

813
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 1: movie and her comeback to the medium screen on Paramount Plus. Again.

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00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: There is no official release date on Good Burger two,

815
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: but expect to see it sometime in November of this year,

816
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:05,839
Speaker 1: and we'll all be saying this again, at least those

817
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:06,920
Speaker 1: who decide to watch it.

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00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,400
Speaker 2: Welcome to Good Burger, Home of the Good Burger.

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Speaker 1: Can I take ya order? Geez? And that was this

820
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:15,880
Speaker 1: week's edition of Movie by Tram or Bar And that

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Speaker 1: is going to do it for another episode here of

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00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 1: the podcast. But before I go, I gotta give my

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00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 1: listener's shout out of the week. This week we are

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00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 1: going over to let's go over to Twitter. I wanted

825
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:29,360
Speaker 1: to know all of your answers to this week's topic,

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00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:32,360
Speaker 1: what was your favorite movie you watched this summer? And

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Speaker 1: this week's listener shout out is to Big Will, who

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00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 1: replied on Twitter and said, very unpopular opinion, but I

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00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 1: love the flash. Yes, the style took some getting used to,

830
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,239
Speaker 1: but it had a lot of entertainment value. And I

831
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,760
Speaker 1: am a fan. And I said back to Big Will,

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00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:51,359
Speaker 1: I can actually respect that. I don't ever want to

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00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 1: deny somebody enjoyment. If you watch that movie and enjoyed it.

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00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:57,799
Speaker 1: More power to you. I don't even want to sound

835
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:01,280
Speaker 1: condescending and saying that, but I wish I had enjoyed

836
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:03,360
Speaker 1: that movie more when I saw it. But my true

837
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:08,439
Speaker 1: honest feelings was boredom and fumbling of the bag and

838
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:10,840
Speaker 1: a movie that I had so much hype going into.

839
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,560
Speaker 1: I was so let down by and I felt like

840
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:16,839
Speaker 1: me just speaking my truth. And that criticism of the

841
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:20,720
Speaker 1: movie ended up sparking the most outrage because people felt

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00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:23,880
Speaker 1: I was just jumping onto other people's opinions, when the

843
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 1: fact is I don't read or listen to any other

844
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 1: reviews before giving my review. But people thought that I

845
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 1: was just joining on the DC bashing of the Flash.

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00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 1: Not the case. I just did not enjoy that movie

847
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:39,279
Speaker 1: and almost fell asleep. But big will if you enjoyed it,

848
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:41,919
Speaker 1: you love that movie. Now that it's streaming on HBO Max,

849
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:44,240
Speaker 1: I do see more people talking about it and defending

850
00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:47,840
Speaker 1: that movie. I may, but I probably won't give it

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00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:50,479
Speaker 1: a rewatch. But you never should have to feel bad

852
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:53,439
Speaker 1: about enjoying a movie, And really you should feel better

853
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 1: because the other people who did hate a movie that

854
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:58,439
Speaker 1: you loved you can think, well, you wasted your time.

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00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 1: I didn't waste my time or my mind, so really,

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00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:03,239
Speaker 1: you come out the winter. So thank you Big Will

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00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:05,719
Speaker 1: for that reply. Thanks for everybody else who gave me

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00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 1: your opinions on your favorite movies of the summer. There

859
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:11,239
Speaker 1: were a lot of barbies. Somebody even said that there

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00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 1: was no movie in particular. It was just listening to

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00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 1: this podcast, and I greatly appreciate that, So thank you.

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00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:17,919
Speaker 1: I hope you have a great rest of your week,

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00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:20,880
Speaker 1: and until next time, go out and watch good movies

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Speaker 1: and I will talk to you later.