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

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Speaker 1: am your host Movie Mike. Today, I want to share

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Speaker 1: with you my list of underrated actors and their best film.

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Speaker 1: These actors have gone without the praise they deserve for

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Speaker 1: too long, so I'm gonna give them all the recognition

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Speaker 1: they deserve and tell you what movies are theirs.

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Speaker 2: You should check out.

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Speaker 1: In the movie review, we'll be talking about Civil War,

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Speaker 1: how it was a really big win for A twenty

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Speaker 1: four and in the trailer part a very controversial movie

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Speaker 1: coming out called fly Me to the Moon about Scarlett

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Speaker 1: Johansson getting hired to fake the moon landing. So thank

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

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Speaker 1: out to the Monday Morning Movie crew.

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Speaker 2: And now let's talk movies.

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Speaker 2: A man with so much movie knowledge.

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Speaker 3: He's basically like a walking IMTB with glasses. From the

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Speaker 3: Nashville Podcast Networks, Movie Mike Movie.

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Speaker 1: I want to share with you my list of underrated

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Speaker 1: actors people I think deserve more recognition. In some cases, yes,

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Speaker 1: some of these actors have been nominated, even won an

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Speaker 1: the forefront, they should be leading movies. They should be

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Speaker 1: on the list of the highest paid actors, which is

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Speaker 1: another thing I really considered when putting these people on

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Speaker 1: the highest paid actors, and everybody I'm talking about is

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Speaker 1: nowhere near that elite one percent of actors, even though,

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Speaker 1: oh man, you put these performances against those top ten,

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Speaker 1: they are right there pound for pounds. So these are

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Speaker 1: the unsung heroes in my eyes, the overlook talents in

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Speaker 1: Hollywood right now, and I'm getting so fired up. Let's

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Speaker 1: just get right into it with the actor who inspired

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Speaker 1: this entire list after watching Civil War, which I'll get

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Speaker 1: loved him so much in that movie. I saw Jesse

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Speaker 1: Plemons in that and he immediately made that movie better.

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Speaker 2: And that is what he always does.

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Speaker 1: And Jesse Plemons has been added for so long as

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Speaker 1: you're probably familiar with his work. He's done a lot

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Speaker 1: in TV, and that's not even what I'm going to

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Speaker 1: And oftentimes there are people like that that, even though

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Speaker 1: Leonardo DiCaprio's, they aren't the Kate Winslets of Hollywood. But

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Speaker 1: Now, if there was a blue collar worker in Hollywood,

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Speaker 1: it would be these people on this list, because they

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Speaker 2: Three for one, three for one. Yep, how can that

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Speaker 1: If I could get a movie quote tattooed in my body,

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Speaker 1: it would be an honor of Jesse Plemons.

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Speaker 1: A a classic? He deserves all the praise. He is

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Speaker 1: This Christmas. Has one of the best comedic performances in

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Speaker 1: should give it a chance and watch it. But the

438
00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:53,480
Speaker 1: entire time, I was expecting a different movie, and it's

439
00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:56,159
Speaker 1: because of the trailer, and even though I read what

440
00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:59,520
Speaker 1: the plot line was going into it, I still had

441
00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:01,960
Speaker 1: those initial impression from the trailer of.

442
00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:04,200
Speaker 2: It being a war action movie.

443
00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:07,960
Speaker 1: And the more I ran into how they were promoting

444
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,240
Speaker 1: the movie and going back and reading the synopsis, which

445
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:14,560
Speaker 1: i'll read it now, a journey across the dystopian future

446
00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:18,639
Speaker 1: America following a team of military embedded journalists as they

447
00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:21,960
Speaker 1: race against time to reach DC before rebel factions descend

448
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,040
Speaker 1: upon the White House. In my head, it's still going

449
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,760
Speaker 1: to be an action war movie, even though right there

450
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:32,240
Speaker 1: in the description it says it's about journalists racing against time,

451
00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,439
Speaker 1: and that is exactly what this movie was, and it

452
00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:36,320
Speaker 1: took me a little bit to get used to that.

453
00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:39,640
Speaker 1: If I wouldn't have seen that trailer and had those

454
00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:42,720
Speaker 1: feelings of it being a war movie, this movie probably

455
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:44,439
Speaker 1: would have been a five out of five for me.

456
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:47,280
Speaker 1: So it's almost a movie I need to watch again

457
00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:50,159
Speaker 1: because I had a much different perception of it based

458
00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:53,800
Speaker 1: on all the promotional materials, which is what a trailer

459
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,840
Speaker 1: can do. It wants to get the butts in the seats.

460
00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,440
Speaker 1: That is the point of a trailer, and through editing,

461
00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:04,640
Speaker 1: choosing what parts of the movies you use, because they

462
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,920
Speaker 1: use some parts that sell it that way, almost out

463
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 1: of context. And I'm not trying to rag on the

464
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:12,440
Speaker 1: movie here. I'm not trying to rag on A twenty four.

465
00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:15,600
Speaker 1: Just for me, I thought that is what it was

466
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:18,159
Speaker 1: going to be. And if you would have just told me,

467
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:24,119
Speaker 1: or even changed the title to Civil War Journalism, civil

468
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:28,080
Speaker 1: War Reporting, the New Civil War Reporting, something along those lines,

469
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:31,360
Speaker 1: I would have had a different feeling going into it.

470
00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:32,720
Speaker 1: It would have been enough to tell me it's an

471
00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:36,679
Speaker 1: a twenty four movie about journalists and here is the

472
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:40,240
Speaker 1: dark side of reporting on very awful things, which is

473
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Speaker 1: what the movie does. Kirsten Duntz is a seasoned war

474
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 1: reporter photographer, and the question she brings to herself to

475
00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:51,800
Speaker 1: her and Kaylee Spiney's character in the movie, is at

476
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:54,960
Speaker 1: their job to ask questions or are they just there

477
00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 1: to photograph the war and send the photos home and

478
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:01,320
Speaker 1: let the people at home answer the questions? So what

479
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:04,760
Speaker 1: does their morale as journalists as press play into this

480
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:09,679
Speaker 1: because you are taking pictures of very awful things, but

481
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 1: is it just you providing that service to take those pictures?

482
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 1: At times it reminded me of Nightcrawler with Jake Gillenhall,

483
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 1: and the entire moral of that movie was if it bleeds,

484
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:24,400
Speaker 1: it leads, and how far will you go to get

485
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,679
Speaker 1: that blood on the screen to get viewers to watch

486
00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 1: and how much is really overstepping the bounds. That is

487
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:35,560
Speaker 1: what these journalists are struggling with because they are trying

488
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:39,439
Speaker 1: to get to DC, to get to the president before

489
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 1: these rebel factions, as the description says, get to them

490
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:44,800
Speaker 1: first so they can get an interview, and they are

491
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:49,400
Speaker 1: documenting everything along the way, and they're very awful things.

492
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:52,720
Speaker 1: There are very intense moments in this movie that will

493
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,000
Speaker 1: just have your stomach and nods, and I like movies

494
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,679
Speaker 1: that do that. The last movie that really had my

495
00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:00,720
Speaker 1: stomach and knots like this was another a twenty four film.

496
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:01,440
Speaker 2: Uncut Gems.

497
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Speaker 1: I love being on the edge of my seat, feel

498
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 1: like I'm about a puke everywhere because of the anxiety,

499
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 1: and I'm already an anxious person.

500
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:10,440
Speaker 2: I already drink way too much coffee.

501
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 1: So I love kind of living in that, I guess,

502
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 1: and when a movie can do that, I'm just, oh,

503
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:19,960
Speaker 1: that is my favorite experience because I rarely go into

504
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 1: a horror movie and experience the fear. You have to

505
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 1: give me something that makes me feel anxious.

506
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:25,879
Speaker 2: So if you don't like.

507
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:27,720
Speaker 1: Those types of movies, I don't think this is the

508
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 1: movie for you. Because Kelsey watched it with me. She

509
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 1: does not really like movies they give you that anxiety,

510
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 1: and there were moments in this movie that were very

511
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:37,640
Speaker 1: hard for her to watch because they are so shocking.

512
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,119
Speaker 1: Some of the action style is very blunt when it

513
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:45,679
Speaker 1: comes to the actual war scenes in the movie and

514
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 1: all the people fighting against each other, and those moments

515
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:52,960
Speaker 1: are few and far between, and it took me, i

516
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 1: would say, the better half of the first act to

517
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 1: really realize that they weren't going to dive so much

518
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 1: into what caused the Second Civil War, why exactly everybody

519
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:08,160
Speaker 1: was fighting. They really almost make that the b story.

520
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: This Second Civil War just happens to be happening, and

521
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 1: really what they are looking at and discussing is the

522
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:19,040
Speaker 1: morale of these journalists. So they kind of give you

523
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 1: little clues here and there with some of the other characters,

524
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:26,440
Speaker 1: revealing different things about why they are fighting, revealing why

525
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:30,440
Speaker 1: everybody hates the president, why they're going there, and why

526
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 1: it has gotten so bad. It's also a commentary on

527
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 1: how different people accept or don't accept the Second Civil War.

528
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 1: Some people are engaging, some people are fighting one way

529
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:45,879
Speaker 1: or the other, and some people are choosing to believe,

530
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,119
Speaker 1: like the saying the trailer, that nothing is happening and

531
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 1: then everything is good. Once I got into the idea

532
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,359
Speaker 1: of okay, this is really just a movie focusing on

533
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 1: the morales of journalism. And also it's really just a

534
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,119
Speaker 1: road trip move not so much a war movie, because

535
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:06,719
Speaker 1: there are these war sequences and battles that happen, and

536
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 1: they're there with the soldiers documenting that and seeing some

537
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 1: very brutal things. But it's really just them traveling to

538
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 1: DC hundreds of miles and bonding as a group and

539
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 1: going through all of the kind of tropes that you

540
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 1: would see in a road trip movie. And I love

541
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:26,919
Speaker 1: me a good road trip movie. Wasn't really expecting that here,

542
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 1: so I don't want to say it was a little

543
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 1: bait and switchy, but it just led me to believe

544
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 1: that it was going to be all action all the time. Now,

545
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 1: if I watched this movie a second time, knowing what

546
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 1: I know now, I think I would completely love it anymore.

547
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 1: No knows, because it is a powerful movie, although I

548
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:49,120
Speaker 1: do feel like at times it's a little bit pretentious

549
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 1: Alex Garland, which a lot of people were kind of defending, Oh,

550
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 1: you're going into an Alex Garland film, you should know

551
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 1: what to expect. But I feel like at times he

552
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:02,800
Speaker 1: sacrificed making an entertaining movie just all the way through,

553
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 1: making it a fun ride and really giving us characters

554
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 1: we could bond with and grow with and feel for,

555
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 1: which I think the movie did miss a lot of

556
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: opportunity with character development. Wagner Mora in particular. I know

557
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 1: he's a good actor. I watched Narcos. He was great

558
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 1: as Pablo Escobar, but I found him really unbelievable in

559
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 1: this role, to the point that it really took me

560
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 1: out of it and almost like it was stuck in

561
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 1: second gear. That I was really waiting for it to

562
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 1: ramp up a little bit more, a little bit more.

563
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 2: And it never quite got there. Even at the very end.

564
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 1: I feel like it should have been way more satisfying

565
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 1: and exciting and exhilarating. For as much as our characters

566
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 1: have been through, it didn't really feel like they grew

567
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:48,719
Speaker 1: as people.

568
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 2: And then the.

569
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,959
Speaker 1: Outcome was kind of just oh, all right, all right,

570
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 1: we'll see you later. It just felt like it really

571
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 1: kind of went out like if you were just kind

572
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 1: of blowing out of what because you and at the

573
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 1: very end, it just like like that is how this

574
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 1: movie left me feeling.

575
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 2: Needless to say, it was still a.

576
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:11,719
Speaker 1: Very entertaining ride, a lot of ups and downs, and

577
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 1: it did have those moments of tension. I know it

578
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 1: probably sounds like I hated the movie, but I feel

579
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,480
Speaker 1: with an A twenty four film, with an Alex Garland film,

580
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a little bit overcritical, mainly because I

581
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 1: think a movie like this is just fun to discuss,

582
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 1: because I love movies that create a conversation among people,

583
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 1: that divide people, that make people want to see it

584
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:37,560
Speaker 1: more based on some people hating it. So I think,

585
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 1: no matter what, I was gonna have a little bit

586
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 1: more of a heavy hand on some of the criticism

587
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 1: just because I thought this was gonna be.

588
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 2: My next favorite movie.

589
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 1: Didn't really land into a top tier film for me,

590
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 1: but it was still a really fun watch.

591
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 2: I saw it in thirty five millimeter, which.

592
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 1: Means that most movies you go see in normal theaters

593
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 1: chain theaters, they're usually all digital now, which is really

594
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 1: all the same. But for me sometimes I just like

595
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 1: watching something in thirty five millimeters, which means they actually

596
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 1: have the film real that they load up, put it

597
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 1: on a projector, and for me.

598
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 2: It just gives like that extra level of warmth.

599
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 1: You can see some of the flickers on the screen,

600
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:20,800
Speaker 1: you can hear it going in the theater during the

601
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 1: quiet moments. But I will say that seeing it in

602
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 1: a theater with the big sound, being able to experience

603
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 1: it with other people did add another level of enjoyment.

604
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 1: A movie that creates tension and makes you feel stressed,

605
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 1: I think is best experience in a theater. But if

606
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 1: you are somebody who is a little bit squeamish doesn't

607
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 1: like feeling like that, I would say probably wait until

608
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 1: it's streaming. That way, you can hide underneath the cover,

609
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:50,600
Speaker 1: underneath a pillow or something, or even just turn it

610
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 1: down a little bit whenever those moments happened, because it

611
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 1: does get really loud, really quickly, so once I got

612
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 1: into the idea of the story, I really enjoyed it

613
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:03,479
Speaker 1: because I love an a twenty four film, obviously, I

614
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 1: love a road trip film. Kirsten Dunst is amazing, and

615
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 1: I'm glad to see her in a role like this,

616
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 1: where she was out speaking recently of saying there was

617
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:16,479
Speaker 1: a time in Hollywood she was only being offered roles

618
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 1: that were sad wife, sad mom. So I loved her

619
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 1: at the forefront of this movie. Her husband, Jesse Plemmons

620
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 1: was also in it, and like I was saying earlier,

621
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 1: such an underrated actor, and he just makes a movie

622
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 1: instantly better. The only thing I really wish they did

623
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: differently was give his character more screen time, because when

624
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: he was in the movie, oh, it was great. You

625
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 1: get a glimpse of it. If you've seen the trailer.

626
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 1: All you have to do is throw Jesse Plemmons in there,

627
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 1: and it makes any movie better. I'll stand by that

628
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 1: all day. But overall, I am just glad that this

629
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 1: movie is succeeding. Made twenty four million dollars it's opening weekend.

630
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: With that debut, it became A twenty four's biggest debut

631
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 1: of all time, So that proves that all of that

632
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 1: extra marketing they did the trailer it worked. It got

633
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 1: people into the seats, it got people talking. It did

634
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:12,840
Speaker 1: what they needed it to do because it cost them

635
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 1: fifty million dollars to make, which is their most expensive

636
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 1: film to date, and just by comparison, before Civil War,

637
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 1: their highest opening weekend was Everything Everywhere, all at once.

638
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 1: That only made five hundred thousand its opening weekend, so

639
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:28,880
Speaker 1: huge for them. Again, A twenty four is still a

640
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 1: smaller studio, and you see the twenty four million dollars

641
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 1: and things, that's kind of a flop. Other movies come

642
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 1: out and make fifty million dollars. Easy Done doesn't wake

643
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 1: up for less.

644
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 2: Than eighty million dollars.

645
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 1: I mean, just four or five years ago, a big

646
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 1: movie would make one hundred to one hundred and fifty

647
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: million dollars.

648
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 2: But for that previous.

649
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 1: Opening that was their highest for it being kind of

650
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 1: the start pre sum are blockbuster season. This is great

651
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 1: for them, and this is what they are trying to

652
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: venture into more of creating these movies that feel like

653
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 1: two hundred million dollar blockbusters, which is what all the

654
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 1: other studios are able to do.

655
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 2: They don't have that kind of money.

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Speaker 1: Fifty million dollars is a lot for them to spend

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Speaker 1: on one movie, But they are looking to create more

658
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Speaker 1: movies like this, more action, big franchises is what they

659
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Speaker 1: are looking to do to make their studios sustainable because

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Speaker 1: they always put out movies that are unique that audiences

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Speaker 1: really identify with that we feel like we're not just

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Speaker 1: getting a remake, We're not just getting the same thing

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Speaker 1: we've seen a million times.

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Speaker 2: So they really value the.

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Speaker 1: Relationship they build with this cult following that is the

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Speaker 1: A twenty four fan base. But obviously you need the

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Speaker 1: money to back it up because you can't continue to

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Speaker 1: sustain that unless you are making these movies that are

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Speaker 1: grossing more at the box office. You make a movie

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Speaker 1: that is able to generate this and it's able to

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Speaker 1: fund all the other projects, which I think is what

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Speaker 1: they are.

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Speaker 2: Trying to do right now.

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Speaker 1: So overall, I think it is a very noteworthy movie.

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Speaker 1: Just know, if you haven't seen it yet, change your

676
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Speaker 1: expectation a little bit. If you've seen the trailer and

677
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Speaker 1: just know it's not going to be all action all

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Speaker 1: the time, and it might not be for you if

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Speaker 1: you don't like movies that induce anxiety, although I do

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Speaker 1: think seeing it on the big screen does take it

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Speaker 1: up another level that's not for you. It is definitely

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Speaker 1: still a watch at home movie. I think everybody should

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Speaker 1: give this movie a shot, and for that reason, I

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Speaker 1: give Civil War four out of five photographs.

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Speaker 2: Look at this photograph. It's time to head down to

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Speaker 2: movie Mike.

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Speaker 1: Trailer, Paul, so many of you sent me this trailer.

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Speaker 1: I remember when this movie was announced with Scarlett Johansson

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Speaker 1: called find Me to the Moon. I thought it was

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Speaker 1: gonna be interesting, and I will watch anything Scarlett Johansson

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Speaker 1: is in. I kind of forgot this trailer was coming out,

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Speaker 1: and then everybody was saying, oh, you got to check

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Speaker 1: out this trailer. You got to talk about this trailer,

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Speaker 1: and I think I know the reason why.

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Speaker 2: I will get into all that.

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Speaker 1: But the movie is called fly Me to the Moon.

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Speaker 1: It's coming out this summer on July twelfth. It is

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Speaker 1: an Apple Original movie, meaning it'll come out in theaters

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Speaker 1: and then in a month or so it'll go on

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Speaker 1: to Apple TV. Plus they should take a while because

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Speaker 1: Argyle came out at the beginning of the year in

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Speaker 1: February and just now came on Apple because they're wanting

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Speaker 1: people to go into the theater to watch these movies.

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Speaker 1: But by the looks of this trailer, it is not

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Speaker 1: what I was expecting. The movie is about Scarlett Johansson's

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Speaker 1: character who is assigned to NASA basically to make them cool.

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Speaker 1: The movie is set in the nineteen sixties. She plays

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Speaker 1: a marketing executive hired by NASA to film a fake

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Speaker 1: moon landing in case the real mission fails. And I

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Speaker 1: think that is the reason so many of you sent

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Speaker 1: me this trailer is because on the main show I

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Speaker 1: work for the Bobby Bone Show or I'm a head

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Speaker 1: writer there, the topic comes up a lot whether or

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Speaker 1: not the moon landing was real, whether it was fake,

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Speaker 1: whether we ever went to the moon, whether anybody can

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Speaker 1: go to the moon. So I'll address those conspiracy theories

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Speaker 1: and how I think it is working into the hype

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Speaker 1: being built around this movie, which so far there have

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Speaker 1: only been a couple real defining Apple originals, one being

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Speaker 1: well the one for them that won Best Picture CODA

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Speaker 1: and last year I would say Killers of the Flower Moon.

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Speaker 1: Are there two real pillars of movies, and they've been

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Speaker 1: putting them out consistently, but still just really haven't had

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Speaker 1: one that has been a success in the theater run

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Speaker 1: as well as a success once it goes to their

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Speaker 1: streaming service. So could fly Me to the Moon finally

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Speaker 1: be the movie for that? We'll see before I get

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Speaker 1: into more about who is all in this movie, more

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Speaker 1: about the story. Here's just a little bit of the

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Speaker 1: fly Me to the Moon trailers.

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Speaker 2: Say marketing specialists, Man, you are them very best.

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Speaker 3: What are you doing?

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Speaker 2: I tracked you down because I felt me in a connection.

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Speaker 2: What I'm joking. I'm working here now to sell the movie.

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Speaker 3: This is not something that you sell.

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Speaker 2: The jingle and a slogan and undone those men are

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Speaker 2: gonna be bigger than the peoples. We can't afford to

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Speaker 2: lose to the Russians. We need to shoot backup version

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Speaker 2: of the moon land. You mean to fake it.

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Speaker 1: So let's break down first the voices you heard in

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Speaker 1: that trailer. Of course you heard Scarlett Johansson. She meets

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Speaker 1: Channing Tatum's character. It looks like they go to a

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Speaker 1: diner because the movie you said in the sixties. She

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Speaker 1: sets her dress on fire. He puts out the fire

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Speaker 1: by throwing his jacket on the flame. And he's an astronaut.

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Speaker 1: The next day he shows up for work and Scarlett

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Speaker 1: Johansson is there. So right out the bat, what I

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Speaker 1: was not expecting from this movie is that it is

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Speaker 1: is a comedy drama, almost of the rom com variety,

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Speaker 1: and I think it really plays into this story really

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Speaker 1: well because it could have just been a traditional historical.

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Speaker 2: Piece, which Apple loves.

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Speaker 1: There are two things they are really into right now,

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Speaker 1: historical dramas and anything with space. They have TV shows

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Speaker 1: like For All Mankind Constellation, which I started Constellation and

756
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: I love things about space, I love things about aliens,

757
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Speaker 1: but I just couldn't quite get into that show. But

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Speaker 1: I think this one kind of bridges that gap of

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Speaker 1: you have the A list stars with scar Joe and

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Speaker 1: Channing Tatum leading this movie, and then you have a

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Speaker 1: little bit of sci FLI influence, not so much, but

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Speaker 1: anything that has any kind of spaceship or rockets Apple

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Speaker 1: just loves. And then you have a little bit of history.

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Speaker 1: And the movie is clearly playing into all of the

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Speaker 1: conspiracies that revolve around the moon landing, and that is

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Speaker 1: what people have been saying for years, that we fake

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Speaker 1: the moon landing. The whole thing happened on a set.

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Speaker 1: If you go back and watch the original footage, you

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Speaker 1: can see the wires hanging down from people, you can

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Speaker 1: see the camera tracks. All these theories go around the

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Speaker 1: moon landing. So I love the idea of making a

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Speaker 1: film of saying, Okay, here's the reason why all the

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Speaker 1: conspiracies exist. Because in the trailer of this movie, they

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Speaker 1: talk about wanting to beat the Russians to space and

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Speaker 1: they're gonna do it, and they bring Scarlet Johansson into

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Speaker 1: make people care about NASA, to turn these astronauts into

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Speaker 1: rock stars. So they have all this hype going, and

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Speaker 1: they're saying, by building up this hype, by creating this

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Speaker 1: aura around NASA, now we cannot fail.

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Speaker 2: So just in case, for some reason we get.

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Speaker 1: Up there and our equipment fails, we need to have

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Speaker 1: this all filmed and ready to go. We can just

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Speaker 1: push in a tape, hit play and tell everybody this

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Speaker 1: is live, whether or not we go through the moon

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Speaker 1: at all. So movie will probably get into the ethics

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Speaker 1: of that. It looks like Channing Tatum's cariacter is going

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Speaker 1: to be highly against hiring actors and faking this.

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Speaker 2: But what I was saying.

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Speaker 1: Earlier about Civil War putting out movies that create a conversation.

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Speaker 1: That is exactly what this movie is going to do,

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Speaker 1: because you're going to have the people who have been

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Speaker 1: saying for a long time, all these conspiracy theorists, saying,

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Speaker 1: this is how they did it, this is why they're

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Speaker 1: making this movie, and this can become your foundation and

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Speaker 1: your argument, even though this movie isn't based on anything factual.

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Speaker 1: I'll also commend them on not using the Frank Sinatra

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Speaker 1: song in the trailer. I'm sure the urge and the

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Speaker 1: idea was there, but maybe that was a little bit

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Speaker 1: too on the nose, or it was just really expensive

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Speaker 1: to license that song, or maybe it's because this movie

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00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:49,360
Speaker 1: actually had a different title when it was first announced

802
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Speaker 1: and being worked on. It was originally called Project Artemis,

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Speaker 1: which that gives me an entirely different feeling when I

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Speaker 1: read that. That sounds more like the boring period piece.

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00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 1: And Jason Bateman, the actor, yes, was actually directing this

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Speaker 1: movie first. He eventually left and they brought in Greg Berlanti,

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Speaker 1: who also did a movie I really like called Love Simon,

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Speaker 1: And the part that went to Channing Tatum was originally

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Speaker 1: being played by Chris Evans, which honestly would have been

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Speaker 1: cool to see that version Black Widow and Captain America

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Speaker 1: teaming up again in another movie. But I have to

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Speaker 1: say Channing Tatum does not get the credit he deserves

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Speaker 1: when it comes to comedies. He is actually a really

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Speaker 1: great comedic actor with really great timing. The first time

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Speaker 1: I really had that perception of him was whenever he

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Speaker 1: did the twenty one and twenty two Jump Street movies.

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Speaker 1: And I feel like he's always been type cast as

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Speaker 1: the good looking, muscly guy. And some people are saying

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Speaker 1: that he looks a little out of place in this

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Speaker 1: trailer because it takes place in nineteen sixty nine and

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Speaker 1: he doesn't really look like somebody living in that time period.

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Speaker 1: But I would just say that he feels out of

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Speaker 1: place really in every movie that he's in because of

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Speaker 1: how good good looking he is, how many muscles he has.

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Speaker 1: He is always just gonna stand out in any single

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Speaker 1: film except maybe Fox Catcher. So unless he's playing an

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Speaker 1: athlete or dancing, he's probably gonna look a little bit

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Speaker 1: out of place. But I still found the delivery of

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Speaker 1: his lines in this trailer to be pretty comical. You

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Speaker 1: also have Woody Harrelston Ray Romano Jim Rash who you

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Speaker 1: might not be familiar with his name, but he plays

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Speaker 1: the dean on Community and I am still deep into

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Speaker 1: my community rewatch, because the entire joke on that show

834
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Speaker 1: was they're gonna get six seasons in a movie. And

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Speaker 1: now it was announced that the script is done and

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Speaker 1: they're gonna film the Community movie, and his character is

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Speaker 1: such a big part of that, and they're bringing back

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Speaker 1: a lot of the original cast, So hopefully this movie

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Speaker 1: is a big success for him and carries on that

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Speaker 1: momentum over to that Community movie. It kind of reminded

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Speaker 1: me a little bit of Air that came out last year,

842
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 1: which everybody said, how are you gonna make a movie

843
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Speaker 1: about a shoe? And what we got actually was a

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Speaker 1: movie about the marketing of the shoe, and how dramatic

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Speaker 1: that was. I thought that was going to be the

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Speaker 1: similar treatment for this movie, and I did not expect

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Speaker 1: that part to come in there at the end of

848
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Speaker 1: them saying, oh, we're actually gonna fake the moon landing.

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Speaker 1: So it goes from Scarlett Johansson trying to market NASA

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Speaker 1: to suddenly being in control of one of the biggest

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Speaker 1: historical events in American history. This movie has a budget

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Speaker 1: of one hundred million dollars, which is pretty substantial. I

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Speaker 1: think that's primarily due to the level of cast that

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Speaker 1: it has, but also Apple really doesn't cut corners when

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Speaker 1: it comes to cinematography and production, so that is always

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Speaker 1: what I have to look.

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Speaker 2: Forward to in an Apple movie. I know it is

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Speaker 2: going to look great.

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Speaker 1: So after Argyle, in my head, I was thinking, I'm

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Speaker 1: just gonna wait for Apple Movies to come out on

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Speaker 1: the streaming service before I go see him in theaters.

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Speaker 1: But this trailer left me feeling pleasantly surprised. So this

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Speaker 1: is a movie I will be checking out on July

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Speaker 1: twelveth and buying it to the conspiracy theories. And that

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Speaker 1: was this week's edition of Movie b Framer Bar And

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

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Speaker 1: the podcast. But before I go, I gotta give my

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Speaker 1: listeners shout out of the week. How do you get

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Speaker 1: a listener shout out of the week. All you have

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Speaker 1: Facebook dot com slash Mike dstro comment on.

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Speaker 2: A post over there.

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Speaker 1: Try to keep all that up to date, or you

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Speaker 1: can follow and subscribe on YouTube, where I post individual

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Speaker 1: movie reviews. So if you ever miss a specific movie

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Speaker 1: that you're thinking of checking out, just go over to

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Speaker 1: that YouTube page and find it all individually, watch it

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Speaker 1: and listen to it there. But this week I'm going

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Speaker 1: over to Instagram and it's actually a comment I got

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Speaker 1: two months ago and have been holding onto. This week's

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Speaker 1: listener shout out of the Week goes to Brian Lott

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Speaker 1: we Left to comment back on the review I did

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Speaker 1: for Madam Webb, and Brian wrote, I hate when people

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Speaker 1: describe a movie as cheesy and you it every single episode,

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Speaker 1: and I commented back, I wasn't angry. I love constructive criticism.

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Speaker 1: I can take it. I can even take the negative

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Speaker 1: feedback because I get it all the time. Just look

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Speaker 1: at the YouTube comments. Everybody hates me over there, so

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Speaker 1: go subscribe and help me out, because oh that's a

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Speaker 1: rough place. But I saw this comment and I thought

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Speaker 1: about it. I went back and listened to some of

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Speaker 1: my reviews, and I always like to switch up how

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Speaker 1: I say things on this podcast. A big thing that

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Speaker 1: I try to avoid saying is movie all the time,

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Speaker 1: even though there are only so many words you can

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Speaker 1: use to describe a movie, a film, or a picture.

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Speaker 2: But if you listen.

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Speaker 1: In the last few weeks as well, I've also tried

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Speaker 1: to switch that up because when I do cut these clips,

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Speaker 1: I realize that I say words weird.

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Speaker 2: I am not the best talker.

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Speaker 1: You should hear me edit some of these episodes because

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Speaker 1: I cut out a lot of things that I do

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Speaker 1: mess up.

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Speaker 2: But I took this one to heart, Brian, because I'm.

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Speaker 1: Always interested to hear what you guys want me to

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Speaker 1: do differently, So in the last two months, I have

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Speaker 1: not said the word cheesy on purpose, and there have

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Speaker 1: been times where I've said and I've gone back and

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Speaker 1: restated what I meant to say by using a different

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Speaker 1: phrase because I was.

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Speaker 2: Thinking of Brian.

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to be annoyed listening to the podcast

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Speaker 1: hearing me call movies cheesy. Even though some of these

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Speaker 1: in the last two months have been I found other

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Speaker 1: ways to criticize them, Brian.

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Speaker 2: So that was all for you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for those notes, thank you for listening, thank

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Speaker 1: you for being subscribed, And until next time, go out

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Speaker 1: and watch good movies and I will talk to you later.