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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, and today I want to

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Speaker 1: share with you my state of the cinema address because

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Speaker 1: Cinema Con just went down and there is movie news oozin'

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Speaker 1: down for you in one episode because I do this

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Speaker 1: we'll be talking about the new action thriller Monkey Man.

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Speaker 1: And in the trailer park, oh do we have our

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Speaker 1: first look at Joker folet Adu aka Joker Too with

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Speaker 1: Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga. This movie looks mouth watering.

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Speaker 1: Oh that is me right now. So thank you for listening,

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Speaker 1: Thank you for being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday

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Speaker 1: Morning movie crew. He Now, let's talk movies.

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

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Speaker 2: One man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like

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Speaker 2: Glasses from the Nashville podcast Networking Movie Mike Movie Podcast.

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Speaker 1: Cinema Con is the largest and most important gathering of

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Speaker 1: movie theater owners from around the world. Essentially, it is

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Speaker 1: a pep rally for movie theaters and studios send all

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Speaker 1: their big actors and directors to go hype up their

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Speaker 1: And for the most part, that is all who is there,

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Speaker 1: Let me just check my mailbox. Yeah, I didn't get

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Speaker 1: my invitation in the mail even though I do an

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Speaker 1: episode about CinemaCon every single year. Hey, maybe they just

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Speaker 1: more time. No, there's nothing there. Okay, maybe next year.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna start looking into this because this is the

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Speaker 1: This is just all the big studios. I'm talking Universal,

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Speaker 1: So here's what I took away from this my State

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Speaker 1: to the State of the Cinema address. I am your

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Speaker 1: resident movie guy Movie Mike. A very unpredictable box office,

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Speaker 1: but we are off to an improvement over where we

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Speaker 1: So they'll probably just get a bunch of random celebrities

432
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Speaker 1: to be in that. A really weird announcement that I

433
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Speaker 1: didn't know anything about is that Kendrick Lamar, Yes the

434
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Speaker 1: Rapper and South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone

435
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Speaker 1: are working on an untitled musical. It's coming out in

436
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Speaker 1: theaters on July fourth, twenty twenty five. The movie follows

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Speaker 1: the story of a young black man interning as a

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Speaker 1: slavery enactor at a living history museum, and he discovers

439
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Speaker 1: that his white girlfriend's ancestors once owned his I had

440
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 1: no idea that these two people were working together. I

441
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:06,199
Speaker 1: am a huge Trey Parker and Matt Stone fan for

442
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Speaker 1: what they did with South Park and the South Park movies,

443
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,640
Speaker 1: and they also did a bunch of lower budget independent movies.

444
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:16,040
Speaker 1: They had some decent success with Basketball, even though it

445
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Speaker 1: didn't do so well at the box office. But where

446
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Speaker 1: they really shine our musicals. They created the award winning

447
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:26,600
Speaker 1: Book of Mormon, which I really would love to see.

448
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:30,439
Speaker 1: They also with South Park Bigger and Longer and uncut

449
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Speaker 1: of that movie in the nineties that was one of

450
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Speaker 1: the greatest animated musicals of all time. So to see

451
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Speaker 1: them teaming up with Kendrick Lamar, I can't wait to

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Speaker 1: see what that looks like. Disney was out on day three,

453
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Speaker 1: didn't really make any big announcements, but they had a

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Speaker 1: lot of first looks as some new movies. The one

455
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Speaker 1: I'm probably the most interested in is Captain America Brave

456
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Speaker 1: New World. We had the first look of Harrison Ford

457
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Speaker 1: as Thunderbolt asking Anthony Mackie's Captain America to rebuild the Avengers.

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Speaker 1: Sounds pretty good. That's about all we know of the

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Speaker 1: plot of the new Captain America movie. It's coming out

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Speaker 1: in theaters on February fourteenth, twenty twenty five. They apparently

461
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:14,320
Speaker 1: played some of the footage online. They released a couple

462
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:18,480
Speaker 1: stills don't really say a whole lot. It's mainly Anthony

463
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:21,960
Speaker 1: Mackie and Harrison Ford hanging out in some kind of

464
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Speaker 1: maybe boardroom, maybe oval office type situation. But honestly, the

465
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,679
Speaker 1: stills were a little bit boring. And there needs to

466
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Speaker 1: be more hype on this movie because I didn't really

467
00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:35,800
Speaker 1: love the Disney Plus series and it's gonna be really

468
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Speaker 1: hard to make a Captain America movie without Chris Sevans,

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Speaker 1: So come on, Disney, I need a little bit more

470
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Speaker 1: hype here. They also shared the first nine minutes of

471
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Speaker 1: Deadpool and Wolverine, and I started reading and listening to

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Speaker 1: some people talk about what they saw and experienced during

473
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Speaker 1: these first nine minutes, and then I realized, I don't

474
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Speaker 1: want to know anything else about this movie. Sometimes when

475
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Speaker 1: comic book movies come out, people just try to find

476
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:03,320
Speaker 1: every single detail about them, and then when you go

477
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:07,160
Speaker 1: watch the movie, you're not surprised by anything. The only

478
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Speaker 1: thing I'll say is it seems like what they showed

479
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:12,880
Speaker 1: was pretty much what you see inside of the trailer.

480
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 1: That's all I need to know. And they did share

481
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Speaker 1: another look at Wolverine. They released the cups that they're

482
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 1: gonna be selling in theaters, and honestly, it looks kind

483
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:23,879
Speaker 1: of weird. And I told you guys, I wasn't a

484
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:27,440
Speaker 1: big fan of the suit whenever it was first revealed

485
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 1: with Hugh Jackman wearing it, I thought it looked too

486
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 1: much like a motocross motorcycle suit. And even the cup

487
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 1: with Wolverine next to Deadpool, Deadpool looks normal, but for Wolverine,

488
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:42,240
Speaker 1: it almost looks like a bad PlayStation three character. So

489
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Speaker 1: hopefully it looks a lot better in the actual movie.

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Speaker 1: One of the most underwhelming things Disney said is they

491
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,560
Speaker 1: were talking about Mufasa, the Lion King movie coming out

492
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 1: on December twentieth of this year, and they said, hey,

493
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Speaker 1: we're using the same technology as we did in twenty nineteen.

494
00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,480
Speaker 1: They released distill in this movie as well, and it

495
00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 1: looks exactly the same. So hopefully the story is really

496
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:07,240
Speaker 1: powerful there, because as good as that movie looked, it

497
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:11,160
Speaker 1: didn't really feel like a live action Lion King movie

498
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 1: to me because you really can't do that, and I

499
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: wasn't in love with the style. I don't really feel

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00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 1: like it brought life to the story like the two

501
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,120
Speaker 1: D animation did back in the nineties. So hopefully there's

502
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 1: something different that they're doing with that movie to come

503
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:26,879
Speaker 1: out and say, yeah, it's just the same kind of

504
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 1: technology we used in twenty nineteen. Okay, then why are

505
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 1: you making this movie. The Rock was also there and

506
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,680
Speaker 1: talked about Mowana Too, which is coming out even before

507
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:37,920
Speaker 1: the Lion King movie. It's coming out this year on

508
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 1: November twenty seventh, which was kind of a surprise announcement.

509
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 1: Maybe they weren't planning on releasing it so soon, but

510
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 1: people got to hear a sneak peek at one of

511
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Speaker 1: the songs, and in some of the footage you see

512
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:52,199
Speaker 1: Mawana on her boat returning home singing this song with

513
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Speaker 1: the lyrics that go. Finally we're back to who we

514
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:58,640
Speaker 1: are meant to be. The villager singing along with her

515
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 1: one of the villagers the synopsis of Mawana's story from

516
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Speaker 1: the original film. Then Mawana races her dad in a

517
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 1: boat race, she wins and lands on the beach of

518
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Speaker 1: her home island. As the song finishes, Milana one goes

519
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 1: hard And it took me a little bit to get

520
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:18,160
Speaker 1: into that movie and realize how hard it actually went.

521
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 1: So hopefully they have some other bangers in Mowana too.

522
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 1: We had nothing really big announced from Disney. They're really

523
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:26,440
Speaker 1: just trying to hype out everything they have coming out

524
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,440
Speaker 1: this year and early next year. A few more things

525
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:32,639
Speaker 1: to get to here. Bong June Hoe, who is the

526
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 1: director of Parasite. He also did movies like snow Piercer.

527
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 1: Him and Robert Pattinson were at CinemaCon showing off footage

528
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Speaker 1: of Mickey seventeen, which is the new sci fi movie

529
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Speaker 1: and his follow up to Parasite. It was originally supposed

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Speaker 1: to come out this year, but they delayed it to

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Speaker 1: January thirty first, twenty twenty five. They showed the trailer,

532
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 1: which hasn't been released to the public. Yet, but apparently

533
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 1: it looks awesome. It is being described as really great

534
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 1: sci fi film and a simple man's story. Robert Pattinson

535
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 1: plays a common man named Mickey with a nerdy American accent,

536
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 1: who signs up to be anexpendable in the future. He

537
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 1: travels to distant planets and space stations doing handiwork, but

538
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: the caveat is that he is expected to die doing

539
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 1: these difficult missions. Each time he dies, a new clone

540
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 1: is made and then given a new assignment. The title

541
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 1: of the movie draws from this, as he dies seventeen

542
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:28,280
Speaker 1: times in the plot, everything goes well, with Mickey getting

543
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 1: eaten and chopped up into different pieces across space. Things

544
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 1: take a turn when two clones get made at the

545
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 1: same time, Mickey seventeen and Mickey eighteen. Sounds like a

546
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:40,720
Speaker 1: lot of fun when it comes from Bong June Ho,

547
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 1: It's probably gonna have this other crazy psychological element. But

548
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 1: I love everything Robert Pattinson does. I'll watch anything Bon

549
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 1: Juho puts out, whether it be in Korean, whether it

550
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 1: be in English, I don't care. He is such a

551
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 1: great director and a true visionary. And finally we saw

552
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 1: some delays announced that Cinema con. The Crow is now

553
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 1: releasing on August twenty third, And as you remember from

554
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 1: last week's episode, this is the movie on boycotting, and

555
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 1: maybe the boycott is now starting to affect the release date.

556
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 1: It's really not. It just happens to be. I put

557
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 1: out that episode last week and then a couple of

558
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 1: days later this news gets announced. But really it's because

559
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 1: Lionsgate is kind of switching up some other release dates.

560
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 1: They're trying to space out the Saw movies because Saw

561
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 1: ten came out last year and Saw eleven was supposed

562
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 1: to come out this year, but now they are moving

563
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Speaker 1: that to September twenty sixth, twenty twenty five. All right, well,

564
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:40,760
Speaker 1: come back, I'll give you my thoughts on Monkey Man

565
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 1: and in the Trailer Park, which was also announced at CinemaCon.

566
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 1: We're gonna break down the joker to trailer and all

567
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 1: the hidden things that you maybe missed. Let's get into

568
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 1: it now. A spoiler free movie review of Monkey Man,

569
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Speaker 1: starring and directed by Dev Patel, who you'll probably be

570
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 1: most familiar with him from slum Dog Millionaire. And this

571
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,959
Speaker 1: is a movie that has a pretty inspirational story. It

572
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 1: wasn't even gonna see the light of day until Jordan Peele,

573
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 1: who is one of my favorite directors known for movies

574
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: like Get Out Us Nope, he saw this movie was

575
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 1: so moved by it. His production company, Monkey Pop Productions,

576
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 1: picked up the movie, got it in theaters, and for me,

577
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 1: even though I am a fan of Deaf Ptel's work,

578
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,719
Speaker 1: it was having that Jordan Peele stamp of approval that

579
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 1: really sold me on this movie. And it's that association

580
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 1: that people have seeing a poster you see it's directed

581
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,600
Speaker 1: by Deaf Patel, but you also see Jordan Peele's name

582
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 1: up on that poster, so it's like, Okay, I know

583
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 1: that name I associated with these other great movies. I'm

584
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 1: gonna go out on a lim and say that is

585
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 1: kind of what I am expecting here. So that is

586
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 1: initially what had me excited about this movie. But after

587
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:53,000
Speaker 1: the first trailer, I thought this is something I would

588
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 1: have watched even if it didn't have the Monkey Pop

589
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 1: Production's name to it. But what this movie is about.

590
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 1: You have a guy played by Dave Patel who is

591
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 1: kind of an unnamed care and he is competing in

592
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 1: this underground fight club where his job is to lose

593
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 1: the promoter he is working with essentially puts them against

594
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: these other really vicious fighters and even though he could

595
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 1: probably beat them, how he makes his money is really

596
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: going through three rounds with that fighter, getting people to

597
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 1: bet on it, and he gets a very small amount

598
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 1: of money for doing so. He's really just barely getting by.

599
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: Which the movie has a lot to do with the

600
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,480
Speaker 1: class system, the rich and the poor, which I'll get

601
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: into a little bit later, but he is just struggling

602
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 1: with that and he has this really deep rage inside

603
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 1: of him. And what I loved about this movie and

604
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 1: how they developed this story is they don't put everything

605
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 1: up front. You go watch a movie like this, and

606
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 1: oftentimes you get this entire character's story in the first

607
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 1: twenty minutes. You learn all the things that go wrong

608
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 1: in his life. How this movie sets itself apart is

609
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 1: it really just drops him into that world of the

610
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 1: underground fight club. You see he's getting beaten so bloody,

611
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 1: there's stuff coming out of his mask, but you don't

612
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 1: really know why he has this rage inside of him,

613
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: and obviously something very traumatic has happened in his life. Essentially,

614
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 1: he has had every single thing taken away from him

615
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 1: from the elite of where he is living in India,

616
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 1: and those elite have cost him so much pain in

617
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 1: his life and really kept him down there at the

618
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 1: bottom that you find him at a moment where he

619
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 1: becomes a man with a plan and he's going to

620
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:37,040
Speaker 1: take all this rage that has been building inside of

621
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 1: him for all these years, the really awful thing that

622
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 1: happened to him when he was younger, which you start

623
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 1: to uncover and really just go after these people. So

624
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 1: some of the things you learned early on, which I

625
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 1: don't want to spoil, but you see some of the

626
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 1: actual physical things that have happened to him that he

627
00:33:55,680 --> 00:34:00,520
Speaker 1: is dealing with. His hands are scorched thing on his

628
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 1: hands and they're just blake. Where you should have all

629
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:07,479
Speaker 1: these designs and marks in your hands, he has nothing,

630
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: and you don't really know why. You see bits of

631
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 1: his childhood from these flashbacks, which I really enjoyed because

632
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 1: it's kind of like uncovering a little puzzle, a very dark,

633
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 1: sinister puzzle. As you watch the movie, as he is

634
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:25,800
Speaker 1: advancing in real time, you are learning as the viewer

635
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:27,799
Speaker 1: about his past, which I think is a really great

636
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:29,360
Speaker 1: way to do it because it could be kind of

637
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 1: boring to put that all in the first ten to

638
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes, and it feels weird and disjointed when you

639
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 1: start with that. You want to start with the good

640
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 1: stuff and then learning it that way it makes it

641
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 1: so much more significant and impactful, especially when later in

642
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:47,880
Speaker 1: the movie you really find out exactly what happened, exactly

643
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:50,840
Speaker 1: why he is the way he is. It's able to

644
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,800
Speaker 1: build up so much more attention and just feels like, oh, Okay,

645
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 1: I get it now, and now I'm ready to get

646
00:34:57,239 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 1: to the final act of this movie. So what he

647
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:03,360
Speaker 1: tries to do is develop a plan to infiltrate the

648
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,839
Speaker 1: people who ripped everything away from him, and how he

649
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:10,280
Speaker 1: does that he mixes with his job at that underground

650
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:13,840
Speaker 1: fight club and then a really devious plan that he

651
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:18,240
Speaker 1: comes up with to reach some of those people in power.

652
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 1: And I just think that part was really cool. The

653
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:24,920
Speaker 1: first twenty minutes of this movie develops a lot of curiosities.

654
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:29,280
Speaker 1: It had me just wondering exactly what was going on. Also,

655
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 1: the style of filmmaking was very different. It took me

656
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 1: a little bit to get used to, but after I

657
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 1: kind of understood the pacing of it, realized that they

658
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:41,400
Speaker 1: weren't going to tell you everything up front. It really

659
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 1: made me enjoy it because it felt like something different

660
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 1: which is something I just struggle to find when going

661
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: to watch movies this year, or we had a lot

662
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 1: of duds. We've had a lot of things that just

663
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 1: feel very repetitive. This felt like a breath of fresh air,

664
00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:59,399
Speaker 1: especially in a genre where you don't really get that

665
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:04,800
Speaker 1: in primarily a straight ahead action movie with some thrills

666
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:09,799
Speaker 1: along the way. Oftentimes it's very by the book, very textbook.

667
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: It's usually just you introduced the bad guy, you're following

668
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:16,479
Speaker 1: the good guy. You want good guy to beat bad guy.

669
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 1: But it was a much different path to that that

670
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 1: our character took in Monkey Man to face his demons.

671
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 1: And what I would say is the most comparable movie

672
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:33,280
Speaker 1: to Monkey Man has to be John Wick, because john

673
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 1: Wick is all about getting revenge, redemption, all those things

674
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:42,319
Speaker 1: that vengeance, you know, because in John Wick, they kill

675
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 1: his dog, and the entire plot line of John Wick

676
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 1: is him killing all the people responsible for killing his dog.

677
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 1: And in that first John Wick movie, the action obviously

678
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,840
Speaker 1: set it apart. It was so much more brutal, over

679
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 1: the top and pretty much NonStop, very little plot line.

680
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:05,319
Speaker 1: It was all about the crazy stunt performances, all of

681
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 1: the guns and crazy weapons that john Wick would use.

682
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 1: And then later in two and three and four, they

683
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 1: realized that that's what people loved about those movies, and

684
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 1: they really almost eliminated all other plotlines and just said,

685
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,880
Speaker 1: let's get to the action. Let's get to the bullets flying,

686
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 1: Let's get to Keanu Reeves fighting people the entire time.

687
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:29,439
Speaker 1: So you have that same element in Monkey Man. It's

688
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: not as NonStop action. I would say there are even

689
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:35,839
Speaker 1: moments in this movie where you forget it to an

690
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 1: action film. It just feels like a full on drama.

691
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:42,760
Speaker 1: But when it does ramp up, it is very very

692
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,839
Speaker 1: similar to john Wick in that style. But the other

693
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:48,360
Speaker 1: way it's similar to John Wick is being an action

694
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 1: movie where the star hits rock bottom. Because oftentimes, in

695
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 1: American action movies, your hero is bulletproof. Nothing hurts him,

696
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 1: he doesn't lose a battle along the way. He just

697
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 1: comes in, beats all of his opponents and just tries

698
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: to work his way up to that final boss. But

699
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 1: in john Wick and in Monkey Man, you see our

700
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:15,279
Speaker 1: hero hit rock bottom. You see them get hurt, you

701
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 1: see them at their bloodiest, at their most broken, and

702
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 1: you realize that they are not these bulletproof people, that

703
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 1: nothing hurts them, that they can take down and defeat anybody.

704
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:29,439
Speaker 1: And by doing that, it makes it so much more

705
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:34,239
Speaker 1: impactful when that hero rises again, and it builds up

706
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 1: that energy to overcome the hardest of obstacles, because you

707
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 1: have to be able to take the audience to lows

708
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:45,359
Speaker 1: to reach those highs. And I compare this to one

709
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:49,080
Speaker 1: of the most popular action stars, The Rock who has

710
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 1: a clause that he can't lose a fight on screen.

711
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:54,880
Speaker 1: How is your hero not going to lose a fight?

712
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 1: How are you not going to allow your character to

713
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,160
Speaker 1: be vulnerable and show that they are able to to

714
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 1: be defeated and have to come back from that. That

715
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 1: is the reason I believe that Black Adam failed so

716
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:11,279
Speaker 1: badly is because there was never really anything to overcome.

717
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:13,880
Speaker 1: His character was just fighting, be able the entire time,

718
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 1: didn't have any problem, no character development. But in movies

719
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 1: like John Wick and now in Monkey Man, you have

720
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 1: that character development because you follow them along more like

721
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:28,280
Speaker 1: if this was happening to you, if everything was taken

722
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:30,440
Speaker 1: away from you and you decided one day you just

723
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 1: wanted to develop a plan to fight back, because in life,

724
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:38,799
Speaker 1: you're gonna have the crap kicked out of you, hopefully

725
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 1: just figuratively and not literally, but you gotta get back up.

726
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 1: And what this movie did also really well was incorporate

727
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: some really well defined cinematography to put you inside of

728
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: that action. There were some really great camera movements that

729
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,440
Speaker 1: really felt like I was right there along in some

730
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 1: of the chase scenes and some of the fight scenes.

731
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 1: That were also some really great uses of special effects

732
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:06,400
Speaker 1: that I feel like we're somewhat comparable to like a

733
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,879
Speaker 1: horror movie, because the same way that John Wick has

734
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:13,319
Speaker 1: some brutal kill scenes, this one does the same thing

735
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:17,719
Speaker 1: that I get squeamish whenever somebody gets stabbed. It's just

736
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:20,240
Speaker 1: uncomfortable for me to watch. Out of all the things,

737
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 1: I can't watch people get stabbed because my head goes

738
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:25,839
Speaker 1: to if I got stabbed, I don't even know how

739
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,360
Speaker 1: I would react. And also broken bones. I can't do

740
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:31,840
Speaker 1: broken bones. If anybody breaks a bone in a movie

741
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:35,240
Speaker 1: or even I'll just be scrolling TikTok sometimes and somebody

742
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 1: it's like a bone break skateboarding video. I cannot watch those.

743
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:44,560
Speaker 1: And as desensitized as I am to violence just becomes

744
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 1: the norm to me. Anything are rated just becomes the

745
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 1: norm to me. You break a bone and I'm out.

746
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 1: But there were some moments in this movie that were

747
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:55,440
Speaker 1: really hard to watch because they involved stabbing and breaking bones.

748
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: But I feel like to get that emotion out of

749
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 1: me is hard thing to do, so especially in an

750
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:04,320
Speaker 1: action movie where I've really seen it all and nothing

751
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: really sticks out. Things stuck out in this movie, in particular,

752
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 1: Bone stuck out. And what this movie felt like was

753
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 1: a modern folk tale because even though it takes place

754
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:16,319
Speaker 1: in the real world, there are some moments where you

755
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 1: kind of have to forget about reality a little bit

756
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 1: and think, Okay, I see how this could happen. And

757
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 1: then I also think that monkey Man gave us one

758
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 1: of the best training sequences since Rocky, which is another

759
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:31,880
Speaker 1: thing that's really hard to do. But there is a

760
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:34,879
Speaker 1: sequence in the movie where he is training punching a

761
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 1: big begg of rice was very reminiscent of Rocky hitting

762
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:42,320
Speaker 1: the big old slab of raw meat. And that moment

763
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:46,319
Speaker 1: was very inspirational to me because it incorporated a lot

764
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 1: of elements of Monkey Man's culture and it felt like

765
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 1: a ode to Rocky, but also showing that we're gonna

766
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 1: take something that is so American but put our spin

767
00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 1: to it. Because this movie is also important for presentation.

768
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 1: You hardly see an actor like death Batael have the

769
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 1: lead in a movie like this, so above everything else,

770
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: that was the most inspirational thing for me to see.

771
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 1: For him not only to star in this movie but

772
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:19,400
Speaker 1: also be behind the camera and for his directorial debut,

773
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:22,480
Speaker 1: totally crushed it because it's a hard thing to do

774
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:25,640
Speaker 1: to take a movie like this where your character is

775
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:29,239
Speaker 1: supposed to be seen as heroic. I feel like you

776
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 1: could make your character look like you would like the

777
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:34,480
Speaker 1: rock like so invincible and so cool and so awesome

778
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 1: all the time. Which there are some moments in that

779
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 1: training sequence where he does look like that, takes off

780
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:43,400
Speaker 1: his shirt, everybody's so impressed. But it doesn't do it

781
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 1: in a way that feels overly egotistical, which is a

782
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 1: fine line to walk when you are the director and

783
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 1: star of a movie, because what you say goes and

784
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:59,239
Speaker 1: what ends up on the screen is highly reliant on you.

785
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 1: But he did it in a way that felt very

786
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 1: humble and very much like he really cared about the

787
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 1: overall filmmaking process. He didn't really do this movie as

788
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:11,800
Speaker 1: a vanity project. I wanted to leave the theater immediately,

789
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:14,080
Speaker 1: go to the boxing gym, and just tear it up

790
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:16,279
Speaker 1: for forty five minutes. I was so inspired by it.

791
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:18,279
Speaker 1: But again, I don't want to give the impression if

792
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 1: you haven't seen it, that it's just NonStop, senseless action.

793
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 1: There are moments that take away from all of that.

794
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 1: I would argue there's a little bit of a lull.

795
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 1: The film was under two hours, which I feel is

796
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:34,239
Speaker 1: the sweet spot for a big thriller action movie like this,

797
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 1: although I did kind of feel the runtime a little bit.

798
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 1: Maybe it was just in that second to third act

799
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:44,439
Speaker 1: that was like twenty or thirty minutes where it kind

800
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 1: of lost momentum For a movie that started out so strong,

801
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:50,399
Speaker 1: really got to the story, really dove into the action

802
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:52,440
Speaker 1: once it was there for a minute, I kind of

803
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:54,719
Speaker 1: wondered how they were going to land the plane, and

804
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:58,319
Speaker 1: if it wasn't for having such a strong ending, I

805
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 1: feel like I kind of would have dipped out there

806
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:02,920
Speaker 1: in the middle. But overall, a great movie, especially if

807
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:05,880
Speaker 1: you're into action movies like John Wick, one that I

808
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:09,279
Speaker 1: feel enhanced my enjoyment of it of actually seeing it

809
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:11,360
Speaker 1: in the theater, But I could see a movie like

810
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:14,319
Speaker 1: this once it goes to streaming, maybe one of the

811
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:17,440
Speaker 1: big streamers picks it up. I feel this will have

812
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 1: a much better life on streaming, so I don't necessarily

813
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:23,000
Speaker 1: think you need to run to the theater to watch it,

814
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 1: because I almost think watching it at home you'll get

815
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 1: that same effect. But overall, I give it a strong

816
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 1: four out of five gorilla masks.

817
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 2: It's time to head down to movie Mike Traylor.

818
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:42,320
Speaker 1: Paul Joker is one of my favorite R rated movies

819
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:46,360
Speaker 1: of all time. I just lean towards the darker stories

820
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:49,279
Speaker 1: when it comes to comic book movies, and I thought

821
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 1: the first one nailed it. And the only trepidation I

822
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:54,640
Speaker 1: had going into the sequel is the fact that it's

823
00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 1: going to be a jukebox musical. I didn't exactly know

824
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:01,799
Speaker 1: what that was going to look like. I speculate, and

825
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 1: after seeing this trailer now it looks like the speculation

826
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:09,360
Speaker 1: I had was actually pretty accurate and it all makes

827
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:13,800
Speaker 1: sense now. So I told you guys, i'd be wrong

828
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 1: to question director Todd Phillips, and I love the statement

829
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 1: he put out when the trailer drops, saying that the

830
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:24,400
Speaker 1: movie doesn't really veer too far from the original film.

831
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:28,320
Speaker 1: Although the music is a very essential element. The tone

832
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:31,799
Speaker 1: of the movie is very much matched by the first one,

833
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 1: which I think is great and even think movie theater owners.

834
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 1: This has also happened at CinemaCon, saying thank you for

835
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,319
Speaker 1: keeping the first Joker in theaters because at that time,

836
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:43,600
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, there was a lot of unrest in

837
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:45,920
Speaker 1: the country, and not to say five years later that

838
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,279
Speaker 1: everything has been solved. But I can see why a

839
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 1: movie like Joker is not for everybody. It's very dark.

840
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 1: There is even a warning now if you go watch

841
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:55,800
Speaker 1: it on YouTube. I first watched it when it dropped

842
00:45:56,239 --> 00:45:59,360
Speaker 1: on Tuesday night of last week, and there wasn't a warning,

843
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 1: but the next day on Wednesday when you'd go watch it,

844
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:04,400
Speaker 1: and probably if you still go watch it now, you

845
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:07,720
Speaker 1: have to click yes because it says warning to users

846
00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 1: that it may contain suicide or self harm topics. So

847
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 1: that even tells you further that if you don't like

848
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:18,360
Speaker 1: seeing things related to that, do not watch this movie.

849
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 1: The first one was made on a budget of fifty

850
00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 1: five million dollars this one is stepped it up to

851
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 1: two hundred million dollars. And that first one was so

852
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:28,719
Speaker 1: profitable because it did have that fifty five million dollar

853
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:31,320
Speaker 1: budget and went on to gross over a billion dollars.

854
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:34,400
Speaker 1: Will this one do the same? It's hard to say.

855
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:38,280
Speaker 1: Movies have been so weird with numbers at the box

856
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: office right now, but I feel like with the hype

857
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:44,120
Speaker 1: that the first one had, and there was some worry

858
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:46,720
Speaker 1: of what that was going to be, and then people

859
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:49,200
Speaker 1: at that time still even question whether or not Joaquin

860
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:51,439
Speaker 1: Phoenix could pull off the Joker. But now we all

861
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Speaker 1: know that Joaquin Phoenix does great in this role. He

862
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Speaker 1: won his Oscar and now we have him joined by

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Speaker 1: Lady Gaga. What I love most about this trailer before

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Speaker 1: I even play a clip of it, is a great

865
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Speaker 1: trailer doesn't show you beginning, middle, and end of a movie.

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Speaker 1: That is actually the sign of a bad trailer. If

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Speaker 1: you watch a trailer and you really know the entire

868
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Speaker 1: story by the end of that two and a half minutes,

869
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Speaker 1: that is gonna be a not great movie. It could

870
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Speaker 1: still be enjoyable, still be entertaining, But if you put

871
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Speaker 1: that much information in a trailer, you're not betting on

872
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:28,600
Speaker 1: your storytelling, and you're really selling more of a product

873
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Speaker 1: than a piece of art, which not all movies or art,

874
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Speaker 1: but for something like Joker and this trailer, you really

875
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Speaker 1: just get the vibe of the story, you get the

876
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:40,279
Speaker 1: tone of it. There's still not a whole lot out

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Speaker 1: there about the plot. I've pieced together a lot of

878
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:45,839
Speaker 1: things watching this trailer now a few times, so I'll

879
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Speaker 1: go through some of those things, but above all, it

880
00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:51,359
Speaker 1: really just shows you how they are going to incorporate

881
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Speaker 1: the musical elements Lady Gaga is gonna look like as

882
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Speaker 1: Harley Quinn, and then how it kind of picks up

883
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Speaker 1: right at the end of Joker Part one, and that

884
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Speaker 1: brings us to the title. It's not called Joker too,

885
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Speaker 1: It's called Joker fully Ado, which translates to madness for two.

886
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Speaker 1: So in the first one it was about Arthur flex

887
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:14,719
Speaker 1: descent into madness by himself, but now it looks like

888
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Speaker 1: he meets Lady Gaga's character who she is playing Harley Quinn,

889
00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:21,560
Speaker 1: looks like her origin story is much different. They are

890
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Speaker 1: meeting in Arkham Asylum, they fall in love and escape

891
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Speaker 1: is essentially what I have pieced together from this trailer.

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Speaker 1: Before I get into more what I think about joker,

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Speaker 1: fully I do. Here's just a little bit of the trailer.

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Speaker 3: F you got a joke for us today, we use

895
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Speaker 3: music to make us whole, to balance the fractures with

896
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Speaker 3: an househouse.

897
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:51,360
Speaker 1: I'm nobody. I haven't done anything with my life like

898
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Speaker 1: you have. Tell us what's changed, Arthur. I'll tell you

899
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:58,160
Speaker 1: what's changed, y'all.

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00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:04,879
Speaker 3: Well anymore, that's what recent be talking about.

901
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:09,320
Speaker 1: A very powerful trailer. So in that first one, exactly

902
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:12,680
Speaker 1: what happens is him doing all those things alone. You

903
00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:17,319
Speaker 1: even question at times how reliable he is as a

904
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:20,239
Speaker 1: narrator and whether or not those things that he saw

905
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 1: in his mind actually happened in real life or whether

906
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:25,640
Speaker 1: it was all just going on in his head. But

907
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 1: either way, this movie starts with him in prison at

908
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Speaker 1: Arkham Asylum, and the way they change Harley Quinn's origin

909
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:37,120
Speaker 1: story here is she first debuted in Batman, the animated

910
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:39,799
Speaker 1: series back in the nineties, so she didn't even have

911
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:43,759
Speaker 1: a comic book origin. She debuted because they needed new

912
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 1: characters and Harley Quinn in the show and then later

913
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Speaker 1: in the comics and later in Suicide Squad. She was

914
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Speaker 1: a psychologist assigned to Joker, and then he plays all

915
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:58,000
Speaker 1: these mind tricks on her to make him fall in

916
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:00,239
Speaker 1: love with him. He throws her in a big out

917
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Speaker 1: of acid and she becomes Harley Quinn, and then she

918
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Speaker 1: spends her entire life doing anything that Joker says because

919
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:12,400
Speaker 1: he brainwashed her. I really loved Margot Robbie's depiction of

920
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:16,520
Speaker 1: her in Suicide Squad and The Suicide Squad. I also

921
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Speaker 1: really loved the Harley Quinn animated show on Max, which

922
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Speaker 1: kind of flips the script on the traditional Harley Quinn

923
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Speaker 1: origin story. And so there is a lot of great

924
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:30,399
Speaker 1: source material for Harley Quinn, but it looks like Todd

925
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Speaker 1: Phillips is focusing on how does he make it work

926
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Speaker 1: in Arthur Fleck's case, and what he actually does here

927
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Speaker 1: in the trailer is almost show how Harley Quinn transforms

928
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Speaker 1: into the crazy character much like Arthur Fleck did in

929
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Speaker 1: Part one. There are frame for frame examples of the

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00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:55,240
Speaker 1: ways they are similar. So one in particular is whenever

931
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Speaker 1: in this trailer Lady Gaga puts her fingers up to

932
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Speaker 1: her head like she's shooting herself in the head. That

933
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Speaker 1: is the exact same thing that Arthur did in Joker

934
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Speaker 1: Part one. Also in part one, one of the most

935
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Speaker 1: famous scenes is Joker dancing with himself in a bathroom

936
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Speaker 1: after committing his first murder. Cut to this one, and

937
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 1: instead of dancing by himself, he is now dancing with

938
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Speaker 1: Harley Quinn. Also one of the most famous scenes from

939
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:20,800
Speaker 1: the first one is whenever he's dancing down the stairs

940
00:51:20,880 --> 00:51:23,520
Speaker 1: kicking his legs out. I love the shot in this

941
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:26,640
Speaker 1: trailer where now it's both of them going downstairs with

942
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:29,360
Speaker 1: a big crowd on either side of them, so it

943
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 1: goes from being just him to now having a legit

944
00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 1: partner in crime. And those are just some of the

945
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:39,040
Speaker 1: amazing shots throughout this trailer, which has one of my

946
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:42,600
Speaker 1: favorite color palettes with the dark reds, the dark yellows,

947
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 1: and that greenish blue. I love the shot where it

948
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 1: looks like they're walking out of the prison and you

949
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:53,120
Speaker 1: have all these colored umbrellas in that same color palette.

950
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:55,680
Speaker 1: Looks amazing. You have Joker at the piano with the

951
00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:58,239
Speaker 1: spotlight on him and the smoke around his face. There's

952
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:01,799
Speaker 1: one scene where he's in this entirely white suit and

953
00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:06,959
Speaker 1: then seeing Lady Gaga in the Harley Quinn costume, which

954
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:11,200
Speaker 1: isn't the traditional Jester costume from the animated show or

955
00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:15,480
Speaker 1: it looks anything like Margot Robbie's costume. It really has

956
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:20,200
Speaker 1: that realistic, darker approach to it, with very slight makeup

957
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:23,480
Speaker 1: instead of having her entire face be pale, which I

958
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:26,680
Speaker 1: think works perfectly. And then, of course, as I was

959
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:30,080
Speaker 1: mentioning earlier, we get a glimpse of how the musical

960
00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:33,239
Speaker 1: element is going to be incorporated in the movie. It

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00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:36,400
Speaker 1: seems to me that music is almost going to be

962
00:52:36,719 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 1: a coping mechanism. Even the line they mentioned there in

963
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:43,320
Speaker 1: the trailer of how we all use music. Think about

964
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:46,720
Speaker 1: how much people say that music has saved their lives.

965
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:49,399
Speaker 1: It's changed the way they see the world. You can

966
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:52,359
Speaker 1: go to a concert and almost have this euphoric experience

967
00:52:52,480 --> 00:52:54,920
Speaker 1: and you connect with an artist. I think that is

968
00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:57,880
Speaker 1: what music is going to be in this movie. It

969
00:52:57,960 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 1: is how they keep themselves grounded as they go crazier

970
00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:05,600
Speaker 1: and crazier, and it's also how they cope with all

971
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 1: the awful things they are doing and ruining people's lives

972
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:13,080
Speaker 1: and creating chaos around them. It looks to me that

973
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 1: they're going to kind of go into a different place

974
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:18,640
Speaker 1: in their minds as they are singing and dancing together,

975
00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:22,680
Speaker 1: because there are shots of those moments where at one

976
00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:26,520
Speaker 1: point they're on the street dancing, but in their heads

977
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:29,240
Speaker 1: it looks like they're in a big ballroom and looking

978
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:32,799
Speaker 1: very fancy and you know, nice suits and nice dresses.

979
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:35,279
Speaker 1: So it seems to be like all those moments are

980
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:39,320
Speaker 1: happening inside their head, which somebody who is psychotic and crazy,

981
00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:42,320
Speaker 1: that's probably what would happen, and that is what Joker

982
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:45,600
Speaker 1: and Harley Quinn are. They are not mentally stable, So

983
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 1: I think now the musical element makes perfect sense to me,

984
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:51,080
Speaker 1: and now that I can see it, because it looks

985
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:54,479
Speaker 1: like they're going to escape from Arkham Asylum together. There's

986
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:57,520
Speaker 1: one scene where you see a big explosion and you

987
00:53:57,560 --> 00:54:01,000
Speaker 1: have them running away from it holding hands by side,

988
00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:05,240
Speaker 1: which I just want to see that chemistry of how

989
00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:08,319
Speaker 1: they interact with each other and how this movie works

990
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:12,040
Speaker 1: with two people who are just so so crazy. But

991
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:15,520
Speaker 1: hands down, the best shot in this trailer is the

992
00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 1: very final moment whenever Lady Gaga paints this smile with

993
00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:22,440
Speaker 1: lipstick on the glass, it almost looks like they are

994
00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:25,960
Speaker 1: almost like in visitation at a prison where Lady Gaga

995
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:28,640
Speaker 1: is on one side and Joaquin Phoenix is on the

996
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:32,520
Speaker 1: other side, and she paints a smile with lipstick, and

997
00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:35,400
Speaker 1: then he goes from the other side of having this

998
00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:39,440
Speaker 1: frown and then gradually just gets a smile and it

999
00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:43,319
Speaker 1: matches up perfectly. Whoever had that idea deserves their own

1000
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:46,080
Speaker 1: oscar because it looks so great and is the perfect

1001
00:54:46,120 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 1: way to close out this trailer. No official run time yet,

1002
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:53,000
Speaker 1: but of course it has that R rating with strong violence,

1003
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 1: language throughout, some sexuality, and even brief nudity in this one.

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00:54:57,360 --> 00:55:00,480
Speaker 1: It is coming out on October fourth, and the movie

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00:55:00,560 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 1: is going to feature at least fifteen reinterpretations of songs.

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00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:08,520
Speaker 1: I was also surprised to see how thin Joaquin Phoenix

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00:55:08,560 --> 00:55:11,239
Speaker 1: got again for this role, which for part one he

1008
00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:14,960
Speaker 1: had the famous diet of essentially only eating an apple

1009
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:18,279
Speaker 1: a day and surviving off that and maybe soup and

1010
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:21,560
Speaker 1: some steam vegetables is all he would eat. It really

1011
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:24,600
Speaker 1: adds to that distressed look of Arthur Fleck, and he

1012
00:55:24,719 --> 00:55:27,080
Speaker 1: was so thin in that movie, and in the first

1013
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:29,759
Speaker 1: shot of this trailer, I almost thought maybe they cgied

1014
00:55:29,760 --> 00:55:32,799
Speaker 1: his body, kind of like they did Captain America. When

1015
00:55:32,840 --> 00:55:35,279
Speaker 1: he goes from skinny to muscular. But I think he

1016
00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 1: really did it again. So is he going for another

1017
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:41,600
Speaker 1: Oscar on this one? That would be really tough. In history,

1018
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:44,880
Speaker 1: I don't think somebody has won an Oscar for Best

1019
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:48,719
Speaker 1: Actor or Actress for playing the same character. It is

1020
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:52,240
Speaker 1: also rare for a sequel to be nominated for Best Picture.

1021
00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 1: And when I think, the only thing that has happened

1022
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Speaker 1: is different actors have been nominated for playing the same character,

1023
00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:03,960
Speaker 1: because He's was also nominated and one for playing the Joker,

1024
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:07,840
Speaker 1: and there have been similar instances where actors have portrayed

1025
00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:10,719
Speaker 1: the same character. But I don't think there's a win

1026
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:16,080
Speaker 1: for an actor playing the same character twice and also

1027
00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:18,959
Speaker 1: being nominated and winning. But again, this movie is coming

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00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:22,080
Speaker 1: out on October fourth, and I'm gonna pre order my

1029
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:25,040
Speaker 1: tickets as soon as they're available because this trailer has

1030
00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:26,240
Speaker 1: me hype.

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Speaker 2: And that was this week's edition of Movie Line Tramer

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Speaker 2: Bar and.

1033
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Speaker 1: That is gonna do it for another episode here of

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Speaker 1: the podcast. Before I go, I gotta give my listeners

1035
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Speaker 1: shout out over the week, and for this shout out,

1036
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Speaker 1: I'm going over to Instagram and the listener shout out

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Speaker 1: of the Week goes to Sweet Eats by V, who

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Speaker 1: tagged me in her Instagram story listening to the best

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Speaker 1: and worst movies of March that I do every single

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Speaker 1: month with Kelsey and said listening to Mike Diestro's podcast

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Speaker 1: and I'm ninety nine point nine percent sure. Kelsey mentioned

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Speaker 1: she owns an evil queen candle can adult today, adding

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Speaker 1: more reasons where I think she and I would be

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Speaker 1: great friends, And that is true. You heard right. Kelsey

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Speaker 1: is very into candles, and I've also got semi into

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Speaker 1: candles because she loves them so much, so much so

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Speaker 1: that I love my candle burning basically all day at

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Speaker 1: home and she had to blow it out because I

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Speaker 1: am an idiot. But thank you, sweets by V. Appreciate

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Speaker 1: you listening and tagging me in your Instagram story. Thank

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Speaker 1: you everybody for listening again this week, and until next time,

1052
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Speaker 1: go out and watch good movies and I will talk

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Speaker 1: to you later.