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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 what I think are the top ten baseball

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Speaker 1: movies in history. In the movie review, we'll be talking

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Speaker 1: about Jack Quaid in a new action thriller comedy called

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Speaker 1: Nova Kane, where he plays a man who can't feel pain.

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Speaker 1: And in the trailer park, I am going to blind

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Speaker 1: react to the new Lilo and Stitch trailer. It dropped

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Speaker 1: last week. I hit record before I watched it because

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Speaker 1: I wanted my true, raw, honest emotions because Lelo and

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Speaker 1: Stitch is my favorite Disney movie of all time. Have

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

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Speaker 1: Movie crew. And now let's talk movies from the Distro

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Speaker 1: podcast network. And this is Movie Mike's Movie Podcasts. Baseball

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Speaker 1: is you have games kicking off this week in Japan.

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Speaker 1: Next week is the official opening day on Thursday, March

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Speaker 1: twenty seventh. I love baseball, and when it comes to

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Speaker 1: sports movies, baseball is my favorite genre of sports movie.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to share with you what I think are

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Speaker 1: the top ten baseball movies in history because I saw

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Speaker 1: someone else put out a list that I'll get to

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Speaker 1: towards the end of the episode. But I thought that

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Speaker 1: list was an abomination. And I'll remind you if you're

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Speaker 1: new here, I was a kid grew up in the nineties,

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Speaker 1: so obviously it's gonna be heavily rooted then, So let's

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Speaker 1: get right into the list. At number ten, I have

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Speaker 1: Bad News Bears, and it is not the Bad News

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Speaker 1: Bears from nineteen seventy six, the original. I went with

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Speaker 1: the remake in two thousand and five, starring Billy Bob

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Speaker 1: Thornton as butter Maker. He plays a burnt out minor

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Speaker 1: league baseball player who loves to drink, he loves to curse,

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Speaker 1: and he gets forced to manage a local little league team.

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Speaker 1: I think why I enjoy this one over the original, Well,

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Speaker 1: two thousand and five was a great year in movies,

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Speaker 1: more importantly, a great year for Billy Bob Thornton and

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Speaker 1: one of my favorite movies of his came out just

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Speaker 1: two years before this. Bad Sanna, Bad Sanna, Bad News Bears.

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Speaker 1: It all goes together. I just really enjoy Billy Bob

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Speaker 1: Thornton being a degenerate. I think it's funny to see

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Speaker 1: him drinking heavily, making bad decision cursing around kids. That

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Speaker 1: is my favorite era of Billy Bob Thornton. And what

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Speaker 1: I got in Bad Sanna, I got even more in

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Speaker 1: Bad News Bears. I also just love baseball movies. We'll

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Speaker 1: see a theme throughout this list about kids who are

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Speaker 1: told they suck and aren't very good, have no athletic ability,

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Speaker 1: but they go on to accomplish greatness, and that is

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Speaker 1: what great sports movies are about. I think sometimes I

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Speaker 1: struggle with enjoying sports movies because they are very formulaic,

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Speaker 1: and it's always about taking a group of kids or

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Speaker 1: have somebody come in clean him up and take him

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Speaker 1: to greatness? And I think why I love this movie

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Speaker 1: so much. It's very nostalgic for me. I just love

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Speaker 1: that it's way more vulgar than the nineteen seventy six version.

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Speaker 1: And this is an example from the movie of a

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Speaker 1: scene all the time. It's when he's doing some batting

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Speaker 1: other great thing about this movie is there's always that

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Speaker 1: at number ten, I have Bad News Bears. At number eight,

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Speaker 1: I have Basketball from nineteen ninety eight starring Trey Parker

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Speaker 1: it's even crazier now, where teams would move to different cities,

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Speaker 1: but instead of hitting the ball, they are shooting it

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Speaker 1: to me it is more of a baseball movie. The

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Speaker 1: part of this entire movie is the rule they add

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Speaker 1: my favorite psychouts from the movie, which of course I

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Speaker 1: have to censor it, but it's whenever Trey Parker goes

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Speaker 1: CARTMANK you losing weight? And that is a psych out

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Speaker 1: any other sport, but this game levels the playing field.

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Speaker 1: I think it's whatever. Whenever pickleball first got popular and

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Speaker 1: really levels the playing field compared to tennis. That is

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Speaker 1: it takes it back to the everyday person. It also

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Speaker 1: Just loving your team and showing your support for that team.

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Speaker 1: And I can't wait to see the movie that supposedly

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Speaker 1: eight from nineteen eighty nine, I have Field of Dreams.

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Speaker 1: Kevin Costner has done five big baseball movies in his career,

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Speaker 1: The year before this, he did Bull Durham that came

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Speaker 1: some research that Kevin Costner was a baseball player and

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Speaker 1: he had real life baseball aspirations. That is what influenced

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Speaker 1: in his career. To go from Bull Durham to Field

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Speaker 1: classics is a crazy accomplishment. Field of Dreams is all

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Speaker 1: about him hearing the voice telling him to build a

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Speaker 1: It has a lot of emotion that I feel comes

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Speaker 1: across more than Bull Durham. He was also in for

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Speaker 1: Dreams also in nineteen ninety nine, where he played a

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Speaker 1: then The Upside of Anger in two thousand and five,

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Speaker 1: where he played a former pro baseball player. I think

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Speaker 1: Kevin Kostner. He did the Passion Project thing, which I

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Speaker 1: But that's kind of what that was. Because he created

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Speaker 1: Field the Dreams at number seven from nineteen ninety three.

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Speaker 1: I have Rookie of the Year. This is a fantastic,

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Speaker 1: great nineties comedy that we just don't get anymore. It's

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Speaker 1: about Henry. Henry, how do you say his last name.

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Speaker 1: Let's let's go to the club. I'm looking for Henry

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Speaker 1: Rulin Furter, Ravin Booze, Brozenbager, Cotton Hozer. I never doubted

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Speaker 1: mocker going in what you call me? He suffers a

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Speaker 1: freak accident, he's twelve years old, and then whenever that

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Speaker 1: for the Cubs, he throws it back and they're like,

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Speaker 1: this movie so much as a kid, It just embodies

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Speaker 1: can't experience a movie like this anymore. These just great

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Speaker 1: we only get biopicks. It's hard to create a great

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Speaker 1: much originality in ten to fifteen years. I think The

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Speaker 1: other reason I love this movie is because growing up,

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Speaker 1: show from the nineties that I loved that embody this

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Speaker 1: as well was The Jersey, which was a Disney Channel

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Speaker 1: this movie came out in nineteen eighty nine, it feels

435
00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:10,119
Speaker 1: very nineties to me. It is right there on the

436
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,440
Speaker 1: cusp of it. I would have loved for this movie

437
00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:13,720
Speaker 1: to come out in the nineties just so I could

438
00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:16,200
Speaker 1: add it to my list of favorite nineties movies. But nonetheless,

439
00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 1: It ranks pretty high on my list of favorite eighties

440
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 1: movies at number four. I have Major League. Top three

441
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,760
Speaker 1: is strong at number three from nineteen ninety two, I

442
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,840
Speaker 1: Have a League of their Own. Not only is this

443
00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:32,199
Speaker 1: one of the best baseball movies of all time, it

444
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,840
Speaker 1: is also the highest grossing baseball movie, with a lifetime

445
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:40,080
Speaker 1: gross of one hundred and seven million dollars. This has

446
00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:44,360
Speaker 1: a fantastic cast. Everywhere you look in this cast, it's

447
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:48,600
Speaker 1: star star, star, star star, quote after quote. This movie

448
00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:50,720
Speaker 1: also feels like a piece of history because it's rooted

449
00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:52,720
Speaker 1: around World War Two, when all the men had to

450
00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:56,359
Speaker 1: go and fight in the war, leaving behind avoid in

451
00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:59,720
Speaker 1: the country. And you have the first ever all female

452
00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:04,040
Speaker 1: professional baseball league in the Midwest. You have the relationship

453
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:07,280
Speaker 1: between Dottie and Kit fighting with each other. You have

454
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:10,520
Speaker 1: the grumpy coach and has been Tom Hanks, and you

455
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,439
Speaker 1: have one of the greatest quotes in sports movie history.

456
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 1: He's no criting baseball classic right there. And outside of

457
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:22,159
Speaker 1: it being a good sports movie, it is also just

458
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:25,640
Speaker 1: a great drama, and that is hard to do on

459
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:29,200
Speaker 1: this list. I feel like there are only two movies

460
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:31,239
Speaker 1: that I would feel that same way about that if

461
00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:34,840
Speaker 1: you rip apart all the elements of the sport at

462
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,400
Speaker 1: the core, they are just still great movies without it.

463
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 1: I would say A League of their Own is that one,

464
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Speaker 1: because not only is it a story about that first

465
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Speaker 1: all female league, but it's also a story about two sisters.

466
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Speaker 1: The older sister who has always been the favorite, always

467
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,280
Speaker 1: been the one people see as the pretty one, the

468
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Speaker 1: one who feels at least in the eyes of the

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Speaker 1: younger sister, who gets all the opportunities, has the perfect

470
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Speaker 1: real life relationship. It's a story of the struggle of

471
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Speaker 1: those two sisters and the younger one always being looked

472
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Speaker 1: at as the kid and always being second stream, not

473
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Speaker 1: only on the team but in life. And it's their

474
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:13,320
Speaker 1: relationship just coming to a head when she gets traded

475
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:16,359
Speaker 1: away blames it on her sister. You have the epic

476
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,120
Speaker 1: game to close it all out. And not only that,

477
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:22,040
Speaker 1: but it's also a big part of history when it

478
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:25,120
Speaker 1: comes to the rights of women to do anything that

479
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 1: men can do getting paid the same amount. There's love

480
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,440
Speaker 1: and loss so much in this movie, so I feel

481
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Speaker 1: out of every movie on this list, it would rank

482
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Speaker 1: as also just the best drama. Next to that, I

483
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:41,280
Speaker 1: would put Moneyball, But I think out of all of

484
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Speaker 1: the movies on this list, could quite possibly be the

485
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Speaker 1: one I've seen the most, only because it would run

486
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,439
Speaker 1: so often on T and T and TBS that I

487
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:52,840
Speaker 1: feel like growing up, it was just on all the time,

488
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 1: so maybe it was even later that I actually watched

489
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Speaker 1: it from beginning. And it's a movie that you can

490
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Speaker 1: really just pick up anywhere and enjoy it. So at

491
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Speaker 1: number three from nineteen ninety two, I have A League

492
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Speaker 1: of their Own. At number two from nineteen ninety three,

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Speaker 1: I have The sand Lot. This movie is great because

494
00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:15,160
Speaker 1: it embodies what it's like to be a kid, especially

495
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,320
Speaker 1: a kid who loves playing baseball. It has one of

496
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Speaker 1: the best scenes of all time in any sports movie,

497
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Speaker 1: The baseball scene at nine on the fourth of July

498
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,359
Speaker 1: with all the fireworks is a moment where all the

499
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Speaker 1: wacky things kind of are pushed away to the side.

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00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:30,399
Speaker 1: You have the classic quotes of course you're killing me

501
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:34,399
Speaker 1: smalls with the whole smortest thing. You have all of

502
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,439
Speaker 1: the funny moments of like you play baseball like a girl,

503
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 1: all those great things that make this movie great. For

504
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 1: them taking the tobacco and all puking on the ride,

505
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:45,679
Speaker 1: you have all those things, but in this moment, the

506
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 1: movie just slows down and has this very beautiful time

507
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,560
Speaker 1: to take in because throughout this entire movie they almost

508
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 1: seem older than they are because they take playing baseball

509
00:26:56,040 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 1: so serious. But in that scene in particular, you have

510
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:05,160
Speaker 1: them just being kids, just looking up at the fireworks

511
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:07,440
Speaker 1: because the reason they played on the fourth of July

512
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:10,400
Speaker 1: because all the fireworks light up the same lot enough

513
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:11,919
Speaker 1: for them to be able to get a night game in.

514
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,399
Speaker 1: When you have all the other kids watching and paying

515
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,360
Speaker 1: attention to those fireworks, you see Benny the Jet Rodriguez

516
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 1: being so focused, still running the bases while they're all

517
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 1: just standing there and looking up at the fireworks, because

518
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:26,919
Speaker 1: that's what you do when you're a kid. But that

519
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 1: is the foreshadowing moment where you know that Benny of

520
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:31,600
Speaker 1: the Jet Rodriguez is going to be the only one

521
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 1: who goes on to play in the big leagues because

522
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: of how serious he took it. He didn't even allow

523
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Speaker 1: himself to be a kid. He kept running the bases

524
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,680
Speaker 1: and eventually it led him to this moment, and there

525
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 1: he goes he's stealing home. Don't believe he's stealing over.

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Speaker 3: He's stealing. I don't believe in they don't be.

527
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 1: I would also say rip to James Earl Jones whenever

528
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 1: they finally go get the ball back from him and

529
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:11,359
Speaker 1: just go ask him like they should have done at

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Speaker 1: the beginning, and then he's like, George signed this in

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00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 1: reference to Babe Ruth oh Man. I also forgot about

532
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 1: that quote. Heroes get remembered, but legends never die. This

533
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 1: movie is chucked full of great quotes. At number two,

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00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:27,719
Speaker 1: I have the Sandlot from nineteen ninety three. At number

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Speaker 1: one from nineteen ninety four, my favorite baseball movie of

536
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:37,120
Speaker 1: all time, Angels in the Outfield. It's all about Roger

537
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 1: goes into foster care because his dad's kind of a deadbeat.

538
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 1: And he asked his dad this question at the start

539
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 1: of the movie, going to be a family again.

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Speaker 3: From where I'm sitting, I'd say, when the Angels win

541
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 3: the Pennant, you stay out.

542
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,479
Speaker 1: Of trouble sign. So his dad tells him we can

543
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:00,800
Speaker 1: be a family again when the Angels win the Pennant.

544
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 1: And he said that because the Angels were the worst

545
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 1: team in baseball. What does Roger do? He starts believing that,

546
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 1: starts going to every game, and by him being at games,

547
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 1: he realizes that he can see angels in the field.

548
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: And then the manager, George Knox realizes that this kid

549
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,800
Speaker 1: is seeing something and he's kind of a good luck charm. Hey,

550
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:24,080
Speaker 1: where in last place? What's the worst that could happen?

551
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 1: He sets him up with tickets to every single home

552
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 1: game with him and his friend JP, and anytime he

553
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 1: sees an angel again, he's just humoring the kid. They

554
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 1: come up with the signal because in baseball you have signals,

555
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 1: and he starts waving his arms up and down like

556
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 1: an angel would like angel wings going up and down.

557
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: And anytime he does that, something crazy happens. You have

558
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 1: Hammerling coming in, You have Matthew McConaughey out in the

559
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 1: outfield making a crazy play. And then they all start

560
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: believing in angels that build hype up around the team.

561
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 1: And while that is great the team is winning, it's

562
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 1: all coming back to Rodger, who just wants his dad back,

563
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:04,959
Speaker 1: just wants to be a family again, and gets to

564
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 1: that point where the Angels are just a game away,

565
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 1: I believe, and he goes to his court hearing and

566
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 1: he sees his dad there.

567
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 2: Dad, I didn't know you were gonna be here. You

568
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 2: know the Angels are only one game for the pennant.

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Speaker 1: Can you believe it?

570
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 2: It's just like you say, sorry, boy, yeah, hear what

571
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 2: I said?

572
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 1: What are you going?

573
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 3: He starts crying.

574
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Speaker 1: How could you do that to Roger? You monster? You maniac?

575
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 1: This whole time, he just wants the Angels to win,

576
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 1: not because he loves the team, because he loves his dad.

577
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 1: And he's there crying in the courtroom on the bosom

578
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 1: of Maggie because he realizes that that's not coming back.

579
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 1: You just said that to dupe them. Then they go

580
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,120
Speaker 1: on to win and everybody's happy again. Oh. One of

581
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 1: my favorite quotes is also here comes Nacho. But whenever

582
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 1: they keep messing with the supposed to keep them happy

583
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 1: by getting emmerched and getting them food.

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Speaker 3: Ah.

585
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 1: I love this movie. It makes me emotional. It is heartwarming.

586
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 1: It for the first time now in a long time,

587
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 1: is available on Disney Plus. It was just like Lost

588
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 1: for the longest time, you had to have a VHS

589
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 1: to watch Angels in the outfield. But this movie is

590
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,480
Speaker 1: the real representation of why I love baseball because of

591
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 1: that joy. It is a sport that is important for kids,

592
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 1: it's the most I feel the experience is probably the

593
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 1: best when you're a kid. I think that's why I

594
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 1: associate it with my first game. The idea of like

595
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 1: catching a foul ball now is fun to me, but

596
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: it's more fun to me to be able to find

597
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:46,479
Speaker 1: and give it to a kid like that is why

598
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 1: I would do it now. So there's something special just

599
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: about being exposed to baseball when you're younger, because those

600
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 1: memories just go on forever. And that is what I

601
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: think about when I watch Angels in the Outfield. It

602
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 1: just makes me emotional. Has the most. So at number one,

603
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 1: I have Angels in the Outfield. My entire list was

604
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: inspired by a Hollywood reporter list that a lot of

605
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 1: people did not agree with, but I will add them

606
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 1: in as honorable mentions. They had at number ten Boiling Point,

607
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 1: which is a Japanese movie. At number nine from nineteen

608
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 1: forty two. They had The Pride of the Yankees at

609
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 1: number eight from two thousand and eight. They had Sugar

610
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: at number seven. They had banged the Drums Slowly from

611
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three. I believe that stars Robert de Niro

612
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 1: and number six. They had a League of their own,

613
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 1: so I feel like they got that one right, but

614
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 1: six it's a little low. At number five they had

615
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 1: The Natural, which is I know a lot of people's

616
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 1: favorites from nineteen eighty four. At number four they had

617
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 1: Fear Strikes Out from nineteen fifty seven, so they went

618
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: with a lot of classics. I felt like they were

619
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Speaker 1: being a little bit too cool here. At number three

620
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: they had Bull Durham from nineteen eighty eight, which I

621
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Speaker 1: feel is a little high for that movie. At number

622
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 1: two they had Moneyball. I love Moneyball. It made my list,

623
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 1: but number two is way too high for that movie.

624
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 1: And at number one they had Eight Men Out. The

625
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 1: other movie that all almost made my list was forty

626
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 1: two from twenty thirteen story about Jackie Robinson starring the

627
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 1: late Chadwick Boseman. That almost made my list. But those

628
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 1: are the honorable mentions. If you have a favorite that

629
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Speaker 1: you think I missed, hit me up on socials at

630
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 1: Mike Dshro or send me an email Moviemike D at

631
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: gmail dot com. Let's get into it now. A spoiler

632
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Speaker 1: free movie review of Nobakane The Man Who Can't Feel

633
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 1: Pain starring Jack Quad. This movie had a lot more

634
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 1: emotional depth that I was expecting. Given the trailer, given

635
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 1: the title, given the premise, I thought it was just

636
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of shoot him up action, putting

637
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 1: jack Quad's character in a lot of situations that were

638
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 1: fun for the viewer and gonna be pretty mindless. But

639
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 1: what I got was something that resonated with me a

640
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: lot more than I was expecting. Jack Quaid plays a

641
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 1: lonely guy works at a bank. Due to his condition

642
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 1: where he can't feel pain, he has to live a

643
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 1: pretty lonely and kind of sad life. Dude can't even

644
00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 1: eat solid foods out of the field that he's going

645
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:02,600
Speaker 1: to bite his tongue off because he can't feel it.

646
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: So where I thought it was just going to be

647
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 1: all the things associated with his life that would cause

648
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 1: him not to feel like a punch or to feel

649
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 1: somebody shooting him or stabbing him, it was all those

650
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 1: little side things that really humanized his character more because

651
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 1: out of this fear of not being able to feel

652
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 1: pain and not knowing if something is actually hurting him

653
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 1: to a degree that oh, this is really bad, where

654
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:27,799
Speaker 1: you and I could tell like, oh, I'm bleeding right now,

655
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 1: and I'm feeling pain. I need to give to a hospital.

656
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 1: He doesn't have that. Dude can't even pee because he

657
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 1: doesn't even feel a sensation to need to pee, so

658
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: he has to set a timerund his watch. So he

659
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 1: spent his entire life living this really regulated life on

660
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:45,800
Speaker 1: a regimen, working at this bank where he takes no risks,

661
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,839
Speaker 1: and that has caused him to feel really lonely. And

662
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 1: we are introduced to his character at the very beginning

663
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:53,240
Speaker 1: where he's trying to help somebody at the bank, somebody

664
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 1: who's been married for a long time, and he's just

665
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 1: thinking like, man, I just want to find that person.

666
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 1: I just want to feel love when I can't feel anything.

667
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 1: But then this new girl shows up named Sherry played

668
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 1: by Amber mid Thunder fantastic name. Everything's going great until

669
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:10,840
Speaker 1: somebody decides to rob the bank and they take her hostage,

670
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:12,920
Speaker 1: and he decides, this is gonna be my time to

671
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,240
Speaker 1: step up. It's gonna be my time to be the hero,

672
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 1: using his nervous system disorder to his advantage. And I

673
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:21,360
Speaker 1: have to say this movie is not for the squeamish.

674
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 1: And I can't do Broken Bones. Everything else I'm pretty

675
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,560
Speaker 1: good with, but even just watching the trailer, which gives

676
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:31,800
Speaker 1: you a kind of a glimpse into one scene in particular,

677
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 1: where he's being tortured by one of the criminals. If

678
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 1: you can't handle any kind of torturing devices prying on people,

679
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 1: there are gonna be some moments that are hard to watch,

680
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 1: probably that scene in particular. Everything else is more along

681
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 1: the lines of him getting into accidents and mishaps when

682
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:53,360
Speaker 1: he's actually fighting. That stuff is still at times brutal,

683
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:56,400
Speaker 1: but I think out of everything the most squeamish people

684
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: will have a problem with that scene. I found myself

685
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:01,719
Speaker 1: even I wanted to look away at points because I

686
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:05,760
Speaker 1: can't do broken bones. I can't do anything that harms

687
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,760
Speaker 1: your eyes. I have this really weird thing. If anybody

688
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 1: gets close to my eyes, I just go into defense mode.

689
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 1: And maybe a good thing of me having glasses is

690
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 1: I always feel a little bit protected. But if I

691
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 1: take off my glasses that anybody needs to touch my eye.

692
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:20,799
Speaker 1: Whenever I have to go do an eye examine, they

693
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:22,840
Speaker 1: have to blow that puff of air in your eye.

694
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: I have to warn them beforehand, like, hey, I have

695
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 1: this weird eye thing. If I accidentally deck you in

696
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 1: the face, it's not my problem. I just don't like

697
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 1: people touching my eyes. So there are some situations where

698
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,399
Speaker 1: he gets things very close to his eye. Everything else

699
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:38,360
Speaker 1: I felt was pretty on par with as much destruction

700
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:41,439
Speaker 1: as I was expecting. So while this movie is about

701
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,360
Speaker 1: a guy who can't feel pain and the long journey

702
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 1: he goes on to save the girl of his dreams,

703
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 1: what this movie is really about is a guy who's

704
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:52,839
Speaker 1: missed out on life, worried that he's going to die.

705
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:57,359
Speaker 1: Where he's been too cautious of taking risks, been too

706
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 1: cautious of even putting himself in social situation is dude

707
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 1: doesn't even know what foods tastes like because he's so

708
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:06,919
Speaker 1: worried and fearful of death that he's forgotten to live

709
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,319
Speaker 1: his life. And this is his chance to finally push

710
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 1: all those things to the side. He's in his thirties

711
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,360
Speaker 1: and he has to go out and prove to himself,

712
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: not even to anybody else, that he's not just this

713
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 1: sheltered bank executive. He is something more than that, and

714
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:24,800
Speaker 1: it was cool seeing his evolution. At times this felt

715
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 1: like a superhero origin story, much like a superhero would

716
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 1: discover his powers. He's already been dealing with this, but

717
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 1: he didn't realize that he could use it to his

718
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:36,280
Speaker 1: advantage in this way and really just finally throws caution

719
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 1: to the wind. You also have Jacob Battlon from the

720
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,479
Speaker 1: Spider Man movies playing his best friend, and his role

721
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: I would say was pretty minimal. He almost plays with

722
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:48,360
Speaker 1: the guy in the chair in this movie as well,

723
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:50,279
Speaker 1: where we don't even get a whole lot of them

724
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 1: in the movie, despite the amount that he was used

725
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 1: in the trailer. I feel like movies do this all

726
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 1: the time with like the best Friend, where they make

727
00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 1: it a big part of the marketing, but then they're

728
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:00,400
Speaker 1: barely in the thing. I think think if there was

729
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 1: anybody I wanted more of, it was definitely his character,

730
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 1: but it would just kind of sprinkled in there. The

731
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:07,880
Speaker 1: love story, I thought was pretty decent. I think you

732
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:10,280
Speaker 1: have to consider what it's like to be a lonely

733
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: guy because I think the average person would watch this

734
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 1: and think, why is he so dead set on getting

735
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 1: this girl back? They haven't known each other that long?

736
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,359
Speaker 1: Why is he going through these links to do this?

737
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 1: And I think if you understand the lonely guy mentality

738
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 1: of him having nothing throughout his entire life, and this

739
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:33,280
Speaker 1: being his first chance to even have a remote sense

740
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 1: of normalcy. I think that's what allows him to go

741
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: to these links. If it was just a guy who

742
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 1: had already been using this power to his advantage, had

743
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:43,880
Speaker 1: already been living a life where he was reckless and

744
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,760
Speaker 1: not caring about what happened to his body, the story

745
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 1: wouldn't be the same. So it's the fact that he

746
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:52,280
Speaker 1: has been sheltered, working in his office and not going

747
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 1: outside of his comfort zone whatsoever that makes him decide

748
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:57,919
Speaker 1: I don't want to be lonely anymore. So if you've

749
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:01,239
Speaker 1: ever experienced a level of loneliness this never been in

750
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:05,399
Speaker 1: a serious relationship, you can understand why he decided that's it.

751
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 1: You pushed me to my tipping point. I'm gonna go

752
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 1: after these bad guys and prove them wrong and win

753
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:12,799
Speaker 1: this girl back. So for the most part, I did

754
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 1: enjoy the movie. I thought it had a pretty good

755
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 1: amount of action. I just felt that it moved a

756
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: little bit too slow, especially in that first act where

757
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:23,839
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, let's get going here. When

758
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:26,759
Speaker 1: you actually look at what happens in the movie and

759
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,320
Speaker 1: the fact that it's about an hour and fifty minutes.

760
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 1: It almost feels like they stretched it out a little

761
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:34,320
Speaker 1: bit further than they needed it to go. At times,

762
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 1: it just lacks that sense of urgency. And for a

763
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: movie that felt a little bit reminiscent of a John

764
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:43,440
Speaker 1: Wick or a Monkey Man or a Nobody, those movies

765
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:46,359
Speaker 1: move really quickly. I was kind of expecting a little

766
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 1: bit more. I just moved a little bit too slowly

767
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 1: for me, and I was waiting for more surprises. I

768
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:52,799
Speaker 1: think when it came to the main three actors, they

769
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:56,400
Speaker 1: were great. Jack Amber and Jacob had great chemistry. I

770
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 1: think Jack proved that he does have that lead actor

771
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 1: capability and bankability in this. I don't think this is

772
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:06,839
Speaker 1: going to be a career defining movie for him, but

773
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 1: it definitely proved to me that outside of the Boys

774
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:11,840
Speaker 1: and outside of the other movies he's done, that he

775
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 1: does have the ability to step into a role like

776
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:16,840
Speaker 1: this and own it. It's also just hard to compare

777
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 1: him to his dad. Also, when you think about there's

778
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 1: another Neippo baby in this movie, Ray Nicholson, the son

779
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 1: of Jack Nicholson, you have two Nepo babies here, and

780
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 1: I think when it comes to Jack Quaid, who's been

781
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 1: so upfront and open about the fact that he has

782
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 1: two famous parents, that he has been given advantages in

783
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,360
Speaker 1: his life and hasn't straight away from that. He hasn't

784
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 1: tried to hide his name. He is very upfront about

785
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 1: owning the fact that he is a NEPO baby, and

786
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:43,760
Speaker 1: I can respect that. And it doesn't mean just because

787
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:46,759
Speaker 1: you have one or two famous parents in the industry

788
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:49,319
Speaker 1: that that's going to lead you to success. It does

789
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 1: open up those doors, it does build in those relationships

790
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 1: because you can go to people your parents knew and

791
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 1: get your foot in the door. But that doesn't mean

792
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:02,880
Speaker 1: you're gonna earned the respect of the audience. Just because

793
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 1: he has Quaid in his name doesn't mean audiences are

794
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:07,319
Speaker 1: good to go into this movie and think I'm gonna

795
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:09,399
Speaker 1: love this because it's jack Quade's son. He still has

796
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:11,480
Speaker 1: to earn that. I think he has been earning that

797
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:13,879
Speaker 1: with his work that I am able to separate him

798
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:16,160
Speaker 1: from his parents. I'm actually more of a fan of

799
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:18,359
Speaker 1: Jack Quaid than I am of Dennis Quaid. I think

800
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 1: the roles he has taken on have spoke more to

801
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:23,720
Speaker 1: me as of late Ray Nicholson is interesting though, because

802
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:27,800
Speaker 1: he hasn't really sold me on his capabilities as an actor,

803
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:31,080
Speaker 1: because when I compare Jack Quaid to Dennis Quaid, I

804
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:33,839
Speaker 1: don't really put them on the same level. As far

805
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 1: as Jack Nicholson compared to Dennis Quaid, Jack Nicholson is

806
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 1: on an entirely different level, has so many more iconic

807
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 1: movies and awards compared to Dennis Quaid. Both great actors,

808
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 1: but a vast difference between those two. So I think

809
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:51,960
Speaker 1: it's actually much harder for Ray Nicholson to be compared

810
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 1: to his dad, because that is a whole other level

811
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:58,920
Speaker 1: of acting, especially when you consider where Jack Nicholson was

812
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 1: at the same age that Ray is now and Ray

813
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 1: is really just being introduced to us. And I was

814
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:06,799
Speaker 1: thinking about his performance in this movie and when he

815
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:09,359
Speaker 1: was in Smile Too last year. Is the thing that

816
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 1: really gives it a way that he's Jack Nicholson's son

817
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 1: is his facial expressions. I think of the shining I

818
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:18,320
Speaker 1: see that smile that very just like zoned in look

819
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,400
Speaker 1: where even on the Smile Too poster they put his

820
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 1: face on it, they put his sinister smile because it's

821
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:27,280
Speaker 1: that Jack Nicholson look. That's hard living in the shadow

822
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 1: of your parent, of everybody associating you with him and saying,

823
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 1: you look so much like your dad, and you can't

824
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:36,160
Speaker 1: help the fact that you look like them, But I

825
00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: think you can help the fact that you don't act

826
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,040
Speaker 1: like them. And I'm not really getting a different look

827
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 1: from him. It almost looks like somebody doing a Jack

828
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 1: Nicholson impression. And that could be being a little harsh

829
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:48,839
Speaker 1: on him, because he's like, no, that's how I act,

830
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 1: same thing. How I probably have a lot of qualities

831
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 1: of my dad, but you don't know my dad. My

832
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:55,960
Speaker 1: dad would probably be reviewing this movie in the same way.

833
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:57,880
Speaker 1: A lot of weird things of how we pick up

834
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 1: mannerisms from our parents without learning them, just by growing

835
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 1: up and observing them. So maybe that's already just built

836
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 1: into him and he can't really change that. Or maybe

837
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 1: he watches the Shining before he goes on a set

838
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:11,439
Speaker 1: and he's like, I gotta channel my dad. I gotta

839
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 1: pull off those facial expressions and sell that Nicholson name.

840
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: And I think the movie just kind of lost momentum

841
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:20,320
Speaker 1: there Towards the end. It kind of struggled with finding

842
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 1: how to end this story and how to tie together

843
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:26,280
Speaker 1: all these loose sins. Maybe that's because they were trying

844
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 1: to set up a sequel. They're trying to build an

845
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:31,400
Speaker 1: action franchise out of this. It almost felt like they

846
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:33,560
Speaker 1: ran out of ideas. But probably what it was is

847
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 1: they ran out of money. It's an eighteen million dollar movie,

848
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 1: so it doesn't have that same high production value or

849
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:40,800
Speaker 1: budget that you would get from a John Wick movie.

850
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,880
Speaker 1: But I think this movie does have some success at

851
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:46,799
Speaker 1: the box office. They end up making a sequel, they

852
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 1: get add some more money to make the next one

853
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:51,239
Speaker 1: a little bit more fast paced for me. So for Novacane,

854
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:53,800
Speaker 1: I give it three point five out of five arrows

855
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 1: to the leg.

856
00:43:57,840 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 3: It's time to head down to movie.

857
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 1: Oh trailer, Paul, all Right, I'm about to blind react

858
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:06,799
Speaker 1: to the new Lilo and Stitch trailer. At the time

859
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 1: of recording this, it is Wednesday. The trailer dropped four

860
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:15,360
Speaker 1: hours ago. It's sitting at about seven hundred thousand views

861
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:20,719
Speaker 1: on YouTube. I reserved this right for really big movie trailers,

862
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,239
Speaker 1: at least to me, like my personal favorite ones. Last

863
00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:24,880
Speaker 1: time I did this, and the only time I've done this,

864
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:30,719
Speaker 1: was the Superman trailer. Leelo and Stitch is my favorite

865
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:34,360
Speaker 1: Disney movie, and I've been very critical of the live

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Speaker 1: action quote unquote live action Disney movies, and the thing

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Speaker 1: I love about this movie so far, we haven't seen

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00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 1: a glimpse of what it's actually gonna look like. We've

869
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:46,759
Speaker 1: seen the poster, we saw the trailer at the Super Bowl,

870
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 1: which wasn't really a trailer, it was just Stitch running

871
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 1: out on the field. And the marketing for this movie

872
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:54,719
Speaker 1: has been fantastic, and that's something that's always been a

873
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:58,239
Speaker 1: part of Leelo and Stitch. Whenever the first movie came out,

874
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 1: they did the whole marketing thing where they put Stitch

875
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Speaker 1: into a bunch of classic Disney scenes. This is all

876
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:06,799
Speaker 1: marketing because Thisitch is such a great character. All you

877
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 1: have to do is make them do things, make them

878
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:13,239
Speaker 1: mess with people, and make it funny. It is at

879
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:15,839
Speaker 1: the time of recording this March twelfth. The movie comes

880
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 1: out on May twenty third, and this is the first

881
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:22,239
Speaker 1: glimpse we're getting of it, and there's already anticipation building

882
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 1: just on the marketing. That is a fantastic thing for

883
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Speaker 1: this movie. And even though I've been critical of live

884
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 1: action Disney movies, when it comes to my favorite one.

885
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:34,279
Speaker 1: I just want it to be good, and from what

886
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 1: I saw before this, of just the character art, I

887
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:40,760
Speaker 1: thought it looked actually pretty good. I haven't seen anything

888
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:44,480
Speaker 1: about what Leelo looks like, but I have a lot

889
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:47,320
Speaker 1: of hope for this, so I wanted to do this real,

890
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 1: live and raw, unedited give you my full experience. The

891
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 1: movie trailer is about two minutes and twenty four seconds,

892
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:59,800
Speaker 1: so bear with me here. I hope this is entertaining.

893
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Speaker 1: Are you getting my live reaction to this? Here is

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00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:08,960
Speaker 1: the Leela would Stitch trailer from Disney. We are the

895
00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:14,000
Speaker 1: apprehended a dangerous experiment. Where is he?

896
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:14,800
Speaker 2: He escaped?

897
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:19,799
Speaker 1: He's trying to find the police cruisers. He took the

898
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 1: red one? What hidious planet is caught in your crosshairs?

899
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 2: Shooting star?

900
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:42,839
Speaker 1: I am Austrian French, like the best French the hell.

901
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 3: Memorial Days.

902
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 1: Your responsibility got it me?

903
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 2: Promise?

904
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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Look like an.

906
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Speaker 2: Control him?

907
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:11,880
Speaker 1: What are you doing? No dogs on the table? You

908
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:16,239
Speaker 1: shoot us a dog? Mm hmm?

909
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, you are not keeping kind of means family. Family

910
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 2: means nobody gets must behind her forgotten.

911
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 1: That's that Sometimes family isn't perfect. That doesn't mean they

912
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Speaker 1: are good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think you're abused to drink that.

914
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:50,760
Speaker 1: You're getting a lot of lamp.

915
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Speaker 3: Now serving.

916
00:47:57,480 --> 00:47:59,840
Speaker 1: Ancient cobra bubbles. We have a blue dog that.

917
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 3: Man.

918
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Speaker 2: Okay, remember I'm going to give into the top three Stitch.

919
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:29,480
Speaker 3: Why so many thoughts on this.

920
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:35,840
Speaker 1: Is when it's coming out. I am surprised how accurate

921
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:39,760
Speaker 1: it is to the original animated movie scene for scene,

922
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Speaker 1: especially there in the beginning with him escaping line for line,

923
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Speaker 1: I think is what is the most surprising to me,

924
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:49,320
Speaker 1: not only just the shots of it, but that straight

925
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:52,799
Speaker 1: up just the animated movie made live action, which up

926
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Speaker 1: till now I feel like most of them have changed

927
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:57,799
Speaker 1: it just a little bit. Most of them stay with

928
00:48:57,880 --> 00:48:59,799
Speaker 1: the beats of the story as far as the live

929
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Speaker 1: act remakes. But this is like scene for scene. What

930
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:07,800
Speaker 1: I'm also seeing just from this trailer is it looks

931
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Speaker 1: like they're gonna have Stitch talking more. He didn't talk

932
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Speaker 1: a whole lot in the original movie. I talked to

933
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Speaker 1: Chris Anders on this podcast, who is the creator of

934
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Speaker 1: Lee Low and Stitch and the voice of Stitch, and

935
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Speaker 1: he said there was really only one scene where he

936
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:25,439
Speaker 1: needed to have real acting abilities, and it's the best

937
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:28,200
Speaker 1: scene in the entire movie, but you see it in

938
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:31,440
Speaker 1: this trailer and hear it that they're making Stitch talk

939
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:33,120
Speaker 1: a little bit more, and I think they want him

940
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 1: to be more of a mascot. They maybe realize that

941
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 1: him not talking a whole lot in the first movie

942
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:43,880
Speaker 1: maybe didn't lead to some opportunities that other Disney characters

943
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 1: have because he doesn't say a whole lot, he doesn't

944
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:49,399
Speaker 1: have a lot of conversations. Unlike other Disney movies where

945
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:52,320
Speaker 1: the main character is the one probably talking the most.

946
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 1: Stitch with just talking like Dalk, but here he is

947
00:49:57,239 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 1: saying more things and running around acting more kind of

948
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:04,879
Speaker 1: human ish. The part that is harder when you see

949
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 1: it live action is the whole thing of that illusion

950
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:11,560
Speaker 1: of him even being described as a dog and then

951
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 1: confusing him with the dog. You could get away with

952
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:18,440
Speaker 1: that more in the animated movie, because everybody looks animated,

953
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:20,480
Speaker 1: you don't really think too much about it, but it's

954
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:22,319
Speaker 1: really hard to believe that he's a dog. It looks

955
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:24,040
Speaker 1: like a blue alien in this, and he does look

956
00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:28,160
Speaker 1: cute and cuddly. It is still Chris Sanders, the voice

957
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:30,799
Speaker 1: of Stitch, doing the voice here, and I think that

958
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:33,000
Speaker 1: is the big thing that is the main important thing

959
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:37,400
Speaker 1: that makes this feel authentic is that it's still him there,

960
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:40,439
Speaker 1: and all of his laps and all of his mannerisms

961
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:44,600
Speaker 1: still feel like Stitch because Chris Sanders is still the voice.

962
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:50,320
Speaker 1: I am curious to see how this holds up throughout

963
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:53,520
Speaker 1: the entire movie, because this looks fun to me, like

964
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:56,440
Speaker 1: seeing Stitch and Leelo have this stand up where he's

965
00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:59,399
Speaker 1: about a sprayer in the face. You have some more

966
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:02,719
Speaker 1: scenes where he acts more like a dog. There's a

967
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:05,840
Speaker 1: scene where he's like rubbing his butt scratching it across

968
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:10,600
Speaker 1: the floor, like that's funny. So I'm curious to see

969
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:15,520
Speaker 1: how many new bits they bring in to amp up

970
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:17,279
Speaker 1: the comedy a little bit, because I think that's kind

971
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:19,920
Speaker 1: of what they're going for here, a little bit more slapstick,

972
00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:22,480
Speaker 1: which you can do in a live action movie that

973
00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:25,560
Speaker 1: you probably couldn't really do and have it have the

974
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:28,360
Speaker 1: same effect in the animated version. So you have a

975
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:31,799
Speaker 1: chase scene in here. I'm hoping it still has the

976
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:34,520
Speaker 1: heart of lee Low and Stitch, because that's why I

977
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:37,640
Speaker 1: love this movie. At the heart of that movie was

978
00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:43,640
Speaker 1: the story of a creature being somewhere where he didn't

979
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:45,920
Speaker 1: fit in, and he felt like he didn't have family.

980
00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:49,840
Speaker 1: So he is an alien, not only with his physical attributes,

981
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 1: but he feels like an alien because he doesn't have

982
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 1: belong anywhere. When he comes to Earth, he tries to

983
00:51:56,960 --> 00:51:58,920
Speaker 1: fit in, he tries to do good, but all he

984
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:03,040
Speaker 1: does is destroy things because that is how he was built.

985
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:06,440
Speaker 1: That's in his DNA, is to destroy things and to

986
00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:10,120
Speaker 1: be a nuisance and to be destructive. But he has

987
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 1: to learn how to be a part of a family,

988
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:16,680
Speaker 1: and that is hard to do when you're doing all

989
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:19,720
Speaker 1: these funny, silly things in live action. To really bring

990
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:23,799
Speaker 1: that heart of the movie home, and I think that

991
00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:26,840
Speaker 1: came across a lot because of that animation style, because

992
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:30,680
Speaker 1: of that warm feeling at a time in Disney where

993
00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:32,880
Speaker 1: they were getting away from that, they were starting to

994
00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 1: go more everything has to be three D. Balilo and

995
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:39,640
Speaker 1: Stitch was one of the last still two D animated movies,

996
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:44,919
Speaker 1: and it felt the most nostalgic to those nineties Renaissance

997
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 1: movies from Disney. So if it can bring that emotion

998
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 1: into this, I think this is the home run now

999
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 1: and I'm so glad how good it actually looks. The

1000
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:58,400
Speaker 1: fact that just Stitch himself looks good. That is all

1001
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:00,720
Speaker 1: you need. We didn't have a situation like with Sonic

1002
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:05,000
Speaker 1: whenever that first movie came out and they released that

1003
00:53:05,080 --> 00:53:07,480
Speaker 1: trailer or I think maybe maybe with just a clip

1004
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:10,279
Speaker 1: of it, and he looked completely off. He had like

1005
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:13,319
Speaker 1: the little beady eyes, and everybody just revolted saying, this

1006
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:15,360
Speaker 1: is not Sonic and they had to go in and

1007
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:18,200
Speaker 1: change him. They haven't had to do that with Stitch.

1008
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:22,320
Speaker 1: Seems like they're sticking very close to the original movie,

1009
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:25,719
Speaker 1: which I am a fan of, and I wonder though,

1010
00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:29,640
Speaker 1: if they're gonna do my favorite scene, the scene where

1011
00:53:29,680 --> 00:53:32,080
Speaker 1: Stitch is about to be taken away by the aliens,

1012
00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:35,400
Speaker 1: sent back and vanished to his planet, the most emotional scene,

1013
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:39,840
Speaker 1: or is this this is my family? I found that's

1014
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:44,960
Speaker 1: all on my own. It's a little I'm broken. But

1015
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:50,400
Speaker 1: stir goods, Yeah, stircruts, Like, can they replicate that? Chris

1016
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:52,799
Speaker 1: Anders said that took a lot of acting out of him,

1017
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 1: the abilities. He didn't think he had to get that

1018
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:59,959
Speaker 1: emotion across. If they do that and don't do a justice,

1019
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:04,120
Speaker 1: that's gonna hurt me a little bit because the problem

1020
00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:08,239
Speaker 1: I have with these remakes ultimately is that sometimes they

1021
00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:14,359
Speaker 1: take away from the value and the overall just prestige

1022
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:17,719
Speaker 1: of the original movies. And if they don't do that

1023
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:21,880
Speaker 1: scene justice, if it doesn't hit right, I'm not gonna

1024
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:24,680
Speaker 1: feel great about this. It could be perfect all the

1025
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:26,680
Speaker 1: way up until that scene, but if they go for

1026
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:29,400
Speaker 1: it and don't nail it, I'm gonna hold that against them.

1027
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:32,440
Speaker 1: But again, that was my live reaction to the trailer

1028
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:37,920
Speaker 1: It's coming out in theaters on May twenty third. Head

1029
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:41,560
Speaker 1: that bar was this Link's edition of movie li Framer

1030
00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 1: par and that is gonna do it for another episode

1031
00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:46,319
Speaker 1: here of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta

1032
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:48,799
Speaker 1: give my listeners shout out of the week. How do

1033
00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:50,520
Speaker 1: you get a listener shout out of the week. You

1034
00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:55,040
Speaker 1: can comment on my Facebook page, Instagram, TikTok. You can

1035
00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:59,080
Speaker 1: always find all those links in the episode notes, or

1036
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:01,919
Speaker 1: you can go over to my YouTube page YouTube dot

1037
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:06,200
Speaker 1: com slash Mike Distro. I put individual movie reviews there,

1038
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:08,759
Speaker 1: so if you ever miss one, or you see something

1039
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:10,920
Speaker 1: in theaters, or you see something come out on streaming

1040
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:12,600
Speaker 1: after it's been in theaters and you're like, I wonder

1041
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:14,880
Speaker 1: what Mike had to say about that one? Just go

1042
00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 1: to my YouTube page, search the movie and you can

1043
00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:21,799
Speaker 1: find it there isolated in one individual clip. But this

1044
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:24,799
Speaker 1: week I am going over to the YouTube page and

1045
00:55:24,840 --> 00:55:28,560
Speaker 1: I pulled a comment from my riff Raff movie review

1046
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:30,640
Speaker 1: which kind of popped off a little bit because I

1047
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:32,759
Speaker 1: was talking about mid movies, which has been a hot

1048
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:36,759
Speaker 1: topic of conversation here, and Mike nine to five one

1049
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:40,320
Speaker 1: two said, totally agree. I would say a recent exception

1050
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:43,239
Speaker 1: would be Brothers with Dinklage and Josh Brolin, but the

1051
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:46,279
Speaker 1: disappearance of them as a trend is real. There are

1052
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:49,080
Speaker 1: too many to name from the nineties, but that's kind

1053
00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:52,040
Speaker 1: of the point. Mid budget, mid tier movies made with

1054
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:55,600
Speaker 1: care and competence was a regular thing then, and no,

1055
00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:58,920
Speaker 1: it has zero percent to do with wokeness or culture.

1056
00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:02,719
Speaker 1: It's purely money driven. And I don't know if I

1057
00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:05,120
Speaker 1: made it seem like I thought it was because of

1058
00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:06,880
Speaker 1: wokeness or anything like that. I don't think that's the

1059
00:56:06,920 --> 00:56:09,120
Speaker 1: issue at all. I wanted to get the point across

1060
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:12,760
Speaker 1: that it is a business. It is about making money,

1061
00:56:13,280 --> 00:56:15,839
Speaker 1: and studios don't invest in movies like this if they're

1062
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:18,959
Speaker 1: not going to make money back and seeing movies tank

1063
00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:22,520
Speaker 1: time and time again when it comes to original ideas.

1064
00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:25,880
Speaker 1: Because studios don't want to invest much in the marketing.

1065
00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:28,920
Speaker 1: That is why this continues to happen. So I appreciate

1066
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 1: you Mike for sharing your thoughts, Thank you for listening,

1067
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:34,279
Speaker 1: thank you for being subscribed, thank you for telling a friend.

1068
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:37,440
Speaker 1: And until next time, go out and watch good movies

1069
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:39,320
Speaker 1: and I will talk to you later.