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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 talk

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Speaker 1: about what the best and worst live action remakes of

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Speaker 1: animated movies are. In the movie review, we talked about Materialists.

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Speaker 1: Some people felt doup by this movie because they really

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Speaker 1: leaned into the marketing of rom comms. Are back. I

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Speaker 1: about Eddington, which start Jaquin, Phoenix, and Pedro Pascal. I

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Speaker 1: want to do a whole deep dive on Pedro Pascal

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about when somebody gets so busy,

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Speaker 1: are they able to dedicate enough time to each role

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Speaker 1: talk about that. Thank you for being here, Thank you

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

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Speaker 1: He Now, let's talk movies from the Nashville Podcast Network.

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Speaker 1: This is Movie Mike Movie Podcast. I thought I was

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Speaker 1: going to have an easier time coming up with my

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Speaker 1: best live action remakes of animated movies. And I know

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Speaker 1: I've been critical of them really heavily in the last

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Speaker 1: couple of years, but I thought they'd been doing them

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Speaker 1: for so long that surely there are enough good ones

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Speaker 1: to make a top five. Surely you can't be serious.

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Speaker 1: I am serious, and don't call me surely, but I

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Speaker 1: really had to fight for my top five. I tried

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Speaker 1: to include other studios that were not Disney, but when

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Speaker 1: doing my research, primarily all the live action remakes of

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Speaker 1: just their business model. It appears that only one non

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Speaker 1: then I also have five that I think should have

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Speaker 1: live action remakes done. I want to talk about. The

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Speaker 1: Because before for this, they had done live action animation

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Speaker 1: hybrid movies that were kind of remakes, but not really

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Speaker 1: was the first movie to adapt a classic Disney animated

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Speaker 1: which all we're gonna get into some discussion later about

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Speaker 1: how some of these don't even feel live action to me.

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Speaker 1: But can you guess the movie that came out in

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four. It's based on the original animated Disney

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Speaker 1: The answer is The Jungle Book in nineteen ninety four.

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Speaker 1: I remember when this movie came out because my cousin

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Speaker 1: At number five, I have The Little Mermaid, which I

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Speaker 1: But I thought. Overall, this movie actually made me care

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Speaker 1: because I feel like there's much more romance whenever it's

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Speaker 1: the animated version, and this was one where pretty much

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Speaker 1: And that's no disrespect to Mason Thames, who played Hiccup

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Speaker 1: And the only reason that two and number one rank

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Speaker 1: one of the worst Disney movies of all time. I

433
00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:29,119
Speaker 1: gave it the lowest rating you can possibly give a

434
00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:32,280
Speaker 1: movie in my book, a point five. That is bad.

435
00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:36,400
Speaker 1: And we'll wrap it up talking about five animated movies

436
00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:39,720
Speaker 1: that I think would benefit from live action remakes, even

437
00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,919
Speaker 1: though I feel like no animated movie needs to be

438
00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:47,680
Speaker 1: I just know it's a business. Wherever there is a

439
00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:52,359
Speaker 1: level of fandom and ip, eventually there's gonna be a

440
00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:55,240
Speaker 1: live action remake of it. I would say we're probably

441
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Speaker 1: another ten years away from a Despicable Me. It's just

442
00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:00,960
Speaker 1: gonna happen, guys, it is inevitable. Well, the one on

443
00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:03,760
Speaker 1: my list I think would actually really work and not

444
00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:06,920
Speaker 1: feel like a cash grab is The Iron Giant, because

445
00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:10,800
Speaker 1: I feel that is a movie that is underappreciated. We

446
00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:13,960
Speaker 1: all watch it as kids maybe and didn't understand it

447
00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:15,560
Speaker 1: at the time, but if you go back and rewatch

448
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:18,760
Speaker 1: that movie as an adult, it is really emotional and

449
00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:21,240
Speaker 1: if you think about the story in that, if you

450
00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:24,199
Speaker 1: think about the visuals, if they remade it now, it

451
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,280
Speaker 1: would kind of feel like Transformers for kids. And we

452
00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:29,879
Speaker 1: have the technology now, we've had it since two thousand

453
00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:34,960
Speaker 1: and seven to make realistic looking metal characters. I just

454
00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,560
Speaker 1: think that would look fantastic if you could create that

455
00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:41,879
Speaker 1: energy that you get from an MCU movie or a

456
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:46,040
Speaker 1: Transformers movie and take away it having to be cool

457
00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:48,919
Speaker 1: and appealed to like a PG thirteen audience, and just

458
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,240
Speaker 1: make it for PG audiences. I think there's something there.

459
00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:55,160
Speaker 1: I think there is a level of film right now

460
00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:59,800
Speaker 1: that is underserving that level of fandom. Because the movie

461
00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 1: is all about friendship and sacrifice, and you could still

462
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,680
Speaker 1: get Ben Diesel to voice the Iron Giant, it would

463
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 1: be fantastic a Goofy movie. As much as I would

464
00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:11,880
Speaker 1: want an animated sequel, and as much as I don't

465
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,639
Speaker 1: even know how a live action remake of the movie

466
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:17,520
Speaker 1: would be, it could look atrocious, it could look like

467
00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:20,960
Speaker 1: a horror movie, but I just want that level of

468
00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:25,560
Speaker 1: Here is this movie that has this deep rooted cult

469
00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:29,160
Speaker 1: following from the nineties to have a moment now, much

470
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 1: like Lilo and Stitches. Having that just feels validating because

471
00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:34,480
Speaker 1: in the same way that I don't feel like people

472
00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:37,000
Speaker 1: fully appreciated Lilo and Stitch when it came out in

473
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:40,840
Speaker 1: the two thousands, that that character has really grown a

474
00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:45,000
Speaker 1: just passionate rabbit fan base over time. I think that

475
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,480
Speaker 1: is what has happened with a Goofy movie. So I

476
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:50,960
Speaker 1: would like for that film to finally get its flowers,

477
00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,760
Speaker 1: and if it takes a live action remake to get that,

478
00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:56,280
Speaker 1: I'll take it. One of my favorite animated movies as

479
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:59,720
Speaker 1: a kid. Pokemon the first movie which I rewatched, probably

480
00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 1: one the year. They did make a CGI remake of

481
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:07,440
Speaker 1: it back in twenty twenty, which was Pokemon Mutwo Strikes

482
00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 1: Back Evolution, which basically follows the plot of the first

483
00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 1: movie pretty much entirely and just recreates it with CGI.

484
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:18,960
Speaker 1: That is the movie I've been waiting on my entire life.

485
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 1: I've just wanted to see exactly what I loved and

486
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 1: experienced as a kid. Just make it live action. I've

487
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:28,120
Speaker 1: been wanting that. I remember having dreams of that when

488
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:31,000
Speaker 1: I was ten years old. I don't want Detective Pikachu.

489
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:33,479
Speaker 1: I don't want to spin off. I just want a

490
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,960
Speaker 1: live action version of the first movie. Next up on

491
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,679
Speaker 1: my list, I have dragon Ball Super Superhero, which is

492
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Speaker 1: a full length animated film based on the series. And

493
00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,520
Speaker 1: this is the movie that really got me back into

494
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,199
Speaker 1: dragon Ball, even though I drew up with it. My

495
00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 1: memories of watching it in Mexico with all my cousins

496
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 1: in Spanish was how I was first exposed to dragon

497
00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,399
Speaker 1: Ball Z and then as an adult, I went back.

498
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 1: I saw this movie first, and that inspired me to

499
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 1: go and watch all of dragon Ball Super which I

500
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 1: watched all one hundred and thirty one or thirty three

501
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:10,399
Speaker 1: episodes of that show, and now I've gone back and

502
00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:13,960
Speaker 1: restarted dragon Ball Z from the very beginning. But dragon

503
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:18,040
Speaker 1: Ball Super Superhero, I think would translate perfect into a

504
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 1: live action movie, even though they have failed doing this

505
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,440
Speaker 1: and failed so badly. Was the movie that came out

506
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,399
Speaker 1: back in two thousand and nine, dragon Ball Evolution. That

507
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 1: movie was a disaster. You have such high expectations for

508
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 1: how you think these characters are going to look. Piccolo

509
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 1: looked atrocious, Goku look datrocious. There were no redeeming qualities

510
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:43,800
Speaker 1: about that movie. And if we're getting an R rated

511
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 1: Ninja Turtles movie, they're working on the Last Ronin, which

512
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:50,640
Speaker 1: is a live action adaptation of the graphic novel. I

513
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 1: think if we gave that similar treatment to a dragon

514
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:57,360
Speaker 1: Ball Super that would finally make it hit. And finally,

515
00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,280
Speaker 1: because there have been rumblings of this of who would

516
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:03,040
Speaker 1: play Miles Morales, I would want to see a live

517
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 1: action remake of Spider Man into the Spider Verse. I

518
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 1: think this all comes down to casting. Can you find

519
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 1: the right person to play Miles Morales? Can you find

520
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 1: the right director and how does it fit into everything

521
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:16,680
Speaker 1: else that the MCU is doing. Is it going to

522
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 1: be a part of the MCU. I think you have

523
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 1: to keep it completely separate, much like you do with

524
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:23,920
Speaker 1: all the Spider Verse movies. And I think there are

525
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 1: a lot of fans who want to see Miles Morales

526
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:30,959
Speaker 1: in Secret Wars or in Doomsday. I don't think that

527
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:34,880
Speaker 1: is going to happen, but can you imagine the pops

528
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 1: across the country that that would get, much like we

529
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 1: had back with no way home? Could you imagine how

530
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 1: crazy people would go if that's how they decide to

531
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 1: debut Miles Morales as Spider Man and either do it

532
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:52,639
Speaker 1: probably wouldn't be Doomsday. It would probably be Secret Wars.

533
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,879
Speaker 1: They debut them in Secret Wars and then announce that

534
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a live action Miles Morales movie. That

535
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,439
Speaker 1: would be appen. That's why I want to see it,

536
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 1: although that could go downhill really fast. Just keep it

537
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:06,600
Speaker 1: out of Sony's hands. Well, come back and I'll give

538
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 1: my spoiler free review of Materialists. Hi, I'm not my day,

539
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 1: ray Ol girl. Let's get into it now. A spoiler

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00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: free movie review Materialist, starring three superheroes in a non

541
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:24,439
Speaker 1: superhero movie. You have Dakota Johnson aka Madam Webb, Pedro

542
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 1: Pascal who was going to be Read Richards in the

543
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 1: New Fantastic Four movie, and you have the one and

544
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 1: only Chris Evans aka Captain America. Can Dakota Johnson recover

545
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,200
Speaker 1: her public image or her image with me? Not that

546
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 1: she cares about how I feel about her movies after

547
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 1: Madam Webb. And I was actually a big Dakota Johnson

548
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 1: fan prior to Madam web and even I thought, man,

549
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 1: if an actor does one movie, is it really going

550
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 1: to change my perception of them? And it wasn't just

551
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 1: that the movie was bad, it was also how she

552
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 1: handled it that made me think a little bit differently

553
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 1: about her. But I loved her in Peanut Butter, Falcon,

554
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 1: choch Real Smooth, And I think most people still associate

555
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 1: her with the Fifty Shades of Grave movies and I

556
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:06,720
Speaker 1: never even got into those movies. But what this movie

557
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 1: is about. She plays a young New York City matchmaker.

558
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: She works at this business where it's kind of like

559
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 1: a bumble, except instead of doing it on the app,

560
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 1: you work with a person who helps you find people

561
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 1: to date, So kind of like a travel agent would

562
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 1: find you places to go and set up your trips.

563
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:31,720
Speaker 1: You go to this person. It's very high end concierge, like, Okay,

564
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 1: here's what I want, here's what I'm looking for. And

565
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 1: her job is to set people up and she's really

566
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 1: good at her job. At the start of the movie,

567
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 1: she has been responsible so far for nine marriages and

568
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,200
Speaker 1: she loves doing it. Problem is it starts to affect

569
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 1: how she sees people. She sees bank account, she sees

570
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 1: height and weight, she looks at people just as stats.

571
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 1: And she has an ex boyfriend played by Chris Evans,

572
00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 1: and then she meets a new guy who is a

573
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 1: super rich, successful guy, charming, good looking, played by Pedro Pascal.

574
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 1: So what we have is a classic love triangle between

575
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 1: does she want to go back to her ex who

576
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 1: has a lot of imperfections and you find out more

577
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 1: and more detailed how long they were together, why they

578
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 1: broke up, or does she want to go all in

579
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 1: on this new guy who is coming in sweeping her

580
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 1: off her feet and able to give her a life

581
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: that she only imagined having because dude has a lot

582
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 1: of money. And there are three things this movie did

583
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 1: and brought back. That has me excited for rom coms,

584
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: which the rom com genre has evolved a lot since

585
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 1: the nineties and early two thousands, where we might associate

586
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 1: a lot of Adam Sandler movies, where the overall tone

587
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:45,760
Speaker 1: of them is a lot more comical, probably leans more

588
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 1: into the comm and I think there are still those

589
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 1: type of rom coms coming out. Look at anyone but you,

590
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 1: with Sidney Sweeney and Glenn Powell, you still have a

591
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 1: genre that leans more into those classic things that just

592
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 1: make you feel good, just make you not really have

593
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 1: to use your brain a whole lot, and they're very predictable.

594
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 1: And the material List also still falls into that rom

595
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 1: com genre, but the comedy is much different. It's much

596
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 1: more subtle. So the three things I feel it is

597
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 1: bringing back. One was the classic trailer. A version that

598
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 1: they released of the trailer for the material List had

599
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,560
Speaker 1: a two thousands esque voiceover, which I thought was perfect.

600
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 1: We have not seen that in a very long time

601
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,479
Speaker 1: in the world of matchmaking. This weekend, your client is

602
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 1: getting sweet. No one plays the game better than Lucy

603
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 1: six to doctor Lawyer Banker and I get along much

604
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 1: better with girls in their twenties, but love isn't part

605
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 1: of her equation. I don't want to fight about money

606
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 1: with my boyfriend. You know how hard it is to

607
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: make you happy. Lucy and the Eternal Bachelora. I'm a guy.

608
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: I love forget a rich husband. Because that style of

609
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 1: trailer is so outdated. You don't really put out trailers

610
00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 1: where you have the big voiceover guy anymore because it

611
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 1: doesn't really fit in today's world. Doesn't really make people

612
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:07,400
Speaker 1: want to see movies anymore. I think trailers have a

613
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 1: really hard time fitting so much into two and a

614
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 1: half minutes. But I really enjoyed the version they put

615
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:16,240
Speaker 1: out with that voiceover because it kind of gave me

616
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:18,959
Speaker 1: a different perspective going into this, thinking, Okay, they're going

617
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 1: to try to bring back that two thousand style rom

618
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: com but make it feel very modern. Number two, they

619
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 1: brought back smoking, which is not good whatsoever. I don't

620
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 1: promote it, don't encourage it, but just to see smoking

621
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 1: in a movie again, I thought was a really interesting

622
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 1: play because that's just something you don't see anymore. Back

623
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,240
Speaker 1: in the eighties and nineties, you'd see it all the

624
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: time and not even think about it. I think just

625
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 1: the idea of putting smoking in a movie in twenty

626
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 1: twenty five is a really bold statement. So to me,

627
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: that was saying, let's bring back some of these classic

628
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 1: Hollywood things. Is it weird to say things from the

629
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: nineties and early two thousands are classic Hollywood things now?

630
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 1: But it is because much around the two thousands where

631
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 1: we started to see really how bad smoking was and

632
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 1: stop trying to promote it to young people, which I

633
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: still believe, like you should not be promoting smoking or

634
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 1: vaping or anything like that that just has a crazy

635
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 1: effect on your body. But I think there's something, Oh

636
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 1: I hate to say it, there's something cool the way

637
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 1: it looks on screen knowing that they're not smoking real cigarettes,

638
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 1: because I don't really see Dakota Johnson's character and think

639
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 1: she's gonna be one to smoke, and when she does,

640
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 1: it makes me feel a different way about her. And

641
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 1: number three, it brought back really witty dialogue, which I

642
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 1: think that's a thing that doesn't really get emphasized enough

643
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 1: in modern rom coms is having great quotes, having great monologues,

644
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 1: having moments that are so impactful that you could pull

645
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 1: them from this movie and start to place them onto

646
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 1: these other iconic moments in rom comms that we all

647
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Speaker 1: remember because if people are still saying the monologue from

648
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Speaker 1: when Harry Met said is one of the best rom

649
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 1: com monologues of all time. I'm gonna throw something through

650
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 1: the window next to me here because I'm tired of

651
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 1: the same old things getting referenced all the time. We

652
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:13,399
Speaker 1: need new moments like this. And why haven't we had

653
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 1: new moments like this is because nobody is writing them.

654
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 1: And now in this movie there are those moments where

655
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:23,399
Speaker 1: it hits you in the fields, not only on an

656
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:26,399
Speaker 1: emotional level, but even on a comedic level. Where are

657
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 1: all the movies with great movie quotes that we used

658
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 1: to have back in the twenty twenty tens. It was

659
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:33,400
Speaker 1: one of the only movies I've seen this year that

660
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 1: I thought everything on the page was as important as

661
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 1: everything being shown on screen, not just the big stars,

662
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 1: not just the director. They thought, we need to make

663
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 1: a great script and turn it into a great movie,

664
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Speaker 1: not just Okay, let's take a decent script and then

665
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,240
Speaker 1: kind of figure it out as we go. Maybe in editing,

666
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:53,840
Speaker 1: through marketing, we can make this movie profitable. There was

667
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 1: also a lot of great chemistry between Dakota Johnson and

668
00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 1: Chris Evans between Dakota Johnson and Pedro Pass which really

669
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 1: emphasized the love triangle. And as the viewer, you are

670
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:09,320
Speaker 1: rooting for different people to end up with other people,

671
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 1: and that was the fun part about it. And I

672
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 1: know people, I guess hate the love triangle trope at

673
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 1: this point. I know even some actors will say, I

674
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:19,799
Speaker 1: don't want to be cast in a movie where there's

675
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 1: a love triangle, and people will be like, Okay, we

676
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 1: won't put you in a love triangle. They get there

677
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 1: and they're like, read the script, Oh I'm in a

678
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:30,360
Speaker 1: love triangle. So I feel like that formula is probably

679
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 1: a little bit cliche, but in this case it works

680
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 1: so well because at times I was like, oh, I

681
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 1: want to end up with this guy. No, no, no, no,

682
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 1: I want to end up with this guy. No, she

683
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 1: should definitely end up with this guy. I think the

684
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 1: love triangle, as cliche as that might be, it works,

685
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: especially in this movie because the two guys are so different.

686
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 1: One of them is down on their luck, but he's

687
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:54,920
Speaker 1: the old boyfriend and there's always those feelings you have

688
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 1: towards your ex. In this situation with Dakota Johnson, and

689
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:00,360
Speaker 1: then you have the new guy who is last she

690
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 1: get knew and has all these things he can flaunt

691
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,359
Speaker 1: and money that he can just throw around. This movie

692
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 1: comes to us from director Celine Strong, who I mentioned

693
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 1: in last week's episode had her debut with Past Lives,

694
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:14,280
Speaker 1: and I think is really starting to create a style

695
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 1: for herself, which I love the use of intimate cinematography

696
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 1: in this. I also love that even though we've seen

697
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 1: New York City a thousand times in movies, it really

698
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 1: felt like a character within itself because you had these

699
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 1: really big, up close and personal shots between all of

700
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:35,279
Speaker 1: the lead actors, but then also peel back a little

701
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 1: bit and showed you New York City in a fresh way.

702
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 1: And I thought that was really like the backdrop of

703
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:43,800
Speaker 1: it that fit perfectly, paired with a really great score

704
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,360
Speaker 1: throughout the movie that was subtle and the way it

705
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: set itself apart from other rom coms. And maybe even

706
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 1: this was just a budgeting thing that they didn't have

707
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,839
Speaker 1: money to spend on a lot of songs that were

708
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 1: well known, because that's what you've seen in a lot

709
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 1: of rom comms. It's just like, all right, let's throw

710
00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 1: in some songs that are popular right now, that'll hit

711
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:02,720
Speaker 1: with the demographic we want to go see this movie.

712
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:05,240
Speaker 1: But instead of that, they used a really great score

713
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 1: that at times was like really kind of charging and

714
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:11,400
Speaker 1: pushing the tension along. I thought that fit perfectly with

715
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 1: the backdrop of New York City and all these really great,

716
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:17,879
Speaker 1: well dressed people. Dakota Johnson's fashion was at a ten.

717
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:22,880
Speaker 1: Pedro Pascal was also like very sophisticated and rich looking,

718
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:24,879
Speaker 1: and then you have Chris Evans, who just looks good

719
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 1: in anything. But Selene Strong has this blend of modern

720
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:31,439
Speaker 1: and classic romance, and I think that's what really made

721
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:33,839
Speaker 1: this movie set itself apart from anything else out there

722
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 1: right now, and what really is giving her films right

723
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 1: now a very unique profile. So the cast was stacked

724
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: three really great actors who are very highly in demand

725
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,879
Speaker 1: right now, so much so that I wonder how many

726
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 1: dates they actually had with Pedro Pascal to film this movie,

727
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 1: because he is in so many things right now, I mean,

728
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 1: Last of Us, Fantastic Four. Dude just pops up everywhere,

729
00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 1: and I think at times that just kind of showed

730
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:01,800
Speaker 1: a little bit, because how can you be so in

731
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 1: demand and in so many things, And also dedicate enough

732
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 1: time to really have your character have enough presence throughout

733
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:10,239
Speaker 1: the movie. I'm starting to feel the same way about

734
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 1: Sidney Sweeney too, where she's in so many things right

735
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:17,760
Speaker 1: now and use in the marketing for all these movies

736
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 1: and posters and trailers, and then you actually watch the

737
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: movies and you think, man, I bet she was just

738
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: filming this in between filming something else. But the social

739
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 1: commentary was also top notched. There were some lines that

740
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:30,400
Speaker 1: were really impactful from these characters that you really felt

741
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 1: it when they said them, and the balance of humor

742
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 1: was also perfect. One of my biggest complaints though in

743
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:39,319
Speaker 1: movies right now, that just triggers me, and we got

744
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 1: to stop doing this. Stop putting the iPhone alarm sound

745
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:47,399
Speaker 1: in movies. Use a different tone, use something else, because

746
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 1: whenever I hear that tone that I start freaking out,

747
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:52,799
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm waking up out of a dream,

748
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 1: I'm about to be late for work. Let's stop putting

749
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 1: the iPhone alarm sound in movies. Even the phone ringing

750
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 1: is kind of annoying. If you're going to bring stuff back,

751
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 1: just bring back them having for some reason a classic

752
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 1: alarm clock. So this movie really lived up to my expectations.

753
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 1: It is rare for me to find a perfect movie,

754
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 1: but this one, I think is really close. Ah. It's

755
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:15,360
Speaker 1: hard to compare it to Past Lives too, because they

756
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:18,360
Speaker 1: are two very different films as far as the story.

757
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: Past Lives is much more emotional and this one has

758
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:25,360
Speaker 1: more humor and overall I think just more romance. But

759
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: they're both fantastic and close to perfect for the materialists.

760
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 1: I give it four point five out of five dating services.

761
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: It's time to head down to movie mikes. Traylar Paul.

762
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 1: If an actor is in everything, are they really in anything?

763
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 1: That is my deep question for the trailer Park. And

764
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 1: what I mean is if an actor who is so hot,

765
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 1: so in demand, does so many projects, that says, oh,

766
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:58,400
Speaker 1: everybody wants to work with them. They're making so much money.

767
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 1: For most actors, there's a or your limited amount of

768
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,960
Speaker 1: time where you are this hot, where all the projects

769
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 1: are firing, everybody is calling because you're putting money in

770
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 1: other people's pockets. And I can't hate on an actor

771
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 1: for taking as many roles as possible, because in a

772
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 1: creative field you often don't know when your next role

773
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 1: is gonna come. But if somebody like Pedro Pascal, which

774
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 1: we've been talking about in this episode when talking about materialists,

775
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 1: how I started to notice that I don't know if

776
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 1: he's on set this entire time. I decided to talk

777
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:34,320
Speaker 1: about the new trailer for Eddington, because here we are again,

778
00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 1: Pedro Pascal in another movie coming out this year. If

779
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 1: he's in so many movies, is he really in anything?

780
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 1: I want to do an investigation on how many movies

781
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:48,800
Speaker 1: an A list actor like Pedro Pascal actually has time

782
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:51,359
Speaker 1: for in a year. I want to talk about how

783
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 1: that affects how we start to feel about these people,

784
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 1: is their oversaturation. But the movie is coming to us

785
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:59,880
Speaker 1: from director Ari Astor, who has done horror movies like Heredit,

786
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 1: Harry at Midsummar, which Midsommar I think you'd probably say

787
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 1: at Midsummer, but I like to say it fancy like

788
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:10,120
Speaker 1: Midsomar is a horror movie that I recommended to a

789
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 1: lot of people early on in this podcast because it

790
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 1: is one of my favorite horror movies of the twenty tens,

791
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 1: just because it's so dark and twisted and unconventional, and

792
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:23,440
Speaker 1: I feel like when Hereditary came out, everybody loved that

793
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 1: movie I'm just a bigger fan of Midsummer, and when

794
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 1: I recommended that, I didn't realize how kind of messed

795
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 1: up and twisted that movie is, and now a lot

796
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:33,840
Speaker 1: of people like it. That is the one I probably

797
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 1: got the most pushback for recommending. So now I don't

798
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 1: really ever recommend Midsummer anymore, because I think that's just

799
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 1: a style of horror movie that I just personally like.

800
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of Ari's directing, and I think he

801
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 1: is a pretty interesting director overall, even though his last

802
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:51,880
Speaker 1: movie didn't do as well, but he's still a relatively

803
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:55,080
Speaker 1: new director, and now he is taking on a very

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00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 1: polarizing topic in his new movie. Because Eddington follows the

805
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,720
Speaker 1: story of police and social turmoil in a fictional city

806
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:07,040
Speaker 1: of Eddington, New Mexico, caused by the COVID nineteen pandemic.

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00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:10,719
Speaker 1: It is taking place in a fictional town. Joaquin Phoenix

808
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:14,879
Speaker 1: and Pedro Pascal are in this heated small town race

809
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,320
Speaker 1: for mayor, and the movie is going to dive into

810
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:19,800
Speaker 1: how chaotic it was at that time. It's going to

811
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 1: cover social distancing protests, conspiracy theories. Eddington is coming out

812
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:28,360
Speaker 1: in theaters on July eighteenth, before we talk more about

813
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 1: this and about Pedro Pascal. Here's just a little bit

814
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 1: of the Eddington trailer. These are your strengths. So they're

815
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 1: your strengths. You know how death works of people are

816
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 1: going to be looking here. Now, keep your own office going,

817
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:53,879
Speaker 1: but you're gonna run mine. So vote Joe Cost take

818
00:42:53,960 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 1: back our community. Oh yeah, save our soul. This movie

819
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 1: looks very stylistic. Trayler closes out in a very dramatic way.

820
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 1: It stars Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Austin Butler,

821
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 1: and Luke Grimes. Joaquin Phoenix appears to be the main character.

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00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:18,440
Speaker 1: He is the small town sheriff in this fictional New

823
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:21,680
Speaker 1: Mexico town where he challenges the mayor played by Pedro

824
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 1: Pascal in a pandemic set situation. The movie is being

825
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:29,600
Speaker 1: described as a Western thriller and black comedy film. So

826
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:32,799
Speaker 1: Pedro Pascal is playing a guy named Ted Garcia who

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Speaker 1: is the mayor of this town running for reelection. Joaquin

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00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:39,280
Speaker 1: Phoenix plays the town sheriff named Joe Cross. His wife

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00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 1: is played by Emma Stone playing Louise Cross. Austin Butler

830
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:46,160
Speaker 1: plays a guy named Vernon Jefferson Peak and Luke Grimes

831
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 1: plays Guy, which I always thought that was an interesting name.

832
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 1: I always thought it was a fake name because I

833
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:53,040
Speaker 1: only ever heard it in movies. I remember from Never

834
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 1: Been Kissed, the guy in that was named Guy. I've

835
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 1: never met a guy in real life name Guy. But

836
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 1: in this movie, Luke Grimes plays a guy named Guy,

837
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 1: and he's also a officer at the Sheriff's office. And

838
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:06,840
Speaker 1: director Ari Astor originally thought this was gonna be the

839
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:09,800
Speaker 1: first movie he was gonna make. It was actually written

840
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:12,800
Speaker 1: five years before he even started Hereditary, but then decided

841
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:16,759
Speaker 1: to make Hereditary Midsomar first. And it wasn't until he

842
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 1: started promoting his third film, Boa Is Afraid, which also

843
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:22,360
Speaker 1: stars wa Quing Phoenix, that he said, my next movie

844
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:25,319
Speaker 1: is gonna be one about the COVID nineteen pandemic, which

845
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:27,360
Speaker 1: is also weird to refer to it as the COVID

846
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:31,240
Speaker 1: nineteen pandemic, but that's how it's being described. So let's

847
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:35,759
Speaker 1: talk about Pedro Pascal because it seems right now that

848
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 1: he is everywhere, and I think every actor aspires to

849
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:43,759
Speaker 1: have this level of heat on them, where everybody wants

850
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: a piece of them. Their schedule is full and I

851
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:48,840
Speaker 1: think to reach that level of fame at some point,

852
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 1: people have to be sick of you and Pedro Pascal,

853
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:55,279
Speaker 1: it seems to a lot of people is maybe just

854
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:58,399
Speaker 1: an overnight success, but he's been doing this a long time.

855
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:01,280
Speaker 1: His breakout role it first came to us in twenty

856
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 1: fourteen when he was in an episode of Game of Thrones,

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00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:05,880
Speaker 1: and even that came later in his career. He was

858
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:08,360
Speaker 1: thirty nine years old when he was on Game of

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00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 1: Thrones and he's now fifty. So why is he so

860
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Speaker 1: popular now? I decided to do some investigating because I

861
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:17,120
Speaker 1: think the thing that really started to put him in

862
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:20,239
Speaker 1: the minds of everybody was him landing the role on

863
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 1: The Mandalorian, which started back in twenty nineteen. And I

864
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:26,440
Speaker 1: think the thing that has really cemented him as of

865
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 1: late was being cast as Joel in the Last of

866
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 1: Us in twenty twenty three, where I think people started

867
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:35,719
Speaker 1: to look at him differently, And that show was so

868
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 1: good and so groundbreaking when it came out. It started

869
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:43,320
Speaker 1: to show people his emotional range, his dramatic power. People

870
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:46,319
Speaker 1: started to kind of put the pieces together of other

871
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:48,719
Speaker 1: movies and TV shows they've seen him in, like, oh,

872
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:51,480
Speaker 1: he was the guy at Narcos, but now it's like, oh,

873
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:54,320
Speaker 1: he's the star of this show. But for Pedro Pascal,

874
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:57,239
Speaker 1: I think his next big role and the thing that's

875
00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:59,919
Speaker 1: really going to cement Um in this a list tier

876
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:03,879
Speaker 1: is going to be his role coming up as Read

877
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 1: Richards in Fantastic Four. That is just gonna submentim there,

878
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 1: and that is kind of the pinnacle of anybody's career.

879
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:13,719
Speaker 1: Can you be in a big Hollywood production and put

880
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 1: butts in seats? So if that movie proves to be

881
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 1: as successful as I'm hoping, I think that is good

882
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:22,319
Speaker 1: to Cementum in. Okay, So it's not really that he's

883
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 1: an overnight success. It's that his long haul career is

884
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 1: starting to pay off, and to us it just feels like,

885
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:31,719
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, we see him and everything now, But

886
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 1: really he's been grinding for so long. Very rarely in

887
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 1: Hollywood does somebody become an overnight success. You just have

888
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:42,920
Speaker 1: to put in your dues, doing small roles and eventually

889
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:45,920
Speaker 1: landing that one that really just starts to land with people,

890
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:48,520
Speaker 1: and then you become this in demand because if you

891
00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:51,360
Speaker 1: look at the movies he's been in just the last

892
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 1: five years, I mean He was in Wonder Woman nineteen

893
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 1: eighty four in twenty twenty, which I think I'm the

894
00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 1: only person who enjoyed that movie. But that also came

895
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:01,680
Speaker 1: to us at a time where we weren't getting any movies.

896
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 1: It was in twenty twenty, which ties back into this

897
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:07,440
Speaker 1: movie now, Eddington, because I was just so happy at

898
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 1: that point to have a good movie, superhero movie that

899
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:12,880
Speaker 1: I was able to watch at home. That movie and

900
00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:14,959
Speaker 1: a lot of other movies that came out that year

901
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 1: that were new, have a special place in my heart.

902
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 1: Have I gone back and rewatched that movie since no,

903
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:23,080
Speaker 1: So I'm just happy what that movie did for me

904
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:25,880
Speaker 1: when it did come out. He was also in The

905
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:29,400
Speaker 1: Unbearable Way of Massive Talent with Nick Cage, which I

906
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 1: thought was an underrated comedy. He was in Driveaway Dolls

907
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:35,319
Speaker 1: last year, which was a really quick role pretty much

908
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 1: just in it at the beginning. And this is where

909
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:40,040
Speaker 1: you start to see how limited he has been in

910
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 1: some of these movies. He was in Gladiator to last year,

911
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:47,280
Speaker 1: He was a voice actor in the Wild Robot last year,

912
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:50,920
Speaker 1: he was also in The Uninvited Freaky Tales, and then

913
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 1: this year has been in Materialists. Eddington will be in

914
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 1: Fantastic Four, and then it looks like he is also

915
00:47:57,200 --> 00:48:00,719
Speaker 1: going to be unless they change the release again, but

916
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:03,719
Speaker 1: in Avengers Doomsday, because that's kind of what we're all

917
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 1: building up to. And on the TV side, of course,

918
00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:08,560
Speaker 1: he has been in the Last of Us and if

919
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:10,440
Speaker 1: he start to look at all these projects, I have

920
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 1: to imagine a majority of his time had to go

921
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 1: to dedicating time to film Fantastic Four. Because on average,

922
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:22,799
Speaker 1: top tier A list actors usually only do one to

923
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 1: two movies a year. It breaks down to first of all,

924
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 1: actors are picky at this level because they often wait

925
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:35,760
Speaker 1: for the best projects, the best directors, the biggest paydays

926
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 1: and roles that are going to maintain their brand, because

927
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:40,279
Speaker 1: that is what they have to think about. Now. It's

928
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:43,400
Speaker 1: not just about Okay, I need to be able to

929
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 1: earn enough money this year. It starts to be about

930
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:49,360
Speaker 1: I have to think of myself as an entity and

931
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:52,279
Speaker 1: what is going to make sense in my filmography right now.

932
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:56,799
Speaker 1: So Petro Pascal is an interesting person because he can

933
00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:59,600
Speaker 1: do anything. He has a very wide range where he

934
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:02,239
Speaker 1: can do the smaller budget A twenty four movies like

935
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 1: we're already seeing them in this year, but then also

936
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 1: can do big movies like Fantastic Four and then go

937
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:10,319
Speaker 1: back to HBO Max and do Last of Us. So

938
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 1: he has that on his side where he doesn't have

939
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:16,920
Speaker 1: to account for a big action movie every single year

940
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 1: because you're gonna run out of good scripts if you

941
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:21,680
Speaker 1: do that, he can actually hop around to different genres,

942
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 1: different mediums and just search for the best scripts. Another

943
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:26,759
Speaker 1: reason they usually only do one to two movies per

944
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:30,840
Speaker 1: year is because fans like us start to have expectations

945
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:34,480
Speaker 1: on them and they always want to continue that hot streak.

946
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:37,960
Speaker 1: So sometimes they might do three or more films in

947
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:40,239
Speaker 1: a year, but if one of those dips just a

948
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:42,400
Speaker 1: little bit, as we've seen and we're talking about earlier

949
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 1: with Dakota Johnson, that can start to change the way

950
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:47,160
Speaker 1: you feel about your favorite actors. But if you have

951
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:50,440
Speaker 1: your action guys like the Rock Jason Statham, they can

952
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:52,840
Speaker 1: probably get away with doing two to four movies a

953
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 1: year because they're kind of always living in that same genre.

954
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:59,120
Speaker 1: Their range of characters isn't as vast, so they're kind

955
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 1: of doing the same thing over and over again and

956
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:03,680
Speaker 1: just trying to find a movie at least one that

957
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:08,360
Speaker 1: really hits and they also will take on smaller cameos

958
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:12,840
Speaker 1: in smaller roles, but oftentimes, through a little manipulation in

959
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:15,840
Speaker 1: the promotion, you can put them right there on the

960
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 1: poster and say, we got Pedro Pascal in this movie.

961
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:21,440
Speaker 1: His face is right here. But then when you go

962
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 1: watch that movie in theaters or click it at home,

963
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 1: you might think to yourself, man, he really wasn't in

964
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 1: that as much as they promoted him. He was all

965
00:50:28,719 --> 00:50:31,360
Speaker 1: over the trailer, but when I actually watched the movie,

966
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 1: he wasn't there as much. So they do that trickery

967
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:36,560
Speaker 1: as well. So that is somebody who is still on

968
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:39,879
Speaker 1: the up and up might not be as established as

969
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:42,880
Speaker 1: other A list actors, because if you look at people

970
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:47,439
Speaker 1: like Leonardo DiCaprio, he typically only does one movie every

971
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:51,480
Speaker 1: two to three years. It is very unusual for him

972
00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:53,800
Speaker 1: to do one movie a year, which I think he's

973
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:58,480
Speaker 1: at least leaning more into at least doing one every

974
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:01,640
Speaker 1: two years right now, Like One Battle after Another is

975
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:03,719
Speaker 1: coming out later this year with him and Benisio del

976
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:07,800
Speaker 1: Toro on September twenty sixth. Somebody like a Ryan Reynolds

977
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 1: or Kevin Hart might put out two to three movies

978
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:13,319
Speaker 1: per year, but maybe two of those are live action

979
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 1: and one of them is an animated movie that takes

980
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:17,920
Speaker 1: less of their time to sit down in a booth

981
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:19,960
Speaker 1: and do all the lines. But if you think back

982
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:23,880
Speaker 1: to the height of the MCU, Scarlett Johansson at times

983
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:26,759
Speaker 1: was doing two movies a year, two of those big projects.

984
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:30,359
Speaker 1: So pretty much an average A lister will do one

985
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:34,400
Speaker 1: to two major films per year if they are a

986
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:37,400
Speaker 1: list and really busy and usually on the rise and

987
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:40,359
Speaker 1: kind of a hot shreak. So your Pedro Pascal's, your

988
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:45,160
Speaker 1: Sydney Sweeney's, your Austin Butler's, your Timothy Shalomee, your Zendayas.

989
00:51:45,719 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 1: They could do up to three, maybe four movies a

990
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:53,000
Speaker 1: year to mix in. Genres have bigger and smaller roles,

991
00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:54,840
Speaker 1: and they also don't want to have a bunch of

992
00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 1: movies coming out close to each other because then it

993
00:51:57,560 --> 00:51:59,480
Speaker 1: kind of becomes a mess to promote, which is what

994
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:02,360
Speaker 1: kind of Pedro Pascal is running into right now. Because

995
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 1: Materialists just came out, Eddington is coming out on July eighteenth,

996
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:09,080
Speaker 1: and right after that, on July twenty fifth, we have

997
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 1: Fantastic Four. So here's what I'm talking about. It's all

998
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 1: just jumbled up, so hopefully that is a great one, two,

999
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:19,720
Speaker 1: three movie streak for him. I think even if Eddington

1000
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:22,560
Speaker 1: doesn't live up to expectations, it's not really good at

1001
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 1: Dingham because I think the hype of Fantastic four is

1002
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:28,480
Speaker 1: gonna be too great. So good for him. A great

1003
00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 1: time to be his publicist and probably a great time

1004
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 1: to be his money person. Heed. That was this week's

1005
00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:37,880
Speaker 1: edition of Movie b Tramer Bar, and that is going

1006
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Speaker 1: to do it for another episode here of the podcast.

1007
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:42,560
Speaker 1: Before I go, I gotta give my listeners shout out

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Speaker 1: of the week this week. I'm going over to my

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel, which is YouTube dot com slash Mike Distro.

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Speaker 1: I think I just hit six hundred followers. I'm trying

1011
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Speaker 1: to get to one thousand. So if you're listening and

1012
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Speaker 1: you love YouTube and you want to watch individual movie

1013
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Speaker 1: reviews over there and interviews as well, go subscribe. I've

1014
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Speaker 1: hit the bell. You get brand new videos every single Monday,

1015
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:06,799
Speaker 1: the same day that this podcast gets released. But this

1016
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:09,960
Speaker 1: week's listener shout out of the Week goes to Fallow,

1017
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: who commented on last week's review, where I talked about

1018
00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 1: is Wes and Henderson still cool after watching The Phoenicians Scheme,

1019
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:19,520
Speaker 1: and Fallow said, I find Wes Anderson movies to be

1020
00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 1: a bit hit or miss. When his films land, they're amazing,

1021
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:25,440
Speaker 1: but when they don't, I tend to find myself stuck

1022
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:29,440
Speaker 1: in some abstract, purgatory good vid though. Appreciate that, Fallow,

1023
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:32,479
Speaker 1: which I kind of forget that I'm a really big

1024
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:36,840
Speaker 1: Wes Anderson fan overall and that they're not for everybody.

1025
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:40,839
Speaker 1: So appreciate you guys indulging me in talking about one

1026
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:43,839
Speaker 1: of my favorite directors last week. But at times I

1027
00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:47,440
Speaker 1: do feel that way about his work too, where I

1028
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:50,480
Speaker 1: wasn't the biggest fan of The French Dispatch, and even

1029
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:52,879
Speaker 1: if I love one of his movies visually and can't

1030
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:56,719
Speaker 1: get into it emotionally or story wise, it does get

1031
00:53:56,719 --> 00:53:58,520
Speaker 1: tough for me too, So I can see that. So

1032
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:01,640
Speaker 1: maybe sometimes it feels to people who aren't a fan

1033
00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:03,640
Speaker 1: of his work a little bit like having to watch

1034
00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:06,279
Speaker 1: a movie for homework, and that's not fun. But I

1035
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:09,680
Speaker 1: honestly think The Phoenician Scheme was one of his more

1036
00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:13,320
Speaker 1: emotional movies that actually had a good storyline to follow

1037
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:17,560
Speaker 1: along with all the kookiness and symmetrical visuals, so appreciate

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Speaker 1: that fallow. Thank you now for listening wherever you might be,

1039
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Speaker 1: and until next time, go out and watch good movies

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Speaker 1: and I will talk to you later