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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. It has been a great summer.

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Speaker 1: But what makes us summer better A big Marvel release.

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Speaker 1: That's what we're talking about all episode long. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to give you my mount rushmore of Marvel villains, heroes,

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Speaker 1: female characters. We're talking MCU today because in the movie

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Speaker 1: review we have Dead Poll and Wolverine. Is it worth

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Speaker 1: in the trailer park, we're talking about a new horror

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Speaker 1: mystery coming out next week starring Hunter Schaeffer. It's called Cuckoo.

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Speaker 1: It looks great, big year for horror. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: being here. I said horror, not the other word horror. Rhr.

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Speaker 1: I don't like saying scary movie anyway. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: being here, Thank you for being subscribed. Shout out to

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Speaker 1: the Monday Morning movie crew. This episode is going to

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Speaker 1: be unhinged. If that intro is indication enough a movie crew,

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Speaker 1: let's get into it. Let's talk movies.

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

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Speaker 2: one man stands to infols rate the ears of listeners

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Speaker 2: like never before in a movie podcast. A man with

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Speaker 2: so much movie knowledge, he's basically like a walking IMTB

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Speaker 2: with glasses from the Nashville Podcast Network. This is movie Mikes,

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Speaker 1: I can't tell I am firing on all cylinders. I

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Speaker 1: just had my coffee. There goes to can Here we go.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about Marvel, one of my favorite genres of

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Speaker 1: movies to talk about. For the longest amount of time,

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Speaker 1: superhero movies were my number one go to genre. Probably

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Speaker 1: a big reason why I do this podcast was because

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Speaker 1: of the MCU's run from twenty and eight to twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: I've been there, standing by its side all along the way,

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Speaker 1: seen every Marvel movie multiple times. For most of them.

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Speaker 1: We'll get into the ones I've only seen once, and

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Speaker 1: I'll let you know exactly why. But in celebration of

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Speaker 1: there have been now thirty three Marvel movies prior to

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Speaker 1: it always just happens to be my favorite. Because I'm

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Speaker 1: writing off of that excitement, I always have to give

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Speaker 1: nothing that came out before two thousand and eighths. Iron

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Speaker 1: Number one. It has to be iron Man because in

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Speaker 1: back when all the VFX artists weren't being worked to

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Speaker 1: the bone and the technology was new at the time,

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00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,040
Speaker 1: with Transformers being one of the first movies to really

429
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Speaker 1: use like that photo realism, making things actually look like

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00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:10,120
Speaker 1: the surfaces that they are. That was a big deal

431
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:13,840
Speaker 1: back in the day. So Transformers was very influential on

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00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,000
Speaker 1: Iron Man. It got it perfect, it got the suit

433
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Speaker 1: down so well, everybody benefited from it. At number two,

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00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:25,000
Speaker 1: I have Iron Man. At number three, I have Black Panther.

435
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:27,600
Speaker 1: Not only because it's such a great movie. Has the

436
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Speaker 1: fantastic villain, has the fantastic hero. But I would say

437
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:35,400
Speaker 1: because this movie looks unlike any of the other MCU

438
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 1: movies for a couple of reasons, for the cast, the representation.

439
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 1: It just looks different by the people who are represented

440
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 1: in this movie, which was huge. We didn't have that.

441
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,960
Speaker 1: Me as a Mexican American, I didn't get that until

442
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:51,960
Speaker 1: well on the DC side, Blue Beetle, but even in

443
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 1: Wakanda Forever with our first Mexican villain. But that was

444
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Speaker 1: important for kids who didn't have a hero that looked

445
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,959
Speaker 1: like them. And now you have this awesome black superhero

446
00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:05,520
Speaker 1: who was also noble and smart and quite possibly stronger

447
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:07,440
Speaker 1: and more fierce. I mean that has to do a

448
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 1: lot with the technology they had, which is so advanced

449
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 1: and everybody wants. But it looked different because of the

450
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:16,480
Speaker 1: cast and the representation, but aside from that, it was

451
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 1: just more cinematic and a direct result of that was

452
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 1: it actually getting Oscar nominations, which hadn't happened in the

453
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:28,240
Speaker 1: MCU before. So just looking at from a cinematography and

454
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:33,800
Speaker 1: a visual perspective, a wardrobe and makeup perspective, it doesn't

455
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,720
Speaker 1: look like all the other MCU movies, and I love

456
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Speaker 1: it for that, and number three in that slot, I

457
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Speaker 1: have Black Panther at number four because this movie changed

458
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:47,919
Speaker 1: my life because it felt like my inner kid just

459
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:52,360
Speaker 1: having complete joy in the year of twenty twenty one,

460
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:56,760
Speaker 1: which this movie single handily probably saved the movie theaters

461
00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:00,040
Speaker 1: that ye're bouncing back from twenty twenty it is no

462
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Speaker 1: way home. Aside from what I was mentioning earlier of

463
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 1: Infinity War being my overall favorite theater experience for a

464
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: Marvel movie, this one has my favorite moment, yes even

465
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:15,640
Speaker 1: more so than Endgame, my favorite cheer moment, which any

466
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:17,919
Speaker 1: good MCU movie has at that moment that we all

467
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 1: want to get out of our seats and yell and

468
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 1: clap and applaud. This movie did it the best. I

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00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,920
Speaker 1: will never forget that. So those are my mount Rushmore

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00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 1: of the best MCU movies, Infinity War, Iron Man, Black Panther,

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Speaker 1: and No Way Home, Chisela Man Boss. Here we go,

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00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 1: all right to close us out, my mount rushmore of

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Speaker 1: the worst MCU movies at number one, And I would

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00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:48,399
Speaker 1: say for all of these movies, I've only seen them once,

475
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 1: and not only that, I never want to watch them again.

476
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:55,880
Speaker 1: And out of all of the thirty three MCU movies,

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Speaker 1: these are the only ones that I would consider bad.

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00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,000
Speaker 1: There only happens to be four of them, which is

479
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 1: pretty good. But in that number one slot, it goes

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00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 1: to The Eternals, hands down the worst MCU movie of

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00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:11,679
Speaker 1: all time. It tried to do too much, tried to

482
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 1: create such a big world, introduced too many characters, tried

483
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 1: to be like a more intellectual Avengers. Every element of

484
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 1: this movie fell flat. And it wasn't until the Captain

485
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:28,159
Speaker 1: America Brave New World trailer that came out that it

486
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,639
Speaker 1: finally addressed one of the biggest cliffhangers in all of

487
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 1: the MCO This big floating rock, Hey, we forgot about that,

488
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 1: Let's go back to that. So was so confusing. Characters

489
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 1: made no sense. They were oddly emotional for no reason.

490
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 1: Had no connection to the story whatsoever. It was a big,

491
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 1: big mess and a bad movie. Number one goes to

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Speaker 1: the Eternals at number two. I guess putting a th

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00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 1: is a bad sign for MCU movies because number two

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00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 1: of the Marvels and I think it was probably do

495
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,239
Speaker 1: it a tone. It also felt like they didn't have

496
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 1: enough story to make a movie. This probably should have

497
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 1: been a Disney Plus series. And bre Larson. I love

498
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: her as an actor, and I think the character is great,

499
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 1: but I really feel like she phoned in this performance.

500
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 1: And maybe it has to do with doing the majority

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00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 1: of this movie in front of a blue or green screen,

502
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 1: no cast chemistry. This movie did not work for me.

503
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,479
Speaker 1: Goes in my number two slot. At number three, it

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00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 1: goes to Thor The Dark World, primarily because this movie

505
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 1: is so forgettable. And this was also at a time

506
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 1: where they really didn't have the Thor character down. Chris

507
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 1: Hemsworth still had the long blonde hair. They were making

508
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 1: him too mythical. They tried a little bit to bring

509
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 1: out the humor and Thor, but Chris Hemsworth didn't really

510
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 1: know how to play him just quite yet didn't truly

511
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 1: nail it until the next movie Thor Ragnarok, which I

512
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 1: was like, oh that store he had to look down

513
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 1: to cut his hair, and that led to better Avengers movies.

514
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 1: So I think it's just a product of the time.

515
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 1: I love the first Thor movie, but this one was

516
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 1: not it whatsoever. I never want to see it again.

517
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Speaker 1: At number three is The The Dark World and in

518
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Speaker 1: that Ford slot. I think it's because this movie was

519
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 1: a little bit of a letdown. It also tarnished how

520
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 1: I feel about one of my favorite villains that I

521
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 1: was talking about earlier. It is Doctor Strange in the

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Speaker 1: Multiverse of Madness. For a movie being titled The Multiverse

523
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Speaker 1: of Madness, they didn't really have much to do with

524
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 1: making the Multiverse mad and me being somebody who loves

525
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 1: a good horror movie. Having Sam Raimi one of the

526
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:50,000
Speaker 1: most beloved horror directors of all time, the product just

527
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 1: didn't match his body of work, also being the director

528
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 1: of the best Spider Man trilogy. It is also largely

529
00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 1: cited to being a part of the decline of the

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Speaker 1: MS in a movie we really had to bounce back from.

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Speaker 1: As me being one of the people still fighting for

532
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 1: the MCU, I gotta make excuses for this movie, so

533
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 1: that is why it put it and I only saw

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00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 1: it in theaters once and was never inclined to go

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00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 1: back and rewatch it on Disney Plus because I just

536
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 1: didn't enjoy it. So in that Ford slot the Multiverse

537
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,959
Speaker 1: of Madness. Rounding out that list, it is the Eternals,

538
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 1: the Marvels for the Dark World, Doctor Strange in the

539
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 1: Multiverse of Madness being my mount rushmore of bad MCU movies,

540
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: but again they're only being fo what I would consider

541
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 1: bad movies in the MCU that I just would not

542
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 1: watch again, not bad, so to those, we carve them

543
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 1: and then destroy them out of the stone. So that

544
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Speaker 1: is my list. We'll come back and finally give my

545
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Speaker 1: review of dead Pool and Wolverine. Let's get into it now,

546
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Speaker 1: A spoiler free review of dead Pool and Wolverine, one

547
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 1: of my most anticipated movies of the year. I'm a

548
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 1: huge Wolverine fan. I would say a moderate Deadpool fan.

549
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 1: I get a little bit tired of Ryan Reynolds and

550
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 1: his stick when it comes to Deadpool, which I believe

551
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 1: changed the game when it first came out with Part one,

552
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 1: poking fun at superheroes with the more intense violence with

553
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 1: the swearing. I think it was. I think at the

554
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 1: time it was a breath of fresh air in the

555
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:26,440
Speaker 1: superhero genre. But with Part two, with all the teasers

556
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 1: leading up to Deadpool and Wolverine, I get a little

557
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: bit tired of it. I just find that it becomes

558
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 1: a little bit less funny as we're exposed to the

559
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 1: same types of jokes over and over again. So going

560
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,719
Speaker 1: into this movie, I really wanted to see less Deadpool

561
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 1: and wanted to see more Wolverine, and I was actually

562
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: quite pleasantly surprised how much Ryan Reynolds improved as Deadpool,

563
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 1: giving us a different side of Deadpool where I feel

564
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 1: he grew as a character, and that was largely due

565
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 1: to Ryan Reynolds' performance really stepping in it up of

566
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 1: not just having the one liners, the breaking the fourth wall,

567
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 1: which was an abundance in this movie, but giving us

568
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 1: a little bit more to chew on that For the

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Speaker 1: first time, I saw how Deadpool could work outside of

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Speaker 1: this franchise, which is what all superheroes do. They have

571
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 1: their solo movies, but they also branch out in the EMCU.

572
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 1: So for the first time I really saw Ryan Reynolds

573
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 1: how he would be sharing the spotlight with somebody as

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Speaker 1: famous and as beloved as him. So we'll get into

575
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: more of that, But what Deadpool and Wolverine is all

576
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 1: about won't give you any spoilers. For the most part,

577
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 1: everything I'll talk about here was already revealed in the

578
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: first and second trailer, but Deadpool started tooling around with

579
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 1: cables travel device, which we learned about in Deadpool two.

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00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 1: So to answer some of your questions draft the bat,

581
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 1: do you need to see one or two? You don't

582
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 1: necessarily have to. I think you could watch this movie

583
00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 1: and understand some of the plot points, you wouldn't becomempletely lost.

584
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 1: But obviously with any superhero movie, they're going to talk

585
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 1: about things that happened in part one in part two.

586
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 1: You don't necessarily have to see every Marvel movie to

587
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:13,799
Speaker 1: understand it, but when you do, you feel a lot

588
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 1: more gratification. So I don't think you need to see

589
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 1: necessarily part one or two to understand what is going on.

590
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: But you need to see part one and two to

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00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 1: feel the emotional impact of this movie and to know

592
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: what got weighed Wilson here. So this could be a

593
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: way for some people that haven't seen one or two

594
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 1: want to hop into it because they're fans. With Hugh

595
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 1: Jackman and Wolverine, you could do that. You could watch

596
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: this one and go back and watch it BOT one

597
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 1: and two if you enjoy his performance. I really feel

598
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 1: like this movie put all the cards on the table

599
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 1: and wanted to make a really good movie that would yes,

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00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 1: propel the MCU in a way, but also show that

601
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 1: we need to hit right now. We're gonna do everything

602
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 1: in our ability to give the fans what they want

603
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 1: and to bring those back who have straight away from

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Speaker 1: the MCU to return to the theater to pay for

605
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 1: tickets to see the next one. So not only does

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00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: it have a tie in with Part one and Part

607
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 1: two of Deadpool, it also ties in with Loki over

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00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:13,279
Speaker 1: on Disney Plus. But Deadpool is essentially trying to do

609
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 1: something that is larger than himself. He is trying to

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00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 1: find his purpose, and at the beginning of the movie

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00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 1: we kind of find him not wanting to be Deadpool anymore.

612
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:26,919
Speaker 1: After a failed attempt to join the Avengers that leads

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00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,359
Speaker 1: him to being recruited by the TVA from Loki. They

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00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 1: give him a shot at trying to save the world,

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00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 1: but in order to do that he needs to find Wolverine.

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00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 1: So from there it is Deadpool and Wolverine teaming up together,

617
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:42,720
Speaker 1: taking on a new villain, and going on a journey

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00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 1: to save the world together. So, like I was mentioning

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Speaker 1: earlier about kind of being over Ryan Reynolds and his

620
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 1: shtick is Deadpool, I will have to say that his

621
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:55,720
Speaker 1: character did address being a one trick pony. I think

622
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 1: he sees some of that criticism of people feeling probably

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00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,279
Speaker 1: after Deadpool two, that it was kind of along the

624
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 1: same lines as Deadpool One, didn't really push anything forward.

625
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 1: So a lot of what his character goes through in

626
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 1: this movie is wanting to prove to himself and more importantly,

627
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 1: to the love interest in his life. He wants to

628
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 1: be a part of something bigger and larger, and all

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Speaker 1: the actions in this movie are him working towards that.

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00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 1: The first thing that stuck out to me about this

631
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 1: movie is how good it looks Deadpool hopping into the MCU.

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00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:31,400
Speaker 1: He's using that two hundred million dollar budget. Wild that

633
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:34,359
Speaker 1: the first one costs about fifty eight million dollars to make.

634
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,879
Speaker 1: Part two ballooned up to about one hundred and ten

635
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 1: million dollars. This one added another ninety million dollars on

636
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:44,320
Speaker 1: top of that, and they use all of that money,

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00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 1: and I think a great deal of it went to

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00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 1: reviving Deadpool suit, which they do a whole montage of

639
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 1: it in the movie. It looks more comic book accurate.

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00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:57,760
Speaker 1: The red is brighter, the eyes are wider, and overall

641
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: just looks way more slick, And I think through the

642
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 1: course of this movie, the comic book accuracy was the

643
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: ode to the nerds, and I talked about earlier this

644
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 1: year in an episode addressing how I feel like the

645
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:16,239
Speaker 1: MCU should seek out the nerds, pay attention to what

646
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 1: they're saying in order to improve the movies. You can

647
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: only do it so much, because I think this movie

648
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 1: walked a really good line on giving us nerds what

649
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 1: we wanted when it came to the comic book accuracy,

650
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 1: which is something that people in the TikTok comments are

651
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: always yelling about. We want the characters that we grew

652
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 1: up with reading in the comic books seeing in the

653
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 1: animated shows. So it's giving us that, but also giving

654
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:45,359
Speaker 1: the more common movie goer something that doesn't look too

655
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 1: corny and cheeseball. It's a fine line to walk and

656
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 1: probably pretty influential early on with the X Men movies

657
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 1: in the two thousands, of why they didn't decide to

658
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:59,280
Speaker 1: put them all in comic book accurate suits. The leather

659
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:02,760
Speaker 1: at that time was also greatly influenced by the Matrix

660
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:04,840
Speaker 1: that came out in the late nineties, and they said,

661
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:06,880
Speaker 1: we need to put the X Men in leather, and

662
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 1: then we never saw a comic book accurate suit really

663
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 1: until now for Wolverine, and I was a little bit

664
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,719
Speaker 1: reluctant to like it, even though it was giving us

665
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 1: exactly what we wanted back. Whenever the first image was

666
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 1: revealed with Hugh Jackman in the suit, I thought it

667
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,720
Speaker 1: looked a little bit too much like a motorcross dirt

668
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 1: bike soup, and I wasn't the biggest fan of it,

669
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,680
Speaker 1: and still now, I do believe that the look of

670
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 1: it was made more to compliment Deadpool suit than it

671
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 1: was just to be a comic book accurate Wolverine suit,

672
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,240
Speaker 1: So I think in order for them to match on screen.

673
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 1: So I think that's the reason why it has some

674
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 1: of those textures on it that I'm not the biggest

675
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:51,799
Speaker 1: fan of. And for me looking behind me on the

676
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 1: set here that Wolverine that X Men ninety seven that

677
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 1: I feel would be probably more yellow spandex probably wouldn't

678
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:01,319
Speaker 1: look that great on screen, even though that's what I want.

679
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:04,399
Speaker 1: And sometimes you can't give fans exactly what they want,

680
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:07,400
Speaker 1: and this is probably an example of that. So this

681
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 1: is a case that I know I'm being irrational and

682
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:13,280
Speaker 1: wanting that because if you gave us that, it probably

683
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 1: wouldn't look that good, and then I would still find

684
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 1: a way to complain. So I am one of those

685
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:20,440
Speaker 1: people who's probably too hard to please on this, And

686
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 1: I also know that sometimes it is hard to make

687
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 1: a two D image like that, even though that's a

688
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,040
Speaker 1: figure behind me right now. So if you're not watching

689
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 1: on YouTube, you have to go and look at the set.

690
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:32,680
Speaker 1: But bringing any two D character, whether it be from

691
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 1: a comic book or a TV show, and putting them

692
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 1: in the real world, you're gonna have some obstacles that

693
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:42,360
Speaker 1: you can't get over. But overall, I think the suit

694
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 1: look fantastic for both dead Pool and I grew to

695
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 1: love the Wolverine suit, especially the explanation they gave addressing

696
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 1: why he is wearing it and really addressing and answering

697
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 1: a lot of questions that I had going into this movie.

698
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,319
Speaker 1: I felt like they knew people were coming in with

699
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 1: some hesitationations, and we're gonna wonder a lot about what

700
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 1: Wolverine this is and why Hugh Jackman is back playing them,

701
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:09,719
Speaker 1: and they laid everything out and I was satisfied with

702
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 1: those answers. And the other thing they gave us that

703
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:16,120
Speaker 1: I felt was a plus was whenever Deadpool first goes

704
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:19,960
Speaker 1: and tries to find and locate Wolverine, they gave us

705
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 1: a montage of Wolverine variants. This scene in particular, even

706
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: though it wasn't even that long, was for all the nerds,

707
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 1: which is what I enjoyed that this movie continued to

708
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,640
Speaker 1: throw in there because there were so many different variants

709
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 1: from the comic books, the TV shows, just figures, and

710
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:41,360
Speaker 1: even though they were very quick, they were all images

711
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 1: and costumes that I just never thought I would see

712
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:47,120
Speaker 1: on the big screen. So again walking that line of

713
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 1: giving the nerds what they want but also giving just

714
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Speaker 1: so I think that was a pretty big deal to

715
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Speaker 1: give the nerds what they want, because I feel like

716
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:57,879
Speaker 1: not everybody probably understood all of these variants and what

717
00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 1: they meant, but oh I was probably one of my

718
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 1: favorite scenes out of the entire movie, and that mixed

719
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:09,719
Speaker 1: with some really great fight scenes between Deadpool and Wolverine,

720
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Speaker 1: which is what we had glimpses of in the trailer.

721
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 1: But I feel out of all the fight scenes that

722
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:17,399
Speaker 1: went down in this movie, those were the ones where

723
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 1: I was the most engaged because they do not hold

724
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:23,719
Speaker 1: anything back. And what I really loved my probably my

725
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:26,880
Speaker 1: favorite detail, and what I really loved, which was probably

726
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:31,760
Speaker 1: my favorite detail, was how ferocious they made Wolverine's fighting style.

727
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 1: This was the most animalistic he has ever looked like,

728
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 1: running on all fours. I feel like Hugh Jackman played

729
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 1: this character much differently, which is probably hard to do.

730
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 1: He's been playing the character for twenty four years now.

731
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:47,840
Speaker 1: This is his tenth movie as Wolverine, and I felt

732
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 1: like it was a completely fresh take because it is

733
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:55,080
Speaker 1: a different Wolverine from a different timeline, and I can

734
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 1: actually feel it in Hugh Jackman's performance that he approached

735
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:02,239
Speaker 1: this character differently. He approached the fighting style different that

736
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 1: I truly felt like I was watching a different variant

737
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 1: of Wolverine of logan and that mixed with his physique

738
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 1: looking off the charts, He's turning fifty six this October,

739
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:16,360
Speaker 1: and you cannot tell whatsoever. There was even one scene

740
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:19,400
Speaker 1: in particular where he's not wearing a shirt, and I

741
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 1: was convinced that they brought a stunt double in because

742
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 1: it looks like he had a twelve pack, arms were

743
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 1: super jacked, and I'm convinced he can play this character

744
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:30,160
Speaker 1: for another decade. As I get into now some of

745
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 1: the things I didn't like about the movie, I will

746
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: just say that overall, I loved it. It is a

747
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 1: good movie. When it comes to what the MPCU needed,

748
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:41,359
Speaker 1: this is it. You're not going to go into this

749
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 1: one and feel like you did after watching The Marvels

750
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:47,799
Speaker 1: or am Man three. It is a good movie, but

751
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 1: I also hold these movies to such a high standard,

752
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 1: Wolverine being one of my favorite superhero characters. I went

753
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 1: into it thinking it was going to be a top

754
00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:00,919
Speaker 1: ten movie. Not quite there, maybe top five. But again,

755
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 1: that doesn't make it a bad movie. By the way,

756
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:04,799
Speaker 1: I did not want this movie to end. It is

757
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 1: a crisp two hours, and I could have been in

758
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 1: that theater for three hours, so that's indication enough. I

759
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:13,760
Speaker 1: had to remind myself that Deadpool is a comedy movie.

760
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 1: That is why these movies have been successful. That is

761
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:19,240
Speaker 1: what people go to wanting to see out of this character,

762
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:23,360
Speaker 1: out of Ryan Reynolds's performance. There were times where I lasted.

763
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 1: There were some good jokes in there, but overall, I

764
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:29,239
Speaker 1: don't feel like it is a great, straight ahead comedy.

765
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:32,239
Speaker 1: I think it's more fun than it is funny, and

766
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:34,279
Speaker 1: because it is more of a comedy, I feel like

767
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 1: it takes away a little bit from the intensity. When

768
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 1: it came to the villain. In Deadpool and Wolverine, there's

769
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:44,360
Speaker 1: really not that moment where everything comes to a head

770
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:46,719
Speaker 1: with the villain, and I would say overall that took

771
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:49,439
Speaker 1: away a little bit of the impact from the third act.

772
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:52,360
Speaker 1: And I was talking earlier in this episode about the

773
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 1: MCU having a bit of a villain problem. I almost

774
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:57,920
Speaker 1: felt like the villain was wasted in this movie. And

775
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 1: I think that's probably because with Headpool and Wolverine being

776
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:04,719
Speaker 1: such big characters, you want to give them all the

777
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:07,400
Speaker 1: screen time. For the majority of this movie, it was

778
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 1: Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman battling for lines, even pointing

779
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 1: out directly when an extra would get a line like oh, hey,

780
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 1: don't let you speak, so I could see their egos

781
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 1: coming out of who is going to be dominating this

782
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:22,960
Speaker 1: movie more. I think it adds to the fun nature

783
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 1: of it then poking jabs at each other's characters, but

784
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 1: also at each other's personal lives a little bit with

785
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 1: it breaking that fourth wall, with it being so meta,

786
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 1: And I would say, I'm somebody who has kind of

787
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:39,480
Speaker 1: gotten away from expecting really big cameos in Marvel movies.

788
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:42,200
Speaker 1: They become a little bit of a crutch I feel

789
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:45,399
Speaker 1: to get people excited. But I really felt this movie

790
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:48,360
Speaker 1: did it well keeping it under wraps, and at times

791
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:51,240
Speaker 1: I feel like it was kind of needed. It needed

792
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 1: that big pop moment and they were really unexpected ones,

793
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:56,759
Speaker 1: which is what I enjoy sometimes giving me something that

794
00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:59,799
Speaker 1: I didn't even know I wanted. So overall, I felt

795
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 1: like this movie was a great time. It flew by

796
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 1: at two hours, a rare case that I even wanted

797
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:08,960
Speaker 1: to stay and watch the post credit scene. But when

798
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 1: it comes to rating this movie, I do have to

799
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 1: judge it a little bit differently because I have to

800
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:17,359
Speaker 1: weigh it among all the movies in the MCU. That

801
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:19,760
Speaker 1: is just what happens now. Being the thirty fourth movie,

802
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 1: I have to think is it top ten my top

803
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:26,759
Speaker 1: ten Marvel movies. I would all put it fives, and

804
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:29,600
Speaker 1: that is a tough top ten to break. And as

805
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:32,840
Speaker 1: much as I enjoyed all the aspects as much of

806
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:35,320
Speaker 1: the things, they got right and gave all the fans

807
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: just some real gratification of here you've been asking for this,

808
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 1: Here it is enjoy I was expecting to leave the

809
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 1: same way I left No Way home of just this

810
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 1: overwhelming joy, and I didn't really get that from this movie,

811
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 1: even though I thoroughly enjoyed it. So without that feeling,

812
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:55,120
Speaker 1: I don't think it is a top ten. I also

813
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 1: have to think about rewatchability, because I feel like a

814
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 1: lot of these jokes have a real small shelf life.

815
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:04,800
Speaker 1: They reference things that are very specific to the times,

816
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:08,719
Speaker 1: So rewatching this movie in another five years, all those

817
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:11,799
Speaker 1: jokes might not land the same way because the entire

818
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 1: landscape of the MCU is probably gonna be much different.

819
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: But for right now, the jokes probably land a lot more.

820
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:21,239
Speaker 1: I just think they won't age as well. I give

821
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:24,360
Speaker 1: it a four out of five clause, and that is

822
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 1: only because I don't think it's top ten, which would

823
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:30,360
Speaker 1: be five out of five, I would really really have

824
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:33,239
Speaker 1: to consider it putting in the top fifteen, which is

825
00:46:33,239 --> 00:46:35,560
Speaker 1: what I would consider that four point five at of

826
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 1: five rating. But overall, it gives me a lot of hope.

827
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:40,239
Speaker 1: I also think of what all had to go right

828
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 1: just to get that first Deadpole movie, and now it

829
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:45,719
Speaker 1: is a certified franchise, so it definitely just leads me

830
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 1: excited of all what's to come with the character, especially

831
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 1: now that he's with Wolverine. I do want to do

832
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:53,839
Speaker 1: a spoiler version of this review to talk about all

833
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:56,200
Speaker 1: the cameos, to talk about more of the plot points,

834
00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 1: So definitely be on the lookout on the fee for

835
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:00,360
Speaker 1: that review. But again I give it four out of

836
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 1: five clause.

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

838
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Speaker 1: We are more than halfway through the year, and if

839
00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:16,839
Speaker 1: I had to call out one specific genre for being

840
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:19,920
Speaker 1: the bright spot in twenty twenty four, I think it

841
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 1: would have to go to horror.

842
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:27,680
Speaker 3: Collectively, this year has been a little bit lackluster. It

843
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:30,960
Speaker 3: really wasn't until July this month that I felt we

844
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 3: had our first really good month for movies. Every movie

845
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:38,359
Speaker 3: I've rated so far this month has been a four

846
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 3: at least an average, which is great, and there have

847
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 3: been some bright spots throughout the year, like Challengers, Love

848
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 3: Lies Bleeding, which is on Max now if you haven't

849
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:51,879
Speaker 3: seen that movie yet, but I would say collectively they

850
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 3: have been few and far between.

851
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:56,480
Speaker 1: Hopefully going to shape up better towards the end of

852
00:47:56,520 --> 00:47:58,920
Speaker 1: the year. They did drop another trailer for The Joker.

853
00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:03,040
Speaker 1: Looks fantastic, but I've already covered that trailer before here

854
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:05,799
Speaker 1: on the podcast. So when it comes to just the

855
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 1: genre that I feel has been consistently good giving us

856
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:14,520
Speaker 1: unique original stories, it has to go to horror, and

857
00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 1: Neon has been one of the studios doing it the

858
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 1: best this year with Immaculate with Long Legs being what

859
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:23,400
Speaker 1: I would still consider to be the scariest movie of

860
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:25,839
Speaker 1: the year. And now they had this movie coming out

861
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:28,719
Speaker 1: with Hunter Shaffer called Cuckoo. I just like saying that

862
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:33,239
Speaker 1: name Cuckoo. And when people say that original movies don't

863
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:36,560
Speaker 1: get made, you're not looking hard enough. Just look at

864
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 1: Neon alone and what they have done in the horror

865
00:48:38,719 --> 00:48:42,439
Speaker 1: genre just in this year in twenty twenty four, they

866
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:46,839
Speaker 1: have been consistently putting out good original stories. Not all

867
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:50,840
Speaker 1: of them have been super groundbreaking, but just that studio

868
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 1: alone you can find original stories, not even mentioning a

869
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:57,400
Speaker 1: twenty four who also does great horror movies, but really

870
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:00,680
Speaker 1: can do any genre well, So original stories are getting made.

871
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:04,320
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty four just happens to be an unusually high

872
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 1: amount of reboots and sequels and franchises, but only one

873
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 1: Marvel movie, which you already covered. But this looks good

874
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:14,440
Speaker 1: with Hunter Schaeffer as the lead. I saw the trailer

875
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:16,400
Speaker 1: again when I went to go watch Long Legs, but

876
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 1: sometimes it takes seeing it on the big screen to

877
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:22,279
Speaker 1: really be able to appreciate the style of filmmaking that

878
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:25,439
Speaker 1: I feel. Cuckoo is going to lean into it very much,

879
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:29,239
Speaker 1: has this eighties horror vibe aesthetic even coming across in

880
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:32,760
Speaker 1: the soundtrack, And after watching this trailer, you really don't

881
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:35,880
Speaker 1: know exactly what the movie is about, even looking at

882
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:38,600
Speaker 1: the plot. Her character is a seventeen year old who

883
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:41,640
Speaker 1: reluctantly leaves America to live with her father at a

884
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:44,479
Speaker 1: resort in the German Alps. She starts hearing a bunch

885
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:48,440
Speaker 1: of strange noises, has these weird, bloody visions, leading her

886
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:51,680
Speaker 1: to discover this shocking secret that concerns her own family.

887
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:54,520
Speaker 1: This movie is coming out soon on August ninth. And

888
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 1: before we get into more, here's just a little bit

889
00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:00,920
Speaker 1: of the Cuckoo trailer. I would you like come on

890
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:08,960
Speaker 1: from meat there as one try with you. I wouldn't

891
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:10,359
Speaker 1: want to get a hoe even more?

892
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:14,759
Speaker 2: Why did you bring us here?

893
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:21,719
Speaker 1: Your family? How along? See that's a weird way to

894
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:25,880
Speaker 1: put it. You told the police that you were chased

895
00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 1: by a woman. They think I'm crazy. I feel like

896
00:50:32,719 --> 00:50:37,960
Speaker 1: Neon is bringing back really good production of trailers. Had

897
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:41,600
Speaker 1: the same feeling after watching the Long Legs trailer, not

898
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:44,920
Speaker 1: only the style of editing, but the sound design. Not

899
00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:48,320
Speaker 1: often do I play a trailer here on the podcast,

900
00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:52,319
Speaker 1: and it's so visually pleasing, but you hear all those

901
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:56,120
Speaker 1: little sounds in there. It creates that sense of urgency

902
00:50:56,239 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 1: that you want in a horror mystery, which is exactly

903
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:02,920
Speaker 1: what this movie is. The big scary part in this trailer,

904
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:05,719
Speaker 1: which probably will not even be the scariest part in

905
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 1: the entire movie, but there's a scene where Hunter Schaeffer

906
00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 1: leaves her shift. Looks like she is working the front

907
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 1: desk at a hotel or a resort, and she's riding

908
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:18,320
Speaker 1: her bike at night with these big headphones on, can't

909
00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:22,120
Speaker 1: hear anything. And there's this one shot in the trailer

910
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 1: where you see her shadow riding the bike and then

911
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:27,719
Speaker 1: you see the shadow of what appears to be a

912
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:32,000
Speaker 1: woman's hand going to grab her. Next scene is her

913
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:35,319
Speaker 1: being attacked by this mysterious woman who I can't really

914
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:37,719
Speaker 1: tell what is going on with her. I don't know

915
00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:40,439
Speaker 1: if she's a monster, if she's a ghost, if she's

916
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 1: a zombie. They make some references later about a certain

917
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 1: species needing help, so maybe it's some weird science experiment

918
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:52,640
Speaker 1: gone wrong and has turned these people into these horrific looking,

919
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 1: almost mutant like creatures who attack people. Because that's what

920
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:59,000
Speaker 1: happens in this scene. She gets attacked, ends up in

921
00:51:59,080 --> 00:52:03,120
Speaker 1: the hospital, has this big head bandage, this old school

922
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 1: looking brace, and is all bloody, bruised and broken, and

923
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:10,560
Speaker 1: it looks like that's gonna be the look for her

924
00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 1: character throughout the rest of this movie, which I feel

925
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:16,839
Speaker 1: is already a great costume and depending on how good

926
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:20,240
Speaker 1: this movie ends up being, could be the next iconic

927
00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:24,800
Speaker 1: look for a character. Which another really great thing that

928
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:29,239
Speaker 1: Cuckoo did with its promotional materials is they finally got

929
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:33,279
Speaker 1: character posters right, and maybe you've seen these on Instagram

930
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:37,839
Speaker 1: or Facebook. Usually when a big movie comes out, there's

931
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 1: usually the main movie poster, the one that gets printed everywhere,

932
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:45,080
Speaker 1: gets plastered up outside of the theater. That is the

933
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:48,480
Speaker 1: main one. But they also make these character posters with

934
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 1: every single actor, and usually that is the one that

935
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,120
Speaker 1: they post to their Instagram to show, Hey, I'm in

936
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:57,120
Speaker 1: this movie, I play this character. But I often have

937
00:52:57,320 --> 00:53:00,440
Speaker 1: a problem with these because they are so life and

938
00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:03,399
Speaker 1: tell you nothing about the movie. It almost feels more

939
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:06,320
Speaker 1: like a vanity thing of like, here's my character. But

940
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 1: I would not really be inspired by any of the

941
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:12,040
Speaker 1: previous character posters to go and want to watch these movies.

942
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:14,399
Speaker 1: One of the most recent examples is actually a movie

943
00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:17,239
Speaker 1: starring Hunter Schaefer, Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, the Hunger

944
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 1: Games prequel. They all had their character posters and it

945
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 1: was just a big mess because there's so many characters

946
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:26,200
Speaker 1: in that they really say nothing about that movie, which

947
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:28,239
Speaker 1: she was good in that movie. I feel like I

948
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:31,200
Speaker 1: would have been more interested to see a movie about

949
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:34,040
Speaker 1: her character in that than what that movie actually was.

950
00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:37,000
Speaker 1: But again, she's getting these pretty good roles But what

951
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:41,840
Speaker 1: Cuckoo did was make the character poster actually tell you

952
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:45,359
Speaker 1: something about the character. If you go and look at

953
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:48,319
Speaker 1: all the character posters for Cuckoo, it shows you these

954
00:53:48,440 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 1: characters in different situations that give you a little bit

955
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 1: of context of what is going on. People screaming Hunter

956
00:53:55,239 --> 00:53:58,960
Speaker 1: Schaeffer in the head bandage and looking all bloody, just

957
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:01,759
Speaker 1: creating some sense of Okay, these are gonna be the

958
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:04,440
Speaker 1: different types of people you're gonna have in this movie,

959
00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:08,960
Speaker 1: doing what a character poster should do, showing you their character.

960
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:13,120
Speaker 1: So I feel like more movies should follow suit and

961
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:16,880
Speaker 1: do that, especially when it comes to superhero movies that

962
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:20,560
Speaker 1: are probably the worst at making movie posters because you

963
00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:23,200
Speaker 1: always have the floating head cliche and that is the

964
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:26,400
Speaker 1: one that gets used everywhere. But when you think about

965
00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:31,320
Speaker 1: comic book movies, literally coming from one of the best

966
00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:34,319
Speaker 1: forms of art, the comic book, and we get these

967
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:39,000
Speaker 1: lifeless posters that tell you nothing. Step it up, everybody,

968
00:54:40,080 --> 00:54:42,360
Speaker 1: this is how you do it. So back to Cuckoo,

969
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:44,759
Speaker 1: it really doesn't look to me that it's going to

970
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:48,600
Speaker 1: be a full on horror movie. And I'm already sold

971
00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:50,920
Speaker 1: after watching this trailer. But I can tell that It's

972
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:53,360
Speaker 1: going to come down to the pacing of this movie

973
00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:56,640
Speaker 1: because in a two minute trailer it looks so slick,

974
00:54:56,800 --> 00:54:59,480
Speaker 1: it looks so compelling, But by watching it, I can

975
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:02,239
Speaker 1: also tell hell, it's really going to lead into the

976
00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:06,719
Speaker 1: absurdness of these characters, gonna be kind of a mind

977
00:55:06,760 --> 00:55:10,040
Speaker 1: trip for the viewer, which probably a lot more mystery

978
00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:13,640
Speaker 1: than horror. So with a runtime of an hour and

979
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:17,160
Speaker 1: forty three minutes, I hope that this movie is able

980
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:19,880
Speaker 1: to pack a punch. If Hunter Schaeffer is able to

981
00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:23,120
Speaker 1: really have success in this role, it could lead to

982
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:26,200
Speaker 1: her probably making that list that I was talking about

983
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:27,920
Speaker 1: just a couple of weeks ago of being one of

984
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:31,719
Speaker 1: the next big bankable A List stars. She obviously has

985
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:34,800
Speaker 1: the Euphoria fan base behind her, which is kind of

986
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:37,480
Speaker 1: a trend we are seeing here in young Hollywood. She

987
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:39,880
Speaker 1: did have a minor role in Kinds of Kindness, so

988
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:42,839
Speaker 1: it's really starting to establish a really good body of work.

989
00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:47,680
Speaker 1: So again, the movie is called Cuckoo and it is

990
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:49,160
Speaker 1: coming out on August ninth.

991
00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:53,960
Speaker 2: Head That Bar was next week's edition of Movie Mind Framer.

992
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Speaker 1: Bar and that is gonna do it for another episode

993
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Speaker 1: here of the podcast. But before I go. I gotta

994
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:01,960
Speaker 1: give my listeners shout out of the week. Posted a

995
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:05,279
Speaker 1: clip over on TikTok. Last week, Kelsey and I given

996
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 1: our review of Twisters. If you missed that review, just

997
00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:10,399
Speaker 1: go back one episode in the feed. If you want

998
00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:12,920
Speaker 1: to watch that review in its entirety, check out the

999
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Speaker 1: YouTube channel, YouTube dot com slash mikedistro always all the

1000
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Speaker 1: links on the episode notes of this podcast. This week's

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Speaker 1: listener shout Out of the Week goes to Tracy In,

1002
00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:27,040
Speaker 1: who commented on TikTok and said to me, Glenn Powell

1003
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Speaker 1: is the next Ryan Reynolds. I have not talked to

1004
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:33,160
Speaker 1: one person who doesn't like him. Thought that was an

1005
00:56:33,239 --> 00:56:36,440
Speaker 1: interesting comparison. In the review last week, I compared him

1006
00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:40,080
Speaker 1: to being part Matthew McConaughey, part Tom Cruise. And even

1007
00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:41,560
Speaker 1: if I was going to compare him to one of

1008
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:43,760
Speaker 1: the Ryans, I don't think I would go Ryan Reynolds.

1009
00:56:43,840 --> 00:56:48,080
Speaker 1: I think I would go Ryan Gosling obviously. Here, Tracy,

1010
00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:52,279
Speaker 1: I think you're attributing his good looks now being to

1011
00:56:52,440 --> 00:56:54,680
Speaker 1: that of Ryan Reynolds, probably in the twenty tens, where

1012
00:56:54,719 --> 00:56:58,480
Speaker 1: he probably the best looking actor of that decade, but

1013
00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:01,719
Speaker 1: right next to him, I agree is Ryan Gosling. And

1014
00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:04,040
Speaker 1: I think the reason I would compare him to Gostling

1015
00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:07,719
Speaker 1: over Reynolds is because I feel like Glenn Powell is

1016
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:10,239
Speaker 1: going to take the better roles and also going to

1017
00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:13,640
Speaker 1: have a little bit more of a diversity in his portfolio,

1018
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:15,440
Speaker 1: which it looks like they are going to make a

1019
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:19,479
Speaker 1: Top Gun three, being very secretive on how far along

1020
00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:21,760
Speaker 1: they are in that so I know it'll take a

1021
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:24,360
Speaker 1: lot for him to get to that Ryan Reynolds level,

1022
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:28,080
Speaker 1: but man, he is climbing. So thank you for that comment.

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Speaker 1: Tracy In you are this week's listener shout out of

1024
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Speaker 1: the week, And thanks to everybody in the movie crew

1025
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Speaker 1: for listening, being subscribed, checking out new episodes every single Monday,

1026
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Speaker 1: and telling a friend And until next time, go out

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