1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:04,080 Speaker 1: am your host Movie Mike, and today I want to 3 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 1: share with you my top ten most influential Disney films 4 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 1: of my childhood, the movies that left the biggest impression 5 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 1: on me change my life altogether. And that's because in 6 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:15,840 Speaker 1: the movie review we'll be talking about The Little Mermaid, 7 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:18,799 Speaker 1: which is a remake of the animated classic but live action. 8 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:20,920 Speaker 1: And if you listen to this podcast, you know how 9 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:22,960 Speaker 1: I feel about Disney Live Action right now. 10 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 2: And then in the. 11 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 1: Trailer park the first look at Killers of the Flower Moon, 12 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: which is already being described as Leonardo DiCaprio's best movie 13 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:33,920 Speaker 1: ever and I cannot wait. So thank you for being subscribed, 14 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 1: thank you for listening every single week. Shout out to 15 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 1: the Monday Morning Movie crew. 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This is Movie Mike Movie Podcast. 21 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:05,839 Speaker 1: My goal today is to take you on a trip 22 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:09,959 Speaker 1: down memory lane by way of all the Disney movies. 23 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,479 Speaker 2: That shaped and influenced my childhood. 24 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:15,160 Speaker 1: I was born in nineteen ninety one, so I'll be 25 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 1: looking at every movie release before then and up to 26 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:20,720 Speaker 1: two thousand and four, So everything from when I was 27 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 1: a baby to when I was thirteen years old is 28 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:25,919 Speaker 1: up for consideration. That's just the cutoff day I decided 29 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 1: to give myself, so anohing after two thousand and four 30 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:29,199 Speaker 1: will be on my list. 31 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:30,399 Speaker 2: So before I get into my. 32 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 1: Top ten, let's just talk about the history of Disney, 33 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:35,679 Speaker 1: which dates all the way back to the nineteen twenties. 34 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 1: They have these different eras, so much like Taylor Swift 35 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:40,679 Speaker 1: right now is making a big deal about eras, Disney 36 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 1: has had eras when it comes to their animated movies. 37 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:46,679 Speaker 1: Although my list will have both live action and animated movies. 38 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 1: So it goes back all the way to nineteen twenty eight, 39 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:51,720 Speaker 1: which is known as the Golden Age from twenty eight 40 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 1: to nineteen forty two. This is what started at all 41 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: Mickey Mouse in his infant stage at Steamboat Willie in 42 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 1: nineteen twenty eight. It also includes the first Disney princess ever, 43 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: snow White, and the seven Doors, which came out in 44 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 1: nineteen thirty seven. It was the first full length animated 45 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:08,519 Speaker 1: movie ever from Disney. And then, of course you have 46 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: Fantasia in nineteen forty, so this is really where Disney 47 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:14,359 Speaker 1: became Disney. After that, you had the Package Film's era 48 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 1: from nineteen forty three to nineteen forty nine. A lot 49 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 1: of these movies were impacted by World War II, so 50 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:24,040 Speaker 1: nothing really significant or noteworthy came out in this era. 51 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: That was followed up by the Silver Age from the 52 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 1: nineteen fifties to the early nineteen sixties. This is where 53 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: you got movies like Cinderella in nineteen fifty, Sleeping Beauty 54 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty nine, and the one hundred and one 55 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 1: Dalmations from nineteen sixty one. This is really where they 56 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 1: started to become known not just for their animation but 57 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:44,359 Speaker 1: for their storytelling, and they were really starting to push 58 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 1: the envelope on what hand drawn animation could be. But 59 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: after that Silver Age, you got hit with the Dark Age, 60 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 1: which is also known as the xerox era, where they 61 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: got a little bit lazy with their animation, so you 62 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 1: would start to notice a lot of reused characters, reuse background, 63 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:02,920 Speaker 1: and this era is always credited as Disney trying to 64 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 1: recapture their earlier era in falling Flat, but. 65 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:08,800 Speaker 2: You still had some bangers in this dark age. 66 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 1: You had The Aristocrats, The Fox and the Hound from 67 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one, and one of my top ten most 68 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 1: influential movies came out of this era, so I don't 69 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 1: think this era was terrible, but it was followed by 70 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:21,640 Speaker 1: the greatest era of all time, so it often just 71 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:24,640 Speaker 1: gets forgotten because after this, from nineteen eighty nine to 72 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine, you have the Renaissance era, which I 73 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:30,679 Speaker 1: also called the Golden Age of Disney, with movies like 74 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:33,240 Speaker 1: The Little Mermaid in nineteen eighty nine, Beauty and the 75 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 1: Beast in nineteen ninety one, The Lion King in ninety four, 76 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: and the last big hit of this era was. 77 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 2: Mulan in nineteen ninety eight. 78 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: This was it, This was Disney. Without this era, it 79 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 1: would be nothing like we know today. And some would 80 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: say they are still trying to recreate this Renaissance era 81 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: because after that you had the post Renaissance era from 82 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 1: two thousand to two thousand and eight. You had movies 83 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 1: like The Emperor's New Groove, Leelo and Stitch, The Princess 84 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 1: and the Frog, which was the last hand drawn two 85 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: D animated movie were released in theaters by Disney. So 86 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 1: it was almost like the end of my childhood whenever 87 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 1: they stopped doing two D animated movies. I just loved 88 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 1: the warmth of two D animation. I love the fact 89 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 1: that you had artists hand drawing every single frame and 90 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 1: every single movement. That is the magic of filmmaking to me. 91 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:19,159 Speaker 1: When it comes to Disney, I think it would be 92 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 1: so incredibly impactful if they put away all their animation 93 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 1: tools for a second and made a film that went 94 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:27,960 Speaker 1: back to the basics of hand drawing everything. 95 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:30,159 Speaker 2: I think that would be a really noteworthy film to 96 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:30,600 Speaker 2: be made. 97 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 1: In the twenty twenties, after the post Renaissance era, you 98 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:36,360 Speaker 1: had the Revival era, which kicked off in two thousand 99 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:38,480 Speaker 1: and nine. This is where you had a bunch of 100 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 1: big ones like Frozen in twenty thirteen, Mwana in twenty sixteen, 101 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:44,719 Speaker 1: z Utopia in twenty sixteen. It was the first time 102 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 1: we really had memorable Disney movies since that Golden age. 103 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 1: I would say we are in the remake era of 104 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 1: Disney now because everything from the Renaissance era and previous 105 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 1: of that is being remade now, and it's also a 106 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: lot of retellings of other stories throughout Disney, So I 107 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 1: feel like we are very much in that remake era, 108 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 1: and I'm not the biggest fan of it, but we'll 109 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 1: get into that more later. 110 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 2: When talking about The Little Mermaid. 111 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:11,039 Speaker 1: So now I want to kick off this list my 112 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:14,840 Speaker 1: top ten most influential films of my childhood. These are 113 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 1: the movies that shape me, that influence my imagination, my 114 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:22,600 Speaker 1: love of Disney, my humor, or just had some kind 115 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:25,039 Speaker 1: of an impact on my life. So kicking off the 116 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:28,480 Speaker 1: list at number ten is The Hunchback of Notre Dame 117 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:32,840 Speaker 1: from nineteen ninety six. It's the story of Quasimoto. He's 118 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:36,359 Speaker 1: trying to assert his independence from this vicious government minister 119 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:39,720 Speaker 1: while trying to help out his friend and love interest 120 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 1: as Morelda. The influence that The Hunchback had on me 121 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:45,480 Speaker 1: as a kid, it was the first film to expose 122 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 1: me to what the friend zone is, because Quasimoto does 123 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:51,040 Speaker 1: not end up with als Morelda as much as he 124 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:53,840 Speaker 1: fights for her and gets her out of a bad 125 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 1: situation and becomes the hero of this movie, one of 126 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:01,159 Speaker 1: the most unlikely heroes in all of Disney, because of 127 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: the perception of him, because of the way that he looks, 128 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:07,039 Speaker 1: because where he lives, because his friends are gargoyles, and 129 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 1: he is seen as a ghoul, as this person who 130 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 1: should not see the light of day. That is how 131 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 1: I felt as a kid, and that is how I 132 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: felt in my young adult life trying to get girls 133 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 1: to like me, and seeing this movie made me realize 134 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 1: that the hero, the good guy, doesn't always end up 135 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 1: with the girl. And this was also a heavier plot 136 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 1: for a kid's movie adapted from the old school story 137 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:33,200 Speaker 1: of Quasimoti, which is a lot darker, a lot more 138 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:35,839 Speaker 1: people die in the original story. But it also showed 139 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:39,160 Speaker 1: me that Disney has come a long way as far 140 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 1: as the subject matter. Disney movies used to get really dark. 141 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:45,280 Speaker 1: It used to be a lot about death and despair 142 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:49,040 Speaker 1: and about evil villains that really were just sick and 143 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 1: awful for no reason. And I feel like they've gotten 144 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:54,040 Speaker 1: away from that a little bit. I feel like Disney 145 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 1: movies now are just so focused on making you feel 146 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:59,600 Speaker 1: good by the time you leave, But I feel like 147 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:02,040 Speaker 1: they used to deal with a lot of real issues 148 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:03,920 Speaker 1: that used to matter to kids and even if we 149 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 1: didn't understand them at the time, we actually learned lessons 150 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:10,680 Speaker 1: from them that we use later in life. So I 151 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 1: feel like we need to test people a little bit 152 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 1: more in Disney movies and not just be big, bright 153 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 1: and shiny things that just make you feel good, because 154 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 1: that is life. Life is not always going to end 155 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 1: happily every time. This movie was also highly influential on 156 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 1: my childhood because I remember wanting to collect all of 157 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 1: the toys from Burger King, and that was such a 158 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 1: big deal back in the day, whether it be Burger 159 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:35,559 Speaker 1: King or whether it be McDonald's. Whenever an animated movie 160 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 1: came out, I had to have the fast food toys, 161 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 1: and as a kid, I was a Burger King kid 162 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 1: over a McDonald's kid. I feel like they had the 163 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 1: better toys over McDonald's because their movie tie ins were 164 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 1: so much better. And I remember wanting to collect specifically 165 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 1: all of the Hunchback of Notre Dame toys because I 166 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 1: loved Quasimoto. So that's why I put this movie at 167 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:59,240 Speaker 1: number ten. Moving on to number nine, I have blank 168 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 1: Check from Nighteeen ninety four. This story is about Preston Waters, 169 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 1: who is a twelve year old kid who ends up 170 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 1: getting a check worth a million dollars and then does 171 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: what you would imagine any twelve year old with that 172 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 1: much money would do with it. Buys a bunch of 173 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 1: crazy stuff, gets a house, gets every toy you can imagine, 174 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 1: buys a big old trash can full of ice cream, 175 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 1: and goes on every fun adventure that you can imagine 176 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 1: if you had the same amount of money when you 177 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 1: were twelve years old. Why this movie was influential to 178 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:29,400 Speaker 1: me is because it taught me at an early age 179 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 1: then a million dollars really isn't that much money, because 180 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:36,960 Speaker 1: Preston goes through this cash fairly quickly, and you see 181 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 1: what it's like to be rich, but not only that, 182 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 1: you see what it's like to have that all taken 183 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:44,559 Speaker 1: away from you, because that's what happens to Preston, And 184 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 1: like me and everybody else who watched this movie back 185 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:51,760 Speaker 1: in the nineties, Preston portrayed the average kid. Doesn't have 186 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 1: a whole lot of friends, has an older brother who 187 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 1: doesn't really let him do anything fun. His dad is 188 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 1: not the warmest guy, so he just wants to change 189 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 1: his life, and after getting a million dollars, he is 190 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 1: able to do that, but what he finds is money 191 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 1: doesn't really buy you happiness. There's a scene in this 192 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:12,839 Speaker 1: movie specifically that resonates with me that I feel now 193 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:16,320 Speaker 1: deeply as an adult. He's sitting there in this play 194 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 1: boxing green with these big old boxing gloves, and he's 195 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: so sad because he really has no one to experience 196 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 1: this with. So this movie teaches you a lot about 197 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 1: money and also how the people around you change when 198 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 1: there is money involved. How everybody wants to be his 199 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 1: friend when they think he's a millionaire or at least 200 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:36,720 Speaker 1: working for a millionaire, which is what he plays it 201 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 1: off to be. But as soon as that money dries up, 202 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:43,680 Speaker 1: everybody leaves. So maybe this movie at an early age 203 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: instills this kind of anxiety when it comes to money 204 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:49,720 Speaker 1: with me and feeling that in a mere second we 205 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:52,440 Speaker 1: could all be broke again. So what a lesson that 206 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:55,200 Speaker 1: teaches as kids. But also this movie could not be 207 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:58,560 Speaker 1: made today because his love interest is the secret FBI 208 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 1: agent who is well into twenties, maybe even thirties, and 209 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:04,680 Speaker 1: they have a kiss. He straight up kisses this agent 210 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:07,720 Speaker 1: on the lips. That is a felony. I didn't realize 211 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:09,439 Speaker 1: it at the time in the nineties as a kid 212 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 1: watching this how weird that was, but still on Disney. 213 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:14,960 Speaker 1: Plus they still have the kissing scene in there, so 214 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:17,959 Speaker 1: that's a little bit sus But still at number nine 215 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:21,200 Speaker 1: is blank Check from nineteen ninety four. At number eight 216 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:25,920 Speaker 1: from nineteen eighty eight, I have Oliver in Company, which 217 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 1: is a reimagination of Oliver Twist, but instead of a kid, 218 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 1: you have an orphaned cat who ends up being taken 219 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:36,439 Speaker 1: in by a gang of thieving dogs in New York City. 220 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 1: This movie was influential on me because it was the 221 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:42,959 Speaker 1: first movie I watched that made it feel like New 222 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:45,520 Speaker 1: York City would be a dream that if I ever 223 00:10:45,559 --> 00:10:47,960 Speaker 1: made it to New York City, I truly made it 224 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 1: in life. And once I finally got to go to 225 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 1: New York City in my twenties, I remember it vividly 226 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 1: walking onto Times Square for the first time, and I 227 00:10:56,200 --> 00:11:00,200 Speaker 1: remember having this feeling like somebody took fish hooks and 228 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:02,040 Speaker 1: put them on either side of my mouth and just 229 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: pulled it because this big smile just went across my 230 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:08,079 Speaker 1: face and would not leave because I was so excited 231 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 1: to be in New York City. And Oliver and Company 232 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:12,959 Speaker 1: was the first movie that made me feel like that 233 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:14,559 Speaker 1: was the destination for me to go. 234 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:16,400 Speaker 2: It also made me love cats. 235 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:18,719 Speaker 1: I've always been a cat person ever since I was 236 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:21,440 Speaker 1: a kid, because growing up in a trailer park, I 237 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:24,840 Speaker 1: would always befriend all of the stray cats that came 238 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:27,840 Speaker 1: around our trailer and I learned, once you take care 239 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:30,360 Speaker 1: of one stray cat in a trailer park, you are 240 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:33,520 Speaker 1: now taking care of every stray cat in that trailer park. 241 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 2: I remember a. 242 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:36,960 Speaker 1: Rotation of at least five or six straight cats would 243 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 1: always come over to our lot, and I would feed them, 244 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 1: I would play with them. I have old polaroid pictures 245 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:45,800 Speaker 1: of me would just random cats all the time. And 246 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:48,640 Speaker 1: I credit that to the opening of Oliver and Company, 247 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:51,319 Speaker 1: where you have all these cats getting adopted one by one. 248 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:53,560 Speaker 1: You see them all taken out of this cardboard box. 249 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:57,360 Speaker 1: But there left at the very end is Oliver all 250 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 1: sat and alone, crying with no one else to play with. 251 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 1: And then the rain comes and the cardboard box just 252 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 1: gets demolished and soaked and dissipates into the sewer, and 253 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:14,320 Speaker 1: poor Oliver is just looking for a family. And I 254 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 1: thought to myself, I am never gonna let a cat 255 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:19,160 Speaker 1: have that life, so I took in every cat I 256 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 1: saw in that trailer park, and then eventually, once we 257 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:23,440 Speaker 1: moved out of the trailer park into a house, we 258 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:26,320 Speaker 1: adopted two cats, Dedee and Pepper, and they were my 259 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 1: best friends all throughout high school. 260 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:29,720 Speaker 2: But not only that. 261 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 1: Even though this movie came out in the Xerox era, 262 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 1: which was viewed as not being such a great era, 263 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 1: I still find that this animation style is so enticing 264 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:42,680 Speaker 1: to me. The movie had a stellar soundtrack, with Billy 265 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 1: Joel not only being the voice of Dodger, who is 266 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 1: the main dog in this movie, but also doing a 267 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:50,480 Speaker 1: lot of the songs. And there are so many jams 268 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:53,320 Speaker 1: in Oliver and Company like why would I will ray? 269 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:57,040 Speaker 1: Why would I kt like? Just so many good songs. 270 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:00,840 Speaker 1: Probably doesn't even need to go this hard on this soundtrack, 271 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 1: but it does. 272 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:04,959 Speaker 2: And the movie is also only an hour and fourteen minutes. 273 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 1: Which is also probably due to the fact that it 274 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 1: was made in the Xerox era and they were trying 275 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:11,760 Speaker 1: to make movies on the cheaper side. 276 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 2: That didn't affect me. I love this movie. 277 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:16,840 Speaker 1: So at number eight is Oliver and Company at number 278 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:20,080 Speaker 1: seven from nineteen ninety four. I have Angels in the 279 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 1: Outfield a story about a kid named Roger played by 280 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:26,640 Speaker 1: Joseph Gordon Levitt, who really just wants his dad in 281 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:29,080 Speaker 1: his life and just wants to be a family, but 282 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 1: his deadbeat dad says, well, we can be a family 283 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:34,560 Speaker 1: again when the Angels win the Pennant, thinking that the 284 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 1: Angels would never win the Pennant, but then real life 285 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 1: Angels get assigned to the California Angels baseball team and 286 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:45,680 Speaker 1: changes their season, takes a laughingstock team all the way 287 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 1: to the top. And this movie just embodies the nineties 288 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:53,040 Speaker 1: where sports fantasies ran rampant. You had air buds flying 289 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:55,640 Speaker 1: out of every corner, so the genre was. 290 00:13:55,679 --> 00:13:56,520 Speaker 2: All the rage. 291 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 1: But also baseball movies in the nineties were so great. 292 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:02,640 Speaker 1: But I still think that Angels in the Outfield is 293 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 1: the best to do it. This movie was influential on 294 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 1: me because, growing up as a kid who didn't have 295 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:12,320 Speaker 1: a whole lot, I identified a lot with Roger and 296 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 1: JP from when this movie first started and they're hiding 297 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 1: out in this tree to be able to watch a 298 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 1: baseball game for free. But it also taught me at 299 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:23,920 Speaker 1: an early age that not everybody comes from the same 300 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 1: background when it comes to family. It taught me about 301 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:29,320 Speaker 1: the foster care system. You have these two kids living 302 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 1: with their foster mom, Maggie, and this was the first 303 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:34,160 Speaker 1: time I really got a glimpse into what that kind 304 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 1: of life was like. So then every time I encountered 305 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:39,680 Speaker 1: someone else in my life who was in or had 306 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:42,400 Speaker 1: been in foster care, it wasn't foreign to me. So 307 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:46,040 Speaker 1: at number seven is Angels in the Outfield. At number 308 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 1: six I Have A Bugs Life from nineteen ninety eight. 309 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:51,880 Speaker 1: It is the story of a misfit aunt who goes 310 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:54,360 Speaker 1: out on a mission to find some warriors to stop 311 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 1: the greedy grasshoppers. What this movie taught me as a 312 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:00,080 Speaker 1: kid is that it's okay to be different those some 313 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:01,840 Speaker 1: people who are different are going to be. 314 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:03,760 Speaker 2: The ones to go on and change the. 315 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 1: World, because that is what Flick experiences in A Bugs Life. 316 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:11,880 Speaker 1: He is trying to adapt and use technology to make 317 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:14,960 Speaker 1: their life better, and he doesn't have it down completely right, 318 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:18,920 Speaker 1: but it's his innovation and want to make their lives 319 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 1: better and more advanced that leads to them being successful, 320 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:25,600 Speaker 1: That leads to them being able to take out the grasshoppers, 321 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 1: and leads to them being able to provide for themselves. 322 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 1: And I think this is a movie we could even 323 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 1: learn from today, with you know, AI becoming a thing 324 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 1: that everybody's talking about and everybody being afraid about. While yes, 325 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 1: there are some dangers that seem to come with AI, 326 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 1: but I think if you used correctly, much like it 327 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:45,800 Speaker 1: did for Flick, it could change our lives for the better. 328 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 2: We just got to know how to. 329 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 1: Use it and not be so afraid about everything all 330 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:52,920 Speaker 1: the time when it changes how we normally do things. 331 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:54,720 Speaker 1: So I just want to go on the record, I, 332 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:57,680 Speaker 1: for one, welcome AI when they completely take over all 333 00:15:57,680 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 1: of our lives and you just have a robot doing 334 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:02,200 Speaker 1: this podcast for you. But at number six, I have 335 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 1: a bugs life getting into. 336 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 2: My top five. I have at number five. 337 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:10,360 Speaker 1: Heavyweights from nineteen ninety five, a lot of fives in that. 338 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 1: But this movie is about overweight kids who go to 339 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:18,360 Speaker 1: a camp with the promise of losing weight, and it's 340 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:21,280 Speaker 1: viewed as a positive thing. It's run by this really 341 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:24,680 Speaker 1: great couple who takes in these kids and does what's 342 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:27,280 Speaker 1: best for them, so tries to make it fun without 343 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:30,160 Speaker 1: the emphasis being on just them there to lose weight. 344 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 1: That quickly changes when they are no longer the owners 345 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 1: of the camp, and instead it's this Tony Perkins who 346 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 1: wants to make this camp a total living nightmare for 347 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:43,440 Speaker 1: them in order to be able to sell an infomercial. 348 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:46,640 Speaker 1: And why this movie was influential on me is because, 349 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:49,080 Speaker 1: for the first time, in a Disney movie, or really 350 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 1: any other movie, I saw kids that looked like me. 351 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:53,680 Speaker 2: Growing up my entire. 352 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 1: Life, I was overweight as a kid. My earliest memories 353 00:16:56,960 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 1: are just me being overweight and not looking like all 354 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:02,560 Speaker 1: the other kids, and all of the struggles that come 355 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:05,640 Speaker 1: along with that, from trying to find clothes that fit 356 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:09,440 Speaker 1: as a kid, from being teased at in school, from 357 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 1: not wanting to eat certain foods that other kids are 358 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:14,480 Speaker 1: enjoying because I feel like everybody is looking at me 359 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:16,920 Speaker 1: while I eat them. And it was just my biggest 360 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:20,920 Speaker 1: insecurity and living inside that body for so many years, 361 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:23,960 Speaker 1: I just never really felt comfortable in my own skin. 362 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:27,400 Speaker 1: But then you have this movie Heavyweights that completely flips 363 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:31,119 Speaker 1: the script and suddenly all the overweight kids like me 364 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:35,879 Speaker 1: are the cool kids because they are all amongst themselves 365 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:39,119 Speaker 1: and nobody feels insecure. And in an era in the 366 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:42,359 Speaker 1: nineties where I felt like it was only good looking 367 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:44,959 Speaker 1: kids that could also be in movies like this, and 368 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:47,359 Speaker 1: this was the first time where I just thought, hey, 369 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 1: I could be in a Disney movie someday. But this 370 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:52,960 Speaker 1: movie was also highly influential on my humor because if 371 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:55,600 Speaker 1: you actually look at the script for Heavyweights, it is 372 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:58,160 Speaker 1: really well written. There some really great jokes in there, 373 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:01,080 Speaker 1: some that probably went over my head as a kid. 374 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:03,680 Speaker 1: So even rewatching this movie as an adult, I can 375 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 1: still enjoy it and still laugh at it. So at 376 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:10,159 Speaker 1: number five, I have Heavyweights. At number four, I have 377 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:14,920 Speaker 1: the og Pixar movie from nineteen ninety five, Toy Story. 378 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 1: This movie was probably the biggest influence on my imagination 379 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:22,800 Speaker 1: and it came at my height of love of toys. 380 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:24,960 Speaker 1: And I know I'm biased in saying this because I 381 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:27,160 Speaker 1: was born in the nineties grew up in the nineties, 382 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:30,359 Speaker 1: but nineties toys were the best. And as I was 383 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:34,240 Speaker 1: saying earlier, I always loved the toys that came from 384 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:36,560 Speaker 1: a movie tie in, and now you had a movie 385 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:39,000 Speaker 1: that was about toys. So I feel like Toy Story 386 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:41,680 Speaker 1: also had the best toys, and it was my dream 387 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:44,159 Speaker 1: as a kid to have my very own buzz light 388 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:46,919 Speaker 1: Year I never got it because I couldn't afford it, 389 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:49,840 Speaker 1: but man, how badly I wanted a buzz light Year. 390 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:52,879 Speaker 1: I think maybe I had the fast food version of 391 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:55,440 Speaker 1: buzz light Year, but I just wanted that big, true, 392 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:58,439 Speaker 1: de sized buzz light Year that Andy had in this movie. 393 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:01,600 Speaker 1: And the other influence that this movie had early on 394 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:06,200 Speaker 1: was it became the first animated movie that was beloved 395 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:08,600 Speaker 1: by everybody. So it feels like all the other Disney 396 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:11,879 Speaker 1: movies were always just made directly for kids, but now 397 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:14,600 Speaker 1: with Toy Story, you had a movie that kids loved, 398 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:17,679 Speaker 1: but it could also be enjoyed by adults, because I 399 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 1: remember my entire family loved this movie. My brother and 400 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:24,200 Speaker 1: sister are seven to nine years older than me. They 401 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:26,119 Speaker 1: love Toy Story when it came out in the nineties. 402 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:29,440 Speaker 1: But also my mom, who probably hated all the animated 403 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 1: movies I watch, she also loved and still loves Toy Story. 404 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 1: And I feel like this was the start of Pixar, 405 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 1: but also the start of animated franchises, which we had 406 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:43,520 Speaker 1: never really seen before in Disney because they rarely made sequels, 407 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 1: and when they did make sequels, they were always straight 408 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:49,520 Speaker 1: to video sequels, So you know, Aladdin, like the second 409 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 1: part was just straight VHS Lion King. They had a 410 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:55,720 Speaker 1: part two, but it was straight VHS now with Toy Story. 411 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:59,720 Speaker 1: The sequels were also major film releases. So for that reason, 412 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:03,359 Speaker 1: I have Toy Story at number four. At number three 413 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 1: from two thousand and two, I have Lelo and Stitch. 414 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:10,240 Speaker 1: This came at a point in my life where I 415 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:13,680 Speaker 1: needed a story about a misfit like Stitch. In two 416 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 1: thousand and two, I was eleven years old and much 417 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:20,280 Speaker 1: like Experiment six to six aka Stitch, I felt like 418 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:22,919 Speaker 1: an alien. And what Leelo and Stitch brought to the 419 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:27,280 Speaker 1: table was the story about this lovable, mischievous creature who 420 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:30,919 Speaker 1: was so misunderstood, didn't have a family or home to 421 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:34,240 Speaker 1: call his own, and ends up on earth in Hawaii, 422 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:37,199 Speaker 1: and through all the craziness that is going on in 423 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 1: his brain that only comes out through emotions of rage 424 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:44,879 Speaker 1: and destruction, he is able to find a friend in Leelo, 425 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:49,320 Speaker 1: who adopts him, takes him in, and much like him, 426 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:52,280 Speaker 1: is also a misfit herself. She doesn't have any friends 427 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 1: at school, her parents are no longer alive, and she 428 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:57,480 Speaker 1: is living with their sister, who now has to be 429 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:00,639 Speaker 1: a mother figure, and that has been a strain on 430 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:04,439 Speaker 1: their relationship. They can't just be sisters anymore because she 431 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:08,119 Speaker 1: has to be now her mom. So coming from similar backgrounds, 432 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:10,800 Speaker 1: they are able to come together and be friends even 433 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:13,480 Speaker 1: though it's rough, and that is what I love about 434 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 1: Leelo and Stitch. It highlights, yes, the importance of love, 435 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 1: but also understanding and forgiveness, family acceptance, and finding one's. 436 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:23,720 Speaker 2: Place in the world. 437 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 1: It also showed me as a kid that family doesn't 438 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:31,119 Speaker 1: have to look a specific way. Not everybody's family is 439 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:34,320 Speaker 1: going to be mom, dad, brothers and sisters. It doesn't 440 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:36,800 Speaker 1: have to look textbook like it does in every other 441 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 1: Disney movie, and that point is best represented in this 442 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:42,760 Speaker 1: movie where Stitch has his most emotional moment out of 443 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:43,960 Speaker 1: the entire film. 444 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 4: This is my family. I've found its all on my own. 445 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:54,680 Speaker 4: It's little on Brooks, but still goods. Yeah, still goods. 446 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 1: I've also seen the movie so much that I am 447 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 1: now able to do that impression. So it's influenced my 448 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:04,639 Speaker 1: life and someday I would love to get into voice acting. 449 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:08,359 Speaker 1: So at number three is Leelo and Stitch. At number two, 450 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:12,399 Speaker 1: I have The Lion King from nineteen ninety four, the 451 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:16,439 Speaker 1: movie that emotionally wrecked me as a kid. This movie 452 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:19,880 Speaker 1: was highly influential on all of our lives, teaching us 453 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 1: about death. 454 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:22,080 Speaker 2: But the way that it was. 455 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 1: Handled in The Lion King was probably the best that 456 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:29,800 Speaker 1: Disney could do it, because, unlike in Bambi, there was 457 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:33,119 Speaker 1: actually a lesson to be told here. Bambi was just 458 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:35,760 Speaker 1: brutal and violent for no reason. There was no reason 459 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:38,639 Speaker 1: for Bambi's mom to be killed in that movie, and 460 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,760 Speaker 1: it just so jarring and unexpected that it really provides 461 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:45,080 Speaker 1: no lesson other than someday the people you love can 462 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:47,879 Speaker 1: just be easily taken away from you for no reason. 463 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:52,040 Speaker 1: Through the entire story of Simba and him losing his father, 464 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:55,879 Speaker 1: you learn about how to cope with death. But this 465 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,960 Speaker 1: movie also made me fall in love with a hand 466 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,120 Speaker 1: drawn animated style. And if it wouldn't have been for 467 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 1: The Lion King in ninety four, the Renaissance era wouldn't 468 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,480 Speaker 1: have had that real defining factor. 469 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:10,200 Speaker 2: This is the defining. 470 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 1: Movie of the Golden Age, and it showed that, combined 471 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:18,000 Speaker 1: with that animation and combined with the storytelling in this movie, 472 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:19,640 Speaker 1: that an animated. 473 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 2: Movie can have a lot of depth. 474 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:23,680 Speaker 1: I feel like This was the movie that really made 475 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 1: it feel like Disney movies were not just cartoons but 476 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:30,480 Speaker 1: real animated stories. So at number two, I have The 477 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 1: Lion King. But at number one, my most influential Disney 478 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:37,440 Speaker 1: film of my childhood goes to a movie from nineteen 479 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 1: ninety five called a Goofy Movie. The choke hold that 480 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:45,560 Speaker 1: this movie had on my childhood is unmatched. I watched 481 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:48,639 Speaker 1: this movie more and more than any other Disney movie 482 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,560 Speaker 1: because I just loved the story, and I think at 483 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:53,360 Speaker 1: the time when this movie came out in ninety five, 484 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 1: I was four years old and I just thought it 485 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:58,560 Speaker 1: was a fun different movie. I loved the soundtrack, and 486 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:01,280 Speaker 1: up to this point, I had never really seeing Goofy 487 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:04,840 Speaker 1: on this big of a stage in a full theatrical release, 488 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:08,399 Speaker 1: which this movie was supposed to go straight to video. 489 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:10,800 Speaker 1: So even the fact that this movie was released on 490 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,639 Speaker 1: this scale is kind of like an underdog story. So 491 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:15,879 Speaker 1: when I first watched it, I just thought it was funny. 492 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 1: I thought it was hilarious. I love the animation style. 493 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 1: It really encompasses everything about the nineties, from the fashion, 494 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 1: from the music, from the humor, and the thing I 495 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:30,640 Speaker 1: appreciated as I revisited this movie more and more throughout 496 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 1: my childhood and even now as an adult, I feel 497 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,800 Speaker 1: like it is the perfect coming of age story from Disney. 498 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 1: It's about Max, who is just a kid trying to 499 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:41,720 Speaker 1: be cool, trying to fit in, trying to get the girl, 500 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 1: and I think we could all probably relate to that 501 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:47,159 Speaker 1: growing up, just trying to find your place, and that 502 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:50,119 Speaker 1: was something I really identified with growing up that I 503 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:52,600 Speaker 1: always felt like the odd kid. I felt like I 504 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:56,240 Speaker 1: didn't have a lot of friends, and if people just 505 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:59,040 Speaker 1: gave me a chance to see how cool I really was, 506 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:00,719 Speaker 1: or at least that I thought I thought I was, 507 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:03,399 Speaker 1: that I would be the most popular kid in school, 508 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 1: much like Max. So you have that aspect of the 509 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 1: coming of age story. But I think at the core 510 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:11,760 Speaker 1: of this movie, it's about the relationship with your parents. 511 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 1: In this case, it is the story of father and son, 512 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:18,160 Speaker 1: where really the message behind this movie all comes down 513 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 1: to its tagline, It's hard to be cool when your 514 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 1: dad is goofy, because you have Goofy just trying to 515 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:28,040 Speaker 1: form a relationship with his teenage son when all he 516 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:30,639 Speaker 1: wants to do is listen to music, hang out in 517 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 1: his room, and hang out with his friends. He feels 518 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:35,639 Speaker 1: like he is losing his son, so his idea is 519 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:38,000 Speaker 1: to go on this big fishing trip much like they 520 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 1: did when he was younger, and gain back the little Max, 521 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:45,120 Speaker 1: his little boy, his little pride and joy. So that 522 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:47,840 Speaker 1: was a big influence on me. But even above that, 523 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 1: I think it comes back to the humor and this 524 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,679 Speaker 1: was the first movie that really made me love and 525 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:57,600 Speaker 1: respect movie quotes. This film has so many memorable lines 526 00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:59,120 Speaker 1: that I still quote to this day. 527 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 2: It also has two of my favorite Disney. 528 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:04,000 Speaker 1: Songs of all time, eye to Eye and stand Out 529 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 1: from the Greatest fictional pop Star of all time, power Line. 530 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:09,480 Speaker 2: And if there was only one. 531 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 1: Movie from this list I could show my future kids, 532 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 1: it would be this one. So my number one most 533 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:19,880 Speaker 1: influential film from Disney of my childhood is a goofy movie. 534 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:27,359 Speaker 2: Well well, well, if it isn't another Disney live action remake. 535 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:31,400 Speaker 1: I believe to my core that Disney live action remakes 536 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:33,919 Speaker 1: are a waste of time, And going into this movie, 537 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 1: I did not want to like it. I was coming 538 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:40,240 Speaker 1: off of being burned by Pinocchio, Peter Pan and Wendy 539 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 1: Even I'll go back further. Moulan all these movies were 540 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 1: a waste of my time because they were all movies 541 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:47,720 Speaker 1: that I loved as a kid, that we all loved 542 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 1: as kids, and it just felt like a cash grab 543 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,480 Speaker 1: to me, Hey, let's just remake those same movies, throw 544 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:56,160 Speaker 1: in some live action, throw in some cheap visual effects, 545 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:58,719 Speaker 1: and call it a remake. What I feel like it 546 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 1: takes the magic out of what makes those movies great. 547 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:03,920 Speaker 1: And if I were watching those movies for the very 548 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 1: first time as a kid, I don't feel like you 549 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 1: would be as inspired. So they dug back into the 550 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,760 Speaker 1: archive found the movie that everybody loves, the Little Mermaid, 551 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:16,480 Speaker 1: and The Little Mermaid to me, isn't one of my favorites. 552 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:18,400 Speaker 1: In the segment earlier where I did my top ten 553 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:22,680 Speaker 1: influential films from Disney, I didn't put Little Mermaid on there. 554 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:23,439 Speaker 2: It didn't really. 555 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:24,920 Speaker 1: Speak to me as a kid. I also didn't put 556 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:28,080 Speaker 1: Aladdin on there. Those movies were two great that a 557 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:31,200 Speaker 1: lot of people enjoyed. There just wasn't anything about their 558 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,960 Speaker 1: story that resonated with me. So going into this one, 559 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:37,520 Speaker 1: I decided not to rewatch The Little Mermaid because I 560 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:39,680 Speaker 1: made that mistake before going into a remake. 561 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:41,200 Speaker 2: I wanted to watch that and then. 562 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:44,919 Speaker 1: Judge it based on the original movie, but they just 563 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,200 Speaker 1: end up making the exact same movie, and I didn't 564 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:48,800 Speaker 1: want to watch the same movie twice and when it's 565 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:50,760 Speaker 1: not my favorite movie. So that is where I'm coming 566 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,520 Speaker 1: at you with this review. I did not want to 567 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,080 Speaker 1: like this movie, but I think it's hard to deny 568 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,640 Speaker 1: the magic of the Little Mermaid. 569 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 2: Because at its core, it's a really good story. 570 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:04,879 Speaker 1: And going into this I do enjoy the soundtrack, have 571 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,280 Speaker 1: some gams on there, and I feel like there are 572 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:10,720 Speaker 1: things in this movie that benefited from live action but 573 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,440 Speaker 1: also that heard it. But when you outweigh the two, 574 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,720 Speaker 1: there were a lot more benefits. But let's get into 575 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:18,639 Speaker 1: what we all know that this movie is about. It 576 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:22,960 Speaker 1: follows the original story pretty much the entire thing. You 577 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:25,399 Speaker 1: got a young mermaid named Ariel. She is the youngest 578 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:29,400 Speaker 1: daughter of King Triton. She is infatuated with everything that's 579 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:32,919 Speaker 1: going on above her outside of the ocean and obsessed 580 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:36,800 Speaker 1: with humans, and King Triton is trying to get her 581 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:40,360 Speaker 1: to stop talking about humans, stop exploring these waters, and 582 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,400 Speaker 1: just leave them alone, but all she wants to do 583 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:46,680 Speaker 1: is be a part of their world. Go up there 584 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:50,320 Speaker 1: and experience what it's like to be outside of the ocean. 585 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 1: So she makes a deal with the evil Ursula, who 586 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,800 Speaker 1: takes away her voice, gives her legs, and allows her 587 00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:59,640 Speaker 1: to go find this Prince Eric, who she had rescued 588 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:02,040 Speaker 1: early on in the movie. But of course, because of 589 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:04,480 Speaker 1: the Disney movie, they have to throw in the twist there. 590 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,200 Speaker 1: She only has three days to get a kiss from 591 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,840 Speaker 1: Prince Eric, and it has to come from true love, 592 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,720 Speaker 1: otherwise she'll turn right back into a mermaid and then 593 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,240 Speaker 1: be the sole property of Ursula. 594 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:16,680 Speaker 2: Now. 595 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:18,840 Speaker 1: The thing I really wanted to judge this movie on 596 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,920 Speaker 1: was the look of it. I just watched Peter Pain 597 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 1: and Wendy and that movie look Disney plus quality. 598 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,920 Speaker 2: It looked like a bunch of cheap visual effects. 599 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,800 Speaker 1: So I wanted to feel inside this movie and get 600 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,920 Speaker 1: the feeling that, Okay, this actually deserves the big screen. 601 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,680 Speaker 1: And the underwater world was pretty magical, But I think 602 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,800 Speaker 1: what really won me over visually was everything that happened 603 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,200 Speaker 1: at sea on the ships. I thought that looked really great. 604 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,600 Speaker 1: It reminded me of Pirate of the Caribbean, so I 605 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:50,520 Speaker 1: thought that was a great opening sequence. Whenever the boat 606 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:53,200 Speaker 1: Catches on Fire and Ariel has to say, Prince Eric, 607 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,160 Speaker 1: I was into that. It gave me that feeling of excitement. 608 00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:59,320 Speaker 1: Now where the live action really hurt this movie was 609 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,200 Speaker 1: with all this tea creatures and Sebastian, even though he 610 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,600 Speaker 1: was funny David Diggs did a really great job at 611 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:09,520 Speaker 1: voicing that character, there was just so much disconnect. So 612 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,560 Speaker 1: even though the voice acting was pretty good, it just 613 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:15,040 Speaker 1: felt like I was listening to a track and trying 614 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:19,360 Speaker 1: to associate it with this character. Flounder was all out terrifying. 615 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,320 Speaker 1: He looked like something from my nightmare. And every time 616 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:25,360 Speaker 1: that Flounder came on screen, he looked like he was 617 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,520 Speaker 1: in pain. To me, with his eyes, Flounder was telling 618 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:32,200 Speaker 1: me every moment I live with z Acony, please kill me. 619 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,600 Speaker 1: That is the visual I had while looking at Flounder. 620 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:37,280 Speaker 1: So I feel like they almost should have gone full 621 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:40,680 Speaker 1: Roger Rabbit and just did a two D animation on 622 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:42,680 Speaker 1: Flounder and on Sebastian. 623 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:44,680 Speaker 2: And the big thing about Disney is the. 624 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:49,760 Speaker 1: Tie in with merchandise. Essentially, every Disney movie is just 625 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,720 Speaker 1: a commercial to get you to go to Disney World 626 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 1: of Disneyland, to get you to buy all the merch 627 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,000 Speaker 1: that goes along with a movie. If I was a 628 00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,560 Speaker 1: kid going into watching this version of the Little Mermaid, 629 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,480 Speaker 1: I would only want things with Ariel. I wouldn't want 630 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:08,080 Speaker 1: anything with Flounder or Sebastian because it's not really visually appealing. 631 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:12,240 Speaker 1: I don't want a Flounder notebook. So, if anything, it's 632 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:15,440 Speaker 1: gonna make Haylee Bailey and the image of her as 633 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:18,120 Speaker 1: Ariel be the biggest takeaway from this movie, and I 634 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:21,200 Speaker 1: think that is great, But all the other characters just 635 00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:25,880 Speaker 1: fall completely flat, to the point where it is pretty distracting. 636 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,640 Speaker 2: And forgive me, I know I mess up her name again. 637 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,400 Speaker 1: It's Halle Bailey, but I get it so confused with 638 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:33,920 Speaker 1: Halle Barry. It'd be like if there was another A 639 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,320 Speaker 1: List actor named Brent Pitt. I would get those two 640 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:37,200 Speaker 1: confused too. 641 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:37,880 Speaker 2: Sorry. 642 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,040 Speaker 1: The other thing that live action made better in this 643 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,520 Speaker 1: movie was the soundtrack. It really brought all the songs 644 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:47,080 Speaker 1: to being able to see the characters singing it loud, 645 00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:47,720 Speaker 1: seeing it. 646 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:48,480 Speaker 2: Come out of their mouth. 647 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:51,320 Speaker 1: That added a whole other level to it that I 648 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,640 Speaker 1: felt like the songs in this version resonated with me 649 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:58,000 Speaker 1: a little bit more. Although I do wonder what everybody 650 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,920 Speaker 1: else does when this one character just goes and start 651 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:02,480 Speaker 1: singing and doesn't stop. 652 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:04,000 Speaker 2: Do they all just like float there and be like, 653 00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:06,320 Speaker 2: all right, she's gonna keep singing, She's gonna keep going. 654 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:11,479 Speaker 1: And I also realized how much Sebastian is trying to 655 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:15,080 Speaker 1: brainwash Ariel with Under the Sea, and I did pick 656 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,000 Speaker 1: up on a lot more themes now. I think watching 657 00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,760 Speaker 1: this movie as an adult, you see that he is 658 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,320 Speaker 1: just trying to keep her in the sea, trying to 659 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:25,360 Speaker 1: get her to buy into the fact that you have everything. 660 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:25,640 Speaker 2: You need here. 661 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,320 Speaker 1: You don't need to go exploring, You don't need to 662 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:30,160 Speaker 1: go experience everything in the world. 663 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:32,680 Speaker 2: Stay at home or you belong. 664 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,800 Speaker 1: And as I get older, I do grasp on to 665 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,040 Speaker 1: these themes a little bit more. I think it probably 666 00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:40,479 Speaker 1: would have resonated with me more if I had kids, 667 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,120 Speaker 1: And I can kind of see the shift that more 668 00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,600 Speaker 1: people are probably having going to see this movie. 669 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:47,600 Speaker 2: The movie we. 670 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:52,320 Speaker 1: Remember as a kid, you probably identified with Ariel of 671 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,680 Speaker 1: wanting to go and find your prints and wanting to 672 00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:59,000 Speaker 1: go against what your parents say to chase the things 673 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,360 Speaker 1: in life that you want, chase love, chase new adventures. 674 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:04,719 Speaker 1: It's kind of like what a teenager would experience when 675 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:05,920 Speaker 1: they're wanting to go to college. 676 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:09,520 Speaker 2: As kids, we saw that perspective. 677 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,520 Speaker 1: And now as the ones taking our kids now as 678 00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:15,520 Speaker 1: adults and getting them to watch this movie, we kind 679 00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:17,760 Speaker 1: of see it from King Triton's side. Hey, I don't 680 00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:19,560 Speaker 1: want my kids to go meet up with some random 681 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:23,080 Speaker 1: dude she just saved and go hang out with the 682 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,360 Speaker 1: humans and put herself in danger. So it's like almost 683 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:30,280 Speaker 1: going full circle and going from one character's perspective to 684 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:33,480 Speaker 1: another character's perspective. But I think who really stole the 685 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:39,080 Speaker 1: show in this movie was Melissa McCarthy as Ursula. Perfectly 686 00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:42,640 Speaker 1: cast and she played the characters so well, and I 687 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:46,360 Speaker 1: feel like in live action you really get that grasp 688 00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:50,959 Speaker 1: of the evilness of Ursula through these new visuals. I 689 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,600 Speaker 1: love the look of her tentacles in her entire world 690 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:57,640 Speaker 1: every time she was on screen. That was my favorite moments. 691 00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:01,000 Speaker 1: They could probably do a spin off movie just following 692 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,200 Speaker 1: the life of Ursula. Think Joker, but Disney, because she 693 00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:06,960 Speaker 1: really did a great job at making this movie exciting 694 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,399 Speaker 1: and making it feel different. And I always just loved 695 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,400 Speaker 1: the dark side of old Disney stories, and I feel 696 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:15,400 Speaker 1: like her as Ursula really drove this movie home. I 697 00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:19,200 Speaker 1: also love Hobby air Bardem as King Triton Anton Sugar 698 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:22,000 Speaker 1: himself from No Country for Old Men. Ever since that movie, 699 00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,200 Speaker 1: he kind of has a lifetime past for me that 700 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:25,800 Speaker 1: I will watch anything he does. 701 00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:29,320 Speaker 2: But he is really great in a regal king role. 702 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,160 Speaker 1: So I thought he did a really great job as 703 00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:34,399 Speaker 1: Ariel's dad. When it came to Prince Eric, I think 704 00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,239 Speaker 1: there was a lot to be desired. He wasn't my 705 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,920 Speaker 1: Prince Eric. He kind of looked like an AI generated 706 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:40,200 Speaker 1: Ryan Gosling. 707 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:42,799 Speaker 2: Part of me had to remember that this. 708 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,080 Speaker 1: Is a movie made for kids, because I did question 709 00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,319 Speaker 1: their chemistry a little bit, but I realize that you 710 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,120 Speaker 1: can't really make it full on love story, show all 711 00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:54,200 Speaker 1: these things because it's kids watching it. So I felt 712 00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:57,960 Speaker 1: like they're acting was a little bit limited, but it's 713 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,720 Speaker 1: because it is a remake of a d Disney movie 714 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,000 Speaker 1: and you have to be very kid friendly. So that 715 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:07,000 Speaker 1: would have been an entirely different movie that I wanted. Apparently, 716 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:10,040 Speaker 1: that's probably the Little Mermaid that you would buy in 717 00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:12,640 Speaker 1: the alley, and it's on like an old burned DVD, 718 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:14,640 Speaker 1: so that's an entirely different movie that I wanted. I 719 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:16,319 Speaker 1: had to get back into reality and think, oh wait, 720 00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:18,680 Speaker 1: those this is for kids. But what this movie ended 721 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:21,440 Speaker 1: up doing it did make me buy in to the 722 00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:24,440 Speaker 1: Disney magic again. I think if a kid watched this 723 00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:26,799 Speaker 1: movie now, they're definitely going to enjoy it. 724 00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:28,080 Speaker 2: Parents are going to enjoy it. 725 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:30,440 Speaker 1: But I do have to compare it to the original 726 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,000 Speaker 1: because I don't think if you started with this movie 727 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:36,399 Speaker 1: it would create that same lasting fandom. I think you'll 728 00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:40,160 Speaker 1: probably forget about this movie in six months, another year. 729 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,359 Speaker 1: You're not really going to want to revisit it. It's 730 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:44,879 Speaker 1: cool now, but it's not going to have the same 731 00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:47,759 Speaker 1: kind of longevity as a movie from the eighties. So 732 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,759 Speaker 1: I think the Disney magic still lies in the animation. 733 00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,440 Speaker 1: But they prove to me that they can make a 734 00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:57,920 Speaker 1: good adaptation and add a little value and not just 735 00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:00,359 Speaker 1: feel like they're going through all the motions, check all 736 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:04,680 Speaker 1: the boxes and just making exactly what exists on animation 737 00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:08,400 Speaker 1: without making it better. You gotta make it better, otherwise 738 00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,040 Speaker 1: there's no reason to do this. Pinocchio, they didn't make 739 00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,600 Speaker 1: it better. Peter Pan and Wendy, they didn't make it better. 740 00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,440 Speaker 2: Move on. They really ruined that story. 741 00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:20,000 Speaker 1: So they did in turn make some things better, but 742 00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:25,359 Speaker 1: also didn't really capture the essence of the characters, so 743 00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,680 Speaker 1: I don't think it'll have the same lasting impression. So 744 00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:31,160 Speaker 1: for me, a Disney remake has a ceiling of about 745 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:34,160 Speaker 1: a four. The Lion King got that, Aladdin got that. 746 00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:36,960 Speaker 1: Even though Cruella wasn't a true remake, I think that 747 00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:41,200 Speaker 1: was a great live action reimagination and origin story, so 748 00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:45,480 Speaker 1: they could probably do a similar movie like Cruella with Ursula. 749 00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:48,280 Speaker 1: It was so hard for me to fully buy into 750 00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:51,400 Speaker 1: it because of Flounder and Sebastian, and I didn't want 751 00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:53,719 Speaker 1: it to but they are such a big part of 752 00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,000 Speaker 1: the movie and a big part of the story that 753 00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:58,359 Speaker 1: I really couldn't look past that, So it just made 754 00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,680 Speaker 1: the movie less enjoyable for me. So for The Little Mermaid, 755 00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:03,839 Speaker 1: I give it three point five out of five. 756 00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:04,840 Speaker 2: Forks. 757 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,160 Speaker 1: The next Disney live action movies we have to look 758 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,400 Speaker 1: forward to. We have Snow White coming out on March 759 00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:12,560 Speaker 1: twenty second, twenty twenty four, and then move Fassa The 760 00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:16,320 Speaker 1: Lion King also in twenty twenty four on July fifth, 761 00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:19,720 Speaker 1: which will be the prequel to the live action version 762 00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:22,920 Speaker 1: from twenty nineteen. Don't mess with my Lion King anymore. 763 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:24,120 Speaker 1: Just don't mess it up. 764 00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:31,440 Speaker 3: It's time to head down to movie Mikes, Traylor Paul. 765 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:35,800 Speaker 1: If I have to hear one more person complain about 766 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:38,239 Speaker 1: long movies, I just might lose it. I just might 767 00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:41,840 Speaker 1: quit this podcast. I feel like movies have historically been long. 768 00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,279 Speaker 1: I don't feel like it's out of the norm for 769 00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:46,920 Speaker 1: a movie to have a two and a half a 770 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:50,120 Speaker 1: three hour run time. If you look back on some 771 00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:54,200 Speaker 1: of the greatest movies ever made that have long run times. 772 00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:54,880 Speaker 2: We never question it. 773 00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:57,879 Speaker 1: Look at movies like The Godfather, Saving Private Ryan both 774 00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:01,040 Speaker 1: three hours, The Green Mile three hours, in night minutes. Titanic, 775 00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:03,640 Speaker 1: one of the greatest movies ever made, is three hours 776 00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:07,600 Speaker 1: and fourteen minutes. No one really complains about Titanic being 777 00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:11,120 Speaker 1: that long. Endgame is three hours. I just rewatched that 778 00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:13,920 Speaker 1: movie for like the tenth time last weekend because I was. 779 00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:16,320 Speaker 2: Feeling like I needed a little Avengers in my life. 780 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:18,560 Speaker 1: I love that that movie is three hours because I 781 00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:21,200 Speaker 1: get to live in it longer. Gone with the Wind 782 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:25,240 Speaker 1: from nineteen thirty nine is three hours and forty two minutes. 783 00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:28,120 Speaker 1: So this is nothing new. I just feel like long 784 00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:30,919 Speaker 1: movies get a lot of attention whenever they come out 785 00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:33,400 Speaker 1: because it's something for people to be divided on and 786 00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:35,799 Speaker 1: it's something for people to complain about. I, for one, 787 00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:39,480 Speaker 1: welcome in. I would watch a five hour director's cut 788 00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:40,719 Speaker 1: of a movie. 789 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:41,279 Speaker 2: That warranted it. 790 00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:44,040 Speaker 1: Why am I bringing this up because Killers of the 791 00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:47,120 Speaker 1: Flower Moon is coming out on October sixth, and it 792 00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:50,040 Speaker 1: is three hours and twenty six minutes. That is a 793 00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:53,000 Speaker 1: long movie, but it is from director Martin Scorsese, one 794 00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,200 Speaker 1: of the greatest filmmakers of our lifetime. 795 00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:57,040 Speaker 2: This is what he does. 796 00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:01,920 Speaker 1: Big dramas, crime epics are his specialty, and I feel 797 00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:04,400 Speaker 1: like he is a director that I have no worry 798 00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:06,960 Speaker 1: going into a movie knowing that it is three plus hours. 799 00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:07,839 Speaker 2: I am in for it. 800 00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:11,080 Speaker 1: I will watch every single minute and be dialed into 801 00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:14,000 Speaker 1: a Martin Scorsese movie because he has proven to me 802 00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:16,880 Speaker 1: time and time again that he can do it, and 803 00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:19,000 Speaker 1: he can do it well. Look at movies like The 804 00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:21,000 Speaker 1: Wolf of Wall Street that has a long run time, 805 00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:24,160 Speaker 1: The Irishman on Netflix, which is over three hours, I 806 00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:27,080 Speaker 1: have no doubt in my mind that this movie will 807 00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:30,319 Speaker 1: warrant the three hour runtime. So so a big, long 808 00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:34,080 Speaker 1: run time from him doesn't intimidate me. So I'll get 809 00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:36,839 Speaker 1: into what this movie is actually about before I do. 810 00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:38,840 Speaker 1: Here is just a little bit of the Killers of 811 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:40,000 Speaker 1: the Flower Moon trailer. 812 00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,880 Speaker 5: The O Sage took their name from Missouri, and O 813 00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:51,920 Speaker 5: Sage rivers move said the Great wide Father, there are many, 814 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:59,640 Speaker 5: so many hungry wolves. Can you find the wolves in 815 00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:00,480 Speaker 5: this picture? 816 00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:06,960 Speaker 1: I just love the way that Leonardo DiCaprio is speaking 817 00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,880 Speaker 1: in this trailer, the way that he looks. It is 818 00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:13,440 Speaker 1: already being described at his best role ever, which is 819 00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,040 Speaker 1: saying a lot because he has done so many great 820 00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:19,600 Speaker 1: movies throughout his career. But what Killers of the Flower. 821 00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:20,160 Speaker 2: Moon is about. 822 00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:22,799 Speaker 1: It's based on the best selling book which is set 823 00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,839 Speaker 1: in the nineteen twenties in Oklahoma, and it depicts the 824 00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:29,919 Speaker 1: serial murder of members of the oil wealthy Osage Nation 825 00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:32,319 Speaker 1: and a string of brutal crime that came to be 826 00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:35,760 Speaker 1: known as the Reign of Terror. What I love about 827 00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:39,160 Speaker 1: this trailer is it feels very ominous and doesn't give 828 00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:42,280 Speaker 1: away too much about where they're gonna take this story. 829 00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:45,520 Speaker 1: I think that is truly what a trailer is supposed 830 00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:47,799 Speaker 1: to do. It's not supposed to tell you the entire 831 00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:50,560 Speaker 1: story from start to finish. That is the signs of 832 00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:53,879 Speaker 1: a bad movie. It's supposed to entice you, generate your 833 00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:57,839 Speaker 1: curiosity while giving you the tone of the movie and 834 00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:01,000 Speaker 1: giving you that excited feeling. I feel this trailer does 835 00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:03,880 Speaker 1: it perfectly. What you hear in this trailer is Leonardo 836 00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:07,000 Speaker 1: DiCaprio's character named Ernest, who is reading aloud to himself 837 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,160 Speaker 1: from a children's book. It is from the advice of 838 00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:12,000 Speaker 1: his uncle William, who was played by Robert de Niro 839 00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:14,839 Speaker 1: in this movie, and he thinks reading this book may 840 00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:18,720 Speaker 1: help him get acclimated to this new town. The visuals 841 00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:22,040 Speaker 1: in this movie give me vibes of the movie There 842 00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:25,840 Speaker 1: Will Be Blood. It looks like a beautifully made movie 843 00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:29,560 Speaker 1: that tells a dark story about greed and murder, which 844 00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:33,040 Speaker 1: are two themes that Martin Scorsese does really well, and 845 00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:37,200 Speaker 1: Apple Movies just looks spectacular. I feel like if there's 846 00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:41,160 Speaker 1: one thing that Apple TV Plus does so well is 847 00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:45,680 Speaker 1: creating just very beautiful content with rich colors, a lot 848 00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:49,320 Speaker 1: of great cinematography, and even though it is a streaming service, 849 00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:52,160 Speaker 1: I always feel like all of their projects deserved to 850 00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:54,840 Speaker 1: be seen on a big screen with big sounds. So 851 00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:58,799 Speaker 1: this movie is going to theaters in October before it 852 00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:02,160 Speaker 1: is going to streaming, so this is relatively new for Apple. 853 00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,360 Speaker 1: I think this is easily them trying to say we 854 00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,319 Speaker 1: are here to be taken seriously. We saw that with 855 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,560 Speaker 1: their movie Coda winning an Oscar, and now I feel 856 00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:14,719 Speaker 1: like this is definitely teeing them up to be nominated 857 00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:16,880 Speaker 1: for more Oscars. And this is based on me just 858 00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:20,320 Speaker 1: watching the trailer. You just have Scorsese, you have Leonardo DiCaprio, 859 00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:24,040 Speaker 1: you have Robert de Niro, who have historically done some 860 00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:28,520 Speaker 1: of the best dramas in film throughout their career working together. 861 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:32,080 Speaker 1: So it just has Oscar written all over it. So 862 00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:34,799 Speaker 1: even though I myself am not afraid of a long 863 00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:38,440 Speaker 1: run time, I welcome the longer movies. I understand that 864 00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,400 Speaker 1: it feels daunting when looking at the runtime of anything, 865 00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:43,760 Speaker 1: whether it be a podcast, whether it be a song. 866 00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:46,680 Speaker 1: Just something in your mind makes you not want to 867 00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:48,719 Speaker 1: watch something when it seems like it's going to take 868 00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:50,160 Speaker 1: you a long time and take a good chunk of 869 00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:53,080 Speaker 1: your day. So I love the fact that this movie 870 00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:55,200 Speaker 1: is coming out in theaters first, so the people who 871 00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:58,319 Speaker 1: want to experience that way like myself can go and 872 00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:01,880 Speaker 1: have that experience, and I think for a director like 873 00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:04,799 Speaker 1: Martin Scorsese, he believes that his movie should be seen 874 00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,279 Speaker 1: in that way. And I say this defending him, even 875 00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:09,480 Speaker 1: though I kind of have beef with him too, because 876 00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:12,919 Speaker 1: he always just makes fun of superhero movies. He says 877 00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:16,000 Speaker 1: they are not cinema, and I feel like he alienates 878 00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:19,800 Speaker 1: a lot of people who love superhero movies and also 879 00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:24,280 Speaker 1: love his films too. We are not a completely different audience. 880 00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:26,879 Speaker 1: I can enjoy Good Fellas as much as I can 881 00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:30,040 Speaker 1: enjoy Spider Man or Guardians at the Galaxy. But I 882 00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,480 Speaker 1: feel like with him saying that he wants me to 883 00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:33,359 Speaker 1: feel bad for. 884 00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:35,040 Speaker 2: Also enjoying superhero movies. 885 00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:39,200 Speaker 1: If I was him, or any director that maybe gets 886 00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:43,200 Speaker 1: discouraged about filmmaking when it seems like superhero movies are 887 00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:47,600 Speaker 1: the only ones generating income, I would welcome it. Martin Scorsese, 888 00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:50,600 Speaker 1: I challenge you, let your last film ever to be 889 00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:55,520 Speaker 1: a superhero epic, drama, crime movie. I'm talking to the departed, 890 00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:59,240 Speaker 1: but everybody has superpowers. But again, Killers of the Flower 891 00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:03,160 Speaker 1: Moon is coming out in select theaters on Friday, October sixth, 892 00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:06,840 Speaker 1: and then in theaters everywhere on October twentieth. There's still 893 00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:09,160 Speaker 1: not a confirmed date on when it will stream on 894 00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:12,680 Speaker 1: Apple tv Plus, but I assume it'll probably be that 895 00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:15,759 Speaker 1: forty day run in theaters, so you'll probably be able 896 00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:18,480 Speaker 1: to watch it at home late November early December. 897 00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:22,160 Speaker 2: Ted that for was this week's edition of Movie. 898 00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:24,840 Speaker 1: By Frame or Bar, and that's going to do it 899 00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:27,759 Speaker 1: for another episode here of the podcast. But before I go, 900 00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:29,880 Speaker 1: I got to give my listener's shout out, which I 901 00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:32,920 Speaker 1: do every single week. Somebody who sends me an email 902 00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:36,560 Speaker 1: Moviemike d at gmail dot com, tweets me at Mike 903 00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:39,640 Speaker 1: d Shrow, or comments over on my Instagram, and this 904 00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:43,560 Speaker 1: week's listener shout out comes to you from my Instagram comments. 905 00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:46,520 Speaker 1: It is from Kayla, who commented on my Fast extraview 906 00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:49,520 Speaker 1: and said watch Fast X last night and totally agree 907 00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:53,280 Speaker 1: with your review Fast Action Entertainment the whole way through. 908 00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:55,720 Speaker 1: Would it be a Fast and the Furious film without 909 00:44:55,719 --> 00:44:59,480 Speaker 1: some familiar cheesiness and Jason Momoa was an awesome addition. 910 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:04,359 Speaker 1: Thank you Kayla for also enjoying and appreciating my love 911 00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:07,080 Speaker 1: of the Fast X movies. After reading all the comments 912 00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:10,080 Speaker 1: and how everybody is so split on fast movies. I 913 00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:13,040 Speaker 1: have just determined that it's going to be a genre 914 00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:16,800 Speaker 1: that I love that other people will just continue to hate. 915 00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:19,480 Speaker 1: So I am looking forward to the next one. Any 916 00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:22,399 Speaker 1: spinoff they make from Fast and the Furious, I am 917 00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:23,080 Speaker 1: here for it. 918 00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:24,080 Speaker 2: So thank you for listening. 919 00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:25,840 Speaker 1: Hope you have a great rest of your week, and 920 00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:28,799 Speaker 1: until next time, go out and watch good movies and 921 00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:30,800 Speaker 1: I will talk to you later.