1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: Welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. My name is 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:06,080 Speaker 1: Mike D on Twitter and Instagram at Mike Destro. You 3 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 1: might know me from the Bobby Bones Show, where I 4 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: am the resident movie guy, and this is the podcast 5 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:12,959 Speaker 1: I do every single Monday where all I do is 6 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:16,159 Speaker 1: talk about movies. This week, I am talking about the 7 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: evolution of Adam Sandler from comedic to dramatic roles. I 8 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:23,479 Speaker 1: recently saw him in Uncut Gems and that movie really 9 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:26,159 Speaker 1: resonated with me in a way I wasn't expecting, and 10 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 1: I think it's all because of his performance in the movie. 11 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 1: So I kind of just want to go through his 12 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 1: roles from the comedic stuff he did in the nineties, 13 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 1: the two thousands and then kind of getting into the 14 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 1: waters where he's just has really bad reviews movie after movie. 15 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 1: So I'll go through all that. Also in my movie 16 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 1: list this week, I have my top five most anticipated 17 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: movies of twenty plus i'll give my review of The 18 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 1: Irishman on Netflix, which is a long three and a 19 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: half hours that I invested in my life, So a 20 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 1: lot to talk about on this week's episode. Thanks again 21 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:00,120 Speaker 1: for tagging me in your Instagram story, rating and reviewing 22 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and subscribing on I Heart Radio. 23 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:07,039 Speaker 1: A lot to cover this week, so let's get into it. 24 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:10,320 Speaker 1: In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast, 25 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 1: one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like 26 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 1: never before in a movie podcast. A man with so 27 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 1: much movie knowledge, he's basically like a walking on MTV 28 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 1: with glasses from the Nashville Podcast Network is movie movie podcast. 29 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 1: So to start out this week's show, I wanted to 30 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 1: dedicate an entire segment just to Adam Sandler because I 31 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 1: recently watched Uncut Gems and was really moved by it 32 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 1: in a way that I wasn't expecting because I've loved 33 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 1: Adam Sandler movies for a very long time, and I 34 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 1: grew up in the nineties as a nineties kid, and 35 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 1: he was the biggest thing in comedy. I just remember 36 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 1: going to the video store and renting Um Happy Gilmore, 37 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 1: renting Billy Madison and thinking, man, this is like the 38 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 1: funniest thing I've ever seen. And I would quote the 39 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 1: movies all the time, and those movies just kind of 40 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 1: stuck with me all throughout my life. And I've loved 41 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 1: him from watching him on SNL and kind of seeing 42 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:14,640 Speaker 1: him go from being like that beloved funny guy to 43 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 1: having this career where he's just kind of viewed as 44 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 1: like putting hug bad movies, which is which is really 45 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: kind of crazy that he's kind of had his resurgence 46 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 1: now with the success of Uncut Gems and really people 47 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 1: being able to see his range of an actor, because 48 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: he's it's not the first serious role he's done, but 49 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 1: it's the most, probably the most acclaimed role that he's 50 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 1: taken on in a very long time. So I wanted 51 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: to go through just his career and kind of see 52 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 1: his evolution from being the funny guy and putting out 53 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 1: hit blockbuster comedy movies to also being the guy who 54 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 1: would put out just flop after flop. But I mean, 55 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 1: even with those flops, he was still making a lot 56 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 1: of money, but he has just like a track list 57 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: of like the worst reviewed movies on Rotten Tomatoes, and 58 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 1: then now kind of into two thousand and tens of 59 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: also continuing those flops, um landing a big Netflix deal 60 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 1: where he put out some movies and now he's kind 61 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: of stepping back into these dramatic roles and having some 62 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 1: success where I mean, he really had a really successful, 63 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 1: like quiet, low key nineteen UM now moving into an 64 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 1: entirely different decades. So I kind of want to go 65 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 1: a decade by decade and just look at his work. 66 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 1: So starting in the nineties where he started out doing 67 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 1: stand up comedy in New York City, where he was 68 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 1: going um to college at n y U for acting, 69 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 1: and then in addition to that, he would go out 70 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 1: and do stand up making like ten dollars a night. 71 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:43,839 Speaker 1: You really don't make a lot doing stand up and 72 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: especially starting out, so he would go to the club. 73 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: He had a professor at n y U who would 74 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: you know, teach him acting, and his professor told him 75 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 1: like at one point to quit acting. He's like, man, 76 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 1: you have heart, but you really just don't have it 77 00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: to be an actor. And he told him, like to 78 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 1: go pursue another path. But starting out in the nineties, like, 79 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 1: he was like broke by the time he got to SNL, 80 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 1: which he was discovered by doing stand up in he 81 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 1: got hired onto SNL and he was twenty three years old. 82 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 1: And the thing about SNL was, you actually don't make 83 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 1: a lot of money on that show. It's basically an 84 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:18,799 Speaker 1: entry level TV job. I've seen a bunch of interviews 85 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,040 Speaker 1: with people starting on SNL. The perception is, Oh, you 86 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:23,039 Speaker 1: go on that show, you're on TV, you've made it, 87 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 1: But really you're not making that much money. You do 88 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 1: a show at night that's on once a week, so 89 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 1: it's basically an entry level job. He's doing that for 90 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 1: five years. He's put out some movies in between them, 91 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:35,360 Speaker 1: and the year before he got hired on the SNL 92 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 1: he did a movie called Going Overboard, which I remember 93 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 1: mostly for being in the Dollar Been at Walmart. And 94 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 1: then he also was in air Heads, a movie in 95 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four where they like break into a radio station, 96 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 1: where he wasn't really the star of that movie, so 97 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 1: his movie career hadn't really taken off. But then he 98 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 1: got fired from SNL in nineteen and it was well 99 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:56,719 Speaker 1: before he received any kind of success at the box office. 100 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:59,600 Speaker 1: So he's twenty eight gets fired from SNL after five 101 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 1: years on the show, along with they also fired Chris Farley, 102 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:04,720 Speaker 1: so they're both down and the dumps together. He had 103 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 1: co wrote and started Billy Madison, which premiered a few 104 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:10,280 Speaker 1: months before he left SNL, and went on to make 105 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:13,040 Speaker 1: a good, solid twenty six million dollars on that, So 106 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 1: after that is where he kind of just has starts 107 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:19,040 Speaker 1: having success. In the nineties, he puts out Happy Gilmore six, 108 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 1: makes forty one million dollars, then the Wedding Singer brings 109 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 1: them another hundred and twenty three million, and The water 110 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:28,839 Speaker 1: Boy in nine makes him one and ninety million, and 111 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:31,599 Speaker 1: then he closes out the nineties with Big Daddy making 112 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:33,919 Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty four million dollars, and at this 113 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,840 Speaker 1: point you cannot deny that he is a major Hollywood 114 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: star and success. So all that from being fired from 115 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 1: SNL pretty good for him. He also in the nineties 116 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:46,160 Speaker 1: started his own movie production company called Happy Madison, which 117 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 1: just combines his first two movies, Billy Madison and Happy 118 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 1: Gilmore together, and this kind of brings him into the 119 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 1: two thousands where he starts putting out more, you know, 120 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:56,040 Speaker 1: still the same kind of comedic movies like Little Nikki Mr. 121 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 1: Deed's Fifty First States, but he also kind of takes 122 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 1: a step in that direction of becoming a more dramatic, 123 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 1: serious actor, which is really hard for any actor to 124 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 1: do who's mainly starting comedy movies, like very few people 125 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 1: have done it. Aside from Adam Sandler, only other people 126 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 1: I can think of having success or Jim Carey, Ben 127 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:15,479 Speaker 1: Stiller a little bit, but there are very few actors 128 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 1: who can be taken seriously in both the guard. But 129 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:20,919 Speaker 1: he started a movie called Punch Drunk Love, which was 130 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:24,240 Speaker 1: his first really step in this direction, and I remember 131 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 1: kind of being confused seeing him in this role because 132 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:30,039 Speaker 1: you go into it expecting, you know, silly, wacky Adam 133 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:32,040 Speaker 1: Sandler from the nineties, and now he's in this movie 134 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:34,719 Speaker 1: playing this guy named Barry who's trying to find love 135 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 1: and then gets extorted by a phone sex company, and 136 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 1: it's actually a pretty good movie, and you kind of 137 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:41,799 Speaker 1: see this different side of Adam Sandler and you're like, hey, 138 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:44,920 Speaker 1: this actually starts to work. The movie received pretty good 139 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:47,720 Speaker 1: reviews from critics, although I didn't really do so well 140 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:50,040 Speaker 1: at the box office. So while it was a step 141 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:52,280 Speaker 1: in that good direction of him kind of building towards that, 142 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:54,680 Speaker 1: it still wasn't going to be his main thing to 143 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:57,280 Speaker 1: just do dramatic roles. Also in the two thousands, he 144 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:00,040 Speaker 1: started a movie called Spanglish, which was kind of a 145 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:03,480 Speaker 1: mix of comedy and drama and kind of developed this 146 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: kind of style that he could balance between of like 147 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 1: still kind of being the regular Adam Sandler he used to. 148 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 1: But then in two thousand seven, he started a movie 149 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 1: called Rain Over Me, which is about a man who 150 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,680 Speaker 1: loses his entire family in the September eleventh attack on 151 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 1: New York City and then he runs into his old 152 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 1: college roommate and develops a friendship with him and kind 153 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 1: of rekindles that. And this is the first movie where 154 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 1: you just see full on dramatic Adam Sandler, because there's 155 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 1: no comic relief whatsoever in this movie, and you get 156 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: this level of acting and performance from Adam Sandler that 157 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 1: you never thought he could really achieve. So at this point, 158 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 1: I feel he's established as both a comedic and dramatic actor. 159 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 1: I kind of hope he would take on more of 160 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:44,640 Speaker 1: the dramatic roles from here. But then we get into 161 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 1: the two thousand tens, which I kind of dubbed as 162 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 1: the decade of bad reviews because he only has like 163 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 1: two maybe three movies that actually have a fresh rating 164 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:56,400 Speaker 1: on Rotten Tomatoes. And it's also kind of why he 165 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: put out that comedy special called Fresh, because he was like, 166 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 1: they're not going to give me a good rating, then 167 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 1: at least I give it to myself. He then starts 168 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:06,680 Speaker 1: putting out movies like Jack and Joe, which is probably 169 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 1: my last draw for watching Adam Sandler movies. That's the 170 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 1: movie where he plays himself as a woman has his 171 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 1: long lost twin al Pacinos in it, which I don't 172 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 1: know how they agreed him to be in that movie, 173 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:19,200 Speaker 1: but this is kind of where I lost faith in 174 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 1: Adam Sandler. And then in two thousand fourteen, he signed 175 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 1: a major movie deal with Netflix. It was a four 176 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 1: movie deal for two hundred and fifty million dollars, and 177 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:30,840 Speaker 1: he put out like four movies on Netflix, which I 178 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 1: ended up thinking, we're all right. His movie The Ridiculous 179 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 1: Six badly reviewed movie, but I thought it was at 180 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 1: least somewhat enjoyable if you're just watching something at home 181 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:43,200 Speaker 1: on Netflix. He also put out The Do Over, Sandy 182 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 1: Wexler and Murder Mystery on Netflix as part of that deal, 183 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 1: which Netflix said that a bunch of people streamed those 184 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,040 Speaker 1: movies that were like the highest streamed movies on their 185 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 1: service at the time. So at this point I think 186 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 1: Adam Sandler was just in the mindset of putting out 187 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: movies that he finds that are fun to make and 188 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:01,480 Speaker 1: also his audience enjoy. Always he doesn't care about the 189 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 1: critics at this time. He just sees it as, Hey, 190 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:05,959 Speaker 1: this is a business. I'm gonna put out movies. I'm 191 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 1: gonna get my paycheck, and I'll continue my career whether 192 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 1: the critics like it or not. And then in seventeen 193 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 1: he started a movie with Ben Stiller and Dustin Hoffman 194 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:18,120 Speaker 1: called The Merrowitz Stories, where he's back into taking on 195 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 1: a dramatic role and gets a lot of positive reviews. 196 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:24,760 Speaker 1: And then you get the twenty nineteen and uncut Gems 197 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 1: where he kind of blows everybody away myself included five 198 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:35,880 Speaker 1: thousand carrots, three thousand dollars of carrots. That's the thing. 199 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:38,719 Speaker 1: They say, you can see the whole universe. And that's 200 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:46,160 Speaker 1: been all day, I'm telling you, And right, that's the 201 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:47,840 Speaker 1: bad with this one. It was just kind of cool 202 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 1: to see Adam Sandler in a way that I forgot 203 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:53,319 Speaker 1: it was Adam Sandler, Like, he looks a lot different. 204 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 1: He has like these fake teeth in the movie. His 205 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:57,080 Speaker 1: hair is kind of jelled up in a weird way. 206 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:00,440 Speaker 1: And it's about a guy who has an unhealthy addiction 207 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:03,599 Speaker 1: to gambling. So what he's doing is he runs like 208 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:06,640 Speaker 1: a high end jewelry company, but in addition to that, 209 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:11,640 Speaker 1: he's making these really crazy, extravagant bets with other people's money. 210 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 1: So he's essentially just taking jewelry, moving it around, getting 211 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 1: money from one person to bet on these crazy like 212 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 1: NBA parlays that just end up getting him into more 213 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: and more trouble. So the whole movie is just really chaotic, 214 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 1: and it's from these two guys named the Safty Brothers 215 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:26,839 Speaker 1: who actually came to Adam Sandler with the idea of 216 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:29,200 Speaker 1: this movie ten years ago, and they're pretty young guys, 217 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:31,199 Speaker 1: but at the time he was doing other stuff and 218 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:33,839 Speaker 1: he never got to meet him. And then eventually the 219 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 1: script came back to him again. He read it and 220 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:38,559 Speaker 1: I was like, this is actually really good, and he 221 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 1: agreed to do it. So what I really like about 222 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:43,080 Speaker 1: this movie is that it's just filled with tension all 223 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:45,760 Speaker 1: the way through. Like I was literally on the edge 224 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 1: of my seat in this movie, and I'm not using 225 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:50,199 Speaker 1: that as a hyper league. I was on the edge 226 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 1: of my seat, slouched down because there's moments in this 227 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:55,080 Speaker 1: where it's so intense I also love that they use 228 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:58,120 Speaker 1: like real people in this movie, meaning that they brought 229 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:00,679 Speaker 1: in like non actors to be actual tough guys in 230 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 1: this movie. I think it gives it a sense of 231 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:06,400 Speaker 1: realism when working with other real actors. It also starts 232 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:09,040 Speaker 1: Kevin Garnett, who's the NBA player, not an actor. He's 233 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 1: playing himself, so you think, oh, it's kind of easy 234 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:12,920 Speaker 1: just to play yourself, but I think it's almost a 235 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:15,200 Speaker 1: harder thing to have to do for somebody who's never 236 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:18,079 Speaker 1: been in a movie before. So essentially what happens in 237 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:21,319 Speaker 1: the movie is he is able to acquire a really 238 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 1: rare and valuable black opal, and it's all because he's 239 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 1: watching like the History Channel, learns about it and then 240 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 1: finds a way to get his hands on one. He 241 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 1: gets it delivered to his shop and then shows it 242 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 1: to Kevin Garnett, who becomes enamored with a thing and 243 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:36,319 Speaker 1: also wants to buy it from him, and then the 244 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:38,760 Speaker 1: movie just kind of escalates from there. So he has 245 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 1: this valuable opal and he's trying to use it to 246 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:42,839 Speaker 1: pay back all his gambling debts. He was like a 247 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars to this guy who's just hounding him 248 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:48,080 Speaker 1: throughout the whole movie. Not gonna ruin the movie, but man, 249 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:51,199 Speaker 1: it really gets intense, and I think Adam Sandler just 250 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 1: has a really great way of getting into this role 251 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,760 Speaker 1: of this guy who essentially just watches the History channel, 252 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 1: learns about this thing, and thinks he has like the 253 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:01,599 Speaker 1: upper hand on the other jewelers. For some reason. The 254 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 1: movie also takes place in twelve so they made it 255 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:06,800 Speaker 1: a point to kind of make it look like that 256 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 1: time period, which is an interesting thing because I don't 257 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:11,839 Speaker 1: really know what you know for but in this he 258 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 1: kind of see how they stuck to using like the 259 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 1: iPhone that was out at that time. And also, um, 260 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 1: the Weekend is in at the Singer and they made 261 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 1: him like recreate his hairstyle to fit how it was 262 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 1: when he first kind of came out, So I thought 263 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:27,080 Speaker 1: that was a really nice touch. I left the movie 264 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:30,000 Speaker 1: theater exhilarated. Like I said, I was literally on the 265 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:32,079 Speaker 1: edge of my seat, and it moved me kind of 266 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:34,200 Speaker 1: in a way that a movie hasn't done in a while, 267 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:36,319 Speaker 1: and I think it was all because of Adam Sandler's 268 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:40,320 Speaker 1: really great dramatic performance. So I myself am really happy 269 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:42,199 Speaker 1: to see him have such a big hit with this 270 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:45,199 Speaker 1: movie and kind of people taking him serious again. And 271 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 1: it's crazy just to see how he's gone from being 272 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 1: the dope guy on SNL who really suffered with stage 273 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:52,560 Speaker 1: fright at the time. Like the reason he would use 274 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:54,559 Speaker 1: his guitar in like a bunch of comedy bits and 275 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 1: would write those songs is because he suffered with stage 276 00:12:57,280 --> 00:12:59,560 Speaker 1: fright and needed to hold something to kind of feel 277 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:01,520 Speaker 1: like he could fall back on it. Going from that 278 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:04,079 Speaker 1: being fired onto and Know and then going on to 279 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 1: star in these big blockbuster comedy movies. Kind of who's 280 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:10,640 Speaker 1: taking a step back and being hit and tortured by 281 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 1: critics with these all these bad reviews and now kind 282 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:16,439 Speaker 1: of having this redefined career as he goes into the twenties. 283 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:18,439 Speaker 1: Is that what we're calling this decade the twenties? But 284 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:20,079 Speaker 1: I would just like to see him really go for 285 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:22,760 Speaker 1: this next decade. And how crazy would it be for 286 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 1: him to go on to win something like an Oscar. 287 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 1: Let's start that campaign now anyway, That is the evolution 288 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 1: of Adam Sandler as told by me. And also I 289 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 1: would give Uncut Gems easily five out of five opals. 290 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:36,439 Speaker 1: It's still in theaters now so you can go check 291 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:38,920 Speaker 1: that out. Um it is a pretty R rated movie. 292 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 1: It has like the seventh most efforts ever in a movie. 293 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:45,200 Speaker 1: So um, if violence and bad language keep you away 294 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:47,720 Speaker 1: from going to see a movie, just a warning on that. Also, 295 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:49,679 Speaker 1: let me know which Adam Sandler you prefer, the guy 296 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 1: who starts in the comedy movies or the one who 297 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:54,520 Speaker 1: takes on these dramatic roles. All right, that's it for 298 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:57,000 Speaker 1: Adam Sandler. Coming up, I'm gonna do my top five 299 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:00,679 Speaker 1: most anticipated movies of and also my review of The 300 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 1: Irishman on Netflix. We're in a brand new year, Welcome 301 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:11,360 Speaker 1: to everybody. So for my movie list this week, I 302 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:15,520 Speaker 1: am looking at my top five most anticipated movies of. 303 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:19,560 Speaker 1: I threw in some reboots, I threw in some sequels, 304 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 1: and just some movies I've been waiting a long time 305 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 1: to see come to fruition. So let's get started. First, 306 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 1: we are going to Top Gun Maverick, which comes out 307 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 1: on June. Yes, we are getting a Top Gun sequel 308 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 1: after thirty one years. Your reputation procedes. You have to 309 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 1: admit I wasn't expecting an invitation back there called Orders Maverick. 310 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:44,600 Speaker 1: Of course you have Tom Cruise back as Maverick, and 311 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:47,119 Speaker 1: then you have Miles Teller, who you know from Whiplash, 312 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 1: will play Goose's son in the movie, and Val Kimmer 313 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:54,240 Speaker 1: is officially back as Iceman. So for what the movie 314 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 1: is about, they haven't released a whole lot of details 315 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:00,160 Speaker 1: about the plot. The story is rumored to explo or 316 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 1: the relationship between human pilots and unmanned drones in the 317 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 1: modern military. So what I pieced together, it looks like 318 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:10,120 Speaker 1: Tom Cruise's character Maverick comes back trying to show the 319 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:14,160 Speaker 1: value of having real life human pilots. So personally, I 320 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 1: am not a Tom Cruise fan. For some reason, his 321 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 1: movies just don't do it for me. I don't really 322 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 1: see him as an action star. However, I am a 323 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:24,480 Speaker 1: fan of him and Top Gun, and I think they 324 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:26,880 Speaker 1: wouldn't bring it back after so long if they didn't 325 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 1: have a really good movie on their hands. And why 326 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:31,840 Speaker 1: I put this on my list and why I'm excited 327 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:35,360 Speaker 1: about this movie is because it seems like they really 328 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 1: went a long way to make this movie look accurate. 329 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 1: It's basically like a love letter to aviation. So there's 330 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 1: not a lot of c G I in this movie. 331 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:47,800 Speaker 1: The aerial footage in this is real aerial footage that 332 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 1: they went out and shot with fighter jet pilots, and 333 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:53,120 Speaker 1: if you look at this footage, it looks amazing. So 334 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:55,960 Speaker 1: essentially what they did it was they put the actors 335 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 1: inside of real fighter jets and they put six different 336 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 1: camera is around him, so you have the front facing camera, 337 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:05,400 Speaker 1: which that shot looks intense because what you're actually seeing 338 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 1: is the actor in the fighter jet and that g 339 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:12,240 Speaker 1: force hitting them, so you see their real reaction to them. However, 340 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:14,560 Speaker 1: they're not all flying the fire jets. They are in 341 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 1: the cockpit with somebody else. The only person who actually 342 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:20,800 Speaker 1: flew a plane during part of this movie was Tom Cruise, 343 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 1: Like he does have his license and he wanted to 344 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:25,920 Speaker 1: make it so realistic that he was trained on how 345 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 1: to fly one of these things, not the really crazy ones, 346 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:31,440 Speaker 1: but he did fly some footage in this movie. But 347 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:34,360 Speaker 1: apparently the actors said it was really intense on scene 348 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 1: and when they're up there, you know they're really feeling 349 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 1: those pounds of force on their body. There's like behind 350 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 1: the scenes footage of them essentially wanting to vomit while 351 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:44,840 Speaker 1: in the air filming this movie. So Paramount was actually 352 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,880 Speaker 1: able to make this with cooperation from the military because 353 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:50,040 Speaker 1: after the first Top Gun came out, there was a 354 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:53,680 Speaker 1: huge boost and recruitment in the nineteen eighties for the 355 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:56,360 Speaker 1: Air Force, so they wanted to make the sequel as 356 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 1: accurate as possible, so they went back to the U. S. 357 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 1: Military to ask mission to film inside these fighter jets. 358 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:05,800 Speaker 1: The Pentagon even gave them access to a military base 359 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:08,879 Speaker 1: during filming to allow the cast members to work with 360 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:11,640 Speaker 1: real military personnel. So what you're seeing in the movie 361 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:14,440 Speaker 1: is footage of them really flying in military basis. Was 362 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:16,640 Speaker 1: a real action sequences. So what I think it's really 363 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:18,360 Speaker 1: gonna do for this movie is give us a real 364 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:20,280 Speaker 1: kind of feel of what it's like to be inside 365 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:23,120 Speaker 1: one of those plans from a perspective I've never seen 366 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:25,240 Speaker 1: done in a movie before. I mean, to get that 367 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 1: point of view from the cockpit on the big screen 368 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:30,480 Speaker 1: is the thing I'm just interested to see. So that's 369 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:33,040 Speaker 1: why I put it at number five. At number four, 370 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:35,159 Speaker 1: I had to go with Sonic the Hedgehog, which has 371 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 1: an interesting road to even get out in theaters. So 372 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 1: it's directed by Jeff Fowler, making his directorial debut, stars 373 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:44,520 Speaker 1: James Mars, then Ben Schwartz and Jim Carey as Dr 374 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 1: Real Butt Nick and comes out on February four. I'm 375 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:51,080 Speaker 1: going to give you five seconds to tell me where 376 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 1: it is. Wait, don't hurt of. So the movie is 377 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 1: based on the Sega video game Sonic the Hedgehog, which 378 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:00,119 Speaker 1: I played all the time as a kid. Now I 379 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:02,240 Speaker 1: grew up kind of broke, so my family never had 380 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:04,760 Speaker 1: a Sega, but my cousin down the street did and 381 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 1: that would go all the time to play Sega. I 382 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:10,160 Speaker 1: also loved the Saturday Morning cartoon where Sonic the Hedgehog 383 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:13,879 Speaker 1: was voiced by no other than Jalil White a k. A. Arkle, 384 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:16,560 Speaker 1: and for some reason he loved chili dogs on that 385 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:19,359 Speaker 1: which I never really understood. And after last year success 386 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:21,640 Speaker 1: of Detective Pikachu, I think movie studios now are looking 387 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:24,119 Speaker 1: at video game franchises as a way to kind of 388 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 1: get people in the theaters with a familiar premise already 389 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:29,680 Speaker 1: you already know the character from the video game and 390 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:32,680 Speaker 1: turning it into a movie. So again, not really a 391 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:35,720 Speaker 1: novel approach, just the way to get people more comfortable 392 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 1: and familiar with the character. The interesting thing about this movie, though, 393 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:41,280 Speaker 1: it was supposed to come out last year, but what 394 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:44,719 Speaker 1: happened was is they dropped a trailer where they showed 395 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:47,399 Speaker 1: Sonic and he looked way too realistic that it creud 396 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:49,760 Speaker 1: people out, like his eyes were kind of small and 397 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:53,280 Speaker 1: beedient human looking, and he had human teeth, and a 398 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:56,160 Speaker 1: bunch of people online were just like this looks terrible. 399 00:18:56,560 --> 00:18:58,760 Speaker 1: Which last year Cats had a problem with people not 400 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:01,280 Speaker 1: liking their c g I, where they went back in 401 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:05,280 Speaker 1: refix it and reput the movie out. So Sonic the 402 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:07,920 Speaker 1: hedgehot kind of got ahead of it here and said, Okay, 403 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,440 Speaker 1: people aren't liking this version of Sonic, they went back 404 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 1: and retooled them. They made his eyes more cartoony, like 405 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:17,040 Speaker 1: the character that we know, and they also changed the teeth, 406 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:19,800 Speaker 1: which makes them look a lot more friendlier and like 407 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 1: a cartoon character rather than just some alien. So I'm 408 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:25,480 Speaker 1: excited for this mainly for the nostalgia factor, but also 409 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:27,720 Speaker 1: just to see how Jim Carrey pulls off a dr 410 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:30,120 Speaker 1: Robut Nick, that's why I put it at number four. 411 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:32,600 Speaker 1: At number three is a movie a lot of people 412 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 1: were asking for for a really long time, and now 413 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 1: it's finally here. I'm talking about Black Widow starring Scarlett Johansson, 414 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 1: directed by Kay Shortland, female director, which will be opening 415 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:47,119 Speaker 1: on May one. I've lived a lot of lives, but 416 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 1: I'm done running from my past. So Scarlett Johanson, who's 417 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:55,359 Speaker 1: Black Widow a k a. Natasha Romanov, is finally getting 418 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 1: her own movie. And this is Marvel's and this is 419 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:00,680 Speaker 1: the way Marvel is kicking off. It's Phase four. So 420 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 1: what Phase four is everything that has come after the 421 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:06,680 Speaker 1: last Avengers movie and their leap intol like this whole 422 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:09,720 Speaker 1: new part of the universe. So what this movie is 423 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:13,280 Speaker 1: is actually a prequel to Scarlett Johansson's character. And while 424 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:15,920 Speaker 1: the trailer has been out for a while now, there's 425 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 1: not a whole lot of story on what the plot 426 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:20,680 Speaker 1: is going to be about, aside from the time frame 427 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:24,040 Speaker 1: it takes place in. So chronologically, this movie takes place 428 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 1: after Captain America Civil War and then right before Avengers 429 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:30,280 Speaker 1: Infinity War. To catch you up just about what was 430 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:33,360 Speaker 1: happening with Black Widow during that time. Civil War ended 431 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:36,120 Speaker 1: with Black Widow on the run after helping Captain America 432 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 1: escape you know Iron Man when he's kind of trying 433 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:40,600 Speaker 1: to prosecute him. So after that her character was in 434 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 1: hiding until Standos came around in Infinity War, which forced 435 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,240 Speaker 1: her to come out of hiding and helped the Avengers. 436 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 1: They do give us a look at the bad guy 437 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,880 Speaker 1: in the movie named task Master. You also have David 438 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:53,560 Speaker 1: Harbor who plays as the Sheriff, and Stranger Things as 439 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 1: the Red Guardian, and also a very rumored cameo by 440 00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 1: Tony Stark played by Robert Downey Jr. Since is a 441 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:03,800 Speaker 1: prequel and takes place before Avengers Community War, it is 442 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:07,640 Speaker 1: a possibility. Another cool thing about this movie as Scarlett 443 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,600 Speaker 1: Johansson has reportedly made fifteen million for this role, which 444 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:13,640 Speaker 1: is the same amount of money that Chris Evans made 445 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:17,119 Speaker 1: playing Captain America and Chris Hemsworth made playing Thor in 446 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 1: their own movies. So we're getting equal pay here and 447 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:23,320 Speaker 1: just for comparison here, Like in Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman 448 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 1: made two million dollars to starring that first solo movie, 449 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:29,119 Speaker 1: and Brie Larson made five million dollars to starring Captain Marvel, 450 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 1: which also required her to sign a seven movie deal 451 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:34,399 Speaker 1: with Marvel. So I think Marvel right now isn't a 452 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 1: bit of a transition period. With The Avengers pretty much 453 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:39,640 Speaker 1: being over, they're kind of looking for their next big 454 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:42,400 Speaker 1: thing and where to take the franchise, which I think 455 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:45,119 Speaker 1: this will be a big building gear for Marvel. They 456 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:47,680 Speaker 1: don't have as many titles coming out this year, and 457 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:50,199 Speaker 1: there's also a larger gap in between movies as there 458 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:53,399 Speaker 1: has been since probably, but I think this could be 459 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 1: a really big movie, and I'm excited for Scarlett Johanson 460 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:59,080 Speaker 1: to finally beginning her solo movie. That's why I put 461 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:02,000 Speaker 1: it at number three. And it looks like I'm staying 462 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:04,840 Speaker 1: with the theme of female leads and comic book movies 463 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 1: because at number two I have Birds of Prey and 464 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:12,680 Speaker 1: The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn long title. It's 465 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:18,120 Speaker 1: directed by Kathyn Yes, another female director directing a female 466 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:21,920 Speaker 1: starring comic book movie, opening on February seven, and Margot 467 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:25,879 Speaker 1: Robbie back as Harley Quinn. It's psycho Chip never calling 468 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:31,720 Speaker 1: them the check broad Lady. So Hargara Robbie as Harley 469 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:35,399 Speaker 1: Quinn made her big screen debut in The Steen Suicide Squad, 470 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:39,040 Speaker 1: which was an overall poorly rated movie, but I do 471 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 1: feel like she was the one shining light that DC 472 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,479 Speaker 1: had in this movie and the ability to take her 473 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:46,720 Speaker 1: out of that and place her into her own movie, 474 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:49,320 Speaker 1: which is kind of a Suicide Squad sequel in a 475 00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:52,520 Speaker 1: way because it takes place right after that movie. But 476 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:55,040 Speaker 1: yet they're also making Suicide Squad two, so I think 477 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:56,879 Speaker 1: they're just trying to bridge the gap with having a 478 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 1: hit in between. So where this movie takes place, it's 479 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:01,800 Speaker 1: right after a Suicide Squad. There's a brand new villain 480 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:04,359 Speaker 1: named Black Mask, and the main plot of the movie 481 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 1: is that Harley Quinn and the rest of the Birds 482 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 1: of Prey, which is like this gang of girls, they 483 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 1: team up together to protect a young girl who came 484 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:13,119 Speaker 1: across a diamond that belongs to Black Mask, and it 485 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:16,080 Speaker 1: just so happens that that young girl is named Cassandra Caine, 486 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,639 Speaker 1: who turns out to be bad Girl. There's also rumored 487 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:22,120 Speaker 1: to be a Joker cameo, which was played by Jared 488 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:25,400 Speaker 1: Letto in the first Suicide Squad. Probably the worst portrayal 489 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:27,960 Speaker 1: ever of Joker. He I thought he was just too cartoony, 490 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 1: too weird, and didn't really add anything to the movie. 491 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:32,960 Speaker 1: I felt like they just put the Joker in there 492 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:34,960 Speaker 1: to get kind of people interested in the movie. The 493 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 1: reason I'm excited about this movie though, is because it's 494 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 1: rated are Suicide Squad was rated PG thirteen, and I 495 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,840 Speaker 1: think that really hurt the movie because it came out 496 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:46,480 Speaker 1: after Deadpool was such a big hit. And if you 497 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 1: don't remember Deadpool, the first one star Ryan Reynolds, and 498 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,840 Speaker 1: it really was the first R rated Marvel movie. Was 499 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,000 Speaker 1: more violent. There was cursing, and it just fit. And 500 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:57,879 Speaker 1: after that came out, d C was kind of like, 501 00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:00,359 Speaker 1: oh no, that was actually a big sick tess and 502 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:03,520 Speaker 1: we're kind of trying to tell a more grittier style movie, 503 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:06,120 Speaker 1: but we have a PG thirteen rating. They went back 504 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,240 Speaker 1: and did some reshoots to kind of pump up the 505 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:10,800 Speaker 1: comedy a bit, but they still refrain from making that 506 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 1: leap into an R rated movie because with these comic 507 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 1: book movies, you want them to be entertaining two adults, 508 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 1: but you also want to consider that you want to 509 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:20,959 Speaker 1: get everybody in the theater, which means if it's an 510 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,040 Speaker 1: R rated movie, you lose out on the kid audience. Now, 511 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:26,520 Speaker 1: I did some research on the movie numbers. I couldn't 512 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:29,760 Speaker 1: find exactly how much Margot Robbie was played for the 513 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:31,639 Speaker 1: first one, but she wasn't the main character in that, 514 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 1: so I don't think it would be comparable. But she 515 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:37,040 Speaker 1: did take home between nine and ten million dollars playing 516 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:38,960 Speaker 1: Harley Quinn in this one. So while I'm not the 517 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,119 Speaker 1: biggest DC comics fan, I love a good R rated 518 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 1: comic book movie and that's why I put this at 519 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,560 Speaker 1: number two. But before I get into my number one 520 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:51,280 Speaker 1: most anticipated movie of I want to give some honorable mentions. 521 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:53,920 Speaker 1: These didn't quite make the list either because there's no 522 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 1: trailer out, not many details on the plot, or I'm 523 00:24:57,359 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 1: just on the fence whether or not they're going to 524 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:01,399 Speaker 1: be good, But I think they do to serve a 525 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,360 Speaker 1: shout out. Coming out on August twenty one, this Bill 526 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 1: and Ted Faced the Music, which I think will just 527 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:09,200 Speaker 1: be a fun movie. You also have coming out on 528 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:12,720 Speaker 1: March seven is the live action Mulan, which I've gone 529 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:14,560 Speaker 1: back and forth on how I feel about that trailer. 530 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:16,800 Speaker 1: I think this one may be the one that kind 531 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 1: of ends the trend of these successful live action Disney remakes, 532 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,879 Speaker 1: just because this one doesn't have really the charm of 533 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,480 Speaker 1: the cartoon at all. It almost just looks like a 534 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:27,800 Speaker 1: straight up Disney war movie, which I don't know how 535 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:29,879 Speaker 1: audiences are going to receive that. Like the good thing 536 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,080 Speaker 1: about the cartoon Milan is there were some comic relief 537 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 1: with Eddie Murphy as the dragon, but this one there's 538 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 1: no dragon. You also have coming out on March twenty 539 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,840 Speaker 1: A Quiet Place Part two, and then on November sixty 540 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 1: have Marvel's Eternals, which is kind of their new Avengers, 541 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:46,959 Speaker 1: but there's no trailer out really not a whole lot 542 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,359 Speaker 1: of details aside from the cast who's in it. So 543 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,840 Speaker 1: it just barely missed my list and at number one 544 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:56,800 Speaker 1: my most anticipated movie of I'm staying in the theme 545 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:01,359 Speaker 1: of female comic book characters. Also direct did by females, 546 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:06,600 Speaker 1: It's wonder Woman starring Galghadad, directed by Patty Jenkins, who 547 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 1: did the first one, opening on June five, A right, 548 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:16,720 Speaker 1: that's just a trash can ash can ye, so kind 549 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 1: of like Harley Quinn and Suicide Squad. Wonder Woman also 550 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:23,000 Speaker 1: made her debut in what is just a pretty badly 551 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:27,480 Speaker 1: reviewed movie, Batman Versus Superman, which I've never walked out 552 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:29,680 Speaker 1: during a movie. But what I do is I fall 553 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,359 Speaker 1: asleep during movies when they're boring, and that is a movie. 554 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:35,960 Speaker 1: I took a good two minute napin woke up and 555 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:39,159 Speaker 1: still not much had happened. The one shining light in 556 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:42,160 Speaker 1: that movie was wonder Woman, and from that she got 557 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:44,399 Speaker 1: her own movie, which actually has one of the highest 558 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,480 Speaker 1: ratings for any superhero movie ever made. So when this one, 559 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:50,479 Speaker 1: she's fighting not one but two villains. One is her 560 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:53,760 Speaker 1: former friend turned villain played by Kristin Wig and the 561 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 1: other is this business guy villain played by Pedro Pascal, 562 00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,119 Speaker 1: who you know from The Mandalorian. He was also in 563 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:02,840 Speaker 1: Narcos and Game of Thrones. So it's called wonder Woman 564 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,720 Speaker 1: four because it takes place well in nineteen eighty four, 565 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,520 Speaker 1: and you also have Chris Pine coming back as the 566 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:11,119 Speaker 1: love interest. So initially what DC was gonna do was 567 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,240 Speaker 1: the same thing Marvel was doing, where everybody would have 568 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 1: their own movie and it would lead up to like 569 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,240 Speaker 1: Everybody joined together and like the Avengers. So they had 570 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,359 Speaker 1: Justice League, which turned out to be a major flop, 571 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:23,600 Speaker 1: and wonder Woman again was the only good part in that. 572 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 1: And with Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill backing out as 573 00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:30,560 Speaker 1: Batman and Superman, you're left with really just Wonder Woman 574 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,399 Speaker 1: and Aquaman. For them to rely on. Not only that, 575 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,680 Speaker 1: but now Galga Dot is getting paid, which there was 576 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:38,639 Speaker 1: a lot of controversy with what she got paid for 577 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 1: the first one, where she only made three hundred thousand 578 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,679 Speaker 1: dollars compared to Henry Cavill who got paid like twenty 579 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:48,240 Speaker 1: million dollars to play Superman. She was making a fraction 580 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,639 Speaker 1: of that. So here she's getting ten million dollars to 581 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,480 Speaker 1: come back as Wonder Woman, which is a pretty significant 582 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:56,159 Speaker 1: bump in pay. But I think that the fact that 583 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:59,119 Speaker 1: she's really carrying DC right now, they need to give 584 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:01,600 Speaker 1: her more money, like double that for a Wonder Woman. 585 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:03,960 Speaker 1: So I'm just excited to see the continuation of Wonder 586 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,480 Speaker 1: Woman's story with Galgha Dot and that is why I 587 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,200 Speaker 1: put it as my number one most anticipated movie of 588 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:12,639 Speaker 1: That is my top five list of the week. Let 589 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:14,119 Speaker 1: me know what you thought about my picks, and if 590 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:16,160 Speaker 1: there's a movie you're looking forward to one that maybe 591 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,560 Speaker 1: I missed, let me know. All right, gonna get into 592 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,040 Speaker 1: it now. My review of The Irishman, which you can 593 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:23,639 Speaker 1: watch on Netflix. That is, if you have an extra 594 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,240 Speaker 1: three hours and twenty nine minutes to spare well, the 595 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 1: movie is actually three hours and twenty minutes. There's an 596 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,240 Speaker 1: entire nine minutes of just credits because this movie is 597 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:33,640 Speaker 1: so long, so I set aside some time to really 598 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:35,840 Speaker 1: take in this movie. From Martin Scorsese, who is a 599 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 1: legendary director, which you would know from Casino, The Wolf 600 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 1: of Wall Street and my favorite Good Fellas. This movie 601 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,960 Speaker 1: is actually based on a real story. It's based on 602 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:47,719 Speaker 1: a memoir called I Heard You Paint Houses, and it's 603 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,200 Speaker 1: about a mob hitman played by Robert de Niro and 604 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:52,640 Speaker 1: its possible involvement with the killing of a guy named 605 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 1: Jimmy Hoffa. I got a lot to say about this one, 606 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,080 Speaker 1: so before we get into it, here's a clip of 607 00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,880 Speaker 1: the irishman only tweet people in the world I wanted 608 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:03,440 Speaker 1: ease and only one of them as Irish and how 609 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:05,720 Speaker 1: strong I made you. So I did a lot of 610 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:07,920 Speaker 1: research on this movie, not only on how accurate it 611 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,840 Speaker 1: is to portraying the real events, but also how long 612 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:12,680 Speaker 1: this movie took to be made, because it was actually 613 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,680 Speaker 1: in development since two thousand and seven, and it kind 614 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:17,880 Speaker 1: of had a whole different plot in the beginning, Like 615 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:19,880 Speaker 1: Tara Reid was supposed to be the love interest in 616 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 1: this glad they didn't go with her. Joe Petchy, who's 617 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:24,720 Speaker 1: in the movie, who you would know from also in 618 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,520 Speaker 1: Good Fellas. He was also the bad guy in Home Alone, 619 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,080 Speaker 1: but he said no to Martin Scorsese fifty times before 620 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:33,680 Speaker 1: finally agreeing to be in this, And he hasn't been 621 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,200 Speaker 1: in a movie in over ten years. And not only 622 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,240 Speaker 1: is it Martin Scorsese's longest film to date at two 623 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,080 Speaker 1: hundred and nine minutes, it's also one of his most 624 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,560 Speaker 1: expensive movies ever, with the budget of a hundred and 625 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:47,760 Speaker 1: fifty nine million, which is pretty expensive. And it finally 626 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:49,760 Speaker 1: got the green light from Netflix, which I think it's 627 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:53,160 Speaker 1: so long because it's essentially a director's cut because Netflix, 628 00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:55,080 Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna tell Martin Scorsese, hey, you 629 00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:57,440 Speaker 1: need to trim it down a bit. They're pretty exciting 630 00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 1: to get a Martin Scorsese film the directly on Netflix. 631 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,120 Speaker 1: So at three hours and twenty nine minutes, that is 632 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:06,000 Speaker 1: the director's cut, Martin Scorsese saying, if you want my movie, 633 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:08,960 Speaker 1: you get it in its entirety. As a director, I'm 634 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,600 Speaker 1: a fan of the guy, but personally I think he's 635 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:14,840 Speaker 1: just maybe a little old and cranky because he's the 636 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,160 Speaker 1: guy who said Marvel movies aren't real movies, that they're 637 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,560 Speaker 1: non films. And I get it. If you're making really 638 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:22,160 Speaker 1: epic crime dramas like Martin Scorsese, and then you see 639 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,760 Speaker 1: movies like The Avengers making tons of money, you may 640 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,280 Speaker 1: feel like your craft is taking back a bit because 641 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:29,720 Speaker 1: people are seeing these is like really big blockbusters. But 642 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:32,360 Speaker 1: for him it's like, no, it's an old school storytelling, 643 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:36,080 Speaker 1: very cinematic, you know, all these other just classic movie 644 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:38,480 Speaker 1: telling elements, and when he sees those big things, he 645 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:40,280 Speaker 1: wants to take a stab at them, And I think 646 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:42,560 Speaker 1: it just makes him look old and kind of dated. 647 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:44,520 Speaker 1: And I also think it's just kind of interesting that 648 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,600 Speaker 1: he had agreed to put it solely on Netflix. I 649 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:51,280 Speaker 1: think if you're arguing that movies like Marvel, I think 650 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:54,480 Speaker 1: if you're making the argument that Avengers movies are films, 651 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,920 Speaker 1: and you're putting something directly on a streaming service, well 652 00:30:57,960 --> 00:30:59,920 Speaker 1: you could argue, well, then you could kind of say, 653 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,440 Speaker 1: if a movie doesn't go in theaters at a full release, 654 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,640 Speaker 1: is it really a movie? Martin Scorsese because he was 655 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,480 Speaker 1: even getting mad at people and telling them not to 656 00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:11,840 Speaker 1: watch his movie on your phone because Netflix. It's available 657 00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:13,440 Speaker 1: on your phone. People are gonna watch this wherever. And 658 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,080 Speaker 1: he's like, no, you gotta sit down and know, Martin Scorsese, 659 00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:18,440 Speaker 1: if your movie is on Netflix, people are gonna watch 660 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,040 Speaker 1: it on their laptop, on their phone. That is the 661 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,880 Speaker 1: beauty of Netflix. So really, my only problem with his 662 00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:27,280 Speaker 1: is he can't pick and choose how he feels about 663 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,760 Speaker 1: changes in cinema. Okay, so that's my quick Martin Scorsese 664 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,440 Speaker 1: ran before I get into this review. I actually enjoyed 665 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,600 Speaker 1: the movie. So the backstory on this it's based on 666 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,920 Speaker 1: a guy named Frank Sharon, a k a. The Irishman, 667 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:42,200 Speaker 1: who was an American labor union official accused of having 668 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:45,200 Speaker 1: links to the Buffalino crime family. And the whole movie 669 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:46,960 Speaker 1: is based on a book called I Heard You Paint 670 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:50,760 Speaker 1: Houses and told from the perspective of Robert de Niro's character, 671 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:52,960 Speaker 1: who was involved in all these crimes in the movie. 672 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:54,960 Speaker 1: So the book was written by a guy named Charles 673 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,719 Speaker 1: Brandt who wrote the memoir about Frank Sharon, who claimed 674 00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:02,160 Speaker 1: that he killed between twenty five and thirty people, although 675 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:05,760 Speaker 1: he couldn't remember an exact number, so he basically confessed 676 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:07,720 Speaker 1: all this stuff. And this guy put it in a memoir, 677 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,600 Speaker 1: and the guy, Frank Shearon, actually died the year after 678 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,560 Speaker 1: this memoir came out, and it was never actually revealed 679 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,280 Speaker 1: how accurate everything he confessed to was because he was 680 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:19,480 Speaker 1: never actually convicted of any murder. Because it covers a 681 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:21,720 Speaker 1: lot of history in the movie, everything from like the 682 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:25,880 Speaker 1: Mafia and Washington Ties, also touches on Castro's rise in 683 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,960 Speaker 1: Cuba and the CIA's attempts to overthrow him. It also 684 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,520 Speaker 1: talks about the mob connection between JFK's assassination, and then 685 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:34,320 Speaker 1: it kind of wraps up in the mob wars of 686 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,680 Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties and seventies. It's basically like the mobster 687 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:40,840 Speaker 1: version of Forrest Gump, told in the style of Good Fellas. 688 00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:44,200 Speaker 1: The cast is also amazing, and they're all in their seventies. 689 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,560 Speaker 1: You have Robert de Niro at seventy six, Joe Pesci 690 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:50,040 Speaker 1: also at seventy six, and Albacino at seventy nine. The 691 00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,160 Speaker 1: problem I did have with them being so much older 692 00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:55,880 Speaker 1: is they do the flashback scenes, but in the flashback 693 00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:59,160 Speaker 1: scenes they d aged them, so essentially they're playing the 694 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:01,360 Speaker 1: same age as they did in Good Fellas, but now 695 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:04,360 Speaker 1: they have digitally reaged them to make them look younger, 696 00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:08,160 Speaker 1: and it's been used in movies before. I remember whenever 697 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,600 Speaker 1: Robert Downey Jr. Showed a younger version of himself as 698 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:13,960 Speaker 1: Iron Man, they were able to do that in a 699 00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:16,720 Speaker 1: way where it was okay, unbelievable, but it was also 700 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:18,880 Speaker 1: for a shorter amount of time that was like maybe 701 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:22,320 Speaker 1: a two minute scene, where in this movie almost the 702 00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,320 Speaker 1: entire thing is Robert de Niro as a younger version 703 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:28,560 Speaker 1: of himself, So it's just a bit distracting, like seeing 704 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,360 Speaker 1: his face like with the wrinkle smooth out. I think 705 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:33,480 Speaker 1: the real story kind of comes out in the last 706 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:36,200 Speaker 1: hour of it. I think underneath the surface of the movie, 707 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:38,920 Speaker 1: what you get is a story about a guy aging, 708 00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:42,840 Speaker 1: getting older, dealing with lost sin and regret. So while 709 00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:46,160 Speaker 1: it was a daunting three hours in twenty nine minutes, 710 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,240 Speaker 1: I think the movie was entertaining. Now I'm not gonna 711 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:52,120 Speaker 1: say that it didn't feel like three hours in twenty 712 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,600 Speaker 1: nine minutes. No matter how entertaining it was, it did 713 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:58,280 Speaker 1: feel that long. So I think that takes a little 714 00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,239 Speaker 1: bit away from it. I think it could have been 715 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:02,480 Speaker 1: chopped down. There were some parts of the story that 716 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:04,760 Speaker 1: just really didn't need to be explored. I felt it 717 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:08,040 Speaker 1: was just kind of boasting that really long run time. 718 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,239 Speaker 1: But it is an entertaining movie. You kind of have 719 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,080 Speaker 1: to take it in as like you're binge watching an 720 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:15,640 Speaker 1: entire TV showed once. So maybe breaking it up into 721 00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:17,880 Speaker 1: like our increments would kind of make it a little 722 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:20,520 Speaker 1: easier to chew and maybe more enjoyable. I watched it 723 00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:22,400 Speaker 1: all at once, just because I wanted to take it 724 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:24,800 Speaker 1: all in, but I did find myself at points of 725 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:26,440 Speaker 1: like an hour and a half in thinking Okay, this 726 00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:28,239 Speaker 1: movie has to be wrapping up by now, and no, 727 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,640 Speaker 1: there were still a solid two hours left. So I 728 00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:35,280 Speaker 1: would rate at three point five out of five Hitman, 729 00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:38,400 Speaker 1: which if it were an hour lesson runtime, would easily 730 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:40,840 Speaker 1: bump it up to four. But I think it's just 731 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:43,759 Speaker 1: too long. So if you're a fan of Wolf of 732 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:45,680 Speaker 1: Wall Street, if you're a fan of good Fellows, I 733 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,200 Speaker 1: do think you will enjoy this movie. My suggestion is 734 00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,600 Speaker 1: just to kind of break it down into more watchable chunks. 735 00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:53,840 Speaker 1: The beauty of it is it is on Netflix, so 736 00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:55,800 Speaker 1: you can kind of pick it back up and start 737 00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:57,799 Speaker 1: as you want, and if you really want to stick 738 00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:00,800 Speaker 1: into Martin Scorsese. Watch the entire thing on your iPad. 739 00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:03,719 Speaker 1: All right, and that's the show for this week. Thanks 740 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:05,799 Speaker 1: so much for checking out this episode. It really means 741 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:07,360 Speaker 1: a lot when you guys are tagging me in your 742 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:09,640 Speaker 1: Instagram story. So I'm gonna give a shout out over 743 00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:13,080 Speaker 1: the week to at Lauren Elizabeth three sixteen, who tagged 744 00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:14,839 Speaker 1: me that she was listening to the show last week. 745 00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:16,720 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, do to get a shout out is tagged 746 00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:19,480 Speaker 1: me in your Instagram story, just a screenshot that you're listening. 747 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:21,480 Speaker 1: I'll repost those throughout the week and then give you 748 00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:24,560 Speaker 1: a shoutout on next week's episode. 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Any movie 758 00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,080 Speaker 1: questions you have or topics you think I should cover. 759 00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,200 Speaker 1: I'm gonna pull something from that to talk about next week, 760 00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:56,120 Speaker 1: so send them in now. I'll talk to you again 761 00:35:56,239 --> 00:36:00,920 Speaker 1: next Monday. Thanks so much for listening. Later, Tilt Ti