1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,440 Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I 2 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:04,640 Speaker 1: am your host Movie Mike, joined today by my wife 3 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 1: and co host Kelsey. 4 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 2: How are you. 5 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 3: I'm great, it's sunny, it's the beginning of May, it's 6 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:11,119 Speaker 3: almost the anniversary of our first date. 7 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 1: So many things, and it is time to talk about 8 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:17,079 Speaker 1: our best and worst movies we saw in April. In 9 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:19,799 Speaker 1: the movie review, we'll be talking about Emily Blunt and 10 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:21,960 Speaker 1: Ryan Gosling and The Fall Guy. And in the trailer 11 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:25,880 Speaker 1: park Mufasa the Lion King. 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All right, let's get 26 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 2: right into it. What was the best movie in your opinion? 27 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 3: From April Easy Challengers. I love Zundeia. I thought it 28 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 3: was so well done. The casting was perfect. I liked 29 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 3: the going back and forth in time. The cinematography was great, 30 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:24,399 Speaker 3: like some of the shots where you like, feel like 31 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 3: you are the tennis ball. Like I just thought, overall, 32 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:28,840 Speaker 3: it was an extremely well done movie. 33 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:31,200 Speaker 1: And overall it was one that evoked a lot of 34 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 1: emotion in the audience. In our theater, there was a 35 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 1: lot of reactions during several different parts. 36 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:38,120 Speaker 3: One girl leaned over to her friend I could hear, 37 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 3: and she goes, what is this movie? 38 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 2: It's one of those movies. 39 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 1: And I was talking about in my review of it 40 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 1: that I was surprised by not the level of nudity 41 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 1: that it had, but the level of male nudity. 42 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 3: Watching HBO, which is yeah, I was like, I don't, 43 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 3: We're watching euphoria. 44 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 1: We're used to seeing That's true, We're used to seeing 45 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 1: that at home more than we are in theater. Was 46 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: that jarring to you to see the male wiener and 47 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 1: the male butt in a public setting? 48 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 3: No, Because one time I took my Grandma to a 49 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 3: movie and there was male nudity, and I felt so bad. 50 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 4: If you can just imagine me me being like. 51 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: Oh, it's just so much more assaulting, like female nudity 52 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 1: in a movie we don't really notice, which there's not really. 53 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 3: No, that's not true because in Oppenheimer, all anyone could 54 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 3: talk about was always all Florence Pew's boobs. 55 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: We also saw that in seventy millimeter Imax, so it 56 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 1: was the entire screen was just their boobs. 57 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:32,079 Speaker 3: People are always talking about female nudity, They're always talking 58 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 3: about should I go back to my free the nipple tangent. 59 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 1: But it's not as surprising when you see a Wiener 60 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: on screen. 61 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 2: It's like whoa saying that? 62 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 6: What? 63 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 4: We yes? 64 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:44,359 Speaker 3: But also like this isn't a spoiler. It's in a 65 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 3: locker room context, like you kind of. It wasn't like 66 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:48,240 Speaker 3: he was just like whipping it out right. 67 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:50,639 Speaker 2: It was a locker. 68 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 4: Room where you're like, okay, yeah, like men are taking. 69 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:53,680 Speaker 2: A shower, and there it is. 70 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 3: We've just watched so much HBO in Victoria that at 71 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:58,240 Speaker 3: this point I'm just like, there's another one. 72 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: Like I wasn't as shocked, but just seeing other people 73 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 1: react to it. I thought one that movies have kind 74 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:08,239 Speaker 1: of got away from having nudity in movies. The R 75 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 1: rating keeps some people away from seeing it, and some 76 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:15,680 Speaker 1: people are still aren't fully comfortable with nudity. So just 77 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 1: to see it on a movie of this scale, commit 78 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 1: to it. I was like, oh, yeah, some people aren't 79 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 1: going to like this. 80 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 4: Listen. 81 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 3: I was more offended visually shocked when they caught off 82 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 3: her head at the start of Napoleon. 83 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, the movie's very brutal. Not a spoiler, it happens 84 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 1: pretty soon in the movie like that. 85 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 4: To me, it was like cover my eyes. 86 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: That movie as a whole I had some pretty brutal violence, 87 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 1: not only to humans but also to animals. 88 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 4: But this I was like, whatever, Yeah, I loved it. 89 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 1: Still, I stand by my four point five out of 90 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 1: five rating. 91 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 2: What would you give it? You have it a five 92 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 2: oh five. 93 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 4: It kicked off the summer blockbusters. 94 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:55,400 Speaker 1: I feel like April as a whole was a really 95 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: solid month. It was there were so many great movies. 96 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 1: For me, my best I think I'm still a little 97 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 1: bit too close to Challengers. I have a little recency 98 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 1: bias that I feel like saying that was my favorite 99 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 1: overall would be too soon to say that, although I 100 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 1: do have it on my list of potential best movies 101 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 1: of the year, like I already put it on that 102 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 1: list because I think it was that good. 103 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:18,280 Speaker 2: But for me, I'm gonna go best to still Civil War. 104 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 3: Also, it's very hot that you just said recency bias, 105 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 3: like that's such like a public health term. I know 106 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 3: you're using it in a movie context. Oh really, that 107 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:26,839 Speaker 3: was a good one. 108 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:27,839 Speaker 2: I've just heard that a lot. 109 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 1: But I would go at Civil War because it is 110 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 1: the movie I've seen this month and have continued to 111 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 1: think about and go back to, and it's one that 112 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 1: right now I immediately want. 113 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 2: To go back and rewatch it. 114 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 1: Rarely do I go back and rewatch a movie in theaters, 115 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:44,279 Speaker 1: just because we already go once a week. It's hard 116 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:46,360 Speaker 1: to go back and revisit a movie have time while 117 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 1: it's still in theaters because there's always something new coming 118 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:50,279 Speaker 1: out that I need to go see. But this is 119 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 1: one that I can't wait until it goes on to streaming, 120 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 1: which it'll probably still be another thirty forty five days. 121 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 1: But I need to see it again because I was 122 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: expecting something when we first went to go see it, 123 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 1: and now knowing what it is, I think I will 124 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,800 Speaker 1: be able to enjoy it even more and it could 125 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 1: move up from the four out of five that I 126 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:10,800 Speaker 1: gave it to a five, because I do think it's 127 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 1: that good, it has that much potential. But in my head, 128 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be more about the 129 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:19,600 Speaker 1: actual Second Civil War going on and more about the backstory, 130 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:24,160 Speaker 1: and what it really was was about photojournalism and the 131 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 1: implications that come along with taking photographs of really awful things. 132 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:30,920 Speaker 3: Well, this is a great segway because I loved it, 133 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 3: but I'm going to give it my least favorite of 134 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:36,040 Speaker 3: the month really because it wasn't what I was expecting 135 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:38,360 Speaker 3: and I was so physically stressed during the whole thing. 136 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 3: It reminded me of how stressed I felt during Joker, 137 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 3: Like at one point, I like scrunched down in my 138 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:44,360 Speaker 3: seat and hid behind the guy in front of me 139 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 3: his head because I just needed like a little break 140 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 3: from what was on the screen. Least Favorite not because 141 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:51,480 Speaker 3: I didn't like it, but because my blood pressure was elevated. 142 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 1: I think that's where we differ in I like stressful movies. 143 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:57,720 Speaker 1: You love a stressful I like movies that at times 144 00:05:57,800 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 1: will literally keep me on the edge of my seat. 145 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,520 Speaker 3: It's shocking because you're already a high stressed person, and like, 146 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 3: why do you want to be further stressed. 147 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 1: I think it's because I like movies that evoke an 148 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:09,279 Speaker 1: emotion in me. To be able just to sit there 149 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:11,360 Speaker 1: in a room and watch something that'll get my heart 150 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 1: rate up, that's a powerful thing. So I like feeling that. 151 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:15,960 Speaker 1: So that's why I like horror movies. 152 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:16,640 Speaker 2: That's why I like. 153 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:19,919 Speaker 1: Really intense thrillers. The way Civil War did that was 154 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:24,280 Speaker 1: with really loud sound effects, which was by design of 155 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 1: these very visceral sounding gunshots and rumbles that while you're 156 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:31,719 Speaker 1: watching it, when you're not expecting it just boom. And 157 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:34,839 Speaker 1: that also adds to the level of anxiety that the 158 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 1: characters are going through. So the director Alex Garland was 159 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,000 Speaker 1: able to also make you feel that stress as well. 160 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: So I find that to be powerful. But I could 161 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:47,160 Speaker 1: see if you don't like those situations, how you would 162 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:49,279 Speaker 1: not have a good time watching that movie, especially in theaters. 163 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:50,920 Speaker 1: I think it would be different watching it at home 164 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:55,120 Speaker 1: because it's not as loud, it's not as much you're 165 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:58,160 Speaker 1: engulfed in it, So I wonder if people would still 166 00:06:58,160 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: be as stress watching that movie at home. 167 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 4: One of tho Storre. 168 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 3: I felt so stressed, I didn't even want my movie snacks, 169 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 3: and we all know that's my favorite part of a movie. 170 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 2: You gotta have your snack. 171 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:06,360 Speaker 4: Couldn't eat it. 172 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 2: So that's your worst, my worst favorite worst. 173 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 4: Okay, it wasn't a bad movie, true least favorite. 174 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 1: For my least favorite, but I'm gonna say worst is 175 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 1: Rebel Moon Part two, The Scargiver. 176 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 4: I didn't even realize that was out. When did you 177 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 4: watch that? 178 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 1: I watched it last weekend. But here's the thing. I 179 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 1: didn't finish it, so it's not a movie. I will 180 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 1: give my full review treatment too, but I decided to 181 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 1: include it here because it was so bad. Now the 182 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: first one came out and I was able to stomach it. 183 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 1: It's Zack Snyder and it's almost him trying to do 184 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 1: his own. 185 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:42,880 Speaker 2: Version of Star Wars. The first one was all over 186 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 2: the place. 187 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 4: I watched like fifteen minutes of it with you, and 188 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 4: I was like, what is this. 189 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:50,400 Speaker 1: It's a lot of slow motion action shots, but some 190 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 1: of it actually looked pretty cool, and the story moved 191 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:56,160 Speaker 1: along enough to make me complete that movie. But he 192 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 1: filmed these two movies together, put out part one last 193 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 1: year and put it out part two this year. They're 194 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: both about two hours, so dude can't make a project 195 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 1: under four hours, apparently, And this one was so bad 196 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 1: within the first fifteen minutes, I could not finish it, 197 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:12,600 Speaker 1: so I kept going. I probably watched forty five minutes 198 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 1: of the movie before deciding there's no point in me 199 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 1: finishing this movie. The story didn't make sense. It was 200 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 1: those same visual things in the first one that were 201 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 1: so repetitive and so overused. I just feel like streaming 202 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 1: movies have really taken a dip in the last two 203 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:29,440 Speaker 1: years when it comes to creating the same level of 204 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:31,840 Speaker 1: quality that you can go see in theaters. 205 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:34,360 Speaker 3: It was giving budget hula movie from what I remember, 206 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:36,600 Speaker 3: and it was not a small budget, oh not at all. 207 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 4: That's what it was giving. 208 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:40,080 Speaker 1: But it's very apparent while watching it that it was 209 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 1: filmed in a big warehouse and it just lacks so 210 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:47,559 Speaker 1: much authenticity, which Zack Snyder has been kind of notorious. 211 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:49,640 Speaker 1: Not a great director, he started out as a really 212 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 1: great cinematographer, which is what this movie does have. Like 213 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 1: there are some shots that look really great, and in 214 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:59,720 Speaker 1: principle it's probably more visually appealing than some of his 215 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:02,080 Speaker 1: other work, but there's just nothing to the story, and 216 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:04,080 Speaker 1: it's trying to create this really big world that just 217 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 1: isn't there. So that was my worst. But we did 218 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:09,559 Speaker 1: see a lot of other good movies. Monkey Man was good, 219 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: which I gave out a lot of fours this month. 220 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:12,559 Speaker 2: I don't think I. 221 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:16,319 Speaker 1: Gave out anything lower than a four. When it came 222 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 1: to the movies I saw in theaters. Monkey Man, Civil 223 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 1: War was a four. Also saw Unsung Hero, which I 224 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:22,319 Speaker 1: guess I had a screener to that gave that a 225 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:24,439 Speaker 1: four out of five, Challengers a four point five out 226 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 1: of five. We also went to see The Ministry of 227 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 1: Ungentlemanly Warfare, which was a movie I wasn't expecting to 228 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 1: like from Guy Ritchie. Ended up loving that movie, really 229 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 1: enjoyed it. That is a movie that didn't do well 230 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 1: at the box office. It had about a fifty to 231 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 1: sixty million dollar budget and made like twenty five percent 232 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:41,840 Speaker 1: of that. 233 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:43,839 Speaker 4: It's not a good return on investment, but. 234 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:46,679 Speaker 1: It also proves to you they also didn't have it 235 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:49,080 Speaker 1: in as many countries as some of these other movies. 236 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 1: But just because a movie doesn't do well at the 237 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:53,840 Speaker 1: box office doesn't always mean that it sucks. I just 238 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 1: think it's hard to have any kind of buzz around 239 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 1: that movie. I don't think Henry cavill has really demanded 240 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 1: that the box office, yet, as big of a star 241 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 1: as he is. 242 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 4: I think it'll do well in streaming. 243 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:04,839 Speaker 2: It looks really good. 244 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 1: Even though it's him trying to do kind of an 245 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:10,560 Speaker 1: inglorious bastard's version of his own. It's still a really 246 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 1: good World War Two movie based on a true story. 247 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 4: We all know. That's why I saw it. 248 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 1: The creation essentially of guerrilla warfare and really fun cast 249 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:21,320 Speaker 1: and a lot of really sharp action. 250 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:23,720 Speaker 3: I really liked it because a lot of the World 251 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:26,200 Speaker 3: War Two books that I read are about the SOE, 252 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 3: which is the Special Operations Executive, which is what this 253 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 3: was kind of part of. It was like the underground, 254 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 3: unsanctioned missions of World War Two. 255 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:39,960 Speaker 1: The other movie we watched that we weren't expecting to enjoy, 256 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: which I think it may have come out even in 257 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:45,239 Speaker 1: March and not in April, but was Ricky Staniky. 258 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:48,079 Speaker 4: I loved this movie. 259 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 2: This is like right up. 260 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:53,679 Speaker 1: Your alley for raunchy comedies that feel like two thousands 261 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:54,840 Speaker 1: comedies which you just love. 262 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 4: I do love it. 263 00:10:56,800 --> 00:11:01,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like Hangover era Bride. There's like a good 264 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:02,439 Speaker 3: era of movies. 265 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:05,360 Speaker 1: There's a category of movies a lot that Zach Effront 266 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 1: even starring like Neighbors, all those types of soft moment 267 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:11,319 Speaker 1: I guess rooted in the twenty tens, but where they're 268 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:14,960 Speaker 1: not good movies on paper. And it's not really a 269 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 1: comedy movie that I would recommend to somebody because if 270 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 1: I recommended Ricky Sanicky, you would watch it and think 271 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:23,240 Speaker 1: I'm an idiot for enjoying this movie. 272 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:25,320 Speaker 4: I'll recommend it because I thought it was funny. 273 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:27,960 Speaker 1: But I feel like there are certain movies that are 274 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:30,959 Speaker 1: so bad they're good, but there are some movies that 275 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 1: are so dumb that they're funny, and I think that 276 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:36,560 Speaker 1: is the category that this movie falls under. It's pretty 277 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 1: self aware in knowing how dumb and ridiculous it is. 278 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:42,560 Speaker 1: It's about these group of friends that got into trouble 279 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 1: as kids, and they created this fake friend who doesn't exist, 280 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 1: and they named him Ricky Staniky and. 281 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:51,720 Speaker 3: They like pin things on him, and into adulthood, they're 282 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 3: still pinning things on Ricky Staniky. 283 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:58,160 Speaker 1: And then people start to become more inquisitive about Ricky 284 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 1: and they want to meet him. So then it's them 285 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 1: meeting John Cena's character and having him play Ricky. So yes, 286 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: it is a ridiculous plot, but I found a lot 287 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:10,320 Speaker 1: of enjoyment in it. I giggled, and I think John 288 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 1: Cena is just a great comedic actor, and he also has, 289 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:16,480 Speaker 1: like I think in this one shows another level of 290 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:20,200 Speaker 1: acting that, even though it is rooted in stupidity, I 291 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:22,600 Speaker 1: feel it showed a different side of him that he 292 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 1: can do a little bit more than just the big 293 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:28,040 Speaker 1: muscle guy, which he is still big and muscly in 294 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:30,960 Speaker 1: this movie, but his character almost has like this other 295 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 1: level of depth and at time sophistication, even though he's 296 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 1: pretending to be somebody he really isn't. 297 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 3: I've been John Cena's biggest fan ever since I found 298 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 3: out that he has the record for the most like 299 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 3: Make a Wish visits, and I just think he has 300 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 3: such a big heart. 301 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 1: Just seems like a good dude just trying to do 302 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:50,120 Speaker 1: good things outside of wrestling and build a career. Can't 303 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:52,600 Speaker 1: hate on him for that, and that actually leads us 304 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:56,440 Speaker 1: into some movie news here. This story came out about 305 00:12:56,559 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 1: Dwayne the Rock Johnson from The Rap saying that his 306 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 1: tardiness on the set of his newest movie has cost 307 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 1: them fifty million dollars. What so, the story is that 308 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,760 Speaker 1: he is showing up seven to eight hours late. 309 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,680 Speaker 4: That's a whole work day. That is just missing the workday. 310 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 2: That is not showing up late. 311 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 4: That is you missed the workday. 312 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:20,040 Speaker 1: That is you're just missing out. Apparently he works out 313 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:22,400 Speaker 1: three hours a day. He only wants to be on 314 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:25,720 Speaker 1: set for five hours while he's on set. This has 315 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:28,040 Speaker 1: also came out in this story from the Rap that 316 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 1: in order to save time, he'll pee in a bottle 317 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:34,040 Speaker 1: and have people have to dispose of that bottle, and 318 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 1: this led to other stories coming out about him being 319 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 1: chronically late. He was also in a movie called Red 320 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 1: Notice with Ryan Reynolds and apparently they got into a 321 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:46,080 Speaker 1: screaming match because Ryan Reynolds was so upset with the 322 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 1: Rock being so late. 323 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 4: Give it to him, Ryan Reynolds. 324 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:51,840 Speaker 1: And apparently they did not speak for a while and 325 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 1: they have since worked that out. They are working on 326 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:58,080 Speaker 1: a Red Notice two. But it all seems to be 327 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:00,720 Speaker 1: rooted in the Rock being cron late. 328 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:02,960 Speaker 3: So he just thinks the world revolves around him, like 329 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:04,960 Speaker 3: he thinks he's at that level of celebrity that the 330 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:06,240 Speaker 3: world just revolves around him. 331 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:09,040 Speaker 1: I think he has a lot on his plate. He 332 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:12,680 Speaker 1: does a lot. He shows up to WWE events, he 333 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 1: shows up to XFL events. Maybe it's bad scheduling, but 334 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 1: it also feels like, like, how are you seven to 335 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 1: eight hours late? 336 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 4: Tying this back into our first date. You thought my 337 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:24,040 Speaker 4: three minutes. 338 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 2: Was bad, Yeah you were. You were three minutes late, 339 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:27,160 Speaker 2: not seven to eight hours late. 340 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 1: I don't think that it makes me feel different about 341 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 1: him because I kind of already knew this about him. 342 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:34,840 Speaker 1: There was the long standing beef between him and Vin Diesel, 343 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 1: which I think this has also rooted in. He would 344 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 1: probably show up late to fasten The Furious movies make 345 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 1: it seem like his time is so much more important 346 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 1: than everybody else is because of the level of star 347 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:46,720 Speaker 1: that he is, but not even the level of actor 348 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:49,240 Speaker 1: that he is. So I think Vin Diesel was trying 349 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:49,920 Speaker 1: to tell us this. 350 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 3: Nobody listen justice for Vin Diesel. 351 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:55,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, And I just think that it's put that 352 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:58,240 Speaker 1: on a T shirt. It's him trying to do all 353 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:01,040 Speaker 1: these things, thinking there are no hours in the day, 354 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 1: and then having no regard for the hundreds of crew 355 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:08,080 Speaker 1: members that are there who just sit around waiting, which 356 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 1: good for them for still being able to get paid 357 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:12,520 Speaker 1: for that, but obviously getting paid to sit around and 358 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 1: do nothing is probably tiring. You would rather be working. 359 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 1: So it just seems to me that he has this huge, 360 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 1: huge ego. That is one thing, but also to make 361 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 1: that so bad that you're also showing up, that's a 362 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 1: whole different level of ego. 363 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 4: That's disrespectful. 364 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:31,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, it just sounds like he thinks that he is 365 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 3: above everyone. 366 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:36,840 Speaker 1: I don't like that, and I think it'll it'll probably 367 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:40,720 Speaker 1: catch up to him eventually. But he is also such 368 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 1: a big pool when it comes to box office numbers, 369 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:47,120 Speaker 1: but one or two anymore. 370 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:49,120 Speaker 4: And I liked that Tequilas there's my stand. 371 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 1: The other story that came out last week was Chris 372 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:54,600 Speaker 1: Hemsworth admitting that he became a parody of himself and 373 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 1: thor Love and Thunder. I think that was him letting 374 00:15:57,520 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 1: a lot of the criticism get to him about that 375 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 1: being one of the worst MCU movies, which I don't 376 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 1: think so. I enjoyed Love and Thunder. 377 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 4: I didn't hate it, and then we were shocked when 378 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 4: everyone was like that was terrible. 379 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 1: We saw that opening night, I was watching the same 380 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 1: movie Guys for a new MCU movie. Yes, the movie 381 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 1: was a more cartoon like, childish comedy. 382 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 4: Thor movies have always had a hint of comedy. 383 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:21,880 Speaker 1: That's what they've been, and I think that's what brought 384 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 1: those movies back to life, because the first two are 385 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 1: a little bit more serious and also viewed as I 386 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:29,240 Speaker 1: think it's also been hard to get the Thor character 387 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:32,720 Speaker 1: down in the movies, and Thor Ragnarok was the movie 388 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 1: that broke through and had critical acclaim and that the 389 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:37,680 Speaker 1: fans loved. So this movie was really in the same 390 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:40,120 Speaker 1: vein as that one, but just a little bit more 391 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 1: on the wacky side. 392 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 2: And that's what he said. 393 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 1: He said, I got caught up in the improv and 394 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:46,000 Speaker 1: the wackiness and became a parody of myself. 395 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:47,560 Speaker 2: I didn't stick the landing. 396 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:50,120 Speaker 1: I think it's interesting when actors come out and say, hey, 397 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:52,960 Speaker 1: I didn't do so well in that I apologize for that. 398 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 2: He's also was. 399 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 1: Saying that the extraction movies that he did weren't really 400 00:16:57,040 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 1: fulfilling to him, which I thought was a pretty big 401 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 1: thing to say, because as he's trying to build out 402 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:06,119 Speaker 1: his resume and do movies outside of the EMCU, to 403 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 1: kind of be dragging those movies, so not that far 404 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:09,639 Speaker 1: removed from it. 405 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:10,480 Speaker 2: I think it's interesting. 406 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 4: I don't know that he's dragging it. 407 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:13,720 Speaker 3: He's not saying it's a bad movie, just that it 408 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 3: wasn't fulfilling. Like I think he's getting tired of being 409 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:20,919 Speaker 3: the beefcake in every film, like he probably wants to 410 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:23,640 Speaker 3: be taken seriously. If we are talking a bad about 411 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:28,200 Speaker 3: any like superhero type thing, let's talk about Madam Web. 412 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 2: Hey, it's about it be on Netflix. 413 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:32,760 Speaker 3: I mean, I know it's not an MCU, but that's 414 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:36,000 Speaker 3: one of the worst like superhero type movies like that 415 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 3: felt like a parody. 416 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:40,159 Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess there was a level of expectation with 417 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 1: an MCU Thor movie, probably higher than a Sony Madam 418 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 1: Web movie that also nobody really asks for. But I 419 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 1: think it's also Chris Hemsworth, because he's out right now 420 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:53,479 Speaker 1: promoting mad Maxpiriosa, which is a bit of a different 421 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:55,119 Speaker 1: look at Chris Hemsworth. 422 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:56,920 Speaker 2: So maybe he is also trying. 423 00:17:56,720 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 1: To say, like, these are the movies I want to 424 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:01,960 Speaker 1: be doing, These are the roles I want to see 425 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:04,080 Speaker 1: in my future. So I'm going to invest more of 426 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:07,080 Speaker 1: my time in doing these projects. Well, so I think 427 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:10,440 Speaker 1: if that movie ends up being successful, maybe that will 428 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:12,640 Speaker 1: lead other people to see, oh, there is some potential 429 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:15,040 Speaker 1: here of him not just being thor or not just 430 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:18,280 Speaker 1: being the extraction action guy. The other news story I 431 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:22,040 Speaker 1: wanted to bring is Americans think the perfect movie length 432 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 1: is ninety two minutes, which I did an entire episode 433 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:28,879 Speaker 1: on how I think different genres of movies deserve different 434 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:31,440 Speaker 1: run times. I think the only movie that should be 435 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:34,760 Speaker 1: ninety two minutes is an animated movie and a comedy movie. Yeah, 436 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:36,760 Speaker 1: I don't think ninety two is universal. 437 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:38,520 Speaker 4: No. I here's the thing. 438 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:41,600 Speaker 3: And this could also be because I work from home 439 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:43,360 Speaker 3: in the house all the time. Like, if I get 440 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 3: out of the house to see a movie, I want 441 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:47,600 Speaker 3: it to be like an hour forty five, like even 442 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 3: two I'm good with. Like I need it to be 443 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 3: an experience. 444 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:53,600 Speaker 2: I am minimum two hours. I want to see a 445 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:54,240 Speaker 2: two hour. 446 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:56,680 Speaker 3: Movie unless it's just like repeating the plot over and over. 447 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:59,560 Speaker 1: I think it also has to play into the budget 448 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 1: of the movie. Yes, a two hundred and fifty million 449 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:06,119 Speaker 1: dollar movie minimum two hours. I have no problem with 450 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:08,400 Speaker 1: a two hundred and fifty million dollar budget movie being 451 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:11,800 Speaker 1: two and a half hours, because that budget does demand that. 452 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:14,359 Speaker 3: And we'll say that we did just get tickets to 453 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:16,280 Speaker 3: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, and that is 454 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:19,359 Speaker 3: two hours and twenty four minutes, and that's a lot 455 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 3: of time for. 456 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:22,360 Speaker 1: Apes, but it's a big franchise. I feel like that 457 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:25,159 Speaker 1: movie warns that run time. But when it comes to 458 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:27,560 Speaker 1: like an a twenty four movie, I'm good with a 459 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 1: ninety minute runtime if it's more leaning towards comedy. With 460 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:33,640 Speaker 1: a movie like Civil War that was right around two hours, 461 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 1: I'm good with that. 462 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:36,280 Speaker 3: And see, even though it was my least favorite and month, 463 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:37,800 Speaker 3: Civil War could have been longer. I would have liked 464 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:40,119 Speaker 3: a little more backstory For what it was. It was 465 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:42,560 Speaker 3: the perfect length, but if it had been more of 466 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 3: what I wanted, could have been longer, If that makes sense. 467 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:47,879 Speaker 1: I do think there's some power in leaving audiences wanting more. 468 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:50,960 Speaker 1: You'd rather have that than people looking at their watch 469 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:52,600 Speaker 1: in the last twenty minutes of like, all right, let's 470 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:55,560 Speaker 1: wrap this thing up, which I do sometimes some movies. Yeah, 471 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:57,639 Speaker 1: some movies do feel like, oh, this should not have 472 00:19:57,640 --> 00:19:59,719 Speaker 1: gone on this long. But I think a good movie 473 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:02,000 Speaker 1: should be at least two hours. 474 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:03,680 Speaker 4: Challengers could have gone on for another hour and I 475 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:04,440 Speaker 4: would have watched it. 476 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:06,280 Speaker 1: That was a movie I told you after we leveled 477 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:08,080 Speaker 1: like that, literally melted by. 478 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:10,480 Speaker 3: It could it could still be going on almost a 479 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:11,919 Speaker 3: week later, and I'd still be watching it. 480 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 1: I don't think ninety two minutes is the perfect movie length. 481 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,040 Speaker 1: I would feel a little bit ripped off if every 482 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:20,440 Speaker 1: movie I went to go see was ninety minutes, because 483 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 1: some stories just demand more, and some budgets just demand more. 484 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:27,439 Speaker 1: I think once you go out, you sit in a theater, 485 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 1: and to be out in ninety minutes, to me, feels 486 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:30,159 Speaker 1: a little bit. 487 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 2: Like a waste. 488 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:32,960 Speaker 4: Unless it was the Meg Ryan Airport movie. 489 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:34,520 Speaker 2: That movie should have been two minutes. It should have 490 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:35,440 Speaker 2: just been the trailer. 491 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:38,360 Speaker 1: But we'll wrap up here about you wanting to talk 492 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:39,959 Speaker 1: about big dates coming up. 493 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:41,520 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I was just gonna say it's been six 494 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:43,800 Speaker 3: years since our first date and then or three year 495 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 3: wedding anniversary next month. 496 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:46,639 Speaker 4: I don't really need to expand on it. 497 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 2: I just, oh, you were not seven hours late. 498 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 3: I was three minutes. And again, as I've said, I 499 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:54,119 Speaker 3: was trying to find a parking spot. You just had 500 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:55,760 Speaker 3: to uber there and get dropped off. I had to 501 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:57,760 Speaker 3: find a parking spot. It was stressful. 502 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:00,720 Speaker 2: I wasn't but I thought you weren't gonna show up, But. 503 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:02,840 Speaker 4: Then I did. Then look look at where we are now. 504 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:03,480 Speaker 2: Six years later. 505 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:04,439 Speaker 4: Six years. 506 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:07,160 Speaker 3: Haven't gone a day since that first date without talking, 507 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,040 Speaker 3: which is kind of crazy because I feel like after 508 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:11,760 Speaker 3: a first date, you don't jump into like talking every day. 509 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:14,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean well, we were also a long distance 510 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:18,400 Speaker 1: for two years, and in order to keep that relationship going, 511 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:20,639 Speaker 1: we had to communicate every day because you weren't. You 512 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:22,680 Speaker 1: didn't even have like the meetings in between of seeing 513 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:26,399 Speaker 1: each other. We had to create that constant line of communication. 514 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 1: Otherwise it feels like it would have just gone away. 515 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:31,840 Speaker 3: I was laughing because I was searching through text today 516 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:34,479 Speaker 3: to find like what I sent you after our first date. 517 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:36,639 Speaker 3: But I was laughing because the text before that was 518 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:39,200 Speaker 3: me sending you my number, but I just put like 519 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:41,320 Speaker 3: kelsey l Like I didn't even give you my last 520 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:42,280 Speaker 3: name on our first date. 521 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:43,480 Speaker 4: It turns out. You'd already found me. 522 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:46,840 Speaker 3: I found you, but I just was like so weird, 523 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 3: like to go back to that like mindset of like 524 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:51,119 Speaker 3: a first date, like do I like this person? 525 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 2: They're like me, let me not give a full name 526 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:54,440 Speaker 2: right now. 527 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:55,920 Speaker 4: Didn't want you on my identity. 528 00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: We also usually mentioned a TV show which I can 529 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 1: go first, while you of years, I. 530 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,400 Speaker 3: Have nothing for this month. This month, no, I take 531 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:05,119 Speaker 3: the back. We are the lucky ones on Hulu. But 532 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:08,000 Speaker 3: I think I might have said that for March, so 533 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:08,800 Speaker 3: I'll just say that again. 534 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:11,400 Speaker 1: Well mine is I'm still watching X Men ninety seven, 535 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:13,679 Speaker 1: which is the show I'm continuing to watch, which is 536 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:16,879 Speaker 1: in its as of now, last two episodes leading up 537 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 1: to the finale. 538 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:18,840 Speaker 4: You will be heartbroken when it's over. 539 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:20,159 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be so sad. I'm going to need a 540 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 1: support group to deal with my emotions after that is over. 541 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:26,760 Speaker 1: But I did start and finish Fallout on Amazon, which 542 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:29,800 Speaker 1: is based on the video game which you did not enjoy. 543 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 1: You didn't even started with me, but just the moments 544 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:33,480 Speaker 1: you saw me watching it. 545 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 4: I had to leave the room. It was too gruesome. 546 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:39,080 Speaker 1: It is I think one of the best video game 547 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:42,720 Speaker 1: adaptation series in a long time. I would probably compare 548 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:45,800 Speaker 1: it to last year with HBO's The Last of Us, 549 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:48,920 Speaker 1: which The Last of Us is a little bit more dramatic, 550 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:51,920 Speaker 1: it plays more to the beats of the game, and 551 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:55,080 Speaker 1: Fallout is kind of along those same lines, but it's 552 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:57,920 Speaker 1: more immersive in a world, and the action is so 553 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:00,760 Speaker 1: much more brutal and violent, which I enjoy too much blood, 554 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 1: and it revolves around three characters and how their lives 555 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:06,320 Speaker 1: come together, and it's already been renewed for a season 556 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:08,840 Speaker 1: two and I'm excited. It's also cool seeing a video 557 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:11,000 Speaker 1: game franchise that has has been around for so long 558 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 1: and it's been just so dominant now be mainstream and 559 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:18,760 Speaker 1: people learning about it. So there are so many movie 560 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:21,680 Speaker 1: adaptations at the wazoo right now, but I feel like 561 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:23,680 Speaker 1: that was one of the best ones. The show I 562 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,360 Speaker 1: wish would have been better was the Halo Show on Paramount, 563 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,159 Speaker 1: because that's a great game that I played a lot 564 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 1: growing up. It's terrible, So I was glad that this 565 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:33,920 Speaker 1: show ended up being really good. 566 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:35,840 Speaker 4: What's next a Frogger TV show? 567 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:39,920 Speaker 1: Maybe I'd watch that. That'd be a great animated show. 568 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:42,920 Speaker 1: There is another Sonic the Hedgehog Show leading up to 569 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 1: the movie Knuckles. I may, I may start that. 570 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:48,119 Speaker 4: Okay, that can be your new Saturday Morning, but then I. 571 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:51,200 Speaker 2: Got to get paramount plus again there's so many services. 572 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:54,119 Speaker 3: Oh no, he's on a tangent. Yeah, mine would be 573 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 3: we were the Lucky Ones. And again, if you haven't 574 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:58,880 Speaker 3: read the book, read the book. First show's only eight 575 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,119 Speaker 3: episodes and it just has to condense a lot. The 576 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 3: show's beautifully done, so well done, does a great job, 577 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 3: but you get so much more detail. 578 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 4: And then another book recommendation. 579 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:10,680 Speaker 3: I'm gonna do something different, and I'm gonna give a 580 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:12,600 Speaker 3: recommendation of a book that I'm only forty percent of 581 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:13,919 Speaker 3: the way through because it's that good. 582 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 2: You've been reading it and posting about it. Leading Oh no, 583 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:18,720 Speaker 2: this is a different, different one. 584 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:20,520 Speaker 1: Oh I thought it was the one you hadn't finished 585 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 1: yet that you've still been posting about it. 586 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,239 Speaker 3: You know. I love reading several books, but I can 587 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:26,840 Speaker 3: talk about that one. That one's called Evicted by Matthew Desmond, 588 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,399 Speaker 3: and it's a study of like eight not a study, 589 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:33,719 Speaker 3: but he follows about eight families in Milwaukee, like right 590 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,200 Speaker 3: after the financial crisis of two thousand and eight and 591 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 3: about poverty and like how often people get evicted in 592 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:43,600 Speaker 3: low incomereas and it's just mind blowing. But no, the 593 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 3: other one is called Becoming Madam's Secretary, and it's about 594 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,679 Speaker 3: Francis Perkins, who was the Labor Secretary under FDR. 595 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,200 Speaker 4: I knew nothing about her. It's really interesting, really good. 596 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 3: I'm forty percent of the way through, and that's the 597 00:24:57,520 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 3: one that I read at night and then tell myself, 598 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:01,080 Speaker 3: I'm going to better so one. 599 00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:03,600 Speaker 2: When I wake up at midnight and you're still reading that, 600 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 2: I'm like, you're still away. 601 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:07,119 Speaker 4: Yeah, that happens often. 602 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 1: We'll say the other show that we watched and finished 603 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:12,320 Speaker 1: that we don't really recommend His three Body Problem. 604 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:14,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, my little brother is very mad that we didn't 605 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:16,240 Speaker 3: like it. It started off so strong and then it 606 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:17,359 Speaker 3: was just like snooze fast. 607 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:22,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a really underwhelming finale. Those last few 608 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:26,119 Speaker 1: episodes felt like an entirely different show. So it was 609 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,119 Speaker 1: a show that started out with a lot of potential, 610 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:30,960 Speaker 1: and just like it felt like a short to watch. 611 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,480 Speaker 3: We forced ourselves to finish it because we have such 612 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:35,800 Speaker 3: a long list of things that we've started and haven't finished. 613 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:39,159 Speaker 1: It is hard for a series to keep my attention 614 00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:42,160 Speaker 1: throughout the entire thing, and even now with seasons getting 615 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,320 Speaker 1: shorter and shorter, that was only eight episodes, but by 616 00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:48,159 Speaker 1: about episode four I was over it. It just seems 617 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:52,119 Speaker 1: like we're getting so many TV shows that it's quantity 618 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 1: over quality. 619 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:55,080 Speaker 3: This is why I go back and just watch things 620 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 3: I've already watched. This is why I rewatch Er, This 621 00:25:57,800 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 3: is why I just turn off the TV and read, 622 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:01,680 Speaker 3: because I'm like at least books or novel no pun 623 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 3: intended like new concepts that I just get bored with 624 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:07,880 Speaker 3: TV shows like we never finished Masters of Air. Yeah, 625 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,160 Speaker 3: can anyone let us know if that gets any better? Yeah, 626 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,240 Speaker 3: let us know, let us know if we should invest 627 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:13,200 Speaker 3: the time to finish that out. 628 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,360 Speaker 1: That's why I started going back and rewatching Community, even 629 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,000 Speaker 1: though now they took it off Hulu. Now they take 630 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 1: it off Netflix. First, Now, you watched. 631 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 4: Enough Community in the past like month to tide you over. 632 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,200 Speaker 2: I got three seasons in before I went away, watched 633 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:27,600 Speaker 2: a lot of Community. 634 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:29,680 Speaker 1: But all right, that is our best and worst of 635 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,520 Speaker 1: the month. That is some movie news and other TV 636 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,879 Speaker 1: show and book recommendations. Come back, give my review of 637 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,000 Speaker 1: The Fall Guy, and then we'll talk about Mufasa the 638 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 1: Lion King. 639 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:40,320 Speaker 4: And I would just like to say, there is an 640 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:42,440 Speaker 4: edit you had to make in this and I was censored. 641 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:45,879 Speaker 2: Yeah, you cursed. There's never been a curse word on 642 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:46,560 Speaker 2: this podcast. 643 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:47,560 Speaker 4: That's not true. 644 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,119 Speaker 3: You let me say badass female heroines. 645 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:51,960 Speaker 2: I don't consider that a curse word. 646 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,600 Speaker 3: Okay, fine, but yes I was two quote Oprah, were 647 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:56,080 Speaker 3: you silent or were you silenced? 648 00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:57,160 Speaker 4: And I was silent? 649 00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:58,440 Speaker 2: You said one of the big three? 650 00:26:59,040 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 4: I did. 651 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:02,840 Speaker 3: Sorry, it was fitting in the contact, but anyways, I 652 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:03,600 Speaker 3: got censored. 653 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 2: All Right, we'll come back. Let's get into it now. 654 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,400 Speaker 2: A spoiler free movie review of The Fall Guy. 655 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 1: Have a bit of a bias going into this review 656 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,440 Speaker 1: because I'm a huge Ryan Gosling fan. Drive has been 657 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 1: one of my top ten movies for as long as 658 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:24,359 Speaker 1: I can remember. Whenever I go back and retool what 659 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 1: my top ten of all time is, I feel like 660 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:28,879 Speaker 1: that one still makes the list because he is just 661 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 1: such a great, versatile actor, and he is somebody that 662 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 1: I just count on to show me a different side 663 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 1: of him in every single movie. He's coming off Barbie, 664 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 1: which was massive for him. Now, going into The Fall Guy, 665 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:44,400 Speaker 1: I was still all team Ryan Gosling when it comes 666 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:46,879 Speaker 1: to the two ryans that some people always confuse and 667 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,320 Speaker 1: sometimes I'll probably even say the wrong name on this 668 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:53,640 Speaker 1: podcast Gosling and Reynolds. I'm much more on the Gosling side. 669 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 1: I just think he has more of a range, and 670 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,440 Speaker 1: The Fall Guy really proved that to me, even more 671 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,680 Speaker 1: than anything else he's done before. And I thought it 672 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:05,200 Speaker 1: was interesting him talking about in interviews for this movie 673 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:08,399 Speaker 1: saying that he will no longer do a movie that'll 674 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,080 Speaker 1: put him in a bad headspace, which I found really 675 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 1: interesting because I always wonder how much a movie role 676 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:18,359 Speaker 1: affects an actor. If you're doing something so dark and 677 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,760 Speaker 1: really getting into your character, spending so much time learning 678 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,120 Speaker 1: about them and trying to think how they would act 679 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:27,480 Speaker 1: in certain situations, does that really take a toll on 680 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,639 Speaker 1: your emotional state. When he takes on movies now, he 681 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,520 Speaker 1: thinks about how it's going to affect his family, and 682 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:35,119 Speaker 1: if it's going to take him there, he won't take 683 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:37,720 Speaker 1: on the roles. So it is interesting to see how 684 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,520 Speaker 1: his career has shifted in the last five years. He's 685 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:43,400 Speaker 1: also doing fewer films back in the twenty tens. I 686 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 1: feel like he was in a new movie every single year. 687 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,440 Speaker 1: In the last five years. I think he's done three movies, 688 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:51,800 Speaker 1: but they've all been big, massive movies, so he is 689 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:53,400 Speaker 1: still that raining movie star. 690 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:54,800 Speaker 2: So what the movie is about. 691 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,720 Speaker 1: Ryan Gosling plays a stuntman who leaves the business after 692 00:28:57,800 --> 00:28:58,760 Speaker 1: a bad accident. 693 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:00,400 Speaker 2: He is completely out of the. 694 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 1: Game, but then goes back to work on a movie 695 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:06,600 Speaker 1: directed by his ex played by Emily Blunt, and he 696 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:08,760 Speaker 1: is kind of put in charge of finding the star 697 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 1: of her movie because star's gone missing and this movie 698 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:16,840 Speaker 1: is a big action movie. Emily Blunt character directorial debut, 699 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,680 Speaker 1: so she has a lot of her career writing on 700 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:23,520 Speaker 1: this movie riding on finding this missing star. And the 701 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:27,240 Speaker 1: star of this movie is kind of somebody who resembles 702 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:29,120 Speaker 1: Tom Cruise. They make a lot of references at the 703 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:32,840 Speaker 1: Tom Cruise, so I have to assume that maybe a 704 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,160 Speaker 1: lot of this movie is based on how Tom Cruise 705 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,840 Speaker 1: really is on set. Maybe doesn't really have to be 706 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:41,600 Speaker 1: the case here, Maybe they loosely based it on some stories, 707 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,680 Speaker 1: because I think a big part of enjoying this movie 708 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:48,320 Speaker 1: is knowing director David Leach's story, who was a stuntman 709 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,120 Speaker 1: for twenty years he was working as a stuntman in 710 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,960 Speaker 1: the late nineties, but more specifically, he was Brad Pitt's 711 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:58,320 Speaker 1: stuntman in movies like Fight Club, The Mexican and Ocean's 712 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,480 Speaker 1: Eleven and that is where he got his start. So 713 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:06,360 Speaker 1: this movie is a love letter to stuntman, the unsung hero, 714 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:09,920 Speaker 1: if you will, of the movie industry, because they're the 715 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,880 Speaker 1: ones oftentimes doing all of these things that you don't 716 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,560 Speaker 1: really see their face for, you're not supposed to see 717 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:17,280 Speaker 1: their face for, and they don't really get a whole 718 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:19,160 Speaker 1: lot of credit. And that is what this movie story 719 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,920 Speaker 1: sets out to prove. And David Leach went from being 720 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,360 Speaker 1: a stuntman to being a producer. He worked as a 721 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 1: co director on the John Wick movie, so that is 722 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 1: very much his style. He worked on Captain America Civil 723 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:33,480 Speaker 1: War if you remember the airport fight scene from that. 724 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:35,880 Speaker 2: Movie, which was epic. That was David Leach. 725 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,040 Speaker 1: And he went on to direct movies like Bullet Train 726 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:40,840 Speaker 1: where he got to direct the person that he used 727 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:43,200 Speaker 1: to be the stuntman for Brad Pitt. He also directed 728 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:46,240 Speaker 1: Atomic Blonde and Deadpool two, so that is kind of 729 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:49,280 Speaker 1: his style, which Deadpool two also had a Brad Pitt cameo, 730 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,280 Speaker 1: so he really has a knack for action, and action 731 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 1: sequences are his specialty, so it was cool seeing him 732 00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:58,960 Speaker 1: get to make a movie that was so personal. And 733 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,200 Speaker 1: I think that's really important to know going into this 734 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:05,400 Speaker 1: movie because it feels very unorthodox at times. This movie 735 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:09,600 Speaker 1: felt a little bit weird in the beginning because I 736 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:13,560 Speaker 1: was expecting a full on action movie, and that is 737 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:15,960 Speaker 1: really what the trailer kind of played it off to be. 738 00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:17,240 Speaker 2: It was going to be a. 739 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 1: Movie about a movie focused on the stunt work of 740 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:23,560 Speaker 1: a movie, and the first better half of the movie, 741 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,719 Speaker 1: maybe the first thirty minutes really didn't feel like an 742 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,440 Speaker 1: action movie at all. It felt like a rom com, 743 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 1: which was not what I was expecting. The story of 744 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,840 Speaker 1: Emily Blunt's character and Ryan Gosling's character and their relationship 745 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:39,680 Speaker 1: history of being together early on in the movie, him 746 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:42,120 Speaker 1: going away for a year and not speaking to her 747 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,800 Speaker 1: and then going out to Australia to be a part 748 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 1: of her movie, and the awkwardness of encountering your ex 749 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,959 Speaker 1: and then having to work together was very much at 750 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,800 Speaker 1: the forefront of this movie. So when you break down 751 00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:59,280 Speaker 1: all of the acts of this movie, it felt like 752 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,320 Speaker 1: a lot of different genres worked into one. The first 753 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,200 Speaker 1: act of the movie was that rom com then we 754 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:08,680 Speaker 1: got a little bit more into a drama slash mystery, 755 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,400 Speaker 1: and then the final act of the movie is full 756 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,440 Speaker 1: on action movie. And what ends up happening is the 757 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,520 Speaker 1: movie becomes really meta because if you're making a movie 758 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,440 Speaker 1: about a movie by people who have worked in the industry, 759 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:25,880 Speaker 1: and you have other people playing producers and it feels 760 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,320 Speaker 1: very much in the weeds at times of the movie 761 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:31,560 Speaker 1: making process, you kind of have to get used to it. 762 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,680 Speaker 1: It reminds me of whenever I would go and swim 763 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:37,240 Speaker 1: in a body of water that was way too cold, 764 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,200 Speaker 1: and you think, there's no way that I'm going to 765 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:42,479 Speaker 1: feel comfortable in this, and you see other people out 766 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:44,040 Speaker 1: in the water, like, how are they swimming in this? 767 00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:48,600 Speaker 1: It is so freezing. But eventually, if you allow yourself 768 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,400 Speaker 1: to sit there for a while, you get used to it. 769 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:55,400 Speaker 1: Your body temperature starts to regulate, and then you are 770 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:58,280 Speaker 1: comfortable in that water. Going from thinking oh, there's no 771 00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:01,280 Speaker 1: way I'm gonna feel comfortable. I want to get out immediately, 772 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:03,400 Speaker 1: and then you kind of live in it and you 773 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,120 Speaker 1: said in it and you think, oh, this actually feels 774 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,480 Speaker 1: really good. I'm glad I got to this point. That 775 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:12,280 Speaker 1: is how I felt, because it felt a little bit 776 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:15,160 Speaker 1: empty at times and almost like a Saturday Night Live 777 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,040 Speaker 1: sketch in the beginning when it was really going for 778 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:20,280 Speaker 1: comedy and I was like, what exactly are they doing here? 779 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:21,880 Speaker 2: The dialogue feels a. 780 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:25,440 Speaker 1: Little clunky, and I didn't really get the dynamic they 781 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:28,800 Speaker 1: were going for between Emily but and Ryan Gosling. But 782 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,120 Speaker 1: then as the story moves along and it kind of 783 00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,360 Speaker 1: shifts genres a little bit and you get more invested 784 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,440 Speaker 1: in the characters, and then the action ramps up. And 785 00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:39,720 Speaker 1: the thing I loved about it, as the action is 786 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:41,680 Speaker 1: ramping up, there are parts of it that have to 787 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,160 Speaker 1: do with the stunts. Ryan Gosling's character has to do 788 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:47,920 Speaker 1: as the stunt performer working on the movie. But then 789 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:50,600 Speaker 1: there are these other stunts that he is doing that 790 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,400 Speaker 1: are a part of the other storyline of him trying 791 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:57,200 Speaker 1: to find the A list actor who has gone missing. 792 00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:00,840 Speaker 1: So it's just him out doing stunts in the quote 793 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,960 Speaker 1: unquote real world, not on the movie sets. So I 794 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:08,120 Speaker 1: liked the correlation between the two and how you just 795 00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:10,680 Speaker 1: kind of assume, like, oh, he is just an awesome character. 796 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:12,640 Speaker 1: Not only can he do these on a movie set, 797 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:14,440 Speaker 1: but he can do these in the real world and 798 00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:16,320 Speaker 1: you don't really question it, and he kind of feels 799 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,400 Speaker 1: like a superhero at times. I just thought it was 800 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:20,600 Speaker 1: cool how it goes back and forth between that, and 801 00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:24,399 Speaker 1: it all works together really nicely because at times when 802 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,480 Speaker 1: they are talking about things they want to get right 803 00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:29,759 Speaker 1: on the movie. There's one scene in particular where they 804 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,719 Speaker 1: want to get this car roll done and have it 805 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,800 Speaker 1: flip a certain amount of times to be a record 806 00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:37,880 Speaker 1: so it looks really good on the movie, and that 807 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:40,120 Speaker 1: shot is important to the trailers that they want to 808 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:43,760 Speaker 1: show at Comic Con. That same flip was actually, againness 809 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:46,440 Speaker 1: world record in the real world, so not just what 810 00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:49,279 Speaker 1: they did in the movie. The fall Guy actually has 811 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:51,719 Speaker 1: that record because they were able to do it. So again, 812 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:54,600 Speaker 1: very meta at times. So once you get used to 813 00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:57,440 Speaker 1: the format, once you get a little bit more invested 814 00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:00,000 Speaker 1: in the characters, this movie becomes. 815 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:00,880 Speaker 2: Real, really enjoyable. 816 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:03,920 Speaker 1: So I'm really glad I watched this movie in theaters. 817 00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,440 Speaker 1: It worries me though, because with a movie like that, 818 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,880 Speaker 1: with our attention spans, I wonder what it's going to 819 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:13,160 Speaker 1: be like to people who just watch this movie on streaming, 820 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,920 Speaker 1: because I'm not entirely sold in the first twenty minutes 821 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:18,400 Speaker 1: of this movie. And I talk about a lot on 822 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:21,960 Speaker 1: this podcast how those first twenty minutes are so crucial 823 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,080 Speaker 1: to a movie. And it's a lot different when you 824 00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,080 Speaker 1: go watch one in theaters and watch one at home, 825 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:29,359 Speaker 1: because you're already there in the theater. You're not going 826 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,600 Speaker 1: to leave unless it's so blatantly bad. It takes a 827 00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:34,880 Speaker 1: lot to walk out of a movie. But when you 828 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,520 Speaker 1: watch a movie at home, if you're not sucked in 829 00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:39,880 Speaker 1: in those first twenty minutes and I think, do I 830 00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:42,880 Speaker 1: really want to watch this it's two hours long? Do 831 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:45,239 Speaker 1: I want to sit here? Or do I just want 832 00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:48,200 Speaker 1: to skip onto something else, that's a lot harder to do. 833 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:52,520 Speaker 1: And that is why completion rate is so crucial when 834 00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:56,320 Speaker 1: it comes to Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus and all those services. 835 00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:58,719 Speaker 1: So it is a bit of an investment because it 836 00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,959 Speaker 1: feels so different. But I ended up loving the fact 837 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:05,800 Speaker 1: that it felt like an unfamiliar format because that is 838 00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:07,920 Speaker 1: what this movie needed to do. And yes, it is 839 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:09,879 Speaker 1: based on a TV show from back in the day, 840 00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:13,440 Speaker 1: but it doesn't really feel like a remake of any sorts. 841 00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:15,640 Speaker 1: It's not a TV show I was that familiar with, 842 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:19,160 Speaker 1: so it doesn't really have that same feeling. Oh, they're 843 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:22,200 Speaker 1: just throwing out another remake right now, because I feel 844 00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:25,479 Speaker 1: like nothing really correlates with what happened in that show 845 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:27,920 Speaker 1: and what happens in this movie. There are also just 846 00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:30,920 Speaker 1: a lot of little inside jokes that are self contained 847 00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:31,640 Speaker 1: within the movie. 848 00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:33,160 Speaker 2: So if you're watching as the. 849 00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:36,200 Speaker 1: Viewer, there are little things you pick up on, little 850 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:39,919 Speaker 1: quirks from the characters that pay off later in the movie, 851 00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:41,560 Speaker 1: and I thought that was a nice touch. There were 852 00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,640 Speaker 1: a lot of little inside bits that were treats for 853 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:48,319 Speaker 1: everybody watching the movie. There's one in particular of Ryan 854 00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,120 Speaker 1: Gossling's character just wanting to have a cup of coffee 855 00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:53,200 Speaker 1: and can never get a cup of coffee, so you 856 00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,000 Speaker 1: have to watch the movie to find out does he 857 00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:56,000 Speaker 1: get this cup of coffee? 858 00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:58,000 Speaker 2: Again, a little dumb little bit, but. 859 00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:00,279 Speaker 1: It was this nice little touch that showed me that 860 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,480 Speaker 1: they had attention to detail and we're not only focused 861 00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:05,560 Speaker 1: on the action of this movie, but also focused on 862 00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,520 Speaker 1: the comedy, the other interesting part of this movie. It's 863 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,799 Speaker 1: the second major movie that I've seen film in Australia 864 00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:14,360 Speaker 1: in the last year. The one before this was Anyone 865 00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:17,160 Speaker 1: But You with Sidney Sweeney and Glenn Powell, that rom 866 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,919 Speaker 1: com movie, and now The fall Guy was also shot 867 00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:24,720 Speaker 1: in Australia, and I found that Australia has some filming 868 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,160 Speaker 1: incentives right now. They're trying to get more people to 869 00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:29,840 Speaker 1: film there, so the same way that a lot of 870 00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:33,480 Speaker 1: Hollywood movies are filmed in Canada because they have filming 871 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,000 Speaker 1: incentives there. It's cheaper to film there, you get some 872 00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:38,879 Speaker 1: tax breaks. So I think Australia is a really good 873 00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,759 Speaker 1: backdrop for a movie like this. I love all the 874 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,680 Speaker 1: scenes of the action happening on the beach, and then 875 00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:46,719 Speaker 1: you have the Sydney Opera House, which is the second 876 00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:48,680 Speaker 1: time I've seen it in a movie. So I hope 877 00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:52,359 Speaker 1: that movies don't use it too often because then it's 878 00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:54,960 Speaker 1: going to become a little bit repetitive. But I guess 879 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,279 Speaker 1: it is a nice break from having everything based in 880 00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:00,239 Speaker 1: Los Angeles and being so familiar with that landscape, or 881 00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:03,040 Speaker 1: having movies filmed in New York so many times we 882 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:03,839 Speaker 1: just kind of get. 883 00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:04,239 Speaker 2: Used to that. 884 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,400 Speaker 1: But I feel like Australia is just so distinct and 885 00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,080 Speaker 1: you have to have a real reason to go out 886 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,719 Speaker 1: there and put your characters there. So I'm curious to 887 00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:13,960 Speaker 1: see how many more movies are going to be filmed 888 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,320 Speaker 1: and based in Australia because of those tax incentives. But 889 00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:20,520 Speaker 1: the movie debuted at twenty eight point five million dollars 890 00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,280 Speaker 1: in the United States made about sixty five million dollars 891 00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,719 Speaker 1: at the global box office. I think is a little 892 00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,040 Speaker 1: bit under what they were expecting this movie to do. 893 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:32,760 Speaker 1: With having two big stars as Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. 894 00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:37,080 Speaker 1: It's about fifty percent down from last year, whereever Guardians 895 00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:39,480 Speaker 1: of the Galaxy three came out, So maybe not the 896 00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:43,399 Speaker 1: biggest start to the summer blockbuster season, which I feel 897 00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:45,440 Speaker 1: like May is a little bit too early for me 898 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,879 Speaker 1: to really feel like it's summer blockbuster season. I really 899 00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:51,200 Speaker 1: get that feeling more at the start of June or 900 00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:53,640 Speaker 1: that very last weekend. It may feels like the kickoff 901 00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:57,560 Speaker 1: to me. But comparing it to last year, I feel like, yeah, 902 00:38:57,560 --> 00:38:59,360 Speaker 1: it's a little bit down. But it costs about one 903 00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,799 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five million dollars to make, not including advertising, 904 00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,200 Speaker 1: so I think and hope this movie will end up 905 00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:08,080 Speaker 1: making some money given the word a mouth of it 906 00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:11,240 Speaker 1: because it is a fun movie. It has that summer 907 00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:14,040 Speaker 1: blockbuster feel, but a little bit of a different taste 908 00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,520 Speaker 1: that we haven't had before. And I think David Leach 909 00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:19,600 Speaker 1: is that kind of director who is not here to 910 00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,239 Speaker 1: make the same movie again and again. And I will 911 00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,440 Speaker 1: say my favorite character out of the entire. 912 00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,200 Speaker 2: Movie is the dog. So for the fall Guy, I 913 00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,680 Speaker 2: give it four out of five car flips. 914 00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:36,920 Speaker 5: It's time to head down to movie Mike Traylor Paul. 915 00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:42,160 Speaker 1: I'll have to admit I was a little confused about 916 00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:44,880 Speaker 1: what the story is going to be in mu Foster 917 00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:47,200 Speaker 1: The Lion King, but we have our first look now. 918 00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,840 Speaker 1: The confusing part was the director came out recently and 919 00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:54,200 Speaker 1: said it is both a prequel and a sequel to 920 00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:57,000 Speaker 1: the movie that came out in twenty nineteen, which is 921 00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,920 Speaker 1: a quote unquote live action Lion King, which I don' 922 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:00,920 Speaker 1: I think we should call it that. 923 00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:02,200 Speaker 2: It's not live action. 924 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:05,719 Speaker 1: They're not going out to Africa and filming animals and 925 00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:09,120 Speaker 1: doubbing it in a studio. It is just animated in 926 00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:12,160 Speaker 1: a different way. So maybe it's the technology that they're using, 927 00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:13,920 Speaker 1: or maybe it's because they don't want to make it 928 00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:17,000 Speaker 1: feel like it's a blatant cash grab. They don't want 929 00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:20,080 Speaker 1: to call it an animated movie because people are already 930 00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:22,640 Speaker 1: saying that nobody asked for this, why are they putting 931 00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:25,160 Speaker 1: this out? And Disney gets a lot of heat right 932 00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:29,560 Speaker 1: now for rehashing their old EPs in order to make 933 00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:32,600 Speaker 1: more money off of them, which I think it's an 934 00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:35,400 Speaker 1: introduction to a new generation, which I'm okay with, but 935 00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:38,560 Speaker 1: I think you have to have a reason to do it, 936 00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:41,800 Speaker 1: and do it in a style that really hit you 937 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:43,319 Speaker 1: in the emotional gut. 938 00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:45,160 Speaker 2: That is what Disney is known for. 939 00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:47,400 Speaker 1: They don't just put out movies for the sake of 940 00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:51,560 Speaker 1: putting out movies. They put out movies that last a lifetime. 941 00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:55,759 Speaker 1: They become the building blocks of film lovers. They become 942 00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:59,239 Speaker 1: movies that I and everybody who grew up and had 943 00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:03,000 Speaker 1: a childhood watching movies. It's the pillars of what you 944 00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:06,840 Speaker 1: enjoy and then later in life what you were nostalgic for. 945 00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:11,880 Speaker 1: So Disney has bigger shoes to fill when they're filling 946 00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:14,480 Speaker 1: their own shoes, but what they've been going to back 947 00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:18,680 Speaker 1: a lot is just old eyeps and doing these live 948 00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:21,879 Speaker 1: action versions. So I feel like the same way there's 949 00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,880 Speaker 1: a little bit of superhero fatigue. There is that Disney 950 00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:28,799 Speaker 1: live action fatigue. So the fact that this is both 951 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:31,840 Speaker 1: a prequel in a sequel does seem a little confusing 952 00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:35,200 Speaker 1: after watching the trailer, because it's supposed to be the 953 00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:40,279 Speaker 1: story of how Mufasa became the ruler of Pride Rock, 954 00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:44,040 Speaker 1: and the tagline of this movie I feel sells it 955 00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:47,320 Speaker 1: a little bit more. It is orphan outsider king, So 956 00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:49,400 Speaker 1: I guess in a sense it is supposed to be 957 00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:52,799 Speaker 1: a Racks to Riches story and how he became the king. 958 00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:55,520 Speaker 1: But if you think about that process, that is really 959 00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:58,279 Speaker 1: just the Lion King again, which is what they did 960 00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:00,880 Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety four with their original anime movie and 961 00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:03,839 Speaker 1: then what they remade in twenty nineteen as this quote 962 00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:07,120 Speaker 1: unquote live action. So now they are just almost doing 963 00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:10,279 Speaker 1: it for a third time, but this time it's Moufossa 964 00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:13,560 Speaker 1: and you get to see him in Scar's relationship and 965 00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:16,160 Speaker 1: how that ends up going badly is what I assume 966 00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:17,400 Speaker 1: we're going to get to by the end of this. 967 00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:22,160 Speaker 1: But at that same time, you also have Nala and 968 00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:24,839 Speaker 1: Simba who are now together and have a daughter who 969 00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:28,040 Speaker 1: is voiced by Blue Ivy Carter in this movie. So 970 00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:30,279 Speaker 1: that is the plot line of the movie that is 971 00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:33,080 Speaker 1: moving the story forward. So it's going to go back 972 00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:37,160 Speaker 1: between two different timelines. What I have imagined is it'll 973 00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:41,440 Speaker 1: be Nala and Simba talking to their daughter about the 974 00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:46,400 Speaker 1: history of their family, so you'll see her probably rise 975 00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:49,799 Speaker 1: to another level here. Hopefully that story advances, and then 976 00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:52,880 Speaker 1: you'll go back to Mufassa's time and see how he 977 00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:55,160 Speaker 1: rose to be the King of Pride rock. I have 978 00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:57,400 Speaker 1: so many thoughts on this, as you can tell. Before 979 00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,560 Speaker 1: I get into more, here's a little bit of the 980 00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:01,440 Speaker 1: mofa a Lion King trailer. 981 00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:10,640 Speaker 6: This story begins far beyond the mountains and the shadows 982 00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:14,440 Speaker 6: on the other side of the light, and lion was 983 00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:21,200 Speaker 6: born without a drop of nobility in his blood, and 984 00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:24,440 Speaker 6: lion who would change oble lives forever. 985 00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:27,799 Speaker 2: Oh fu. 986 00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:33,600 Speaker 1: So what they said is there's gonna be some stuff 987 00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:37,080 Speaker 1: that is cannon, which means it falls into place with 988 00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:40,720 Speaker 1: everything the Lion King has already established, and there's gonna 989 00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:43,480 Speaker 1: be some stuff that makes this movie its own thing. 990 00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,960 Speaker 1: So hopefully they don't change too much about the core story, 991 00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:49,800 Speaker 1: otherwise we're all gonna be confused when it comes to 992 00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:53,120 Speaker 1: the visual aspect, the only scenes that really stick out 993 00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:56,360 Speaker 1: in this teaser are the scenes whenever they are in snow. 994 00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:58,960 Speaker 1: Those look really crisp. You have them on a big 995 00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:02,440 Speaker 1: snowy mountain, this ice coming down. That forced me to 996 00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:05,319 Speaker 1: go and research can lyons even survive in the snow. 997 00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:07,680 Speaker 1: I thought they were going totally off the rails here 998 00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:09,520 Speaker 1: to make this movie more visually appealing. 999 00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:12,760 Speaker 2: Turns out they can. Their fur will grow thicker. 1000 00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:16,320 Speaker 1: The hard part for a lion in a colder environment 1001 00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:19,359 Speaker 1: is finding enough prey to eat, So hopefully they will 1002 00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:22,399 Speaker 1: make that make sense. And I was already getting ready 1003 00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:25,440 Speaker 1: to not have any Simba, not have any Timon and 1004 00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:27,640 Speaker 1: Puma in this movie. But now looking at the cast 1005 00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:29,880 Speaker 1: and looking at the plot for this movie, looks like 1006 00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:33,400 Speaker 1: we do get the original voice actors back, which Beyonce 1007 00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:38,040 Speaker 1: voiced Nala. Childish Gambino aka Donald Glover, who is one 1008 00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:40,840 Speaker 1: of my favorites, is back voicing Simba. You have Billy 1009 00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:43,920 Speaker 1: Eigner and Seth Rogan back as Timon and Pumba, and 1010 00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:46,239 Speaker 1: you see them in this trailer, And that was the 1011 00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:48,040 Speaker 1: moment for me that I was like, what are to 1012 00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:51,360 Speaker 1: Moon and Pumba? Doing here in a Mufasa story, so 1013 00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:54,719 Speaker 1: I feel like they are trying to keep some of 1014 00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:58,719 Speaker 1: the integrity of what everybody loves about the Lion King 1015 00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:02,680 Speaker 1: while advancing it. I hope this wasn't a big compromise 1016 00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:05,040 Speaker 1: that the director had to do, which is no longer 1017 00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:08,040 Speaker 1: Jon Favreau, who did the first movie. Barry Jenkins is 1018 00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:10,600 Speaker 1: directing this movie, who also did Moonlight, and if Beal 1019 00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:14,120 Speaker 1: Street could talk, I hope that wasn't a compromise between 1020 00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:17,399 Speaker 1: Barry Jenkins and the studio of saying got to keep 1021 00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:20,240 Speaker 1: some of those familiar characters which we do see Rafiki 1022 00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:23,560 Speaker 1: I believe I did see Zazu in the trailer as well. 1023 00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:26,040 Speaker 1: But what I think this movie is going to come 1024 00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:31,040 Speaker 1: down to is emotion, because what hurts the live action 1025 00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:34,600 Speaker 1: version of The Lion King so much is it's hard 1026 00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:40,560 Speaker 1: to have an emotional attachment to these three D realistic characters. 1027 00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:43,680 Speaker 1: I don't know why it's so much more easier to 1028 00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:49,600 Speaker 1: feel emotion to a lovable, more bubbly, two D animated 1029 00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,400 Speaker 1: looking character when it comes to the Lion King. I 1030 00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:56,920 Speaker 1: could be associating that with my childhood and loving animated 1031 00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:00,320 Speaker 1: things at that time, but seeing it now as an adult, 1032 00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:03,840 Speaker 1: it is hard for me to really get into the 1033 00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:07,759 Speaker 1: story and really get into wanting to feel something from 1034 00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:12,640 Speaker 1: this movie because it just looks like a photorealistic line 1035 00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:16,120 Speaker 1: which the design in the characters looks pretty similar to 1036 00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:19,319 Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen version. So I feel like they're going 1037 00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:22,160 Speaker 1: to really have to bring that story in this movie 1038 00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:27,319 Speaker 1: to have audiences resonate with these characters and have any 1039 00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:30,719 Speaker 1: kind of lasting ability, because the twenty nineteen version did 1040 00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:33,319 Speaker 1: do really well back in twenty nineteen, making one point 1041 00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:36,399 Speaker 1: six billion dollars at the box office, but I don't 1042 00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:39,440 Speaker 1: know that anybody was itching for this and when it happened. 1043 00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:42,040 Speaker 1: We also had more curiosity back then of what a 1044 00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:44,360 Speaker 1: live action line King movie was going to look like. 1045 00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:47,000 Speaker 1: Once we saw it, we got it. I don't know 1046 00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:49,200 Speaker 1: that we want to see that again. So it's going 1047 00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:52,200 Speaker 1: to come down to that emotion and making a movie 1048 00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:56,440 Speaker 1: that has some lasting power that becomes one of those 1049 00:46:56,520 --> 00:47:00,279 Speaker 1: building blocks of life, not only for the kids going 1050 00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:02,600 Speaker 1: to see this movie for the first time and be 1051 00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:05,440 Speaker 1: introduced to the Lion King, but also for the adults 1052 00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:07,400 Speaker 1: who grew up with the original one now wanting to 1053 00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:10,360 Speaker 1: have this other piece in their heart filled, and that 1054 00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:15,240 Speaker 1: is what Disney does. Disney creates these life lasting movies, 1055 00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:17,719 Speaker 1: and just by the looks of this trailer right now, 1056 00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:20,560 Speaker 1: it is not giving me vibes that it's going to 1057 00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:23,600 Speaker 1: reach the same potential as the twenty nineteen version. This 1058 00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:25,800 Speaker 1: does not look like a billion dollar movie to me. 1059 00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:28,799 Speaker 1: It is coming out on December twentieth, which right now 1060 00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:31,880 Speaker 1: would put it up against Sonic the Hitchhog three. I 1061 00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:33,440 Speaker 1: feel like one of those is going to have to 1062 00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:36,960 Speaker 1: move and it's probably gonna be Sonic. Lion King feels 1063 00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:39,920 Speaker 1: a little bit more like a Christmas movie time for me, 1064 00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:43,080 Speaker 1: not that it's associated with Christmas, but it has that 1065 00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:47,200 Speaker 1: big epic feeling, that family togetherness that you'll all go 1066 00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:50,360 Speaker 1: watch it around the holidays, which I just have a 1067 00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:53,120 Speaker 1: great association with any movie that comes out during the holidays. 1068 00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:55,799 Speaker 1: There is something special about going to see a movie 1069 00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:59,320 Speaker 1: in late December, and Mufasa has more of that feeling 1070 00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:02,319 Speaker 1: to me than Sonic the Hedgehog three. So I feel 1071 00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:04,719 Speaker 1: like it would be beneficial for Sonic to maybe move 1072 00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:08,160 Speaker 1: up a week or even move into January, because I think. 1073 00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:11,319 Speaker 2: That movie on its own could do really well. 1074 00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:13,879 Speaker 1: I find it interesting that They're coming out so close 1075 00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:16,839 Speaker 1: to each other because they are both family films. It's 1076 00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:20,480 Speaker 1: almost like splitting the vote there. That could bode really 1077 00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:22,799 Speaker 1: well for both of these movies, even though they are 1078 00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:26,600 Speaker 1: competing studios. I feel like Sonic will end up moving up, 1079 00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:29,760 Speaker 1: although a good January release could be great for Sonic 1080 00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:33,360 Speaker 1: as well. But again, Mufasa is coming out on December twentieth. 1081 00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:36,479 Speaker 1: I will be there and I hope they prove me wrong. 1082 00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:41,520 Speaker 4: And that was this week's edition of Movie Li Framer Park. 1083 00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:44,719 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's gonna do it for another episode here of 1084 00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,440 Speaker 1: the podcast. But before I go, got to give my 1085 00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:50,520 Speaker 1: listeners shout out of the week, which I have been 1086 00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:54,080 Speaker 1: posting a lot on TikTok sometimes things you don't see 1087 00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:56,600 Speaker 1: on Instagram, so if you don't follow me on TikTok, 1088 00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:59,080 Speaker 1: make sure to hit that follow button over there. You 1089 00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:01,399 Speaker 1: can always find all the links to my social media 1090 00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:04,600 Speaker 1: in the episode notes. But this week's listeners shout out 1091 00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:08,600 Speaker 1: goes to j WK fifty, who commented on TikTok on 1092 00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:11,560 Speaker 1: my Challengers review and said, I really enjoy you on 1093 00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:14,080 Speaker 1: TikTok and listening to your podcast. Keep up the good 1094 00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:18,200 Speaker 1: work and being you informative and entertaining, which is the 1095 00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:21,319 Speaker 1: best compliment I could ever receive, because I do try 1096 00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:25,279 Speaker 1: really hard to research everything, be as knowledgeable as I 1097 00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:28,520 Speaker 1: can for you guys, and go see a movie in 1098 00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:31,640 Speaker 1: theaters every single week, and sometimes I question whether or 1099 00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:35,520 Speaker 1: not I'm doing anything that matters at all, or if 1100 00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:38,840 Speaker 1: I'm just talking about things that I'm nerdily passionate about 1101 00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:42,319 Speaker 1: that nobody else cares about. So it's these comments I get, 1102 00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:45,239 Speaker 1: like this one from JWK fifty that gives me that 1103 00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:46,920 Speaker 1: little bit of reassurance. 1104 00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:48,640 Speaker 2: That I am going in the right direction. So appreciate 1105 00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:49,280 Speaker 2: that comment. 1106 00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:52,600 Speaker 1: Thank you for listening, thank you for being subscribed as always, 1107 00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:55,840 Speaker 1: and until next time, go out and watch good movies 1108 00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:57,759 Speaker 1: and I will talk to you later. 1109 00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:00,120 Speaker 3: No