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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I

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Speaker 1: am your host Movie Mike, and on this episode, I

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Speaker 1: am celebrating the month of my people. It is Hispanic

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Speaker 1: Heritage Month, and I have what I believe is the

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Speaker 1: Mexican American movie starter Pack. If you're Mexican American like myself,

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Speaker 1: or if you just want to learn more about our culture,

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Speaker 1: I have the movies you need to see. In the

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Speaker 1: movie review, we'll be talking about the new animated prequel

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Speaker 1: Transformers one, and we'll answer the question am I aged

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Speaker 1: out of this movie? And in the trailer park a

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Speaker 1: new thriller from Daisy Ridley that looks fantastic. Why she

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Speaker 1: has entered my top five favorite working actors right now

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Speaker 1: would take a deep dive into that. Thank you for listening,

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Speaker 1: Thank you for being subscribed, shout out to the Monday

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Speaker 1: Morning Movie crew. And now let's talk movies.

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

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Speaker 2: one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like

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Speaker 2: never before in a movie podcast, A man with so

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Speaker 2: much movie knowledge. He's basically like oh walking IMTB with

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Speaker 3: This is movie Mike Movie podcasts.

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Speaker 1: It is Hispanic Heritage Month, and growing up, I always

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Speaker 1: struggled with what I defined myself as. The reason I

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Speaker 1: whenever I would take one of those standardized tests back

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Speaker 1: in the day, that is the box I would check.

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Speaker 1: I feel almost that Hispanic was assigned to me by

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Speaker 1: the government to categorize my people. And really what Hispanic

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Speaker 1: means is anybody from a Spanish speaking country. I think

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Speaker 1: right now more people like being called Latino, which actually

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Speaker 1: means anybody from Latin America. There are a lot of

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Speaker 1: words used to describe my people that are kind of

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Speaker 1: used interchangeably. I typically just refer to myself as Mexican American.

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Speaker 1: I just feel that that really defines me the best.

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Speaker 1: That is what I like being called my My parents

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Speaker 1: My dad started working really odd and random jobs that

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Speaker 1: A huge upgrade from working the fields in Mexico, where

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Speaker 1: you make sense if that my mom came here, raised

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Speaker 1: became citizens in the late nineties, I think nineteen ninety seven,

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Speaker 1: took it three, four, sometimes five, six, seven times because

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Speaker 1: why I decided to put this episode together. These are

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Speaker 1: the biopic of Richie Vallens. He was the first Mexican

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Speaker 1: Before I was doing podcasting, before I was doing radio,

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Speaker 1: right now there is kind of this resurgence and interest

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Speaker 3: I mean, Valenzuela was our dad's last name. You can't

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Speaker 4: People in this business they changed their names like they

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Speaker 1: I kind of did this in school without thinking about

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Speaker 1: it because Mike isn't my real name, and growing up

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Speaker 1: That is why I consider this movie to be an

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Speaker 1: The movie is based on a true story, and I

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Speaker 1: It follows the life of Hymen Escalande, played by Edwards

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Speaker 1: James Olmos, who was all over movies like this in

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Speaker 3: We can break that cycle. We don't have to take

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Speaker 1: So that is what this movie taught me. It's also

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Speaker 1: We'll get out of the eighties now, and next up

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Speaker 1: on the list, I have from nineteen ninety seven Selena,

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Speaker 1: which is the story of the life and tragic death

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Speaker 1: the movie serves as a biopic. What I feel that

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Speaker 6: Being Mexican American is tough. Anglos jump all over you

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Speaker 3: We gotta know about Oprah.

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Speaker 6: And Christina, and we got to prove to the Mexicans

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Speaker 3: It's exhausting.

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Speaker 1: They make you feel that you're kind of a sellout

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Speaker 3: A bit late.

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Speaker 1: Coco is heavily influenced by Mexican culture and traditions. The

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Speaker 1: always looking for. I don't know why, but I think

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00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:35,200
Speaker 1: it was just the presence of a border patrol agent

440
00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:39,000
Speaker 1: while crossing the border. I remember them expecting our truck

441
00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:42,720
Speaker 1: going around, putting a flashlight in our face, asking us

442
00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:45,480
Speaker 1: or you an American citizen, and me rehearsing it into

443
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,200
Speaker 1: my head. Okay, when he says, are you an American citizen? Yes,

444
00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:50,159
Speaker 1: I'm an American citizen? Or do I say see? Or

445
00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:51,879
Speaker 1: do I say yes? Or do I say The President

446
00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:52,520
Speaker 1: is George W.

447
00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:53,199
Speaker 3: Bush.

448
00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:56,120
Speaker 1: And in the scene in Coco, they are using facial

449
00:22:56,200 --> 00:23:00,520
Speaker 1: recognition to determine who is clear across the border. That

450
00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:04,120
Speaker 1: was that process I faced to them, taking everybody's paperwork

451
00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:07,520
Speaker 1: and making sure you were an American citizen. And sometimes

452
00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:10,480
Speaker 1: just for no real reason, they would have you turn

453
00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,600
Speaker 1: into a stall to inspect the entire truck and we'd

454
00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 1: all have to get out. They would go through our luggage,

455
00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:18,840
Speaker 1: they'd bring the dog and have them sniff all the

456
00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:22,800
Speaker 1: way around the truck. And that was so so terrifying

457
00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,520
Speaker 1: as a kid, because again, even though we didn't have

458
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:28,680
Speaker 1: anything on us, it's much like going through tsa now,

459
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,159
Speaker 1: even though you know you don't have anything on you,

460
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:33,679
Speaker 1: it's that fear of what if I forgot something?

461
00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:34,960
Speaker 3: What if I do have.

462
00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:38,000
Speaker 1: A bunch of tomatoes and mongos in my suitcase? What

463
00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:40,280
Speaker 1: are they gonna do to us? And I'd never really

464
00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:44,840
Speaker 1: seen that process showcased in an American movie, much less

465
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:48,919
Speaker 1: a Disney pick Star movie. So obviously Coco celebrated a

466
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:53,440
Speaker 1: lot of Mexican traditions, heavily rooted in the music aspect,

467
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:56,080
Speaker 1: with all the manyachi music in Coco. But for me,

468
00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:59,360
Speaker 1: it was that scene in particular. That's why I included

469
00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,920
Speaker 1: it on this Central's list. I have one more to include.

470
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,600
Speaker 1: It is the most recent entry, as we've been going

471
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:09,959
Speaker 1: chronologically from the eighties to the nineties, the twenty tens,

472
00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:13,440
Speaker 1: and now the most recent entry is Blue Beetle, which

473
00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:16,480
Speaker 1: came out in twenty twenty three. This movie means a

474
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,800
Speaker 1: lot to me, and I know some people did not

475
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:21,680
Speaker 1: enjoy this movie. It also came out at a weird

476
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:24,840
Speaker 1: time last year during the writers' strike, and I feel

477
00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,640
Speaker 1: like this movie had kind of an unfair battleground because

478
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,760
Speaker 1: none of the cast was able to promote it. It

479
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 1: also came in on the tail end of the DCEU

480
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,360
Speaker 1: at a time where everybody was really already checking out,

481
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:40,760
Speaker 1: knowing that James Gunn was going to take over and

482
00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:43,720
Speaker 1: change everything, and made it feel like Blue Beetle, along

483
00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:46,919
Speaker 1: with movies like The Flash, didn't really matter because this

484
00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:50,119
Speaker 1: entire chapter was gonna go caput at the end of

485
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,080
Speaker 1: the year. But the movie was groundbreaking. It was the

486
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:58,800
Speaker 1: first superhero film led by a Latino character. Scholo made Luenna,

487
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:02,600
Speaker 1: who did a fantastic job, directed by an Hilmanuel Soto,

488
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,040
Speaker 1: who I've actually had on the podcast, and it was

489
00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:10,200
Speaker 1: groundbreaking when it came to showcasing how Mexican American families are,

490
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 1: how important being together is, the identity struggles, staying true

491
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 1: to your Mexican American roots in a world that doesn't

492
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 1: want you to hold on to them. And for me,

493
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:23,720
Speaker 1: I believe this was one of the most authentic representations

494
00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:27,720
Speaker 1: of showing how Mexicans actually dress, how Mexicans in the

495
00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:31,240
Speaker 1: United States actually speak to each other inside of their families,

496
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:35,200
Speaker 1: even though sometimes I do feel like it's over emphasized

497
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:38,000
Speaker 1: a little bit, but that's any time you use Spanish

498
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 1: in an American movie, you have to amplify it just

499
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,840
Speaker 1: a little bit. But showing what Mexicans listen to, what

500
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 1: Mexicans eat, even the houses where we live and things

501
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 1: that would be on our walls, the jobs that we have.

502
00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:53,800
Speaker 1: The dad in this movie wearing his work jacket gave

503
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 1: me strong vibes to my dad. It was hearing them

504
00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:00,760
Speaker 1: listening to artists like Lostukanas that the I Juana, watching

505
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 1: El Chapolin Colorado and thinking to myself, these are all

506
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:07,320
Speaker 1: things that I listened to and watch growing up, and

507
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,399
Speaker 1: now they are being showcased in this movie. And it

508
00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 1: was also the fact that the movie really committed to

509
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 1: the use of Spanish, which I felt was a huge

510
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 1: risk as a viewer and I was Mexican American. But

511
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:22,240
Speaker 1: when I had the director on talking about it, he

512
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:23,880
Speaker 1: said he didn't see it as a risk.

513
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Speaker 5: No, nocus, that's my life, that's our life. When we

514
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 5: were doing it, we had the blessing I wanted to

515
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:33,720
Speaker 5: have more Spanish because the truth is all those actors,

516
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:38,359
Speaker 5: especially like Alberto regez Zo da Casa and Agena Barrasa.

517
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:42,240
Speaker 5: Their main language is Spanish. When you speak from the heart,

518
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:44,920
Speaker 5: doesn't matter where you are, You're going to speak from

519
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,200
Speaker 5: the language that you can better communicate.

520
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:49,160
Speaker 1: So I love that it makes the movie to me

521
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,160
Speaker 1: feel more authentic because when I talk to my parents now,

522
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:54,959
Speaker 1: we do this. We go back and forth speaking English

523
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:58,880
Speaker 1: and Spanish, sometimes senates for senates, sometimes every other word

524
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,760
Speaker 1: is in a different language. Just because there are certain

525
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:05,760
Speaker 1: words I feel more comfortable getting my message across in English.

526
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,360
Speaker 1: But there are words in Spanish that sometimes I don't

527
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 1: even know what they mean. I've been saying them for

528
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 1: so long that if I had to translate them, it

529
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 1: takes me a second to think, I don't know. I've

530
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,480
Speaker 1: just been using these words since I was a kid,

531
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:19,160
Speaker 1: and they're just embedded in my head that they mean

532
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,239
Speaker 1: something to me in one language. But I don't think

533
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:23,719
Speaker 1: they would hit the same way if I translated them

534
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 1: into English. Therefore, when I talked to my parents, I

535
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:29,200
Speaker 1: just use the Spanish word, so it would be very

536
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,679
Speaker 1: confusing to some people to hear the way are some

537
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,399
Speaker 1: of our conversations go down because it is back and

538
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,639
Speaker 1: forth a lot of the time, and that is what

539
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:38,639
Speaker 1: they did in Blue Beetle. The other moment that I

540
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: felt truly showcase the struggle of Mexican Americans was the

541
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,639
Speaker 1: scene in the movie where Hymen, the main character who

542
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 1: eventually becomes the Blue Beetle, goes for a job interview

543
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:51,480
Speaker 1: and has this interaction.

544
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Speaker 3: I it's nice to meet you.

545
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:55,159
Speaker 1: Deliveries are downstairs.

546
00:27:55,800 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, my name is Himejime. I'm here

547
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:01,000
Speaker 3: to see Jenny Cord.

548
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: Do you have an appointment, Jamie t I met right, I.

549
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 3: Mean, yes, I do have an appointment. She said, to

550
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:09,680
Speaker 3: drop by some stress.

551
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 5: Oh you can stand back, okay.

552
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 4: Why don't you have a seat Jamie, Okay, thank you.

553
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:17,880
Speaker 3: A couple of things there.

554
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Speaker 1: You know how many times I've been confused for a

555
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:25,240
Speaker 1: worker at a restaurant, at the mall, even one time

556
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:28,639
Speaker 1: at a station event. One time I had somebody at

557
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 1: an event I was at for the radio station give

558
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 1: me their trash because I was standing on like the

559
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 1: bottom floor where all these people were seated towards the back,

560
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 1: trying to find my seat. So maybe I was looking

561
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 1: a little bit confused of not knowing where I was

562
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 1: supposed to go, but I was dressed in like a

563
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 1: nice white button down with black slacks, and looking back

564
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 1: on it, now, yeah, maybe what some people would assume

565
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 1: a server would be dressed like. But to me, I

566
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 1: was like, oh, look at me, you're dressing up fancy

567
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 1: for this event. And the person thought I was working

568
00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 1: the event and gave me their trash to throw it away.

569
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 1: So it's moments like that of our people being confused

570
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 1: for workers even though we're not, because you think, oh,

571
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 1: you can't possibly be here for a job interview. You're

572
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 1: looking for deliveries. Go round back man. The other part

573
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: of that clip is her. Even though he says his

574
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 1: name is Hymen in the way that he speaks my

575
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 1: name is Hymen, she calls them Jamie.

576
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 3: This is also something I.

577
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:29,719
Speaker 1: Struggled with growing up because my real Mexican name, I

578
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 1: hated the way people would pronounce it and it didn't

579
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:37,440
Speaker 1: feel like that was the name that my parents gave me. Therefore,

580
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 1: just going by Minkey was so much easier. And I

581
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 1: hope that Sholoamadi Duenna still gets to play the role

582
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 1: of Blue Beetle. James Gunn has said that he wants

583
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:50,600
Speaker 1: to keep the character and all that he's building with DC.

584
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:54,239
Speaker 1: I think a Blue Beetle two would probably be a

585
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 1: lot to ask for just because it wasn't seen as

586
00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 1: a commercial success, but it is available on Max. If

587
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 1: you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. That is

588
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 1: my list of essential Mexican American movies for Hispanic heritage months.

589
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 1: I do have some honorable mentions. There are some movies

590
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 1: that I watch growing up that I feel other people

591
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 1: would probably include on this list. But the reason I

592
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 1: feel they aren't entirely essential is because some of them

593
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 1: are a little bit more violent, are rated, and I

594
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,360
Speaker 1: feel that generally I wouldn't include like that on an

595
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 1: essentials list. But American Me, also starring Edward James, almost

596
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,960
Speaker 1: is about his rise to power in the Mexican Mafia.

597
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: Some pretty brutal scenes in that movie. Another one that

598
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 1: I've probably watched at too young of an age along

599
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 1: those same lines is Blood and Blood Out, which my

600
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 1: cousins love growing up. It's the story of three cousins,

601
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 1: which is probably why. That's a story about trying to

602
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 1: be in a gang while also is trying to maintain

603
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 1: your family. One that I enjoyed that I don't really

604
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 1: believe is essential is Sicatio, just because it portrays what

605
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 1: some border towns are like, probably to a bit of

606
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,959
Speaker 1: an extreme, and I think as Americans we think some

607
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 1: of these towns, like Wwadas are war zones.

608
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 3: Which they are dangerous.

609
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 1: My parents had to go to Wattas in order to

610
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 1: get my grandma papers to come to the United States,

611
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 1: and I just remember being so stressed out knowing that

612
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 1: they were going there. They were on very high alert.

613
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 1: So the movie does take it to a bit of

614
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 1: an extreme, but it does showcase what some of these

615
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 1: places are like. Another movie I bonded with my mom

616
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: over was under the same Moon, also goes by the

617
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 1: title Lamism Luna, which means the same thing. It came

618
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 1: out in two thousand and seven, and it's about a

619
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:38,239
Speaker 1: kid crossing the border to reunite with his mom. It

620
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 1: has that two thousands drama vibe that maybe doesn't age perfectly,

621
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 1: but I feel like a little bit more of a

622
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 1: fluffy drama that is a good one that also shows

623
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: the struggle of having family in the US and in Mexico.

624
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 3: So that is the list.

625
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 1: I'll come back and give my spoiler free review of

626
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 1: Transformers One.

627
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 3: Let's get into it now.

628
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 1: A spoiler free movie review a Transformers one. I wanted

629
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 1: to know my aged out of this movie. And Transformers

630
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 1: spans a lot of generations. I think probably the biggest

631
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 1: generation that it affected because it came out when it

632
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 1: was brand new, was the eighties. My older brother grew

633
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 1: up in the eighties and he was a huge Transformers fan.

634
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 1: They had the toy line, obviously paired with the comic

635
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 1: book line that they would promote the toys in that

636
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: turned into the animated series. There was an animated movie

637
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: back in the eighties, so Transformers dipping into animation isn't

638
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 1: anything new by any means, but this movie is introducing

639
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 1: it to an entirely new generation. You have those people

640
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:43,239
Speaker 1: back in the eighties. Then you have fans like me

641
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: who became a fan in two thousand and seven with

642
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 1: the Michael Bay movie shild Above Megan Fox. That entire run,

643
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 1: even into the twenty tens with the Mark Wahlberg was

644
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 1: and even coming back now with Anton. It almost Transformers

645
00:32:55,640 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 1: have been a constant in American entertainment since the eighties,

646
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 1: but now you have an animated movie that is going

647
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 1: to be what that was in the eighties. To kids now.

648
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 1: So going into this movie, I wanted to know, how

649
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: is it going to walk that line of being appealing

650
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 1: to kids now thinking they're cool, getting them.

651
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:15,480
Speaker 3: Invested in the characters.

652
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 1: Also, the point of any movie, especially Transformers movies, to

653
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,479
Speaker 1: inspire a kid to go see this movie and then

654
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 1: want to run to Target, run to Walmart, tell their

655
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 1: parents I need this optimist Prime now.

656
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Speaker 3: Because he was so cool in the movie.

657
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Speaker 1: How is it going to be inspiring to those kids

658
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 1: but also appease the fans from the eighties and the

659
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Speaker 1: two thousands. How is it going to walk that line?

660
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 1: As far as the tone and I will say, in

661
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:42,720
Speaker 1: the first thirty minutes of this movie, I thought I'm

662
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 1: aged out of this. This isn't going to be for me,

663
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 1: because in the first thirty minutes it felt like the

664
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 1: script was written by Ai, that all these little comedic

665
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 1: moments were made for kids maybe four.

666
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 3: Or five, six years old, and it.

667
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 1: Felt like that superhero humor of like I can't believe it.

668
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 1: He's standing right behind me, isn't he. There were a

669
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Speaker 1: lot of those moments that thought we were going to

670
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:08,280
Speaker 1: be in for a lot of that throughout the movie,

671
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 1: and I worried in those first thirty minutes and what

672
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 1: this movie is about. It is the origin story of

673
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 1: Optimist Prime and Megatron, before they were known by that

674
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: there were just two dudes working as minors, Orion Packs

675
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 1: and D sixteen Orion Packs. Who goes on to be

676
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 1: Optimist Prime is voiced by Chris Hemsworth. D sixteen is

677
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 1: voiced by Brian Tyree Henry he goes on to be Megatron.

678
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,879
Speaker 1: You also have Keegan Michael Key, Scarlett Johansson rounding out

679
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 1: this crew. And I just think it was the animation

680
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 1: style and the overall interaction between all of the characters

681
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 1: that I really didn't become fully invested until the late

682
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 1: second and third act. And I think it was the

683
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 1: fact that I started to feel that they miscast some

684
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 1: of these voices. I really had to lean into hearing

685
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 1: Chris Hemsworth be Optimist Prime and have to play that

686
00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 1: character much differently in the beginning because he not really

687
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 1: Optimist Prime yet. And it felt like almost all their

688
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:07,279
Speaker 1: voices didn't really go together well, like they didn't have

689
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 1: this chemistry. And I've never really felt that way during

690
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 1: an animated movie because obviously I don't expect and it

691
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:15,880
Speaker 1: rarely ever happens that all of these actors are together

692
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 1: in a room while making these movies. Chris Hemsworth did

693
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 1: this entire movie at his house and at times his

694
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 1: kids would run in, so I kind of started to

695
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 1: feel that so much so that it felt like Scarlett

696
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 1: Johansson was completely removed from this movie. And I think

697
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 1: out of everybody from this main cast, she was the

698
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 1: one who felt the most miscast. And Scarlett Johansson is

699
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 1: a fantastic actor and voice actor, because her work in

700
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 1: her should have earned her at least an Oscar nomination,

701
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 1: But to me, it felt like her role in this.

702
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,719
Speaker 3: Movie was much more of we need big names.

703
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:51,360
Speaker 1: At the top of this poster to get people to

704
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,760
Speaker 1: go want to watch it. It just didn't really feel

705
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 1: like her voice fit that character, and I could just

706
00:35:56,640 --> 00:36:00,359
Speaker 1: really see her sitting in a recording booth recording these

707
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 1: lines and sending them off and not really feeling any

708
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 1: connection there. So maybe that's just me as an adult.

709
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 1: I don't think a kid watching this movie would have

710
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 1: really felt that. I also felt like early on the

711
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 1: animation looked very flat and cold, which I was kind

712
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 1: of hoping that they would pull some inspiration from the

713
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 1: early cartoons, even the early comics to design these characters.

714
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 1: But I feel in order to make it a little

715
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 1: bit more appealing to kids now, they have to look

716
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 1: a little bit more slick, a little bit more like

717
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 1: they were made in twenty twenty four and not back

718
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 1: in the eighties. But I think it was just feeling

719
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:36,840
Speaker 1: that they were really trying to make moments comedic that

720
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 1: weren't really working. And what this movie is really trying

721
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:43,240
Speaker 1: to teach the kids, to teach to even some adults

722
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: who need to hear it, is that questioning your worth,

723
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 1: your role in the world, and having that feeling that

724
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 1: you're destined to be something better, because that is what

725
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 1: Orian Packs is dealing with, working in that mind, knowing

726
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: that you know, I think there's something out there for me.

727
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 1: And the thing you have to know about these miners

728
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 1: is they're not to transform. They don't have the ability

729
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 1: to turn into cars to be super strong, and there

730
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:08,759
Speaker 1: are other people living in their world that do, so

731
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 1: they desire to have that, to be as good as

732
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 1: their superiors, and trying to show that just because they

733
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 1: are miners working down there doing the grunt work, that

734
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 1: they are also destined to be something great if they

735
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 1: want to seek that out, and that is what Orion

736
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 1: Pax wants to do. D sixteen is very much the

737
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,359
Speaker 1: opposite and wants to maintain the status quo, doesn't want

738
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,720
Speaker 1: to break protocol, wants to keep his head down, work hard,

739
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 1: and hopefully eventually be rewarded for that, but doesn't want

740
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 1: to make any ways. And Orion Pax kind of makes

741
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 1: the decision for him that no, we're gonna do something different.

742
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: We're gonna go try to find this energy source and

743
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:48,760
Speaker 1: prove that we're not just miners and there's actual meaning

744
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:50,720
Speaker 1: to our life. And as they go on this journey

745
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:53,319
Speaker 1: trying to find this energy source and at the same

746
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,319
Speaker 1: time trying to find their purpose in life, there is.

747
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:58,360
Speaker 3: A big shift in the movie.

748
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:01,760
Speaker 1: And in that late second and it's especially third act,

749
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: I feel like something switched in the script and it

750
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: became an entirely different movie.

751
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:09,719
Speaker 3: And that second half.

752
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 1: Is totally geared more towards the early eighties fans and

753
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 1: those two thousands fans, and it started not to feel

754
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 1: like a movie meant for kids anymore. And it's the

755
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 1: only time I've realized that happening. As I'm watching something

756
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 1: It reminded me much like the first teenage Mutant Ninja

757
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 1: Turtles live action movie, where even though that was based

758
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:33,319
Speaker 1: on a kid's comic book, that entire movie had much

759
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 1: more of an adult tone.

760
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:36,400
Speaker 3: Very serious.

761
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:39,280
Speaker 1: There were some real high stakes in that movie. People

762
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 1: died in that movie, and I almost feel like they

763
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,800
Speaker 1: took some inspiration from that to create this story where

764
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,400
Speaker 1: they were no longer downplaying it to kids. And I

765
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 1: love movies that do that because kids are smart. You

766
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:53,960
Speaker 1: can put things in movies that have a little bit

767
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: more of an adult theme. There's some fighting in here,

768
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 1: there's some betrayal, there's a lot of things that go

769
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:02,240
Speaker 1: and you think, oh, that would go over some kids'

770
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:04,439
Speaker 1: heads that are maybe five, six, seven, eight years old.

771
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,279
Speaker 1: But I think when you make movies like that and

772
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 1: you don't make everything like the first half of this

773
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,839
Speaker 1: movie have those cheesy moments, those kung Fu pandem moments

774
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 1: where character farts or something, you can really give kids

775
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:18,240
Speaker 1: something special that they are going to remember.

776
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:20,879
Speaker 3: I feel like that is going to be this movie.

777
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 1: In ten twenty years that people who are doing a

778
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 1: podcast in twenty forty think back to the time where

779
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:29,839
Speaker 1: their dad or their mom took them to go see

780
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:32,799
Speaker 1: Transformers one in theaters and it changed their life. That

781
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 1: is when something special really starts happening. I wish it

782
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:38,880
Speaker 1: did it earlier on in the film, but I understand

783
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 1: the impact it had later in the movie, where I

784
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 1: felt it totally changed and I really started to enjoy it.

785
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:47,720
Speaker 1: That is when I started to feel as an adult

786
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:50,840
Speaker 1: that something special was happening before my eyes and it

787
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 1: was a Transformers movie like I didn't expect to see.

788
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 1: And I think it's going back to I hate the

789
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 1: term going back to its roots and animation, but that's

790
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 1: what it.

791
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:02,760
Speaker 3: It went back to owning.

792
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:05,239
Speaker 1: That world and doing things that the live action movie

793
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:08,879
Speaker 1: couldn't do. Live action Transformers movies always have a little

794
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 1: bit of a constraint because they rely so much on

795
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 1: the special effects the human interaction.

796
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 3: But when you take that out and really get to.

797
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 1: Explore their world, it becomes entirely different, less about the

798
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 1: whole robots in disguise and more about being more than.

799
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 3: Meets the eye.

800
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 1: That's really the only way I can describe it, because

801
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:29,800
Speaker 1: it's not so much about them hiding from anything yet

802
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:33,319
Speaker 1: it's about them showing off their powers and their abilities.

803
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:37,480
Speaker 1: And also their desire for one side to do evil

804
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 1: things and one side to do the noble, heroic thing.

805
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 1: And overall, I thought Chris Hemsworth did a really good

806
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 1: job as Optimist Prime. You can hear the evolution of

807
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:51,480
Speaker 1: his voice throughout this film, which I think early on

808
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:53,520
Speaker 1: in the movie, I was like, why is he just

809
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: talking normally like Chris Hemsworth? And then it starts to

810
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: make sense, and I think it's putting together all those

811
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 1: pieces and how this really connects with the live action

812
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 1: movies because this Transformer's one movie does serve as canon,

813
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 1: and I feel like, I don't know how many of

814
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 1: these movies they are going to make, but it's going

815
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 1: to lead up to what we saw back in two

816
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 1: thousand and seven, and that is exciting to me. And

817
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:18,399
Speaker 1: even though I didn't love the entire film, how this

818
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: movie ended makes me feel that the next one is

819
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 1: going to be magnificent because it ends on a high

820
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 1: note and now the stage is set with all our

821
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:30,839
Speaker 1: characters in play. I think the better action is going

822
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 1: to be in Part two and Part three if they

823
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,400
Speaker 1: get there. The only thing this movie was really missing

824
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 1: was that Lincoln Park song playing at the end. Boom,

825
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 1: directed by Michael Bay. Credits roll Yeah. Transformers movie without

826
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 1: the big Michael Bay explosions was an interesting experience. So

827
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 1: even though it took a while to get there, I

828
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:52,240
Speaker 1: found myself really enjoying the movie. But I can't deny

829
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 1: that those first thirty forty minutes I felt.

830
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 3: A little bit bored by.

831
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 1: And I get that's obviously because I'm thirty three years old.

832
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 1: I wasn't the key demographic and what I feel was

833
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:05,160
Speaker 1: Act one and the most of Act two. But I

834
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 1: think the next movie is going to be one that

835
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:09,920
Speaker 1: I can get fully behind. But for Transformers one, I

836
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:16,320
Speaker 1: give it three point five out of five sword Hands.

837
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 3: It's time to head down to movie.

838
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:23,960
Speaker 1: Mike Traylor Paul dai Z Ridley gets twisted in a

839
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 1: new thriller called mac Pie. I have been waiting for

840
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 1: this movie to come out. It premiered earlier this year

841
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 1: at south By Southwest, had fantastic reviews. I've just been

842
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: refreshing my Google searches trying to find out when this

843
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:38,800
Speaker 1: movie was going to come out. Daisy Ridley just shared

844
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 1: this trailer at the end of last week on Instagram

845
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 1: and I was like, finally, I think dai Z Redley

846
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 1: right now is entering the prime of her career. I

847
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:52,719
Speaker 1: think most people still know her as Ray from the

848
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 1: Star Wars movies. She is going to be in another

849
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:59,320
Speaker 1: upcoming Star Wars movies. Could be multiple there, I said movies.

850
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 1: It could just be wanted the moment that has been announced.

851
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 1: But she gets so much hate from Star Wars fans

852
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:09,760
Speaker 1: because of what her character did to what people believe

853
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 1: is the worst trilogy in Star Wars, and they don't

854
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:15,800
Speaker 1: want to see her be in anymore Star Wars movies.

855
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 1: But I think what is going to happen to her

856
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 1: in the world of Star Wars is much what is

857
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:22,840
Speaker 1: happening right now to Hayden Christensen, who is now getting

858
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:26,640
Speaker 1: his flowers and being celebrated from the prequels that everybody

859
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 1: hated in the late nineties early two thousands. Now it's

860
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:32,440
Speaker 1: all the people that grew up with those movies and

861
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:34,960
Speaker 1: that was how they were introduced to Star Wars and

862
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 1: they love him. Now we're gonna have that in maybe

863
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty years with those movies. Mark my words, I'm

864
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:43,400
Speaker 1: still doing this podcast. In twenty years, I'll come on

865
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:45,799
Speaker 1: here and be like I told you, I was right.

866
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:49,239
Speaker 1: But after that movie, she took on other big, what

867
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:53,799
Speaker 1: I would call stereotypical Hollywood movies that maybe felt to

868
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 1: her and maybe her management that this is the next

869
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:59,360
Speaker 1: step you need to take to be this big star.

870
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 1: At her now husband while working on Murder on the

871
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:06,960
Speaker 1: Orient Express in twenty seventeen, they actually wrote this movie together.

872
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:11,359
Speaker 1: Her and Tom Bateman wrote the script to Magpie, which

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Speaker 1: is about a couple who finds their lives turned upside

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Speaker 1: down when their daughter is cast alongside a controversial star

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Speaker 1: in a movie. The trailer looks good, The poster looks good.

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Speaker 1: I want to tell you all about Magpie, but first

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Speaker 1: here's just a little bit of the trailer. Nice to

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Speaker 1: meet youa really nice to meet you.

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Speaker 3: You too, big fan. Lysia sounds nice. She's amazing.

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Speaker 1: I have a terrible tasting.

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Speaker 3: Men, we have you done?

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Speaker 1: So what it looks like In this movie? Daisy Ridley

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Speaker 1: plays a character named Annette who is married to a

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Speaker 1: guy named Ben. Their daughter, Matilda, gets cast in this movie,

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Speaker 1: and it appears that her her husband has some kind

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Speaker 1: of an affair with this controversial actress and quite possibly

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Speaker 1: gets her pregnant and has a baby. I'm not exactly

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Speaker 1: sure of all the details. I've read what I can

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Speaker 1: find about this movie, and I've watched the trailer multiple times,

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Speaker 1: but it starts out with Daisy Ridley's character having a

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Speaker 1: bit of a breakdown, and you hear a baby crying,

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Speaker 1: and it kind of made me feel that she steal

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Speaker 1: this baby?

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Speaker 3: What is going on?

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Speaker 1: So she's in this car trying to get her seat

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Speaker 1: belt on, obviously not in a clear state of mind,

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Speaker 1: and you just hear this baby crying from the back seat,

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Speaker 1: and I wonder how that baby comes into this picture.

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Speaker 1: Is it a result of the affair that her husband

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Speaker 1: has with this actress? Does she herself become pregnant again

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Speaker 1: with her husband? And just muddies the entire situation. But

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Speaker 1: something leads me to believe that something not great is

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Speaker 1: going to happen to that baby. Because this movie is

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Speaker 1: being described as being very shocking. There's a line in

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Speaker 1: the trailer where the husband's like, what did you do?

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Speaker 1: And I have to imagine there has to be something

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Speaker 1: pretty shocking. At one point, you see Daisy Ridley staring

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Speaker 1: into a mirror and break it either with her fist

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Speaker 1: or her hand. In the next scene, she is watching

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Speaker 1: this cut in the scene can.

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Speaker 3: You See Blood Everywhere?

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Speaker 1: She becomes infatuated with this controversial actress that her husband

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Speaker 1: may or may not be having an affair with. She's

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Speaker 1: googling her, she has all these pictures pulled up. Looks

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Speaker 1: like she confronts her at one point, if I had

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Speaker 1: to predict it, the husband ends up having a baby

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Speaker 1: with this actress. They get divorced, she steals the baby

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Speaker 1: and hopefully hopefully doesn't do any harm to the baby.

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Speaker 1: But I feel like this movie has to have some

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Speaker 1: kind of an edge, some kind of major moment to

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Speaker 1: make it shocking, because that is what they are saying

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Speaker 1: about it, that it's going to be satisfying and something

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Speaker 1: new for audiences. So I think if there's anybody who

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Speaker 1: could pull off a role like this is Daisy Ridley,

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Speaker 1: who does dramas really well, who does thrillers really well.

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Speaker 1: Mentioned earlier The March King's Daughter. I thought she was

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Speaker 1: fantastic in and she does a really good job of

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Speaker 1: walking the line of drama but also pushing the boundaries

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Speaker 1: when it comes to making a very engaging thriller. She

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Speaker 1: is a very versatile actor, obviously probably learning a lot

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Speaker 1: from doing the Star Wars movies and working on movies

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Speaker 1: that are so big, larger than life. I feel like

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Speaker 1: her scaling down and going back to just great storytelling

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Speaker 1: with great direction. I feel like she's able to use

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Speaker 1: all those tools to make a movie like this really great.

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Speaker 1: The scene of her rocking the baby just gives me

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Speaker 1: this real, menacing, ominous feeling. You see a car being flipped,

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Speaker 1: looks like somebody is held hostage at some point. This

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Speaker 1: movie looks to me to have all the ingredients that

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Speaker 1: I love. But again, the movie is coming out on

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Speaker 1: October twenty fifth. It is rated R. I cannot wait

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Speaker 1: for Magpie. If you want to do a Daisy Ridly

943
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Speaker 1: deep dive, I would probably start with The marsh King's Daughter.

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Speaker 1: You can watch that one on Hulu. Then I would

945
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Speaker 1: go from earlier this year Young Woman in the Sea.

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Speaker 1: You can watch that one on Disney Plus. And then

947
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Speaker 1: if you like romance indie dramas, sometimes I think about dying.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's for everybody. It's kind of depressing.

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Speaker 1: It's a bit of a bummer overall, a little bit

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Speaker 1: more low key of a movie. And it's also not

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Speaker 1: on a streaming service, so you do have to pay

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Speaker 1: to rent it. It's like four bucks. But that movie

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Speaker 1: is one of my favorites from this year. That is

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Speaker 1: why I'm looking forward to Magpie, Three Daisy Really movies

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Speaker 1: in one year.

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Speaker 3: I'm all about it at that for was.

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Speaker 2: This week's edition of Movie b Framer par.

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Speaker 1: And that is going to do it for another episode

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Speaker 1: here of the podcast. But before I go, I got

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Speaker 1: to give my listeners shout out of the week this week.

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Speaker 1: I'm going over to x Skip Skoggin's you are this

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Speaker 1: week's listener shout Out of the Week. Skip hit me

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Speaker 1: up about my episode on eighties movies I think need

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Speaker 1: sequel and said Born in Eist Delay was one of

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Speaker 1: my favorite childhood movies. Really enjoyed hearing you give it

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Speaker 1: some love. I do feel like that is a movie

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Speaker 1: people forget about. I always like sharing those movies on

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Speaker 1: the podcast that I feel are these little hidden gems

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Speaker 1: that one probably also could have made the list I

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Speaker 1: made earlier in the episode. I just don't feel it's

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Speaker 1: that essential to our culture. But I feel what I

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Speaker 1: love more about that movie is the comedy. So appreciate

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Speaker 1: you Skip for listening to that episode. Appreciate you now

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Speaker 1: listening wherever you are, and until next time, go out

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

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Speaker 1: witer