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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 back with the first brand

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Speaker 1: new episode of the year, where I will be sharing

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Speaker 1: my top ten films of twenty twenty four. I wanted

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Speaker 1: lot of stuff came out over Christmas break. I wanted

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Speaker 1: to include those movies, so I have my top ten

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Speaker 1: favorite films of the year. In the movie review, we'll

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Speaker 1: be talking about Baby Girl, which is the erotic thriller

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Speaker 1: starring Nicole Kidman. And instead of doing a trailer park

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Speaker 1: this week, I want to do my top five worst

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Speaker 1: films of the last year. I'll save the negativity towards

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Speaker 1: the end because I don't really like to focus on that.

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Speaker 1: I'm also trying to be a more fair and balanced

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Speaker 1: movie reviewer this year. Not that I feel that I

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Speaker 1: lost the reins on that in the last year, but

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Speaker 1: as I was putting together my top ten list for

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Speaker 1: conflictions between where I put things based on things I

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Speaker 1: just passionately love and based on things that did well

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Speaker 1: and were reviewed well. So I tried to throw that

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Speaker 1: all out the window and give you my just true

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Speaker 1: opinion on what I thought were the best ten films

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Speaker 1: of the year. So, just because I found myself struggling

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Speaker 1: not get to like snooty movie reviewer guy, which I

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Speaker 1: to kind of think back on why I started this podcast,

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Speaker 1: the movies that inspired me. Obviously, it was heavily influenced

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Speaker 1: on superhero movies. Just my if you can call it,

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Speaker 1: a career of reviewing movies, is based in those big

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Speaker 1: summer blockbusters, So I consider that while putting together this list,

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Speaker 1: but I will reserve the hate for the end on

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Speaker 1: movies that I felt were just a waste of time.

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Speaker 1: And I really think that's why I get so mad

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Speaker 1: about some movies. It's because I'm looking out for people

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Speaker 1: like you who are investing their time, investing their money

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Speaker 1: going to the theater, where ticket prices get more and

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Speaker 1: more expensive, concessions get more and more expensive. I just

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Speaker 1: hate movies that I feel rob you at the box office,

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Speaker 1: and I feel sometimes in criticizing those people think I'm

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Speaker 1: bashing these popcorn flicks that are a part of me,

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Speaker 1: and I can respect. I am that person who will

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Speaker 1: go see Kung Fu Panda four in theaters, but I'll

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Speaker 1: also sit down and watch Conclave. So we'll always continue

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Speaker 1: think that's something you have to continue and be conscious of,

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Speaker 1: because I don't want to turn into a crusty old

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Speaker 1: movie reviewer. So that is what I struggled with going

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Speaker 1: into this episode. So a lot to get to. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for being here, thank you for being subscribed, shout

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Speaker 1: out to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now let's

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Speaker 1: talk movies from the Nustville Podcast Network. This is Movie

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Speaker 1: Mike Movie Podas all right, about to get into my

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Speaker 1: list of my top ten favorite films of twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 1: and I will say there were no fives this year,

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Speaker 1: which I was surprised by. I thought twenty twenty four

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Speaker 1: There were some really good stuff out there, but nothing

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Speaker 1: of Deadpool and match that instead of giving us a

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Speaker 1: true comic book accurate version of Wolverine free of any influence.

435
00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:58,200
Speaker 1: If we didn't have the Deadpool movie and they came

436
00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:01,680
Speaker 1: out with a Wolverine comic accurate suit, it wouldn't look

437
00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:04,800
Speaker 1: like this. If Deadpool didn't exist in the MCU. The

438
00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:07,560
Speaker 1: suit would have looked better, in my opinion, but instead

439
00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:11,680
Speaker 1: Deadpole already has this look, and they made his suit

440
00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:14,280
Speaker 1: match Deadpool's look so they would look good on screen together.

441
00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:17,120
Speaker 1: That is my opinion. That is what I think really happened.

442
00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:20,479
Speaker 1: Even though the colors are there, to me, the texture

443
00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:22,480
Speaker 1: isn't there, which I feel is more important. And it

444
00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:26,120
Speaker 1: is still a really impactful MCU movie, and I think

445
00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:28,880
Speaker 1: one that is really going to change the course of

446
00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:33,320
Speaker 1: Marvel moving forward where we stand with Wolverine and Deadpoole

447
00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:36,000
Speaker 1: and how they fit into this picture, and I love that.

448
00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:39,080
Speaker 1: I also love that it gave us Gambit, and I

449
00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:43,479
Speaker 1: think that character has now proven to work in this

450
00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:47,000
Speaker 1: capacity and has maybe proven to Disney and proven to

451
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Speaker 1: Marvel that people want to see more Gambit, which is

452
00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:52,600
Speaker 1: a fantastic character that had a really big year in

453
00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:55,080
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, not only with this movie, but also

454
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Speaker 1: with the animated series X Men ninety seven. So I

455
00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:02,399
Speaker 1: think not only was it a movie I thoroughly enjoyed,

456
00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,040
Speaker 1: even though I had a lot of just this harsh

457
00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:08,359
Speaker 1: criticism probably over criticized this movie, I should have just

458
00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:10,240
Speaker 1: shut up and enjoy it as a nerd as a

459
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,800
Speaker 1: comic book fan and thought, we're finally getting this, but

460
00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:15,879
Speaker 1: it made me more excited of what's to come. And

461
00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:18,600
Speaker 1: I still thoroughly enjoyed it despite everything I just said.

462
00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:21,160
Speaker 1: But I still believe it is one of the most

463
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,639
Speaker 1: important films of last year, made a bunch of money.

464
00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:26,960
Speaker 1: I think it's one I will still continue to rewatch

465
00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:30,520
Speaker 1: and maybe enjoy more like a year out looking back

466
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Speaker 1: on it. So I still put it at number five

467
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,119
Speaker 1: and feel good about it and my top five movies

468
00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,080
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four at number four. You can watch

469
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:40,480
Speaker 1: it now on Peacock and it is the only movie

470
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:43,520
Speaker 1: we watched twice in theaters last year. I give it

471
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Speaker 1: a four point five out of five. It is Twisters,

472
00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:48,800
Speaker 1: and this is because I am such a huge fan

473
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 1: of the original movie, and maybe I had a little

474
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,640
Speaker 1: bit of rose colored glasses going into it and thinking, oh,

475
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:55,560
Speaker 1: this is gonna be great, just because I love the original.

476
00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:58,400
Speaker 1: But I truly believe that this movie on its own

477
00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:01,879
Speaker 1: is good. It is a sequel that really has nothing

478
00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:04,280
Speaker 1: to do with that first movie. There are some references

479
00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:06,680
Speaker 1: to it, and not only have I seen it twice

480
00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:09,520
Speaker 1: in theaters, but rewatch it again on Peacock and I

481
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:13,120
Speaker 1: still love it. It is also giving us two really great

482
00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:16,639
Speaker 1: future A list actors, and there are a lot of

483
00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:20,159
Speaker 1: great moments in this movie. And even though it focuses

484
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,600
Speaker 1: more on these two characters with Daisy Edgar Jones and

485
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:27,080
Speaker 1: Glenn Powell than it does the whole team, which I

486
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:30,160
Speaker 1: think the original movie was more about that that camaraderie

487
00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:34,440
Speaker 1: them as storm chasers. This focus more on their relationship

488
00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:38,800
Speaker 1: and their backstory and their dreams of science and chasing

489
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:42,720
Speaker 1: tornadoes and how those kind of clash and how they've

490
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:46,400
Speaker 1: worked together and butt heads. They were at the forefront

491
00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:48,679
Speaker 1: of this movie. And that is just a reflection of

492
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:52,840
Speaker 1: Hollywood right now that has to bank more on stars

493
00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:55,560
Speaker 1: and are using more and more star power to really

494
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 1: sell their movie, which is nothing new. That has been

495
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:01,760
Speaker 1: something since the twenty thirties, since the beginning of movie

496
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:03,719
Speaker 1: you gotta tell you a big star, you put them

497
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,280
Speaker 1: up on the poster. That is nothing new, but I

498
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:09,479
Speaker 1: feel it's more important now because if you don't have

499
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,199
Speaker 1: IP to sell, like you don't have a Batman or

500
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 1: Superman movie to sell, you need to have big A

501
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:18,880
Speaker 1: list stars. That is just the nature of movie studios

502
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 1: not wanting to take as many risks. This was also

503
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:24,320
Speaker 1: a movie I felt did really well at the box office.

504
00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:27,240
Speaker 1: It caused some buzz of people wanting to go experience

505
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:30,360
Speaker 1: this movie in theaters, especially in forty X. A lot

506
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:32,359
Speaker 1: of great memes that came out of this movie, so

507
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:34,120
Speaker 1: I like it when a movie does have an impact

508
00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 1: on That did influence my raking here a little bit,

509
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,400
Speaker 1: so I put it at number four. At number three,

510
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 1: speaking of a movie people talked about a lot and

511
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,560
Speaker 1: made a lot of memes of I have Wicked, which

512
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,600
Speaker 1: I gave a four point five out of five. It's

513
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:49,200
Speaker 1: still not available to stream yet, but you can't rent

514
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:51,159
Speaker 1: it at home. It is a movie I feel that

515
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:53,640
Speaker 1: people are not only gonna rent, but maybe even purchase.

516
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,359
Speaker 1: I think Wicked is a movie that has that type

517
00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:59,360
Speaker 1: of appeal where you're gonna want to rewatch this movie

518
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,560
Speaker 1: a lot because of the music, because of the songs,

519
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,440
Speaker 1: because of those performances, but not only that. We have

520
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:06,880
Speaker 1: the sequel coming out this year, which they did officially

521
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 1: change the title to Wicked for Good. It's coming out

522
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 1: on November twenty first, so pretty much a year after

523
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 1: this one came out. It's gonna give a lot of

524
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,040
Speaker 1: people a reason that maybe didn't watch this movie in

525
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 1: theaters to watch it at home, or maybe some people

526
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:21,680
Speaker 1: will wait till they have like the two showing events

527
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,160
Speaker 1: where you watch one leading up to number two in theaters.

528
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:26,360
Speaker 1: But I think why I love this movie so much

529
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:28,800
Speaker 1: is because I have such an affinity for the Wizard

530
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:32,359
Speaker 1: of Oz and all the mystery and just kind of

531
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 1: lore that surrounds that movie, with all of the dark

532
00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 1: and gritty past of just the filmmaking process, but also

533
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 1: its impact on film. It being a movie I would

534
00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:45,560
Speaker 1: say only one a few movies that are almost one

535
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 1: hundred years old that people still watch and still hold

536
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:52,680
Speaker 1: up and still influence film to this day, to this day.

537
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:56,680
Speaker 1: And I rewatched that movie after watching Wicked, and I'm

538
00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:58,920
Speaker 1: fully in that world right now and seeing how they're

539
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,680
Speaker 1: going to connect the first one to the second one,

540
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,119
Speaker 1: and how even though it's not a full on prequel,

541
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 1: hell now, because of its success, it's going to be

542
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:10,119
Speaker 1: so interwoven. So I'm very curious to see how the

543
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 1: second one plays out. And up to this point I

544
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 1: still avoided spoilers, and I think it was also that

545
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:17,920
Speaker 1: I didn't know anything about wike of going into it.

546
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 1: I didn't even know how to say Alphaba's name up

547
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:23,960
Speaker 1: until I did that trailer in the Trailer Park and

548
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:25,879
Speaker 1: I was like, how do you say this name? So

549
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:27,959
Speaker 1: I think not knowing a whole lot about the story

550
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 1: allowed me to enjoy the movie that much more. But

551
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:35,359
Speaker 1: from just the filmmaking standpoint, I love that this movie

552
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 1: brought back real sets and sequences that take place in

553
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 1: real time. A lot of live singing was done for

554
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 1: this movie. It just really felt like the set was alive,

555
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 1: which you don't really have a whole lot anymore. For

556
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 1: the most part, it's just a bunch of green screen

557
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 1: and blue screen and people just acting to nothing. You

558
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 1: can truly feel that in this movie, and I think

559
00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 1: is what made it so enjoyable to me that it

560
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:05,480
Speaker 1: still kept that Broadway theater vibe very live and fluid,

561
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: which I think is important for all the songs in

562
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:11,959
Speaker 1: this movie, and just having those big, elaborate sets that

563
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,200
Speaker 1: remind me of the filmmaking process for that first Widgards

564
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,639
Speaker 1: of Oz, where they had no ability to rely on

565
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 1: special effects. They had to do all those themselves. So hopefully,

566
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 1: since they did film both of these movies, at the

567
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:25,679
Speaker 1: same time, we get to see more of that in

568
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,679
Speaker 1: the sequel. I'm hype for it. Very rarely am I

569
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:31,399
Speaker 1: this hype for a sequel that I think has the

570
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,639
Speaker 1: potential to be better than it's original, because man, there

571
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:36,920
Speaker 1: has to be so much more action in Wicked for Good.

572
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 1: But at number three, I have Wicked. At number two,

573
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 1: I have a movie I gave a four point five

574
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: at a five. You can't stream it anyway right now,

575
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: you have to rent it. But it is a real pain,

576
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 1: starring Kieran Colchin and Jesse Eisenberg, who also directed the movie.

577
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 1: They play these two mismatched cousins as they call them,

578
00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 1: who traveled tough Poland to go on this tour after

579
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 1: their grandma dies, and this is them reconnecting and you

580
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 1: find out all about why they haven't remained as close.

581
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:10,400
Speaker 1: Kieran Colkin's character is very just go by the seat

582
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: of his pants, very chill, very laid back. He is

583
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 1: a people person who can form a connection with a

584
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 1: random stranger on the street. And Jesse Eisenberg's character is

585
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 1: very reserved, neurotic, overthinks a lot, but he has a

586
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 1: wife and kid at home, so he has a life

587
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:29,480
Speaker 1: to get back to, and it's how those two personalities

588
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 1: clash when you have kind of an odd couple here.

589
00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:34,000
Speaker 1: The movie only costs three million dollars to make, ended

590
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 1: pretty well at the box office, probably through word of mouth,

591
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 1: and like I was saying earlier, I think this is

592
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 1: the only movie that makes the entire top ten list

593
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 1: of mine that has the potential to win Best Picture.

594
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 1: I do hope Kieran Colchin is nominated and wins Best

595
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 1: Supporting Actor because he is fantastic in this film. I

596
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 1: also think Jesse Eisenberg should get a nomination for Best Director.

597
00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: But this movie kind of just hit me in the

598
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 1: gut way that I wasn't expecting. And these are both

599
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 1: characters that normally I wouldn't have anything that I could

600
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 1: relate to them to. But it's through the storytelling and

601
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 1: the power of all the things that get revealed that

602
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 1: I'm like, Oh, I am like one of these people.

603
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 1: And this was a movie that after I watched it,

604
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 1: I really just reflected on my feelings and on it

605
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 1: hitting a nerve that I've never even talked about and

606
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: much less seen represented in a movie that I associated

607
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 1: myself so much with. Jesse Eisenberg's character that I thought, man,

608
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 1: how did he make a movie like this and really

609
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 1: just hit me in the gut. And I think it

610
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 1: was also the fact that they had such great on

611
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 1: screen chemistry, the fact that the movie dealt with a

612
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 1: lot of different emotional layers, one of losing their grandma,

613
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 1: one of their falling out, and maybe I related a

614
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 1: little bit to not being so close with some family

615
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 1: members that I was closer to when I was a

616
00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 1: little bit more younger and care free. I think we've

617
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 1: all kind of experienced something like that, when you're a

618
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 1: little bit more wild and just don't care about things

619
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 1: in your twenties. Then you get in your thirties and

620
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 1: you have more responsibility, you get more involved in your career,

621
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 1: and maybe some people aren't at that exact same point

622
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 1: in their life at that same age, and there's some

623
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 1: friction that happens between those types of people when you

624
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 1: hang out. Even though for me personally, it is the

625
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 1: front runner that I want to win Best Picture, the

626
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 1: one I will probably get behind the most, maybe maybe

627
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,600
Speaker 1: for my number one, but depending on how that shakes out.

628
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:37,239
Speaker 1: There's nothing I feel is super novel about it that

629
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,959
Speaker 1: I think It's a hands down, full on winner, deserves

630
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: a five out of five. So not to take away

631
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 1: from the story, to take away from anything I've said here,

632
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 1: it just doesn't feel like anything I haven't seen done before.

633
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 1: But what it does do, it does really well. So

634
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: if you haven't seen it yet and you want to

635
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 1: experience that or just see like, why did this movie

636
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: make Mike so emotional? I do advise you to check

637
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 1: it out because I do think it's worth it. I

638
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 1: put a real pain at number two at number one,

639
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 1: and then I'll do my honorable mentions. After this, I

640
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 1: have the substance, which I gave a four point five

641
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 1: out of five. You can't stream it anywhere, you do

642
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 1: have to rent it. This movie was so close, the

643
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 1: closest for me of being a five, and I think

644
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 1: if it wasn't for that final act that kind of

645
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 1: just said, ah, we're gonna do whatever we want here

646
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 1: and we don't care, it probably would have been a five.

647
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 1: And maybe I should have expected it a little bit

648
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: because the movie is campy at times. It is a

649
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 1: body horror movie about this woman named Elizabeth Sparkle played

650
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Speaker 1: by Demi Moore, who just turns fifty and she's been

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Speaker 1: doing this really renowned aerobic show on TV, and after

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Speaker 1: her fiftieth birthday, she gets fired because her boss says, hey,

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Speaker 1: you don't have it anymore. You're not young, you're not

654
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Speaker 1: desirable anymore. You're aged out of this position. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: get somebody newer and younger to fill it. So she decides,

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Speaker 1: after kind of being turned on to this black market substance,

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Speaker 1: that she is going to take and create a better

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Speaker 1: version of herself. She doesn't know what that means. She

659
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Speaker 1: gets a call from this really weird person after dialing

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Speaker 1: this number, who gives her this instructions, gives her this

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Speaker 1: package with something called the substance. She takes it and

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Speaker 1: outcomes a different version of herself played by Margaret Quayley.

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Speaker 1: And the rules here is that one person has to

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Speaker 1: live for a week and then after that week they

665
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 1: switch bodies and the next person has to live out

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Speaker 1: the next seven days. If they disrupt this pattern, there

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Speaker 1: are some consequences, and it gets more and more complicated

668
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Speaker 1: as their desires on either side start to change, and

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Speaker 1: then oh boy, it gets to be a full on madhouse.

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Speaker 1: And ultimately it was a movie that I could not

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Speaker 1: stop thinking about I saw it whenever it came out

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00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 1: opening weekend in theaters, and for weeks on end, I

673
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Speaker 1: just kept going back of thinking how refreshing this movie

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Speaker 1: was and how bizarre it was, and I put myself

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Speaker 1: in that situation what I take the substance, And I

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Speaker 1: also think that this was a movie that really showed

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Speaker 1: how great of an actor Demi Moore is a very

678
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Speaker 1: vulnerable role for her, not only emotionally but also physically

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Speaker 1: putting her body on the line and on display in

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Speaker 1: this movie. And I put it at number one, and

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Speaker 1: usually my number one is a movie I believe that

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Speaker 1: everybody can watch and enjoy. I don't think this is

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Speaker 1: a type of movie like that, because one, you have

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Speaker 1: to be into horror movies and also you have to

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00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 1: be into an almost monster movie type has a very

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Speaker 1: almost classic feel to it to enjoy it. But I

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Speaker 1: also think it has that black mirror vibe, which I

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Speaker 1: think has opened up people's minds to what horror can be.

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Speaker 1: Even though traditionally not every single episode I would say

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Speaker 1: is a horror movie or a horror episode, it does

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Speaker 1: kind of bring a modern horror feel to people who

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Speaker 1: maybe wouldn't have considered themselves horror fans before that show,

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Speaker 1: because if you like that show, I'll break it to

694
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 1: you. You do like a little bit of horror, So I

695
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:06,800
Speaker 1: do feel the substance kind of falls in that category.

696
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: If you just like Black Mirror, you could give this

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Speaker 1: movie a shot. May be a little bit weird for

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00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 1: you at times, but you could give this movie a shot.

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Speaker 1: So my number one movie of twenty twenty four a

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Speaker 1: movie that I hope gets nominated for Best Picture. I

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Speaker 1: could easily see it not though, just because horror movies

702
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 1: often get robbed of that honor they're seen as being

703
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:31,799
Speaker 1: kind of less than him. But if it does get nominated,

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Speaker 1: this will be the movie that I push for that

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Speaker 1: I want to win. But I could easily see it

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Speaker 1: not getting that nomination, and therefore I'd put all my

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Speaker 1: eggs in a real pain basket. But at number one,

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Speaker 1: I have the substance who that was a lot of movies,

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Speaker 1: But I do have some honorable mentions, because like I said,

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Speaker 1: there were a lot of good movies, not a lot

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Speaker 1: of great movies in two thousand and four. Movies that

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00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 1: also almost made my list was the horror movie Late

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Speaker 1: Night with the Devil, which I give a four or

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Speaker 1: I had a five. Didn't see that one in theaters,

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Speaker 1: but I did watch that one at home. If you

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Speaker 1: turn off all the lights and allow yourself to just

717
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 1: feel like you're in a theater, that movie is a

718
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Speaker 1: really great horror movie, also done under pretty modest budget.

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Speaker 1: Also really enjoyed Smile Too. Loved it way more than

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Speaker 1: Smile one, and was kind of one that went a

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Speaker 1: little bit under the radar. It was really popular for

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Speaker 1: like the week it came out, the week after and

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Speaker 1: then I haven't really seen a whole lot of people

724
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Speaker 1: talk about Smile two as being one of their favorites.

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Speaker 1: So I did want to put that one in my

726
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Speaker 1: honorable mentions. Love Lies Bleeding, which I talked about in

727
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Speaker 1: my Underrated Movies of the Year. Monkey Man was a

728
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 1: great action movie, especially if you like movies like John Wick.

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Speaker 1: Young Woman in the Sea was I believe the best

730
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Speaker 1: sports biopick of twenty twenty four, also starring Daisy Ridley,

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Speaker 1: the story of Gertrude Italy, the first woman to ever

732
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Speaker 1: cross the English Channel, which I had no idea about,

733
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Speaker 1: but I was inspired by that movie Babes, which was

734
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Speaker 1: one of the best comedies of twenty twenty four and Conclave,

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Speaker 1: which you can watch now on Peacock. I think could

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Speaker 1: be in that running for Best Picture. A movie that

737
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: looks like a horror movie but it is a drama.

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Speaker 1: Loved the score in that movie. That one also could

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Speaker 1: have made it into my top ten. So those are

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Speaker 1: my honorable mentions. Come back, give us spoiler free movie

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Speaker 1: review of Baby Girl, and then on the end, my

742
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Speaker 1: top five worst movies of the year. All right, let's

743
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Speaker 1: get into it now, a spoiler free review of Baby

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Speaker 1: Girl with Nicole Kidman. We're also going to talk about

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Speaker 1: what we learned in the post screening discussion because we

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Speaker 1: saw this movie at the Bellcourt here in Nashville, which

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Speaker 1: we are now members of.

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Speaker 2: We that was the kick in the butt that we

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Speaker 2: needed because they were doing a showing with a post

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Speaker 2: show discussion with Nicole Kineman herself. But it was only

751
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Speaker 2: available to members, and we've been talking about becoming members

752
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Speaker 2: forever and so we were like, now's the time. And

753
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Speaker 2: then tickets went on sale. We were in Texas, we

754
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Speaker 2: were in.

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Speaker 1: HGB Best grocery store.

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Speaker 2: We were like, we gotta buy the tickets, which pulled

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Speaker 2: off on like the cleaning isle in front of the

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Speaker 2: tide pods and somehow got tickets. I knew they were

759
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Speaker 2: going to go fast, but apparently they went in two minutes.

760
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Speaker 2: This is wild, and we somehow got them.

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Speaker 1: For those who don't know, Nicole Kidman lives in town

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Speaker 1: with their husband, Keith Urvan, who was also wildly famous,

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Speaker 1: and this is her like her hometown movie theater. Yeah,

764
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Speaker 1: she did a thing last summer where she like curated

765
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Speaker 1: all like her movies and they honoredor so she actually

766
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Speaker 1: goes to the Belcourt, which is wild. They're also members,

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Speaker 1: and this is the theater we talk about if you

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Speaker 1: ever visit Nashville that we recommend you come see a

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Speaker 1: movie here because it is independently owned. This year they're

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Speaker 1: going to be open for one hundred years already, which

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00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 1: is another just crazy thing for a movie theater that's

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Speaker 1: small to be open for that long. But they show

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Speaker 1: a lot of indie movies. So now that we're members,

774
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Speaker 1: we'll see a lot of the Oscar Contenders there. So

775
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Speaker 1: it's a.

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Speaker 3: Great theater, great snack selection, very chill there.

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Speaker 1: I love just the atmosphere when you walk in there,

778
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:53,960
Speaker 1: and I feel like every movie we've gone to there

779
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 1: has been a memorable one. Yeah, like rarely do we

780
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Speaker 1: go there. I'm like, ah, that movie kind of sucked.

781
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Speaker 1: You just see good movies there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think anything I didn't love. I saw

783
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Speaker 2: the TV Glow, but.

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Speaker 1: I liked it. But we're here to talk about Baby Girl,

785
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:11,839
Speaker 1: which Nicole Kinman plays a CEO. She gets this new

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Speaker 1: intern who they start having a relationship and it throws

787
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Speaker 1: a big wretch to the gear and it's described as

788
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Speaker 1: a Eurotic thriller, which pretty erotic, pretty thrill.

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Speaker 3: I would agree with that genre.

790
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 1: So it's essentially a power dynamic of her being in

791
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Speaker 1: a position of power and then having this desire to

792
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 1: have this crazy, just straight on sexual relationship with this

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Speaker 1: younger person. And she is married, has two kids that

794
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:44,280
Speaker 1: are older, which I think is important to the story

795
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: as well. They end up playing a bigger part in

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Speaker 1: how she navigates this entire thing. But it's kind of

797
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:53,799
Speaker 1: a power dynamic switch of the woman is the one

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Speaker 1: in power, she's the CEO, and the intern is the

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Speaker 1: young kind of boy toy, which later in the Q

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Speaker 1: and ation he described as like being a man child,

801
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Speaker 1: which I thought was funny. Boy man, that's what I

802
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:07,400
Speaker 1: feel like it's kind of a rise of his type

803
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Speaker 1: of actor with like the Timothy Shallow made even though

804
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Speaker 1: he's like freaking tall.

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Speaker 3: And SI they were talking about Harris Dickinson.

806
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Speaker 1: Yes, Harris Dickinson, who was also in the Iron Claw.

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Speaker 1: I knew him from Triangle of Sadness.

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Speaker 2: I knew him from Scrapper, which was a good one

809
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Speaker 2: that I saw at the Bell Court.

810
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Speaker 1: And I think he's kind of still at that level

811
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Speaker 1: of you might recognize his face and not know his name,

812
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 1: but he's a good actor.

813
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:28,879
Speaker 3: He's a great actor.

814
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Speaker 1: And he essentially looks like a male model. That was

815
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Speaker 1: his character in Triangle of Sadness. He was this dude

816
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 1: who was a model. There was a funny thing in

817
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 1: the trailer where he did like different expressions of like

818
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 1: this is the style of face you do if you

819
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:41,400
Speaker 1: do H and M man, this is the style if

820
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 1: you do luxury brands. So he looks like that. But

821
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Speaker 1: when you really look at his work and look at

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Speaker 1: his performances, especially in Iron Claw, he's just a really

823
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Speaker 1: good actor. And I think this movie was a different

824
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Speaker 1: side of him. It was more of a lead role,

825
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Speaker 1: even though it was pretty prominent in Iron Claw. I

826
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Speaker 1: feel like that was more of Zach Effron's.

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Speaker 3: Movie, So that was an ensemble kind of.

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Speaker 1: This was seeing like how he can do with one

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Speaker 1: of the best actors of our generation, Nicole Kidman, who

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Speaker 1: I don't know what it is right now, but takes

831
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Speaker 1: on the most physically demanding and sexual roles. That's kind

832
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:16,319
Speaker 1: of her thing. Yeah, and all the relationships that I

833
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 1: feel that she's portrayed, not only in movies but in TV,

834
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Speaker 1: they've been very vulnerable. In this one, she has nude

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Speaker 1: scenes and she just kind of oozes with authenticity at

836
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Speaker 1: this point where it's like you go watch something when

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Speaker 1: Nicole Kidman and you know that's she's there to play

838
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 1: like she's gonna do an amazing job. And I wonder

839
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Speaker 1: how much of a toll like this movie takes on,

840
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 1: like just her well being.

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00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good point because it's.

842
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Speaker 1: So just emotionally draining, I feel like, And also, could

843
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,360
Speaker 1: you imagine psyching yourself up knowing like I'm gonna be

844
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Speaker 1: naked in a movie today?

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Speaker 3: No?

846
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 1: I just couldn't.

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Speaker 3: No, I can I can answer that out No, because.

848
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 1: We watch it and we just see like, oh, this

849
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:58,799
Speaker 1: is two people just doing this. We just see that

850
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 1: scope of it. If you look behind the camera, there's

851
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: so many people there. Yeah, to have that much chemistry

852
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 1: with the person and be naked in certain scenes or

853
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 1: be doing sounds and motions and actions where yes, maybe

854
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Speaker 1: in a room who was just you and that other

855
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 1: person would be you could do it. But to be

856
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:22,720
Speaker 1: there with the director showing you, with an intimacy, coordinator, lighting, lighting, camera, people,

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00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:25,880
Speaker 1: all kinds of people around you to still be able

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Speaker 1: to give a performance that feels authentic. I feel is

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Speaker 1: something that is just like I don't know where you

860
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 1: go to in your brain, and I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you immediately leave that set and like, all right, let's

862
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Speaker 1: go into my next thing. So what did you think

863
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:39,320
Speaker 1: about the movie? Overall?

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Speaker 3: I thought it was great.

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Speaker 2: I mean I expected it to be good because a

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Speaker 2: Nicole Kinman be a twenty four, But it was better

867
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Speaker 2: than I anticipated, Like just the acting, the storyline, the soundtrack,

868
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:54,279
Speaker 2: like the cinematography of it all.

869
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 3: I thought it was phenomenal.

870
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be a little bit more,

871
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:00,680
Speaker 1: for the lack of a better phrase, dumb down than

872
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 1: it ended up being. And I think knowing now that

873
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:07,440
Speaker 1: there's a female director behind it and writer. I feel

874
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 1: that that is why the entire story was shifted the

875
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:12,360
Speaker 1: way that it was, and there was more to it

876
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: than just two people hooking up behind somebody's back. There's

877
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:18,239
Speaker 1: a lot of just complexities in that relationship, and I

878
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:20,919
Speaker 1: feel overall a message that this movie was trying to make,

879
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 1: So while the trailer just did kind of lean you

880
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 1: towards Okay, it's going to be them and all these

881
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 1: sexy situations, and with the soundtrack and just the way

882
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:32,400
Speaker 1: that they kind of sold the movie through the marketing,

883
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 1: which I think A twenty four is trying to appeal

884
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 1: to more people that aren't just like the typical A

885
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 1: twenty four indie filmgoers. They're broadening their scope. They did

886
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:43,839
Speaker 1: it last year, They're gonna do it even more in

887
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,319
Speaker 1: this coming year in twenty twenty five. I think that

888
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 1: this was a really good direction for them to go in,

889
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:52,200
Speaker 1: and especially when Nicole Cameman behind it. I wish it

890
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:54,280
Speaker 1: kind of would have did better at the box office,

891
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 1: but I feel like this is a little bit more

892
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 1: of a word of mouth movie, and you have a

893
00:43:57,440 --> 00:43:59,360
Speaker 1: lot of movies coming out in December where people were

894
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 1: going to see like FASA and Sonic three, it's kind

895
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 1: of hard to sell a Christmas theme neurotic thriller, which

896
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:07,920
Speaker 1: it is kind of a Christmas movie. There's a lot

897
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:10,319
Speaker 1: of Christmas in it happens around Christmas time, a.

898
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 3: Lot of Christmas trees.

899
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: But it's Yeah, but it's kind of hard to sell

900
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:16,359
Speaker 1: this movie around this time. So I think maybe now

901
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 1: that it's out, once it goes to streaming, it'll do

902
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:21,800
Speaker 1: a little bit better. But I found myself really enjoying

903
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 1: I think just the relationship dynamic and overall what this

904
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 1: movie had to say. What did you learn in the

905
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 1: post Q and A with Nicole Kidman there, which was

906
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:32,080
Speaker 1: kind of cool just to see her in person.

907
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, First of all, she's gorgeous. She just like radiates authenticity,

908
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:39,680
Speaker 2: like just being able to hear from her. I wanted

909
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:41,719
Speaker 2: to be like, excuse me, miss Kidman, where'd you get

910
00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 2: that outfit? Can you link that for me?

911
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 1: Which we have seen her at the mall before you.

912
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 3: I have seen her at the All.

913
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 2: First of all, she talked about like working with and

914
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 2: she said this interviews before female directors, female writers, and

915
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 2: I love that she acknowledged. She was like, I have

916
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:58,399
Speaker 2: some power in the industry and it's like, I love

917
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:01,239
Speaker 2: hearing her say that and like aware because she does,

918
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:04,880
Speaker 2: and like what she's doing with that and doing smaller pictures,

919
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 2: Like she talked about how this one eight twenty four,

920
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 2: you know, isn't big studio backed, it doesn't have a

921
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:11,280
Speaker 2: big budget. She was like, we didn't have a huge timeline,

922
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 2: so we'd film like eight scenes in a day and

923
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 2: you would just kind of do things.

924
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:15,439
Speaker 3: Back to back.

925
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:17,400
Speaker 2: And I love hearing that, even at her like a

926
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:22,280
Speaker 2: list level, she's doing these films that aren't like giant bankrollers,

927
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:25,000
Speaker 2: And I love that she talked she was like, I

928
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 2: was just a hired actor on this. She was like,

929
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 2: I wasn't a producer. I didn't see it till it

930
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 2: was done. So I just loved learning that she still

931
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 2: finds challenges in her work and like, really, is that

932
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 2: the level where she only takes projects that she believes in?

933
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:40,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like what she said about that, Like she'

934
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:42,879
Speaker 1: like they would have eight hour days and they would

935
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 1: go film or she said eight hour days are they'd

936
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 1: have to film like eight scenes and eight Scenes's that's

937
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 1: a lot of scenes.

938
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 2: That does a lot of scenes, a lot of dialogue

939
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 2: to know, and just like, yeah, emotionally draining.

940
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 1: What I really enjoyed and learned is the fact that

941
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 1: she is such just a fan of film and is

942
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: so aware of what is going on right now, which

943
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:04,239
Speaker 1: I think I feel that some actors get to a point,

944
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 1: especially at her level, where they don't even have to

945
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:09,800
Speaker 1: watch other movies. But she was able to talk about

946
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 1: the work of all of her co stars and like

947
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 1: what they were in, who directed it, and knew so

948
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:18,040
Speaker 1: much about not just film in general, but what is

949
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:20,759
Speaker 1: happening right now, which is really important. But when you

950
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 1: start to think about it, of a working actor, even

951
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:26,400
Speaker 1: at her level, it pays to know what is going

952
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 1: on and like what is cool, what is not cool,

953
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 1: what directors are about to pop off. The fact that,

954
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 1: like you were saying, that she is working with a

955
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 1: lot of like new directors, and she has worked with

956
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:40,160
Speaker 1: people before they were major stars, like just on the

957
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:42,880
Speaker 1: directing side. So it's kind of cool to see somebody

958
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:45,879
Speaker 1: at her level be so invested in what people are

959
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: going to be and not just trying to work with

960
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:49,480
Speaker 1: all the big names now because she can go do

961
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 1: a movie like this that has a twenty million dollar budget,

962
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:55,320
Speaker 1: and then she can turn around and do another Aquaman

963
00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:57,640
Speaker 1: movie where she has a small cameo and makes millions

964
00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:00,800
Speaker 1: and millions of dollars that could maybe fun her next project,

965
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:02,960
Speaker 1: which I mean, she's fine her either ben are probably

966
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:05,600
Speaker 1: fine financially, but at that point it's like, Oh, I'll

967
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 1: do this role and then I can take the money

968
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:09,719
Speaker 1: I would make from that and fund it somewhere else.

969
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 1: And then it was also hearing her say that she

970
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 1: likes to keep some aspects of the filmmaking process a secret,

971
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 1: because the person conducting the Q and A was asking

972
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 1: more about some of those scenes and she's like, hey, yeah,

973
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 1: we have an INTERVC coordinator, but I also don't want

974
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 1: to reveal everything because that takes away some of the

975
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 1: magic of filmmaking.

976
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:27,400
Speaker 3: So it's like, hey, and then she did say one

977
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:28,759
Speaker 3: of her lines for my Amcat.

978
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, what was it?

979
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 2: She said, heartbreak feels good here, and then she laughed

980
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:34,799
Speaker 2: at herself, and I was like, we love a self

981
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:35,399
Speaker 2: aware queen.

982
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:37,480
Speaker 1: And then she think that's for coming to the movies.

983
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:40,560
Speaker 2: Yeah she did. So I got like thirty minutes of

984
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:42,800
Speaker 2: discussion with her. Yeah, she was so cool.

985
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:46,279
Speaker 1: And I like having post discussions because they get into

986
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:48,000
Speaker 1: all the spoiler stuff, so some of the stuff they

987
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:50,759
Speaker 1: did talk about would be spoiling it here, but she

988
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:54,799
Speaker 1: went into pretty big analysis on the ending of this

989
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:57,480
Speaker 1: movie and how it even how it like connects to

990
00:47:57,520 --> 00:48:00,920
Speaker 1: some of her other movies, and overall, I like being

991
00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:03,799
Speaker 1: there knowing that everybody has seen the movie and you're

992
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 1: not ruining anything because you can talk about it and

993
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 1: be like, oh, yeah, I want to know about that.

994
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:10,239
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was really cool to be able to

995
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:12,120
Speaker 1: be in the same room with her and hear talk

996
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:15,200
Speaker 1: about it after the fact. What would you rate Baby.

997
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 3: Girl four out of five glasses of milk?

998
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:22,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm right there with you. I give it a

999
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:26,359
Speaker 1: four out of five. I'll say dirty hotel rooms. I

1000
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 1: think that's a solid Even with the post discussion. And

1001
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:32,400
Speaker 1: as much as I enjoyed it, there were some moments

1002
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:36,200
Speaker 1: that felt a little bit where it was kind of ridiculous,

1003
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:37,920
Speaker 1: and I think it kind of leaned into that a

1004
00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:40,080
Speaker 1: little bit. And it was fun though because there was

1005
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 1: people in the theater laughing. I just felt like it

1006
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 1: took a little bit away from the seriousness of the

1007
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:48,280
Speaker 1: story at times and it felt a little bit unbelievable.

1008
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 1: But I enjoyed those moments but I think overall the

1009
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:53,239
Speaker 1: movie was a little bit more emotional, and then in

1010
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 1: some parts of it got a little bit kind of like, ah,

1011
00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:57,640
Speaker 1: we're just kind of laughing at the whole situation now,

1012
00:48:57,880 --> 00:48:59,760
Speaker 1: which it kind of felt like a comedy at times,

1013
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:02,600
Speaker 1: very slightly. But there were moments where some of their

1014
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:05,239
Speaker 1: interactions were a little bit like Okay, let's move on.

1015
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean they even she talked about how

1016
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:11,239
Speaker 2: there were a couple times that they just left the

1017
00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:15,080
Speaker 2: take in where it was like so outlandish. Yeah, like

1018
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:18,560
Speaker 2: there's one take that you'll know when a character laughs or.

1019
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 1: They break a little bit and they're like, yeah, well

1020
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:20,319
Speaker 1: leave it.

1021
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 3: In, yeah, which I loved.

1022
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think if you make a movie like this,

1023
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:27,200
Speaker 1: you have to have a little bit of that lightheartedness,

1024
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 1: and especially working with your costar like that of like, oh,

1025
00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:32,440
Speaker 1: this is gonna be uncomfortable for both of us, let's

1026
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:34,799
Speaker 1: just have fun with it. Yea. So those are our

1027
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:41,239
Speaker 1: thoughts on Baby Girl, And now for my top five

1028
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 1: worst films of twenty twenty four. At number five is

1029
00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:47,879
Speaker 1: Madam Webb, which I gave a one point five out

1030
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:50,800
Speaker 1: of five. I saw it in theaters. Oh, I experienced

1031
00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:54,400
Speaker 1: the level of cringe while sitting in my theater's seat.

1032
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:58,240
Speaker 1: And the Sony Spider verse has now ended with Craven

1033
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: the Hunter, so we don't have to experienced this anymore.

1034
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:05,480
Speaker 1: We don't have to have all this confusion, at least

1035
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 1: for the time being, of people saying, this is a

1036
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:10,120
Speaker 1: Marvel movie, but it's not really a Marvel movie. It's

1037
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 1: the Sony Marvel movie. It's not the Disney Marvel movie.

1038
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:16,480
Speaker 1: Hopefully this is all just like yo, we have tried this.

1039
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 1: We can't make this work. Venom has been our only

1040
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 1: saving grace and all this and even that has been

1041
00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 1: mediocre at best. Let's give this a rest. I don't

1042
00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:30,520
Speaker 1: think the coda Johnson knew what she was signing up for.

1043
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:33,360
Speaker 1: I truly think she thought she was signing up to

1044
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:35,839
Speaker 1: be in the MCU and she probably saw this as well.

1045
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 1: Everybody does a superhero movie and people love these, so

1046
00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:41,000
Speaker 1: let me try it out. And it was awful. The

1047
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:44,440
Speaker 1: acting was terrible, the story was not there, and it

1048
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:49,200
Speaker 1: felt like a really big waste of time. Oh just

1049
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:52,480
Speaker 1: the Rodney. The opening scene makes no sense. This is

1050
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:55,080
Speaker 1: a movie that should be an example of how not

1051
00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:58,400
Speaker 1: to write a movie. They told you everything instead of

1052
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 1: showing you straight up just hold you lines the scene

1053
00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:05,840
Speaker 1: where she just left everybody, I'm like, hey, all you

1054
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 1: guys wait here, I'm gonna go follow this other plot line,

1055
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:11,560
Speaker 1: goes on this side quest and then comes back and

1056
00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:15,240
Speaker 1: they're just waiting for is. It's astounding. But I also

1057
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:18,400
Speaker 1: think at the level of bad that this movie was,

1058
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:20,719
Speaker 1: it's almost so bad that we're gonna look back and

1059
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:24,040
Speaker 1: think it's good or at least one that people will

1060
00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:26,120
Speaker 1: watch just out of like fun, like, hey, let's all

1061
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:27,560
Speaker 1: get together and watch them bad. I'm weab but it'll

1062
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:30,839
Speaker 1: be hilarious, So at least it has that level of

1063
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:36,440
Speaker 1: dare I say, entertainment value, novelty, that level of novelty.

1064
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:39,160
Speaker 1: That is why I put it at number five. At

1065
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 1: number four, I have a horror movie to me that

1066
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:45,200
Speaker 1: felt like a slap in the face from Blumhouse. It

1067
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 1: is imaginary. I give it a one point five out

1068
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:50,800
Speaker 1: of five. And this movie suckered me in from the trailer.

1069
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:52,480
Speaker 1: That's why I put it on this list. Maybe a

1070
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:53,960
Speaker 1: lot of people didn't even see this movie, but I

1071
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 1: would see it in theaters opening weekend because anytime I

1072
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:01,600
Speaker 1: see a kid talking to some kind of dead presence

1073
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:04,600
Speaker 1: or something weird and mysterious. I'm all in, And maybe

1074
00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 1: I should stop being all in on those types of

1075
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:08,880
Speaker 1: movies because they all turned out to be the exact same.

1076
00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:12,920
Speaker 1: But this movie was a kid who forms a relationship

1077
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 1: with the imaginary friend supposedly inside this teddy bear, and

1078
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:18,480
Speaker 1: the teddy bear starts talking to the kid and making

1079
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:21,480
Speaker 1: the kid do weird things. In the trailer you see

1080
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 1: that the teddy bearry convinces the kid to put this

1081
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 1: nail up into their hand and it smashes to it

1082
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:31,440
Speaker 1: and it's supposed to be creepy. And this movie felt

1083
00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:35,319
Speaker 1: so generic, so paint by the numbers that I had

1084
00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:38,880
Speaker 1: already seen this movie tens of twenties, of thirties of

1085
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:41,440
Speaker 1: times it had been done time and timing in it

1086
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:45,080
Speaker 1: took no risks in a movie called imaginary, It had

1087
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:50,279
Speaker 1: no imagination. A terrible third act was so predictable, And

1088
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:53,960
Speaker 1: sometimes predictability isn't bad, but in this case, I felt

1089
00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:57,080
Speaker 1: like I wanted to leave the theater by about thirty

1090
00:52:57,120 --> 00:53:00,399
Speaker 1: minutes in because it did what I hate that horror

1091
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:03,760
Speaker 1: movies do, and spend so much time just getting going,

1092
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:06,480
Speaker 1: and by the time it does get going. It just

1093
00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 1: doesn't even matter anymore. So if you see this on

1094
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:11,399
Speaker 1: a streaming service, I won't even tell you where it is,

1095
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:14,600
Speaker 1: just don't waste your time on Imaginary. Don't do it,

1096
00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:17,759
Speaker 1: no matter how much the plot synopsis or the AutoPlay. Oh,

1097
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:20,719
Speaker 1: I hate the AutoPlay feature. If there's one thing I

1098
00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:24,000
Speaker 1: could get just rid of forever, is the AutoPlay feature

1099
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:26,880
Speaker 1: on I know Netflix does it all the time. I

1100
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 1: think Peacock does it as well. Hulu doesn't do it.

1101
00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:33,520
Speaker 1: I don't think Disney Plus does it. Oh, Amazon probably

1102
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:36,360
Speaker 1: does it. But any streaming service that has that AutoPlay

1103
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:39,719
Speaker 1: feature drives me crazy. I always have to mute it

1104
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:42,000
Speaker 1: before I go over there because I don't want a

1105
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:44,400
Speaker 1: trailer to start. No, I just want to browse in peace.

1106
00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:48,160
Speaker 1: And I know it's probably some algorithm trick or psychological trick,

1107
00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:50,920
Speaker 1: like if you just start playing thirty show that somebody's

1108
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 1: just browning or click on it, stop doing the AutoPlay thing.

1109
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 1: Don't want it anymore. So if you see it on

1110
00:53:56,719 --> 00:53:58,719
Speaker 1: a streaming service and it does that AutoPlay and you think, oh,

1111
00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:01,400
Speaker 1: this might be kind of good, don't do it. Skip Imaginary.

1112
00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:04,759
Speaker 1: Number four worst Movie of the Year at number three.

1113
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:07,920
Speaker 1: I have argyle saw it in theaters at the beginning

1114
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 1: of last year. I thought this movie was gonna be good.

1115
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:14,280
Speaker 1: It tricked me from the trailer had a big ensemble cast,

1116
00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:17,200
Speaker 1: which I should have been tipped off by this movie.

1117
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:18,440
Speaker 1: I don't even know what he was trying to be.

1118
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:23,400
Speaker 1: It's about this author who has been writing these novels,

1119
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:27,200
Speaker 1: and the events in the novels start to happen in

1120
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: real life and there's some kind of conspiracy behind it

1121
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:34,000
Speaker 1: that unravels, like how do you know about these things?

1122
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:37,200
Speaker 1: And she gets into some trouble with real life people,

1123
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:39,440
Speaker 1: at least in this story based on what she's writing.

1124
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:42,080
Speaker 1: It goes back and forth between her writing characters and

1125
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:45,120
Speaker 1: real life and a lot of people told me when

1126
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:47,000
Speaker 1: I gave this movie a bad review, which I gave

1127
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:50,360
Speaker 1: a one out of five, which to me, on my

1128
00:54:50,480 --> 00:54:53,800
Speaker 1: scale of one through five, a one is really bad.

1129
00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:56,440
Speaker 1: And it has me thinking why did I even go

1130
00:54:56,480 --> 00:55:00,200
Speaker 1: see this in theaters? And it's borderline of wanting to

1131
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:03,480
Speaker 1: walk out. A lot of people said I didn't understand

1132
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:06,319
Speaker 1: this film, that it was supposed to be campy, it

1133
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:11,600
Speaker 1: was supposed to be overly exaggerated and fun. I wasn't

1134
00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:15,160
Speaker 1: having fun. I didn't find it humorous. I found it

1135
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 1: so dumb. And the only reason I didn't leave is

1136
00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:19,440
Speaker 1: because I just wanted to know, how are they going

1137
00:55:19,520 --> 00:55:21,279
Speaker 1: to end this movie? Like, what are they going to

1138
00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:23,719
Speaker 1: throw out to make this even make a remote bit

1139
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:27,400
Speaker 1: of sense? In staying and watching it till the end

1140
00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:30,439
Speaker 1: gave me one of the dumbest moments in movies I've

1141
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:33,319
Speaker 1: seen in the last year. I still think about this,

1142
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:35,200
Speaker 1: and if I put a list of the dumbest moments

1143
00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 1: in movies of all time, it would have one third

1144
00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:42,200
Speaker 1: act just completely ridiculous. Maybe I was supposed to buy

1145
00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:45,080
Speaker 1: into the ridiculousness, but the movie also bombed at the

1146
00:55:45,120 --> 00:55:49,239
Speaker 1: box office. It was an Apple original, which leads me

1147
00:55:49,280 --> 00:55:52,280
Speaker 1: to believe that they're gonna stop putting out their movies

1148
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:55,239
Speaker 1: in theaters anymore. I think Apple as a whole is

1149
00:55:55,280 --> 00:55:57,600
Speaker 1: a good service. They have good shows, but just hasn't

1150
00:55:57,640 --> 00:56:00,080
Speaker 1: really translated into their movies. They bank more on the

1151
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:03,400
Speaker 1: stars like they did with Argyle, with having Henry Cavill

1152
00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:06,560
Speaker 1: just plastered on the poster, and do Alipa and John Cena.

1153
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:08,839
Speaker 1: They're very much more right now, like look at all

1154
00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:11,600
Speaker 1: the stars we can get, and not really focusing on

1155
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:14,120
Speaker 1: look at the great stories we can tell in our movie.

1156
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:17,239
Speaker 1: So I know they did that thing last weekend, this

1157
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:20,360
Speaker 1: past weekend where go on and watch Apple stuff for free.

1158
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:22,719
Speaker 1: So I really think they're going to put much more

1159
00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:25,280
Speaker 1: of an emphasis on what they're putting on their streaming

1160
00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:28,080
Speaker 1: service and not so much care about what they're putting

1161
00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:31,440
Speaker 1: in theater. So at number three the worst movies, I

1162
00:56:31,520 --> 00:56:34,719
Speaker 1: have our Gyle. At number two, we'll go full streaming now.

1163
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:36,919
Speaker 1: At number two I have Uglies, which I also gave

1164
00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:39,880
Speaker 1: a one out of five. This movie had been in

1165
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:43,319
Speaker 1: development hell for years. It was supposed to come out

1166
00:56:43,360 --> 00:56:47,920
Speaker 1: at the time where Hollywood was focusing on dystopian teen novels,

1167
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:52,200
Speaker 1: during the height of Twilight, Hunger Games, Elite, all those

1168
00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:57,040
Speaker 1: types of book adaptation movies. That is when this movie

1169
00:56:57,080 --> 00:57:00,520
Speaker 1: was supposed to come out. It's about these people we're

1170
00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:03,920
Speaker 1: living in this dystopian future, and then at a certain

1171
00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:06,240
Speaker 1: point it just sounds so dope. I'm sure the books

1172
00:57:06,239 --> 00:57:08,520
Speaker 1: are good, and I'm sure there was a reason that

1173
00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:12,760
Speaker 1: fans wanted this be a movie, but it just sounds

1174
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:15,600
Speaker 1: so dumb because it was executed poorly. I didn't read

1175
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:19,280
Speaker 1: the books, wasn't familiar with the story. But they all

1176
00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:21,400
Speaker 1: want to move on to this kind of like the

1177
00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:25,120
Speaker 1: capitol in Hunger Games, and they all get turned into

1178
00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:27,720
Speaker 1: these really pretty people. So they go from being the

1179
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:31,280
Speaker 1: uglies that are poor and have no purpose and they

1180
00:57:31,320 --> 00:57:33,920
Speaker 1: kind of graduate to being beautiful, and they get like

1181
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:37,920
Speaker 1: plastic surgery, and they wear whacky makeup and have these

1182
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:41,880
Speaker 1: very fancy clothes, and they move to this new city

1183
00:57:41,920 --> 00:57:44,680
Speaker 1: and then don't talk to the uglies anymore. And it's

1184
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:49,000
Speaker 1: all about that desire and that it was just so bad.

1185
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:51,640
Speaker 1: And then there's a war, and then there's all these

1186
00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:54,880
Speaker 1: people fighting, and they're supposed to be a sequel to

1187
00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:58,760
Speaker 1: this one, and I could really not imagine them doing

1188
00:57:58,800 --> 00:58:01,240
Speaker 1: it at this point because the level of production on

1189
00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:05,600
Speaker 1: this movie was awful. The special effects I would say

1190
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:08,560
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been passable ten years ago. If you put

1191
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:10,960
Speaker 1: this movie out in twenty fourteen, where these movies were

1192
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:14,360
Speaker 1: still popular, this type of movie, it would still look bad.

1193
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:18,120
Speaker 1: It looks worse than anything maybe twenty years. This is

1194
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:21,960
Speaker 1: so rudimentary CGI like back when they were just figuring

1195
00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:24,040
Speaker 1: it out, like from nineteen ninety nine to two thousand,

1196
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:26,880
Speaker 1: like those movies that came out. That was the level

1197
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:30,200
Speaker 1: of CGI, and sometimes I can look past it. But

1198
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:32,919
Speaker 1: with a movie like this, that requires good CGI because

1199
00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:35,520
Speaker 1: you're trying to create this really big world and have

1200
00:58:35,640 --> 00:58:38,200
Speaker 1: yourself be immersed in it and believe that this is

1201
00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:42,560
Speaker 1: a place that actually exists. It looked terrible, It felt cold.

1202
00:58:43,120 --> 00:58:46,760
Speaker 1: The acting was ridiculous. It was it felt like they

1203
00:58:46,760 --> 00:58:49,080
Speaker 1: got all these actors for a very limited time, like,

1204
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:51,960
Speaker 1: all right, we gotta make this movie bad, so bad.

1205
00:58:52,440 --> 00:58:54,840
Speaker 1: I still finished it. That is my requirement for giving

1206
00:58:54,840 --> 00:58:56,560
Speaker 1: a movie a rating. I have to watch it till

1207
00:58:56,600 --> 00:59:00,880
Speaker 1: the end. But I was disgusted by Uglies my number

1208
00:59:00,920 --> 00:59:03,960
Speaker 1: two worst movie of twenty twenty four. At number one,

1209
00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:06,720
Speaker 1: it's not Joker Too. Joker Too, I gave a two

1210
00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:10,160
Speaker 1: out of five. It was a bad theater experience, but

1211
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:12,040
Speaker 1: still at a two out of five. I still believe

1212
00:59:12,120 --> 00:59:14,960
Speaker 1: Todd Phillips made the movie he wanted to make, and

1213
00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:17,919
Speaker 1: I don't think he did it intentionally, but I think

1214
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:21,720
Speaker 1: he almost hated what he created with Joker one and

1215
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:24,920
Speaker 1: wanted to say, ah, I'm not gonna do that anymore.

1216
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:28,720
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do something completely that nobody's expecting because they're

1217
00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:31,320
Speaker 1: gonna pay me to do it. I did not enjoy it,

1218
00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:33,919
Speaker 1: but I think it's still the movie he wanted to make,

1219
00:59:33,960 --> 00:59:37,280
Speaker 1: and I saw that there were still some good visual moments,

1220
00:59:37,720 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 1: but still not my worst theater experience. I also had

1221
00:59:40,960 --> 00:59:45,360
Speaker 1: honorable mentioned Wolves, which was the Apple movie with Brad

1222
00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:49,520
Speaker 1: Pitt and George Klooning. That movie just didn't take off

1223
00:59:49,560 --> 00:59:52,960
Speaker 1: at any point the first thirty almost forty five minutes

1224
00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:55,440
Speaker 1: of the entire movie. You could have just watched the

1225
00:59:55,480 --> 00:59:58,720
Speaker 1: two minute trailer and learn everything about it. And they

1226
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:01,560
Speaker 1: have now canceled the sequel, Little Wolf, so the director

1227
01:00:01,760 --> 01:00:04,800
Speaker 1: was like not happy with it either, even though he

1228
01:00:04,840 --> 01:00:07,160
Speaker 1: got paid, he doesn't want to make another one that

1229
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:09,640
Speaker 1: shows you how bad it is. And even with having

1230
01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:12,560
Speaker 1: two big leads like that, still wasn't a successful movie.

1231
01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:14,240
Speaker 1: They were originally gonna put out in theaters and then

1232
01:00:14,360 --> 01:00:16,480
Speaker 1: they didn't, so that kind of tells you all you

1233
01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:19,160
Speaker 1: need to know. And also Rebel Moon Part two I

1234
01:00:19,160 --> 01:00:20,880
Speaker 1: couldn't put on my list. It probably would have been

1235
01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:23,440
Speaker 1: my worst. I didn't finish it. I couldn't finish it,

1236
01:00:23,440 --> 01:00:26,040
Speaker 1: it was so bad. And Part one I did finish

1237
01:00:26,120 --> 01:00:28,120
Speaker 1: and I didn't enjoy it, but I thought, Okay, maybe

1238
01:00:28,120 --> 01:00:31,200
Speaker 1: he's moving on to something. Maybe Zack Snyder just needs

1239
01:00:31,200 --> 01:00:33,440
Speaker 1: a movie. Which how many movies does he need to

1240
01:00:33,600 --> 01:00:37,320
Speaker 1: flesh out a story? Can you make a two hour movie? Goodness?

1241
01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:39,840
Speaker 1: But yeah, Rebel Moon Part two was so bad I

1242
01:00:40,080 --> 01:00:42,640
Speaker 1: couldn't finish it. I'm not invested in that. My number

1243
01:00:42,720 --> 01:00:47,919
Speaker 1: one worst movie of twenty twenty four is also on Netflix, unfrosted.

1244
01:00:48,320 --> 01:00:51,080
Speaker 1: I gave it a one out of five. It is

1245
01:00:51,120 --> 01:00:55,840
Speaker 1: the Jerry Seinfeld parody movie. And I think Jerry Seinfeld

1246
01:00:55,960 --> 01:00:58,320
Speaker 1: just at this point thinks he's a lot funnier than

1247
01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:01,360
Speaker 1: he is. And in a state where I feel like

1248
01:01:01,400 --> 01:01:05,040
Speaker 1: comedy is kind of dead, and not dead because of

1249
01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:07,920
Speaker 1: PC culture, not dead because you get canceled for jokes.

1250
01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:11,600
Speaker 1: I just think that Overaul, when it comes to what

1251
01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:15,880
Speaker 1: is funny, it's so subjective. And I think that Jerry

1252
01:01:15,920 --> 01:01:20,320
Speaker 1: Seinfeld trying to make a movie parodying other kind of

1253
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:24,480
Speaker 1: bio Picks and Company movies where you had a successful

1254
01:01:24,520 --> 01:01:27,200
Speaker 1: movie like Air, which was about the creation of Air

1255
01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:30,400
Speaker 1: Jordan and that whole relationship with Nike. It was like, Hey,

1256
01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:33,520
Speaker 1: let's make a parody of that. But with pop tarts

1257
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:38,280
Speaker 1: and then the entire breakfast cereal in Pastry Wars, And

1258
01:01:38,360 --> 01:01:42,280
Speaker 1: obviously he has the success of being one of the

1259
01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:46,640
Speaker 1: highest grossing touring comedians of all time. Seinfeld is one

1260
01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:51,360
Speaker 1: of the most watched and renowned sitcoms of not just

1261
01:01:51,480 --> 01:01:55,360
Speaker 1: our lifetime, but of any lifetime. And I think it's

1262
01:01:55,400 --> 01:01:57,960
Speaker 1: just still banking off of that. And I haven't really

1263
01:01:58,000 --> 01:02:00,520
Speaker 1: ever found his comedy to be funny. I just think

1264
01:02:00,560 --> 01:02:05,280
Speaker 1: I'm not that key demographic. It's very bland and dry,

1265
01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:07,920
Speaker 1: and he just seems like a person that is so

1266
01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:10,240
Speaker 1: dead set on everything I do is funny. I know

1267
01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:12,680
Speaker 1: what funny it is. I don't care what race you are.

1268
01:02:12,680 --> 01:02:14,680
Speaker 1: I'll put you in my movie if you're funny, like

1269
01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:16,600
Speaker 1: I would also like the funniest people in movies. But

1270
01:02:16,680 --> 01:02:19,600
Speaker 1: I no longer trust your judgment at your age and

1271
01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:22,440
Speaker 1: also at your bank account level. I think you're too

1272
01:02:22,560 --> 01:02:25,560
Speaker 1: rich to be funny, Garry Seinfeld, So I don't trust

1273
01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:29,040
Speaker 1: your judgment on comedy at this point. And I could

1274
01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:31,480
Speaker 1: see why Netflix would give him the money and the

1275
01:02:31,520 --> 01:02:33,880
Speaker 1: platform to put that movie out and think it's Jerry seinfo.

1276
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:36,480
Speaker 1: He wants to make a comedy. Let's go with it. No,

1277
01:02:37,120 --> 01:02:39,880
Speaker 1: that movie was not it. It was stupid from beginning

1278
01:02:39,920 --> 01:02:42,640
Speaker 1: to end. And if it just went over my head

1279
01:02:42,680 --> 01:02:45,040
Speaker 1: with the level of parody, then so be it. Maybe

1280
01:02:45,080 --> 01:02:48,480
Speaker 1: I'm just not that smart to get it, or maybe

1281
01:02:48,560 --> 01:02:50,560
Speaker 1: I need to be dumber. No, I don't think so.

1282
01:02:51,040 --> 01:02:54,240
Speaker 1: I'm just didn't enjoy this movie. I hated it. It

1283
01:02:54,360 --> 01:02:58,080
Speaker 1: was also on a string of movies where I just

1284
01:02:58,280 --> 01:03:00,600
Speaker 1: wasn't a fan of what Netflix was put out. They

1285
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:02,880
Speaker 1: kind of did redeem themselves towards the end of the

1286
01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:06,680
Speaker 1: year with having some good original movies, Women of the

1287
01:03:06,680 --> 01:03:10,080
Speaker 1: Hours really good but Unfrosted and Uglies. We're not only

1288
01:03:10,120 --> 01:03:13,320
Speaker 1: their two worst, but my two worst of the entire year.

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Speaker 1: So that is my list of the worst movies of

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four and that is going to do it

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Speaker 1: for another episode here of the podcast. We'll be back

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Speaker 1: next week actually recapping all the movies we watched in

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Speaker 1: December because we went to the theater like every single

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Speaker 1: day during break. So we'll get into that, but before

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Speaker 1: I go, I get to give my listeners shout out

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Speaker 1: of the week. This week's listener shout out goes to

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Speaker 1: Amanda Morris on Instagram, who commented on my last reel,

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Speaker 1: which if you listen to the book episode that Kelsey

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Speaker 1: and I did with her top ten books of twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four, we said we were going to go to

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Speaker 1: the bookstore do the bookstore challenge where she got to

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Speaker 1: go into the store and had ninety seconds to pick

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Speaker 1: out as many books as she wanted. We dove into

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Speaker 1: all the rules. Also posted the reel on Instagram, also

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Speaker 1: on TikTok, so if you have I haven't seen that yet,

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Speaker 1: go to my socials at Mike Diishiro on Everything. But

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Speaker 1: Amanda wrote comment on that video and said, I love

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Speaker 1: so much about this real books check brick and mortar

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Speaker 1: bookstore check supporting local check. I always enjoy Kelsey's book

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Speaker 1: reviews on your podcast and thanks to her, have even

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Speaker 1: made a visit to Barnasas when I visited Nashville last summer.

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Speaker 1: So appreciate that Amanda for listening, for watching and commenting

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Speaker 1: on Socials. Barnasas is the bookstore that we did the

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Speaker 1: challenge at. So like we were talking about earlier, we

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Speaker 1: recommended supporting local theaters like Devell Court here in Nashville

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Speaker 1: if you ever visit. Also, if you want to come

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Speaker 1: get a book. Check out Parnass which is a great

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Speaker 1: local bookstore. So thank you Amanda for commenting your this

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Speaker 1: week's Listener shout out of the week. Thanks to everybody

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Speaker 1: for coming back in twenty twenty five, Let's go for

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Speaker 1: another year. Thank you for being here, Thank you always

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Speaker 1: for being subscribed. And until next time, go out and

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