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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. Today, the question is what

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Speaker 1: was the movie of the summer. I have my top

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Speaker 1: ten summer blockbusters. What will take the number one slot?

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Speaker 1: In the movie review, we'll be talking about Spike Lee's

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Speaker 1: new movie on Apple TV Plus starring the one and

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Speaker 1: only Denzel Washington, called highest to Lowest and in the

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Speaker 1: trailer park. I love how Emma Stone has committed to

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Speaker 1: the bit shaved her head for the new Yorgo slanting

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Speaker 1: most movie Begonia. We'll get into that. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: being here, Thank you for being subscribed. Shout out to

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

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Speaker 1: from the Nustville Podcast Network. And this is movie Mike's

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Speaker 1: Movie Podcast. Ask what started on Memorial Day weekend came

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Speaker 1: to a close on Labor Day weekend. It is the

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Speaker 1: summer blockbuster season. The sun has now set on my

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Speaker 1: favorite time of the year for movies. Why I love

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Speaker 1: summer blockbuster season, It's what gets me the most excited.

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Speaker 1: I think my passion for summer blockbusters is really what

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Speaker 1: fuels this podcast and why I love them so much

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Speaker 1: is because they are the movies that come out every year,

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Speaker 1: that have an energy to them, that have an aura,

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Speaker 1: And that is what I'm using to judge this list.

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Speaker 1: It's not just box office numbers, it's not just overall

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Speaker 1: how good the movie is. It's how much impact did

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Speaker 1: And also how did that translate into the real world

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Speaker 1: after Did it create a moment on TikTok? Was I

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Speaker 1: still thinking about this movie two three weeks later after

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Speaker 1: I saw it in theaters? Did I go see it again?

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Speaker 1: It is movies that demand the big screen, movies that

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Speaker 1: had a lot of expectation and anticipation going into them.

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Speaker 1: And overall, this summer blockbuster season financially did all right.

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Speaker 1: It matched the three point sixty seven billion dollars that

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, So studios probably aren't ecstatic. But if

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Speaker 1: you're not going too much in the opposite direction, I

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Speaker 1: think we're still okay. Well, let's get into my list

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Speaker 1: of my top ten movies of the summer. Also give

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Speaker 1: my top five disappointments, which I don't believe are the

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Speaker 1: worst movies of the summer, but the ones that I

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Speaker 1: was looking forward to that didn't quite live up to

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Speaker 1: number ten, I have Nobody to This should have been

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Speaker 1: a bigger movie. I think in five, maybe ten years,

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Speaker 1: give Bob Odenkirk more of a chance. This one also

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Speaker 1: also followed the weekend after Weapons, which Weapons had such

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Speaker 1: a big splash on opening weekend. This movie really went

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Speaker 1: at number ten, at number nine Materialists. With only a

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Speaker 1: the Summer Blockbusters. I think this is what a rom

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Speaker 1: eight is a big surprise for me. It is freaking

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Speaker 1: of two hundred and twenty five million dollars and went

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Speaker 1: on to make over six hundred and eleven million dollars worldwide,

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Speaker 1: putting it at the number five highest grossing movie of

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Speaker 1: the summer. And I feel like this movie is the

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Speaker 1: reason that Fantastic Four didn't do as well as they

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Speaker 1: had hoped, because this took all the energy. This is

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Speaker 1: what made everybody excited. It made the Superhero film fun

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Speaker 1: again with the bright and vibrant colors. And I know

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Speaker 1: there was a lot of controversy over how Superman acted

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Speaker 1: in this movie, how some people felt like he needed

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Speaker 1: to be more of an intense character, he needed to

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Speaker 1: be stronger and more buff. But I think to the

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Speaker 1: people that this version of Superman is something that we

446
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Speaker 1: really needed in our lives because Superman is a beacon

447
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Speaker 1: of hope. He is doing good for the sake of

448
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Speaker 1: doing good, and always is of a sound and just mind.

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Speaker 1: I think that is exactly what we need in a

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Speaker 1: superhero character right now, just what we need in the

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Speaker 1: world in general. And unlike Fantastic Four, it held really

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Speaker 1: strongly going into week two, only had a fifty four

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Speaker 1: percent drop. And I attribute that a lot to James

454
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Speaker 1: Gunn because when he is proud of something, he continues

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Speaker 1: to promote it. He's still host in set pictures not

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Speaker 1: only a week after, but almost a month after. He

457
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Speaker 1: was still telling people go see Superman in theaters, which

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Speaker 1: I think that is something that directors and actors need

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Speaker 1: to do a little bit of a better job of

460
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Speaker 1: is they go on this big promotional run that sometimes

461
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Speaker 1: just kind of sparks the interests of the average moviegoer.

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Speaker 1: It takes maybe those two weeks of promotion for people

463
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Speaker 1: to see maybe an interview clip here and there and think, oh,

464
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Speaker 1: that movie is coming out soon, Maybe I want to

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Speaker 1: get tickets to that. You got to keep that moment

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Speaker 1: of going because if you create a piece of art

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Speaker 1: that you are proud of, that is a pinnacle of

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Speaker 1: your acting career or your directorial career, you got to

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Speaker 1: continue to be proud of that even when it seems

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Speaker 1: like people are sick of it a month after, two

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Speaker 1: months after, still take pride in your work and still

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Speaker 1: promote that work where it's not all about that opening weekend,

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Speaker 1: which is important especially for movies and how financial successful

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Speaker 1: they are going to be in their theatrical run. But

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Speaker 1: if you continue to show people that that thing is

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Speaker 1: out and how proud you are of it, I think

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Speaker 1: that goes a long way. It is just so weird

478
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Speaker 1: to me when a movie or even an album comes

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Speaker 1: out and people only promote it on its release day

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Speaker 1: and then this thing that they have been creating for

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Speaker 1: two to three years. They're just like, I'm not going

482
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Speaker 1: to promote this thing anymore. I'm no longer going to

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Speaker 1: make this a main talking point because now I feel

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Speaker 1: like it's a little bit old. No, I would still

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Speaker 1: be promoting Superman right now. And then James Gunn also

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Speaker 1: announced that mana Tomorrow is coming out in theaters on

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Speaker 1: July nine, twenty twenty seven. That's an addition to Supergirl

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Speaker 1: coming out next year. DC is about to crush it.

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Speaker 1: Superman was, in my opinion, the movie of the summer,

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Speaker 1: and since it came in at number one on my

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Speaker 1: Summer list, it has earned its spot already in my

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Speaker 1: top ten movies of the year. It is the only

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Speaker 1: pick that automatically qualifies. But before I wrap it up,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about my top five biggest disappointments. I don't

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Speaker 1: believe that these are the worst movies of the summer,

496
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Speaker 1: but these are the five movies that I was dying

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Speaker 1: to see. There was a lot of anticipation on my

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Speaker 1: side that I remember sitting down in the theater for

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Speaker 1: each of these five movies and thinking, oh, man, I

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Speaker 1: can't wait to see how good this movie is. Going

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Speaker 1: to be and then like a kid being told there

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Speaker 1: will be no Christmas this year. I was let down.

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Speaker 1: At number five. I know what you did last summer,

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Speaker 1: and maybe unfairly, I started to give myself a little

505
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 1: bit of hope going into this that it was going

506
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Speaker 1: to be something substantial, that it was going to be

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Speaker 1: a legacy horror sequel worthy of my time. This movie

508
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Speaker 1: just fell flat, and aside from Jennifer love Hewitt and

509
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Speaker 1: Freddie Prince Junior, I hated pretty much every one of

510
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Speaker 1: the performances, so much so that I was rooting for

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Speaker 1: the villain in this one. At number four, I have Eddington,

512
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Speaker 1: and that is because two of my favorite actors, Pedro

513
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Speaker 1: Pascal and Joaquin Phoenix together and kind of a grittier,

514
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,480
Speaker 1: lower budget movie that I thought was going to have

515
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 1: a lot of great action and a really great story.

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00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,199
Speaker 1: You also have Austin Butler at Emma Stone. But this

517
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: movie spent an hour reminding us how much the Pandemic sucked,

518
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:15,440
Speaker 1: and overall was just one of the most boring movies

519
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Speaker 1: so far of the year. So I have that one

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Speaker 1: at number four. At number three, Mission Impossible, the Final Reckoning,

521
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 1: the last in the franchise. I loved the film that

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Speaker 1: came before this. It reignited my love of the Mission

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Speaker 1: Impossible movies that really committed to big action sequences, big

524
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:36,920
Speaker 1: expensive stunts, Tom Cruise going to extraordinary links to give

525
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 1: us something that we haven't seen before in this franchise,

526
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Speaker 1: and this one just felt like the entire Mission Impossible

527
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Speaker 1: franchise just kind of sputtering out and ending on such

528
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Speaker 1: a low note that there was really nothing exciting about it.

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Speaker 1: It was fine, but I thought it was going to

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Speaker 1: be so much better. But at number three, I have

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Speaker 1: Mission Impossible, the final reckoning. At number two, Happy Gilmour two,

532
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 1: I was holding onto hope that there was gonna be

533
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Speaker 1: a real story here, there was gonna be a reason

534
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Speaker 1: to make a happy gil More too, but it turned

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Speaker 1: into cameo fest. I think this is one Maybe in

536
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Speaker 1: another couple of months I could go back and revisit

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Speaker 1: and maybe enjoy it for what it is. But I

538
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Speaker 1: think for me, when it comes to legacy sequels, I

539
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 1: just hate comedy ones the most because it never really

540
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:25,240
Speaker 1: captures that same energy. Maybe it's because my brain isn't

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Speaker 1: longer ten years old, but I just could not co

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Speaker 1: sign on Happy Gilmore too. Even though it had a

543
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Speaker 1: lot of people that I love in it, from Post

544
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:36,119
Speaker 1: Malone to Bad Bunny, it was just too many cameos.

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Speaker 1: But at number one, my most disappointing movie of the

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Speaker 1: summer is Jurassic World Rebirth, even though, out of all

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Speaker 1: the movies on this list, was one of the highest

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Speaker 1: grossing movies. This story was so generic that dialogue was

549
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Speaker 1: at times just unwatchable, and I came here for the

550
00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 1: dinosaurs and didn't get my dinosaur fix. This entire movie

551
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 1: felt rushed and just kind of slapped together and was

552
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 1: my worst theater experience of the summer when you factor

553
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Speaker 1: in how much I was expecting to love this movie.

554
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Speaker 1: Although it did look good as far as cinematically, there

555
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 1: was some technical aspects that I enjoyed about it, but

556
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Speaker 1: I was so let down by the story. I was

557
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: so let down by Scarlett Johansson. My most disappointing movie

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Speaker 1: of the summer goes to Jurassic World Rebirth. I'll come

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Speaker 1: back and I'll give my spoiler free review of highest

560
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Speaker 1: to lowest. Let's get into it now. A spoiler free

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Speaker 1: movie review of highest to lowest. The New Spike Lee

562
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 1: Joint starring Denzel Washington. It is the fifth time that

563
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Speaker 1: they have collaborated together, but the first time in nineteen years.

564
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Speaker 1: What this movie is about. Denzel Washington plays a music

565
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Speaker 1: mogul with the best ears in the business. He is

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Speaker 1: responsible for the careers of so many Grammy Award winning artists.

567
00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: But times are a change. In its twenty twenty the

568
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 1: music industry is vastly different where he is so old

569
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Speaker 1: school based in Okay. We need to get artists who

570
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Speaker 1: really create this great music, and we build up their

571
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Speaker 1: careers and I take them from nothing into something great.

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Speaker 1: But now you have the world of streaming, you have

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Speaker 1: the world of social media, and he is trying to

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Speaker 1: adapt to that. He is also in a position in

575
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Speaker 1: his life where his business is kind of failing and

576
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Speaker 1: there's a rival record company down the street that wants

577
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Speaker 1: to acquire his business, and he is in the middle

578
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:33,880
Speaker 1: of trying to figure out where he wants to go

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Speaker 1: next in his life. Does he want to take a

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Speaker 1: step back from this life that has made him who

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Speaker 1: he is, this king of New York City, continue to

582
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Speaker 1: go on that journey to discover more artists and continue

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Speaker 1: his legacy, or does he want to take a step

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Speaker 1: back and focus on his wife and his kid, who

585
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Speaker 1: is an aspiring basketball player. What does he want to do?

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Speaker 1: That is where we find our character. The stage was

587
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Speaker 1: set and I was all ready for a new Spike Lee.

588
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:03,239
Speaker 1: I think he is a true visionary, somebody who has

589
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 1: done movies that are so uniquely him. Him and Denzel Washington.

590
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: It's like peanut, butter and Jelly. This is going to

591
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 1: be great. Very opening scene you see Denzel Washington at

592
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 1: the top of his penthouse overlooking New York City looks fantastic.

593
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 1: There is an absence of music in this moment. You

594
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Speaker 1: just hear him having a conversation on the cell phone

595
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 1: and You're like, I'm vatigated from every angle here. I'm

596
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 1: gonna get great direction, excellent cinematography, New York City, Denzel Washington.

597
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 1: This crime thriller that's supposed to be fantastic because what

598
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: happens to his character. His kid gets kidnapped while he's

599
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 1: going through all these business decisions, and suddenly he has

600
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Speaker 1: a whole other dilemma on his hands. How is he

601
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 1: going to get his kid back? And is he going

602
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 1: to put up everything that he has worked for in

603
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: order to do that? So you hear all these elements,

604
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 1: you think, Okay, how could you make this movie uninteresting?

605
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 1: This movie is called Highest to Lowis. I had high

606
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 1: expectations going in and I left with a low result,

607
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: and it started just happening little by little. Spike Lee

608
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: has a very unique perspective on film, always incorporating music

609
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 1: and these elements that for the viewer take you into

610
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 1: this almost fantasy land, I want to say, or moments

611
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 1: that don't really exist in reality in order to bring

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00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 1: a message home. And the unique thing about Highest to

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00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 1: Lois is it had an original score all the way throughout.

614
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: You just hear this really beautiful orchestra music. At the

615
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:37,959
Speaker 1: most intense moments, there is underneath it this very beautiful soundtrack,

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00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 1: And in the beginning I thought it fit well. When

617
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 1: everything was going right and his world seem a little

618
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: bit more bright and sunny, you had this beautiful score

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00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: underneath that made it feel a little bit like a

620
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 1: nineties or early two thousands, almost family drama, and I

621
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 1: was just waiting for that to shift a little bit.

622
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Speaker 1: I think the entire time in this movie, I was

623
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 1: just waiting for crap to hit the fan and a

624
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 1: switch to turn and things to feel a little bit

625
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:07,400
Speaker 1: more intense, And maybe it's my personal taste of when

626
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,960
Speaker 1: I see a story like this on paper, I wanted

627
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 1: to have a little bit more of a sense of realism,

628
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 1: because there were things happening throughout this story that should

629
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 1: have been intense to anybody else and in any other situation.

630
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 1: And I start to feel this a little bit in

631
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 1: my brain of maybe I'm so used to everything being

632
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 1: so dark in movies and television shows where when somebody

633
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 1: gets kidnapped, I want emotions to be high. I want

634
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 1: people to be freaking out. Whenever Denzel Washington's character first

635
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 1: gets the call that his son has been kidnapped, he

636
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 1: is so cool, calm and collected that I'm like, your

637
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 1: son has just been kidnapped, and you reacted like somebody said,

638
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: your Uber Eats order has been canceled. I think us,

639
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:52,479
Speaker 1: if humans, probably would have shown more emotion if our

640
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 1: Uber Eats order was canceled than Denzel Washington did in

641
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: that moment. I truly think that Spike Lee had his

642
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 1: vision come to life. But underneath all of these intense

643
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: moments and all of these twists and turns, which they're

644
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 1: not even that many twists and turns that this story

645
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 1: takes you on. There's just this music that doesn't fit

646
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 1: the situation. And if you ever wanted an example of

647
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: the power of music in a film, this is a

648
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 1: great example because you have these things happening that should

649
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Speaker 1: feel so much more intense, but it never comes across

650
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 1: that way because of that music that makes you feel

651
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 1: cheerful at times. It's like if you got a call

652
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 1: from your vet and said, unfortunately, there's nothing we can do.

653
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 1: We have to put your pet down, but underneath you

654
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: had this very bright, shiny music. You're like, Oh, I'm

655
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 1: really sad in this moment, but this music that you're

656
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 1: playing just kind of makes me want to move to

657
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:45,760
Speaker 1: the beat. And it almost felt like they were acting

658
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 1: out a play where nobody felt like they were really

659
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 1: based in reality. The law enforcement in this movie was

660
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 1: probably the most frustrating because none of them seem to

661
00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 1: have a clear or sound mind. They were terrible at

662
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 1: their jobs, and it was really really frustrating to watch

663
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 1: people just obliterate an investigation, people being angry for no reason.

664
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: Because this is actually a remake of a Japanese movie,

665
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,800
Speaker 1: because I think in the original it's like a National

666
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:22,240
Speaker 1: Shoes executive. Here you have this music mogul, and suddenly

667
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:24,800
Speaker 1: you take that story, you place him into New York City,

668
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 1: and it's really about somebody struggling with their identity, struggling

669
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 1: with a sense of responsibility, doing what is right, but

670
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: also doing what is right for you. You have a

671
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:39,439
Speaker 1: father figure who is trying to do right by his son,

672
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,800
Speaker 1: show him a great example, but also be an authoritarian.

673
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:46,719
Speaker 1: But in doing that, I feel Denzel created probably one

674
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 1: of the most unlikable characters that he has ever portrayed

675
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 1: on screen. And that is saying a lot because I

676
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 1: never really felt like there were any true intentions to

677
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 1: his character. Nobody learned anything in this movie, and it

678
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:03,400
Speaker 1: was overall just really frustrating to watch every single performance.

679
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 1: And Denzel Washington is somebody who was great at improvising.

680
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 1: One of his famous movie lines of all time, King

681
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:14,239
Speaker 1: Kong and got crap on Me from Training Day was improvised.

682
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: So we also improvised a lot of the dialogue in

683
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:21,320
Speaker 1: this movie and it just wasn't it almost cringe worthy

684
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:24,800
Speaker 1: at times, which is wild to say for Denzel Washington

685
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 1: at a time in his career where he says, I

686
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 1: got maybe three movies left to me and then I'm retiring.

687
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:32,919
Speaker 1: I can't believe he's going out on such a low

688
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 1: note like highest to lowest. And maybe you saw the

689
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 1: clip of him talking about how he doesn't watch movies anymore.

690
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:41,720
Speaker 1: I'm not entirely sure that he still reads the scripts

691
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 1: before we're going to film some of these movies, because

692
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 1: between this and the little things that came out earlier

693
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 1: this decade, he has been kind of a misstep so far.

694
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:52,959
Speaker 1: I think a true test if you have a good

695
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 1: story is could you take this story elements place it

696
00:36:56,680 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 1: into another setting and would it still be interesting when

697
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 1: it comes to this one. New York City is such

698
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:07,839
Speaker 1: a big staple in this film. They almost overshow all

699
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,920
Speaker 1: of the elements of the New York setting, that if

700
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 1: you took this story and placed it into somewhere in

701
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 1: Delaware or Wyoming, it would suddenly become so less interesting

702
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:22,759
Speaker 1: because so much of it is surrounded in this fact

703
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 1: that it's New York City. It's cool, but the story

704
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:29,839
Speaker 1: itself is not substantial enough to carry an almost two

705
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,879
Speaker 1: hour and twenty minute film that if you took out

706
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 1: the elements of New York City, you would just have

707
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:38,879
Speaker 1: this boring story where I would say maybe three big

708
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:42,799
Speaker 1: scenes happened throughout the entire film, and everything else just

709
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 1: feels like filler and exposition, And by the end of

710
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 1: it it falls off so hard. You're like, what exactly

711
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:53,880
Speaker 1: were we doing here? What was the intention of this story?

712
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 1: And out of everybody's performance, Jeffrey Wright was the only

713
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 1: one who understood the assignment, the only character I felt

714
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 1: any sort of connection to, so much so that I

715
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,320
Speaker 1: think the movie would have been much stronger if it

716
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,800
Speaker 1: would have focused on his character, because I felt like

717
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 1: there was so much more mystery to him, there was

718
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 1: so much more intent behind his actions. I think he's

719
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:19,840
Speaker 1: also just a fantastic actor, going back to movies like

720
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,719
Speaker 1: The Hugger Games or American Fiction, or of course Him

721
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: and The Batman, I think he has fantastic range. I

722
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 1: think if he completely shifted the story from Denzel Washington's

723
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 1: character to Jeffrey Wright's character, it would be a much

724
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 1: more interesting film. But I think the story was just

725
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,880
Speaker 1: drawn out, too many things thrown in there that nothing

726
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:42,399
Speaker 1: really resonated with me. For highest to Lois, I give

727
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:49,400
Speaker 1: it two point five out of five Headphones. It's time

728
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:53,360
Speaker 1: to head down to movie Mike Trey Lar Paul. I

729
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:56,840
Speaker 1: love it when actors go to extremes for a role.

730
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:01,880
Speaker 1: That is exactly what Emma Stone did for Bogonia. She

731
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 1: shaved her head late last year. That is commitment and

732
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 1: that is something you get from somebody like Emma Stone,

733
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 1: who does have two oscars to her name, that level

734
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:18,360
Speaker 1: of dedication, that passion for her craft. This is another

735
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:20,799
Speaker 1: movie where she is pairing up with the or Vos Lantimos,

736
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:25,800
Speaker 1: who is just a wild director, incredibly creative. I love

737
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 1: how weird he is and how mainstream enough he is

738
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 1: able to be at the level of weirdness that he is,

739
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 1: because that is hard to do. Here he is with

740
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:40,439
Speaker 1: the brand new movie about two conspiracy obsessed men who

741
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 1: kidnapped the CEO of a major company when they become

742
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:47,400
Speaker 1: convinced that she is an alien who wants to destroy Earth.

743
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 1: This movie also stars Jesse Plemons, so Emma Stone and

744
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 1: Jesse Plemmons together are fantastic. They are two of the

745
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 1: best working actors in Hollywood right now. And the thing

746
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 1: about both of them is they don't really feel like

747
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,920
Speaker 1: part of the machine that is Hollywood. They are taking

748
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 1: these roles that are so obscure, feeling so unique, and

749
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:12,319
Speaker 1: they are so comfortable where they are right now in

750
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:15,439
Speaker 1: their careers. They don't feel the need in between these

751
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 1: movies to go and do a really big Hollywood blockbuster

752
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 1: movie where they feel the need to paint by numbers

753
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 1: just for a paycheck. So that I respect from each

754
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 1: of them. They probably have some of the best agents

755
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 1: in Hollywood who keep getting them these fantastic roles. But

756
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 1: it's not on all the agent of what roles you

757
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 1: can get. It's about how you show up on set,

758
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,400
Speaker 1: what you're able to deliver, and how you're able to

759
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:43,360
Speaker 1: bring attention to each of these projects. This one is

760
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:46,319
Speaker 1: a movie. Just from the plot alone, it'll have you

761
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 1: hooked in and hopefully it will bring some people who

762
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 1: maybe aren't in the Yogo s Latmo's fan club right now,

763
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 1: because his movies are pretty polarizing, poor things. It's an

764
00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 1: acquired taste. It is weird. It takes a little bit.

765
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:02,919
Speaker 1: It's almost like when you get in a pool where

766
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 1: it's a little bit too COLDI you're like, I don't

767
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 1: know if I'm gonna like this. I feel uncomfortable. I

768
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:10,839
Speaker 1: want to get out, But eventually your body warms up

769
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 1: to it and you're like, Okay, I get this now,

770
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:16,440
Speaker 1: I get the hype. I understand why everybody's been jumping

771
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 1: in this pool. So maybe it'll bring some of those

772
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:23,479
Speaker 1: people over into his camp and start believing in him.

773
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 1: He's also done movies recently like Kinds of Kindness, which

774
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 1: Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone did together. That movie was

775
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 1: a little bit more unconventional. It was three stories put

776
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:35,320
Speaker 1: into one. I really love the third story in that movie.

777
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 1: The first two were a little bit too weird even

778
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:41,840
Speaker 1: for me, but I respected the artistic vision. Yogos Lantimos

779
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 1: is also known for movies like the favorite The Lobster,

780
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 1: which was the first movie of his I saw. So

781
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 1: Before I get into more of his work and more

782
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:51,560
Speaker 1: about this movie, here is just a little bit of

783
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:54,880
Speaker 1: the Begonia trailer, which is coming out on Halloween of

784
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:59,920
Speaker 1: this year. Greetings, welcome to the headquarters of Human Resistance.

785
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:05,840
Speaker 1: Where's my hair? Your hair has been destroyed to prevent

786
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 1: you from contacting your ship?

787
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:08,800
Speaker 2: What ship?

788
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 1: Your mothership?

789
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:15,440
Speaker 2: In the next forty eight hours, the police and the

790
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 2: FBI will begin a state wide man hunt. I'm a

791
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:23,440
Speaker 2: high profile female corporate executive. I am crucial in all humility,

792
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:25,880
Speaker 2: I can say that. Think of it like you abducted

793
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 2: the governor, but worse.

794
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 1: I believe the Bogonia trailer is a cinematic feat in itself,

795
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:35,800
Speaker 1: because I found myself watching this trailer so intently, paying

796
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 1: attention to the cinematography. I always loved the color scale

797
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 1: in Yorgoslantimos's movies, where poor things really leaned into the

798
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:46,800
Speaker 1: blue palette. This one feels more red to me and vibrant.

799
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 1: But here it's not only about what you see in

800
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: the trailer. It's also what you heard there in that clip,

801
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,839
Speaker 1: those little sound effects, that little chilling indie movie sound

802
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:59,319
Speaker 1: that is in almost every left of center film. Then

803
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:02,360
Speaker 1: you have the laying the foundation, the glue that brings

804
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 1: it all together. And I found myself watching it so intently,

805
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 1: like I was already watching the movie. And that really

806
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 1: doesn't happen to me when watching a trailer, because when

807
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 1: I do it every week for this podcast, I'm taking notes,

808
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about what is going on, how I'm gonna

809
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 1: talk about this. I found myself about halfway through completely

810
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:22,879
Speaker 1: forgetting all about that. I wasn't even jotting notes down

811
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:25,719
Speaker 1: at one point because I was so just enthralled in

812
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 1: this trailer and already living in this world where I

813
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 1: want to know what happens. And I know this movie

814
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:34,359
Speaker 1: is actually a remake of a South Korean movie called

815
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:37,560
Speaker 1: Save the Green Planet, but I haven't seen that movie.

816
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 1: I also didn't look anything up about that movie because

817
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:44,359
Speaker 1: I want to be surprised going into Begonia. I don't

818
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:47,359
Speaker 1: want to know how it ends. Although if I had

819
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 1: to make an educated guess, I think what people are

820
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,840
Speaker 1: starting to speculate and what you kind of start to

821
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:55,760
Speaker 1: see happen. Towards the end of this trailer, as Jesse

822
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 1: Plemmons and Emma Stone talk a little bit more, you

823
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 1: start to see the complexity of their relationship. Maybe she

824
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:04,840
Speaker 1: knows a little bit more about him than he even

825
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:07,839
Speaker 1: has an idea of because she starts to say, oh,

826
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:10,359
Speaker 1: I know who you are, and you just shave by

827
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:12,359
Speaker 1: it because you think I'm an alien and that's how

828
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 1: I communicate with my mothership. So I think where your

829
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 1: mind wants to go is you think the reveal is

830
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 1: going to be that Jesse Plemmon's character was actually right

831
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:23,439
Speaker 1: and she is an alien. But I almost think that's

832
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:26,000
Speaker 1: a little bit too simple here. I feel like if

833
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:28,239
Speaker 1: it was a normal sci fi movie, which this does

834
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 1: lead into the sci fi comedy realm, which I think

835
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:33,759
Speaker 1: some people who aren't familiar with this director's work would

836
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:35,839
Speaker 1: have no idea how you kind of walk that line.

837
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 1: Because you watch this trailer and you feel all different

838
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:40,400
Speaker 1: types of ways. It feels a little bit comedic, it

839
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:43,239
Speaker 1: also feels really dark at times. Then you have this

840
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 1: other sci fi layer. I think that speaks to yourgo's

841
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:49,440
Speaker 1: style is you can't really put him in one box.

842
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:51,399
Speaker 1: So it's gonna have a little bit of sci fi,

843
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:54,240
Speaker 1: it's gonna have some comedy, it's gonna have some action,

844
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:57,080
Speaker 1: and it's probably gonna have some nudity at some point,

845
00:44:57,120 --> 00:45:00,360
Speaker 1: because most of his movies do poor thing really heavy

846
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:02,439
Speaker 1: on that. So maybe that's another reason why some people

847
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 1: find his movies a little bit uncomfortable. But I really

848
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:08,480
Speaker 1: think it's all for an artistic reason. There is intent

849
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 1: behind all of those dude scenes. When asked about this movie,

850
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 1: the two time Best Actress winner said, I believe in aliens.

851
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 1: Emma Stone said, I don't know about looking down on us,

852
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 1: but one of my favorite people who has ever lived

853
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 1: is Carl Sagan, and I fell madly in love with

854
00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:29,400
Speaker 1: this philosophy in science and how brilliant he is. And

855
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:31,840
Speaker 1: he believed the idea that we are not alone in

856
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 1: this vastly expansive universe. Not that we're being watched, because

857
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 1: that's a pretty narcissistic thing, But she is coming out

858
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:41,800
Speaker 1: and saying, I believe in aliens. So what she is

859
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 1: saying is that we are not alone. But it's almost

860
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:49,760
Speaker 1: pretentious to think that aliens would want to watch us,

861
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: which is something I do think about. My head always

862
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 1: goes to the comparison of an ant hill, that you

863
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 1: and I as humans aren't really going to mess with

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Speaker 1: an ant hill. Maybe when you were a kid, you

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Speaker 1: would kick one and then you'd see them all like

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Speaker 1: disperse and you totally wreck their world. But otherwise you're

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Speaker 1: not just gonna go kick an ant hill. And that

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Speaker 1: ant hill is living in its entirely owned universe. There's

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Speaker 1: a queen aunt us as humans aren't gonna go and

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Speaker 1: study this ant hill unless you're some ant scientists, and

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Speaker 1: that's your job. But we have no real purpose to

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Speaker 1: monitor them, we have no real reason to mess with them.

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Speaker 1: We could be there aliens That's kind of how I

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Speaker 1: think about aliens, that we are so concerned that one

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Speaker 1: day there's gonna be this moment where they just beam

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Speaker 1: down and say, we are aliens. We've been watching you

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Speaker 1: this entire time, and now take us to your leader.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that is ever going to happen. I

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Speaker 1: think if there are aliens, which I do believe that

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Speaker 1: there are aliens, and I've been believing this since I

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Speaker 1: was probably in third grade. I've been fascinated with aliens

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Speaker 1: since it was just the thing and the tabloids, those

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Speaker 1: really weird ones that used to be at the grocery

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Speaker 1: restore checkout line headlines like bat Boy. Back in those days,

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Speaker 1: I was all about aliens. So I'm still here saying

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Speaker 1: I believe in aliens. But I think us as humans,

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Speaker 1: we are always in this mindset that everybody is thinking

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Speaker 1: about us. We have main character energy when it comes

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Speaker 1: to our existence, that it's all about us that people

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Speaker 1: are wanting to come here. So I do believe in aliens,

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Speaker 1: and I do believe that in this movie, Emma Stode

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Speaker 1: is probably not gonna be just a normal CEO. She's

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Speaker 1: gonna have some skeletons in her closet. Maybe in her mothership.

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Speaker 1: Maybe just maybe we see the end of the world

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Speaker 1: in this movie. That would be awesome. But again, Bagonia

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Speaker 1: is coming out in theaters on October thirty. First, Geez

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Speaker 1: said that was this week's edition of Movie Li Framer

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Speaker 1: Bar and that is gonna do it for another episode

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Speaker 1: here of the podcast. Before I go, I gotta give

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Speaker 1: my listeners shout out of the week this week. I'm

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Speaker 1: going over to my Instagram d I had so much

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Speaker 1: reaction from just my clip of my cot Stealing trailer

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Speaker 1: where I talked about Austin Butler and his acting abilities.

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Speaker 1: So many people reached out to me and said, dude,

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Speaker 1: what is your problem with Austin Butler. Didn't even realize

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Speaker 1: it at the time that it sounded like I was

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Speaker 1: just dogging on the guy. But I think sometimes whenever

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Speaker 1: there is somebody deemed by the Hollywood machine that they

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Speaker 1: are next up, whether they are a male or female,

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Speaker 1: I always have this trial run with them, could be

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Speaker 1: two to three years, where I follow their work very closely,

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Speaker 1: watch all of their films. If they branch into TV,

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Speaker 1: I also watch their TV shows to really get a

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Speaker 1: feel for how much range they have and how I

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Speaker 1: see them actually succeeding because we see this every two

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Speaker 1: to three years, we're an actor almost out of nowhere.

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Speaker 1: Even though I don't believe in overnight successes, but to

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Speaker 1: us it feels that way that one day they're just

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Speaker 1: at everything. Every movie gets announced and that actor is

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Speaker 1: in it. So it starts to feel like a little

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Speaker 1: bit of oversaturation. And I try to balance that oversaturation

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Speaker 1: with the actual quality of their work. And again it

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Speaker 1: is my opinion how their movies make me feel. But

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Speaker 1: this is a DM I got from Jason last week

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Speaker 1: who said being an American leading man has nothing to

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Speaker 1: do with acting chops though. It's about cultivating a specific

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Speaker 1: personality and exaggerating it and then playing that person in

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Speaker 1: every movie a la Tom Cruise, Bruce Willis, Denzel Washington, etc.

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Speaker 1: American audiences don't care about acting chops. That's more of

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Speaker 1: a British thing. But I would agree that Austin Butler

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Speaker 1: seems to have a shorter runway than others with his

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Speaker 1: particular personality. Am I the only one who cares about

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Speaker 1: how good an actor someone is? I didn't think that

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Speaker 1: was a non American thing. Maybe when I think about it,

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Speaker 1: A little bit more intently, I do think us as

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Speaker 1: American viewers care more about the way movies make us feel.

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Speaker 1: I think that is why we a really deep relationship

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Speaker 1: with movies we see as kids and teenagers and in

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Speaker 1: our early twenties, where our brains are still forming, and

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Speaker 1: that is really the formation of our tastes. But I

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Speaker 1: do believe that the foundation of that is good acting.

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Speaker 1: And sometimes good acting doesn't come across as somebody giving

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Speaker 1: an Academy Award worthy performance. I think sometimes acting is

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Speaker 1: so good that you don't even realize it. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: always have to be really dramatic, over the top acting.

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Speaker 1: Comedic acting, to me is probably the hardest thing to do,

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Speaker 1: and if somebody is a good comedic actor, I can

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Speaker 1: still put them on the same tier as a Brad Pitt,

949
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Speaker 1: as a Leonardo DiCaprio. It's all about how good you

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Speaker 1: are at connecting with whoever is watching it. That is

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Speaker 1: how I see acting. So it doesn't have to be

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Speaker 1: somebody who is classically trained and knows all the mechanics.

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Speaker 1: It's about how can they make this story come to life?

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Speaker 1: And so far, all the characters that Austin Butler has

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Speaker 1: played have not resonated with me emotionally. Caught stealing got

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Speaker 1: close before that Bike riders got close as well. But

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Speaker 1: to me, he is somebody in that next up category

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Speaker 1: that actor to watch, and the next two to three

959
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Speaker 1: films for him are going to be really important on

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Speaker 1: whether or not we accept him into our rotation of

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Speaker 1: actors that we enjoy. Will he ever reach that level

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Speaker 1: of Chris Pratt where we get so sick of him? Maybe,

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Speaker 1: and I think that'd probably be a good thing for him.

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Speaker 1: That is what actors want, but appreciate that. DM Jason.

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Speaker 1: Thank you all for listening this week, especially if you

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Speaker 1: listen on release day, which is Mondays. That is why

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Speaker 1: I call you the Monday Morning Movie Crew. Thank you

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Speaker 1: all for being subscribed, Thank you for telling a friend,

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Speaker 1: And until next time, go out and watch good movies

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Speaker 1: and I will talk to you later.