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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 I want to talk

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Speaker 1: about controversial scenes that were so bad they had to

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Speaker 1: be pulled from movies. It's actually inspired by this week's

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Speaker 1: movie review, Lelo and Stitch. Could you believe they pulled

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Speaker 1: a scene out of Lelo and Stitch? Which I've been

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Speaker 1: waiting for this movie for so long. I've been following

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Speaker 1: all of the campaign, all the merch that's been dropped.

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Speaker 1: If you are a longtime listener to this podcast, you

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Speaker 1: know Lelo and Stitch is my favorite Disney movie of

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Speaker 2: Did they do it justice?

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Speaker 1: Or will I be sobbing here on the podcast because

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Speaker 1: they ruined my favorite movie? In the trailer Park, we'll

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Speaker 1: be talking about F one and why I think Brad

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Speaker 1: Pitt is never going to play a grandpa. Thank you

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

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Speaker 1: to the Monday Morning movie crew. He Now let's talk

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Speaker 1: movies from the Nastrolle podcast network and this is movie

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Speaker 1: Mike's Movie Podcast. Some of these scenes are so bad.

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Speaker 1: I just say to myself, what were they thinking? How

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Speaker 1: did they think this was going to be perceived of

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Speaker 1: course they were gonna end up eating to cut this.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes I feel like filmmakers or some animators were just

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Speaker 1: trying to get one over on people. Other times I

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Speaker 1: think it was just bad timing when things happen in

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Speaker 2: Just unfortunate timing.

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Speaker 1: But what inspired this entire topic is, did you know

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Speaker 1: there was a scene from Lelo and Stitch that had

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Speaker 1: And this is a thing that I didn't really think

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Speaker 1: And there is a scene in Lelo and Stitch that

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Speaker 1: And you watch that scene, you probably think nothing of it.

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Speaker 1: because what we're kids gonna do? They were gonna see

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Speaker 1: were even instances where back in the day, whenever they're

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Speaker 1: It never made it to the film Lelo and Stitch.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it's just a time and place.

438
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Speaker 1: And they had no way to know that something like

439
00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:17,280
Speaker 1: this was going to happen when they filmed the scene.

440
00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:19,360
Speaker 2: Just overall, just awful.

441
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Speaker 1: Got a few more left for you here The Santa

442
00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:25,840
Speaker 1: Claus in nineteen ninety four. Tim Allen in the movie

443
00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:29,960
Speaker 1: pretended to call a sex hot line. There is a

444
00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:33,199
Speaker 1: moment where he jokes around and he calls the number

445
00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:37,160
Speaker 1: one eight hundred Spank Me, And the filmmakers didn't know

446
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Speaker 1: this at the time, or later they claimed they didn't

447
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Speaker 1: know this at the time, One eight hundred Spank Me

448
00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:45,680
Speaker 1: was a real sex hot line. So this scene made

449
00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:48,520
Speaker 1: it out into theaters, it made it onto the home release,

450
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Speaker 1: and two years after the release of the movie, the

451
00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:56,160
Speaker 1: hot line was still available, meaning that anybody who watched

452
00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:59,879
Speaker 1: The Santa Claus saw that number and ended up calling

453
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Speaker 1: it would actually get a service on the other side

454
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Speaker 1: of it. The scene was eventually cut from the movie

455
00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:10,040
Speaker 1: to prevent any impressionable audience. Again me ninety four, while

456
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Speaker 1: I was probably three years old, I would be impressionable

457
00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:16,240
Speaker 1: and want to call that number just because I thought

458
00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:16,720
Speaker 1: it was funny.

459
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:19,480
Speaker 2: And as a kid, I love prank calling people.

460
00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:22,919
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter whether there was a number, if I

461
00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:25,080
Speaker 1: could find it, I would grow through the phone book

462
00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:28,080
Speaker 1: if anybody gave out their number in any way. Sometimes

463
00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,480
Speaker 1: my school would send out directories, which I.

464
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Speaker 2: Don't know why they did this.

465
00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:34,120
Speaker 1: I don't think they do this anymore, but they would

466
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:36,679
Speaker 1: have like all the families listed in their numbers, and

467
00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,639
Speaker 1: I would prank call people. I would be in third

468
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:43,199
Speaker 1: grade pre calling people I didn't even know in fifth

469
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:46,520
Speaker 1: grade just because I thought it was funny. And it

470
00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:49,919
Speaker 1: is always interesting to me whenever movies or TV shows

471
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Speaker 1: include numbers, and a lot of the times just big

472
00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:56,360
Speaker 1: fake numbers that are so blatantly fake, like five five

473
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Speaker 1: five six two two two, which I hope that's not

474
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:03,360
Speaker 1: real number, but you gotta be careful about things like this.

475
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:05,840
Speaker 1: So yeah, that was pretty dumb and that could have

476
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:10,400
Speaker 1: been easily prevented. Also in nineteen ninety nine, Toy Story

477
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Speaker 1: two a scene that was later cut from the movie

478
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,080
Speaker 1: is there's a moment where Stinky Pete, who is the

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00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:21,560
Speaker 1: old prospector, he is talking to two barbies and he

480
00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:25,359
Speaker 1: is being kind of creepy, and he offers the two

481
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Speaker 1: barbies a role in Toy Story three, with the implication

482
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Speaker 1: that they might give him something in return. So you

483
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:39,240
Speaker 1: think old creepy guy in a position of power talking

484
00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 1: to too young in this case dolls, but they represent

485
00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,679
Speaker 1: women saying, you know you want to roll in this

486
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,000
Speaker 1: next movie. If you do a little something for me,

487
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,080
Speaker 1: I can do a little something for you. And the

488
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:55,080
Speaker 1: reason this was cut was in twoenty and nineteen, the

489
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:58,640
Speaker 1: Me Too movement came around and suddenly things like this

490
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,920
Speaker 1: weren't funny anymore. Not only were they not funny anymore,

491
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 1: we should have never been joking about things like this,

492
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:09,119
Speaker 1: And the fact that it made it into a Pixar

493
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:13,879
Speaker 1: movie joking about getting girls a role in an upcoming

494
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:18,520
Speaker 1: movie is pretty awful. The fact that things in Hollywood

495
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 1: have happened that are just horrible when it comes to

496
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:25,480
Speaker 1: casting people and much like Stinky Pete in the situation

497
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 1: being in positions of power to offer roles to young

498
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:31,320
Speaker 1: women with the hopes of getting something else out of them.

499
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:36,359
Speaker 1: That that is so prevalent that a Pixar movie would

500
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:41,480
Speaker 1: include it as a joke, saying like, oh, here's this all, Oh,

501
00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:45,320
Speaker 1: I know what he is doing. Oh oh that is awful.

502
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:50,160
Speaker 1: That is really bad and shows you just how just

503
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:55,199
Speaker 1: dark Hollywood can be. So I'm glad that something like

504
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:58,920
Speaker 1: this would never be included, never even be thought about anymore.

505
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 1: But back in nineteen ninety nine, this went through all

506
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 1: the layers. The other thing that is just astonishing about

507
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:11,360
Speaker 1: this is animation takes forever. There are so many levels

508
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:14,320
Speaker 1: that a scene has to go through to make it

509
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 1: to a movie, and Toy Story just have these infamous

510
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:19,280
Speaker 1: scenes at the end of the movies where it's like,

511
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:24,200
Speaker 1: here are these bloopers. Even those have to be edited

512
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 1: and drawn, and there's so many levels where you don't

513
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,879
Speaker 1: have leftover b roll footage from an animated movie because

514
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,480
Speaker 1: you have to work on every single scene.

515
00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:35,760
Speaker 2: It takes a lot to cut something out of a movie.

516
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 1: So all that work that goes into it, all of

517
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:40,200
Speaker 1: these layers that it has to go through to make

518
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:42,880
Speaker 1: it into the movie, and this joke made it into

519
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:43,639
Speaker 1: Toy Story.

520
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,359
Speaker 2: Too. Crazy that doesn't make me feel good. Let's move on.

521
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:49,120
Speaker 2: I have two final movies for you here.

522
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 1: In twenty nineteen, a movie we can all laugh at

523
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 1: was The Cat's Live Action Movie, Awful all.

524
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:55,600
Speaker 2: The way around.

525
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,639
Speaker 1: Probably one of the biggest box office bombs of all time,

526
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,560
Speaker 1: definitely the worst movie of the twenty tens.

527
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:03,680
Speaker 2: You had so many famous.

528
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:06,160
Speaker 1: People in this movie too, like Taylor Swift, who thought

529
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 1: this was a good idea. But what happened here and

530
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 1: what was cut and changed from this movie is something

531
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,479
Speaker 1: I've never really heard of. They actually went back in

532
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 1: and tried to fix some of the CGI because the

533
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 1: controversy this movie created was that it was so bad

534
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 1: people were walking out of the theater. It was getting

535
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 1: dragged on rotten Tomatoes. They hated this movie so much

536
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 1: audiences and critics alike that they had to change scenes

537
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 1: to make them look better, because a lot of it

538
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 1: came from the CGI where there were moments where you

539
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 1: had these cat characters suddenly have human hands because they

540
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 1: forgot to edit in and change the human hands into

541
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:49,879
Speaker 1: cat hands.

542
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:50,639
Speaker 2: Cat pause.

543
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 1: There were other moments where things were left on the

544
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:57,160
Speaker 1: characters that shouldn't have been left on the characters, where

545
00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 1: it just made them look like they did know what

546
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:04,920
Speaker 1: they were doing when putting out cats. So they actually

547
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,960
Speaker 1: sent out a memo to theaters saying, Hey, we're gonna

548
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:11,800
Speaker 1: provide you guys with a new and updated version of

549
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:14,919
Speaker 1: this movie that you can start showing. So this one

550
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,360
Speaker 1: happened while this movie was still in theaters. They went back,

551
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,639
Speaker 1: made changes and it didn't help. Didn't do this movie

552
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 1: any good. But what an unusual turn. And finally, let's

553
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:30,880
Speaker 1: talk about the Mean Girls musical remake that came out

554
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 1: last year. It was a big deal for them to

555
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 1: get Lindsay Lohan to come back. A lot of headlines

556
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 1: came out that was part of her return to the Spotlight.

557
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 1: But in this version of the movie, Megan the Stallion

558
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:47,680
Speaker 1: who plays herself, makes a joke about Lindsay Lohan. She's

559
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 1: like filming this video like on TikTok or Instagram, and

560
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 1: she says, we are going back, red Y two k

561
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 1: Firecrotch is back. And this is in regard to Lindsay

562
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 1: Lohan's character. Why would you ask somebody to come back

563
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 1: and make a big cameo in one of the movies

564
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 1: that she's most known for, only to make a firecrotch joke,

565
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 1: which is also such a dated joke that is so

566
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 1: nineties or early two thousands. When the original Mean Girls

567
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 1: came out, knowing that people had used this term against

568
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:26,479
Speaker 1: Lindsay Lohan and tabloids and just in the media to

569
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,239
Speaker 1: degrade her, why would you ask her back to this

570
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 1: movie and then have this joke. So Lindsay Lohan took

571
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 1: public issue with this joke, saying she was very hurt

572
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 1: and disappointed by this reference in the film. So they

573
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 1: actually went back in once the movie was released digitally

574
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 1: and on streaming, they took that joke oheat of the movie.

575
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: So justice for Lindsay Lohan. I'm glad this movie didn't

576
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 1: do as well as they wanted it to. It should

577
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 1: have never made fun of her. I'll come back and

578
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 1: I'll give my spoiler free review of Leelo and Stitch.

579
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 1: Did I love it or did I hate it?

580
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 2: Let's get into it now.

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Speaker 1: A spoiler free movie review of Leelo and Stitch, the

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Speaker 1: live action movie. I've been waiting for now for twenty

583
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Speaker 1: three years. Leelo and Stitch is my favorite Disney movie

584
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 1: of all time. I went all out. I reverted back

585
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 1: to my childhood at the end of this review. If

586
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 1: you're watching on YouTube or if you're only listening on

587
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 1: the podcast, you gotta go watch it because I got

588
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,760
Speaker 1: all of the exclusive merch to regal. So I'm gonna

589
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 1: do a review of my popcorn bucket, which I got,

590
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 1: the one that looks like Stitch. It is my favorite

591
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 1: thing ever now and there's actually a big story behind

592
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: it of how Kelsey tracked it down for me and

593
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:36,400
Speaker 1: then we went to go see it in theaters and

594
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 1: I just couldn't help myself to get all this merch

595
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:41,960
Speaker 1: because it's all so cute and adorable. So stick around

596
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 1: to the end of this review to watch it on YouTube,

597
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 1: and if you're only listening to it on the podcast,

598
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 1: go to YouTube dot com slash Mike Dstro or follow

599
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 1: me on TikTok because I'm gonna post some stuff over

600
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 1: there as well. Well, let's get into this review. As

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00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 1: I said, aside this popcorn Bucket for now, which I

602
00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 1: can't really spoil it, I'm only going to talk about

603
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 1: some of the differences that changed it a little bit.

604
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 1: But overall, my feeling going into it is I didn't

605
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 1: want them to ruin my favorite Disney movie, and I've

606
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: been critical of live action Disney movies in the past.

607
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 1: I've called some of them cash grabs, And then whenever

608
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 1: you see your favorite one get made, you see your

609
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: feelings start to change and you really see how it's

610
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 1: a lot different when it's your favorite movie. What I

611
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 1: realized was they had to change a lot of things

612
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 1: in adapting it to live action, because when you look

613
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 1: at the story of Lelo and Stitch, it's actually quite sad.

614
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 1: Leelo loses her parents and her sister, Nannie is now

615
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: her mom, and their relationship has changed because they were

616
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 1: really good at being sisters, but now Nannie is having

617
00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: to be the mom and the dad taking care of her,

618
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 1: trying to keep a job, trying to keep a roof

619
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 1: over her head, and Lilo is going through a lot

620
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 1: by losing her parents. She also doesn't have friends, and

621
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 1: that's all you want. She just wants to have a friend.

622
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 1: She wishes upon a star, which is actually Stitch's spaceship

623
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 1: crash landing into Hawaii, and then she meets Stitch, and

624
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 1: then Stitch becomes this new force in her life who

625
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 1: was designed to destroy, was designed to tear everything up

626
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 1: that he came in contact with. By Jumba, who was

627
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 1: played in this movie by Zach Galifanakis. So overall they

628
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 1: change things because I realized that story is actually quite sad.

629
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 1: When you start seeing this with real life people and

630
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 1: you see Leela as not an animated character, you see

631
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 1: how it really kind of talks about people who lose

632
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: their parents are being threatened by the state to be

633
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 1: taken away from each other. You see it as somebody

634
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 1: who is struggling to keep a job and just pay

635
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 1: the bills. At the start of the movie, the social

636
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 1: worker comes out and sees all the unpaid bills on

637
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Speaker 1: their table, and you see also how the kids are

638
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: bullying Lelo, and you're like, man, the story is quite

639
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 1: sad here. When whenever you see it in animated form,

640
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 1: even though at its core it's still a sad story,

641
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 1: it doesn't really hit the same way because it's a

642
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 1: little bit more playful. It's a little bit more fun

643
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: when the girls are being mean to her. It doesn't

644
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 1: cut like a knife quite like it does in a

645
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 1: live action movie. But when you hear the girls that

646
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 1: Lelo goes to school as being so rude to her,

647
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: you're like, man, she's really going through a lot right now.

648
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 1: So overall, I've found a live action version to be

649
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 1: a lot more emotional than the animated version, and what

650
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 1: it sacrificed a little bit with some of the comedy,

651
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 1: because I think a lot of the comedy came from

652
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 1: things you can only do in animation that don't translate

653
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 1: the same way. One of the things that was very

654
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 1: different here is you realize how much violence was used

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Speaker 1: in the original one one at the very beginning of

656
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Speaker 1: the movie. Whenever she gets into the altercation with the

657
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 1: kids it's school.

658
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 2: There is a fight.

659
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 1: Also, the way that her and her sister communicated and

660
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,840
Speaker 1: chasing her around the house, you start to think, like, man,

661
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 1: she really couldn't do that in this movie. That would

662
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 1: straight to be child abuse and she'd be taken out.

663
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: Stitch himself is also more destructive and gets into a

664
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 1: lot of fights and firefights. So they kind of had

665
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 1: to pull away from some of the action and they

666
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 1: sacrificed a little bit of the big moments. But what

667
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:30,759
Speaker 1: they really emphasized more was that connection between Nannie and

668
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: Lelo and their relationship. That is really what developed more.

669
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 1: I think the hardest part was connecting them all back

670
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 1: to Stitch. It was almost like Stitch was on his

671
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 1: own journey in this movie, and it wasn't really until

672
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 1: that third act where him and Lilo really connected.

673
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:50,799
Speaker 2: I think that was the hardest part overall.

674
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 1: That this live action adaptation had, was it is hard

675
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:56,880
Speaker 1: to take a child actor and have it connect with

676
00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:59,359
Speaker 1: something that's not there. And while they do interact, while

677
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:00,840
Speaker 1: they do love each each other, and why they do

678
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,759
Speaker 1: become friends like they do in the original. I think

679
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 1: the obstacle was meshing those two characters together in the

680
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:10,840
Speaker 1: live action version. And if anybody has a problem with

681
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 1: this movie, that's probably gonna be the biggest thing because

682
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:16,399
Speaker 1: it is called Leelo and Stitch. But I just found

683
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 1: that that bond together wasn't as strong as it was

684
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 1: in the original movie, and I think some of the

685
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 1: things had to change, but everything I was looking for

686
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 1: was still there. There were other elements of stitches emotional

687
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:31,360
Speaker 1: development that weren't quite there. So in this he was

688
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,760
Speaker 1: a lot more cute and cuddly, and I think Disney

689
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: was really trying to emphasize that, mainly to sell more

690
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 1: merch to people like me and the kids, because he

691
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,759
Speaker 1: spoke a lot more in this movie. It did emphasize

692
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: a lot more of his high jinks, and I think

693
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 1: overall that was kind of the driving force of Okay,

694
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 1: we can't do some of the action that we did

695
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:50,799
Speaker 1: in the original because it doesn't quite translate, So let's

696
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,719
Speaker 1: make him do more funny things. And I think that

697
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 1: really worked. Overall. The reason this movie didn't feel like

698
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 1: a cash grab to me is because I thought overall

699
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,280
Speaker 1: the special effects were pretty good because Stitch looked great,

700
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,440
Speaker 1: He looked adorable, he looked cuddly. I thought it was

701
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 1: gonna be hard to make him look like an actual

702
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 1: alien dog, because in the original, you think, man, how

703
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: could anybody look at Stitch and think that he is

704
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 1: a dog not an alien? I always thought that was

705
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 1: the hardest thing to believe in the original, But here,

706
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 1: the way they made him look aside from the fact

707
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 1: that he's blue, he does look like a dog and

708
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:27,279
Speaker 1: act like a dog. So it was really important to

709
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 1: make him look good, make him look like you fit

710
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:31,919
Speaker 1: in this world, and I think that was the most

711
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:34,319
Speaker 1: important part that they got right, and they made him

712
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: look good. So the fact that his character design was

713
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 1: down great, even though he liked a little bit of

714
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 1: character development, which is probably asking a lot for a

715
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 1: Disney live action movie geared towards kids. Overall, I was

716
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: really happy with it, and at the end of it,

717
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 1: it just made me feel joy. It made me happy,

718
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:55,279
Speaker 1: and I think it's because it made me sad at

719
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 1: a lot of times. And the actress Maya, who is

720
00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 1: seven years old and played Lilo, did a fantas plastic

721
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,879
Speaker 1: job because I think that was the hardest thing of

722
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,880
Speaker 1: not only bringing Stitch to life, but having someone be

723
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:10,319
Speaker 1: the real life version of Lelo, and she completely crushed it.

724
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 1: And Disney rarely takes risks like this anymore because there

725
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 1: are a lot of sequences. Whereas just Lelo and Stitch

726
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,280
Speaker 1: on screen, you have a child actor and a CGI

727
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 1: character that is tough to do. And overall, where this

728
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 1: movie did not fumble the bag was the emotional scene

729
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 1: that we all know and love, the one I have

730
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:32,360
Speaker 1: done numerous times on this podcast, which for some reason

731
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 1: you haven't seen Lelo and Stitch. You haven't heard me

732
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 1: talk about this scene posted on Dick dok or heard

733
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 1: my interview with Chris Sanders, who is the creator and

734
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 1: voice of Stitch. I've talked about this scene a lot,

735
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 1: so mild spoiler alert here, even though the original is

736
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: twenty years old and it is a remake. I feel

737
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 1: like we're all okay with this spoiler, but if for

738
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 1: some reason you haven't, just skip ahead like thirty seconds

739
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: right now. But there's a moment when Stitch is going

740
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:57,360
Speaker 1: to be taken away and he talks about finding his family.

741
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 2: That is my.

742
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,879
Speaker 1: Favorite part of the entire movie. It is the most

743
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 1: emotional part in the original and it was still the

744
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 1: most emotional part here. And what I noticed by listening

745
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 1: to it and watching it, I think they took the

746
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 1: audio from the original movie and used it again here

747
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 1: because it had the same inflection. Everything about it was

748
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 1: the same. I have to imagine Chris Sanders was like,

749
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:21,399
Speaker 1: I don't know if I could act it out any

750
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: better than that. Can we just use that original voice

751
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 1: recording and place it into this scene?

752
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:27,799
Speaker 2: And it worked perfectly.

753
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 1: I was on the verge of tears in that moment,

754
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 1: and I was worried for a little bit that they

755
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:33,360
Speaker 1: were going to cut it out of the movie, not

756
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 1: include it, because there was a lot of things that

757
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 1: felt like they had to fit into this movie because

758
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 1: the original is an hour and twenty minutes and with

759
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 1: them adding more to the story of Nannie and Lee Lo.

760
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 1: This one clocked in right under an hour and forty minutes, but.

761
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 2: It was there. They nailed it.

762
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,360
Speaker 1: The thing I did notice is some of the kids

763
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:52,359
Speaker 1: in the theater, which I think Kelsey and I were

764
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 1: the only adults there without children, they started to get

765
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:56,399
Speaker 1: restless around.

766
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:57,439
Speaker 2: The hour in ten Mark.

767
00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: So I am finding that younger kids do have shorter

768
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 1: attention spans, and it is kind of hard to make

769
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 1: a movie like this geared towards kids where there is

770
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 1: a lot of emotional development that's not just a quick

771
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 1: coco melon episode. So a little bit I fear for

772
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 1: what films are going to be like in the future.

773
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 1: And that's not just with kids. I think all of

774
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: our attention spans are getting shorter and shorter. But that

775
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 1: was the only thing I noticed from the audience reaction

776
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:26,799
Speaker 1: throughout the movie. Is about an hour and ten minutes,

777
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:28,880
Speaker 1: people were getting up to go pee. They were like,

778
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:30,320
Speaker 1: all right, let's wrap this thing up. We got to

779
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 1: get these kids home. But overall, there was very little

780
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:35,759
Speaker 1: that I did not enjoy about this, and I was

781
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 1: surprised because I haven't liked a lot of the Disney

782
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:41,799
Speaker 1: Live action movies, but this one was hard to mess

783
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: up because the story was still there. Stitch looked phenomenal,

784
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:48,480
Speaker 1: Leela was great, Nannie was great, David was great. I'm

785
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 1: not sure Zach Galafanakas gave it his all in this role,

786
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 1: but but aside from that, it was all there for me.

787
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:57,360
Speaker 1: So when it comes to rating this, nothing is going

788
00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:59,799
Speaker 1: to touch the original. The original movie will always be

789
00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 1: a five out of five. But again, I'm gonna have

790
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,879
Speaker 1: a huge bias here. But for Leelo and Stitch twenty

791
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:07,400
Speaker 1: twenty five, I gave it four point five out of

792
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 1: five pineapples. So if you're only listening on the podcast,

793
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 1: the next part is only gonna be on YouTube, so

794
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 1: you have to go to my YouTube channel to go

795
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 1: see me review all the merch I got from Leelo

796
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 1: and Stitch at Regal. Go to YouTube dot com slash

797
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:26,279
Speaker 1: Mike Distro. It's time to head down to movie Mike

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00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:29,840
Speaker 1: trailer Paul grand Grandpa.

799
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:34,279
Speaker 2: That's a behind the scenes of me screwing up there.

800
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 1: I was gonna say Grandpa, or maybe I was thinking

801
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 1: Grand Charismo, because I better talk about Brad Pitt's new

802
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 1: racing movie.

803
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:45,480
Speaker 2: But what I was wanting to say is Brad Pitt.

804
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:48,560
Speaker 1: Is never gonna play at Grandpa because he looks too good.

805
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 2: He's sixty one years old.

806
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:53,080
Speaker 1: He is in grandpa age, but by the looks of

807
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 1: him in this trailer, he's not there, and I don't

808
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be there in another ten years. I

809
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:02,040
Speaker 1: feel like him is an actor. He could take those roles.

810
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 1: Maybe they've been pitched to him, but I don't think

811
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:07,840
Speaker 1: Brad Pitt is ever going to play at Grandpa because

812
00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:11,280
Speaker 1: he looks too dang good at sixty one years old.

813
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:14,440
Speaker 1: In the trailer four at one, there's even a comment

814
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:16,720
Speaker 1: of the racer he's going to train.

815
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:18,360
Speaker 2: His mom comes to visit.

816
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 1: I think both of his parents come to visit and

817
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 1: they see a picture of Brad Pitt and they're like, man, he's.

818
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 2: Not that old. He's a really good looking man.

819
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 1: That leads me to believe that we're never gonna get

820
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: to see Brad Pitt in the way that we're starting

821
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 1: to see Tom Hanks right now, who I feel like

822
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 1: it hasn't been until maybe the last five years that

823
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:42,080
Speaker 1: Tom Hanks has started to take like an older grandpa

824
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:45,360
Speaker 1: role where he lets the Grays come through. Tom Hanks

825
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 1: is sixty one years old. He is only seven years

826
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:52,279
Speaker 1: older than Brad Pitt, but they look so different, just

827
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 1: a seven year difference.

828
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:54,839
Speaker 2: And the roles you.

829
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 1: Take, the wardrobe you decide to put yourself in, how

830
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 1: your hair error is colored, can vastly change how the

831
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:04,680
Speaker 1: audience perceives you.

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00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 2: So I just don't see it. For Brad Pett sixty one,

833
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 2: he's still rocking it.

834
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 1: If he gets to Tom Hanks age at sixty eight

835
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:13,399
Speaker 1: and still doesn't want to take these roles, I think

836
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:15,239
Speaker 1: he could still pull it off. And if I was

837
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 1: as good looking as him, I would hold on to

838
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:20,440
Speaker 1: that for the rest of my life. I wouldn't let

839
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 1: anybody call me grandpa. I would not take those roles.

840
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:26,279
Speaker 1: I'd say, you take that sweater and shove it right

841
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:28,959
Speaker 1: up your wardrobe hole. I don't know where you're gonna

842
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 1: put that thing. But let's talk about F one. I

843
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 1: like me a good racing drama. In this movie, A

844
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:37,360
Speaker 1: Brad Pitt plays a guy named Sonny Hayes, who was

845
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 1: a former Formula one driver who had a career ending

846
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:44,279
Speaker 1: accident in the nineteen nineties. He is brought back into

847
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 1: the sport by a guy named Rubin Servantis, who was

848
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,239
Speaker 1: a team owner played by Harvier Bardem, who you might

849
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:53,320
Speaker 1: remember from No Country for Old Men. He played Anton

850
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:57,760
Speaker 1: Sugar had the wildest haircut in cinema, and he hated

851
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 1: that haircut, by the way, because he said, Man, no

852
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 1: woman is going to want to get with me after they.

853
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 2: See me in this movie.

854
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 1: But his character is in a position where he wants

855
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 1: to go back to doing F one. He's currently doing

856
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 1: NASCAR at the beginning of the trailer, he just won Daytona,

857
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:14,799
Speaker 1: but now he wants to go back to What I

858
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 1: learned is the more difficult of the two. Not discrediting NASCAR,

859
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:22,000
Speaker 1: that is a legit sport. What I found in my

860
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 1: research of this, and you can correct me if I'm wrong.

861
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:27,920
Speaker 1: The reason F one is seen as being more difficult

862
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 1: is because in NASCAR, you're just turning the exact same

863
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 1: way throughout the entire race. Even though I believe in

864
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 1: NASCAR you race much faster, but in F one sometimes

865
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:42,880
Speaker 1: you're racing in actual cities, on courses where the turns

866
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:46,360
Speaker 1: are all over the place. You have more intricate courses,

867
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:49,879
Speaker 1: the cars have more buttons and controls, and overall take

868
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 1: a little bit more to operate, so even though you're

869
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:55,480
Speaker 1: not driving as fast as you are in NASCAR, all

870
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 1: the other logistics are ramped up. But the movie is

871
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: about Brad Pitt returning to the sport, mentoring a young

872
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Speaker 1: racer who hates his guts. So before I get into

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Speaker 1: more about F one, here's just a little bit of

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Speaker 1: the trailer. Formula one is a team sport. It always was.

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Speaker 2: Listen, let's get this straight.

876
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 1: We all lose our jobs if you can't put off

877
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Speaker 1: a mirror coad. No pressure on.

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Speaker 2: The only question here is why does Sonny who's come

879
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 2: back to F one? I think it's really wonderful to

880
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:36,319
Speaker 2: apex and given second chances to the elderly, I take

881
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Speaker 2: it right, you're.

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Speaker 1: Just right on quicker than you.

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Speaker 2: The tension between teammates.

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Speaker 1: What really sticks out to me about this trailer and

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Speaker 1: the first time I actually saw it in theaters, not

886
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Speaker 1: the movie, but the trailer, is their use of sound

887
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Speaker 1: and sometimes the absence of sound in the trailer that

888
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:57,760
Speaker 1: makes everything feel more cinematic, where sometimes you're just hearing

889
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Speaker 1: the roar of the car, you're hearing the breathing, and

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Speaker 1: then it just goes to silence, and that is so powerful.

891
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,800
Speaker 1: In a theater where you're seeing a really beautiful shot,

892
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 1: usually in a racing movie, it's a crash and they

893
00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 1: always go to silence when a crash happens because it

894
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:16,120
Speaker 1: makes it so much more impactful to see a car

895
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Speaker 1: flipping but you hear nothing.

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Speaker 2: It is a really eerie image.

897
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Speaker 1: So I really love the way they use sound to

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Speaker 1: build that up. In one of the first teaser trailers,

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Speaker 1: all they did was use a queen song and it

900
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:31,240
Speaker 1: was just so loud and the sounds of the cars

901
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 1: were just roaring over it that it matched together perfectly.

902
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:38,440
Speaker 1: This movie was also made in collaboration with Formula One,

903
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Speaker 1: using real team drivers, so it definitely adds that authenticity

904
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Speaker 1: to it. Because when you're doing a movie based on

905
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Speaker 1: a sport where you're good to notice if things aren't

906
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Speaker 1: done just right, it is important to have those people

907
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Speaker 1: overlooking it. And that really makes me buy into the movie.

908
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Speaker 1: Because I don't really know a whole lot about F one.

909
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Speaker 1: I did look up some differences, Like I was mentioning earlier,

910
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Speaker 1: most F one races are nine minutes, so it's a

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Speaker 1: lot quicker. One of my favorite race movies is Ford v. Ferrari,

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Speaker 1: and those races and that take forever. So I think

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Speaker 1: there's some more instant gratification here with there being a

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Speaker 1: ninety minute race versus a really long race. I think

915
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Speaker 1: when watching it in movie form, you get more of that. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I feel the tension, I feel what this is important,

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Speaker 1: and it's gonna make everything feel like there's a lot

918
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Speaker 1: more on the line. And the F one cars can

919
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Speaker 1: reach speeds over two hundred and thirty miles per hour

920
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Speaker 1: on average. The drivers are going about one hundred and

921
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Speaker 1: twenty miles per hour, which I didn't think that was

922
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Speaker 1: as fast as I thought they would be because I

923
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Speaker 1: see these cars flying. But I've also never gone that

924
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Speaker 1: fast in a car. I think the fastest I've gone

925
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Speaker 1: is probably ninety. And that was one of those situations

926
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Speaker 1: where in Texas, which is where I'm from, they have

927
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Speaker 1: roads that go up to eighty miles an hour, and

928
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Speaker 1: living now in Tennessee, we barely go fifty five. But

929
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Speaker 1: in Texas we like driving fast, and sometimes you get

930
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:02,760
Speaker 1: it's so comfortable going eighty You're like, what's eighty five?

931
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Speaker 1: And I remember just one time being on I think

932
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Speaker 1: a toll road that was like eighty miles an hour.

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Speaker 1: Eighty five, and then I looked down. I'm like, oh crap,

934
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Speaker 1: I'm going ninety. But it didn't feel like I was

935
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Speaker 1: going that fast. But one hundred and twenty is probably

936
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Speaker 1: a lot when you're having somebody in front of you,

937
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Speaker 1: behind you, and you're trying to navigate a pretty complex course.

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Speaker 1: I did say they can reach speeds over two hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty miles an hour. That is what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 1: I also like Brad Pitt's characters tattoos. It very much

941
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Speaker 1: reminded me of Ryan Gosling in the Place Beyond the

942
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Speaker 1: Pines where his tattoos look sick, even though I would

943
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Speaker 1: never put those on my body because they're very random.

944
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Speaker 1: And I think that has become more of a trend

945
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Speaker 1: lately of people getting tattoos that don't really match up.

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Speaker 1: And I am a fan of the look. I don't

947
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Speaker 1: know how it's going to age, which you could tell

948
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Speaker 1: me with my tattoo. It's like your tattoos are going

949
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Speaker 1: tot h poorly, and I'm all about getting tattoos that

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00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 1: just look cool. I think maybe in like the nineties,

951
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 1: early two thousands, big thing with you got to get

952
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Speaker 1: something that means a lot to you. I just want

953
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Speaker 1: something that makes me look a little bit cooler. But

954
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:09,120
Speaker 1: that trend is interesting where it almost feels like people

955
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:12,759
Speaker 1: are getting things that they just would otherwise doodle on

956
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:15,160
Speaker 1: their paper in like math class, and they're getting it

957
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:17,719
Speaker 1: on their skin. It looks cool right now, But I

958
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:20,760
Speaker 1: just wonder how that is gonna age. But again, people

959
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:22,879
Speaker 1: are probably saying that about my dad doos right now,

960
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:25,320
Speaker 1: But that is kind of what Brad Pitt's character has,

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Speaker 1: and I guess he is sixty one in this, so hey,

962
00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 1: maybe it's gonna age just fine. This movie is also

963
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Speaker 1: directed by Joseph Kazinski, who did Top Gun Maverick, and

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00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:37,799
Speaker 1: that makes me feel that the action is gonna be

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00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,240
Speaker 1: at the level of Top Gun Maverick. And I'm already

966
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Speaker 1: seeing in this trailer because what I loved about Top

967
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:46,759
Speaker 1: Gun Maverick is it really puts you in the seat

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Speaker 1: of the person flying the plane. You were right there

969
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 1: with them. They put the camera on the wing of

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Speaker 1: the plane, so not only do you see it from

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Speaker 1: their perspective, you see it from a perspective that nobody

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Speaker 1: else could see.

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Speaker 2: The action was just so great.

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Speaker 1: And dialed in that it made that movie feel like

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Speaker 1: an experience, like something you needed to experience on the

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Speaker 1: big screen. And that is also the vibes I'm getting

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Speaker 1: from F one. So I'm not always the biggest fan

978
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Speaker 1: of race movies because the hard thing about them is

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Speaker 1: they kind of always have to end the same way.

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00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 1: If your person doesn't win, it feels like you get

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00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:26,719
Speaker 1: ripped off as the viewer. But if you know they're

982
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:28,480
Speaker 1: gonna win, it's like, oh, man, I already know what's

983
00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Of course he's gonna come through with a win.

984
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:33,439
Speaker 1: Of Course him and his teammate are going to get

985
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:35,799
Speaker 1: over their beef and they're gonna be good by the end,

986
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:38,600
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be having that trophy held over their

987
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:41,000
Speaker 1: heads by the end of this movie. And of course

988
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Speaker 1: somebody is gonna crash and you're gonna fear for their life.

989
00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 1: That always happens no matter what the racing movie is.

990
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:51,480
Speaker 1: Those are just the elements of racing. Hero has to win,

991
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:54,319
Speaker 1: and there's gonna be a moment where they're not gonna

992
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:56,399
Speaker 1: win because they just went through an injury. I don't

993
00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:58,239
Speaker 1: know if they're gonna make this race happen, and then.

994
00:49:58,160 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 2: Boom, they end up doing it.

995
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:03,640
Speaker 1: So the formula one feels a little bit predictable. But

996
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:06,520
Speaker 1: I think in the case of this movie, if you

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Speaker 1: have somebody like Brad Pitt, also Harvey Erbardam, who I

998
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:12,960
Speaker 1: really enjoy, a great director, I think is gonna be

999
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:16,600
Speaker 1: an experience. It's also my birthday week movie. It comes

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Speaker 1: out on June twenty seventh, and I always have a

1001
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Speaker 1: special place in my heart for the movies that come

1002
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 1: out around my birthday, so I will be checking this

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Speaker 1: one out. Where will it rank on my favorite racing

1004
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:28,160
Speaker 1: movies of all time? I think my favorite is Ford

1005
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:30,799
Speaker 1: me Ferrari. I just loved me some Christian Bale. I

1006
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 1: thought that story was really interesting and overall had the

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00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:36,719
Speaker 1: best acting of any racing movie I've ever seen. In

1008
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Speaker 1: my opinion, Talladega Knights is also up there because I

1009
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:42,120
Speaker 1: love me some comedy. I love me some Ricky Bobby

1010
00:50:42,680 --> 00:50:45,440
Speaker 1: Grand Tarismo was pretty good. That's the last one I

1011
00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:47,520
Speaker 1: saw in theaters. I wouldn't put it in my favorites,

1012
00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:50,360
Speaker 1: but in recent history, that is the last one I

1013
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 1: remember going to see in theaters. And you know what

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00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:54,560
Speaker 1: I would like to put on my list. I know

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00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:57,879
Speaker 1: they're gonna make more super Mario Brothers movies. But they

1016
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:00,320
Speaker 1: need to just make an all out Mario Kart movie.

1017
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:03,759
Speaker 1: Take the formula of a racing drama and apply that

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00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:06,000
Speaker 1: to Mario Kart. I know they spoofed that one time

1019
00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:08,720
Speaker 1: on SNL and I wanted to see that with Pedro

1020
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 1: Pascal in that Skit was super Mario driving a car.

1021
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:15,680
Speaker 1: Oh man, that would be so good. So instead of

1022
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:19,520
Speaker 1: doing another animated movie, let's do a live action Mario

1023
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:22,560
Speaker 1: Kart movie. I'll give you my money right now. But again,

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Speaker 1: F one is coming out in theaters on June twenty seventh.

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Speaker 1: Head that for was this week's edition of Movie by

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Speaker 1: Framer Bar and Dad is gonna do it for another

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00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:35,400
Speaker 1: episode here of the podcast. But before I go, I

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Speaker 1: got to give my listener shout out of the week.

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00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 1: How do you go a listener shout out of the week.

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00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:44,520
Speaker 1: All you have to do is comment on social media TikTok, Instagram,

1031
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:46,560
Speaker 1: You can send me an email movie Mike d at

1032
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:48,759
Speaker 1: gmail dot com. If you ever forget any of that,

1033
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:53,000
Speaker 1: it is always in the episode description notes of this podcast.

1034
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:55,800
Speaker 1: But this week I'm going over to my YouTube channel,

1035
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 1: which is YouTube dot com, slash Mike Distro and man

1036
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:03,319
Speaker 1: I was getting hit pretty hard on my Final Destination

1037
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:06,799
Speaker 1: Bloodlines review, which I just gave my honest opinion, and

1038
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:10,480
Speaker 1: I was very upfront saying that overall, this isn't one

1039
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:14,680
Speaker 1: of my favorite horror franchises. But boy did I learn

1040
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:19,239
Speaker 1: that Final Destination has some hard core fans who did

1041
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:22,239
Speaker 1: not like my opinion, and I decided to go over

1042
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:26,000
Speaker 1: there and well, the YouTube comments are always I sometimes

1043
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:28,759
Speaker 1: shield my eyes because they're usually the most rude about

1044
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:32,720
Speaker 1: my physical appearance, unlike any other platform. But this week's

1045
00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:35,640
Speaker 1: Listener shout out goes to Sark on YouTube, who said

1046
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:39,840
Speaker 1: Final Destination five not being memorable to you is wild.

1047
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:42,560
Speaker 1: It has some of the best and most well known

1048
00:52:42,640 --> 00:52:46,440
Speaker 1: shot kills in the entire series, the gymnastics scene and

1049
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:50,920
Speaker 1: honestly the premonition being standouts. Not even commenting about the

1050
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:52,280
Speaker 1: new movie, just the.

1051
00:52:52,239 --> 00:52:53,880
Speaker 2: FD five slander.

1052
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:56,719
Speaker 1: So Sark, I have to imagine you did not agree

1053
00:52:57,040 --> 00:53:00,960
Speaker 1: with my entire review on Bloodlines, but the fact that

1054
00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:04,960
Speaker 1: my comment about FD five rattled you so much. I

1055
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:08,920
Speaker 1: even mentioned that gymnastics scene, how that was one of

1056
00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:11,920
Speaker 1: those moments from that movie that lingered with me that

1057
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:14,440
Speaker 1: made me never want to do gymnastics. But I think

1058
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:17,680
Speaker 1: overall it is still pretty forgettable, so you don't have to.

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00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:18,200
Speaker 2: Agree with me.

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Speaker 1: That's why I go read the comments to see what

1061
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 1: you guys feel about these movies and how you differ

1062
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 1: from me. I think that is the great thing about

1063
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:28,600
Speaker 1: having a movie podcast, is opening up that discussion and

1064
00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:32,239
Speaker 1: getting different perspectives from different people or fans of franchises

1065
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:32,799
Speaker 1: that I just.

1066
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Speaker 2: Don't always love.

1067
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:36,960
Speaker 1: So always feel free to tell me when you think

1068
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:38,920
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, when you think I'm being an idiot, just

1069
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:40,879
Speaker 1: leave my physical appearance out of it.

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Speaker 2: Please, Thank you, Sark.

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Speaker 1: Thank you right now for listening wherever you are, and

1072
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:48,480
Speaker 1: until next time, go out and watch good movies and

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Speaker 1: I will talk to you later.