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Speaker 2: And that is how we start the podcast. Hello, and

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Speaker 2: welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. Always keep it rolled, rude.

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Speaker 1: This was supposed to be a safe space for me

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Speaker 1: to sing Taylor Swift.

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Speaker 2: I am your host. Movie Mike joined this week, but

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Speaker 2: my wife and co host Kelsey, we can already keell it.

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Speaker 1: The Arastur comes out on Disney Plus tonight.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but i've you. Initially I invited you to get

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Speaker 1: on watching it, so I'll watch it with you eventually.

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Speaker 2: Taylor Swift has made so much money just off of

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Speaker 2: you watching the same tour amazing, incredible business woman.

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Speaker 1: She takes all of my money. She's made a lot

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Speaker 2: But we are here today to talk about our favorite

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Speaker 2: female directed films, which of the twenty first century.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Taylor Swift did direct the short film All

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Speaker 2: We'll add that as an honorable mention on the list.

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Speaker 2: In the movie review, we'll be talking about Imaginary, which

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Speaker 2: is a new horror movie out in theaters right now

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Speaker 1: We will not be talking about that.

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Speaker 2: then in the trailer park, we'll be talking about a

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Speaker 2: film that I think could change the way we think

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Speaker 2: about animation, The Wild Robot. We saw the trailer when

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Speaker 1: It's kind of giving Wally vibes.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for being here, thank you for being subscribed.

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Speaker 2: Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now

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Speaker 2: let's talk movies.

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Speaker 3: In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast,

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Speaker 3: one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like

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Speaker 3: From the Nashville Podcast Network, this is Movie Mike's movie podcast.

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Speaker 2: March is Women's History months. So for this episode, we

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Speaker 2: are focusing on female directed films of the twenty first century.

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Speaker 2: So in the last twenty four years. Oh, that's weird

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're almost a quarter of the way through.

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Speaker 2: In my head, the two thousands are still like last decade.

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Speaker 1: Oh, in my head, two thousand and seven was like

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Speaker 2: That's why we were focusing here on movies of the

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Speaker 1: With females in any industry, and I think when you.

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Speaker 2: Have movies directed by females, I feel like you get

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Speaker 2: But if you look at this list that I put

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Speaker 1: Greta Gerwig's Ladybird, loved Barbie mm hmm, but feels too

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Speaker 2: Mine has to be a little movie from two thousand

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Speaker 1: That is crazy that that was her only movie so far. Right, Yeah,

445
00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:10,160
Speaker 1: she hasn't put out anything.

446
00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:13,920
Speaker 2: She is working on an un I don't even know

447
00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:16,400
Speaker 2: if it's still coming out, a Marvel project that she's

448
00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:20,280
Speaker 2: still attached to. Interesting, So hopefully that still happens. But

449
00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:23,000
Speaker 2: I feel like in those first two movies, like to

450
00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:26,679
Speaker 2: come out with two bangers pretty much strong. Also on

451
00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:30,160
Speaker 2: my list, I have Wonder Woman from Patty Jenkins, which

452
00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:33,560
Speaker 2: at the time was the first superhero movie directed by

453
00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:36,000
Speaker 2: a woman to come out as in twenty seventeen.

454
00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:39,160
Speaker 1: That's crazy that it took that long and.

455
00:19:39,119 --> 00:19:42,159
Speaker 2: It went on to be the highest grossing movie at

456
00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:45,760
Speaker 2: the box office about any female director until Barbie last year.

457
00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:48,520
Speaker 1: Did she also do Wonder Woman too? Yes, okay, we

458
00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:49,440
Speaker 1: won't talk about that one.

459
00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:52,879
Speaker 2: You didn't I like that one. We watched that one together.

460
00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:55,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, we watched it home. It came out Christmas that year.

461
00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:58,919
Speaker 2: I think it was because it came out in twenty twenty.

462
00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:02,920
Speaker 2: During that year, shifted to putting out in theater movies

463
00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:05,280
Speaker 2: straight onto the streaming service that I was just itching

464
00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:09,240
Speaker 2: for a superhero movie, which I think from March to

465
00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:12,840
Speaker 2: when that came out in December, there wasn't anything. So

466
00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:15,920
Speaker 2: I feel like I had maybe rose colored glasses when

467
00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:18,080
Speaker 2: I watched that movie, because I had that in theater

468
00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:21,400
Speaker 2: experience at home for the first time in a long time.

469
00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:24,119
Speaker 1: We also printed Yeah, we made a whole night of it.

470
00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:27,280
Speaker 2: We printed tickets because we wanted that experience again and

471
00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:30,720
Speaker 2: we had missed that so much that I found myself

472
00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:34,160
Speaker 2: really enjoying that movie because it gave me that feeling again.

473
00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:37,800
Speaker 2: Arguably one of the most hated superhero movies of the

474
00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:40,439
Speaker 2: last five years, I still have a special place in

475
00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:43,720
Speaker 2: my heart. Is it great on paper? Maybe not. If

476
00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:46,240
Speaker 2: I went back and rewatched it, i'd probably feel differently,

477
00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:48,359
Speaker 2: But I haven't since, and I'm not going to let

478
00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:50,879
Speaker 2: that ruin my image I have of that movie in

479
00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:51,240
Speaker 2: my head.

480
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Speaker 1: And I also don't want that to seem like I'm

481
00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:55,880
Speaker 1: saying that Patty Jenkins is not a good director. I'm

482
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Speaker 1: just comparing the fact that the first one was so

483
00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:00,080
Speaker 1: good and then the second one. But I also I

484
00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,880
Speaker 1: think maybe the screenplay wasn't the best. It's not always

485
00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:04,640
Speaker 1: when a movie flops, it's not the director.

486
00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:07,639
Speaker 2: Usually, I would argue it's not on Patty Jenkins. I

487
00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:09,679
Speaker 2: feel like she had a vision for Wonder Woman that

488
00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:12,000
Speaker 2: works so well in the first one. I think it's

489
00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:15,399
Speaker 2: more so on the direction of DC. DC is just

490
00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:19,200
Speaker 2: a flop. It was in that year moving into twenty

491
00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:22,840
Speaker 2: one and twenty twenty two where they started to decline

492
00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:26,080
Speaker 2: in quality. So I don't really hold that on her.

493
00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:30,600
Speaker 2: I hold that of that movie was supposed to kind

494
00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:33,399
Speaker 2: of save all the Justice League movies at that time

495
00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:35,000
Speaker 2: and save that entire cast.

496
00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:37,720
Speaker 1: There was no saving that franchise, but there really wasn't.

497
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Speaker 2: I still think at the end of the day, it

498
00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:45,280
Speaker 2: is a good, decent movie nineteen eighty four anyway, but

499
00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:48,119
Speaker 2: it doesn't really come onto the same level as the

500
00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:50,960
Speaker 2: original one because it was so groundbreaking, I would agree.

501
00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:54,800
Speaker 2: Also on my list, I have Cocaine Bear from director

502
00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:58,240
Speaker 2: Elizabeth Banks, who has also done a lot of good movies,

503
00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:02,159
Speaker 2: but you rarely see female directors doing horror movies. It

504
00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:06,000
Speaker 2: is mainly a dude dominated genre, and I feel like

505
00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,600
Speaker 2: for a movie like that to be so ridiculous and

506
00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:11,320
Speaker 2: over the top and come from Elizabeth Banks, I think

507
00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:13,080
Speaker 2: that's also what made me like that movie more. But

508
00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:15,159
Speaker 2: it's just a fun movie. There are some movies I

509
00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:18,000
Speaker 2: just go into not wanting to think a whole lot,

510
00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:22,360
Speaker 2: And a movie titled Cocaine Bear that is about exactly

511
00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,320
Speaker 2: what the title says, a bear that does cocaine. You

512
00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:27,399
Speaker 2: don't really need to think much about that movie. And

513
00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:30,080
Speaker 2: I like movies where you can just go into it

514
00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:33,399
Speaker 2: knowing that it's just made for the sake of having fun,

515
00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:37,160
Speaker 2: because I approach those movies differently than say, like an Argyle,

516
00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:40,080
Speaker 2: which people say, Oh, it's just a fun time. That

517
00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:41,440
Speaker 2: wasn't set up as a fun time.

518
00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:42,840
Speaker 1: What was fun about that?

519
00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:45,960
Speaker 2: Nothing leaving was fun about that. But a movie like

520
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,439
Speaker 2: Cocaine Bear, You're going into it to see people being

521
00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,280
Speaker 2: eaten by a bear, and you know it's gonna be

522
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:53,840
Speaker 2: dumb and ridiculous and over the top. It has that

523
00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:57,200
Speaker 2: campy horror style that I feel like Elizabeth Banks really

524
00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:59,119
Speaker 2: captured Will in that movie. And I can't wait to

525
00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:02,440
Speaker 2: see in either Cocaine Bear too, or other animals on cocaine,

526
00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:06,520
Speaker 2: like cocaine orca That would be my dream movie.

527
00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:08,680
Speaker 1: What if the bear moves away from cocaine.

528
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:14,119
Speaker 2: Oh he tries different drugs. Heroin Bear, Oh gosh.

529
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:15,600
Speaker 1: Heroin Bear could be a play on words because the

530
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:17,159
Speaker 1: bear could be the heroine of the story.

531
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,680
Speaker 2: Oh, I should write that one. That should be the

532
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:24,040
Speaker 2: straight to DVD version heroin Bear. That would be be

533
00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:27,280
Speaker 2: different spellings. But yeah, you get what I'm saying. Either

534
00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:31,600
Speaker 2: different animals or different drugs. Let's see what happens. And

535
00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:34,560
Speaker 2: next on my list, I Have No man Land directed

536
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:37,879
Speaker 2: by Chloe Chow, who I hate The lumber Ins at

537
00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:42,320
Speaker 2: the same category of Patty Jenkins. She also did a

538
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,439
Speaker 2: superhero movie, she did The Eternals, and I think the

539
00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:48,520
Speaker 2: reason they got her to direct The Eternals is because

540
00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:52,760
Speaker 2: of her success in dramas, and I feel like Marvel

541
00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:56,640
Speaker 2: during that time was trying to find directors who had

542
00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,239
Speaker 2: a really great vision and had done movies that were

543
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 2: a little bit more are critically acclaimed, and they were

544
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,600
Speaker 2: trying something different. But I feel like what ended up

545
00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 2: happening with The Eternals is there was this really big

546
00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:14,760
Speaker 2: overarching story and you couldn't really have character development with

547
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:18,000
Speaker 2: that many amount of characters. There's a lot of characters

548
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:20,960
Speaker 2: in that movie that I couldn't really distinguish one from

549
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:23,119
Speaker 2: the other, and they were supposed to be like this

550
00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:26,359
Speaker 2: big superhero team at the time when the movie was

551
00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:30,240
Speaker 2: first pitched, they were essentially setting that one up as

552
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:33,400
Speaker 2: to be like the next Avengers. Never really got there,

553
00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 2: to the point now that I still don't really know

554
00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:37,320
Speaker 2: what the eternals are.

555
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:38,640
Speaker 1: I didn't watch it.

556
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:42,439
Speaker 2: It was so confusing. It was very long, and for

557
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:44,960
Speaker 2: a movie with that big of a budget, really didn't

558
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:48,160
Speaker 2: have that much action, and it was also like oddly

559
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,800
Speaker 2: emotional when times that didn't make sense. So I don't

560
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:55,560
Speaker 2: so much blame that on Chloe Chow of not doing

561
00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:58,720
Speaker 2: a good job inside the Marvel universe. I just think

562
00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:00,480
Speaker 2: they didn't hire the right direct there.

563
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:02,760
Speaker 1: I hope she got that Marvel paycheck.

564
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,880
Speaker 2: Though, but that is also what directors do a director

565
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 2: like her. There's been some other cases since of I

566
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 2: go do a superhero movie and if I'm successful, I

567
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:16,400
Speaker 2: can start to negotiate to be able to make any

568
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:18,479
Speaker 2: movie I want, which I feel like that is an

569
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:21,439
Speaker 2: issue that Marvel has right now, is they're kind of

570
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 2: seen as a big cash opportunity for directors and four actors,

571
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:29,159
Speaker 2: even like Dakota Johnson. She probably did that movie because

572
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:31,920
Speaker 2: she had heard from her other actor friends or just

573
00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:35,480
Speaker 2: seeing other people's careers of once you do a superhero movie,

574
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:37,199
Speaker 2: you can make a lot of money, and you can

575
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 2: continue to do them on a big level.

576
00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:41,399
Speaker 1: Also, who's to say she didn't think it was in

577
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 1: the Marvel universe when she did Madam Web.

578
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,680
Speaker 2: I don't think. Yeah. I think she thought she was

579
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:49,200
Speaker 2: entering the MCU and she ended up entering the Sony

580
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 2: Spider Verse, which is not the same thing. To some actors,

581
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:54,879
Speaker 2: Marvel movies are just Marvel movies, And I feel like

582
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:56,880
Speaker 2: for her, she was like, I don't get these because

583
00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:58,359
Speaker 2: I'm not a fan of them, but I'll do it

584
00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 2: because other people have done it and become successful and

585
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:02,840
Speaker 2: become worldwide.

586
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:04,680
Speaker 1: Stars, and now it's a laughing stock exactly.

587
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 2: So I think that same kind of issue happened with

588
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:12,359
Speaker 2: directors taking on Marvel projects as the sake of like,

589
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,439
Speaker 2: I'm going to do this even though I don't fully

590
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:18,000
Speaker 2: love it. I'm not fully invested in the superhero world.

591
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:21,080
Speaker 2: But if I am able to do this, I can

592
00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:24,879
Speaker 2: go and make more movies like Nomadland, which I greatly appreciate.

593
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 2: Like I can see that, Like working in the arts

594
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:31,120
Speaker 2: is so hard, so not only to get that opportunity

595
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:35,359
Speaker 2: to direct such a big movie, like the Eternals, but

596
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:37,480
Speaker 2: you obviously want to go and make the movies you're

597
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,240
Speaker 2: the most passionate about that are more close and dear

598
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 2: to your heart and tell the stories that you want

599
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:46,200
Speaker 2: to tell. But in this world, you gotta have money

600
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:49,960
Speaker 2: to do that, and having that security from getting such

601
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,640
Speaker 2: a big paycheck from Marvel is the means of that.

602
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,639
Speaker 2: So I don't hate on her for that. I love Nomadland.

603
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:57,159
Speaker 2: I think it deserved to invest picture.

604
00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:59,640
Speaker 1: No. Madland was amazing, and I feel.

605
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,000
Speaker 2: Like anytime Rantis McDorman is in a movie, it's just

606
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 2: gonna be nominated for Oscars. So them two together perfect

607
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:06,440
Speaker 2: And Kelsey calls us out.

608
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:08,760
Speaker 1: Women talking by Sarah Paully.

609
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:09,760
Speaker 2: What's that movie about again?

610
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: It is about women that are in like a religious

611
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,160
Speaker 1: group and they live out in the middle of nowhere,

612
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:18,879
Speaker 1: live very I don't want to say primitively, but like

613
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:22,880
Speaker 1: everything is of the land. There's no technology. I would say,

614
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 1: similar to how the Amish live. Yeah, And it is

615
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 1: about like some abuse and some things that occur within

616
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 1: the group, and the women are trying to get the

617
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 1: courage to leave, and it's about really trying to convince

618
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:35,119
Speaker 1: all of them to leave and share in their stories

619
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:36,440
Speaker 1: with each other. It's very powerful.

620
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, just the dialogue in that movie is one that's

621
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:42,640
Speaker 2: gonna make you mad and gonna make you hate being

622
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:46,159
Speaker 2: a dude for me, because all the dudes are awful

623
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 2: in that movie.

624
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:47,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, the dude suck in that.

625
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 2: One other thing I learn about that movie. I like

626
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:52,360
Speaker 2: movies that take place in one day, and the entire

627
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 2: thing was in a twenty four hour period, and the

628
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 2: fact that it's set in a setting that looks like

629
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:00,439
Speaker 2: it's way back in the day, but it happened in

630
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:01,000
Speaker 2: twenty ten.

631
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:03,919
Speaker 1: No, it's like very current. They just like don't have technology,

632
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 1: and then they leave town and are like getting access

633
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 1: to things towards the end of the film. It's very

634
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,119
Speaker 1: it's a little bit of like a mind warp. You're like, whoa,

635
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 1: this wasn't like the seventeen hundreds. Very powerful film.

636
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,880
Speaker 2: I agree, And that is our list, and it's our list.

637
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,640
Speaker 1: And you did promise that I would get thirty seconds

638
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 1: to talk about Taylor Swift's short film. Oh yes, good version,

639
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:30,320
Speaker 1: great short film, great song. I do regret to say

640
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 1: that I did have to go pee during that song

641
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:34,640
Speaker 1: during the concert, all two l ten minute version.

642
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 2: But now when people would go pee because it was

643
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 2: so loose.

644
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,160
Speaker 1: People love that song. There really is no good time

645
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 1: during the concert. But I went and I came back

646
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 1: and she was still singing the song, so I felt

647
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 1: like it was a good time. But short film is

648
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 1: so good. She filmed it at like Ryan Reynolds and

649
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: Blake Lively's house, which is cool, like just casual to

650
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 1: be best friends with them, be like, hey, can I

651
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 1: bar your house for this music video? And it was great.

652
00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 1: And she's directed a lot of her music video I

653
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 1: think almost all of them, or Blake Lively is done.

654
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: And I just, you know, had to plug Taylor Swift

655
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 1: because she doesn't Without me plugging her, no one would

656
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:09,719
Speaker 1: know who she is.

657
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 2: Don't crucify me for this, but I feel like Taylor

658
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 2: Swift hasn't had that much success as an actor. She's

659
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 2: been into movies.

660
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 1: No she I feel like she's at the point that

661
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 1: where she just picks projects that are fun for her,

662
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 1: like she loves cats, wants to do cats Amsterdam Ensemble.

663
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Speaker 2: I feel though that she would be better as a director.

664
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Speaker 2: I've seen her in the behind the scenes of the

665
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 2: making of the Me video and how much that just

666
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 2: excites her. I feel like she would be a great director.

667
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's kind of like what she wants

668
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 1: to do. I feel like she just took those projects

669
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 1: like Valentine's Day back in the day for fun. There's

670
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:50,959
Speaker 1: a great clip of her, I think it's the Graham

671
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 1: Norton Show in the UK where she and Eddie Redmain

672
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 1: are talking about how she auditioned for Limiz and she

673
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 1: was like, they asked me to come to London for

674
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 1: like a test treat with Eddie Redmain, and she was like,

675
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 1: it was very clear that I was there for a

676
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 1: short time or a good time, and not a long time.

677
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 1: So I feel like she just kind of did projects

678
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: for fun. I mean, Katz was a flop, but you

679
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 1: know she is a cat lady.

680
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 2: And then her gripping performance in Amsterdam.

681
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 1: Which she gets pushed in front of a car.

682
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 2: I just feel I mean, movies really aren't that great

683
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 2: of an investment, but she does have a lot of money.

684
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 2: Obviously she's more based in music, but if she ever

685
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:31,040
Speaker 2: had the inkling to dabble into film, I feel like

686
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:33,880
Speaker 2: her starting like a production company and then directing some movies.

687
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:35,720
Speaker 2: I mean, look how much money she made putting that

688
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 2: movie in theaters that put the.

689
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Speaker 1: Interspects in the coming because on her website she has

690
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Speaker 1: a tap called like self directed Projects.

691
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Speaker 2: There you go.

692
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Speaker 1: I'm pritting of her music videos and.

693
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Speaker 2: I'm predicting it now in the next decade she will

694
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Speaker 2: direct a.

695
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 1: Movie and she just gets all of her like famous

696
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Speaker 1: friends to be in it.

697
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 2: I mean easily she could direct it and produce it

698
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 2: because she has all these connections of like, Hey, Ryan Reynolds,

699
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Speaker 2: Blake Lively, Hugh Jackman, you guys Starr in this movie,

700
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Speaker 2: the Cooper, just the mad.

701
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Speaker 1: In the movie, a cameo by Paul McCartney.

702
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 2: Everybody would want to be in it. Travis Kelcey, they

703
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 2: still together by the time that happens. S Okay, all right,

704
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 2: we'll come back and do our movie review and trailer parks.

705
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Speaker 2: Let's get into it now. A spoiler free review of Imaginary.

706
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,239
Speaker 2: It's the new horror movie in theaters from Blumhouse, who

707
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 2: has done a lot of good horror movies. I would

708
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 2: like to say, more good than bad. And they are

709
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 2: a very tactical movie studio because they see these movies

710
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 2: more as investments than making art, which is fine. A

711
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,719
Speaker 2: movie has to make money. That is the goal, as

712
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 2: much as I want to go see something that people

713
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 2: have thought a lot about the creative process and made

714
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Speaker 2: something that is truly going to be scary to people,

715
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Speaker 2: especially somebody like me who I've been watching horror movies

716
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 2: since I was a kid. It is really hard to

717
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:53,719
Speaker 2: scare me now. And I don't say that as I'm

718
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 2: so tough. Nothing scares me. It just takes a lot

719
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 2: of imagination and a lot of creating tension now for

720
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 2: me to really be in a movie. And I'm a

721
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 2: little bit tired of the same formula when it comes

722
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 2: to horror movies, a genre that I just love. My

723
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 2: favorite thing to do is to go watch a horror

724
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 2: movie alone because Kelsey won't do them whatsoever. She gets

725
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 2: freaked out, and I'm okay with that. We don't have

726
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 2: to like every genre of movie together. So it's the

727
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 2: one thing that I go see in theaters that I

728
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 2: just enjoy the process of going by myself. Sometimes I'll

729
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 2: take a can of coffee with me into the theater

730
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 2: and just sit there, crack it and enjoy the movie.

731
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm writing off of that anxiety two of the

732
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 2: coffee that kind of spikes my nervous system and makes

733
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 2: me anxious for what's going to happen, and I love

734
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 2: that process going to see a horror movie in theaters.

735
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Speaker 2: A lot of what I feed off of is the audience.

736
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 2: That is a great thing about seeing comedies and horror

737
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 2: movies in theaters because it could be a C minus movie,

738
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 2: but if it creates that fun environment, it could take

739
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 2: it up to a BEE, maybe even a B plus,

740
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 2: because I think these movies are best experienced in theaters

741
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 2: with other people making the commentary, saying the curse words,

742
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 2: jumping out of their seat, getting freaked out, saying don't

743
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 2: go down there. That is part of the horror movie

744
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 2: experience that I enjoy. But Imaginary robbed me of that

745
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 2: experience because it was so dull and lacks so much imagination.

746
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 2: So what this movie is about. You have this woman

747
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 2: who you get her story at the beginning of the

748
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 2: film through flashback, which I hate. Just get right into

749
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 2: the action. Whenever you start off so weak, I just

750
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 2: feel like I'm not going to be in for a

751
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 2: good time. And that is what this movie did. It's

752
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 2: try to kick it off with a big I won't

753
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 2: even say action sequence, but just that big, dominating opening

754
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 2: that a good horror movie should have. It failed completely. Honestly,

755
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 2: I knew within those first few minutes that this was

756
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 2: not going to be an enjoyable time for me. And

757
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 2: then we go to her life. Now she has met

758
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 2: someone new in her life. She has two step daughters,

759
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 2: and they go back to live in her childhood home

760
00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 2: where some questionable things may or may not have happened.

761
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 2: And then you're kind of learning a little bit about

762
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 2: her story. But what it centers around is the youngest

763
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:08,840
Speaker 2: stepdaughter starts having this imaginary friend in the form of

764
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,799
Speaker 2: a teddy bear, and things start getting weird. You see

765
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 2: the teddy bear move, she's talking to it, and everybody's

766
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:18,360
Speaker 2: just kind of happy because she has an imaginary friend.

767
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:21,920
Speaker 2: Her daughter has gone through some traumatic things. There is

768
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 2: nothing more generic you can do in a horror movie.

769
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 2: Then somebody moving back into a creepy home. I couldn't

770
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 2: believe that what they decided to do was something we've

771
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 2: seen one hundred times, somebody moving back into their childhood

772
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 2: home and then weird things start happening. Who would have

773
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:41,399
Speaker 2: guessed that? And I am somebody that anytime it's a

774
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 2: story involving a kid talking to a dead person or

775
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,759
Speaker 2: something that other people can't see. Just that creepy kid

776
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 2: factor is enough for me to enjoy it, and that's

777
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 2: really what was showcased in the trailer. I thought it

778
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:55,960
Speaker 2: was going to be a little bit more paranormal. Maybe

779
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:59,280
Speaker 2: is why it didn't meet up to my expectations, therefore

780
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,840
Speaker 2: having a lot of jump scares, which can feel a

781
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 2: little bit cheap at times, but at least I would

782
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:07,759
Speaker 2: have felt something in this story. It lacked any kind

783
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 2: of emotion, but everything felt so forced. And this was

784
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 2: the only movie I've seen in theaters where I could

785
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 2: literally feel the production. I could in my head see

786
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 2: these people on set and it was so apparent to

787
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 2: me that they were acting, and every character was just

788
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 2: riddled with cliches. You had the classic creepy old neighbor

789
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 2: who is looming over the family, and they have the

790
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 2: most generic interactions that you could have in a horror movie.

791
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 2: It would mean more to me if all of the

792
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 2: horror elements and the monster had a little bit more appeal,

793
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 2: but even the monster wasn't monstering in imaginary. One of

794
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 2: my favorite things that a director can do is build

795
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 2: the tension by not showing you the monster, which is

796
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:58,920
Speaker 2: almost more creepy because the whole time you're wondering, what

797
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:00,840
Speaker 2: is this character gonna look like? When is it going

798
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 2: to fully reveal itself? And you could argue that this

799
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 2: movie did do that. It didn't show the monster primarily

800
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:10,319
Speaker 2: throughout the film. The key difference here is at some

801
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 2: point you have to show the monster in its full glory,

802
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 2: and the moments that this film did show the monster,

803
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 2: it was dark and he couldn't really make out what

804
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,320
Speaker 2: it exactly looked like. So maybe that was supposed to

805
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,280
Speaker 2: be scarier in itself, but to me, it just felt

806
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:27,319
Speaker 2: like they were cutting corners on production, which leads me

807
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 2: to the Blumhouse approach. And I've heard Jason Blum talk

808
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 2: about in interviews where he really sees these movies as investments.

809
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 2: That's why he got into the horror business because you

810
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 2: can make a movie for a really low budget. This

811
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,839
Speaker 2: movie only costs ten to twelve million dollars to make,

812
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 2: and all the movie has to do is make back

813
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 2: twice its production costs to be profitable. Right now, this

814
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:52,760
Speaker 2: movie is sitting at about a fifteen to sixteen million

815
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,919
Speaker 2: dollars at the time of recording this, so given its

816
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 2: theatrical run, it's going to make back its money therefore

817
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 2: be a solid investment for Blumhouse. I think they put

818
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:05,320
Speaker 2: out these type of movies just to make that little

819
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 2: amount of change, So that is their model. They put

820
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:10,440
Speaker 2: out a ten million dollar movie hoping to make twenty

821
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 2: million dollars. But also you could really catch on and

822
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 2: have a movie that just crushes at the box office

823
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 2: and makes even more than that. What they did last

824
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:23,799
Speaker 2: year was Megan, which had roughly the same budget as

825
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 2: Imaginary with ten to twelve million dollars, and that movie

826
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 2: went on to make one hundred and eighty million dollars worldwide, crushing,

827
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 2: and that is like winning the lottery for Blumhouse. So

828
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,359
Speaker 2: to me, it's almost like they are fishing with these

829
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,359
Speaker 2: type of movies. Let's throw out a ten million dollar

830
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:43,960
Speaker 2: budget and see what we can do. Worst case scenario,

831
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:46,479
Speaker 2: we lose a little bit of money. It's the low risk,

832
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 2: high reward. Who wouldn't do this and make movies like

833
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:52,799
Speaker 2: this that feel like they were just made in a

834
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 2: big warehouse with no life whatsoever. That you could slap

835
00:37:57,560 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 2: a lifetime label at the bottom of this and throw

836
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 2: it on TV. That is what this movie felt like

837
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:03,840
Speaker 2: to me. I feel like it was a little bit

838
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 2: of a slap in the face to people who are

839
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 2: a fan of horror movies, especially those that come from Bumbhouse,

840
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 2: who has the tendency to make movies that audiences love,

841
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 2: creating that fun, inviting, warm feeling. This movie felt like

842
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:21,360
Speaker 2: it was just more movie business and less for the fans.

843
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:24,279
Speaker 2: And what really kind of makes me mad is the

844
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 2: fact that this movie had so much wasted potential. It

845
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 2: taps into the world of imaginary friends and somebody using

846
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:35,839
Speaker 2: their creativity to overcome something in their life that could

847
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,319
Speaker 2: have been so much more fun on the screen. You

848
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 2: think all the fun visuals that they could have done.

849
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 2: But again, going back to that ten to twelve million

850
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:46,760
Speaker 2: dollar budget, there really wasn't room for it. In these movies,

851
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:50,359
Speaker 2: you have actors that you're usually pretty unfamiliar with, which

852
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:52,320
Speaker 2: I think is fine because it puts the emphasis or

853
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:55,439
Speaker 2: should put the emphasis on the story instead of who

854
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 2: is playing it. They're not selling it with the names

855
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 2: attached to it. It is just being sold by the

856
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:04,240
Speaker 2: scary nature of the film. And this was a movie

857
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 2: that the trailer hooked me in. So if you ever

858
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 2: think that the trailer is just a waste of time,

859
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 2: that studio should stop focusing so much on this, use

860
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 2: this as an example, because in no way would this

861
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 2: movie have made any money if it wasn't for that

862
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 2: trailer being shown that hooked me in, probably hooked a

863
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:25,400
Speaker 2: lot of other people in. Had a pretty decent poster

864
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 2: as far as creating the creepy image of the Teddy Bear,

865
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:30,719
Speaker 2: but outside of that, there was no fun to be

866
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 2: had in imaginary and lack of imagination. I give it

867
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:36,840
Speaker 2: one point five out of five Teddy Bears.

868
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:43,920
Speaker 3: It's time to head down to movie Mike Trailer Paul.

869
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:47,400
Speaker 2: I love animated movies that set out to make a statement.

870
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,439
Speaker 2: In the past couple years, we've had some big ones

871
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:52,319
Speaker 2: that I've really loved that have pushed the limits on

872
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 2: what animated movies can be. Oftentimes, when you say an

873
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 2: animated movie, that means it's a movie for kids. I

874
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:01,799
Speaker 2: don't think that is always the case. The past couple years,

875
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 2: movies like Across the Spider Verse have really pushed the

876
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 2: boundaries of what animation can be. A giant team of

877
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 2: people work on that movie to create all these different

878
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:15,880
Speaker 2: animation styles in one movie, in one specific character, you

879
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 2: could have multiple types of animation. I think that is amazing.

880
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 2: That is where animation needs to go. Also, based off

881
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:26,399
Speaker 2: of inspiration from that series was the latest teenage Mutant

882
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 2: Ninja Turtles movie that looked like a kid's book or

883
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 2: a watercolor painting come to life. So those movies are

884
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 2: gonna be the ones that really push animation. Those are

885
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 2: the movies that make me excited about where animation is going.

886
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 2: And last week we went to go watch the new

887
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,560
Speaker 2: Kung Fu banda movie, Kung Fu band of Four, and

888
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:47,880
Speaker 2: before the movie started, I saw the trailer for The

889
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:51,560
Speaker 2: Wild Robot. I hadn't heard anything about this movie, but

890
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:53,960
Speaker 2: all it took me was about fifteen seconds to no,

891
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:55,919
Speaker 2: I am all in. I'm're going to see this movie

892
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 2: from DreamWorks, from the same people who brought you How

893
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 2: to Train Your Dragon. And even before I knew who

894
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 2: was behind this movie, honestly, I got Leelo and Stitch Vibes,

895
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,760
Speaker 2: which is my favorite Disney movie of all time, because

896
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 2: in the trailer you see this big robot crash land

897
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 2: into another planet and he is surrounded by all of

898
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 2: these forest animals. So I saw the Disney inspiration there.

899
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 2: I also of course highly got Wally Vibes from Pixar,

900
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 2: a little dash of Big Hero Six, also from Disney.

901
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 2: Also going back to one of the classic animated movies,

902
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 2: The Iron Giant from Warner Brothers. It's almost like all

903
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:33,440
Speaker 2: those movies put into one. And then I realized that

904
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 2: this movie is from director Chris Sanders, who is the

905
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:41,800
Speaker 2: creator and voice and director of Leelo and Stitch. Chris Sanders,

906
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:44,279
Speaker 2: who I have had on this podcast, is one of

907
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 2: my favorite people that I've ever talked to, and once

908
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:50,479
Speaker 2: I realized it was a Chris Sanders movie, everything made

909
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:55,000
Speaker 2: sense because that is exactly his style, creating powerful stories

910
00:41:55,000 --> 00:42:00,040
Speaker 2: about self discovery, really focusing on creating thrilling animation and

911
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 2: also bridging that gap between technology and nature, which is

912
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 2: what we had in Leelo and Stitch. You have this

913
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 2: alien creature crash landing in Hawaii, so he brings all

914
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:11,880
Speaker 2: of this alien technology, but then he is forced to

915
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 2: live a more laid back life in Hawaii and become

916
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 2: more normal and more human. So I think that is

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Speaker 2: what we are going to get here, this robot learning

918
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 2: to live like all of these animals and almost feels

919
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 2: like a Tarzan type situation, except he is a robot

920
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:30,880
Speaker 2: and living among forest animals instead of out in the jungle.

921
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:33,720
Speaker 2: But the movie is based on the book by Peter Brown,

922
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:36,320
Speaker 2: which came out in twenty sixteen. It was a number

923
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:39,239
Speaker 2: one New York Times bestseller and is also actually now

924
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:42,440
Speaker 2: a trilogy that includes The Wild Robot Escapes and The

925
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 2: Wild Robot Protects. So this one's successful, we probably have

926
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 2: a couple more movies in line with this close up

927
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:51,359
Speaker 2: the trilogy. So before I get into more about why

928
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:53,440
Speaker 2: I'm excited about this movie, here's just a little bit

929
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:56,280
Speaker 2: of the trailer, which there is only one line spoken

930
00:42:56,400 --> 00:43:00,240
Speaker 2: in all two minutes and thirty seconds. I think that's

931
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 2: also a really big statement that they're not trying to

932
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:06,360
Speaker 2: focus on the dialogue or the actors voicing these characters.

933
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 2: They really wanted to showcase this animation, and just this

934
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 2: one line alone has a lot of power. So here's

935
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:15,840
Speaker 2: just a little bit of the trailer. Sometimes to survive,

936
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:22,360
Speaker 2: they must become more than we were programmed to be.

937
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 2: That is like the tagline of the entire movie. I

938
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:30,799
Speaker 2: want to survive, we have to do more than we

939
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 2: were programmed to Like, that is what the inspiration I

940
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:39,760
Speaker 2: would want as a kid. So this trailer really spoke

941
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 2: to me. Visually. It looks like a kid's book come

942
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 2: to life, And I think why it's so appealing to

943
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 2: me is it reminds me of the animation I grew

944
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 2: up with two D animation, which a lot of it

945
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:56,840
Speaker 2: was all hand drawn frame for frame, so artists would

946
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 2: have to sit there and draw every single movement for

947
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:03,680
Speaker 2: every character. They'd have the backgrounds created, but it was

948
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 2: so much more work to do that. And then of

949
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 2: course computers come along and you can do it quicker

950
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:12,239
Speaker 2: and cheaper and make it look slicker. But for me,

951
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 2: who is a fan of hand drawn things practical effects,

952
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 2: I just feel like those movies have a certain level

953
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 2: of warmth to them. And going back to Leelan and Stitch,

954
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 2: that was one of the last full feature two D

955
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:30,279
Speaker 2: animated Disney movies that they put out. They put out

956
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:33,680
Speaker 2: probably a couple more since then, but primarily everything Disney

957
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 2: and Pixar has moved to straight three D animation, which

958
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 2: is great. That's the way you have to go. There

959
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:41,840
Speaker 2: has to be a variety in animation, and I think

960
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:45,479
Speaker 2: if kids today saw just a two D animated movie,

961
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 2: they'd probably get bored and feel like they're getting ripped off,

962
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,640
Speaker 2: so obviously you have to advance. But what I loved

963
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:54,720
Speaker 2: about the Wild Robot is it still has that same

964
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:57,840
Speaker 2: two D vibe. It almost looks like each cell was

965
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 2: hand painted, but it combines that with the computer animation,

966
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:04,839
Speaker 2: primarily with the robot character, so it really has the

967
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 2: best of both worlds. It almost looks like this was

968
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:11,719
Speaker 2: just a short film to begin with, so I love

969
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 2: that they committed to showcasing the visual aspect. The only

970
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 2: other thing you hear is a robotic version of a

971
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 2: Wonderful World, which, Man, anytime you slow down a popular

972
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:25,359
Speaker 2: song and throw it in a trailer with some other

973
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 2: sound design, I know that that's a little bit overused

974
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:31,359
Speaker 2: to take some song and make it sound slow down

975
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:34,719
Speaker 2: and more sad and cinematic, but man, it works. And

976
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:37,400
Speaker 2: if I know Chris Sanders, I think the reason he

977
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:40,400
Speaker 2: probably chose to take on this project of adapting a

978
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 2: kid's book into a film that feels and looks like

979
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:46,760
Speaker 2: this is because it's going to be a story about

980
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 2: an outcast yearning to fit in, which is what you

981
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 2: see in this trailer. The robot here is wanting to

982
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:57,400
Speaker 2: adapt to all of the animals to learn how to run, fly, swim.

983
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:01,240
Speaker 2: The story follows the adventure of this robot named rozam

984
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 2: Unit seven to one, three four. I mean that even

985
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 2: reminds me of Stitch, who has Experiment six to six.

986
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 2: They call the robot Roz for short. Roz gets shipwrecked

987
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:12,800
Speaker 2: on this island and has to learn to adapt to

988
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:16,320
Speaker 2: the harsh surroundings. Starts building relationships with all the animals

989
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 2: on the island, and then becomes an adoptive parent for

990
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 2: one of the orphaned goslings. Roz is voiced by Lupita

991
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:23,880
Speaker 2: and Niago, who you would know from US and the

992
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:27,360
Speaker 2: Black Panther franchise. You also have Pedro Pascal from the

993
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 2: Last of Us The Mandalorian He's gonna be Mister Fantastic

994
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:33,920
Speaker 2: in The Fantastic Four he plays Fox Fink. And you

995
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:38,239
Speaker 2: also have Catherine O'Hara from s Creek Besten Show, who

996
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:41,160
Speaker 2: I believe was the voice in this trailer, who plays

997
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:44,000
Speaker 2: a possum named pink Tail. Also in the cast you

998
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 2: have Mark Hamill aka Luke Skywalker and Matt Berry from

999
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:50,400
Speaker 2: What We Do in the Shadows and one of my

1000
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 2: favorite British shows snuff Box. The Wild Robot is coming

1001
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:58,360
Speaker 2: out in theaters on September twentieth, and if I'm not mistaken,

1002
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:01,760
Speaker 2: I still have Chris Sanders his phone number and email,

1003
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 2: so I'm definitely gonna hit him up about this because

1004
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 2: last time we talked he said, hey, we should do

1005
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:09,880
Speaker 2: a follow up interview. And not only do we have

1006
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 2: this movie coming out, but they have also started filming

1007
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:15,640
Speaker 2: the live action Li Low and Stitch, so that'll be

1008
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:17,840
Speaker 2: a perfect time to get Chris Anders, the voice of Stitch,

1009
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:18,840
Speaker 2: back on the podcast.

1010
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 3: Head that was this week's edition of Movie by Tramer.

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00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:26,280
Speaker 2: Par and that is gonna do it for another episode

1012
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 2: here of the podcast. But before I go, I got

1013
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Speaker 2: to give my listeners shout out of the week this week.

1014
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Speaker 2: It is Jen, who is at AZTV Chick on X

1015
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:40,000
Speaker 2: and tweeted Never Doubt movie Mike Cadistro pay up producer

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Speaker 2: Eddie and had a gift from the Porter that says,

1017
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Speaker 2: now it's time to pay up. Thank you for everybody

1018
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:49,880
Speaker 2: who congratulated me on getting my Oscar parlay right last week.

1019
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:53,359
Speaker 2: So Jen, specifically, you're this week's listener shout out, and

1020
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Speaker 2: if you missed it, I know it's been a week

1021
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:57,200
Speaker 2: since the Oscars now, but Kelsey and I did a

1022
00:47:57,280 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 2: full recap as a bonus episode last month, so there

1023
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:03,720
Speaker 2: was a brand new episode and also a bonus episode

1024
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Speaker 2: that was posted later on the Feed, So if you

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Speaker 2: missed either of those, just go back one and two

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Speaker 2: episodes on the feed and check those out as well.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, hope you have a great rest of your week,

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Speaker 2: and until next time, go out and watch good movies

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Speaker 2: and I will talk to you later.