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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 long movies. That is the theme of this week's episode.

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Speaker 1: Ten great movies that are shockingly long, because in the

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Speaker 1: movie review will be talking about Christopher Nolans The Odyssey,

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Speaker 1: which comes in right around three hours. How do we

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Speaker 1: feel about long movies? Are they worthy of your time?

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Speaker 1: And in the trailer park, we will be talking about

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Speaker 1: Tom Cruise unlike we've ever seen him before, in a

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Speaker 1: new movie called Digger that's coming out later this year.

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Speaker 1: And my question is Tom Cruise is he trying to

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Speaker 1: win his first Oscar ever? That's right, Tom Cruise has

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Speaker 1: never won an Oscar, so we'll talk about that might

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Speaker 1: be his best chance in a long time. So thank

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

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

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Speaker 1: talk movies from the Nashville.

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Speaker 2: Podcast Network this Movie Mike's Movie Podcast.

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Speaker 1: I think when it comes to movie run times, everybody

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Speaker 1: is concerned with length, but they should be concerned with girth.

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Speaker 1: So what that means is you should not look at

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Speaker 1: a movie and say, oh, that has a three hour

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Speaker 1: runtime that's gonna take forever.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to watch that.

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Speaker 1: You should be concerned with the girth of the movie,

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Speaker 1: meaning is there enough substance in that story? Who is

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Speaker 1: the director, how are they gonna flesh out this story

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Speaker 1: in order to make this film feel robust and worthy

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Speaker 1: of that long run time. That is what you need

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Speaker 1: to look at, because a three hour movie, if done right,

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Speaker 1: can go by in an instant the same way a

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Speaker 1: ninety minute movie can feel horrendously long if you are

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Speaker 1: in the wrong hands of somebody who doesn't know what

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Speaker 1: they are doing, if you have bad acting, a terrible

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Speaker 1: story structure and writing. It all comes down to how

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Speaker 1: does a director execute their story and if they have

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Speaker 1: something to say that is worthy of a two and

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Speaker 1: a half hour or three hour runtime. Those things factor

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Speaker 1: in more so than just the runtime alone. So just

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Speaker 1: before you go watch your next movie, or even sit

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Speaker 2: So I have a list.

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Speaker 1: Of movies that I believe are great that have shockingly

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Speaker 1: long run times. It's a bit of a mix of

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Speaker 1: movies that have had box office success, cultural impact, and

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Speaker 1: sometimes even how did they even get people to sit

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Speaker 1: through this entire thing, so we'll address all that coming

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Speaker 1: in at number ten. I have The Wolf of Wall Street,

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Speaker 1: which I went to go see in theaters back in

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Speaker 1: twenty thirteen. It is three hours long, directed by Martin Scorsese,

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Speaker 1: who is notorious for making long movies. But The Wolf

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Speaker 1: of Wall Street is essentially a three hour party movie.

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Speaker 1: And for me, when I saw this movie, I was

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Speaker 1: probably twenty two years old, so right in that party age,

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Speaker 1: I thought Jordan Belfort was the coolest person ever, which

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Speaker 1: is who this movie is about. It is a story

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Speaker 1: So I think this is a case where the movie

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Speaker 1: I want to be able to sell you a pen.

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Speaker 1: a yacht, do a bunch of you know, all the.

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Speaker 2: Crazy things that they do in this movie.

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Speaker 1: But I think this is a case of Jordan Belfort

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Speaker 1: I think the runtime was so important in this movie

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Speaker 1: The thing I love about Scorsese movies is the rise

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Speaker 1: You feel exhausted, You feel almost like you have a

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Speaker 1: movie hangover. At number ten, I have the wolf of

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Speaker 1: this movie is about Adrian Brody's character escaping a post

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Speaker 1: all the imagery surrounding the Brutalist, and there were all

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Speaker 1: I'm crazy, but this movie had an intermission, which going

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Speaker 1: also a big time commitment to go watch a movie

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Speaker 1: maybe make some people mad. I have Zack Snyder's Justice League,

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Speaker 2: And the only reason in this movie.

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Speaker 1: It came out at a time where it was not

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Speaker 1: fans demanded they get this movie, and that is what

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Speaker 2: But to me, this is just one big, long movie.

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Speaker 1: And why I wanted to include this movie on the

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Speaker 1: added some breath in places that felt like they were suffocating,

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Speaker 1: especially to Cyborg, who basically got his entire backstory in

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Speaker 1: So this proves to me that if fans are that

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Speaker 1: And above all else, this movie made me crave white cake,

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Speaker 1: Tarantino's really good at putting food and beverage in a

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Speaker 1: that right now. But this movie should have not been successful,

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Speaker 2: I saw this movie and thought.

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Speaker 1: Man, I don't even want to look at a drawing

439
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:25,119
Speaker 1: because of what it did to him. That scene of

440
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Speaker 1: him with all the cocaine on the table and him

441
00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:32,560
Speaker 1: just like dumping his face in that. Some people saw

442
00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:34,359
Speaker 1: that and thought that was really cool. I saw that

443
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Speaker 1: and thought, man, what a disastrous human. But this movie

444
00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:41,320
Speaker 1: went on to become one of the most quoted movies

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Speaker 1: of all time. Obviously we all know say Hello to

446
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Speaker 1: my Little Friend has been parodied not only in TV

447
00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:51,480
Speaker 1: and movies in pop culture, but you probably have a

448
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:53,480
Speaker 1: friend or an uncle who has said that at some

449
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Speaker 1: point in their life.

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Speaker 2: Well, like a water gun or something.

451
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Speaker 1: I think people just really love an anti hero, and

452
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 1: Tony Montana is that that is what he is. He

453
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:04,879
Speaker 1: is one of the greatest anti heroes of all time.

454
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Speaker 1: There was even a longer version of this movie, but

455
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:12,159
Speaker 1: it had to be heavily edited because there are some

456
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Speaker 1: violence that is even worse that would ended up making

457
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Speaker 1: the movie, which the chainsaw scene. How can you get

458
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Speaker 1: more violent than the chainsaw scene, but apparently that was

459
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Speaker 1: almost cut because it was going to force the movie

460
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Speaker 1: to get an X rating.

461
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,080
Speaker 2: But they were still able to get that scene in

462
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Speaker 2: there and get it out in theaters.

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Speaker 1: And even when this movie came out, it was considered

464
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Speaker 1: kind of a disappointment, kind of flopped a little bit,

465
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Speaker 1: but has become one of the most famous eighties movies

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Speaker 1: of all time. At number four. I have Scarface at

467
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Speaker 1: number three from twenty fourteen, coming in at two hours

468
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Speaker 1: and forty nine minutes. I have Interstellar, directed by Christopher Nolan,

469
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Speaker 1: which has inspired this entire episode.

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Speaker 2: When it comes to.

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Speaker 1: Directors who love long movies, I'd put Nolan on that list.

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Speaker 1: Of course, on that list, David Fincher on that list,

473
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Speaker 1: Tarantino obviously on that list. But I think out of

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Speaker 1: all those, Christopher Nolan does it the best at what

475
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Speaker 1: some would call slow cinema, and I think he is

476
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Speaker 1: just the best at creating worlds that require long run times.

477
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Speaker 1: I look at a Christopher Nolan movie and I think

478
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Speaker 1: there's no way to make that movie any shorter, which

479
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Speaker 1: I think some people always say, like, h just cut

480
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Speaker 1: out twenty minutes of it, and I would have loved it,

481
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Speaker 1: and at Christopher Nolan movie, there is no moment in

482
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Speaker 1: time in his most recent work that I would think, oh, yeah,

483
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Speaker 1: taken twenty minutes out of that, I would make it better.

484
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Speaker 1: I actually think adding twenty minutes would make some of

485
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Speaker 1: these stories better, even Oppenheimer, which doesn't make my list,

486
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Speaker 1: but I think that movie did require that three plus

487
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Speaker 1: hour runtime. An Interstellar was a movie that I didn't

488
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Speaker 1: fully get the first time I watched it. It took

489
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Speaker 1: me several times actually to fully get this movie, and

490
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Speaker 1: probably wasn't until maybe when TenneT came out that I

491
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Speaker 1: rewatched Interstellar, probably during COVID, that I really allowed myself

492
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Speaker 1: to spend some time with it and realized how ahead

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Speaker 1: of its time that movie was, which I think is

494
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Speaker 1: the thing with Christopher Nolan. Maybe in the next ten

495
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Speaker 1: years we'll look back on Tenet and think, ah, he

496
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Speaker 1: did something great there, We just did not fully realize it.

497
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Speaker 1: But Christopher Nolan is somebody who in that movie was

498
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Speaker 1: committed to using practical effects whenever possible. That is a

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Speaker 1: reoccurring theme in his filmmaking. The black Hole visuals were

500
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Speaker 1: so scientifically accurate that they actually helped develop other scientific papers,

501
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:39,080
Speaker 1: so this movie actually influenced science. The movie used a

502
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Speaker 1: real equation from physicist Kip Thorn that is something that

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Speaker 1: you don't get in your normal sci fi movie. And

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Speaker 1: I think, much like myself, other people discover this movie

505
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Speaker 1: through streaming, which is something I think is great, especially

506
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Speaker 1: when it comes to longer movies that are a time commitment.

507
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Speaker 1: So I think the streaming era actually helped this movie.

508
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Speaker 1: It also has a fantastic score with Hans Zimmer, which

509
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Speaker 1: I think you probably recognize the score even if you

510
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 1: haven't seen the movie, but through TikTok, especially in Pandemic

511
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 1: TikTok twenty twenty to twenty twenty two, you've probably heard

512
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 1: a quote from this movie or the soundtrack from this

513
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Speaker 1: movie in a TikTok sound that has gone viral. Interstellar

514
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 1: is a movie about relativity and science and time dilation

515
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Speaker 1: and wormholes, all these things that are super nerdy. I

516
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 1: love it when nerds are nerds about things and passionate

517
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Speaker 1: so much that they put them in a movie like

518
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Speaker 1: a big blockbuster movie like this and are able to

519
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Speaker 1: make it work and able to make it interesting. And

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Speaker 1: that is what Christopher Nolan did, something that not a

521
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Speaker 1: lot of people could do at number three two hours

522
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Speaker 1: and forty nine minutes. I have Interstellar at number two,

523
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Speaker 1: Avengers Endgame from twenty nineteen coming in at two hours

524
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Speaker 1: and one minute, directed by the Russo Brothers. I think

525
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Speaker 1: this is the biggest movie event of my generation. And

526
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Speaker 1: the reason this movie felt so massive is because it

527
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Speaker 1: just wasn't one film. This was a culmination of all

528
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Speaker 1: twenty two Marvel movies that came before.

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Speaker 2: It over eleven years.

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Speaker 1: This is what we were building up to the entire

531
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Speaker 1: time finally seeing it on screen. All the times that

532
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Speaker 1: endgame was mentioned throughout the MCU, I think the first

533
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Speaker 1: time you hear it is when Tony Stark is talking

534
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Speaker 1: about this is the endgame in Age of Ultron. Even

535
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Speaker 1: then we knew that we were gearing up towards this.

536
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:37,600
Speaker 1: It was a crazy road to get there, but unlike

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Speaker 1: what they did on the DC side, it was not rushed.

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00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:45,080
Speaker 1: That final battle featured hundreds of characters, and that is

539
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Speaker 1: the moment I am talking about one of the greatest

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Speaker 1: scenes in film history. Again, just like we were talking

541
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Speaker 1: about in Interstellar also tackled time travel, and I think

542
00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 1: this was a movie that was so long that it

543
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 1: also benefits that you rewatch it time and time again,

544
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 1: which this is in that category of movies that I

545
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:08,719
Speaker 1: rewatch at least once a year. I have a lot

546
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 1: of these movies. Maybe I should do an episode on that.

547
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Speaker 1: But I love the fact that this is three hours.

548
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 1: And I think looking at what they are saying about

549
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Speaker 1: Avengers Doomsday, which tickets go on sale this week, not

550
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 1: a commercial, but that movie with the tickets coming out,

551
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 1: they had to list its runtime. It is two hours

552
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 1: and forty five minutes. That's longer than Infinity War, but

553
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Speaker 1: not longer than Endgame. Obviously, I'm excited when these movies

554
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Speaker 1: are long because I know they are becoming a part

555
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:40,959
Speaker 1: of my video library, that I go back and rewatch

556
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Speaker 1: these movies all the time.

557
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Speaker 2: That I want these to be longer.

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Speaker 1: I would take a four hour Avengers movie because I

559
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Speaker 1: want more to dive into.

560
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,600
Speaker 2: It's not just about that one experience.

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Speaker 1: To me in theaters, I see it as the long

562
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Speaker 1: or endgame, if you will, of when I go back

563
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Speaker 1: and rewatch these, I want as much information. I want

564
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Speaker 1: as many characters in there and complex storylines that I

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Speaker 1: can go back and revisit and fully get. Because I

566
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 1: think upon first watch in a lot of the Avengers movies,

567
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Speaker 1: You're not gonna fully understand it all. You will feel

568
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Speaker 1: the emotion and the excitement, and you'll leave the theater pleased.

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Speaker 1: But it's through those rewatches where you're like, oh, yeah,

570
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Speaker 1: this is what this character was doing. Oh oh, I

571
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Speaker 1: forgot that this was connected to this movie. It is

572
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Speaker 1: its own entire world and ecosystem. And I love the

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Speaker 1: fact that this movie crossed the three hour mark because

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Speaker 1: I loved every single minute, every single second, every single

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Speaker 1: frame of this story.

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Speaker 2: Theaters sold out worldwide when this movie came out. I

577
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Speaker 2: don't know if Doomsday is gonna have that same effect.

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Speaker 1: I am gonna get tickets right when they go on sale,

579
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Speaker 1: but I think that is gonna be something that is

580
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Speaker 1: gonna be hard to replicate because the opening weekend for

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Speaker 1: Endgame felt like a Super Bowl. It felt like a

582
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 1: sporting event more than a movie release. And I don't

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Speaker 1: know that we could replicate that.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Maybe if the EMCU had a little bit of momentum

586
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: going into it, maybe Spider Man brand New Day can

587
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 1: build that up a little bit.

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Speaker 2: But I think it's going to be hard to replicate that.

589
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 1: But I will always have Avengers Endgame in my heart

590
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 1: of being that movie that felt like a payoff to

591
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 1: me as a fan, total fan service. We all experienced

592
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 1: something in that theater together that we will never forget.

593
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 1: I'll be on my deathbed saying, man, I'm really glad

594
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 1: I was alive when Avengers Endgame came out in theaters.

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Speaker 1: So at number two, I have Avengers Endgame a lot

596
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Speaker 1: of honorable mentions. The Irishman I almost included, which was

597
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Speaker 1: three hours and thirty minutes. I think that was the

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Speaker 1: one where Netflix said, you know what, let's test out

599
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Speaker 1: putting a really long movie on our streaming service where

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Speaker 1: we're so focused on people just completing the things we

601
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 1: put up there, and I think that was one of

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Speaker 1: the last cultural event Netflix movies that we all collectively watch.

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Speaker 1: For the most part, The Green Mile almost made my list,

604
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 1: which is a surprising three hours and nine minutes, a

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00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 1: fantastic movie that does not feel like it's over three

606
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Speaker 1: hours long. Dances with Wolves is three hours long, and

607
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 1: I watched it all one time that I went with

608
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: my dad to I think, maybe just get an oil change,

609
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 1: And that was at a time where I couldn't set

610
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 1: appointments yet, so we were there for like three hours

611
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 1: on a Saturday morning, and I watched the entire thing

612
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 1: because it was the only DVD that this four dealership had.

613
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 1: Vivid memory for me is watching Dances with Wolves in

614
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Speaker 1: a waiting room. But at number one is the granddaddy

615
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Speaker 1: of them mall in my opinion from nineteen ninety seven,

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Speaker 1: I have Titanic, which is three hours in fourteen minutes.

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Speaker 1: I had to have a James Cameron movie on this list.

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Speaker 1: Was it going to be Avatar? I was kind of

619
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Speaker 1: an Avatar hater back in two thousand and nine because

620
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Speaker 1: I hate what it did to all this three D

621
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Speaker 1: technology craze that happened.

622
00:32:58,720 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 2: Because of that movie.

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Speaker 1: Probably wasn't until The Way of Water, where I rewatched Avatar.

624
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: I thought, you know what James Cameron doesn't miss Sometimes

625
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 1: you just don't get it. You just got to rewatch

626
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 1: it again. But it is a heavy commitment to get

627
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 1: into Avatar. But when it comes to Titanic, it was

628
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: such a massive hit in the nineties that had stayed

629
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 1: in theaters longer than any normal movie should. It spent

630
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:26,720
Speaker 1: a historic forty three weeks in theaters in America. It

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00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: opened on December nineteenth, nineteen ninety seven and went on

632
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 1: to be number one for fifteen consecutive weeks. It did

633
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Speaker 1: not end its run until October first, nineteen ninety eight.

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00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 1: That means from December ninety seven all the way to

635
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Speaker 1: October ninety eight, you could go to the theater to

636
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 1: watch Titanic. That does not happen anymore. That is unheard of.

637
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 1: That is crazy, and nobody, well, I'm not fully sure

638
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 1: because I wasn't on the internet back in the nineties,

639
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: nobody would complaining of how long Titanic was. And then

640
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 1: when it came out on VHS, you had the two

641
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: VHS's and it was that big, fat boy of a collection.

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00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 1: I loved it, and I think this is a great

643
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 1: example of movies that we've all seen, we've all loved,

644
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,840
Speaker 1: and the example I like to use whenever people say.

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Speaker 2: I don't like long movies. Yes you do. You do

646
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 2: like long movies. You don't like long, boring movies.

647
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 1: But if a movie like Titanic can create this global

648
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:30,880
Speaker 1: phenomenon at three hours and fourteen minutes, it is not

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Speaker 1: the runtime.

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Speaker 2: That is the problem. It's the story that tells you.

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Speaker 1: If you create a captivating story with love and romance,

652
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Speaker 1: it turns into a disaster movie at the end.

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Speaker 2: It has a little bit of everything.

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Speaker 1: And the design of this with the practical effects, how

655
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Speaker 1: massive this movie feels at every single second. James Cameron

656
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Speaker 1: convinced the studios to spend a record amount of money,

657
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Speaker 1: even though everybody thought it was too expensive. It was

658
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 1: the most expensive movie ever made at the time. The

659
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: ship set was almost full size. James Cameron actually built

660
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: a massive tank in Mexico specifically for the movie, which

661
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:12,920
Speaker 1: filming in water has to be one of the most

662
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Speaker 1: dreadful experiences as an actor, because a lot of making

663
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Speaker 1: the movie is just sitting around and waiting. Then you

664
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 1: gotta sit around and wait while they fixed the light

665
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Speaker 1: and you're sitting there in the cold.

666
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Speaker 2: Oh I bet this process was grueling, But the.

667
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Speaker 1: Studio was so worried about the budget and some thought

668
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 1: it was gonna destroy the company. It went on to

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Speaker 1: be one of the highest grossing movies of all time,

670
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 1: went on to win eleven Oscars. My Heart Will Go

671
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 1: On became one of the biggest movie songs ever. I'm

672
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:47,400
Speaker 1: the King of the World obviously became iconic, one of

673
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 1: the most famous movie quotes of all time, and Leonardo

674
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:55,360
Speaker 1: DiCaprio just like that, became a superstar. He was already famous,

675
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 1: but this movie launched him to being a superstar. And

676
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Speaker 1: all throughout this list I saw that Leonardo DiCaprio loves

677
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Speaker 1: himself a long movie Titanic, Killers of the Flower Moon,

678
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 1: Django Unchained, and The Wolf of Wall Street. It's because

679
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Speaker 1: he loves working with great directors. So at number one,

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Speaker 1: at three hours and fourteen minutes, I have Titanic. I'll

681
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Speaker 1: come back and give my spoiler free review of The Odyssey.

682
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Speaker 1: I was wrong about The Odyssey. Let's get into it now, a.

683
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Speaker 2: Spoiler free movie review of.

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Speaker 1: One of Christopher Nolan's best movies ever. Who I would say,

685
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Speaker 1: in the last decade has become my favorite director. Especially

686
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 1: after seeing The Odyssey, I no longer question him. And

687
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,720
Speaker 1: the reason I was wrong about this movie is whenever

688
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Speaker 1: it was first announced that Christopher Nolan was doing The

689
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Speaker 1: Odyssey next, I thought, oh.

690
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 2: Man, that's gonna be so boring.

691
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 1: It's gonna be set so far ago where they all

692
00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 1: talk weird, a bunch of people with weird names.

693
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 2: Again, this is my dumb brain who doesn't want.

694
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Speaker 1: To deal with the period piece because that's just how

695
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 1: I've come to see these movies. I always watch them

696
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 1: like in school growing up, but it just seems very boring.

697
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,959
Speaker 1: And from the very first frame of the Odyssey, all

698
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:20,320
Speaker 1: of that went out the window, and I found myself

699
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: so enthralled in this story that I thought I was

700
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 1: so wrong. Why did I ever question Christopher Nolan, probably

701
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:32,759
Speaker 1: our greatest living filmmaker. I'm going full fanboy on this

702
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 1: review because I was so moved by this story. It's

703
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 1: about family, it is about PTSD, it is about the

704
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 1: journey home because that is where we find Matt Damon,

705
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Speaker 1: who plays Odysseus. Matt Damon again just trying to get home,

706
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:52,319
Speaker 1: whether it's the Martian, whether it's saving Private Ryan, Matt

707
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 1: Damon always seems to get lost. It has to find

708
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: his way back home. And what we find when it

709
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 1: comes to cinema that is all ways a fantastic journey.

710
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 1: Where did we start here? Let's look at the cast first,

711
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:10,360
Speaker 1: because while watching this movie, every single person on screen

712
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 1: was famous where it's just like there's Endeya, there's me

713
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:17,840
Speaker 1: a Goth, there's Robert Pattinson, there's John Leguizamo, And I

714
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 1: think that is what really sucked me into this story

715
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 1: and eliminated that entire dread of me initially going into

716
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Speaker 1: it feeling like, Okay, I'm bout to go watch a

717
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 1: three hour movie that's already a big commitment, and then

718
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a bunch of people talking about ancient

719
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:36,360
Speaker 1: times and wars and cities and me having to remember

720
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Speaker 1: all these things in john Burn though.

721
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Speaker 2: Like, let me tell you something, let me tell you something.

722
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Speaker 1: And I just didn't think it was going to be

723
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Speaker 1: something that felt so quick. But this ended up being

724
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Speaker 1: the quickest three hours of my life, which it actually

725
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,760
Speaker 1: clocks in around two hours and forty six thish minutes.

726
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 1: And it starts off from the very beginning where it

727
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 1: feels like every twenty minute there is something wild happening.

728
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 1: There is spectacle all over this thing, whether it's a cyclops,

729
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 1: whether it's a whirlpool, whether it's a storm, all these

730
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:13,400
Speaker 1: things that just keep coming and coming. And I know

731
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Speaker 1: this is called the odyssey. It's not one battle after another,

732
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 1: but that is what it felt like, one thing after another.

733
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Speaker 1: And I love the way the story was formatted, where

734
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Speaker 1: you see different points of time of Matt Damon's journey,

735
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Speaker 1: because ultimately the entire thing is about him trying to

736
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Speaker 1: get back home. But then you go to the Trojan War,

737
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Speaker 1: and then you have Tom Holland's character, who plays his son,

738
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Speaker 1: who just wants to find his dad again because he

739
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 1: has not seen him since he was a kid. He's

740
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 1: been missing for a very long time. And Hathaway plays

741
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Speaker 1: the wife of Matt Damon and is therefore Tom Holland's mother,

742
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 1: and she just wants to see her husband again. And

743
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Speaker 1: it's all about what happens when the ruler of Ithaca

744
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Speaker 1: is missing, and how that beautiful empire starts to crumble

745
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: when people are refusing to wait for their leader to return,

746
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:09,879
Speaker 1: even though she still has all this power. People are

747
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 1: getting restless and they want to capitalize on that open throne.

748
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Speaker 1: As they say in the movie, it is a bad

749
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 1: time for the throne to be open. But there were

750
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Speaker 1: incredible performances all across the board. And I don't even

751
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Speaker 1: consider myself a Matt Damon fan. I think he is

752
00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 1: a fine actor, obviously an Academy Award winner and somebody

753
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:33,239
Speaker 1: who is a very prestigious actor. But when it comes

754
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:35,239
Speaker 1: to his movies, I think of the last one, The Rip.

755
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:38,359
Speaker 1: In the last decade he has been okay, but he's

756
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 1: not somebody I go to automatically and think I'm gonna

757
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:43,880
Speaker 1: love a Matt Damon movie. He's kind of on a

758
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 1: case by case basis. Has just never been one of

759
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Speaker 1: my favorite actors. But he impressed me so much in

760
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Speaker 1: the Odyssey, and he made me root for him so

761
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 1: hard that I thought, am I becoming a big Matt

762
00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:58,800
Speaker 1: Damon fan? And I think he is the only person

763
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 1: who could have handled this role because the character of

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Speaker 1: Odysseus is a great leader, a excellent hunter and warrior,

765
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Speaker 1: but also just a really great family man that if

766
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Speaker 1: I were in his army, I would die for this guy.

767
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 1: And it was Matt Damon's performance that really evoked emotion

768
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Speaker 1: in this sold out crowd, which is something you don't

769
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 1: get right now. This entire theater cheered at various moments

770
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Speaker 1: because of Matt Damon, and it almost felt like an

771
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 1: Avengers movie at times, because there were very epic moments

772
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:37,799
Speaker 1: that this entire story was building up to, and you

773
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 1: truly see Matt Damon.

774
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Speaker 2: As this hero.

775
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Speaker 1: It was something that I hadn't seen in him before,

776
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Speaker 1: and I didn't know he had that in him.

777
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:47,640
Speaker 2: Well, obviously, I kind of know he had it in him.

778
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Speaker 1: But it also proves to you how a great director

779
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:56,439
Speaker 1: can get great performances out of the actors they put

780
00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: in their movies, because not only Matt Damon giving a

781
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 1: stellar performance, but all across the board. John Lake Ozamo,

782
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,440
Speaker 1: I think, had to be the most surprising to me.

783
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 1: I would say had the biggest transformation in this movie.

784
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 1: The old man makeup looked amazing, and I'm like, how

785
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 1: in the world is that the same guy who did

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00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 1: the Pest. That opening sequence from The Pest where he's

787
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 1: rapping and farting in the shower, that is the same

788
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 1: guy right there who is now a star in a

789
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 1: Christopher Nolan movie, in a movie of epic proportions. That

790
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 1: is the Pest delivering that performance. That is the same

791
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 1: guy who voices the sloth from Ice Age. So that

792
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:43,320
Speaker 1: tells you just one reason why a director is so important.

793
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:46,400
Speaker 1: So let's get into talking about the technical aspect, because

794
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:49,359
Speaker 1: just on a technical aspect alone, this is Nolan's best word.

795
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:51,880
Speaker 1: Nothing comes close. Because this was the first movie of

796
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:56,319
Speaker 1: its kind shot entirely in imax, which that is what

797
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 1: is getting people to the theater. And I think that

798
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 1: is what is going to save six and is greatly

799
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:05,359
Speaker 1: the reason that there is a surge in people going

800
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 1: back to the movies, because people want to see a

801
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 1: spectacle and people are willing to pay for a premium experience.

802
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:15,480
Speaker 1: Where you saw people driving across the country to go

803
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:18,920
Speaker 1: to their nearest Imax to see this movie on the

804
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 1: biggest screen possible. And it is somebody like Nolan who

805
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 1: is pushing that boundary constantly with every single movie of

806
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 1: giving us something we haven't seen before, taking us to

807
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 1: extraordinary places, and also making those places feel authentic. And

808
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:37,759
Speaker 1: that is a big reason this movie works so well

809
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:42,760
Speaker 1: because the scenes at sea, they are actually on location,

810
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 1: they are in real boats, they are in real water, which,

811
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Speaker 1: by the way, Christopher Nolan has the best water.

812
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 2: I just want to drink it. I just want to

813
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 2: live in it.

814
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 1: Whether it's this movie, whether it's Dunkirk, he has the

815
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:56,440
Speaker 1: best water because it looks so fresh and colorful. The

816
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 1: color grading in this is amazing. But it's all those

817
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:03,799
Speaker 1: little technical aspects and decisions that he is responsible for

818
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:05,880
Speaker 1: of saying.

819
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:07,400
Speaker 2: This is what I want in the movie.

820
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:09,080
Speaker 1: I don't know how I'm gonna do it, but I'm

821
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:11,839
Speaker 1: gonna figure it out. Because I need to put the

822
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Speaker 1: audience in the right setting to make this feel authentic.

823
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Speaker 1: He is so particular about tone, which is why this

824
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:22,400
Speaker 1: movie works so well, is because the tone is there,

825
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 1: and how is the tone set. It is set through production,

826
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Speaker 1: so all those moments that are so important have to

827
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Speaker 1: feel real, so it's real armor. He uses CGI as

828
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Speaker 1: minimal as possible instead focusing on real sets, real trojan

829
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:41,320
Speaker 1: horse piece that goes into this movie, because that is

830
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:43,479
Speaker 1: what you need. You need the characters to be able

831
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 1: to interact with these things. You also need to show

832
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:49,839
Speaker 1: the audience that they have texture, they feel real. That

833
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 1: also kind of set a light off in my brain

834
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Speaker 1: of I don't know that we would ever get to

835
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Speaker 1: a fully AI generated movie. I do think some actors

836
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Speaker 1: and we're seeing certain companies getting bought up now in

837
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 1: some places admitting to use an AI. I think it

838
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 1: will be a tool, much like CGI was a tool

839
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 1: whenever that first came out back in the day where

840
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:13,320
Speaker 1: people are like, no, you got to use practical effects

841
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:15,880
Speaker 1: all the time, and now using CGI and green screen

842
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 1: a second nature, but now everybody is worried about AI.

843
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 2: I think it'll be a tool, but I don't ever.

844
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Speaker 1: Think there will be a fully AI generated movie, and

845
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 1: I think The Odyssey is a great reason why now

846
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:29,359
Speaker 1: there could be one. But it's not going to get

847
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:31,759
Speaker 1: people out into the theater like this, because what makes

848
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 1: this movie so special are all those little things that

849
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:38,360
Speaker 1: are actually real that you can touch, that you can feel,

850
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:41,480
Speaker 1: that give people a reason to pay money to go

851
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:43,239
Speaker 1: see this thing in theaters. And that is what we

852
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:46,040
Speaker 1: are seeing across the board. And the thing was Christopher

853
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 1: Nolan created this camera system for this movie so his

854
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 1: vision could truly come to life how he wanted it,

855
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 1: how Nolan intended. And the camera was so big and

856
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: made so much noise that they had to create this

857
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:02,399
Speaker 1: box that went around it to minimize that sound because

858
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Speaker 1: you don't want to affect the actor's performance. And there

859
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:07,760
Speaker 1: are a lot of moments where you have to be Obviously,

860
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:10,200
Speaker 1: as an actor, you always have to be fully dialed in,

861
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 1: but there are a lot of big, pivotal moments in

862
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:16,839
Speaker 1: this movie that are very soft and quiet. And then

863
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:19,239
Speaker 1: if you just had this big, massive camera the entire

864
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:24,920
Speaker 1: time just humming along, it would kill the vibe for

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Speaker 1: Manhathaway and Matt Damon. So they created this big box

866
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:30,280
Speaker 1: that they could put the camera in, but the problem

867
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 1: still with this camera is they can only run for

868
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 1: three minutes at a time. So going back to that

869
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:38,760
Speaker 1: scene of having this emotional connection having to be fully

870
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 1: dialed in, imagine having to stop every three minutes to reset,

871
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 1: and you have to sit there and stay in that

872
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:48,879
Speaker 1: frame of mind, keep that emotion, and then as soon

873
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:51,799
Speaker 1: as they say action again after saying cut, you have

874
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:54,279
Speaker 1: to go back into that same emotion, not move a

875
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:56,960
Speaker 1: whole lot, and then get right back into it. That

876
00:46:57,160 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 1: is why I think this movie is an incredible triumph

877
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:04,759
Speaker 1: because of how long this process took, how expensive it was.

878
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:08,680
Speaker 1: It's now Christopher Nolan's most expensive movie of all time.

879
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:12,280
Speaker 1: But it is greatly paying off because, like I mentioned earlier,

880
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:14,719
Speaker 1: it was a sold out showing on a Friday night,

881
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:17,319
Speaker 1: and if you wanted to go see this movie, it

882
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:19,040
Speaker 1: was tough to get into. And that is a hard

883
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:22,720
Speaker 1: thing to accomplish as a filmmaker, to create a movie

884
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:26,360
Speaker 1: that is just hard to go see. Here in town,

885
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:30,440
Speaker 1: they added a three am showing so that people could

886
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:34,239
Speaker 1: go and watch this movie. The demand is insane and

887
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 1: that is what excites me so much. And I was

888
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 1: so wrong to think that this movie was going to

889
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 1: be boring, because at no point did I think the

890
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 1: story was dragging.

891
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:46,480
Speaker 2: It moved along really well. I even felt bad for

892
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:50,680
Speaker 2: the monsters along the way. There were so many marvelous

893
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 2: aspects that I thought, I need to see this movie

894
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:57,640
Speaker 2: again immediately, and I'm going to do so, and I

895
00:47:57,680 --> 00:47:59,680
Speaker 2: did not think that would be the case with the

896
00:47:59,719 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 2: three hour movie. So now thinking about where this ranks

897
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:07,120
Speaker 2: on my greatest Christopher Nolan movies of all time, which

898
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 2: I think after The Odyssey, he has probably now worked

899
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:12,440
Speaker 2: his way in as my favorite director right now, and

900
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 2: it's gonna be probably another three years before we get

901
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 2: another Nolan movie.

902
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:20,919
Speaker 1: But now my top five Christopher Nolan movies of all

903
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 1: time at number five, I have The Dark Knight Rises.

904
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:27,880
Speaker 1: I actually think at one point The Dark Knight Rises

905
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 1: could have been number one, because at the time when

906
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:33,200
Speaker 1: I watched this movie in theaters, I actually thought Baine

907
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 1: was a better villain than the Joker. I just felt

908
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 1: he was more of a threat to Batman, that friction,

909
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 1: that back and forth, him breaking Batman's back and being

910
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:46,839
Speaker 1: somebody that was actually going to take him down and

911
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: was living to see him suffer and basically annihilating Batman

912
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:54,880
Speaker 1: every step of the way and being a true threat

913
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:58,040
Speaker 1: to Gotham. I love Tom Hardy in this role. My

914
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:02,000
Speaker 1: biggest problem with The Dark Night Rises is how lame

915
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:06,200
Speaker 1: the Fall of Bain was. It was so just aniclmenic,

916
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:07,240
Speaker 1: where it's just like.

917
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:07,880
Speaker 2: Here's Baine.

918
00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 1: He's the biggest threat Batman has ever had, and now

919
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 1: nothing nobody cares about him anymore.

920
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:15,480
Speaker 2: He has done, he is disposed.

921
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:17,960
Speaker 1: If it wouldn't have been for that aspect and they

922
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:21,560
Speaker 1: would have changed the ending of The Dark Knight Rises,

923
00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 1: I think it could have been number one in my opinion,

924
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:26,680
Speaker 1: but that brought it down so far at number five.

925
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 1: I have The Dark Knight Rises at number four is

926
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:30,959
Speaker 1: where I'm putting The Odyssey again.

927
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:34,120
Speaker 2: It's very fresh. It could maybe work its way.

928
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 1: Up in my ranking after I go and watch it

929
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 1: again for a second time.

930
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:40,720
Speaker 2: The story is massive.

931
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:44,439
Speaker 1: Visually beautiful, I think when it comes to the Odyssey, though,

932
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:48,760
Speaker 1: comparing it to other Christopher Nolan movies, I probably connect.

933
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:50,640
Speaker 2: With the story and relate to it the least.

934
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:54,320
Speaker 1: It is like a really finely crafted sandwich where you

935
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:56,839
Speaker 1: really enjoyed it, you really loved it. That is the

936
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:59,520
Speaker 1: best say, which you can probably get, but at the

937
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 1: end of the day, it is still just a great sandwich.

938
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:07,040
Speaker 1: When Christopher Nolan has served up steak Filet Mignon, there

939
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:10,880
Speaker 1: is other things in his filmography that are just gonna

940
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:13,520
Speaker 1: be better, even though on a technical aspect, I think

941
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:16,040
Speaker 1: it is the best I think right now, and number

942
00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:18,719
Speaker 1: four is where I put The Odyssey and number three

943
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:21,799
Speaker 1: is where I put Interstellar. Now, that is what I

944
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:24,520
Speaker 1: want out of a Christopher Nolan movie. I want theories,

945
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:29,480
Speaker 1: I want science, I want open endedness. I want Matthew McConaughey.

946
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:33,360
Speaker 1: I want a really long run time, which Interstellar is

947
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:36,640
Speaker 1: another beefy one. I think this was Christopher Nolan's most

948
00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 1: ambitious movie, and it gets relevant more every single day,

949
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:41,960
Speaker 1: every single year.

950
00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 2: So at number three, I have Interstellar. At number two,

951
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:50,400
Speaker 2: I have Inception. This movie blew my mind the first

952
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:52,360
Speaker 2: time I saw it, and I am somebody who is

953
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:56,480
Speaker 2: fascinated with dreams and the entire idea of being able

954
00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:59,839
Speaker 2: to control your dreams is so sexy to me that

955
00:50:59,880 --> 00:51:00,919
Speaker 2: I I love this movie.

956
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:04,800
Speaker 1: Upon first watching it, it made me want my own totem.

957
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:07,680
Speaker 1: I love the open endedness. Even to this day, I

958
00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:10,880
Speaker 1: still wonder what the ending of this movie meant and

959
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:13,759
Speaker 1: what the fate of our characters actually were. On a

960
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 1: technical aspect, also a major accomplishment. The hallway scene is

961
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:21,360
Speaker 1: one of the coolest things I've ever seen in a

962
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:24,360
Speaker 1: Christopher Nolan movie, and he has a lot of those moments.

963
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 1: So at number two I have Exception, But at number

964
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:30,560
Speaker 1: one not only my favorite Christopher Nolan movie, but my

965
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:34,160
Speaker 1: favorite movie of all time, I have The Dark Night because,

966
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:36,680
Speaker 1: in my opinion, it has the best opening scene out

967
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:40,480
Speaker 1: of any Christopher Nolan movie. That opening scene should win

968
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 1: an oscar just on its own because it is so dynamic,

969
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 1: so memorable. It starts the movie off so aggressively and

970
00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:53,400
Speaker 1: shows you exactly who the joker is within minutes. It

971
00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:56,160
Speaker 1: is also what I believe to be the most rewatchable

972
00:51:56,280 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 1: Christopher Nolan movie. Even though yes it is a super

973
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,960
Speaker 1: here a movie, it is so much more than that.

974
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:07,840
Speaker 1: It is a story of anarchy and order and vengeance

975
00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:12,080
Speaker 1: and vigilantes and all these things wrapped up into one.

976
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:17,040
Speaker 1: Heath Ledger gave an amazing performance in this Christian Bale

977
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:19,680
Speaker 1: was at his best not only as Batman but as

978
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:22,839
Speaker 1: Bruce Wayne. This movie has it all. If I had

979
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:25,279
Speaker 1: one movie to take with me to the grave, it

980
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:27,640
Speaker 1: would be The Dark Knight. So at number one, I

981
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:30,880
Speaker 1: have The Dark Knight as my favorite Christopher Nolan movie

982
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:33,280
Speaker 1: of all time. Now, when it comes to the Raking

983
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:35,560
Speaker 1: System again, I do want to go watch this movie

984
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:38,960
Speaker 1: immediately again, but I don't think it's gonna be one

985
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:41,880
Speaker 1: of those movies that stays with me forever. I think

986
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:43,960
Speaker 1: right now it's having a moment in my heart and

987
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:48,120
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a massive movie obviously this year, but

988
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 1: kind of like Oppenheimer. I loved it when I first

989
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:53,000
Speaker 1: saw it in theaters, but it's not a movie I'm

990
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:56,640
Speaker 1: gonna rush to now to rewatch. I think this will

991
00:52:56,640 --> 00:52:59,080
Speaker 1: have more rewatchability than an Oppenheimer.

992
00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:03,160
Speaker 2: Again, technically it is his best movie. It is perfect,

993
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:04,120
Speaker 2: no change is there.

994
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:06,960
Speaker 1: But I just think if it failed that anything was

995
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:09,920
Speaker 1: to connect with me on a personal level, and it's

996
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 1: an unfair thing to ask. There's no way that I

997
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:14,719
Speaker 1: would connect with any element of this story. But when

998
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:17,880
Speaker 1: it comes to Christopher Nolan movies probably had not so

999
00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:21,000
Speaker 1: much of a mind blowing aspect. It was just a

1000
00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:24,839
Speaker 1: really well crafted movie and well crafted story that is

1001
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:27,719
Speaker 1: very inspiring that does make you want to get up

1002
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:29,919
Speaker 1: and cheer, which there were a couple of moments where

1003
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:34,360
Speaker 1: the entire audience just erupted in applause and that was

1004
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:37,280
Speaker 1: fun to see. But when it comes to the Odyssey,

1005
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:41,520
Speaker 1: I give it four point five out of five Trojan Horses.

1006
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:47,560
Speaker 2: Time to head down to movie Mike Trailer Park.

1007
00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:52,440
Speaker 1: Is Tom Cruise trying to win his first official Oscar?

1008
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:56,000
Speaker 1: That is the question in this week's Trailer Park. He

1009
00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:59,799
Speaker 1: looks completely unrecognizable in the trailer for Digger. This movie

1010
00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 1: is coming out on October second. He plays the most

1011
00:54:03,160 --> 00:54:05,759
Speaker 1: powerful CEO in the world and he has to say

1012
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:08,600
Speaker 1: the world from a disaster. The only problem is he

1013
00:54:08,719 --> 00:54:12,000
Speaker 1: created the disaster himself. In my research of this movie,

1014
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:15,080
Speaker 1: I've watched the trailer numerous times. Still, the thing that

1015
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:18,480
Speaker 1: blows my mind the most is I forgot that Tom

1016
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 1: Cruise has never won an OSCAR. He's been nominated four times.

1017
00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:25,680
Speaker 1: He has an honorary Oscar, but that doesn't count. And

1018
00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:27,760
Speaker 1: now that the full trailer is out, I'm like, ah,

1019
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:30,640
Speaker 1: I think he is going to try and win his

1020
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:32,440
Speaker 1: first official Oscar.

1021
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:34,720
Speaker 2: That is why he is making this movie.

1022
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:37,840
Speaker 1: So we'll get into all of the Tom Cruise Oscar

1023
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:41,440
Speaker 1: drama of movies he's been nominated for but has not one.

1024
00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:44,560
Speaker 1: But before I get into more, here is just a

1025
00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:47,760
Speaker 1: little bit of the Digger trailer coming out in theaters

1026
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:49,760
Speaker 1: this year on October second.

1027
00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:52,279
Speaker 2: Yes, Sandy, hey man, buddy, you're the man which five

1028
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:55,000
Speaker 2: foot crack now glacier over there in Greenland? It shifts

1029
00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:57,799
Speaker 2: five feet now. This desk in front of me, he's

1030
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:00,719
Speaker 2: bigger than five feet, mister Rowell, it's a tenth of

1031
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:02,359
Speaker 2: that SATs. What do you want me to chuck down

1032
00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:04,880
Speaker 2: a billion dollar platform over something it's ten times the

1033
00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:07,240
Speaker 2: size of mine. You want to shut her down? Well

1034
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:08,560
Speaker 2: try it, mister.

1035
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:12,440
Speaker 1: Presidents were utterly unprotected against the disaster of this magnitude.

1036
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 2: What's our worst case scenario? Eighteen trillion dollars, sir so.

1037
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:22,360
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise plays a guy named Digger Rockwell, who is

1038
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:27,360
Speaker 1: a corrupt, eccentric Southern billionaire oil baron, and Digger inadvertently

1039
00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:32,680
Speaker 1: triggers a massive global environment crisis due to his aggressive

1040
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:37,360
Speaker 1: fracking and oil drilling arrogance. Following the disaster, the President

1041
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:42,759
Speaker 1: calls him in to fix his own giant mess. This

1042
00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:47,399
Speaker 1: trailer looks unlike anything I have seen this year. Tom

1043
00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:50,160
Speaker 1: Cruise has been teasing it now for a while that

1044
00:55:50,239 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 1: has just kind of had my curiosity. It reminds me

1045
00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:55,440
Speaker 1: of that episode of The Simpsons Krusty Gets Canceled, which

1046
00:55:55,480 --> 00:56:00,040
Speaker 1: I believe is probably my favorite Simpsons episode of a

1047
00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:03,919
Speaker 1: whole time. And in that episode, Krusty, the clown who

1048
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:07,560
Speaker 1: is Bart's idol, has his local TV show, which is

1049
00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:10,080
Speaker 1: also crazy by the way that he is such a

1050
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:11,880
Speaker 1: major celebrity on a local channel.

1051
00:56:12,040 --> 00:56:14,240
Speaker 2: But again, this isn't the Simpsons podcast.

1052
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:18,720
Speaker 1: But in that episode, he has a new competition across

1053
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 1: the street of this character named Gabbo, and the promotion

1054
00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:27,160
Speaker 1: for Digger reminds me of Gabo, where they just start

1055
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:30,359
Speaker 1: playing these random commercials where you have no idea what

1056
00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:33,520
Speaker 1: it's about, but all it focuses on is the name,

1057
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:36,000
Speaker 1: and like a silhouette. Here's a little clip of The

1058
00:56:36,040 --> 00:56:38,840
Speaker 1: Simpsons from that episode.

1059
00:56:40,719 --> 00:56:44,719
Speaker 2: Did you see that? Yeah, which Gabo. I figure it's

1060
00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:47,440
Speaker 2: some guy's name, some guy named Gable.

1061
00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:50,840
Speaker 1: So that's Homer and Bart just watching TV and across

1062
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:53,840
Speaker 1: the screen just Gabbo, Gabo gabble. That is how I

1063
00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:58,080
Speaker 1: feel about this movie. Where before we got this full trailer.

1064
00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 1: We had an image of Tom CRU's dancing on what

1065
00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:05,040
Speaker 1: looks like the edge of a boat with these boots

1066
00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:08,520
Speaker 1: and a very fluid motion. We had the poster, which,

1067
00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:11,799
Speaker 1: by the way, it has excellent graphic design. All of

1068
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:14,759
Speaker 1: the materials and identity of this movie. I really enjoy

1069
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:18,400
Speaker 1: a fantastic font. I like the orange color scheme, and

1070
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:21,480
Speaker 1: it's all this packaging that has been rolled out so

1071
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:25,920
Speaker 1: efficiently and meticulously that leads me to believe this is

1072
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:29,520
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise wanting to win an Oscar and show people

1073
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:32,520
Speaker 1: how different he wants to.

1074
00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:34,000
Speaker 2: Be perceived by the public.

1075
00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:38,440
Speaker 1: Because this is his first major character actor role outside

1076
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:42,680
Speaker 1: of his standard action franchises in almost ten years, which

1077
00:57:42,720 --> 00:57:45,360
Speaker 1: is a big deal for him because he's been just

1078
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:49,160
Speaker 1: dominating with Top Gun and the Mission Impossible movies, and

1079
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:51,240
Speaker 1: those are kind of feeling that coming to a place

1080
00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:54,600
Speaker 1: where like, Okay, we realize you can do that, give

1081
00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:57,960
Speaker 1: us something different. That is what he is going for now.

1082
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:01,000
Speaker 1: He is also working with the direct for the first time,

1083
00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:06,680
Speaker 1: Alejandro Gonzalez Inharito, who is famous for movies like The Revenant,

1084
00:58:06,880 --> 00:58:10,800
Speaker 1: which got Leonardo DiCaprio his first Oscar, So that is

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00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:14,520
Speaker 1: a great indication there. He also did Amores Perros, which

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00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:17,400
Speaker 1: that was the movie that Tom Cruise first saw of

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00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:20,280
Speaker 1: his and thought that's a really good director. Almost twenty

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00:58:20,280 --> 00:58:22,400
Speaker 1: five years after that movie, they are now working together.

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00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:28,560
Speaker 1: Alejandro has also done movies like Birdman. So these very big, original, dramatic,

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00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:33,320
Speaker 1: at time comedic movies that have their own unique visual identity.

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Speaker 1: You have all the elements here of an easy Oscar nomination.

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00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:40,840
Speaker 1: But the reasons I am worried is because this movie

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00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:45,440
Speaker 1: is dubbed as a satirical black comedy. People are comparing

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00:58:45,480 --> 00:58:48,520
Speaker 1: it to Cubrick's movie Doctor Strangelove, which came out back

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00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:52,640
Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty four. A most recent memory of mine

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00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:55,920
Speaker 1: what it reminds me of was Mickey seventeen, directed by

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00:58:55,920 --> 00:58:59,240
Speaker 1: Bong Juno, who also did Parasite, who is one of

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00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:03,320
Speaker 1: my favorite directres of this decade. That movie came out

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00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:05,440
Speaker 1: and it kind of had this same feel, which was

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00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:09,840
Speaker 1: about Robert Pattinson's character who was a disposable employee and

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00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:13,240
Speaker 1: he's sent out to colonize this new ice world and

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00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:17,200
Speaker 1: they have essentially this cloning machine, so they put him

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00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:19,840
Speaker 1: into these situations. He dies, but then a new body

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00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:23,520
Speaker 1: of his is generated with most of his memories intact,

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00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:27,280
Speaker 1: and that movie had the same kind of visual identity

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Speaker 1: that I'm seeing here in Digger after watching this trailer

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00:59:30,080 --> 00:59:35,120
Speaker 1: where it's very outlandish, the cinematography is very bold. So

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00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:37,640
Speaker 1: not only do they look the same visually, but when

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00:59:37,720 --> 00:59:40,360
Speaker 1: it comes to some of the story structure that I

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00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:43,760
Speaker 1: am seeing here with the characters and the set design,

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00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:47,720
Speaker 1: they look very similar to me. The problem that Mickey

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00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:52,000
Speaker 1: seventeen Face was it was also a comedy of sorts,

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00:59:52,480 --> 00:59:55,160
Speaker 1: and I think when you mix sci fi and comedy

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00:59:55,640 --> 00:59:58,800
Speaker 1: sometimes it's just hard to sell it to people. And

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Speaker 1: I think that was the problem Mickey seventeen faced is

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01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:04,960
Speaker 1: nobody really knew what to do with it, and audiences

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01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:08,080
Speaker 1: were kind of confused on how to feel, even though

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Speaker 1: I love that movie. Also in that you have Robert

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Speaker 1: Pattinson playing a very different version of himself, a very

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Speaker 1: unique accent in a way that most people aren't used

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Speaker 1: to seeing Robert Pattinson. That is what we are seeing

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Speaker 1: here again with Tom Cruise. Mickey seventeen didn't work out

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Speaker 1: so well. I think when it comes to a satirical

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Speaker 1: comedy like that, it's just not going to hit with everybody,

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Speaker 1: because if you say comedy, people are going into it

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01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:38,000
Speaker 1: wanting to watch the funniest thing ever. And if you

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01:00:38,080 --> 01:00:40,520
Speaker 1: don't have that experience, you're gonna say that.

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Speaker 2: Wasn't funny at all. This isn't a comedy.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to see Tom Cruise acting like you did

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01:00:45,400 --> 01:00:48,680
Speaker 1: in Tropic Thunder, and by the looks of the humor, Indigger,

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01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:50,680
Speaker 1: that is not what is the most appealing to me.

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01:00:51,240 --> 01:00:54,480
Speaker 1: So I am worried because it kind of feels more

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01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:56,080
Speaker 1: like a Wes Anderson.

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Speaker 2: Feel to me.

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Speaker 1: That is very deadpin Even some of the cinematography choices

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01:01:00,040 --> 01:01:03,200
Speaker 1: I feel kind of have that Wes Anderson vibe. With

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01:01:03,240 --> 01:01:07,440
Speaker 1: all the characters and the cast in this looking pretty unrecognizable,

1138
01:01:08,160 --> 01:01:10,520
Speaker 1: there is nothing to me that says this is going

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01:01:10,600 --> 01:01:13,800
Speaker 1: to be a hilarious time at the theater. But I'm

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01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:16,560
Speaker 1: more interested in Tom Cruise making a departure and doing

1141
01:01:16,600 --> 01:01:20,200
Speaker 1: something completely different that is interesting to me. The trailer

1142
01:01:20,320 --> 01:01:23,680
Speaker 1: that came out before this was a collection of all

1143
01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:28,000
Speaker 1: of his biggest movies, kind of honoring his legacy, really

1144
01:01:28,080 --> 01:01:31,040
Speaker 1: cueing this up for this movie. So that also tells

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01:01:31,080 --> 01:01:33,720
Speaker 1: me that they are really relying and thinking about all

1146
01:01:33,800 --> 01:01:36,640
Speaker 1: the movies he has done before this to maybe propel

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01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:41,880
Speaker 1: him to winning that Oscar, which we've seen recently with

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01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:45,040
Speaker 1: actors like Timothy Shallomey who have thought, I have the

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01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:47,040
Speaker 1: next movie that is gonna win me an Oscar. They

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01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:50,160
Speaker 1: get their nomination. It is so hard to win and

1151
01:01:50,240 --> 01:01:53,400
Speaker 1: not only has to do with how well your movie does,

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01:01:53,720 --> 01:01:55,680
Speaker 1: which really that doesn't have a whole lot to do

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01:01:55,760 --> 01:02:00,400
Speaker 1: with it. It comes down to the people voting. Does Thecademy

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01:02:00,960 --> 01:02:03,640
Speaker 1: want to finally honor him. It could be a case

1155
01:02:03,680 --> 01:02:06,520
Speaker 1: like Leonardo DiCaprio. I don't think he deserved to win

1156
01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:08,640
Speaker 1: for the revenue, but it was kind of his time.

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01:02:09,320 --> 01:02:12,160
Speaker 1: They'd kept him from winning other years where he should

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01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:15,000
Speaker 1: have won, and finally were just like, Okay, we've messed

1159
01:02:15,080 --> 01:02:17,120
Speaker 1: up in the past, We're gonna give you an Oscar.

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01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:20,520
Speaker 1: Could Digger be the movie that they finally say, all right,

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Speaker 1: Tom Cruise, we want you to show up to our

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01:02:22,600 --> 01:02:25,360
Speaker 1: award show. We're gonna honor what you did in this

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01:02:25,520 --> 01:02:29,720
Speaker 1: movie and finally give you an Oscar. Because last year,

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01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:34,360
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five, he did get an Honorary Academy Award,

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01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:36,880
Speaker 1: but he's been nominated four times. The first time was

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01:02:36,920 --> 01:02:39,920
Speaker 1: back in nineteen ninety for Best Actor for Born on

1167
01:02:39,960 --> 01:02:42,880
Speaker 1: the Fourth of July, didn't win. The next time, in

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven, he was nominated for Best Actor for

1169
01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:47,040
Speaker 1: Jerry Maguire.

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Speaker 2: Didn't win.

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Speaker 1: The next time was two thousand, nominated for Best Supporting

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01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:56,600
Speaker 1: Actor for Magnolia, didn't win. And then in twenty twenty three,

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01:02:57,120 --> 01:03:00,040
Speaker 1: Top Gun Maverick was nominated for Best Pictures, so that

1174
01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:03,600
Speaker 1: a nomination directly for Tom Cruise, but that was really

1175
01:03:03,640 --> 01:03:07,640
Speaker 1: for Tom Cruise nominated but didn't win. So all those

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01:03:07,680 --> 01:03:10,480
Speaker 1: nominations no Oscars. With this movie coming out in the

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01:03:10,520 --> 01:03:12,360
Speaker 1: later part of the year, which is where you put

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01:03:12,360 --> 01:03:15,760
Speaker 1: all your OSCAR contenders, I think he has a chance

1179
01:03:16,160 --> 01:03:19,960
Speaker 1: and it's probably going for another Best Actor nomination.

1180
01:03:20,440 --> 01:03:21,520
Speaker 2: That's gonna be really tough.

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01:03:21,520 --> 01:03:24,280
Speaker 1: It's going to be a very competitive year, and I

1182
01:03:24,400 --> 01:03:26,840
Speaker 1: also think we are gonna see some out of pocket

1183
01:03:26,880 --> 01:03:30,880
Speaker 1: nominations this year. With Horror dominating in twenty twenty six,

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01:03:31,120 --> 01:03:33,760
Speaker 1: I think we have to see it represented at the Oscars,

1185
01:03:34,040 --> 01:03:36,880
Speaker 1: so Best Actor is definitely gonna be tough. I think

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01:03:36,920 --> 01:03:39,840
Speaker 1: this could be the year that the Academy finally says

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01:03:39,920 --> 01:03:43,480
Speaker 1: we need to take horror seriously and hand out some

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01:03:43,560 --> 01:03:45,640
Speaker 1: awards or at least some nominations.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna be surprised this year.

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Speaker 1: I think it is probably a shoe in for Best

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01:03:50,000 --> 01:03:53,520
Speaker 1: Makeup and Hairstyling. It could possibly get a nod for

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01:03:53,600 --> 01:03:58,320
Speaker 1: Best Picture and Supporting Categories, which it has a pretty

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01:03:58,360 --> 01:04:02,040
Speaker 1: stat cast. It has two of my Green Flag actors.

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01:04:02,560 --> 01:04:06,000
Speaker 1: Rizamed was fantastic in a movie I loved called The

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01:04:06,040 --> 01:04:08,560
Speaker 1: Sound of Metal. I also really loved him in a

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01:04:08,600 --> 01:04:11,320
Speaker 1: movie called Relay. If he is in a movie, great

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01:04:11,360 --> 01:04:13,720
Speaker 1: indicator that it's going to be a good one. Also,

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01:04:13,920 --> 01:04:16,320
Speaker 1: as soon as I saw Jesse Plntman's in the trailer,

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Speaker 1: I thought, I'm in total Green Flag actor. You also

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01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:23,880
Speaker 1: have John Goodman as the President of the United States,

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01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:27,320
Speaker 1: So all those people combined looks like a good time

1202
01:04:27,520 --> 01:04:30,360
Speaker 1: in the cast. Probably a fun movie to make on set,

1203
01:04:30,680 --> 01:04:34,360
Speaker 1: and I think this movie is taking a really big swing.

1204
01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:38,120
Speaker 1: But the problem is it could strike out really hard.

1205
01:04:38,240 --> 01:04:41,240
Speaker 1: It all comes down to how the audience connects with

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01:04:41,320 --> 01:04:45,080
Speaker 1: this movie. Is Tom Cruise's charisma really going to come

1207
01:04:45,120 --> 01:04:47,680
Speaker 1: through in this character or is it going to be

1208
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:49,960
Speaker 1: just a little bit too over the top. And I

1209
01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:53,320
Speaker 1: know a lot of people loved his character Les Grossman

1210
01:04:53,440 --> 01:04:57,280
Speaker 1: in Tropic Thunder, where that scene of him dancing at

1211
01:04:57,280 --> 01:05:01,400
Speaker 1: the end had everybody laughing. It was very memorable because

1212
01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:04,680
Speaker 1: we only saw Tom Cruise as the mission impossible guy,

1213
01:05:05,200 --> 01:05:08,440
Speaker 1: good looking guy, always run in somewhere at full speed,

1214
01:05:08,960 --> 01:05:11,840
Speaker 1: and he is somebody I feel is very guarded with

1215
01:05:11,960 --> 01:05:15,560
Speaker 1: how he looks on screen, but that was us seeing

1216
01:05:15,640 --> 01:05:17,240
Speaker 1: him in a way that was like, Tom Cruise is

1217
01:05:17,240 --> 01:05:19,800
Speaker 1: actually kind of fun having a good time, and we thought,

1218
01:05:20,040 --> 01:05:23,000
Speaker 1: why can't we get that movie? Now we are getting

1219
01:05:23,080 --> 01:05:26,880
Speaker 1: what we wished for, But sometimes do you want what

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01:05:26,960 --> 01:05:30,000
Speaker 1: you wish for? And in certain cases, I'll compare it

1221
01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:33,000
Speaker 1: to the Minions. We all love the Minions indespicable me.

1222
01:05:33,200 --> 01:05:36,680
Speaker 1: They're so funny and memorable and anytime that are on

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01:05:36,680 --> 01:05:38,640
Speaker 1: the screen, it's like a got The Minions are great.

1224
01:05:38,880 --> 01:05:41,320
Speaker 1: And then when we got the Minions movie, we're like, Okay,

1225
01:05:41,360 --> 01:05:44,560
Speaker 1: this kind of gets a little bit tiring after thirty

1226
01:05:44,560 --> 01:05:46,400
Speaker 1: to forty five minutes, even though I did enjoy the

1227
01:05:46,480 --> 01:05:49,720
Speaker 1: last film, but it felt like a lot of a

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01:05:49,800 --> 01:05:52,800
Speaker 1: good thing to me. This is kind of taking his

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01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:57,800
Speaker 1: character from Tropic Thunder and giving it a full feature film.

1230
01:05:58,280 --> 01:06:01,080
Speaker 1: Is it going to be too much of a funny thing.

1231
01:06:01,600 --> 01:06:04,400
Speaker 1: Is it going to carry the entire time or is

1232
01:06:04,440 --> 01:06:07,240
Speaker 1: it gonna get kind of annoying. There are some moments

1233
01:06:07,280 --> 01:06:09,480
Speaker 1: where you kind of see Tom Cruise come out a

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01:06:09,480 --> 01:06:12,760
Speaker 1: little bit, and I guess I just imagine this character

1235
01:06:13,600 --> 01:06:16,280
Speaker 1: as what he's like when all the lights go off,

1236
01:06:16,280 --> 01:06:19,440
Speaker 1: when he's off cycle, not doing a movie, not promoting anything.

1237
01:06:20,280 --> 01:06:23,800
Speaker 1: I just imagine him going home and letting it all

1238
01:06:23,840 --> 01:06:27,080
Speaker 1: hang out, letting his hair go gray, letting his belly

1239
01:06:27,160 --> 01:06:29,480
Speaker 1: grow like it does, and digger where you see him

1240
01:06:29,520 --> 01:06:32,160
Speaker 1: towards the beginning of the movie just with his shirt

1241
01:06:32,160 --> 01:06:35,120
Speaker 1: of letting it all hang out. And Tom Cruise is

1242
01:06:35,120 --> 01:06:38,880
Speaker 1: also sixty four years old. He is my parents' age,

1243
01:06:39,160 --> 01:06:41,880
Speaker 1: and I kind of forget that this is the first

1244
01:06:41,880 --> 01:06:44,480
Speaker 1: time we've ever really seen him in a full length

1245
01:06:44,560 --> 01:06:48,520
Speaker 1: movie looking as close to his age as he ever has.

1246
01:06:49,240 --> 01:06:50,520
Speaker 2: Is it going to work?

1247
01:06:50,840 --> 01:06:54,360
Speaker 1: And he is not somebody who has strayed away from

1248
01:06:54,480 --> 01:06:57,840
Speaker 1: changing his appearance drastically in movies. Obviously we've been talking

1249
01:06:57,840 --> 01:07:01,560
Speaker 1: about Tropic Thunder and Les Grossman. He transformed into Stacy

1250
01:07:01,640 --> 01:07:05,000
Speaker 1: Jackson Rock of Ages back in twenty twelve. I remember

1251
01:07:05,120 --> 01:07:07,840
Speaker 1: him going great for Collateral in two thousand and four

1252
01:07:08,280 --> 01:07:10,760
Speaker 1: even going back to nineteen ninety four interview with a

1253
01:07:10,880 --> 01:07:15,760
Speaker 1: vampire literally transformed into a vampire. So he has given

1254
01:07:15,840 --> 01:07:18,920
Speaker 1: us different looks through makeup and prosthetics throughout the years,

1255
01:07:19,240 --> 01:07:23,280
Speaker 1: but this by far is his most drastic transformation to date.

1256
01:07:23,840 --> 01:07:26,040
Speaker 1: Is it going to payoff? Is he going to bring

1257
01:07:26,080 --> 01:07:29,040
Speaker 1: home that Oscar? Or is the idea of this movie

1258
01:07:29,120 --> 01:07:31,760
Speaker 1: just a little bit too out there, a little bit

1259
01:07:31,800 --> 01:07:35,120
Speaker 1: too ahead of its time instead of getting this great

1260
01:07:35,160 --> 01:07:38,480
Speaker 1: successful movie and winning all the Oscars. Is it just

1261
01:07:38,520 --> 01:07:42,320
Speaker 1: going to become a future cult classic. Either way, I'm

1262
01:07:42,360 --> 01:07:45,160
Speaker 1: excited he's taking a risk like this at this point

1263
01:07:45,160 --> 01:07:48,920
Speaker 1: in his career because I've not always been the biggest

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01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:52,560
Speaker 1: fan of Tom Cruise, but in the twenty twenties I've

1265
01:07:52,600 --> 01:07:56,439
Speaker 1: greatly respected his commitment to putting out his theaters on

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01:07:56,480 --> 01:07:59,760
Speaker 1: the big screen and giving people that full cinematic experience,

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01:08:00,040 --> 01:08:03,880
Speaker 1: and in the process saved a lot of theaters from

1268
01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:07,560
Speaker 1: closing down and really putting a lot of momentum back

1269
01:08:07,600 --> 01:08:11,000
Speaker 1: into the movie industry. So I feel like, if we

1270
01:08:11,040 --> 01:08:13,520
Speaker 1: need to reward them in any way, it's by going

1271
01:08:13,560 --> 01:08:16,720
Speaker 1: to support this movie. But even as we've seen with

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01:08:16,800 --> 01:08:20,240
Speaker 1: some of the mission impossible movies. The final one in particular,

1273
01:08:21,200 --> 01:08:23,840
Speaker 1: is that I think we just don't care about a

1274
01:08:23,960 --> 01:08:27,240
Speaker 1: list actors like we used to, and just putting Tom

1275
01:08:27,320 --> 01:08:31,040
Speaker 1: Cruise's name on a movie doesn't guarantee success. Even though

1276
01:08:31,080 --> 01:08:34,240
Speaker 1: he's one of the most famous actors of our lifetime, we.

1277
01:08:34,280 --> 01:08:36,760
Speaker 2: Still need a little bit of something else.

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01:08:36,520 --> 01:08:39,599
Speaker 1: To get us out into a theater to pay money

1279
01:08:39,720 --> 01:08:43,599
Speaker 1: to go see this movie. And again, when it comes

1280
01:08:43,640 --> 01:08:46,600
Speaker 1: to comedy, sometimes that is a genre that we just

1281
01:08:46,680 --> 01:08:50,080
Speaker 1: don't want to spend money on. So I don't think

1282
01:08:50,120 --> 01:08:53,800
Speaker 1: this movie has the easiest road ahead, but it's swinging big.

1283
01:08:54,080 --> 01:08:56,960
Speaker 1: If it hits that ball out of the park, this

1284
01:08:57,040 --> 01:08:59,759
Speaker 1: could be one of the most important movies of his career.

1285
01:09:00,400 --> 01:09:01,960
Speaker 1: Or it could be in the movie he thinks. Man,

1286
01:09:02,200 --> 01:09:04,559
Speaker 1: who was I thinking with that one? But either way,

1287
01:09:04,640 --> 01:09:08,160
Speaker 1: this movie is coming out on October second. We shall see.

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Speaker 2: And that was this week's edition of Movie Mike Trailer.

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Speaker 1: Bars, And that is gonna do it for another episode

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

1291
01:09:20,640 --> 01:09:23,639
Speaker 1: get my listeners shout out of the week. This week,

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01:09:23,760 --> 01:09:27,360
Speaker 1: I'm going over to TikTok and shouting out Danielle, who

1293
01:09:27,400 --> 01:09:30,679
Speaker 1: commented on my Mawana clip that I posted last week

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Speaker 1: of the rock that blew up just a little bit.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people call me a hater, but also

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Speaker 1: a lot of people also agreeing with me. It was

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Speaker 1: about fifty to fifty, which I'll take fifty to fifty sometimes,

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Speaker 1: like when I post a Supergirl thing, Oh, it's like

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Speaker 1: ninety ten. But Danielle said, I think what made the

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Speaker 1: initial live action so popular was that they started with

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Speaker 1: the older princess movies to help them come alive for

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Speaker 1: a new generation. And besides a couple of things, everything

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Speaker 1: the thing was alive and set in beautiful locations. To

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Speaker 1: this day, the live action Cinderella is one of the

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Speaker 1: most beautiful settings of a movie. Now these quote unquote

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Speaker 1: live actions aren't even live it's just a new form

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Speaker 1: of animation, which defeats the whole point in my opinion.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Danielle.

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Speaker 1: That is exactly what I was trying to say last

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Speaker 1: week is there is no reason to make a live

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Speaker 1: action movie when all of the best elements are just

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Speaker 1: animated again in a different way that feels a little

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Speaker 1: bit more realistic, but doesn't improve upon the animated version.

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Speaker 1: And like you said here, Danielle, I feel like this

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Speaker 1: trend began, even though they did it before, but it

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Speaker 1: kind of really began with like twenty nineteen's The Lion King,

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Speaker 1: and it made sense then that movie came out initially

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Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety four, therefore coming out in twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 2: A whole new generation.

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Speaker 1: Of people, we're gonna get into that. Even thinking to

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Speaker 1: when Disney Plus first launched with The Lady in the

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Speaker 1: Tramp live action movie, that was introducing that movie to

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Speaker 1: a whole new generation. And now we're just getting movies

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Speaker 1: that just came out ten years ago, and it's not

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Speaker 1: doing anything different. They're giving facelifts to movies that don't

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Speaker 1: need facelifts. They're still alive and youthful. Just go watch

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Speaker 1: the original movie. So maybe they go back into the

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Speaker 1: vault for the next live action movie. But I just

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Speaker 1: hope that they pick some titles that actually benefit from

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Speaker 1: this process and they are not just trying to make

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Speaker 1: money off the same stories over and over again. So

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Speaker 1: Danielle appreciate that comment. Thank you for listening, thank you

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Speaker 1: for being subscribed, And until next time, go out and

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