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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 what I believe to be are the best millennial

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Speaker 1: optimism movies. I am millennial to my core. We used

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Speaker 1: to be cool. Now we're seeing this cringe and now

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Speaker 1: people are hating on the era that we grew up

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Speaker 1: in and looking back on things that we thought were

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Speaker 1: so cool at the time. But now we are seen

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Speaker 1: as being delusional. So we'll look back on that era

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Speaker 1: and the movies that represented that optimism the best. In

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Speaker 1: the movie review, I'll be talking about The Brides starring

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Speaker 1: Jesse Buckley Christian Bale, directed by Maggie Jillen Hall. Didn't

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Speaker 1: live up to the expectations I set merely based on

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Speaker 1: the trailer and the making of that movie. And in

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Speaker 1: the trailer park we got our first look at Scary

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Speaker 1: Movie six. Can a parody movie like this that was

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Speaker 1: a great run? But can a franchise like this still

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Speaker 1: have life in twenty twenty six. We'll get into that.

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

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Speaker 1: Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew and now

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Speaker 1: let's talk movies, movie mics, movie podcast, millennial optimism. What

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Speaker 1: is it? I didn't realize in the time that I

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Speaker 1: was living in, which I consider to be the greatest

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Speaker 1: era to be a young person, the twenty ten. I

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Speaker 1: think about things like MacBooks and photo albums, where we

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Speaker 1: on Facebook. We don't do that anymore. Could you imagine

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Speaker 1: that the people now who have their feeds so perfectly

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Speaker 1: curated being disgusted when you would just tag them in

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Speaker 1: But that's what I think about during that time where

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Speaker 1: I think of the hipster era, which I wonder now

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Speaker 1: bands like the Lumineers band. By your weekend, you think

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Speaker 1: this happens to every generation. For a while. You're cool

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Speaker 1: It's gonna happen to gen Z. It's gonna happen to

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Speaker 1: And I think as I did get a little bit

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Speaker 1: older and realized that some people could just have a

434
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:10,239
Speaker 1: six pack of beer in their fridge and not have

435
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 1: to immediately drink all of them, I couldn't comprehend that concept.

436
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:17,560
Speaker 1: What do you mean you went to the store and

437
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,440
Speaker 1: first of all, you only bought a six pack. Why

438
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:20,920
Speaker 1: would you get a six pack? You can't get drunk

439
00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:23,160
Speaker 1: off a six pack? But you're only going to drink

440
00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:25,399
Speaker 1: one or two of those and leave the rest in

441
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 1: your fridge to just drink throughout the week. That made

442
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:31,359
Speaker 1: no sense to me. I was of the mindset Friday

443
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:35,520
Speaker 1: night rolled around, we're getting a case minimum A minimum

444
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,159
Speaker 1: amount that we would get would be a case, and

445
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:41,560
Speaker 1: we would not stop until that case was gone. And

446
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,320
Speaker 1: if that case was gone. At the time, we lived

447
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:47,399
Speaker 1: in an apartment within walking distance of a gas station,

448
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,520
Speaker 1: we would walk to the gas station whoever it was

449
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 1: the most sober and just get more beer. Would never

450
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:55,400
Speaker 1: drink and drive. Don't do that, kids, But if you

451
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 1: live close to a gas station, you can just walk in, Bam,

452
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,679
Speaker 1: your ref fuel. You're ready to go. But at that time,

453
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 1: it was just a little bit more acceptable just to

454
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:09,080
Speaker 1: go all out and party. And I see that happening

455
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:12,639
Speaker 1: less and less where the new generation is just becoming

456
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 1: a little bit more responsible with alcohol. But if I

457
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:19,280
Speaker 1: go back and look at movies like Project X or

458
00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,680
Speaker 1: even Neighbors, which is another really great one with Zach

459
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:28,359
Speaker 1: Efron and Dave Franco, that entire era, I will even

460
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:31,399
Speaker 1: throw one of my favorite Christmas movies off is Christmas Party.

461
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:35,760
Speaker 1: All in this era that were centered around big, fun,

462
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 1: stupid parties, and that is millennial optimism, where you can

463
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:44,320
Speaker 1: just go and party your brains out and make light

464
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Speaker 1: of heavy drinking, which is something we don't do anymore.

465
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,359
Speaker 1: We realize that's a serious problem. But if you watch

466
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 1: these movies from this era, I'll even throw the hangover

467
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:58,120
Speaker 1: in there. It was seen as cool to get that drunk.

468
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 1: But I think if gen Z goes back and watches

469
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:03,879
Speaker 1: some of these movies and think, man, you guys really

470
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: had a problem. But again, it's one of those situations

471
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 1: where you just kind of had to be there to

472
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:12,679
Speaker 1: experience that and to be that ridiculous and to be

473
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:16,959
Speaker 1: that care free, and to be that optimistic about the

474
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 1: future where you're not really worrying about your health, which

475
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:22,480
Speaker 1: now I'm like, man, I got to make sure I

476
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 1: get all my vitamins taken on this day, I got

477
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 1: a drinking of water. Throwing an alcohol just throws off

478
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 1: the balance of everything. But back when I had that

479
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 1: millennium optimism just running through my veins without a care

480
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,120
Speaker 1: in the world, I didn't care about what I put

481
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 1: in my body. But I think these movies that I've

482
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:45,159
Speaker 1: decided to highlight on this episode are the best ones

483
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 1: that represent that era. I will go through some more

484
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:51,919
Speaker 1: that I wanted to include on the list that I

485
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:54,600
Speaker 1: think you could make a case for easy A from

486
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,600
Speaker 1: twenty ten with Emma Stone. She was a high school

487
00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,639
Speaker 1: student who used a rumor that was being spread about

488
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:04,439
Speaker 1: her to boost her social status and also at times

489
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,320
Speaker 1: to profit from it. I think this movie was really

490
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 1: charming and witty and really encompasses what the millennial type

491
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 1: of humor was during that time, which now when I

492
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 1: do look back on some of those ah, which is

493
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:23,399
Speaker 1: hard for me to admit because to me, growing up

494
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 1: in an era with vine, I found those things to

495
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:30,119
Speaker 1: be the funniest six second videos of all time that

496
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,720
Speaker 1: I still reference them all the time, and now seeing

497
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 1: people of my generation getting roasted for still referencing vines

498
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 1: that came out back in twenty sixteen, and I see

499
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 1: some of that humor, I'm like, oh man, we did

500
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 1: look a bit ridiculous, But at the time it was hilarious.

501
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 1: It was new and it was current. But I think

502
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 1: me trying to get away from that humor because now

503
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 1: it kind of feels like dad humor a little bit,

504
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 1: even though I don't have kids, I'm like, oh, man,

505
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 1: I feel like every generation goes through this where all

506
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 1: the things you found funny are now lame. So that's

507
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 1: a great movie. Easy a Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist

508
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 1: from two thousand and eight. Again, this movie also has

509
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 1: that main character energy, that love of indie bands wandering

510
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,719
Speaker 1: around New York City, a lot of messy feelings, and

511
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 1: that belief that your perfect love is waiting for you

512
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 1: at the next show. Any movie driven by an indie soundtrack,

513
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 1: you could throw it on this list. You also have

514
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 1: movies like The Spectacular Now in twenty thirteen, which I

515
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 1: believe was one of the first Shalen Woodley and Miles

516
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 1: Teller movies that I remember watching watching on a Blu

517
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 1: ray I got from red Box, And this is one

518
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 1: of those movies that I thought, Man, that movie is

519
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:48,240
Speaker 1: so deep. Out of all the movies, it's probably the

520
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 1: most dramatic and most grounded movie on this list. But

521
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 1: I think why I would make a case for it

522
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 1: is I believe it has that millennial sincerity, that feeling

523
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,280
Speaker 1: you have when you're young and in love and it

524
00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 1: feels like everything you do in that relationship is life altering,

525
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 1: kind of similar to that. I would also include The

526
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 1: Fault in Our Stars from twenty fourteen. I mean, what

527
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 1: gets more millennial than two teenagers who speak in really

528
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 1: profound Tumblr style quotes. I would also include because it

529
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:21,560
Speaker 1: has the music Pitch Perfect from twenty twelve, again rooted

530
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 1: in how friends are your found family. It has the

531
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 1: great singing montages and how music can be your destiny.

532
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:33,200
Speaker 1: I would also include Scott Pilgrim Versus the World, And

533
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 1: finally I would include at Adventureland, which is probably my

534
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 1: favorite Kristen Stewart. Oh, I don't know if it's my

535
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 1: favorite Jesse Eisenberg movie, because I really did like a

536
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 1: Real Pain from a couple of years ago, but up

537
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 1: until that movie. Oh, Social Network is also really good too.

538
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 1: But this movie was all about how a summer job

539
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:56,120
Speaker 1: serves as his emotional wakening. And I think my favorite

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00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 1: part about this movie that I feel is so millennial

541
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 1: optimism coded was that feeling that a parking lot conversation

542
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 1: could change your life. If you've ever had a great

543
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 1: parking lot conversation, go back and watch this movie, because

544
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 1: it's all those feelings you get while having that talk

545
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 1: with your friends. And I go back to this because

546
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 1: when I first moved to Austin, I was in a

547
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 1: band and we would go in practice, and in between

548
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 1: a couple of practices, we would take a break out

549
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:28,480
Speaker 1: in our parking lot, and it felt like those conversations

550
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: we had in that parking lot were the best conversations

551
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 1: we ever had, where you just get into it talking

552
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 1: about life, talking about your dreams, thinking of things you

553
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:40,960
Speaker 1: wanted to do, in forming plans. We should we should

554
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 1: make a movie, we should do that. You write this,

555
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 1: you have a great idea, we should do all the

556
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: art for it, and you're really great at this. We're

557
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 1: gonna do a lot of big things. We're gonna start

558
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 1: a website. I'll go home tonight and get started. And

559
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 1: sometimes it would lead to things, but sometimes it was

560
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:01,479
Speaker 1: just that thought and that feeling of forming a future

561
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 1: with your friends in that parking lot conversation. It didn't

562
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 1: always have to lead to anything. It was just that

563
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: feeling of optimism. It's kind of like when you buy

564
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: a lottery ticket and the jackpot is at a billion dollars.

565
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 1: You're probably never going to win that because the odds

566
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: are crazy stacked against you, But what is still fun

567
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: to do is talk about what you would do if

568
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 1: you won the lottery. Oh, man, I'd buy a new house,

569
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 1: I'd get my parents set up, I'd go on a trip.

570
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 1: I'd be gone for a year. And that is more

571
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 1: fun than it would ever be to actually win that money.

572
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 1: You could argue that, but I think that is what

573
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 1: makes that enjoyable. That is what makes that a form

574
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 1: of entertainment along those same lines a great parking lot conversation.

575
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 1: If you have the delusional glasses of a millennial, it

576
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 1: feels like it could change your life. One summer could

577
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 1: do it. And that is why I feel that Adventureland

578
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: does deserve a spot in this. So that is the list.

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Speaker 1: If you can think of any other movies from this

580
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 1: era that you would want to include the best millennial

581
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 1: optimism movies, let me know. Send me an email Moviemike

582
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 1: d at gmail dot com, or hit me up on

583
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 1: socials at Mike dstro on Everything or YouTube dot com

584
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 1: slash Mike Distro. And I am about to get into

585
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 1: my spoiler free review of The Bride. I actually recorded

586
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 1: it before I went to go see Hoppers. I wish

587
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 1: I would have waited because I now believe Hoppers is

588
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 1: the best Pixar movie of the decade, and I don't

589
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 1: even think that's too crazy of a statement. When you

590
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: look at all the Pixar movies that have come out

591
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 1: since twenty twenty, you have Onward Soul, Luca Turning, Red

592
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 1: light Year, Elemental Inside Out, to l Eo, and now Hoppers.

593
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: The animation was the best from Pixar since probably Toy

594
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:57,239
Speaker 1: Story four, where they really needed a facelift when it

595
00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 1: comes to giving characters that have a whole new, unique profile.

596
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: Don't really feel like that twenty tens Pixar style. That's

597
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 1: kind of become a little bit stale. But the animation

598
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: was so good. The director is the same person who

599
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 1: created We Bear Bears, so I feel like he has

600
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 1: a really great grasp on how to make a great

601
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 1: animal story. The voice acting is the best, maybe even

602
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 1: going back to the twenty tens, because I felt such

603
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:28,359
Speaker 1: an emotional connection to all of the characters. I can

604
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 1: only say good things about this movie. It is one

605
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 1: of those ones where I felt so emotionally connected to

606
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 1: it from the very beginning. A story about a girl

607
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:43,840
Speaker 1: who loves animals wants to preserve the environment, also dealing

608
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 1: with some grief and loss and trauma and all these things.

609
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 1: I felt so instantly connected to her character within the

610
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 1: first ten minutes, and I knew it was gonna be

611
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: a good time from there throughout. I was laughing at

612
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 1: various moments throughout the movie. I think it's a story

613
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 1: that not only kids will learn a lesson from, but

614
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,719
Speaker 1: also adults like me who sometimes need to know that man,

615
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 1: not everybody in the world is awful, and sometimes you

616
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,319
Speaker 1: just have to believe the good in people. I learned

617
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 1: something from it. In a theater full of mostly kids,

618
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: there was also one other couple who didn't have kids

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00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: aside from me and Kelsey. So if you went to

620
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 1: see it over the weekend, hope you loved it too.

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Speaker 1: If you haven't yet and we're on the fence about it,

622
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,840
Speaker 1: definitely check out Hoppers. That's a mini review there. I

623
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 1: will come back and get my full spoiler free review

624
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 1: of The Bride. Let's get into it now. A spoiler

625
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 1: free movie review of The Bride, starring Jesse Buckley as

626
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 1: The Bride, Christian Bale as Frankenstein's Monster, directed by Maggie

627
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 1: Jillen Hall. She also has a brother in this Jake

628
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 1: Jillen Hall. I was excited going into it because I

629
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 1: couldn't believe that a movie this strange and bizarre can

630
00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:01,280
Speaker 1: exist from a mainstream studio in twenty twenty six. And

631
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 1: by the looks of the trailer, I was like, this

632
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:04,839
Speaker 1: movie is gonna go there. It's gonna be rated art,

633
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,839
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of blood and violence. The

634
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 1: Bride of Frankenstein's story told in a way we haven't

635
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 1: seen before. Female focused, big energy going into it, a

636
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 1: lot of strange visuals, incredible makeup and costume design. What

637
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 1: the story is about takes place in the nineteen thirties.

638
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 1: You have a very lonely Frankenstein who has been living

639
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:29,840
Speaker 1: for over one hundred years, just trying to find someone

640
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 1: to hook up with. Basically, he is very just like

641
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 1: I need somebody, So he goes to a mad scientist.

642
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 1: It's this woman who does a lot of experiments in

643
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 1: her basement, and he goes to her and tells her,

644
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 1: give me some money to hook up with I need

645
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:47,359
Speaker 1: a bride. And you have this other story going alongside

646
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Speaker 1: of it, where Jesse Buckley's character is probably hanging out

647
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 1: with some shady people. She ends up dying, gets buried,

648
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:59,399
Speaker 1: and at that same time, Frankenstein's monster and this mad

649
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:01,919
Speaker 1: scientist dig her up and bring her back to life,

650
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 1: and bam, you have your bride. Frankenstein, you can finally

651
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:08,360
Speaker 1: do what you've been trying to do your entire life.

652
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:12,720
Speaker 1: And the entire movie is this Bonnie and Clyde styles

653
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:17,680
Speaker 1: story where she goes from being at a place where

654
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 1: she's like, why am I here? What is my purpose?

655
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 1: What was my life like before this? Because she doesn't

656
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 1: really remember, and then you have a lot of murder,

657
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 1: you have possession, you have a radical movement that is

658
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:33,240
Speaker 1: created from her character. Jesse Buckley very much takes control

659
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:35,760
Speaker 1: of this story, and I think that was the most

660
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 1: exciting thing about it. Her performance was top notch, which

661
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,319
Speaker 1: I think she is a fantastic actor. I hope she

662
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,720
Speaker 1: goes on to win an Academy Award, if not this year,

663
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 1: somewhere throughout her career, she is going to win it

664
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 1: because she is so dynamic on screen. The character of

665
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:54,319
Speaker 1: the Bride itself is really over the top because she

666
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: speaks in different dialects and you see almost two characters

667
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 1: living inside of her. That's exactly what you see, and

668
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:05,720
Speaker 1: I now see why Maggie jillen Hall fought so hard

669
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 1: to get Jesse Buckley in this role because they have

670
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:11,279
Speaker 1: worked together in a movie before this. This is only

671
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 1: the second movie that Maggie jillen Hall has directed, and

672
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:18,880
Speaker 1: I can see why she wanted her because it's a

673
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 1: very demanding role. If you are not at the top

674
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:27,879
Speaker 1: of your game, it really would not have worked. Now overall,

675
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,120
Speaker 1: I just felt like this movie was holding back. And

676
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:33,839
Speaker 1: while I loved all the visuals, I thought the world

677
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: building was really great. These characters, even though they've been

678
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 1: done so many times in film and in TV, it

679
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 1: felt like something different. But I just felt that the

680
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:49,320
Speaker 1: story never really got going. It wasn't until probably forty

681
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:52,319
Speaker 1: minutes in that there was some real action, And I

682
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,320
Speaker 1: know it's not supposed to be a full on action movie,

683
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:59,480
Speaker 1: and it was supposed to tell a story about female empowerment,

684
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 1: which I think the message was there, but I really

685
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: felt like this movie had its legs cut off, where

686
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 1: it was not committed to being as weird as I

687
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: know it should have been. And I know Maggie Jillenhall

688
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 1: said she did have some pushback from Warner Brothers, and

689
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:17,960
Speaker 1: I think she did not make the movie she really

690
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 1: intended to make because of that, and that showed to

691
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 1: me because I just felt time and time again where

692
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 1: this story wanted to move the violence a little bit

693
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 1: harsher tell this story in a way that was a

694
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 1: little bit more brash and jarring to the viewer. It

695
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 1: just felt like it didn't really want to go there,

696
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: And me as the viewer, I felt like there was

697
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 1: this corporate energy just behind Maggie Jillenhall, and she's looking

698
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 1: down the camera like, are you sure you want to

699
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 1: put that in the movie? That's a little bit too

700
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: hardcore for audiences? How about just scale it back a little,

701
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 1: watered it down just a little because there was never

702
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 1: any tension I felt that the story created. There were

703
00:39:55,480 --> 00:40:01,359
Speaker 1: moments where there's some really intense action, some shootouts, bloodshed,

704
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 1: and it just felt like it never really wanted to

705
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 1: go there. And were they telling her that because she

706
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 1: is still a rather untested director, or they telling her

707
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:13,880
Speaker 1: that because she's a female director. I just felt like

708
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,800
Speaker 1: I wanted to see the director's cut immediately after watching

709
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:20,480
Speaker 1: The Bride, where I wanted this to be a much

710
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 1: harder r story because I think the subject matter and

711
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 1: the message it was trying to get across needed to

712
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:29,759
Speaker 1: go there, and I didn't think at any point it

713
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 1: went there. So therefore the movie just had this lackluster

714
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:37,319
Speaker 1: feeling where, Okay, you have these cool elements, but it

715
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 1: kind of just felt like a Lady Gaga music video

716
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 1: with a little bit of violence sprinkled in there. I

717
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:45,800
Speaker 1: think if that violence would have been intensified a little

718
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:48,560
Speaker 1: bit more, some of the harsh realities of what the

719
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 1: bride goes through and what the story and the message

720
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 1: here is, and I just felt like it never truly

721
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:57,680
Speaker 1: became its own movie. It just felt like there was

722
00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:00,719
Speaker 1: a lot of wasted potential, even though you have these

723
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:04,919
Speaker 1: two incredible performances from Jesse Buckley and Christian Bale, who

724
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 1: together are magic on the screen. I love their dynamic

725
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 1: and their relationship and how messy it is, and how

726
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 1: once they truly feel like monsters, they really settle into

727
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:16,880
Speaker 1: their own. But there was never that moment where I

728
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:19,880
Speaker 1: felt like their characters clicked together. I just felt like

729
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 1: there was way too much dancing. It started to remind

730
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 1: me a bit of Joker one and Joker two, especially

731
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 1: in Joker two, where you have Joker and Harley Quinn

732
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 1: coming together them starting this movement. I felt like it

733
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:36,880
Speaker 1: was a better joker too, but still it didn't really

734
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 1: know who it wanted to be, and that was a

735
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 1: problem for me. It didn't mean to rhyme there, but

736
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 1: it just kind of came out that way where you

737
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 1: have this really dynamic character and you see the movement

738
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 1: that she is creating, but it just feels like it

739
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:56,920
Speaker 1: doesn't really land. But I have to imagine, this was

740
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,799
Speaker 1: such a fun movie to make with everybody involved. I mean,

741
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,840
Speaker 1: Penelope Cruise in this movie, and I love that nineteen

742
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 1: thirties New York setting where everybody is walking around in

743
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:09,839
Speaker 1: like those old school fancy suits and hats and be like, man,

744
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 1: she I got my Tommy gun. I think all those

745
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:16,399
Speaker 1: elements were really great. And again you have this much

746
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:19,240
Speaker 1: singing and dancing in old school black and white films.

747
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 1: I love the scenes where they go to the movies together.

748
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 1: It just kind of hurts me a little bit that

749
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:26,359
Speaker 1: I didn't end up loving the movie more because I

750
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 1: loved all the ingredients. It kind of felt like if

751
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 1: you go to a vintage store and I find a

752
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: jacket that is amazing, It's a good price, and I

753
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 1: want to buy it, but it's like two, maybe three

754
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 1: sizes too big, and you try to make it work,

755
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:41,200
Speaker 1: You're like, Okay, maybe I could layer it up a

756
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:43,239
Speaker 1: little bit. I love this jacket so much. I really

757
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 1: want to buy it. It's such a good deal, but

758
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 1: it just doesn't fit right. And as much as I

759
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 1: like it, as much as I like the material, as

760
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 1: much as I like maybe the logo or the design

761
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 1: and how comfortable it is, it just doesn't feel right.

762
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: It doesn't look right. And I can't imagine me putting

763
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 1: that in my closet and feeling like, oh, I made

764
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:04,319
Speaker 1: a good decision here. As much as I want to

765
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:08,239
Speaker 1: make that jacket work because I love it, it just

766
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:11,479
Speaker 1: doesn't work. It doesn't fit right. There's just something off

767
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:13,840
Speaker 1: about it. So for the bride, I'm gonna give it

768
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 1: two point five out of five stitches on the face.

769
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:23,800
Speaker 1: It's time to head down to movie. Mike Traylor Park

770
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:27,719
Speaker 1: Scary Movie six is coming out in theaters this year

771
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:32,480
Speaker 1: on June twelfth, almost twenty six years after the first

772
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 1: movie came out in theaters back on July seven, two thousand.

773
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 1: This movie was mind blowing to me when it first

774
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:41,360
Speaker 1: came out back in the early two thousands, because to me,

775
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: this was my introduction to parody movies. I was after

776
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:53,240
Speaker 1: the generation of Airplane and watching this movie totally blew

777
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 1: my mind as a kid, which, by the way, at

778
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 1: nine years old, I should not have been watching any

779
00:43:57,560 --> 00:43:59,799
Speaker 1: of the scary movies. And I think it's because they

780
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:03,279
Speaker 1: were so forbidden to me. My parents would have murdered me,

781
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 1: not in a literal sense if they knew I was

782
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:10,319
Speaker 1: watching these movies because they are raunchy, and not just

783
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:16,000
Speaker 1: a little raunchy. I would say arguably the raunchiest, most

784
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:21,320
Speaker 1: famous franchise that there is. All the jokes they even

785
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 1: at that time in the early two thousands, were risky

786
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:25,720
Speaker 1: where you could get away with some of these things.

787
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:29,840
Speaker 1: But even at that time, it pushed the envelope into

788
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 1: my young, dumb mind. I thought, this is the greatest

789
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 1: thing ever. And what made those movies great were the

790
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 1: Wayns brothers because they were only a part of the

791
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:42,359
Speaker 1: first two movies. Sean and Marlon Wayans starred in them.

792
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:45,840
Speaker 1: Their brother, Keenan Ivory Wayams was behind the camera directing

793
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 1: those first two movies, and after that they pieced out,

794
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 1: so between three, four and five they were not involved

795
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:55,399
Speaker 1: in those and now coming back for Scary Movie six.

796
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 1: Even though Keenan Ivory Wayans isn't directing this one, he

797
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 1: is a part of the writing team. And that is

798
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: the only real reason why I am excited about Scary

799
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 1: Movie six, because you have that original team back who

800
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:15,200
Speaker 1: really understood the project. Because three, I still found enjoyable.

801
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:17,919
Speaker 1: I had it on DVD, so maybe out of all

802
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 1: the movies, is probably the one I watched the most.

803
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 1: It had Charlie Sheen in it, it was heavily rooted

804
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 1: in a parody of Signs. I take that one for

805
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 1: what it is, but the first two are goaded in

806
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 1: my opinion. But now you have everybody back, Anna Faris,

807
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:36,440
Speaker 1: Regina Hall. I will get into the long list of

808
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 1: all the movies that they are going to parody, but

809
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:41,880
Speaker 1: my big question is is it going to hit the

810
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 1: same because I think the problem now in twenty twenty six,

811
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:48,960
Speaker 1: the way the world is much different is there are

812
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:52,759
Speaker 1: so many avenues of what you can watch. Will this

813
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:56,440
Speaker 1: movie hit the same way because we're not all watching

814
00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 1: the same things. So we'll get into talking about that,

815
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 1: but before I do, here is just a little bit

816
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 1: of the Scream six trailer coming out this summer on

817
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 1: June twelfth. My god, he's stand her, not her my pronouns?

818
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:16,360
Speaker 1: Are they them? He's them? We bag there's a serial

819
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:21,840
Speaker 1: killer on the loop two days. Should we hurt? I

820
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:24,399
Speaker 1: really want to, But I'm a Republican now, so I'm

821
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:26,799
Speaker 1: supposed to be racist. Oh girl, I think all white

822
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:31,799
Speaker 1: people are racists. Anyway, can here? Okay? Oh hey there,

823
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:34,280
Speaker 1: we heard tell of the Halloween party. We're here to trains,

824
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:38,759
Speaker 1: play bad music, do some half gay? Why just half gay?

825
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 1: Thing I'm thinking about while watching this trailer is I

826
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:46,520
Speaker 1: am somebody who obviously watches a lot of movies. I

827
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:49,360
Speaker 1: got all the references I have seen, all the movies

828
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:52,280
Speaker 1: that they are doing a parody of. Even the small

829
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:54,960
Speaker 1: little details in there, I'm like, oh, that is from

830
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 1: that movie. They are all movies that I would say

831
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:02,280
Speaker 1: came out in the last three years or so, twenty

832
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 1: twenty two to twenty twenty five. I would say that

833
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:08,719
Speaker 1: is the wheelhouse of movies that they are doing parodies of. Now,

834
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:12,160
Speaker 1: back in the two thousands, when a movie came out,

835
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:15,720
Speaker 1: everybody knew about it. We were all watching the same things.

836
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:20,080
Speaker 1: And the first movie was a big parody of Scream

837
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 1: and The Blair Witch Project and a lot of other

838
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:26,120
Speaker 1: movies that came out in the late nineties. But everybody

839
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:29,400
Speaker 1: knew those references because those movies were massive. And I

840
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:32,440
Speaker 1: think that is why, especially those first two scary movies

841
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 1: work so well, is because we were all in on

842
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 1: the joke, because we all knew what they were making

843
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 1: fun of. But if you start to look at the

844
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:44,160
Speaker 1: long list of movies that they are talking about, even

845
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:46,400
Speaker 1: though a lot of these have had a real big

846
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:49,080
Speaker 1: impact on pop culture, otherwise they wouldn't be doing a

847
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 1: parody of them. I don't know if the average movie

848
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:56,400
Speaker 1: fan who maybe saw the scary movies back in the

849
00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:57,840
Speaker 1: day and thought, oh, I want to go see the

850
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:00,879
Speaker 1: new one maybe has kept up from three, four or five.

851
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 1: If they go watch this movie, are they going to

852
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 1: get all the jokes? And does that even matter? Is

853
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 1: it still funny if you don't know what they are

854
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:13,799
Speaker 1: poking fun up? I still think if the writing is

855
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 1: done right, it will still be enjoyable even if you

856
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:19,400
Speaker 1: don't get all the references. Just by the looks of

857
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 1: this trailer, it looks like it's going to be ridiculous

858
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 1: enough that it almost doesn't even matter what they're doing

859
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:27,879
Speaker 1: a parody of. But I'll go through the list now,

860
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:30,959
Speaker 1: because what you heard there in that clip, you heard

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Speaker 1: some people coming up to the door trying to crash

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Speaker 1: a party. That is a parody of sinners. Throughout the trailer,

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Speaker 1: you also see a parody of weapons. You see some

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Speaker 1: kids running down the street holding their arms out. They

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Speaker 1: even put the clock at two seventeen. In this trailer,

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Speaker 1: you see them parody the Substance. You see Ghost Space

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Speaker 1: pulling out that serum that they use in that movie.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how many people actually watch The Substance

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Speaker 1: Terrifier three. I feel like even if you haven't watched

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Speaker 1: the Terrifier franchise, you know Art the Clown. Maybe you

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Speaker 1: went to a Party City or Spirit, which I think

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Speaker 1: Party City is dead by the way. Now, maybe you

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Speaker 1: went to Spirit for your Halloween costume. You've probably seen

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Speaker 1: Art the Clown. So again, I don't think you need

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Speaker 1: to watch all those movies to understand that. But there

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Speaker 1: is a parody of that in this movie. That is

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Speaker 1: probably the most disgusting of everything in the trailer. That

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Speaker 1: is really pushing the boundaries because you have Art the

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Speaker 1: Clown with this bag of body parts handing them out

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Speaker 1: to kids. One thing that he hands the kids, I

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00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:31,799
Speaker 1: was like, man, they really went for it. That is

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Speaker 1: probably the boldest joke I've seen, not only in a

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Speaker 1: movie in this decade, in the twenty twenties, but to

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Speaker 1: put that in a trailer. They hand the kids some testicles,

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Speaker 1: some seber testicles. That is going for it, and I

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Speaker 1: commend this movie for taking a risk in a world

887
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Speaker 1: where I fear nobody wants to make waves, especially when

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Speaker 1: it comes to comedy, where you can get canceled really

889
00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:01,480
Speaker 1: quickly and you don't want to walk that line. But

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Speaker 1: I think if you go so over the top like

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Speaker 1: you do in a scary movie, somehow it works because

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Speaker 1: I think these movies don't really punch down in a

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Speaker 1: way when making fun of these things. I think they

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Speaker 1: do it in such a ridiculous fashion that no one

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Speaker 1: is going to get their feelings hurt. No one should

896
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Speaker 1: really be upset, especially the filmmakers of these movies. I

897
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Speaker 1: think I would take it more as a badge of

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Speaker 1: honor if somebody was making fun of the movie I made.

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Speaker 1: They will also be doing a parody of Nicholas Cage's

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Speaker 1: Serial Killer from Long legs. Chris Elliott will be playing him,

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Speaker 1: which Chris Elliott was the guy in Scary Movie two

902
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Speaker 1: who had the hand that nobody wanted to touch. They're

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Speaker 1: doing a parody of Smile Wan and Smile Too. Megan

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Speaker 1: is the one I knew they were gonna do because

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00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:51,400
Speaker 1: that character kind of already makes fun of itself because

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Speaker 1: it really leans into the goofiness of that character, especially

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Speaker 1: with Megan two point zero, so I almost feel like

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Speaker 1: putting Megan in a Scary Movie six. But again, like Art,

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00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:05,840
Speaker 1: the clown is probably the second, if not the most

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Speaker 1: memorable new horror character in the last five years. They

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Speaker 1: did back into the twenty tens and do a get

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Speaker 1: Out parody Marlon Wayn's character being sunk into an armchair,

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Speaker 1: just like they did in that movie. You see Anna

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00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:22,640
Speaker 1: Faris's character much like Jamie Lee Curtis and Halloween twenty

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Speaker 1: eighteen version where she is basically living inside a fortress

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00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:29,839
Speaker 1: hiding herself from Michael Myers, and that is where her

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Speaker 1: and Regina Hall's character meet back up again. It also

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Speaker 1: is kind of giving me final destination bloodlines vibes. They

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Speaker 1: also snuck into parody to a Quiet Place Wednesday When

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00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:43,719
Speaker 1: referencing a character, they call her Tuesday, and it just

921
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:47,200
Speaker 1: looks like Jenna Ortega in a really bad wig. I

922
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Speaker 1: think they're also going to do a parody of everything everywhere,

923
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Speaker 1: all at once, Friday the thirteenth and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

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00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:57,040
Speaker 1: Obviously everybody knows those movies. And I know I've mentioned

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Speaker 1: this a lot recently that it is really hard for

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Speaker 1: me to get excited about a movie that is just

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Speaker 1: supposed to be fun. And that is exactly what this

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Speaker 1: movie is. And I don't try to go into every

929
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Speaker 1: movie thinking, man, how am I gonna review this? How

930
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:11,920
Speaker 1: am I gonna make all of these notes about it.

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Speaker 1: I think this is one that I probably won't make

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Speaker 1: any notes about. I'll just go in enjoy it like

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Speaker 1: nine year old me. That is the mentality I am

934
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Speaker 1: taking into this movie, because nine year old me would

935
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Speaker 1: have been like, shut up, dude, this is scary movie. Six.

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Speaker 1: You need to be excited about this movie. You need

937
00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:34,799
Speaker 1: to go be so happy that there is a new

938
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Speaker 1: scary movie and just go enjoy it and shut up.

939
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Speaker 1: So again, that will be my mentality. They've already moved

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Speaker 1: up the release date, so hopefully it's a good sign

941
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Speaker 1: or maybe they're just trying to get out in a

942
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Speaker 1: week that is a little bit less competitive but scary.

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Speaker 1: Movie six is coming out in theaters on June twelfth,

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Speaker 1: and that was this week's edition of Movie My Trailer.

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Speaker 1: Pars D is gonna do it for another episode here

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Speaker 1: of the podcast, but before I go, I gotta give

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

948
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Speaker 1: shouting out Andrew on X Andrew. I'm gonna try really

949
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Speaker 1: hard to say your last name Andrew Motskus. Andrew Motskus,

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Speaker 1: I think that is how you pronounce it, Andrew. If

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Speaker 1: I am wrong, please correct me. But I wanted to

952
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Speaker 1: shout out your comment on an episode I did a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago on AI and how it is

954
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:33,400
Speaker 1: going to change Hollywood because after somebody made a movie

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Speaker 1: that they claim to be a two hundred million dollar

956
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Speaker 1: movie in less than a day, and Andrew, you wrote,

957
00:53:38,880 --> 00:53:41,719
Speaker 1: not a fan of making an AI movie, but somewhere

958
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Speaker 1: I see it being super beneficial. Is for international dubbing.

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00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:49,520
Speaker 1: I always hate English dubs. I feel like it would

960
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:52,360
Speaker 1: be amazing to have the original actor and having it

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Speaker 1: in any person's own language. Love the show. I think

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Speaker 1: That is a great idea, Andrew, which I'm not against

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Speaker 1: using AI as a two I think the same way

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Speaker 1: we use special effects in green screens. It can be

965
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Speaker 1: a tool, but I still think you have to put

966
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Speaker 1: the power in the creative, in the humans. They still

967
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:13,600
Speaker 1: need to control it. I will never sign up for

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Speaker 1: watching a movie that was entirely generated with AI. But

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Speaker 1: like you said right here, Andrew, that is a great

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Speaker 1: idea because you could use the original actor's voice and

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Speaker 1: put it in another language. That would be great because

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Speaker 1: for me, I always want to see it in that

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Speaker 1: original actor's voice, in their own language. But that is

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Speaker 1: the only way we can do it right now. And

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Speaker 1: there have been instances like Adrian Brody in The Brutalist

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Speaker 1: where they did use some AI to fix some of

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Speaker 1: the dialect and fix some of the words that he

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Speaker 1: maybe mispronounced just a little bit. And they've used AI

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Speaker 1: to fix that, and there was some controversy over that

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Speaker 1: because that movie was nominated for Best Picture of How

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Speaker 1: can you use a guide? Is that all have to

982
00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:56,840
Speaker 1: come into the actor. I still believe it can be

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Speaker 1: a tool as long as there's still a human element

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Speaker 1: behind it. So thank you Andrew for that comment, Thank

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Speaker 1: you wherever you are now for listening, Thanks for telling

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Speaker 1: a friend, for being subscribed here to the podcast, for

987
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Speaker 1: watching clips on YouTube, which some videos have popped off

988
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Speaker 1: in the last week. A lot of people were upset

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Speaker 1: with my Screen seven review. That is a very passionate

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Speaker 1: franchise I have learned in the last week. If you

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Speaker 1: want to check me out over there, it is YouTube

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Speaker 1: dot com slash Mike Distro. And until next time, go

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Speaker 1: out and watch good movies and I will talk to

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Speaker 1: you here