1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I 2 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 1: am your host Movie Mike. There is a fine line 3 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 1: between cringe and comedy, and that is what we are 4 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:12,320 Speaker 1: talking about today. I've titled today's episode good Comedy, Bad Comedy, 5 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: and I'll explain what that is. But if you've been 6 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:16,480 Speaker 1: looking for a laugh, I'll let you know some good 7 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:18,880 Speaker 1: ones to watch and some good ones to avoid. In 8 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:21,759 Speaker 1: the movie review, will talk about a thriller based on 9 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:25,439 Speaker 1: a true story that completely shook my world. Independent movies 10 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 1: are killing it right now, and then in the trailer 11 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: park we'll keep that indie film fandom alive in a 12 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:34,160 Speaker 1: new movie starring Woody Harrelson called Triangle of Sadness. Shout 13 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 1: out to the Monday Morning movie crew. Let's talk movies. 14 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 1: In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast, 15 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 1: one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like 16 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 1: never before in a movie podcast. A man with so 17 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 1: much movie knowledge, he's basically like a walking on MTV 18 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: with glasses. From the Nashville podcast Networking Movie Movie Podacast. 19 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 1: I want to start today's episode by letting you all 20 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 1: in on something I was recently duped. There was a 21 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 1: new movie on Netflix called night Shift that I don't know. 22 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: For some reason, I thought it was going to be good. 23 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 1: It started Jamie Fox, who in most things I enjoy. 24 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:19,399 Speaker 1: It also starts Dave Franco. I thought that two of 25 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:23,480 Speaker 1: them together in his vampire comedy movie on Netflix was 26 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:26,039 Speaker 1: right up my alley. I watched this movie and it 27 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 1: was one of the worst movies I've seen in the 28 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 1: entire year, maybe in the last decade. And this just 29 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:34,480 Speaker 1: adds to my discussion of how hard it is to 30 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:37,679 Speaker 1: make a comedy in this day and age. So I 31 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 1: sat down and came up with a list of two 32 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:44,399 Speaker 1: similar comedies. One of them is great, and one of 33 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 1: them you do not need to waste your time on watching. 34 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 1: So if you've been looking for a laugh like I 35 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 1: have recently, I just need something kind of lighthearted to 36 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 1: balance all of the dramatic thrillers I've been watching lately. 37 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 1: So I thought this movie was gonna be my palate cleanser. 38 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 1: It wasn't, and I on you to avoid this movie 39 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 1: and some of the other movies I've talked about. Hopefully 40 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 1: you haven't seen them yet. So I'll give you two 41 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 1: movies under the same kind of theme. They have some 42 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: of the same actors, the same genre, the same director. 43 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 1: One of them is good and one of them is bad. 44 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 1: And the name of the episode is It's time for 45 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: good comedy, Bad Comedy. Here we go. Let's start where 46 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 1: I've already began the episode, and let's talk about Dave Franco, who, 47 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,640 Speaker 1: up until this recent movie, I thought I was a 48 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 1: fan of Dave Franco. So first, let's start with the 49 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:41,640 Speaker 1: positive good comedy. A good comedy that Dave Franco was 50 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 1: in was twenty one Jump Street. This was kind of 51 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 1: my introduction into Dave Franco, who I really just know 52 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 1: as being James Franco's younger brother. But he's done some 53 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:54,360 Speaker 1: pretty good work in the comedy space that he was 54 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 1: somebody that I never really was a fan of but 55 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:59,639 Speaker 1: also didn't really dislike for any reason. But I think 56 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: his u s role comes from twenty eleven twenty one 57 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: Jump Street, which is based on the TV show from 58 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 1: back in the Day, except now. It is Jonah Hill 59 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 1: and Shanning Tatum who are to both underachieving undercover cops 60 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:13,679 Speaker 1: who go back to high school to blend in with 61 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 1: a bunch of high school students and they're trying to 62 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: discover who is behind this synthetic drug ring, and Dave 63 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: Franco is one of the students at this school. So 64 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 1: in this movie he is a supporting character to the 65 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:29,119 Speaker 1: two main stars, but overall he does a pretty good 66 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 1: job in this role. Although I do, of course attribute 67 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: the success of this movie to the chemistry that Jonah 68 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: Hill and Channing Kadom have on screen, I think it's 69 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 1: because we already consider Jonah Hill to be such a 70 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: great comedic actor from his work in super Bad and 71 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 1: countless other comedy movies. And then you have Channing Tatum, 72 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 1: who made his debut and Coach Carter, which was a 73 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 1: drama in two thousand and five. His breakout role was 74 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 1: in Step Up, which I think a lot of people 75 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 1: still associate him with that role, and you pair that 76 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 1: with Magic Mike just kind of has that thing going 77 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 1: for him. But then he comes on to twenty one 78 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: Jump Street and shows everybody he can be a really 79 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 1: great comedic actor and has impeccable comedic timing in this movie, 80 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 1: which is a really hard thing to do, and he's 81 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: kind of proven that he can do a little bit 82 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:18,719 Speaker 1: of everything. I feel like his action movie career never 83 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 1: really took off. He was in some pretty big action bombs. 84 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:24,159 Speaker 1: Even though you look at an actor like him and 85 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:26,280 Speaker 1: think that's an easy plug and play to make him 86 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: a great action star, just hasn't quite hit there yet. 87 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 1: But I really like that he keeps going back to comedy. 88 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 1: Even seeing him in the Last City earlier this year, 89 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 1: even though I didn't entirely love mainly the plot of 90 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 1: that movie, I still think he is a really great 91 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 1: comedic character actor. So all those things considered, with Jonah Hill, 92 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:48,360 Speaker 1: Channing Tatum, Dave Franco, Rob Wriggle, I would consider this 93 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: a good comedy bad comedy. The bad one here is 94 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:56,159 Speaker 1: the one I mentioned earlier night Shift on Netflix. It 95 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:58,600 Speaker 1: was just released a couple of or maybe a few 96 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:00,680 Speaker 1: weeks ago now, But I at it and my que 97 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: just sitting there, and I've been waiting for it. I've 98 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 1: been waiting for the time to watch it. I finally 99 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:08,480 Speaker 1: watched it, and within the first twenty minutes I knew 100 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 1: this is not going to be a great movie. The 101 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:13,280 Speaker 1: entire plot of this movie is Jamie Fox is a 102 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:16,719 Speaker 1: vampire killer. He lives in Los Angeles. It looks like 103 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 1: it's set in modern day, and he gets paid to 104 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 1: kill vampires and harvest the teeth from their mouth, and 105 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 1: that is what's valuable. It really kind of jumps into 106 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:29,040 Speaker 1: this ridiculous plot without any explanation, which I'm fine with. 107 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:31,479 Speaker 1: You don't have to explain everything all up front, But 108 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 1: throughout the entire movie, it never really gets back to 109 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:38,039 Speaker 1: fleshing out this story of why exactly their vampires and 110 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 1: why exactly their teeth are so valuable. But Jamie Fox's 111 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 1: character basically has one week to make enough money to 112 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:49,279 Speaker 1: keep his ex wife and daughter from moving from Los 113 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:52,560 Speaker 1: Angeles to Florida. And then you have Dave Franco's character 114 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:55,279 Speaker 1: who works at this vampire agency, Yes it gets more 115 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 1: and more ridiculous, who is now hired to follow him 116 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:01,599 Speaker 1: along to every job he goes on, trying to find 117 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 1: these violations to get him fired. So that's the entire 118 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 1: story of this movie, Jamie Fox going around killing vampires. 119 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:11,800 Speaker 1: Dave Franco is supposed to be the nerdy, straight laced 120 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:15,279 Speaker 1: desk worker who doesn't know anything, and Jamie FOXX is 121 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:20,920 Speaker 1: the cool, slide comedic leading guy, and the two just 122 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 1: don't work together, and I think it's greatly due today 123 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 1: Franco's character and how annoying he is. I just think 124 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:31,039 Speaker 1: they didn't get his character right. It's one thing to 125 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:35,479 Speaker 1: make a character nerdy and inexperience, but there was no 126 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,920 Speaker 1: redeeming qualities to him. And while they're trying to make 127 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 1: him out to be this person who was just so 128 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 1: completely opposite of Jamie Foxx character, they just made one 129 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:48,159 Speaker 1: of the most annoying characters I've ever seen in a movie, 130 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 1: which made it hard to watch. You pair that with 131 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:54,280 Speaker 1: the dumb plot and overall just cringe worthy acting. It 132 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 1: felt like each line was being shouted out to them 133 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:00,280 Speaker 1: by the director moments before they filmed this. And then 134 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 1: you add in Snoop Dogg, who isn't really known for 135 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:06,159 Speaker 1: his acting abilities, and even though he was the best 136 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:09,160 Speaker 1: part of the movie, in no way did it save 137 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 1: this entire thing. So this was the case that I had, 138 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 1: for some reason, high expectations going into it and found 139 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 1: myself laughing zero times throughout the movie, maybe a slight 140 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 1: chuckle or from my nose. That's about as much comedic 141 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 1: integrity that this movie had. So it's a rare one 142 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 1: star for me. So if you were planning on watching 143 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 1: this movie, on Netflix. Don't do it. Let's move on 144 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 1: now to one of the best comedic directors of our lifetime, 145 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 1: Judd Apatow, Good Comedy. I think his pivotal most influential 146 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:48,200 Speaker 1: comedy was the forty year Old Vision. It's arguable that 147 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 1: you could put forty year Old Virgin and Knocked Up 148 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 1: on that same playing field, but fourty year old version 149 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 1: being the first one. It gave him the authority to 150 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 1: make the movies he wanted to make and would continue 151 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 1: to do for the rest of the two thousands, the 152 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 1: twenty tens, and even now in the twenties. The Forty 153 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:08,080 Speaker 1: year Old Virgin was one of the most quotable movies 154 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 1: of the two thousands, and it was at a time 155 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 1: where comedies were at their peak. It doesn't really get 156 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:18,240 Speaker 1: any better than mid to late two thousands comedies. I 157 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:21,240 Speaker 1: would argue that that was the best decade for comedies. 158 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:24,280 Speaker 1: Coming in close second are the nineties. But for every 159 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 1: great comedic movie from the nineties, I could give you 160 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 1: one from the two thousands that are better just by 161 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:32,720 Speaker 1: looking at the filmography from Judd apatl Alone with Forty 162 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:36,680 Speaker 1: year Old Virgin, Knocked Up and Funny People Alone, Bad comedy. 163 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 1: When it comes to Judd Abattel, I haven't really been 164 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 1: enjoying his work as of late. I thought kind of 165 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:45,800 Speaker 1: along the same lines of some of the other times 166 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 1: I've been underwhelmed by comedies. Kingistan Island was one of them. 167 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 1: I think my biggest critique of him now is that 168 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:54,720 Speaker 1: he seems a little self indulgent on how long he 169 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:58,040 Speaker 1: makes his movies. In no real world should a comedy 170 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 1: be over two hours. He pushes to twenty gets close 171 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 1: to that two and a half hour mark, and it's excessive. 172 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:09,440 Speaker 1: It's a little ridiculous. But that's not even the one 173 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 1: I want to mention here, the bad comedy from Jeddapatel 174 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 1: that I had such high hopes for being great, and 175 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 1: it kind of led to what I feel was the 176 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:21,559 Speaker 1: decline of Jeddapatel, of where I didn't really find his 177 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 1: humor funny anymore. And the movie is from twelve called 178 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:28,440 Speaker 1: This Is Forty. It's about this couple who are about 179 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:31,280 Speaker 1: to turn forty. Their kids hate each other, both of 180 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 1: their businesses are failing, and they're on the verge of 181 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:37,079 Speaker 1: losing their house, and all these things combined together, their 182 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:40,320 Speaker 1: relationship is kind of falling. Apart pretty good premise, but 183 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 1: this movie is so dry and so long and never 184 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 1: really hits that stride that his previous films have done. 185 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:50,960 Speaker 1: You bring back some of the known favorites like his wife, 186 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:55,080 Speaker 1: Leslie Man, Paul Rudd, Jason Siegel. You also have Megan Fox, 187 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 1: and then his actual daughters are in the movie. I 188 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 1: just felt like putting all those actors to other. Overall, 189 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:03,200 Speaker 1: the movie just lacks diversity, And I think that's what 190 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 1: made his early films great is the cast is just 191 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 1: so different. They're all different kinds of characters. The casting 192 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:12,360 Speaker 1: here just felt very bland, and the plot line was 193 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 1: so unexciting. It was kind of supposed to be like 194 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:17,720 Speaker 1: this little slice of life, really just a slice of 195 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,720 Speaker 1: his life of how he struggled turning forty. It was 196 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:23,199 Speaker 1: the start of me seeing how kind of self indulgent 197 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:26,120 Speaker 1: he got with his films. Were just fine, you're the director, 198 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 1: You're the one with the career who is flourished up 199 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 1: until this point. Make the movie you want to make. 200 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:33,560 Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, if we ain't 201 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 1: laugh and we ain't gonna pay for the next one. 202 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:37,719 Speaker 1: I think he went on to have another decent hit 203 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:41,200 Speaker 1: after this he had train Wreck, but since then just 204 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 1: hasn't made a movie that I loved from him. And 205 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 1: don't even get me started on The Bubble, which came 206 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:50,120 Speaker 1: out earlier this year on Netflix. That's another bad comedy. 207 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:53,079 Speaker 1: Moving on, but let's stay in the world of directors 208 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:57,600 Speaker 1: and talk about The Fairly Brothers. Good comedy. They made 209 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:02,320 Speaker 1: one of the most iconic comedies of the nineties, really 210 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 1: one of the most iconic comedies ever made in and 211 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 1: it is Dumb and Dumber, a cold hearted classic, a 212 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 1: movie that I have seen so many times that I 213 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 1: have every joke, every line memorized. And if you came 214 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 1: to me and told me that Dumb and Dummer is 215 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 1: your favorite comedy or even your favorite movie of all time, 216 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:22,680 Speaker 1: I know that we could be friends. So with this 217 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:25,960 Speaker 1: comedy alone, I would almost give them a lifetime pass 218 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 1: of any movie they produce, any movie they write, any 219 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 1: movie they direct, I think would have a wooden shy 220 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:34,559 Speaker 1: being a good comedy. But then they went and made 221 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 1: this movie bad comedy. Twenty years later, from the Fairly Brothers, 222 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:45,080 Speaker 1: we got Dumb and Dumber to t O, which is 223 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 1: a joke in itself. And this movie came after so 224 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,800 Speaker 1: much speculation of Jim Carey and Jeff Daniels coming back 225 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 1: as Harry and Lloyd, and it's not very often that 226 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:57,280 Speaker 1: I want a movie I consider perfect to have a 227 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:00,640 Speaker 1: sequel be made, let alone twenty years later. But from 228 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:03,560 Speaker 1: all the set updates they posted from the will they 229 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:06,320 Speaker 1: won't they make this movie? I was so excited going 230 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:11,800 Speaker 1: into this in and was so utterly disappointed. If you 231 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:15,000 Speaker 1: haven't seen this movie, it takes place twenty years after 232 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 1: that first cross country road trip. Harry and Lloyd go 233 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:22,559 Speaker 1: out to find Harry's newly discovered daughter who was given 234 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:26,080 Speaker 1: up for adoption. And the problem with this movie is 235 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 1: the Fairly Brothers gave us exactly what we wanted by 236 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:33,440 Speaker 1: recreating that first film, so in what we found to 237 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 1: be so hilarious twenty years later, done again doesn't really 238 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 1: have that same effect. It's all the same gags, all 239 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:43,120 Speaker 1: the same jokes and references to the first one, so 240 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 1: it's kind of just playing an homage to that first one. 241 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:50,439 Speaker 1: But what I think we really deserved was a true 242 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 1: continuation of their story and an elevation on the humor 243 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:57,480 Speaker 1: from the first movie, which was so groundbreaking at the time. 244 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:00,360 Speaker 1: And I think that would have made it a better movie. 245 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 1: Or is it that just twenty years later, we've grown 246 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 1: up and don't find the same things funny again. It 247 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:08,679 Speaker 1: could be a little bit of that too, but for me, 248 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 1: as being a follow up to one of the greatest 249 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:14,240 Speaker 1: comedies of all time, just didn't live up to it. 250 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 1: And this was coming after they made the prequel in 251 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:19,680 Speaker 1: two thousand and three, Dumb and Dumber When Harry Met Lloyd, 252 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 1: which also proved that without the main actors you really 253 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:26,319 Speaker 1: didn't stand a chance. How about now we talk about cartoons, 254 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 1: but cartoons not meant for kids. Good comedy. One of 255 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 1: my favorite comedies of all time came out in and 256 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: it is from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators 257 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:42,320 Speaker 1: of South Park and Bigger, Longer, and Uncut doesn't get 258 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:46,360 Speaker 1: the recognition it deserves for the groundbreaking yet not so 259 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 1: groundbreaking animation that South Park made famous, the songs in 260 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:55,080 Speaker 1: this movie, which are so memorable and so hilarious coming 261 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:58,920 Speaker 1: from a genre where I don't really love musicals, but man, 262 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 1: these guys know how to make songs and know how 263 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:04,200 Speaker 1: to write a comedic song that will make you laugh, 264 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 1: that will make you sing an appropriate rhyme later in 265 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:10,440 Speaker 1: your life. After watching this movie for years and years 266 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:14,320 Speaker 1: to come, I think they are truly great comedic and 267 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:18,720 Speaker 1: satirical geniuses that we haven't seen in our lifetime before. 268 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 1: And I think we won't recognize that until they are 269 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 1: either no longer with us or no longer making South Park. 270 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:30,720 Speaker 1: And I just remember how impactful South Park was because 271 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:33,040 Speaker 1: for the first time in my memory, there was a 272 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 1: cartoon that kids weren't supposed to watch. They were saying 273 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:40,120 Speaker 1: bad word, they were talking about inappropriate things. But that 274 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 1: was kind of the thing to get us to pay 275 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 1: attention to it. When you really kind of study South 276 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:48,120 Speaker 1: Park episodes and you study this movie, they are saying 277 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 1: a whole lot more and they pick apart and make 278 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 1: fun of both sides of every argument. So all those 279 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 1: things together and make a great epic comedy. So that 280 00:14:57,080 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 1: is a great comedy from a comedy in that same 281 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 1: vein in ten, we got a movie called Sausage Party, 282 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:09,640 Speaker 1: which came to us from the mind of Seth Rogan. 283 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:12,320 Speaker 1: It stars him as one of the main voices, along 284 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 1: with Kristen Wig, Jonah Hill, and an ensemble of funny 285 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 1: people doing the voices on this movie. And what Sausage 286 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 1: Party was again a cartoon but not for kids. And 287 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,520 Speaker 1: what Sausage Party was about was the main character, who 288 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:30,080 Speaker 1: is a sausage trying to discover the truth about his existence. 289 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:33,280 Speaker 1: It takes place in a supermarket and all the other 290 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:36,280 Speaker 1: foods come to life, and they all have different personalities, 291 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:39,840 Speaker 1: and it is very crude and rude movie. The problem 292 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 1: with this movie, and even though I believe there is 293 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 1: a time and a place for crude humor, I am 294 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 1: a fan of it when it's done correctly, when it 295 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:50,840 Speaker 1: has a little bit more of creativity to it, when 296 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 1: it has a little bit more of thought in the writing. 297 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 1: I think you can actually do something here, like Trey 298 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 1: Parker and Matt Stone have done with South Park and 299 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:01,760 Speaker 1: some of their other animated endeavors. But when it came 300 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 1: to Sausage Party, I felt like the novelty wore off 301 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 1: pretty quick. I get it, a sausage cursing and doing 302 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 1: naughty things can be funny for a second, but there 303 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 1: was really nothing after the first fifteen minutes that really 304 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 1: added to the entire story. It was kind of like 305 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:21,480 Speaker 1: one joke continued on through the entire film. And this 306 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 1: was a movie that everybody said you had to wait 307 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 1: for one scene in particular, which I won't mention exactly 308 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 1: what happens, but it was supposed to be like the 309 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 1: really shocking, most disturbing, disgusting scene out of the entire movie. 310 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 1: But by the time you do get to that scene, 311 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:39,520 Speaker 1: you don't really care about it anymore. This was a 312 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 1: movie I remember coming out and people literally walking out 313 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 1: of the theater because it was so bad. Also because 314 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 1: I think some people would just associate animated movies with 315 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:52,120 Speaker 1: movies that are meant for kids, even though it clearly 316 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 1: says this movie is RATEDAR. So I think that was 317 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 1: also some parents complaining who accidentally took their kids to 318 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 1: see this movie. Not a good movie, and if it 319 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 1: was a better comedy, I would find that more hilarious, 320 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 1: But since it's not that, just it's terrible all the 321 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:09,960 Speaker 1: way around. So cartoons that are meant for adults and 322 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,760 Speaker 1: not for kids can work, but in this case it didn't. 323 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:16,920 Speaker 1: How About now we talk about parody movies good comedy. 324 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:20,680 Speaker 1: The movie that really kick started this in the two 325 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:23,439 Speaker 1: thousand's was a movie from well the year two thousand 326 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:27,240 Speaker 1: called Scary Movie, which was a parody of all the 327 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:31,840 Speaker 1: nineties teens slasher movies which dominated the box office the 328 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:35,200 Speaker 1: decade before, all throughout the nineties with movies like Scream, 329 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:37,880 Speaker 1: I Know What You Did Last Summer in Urban Legend 330 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 1: being the biggest movies of the decade before, and creating 331 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:44,399 Speaker 1: that formula that a lot of other knockoffs did and 332 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 1: didn't do so well. It led to the parody movie 333 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 1: in two thousands Scary Movie, which took scenes, plot lines 334 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:55,399 Speaker 1: from those movies and made fun of them. Now, the 335 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 1: parody movie had been done before, it wasn't a new 336 00:17:57,960 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 1: thing in the two thousand's, but it felt like one 337 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 1: Scary movie came out and had so much success, made 338 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:05,760 Speaker 1: so much money at the box office that we started 339 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 1: to get not only sequels to Scary Movie, but people 340 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:13,280 Speaker 1: took that concept without the Waynes brothers and started creating 341 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:17,439 Speaker 1: their own parody movies. Two different genres bad comedy. And 342 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:20,080 Speaker 1: that brings me to what I think was the worst 343 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 1: movie to do this. And in two thousand and six 344 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:26,439 Speaker 1: there was a movie called Date Movie, which was a 345 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 1: parody of a bunch of romantic comedies like Hitch and 346 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:32,960 Speaker 1: Shallow How And this is where I realized that this 347 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:35,800 Speaker 1: is a really bad trend. Don't get me wrong, I 348 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:39,520 Speaker 1: find making fun of things pretty hilarious. But what these 349 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:42,360 Speaker 1: movies started to do, beginning with Date Movie in two 350 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:45,160 Speaker 1: thousand and six, following up with movies like Epic Movie 351 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:47,679 Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven, even movies like Meet the 352 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:50,720 Speaker 1: Spartans and then Disaster Movie in two thousand and eight, 353 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:56,119 Speaker 1: there was zero creativity in making a parody about those genres. 354 00:18:56,520 --> 00:19:01,320 Speaker 1: It was literally just taking exactly what happened in those 355 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:04,439 Speaker 1: movies and making it a little wacky. No thought in 356 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:07,400 Speaker 1: the writing, no thought, and how can we actually make 357 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:09,920 Speaker 1: something that people will laugh out? All these movies really 358 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 1: just felt like a cash grab. And I remember specifically 359 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:15,639 Speaker 1: going to see Date Movie in two thousand and six 360 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 1: and there were just so many cringe worthy scenes that 361 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:22,639 Speaker 1: were in no way remotely funny. And that is a 362 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:26,520 Speaker 1: very fine line you play into when making a movie 363 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:29,880 Speaker 1: like this. It's not enough to just take a comedy 364 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:32,040 Speaker 1: like Hitch and think, well, what if he had this 365 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:34,679 Speaker 1: ridiculous accident and we made fun of this portion of 366 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 1: the movie. You have to add a little bit more 367 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:39,159 Speaker 1: to that. So all of these movies that followed in 368 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 1: this weird sub genre of parody movies just felt like 369 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:47,280 Speaker 1: they were trying to make money and make a very 370 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 1: easy to make, low brow comedy. That for one, I 371 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:54,119 Speaker 1: think we're better than we deserve better, We deserve what 372 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:56,679 Speaker 1: they did. And scary movie and scary movie too. And 373 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:59,199 Speaker 1: if you had to experience one of these movies in 374 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 1: theaters and to walk out during one of these, I'm 375 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:04,439 Speaker 1: right there with you. How about now we talk about 376 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:09,600 Speaker 1: a couple of movies from Adam Sandler's production company, Happy Madison, 377 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:13,520 Speaker 1: good comedy. One of my favorite movies to come from 378 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 1: Happy Madison is a movie that Adam Sandler produced but 379 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:20,359 Speaker 1: did not star in, and it's from two thousand and six, 380 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:24,159 Speaker 1: and it is called Grandma's Boys, starring Alan Covert, who 381 00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 1: was also in some of other Adam Sandler's movies. He 382 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 1: has his Caddie and Happy Gilmore. He's also in Big Daddy, 383 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:34,200 Speaker 1: and this was the first movie I remember him being 384 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:38,440 Speaker 1: the star of. And it is in the stoner comedy genre, 385 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:41,000 Speaker 1: and it's the story about a thirty five year old 386 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:43,359 Speaker 1: video game tester who has to move in with this 387 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 1: grandma and her two roommates, which is a pretty ridiculous concept, 388 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:51,760 Speaker 1: but the movie has a great story funny characters. You 389 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:54,960 Speaker 1: have Nick Schwartzen as one of the supporting characters. And 390 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:57,120 Speaker 1: again this was the mid two thousands, what I felt 391 00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:00,600 Speaker 1: like was the height of comedies. Again, there's a place 392 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:03,879 Speaker 1: for crude and rude humor, and I think this movie 393 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:06,720 Speaker 1: actually does it right. It has all the things I 394 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 1: look for in a comedy, great characters, great physical gags, 395 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:16,160 Speaker 1: and memorable quotable lines. This movie is chalked full of them. 396 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:21,120 Speaker 1: Bad comedy. Also from Happy Madison, the movie that came 397 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:25,240 Speaker 1: out in twleven and it's called Bucky Larson, Born to 398 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 1: Be a Star, which also stars Nick Schwartzen. I think 399 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:32,480 Speaker 1: he had a trajectory to be a bigger deal in 400 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:36,520 Speaker 1: Hollywood that he ended up being, And I would probably 401 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:41,919 Speaker 1: credit the unsuccessfulness of Bucky Larson to him maybe not 402 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:44,280 Speaker 1: achieving that even though he's a great stand up comedian. 403 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:47,160 Speaker 1: There's a lot of supporting roles in Adam Sandler movies 404 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:49,920 Speaker 1: where he's really good at. It was just the story 405 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 1: in this movie was too utterly ridiculous and cringeworthy and 406 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:56,600 Speaker 1: not funny that it kind of took my money away 407 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 1: from him being a bankable comedy star. But he did 408 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:04,840 Speaker 1: play the lead character who was this weird grocery store 409 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:09,080 Speaker 1: cashier who tries to break into the adult film business. 410 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:13,560 Speaker 1: Another movie that Adam Sandler co wrote but didn't staring 411 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,480 Speaker 1: at all. And this was also kind of in that 412 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 1: string of Adam Sandler projects that people would just tend 413 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:24,600 Speaker 1: to associate with him making bad comedies. And the twenty 414 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 1: tens altogether weren't the best decade for Happy Madison movies. 415 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:31,199 Speaker 1: Kicked it off in with Grown Ups and went on 416 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 1: to make Just Go with the Zookeeper, and he had 417 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:38,359 Speaker 1: Bucky Larson, which really took things way down. Jack and Jill, 418 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:42,400 Speaker 1: That's my boy. Here comes the boom blended Paul Blart 419 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:44,720 Speaker 1: Mall Cop two, which is another one that could have 420 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:47,840 Speaker 1: made this list, Pixels, The Ridiculous Six, and the list 421 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:50,879 Speaker 1: goes down and down from there. I'll just stop at 422 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 1: with the do Over. But out of all those movies, 423 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:57,040 Speaker 1: I would still say Bucky Larson is the worst of 424 00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:59,720 Speaker 1: them all. Next up would probably be Jack and Jill, 425 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:02,000 Speaker 1: But that is one of my mom's favorite movies. She 426 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,119 Speaker 1: doesn't watch a whole lot of comedies and she finds 427 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:06,359 Speaker 1: that one funny so and as an odd place in 428 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 1: my heart. But I can still recognize that it's a 429 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:12,119 Speaker 1: bad comedy and the final entry in this week's topic 430 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:20,320 Speaker 1: of good comedy, bad comedy. Let's get into a movie 431 00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:22,960 Speaker 1: review now. Let's talk about a movie called Breaking. It 432 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:25,960 Speaker 1: stars John Boyega, who you may know as Finn from 433 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,320 Speaker 1: Star Wars. He plays a marine veteran who is desperate 434 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:31,960 Speaker 1: for money, running out of options, so he decides to 435 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:35,960 Speaker 1: hold several people, these bank employees, hostage inside of the 436 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:39,280 Speaker 1: Wells Fargo. Right off the bat, this movie gets pretty 437 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:42,760 Speaker 1: intense as we find out why he is holding these 438 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:46,520 Speaker 1: people hostage and the message he is trying to convey 439 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:48,919 Speaker 1: and the point he is trying to prove. It's a 440 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 1: pretty heart wrenching movie, but done in such a well 441 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 1: and sophisticated way. I'm on an independent thriller kick right now, 442 00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 1: so I think this movie played right into that. Before 443 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,840 Speaker 1: I get into my full review of Breaking, here's just 444 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:04,879 Speaker 1: a little bit of the trailer. I have a bomb. 445 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,600 Speaker 1: I'm gonna kill myself and everybody, and hear my commands 446 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:11,120 Speaker 1: and I was committed the v H don't want disability 447 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 1: check from you. I've had some problems to better in 448 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:17,440 Speaker 1: the fans myself about you released one of ladies. No, 449 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:21,200 Speaker 1: I need everybody to see what's happening here. I need 450 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 1: the five trucks, I need the news cameras. What do 451 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:27,159 Speaker 1: I need to do to get the attention that I 452 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:31,640 Speaker 1: need right now? So just in that clip you hear 453 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,880 Speaker 1: the level of intensity from John Boyega. I think this 454 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:38,639 Speaker 1: is definitely his next level of acting. And this movie 455 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:41,240 Speaker 1: is based on a true story, which is why I 456 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 1: found it so moving. John Boyega plays a real life 457 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:49,640 Speaker 1: marine veteran named Brian Brown Easily who really did this 458 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 1: In Seen, the movie was originally titled eight ninety two, 459 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:58,399 Speaker 1: which is the entire reason that he held up the bank. 460 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:01,119 Speaker 1: It's because he was ha in a discrepancy with the 461 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:05,480 Speaker 1: v A office. They had denied his disability support and 462 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:07,639 Speaker 1: that is what pushed him to go to this Wells 463 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:11,200 Speaker 1: Fargo and hold up the bank. It wasn't because he 464 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:15,160 Speaker 1: wanted the money from the bank. He wanted veteran affairs 465 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:19,680 Speaker 1: to make his payment of eight hundred and nine two dollars. 466 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:23,840 Speaker 1: So the real life Brian Brown Easily entered a Wills 467 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,879 Speaker 1: Fargo bank in Atlanta, saying that he had a bomb. 468 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 1: He let most of the customers go, but he kept 469 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:33,440 Speaker 1: a manager and a teller inside the bank with him 470 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:37,920 Speaker 1: as hostages, and then the place is swarmed with FBI. 471 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 1: It's swarmed with police, and throughout the entire movie we 472 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:46,199 Speaker 1: get these flashbacks explaining how the situation happened in the 473 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 1: first place, and I think that was a really great 474 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,720 Speaker 1: way to tell this story because it gets right to 475 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,200 Speaker 1: the action, which I really like the decision to tell 476 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 1: the story through flashbacks, because this movie gets your attention 477 00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:59,199 Speaker 1: right away by holding up the bank gets right to 478 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:02,119 Speaker 1: the meat of action. I just found that made the 479 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:06,119 Speaker 1: movie more entertaining and did a better job at keeping 480 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:10,920 Speaker 1: my attention because this movie takes place primarily in one location. Basically, 481 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:15,000 Speaker 1: the entire movie is happening inside of this wells Fargo, 482 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 1: and the breaks we get from that are flashbacks to 483 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:21,400 Speaker 1: his life, flashbacks to the v A office, and then 484 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:25,120 Speaker 1: you also get his wife who he is separated from, 485 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,400 Speaker 1: and his child. So I think all those factors considered, 486 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,600 Speaker 1: it's a tough way to make such a captivating story, 487 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 1: but I think this movie nailed it, and I would 488 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:37,600 Speaker 1: credit the majority of that to John Boyega's performance, who 489 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:41,480 Speaker 1: I felt really capture the essence of this real life 490 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 1: person and the interesting thing about this situation is the 491 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:51,960 Speaker 1: movie doesn't really vilify, it doesn't really glorify the main character. 492 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:54,360 Speaker 1: It doesn't show him as a hero, it doesn't show 493 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 1: him as a villain. It really just gives the real 494 00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:00,440 Speaker 1: life description of what this person was trying to do 495 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:04,960 Speaker 1: and how this person was treated after fighting for our 496 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,560 Speaker 1: country and coming back and having to deal with a 497 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:10,880 Speaker 1: lot of red tape, having to deal with people telling 498 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,800 Speaker 1: him no, but really having to deal with people kind 499 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,480 Speaker 1: of minimizing him and not listening to him, and now 500 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 1: frustrating that can be when all he is trying to 501 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:24,440 Speaker 1: do is get his eight so he can live, so 502 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,360 Speaker 1: he can buy his daughter a dog, which he promised her. 503 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,560 Speaker 1: And in this movie you see that that was his 504 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:34,560 Speaker 1: true breaking point, was that he wasn't able to do 505 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:36,760 Speaker 1: the things he wanted to do with his daughter that 506 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:38,600 Speaker 1: he loved. He couldn't even talk to her on the 507 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:42,000 Speaker 1: phone because he couldn't pay for minutes to have communication 508 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:45,480 Speaker 1: with her. So this movie is about his breaking point 509 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:49,359 Speaker 1: and what you would do in that situation. And what 510 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 1: really makes you think after watching this movie is that 511 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,520 Speaker 1: this really happened. This was a real life story. This 512 00:27:55,680 --> 00:28:00,040 Speaker 1: is the actions that somebody took because they reached that 513 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 1: breaking point. And I found learning about him to be 514 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:07,199 Speaker 1: pretty moving. And he is a pretty soft spoken person. 515 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,840 Speaker 1: And what John Boyega did a really good job at 516 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:14,639 Speaker 1: was showing his soft spoken side, how he didn't really 517 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:16,960 Speaker 1: want to be doing this. He just knew that this 518 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:20,720 Speaker 1: was the only thing that would get anybody's attention. He 519 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:25,199 Speaker 1: wanted the news there. He wanted everybody to know about 520 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:29,719 Speaker 1: his story and know about his relationship and experiences with 521 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:33,480 Speaker 1: veteran affairs. And that's the entire reason that he did this. 522 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:37,160 Speaker 1: And where that really showed was when it goes back 523 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,800 Speaker 1: and forth between something that it shows in the trailer 524 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:43,520 Speaker 1: of this movie of him actually taking phone calls inside 525 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,920 Speaker 1: the wells Fargo, trying to help customers, explaining to them 526 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:48,880 Speaker 1: what was going on and what he was doing, and 527 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:52,120 Speaker 1: then what you also heard in that trailer were his 528 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 1: moments of outrage when he gets so frustrated that he 529 00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:01,320 Speaker 1: is literally there with a bomb, holding hostages and still 530 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:05,040 Speaker 1: not able to get his demands made. It will make 531 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:08,480 Speaker 1: you feel something while watching this movie, and it'll make 532 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,640 Speaker 1: you feel frustrated for him. It'll make you feel outrage 533 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:15,080 Speaker 1: at the story, and it never really condones these actions, 534 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,680 Speaker 1: but it just kind of opens up that conversation of 535 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:21,040 Speaker 1: how do we treat people that have sacrificed so much 536 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 1: and they come back here and we don't even listen 537 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,280 Speaker 1: to him. I think this is one of John Boyega's 538 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,840 Speaker 1: best roles so far. And I know a lot of 539 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:32,240 Speaker 1: politics go into getting an Oscar nomination, but I think 540 00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:36,320 Speaker 1: this is a Oscar worthy nomination performance. So I'm curious 541 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:39,280 Speaker 1: to see if it sparks any interest in that some 542 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:44,120 Speaker 1: people are comparing this performance to a Denzel Washington style role. 543 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:48,200 Speaker 1: I think it's also because Denzel Washington did a similar 544 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:52,280 Speaker 1: movie called John Q, which was about a man whose 545 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:54,720 Speaker 1: nine year old son was in desperate need of a 546 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:58,480 Speaker 1: life saving transplant, so he did a similar thing at 547 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:02,200 Speaker 1: a hospital. Except the story of John Q wasn't based 548 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:06,200 Speaker 1: on a true story. It was inspired by a similar event. 549 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:10,160 Speaker 1: But unlike Breaking, which goes very true to what actually 550 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 1: happened in real life, down to the person, there's actually 551 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:16,600 Speaker 1: no real John Q, but there is a real life 552 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:20,200 Speaker 1: Brian Brown easily, and all of the events that happened 553 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,920 Speaker 1: in this movie. I did go in fact check and 554 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,920 Speaker 1: it all stayed very true to what actually happened. Maybe 555 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,200 Speaker 1: some of the things that happened inside the bank between 556 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:31,760 Speaker 1: him and the tellers were added in to keep the 557 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:36,320 Speaker 1: storyline going, but all the major events and major actions 558 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 1: from this movie actually happened, And I felt what tied 559 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:44,000 Speaker 1: this entire movie together was Michael Kay Williams character and 560 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:47,440 Speaker 1: this was actually his final role before he died last year, 561 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,400 Speaker 1: and he played the negotiator in the movie who has 562 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,320 Speaker 1: a connection with John Boyega, which I thought was an 563 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:58,320 Speaker 1: interesting dynamic because they had such great chemistry together back 564 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,520 Speaker 1: and forth, but they weren't in the same room. There's 565 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,760 Speaker 1: a possibility that they weren't even actually talking to each 566 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,400 Speaker 1: other because it all happens over the phone while John 567 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:11,040 Speaker 1: Boyega is inside of the building and Michael Kay Williams 568 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:14,080 Speaker 1: is outside trying to negotiate with him, trying to get 569 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:18,320 Speaker 1: him to release the hostages, doing some unique bargaining tactics, 570 00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:22,600 Speaker 1: and was able to form this real life relationship with 571 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,440 Speaker 1: him and have chemistry with them. I thought that was 572 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,520 Speaker 1: a really powerful thing. It also kind of opened my 573 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:32,560 Speaker 1: mind up to how a negotiator works and how much 574 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:37,600 Speaker 1: they have to do in such a unusual situation, having 575 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:41,480 Speaker 1: to pull out human elements of a person. Their conversations 576 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:44,280 Speaker 1: were probably my favorite part of the movie. So all 577 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:47,040 Speaker 1: in all, this was one of my favorite thrillers that 578 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:50,360 Speaker 1: I've probably seen in the last five years. I think 579 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,920 Speaker 1: that's greatly due because it is based on a true story. 580 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:55,600 Speaker 1: You can go and fact check this stuff, and I 581 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,160 Speaker 1: like watching a movie and then going and looking up 582 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:02,520 Speaker 1: new stories. Reading article is finding out how close they 583 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:04,880 Speaker 1: look to the people they were portraying. It kind of 584 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,800 Speaker 1: adds another level of research for me, and I enjoy 585 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:11,240 Speaker 1: those type of movies. I also enjoy movies that primarily 586 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:14,520 Speaker 1: take place in one location and have a limited cast. 587 00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:17,160 Speaker 1: It feels very cinematic to me because you have to 588 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,960 Speaker 1: do a lot of stylistic things, a lot of things 589 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,480 Speaker 1: when it comes to the editing, and you also just 590 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:25,240 Speaker 1: have to have really great acting to make a movie 591 00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:27,560 Speaker 1: like this work. And you get that in this You 592 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:31,959 Speaker 1: also have supporting characters from Connie Britton and Olivia Washington. 593 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:35,480 Speaker 1: And I also just go back to the original title 594 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:39,320 Speaker 1: of eight nine two. I just think that number speaks 595 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:42,880 Speaker 1: volumes when portraying the story. So I do think this 596 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,480 Speaker 1: is a movie that a lot more people should see. 597 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:48,560 Speaker 1: I would give breaking four point five out of five 598 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:56,160 Speaker 1: phone calls, it's time to head down the movie, Mike. 599 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:00,560 Speaker 1: I am on a bit of an in D movie 600 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:04,320 Speaker 1: kick right now. I feel like we are in September, 601 00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:07,680 Speaker 1: which is what you call a dump month in film. 602 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:10,720 Speaker 1: You get a few of these really out of the 603 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:16,600 Speaker 1: entire year. January and February are greatly associated with being 604 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,600 Speaker 1: dump months. And what that means it's kind of where 605 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,760 Speaker 1: you get a bunch of random films, movies that aren't 606 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:24,240 Speaker 1: necessarily going to be the biggest winners at the box office, 607 00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:26,000 Speaker 1: but you get some hidden gems in there every now 608 00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:27,960 Speaker 1: and then, especially in January. I feel like we always 609 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,720 Speaker 1: get like a pretty good horror movie in January, and 610 00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:33,760 Speaker 1: then August is considered a dump month, but I also 611 00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:37,240 Speaker 1: feel we get kind of the scraps of the summer 612 00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:40,560 Speaker 1: blockbuster season. This year we had Bullet Train in there, 613 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:42,840 Speaker 1: which I felt like when a little bit under the radar, 614 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,960 Speaker 1: not the best movie, but a movie I still enjoyed. 615 00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:49,440 Speaker 1: And now as we enter September, I just kind of 616 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,760 Speaker 1: get into that feeling of wanting to watch independent films. 617 00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,600 Speaker 1: And when I went to go watch Breaking in theaters, 618 00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,240 Speaker 1: this was one of the trailers that played and it 619 00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:01,320 Speaker 1: is coming out on October seven. It is called Triangle 620 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:04,640 Speaker 1: of Sadness and it starts Woody Harrelson. It is a 621 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:08,400 Speaker 1: dark comedy about what happens when this cruise sinks that 622 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,800 Speaker 1: has a bunch of super rich people on board, leaving 623 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:16,120 Speaker 1: some survivors, including a fashion model, a celebrity couple, and 624 00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:19,160 Speaker 1: more of the crew trapped on an island. Before I 625 00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:21,480 Speaker 1: get into some more details about this movie and why 626 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:23,440 Speaker 1: I think it will be pretty good, here's just a 627 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:28,480 Speaker 1: little bit of Triangle of Sadness. The success of a 628 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:33,080 Speaker 1: luxury cruise mainly depends on you. I don't want to 629 00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:37,839 Speaker 1: hear anybody saying no the saints. Do you think it's 630 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:43,040 Speaker 1: possible to wash them? But I don't think that's possible, man, 631 00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:47,160 Speaker 1: because this is a motorized best song. Yeah, so we 632 00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:51,640 Speaker 1: don't have any sales? People says yes, Well, then in 633 00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:57,879 Speaker 1: that case we will claim the sales. See you get 634 00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:01,359 Speaker 1: a taste of the Sateria glow a dark comedy there 635 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,480 Speaker 1: and the trailer. But it is from a Swedish filmmaker, 636 00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:06,880 Speaker 1: so I think it's going to have kind of a 637 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,319 Speaker 1: foreign film vibe to it. And the film follows a 638 00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:13,640 Speaker 1: fashion model celebrity couple who are invited to join this 639 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:17,719 Speaker 1: luxury cruise for this ultra rich group of people, and 640 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,160 Speaker 1: then things start to go wrong, as you see in 641 00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:22,479 Speaker 1: that trailer if you go and watch it, it looks 642 00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:26,560 Speaker 1: like a storm approaches and it starts making everybody sick, 643 00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:29,920 Speaker 1: which was probably the hardest thing to watch in a 644 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:34,000 Speaker 1: trailer is people vomit. So depending on your level of queasiness, 645 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:36,759 Speaker 1: for that reason alone, this movie may not be for you. 646 00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:39,520 Speaker 1: In that trailer, you also get a glimpse at some 647 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:43,600 Speaker 1: of the issues they have with their plumbing and toilets overflowing, 648 00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:48,560 Speaker 1: So pretty much the most nightmare situation you can imagine 649 00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:52,319 Speaker 1: on a boat happened in this movie. But where the 650 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:56,640 Speaker 1: comedy comes in is that it is a yacht and 651 00:35:56,680 --> 00:36:00,399 Speaker 1: a cruise for the super ultra rich. So all these 652 00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:03,319 Speaker 1: very wealthy people who are used to having all of 653 00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:06,520 Speaker 1: their demands made and only hearing yes and never hearing no, 654 00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:10,120 Speaker 1: suddenly in this situation that you can't control, you can't 655 00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:13,160 Speaker 1: control mother nature. There's no way to stop it, and 656 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:18,080 Speaker 1: this luxury cruise turns into a complete disaster and everybody's 657 00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:21,120 Speaker 1: having a bad time. The people who do survive the 658 00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:25,600 Speaker 1: boat crashing and sinking, all end up washing onto this 659 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:28,279 Speaker 1: island and then have to survive and find a way 660 00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:31,920 Speaker 1: to be rescued. The movie received an eight minute standing 661 00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:34,960 Speaker 1: ovation at the con Film Festival. So I think this 662 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,759 Speaker 1: is gonna be truly a unique experience. And I am 663 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:42,480 Speaker 1: very into dark satirical comedies, and I found myself laughing 664 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:46,279 Speaker 1: within the first twenty seconds of this trailer. And I 665 00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:48,200 Speaker 1: also just think it's kind of funny to make fun 666 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:51,719 Speaker 1: of rich people in the movie stars Woody Harrelson, who 667 00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:55,600 Speaker 1: has just a charisma about him that I find him 668 00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:59,439 Speaker 1: very funny. The movie also stars an upcoming actress named 669 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:04,440 Speaker 1: Charli by Dean who actually just recently passed away. She 670 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,840 Speaker 1: was at the premiere of this movie and this was 671 00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:11,040 Speaker 1: set to be her first big screen role, but she 672 00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:14,680 Speaker 1: passed away just days ago due to a sudden illness. 673 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:17,400 Speaker 1: She was most known for her role in the c 674 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,719 Speaker 1: W show Black Lightning, but this was slated to be 675 00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:25,400 Speaker 1: her first big debut on the big screen. So for 676 00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:28,000 Speaker 1: that reason, I would also like to see this movie 677 00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:32,040 Speaker 1: do well and have her work in this film be recognized. 678 00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:35,279 Speaker 1: But again, that movie is called Triangle of Sadness. If 679 00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,680 Speaker 1: you're into dark comedies, that maybe one to check out 680 00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:40,640 Speaker 1: on October seven, because I know I will be doing 681 00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:44,080 Speaker 1: that as I continue on my indie film kick. And 682 00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:46,440 Speaker 1: I know last week I shared a trailer with you 683 00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:48,960 Speaker 1: for a movie called Funny Pages in the Trailer Park. 684 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,359 Speaker 1: I did watch that one over the weekend, very very 685 00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:56,400 Speaker 1: indie film, super indie, and I don't feel like the 686 00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:00,560 Speaker 1: trailer misled me in any way. The movie spoke to 687 00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:03,280 Speaker 1: me because it had a very nostalgic look. The trailer 688 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:06,799 Speaker 1: made it look like a straight up nineties dead pan 689 00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:10,359 Speaker 1: comedy movie. I think the actual look and style of 690 00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,600 Speaker 1: it did hold up throughout the entire movie, but maybe 691 00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:17,520 Speaker 1: the pacing of the comedy wasn't exactly what I was expecting. 692 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,920 Speaker 1: I did find myself enjoying that movie, but I probably 693 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:25,600 Speaker 1: wouldn't recommend it unless you're super into movies like Napoleon 694 00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:29,359 Speaker 1: Dynamite or you have a fascination with comic books. It's 695 00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:32,759 Speaker 1: not my favorite a film that I've seen, but it's 696 00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:36,480 Speaker 1: definitely exciting that that movie was able to get made 697 00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:39,000 Speaker 1: in this day and age. I did like the storytelling 698 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,000 Speaker 1: and the direction in that movie, and I found the 699 00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:44,920 Speaker 1: character still to be pretty funny, but again it's just 700 00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:49,040 Speaker 1: very dry humor and a look at a very unusual life. 701 00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:52,200 Speaker 1: But I did find myself enjoying that funnybody else ended 702 00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:54,319 Speaker 1: up watching funny pages. Let me know what you thought 703 00:38:54,360 --> 00:39:00,680 Speaker 1: about it this week's edition, and that's gonna do it 704 00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:04,319 Speaker 1: for another episode here of the podcast. Again, just my 705 00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,080 Speaker 1: greatest appreciation to all of you who are subscribed and 706 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:10,000 Speaker 1: listen every single week. 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Thank you 724 00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:04,640 Speaker 1: for sharing my reviews with your husband, and like, that's 725 00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:08,680 Speaker 1: a really good percentage on things you agree with me on. 726 00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:12,440 Speaker 1: And I know that not everybody is going to agree 727 00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:14,880 Speaker 1: with me on my reviews on the movies I like 728 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,480 Speaker 1: and dislike, but I don't think that's the point of this. 729 00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:20,800 Speaker 1: It's to give you my true, honest opinions on movies. 730 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:24,200 Speaker 1: So I don't expect anyone to agree with me. I 731 00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:27,680 Speaker 1: find to be a pretty big win, especially in this 732 00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:30,360 Speaker 1: day and age when everybody hates everything. So thank you 733 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:33,120 Speaker 1: five duran's for that message, and tell your husband what 734 00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:36,480 Speaker 1: up from me? And thanks to you for listening. If 735 00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:38,600 Speaker 1: you want to send me a message or d m me, 736 00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:41,680 Speaker 1: you can find all of that in the podcast notes 737 00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:44,480 Speaker 1: or shoot me an email Movie Mike d at gmail 738 00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:47,240 Speaker 1: dot com. And until next time, go out and watch 739 00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:49,399 Speaker 1: good movies and I will talk to you later.