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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 share

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Speaker 1: with you my summer box office preview, where the question

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Speaker 1: box office? Right now? Look in a little dismal compared

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Speaker 1: to where we were last year. So out of all

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Speaker 1: later this year, which one has the best chance of

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Speaker 1: crossing that billion dollar mark which is huge. In the

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Speaker 1: movie review, we'll be talking about Kingdom of the Planet

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Speaker 1: of the Apes. And in the trailer park we're breaking

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Speaker 1: down Despicable Me for I saw the trailer who went

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Speaker 1: to go see The Fall Guy and Man, the Minion

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Speaker 1: just make me happy. So I want to share my

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Speaker 1: thoughts with that movie coming out later this year as well.

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

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

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Speaker 1: If you're listening to this episode on release day, which

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Speaker 1: is May thirteenth, twenty twenty four, there is still not

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Speaker 1: a billion dollar movie out. By this time last year,

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Speaker 1: we had one already and it was a little bit

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Speaker 1: un well, I don't want to say not expected or unpredictable,

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Speaker 1: but it was a Super Mario Brothers movie, which is

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Speaker 1: a great animated movie, and it was the first one

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Speaker 1: in April fifth, and by April thirtieth it had already

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Speaker 1: made one billion dollars, which is amazing for an animated movie.

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Speaker 1: Didn't really see that coming, but you think about how

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Speaker 1: big the Super Mario franchise is. A movie made for

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Speaker 1: although recipe to make a billion dollars. It's also a

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Speaker 1: that was the first one, and there was only one

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Speaker 1: other movie last year to cross that billion dollar mark,

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Speaker 1: grossing movie of last year, making one point four billion

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Speaker 1: happy and so excited and being dialed into that show

435
00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,440
Speaker 1: and to disneyplus every single week. They need to have

436
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Speaker 1: that same effect in the movie theater, and they have

437
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Speaker 1: said that they're going to start reducing the amount of

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Speaker 1: shows and movies they're coming out with, with this year,

439
00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,800
Speaker 1: Dead pulling Wolverine being the only one they're putting out.

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Speaker 1: I think that's also important too. Put all your money

441
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Speaker 1: and intention on one property, put that out and have

442
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Speaker 1: it be successful. And therefore, watch your girl back again,

443
00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:48,600
Speaker 1: watch people be excited again. You're never going to recreate

444
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Speaker 1: what you did of assembling the Avengers and having those

445
00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:56,760
Speaker 1: movies be the bookend and pinnacle of the MCU. But

446
00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,159
Speaker 1: in order to survive and not go the way of

447
00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:03,399
Speaker 1: the Western, giving us little taste of something really good

448
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:07,720
Speaker 1: with Pristine's special effects instead of rushing everything through quickly,

449
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,720
Speaker 1: great stories and great characters, and the EMCU can be back.

450
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,119
Speaker 1: Although I never said the MCU was dead, I would

451
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Speaker 1: never say that. So all you people at that jump ship,

452
00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,560
Speaker 1: I'll be here, chilling, coasting down. I'll let you all

453
00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:24,040
Speaker 1: back on. We're gonna be fine. Deadpool and Wolverine is

454
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,760
Speaker 1: going to crush it. It is easily, let me say

455
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Speaker 1: this again, easily going to make a billion dollars or

456
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Speaker 1: my name isn't movie Mike. It's really not. That's a

457
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Speaker 1: name I made up for this podcast, but I would

458
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Speaker 1: put a lot of money on it making a billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: Rounding out the summer now, on August ninth, we have Borderlands,

460
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Speaker 1: which is a movie based on a video game, directed

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Speaker 1: by Eli Roth. It's an action adventure movie. Even though

462
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Speaker 1: Eli Roth is known a lot for horror movies, He's

463
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Speaker 1: also in Inglorious Bastards. But TV shows and movies based

464
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Speaker 1: on video games are really hot right now, and it's

465
00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:01,120
Speaker 1: been something in the history of and TV that's been

466
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Speaker 1: really hard to get right. Look at all the bad

467
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Speaker 1: video game adaptations that came out back in the nineties.

468
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Speaker 1: Twenty tens were also hit or miss for video game adaptations,

469
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Speaker 1: but now it shows like the Last of Us and Fallout,

470
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Speaker 1: people are interested in them again five nights if Freddy's

471
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 1: crushed at the box office. Super Mario Brothers movie we've

472
00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:24,760
Speaker 1: been talking about, did really well, So everybody wants in

473
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Speaker 1: on the video game adaptations because you have that built

474
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Speaker 1: in audience. That is what it's all about. That's why

475
00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:32,919
Speaker 1: we have so many reboots and sequels. Same way with

476
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:35,520
Speaker 1: video games, you can come out with a movie that

477
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Speaker 1: feels original and do things that appease the fans of

478
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Speaker 1: that video game, but also get people interested in watching

479
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Speaker 1: the movie. Therefore, people go watch the movie, they maybe

480
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Speaker 1: go back and play the video game. You come out

481
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Speaker 1: with a new video game around the same time inside

482
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Speaker 1: that franchise. That's what we call synergy problem is we

483
00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:58,960
Speaker 1: may be a little bit too removed from these video games.

484
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Speaker 1: Borderlands one came out in two thousand and nine, Borderlands

485
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Speaker 1: two came out in twenty twelve, Borderlands the presequel came

486
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Speaker 1: out in twenty fourteen, and Borderlands three came out in

487
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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. There was also a spinoff that came out

488
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. So we're not so close to

489
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Speaker 1: the end of those games to ride off the success

490
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Speaker 1: of the video game franchise. But we're also not that

491
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Speaker 1: far out to make people really have time to be

492
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Speaker 1: passionate about a Borderlands game coming out. It's not that

493
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Speaker 1: nostalgia factor. I know. This has been a movie that's

494
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Speaker 1: been in development for a long time. Usually, once you

495
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Speaker 1: get a hit video game franchise, people are already chomping

496
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Speaker 1: at the bit to put out the movie to cash

497
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Speaker 1: in and I think some of the visuals look pretty

498
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Speaker 1: good in the trailer, even though it really feels like

499
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Speaker 1: they are doing a Guardians at the Galaxy impression. The

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Speaker 1: main thing I feel is so underwhelming about the trailer

501
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,879
Speaker 1: and about all the posters out for this movie. The

502
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,879
Speaker 1: cast just doesn't look that good. Kevin Hard, Jamie Lee,

503
00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:01,119
Speaker 1: Curtis Jack Black is in it, but he's a voice

504
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Speaker 1: of one of the characters. It has big Hollywood movie

505
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:07,240
Speaker 1: written all over it with an expensive price tag. But

506
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 1: just for the fact that Kevin Hart is in it

507
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:13,080
Speaker 1: alone leave me to believe that this movie is going

508
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Speaker 1: to bomb. Even with Kate Blanchett also one of the

509
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Speaker 1: main characters. I think this movie is going to flop,

510
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:22,360
Speaker 1: has no chance of making a billion dollars. Rounding out

511
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Speaker 1: the summer. On August sixteenth, we have Alien Romulus coming

512
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Speaker 1: out in twenty twenty four. Don't see that one making

513
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Speaker 1: a billion dollars. On August twenty third, we have The Crow,

514
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:35,520
Speaker 1: which is the remake of the classic. In my eyes,

515
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,160
Speaker 1: Brandon Lee is the only person who should play The Crow.

516
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Speaker 1: So I am still boycotting this movie. I don't think

517
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Speaker 1: it's going to do well. I think it's going to

518
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Speaker 1: tank no way of making a billion dollars. So that's

519
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:50,080
Speaker 1: really all the movies I think have the potential to

520
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,240
Speaker 1: make a billion dollars this summer. We have two out

521
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:56,240
Speaker 1: of all those, Despicable Me for and Dead Pull and

522
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Speaker 1: Wolverine have the best chance in my opinion, of making

523
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Speaker 1: a billion dollars. Looking at the rest of the year,

524
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Speaker 1: we have Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice coming out on September sixth, so

525
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: eyeing for that Halloween time. Beetlejuice has the benefit of

526
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 1: having that nostalgia factor with the eighties being so big

527
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 1: and prominent this year in movies. I think it'll actually

528
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:20,000
Speaker 1: do fairly well, but probably more in the three hundred

529
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 1: to two hundred and fifty million dollar range. We also

530
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Speaker 1: have Transformers One, which is the animated Transformers movie, coming

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Speaker 1: out on September twentieth. Don't think that one will get there.

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Speaker 1: The only other movie I can see having a chance

533
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:35,359
Speaker 1: at making a billion dollars is Joker Fole I Do

534
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 1: coming out on October fourth. The first one did it,

535
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:40,640
Speaker 1: and this one looks to be like much of the same,

536
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:44,480
Speaker 1: but also advancing on the story, adding Lady Gaga. I

537
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 1: feel like there is a big passionate fan base for

538
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:51,159
Speaker 1: an R rated movie set in the DC universe. So

539
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:53,200
Speaker 1: that is the only other movie coming out this year

540
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,439
Speaker 1: that I would also put my billion dollar mark on.

541
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Speaker 1: I don't think Mufasa will get there. I don't think

542
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 1: Sonic the Hedgehog will get there. Gladiator two is also

543
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,240
Speaker 1: coming out on November twenty second. I don't see that

544
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Speaker 1: one get there. And Venom the Last Dance is coming

545
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,639
Speaker 1: out on October twenty fifth. That movie will be lucky

546
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Speaker 1: to make its money back. All right, that is the list.

547
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Speaker 1: We'll come back and talk about Kingdom of the Planet

548
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Speaker 1: of the Apes and then the trailer Park. We'll get

549
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 1: into why I'm so excited about Despicable Me for Let's

550
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 1: get into it now. A spoiler free movie review. Kingdom

551
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 1: of the Planet of the Apes one of my most

552
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Speaker 1: anticipated movies of the summer. I feel like the Planet

553
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,879
Speaker 1: of the Apes movies as a whole are a little

554
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 1: bit underrated. There are ten of them now. The trilogy

555
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Speaker 1: of the twenty tens is top tier. I love those

556
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 1: movies so much. In particular, the first one is the

557
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Speaker 1: one that really changed my mind on the Planet of

558
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Speaker 1: the Apes because all the original ones, the Mark Wahlberg one.

559
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Speaker 1: I never really got too into those. I enjoyed more

560
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Speaker 1: when the Simpsons would parody the Planet of the Apes movie,

561
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 1: Homer Simpson screaming at the top of his lungs statue

562
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 1: of liberty. Wait a minute, that was our planet. Damn you,

563
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 1: damn you all ta hell. That was my introduction to

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Speaker 1: the Planet of the Apes movies. So I always found

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Speaker 1: the early iterations to be a little bit comical. That

566
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Speaker 1: completely changed in the twenty tens, whenever the movies had

567
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 1: a much more serious approach. The first movie has one

568
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 1: of my favorite theater experiences of all time. The first

569
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Speaker 1: time Caesar spoke in that movie. I remember people in

570
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:38,280
Speaker 1: the audience gasping. It is such a huge moment, and

571
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 1: just to have one of the best character developments of

572
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Speaker 1: Caesar going from the first one. Then when director Matt

573
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 1: Reeves took over from there, it was an incredible run.

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Speaker 1: But I feel like whenever people rattle off some of

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Speaker 1: the best trilogies of all time, or even just the

576
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 1: best trilogies of the twenty tens, they often get overlooked,

577
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 1: even though they are so clutch and also performed so

578
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 1: well at the box office, So coming from loving those

579
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Speaker 1: movies going into this one, which it's all kind of

580
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 1: part of one big saga, even though those first three

581
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 1: movies now stand on their own, Kingdom of the Planet

582
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Speaker 1: of the Apes is really the start of a new series.

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Speaker 1: They're going to do this brand new saga. They have

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Speaker 1: two more movies planned after this and maybe one more

585
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Speaker 1: on the tail end to wrap this whole thing up.

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Speaker 1: Matt Reeves is no longer directing. Instead we have director

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Speaker 1: West Ball, who I'm really not that familiar with. I

588
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Speaker 1: know he did the Maze Runner movies. He did that trilogy,

589
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:32,960
Speaker 1: but outside of that, he really doesn't have a tent

590
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Speaker 1: poll this is what I'm known for, and I found

591
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Speaker 1: that he had a bit of a different approach to

592
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Speaker 1: these movies where the tone completely shifted. Now where we

593
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Speaker 1: start off and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,

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Speaker 1: it takes place three hundred years after the reign of Caesar,

595
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Speaker 1: and all the roles have reversed because in that one,

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00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 1: the humans around the world it takes place in modern

597
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 1: day at that time, and the Apes are the ones

598
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Speaker 1: who are just coming into being able to speak, being

599
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 1: able to create their own civilization. And then that leads

600
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 1: to that entire trilogy, So going into this one, you

601
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 1: don't really have to know or have seen all of

602
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 1: those original movies, but having watched those, it does help

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Speaker 1: really establish in your mind who Caesar is. But within

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Speaker 1: the first minute of the movie you get this slate

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00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 1: of text telling you kind of his entire story. It

606
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: really tells you all you need to know. But there

607
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 1: are a lot of references throughout this one talking about

608
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Speaker 1: Caesar because you have some apes in this story who

609
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 1: have no idea who Caesar is, and then you have

610
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 1: this bad group of apes who their interpretation of his

611
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: outlook on the world and how he feels about humans

612
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: is a little bit radicalized. It is almost as if

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Speaker 1: they don't really know what Caesar intended and they kind

614
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 1: of skewed it to fit their own type of mentality

615
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:56,240
Speaker 1: because they hate humans. They want to capture all the humans,

616
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 1: kill humans. But the overall plot it centers around a

617
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 1: character named Noah who his family gets captured. Their entire

618
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 1: home gets completely destroyed by this radical group of apes,

619
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Speaker 1: so it is now Noah's mission to go find and

620
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Speaker 1: rescue his family. Along the way, and right before that,

621
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Speaker 1: he encounters this human who keeps following him, so he

622
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 1: is on a journey to try and find them. Along

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Speaker 1: the way, he finds another ape named Raca, who teaches

624
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Speaker 1: them about Caesar, teaches them about humans, and again they

625
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: encounter this human who they are now trying to help

626
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: out because even Noah is hesitant of humans, but Raka

627
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: is trying to teach him that they can be friends

628
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 1: live in harmony, because that is the way that Caesar intended. Now,

629
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 1: all the apes in the movie can speak, they're smart,

630
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:44,719
Speaker 1: but all the humans have regressed and there was this

631
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 1: virus that took away their ability to speak. All the

632
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 1: roles are reversed and it is the humans now who

633
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 1: are few and far between. They don't speak. They refer

634
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 1: to them as echoes because they are essentially echoes of

635
00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 1: the past. The first thing that really me in with

636
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: this movie was the astounding visual effects. I was really

637
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 1: immersed into the world of Kingdom of the Planet of

638
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:09,960
Speaker 1: the Apes because it looks so beautiful, and a lot

639
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 1: of this movie is the effects. I think maybe forty

640
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 1: to fifty percent of the movie is all just cgi characters.

641
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 1: And how they do these movies is they have real

642
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 1: actors playing all these people. They have them in these

643
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: motion capture suits. If you've ever seen behind the scenes

644
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 1: some of these movies, they put all the dots on

645
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 1: their face, so it's actually their voices and movements from

646
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 1: their face, which I think a lot of this stuff

647
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 1: was pioneered back with James Cameron and Avatar, And while

648
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Speaker 1: watching this movie, that is really what it reminded me

649
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: of that world of Pandora that was so immersive and

650
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 1: so big and so huge. It kind of felt like

651
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: that in a way, except less in the blues sci

652
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: fi way, and more of this could probably actually happen

653
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 1: to be in a world where humans once ruled and

654
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 1: now these apes have taken over. So out of all

655
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: the Planet of the Apes movies, this one really felt

656
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 1: like I was on a planet of the Apes. And

657
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: the visual effects just had this incredible depth that was

658
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 1: so fun to watch, even just the little hairs on

659
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 1: all of the apes that would flow in the wind,

660
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 1: and how intricate it was. It really made me look

661
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,919
Speaker 1: at every other movie using via effects in the wrong

662
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 1: way and think, see, it is possible to do. If

663
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:22,400
Speaker 1: you're gonna make a movie of this caliber and really

664
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,839
Speaker 1: want to get people into the theater to watch a spectacle.

665
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 1: You have to make visual effects like this. It has

666
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: to go next level, otherwise there's gonna be no reason

667
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 1: for people to go see this movie in theaters. And

668
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 1: that is also what I enjoy about these movies is

669
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 1: they really have a reason to go see them because

670
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:41,799
Speaker 1: they are this immersive, they are this big, and I

671
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:43,880
Speaker 1: thought the movie started out with some really good action,

672
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 1: but aside from that, I felt the pacing was a

673
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 1: little bit all over the place. And I do understand

674
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 1: what they are trying to do in this iteration now.

675
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 1: They are trying to make it feel a lot different

676
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 1: than what we have seen before and give it a

677
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 1: little bit more room to breathe, and also focus a

678
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 1: lot more on the story, which I think was more

679
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:08,360
Speaker 1: prevalent in this movie. A focus on what is actually

680
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 1: happening between the relationship of humans and apes, and focus

681
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 1: more on those idiosyncrasies. So it almost feels a little

682
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 1: bit more sophisticated. Even though I felt the twenty ten

683
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:21,640
Speaker 1: versions were a lot more sophisticated than the movies from

684
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 1: back in the day, it almost feels like they are

685
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 1: taking this in another direction. So I really think that

686
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,239
Speaker 1: was my main issue with it. The second act kind

687
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 1: of drags to a point that I was still invested

688
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,400
Speaker 1: in it, but it didn't really have me on that

689
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 1: roller coaster of emotion and action that I was expecting.

690
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 1: But it has about a two hour and twenty minute

691
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 1: runtime and I really felt that and by the end

692
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 1: of it, I was kind of ready for it to

693
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 1: be over. And that's not the best sign. Not to

694
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 1: say it's a bad movie, but it really felt like

695
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: the best is yet to come, and Kingdom of the

696
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 1: Planet of the Apes is really laying the groundwork for

697
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 1: the two films that are going to come after introducing

698
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 1: us to the characters, introducing us to the world, which

699
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 1: is a hard thing to do because I feel like

700
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 1: there is a lot going on and I don't want

701
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 1: to spoil anything. But after watching this movie, it really

702
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:15,360
Speaker 1: easily leads into the next one, and in my head,

703
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:18,560
Speaker 1: I can kind of see how all of these chapters

704
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 1: of the story are going to play out. So I

705
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 1: think the next movie will be even better than this one.

706
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 1: But I really think where this one is going to

707
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 1: shine is in that final third movie, because I see

708
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 1: this movie being a really perfect trilogy. But unlike the

709
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:36,760
Speaker 1: twenty eleven version, which I feel like was the best

710
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 1: of that trilogy. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

711
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:42,359
Speaker 1: is not quite there, but it is still, without a doubt,

712
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 1: a crowd pleaser. There were also a lot of funny

713
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:48,359
Speaker 1: moments that I wasn't expecting, and we also have a

714
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 1: whole new cast of actors, which I was a huge

715
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:54,799
Speaker 1: fan of Andy Serkis as Caesar. I don't know that

716
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:58,399
Speaker 1: these actors have them down just yet, so maybe give

717
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 1: them a little bit more time to get familiar with

718
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:03,359
Speaker 1: the technology. It's still the first movie, and they will

719
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: also get better because I felt that while the visual

720
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 1: aspect was there, the emotion in some of their voices

721
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:13,880
Speaker 1: and their performances didn't really suck me in. And for

722
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,839
Speaker 1: a movie like this that doesn't have a whole lot

723
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,360
Speaker 1: of humans, Freya Allen, who is the female lead in

724
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:22,320
Speaker 1: this movie, is really the only human. I needed a

725
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 1: little bit more from her performance and her interaction with

726
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: all the CGI characters because I didn't really feel that

727
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 1: same chemistry. And it's also probably hard because in this

728
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,239
Speaker 1: one it's all the apes doing the speaking, which we

729
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 1: didn't have in the trilogy before this. Really Caesar was

730
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 1: the only one who would speak. Some of the other

731
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,919
Speaker 1: ones would say a few words, but they also communicated

732
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:45,799
Speaker 1: a lot with sign language with subtitle, so I feel

733
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:47,919
Speaker 1: like that took me a little bit of getting used

734
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 1: to just the way they decided to make all of

735
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 1: the apes speak, So I think that'll probably change a

736
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 1: little bit as more characters get introduced later in this trilogy.

737
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:59,239
Speaker 1: So while I don't feel this franchise is going in

738
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 1: the wrong direction, it's just not quite there for me yet.

739
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 1: Still a good movie, still enjoyable. If you've been a

740
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: fan of all the other movies, you're going to enjoy

741
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 1: this one, But I don't think it's going to be

742
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 1: your favorite. Looking at the box office numbers, it is

743
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 1: performing so well, so I feel that even though people

744
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:19,880
Speaker 1: don't always talk about these movies being so good, the

745
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:22,359
Speaker 1: numbers are there, the money is there, and we're gonna

746
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 1: keep having Planet of the Apes movies probably until the

747
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,600
Speaker 1: end time, until we're actually living in the Planet of

748
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:30,240
Speaker 1: the Apes. But for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,

749
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 1: I give it three out of five horses. That was

750
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:35,400
Speaker 1: the only visual aspect that felt a little bit weird,

751
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 1: like they almost didn't have the animation downright of seeing

752
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 1: all the apes riding the horses. Yeah, maybe they retool

753
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 1: that a little bit too.

754
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:49,759
Speaker 2: It's time to head down to movie Mike Traylor, Paul.

755
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,840
Speaker 1: The Minions are going to save cinema this summer. I

756
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 1: was talking about it a little bit earlier. Despicable Me

757
00:38:56,960 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 1: for is coming out on July, and I remember whenever

758
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 1: the first Despicable Me movie came out back in twenty ten.

759
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 1: It's now been fourteen years of Minions. I thought, what

760
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:12,919
Speaker 1: a dumb concept for a kid's movie. These weird little

761
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: yellow things that speak a hybrid of Gibberish and Spanish.

762
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:19,400
Speaker 1: There's no way that this movie is going to be successful.

763
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: But that movie proved me wrong because it went on

764
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:25,319
Speaker 1: to gross half a billion dollars at the box office.

765
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:28,440
Speaker 1: There are now a total of six movies in the

766
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 1: Despicable Me franchise, including the four Despicable Me movies two

767
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: Minions movies, that have grossed over four and a half

768
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 1: million dollars total at the box office, which is a

769
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:42,320
Speaker 1: lot of money. And I want to talk about why

770
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:46,280
Speaker 1: these movies are successful, why they have a special place

771
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 1: in my heart, and why I think Disney needs to

772
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 1: look at Illumination, which is the company that makes all

773
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: the Minions movies in order to put their trajectory back

774
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:58,400
Speaker 1: on track, because well, I don't want to get into

775
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,280
Speaker 1: all that now. But again, the movie is coming out

776
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,799
Speaker 1: out on July third, and I can't think of a

777
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: better way to celebrate the birth of our nation little

778
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 1: lovable minions. So before I get into more about what

779
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 1: this movie is about, here's just a little bit of

780
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:13,800
Speaker 1: the Despicable me for trailer.

781
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 3: Nice one, gentlemen, you will be the first to test

782
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 3: our supercitum designed to transform you into cutting agents or

783
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 3: babies and gentlemen secrets with a BEGUNI.

784
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:48,919
Speaker 1: M that just makes me laugh, hearing the minions talk

785
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 1: and hearing them laugh and seeing them do dumb things.

786
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:56,840
Speaker 1: In that clip, we saw what is described as Mega Minions,

787
00:40:56,840 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 1: which looks hilarious, these souped up minions. One of them

788
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:04,240
Speaker 1: looks like the thing they have, like these crazy superpowers.

789
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 1: They're a little bit tanners, so their skin is a

790
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:09,439
Speaker 1: little bit more yellow. It looks hilarious. What a great

791
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 1: way to bring a little breath of fresh air into

792
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 1: this franchise, which for me, by the time you get

793
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 1: to a part four in an animated movie, you really

794
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 1: start phishing for ideas and sometimes it feels like you're

795
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 1: running out of story. If you look at Toy Story four,

796
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:28,640
Speaker 1: that movie really feels like the epilogue in the entire

797
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:32,279
Speaker 1: Toy Story franchise, them kind of having like, Okay, let's

798
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:34,920
Speaker 1: make another Toy Story movie because it could be successful,

799
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:36,879
Speaker 1: it can make us some money. And now they're making

800
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 1: Toy Story five. So I think that movie should have

801
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:43,879
Speaker 1: ended with Toy Story three. However, with the Minions, it's

802
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 1: just NonStop fun, NonStop action, and putting them in situations

803
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:50,880
Speaker 1: that are just more and more hilarious. So this is

804
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:54,279
Speaker 1: a way that I think Disney can learn from Illumination

805
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 1: is sometimes you just need to make a movie that

806
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 1: is mindless and dumb for kids, because kids just want

807
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 1: to go experience something fun. And the Minions appeal to

808
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:09,759
Speaker 1: every type of kid, like a really young kid, an

809
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:12,800
Speaker 1: older kid. They appealed to me for crying out loud.

810
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:16,720
Speaker 1: I am nowhere near the key demographic, but Mean Kelsey

811
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 1: both enjoy going to watch a Despicable Met or a

812
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:23,879
Speaker 1: Minions movie. Back in twenty twenty two, when Minions two

813
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 1: came out, we were so excited for it. We were

814
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 1: the only people who showed up in the theater without kids,

815
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 1: and we're not above that, and we had a great time.

816
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 1: The Minions are for everybody, for kids, if for adults,

817
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:38,760
Speaker 1: for your grandma on Facebook who keeps posting the same

818
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:42,759
Speaker 1: Minions meme and gifts that have about two pixels and

819
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,759
Speaker 1: the entire thing over and over again. And that is

820
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:48,759
Speaker 1: what Despicable Meat is going to do. Give everybody some

821
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 1: new things and gifts to post online. So I feel

822
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:55,800
Speaker 1: like Disney movies always have to teach a kid a lesson,

823
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 1: which is important. I learned a lot of things from

824
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:02,240
Speaker 1: Disney movies growing up. Times. They were that parental figure

825
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:04,400
Speaker 1: in my life, teaching me things that my parents just

826
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:06,920
Speaker 1: didn't know to teach me, didn't have time to teach me.

827
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 1: I learned a lot from different Disney movies about different emotions,

828
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 1: different situations. They just helped me with. And I feel

829
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:17,400
Speaker 1: like that is because Disney movies are rooted in fairy tales,

830
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,680
Speaker 1: usually have some type of moral At times, they could

831
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:23,239
Speaker 1: probably feel a little preachy to a kid who just

832
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:27,040
Speaker 1: wants to go see an animated movie where characters do

833
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 1: wacky things because that is what's fun, and from that

834
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 1: that kid goes on to want to buy a toy

835
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 1: from the movie, go buy a t shirt, a coloring book,

836
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:41,440
Speaker 1: or some kind of merchandise because they love those characters

837
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:44,800
Speaker 1: that much. And last year we saw all the Disney

838
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 1: movies that came out in theaters didn't really translate to

839
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 1: what they wanted them to do. But then you had

840
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 1: Illumination put out the Super Mario Brothers movie, which was

841
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:59,239
Speaker 1: just a big, fun movie that didn't really have I

842
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 1: don't want to say a whole lot of substance, because

843
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:05,240
Speaker 1: there is some there. I think them making Princess Peach

844
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:07,600
Speaker 1: in that movie not being the one who needed to

845
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 1: be rescued and her instead being the one to help Mario,

846
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:14,240
Speaker 1: I think was an important lesson for kids and showing

847
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 1: young girls and young boys that it doesn't always have

848
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:20,279
Speaker 1: to be the princess being rescued, so there can be

849
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 1: things in Illumination movies that teach kids lessons without just

850
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:27,600
Speaker 1: shoving it down their throats. But also that movie was

851
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 1: just big, dumb and fun at the same time, which

852
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:33,799
Speaker 1: is what the Minions movies continue to do and Despicable

853
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:37,360
Speaker 1: Me does as a franchise, and the plotlines are pretty

854
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 1: basic in this one. We have Steve Carell back is Grew,

855
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:43,879
Speaker 1: Kristin Wigg returns as Lucy, and then you have two

856
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: new villains voiced by Will Farrow and Sophia Vergara, who

857
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:49,839
Speaker 1: are trying to get revenge on Grew. And in this

858
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:52,959
Speaker 1: one they have Grew Junior, who is the baby who

859
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: in the trailer loves his mom but has some beef

860
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:57,800
Speaker 1: with his dad and looks like it's going to be

861
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 1: his job to torment his dad foil his plans, and

862
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:04,440
Speaker 1: I feel like probably by the end of the movie

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Speaker 1: they will end up bonding because gru has two daughters

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00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:10,640
Speaker 1: and now he finally has his boy. But I guess

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Speaker 1: he's probably in a weird position of the boy not

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00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:15,239
Speaker 1: really liking him, so it looks like he's gonna take

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Speaker 1: him on some of his adventures with him, take him

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00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:19,719
Speaker 1: on a couple of heist and maybe through that they

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Speaker 1: will bond a little bit. So there's also a whole

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00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: other storyline being made there of Grew Junior growing up.

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00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 1: So really, they could continue doing Despicable Me and many

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00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 1: these movies for so many years to come. And the

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00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:38,759
Speaker 1: other thing I love about the Despicable Me franchise is

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Speaker 1: they continue to advance on their animation style, and just

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00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:45,360
Speaker 1: by watching this trailer, I can see all the little

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00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 1: cinematic touches that they are putting in the kids movie

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00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:51,240
Speaker 1: that you don't really have to include, but it really

878
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:53,920
Speaker 1: makes a difference when you go watch an animated movie

879
00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:57,920
Speaker 1: with that level of sophistication on their animation style, it

880
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:02,720
Speaker 1: really becomes much more of an immergent experience. Therefore gives

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Speaker 1: families a reason to see it on a big screen

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00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:08,840
Speaker 1: because it does get your attention more on the screen,

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Speaker 1: and that's probably really important when it comes to younger

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00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 1: kids who have shorter attention spans. So that combined with

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00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:18,360
Speaker 1: a fantastic voice acting as great of a career that

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00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:22,799
Speaker 1: Steve Carell has had going from television into film, this

887
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 1: is still one of my favorite roles of his because

888
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 1: it's so much different than everything else he does, and

889
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:32,120
Speaker 1: even though grew at the same time sounds like him

890
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 1: but also at the same time sounds nothing like him.

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00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:37,320
Speaker 1: I think he is such a perfect fit. Kristin Wig

892
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:40,640
Speaker 1: is also great in this Miranda Cosgrove, and it's nice

893
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:43,480
Speaker 1: to see Will Ferrell in an animated movie that doesn't suck.

894
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:46,839
Speaker 1: So the Minions and Despicable Me are just a great

895
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:49,840
Speaker 1: crowd pleaser and they bring me a lot of joy.

896
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 1: So even though for me being thirty two gonna turn

897
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:56,399
Speaker 1: thirty three next month, does feel a little bit weird

898
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:58,360
Speaker 1: to me to go watch a kid's movie, but again,

899
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:00,080
Speaker 1: I gotta watch it to talk about it here on

900
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:03,200
Speaker 1: the podcast. But now that I have Kelsey, it feels

901
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:06,320
Speaker 1: a little bit more normal, I will say. The last

902
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 1: Illumination movie which to go see together was Migration and

903
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,480
Speaker 1: we walked in and we happened to see a couple

904
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:15,879
Speaker 1: who is a friend of a friend, so we know them.

905
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:18,080
Speaker 1: They were there with their kids and they saw us

906
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:21,320
Speaker 1: and we said hi, And even though they didn't say anything,

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Speaker 1: I felt that tension of them wondering, I wonder where

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Speaker 1: their kids are. They didn't mention anything. They were just like, oh, hey,

909
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 1: good to see you, but I know in their head

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00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 1: they were thinking, these two adults came here willingly. And

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00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:35,480
Speaker 1: to that, I say, yes, We'll do it again. On

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Speaker 1: July third, we go watch Despicable Me four and.

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Speaker 2: That was this week's edition of movie Bar Framer Bar.

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Speaker 1: Oh Yeah, and that is going to do it for

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Speaker 1: another episode here of the podcast. Before I go, I

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Speaker 1: got to give my listeners shout out of the Week.

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Speaker 1: I think this was two maybe three weeks ago where

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Speaker 1: I asked you guys, if you would be so kind

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Speaker 1: to leave a review of the podcast. If you listen

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00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 1: on Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, or Spotify, you can go leave

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Speaker 1: a five star review and write a quick little review

922
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:11,239
Speaker 1: because I am continuing my battle trying to reach the

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Speaker 1: top of the charts when it comes to other movie podcasts.

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00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 1: We are consistently in like the top twenty twenty five

925
00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:21,359
Speaker 1: given the week, but I really want to crack that

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Speaker 1: top ten. So it would mean so much to me

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Speaker 1: if you went and whatever streaming service you listen on,

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Speaker 1: hit that five stars and write a quick little review

929
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:33,279
Speaker 1: because it really really helps. Sitting at a four point

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Speaker 1: nine rating right now on Apple podcast which is amazing.

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Speaker 1: I think the person who gave me a one was

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Speaker 1: somebody who complained really early onto the podcast when I

933
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Speaker 1: was still figuring things out and they didn't like that

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Speaker 1: I laughed while talking about things. So sorry, guy, sad

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Speaker 1: you gave me that one, but you probably didn't stick

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Speaker 1: around past episode ten. But for this week's listener shout

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Speaker 1: out of the Week, I'm going to the reviews on

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Speaker 1: Apple podcasts. We have a review here from pot podcast

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Speaker 1: listener fourteen. You know somebody is an expert on podcasts

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Speaker 1: if their username is podcast listener fourteen, they wrote great

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Speaker 1: movie podcast. Mike is an excellent movie reviewer. I enjoy

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Speaker 1: his podcast. I listen every Monday. He gives honest and

943
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Speaker 1: informative reviews every week. Love the Trailer Park. That is

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Speaker 1: such a great review. You could probably accuse me of

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Speaker 1: hiring somebody to leave that review, but I did not.

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Speaker 1: If I could figure that out, I probably would. But

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Speaker 1: these are all genuine reviews. So thank you podcast listener fourteen.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate that. Appreciate you right now for listening. Hope you

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Speaker 1: have a great rest of your week, and until next time,

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

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Speaker 1: to you later