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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 and also welcome to twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four, the first brand new episode of the year.

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Speaker 1: And you know what that means. I'm gonna share with

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Speaker 1: you my top ten favorite films of twenty twenty three

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Speaker 1: now that the year is over. It's the hardest time

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Speaker 1: I've ever had making a top ten list. And We're

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Speaker 1: also going to break the format of a traditional episode

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Speaker 1: because I'm just gonna give you my top ten everything

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Speaker 1: from this year. I'll give you my top ten worst

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Speaker 1: movies and my top ten honorable mentions that you should

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Speaker 1: also watch from twenty twenty three. So thank you for

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Speaker 1: being subscribed, thank you for being here for another year

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Speaker 1: of the podcast. Thank you for telling a friend shout

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Speaker 1: out to the Monday Morning movie crew. He Now, let's

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Speaker 2: In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast,

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Speaker 2: one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like

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Speaker 2: never before in a movie podcast. A man with so

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Speaker 2: much movie knowledge, he's basically like a walking IMTV with

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Speaker 1: This is Movie Mikes Movie POPA. All right, we're breaking

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Speaker 1: the format. We'll still have our topic, but we won't

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Speaker 1: do a traditional movie review or trailer park because I

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Speaker 1: got three big lists I want to share with you.

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Speaker 1: But let's get into first my favorite films of twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three and the criteria of which I rank these.

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Speaker 1: A great contribution to why they make my top ten

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Speaker 1: is strictly just entertainment value. How much fun and how

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Speaker 1: much enjoyment did I get by watching these movies in theaters.

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Speaker 1: On top of that, I also have to factor in

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Speaker 1: the impact that these movies had on cinema, because that's

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Speaker 1: important to me, not just a great movie that you

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Speaker 1: on for the next five ten, maybe even a lifetime

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Speaker 1: of movie watching. And kind of along those same lines

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Speaker 1: is rewatchability. How often will I go back and revisit

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Speaker 1: these films. It's not necessary for every single movie. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: movies are like a roller coaster. You're right at once

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Speaker 1: and then it's like, all right, I enjoyed that, but

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Speaker 1: I don't need to see it again. But from movies

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Speaker 1: that rewatchability. Will also factor in the score that I

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Speaker 1: gave all of these movies, and then we'll get into

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Speaker 1: some box office and budget numbers, and also just how

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Speaker 1: did these movies make me feel like as far as

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Speaker 1: don't always focus on the traditional things that critics do

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Speaker 1: all that, you know, the flashy things, the things that

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Speaker 1: I don't call myself that. I am just a guy

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Speaker 1: who loves movies. So at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: it's what these movies made me feel and what emotions

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Speaker 1: At number ten, I have Killers of the Flower Moon,

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Speaker 1: which I give a four out of five. The movie

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Speaker 1: cost two hundred million dollars to make and as of now,

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Speaker 1: from legendary director Martin Scorsese, and for that reason alone

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Speaker 1: it feels like such an investment. But going to see

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Speaker 1: one of the best in five years. It is called Bottoms.

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Speaker 1: to all those saying that there hasn't been a great

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Speaker 1: The movie cost sixteen million dollars to make and as

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Speaker 1: being in its flop era, but I feel like people

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00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:59,639
Speaker 1: left this movie out of the conversation, probably because it

436
00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,880
Speaker 1: feels it's so different than everything in the MCU that

437
00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:05,520
Speaker 1: oh yeah, forgot. Guardians of the Galaxy Volume three that

438
00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:07,879
Speaker 1: was really good. And also, like what I was saying

439
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,920
Speaker 1: about the Spider Man movies, the Guardians movies are now

440
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,920
Speaker 1: movies that I have to rewatch at least once a year,

441
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,080
Speaker 1: because when this one came out, I had to go

442
00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 1: back watch one and two and I've rewatched part three

443
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:22,359
Speaker 1: now for the third time, so it is up there

444
00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:25,719
Speaker 1: on having some great rewatchability. It also crushed it at

445
00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:28,400
Speaker 1: the box office, and I think it should and I

446
00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:32,960
Speaker 1: hope that other directors take a little bit from this

447
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:37,600
Speaker 1: trilogy of how to truly tell a story and how

448
00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:41,000
Speaker 1: to truly take the viewers on a journey with characters.

449
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:44,639
Speaker 1: James Gunn nailed it with this trilogy. So at number

450
00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:47,920
Speaker 1: two I have Guardians of the Galaxy Volume three, and

451
00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:51,679
Speaker 1: now we have made it to number one. My favorite

452
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:55,760
Speaker 1: movie of twenty twenty three is a movie that came

453
00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,720
Speaker 1: out in December. I was not expecting to love this

454
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 1: movie as much as I did, and out of every

455
00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:05,920
Speaker 1: movie on this list, had the most impact on me

456
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 1: of just feeling like I am watching something so amazing

457
00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:13,000
Speaker 1: here that I think everybody needs to see it. The

458
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:17,240
Speaker 1: movie is Godzilla minus one, which I gave a five

459
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:20,440
Speaker 1: at a five rating. Comes to us from the studio Toho.

460
00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:24,720
Speaker 1: The movie costs less than ten million dollars to make. Yes,

461
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,840
Speaker 1: the directors and producers came out saying that, oh that

462
00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,600
Speaker 1: ten million dollars that was reported. It was even less

463
00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,720
Speaker 1: than that, but as of now has made over seventy

464
00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:37,560
Speaker 1: eight million dollars at the global box office. The movie

465
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:41,199
Speaker 1: takes place in a post World War two Japan that

466
00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:44,879
Speaker 1: the country thought it couldn't reach a lower point after

467
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:48,600
Speaker 1: World War Two, and then Godzilla comes around. So that

468
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:51,159
Speaker 1: is why it's called Godzilla minus one because they are

469
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,800
Speaker 1: at ground zero, but now Godzilla takes them a step

470
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:58,440
Speaker 1: below that, so it's Godzilla minus one. But this movie

471
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:02,520
Speaker 1: had so much emotion, which is truly lacking from the

472
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:06,440
Speaker 1: Godzilla films. And I've been enjoying the Monster Verse and

473
00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 1: you know, Godzilla versus Kong that has really reignited my

474
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:14,960
Speaker 1: love for Godzilla. But this one made those movies look

475
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:20,840
Speaker 1: so terrible, look like straight hot garbage, because it took

476
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:25,159
Speaker 1: the character of Godzilla that has over thirty installments in

477
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:29,120
Speaker 1: the franchise and made something so completely fresh and new

478
00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 1: because it added this human element to it that even

479
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:36,199
Speaker 1: if you took away Godzilla added this movie and just

480
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:39,200
Speaker 1: told the story of our main character here, that would

481
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:41,879
Speaker 1: be a great story on its own. But then you

482
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:45,440
Speaker 1: add in Godzilla, who is the best he has ever

483
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 1: been in this movie as far as how he looks,

484
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,600
Speaker 1: how he acts, how he destroys. I think The thing

485
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 1: I dislike the most now about the current Monster verse

486
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:57,240
Speaker 1: and with you know, the new Godzilla Versus Kong movie,

487
00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:00,680
Speaker 1: is that they're kind of on the human side, and

488
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,760
Speaker 1: we've all just been kind of cool with that, like, yeah,

489
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,520
Speaker 1: Godzilla's helping out the humans too, Like, yeah, he's helping

490
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:08,440
Speaker 1: us defeat the monsters. And you'll watch this movie and

491
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:12,639
Speaker 1: you're reminded that, no, Godzilla wouldn't do that. Godzilla is

492
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:17,280
Speaker 1: there to destroy. He rips cities apart, he breathes fire,

493
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 1: he goes nuclear. That is what Godzilla does. He doesn't

494
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 1: help people. He wants to destroy people. And I had

495
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:29,879
Speaker 1: to be reminded of that. So that's why I love

496
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,960
Speaker 1: this movie so much. But also the fact that it

497
00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:36,639
Speaker 1: did it on such a low budget is inspiring to

498
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:38,320
Speaker 1: all these movies that I'm gonna get into in the

499
00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:41,359
Speaker 1: worst films of the year that spent over two hundred

500
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:45,000
Speaker 1: sometimes two hundred and fifty million dollars to make things

501
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:50,040
Speaker 1: that look like trash. Just shows you that if you

502
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 1: just put some effort into it, some heart into it,

503
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:56,720
Speaker 1: and truly care about making a great movie, it can

504
00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:00,480
Speaker 1: be done. It can be done. This is a movie

505
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,119
Speaker 1: that as of now I can't go rewatch it because

506
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 1: it's only still in theaters. It's still not streaming yet.

507
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 1: They're not giving any details on when you can stream

508
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:11,479
Speaker 1: this movie, so for that I apologize. My only regret

509
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:13,679
Speaker 1: is I didn't see it in imax and haven't had

510
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:15,360
Speaker 1: a chance to go see it again in theaters because

511
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,160
Speaker 1: there's been so much to get to in this busy

512
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 1: holiday season. But as soon as it's available for me

513
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:24,399
Speaker 1: to rent or own, I'm gonna get this movie. But

514
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,120
Speaker 1: out of all the movies on this list, I think

515
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 1: it's the one that should have the most impact and

516
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 1: show you can make a movie that has a little

517
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 1: bit of something for everybody, a bit of drama, a

518
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:34,960
Speaker 1: little bit of action, a little bit of history, a

519
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:39,400
Speaker 1: little bit of war. I honestly think out of any

520
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 1: movie on this list, you could put this one on

521
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,040
Speaker 1: and then most people would just straight out enjoy it.

522
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 1: The only thing that would straight people away from watching

523
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:49,680
Speaker 1: this movie. The hardest sell, which shouldn't be the hardest sell,

524
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 1: is the fact that the movie is in Japanese, so

525
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 1: you have to watch it with English subtitles. Come on,

526
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 1: do I have to go on? The subtitles? Ran again?

527
00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 1: Don't make me do it, because we're missing out on

528
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 1: movies if that's the reason you're not watching them. I

529
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,680
Speaker 1: completely love this movie. I've been in a Godzilla wormhole

530
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 1: for about a month now since I've seen this movie.

531
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:11,879
Speaker 1: And even with the success of this movie, they're not

532
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 1: chomping at the bit to make another one because that's

533
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:17,239
Speaker 1: the American way of filmmaking. Oh, we have a hit

534
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 1: on our hands, how soon can we crank out another one?

535
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 1: But it's selsa par and then, just you know, that

536
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 1: is not the way to make movies. So it just

537
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 1: makes me believe in making a great movie for just

538
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:33,199
Speaker 1: the sake of making a great movie, which is what

539
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 1: it should be about. It shouldn't be about who's in

540
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 1: your movie, how much can you make? Like, just make

541
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 1: great movies and they will find their audience. So at

542
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:47,480
Speaker 1: number one, I have Godzilla minus one as my favorite

543
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:50,479
Speaker 1: movie of the year. Come back and let you know

544
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 1: all the movies I hated, and then I have a

545
00:28:53,200 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 1: bunch of honorable mentions. All Right, I've heard my favorite

546
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,480
Speaker 1: films of twenty twenty three. Let's get into the negative

547
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 1: and share with you my worst films of the year.

548
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna get heated by the end of this,

549
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 1: so let's get right into it. At number ten, I

550
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 1: have The Flash, which I gave a two point five

551
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 1: at a five rating, who cost three hundred million dollars

552
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 1: to make and went on too bomb because it only

553
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 1: made two hundred and seventy million dollars. This movie was

554
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 1: just a complete mess, from the story, to the visual effects,

555
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 1: to wasting bringing back the greatest Batman Michael Keaton, and

556
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 1: throwing in all of just these things that didn't make sense,

557
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 1: trying to make a multiverse. It felt like it wanted

558
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 1: to be back to the future with into the Spider Verse,

559
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 1: and it was just bad, so so bad in a

560
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 1: movie that could have been great. And the thing that

561
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 1: was just the worst about this movie, I know people

562
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 1: get hung up on the visual effects, which were bad

563
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 1: but didn't completely take me out of the movie just

564
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 1: on occasion, It was really the story that I felt

565
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: that Barry didn't really go through anything here, and it

566
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 1: just felt like the entire storyline was like, what happened here?

567
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 1: Did our character grow or did he just try to

568
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 1: do a bunch of like no, and to misuse the

569
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 1: use of time travel and bringing in characters from different

570
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 1: DC universes and just looked like a hot mess on screen.

571
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 1: Felt like this movie had no direction introducing super Girl.

572
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 1: There were just so many things that this movie wanted

573
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 1: to be and just couldn't live up to. So at

574
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 1: number ten, I have The Flash. At number nine, I

575
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 1: have Five Nights at Freddy's, which I gave a two

576
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 1: point five out of five. Surprising thing here is that

577
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 1: the movie was actually a success. It only cost twenty

578
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 1: million dollars to make and went on to earn three

579
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars at the box office. But this was

580
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 1: a movie I went to go see and I thought

581
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 1: I was going to enjoy. I was somewhat familiar with

582
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 1: the video game, but I wasn't a fan of it.

583
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 1: I just horror movies. I thought the acting in this

584
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: movie was so bad and the actual horror elements were

585
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: lacking to me that I came on and did a

586
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 1: review of this movie and got ripped to shreds because

587
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 1: it has such a passionate fan base. And I do

588
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 1: give props to this movie because Blumhouse took a risk. Well,

589
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even say that they took a risk. They

590
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 1: only spend twenty million dollars on it. This is what

591
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 1: they do. They spend a little or modest amount on

592
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 1: a movie and then cash and big. But I think

593
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 1: it's really due to the fan base of this video game,

594
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 1: because I stand by the fact that it is not

595
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 1: a good movie. I wanted to walk out of this

596
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 1: movie because it was so bad and boring and there

597
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 1: was nothing there for me to grasp on to aside

598
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 1: from the kind of cool look of the animatronic characters.

599
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,720
Speaker 1: But I just couldn't believe that people enjoyed this movie,

600
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 1: and the further I dug into it, most of the

601
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 1: people who were enjoying it and so passionate about it

602
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 1: were these hardcore fans. And it's probably Jen that was

603
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 1: just upset at me of being the old krusty movie reviewer.

604
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: So may have completely missed a boat on this one,

605
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 1: but I stand by it. This movie was terrible and

606
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: one of the worst movies I saw at number nine.

607
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: At number eight is Hypnotic, which I gave a one

608
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 1: point five out of five. The movie was a major

609
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 1: flop because it cost sixty five million dollars to make

610
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: and only made fifteen point seven million dollars. And it

611
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 1: comes to us from Robert Rodriguez, who I like as

612
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 1: a director from dust Hill Down is one of my

613
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 1: favorite movies. He also did the Spy Kids movies. So

614
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 1: for a director of his caliber to put out such

615
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,959
Speaker 1: a turd of a movie was surprising to me. And

616
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 1: it felt like he was trying to do a Christopher

617
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:46,720
Speaker 1: Nolan impression. And the movie has a pretty interesting premise

618
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: that does not deliver whatsoever. And you even have a

619
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 1: big movie star, Ben Affleck starring in this movie, which

620
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 1: I guess he has been on the return this year.

621
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 1: I mean, Air made my top favorite films of the year,

622
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 1: but this one made my worst. So that is the

623
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: range of Ben Affleck, and I honestly feel like he

624
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 1: did this movie as a favor to him. It almost

625
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 1: felt like Ben Affleck filmed this movie on a weekend

626
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 1: that he had free, and he's like, yeah, I'll shoot

627
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 1: this movie. Because the movie made no sense. It was

628
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 1: a terrible looking movie. It felt like it was just

629
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 1: manufactured in some big warehouse and then slapped together with

630
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 1: some special effects. But story hero was bad, the characters

631
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 1: were bad, and the action was really bad. There was

632
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 1: nothing great about this movie, aside from the fact that

633
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 1: it had a relatively short run time. So at number eight,

634
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 1: I have Hypnotic. At number seven, I have flaman Hot,

635
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: which doesn't have any production details online because the movie

636
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 1: came out on Hulu slash Disney Plus as those two

637
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 1: are starting to merge. But it is the story of

638
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 1: the guy who allegedly created the Flaming Hot Cheetos. And

639
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 1: the biggest problem I had with this movie is, I

640
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 1: guess going into it the stories that came out of

641
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 1: the authenticity of the story and it not being completely factual,

642
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,399
Speaker 1: and then director Eva Longoria coming out and saying, well,

643
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 1: this is his truth and his story. But inside of

644
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:17,799
Speaker 1: the movie, the inventor himself even makes a point to

645
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 1: say that, yeah, maybe I would make up big stories

646
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: and my wife would kind of ground me in reality.

647
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: So you had an unreliable narrator on top of it

648
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:29,200
Speaker 1: that really just made me not believe it. And it's

649
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 1: also a story that is meant to represent my culture.

650
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 1: There's Mexican culture all throughout this movie, but to me,

651
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 1: it just felt like the production of such a low

652
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:42,400
Speaker 1: quality straight to TV film, and on top of that,

653
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:45,320
Speaker 1: I felt like wasn't a good representation of my culture.

654
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:48,799
Speaker 1: Almost felt like a caricature of my family, and I

655
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 1: was like, this is what we're putting out to represent us.

656
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 1: This is awful, and then you're calling us liars. I

657
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:57,880
Speaker 1: just didn't love what this movie did for film. Didn't

658
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 1: love what this movie did for my people. So at

659
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 1: number seven, I have Flaming Hot, the Flaming Hot Cheetos Story.

660
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that was bad. At number six, I'm

661
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:09,879
Speaker 1: getting more angry as this list goes on because I'm

662
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 1: remembering the time I wasted on these movies. But at

663
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 1: number six, I have Your Place or Mind The rom

664
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 1: com starring America's Sweetheart Reese Witherspoon in America's Guy that

665
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 1: used to be popular in the two thousands and it's

666
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:29,280
Speaker 1: still around doing movies acting Cutcher and Oh my gosh,

667
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 1: this movie almost made me stop believing in my resurgence

668
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 1: of loving rom coms. It was so bad because the

669
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 1: thing that is important in rom comms is for characters

670
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:45,760
Speaker 1: to have chemistry. You gotta have that chemistry to sell

671
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 1: the idea of love to people, to sell that fantasy,

672
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 1: and Cutcher and Witherspoon had no chemistry whatsoever. But also

673
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:57,800
Speaker 1: they gave a very minimal effort in acting it felt

674
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 1: like people were writing the lines as they went along

675
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,400
Speaker 1: and just letting them like, oh, just just here's the

676
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 1: general nature of the scene. Do with it what you will.

677
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 1: And they also weren't in a lot of scenes together

678
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,719
Speaker 1: because their two characters are split apart. So it just

679
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 1: made me feel like they shot this movie completely out

680
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 1: of whack and never got into a rhythm and were

681
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 1: just kind of making a movie on top of all

682
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 1: their other projects that they had going on at the time.

683
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:28,360
Speaker 1: So the movie just doesn't even feel unified whatsoever. A

684
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 1: lot of it is just their character speaking into either

685
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 1: their phone or a laptop on FaceTime or something like that.

686
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 1: There was just no moment where this movie clicked, And

687
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:43,280
Speaker 1: the only redeeming quality is that it was on Netflix.

688
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 1: Didn't have to pay for it and didn't have to

689
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:47,959
Speaker 1: go anywhere to watch it because it was so bad.

690
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 1: So at number six, I have your place or mine.

691
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 1: But at number five is a movie I actually did

692
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 1: go to the theater to see. I almost walked out,

693
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:57,919
Speaker 1: but I told myself, I gotta see this one through

694
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 1: because I need to be able to properly ripped this

695
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 1: movie to shreds for years to come and for the

696
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:06,320
Speaker 1: longest time. This held the title of the worst movie

697
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 1: of the year, and some others snuck in after it

698
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 1: because I wanted this one to be the worst of

699
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:13,840
Speaker 1: the year because I hated it so much. The movie

700
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 1: is sixty five, starring Adam Driver. I gave it a

701
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 1: one out of five. The movie cost forty five million

702
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:22,839
Speaker 1: dollars to make and made about sixty million dollars at

703
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 1: the box office. The biggest problem I had with this

704
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:27,920
Speaker 1: movie is it had such a great premise, and I

705
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 1: love sci fi movies. I love movies with dinosaurs. Adam

706
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,800
Speaker 1: Driver is a great actor, and it's about him being

707
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 1: put on this planet and trying to rescue somebody, and

708
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 1: then you have all these futuristic things. Sounded like a

709
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 1: movie that was right on my alley. But it's a

710
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 1: movie that fumbled all of those things so badly. And

711
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 1: how do you make a movie with dinosaurs and Adam

712
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:55,280
Speaker 1: Driver so completely boring? This movie was a snooze fest

713
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 1: and a movie that looked relatively good on screen, it

714
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:02,799
Speaker 1: just had nothing going for it. It was like a

715
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 1: really attractive person who has nothing to say. That is

716
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 1: what this movie was. And I felt angry while watching

717
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: it that I wanted to leave because, oh my gosh,

718
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 1: I was raging in my seat because I was upset

719
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 1: that I was excited about this movie and went on

720
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 1: to just completely disappoint me. And I think it's one

721
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 1: of those movies that even Adam Driver I see was

722
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 1: making it, thought Okay, we're actually doing something great here,

723
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 1: and then it just got ruined in the editing process

724
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:32,280
Speaker 1: because they didn't have a story there. So at number five,

725
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 1: I have sixty five. At number four, I have Vacation

726
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,560
Speaker 1: Friends too, which I gave a one out of five rating.

727
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 1: There's no data on this one because it came out

728
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 1: on Hulu. I would probably think they spent about fifty

729
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 1: million dollars to make this movie, maybe because John Cena

730
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 1: is in it. But I surprisingly enjoyed Vacation Friends Part one,

731
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 1: which is weird to say because it is a completely

732
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:02,280
Speaker 1: dumb and ridiculous movie. But sometimes you just need something

733
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:05,799
Speaker 1: dumb and ridiculous, So going into part two, I was

734
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:09,919
Speaker 1: looking for something equally dumb and ridiculous, so a case

735
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 1: where I knew what I was getting myself into, but

736
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 1: was still disappointed because all the things that made the

737
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 1: first one fun and enjoyable were not in this one,

738
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:26,000
Speaker 1: they added new characters and it just made me feel

739
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 1: like a complete idiot while watching this movie to think, Oh, man,

740
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:31,920
Speaker 1: like I took a risk in telling people that I

741
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 1: enjoyed part one and was interested in seeing part two

742
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 1: and thought it was gonna be maybe a little bit funnier.

743
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,920
Speaker 1: Maybe with the success I put that in quotation success

744
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 1: of the first ones, they would have more budget to

745
00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: throw around, kind of like they did with The Hangover two.

746
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:51,360
Speaker 1: But man, this movie was really bad and really awful

747
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,880
Speaker 1: and really ridiculous and felt like a dollar bin DVD movie.

748
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 1: So at number four, I have vacation friends too. I

749
00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:00,200
Speaker 1: was dumb to believe in it. At number three is

750
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 1: the most recent addition on this list. It is Aquaman

751
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 1: to the Lost Kingdom. I give it a point five

752
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 1: out of five. The movie cost two hundred and five

753
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:12,759
Speaker 1: million dollars to make, and as of the recording of

754
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 1: this podcast, has made one hundred and forty five million dollars.

755
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:19,799
Speaker 1: It is the end of the DCEU. This movie was

756
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 1: dead on arrival, but I was willing to give it

757
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:25,319
Speaker 1: a chance because I found some enjoyment in the first one.

758
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:28,400
Speaker 1: I still think it's surprising how successful that movie was

759
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: being one of the only DCEU movies to make over

760
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 1: a billion dollars at the box office. I think that

761
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:39,319
Speaker 1: is largely due to the international appeal of Aquaman. But

762
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 1: the biggest factor of me hating this movie is it

763
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 1: has the worst dialogue of twenty twenty three. I don't

764
00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 1: even know what the script was here. I couldn't imagine

765
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 1: these actors taking these lines seriously because it was so bad.

766
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:58,240
Speaker 1: And Jason Momoa in this movie was so much trying

767
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:02,760
Speaker 1: to be Robert Downey and have that Tony Stark energy

768
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 1: as the lovable jerk guy but has a good heart,

769
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:09,000
Speaker 1: and he did a bad impression of it. This movie

770
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:13,880
Speaker 1: felt like a parody of a superhero movie. Script was terrible.

771
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 1: Visual effects. Oh my gosh, it is hard to do

772
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:19,320
Speaker 1: a movie underwater. I get it, you have to animate

773
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 1: their hair going wavy. It just looked really bad. I mean,

774
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:26,279
Speaker 1: The Little Mermaid this year looked better than this movie.

775
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:29,319
Speaker 1: And then they also put this weird underwater effect on

776
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 1: their voice, which was awful. And I wish I could

777
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,440
Speaker 1: say that the above ground scenes looked better, but they didn't.

778
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: And I guess I was just hoping hoping that the

779
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 1: DCEU would go out on a higher note and it

780
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:45,399
Speaker 1: wasn't just gonna be people review bombing this movie saying

781
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:48,799
Speaker 1: it's bad before even seeing it. But this movie was

782
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:52,320
Speaker 1: hard to watch. I'm glad that it was right under

783
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:56,839
Speaker 1: two hours, but there was nothing positive I could say

784
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 1: about this movie, aside from the villain and some of

785
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:01,920
Speaker 1: the support casts that were the only ones giving it

786
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:06,799
Speaker 1: some kind of effort. The movie was ridiculously bad. It

787
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:11,280
Speaker 1: had the feel of like a bad eighties action movie

788
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 1: mixed with early two thousand's late nineties special effects. To that,

789
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 1: we say goodbye to the DCEU. Add number two, I

790
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:26,360
Speaker 1: Have a rom com by the name of What Happens Later,

791
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: starring David d'coveney and Meg Ryan, directed by Meg Ryan.

792
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:34,120
Speaker 1: I gave also a point five out of five rating.

793
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:37,439
Speaker 1: The movie costs only three million dollars to make, which

794
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:39,319
Speaker 1: a lot of it was Meg Ryan calling in some

795
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 1: favors from her friends. She also directed it herself, so

796
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 1: maybe she didn't pay herself anything, but it went on

797
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 1: to make three point three million dollars at the box office.

798
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 1: The movie has an extremely limited cast of just two people,

799
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:56,960
Speaker 1: Meg Ryan, David d'coveny stranded in an airport. It's based

800
00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:59,880
Speaker 1: on a play and it feels that way. But this

801
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: this movie had no direction Onceoever, it took the most

802
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 1: boring situation that you can experience, being stranded in an airport.

803
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: Think of that, you get delayed and you're there for hours.

804
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 1: It is the worst feeling because there's nothing to do.

805
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 1: Why design to make a movie about that. It just

806
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 1: had that feeling of me being bored in an airport

807
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:23,359
Speaker 1: trying to find things to pass the time. So it

808
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 1: is essentially a bottle movie where there are no other

809
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:30,720
Speaker 1: set designs. It's just an airport, no other cast aside

810
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 1: from the loudspeakers saying and narrating this entire movie, which

811
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:39,319
Speaker 1: was so annoying, and just the direction that they went

812
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:43,200
Speaker 1: in to tell this story of two people reconnecting and

813
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 1: love and oh my gosh, it looks awful. It is awful.

814
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 1: There is nothing redeeming about this movie. It's just one

815
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:53,799
Speaker 1: that should not have been made. So at number two,

816
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 1: I have what happens later, But at number one, the

817
00:43:57,239 --> 00:44:00,359
Speaker 1: worst movie in the film I hated the most. In

818
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, Istrays, which is a quote unquote comedy

819
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 1: adventure about these dogs trying to get revenge on one

820
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 1: of the dog's owners. It is part live action, part

821
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 1: animated because you have real life humans like Will Forte

822
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:20,400
Speaker 1: in the movie. All the dogs look like real dogs,

823
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:22,960
Speaker 1: but of course their mouths are animated, and you have

824
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:26,480
Speaker 1: actors voicing them like Will Ferrell. But the movie centers

825
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:29,840
Speaker 1: around Will Ferrell's character, Reggie, who has an abusive owner

826
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 1: who drops him off and gets rid of them, and

827
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 1: Reggie is trying to find his way home. He encounters

828
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:38,360
Speaker 1: these other stray dogs and then decides he wants to

829
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:40,879
Speaker 1: get revenge on his owner after he realizes that he's

830
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:44,520
Speaker 1: been mistreating him his entire life. And the movie was

831
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 1: really just made as an excuse to get dogs to curse.

832
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:50,799
Speaker 1: That is all this movie is. The novelty of it

833
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 1: is that it's a rated R movie that looks like

834
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: a kid's movie. Oh it's these cute dogs. What they're

835
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 1: saying the F word and doing vulgar things, which I

836
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:02,839
Speaker 1: am above enjoying a type of movie like this. Some

837
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,840
Speaker 1: of the humor I really enjoy is really immature stuff.

838
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:10,560
Speaker 1: But if there's no creativity in the comedy, it just

839
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 1: screams terrible, and that is what we have here, to

840
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:17,799
Speaker 1: the point that the humor just felt like something you

841
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:21,840
Speaker 1: would write in sixth grade with your friends. But you

842
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 1: took that script made by six graders and got real

843
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:28,840
Speaker 1: life movie stars to voice these characters, and it almost

844
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:32,160
Speaker 1: feels like they just got into a recording booth they

845
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 1: gave them some lines and said, hey, add in some

846
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 1: F words and S words wherever you feel necessary, because

847
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:40,880
Speaker 1: that's the only thing this movie has going for it

848
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:43,279
Speaker 1: is the fact that it's so vulgar. But it's one

849
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:47,240
Speaker 1: of the dumbest movies I've seen in a really long time,

850
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:50,279
Speaker 1: and a movie that I hated with every fiber of

851
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:53,840
Speaker 1: my being because I was looking forward to watching a

852
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:57,240
Speaker 1: raunchy comedy and what I got was a raunchy piece

853
00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 1: of rubbish. So at number one Word Movie of twenty

854
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:05,440
Speaker 1: twenty three, I give two strays. I've given you the best,

855
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:07,799
Speaker 1: I've given you the worst. I'll come back and give

856
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 1: you my honorable mentions to close out this very special episode.

857
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:18,920
Speaker 1: All right, let's get into it now, my honorable mentions

858
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:21,720
Speaker 1: of the year. Like I said, I went through about

859
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 1: five different versions of my top ten that I feel

860
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:27,799
Speaker 1: that any of these movies in the honorable mentions could

861
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:30,439
Speaker 1: have made that list, because I think these are all

862
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 1: great movies that I would recommend, but not the ones

863
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 1: that I would choose to represent twenty twenty three when

864
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 1: all was said and done. So at number ten, I

865
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 1: have Theater Camp, which is available now on Hulu. The

866
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 1: story about a group of kids all going to theater

867
00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:48,319
Speaker 1: camp and then trying to save the camp, very much

868
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:51,480
Speaker 1: in the way that Heavyweights was back in the nineties,

869
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 1: So I think because I had that association with it,

870
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 1: it made me enjoy this movie more. But also it

871
00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 1: just had really great comedy. And I know nothing about

872
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 1: theater I know nothing about the inside jokes, but I

873
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 1: quickly felt a part of this crowd. So you don't

874
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 1: have to be in the theater. You could just feel

875
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 1: like a misfit and enjoy this movie. Just a really

876
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 1: fun time with a lot of really fun characters. So

877
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 1: I put that one at number ten. At number nine,

878
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:18,040
Speaker 1: I have Dumb Money, which is the real life story

879
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 1: of what happened with Game Stop Stock just a couple

880
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 1: of years ago, and that whole craze, And it's really

881
00:47:24,719 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 1: a movie about the poor fighting back against those one percenters.

882
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:31,600
Speaker 1: You also have Paul Dano, who is one of my

883
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:36,439
Speaker 1: favorite actors in another movie where he incited a group

884
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 1: of people on the internet two runs above, so I

885
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:41,839
Speaker 1: guess he's just really great at doing that. But it's

886
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:43,760
Speaker 1: a movie that went a little bit under the radar

887
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:45,840
Speaker 1: during the strike, and I feel was a victim of

888
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:48,440
Speaker 1: its marketing because if you look at the posters and

889
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:51,880
Speaker 1: the trailer, it really painted the movie as a straight

890
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:54,840
Speaker 1: on comedy. I guess because of the cast, because of

891
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:57,879
Speaker 1: Seth Rogan being in it, it was made to look

892
00:47:57,920 --> 00:47:59,759
Speaker 1: like it was just gonna be a funny movie, which

893
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 1: really wasn't the case. So I feel like with different marketing,

894
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 1: this movie could have done a lot better at the

895
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:09,160
Speaker 1: box office. It also reminded me of BlackBerry, which came

896
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:12,239
Speaker 1: out earlier this year, which was the origin story of

897
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:15,800
Speaker 1: the company BlackBerry, and another movie similar to Dumb Money

898
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:17,840
Speaker 1: that I feel like was a victim of its marketing.

899
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:21,320
Speaker 1: So at number nine, I have Dumb Money. At number

900
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: eight was a movie that had a moment early on

901
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:27,040
Speaker 1: in the year, Megan, which I feel like Megan has

902
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 1: quickly cemented herself of being one of the coveted horror icons,

903
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:34,719
Speaker 1: which is a really hard thing to do. I really

904
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 1: think with one more film, she could be up there

905
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:39,000
Speaker 1: with the Chucky's, the Freddy Kruegers, and the Michael Myers,

906
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:41,360
Speaker 1: because honestly, those guys have been around so long we

907
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:43,439
Speaker 1: need some fresh meat in there. But what I really

908
00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:45,919
Speaker 1: loved was the marketing behind this movie. That it got

909
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 1: people talking. That is what great movies do, and it

910
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:51,520
Speaker 1: put horror back on the map in twenty twenty three,

911
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:53,840
Speaker 1: along with some of the other movies in my honorable mentions.

912
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:56,960
Speaker 1: But at number eight I have Megan. At number seven,

913
00:48:57,040 --> 00:49:00,480
Speaker 1: I have Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem, a movie

914
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:02,959
Speaker 1: that made me feel like a kid again. I love

915
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:05,880
Speaker 1: the take of the Ninja Turtles in this movie, making

916
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 1: them younger and also having actual teenagers to voice them.

917
00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:12,759
Speaker 1: But above all, the animation style in this one just

918
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 1: really shined and looked like a watercolor picture book brought

919
00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 1: to life. And with a franchise that has been kind

920
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:23,759
Speaker 1: of drugged through the mud with the live action attempts

921
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 1: that really haven't sit well with fans, I feel like

922
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:29,280
Speaker 1: this has brought everybody back to what makes the Ninja

923
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:32,760
Speaker 1: Turtles great. I also love the fact that now people

924
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:35,279
Speaker 1: who were fans of the original Ninja Turtles back in

925
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:38,760
Speaker 1: the eighties in the nineties now have kids to share

926
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 1: it and enjoy these movies with I love going to

927
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:43,800
Speaker 1: Target and seeing all the new teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

928
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:46,640
Speaker 1: toys and thinking, ah, there are kids now discovering this

929
00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:48,719
Speaker 1: for the first time. That is what made me love

930
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:51,680
Speaker 1: this movie and what made me put it at number seven.

931
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:55,239
Speaker 1: Along those same lines, at number six, I have the

932
00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 1: Super Mario Brothers movie, which was an incredible success, being

933
00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:01,360
Speaker 1: one of the highest grossing movies that making one point

934
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 1: three million dollars, shutting out its competition of Disney. This

935
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:08,440
Speaker 1: movie comes to us from Illumination, which makes all the

936
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:12,120
Speaker 1: Minions movies. They also had Migration out this year in

937
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:15,520
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, And it just shows you when making

938
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:18,319
Speaker 1: kids movie, you just have to make it fun. Like

939
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:21,719
Speaker 1: I know, it's important to work in lessons every now

940
00:50:21,719 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 1: and then so kids can take something away from movies.

941
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:27,320
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, you just have

942
00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:31,399
Speaker 1: to make something that's enjoyable for kids to watch, and

943
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:33,440
Speaker 1: that is what this movie did. It was just a

944
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 1: straight on fun movie with the fun journey and characters

945
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:40,799
Speaker 1: that we all know and love and along those same

946
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 1: lines of people who are fans and Ninja Turtles as

947
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:46,600
Speaker 1: kids an now are older, you're also getting to reshare

948
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:50,200
Speaker 1: Super Mario with your kids and enjoy the games now.

949
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:53,920
Speaker 1: And it really was a love letter to that, the

950
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:57,280
Speaker 1: fans of the games showing off all the different versions

951
00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:00,120
Speaker 1: of Super Mario inside of this movie and just that's

952
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:03,239
Speaker 1: a really fun way. And the animation style was exactly

953
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:06,600
Speaker 1: what it needed to be. It looked like Mario. And yeah,

954
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:09,920
Speaker 1: there was some controversy around Chris Pratt voicing Mario and

955
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:12,719
Speaker 1: essentially just doing the voice of Chris Pratt, but at

956
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:14,920
Speaker 1: the end of it, I felt like it worked. And

957
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:18,360
Speaker 1: the person who went unnecessarily hard in this movie was

958
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:22,440
Speaker 1: Jack Black delivering a banger with this Peaches song. So

959
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:25,000
Speaker 1: at number six, I have the Super Mario Brothers movie.

960
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 1: At number five is a recent addition is Wonka, which

961
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 1: I ended up really enjoying and I thought I wasn't

962
00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:35,560
Speaker 1: going to because Willie Wonka in the Chocolate Factory. The

963
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 1: original with Gene Wilder is a top ten film for me,

964
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:42,879
Speaker 1: and it's a film I associate with my childhood, even

965
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:45,920
Speaker 1: though it came out long before I was Born, but

966
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 1: I feel like that movie is perfect, so much so

967
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:52,600
Speaker 1: that I hated the Tim Burton version with Johnny Depp,

968
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:55,680
Speaker 1: so I was hesitant going into this one. But I

969
00:51:55,840 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 1: love the approach that Timothy Chalomey had with Wonka. Yeah,

970
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:02,719
Speaker 1: he was a little bit too extra in some of

971
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:05,799
Speaker 1: the scenes and some of his delivery, but overall, I

972
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:09,960
Speaker 1: felt like it was Wonka before he got jaded and

973
00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:13,360
Speaker 1: before he was all like different and weird. It was

974
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:17,319
Speaker 1: like him, fresh eyed, bushy tailed. And it also incorporated

975
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:20,759
Speaker 1: more music into this one, which the original and the

976
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:24,120
Speaker 1: Tim Burton movies are musicals, and I think a lot

977
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:27,239
Speaker 1: of people forgot that the songs have always been a

978
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:30,400
Speaker 1: big part of Willie Wonka. But yes, this one is

979
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:33,240
Speaker 1: more of a straight ahead musical, which for the longest

980
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:35,560
Speaker 1: time I've been saying that I don't enjoy musicals, but

981
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:38,880
Speaker 1: after seeing this one, after seeing Barbie, I think I

982
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:42,280
Speaker 1: love musicals. It just has to be a really great musical.

983
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:45,520
Speaker 1: And I found myself after watching this movie for the

984
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:49,160
Speaker 1: first time ever, I went and listened to a musical

985
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:52,000
Speaker 1: soundtrack because I love these songs so much and they

986
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:54,400
Speaker 1: were stuck in my head. So at number five, I

987
00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:57,359
Speaker 1: have Wonka. At number four is a movie called Talk

988
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 1: to Me, which is a fantastic horror movie. Like I

989
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:03,000
Speaker 1: was saying about Bottoms being one of the best comedies

990
00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 1: in the last five years, talk to Me is that

991
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:09,680
Speaker 1: for horror. This was the only time I truly felt

992
00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:12,279
Speaker 1: scared while watching a movie this year, which is a

993
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:15,280
Speaker 1: really hard thing to do. It's about this group of friends,

994
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:21,319
Speaker 1: mostly teenagers early twenties, who get this embalmed hand that

995
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:25,080
Speaker 1: allows them to connect with dead people, and every time

996
00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:27,719
Speaker 1: they are able to connect with through the power of

997
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:30,680
Speaker 1: this hand, they are almost getting put into this state

998
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 1: that they become very vulnerable. So it's like a roller

999
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:36,759
Speaker 1: coaster ride that you can only hold on to for

1000
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:40,480
Speaker 1: so long before you get fully sucked into it. But

1001
00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:42,919
Speaker 1: the reason they hold on for so long is because

1002
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 1: they're doing it for social media, so it becomes a

1003
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 1: challenge to hold out as long as you can despite

1004
00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 1: of all the horrible things that you are witnessing and

1005
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:54,120
Speaker 1: the dead people that you are coming in contact with.

1006
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:57,080
Speaker 1: So maybe not a movie that rewrote how you make

1007
00:53:57,120 --> 00:54:00,000
Speaker 1: a horror movie, but what it was able to accompany

1008
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:03,239
Speaker 1: did it so well and makes me excited to see

1009
00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:05,800
Speaker 1: a sequel. To this movie, and I rarely get excited

1010
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:08,479
Speaker 1: for sequels, especially in horror movies. So at number four,

1011
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:10,920
Speaker 1: I have talked to me. At number three, I have

1012
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:14,080
Speaker 1: The Holdovers, which is about a cranky history teacher who

1013
00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:16,680
Speaker 1: has to look after some kids at a fancy prep

1014
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:18,880
Speaker 1: school who don't get to go home for the holidays.

1015
00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:22,680
Speaker 1: The movie stars Apologiamadi, who I am not a fan of,

1016
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:27,319
Speaker 1: and that is a long standing grudge I have since

1017
00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:29,400
Speaker 1: he put out his movie Sideways and I heard an

1018
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:31,680
Speaker 1: interview with him where he was really disrespectful to a

1019
00:54:31,719 --> 00:54:33,839
Speaker 1: fan but in a really pompous way. That just made

1020
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:35,759
Speaker 1: me not like him, and I always felt after that

1021
00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:37,920
Speaker 1: anytime he was in a movie it made me not

1022
00:54:38,120 --> 00:54:40,760
Speaker 1: like the movie. But Kelsey really wanted to see The Holeover,

1023
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:43,320
Speaker 1: so we went to go see it, and I was wrong.

1024
00:54:43,760 --> 00:54:46,000
Speaker 1: I love this movie and it was one I did

1025
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:48,560
Speaker 1: not expect to enjoy as much as I did, and

1026
00:54:48,719 --> 00:54:52,040
Speaker 1: had a group of characters that I felt this deep

1027
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:54,240
Speaker 1: connection with by the end of it that I felt

1028
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:56,920
Speaker 1: like I went through this entire journey with them and

1029
00:54:57,040 --> 00:55:01,000
Speaker 1: grew as a person with them. So it does take

1030
00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:04,480
Speaker 1: place around Christmas time, so I feel like this will

1031
00:55:04,520 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 1: become a movie that we now watch every single Christmas.

1032
00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:10,279
Speaker 1: But if you haven't seen it yet and you think

1033
00:55:10,320 --> 00:55:13,040
Speaker 1: I don't want to watch a Christmas movie, it's not

1034
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:15,240
Speaker 1: really a full on Christmas movie. It just takes place

1035
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:18,680
Speaker 1: around Christmas. It is really just a good slice of

1036
00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:20,719
Speaker 1: life movie if you're looking for a new one to

1037
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:23,080
Speaker 1: check out. I gave it four point five out of five.

1038
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:25,719
Speaker 1: At number two was a movie from one of my

1039
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:29,760
Speaker 1: favorite directors, Wes Anderson, Asteroid City, and it's a movie

1040
00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:34,520
Speaker 1: that I wouldn't really recommend unless you're into Wes Anderson

1041
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:37,280
Speaker 1: and a lot of what makes Wes anderson movies great

1042
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 1: is a visual aspect because he has this eye for

1043
00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:44,839
Speaker 1: symmetry and colors that just make movies visually appealing, and

1044
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:47,319
Speaker 1: that is what I crave. And the movie also has

1045
00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:50,680
Speaker 1: a really big ensemble cast who did this movie for

1046
00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:53,640
Speaker 1: relatively no money, so you think, how can you get

1047
00:55:53,680 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 1: a movie with so many A listers made for so

1048
00:55:57,760 --> 00:55:59,800
Speaker 1: little amount of money. They basically do it as a

1049
00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:02,560
Speaker 1: face to say they were in a Wes Anderson movie,

1050
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:05,360
Speaker 1: but they are also very quirky, which is why I

1051
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:09,120
Speaker 1: believe they're not for everybody. The humor is very dry,

1052
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:14,279
Speaker 1: and the overall story is oftentimes quite utterly bizarre. But

1053
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:17,840
Speaker 1: to me, a Wes Anderson movie always feels like an event.

1054
00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:21,879
Speaker 1: And he is somebody who has this filmography that I cherish,

1055
00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:24,760
Speaker 1: and each one of his films has its own unique

1056
00:56:24,760 --> 00:56:28,440
Speaker 1: feel to it, but maintain that visual aspect that really

1057
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 1: gives him a look unlike any other director, because I

1058
00:56:31,680 --> 00:56:34,319
Speaker 1: could just look at one frame of Wes Anderson movie

1059
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:36,359
Speaker 1: and know that it was him. So at number two

1060
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:40,000
Speaker 1: I have Asteroid City, and hey, he even got Tom

1061
00:56:40,040 --> 00:56:42,840
Speaker 1: Hanks in this movie. But at number one, my biggest

1062
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 1: honorable mention was a movie they came out early in

1063
00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:49,279
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three and one that I feel got overlooked

1064
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:51,879
Speaker 1: a lot. It was hanging on to my number ten

1065
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:55,040
Speaker 1: slot for a minute. Just couldn't quite put it in there.

1066
00:56:55,160 --> 00:56:57,719
Speaker 1: But it is John Wick four, which I give a

1067
00:56:57,800 --> 00:57:00,080
Speaker 1: four point five out of five. It is one of

1068
00:56:59,880 --> 00:57:03,239
Speaker 1: the best action movies I've seen in a very long time,

1069
00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:06,400
Speaker 1: probably since well John Wick won two and three. It

1070
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:09,400
Speaker 1: just does it so well that it wastes no time

1071
00:57:09,640 --> 00:57:13,360
Speaker 1: getting right to knowing what the audience wants. Bullets flying,

1072
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:17,920
Speaker 1: people getting their limbs broken, and Keanu Reeves saying about

1073
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:21,520
Speaker 1: fifty five words in this entire movie, and it is

1074
00:57:21,520 --> 00:57:24,760
Speaker 1: a movie that on paper shouldn't be as big of

1075
00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:27,400
Speaker 1: a hit as it is. I feel like John Wick

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Speaker 1: is such an unorthodox main character, but somehow it works

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Speaker 1: together so well. And it's really due to all of

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Speaker 1: the stunt performances in this movie, the cinematography, and just

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Speaker 1: the violent nature of all of these movies that make

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Speaker 1: it work so well. It is a movie I love

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Speaker 1: from beginning to end because it was a non stop

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Speaker 1: good time.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I know they're to a point where they're gonna do

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Speaker 1: spinoffs and maybe do another one, but I honestly hope

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Speaker 1: that john Wick four is the ending of this story

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Speaker 1: and Keanu Reeves goes on to do something else because

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Speaker 1: it closes out the saga on a perfect note. So

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Speaker 1: my number one honorable mention for twenty twenty three almost

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Speaker 1: made my list is john Wick four, and that is

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Speaker 1: gonna do it for another episode here of the podcast.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for allowing me to break the format and

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Speaker 1: giving you my end of the year list. As we

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Speaker 1: start a new year, I think I also want to

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Speaker 1: do a big roundup of all the movies I haven't

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Speaker 1: reviewed yet because I watched so many movies over the

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Speaker 1: holiday break. So if there is a movie that I

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Speaker 1: haven't talked about yet, it's because I'm holding on to it.

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Speaker 1: So I have enough time to give my full thoughts

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Speaker 1: on the movies that I have seen. But before I go,

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Speaker 1: I got to give my listeners shout out of the week,

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Speaker 1: the first one of twenty twenty four, going over to

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Speaker 1: x formerly known as Twitter for this one, and this

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Speaker 1: week's listener shout out of the Week is Nicholas Martinez,

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Speaker 1: who said caught up on the last five episodes of

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Speaker 1: Movie Mike's Movie podcast during a road trip, and I

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Speaker 1: was back on December twenty seventh. So hopefully, Nicholas, you

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Speaker 1: are all caught up to this episode now and you

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Speaker 1: get to hear your shout out. So thank you to

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Speaker 1: Nicholas and anybody else who listened to the episodes over break.

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Speaker 1: This is my first new episode of the year, and

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Speaker 1: it felt good to be back, y'all. I'm charged up

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Speaker 1: and ready to go. So until the next time, go

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

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Speaker 1: you later.