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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 have for you

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Speaker 1: seven prolific movie quotes from unlikely sources. These quotes taught

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Speaker 1: me lessons, but they're not from your typical movies that

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Speaker 1: you would think would teach you a lesson. In the

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Speaker 1: movie review, we'll be talking about The Running Man starring

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Speaker 1: Glenn Powell and in the Trailer Park one of the

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Speaker 1: biggest music biopick trailers of all time. But do we

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Speaker 1: really need another biopick, We'll be breaking down the Michael trailer.

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

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

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Speaker 1: let's talk movies from the Nustville Podcast Network. This is

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Speaker 1: movie Mike's Movie Podcast. As I want to revisit seven

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Speaker 1: of my favorite movie quotes that carry a surprisingly deep

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Speaker 1: message about life, about your purpose in life, about your

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Speaker 1: perspectives on the world. I went through and pulled seven

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Speaker 1: of my favorite quotes that maybe at the time when

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Speaker 1: I watched these movies, because they're not essentially movie that

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Speaker 1: you would go to find lessons about life. They're not

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Speaker 1: big dramas, but I always like finding the beauty where

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Speaker 1: it's not supposed to be. You're a long time listening

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Speaker 1: to this podcast, you know. I say that phrase a lot,

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Speaker 1: and it's because I think that is where the good

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Speaker 1: stuff is, where you don't expect to find it. These

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Speaker 1: of clicks and you're like, man, that HiT's kind of hard.

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Speaker 1: Why did that go so deep? Why does this person

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Speaker 1: animated movie, so in no particular order. First uff, It's

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Speaker 1: from a movie from two thousand and four, Harold and

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Speaker 1: And how do I get there?

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Speaker 1: Because they made this food seem so desirable. If you

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Speaker 1: don't remember or have never seen this amazing movie from

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Speaker 1: That line right there at the end, The universe tends

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Speaker 3: one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with

436
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Speaker 3: the gift of life that determines who you are.

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Speaker 1: It is what you do with the gift of life

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Speaker 1: that determines who you are. Said to us by Pokemon,

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00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:12,800
Speaker 1: I think mewtwo was done wrong in this movie. And

440
00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:14,679
Speaker 1: looking back on it now as an adult, which I did,

441
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 1: rewatch this movie at least once a year, I realized

442
00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:20,840
Speaker 1: that mewtwo was painted as the villain, but really wasn't.

443
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Speaker 1: He was created by this group of scientists for their

444
00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:28,080
Speaker 1: own benefit, and he broke out. He was being used

445
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:31,280
Speaker 1: to fight other Pokemon as their weapon. He was used

446
00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:33,800
Speaker 1: as a weapon, and then as soon as he got

447
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:36,520
Speaker 1: aware of his situations, he became too smart, he became

448
00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:40,520
Speaker 1: too strong. He blew the entire place down and escaped

449
00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:42,720
Speaker 1: and went out to this island and then was able

450
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Speaker 1: to get all these other Pokemon there on his island

451
00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:47,520
Speaker 1: to essentially do the same thing to them that the

452
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Speaker 1: humans did to him. I don't think he was the

453
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Speaker 1: villain here. I think he was born from a place

454
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Speaker 1: of rage. I would be rageful too. But there in

455
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Speaker 1: that incredible character development, he tells us that it's about

456
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Speaker 1: what you do with the gift of life, because he

457
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:08,600
Speaker 1: has had a change of heart after seeing how selfless

458
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,080
Speaker 1: ash Ketchum was as he sacrificed himself to save his pokemon.

459
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Speaker 1: So even though we had all this anger because he

460
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:19,400
Speaker 1: was created by these humans put in these terrible circumstances,

461
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:22,520
Speaker 1: he realized that it's about the decisions you make in

462
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Speaker 1: life and not about where you come from that actually

463
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Speaker 1: define you. So it wasn't about his awful origin story.

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Speaker 1: It's about what you do with the cards that you

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Speaker 1: work dealt. And I believe this wholeheartedly, and it's something

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Speaker 1: that I had to learn probably in my mid to

467
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Speaker 1: late twenties, this hard lesson because in life, you are

468
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Speaker 1: going to be put into awful situations, and it's about

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Speaker 1: how you react to those awful situations that determine what

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Speaker 1: your life is going to be like. Because we all

471
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Speaker 1: have crabby things happen to us, crappy things happening to

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Speaker 1: our family in the world. As a whole, and it's

473
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Speaker 1: about how you you react to those situations, because some

474
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Speaker 1: of the people who are the most successful in life

475
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,440
Speaker 1: have had to come back from some really dark times

476
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Speaker 1: and it's not easy. Sometimes putting a smile on your

477
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Speaker 1: face and powering through is the last thing you want

478
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Speaker 1: to do when all you do is want to be

479
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:20,840
Speaker 1: angry at the world. You want to do like mutue

480
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Speaker 1: and burn it all down and leave behind a path

481
00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 1: of destruction that is only going to be more harmful

482
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Speaker 1: to you and you're only going to live in this

483
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:35,399
Speaker 1: vicious cycle of being miserable. And mewtwo learn that in

484
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Speaker 1: that situation and taught us all as very young kids

485
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Speaker 1: that it's all about how you react to your environment

486
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Speaker 1: and how you can change your own path by doing so.

487
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:51,679
Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter what your background is, how or

488
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:55,480
Speaker 1: where you were born, that doesn't define your character. Instead,

489
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Speaker 1: it's your actions, your choices who truly determine who you are.

490
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 1: That is what I learned from that quote right there.

491
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 1: Pokemon the first movie continues to spew so many life lessons,

492
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Speaker 1: and finally, my seventh quote on the list comes to

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Speaker 1: us from Men in Black from nineteen ninety seven from

494
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Speaker 1: Agent K played by Tommy Lee Jones. The movie in

495
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:19,359
Speaker 1: case you haven't seen it, If you haven't seen it,

496
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,240
Speaker 1: where we've been maybe some younger listeners who have not

497
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Speaker 1: seen the greatness that is Men in Black. But it's

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Speaker 1: about a secret government agency that monitors alien life on

499
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Speaker 1: Earth and Agent K and Will Smith's character Agent J

500
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 1: have to recover an item that has been stolen by

501
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:40,800
Speaker 1: an intergalactic villain, and K recruits Agent J and he

502
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:44,359
Speaker 1: drops this line on him that is so philosophical and

503
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:47,119
Speaker 1: doesn't really fit in place with all the other crazy

504
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Speaker 1: things that happened in this movie.

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Speaker 6: The person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals,

506
00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 6: and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago, everybody knew

507
00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,200
Speaker 6: the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred

508
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 6: years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flattened. Fifteen minutes ago,

509
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 6: you knew that people were alone on this planet.

510
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,160
Speaker 3: Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: That quote is so impactful on my way of thinking

512
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:20,879
Speaker 1: that you have to constantly adapt to a world that

513
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 1: is changing and being provided new information. And the minute

514
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 1: you stop learning is the minute you get left behind.

515
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:31,720
Speaker 1: Because if you look throughout history, the dumbest people have

516
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: been the people who have not wanted to embrace change,

517
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:40,400
Speaker 1: not wanted to embrace new information, not wanted to embrace

518
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 1: the changing of the times. Because what he says there

519
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:49,199
Speaker 1: is how constantly our world is changing, and we have

520
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:52,360
Speaker 1: to accept it. If we don't accept it, we are

521
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 1: not going to learn anything new, and we're going to

522
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 1: be doomed to repeat history. And I think that has

523
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: made me want to be constantly curious, trying to figure

524
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,400
Speaker 1: out things, why they are the way they are, how

525
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: we can challenge our way of thinking in order to

526
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 1: advance ourselves, Because you could be presented with one piece

527
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 1: of information that could wreck your entire world, and I

528
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:18,440
Speaker 1: get how that could be terrifying to some still terrifying

529
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 1: to me to think there could be some extraterrestrial life

530
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 1: out there monitoring us right now listening to this podcast,

531
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,360
Speaker 1: ninking what is the stupid human talking about all these

532
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 1: stupid movies, these moving pictures, trying to pick out these

533
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:34,359
Speaker 1: philosophical lessons. But if you look all throughout history, it

534
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,399
Speaker 1: has been people trying to figure out and understand the

535
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 1: world and discovering new things. The world used to be flat.

536
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 1: We used to think we were alone imagine what you

537
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 1: will know tomorrow. It both excites me and it terrifies me,

538
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 1: which it should, but it should make you always want

539
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 1: to have an open mind. Has there been a movie

540
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 1: quote that you didn't expect to change the way that

541
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Speaker 1: you think? That is the question I want to ask

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00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 1: you right now. If you want to send me a DM,

543
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 1: you want to email me Moviemike D at gmail dot com,

544
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 1: hit me up on dms on Instagram wherever I'm all

545
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 1: over the place, or send me a message or comment

546
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 1: on my YouTube page YouTube dot com slash Mike dshro

547
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Speaker 1: What movie quote like this from an unlikely source has

548
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 1: really stuck with you? A comeback? And I get my

549
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Speaker 1: spoiler free review of The Running Man. Let's get into

550
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 1: it now. A spoiler free movie review of The Running Man,

551
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 1: or as I've been calling it lately, The Running Man,

552
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 1: starring Glenn Powell, directed by Edgar Wright. This is the

553
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Speaker 1: movie I said, It's going to determine whether or not

554
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Speaker 1: Glenn Powell turns into the bankable star that Hollywood wants

555
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 1: him to be. And I knew even way back in

556
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 1: the dark Knight rises whenever he gets his head smashed

557
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 1: by Baine and I was like, man, that is a

558
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 1: guy who knows how to take a hit. He is

559
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 1: gonna be a star now. I didn't really know him then,

560
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 1: but I think to us as just the general public,

561
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 1: we see somebody like him who is finally starting to

562
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 1: really come into focus. We're starting to see him everywhere,

563
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 1: and we just see that success. We think overnight he

564
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 1: has just become a star. But he's been around for

565
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 1: so long, and I think this is now his big

566
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 1: leading role that is going to determine whether or not

567
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 1: he is going to be that next leading man in Hollywood.

568
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 1: Some people are cueing him up to be the next

569
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Speaker 1: Tom Cruise, because I think he is as versatile as

570
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Speaker 1: a Tom Cruise. But what we have here in The

571
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 1: Running Man it is a remake of the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie,

572
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Speaker 1: which I realized just last week I was talking about Predator,

573
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 1: which is another franchise tied to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is

574
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Speaker 1: really big right now, apparently remaking his movies. Also, this

575
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Speaker 1: is the second Stephen King adaptation I've seen in theaters

576
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Speaker 1: this year, and I think both of those things are

577
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Speaker 1: going to play into how I ended up feeling about

578
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Speaker 1: this movie because I thought this was going to be

579
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Speaker 1: an instant top at least fifteen for me, because I

580
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Speaker 1: like Glenn Powell. I love Edgar Wright, who's directed movies

581
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Speaker 1: like Scott Pilgrim Versus the World. Baby Driver has a

582
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: really unique style that blends almost this hyper realism great action.

583
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Speaker 1: Although it feels like it's set in our world, it

584
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,479
Speaker 1: also feels like it's set in an entirely different universe.

585
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 1: That is very Edgar Wright, and I really enjoy his style.

586
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 1: I think he is a great director. But I just

587
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:23,960
Speaker 1: found myself saying, why, now, why make this movie? Now?

588
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 1: What are you trying to say? But what the movie

589
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: is about. It takes place in the near future. Glenn

590
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Speaker 1: Powell plays a character named Ben Richards who is down

591
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Speaker 1: on his luck. It starts out you find out about

592
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Speaker 1: his family. He has a kid who is really sick,

593
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: and in this world it is really hard for anybody

594
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Speaker 1: to get medicine, and the poor are the porest of

595
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 1: the poor, and the rich are the richest of the rich.

596
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Speaker 1: And the kind of last ditch effort a lot of

597
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: people who are struggling have to make money is to

598
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Speaker 1: go on TV and compete in these different types of

599
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 1: game shows that are really meant to humiliate the poor

600
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 1: and in turn also put your life on the line

601
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,000
Speaker 1: just to make an enough money to survive. And Ben

602
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:04,479
Speaker 1: Richards is in a place where he can't work, so

603
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 1: this is the only way that he can earn money

604
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 1: to save his daughter and also have money to give

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Speaker 1: back to his wife. So he is a really angry guy,

606
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: which I think was hard for me to really place

607
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 1: Glenn Powell as an angry guy. The problem I had

608
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Speaker 1: settling into this movie at the beginning is it felt

609
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Speaker 1: like his story was really just kind of thrust upon

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Speaker 1: us where you're supposed to feel instantly sad for him,

611
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 1: because how could you not feel bad for a guy

612
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Speaker 1: with a sick kid just trying to provide for his family.

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Speaker 1: But I feel like it really failed on making me

614
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Speaker 1: feel emotional early on in the movie, which eventually as

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Speaker 1: all the action unfolded, really kept me from connecting to

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Speaker 1: Ben Richards as a person. But once we got into

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Speaker 1: the actual action of the movie, once he is convinced

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Speaker 1: by the evil villain Josh Brolin to compete in these

619
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Speaker 1: games by telling him, I think you have what it takes.

620
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Speaker 1: Because the entire run of this show, nobody has made

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Speaker 1: it till the end, survived thirty days while being hunted

622
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Speaker 1: by these assassins. Were also all the citizens of the

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Speaker 1: world can report you, so that is what you're trying

624
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Speaker 1: to do. You're trying to outrun all the citizens from

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Speaker 1: reporting you and survive the assassins who have been sent

626
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Speaker 1: out to kill you. And you basically learn the rules

627
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 1: of the game. You have to keep running, and you

628
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 1: also have to document yourself for at least a brief

629
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,640
Speaker 1: period every day to prove that you are alive. So

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00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 1: you have to send back these tapes, and that is

631
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Speaker 1: kind of the overview of the game and really all

632
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: you need to know. But I found myself just really

633
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 1: struggling to understand who Ben Richards was, and I think

634
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Speaker 1: that combined with me really only being able to see

635
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Speaker 1: Glenn Powell as a likable guy, and as Josh Brolin

636
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Speaker 1: is telling his character that he is the most ruthless

637
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:52,120
Speaker 1: guy and meanest guy he's ever met, I just couldn't

638
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 1: really see that in him, and that really kept me

639
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 1: from enjoying the overall arc of his character. And while

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00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 1: I don't think he did a bad job at portraying that,

641
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 1: I just think maybe he was a little bit miscast

642
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 1: in this movie overall, because when I look around at

643
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 1: the entire cast, Josh Brolin obviously is a fantastic villain

644
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 1: Thanos himself just comes down and crushes any role where

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00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 1: he has to be a jerk. He is just really

646
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Speaker 1: good at it. And surprisingly, sometimes when an actor plays

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Speaker 1: a role or a jerk so well, I find myself

648
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Speaker 1: not being able to be a fan of that person

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Speaker 1: as a human. But for some reason, I just really

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00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 1: root for Josh Brolin. His entire story of being an

651
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Speaker 1: actor who has just put in the work at times

652
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Speaker 1: not even making enough money to survive. Whenever he did

653
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,240
Speaker 1: No Country for Old Men, he had very little money

654
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 1: to his name, and that movie really just allowed him

655
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 1: to keep going as an actor. To think that is

656
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 1: the point he was at in two thousand and seven

657
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:51,360
Speaker 1: and now has been in two of the biggest movies

658
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 1: of the year, The Running Man and Weapons. I just

659
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:57,320
Speaker 1: really root for him, And despite him at times playing

660
00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:00,799
Speaker 1: characters that I don't like and don't identify with whatsoever,

661
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,760
Speaker 1: I constantly root for Josh Brolin and have no trouble

662
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 1: liking him as a person and not letting his characters

663
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 1: affect me. With some other people who play villains, I

664
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Speaker 1: find myself unfairly hating them, even though them as people

665
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:16,919
Speaker 1: haven't really done anything. It's a weird psychological thing by

666
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 1: how you see certain people. And even on the other end,

667
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:22,800
Speaker 1: you can see somebody playing a superhero or always playing

668
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:26,399
Speaker 1: likable people that are probably awful off camera. But Josh

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00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 1: Brolin is somebody who anytime he is in a movie,

670
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:31,400
Speaker 1: he always brings it up a level. Another actor like

671
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 1: that in this movie is Coleman Domingo, who also can

672
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 1: elevate a movie just with his presence. Just his voice

673
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 1: alone sue something in my soul, and he always gives

674
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 1: a great performance. And his character in this movie was

675
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,839
Speaker 1: really over the top, and I thought he settled into

676
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 1: that really well. Where this movie really lacked for me,

677
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:50,400
Speaker 1: I just thought it was gonna have a little bit

678
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 1: more action for a movie that ran over two hours.

679
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 1: I never felt fully engaged in the story. By the

680
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Speaker 1: end of it, I thought this wasn't the greatest theater

681
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 1: experience I've had this year. But if I would have

682
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: watched this movie first on an airplane or in a

683
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 1: hotel room on vacation, I would have loved it. Because

684
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 1: this movie really maxed out installed in about the second act,

685
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:14,360
Speaker 1: and the third act was just kind of a mess

686
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 1: for me. So it was still entertaining. It got me

687
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,919
Speaker 1: to the end, but it really had trouble getting over

688
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 1: that last hurdle to become a movie that was worthy

689
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Speaker 1: of a remake. It felt like it was just the

690
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 1: Arnold Schwarzenegger version that got a little bit of a

691
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 1: facelift with the CGI and some of the character design

692
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:34,279
Speaker 1: overall just looked better. But I don't really know why

693
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 1: this movie was necessary in the end. I also think,

694
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 1: just compared to the other Stephen King adaptation I've seen

695
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:43,399
Speaker 1: this year, The Long Walk, the Long Walk just had

696
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 1: so much more emotion, and I feel like these two

697
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 1: stories kind of said the same thing, and I think

698
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:53,360
Speaker 1: at the end of it, unfairly, I've just been watching

699
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:56,719
Speaker 1: a lot of things like this recently that all kind

700
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 1: of have to do with the similar subject matter. You

701
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:04,360
Speaker 1: have a dystopian future where most of the citizens are poor,

702
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Speaker 1: and you have this government who oversees everybody who is

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00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,439
Speaker 1: trying to keep the poor poor, and they really only

704
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 1: give them this little glimmer of hope by making them

705
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 1: do something crazy. In The Long Walk, it was going

706
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:20,799
Speaker 1: on this competition where the last person standing gets to

707
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 1: make one wish, but that is the only shot you

708
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 1: have to make money and be successful and have all

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00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 1: those things that you don't have right now. I felt

710
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 1: like it was the same thing in The Running Man,

711
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:32,880
Speaker 1: where the only reason he competes at these deadly games

712
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:35,839
Speaker 1: and risk losing his life to not be there for

713
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:38,920
Speaker 1: his family was just so they would have a shot

714
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Speaker 1: at survival. I felt like both of these movies were

715
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 1: saying the exact same thing. And the weird thing is,

716
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:48,359
Speaker 1: if I'm describing this movie to somebody, I'm like, it's

717
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 1: just like The Hunger Games in different situations. But both

718
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 1: of these stories came way before The Hunger Games, being

719
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:59,319
Speaker 1: movies that came out decades before those books would ever

720
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Speaker 1: see the light of day. So it is interesting to

721
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: see how much The Hunger Games actually stole from Stephen

722
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 1: King concepts and Stephen King stories. I just feel like

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Speaker 1: The Hunger Games has done those the best, and that

724
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 1: has been the best representation of people fighting in games

725
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 1: and competing in games in order to win big prizes.

726
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 1: But I could not help thinking while watching The Running Man,

727
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 1: why is Glenn Powell not in the MCU because he

728
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 1: really flexed his athletic ability in The Running Man doing

729
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 1: a lot of the stunts on his own obviously has

730
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,799
Speaker 1: the physical attributes that you need for a role in

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Speaker 1: the MCU. In this movie, you get a full Glenn

732
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Speaker 1: Powell butt and you see him running around and basically

733
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 1: nothing has one of the strongest jaw lines in Hollywood

734
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,239
Speaker 1: right now. And just by looking at that jaw line,

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00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 1: I thought, Man, Glenn Powell would look fantastic as Cyclops.

736
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Speaker 1: Can we cast him in the post Secret Wars upcoming

737
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:57,280
Speaker 1: X Men movie? And I want a comic book accurate

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Speaker 1: Cyclops suit. I'm talking the full blue and yellow with

739
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 1: the belt, the full thing. I could just see his

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00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:08,360
Speaker 1: face in that suit. To me and my ex man,

741
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 1: I would die for Glenn Powell in an X Men

742
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Speaker 1: movie as Cyclops, and then also give me the solo

743
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 1: Cyclops movie. I think we've been deserving now for over

744
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:20,279
Speaker 1: twenty years. Sorry, James Marsen, I know you're coming back

745
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 1: in the new Avengers movies, but I think we need

746
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Speaker 1: a new Cyclops and it could quite possibly be Glenn Powell.

747
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:29,919
Speaker 1: And maybe he's taken the Leonardo advice of not doing

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00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 1: superhero movies, even though he has been in one already

749
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:34,959
Speaker 1: had a small role in it, and I could see

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Speaker 1: why an actor of his caliber would not want to

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00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:40,399
Speaker 1: be typecast into one of those roles. Say he does

752
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:43,920
Speaker 1: become a cyclops and suddenly that is what people associate

753
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 1: him for. It's gonna be harder for him to step

754
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:49,359
Speaker 1: outside of roles that aren't in the MCU world, which

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00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 1: I think is something that actors like Chris Hemsworth, even

756
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 1: Chris Evans are struggling with a bit right now. So

757
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 1: he is expanding his filmography right now to not be

758
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 1: typecast in any way. But man, that was the thing

759
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Speaker 1: I could not help but seeing while watching this movie.

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Speaker 1: In the end, this movie had all the ingredients to

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00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,840
Speaker 1: make a really great product, but something just fell flat

762
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:13,280
Speaker 1: in there. I haven't fully loved an Edgar Wright movie

763
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 1: since Baby Driver, and maybe I'm just hoping for something

764
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 1: with that level of intensity and his style for the

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Speaker 1: running man. I give it three point five out of

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Speaker 1: five jumpsuits. It's time to head down to movie. Mike

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Speaker 1: Traylor hau will the Michael Jackson biopick be the first

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Speaker 1: ever biopick to make a billion dollars at the box office.

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Speaker 1: That is the question I have. Oppenheimer and Bohemian Rhapsody

770
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Speaker 1: both got close. Those are the two highest grossing biopicks.

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Speaker 1: Oppenheimer made nine hundred and twelve million dollars worldwide. Bohemian

772
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: Rhapsody held the record before that made nine hundred and

773
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 1: ten million dollars worldwide. I think if somebody is going

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Speaker 1: to do it, it is going to be Michael Jackson,

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00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:04,360
Speaker 1: because not only he is one of the most famous

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00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:07,880
Speaker 1: not just musicians, but people in the world whoever walked

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00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:13,320
Speaker 1: this earth. And the trailer alone is shattering records over

778
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:16,440
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixteen million views in the first twenty

779
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 1: four hours, so it's not just the United States. This

780
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:24,799
Speaker 1: is a world wide demand for a movie, and this

781
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:27,800
Speaker 1: film is gonna cover it all, from him as a

782
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:30,400
Speaker 1: kid in the Jackson Five all the way leading up

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Speaker 1: to his death in two thousand and nine. It's coming

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Speaker 1: out next year on April twenty fourth, twenty twenty six,

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00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 1: and even though they haven't announced it yet, there is

786
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Speaker 1: speculation it is going to be split into two movies

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00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 1: because three point five hours is a girthy runtime. My

788
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:50,799
Speaker 1: question also going into this is how much are they

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00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 1: going to get into the allegations, all the controversies. Because

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00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:58,400
Speaker 1: I often say you're gonna make a biopick about somebody,

791
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 1: one make them after they've passed, because then you get

792
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 1: the whole story. But also you need that grit, you

793
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 1: need the dirt in order to really humanize them, paint

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00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: them in a way that shows all aspects of their

795
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,880
Speaker 1: life so you get the full scope of the person.

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00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:18,759
Speaker 1: You're not just making this glamorous piece where nothing went

797
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 1: wrong and everything is beautiful. Before I get into more,

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00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 1: here's just a little bit of the Michael trailer.

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Speaker 5: I know you've been waiting a long time for this.

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00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 5: The tracks are made, the songs are ready. Let's take

801
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 5: it from the.

802
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:37,480
Speaker 1: Top, que can you launer the lights from you please?

803
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:42,759
Speaker 5: Okay, but remember in here, keep those feats still my man.

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00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:48,440
Speaker 1: So the trailer opens with Michael Jackson in the studio

805
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 1: with Quincy Jones. That is who you hear in that clip.

806
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson is being played by his nephew, Jaffar Jackson,

807
00:42:56,400 --> 00:43:00,360
Speaker 1: and I think that is what everybody is so excited about,

808
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:04,240
Speaker 1: the fact that not only does he look like Michael Jackson,

809
00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:08,600
Speaker 1: but he also sounds like Michael Jackson. In his speaking voice.

810
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:11,839
Speaker 1: There are moments in this trailer where you think it's

811
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 1: him and it looks really good as close as you

812
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 1: can get by getting somebody who was related to him.

813
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 1: I also think the fact that we have a well

814
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 1: established director behind the camera is going to make this

815
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:29,200
Speaker 1: feel like a real story worth telling, all the little

816
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 1: intricacies of his career, because we're seeing things like this

817
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:35,760
Speaker 1: him in the studio bringing these iconic songs to life

818
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 1: in the trailer. You see on the board in the

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00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:42,400
Speaker 1: recording studio, all the titles to these different songs. Some

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00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:44,799
Speaker 1: you would recognize, others you wouldn't because they are deep

821
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 1: album cuts, or some of them never even saw the

822
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 1: light of day. It is coming to us from director

823
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Speaker 1: Anton Fuqua, who has also directed movies like Training Day,

824
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: The Equalizer franchise, The Magnificent seven Shooter in Southpaw, So

825
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 1: his filmography includes a lot lot of gritty action movies.

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Speaker 1: But the guy knows storytelling, and I think that is

827
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:10,080
Speaker 1: a perfect person to bring this huge story to life

828
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 1: because you have so much to cover and it is

829
00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:15,760
Speaker 1: such a long run time as it is right now.

830
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 1: And you know me, I hate it when movies get

831
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 1: split into two. I honestly think that you got to

832
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 1: make the decision to just make this movie shorter. And

833
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:28,400
Speaker 1: I know it's a lot to cover, but splitting up

834
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:32,840
Speaker 1: a bio pic into two movies just goes against everything

835
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,719
Speaker 1: that I believe in. Obviously, the hardest thing to do

836
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 1: is take an entire person's life and put it into

837
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:42,839
Speaker 1: two hours. Two hours is even hard. Make that two

838
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:45,160
Speaker 1: and a half, make it three hours. That is still

839
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 1: hard to do. But I think you could do it

840
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 1: in three hours, and I think that is the longest

841
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 1: runtime we are willing to go to a movie theater

842
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 1: for a movie like this, unless it's like an endgame.

843
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:01,360
Speaker 1: I mean, the longest I've spent in movie theater was

844
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 1: for The Brutalist, which was three and a half hours

845
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:07,400
Speaker 1: long with an intermission. I almost think, if you're gonna

846
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 1: make it that long, you gotta throw in that intermission.

847
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:12,480
Speaker 1: It really makes a big difference. You get time to

848
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 1: go back out into the lobby, stretch your legs a

849
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:16,759
Speaker 1: little bit. If you do it at about that an

850
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:19,400
Speaker 1: hour and forty five minute mark, then you leave and

851
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 1: come back, you feel refreshed, You're ready to go. Because

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00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 1: I can't imagine his story being split into two movies.

853
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 1: It just feels incomplete to me. I don't like it

854
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 1: because when I think about all my favorite bio picks,

855
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 1: it's all one movie. Walk the line la bamba selena,

856
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 1: They're all one movie. Ray also all one movie. If

857
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 1: you're gonna split it up so much, why not just

858
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 1: make it a TV series and not put it out

859
00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:46,919
Speaker 1: into theaters and then just go that way. If you're

860
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 1: going to make a bio pick, you have to be

861
00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:52,120
Speaker 1: able to get the job done in three hours. And

862
00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:54,719
Speaker 1: I know there were some reasons why this movie has

863
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 1: been delayed, and I think they are going to address

864
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 1: some of the controversy, some of the allegations, and one

865
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:03,400
Speaker 1: of the reasons for the delay is they had to

866
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:07,880
Speaker 1: address some legal issues involving somebody who had accused Michael

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Speaker 1: Jackson of something in the film and the way that

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00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:15,480
Speaker 1: their story was dramatized. For the story, the estate had

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00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:19,279
Speaker 1: to agree on a settlement with this person. So that

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00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:21,640
Speaker 1: leads me to believe that that is going to be

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00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 1: included in the film. And I think you can't make

872
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:28,040
Speaker 1: a movie about Michael Jackson without including that because that

873
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 1: is a part of the story that impacts his career,

874
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Speaker 1: especially when you start getting into the later half of

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Speaker 1: his career, which this is going to cover because it's

876
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 1: going all the way from him being a kid to

877
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: when he died in two thousand and nine, which he

878
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 1: died on my birthday in two thousand and nine. I

879
00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:48,520
Speaker 1: remember sitting on my brother's bed in our house watching

880
00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 1: TV when the news came up, because he also died

881
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:53,440
Speaker 1: the same day as Farah Fawcet. And that was a

882
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:56,800
Speaker 1: really weird birthday for me because I turned eighteen years old,

883
00:46:57,360 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 1: but it really didn't feel special in any way. I

884
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: was about a leave from waks A Hatchet to move

885
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:05,759
Speaker 1: to Austin, and that is the only memory I have

886
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 1: of that birthday. I didn't do anything fun. I might

887
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 1: have even spent that birthday alone. And now every time

888
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:13,960
Speaker 1: my birthday comes up, I'm just reminded that Michael Jackson

889
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:15,880
Speaker 1: died on my birthday. I know a lot of people

890
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:18,560
Speaker 1: probably remember the time and place where they were when

891
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 1: they heard about Michael Jackson passing. I remember it even

892
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 1: more because it happened on my birthday. Seeing some of

893
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 1: these iconic moments that they are featuring, like the first

894
00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 1: time he ever did the moonwalk, his big show at

895
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:34,319
Speaker 1: Dodgers Stadium and seeing the scope of how crazy his

896
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:37,799
Speaker 1: life was and how glamorized it is so far in

897
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:40,760
Speaker 1: the trailer to this movie. I don't think I realized

898
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:44,920
Speaker 1: that when he died, how worldwide famous he was. But

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00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:48,640
Speaker 1: I think in my lifetime, growing up in the nineties

900
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:52,880
Speaker 1: and early two thousands, where my brain really formed, I

901
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 1: didn't really see his explosion. I saw his impact and

902
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,839
Speaker 1: his legacy, but I didn't see the craze that we're

903
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 1: going to get to see in this movie. And I

904
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 1: think another reason why this movie is going to make

905
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 1: a billion dollars is because how relevant his music still

906
00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:14,719
Speaker 1: is today, where just the release of this trailer has

907
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 1: sparked his streaming numbers and he is still one of

908
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:21,960
Speaker 1: the highest earning dead celebrities. I think the demand is

909
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 1: swelling so much around this movie that is going to

910
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 1: actually get people out into the theater on opening weekend

911
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:32,760
Speaker 1: to go see it. But if they end up splitting

912
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:35,279
Speaker 1: it up into two movies, I mean they would also

913
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:38,320
Speaker 1: do that because it would still make, if not more money,

914
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:41,640
Speaker 1: as much money as Part one, So could also be

915
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:45,839
Speaker 1: a great financial decision. But how many bio picks can

916
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:49,959
Speaker 1: we take? Who is left. I feel like everybody has

917
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 1: a bio pick at this point. The only other person

918
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:55,080
Speaker 1: I would really want to see a music bio pick

919
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 1: from is Kurt Cobain. I'm talking a full on bio

920
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 1: pick where it gets the same treatment as this Michael

921
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:05,960
Speaker 1: Jackson movie, because this could be the music biopick we

922
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:08,960
Speaker 1: have been waiting for. Could it be enough to earn

923
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Speaker 1: Jafar Jackson a Best Actor nomination, much like Rammy Mallek

924
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:17,239
Speaker 1: got for playing Freddie Mercury that he went on to win.

925
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:20,080
Speaker 1: It depends how far this movie is going to go.

926
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:23,520
Speaker 1: But again, Michael Moon walks into theaters next year. On

927
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:27,440
Speaker 1: April twenty fourth, if that was this week's edition of

928
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 1: Movie b Framer par and that is gonna do it

929
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:33,960
Speaker 1: for another episode here of the podcast. But before I go,

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00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 1: I got to get my listeners shout out of the week.

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Speaker 1: This week, I'm going over to Facebook. I know, the

932
00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 1: place where you don't want to go because it's mostly

933
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:46,360
Speaker 1: people spewing hate. But every now and then I'll post

934
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:49,080
Speaker 1: the reel over there and go look at the comments,

935
00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:51,040
Speaker 1: and I'm always like, oh my gosh, what are people

936
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:53,560
Speaker 1: going to say? And this is a negative comment today?

937
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:59,160
Speaker 1: But I hadn't seen anybody not like Predator Badlands, and

938
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:02,640
Speaker 1: if I wanted it conflicting opinion, I knew going over

939
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:06,040
Speaker 1: to Facebook would not disappoint listener. Shout out of the

940
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Speaker 1: Week goes to law Gault, which I don't think is

941
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:11,200
Speaker 1: their real name. If you click into their profile, they

942
00:50:11,239 --> 00:50:15,560
Speaker 1: just have a Watchman logo as their profile picture. And

943
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:19,280
Speaker 1: this guy wrote basically an essay on what was wrong

944
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:21,759
Speaker 1: with this movie. So I will only read you the

945
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:25,359
Speaker 1: opening paragraph because this thing went deep, but we'll talk

946
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:27,680
Speaker 1: about it. Law wrote, all right, I don't even know

947
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:30,359
Speaker 1: where to start with Predator Badlands. This movie is an

948
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:35,759
Speaker 1: absolute train wreck, a soft, shiny PG rated disaster that

949
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:37,600
Speaker 1: feels like it was made by people who have never

950
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:41,960
Speaker 1: seen an actual Predator movie. It is so sanitized and

951
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:46,399
Speaker 1: childish that I half expected Mickey Mouse to stroll out

952
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:51,080
Speaker 1: from behind a tree and offer Predator a friendship bracelet.

953
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:55,120
Speaker 1: And there are three more paragraphs of lawes ripping this

954
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:59,240
Speaker 1: movie to shreds was an interesting thing that this movie

955
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:02,560
Speaker 1: is from twenty Century Studios that was acquired and bought

956
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:05,759
Speaker 1: by Disney. I don't really feel like that has had

957
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:09,799
Speaker 1: much of an impact of sanitizing any franchises. They are

958
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:13,720
Speaker 1: now making R rated horror movies over at twentieth Century

959
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:18,080
Speaker 1: Studios that when you look at who owes them, it's like, Oh,

960
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:20,800
Speaker 1: Disney is now in the business of making R rated

961
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:25,000
Speaker 1: horror movies. We've even had nudity in those movies, violence, blood,

962
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:27,960
Speaker 1: everything that you would expect, and I don't think that

963
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 1: it's really being impacted by having the Mickey Mouse hand

964
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:35,200
Speaker 1: over it. And I even said that I have not

965
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:38,960
Speaker 1: been the biggest fan of the Predator movies. I remember

966
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 1: watching the original with Arnold Schwarzenegger back in the day

967
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:44,680
Speaker 1: on like a random Saturday. That is the type of

968
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:48,279
Speaker 1: movie I associate with the mid afternoon matinee that would

969
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:51,320
Speaker 1: just come on TV. And my uncle's loved any type

970
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:55,239
Speaker 1: of movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger running around killing things. And

971
00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:57,680
Speaker 1: I could see if you grew up in that era

972
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:00,840
Speaker 1: and those are the movies of your childhood, why you

973
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:04,240
Speaker 1: would hate anything new. But I don't have that association

974
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 1: with those movies. I am a later adopter. Like I said,

975
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 1: it wasn't until earlier this year with the animated movie

976
00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:12,960
Speaker 1: and now with this movie that I'm more invested in

977
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:14,759
Speaker 1: the character and I kind of want to go back

978
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:17,360
Speaker 1: now and rewatch some of those movies, maybe even a

979
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 1: couple of those, probably around four, five and six that

980
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:23,799
Speaker 1: I haven't seen yet. But I think with any kind

981
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:27,319
Speaker 1: of franchise that has lived as long as this franchise has,

982
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:31,880
Speaker 1: with seven films over several different decades, you're going to

983
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:35,040
Speaker 1: have those people like law here who just don't like

984
00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 1: it because it is new and it doesn't remind you

985
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:39,880
Speaker 1: of what you grew up with. Same thing, when a

986
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:42,840
Speaker 1: new Star Wars movie comes out, you have people just

987
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:45,839
Speaker 1: like this hating on it. Now, I still think it

988
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:49,800
Speaker 1: was a highly entertaining movie, but I also can see

989
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:54,160
Speaker 1: why my expectations weren't let down. They were actually so

990
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:56,880
Speaker 1: low that I enjoyed it so much more because I

991
00:52:56,960 --> 00:53:00,160
Speaker 1: wasn't going into it expecting anything and ended up having

992
00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:02,800
Speaker 1: a really good time. But it would be like now,

993
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:05,960
Speaker 1: if somebody was going back and remaking I don't know,

994
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:08,239
Speaker 1: Max Keebler's Big Move, one of my favorite movies or

995
00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:11,440
Speaker 1: my childhood, I would have much different thoughts about it

996
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:13,359
Speaker 1: if they were to reboot that right now, which they

997
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 1: should reboot that movie for no other reason. Then I'm

998
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:18,920
Speaker 1: the only one who apparently watched that movie as a kid.

999
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:23,280
Speaker 1: But law, I appreciate you standing up for your beliefs.

1000
00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:26,600
Speaker 1: And I have to say, if you don't like what

1001
00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:31,480
Speaker 1: Disney is doing, the easiest way to show and protest

1002
00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:34,560
Speaker 1: that is to cancel your Disney, plus cancel your Hulu,

1003
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 1: which is gonna go away anyway. That is the way

1004
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:40,840
Speaker 1: to make your voice heard. But I appreciate that comment.

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00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:43,040
Speaker 1: You were this week's listener shout out of the week.

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00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:46,040
Speaker 1: Thank you to all for listening, making me a part

1007
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:49,319
Speaker 1: of your Monday. If you listen on release day or

1008
00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:51,200
Speaker 1: on the weekend, if you listen over on the Bobby

1009
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:55,520
Speaker 1: Bone Show feed, wherever you listen, I appreciate you so much.

1010
00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:59,280
Speaker 1: And until next time, go out and watch good movies

1011
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:01,320
Speaker 1: and I will talk to you later