1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,000 Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 1: am your host Movie Mike. Gonna be a nostalgic episode. 3 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:08,560 Speaker 1: I've been fired up since last week talking about mid movies. 4 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:11,120 Speaker 1: I want to talk about the best mid movies from 5 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 1: my childhood that would not succeed today. These movies would 6 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 1: fail by today's standards, and that makes me sad. In 7 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:21,680 Speaker 1: the movie review, we'll be talking about the new Robert 8 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 1: Penson movie that I've been waiting for forever, Mickey seventeen. 9 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 1: Was it worth the almost two year wait to finally 10 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 1: see this in theaters and in the trailer park? We'll 11 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 1: be talking about the new A twenty four movie Death 12 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 1: of a Unicorns, during Paul Rudd and Janet Ortega. They 13 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: play a father and daughter who hit a unicorn with 14 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 1: their car and then discovered that well, unicorns have magical 15 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 1: healing powers that all the corrupt people in the world want. 16 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: Movie maybe hits a little bit too close to home, 17 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:50,840 Speaker 1: but thank you for being here, thank you for being subscribed. 18 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now 19 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 1: let's talk movies from the Nashville podcast Network. As this 20 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: is Movie Mike's a movie pot this might be one 21 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: of the topics I am the most passionate and fired 22 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 1: up about, so much so that I was working on 23 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:08,960 Speaker 1: this list and it just goes on and on and 24 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 1: on that I just want to get on here and 25 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: rattle off movies from my childhood that I think would 26 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 1: not succeed by today's standards. Last week got into a 27 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 1: big discussion about mid movies and why movie can't just 28 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:24,200 Speaker 1: be average anymore. There's nothing wrong with being average. I 29 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 1: am an average movie reviewer. I have made a career 30 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:30,679 Speaker 1: out of being mid and through my lifetime there have 31 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 1: been movies that have just been okay. But sometimes these 32 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:36,000 Speaker 1: movies resonate with me more than I think, And maybe 33 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: they're not the movies that run to the top of 34 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 1: my list of these are the best movies ever. But 35 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 1: these movies, specifically with my childhood, built the foundation. They 36 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,520 Speaker 1: were there for me when I had nothing else to watch, 37 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: and are they might go tos right now if I 38 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 1: go sit down and watch a movie. I love watching 39 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 1: nostalgia things. If I'm gonna go back and watch things, 40 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 1: that's probably gonna be the top two, stuff like Toy 41 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 1: Story and All the Big Ones or Shrek. But these 42 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 1: are the movies that were there for me in between 43 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 1: those movies in the dark days when there was nothing 44 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 1: else to watch, where I was scanning through broadcast channels 45 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 1: or basic cable channels or in a hotel somewhere in 46 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:15,960 Speaker 1: another city and I just had to watch something. These 47 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: are the best mid childhood movies for me, in my opinion, 48 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:23,399 Speaker 1: that I think would not exist by today's standards. I'm 49 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:25,920 Speaker 1: going to focus on the year's nineteen ninety one to 50 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: two thousand and three, which would be what the Internet 51 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 1: defines as childhood zero to twelve years old. This would 52 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 1: be my childhood. The nineties was an incredible time where 53 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 1: you can make movies about anything. And one movie from 54 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 1: my childhood that I love that I still reference now 55 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 1: to this day. That just makes me think of a 56 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: time where it was so important for there to be 57 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:52,800 Speaker 1: trailers before a VHS that you would see all the 58 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:55,919 Speaker 1: things coming out soon on home video. I have in 59 00:02:55,960 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 1: my memory associated with certain of my favorite movie I 60 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: remember all the pretrailers, some of them had Burger King commercials. 61 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:06,360 Speaker 1: I remember a mom There are a lot of movies 62 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:07,839 Speaker 1: that I never got to see, but I know those 63 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 1: trailers from the beginning to the end. And one trailer 64 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:13,920 Speaker 1: that always stuck with me was the Homeword Bound trailer 65 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:17,840 Speaker 1: from nineteen ninety three. This movie would not exist by 66 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:21,359 Speaker 1: today's standards. Homeward Bound The Incredible Journey. It is about 67 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: kids who have to say goodbye to their childhood pets. 68 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:26,920 Speaker 1: The family moves away, so they leave them on a 69 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: farm with some other family, which is a wild thing 70 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:34,400 Speaker 1: remembering what this movie was about. I remember just watching 71 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 1: a movie about a dog who was the leader, a 72 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 1: dog who was kind of a dummy, and then the 73 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 1: cat who was Sessa, and I just thought that was fun. 74 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 1: But I kind of forgot why did they leave the 75 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 1: dogs and the cat with a family member. Why didn't 76 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 1: they take them. I'm sure they had an explanation why, 77 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 1: But that seems kind of sad if you thought about 78 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 1: that happening today, of somebody saying, Hey, we're moving across 79 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 1: the country and we can't take our dogs because we're 80 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 1: moving into the city, or we're moving where we can't 81 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 1: have dogs. These would be the most terrible people in 82 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 1: the world by today's standards. But back in the nineties, 83 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 1: you make a movie about it, a Disney movie where 84 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: the dogs and the cat are so sad that they 85 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 1: have to go find their owners. But I want to 86 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 1: take you on a trip back and put you back 87 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 1: in the nineties. Here's a clip of the VHS trailer 88 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 1: for Homeward Bound. Just listen to the sounds and tell 89 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:29,599 Speaker 1: me if this doesn't instantly take you back to a 90 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:33,160 Speaker 1: time when everything was more simple. Look for these hit 91 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 1: movies that you can owe from Walt Disney Home Video. 92 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 1: We're Gonna miss you so much. Left behind with family friends, 93 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:45,600 Speaker 1: how can I vacation and far from their home? Three 94 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:49,719 Speaker 1: beloved pets take matters into their own paws, he shadow, 95 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 1: Something doesn't smell right, She's sassy. Cats rule if dogs drill, 96 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: He's Chatz. Get out life, Getting nine at one. In 97 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:02,479 Speaker 1: the classic tradition of War Disney Entertainment comes whole word 98 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 1: Bomb The Incredible Journey coming this fall on video cassette 99 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:10,239 Speaker 1: that instantly takes me back. Another movie that this reminds 100 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 1: me of was Wild America, which came out in nineteen 101 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:17,159 Speaker 1: ninety seven. You had Jonathan Taylor, Thomas, Devin Sawah, and 102 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 1: Scott Barstowe who played three brothers, which that is an 103 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: incredibly nineties cast. But they go out on a cross 104 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:26,719 Speaker 1: country camping trip. I didn't know it at the time, 105 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 1: but this movie was actually based on a true story. 106 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:32,159 Speaker 1: This movie felt incredibly deep to me as a kid. 107 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 1: It came out in ninety seven, so I was like 108 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:37,279 Speaker 1: six years old, and I was at a point in 109 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: my life where I was only watching animated movies and 110 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 1: really just movies geared towards kids. But this almost felt 111 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:47,159 Speaker 1: like that in between time. And I think at that 112 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:51,040 Speaker 1: time I idolized any kind of teenager, and I saw 113 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 1: these kids as like being the coolest. They had the 114 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 1: very nineties bolish haircut, which was such a statement back 115 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:58,839 Speaker 1: in the nineties. I was like, oh, man, if you 116 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 1: have that haircut, you are so cool. I always wanted 117 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 1: to grow my hair out because of that. I always 118 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:06,239 Speaker 1: wanted to get highlights, even though I would look terrible 119 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:09,360 Speaker 1: with that in my hair. And we think about now 120 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:11,800 Speaker 1: making fun of some teenagers who have like the broccoli 121 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 1: cut or the really foofy hair and think, ah, these 122 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 1: kids look ridiculous. Do we not remember the bowl cut 123 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:21,359 Speaker 1: that was so popular in the nineties, that had a 124 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 1: chokehold on every nineties heart throb on the cover of 125 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:30,479 Speaker 1: Tiger Beat, that bowl cut was annihilating in the nineties. 126 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:33,279 Speaker 1: I would say it was more ridiculous than anything that 127 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:37,239 Speaker 1: kids have nowadays and teenagers, so I thought this movie 128 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:40,800 Speaker 1: was super cool. I was always inspired by any kind 129 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:44,480 Speaker 1: of nature movie, even though myself I've never really been 130 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 1: into camping, but when it comes to movies about it, 131 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 1: I find it incredibly inspiring. It's movies like Wild America 132 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:55,160 Speaker 1: and later down the line Into the Wild where that 133 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:58,919 Speaker 1: movie got me onto an incredible kick of transcendentalism and 134 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 1: the focus of like loving nature. I got super into 135 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 1: that for a while in my teen years, but it 136 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 1: all goes back to movies like Wild America, and you 137 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 1: couldn't really make a movie like that anymore, so I 138 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 1: included that in my list. Here another movie, a big 139 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 1: one from the nineties. It's a Blank Check from nineteen 140 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 1: ninety four. Although this movie did have pretty decent box 141 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 1: office success, had a budget of thirteen million dollars and 142 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 1: went on to make thirty point six million at the 143 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:29,640 Speaker 1: box office. It's all about a kid who cashes a 144 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 1: blank check for a million dollars. But a movie like 145 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:35,440 Speaker 1: this would not happen anymore for a couple of reasons. 146 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:39,559 Speaker 1: One is because it is hard to make a kid's movie. 147 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 1: Now with somebody who isn't famous, and this kid, by 148 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 1: no means was famous whatsoever in the nineties, you could 149 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 1: really just sell the idea that right there, a kid 150 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: gets a million dollar check and what you would expect 151 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:54,680 Speaker 1: a kid to do with a million dollars buy a 152 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 1: bunch of crazy things and blow it in a few weeks. 153 00:07:57,400 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 1: And not only that, there's a really questionable scene in 154 00:07:59,880 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 1: the movie that's now been debated a lot. I covered 155 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 1: it a long time ago and now people talk about 156 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 1: it all the time. But he starts to fall for 157 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 1: this undercover agent who was trying to expose his boss 158 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:13,680 Speaker 1: that he's actually posing as that doesn't really exist, but 159 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: at one point in the movie they share a kiss, 160 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:19,239 Speaker 1: and it's really weird. I haven't rewatched the movie since 161 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 1: on Disney Plus, since it kind of became more of 162 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 1: a thing of how weird it is, So I'm not 163 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 1: sure in between the time when I got Disney Plus 164 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 1: and maybe rewatched it back in like twenty twenty before 165 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 1: that's been a little bit more publicized if they've gone 166 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 1: back and taken out that scene. But that is a 167 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 1: no go by now. I think there was always a 168 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 1: weird theme in the nineties of like younger kids trying 169 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 1: to get after adults, which is really weird when you 170 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 1: think about it. And at the time it didn't feel 171 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:48,960 Speaker 1: weird because I was a kid watching it thinking that 172 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 1: makes sense. Like me as a kid, I would probably 173 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 1: have those thoughts. But when you think about that, this 174 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 1: was a movie that an adult wrote the script, an 175 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: adult directed it. There were so many adults working as 176 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:04,760 Speaker 1: the cast and then the crew, somebody should have said something. 177 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 1: So for those reasons, because you don't have a bankable star, 178 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: because now Disney movies don't really take a whole lot 179 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:15,400 Speaker 1: of risks anymore, and because of the questionable scene, this 180 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 1: mid movie would not be successful today. Next up on 181 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,440 Speaker 1: my list, I Have Little Giants from nineteen ninety four. 182 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 1: The movie had a budget of twenty million dollars and 183 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 1: only made nineteen million dollars at the box office. That 184 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 1: sounds crazy to me because I see this movie as 185 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:32,720 Speaker 1: a success because I didn't see it in theaters, which 186 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:34,480 Speaker 1: looking at those numbers, I guess not a lot of 187 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:38,200 Speaker 1: people did. But it ran so much on TV. I 188 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 1: remember watching it on Disney Channel ABC Family. It would 189 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:44,560 Speaker 1: run all the time, and I think that's probably where 190 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 1: a lot of us were exposed to it. It's about 191 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:49,439 Speaker 1: a group of misfit kids who form a football team 192 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 1: trying to compete against the big boys in town. About 193 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 1: the Little Giants versus the Cowboys, which obviously in the 194 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 1: nineties everybody hated the Cowboys or you loved the Cowboys 195 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 1: based on their success. Man, if we could get a 196 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 1: little back of that right now, that's why everybody hates us, 197 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 1: because we haven't been good since the nineties, and we're 198 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:09,079 Speaker 1: still so arrogant every single year. If you don't know, 199 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 1: I'm a huge Cowboys fan, and I think it's because 200 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:14,440 Speaker 1: every year we're optimistic and say it's it's gonna be 201 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 1: our year. And the fact that we keep saying that 202 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:20,559 Speaker 1: and haven't won anything significant since the nineties, I think 203 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:22,679 Speaker 1: is why people hate us so much. But you look 204 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 1: at this movie and think, oh, man, those glory days 205 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 1: when they were then what the chiefs are now of 206 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 1: getting all the hate in the world. But back to 207 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:34,760 Speaker 1: the Little Giants. This movie is so fun, so dumb 208 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:38,080 Speaker 1: and irreverent, and such a pivotal part in all of 209 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 1: our childhoods that you have to wonder what the equivalent 210 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 1: is going to be these days of a movie like 211 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:47,440 Speaker 1: this if it doesn't have success in theaters, which we 212 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 1: have a lot of family movies that come out in 213 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 1: theaters and they bomb, and some see a second life 214 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:56,560 Speaker 1: on streaming, but it doesn't really have that same weight 215 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 1: as it did before, unless it's like a big Disney 216 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:02,000 Speaker 1: movie that gets put onto Disney Plus and then get 217 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:04,520 Speaker 1: streamed over and over again. It is hard for a 218 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:07,400 Speaker 1: movie that doesn't succeed in theaters to go on a 219 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 1: streaming service and have a second life like these movies 220 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 1: that didn't have success in theaters but had a second 221 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 1: life through either TV, airplay, DVD, or VHS sales. So 222 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,839 Speaker 1: what is that gonna look like nowadays? Are kids gonna 223 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:23,199 Speaker 1: have any of these type of movies like we did 224 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:25,240 Speaker 1: when we grew up? That makes me a little bit sad, 225 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 1: speaking of sports movies, a mid movie that would not 226 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 1: work by today's standards and just not have the success 227 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 1: that it did back then that it would now airbud 228 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 1: from nineteen ninety seven. This movie only costs three million 229 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:41,720 Speaker 1: dollars to make, which is buy a big movie standard 230 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 1: pretty dirt cheap. If you look back on the trailer 231 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:47,559 Speaker 1: and rewatch this movie, you could see that the movie 232 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:50,920 Speaker 1: wasn't that expensive, but it was the idea of a 233 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 1: dog being able to play basketball in the original one. 234 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 1: He went on to play football and all these other sports. 235 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:00,640 Speaker 1: Dude could do it all. Could you imagine get benched 236 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:03,560 Speaker 1: so they could put Airbud in. I don't even like 237 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:06,560 Speaker 1: I wouldn't have a problem playing against the dog. But 238 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:08,960 Speaker 1: if I was on air Buds team and I was playing, 239 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 1: I was a starter, and they're like, you know what, Destro, 240 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 1: You're out of there. We're putting in Airbud, I'd be like, dude, 241 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:18,920 Speaker 1: I just got benched for a Golden Retriever and he's dominating. 242 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:21,199 Speaker 1: I couldn't do it. I would switch teams and go 243 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 1: play against Airbud because that would be less demoralizing. But 244 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:28,520 Speaker 1: the movie went on to make almost thirty million dollars 245 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 1: at the box office, and I think overall, it's a 246 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 1: mid movie. Like a lot of what we associate with 247 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 1: all these movies is the memory of it because we 248 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:38,560 Speaker 1: grew up with it and we experienced at a time 249 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:42,600 Speaker 1: where our brains were smaller kid brains. That is why 250 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:45,040 Speaker 1: we love these movies. If you were to watch him now, 251 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,320 Speaker 1: with fresh eyes of if I went back and watched 252 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:51,079 Speaker 1: a movie from the nineties, I wouldn't feel the exact 253 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:54,320 Speaker 1: same way. I wouldn't build that nostalgia. So a lot 254 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:58,120 Speaker 1: of these aren't like the top tier kids movies. They're 255 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 1: not the Lion Kings, they're not the Aladdin's, they're not 256 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 1: the Toy Stories, they're not the Monsters, inc. But they 257 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:06,440 Speaker 1: did play a big role. And if you think about now, 258 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:08,960 Speaker 1: if they tried to make a three million dollar movie 259 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 1: about a dog that can play sports, it wouldn't happen. 260 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:17,040 Speaker 1: It wouldn't succeed, no way. Would they even make the 261 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:18,960 Speaker 1: thirty million dollars that they made off the first one, 262 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 1: which they made a lot of sequels, A lot of 263 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:24,360 Speaker 1: them went straight to videos. So maybe who knows. They 264 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,440 Speaker 1: were rebooting everything at this point. Maybe they bring back 265 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 1: air Bud. Another movie I wanted to include because it 266 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 1: holds a very special place in my heart. It's a 267 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:35,559 Speaker 1: movie I feel maybe the most of you haven't seen, 268 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:38,199 Speaker 1: but it was the first movie I saw in theaters 269 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:41,760 Speaker 1: back in nineteen ninety seven. Nobody talks about this movie, 270 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 1: but it's leave it to Beaver had a budget of 271 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:48,080 Speaker 1: fifteen million dollars and only made ten million dollars at 272 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:50,720 Speaker 1: the box office, which I didn't realize how big of 273 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:54,560 Speaker 1: a bomb. This movie was again a mid movie by 274 00:13:55,160 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 1: critic standards and now looking back on how much it earned. 275 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 1: But to me, this was one of the best movies 276 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 1: of my childhood. It was based on the TV show 277 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:08,320 Speaker 1: Leave It to Beaver, which was way ahead of my time. 278 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:12,040 Speaker 1: The thing about things being ahead of my time, it's 279 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 1: different when you're broke. We grew up without a whole lot, 280 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:20,240 Speaker 1: including TV. We would really only have cable. I think 281 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 1: my parents would sign up for like a free month 282 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 1: of cable. We would have it for a little bit, 283 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 1: then they'd cut it off. So there was periods of 284 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 1: my time as a kid where I did have cable. Well, 285 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:33,840 Speaker 1: for the most part, it was just watching regular TV. 286 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 1: And sometimes on regular TV there'd be channel where they 287 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 1: would just reshow a bunch of old shows. I know, 288 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 1: I think it was on TV Land was actually on cable, 289 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 1: but there was a random channel, like at the very 290 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 1: end of all the channels that they would reshow black 291 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 1: and white TV shows. That is where I was exposed 292 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:54,000 Speaker 1: to shows like I Love Lucy, where I watched a 293 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 1: lot of Three Stooges and also where I watched a 294 00:14:57,080 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 1: lot of Leave It to Beaver. So even though that 295 00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 1: TV show was way ahead of my time, I knew 296 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 1: all about Wally and the Beeve and his parents the Cleavers, 297 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:08,360 Speaker 1: way before this movie came out, and I think that's 298 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 1: why I was excited for it, maybe one of the 299 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 1: only kids excited for it, because I was exposed to 300 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:16,040 Speaker 1: the TV show before, and this movie was all about, Okay, 301 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:18,960 Speaker 1: we're gonna take those same members of that family, but 302 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 1: now they're placed into the hip nineties where it's not 303 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 1: the nineteen fifties anymore, and it's all weird because you 304 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 1: can't have this wholesome family like you did back then 305 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 1: work by today's standards. But the movie didn't do well. 306 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 1: It tanked at the box office, it got bad reviews, 307 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 1: and I think there was a period in the nineties 308 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 1: where a lot of just classic things from back in 309 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:44,280 Speaker 1: the day, like Leave It to Beaver, Little Rascals, Flipper 310 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 1: and Casper, those shows that had a life way way 311 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:52,360 Speaker 1: way back were brought back and made movie adaptations of 312 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 1: so remakes have always been a thing. I think that 313 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:58,120 Speaker 1: would almost be similar now to a lot of things 314 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:01,720 Speaker 1: from the eighties being remade today because anything in that 315 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:04,920 Speaker 1: thirty to forty year window, it feels kind of like, Okay, 316 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 1: it's time to remake this. And you have a lot 317 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:08,560 Speaker 1: of people who maybe you grew up with it or 318 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:10,240 Speaker 1: knew about it way back then, but now we're going 319 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 1: to reintroduce it to an entirely new audience. So there's 320 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 1: no way this movie would even get made today. Another 321 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 1: great Disney movie that had a second life through VHS 322 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 1: sales was Heavyweights, came out in nineteen ninety five. The 323 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 1: movie had a budget of about ten million dollars and 324 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:31,080 Speaker 1: made seventeen point six million dollars at the box office. 325 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 1: This was another instance of it was a movie made 326 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 1: by adults but four kids, and some of the subject 327 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 1: matter was I don't want to say darker, but a 328 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 1: little bit more adult. If you look back on the 329 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 1: best kid movies, in my opinion, it was always ones 330 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 1: that kind of pushed the boundaries. You have people farting, 331 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 1: you have people making innu window jokes, and you have 332 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 1: in this movie kids who don't look like your typical 333 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:00,760 Speaker 1: kids that you would expect in a Disney movie. And 334 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 1: that's why I love it and it's just a ragtag 335 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:06,439 Speaker 1: group of individuals, and it's all about the camaraderie and 336 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:08,919 Speaker 1: it's all about the friendship. And I think that is 337 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:12,200 Speaker 1: why that movie has had so much success and nostalgia 338 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:15,040 Speaker 1: over the years, because that is what we remember from it. 339 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:18,640 Speaker 1: And for me, being a chunky kid, I was like, man, 340 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:22,040 Speaker 1: there's finally a movie where kids look like me. I 341 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 1: haven't seen a movie now, by today's standards, where a 342 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:28,199 Speaker 1: kid look like I did back in the nineties, And 343 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:30,720 Speaker 1: if there is one, which I think they've probably gotten 344 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:33,360 Speaker 1: away from it now. It's always like the token chunky kid. 345 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:36,360 Speaker 1: And I hated being the token chunky kid because they 346 00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: always treat them the same way, they always write them 347 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:41,960 Speaker 1: the same way. He's never a cool kid. He's always 348 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 1: like the lame one who doesn't get the girl. But 349 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:47,480 Speaker 1: heavyweights flip the script on that ahead of its time 350 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:50,840 Speaker 1: in the nineties where the chunky kids were the cool 351 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:53,280 Speaker 1: kids and they made fun of the skinny kids. The 352 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 1: movie this year is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary. I don't 353 00:17:57,080 --> 00:17:58,960 Speaker 1: really want a sequel, but it would be cool to 354 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 1: see a reunion. I know a lot of them, some 355 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:04,560 Speaker 1: of them have gone on to be successful from Heavyweights. 356 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:07,680 Speaker 1: Some of them have gone on to live some harsh days, 357 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:10,520 Speaker 1: some harsh lives, But I think it would be pretty 358 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:12,440 Speaker 1: awesome to see them all come together and do a 359 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:15,719 Speaker 1: Disney Plus special. Another one that Heavyweights reminded me of 360 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 1: was House Arrests from nineteen ninety six. The movie cost 361 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 1: about five million dollars to make and only made seven 362 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,680 Speaker 1: million dollars at the box office. It's about this group 363 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:27,399 Speaker 1: of siblings that lock their parents in the basement to 364 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:30,399 Speaker 1: prevent a divorce, and then other kids from the neighborhood 365 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:33,040 Speaker 1: get wind of this idea, get wind that their parents 366 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:35,320 Speaker 1: are locked up, and they're like, hey, my parents are 367 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:38,640 Speaker 1: going through something right now. They're struggling and they're always fighting. 368 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:40,920 Speaker 1: We're going to lock them down in the basement too. 369 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,439 Speaker 1: It's movies like this with wacky premises that we've been 370 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 1: talking about that just don't happen anymore. Studios don't want 371 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:51,280 Speaker 1: to take risks on dumb ideas anymore, and I know 372 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:53,520 Speaker 1: I'm putting a lot of blame on studios not taking 373 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 1: the risks. I will also say that I think audiences 374 00:18:56,800 --> 00:19:00,560 Speaker 1: have become harsher when it comes to things that are 375 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:04,040 Speaker 1: weird and we're so quick to shoot things down if 376 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:09,360 Speaker 1: it's not a level of sophistication. And I'm probably guilty 377 00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 1: of doing this from time to time, but sometimes can't 378 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:16,439 Speaker 1: we just have fun while watching a movie. There are 379 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:20,640 Speaker 1: certain movies that I just want dumb things from a premise, 380 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:23,679 Speaker 1: like House arrest It has a dumb premise, but it 381 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 1: also has heart. And maybe that's where some things miss 382 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:29,320 Speaker 1: out on. Is if you're gonna have as ridiculous of 383 00:19:29,359 --> 00:19:32,560 Speaker 1: a premise of a group of kids locking their parents 384 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:34,880 Speaker 1: in a basement, you have to have heart. And that's 385 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:37,600 Speaker 1: what this movie did. You have. The lead character played 386 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:40,920 Speaker 1: by Kyle Howard. His name was Grover, which oh Man. 387 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:44,080 Speaker 1: Kyle Howard was some good movie in the nineties. His 388 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:46,359 Speaker 1: character in this movie had a lot of heart. He 389 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:49,679 Speaker 1: was just trying to prevent his parents from divorcing, and 390 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:52,879 Speaker 1: then he also develops feelings for Jennifer Love. Hewitt's character 391 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:57,160 Speaker 1: who she was like my biggest crush in House Arrests 392 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:00,240 Speaker 1: is probably another big reason why I enjoyed this movies 393 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:02,639 Speaker 1: so much. But he had heart. Not only did he 394 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:04,280 Speaker 1: want his parents to get back together, but then he's 395 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 1: also trying to get the girl. He's trying to be 396 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:09,479 Speaker 1: a good brother, trying to be a good friend. There 397 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:12,360 Speaker 1: are a lot of layers here of just having good characters, 398 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:15,479 Speaker 1: which maybe that's the other thing of just movies like 399 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 1: this lacking development in the writing. You gotta write a 400 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:22,120 Speaker 1: good script, especially when it comes to kids' movies, when 401 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:24,000 Speaker 1: it feels like, oh, you can just throw out any idea, 402 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:26,879 Speaker 1: it's all for kids, it doesn't really matter. I just 403 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:30,320 Speaker 1: feel like these types of movies used to try a 404 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:34,160 Speaker 1: lot harder to actually make a good movie. But House 405 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:37,480 Speaker 1: Arrest is right up there. But still it's a good movie. 406 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:39,440 Speaker 1: It's not one of the best movies of the nineties. Again, 407 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:42,119 Speaker 1: we're talking about mid movies here, a great mid movie, 408 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:46,000 Speaker 1: a top tier mid movie. House Arrests from nineteen ninety six, 409 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:49,680 Speaker 1: just what to succeed today. Now we'll get into later 410 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 1: nineties and early two thousand. Office Space was a movie 411 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 1: that barely made its money back in theaters, but it 412 00:20:56,840 --> 00:21:00,600 Speaker 1: became a huge hit on VHS and DVD sales and 413 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:04,320 Speaker 1: was really big with cubicle workers. A comedy like Office 414 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:08,840 Speaker 1: Space I just don't think would work because even though 415 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:11,560 Speaker 1: it laid down I would say the foundation for the 416 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:15,560 Speaker 1: Office and other. Not that Office Space was a mockumentary, 417 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:18,760 Speaker 1: but it kind of laid the ground for other workplace comedies. 418 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:21,679 Speaker 1: Not that it was an entirely new concept, but it 419 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:25,000 Speaker 1: was something about it being set in a workplace that 420 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 1: felt familiar but also had a bunch of wacky characters 421 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:31,840 Speaker 1: and had a comedy style that resonated with a lot 422 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 1: of people in hunt in theaters but later through VHS. 423 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:37,639 Speaker 1: And I think it's hard for a comedy like Office 424 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:40,600 Speaker 1: Space and really any comedy to have success now is 425 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:45,000 Speaker 1: because we're also used to short form comedy and office 426 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:47,800 Speaker 1: spaces well. And you really got to lean into watch 427 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 1: the entire movie, because I'm not sure that there are 428 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 1: a lot of just individual bits from Office Space that 429 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,880 Speaker 1: I remember thinking being the funniest parts, obviously, like when 430 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 1: they go and break the computer in slow motion, the 431 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 1: soundtrack to this movie, the old guy in this movie. 432 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:06,600 Speaker 1: There are some key moments, but overall, it's the composition 433 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:09,800 Speaker 1: of the movie. It was a movie in the nineties, 434 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 1: like a lot of other comedies, where you put in 435 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 1: that VHS and you watch it from beginning to end 436 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:18,679 Speaker 1: and you just enjoy taking in the entire movie. And 437 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 1: I remember just there's a point in my life where 438 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:23,119 Speaker 1: I just had movies on a loop. Just turning on 439 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,119 Speaker 1: a movie felt comforting. We don't really do that anymore 440 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,399 Speaker 1: because we're so intentional, and we have this feeling if 441 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:32,919 Speaker 1: we can't be bored at all. If I get up 442 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:34,960 Speaker 1: on a Saturday morning and I don't have a set 443 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,520 Speaker 1: thing to watch, I feel like I'm wasting time. And 444 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:40,200 Speaker 1: I can't really scroll through channels anymore and just pick 445 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:43,720 Speaker 1: something random. I had much more freedom in the nineties 446 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:45,800 Speaker 1: to just watch whatever I wanted. Now I feel like 447 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:48,639 Speaker 1: I gotta be watching something new. I gotta start a series, 448 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:50,919 Speaker 1: I gotta watch this movie, I gotta watch that movie. 449 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:54,240 Speaker 1: It just feels like there was a little bit more 450 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:57,800 Speaker 1: just like enjoyment and watching things then, when there was 451 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:01,520 Speaker 1: less to watch, when we didn't have phones to constantly 452 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 1: show us these things coming out and watching short form content, 453 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 1: there was more intention to sitting down to watch a 454 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:12,200 Speaker 1: comedy that, like with office space, you could just sit 455 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 1: down and enjoy it and be free of distraction. I 456 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,119 Speaker 1: think that's why comedies also have a problem now, and 457 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 1: really all movies, is because it's so hard just to 458 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:22,720 Speaker 1: keep your attention if you're not going to see it 459 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:26,119 Speaker 1: in theaters. You're looking at your phone, you're talking to 460 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:30,160 Speaker 1: your smart device. They are all these distractions that don't 461 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,320 Speaker 1: allow us to focus in, and a movie like Office 462 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 1: Space does still require your attention. So it is hard 463 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:41,119 Speaker 1: for a movie like this to succeed by today's standards 464 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:42,760 Speaker 1: and go on to be as big of a hit 465 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 1: as it is, as much of a staple as it 466 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:48,240 Speaker 1: is now because we just don't have the attention span 467 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:51,080 Speaker 1: for a movie like Office Space with its dry comedy 468 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:55,400 Speaker 1: and workplace humor. So that is sad man to think 469 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:58,040 Speaker 1: a movie like Office Space wouldn't work by today's standards 470 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:01,000 Speaker 1: is really said, I'm about to go watch all these 471 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:03,919 Speaker 1: movies after this, just to feel my knee, to go 472 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,600 Speaker 1: back to the nineties. Moving out of the nineties. Two 473 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:10,160 Speaker 1: thousand and one, Saving Silverman was a comedy that came 474 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:14,320 Speaker 1: out and got pretty bad reviews. It only made twenty 475 00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:17,640 Speaker 1: six million dollars against a budget of twenty two million dollars. 476 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:21,520 Speaker 1: And I pulled an old review for Saving Silverman that 477 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:25,159 Speaker 1: was also published in two thousand and one. This review 478 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:27,960 Speaker 1: comes to us from a guy named Ryan Buell published 479 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,439 Speaker 1: it on three twenty two, two thousand and one on 480 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:33,439 Speaker 1: Penn State's website. So I think he was a movie 481 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:37,800 Speaker 1: reviewer for Penn State back in the two thousands, and 482 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:40,159 Speaker 1: I was like, Man, I just like going back and 483 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:43,520 Speaker 1: reading old reviews right when the movie came out, because 484 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:46,479 Speaker 1: I do believe Saving Silverman is a great mid movie, 485 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:49,960 Speaker 1: an underrated comedy with Jason Biggs, Jack Black Steves on 486 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:55,000 Speaker 1: about them trying to save their friend Silverman from making 487 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:58,240 Speaker 1: a bad mistake and marrying a girl that they can't stand. 488 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:00,840 Speaker 1: So here is a review from two two thousand and one, 489 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 1: Saving Silverman is nothing but a washed up PG thirteen 490 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:06,919 Speaker 1: to want to b version of their Something About Mary. 491 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 1: The grow test jokes and sexual humor just don't work. 492 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:14,080 Speaker 1: The sad thing about today's society is that anyone can 493 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:16,800 Speaker 1: get away with ripping off a movie. More than likely, 494 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:19,439 Speaker 1: Silverman will do well at the box office, but in 495 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:23,280 Speaker 1: a few years no one will remember it. However, Columbia 496 00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:26,479 Speaker 1: Pictures isn't trying to make a decent film. It's just 497 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 1: trying to cash in on other gross out comedies such 498 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 1: as There's Something About Mary and American Pie. It looks 499 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 1: to me like the producers took the screenwriter placed them 500 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,480 Speaker 1: in a burlap bag and beat them until he came 501 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:42,640 Speaker 1: up with the cinematic piece of crap. But then again, 502 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:46,680 Speaker 1: you get what you pay for. Poor Silverman needs more 503 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:49,359 Speaker 1: than Neil Diamond to be saved from this bomb of 504 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:54,399 Speaker 1: the movie grade D minus. Ryan from two thousand and 505 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:59,400 Speaker 1: one Penn State website went in hard on Saving Silverman. 506 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,359 Speaker 1: A couple of things he got wrong, he said, in 507 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,760 Speaker 1: a few years, no one will remember it. This was 508 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 1: published in two thousand and one. It is twenty twenty five. 509 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:12,000 Speaker 1: I remember Saving Silverman. I love this movie. A lot 510 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,040 Speaker 1: of great scenes in this movie, a lot of physical comedy, 511 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,560 Speaker 1: a lot of what makes Jack black Gray a comedy 512 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,720 Speaker 1: are in this movie. And it's wild to think that 513 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 1: he's saying that this movie was ripping off There's something 514 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,680 Speaker 1: about Mary, which he mentioned it twice in American Pie. 515 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,439 Speaker 1: I think that's the connection between Jason Biggs, because looking 516 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:32,440 Speaker 1: back on it now, I think he got that wrong. 517 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:34,760 Speaker 1: I don't think this movie was trying to rip off 518 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:39,879 Speaker 1: those films whatsoever. And I don't even associate this with 519 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:43,440 Speaker 1: being a ripoff movie or trying to be something else. 520 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:47,159 Speaker 1: I feel like Saving Silverman is very uniquely itself and 521 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,360 Speaker 1: the only argument he has is that it has Jason 522 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:53,040 Speaker 1: Biggs in both of them. So it just proves to 523 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:56,440 Speaker 1: you how wrong some people can be about a movie's success. 524 00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:58,919 Speaker 1: He also said that it was going to do pretty 525 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,200 Speaker 1: well at the box off. It did do very well 526 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:03,840 Speaker 1: at the box office, but still it is a movie 527 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,199 Speaker 1: that people remember. And this review also allows me to 528 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 1: take a moment and look in inwardly of movies I 529 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:13,440 Speaker 1: have ripped to shreds and think that maybe in twenty 530 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:16,000 Speaker 1: years someone will pull a clip from my podcast and say, 531 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:18,639 Speaker 1: look what this idiot said about this now cult classic. 532 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:21,520 Speaker 1: He said it was dull, he said it lack of imagination. 533 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:24,040 Speaker 1: He said thirty minutes of this movie could have been 534 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 1: cut off. He said it's a wasting your time. You 535 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:31,200 Speaker 1: should only watch it in streaming services. So maybe sometimes 536 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,000 Speaker 1: I'll think about that. I'll try to be at times 537 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:36,120 Speaker 1: less harsh on movies that I think other people could 538 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:39,399 Speaker 1: find enjoyment in and think twenty years down the line. 539 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:41,840 Speaker 1: But again, I always speak from the heart. I speak 540 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 1: with my feelings, I speak with my true intentions when 541 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:48,640 Speaker 1: reviewing movies. So hopefully an old review doesn't come back 542 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:50,800 Speaker 1: to bite me in the butt. Like it did for Ryan, 543 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,440 Speaker 1: but shout out to Ryan from Penn State in two 544 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 1: thousand and one. Close out the list with a couple 545 00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:59,240 Speaker 1: of more from my childhood rounding out the two thousands. 546 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 1: Dude Wear's myke Car in the year two thousand was 547 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 1: actually a pretty successful movie. I would say, pretty big 548 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:10,600 Speaker 1: pivotal roles for both Ashton Kutcher and Sean Williams Scott. 549 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:14,200 Speaker 1: But that movie is so dumb. It very much encompassed 550 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,160 Speaker 1: the comedy of the two thousand, which it was right 551 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,160 Speaker 1: on that line in ninety ninety two thousand, so maybe 552 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,320 Speaker 1: it's still a little bit of the remnants of the 553 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:24,199 Speaker 1: comedy from the nineties. But a movie with such a 554 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,600 Speaker 1: premise of two dudes being too stoned and too messed up, 555 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,600 Speaker 1: do not remember where they left their car, running into 556 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,720 Speaker 1: a group of hot chicks who were undercover spies, going 557 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:37,280 Speaker 1: through a drive through and taunting the box, and all 558 00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:40,880 Speaker 1: the crazy characters that the encounter them trying to find 559 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:45,239 Speaker 1: the continuum transfunctioner. It's just such a bizarre movie that 560 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,760 Speaker 1: would not succeed today. It would probably be a movie 561 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:51,200 Speaker 1: that I would give a review much like the guy 562 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 1: did from Penn State and say This movie is another 563 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:57,480 Speaker 1: piece of crap, but for the time it worked. Although 564 00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 1: I don't think Dude, Whar's My Car is really a 565 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,960 Speaker 1: movie that I go back and revisit. I don't partake 566 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:06,320 Speaker 1: in the recreational activities that would probably enhance this movie 567 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 1: and make it funnier, but it is a great mid 568 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,600 Speaker 1: movie from the two thousands. And finally from two thousand 569 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,720 Speaker 1: and one, Super Troopers, which did not do that well 570 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,120 Speaker 1: at the box office, but this movie skyrocketed. I would say, 571 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,560 Speaker 1: is one of the most successful DVDs from the two 572 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:26,480 Speaker 1: thousands that spawned a sequel that launched The Broken Lizard 573 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:30,200 Speaker 1: to create their entire cinematic universe to create more movies 574 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,520 Speaker 1: like Beer Fest, Slam, and Salmon, which all feature a 575 00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:36,800 Speaker 1: lot of the same cast they direct these movies. This 576 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:42,120 Speaker 1: was a movie that was notoriously passed around in middle 577 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:46,680 Speaker 1: school and high schools across America. These guys have become 578 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,480 Speaker 1: legends because of this movie. They have made careers out 579 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:52,800 Speaker 1: of this that people, myself included. I've had the guys 580 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 1: from Super Troopers on this podcast to talk about it. 581 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,440 Speaker 1: A movie that came out now twenty four years ago, 582 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:02,280 Speaker 1: still has this legac and they're still making new movies. 583 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:06,040 Speaker 1: I enjoyed their last movie, Quasi, which was their first 584 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,840 Speaker 1: movie that went directly to streaming. It was on Hulu, 585 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:13,520 Speaker 1: didn't have a traditional theatrical release, so it's interesting to 586 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:17,680 Speaker 1: see them have to navigate that of not having what 587 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:21,960 Speaker 1: they have relied on a lot of their career, of 588 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:26,080 Speaker 1: having titles in their filmography that haven't been the biggest 589 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:28,240 Speaker 1: at drawing a lot of numbers at the box office, 590 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:32,720 Speaker 1: but have developed a cult like following through people watching 591 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,959 Speaker 1: them on physical media. You don't have that anymore. So 592 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:38,000 Speaker 1: I would be curious to talk to them again just 593 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:42,000 Speaker 1: to see how they felt after that movie came out 594 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:45,320 Speaker 1: onto streaming and what kind of impact it actually made. 595 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:49,040 Speaker 1: Is it only important that people watch your movie by 596 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:52,080 Speaker 1: any means, whether they're paying for it, whether they're watching 597 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,880 Speaker 1: it for free. Do you only want people to consume 598 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,680 Speaker 1: your art or do you want to make the money 599 00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:01,000 Speaker 1: like you could with physical copies. I mean it's hard 600 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,200 Speaker 1: to say no, I don't want to make the money, 601 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,360 Speaker 1: but I think there's something to now just having your 602 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 1: product be seen. When you spend so much time making 603 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:11,080 Speaker 1: your art, you just want to get it out to 604 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,520 Speaker 1: as many people as possible. Is that worth more now 605 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 1: than having the DVD sales to rely on because you 606 00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:21,360 Speaker 1: could just not put it out in theaters and try 607 00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,240 Speaker 1: to do it the old school way, but then you 608 00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:25,560 Speaker 1: get even less people watching it. So that is my list. 609 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:29,440 Speaker 1: There are some other honorable mentions like Baby's Day Out, Beethoved, 610 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:32,320 Speaker 1: Dennis de Menaz, mouse Hunt, even though that was a 611 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,560 Speaker 1: pretty successful movie at the box office. But movies like 612 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:39,560 Speaker 1: Richie Rich Dudley Do Right, or really every Earnest movie 613 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:43,400 Speaker 1: Ernest Scared Stupid in particular, those movies would not succeed 614 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:46,280 Speaker 1: by today's standards. I'll come back and give my spoiler 615 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:52,920 Speaker 1: free review of Mickey seventeen. Let's get into it now. 616 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:56,440 Speaker 1: A spoiler free movie review of Mickey seventeen. This movie 617 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,440 Speaker 1: has nothing to do with Disney, not that Mickey different 618 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,360 Speaker 1: Mickey much more disturbing Mickey in a way. It is 619 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,520 Speaker 1: the new film from Bong June Hoe, his first movie 620 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:10,600 Speaker 1: since Parasite. Much anticipated in this room because man, I've 621 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,400 Speaker 1: been waiting for this movie to come out for so long. 622 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:15,400 Speaker 1: It's been delayed. It took forever just to get made, 623 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:19,480 Speaker 1: but it is here. You have Robert Pattinson, who plays inexpendable. 624 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,320 Speaker 1: He is a guy who is down on his luck, 625 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:25,320 Speaker 1: has a really bad financial investment with a dude who 626 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,760 Speaker 1: really screws him over, so his way to get out 627 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:31,160 Speaker 1: of it. It takes place in the year twenty fifty four. 628 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:34,160 Speaker 1: I believe he can go to this planet and become 629 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,440 Speaker 1: inexpendable who doesn't really know what he's signing up for. 630 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:38,720 Speaker 1: But essentially they're going to make him do a bunch 631 00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:42,360 Speaker 1: of harmful experiments and he dies time and time again. 632 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:46,320 Speaker 1: His entire conscience and memories are uploaded on this hard drive, 633 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,520 Speaker 1: so that every time he dies, a version of himself 634 00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,000 Speaker 1: actually comes back with those memories intact. So it's not 635 00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:54,880 Speaker 1: just them reprinting an entirely new human that looks like him. 636 00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,800 Speaker 1: It pretty much resembles him in every way. Each version 637 00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:02,040 Speaker 1: is a little bit different, has a slightly different personality, 638 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:03,920 Speaker 1: but at the core of it, it is still Mickey, 639 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,840 Speaker 1: who is kind of dumb but very lovable. And I 640 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,280 Speaker 1: think Robert Pattinson doesn't get enough credit for how good 641 00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,200 Speaker 1: of a character actor he is, especially when it comes 642 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:15,040 Speaker 1: to accents. Mickey seventeen sounds unlike any other character he 643 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,840 Speaker 1: has ever done before, so whether it's the Lighthouse, whether 644 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:21,400 Speaker 1: it's good time, even going back to Twilight or Devil 645 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:23,640 Speaker 1: all the Time too. That was another good Robert Pattinson movie. 646 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:25,760 Speaker 1: He just kind of surprises you in these different looks 647 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,560 Speaker 1: that he can give you, even doing Bruce Wayne and 648 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:32,120 Speaker 1: The Batman. And there's still some people who can't see 649 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:35,520 Speaker 1: Robert Pattinson as not the vampire guy that was so 650 00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:39,000 Speaker 1: long ago. That's so two thousand and eight, everybody. So 651 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,080 Speaker 1: this was a movie. Going into it, I thought I 652 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,720 Speaker 1: was going to instantly love, no matter what I'll say, 653 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,720 Speaker 1: I had a bit of a bias that. Given the director, 654 00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:50,040 Speaker 1: who has done some great movies, some of my favorite 655 00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,800 Speaker 1: movies of all time, I would put Parasite on my 656 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:56,640 Speaker 1: top fifteen, especially of The Last Man. Thinking back, twenty 657 00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:58,560 Speaker 1: nineteen is in five years ago. Now that's the last 658 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,880 Speaker 1: six years in the past ten years. Probably top ten 659 00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:05,800 Speaker 1: for me of my life, probably fifteen or top twenty. 660 00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:09,040 Speaker 1: That movie changed me. And Bong June Ho is known 661 00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:11,600 Speaker 1: for his sci fi movies. He's known for his more 662 00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:14,560 Speaker 1: realistic movies. He is really great at building worlds, and 663 00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:17,399 Speaker 1: although this movie is based on a book, it still 664 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,040 Speaker 1: feels very original to me. So going into it, he 665 00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:23,080 Speaker 1: is a type of director now that I'm gonna have 666 00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:25,400 Speaker 1: that bias of like, man, I'm kind of a fanboy. 667 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:27,880 Speaker 1: I'm kind of gonna like anything that he does or 668 00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:31,239 Speaker 1: appreciate it. But even with that bias going into it, 669 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,120 Speaker 1: I had to warm up to this story because it 670 00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:36,239 Speaker 1: felt a lot different than what I was expecting. It 671 00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:38,839 Speaker 1: felt different than anything I'd really see in the sci 672 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,640 Speaker 1: fi genre, or I would say it took me a 673 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:44,640 Speaker 1: good forty minutes to really settle into it, but once 674 00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:47,160 Speaker 1: I was it, which sounds like a lot of time. Normally, 675 00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:49,680 Speaker 1: I say, if you don't love a movie by those 676 00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,440 Speaker 1: first twenty minutes, that you're gonna have a bad time. 677 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,040 Speaker 1: It wasn't that I didn't enjoy it in those first 678 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,840 Speaker 1: twenty minutes. It was just a lot of world building, 679 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:00,680 Speaker 1: and they kind of hop around in time because what 680 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:05,120 Speaker 1: you see in the trailer actually happens later in the story, 681 00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:07,719 Speaker 1: so it kind of goes back and forth of him 682 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,520 Speaker 1: already on the planet to how he got to that planet, 683 00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,520 Speaker 1: and then it kind of leads all back around. So 684 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:16,040 Speaker 1: those first forty minutes, I was just trying to get 685 00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:21,080 Speaker 1: used to Robert Pattinson's dialect, the character interactions, and just 686 00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:23,319 Speaker 1: trying to get my grasp on the story. But once 687 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:25,680 Speaker 1: I was in about that forty minute mark, I was 688 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:27,600 Speaker 1: totally in. In The movie is about two hours and 689 00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:29,880 Speaker 1: ten minutes, but by the end of it, I was 690 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:34,320 Speaker 1: really satisfied. I thought the sci fi elements were fantastic. 691 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,280 Speaker 1: Bun June Hoe I feel in this movie took inspiration 692 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:41,239 Speaker 1: from all of his films. One that I really loved 693 00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:44,920 Speaker 1: that he drew inspiration from was Okja, which he creates 694 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,520 Speaker 1: these very mythical creatures, and there are these animals, these 695 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:53,200 Speaker 1: alien type animals in Mickey seventeen called creepers. I thought 696 00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:56,799 Speaker 1: that was amazing and unique, and in a world where 697 00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:00,880 Speaker 1: we kind of just keep regurgitating everything sci fi, this 698 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:02,840 Speaker 1: felt fresh to me. Like I said, it is based 699 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,879 Speaker 1: on a book, but it feels very much original. And 700 00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:08,440 Speaker 1: if you're gonna want to go see something unlike you 701 00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:10,480 Speaker 1: haven't seen before, and you don't want to take a 702 00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,239 Speaker 1: risk on a movie like Mickey seventeen, then you can't 703 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:15,120 Speaker 1: say they're just making remakes, that they're just throwing out 704 00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:18,000 Speaker 1: another Star Wars movie. In the sci fi genre, you 705 00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:20,480 Speaker 1: gotta check out what is out there. In Bung juneh. 706 00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,920 Speaker 1: Whether it's this movie where he's drawing inspiration from Okja, 707 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:27,760 Speaker 1: I also saw a lot of inspiration from snow Piercer 708 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,280 Speaker 1: in this Maybe it's because it was an ice planet 709 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:32,400 Speaker 1: and also being on a vessel. In this case, it 710 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,960 Speaker 1: takes place pretty much entirely on a ship, which sometimes 711 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:39,000 Speaker 1: when movies have limited locations it gets a little bit boring. 712 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:41,360 Speaker 1: But there was a lot of places to explore in 713 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:44,560 Speaker 1: the ship. They go outside a bunch, interacting with the 714 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:48,040 Speaker 1: creepers off and on the ship I thought were great. 715 00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:51,040 Speaker 1: And then there were even some Easter eggs from Parasite 716 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,600 Speaker 1: in this movie, a little bit of his movie The Host, 717 00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:56,640 Speaker 1: So it was kind of him borrowing and being inspired 718 00:36:56,680 --> 00:37:01,000 Speaker 1: by himself. And I almost feel like he made Parasite, 719 00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:04,760 Speaker 1: which got a lot of critical acclaim, won the Oscar, 720 00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,440 Speaker 1: and now he is wanting to make movies that he's 721 00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:10,200 Speaker 1: always wanted to make and being able to be a 722 00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:13,280 Speaker 1: big nerd, which is awesome. I love it when nerds 723 00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:16,399 Speaker 1: are filmmakers and are able to create these worlds and 724 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:19,440 Speaker 1: they have a lot of freedom now and what they 725 00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:21,560 Speaker 1: are able to do when you are a level of 726 00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,640 Speaker 1: director that Bon Jun ho is, but also just knows 727 00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:26,879 Speaker 1: how to make a great story, knows how to make 728 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:28,880 Speaker 1: characters you root for, which by the end of this 729 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,200 Speaker 1: movie you feel for Mickey seventeen and all the crazy 730 00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:35,520 Speaker 1: things that he encounters. And even though it's so futuristic 731 00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:38,319 Speaker 1: and dystopian, there is some heart there and there's a 732 00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:40,799 Speaker 1: lot of comedy in it too, which I feel could 733 00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:44,200 Speaker 1: turn some people off. Mark Ruffalo's character is a very 734 00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:46,719 Speaker 1: eccentric one, and some of that stuff I could see 735 00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:48,400 Speaker 1: people thinking like, Oh, this is kind of dumb, what 736 00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:51,759 Speaker 1: is Mark Ruffalo doing? But I think his character, much 737 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:54,319 Speaker 1: like a lot of Bonk June Hoe's characters, are used 738 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,480 Speaker 1: to get a message across which every movie of his 739 00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:01,680 Speaker 1: has that overall arching social and moral dilemma. Because this 740 00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:04,879 Speaker 1: one does make a big statement on how people can 741 00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:08,040 Speaker 1: take over a planet or it could be a country 742 00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:10,520 Speaker 1: and kicking out the people who are already there. It 743 00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:13,319 Speaker 1: also makes a statement in a more sci fi way, 744 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,080 Speaker 1: of human cloning and the morales of that, Like I 745 00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:18,120 Speaker 1: started thinking about it, what I sign up for this? 746 00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:21,919 Speaker 1: The hard part would be dying, And throughout the entire movie, 747 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:23,759 Speaker 1: they keep asking Mickey, like, what does it feel like 748 00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:25,840 Speaker 1: to die. That's what everybody wants to know. And he 749 00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:29,640 Speaker 1: struggles with answering that question. Obviously it hurts. He gets 750 00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:32,000 Speaker 1: more and more used to it as he gets through 751 00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,400 Speaker 1: all the numbers, which that is why it's called Mickey seventeen. 752 00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:36,759 Speaker 1: They number him each time after he die, so he's 753 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,719 Speaker 1: Mickey one, two, three, four, five, and then whenever he 754 00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:43,160 Speaker 1: hits seventeen, that is when something goes wrong. And there 755 00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,880 Speaker 1: are duplicates, and you see this all in the trailer, 756 00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,560 Speaker 1: so it's not a spoiler, but it's that moral dilemma 757 00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:50,839 Speaker 1: of what happens when you have two of these people. Now, 758 00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:54,279 Speaker 1: I don't know that I could be inexpendable because, oh man, 759 00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:57,000 Speaker 1: some of the things that he is put through and 760 00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,400 Speaker 1: the pain he must still feel. Because even though you 761 00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:01,959 Speaker 1: come back with your memory is intact and it's still 762 00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:05,080 Speaker 1: you and you no longer fear dying as much because 763 00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,360 Speaker 1: you know you're going to come back, you still have 764 00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:11,280 Speaker 1: to feel it. And sometimes we don't know how bad 765 00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:14,120 Speaker 1: dying hurts because we can't really report back from those people. 766 00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:17,040 Speaker 1: He can report back, and he knows the worst ways 767 00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:19,120 Speaker 1: to die. But I think I would be open to 768 00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:21,600 Speaker 1: them taking all my memories and putting them on a 769 00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:25,320 Speaker 1: hard drive. Also in a way, it made that idea 770 00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:28,280 Speaker 1: seem a little bit more plausible, like it could happen 771 00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:31,880 Speaker 1: and we're not. I don't know if AI becoming so advanced. 772 00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:33,759 Speaker 1: I feel like the first step would be like us 773 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:35,600 Speaker 1: putting some kind of chip in our brain where we 774 00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:37,440 Speaker 1: can see things and have a computer in our brain. 775 00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,920 Speaker 1: I think a level after that would be human printing. 776 00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:43,520 Speaker 1: I mean, we have three D printing, which whenever that 777 00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:46,120 Speaker 1: first started, we were like, what is three D printing? 778 00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,520 Speaker 1: This sounds so weird and futuristic. But now kids in 779 00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:51,160 Speaker 1: like high school are working with three D printers and 780 00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:53,600 Speaker 1: building things, and that's become a little bit more normal. 781 00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:58,000 Speaker 1: Twenty years we start human printing. Right now we're all like, oh, ay, 782 00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:00,680 Speaker 1: i's got to replace everybody. It's good to take all 783 00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:04,319 Speaker 1: our jobs. Once AI becomes a little bit more like, oh, 784 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:06,120 Speaker 1: that's the norm. So I don't know, man, But that's 785 00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:09,400 Speaker 1: the other message of this movie and moral dilemma where 786 00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:12,719 Speaker 1: this movie ranks on my favorite Bong June Hoe films 787 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,720 Speaker 1: because I think my Robert Pattinson list is probably different. 788 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:18,560 Speaker 1: And that's a whole other episode I could get into. 789 00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:21,160 Speaker 1: But I would say Mickey seventeen is in my top 790 00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:23,480 Speaker 1: five now at number five. I would put the Host 791 00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:27,360 Speaker 1: at number four. I would put Mickey seventeen at number three. 792 00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,319 Speaker 1: I would put Okja at number two. I would put 793 00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:33,279 Speaker 1: snow Piercer with Chris Evans, which is fantastic, and at 794 00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:36,480 Speaker 1: number one, I would put Parasite. If you aren't familiar 795 00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:39,440 Speaker 1: with his work and go see Mickey seventeen or planning 796 00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:41,000 Speaker 1: to see it down the line and just want to 797 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,040 Speaker 1: get ahead of it, I would say start in that 798 00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,800 Speaker 1: reverse order. I would say start with Parasite, because I 799 00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:49,160 Speaker 1: feel that it is the one, even though it's in subtitles, 800 00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,239 Speaker 1: which I love what he said whenever he won the 801 00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:54,239 Speaker 1: Oscar for that movie, saying that one inch barrier that 802 00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:57,279 Speaker 1: people can't get over, I get over it. You'll be 803 00:40:57,360 --> 00:41:00,239 Speaker 1: exposed to a whole new world of films if you 804 00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:03,120 Speaker 1: can just get over that one inch barrier and watch 805 00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:06,120 Speaker 1: movies that aren't in your language. So aside from that, 806 00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:08,920 Speaker 1: I think it's the most widely recepted of all of 807 00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:11,440 Speaker 1: his movies, and the one you can dive into and 808 00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:14,320 Speaker 1: enjoy because the story in that movie is really powerful. 809 00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:18,359 Speaker 1: It is so well done, shot beautifully. There's nothing bad 810 00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:20,799 Speaker 1: I would say about Parasite. It is a rare five 811 00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:23,600 Speaker 1: out of five movie in my opinion. Snow Piercer has 812 00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:26,160 Speaker 1: a little bit more action also, so has that moral 813 00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:31,200 Speaker 1: dilemma of like social statuses. Oh, those both are really good. 814 00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:34,200 Speaker 1: I still say start with Parasite, then go to snow Piercer, 815 00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:36,480 Speaker 1: and then Oakja is a little bit more sci fi, 816 00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:40,080 Speaker 1: a little bit more fun and comical, and then Mickey 817 00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:42,279 Speaker 1: seventeen is kind of right in between there too. It 818 00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,600 Speaker 1: has a great deal of sci fi, has some comedy 819 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,359 Speaker 1: in it as well, and then has I wouldn't say 820 00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:50,920 Speaker 1: a horror aspect to it, but there are some bloody 821 00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:53,319 Speaker 1: and violent scenes here and there. And then The Host, 822 00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:55,439 Speaker 1: I believe is just the all out great horror movie. 823 00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:57,520 Speaker 1: So those are my top five of his movies. The 824 00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:59,759 Speaker 1: sad part about this, even though the movie was No. 825 00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,440 Speaker 1: One at the box office making nineteen million dollars, it 826 00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:05,920 Speaker 1: had one hundred and eighteen million dollar budget. And that 827 00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:08,280 Speaker 1: was the sad part is we went to the movie 828 00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:11,520 Speaker 1: on a Saturday and I hadn't seen the theater this 829 00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:14,280 Speaker 1: empty in a while. We got in line for snacks 830 00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:16,960 Speaker 1: and there was nobody there. We got into a theater, 831 00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:20,240 Speaker 1: which normally when we go see a movie on opening 832 00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:24,240 Speaker 1: weekend it's pretty full. There were so many empty seats. 833 00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:28,040 Speaker 1: I think I counted there's probably four other people on 834 00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:31,040 Speaker 1: our row, maybe another four people on the row ahead 835 00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:33,400 Speaker 1: of us, and that was it. This felt like a 836 00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:36,240 Speaker 1: really slow time at the box office, so it's gonna 837 00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:39,800 Speaker 1: have a really hard time making that money back. It 838 00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:42,320 Speaker 1: must feel kind of weird to have the number one 839 00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:46,120 Speaker 1: movie in the country but only have made nineteen million dollars. 840 00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:48,920 Speaker 1: Like before at a time where it was like when 841 00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:51,880 Speaker 1: you're number one, you're making one hundred million dollars or 842 00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:55,240 Speaker 1: even like fifty million dollars. To make nineteen million dollars, 843 00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:57,839 Speaker 1: it's like, oh man, we're number one, but who are 844 00:42:57,840 --> 00:42:59,800 Speaker 1: we going to make any money off of this? But 845 00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,880 Speaker 1: I'm still rooting for it. I think Robert Pattinson gives 846 00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:05,560 Speaker 1: a really great performance, maybe not his best performance of 847 00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:08,600 Speaker 1: all time, but it's an entirely different look, so he's 848 00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:10,719 Speaker 1: taken some risks there. I love it when an actor 849 00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:13,480 Speaker 1: takes risks and do things that require them to act. 850 00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:17,160 Speaker 1: Steven Ewen was also great in this. For Mickey seventeen, 851 00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:24,800 Speaker 1: I give it four out of five expendables. It's time 852 00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:29,720 Speaker 1: to head down to movie Mike Trailer Paul another week 853 00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:33,520 Speaker 1: and time to talk about another A twenty four movie 854 00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:36,000 Speaker 1: coming out. I'm not trying to be a A twenty four fanboy, 855 00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:42,640 Speaker 1: but when it comes to original ideas, interesting concepts, great trailers, 856 00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:46,560 Speaker 1: A twenty four is right there at the top of 857 00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:49,480 Speaker 1: the list. When it comes to just movies that I 858 00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:53,040 Speaker 1: never thought could be made. Sometimes I didn't know I 859 00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:55,919 Speaker 1: wanted these movies. Death of a Unicorn, which you're about 860 00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:58,640 Speaker 1: to talk about, is one of those movies. I'd say 861 00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:01,640 Speaker 1: it's right up there with A twenty a neon that 862 00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:03,600 Speaker 1: those are the studios that I look to when I 863 00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,879 Speaker 1: want something that's not super mainstream, even though I feel 864 00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:10,560 Speaker 1: like those studios now are becoming mainstream because they are bigger. 865 00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:13,000 Speaker 1: They do have movies in a lot of theaters at 866 00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:17,560 Speaker 1: any given time, but still, compare to your universals, your disneys, 867 00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:21,959 Speaker 1: they are on a much smaller scale. But a couple 868 00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:25,160 Speaker 1: of parallels here because also Paul Rudd is in this movie, 869 00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:27,920 Speaker 1: Will poultr is in this movie. We've talked about them 870 00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:31,400 Speaker 1: both recently in two different A twenty four movies. Paul Rudd. 871 00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:34,279 Speaker 1: He's gonna be in that Tim Robinson movie Friendship. Will 872 00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:36,600 Speaker 1: Poulter was just talking about last week. He's gonna be 873 00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:42,719 Speaker 1: in Warfare. This one stars Paul Rudd Jenna Ortiga. They 874 00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:46,920 Speaker 1: play a father and daughter duo. It is a horror comedy. 875 00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:50,320 Speaker 1: They get caught between a retreat with a billionaire boss 876 00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:54,560 Speaker 1: played by Richard E. Grant, and then this mythical unicorn 877 00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:58,520 Speaker 1: appears that could be well, the key to living longer, 878 00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:01,200 Speaker 1: the key to all these diseases, the cure to cancer, 879 00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:06,400 Speaker 1: even eternal life. But then it brings up this moral dilemma. 880 00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:09,680 Speaker 1: If you kill this unicorn and harvest it for parts, 881 00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:13,000 Speaker 1: are you an evil person? It looks like Paul Rudd 882 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:16,319 Speaker 1: and Jenna Ortega are going to try and stop the 883 00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:19,880 Speaker 1: unicorn from dying from being harvested for parts. But it 884 00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:22,320 Speaker 1: also looks like this unicorn isn't gonna go down lightly 885 00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:24,960 Speaker 1: and GOODI fight back against the humans. A lot of 886 00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,440 Speaker 1: thoughts on this trailer. It is pretty unique. But before 887 00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:29,279 Speaker 1: I talk about it more, it is coming out soon 888 00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:31,879 Speaker 1: on March twenty eighth. Here is just a little bit 889 00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:34,840 Speaker 1: of the death of a Unicorn trailer. Unicorns used to 890 00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:38,600 Speaker 1: be seen these divine monsters because people fully believe that 891 00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:44,200 Speaker 1: they could heald it early anything, it's an opportunity, but immortality, 892 00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:52,000 Speaker 1: we have a moral imperative to harvest every last one. 893 00:45:53,480 --> 00:46:06,360 Speaker 1: You're gonna kill her, don't called it. There's no negotiating 894 00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:12,160 Speaker 1: with monsters. So that is the premise. I think this 895 00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:17,040 Speaker 1: is going to make a statement on why we as 896 00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:20,560 Speaker 1: humans can't have nice things, because if you have something nice, 897 00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:23,440 Speaker 1: like a unicorn, you're gonna have people who want to 898 00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:26,080 Speaker 1: exploit it. You're gonna have those who want to harvest 899 00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:29,560 Speaker 1: it for parts and make money off this thing, especially 900 00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:32,480 Speaker 1: if it's the cure for cancer, the key to eternal life. 901 00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:34,719 Speaker 1: This is why we can't have nice things. If there 902 00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:38,080 Speaker 1: were actual unicorns in the world, or any mythical creature 903 00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:40,800 Speaker 1: for that matter, we would try to find a way 904 00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:44,520 Speaker 1: to harvest its parts. You see this right now. That's 905 00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:47,760 Speaker 1: why we have endangered species because we can't be trusted 906 00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:50,440 Speaker 1: as humans, we can't have nice things. So I think 907 00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,799 Speaker 1: that's gonna be the message here. Obviously, it is a 908 00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:56,480 Speaker 1: very wild premise. If you watch this trailer, there are 909 00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:59,840 Speaker 1: moments that it feels like Jurassic Park, and instead of 910 00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:03,000 Speaker 1: the t Rex. You have the unicorn because there's a 911 00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:07,000 Speaker 1: moment where Paul Rudd is running by this car and 912 00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:09,920 Speaker 1: he's kind of looking overneath it. There are a couple 913 00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:12,080 Speaker 1: of moments you have the scene whenever Paul Rudd is 914 00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:14,839 Speaker 1: running he hides behind a car. It's at night, and 915 00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:18,200 Speaker 1: the unicorn is creeping beside the car, very much like 916 00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:21,120 Speaker 1: the t Rex would be breathing into the jeep whenever 917 00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:24,120 Speaker 1: they get caught in that situation. In the first Jurassic Park, 918 00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:27,279 Speaker 1: you also have Jenna Ortega coming face to face with 919 00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:30,239 Speaker 1: the unicorn. I don't think throughout this entire trailer you 920 00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:32,920 Speaker 1: see the unicorn in all of its glory, but in 921 00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:37,200 Speaker 1: that moment you see its mouth enter the frame. It's 922 00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:40,920 Speaker 1: this very just like gnarly snout that looks much like 923 00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:43,480 Speaker 1: a t rex's mouth would look with the teeth. It 924 00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:46,280 Speaker 1: is growling, looks like it's about to bite her head off, 925 00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:48,800 Speaker 1: And that really gives me a lot of vibes of 926 00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:52,279 Speaker 1: Jurassic Park as well. So it's almost like you take 927 00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:55,520 Speaker 1: Jurassic Park, you remove the dinosaurs, and you add in 928 00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:58,360 Speaker 1: the unicorn, which, if you think about the plot of 929 00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:01,160 Speaker 1: Jurassic Park, not only the first one, but in the 930 00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:05,080 Speaker 1: Lost World, that is essentially kind of what I've been 931 00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:08,840 Speaker 1: talking about so far. Is in the first movie, obviously 932 00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:11,839 Speaker 1: it was all about getting people to pay to go 933 00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:15,600 Speaker 1: see the dinosaurs at the park, and then in the 934 00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:20,120 Speaker 1: Lost World you have these people trying to capture the 935 00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:23,160 Speaker 1: dinosaurs to be able to use them and exploit them, 936 00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:25,640 Speaker 1: and then later down the line of the franchise people 937 00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:29,000 Speaker 1: turning them into weapons. So that is the thing about 938 00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:32,359 Speaker 1: us as humans is we can't have anything nice. We're 939 00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:35,239 Speaker 1: gonna either harvest it for parts or want to use 940 00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:38,960 Speaker 1: it in our military. Thinking about other instances where unicorns 941 00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:41,640 Speaker 1: have been in movies. In the Harry Potter series, you 942 00:48:41,680 --> 00:48:45,440 Speaker 1: see Voldemort drinking the blood of a unicorn, and in 943 00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:48,680 Speaker 1: the Harry Potter world that is like the ultimate crime, 944 00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:52,760 Speaker 1: killing a unicorn, because that means, well, it could destroy 945 00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:56,880 Speaker 1: a kingdom, tarnish the food supply, turn the water to sind. 946 00:48:57,320 --> 00:48:59,960 Speaker 1: It puts this curse on anybody who kills a unicorn, 947 00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:02,680 Speaker 1: and so you don't want to do that. I really 948 00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:06,120 Speaker 1: liked the pairing of Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd. I 949 00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:09,919 Speaker 1: don't think I've watched a bad Jenna Ortaga movie, even 950 00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:13,680 Speaker 1: though Beetlejuice Beetlejuice wasn't it was never gonna be as 951 00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:15,840 Speaker 1: good as the original. I enjoyed it. A lot of 952 00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:18,920 Speaker 1: people riped that movie to shreds. My only thing with 953 00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:21,520 Speaker 1: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is it kind of just came and went. 954 00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:24,080 Speaker 1: There was a lot of anticipation because it was a 955 00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:28,160 Speaker 1: legacy sequel. I thought the movie itself, the plot was 956 00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:30,719 Speaker 1: kind of all over the place. But I found that 957 00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:34,320 Speaker 1: movie enjoyable in theaters, and overall I left thinking, Okay, 958 00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:38,080 Speaker 1: wasn't a total cash grab. I think the fact that 959 00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:39,800 Speaker 1: Tim Burton was still a part of it, and it 960 00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:42,880 Speaker 1: still very much felt like a Tim Burton film. It 961 00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:45,800 Speaker 1: just felt a little bit too overly polished at times, 962 00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:47,960 Speaker 1: and almost like it had a little bit too of 963 00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:51,600 Speaker 1: a big studio feel to it. When the first one 964 00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:55,640 Speaker 1: felt obviously more novel because it was back in the eighties, 965 00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:57,960 Speaker 1: but it almost felt like it was more Tim Burton 966 00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:01,440 Speaker 1: being very punk rock and making the first Beetlejuice. This 967 00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:02,960 Speaker 1: one just felt like, Okay, we got to check a 968 00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:06,920 Speaker 1: lot of boxes. A lot of the special effects weren't 969 00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:10,160 Speaker 1: exactly the same. I guess there's just some charm into 970 00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:13,520 Speaker 1: the stuff from the eighties not looking as good, So 971 00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:17,239 Speaker 1: it was almost like the gloss of a big studio 972 00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:20,680 Speaker 1: with more of a budget took away from the heart 973 00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:23,480 Speaker 1: and soul of that movie. But overall I enjoyed that. 974 00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:26,319 Speaker 1: I just can't recall a Jena Ortega movie that I've 975 00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:29,440 Speaker 1: seen and thought, you know, that wasn't very good. I 976 00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:31,839 Speaker 1: really liked her in the screen movies. Sad she's not 977 00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:34,160 Speaker 1: going to be a part of those anymore. She had 978 00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:37,560 Speaker 1: a pretty decent role in X, one of my favorites 979 00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:40,040 Speaker 1: of hers, even though it is kind of a dark, 980 00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:44,040 Speaker 1: not depressing movie, but not obviously about the brightest. The 981 00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:46,480 Speaker 1: subjects to fall Out, which was a movie on Max. 982 00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:49,719 Speaker 1: It's about a school shooting and the effects that it 983 00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:52,640 Speaker 1: has on the students who were there that day that 984 00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:55,239 Speaker 1: weren't injured, but they kind of have to live with 985 00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:57,400 Speaker 1: that trauma for the rest of their lives. A pretty 986 00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:00,879 Speaker 1: simple story obviously packs a lot of emotion in that, 987 00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:03,640 Speaker 1: and she's really good in that. That she's only twenty 988 00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:06,719 Speaker 1: two years old, that is wild. She's already been in 989 00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:10,480 Speaker 1: so many big movies, has more coming out, and to 990 00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:13,200 Speaker 1: think that all of her best movies are probably still 991 00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:16,160 Speaker 1: ahead of her. That is wild. Obviously you have Wednesday 992 00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:18,439 Speaker 1: on Netflix, which I'm excited for that to come back 993 00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:21,759 Speaker 1: this year. And then Paul Rudd. I feel like he's 994 00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:24,280 Speaker 1: in that point of his career where he's just doing whatever. 995 00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:27,239 Speaker 1: He has the Marvel money. Even though people didn't like 996 00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:30,040 Speaker 1: the Last ant Man movie. I enjoyed that movie in theaters. 997 00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:33,399 Speaker 1: I have not revisited it since I don't really think 998 00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:36,040 Speaker 1: I need to. I thought it was a mid Marvel movie. 999 00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:38,319 Speaker 1: I didn't think it was terrible. But now it's came 1000 00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:40,680 Speaker 1: to conqueror not being a thing anymore, there's not a 1001 00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:43,720 Speaker 1: reason to revisit that movie. So he has that money, 1002 00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:46,040 Speaker 1: he has that Marvel bag. I feel like he can 1003 00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:49,000 Speaker 1: do smaller movies like this and Friendship and kind of 1004 00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:51,279 Speaker 1: do whatever he wants at this point, which it's a 1005 00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:54,400 Speaker 1: really big deal for an actor of his caliber to 1006 00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:57,040 Speaker 1: do a movie like this. Because I heard Nicole Kidman 1007 00:51:57,080 --> 00:51:59,120 Speaker 1: whenever we went to go see Baby Girl, which is 1008 00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:01,880 Speaker 1: another a twenty four movie, talking about how it's a 1009 00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:05,319 Speaker 1: much different set. They are usually longer days because they 1010 00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:07,719 Speaker 1: have less days to shoot, and when they are there 1011 00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:10,000 Speaker 1: and rolling, they are trying to get this entire movie 1012 00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:13,320 Speaker 1: just cranked out. I think Baby Girl was probably filmed 1013 00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:16,680 Speaker 1: in like a month's time, not altogether, but I think 1014 00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:19,240 Speaker 1: the total amount of days was probably a month's worth. 1015 00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:22,000 Speaker 1: I would have to imagine probably the same with the 1016 00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:25,239 Speaker 1: movie like the Death of Unicorn, but it looks like 1017 00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:27,680 Speaker 1: it could be fun, hopefully some laughs in there. I 1018 00:52:27,719 --> 00:52:30,280 Speaker 1: can't wait to see the full reveal of the Unicorn. 1019 00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:32,280 Speaker 1: I like the fact that they just kind of tease 1020 00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:34,640 Speaker 1: it up a little bit, much like you would any 1021 00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:38,400 Speaker 1: other monster movie, even in the first Jurassic Park movies, 1022 00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:40,759 Speaker 1: where they really just kind of tease you with the 1023 00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:43,120 Speaker 1: t Rex and you don't really get them until that 1024 00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:46,200 Speaker 1: third act. So hopefully they have something in store for 1025 00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:49,000 Speaker 1: us like that. Death of Unicorn is coming out in 1026 00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:52,960 Speaker 1: theaters on March twenty eighth. And that was this week's 1027 00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:57,040 Speaker 1: edition of Movie by Framer Bar. You bet it was. 1028 00:52:57,320 --> 00:52:59,520 Speaker 1: And that's gonna do it for another week here on 1029 00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:01,640 Speaker 1: the podcast. But before I go, I got to give 1030 00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:05,239 Speaker 1: my listeners shout out of the week this week. I'm 1031 00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:08,560 Speaker 1: going over to TikTok. I did post a bonus episode 1032 00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:11,920 Speaker 1: last week with a full Oscar review. I posted a 1033 00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:15,759 Speaker 1: clip over on TikTok and this person it was kind 1034 00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:18,440 Speaker 1: of a nice troll. I've had some mean comments on 1035 00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:21,680 Speaker 1: TikTok and YouTube primarily, but I'm gonna shout him out anyway. 1036 00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:24,840 Speaker 1: Maybe I'll shout out a good comment as well. But 1037 00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:28,719 Speaker 1: Disco Duck on TikTok wrote talking about me, said I 1038 00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:32,320 Speaker 1: wouldn't trust this character to fix a tuna fish sandwich, 1039 00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:35,799 Speaker 1: let alone the biggest award show of the year. So 1040 00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:38,279 Speaker 1: this was in reference of a clip I posted of 1041 00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:40,640 Speaker 1: me talking about how I could fix the oscars, And 1042 00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:43,120 Speaker 1: it was just an idea to make the entire show 1043 00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:47,200 Speaker 1: move a little bit faster, because what was supposed to 1044 00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:50,080 Speaker 1: be a three hour show turned into an almost four 1045 00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:52,759 Speaker 1: hour show. And I just said, at a play clock. 1046 00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:56,120 Speaker 1: As soon as that play clock expires, your film gets 1047 00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:59,279 Speaker 1: a penalty. If you get too many penalties throughout the 1048 00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:02,360 Speaker 1: course of the night, the movie behind you gets a 1049 00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:05,200 Speaker 1: chance to win. And I also felt like they should 1050 00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:08,360 Speaker 1: have a little bit more discretion on the amounts of 1051 00:54:08,400 --> 00:54:10,480 Speaker 1: votes that each of these movies get, much like you 1052 00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:14,240 Speaker 1: would on election night show the percentages of what is leading. 1053 00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:17,880 Speaker 1: So Disco Duck, I know you're trying to be mean 1054 00:54:17,920 --> 00:54:20,719 Speaker 1: towards me by saying you wouldn't trust me to fix 1055 00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:22,880 Speaker 1: you a tuna sandwich. And I know in the clip 1056 00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:26,440 Speaker 1: I did look ridiculous. I was wearing my tuxedo hoodie 1057 00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:30,080 Speaker 1: and I was also wearing those straight hoodie over my headphones, 1058 00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:32,799 Speaker 1: so it looks like I have a giant Spaceballs helmet on, 1059 00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:35,160 Speaker 1: so disco duck. I know you're trying to troll me, 1060 00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:36,560 Speaker 1: but that wasn't that bad. And I don't want to 1061 00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:38,360 Speaker 1: challenge you because I know you'll come out and just 1062 00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:42,120 Speaker 1: start poking more and more. But I'm okay with that one. Sometimes, 1063 00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:44,719 Speaker 1: I oh, I just have that anticipation of going to 1064 00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:46,920 Speaker 1: look at the comments because I'm like, man, I got 1065 00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:49,400 Speaker 1: to be in the right headspace because you never know, 1066 00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:51,759 Speaker 1: it's always those negative comments that just kind of stay 1067 00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:55,080 Speaker 1: with you. Like I can think back to random comments 1068 00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:57,000 Speaker 1: that I got like months ago, and you're like, man, 1069 00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:02,680 Speaker 1: those just kind of cut through. But Gray Streak Glass 1070 00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:06,280 Speaker 1: also commented on this TikTok and said, Mike d thoughts 1071 00:55:06,320 --> 00:55:08,680 Speaker 1: on the Demi loss sad face and I said, in 1072 00:55:08,680 --> 00:55:12,920 Speaker 1: that episode, the recap episode, I was sad for I 1073 00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:15,359 Speaker 1: was really pulling for Demi Moore and the substance as 1074 00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:19,279 Speaker 1: a whole to win more awards at the Oscars. I 1075 00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:21,920 Speaker 1: was glad you won the Golden Globe because that was 1076 00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:24,080 Speaker 1: a big moment for her. The Golden Globe was the 1077 00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:27,880 Speaker 1: first ever award she won in acting ever, so I 1078 00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:30,960 Speaker 1: just wanted to see her hold that oscar take it 1079 00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:33,520 Speaker 1: home for a horror movie. As much as an advocate 1080 00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:36,799 Speaker 1: as I am for horror movies, modern horror, to prove 1081 00:55:36,880 --> 00:55:40,160 Speaker 1: to people it is a valid genre and we need 1082 00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:43,600 Speaker 1: to have more Oscars come to us out of horror movies. 1083 00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:47,640 Speaker 1: So that is one shout out positive, one shout out negative. 1084 00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:50,880 Speaker 1: Thank you everybody for listening this week. Hope you return 1085 00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:53,000 Speaker 1: next week. I hope you a tell a friend, And 1086 00:55:53,080 --> 00:55:56,520 Speaker 1: until next time, go out and watch good movies and 1087 00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:58,319 Speaker 1: I will talk to you later.