1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,640 Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's movie podcast. I 2 00:00:02,640 --> 00:00:04,400 Speaker 1: am your host Movie Mike, and if there's something that 3 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:07,040 Speaker 1: I could love almost as much as I love movies, 4 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:09,560 Speaker 1: it would be the Simpsons. And in this episode, I 5 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:11,920 Speaker 1: found a way to combine those two loves. I'm going 6 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 1: to share with you six perfect parodies of iconic movies 7 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:17,919 Speaker 1: that the Simpsons did back in the nineties. We'll also 8 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 1: talk to the director of The Fugitive and I'll let 9 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 1: you know the way those two things tie in. That 10 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:25,919 Speaker 1: movie is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary, so we'll talk to 11 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: Andrew Davis about working with Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee 12 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 1: Jones in the movie review. If I can only do 13 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 1: one part of this episode, it would be talking about 14 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:35,599 Speaker 1: Leave the World Behind on Netflix. Ah, that movie made 15 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 1: me feel so many things. And in the trailer Park, 16 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 1: continuing my Godzilla kick, we'll talk about Godzilla and Kong 17 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 1: the New Empire. Thank you for being here, Thank you 18 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: for being subscribed, Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew. 19 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 1: And now let's talk movies. 20 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:53,240 Speaker 2: In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast, 21 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:57,640 Speaker 2: one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like 22 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 2: never before in a movie podcast a man with so 23 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 2: much movie knowledge, he's basically like oh walking IMTB with 24 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:09,480 Speaker 2: glasses from the Nashville Podcast Network. 25 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 3: This is Movie Mike Movie Podcast. 26 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 1: If you know me, you know that I love The Simpsons. 27 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,680 Speaker 1: I was born in the nineties, grew up watching them 28 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:21,040 Speaker 1: all the time, even when my parents didn't want me to. 29 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:24,200 Speaker 1: And I credit any ounce of funny that I have, 30 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 1: even if it's just one percent funny, to The Simpsons 31 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 1: and what I've learned about writing and just the essence 32 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: of comedy by watching the show in my studio right now. 33 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 1: One of my favorite things I have in the back 34 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:38,320 Speaker 1: wall if you watch my videos on YouTube or TikTok, 35 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 1: is a sign Simpsons script from one of my favorite 36 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 1: episodes ever that I got as a Christmas gift and 37 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: the only other podcast I could probably do an entire 38 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 1: thing I would be a Simpsons podcast, but that would 39 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 1: be so niche, even more so than movies that I 40 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: don't do that. And I've been trying to do an 41 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 1: episode like this for a while now, but it wasn't 42 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: until I had an interview opportunity with the director of 43 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 1: The Fugitive. Name is Andrew Davis, and I thought, oh man, 44 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 1: the way I learned about that movie was by watching 45 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 1: The Simpsons. So I wanted to share with you six 46 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 1: times at the Simpsons parody day movie back in the nineties, 47 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: and in most cases, since I was still a kid 48 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:16,640 Speaker 1: watching all of these episodes, this is how I learned 49 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: about a lot of iconic movies because at the time, 50 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 1: when I was a kid watching these episodes, I didn't 51 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 1: realize that they were doing a parody of something. I 52 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:28,079 Speaker 1: just thought, oh man, the Simpsons have the best writing. 53 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 1: How did they come up with this stuff? But as 54 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 1: my love of film grew and I started to realize. 55 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 3: Oh, these are based on. 56 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 1: Movies, I in turn would go and watch these movies 57 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 1: because I wanted to see what the source material was. 58 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 1: So I feel like this probably happened to a lot 59 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: of people, that we were exposed to movies on The 60 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,640 Speaker 1: Simpsons without knowing it. So let's get into it. Here 61 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:52,799 Speaker 1: are six examples of Simpsons movie parodies. The first one 62 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 1: I want to share with you was from an episode 63 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:58,800 Speaker 1: called twenty two Short Films about Springfield, Season seven, episode 64 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:01,920 Speaker 1: twenty two, and and the movie this entire episode is 65 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 1: really based on is Pulp fiction. This is one of 66 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: the best animated episodes of any show, and I'm biased 67 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 1: here because of how much I love the Simpsons. But 68 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:14,119 Speaker 1: what this episode is is a series of twenty two 69 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:17,640 Speaker 1: different short stories inside of one episode. So each story 70 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:20,800 Speaker 1: is a minute, a minute and a half, sometimes two minutes, 71 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 1: sometimes a few seconds, but it's showing you all the 72 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 1: lives of the characters. And the thing that's so great 73 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:29,359 Speaker 1: about this episode as how they are all intertwined. One 74 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 1: scene ends and that serves as the kickoff for the 75 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: next scene. But what this entire episode really is is 76 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 1: a loose parody throughout the entire thing of pulp fiction, 77 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: mostly with the interactions with Chief Wigham him eventually chasing 78 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: the criminal snake and they get into this brawl and 79 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 1: end up in somebody's basement, and that is where the 80 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:50,720 Speaker 1: main focus of the parody of pulp fiction takes place. 81 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: But I just love that the Simpsons always committed to 82 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 1: doing things line for line, scene for scene, and this 83 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 1: is a great example of that. So here's the digal 84 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: interaction in pulp fiction between John Travolta and Samuel L. 85 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 3: Jackson. 86 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: You know what a funny thing about Europe is what 87 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 1: it's the little differences. 88 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:13,000 Speaker 3: Example, you know what they call a quarter pound with 89 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 3: cheese in and what did they call it? 90 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:19,919 Speaker 1: They call it royal with cheese. Roy Yeah with cheese, 91 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:23,040 Speaker 1: And then the Simpsons just did a straight up parody 92 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:24,359 Speaker 1: of that in this episode. 93 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 2: You know. The funniest thing though, it's the little differences. Example, well, 94 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 2: McDonald you can buy a Krusty burger with cheese, right, 95 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:33,239 Speaker 2: but they don't call it a Krusty burger with cheese. 96 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 1: Shut out all out of that, call it a quarter 97 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 1: pounded with cheese, a quarter pounded with cheese. I love 98 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 1: this episode. That's why I wanted to share this one 99 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 1: with you first. Next up, number two. The movie that 100 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 1: they parodied here was The Shining, which came out in 101 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:51,719 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty and this episode comes to us from season six, 102 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 1: episode six, tree House of Horror five. Now, I could 103 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:57,840 Speaker 1: do an entire series on just the horror movies that 104 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 1: they parodied in all of the Treehouse of episodes. That 105 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:03,839 Speaker 1: is really what these episodes are known for. But I 106 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 1: remember discovering The Shining because of the Simpsons and because 107 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 1: of this episode, which this is one of their best 108 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 1: Halloween episodes ever. It was so iconic that I remember 109 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 1: the promos that ran on TV for this episode. So 110 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 1: in this episode, much like in the movie, the Simpsons 111 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:21,719 Speaker 1: family heads off to be the caretakers of mister Burns's 112 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 1: spooky winter lodge, and then when Homer gets there, he 113 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 1: discovers that he doesn't have a supply of beer and 114 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 1: he doesn't have TV, causing him to go crazy, and 115 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:33,799 Speaker 1: much like Jack Nicholson in The Shining, goes and tries 116 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 1: to kill his family. And the thing I love about 117 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 1: the Treehouse of Horror episodes, at least back in the 118 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 1: nineties is they had three different segments that were entirely 119 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:44,599 Speaker 1: self contained, so they were able to take the entire 120 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:47,799 Speaker 1: Shining movie and take all the best, most iconic parts 121 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:50,359 Speaker 1: of that and do it in about six to seven minutes. 122 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:53,159 Speaker 1: They covered all the iconic scenes like the blood and 123 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,920 Speaker 1: the elevator, the twins at the end of the hallway, 124 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 1: the scene at the bar in the lodge, seeing the 125 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 1: deranged right on the typewriter. But hands down, the best 126 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:05,919 Speaker 1: gag they did was the iconic here's Johnny seen So 127 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: here's the original from The Shining, Here's Johnny, and here's 128 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 1: the version from The Simpsons Johnny, So I put this 129 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:19,479 Speaker 1: one at number two at number three from the episode 130 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 1: Cape Fear, which is season five episode two. Well you 131 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 1: guessed it. They did a parody of the remake, which 132 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 1: came out in nineteen ninety one, starring the one and 133 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:31,559 Speaker 1: only Robert de Niro, So much like in that movie, 134 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:35,280 Speaker 1: Krusty's X sidekick Sideshow Bob returns to Springfield to get 135 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: revenge against Bart after Bart exposed his murder plot, sending 136 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 1: him to prison. So in the real movie Cape Fear, 137 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: at least the nineteen ninety one version, Robert De Niro's 138 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 1: character gets sent to prison for fourteen years. The attorney 139 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:51,040 Speaker 1: in that movie knowingly withholds information that would have had 140 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,159 Speaker 1: him acquitted, so the entire time he holds it against 141 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 1: him in prison. So then he gets out and then 142 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 1: stalks this lawyer and his family who originally defended him. 143 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 1: The nineteen ninety one k Fear was a remake of 144 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:05,280 Speaker 1: the nineteen sixty two movie, and both of those movies 145 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 1: were based on a book called The Executioners that came 146 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 1: out in nineteen fifty seven. But this episode came out 147 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 1: back in nineteen ninety three, so I really don't remember 148 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 1: when it originally aired, but I do know the first 149 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: time I watched it, much like the other ones I've 150 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 1: been telling you, I had no idea that it was 151 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 1: based on a movie. And it wasn't until much much 152 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 1: later that I saw just a still of Robert de 153 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 1: Niro in the theater, laughing and smoking a cigar that 154 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 1: I thought, Hey, that looks a lot like that scene 155 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 1: from the episode with Sycho Bob doing the exact same thing. 156 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 1: And then I realized, oh, it's a movie. So here's 157 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 1: a little bit of that scene in the nineteen ninety 158 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: one movie. What it's a Robert de Niro in that 159 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 1: theater with the family. They're all watching Problem Child, which 160 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 1: was an odd choice for a movie, and he is 161 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: laughing and smoking a cigar. And this is how the 162 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 1: Simpsons did a parody of that. Man's so rude. 163 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, if you don't mind, we're trying to watch the mover. 164 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 3: How am I getting my head out of this toe? 165 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 2: Oh? Really, no, that's too much. 166 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: And I think that right there is a great example 167 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 1: of the misdirection I learned by watching The Simpsons, because 168 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 1: they're doing a parody and in the film they get 169 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:28,320 Speaker 1: upset because he's being obnoxious, distracting everybody from enjoying the movie. 170 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 1: The Simpsons take that and they do the same thing, 171 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:34,200 Speaker 1: but then they flip the script because Homer becomes the 172 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 1: more obnoxious one, to the point that he gets a 173 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 1: rise out of the guy who is ruining it for 174 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 1: everybody in this situation. That was side show Bob, voiced 175 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 1: by Kelsey Grammer, who hands down is one of the 176 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 1: best voice actors, not just that Sideshow Bob, but he 177 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: also plays and voice beasts in the X Men movies, 178 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:54,160 Speaker 1: but hands down even more so than Fraser. My favorite 179 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:56,560 Speaker 1: role of his is when he voices sideshow Bob. So 180 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: this one had to make it at number three. At 181 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:01,680 Speaker 1: number four, the episode is Bart of Darkness from season six, 182 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 1: episode one. Hands down, I think my favorite season of 183 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:09,080 Speaker 1: The Simpsons ever. I still have the box set of DVD's, 184 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:11,440 Speaker 1: which is how I was exposed to a lot of 185 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 1: these episodes watching them on DVD with the commentary. Without 186 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:18,000 Speaker 1: the commentary, I know these episodes so much that I 187 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 1: could quote the deleted scenes, primarily from season six, but 188 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 1: that's the episode. The movie they are paroting here is 189 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:27,760 Speaker 1: Rear Window, which came out in nineteen fifty four from 190 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 1: director Alfred Hitchcock. So how they parody this movie is 191 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:34,320 Speaker 1: Bart breaks his leg at the beginning of summer vacation 192 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:37,479 Speaker 1: so has to spend the entire thing from his bedroom 193 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 1: and he becomes really isolated and weird, and he gets 194 00:09:40,679 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 1: these binoculars and just starts creeping in on everybody's windows 195 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 1: in Springfield. They even do a direct parody because one 196 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:51,040 Speaker 1: of the windows he peeps into is actually Jimmy Stewart's 197 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 1: character from Rear Window. But much like his character did 198 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 1: in that movie, Bart discovers that his neighbor ned Flanders 199 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 1: may have merged his wife and kids. So this entire 200 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 1: episode plot point for plot point is essentially Rear Window, 201 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 1: except he's spying on everybody with the telescope. So that's 202 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:11,400 Speaker 1: why I added this one at number four on my list. 203 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 1: At number five, the episode is Bart's friend falls in 204 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:17,360 Speaker 1: Love from Season three, episode twenty three, and the movie 205 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 1: they are parting here is Raiders of the Lost Arc, 206 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:22,960 Speaker 1: which came out in nineteen eighty one, and there is 207 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:27,679 Speaker 1: no better representation of how great the Simpsons were in 208 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 1: the nineties than this scene alone, even if it wasn't 209 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:32,680 Speaker 1: a movie parody. And what I love about this episode 210 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 1: and the movie tie in is that this starts from 211 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:37,959 Speaker 1: the very beginning of the episode, and it's something they 212 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: really don't do anymore of taking big, bold wrists like this, 213 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 1: and the way that they were able to parody this 214 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:48,320 Speaker 1: scene basically with all the major elements from Raiders of 215 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 1: the Lost Arc with in that movie, it's Harrison Ford 216 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 1: stealing this precious artifact and then escaping because as soon 217 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 1: as he moves it, the entire thing comes crashing down 218 00:10:57,520 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 1: and it was booby trapped, so he has to get 219 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 1: out of there with his life as all these things 220 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:03,600 Speaker 1: are trying to kill him. In this episode did a 221 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 1: great job of doing exactly what they did in that movie. 222 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 1: The way the Simpsons did it is Bart was trying 223 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:12,839 Speaker 1: to steal Homer's big old change jar that he had 224 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 1: in his room, and as soon as he grabs it, 225 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 1: Homer starts chasing him in his underwear. So you have 226 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 1: Bart running through the house and at one point Homer 227 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:23,360 Speaker 1: in his underwear is barreling down the stairs and he 228 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: essentially looks like the Boulder, and Raiders with the Lost 229 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 1: Arc you have Maggie shooting darts at Bart and Homer 230 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:32,040 Speaker 1: much like they do in the Harrison Ford scene. But 231 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 1: hands down the best part is whenever Bart tries to 232 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:38,440 Speaker 1: escape from the garage, Homer slams on the door to 233 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:41,080 Speaker 1: have it come down, and just in the nick of time, 234 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 1: Bart gets through and still has time to reach back 235 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:46,440 Speaker 1: and grab his hat like Indiana Jones did. So here's 236 00:11:46,520 --> 00:12:04,600 Speaker 1: just a little bit of that scene. That is such 237 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 1: a great way to start an episode and just a 238 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:11,559 Speaker 1: great way to pay homage to such an iconic film, 239 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:14,600 Speaker 1: which is something that Simpsons have done throughout the history 240 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 1: of the show, even in the Simpsons movie in two 241 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 1: thousand and seven, working in other movie references inside of 242 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:24,800 Speaker 1: that movie. It just shows you how sophisticated their writers are. 243 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:27,000 Speaker 1: And if you think that all the people who write 244 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:29,440 Speaker 1: for the Simpsons are a bunch of dummies. In the 245 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 1: original run of the show back in the nineties, back 246 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:35,080 Speaker 1: in the Golden Age, there were all mostly Ivy League students, 247 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:38,840 Speaker 1: primarily Harvard graduates. One of the most famous Simpsons writers 248 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:42,600 Speaker 1: all time was Conan O'Brien himself, who is a really 249 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:45,719 Speaker 1: smart and intelligent guy. But you take people with all 250 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:49,440 Speaker 1: that book smart knowledge and make them write comedy, it 251 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:52,200 Speaker 1: just puts it on an entirely different level. And I 252 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 1: think that's why throughout the history of the show you 253 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:58,400 Speaker 1: have all these references and parodies of movies that you 254 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 1: have to be a nerd to under stand and to 255 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:03,680 Speaker 1: even know where to look to find these. So I 256 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 1: think watching The Simpsons so much as a kid just 257 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:09,440 Speaker 1: attributed to my love of film, And now looking back 258 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 1: on all the influential film that they have parodied over 259 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 1: the years, they are some of the greatest movies of 260 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:17,839 Speaker 1: all time that I may not have discovered if it 261 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:20,600 Speaker 1: wouldn't have been for this show, because combined with me 262 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:25,040 Speaker 1: rewatching all these episodes on DVD, that led to the 263 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:28,480 Speaker 1: first incarnation of Netflix, where you would actually go online 264 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:31,079 Speaker 1: and get DVDs delivered to your house. That's what I 265 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 1: would do. I would just go through this big list 266 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 1: of Okay, here are all these iconic movies I've seen 267 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 1: on The Simpsons. Now I have to watch the real movie. 268 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:39,880 Speaker 1: So the final parody I want to share with you 269 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 1: is from an episode called Lisa's Rival, which was also 270 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 1: in season six, episode two, and they parodied the movie 271 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 1: The Fugitive, which came out back in nineteen ninety three 272 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 1: starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones and it's celebrating 273 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:55,560 Speaker 1: its thirtieth anniversary right now, And I forgot how good 274 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 1: this movie was. I just rewatched it and it reminded 275 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 1: me how much this movie attributed my love of thrillers. 276 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: The movie is about Harrison Ford's character who gets accused 277 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:07,679 Speaker 1: of killing his wife then goes to prison for it. 278 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:11,319 Speaker 1: As they are transporting him to prison, the bus crashes 279 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 1: and he escapes and becomes well a fugitive. And then 280 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:19,360 Speaker 1: Tommy Lee Jones' character is relentless in capturing Harrison Ford 281 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 1: and getting him back to prison. But the entire time, 282 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: Harrison Ford is using that time while he has escaped 283 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 1: to prove his innocence. So it's a great movie directed 284 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 1: by Andrew Davis, and that leads us to our interview 285 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 1: now with Andrew Davis, who is the director of the movie. 286 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:36,520 Speaker 1: He is known for making sophisticated thrillers like this. Like 287 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 1: I said, The Fugitive is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary this 288 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:42,600 Speaker 1: year and had just released on four k UHD for 289 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 1: the first time ever. I have a copy. Now we 290 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 1: get into an entire discussion of why physical media is 291 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:50,880 Speaker 1: so important. But the movie went on to receive seven 292 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:54,800 Speaker 1: Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Harrison Ford 293 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 1: and Tommy Lee Jones ended up winning for Best Supporting Actor. 294 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:01,320 Speaker 1: Back in nineteen ninety four, Andrew Davis was also nominated 295 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:04,080 Speaker 1: for a Golden Goal for Best Director. In addition to 296 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 1: this movie, he also directed one of my favorite movies 297 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 1: from my childhood, Holes, which ironically just celebrated its twentieth anniversary. 298 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 1: So all the movies I know in love are getting older, 299 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:17,960 Speaker 1: much like me. So for my final item on this list, 300 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 1: we're actually going to talk to Andrew Davis how he 301 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 1: feels about the Simpsons doing a parody of his movie 302 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 1: The Fugitive, and then we'll get into him talking about 303 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: working with Tommy Lee Jones and Harrison Ford. The first 304 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 1: time I learned about The Fugitive was watching them parody 305 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 1: the scene from the Damn. 306 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 3: I'm telling you, I didn't do anything. 307 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 2: I don't care. 308 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,000 Speaker 1: So I got to know, as a director, how does 309 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:49,760 Speaker 1: it feel when the Simpsons parody your movie? 310 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 3: It's wonderful. I mean, I knew that I had sort 311 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:55,240 Speaker 3: of made the big leaves when I was in San 312 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:58,920 Speaker 3: Francisco and I picked up MED magazine and talked about 313 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 3: underslush for undersea, and then there were then then shortly 314 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:06,560 Speaker 3: thereafter was the stugitive. When they started making fun of you, 315 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:10,640 Speaker 3: it's either because they like it or they hate it, 316 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 3: and in these cases they like. 317 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:14,840 Speaker 1: The line they chose to use was the Tommy Lee 318 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:16,240 Speaker 1: Jones line, I don't care. 319 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 2: I didn't kill my wife. I don't care. 320 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:20,000 Speaker 3: In the script? 321 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 1: Was that supposed to be a big moment, a big 322 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 1: because it's a key turning point in the entire movie 323 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:26,960 Speaker 1: of him in the beginning saying how he doesn't care 324 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 1: right or wrong, but it all comes back around. Was 325 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 1: it supposed to be that impactful in the script? 326 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 3: You know, this is a controversial line because I've read 327 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 3: articles where Harrison's talked about, well, there were pages and 328 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:43,040 Speaker 3: pages of dialogue and we decided to throw all that 329 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:45,440 Speaker 3: out and just say I don't care. And Tommy thinks 330 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 3: he created that line. Jeff Stewart doesn't remember exactly how 331 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 3: it happened. He thinks he created that line. And now 332 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 3: somebody found an old draft, a Walter Hill draft, where 333 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 3: it says I don't care you're a fugitive. So whoever 334 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:03,760 Speaker 3: came up with it seems, you know, it's It reverberates 335 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:08,359 Speaker 3: so much because this is basically saying, my job is 336 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:10,840 Speaker 3: not to decide whether you're guilty or innocent. It's just 337 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 3: to bring you in. 338 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:12,399 Speaker 1: You know. 339 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:14,280 Speaker 3: My job is to bring you in and let the 340 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 3: course decide, and let the justice Department decide. And so 341 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 3: that's why. And then and then in the story of course, 342 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 3: Tommy develops his empathy for this doctor who's still trying 343 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:27,480 Speaker 3: to save people, still trying to run an investigation. It 344 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:30,520 Speaker 3: doesn't you know. So he realizes this doesn't make sense. 345 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 3: Why would the guy be doing all this if he's 346 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:34,159 Speaker 3: if he's trying to just disappear. 347 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:37,560 Speaker 1: In the movie, Tommy Lee Jones character is just relentless, 348 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:39,919 Speaker 1: And I got to imagine that Tommy Lee Jones just 349 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:41,919 Speaker 1: has that like I just picture him being like that 350 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 1: in person. So is that how he actually just approached 351 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 1: the character and was like around set? 352 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:51,359 Speaker 3: Well, you know, he's a professional actor, you know, he's 353 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:53,800 Speaker 3: not someone who who carries that character when he goes 354 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:57,040 Speaker 3: home tonight, you know, to eat dinner. He's able to 355 00:17:57,160 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 3: just bring it to the set and play it on 356 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:04,400 Speaker 3: the set. He basically became the godfather to those marshals. 357 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:06,760 Speaker 3: He was he was the leader. He was their boss, 358 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 3: he was was his family, you know, so that that 359 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 3: helped him have that that banter back and forth to everybody. 360 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:16,240 Speaker 3: I just think, you know, he's a very smart guy 361 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:18,240 Speaker 3: who figured out how to how to how to have 362 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:21,479 Speaker 3: this role be part of him. And you know, this 363 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 3: is a role that's triggered to many other characters. And 364 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 3: you know, you look at Men in Black, that's that's 365 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:28,680 Speaker 3: a different version of Gerard. 366 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:32,320 Speaker 1: Now in the movie, Harrison Ford and Timi Lee Jones, 367 00:18:32,359 --> 00:18:34,240 Speaker 1: they don't have a lot of screen like screen time 368 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:36,399 Speaker 1: together because it's all the cat and Mouse gave him 369 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:39,560 Speaker 1: him trying to capture him. Was there any like rule 370 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:41,520 Speaker 1: on set that they couldn't be around each other because 371 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:43,159 Speaker 1: they would take away from the illusion, It would take 372 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:45,960 Speaker 1: away from that tension of where their character needed to 373 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:46,920 Speaker 1: be in that mindset. 374 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:50,040 Speaker 3: No, No, I mean, you know, we were together on 375 00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:53,280 Speaker 3: the damn we were together in the tunnel. We were 376 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:55,920 Speaker 3: together of course at the end of the movie. Yeah, 377 00:18:56,520 --> 00:18:58,560 Speaker 3: but you know it wasn't like, oh, you can't get 378 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:00,760 Speaker 3: near each other because you may become friends and it'll 379 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:04,280 Speaker 3: ruin your relationship. You know, they're they're too sophisticated to 380 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 3: deal with that. You know, they really didn't have much 381 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:10,879 Speaker 3: time together, and yet they really appreciated working together on 382 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:11,359 Speaker 3: the movie. 383 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:14,480 Speaker 1: My favorite thing about the movie is the tension that 384 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:16,960 Speaker 1: it build really from the very beginning, Right at the 385 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:19,959 Speaker 1: very start of the movie, I'm immediately sucked into this 386 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:22,280 Speaker 1: story and I want to take the ride with these characters. 387 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:24,959 Speaker 1: I want to know, when making a thriller like this, 388 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:27,520 Speaker 1: how do you create that tension? Is it on the 389 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 1: page in the script, is it in the moment when 390 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:31,920 Speaker 1: you're filming it, or is it an a post where 391 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:33,520 Speaker 1: you just feel that tension. 392 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 3: It's all the above, it's all the above. All those 393 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:39,359 Speaker 3: elements have to work. You know, the basic story and 394 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:42,680 Speaker 3: the caring about this guy who's unjustly accused. This guy 395 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:46,359 Speaker 3: was there given as part of the whole basis of 396 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 3: Lena's Robla, going back to, you know, the basis of 397 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:53,680 Speaker 3: the story that was created here for the TV show 398 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:58,400 Speaker 3: that became so popular that we adapted it. And then 399 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:00,600 Speaker 3: you know, on the set every day we came up 400 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 3: with things that sort of enhanced and embellished what we 401 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:07,320 Speaker 3: were trying to do. And then, of course, in post production, 402 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 3: with all this footage available and brilliant editors and a 403 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:14,200 Speaker 3: great soundtrack. It sort of all comes together. 404 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:16,960 Speaker 1: When the movie gets nominated for Best Picture and you're 405 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 1: up against Shindler's List. Do you ever think of yourself, 406 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:20,680 Speaker 1: should we have put this movie out in a different year? 407 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 3: I did? I did? I think, how are you going 408 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:28,119 Speaker 3: to be a story like that and a film that 409 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:31,040 Speaker 3: was that well made? But you know, you know, probably 410 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:33,560 Speaker 3: if Schindler's List wasn't out that year, we may have won. 411 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:35,400 Speaker 3: But it's okay, I mean, but. 412 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:37,439 Speaker 1: The legacy of the movie goes on. I feel like 413 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:41,359 Speaker 1: it inspired an entire genre in the nineties of trying 414 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:43,879 Speaker 1: to create a thriller like this. If you were to 415 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:47,399 Speaker 1: go back to making your very first film, ever, what 416 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:49,399 Speaker 1: is the one thing you would do differently about your 417 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 1: first film? 418 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:53,080 Speaker 3: It's very interesting. Did you say that? Because I just 419 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:55,879 Speaker 3: came back from a screening of my first film. Stony 420 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:58,720 Speaker 3: Island is being re released, and we had a screening 421 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:01,000 Speaker 3: at the Cisco Center. It's available on all these platforms. 422 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 3: If you look at Stony Island, you'll see the Fugitive. 423 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,120 Speaker 3: You'll see a lot of the textures of the fugitive 424 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 3: are in my first film, and they carried on to 425 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:13,000 Speaker 3: other films through Above the Law to the package chain reaction. 426 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:16,199 Speaker 3: Those are all films that were shot in Chicago and 427 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:18,600 Speaker 3: have this kind of reality of the city and the 428 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:21,040 Speaker 3: people in the city. And what's interesting about Living on 429 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:24,679 Speaker 3: the Blue ray? The four K Blu ray is so 430 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:29,159 Speaker 3: good looking and it actually looks better than the original movie, 431 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:31,960 Speaker 3: I think, and as people can get their hands on 432 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:35,320 Speaker 3: that Blu ray and get the right player, they can 433 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:37,400 Speaker 3: experience the movie. I just talked to somebody who said 434 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:40,239 Speaker 3: he was blown away by how the quality of what 435 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,360 Speaker 3: it looks like today. So in some ways it's got 436 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:44,360 Speaker 3: it's been reborn. 437 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:46,280 Speaker 1: I mean that is music to my ears because I 438 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:48,600 Speaker 1: am such a stickler about quality, and I tell people, 439 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 1: when you're just streaming all these things, you're losing out 440 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 1: on the quality, or if you're not going to see 441 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:54,560 Speaker 1: it in theaters, you're not seeing it the way it 442 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:56,359 Speaker 1: was meant to be seen. So for a movie like 443 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:59,240 Speaker 1: The Fugitive, when you hear somebody maybe seeing it on 444 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:00,919 Speaker 1: their phone, what does that make you feel? 445 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 3: Well, glad that they can follow it on their phone 446 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:05,480 Speaker 3: and they still care about it, But it makes me 447 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:09,040 Speaker 3: feel like they're not getting the full effort in the 448 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:11,399 Speaker 3: full effect of what the movie is. You know. So 449 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 3: when now in a sixty five inch monitor with the 450 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:17,639 Speaker 3: Blu Ray, it's looking better than it even looks in 451 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 3: the theater. 452 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:20,280 Speaker 1: So watch it at home. Everybody, get that Blu Ray. 453 00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 1: My final question for you was working with Harrison Ford. 454 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:25,080 Speaker 1: Is there ever an urge to call him Han or 455 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 1: Indy at any point? No? 456 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:28,440 Speaker 3: Call him Harry. That was his name in high school. 457 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:30,919 Speaker 3: People came to visit the set, who went to Harry? 458 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:31,920 Speaker 3: How are you Harry? 459 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:34,800 Speaker 1: Well? I appreciate it. I love the movie. Hope everybody 460 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:36,199 Speaker 1: gets a chance to check it out on Blu ray 461 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:37,520 Speaker 1: and see it how it was meant to be seen, 462 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:38,720 Speaker 1: if not even better. 463 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:40,640 Speaker 3: Thanks a lot, nice making you, Mike. 464 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:46,560 Speaker 1: Thank you. Let's get into it now. A spoiler free 465 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 1: movie review today, we're talking about Leave the World Behind, 466 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 1: which is on Netflix. It's also in theaters. This is 467 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 1: a review that I've been waiting to do. And when 468 00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 1: I say that, it's because either I was so passionate 469 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:01,040 Speaker 1: about a movie. I loved it so much I can't 470 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 1: wait to share it with you. The other reason, and 471 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 1: I say that, is because I was so infuriated by 472 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 1: a movie that I cannot wait to tell you about it. 473 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:10,320 Speaker 1: Which is this one? This is the one I was 474 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:13,240 Speaker 1: infuriated with because I love movies about the end of 475 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 1: the world, one of my favorite genres. I think about 476 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:17,880 Speaker 1: the end of the world all the time. My most 477 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:21,000 Speaker 1: reoccurring dream is the world ending of things coming from 478 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,160 Speaker 1: the sky, and I've had that in my life since 479 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,280 Speaker 1: I've been like thirteen years old. Torments me. So I 480 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:30,239 Speaker 1: love movies about the end of the world, movies that 481 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:32,320 Speaker 1: do it well, let me say, and that is exactly 482 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:34,760 Speaker 1: what this movie is about. And the cast is amazing, 483 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 1: the one and only Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawk, Maherschela Ahli. 484 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:42,480 Speaker 1: Those three actors combined alone should make it just all 485 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:45,240 Speaker 1: out enjoyable. And then you have Kevin Bacon thrown in there, 486 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:48,000 Speaker 1: who I feel is the X factor in that casting, 487 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 1: because maybe if it was eighties nineties Kevin Bacon, I'd 488 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:53,200 Speaker 1: be like, oh, yeah, it's gonna be great. But now 489 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 1: when I see Kevin Bacon cast in a movie, I 490 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 1: start to question their decision. The movie is based on 491 00:23:58,359 --> 00:23:59,879 Speaker 1: a book, and I know that I'm gonna get it 492 00:23:59,920 --> 00:24:01,520 Speaker 1: to some things I didn't like about it, And people 493 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 1: are gonna yell in the come and saying it's based 494 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:05,159 Speaker 1: on a book. If it's based on a book, they 495 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,919 Speaker 1: should have fixed the things while making the movie that 496 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:10,239 Speaker 1: the book got wrong then. But it's also from the 497 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:14,119 Speaker 1: executive producer and director of Mister Robot, which lines up 498 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:17,120 Speaker 1: perfectly with the material we have here in this movie. 499 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:20,080 Speaker 1: So what it's about is Julia Roberts and Ethan Hank 500 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 1: are married. They're living in the city and they decide 501 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 1: they want to go away for a weekend and a 502 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:29,160 Speaker 1: really fancy airbnb. They're spending a weekend away with their kids, 503 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:32,159 Speaker 1: enjoying life. They're out on the beach one day and 504 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:36,040 Speaker 1: this giant ship just comes onto the beach where they are, 505 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,639 Speaker 1: and it's really weird, but they think nothing of it 506 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:41,280 Speaker 1: at the time. And then some other weird things happening 507 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,879 Speaker 1: with their cell phones networking with a Wi Fi being down, 508 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:46,680 Speaker 1: and this movie just starts to create all of these 509 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:49,840 Speaker 1: weird elements and all of this mystery. And then they 510 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:51,680 Speaker 1: get a knock in the middle of the night and 511 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:55,320 Speaker 1: it's Maherschelo Ali's character, who is the actual owner of 512 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:57,680 Speaker 1: the home, and he gives them a story on why 513 00:24:57,720 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 1: he shows up on their doorstep. So this one has 514 00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:01,639 Speaker 1: to be very careful with because I don't want to 515 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 1: ruin it for you, because I will say at the 516 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,640 Speaker 1: start of this that I was still highly entertained by 517 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 1: this movie. I would even say oddly entertained by it, 518 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,960 Speaker 1: because again I love movies about the end. 519 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:13,440 Speaker 3: Of the world. 520 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:15,840 Speaker 1: And then you have Marshall Ali's character, who is there 521 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,359 Speaker 1: with this daughter, so you have them two coming together 522 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 1: with Ethan Hank, Julia Roberts and their two kids. What 523 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:23,679 Speaker 1: this movie did very early, I would say, in the 524 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,320 Speaker 1: first thirty minutes. So I don't think this is spoiling anything. 525 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:30,040 Speaker 1: But I realized that the movie had bitten off more 526 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 1: than it could chew, and I just it just hit 527 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,280 Speaker 1: me that I knew that all the little things it 528 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:37,159 Speaker 1: was setting in place, it was never going to be 529 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,520 Speaker 1: able to deliver on everything that I wanted as far 530 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,359 Speaker 1: as answering all the things. It reminded me of one 531 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:44,800 Speaker 1: of my favorite shows of all time. 532 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:45,879 Speaker 3: Lost. 533 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:49,240 Speaker 1: People either love or hate that show, mainly because at 534 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:52,679 Speaker 1: the end of Lost, you don't get all the answers 535 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,520 Speaker 1: of what happened on the island. I am on the 536 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 1: other side of that that I loved Lost, and I 537 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 1: believe that it was more about the journey than the 538 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:06,439 Speaker 1: destination was lost. They had such great characters that I 539 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,399 Speaker 1: bonded with, and I felt like I went through a 540 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:10,879 Speaker 1: lot of things through the course of that show that 541 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,639 Speaker 1: even though the finale was what it was, I found 542 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:18,480 Speaker 1: that the journey getting there I enjoyed. I experienced something 543 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:20,879 Speaker 1: that you can't take away from me. So for me, 544 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 1: that entire show isn't ruined because I didn't know what 545 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 1: a smoke monster was at the end of it. So 546 00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:27,919 Speaker 1: in that case, I had a more rational approach. In 547 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:30,240 Speaker 1: this case, with this movie that's two hours and twenty minutes, 548 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,959 Speaker 1: almost two and a half, there were so many things 549 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 1: going on and so much mystery being built that it 550 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:40,080 Speaker 1: never really fully satisfied me. Throughout the movie, they're trying 551 00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 1: to figure out why all of these catastrophic and weird 552 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:45,719 Speaker 1: events are happening around them. There's also a lot of 553 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:49,080 Speaker 1: tension between all of the characters, primarily between Julia Roberts's 554 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:53,160 Speaker 1: character and myherschel Ali, of her not fully trusting him 555 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:56,200 Speaker 1: for some odd reason and him kind of having this dark, 556 00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:59,000 Speaker 1: hidden pass that he's not being fully upfront with them. 557 00:26:59,080 --> 00:26:59,359 Speaker 2: Either. 558 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:01,800 Speaker 1: So there's a lot of back and forth between just 559 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 1: characters not trusting each other, but also them trying to 560 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 1: figure out why they don't have internet. Is it just 561 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:10,560 Speaker 1: a blackout? Is it something bigger? And throughout the entire movie, 562 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 1: there's just all these things just getting bigger and stronger 563 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:16,840 Speaker 1: and bigger and stronger until you wait for it for 564 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 1: the big thing to finally happen and it's fully revealed 565 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,520 Speaker 1: exactly what is going on here. And I would have 566 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 1: to say that I have never wanted to know the 567 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:28,840 Speaker 1: ending more while watching a movie. This was one that 568 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 1: I was like, I gotta see it through to the end, 569 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,000 Speaker 1: just because I need to know how this movie ends. 570 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,760 Speaker 1: So credit to them for hooking me in and creating 571 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,399 Speaker 1: all this mystery to really make me want to finish 572 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 1: a movie, which is really important with a Netflix movie 573 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 1: right now, they're so focused on their completion rate that 574 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,560 Speaker 1: this is a movie that will get you to want 575 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 1: to watch the entire movie. That being said, it felt 576 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:54,639 Speaker 1: like it was doing an impression of m Night Shyamalan 577 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:58,159 Speaker 1: mixed with Jordan Peel. Those are two directors who do 578 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:01,119 Speaker 1: a movie like this really well. We're getting some big 579 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:04,880 Speaker 1: mystery and then there's gonna be some overarching theme or 580 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:08,600 Speaker 1: overarching message that the movie was trying to convey. It 581 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 1: never really had its own distinctive style that I was 582 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,040 Speaker 1: just kind of craving. It really tried to do it 583 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,879 Speaker 1: through the use of cinematography. Now, if I have to 584 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,679 Speaker 1: give this movie just gold stars for it's because of 585 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,800 Speaker 1: how great it looked visually. That is really what had 586 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:24,760 Speaker 1: me suck in in this movie. That I found myself 587 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,160 Speaker 1: saying a lot throughout it is how did they get 588 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,119 Speaker 1: that shot? They did it a lot at the start 589 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,479 Speaker 1: of the film. The first instance was when the family 590 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,119 Speaker 1: was driving out in their jeep to the rental house 591 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,320 Speaker 1: that there was a camera move that went from outside 592 00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:39,959 Speaker 1: of the car into the car. You get a glimpse 593 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 1: of every member of the family, and then the camera 594 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 1: is outside of the car. So I feel like that 595 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 1: was some trickery with some fake windows, But there were 596 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,480 Speaker 1: a lot of shots like that that were really jarring, 597 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:52,320 Speaker 1: maybe a little bit too much, too flashy, that they 598 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,320 Speaker 1: were trying a little bit too hard to create that 599 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:58,880 Speaker 1: style of going from horizontal to vertical inside the house 600 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,360 Speaker 1: to outside of the house. You also see like all 601 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,600 Speaker 1: the levels of the houses the camera would pay from 602 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:07,600 Speaker 1: top to bottom, so visually there was a lot to 603 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 1: look at, and I have to respect their commitment to 604 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,360 Speaker 1: making this movie look and feel unique because it keeps 605 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,600 Speaker 1: your eyes on the screen. It was almost like they 606 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:18,240 Speaker 1: filmed this movie incursive. It is hard to review this 607 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:22,040 Speaker 1: one spoiler free because primarily my issue with it was 608 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:24,960 Speaker 1: not being satisfied by the ending. And the reason that 609 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,920 Speaker 1: is is because for a movie to take me on 610 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 1: a two and almost half hour journey and to not 611 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,720 Speaker 1: have any closure, even if it was based on the book, 612 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:37,960 Speaker 1: and that's exactly how the book ends. I was left 613 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:40,720 Speaker 1: with cinematic blue balls after watching this movie because the 614 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:44,280 Speaker 1: story started out with so much promise, building all this 615 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:47,360 Speaker 1: mystery and me trying to figure it out on my 616 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 1: own by the character's actions and picking up on things 617 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,280 Speaker 1: you said this here and you said that there, Are 618 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:55,360 Speaker 1: you lying? Are you telling the truth? Are you really 619 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:57,640 Speaker 1: who you say you are? And then to get to 620 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,240 Speaker 1: a point where not only are none of those those 621 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 1: questions answered, but the grand scheme of thing just felt 622 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:07,240 Speaker 1: like a waste of time. That is the biggest takeaway 623 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:09,720 Speaker 1: of this movie. It felt like, what was the point 624 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 1: of going on this journey with these characters to get 625 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:15,600 Speaker 1: to this destination that I wasn't any better off than 626 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 1: when I started this movie, and this movie just felt 627 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 1: like it was trying to be something else, like Netflix 628 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 1: attached themselves to this story because they wanted another bird 629 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:26,000 Speaker 1: Box that was gonna get people talking by creating this 630 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:30,160 Speaker 1: psychological end of world type movie to recapture that energy 631 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,880 Speaker 1: of a movie that everybody watches and talks about, which 632 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,960 Speaker 1: I have seen a lot of people watching this movie, 633 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:39,040 Speaker 1: but have also seen people having that same reaction I had, 634 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:41,800 Speaker 1: of being pretty let down by the time you watch it. 635 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,960 Speaker 1: That being said, even though I didn't love this movie, 636 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,960 Speaker 1: I would still encourage you if you, like me, were 637 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,160 Speaker 1: intrigued by the trailer of wanting to give this movie 638 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:52,560 Speaker 1: a chance. Maybe it's because you love Julia Roberts or 639 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:56,959 Speaker 1: Ethan hank Commercial Ali. I still think this movie is entertaining. 640 00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,800 Speaker 1: But I'm here just to warn you about a movie 641 00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:02,760 Speaker 1: that starts out with so much promise and will probably 642 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,480 Speaker 1: leave you disappointed because it's not even that it's a 643 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,720 Speaker 1: full on bad movie in its own right. It's still 644 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,800 Speaker 1: an entertaining movie and probably did what it set out 645 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,800 Speaker 1: to do. It just wasn't for me and just didn't 646 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 1: leave me feeling good at the end. So based on 647 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,720 Speaker 1: entertainment value and also based on the fact that you 648 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,520 Speaker 1: did have a good cast here. The acting was actually 649 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:26,360 Speaker 1: on point throughout this entire movie. But being what it is, 650 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:31,719 Speaker 1: I give leave the world behind three out of five blackouts. 651 00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:37,560 Speaker 2: It's time to head down to movie Mike trailor Paul Ah. 652 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 1: Yes, I am now in full Godzilla geek out mode. 653 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:43,960 Speaker 1: After last week I shared with you my five out 654 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 1: of five film Godzilla minus one. Still highly encourage you 655 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:50,760 Speaker 1: to go check out that movie. But now right after that, 656 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,239 Speaker 1: I guess they did this perfectly the time out with that, 657 00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:58,320 Speaker 1: but we got the trailer for god Zilla and Kong 658 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:02,960 Speaker 1: the New Empire, which I gotta say, after watching Godzilla 659 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,160 Speaker 1: Minus one and seeing the trailer for this movie, and 660 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,200 Speaker 1: even though I love the Monster. 661 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:10,800 Speaker 3: Verse, it just doesn't look the same. 662 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,600 Speaker 1: It's hard to go back. It's like how I imagined 663 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,479 Speaker 1: a dog would feel if you were to give him 664 00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,400 Speaker 1: wet food and then revert back to giving him dry food. 665 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:19,960 Speaker 1: They're like, I want the wet food. That is how 666 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 1: I feel now about Godzilla. I've seen them in the 667 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:26,560 Speaker 1: best version and done at such a cheap price, which 668 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,320 Speaker 1: now they are saying that it costs even less than 669 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:32,480 Speaker 1: the reported fifteen million dollars to make that movie. So 670 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,280 Speaker 1: it is just incredible to me still that you can 671 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:39,000 Speaker 1: make a movie that looks like that for so little money, 672 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,520 Speaker 1: which fifteen million dollars is still a lot of money, 673 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,520 Speaker 1: but not when it comes to making movies. And then 674 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:47,120 Speaker 1: I see a movie like this which is easily gonna 675 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:50,920 Speaker 1: cost almost ten times that, because cong versus Godzilla costs 676 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:53,360 Speaker 1: around one hundred and fifty five million dollars to make, 677 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:56,080 Speaker 1: and by the looks of this trailer, they probably uped 678 00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,040 Speaker 1: it just a little bit because you have so many 679 00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:01,320 Speaker 1: more monsters running around fighting each other. So what the 680 00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:05,360 Speaker 1: premise is in this movie. It's now Kong and Godzilla 681 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,680 Speaker 1: teaming up to fight this other big Kong like creature 682 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:12,120 Speaker 1: who was more violent and just a lot more hardcore 683 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:15,160 Speaker 1: than Kong. And what you have in this trailer is 684 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:18,400 Speaker 1: something that I was not really expecting to see because 685 00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:20,800 Speaker 1: when these movies started out, this monster verse back in 686 00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:24,160 Speaker 1: twenty fourteen with Godzilla, they were a lot more grounded 687 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,040 Speaker 1: and they were a lot more focused on the human 688 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:30,360 Speaker 1: element and their connection with all the monsters in those movies, So, 689 00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,800 Speaker 1: whether it be the Godzilla movies or even like Kong, 690 00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:35,560 Speaker 1: because when you look back on the twenty fourteen Godzilla, 691 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,480 Speaker 1: which really changed the landscape of the Monster verse and 692 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:40,960 Speaker 1: how we receive these movies, they were a lot more 693 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:44,440 Speaker 1: rooted in the human characters, and with every movie they'd 694 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:46,840 Speaker 1: kind of gotten a little bit more and more away 695 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:48,720 Speaker 1: from that. And I think that's also what led me 696 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,320 Speaker 1: to love Godzilla vers just Coung so much, because it 697 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:53,440 Speaker 1: was really just them two being the main characters in 698 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,320 Speaker 1: those movies, and now here in this trailer it almost 699 00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:58,959 Speaker 1: looks like you don't need the humans whatsoever, because there 700 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,960 Speaker 1: are so many monsters fighting each other and Kong and 701 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,560 Speaker 1: god Zilla teaming up that it almost feels like it's 702 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:07,800 Speaker 1: going the way of the Fast and the Furious movies, 703 00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:09,920 Speaker 1: where you just get right to the action and you 704 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:12,760 Speaker 1: get to the ridiculousness of all these sponsors just fighting. 705 00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,239 Speaker 1: So this movie is coming out next year. Before I 706 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:17,160 Speaker 1: get into more of my thoughts, here's just a little 707 00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:20,839 Speaker 1: bit of the trailer. This world has more secrets than 708 00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:22,280 Speaker 1: we could possibly imagine. 709 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:31,279 Speaker 3: What it's not, that's not cong con can't stop this 710 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:35,080 Speaker 3: on his own. He won't be alone. 711 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:41,640 Speaker 1: Is that a mini can Ah? Yes, it looks like 712 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:44,880 Speaker 1: we're getting baby King Kong in this movie. So you 713 00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:48,880 Speaker 1: have some stars returning like Rebecca Hall and Brian Tyree Henry, 714 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,600 Speaker 1: who I love. Doesn't look like Millie Bobby Brown is 715 00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:55,120 Speaker 1: coming back for this one, which I'm really okay with. 716 00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:57,440 Speaker 1: She can go back and maybe finish Stranger Things so 717 00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,719 Speaker 1: we can all get some closure there. But even she's 718 00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:01,799 Speaker 1: done with that series, so maybe she doesn't like any 719 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:04,239 Speaker 1: of these movies whatsoever anymore. If I hadn't have seen 720 00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:07,239 Speaker 1: Minus one before seeing this trailer, I probably would have 721 00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:09,719 Speaker 1: been a lot more excited for this. But I have 722 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,359 Speaker 1: to say my palette is just not itching for a 723 00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:15,640 Speaker 1: movie like this right now, even though I'm currently rewatching 724 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:18,040 Speaker 1: all the Monster Verse movies. I just finished King of 725 00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,800 Speaker 1: Monsters and it's just not the same. Like those movies 726 00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:23,520 Speaker 1: are fun and entertaining, But to realize that there could 727 00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:26,680 Speaker 1: be a much more sophisticated version of Godzilla, I'm like, 728 00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:29,480 Speaker 1: oh man, they should really get some different filmmakers here. 729 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,719 Speaker 1: But the thing that's troubling me about this trailer is 730 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:36,160 Speaker 1: how ridiculous it looks, and whenever they come out with 731 00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:38,080 Speaker 1: like a baby King Kong, or if they did a 732 00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:41,920 Speaker 1: baby Godzilla, it just feels a little bit cheesy to me. 733 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,520 Speaker 1: And like I said in my review, I'm not the 734 00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:48,040 Speaker 1: biggest King Kong fan. I'm much more into Godzilla. I'm 735 00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:50,400 Speaker 1: not the biggest fan of his look. In this trailer. 736 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:53,279 Speaker 1: They chose to make them pink, which maybe they're trying 737 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:54,960 Speaker 1: to level them up a little bit. It's like you 738 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,960 Speaker 1: went Super Saiyan that references for all my Dragon ball 739 00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,440 Speaker 1: Z fans. So maybe they just wanted up, you know, 740 00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:02,120 Speaker 1: level them up a little bit and make them look 741 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:04,279 Speaker 1: a little bit more hardcore. I just feel like they 742 00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:06,880 Speaker 1: revealed a little bit too much of the mystery of 743 00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,759 Speaker 1: this movie in this trailer, really trying to sell us 744 00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:12,920 Speaker 1: on the big visuals and all of the fighting and 745 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,279 Speaker 1: all of the crazy locations that it looks like they're 746 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:18,120 Speaker 1: going into. It just feels less and less like a 747 00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:21,359 Speaker 1: movie grounded in reality. I realizing I'm saying this about 748 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:23,279 Speaker 1: a Monster Verse movie, but it looks like it's just 749 00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:26,719 Speaker 1: grounded a little bit, less and less in reality, and 750 00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,000 Speaker 1: more so just a bunch of animals kind of fighting 751 00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:31,319 Speaker 1: out in the middle of nowhere, but there is one 752 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:34,120 Speaker 1: scene that did give me hype, and even with saying 753 00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:36,120 Speaker 1: all this, I'm gonna go watch this movie in theaters 754 00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,359 Speaker 1: and love it and take it for what it is. 755 00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:42,120 Speaker 1: But the scene of Godzilla and King Kong like running together, 756 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,720 Speaker 1: and to think just how much those characters have evolved 757 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,839 Speaker 1: from being you know, big and slow and they don't 758 00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:51,920 Speaker 1: really move that fast, especially Godzilla as he's ripping through cities, 759 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,279 Speaker 1: to just fool out sprinting. That is what I look 760 00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:56,400 Speaker 1: for in a movie like this. 761 00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:56,959 Speaker 3: I guess. 762 00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:58,960 Speaker 1: The other problem I had with a look at this 763 00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:02,600 Speaker 1: trailer is how much it reminded me of Transformers Rise 764 00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:06,319 Speaker 1: of the Beasts. It almost looks hand in hand identical. 765 00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,960 Speaker 1: There's one scene in particular where either it's Kong's hand 766 00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,359 Speaker 1: or the villain in this movie. It comes out from 767 00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:14,879 Speaker 1: the ground and it has like this mechanical look to it. 768 00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,960 Speaker 1: I thought I was watching a new cut of Transformers 769 00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:21,000 Speaker 1: Rise of the Beasts. So these movies feel so similar 770 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:22,520 Speaker 1: to me that I think I'm gonna have the same 771 00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:25,719 Speaker 1: kind of experience going to watch them. Which Transformers Rise 772 00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:27,840 Speaker 1: of the Beast was a fun time at the movies 773 00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,840 Speaker 1: this summer, but it didn't really leave me like wanting 774 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,560 Speaker 1: more of that, or it didn't really enrich my life 775 00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,759 Speaker 1: in the way that the early Transformers movies did. So 776 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:38,800 Speaker 1: I just kind of feel like this one is getting 777 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,200 Speaker 1: away from having any real story to it and instead 778 00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:46,400 Speaker 1: just kind of being WWE wrestling with Kong and Godzilla. 779 00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:48,759 Speaker 1: So again, the movie is called Godzilla and Kong the 780 00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,279 Speaker 1: New Empire and it's coming out in theaters next year 781 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:53,359 Speaker 1: on April twelfth, twenty twenty four. 782 00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:57,640 Speaker 2: And that is this week's edition of movie Line Tram 783 00:37:57,760 --> 00:37:58,320 Speaker 2: or Bar. 784 00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,239 Speaker 1: And that is gonna do it for another episode here 785 00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:03,600 Speaker 1: of the podcast. Before I go, I gotta get my 786 00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:06,440 Speaker 1: listeners shout out of the week. I encourage you if 787 00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:09,120 Speaker 1: I made your top five most listened to podcasts of 788 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:12,080 Speaker 1: the year, to tag me in your Instagram story or 789 00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:15,600 Speaker 1: send me a DM with a screenshot making your top five. 790 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:17,720 Speaker 1: And this week I got a shout out silas Pace, 791 00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:20,160 Speaker 1: who I'm right there in is top five most listened 792 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,320 Speaker 1: to podcasts of the year, and he said I'd probably 793 00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,000 Speaker 1: be higher if I put out more episodes than a week, 794 00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:26,799 Speaker 1: So maybe I can work on that because there's a 795 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,359 Speaker 1: lot of spoiler episodes that I would like to do 796 00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:32,400 Speaker 1: really diving into some details of some movies I've watched recently. 797 00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:33,080 Speaker 3: So thank you. 798 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,520 Speaker 1: Silas for being a top listener this year. Thank you 799 00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,120 Speaker 1: listening right now being a part of the movie crew. 800 00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:40,239 Speaker 1: What does that mean? It just means you share your 801 00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:42,680 Speaker 1: love for the show on social media. Tag me and 802 00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:45,760 Speaker 1: your Instagram story at Mike Distro, comment on my TikTok 803 00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:48,080 Speaker 1: to get next week's listener shout out since we had 804 00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:51,279 Speaker 1: an interview this week, comment on my TikTok and Instagram 805 00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:54,439 Speaker 1: with the cop emoji. So many great movies coming out 806 00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:56,120 Speaker 1: this month, so it's a great time to be a 807 00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,319 Speaker 1: part of the podcast and share it with a friend 808 00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:00,920 Speaker 1: who you know shares your love for movies like we 809 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:02,719 Speaker 1: all do on this podcast, so they can be a 810 00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:05,120 Speaker 1: part of the fun. Thank you, and until next time, 811 00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:07,359 Speaker 1: go out and watch good movies and I will talk 812 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:08,640 Speaker 1: to you later.