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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I

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Speaker 1: am your host. Movie Mike have a fun episode for

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Speaker 1: you today talking about one of my favorite categories, underrated

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Speaker 1: movies of the nineties. I asked everybody online so many

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Speaker 1: talking about the MCU's shortest movie ever, The Marvels and

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Speaker 1: oddly similar to the original just twenty years later. Have

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Speaker 1: a lot of thoughts about this movie, so thank you

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Speaker 1: for being here. Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew.

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Speaker 1: And now let's talk movies.

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

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Speaker 1: From the Nashville Podcast Network. This is Movie Mike Movie Podcast.

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Speaker 1: I am on a quest for nostalgia right now. Maybe

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Speaker 1: it's because I just started therapy and I'm reverting back

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Speaker 1: to my childhood where I had no problems. Yes, that

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Speaker 1: is what I'm doing right now. But it came across

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Speaker 1: the movies recently that I hadn't watched in a really

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Speaker 1: underrated movies and sometimes forgotten movies of the nineties, and

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Speaker 1: the honorable mentions. But I have nine of these to

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Speaker 1: go with the nineties theme, So at number nine, I

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Speaker 1: have almost heroes from nineteen ninety eight. This movie really

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Speaker 1: he did with Chris Farley where they played two explorers

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Speaker 1: I remember watching this movie and loving it as a kid,

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Speaker 1: a movie that you're gonna hear later on on this list.

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Speaker 1: So just kind of weird to think as I was

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Speaker 1: So not only do I feel it's a forgotten movie,

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Speaker 1: so many scenes from this movie that still are engraved

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Speaker 1: captures the humor of this movie. It's whenever Chris Farley

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Speaker 1: This movie had swagger in the nineties. Disney movies haven't

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Speaker 1: movie called House Arrest. This movie embodies everything that I

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Speaker 1: Another thing I loved about movies like this in the

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Speaker 1: So here's a little bit of that House Arrest trailer.

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Speaker 3: Janet and ned Bendorf appeared to have the perfect marriage

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Speaker 1: But they decided to celebrate their anniversary Daddy and I

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Speaker 1: Listen to that. We don't get trailers like that anymore.

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Speaker 1: With that classic voiceover that sounds so sweet and innocent. Disney,

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Speaker 1: like that. But that is why I have House Arrests

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Speaker 1: as an underrated movie from the nineties at number seven.

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Speaker 1: called SLC Punk. This movie takes place in the early

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 1: It also has the late great Don Rickles, who is

435
00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:57,639
Speaker 1: famous for just rattling off insults the people, and I

436
00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:00,560
Speaker 1: think this is his best showcase of doing this. When

437
00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:03,919
Speaker 1: he just keeps going off on AARTI lane look like

438
00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,400
Speaker 1: a fucking alert on a bad day. Got a call

439
00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:10,040
Speaker 1: yesterday from Baskin Robbins. They said that they're down to

440
00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:13,600
Speaker 1: only five flavors. You're swelling up as I talk to you. Hello,

441
00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:16,679
Speaker 1: I scream having a good time running around? What you

442
00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:19,000
Speaker 1: laughing at because I called your friend the fat pig?

443
00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:19,280
Speaker 2: Hey?

444
00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:21,520
Speaker 1: You think that's funny? Oh No, I was just laughing

445
00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:24,040
Speaker 1: earlier when you were talking to his ballet, so that

446
00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:27,920
Speaker 1: is number two. Dirty Work is an underrated movie from

447
00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:30,320
Speaker 1: the nineties. Before we get to number one. I do

448
00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,320
Speaker 1: have a lot of honorable mentions, a lot that you

449
00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:37,120
Speaker 1: guys sent in on social media. Canaan Cox said The Pagemaster,

450
00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:41,520
Speaker 1: which was an incredibly sophisticated animated movie from the nineties.

451
00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:44,520
Speaker 1: Adam can Two said Street Fighter, which I feel like

452
00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:47,359
Speaker 1: in the nineties we had this fascination with video game

453
00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:51,119
Speaker 1: adaptations that didn't really live up to expectations. I'm more

454
00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:54,040
Speaker 1: of a Mortal Kombat guy myself, but I can respect

455
00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:57,480
Speaker 1: it no quarter on X. I keep calling it X,

456
00:22:57,480 --> 00:22:59,920
Speaker 1: but it's Twitter said Cool Runnings, which was also the

457
00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:04,159
Speaker 1: last role of John Candy, a great Disney live action movie,

458
00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:08,520
Speaker 1: one of their better sports films. Joey Gibson also said Heavyweights,

459
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:11,520
Speaker 1: which I kind of put in that category of a

460
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:14,720
Speaker 1: goofy movie that I don't think it's as underrated as

461
00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:17,600
Speaker 1: it was five years ago, but I do love that movie.

462
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:20,080
Speaker 1: Another one that a lot of people commented with was

463
00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:22,280
Speaker 1: The Iron Giant from nineteen ninety nine, which is an

464
00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:26,600
Speaker 1: animated movie and I never really fully understood the fascination

465
00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,359
Speaker 1: with that movie, so maybe that's my goofy movie. It

466
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:31,920
Speaker 1: was good. I enjoyed it, but I think that one's

467
00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:37,160
Speaker 1: properly rated. But finally, at number one from nineteen ninety eight,

468
00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:42,560
Speaker 1: the most underrated movie from the nineties is Small Soldiers.

469
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:45,040
Speaker 1: What this movie is about. You have these two guys

470
00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:47,560
Speaker 1: who work at a toy company and they need the

471
00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:51,639
Speaker 1: next big thing, something that's so cool and innovative and

472
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:54,239
Speaker 1: hardcore that every kid is gonna want to buy it.

473
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,600
Speaker 1: And what they end up doing is putting missile technology

474
00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:00,600
Speaker 1: in these toy action figures, and they think it's cool.

475
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:03,040
Speaker 1: It makes them smart, and they fight with each other,

476
00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:05,360
Speaker 1: and one of them is programmed to kill, and one

477
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,640
Speaker 1: of them is programmed to hide and be the peaceful one.

478
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:09,720
Speaker 1: So you have the villains and you have the heroes.

479
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:13,080
Speaker 1: But what they don't count on happening is the chips

480
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:15,919
Speaker 1: end up malfunctioning and they start not only attacking the

481
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 1: other toys, but start attacking humans. The movie had a

482
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,360
Speaker 1: budget of forty million dollars and it opened a fourteen

483
00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:26,399
Speaker 1: million dollars, which isn't the worst opening. It did end

484
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:29,880
Speaker 1: up grossing fifty four million dollars at the box office,

485
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:32,919
Speaker 1: so it had a little bit of a profit. But

486
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,359
Speaker 1: when you look at the highest grossing movies of the

487
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Speaker 1: nineties and compare it to even the top one hundred

488
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,040
Speaker 1: grossing movies of the nineties made at least one hundred

489
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 1: and ten million dollars as minimum, Lion King made almost

490
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:47,480
Speaker 1: a billion dollars at nine hundred and seventy million, or

491
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:50,479
Speaker 1: another iconic movie like Toy Story. It made forty million

492
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:53,680
Speaker 1: dollars at the box office, so a mere fifty four

493
00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:56,720
Speaker 1: million dollars back then, they didn't really seem like a

494
00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:59,080
Speaker 1: whole lot when you have all these other movies crushing it.

495
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,400
Speaker 1: And like all the other movies on this list, there

496
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,399
Speaker 1: are lines that have just stuck with me for my

497
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:08,199
Speaker 1: entire life. One specifically is in the final scene wherever

498
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,679
Speaker 1: they're trying to take out the Commando elites, and you

499
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:14,360
Speaker 1: have them revolting against the family and revolting against humans

500
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,440
Speaker 1: and attacking them with all these weapons they have created

501
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,880
Speaker 1: with things they found in the garage, which this movie

502
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 1: gets a lot more violent than you would expect forty

503
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 1: kids movie. People get hurt, people probably could have died.

504
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,159
Speaker 1: But it's this one small little scene and this line

505
00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 1: that this Toy says to the human that has stayed

506
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:34,399
Speaker 1: with me forever, what are you packing? Tiny? Packing?

507
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 3: Packing you?

508
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,679
Speaker 1: I continue to say that packing back in you. But

509
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 1: you also have Tommy Lee Jones as the voice of

510
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:47,360
Speaker 1: the main commando Elite, who he just has a very

511
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:51,680
Speaker 1: commanding and intimidating voice. So I feel like that goes underappreciated.

512
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:54,920
Speaker 1: But not only that, when you look at the special

513
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:57,840
Speaker 1: effects used to make these toys come to life, it

514
00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:00,640
Speaker 1: was pretty advanced for the nineties. And maybe you've seen

515
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 1: the meme online with people comparing VFX from the nineties

516
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 1: and early two thousands to vfx now we have somehow

517
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:10,399
Speaker 1: regressed because if you go back and watch Small Soldiers,

518
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,399
Speaker 1: it is a triumph because I didn't even question it

519
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:15,320
Speaker 1: as a kid, and if I go back and watch

520
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 1: it now, it still holds up and looks pretty good.

521
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:20,159
Speaker 1: Is some of it a little bit cheesy, Yeah, but

522
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 1: they did a really good job overall with a pretty

523
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:27,200
Speaker 1: modest budget of forty million dollars, and Marvel Movies now

524
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,440
Speaker 1: with two hundred, two hundred and fifty million dollar budgets

525
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:34,200
Speaker 1: can't even replicate something like Small Soldiers from the nineties,

526
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:36,720
Speaker 1: And again, gonna get a little bit morbid here, and

527
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,639
Speaker 1: I didn't really set out to have this theme, but

528
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 1: Small Soldiers also has the final on screen appearance for

529
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:46,120
Speaker 1: the late Phil Harmon, who I knew him from being

530
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,720
Speaker 1: in this movie, but mainly with his voice work in

531
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 1: The Simpsons of characters like Troy McClure. So just through

532
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 1: this list, unintentionally, I shared with you a lot of

533
00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,919
Speaker 1: last on screen appearances from actors who have passed away,

534
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 1: which I feel like I should dedicate an entire episode

535
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 1: to that, but as I was going through my notes,

536
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:04,600
Speaker 1: I just had to share that with you. But the

537
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 1: reason I included this one as my number one picks

538
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 1: underrated movie from the nineties. If you grew up in

539
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,679
Speaker 1: this decade and you didn't watch and love this movie,

540
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 1: you're not a nineties kid. I'm sorry. You have to

541
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:20,119
Speaker 1: appreciate the charm of this movie, the comedy in this movie,

542
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 1: the action in this movie, the lesson you learn, which

543
00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:26,880
Speaker 1: is don't put military technology in toys. We should all

544
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 1: know that, right. Okay, that is the list. If your

545
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 1: favorite underrated movie from the nineties didn't make it, let

546
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 1: me know what it is. Email me Moviemike d at

547
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 1: gmail dot com or links to all my socials or

548
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,399
Speaker 1: in the episode notes. We'll come back, I'll give you

549
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 1: my spoiler free review of The Marvels and then we'll

550
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:48,120
Speaker 1: talk about the new Mean Girls trailer. Let's get into

551
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 1: it now. A spoiler free movie review of The Marvels.

552
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 1: And I'm probably in the minority here, but I was

553
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 1: excited to see the sequel to Captain Marvel. I think

554
00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:00,159
Speaker 1: the character herself is a really great character, arguably the

555
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,919
Speaker 1: strongest Avenger. I don't care what to say. I do think, however,

556
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,200
Speaker 1: that movie was rush because they're really trying to establish

557
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 1: that character as we went into Endgame. So I feel

558
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 1: like the timeline when that movie came out, we didn't

559
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,120
Speaker 1: have enough attention to it, and then we went into

560
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,320
Speaker 1: Endgame and we haven't seen the character since. So what

561
00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:19,159
Speaker 1: this movie is about. You have Captain Marvel now teaming

562
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:22,120
Speaker 1: up with Miss Marvel and Monica Rambo, and all their

563
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 1: powers become entangled, so whenever one tries to fully use

564
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,920
Speaker 1: their powers, they switch with another member of the crew.

565
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,440
Speaker 1: So you have them teaming up learning how to work

566
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:33,160
Speaker 1: together and make it to where they can all change

567
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,639
Speaker 1: powers and it be seamless and they can go against

568
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 1: the big villain. You also have Nick Fury in here

569
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 1: kind of ill placed in this entire movie. And I'm

570
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 1: gonna go with three things I liked and three things

571
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 1: I didn't like about this movie, starting with the positive. First,

572
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,440
Speaker 1: Miss Marvel. I didn't love the Disney Plus show, but

573
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: her character in this movie was probably the best part.

574
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 1: And it's also the only part of this movie that

575
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 1: really had heart. Phase five is just lacking emotion and

576
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 1: lacking heart. The Marvel identity is kind of getting watered

577
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 1: down because what made those initial movies great were the

578
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 1: emotional connection we had with the characters, and I'm not

579
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 1: really feeling that anymore. The only time I ever felt

580
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 1: a sliver of that was with Miss Marvel's family. Second

581
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 1: thing I liked about this movie was the costume design.

582
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 1: A good superhero costume goes a long way. Miss Marvel's

583
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 1: suit was very bright and colorful, and Captain Marvel had

584
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 1: like the worn down sub dude colors kind of reminded

585
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 1: me of the old Captain America suit that I love

586
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 1: so Aesthetically, the suits look great in this movie, which

587
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 1: I feel like in Phase five there hasn't been much

588
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 1: attention to that, so they didn't really need a whole

589
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 1: lot of special effects going on with those suits to

590
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 1: make them look great. Second thing I liked about the movie.

591
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 1: Third thing I liked about the movie The visual effects

592
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 1: were actually a lot better than I was expecting, which

593
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 1: they've been struggling with. But I was kind of looking

594
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 1: for those moments that took me out of the movie,

595
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,400
Speaker 1: whether it be something with a weird facial expression. I

596
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 1: didn't see blatant bad visual effects. I do think though

597
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 1: they're using way too much as far as all the

598
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 1: backgrounds not really feeling like there's any life to them. Again,

599
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,280
Speaker 1: that's kind of the theme with Phase five right now,

600
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 1: is we're out of the MCU that exists in the

601
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 1: real world that we know. They're not in New York

602
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 1: City or New Jersey like Miss Marvel would be. They're

603
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 1: really just going out into space. It feels very Star

604
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 1: Wars ish right now, but not in a good way.

605
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 1: Probably all the bad parts that everybody hates about Star

606
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,720
Speaker 1: Wars right now is kind of what the MCU is doing,

607
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 1: So I really think they need to get away from that,

608
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 1: and that would also solve their issues with spending so

609
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 1: much money on these movies. And then losing a bunch

610
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,680
Speaker 1: of cash. Because if they stop focusing so much on

611
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:42,080
Speaker 1: everything that needs to come and post and get us

612
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 1: in some real, just sets where you can actually interact

613
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 1: with things, you see some backgrounds, I think that would

614
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 1: help the actors get better performances, because throughout this entire film,

615
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 1: Ree Larson had about one acting note. I guess I'm

616
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 1: getting into the negative thing. So the first thing I

617
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 1: didn't like about this movie was the act And I'm

618
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 1: looking to Breed Larson, our star here, who I was

619
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: the most excited to see. She had about one note

620
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 1: throughout this entire movie, this one blank expression on her

621
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 1: face that was her confused face, her happy face or

622
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 1: what is going on face? And I feel like it

623
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 1: really changed the tone of Captain Marvel, who was so

624
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 1: heroic in the first film and so heroic an Endgame.

625
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 1: I feel like that identity kind of was washed away

626
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 1: in this movie to where she didn't really feel as

627
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 1: powerful and as in control. And that's what I wanted

628
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 1: my superhero. I want them to come in and dominate,

629
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 1: especially her, who has these incredible powers of harnessing all

630
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 1: this light energy, being able to fly, being able to

631
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 1: destroy cities. I didn't really feel that it was kind

632
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 1: of like she didn't know how to play the character anymore.

633
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 1: But again, I think it goes back to there's so

634
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 1: many things going on in the background that they don't

635
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 1: get to interact with. They don't really have anything to

636
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 1: play off when they're filming these movies. That is something

637
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 1: I'm realizing more and more really affects how we grasp

638
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 1: onto these movies. So I don't think it's entirely her fault.

639
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 1: Maybe a little bit on the director, maybe just a

640
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 1: little bit on the way that the MCU cranks South

641
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 1: East movies. So again, scaling back the budget, getting back

642
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 1: to some basics I think would help the MCU right

643
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 1: now because it's just lacking some identity. Second thing I

644
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 1: didn't like about the movie was the lack of action.

645
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 1: The fight scenes and the MCU used to be top

646
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: tier and now they're a lot more comical, probably a

647
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 1: lot more kid friendly, but there's no grit in the

648
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 1: action anymore like there was in Civil War, like there

649
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 1: wasn't Captain America or the early Ironman films. It just

650
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 1: feels very lighthearted and like there's really nothing on the line.

651
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 1: When a fight scene is happening right now. So this

652
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 1: movie was lacking a lot of action and a lot

653
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:48,720
Speaker 1: of direction of where our heroes were trying to go.

654
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: It wasn't until really forty minutes into the movie that

655
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 1: we had a clear action, a clear mission, which usually

656
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 1: is something you should establish early on. Who's there, villain?

657
00:32:58,120 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 1: What do we need to do to defeat them? What's

658
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: the plan? Which is weird for a movie that's only

659
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 1: an hour and a half. I know the runtime is

660
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 1: listed is one hour and forty five minutes, but we

661
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 1: were out of there in ninety minutes, with the post

662
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 1: credit scene maybe coming at the one thirty five marks.

663
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: So for something to feel so rushed at the end,

664
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 1: I feel like this movie was treacherous in the editing

665
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 1: process of figuring out what to do. Maybe it's because

666
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 1: of all the reshoots that they decided, maybe we don't

667
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: have a full story here to flesh out a two

668
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 1: hour mar of a movie. Let's at least make it

669
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 1: quicker and get people out of there and don't give

670
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 1: people enough time to hate it, which is how I

671
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 1: kind of ended up feeling about this movie. There was

672
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 1: nothing I loved about it, but by the time it

673
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: was over there really wasn't anything I hated about it,

674
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 1: but I found myself just getting a little bit bored

675
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: at the story. I love the characters, I just didn't

676
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,280
Speaker 1: love the story. I didn't love the villain, so I

677
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: wasn't ready to go on this journey with them. So

678
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 1: it was almost like I would have clicked next mission

679
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 1: on this movie and picked something else, because I actually

680
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 1: think that this plot point is really great of them

681
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 1: having these entangled powers. They should have had a lot

682
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: more fun with that, so I kind of lumped it

683
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 1: in there. But the third thing I did not like

684
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: about this movie was the villain. There was no point

685
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 1: where I felt that anything was really on the line,

686
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:18,800
Speaker 1: like they were really fighting for something. The objective really

687
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 1: wasn't that clear of why they were trying to take

688
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,240
Speaker 1: down this villain. So in order for me to really

689
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 1: be invested and get that Hurrah moment that we all

690
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 1: look for in an MCU movie, you're supposed to have

691
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:31,359
Speaker 1: that heroic feeling, like you just watch your heroes take

692
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:34,720
Speaker 1: on somebody that looked at one point to be unstoppable.

693
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 1: I didn't get that here. Again, it felt very rushed

694
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:41,400
Speaker 1: in those last fifteen to twenty minutes, so there was

695
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:44,319
Speaker 1: no real a we're not going to get our heroes

696
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 1: to where we need them to be. It was just okay,

697
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 1: here we are, here's the situation, and now it's over.

698
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,840
Speaker 1: What exactly did we just experience here? So, by no

699
00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 1: means is this movie just blatantly bad. It's just very

700
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:58,840
Speaker 1: bland and generic and safe. I wanted them to go

701
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,759
Speaker 1: a little bit harder, especially when you have an all

702
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:05,360
Speaker 1: female lead cast, which I love. Again, the characters are great.

703
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: The story in this movie just doesn't really make sense

704
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 1: and didn't really need to happen, and therefore just kind

705
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 1: of feels like a weak stepping stone as we are

706
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: navigating through phase five, really just trying to scrape through

707
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 1: it and keep people interested in Marvel as they go

708
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 1: into phase six. I also feel like this is a

709
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:24,799
Speaker 1: movie because it is female led, that people are just

710
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,839
Speaker 1: gonna hate without even watching the movie. Because really, when

711
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 1: it was all said and done, this movie felt to

712
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 1: me like it was made for Disney. Plus just the

713
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 1: film quality itself, the cinematography. Nothing screamed to me that

714
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 1: this needed to be on the big screen. I think

715
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 1: if you took this same story and chopped it up

716
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 1: into four or five maybe six episodes. It would have

717
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 1: been a smash hit, but again, it's pretty expensive, so

718
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 1: they couldn't do that. It just feels like something that

719
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:53,919
Speaker 1: didn't have a whole lot of hype going into it.

720
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 1: They didn't take any risks, and therefore it's not really

721
00:35:57,600 --> 00:35:59,319
Speaker 1: going to motivate people to want to go see this

722
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:01,320
Speaker 1: in theaters when it's going to come out on Disney

723
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 1: Plus in a couple or few months. And I don't

724
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 1: think that puts the MCU in a great place when

725
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:08,239
Speaker 1: they are in the business of making money. So this

726
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,359
Speaker 1: movie was all trouble and no base. And I think

727
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: it's very lazy to call a movie mid. I hate

728
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 1: it when reviewers say mid because it feels so disrespectful.

729
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 1: But it feels so uncreative to me of just to

730
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 1: call something mid, because you know that it gets a

731
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 1: rise out of people, Especially when somebody loves something and

732
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 1: you call it mid. It's like a big dig right

733
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,320
Speaker 1: into your face, right into your fandom. But that's really

734
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 1: the only way I can describe this movie. And I

735
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 1: hate to say it, I hate to use it, but

736
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: it was so mid. I said the same thing about

737
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: ant Man, though, because even though I love parts of it.

738
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:43,280
Speaker 1: The overall story just keeps me thinking did we really

739
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:47,400
Speaker 1: need this? Therefore, this movie was really mid and especially

740
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 1: going into it where I wanted the Captain Marvel character

741
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 1: to have so much time to flourish, didn't really do

742
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 1: it for me for Captain Marvel. I give it two

743
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 1: point five out of five cats.

744
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 2: It's time to head down to movie Mike trailer Paul.

745
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 1: Is Hollywood out of ideas? That's always the big question

746
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 1: I see online. The main criticism I see when it

747
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 1: comes to movies right now is that everything is a remake,

748
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: everything is a sequel, and there are no original ideas left.

749
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 1: And I will have to say the trailer for Me

750
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 1: and Girls twenty twenty four does not help that argument.

751
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 1: Even though the movie is based on the musical, so

752
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:33,399
Speaker 1: it's not a direct remake of the movie from two

753
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 1: thousand and four, it is a movie based on the musical,

754
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 1: which the movie is based on them. You know, it's

755
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 1: this entire loop thing and after watching the trailer, there's

756
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:47,400
Speaker 1: nothing that screams musical to me. What this trailer looks

757
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,239
Speaker 1: like is they really want to cash in on the

758
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 1: fact that the entire plot feels familiar, and that's what

759
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 1: they are going after. There are direct references line for

760
00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 1: line from the original movie in this trailer. The wardrobe

761
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 1: is the same, the characters are the same. It just

762
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 1: feels like the gen Z remake of that original movie

763
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 1: because there's no singing in the trailer. So to the

764
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 1: casual person just stumbling upon this trailer, you're really not

765
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 1: gonna know that even though that's the case here with

766
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:18,319
Speaker 1: remakes and sequels, is they want to cash in on

767
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 1: the familiarity and what has already been proven to work.

768
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:24,799
Speaker 1: Because everybody knows and loves the original movie, they kind

769
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:27,320
Speaker 1: of just bring out all those elements, feature them again

770
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:29,919
Speaker 1: and think, oh, in turn, people want to go watch

771
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,759
Speaker 1: this again. But I have never not wanted to see

772
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 1: a movie so much after watching a trailer. I'll get

773
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:38,240
Speaker 1: into more of my thoughts, but before I do, here's

774
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:40,319
Speaker 1: just a little bit of the Mean Girls twenty twenty

775
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:42,479
Speaker 1: four trailer, which is also weird to say because it's

776
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 1: just called mean Girls, not called mean girls too, not

777
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 1: called me mean girls. They have to add in the

778
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:50,359
Speaker 1: year to differentiate the two. So here's a little bit

779
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 1: of the trailer. Get in, Lisa, Welcome Skiti. You're never

780
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:58,280
Speaker 1: gonna believe what I found this morning your burn book, Mom.

781
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 1: It makes naps for sure, sure, Regina, Yeah, do you

782
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 1: like them?

783
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 3: Sure?

784
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 1: Oh no, I don't have any. I was just you're

785
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 1: a max. We will help you. Gatty, Why are you

786
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,279
Speaker 1: so scary? It's Halloween. If you don't dress slutty, that

787
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 1: is slutch shaming us. That's just unprofessional. So what you

788
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 1: heard in that trailer are some of the same gags

789
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:25,800
Speaker 1: and jokes from the original movie, just change just a

790
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 1: little bit. So what you have in this movie is

791
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,879
Speaker 1: Tina Fey and Tim Meadows reprising their roles from their

792
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 1: old characters in the first movie. John hamm is taking

793
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 1: over the role of Coach Carter, and you have a

794
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,880
Speaker 1: lot of new actors playing all of the young people

795
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 1: from the original movie. So what you didn't hear in

796
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:45,399
Speaker 1: that clip or the rest of the trailer was any

797
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,240
Speaker 1: of the singing. And I'm not too familiar with the musical,

798
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:51,440
Speaker 1: but it's supposed to be adapted from the movie. So

799
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: what we are seeing here is just all the acting parts.

800
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 1: I wanted to see a little bit of the singing.

801
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 1: I wanted to see a little bit what is going

802
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:01,800
Speaker 1: to make this movie different? Because it's not a remake.

803
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:06,239
Speaker 1: They're calling it a hybrid, which we've seen done recently

804
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:09,839
Speaker 1: with Matilda, and we have the color purple. So it's

805
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 1: not a completely new idea to make a musical adaptation

806
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: of a movie we've already seen. I just haven't seen

807
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:20,880
Speaker 1: a version where they've done a musical remake and not

808
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: included any of that in the trailer. When the Matilda

809
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 1: trailer came out, the one that came out on Netflix,

810
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 1: it was very apparent that it was going to be

811
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 1: a musical and therefore completely different, and that one in

812
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:36,319
Speaker 1: no way felt like that original movie from the nineties. Here,

813
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 1: it just feels like they are remaking the movie. And

814
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,960
Speaker 1: Mean Girls, to me, is one of those perfect movies,

815
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 1: a movie that really shouldn't have been touched. I would

816
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:49,200
Speaker 1: have been more excited to see a direct sequel a

817
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:52,400
Speaker 1: Mean Girls, too, not based on the musical, but instead

818
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:54,840
Speaker 1: what they've been doing recently with all these Mean Girls

819
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:57,759
Speaker 1: advertisements that they've been doing with the original actors of

820
00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:00,799
Speaker 1: them twenty years later. Now in that moment, I think

821
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:03,279
Speaker 1: that would have been a much more interesting movie of

822
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 1: how the Mean Girls grow up, become moms and their

823
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:08,279
Speaker 1: daughters are the new focus instead of having just new

824
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 1: people come in and remake what happened in that original movie.

825
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 1: I think that would be a much more interesting story

826
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 1: and more creative. I worry that making what seems like

827
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 1: an exact copy of the original movie with some songs

828
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:22,880
Speaker 1: that are going in there isn't going to really do

829
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 1: that well, and you're gonna anger those people who hate remakes,

830
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:30,040
Speaker 1: especially with the movie that has such a dedicated fan

831
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 1: base as Mean Girls, one of the best movies of

832
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:35,320
Speaker 1: the two thousands, one of the most quotable movies of

833
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: all time, And although twenty years is a significant amount

834
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 1: of time that has passed between that one and now,

835
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 1: it's crazy. I think it's been twenty years since that

836
00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 1: movie came out, really making us feel old here. I

837
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 1: just think you have to make it different instead of

838
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: just updating everything to make all these gen Z references

839
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 1: that are going to feel cringey in ten years.

840
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 3: Oh.

841
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:56,840
Speaker 1: I don't think this movie is going to stand the

842
00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 1: test of time like the original one did, which has.

843
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 1: If you go back and watch that original movie, it

844
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:04,320
Speaker 1: is still a great movie. But this one is just

845
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 1: adding in things like TikTok, changing some of the jokes,

846
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 1: to make them a little bit more riskue, a little

847
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:11,920
Speaker 1: bit more sexual. I don't feel like that's gonna be

848
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,800
Speaker 1: enough to really carry this movie. Another thing that worries me,

849
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:18,760
Speaker 1: it's coming out on January twelfth, historically not the best

850
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:21,800
Speaker 1: month to release a movie. Maybe they're just trying to

851
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:25,279
Speaker 1: counter program and put it out after the holidays when

852
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:28,320
Speaker 1: there's not much going on, So that worries me a

853
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 1: little bit. And going back to the trailer where they're

854
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:34,759
Speaker 1: just playing off the familiarity of the movie, making a

855
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:37,719
Speaker 1: trailer that's very shareable so you can tell all your friends, look,

856
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:39,920
Speaker 1: they're remaking the movie. I feel like that was the

857
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:43,520
Speaker 1: intention of this trailer. The next trailer they put out,

858
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 1: I feel it's gonna have that musical element and really

859
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 1: make it look like something different. So I don't want

860
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:50,440
Speaker 1: to say this one is dead in the water yet.

861
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 1: For me, I just need to see that next trailer. Now,

862
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 1: if that trailer comes out still doesn't speak to me,

863
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this was a bad, bad decision and

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Speaker 1: just the cash grab, which I hate, a cash grab

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Speaker 1: that tugs at the nostalgias streams inside of our heart.

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Speaker 1: I would just go watch Mean Girls again. If I

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Speaker 1: out in theaters on January twelfth. The jury is still

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Speaker 1: That for was this week's edition of Movie by Tram

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Speaker 1: or Bar and that's gonna do it for this week's episode.

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Speaker 1: But before I go, I got to give my listeners

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Speaker 1: shout out of the week. How do you get a

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Speaker 1: listener's shout out of the week? Where you can comment

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Speaker 1: on my Instagram TikTok at Mike d Shrow. I have

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Speaker 1: a Facebook page, Facebook dot com slash Mike dstro and

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Speaker 1: the YouTube channel where if you've missed any individual movie

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Speaker 1: review or you just want to see it and hear

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Speaker 1: it at the same time, I put all those up

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Speaker 1: on my channel YouTube dot com slash Mike Dstrow, which

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Speaker 1: some of the reviews have been starting to pop off

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Speaker 1: over there, but I find now that YouTube can be

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Speaker 1: kind of a dark place, and some people have not

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Speaker 1: been so nice in the comments. I'd say eighty percent

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Speaker 1: are pretty positive. Fifteen percent may not like my point

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Speaker 1: of view, but we can challenge each other. I'm always

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Speaker 1: fine with that movie interpretations are always up for debate,

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Speaker 1: but it doesn't feel like they are attacking me. And

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Speaker 1: another five percent of just people commenting on my physical appearance,

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Speaker 1: which is not cool. So YouTube can be kind of

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Speaker 1: a dark place, but I'm still posting there every single week.

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Speaker 1: But this week's listener shout out of the Week comes

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Speaker 1: to us from Instagram Jelyissa Davis, who commented and said,

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Speaker 1: listen to twenty six episodes this weekend on mine drives

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Speaker 1: from Florida to South Carolina and back. You got me

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Speaker 1: through the entire drive back and forth. Keep up the

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Speaker 1: great work. Your podcast is fire. That is a lot

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Speaker 1: of episodes, a lot of me, too much of me,

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Speaker 1: a lot of movie content. So just a round of

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Speaker 1: applause for listening to that many episodes. I don't think

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Speaker 1: I could listen to myself for that amount of time,

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Speaker 1: So you lista for that commitment. You probably deserve more

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Speaker 1: than just listener of the week. That is a lot

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Speaker 1: of episodes, But thank you so much for listening. Thank

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Speaker 1: you to everyone in the movie crew. And until next time,

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

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Speaker 1: to you later.