December 16, 2024 • 58 mins
As we come close to the end of the year, Mike shares his Top 10 Underrated films of 2024 with Kelsey. He calculated the movies based on his original rating, box office performance and audience score. He explains why this movies went unnoticed or what made them crash at the box office. In the Movie Review, Mike talks about the horror comedy Y2K set on New Year's Eve 1999. It’s about would happen if the Y2K scare actually happened and technology went crazy and revolted. Mike gives his thoughts on Kyle Mooney as a director, the 90's soundtrack and he compares nostalgia bait to reboots and remakes. In the Trailer Park, Mike breaks down the 28 Years Later Trailer where it looks like Cillian Murphy, the star of the franchise's first film, appears in zombie form. Mike talks about the history of the first movie and why you can watch it anywhere now.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, We're good that you're doing the lowriter. It's
three am and I'm watching George Lopez. Uh yeah, Welcome
back to Movie Mike's movie podcast. I am your host
Movie Mike joined with my wife and co host Kelsey.
How are you getting that caffeine in?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I'm getting that caffeine. I this is what I wear
when I'm on meetings at work. I have one workout
clothes and the throwing this nice cardigan over it. But
I was facetiming my younger brother last week and he
told me I looked like an English teacher, and I
was like, yeah. I was like, I'm almost thirty one
with eight to five. I do look like an English teacher.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
English teachers are cool.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I am almost thirty one in three weeks. Three weeks
from Today's my.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Birthday, Happy early birthday, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Today we're going to talk about what I believe are
the top ten most underrated movies of the year, and
I'll give you exactly how I broke these down in
the movie review. I'll be talking about Y two K
before I get into my thoughts. What's your quick review
of Y two KH? It's okay, I'm surprised you enjoyed
it even a little bit.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Please don't horror and only horror. And I asked you.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I was like, it's a horror comedy and you were like,
it's probably stupid comedy. There was there was a lot gore,
and as we've said from Gladiator, I don't do gore.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Yeah, you did lead me astray with that. There was
a lot of gore.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I didn't know how gorey it was gonna be. I
knew it would be a little bit like slash your funny,
like ha ha, but it was a little bit more
abrasive than I was expecting, like, oh okay, but.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It was fine overall. I had Chumblewamba stuck in my
head after.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Was that in the movie?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Is that why I had tub thumpings?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Everybody was in that movie.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
In the trailer park, we'll be talking about twenty eight
years Later, which is a trilogy, and I'll explain to
you why you need to buy more physical media because
of the history of the original movie. I'll get into
that later. But thank you for being here, thank you
for being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew.
And now let's talk.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
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Speaker 1 (02:11):
All right, let's get into what I believe or the
top ten most underrated movies of the year. What I
did is I went to go see other people's ratings.
I went to ron Tomatoes got the audience score because
that's the one I believe more. I put that against
what I rated the movie. I also looked at the
box office numbers compared to the budget. So I'm gonna
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factor that into because some of these movies, I will say,
have a higher rating that you would assume for a
if you were calling something underrated and it has like
a pretty decent score. But then if you factor in
how much money it made versus how much money it
spent to make that movie, I consider that as well,
because sometimes you see a list and you're like, oh,
this is a box office bomb, even though it could
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be a good movie. So let's get into the list.
At number ten, I have Ricky Staniki from Amazon which
hasn't no funny audience score of six, costs fifty million
dollars to make, doesn't have a box office because well
it went to Amazon. But I feel like when people
take movies so seriously, but sometimes you just want a
dumb movie.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
If John Cena isn't it he was in Ricky Snicky.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, I'm not expecting it to be comedy club acting.
I just want like dumb humor, and that delivered.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
The movie was about they were all childhood friends and
they came up with some random name to blame something
on that they did his kids, and then they kept
using that person to go do other things to.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Get out of things, like they would tell their wives
like Ricky needs us, like.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Oh, we gotta go to the Vegas to go hang
out with Ricky.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Ricky's girlfriend dumbed him he really needs a cheer up club.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
So anytime they needed a bailout, he was their alibi,
like shell person, like a shell company, until time came
that everybody needed to meet Ricky. And then it gets
into this whole thing.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
So it's a dumb plot.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
But I just feel like every movie I giggled, Yeah,
certain movies that go into.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
It and I want a little bit more and I leave. Man,
that was dumb. That was bad writing.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
But sometimes you just want something dumb. And I think
in an era which I tried to include, I think
I did include no sequels, no franchises on this entire list.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
When we are.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Complaining about there aren't great comedies anymore, and then we don't.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Because we don't go see the ones that they put out.
See THENT me just get seventeen sears.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
You don't see the ones in theaters, so you're gonna
get less of them there, and then the ones on
streaming are gonna be a little bit lesser of quality
because you can't spend that same amount because people aren't
going to see them in theaters. I enjoy movies like this.
I think one every now and then is worthy, especially
if you're somebody who just really wants a comedy and
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are itching for one. If you aren't giving movies like
this a chance, then well maybe you don't deserve a comedy.
Harsh At number nine, I have Self Reliance, which I
gave before out of five. You can watch it on Hulu.
This was the Jake Johnson movie Yes, which I feel.
I watched it and I loved it, and I couldn't
imagine anybody else not enjoying it as much as I did.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
So then imagine your surprise when people didn't.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Everybody hated this movie, and I don't understand what the
hate was.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
I did, my surprise, no one else did.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I was like, guys, this is a good one, isn't it.
I posted that review. Everybody hated this movie.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I personally attacked it did get a little ridiculous here
and there, but I just didn't love the journey of
this movie, and I thought it was a really good movie.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
I was MEH on it.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Why men?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
It was good, just not your It's weird, Yeah, yeah,
I like the plot being weird, and I like Anna
Kendrick in it. I thought her and Jake Johnson were
really good together. I just thought the entire premise behind
it was fun and that's all I wanted out of it.
And at the end of the movie, I was satisfied.
But I found that a lot of other people were
not satisfied by the ending of this movie. It did
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cost seventy million dollars to make, which is a lot.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Cad imagine what I could do seventy millions.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
A lot of money.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
It doesn't think about these like budgets for movies. I'm
just like, I could do so much.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I have been thinking about that a lot because I've
been watching a lot of just histories of movies.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Right now, you're in a big Yeah what is the
Vice series?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Advice series?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, the RD series and before Sometimes I think like,
how could they spend two hundred and fifty million dollars
on a movie? And then they slop or you just
start wondering like what even goes into that? And the
more I watch some of these behind the scenes, you
kind of start to see it. You think of it
as a big production. Even like TI is on there
talking about how great craft services that Marvel has anything.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah, food gets expensive? T Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
TI was in ant Man oh so he did an
interview for it, and he was talking about they had
the best craft services out of any movie he's ever
worked on. So you think about how much money they're
just spending on food today.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
I mean all the TI was the interview.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
They can get a lot of people on there, but
that was just the one that stuck out because ran
you talk about the things that I care about, like
how much money are they spending on food and how
good of food is a two hundred and fifty million
dollar Marvel movie compared to like a low budget movie
where you probably have to bring your own lunch.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
No, I'm thinking TI I the whatever you like song.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah, he was good at it man, and a lot
of that stuff. I think for his character in particular,
it wasn't written until he got on set. They were
just kind of like, all right, here we go, we're
gonna give you some lines. So he didn't even have
a whole lot of time.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
To like t I doesn't care what he's doing. He's like,
they got craps, they.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Got great food. I'm showing up for that.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
But you can kind of start to see how movie
budgets ballooning up when you're having to feed people, you're
having to transport people, makeup pir and then in those
movies you're having to pay people to do all the
special effects, and that's why that gets expensive. I always thought, like,
how could special effects cost you money?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
You're paying for someone's time exactly, So really all were
ever being paid for in theroll is certain time.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, that movie didn't have a box office because it
went to who I find that's a really expensive Hulu movie.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Hulu spends a lot of money from movies that I'm
just like, no one's gonna see this.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
But that was one I was surprised by. I still
stand by and enjoying this movie. I put that one
at number and number eight. I have fly Me to
the Moon, which I think, for the most part, it
had a pretty good reaction. It has a ninety percent
popcord meter.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Came out the week for Twisters, though.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
But I think it was bad timing and if you
look at the box office number, it's pretty bad. It's
one hundred million dollar movie made forty two million at
the box office, so lost the good amount of money.
I think this was one that audiences enjoyed more than critics.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
We love this movie.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I think it should have just gone to Apple.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
That was the intention of this movie. You can still
watch it on Apple, and I think putting it out
in theaters, spending that money on advertising probably ballooned up
at least the just the advertising budget.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Oh, but I think it's pretty solid.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I thought Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum's chemistry.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Was really good.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
It did up great chemistry, and it also contributed to
a lot of people having conspiracy theories about the moon
landing in space.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
You know, I'm very big into space. Now you need
to read a book about the moon landing.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
What do you think about the moon landing? Did we
actually go after watching this movie?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
What do you think?
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Yeah, the movie did make me have some questions.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yeah, you just wonder where this theory in particular from
this movie comes from, because the entire thing is about
Scarlett Johansson having to go in and essentially do a
pr for NASA and make them cool, and then she
does such a good job that they're like, well, we
actually have a lot of attention here. We have to
come up with a backup plan in case this doesn't
work out.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I think if I if I just start believing conspiracy
theories about.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
That and you're gonna believe it about everything.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
I'm never gonna believe anything again.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I am getting to that point with all the AI
online where I'm like, did they even say that?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Is that them?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
And I'm over analyzing things just because I'm like everything's
a scam.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I I'll talk more about my interest in space in
my book Episode of the Year, But yeah, I need
to read a moon landing book. Because I'm very big
into like NASA right now. It's my hyper obsession of
the week.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
If you were given the opportunity to go to space,
would you go. Were talking about this the other day,
like what do you even do in space? Like what
are they doing up there?
Speaker 6 (09:58):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I I think I'd get too motion sick. I don't
think I would do well. And you get like space
like sickness syndrome.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
That sounds kind of cool, though, No, on a hurl
in a space suit.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
It floats away from you. That's disgusting.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
That's cool, it's disgusting. You can just see it like
floating around.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I would like to go like straight up see the
Earth from up there and then come back town.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
That's the part that sounded cool reading some of these books.
But like I'm just feel stressful. But I have ended
up on several wormholes lately, like Wikipedia, like what is
the International Space Station? What are they doing up there?
What are we taking up there? When they talk about
all these satellites, what are we doing? Are we just
like leaving them up there? There's those people that are
like stranded in space right now. Currently, I have more
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questions than I have answers to you.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
About space.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
So until I have concrete evidence that the moon landing
did not occur, I'm gonna believe it.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Well, if you haven't seen this movie, go watch it
and come up with your own theory about it. At
number seven, I have The fall Guy, which you can
watch now on Peacock. Number one under four out of five.
It was so so funny. It was funny, It had
great action. It was a little meta because it's about
Ryan Gosling, who's a stuntman, and he's doing stuntman things
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inside of a stuntman movie, so it goes that other level.
The director was a former stuntman. He was a stuntman
for Brad Pitt. The movie cost one hundred and thirty
million dollars to make, made one edighty one at the
box office, but really to be profitable you have to
make back twice your budget. So this is definitely going
to be on the list of the biggest bombs of
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the year. It had a really bad opening weekend.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I don't know how where. I was shocked about how
much how little.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I guess it was the timing of this movie too,
of how summer, how little money it didn't make, and
you have two huge stars Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
I we laughed so hard at this movie. I left
and I was like, that.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Was great, because I feel for us. For a movie
like this, it had something for the both of us.
It had like the rom com aspect, but it also
had that action aspect, and then it had like an
entirely different level of film that was something that felt
truly unique because it's based on a TV show. I'n't
really familiar with this TV show from way back in
the day, so to me, even though technically it's a
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reboot or reimagination of a TV show, it didn't really
feel like they were rehashing something old to make money
off of it because I wasn't familiar with the source material.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
I didn't know what was based on a TV show. Oh,
it news to me.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
I'm just learning that right now.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
I was today years old when I learned that.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
See.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Yeah, most people didn't know. But of all the movies
that lost a lot of money this year, this one
just makes me a little bit sad because I think
it should have done better. It has a pretty decent
audience score at eighty five percent, so I think the
people that did go see it did enjoy it, but
oftentimes it's about looking back in history and seeing the
box office numbers versus the budget that this is just
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going to go down as being a flop, and that sucks,
especially for Ryan Gosling where he is that at this
point of career where I feel like he's trying to
do movies that aren't the same thing over and over again,
and then you do something like this that was probably
fun for him, and I was like, man, do I
just have to go back and doing what people enjoy
instead of doing what I want to do? But I
felt bad for that movie. I put that one at
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number seven, at number six, you can watch it on Amazon.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Now. I have drive away.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Dolls so funny. Do not watch your children around?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I think that's probably ultimately what led to not more
people seeing and enjoying this movie. It is a pretty
crude movie just from the opening scene, and it's essentially
like I would say, kind of in this generation Stilma
and Louise. It's a road trip movie. You have some
bad guys going after these girls. They're doing very crude
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things all throughout, a lot of slapstick comedy, just crude comedy.
From beginning to end, a lot of curse words, a
lot of nudity, but something that I just it just
felt fresh to me.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It was Margaret Quayley was so good in it, and
Beanie Feldsteine.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I think this started Margaret Quayley's run of movies that
she doesn't want her parents to go see.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
She was like movies that my family can't see this year,
Driveaway Dolls, Kinds of Kindness and The Substance.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
And yeah, this started it.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
But I feel like next year is going to be
even stronger for her because I feel with her three
movies that I feel like all three movies of hers
were solid this year. When we do the best of
twenty twenty four episode, I think The Substance is going
to end up on this list and I wanted to
include Driveaway Dolls here.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
It has an audience score thirty six percent.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
That's so lowly low. I same times the audience the
low audience scores are the best movies.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Out of every movie I put on this list, it
has the lowest score. Had a budget of thirteen million,
which isn't crazy, but only made seven point nine million
dollars at the box office, lost about five million dollars.
But this is a movie that just didn't have any advertising. No,
you didn't see anything about it. I don't even remember
how we learned about it.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
There were a couple trailers.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I think that was it.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I think we just like Margaret Quayley's so related to
go watch a new Margret Quayley movie that's not about right,
and no one else went to go see it. But
that's why I put that one at number six. At
number five, I have the Ministry of Ungentlemanly.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Warfare again, really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
This was a movie that I feel we went to
go see because we were trying to utilize and maximize
how much we use our regal unlimited, or.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
We had nothing else to do the weekend, or unless
we get a little too start crazy, and really our
hobbies are either spending money or going to the movies,
and we have to alternate those hobbies because you know,
spending money gets too expensive. To think that was a
weekend where we were like, we just need to get
out of the house.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Especially during the warmer months in the summer where we're like,
let's just go hang out.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Somebody's cold acee.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
No, truly, we turned the air up in the house,
but we're not running it here, and then we go
sit in the freezing caled Regal theater.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
So I think this was one I kind of remember
that day we realized, let's go watch, let's see what's happening.
And maybe it's because we had such low expectations. I
knew you would enjoy the World War Two elements a
little bit. Me never, but it's not like your typical
World War Two movie. I really like the style of
action and just the overall cinematography in this movie. I
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love the scenes out on the water where it just
looks so blue and rich, like that is my favorite
color palette, Like that water that even though I wouldn't
want to jump in the ocean, it makes me want
to jump in the ocean.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I thought the action.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Was really good, and I really like Henry cavill and
I feel like he has been done dirty by DC,
by them saying, hey, you're going to come back a Superman.
Actually we're moving on and we're gonna do a different
Superman movie.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
I think it's a great point.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
He left the Witcher for that, he had the cameo
in the movie. He was all set up to come
back a Superman and now they're probably not gonna bring
him back.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
It does not hurt that he's so attractive. I did
not mind looking at him on the screen.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
For two hours, except when he was in Argyle. We
were like, we're good on Henry Cavill.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
That whole movie.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
That is not an underrated not underrated, that's gonna make
the word that was overrated.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Yeah, some people really enjoyed that movie, but this was
not among them.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
But this movie had a budget of sixty million dollars
and only made twenty nine million dollars at the box office.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Fifty percent loss, so it lost a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
But I think it's a solid movie. I gave it
a four out of five. It's not on a streaming service.
You have to have stars to watch it, so I
don't think we have stars. You'd probably just have to
rent it.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
We gotta stop having so many services everyone PSA.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I think we have a Momo now.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
It's getting to it's so it's more expensive than cable
TV would have been.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yeah, we're back at the same thing now, and they're not.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Even At first I was like, oh, convenience, they're on
the same place. But they're not. They're on Prime, They're on.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Hulu, it's on Netflix, it's on Max, so many places.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
The only one we don't have right now is Paramount Plus.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Yeah, because we got Peacock too.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Yeah, that Black Friday sale.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Guy and I will watch Twisters enough to get our
money's right now.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I was like, oh, I love to bundle them up
when you can save money. But yeah, that one comes
in at number five, at number four. You can watch
it on Hulu. I gave it a four point five
out of five. It is Babes.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
I saw someone on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
This is the movie that I brought up months ago
where I saw someone on TikTok say they walked out
of a movie and it was the worst movie of
the year, And I was like, I can't remember what
the movie was that they hated.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
It was Babe.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
They walked out of Babes.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
They hated Babes. What.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I'm horrified for that person because this was like Bridesmaids
to me.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
It was that level of funny.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
It was the movie about a girl gets pregnant on
a one night stand, decides to keep the baby, and
basically it's from that moment all the way up to
when she has the baby kind of like a knocked
up kind of like a bridesmaid's like you said, but
really just a story about two friends and how when
you get older your friendships change because when you're young,
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you spend all your time together, but when you get older,
one of you has kids, has a husband, has a family.
Having to maintain a really close relationship with a friend
it's hard to do.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
And it is really hard.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
And as someone who's in the phase of married but
doesn't have kids yet, I have friends that are married
and have kids, and then I have friends that aren't married.
So it's like we're all in different phases and it's
not It's not even the like being together is weird.
It's just finding the time to hang out when you
all live in different places.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah, that's probably the hardest thing for you, is that
everybody has dispersed all over the country.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
It's very hard. Does give me excuses to go visit
f on.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Places and me I left from where all my friends
are like my well, it's mostly family. I have friends
in Texas that I was still living there I would
hang out with, but yours are just all over.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
The place they are.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
But I feel at the core of what Babes was about.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, it's about her getting pregnant, but it's I would say,
mostly about their relationship, female friendship and that bond. But
the movie has a seventy nine percent audience score, which
is decent. It's passing, but had a budget of three
point seven million dollars and only made three point eight
so about broke even. But I don't feel like there
was too much advertising on this movie.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
This movie was so funny they failed and not advertising it.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Hopefully more people are watching it now that it's on Hulu,
and it was cool.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
We went to go see at the Bellcourt. We got
to see like that pre.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, they had a live view into like a screening
because we saw on a Mother's Day and its screening
with Julia Luis Dreyfuss as the moderator.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I just thought this movie had some of the best
writing in anything this year. Was very witty, funny and clever.
I still stand by my four point five out of five.
That's why I put it at number four.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I take it back, this is my number one underrated.
I didn't know this was on the list. Over the
fall Guy. Babes was phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Babes, You're number one.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
All right, I have at number three, Love Lives Bleeding,
which I gave a four out of five. You can
watch it now on Max. Did I see that you
did not watch this one with me? It's an a
twenty four movies with Kristin Stewart. She has a job
at a gym, she meets a bodybuilder. They have this
really chaotic relationship. Kristin Stewart's family is like a crime family.
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So I feel that this movie did pretty well as
far as the audience score has an eighty two percent,
but the movie coused ten million dollars to make only
made about twelve million dollars at the box office, so
it really didn't clear a whole lot. But this is
one of the most imaginative movies of the year. Where
I think the problem some people might have with it
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is it goes from being so based in reality to
having a lot of elements of fantasy. And I love
that aspect of it because at the core of it,
it seemed just like a crime drama. I was so
invested in their relationship and them just wanting to make
it out of their bad situation. And then it kind
of changes in the third act where it breaks the
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rules of reality and turns into this really fantastical story
and it almost felt like this old little fairy tale
in the form of an A twenty four movie. And
I thought this movie was gonna be huge given that
it has Kristen Stewart in it. I feel like she's
in that era of her career where she is taking
more old risks in her roles, and I thought this
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was a great example of that. I just can't believe
this movie didn't make more money, so I decided to
put that one at number three at number two. Another
one you didn't watch with me. It's called It's What's
Inside on Netflix. I gave it a four out of five.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Is it scary?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
It's kind of scary.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
It's more on the level of a Black Mirror episode
where they're at this party. It's before these couple is
getting married, and this guy has this device that everybody
puts on these little things on their head and they're
able to switch bodies with somebody else in the room,
and then the game is that you have to decide
who was in your body. So just the premise alone
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is fantastic. And this is one that it's on Netflix,
but it's not a Netflix original. It is a movie
that Netflix acquired the rights to, So there's no real
budget that was put out about it, no real box
office performance, but they did buy it for seventeen million dollars,
So I didn't really see a whole lot of people
talking about this movie whenever it was put out on Netflix.
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And that's why I feel that sometimes it's hard to
gauge the reaction a Netflix movie had because sometimes they
come out and just kind of fall into the abyss.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
So because there's always stuff coming out.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yeah, like they had that whole initiative of a couple
maybe even back in the Pandemic or twenty twenty one,
where they were putting out a new movie every single week,
and they still kind of do that, but it almost
just feels like content at this point, where it's somebody
just putting up a YouTube video. Shout everybody on YouTube
right now, but it's like, dang, Like they acquired the
rights of this movie. A sixty nine percent audience score
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is pretty good, but the movie comes out and then
that week or two after it's added on there, Like,
how do you even search out a movie on Netflix
if it's not up there? In like the top ten,
like how are they pushing it to people? After a while,
I thought that movie would have had a little bit
more of an impact.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
And I don't know how you really make money.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
From Netflix, because yeah, they buy the rights to movies,
but I don't feel like that was one that like, hey,
look at all these people in this movie. It's gonna
get people over there to subscribe. So that is why
I put that one at number two. At number one,
my most underrated movie of twenty twenty four. I have
my Old Ass So Good, which I gave a four
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out of five. It has a pretty decent audience score,
like a great eighty nine percent. But I think this
one comes down to the box office. Had a budget
of three million dollars, which is wild that they made
this movie for three million dollars, but it only made
five million dollars.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
That's two million dollars now though it sputtering bean in
the red, I.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Just think that it is hard to make a fresh
coming of age movie at this point.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
And I love the formula.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I could watch the same coming of age formula in
any amount of movies and I would still enjoy There's
just something special about it when done right and this one.
The twist was that she takes some mushrooms, she sees
her older self, which is Aubrey Plaza. She tells her
all this stuff about her future and kind of gives
their advice on like what to avoid, and then puts
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her phone number in her phone and she's able to
communicate with her. My only thing was I wanted more
Aubrey Plaza.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
But it was cool to see Aubrey Plaza on more
like I mean, she was still her like dry, comedic self,
but a little bit more of an emotional Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Well, there was a scene in this movie where I
damn near cried.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Yeah, I think you did.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Like I think it was there was a span of
movies there, I think this one in the Wild Robot.
We watched back to back, I believe, and both times
the movies like I almost cried. I look, and I
did not expect to go there because there's just a
moment where it's like, oh man, all this stuff that
had been building up and building up. Yeah, there's a
lot of fights between her younger self and her older self,
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which I would question things that I would be telling
my younger self, and there's a moment that just hits
you right in the gut, and then it just like,
oh man, I just kind of sat with it.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
What's the number one thing that you would tell your
younger self sitting here now?
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Is it? Thirty three year old? I always have to remember,
hold you or it's very difficult me.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I don't know how cliche this is, but like stop
caring what people think.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
I think that kept me from.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Doing a lot of things that I enjoyed younger because
I was worried about how they would be perceived by
other people. And at that time, I didn't realize that
those other people would not matter when I was older.
Like look at this room now, Like all these things
that I embraced now were things that I hid back then.
And I think all the things about me now that
I enjoy actually about myself I was ashamed of probably
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fifteen years ago. And it's hard to say to imagine
me like being cool, but I had a feeling of
like I need to be cool because I was so
one cool that I didn't want to come across of
like putting anything against me because there was already a
lot of things held against me. I felt like like
I was overweight, I had bad skin, my teeth are
messed up. There were just things I felt that kept
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me from being cool, and I was like, I just
can't show any other weakness. I think that's what it
would be it for me. I would just not care
about what anybody else thought. And just like the things
I like, would you tell yourself?
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Mine's also cliche, and mine would be to like stop
worrying about the boys that didn't like me. Like I
just was like, no one's ever gonna like me. I'm
gonna be single forever. I felt that too, and I
was so young. But I think I think when you're
in high school and it's like you have those couples
and like ever I never had a boyfriend.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
You were my first boyfriend.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
I damn you went my first girlfriend dates.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Like I liked people, I talk to people, but like
no one ever really fully liked me. And I just
used to think, like I'm ugly, no one's gonna like me.
And I'm just saying in retrospect, I think I was
just like too smart. I think I intimidated people like
not to toot my own horn, but I think I
just was like unapproachable because I was really smart.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
I've oddly been thinking about this lately. Is I always
felt that it was people not giving me a chance.
And when I look back on myself there, I think
I just didn't respect myself enough, Like I didn't put
an effort into myself to attract anybody.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
I thought it was all about looks, but I.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Think it was how I treated myself and probably the
energy I put out that was really what it was.
And I just thought it was, like I said, just
people not give me a chance. But I thought about
like would I even want to be with me then?
So maybe that's the advice I would give to myself, like, hey,
working yourself a little more, dummy.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yeah, I think I would tell myself to stop stressing
because I met you when I was twenty four's that
is still so young when in retrospect, I met you
when I was twenty four, I was married to twenty seven.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Like, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I think I just was like, oh my god, I'm
going to be alone forever. But like those things feel
so big when you're younger. Yeah, they feel so monumental.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
When you're younger, you want to get older. When you're older,
you want to be younger. I think if I was
more specific about my advice. I think it would be
that you're on your own timeline. Yeah, like nobody else
is really looking at your timeline, even though to you
it feels like, ah, I'm so behind, How am I
at this point in my life? Yet when really nobody
else cares about what's going on with you and in
the end it doesn't really matter, like what age you
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are when you hit these supposed milestones that you're supposed
to hit.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
I think I would also I would warn myself not
to like several of the guys that I liked. I
think I would be like, don't waste your time, don't
just don't just delete his number.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Even more specific advice, I would have told myself to
like to get into coding more, like pay attention to
technology more.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
I would have told myself to purchase real estate at
the age of like five.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
I'd invested in like TikTok or something.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
I would have invested in bitcoin exactly.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I'd have bought it when it was so cheap. It'd
be millionaires. Now as I tell you.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
I would have bought stock in Apple.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Would it have been as value?
Speaker 1 (29:47):
I guess back then, I feel like the time would
have to buy it, would have been like the eighties.
Whenever they were first launching, it was like dirty. I
don't know if they were public by that point, it's.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Not, according to what one of the characters in the
Nicholas Sparks book did.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
But all right, that is the list. Yours were in there, right,
my old ass.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Babbe Paul Guy yep.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
So nothing else we need to add. All right, we'll
come back and I'll give my spoiler free review of
Y two K. Let's get into it now, a spoiler
free movie review of why two K. This is not
an SNL movie by any means. It is directed by
Kyle Mooney, who spent a lot of time on SNL
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as a performer and a writer, and none of this
was conceptualized on the show. None of the characters are
from SNL. But to me it had that SNL feeling,
which there hasn't been an SNL movie in a while,
and for a long time that was kind of the norm.
A character would pop off on SNL and then make
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a movie about it, probably more in the eighties and nineties.
On two thousand and two, there were some bombs along
the way, but I feel they've kind of gotten away
from that a little bit, So I feel like this
is the closest we're getting to that now. And I
was curious to see how Kyle Mooney was gonna be
as a director and also starting in the movie, which
is a really delicate thing to balance because for somebody
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like Kyle Mooney who hasn't really broken out into acting
post SNL, how much is he going to put himself
in this movie? So that'll be the question I answered,
did he put himself in this movie too much? So
what Y two K is about? We're getting too ahead
of myself. Let me calm down and have a sip
of tea here. I'd like to have green tea while
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I record these. So what Y two K is about
it is essentially what would have happened on New Year's
Eve nineteen ninety nine if what everybody was scared about
actually went down and all of the machines just shut down.
And this takes it to an extreme because really what
we were all worried about is once the calendar switched
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from nineteen ninety nine to two thousand, computers were just
going to forget how to be computers, and you weren't
going to be able to go to your bank. You
weren't going to be able to do anything because the
computers were going to be so confused that it's two thousand.
These things were made to go to the two thousands,
that we were all going to freak out. There was
going to be power outages. Everybody fills up for gas
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anytime any kind of disaster is on the break of happening.
Go fill up your gas tanks, Go get eggs, milk,
and bread from the grocery store. And that is really
all we thought about whenever the year two thousand hit.
I was nine years old, so I remember it. Oh,
the two thousands were a great time, But I grew
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up as a young kid in the nineties, you know,
until I was nine, and then I feel like, I
really just I have better association with the two thousands.
So I feel like this movie was really geared towards
me with the humor. And I feel that nostalgia movies
are the new remakes and reboots, because I think everybody
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is sick of remakes and reboots. Even though I mean,
I've been seeing this so much as I've been you know,
talking about in the year List. Even though what we've
been talking about all episodes long, which if you only
watch on YouTube, don't listen to the podcast, go check
out movie mis movie podcast wherever we listen to podcasts
is about underrated movies. And a lot of those movies
I mentioned were original movies that people just didn't pay
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attention to. And I feel that there are new, fresh
movies coming out, and then I feel inside of that
where they're kind of getting around. Okay, we don't have
a known property, we don't have an ip here, but
what we do have is a time in everybody's life
where they still love life. And we saw that a
lot this year of movies dipping into the early two thousands,
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and that nostalgia which is really becoming more of a
thing now in film and TV, where for the longest
time it was all nineties nineties, nineties, nineties nineties. But
now the people who are older and making this content,
making these films, making this art are at that age
like where I was, where either you grew up in
the two thousands or you were a teenager in the
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two thousands, and there are a lot of things there
that people want to feel nostalgic about. So if you're
not making a remake, if you're not rebooting something or
making a prequel. I think the next thing on that
list in that same category is making something that is
nostalgia bate, which are just banking on people going to
see it because they want to feel that again. They
want to hear that music, they want to see those celebrities,
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They want to go back to that time where we
were all young and still experiencing life and taking it
for what it is and weren't so jaded about everything.
But that is kind of how I feel. The allure
was around y two K, going back to when we
weren't all on our phones, and I think I felt
oddly nostalgic in a good way. And I've seen a
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lot of these movies happen where it just doesn't really
hit right and you can tell it's all fabricated, and
they wanted just to throw in references for the sake
of throwing in references. I felt like in this movie,
much like in d D, there was some good nostalgia
in there. In nineteen ninety nine is such an interesting year,
and it opens up with our main lead here played
(35:08):
by Jayden Martel on aim aol messenger, which just took
me back to an entirely different part of my life,
which I've seen that represented another movies recently, But for
some reason here, the way he was communicating with his
friends on Aim just reminded me of that time in
our lives where we had to wait for our friends
to go online. It wasn't a normous thing for us
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just to be on our phones all the time, to
be a text away.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
I remember getting on Aim.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
And hoping that your friends were on there. And I
never had a computer at home. I would always go
to my cousin's house who had a computer, and I
thought that was the coolest thing ever. I'd sign into
my am account, so it felt like I was being
introduced to this whole new world. And I would get
on there maybe once a week, but sometimes two weeks,
and I'd be like, oh man, I got to catch
up on so much stuff. So it just reminded me
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of how we communicate. There are away messages, having an icon,
you could have sound effects where you would send a
message or get a message.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
It was such a big deal.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
And picking your screen name, oh man, that was my
biggest thing of like, man, whenever I get a computer.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I get my own screen name. That is gonna be
so cool, And.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Where the movie really piled on the nostalgia was with
the soundtrack, but I thought they did a pretty good
job of not just throwing in a bunch of random
songs that meant nothing for no reason. And what the
movie is about, it's pretty simple. Like I mentioned earlier,
what would happen if the technology actually shut down, but
not only that, it revolted and started killing people right
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when it went to midnight on December thirty first, nineteen
ninety nine, going into the new year. The movie centers
around two characters who are nerds, and anytime you have
two characters who are nerds trying to get lucky, you
instantly think about super Bad. And I don't think super
Bad invented that formula, but they just made it so
popular that anytime I see that now, it is what
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it reminds me of.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
And at the.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Core of this movie, it is about friendship, being yourself
and not being worried about being a nerd, and also
realizing that at some point you have to go for
what you want. In this case, Jayden Martel's character wants
to go after the girl of his dreams, played by
Rachel Zegler.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
It starts out with them messaging on aim.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
She just broke up with their boyfriend, and he's trying
to find a way to make a move, but he's
very neurotic, lives inside his head and doesn't know what
he needs to do to make that happen. His best
friend is trying to be his wingman and trying to
support him, but his best friend is also trying to
be cool himself. And for the most part they just
hang out in his room playing video games. But then
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they decide, you know what, we gotta go out. We
heard about this party. We're gonna go party hard, try
to make some friends, try to meet a girl, and
try to kiss somebody at midnight. And that's the goal
of this movie. Much like an American the goal was
to get lucky. So it has that formula that we
all knew in the late nineties and early two thousands,
just forty teenagers trying to get lucky. There really wasn't
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anything new that this movie brought to the table, and
I thought the comedy was actually pretty good. I would
say the first twenty to thirty minutes of this movie,
I was just enjoying their dynamic as friends, them interacting
with all the other clicks in the high school. I
thought how over exaggerated all those clicks were, like the
new metal kids, the jocks, the popular kids. That was
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pretty funny and I felt more authentic to the time
period than it has.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
Been represented before.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
And I think if it would have been a straight
up comedy without the horror elements, it would have been
a much more enjoyable movie for me, and I love
horror movies, but I think when it came to the action,
it just felt very cheap. And it's an a twenty
four movie. And I know they're trying to venture out
and create movies in different genres. They have been really
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indie darlings, some of the best dramas of the last decade.
Also some of the best horror movies of the last decade.
But now they are trying to do movies that are
a little bit more commercial. Earlier this year they had
their biggest attempt at making a big blockbuster with Civil War,
which did pretty well for them, maybe not as successful
as they wanted it to be, but that was a
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really good, solid movie into saying Okay, we're a twenty four,
we can do all these really niche things. But we
can also make a big action movie that anybody can
go and enjoy. So they're trying to build these more
action franchises. They have the Rock coming out in the
movie soon hopefully shows us a different look at himself
as an actor in that movie. And then they have
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movies like Y two K, which they have done a
lot of horror movies. They put out a lot of
horror movies, but they haven't really done one like this,
even though it's about nineteen ninety nine. I feel with
the cast are really trying to get in that gen
Z audience, which is the sweet spot for any movie
right now, to get anybody younger than twenty five to
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care about watching a movie like this. And I often
think that is what some movies really miss out on,
is the casting in certain movies like a Borderlands earlier
this year, where that movie should have had an entirely
different cast because you have a video game that younger
people are gonna know and want to see, but then
you put in a bunch of thirty forty fifty plus
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sixty seven year old actors in that movie. No disrespect
to them, but if you're trying to make a film
that is catered towards a younger audience, and you're putting
these people in there that they have no idea who
they are. They're not going to want to go see
that movie. I think that was a big fumble on
That movie's part of not having the right casting, and
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it maybe would had a better shot.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Eli Rod really messed up some details there, but maybe
with the younger cast at least would have done better
that opening weekend at the box office.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
That was a straight bomb this year.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Although the horror elements really didn't win me over, I
would say the movie had a lot of heart. I
found myself enjoying it was I completely engage the entire time.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
Nah, did I.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
Gain anything by watching it in theaters that I wouldn't
have if I just watched it at home.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
I think this is a straight streamer movie. So it's
not one that if you haven't seen yet, that you
need to go see in theaters. But it's definitely one
especially around next Halloween time, we're wanting to watch something
spooky and funny. To me, I feel like this is
almost right now, at least in this point of time.
Removing myself from it just a week from seeing it.
It kind of feels like this decade Idle Hands, where
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you kind of have to be there to get it.
And I feel like a younger person who watches this
movie is gonna have that same relationship that I had
whenever I first saw Idle Hands back in nineteen ninety nine,
where this movie is set. And I'll end it with
answering my question that I had at the beginning of
this review. Did Kyle Mooney put himself in this movie
too much?
Speaker 3 (41:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (41:54):
I don't think his character was that strong. He's a
guy who works at a video station, is a stoner.
I feel like he had played a variation of that
character on SNL. So that's why I said that even
though this wasn't an SNL movie, it felt like an
SNL movie. That's saw a lot of the cast being
happy for him and posting about this movie. But I
almost feel that he put himself in it just a
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little bit too much because that wasn't the strongest character
in this movie. The character I love the most, I
feel like we did not get enough of and I
think that really hurt the movie. So I would be
curious to know his decision to put himself in more
than the character I actually love the most. I feel
like that would be hard for me too, if I
was directing a movie, I would easily put myself more
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in a movie I was making.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
So I can't really hate on him for that, but
I think it did hurt.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
The movie overall because I just thought to myself, that's
a little bit too much Kyle Mooney for me.
Speaker 3 (42:47):
And I think his sense of humor is funny.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
He's a great comedic performer, but I think his presence
kind of stunted this movie's growth in the third act.
So overall, it is a really chill, pretty slow paced movie,
definitely like a stoner movie to me. I don't smoke,
but I feel like if I did smoke, I would
have enjoyed it more because it had that vibe to it.
So for y two K, I give it three out
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of five. Tamagatchi's it's time to head down to movie
Mike trailer Paul I have It.
Speaker 3 (43:21):
Trailer of the Year goes to twenty eight years later.
This trailer is fantastic.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
I don't know how good the movie is gonna be,
but I am so enticed by this trailer that I
am awarding get Trailer of the Year. I think before this,
Long Legs probably was number one trailer of the year.
But this one is so good because after watching it,
just the concept trailer, I want to see this.
Speaker 3 (43:44):
Rarely does that promo at the.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
Very end of the trailer hit and I think, ah,
I need to go buy tickets to this right now.
When this trailer was over, I immediately made sure that
it was coming out next year, in twenty twenty five,
and it is. It is hitting theaters on June twentieth,
twenty twenty five, and I thought to myself, I'm gonna
get tickets for this as soon as it goes on sale.
The movie takes place ten two hundred and twenty eight
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days after the first one. You have the original director
coming back. You have Alex Garland writing this movie. He
did Civil War earlier this year. He has also done
movies like Ex Machina, Who oh Man. That is such
a good movie on its own. But I was not
that excited for this movie until now. The first movie
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is great. The sequel, which director Danny Boyle didn't do.
I think he directed maybe the introduction scene to that
and maybe a couple of scenes in between there, but
an entirely different director on the sequel twenty eight weeks later.
This one just seems to come out at the right time.
Although that first one did come out in two thousand
and two. If it really was twenty eight years later,
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then we wouldn't be getting this movie until twenty thirty.
That's the only problem I have with this. But aside
from that, it looks fantastic. It looks like Killy and
Murphy is coming back. There are some theory on whether
or not one of the zombies in the trailer is
him or not. Some are saying it is, some are
saying it isn't. He hasn't confirmed it. There's somebody else
saying that, No, I was hired to do that role
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with That is me. That is not Killian Murphy. I
don't think it's him either, because he's also a producer
on this movie. I don't feel like he would have
that minimal of a role that he would just be
a zombie in this movie. I feel they don't want
to reveal that until we actually see what is going
on with this character. But there are so many things
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I love about this trailer. Before I get into more,
here's just a little bit of the trailer which really
doesn't have a whole lot of dialogue. There's a lot
of great images, so if you haven't seen it yet,
go watch it on YouTube. But the sound design is
so daunting and not a lot of things going on
as far as like telling you what the plot is,
which is great. But here's just a little bit of
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the twenty eight years later trailer.
Speaker 6 (45:58):
Flaring fun eleven time.
Speaker 4 (46:22):
Seventeen.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
That is how you do with trailer that gets me excited.
That audio is actually from a really old poem called Boots,
which came out in nineteen fifty, and that poem was
about sixty thousand British infantrymen who marched endlessly throughout South Africa,
capturing settlement after settlement, and from that sixty twenty two
thousand soldiers lost their lives. So this poem suggests that
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they have this psychological torture going on. Some of the
lines of that poem declared that after six weeks of marching,
that hell contains no fire, devil's dark or anything, only
endless movement of boots. That sounds like a pretty horrific poem.
And even though this trailer really doesn't tell you anything
about the plot. It doesn't really sway you on what
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the story is going to be. You feel it from
watching this trailer and seeing this action, seeing.
Speaker 3 (47:16):
The blood splatter.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
I love it when any film, not just a trailer specifically,
but when any film shows something that is really haunting
and shocking and violent but there is an absence of sound.
Either there's a song that's really soft that doesn't match it,
or there is complete silence. I think that is so impactful,
and it's a big risk, but if you can really
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nail that sentiment, get that across, oh man, it just
feels so much more impressive on the screen and makes
me think that this movie is going to be something
special and not just reviving a twenty two year old movie.
It also gives you a feeling of how desolate the
world has become since that original movie. There are some
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flashes throughout this trailer where you see some things on
the wall describing the roles of everybody in this little community.
They have these different jobs. Ray Fines looks psychotic in
this trailer. He's like covered in war pain. He looks hardcore.
Aaron Taylor Johnson. He is walking around with this other
character that very much gives us Last of Us vibes,
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even though I would say this movie was probably inspiration
of Last of Us. That is really, to me the
last great zombie apocalypse type show or movie that we've had.
So I think anything coming out now is gonna be like,
oh yeah, this reminds me of the Last of Us,
even though this predates that, and the big thing about
Twenty eight Days Later. When it came out, it kind
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of redefined the zombie genre, even though it didn't invent
the fast moving zombie, which was what really made that
movie different back when it came out in two thousand
and two, because before that you had the George A.
Romero movies where all the zombies were really dumb, they
walked slow, and you could get away from a zombie.
You just had to worry about a lot of them
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piling up on you and eating your brains. But then
when Twenty eight Days Later came out, you suddenly have
these very fast paced zombies. They are very rabid, Their
behavior was a lot different. They act based on instincts,
even though they still don't eat, speak, or for many
kind of new ideas. I think later in the twentys
and twenty tens, you had this version of zombie that
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became a little bit more intuitive and they could kind
of start putting things together. It had some brain activity,
which I think a lot of people don't like. But
what caused the zombies in twenty eight days later they
were infected by this fictional rage virus which spread nationwide.
Speaker 3 (49:42):
There was an animal rights group who.
Speaker 1 (49:44):
Accidentally released this virus into the world, and it followed
Killian Murphy's character who woke up in a hospital twenty
eight days after that initial outbreak. But that movie was
really intense, and that was also at a time where
I love zombie movies. After twenty eight days later, I
think my next favorite movie was in two thousand and
four Donna the Dead, which was a remake, and that's
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still one of my favorite Donna the Dead movies because
I discovered the two thousand zombie movies before I discovered
all the old classics. But the thing about twenty eight
days later is this movie is impossible to watch now
because what happened was see what happened was Disney bought
twenty first century Fox's assets, at least most of them,
(50:25):
which included twentieth century Fox back in twenty nineteen and
now it's just Century Studios.
Speaker 3 (50:30):
They pretty much said, hey, is Fox, screw you.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
We're gonna take and buy your company and then remove
your name from it. So now that is why you
see a lot of these Century Studios movies on Hulu
because Disney owns Hulu, and for the most part, I
feel like to put out pretty good movies under that brand. Now,
so I hate that Disney is slowly acquiring everything. It
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just feels like I don't want one studio to have
that much power. But what happened with twenty eight days
Later is they only own the rights to the sequel
and will own the rights to this one now. So
they have twenty eight weeks later, they're gonna have twenty
eight years later, but they still don't own twenty eight
days Later because it was independently funded. So that is
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why not only can you not watch this movie on
any streaming service that you are subscribed to, you can't
even go anywhere online to rent it unless you're finding
some really dark web back door site, which I wouldn't
recommend going to those, But there is nowhere you can
go to stream this movie. That is why whenever this
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movie got announced that it was in production, a lot
of people started going to stores and buying physical copies
of this DVDs. I don't even know if it's on
Blu Ray yet, because I think this movie came out
before Blu Ray was as popular as it was. I'm
sure a copy of it exists. But this is a
reason why I feel that it is important to own
some movies on Blu Ray, on dvdvhs, on laser disc,
(51:59):
whatever have. If it's a movie you truly love and
want to have forever and don't want to be at
the mercy of some streaming service or the internet or wherever
you can rent movies, sometimes it is just good to
purchase one of those movies so you can have it,
and I would say you would have it forever. But
there is a certain shelf life on a Blu Ray
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on a DVD. If you look it up, you see
a lot of conflicting things that could be anywhere from
twenty to fifty years to one hundred years. I think
they just really don't know how long a disc will last,
but at.
Speaker 3 (52:33):
Least it probably will last your lifetime.
Speaker 1 (52:35):
I feel like we still have some DVDs from the
two thousands that still work, So twenty four years later,
those are still working. And there have been movies in
the last six or seven years or so that I
have enjoyed so much that I made it a point
to buy them on Blu Ray because I just felt
like owning a little piece of history and I wanted
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to be able at any time to sit down and
watch them.
Speaker 3 (52:59):
So some of my favorite movies I have on Blu.
Speaker 1 (53:01):
Ray because I need to own them just to feel
complete in my life. I've also become more of a
collector in the last couple of years, so sometimes I
just like owning a tangible subject. And I wish I
had a copy of twenty eight Days Later because I
haven't seen this original movie since the two thousands.
Speaker 3 (53:18):
It wasn't really.
Speaker 1 (53:19):
One of my favorite zombie films at the time. I
think by it kind of building this aura around it
as time and time went on, as we saw more
things that kind of reflected what we saw in this movie,
the twenty twenty Pandemic, for example. I feel like this
movie is going to have more of an impact now
than it did back in two thousand and two, where
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it felt more like something that could never happen, and
it's maybe because we've been exposed to more movies and
shows like this.
Speaker 3 (53:48):
But I am legend.
Speaker 1 (53:49):
Like I mentioned, the last of us Walking Dead obviously
popped off at the end of the two thousands, dominated
the twenty tens with zombie culture. I think we're at
a point now where we want to see things depicted
in movies to kind of prepare ourselves what's gonna happen
if something actually goes crazy again? Can we maybe pick
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up some things from a movie So twenty eight years
later coming out on June twentieth, twenty twenty five, and
it is the trailer of the Year, And.
Speaker 4 (54:18):
That was this week's edition of Movie b Tramer.
Speaker 1 (54:22):
Park and that is going to do it for another
episode here of the podcast. But before I go, I
gotta give my listener shout out of the week. How
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Type in Mike Dstro and you will find my channel.
You'll find my social media profiles if you ever forget
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punching something in It is always in the show notes
on every single episode. This week, I'm going over to YouTube,
which I have been more consistent posting more videos there.
So I don't film every single episode just because I'm
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the only one who produces this content. I edit, record,
write all this stuff myself and on one team, and
I'm trying really hard to build out that YouTube channel.
Sometimes it's just really hard to do another video, but
I've been trying to post not only the individual movie reviews,
but also the recap.
Speaker 3 (55:27):
Videos with Kelsey and I.
Speaker 1 (55:28):
I've been doing those pretty consistently, trying to post more
just individual clips on anything I am able to record,
so be sure to subscribe, trying to get more subscribers
over there, trying to grow that channel, so that would
really mean a lot to me, and that is why
I'm going over to YouTube for this week's listener shout
out of the Week. It goes out to at kaior One.
Not sure if that's a name or just an acronym
(55:51):
for something, but they wrote in response to Kelsey and
I talking about who we think should play Dorothy in
an inevitable Wizard of Oz remake. They wrote, it doesn't
need a remake. It is a bit disrespectful to the creator.
Please watch the og one. That movie is lightning in
a bottle. I wasn't saying that I think Wizard of
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Oz needs a remake. I just think that with Wicked
being as popular as it is now, that it's going
to make somebody, whether it's the people who have the
rights or whenever it goes public domain, it's gonna make
somebody remake this movie. I can already just envision that
in my head because that is essentially money on the table.
I don't think it needs a remake, and I would
(56:36):
much rather go watch the original one. I think a
lot of the allure of that movie is the history
behind the original and how they were able to do
that with very little technology. Going back and rewatching that movie,
watching the tornado scene and the special effects with like
the fire going and the trapdoors falling down, so they're
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there one moment and they're gone the net next.
Speaker 3 (57:02):
There are some really great.
Speaker 1 (57:03):
Special effects that how are they even able to do
that back in that day? So it's not a movie
I think needs to be remade, And although I don't
think it would be disrespectful to the creator, I think,
if anything, the creator was disrespectful to the actors. So
it would be nice maybe to have a version that
doesn't have this dark history of abuse and people getting hurt,
(57:26):
people basically ending up dead because of the making of
that movie. So a nice, clean movie, hopefully at least
as clean as Hollywood can be these days. But I
appreciate that comment. Sometimes it's hard to go read YouTube
comments because you either have people who are like here,
you're trying to start conversation. I don't get mad at
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people for voicing their opinion that differs from mine. That
it's going to be inevitable. That is the great thing
about talking about movies is we're gonna have different opinions
on things. I'm gonna watch things that I think are
great and recommend to you, and you're gonna watch them
and say that was stupid.
Speaker 3 (58:02):
I hated that movie.
Speaker 1 (58:03):
That is the nature of entertainment and the way we
find the things we like in life and our tastes.
They're just gonna differ. Different thing about YouTube is sometimes
people are just mean for the sake of being mean,
and you just see these profiles that have nothing behind
them just going.
Speaker 3 (58:21):
At me for no reason.
Speaker 1 (58:22):
And I'm a small creator over there, and it's like, man,
if you get people like me a hard time who
are just trying to start something they're passionate about and grow,
something like, what are these huge creators have to deal with?
But that has been on my mind lately. I try
not to start my day by reading YouTube comments, but
I appreciate that. Thank you for listening, thank you for
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being subscribed. And until next time, go out and watch
good movies and I will talk to you
All right, We're good that you're doing the lowriter. It's
three am and I'm watching George Lopez. Uh yeah, Welcome
back to Movie Mike's movie podcast. I am your host
Movie Mike joined with my wife and co host Kelsey.
How are you getting that caffeine in?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I'm getting that caffeine. I this is what I wear
when I'm on meetings at work. I have one workout
clothes and the throwing this nice cardigan over it. But
I was facetiming my younger brother last week and he
told me I looked like an English teacher, and I
was like, yeah. I was like, I'm almost thirty one
with eight to five. I do look like an English teacher.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
English teachers are cool.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I am almost thirty one in three weeks. Three weeks
from Today's my.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Birthday, Happy early birthday, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Today we're going to talk about what I believe are
the top ten most underrated movies of the year, and
I'll give you exactly how I broke these down in
the movie review. I'll be talking about Y two K
before I get into my thoughts. What's your quick review
of Y two KH? It's okay, I'm surprised you enjoyed
it even a little bit.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Please don't horror and only horror. And I asked you.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I was like, it's a horror comedy and you were like,
it's probably stupid comedy. There was there was a lot gore,
and as we've said from Gladiator, I don't do gore.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Yeah, you did lead me astray with that. There was
a lot of gore.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I didn't know how gorey it was gonna be. I
knew it would be a little bit like slash your funny,
like ha ha, but it was a little bit more
abrasive than I was expecting, like, oh okay, but.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It was fine overall. I had Chumblewamba stuck in my
head after.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Was that in the movie?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Is that why I had tub thumpings?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Everybody was in that movie.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
In the trailer park, we'll be talking about twenty eight
years Later, which is a trilogy, and I'll explain to
you why you need to buy more physical media because
of the history of the original movie. I'll get into
that later. But thank you for being here, thank you
for being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew.
And now let's talk.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
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Speaker 1 (02:11):
All right, let's get into what I believe or the
top ten most underrated movies of the year. What I
did is I went to go see other people's ratings.
I went to ron Tomatoes got the audience score because
that's the one I believe more. I put that against
what I rated the movie. I also looked at the
box office numbers compared to the budget. So I'm gonna
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factor that into because some of these movies, I will say,
have a higher rating that you would assume for a
if you were calling something underrated and it has like
a pretty decent score. But then if you factor in
how much money it made versus how much money it
spent to make that movie, I consider that as well,
because sometimes you see a list and you're like, oh,
this is a box office bomb, even though it could
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be a good movie. So let's get into the list.
At number ten, I have Ricky Staniki from Amazon which
hasn't no funny audience score of six, costs fifty million
dollars to make, doesn't have a box office because well
it went to Amazon. But I feel like when people
take movies so seriously, but sometimes you just want a
dumb movie.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
If John Cena isn't it he was in Ricky Snicky.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, I'm not expecting it to be comedy club acting.
I just want like dumb humor, and that delivered.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
The movie was about they were all childhood friends and
they came up with some random name to blame something
on that they did his kids, and then they kept
using that person to go do other things to.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Get out of things, like they would tell their wives
like Ricky needs us, like.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Oh, we gotta go to the Vegas to go hang
out with Ricky.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Ricky's girlfriend dumbed him he really needs a cheer up club.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
So anytime they needed a bailout, he was their alibi,
like shell person, like a shell company, until time came
that everybody needed to meet Ricky. And then it gets
into this whole thing.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
So it's a dumb plot.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
But I just feel like every movie I giggled, Yeah,
certain movies that go into.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
It and I want a little bit more and I leave. Man,
that was dumb. That was bad writing.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
But sometimes you just want something dumb. And I think
in an era which I tried to include, I think
I did include no sequels, no franchises on this entire list.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
When we are.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Complaining about there aren't great comedies anymore, and then we don't.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Because we don't go see the ones that they put out.
See THENT me just get seventeen sears.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
You don't see the ones in theaters, so you're gonna
get less of them there, and then the ones on
streaming are gonna be a little bit lesser of quality
because you can't spend that same amount because people aren't
going to see them in theaters. I enjoy movies like this.
I think one every now and then is worthy, especially
if you're somebody who just really wants a comedy and
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are itching for one. If you aren't giving movies like
this a chance, then well maybe you don't deserve a comedy.
Harsh At number nine, I have Self Reliance, which I
gave before out of five. You can watch it on Hulu.
This was the Jake Johnson movie Yes, which I feel.
I watched it and I loved it, and I couldn't
imagine anybody else not enjoying it as much as I did.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
So then imagine your surprise when people didn't.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Everybody hated this movie, and I don't understand what the
hate was.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
I did, my surprise, no one else did.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I was like, guys, this is a good one, isn't it.
I posted that review. Everybody hated this movie.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I personally attacked it did get a little ridiculous here
and there, but I just didn't love the journey of
this movie, and I thought it was a really good movie.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
I was MEH on it.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Why men?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
It was good, just not your It's weird, Yeah, yeah,
I like the plot being weird, and I like Anna
Kendrick in it. I thought her and Jake Johnson were
really good together. I just thought the entire premise behind
it was fun and that's all I wanted out of it.
And at the end of the movie, I was satisfied.
But I found that a lot of other people were
not satisfied by the ending of this movie. It did
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cost seventy million dollars to make, which is a lot.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Cad imagine what I could do seventy millions.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
A lot of money.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
It doesn't think about these like budgets for movies. I'm
just like, I could do so much.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I have been thinking about that a lot because I've
been watching a lot of just histories of movies.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Right now, you're in a big Yeah what is the
Vice series?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Advice series?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, the RD series and before Sometimes I think like,
how could they spend two hundred and fifty million dollars
on a movie? And then they slop or you just
start wondering like what even goes into that? And the
more I watch some of these behind the scenes, you
kind of start to see it. You think of it
as a big production. Even like TI is on there
talking about how great craft services that Marvel has anything.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah, food gets expensive? T Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
TI was in ant Man oh so he did an
interview for it, and he was talking about they had
the best craft services out of any movie he's ever
worked on. So you think about how much money they're
just spending on food today.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
I mean all the TI was the interview.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
They can get a lot of people on there, but
that was just the one that stuck out because ran
you talk about the things that I care about, like
how much money are they spending on food and how
good of food is a two hundred and fifty million
dollar Marvel movie compared to like a low budget movie
where you probably have to bring your own lunch.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
No, I'm thinking TI I the whatever you like song.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah, he was good at it man, and a lot
of that stuff. I think for his character in particular,
it wasn't written until he got on set. They were
just kind of like, all right, here we go, we're
gonna give you some lines. So he didn't even have
a whole lot of time.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
To like t I doesn't care what he's doing. He's like,
they got craps, they.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Got great food. I'm showing up for that.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
But you can kind of start to see how movie
budgets ballooning up when you're having to feed people, you're
having to transport people, makeup pir and then in those
movies you're having to pay people to do all the
special effects, and that's why that gets expensive. I always thought, like,
how could special effects cost you money?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
You're paying for someone's time exactly, So really all were
ever being paid for in theroll is certain time.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, that movie didn't have a box office because it
went to who I find that's a really expensive Hulu movie.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Hulu spends a lot of money from movies that I'm
just like, no one's gonna see this.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
But that was one I was surprised by. I still
stand by and enjoying this movie. I put that one
at number and number eight. I have fly Me to
the Moon, which I think, for the most part, it
had a pretty good reaction. It has a ninety percent
popcord meter.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Came out the week for Twisters, though.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
But I think it was bad timing and if you
look at the box office number, it's pretty bad. It's
one hundred million dollar movie made forty two million at
the box office, so lost the good amount of money.
I think this was one that audiences enjoyed more than critics.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
We love this movie.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I think it should have just gone to Apple.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
That was the intention of this movie. You can still
watch it on Apple, and I think putting it out
in theaters, spending that money on advertising probably ballooned up
at least the just the advertising budget.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Oh, but I think it's pretty solid.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I thought Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum's chemistry.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Was really good.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
It did up great chemistry, and it also contributed to
a lot of people having conspiracy theories about the moon
landing in space.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
You know, I'm very big into space. Now you need
to read a book about the moon landing.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
What do you think about the moon landing? Did we
actually go after watching this movie?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
What do you think?
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Yeah, the movie did make me have some questions.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yeah, you just wonder where this theory in particular from
this movie comes from, because the entire thing is about
Scarlett Johansson having to go in and essentially do a
pr for NASA and make them cool, and then she
does such a good job that they're like, well, we
actually have a lot of attention here. We have to
come up with a backup plan in case this doesn't
work out.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I think if I if I just start believing conspiracy
theories about.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
That and you're gonna believe it about everything.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
I'm never gonna believe anything again.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I am getting to that point with all the AI
online where I'm like, did they even say that?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Is that them?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
And I'm over analyzing things just because I'm like everything's
a scam.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I I'll talk more about my interest in space in
my book Episode of the Year, But yeah, I need
to read a moon landing book. Because I'm very big
into like NASA right now. It's my hyper obsession of
the week.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
If you were given the opportunity to go to space,
would you go. Were talking about this the other day,
like what do you even do in space? Like what
are they doing up there?
Speaker 6 (09:58):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I I think I'd get too motion sick. I don't
think I would do well. And you get like space
like sickness syndrome.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
That sounds kind of cool, though, No, on a hurl
in a space suit.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
It floats away from you. That's disgusting.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
That's cool, it's disgusting. You can just see it like
floating around.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I would like to go like straight up see the
Earth from up there and then come back town.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
That's the part that sounded cool reading some of these books.
But like I'm just feel stressful. But I have ended
up on several wormholes lately, like Wikipedia, like what is
the International Space Station? What are they doing up there?
What are we taking up there? When they talk about
all these satellites, what are we doing? Are we just
like leaving them up there? There's those people that are
like stranded in space right now. Currently, I have more
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questions than I have answers to you.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
About space.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
So until I have concrete evidence that the moon landing
did not occur, I'm gonna believe it.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Well, if you haven't seen this movie, go watch it
and come up with your own theory about it. At
number seven, I have The fall Guy, which you can
watch now on Peacock. Number one under four out of five.
It was so so funny. It was funny, It had
great action. It was a little meta because it's about
Ryan Gosling, who's a stuntman, and he's doing stuntman things
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inside of a stuntman movie, so it goes that other level.
The director was a former stuntman. He was a stuntman
for Brad Pitt. The movie cost one hundred and thirty
million dollars to make, made one edighty one at the
box office, but really to be profitable you have to
make back twice your budget. So this is definitely going
to be on the list of the biggest bombs of
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the year. It had a really bad opening weekend.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I don't know how where. I was shocked about how
much how little.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I guess it was the timing of this movie too,
of how summer, how little money it didn't make, and
you have two huge stars Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
I we laughed so hard at this movie. I left
and I was like, that.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Was great, because I feel for us. For a movie
like this, it had something for the both of us.
It had like the rom com aspect, but it also
had that action aspect, and then it had like an
entirely different level of film that was something that felt
truly unique because it's based on a TV show. I'n't
really familiar with this TV show from way back in
the day, so to me, even though technically it's a
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reboot or reimagination of a TV show, it didn't really
feel like they were rehashing something old to make money
off of it because I wasn't familiar with the source material.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
I didn't know what was based on a TV show. Oh,
it news to me.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
I'm just learning that right now.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
I was today years old when I learned that.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
See.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Yeah, most people didn't know. But of all the movies
that lost a lot of money this year, this one
just makes me a little bit sad because I think
it should have done better. It has a pretty decent
audience score at eighty five percent, so I think the
people that did go see it did enjoy it, but
oftentimes it's about looking back in history and seeing the
box office numbers versus the budget that this is just
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going to go down as being a flop, and that sucks,
especially for Ryan Gosling where he is that at this
point of career where I feel like he's trying to
do movies that aren't the same thing over and over again,
and then you do something like this that was probably
fun for him, and I was like, man, do I
just have to go back and doing what people enjoy
instead of doing what I want to do? But I
felt bad for that movie. I put that one at
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number seven, at number six, you can watch it on Amazon.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Now. I have drive away.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Dolls so funny. Do not watch your children around?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I think that's probably ultimately what led to not more
people seeing and enjoying this movie. It is a pretty
crude movie just from the opening scene, and it's essentially
like I would say, kind of in this generation Stilma
and Louise. It's a road trip movie. You have some
bad guys going after these girls. They're doing very crude
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things all throughout, a lot of slapstick comedy, just crude comedy.
From beginning to end, a lot of curse words, a
lot of nudity, but something that I just it just
felt fresh to me.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It was Margaret Quayley was so good in it, and
Beanie Feldsteine.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I think this started Margaret Quayley's run of movies that
she doesn't want her parents to go see.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
She was like movies that my family can't see this year,
Driveaway Dolls, Kinds of Kindness and The Substance.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
And yeah, this started it.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
But I feel like next year is going to be
even stronger for her because I feel with her three
movies that I feel like all three movies of hers
were solid this year. When we do the best of
twenty twenty four episode, I think The Substance is going
to end up on this list and I wanted to
include Driveaway Dolls here.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
It has an audience score thirty six percent.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
That's so lowly low. I same times the audience the
low audience scores are the best movies.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Out of every movie I put on this list, it
has the lowest score. Had a budget of thirteen million,
which isn't crazy, but only made seven point nine million
dollars at the box office, lost about five million dollars.
But this is a movie that just didn't have any advertising. No,
you didn't see anything about it. I don't even remember
how we learned about it.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
There were a couple trailers.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I think that was it.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I think we just like Margaret Quayley's so related to
go watch a new Margret Quayley movie that's not about right,
and no one else went to go see it. But
that's why I put that one at number six. At
number five, I have the Ministry of Ungentlemanly.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Warfare again, really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
This was a movie that I feel we went to
go see because we were trying to utilize and maximize
how much we use our regal unlimited, or.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
We had nothing else to do the weekend, or unless
we get a little too start crazy, and really our
hobbies are either spending money or going to the movies,
and we have to alternate those hobbies because you know,
spending money gets too expensive. To think that was a
weekend where we were like, we just need to get
out of the house.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Especially during the warmer months in the summer where we're like,
let's just go hang out.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Somebody's cold acee.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
No, truly, we turned the air up in the house,
but we're not running it here, and then we go
sit in the freezing caled Regal theater.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
So I think this was one I kind of remember
that day we realized, let's go watch, let's see what's happening.
And maybe it's because we had such low expectations. I
knew you would enjoy the World War Two elements a
little bit. Me never, but it's not like your typical
World War Two movie. I really like the style of
action and just the overall cinematography in this movie. I
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love the scenes out on the water where it just
looks so blue and rich, like that is my favorite
color palette, Like that water that even though I wouldn't
want to jump in the ocean, it makes me want
to jump in the ocean.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I thought the action.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Was really good, and I really like Henry cavill and
I feel like he has been done dirty by DC,
by them saying, hey, you're going to come back a Superman.
Actually we're moving on and we're gonna do a different
Superman movie.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
I think it's a great point.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
He left the Witcher for that, he had the cameo
in the movie. He was all set up to come
back a Superman and now they're probably not gonna bring
him back.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
It does not hurt that he's so attractive. I did
not mind looking at him on the screen.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
For two hours, except when he was in Argyle. We
were like, we're good on Henry Cavill.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
That whole movie.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
That is not an underrated not underrated, that's gonna make
the word that was overrated.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Yeah, some people really enjoyed that movie, but this was
not among them.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
But this movie had a budget of sixty million dollars
and only made twenty nine million dollars at the box office.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Fifty percent loss, so it lost a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
But I think it's a solid movie. I gave it
a four out of five. It's not on a streaming service.
You have to have stars to watch it, so I
don't think we have stars. You'd probably just have to
rent it.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
We gotta stop having so many services everyone PSA.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I think we have a Momo now.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
It's getting to it's so it's more expensive than cable
TV would have been.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yeah, we're back at the same thing now, and they're not.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Even At first I was like, oh, convenience, they're on
the same place. But they're not. They're on Prime, They're on.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Hulu, it's on Netflix, it's on Max, so many places.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
The only one we don't have right now is Paramount Plus.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Yeah, because we got Peacock too.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Yeah, that Black Friday sale.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Guy and I will watch Twisters enough to get our
money's right now.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I was like, oh, I love to bundle them up
when you can save money. But yeah, that one comes
in at number five, at number four. You can watch
it on Hulu. I gave it a four point five
out of five. It is Babes.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
I saw someone on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
This is the movie that I brought up months ago
where I saw someone on TikTok say they walked out
of a movie and it was the worst movie of
the year, And I was like, I can't remember what
the movie was that they hated.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
It was Babe.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
They walked out of Babes.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
They hated Babes. What.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I'm horrified for that person because this was like Bridesmaids
to me.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
It was that level of funny.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
It was the movie about a girl gets pregnant on
a one night stand, decides to keep the baby, and
basically it's from that moment all the way up to
when she has the baby kind of like a knocked
up kind of like a bridesmaid's like you said, but
really just a story about two friends and how when
you get older your friendships change because when you're young,
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you spend all your time together, but when you get older,
one of you has kids, has a husband, has a family.
Having to maintain a really close relationship with a friend
it's hard to do.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
And it is really hard.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
And as someone who's in the phase of married but
doesn't have kids yet, I have friends that are married
and have kids, and then I have friends that aren't married.
So it's like we're all in different phases and it's
not It's not even the like being together is weird.
It's just finding the time to hang out when you
all live in different places.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah, that's probably the hardest thing for you, is that
everybody has dispersed all over the country.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
It's very hard. Does give me excuses to go visit
f on.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Places and me I left from where all my friends
are like my well, it's mostly family. I have friends
in Texas that I was still living there I would
hang out with, but yours are just all over.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
The place they are.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
But I feel at the core of what Babes was about.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, it's about her getting pregnant, but it's I would say,
mostly about their relationship, female friendship and that bond. But
the movie has a seventy nine percent audience score, which
is decent. It's passing, but had a budget of three
point seven million dollars and only made three point eight
so about broke even. But I don't feel like there
was too much advertising on this movie.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
This movie was so funny they failed and not advertising it.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Hopefully more people are watching it now that it's on Hulu,
and it was cool.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
We went to go see at the Bellcourt. We got
to see like that pre.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, they had a live view into like a screening
because we saw on a Mother's Day and its screening
with Julia Luis Dreyfuss as the moderator.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I just thought this movie had some of the best
writing in anything this year. Was very witty, funny and clever.
I still stand by my four point five out of five.
That's why I put it at number four.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I take it back, this is my number one underrated.
I didn't know this was on the list. Over the
fall Guy. Babes was phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Babes, You're number one.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
All right, I have at number three, Love Lives Bleeding,
which I gave a four out of five. You can
watch it now on Max. Did I see that you
did not watch this one with me? It's an a
twenty four movies with Kristin Stewart. She has a job
at a gym, she meets a bodybuilder. They have this
really chaotic relationship. Kristin Stewart's family is like a crime family.
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So I feel that this movie did pretty well as
far as the audience score has an eighty two percent,
but the movie coused ten million dollars to make only
made about twelve million dollars at the box office, so
it really didn't clear a whole lot. But this is
one of the most imaginative movies of the year. Where
I think the problem some people might have with it
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is it goes from being so based in reality to
having a lot of elements of fantasy. And I love
that aspect of it because at the core of it,
it seemed just like a crime drama. I was so
invested in their relationship and them just wanting to make
it out of their bad situation. And then it kind
of changes in the third act where it breaks the
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rules of reality and turns into this really fantastical story
and it almost felt like this old little fairy tale
in the form of an A twenty four movie. And
I thought this movie was gonna be huge given that
it has Kristen Stewart in it. I feel like she's
in that era of her career where she is taking
more old risks in her roles, and I thought this
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was a great example of that. I just can't believe
this movie didn't make more money, so I decided to
put that one at number three at number two. Another
one you didn't watch with me. It's called It's What's
Inside on Netflix. I gave it a four out of five.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Is it scary?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
It's kind of scary.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
It's more on the level of a Black Mirror episode
where they're at this party. It's before these couple is
getting married, and this guy has this device that everybody
puts on these little things on their head and they're
able to switch bodies with somebody else in the room,
and then the game is that you have to decide
who was in your body. So just the premise alone
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is fantastic. And this is one that it's on Netflix,
but it's not a Netflix original. It is a movie
that Netflix acquired the rights to, So there's no real
budget that was put out about it, no real box
office performance, but they did buy it for seventeen million dollars,
So I didn't really see a whole lot of people
talking about this movie whenever it was put out on Netflix.
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And that's why I feel that sometimes it's hard to
gauge the reaction a Netflix movie had because sometimes they
come out and just kind of fall into the abyss.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
So because there's always stuff coming out.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yeah, like they had that whole initiative of a couple
maybe even back in the Pandemic or twenty twenty one,
where they were putting out a new movie every single week,
and they still kind of do that, but it almost
just feels like content at this point, where it's somebody
just putting up a YouTube video. Shout everybody on YouTube
right now, but it's like, dang, Like they acquired the
rights of this movie. A sixty nine percent audience score
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is pretty good, but the movie comes out and then
that week or two after it's added on there, Like,
how do you even search out a movie on Netflix
if it's not up there? In like the top ten,
like how are they pushing it to people? After a while,
I thought that movie would have had a little bit
more of an impact.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
And I don't know how you really make money.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
From Netflix, because yeah, they buy the rights to movies,
but I don't feel like that was one that like, hey,
look at all these people in this movie. It's gonna
get people over there to subscribe. So that is why
I put that one at number two. At number one,
my most underrated movie of twenty twenty four. I have
my Old Ass So Good, which I gave a four
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out of five. It has a pretty decent audience score,
like a great eighty nine percent. But I think this
one comes down to the box office. Had a budget
of three million dollars, which is wild that they made
this movie for three million dollars, but it only made
five million dollars.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
That's two million dollars now though it sputtering bean in
the red, I.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Just think that it is hard to make a fresh
coming of age movie at this point.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
And I love the formula.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I could watch the same coming of age formula in
any amount of movies and I would still enjoy There's
just something special about it when done right and this one.
The twist was that she takes some mushrooms, she sees
her older self, which is Aubrey Plaza. She tells her
all this stuff about her future and kind of gives
their advice on like what to avoid, and then puts
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her phone number in her phone and she's able to
communicate with her. My only thing was I wanted more
Aubrey Plaza.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
But it was cool to see Aubrey Plaza on more
like I mean, she was still her like dry, comedic self,
but a little bit more of an emotional Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Well, there was a scene in this movie where I
damn near cried.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Yeah, I think you did.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Like I think it was there was a span of
movies there, I think this one in the Wild Robot.
We watched back to back, I believe, and both times
the movies like I almost cried. I look, and I
did not expect to go there because there's just a
moment where it's like, oh man, all this stuff that
had been building up and building up. Yeah, there's a
lot of fights between her younger self and her older self,
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which I would question things that I would be telling
my younger self, and there's a moment that just hits
you right in the gut, and then it just like,
oh man, I just kind of sat with it.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
What's the number one thing that you would tell your
younger self sitting here now?
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Is it? Thirty three year old? I always have to remember,
hold you or it's very difficult me.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I don't know how cliche this is, but like stop
caring what people think.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
I think that kept me from.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Doing a lot of things that I enjoyed younger because
I was worried about how they would be perceived by
other people. And at that time, I didn't realize that
those other people would not matter when I was older.
Like look at this room now, Like all these things
that I embraced now were things that I hid back then.
And I think all the things about me now that
I enjoy actually about myself I was ashamed of probably
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fifteen years ago. And it's hard to say to imagine
me like being cool, but I had a feeling of
like I need to be cool because I was so
one cool that I didn't want to come across of
like putting anything against me because there was already a
lot of things held against me. I felt like like
I was overweight, I had bad skin, my teeth are
messed up. There were just things I felt that kept
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me from being cool, and I was like, I just
can't show any other weakness. I think that's what it
would be it for me. I would just not care
about what anybody else thought. And just like the things
I like, would you tell yourself?
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Mine's also cliche, and mine would be to like stop
worrying about the boys that didn't like me. Like I
just was like, no one's ever gonna like me. I'm
gonna be single forever. I felt that too, and I
was so young. But I think I think when you're
in high school and it's like you have those couples
and like ever I never had a boyfriend.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
You were my first boyfriend.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
I damn you went my first girlfriend dates.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Like I liked people, I talk to people, but like
no one ever really fully liked me. And I just
used to think, like I'm ugly, no one's gonna like me.
And I'm just saying in retrospect, I think I was
just like too smart. I think I intimidated people like
not to toot my own horn, but I think I
just was like unapproachable because I was really smart.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
I've oddly been thinking about this lately. Is I always
felt that it was people not giving me a chance.
And when I look back on myself there, I think
I just didn't respect myself enough, Like I didn't put
an effort into myself to attract anybody.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
I thought it was all about looks, but I.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Think it was how I treated myself and probably the
energy I put out that was really what it was.
And I just thought it was, like I said, just
people not give me a chance. But I thought about
like would I even want to be with me then?
So maybe that's the advice I would give to myself, like, hey,
working yourself a little more, dummy.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yeah, I think I would tell myself to stop stressing
because I met you when I was twenty four's that
is still so young when in retrospect, I met you
when I was twenty four, I was married to twenty seven.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Like, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I think I just was like, oh my god, I'm
going to be alone forever. But like those things feel
so big when you're younger. Yeah, they feel so monumental.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
When you're younger, you want to get older. When you're older,
you want to be younger. I think if I was
more specific about my advice. I think it would be
that you're on your own timeline. Yeah, like nobody else
is really looking at your timeline, even though to you
it feels like, ah, I'm so behind, How am I
at this point in my life? Yet when really nobody
else cares about what's going on with you and in
the end it doesn't really matter, like what age you
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are when you hit these supposed milestones that you're supposed
to hit.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
I think I would also I would warn myself not
to like several of the guys that I liked. I
think I would be like, don't waste your time, don't
just don't just delete his number.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Even more specific advice, I would have told myself to
like to get into coding more, like pay attention to
technology more.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
I would have told myself to purchase real estate at
the age of like five.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
I'd invested in like TikTok or something.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
I would have invested in bitcoin exactly.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I'd have bought it when it was so cheap. It'd
be millionaires. Now as I tell you.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
I would have bought stock in Apple.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Would it have been as value?
Speaker 1 (29:47):
I guess back then, I feel like the time would
have to buy it, would have been like the eighties.
Whenever they were first launching, it was like dirty. I
don't know if they were public by that point, it's.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Not, according to what one of the characters in the
Nicholas Sparks book did.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
But all right, that is the list. Yours were in there, right,
my old ass.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Babbe Paul Guy yep.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
So nothing else we need to add. All right, we'll
come back and I'll give my spoiler free review of
Y two K. Let's get into it now, a spoiler
free movie review of why two K. This is not
an SNL movie by any means. It is directed by
Kyle Mooney, who spent a lot of time on SNL
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as a performer and a writer, and none of this
was conceptualized on the show. None of the characters are
from SNL. But to me it had that SNL feeling,
which there hasn't been an SNL movie in a while,
and for a long time that was kind of the norm.
A character would pop off on SNL and then make
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a movie about it, probably more in the eighties and nineties.
On two thousand and two, there were some bombs along
the way, but I feel they've kind of gotten away
from that a little bit, So I feel like this
is the closest we're getting to that now. And I
was curious to see how Kyle Mooney was gonna be
as a director and also starting in the movie, which
is a really delicate thing to balance because for somebody
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like Kyle Mooney who hasn't really broken out into acting
post SNL, how much is he going to put himself
in this movie? So that'll be the question I answered,
did he put himself in this movie too much? So
what Y two K is about? We're getting too ahead
of myself. Let me calm down and have a sip
of tea here. I'd like to have green tea while
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I record these. So what Y two K is about
it is essentially what would have happened on New Year's
Eve nineteen ninety nine if what everybody was scared about
actually went down and all of the machines just shut down.
And this takes it to an extreme because really what
we were all worried about is once the calendar switched
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from nineteen ninety nine to two thousand, computers were just
going to forget how to be computers, and you weren't
going to be able to go to your bank. You
weren't going to be able to do anything because the
computers were going to be so confused that it's two thousand.
These things were made to go to the two thousands,
that we were all going to freak out. There was
going to be power outages. Everybody fills up for gas
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anytime any kind of disaster is on the break of happening.
Go fill up your gas tanks, Go get eggs, milk,
and bread from the grocery store. And that is really
all we thought about whenever the year two thousand hit.
I was nine years old, so I remember it. Oh,
the two thousands were a great time, But I grew
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up as a young kid in the nineties, you know,
until I was nine, and then I feel like, I
really just I have better association with the two thousands.
So I feel like this movie was really geared towards
me with the humor. And I feel that nostalgia movies
are the new remakes and reboots, because I think everybody
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is sick of remakes and reboots. Even though I mean,
I've been seeing this so much as I've been you know,
talking about in the year List. Even though what we've
been talking about all episodes long, which if you only
watch on YouTube, don't listen to the podcast, go check
out movie mis movie podcast wherever we listen to podcasts
is about underrated movies. And a lot of those movies
I mentioned were original movies that people just didn't pay
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attention to. And I feel that there are new, fresh
movies coming out, and then I feel inside of that
where they're kind of getting around. Okay, we don't have
a known property, we don't have an ip here, but
what we do have is a time in everybody's life
where they still love life. And we saw that a
lot this year of movies dipping into the early two thousands,
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and that nostalgia which is really becoming more of a
thing now in film and TV, where for the longest
time it was all nineties nineties, nineties, nineties nineties. But
now the people who are older and making this content,
making these films, making this art are at that age
like where I was, where either you grew up in
the two thousands or you were a teenager in the
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two thousands, and there are a lot of things there
that people want to feel nostalgic about. So if you're
not making a remake, if you're not rebooting something or
making a prequel. I think the next thing on that
list in that same category is making something that is
nostalgia bate, which are just banking on people going to
see it because they want to feel that again. They
want to hear that music, they want to see those celebrities,
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They want to go back to that time where we
were all young and still experiencing life and taking it
for what it is and weren't so jaded about everything.
But that is kind of how I feel. The allure
was around y two K, going back to when we
weren't all on our phones, and I think I felt
oddly nostalgic in a good way. And I've seen a
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lot of these movies happen where it just doesn't really
hit right and you can tell it's all fabricated, and
they wanted just to throw in references for the sake
of throwing in references. I felt like in this movie,
much like in d D, there was some good nostalgia
in there. In nineteen ninety nine is such an interesting year,
and it opens up with our main lead here played
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by Jayden Martel on aim aol messenger, which just took
me back to an entirely different part of my life,
which I've seen that represented another movies recently, But for
some reason here, the way he was communicating with his
friends on Aim just reminded me of that time in
our lives where we had to wait for our friends
to go online. It wasn't a normous thing for us
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just to be on our phones all the time, to
be a text away.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
I remember getting on Aim.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
And hoping that your friends were on there. And I
never had a computer at home. I would always go
to my cousin's house who had a computer, and I
thought that was the coolest thing ever. I'd sign into
my am account, so it felt like I was being
introduced to this whole new world. And I would get
on there maybe once a week, but sometimes two weeks,
and I'd be like, oh man, I got to catch
up on so much stuff. So it just reminded me
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of how we communicate. There are away messages, having an icon,
you could have sound effects where you would send a
message or get a message.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
It was such a big deal.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
And picking your screen name, oh man, that was my
biggest thing of like, man, whenever I get a computer.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I get my own screen name. That is gonna be
so cool, And.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Where the movie really piled on the nostalgia was with
the soundtrack, but I thought they did a pretty good
job of not just throwing in a bunch of random
songs that meant nothing for no reason. And what the
movie is about, it's pretty simple. Like I mentioned earlier,
what would happen if the technology actually shut down, but
not only that, it revolted and started killing people right
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when it went to midnight on December thirty first, nineteen
ninety nine, going into the new year. The movie centers
around two characters who are nerds, and anytime you have
two characters who are nerds trying to get lucky, you
instantly think about super Bad. And I don't think super
Bad invented that formula, but they just made it so
popular that anytime I see that now, it is what
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it reminds me of.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
And at the.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Core of this movie, it is about friendship, being yourself
and not being worried about being a nerd, and also
realizing that at some point you have to go for
what you want. In this case, Jayden Martel's character wants
to go after the girl of his dreams, played by
Rachel Zegler.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
It starts out with them messaging on aim.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
She just broke up with their boyfriend, and he's trying
to find a way to make a move, but he's
very neurotic, lives inside his head and doesn't know what
he needs to do to make that happen. His best
friend is trying to be his wingman and trying to
support him, but his best friend is also trying to
be cool himself. And for the most part they just
hang out in his room playing video games. But then
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they decide, you know what, we gotta go out. We
heard about this party. We're gonna go party hard, try
to make some friends, try to meet a girl, and
try to kiss somebody at midnight. And that's the goal
of this movie. Much like an American the goal was
to get lucky. So it has that formula that we
all knew in the late nineties and early two thousands,
just forty teenagers trying to get lucky. There really wasn't
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anything new that this movie brought to the table, and
I thought the comedy was actually pretty good. I would
say the first twenty to thirty minutes of this movie,
I was just enjoying their dynamic as friends, them interacting
with all the other clicks in the high school. I
thought how over exaggerated all those clicks were, like the
new metal kids, the jocks, the popular kids. That was
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pretty funny and I felt more authentic to the time
period than it has.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
Been represented before.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
And I think if it would have been a straight
up comedy without the horror elements, it would have been
a much more enjoyable movie for me, and I love
horror movies, but I think when it came to the action,
it just felt very cheap. And it's an a twenty
four movie. And I know they're trying to venture out
and create movies in different genres. They have been really
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indie darlings, some of the best dramas of the last decade.
Also some of the best horror movies of the last decade.
But now they are trying to do movies that are
a little bit more commercial. Earlier this year they had
their biggest attempt at making a big blockbuster with Civil War,
which did pretty well for them, maybe not as successful
as they wanted it to be, but that was a
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really good, solid movie into saying Okay, we're a twenty four,
we can do all these really niche things. But we
can also make a big action movie that anybody can
go and enjoy. So they're trying to build these more
action franchises. They have the Rock coming out in the
movie soon hopefully shows us a different look at himself
as an actor in that movie. And then they have
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movies like Y two K, which they have done a
lot of horror movies. They put out a lot of
horror movies, but they haven't really done one like this,
even though it's about nineteen ninety nine. I feel with
the cast are really trying to get in that gen
Z audience, which is the sweet spot for any movie
right now, to get anybody younger than twenty five to
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care about watching a movie like this. And I often
think that is what some movies really miss out on,
is the casting in certain movies like a Borderlands earlier
this year, where that movie should have had an entirely
different cast because you have a video game that younger
people are gonna know and want to see, but then
you put in a bunch of thirty forty fifty plus
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sixty seven year old actors in that movie. No disrespect
to them, but if you're trying to make a film
that is catered towards a younger audience, and you're putting
these people in there that they have no idea who
they are. They're not going to want to go see
that movie. I think that was a big fumble on
That movie's part of not having the right casting, and
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it maybe would had a better shot.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Eli Rod really messed up some details there, but maybe
with the younger cast at least would have done better
that opening weekend at the box office.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
That was a straight bomb this year.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Although the horror elements really didn't win me over, I
would say the movie had a lot of heart. I
found myself enjoying it was I completely engage the entire time.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
Nah, did I.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
Gain anything by watching it in theaters that I wouldn't
have if I just watched it at home.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
I think this is a straight streamer movie. So it's
not one that if you haven't seen yet, that you
need to go see in theaters. But it's definitely one
especially around next Halloween time, we're wanting to watch something
spooky and funny. To me, I feel like this is
almost right now, at least in this point of time.
Removing myself from it just a week from seeing it.
It kind of feels like this decade Idle Hands, where
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you kind of have to be there to get it.
And I feel like a younger person who watches this
movie is gonna have that same relationship that I had
whenever I first saw Idle Hands back in nineteen ninety nine,
where this movie is set. And I'll end it with
answering my question that I had at the beginning of
this review. Did Kyle Mooney put himself in this movie
too much?
Speaker 3 (41:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (41:54):
I don't think his character was that strong. He's a
guy who works at a video station, is a stoner.
I feel like he had played a variation of that
character on SNL. So that's why I said that even
though this wasn't an SNL movie, it felt like an
SNL movie. That's saw a lot of the cast being
happy for him and posting about this movie. But I
almost feel that he put himself in it just a
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little bit too much because that wasn't the strongest character
in this movie. The character I love the most, I
feel like we did not get enough of and I
think that really hurt the movie. So I would be
curious to know his decision to put himself in more
than the character I actually love the most. I feel
like that would be hard for me too, if I
was directing a movie, I would easily put myself more
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in a movie I was making.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
So I can't really hate on him for that, but
I think it did hurt.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
The movie overall because I just thought to myself, that's
a little bit too much Kyle Mooney for me.
Speaker 3 (42:47):
And I think his sense of humor is funny.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
He's a great comedic performer, but I think his presence
kind of stunted this movie's growth in the third act.
So overall, it is a really chill, pretty slow paced movie,
definitely like a stoner movie to me. I don't smoke,
but I feel like if I did smoke, I would
have enjoyed it more because it had that vibe to it.
So for y two K, I give it three out
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of five. Tamagatchi's it's time to head down to movie
Mike trailer Paul I have It.
Speaker 3 (43:21):
Trailer of the Year goes to twenty eight years later.
This trailer is fantastic.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
I don't know how good the movie is gonna be,
but I am so enticed by this trailer that I
am awarding get Trailer of the Year. I think before this,
Long Legs probably was number one trailer of the year.
But this one is so good because after watching it,
just the concept trailer, I want to see this.
Speaker 3 (43:44):
Rarely does that promo at the.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
Very end of the trailer hit and I think, ah,
I need to go buy tickets to this right now.
When this trailer was over, I immediately made sure that
it was coming out next year, in twenty twenty five,
and it is. It is hitting theaters on June twentieth,
twenty twenty five, and I thought to myself, I'm gonna
get tickets for this as soon as it goes on sale.
The movie takes place ten two hundred and twenty eight
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days after the first one. You have the original director
coming back. You have Alex Garland writing this movie. He
did Civil War earlier this year. He has also done
movies like Ex Machina, Who oh Man. That is such
a good movie on its own. But I was not
that excited for this movie until now. The first movie
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is great. The sequel, which director Danny Boyle didn't do.
I think he directed maybe the introduction scene to that
and maybe a couple of scenes in between there, but
an entirely different director on the sequel twenty eight weeks later.
This one just seems to come out at the right time.
Although that first one did come out in two thousand
and two. If it really was twenty eight years later,
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then we wouldn't be getting this movie until twenty thirty.
That's the only problem I have with this. But aside
from that, it looks fantastic. It looks like Killy and
Murphy is coming back. There are some theory on whether
or not one of the zombies in the trailer is
him or not. Some are saying it is, some are
saying it isn't. He hasn't confirmed it. There's somebody else
saying that, No, I was hired to do that role
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with That is me. That is not Killian Murphy. I
don't think it's him either, because he's also a producer
on this movie. I don't feel like he would have
that minimal of a role that he would just be
a zombie in this movie. I feel they don't want
to reveal that until we actually see what is going
on with this character. But there are so many things
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I love about this trailer. Before I get into more,
here's just a little bit of the trailer which really
doesn't have a whole lot of dialogue. There's a lot
of great images, so if you haven't seen it yet,
go watch it on YouTube. But the sound design is
so daunting and not a lot of things going on
as far as like telling you what the plot is,
which is great. But here's just a little bit of
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the twenty eight years later trailer.
Speaker 6 (45:58):
Flaring fun eleven time.
Speaker 4 (46:22):
Seventeen.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
That is how you do with trailer that gets me excited.
That audio is actually from a really old poem called Boots,
which came out in nineteen fifty, and that poem was
about sixty thousand British infantrymen who marched endlessly throughout South Africa,
capturing settlement after settlement, and from that sixty twenty two
thousand soldiers lost their lives. So this poem suggests that
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they have this psychological torture going on. Some of the
lines of that poem declared that after six weeks of marching,
that hell contains no fire, devil's dark or anything, only
endless movement of boots. That sounds like a pretty horrific poem.
And even though this trailer really doesn't tell you anything
about the plot. It doesn't really sway you on what
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the story is going to be. You feel it from
watching this trailer and seeing this action, seeing.
Speaker 3 (47:16):
The blood splatter.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
I love it when any film, not just a trailer specifically,
but when any film shows something that is really haunting
and shocking and violent but there is an absence of sound.
Either there's a song that's really soft that doesn't match it,
or there is complete silence. I think that is so impactful,
and it's a big risk, but if you can really
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nail that sentiment, get that across, oh man, it just
feels so much more impressive on the screen and makes
me think that this movie is going to be something
special and not just reviving a twenty two year old movie.
It also gives you a feeling of how desolate the
world has become since that original movie. There are some
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flashes throughout this trailer where you see some things on
the wall describing the roles of everybody in this little community.
They have these different jobs. Ray Fines looks psychotic in
this trailer. He's like covered in war pain. He looks hardcore.
Aaron Taylor Johnson. He is walking around with this other
character that very much gives us Last of Us vibes,
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even though I would say this movie was probably inspiration
of Last of Us. That is really, to me the
last great zombie apocalypse type show or movie that we've had.
So I think anything coming out now is gonna be like,
oh yeah, this reminds me of the Last of Us,
even though this predates that, and the big thing about
Twenty eight Days Later. When it came out, it kind
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of redefined the zombie genre, even though it didn't invent
the fast moving zombie, which was what really made that
movie different back when it came out in two thousand
and two, because before that you had the George A.
Romero movies where all the zombies were really dumb, they
walked slow, and you could get away from a zombie.
You just had to worry about a lot of them
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piling up on you and eating your brains. But then
when Twenty eight Days Later came out, you suddenly have
these very fast paced zombies. They are very rabid, Their
behavior was a lot different. They act based on instincts,
even though they still don't eat, speak, or for many
kind of new ideas. I think later in the twentys
and twenty tens, you had this version of zombie that
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became a little bit more intuitive and they could kind
of start putting things together. It had some brain activity,
which I think a lot of people don't like. But
what caused the zombies in twenty eight days later they
were infected by this fictional rage virus which spread nationwide.
Speaker 3 (49:42):
There was an animal rights group who.
Speaker 1 (49:44):
Accidentally released this virus into the world, and it followed
Killian Murphy's character who woke up in a hospital twenty
eight days after that initial outbreak. But that movie was
really intense, and that was also at a time where
I love zombie movies. After twenty eight days later, I
think my next favorite movie was in two thousand and
four Donna the Dead, which was a remake, and that's
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still one of my favorite Donna the Dead movies because
I discovered the two thousand zombie movies before I discovered
all the old classics. But the thing about twenty eight
days later is this movie is impossible to watch now
because what happened was see what happened was Disney bought
twenty first century Fox's assets, at least most of them,
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which included twentieth century Fox back in twenty nineteen and
now it's just Century Studios.
Speaker 3 (50:30):
They pretty much said, hey, is Fox, screw you.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
We're gonna take and buy your company and then remove
your name from it. So now that is why you
see a lot of these Century Studios movies on Hulu
because Disney owns Hulu, and for the most part, I
feel like to put out pretty good movies under that brand. Now,
so I hate that Disney is slowly acquiring everything. It
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just feels like I don't want one studio to have
that much power. But what happened with twenty eight days
Later is they only own the rights to the sequel
and will own the rights to this one now. So
they have twenty eight weeks later, they're gonna have twenty
eight years later, but they still don't own twenty eight
days Later because it was independently funded. So that is
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why not only can you not watch this movie on
any streaming service that you are subscribed to, you can't
even go anywhere online to rent it unless you're finding
some really dark web back door site, which I wouldn't
recommend going to those, But there is nowhere you can
go to stream this movie. That is why whenever this
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movie got announced that it was in production, a lot
of people started going to stores and buying physical copies
of this DVDs. I don't even know if it's on
Blu Ray yet, because I think this movie came out
before Blu Ray was as popular as it was. I'm
sure a copy of it exists. But this is a
reason why I feel that it is important to own
some movies on Blu Ray, on dvdvhs, on laser disc,
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whatever have. If it's a movie you truly love and
want to have forever and don't want to be at
the mercy of some streaming service or the internet or wherever
you can rent movies, sometimes it is just good to
purchase one of those movies so you can have it,
and I would say you would have it forever. But
there is a certain shelf life on a Blu Ray
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on a DVD. If you look it up, you see
a lot of conflicting things that could be anywhere from
twenty to fifty years to one hundred years. I think
they just really don't know how long a disc will last,
but at.
Speaker 3 (52:33):
Least it probably will last your lifetime.
Speaker 1 (52:35):
I feel like we still have some DVDs from the
two thousands that still work, So twenty four years later,
those are still working. And there have been movies in
the last six or seven years or so that I
have enjoyed so much that I made it a point
to buy them on Blu Ray because I just felt
like owning a little piece of history and I wanted
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to be able at any time to sit down and
watch them.
Speaker 3 (52:59):
So some of my favorite movies I have on Blu.
Speaker 1 (53:01):
Ray because I need to own them just to feel
complete in my life. I've also become more of a
collector in the last couple of years, so sometimes I
just like owning a tangible subject. And I wish I
had a copy of twenty eight Days Later because I
haven't seen this original movie since the two thousands.
Speaker 3 (53:18):
It wasn't really.
Speaker 1 (53:19):
One of my favorite zombie films at the time. I
think by it kind of building this aura around it
as time and time went on, as we saw more
things that kind of reflected what we saw in this movie,
the twenty twenty Pandemic, for example. I feel like this
movie is going to have more of an impact now
than it did back in two thousand and two, where
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it felt more like something that could never happen, and
it's maybe because we've been exposed to more movies and
shows like this.
Speaker 3 (53:48):
But I am legend.
Speaker 1 (53:49):
Like I mentioned, the last of us Walking Dead obviously
popped off at the end of the two thousands, dominated
the twenty tens with zombie culture. I think we're at
a point now where we want to see things depicted
in movies to kind of prepare ourselves what's gonna happen
if something actually goes crazy again? Can we maybe pick
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up some things from a movie So twenty eight years
later coming out on June twentieth, twenty twenty five, and
it is the trailer of the Year, And.
Speaker 4 (54:18):
That was this week's edition of Movie b Tramer.
Speaker 1 (54:22):
Park and that is going to do it for another
episode here of the podcast. But before I go, I
gotta give my listener shout out of the week. How
do you go to listener shout out of the week. Well,
it is easy, whoever you are in this room. Also
underneath the desk or something, you can go to my
Facebook page, Facebook dot com, slash Mike Dstro, TikTok, Instagram,
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Type in Mike Dstro and you will find my channel.
You'll find my social media profiles if you ever forget
that or you just like to click something instead of
punching something in It is always in the show notes
on every single episode. This week, I'm going over to YouTube,
which I have been more consistent posting more videos there.
So I don't film every single episode just because I'm
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the only one who produces this content. I edit, record,
write all this stuff myself and on one team, and
I'm trying really hard to build out that YouTube channel.
Sometimes it's just really hard to do another video, but
I've been trying to post not only the individual movie reviews,
but also the recap.
Speaker 3 (55:27):
Videos with Kelsey and I.
Speaker 1 (55:28):
I've been doing those pretty consistently, trying to post more
just individual clips on anything I am able to record,
so be sure to subscribe, trying to get more subscribers
over there, trying to grow that channel, so that would
really mean a lot to me, and that is why
I'm going over to YouTube for this week's listener shout
out of the Week. It goes out to at kaior One.
Not sure if that's a name or just an acronym
(55:51):
for something, but they wrote in response to Kelsey and
I talking about who we think should play Dorothy in
an inevitable Wizard of Oz remake. They wrote, it doesn't
need a remake. It is a bit disrespectful to the creator.
Please watch the og one. That movie is lightning in
a bottle. I wasn't saying that I think Wizard of
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Oz needs a remake. I just think that with Wicked
being as popular as it is now, that it's going
to make somebody, whether it's the people who have the
rights or whenever it goes public domain, it's gonna make
somebody remake this movie. I can already just envision that
in my head because that is essentially money on the table.
I don't think it needs a remake, and I would
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much rather go watch the original one. I think a
lot of the allure of that movie is the history
behind the original and how they were able to do
that with very little technology. Going back and rewatching that movie,
watching the tornado scene and the special effects with like
the fire going and the trapdoors falling down, so they're
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there one moment and they're gone the net next.
Speaker 3 (57:02):
There are some really great.
Speaker 1 (57:03):
Special effects that how are they even able to do
that back in that day? So it's not a movie
I think needs to be remade, And although I don't
think it would be disrespectful to the creator, I think,
if anything, the creator was disrespectful to the actors. So
it would be nice maybe to have a version that
doesn't have this dark history of abuse and people getting hurt,
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people basically ending up dead because of the making of
that movie. So a nice, clean movie, hopefully at least
as clean as Hollywood can be these days. But I
appreciate that comment. Sometimes it's hard to go read YouTube
comments because you either have people who are like here,
you're trying to start conversation. I don't get mad at
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people for voicing their opinion that differs from mine. That
it's going to be inevitable. That is the great thing
about talking about movies is we're gonna have different opinions
on things. I'm gonna watch things that I think are
great and recommend to you, and you're gonna watch them
and say that was stupid.
Speaker 3 (58:02):
I hated that movie.
Speaker 1 (58:03):
That is the nature of entertainment and the way we
find the things we like in life and our tastes.
They're just gonna differ. Different thing about YouTube is sometimes
people are just mean for the sake of being mean,
and you just see these profiles that have nothing behind
them just going.
Speaker 3 (58:21):
At me for no reason.
Speaker 1 (58:22):
And I'm a small creator over there, and it's like, man,
if you get people like me a hard time who
are just trying to start something they're passionate about and grow,
something like, what are these huge creators have to deal with?
But that has been on my mind lately. I try
not to start my day by reading YouTube comments, but
I appreciate that. Thank you for listening, thank you for
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being subscribed. And until next time, go out and watch
good movies and I will talk to you
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Mike D
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