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Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast.

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I am your host Movie Mike, joined this week

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by my wife and co host Kelsey. How are you.

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I'm good, except you just tried to drink my coffee.

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My bad.

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I thought it was my coffee. We're here

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to talk about the best and worst movies

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of March. In the movie review, we'll

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be talking about Godzilla, Kong, the New Empire,

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and in the trailer park we have a look

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at the new Bad Boys movie, Bad Boys Ride

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or Die.

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This month really flew by, It really didn't.

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I know I say that every single month, but it was literally

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here and now it's gone. And

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now there are so many more good movies

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coming out that I can't wait just to get into summer.

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April's about to be huge month.

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We have Civil War Challengers.

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Ooh, I've been waiting for that movie for so long. We'll

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also get into some movie news. We'll do thumbs up

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thumbs down on these new reboots

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that are happening. Thank you for being here, Thank you

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for being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday Morning

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All right, we'll kick it off now, getting

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right into the best and worst. Kelsey,

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you started off, what was the best thing

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you saw in March Drive ay

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DoLS, And that was the movie about the two

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girls who take a trip down

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to Tallahassee realize they have

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something in their car that some criminals

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want. And it's a pretty wacky

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movie. But I also like that aspect

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of it.

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It's wacky, it's raunchy. Listen.

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It's no secret that I love a

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female at raunchy comedy. My favorite movie

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of all times Broadsmaids.

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Those are kind of making the comeback right now.

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I think it's great. Listen. We have so many raunchy dude

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movies. That's always been

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the genre. American Pie, Super

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Bad, Wedding Crashers, Over

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and probably Missing, like seventeen more, a.

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Lot of raunchy dude comedies. It's more common, I.

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Feel like, so I feel like, give

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the females some raunchy comedies.

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I think it's hilarious.

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I feel like some people may have a problem

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with the switch because it feels

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more normal for a guy to be raunchy.

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Whenever a female lead

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or female character start doing that, people are like,

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oh, this is weird.

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It's Women's History month. Let us

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have our raunchy comedies.

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I feel like they should happen more often because

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I just find it more refreshing.

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It's not just I won't say it because I know children.

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It's not d jokes the whole movie.

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That's exactly what I was thinking is

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I feel like, I mean, not even just movies, but

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like stand up comedy, a dude can just

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get up there and talk about his private parts

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and it's like, ah, he's doing comedy.

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Or about women. I won't say

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what show, but you and I went to a comedy show one

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time and it was the most low

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brow, misogynistic

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comedy, just like think of any

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like terrible thing that

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a comedian could try to like swing for to

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make someone laugh. And you looked

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at me and you're like, do you want to leave? And I was like, I've never wanted

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to leave somewhere more.

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Yeah, we leave, But I agree with

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that, and I think this is a really good

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movie, one that I feel like will probably

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go unnoticed a little bit because it was a smaller

3:19

budget movie.

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But maybe it will pop off on streaming

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like BookSmart did.

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I think it definitely will. I think that I think comedies

3:26

in general will have a better run

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in streaming, just because this

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movie didn't have the biggest leads attached

3:33

to it. Although Margaret Quayley Beanie

3:35

Feldstein, Yeah, I just feel like in

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the grand scheme of people that you're going to

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sell tickets, probably not going to But

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once it goes to streaming, I feel like comedies do

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better there. The problem is if

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a comedy just goes on to streaming and doesn't

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really make money, it's hard to make

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another movie like that again. And I think

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that's the reason we see less and less comedies

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is because they're not as profitable. Therefore,

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studios don't want to invest in them because they really

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don't get a whole lot out of them. Even though

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for a movie like Driveaway Dolls that is a good

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movie on paper, you look at

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the numbers and you think, oh, that movie flopped,

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which is not the case all the time. So

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hopefully once that movie goes to streaming,

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it does pretty well for my best of

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the month. It was kind of along the

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same lines a Driveaway Dolls. It

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is Love Livees Bleeding, which you didn't go see with

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me Town, but it's the Kristen

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Stewart movie. I feel like the plot

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is a little bit similar as far as

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being two female leads dealing

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with the type of crime, except Love

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Lives Bleeding has the A twenty four

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treatment, and in this case is a lot

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more dramatic, a lot more

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violent, not that same comedic

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tone as Driveaway Dolls. But

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I feel like the audience for both of those

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movies are probably a little bit of the same,

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And this was a movie I went into just

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loving the aesthetic of it. I

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have like a weird fascination with Kristin

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Stewart as an actress.

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I'm here for the Chris Stuart renaissance.

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I think this movie should start her comeback,

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not that she ever really fully went away.

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Yeah, but it was hard because she did Twilight

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and it was one of those where you do one project

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and it starts your career and it's

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what the only thing you're ever known as? And

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I'm like, did we really think

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that a movie about a high school

5:19

er marrying a vampire having

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a baby who ends up being

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imprinted on by her werewolf best friend

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was anyone's showcase of talent.

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No, but it put her on the map.

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Put her on the map.

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But I think that she is such a talented

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actress and I'm excited to see

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her getting better roles. And her press tour for this has

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been really fun. I just watched part of her interview

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that she did with Seth Myers, and it was really funny because she

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has that like such good just like deadpan

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humor. She's so good

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at that and you can't tell if sometimes

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she's being serious or facetious.

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And I find that hilarious and kind of along

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the same lines of her co star in

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Twilight, Robert Pattinson, who has also

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had that same struggle of not

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being viewed as Edward from

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Twilight. I think it was hard

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for people to even see him cast

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as Batman because they

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just saw him as the vampire.

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I think it was great, but he was.

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So good in that.

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Are they making another one of those?

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Yes, it got delayed another year, so probably

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won't come out. It was supposed to come out next year.

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Probably won't come out until twenty twenty six. That

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movie takes so long to film, and

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it was kind of along the same lines of what happened with

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the first one. I would rather them

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take their time, get filming started

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and make it great than just try

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to rush it and put it out

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next year. I think there's also a lot

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of restructuring happening right now on the

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DC side of James Gunn

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taking over. He's trying to build

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something and not confuse audiences,

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which I think is their biggest struggle right now,

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because they're gonna come back out with another Superman

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movie, and then people were gonna associate

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it with the Superman movie from ten years ago,

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and then if he has a Batman in that world

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the other Batman is, it's gonna be a

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lot of confusing even for people were dialed

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in.

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What confuses me, and I know I've said this before apologies

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for being a broken record, is the fact that James Gunn

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is Shawn Gunn's brother, and Shawn Gunn played

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Kirk on Gilmore Girls.

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He also has guest role in Guardians

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of the Galaxy.

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He's in a lot of his movies, But I just like all

7:14

I see him as is Kirk and Gilmore

7:16

Girls. And I know you haven't watched Gilmore Girls with

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me, but Kirk is the wackiest, kookiest

7:21

character and I just can't take him seriously

7:24

or anything else. But it's just so funny

7:26

that Kirk's brother is making

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all of these superhero movies.

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Yea, yeah. I never saw him as

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the guy from Gilmore Girls until I saw him

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out protesting during the writer strike and

7:37

they like credited him as Gilmore Girls

7:39

actor. I was like, oh, yeah, I guess that's what he's known

7:41

for. More.

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One of my favorite Christmas gifts was our

7:45

sister in law, your brother's wife gave me a

7:47

sticker and it says a film by Kirk and

7:50

only Gilmore Girls fans would get the reference.

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But it is a prized possession.

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It has a shoe I never really got into,

7:56

not that I was opposed to getting into it.

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It's my comfort show that in Friends. If

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I need to fall asleep to something, it's

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either Gilmore Girls or Friends.

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My comfort show right now is Community,

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which is at the time Netflix

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of this episode coming out, will have left

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Netflix.

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Rip Community.

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Oh man, I watched that show so much

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during the early twenty tens when it was still

8:18

on the air. It's pretty funny, and going back

8:20

and rewatching it, I'm like, a lot of this still holds

8:22

up, although it is weird some of the references,

8:25

even just ten years ago. It's like, man, you can't say that

8:27

anymore. And that's with any comedy

8:30

that.

8:30

EF derailed us. Sorry, but that is our.

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Best of March. Now,

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what was your worst?

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People aren't gonna lame me for this. It was Dune

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too. I found a.

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Lot of people agree with me in

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thinking that movie was quite

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boring.

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It it didn't do it for me. I

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don't It wasn't even the plot's not

8:50

bad. The movie's not bad.

8:53

I just was bored.

8:54

It's just boring. At the end of the day, it is

8:56

just boring.

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I came home and did like a

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no pun intended Wikipedia wormhole

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about Dune, rabbit hole, whatever you want

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to call it, and I was like, still don't get it. I get

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that it's like critically acclaimed, but still don't

9:08

get it.

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I get the majority of it. I

9:11

get its intention. It is a

9:13

commentary, almost like a spiritual

9:16

commentary of like somebody

9:18

being the chosen one, people

9:20

choosing to rally behind that person that

9:22

person kind of living up

9:24

to that. You have this whole religious war

9:26

going on in the film, But I just found

9:29

myself thinking, like, I don't care either

9:31

way what happens to these characters. And

9:33

aside from the visual aspect of Dune

9:36

and the action aspect, I think those fight sequences

9:38

are really great. There's just nothing

9:40

really to grasp onto you. And with a movie that has

9:43

such an amazing cast, all those people

9:45

individually are great and could lead

9:47

their own movie, but the fact that they're all in one

9:49

movie that mixed with the great director,

9:52

it should be my favorite movie of the year. I

9:54

just feel like you have to be a really

9:57

big film nerd to really enjoy

9:59

Dune. And I'm not that level of nerd.

10:01

And if you are that level of nerd, more

10:04

power to you, because I feel like being

10:06

alive at a time where this is happening

10:08

right now and you can watch one, you can

10:11

watch two and anticipate that they go to make three

10:13

is a great time to be a Dune fan. With all these

10:15

eighties movies coming back, that's probably the one

10:17

that the people are most hype on. For me, I

10:20

just don't get it. I'm not into it, so I

10:22

agree with you and being one of the worst that we saw

10:24

last month, mainly just because wanted

10:26

to doze.

10:27

Off so long too listen

10:30

you can't be boring and long.

10:32

And I was hoping that going to see

10:34

it in theaters would change how I

10:36

felt about the movie, that I would be more just

10:38

engulfed in the movie because we watched

10:41

the first one at home when I mean that

10:43

was another weird time that that movie came out straight to HBO

10:45

Max at the time.

10:46

I think we also messed up and seeing in the evening

10:48

we needed to do like a three pm show

10:50

and like chug a coffee and then go

10:52

into it. We really really screwed up saying it at

10:54

six pm, six point thirty.

10:56

Can you remember when we left there were still people

10:59

going to watch it at like nine thirty,

11:01

going into Dune to a three hour movie.

11:04

I mean, those were the days of youth.

11:06

I mean I used to see a midnight premiere.

11:08

I don't think I I went to one

11:10

midnight release for Jackass three D. Other

11:13

than that I did not get it, Like I remember

11:16

a point in my life where I

11:18

didn't even think about movie times. I would I

11:20

would go to a later movie showing

11:23

but now I was just like, out of the question for me.

11:25

Yeah, I don't. We don't really leave

11:28

the house late.

11:28

I had dinner with a friend a

11:31

couple months ago when I was like, I want to grab

11:33

drinks at like six forty five,

11:35

dinner at seven thirty, and she was like, initially

11:37

I was like, dinner at seven thirty. It

11:40

worked out, but I was like, yeah, that's it's about

11:42

how I feel these days.

11:43

Yeah, I am in a place right now

11:46

where I feel myself getting older. It

11:48

could also be the job that I have. But somebody

11:51

the other day invited me to go out on

11:53

a weeknight to do something, and

11:55

just the thought of that, I was like, I'm not doing a

11:57

week night I'm too I can't do

12:00

that. People do that. I only watched

12:02

that in movies.

12:03

Yeah, we went to a run club

12:05

event this week and the run didn't start till six

12:07

thirty. We weren't home till seven to

12:09

forty five, and dinner till like eight thirty.

12:12

And I know that's what people do, Like people in New York

12:14

dinner after eight. Spain dinners

12:17

until like nine pm.

12:18

Yeah, but Spain takes like a whole hour during

12:21

the day to just chill.

12:22

We were both like, I don't know what to do with myself

12:24

getting home this light.

12:25

It was like seven forty five.

12:27

What isday midnight? It' say

12:29

forty five, bro.

12:31

Yeah, you earlier this week. You

12:33

got in bed at like nine o'clock, and

12:36

I can't go to sleep that early.

12:38

I am a night owl.

12:39

I joke that I have like a whole other life after

12:41

you go to bed, because I'm just a wait till like

12:44

twelve or one. I physically

12:46

cannot power down.

12:48

Yeah. I am entering the age where if we don't

12:50

start a movie, eight is the latest

12:52

week you start a movie and me think I'm

12:54

going to get through this anything After eight I'm

12:57

falling asleep.

12:57

And I can't watch anything on a Thursday night because

13:00

on the Thursday night you're so tired and you

13:02

still have work on Friday that on the Thursday night

13:04

you just like flop over on the couch and you're

13:06

asleep on the couch.

13:07

Yeah.

13:07

So yeah, it really, it really is like living

13:10

with a geriatric person.

13:12

But I wake up early.

13:14

You do wake up early.

13:15

I'm alive in the morning.

13:16

I know. I've started asking

13:18

you to open the blinds when you leave in the morning.

13:20

I'm trying to get that Circadium rhythm back on track,

13:23

and it's not. It's not working out for me.

13:25

But for my worst of March,

13:27

it goes to Imaginary, which

13:30

is one of the worst horror movies I've seen

13:32

in a really long time. And my favorite thing to do

13:34

when going to the theater alone is

13:36

to go watch a horror movie because you're not into them.

13:39

Nope.

13:39

I find it comforting to sit in the

13:41

theater alone because I

13:43

usually go during the day on like a Saturday,

13:46

there's maybe one or two other people in

13:48

there. A couple of times I've seen the

13:51

same person, this like sixty five year

13:53

old woman who apparently just loves horror movies,

13:55

and I'm like, I've seen you here before, and she

13:57

just sits there also by yourself, gets

13:59

a popcorn, gets their drink, and just enjoys

14:01

a horror movie. There is a certain type

14:03

of movie who there is a certain type of person

14:06

who enjoys a horror movie like

14:08

that. So and it's not

14:10

me and it's not you. And I

14:12

kind of bonded with her, even though I didn't say anything

14:14

to her. But there's

14:17

just something comforting about sitting in a dark

14:19

theater with the anticipation of being

14:21

scared.

14:22

That literally sounds like my worst

14:24

nightmare.

14:25

I love it.

14:25

I don't know how you do.

14:26

You scare easily too around the

14:28

house.

14:28

Oh yeah, around the house, I do.

14:30

I walk out of the bedroom, and if you

14:32

can't, if you're not in my line of sight, and

14:34

you like see me, all of a sudden, you were a

14:37

cat jumping ten feet in the air. I walked

14:39

into your office earlier you were walking out,

14:41

and now I will say you scared me this time, but.

14:43

We were like running into each other.

14:45

So sitting in a dark theater preparing to

14:47

be scared is my idea of hell.

14:49

I love the feeling, but as opposed

14:51

to at home, where you just turn a corner and I don't

14:53

see you and you scare me. In a movie, it

14:56

is so hard to evook

14:58

that same emotion in me. It is hard for me to

15:00

be scared in a movie.

15:01

Anticipatory like anxiety,

15:04

just knowing that I'm gonna be scared. I need a

15:06

blanket over my head. I'm not watching

15:08

I'm and I know these things aren't

15:11

real in horror movies, but it doesn't

15:13

matter.

15:13

I'm still scared.

15:14

But when it came to Imaginary. There was no

15:17

moment that I felt even a little bit scared.

15:20

The other annoying thing about me is I can predict

15:22

movies pretty well just by

15:25

thinking about how this movie is written, how

15:27

it's going to end.

15:28

Yeah, during Kung Fu Panda, there was part where you predicted

15:31

the po the panda was gonna fart.

15:33

And what did he do? He farted, you

15:35

know, and he's gonna fart and you're like, how did

15:37

you know that? I'm like, it's a kid's movie.

15:39

No, I attribute that to your brain being

15:41

that of a twelve year old.

15:43

I just I do that sometimes. I just know exactly

15:46

what is going to happen, and then it happens in imaginary.

15:48

I from the first five minutes, I knew

15:51

everything that was going to happen and how it's gonna go down.

15:53

So for a movie called imaginary

15:55

having no imagination whatsoever

15:58

was horrible. It robbed me. It robbed

16:00

me of that experience of going into a

16:02

theater to be scared. So that

16:05

was the worst thing I've seen in March.

16:07

So we give some honorable mentions.

16:09

Yeah, on either side of it, what do you got?

16:10

Oh?

16:11

I was gonna do like TV?

16:12

Oh yeah, go for it.

16:14

We've been watching X Pats on

16:16

Amazon Prime, which is not new, but we

16:19

have a couple episodes left. A nice six

16:21

episode limited series wrap up

16:23

quick. It'scottennicole Kidman. Her best work

16:25

is in limited series. She's great.

16:27

I feel like that's the only thing we've been watching this

16:30

month.

16:30

For me, it is X Men

16:32

ninety seven.

16:34

Well, I thought you were about to throw me under the bus with my

16:36

reality show that I've been watching.

16:38

I'll talk about that in a second.

16:39

Mine is X Men ninety seven. I was

16:41

a huge fan of X Men. The

16:43

animated series in the nineties has

16:46

the best theme song in any

16:48

animated show of all time, and that

16:50

show was very Saturday Morning cartoon

16:53

esque. Wasn't a whole lot to

16:55

it. The plotlines are pretty simple. It

16:57

was mainly just the nostalgia factor of

17:00

I watched it so much as a kid, and now

17:02

on Disney Plus they have brought back

17:04

this series, but the series

17:06

has aged with all the people

17:08

who are a fan of the original one, so there's

17:11

an actual solid plotline. The

17:13

animation is different. It really

17:15

feels like a comic book come to life,

17:18

and it's one of the best depictions

17:20

of X Men I've ever seen, because

17:22

the movies can be really hit or missed. I think

17:25

one through three you're solid. After

17:27

that you get into some weird territory. There's some really

17:29

bad X Men movies. But it works so well

17:31

as an animated series. It is the only show

17:34

right now that as soon as a new episode goes

17:36

up on Wednesday, I am dying to watch

17:38

it. I think if you are a fan of

17:40

Marvel and haven't given any

17:42

of their animated shows a chance, even if

17:44

you tried What If or any of the other animated

17:46

shows, this is the only one I really recommend.

17:49

Are you gonna watch that this Saturday morning?

17:51

I'm yeah.

17:51

Should I get out the Freddy Pebbles

17:54

candle for you?

17:54

Yes? That's perfect because it comes out on

17:56

Wednesdays. And some people said, oh, they

17:59

missed opportunity of not releasing it on Saturday.

18:01

Just hold it till Saturday to give you that feeling

18:03

again.

18:04

I have a candle that's called Can't Adult

18:06

Today and it smells like the description

18:09

is like cereal milk and not paying bills,

18:11

and it really does smelling fruity pebbles. So I will

18:13

let you. I'll get that out so you can light it Saturday morning

18:15

and watch it perfect and then my reality

18:18

TV show that I can't stop watching is

18:20

a welcome to plath Pill on TLC.

18:23

And when she says she can't stop watching it,

18:25

you really can't stop watching it. You

18:28

will have it on at night and

18:30

then any moment you get your turning

18:32

on an episode. I haven't seen anybody run

18:35

through a series so quickly.

18:36

I was also sick last week. True took

18:38

a sick date and well I didn't.

18:40

I was sick, so I slept like two pm. But then I did wake

18:43

up watching Plathfill for about five hours and then go back

18:45

to bed. It did nurse me back to life. My

18:47

best friend and I started it when I was in Denver.

18:49

I'm not going to go into what it's about, but it's just about a

18:51

family and it's quality

18:54

TLC reality television.

18:56

It's my addiction. It that way

18:58

you will get I

19:00

was trying to think if I had a book, honorable mention.

19:02

I don't actually know that I have one.

19:03

For that.

19:04

All right, we'll get to the movie news and then if

19:06

you have a book, we'll do it at the end.

19:07

Okay, I'll be thinking, so we're gonna.

19:09

Do thumbs up thumbs down on whether

19:11

or not you're excited about these movies.

19:13

Now I have to vocalize this because no one

19:15

can see me if that thumbs.

19:17

Up first up. Joker

19:19

IWO is apparently a two hundred

19:21

million dollar jukebox musical.

19:24

And are giant

19:27

thumbs sound.

19:28

I feel a little conflicted on this because I knew it

19:30

was going to be a musical, but the detail

19:33

of it being a jukebox musical,

19:35

which if you're not familiar with that, essentially

19:38

a normal musical is all original

19:40

songs. A jukebox musical is them

19:43

covering songs. So like Mama

19:45

Mia has all abba songs, that is a jukebox

19:47

musical. In this movie, they're doing a lot

19:49

of like classical songs from like thirties,

19:52

forties, fifties songs like the Bandwagon

19:55

is one of the songs in the movie. That's entertainment.

19:57

That is the part that I feel a little bit

19:59

weird, and I try

20:01

not to be.

20:03

Lady Gaga just can't not sing.

20:04

Yeah, you really can't, like I was. That was the

20:07

reason I was hoping. I thought the casting

20:09

was good because I thought, like, oh, we're gonna see a different

20:11

side of Lady Gaga to be in a really dark movie.

20:13

Gagad just wants to see but now she

20:16

is just in a full on musical.

20:18

I wanted to see her in a movie where she doesn't sing.

20:21

Now, I think this movie is going to be very dark

20:23

and twisted, so I feel like the musical

20:25

aspect is going to be very deranged

20:27

in a way. I'm hoping Todd Phillips

20:30

knows what he is doing here and

20:32

that it's going to make sense when we see

20:34

it.

20:35

Maybe the music will make the movie make me

20:37

less anxious than the first one, because I can't

20:39

rewatch that movie. It. I know you

20:41

love it, but it physically,

20:44

I like start showing symptoms of anxiety,

20:46

like my heart rate rises, I feel sweaty. I

20:49

just like something about that movie

20:51

Anxiety Central for me.

20:52

It gets really dark, and at the time

20:54

it came out in very much a mirror

20:56

of what was happening in the country at that

20:58

time, so I think that's why a lot of people had issues

21:00

with it. So I feel like Joker

21:03

two is going to have that same darkness

21:05

and to kind of offset that, they're gonna be like big

21:08

musical numbers because of the song. Yeah,

21:10

like the characters are very deranged. It's

21:12

about somebody's descent into madness.

21:14

So I feel like the musical is gonna be this weird

21:16

fantasy. I don't know how that's going to

21:18

go back and forth.

21:20

Might descend me into madness.

21:21

But the fact that it costs two hundred million dollars

21:24

as an expensive musical, so.

21:26

Your thumbs down giant thumbs down.

21:28

I'm still thumbs up, but it's a little.

21:30

Shaky, it's solid thumbs

21:32

down.

21:32

Another sequel in the works is

21:34

the Happy Gilmore two. Script is reportedly

21:38

at least in a first draft. The first one came

21:40

out back in nineteen ninety six, which is

21:42

a long time. I am worried about

21:44

this because I don't think Adam Sandler

21:46

doing a Happy Gilmore too

21:48

at this point is really going to do

21:51

it justice.

21:51

I'm gonna give a mid thumb like I'm not

21:54

thumbs up or thumbs down. I'm thumbed

21:56

to the side.

21:56

I'm gonna go thumbs down right now,

21:59

because when it comes to comedies,

22:01

Adam Sandler really hasn't crushed

22:03

it as far as putting out a new,

22:05

really great comedy. I feel

22:08

like the closest he's got to kind of capturing

22:10

the energy from the early movies is like the murder

22:12

mystery movies.

22:13

But it's pretty funny.

22:14

But aside from that, if

22:16

it has like that same grown ups

22:19

level vibe to it.

22:20

Hey grown ups one hilarious

22:22

grown ups two subpar, but grown

22:25

ups one.

22:25

I remember certain someone laughing along.

22:27

I do like grown ups, but it's a whole different

22:29

level of Adam Sandler, like Happy Gilmore,

22:32

is him at his prime? Yeah, I

22:34

attribute his two best movies being Happy Gilmore

22:37

and Billy Madison. I'm a bigger fan of Billy

22:39

Madison.

22:39

See I'm gonna go Big Daddy.

22:41

Oh yeah, that's later, that's right

22:43

before the two thousand stuff where it kind

22:46

of went a little bit downhill. I also love ye Big

22:48

Daddy.

22:48

I can wipe my own ass.

22:51

Will somebody get this kid a happy meal? So

22:54

all the movies for him to remake, I would rather

22:57

have, honestly a Big Daddy two or

22:59

a Bill Mason too. Yeah, this

23:01

is kind of third down there, just because maybe

23:03

the fan base is bigger, maybe because of

23:05

the sports aspect of it. Then he's gonna bring

23:08

in all like a bunch of sports people, and

23:10

for them it is just gonna be like a cool cameo. But

23:13

when you get all these cameos in there, it takes away

23:15

from the story. It just turned that formula like

23:17

a commercial. Yeah, then it's just everybody them

23:19

getting all these big stars so they can promote it on social

23:21

media so it does better at the box office, and then

23:23

it just becomes a big commercial. So

23:26

that is why I am giving that a thumbs

23:28

down. Next up on movie

23:30

News, apparently Scarlett Johansson

23:32

is going to be in the new Jurassic

23:34

Park movie, So they are reviving

23:37

it yet again without Chris Pratt, without

23:40

Bryce Dallas Howard, and instead it's

23:42

gonna be Scarlett Joehansson.

23:43

I'm confused.

23:44

We're doing a third, yes, another

23:47

reboot of Jurassic Park. It's supposed

23:49

to come out on July second, twenty

23:51

twenty five. It'll be the seventh

23:54

chapter in the Jurassic Universe. For

23:56

anybody to get Scarlet Johansson,

23:59

I feel like that would be pretty good.

24:01

I'm going thumbs down because I'm so

24:03

sick of reviving things eight thousand

24:05

times within a lifetime.

24:07

I don't really see this as a full revival

24:10

reboot. I feel like it's just a continuation

24:13

of what they just did with all of these movies,

24:15

which.

24:15

Might add was not about dinosaurs.

24:18

Yeah, they'll go back and listen to that episode.

24:20

The last one with them bringing back their original cast

24:22

and Laura Dirt and all that We.

24:23

Went Downhill movie was not about dinosaurs.

24:26

Yeah it was not. I stand by that, so hopefully

24:29

taking away all of the aspects

24:31

that try to hold on to the original one from

24:33

the nineties, because I mean, dinosaurs

24:35

are awesome.

24:36

This sours are awesome.

24:38

But like, I don't know, I mean, we already

24:40

got a lot of godzillas.

24:42

I feel like dinosaurs are having a comeback.

24:44

And then we got The Kong and we

24:46

got like the Planet of the Apes, got a

24:48

lot of gorillas, monkeys, dinosaurs.

24:51

Too many big animals.

24:53

It's a lot going on.

24:54

Only for the reason that Scarlett Johansson

24:57

is attached to it. As of now, I give

24:59

it a thumbs up.

25:00

I do love Scardro.

25:01

Also in revival news, Pirates

25:03

of the Caribbean is going to reboot

25:06

the franchise.

25:07

I am giving two thumbs down. I'm

25:09

putting my big toes down. I

25:11

am putting every appendage

25:15

down right now.

25:16

No, there are rumors that

25:18

Margot Robbie is attached, not

25:21

confirmed, that is just what they are speculating.

25:24

Margo, Robbie is so smart, stop rebooting

25:26

things.

25:26

I'm gonna go thumbs down on this one because as

25:29

a whole, the Pirates of the Caribbean movies

25:32

went so downhill.

25:33

So my least favorite, like Fantasy

25:36

whatever franchise of all time. I also

25:38

just don't like Johnny Dupp.

25:39

I love the first one, love the second one,

25:41

but after that they went really downhill.

25:44

I remember going to see the last one in theaters

25:47

and it was pretty bad. But even

25:49

a pretty bad Pirates of the Caribbean

25:51

movie is still slightly entertaining

25:53

to me because they are so big, elaboratoral

25:56

there's a lot to them. Even a

25:58

bad one is still entering and you throw

26:00

it on cable and it's like, oh, yeah, this makes sense.

26:03

So you're telling me no one in Hollywood

26:05

is a single original thought.

26:07

I think they do. But I think when whenever

26:09

headlines come out, the ones that grab

26:12

them are the big movies that people know they

26:14

have the bigger actors attached to them. You

26:16

don't really see a lot of people talking about civil

26:18

war right now.

26:19

Yeah, but makes something good new

26:21

original.

26:22

Even for me that I try to defend reboots

26:25

in sequels. I'm getting a little

26:27

bit tired of them at this point. It comes

26:29

down to business. They're just trying to make some money

26:31

and movies are a bad investment for the most

26:33

part. That reviving something

26:36

that already has a built in fan base is seen as

26:38

this is what we should be doing.

26:39

I have a contribution to a revival

26:41

or a sequel. I did see that they're making

26:43

a John Tucker Must I too, And

26:46

I know I'm usually don't

26:48

make a sequel of like movies that I loved,

26:51

but I would like to see that one come

26:53

back.

26:53

You've never watched John Tucker Must I have you?

26:55

Kay?

26:56

It's required watching. Soon we'll watch it

26:58

together.

26:59

Hilarious early two

27:01

thousands teen

27:03

rom com It was a great genre now that I

27:05

would watch because most

27:07

of the original actors are attached to it and

27:10

have worked on the script, so it could

27:12

be good.

27:12

But that's my contribution. I'll give

27:14

that one the thumbs up.

27:15

And finally, in Revival News,

27:18

they are going to make a sequel

27:20

to a simple Favor. They have the

27:22

original writer and director coming back for that.

27:24

It looks like Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively

27:27

will also be back. I remember this

27:29

was prime pandemic pandemic

27:32

watching. We watched the first one where there

27:35

was a point during the pandemic during

27:37

lockdown where we watched a new movie every night,

27:39

or one that we haven't seen.

27:40

That was a great time.

27:42

Well, finally because we were like in the same city

27:44

after the month apart, but yeah, it was a great

27:46

We just would watch something new every night. We'd finish

27:49

where that was before I moved in, like all of

27:51

my furniture, so you had like a couch.

27:54

Yeah, that's all I had.

27:55

Was a bachelor pad. You had a singular

27:57

large leather sectional. Yeah.

28:00

We would just curl up and watch movies.

28:02

And of all the movies we watched, this was the

28:04

one that I really associate with that time.

28:06

That and a missing or was it

28:08

searching? Which one was first searching?

28:10

Was for?

28:11

Ooh, I forget which one searching

28:13

and missing or essentially a sequel

28:15

to the other one searching. I think it's searching, yes,

28:18

and then yeah, missing is where the mom is

28:20

missing. Yeah, Searching is where he's searching for his

28:22

Yeah, okay.

28:23

That yeah, searching in a simple favor

28:26

I associate with that time so.

28:28

Just for the reason that I associated even

28:30

though that was a bad time,

28:32

there were some moments in that that were fun,

28:35

fun memories, and I associate a simple

28:37

favor with that time. So for that reason,

28:39

I give it a thumbs up and we'll check it out.

28:41

I definitely give that one a thumbs up.

28:43

I loved like clavely and did

28:45

you have your book that you wanted to talk to?

28:47

Yes, I was trying to think if

28:49

I I don't think I said this

28:51

one for February, because I don't think I finished

28:53

it until I think I finished

28:55

it to Women's Day nonfiction. It's called The Exceptions.

28:58

It's about women in

29:01

stem fields and fighting

29:03

for like academic recognition, like tenure

29:05

in getting a PhD. It's really

29:07

good like exploratory reporting.

29:11

And I've now since

29:13

bought two more books about like women in

29:15

like different professions, ones about like women

29:17

in the CIA, and ones' about the women who

29:19

were code breakers during World War two who

29:22

would like intercept and decode

29:24

the Germans coding.

29:25

So I love like exploratory writing like that.

29:28

I'm still trying to finish the one book I started

29:30

this year. I'll get there.

29:31

You'll get there eventually.

29:33

It's a lot easier for me to finish comic books, read

29:35

a lot of those this year. It comes to regular

29:37

books. I wish I was more of a reader. You wish

29:39

I were like me, I really do. I

29:42

wish I could just finish one.

29:43

And I know you pick up books and you're like, this is really

29:45

interesting. I'm really gonna love this one.

29:47

Yeah.

29:47

Have you started on those giant Marvel books I bought you

29:49

for Christmas?

29:50

I have?

29:51

I have?

29:51

Yeah, Ok, I've read a solid three

29:54

or four chapters in those no

29:58

I got. There's

30:00

also a lot of big pictures in that.

30:02

A lot of pictures.

30:04

All right, we'll come back and talk about Godzilla

30:07

and Kong and into the trailer park. We'll

30:09

talk about bad boys, right or die.

30:16

Let's get into it now. A spoiler free review

30:18

of Godzilla and Kong a New

30:21

Empire gonna be a really fun

30:23

and easy review to do today because

30:25

that's just the type of movie this is. This was me going

30:28

in to watch this movie. Here's the switch on my brain,

30:31

turn it completely off. Now.

30:33

The most versus interesting it started back

30:35

ten years ago now, with Godzilla in twenty fourteen.

30:38

This was the reintroduction of Godzilla

30:41

and then later Kong to the American

30:43

audience, which had really been absent for

30:45

a while now, even though Godzilla has

30:48

thirty five plus almost forty films

30:50

in its legacy, one of the most historic franchises

30:53

of all time, but really the best

30:55

ones come out of Japan and the American ones

30:58

don't really get it right. And I feel like after watching

31:00

Godzilla Minus one, I am completely spoiled.

31:02

But the interesting thing about the Monster Verse,

31:05

they didn't really start out making these big,

31:07

hokey, dumb movies. That is now

31:09

kind of what they have evolved into, really

31:11

leaning into that playfulness. So if you know

31:14

that and that is the type of movie you want to watch,

31:16

I think you go into the theater and

31:19

have an amazing time, because that is exactly

31:21

what this movie is now. In

31:23

this one, not really a whole lot

31:26

to the plot. Essentially it

31:28

takes place after the first one, which it does help

31:30

to see Godzilla and Kong, mainly

31:33

so you know what's going on with their beef,

31:36

also with them quickly

31:38

getting into what hollow Earth is, which

31:40

is greatly described in Part one. It's

31:43

essentially this ancient subterranean

31:46

deep ecosystem and Earth where

31:48

there's like no gravity, it's close to the

31:50

planet's core and all these other

31:52

Titans live. Cong goes back and

31:54

forth between the two, So

31:57

to really get to know what that is,

31:59

you have to watch the first one. I don't

32:01

think you'd be completely lost, but they do spend

32:03

a lot of time there, so it would help to know that, and

32:05

it would help to know why they beef, because there's a moment

32:07

in the movie that would really only

32:10

be gratifying if you watch the first

32:12

one. But hey, there's also not a lot

32:14

to grasp onto. If you google it before

32:16

you watch it, I think you'll understand.

32:18

You'll be fine. It's basically just two monsters

32:21

fighting a bunch of other monsters, not a

32:23

whole lot to get, and that is exactly

32:25

what the entire plot is. You have Godzilla

32:27

and Kong still at opposite ends,

32:31

but now there is this new threat forming

32:34

that is bigger and stronger, and

32:36

they're gonna have to team up to take them

32:38

on. So what you do get in this movie is

32:40

a lot of big, fun action, and

32:42

I think it does demand the big screen

32:44

because it is a spectacle to watch. It's

32:47

almost to the point that I

32:49

don't even think you need the humans anymore, even

32:51

though Brian Tyree Henry is

32:53

the comic relief in this movie. Rebecca

32:56

Hall is pretty good too,

32:58

But you don't really go into this movie we wanted to

33:00

see any acting performances because

33:03

they're doing the bare minimum. Really,

33:06

there really isn't much of a script. There's no character

33:08

development. I will say, when it comes

33:10

to the dialogue between the first one

33:12

and this one, it really took

33:14

a dip. So I don't even think you need

33:17

the humans anymore. I would

33:19

find it more interesting if

33:21

they just had the Titans on the

33:23

screen the entire time. Kind of reminded

33:26

me a little bit of Planet of the Apes because

33:28

the majority of that movie is just the apes

33:30

communicating with each other. So problem you

33:32

get into is Godzilla is not communicating

33:35

with anybody. He's not learning sign language,

33:37

He's not gonna express his emotions.

33:40

He is just gonna be Godzilla the way he is.

33:42

So I think that leads into why Kong

33:45

is featured more in the movie, because if

33:47

there is gonna be any kind of three dimensional character,

33:50

it is going to be Kong because he is the most

33:52

human, like, You're not really gonna get that from

33:54

Godzilla. And what that ended up causing

33:56

for me was too much Kong.

33:59

I am much more a Godzilla fan, and

34:01

the first one I wanted Godzilla to win

34:03

at all costs. I think he is the ultimate

34:06

Titan. But this one spends a majority

34:08

of the time with Kong, and it's

34:10

different from how I felt in Godzilla Minus

34:13

one, where Godzilla was used a

34:15

little bit more conservatively,

34:18

but it was also more calculated, because in Godzilla

34:20

Minus one, when Godzilla was on screen, it

34:23

was important. He came in, he destroyed

34:25

something, he had a plan, and then he went away.

34:28

In a film like Godzilla and Kong a

34:30

New Empire, it's not really that

34:32

same level of execution. You

34:34

have big monsters running around the entire

34:37

time. For the better half of the

34:39

movie. It is all just visual

34:41

effects and animated characters

34:43

moving along all this scenes. So it's

34:45

not like they're limiting the use of the Titans.

34:48

You're really getting a lot of them, but you

34:50

don't really get a whole lot of Godzilla.

34:52

I think they should switch it up in this case and give

34:54

you just more Godzilla. I want him hanging

34:56

out. I do like some of the scenes and

34:59

shots in the movie where he's like taking a nap

35:01

inside of the Colosseum. That was the most

35:03

humanesque quality that we had for

35:05

Godzilla. He basically turned into a big cat.

35:07

So I think there is some kind of middle

35:10

ground for these movies to find of

35:13

being something a little bit more sophisticated

35:15

like a Godzilla minus one, but also having the

35:18

playfulness like shit Godzilla, which

35:20

kind of walks that line of being

35:22

a little bit campy but also

35:24

has a little bit of a sense of realism.

35:27

So if they could rain that in a

35:29

little bit, I think these movies could go from

35:31

good to great. But again,

35:34

I think what they are really leaning into is

35:36

the big dumb action. It really feels

35:39

more like a Transformers movie. It

35:41

kind of reminds me a little bit of Avatar

35:43

with him going to Hollow Earth, and then

35:45

of course it has that Planet of

35:47

the Apes sci fi vibe to it,

35:50

so it's a little bit of all of those and then its

35:52

own just mindless, big screen demanding

35:54

action. So my favorite parts were

35:56

watching Godzilla everything that followed

35:58

him. I loved it. You see how

36:01

he kind of evolves into what you see

36:03

in the trailer of him turning pink, So

36:05

I thought that part was cool. But to get to that

36:07

part, you're gonna have to get over some

36:09

of the introduction scenes, one

36:12

in particular of Kong having a toothache

36:15

and them calling in a dentist to

36:17

fix his tooth. At that point

36:19

I kind of realized, Oh, this is the direction they're

36:21

going with this movie. And then it did spend

36:23

about an hour ramping up into the action,

36:26

where it was really just a lot of them hanging

36:28

out exploring Hollow Earth, which visually

36:31

looks really cool. I think there's a lot of different places

36:33

you can explore there. Again,

36:35

I think they should spend the entirety of the movie

36:37

down there, take the humans out of it. We

36:39

don't need them, and just give us Kong and

36:42

Godzilla finding and fighting all of these

36:44

weird looking titans. And the fact that this movie

36:46

opened up to eighty million dollars

36:48

this past weekend is astonishing

36:50

to me. Overall, the five films

36:53

so far, not including the new one, have

36:55

grossed almost two billion dollars at the box

36:57

office for just a monkey

36:59

and a lizard fighting each other,

37:02

which proves to me that people still want

37:04

to see stuff like this. I still want to see

37:06

stuff like this because you're not gonna go in and

37:08

watch a movie that is gonna change your life, but you're

37:10

gonna see one big dumb animal fighting another big

37:12

dumb animal. Then you start to get emotionally involved

37:15

with these big dumb animals and you're like, why do I care

37:17

so much about this radioactive lizard? I

37:19

don't know, but I want them to win, so I'm still

37:21

team Godzilla all the way. I can't believe they

37:23

put his name first in the movie

37:25

title and then gave him less screen time.

37:28

Dude is coming off an Oscar win and

37:30

you give them less screen time than Kong.

37:32

Unbelievable. Other than that, I think it's a

37:35

really fun time at the movies again. Shut

37:37

off your brain, just go in to watch

37:39

something mindless, dumb, big

37:41

fun action. I give Godzilla and

37:43

Kong a new empire three point five out

37:46

of five atomic breaths. I

37:48

said, breaths, not breasts. Thank you.

37:55

It's time to head down to movie.

37:57

Mike Traylor Paul even

38:00

speaking about revivals and

38:02

reboots, and that is what we have coming

38:04

our way in theaters on June

38:06

seventh. It is the fourth film and the Bad Boys

38:09

franchise, Bad Boys, Ride

38:11

or Die. My first issue with this movie

38:14

is the title, because they called Part three

38:16

Bad Boys for Life, so missed opportunity

38:19

there. This one should have been

38:21

Bad Boys the number four Life.

38:24

I think that would have been perfect. Maybe they weren't anticipating

38:28

making another movie after the one that

38:30

came out in twenty twenty, which was

38:33

one of the last movies I saw in theaters,

38:35

because when I was looking back at all the movies

38:37

in the Bad Boys franchise and seeing

38:40

that this one came out in twenty twenty, I was like,

38:42

how did it come out in twenty twenty if I saw it in theaters?

38:44

But it came out at the start of the year in January

38:47

and actually had a really good

38:49

box office run, which we'll get into

38:51

some of the numbers that this franchise

38:53

has put up here in a bit. But man,

38:55

it should have been called Bad Boys for Life.

38:58

Maybe that's just me anyway. This one takes

39:00

place where the last one left off. Martin

39:03

Lawrence and Will Smith are trying to clear the name

39:05

of their PD captain Howard. He has

39:07

said to have been working with some drug cartels.

39:09

They know that's not the truth, but it

39:12

looks like the evil plan here is

39:14

to drag their captain's name through the

39:16

mud and in turn get

39:18

them into some hot water, they become

39:20

fugitives and go on the run. So it turns

39:23

into them trying to clear their own name. So before

39:25

I get into more about bad Boys, Ride

39:27

or Die, here's just a little bit of the trailer.

39:30

He's texting us from.

39:31

The other side. No, he's not Marcus.

39:34

If you're seeing this, I'm probably dead.

39:37

I don't know how high up this fuck.

39:40

Don't trust anybody.

39:42

You're my bad boy. They're

39:44

being set. Are

39:46

y'all still in our clothes? Just because we've black

39:49

book at your shirt? Why

39:51

don't you sing us little Reba songs

39:55

playing your favorite I'm a woman,

39:58

I'm a strong Black Christian. What

40:01

you gonna do? What's you gonna

40:04

I ain't know?

40:04

Ribasal It's from her mixtape.

40:07

I actually thought that moment there was pretty

40:09

funny. When it comes to comedy action movies,

40:12

Bad Boys as a whole are

40:14

in the top five of the franchises that

40:16

come to mind. Will Smith's career

40:18

has taken a big hit, no

40:21

pun intended, since the oscar incident where he

40:23

slapped Chris Rock. The thing about reputations

40:26

is they are so finicky. Oftentimes

40:28

an actor is one bad movie away

40:31

from audiences turning on them. That

40:33

is how hard it is to maintain

40:36

a good reputation, and

40:38

with Will Smith coming back from that incident,

40:41

it's been a struggle for him. And let's not

40:43

forget that he won that night for Best

40:45

Actor. Usually when an actor wins

40:48

that award, their career goes

40:50

on a skyrocket trajectory.

40:52

Even for somebody as established as Will Smith,

40:54

who had been wanting to win that Oscar for

40:56

a very long time, his career

40:59

has had quite the opposite effect. He

41:01

put out Emancipation, which was one of his

41:03

best, more dramatic roles, that still

41:05

didn't get him on the map. So maybe

41:08

doing another Bad Boys movie is

41:11

the best step for him right now. But he

41:13

even just shut down his charity because of

41:15

lack of donations, so it

41:17

is a hard thing to come back from. I

41:20

feel like one good movie could put people back

41:22

in positive spirits when it comes to Will

41:24

Smith. Aside from him, I think

41:26

the real star of these movies is Martin

41:28

Lawrence. He is so underrated

41:31

and underappreciated as a comedic

41:33

actor. Great stand Up also

41:35

had a great show in the nineties. Martin was

41:38

a show I would watch all the time, and

41:40

he is translated from TV to film

41:42

really well. Blue Streak is one of my favorite

41:45

nineties comedy action movies of all time,

41:47

and in this trailer you see him being

41:50

the real comic relief, which he has been in the

41:52

Bad Boys movies, but they're just scene in particular where

41:54

he's dancing on the roof in a hospital

41:57

gown showing off his trunk, and I just

41:59

think Man Lawrence has really

42:01

just carried the comedy franchise

42:04

as a whole, and these movies always

42:06

have a lot of that, a lot of comedy, a

42:08

lot of great action chase scenes,

42:10

explosions. Michael Bay did the first

42:12

one and the second one wasn't

42:15

involved in the third one isn't involved in this

42:17

one, but it still has that Michael Bay

42:19

look to it, that almost orange just

42:22

tint those real low action,

42:24

defying angles when it comes to the car

42:26

chase scenes, and you know it's going to be loaded up

42:28

with explosions, a lot of great cars.

42:30

These movies now are essentially superhero

42:33

movies in disguise because Martin

42:35

Lawrence and Will Smith are essentially

42:37

bulletproof and the bad guys

42:39

just can't seem to take them down, so they are

42:41

superheroes. They may not be running

42:44

around in tights and capes,

42:46

but essentially it's so ridiculous

42:48

and the action is so overtop that these are superhero

42:51

movies. The thing about making an action movie

42:53

like this at their age, which they were much

42:55

younger back in the nineties in the first one,

42:58

is that you're gonna have to make even

43:00

more old guy jokes, which

43:03

was kind of the whole thing and the premise

43:05

behind Bad Boys for Life. It was

43:07

them older talking about

43:09

ointments and their body not being

43:11

what it used to be. It looks like in this trailer

43:13

they are ramping that up even a little bit more. Seems

43:16

to me that this one is leaning in even

43:18

more to the R rating. There was so much

43:20

profanity in this trailer, and it looks

43:23

like they are even ramping up the violence a

43:25

little bit. But on top of that, it looks like

43:27

they are also stepping up the action. There's

43:29

a sequence in this trailer where they

43:31

are in a helicopter. It

43:33

appears to be the point in the movie where they discover

43:36

that they are being set up and then the helicopter goes

43:38

down. That scene actually looks pretty

43:40

legit, and when it comes to the money making factor

43:42

of this franchise, it starts to make a lot

43:45

of sense of why they are doing another movie.

43:47

These movies have been all successful

43:50

at the box office. The first one, back in nineteen

43:52

ninety five, made one hundred and forty one

43:54

million dollars and they were each only paid about

43:57

two million dollars each to star in that movie.

43:59

Bad Boys Two came out in two thousand and three

44:01

and made two hundred and seventy three million dollars.

44:03

Bad Boys for Life came out back in twenty twenty

44:05

in January and made four hundred

44:08

and twenty five million dollars at the box

44:10

office, which was astonishing to me, and

44:12

given what happened in the later half of twenty

44:15

twenty and everything shutting down in March, it

44:17

went on to be one of the highest grossing

44:20

movies of that year and

44:22

overall, when it comes to Will Smith and Martin Lawrence,

44:24

Will Smith has made thirty nine million

44:26

dollars for all three movies. Martin

44:29

Lawrence has made thirty two million dollars

44:31

overall, a little bit less than Will Smith.

44:33

He can negotiate for a lot more because

44:35

his name is first up on the billing.

44:38

So far, it hasn't been reported

44:41

exactly what they were making for this one.

44:44

I would assume in the twenty to twenty

44:46

five million dollar range to get them

44:48

back for a fourth movie. Will

44:50

Smith would probably be on the twenty five.

44:53

I could see Martin Lawrence taking twenty

44:55

even nineteen million dollars. That

44:57

seems to be the differential between

45:00

the two actors, although I think they should get

45:02

paid equally, because I'm going

45:04

for Martin Lawrence just as much as I'm going

45:06

for Will Smith, if not more. And

45:08

I'm quite surprised because I thought

45:10

I would think that this movie would be kind

45:13

of cash gravy. I didn't think I would want to

45:15

see it after watching this trailer. I've been seeing

45:17

them talk about it, but it always just feels like one of those

45:19

franchises of them just trying to get back to those

45:21

glory days of Part one in Part

45:23

two. But after watching the trailer

45:25

and seeing some of the comedy and seeing some

45:28

of the action, which I remember having

45:30

a good time going to see Bad Boys Part

45:32

three in theaters, I didn't think

45:34

I would even be interested in wanting to

45:36

see this movie. But it's coming out in June,

45:38

so it also has that big summer blockbuster

45:41

effect too. Which I love. My favorite time

45:43

of the year is summer blockbuster

45:45

season, and I think this movie is going to

45:47

have big action flick this

45:49

summer written all over it. It

45:52

comes down to do audiences

45:54

really want this at this point?

45:57

Because as much money as Part

45:59

three made, I don't know if that

46:01

audience is still as passionate and rabid

46:04

for another installment just four years after,

46:06

Because if you look at these other movies, they

46:09

are spaced out, way, way further

46:11

out. Even between Part one and

46:13

Part two that was eight years and

46:15

then it was seventeen years later

46:18

that we got Part three, and now

46:20

just four years later we get Part

46:22

four. So a big part

46:24

of three coming out in twenty

46:26

twenty was that it had been

46:29

so long and now it was them older,

46:31

and there was that running joke going on that

46:33

I just think four years after isn't

46:36

a significant amount of time for

46:39

it to dominate as much as it did

46:41

four years ago. And to be quite

46:43

honest, between twenty nineteen and

46:45

twenty twenty four feels like an eternity,

46:48

but it also feels like no time has passed whatsoever.

46:50

So if you would have asked me when that movie came out,

46:53

you could have told me two years ago, and it would

46:55

have made sense to me. So I

46:57

don't think it's gonna meet those same box office

47:00

expectations that it did. I don't

47:02

think this one will hit that four hundred

47:04

and twenty five million dollar mark. I honestly

47:07

think for this one, it's gonna be really hard for it

47:09

to even get to two hundred and fifty million

47:11

dollars, will even be hard just to get to two

47:13

hundred, to be honest. But to me, this still

47:15

looks like a fun time at the movie So

47:17

I will definitely be going to check this one out

47:20

and see how it ranks up with the other three films.

47:22

Again. That is coming out in theaters this summer

47:24

on June seventh.

47:26

At that was this week's edition of

47:28

Movie by Framer par Ken.

47:31

That is going to do it for another episode

47:33

here of the podcast. But before I go,

47:35

I gotta get my listeners shout out of the week.

47:38

Do this every single week to a listener who

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tags me in your Instagram story,

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sends me an email, moviemke d at gmail

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Facebook, all those things. You can always

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find the links to all my social media in the

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episode notes. But this week, we are going

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over to Instagram and I posted a

47:57

real last week from the Obscure

47:59

Movie Quote Game, and I

48:02

really love seeing how many you all got right.

48:04

I think overall, in the real I posted

48:07

three was probably the most common

48:10

answer of how many people got right.

48:12

There was really only one person that got zero

48:14

out of five, but also only

48:17

one person who got five out of five,

48:19

And that is this week's listener shout out of the week.

48:21

Pd Beats on Instagram

48:24

said five out of five too easy. I

48:26

did not think those were too easy. They were really

48:29

obscure. The last one is so

48:31

quick that you really have to

48:33

be dialed in to get that one. So pd Beats,

48:35

you are this week's listener shout out of the week. After

48:37

going five for five on the Obscure Movie

48:40

Quote Game, you want to go check out that real

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