March 3, 2025 • 57 mins
Mike and Kelsey share their best and worst movies they watched in February. They talk about The Shrek 5 teaser that dropped, the Barney movie that got announced and their nostalgic childhood TV shows. In the Movie Review, Mike talks about Riff Raff. It’s a crime-comedy starring Bill Murray, Pete Davidson and Ed Harris. It’s about a former criminal whose ordinary life turns upside down when his old family shows up for a long-awaited reunion. Mike talks about how it compared to some of his favorite 80’s crime comedies, its stacked ensemble cast, how a movie like this would benefit from VHS/DVD sales back in the day and the legend of Bill Murray and how you book him for a movie. In the Trailer Park, Mike’s thoughts on the upcoming A24 film "Warfare" written and co-directed by a former US Navy Seal. It’s his account that follows a team of SEALs holed up in an Iraqi home, following their action in real time, telling the story of that day from the memories of the American service members who fought their way out of an insurgent attack.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I
am your host. Movie Mike joined today with my wife
and co host Kelsey Hya Lolan. Ooh, that sounds so good.
That's a great sound. Can you identify that sound if
you're listening at home at the gym and your car?
What does that sound? One more time? Will you now
(00:21):
reveal the sound? Everybody have your answers in what is
that sound?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's a nice almond milklawte with honey, cinnamon and an
extra shot of espresso.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
You always have to shake a nice coffee to get
that get that mixture down. Yeah, I'm also having a coffee,
but there's no sound. It is a can and I
already opened it because I need a caffeine right now.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Sam. That's why I went to get a coffee.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
But this week we are doing our best and worst
of the month. February was a pretty slow month, so
we'll give you that.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Slow in terms of movies. The month itself went by
so fast.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah, I never really experienced February. It was here and
it was gone gone. I have my top three movie
news stories of the month. We'll give our TV show
recommend in the movie review I'll be talking about the
new Bill Murray and Pete Davidson movie called Riff Raff.
And in the trailer park, there's a new very realistic
war movie coming out. All unfold in real time and
(01:12):
is written by real life veteran who served in the
Iraq War. He's also co directing this movie. It is
called Warfare. We'll get into that. Thank you for being here,
Thank you for being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday
Morning Movie crew. And now let's talk movies from the
Nustville Podcast Network. This is movie Mike Movie all right.
(01:33):
I am gonna kick us off this week. Like we
mentioned earlier, February was a pretty slow month. It is
the last of the dump months in movies, so hopefully
by March we'll ramp up. We have Mickey seventeen coming out,
so I feel like some good stuff will come out
in March, but for the best in February, I am
going with the Monkey. The Primate family has had quite
(01:56):
the run at the box office lately. You love a
movie about a monkey, think with a monkey or a primate.
Some people called me out for saying that certain primates
were monkeys. They're not all monkeys. I just see it
as monkeys.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
It's giving all squares are rectangles a rectangles a.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Square like, I get it. But you see a big
furry creatures like is a monkey And I think there's
something animalistic in me to like movies with monkeys. They're
just funny. In the nineties, I feel like there were
a lot of those dumb comedies that just had a
monkey in them, like the Georgia of the Jungle movie
had primates it.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Have you not ever seen my personal favorite Dunston checks in?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
No, I have not seen that.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
You've never seen Dunston checks in. No.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It's about a monkey or an ape gorilla whatever that
lives at a hotel. It's so good.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Wait, let me look this up.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I feel like this is one of those ones that
I've seen saw at the video store. A lot growing
around owned it. It came out and oh, I recognized
this cover. I've never saw this movie. Dunst then checks
in from nineteen ninety six. Yeah great, it's an orangutang.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah so good.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Oh I should do an episode about my favorite monkey
movies and by watching this movie so you can only
rent it for three seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I think we can afford that.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Oh this looks right up my ass. See. I'm going
to get into later in the movie review why you
can't have mid movies anymore, But Dunstan checks in as
a great example of that. We don't have dumb, ridiculous
comedies like that anymore that exist that we grew up
with in our childhood.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, we grew up in like the golden age of
movies that had no purpose other than to entertain us.
I mean, have you seen a Mary Kay Nashley film.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
That's the other thing, because I instantly recognized this movie
from seeing the poster of it.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Let me see the cover again.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Here you go. Yep, what I heard? That is. As
soon as you started talking about it more, I'm like, Okay,
I know I've seen this at least at the video
store back in the day.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Who's the main actor in it? Did it go on
to do anything else?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Eric Lloyd? I don't recognize him from anything else, but
Jason Alexander is also in this movie.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Paul Rubens is in this movie. I'm gonna go watch
this right after. Okay, the kid. It also was in
the Santa Claus two, which I remember that and in
the Santa Claus one. I think he's a kid, so
he was in some mother ston.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
That's a good movie. I loved them, And.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
That's what I'm talking about. I miss movies like that,
movies I just remember because we never rented movies at Blockbuster.
We would only go to there was a video store
inside a Walmart that we would rent movies from, or
the video station, which was really old school. But there
was always these movies that I remember seeing that we
just never ran and I couldn't convince my parents. And
(04:22):
this was one I always wanted to watch but never did.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I owned it on VHS.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
God, that's a classic. Well, I mean I haven't seen it,
but just the image of it is a classic. So
I will watch this movie. Maybe I'll do my best
monkey movies.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
There are so many movies that I had on VHS
that I wish I had, just for like the Relics,
but they were at my grandparents and they lost their
house on a fire when I was in high school.
And so like all of like my childhood movies that
I had in my books, and I feel so sad
about those because I'm like I had Harry Potter and
(04:54):
the Sorcerer's Stone on VHS.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Wow, I know that was even in the age of DVDs.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I know, well Sorcerer's Stone came out two thousand and one.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, but I mean that's that's early Yeah, that's early
days of DVDs.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
That was when you could still buy both and my
grandparents didn't have a DVD player at the time.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, my parents still have all the old Disney VHS
cartridge like the big thick ones like those are classics.
I don't think they're worth anything because they're open if
they were sealed, but just like being able to hold
and feel a movie like that that takes you back.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I wish I had all those. I also I was
part of the Hello.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Kiddy Craft Club Tell Me More.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Every month you got like a book and it walked
you through like a step by step craft. And my
grandma was an elementary school teacher and we loved doing
crafts and so we would get I was just I
talked to my grandparents earlier and my grandma sent me
a sweet text after and she's like, we had so
much fun when you were growing up, and like I
would go to my grandparents for any new like d
(05:52):
com premiering, and my grandma would watch every single Disney
Channel movie with me and we do like Craft of
the Month.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Your favorite d com?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
High School School?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
That's later. Yeah, that's kind of passed where I was
super into Dcom's twelve it was two and six. Yeah,
I was fifteen. Yeah, I was kind of past that phase.
But Johnny Tsunami for me, loved that movie.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah. I what else did I love? Yeah? High School?
Mu School, smart.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
House That's yeah, that's more than the my.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Toss up, but I love I mean, I still love
the soundtrack.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
It's like bigger than a d com, but it was.
It was a d coom.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
That kind of reminds me of something I always wanted
as a kid but never got, was a subscription to
the Nickelodeon magazine. Do you remember those commercials?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I might have had it.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
You had Nickelodeon Magazine.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I might have Oh, I had a lot of magazine subscriptions.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
You were so lucky. I remember the commercials, like trying
to convince your parents to get It's like Nickelodeon magazine. Please.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I had, oh, what was it Zoo lights or something?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Oh the Zoo, Yeah, the Zoo magazine. Yeah, I remember
those we.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Had highlights, which was a kid when I kime the
Zoom one. Now it was Zoo books. Zoo books, that's
what it had, Zuo books at a highlight. I might
have had the Nickelodeon. I don't know what as a kid,
I was an only child for twelve years, Like what
did you want for me?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Spoiled ultimate thing? I hope I can describe it accurately.
It was like that art kit where you could make
art and it like it was like these sponges.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
What we were talking about. I don't know what it's called, yes,
and it was the it was almost like the magnet thing.
You'd put it down and you'd turn them different.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
And it was like it's cleanup. It's so easy, you
just wipe it away. That was like the ultimate thing
of like, oh I want.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
That commercials on like Nicked Night. There was the do
you remember the one? It was the hair tool and
it had four different plates and one crimped hair, one
straightened your hair, and one major hair wavy.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I vaguely remember that I did.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Ask for that for Christmas when you're didn't really do
my hair though well, And a Nickelodeon infomercial got me, You're.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
A kid who actually got stuff from the television. I know,
I feel like a No. I mean I was I
envied those kids, like, man, you actually order something from
a catalog.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Honestly, I think my mom and my grandparents just feel
bad thing because my dad died, so they just spoiled me.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah. I would take having my dad over that over
some new books.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I just got a lot of things. Is that where
my obsession material possessions came from? God? Am I about
to unpack my.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Whole joo therapy? But anyway, like I was saying, but
a monkey and anything, and I'm gonna watch that movie.
The Monkey was my favorite.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Oh yeah, I forgot what we were talking about.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
That was my favorite of the month because I enjoy
a horror movie that doesn't take itself too seriously, I think,
And no, I would say, I think even if you
watched it, you would find some parts about it that
you enjoyed. But it was pretty bloody and gory because
it all centers around people dying in really unique ways.
I'm good like getting in Pale a lot of wild things.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I can't do impalement. I can't hate it.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Yeah, I could do in Pale I can do everything
I can. The weird thing is I can watch a
horror movie like this.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
You can't watch a medical show.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
But I can't watch a medical show.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
When I'm watching Er or Grays or The Pit and
somebody's impaled on something, you're.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Like or like bones breaking, Yeah, you don't do good
with that. Oh boy?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
See and that I can. If it's on a medical show,
I can handle it. But if it's like a horror
movie for some reason, I can't because it's less like
clinical to me.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Anyway. That is my best of the month. It's still
in theaters, but I don't feel like it's one you
have to see in theaters, especially if you're kind of
on the fence about it. But I think it isn't
one that you'll lose that scary. It's not really super scary,
but you'll lose that vibe by watching it at home,
because sometimes I feel like a horror movie when you
experience it in a dark theater, it adds to that level.
Sometimes I get at a point five for me, this one.
(09:32):
I think you could wait at home and watch it.
What about you? For your best?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
So I only saw one movie in theaters this month.
Low number so it's gonna be my best and my worst.
So it was Captain America, Brave, New World best because
it was entertaining. A Marvel movie could be bottom of
the barrel, and I'm probably still entertained.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Marvel, even at its worst, is still better than most movies.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
And it was also the worst of the month because
I did want it to feel better.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah, it lacked a lot of is how I describe it,
because I wanted the action to be more throughout and
almost felt like everything that kind of happened was very predictable.
It kind of just went through the motions of like
a Marvel movie, and it didn't even feel like it's
setting up the next space. But I have forgotten about
that movie after seeing it. I am more excited for
(10:21):
the Fantastic Four movie coming out later this summer.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Except for that that looks good, I'm except for Thunderbolts.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I kind of forget about Thunderbolts. I think it's just
because I don't have an attachment to any of those characters.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I love Florence Pugh, I like the cast.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
It just feels that we've already had like the ragtag
group of heroes inside of all Marvel and DC or
we've had like three iterations or two iterations of the
Suicide Squad. It kind of feels like Marvel Suicide Squad.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Good point.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
So I don't know if people are gonna go watch
that and it's really going to cut through, but I
think it'll be good. I think it's going to be
better than Captain America actually, because I do think the
villains in that movie will liketually be a little bit
more of a threat and maybe play a bigger part
in the phases that follow. But best and worst Captain America,
Brave New World, My Worst. I went with Presents, which
(11:11):
I guess. I went both horror movies for my best
and worst, and it was almost.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Want to see those alone. Yeah, you went to like
a ten am movie on the Saturday.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
For both of these. I went to really early Lotdat
because I almost thought that I could get an entire
theater by myself and with regal. Since we pay monthly
to go to one movie, it only costs US fifty
five cents. I guess we pay like what some surcharge or.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Some it's those stupid like processing fees. Don't even get
me started on fees.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
But all we have to do to get a booking
is paid fifty five cents, and I wanted to do
a video like this is how I rent it out
of a theater for fifty five cents. You go to an
eleven am screening and I went and there was like
a lot of people lay in the monkey. There was
only like one other person for presents. But I was like, man,
I thought that would I feel like to do that.
I can't go opening weekend. I would have to go
like at least a second or third week of.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
A last week in theaters.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Like that's how you could get a movie theater for
fifty five cents.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
But you've just told everyone that your video is gonna
be clickbait.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Well, I can't make the video if you ever do,
you literally just admitted that it's gonna be. Everybody listening
could be in on them. I'm just trying to scam
everybody on the internet for clickbait. Okay, can't you see
that TikTok video? This is how I read it out
of video for fifty five or a theater for fifty
five cents.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yeah, and that would be the one that goes like
viral like BuzzFeed Man explains that he got a movie
theater to himself for fifty five cents.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
And then everybody in the comments complaining like this is this.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Is truting, This isn't really fifty per cents, it's subscription.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Actually painting thirty dollars them. Yeah whatever, that's.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
How we imitate people who annoy us online.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Oh yeah, but Presence, I just thought there was gonna
be a little bit more to it. I like the
idea of it, especially when I covered it in the
trailer park, where it is a horror movie but it's
from the perspective of the demonic force inside of the house.
Hell no, which exactly like I thought it was gonna
be scarier, And the trailer made it seem so much
more intense because they use a lot of like these
(13:02):
hovering shots and then like people like the camera running
up on characters and the camera shaking and like the
whole house is gonna go. But there wasn't that much
of that action inside the actual movie. It was really
just the story about this family going through a traumatic
time in their life, and the Presence was kind of
just watching their story unfold but doesn't really mess with
them a whole lot.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Presence would take me out, I hear a scary noise
and I just think I hear like the floor creak
in the house, and I'm like, well, it's my time.
I'm gonna lay here and wait, and then like five
minutes go by and I'm like, okay, I think that
was just the floor.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I have my top three movie news stories of the
last couple weeks or so. I have Zendeia has joined
Shrek five. I saw not and Shrek five is coming
out in twenty twenty six. Not a whole lot that
they put out about the plot, but it looks like
it takes place maybe twelve fifteen years after the last
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Shrek movie.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I'm gonna say it, I don't think we needed a
Shrek five.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Got there were Shrek four To.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Be honest, you don't think we needed to continue the franchise.
But Cameron Diaz said, I'm back to acting, so.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, They're all back and to love Donkey.
Zn Deya is playing their daughter, who in the last
movie they had triplets. She was a baby in that movie.
Now they're grown up. They made Shrek and Fiona and
even even Donkey look older, which it kind of looks
like Shrek had work done, like in the I watched
(14:28):
the little teaser of it, and I'm like, dang, did
Shrek get botox? Because they like aged them up a
little bit, but they also kind of changed the animation
and it kind of looks like it looks like Shrek
but also looks like a different version of Shrek. And
it almost feels like they regressed in the animation. Botox
for ores, Yeah, everybody getting botogs in Hollywood. There's a
(14:50):
little clip of the Shrek teaser. Hey, Magic Mayram, who's
the fairest of them all? Why Shrek? Of course.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
You?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Dad, mom Light, who's making this stuff? Fuck me? So
it kind of seems like all the same jokes that
you come to expect from a Shrek movie. Shrek wanted
to were great. After that, I feel like it became
too much of a It was such a beast that
they continued to make them because they continued to make
a lot of money. Talking about DVD sales earlier, like
(15:20):
that was a dominant DVD Shrek too.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
The karaoke game I talk about this often. It's memorable
because it had had the DVD menu back then, and
if you couldn't find the remote to the DVD player.
You couldn't play special features, you.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Could just play Oh yeah, that was a sad times
on the.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
DVD remote was always a real bummer.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
And then the menu just keep playing over and over again.
You're like, I know all these jokes, get it off
of hair.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Oh you go to a sleepover and you all like
fall asleep, and then you wake up and it's just
the music blaring on the menu, and you're.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Like, oh, but Shrek five.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Too many.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
It's a lot of Shrek.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
It's too many. We didn't need. We didn't need that.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Shrek is I feel pretty beloved in the Elder not
even Elder Milan, just a millennial movie. I feel like
gen Z is pretty big on Shrek because of the
memes that have kind of come back in the last
I mean really in the last decade. Shrek has been
still a part of pop culture. But I feel like
a Shrek five is a little bit too much. And
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after seeing the animation, I'm like, I don't know, it's
gonna be very good, but it will probably still make
a lot of money. The crazy thing about Zendea, She's
going to be in four major movie releases in twenty
twenty six. She's going to be in the Odyssey, which
is the new Christopher Nolan movie that also has Tom
Holland in it, that comes out on July seventeenth, Spider
Man four which comes out on July thirty first, and
(16:41):
this is all twenty twenty six, twenty twenty six. After
that it is Dude Messiah that comes out on December eighteenth.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Twenty other Dune, Oh God.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
And then this will be the fourth release in twenty
twenty six, Shrek five on December twenty third.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
This is how you break the news to me that
there's another Dune. I thought we were done with the Dunes.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I mean good for the day of though.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I just saw footage online of they are actually filming Euphoria,
so it's actually happening. It's filming right now. It's happening, I.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Believe when I see it, Like, what did they get
halfway through? And we don't have anything else?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I mean, I am gonna have to go back and
watch the first two seasons.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Number two on my list. Speaking of Zendia and Tom Holland,
Spider Man four is has been delayed. Well, it's all.
I got pushed back a week because they're trying to
space it out between Yeah, Odyssey, which is I feel
like that's hard on Tom Holland and they in particular
because they're going to be promoting Spider Man. I feel
(17:38):
more both in both of those movies. So it's hard
for an actor to promote two movies at the same time.
I don't know how. I mean, there has to be
some kind of contract issue there, but I guess what's happening.
But they haven't started filming Spider Man for yet. They
have started filming the Odyssey movie. I've seen a few
stills out of it, and people are already rippingneath to shred,
(18:01):
saying that it's not historically accurate. It's like, come on,
it's a movie.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
It is meant for entertainment.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
My favorite quote is the director of Gladiator to basically
say Regally Scott, like were you there? Like what were
you there about the sharks? Yeah, But that gets pushed
back a little bit. I think I was just of
the mindset of I honestly didn't think they were gonna
make another Spider Man after the last one.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I'm glad they are.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I'm glad they are. They start filming this summer. Hopefully
that continues and goes down and it actually comes out
when they're saying it's gonna come out now. But I
almost feel like Tom Holland is ready to move past that.
I feel like he could have said, you know what,
after the last one, all we accomplished with that made
a lot of money, was really impactful, one of the
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best Marvel movies of the twenty twenties, if not the
best one. He could have ended on that. Look at
all the other roles he's getting. He's booked NonStop, being
in a Christopher Nolan movie. That's like, that's the next level.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I love Sandaya. Give me more of them on the screen,
Give me every movie that's all agree to real they
officially engaged?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Did they ever say there?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
And it didn't. But it's an engagement ring, okay. I
think their families confirmed it. And she also kept wearing
that ring on that finger like multiple times. She wouldn't
do if it was just a costume.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Jury makes sense.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Great for them, love them together. I hope they have
the most blissfully happy life. They seem adorable. They seem
very supportive.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Because he also said that once he has kids, he's
stop acting. Yeah, so maybe that's why he's doing all
these movies. Good for him, Yeah, make the money. Now
get us Spider Man four, maybe a couple appearances and
Avengers and then I'm good. Go live your life, do
what you want to do.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Go forth.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
And my third movie news story is Aoadbris from the
Bear is going to write and start in a movie
about Barney. Yes, the movie he is coming to us
from A twenty four It has been in development since
twenty nineteen. There's not a lot of details on what
it's going to entail.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Like is it a movie about the creation of Barney
the show?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
It kind of sound like it's going to be about
the creation of the show. So I have to imagine
it's going to be like a drama of maybe them
filming it, maybe some kind of story surrounding Barney, because
it doesn't feel like it's going to be just a
Barney movie like made for kids. I have to imagine
it's going to be about the making of the show.
If it's a very a twenty four s type of movie.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yeah, but I.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Know that they are trying to partner more with like
Mattel and everybody's trying to create like their own kind
of universe. So I feel like this could be a
movie in that kind of era of like, Okay, let's
make movies about childhood shows. Were you a Barney kid
growing up?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I was.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
I was a Barney kid growing up.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Barney Baby Bop b J.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
I remember watching it pretty much NonStop my entire entire childhood.
I had the Barney stuffed animal.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
That's cute.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I had. I think I had like Barney slippers that
were very popular in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
That's so cute because you were tricky kid.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Where it was like the ones where like the tops
of them are kind of like sock material, so you
would exactly what you're talking. They had those in like
every character in the nineties where you would just put
your foot through the character's head and then it had
like the little socks on the end of it. But
I love Barney. I think I probably stopped watching whenever
Selena Gomez was on this show.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
It's like I stopped watching yesterday. I just got a
new episode this week. Yeah, I was never into it,
and Selena and Demi were on it, I don't think not.
I thought I would have known who they were as kids.
So I actually can't confirm her deny when I stopped yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Can't remember all of the I mean, I don't know
any of the cast on there. There were just the
kids on Barn.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Yeah. It's not like Sasame Street where it was like
memorable humans.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I guess they just swapped kids out right. There wasn't
like a continuing storyline with the kids like there is
in any kid shows.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Kids show I loved. I'm totally derailing this, but this
is good. What snow You weren't a Disney Channel kid though?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Nah?
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Do you ever watch out of the Box.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
I don't even think I know what that is. Let
me look it up.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Out of the Box. They would literally take like a
cardboard box and create worlds with it.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I've never seen this show. I don't even recognize it.
What about I remember Ly Short and Round because it
came on in the mornings, and I think I wasn't
into those shows at that time when I was watching
Disney Channel, and I was like, I gotta wait for
this show to finish so I can watch some of
the other Disney programming. I remember that one. You were
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a straight up Disney kid, huh.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I loved it all. I was one thing about me,
I'm a TV person since I was a child.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I was more of a Nickelodeon kid. So my TV
shows I grew up with very young. It was a
shining time station. I love Thomas the Tank Engine, We
know that, which was another cool thing of being able
to recently meet Ringo Starr because he was the narrator
and conductor on the first two seasons of that show.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Your mom tells stories about she wouldn't be able to
go to the grocery store in the morning because you'd
be like, no, I'm watching Thomas.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
So we're talking early childhood that was up there. Number one,
Number two was probably Barney, and then number three was
Bananas and Pajamas. Oh my god, you love that sh
That was my jam and for I think my fifth
or sixth birthday, probably fifth birthday, I got B two,
which was the second banana in pajama. It was like
a stuffed animal. He was wearing his blue and white
striped pajamas and I get that thing forever.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
That's so cute.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I think eventually we sold a yard sale.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I love the stories about your childhood.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I was a speak kind of TV early on anything,
and I would like to say I probably had a
lot of screen time and I turned out fine.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I mean, yeah, I watched the lot.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
I like the silence there.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
You were really well. I was just I was I
was thinking how we talk about kids' screen time now
we don't have kids, obviously, and how much that affects people.
We watched a lot of TV growing up, Like I
remember random commercials from the nineties, like the Seer's commercial
about the wife trying to get the husband to call
about the air conditioner. Why do I remember that?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I wonder though, if it's because we were watching a TV.
It wasn't like a tablet or a phone where you're
doing like a lot of different things in different tasks.
Like we were just seated and we had to watch commercials.
Nothing was instant. You had to wait for something to
be on.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah, because I still remember that commercial I'll call tomorrow,
you'll call now, I'll call now. I remember that too,
Like that can't be good for my brain. I remember
more commercials than anything.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I remember all the infomercials easy Bake, oven light bright,
the little art thing we were talking about.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
But that was my early childhood TV. When it came
to like more elementary school level, I was like rug
Rats all on Nickelodeon. Hey, Arnold, anything on Nickelodeon.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I was all about that's one of those things that
I know. I loved those things. But I don't really
have I don't really know when I have the first memory.
I don't know. I don't I can't really put my
finger on what my first memory as a kid is.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Really. Yeah, I feel like my earliest memory is probably
going to kindergarten for the first time.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I think again, it's the whole Dad Diane childhood trauma. Yeah, yeah,
I do remember. I don't know if I've told the
story in here. I think I did that. I could
read really early, and my kindergarten teacher didn't like that
because I'd get bored.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Your way had all the kids, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
And I was like, no, my phone, everyone else is stupid.
She'd be like, Kelsey, are you paying attention. I've read
the whole book. She's like, we're on page one. I've
read the whole book. You're like, I read all the
books on your desk, read them all. Do we want
to do our normal TV recommendation of the month. I'm
already off the rails.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
We've already done our childhood recap from the nineties and
early two thousands.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Hope that unlocks something and someone's brain. I love being
reminded of nostalgia.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Your favorite TV show of the last month, we.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Watched a lot. We've been doing this thing called enjoying
our rent.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Staying home, not going out, where we don't leave the.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
House because the outside world is expensive. Well, I did
watch forty two episodes of Summer House in six days.
Can't decide if I'm proud of that, but I did
catch up the new season IVO. Overall, I don't remember
if you mentioned Paradise last month that we're watching on Hulu.
I don't think one of the greatest shows ever made,
not over yet at the phenomena in this prime. Target's
(26:11):
a really good one on Apple. And then we binged
to Zero Day on Netflix, which was a like political
kind of conspiracy. Internet power grids get shut off.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yeah, there's a cyber attack that shuts down all technology
for like it was like a minute, right, but in
that minute, thousands of people died. Robert Niro is a
former US president and then kind of leads the investigation
of figuring out what happens and trying to stop it
before it happens again.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
So good. I'm loving the like intense dramas.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
There's a lot of CIA crime d I feel like
they're maybe a little bit cheaper to produce, so maybe
that's why studios are leaning into them right now. I
feel like everybody kind of jumps on a genre for
a minute, But.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
If you're not watching Paradise, you're missing out truly on
one of the best shows that will be winning awards.
They're getting a second season. Sterling K. Brown is phenomenal
in it. I think we did talk about it because
I remember now saying that it's from the creator of
This is Us Any Yeah, yeah, for Stirling K. Brown.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
That was way early. That was lifetimes ago.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Yeah, it's gotten even better. So I'm trying to think
if I've watched anything else. You know, I'm all about
a cheesy Netflix show. But I'm watching season four of
Sweet Agnolias, and it is so painfully cheesy that I
paused the TV. When you walk in the room because
I am embarrassed that I'm.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Watching it, You're like, I'm gonna go ahead and pause this.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Yeah, I think that's everything for me.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I finished Dragon Ball Super All one hundred and thirty
plus one hundred and thirty one episodes. I was not
able to finish on Hulu like I thought it was
because they took it off of Hulus. We know have
another subscription, Crunchy Roll, which I finished it there, and
I've now started dragonball Z, but that's like two hundred
and thirty episodes two hundred and fifty, so that's gonna
take me a while. But I did watch Your Friendly
(27:49):
Neighborhood spider Man, which is the animated show on Disney Plus.
It is focused more on the science version of Peter Parker,
highly in fluenced by the comics, and not even the
nineties spider Man TV show, but more so the nineteen
sixties version of Spider Man, and I thought it was
pretty good. The animation style was a little bit weird
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because I thought it looked kind of cheap whenever they
first put out the trailer, because it's kind of supposed
to look like a comic book art, but I feel
like the comic book art they tried to make looks
really cheap and like they were trying to cut corners.
But as the season went along, I got a little
bit more used to it in the story and it's
actually really good, so I feel like overall it won
me over. I wouldn't say it's my favorite Spider Man
(28:33):
project yet, but I feel like it's good to have
a balance of having something that's not really connected to
anything else, and probably like a lot of young kids
are watching that, that's like their introduction to this level
of Spider Man. For that, it's like great quality. But
that has been my nerdy TV show watching your book.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Why did I read this month? I'm still going through
Harry Potter on my book club. Read The Favorites by
Lane Fargo, which was good, So I give that. It
was like these two like teenage ice dancers, basically a
soap oper book. It was good. It was a little
longer than it needed to be, could have cut some
things out, but overall I enjoyed that, so I'd give that.
The ANSWER's been a lot of me reading Harry Potter
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at night.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Well, book are you on?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I am? According to my Kendle, sixty seven percent of
the way done with Order of the Phoenix.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
You're almost deltable, I know, but six.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
And seven are really long. It's taking me a while.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
I forget. It's basically like a dictionary encyclopedia.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah, so this one's even taking me a while because
I roll over read with my kindle and I make
it through about a chapter and then I get sleepy.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
For my book. You gifted me a few graphic novels
for Christmas, and I read The Killing Joke, which is
all about the origin story of the Joker. It cover
scares me and how one bad day could change your
entire life, and it was interesting because I've never seen
this origin story of the Joker, and it makes a
statement on how Joker's life had one bad day and
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he chose the path of being evil. Batman's life had
one and bad day and he chose a life of
being a vigilanti trying to do good. So it's showing
how similar they are in ways, and how it's not
what happens to you, it's how you react to it
which impacts your life, which is a pretty profound thing
for a graphic novel, especially as they came out as
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long ago as it did.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
I mean, yeah, I feel like it's getting at the
like nature versus nurture.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Which when it comes watching or reading comics, I feel
like I lean more towards Batman's stuff because I feel
like it does have quote unquote adult themes that you
could actually learn things from like that. When it comes
to Marvel stuff, it's a little bit more like fluffy
and fun, shiny, easy breezy. I'm like way into that
(30:43):
right now. But that has been one of my favorite
It's not my favorite Batman graphic novel. It'll always be
The Dark Knight Returns. But it's not there. It's good.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
There's so many good books coming out in March. The
so the TV show We Were the Lucky Ones that
I watched on Hulu, World War two book that they
made into a show. The author has another book coming
out this week, and then Hunger Games, Sunraise on the
Reaping comes out this month.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Oh yeah, I cannot wait for that.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
And that's been your book report. I do remember, also,
to anyone listening, I did promise to start doing like
reels about books I read. I forget to record them
when I actually look decent to be on camera, like
my hair and makeup done. So I owe people We'll
start with February. It's coming, I promise. I just you know,
my editor is really busy.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Yeah, but if you do want to watch clips that
we do, you can subscribe on YouTube. Yes, YouTube dot
com slash Mike Distro or find the link in the
episode notes anything else.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
No, I need to finish my coffee.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Stah me too. I'm starting to wake up over here.
All right, we'll come back. I'll give my spoiler free
review of Riffraff. Let's get into it now. A spoiler
free movie review of Riffraff, not to be confused with
the rapper riff Raff tiptoeing in My Jordan's No. This
is a movie starring Bill Murray, Pete Davidson, Jennifer Coolidge,
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Ed Harris. It is an ensemble cast. And sometimes when
I see ensemble cast, that is like a red flag
to me, like, oh, they're really selling this movie with
all the big names attached to it, There's no way
it could be good. In this case, I don't think
it was a victim of that. What Riffraff is about.
You have Ed Harris, who plays a character named Vincent.
Used to be involved in some crime, doing some shady
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things with Bill Murray, and then he wants out of
the business. He has to get out. He marries a
new person, moves away, goes under the radar. They can't
find him, living a quiet peaceful life all up until
this day where his son shows up on his doorstep
and he's in trouble, and suddenly these two bad guys
played by Bill Murray and Pete Davidson, who are murderers,
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are now on the trace to find his son and
to find Ed Harris, and that is what the movie
is about. This movie reminded me of a lot of things,
and the big question I want to talk about is
why can't mid movies exist anymore. I'll be very upfront
about this movie. Is it the best thing I've ever seen? Now?
Is it a terrible movie? By no means, But sometimes
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you watch a movie and you think that was pretty good. Okay,
I enjoyed parts of it. I don't feel like it
changed me as a person. I don't think this is
going to become one of my favorite movies. But I
feel like we've gotten to a point in the world
where mid movies can't exist anymore. You either have to
have something that is so great on a level of
life changing makes millions of dollars at the box office,
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regardless of its budget. But the problem is we can't
have mid movies anymore because if a movie like this
doesn't do well in the box office, doesn't have the
biggest word of mouth, and even with those A list
actors at the top of the bill, if you don't
get people going to see it in theaters, it is
seen as a failure. And a big problem that movies
(33:57):
have right now is initial reviews come out and that
influences people going to see them. And I know I'm
saying that as somebody who reviews movies on his podcast
on YouTube right here, maybe at times I'm part of
the problem. But that's why I like doing reviews and
long form on a podcast is because there is nuance
to it when you see a written review, when you
see a Rotten Tomatoes score, that is it. When I
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talk about what I like and don't like about a movie,
and maybe if it didn't move me in a way
that I thought was something that you need to rush
to the theater to see, I do talk about the
things that other people might enjoy about that movie, but
it takes another layer for somebody to find a review
like that. That's why I enjoy sharing my thoughts with you,
hearing what you have to say, because it builds a
film community and it's more important, and it resonates more
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because not every movie has to be life changing. But
the problem is if a movie gets bad reviews, doesn't
do well opening weekend, it just flutters into this category
of I'm not even going to watch that once it
hits streaming. But it's becoming harder and harder for a
movie like Riff Raff to just be mid. And back
(35:02):
in the nineties and early two thousands, a movie could
be mid, come out in theaters and you know, be recepted, Okay,
it's kind of all right, but then make its money
on the back end. There is a vast history of
movies that bombed in theaters but then had this second
life once it found its audience on DVD rentals, on
(35:24):
VHS rentals, going back even further, and there are some
movies that have become cult classics that way. But movies
don't have that anymore. And you have directors like the
director of Anora out here saying we need this. It
is such a hard time for indie directors right now
because of that, we don't have that luxury of something
having success post its theater run, and you think, well,
(35:46):
what does that even matter anyway, It's because these filmmakers
spend two, three, four, five years of their life making
these movies, spending at times their own money. And even
if they are not spending their own money, they're not
really making a whole lot of money off of these
movies because they aren't doing that well at the box
office and they have nothing on the back end. There's
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no physical media anymore like there used to be to
bring movies like this back to life. Even the director
of The Brutalists was saying he made zero dollars from
that movie. He made nothing. It's getting hard to have
just a mid movie that you can't even watch on
Saturday Mattinees on television, which I used to watch a
lot of movies that way, movies I didn't have a
(36:29):
chance to see in theaters, would never think to rent.
But they don't even have a second life there. All
you get is streaming and there's no return on that.
And you say, oh, well, that is a victim of
their own product. Movie studios didn't ask for streaming services.
Netflix came changed the game. They've made a lot of
money off of that. But I feel that even Netflix
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at times and a lot of the other streaming services
are losing money. But you can't put the toothpaste back
into the tube. We have come accustomed to being a
to watch anything with the click instantly and not having
to pay any more for it, And now whenever I
do have to pay five bucks to rent a movie,
even that is like, oh man, even though I could
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just go down the street buy a drink and a
snack for like seven to eight bucks at the gas station,
and that I have no problem spending money with, but
sometimes just clicking a button and thinking this should be free.
So I think we need to start thinking about the
value of art moving forward, because we just think of
it as things that we consume and things that should
(37:32):
just be readily available for us, and it just kind
of changes over time. Same way with music. When's the
last time you bought music. I try to support artists
as much as I can. If I have an artist
I really love, I'll get their record, Like you see
behind me on YouTube right now if you're watching, I
buy actual physical copies of things so I can show
those artists support. As much as I love movies, it's
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very rare that I get to do that. Would I
like to collect more Blu rays? Yeah? But I think
I unlike records. You can't really display blu rays like
you would a record. I used to keep a couple
in here of my favorite movie that i'd take them down.
I still have the Batman up there. Yeah, it is
harder to display things like that, so I try to
buy merch. I try to support in some way aside
(38:17):
from just going to the theater to watch these movies.
But when I watched riff Raff, I know I got
into a big exposition there on movies, but I felt
that while watching riff rafft because it reminded me of
some of my favorite eighties crime movies, movies like See
No Evil, Hear No Evil, Something Wild with ray Li
Yoda and Jeff Daniels, even crime comedies from the two
(38:38):
thousands like Double Whammy with Dennis Leary. Those are all
movies I was exposed to because I would watch them
on TV at times when there was nothing else to
watch and I was a loner. I had no friends,
so I'd watched a lot of movies on Saturday matinees
and that's where I was exposed to a lot of
these movies that again, I would never probably call any
of those movies some of my favorite movies of all time,
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but they have this unique place in my heart and
my memory that I associate with, Oh, those are actually
pretty good movies. Not a lot of people have seen
them or would call them their favorite movies, but there's
this high tier level of mid movies that become parts
of our DNA that when we find somebody else who's
actually watched those movies and enjoys those movies, you have
this bond with because they might not be the biggest
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movies of all time, but it's this level of mid
movie that doesn't exist anymore that I worry what is
going to be that in ten years? Is it just
going to be the straight to streaming movie? Which not
every straight to streaming movie is bad. It just feels
sometimes when a movie doesn't have a theater run, you
think a little less than of it. But back to
Riff Raff. It is directed by Dido Montielle, who I
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am fascinated with. He was part of an eighties hardcore
band back in the day. It was also in a
band called gutter Boy, and I very much felt the
punk rock eighties influence in this film. There were a
couple of songs that I was like, ah, that's definitely
his taste in there, and it really adds to it.
And I feel like there is this level of punk
rock authenticity to this movie that comes through in an
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indie film. When it comes to our stars of the movie,
you have Bill Murray, who, surprisingly, at age seventy four,
I felt he put a lot more effort into this character.
He plays one of the hit man he is paired
with Pete Davidson. Pete Davidson, for the most part, has
played himself in about every single movie from King of
Staten Island, Bodies, Body's Bodies, even in the romantic comedy
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he did with Glenn Powell Set it Up. But in
this one he gave a slightly different look. It was
like whenever Coke came out with new Coke. Still tastes
like coke, but the packaging is a little bit different.
So you could kind of convince me that he played
a little bit of a different character. But there was
something just unique about him and Bill Murray together, which
when you think about one comedy legend, one maybe future
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comedy legend working together, I had to imagine, or I
want to believe that a lot of that was improv
because Bill Murray is a person who, according to legend
on the internet, doesn't even have a cell phone, doesn't
have a manager. You have to contact him via a
one eight hundred number. He is also historically late or
doesn't show up, or you never know when he's going
to show up on set. This was the case even
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with the last Ghostbusters movie. It was kind of like,
I don't know when Bill's gonna show up, but we'll
kind of wait around for him because he is Bill Murray.
So I feel that the days they actually had with
him and Pete Davidson were probably very few because I
feel like he rolls in, he knows what he's gonna do.
He probably takes some direction to set him up a
little bit, but I kind of feel at this point
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in his career that is what you get. You get
Bill Murray. He's gonna be Bill Murray. He's gonna follow
along with the script, but he's going to give you
what he wants to give you. But even though I
felt like his time was limited on this movie, I
still feel like he actually gave a crap, which is
big for Bill Murray. I actually feel like he cared
about it. He was as menacing as Bill Murray can be.
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At seventy four, the person I wanted to see more
of was Jennifer Coolidge, who has had a resurgence due
to White Lotus that everybody is reminded of how funny
and awesome she is. So overall of the movie was
a game of cat and mouse. He had some comedy
sprinkled here and there, some crimes sprinkled here and there,
some violence and shooting and blood here and there. It
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had a mixture of everything. I wouldn't call this movie
a slow burn. I would say overall there are a
lot of lulls here and there, but I almost think
or hope that was intentional because it allows the movie
to breathe. And the lulls that kind of happened where
it's just people hanging out, talking, driving around, I almost
feel like that is a representation of life, especially considering
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the circumstances of them possibly being tracked down by two murderers.
It has time to breathe, and the interactions between the
characters are pretty authentic to where I feel that the
director almost probably gave them little direction. I don't know
if that's an insult to him, but I feel like
it was more of a representation of how humans actually
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talk to each other, which was interesting in the dialogue
the Sun in this movie set some things and deliver
them in a way that I hadn't really seen before,
and it felt kind of refreshing. I don't know if
that was on purpose or just a result of it
being a smaller film, but I enjoyed that the characters
had time to breathe, and I feel that the director
just kind of let them go and the interactions unfold.
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Maybe that could have been changed with some of the
editing to tighten up those moments a bit, but like
I said, I enjoyed that aspect of it. It felt
like one of those movies I would watch on a
Saturday afternoon where it's crisp and sunny outside and you
just kind of get lost sitting on the couch watching
a movie without any expectation. And that is the experience
we're kind of being robbed of. We can't just sit
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down and watch a movie and think, ah, that was
actually pretty good. And I experienced that from a reviewer standpoint,
where if I find myself enjoying a movie that other
people are ripping the shreds, and I shared that I
will share that I do know straight away from that,
I don't have any agenda. I don't feel like I
need to come off anyway. If I like a movie,
I'm gonna tell you about it. But when I posted
about it, you got people meter stretch like, how could
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you recommend this movie? You're in near to it? I
don't believe you anymore. And then on the other end,
when I don't like a movie that most people like,
I can't win because people are like, you're only bashing
this movie because of this. All you movie reviewers are
the same, So there's no winning right now. I'm just
happy that a movie like this can exist because it's
so hard for a movie to get made nowadays. It
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is so much harder for smaller budget movies to even
see the light of day, to even make it to theaters.
We need to bring back mid movies. Otherwise those movies
that formed us, even though we didn't know it at
the time, are gonna go away. But overall, for riff Raff,
I give it three out of five assassins.
Speaker 2 (44:43):
It's time to head down to movie.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
Mike Trey lar Pard, Warfair looks awesome, and I feel
a little bit conflicted in saying that this is my
favorite type of war movie because this movie is set
in two thousand and six the Iraq War, and I
think it's beca.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
Because I was alive during that time, so I feel
a connection to it because I was aware of what
was going on. And the reason it's my favorite type
of war movie is because it has a sense of realism.
Sometimes when I watch war movies from back in the day,
the plot feels a little bit like they center on
one character and it's a little bit larger than life.
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And I think for me, I enjoy war movies that
are closer to what actually happened, especially when they're from
real accounts of people who experience that, and that is
what you have in warfare. The writer of this movie
is named Raymondoza. He's an actual veteran. These are all
real life accounts from him. He wrote this script based
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on memory. The movie unfolds in real time. He also
co directed it with Alex Garland, who last year did
Civil War, which is another A twenty four movie that
I also loved. And I think the reason I enjoy
a war movie like this is because it takes away
the glitz and the glamour of Hollywood and just gives
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you the story. When you watch this trailer, you feel
that there's not a whole lot of music whatsoever, very
little score. What you hear and what you see is gunfire,
you see planes flying through the sky, you see explosions.
You feel it. But it allows me to place it
into real world terms and see somebody who could be
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my neighbor, who could be a relative, in that moment,
in that scene. So the reason I feel conflicted in
saying that is because I imagine making a movie like
this is really tough for Raymondoza, who lived it. I
think he wanted to make this to show people like
me who don't have the guts to go to war,
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what it's actually like, because I think we don't know.
We don't see it. We've had friends and family, husbands
and wives go over there and fight for this country,
but unless you're there experiencing it, you have no idea
what it's really like. And I guess I feel bad
in saying that I find entertainment value in it, but
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it's because I want to know what actually happened. I
want to feel this so I can be even more
appreciative of the people who have done this. I look
at it even though it's not a documentary, it is
a real life tale and depiction of what that life
is like. So I applaud it for bringing that to
(47:31):
light and sharing it with people and putting it in
a form in a medium, in film, in art, in
a way that we can accept and understand. So I
think there is a major power in a war movie
like this. Even just the title Warfare shows you this
movie is gonna have a lot of grit to it.
You feel it in this trailer, the moments where you
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see characters faces covered in blood, covered and dirt. The
posters for this movie have been fantastic. So I just
feel a little bit guilty and saying like, oh, I
love a movie like this because I could just go
to the theater, watch it and experience it and walk out.
And I imagine for somebody who is a veteran in
this country, this could even be a movie that it
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could be hard for you to go watch because just
like we could just stroll in watch a movie like
this and leave without any attachment, I imagine seeing that,
hearing that, putting yourself back into that position to recount
these things might not be the healthiest thing for some veterans.
But I think it's the power of the film to
share this story, to get it across to people who
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maybe don't know about some of these accounts. Is why
a movie like this is important. But it's coming out
in theaters on April eleventh. Want to talk more about
it before I do. Here's just a little bit of
the warfare trailer wing activity converging on your north and south.
This is progmst six Romeo. We need a defact at
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our last known position. We have severely wounded. Got you
one word marketing too coming to you or you coming
to us? We'll let you know where we're inbound.
Speaker 2 (49:10):
There's a plant ea five minute doba.
Speaker 1 (49:12):
The scouts are gonna lead us out, and I'm bringing
up the rear clap.
Speaker 2 (49:15):
Smoke smoke out. We are all.
Speaker 1 (49:17):
Coming back to this. So this movie follows a team
of seals in the Iraq War, set in two thousand
and six. The entire movie, as they say, unfolds in
real time, which I have to imagine was probably a
hard thing to do. You can kind of get a
sense of how you're gonna feel as the viewer dropped
into this situation, which I think is gonna invoke a
(49:39):
lot of anxiety, But that ability to put you there
and make you feel it is already when I'm getting
across in this trailer, So it looks like it's all
gonna take place in one day from the memories of
actual American service members who fought their way out of
an insurgent attack. Like I mentioned earlier, Raymondoza is the
writer of this movie. He co directed it with Alex Garland.
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Mendoza is a former US Navy seal. He served in
the Iraq War, and the movie is following his accounts
of what happened that day. I have to imagine writing
that and then directing somebody to play you has to
feel like quite the euphoric experience, and having to put
yourself back into that day over and over while filming,
I have to imagine was quite taxing. I can only
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imagine leaving the set and just being completely drained on
some of these days where you're having to relive some
of the most vicious memories you have in your life
and one of the hardest days. Because by the looks
of this trailer, it looks like it's going to get
pretty intense. The thing that always gets me about a
movie like this is the scenes where it shows everybody
hanging out having a good time, and they do this
(50:46):
at the end of the trailer, and then it cuts
it in between shots of them going through probably one
of the worst days of their life, where people are wounded,
people are bloody, they have people shooting at them. But
it keeps going back and forth between all them having
a good time and knowing that some of them aren't
going to make it. That moment hit me, and this
trailer alone, that moment hit me, that idea, that theme
(51:09):
came across of how much, for granted, we take just
everyday life and having a job where you don't know
what is going to happen on a day to day basis,
you're going into some of the most hostile environments. I
can only imagine looking back on a movie like this
about your life and seeing those good moments where you
were bonding and at times having to find joy in
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a situation where there really is not any where. There
are no colors in the world. It's all just black
and white and just awful. But forming a bond with
these people that you're having to work with every day
and have to watch each other's back. So you see
that scene of them all happy, having a good time
and then just going through it. Will Poulter is in
(51:55):
this movie, who maybe you know from where the miller's
You also have Joseph Quinn, who has has been in
a lot of movies lately Send Stranger Things, and I
feel like he's one of those actors who's kind of
being forced upon us right now. Every five years or so,
Hollywood really doubles down on a couple of actors and
puts them in everything and says, Okay, we're gonna make
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these people work. We're gonna put them in everything, and
it's up to us as an audience whether they're gonna
stick or not do we accept them. I think right
now it's working out for Joseph Quinn. He's gonna be
in this movie, he's gonna be in the Fantastic Four movie.
He was just a gladiator too. He was also in
the Quiet Place prequel, So I think he's getting there
(52:38):
as far as being validated by audiences, because sometimes they
just keep forcing people down our throats and we never
accept them and they never really click and they never
really last. And there's always those movies you look back
on like John Carter, like man, they really try to
make that guy happen just didn't work. I think, above all,
I am just really fascinated with Raymond Doozes, who after
(52:58):
he got out of the military, he did serve as
an advisor in Hollywood to present a more accurate portrayal
of the military on movies like Loan Survivor. He also
did the series The Terminal List, where he was an
advisor as well, and I think it's important for TV
shows and movies like that to feel authentic. But now
for him to be able to tell his own story
of this battle that happened in two thousand and six,
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I think it's a way for him to bring everything
full circle. And I'm also curious to see how a
movie like this pans out for a twenty four who
put in a lot of money in marketing into Civil War.
Last year, they spent fifty million dollars to make that movie.
I think another twenty five million dollars to market that movie.
The movie ended up making over one hundred and twenty
six million dollars worldwide, so one of their biggest successes
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so far. And I don't really consider them to be
that small of a studio anymore, because they are getting
up there and starting to play in the big leagues,
focusing on movies like this that have a bit of
a wider appeal. They'll always put out their little more
in dependent style, just what you come to expect from
A twenty four, but I like that they are putting
(54:05):
out more movies like this that have that same authentic
feel that you can't really get in every single big
budget Hollywood movie. So it still feels very A twenty four,
but also feels like something that my parents could go watch.
They're not watching your typical every A twenty four movie,
but I think a movie like this they would be
more interested in watching. So I don't know if they're
(54:26):
going to go as heavily on the marketing for warfare
that they did with Civil War, but I think if
they do, I honestly think this movie could do better
at the box office, because while I enjoyed Civil War,
I feel like the marketing kind of painted that movie
in a different light. What we ended up getting was
more a story of war journalism and some of the
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moral dilemmas that arise from that. This one feels like
a much more realistic movie actually focused on well the warfare,
which is what it's called. But again it's coming out
in theaters.
Speaker 3 (54:58):
On April eleventh, said that Bar is this week's edition
of movie by.
Speaker 1 (55:03):
Framer Bar and that is going to do it for
another episode here of the podcast. But before I go,
I gotta give my listeners shout out of the week.
This week, I'm going over to Instagram. I got a
DM from Rachel Mason who said, have you watched the
movie Amber Alert from twenty twenty four with Hayden Penetier.
I don't know why, but I immediately thought of you,
but in my opinion, it was really great four point
(55:25):
five out of five ride shares. If you've seen it,
I'd love to know your thoughts, Rachel. Not only did
I watch Amber Alert, I also interviewed the director and
producer who our husband and wife on this podcast on
an episode back in September when it came out. So
I'm glad you said that because maybe some other people
have missed episodes here and there, but that one was
(55:46):
one I really enjoyed. If you want to find that episode,
you can just google movie Mike Amber Alert. And the
wild thing about AI now is that gives you that
overview when you google something and they have everything detail
about what went down in this interview. Here's the overview,
it says. Mike Distro interviewed Carrie in Summer Blessa, the
director and producer of the twenty twenty four Amberlert movie,
(56:07):
on his podcast movie Mike's Movie Podcast. The movie is
about two people who spot a kidnappers car after receiving
an Amberler on their phones. What's in the interview? Ai
asks how the movie came to be, including the inspiration
from seeing an Amberler on the highway, the challenges of
working together as a husband and wife, and the hopes
that this movie will start a conversation. AI out here
(56:30):
doing a bunch for a small podcaster like me. It's
the work of an intern right there. I don't have
any interns. It's all me recording and writing this entire podcast.
So I appreciate that. But if you do want to
listen to that episode, all you have to do is
google movie Mike Amberler. It shows up before you're right
there with that overview, click it on iHeartRadio, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,
(56:51):
wherever you listen to podcasts. So I appreciate that message. Rachel.
I'm sure you watch that movie on Hulu because it
did get added rather recently. So if you want to
go watch that, check it out on Hulu, check out
the interview. Thank you for listening, thank you for being subscribed,
and until next time, go out and watch good movies
and I will talk to you later
Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I
am your host. Movie Mike joined today with my wife
and co host Kelsey Hya Lolan. Ooh, that sounds so good.
That's a great sound. Can you identify that sound if
you're listening at home at the gym and your car?
What does that sound? One more time? Will you now
(00:21):
reveal the sound? Everybody have your answers in what is
that sound?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's a nice almond milklawte with honey, cinnamon and an
extra shot of espresso.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
You always have to shake a nice coffee to get
that get that mixture down. Yeah, I'm also having a coffee,
but there's no sound. It is a can and I
already opened it because I need a caffeine right now.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Sam. That's why I went to get a coffee.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
But this week we are doing our best and worst
of the month. February was a pretty slow month, so
we'll give you that.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Slow in terms of movies. The month itself went by
so fast.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah, I never really experienced February. It was here and
it was gone gone. I have my top three movie
news stories of the month. We'll give our TV show
recommend in the movie review I'll be talking about the
new Bill Murray and Pete Davidson movie called Riff Raff.
And in the trailer park, there's a new very realistic
war movie coming out. All unfold in real time and
(01:12):
is written by real life veteran who served in the
Iraq War. He's also co directing this movie. It is
called Warfare. We'll get into that. Thank you for being here,
Thank you for being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday
Morning Movie crew. And now let's talk movies from the
Nustville Podcast Network. This is movie Mike Movie all right.
(01:33):
I am gonna kick us off this week. Like we
mentioned earlier, February was a pretty slow month. It is
the last of the dump months in movies, so hopefully
by March we'll ramp up. We have Mickey seventeen coming out,
so I feel like some good stuff will come out
in March, but for the best in February, I am
going with the Monkey. The Primate family has had quite
(01:56):
the run at the box office lately. You love a
movie about a monkey, think with a monkey or a primate.
Some people called me out for saying that certain primates
were monkeys. They're not all monkeys. I just see it
as monkeys.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
It's giving all squares are rectangles a rectangles a.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Square like, I get it. But you see a big
furry creatures like is a monkey And I think there's
something animalistic in me to like movies with monkeys. They're
just funny. In the nineties, I feel like there were
a lot of those dumb comedies that just had a
monkey in them, like the Georgia of the Jungle movie
had primates it.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Have you not ever seen my personal favorite Dunston checks in?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
No, I have not seen that.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
You've never seen Dunston checks in. No.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It's about a monkey or an ape gorilla whatever that
lives at a hotel. It's so good.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Wait, let me look this up.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I feel like this is one of those ones that
I've seen saw at the video store. A lot growing
around owned it. It came out and oh, I recognized
this cover. I've never saw this movie. Dunst then checks
in from nineteen ninety six. Yeah great, it's an orangutang.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah so good.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Oh I should do an episode about my favorite monkey
movies and by watching this movie so you can only
rent it for three seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I think we can afford that.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Oh this looks right up my ass. See. I'm going
to get into later in the movie review why you
can't have mid movies anymore, But Dunstan checks in as
a great example of that. We don't have dumb, ridiculous
comedies like that anymore that exist that we grew up
with in our childhood.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, we grew up in like the golden age of
movies that had no purpose other than to entertain us.
I mean, have you seen a Mary Kay Nashley film.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
That's the other thing, because I instantly recognized this movie
from seeing the poster of it.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Let me see the cover again.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Here you go. Yep, what I heard? That is. As
soon as you started talking about it more, I'm like, Okay,
I know I've seen this at least at the video
store back in the day.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Who's the main actor in it? Did it go on
to do anything else?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Eric Lloyd? I don't recognize him from anything else, but
Jason Alexander is also in this movie.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Paul Rubens is in this movie. I'm gonna go watch
this right after. Okay, the kid. It also was in
the Santa Claus two, which I remember that and in
the Santa Claus one. I think he's a kid, so
he was in some mother ston.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
That's a good movie. I loved them, And.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
That's what I'm talking about. I miss movies like that,
movies I just remember because we never rented movies at Blockbuster.
We would only go to there was a video store
inside a Walmart that we would rent movies from, or
the video station, which was really old school. But there
was always these movies that I remember seeing that we
just never ran and I couldn't convince my parents. And
(04:22):
this was one I always wanted to watch but never did.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I owned it on VHS.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
God, that's a classic. Well, I mean I haven't seen it,
but just the image of it is a classic. So
I will watch this movie. Maybe I'll do my best
monkey movies.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
There are so many movies that I had on VHS
that I wish I had, just for like the Relics,
but they were at my grandparents and they lost their
house on a fire when I was in high school.
And so like all of like my childhood movies that
I had in my books, and I feel so sad
about those because I'm like I had Harry Potter and
(04:54):
the Sorcerer's Stone on VHS.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Wow, I know that was even in the age of DVDs.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I know, well Sorcerer's Stone came out two thousand and one.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, but I mean that's that's early Yeah, that's early
days of DVDs.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
That was when you could still buy both and my
grandparents didn't have a DVD player at the time.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, my parents still have all the old Disney VHS
cartridge like the big thick ones like those are classics.
I don't think they're worth anything because they're open if
they were sealed, but just like being able to hold
and feel a movie like that that takes you back.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I wish I had all those. I also I was
part of the Hello.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Kiddy Craft Club Tell Me More.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Every month you got like a book and it walked
you through like a step by step craft. And my
grandma was an elementary school teacher and we loved doing
crafts and so we would get I was just I
talked to my grandparents earlier and my grandma sent me
a sweet text after and she's like, we had so
much fun when you were growing up, and like I
would go to my grandparents for any new like d
(05:52):
com premiering, and my grandma would watch every single Disney
Channel movie with me and we do like Craft of
the Month.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Your favorite d com?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
High School School?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
That's later. Yeah, that's kind of passed where I was
super into Dcom's twelve it was two and six. Yeah,
I was fifteen. Yeah, I was kind of past that phase.
But Johnny Tsunami for me, loved that movie.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah. I what else did I love? Yeah? High School?
Mu School, smart.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
House That's yeah, that's more than the my.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Toss up, but I love I mean, I still love
the soundtrack.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
It's like bigger than a d com, but it was.
It was a d coom.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
That kind of reminds me of something I always wanted
as a kid but never got, was a subscription to
the Nickelodeon magazine. Do you remember those commercials?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I might have had it.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
You had Nickelodeon Magazine.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I might have Oh, I had a lot of magazine subscriptions.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
You were so lucky. I remember the commercials, like trying
to convince your parents to get It's like Nickelodeon magazine. Please.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I had, oh, what was it Zoo lights or something?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Oh the Zoo, Yeah, the Zoo magazine. Yeah, I remember
those we.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Had highlights, which was a kid when I kime the
Zoom one. Now it was Zoo books. Zoo books, that's
what it had, Zuo books at a highlight. I might
have had the Nickelodeon. I don't know what as a kid,
I was an only child for twelve years, Like what
did you want for me?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Spoiled ultimate thing? I hope I can describe it accurately.
It was like that art kit where you could make
art and it like it was like these sponges.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
What we were talking about. I don't know what it's called, yes,
and it was the it was almost like the magnet thing.
You'd put it down and you'd turn them different.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
And it was like it's cleanup. It's so easy, you
just wipe it away. That was like the ultimate thing
of like, oh I want.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
That commercials on like Nicked Night. There was the do
you remember the one? It was the hair tool and
it had four different plates and one crimped hair, one
straightened your hair, and one major hair wavy.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I vaguely remember that I did.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Ask for that for Christmas when you're didn't really do
my hair though well, And a Nickelodeon infomercial got me, You're.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
A kid who actually got stuff from the television. I know,
I feel like a No. I mean I was I
envied those kids, like, man, you actually order something from
a catalog.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Honestly, I think my mom and my grandparents just feel
bad thing because my dad died, so they just spoiled me.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah. I would take having my dad over that over
some new books.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I just got a lot of things. Is that where
my obsession material possessions came from? God? Am I about
to unpack my.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Whole joo therapy? But anyway, like I was saying, but
a monkey and anything, and I'm gonna watch that movie.
The Monkey was my favorite.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Oh yeah, I forgot what we were talking about.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
That was my favorite of the month because I enjoy
a horror movie that doesn't take itself too seriously, I think,
And no, I would say, I think even if you
watched it, you would find some parts about it that
you enjoyed. But it was pretty bloody and gory because
it all centers around people dying in really unique ways.
I'm good like getting in Pale a lot of wild things.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I can't do impalement. I can't hate it.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Yeah, I could do in Pale I can do everything
I can. The weird thing is I can watch a
horror movie like this.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
You can't watch a medical show.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
But I can't watch a medical show.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
When I'm watching Er or Grays or The Pit and
somebody's impaled on something, you're.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Like or like bones breaking, Yeah, you don't do good
with that. Oh boy?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
See and that I can. If it's on a medical show,
I can handle it. But if it's like a horror
movie for some reason, I can't because it's less like
clinical to me.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Anyway. That is my best of the month. It's still
in theaters, but I don't feel like it's one you
have to see in theaters, especially if you're kind of
on the fence about it. But I think it isn't
one that you'll lose that scary. It's not really super scary,
but you'll lose that vibe by watching it at home,
because sometimes I feel like a horror movie when you
experience it in a dark theater, it adds to that level.
Sometimes I get at a point five for me, this one.
(09:32):
I think you could wait at home and watch it.
What about you? For your best?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
So I only saw one movie in theaters this month.
Low number so it's gonna be my best and my worst.
So it was Captain America, Brave, New World best because
it was entertaining. A Marvel movie could be bottom of
the barrel, and I'm probably still entertained.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Marvel, even at its worst, is still better than most movies.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
And it was also the worst of the month because
I did want it to feel better.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah, it lacked a lot of is how I describe it,
because I wanted the action to be more throughout and
almost felt like everything that kind of happened was very predictable.
It kind of just went through the motions of like
a Marvel movie, and it didn't even feel like it's
setting up the next space. But I have forgotten about
that movie after seeing it. I am more excited for
(10:21):
the Fantastic Four movie coming out later this summer.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Except for that that looks good, I'm except for Thunderbolts.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I kind of forget about Thunderbolts. I think it's just
because I don't have an attachment to any of those characters.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I love Florence Pugh, I like the cast.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
It just feels that we've already had like the ragtag
group of heroes inside of all Marvel and DC or
we've had like three iterations or two iterations of the
Suicide Squad. It kind of feels like Marvel Suicide Squad.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Good point.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
So I don't know if people are gonna go watch
that and it's really going to cut through, but I
think it'll be good. I think it's going to be
better than Captain America actually, because I do think the
villains in that movie will liketually be a little bit
more of a threat and maybe play a bigger part
in the phases that follow. But best and worst Captain America,
Brave New World, My Worst. I went with Presents, which
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I guess. I went both horror movies for my best
and worst, and it was almost.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Want to see those alone. Yeah, you went to like
a ten am movie on the Saturday.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
For both of these. I went to really early Lotdat
because I almost thought that I could get an entire
theater by myself and with regal. Since we pay monthly
to go to one movie, it only costs US fifty
five cents. I guess we pay like what some surcharge or.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Some it's those stupid like processing fees. Don't even get
me started on fees.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
But all we have to do to get a booking
is paid fifty five cents, and I wanted to do
a video like this is how I rent it out
of a theater for fifty five cents. You go to an
eleven am screening and I went and there was like
a lot of people lay in the monkey. There was
only like one other person for presents. But I was like, man,
I thought that would I feel like to do that.
I can't go opening weekend. I would have to go
like at least a second or third week of.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
A last week in theaters.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Like that's how you could get a movie theater for
fifty five cents.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
But you've just told everyone that your video is gonna
be clickbait.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Well, I can't make the video if you ever do,
you literally just admitted that it's gonna be. Everybody listening
could be in on them. I'm just trying to scam
everybody on the internet for clickbait. Okay, can't you see
that TikTok video? This is how I read it out
of video for fifty five or a theater for fifty
five cents.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yeah, and that would be the one that goes like
viral like BuzzFeed Man explains that he got a movie
theater to himself for fifty five cents.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
And then everybody in the comments complaining like this is this.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Is truting, This isn't really fifty per cents, it's subscription.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Actually painting thirty dollars them. Yeah whatever, that's.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
How we imitate people who annoy us online.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Oh yeah, but Presence, I just thought there was gonna
be a little bit more to it. I like the
idea of it, especially when I covered it in the
trailer park, where it is a horror movie but it's
from the perspective of the demonic force inside of the house.
Hell no, which exactly like I thought it was gonna
be scarier, And the trailer made it seem so much
more intense because they use a lot of like these
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hovering shots and then like people like the camera running
up on characters and the camera shaking and like the
whole house is gonna go. But there wasn't that much
of that action inside the actual movie. It was really
just the story about this family going through a traumatic
time in their life, and the Presence was kind of
just watching their story unfold but doesn't really mess with
them a whole lot.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Presence would take me out, I hear a scary noise
and I just think I hear like the floor creak
in the house, and I'm like, well, it's my time.
I'm gonna lay here and wait, and then like five
minutes go by and I'm like, okay, I think that
was just the floor.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I have my top three movie news stories of the
last couple weeks or so. I have Zendeia has joined
Shrek five. I saw not and Shrek five is coming
out in twenty twenty six. Not a whole lot that
they put out about the plot, but it looks like
it takes place maybe twelve fifteen years after the last
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Shrek movie.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I'm gonna say it, I don't think we needed a
Shrek five.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Got there were Shrek four To.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Be honest, you don't think we needed to continue the franchise.
But Cameron Diaz said, I'm back to acting, so.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, They're all back and to love Donkey.
Zn Deya is playing their daughter, who in the last
movie they had triplets. She was a baby in that movie.
Now they're grown up. They made Shrek and Fiona and
even even Donkey look older, which it kind of looks
like Shrek had work done, like in the I watched
(14:28):
the little teaser of it, and I'm like, dang, did
Shrek get botox? Because they like aged them up a
little bit, but they also kind of changed the animation
and it kind of looks like it looks like Shrek
but also looks like a different version of Shrek. And
it almost feels like they regressed in the animation. Botox
for ores, Yeah, everybody getting botogs in Hollywood. There's a
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little clip of the Shrek teaser. Hey, Magic Mayram, who's
the fairest of them all? Why Shrek? Of course.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
You?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Dad, mom Light, who's making this stuff? Fuck me? So
it kind of seems like all the same jokes that
you come to expect from a Shrek movie. Shrek wanted
to were great. After that, I feel like it became
too much of a It was such a beast that
they continued to make them because they continued to make
a lot of money. Talking about DVD sales earlier, like
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that was a dominant DVD Shrek too.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
The karaoke game I talk about this often. It's memorable
because it had had the DVD menu back then, and
if you couldn't find the remote to the DVD player.
You couldn't play special features, you.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Could just play Oh yeah, that was a sad times
on the.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
DVD remote was always a real bummer.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
And then the menu just keep playing over and over again.
You're like, I know all these jokes, get it off
of hair.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Oh you go to a sleepover and you all like
fall asleep, and then you wake up and it's just
the music blaring on the menu, and you're.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Like, oh, but Shrek five.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Too many.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
It's a lot of Shrek.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
It's too many. We didn't need. We didn't need that.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Shrek is I feel pretty beloved in the Elder not
even Elder Milan, just a millennial movie. I feel like
gen Z is pretty big on Shrek because of the
memes that have kind of come back in the last
I mean really in the last decade. Shrek has been
still a part of pop culture. But I feel like
a Shrek five is a little bit too much. And
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after seeing the animation, I'm like, I don't know, it's
gonna be very good, but it will probably still make
a lot of money. The crazy thing about Zendea, She's
going to be in four major movie releases in twenty
twenty six. She's going to be in the Odyssey, which
is the new Christopher Nolan movie that also has Tom
Holland in it, that comes out on July seventeenth, Spider
Man four which comes out on July thirty first, and
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this is all twenty twenty six, twenty twenty six. After
that it is Dude Messiah that comes out on December eighteenth.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Twenty other Dune, Oh God.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
And then this will be the fourth release in twenty
twenty six, Shrek five on December twenty third.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
This is how you break the news to me that
there's another Dune. I thought we were done with the Dunes.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I mean good for the day of though.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I just saw footage online of they are actually filming Euphoria,
so it's actually happening. It's filming right now. It's happening, I.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Believe when I see it, Like, what did they get
halfway through? And we don't have anything else?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I mean, I am gonna have to go back and
watch the first two seasons.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Number two on my list. Speaking of Zendia and Tom Holland,
Spider Man four is has been delayed. Well, it's all.
I got pushed back a week because they're trying to
space it out between Yeah, Odyssey, which is I feel
like that's hard on Tom Holland and they in particular
because they're going to be promoting Spider Man. I feel
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more both in both of those movies. So it's hard
for an actor to promote two movies at the same time.
I don't know how. I mean, there has to be
some kind of contract issue there, but I guess what's happening.
But they haven't started filming Spider Man for yet. They
have started filming the Odyssey movie. I've seen a few
stills out of it, and people are already rippingneath to shred,
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saying that it's not historically accurate. It's like, come on,
it's a movie.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
It is meant for entertainment.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
My favorite quote is the director of Gladiator to basically
say Regally Scott, like were you there? Like what were
you there about the sharks? Yeah, But that gets pushed
back a little bit. I think I was just of
the mindset of I honestly didn't think they were gonna
make another Spider Man after the last one.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I'm glad they are.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I'm glad they are. They start filming this summer. Hopefully
that continues and goes down and it actually comes out
when they're saying it's gonna come out now. But I
almost feel like Tom Holland is ready to move past that.
I feel like he could have said, you know what,
after the last one, all we accomplished with that made
a lot of money, was really impactful, one of the
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best Marvel movies of the twenty twenties, if not the
best one. He could have ended on that. Look at
all the other roles he's getting. He's booked NonStop, being
in a Christopher Nolan movie. That's like, that's the next level.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I love Sandaya. Give me more of them on the screen,
Give me every movie that's all agree to real they
officially engaged?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Did they ever say there?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
And it didn't. But it's an engagement ring, okay. I
think their families confirmed it. And she also kept wearing
that ring on that finger like multiple times. She wouldn't
do if it was just a costume.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Jury makes sense.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Great for them, love them together. I hope they have
the most blissfully happy life. They seem adorable. They seem
very supportive.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Because he also said that once he has kids, he's
stop acting. Yeah, so maybe that's why he's doing all
these movies. Good for him, Yeah, make the money. Now
get us Spider Man four, maybe a couple appearances and
Avengers and then I'm good. Go live your life, do
what you want to do.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Go forth.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
And my third movie news story is Aoadbris from the
Bear is going to write and start in a movie
about Barney. Yes, the movie he is coming to us
from A twenty four It has been in development since
twenty nineteen. There's not a lot of details on what
it's going to entail.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Like is it a movie about the creation of Barney
the show?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
It kind of sound like it's going to be about
the creation of the show. So I have to imagine
it's going to be like a drama of maybe them
filming it, maybe some kind of story surrounding Barney, because
it doesn't feel like it's going to be just a
Barney movie like made for kids. I have to imagine
it's going to be about the making of the show.
If it's a very a twenty four s type of movie.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yeah, but I.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Know that they are trying to partner more with like
Mattel and everybody's trying to create like their own kind
of universe. So I feel like this could be a
movie in that kind of era of like, Okay, let's
make movies about childhood shows. Were you a Barney kid
growing up?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I was.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
I was a Barney kid growing up.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Barney Baby Bop b J.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
I remember watching it pretty much NonStop my entire entire childhood.
I had the Barney stuffed animal.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
That's cute.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I had. I think I had like Barney slippers that
were very popular in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
That's so cute because you were tricky kid.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Where it was like the ones where like the tops
of them are kind of like sock material, so you
would exactly what you're talking. They had those in like
every character in the nineties where you would just put
your foot through the character's head and then it had
like the little socks on the end of it. But
I love Barney. I think I probably stopped watching whenever
Selena Gomez was on this show.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
It's like I stopped watching yesterday. I just got a
new episode this week. Yeah, I was never into it,
and Selena and Demi were on it, I don't think not.
I thought I would have known who they were as kids.
So I actually can't confirm her deny when I stopped yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Can't remember all of the I mean, I don't know
any of the cast on there. There were just the
kids on Barn.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Yeah. It's not like Sasame Street where it was like
memorable humans.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I guess they just swapped kids out right. There wasn't
like a continuing storyline with the kids like there is
in any kid shows.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Kids show I loved. I'm totally derailing this, but this
is good. What snow You weren't a Disney Channel kid though?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Nah?
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Do you ever watch out of the Box.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
I don't even think I know what that is. Let
me look it up.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Out of the Box. They would literally take like a
cardboard box and create worlds with it.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I've never seen this show. I don't even recognize it.
What about I remember Ly Short and Round because it
came on in the mornings, and I think I wasn't
into those shows at that time when I was watching
Disney Channel, and I was like, I gotta wait for
this show to finish so I can watch some of
the other Disney programming. I remember that one. You were
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a straight up Disney kid, huh.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I loved it all. I was one thing about me,
I'm a TV person since I was a child.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I was more of a Nickelodeon kid. So my TV
shows I grew up with very young. It was a
shining time station. I love Thomas the Tank Engine, We
know that, which was another cool thing of being able
to recently meet Ringo Starr because he was the narrator
and conductor on the first two seasons of that show.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Your mom tells stories about she wouldn't be able to
go to the grocery store in the morning because you'd
be like, no, I'm watching Thomas.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
So we're talking early childhood that was up there. Number one,
Number two was probably Barney, and then number three was
Bananas and Pajamas. Oh my god, you love that sh
That was my jam and for I think my fifth
or sixth birthday, probably fifth birthday, I got B two,
which was the second banana in pajama. It was like
a stuffed animal. He was wearing his blue and white
striped pajamas and I get that thing forever.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
That's so cute.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I think eventually we sold a yard sale.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I love the stories about your childhood.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I was a speak kind of TV early on anything,
and I would like to say I probably had a
lot of screen time and I turned out fine.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I mean, yeah, I watched the lot.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
I like the silence there.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
You were really well. I was just I was I
was thinking how we talk about kids' screen time now
we don't have kids, obviously, and how much that affects people.
We watched a lot of TV growing up, Like I
remember random commercials from the nineties, like the Seer's commercial
about the wife trying to get the husband to call
about the air conditioner. Why do I remember that?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I wonder though, if it's because we were watching a TV.
It wasn't like a tablet or a phone where you're
doing like a lot of different things in different tasks.
Like we were just seated and we had to watch commercials.
Nothing was instant. You had to wait for something to
be on.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah, because I still remember that commercial I'll call tomorrow,
you'll call now, I'll call now. I remember that too,
Like that can't be good for my brain. I remember
more commercials than anything.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I remember all the infomercials easy Bake, oven light bright,
the little art thing we were talking about.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
But that was my early childhood TV. When it came
to like more elementary school level, I was like rug
Rats all on Nickelodeon. Hey, Arnold, anything on Nickelodeon.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I was all about that's one of those things that
I know. I loved those things. But I don't really
have I don't really know when I have the first memory.
I don't know. I don't I can't really put my
finger on what my first memory as a kid is.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Really. Yeah, I feel like my earliest memory is probably
going to kindergarten for the first time.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I think again, it's the whole Dad Diane childhood trauma. Yeah, yeah,
I do remember. I don't know if I've told the
story in here. I think I did that. I could
read really early, and my kindergarten teacher didn't like that
because I'd get bored.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Your way had all the kids, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
And I was like, no, my phone, everyone else is stupid.
She'd be like, Kelsey, are you paying attention. I've read
the whole book. She's like, we're on page one. I've
read the whole book. You're like, I read all the
books on your desk, read them all. Do we want
to do our normal TV recommendation of the month. I'm
already off the rails.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
We've already done our childhood recap from the nineties and
early two thousands.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Hope that unlocks something and someone's brain. I love being
reminded of nostalgia.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Your favorite TV show of the last month, we.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Watched a lot. We've been doing this thing called enjoying
our rent.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Staying home, not going out, where we don't leave the.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
House because the outside world is expensive. Well, I did
watch forty two episodes of Summer House in six days.
Can't decide if I'm proud of that, but I did
catch up the new season IVO. Overall, I don't remember
if you mentioned Paradise last month that we're watching on Hulu.
I don't think one of the greatest shows ever made,
not over yet at the phenomena in this prime. Target's
(26:11):
a really good one on Apple. And then we binged
to Zero Day on Netflix, which was a like political
kind of conspiracy. Internet power grids get shut off.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yeah, there's a cyber attack that shuts down all technology
for like it was like a minute, right, but in
that minute, thousands of people died. Robert Niro is a
former US president and then kind of leads the investigation
of figuring out what happens and trying to stop it
before it happens again.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
So good. I'm loving the like intense dramas.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
There's a lot of CIA crime d I feel like
they're maybe a little bit cheaper to produce, so maybe
that's why studios are leaning into them right now. I
feel like everybody kind of jumps on a genre for
a minute, But.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
If you're not watching Paradise, you're missing out truly on
one of the best shows that will be winning awards.
They're getting a second season. Sterling K. Brown is phenomenal
in it. I think we did talk about it because
I remember now saying that it's from the creator of
This is Us Any Yeah, yeah, for Stirling K. Brown.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
That was way early. That was lifetimes ago.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Yeah, it's gotten even better. So I'm trying to think
if I've watched anything else. You know, I'm all about
a cheesy Netflix show. But I'm watching season four of
Sweet Agnolias, and it is so painfully cheesy that I
paused the TV. When you walk in the room because
I am embarrassed that I'm.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Watching it, You're like, I'm gonna go ahead and pause this.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Yeah, I think that's everything for me.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I finished Dragon Ball Super All one hundred and thirty
plus one hundred and thirty one episodes. I was not
able to finish on Hulu like I thought it was
because they took it off of Hulus. We know have
another subscription, Crunchy Roll, which I finished it there, and
I've now started dragonball Z, but that's like two hundred
and thirty episodes two hundred and fifty, so that's gonna
take me a while. But I did watch Your Friendly
(27:49):
Neighborhood spider Man, which is the animated show on Disney Plus.
It is focused more on the science version of Peter Parker,
highly in fluenced by the comics, and not even the
nineties spider Man TV show, but more so the nineteen
sixties version of Spider Man, and I thought it was
pretty good. The animation style was a little bit weird
(28:11):
because I thought it looked kind of cheap whenever they
first put out the trailer, because it's kind of supposed
to look like a comic book art, but I feel
like the comic book art they tried to make looks
really cheap and like they were trying to cut corners.
But as the season went along, I got a little
bit more used to it in the story and it's
actually really good, so I feel like overall it won
me over. I wouldn't say it's my favorite Spider Man
(28:33):
project yet, but I feel like it's good to have
a balance of having something that's not really connected to
anything else, and probably like a lot of young kids
are watching that, that's like their introduction to this level
of Spider Man. For that, it's like great quality. But
that has been my nerdy TV show watching your book.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Why did I read this month? I'm still going through
Harry Potter on my book club. Read The Favorites by
Lane Fargo, which was good, So I give that. It
was like these two like teenage ice dancers, basically a
soap oper book. It was good. It was a little
longer than it needed to be, could have cut some
things out, but overall I enjoyed that, so I'd give that.
The ANSWER's been a lot of me reading Harry Potter
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at night.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Well, book are you on?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I am? According to my Kendle, sixty seven percent of
the way done with Order of the Phoenix.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
You're almost deltable, I know, but six.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
And seven are really long. It's taking me a while.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
I forget. It's basically like a dictionary encyclopedia.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah, so this one's even taking me a while because
I roll over read with my kindle and I make
it through about a chapter and then I get sleepy.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
For my book. You gifted me a few graphic novels
for Christmas, and I read The Killing Joke, which is
all about the origin story of the Joker. It cover
scares me and how one bad day could change your
entire life, and it was interesting because I've never seen
this origin story of the Joker, and it makes a
statement on how Joker's life had one bad day and
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he chose the path of being evil. Batman's life had
one and bad day and he chose a life of
being a vigilanti trying to do good. So it's showing
how similar they are in ways, and how it's not
what happens to you, it's how you react to it
which impacts your life, which is a pretty profound thing
for a graphic novel, especially as they came out as
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long ago as it did.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
I mean, yeah, I feel like it's getting at the
like nature versus nurture.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Which when it comes watching or reading comics, I feel
like I lean more towards Batman's stuff because I feel
like it does have quote unquote adult themes that you
could actually learn things from like that. When it comes
to Marvel stuff, it's a little bit more like fluffy
and fun, shiny, easy breezy. I'm like way into that
(30:43):
right now. But that has been one of my favorite
It's not my favorite Batman graphic novel. It'll always be
The Dark Knight Returns. But it's not there. It's good.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
There's so many good books coming out in March. The
so the TV show We Were the Lucky Ones that
I watched on Hulu, World War two book that they
made into a show. The author has another book coming
out this week, and then Hunger Games, Sunraise on the
Reaping comes out this month.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Oh yeah, I cannot wait for that.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
And that's been your book report. I do remember, also,
to anyone listening, I did promise to start doing like
reels about books I read. I forget to record them
when I actually look decent to be on camera, like
my hair and makeup done. So I owe people We'll
start with February. It's coming, I promise. I just you know,
my editor is really busy.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Yeah, but if you do want to watch clips that
we do, you can subscribe on YouTube. Yes, YouTube dot
com slash Mike Distro or find the link in the
episode notes anything else.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
No, I need to finish my coffee.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Stah me too. I'm starting to wake up over here.
All right, we'll come back. I'll give my spoiler free
review of Riffraff. Let's get into it now. A spoiler
free movie review of Riffraff, not to be confused with
the rapper riff Raff tiptoeing in My Jordan's No. This
is a movie starring Bill Murray, Pete Davidson, Jennifer Coolidge,
(32:09):
Ed Harris. It is an ensemble cast. And sometimes when
I see ensemble cast, that is like a red flag
to me, like, oh, they're really selling this movie with
all the big names attached to it, There's no way
it could be good. In this case, I don't think
it was a victim of that. What Riffraff is about.
You have Ed Harris, who plays a character named Vincent.
Used to be involved in some crime, doing some shady
(32:30):
things with Bill Murray, and then he wants out of
the business. He has to get out. He marries a
new person, moves away, goes under the radar. They can't
find him, living a quiet peaceful life all up until
this day where his son shows up on his doorstep
and he's in trouble, and suddenly these two bad guys
played by Bill Murray and Pete Davidson, who are murderers,
(32:52):
are now on the trace to find his son and
to find Ed Harris, and that is what the movie
is about. This movie reminded me of a lot of things,
and the big question I want to talk about is
why can't mid movies exist anymore. I'll be very upfront
about this movie. Is it the best thing I've ever seen? Now?
Is it a terrible movie? By no means, But sometimes
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you watch a movie and you think that was pretty good. Okay,
I enjoyed parts of it. I don't feel like it
changed me as a person. I don't think this is
going to become one of my favorite movies. But I
feel like we've gotten to a point in the world
where mid movies can't exist anymore. You either have to
have something that is so great on a level of
life changing makes millions of dollars at the box office,
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regardless of its budget. But the problem is we can't
have mid movies anymore because if a movie like this
doesn't do well in the box office, doesn't have the
biggest word of mouth, and even with those A list
actors at the top of the bill, if you don't
get people going to see it in theaters, it is
seen as a failure. And a big problem that movies
(33:57):
have right now is initial reviews come out and that
influences people going to see them. And I know I'm
saying that as somebody who reviews movies on his podcast
on YouTube right here, maybe at times I'm part of
the problem. But that's why I like doing reviews and
long form on a podcast is because there is nuance
to it when you see a written review, when you
see a Rotten Tomatoes score, that is it. When I
(34:20):
talk about what I like and don't like about a movie,
and maybe if it didn't move me in a way
that I thought was something that you need to rush
to the theater to see, I do talk about the
things that other people might enjoy about that movie, but
it takes another layer for somebody to find a review
like that. That's why I enjoy sharing my thoughts with you,
hearing what you have to say, because it builds a
film community and it's more important, and it resonates more
(34:42):
because not every movie has to be life changing. But
the problem is if a movie gets bad reviews, doesn't
do well opening weekend, it just flutters into this category
of I'm not even going to watch that once it
hits streaming. But it's becoming harder and harder for a
movie like Riff Raff to just be mid. And back
(35:02):
in the nineties and early two thousands, a movie could
be mid, come out in theaters and you know, be recepted, Okay,
it's kind of all right, but then make its money
on the back end. There is a vast history of
movies that bombed in theaters but then had this second
life once it found its audience on DVD rentals, on
(35:24):
VHS rentals, going back even further, and there are some
movies that have become cult classics that way. But movies
don't have that anymore. And you have directors like the
director of Anora out here saying we need this. It
is such a hard time for indie directors right now
because of that, we don't have that luxury of something
having success post its theater run, and you think, well,
(35:46):
what does that even matter anyway, It's because these filmmakers
spend two, three, four, five years of their life making
these movies, spending at times their own money. And even
if they are not spending their own money, they're not
really making a whole lot of money off of these
movies because they aren't doing that well at the box
office and they have nothing on the back end. There's
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no physical media anymore like there used to be to
bring movies like this back to life. Even the director
of The Brutalists was saying he made zero dollars from
that movie. He made nothing. It's getting hard to have
just a mid movie that you can't even watch on
Saturday Mattinees on television, which I used to watch a
lot of movies that way, movies I didn't have a
(36:29):
chance to see in theaters, would never think to rent.
But they don't even have a second life there. All
you get is streaming and there's no return on that.
And you say, oh, well, that is a victim of
their own product. Movie studios didn't ask for streaming services.
Netflix came changed the game. They've made a lot of
money off of that. But I feel that even Netflix
(36:49):
at times and a lot of the other streaming services
are losing money. But you can't put the toothpaste back
into the tube. We have come accustomed to being a
to watch anything with the click instantly and not having
to pay any more for it, And now whenever I
do have to pay five bucks to rent a movie,
even that is like, oh man, even though I could
(37:09):
just go down the street buy a drink and a
snack for like seven to eight bucks at the gas station,
and that I have no problem spending money with, but
sometimes just clicking a button and thinking this should be free.
So I think we need to start thinking about the
value of art moving forward, because we just think of
it as things that we consume and things that should
(37:32):
just be readily available for us, and it just kind
of changes over time. Same way with music. When's the
last time you bought music. I try to support artists
as much as I can. If I have an artist
I really love, I'll get their record, Like you see
behind me on YouTube right now if you're watching, I
buy actual physical copies of things so I can show
those artists support. As much as I love movies, it's
(37:54):
very rare that I get to do that. Would I
like to collect more Blu rays? Yeah? But I think
I unlike records. You can't really display blu rays like
you would a record. I used to keep a couple
in here of my favorite movie that i'd take them down.
I still have the Batman up there. Yeah, it is
harder to display things like that, so I try to
buy merch. I try to support in some way aside
(38:17):
from just going to the theater to watch these movies.
But when I watched riff Raff, I know I got
into a big exposition there on movies, but I felt
that while watching riff rafft because it reminded me of
some of my favorite eighties crime movies, movies like See
No Evil, Hear No Evil, Something Wild with ray Li
Yoda and Jeff Daniels, even crime comedies from the two
(38:38):
thousands like Double Whammy with Dennis Leary. Those are all
movies I was exposed to because I would watch them
on TV at times when there was nothing else to
watch and I was a loner. I had no friends,
so I'd watched a lot of movies on Saturday matinees
and that's where I was exposed to a lot of
these movies that again, I would never probably call any
of those movies some of my favorite movies of all time,
(39:00):
but they have this unique place in my heart and
my memory that I associate with, Oh, those are actually
pretty good movies. Not a lot of people have seen
them or would call them their favorite movies, but there's
this high tier level of mid movies that become parts
of our DNA that when we find somebody else who's
actually watched those movies and enjoys those movies, you have
this bond with because they might not be the biggest
(39:22):
movies of all time, but it's this level of mid
movie that doesn't exist anymore that I worry what is
going to be that in ten years? Is it just
going to be the straight to streaming movie? Which not
every straight to streaming movie is bad. It just feels
sometimes when a movie doesn't have a theater run, you
think a little less than of it. But back to
Riff Raff. It is directed by Dido Montielle, who I
(39:44):
am fascinated with. He was part of an eighties hardcore
band back in the day. It was also in a
band called gutter Boy, and I very much felt the
punk rock eighties influence in this film. There were a
couple of songs that I was like, ah, that's definitely
his taste in there, and it really adds to it.
And I feel like there is this level of punk
rock authenticity to this movie that comes through in an
(40:06):
indie film. When it comes to our stars of the movie,
you have Bill Murray, who, surprisingly, at age seventy four,
I felt he put a lot more effort into this character.
He plays one of the hit man he is paired
with Pete Davidson. Pete Davidson, for the most part, has
played himself in about every single movie from King of
Staten Island, Bodies, Body's Bodies, even in the romantic comedy
(40:28):
he did with Glenn Powell Set it Up. But in
this one he gave a slightly different look. It was
like whenever Coke came out with new Coke. Still tastes
like coke, but the packaging is a little bit different.
So you could kind of convince me that he played
a little bit of a different character. But there was
something just unique about him and Bill Murray together, which
when you think about one comedy legend, one maybe future
(40:49):
comedy legend working together, I had to imagine, or I
want to believe that a lot of that was improv
because Bill Murray is a person who, according to legend
on the internet, doesn't even have a cell phone, doesn't
have a manager. You have to contact him via a
one eight hundred number. He is also historically late or
doesn't show up, or you never know when he's going
to show up on set. This was the case even
(41:11):
with the last Ghostbusters movie. It was kind of like,
I don't know when Bill's gonna show up, but we'll
kind of wait around for him because he is Bill Murray.
So I feel that the days they actually had with
him and Pete Davidson were probably very few because I
feel like he rolls in, he knows what he's gonna do.
He probably takes some direction to set him up a
little bit, but I kind of feel at this point
(41:31):
in his career that is what you get. You get
Bill Murray. He's gonna be Bill Murray. He's gonna follow
along with the script, but he's going to give you
what he wants to give you. But even though I
felt like his time was limited on this movie, I
still feel like he actually gave a crap, which is
big for Bill Murray. I actually feel like he cared
about it. He was as menacing as Bill Murray can be.
(41:51):
At seventy four, the person I wanted to see more
of was Jennifer Coolidge, who has had a resurgence due
to White Lotus that everybody is reminded of how funny
and awesome she is. So overall of the movie was
a game of cat and mouse. He had some comedy
sprinkled here and there, some crimes sprinkled here and there,
some violence and shooting and blood here and there. It
(42:12):
had a mixture of everything. I wouldn't call this movie
a slow burn. I would say overall there are a
lot of lulls here and there, but I almost think
or hope that was intentional because it allows the movie
to breathe. And the lulls that kind of happened where
it's just people hanging out, talking, driving around, I almost
feel like that is a representation of life, especially considering
(42:35):
the circumstances of them possibly being tracked down by two murderers.
It has time to breathe, and the interactions between the
characters are pretty authentic to where I feel that the
director almost probably gave them little direction. I don't know
if that's an insult to him, but I feel like
it was more of a representation of how humans actually
(42:56):
talk to each other, which was interesting in the dialogue
the Sun in this movie set some things and deliver
them in a way that I hadn't really seen before,
and it felt kind of refreshing. I don't know if
that was on purpose or just a result of it
being a smaller film, but I enjoyed that the characters
had time to breathe, and I feel that the director
just kind of let them go and the interactions unfold.
(43:16):
Maybe that could have been changed with some of the
editing to tighten up those moments a bit, but like
I said, I enjoyed that aspect of it. It felt
like one of those movies I would watch on a
Saturday afternoon where it's crisp and sunny outside and you
just kind of get lost sitting on the couch watching
a movie without any expectation. And that is the experience
we're kind of being robbed of. We can't just sit
(43:38):
down and watch a movie and think, ah, that was
actually pretty good. And I experienced that from a reviewer standpoint,
where if I find myself enjoying a movie that other
people are ripping the shreds, and I shared that I
will share that I do know straight away from that,
I don't have any agenda. I don't feel like I
need to come off anyway. If I like a movie,
I'm gonna tell you about it. But when I posted
about it, you got people meter stretch like, how could
(44:01):
you recommend this movie? You're in near to it? I
don't believe you anymore. And then on the other end,
when I don't like a movie that most people like,
I can't win because people are like, you're only bashing
this movie because of this. All you movie reviewers are
the same, So there's no winning right now. I'm just
happy that a movie like this can exist because it's
so hard for a movie to get made nowadays. It
(44:22):
is so much harder for smaller budget movies to even
see the light of day, to even make it to theaters.
We need to bring back mid movies. Otherwise those movies
that formed us, even though we didn't know it at
the time, are gonna go away. But overall, for riff Raff,
I give it three out of five assassins.
Speaker 2 (44:43):
It's time to head down to movie.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
Mike Trey lar Pard, Warfair looks awesome, and I feel
a little bit conflicted in saying that this is my
favorite type of war movie because this movie is set
in two thousand and six the Iraq War, and I
think it's beca.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
Because I was alive during that time, so I feel
a connection to it because I was aware of what
was going on. And the reason it's my favorite type
of war movie is because it has a sense of realism.
Sometimes when I watch war movies from back in the day,
the plot feels a little bit like they center on
one character and it's a little bit larger than life.
(45:22):
And I think for me, I enjoy war movies that
are closer to what actually happened, especially when they're from
real accounts of people who experience that, and that is
what you have in warfare. The writer of this movie
is named Raymondoza. He's an actual veteran. These are all
real life accounts from him. He wrote this script based
(45:44):
on memory. The movie unfolds in real time. He also
co directed it with Alex Garland, who last year did
Civil War, which is another A twenty four movie that
I also loved. And I think the reason I enjoy
a war movie like this is because it takes away
the glitz and the glamour of Hollywood and just gives
(46:05):
you the story. When you watch this trailer, you feel
that there's not a whole lot of music whatsoever, very
little score. What you hear and what you see is gunfire,
you see planes flying through the sky, you see explosions.
You feel it. But it allows me to place it
into real world terms and see somebody who could be
(46:28):
my neighbor, who could be a relative, in that moment,
in that scene. So the reason I feel conflicted in
saying that is because I imagine making a movie like
this is really tough for Raymondoza, who lived it. I
think he wanted to make this to show people like
me who don't have the guts to go to war,
(46:50):
what it's actually like, because I think we don't know.
We don't see it. We've had friends and family, husbands
and wives go over there and fight for this country,
but unless you're there experiencing it, you have no idea
what it's really like. And I guess I feel bad
in saying that I find entertainment value in it, but
(47:10):
it's because I want to know what actually happened. I
want to feel this so I can be even more
appreciative of the people who have done this. I look
at it even though it's not a documentary, it is
a real life tale and depiction of what that life
is like. So I applaud it for bringing that to
(47:31):
light and sharing it with people and putting it in
a form in a medium, in film, in art, in
a way that we can accept and understand. So I
think there is a major power in a war movie
like this. Even just the title Warfare shows you this
movie is gonna have a lot of grit to it.
You feel it in this trailer, the moments where you
(47:52):
see characters faces covered in blood, covered and dirt. The
posters for this movie have been fantastic. So I just
feel a little bit guilty and saying like, oh, I
love a movie like this because I could just go
to the theater, watch it and experience it and walk out.
And I imagine for somebody who is a veteran in
this country, this could even be a movie that it
(48:13):
could be hard for you to go watch because just
like we could just stroll in watch a movie like
this and leave without any attachment, I imagine seeing that,
hearing that, putting yourself back into that position to recount
these things might not be the healthiest thing for some veterans.
But I think it's the power of the film to
share this story, to get it across to people who
(48:36):
maybe don't know about some of these accounts. Is why
a movie like this is important. But it's coming out
in theaters on April eleventh. Want to talk more about
it before I do. Here's just a little bit of
the warfare trailer wing activity converging on your north and south.
This is progmst six Romeo. We need a defact at
(48:56):
our last known position. We have severely wounded. Got you
one word marketing too coming to you or you coming
to us? We'll let you know where we're inbound.
Speaker 2 (49:10):
There's a plant ea five minute doba.
Speaker 1 (49:12):
The scouts are gonna lead us out, and I'm bringing
up the rear clap.
Speaker 2 (49:15):
Smoke smoke out. We are all.
Speaker 1 (49:17):
Coming back to this. So this movie follows a team
of seals in the Iraq War, set in two thousand
and six. The entire movie, as they say, unfolds in
real time, which I have to imagine was probably a
hard thing to do. You can kind of get a
sense of how you're gonna feel as the viewer dropped
into this situation, which I think is gonna invoke a
(49:39):
lot of anxiety, But that ability to put you there
and make you feel it is already when I'm getting
across in this trailer, So it looks like it's all
gonna take place in one day from the memories of
actual American service members who fought their way out of
an insurgent attack. Like I mentioned earlier, Raymondoza is the
writer of this movie. He co directed it with Alex Garland.
(50:01):
Mendoza is a former US Navy seal. He served in
the Iraq War, and the movie is following his accounts
of what happened that day. I have to imagine writing
that and then directing somebody to play you has to
feel like quite the euphoric experience, and having to put
yourself back into that day over and over while filming,
I have to imagine was quite taxing. I can only
(50:24):
imagine leaving the set and just being completely drained on
some of these days where you're having to relive some
of the most vicious memories you have in your life
and one of the hardest days. Because by the looks
of this trailer, it looks like it's going to get
pretty intense. The thing that always gets me about a
movie like this is the scenes where it shows everybody
hanging out having a good time, and they do this
(50:46):
at the end of the trailer, and then it cuts
it in between shots of them going through probably one
of the worst days of their life, where people are wounded,
people are bloody, they have people shooting at them. But
it keeps going back and forth between all them having
a good time and knowing that some of them aren't
going to make it. That moment hit me, and this
trailer alone, that moment hit me, that idea, that theme
(51:09):
came across of how much, for granted, we take just
everyday life and having a job where you don't know
what is going to happen on a day to day basis,
you're going into some of the most hostile environments. I
can only imagine looking back on a movie like this
about your life and seeing those good moments where you
were bonding and at times having to find joy in
(51:33):
a situation where there really is not any where. There
are no colors in the world. It's all just black
and white and just awful. But forming a bond with
these people that you're having to work with every day
and have to watch each other's back. So you see
that scene of them all happy, having a good time
and then just going through it. Will Poulter is in
(51:55):
this movie, who maybe you know from where the miller's
You also have Joseph Quinn, who has has been in
a lot of movies lately Send Stranger Things, and I
feel like he's one of those actors who's kind of
being forced upon us right now. Every five years or so,
Hollywood really doubles down on a couple of actors and
puts them in everything and says, Okay, we're gonna make
(52:18):
these people work. We're gonna put them in everything, and
it's up to us as an audience whether they're gonna
stick or not do we accept them. I think right
now it's working out for Joseph Quinn. He's gonna be
in this movie, he's gonna be in the Fantastic Four movie.
He was just a gladiator too. He was also in
the Quiet Place prequel, So I think he's getting there
(52:38):
as far as being validated by audiences, because sometimes they
just keep forcing people down our throats and we never
accept them and they never really click and they never
really last. And there's always those movies you look back
on like John Carter, like man, they really try to
make that guy happen just didn't work. I think, above all,
I am just really fascinated with Raymond Doozes, who after
(52:58):
he got out of the military, he did serve as
an advisor in Hollywood to present a more accurate portrayal
of the military on movies like Loan Survivor. He also
did the series The Terminal List, where he was an
advisor as well, and I think it's important for TV
shows and movies like that to feel authentic. But now
for him to be able to tell his own story
of this battle that happened in two thousand and six,
(53:21):
I think it's a way for him to bring everything
full circle. And I'm also curious to see how a
movie like this pans out for a twenty four who
put in a lot of money in marketing into Civil War.
Last year, they spent fifty million dollars to make that movie.
I think another twenty five million dollars to market that movie.
The movie ended up making over one hundred and twenty
six million dollars worldwide, so one of their biggest successes
(53:44):
so far. And I don't really consider them to be
that small of a studio anymore, because they are getting
up there and starting to play in the big leagues,
focusing on movies like this that have a bit of
a wider appeal. They'll always put out their little more
in dependent style, just what you come to expect from
A twenty four, but I like that they are putting
(54:05):
out more movies like this that have that same authentic
feel that you can't really get in every single big
budget Hollywood movie. So it still feels very A twenty four,
but also feels like something that my parents could go watch.
They're not watching your typical every A twenty four movie,
but I think a movie like this they would be
more interested in watching. So I don't know if they're
(54:26):
going to go as heavily on the marketing for warfare
that they did with Civil War, but I think if
they do, I honestly think this movie could do better
at the box office, because while I enjoyed Civil War,
I feel like the marketing kind of painted that movie
in a different light. What we ended up getting was
more a story of war journalism and some of the
(54:48):
moral dilemmas that arise from that. This one feels like
a much more realistic movie actually focused on well the warfare,
which is what it's called. But again it's coming out
in theaters.
Speaker 3 (54:58):
On April eleventh, said that Bar is this week's edition
of movie by.
Speaker 1 (55:03):
Framer Bar and that is going to do it for
another episode here of the podcast. But before I go,
I gotta give my listeners shout out of the week.
This week, I'm going over to Instagram. I got a
DM from Rachel Mason who said, have you watched the
movie Amber Alert from twenty twenty four with Hayden Penetier.
I don't know why, but I immediately thought of you,
but in my opinion, it was really great four point
(55:25):
five out of five ride shares. If you've seen it,
I'd love to know your thoughts, Rachel. Not only did
I watch Amber Alert, I also interviewed the director and
producer who our husband and wife on this podcast on
an episode back in September when it came out. So
I'm glad you said that because maybe some other people
have missed episodes here and there, but that one was
(55:46):
one I really enjoyed. If you want to find that episode,
you can just google movie Mike Amber Alert. And the
wild thing about AI now is that gives you that
overview when you google something and they have everything detail
about what went down in this interview. Here's the overview,
it says. Mike Distro interviewed Carrie in Summer Blessa, the
director and producer of the twenty twenty four Amberlert movie,
(56:07):
on his podcast movie Mike's Movie Podcast. The movie is
about two people who spot a kidnappers car after receiving
an Amberler on their phones. What's in the interview? Ai
asks how the movie came to be, including the inspiration
from seeing an Amberler on the highway, the challenges of
working together as a husband and wife, and the hopes
that this movie will start a conversation. AI out here
(56:30):
doing a bunch for a small podcaster like me. It's
the work of an intern right there. I don't have
any interns. It's all me recording and writing this entire podcast.
So I appreciate that. But if you do want to
listen to that episode, all you have to do is
google movie Mike Amberler. It shows up before you're right
there with that overview, click it on iHeartRadio, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,
(56:51):
wherever you listen to podcasts. So I appreciate that message. Rachel.
I'm sure you watch that movie on Hulu because it
did get added rather recently. So if you want to
go watch that, check it out on Hulu, check out
the interview. Thank you for listening, thank you for being subscribed,
and until next time, go out and watch good movies
and I will talk to you later
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