February 3, 2025 • 53 mins
Mike and Kelsey give their Best and Worst movies they saw in January. They talk about the day they spent watching 6 movies in one day, why Mike is neurotic about planning out meals around, why they can’t believe how much Cameron Diaz’s Netflix deal is worth after seeing her film that made her unretire from acting. In the Movie Review, Mike talks about Presence from Neon. It’s a horror movie about a family who becomes convinced they are not alone after moving into their new home in the suburbs. Mike talks about how it embraced its 2 million dollar budget, how the horror genre is becoming the most original in Hollywood and if it followed through with being as scary as the trailer made it seem. In the Trailer Park, Mike talks about Drop which is a new horror movie about airdropping. It’s about a widowed mom who goes on a first date that turns into a living nightmare when she receives phone messages from a mysterious, hooded figure who threatens to kill her young son and sister unless she kills her date.
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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 with my wife and
co host Kelsey. How's that cold brew? It's delicious, sounds good,
I've already had one you contemplated having. I'm at that
point of the day where I'm like, do I need
a second coffee? Because sometimes I do it.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I don't think today's today, because.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Whenever I have a second coffee, my heart starts to
skip a little bit, like I can feel it fluttering,
and I'm going about the house like I'm a hummingbird.
But I love writing that wave.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It has been a long sounds and hearing colors. I
can take cold birds.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I can like hear my hair growing at that point,
but I decided not to go second coffee.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's for the best.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
We are here to talk about our best and worst
movies of the month. For the month of January, the
longest month. Yeah, every year. January is essentially two months
in my mind.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Every year, and as a January birthday, I am so
sorry to everyone for how long this month feels.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Until January third, we watch more movies at home than
we did go to.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
The I also coming off of Christmas vacation. I was like,
I actually don't want to leave the house. Like now
we're having to convince ourselves to leave the house. Like
I feel like towards the end of the year, we
were like, let's get out, let's go like shopping or
go out to dinner, and I'm normally the one that's
like we should got to eat.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I'm sick of being in the house.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
And now Friday comes around, I'm like, you want to
cancel those dinner plans and get take out?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Like say less, I don't. I have so much TV
to catch up on.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
My favorite thing to do is cancel plans with you,
Like not with you, but I.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Mean like you're like, I actually don't want to see
us together, like we have plans and the like you
not want to do that?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Oh I don't want to do that. All right, let's
cancel plans.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
It's just and my plans.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
It's literally just like going out to eat'd be crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Or like we're like I don't want to go see
that movie. I don't feel like leaving.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
But we'll give our best and worst. Of January, I
will give my movie review of Presents, which was a
horror movie. I was really looking forward to and in
the trailer park, I'm going to talk about the trail
aller you brought to my attention. Drop.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah, I didn't know that I could kind of want
to see a scary movie and you're like.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Ooh, I might actually want to go see this one.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
On a scale of one to ten, where are you
of wanting to see this in theaters?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I mean I'm kind of like a nine. Oh I
love it?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, I know I didn't, But I also just love
Megan Fatty. She's like one of my favorite actresses after
she did The Bold Type White Lotus, Perfect Couple.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, she's great. All right, So we might be going
to see this movie. I'll talk about that later.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I will be watching it like through my hands. Of
the scary parts, yeah, you can't see it, but I.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Don't think it's that scary.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I think it's more I don't do spence. You know that, Okay,
I don't.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I mute when like TV shows get suspensful and I
know something's coming and the sounds on, I'm like mute.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
But 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 Dustro.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Podcast, Networking Movie Mike Movie podcast.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
All Right, gooda do are movies of the month for January,
The best, hand the Worst. Kick us off first with
the best movie from January.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
I need a laugh.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I just feel like this month already, Like I said,
it's been long, it's been weird, and I needed a
giggle and that was provided to me by one of
them days and beginning of the year. Comedies are hit
or miss because they put those ones out in January
that they're not sure whether they're gonna like, do well
at the box office or kind of flop, and then
they can just be like, oh, it was a January flop.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Oh well, I would say as a whole any movie
that comes out in January, which is known as a
dumb month for movies, is hit or miss. But primarily
it's usually a comedy that's like, I don't know if
this is gonna be funny, or it's a horror movie
that I don't know if it's gonna be scary. But
when it came to one of them days, it was
really funny. It also did really well at the box office.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I laughed the whole time.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
At one point it was what like certified fresh on
Rotten Tomatoes is still yeah, a really high score.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
It got really good reviews and was also funny, So
it had a good critic score and a good audience score,
which is rare. And the movie is about two best friends.
One of their boyfriends spends their rent money on a
get rich quick scheme and then they have like eight
or ten hours to make that money back before getting evicted.
(04:08):
So it's a really simple plot drops right into it
and there's a lot of just I felt like it
had good writing. It wasn't all physical comedy.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I mean Keiki Palmer and says I also had like
incredible comedic timing.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Crazy that Sizza. This was the first time acting did
a really good job in it. And then also as
about to do the Super Bowl with Kendrick Lamar, but
she could really do it all.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I really enjoyed this one as well. I rated it
a four out of five. What did you give it?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
You give it a four point five out of five.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So close to perfect, which is really high for a
ninety minute comedy.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Listen, it was also the perfect length.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I don't need my comedies to drag on because I
feel like at a certain point you just start like
kind of regurgitating things or making them like it also
just like wasn't necessarily believable, but like then you start
really dragging on. Also got to say, mad Apatow so
funny in it.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Oh yeah, she's the person who moves into their apartment.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah. I feel like right as this movie was wrapping up,
I would found myself to think, okay, this needs to
oh and it was over.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Yeah, right, when you're like all right, you can't really
make any more jokes, you can't drag it so out.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It's like, okay, the comedy movies that always go on
a little bit too long. I always think about, speaking
of the Appatitos jut Appatol, every jet hapaite movie goes
about thirty minutes too long, especially like Super Bad forty
year Old Virgin.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
He does love it is forty.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
His film's really equivalent of when people on TikTok are like,
I have to make this video a minute to get
into the creator fund to make money off of it.
That's jut Aptel's movies. It's like I gotta make this
two hours long.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
His inability to edit himself is wild. He had made
a movie in a while, though, I feel like he's
gonna do one with all of his daughters. At this
point he only has two, all of his daughters and
his wife, which he's pretty much been putting in every
I guess he's already really done that.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, they've been in everything.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah, it's like funny people I remember them being.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Kids are making money now he doesn't need Yeah, they're fine.
She's doing Euphorium movie, Plese. They're good.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
The nepotism is strong in that family. So that's your best.
For my best, I'm gonna go with the Brutalist, and
I think it's.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Because very different the spectrum.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
It's the one that I was a little hesitant going into,
just because it was three and a half hours long,
which is a long movie. It's a flight, Oh, it
is a flight. I am now a fan of the intermission,
which I thought I wasn't going to like. I thought,
you know me, I don't like stopping down while watching
a movie. I want to go all the way through.
(06:31):
If I have to go pee, I'll go pee real
quick and I'll come back. But I thought the idea
of taking a break and then coming back to it
was gonna offset me a little bit, but it actually
like reset me.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, walk around.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I was like, I'm gonna go walk around, I'm gonna
go get a drink. I'm gonna come back and feel refreshed.
And it was about an hour and forty minutes into it,
and then we had an hour forty to go. I
think it was also the fact that they included the
fifteen minute intermission in the run time, so that three
thirty five was also including the fifteen minutes. I thought
it was gonna be fifteen on top of that.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Oh, I guess I did too.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
And I really didn't calculate the time after we got
out because it was just long in general.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Which then it would have been like four fifty plus
the ten fifteen minutes of previews. Then I was like, man,
that's gonna be like four hours and ten minutes at
the movies.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I also need to let everyone know you were very
concerned about eating before and after.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
This is how I am. Anytime we go watch a
movie in the afternoon because we love them at Nay,
I would say, what's our percentage of going to evening
movies in afternoon movies?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Fifty to fifty because we'll go a lot on opening
night on a Friday.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
On a Friday night. If not, we'll do Saturday afternoon. Sometimes,
especially with these long movies, I have to think about
when am I gonna eat, because if you go to
a movie at three that's two hours long, you're like,
I could eat a late lunch, I could eat a
early dinner.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I already don't follow a very normal eating schedule on
Saturday because I sleep in like a college student, and
so then I'm just saying, okay, I'll eat lunch and
dinner whenever. But you were like very like, okay, I
guess I eat dinner before or lunch before, and then
I guess we dinner ate when we get home. But
that puts us and I was like, I think we're
just gonna have to eat around it, and I think
it's gonna be okay. And then you were already talking
about your movie that you're gonna see this weekend, and
(08:11):
you're like, okay, i'll go at this time and then
I can eat after.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
And it's one of those things that people don't think
about until it's an issue.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
But then when we go on trips, you laugh at
me for how much time and effort I put into
looking up restaurants.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I feel differently about regular at home life than I
do in vacation. I think it's because I am that
way where I do want to plot out meals and
everything during the week or here at home that when
I'm on vacation where we're visiting a city, I want
to put that to the side and have a little
bit more spontaneity.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
But you're also a vegan. We can't go into somewhere
and then your only fould be a salad. That's the
problem I have to hear for the rest of the
day all aaight was a salad.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
So I can't win with you.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I can see where the difficulty lies. Is the situation.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Because if I don't research places and not only are
you a vegan, you like to eat, don't take like
small portions, like it takes a lot of food to
make you full.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
People have a misconception of vegans and only eating salads
and only eating like small portions. That's just because I'm
a vegan doesn't mean I eat a piece of lettuce
and I'm good for this day exactly.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
So I have to take you somewhere that has specific
like vegan meals that's not just you making a salad.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
It is hard to find hardy vegan meals.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
All right, I rest my case.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Okay, back to this movie and what my rabbit hole
of you needing to eat before.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
But I feel after watching this, I am more inclined
to any movie that decides to embrace the intermission. I
don't think people will really embrace it a whole lot
because of that break. I think movie theaters have a
hard time because then you have all the people coming
out and then they get busy again. But I think
they want to get busy again right because the line
(09:51):
to the concessions got so long after it people getting
a second round refreshers.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
But I also don't feel like a typical theater chain
set up for an intermission.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, we saw the Belcourt, smaller theater, so.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
There's only a couple movies showing.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I think it would be harder in a big theater
like for Captain America, for everybody to exit and go
to the lobby. I think it would overwhelm some people
because I think right now, even when we get there,
sometimes during peak hours, we're waiting ten to fifteen minutes
to get popcorn.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Don't even get me started on the time that that
person complained, and I almost got a fight in line.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yeah, people get they get so impatient.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
People are doing their best, they're doing their job. It's
not their fault that the person true story in front
of you ordered eighty dollars worth of snacks, A lot
of snacks. There's literally one person. They can only get
so many popcorns, they can only get so many drinks.
And then if you're like, this line hasn't moved, I've
been here for twenty minutes, then get here twenty minutes
earlier next time.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Like, I don't know, people need to relax in line.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
So I don't movies.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I don't think that an intermission would be good at
a regular theater because then everyone's gonna stand in line
for that long and then they're gonna be like, well,
now the movie's starting, and I missed it because I
took this intermission. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I feel like it's kind of the recess vibes of
like trying to wrangle everybody after reesas like come on here,
come back inside. Oh I'm still on this swing set
feral children's yeah, running around, and then you have people
maybe who would like I want to go watch another
movie and they sneak into another movie. I enjoy it.
I don't think. I don't think there's gonna be that
(11:19):
many three hour movies that warrn't an intermission. It's very
rare that we get one. It's usually one a year
that we go to. If that like last year, Oppenheimer,
I feel like Avengers.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Actually the year before last.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Oh it's twenty twenty, Tang, I'm still living in twenty
twenty four. I know those two years ago.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I know.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
So I would like to see more intermissions. I think
it would give some people because it is a daunting task,
like the Brutalist. Even though I enjoyed it, it's not
one that I'm going to recommend to people because seeing
three hours and thirty five minutes is like, I don't
want to go to that.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
But I think it did eat up most of our sun.
Yeah that's what it was, and we were like, well, Saturday's.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Over, that's it, it's cashed. Yeah, it's gone. But I
really enjoyed it. I'm glad we spent the time to
watch it. I'm still not rooting for it to win
Best Picture. I still am leaning on wanting the substance
to do really well, but now I can appreciate a
little more. Moving on now to our worst, I think
(12:19):
we might have the same worst movie of the month.
What do you have?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Should we say it together? On the kind of three.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yeap want two?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Three?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Back back in Action? It is the family action comedy
with Cameron Diaz and Jamie Fox.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Which only three of those snow, guys, Yeah, this.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Is I think that's what hurt this movie the most
for me is we just had this with Mark Wahlberg.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
The Family Plan, same movie, same same movie, different cast.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
So essentially they were spies agents fifteen years ago. They
went on this mission. They got double crossed. There's a
plane exploding, everybody thinks they die, but they survive and
go into hiding. But there was this key that everybody
wanted that could control all these weapons. And then they
go into hiding, start a family in the suburbs and
(13:05):
live the lame adult parent life I guess, and then
they get sucked back in to go back in action.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I gotta say, Cameron Diaz came out of retirement for this.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
She well you know why she came out of retirement.
Netflix paid her forty five million dollars, not just for
this movie. I think it's two maybe three movies. She
signed this big deal forty five million dollars. I would
come out of retirement for forty five million dollars.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
She's absolutely come out of retirement.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I don't think she's done a movie in ten fifteen years.
And she has worked with Jamie Fox before, so that
was part of it as well. But you gotta come
out of retirement for this. And the reason Netflix spends
that amount of money is because she is a big
name and the movie was number one on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
And I mean we watched it.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
We did, And I think that's what you pay for
is that most people who have a Netflix account, they
see Cameron Diaz and Jamie Fox pop up there and
I thought, no, you're probably gonna watch it. You might
not like it in this case, really didn't like it.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
But you're gonna watch it.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
And I guess there is power in that. I guess
that's all they want is people to click it, watch it.
For the most part, they want people to complete it.
That's like the big way that they sell things, like
you need that completion rate, you need people to start it,
but also watch it for a certain amount of time.
And I guess you'd get that with this movie. But
if I would have seen this movie in theaters, I
would have revolted.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yet this is not a theater movie, and it's weird that.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
It kind of walks that line of being a little
bit more like bloody action shoot them up, and then
scaling it back to like their kids, it's kind of
a family movie. It just fell all over the place,
and I just thought her character and Jamie Foxx's character
overall were a little bit annoying.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
I mean, I love Cameron Diaz, and I feel like
I would watch anything like.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
I really only watched it because I was excited to
see her.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
That's really why I cared about it as well, because
I haven't really seen her. I mean, yeah, nobody's seen
and anything in a while, and I wanted to know
what brought her out of retirement, same way with Jim Carrey,
the thing that brought him at a retirement, So not
like the Hedgehog. I think it's just money at this point.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yeah, But then I was watching some like interviews with her,
and I was reminded, like super rich celebrities like that,
sometimes they just go down these like unrelatable tangents like
they were like, what's your morning routine? And she was
talking about the special coffee that she drinks because it's
not full of like mold and pesticides and how most
coffees are terrible for you. And I was like, just,
(15:29):
I don't know, let a girl drink her an espresso,
or let someone drink their Folgers or their cug Like,
stop with the mold and the pesticides in the coffee.
Like that's so unrelatable. It's probably like thirty dollars a coup.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I forget that she's married to Benji Madden from Good Charlotte.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
And then that makes her in laws Nicole Ritchie and
Joel Madden, and then her sister in law's father is
Lionel Richie, and.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Then yeah, it's a whole this whole thing. It's a
very famous lineage.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
That's the thing you're great at that I'm not. You know,
celebrity relationships.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I've been reading people magazines since I could read, so
like the age of five.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Like I can connect what actors were and what movies
and directors, But when it comes to relationships, I'm like, oh,
I don't know. You have to remind me about the
guy who's married to the Mumford and sons guy every time, the.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Girl that's married to the girl, Yeah, Carrie Mulligan. And
what is his first name?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Mumford Marcus Marcus Mumford, Yes, and sons Yes.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I can tell you which celebrities have dated. I can
tell you which celebrities have kids together. I can tell
you which celebrity is dated that celebrities brother. It is
a skill. I actually I was working out today and
an old Acon song was on in the bathroom and
I like still knew it word for word. And I
turned around and looked another girl, and I was like,
do you wonder, like how much more productive we would
(16:43):
be as a society if we didn't all just have
these like random lyrics. Still like I knew every word
word for word, could like wrap the middle part of it.
I was like, it was a song dangerous Bacon.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
My favorite Acon song. Nobody want to see to get it.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
But I was just like, Wow, if I could free
up the celebrity knowledge, Yeah, I do love a celebrity
love triangle or a NEPO family.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
We were talking earlier about staying in more in January,
and there was one day in January where I watched
six movies collectively. I think we watched maybe three together.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
We watched three feature films during Glenpell.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, it was a Glenn Pale day, Glenn Pell day.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
But I wrote it down. The sixth movie Saturday took
place on January eleventh.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Yes, and the first after the first week back at work. Yeah,
I just worked Fridays. I can't do.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I need a chill for this day.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Please.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Here's what I say when it comes to watching a
lot of movies, just pick the movies before you want
to set a movie. They just pick the movies, because
right now, I think we are overwhelmed with having so
many options. If you just get on Netflix with no
direction whatsoever, you're gonna end up either not watching anything,
or watching something that you don't like.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Or watching something you've already seen because you just go
back to the comfort movie.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
So I made a list of the movies I wanted
to watch, and then you had a list. We combined
that and just once once ended, we started the next one. Yeah,
that's the way to do it. Just have a plan
and then commit yourself. This also probably works a lot
better if you are either single or don't have kids.
But this is an uninterrupted six movie Saturday. It started
(18:22):
out with Amelia Perez, which was the first movie I watched,
and I was like, I'm gonna watch this one because
I don't really have expectations. People have been saying it's terrible,
but I know it's going to be nominated for a
bunch of awards, so I had to in my head
get it out of the way. I ended up enjoying
it aside from the musical parts. I gave it a
three out of five. My biggest problem with Amelia Perez
(18:43):
it just doesn't feel Mexican because the director is not Mexican,
didn't really do a whole lot of research. Aside from
some scenes that look like Mexico, there just wasn't that
feeling of like, oh, this feels like a true Mexican,
authentic story. And I think for me wanting to see
my culture, wanting this my people on a big scale.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
In a bit, it was just about the cartel, but
it was just about like the bad part people. It's
just a car like Tel.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
You could do a movie about the cartel like Zacario,
Like I feel like that was more Mexico than this movie.
But I just want to see us taking a little
bit more seriously when it comes to critically acclaimed films
and seeing everybody just kind of drag this movie. It's like, Oh,
we finally got one, and it's one that people don't
want to win, that they hate the fact that it
has so many nominations. But I don't think it's as
(19:29):
bad as everybody is saying. It's not for the musical part.
Musical part I just can't get past. But that was
the first movie of this day. Next up, I watched
Wallace and Grommet's Most Foul. I gave that one a
three point five out of five.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
It's also Oscar nominated.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
All of the Wallace and Grommet movies and Chicken Run movies.
Everything that's claimation just reminds me of being an elementary school.
This one kind of had to do with AI a
little bit. Wallace is the dude, Grommet is the not
the with the dog, and Wallace has made this invention
that it's like this gnome who can do a bunch
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of landscaping and essentially takes away jobs from Grommet, so
he doesn't like the AI nome. And then the AI
Nome gets hacked by a super villain and they got
to clear their name.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Thank you for that.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Very in depth synopsis of Willison Grammet.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Because it's a family children's movie.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
But I AI know, yeah, sound very family friendly.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
That replaces people. But I gave that one a three
point five out of five. Next up, also on Netflix.
These have all been Netflix movies. I watched Subservience, which
is also having to do with AI. It is Megan.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Fox, who oh yeah, I came in at the end
of that one.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Kind of weird, and she is an AI robot. It's
about this guy who his wife comes down with this
sudden illness. She's in the hospital, so he gets this
AI robot to help around the house, take care of
the kids, do the dishes, cook and do all those things.
But then and she starts to become attracted to him,
and it's all like this weird love triangle between a
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dude AI and his real wife. I'm out, Yeah, overall
not what I was expecting, although I guess I don't
really expect a whole lot from anything with Megan Fox
right now.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
She just sospired.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I really liked her in movies like of Course Transformers,
Jennifer's body. Yeah, but this was just not it. It
kind of felt like she needed to make some money
here probably, And right now she's like about to have
a baby with MGK and they're not speaking. Yeah, you
imagine that, about to have a kid with somebody and
you just won't speak to them.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
A weird circle back to that of degrees of separation
her she was with Brian Oilson Greens Now with Sharna's
Bobby's partner on Dancing with the Stars, which you know, Sharna,
So you're like two degrees one degree of separation away
from Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
But I gave subservience a two point five out of
five and then we began the Glen run. What did
we watch first?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Top Gun two, which is still great. Yeah, we hadn't
seen it since we saw it in theaters. Yeah, holds up.
Still awesome.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
And a big part of seeing Top Gun two in
theaters was seeing it on the big screen and feeling
like I was a part of the action because that's
how they filmed it, Like all the flight scenes of
like the camera angles like on the wings, they were
actually doing some of the flying, some of their own stunts.
I feel like that's still translated watching it at home,
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and I kind of forgot just how good the story
is overall and how much I still believe it is
better than Top Gun one because it's a much different
story seeing an older Maverick kind of looking back on
those days and seeing him with like the new cast,
and the entire relationship between what's dude's name.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Uh, Rooster, Rooster Goose's son.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
That whole dynamic I found more enjoyable, and I thought
I had a little bit more emotion. So of course
you have to have the first one to get to
this second one. But if I had to go back
and rewatch one again, I'm still going Top Gun two.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Also, I forgot that what Monica Barbaro isn't it? And
she is Oscar nominated for a complete unknown.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Yeah, when we saw her, I was like, isn't it
weird when you see a movie completely forget an actor,
isn't it?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Until they're in something else where they have a little
bit more of a prominent role. Even though she had
a pretty good role in this that you go back like, oh,
she wasn't in it too. I also felt that Glenn
Powell's role was a little bit more substantial than I remembered.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Yeah, I don't really think.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I didn't really have my finger on the pulse of
who Glenn Powell was when that movie came out.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
That was my mistake.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
And I think that's where he and Tom Cruise kind
of bonded.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yeah, so now he gets the Tom Cruise coconut cake
at Christmas.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
All he gets that does a famous cake. And I
think maybe because of them working together on this movie
could be the reason that he takes overform Mission Impossible,
if that's the direction they end up going in.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Tom Cruise came to like the London Twisters premiere, I
think like they're pals.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yeah, I stand by my rating of that. I might
have rated it higher the second time around. I give
it a four point five out of five. All right
after that, we watched Anyone but you listen. I don't
know why people hated it so much. When it first
came out, people hated it. I don't remember all that.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Yeah, and then when like the like kind of promotion
of it on TikTok went Okay, people didn't like it
at first when it came out.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Yeah, it came out kind of subtly in theaters, and
it was all the things surrounding it that ramped up
people checking it out, and then.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
They did a re release of it for Valentine's Day
last year, put it.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Back in theaters, and then kind of blew up again
once it went on to Netflix. So it's a movie
that's kind of had three different lives.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I also, and we've talked about this, I think Sidney
Sweeney is so smart. I think she is much smarter
than Hollywood gives her credit for.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Because this was a Sony movie and essentially her kind
of forming that relationship with Sony because she ended up
doing Madame Web. I feel like that was a business decision.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Oh she's even said it was.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
And now she has more movies coming out with Sony,
so I.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Deal with them.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Yeah, She's very smart and like she kind of drove
the like once one rumor spread online about her and Glynn,
even though she's engaged to someone else and nothing went
on between them, she was like, Okay, let's use this
to our advantage and let's market it that way.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Smart and then they did the whole.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I was saying, it's my favorite moment of SNL when
she hosted and she did her monologue, and she was like, yeah,
you know, like people thought and affa're with my co star,
but I'm like happily engaged my fiancees here and then
they like pan out to what you think is gonna
be your fiance in the audience.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
It's in. It's Glenn Palell. Funny, great chemistry between the
two of them. Amazing rom com. So haring back to
the rom com.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I also think that her role in Madame Web didn't
really hurt her a whole lot.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
No, she everyone was just kind of like, oh, you
were in this. It was more in to code Jhansi
at the front.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
But anyone but you is an instant rom com classic.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
It is so hard to make a good rom com
now because they're always predictable, they're always a little bit cheesy.
And this one, for me, I enjoyed it in theaters
and I enjoyed watching it again. And it has that
rewatchable factor which any good rom com does. You're supposed
to be able to watch a rom com ten times
and still enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
The way they meet in the coffee shop, so cute,
great rom com moment.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
The thing you can't fake and you can't fabricate. You
can't use AI to create is chemistry, and they have
great chemistry. That's how you sell a rom com I.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
And we'll talk about this in the next movie that
we watched.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
I'm convinced he could have chemistry with just about anyone
these days.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I wondered that about some actors, like are you such
a good actor, then no matter who is standing across
from you, you can have chemistry.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
With Sidney Sweeney. Next one we're about to talk about
I'm what' spoiled that? Yep, Daisy Edgar Jones. Ten out
of ten chemistry across the board.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
It just sucks you in. But that's anyone but you.
We still watched it on Netflix, right, I think most
of these were Netflix except for Top Gun. Top Gun
we did have to purchase.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
We ran to rent it, and I really had to
convince you to spend those four dollars. I had to
convince you so hard that I was like, oh, I
have a dollar fifty digital credit from Amazon for telling
them they could deliver a package later.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah, dang, I didn't realize these were all on Netflix.
But the final movie in our six movie Saturday was
Set it Up, which you hadn't seen what is this
movie about. It is a rom com. It is Glenn
Powell and Zoe I think it's Deutsch.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Uh. Lucy Lou and Tay Diggs and Glenn and Zoe
are assistants. Lucy and Tay or the bosses, and they
like set up their bosses, but then of course they
in the process fall for each other.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
They gotta set it up.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
It's so cute. The writing is good. I think it
is such an underrated rom com.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
This was one that was always like pitched to me.
You know how Netflix does different thumbnails for different people. Yes,
the way they tried to sell me and get me
to click on it is they put Pete Davidson's face
as the thumbnail.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Oh yeah, because he's his roommate, which he's like a.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Side character, has maybe like three four scenes overall. But
Netflix does that. They'll be like, Okay, this is a
male in his thirties, he's.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Problems a lot of comedies.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
He probably likes Pete Davidson, Let's put him on the thumbnail.
If this movie was trying to be pitched to you
on your Netflix account, they probably put Glenn Powell.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
It was Glenn Anzoey.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah, they put them. Oh yeah, they sell the romance factor.
So it's interesting the way they do that. They'll take
anybody from the cast and think, what does this demographic?
What would they want to watch? And they change those
thumbnails And it could be deceptive a little bit because
I probably didn't click it because I thought, like, why
is Pete Davidson in this movie? And it told me
nothing about it?
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Yeah you really go, yeah, Pete Davidson's in this I
was like, I don't remember that.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
And that was the main selling point for me. Again,
this is a rom com that I feel was very predictable.
But even the fact that I knew what was coming,
you can tell it from the very beginning, like what
it's going to happen with these two characters. I still
enjoyed getting there.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
The writing was so good we laughed out loud. It's
so many points.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Yeah, there's a funny side character, the janditor guy who
worked in the basement. This is a great character.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
They call me creepy Tim.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
That's another thing, like how many movies do we watch
now that we quote?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Not very many. I did the thing.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah, there's what was the one about goofing off?
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Time?
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Oh, I was gonna say it, but it's kind of curse.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Is that a cur I'll quack you?
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Okay, He's like, I overdicked around.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Oh that's not a curse word.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Well I wasn't sure.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Like I don't know if someone's listening with their kid
in the car and they don't want their kid going
to school, being like, sorry, I'm later overdicked around.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
But it's whenever they're like, oh, I have three hours,
so yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
She's doing that. She's like I was killing time and
then she's like I killed too much time.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Yeah, I know how that is. Sometimes, Like I'll get
to a place too early and I'm like, all right,
I'm gonna kill some time and watch some TikTok and
then I'm like, oh crap, it's no longer too early.
But yeah, that was me over dicking around. I love
this movie. I give it a four out of five,
which I think is pretty strong for a Netflix rom com.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I feel good about that because I have convinced you
to watch it.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
So cause when I think Netflix rom com, I think
of them putting out things like the Reese Witherspoon and
Ashton Kutcher rom com that was terrible and talk about
people who don't have any chemistry whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Speaking of which, we're about to watch her next comedy
that just came out.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
We'll see how that goes. But that movie was a dud.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
That movie was a dud. Yeah, and they didn't even
like film it in the same place. Yeah, you're right,
they could have had better chemistry at the door.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
But that is our best and worst in our big
Saturday movie Extravaganza. Do you have anything else you want
to add? You usually do a.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Book and TV show, Yeah, oh the TV show. Well,
you do a joint TV show which is Slow Horses.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Which we watched season one and devoured it, really enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
We thought there were more than six episodes that it
was a little disappointing, but I like the six episodes
season and that is the Apple model. I should have known.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
It's less intimidating, it gets right to the point, and
then it's all wrapped up in a nice little package
by episode six, and then you move on to the
next season.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
I'm glad we're behind on the show because season four
just premiered last fall, so we have some touching up
to do.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Well.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
We just good.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
We love that one. I am so close to finishing
Dragon Ball Super. There are one hundred and thirty one episodes.
I am on one thirteen or fourteen right now, so close.
And the reason that there's a fire under my butt
is because Hulu was about to get rid of all
their Dragon Ball stuff, and I think they worked out
a deal and it's going to stick around. But that
kind of ignited me to It was my goal to
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finish it last year, but now I'm probably within a
week or two of finishing it because it's great.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Yeah. And then my solo show is The Pit on.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
HBO Max with uh Noah Wiley who was Doctor Carter
on Er and I've sat on here before. That ar
is my comfort show and it's a very strange comfort show.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Love it.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
The theme song just like zends me out, even though
it's chaotic show, which you don't like. When I watch
it and bed at night when you've already gone to sleep,
because you're like the beeping of the people talking the
medical jargon.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
It's stressful to try to go to sleep too, so
the like blood Scalball and I'm like, I'm trying to
go to sleep.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Man.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
The Pit is on HBO and it I think it's
going to be fifteen episodes and each episode is an
hour in this er, so each episode is like seven
to eight, eight to nine.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Really good. I just love seeing him back on my TV.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
And then your book.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Chan was kind of a dud month.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
It's a slow month all around.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Best Well, I'm rereading Harry Potter, so nothing tops that.
But I did read Ina Garten's memoir Be Ready When
the Lock Happens. Read it in a day just today,
sat down to read it before dinner, and then we
watched We ate dinner, we watched TV, and then I
got in bed.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
And finished it.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
And her life is very fascinating, like how she came
to be the Barefoot Contessa.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
I had no clue.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
I don't really follow any like food celebrities. That's not
the realm of celebrity that I'm in or into. But yeah,
I thought it was great, so I would recommend that.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Speaking of Harry Potter, next week we are doing our
rewatch and re ranking episode. We rewatched all eight movies.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I spoiler, we've already recorded it. I think it might
be one of the funniest episodes.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
It's Yeah, if you love Harry Potter, we'll give you
an early spoiler running now. If you have time, go
watch Harry Potter movies if you have it, because we're
going to talk about them in depth.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Yeah, and there you'll have to tune in and find
out if our marriage survives that episode.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
I don't feel like everybody's watched them. Who's gonna watch
them at this point, So I don't know if I
need to give a spoiler warning. We talk about everything, yeah,
but that is coming next week, and I'll come back
right now and talk about Presence. Let's get into it now.
A spoiler free movie review of Presence. This was a
movie that had me by the trailer what this movie
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is about. Family moves into a house, figure out the
house is haunted. We've been here before time and time again.
But how Presence is different The way this movie set
itself apart, the way it sold itself in the trailer
and all the marketing. Instead of seeing it from the
family's point of view, you see it from the demonic
presence point of view, which I thought was fascinating. When
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I saw the trailer, I initially thought that director Steven
Sodenberg had like a drone going in this house because
the camera just kind of levitates through every room, it
goes up the stairs, it comes back down very quickly
at moments where you see this demonic presence kind of
take over the screen starts shaking. I thought that was
such a unique and fascinating way to capture a movie
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like this, And I love the house's haunted genre. Whenever
the house is haunted, I'm in. So that is why
I was excited going into this movie. I also love
movies that are made on a really low budget. This
entire movie costs two million dollars to make, and it
feels like that. I also kind of feel like you
have to know that it's only a two million dollar
movie going into it, because I think some people set
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different standards, and I know you're still paying the same
ticket price, But when you go into something knowing that
it does have a lower budget and it's relying more
on the creativity of the filmmaker, I feel like you
have to judge it a little bit differently. And for me,
I also kind of have to remember that horror movies
don't always have to be scary every single time, and
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I think if you look just in the last year
of how impactful scary movies in the horror genre of band.
I know people call them scary movies, people call horror movies.
They have been the most ambitious in their plots and
their style of filmmaking. That is where I think the
most original stories are coming from right now, because I
think you could have a lot of fun inside of
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this genre. It's one that doesn't take itself too seriously.
If you don't go into every horror movie expecting it
to be scary and considering it a failure when it's
not scary, I think you're setting yourself up for more
just good times while watching horror movies. Because I really
think when it comes to the horror genre, it doesn't
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mean I'm gonna go in here and there's gonna be
a bunch of frightening things and I'm gonna have nightmares.
I think you're going into something thinking stuff is gonna
go down in this movie. There is gonna be something
wrong that is not normal. That's kind of how I
see the horror genre now. There is something creepy going on,
There's something not quite of this world happening. That is
what I'm going into every horror movie thinking now and
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kind of losing that mentality that we probably all gained
with the slasher films of the eighties and nineties and
a lot of the found footage horror movies from the
two thousands, everything that The Rings started in, all the
paranormal activity movies. I think horror is becoming so much
more creative. Look at movies like The Substance, look at
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movies like Long Legs and Just The Last Year and Presence.
Although what it put in the same category of those movies,
it is still a movie that reminds me how beautiful
filmmaking is. Like the director of this movie, Steven Sodenberg,
would just walk around the house with this small camera,
not a big fancy camera. The movie felt very raw,
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and it's not really intended to be a found footage movie,
but it felt like there was no lighting, and I
was like, how did they achieve this? Like how did
they get these scenes to look just right? And I
was right, there wasn't a big fancy crew to this movie.
It was really just him walking around with the camera.
I think at times he just had slippers on. He
would go as quietly as possible and these one shot
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swoops to get this image that felt like you were
floating through the house. That you were that demonic presence,
so you, yourself, as the viewer, are kind of the demon
in this movie. It was incredibly intimate. Now, when it
comes to how much of the horror story this actually was,
I think the trailer did over sell it a little
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bit because by the looks of this trailer it even
looked darker. The trailer itself had a much darker color
grade than the actual movie did, so I feel like
it was a little bit misleading. Even some of the
shots they chose to use made it seem like Stelf
was going to go down way more than it actually did.
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It wasn't so much that this presence was ruining the
life of the family. I think my favorite case of
that has to be in the last fifteen years the conjury,
like that presence in that house was ruining the life
of that family. In this case, the presence was really
just observing this family, messing with them a little bit,
like you see in the trailer, But it was just
inhabiting this house and allowing you to see into the
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life of this family. So I felt a little bit
misled just because it was a little bit more of
a family drama. You have Lucy Liu, who I feel
was the biggest name and also the strongest actor in
this movie. You also have Chris Sullivan, who you probably
know from This Is Us. They are parents to two
teenage kids. They are going through a very rough time
in their life. This purchase of this new house is
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supposed to reset their life. Their teenage daughter just went
through something pretty traumatic by losing one of her best friends,
and all the details about how her friend died slowly
creep out through the story. And it's really just a
story about grief. It's a story about family, it's a
story about just dealing with awful things. And then on
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top of that, you have the presence lurking here. So
really that was the focal point of this movie. That
was the story. The present itself was just the fourth
character there to observe it all and to really bring
the audience in. You really don't get a first big
scare until about thirty minutes into the movie, and every
other time that it happens, it's very calculated. Now. When
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it came to the acting, I was a little bit
caught off guard. Lucy lewis perfect. I thought she completely
nailed her role. She by far showed that she is
the most seasoned actor in this movie, but everybody else
felt a little bit of a downgrade compared to her,
and I think that was intentional. I want to believe
that that was intentional because I think the story was
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really trying to capture this family living in the suburbs,
interacting the way you would with your brother, with your sister,
with your mom and your dad. So I want to
feel that they chose this cast and chose the dialogue
as a way to represent that. You also have to
think that this movie only took eleven days to make,
which I felt that too, not in a bad way,
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but you can can tell that it feels a little
bit more like a short story than your average feature
link film, which is why this movie is only an
hour and twenty minutes. And the other thing I did
enjoy about it that I felt this movie showed that
other haunted house movies don't quite get right, which, of course,
you always have to live in a big house. It's
never gonna be in an apartment. It's never gonna be
in a trailer park like where I grew up, because
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that just doesn't work. That's just not scary. I don't
feel like there are enough rooms and twists and turns
that you could do. In those types of houses, it
always has to be a big house. So they still
had the big house in this movie, but there was
a moment where the family actually had to react to
realizing that there was something going on in the house,
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and they actually reacted in a way that I think
a normal family would, because in most haunted house movies,
whenever things start to go down, there's always that one
big like, oh crap, this is actually a thing. For
the most part, those movies cut there and they come
back the very next day without address what happens after that.
This movie actually showed that that you would actually be
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freaked out. You would not be wanting to stay in
this house, You would be questioning everything. I thought it
was cool to address that situation of how do you
sleep after this? How do you even feel comfortable in
this home you just bought after you just experienced something
so creepy. It reminded me of when I lived in
what I thought, at least at the time was a
haunted apartment. There was only ever one place I lived
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in that I truly felt was haunted, where I had
these really weird vivid nightmares that it felt like at
times somebody was sitting on my chest, like I was
suffering from sleep paralysis. There were other things that happened
that were really weird, like one time my brother was
in the kitchen making dinner and the light fixture from overhead,
like that big glass thing you put over a light bulb,
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fell right on his head. That thing could never move.
I don't think we even changed the light bulb at
that point. There was no reason for that thing to fall,
and we kind of stood there in silence, thinking like
that could have knocked me out. That could have been
really bad. But there were all these little things that
sometimes it just felt like there was something watching me.
And I remember one time sleeping in this apartment where
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I swore there was like a dark figure up in
the corner just watching me as I slept in the
living room on a mattress that I slept in because
I didn't have a bedroom. I just slept on the floor.
So maybe I was an easy target. So I have
to give this movie a lot of credit for creativity.
This is the type of movie that excites me before
I even step foot in that theater. I was genuinely
(42:31):
excited to see this story unfold. I'm just happy that
stuff like this can not only still get made but
be seen in theaters across the country. And it's already
made five million dollars, so it's made back its production
costs and a little bit on top. And I think
it's these types of stories that are going to pave
the way for smaller directors. And this is kind of
(42:52):
where that sweet spot is. If you can make a
low budget movie and create an impact, that is where creativity,
That is where filmmaking is going to contin you to rise,
where studios aren't taking risks on fifty to sixty to
one hundred million dollar movies that come back and make
ten to fifteen million dollars at the box office. And
I think the other thing, aside from just creating a spectacle,
(43:15):
when it comes to kind of flipping the script on
a story we've seen before, it was genuinely making characters
that you started to feel for, and it was through
the process of putting that camera in places where you
don't normally expect it and seeing things through the eyes
of somebody that's not supposed to be there. This movie
is also exciting to me because I could think of
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me at maybe twelve thirteen years old, at a time
where I was like, I want to be a film director.
If I saw a movie like this, this would inspire me,
much like movies like Halloween Paranormal Activity inspired me in
the past, because it feels like just somebody with creativity
and an idea, not a big fancy camera, not a
(43:58):
big fancy crew, just that vision and that intent to
want to make something creative that people are going to
be talking about. People are good to want to see
by somebody who just genuinely cares about the filmmaking process.
That is inspiring to me. For presents, I give it
three point five out of five suburban homes. It's time
(44:20):
to head down to movie. Mike Traylor paus There is
a fine line between running out of ideas and being innovative.
That is how I feel about the new movie called Drop.
It is a horror movie about air dropping. You know,
when you send a file to somebody like here's some pictures,
let me air drop it to you. I love air dropping.
(44:41):
Air dropping has made my life so easy. But you
always think about sometimes when I'm on a plane, I'll
turn on my air drop and see all the people
around me. I think a couple of times people have
tried to air drop me something and I never accept
it because it's probably gonna be something dirty. But what
this movie is about, you have made he who plays
a widowed mom. She goes out on a first date.
(45:03):
She's very nervous about it. She meets the guy at
the bar, who is also nervous. He is good looking.
They're both like, oh, we're both so nervous. They sit
down to have dinner at this fancy restaurant I'm talking
super fancy restaurant, having conversation, and she looks down at
her phone and she gets this mysterious air drop and
it's a meme. It's the guy like rubbing his hands together.
(45:25):
He's wearing like a suit, and it says planning the
worst night of your life. Thinks nothing of it. But
then the air drops keep coming, They get more threatening,
ramps up to an entirely different level, and suddenly she
is faced with this dilemma, which we'll get into here
in a second. But before I do, I want to
play the trailer and then talk about some red flags
that I'm seeing based on it. But here is the
(45:47):
trailer to drop.
Speaker 2 (45:49):
Okay, somebody sent me.
Speaker 4 (45:50):
This thumb kids trying to match with you. We can
figure this out. I think you gotta be within fifty
feet to send a drop. So someone in the restaurant file.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
Okay, So what she got on those air drops. The
person on the other side of them basically told her
you can't tell anybody, and if you do, I'm gonna
murder your family. Because the person on the other side
of the air drops tells her to open up her
home security app. When she does, she sees her family
there who had a babysitter. Then you see the guy
in the hooded mask with a gun, and the air
(46:35):
drops get more and more threatening, ultimately giving her the
decision that in order for her to save her family,
her young son, and her sister, she has to kill
her date. And not only that, she can't tell the
date anything that's going on. She can't tell anybody in
the restaurant. So before I get to the things that
I don't like, let's talk about the positive, the things
(46:56):
that I do like. This movie is coming to us
from Blumhouse. It is produced by Jason Blum, who has
done movies like Five Knights at Freddy's. Megan It's also
being produced by Michael Bay, who did, of course the
Transformers movies. He produced a Quiet Place franchise. It is
from director Christopher Landon, who did a movie in twenty
twenty I like with Vince Vaughn called Freaky. He's also
(47:19):
probably most famous from the two Death Day movies. He
has a very distinct style, and it's really starting to
show outside of that franchise in this movie. I do
like how it starts out as a rom com and
then quickly shifts tones the problem. Okay, I don't want
to get to the negative, yet I do want to
continue with the positive. I think this movie does look
(47:41):
like a fun ride. It reminds me of the movie
we just had in December, carry On. This is essentially
carry On, but in a restaurant, on a first date.
Carry On was essentially die Hard, but in an airport.
Think about this movie carry On. Anything with a ridiculous
premise like this, I always say to myself, why wouldn't
(48:02):
I just not respond to it? I get a weird
air drop, just don't look at it, delete it, decline
And I know, I know if you did that, you
wouldn't have a movie. But it just seems a little
bit ridiculous. You start getting all these weird air drops
and you're like, oh no, I have to open this
during a date too, sitting there having a conversation from
somebody that just five minutes ago you were so attracted to,
(48:26):
and now you're like, well, let's see what's going on
my phone. Oh my god, just don't look at your phone.
Everybody put your phones down and enjoy each other's company,
have your nice meal. But again, if you did that,
you wouldn't have a movie, and I wouldn't have anything
to talk about the whole other issue. But I do
enjoy the fact that this looks like a movie that
would be fun to see in theaters. I feel like
(48:48):
this movie sparks maybe a healthy amount of anxiety when
it comes to this type of horror movie, which is
probably a little bit more digestible for people. The person
who actually turned me on to this trailer was ke Elsey,
who said, I don't like horror movies, but this is
actually one that I would consider going to see in
theaters because it doesn't look like it's going to be
too violent, and now it's gonna lead me to the
(49:10):
things I don't like about this trailer. The reason it
doesn't look like it's gonna be too violent is the
fact that it is PG thirteen, and I think you
can walk that line between horror and thriller and suspense
in a PG thirteen rating, and there are some elements
of action. It seems like that's probably the Michael Bay
influence where you see her at the end holding on
(49:34):
to dear life about a fallout of this high story restaurant,
which is another thing that I would say I'm a
little bit hesitant about that.
Speaker 5 (49:43):
You watch this trailer and you've pretty much seen the
entire movie. I think the fact that they even put
in that shift change from rom com to horror movie
and then show you.
Speaker 1 (49:55):
The advance in all the air drops and then show
you basically the entire thing act of her hanging out
of the restaurant, it kind of shows you every step
of the process that she's going to go through. So
if you don't want to go see this movie in
theaters and you want a movie in about two and
a half minutes, you can go watch it on YouTube.
Doesn't mean it's not enjoyable. Just because the movie shows
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you the entire plot doesn't mean that going on that
ride is going to be any less fun. I feel
as a whole this movie already looks very predictable, so
I don't think they were trying to sell you one
thing and give you something else in theaters. So those
are probably the two things that I don't like about
the trailer. And the movie is an hour and forty
(50:39):
six minutes, so it's probably not gonna waste a whole
lot of time. I do feel like that's maybe fifteen
minutes too long for a movie that I kind of
already know all the beats that's going to go through.
I just feel like this is a movie that should
be a tight ninety minutes to really have its true
impact and then not have you questioning a whole lot
about well, why did they do this and why did
(50:59):
they do this? It just has that feeling to me.
I just feel that I'm going to be screaming at
the screen for a majority of this movie. But again,
the movie is called Drop. It's coming out in theaters
on October eleven.
Speaker 4 (51:11):
Geez.
Speaker 2 (51:12):
And that was this week's edition of Movie Line tram
or Bar and.
Speaker 1 (51:16):
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 TikTok and I'm shouting out Graham who
left a comment on my last TikTok where I was
talking about the use of AI and art while doing
my Brutalist review from the last week's episode, and Graham said,
(51:37):
you make a fair point, but I don't think people
are saying that the AI usage in the Brutalist is
all that egregious, which if you don't know, that word
means shocking. I'm not acting like I'm really smart here.
I had to look that up. Back to the comment,
he said, they are more concerned about the precedent. If
viewers don't take a strong stance now, Hollywood will just
keep using a little more and a little more until
(51:59):
it roos ruins the industry, which was the point I
made in that review as well. So I appreciate you,
Graham for sharing your thoughts. I said that eventually somebody
is going to abuse it. I mean, you feel like
some of these superhero movies, there have been cases where
they have taken actors' faces and impose them on other
(52:19):
people's bodies where that person wasn't even there for the reshoots.
Yet they use this technology to put them there, and
you call it special lot. Thanks, but you really use
a lot of AI to map out their face. It's
kind of the same thing. So I feel like we
are getting a little bit too worried of something that
hasn't fully happened yet. Like I said, we'll cross that
(52:41):
bridge when we get there. I think there is a
place for it. I just worry, kind of like you, Graham,
about people getting lazy and just using it for the
sake of Oh, we need to make this movie cheaper,
we need to make it quicker, use AI and get
it out the door, get it in theaters and get
people's money. That'll be a problem. So I appreciate that.
Thank you Graham for listening. Thank you, hell everybody for
listening to this week's episode. Until next time, go out
(53:04):
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 with my wife and
co host Kelsey. How's that cold brew? It's delicious, sounds good,
I've already had one you contemplated having. I'm at that
point of the day where I'm like, do I need
a second coffee? Because sometimes I do it.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I don't think today's today, because.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Whenever I have a second coffee, my heart starts to
skip a little bit, like I can feel it fluttering,
and I'm going about the house like I'm a hummingbird.
But I love writing that wave.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It has been a long sounds and hearing colors. I
can take cold birds.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I can like hear my hair growing at that point,
but I decided not to go second coffee.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's for the best.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
We are here to talk about our best and worst
movies of the month. For the month of January, the
longest month. Yeah, every year. January is essentially two months
in my mind.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Every year, and as a January birthday, I am so
sorry to everyone for how long this month feels.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Until January third, we watch more movies at home than
we did go to.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
The I also coming off of Christmas vacation. I was like,
I actually don't want to leave the house. Like now
we're having to convince ourselves to leave the house. Like
I feel like towards the end of the year, we
were like, let's get out, let's go like shopping or
go out to dinner, and I'm normally the one that's
like we should got to eat.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I'm sick of being in the house.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
And now Friday comes around, I'm like, you want to
cancel those dinner plans and get take out?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Like say less, I don't. I have so much TV
to catch up on.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
My favorite thing to do is cancel plans with you,
Like not with you, but I.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Mean like you're like, I actually don't want to see
us together, like we have plans and the like you
not want to do that?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Oh I don't want to do that. All right, let's
cancel plans.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
It's just and my plans.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
It's literally just like going out to eat'd be crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Or like we're like I don't want to go see
that movie. I don't feel like leaving.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
But we'll give our best and worst. Of January, I
will give my movie review of Presents, which was a
horror movie. I was really looking forward to and in
the trailer park, I'm going to talk about the trail
aller you brought to my attention. Drop.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah, I didn't know that I could kind of want
to see a scary movie and you're like.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Ooh, I might actually want to go see this one.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
On a scale of one to ten, where are you
of wanting to see this in theaters?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I mean I'm kind of like a nine. Oh I
love it?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, I know I didn't, But I also just love
Megan Fatty. She's like one of my favorite actresses after
she did The Bold Type White Lotus, Perfect Couple.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, she's great. All right, So we might be going
to see this movie. I'll talk about that later.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I will be watching it like through my hands. Of
the scary parts, yeah, you can't see it, but I.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Don't think it's that scary.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I think it's more I don't do spence. You know that, Okay,
I don't.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I mute when like TV shows get suspensful and I
know something's coming and the sounds on, I'm like mute.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
But 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 Dustro.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Podcast, Networking Movie Mike Movie podcast.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
All Right, gooda do are movies of the month for January,
The best, hand the Worst. Kick us off first with
the best movie from January.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
I need a laugh.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I just feel like this month already, Like I said,
it's been long, it's been weird, and I needed a
giggle and that was provided to me by one of
them days and beginning of the year. Comedies are hit
or miss because they put those ones out in January
that they're not sure whether they're gonna like, do well
at the box office or kind of flop, and then
they can just be like, oh, it was a January flop.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Oh well, I would say as a whole any movie
that comes out in January, which is known as a
dumb month for movies, is hit or miss. But primarily
it's usually a comedy that's like, I don't know if
this is gonna be funny, or it's a horror movie
that I don't know if it's gonna be scary. But
when it came to one of them days, it was
really funny. It also did really well at the box office.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I laughed the whole time.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
At one point it was what like certified fresh on
Rotten Tomatoes is still yeah, a really high score.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
It got really good reviews and was also funny, So
it had a good critic score and a good audience score,
which is rare. And the movie is about two best friends.
One of their boyfriends spends their rent money on a
get rich quick scheme and then they have like eight
or ten hours to make that money back before getting evicted.
(04:08):
So it's a really simple plot drops right into it
and there's a lot of just I felt like it
had good writing. It wasn't all physical comedy.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I mean Keiki Palmer and says I also had like
incredible comedic timing.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Crazy that Sizza. This was the first time acting did
a really good job in it. And then also as
about to do the Super Bowl with Kendrick Lamar, but
she could really do it all.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I really enjoyed this one as well. I rated it
a four out of five. What did you give it?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
You give it a four point five out of five.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So close to perfect, which is really high for a
ninety minute comedy.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Listen, it was also the perfect length.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I don't need my comedies to drag on because I
feel like at a certain point you just start like
kind of regurgitating things or making them like it also
just like wasn't necessarily believable, but like then you start
really dragging on. Also got to say, mad Apatow so
funny in it.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Oh yeah, she's the person who moves into their apartment.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah. I feel like right as this movie was wrapping up,
I would found myself to think, okay, this needs to
oh and it was over.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Yeah, right, when you're like all right, you can't really
make any more jokes, you can't drag it so out.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It's like, okay, the comedy movies that always go on
a little bit too long. I always think about, speaking
of the Appatitos jut Appatol, every jet hapaite movie goes
about thirty minutes too long, especially like Super Bad forty
year Old Virgin.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
He does love it is forty.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
His film's really equivalent of when people on TikTok are like,
I have to make this video a minute to get
into the creator fund to make money off of it.
That's jut Aptel's movies. It's like I gotta make this
two hours long.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
His inability to edit himself is wild. He had made
a movie in a while, though, I feel like he's
gonna do one with all of his daughters. At this
point he only has two, all of his daughters and
his wife, which he's pretty much been putting in every
I guess he's already really done that.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, they've been in everything.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah, it's like funny people I remember them being.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Kids are making money now he doesn't need Yeah, they're fine.
She's doing Euphorium movie, Plese. They're good.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
The nepotism is strong in that family. So that's your best.
For my best, I'm gonna go with the Brutalist, and
I think it's.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Because very different the spectrum.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
It's the one that I was a little hesitant going into,
just because it was three and a half hours long,
which is a long movie. It's a flight, Oh, it
is a flight. I am now a fan of the intermission,
which I thought I wasn't going to like. I thought,
you know me, I don't like stopping down while watching
a movie. I want to go all the way through.
(06:31):
If I have to go pee, I'll go pee real
quick and I'll come back. But I thought the idea
of taking a break and then coming back to it
was gonna offset me a little bit, but it actually
like reset me.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, walk around.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I was like, I'm gonna go walk around, I'm gonna
go get a drink. I'm gonna come back and feel refreshed.
And it was about an hour and forty minutes into it,
and then we had an hour forty to go. I
think it was also the fact that they included the
fifteen minute intermission in the run time, so that three
thirty five was also including the fifteen minutes. I thought
it was gonna be fifteen on top of that.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Oh, I guess I did too.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
And I really didn't calculate the time after we got
out because it was just long in general.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Which then it would have been like four fifty plus
the ten fifteen minutes of previews. Then I was like, man,
that's gonna be like four hours and ten minutes at
the movies.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I also need to let everyone know you were very
concerned about eating before and after.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
This is how I am. Anytime we go watch a
movie in the afternoon because we love them at Nay,
I would say, what's our percentage of going to evening
movies in afternoon movies?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Fifty to fifty because we'll go a lot on opening
night on a Friday.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
On a Friday night. If not, we'll do Saturday afternoon. Sometimes,
especially with these long movies, I have to think about
when am I gonna eat, because if you go to
a movie at three that's two hours long, you're like,
I could eat a late lunch, I could eat a
early dinner.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I already don't follow a very normal eating schedule on
Saturday because I sleep in like a college student, and
so then I'm just saying, okay, I'll eat lunch and
dinner whenever. But you were like very like, okay, I
guess I eat dinner before or lunch before, and then
I guess we dinner ate when we get home. But
that puts us and I was like, I think we're
just gonna have to eat around it, and I think
it's gonna be okay. And then you were already talking
about your movie that you're gonna see this weekend, and
(08:11):
you're like, okay, i'll go at this time and then
I can eat after.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
And it's one of those things that people don't think
about until it's an issue.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
But then when we go on trips, you laugh at
me for how much time and effort I put into
looking up restaurants.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I feel differently about regular at home life than I
do in vacation. I think it's because I am that
way where I do want to plot out meals and
everything during the week or here at home that when
I'm on vacation where we're visiting a city, I want
to put that to the side and have a little
bit more spontaneity.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
But you're also a vegan. We can't go into somewhere
and then your only fould be a salad. That's the
problem I have to hear for the rest of the
day all aaight was a salad.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
So I can't win with you.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I can see where the difficulty lies. Is the situation.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Because if I don't research places and not only are
you a vegan, you like to eat, don't take like
small portions, like it takes a lot of food to
make you full.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
People have a misconception of vegans and only eating salads
and only eating like small portions. That's just because I'm
a vegan doesn't mean I eat a piece of lettuce
and I'm good for this day exactly.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
So I have to take you somewhere that has specific
like vegan meals that's not just you making a salad.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
It is hard to find hardy vegan meals.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
All right, I rest my case.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Okay, back to this movie and what my rabbit hole
of you needing to eat before.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
But I feel after watching this, I am more inclined
to any movie that decides to embrace the intermission. I
don't think people will really embrace it a whole lot
because of that break. I think movie theaters have a
hard time because then you have all the people coming
out and then they get busy again. But I think
they want to get busy again right because the line
(09:51):
to the concessions got so long after it people getting
a second round refreshers.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
But I also don't feel like a typical theater chain
set up for an intermission.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, we saw the Belcourt, smaller theater, so.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
There's only a couple movies showing.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I think it would be harder in a big theater
like for Captain America, for everybody to exit and go
to the lobby. I think it would overwhelm some people
because I think right now, even when we get there,
sometimes during peak hours, we're waiting ten to fifteen minutes
to get popcorn.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Don't even get me started on the time that that
person complained, and I almost got a fight in line.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yeah, people get they get so impatient.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
People are doing their best, they're doing their job. It's
not their fault that the person true story in front
of you ordered eighty dollars worth of snacks, A lot
of snacks. There's literally one person. They can only get
so many popcorns, they can only get so many drinks.
And then if you're like, this line hasn't moved, I've
been here for twenty minutes, then get here twenty minutes
earlier next time.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Like, I don't know, people need to relax in line.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
So I don't movies.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I don't think that an intermission would be good at
a regular theater because then everyone's gonna stand in line
for that long and then they're gonna be like, well,
now the movie's starting, and I missed it because I
took this intermission. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I feel like it's kind of the recess vibes of
like trying to wrangle everybody after reesas like come on here,
come back inside. Oh I'm still on this swing set
feral children's yeah, running around, and then you have people
maybe who would like I want to go watch another
movie and they sneak into another movie. I enjoy it.
I don't think. I don't think there's gonna be that
(11:19):
many three hour movies that warrn't an intermission. It's very
rare that we get one. It's usually one a year
that we go to. If that like last year, Oppenheimer,
I feel like Avengers.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Actually the year before last.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Oh it's twenty twenty, Tang, I'm still living in twenty
twenty four. I know those two years ago.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I know.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
So I would like to see more intermissions. I think
it would give some people because it is a daunting task,
like the Brutalist. Even though I enjoyed it, it's not
one that I'm going to recommend to people because seeing
three hours and thirty five minutes is like, I don't
want to go to that.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
But I think it did eat up most of our sun.
Yeah that's what it was, and we were like, well, Saturday's.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Over, that's it, it's cashed. Yeah, it's gone. But I
really enjoyed it. I'm glad we spent the time to
watch it. I'm still not rooting for it to win
Best Picture. I still am leaning on wanting the substance
to do really well, but now I can appreciate a
little more. Moving on now to our worst, I think
(12:19):
we might have the same worst movie of the month.
What do you have?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Should we say it together? On the kind of three.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yeap want two?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Three?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Back back in Action? It is the family action comedy
with Cameron Diaz and Jamie Fox.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Which only three of those snow, guys, Yeah, this.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Is I think that's what hurt this movie the most
for me is we just had this with Mark Wahlberg.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
The Family Plan, same movie, same same movie, different cast.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
So essentially they were spies agents fifteen years ago. They
went on this mission. They got double crossed. There's a
plane exploding, everybody thinks they die, but they survive and
go into hiding. But there was this key that everybody
wanted that could control all these weapons. And then they
go into hiding, start a family in the suburbs and
(13:05):
live the lame adult parent life I guess, and then
they get sucked back in to go back in action.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I gotta say, Cameron Diaz came out of retirement for this.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
She well you know why she came out of retirement.
Netflix paid her forty five million dollars, not just for
this movie. I think it's two maybe three movies. She
signed this big deal forty five million dollars. I would
come out of retirement for forty five million dollars.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
She's absolutely come out of retirement.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I don't think she's done a movie in ten fifteen years.
And she has worked with Jamie Fox before, so that
was part of it as well. But you gotta come
out of retirement for this. And the reason Netflix spends
that amount of money is because she is a big
name and the movie was number one on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
And I mean we watched it.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
We did, And I think that's what you pay for
is that most people who have a Netflix account, they
see Cameron Diaz and Jamie Fox pop up there and
I thought, no, you're probably gonna watch it. You might
not like it in this case, really didn't like it.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
But you're gonna watch it.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
And I guess there is power in that. I guess
that's all they want is people to click it, watch it.
For the most part, they want people to complete it.
That's like the big way that they sell things, like
you need that completion rate, you need people to start it,
but also watch it for a certain amount of time.
And I guess you'd get that with this movie. But
if I would have seen this movie in theaters, I
would have revolted.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yet this is not a theater movie, and it's weird that.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
It kind of walks that line of being a little
bit more like bloody action shoot them up, and then
scaling it back to like their kids, it's kind of
a family movie. It just fell all over the place,
and I just thought her character and Jamie Foxx's character
overall were a little bit annoying.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
I mean, I love Cameron Diaz, and I feel like
I would watch anything like.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
I really only watched it because I was excited to
see her.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
That's really why I cared about it as well, because
I haven't really seen her. I mean, yeah, nobody's seen
and anything in a while, and I wanted to know
what brought her out of retirement, same way with Jim Carrey,
the thing that brought him at a retirement, So not
like the Hedgehog. I think it's just money at this point.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yeah, But then I was watching some like interviews with her,
and I was reminded, like super rich celebrities like that,
sometimes they just go down these like unrelatable tangents like
they were like, what's your morning routine? And she was
talking about the special coffee that she drinks because it's
not full of like mold and pesticides and how most
coffees are terrible for you. And I was like, just,
(15:29):
I don't know, let a girl drink her an espresso,
or let someone drink their Folgers or their cug Like,
stop with the mold and the pesticides in the coffee.
Like that's so unrelatable. It's probably like thirty dollars a coup.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I forget that she's married to Benji Madden from Good Charlotte.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
And then that makes her in laws Nicole Ritchie and
Joel Madden, and then her sister in law's father is
Lionel Richie, and.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Then yeah, it's a whole this whole thing. It's a
very famous lineage.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
That's the thing you're great at that I'm not. You know,
celebrity relationships.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I've been reading people magazines since I could read, so
like the age of five.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Like I can connect what actors were and what movies
and directors, But when it comes to relationships, I'm like, oh,
I don't know. You have to remind me about the
guy who's married to the Mumford and sons guy every time, the.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Girl that's married to the girl, Yeah, Carrie Mulligan. And
what is his first name?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Mumford Marcus Marcus Mumford, Yes, and sons Yes.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I can tell you which celebrities have dated. I can
tell you which celebrities have kids together. I can tell
you which celebrity is dated that celebrities brother. It is
a skill. I actually I was working out today and
an old Acon song was on in the bathroom and
I like still knew it word for word. And I
turned around and looked another girl, and I was like,
do you wonder, like how much more productive we would
(16:43):
be as a society if we didn't all just have
these like random lyrics. Still like I knew every word
word for word, could like wrap the middle part of it.
I was like, it was a song dangerous Bacon.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
My favorite Acon song. Nobody want to see to get it.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
But I was just like, Wow, if I could free
up the celebrity knowledge, Yeah, I do love a celebrity
love triangle or a NEPO family.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
We were talking earlier about staying in more in January,
and there was one day in January where I watched
six movies collectively. I think we watched maybe three together.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
We watched three feature films during Glenpell.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, it was a Glenn Pale day, Glenn Pell day.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
But I wrote it down. The sixth movie Saturday took
place on January eleventh.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Yes, and the first after the first week back at work. Yeah,
I just worked Fridays. I can't do.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I need a chill for this day.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Please.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Here's what I say when it comes to watching a
lot of movies, just pick the movies before you want
to set a movie. They just pick the movies, because
right now, I think we are overwhelmed with having so
many options. If you just get on Netflix with no
direction whatsoever, you're gonna end up either not watching anything,
or watching something that you don't like.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Or watching something you've already seen because you just go
back to the comfort movie.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
So I made a list of the movies I wanted
to watch, and then you had a list. We combined
that and just once once ended, we started the next one. Yeah,
that's the way to do it. Just have a plan
and then commit yourself. This also probably works a lot
better if you are either single or don't have kids.
But this is an uninterrupted six movie Saturday. It started
(18:22):
out with Amelia Perez, which was the first movie I watched,
and I was like, I'm gonna watch this one because
I don't really have expectations. People have been saying it's terrible,
but I know it's going to be nominated for a
bunch of awards, so I had to in my head
get it out of the way. I ended up enjoying
it aside from the musical parts. I gave it a
three out of five. My biggest problem with Amelia Perez
(18:43):
it just doesn't feel Mexican because the director is not Mexican,
didn't really do a whole lot of research. Aside from
some scenes that look like Mexico, there just wasn't that
feeling of like, oh, this feels like a true Mexican,
authentic story. And I think for me wanting to see
my culture, wanting this my people on a big scale.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
In a bit, it was just about the cartel, but
it was just about like the bad part people. It's
just a car like Tel.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
You could do a movie about the cartel like Zacario,
Like I feel like that was more Mexico than this movie.
But I just want to see us taking a little
bit more seriously when it comes to critically acclaimed films
and seeing everybody just kind of drag this movie. It's like, Oh,
we finally got one, and it's one that people don't
want to win, that they hate the fact that it
has so many nominations. But I don't think it's as
(19:29):
bad as everybody is saying. It's not for the musical part.
Musical part I just can't get past. But that was
the first movie of this day. Next up, I watched
Wallace and Grommet's Most Foul. I gave that one a
three point five out of five.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
It's also Oscar nominated.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
All of the Wallace and Grommet movies and Chicken Run movies.
Everything that's claimation just reminds me of being an elementary school.
This one kind of had to do with AI a
little bit. Wallace is the dude, Grommet is the not
the with the dog, and Wallace has made this invention
that it's like this gnome who can do a bunch
(20:06):
of landscaping and essentially takes away jobs from Grommet, so
he doesn't like the AI nome. And then the AI
Nome gets hacked by a super villain and they got
to clear their name.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Thank you for that.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Very in depth synopsis of Willison Grammet.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Because it's a family children's movie.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
But I AI know, yeah, sound very family friendly.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
That replaces people. But I gave that one a three
point five out of five. Next up, also on Netflix.
These have all been Netflix movies. I watched Subservience, which
is also having to do with AI. It is Megan.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Fox, who oh yeah, I came in at the end
of that one.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Kind of weird, and she is an AI robot. It's
about this guy who his wife comes down with this
sudden illness. She's in the hospital, so he gets this
AI robot to help around the house, take care of
the kids, do the dishes, cook and do all those things.
But then and she starts to become attracted to him,
and it's all like this weird love triangle between a
(21:05):
dude AI and his real wife. I'm out, Yeah, overall
not what I was expecting, although I guess I don't
really expect a whole lot from anything with Megan Fox
right now.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
She just sospired.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I really liked her in movies like of Course Transformers,
Jennifer's body. Yeah, but this was just not it. It
kind of felt like she needed to make some money
here probably, And right now she's like about to have
a baby with MGK and they're not speaking. Yeah, you
imagine that, about to have a kid with somebody and
you just won't speak to them.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
A weird circle back to that of degrees of separation
her she was with Brian Oilson Greens Now with Sharna's
Bobby's partner on Dancing with the Stars, which you know, Sharna,
So you're like two degrees one degree of separation away
from Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
But I gave subservience a two point five out of
five and then we began the Glen run. What did
we watch first?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Top Gun two, which is still great. Yeah, we hadn't
seen it since we saw it in theaters. Yeah, holds up.
Still awesome.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
And a big part of seeing Top Gun two in
theaters was seeing it on the big screen and feeling
like I was a part of the action because that's
how they filmed it, Like all the flight scenes of
like the camera angles like on the wings, they were
actually doing some of the flying, some of their own stunts.
I feel like that's still translated watching it at home,
(22:26):
and I kind of forgot just how good the story
is overall and how much I still believe it is
better than Top Gun one because it's a much different
story seeing an older Maverick kind of looking back on
those days and seeing him with like the new cast,
and the entire relationship between what's dude's name.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Uh, Rooster, Rooster Goose's son.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
That whole dynamic I found more enjoyable, and I thought
I had a little bit more emotion. So of course
you have to have the first one to get to
this second one. But if I had to go back
and rewatch one again, I'm still going Top Gun two.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Also, I forgot that what Monica Barbaro isn't it? And
she is Oscar nominated for a complete unknown.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Yeah, when we saw her, I was like, isn't it
weird when you see a movie completely forget an actor,
isn't it?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Until they're in something else where they have a little
bit more of a prominent role. Even though she had
a pretty good role in this that you go back like, oh,
she wasn't in it too. I also felt that Glenn
Powell's role was a little bit more substantial than I remembered.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Yeah, I don't really think.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I didn't really have my finger on the pulse of
who Glenn Powell was when that movie came out.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
That was my mistake.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
And I think that's where he and Tom Cruise kind
of bonded.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yeah, so now he gets the Tom Cruise coconut cake
at Christmas.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
All he gets that does a famous cake. And I
think maybe because of them working together on this movie
could be the reason that he takes overform Mission Impossible,
if that's the direction they end up going in.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Tom Cruise came to like the London Twisters premiere, I
think like they're pals.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yeah, I stand by my rating of that. I might
have rated it higher the second time around. I give
it a four point five out of five. All right
after that, we watched Anyone but you listen. I don't
know why people hated it so much. When it first
came out, people hated it. I don't remember all that.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Yeah, and then when like the like kind of promotion
of it on TikTok went Okay, people didn't like it
at first when it came out.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Yeah, it came out kind of subtly in theaters, and
it was all the things surrounding it that ramped up
people checking it out, and then.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
They did a re release of it for Valentine's Day
last year, put it.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Back in theaters, and then kind of blew up again
once it went on to Netflix. So it's a movie
that's kind of had three different lives.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I also, and we've talked about this, I think Sidney
Sweeney is so smart. I think she is much smarter
than Hollywood gives her credit for.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Because this was a Sony movie and essentially her kind
of forming that relationship with Sony because she ended up
doing Madame Web. I feel like that was a business decision.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Oh she's even said it was.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
And now she has more movies coming out with Sony,
so I.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Deal with them.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Yeah, She's very smart and like she kind of drove
the like once one rumor spread online about her and Glynn,
even though she's engaged to someone else and nothing went
on between them, she was like, Okay, let's use this
to our advantage and let's market it that way.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Smart and then they did the whole.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I was saying, it's my favorite moment of SNL when
she hosted and she did her monologue, and she was like, yeah,
you know, like people thought and affa're with my co star,
but I'm like happily engaged my fiancees here and then
they like pan out to what you think is gonna
be your fiance in the audience.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
It's in. It's Glenn Palell. Funny, great chemistry between the
two of them. Amazing rom com. So haring back to
the rom com.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I also think that her role in Madame Web didn't
really hurt her a whole lot.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
No, she everyone was just kind of like, oh, you
were in this. It was more in to code Jhansi
at the front.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
But anyone but you is an instant rom com classic.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
It is so hard to make a good rom com
now because they're always predictable, they're always a little bit cheesy.
And this one, for me, I enjoyed it in theaters
and I enjoyed watching it again. And it has that
rewatchable factor which any good rom com does. You're supposed
to be able to watch a rom com ten times
and still enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
The way they meet in the coffee shop, so cute,
great rom com moment.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
The thing you can't fake and you can't fabricate. You
can't use AI to create is chemistry, and they have
great chemistry. That's how you sell a rom com I.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
And we'll talk about this in the next movie that
we watched.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
I'm convinced he could have chemistry with just about anyone
these days.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I wondered that about some actors, like are you such
a good actor, then no matter who is standing across
from you, you can have chemistry.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
With Sidney Sweeney. Next one we're about to talk about
I'm what' spoiled that? Yep, Daisy Edgar Jones. Ten out
of ten chemistry across the board.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
It just sucks you in. But that's anyone but you.
We still watched it on Netflix, right, I think most
of these were Netflix except for Top Gun. Top Gun
we did have to purchase.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
We ran to rent it, and I really had to
convince you to spend those four dollars. I had to
convince you so hard that I was like, oh, I
have a dollar fifty digital credit from Amazon for telling
them they could deliver a package later.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah, dang, I didn't realize these were all on Netflix.
But the final movie in our six movie Saturday was
Set it Up, which you hadn't seen what is this
movie about. It is a rom com. It is Glenn
Powell and Zoe I think it's Deutsch.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Uh. Lucy Lou and Tay Diggs and Glenn and Zoe
are assistants. Lucy and Tay or the bosses, and they
like set up their bosses, but then of course they
in the process fall for each other.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
They gotta set it up.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
It's so cute. The writing is good. I think it
is such an underrated rom com.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
This was one that was always like pitched to me.
You know how Netflix does different thumbnails for different people. Yes,
the way they tried to sell me and get me
to click on it is they put Pete Davidson's face
as the thumbnail.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Oh yeah, because he's his roommate, which he's like a.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Side character, has maybe like three four scenes overall. But
Netflix does that. They'll be like, Okay, this is a
male in his thirties, he's.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Problems a lot of comedies.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
He probably likes Pete Davidson, Let's put him on the thumbnail.
If this movie was trying to be pitched to you
on your Netflix account, they probably put Glenn Powell.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
It was Glenn Anzoey.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah, they put them. Oh yeah, they sell the romance factor.
So it's interesting the way they do that. They'll take
anybody from the cast and think, what does this demographic?
What would they want to watch? And they change those
thumbnails And it could be deceptive a little bit because
I probably didn't click it because I thought, like, why
is Pete Davidson in this movie? And it told me
nothing about it?
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Yeah you really go, yeah, Pete Davidson's in this I
was like, I don't remember that.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
And that was the main selling point for me. Again,
this is a rom com that I feel was very predictable.
But even the fact that I knew what was coming,
you can tell it from the very beginning, like what
it's going to happen with these two characters. I still
enjoyed getting there.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
The writing was so good we laughed out loud. It's
so many points.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Yeah, there's a funny side character, the janditor guy who
worked in the basement. This is a great character.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
They call me creepy Tim.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
That's another thing, like how many movies do we watch
now that we quote?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Not very many. I did the thing.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah, there's what was the one about goofing off?
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Time?
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Oh, I was gonna say it, but it's kind of curse.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Is that a cur I'll quack you?
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Okay, He's like, I overdicked around.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Oh that's not a curse word.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Well I wasn't sure.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Like I don't know if someone's listening with their kid
in the car and they don't want their kid going
to school, being like, sorry, I'm later overdicked around.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
But it's whenever they're like, oh, I have three hours,
so yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
She's doing that. She's like I was killing time and
then she's like I killed too much time.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Yeah, I know how that is. Sometimes, Like I'll get
to a place too early and I'm like, all right,
I'm gonna kill some time and watch some TikTok and
then I'm like, oh crap, it's no longer too early.
But yeah, that was me over dicking around. I love
this movie. I give it a four out of five,
which I think is pretty strong for a Netflix rom com.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I feel good about that because I have convinced you
to watch it.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
So cause when I think Netflix rom com, I think
of them putting out things like the Reese Witherspoon and
Ashton Kutcher rom com that was terrible and talk about
people who don't have any chemistry whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Speaking of which, we're about to watch her next comedy
that just came out.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
We'll see how that goes. But that movie was a dud.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
That movie was a dud. Yeah, and they didn't even
like film it in the same place. Yeah, you're right,
they could have had better chemistry at the door.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
But that is our best and worst in our big
Saturday movie Extravaganza. Do you have anything else you want
to add? You usually do a.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Book and TV show, Yeah, oh the TV show. Well,
you do a joint TV show which is Slow Horses.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Which we watched season one and devoured it, really enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
We thought there were more than six episodes that it
was a little disappointing, but I like the six episodes
season and that is the Apple model. I should have known.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
It's less intimidating, it gets right to the point, and
then it's all wrapped up in a nice little package
by episode six, and then you move on to the
next season.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
I'm glad we're behind on the show because season four
just premiered last fall, so we have some touching up
to do.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Well.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
We just good.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
We love that one. I am so close to finishing
Dragon Ball Super. There are one hundred and thirty one episodes.
I am on one thirteen or fourteen right now, so close.
And the reason that there's a fire under my butt
is because Hulu was about to get rid of all
their Dragon Ball stuff, and I think they worked out
a deal and it's going to stick around. But that
kind of ignited me to It was my goal to
(31:16):
finish it last year, but now I'm probably within a
week or two of finishing it because it's great.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Yeah. And then my solo show is The Pit on.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
HBO Max with uh Noah Wiley who was Doctor Carter
on Er and I've sat on here before. That ar
is my comfort show and it's a very strange comfort show.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Love it.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
The theme song just like zends me out, even though
it's chaotic show, which you don't like. When I watch
it and bed at night when you've already gone to sleep,
because you're like the beeping of the people talking the
medical jargon.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
It's stressful to try to go to sleep too, so
the like blood Scalball and I'm like, I'm trying to
go to sleep.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Man.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
The Pit is on HBO and it I think it's
going to be fifteen episodes and each episode is an
hour in this er, so each episode is like seven
to eight, eight to nine.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Really good. I just love seeing him back on my TV.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
And then your book.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Chan was kind of a dud month.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
It's a slow month all around.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Best Well, I'm rereading Harry Potter, so nothing tops that.
But I did read Ina Garten's memoir Be Ready When
the Lock Happens. Read it in a day just today,
sat down to read it before dinner, and then we
watched We ate dinner, we watched TV, and then I
got in bed.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
And finished it.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
And her life is very fascinating, like how she came
to be the Barefoot Contessa.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
I had no clue.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
I don't really follow any like food celebrities. That's not
the realm of celebrity that I'm in or into. But yeah,
I thought it was great, so I would recommend that.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Speaking of Harry Potter, next week we are doing our
rewatch and re ranking episode. We rewatched all eight movies.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I spoiler, we've already recorded it. I think it might
be one of the funniest episodes.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
It's Yeah, if you love Harry Potter, we'll give you
an early spoiler running now. If you have time, go
watch Harry Potter movies if you have it, because we're
going to talk about them in depth.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Yeah, and there you'll have to tune in and find
out if our marriage survives that episode.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
I don't feel like everybody's watched them. Who's gonna watch
them at this point, So I don't know if I
need to give a spoiler warning. We talk about everything, yeah,
but that is coming next week, and I'll come back
right now and talk about Presence. Let's get into it now.
A spoiler free movie review of Presence. This was a
movie that had me by the trailer what this movie
(33:32):
is about. Family moves into a house, figure out the
house is haunted. We've been here before time and time again.
But how Presence is different The way this movie set
itself apart, the way it sold itself in the trailer
and all the marketing. Instead of seeing it from the
family's point of view, you see it from the demonic
presence point of view, which I thought was fascinating. When
(33:52):
I saw the trailer, I initially thought that director Steven
Sodenberg had like a drone going in this house because
the camera just kind of levitates through every room, it
goes up the stairs, it comes back down very quickly
at moments where you see this demonic presence kind of
take over the screen starts shaking. I thought that was
such a unique and fascinating way to capture a movie
(34:16):
like this, And I love the house's haunted genre. Whenever
the house is haunted, I'm in. So that is why
I was excited going into this movie. I also love
movies that are made on a really low budget. This
entire movie costs two million dollars to make, and it
feels like that. I also kind of feel like you
have to know that it's only a two million dollar
movie going into it, because I think some people set
(34:39):
different standards, and I know you're still paying the same
ticket price, But when you go into something knowing that
it does have a lower budget and it's relying more
on the creativity of the filmmaker, I feel like you
have to judge it a little bit differently. And for me,
I also kind of have to remember that horror movies
don't always have to be scary every single time, and
(35:00):
I think if you look just in the last year
of how impactful scary movies in the horror genre of band.
I know people call them scary movies, people call horror movies.
They have been the most ambitious in their plots and
their style of filmmaking. That is where I think the
most original stories are coming from right now, because I
think you could have a lot of fun inside of
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this genre. It's one that doesn't take itself too seriously.
If you don't go into every horror movie expecting it
to be scary and considering it a failure when it's
not scary, I think you're setting yourself up for more
just good times while watching horror movies. Because I really
think when it comes to the horror genre, it doesn't
(35:41):
mean I'm gonna go in here and there's gonna be
a bunch of frightening things and I'm gonna have nightmares.
I think you're going into something thinking stuff is gonna
go down in this movie. There is gonna be something
wrong that is not normal. That's kind of how I
see the horror genre now. There is something creepy going on,
There's something not quite of this world happening. That is
what I'm going into every horror movie thinking now and
(36:04):
kind of losing that mentality that we probably all gained
with the slasher films of the eighties and nineties and
a lot of the found footage horror movies from the
two thousands, everything that The Rings started in, all the
paranormal activity movies. I think horror is becoming so much
more creative. Look at movies like The Substance, look at
(36:24):
movies like Long Legs and Just The Last Year and Presence.
Although what it put in the same category of those movies,
it is still a movie that reminds me how beautiful
filmmaking is. Like the director of this movie, Steven Sodenberg,
would just walk around the house with this small camera,
not a big fancy camera. The movie felt very raw,
(36:46):
and it's not really intended to be a found footage movie,
but it felt like there was no lighting, and I
was like, how did they achieve this? Like how did
they get these scenes to look just right? And I
was right, there wasn't a big fancy crew to this movie.
It was really just him walking around with the camera.
I think at times he just had slippers on. He
would go as quietly as possible and these one shot
(37:08):
swoops to get this image that felt like you were
floating through the house. That you were that demonic presence,
so you, yourself, as the viewer, are kind of the demon
in this movie. It was incredibly intimate. Now, when it
comes to how much of the horror story this actually was,
I think the trailer did over sell it a little
(37:28):
bit because by the looks of this trailer it even
looked darker. The trailer itself had a much darker color
grade than the actual movie did, so I feel like
it was a little bit misleading. Even some of the
shots they chose to use made it seem like Stelf
was going to go down way more than it actually did.
(37:49):
It wasn't so much that this presence was ruining the
life of the family. I think my favorite case of
that has to be in the last fifteen years the conjury,
like that presence in that house was ruining the life
of that family. In this case, the presence was really
just observing this family, messing with them a little bit,
like you see in the trailer, But it was just
inhabiting this house and allowing you to see into the
(38:12):
life of this family. So I felt a little bit
misled just because it was a little bit more of
a family drama. You have Lucy Liu, who I feel
was the biggest name and also the strongest actor in
this movie. You also have Chris Sullivan, who you probably
know from This Is Us. They are parents to two
teenage kids. They are going through a very rough time
in their life. This purchase of this new house is
(38:35):
supposed to reset their life. Their teenage daughter just went
through something pretty traumatic by losing one of her best friends,
and all the details about how her friend died slowly
creep out through the story. And it's really just a
story about grief. It's a story about family, it's a
story about just dealing with awful things. And then on
(38:55):
top of that, you have the presence lurking here. So
really that was the focal point of this movie. That
was the story. The present itself was just the fourth
character there to observe it all and to really bring
the audience in. You really don't get a first big
scare until about thirty minutes into the movie, and every
other time that it happens, it's very calculated. Now. When
(39:18):
it came to the acting, I was a little bit
caught off guard. Lucy lewis perfect. I thought she completely
nailed her role. She by far showed that she is
the most seasoned actor in this movie, but everybody else
felt a little bit of a downgrade compared to her,
and I think that was intentional. I want to believe
that that was intentional because I think the story was
(39:39):
really trying to capture this family living in the suburbs,
interacting the way you would with your brother, with your sister,
with your mom and your dad. So I want to
feel that they chose this cast and chose the dialogue
as a way to represent that. You also have to
think that this movie only took eleven days to make,
which I felt that too, not in a bad way,
(39:59):
but you can can tell that it feels a little
bit more like a short story than your average feature
link film, which is why this movie is only an
hour and twenty minutes. And the other thing I did
enjoy about it that I felt this movie showed that
other haunted house movies don't quite get right, which, of course,
you always have to live in a big house. It's
never gonna be in an apartment. It's never gonna be
in a trailer park like where I grew up, because
(40:22):
that just doesn't work. That's just not scary. I don't
feel like there are enough rooms and twists and turns
that you could do. In those types of houses, it
always has to be a big house. So they still
had the big house in this movie, but there was
a moment where the family actually had to react to
realizing that there was something going on in the house,
(40:43):
and they actually reacted in a way that I think
a normal family would, because in most haunted house movies,
whenever things start to go down, there's always that one
big like, oh crap, this is actually a thing. For
the most part, those movies cut there and they come
back the very next day without address what happens after that.
This movie actually showed that that you would actually be
(41:04):
freaked out. You would not be wanting to stay in
this house, You would be questioning everything. I thought it
was cool to address that situation of how do you
sleep after this? How do you even feel comfortable in
this home you just bought after you just experienced something
so creepy. It reminded me of when I lived in
what I thought, at least at the time was a
haunted apartment. There was only ever one place I lived
(41:27):
in that I truly felt was haunted, where I had
these really weird vivid nightmares that it felt like at
times somebody was sitting on my chest, like I was
suffering from sleep paralysis. There were other things that happened
that were really weird, like one time my brother was
in the kitchen making dinner and the light fixture from overhead,
like that big glass thing you put over a light bulb,
(41:47):
fell right on his head. That thing could never move.
I don't think we even changed the light bulb at
that point. There was no reason for that thing to fall,
and we kind of stood there in silence, thinking like
that could have knocked me out. That could have been
really bad. But there were all these little things that
sometimes it just felt like there was something watching me.
And I remember one time sleeping in this apartment where
(42:09):
I swore there was like a dark figure up in
the corner just watching me as I slept in the
living room on a mattress that I slept in because
I didn't have a bedroom. I just slept on the floor.
So maybe I was an easy target. So I have
to give this movie a lot of credit for creativity.
This is the type of movie that excites me before
I even step foot in that theater. I was genuinely
(42:31):
excited to see this story unfold. I'm just happy that
stuff like this can not only still get made but
be seen in theaters across the country. And it's already
made five million dollars, so it's made back its production
costs and a little bit on top. And I think
it's these types of stories that are going to pave
the way for smaller directors. And this is kind of
(42:52):
where that sweet spot is. If you can make a
low budget movie and create an impact, that is where creativity,
That is where filmmaking is going to contin you to rise,
where studios aren't taking risks on fifty to sixty to
one hundred million dollar movies that come back and make
ten to fifteen million dollars at the box office. And
I think the other thing, aside from just creating a spectacle,
(43:15):
when it comes to kind of flipping the script on
a story we've seen before, it was genuinely making characters
that you started to feel for, and it was through
the process of putting that camera in places where you
don't normally expect it and seeing things through the eyes
of somebody that's not supposed to be there. This movie
is also exciting to me because I could think of
(43:37):
me at maybe twelve thirteen years old, at a time
where I was like, I want to be a film director.
If I saw a movie like this, this would inspire me,
much like movies like Halloween Paranormal Activity inspired me in
the past, because it feels like just somebody with creativity
and an idea, not a big fancy camera, not a
(43:58):
big fancy crew, just that vision and that intent to
want to make something creative that people are going to
be talking about. People are good to want to see
by somebody who just genuinely cares about the filmmaking process.
That is inspiring to me. For presents, I give it
three point five out of five suburban homes. It's time
(44:20):
to head down to movie. Mike Traylor paus There is
a fine line between running out of ideas and being innovative.
That is how I feel about the new movie called Drop.
It is a horror movie about air dropping. You know,
when you send a file to somebody like here's some pictures,
let me air drop it to you. I love air dropping.
(44:41):
Air dropping has made my life so easy. But you
always think about sometimes when I'm on a plane, I'll
turn on my air drop and see all the people
around me. I think a couple of times people have
tried to air drop me something and I never accept
it because it's probably gonna be something dirty. But what
this movie is about, you have made he who plays
a widowed mom. She goes out on a first date.
(45:03):
She's very nervous about it. She meets the guy at
the bar, who is also nervous. He is good looking.
They're both like, oh, we're both so nervous. They sit
down to have dinner at this fancy restaurant I'm talking
super fancy restaurant, having conversation, and she looks down at
her phone and she gets this mysterious air drop and
it's a meme. It's the guy like rubbing his hands together.
(45:25):
He's wearing like a suit, and it says planning the
worst night of your life. Thinks nothing of it. But
then the air drops keep coming, They get more threatening,
ramps up to an entirely different level, and suddenly she
is faced with this dilemma, which we'll get into here
in a second. But before I do, I want to
play the trailer and then talk about some red flags
that I'm seeing based on it. But here is the
(45:47):
trailer to drop.
Speaker 2 (45:49):
Okay, somebody sent me.
Speaker 4 (45:50):
This thumb kids trying to match with you. We can
figure this out. I think you gotta be within fifty
feet to send a drop. So someone in the restaurant file.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
Okay, So what she got on those air drops. The
person on the other side of them basically told her
you can't tell anybody, and if you do, I'm gonna
murder your family. Because the person on the other side
of the air drops tells her to open up her
home security app. When she does, she sees her family
there who had a babysitter. Then you see the guy
in the hooded mask with a gun, and the air
(46:35):
drops get more and more threatening, ultimately giving her the
decision that in order for her to save her family,
her young son, and her sister, she has to kill
her date. And not only that, she can't tell the
date anything that's going on. She can't tell anybody in
the restaurant. So before I get to the things that
I don't like, let's talk about the positive, the things
(46:56):
that I do like. This movie is coming to us
from Blumhouse. It is produced by Jason Blum, who has
done movies like Five Knights at Freddy's. Megan It's also
being produced by Michael Bay, who did, of course the
Transformers movies. He produced a Quiet Place franchise. It is
from director Christopher Landon, who did a movie in twenty
twenty I like with Vince Vaughn called Freaky. He's also
(47:19):
probably most famous from the two Death Day movies. He
has a very distinct style, and it's really starting to
show outside of that franchise in this movie. I do
like how it starts out as a rom com and
then quickly shifts tones the problem. Okay, I don't want
to get to the negative, yet I do want to
continue with the positive. I think this movie does look
(47:41):
like a fun ride. It reminds me of the movie
we just had in December, carry On. This is essentially
carry On, but in a restaurant, on a first date.
Carry On was essentially die Hard, but in an airport.
Think about this movie carry On. Anything with a ridiculous
premise like this, I always say to myself, why wouldn't
(48:02):
I just not respond to it? I get a weird
air drop, just don't look at it, delete it, decline
And I know, I know if you did that, you
wouldn't have a movie. But it just seems a little
bit ridiculous. You start getting all these weird air drops
and you're like, oh no, I have to open this
during a date too, sitting there having a conversation from
somebody that just five minutes ago you were so attracted to,
(48:26):
and now you're like, well, let's see what's going on
my phone. Oh my god, just don't look at your phone.
Everybody put your phones down and enjoy each other's company,
have your nice meal. But again, if you did that,
you wouldn't have a movie, and I wouldn't have anything
to talk about the whole other issue. But I do
enjoy the fact that this looks like a movie that
would be fun to see in theaters. I feel like
(48:48):
this movie sparks maybe a healthy amount of anxiety when
it comes to this type of horror movie, which is
probably a little bit more digestible for people. The person
who actually turned me on to this trailer was ke Elsey,
who said, I don't like horror movies, but this is
actually one that I would consider going to see in
theaters because it doesn't look like it's going to be
too violent, and now it's gonna lead me to the
(49:10):
things I don't like about this trailer. The reason it
doesn't look like it's gonna be too violent is the
fact that it is PG thirteen, and I think you
can walk that line between horror and thriller and suspense
in a PG thirteen rating, and there are some elements
of action. It seems like that's probably the Michael Bay
influence where you see her at the end holding on
(49:34):
to dear life about a fallout of this high story restaurant,
which is another thing that I would say I'm a
little bit hesitant about that.
Speaker 5 (49:43):
You watch this trailer and you've pretty much seen the
entire movie. I think the fact that they even put
in that shift change from rom com to horror movie
and then show you.
Speaker 1 (49:55):
The advance in all the air drops and then show
you basically the entire thing act of her hanging out
of the restaurant, it kind of shows you every step
of the process that she's going to go through. So
if you don't want to go see this movie in
theaters and you want a movie in about two and
a half minutes, you can go watch it on YouTube.
Doesn't mean it's not enjoyable. Just because the movie shows
(50:17):
you the entire plot doesn't mean that going on that
ride is going to be any less fun. I feel
as a whole this movie already looks very predictable, so
I don't think they were trying to sell you one
thing and give you something else in theaters. So those
are probably the two things that I don't like about
the trailer. And the movie is an hour and forty
(50:39):
six minutes, so it's probably not gonna waste a whole
lot of time. I do feel like that's maybe fifteen
minutes too long for a movie that I kind of
already know all the beats that's going to go through.
I just feel like this is a movie that should
be a tight ninety minutes to really have its true
impact and then not have you questioning a whole lot
about well, why did they do this and why did
(50:59):
they do this? It just has that feeling to me.
I just feel that I'm going to be screaming at
the screen for a majority of this movie. But again,
the movie is called Drop. It's coming out in theaters
on October eleven.
Speaker 4 (51:11):
Geez.
Speaker 2 (51:12):
And that was this week's edition of Movie Line tram
or Bar and.
Speaker 1 (51:16):
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 TikTok and I'm shouting out Graham who
left a comment on my last TikTok where I was
talking about the use of AI and art while doing
my Brutalist review from the last week's episode, and Graham said,
(51:37):
you make a fair point, but I don't think people
are saying that the AI usage in the Brutalist is
all that egregious, which if you don't know, that word
means shocking. I'm not acting like I'm really smart here.
I had to look that up. Back to the comment,
he said, they are more concerned about the precedent. If
viewers don't take a strong stance now, Hollywood will just
keep using a little more and a little more until
(51:59):
it roos ruins the industry, which was the point I
made in that review as well. So I appreciate you,
Graham for sharing your thoughts. I said that eventually somebody
is going to abuse it. I mean, you feel like
some of these superhero movies, there have been cases where
they have taken actors' faces and impose them on other
(52:19):
people's bodies where that person wasn't even there for the reshoots.
Yet they use this technology to put them there, and
you call it special lot. Thanks, but you really use
a lot of AI to map out their face. It's
kind of the same thing. So I feel like we
are getting a little bit too worried of something that
hasn't fully happened yet. Like I said, we'll cross that
(52:41):
bridge when we get there. I think there is a
place for it. I just worry, kind of like you, Graham,
about people getting lazy and just using it for the
sake of Oh, we need to make this movie cheaper,
we need to make it quicker, use AI and get
it out the door, get it in theaters and get
people's money. That'll be a problem. So I appreciate that.
Thank you Graham for listening. Thank you, hell everybody for
listening to this week's episode. Until next time, go out
(53:04):
and watch good movies and I will talk to you later.
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