February 10, 2025 • 52 mins
Mike and Kelsey rewatched all 8 Harry Potter movies and broke down the entire franchise from 2 different types of HP fan. Mike ranks all of the moves from his least to most favorite, most memorable character deaths and most iconic moments. In the Movie Review, Mike talks about Anora. It’s a story about a young woman from Brooklyn, who gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and marries the son of an oligarch. Mike talks about why it won’t win for Best Picture, why Anora is the character of the year, its explicit use of nudity and why it’s more of a real life depiction of the events of Pretty Woman. In the Trailer Park, Mike talks about Sinners. It reteams Michael B. Jordan with his "Black Panther", "Creed", and "Fruitvale Station" director Ryan Coogler. The film follows twin brothers who are trying to leave their troubled past behind them as they return to their hometown for a fresh start. Unfortunately, an even greater evil is waiting for them there.
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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 by my wife and
co host Kelsey. It is the Harry Potter episode. We
rewatched all eight movies. I reranked them. We're gonna be
very passionate about this because you are a huge Harry
Potter fan.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I am.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
I am a huge fan of the movies, but I
haven't read the books, and I did want to say
spoiler warning because the last movie is over ten years old.
But we go into all the details, all the deaths.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I was gonna say, we'll talk about every single death.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
So if for some reason you haven't watched Harry Potter
and don't want to hear all that, I will just
say spoiler warning. But I feel for the most part,
everybody you've seen these movies, so they're fair game to
talk about it.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And if you're not gonna watch it before now, you're probably.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Not gonna Yeah, you're probably just like not for me, But.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Still listen to the episode because we do get into
some disagreements about how we feel about certain parts of
the movie.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
In the movie review, I'll be talking about Honora, which
has some Oscar nominations, and then in the trailer park
talk about the new Michael B. Jordan movie where he
plays him well, not himself, but he plays two versions
of himself.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
That trailer it freak.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
You're like, why are there two of him?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Well, and I thought it was a commercial. Came undering
football and I was like, is this commercial?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Oh, I know it's a movie.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
And then you you told me we saw the trailer
in theaters. I'm not believing that we did.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
We saw when we went to go see one of
their Days.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I don't believe you.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
But anyway, the movie is called Sinners. I'll get into why.
I think that movie looks really good. So thank you
for being here, Thank you for being subscribed. Shout out
to the Monday Morning Matt.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Just leave that in.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I'll leave it in. Shout out to the Monday Morning
Movie crew. And now let's talk movies.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And if anyone has ever wondered what it's like to
work from home when Mike records in his office, it
is very difficult.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
It sounds just like that.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
It sounds just like that, but about fifty times.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
All right, here we go. I know, with all this
scrutiny from the Nashville Podcast Network, this is movie Mike
movie Potter. All right, we're going to talk about rewatching
all the Harry Potter movies. Let's talk about first you
read the books. I did.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I read the books so many times as a kid.
I fell in love with them. They were the first
like big series that changed my life. I would order
the book and pick it up at midnight at Barnes
and Noble. And I think I've told the story in
here before about when the final book came out in
we hear? Did the final one come out?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Two thousand and seven?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Okay? Perfect? So I was thirteen and I was a
bit of a smart ass as a child, and as
a child I talked back and instead of being grounded
from like computer TV, my mom took my Harry Potter
book away devastated, got it back the next day. So
what does one do. They stayed till two am finishing
it in case they get grounded again. And that's how
much I love the books. And I've seen all the
(02:41):
movies over the years, rewatched them a ton of times.
But something about rewatching them this break made me just
like fall in love with them again. So I'm rereading
the books again.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Did you see them all in theaters. Oh yeah, Oh
so everything midnight? Oh yeah, what a time when you
could go to midnight releases. I don't think I ever
went to a midnight release of a book, a video game,
or a movie. Maybe I went to the Jackass three
D midnight showing. That might have been the only thing
(03:15):
I ever went to a midnight release. But those are
that's kind of gone, and I think for I remember
it being cool for video games, like whenever the New
Call of Duty would come out and there'd be like
a line of people outside of game stop. That is
nostalgic to me. I never read the books, which would
have been perfect for me because I was like the
same age as them as they were coming out, but
(03:35):
I wasn't too into reading when I was younger, still
not that into reading.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
But you're gonna start. I thought you said you had
read at least a couple of them.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, I read maybe the first two to three of them.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Okay, so you've read some of them. Yeah, I'm going
to reread them.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Now because I was able to check the first, second,
and maybe third one out of the library, and then
after that it became too popular and they were never
in stock, so I just never read them, and then
I remember always looking at them. Whenever this is the
last the book bear came around, I'm like, oh, they
got the Harry Potter books. I was always fascinated by
the covers, fantastic.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I really wish that I had kept my original ones,
but I gave them to my brother and then they
probably got sold or donated, so.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I haven't read all the books, which now I'm going to.
I want to read them now. And then when it
came to the movies, I also I didn't see them
all in theaters, and I also didn't see them all
probably until like a few years after the last one
came out. I think it was twenty thirteen or twenty twelve,
where I had the blu ray of all the movies,
(04:37):
like the full pack of every single one, and I
sat down and just watched them all and that was
kind of how I really took in the story. But
I kind of feel like I missed out on that
a little bit. I feel if I would have kept
up with at least watching the movies the year they
came out, I would have been a bigger Harry Potter fan.
But I feel like you are the level of Harry
(04:58):
Potter fan that I am like a Marvel Oh absolutely,
and it is like the quintessential millennial franchise.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
It really is. Yeah, I love it. I still love
like merch. Like my mom got me Quark sickle. She
loves getting us themed cork sickles, and she like went
ham On Harry Potter collection for me last year. I've
got a Gryffindor water bottle. I have a Golden Snitch cup.
I have a Headwick the Owl cup. Love them.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
So before I get into my ranking of all of
the movies, what is your favorite and what is your
least favorite? So, and this has to be after we
rewatched them all, because I think it's let me see
how many hours all the Harry Potter movies are. There
is nineteen hours and thirty nine minutes. And we did
it all one Thanksgiving week and then the rest during
(05:47):
Christmas break, which five days, like five days. So we
did all that. After that rewatch, what's your favorite and
your least favorite favorite.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I'm gonna go Prisoner of ask Man least favorite. Yes,
I will go Chamber of Secrets because I love them
all so much, so it's hard to pick.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Okay, I feel like you.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Get more of the story and the complexity of Harry
and the other characters and their history as they go along.
And I can't say the first one is my least
favorite because that's what started my love of the films.
It's iconic, so I feel like it has to be
Chamber of Secrets. Okay, now we're just talking movies.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Yes, movies.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Books. It's been too long since I've read.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Them, and you're how far into rereading them now?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Halfway through the second one? Okay, I forget how quick
of a read they are because they're designed for kids.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, so much more at my reading level when I
get back into it. Yes, all right, we'll get into
my ranking. At number eight from two thousand and nine,
I have Harry Butt, Harry Butter. I just gonna leave
that in. I have Harry Potter and the Half Blood Princes,
which I could just say the second part of the title.
I don't know why I'm gonna say Harry Potter every time. Yeah,
half Blood Prince is my least favorite, okay, And I
(07:00):
think it's just because the tone of this one, this
one feels like the bridge to get us to the end. Yeah,
some cool stuff happens in this one, but it almost
felt like a filler movie to me. Rewatching that, I
felt that more because when you go from one to
another to another to another, you kind of ride that
wave of their story. It's building, it's coming down, it's
(07:23):
building up, it's ramping up. This very much kind of
plateaus the story before it ramps up and gets to
the best part. So I feel, out of all the movies,
this one is the most forgettable to me, which I
feel all of them have like encompassing scenes that I
associate with all of them and I think, oh, this
happens in this one. This happens in this one, And
(07:43):
that's how I am able to tell them apart, especially
after rewatching them, and this one I feel has doesn't
have that. I don't think it does.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
You're nuts.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I know what you're talking about, which you can say
it's is it spoiling it this point it came out
in two thousand and nine.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
You're nuts if you think Dumbledore dying is not a
memorable iconic scene.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I don't think so compared to all the other things
that happen in this I when we rewatched it, I
forgot that he dies.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I will not stand for this, which We'll.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Put a spoiler word in at the beginning of this,
but it's it's everybody's seen these movies. Nobody's gonna watch
Harry Potter for the I haven't like, if you haven't
talked it's ten years old, that there's a ten year.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Role all these movies more than fifteen.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, I'm saying every movie on this list is ten
years old. The last one came out in twenty eleven.
They're all ten years old. So spoiler free spoiler zone
because it's the whole Harry Potter episode. But going into
rewatching this, I forgot that he dies. And maybe it's
because I'm not the biggest Harry Potter fan, but I
was like, oh, yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I think it's because you're not the biggest Harry Potter fan.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I'm more familiar with the moment. The fact that the
actor who played him died in between the second and
the third movie. That is what I associate more with.
People don't the original actor. Yeah, the original actor, so
they change. That is what my brain went to first.
And then I was like, oh, yeah, he does die,
So I know it's a big part as far as
the story, probably a big part of the books. But
(09:08):
when it comes to memorable moments out of the entire
series of movies, that one doesn't resonate with me.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
God, And then at the end when like his body
is laying there in front of the school and they
all raise their wands and like do the lights.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Maybe it's because I didn't see it in theaters. I
don't feel that sad in that moment. Other big characters
have died in movies that have hit me emotionally, But
I wasn't that sad when he died.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
And this is literally sl under right now.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I was it. There are other moments in this, in
all the Harry Potter.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Movies, dying is tragic, tragic.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I just don't feel that. There are a lot of
tragic deaths in movies. I wouldn't even put it in
the top ten. I would it because I forgot he died.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Okay, we gotta move on.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Okay, that is what I have at number eight.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
For marriage is going to make it all of this episode.
We got to move on.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
At number seven, I have the Order of the Phoenix
from two thousand and seven, directed by David Yates, who
also did Half Blood Prince.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
And definitely Hallows right he did Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
He did the back half of the movies, which I
thought they took a different tone. Whenever David Yates took
over darker they were darker, which you can shed a
little bit more light on this, no pun intended. But
did the books just get darker towards the end?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah, I mean you think about the fact he's literally
trying to defeat the most like evil person to ever exists.
Like the tone of it's just darker, and yeah, people
started dying more.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, I mean the whole plot.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Is that he's lived because this evil wizard tried to
kill his parents when he was a baby, and he
sat there watching men. It's a pretty depressing story to start,
and then he gets locked in the cupboard he.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Had down beneath the stairs. But I like this one
just a little bit more than Half Blood Prints.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
So even though there's a sad death in this one,
too serious black see again, Bellatrix runs around, I'm killing
serious black. I'm killed serious Black. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I hate her character, probably one of the worst characters
in movies and all these book adaptation movies. But this
one good but not one of my top five. At
number six, I have the Goblet of Fire two thousand
and five. Mike Newell directed this one. This one's great.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Can you name the said death in this one?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yeah, Cedric, my boy Robert Pattinson, see that I remember
his death. That one hit me. Didn't make me cry,
didn't make me too emotional. Well, when his dad does
come over that one, it's very sad because you think
about what is happening in the games and he comes
back and they all cheer.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Because they think that like he's managed to like bring
him back, and then it like gets really quiet and
everyone realizes and.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Then yeah, once they realize what happens, I think rewatching
it this time, I was able to take the emotion
from that scene, like Harry is there like bawling over
his body and it was just these games and it
turns out now somebody has died. And then whenever his
dad realizes it and he comes over and he's like,
that's my boy, like dang, that sucks. Yeah, and him
(12:14):
bringing his body back and then Voldemore in that scene.
That's a great scene.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah, that is a good one.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
And there's a lot of memorable moments from these games,
like whenever he's underwater with the dragons. There are a
lot of just big action moments. That the fact that
this one came out in two thousand and five, only
four years after the first one. The visual effects greatly improved,
which is another thing we saw while rewatching these movies.
They go from looking like video game characters and some
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of the flying scenes to a becoming a little bit
more and more refined to where you go back to
the very first one and it looks like how did
we buy this? Like how did we take this in?
As like looking good?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, and it's like the tech got better in the
budget got.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Bigger that too, so they became more expensive looking. Yeah.
I'd say everything from six to one is top not
that the seven and eight are bad. It is my
least favorite. That's what I have at number six. At
number five, I have the Chamber of Secrets from two
thousand and two. This was Chris Columbus, which this movie
dropped a lot. This used to be my second favorite
(13:14):
and the movies I put above it now.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Because of the rewatch.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Because of the rewatch, it went down. I think I enjoyed.
I had this one as my second favorite for a
long time. Is because I loved the tone early on
in the movies. Where they felt like individual stories, where
it was just here they are, this is what's going
on in this movie, and they don't necessarily connect, see.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
And that's why I love the later ones, because.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
It all builds up. And I guess maybe because I've
only read the first two, maybe the third one I
don't remember, but I feel like they encompassed what the
books were more like I read those and then watched
these movies, and I feel like it translated how I
pictured it in my head reading them.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
The first two books are a lot short too, though
they get exponentially longer.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
That's also what I remember seeing them at the Scholastic
book Fair. I'm like, oh, the last one is huge.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I'm going to compare the pages they are.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yeah, But I think it was because I also love
Chris Columbus, who I think is a great director, and
he really brought that fun, vibrant, wizardry vibe to both
of the first movies. He's really good at working with
child actors. There's also something about seeing them much younger
that I feel there's more innocence to it, and as
(14:32):
you see them become teenagers go through more not totally
adult things, I feel it changes the tone of it,
and I kind of like the idea of Hogwarts being
that just where these kids go to be wizards, and
it has a little bit more like a magical vibe
to it, and then later just gets kind of more
serious and dark.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Okay, I found this like random website stuff. This isn't right.
First book has three hundred and nine pages, second three
forty one, the third four to thirty five, the fourth
seven thirty.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Four, Oh my gosh, the fifth.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Eight seventy, the sixth six point fifty two, and the
seventh seven fifty nine, with a total of four thy
one hundred pages.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
It's a lot of pages. That's why they split the
last one into two movies. So yeah, Chamber of Secrets
really dip for me, but it is a top five
to one.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
This other website has a different statistics.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
So well, we have a general idea. They got bigger
and bigger, almost doubled in size by the end of it. Right.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Oh, you could really hurt someone with those last few hardbacks.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah. If I needed to have a fight in school,
I just grab a Harry Potter buck knock somebody out
A number four I have from twenty ten Deathly Hallow's
Part one, directed by David Yates. This one sets the
stage and it went up on my list.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I was gonna say, you weren't the biggest Deathly Howard. No.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
And I think it's because when we do rewatch them,
we don't typically rewatch the last two, maybe because they
are heavier. Maybe it's because the conclusion of the story.
It's not one that I think like, hey, let's put
that one on the.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Way light, family friendly film.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
But the way we rewatched them all and where I
was able to see it build up towards the end
and like really find out the true story, I almost
feel like for the first time again because it's been
a while since we sat down and rewatched them all.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Now imagine like having to wait a year even though
I'd read the book.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I couldn't do it. Like I put myself in that
position of when these movies came out and thinking like
going to a theater and not knowing what was going
to happen, even though you probably read the book, you
knew what was going to happen, but that level of
excitement had to be wild.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Oh it was unmatched.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
So that one went up and at number three. This
one also went up and I put them together. It's
a deathly Hollo's Part two from twenty eleven, the conclusion
to all of it. I don't remember the scene whenever
Harry finds out the whole story of how it all
connects and with Snape.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
They go to the big exposition of what does he
dips his head in like that water thing like that fountain,
and then he's able to.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Like to well, Harry dips his head in the water
and sees he puts like Snape's tears.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
That's what head that was sad.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Sees all of Dumbledore telling Snape like you must be
the one to kill me, and how Snape, like all
along is tried to protect Harry and he wasn't the
bad guy. I remember reading that and my mind was blown.
Life was changed. I was like, oh my god, he
wasn't the bad guy because in the books it's the
same like you think for six books that Snape hates
(17:42):
Harry and that he's responsible for Dumbledore's death. You think
that and then like you find out in the book
truly changed me.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
And the fact that Voldemort has been a part of him,
like he lives inside of him. That whole connection of
when he what happened when he tried to kill a
and it just for the first time I was able
to like really connect it all and feel the gravity
of it and think, oh, like how well designed this
story was and all the pieces that ended up connecting.
(18:13):
This is the only movie franchise that I feel wraps
up perfectly because I guess because it is based on
the book. But there was nothing, no questions unanswered, there
was no emotions that you were lacking.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
It had it all Yeah, And then they give you
the scene in like twenty years when everyone's like Marry
didn't have their own kids going out.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
That hits you emotionally. I also love whenever they go
into whatever that white space is wherever he sees him
again Dumbledore again and he like you think he's dead,
but then he's not really dead. Then he comes back
to life. Long Bottom has his moment where he shines.
So there are so many great conclusions for different characters
(18:55):
in this final movie that I found myself loving it more.
And now I feel like I could just go back
and watch part two yeah and enjoy it and feel like,
oh yeah, that is one. Now I want to go
back and rewatch that is why I have it at
number three now, but at number two has stayed here
pretty steadily. I'd say before Chamber of Secrets was in
that number two spot forever. I just love those so much.
(19:18):
But it's Prisoner of Azkaban came out in two thousand
and four. The we've watched this one, I feel like
the most.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Because we've seen it anytime it's on TV. And then
we did one of our outdoor movie nights they showed
that one.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
And this one. It's pretty It has a lot of
vivid memories. Obviously the introduction of serious.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Black Hermione has the like time travel thing. It's the
first one where they look more like great older they
don't look like tiny kids.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
There are children in the first two, but this one
they get older.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
And it starts to get a little darker.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
The tone the bus scene at the beginning, yes, which
I think is the most iconic, one of the most
iconic things out of all of these movies. Boss that
is very memorable and overall has just become one that
I feel is a really good centerpiece of the entire story.
(20:14):
And I think it's the fact that we have rewatched
it so much that it has great rewatchability. It has
crept up into my number two slot, all right, and
at number one Sorcerer's Stone two thousand and one, Chris Columbus.
I just feel that this one embodies everything that I
love about Harry Potter.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I had it on VHS.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
That is amazing. I wish I had, But it's I
hate to pick the first one in a franchise because
which you don't normally. I don't because I feel like
the first one is still setting the stage, but this
one sets the stage. The best of him not knowing
is a wizard Haggard, Haggard coming. Yeah. The best line,
(20:56):
That whole interaction with all them trying to get the
no to him, the mail to him post doesn't come
on Sunday, him living beneath the stairs, them leaving and
then still finding them and him finding out about the
platform nine and three quarter like they're just is the best.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
And it also the reason we associate these movies, at
least for us, with Christmas time is because there is
Christmas in this one, Happy Christmas, Harry, and it just
has like that warm, cozy vibe that even though it's
not a Christmas movie. I think that's why anytime November
December roll around. I want to rewatch these movies. And
(21:35):
I also feel this was the first time that you're
introduced to not knowing whether Snape is a good or
a bad guy. You think he's the bad guy the
entire time.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
You think he's the bad guy for six movies.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Yeah, but this is the one where like, oh, he's
the bad guy. He's doing it, He's the one messing
up the quidditge man.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Oh yeah, yeah, one he's doing the curse and it
turns out it's Quirrel and Snape's like trying to counteract it,
and Hermione sets Snape's robes on fire.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
So I I think nothing will ever knock this one
out of being my favorite Harry Potter movie. It has
everything I want from every single character, and to me,
it just feels the most magical And I feel kind
of like a kid again when I watched this movie,
and I think this is the only one that makes
me want to go to Hogwarts because they do the
(22:19):
sorting hat they That's what I wondered, like, did every
other kid who came to Hogwarts after Harry Potter not
have the traditional experience because things just got crazy No,
they still do it, But that was like the last
good year to come, because then it's just like, oh,
Harry Potter's always here, already here. We don't care about
any new students.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
No, they introduce new students in the books.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Oh they do. I guess I gotta read the books.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I guess you have to read them.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Any other thoughts you have After rewatching all the Harry
Potter movies.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I forgot how much I hate de Laura's Umbridge.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Yeah, she's pretty awful.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
God, Emelda Stanton does a great job as being a
hateable character.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah, but she is one of the worst characters in
the entire branch.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Bellatrix Strange, the entire Malfoy family.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Oh yeah, Like, how did they not murder them or
get rid of them earlier? How did they still allow
Malfoy to go to Hogwarts?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
It's a great question.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
It's like, he's a criminal.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
He's a criminal. He sucks.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
It made me want to, yeah, punch him in the
face a lot of times, which he does get punched
in the face by Hermione.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yes, he does a good one. Hermione Granger is my icon, smart,
nerdy kind of see a lot of myself and her
just the know it all hand raised in class all
the time, Like, didn't you mean to assign his homework?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
It's not when Godi and Leviosa.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
It's when Gudi and Leveosa.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
I think that's the only spell I've learned.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Yeah, I know the death spell. I don't say it aloud.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Though Patronis is one m ex Really that's the other
one I know. Yeah, and now you want to go
to Harry Potter World.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I do.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
That's in Orlando. Yeah, I'd love to go, because we've
been to the one in California. Yeah, but it's smaller,
it's not the same. You want to get a wand two,
one of the ones the Wane chooses you, No, you
become a part of the wand.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
It has to I want one with like Unicorn hair.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I find after watching this one that I would put
Voldemort in a top ten movie villains of all time.
Oh my god, I don't think I felt that before
the worst, But the way the entire story connected, and
his just relentless wanting to kill Harry Potter, like, yeah,
he's top ten.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
For me now, yeah, and everyone else he kills along
the way.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
He'd Yeah, I realize how many more casualties there were
of all the people who ended up dying because of him. Yeah,
there's some pretty sad deaths. I still don't put your
favorite in there, Dobby. Oh my gosh, we didn't talk
about Dobby. This rewatch made me love Dobby Moore.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I will say, I know I put Chamber of Secret.
It's my Lea's favorite. But it is the intro to
Dobby when he's like banging his head on the wall
at the beginning of the movie. He's shut up, shut up,
He's I've made master Harry Mudd I.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Love How did we go this else whole rewatch and
not talk about Dobby. I would say top three character
for me in the whole movie franchise Dobby.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
The elf is a good one.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
So you're we'll just declare it here. You're not favorite death,
but the death that hit you the most.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Ooh.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I think for me it's Dobby because he is trying
to save them, He's trying to break them out, and
in doing that elf teleport thing, he gets knifed, he
gets shanked.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I'm gonna go serious serious because it was Harry's dad's
best friend. He came back into Harry's life he's been
locked up as a prisoner. He didn't do it. He
comes back. He's the closest thing Harry has to take
a dad again. And then Bellatrix kills him and it's
taken away, and it's almost like Harry gets another parent
taken away from him.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Oh, I didn't think about it like that. It's the
only other person who was that close.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
It's the person who knows his dad, And I like
put myself in that shoes as someone who's lost a parent,
like you think of like their friends that have stepped
in and like to lose that. It's like he's losing
the last piece of his parents.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Yeah, that's pretty sad. I guess when I think about Dobby,
I just think that the fact that he was going
there just to save him. He ends up dying in
the process.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
And then when they close his eyes and then they
put hair lies, Dobby a free elf.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Oh yeah. Whenever Harry Potter does the trick of putting
the sock in the book.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
No on his gravestone, it's a hair.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Livesbel Yeah, but yeah, that's how he got yes, yes, yes,
he gives them the book and.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Then Lucier's mouth was like I did not give you
a sock, And he's like, well, let's hear and I'm free.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Ah, pye's a free elf.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Yeah that's a sad one. Yeah, I'm gonna go serious.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
If you could eat or drink one thing from the franchise,
would you eat or drink?
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I mean I would try butter beer.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Yeah. That was when I forget which movie. That was
when Hermione got a little tipsy? Did she Yeah, there's
a scene where she she drinks beer and she gets
a little tipsy.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
But butter beer is an alcoholic it's not.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
No, Maybe I'm thinking of a different scene. I don't think,
go to like a pub and she gets what Harry
Potter did I watch?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Am I forgetting something?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Look it up? Hermione tipsy?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, you're right. Okay, Okay, I guess butter
beer is.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Alcoholic in that there's different versions of it. I guess
I was gonna say I would eat the cake that
Hagrid bought for Harry whenever he first went to get
him and his cousin starts eating that cake did look good.
I can't blame him, and turned into a little pigs.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Good old Dudley. Okay, Well, I'm looking up if butter
beer is actually supposed to be alcoholic.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
The Google says butter beer is to have a slight
alcohol content but in but I don't think the version
you get at Harry Potter World has alcohol correct if I.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I okay, I didn't remember that she gets drunk in
that one.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
You're right, and that's what I rewatch does for you see.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
And now it's like we've rewatched them all, but then
I'm rereading them all, so now there's too much in
my head and I forgot that. But yeah, you're right,
I was wrong. I stand corrected.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
It's all good. Just the movie. Anything else about Harry Potter,
I just love it so much. Yeah, we were sad
once we were done.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
And I'm like, these have been done for fourteen years,
But it was something about we hadn't done a full
rewatch that concentrated, like in that short of amount of
time and so long that then finishing them, I'm like,
what do I do with my life now, which is
why I'm rereading them.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
So now we just have the Mac Show to look
forward to. Don't really know all the details on that.
We could dip into Fantastic Beasts, which I like the
first Fantastic Beasts.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
There's Laura in my family about that, so I put
it on one year on bag. Everyone hated it and
then I was scrolling my phone and they were like,
this movie sucks and you're not even paying attention. So
now any time it comes up, I like.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
The first one, but not the same. So I don't
think I ever want them to be remade, even though
those early movies do suffer a little bit from the CGI.
I just think it.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
I just see I want the TV show.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah, I think the idea of doing one book into
a season of a show is great because you can
explore more. I think it all comes down to casting
with that. But yeah, I'll watch that all day.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Adam Driver for snape. It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Oh yeah, I see that campaign. Yeah, you got to
just get some get some good people in that, which
I don't know if they'll break the Noamerica or break
the American rule, which they didn't want Americans cast into
the movies. I guess because they wanted yeah, and they
didn't want to promote I guess they wanted to promote
British actors more than American actors, which I think in
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the first one, Chris Columbus's daughter is in it. I
think that was one of the only exceptions. But she
wasn't She didn't never role. She was just like an
extra in it. Interesting, but that is our Harry Potter
recap and reranking.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, this was a nerdy episode.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Let's get into it now. Another spoiler free review talking
about a movie nominated for Best Picture. Honora has six nominations,
including Best Director, Best Picture, Best Actress, just to name
a few, And this is a movie I feel that
if you look at all the nominees in the Best
Picture category, I feel like it has the most interesting
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character and I don't think it's going to win, but
I think it's one of those movies that is gonna
stand the test of time. Out of all the movies
in this category, probably second on the list would still
be the Substance. But I feel sometimes there are these
movies that they get nominated and they have a good
chance of winning. Obviously, anybody in that category has a
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good chance of winning, but it feels like it has
a little bit more of a fan base that people
actually went to go see it. The movie cost six
million dollars to make, has made about thirty million dollars,
which if you look at a lot of these best pictures,
sometimes they don't make a whole lot, they're not very profitable,
and it sometimes those movies that go on to win
Best Picture. So I feel I do like the fact
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that anybody has a chance to win. No matter how
much you make at the box office. It's about how
much of an impact you can make. It's about how
novel your movie is, which I think some people don't
understand that it's a movie that the most people saw.
It's the movie that came out that defines that gear
that really pushed cinema. That's the reason this category exists.
But I think Anora will go on to be a
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movie that people discover more once the Oscars happen and
you see Mikey Madison out there just being so charming
on the red carpet talking about it. I think it's
the movie that people will give a chance and end
up enjoying more and will be on more people's lists
some of their favorite movies of all time. You have
director Sean Baker, so let's get into what this movie
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is actually about. I pulled the description straight from IMDb
because again it's a spoiler free review, and I didn't
want to give away all these details that I feel
like you learned as the viewer. But even selling this movie,
I guess is a little bit hard because they kind
of put a lot of it here. In the description,
it says a Nora, a young woman from Brooklyn, gets
her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and
marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia,
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her fairy tale is threatened as the parents set out
for New York. They get the marriage annulled. So Anora
is working as a stripper turned escort when she meets
this dude. And the reason she meets him is the
club owner says, hey, this guy's looking for somebody who
speaks Russian. Anora happens to understand Russian, can speak it
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a little bit, but they send her to deal with
him so she can communicate with this guy. Turns out
this dude is worth a lot of money. He was
at the club just throwing money around. They hit it off, obviously,
I feel like most situations like this with the dude
with a lot of money, she realized that she capitalized
on that, and then he asks her if she works
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outside of the club. She goes to his big, fancy house,
and that's where you get the Cinderella story of her
seeing man. This dude is loaded, has an amazing house
with an amazing view. Annie has a lot of money,
so given her line of work, she capitalizes on that.
And it goes from them just spending an hour together
to spending a week together and then, like the description says,
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eventually getting married. And I feel like that is a
lot of the story. But just knowing all that, you
don't know all of the story because so much happens
and so much unfolds, And I feel, out of all
the characters and all the Best Picture nominees, everybody up
for Best Actress, I think Anora is the most interesting
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character on her own, And maybe it's just because it
dives into this world that I don't know a whole
lot about. Like I've never been to a strip club.
I don't know what this is, like, I really only
know from watching movies. But I feel like this was
a very raw and accurate representation. And I really felt
the evolution of Mikey Madison's character where it starts out
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with her just being kind of curious about this guy
to kind of developing a relationship with him and then
seeing it as her opportunity to get out of a
really hectic life. And I really felt this from the
very beginning of the movie. After they spend that night
at the club, it cuts to her being at home
in this house that isn't the best living situation. She
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has a roommate, and it really allows you to see
into the life where you just saw her at night,
kind of being in control over world and having to
do a really tough job. Which that is what I
felt while watching this movie. I feel like sometimes people
think that it's just an easy job. I mean people
say this jokingly, but you hear people say like, well,
thing else works out, I'll just go be a stripper.
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I feel like this job is incredibly draining. After watching
this movie, having to deal with some of the grossest dudes,
you know, I just have more respect for the profession
after watching this movie. That is how I felt, because
then it cuts to her life at home and you
see that it's not easy. You see that, Okay, maybe
you are making a lot of money the night before,
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there's a big toll that it takes on your mental state,
and for Anura, she's really just trying to find her
way out of this and she sees this guy, sees
this opportunity. As they're take it out her Cinderella story,
I guess they're comparing it to a Cinderella story. I
feel like this is what really would have happened in
Pretty Woman, because if you think about Pretty Woman Julia Roberts,
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Richard Greer, that would have never happened that way. It
wouldn't have had that rom com feel. That movie, to me,
isn't really set in reality. It is a classic movie,
it is a great story, but it's very it doesn't
feel well. Maybe at the time. I think that movie
came out in nineteen ninety, probably shot in the late eighties,
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so maybe at that time it was a little bit
more wholesome. I have to imagine it was not, but
for something going on right now in the twenty twenties,
I feel like this is the only way you could
tell this story. This shows what would actually happen, what
would be the implications. And I think I just really
enjoyed seeing her character go through so much and really
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become a different person by the end of it, and
the entire movie takes place in about two weeks, and
to see Mikey kind of go through this evolution of
being just this kind of naive person and then having
all these people just pile on her when they get
so outraged that they get married and they just keep
calling her a stripper, a night bad, all these awful
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things that make it feel really degrading. I will say,
if you are somebody who doesn't like a lot of
screaming and yelling in a movie, might not be the
movie for you, because they are all out screaming matches
in this movie. There are moments where they're trying to
calm her down and she just all out belting out
and yelling by yelling and screaming and kicking and doing
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all these things which I would do too. I would
be kicking and screaming too, if somebody was trying to
take me out of this mansion that I just came
to with my new husband. There are moments of this
movie that reminded me of how I felt during Uncut
Gems and how just nervous and anxious that movie made
me feel. Where I was literally on the edge of
my seat while watching Uncut Gems. It had that chaotic
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energy where you have all these things going on at once,
people yelling and screaming, people getting into fights, and you
just kind of had this feeling of something bad is
about it happened, something is going to go down. So
if you aren't a fan of movies that have chaotic energy,
also might not be the movie for you. And I
know some people just get annoyed by people screaming, but
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I think that is part of it, that is part
of understanding her character. And I will say this movie
has a lot of nudity, and I think Hollywood is
kind of getting back into showing not just nudity, but
people actually doing it. I think there was a time
where I feel Hollywood scaled back with all that was
going on to people being accused of stuff. Everybody wanted
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to make sure that sets were safe. I honestly think
that is why we saw a reduction in scenes like this. However,
a Nora really just goes all out for it. I'd
probably put it on the same scale of euphoria on HBO,
Like an HBO show just goes full out showing you everything,
and it is really polarizing and shocking. At the beginning
of this movie, so This might take some other people
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out of consideration of watching this movie if you don't
like a lot of nudity, a lot of people hooking up,
because that is a big part of the first act,
showing you what she has to do for this guy.
I think it is put there not so much as
a shock value, but as Sean Baker really committing to this,
making it something that is a spectacle, is something that
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you remember, and throughout the course of the movie it
does get away from that, and I think that's honestly
where I started to enjoy it more, because the first
act is all of them just kind of living in
a fantasy world. Crap hits the fan in the second act,
and then of course you have your falling action like
you normally would in the third act, where I guess
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I was expecting a little bit more to happen, because
even if you read that description that I read earlier,
that really tells you the entire story. And it was
not that I got bored in the third act. It
just got a little bit less interesting to me. It'd
be like going to a road trip. You were going
to see like a big monument, and you expect to
see something really big and grand at the end of it,
and then you just kind of drive by like a
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big tumbleweed and like, oh, that was it, okay. But
then I had to look back on it, think about
it and think, well, I think that was just my
anticipation of it. I think it was all of the
building action that I thought it was going to build
up to something wild and something just like, oh, this
is why this movie was nominated for Best Picture. I
never really got that, but I did get a story
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about a girl who went through a really crazy couple
of weeks, and it ended up just kind of breaking
my heart. So this movie was much more of a
case of it's not the destination, it is the journey
for a noura. I give it four out of five. Ooh,
I have to be careful here. I give it four
out of five. Mansions.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
It's time to head down to movie Mike Traylor, Paul Well.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Four months ago, they dropped the first teaser to Sinners.
It's a new movie starring Michael B. Jordan director Ryan Kugler.
They've worked together a lot on Creed, Black Panther, Fruitville Station.
I was in Michael B. Jordan anything, Ryan Kugler directing
anything I am in, but I didn't really know what
the movie was gonna be about based on that quick
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little teaser. But now the full trailer is out and
it looks really good. It's gonna be one of those
movies that does risingly well without a whole lot of
hype going into it. But I hope after this trailer
dropped it has like five million views now on YouTube,
more people are gonna be interested. The hype is gonna build,
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so it won't just kind of go under the radar.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
Good.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
I want this movie to be massive because I love
both people in front and behind the camera. But what
this movie is about. Michael B. Jordan plays twins, So
in this trailer, not one, but to Michael B. Jordan's,
which I think is a dream for a lot of people.
He plays twin brothers who are trying to leave their
trouble pass behind them. They return to their home for
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a fresh start, but there's a greater evil living there.
This is actually a vampire movie. The entire movie takes
place in one day, which I love me a movie
that takes place entirely in one day. It is set
back in nineteen thirty two during the Prohibition era, a
lot going on, like how do you go from two
brothers reuniting trying to get their life back on track,
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essentially starting a gang becoming bootleggers, to a vampire film.
I have some theories based on them talking about this
movie and doing some research on it. The movie has
a budget of about ninety million dollars. It's coming out
on April eighteenth this year. Before I get into more
about sinners, here's a little bit of the trailer. You twins,
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now we cousins listen here. This ain't no house party.
Y'all ready to drink. Y'all are ready to sweat to
y'all s Thank you ansome who we gonna kill every
last morning?
Speaker 2 (42:35):
You?
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Hey, I ain't mean to scare of you. Thought, I
don't forgot about me? A call?
Speaker 2 (42:46):
Open doling on out here.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Stay there's you closes me, open the door. That ain't
your brother. I love the soundtrack, The little rootles always
freak you out. The tag to this movie keep dancing
with the Devil. One day he's gonna follow you home.
So I have my theories on how this goes from
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just a normal period piece to a horror movie with vampires.
So what you see in this trailer, you see Michael B. Jordan,
who plays two different characters. They're twins. Elijah whose nickname
is Stack, he's gonna be dressed in red in this movie,
and then you have Elias Smoke, who is gonna be
dressed in blue in this movie. That's how you're gonna
tell them apart. Elijah is probably more, at least described
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by Michael B. Jordan what he would be like in
real life, a little bit more fun and light hearted,
and Smoke, who was dressed in blue, is way more serious.
He's supposed to be the scarier one in this trailer.
It sounds like at the end what you heard there
was Smoke turning into a vampire. So he's gonna be
probably a second antagonist here. So my theory on this movie,
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based on the trailer, I think they become bootleggers and
start selling beer and alcohol. There's one point in the
trailer where they open up a back of a truck.
They have a bunch of bottles there. There's a creepy
rattlesnake chilling there as well, and then they have this
big party where you can go and they're gonna drink.
They're gonna party which is ban during this time during prohibition.
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One of Michael B. Jordan's characters invites Hailey Steinfeld to
this party filled with a bunch of their family and friends.
And then you have the main antagonist, Jack O'Connell, who
is playing a character named Remick and is the leader
of the vampires. He finds out about Hailey Steinfeld white
girl going over to party with them, doesn't like it,
and it looks like things escalate from there were you
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think it's just a race thing at first, but then
you find out that this dude, like I said, is
the leader of the vampires. It kind of reminds me
from Dust Till Dawn, whenever George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino
try to go meet this guy at a bar and
then they find out that this bar is actually full
of vampires built on a burial ground. I think something
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similar like this is going to happen. They're going to
get into a fight that's just going to be race fueled,
and then one of them is either going to die
or the other main antagonist is going to pull out
his vampire powers and bite some people. Because what you
see throughout the course of this trailer is people start
turning into vampires. And I love the way that this
movie feels because it is a period piece, but it
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has this modern feel to it too, And I think
there are some period pieces that kind of turn me
off in the sense that it's just so hard for
me to get into the way people would speak even
back in the twenties and thirties, going back even further
before that time period, it is really hard for me
to grasp onto the dialogue. But this one still has
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kind of a modern feel to it, which I like
that juxtaposition of a movie being set back in the day,
but it kind of breaks a little bit of the
barrier to make it feel a little bit fresh, a
little bit modern, that you can kind of break those
rules if you're intentional and purposeful about it. Not so
much like, oh, you're going back to the thirties, but
you're gonna have people on cell phones, Like that's a
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little bit too far. But there are some things, even
the way Michael B. Jordan's character speaks in this movie,
that you can have a little bit of a modern
edge to make it feel fresh and to not make
it feel so boring. I think one of the biggest
problems I had with No Sat was the fact that
they talked so boring and drawn out. It was really
hard for me to care about any of that dialogue.
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Even the way that The Sinner's trailer looks, it has
a very cinematic feel that feels new to me. It
doesn't feel like I'm watching a really old movie, so
I think that gives it that fresh face lift to
make it seem like something special. And then the fact
that it shifts into an all out horror movie, I
think is gonna go another level because there's almost this
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supernatural feeling to it where it seems so normal set
in reality, and then all of a sudden, you have
Michael B. Jordan looking like a vampire. You have Hailey
Steinfeld with blood all over her face, also looking like
a vampire. Everybody's turning into vampires, I sound like Seinfeld.
Everybody's turning into vampires drinking blood? Huh. And I think
also the fact, sadly that a lot of the issues
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it looks like they're gonna address in this movie are
still gonna be the same modern day complications that we
still deal with in American society. Hailey Steinfeld's character, in particular,
who says she needs to be saved, but it ends
up being not in the way you think. So I
think there is gonna be a lot of commentary in
this film. Much like a lot of Ryan Coogler films,
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Black Panther decreed that theme has always been there. There
are also some fantastic shots that I always look for.
I don't always expect to find them in a trailer,
but when I do, it's a real treat. There's one
of Michael B. Jordan looking real distress with his look
on his face. He's all sweaty. There's also a really
great shot where Michael B. Jordan's walking out and he
has like this old school atomic gun and he's firing
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it off. That is also a fantastic shot. So so
many things I like about this trailer. You have two
Michael B. Jordan's why I have one when you can
have two. You have Ryan Coogler, who is a great,
fantastic director, maybe in my top ten directors right now,
pretty close to I mean, because Black Panther is amazing.
He's working on Black Panther three. I love all the
Creed movies, even though he didn't direct all of them,
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he has had a hand in one, two, and three.
If this movie ends up living up to my expectations,
I could easily put them in my top ten modern
day directors. You have Hailey Steinfeld, who is fantastic, and
it reminds me of more period pieces that have felt modern.
I'm talking movies like Jango Unchained Once upon a Time
in Hollywood. Maybe it's a Quentin Tarantino thing, because Quentin
(48:44):
Tarantino is famous for rewriting history where he goes back
to a time period and skews things a little bit
because you don't have to play to any rules. Yeah,
some things can be historically accurate. But when you're able
to just do whatever you want and make a great
movie and create a spectacle, well that's what it's all about.
But again, this movie is called Sinners. It is coming
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out on April eighteenth, and I am hype at that.
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For was this week's edition of Movie Line Tramler.
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Bar and that is going to do it for another
episode here of the podcast. And if you're wondering why
didn't Mike talk about all of the great Super Bowl
trailers that dropped on Sunday. If you're listening to this
on Monday, which is released day. Well, spoiler alert, I
was actually at the super Bowl, So if you didn't
hear about that, we haven't been watching my socials, go
(49:32):
back and watch that and I will get to all
of the super Bowl trailers. That was the downfall, I know, right,
Champagne problem. I guess that I did not get to
stay home and watch it with Kelsey and enjoy all
the movie trailers in real time. I guess, not a
bad problem to have, but I had to record this
ahead of time before seeing those trailers. I will get
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and I know they were fantastic, So that is why
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Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike, joined by my wife and
co host Kelsey. It is the Harry Potter episode. We
rewatched all eight movies. I reranked them. We're gonna be
very passionate about this because you are a huge Harry
Potter fan.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I am.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
I am a huge fan of the movies, but I
haven't read the books, and I did want to say
spoiler warning because the last movie is over ten years old.
But we go into all the details, all the deaths.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I was gonna say, we'll talk about every single death.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
So if for some reason you haven't watched Harry Potter
and don't want to hear all that, I will just
say spoiler warning. But I feel for the most part,
everybody you've seen these movies, so they're fair game to
talk about it.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And if you're not gonna watch it before now, you're probably.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Not gonna Yeah, you're probably just like not for me, But.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Still listen to the episode because we do get into
some disagreements about how we feel about certain parts of
the movie.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
In the movie review, I'll be talking about Honora, which
has some Oscar nominations, and then in the trailer park
talk about the new Michael B. Jordan movie where he
plays him well, not himself, but he plays two versions
of himself.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
That trailer it freak.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
You're like, why are there two of him?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Well, and I thought it was a commercial. Came undering
football and I was like, is this commercial?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Oh, I know it's a movie.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
And then you you told me we saw the trailer
in theaters. I'm not believing that we did.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
We saw when we went to go see one of
their Days.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I don't believe you.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
But anyway, the movie is called Sinners. I'll get into why.
I think that movie looks really good. So thank you
for being here, Thank you for being subscribed. Shout out
to the Monday Morning Matt.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Just leave that in.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I'll leave it in. Shout out to the Monday Morning
Movie crew. And now let's talk movies.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And if anyone has ever wondered what it's like to
work from home when Mike records in his office, it
is very difficult.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
It sounds just like that.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
It sounds just like that, but about fifty times.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
All right, here we go. I know, with all this
scrutiny from the Nashville Podcast Network, this is movie Mike
movie Potter. All right, we're going to talk about rewatching
all the Harry Potter movies. Let's talk about first you
read the books. I did.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I read the books so many times as a kid.
I fell in love with them. They were the first
like big series that changed my life. I would order
the book and pick it up at midnight at Barnes
and Noble. And I think I've told the story in
here before about when the final book came out in
we hear? Did the final one come out?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Two thousand and seven?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Okay? Perfect? So I was thirteen and I was a
bit of a smart ass as a child, and as
a child I talked back and instead of being grounded
from like computer TV, my mom took my Harry Potter
book away devastated, got it back the next day. So
what does one do. They stayed till two am finishing
it in case they get grounded again. And that's how
much I love the books. And I've seen all the
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movies over the years, rewatched them a ton of times.
But something about rewatching them this break made me just
like fall in love with them again. So I'm rereading
the books again.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Did you see them all in theaters. Oh yeah, Oh
so everything midnight? Oh yeah, what a time when you
could go to midnight releases. I don't think I ever
went to a midnight release of a book, a video game,
or a movie. Maybe I went to the Jackass three
D midnight showing. That might have been the only thing
(03:15):
I ever went to a midnight release. But those are
that's kind of gone, and I think for I remember
it being cool for video games, like whenever the New
Call of Duty would come out and there'd be like
a line of people outside of game stop. That is
nostalgic to me. I never read the books, which would
have been perfect for me because I was like the
same age as them as they were coming out, but
(03:35):
I wasn't too into reading when I was younger, still
not that into reading.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
But you're gonna start. I thought you said you had
read at least a couple of them.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, I read maybe the first two to three of them.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Okay, so you've read some of them. Yeah, I'm going
to reread them.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Now because I was able to check the first, second,
and maybe third one out of the library, and then
after that it became too popular and they were never
in stock, so I just never read them, and then
I remember always looking at them. Whenever this is the
last the book bear came around, I'm like, oh, they
got the Harry Potter books. I was always fascinated by
the covers, fantastic.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I really wish that I had kept my original ones,
but I gave them to my brother and then they
probably got sold or donated, so.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I haven't read all the books, which now I'm going to.
I want to read them now. And then when it
came to the movies, I also I didn't see them
all in theaters, and I also didn't see them all
probably until like a few years after the last one
came out. I think it was twenty thirteen or twenty twelve,
where I had the blu ray of all the movies,
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like the full pack of every single one, and I
sat down and just watched them all and that was
kind of how I really took in the story. But
I kind of feel like I missed out on that
a little bit. I feel if I would have kept
up with at least watching the movies the year they
came out, I would have been a bigger Harry Potter fan.
But I feel like you are the level of Harry
(04:58):
Potter fan that I am like a Marvel Oh absolutely,
and it is like the quintessential millennial franchise.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
It really is. Yeah, I love it. I still love
like merch. Like my mom got me Quark sickle. She
loves getting us themed cork sickles, and she like went
ham On Harry Potter collection for me last year. I've
got a Gryffindor water bottle. I have a Golden Snitch cup.
I have a Headwick the Owl cup. Love them.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
So before I get into my ranking of all of
the movies, what is your favorite and what is your
least favorite? So, and this has to be after we
rewatched them all, because I think it's let me see
how many hours all the Harry Potter movies are. There
is nineteen hours and thirty nine minutes. And we did
it all one Thanksgiving week and then the rest during
(05:47):
Christmas break, which five days, like five days. So we
did all that. After that rewatch, what's your favorite and
your least favorite favorite.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I'm gonna go Prisoner of ask Man least favorite. Yes,
I will go Chamber of Secrets because I love them
all so much, so it's hard to pick.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Okay, I feel like you.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Get more of the story and the complexity of Harry
and the other characters and their history as they go along.
And I can't say the first one is my least
favorite because that's what started my love of the films.
It's iconic, so I feel like it has to be
Chamber of Secrets. Okay, now we're just talking movies.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Yes, movies.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Books. It's been too long since I've read.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Them, and you're how far into rereading them now?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Halfway through the second one? Okay, I forget how quick
of a read they are because they're designed for kids.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, so much more at my reading level when I
get back into it. Yes, all right, we'll get into
my ranking. At number eight from two thousand and nine,
I have Harry Butt, Harry Butter. I just gonna leave
that in. I have Harry Potter and the Half Blood Princes,
which I could just say the second part of the title.
I don't know why I'm gonna say Harry Potter every time. Yeah,
half Blood Prince is my least favorite, okay, And I
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think it's just because the tone of this one, this
one feels like the bridge to get us to the end. Yeah,
some cool stuff happens in this one, but it almost
felt like a filler movie to me. Rewatching that, I
felt that more because when you go from one to
another to another to another, you kind of ride that
wave of their story. It's building, it's coming down, it's
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building up, it's ramping up. This very much kind of
plateaus the story before it ramps up and gets to
the best part. So I feel, out of all the movies,
this one is the most forgettable to me, which I
feel all of them have like encompassing scenes that I
associate with all of them and I think, oh, this
happens in this one. This happens in this one, And
(07:43):
that's how I am able to tell them apart, especially
after rewatching them, and this one I feel has doesn't
have that. I don't think it does.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
You're nuts.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I know what you're talking about, which you can say
it's is it spoiling it this point it came out
in two thousand and nine.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
You're nuts if you think Dumbledore dying is not a
memorable iconic scene.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I don't think so compared to all the other things
that happen in this I when we rewatched it, I
forgot that he dies.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I will not stand for this, which We'll.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Put a spoiler word in at the beginning of this,
but it's it's everybody's seen these movies. Nobody's gonna watch
Harry Potter for the I haven't like, if you haven't
talked it's ten years old, that there's a ten year.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Role all these movies more than fifteen.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, I'm saying every movie on this list is ten
years old. The last one came out in twenty eleven.
They're all ten years old. So spoiler free spoiler zone
because it's the whole Harry Potter episode. But going into
rewatching this, I forgot that he dies. And maybe it's
because I'm not the biggest Harry Potter fan, but I
was like, oh, yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I think it's because you're not the biggest Harry Potter fan.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I'm more familiar with the moment. The fact that the
actor who played him died in between the second and
the third movie. That is what I associate more with.
People don't the original actor. Yeah, the original actor, so
they change. That is what my brain went to first.
And then I was like, oh, yeah, he does die,
So I know it's a big part as far as
the story, probably a big part of the books. But
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when it comes to memorable moments out of the entire
series of movies, that one doesn't resonate with me.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
God, And then at the end when like his body
is laying there in front of the school and they
all raise their wands and like do the lights.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Maybe it's because I didn't see it in theaters. I
don't feel that sad in that moment. Other big characters
have died in movies that have hit me emotionally, But
I wasn't that sad when he died.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
And this is literally sl under right now.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I was it. There are other moments in this, in
all the Harry Potter.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Movies, dying is tragic, tragic.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I just don't feel that. There are a lot of
tragic deaths in movies. I wouldn't even put it in
the top ten. I would it because I forgot he died.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Okay, we gotta move on.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Okay, that is what I have at number eight.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
For marriage is going to make it all of this episode.
We got to move on.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
At number seven, I have the Order of the Phoenix
from two thousand and seven, directed by David Yates, who
also did Half Blood Prince.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
And definitely Hallows right he did Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
He did the back half of the movies, which I
thought they took a different tone. Whenever David Yates took
over darker they were darker, which you can shed a
little bit more light on this, no pun intended. But
did the books just get darker towards the end?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah, I mean you think about the fact he's literally
trying to defeat the most like evil person to ever exists.
Like the tone of it's just darker, and yeah, people
started dying more.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, I mean the whole plot.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Is that he's lived because this evil wizard tried to
kill his parents when he was a baby, and he
sat there watching men. It's a pretty depressing story to start,
and then he gets locked in the cupboard he.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Had down beneath the stairs. But I like this one
just a little bit more than Half Blood Prints.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
So even though there's a sad death in this one,
too serious black see again, Bellatrix runs around, I'm killing
serious black. I'm killed serious Black. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I hate her character, probably one of the worst characters
in movies and all these book adaptation movies. But this
one good but not one of my top five. At
number six, I have the Goblet of Fire two thousand
and five. Mike Newell directed this one. This one's great.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Can you name the said death in this one?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yeah, Cedric, my boy Robert Pattinson, see that I remember
his death. That one hit me. Didn't make me cry,
didn't make me too emotional. Well, when his dad does
come over that one, it's very sad because you think
about what is happening in the games and he comes
back and they all cheer.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Because they think that like he's managed to like bring
him back, and then it like gets really quiet and
everyone realizes and.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Then yeah, once they realize what happens, I think rewatching
it this time, I was able to take the emotion
from that scene, like Harry is there like bawling over
his body and it was just these games and it
turns out now somebody has died. And then whenever his
dad realizes it and he comes over and he's like,
that's my boy, like dang, that sucks. Yeah, and him
(12:14):
bringing his body back and then Voldemore in that scene.
That's a great scene.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah, that is a good one.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
And there's a lot of memorable moments from these games,
like whenever he's underwater with the dragons. There are a
lot of just big action moments. That the fact that
this one came out in two thousand and five, only
four years after the first one. The visual effects greatly improved,
which is another thing we saw while rewatching these movies.
They go from looking like video game characters and some
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of the flying scenes to a becoming a little bit
more and more refined to where you go back to
the very first one and it looks like how did
we buy this? Like how did we take this in?
As like looking good?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, and it's like the tech got better in the
budget got.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Bigger that too, so they became more expensive looking. Yeah.
I'd say everything from six to one is top not
that the seven and eight are bad. It is my
least favorite. That's what I have at number six. At
number five, I have the Chamber of Secrets from two
thousand and two. This was Chris Columbus, which this movie
dropped a lot. This used to be my second favorite
(13:14):
and the movies I put above it now.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Because of the rewatch.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Because of the rewatch, it went down. I think I enjoyed.
I had this one as my second favorite for a
long time. Is because I loved the tone early on
in the movies. Where they felt like individual stories, where
it was just here they are, this is what's going
on in this movie, and they don't necessarily connect, see.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
And that's why I love the later ones, because.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
It all builds up. And I guess maybe because I've
only read the first two, maybe the third one I
don't remember, but I feel like they encompassed what the
books were more like I read those and then watched
these movies, and I feel like it translated how I
pictured it in my head reading them.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
The first two books are a lot short too, though
they get exponentially longer.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
That's also what I remember seeing them at the Scholastic
book Fair. I'm like, oh, the last one is huge.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I'm going to compare the pages they are.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yeah, But I think it was because I also love
Chris Columbus, who I think is a great director, and
he really brought that fun, vibrant, wizardry vibe to both
of the first movies. He's really good at working with
child actors. There's also something about seeing them much younger
that I feel there's more innocence to it, and as
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you see them become teenagers go through more not totally
adult things, I feel it changes the tone of it,
and I kind of like the idea of Hogwarts being
that just where these kids go to be wizards, and
it has a little bit more like a magical vibe
to it, and then later just gets kind of more
serious and dark.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Okay, I found this like random website stuff. This isn't right.
First book has three hundred and nine pages, second three
forty one, the third four to thirty five, the fourth
seven thirty.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Four, Oh my gosh, the fifth.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Eight seventy, the sixth six point fifty two, and the
seventh seven fifty nine, with a total of four thy
one hundred pages.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
It's a lot of pages. That's why they split the
last one into two movies. So yeah, Chamber of Secrets
really dip for me, but it is a top five
to one.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
This other website has a different statistics.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
So well, we have a general idea. They got bigger
and bigger, almost doubled in size by the end of it. Right.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Oh, you could really hurt someone with those last few hardbacks.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah. If I needed to have a fight in school,
I just grab a Harry Potter buck knock somebody out
A number four I have from twenty ten Deathly Hallow's
Part one, directed by David Yates. This one sets the
stage and it went up on my list.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I was gonna say, you weren't the biggest Deathly Howard. No.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
And I think it's because when we do rewatch them,
we don't typically rewatch the last two, maybe because they
are heavier. Maybe it's because the conclusion of the story.
It's not one that I think like, hey, let's put
that one on the.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Way light, family friendly film.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
But the way we rewatched them all and where I
was able to see it build up towards the end
and like really find out the true story, I almost
feel like for the first time again because it's been
a while since we sat down and rewatched them all.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Now imagine like having to wait a year even though
I'd read the book.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I couldn't do it. Like I put myself in that
position of when these movies came out and thinking like
going to a theater and not knowing what was going
to happen, even though you probably read the book, you
knew what was going to happen, but that level of
excitement had to be wild.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Oh it was unmatched.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
So that one went up and at number three. This
one also went up and I put them together. It's
a deathly Hollo's Part two from twenty eleven, the conclusion
to all of it. I don't remember the scene whenever
Harry finds out the whole story of how it all
connects and with Snape.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
They go to the big exposition of what does he
dips his head in like that water thing like that fountain,
and then he's able to.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Like to well, Harry dips his head in the water
and sees he puts like Snape's tears.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
That's what head that was sad.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Sees all of Dumbledore telling Snape like you must be
the one to kill me, and how Snape, like all
along is tried to protect Harry and he wasn't the
bad guy. I remember reading that and my mind was blown.
Life was changed. I was like, oh my god, he
wasn't the bad guy because in the books it's the
same like you think for six books that Snape hates
(17:42):
Harry and that he's responsible for Dumbledore's death. You think
that and then like you find out in the book
truly changed me.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
And the fact that Voldemort has been a part of him,
like he lives inside of him. That whole connection of
when he what happened when he tried to kill a
and it just for the first time I was able
to like really connect it all and feel the gravity
of it and think, oh, like how well designed this
story was and all the pieces that ended up connecting.
(18:13):
This is the only movie franchise that I feel wraps
up perfectly because I guess because it is based on
the book. But there was nothing, no questions unanswered, there
was no emotions that you were lacking.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
It had it all Yeah, And then they give you
the scene in like twenty years when everyone's like Marry
didn't have their own kids going out.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
That hits you emotionally. I also love whenever they go
into whatever that white space is wherever he sees him
again Dumbledore again and he like you think he's dead,
but then he's not really dead. Then he comes back
to life. Long Bottom has his moment where he shines.
So there are so many great conclusions for different characters
(18:55):
in this final movie that I found myself loving it more.
And now I feel like I could just go back
and watch part two yeah and enjoy it and feel like,
oh yeah, that is one. Now I want to go
back and rewatch that is why I have it at
number three now, but at number two has stayed here
pretty steadily. I'd say before Chamber of Secrets was in
that number two spot forever. I just love those so much.
(19:18):
But it's Prisoner of Azkaban came out in two thousand
and four. The we've watched this one, I feel like
the most.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Because we've seen it anytime it's on TV. And then
we did one of our outdoor movie nights they showed
that one.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
And this one. It's pretty It has a lot of
vivid memories. Obviously the introduction of serious.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Black Hermione has the like time travel thing. It's the
first one where they look more like great older they
don't look like tiny kids.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
There are children in the first two, but this one
they get older.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
And it starts to get a little darker.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
The tone the bus scene at the beginning, yes, which
I think is the most iconic, one of the most
iconic things out of all of these movies. Boss that
is very memorable and overall has just become one that
I feel is a really good centerpiece of the entire story.
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And I think it's the fact that we have rewatched
it so much that it has great rewatchability. It has
crept up into my number two slot, all right, and
at number one Sorcerer's Stone two thousand and one, Chris Columbus.
I just feel that this one embodies everything that I
love about Harry Potter.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I had it on VHS.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
That is amazing. I wish I had, But it's I
hate to pick the first one in a franchise because
which you don't normally. I don't because I feel like
the first one is still setting the stage, but this
one sets the stage. The best of him not knowing
is a wizard Haggard, Haggard coming. Yeah. The best line,
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That whole interaction with all them trying to get the
no to him, the mail to him post doesn't come
on Sunday, him living beneath the stairs, them leaving and
then still finding them and him finding out about the
platform nine and three quarter like they're just is the best.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
And it also the reason we associate these movies, at
least for us, with Christmas time is because there is
Christmas in this one, Happy Christmas, Harry, and it just
has like that warm, cozy vibe that even though it's
not a Christmas movie. I think that's why anytime November
December roll around. I want to rewatch these movies. And
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I also feel this was the first time that you're
introduced to not knowing whether Snape is a good or
a bad guy. You think he's the bad guy the
entire time.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
You think he's the bad guy for six movies.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Yeah, but this is the one where like, oh, he's
the bad guy. He's doing it, He's the one messing
up the quidditge man.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Oh yeah, yeah, one he's doing the curse and it
turns out it's Quirrel and Snape's like trying to counteract it,
and Hermione sets Snape's robes on fire.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
So I I think nothing will ever knock this one
out of being my favorite Harry Potter movie. It has
everything I want from every single character, and to me,
it just feels the most magical And I feel kind
of like a kid again when I watched this movie,
and I think this is the only one that makes
me want to go to Hogwarts because they do the
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sorting hat they That's what I wondered, like, did every
other kid who came to Hogwarts after Harry Potter not
have the traditional experience because things just got crazy No,
they still do it, But that was like the last
good year to come, because then it's just like, oh,
Harry Potter's always here, already here. We don't care about
any new students.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
No, they introduce new students in the books.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Oh they do. I guess I gotta read the books.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I guess you have to read them.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Any other thoughts you have After rewatching all the Harry
Potter movies.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I forgot how much I hate de Laura's Umbridge.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Yeah, she's pretty awful.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
God, Emelda Stanton does a great job as being a
hateable character.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah, but she is one of the worst characters in
the entire branch.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Bellatrix Strange, the entire Malfoy family.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Oh yeah, Like, how did they not murder them or
get rid of them earlier? How did they still allow
Malfoy to go to Hogwarts?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
It's a great question.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
It's like, he's a criminal.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
He's a criminal. He sucks.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
It made me want to, yeah, punch him in the
face a lot of times, which he does get punched
in the face by Hermione.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yes, he does a good one. Hermione Granger is my icon, smart,
nerdy kind of see a lot of myself and her
just the know it all hand raised in class all
the time, Like, didn't you mean to assign his homework?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
It's not when Godi and Leviosa.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
It's when Gudi and Leveosa.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
I think that's the only spell I've learned.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Yeah, I know the death spell. I don't say it aloud.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Though Patronis is one m ex Really that's the other
one I know. Yeah, and now you want to go
to Harry Potter World.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I do.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
That's in Orlando. Yeah, I'd love to go, because we've
been to the one in California. Yeah, but it's smaller,
it's not the same. You want to get a wand two,
one of the ones the Wane chooses you, No, you
become a part of the wand.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
It has to I want one with like Unicorn hair.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I find after watching this one that I would put
Voldemort in a top ten movie villains of all time.
Oh my god, I don't think I felt that before
the worst, But the way the entire story connected, and
his just relentless wanting to kill Harry Potter, like, yeah,
he's top ten.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
For me now, yeah, and everyone else he kills along
the way.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
He'd Yeah, I realize how many more casualties there were
of all the people who ended up dying because of him. Yeah,
there's some pretty sad deaths. I still don't put your
favorite in there, Dobby. Oh my gosh, we didn't talk
about Dobby. This rewatch made me love Dobby Moore.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I will say, I know I put Chamber of Secret.
It's my Lea's favorite. But it is the intro to
Dobby when he's like banging his head on the wall
at the beginning of the movie. He's shut up, shut up,
He's I've made master Harry Mudd I.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Love How did we go this else whole rewatch and
not talk about Dobby. I would say top three character
for me in the whole movie franchise Dobby.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
The elf is a good one.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
So you're we'll just declare it here. You're not favorite death,
but the death that hit you the most.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Ooh.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I think for me it's Dobby because he is trying
to save them, He's trying to break them out, and
in doing that elf teleport thing, he gets knifed, he
gets shanked.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I'm gonna go serious serious because it was Harry's dad's
best friend. He came back into Harry's life he's been
locked up as a prisoner. He didn't do it. He
comes back. He's the closest thing Harry has to take
a dad again. And then Bellatrix kills him and it's
taken away, and it's almost like Harry gets another parent
taken away from him.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Oh, I didn't think about it like that. It's the
only other person who was that close.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
It's the person who knows his dad, And I like
put myself in that shoes as someone who's lost a parent,
like you think of like their friends that have stepped
in and like to lose that. It's like he's losing
the last piece of his parents.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Yeah, that's pretty sad. I guess when I think about Dobby,
I just think that the fact that he was going
there just to save him. He ends up dying in
the process.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
And then when they close his eyes and then they
put hair lies, Dobby a free elf.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Oh yeah. Whenever Harry Potter does the trick of putting
the sock in the book.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
No on his gravestone, it's a hair.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Livesbel Yeah, but yeah, that's how he got yes, yes, yes,
he gives them the book and.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Then Lucier's mouth was like I did not give you
a sock, And he's like, well, let's hear and I'm free.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Ah, pye's a free elf.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Yeah that's a sad one. Yeah, I'm gonna go serious.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
If you could eat or drink one thing from the franchise,
would you eat or drink?
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I mean I would try butter beer.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Yeah. That was when I forget which movie. That was
when Hermione got a little tipsy? Did she Yeah, there's
a scene where she she drinks beer and she gets
a little tipsy.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
But butter beer is an alcoholic it's not.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
No, Maybe I'm thinking of a different scene. I don't think,
go to like a pub and she gets what Harry
Potter did I watch?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Am I forgetting something?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Look it up? Hermione tipsy?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, you're right. Okay, Okay, I guess butter
beer is.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Alcoholic in that there's different versions of it. I guess
I was gonna say I would eat the cake that
Hagrid bought for Harry whenever he first went to get
him and his cousin starts eating that cake did look good.
I can't blame him, and turned into a little pigs.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Good old Dudley. Okay, Well, I'm looking up if butter
beer is actually supposed to be alcoholic.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
The Google says butter beer is to have a slight
alcohol content but in but I don't think the version
you get at Harry Potter World has alcohol correct if I.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I okay, I didn't remember that she gets drunk in
that one.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
You're right, and that's what I rewatch does for you see.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
And now it's like we've rewatched them all, but then
I'm rereading them all, so now there's too much in
my head and I forgot that. But yeah, you're right,
I was wrong. I stand corrected.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
It's all good. Just the movie. Anything else about Harry Potter,
I just love it so much. Yeah, we were sad
once we were done.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
And I'm like, these have been done for fourteen years,
But it was something about we hadn't done a full
rewatch that concentrated, like in that short of amount of
time and so long that then finishing them, I'm like,
what do I do with my life now, which is
why I'm rereading them.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
So now we just have the Mac Show to look
forward to. Don't really know all the details on that.
We could dip into Fantastic Beasts, which I like the
first Fantastic Beasts.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
There's Laura in my family about that, so I put
it on one year on bag. Everyone hated it and
then I was scrolling my phone and they were like,
this movie sucks and you're not even paying attention. So
now any time it comes up, I like.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
The first one, but not the same. So I don't
think I ever want them to be remade, even though
those early movies do suffer a little bit from the CGI.
I just think it.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
I just see I want the TV show.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah, I think the idea of doing one book into
a season of a show is great because you can
explore more. I think it all comes down to casting
with that. But yeah, I'll watch that all day.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Adam Driver for snape. It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Oh yeah, I see that campaign. Yeah, you got to
just get some get some good people in that, which
I don't know if they'll break the Noamerica or break
the American rule, which they didn't want Americans cast into
the movies. I guess because they wanted yeah, and they
didn't want to promote I guess they wanted to promote
British actors more than American actors, which I think in
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the first one, Chris Columbus's daughter is in it. I
think that was one of the only exceptions. But she
wasn't She didn't never role. She was just like an
extra in it. Interesting, but that is our Harry Potter
recap and reranking.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, this was a nerdy episode.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Let's get into it now. Another spoiler free review talking
about a movie nominated for Best Picture. Honora has six nominations,
including Best Director, Best Picture, Best Actress, just to name
a few, And this is a movie I feel that
if you look at all the nominees in the Best
Picture category, I feel like it has the most interesting
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character and I don't think it's going to win, but
I think it's one of those movies that is gonna
stand the test of time. Out of all the movies
in this category, probably second on the list would still
be the Substance. But I feel sometimes there are these
movies that they get nominated and they have a good
chance of winning. Obviously, anybody in that category has a
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good chance of winning, but it feels like it has
a little bit more of a fan base that people
actually went to go see it. The movie cost six
million dollars to make, has made about thirty million dollars,
which if you look at a lot of these best pictures,
sometimes they don't make a whole lot, they're not very profitable,
and it sometimes those movies that go on to win
Best Picture. So I feel I do like the fact
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that anybody has a chance to win. No matter how
much you make at the box office. It's about how
much of an impact you can make. It's about how
novel your movie is, which I think some people don't
understand that it's a movie that the most people saw.
It's the movie that came out that defines that gear
that really pushed cinema. That's the reason this category exists.
But I think Anora will go on to be a
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movie that people discover more once the Oscars happen and
you see Mikey Madison out there just being so charming
on the red carpet talking about it. I think it's
the movie that people will give a chance and end
up enjoying more and will be on more people's lists
some of their favorite movies of all time. You have
director Sean Baker, so let's get into what this movie
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is actually about. I pulled the description straight from IMDb
because again it's a spoiler free review, and I didn't
want to give away all these details that I feel
like you learned as the viewer. But even selling this movie,
I guess is a little bit hard because they kind
of put a lot of it here. In the description,
it says a Nora, a young woman from Brooklyn, gets
her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and
marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia,
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her fairy tale is threatened as the parents set out
for New York. They get the marriage annulled. So Anora
is working as a stripper turned escort when she meets
this dude. And the reason she meets him is the
club owner says, hey, this guy's looking for somebody who
speaks Russian. Anora happens to understand Russian, can speak it
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a little bit, but they send her to deal with
him so she can communicate with this guy. Turns out
this dude is worth a lot of money. He was
at the club just throwing money around. They hit it off, obviously,
I feel like most situations like this with the dude
with a lot of money, she realized that she capitalized
on that, and then he asks her if she works
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outside of the club. She goes to his big, fancy house,
and that's where you get the Cinderella story of her
seeing man. This dude is loaded, has an amazing house
with an amazing view. Annie has a lot of money,
so given her line of work, she capitalizes on that.
And it goes from them just spending an hour together
to spending a week together and then, like the description says,
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eventually getting married. And I feel like that is a
lot of the story. But just knowing all that, you
don't know all of the story because so much happens
and so much unfolds, And I feel, out of all
the characters and all the Best Picture nominees, everybody up
for Best Actress, I think Anora is the most interesting
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character on her own, And maybe it's just because it
dives into this world that I don't know a whole
lot about. Like I've never been to a strip club.
I don't know what this is, like, I really only
know from watching movies. But I feel like this was
a very raw and accurate representation. And I really felt
the evolution of Mikey Madison's character where it starts out
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with her just being kind of curious about this guy
to kind of developing a relationship with him and then
seeing it as her opportunity to get out of a
really hectic life. And I really felt this from the
very beginning of the movie. After they spend that night
at the club, it cuts to her being at home
in this house that isn't the best living situation. She
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has a roommate, and it really allows you to see
into the life where you just saw her at night,
kind of being in control over world and having to
do a really tough job. Which that is what I
felt while watching this movie. I feel like sometimes people
think that it's just an easy job. I mean people
say this jokingly, but you hear people say like, well,
thing else works out, I'll just go be a stripper.
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I feel like this job is incredibly draining. After watching
this movie, having to deal with some of the grossest dudes,
you know, I just have more respect for the profession
after watching this movie. That is how I felt, because
then it cuts to her life at home and you
see that it's not easy. You see that, Okay, maybe
you are making a lot of money the night before,
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there's a big toll that it takes on your mental state,
and for Anura, she's really just trying to find her
way out of this and she sees this guy, sees
this opportunity. As they're take it out her Cinderella story,
I guess they're comparing it to a Cinderella story. I
feel like this is what really would have happened in
Pretty Woman, because if you think about Pretty Woman Julia Roberts,
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Richard Greer, that would have never happened that way. It
wouldn't have had that rom com feel. That movie, to me,
isn't really set in reality. It is a classic movie,
it is a great story, but it's very it doesn't
feel well. Maybe at the time. I think that movie
came out in nineteen ninety, probably shot in the late eighties,
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so maybe at that time it was a little bit
more wholesome. I have to imagine it was not, but
for something going on right now in the twenty twenties,
I feel like this is the only way you could
tell this story. This shows what would actually happen, what
would be the implications. And I think I just really
enjoyed seeing her character go through so much and really
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become a different person by the end of it, and
the entire movie takes place in about two weeks, and
to see Mikey kind of go through this evolution of
being just this kind of naive person and then having
all these people just pile on her when they get
so outraged that they get married and they just keep
calling her a stripper, a night bad, all these awful
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things that make it feel really degrading. I will say,
if you are somebody who doesn't like a lot of
screaming and yelling in a movie, might not be the
movie for you, because they are all out screaming matches
in this movie. There are moments where they're trying to
calm her down and she just all out belting out
and yelling by yelling and screaming and kicking and doing
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all these things which I would do too. I would
be kicking and screaming too, if somebody was trying to
take me out of this mansion that I just came
to with my new husband. There are moments of this
movie that reminded me of how I felt during Uncut
Gems and how just nervous and anxious that movie made
me feel. Where I was literally on the edge of
my seat while watching Uncut Gems. It had that chaotic
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energy where you have all these things going on at once,
people yelling and screaming, people getting into fights, and you
just kind of had this feeling of something bad is
about it happened, something is going to go down. So
if you aren't a fan of movies that have chaotic energy,
also might not be the movie for you. And I
know some people just get annoyed by people screaming, but
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I think that is part of it, that is part
of understanding her character. And I will say this movie
has a lot of nudity, and I think Hollywood is
kind of getting back into showing not just nudity, but
people actually doing it. I think there was a time
where I feel Hollywood scaled back with all that was
going on to people being accused of stuff. Everybody wanted
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to make sure that sets were safe. I honestly think
that is why we saw a reduction in scenes like this. However,
a Nora really just goes all out for it. I'd
probably put it on the same scale of euphoria on HBO,
Like an HBO show just goes full out showing you everything,
and it is really polarizing and shocking. At the beginning
of this movie, so This might take some other people
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out of consideration of watching this movie if you don't
like a lot of nudity, a lot of people hooking up,
because that is a big part of the first act,
showing you what she has to do for this guy.
I think it is put there not so much as
a shock value, but as Sean Baker really committing to this,
making it something that is a spectacle, is something that
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you remember, and throughout the course of the movie it
does get away from that, and I think that's honestly
where I started to enjoy it more, because the first
act is all of them just kind of living in
a fantasy world. Crap hits the fan in the second act,
and then of course you have your falling action like
you normally would in the third act, where I guess
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I was expecting a little bit more to happen, because
even if you read that description that I read earlier,
that really tells you the entire story. And it was
not that I got bored in the third act. It
just got a little bit less interesting to me. It'd
be like going to a road trip. You were going
to see like a big monument, and you expect to
see something really big and grand at the end of it,
and then you just kind of drive by like a
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big tumbleweed and like, oh, that was it, okay. But
then I had to look back on it, think about
it and think, well, I think that was just my
anticipation of it. I think it was all of the
building action that I thought it was going to build
up to something wild and something just like, oh, this
is why this movie was nominated for Best Picture. I
never really got that, but I did get a story
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about a girl who went through a really crazy couple
of weeks, and it ended up just kind of breaking
my heart. So this movie was much more of a
case of it's not the destination, it is the journey
for a noura. I give it four out of five. Ooh,
I have to be careful here. I give it four
out of five. Mansions.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
It's time to head down to movie Mike Traylor, Paul Well.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Four months ago, they dropped the first teaser to Sinners.
It's a new movie starring Michael B. Jordan director Ryan Kugler.
They've worked together a lot on Creed, Black Panther, Fruitville Station.
I was in Michael B. Jordan anything, Ryan Kugler directing
anything I am in, but I didn't really know what
the movie was gonna be about based on that quick
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little teaser. But now the full trailer is out and
it looks really good. It's gonna be one of those
movies that does risingly well without a whole lot of
hype going into it. But I hope after this trailer
dropped it has like five million views now on YouTube,
more people are gonna be interested. The hype is gonna build,
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so it won't just kind of go under the radar.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
Good.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
I want this movie to be massive because I love
both people in front and behind the camera. But what
this movie is about. Michael B. Jordan plays twins, So
in this trailer, not one, but to Michael B. Jordan's,
which I think is a dream for a lot of people.
He plays twin brothers who are trying to leave their
trouble pass behind them. They return to their home for
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a fresh start, but there's a greater evil living there.
This is actually a vampire movie. The entire movie takes
place in one day, which I love me a movie
that takes place entirely in one day. It is set
back in nineteen thirty two during the Prohibition era, a
lot going on, like how do you go from two
brothers reuniting trying to get their life back on track,
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essentially starting a gang becoming bootleggers, to a vampire film.
I have some theories based on them talking about this
movie and doing some research on it. The movie has
a budget of about ninety million dollars. It's coming out
on April eighteenth this year. Before I get into more
about sinners, here's a little bit of the trailer. You twins,
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now we cousins listen here. This ain't no house party.
Y'all ready to drink. Y'all are ready to sweat to
y'all s Thank you ansome who we gonna kill every
last morning?
Speaker 2 (42:35):
You?
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Hey, I ain't mean to scare of you. Thought, I
don't forgot about me? A call?
Speaker 2 (42:46):
Open doling on out here.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Stay there's you closes me, open the door. That ain't
your brother. I love the soundtrack, The little rootles always
freak you out. The tag to this movie keep dancing
with the Devil. One day he's gonna follow you home.
So I have my theories on how this goes from
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just a normal period piece to a horror movie with vampires.
So what you see in this trailer, you see Michael B. Jordan,
who plays two different characters. They're twins. Elijah whose nickname
is Stack, he's gonna be dressed in red in this movie,
and then you have Elias Smoke, who is gonna be
dressed in blue in this movie. That's how you're gonna
tell them apart. Elijah is probably more, at least described
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by Michael B. Jordan what he would be like in
real life, a little bit more fun and light hearted,
and Smoke, who was dressed in blue, is way more serious.
He's supposed to be the scarier one in this trailer.
It sounds like at the end what you heard there
was Smoke turning into a vampire. So he's gonna be
probably a second antagonist here. So my theory on this movie,
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based on the trailer, I think they become bootleggers and
start selling beer and alcohol. There's one point in the
trailer where they open up a back of a truck.
They have a bunch of bottles there. There's a creepy
rattlesnake chilling there as well, and then they have this
big party where you can go and they're gonna drink.
They're gonna party which is ban during this time during prohibition.
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One of Michael B. Jordan's characters invites Hailey Steinfeld to
this party filled with a bunch of their family and friends.
And then you have the main antagonist, Jack O'Connell, who
is playing a character named Remick and is the leader
of the vampires. He finds out about Hailey Steinfeld white
girl going over to party with them, doesn't like it,
and it looks like things escalate from there were you
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think it's just a race thing at first, but then
you find out that this dude, like I said, is
the leader of the vampires. It kind of reminds me
from Dust Till Dawn, whenever George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino
try to go meet this guy at a bar and
then they find out that this bar is actually full
of vampires built on a burial ground. I think something
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similar like this is going to happen. They're going to
get into a fight that's just going to be race fueled,
and then one of them is either going to die
or the other main antagonist is going to pull out
his vampire powers and bite some people. Because what you
see throughout the course of this trailer is people start
turning into vampires. And I love the way that this
movie feels because it is a period piece, but it
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has this modern feel to it too, And I think
there are some period pieces that kind of turn me
off in the sense that it's just so hard for
me to get into the way people would speak even
back in the twenties and thirties, going back even further
before that time period, it is really hard for me
to grasp onto the dialogue. But this one still has
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kind of a modern feel to it, which I like
that juxtaposition of a movie being set back in the day,
but it kind of breaks a little bit of the
barrier to make it feel a little bit fresh, a
little bit modern, that you can kind of break those
rules if you're intentional and purposeful about it. Not so
much like, oh, you're going back to the thirties, but
you're gonna have people on cell phones, Like that's a
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little bit too far. But there are some things, even
the way Michael B. Jordan's character speaks in this movie,
that you can have a little bit of a modern
edge to make it feel fresh and to not make
it feel so boring. I think one of the biggest
problems I had with No Sat was the fact that
they talked so boring and drawn out. It was really
hard for me to care about any of that dialogue.
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Even the way that The Sinner's trailer looks, it has
a very cinematic feel that feels new to me. It
doesn't feel like I'm watching a really old movie, so
I think that gives it that fresh face lift to
make it seem like something special. And then the fact
that it shifts into an all out horror movie, I
think is gonna go another level because there's almost this
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supernatural feeling to it where it seems so normal set
in reality, and then all of a sudden, you have
Michael B. Jordan looking like a vampire. You have Hailey
Steinfeld with blood all over her face, also looking like
a vampire. Everybody's turning into vampires, I sound like Seinfeld.
Everybody's turning into vampires drinking blood? Huh. And I think
also the fact, sadly that a lot of the issues
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it looks like they're gonna address in this movie are
still gonna be the same modern day complications that we
still deal with in American society. Hailey Steinfeld's character, in particular,
who says she needs to be saved, but it ends
up being not in the way you think. So I
think there is gonna be a lot of commentary in
this film. Much like a lot of Ryan Coogler films,
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Black Panther decreed that theme has always been there. There
are also some fantastic shots that I always look for.
I don't always expect to find them in a trailer,
but when I do, it's a real treat. There's one
of Michael B. Jordan looking real distress with his look
on his face. He's all sweaty. There's also a really
great shot where Michael B. Jordan's walking out and he
has like this old school atomic gun and he's firing
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it off. That is also a fantastic shot. So so
many things I like about this trailer. You have two
Michael B. Jordan's why I have one when you can
have two. You have Ryan Coogler, who is a great,
fantastic director, maybe in my top ten directors right now,
pretty close to I mean, because Black Panther is amazing.
He's working on Black Panther three. I love all the
Creed movies, even though he didn't direct all of them,
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he has had a hand in one, two, and three.
If this movie ends up living up to my expectations,
I could easily put them in my top ten modern
day directors. You have Hailey Steinfeld, who is fantastic, and
it reminds me of more period pieces that have felt modern.
I'm talking movies like Jango Unchained Once upon a Time
in Hollywood. Maybe it's a Quentin Tarantino thing, because Quentin
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Tarantino is famous for rewriting history where he goes back
to a time period and skews things a little bit
because you don't have to play to any rules. Yeah,
some things can be historically accurate. But when you're able
to just do whatever you want and make a great
movie and create a spectacle, well that's what it's all about.
But again, this movie is called Sinners. It is coming
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out on April eighteenth, and I am hype at that.
Speaker 2 (49:08):
For was this week's edition of Movie Line Tramler.
Speaker 1 (49:11):
Bar and that is going to do it for another
episode here of the podcast. And if you're wondering why
didn't Mike talk about all of the great Super Bowl
trailers that dropped on Sunday. If you're listening to this
on Monday, which is released day. Well, spoiler alert, I
was actually at the super Bowl, So if you didn't
hear about that, we haven't been watching my socials, go
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back and watch that and I will get to all
of the super Bowl trailers. That was the downfall, I know, right,
Champagne problem. I guess that I did not get to
stay home and watch it with Kelsey and enjoy all
the movie trailers in real time. I guess, not a
bad problem to have, but I had to record this
ahead of time before seeing those trailers. I will get
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to those next week because I know they were epic
and I know they were fantastic, So that is why
I didn't include those on this week's episodisode. But before
I go, I gotta give my listeners shout out of
the week. This week, I'm going over to my YouTube channel.
I think out of all my favorite places for people
to comment, YouTube is number one, primarily because most people
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are awful on YouTube. YouTube is the only platform where
people poke at my appearance. They don't even care what
I say. They will just poke at things that irritate
me in a way that I can't really control. Because
it's my face, because it's my teeth, because it's my glasses,
because it's my hair, because it's maybe I wasn't having
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the best day to be on camera that day. YouTube
is the most ruthless when it comes to that. But
even with that, it's still my favorite place to go
read comments because I'll take the bed. I can take
it doing anything in this capacity. You're gonna get those haters,
You're gonna get those trolls. But I also feel like
I find the best comments on YouTube, whether it's people
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giving me actual constructive criticism which I learned from, or
genuine feedback countering one of my points, and then every
now and then people are like, hey, you made a
good point there. Second place would be TikTok comments. Most
people are pretty nice over there, and third would be Instagram.
But this week's listener shout out of the Week goes
to ma Toira on YouTube, who said, such well thought
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out points, I love your style of commentary. Just found
your channel and subscribe. Well, thank you, Matra. I think
that's how you say your name. It could just be
your username Muhtrya. And I didn't just pick that comment
because like, hey, somebody actually being nice to me. I
just feel like this was somebody who stumbled upon the podcast,
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stumbled upon the videos and now is going to stick around.
And I love people coming over for the first time
and actually sticking around. That means a lot to me.
So thank you Matra for commenting, for being subscribed on YouTube.
You listening right now. If you want to be like Matra,
go over to my YouTube page YouTube dot com slash
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are your friends and is looking for a new channel
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Come on over follow me. Thank you, hope you have
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go out and watch good movies and I will talk
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