February 24, 2025 • 48 mins
After much speculation, it’s officially official that we are getting a Goonies 2. Mike shares his thoughts on the age old tale of everything being a reboot or sequel. In doing so, he ranks the Top 10 direct sequels coming out this year in which he thinks will be the worst to best. In the Movie Review, Mike talks about The Monkey directed by Oz Perkins. It’s about twin brothers who find a mysterious wind-up monkey then a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree, forcing the estranged siblings to confront the cursed toy. Mike talks about how it compares to his last film Longlegs, the level of gore and how it used its $10 million dollar budget. In the Trailer Park, Mike talks about the new A24 comedy "Friendship." The film stars Paul Rudd and Tim Robinson as neighbors who become friends, but when that friendship threatens to splinter, things go awry quickly. Mike talks about why he thinks Tim Robinson is the best comedian right now.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie Podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike Today. It is gonna be.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
A lot of talk about sequels.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
I want to rank the top ten sequels coming out
in twenty twenty five. The Goonies is getting a sequel.
I'll give you what I love and don't love about
sequels and the state of cinema.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
We'll get into all that in.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
The movie review. I'll give my spoiler free review of
The Monkey, which is the new horror movie from Oz
Perkins who did Long Legs last year.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Was it as good as a trailer led on?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
And then in the trailer park we'll be talking about
Friendship and why I think it could be the funniest movie.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Of the year.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Thank you for being here, Thank you for being subscribed.
Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
And now let's talk movies from the Nashville Podcast Network.
This is Movie Mike Movie Podcast. What's Socking Sequels Today?
Goonies two is officially a go. Steven Spielberg is on board.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
It was inevitable that this movie was going to happen,
and now that it's officially announced, it's in the very
early stages of there's not even a director attached to it.
They're writing it, so it is that earliest stages, which
I don't love when movies are announced this soon because
then it takes so long, and I think we live
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in a world now where we kind of live in
these movies for way too long that by the time
they come out, it's like, oh man, this feels not
even new to me anymore. But with a movie this historic,
this bestowed upon just being not only a fan favorite,
but if you ask somebody who grew up in the eighties,
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it could easily be their favorite movie. But none of
the original cast as of now, as the recording of
this podcast and the history of me talking about this
movie in particular, whenever I talk about it, something always
gets announced after I record it. But at the time
of recording this, nobody from the original og Gouni's cast
is going to be a part of it. Corey Felman
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Kihui Kwan have expressed interest and wanting to do a sequel,
And then you think about just how amazing this cast is,
with not just them too, but Josh Brolin, who has
had a wild career since the Goonies, Martha Plimpton Sean Ashton,
Jeff Cohen, Carrie Green. Nobody as of right now is
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going to be a part of it. And the last
episode I did talking about the Goonies was during my
episode when I wanted to talk about eighties movies that
needed sequels, and I include Goonies on that list. And
I still believe that this sequel can work, but I
do have a couple of hesitations about it. If these
people aren't a part of this sequel, I'm not gonna
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like it. And that is kind of how I'm feeling
right now, and that's why I wasn't that excited once
it finally got announced, because I was hoping the announcement
was going to come. We're making Goonies to all the
original cast.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Is back, or at least most of them.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Really hard to get all the original cast, but I
think getting most of them, especially the bigger names now
who have gone on to have really big careers, I
think it's important to get those people back, and that
is a reason to make a sequel. We didn't get that.
That leads me to believe that it's not going to happen.
Because now over a decade they've been in serious discussions
about this it getting announced and nobody is a part
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of it from the original. That is a bad sign.
The other thing, when it comes to sequels, I feel
like people are getting sick of them, and the state
of we feel like everything is a reboot and a remake,
and I feel like this doesn't really help because if
you take a movie that is so beloved by so
many people and you don't bring back any of the
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original cast, it is really gonna leave a bad taste
in a lot of people's mouths. And this is a
type of movie that you could ruin the legacy of
it is that level of film where the history alone,
the memories that we associate with this movie, with the soundtrack,
with the cast, with the time that we first watched
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this movie, if you don't include any of that into
the sequel, it is just it's not going to feel
the same. And I hate a cash grab, lifeless sequel.
And then when you look at the state of cinema
for the highest grossing movies last year in twenty twenty four,
I know the highest grossing movies were sequels, And I
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think when it comes down to it, the main thing
I'm not a fan of.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I will watch a sequel.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I am a fanboy of some franchisees, and no matter
how many movies they make, I'm going to continue to
watch them. Where I draw the line is when it
feels like a cash grab, where it feels like they're
only praying on the fact that these movies have been
around for so long and people love them.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Then, no matter what we do, even if there's.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
No integrity in it, even if we just get a
random director and just push along a storyline that adds
nothing that ruins the movie that came before it. I've
seen this time and time again. That is why I'm
always hesitating. So I hope they get a great director
to do it. I hope they bring back the original
cast for Goonies, and I hope it doesn't feel like
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a cash grab.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
But at this.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Point in time, I don't feel great about it. So
with that being said, let's get into me ranking the
top ten sequels coming out in twenty twenty five. By
ranking them, I mean at number ten is going to
be the movie I think it is going to be
the worst, And at number one is what I think
is going to be the best sequel of.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
And I'm only gonna do direct sequel, So number twos
really anything that the sequel is a two, three, four five.
No matter where it lands in the franchise, it is
a sequel. But for the sake of this episode, since
we're talking about Goonies two, I just want to talk
about number twos. So at number ten, what I think
will be the worst sequel of twenty twenty five. I'm
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gonna go with Freakier Friday with Lindsay Lohan and Jamie
Lee Curtis, coming out on August eighth. This movie is
coming to us twenty two years after the original that
came out in two thousand and three. Jamie Lee Curtis
is coming back, Lindsay Loewen is coming back. This time
Lindsay Lohan's character now has a daughter and assume to
be step daughter. They're about to merge two families together,
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and then they discover that lightning may strike twice and they're.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Gonna be swapping bodies again.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
So I would assume that's Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee
Curtis swapping bodies again, and then Lindsay probably swapping bodies
with her new daughter.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Freaky Friday was great.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
It came out at a time where I feel like
putting music in a two thousands Disney esque movie.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
With a rock band.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I ate up all those movies because I wanted to
be that, And Freaky Friday has a very memorable moment
whenever Lindsay Lohan is playing guitar on stage with their band,
but it's actually Jamie Lee Curtis's body inside of her,
and then you have Jamie Lee Curtis's actual body side
stage actually doing the solos. That is one of my
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favorite musical scenes of the two thousands. And as much
as I enjoyed that movie, when it comes to Freaking
Your Friday, this just feels like it has cash grab
written all over it. So it does make the top
ten in it being that it is going to be
a movie I definitely got to watch, But since it
is Disney, it is giving me more of the vibes
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of whenever they made hocus Pocus two, where there was
no real reason to make a hocus Pocus to aside
from the fact that the people who loved and grew
up with that movie are now in their thirties and
can either pay for a Disney Plus subscription or get
their kids to watch it and then be invested in
the first one, and then Disney has a bigger product
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on their hands. That is what this movie feels like
to me. Although I'm all about the Lindsay Lohan comeback,
I think she has put out some pretty good work
in the last few years. I think it'll just be
fun to see her and Jamie Lee Curtis on screen
together again. But I can only imagine this movie is
going to be a big step down from the original.
So at number ten, I have Free Your Friday, and
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number nine I have The Black Phone two, which is
a horror movie with Ethan Hawk. It is coming out
on October seventeenth. He is coming back as a character
described as the Grabber, which is one of my favoritetten
masks of the last ten years. It's this pale off,
wide discolored mask with these horns, and Ethan Hawk just
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has a very interesting demeanor and character in The Black Phone,
and the movie was about his character, the Grabber, who
would abduct kids and put him in his basement, and
it was really weird, not exactly edge of your seat scary,
but one that you watch and you think, man, what
if this happened to me? How would I get out
of this situation? Then it has that supernatural element too,
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with the actual black phone where you can hear the
voices of the Grabber's previous murder victims. What the sequel
is going to be about, It's expected to follow one
of the characters who is now in high school, dealing
with the aftermath of the trauma that he experienced with
his first encounter with the grabber, who is returning in
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this one. But I think there's also going to be
a new threat and then still having to deal with
the voices from the Grabbers' previous victims. It is a
really unique blend of a coming of age story with
a bunch of horror elements, So I think this will
be one that you don't necessarily have to see in theaters. Again,
it's coming out on October seventeenth, but if you haven't
seen the first one, definitely worth the stream And if
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you like that one, check this one out later this
year at number eight, I have Zootopia two coming out
on November twenty sixth. Pretty much everybody coming back for
this one. Jason Bateman, all of the original cast. Zootopia
was low key one of the best movies of the
twenty tens from Disney. And maybe this is just me
looking back on the twenty tens now thinking things were great,
(09:44):
when at the time I was still like, oh man,
Disney still hasn't been good since the nineties, So maybe
it's because there's been some time in between now, But
at that time, Disney had kind of gotten away. I
feel from having movies that really had a message. Came
just a factory of trying to create these franchises, and
Zootopia was one that left a lasting mark of my brain,
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even the fact that I was already twenty five years
old when this.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Movie came out.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
And any Disney movie that can really spark a conversation
that can make a big statement about the world, but
not only that make a really fun and clever movie.
It is hard to blend a movie that has a
message but it's also just entertaining for the entire family. Zootopia,
I feel, is the best example of that when it
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comes to just a straight on Disney movie, not a
Disney Pixar movie, just a straight on Disney movie, which
is what this is.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Disney movies were.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Always rooted in their early days in fairy tales. In
this one not really a fairy tale, but it has
some of those characteristics just because it's the animal dynamic
inside of the Animal Kingdom has a fantastic voice cast
at number eight. Zootopia too at number seven. I'm going
with The Accountant to starring Ben Affleck. This is coming
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out on April twenty fifth. Ben Affleck plays an autistic
accountant was also a killing machine named Christian Wolf. John
Bernthal is also rejoining the cast and JK.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Simmons.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I love the First Accountant movie, which had Anna Kendrick
actually not coming back in this one, and this movie
left a lasting impression on me. If you look at
the reviews for the First Accountant, it got pretty bad reviews,
and I don't know why. I think it is a
great action movie. This is the type of action movie
I love. Well, maybe the acting isn't top tier like
The Departed, it has enough grit for me that I
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enjoy it. I also enjoy seeing Ben Affleck play a
character like this who is just a unique person because
you see him go from being an accountant, being really
great with numbers, being really smart, to then being an
all out killing machine. It's just that juxtaposition that makes
this movie so interesting. Now after watching the trailer to this,
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it does have a bit of a different vibe from
the first Accounted movie. I don't know if it's because
Matt Damon isn't a producer on this one anymore, not
that it feels worse than the first one. I just
think that it caught you a little bit more off
guard in the Accountant when he would go and live
his other life that people didn't know about. This one
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seems to be he is more established and you kind
of know what is coming, and it almost feels like
in the trailer that Ben Affleck is playing the character
a little bit differently and a little bit more dialed
into some of the characteristics to make that jump seem
a little bit more drastic. But this movie is coming
to us nine years after the first installment, which this
is a movie that I never really thought would get
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a sequel, So I think that's why it's also interesting
to me his character Launders money for some of his
character Launder's money uncooks books for some of the most
dangerous people and assassins in the world, so it looks
like he gets himself into another bit of a situation.
I think the scene at the end of this trailer
with him and his brother in the movie getting full
on into gear, walking out and just start shooting people
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up like that as a type of movie that you
just go watch and enjoy. So maybe it's because there's
not a whole lot of substance and anything beyond that,
which is why some people hated it and some people
ripped it to shreds. I enjoyed The Accountant one. I'm
excited for this sequel, so by number seven, I have
The Accountant too, and number six coming out on October
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twenty fourth is Mortal Kombat two. Video game adaptations.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Are huge right now.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Mortal Kombat doesn't have the richest history of being movies
that push the boundaries, but they are just fun movies.
And I just love Mortal Kombat characters so much. From Scorpions,
sub Zero, Goro, Luke Cage, there are so many great
Mortal Kombat characters, some fan favorites making their debut. This
has been a movie I've been waiting for since the
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first one came out in twenty twenty one. Not the
original ones from the nineties, but the reboot this so
it is a direct sequel to that one. I guess
it's part of a bigger franchise, but I'm still including
it on this list and number six. I have Mortal
Kombat too at number five. I didn't do this on purpose,
but I do have Five Nights at Freddy's, which is
coming out on December fifth. And this was a movie
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I didn't fully get when it came out in the theaters.
I reviewed it in everybody on YouTube let me know
how much of an idiot I was, and I think
it's because of the culture surrounding the video.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Game, and people love this one.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
It was a really big hit for Blumhouse, and I
feel like I just kind of missed it. I want
to revisit it. I want to give it a second chance.
But now I'm a little bit more excited going into
the second one now that I kind of know what
to expect. And I think even up toil last year,
I was still kind of in the mindset that every
horror movie needed to be scary, and I don't know why,
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and I think it's the way some trailers sell some
movies that I thought this one was gonna make me
feel that, and I'm kind of eliminating that now from
my criteria of horror movies where I want to focus
more on the world that they create and the feeling
that it gives me and the elements of horror that
still exists without them being like, ah, it's gonna make
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you scared, which is not what the Five Nights at
Freddy's franchise is. Another really lasting effect of this movie
is I recently heard the song Talking in Your Sleep
by The Romantics, which is featured in the first one,
kind of the theme song of the movie in a
way tells you the plot of what was happening to
the character in the original movie. And I heard it
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on the radio and I immediately associated it with the movie.
And it's been a while since that's happened for a
movie to take a popular song from a while ago
reput it into a movie and it kind of have
a second life. And now I will forever associate Talking
in Your Sleep with Five Nights at Freddy's, much like
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also last year Dead pulling Wolvere did with the Madonna song.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
So a lot of these pulling inspiration from the eighties.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
But I just love those movie and music moments in
films that leave an impression on us, because music and
movies should be more deliberate, in my opinion, use it
at just the right time to really connect with the
plot of the movie, connect with that moment of what
your character is going through. That is what makes lasting impressions.
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It's a lot different than just slapping a popular song
into a movie and saying, oh, yeah, that song was
in this movie. That's not as memorable. You can take
you a good song and put it into a movie,
but if you don't really fit it into the story
and play it at the right time, then it's not
gonna have that same effect.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
But that song did it.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I'm understanding more the lore of Five Nights at Freddy
So that is why I have this movie at number five.
At number four, I have Nobody Too coming out on
August fifteenth. Bob Odenkirk is returning in this movie twenty
twenty one. This was one of my favorite action movies
in a long time, and he plays a retired assassin
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force back into action to take on this Russian mobster.
So that's kind of a theme of a lot of
the action movies I like. I love action movies where
it's somebody who's been retired or out of the game
for a while and something has to suck them back
into the game. But Nobody had really great fast paced
action and fighting sequences where characters broke bones.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Bob butden Kirk's.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Character was bloodied up, a lot of shootouts, a lot
of fighting, a destruction of an entire house.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
This movie had it all.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
There are very few movies that I feel comfortable with
showing my dad because my dad does not watch movies,
doesn't care for him. I'm not sure the last time
he has completed a movie. But Nobody is a movie
that I could put on and be like, oh.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Man, this is good.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I love he loves shoot him up action movies, and
he would say, I love this.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
That is the type of movie.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
That feels nostalgic for me in a way because those
are the only types.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Of movies that me and him could pond over.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
So the fact that we're getting a Nobody to maybe
I could convince him to go to the theater to
watch it. Highly doubt it. But as far as new
action franchises go, this is it. If you like movies
like John Wick, Monkey Man, you gotta check out Nobody
if you haven't seen it yet, and Nobody to you
again this summer.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
It's gonna be a banger at number three.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Here's when we get into like the top tier, top
tier stuff. Megan two point zero coming out on June
twenty seventh, which is right around my birthday. This movie
made so much money back in twenty twenty two, one
hundred and eighty one million dollars. I would argue was
probably the most viral movie of that year where it's
hard to get a movie moment where even people who
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had no idea who the Megan character was knew it
from either the Sea song and how viral that was
on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
You probably saw a clip.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Of this even though you had seen the movie because
of that moment that this movie had so a big
hit For Blumhouse, who we've talked about already on this
list when talking about five Nights if Ready's but.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
This is kind of their formula.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
They spent only twelve million dollars on the original movie
and gross those one hundred and eighty one million dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
This is their model.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
They spend a little bit and hope that through word
of mouth and through marketing and through creating a character
like Megan who is so interesting that they could get
a crazy return on their investment, and Megan has now
become one of the new modern horror icons, which you
don't really get a whole lot of those anymore, but
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she's coming back. The movie is also getting a spin
off which is coming out in twenty twenty six, so
they're really building out a world for Megan. She could
be the new Chucky as far as the formula of
you have your Megan one, two, and three, that's probably
your initial trilogy, and then you start doing more side
quest When Megan as a kid, Megan gets older much
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like Chucky did, and I compare her to Chucky because
she is a killer AI robot much like Chucky was
a killer doll, and you can have a lot of
fun with that. She also borrows a little bit from
the comedy of Child's Play, where even though at moments
in the movie it does feel a little bit sinister,
but then at moments it does get a little bit silly.
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So I still hope they hold on to the great
tension and actual horror elements that the first one had,
because there were some moments in that movie that were
not chilling, but for a kind.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Of slasher horror sci fi.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Movie, it had some intense moments that costs for some
good showdowns. I hope it doesn't get too into the
realm of Oh people like Megan because she's a little
funny and sassy, So let's add some more comedic moments
into it.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Save that for part three.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Make part two a little bit more sinister, and I
think we're in good hands here. Megan two at number three,
coming out on June twenty seventh. At number two, I
have Happy Gilmore. And I know this might contradict what
I've been saying about what feels like a cash grab
in every way, I feel that Happy Gilmore too is
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a bit of a cash grab. It's coming out on Netflix.
The official date still isn't out. I've seen some early
images and stills from the movie. The only thing aside
from that that I feel it's a little bit cash
graby is this movie is gonna be really heavy with
the cameos.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
First one wasn't like that.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
This has kind of become Adam Sandler's marketing strategy and
kind of how he makes movies now is he includes
a lot of celebrities now to pop up throughout them,
and I feel like that takes away from the art
of Adam Sandler, which his early movies didn't rely on that.
I think it's kind of the model he created with
the Grownups movies. And I think it's because Adam Sandler
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is at a point in his life where he just
wants to create fun sets. He wants people to come
onto a set and have a good time while making
a movie, often filmed in tropical locations, so I think
that is why he does this now. He's just trying
to have a good time, which I can't hate on
him for. But I think it's just the fact that
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it's Happy Gilmore one of the best movies of his career.
When you talk about top three movies of Adam Sandler
that he's ever done, they all go back to the nineties.
I mean top two is easily Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison.
For me, those are the quintessential movies I think about
when I think of Adam Sandler. Maybe it's because they
came out around each other. I also associate them with
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having the Two Pac DVD back in the day. I
feel like those are his two best movies, even though
I think on any given day, Big Daddy could also
be my favorite. But throwing all those reasons to win
the fact that Travis Kelsey is in it, Bad Bunny
is in it, You have Shooter mcg we have in returning,
Julie Bowen is returning. It does have the pieces of
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the original. I think to me, it's also just thinking
of the way that Netflix movies look now, where they.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Don't really look like movies anymore.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
They look really glossy and bright and colorful, and doesn't
really have that same warmth of a movie from the
nineties that I think a sequel like this needs. So
I feel like it's a weird thing to complain about,
But I think the cinematography isn't going to match the
tone of the humor of Happy Gilmore.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I hope that it does, but I'm.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
So excited just to see what the plot is and
to see how this plays out, and hoping that he
wasn't lying and saying we have a really good script,
that this movie is actually.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Going to be good.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
So I ranked it so high because my hopes are
so high. The last time though my hopes were this
high an anticipation for a legacy direct sequel like this
was back when they made Dumb and Dumber two, and
I was so disappointed in that movie. Don't do me
like that, Adam Sandler. But my hopes are staying high.
At number eight. I have Happy Gilmore two coming out
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on Netflix later this year. How surprising that they're not
going to put out this movie in theaters? Is that
another indicator? Because I think if you had a really
good movie on your hands, oh, I do want to
get that thing in theaters. But Netflix pays them so
much money, and that's going to be number one on
Netflix for like two to three weeks, so they're really
paying for that. But at number one coming out on
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November twenty first, it is Wicked for good. We have
Alfa Banow in full control of her power. She has
declared the enemy of the state and turns into well
a full out which hunt.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
The thing I love knowing.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Going into this movie is the fact that they already
told us what happens to her character at the beginning
of Wicked. It starts with her dying, and if you've
seen the original Wizard of Oz, you already knew what
was going to happen to her character.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Regardless to me, in.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
My head, I I just can't see it getting there
because I love the character of Alphabet so much.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Cynthia Reewo does an amazing.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Job in the first one vocally and through acting, say
with Ariana Grande, but in my head, I couldnt see
her character getting to that point, and I'm thinking to myself, like,
maybe they changed something, maybe they rewrite history, maybe there's
some kind of magic that happens in between that that
doesn't happen to her character because I'm so invested and
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I love it so much that I don't want to
see that happen to her. But I also think that
there's gonna be some kind of a shift in Wicked
for good. And this is me have never seen Wicked.
I've never seen it, I've never experienced that. I for
that reason, have not looked up any spoilers on what
happens in the musical because I don't want to know.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
So this is me pure speculation.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
What I like to do about movies is figure out
what they're gonna do, So you might already know. This
is just my theory, But I think there's gonna be
some real shift in her character where you see that
rapid decline and maybe we see ourselves not rooting for
her as much as we have been, and we do
see this wickedness come out in her where she really
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starts to change. People around her go from defending her
to being in fear of her. And then we ultimately
do see your demise and it makes a little bit
more sense, or we see the opposite of her still
being kind of a good person and she sacrifices herself.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Because this movie was also split into two parts.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
It was originally going to be one movie, and they
had so much story to tell, so much content, that
they split it into two. I am glad that they
are releasing it one year after the first one, so
we don't have to wait a whole lot. I think
it's also smart for them because if you missed Wicked
one in theaters, even though it's about to be on
Peacock on March twenty first, they could have those double
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features sold out as well, where you show Wicked one
and it rolls into Wicked two. Yeah, you're gonna be
at the theater for like five hours, but I could
see some people doing that. Then you add in some
singlelong screenings as well, and that is great for movie
theaters and taking this thing full circle. It is movies
like that that create that experience that get people into
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the theater, and that allow theaters to keep their doors open,
and I will always be for that. So I'm not
anti squl, I'm just anti wasting money on things and
wasting our time on things that feels like they weren't
really made with the same quality as the original movies.
So that is my list of what I think will
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be the top ten sequels of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
I'll come back.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I'll give my spoiler free review of The Monkey. I
Need the Trailer Park, we'll talk about the new twisted
comedy Friendship.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie review
of The Monkey not to be confused with Monkey Man,
not to be confused.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
With Better Man, which also has the Monkey not to
be confused with God Diliver versus Kong, not to be
confused with Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. It
is a big time for monkeys right now. If you
put a monkey in a movie, I'm gonna go see
that movie.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
And what this movie is about.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
It is based on a short story by Stephen King,
So it's about a boy named Hal. He finds a
monkey in his attic that belonged to his dad, and
every time the monkey plays its symbols and plays its drums.
Somebody around hal dies. I love that the movie really
doesn't give a whole lot of backstory, because sometimes when
it comes to horror movies, whenever there's some object that
can't be explained, they get into too big of an
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exposition of where this thing came from.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
I don't really care.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
About that hops right into It feels like a bit
of a Twilight Zone episode or Simpson's Treehouse of Horror episode.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
It is pretty violent and brutal.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Because all these people die in a very interesting way,
a lot of them in ways I've never seen on
screen before. There were some brutal kills. I've never been
to a Habati restaurant, but now I'm never going to never. Nope,
I'm good on that. This movie is very inventive. It
is from director Oz per Perkins, who last year directed
Long Legs, which I loved, and Long Legs had a
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much different feel to this movie to me. Long Legs
felt more sinister. That movie was more of a crime
drama to me, and this one was a little bit
more fun. And I love that it was different than
Long Legs but still felt like it was in his world.
Oz Perkins is a director I feel just has his
hand knowing what he wants to do and how to
execute it, and that is important. And for a movie
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like this that I thought was going to be a
little bit more comical, which at times it was, it
wasn't overly comical, which I thought they were going to
really lean into the campiness of the way.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Some of the characters died At times.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
It did get a little bit lighthearted, but at its
core it still felt like it had that integrity of
trying to make a real twisted tail and it kept
me entertained from beginning to end. The movie is only
ninety minutes long, so to me, it didn't really waste
a whole lot of time once we got going. The
first act was solid, which is all about these two
brothers who are twins.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
They don't like like each other.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
They're pretty much complete opposites, and they have this monkey
come into their lives after finding it in their dad's
attic belong to him. They're curious about it. Once they
pull it out of its box that has this really
weird inscription on it, it just starts killing people, and
that is what you kind of focus on in the
first act. Of this movie, and then the rest of
the movie is them twenty five years later. They've been
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a strange they haven't been in communication with each other,
and the monkey is back and it starts killing people again,
so they have to find a way to defeat it.
THEO James plays both twin brothers, which I enjoyed seeing
how he could do two completely different characters. And it
wasn't just a wardrobe. It was the way each of
them spoke to me. I think that was the highlight
of this movie, the fact that I actually believe that
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there could be two of them. And anytime you have
a movie where it's one actor playing two characters, I'm
always waiting for that one scene whenever they both have
to appear on screen, because whenever I watch a movie,
I'm always looking for that stunt double in any action scene,
I'm like, oh, stunt double right there.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
The posture looks different, looks different. This dude is bulkier.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
I am annoying to watch a movie with because I
always like to point out the stunt double. And whenever
you do a movie where it's one actor playing twins,
there's always that scene where they have to appear on
screen together. And you're getting like the back of one
character in the front of the other character, and you
can tell that it's two different people.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
In this case, it wasn't as.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Awkward whenever they're both on screen because this movie did
a really great job with the visual effects, so those
scenes weren't that distracting. And I think when it comes
to an Oz Perkins movie, it very much has this
unique look to it that I've really come to love.
These great close ups and interesting framings that really make
this movie feel like its own thing. It feels like
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you're living in an Oz Perkins world when you watch
the Monkey, when you watch Long Legs, And I think
that is something that not only a great horror director
needs to do, but any great director. And when it
comes to a horror movie like this, you have to
walk that line of how serious are you gonna take yourself?
And I think that's why a movie like this works,
because the tone was just right. It took itself seriously
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enough that you actually cared and were rooting for some
of these characters, rooting against some of these characters. You
felt an emotional connection to his character when he was
a younger kid, when he grows up and it was
that attachment that you really needed. So it had that
sense of taking itself seriously enough. But then also when
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it came to some of the horror elements and there
came time to have some fun with some of the
ways that these people died, it didn't take itself as seriously,
And I think it always comes down to that tone
and the performances from the actors in a.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Horror movie like this.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Sometimes I feel that characters get a little bit too
serious on what they find scary in a horror movie,
where they oversell it a little bit and they're trying
to convince you how scary it is, and sometimes that.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Loses me a little bit.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
And it was the way that the characters reacted to
that that made it more believable, and the fact that
they didn't take themselves too seriously is what really sold it.
This movie also had really great writing. There were some
lines of Diet that really stuck with me. The movie
centers around the theme of deadbeat dads, the relationship between
you and your brother, so there's that sibling bond also
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those feelings that you have when you don't really get
along with your siblings, and then later the theme shifts
whenever one of the brothers becomes a dad and then
has a son not wanting to be like his dad.
And there is a line that is discussed in the
movie that really stuck with me that I wrote it down.
Death is the only thing that happens to all of us,
yet we're all surprised when it does. I thought that
was pretty profound, because, like I was saying earlier, at times,
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this movie is a little bit campy, but then you
have some lines like that, the themes that they try
to drive home when it comes to these relationships, and
that one just kind of stuck with me, so proving
to me that this movie had more depth than I
was expecting. I thought it was just gonna be ridiculous
death after ridiculous death, which it did have. That there
were some great stills and moments in this movie that
I was like, that's a great death, that's a great shot.
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That is a great way to show how this monkey
is wreaking havoc, and the monkey itself look phenomenal. I
wanted to get out and touch that thing because it
looks so cool. So that was another great piece. I
feel like that is gonna be another great movie artifact
in the horror genre. And I think the thing I
love now about os Perkins that he's becoming a director
that I'm gonna start investing my time in, and anytime
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he puts out a movie, it's one I'm gonna take
note of. It's because the movie is so effortlessly interesting
and it's so uniquely itself, and it was the only
time I had seen a horror movie like this where
I actually thought maybe they could make a prequel because
they don't spend a whole lot of time focusing on
the origins of this monkey, which I think was great.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
That would have been a waste of time.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Sometimes I feel like horror movies always explored that a
little bit too much of like where did this monkey
come from?
Speaker 2 (34:40):
We must find the source, or sometimes in.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Really cliched horror movies, there's this big, drawn out moment
where they find somebody living in some remote hut and
go ask them about the questions of this ancient artifact,
and then they get the story and then they had
to go rush to save somebody. They didn't have that
at all in this movie, and I was glad they
didn't do that.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
So for that reason, I give the monkey four out
of five symbols. It's time to head down to movie mics,
Traylor Paul.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Tim Robinson is my favorite comedian right now, and he's
not really a stand up comedian.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I think the word comedian has changed.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Especially with the rise of TikTok and how big is
Show I Think You Should Leave has become not just
from people watching it on Netflix, but from clips.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
And memes, memes of all things being posted.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
On TikTok, where you might not know the name Tim Robinson,
but if you saw his face, you'd be like, Oh,
it's that guy who's screaming in the drive through. Why
can I take your order?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
With the progress prize Spithing by Taco, snifty by Pie
sinthy by hun hundred pieces, one hundred tenners, hundred peoples,
one hundred coffee with the Wye Smithy, my Sex, my
Pastapnything by Pepperton, one hundred fifty my taters.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Okay, that'll be six hundred and eight dollars.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Okay, who I've seen on a lot of memes, you
would recognize him.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
You sure about that? You sure about that? You sure
about that?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
And when it comes to what a comedian is to me,
it's just somebody who makes me laugh. I think people
think who's your favorite comedian, it automatically is a stand
up comedian. I don't think that's the case anymore, especially
in a world where there are so many different ways
to make people laugh. You could be funny on YouTube,
you could be funny on TikTok, you could just be
a funny person who writes things on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
There are so many avenues.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Now to be funny that I don't think you have
to be a standard stand up comedian to make people laugh.
They're just podcasters who aren't necessarily comedians, but they have
comedy podcasts where they can have funny conversations. So for me,
that person right now is Tim Robinson. He has created
what I believe to be the most innovative comedy, bringing
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back just very dumb, slapstick things. He was at one
point a writer and cast member on SNL, which that
didn't pan out so well for him and is now
viewed as like, oh man, SNL really let one slip
through the cracks with him as he's become more successful,
and he has a very unique approach to comedy where
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it's very awkward and he has characters that get hyper
focused on one thing to make something awkward and then
just fully commit to it, keep doing it through repetition,
doubling down on awkward situations, and creating really bizarre, outlandish moments.
He's known for screaming and just very unique delivery that
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I came to love from watching his clips on TikTok
then going to watch You Think I Think you should
leave on Netflix. He also has a show called Detroiters
that was on Comedy Central back in like the twenty tens,
that had two seasons but then got canceled. And I
think he's always just been committed to the bit, committed
to this character, and committed to the style of comedy.
(37:59):
It's great to see it actually starting to work now.
And it's so funny to me that I think it's
at that level that if you don't find it remotely funny,
and I know comedy is subjective, and I always am
hesitant in recommending any type of comedy for that reason,
and I get that it is so dumb and acidine
at times where it's like, oh, why do you find
(38:21):
this funny? And in this moment, I don't care to
defend it. I don't care to put any kind of
prerequisite on this. It's just somebody that I can irrationally
say that if you don't find them funny, then I
don't know what you do find funny.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
In twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Five, where I feel like we are afraid of weird
when anytime there's any kind of weird comedy, we put
it in this different category that just because it's not
your straight ahead here's a joke, here's a punchline, here's
a setup, here's a punchline, or taking that to movies
of like, oh, here's somebody doing something and then they
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said this, and oh, that's funny, and then they fall
down that comedy has to have some kind of formula
or have some kind of standard and can't be weird.
That is just destroying any kind of innovativeness when it
comes to comedy in a genre that needs it. And
I think Tim Robinson is doing that. He is bringing
back what I used to feel in like the two
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thousands watching Family Guy for the first time, where I
was like, I'm never gonna find anything as funny as
this ever again. He is doing that for me right
now where I feel at times so dead inside when
it comes to find anythings funny, even movies that now
I watch and I was like, oh, that was a
funny movie.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Rarely do I laugh out loud.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
But when I watch his stuff, I am actually laughing
out loud repeating his stuff. That is how I feel
about him. And in this new movie he stars in
it with Paul Rudd. It's an a twenty four movie
called Friendship. It is kind of what is being described
as I Love You Man, which also starred Paul Rudd
Buffer Sickos. It is Tim Robinson's character who keeps to himself.
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He's kind of nerdy, and he forms a friendship with
his neighbor, who is like the coolest guy played by
Paul Rudd. Doesn't really want to be friends with him
at first, but his wife kind of sells them money.
He hangs out with him, they become friends. They're really
close for a minute, and then Paul Rudd decides, I
don't want to be friends with you anymore. And then
the trailer takes a bit of a turn where it
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goes from this kind of warm slapstick comedy to being kind.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Of a thriller, kind of a.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Horror movie, which I really loved that flipping this trailer.
So before I talk more about it, here's just a
little bit of Friendship, which is coming out this summer.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
On May ninth, Monny, the.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
New neighbor invited you over for a drink. It Hey, tonight,
I said you'd go.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
You don't know my schedule?
Speaker 1 (40:50):
You sit there every night.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
It might be nice to have a pal, you know.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
A bud. Hey, guys, this is my neighbor, Craig. He's
the best book. We had a couple of really nice hangs.
I think the best that we go our separate ways.
I don't wish to continue this friendship. You all accepted
me way too fast. You can't do that. You made
me feel too free. People need rules, you said, Bedad,
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you psych the.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
Just in that clip, you get kind of a taste
of his comedy if you're not familiar with it. For me,
it's the interaction with him and his wife of her
volunteering to go hang out with this guy and he's like,
you know know my schedule? Like I love that, just
that little line, I love that, or then him yelling at.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
The other guy like who are you?
Speaker 1 (41:35):
It is those types of deliveries that I realize that
sound crazy saying that those are my favorite. But it's
that type of humor that I just have an attachment to,
very awkward, very situational, and it's something that I feel
is becoming a part of him and a part of
the characters that he plays that all kind of have
this similar style to them, which is something that is working.
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But it's it's interesting now watching this trailer hearing that
of how much it sounds like characters he has already played.
So I think he is kind of playing into that
where there are some comedic actors like that who start
to just kind of play themselves. You think about Michael Sarah,
you think about Ryan Reynolds, where they put a lot
of their personality into their characters and they kind of
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have this theme going. Some people will say they become
typecast because they can only play themselves, but I think
if you're that funny and that unique and it works
in movies, continue to do it. Ryan Reynolds has made
a career off that, and every comedy is basically the
same character now and if you see all that he
has going on now, well, I'd rather make me laugh
than make me cringe at what's going on in the
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news right now. But the tagline to this movie is
men shouldn't have friends all because he tries to befriend
his charismatic new neighbor and it soon threatens both of
their lives. I guess the comparison is made because I
Love You Man does star Paul Rudd. He's getting married
and doesn't have a best man, so we be friends
Jason Siegel and they try to make that work.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
And that's a good movie to me.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
It reminds me more of that episode of The Simpsons
whenever Homer and Ned become friends and Homer becomes the
obsessed friend who wants to hang out all the time.
He's coming over when he's not invited. He is chasing
them in their car because they locked up all the
doors and try to get out of town without him.
That is what it reminds me of more because I
feel his character becoming more psycho obsessed in the fact
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that he gets cut off. And this is the trailers
that I watched and I thought, I don't know how
this movie is gonna end. Some trailers I know everything
about it in those two and a half to three
minutes that I'm like, I just watched the entire movie
right now, This one no idea, and I love that,
So maybe it's me. I kind of think of when
I got to that point where I was partying pretty hard,
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at drinking a lot, where it started to take a
lot of beers for me to actually get drunk. To
anybody young listening, don't drink beer to your twenty one
of legal age. But back when I was in college
and I would drink beer, I got to a point
where I was like, man, I.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
Need like a twelve pack to really have a good time.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
And I think that's really why I don't drink so
much anymore, is because I'm not a drink one or
two type of person. I'm like, I'm either having none
or I'm having every beer in this house. So I
got to a point where it did take a lot
more adult beverages to get me to that level. I
think I'm also on that point now when it comes
to movies, where it takes something so at a left
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field in the comedy realm to really make me laugh,
to become a movie that I feel becomes a part
of my comedic DNA, which is hard to do.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
Now.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
There are movies that I have enjoyed in the last
five years. I mean even just this year with one
of them Days Bottoms Babes. Comedy movies like that that
I have enjoyed, but they haven't really absorbed themselves into
my comedy DNA that I feel now it is what
Tim Robinson is doing, and I hope that this movie does. So.
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If you like slightly off comedies that are absurd, chaos
and deeply awkward, then hopefully you and I will both
love Friendship again. It's coming out on May fifth, and
the fact that they got Paul Rudd to be a
part of this movie too gives me hope that I'll
get more eyeballs on it.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
And that was this week's edition of Movie by Framer
par Ken.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
That is going to do it for another episode here
of the podcast, but before I go, I gotta give
my listener's shout out of the week. I felt myself
starting to lose my voice a little bit in that
last segment, so I needed to jump into an entirely
different voice to reset it.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
I think we're good now. Do I have my voice back? Yes?
I do, all right. Before we go.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Every single week, I got to give my listeners shout
out of the week. This is episode two hundred and
sixty five, and I'm pretty sure I did this on
the very first episode. I think I made it a
point to shout somebody. I couldn't have done it on
the first episode if I didn't have anything to reference yet,
so maybe I did it on the second one. So
maybe this is the two hundred and sixty fourth shout out.
But this week's listener shout out comes to us from
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YouTube shout out Manuel Hernandez, who commented on My Captain
America a Brave New World review and said a lot
of Marvel movies have just been fine. People seem to
look back as if they were all masterpieces. And I
think that is a great point, Manuel, that we do
forget that in phase one. Maybe not so much phase one,
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but phase two. In Phase three, we had some real
turns in there, Thwar, the Dark World, ant Man in
the Wasp. There were some missteps there in Marvel that
I think, like I was mentioning earlier in this episode,
sometimes when you get ten years past something, you look
back with these rose colored glasses, thinking, ah, everything was
so good back in the day. But I remember even
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feeling during those first few phases leading up to Age
of Ultron and then even more so leading up to
Infinity War, that it felt like there were some filler
movies in there, and movies that felt that they were
just pushing the narrative and pushing along the storyline to
get us to those big Avengers movies that now looking
back on everything before twenty nineteen think oh it was
all gold. Everything was good then not the case, and
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a lot of people felt that I was too negative
even with my spoiler review of Captain America Brave New World,
and I was just trying to say that it is
gonna be one of those pieces much like we had
in those other phases that just felt like, Okay, this
is good for right now, but it's not gonna be
a movie you look back on in those ten years
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and want to go revisit, much like thor The Dark
World or Aimin in the Wasp. Gonna be good for
the time being. I'm glad that it made a lot
of money, because at least to that, you can't say
the MCU is dead when it's still making millions of dollars.
But I just don't think this is going to be
anybody's favorite movie in the MCU of all time, which
is fine, not every movie has to be that. We
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just have that higher standard now since Endgame. But thank
you Minuelle for that comment, thank you everybody for listening,
and until next time.
Speaker 2 (47:55):
By the way, if you did miss that.
Speaker 1 (47:56):
Spoiler version of Captain America Brave New World I did.
That was at the end of last week, go back
one in the feed and check that out as well.
Speaker 2 (48:04):
You had time to catch that in between now and then.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
But until next time, go out and watch good movies
and I will talk to you later.
Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie Podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike Today. It is gonna be.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
A lot of talk about sequels.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
I want to rank the top ten sequels coming out
in twenty twenty five. The Goonies is getting a sequel.
I'll give you what I love and don't love about
sequels and the state of cinema.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
We'll get into all that in.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
The movie review. I'll give my spoiler free review of
The Monkey, which is the new horror movie from Oz
Perkins who did Long Legs last year.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Was it as good as a trailer led on?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
And then in the trailer park we'll be talking about
Friendship and why I think it could be the funniest movie.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Of the year.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Thank you for being here, Thank you for being subscribed.
Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
And now let's talk movies from the Nashville Podcast Network.
This is Movie Mike Movie Podcast. What's Socking Sequels Today?
Goonies two is officially a go. Steven Spielberg is on board.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
It was inevitable that this movie was going to happen,
and now that it's officially announced, it's in the very
early stages of there's not even a director attached to it.
They're writing it, so it is that earliest stages, which
I don't love when movies are announced this soon because
then it takes so long, and I think we live
(01:16):
in a world now where we kind of live in
these movies for way too long that by the time
they come out, it's like, oh man, this feels not
even new to me anymore. But with a movie this historic,
this bestowed upon just being not only a fan favorite,
but if you ask somebody who grew up in the eighties,
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it could easily be their favorite movie. But none of
the original cast as of now, as the recording of
this podcast and the history of me talking about this
movie in particular, whenever I talk about it, something always
gets announced after I record it. But at the time
of recording this, nobody from the original og Gouni's cast
is going to be a part of it. Corey Felman
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Kihui Kwan have expressed interest and wanting to do a sequel,
And then you think about just how amazing this cast is,
with not just them too, but Josh Brolin, who has
had a wild career since the Goonies, Martha Plimpton Sean Ashton,
Jeff Cohen, Carrie Green. Nobody as of right now is
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going to be a part of it. And the last
episode I did talking about the Goonies was during my
episode when I wanted to talk about eighties movies that
needed sequels, and I include Goonies on that list. And
I still believe that this sequel can work, but I
do have a couple of hesitations about it. If these
people aren't a part of this sequel, I'm not gonna
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like it. And that is kind of how I'm feeling
right now, and that's why I wasn't that excited once
it finally got announced, because I was hoping the announcement
was going to come. We're making Goonies to all the
original cast.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Is back, or at least most of them.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Really hard to get all the original cast, but I
think getting most of them, especially the bigger names now
who have gone on to have really big careers, I
think it's important to get those people back, and that
is a reason to make a sequel. We didn't get that.
That leads me to believe that it's not going to happen.
Because now over a decade they've been in serious discussions
about this it getting announced and nobody is a part
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of it from the original. That is a bad sign.
The other thing, when it comes to sequels, I feel
like people are getting sick of them, and the state
of we feel like everything is a reboot and a remake,
and I feel like this doesn't really help because if
you take a movie that is so beloved by so
many people and you don't bring back any of the
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original cast, it is really gonna leave a bad taste
in a lot of people's mouths. And this is a
type of movie that you could ruin the legacy of
it is that level of film where the history alone,
the memories that we associate with this movie, with the soundtrack,
with the cast, with the time that we first watched
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this movie, if you don't include any of that into
the sequel, it is just it's not going to feel
the same. And I hate a cash grab, lifeless sequel.
And then when you look at the state of cinema
for the highest grossing movies last year in twenty twenty four,
I know the highest grossing movies were sequels, And I
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think when it comes down to it, the main thing
I'm not a fan of.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I will watch a sequel.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I am a fanboy of some franchisees, and no matter
how many movies they make, I'm going to continue to
watch them. Where I draw the line is when it
feels like a cash grab, where it feels like they're
only praying on the fact that these movies have been
around for so long and people love them.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Then, no matter what we do, even if there's.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
No integrity in it, even if we just get a
random director and just push along a storyline that adds
nothing that ruins the movie that came before it. I've
seen this time and time again. That is why I'm
always hesitating. So I hope they get a great director
to do it. I hope they bring back the original
cast for Goonies, and I hope it doesn't feel like
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a cash grab.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
But at this.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Point in time, I don't feel great about it. So
with that being said, let's get into me ranking the
top ten sequels coming out in twenty twenty five. By
ranking them, I mean at number ten is going to
be the movie I think it is going to be
the worst, And at number one is what I think
is going to be the best sequel of.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
And I'm only gonna do direct sequel, So number twos
really anything that the sequel is a two, three, four five.
No matter where it lands in the franchise, it is
a sequel. But for the sake of this episode, since
we're talking about Goonies two, I just want to talk
about number twos. So at number ten, what I think
will be the worst sequel of twenty twenty five. I'm
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gonna go with Freakier Friday with Lindsay Lohan and Jamie
Lee Curtis, coming out on August eighth. This movie is
coming to us twenty two years after the original that
came out in two thousand and three. Jamie Lee Curtis
is coming back, Lindsay Loewen is coming back. This time
Lindsay Lohan's character now has a daughter and assume to
be step daughter. They're about to merge two families together,
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and then they discover that lightning may strike twice and they're.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Gonna be swapping bodies again.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
So I would assume that's Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee
Curtis swapping bodies again, and then Lindsay probably swapping bodies
with her new daughter.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Freaky Friday was great.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
It came out at a time where I feel like
putting music in a two thousands Disney esque movie.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
With a rock band.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I ate up all those movies because I wanted to
be that, And Freaky Friday has a very memorable moment
whenever Lindsay Lohan is playing guitar on stage with their band,
but it's actually Jamie Lee Curtis's body inside of her,
and then you have Jamie Lee Curtis's actual body side
stage actually doing the solos. That is one of my
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favorite musical scenes of the two thousands. And as much
as I enjoyed that movie, when it comes to Freaking
Your Friday, this just feels like it has cash grab
written all over it. So it does make the top
ten in it being that it is going to be
a movie I definitely got to watch, But since it
is Disney, it is giving me more of the vibes
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of whenever they made hocus Pocus two, where there was
no real reason to make a hocus Pocus to aside
from the fact that the people who loved and grew
up with that movie are now in their thirties and
can either pay for a Disney Plus subscription or get
their kids to watch it and then be invested in
the first one, and then Disney has a bigger product
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on their hands. That is what this movie feels like
to me. Although I'm all about the Lindsay Lohan comeback,
I think she has put out some pretty good work
in the last few years. I think it'll just be
fun to see her and Jamie Lee Curtis on screen
together again. But I can only imagine this movie is
going to be a big step down from the original.
So at number ten, I have Free Your Friday, and
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number nine I have The Black Phone two, which is
a horror movie with Ethan Hawk. It is coming out
on October seventeenth. He is coming back as a character
described as the Grabber, which is one of my favoritetten
masks of the last ten years. It's this pale off,
wide discolored mask with these horns, and Ethan Hawk just
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has a very interesting demeanor and character in The Black Phone,
and the movie was about his character, the Grabber, who
would abduct kids and put him in his basement, and
it was really weird, not exactly edge of your seat scary,
but one that you watch and you think, man, what
if this happened to me? How would I get out
of this situation? Then it has that supernatural element too,
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with the actual black phone where you can hear the
voices of the Grabber's previous murder victims. What the sequel
is going to be about, It's expected to follow one
of the characters who is now in high school, dealing
with the aftermath of the trauma that he experienced with
his first encounter with the grabber, who is returning in
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this one. But I think there's also going to be
a new threat and then still having to deal with
the voices from the Grabbers' previous victims. It is a
really unique blend of a coming of age story with
a bunch of horror elements, So I think this will
be one that you don't necessarily have to see in theaters. Again,
it's coming out on October seventeenth, but if you haven't
seen the first one, definitely worth the stream And if
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you like that one, check this one out later this
year at number eight, I have Zootopia two coming out
on November twenty sixth. Pretty much everybody coming back for
this one. Jason Bateman, all of the original cast. Zootopia
was low key one of the best movies of the
twenty tens from Disney. And maybe this is just me
looking back on the twenty tens now thinking things were great,
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when at the time I was still like, oh man,
Disney still hasn't been good since the nineties, So maybe
it's because there's been some time in between now, But
at that time, Disney had kind of gotten away. I
feel from having movies that really had a message. Came
just a factory of trying to create these franchises, and
Zootopia was one that left a lasting mark of my brain,
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even the fact that I was already twenty five years
old when this.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Movie came out.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
And any Disney movie that can really spark a conversation
that can make a big statement about the world, but
not only that make a really fun and clever movie.
It is hard to blend a movie that has a
message but it's also just entertaining for the entire family. Zootopia,
I feel, is the best example of that when it
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comes to just a straight on Disney movie, not a
Disney Pixar movie, just a straight on Disney movie, which
is what this is.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Disney movies were.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Always rooted in their early days in fairy tales. In
this one not really a fairy tale, but it has
some of those characteristics just because it's the animal dynamic
inside of the Animal Kingdom has a fantastic voice cast
at number eight. Zootopia too at number seven. I'm going
with The Accountant to starring Ben Affleck. This is coming
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out on April twenty fifth. Ben Affleck plays an autistic
accountant was also a killing machine named Christian Wolf. John
Bernthal is also rejoining the cast and JK.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Simmons.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I love the First Accountant movie, which had Anna Kendrick
actually not coming back in this one, and this movie
left a lasting impression on me. If you look at
the reviews for the First Accountant, it got pretty bad reviews,
and I don't know why. I think it is a
great action movie. This is the type of action movie
I love. Well, maybe the acting isn't top tier like
The Departed, it has enough grit for me that I
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enjoy it. I also enjoy seeing Ben Affleck play a
character like this who is just a unique person because
you see him go from being an accountant, being really
great with numbers, being really smart, to then being an
all out killing machine. It's just that juxtaposition that makes
this movie so interesting. Now after watching the trailer to this,
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it does have a bit of a different vibe from
the first Accounted movie. I don't know if it's because
Matt Damon isn't a producer on this one anymore, not
that it feels worse than the first one. I just
think that it caught you a little bit more off
guard in the Accountant when he would go and live
his other life that people didn't know about. This one
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seems to be he is more established and you kind
of know what is coming, and it almost feels like
in the trailer that Ben Affleck is playing the character
a little bit differently and a little bit more dialed
into some of the characteristics to make that jump seem
a little bit more drastic. But this movie is coming
to us nine years after the first installment, which this
is a movie that I never really thought would get
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a sequel, So I think that's why it's also interesting
to me his character Launders money for some of his
character Launder's money uncooks books for some of the most
dangerous people and assassins in the world, so it looks
like he gets himself into another bit of a situation.
I think the scene at the end of this trailer
with him and his brother in the movie getting full
on into gear, walking out and just start shooting people
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up like that as a type of movie that you
just go watch and enjoy. So maybe it's because there's
not a whole lot of substance and anything beyond that,
which is why some people hated it and some people
ripped it to shreds. I enjoyed The Accountant one. I'm
excited for this sequel, so by number seven, I have
The Accountant too, and number six coming out on October
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twenty fourth is Mortal Kombat two. Video game adaptations.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Are huge right now.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Mortal Kombat doesn't have the richest history of being movies
that push the boundaries, but they are just fun movies.
And I just love Mortal Kombat characters so much. From Scorpions,
sub Zero, Goro, Luke Cage, there are so many great
Mortal Kombat characters, some fan favorites making their debut. This
has been a movie I've been waiting for since the
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first one came out in twenty twenty one. Not the
original ones from the nineties, but the reboot this so
it is a direct sequel to that one. I guess
it's part of a bigger franchise, but I'm still including
it on this list and number six. I have Mortal
Kombat too at number five. I didn't do this on purpose,
but I do have Five Nights at Freddy's, which is
coming out on December fifth. And this was a movie
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I didn't fully get when it came out in the theaters.
I reviewed it in everybody on YouTube let me know
how much of an idiot I was, and I think
it's because of the culture surrounding the video.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Game, and people love this one.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
It was a really big hit for Blumhouse, and I
feel like I just kind of missed it. I want
to revisit it. I want to give it a second chance.
But now I'm a little bit more excited going into
the second one now that I kind of know what
to expect. And I think even up toil last year,
I was still kind of in the mindset that every
horror movie needed to be scary, and I don't know why,
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and I think it's the way some trailers sell some
movies that I thought this one was gonna make me
feel that, and I'm kind of eliminating that now from
my criteria of horror movies where I want to focus
more on the world that they create and the feeling
that it gives me and the elements of horror that
still exists without them being like, ah, it's gonna make
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you scared, which is not what the Five Nights at
Freddy's franchise is. Another really lasting effect of this movie
is I recently heard the song Talking in Your Sleep
by The Romantics, which is featured in the first one,
kind of the theme song of the movie in a
way tells you the plot of what was happening to
the character in the original movie. And I heard it
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on the radio and I immediately associated it with the movie.
And it's been a while since that's happened for a
movie to take a popular song from a while ago
reput it into a movie and it kind of have
a second life. And now I will forever associate Talking
in Your Sleep with Five Nights at Freddy's, much like
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also last year Dead pulling Wolvere did with the Madonna song.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
So a lot of these pulling inspiration from the eighties.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
But I just love those movie and music moments in
films that leave an impression on us, because music and
movies should be more deliberate, in my opinion, use it
at just the right time to really connect with the
plot of the movie, connect with that moment of what
your character is going through. That is what makes lasting impressions.
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It's a lot different than just slapping a popular song
into a movie and saying, oh, yeah, that song was
in this movie. That's not as memorable. You can take
you a good song and put it into a movie,
but if you don't really fit it into the story
and play it at the right time, then it's not
gonna have that same effect.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
But that song did it.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I'm understanding more the lore of Five Nights at Freddy
So that is why I have this movie at number five.
At number four, I have Nobody Too coming out on
August fifteenth. Bob Odenkirk is returning in this movie twenty
twenty one. This was one of my favorite action movies
in a long time, and he plays a retired assassin
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force back into action to take on this Russian mobster.
So that's kind of a theme of a lot of
the action movies I like. I love action movies where
it's somebody who's been retired or out of the game
for a while and something has to suck them back
into the game. But Nobody had really great fast paced
action and fighting sequences where characters broke bones.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Bob butden Kirk's.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Character was bloodied up, a lot of shootouts, a lot
of fighting, a destruction of an entire house.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
This movie had it all.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
There are very few movies that I feel comfortable with
showing my dad because my dad does not watch movies,
doesn't care for him. I'm not sure the last time
he has completed a movie. But Nobody is a movie
that I could put on and be like, oh.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Man, this is good.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I love he loves shoot him up action movies, and
he would say, I love this.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
That is the type of movie.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
That feels nostalgic for me in a way because those
are the only types.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Of movies that me and him could pond over.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
So the fact that we're getting a Nobody to maybe
I could convince him to go to the theater to
watch it. Highly doubt it. But as far as new
action franchises go, this is it. If you like movies
like John Wick, Monkey Man, you gotta check out Nobody
if you haven't seen it yet, and Nobody to you
again this summer.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
It's gonna be a banger at number three.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Here's when we get into like the top tier, top
tier stuff. Megan two point zero coming out on June
twenty seventh, which is right around my birthday. This movie
made so much money back in twenty twenty two, one
hundred and eighty one million dollars. I would argue was
probably the most viral movie of that year where it's
hard to get a movie moment where even people who
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had no idea who the Megan character was knew it
from either the Sea song and how viral that was
on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
You probably saw a clip.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Of this even though you had seen the movie because
of that moment that this movie had so a big
hit For Blumhouse, who we've talked about already on this
list when talking about five Nights if Ready's but.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
This is kind of their formula.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
They spent only twelve million dollars on the original movie
and gross those one hundred and eighty one million dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
This is their model.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
They spend a little bit and hope that through word
of mouth and through marketing and through creating a character
like Megan who is so interesting that they could get
a crazy return on their investment, and Megan has now
become one of the new modern horror icons, which you
don't really get a whole lot of those anymore, but
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she's coming back. The movie is also getting a spin
off which is coming out in twenty twenty six, so
they're really building out a world for Megan. She could
be the new Chucky as far as the formula of
you have your Megan one, two, and three, that's probably
your initial trilogy, and then you start doing more side
quest When Megan as a kid, Megan gets older much
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like Chucky did, and I compare her to Chucky because
she is a killer AI robot much like Chucky was
a killer doll, and you can have a lot of
fun with that. She also borrows a little bit from
the comedy of Child's Play, where even though at moments
in the movie it does feel a little bit sinister,
but then at moments it does get a little bit silly.
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So I still hope they hold on to the great
tension and actual horror elements that the first one had,
because there were some moments in that movie that were
not chilling, but for a kind.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Of slasher horror sci fi.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Movie, it had some intense moments that costs for some
good showdowns. I hope it doesn't get too into the
realm of Oh people like Megan because she's a little
funny and sassy, So let's add some more comedic moments
into it.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Save that for part three.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Make part two a little bit more sinister, and I
think we're in good hands here. Megan two at number three,
coming out on June twenty seventh. At number two, I
have Happy Gilmore. And I know this might contradict what
I've been saying about what feels like a cash grab
in every way, I feel that Happy Gilmore too is
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a bit of a cash grab. It's coming out on Netflix.
The official date still isn't out. I've seen some early
images and stills from the movie. The only thing aside
from that that I feel it's a little bit cash
graby is this movie is gonna be really heavy with
the cameos.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
First one wasn't like that.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
This has kind of become Adam Sandler's marketing strategy and
kind of how he makes movies now is he includes
a lot of celebrities now to pop up throughout them,
and I feel like that takes away from the art
of Adam Sandler, which his early movies didn't rely on that.
I think it's kind of the model he created with
the Grownups movies. And I think it's because Adam Sandler
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is at a point in his life where he just
wants to create fun sets. He wants people to come
onto a set and have a good time while making
a movie, often filmed in tropical locations, so I think
that is why he does this now. He's just trying
to have a good time, which I can't hate on
him for. But I think it's just the fact that
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it's Happy Gilmore one of the best movies of his career.
When you talk about top three movies of Adam Sandler
that he's ever done, they all go back to the nineties.
I mean top two is easily Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison.
For me, those are the quintessential movies I think about
when I think of Adam Sandler. Maybe it's because they
came out around each other. I also associate them with
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having the Two Pac DVD back in the day. I
feel like those are his two best movies, even though
I think on any given day, Big Daddy could also
be my favorite. But throwing all those reasons to win
the fact that Travis Kelsey is in it, Bad Bunny
is in it, You have Shooter mcg we have in returning,
Julie Bowen is returning. It does have the pieces of
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the original. I think to me, it's also just thinking
of the way that Netflix movies look now, where they.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Don't really look like movies anymore.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
They look really glossy and bright and colorful, and doesn't
really have that same warmth of a movie from the
nineties that I think a sequel like this needs. So
I feel like it's a weird thing to complain about,
But I think the cinematography isn't going to match the
tone of the humor of Happy Gilmore.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I hope that it does, but I'm.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
So excited just to see what the plot is and
to see how this plays out, and hoping that he
wasn't lying and saying we have a really good script,
that this movie is actually.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Going to be good.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
So I ranked it so high because my hopes are
so high. The last time though my hopes were this
high an anticipation for a legacy direct sequel like this
was back when they made Dumb and Dumber two, and
I was so disappointed in that movie. Don't do me
like that, Adam Sandler. But my hopes are staying high.
At number eight. I have Happy Gilmore two coming out
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on Netflix later this year. How surprising that they're not
going to put out this movie in theaters? Is that
another indicator? Because I think if you had a really
good movie on your hands, oh, I do want to
get that thing in theaters. But Netflix pays them so
much money, and that's going to be number one on
Netflix for like two to three weeks, so they're really
paying for that. But at number one coming out on
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November twenty first, it is Wicked for good. We have
Alfa Banow in full control of her power. She has
declared the enemy of the state and turns into well
a full out which hunt.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
The thing I love knowing.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Going into this movie is the fact that they already
told us what happens to her character at the beginning
of Wicked. It starts with her dying, and if you've
seen the original Wizard of Oz, you already knew what
was going to happen to her character.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Regardless to me, in.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
My head, I I just can't see it getting there
because I love the character of Alphabet so much.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Cynthia Reewo does an amazing.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Job in the first one vocally and through acting, say
with Ariana Grande, but in my head, I couldnt see
her character getting to that point, and I'm thinking to myself, like,
maybe they changed something, maybe they rewrite history, maybe there's
some kind of magic that happens in between that that
doesn't happen to her character because I'm so invested and
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I love it so much that I don't want to
see that happen to her. But I also think that
there's gonna be some kind of a shift in Wicked
for good. And this is me have never seen Wicked.
I've never seen it, I've never experienced that. I for
that reason, have not looked up any spoilers on what
happens in the musical because I don't want to know.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
So this is me pure speculation.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
What I like to do about movies is figure out
what they're gonna do, So you might already know. This
is just my theory, But I think there's gonna be
some real shift in her character where you see that
rapid decline and maybe we see ourselves not rooting for
her as much as we have been, and we do
see this wickedness come out in her where she really
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starts to change. People around her go from defending her
to being in fear of her. And then we ultimately
do see your demise and it makes a little bit
more sense, or we see the opposite of her still
being kind of a good person and she sacrifices herself.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Because this movie was also split into two parts.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
It was originally going to be one movie, and they
had so much story to tell, so much content, that
they split it into two. I am glad that they
are releasing it one year after the first one, so
we don't have to wait a whole lot. I think
it's also smart for them because if you missed Wicked
one in theaters, even though it's about to be on
Peacock on March twenty first, they could have those double
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features sold out as well, where you show Wicked one
and it rolls into Wicked two. Yeah, you're gonna be
at the theater for like five hours, but I could
see some people doing that. Then you add in some
singlelong screenings as well, and that is great for movie
theaters and taking this thing full circle. It is movies
like that that create that experience that get people into
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the theater, and that allow theaters to keep their doors open,
and I will always be for that. So I'm not
anti squl, I'm just anti wasting money on things and
wasting our time on things that feels like they weren't
really made with the same quality as the original movies.
So that is my list of what I think will
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be the top ten sequels of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
I'll come back.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I'll give my spoiler free review of The Monkey. I
Need the Trailer Park, we'll talk about the new twisted
comedy Friendship.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie review
of The Monkey not to be confused with Monkey Man,
not to be confused.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
With Better Man, which also has the Monkey not to
be confused with God Diliver versus Kong, not to be
confused with Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. It
is a big time for monkeys right now. If you
put a monkey in a movie, I'm gonna go see
that movie.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
And what this movie is about.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
It is based on a short story by Stephen King,
So it's about a boy named Hal. He finds a
monkey in his attic that belonged to his dad, and
every time the monkey plays its symbols and plays its drums.
Somebody around hal dies. I love that the movie really
doesn't give a whole lot of backstory, because sometimes when
it comes to horror movies, whenever there's some object that
can't be explained, they get into too big of an
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exposition of where this thing came from.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
I don't really care.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
About that hops right into It feels like a bit
of a Twilight Zone episode or Simpson's Treehouse of Horror episode.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
It is pretty violent and brutal.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Because all these people die in a very interesting way,
a lot of them in ways I've never seen on
screen before. There were some brutal kills. I've never been
to a Habati restaurant, but now I'm never going to never. Nope,
I'm good on that. This movie is very inventive. It
is from director Oz per Perkins, who last year directed
Long Legs, which I loved, and Long Legs had a
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much different feel to this movie to me. Long Legs
felt more sinister. That movie was more of a crime
drama to me, and this one was a little bit
more fun. And I love that it was different than
Long Legs but still felt like it was in his world.
Oz Perkins is a director I feel just has his
hand knowing what he wants to do and how to
execute it, and that is important. And for a movie
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like this that I thought was going to be a
little bit more comical, which at times it was, it
wasn't overly comical, which I thought they were going to
really lean into the campiness of the way.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Some of the characters died At times.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
It did get a little bit lighthearted, but at its
core it still felt like it had that integrity of
trying to make a real twisted tail and it kept
me entertained from beginning to end. The movie is only
ninety minutes long, so to me, it didn't really waste
a whole lot of time once we got going. The
first act was solid, which is all about these two
brothers who are twins.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
They don't like like each other.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
They're pretty much complete opposites, and they have this monkey
come into their lives after finding it in their dad's
attic belong to him. They're curious about it. Once they
pull it out of its box that has this really
weird inscription on it, it just starts killing people, and
that is what you kind of focus on in the
first act. Of this movie, and then the rest of
the movie is them twenty five years later. They've been
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a strange they haven't been in communication with each other,
and the monkey is back and it starts killing people again,
so they have to find a way to defeat it.
THEO James plays both twin brothers, which I enjoyed seeing
how he could do two completely different characters. And it
wasn't just a wardrobe. It was the way each of
them spoke to me. I think that was the highlight
of this movie, the fact that I actually believe that
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there could be two of them. And anytime you have
a movie where it's one actor playing two characters, I'm
always waiting for that one scene whenever they both have
to appear on screen, because whenever I watch a movie,
I'm always looking for that stunt double in any action scene,
I'm like, oh, stunt double right there.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
The posture looks different, looks different. This dude is bulkier.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
I am annoying to watch a movie with because I
always like to point out the stunt double. And whenever
you do a movie where it's one actor playing twins,
there's always that scene where they have to appear on
screen together. And you're getting like the back of one
character in the front of the other character, and you
can tell that it's two different people.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
In this case, it wasn't as.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Awkward whenever they're both on screen because this movie did
a really great job with the visual effects, so those
scenes weren't that distracting. And I think when it comes
to an Oz Perkins movie, it very much has this
unique look to it that I've really come to love.
These great close ups and interesting framings that really make
this movie feel like its own thing. It feels like
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you're living in an Oz Perkins world when you watch
the Monkey, when you watch Long Legs, And I think
that is something that not only a great horror director
needs to do, but any great director. And when it
comes to a horror movie like this, you have to
walk that line of how serious are you gonna take yourself?
And I think that's why a movie like this works,
because the tone was just right. It took itself seriously
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enough that you actually cared and were rooting for some
of these characters, rooting against some of these characters. You
felt an emotional connection to his character when he was
a younger kid, when he grows up and it was
that attachment that you really needed. So it had that
sense of taking itself seriously enough. But then also when
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it came to some of the horror elements and there
came time to have some fun with some of the
ways that these people died, it didn't take itself as seriously,
And I think it always comes down to that tone
and the performances from the actors in a.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Horror movie like this.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Sometimes I feel that characters get a little bit too
serious on what they find scary in a horror movie,
where they oversell it a little bit and they're trying
to convince you how scary it is, and sometimes that.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Loses me a little bit.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
And it was the way that the characters reacted to
that that made it more believable, and the fact that
they didn't take themselves too seriously is what really sold it.
This movie also had really great writing. There were some
lines of Diet that really stuck with me. The movie
centers around the theme of deadbeat dads, the relationship between
you and your brother, so there's that sibling bond also
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those feelings that you have when you don't really get
along with your siblings, and then later the theme shifts
whenever one of the brothers becomes a dad and then
has a son not wanting to be like his dad.
And there is a line that is discussed in the
movie that really stuck with me that I wrote it down.
Death is the only thing that happens to all of us,
yet we're all surprised when it does. I thought that
was pretty profound, because, like I was saying earlier, at times,
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this movie is a little bit campy, but then you
have some lines like that, the themes that they try
to drive home when it comes to these relationships, and
that one just kind of stuck with me, so proving
to me that this movie had more depth than I
was expecting. I thought it was just gonna be ridiculous
death after ridiculous death, which it did have. That there
were some great stills and moments in this movie that
I was like, that's a great death, that's a great shot.
(33:54):
That is a great way to show how this monkey
is wreaking havoc, and the monkey itself look phenomenal. I
wanted to get out and touch that thing because it
looks so cool. So that was another great piece. I
feel like that is gonna be another great movie artifact
in the horror genre. And I think the thing I
love now about os Perkins that he's becoming a director
that I'm gonna start investing my time in, and anytime
(34:14):
he puts out a movie, it's one I'm gonna take
note of. It's because the movie is so effortlessly interesting
and it's so uniquely itself, and it was the only
time I had seen a horror movie like this where
I actually thought maybe they could make a prequel because
they don't spend a whole lot of time focusing on
the origins of this monkey, which I think was great.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
That would have been a waste of time.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Sometimes I feel like horror movies always explored that a
little bit too much of like where did this monkey
come from?
Speaker 2 (34:40):
We must find the source, or sometimes in.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Really cliched horror movies, there's this big, drawn out moment
where they find somebody living in some remote hut and
go ask them about the questions of this ancient artifact,
and then they get the story and then they had
to go rush to save somebody. They didn't have that
at all in this movie, and I was glad they
didn't do that.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
So for that reason, I give the monkey four out
of five symbols. It's time to head down to movie mics,
Traylor Paul.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Tim Robinson is my favorite comedian right now, and he's
not really a stand up comedian.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I think the word comedian has changed.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Especially with the rise of TikTok and how big is
Show I Think You Should Leave has become not just
from people watching it on Netflix, but from clips.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
And memes, memes of all things being posted.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
On TikTok, where you might not know the name Tim Robinson,
but if you saw his face, you'd be like, Oh,
it's that guy who's screaming in the drive through. Why
can I take your order?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
With the progress prize Spithing by Taco, snifty by Pie
sinthy by hun hundred pieces, one hundred tenners, hundred peoples,
one hundred coffee with the Wye Smithy, my Sex, my
Pastapnything by Pepperton, one hundred fifty my taters.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Okay, that'll be six hundred and eight dollars.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Okay, who I've seen on a lot of memes, you
would recognize him.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
You sure about that? You sure about that? You sure
about that?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
And when it comes to what a comedian is to me,
it's just somebody who makes me laugh. I think people
think who's your favorite comedian, it automatically is a stand
up comedian. I don't think that's the case anymore, especially
in a world where there are so many different ways
to make people laugh. You could be funny on YouTube,
you could be funny on TikTok, you could just be
a funny person who writes things on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
There are so many avenues.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Now to be funny that I don't think you have
to be a standard stand up comedian to make people laugh.
They're just podcasters who aren't necessarily comedians, but they have
comedy podcasts where they can have funny conversations. So for me,
that person right now is Tim Robinson. He has created
what I believe to be the most innovative comedy, bringing
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back just very dumb, slapstick things. He was at one
point a writer and cast member on SNL, which that
didn't pan out so well for him and is now
viewed as like, oh man, SNL really let one slip
through the cracks with him as he's become more successful,
and he has a very unique approach to comedy where
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it's very awkward and he has characters that get hyper
focused on one thing to make something awkward and then
just fully commit to it, keep doing it through repetition,
doubling down on awkward situations, and creating really bizarre, outlandish moments.
He's known for screaming and just very unique delivery that
(37:38):
I came to love from watching his clips on TikTok
then going to watch You Think I Think you should
leave on Netflix. He also has a show called Detroiters
that was on Comedy Central back in like the twenty tens,
that had two seasons but then got canceled. And I
think he's always just been committed to the bit, committed
to this character, and committed to the style of comedy.
(37:59):
It's great to see it actually starting to work now.
And it's so funny to me that I think it's
at that level that if you don't find it remotely funny,
and I know comedy is subjective, and I always am
hesitant in recommending any type of comedy for that reason,
and I get that it is so dumb and acidine
at times where it's like, oh, why do you find
(38:21):
this funny? And in this moment, I don't care to
defend it. I don't care to put any kind of
prerequisite on this. It's just somebody that I can irrationally
say that if you don't find them funny, then I
don't know what you do find funny.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
In twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Five, where I feel like we are afraid of weird
when anytime there's any kind of weird comedy, we put
it in this different category that just because it's not
your straight ahead here's a joke, here's a punchline, here's
a setup, here's a punchline, or taking that to movies
of like, oh, here's somebody doing something and then they
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said this, and oh, that's funny, and then they fall
down that comedy has to have some kind of formula
or have some kind of standard and can't be weird.
That is just destroying any kind of innovativeness when it
comes to comedy in a genre that needs it. And
I think Tim Robinson is doing that. He is bringing
back what I used to feel in like the two
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thousands watching Family Guy for the first time, where I
was like, I'm never gonna find anything as funny as
this ever again. He is doing that for me right
now where I feel at times so dead inside when
it comes to find anythings funny, even movies that now
I watch and I was like, oh, that was a
funny movie.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Rarely do I laugh out loud.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
But when I watch his stuff, I am actually laughing
out loud repeating his stuff. That is how I feel
about him. And in this new movie he stars in
it with Paul Rudd. It's an a twenty four movie
called Friendship. It is kind of what is being described
as I Love You Man, which also starred Paul Rudd
Buffer Sickos. It is Tim Robinson's character who keeps to himself.
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He's kind of nerdy, and he forms a friendship with
his neighbor, who is like the coolest guy played by
Paul Rudd. Doesn't really want to be friends with him
at first, but his wife kind of sells them money.
He hangs out with him, they become friends. They're really
close for a minute, and then Paul Rudd decides, I
don't want to be friends with you anymore. And then
the trailer takes a bit of a turn where it
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goes from this kind of warm slapstick comedy to being kind.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Of a thriller, kind of a.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Horror movie, which I really loved that flipping this trailer.
So before I talk more about it, here's just a
little bit of Friendship, which is coming out this summer.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
On May ninth, Monny, the.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
New neighbor invited you over for a drink. It Hey, tonight,
I said you'd go.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
You don't know my schedule?
Speaker 1 (40:50):
You sit there every night.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
It might be nice to have a pal, you know.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
A bud. Hey, guys, this is my neighbor, Craig. He's
the best book. We had a couple of really nice hangs.
I think the best that we go our separate ways.
I don't wish to continue this friendship. You all accepted
me way too fast. You can't do that. You made
me feel too free. People need rules, you said, Bedad,
(41:15):
you psych the.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
Just in that clip, you get kind of a taste
of his comedy if you're not familiar with it. For me,
it's the interaction with him and his wife of her
volunteering to go hang out with this guy and he's like,
you know know my schedule? Like I love that, just
that little line, I love that, or then him yelling at.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
The other guy like who are you?
Speaker 1 (41:35):
It is those types of deliveries that I realize that
sound crazy saying that those are my favorite. But it's
that type of humor that I just have an attachment to,
very awkward, very situational, and it's something that I feel
is becoming a part of him and a part of
the characters that he plays that all kind of have
this similar style to them, which is something that is working.
(41:59):
But it's it's interesting now watching this trailer hearing that
of how much it sounds like characters he has already played.
So I think he is kind of playing into that
where there are some comedic actors like that who start
to just kind of play themselves. You think about Michael Sarah,
you think about Ryan Reynolds, where they put a lot
of their personality into their characters and they kind of
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have this theme going. Some people will say they become
typecast because they can only play themselves, but I think
if you're that funny and that unique and it works
in movies, continue to do it. Ryan Reynolds has made
a career off that, and every comedy is basically the
same character now and if you see all that he
has going on now, well, I'd rather make me laugh
than make me cringe at what's going on in the
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news right now. But the tagline to this movie is
men shouldn't have friends all because he tries to befriend
his charismatic new neighbor and it soon threatens both of
their lives. I guess the comparison is made because I
Love You Man does star Paul Rudd. He's getting married
and doesn't have a best man, so we be friends
Jason Siegel and they try to make that work.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
And that's a good movie to me.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
It reminds me more of that episode of The Simpsons
whenever Homer and Ned become friends and Homer becomes the
obsessed friend who wants to hang out all the time.
He's coming over when he's not invited. He is chasing
them in their car because they locked up all the
doors and try to get out of town without him.
That is what it reminds me of more because I
feel his character becoming more psycho obsessed in the fact
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that he gets cut off. And this is the trailers
that I watched and I thought, I don't know how
this movie is gonna end. Some trailers I know everything
about it in those two and a half to three
minutes that I'm like, I just watched the entire movie
right now, This one no idea, and I love that,
So maybe it's me. I kind of think of when
I got to that point where I was partying pretty hard,
(43:47):
at drinking a lot, where it started to take a
lot of beers for me to actually get drunk. To
anybody young listening, don't drink beer to your twenty one
of legal age. But back when I was in college
and I would drink beer, I got to a point
where I was like, man, I.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
Need like a twelve pack to really have a good time.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
And I think that's really why I don't drink so
much anymore, is because I'm not a drink one or
two type of person. I'm like, I'm either having none
or I'm having every beer in this house. So I
got to a point where it did take a lot
more adult beverages to get me to that level. I
think I'm also on that point now when it comes
to movies, where it takes something so at a left
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field in the comedy realm to really make me laugh,
to become a movie that I feel becomes a part
of my comedic DNA, which is hard to do.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
Now.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
There are movies that I have enjoyed in the last
five years. I mean even just this year with one
of them Days Bottoms Babes. Comedy movies like that that
I have enjoyed, but they haven't really absorbed themselves into
my comedy DNA that I feel now it is what
Tim Robinson is doing, and I hope that this movie does. So.
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If you like slightly off comedies that are absurd, chaos
and deeply awkward, then hopefully you and I will both
love Friendship again. It's coming out on May fifth, and
the fact that they got Paul Rudd to be a
part of this movie too gives me hope that I'll
get more eyeballs on it.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
And that was this week's edition of Movie by Framer
par Ken.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
That is going to do it for another episode here
of the podcast, but before I go, I gotta give
my listener's shout out of the week. I felt myself
starting to lose my voice a little bit in that
last segment, so I needed to jump into an entirely
different voice to reset it.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
I think we're good now. Do I have my voice back? Yes?
I do, all right. Before we go.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Every single week, I got to give my listeners shout
out of the week. This is episode two hundred and
sixty five, and I'm pretty sure I did this on
the very first episode. I think I made it a
point to shout somebody. I couldn't have done it on
the first episode if I didn't have anything to reference yet,
so maybe I did it on the second one. So
maybe this is the two hundred and sixty fourth shout out.
But this week's listener shout out comes to us from
(45:59):
YouTube shout out Manuel Hernandez, who commented on My Captain
America a Brave New World review and said a lot
of Marvel movies have just been fine. People seem to
look back as if they were all masterpieces. And I
think that is a great point, Manuel, that we do
forget that in phase one. Maybe not so much phase one,
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but phase two. In Phase three, we had some real
turns in there, Thwar, the Dark World, ant Man in
the Wasp. There were some missteps there in Marvel that
I think, like I was mentioning earlier in this episode,
sometimes when you get ten years past something, you look
back with these rose colored glasses, thinking, ah, everything was
so good back in the day. But I remember even
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feeling during those first few phases leading up to Age
of Ultron and then even more so leading up to
Infinity War, that it felt like there were some filler
movies in there, and movies that felt that they were
just pushing the narrative and pushing along the storyline to
get us to those big Avengers movies that now looking
back on everything before twenty nineteen think oh it was
all gold. Everything was good then not the case, and
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a lot of people felt that I was too negative
even with my spoiler review of Captain America Brave New World,
and I was just trying to say that it is
gonna be one of those pieces much like we had
in those other phases that just felt like, Okay, this
is good for right now, but it's not gonna be
a movie you look back on in those ten years
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and want to go revisit, much like thor The Dark
World or Aimin in the Wasp. Gonna be good for
the time being. I'm glad that it made a lot
of money, because at least to that, you can't say
the MCU is dead when it's still making millions of dollars.
But I just don't think this is going to be
anybody's favorite movie in the MCU of all time, which
is fine, not every movie has to be that. We
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just have that higher standard now since Endgame. But thank
you Minuelle for that comment, thank you everybody for listening,
and until next time.
Speaker 2 (47:55):
By the way, if you did miss that.
Speaker 1 (47:56):
Spoiler version of Captain America Brave New World I did.
That was at the end of last week, go back
one in the feed and check that out as well.
Speaker 2 (48:04):
You had time to catch that in between now and then.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
But until next time, go out and watch good movies
and I will talk to you later.
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