January 20, 2025 • 55 mins
Mike shares the movies he is most excited to see in theaters this year. He talks about what he expects from Marvel this year, his favorite Disney movie getting a live-action remake and the little thing he loves the most about going to the movies. In the Movie Review, Mike talks about One of Them Day. The story follows Dreux and Alyssa, played by Keke Palmer and SZA, respectively, as they attempt to make $1,500 in just a few hours to pay their rent and avoid eviction. Mike shares why it kept him laughing throughout, how it depicted the struggle of being broke and how it proved to be a big win for everyone involved in its opening weekend. In the Trailer Park, Mike talks about Novocaine starring Jack Quaid. He plays a regular guy thrust into the hero's role during a bank robbery, and he's got one thing going for him: he can't feel pain.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's Movie podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike. I love doing this episode
every single year my top ten most anticipated movies of
the year. I'm gonna do it a little bit differently.
I'm really gonna go off of motion on this list,
so we'll get into that. In the movie review, we'll
be talking about a new comedy called One of Them Days.
And in the trailer Partner's a new action comedy movie
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starring Jack Wade, who you may know from the Boys.
We'll talk about his acting career. We'll talk about Nepo babies.
Thank you for being here, thank you for being subscribed,
shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now
let's talk movies from the nast Trolle podcast network. And
this is movie Mike's Movie Podcasts. So I mentioned I
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wanted to do this episode a little bit different this year.
I've been doing this every year since I've been doing
this podcast going on. This will be the sixth year,
and usually I pick my movies based upon how good
I think the movie is going to be. I'm gonna
do it different this time. I was thinking about movies
last year that I went to go see that I
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just enjoyed the idea of going to watch this movie.
I was just excited to see these movies in theaters,
whether or not I had this podcast. It was just
fun for me. It took me back to my days
of weird to say, before I turned this into a job,
turned this into any kind of legit outlet that I
do an episode every single week. Before all that, where
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I would just be excited to go to a movie
for the sake of seeing a movie. Still love movies
with all my heart, but sometimes the process feels a
little bit differently because in my head I'm thinking of
how to review this movie, what to all those things.
But still, even at this stage of my life, there
are still movies that I'm just genuinely excited to go see.
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When I go see in theaters, I'm not going to
see them for screening. There's just no reason that I
need to go see that movie. I just want to
see that movie that still happens. So when that does
happen to make me back, I feel good about it.
I make less notes on those movies because I can
really go off of motion and what I already know
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about that film. So that is what I decided to
do when making this list, I thought, what movies of
all the movies coming out in twenty twenty five, am
I just going to be genuinely excited as I walk
down that long hallway. When you go to the movies,
you can go into all these different worlds just by
opening up a door. That is what I love about movies.
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That feeling for me, not even the Some of it
is the anticipate anticipation of going to the movie. But
then I think that best feeling is right when that
movie's done, Not because I get to go home, but
right when that movie is done, I walk back out
into that hallway and I just have that feeling that
I'm still in the movie. I'm still in that world.
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If it was a really good movie, anything in that
four point five even before, give me that feeling that
you walk out and you still feel like a part
of it. If it was a thriller, you kind of
still are looking over back over your shoulder they you know,
oh no, the bad guy's going to come get me.
If it's a horror movie, you genuinely feel creeped out.
Superhero movie, I feel like I'm ready to take on
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the world, and I think in that moment superheroes still exist.
I'm talking about movies that give me that feeling when
I leave the theater, I ride that excitement on the
entire drive home. So that is what I did when
coming up with this list, the ten films that I
am anticipating the most and will genuinely be the most
excited to see that. I still will use my own
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money to watch these movies, which I do no matter
what I had that regal unlimited. So let's get into
the list now. At number ten, I have Mickey seventeen,
directed by Bung June Hoe, starring the one and only
Robert Pattinson. The reason I had this movie lower on
my list is because it was on my list last year.
This movie's been delayed quite a bit. Part of it
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was the writer strike, and then part of it was
them shifting around lease dates and schedules and things not
lining up. So for that reason, it has dropped in
my list. But I love Bung Ju Hoo. He is
a fantastic director. You would probably know him best for
his movie Parasite, which was the last movie he put
out back in twenty nineteen, won the Oscar for Best Picture,
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won the Oscar for Best Director. That is my favorite
movie of his. I also love snow Piercer and Oakja,
but when it comes to Mickey seventeen. It is a
sci fi movie based on a book. Robert Panson plays
this expendable guy who signed up for this experiment where
he just keeps dying over and over. They're trying to
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colonize this world, and after each iteration of him dies,
they essentially throw him into like this incinerator. Then he regenerates.
He still has most of his memories. In tact, he
talks about how much it hurts to die, until one
day they are set to kill him like a do
just as part of the routine, and he doesn't die.
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He wakes up next to the next one. So then
they have to decide what do you do with this
duplicate now that two of them exists when the other
one was supposed to die. So something goes wrong in
that human printing process and then all crap breaks loose.
It has a little bit more of the wackier tone
that Mon June Ho is known for. I tend to
like more of his straight ahead drama or even his
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horror stuff. He has such a creative vision when it
comes to anything sci fi. That is why I put
Mickey seventeen at number ten. It comes out on March seventh.
At number nine, I have Avatar, Fire and Ash. It
is coming out on December nineteenth. It is directed by
James Cameron. It stars Sam Worthington. It's always held Donna,
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It's a gourney weaver pretty much everybody who's been a
part of all of these Avatar movies and whenever the
last one came out Way in the Water, and it
was three plus hours long, and that was the first
one since two thousand and nine. At the time when
Avatar came out, I didn't really get it. It really
wasn't until Way the Water came out that I went
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back rewatched that movie maybe for the third time. At
that point that I really started to understand it. I
started to leaning more into the work of James Cameron,
and by no means was I diving into the deep cuns.
But I watched first Avatar, rewatch Titanic, and I started
to realize how hard it is to make a movie
on the scale of a James Cameron film. For some
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to say that I don't really care about all these
Avatar movies. They have so many lined up for the
next I think ten years these will continue to come out.
And for me, if you had have told me five
years ago that I would be anticipating a new Avatar movie,
I would have said you were crazy. But now, after
watching Way of the Water in theaters with as long
as a runtime as it had, I love that movie.
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James Cameron knows action, he knows how to develop a story,
he knows how to create a world. Yes, they might
be a little bit long, but James Cameron is a
director who I believe warrants those long run times because
he knows how to utilize it. What I love about
the Avatar movies is how huge these fight scenes are.
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They are massive, There's so many things going on. So
this one's gonna make it on my list this year
because I usually have a little bit of hesitation when
going to watch any movie that's over three hours, But
now to go into an Avatar movie, I'm all invested
in it. I won't second guess it. And after leaving
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a movie like this, it makes me feel excited. They
haven't really said a whole lot about what this movie
is going to be about. First Avatar movie we were
introduced to the world of Pandora, all about those people
and the humans fighting with each other. Way of the
Water was then leaving that place, going to find these
new people and assimilating into their culture, and then again
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fighting the humans. So this one is probably going to
lead more into the Fire. You had a Way of
the Water, which was all based in water, has some
really fantastic visuals with all those underwater creatures and underwater
battle scenes. This one, the theme is no longer blue.
The theme is red. So maybe they just do a
different element in each of these installments. But again, this
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movie is coming out on December nineteenth, Avatar Fire and Ash.
I put this one at number nine, at number eight,
another movie that I'd kind of written off this franchise,
but with the Last Mission Impossible movie, I'm heavily invested.
At number eight, I had Mission Impossible, the Final Reckoning.
It is coming out this summer May twenty third. When
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I think summer now, I think Tom Cruise And this
one is picking up right where the Last Mission Impossible,
Dead Reckoning left off. They were trying to fight these
villains who had this artificial intelligence program called the Entity.
There's this key they're trying to assemble that it comes
into different parts, and this one is said to kind
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of feel like they haven't fully said it's going to
be the end of the franchise, but at least that
is what they are selling it as right now. And
that trailer, Tom Cruise says all like, I need you
guys to trust me one last time. I love the
shot of him the bottom of the ocean, and like
his tighty whities was probably like boxer briefs or some
kind of swimming shorts, but it's him floating that is
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fantastic visual. You see him running a lot, which is
trademark Tom Cruise. Will it be the sendoff to his
character or is he gonna pull Harrison Ford still be
in his seventies and still cashing in on the Mission
Impossible movies. I don't think so. These movies are pretty
physically demanding. He's broken his ankles before jumping from building
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the building. He has to take out big insurance policies
to drive motorcycles off of cliffs. I don't think he's
gonna be able to keep up with that scale. Much
like my favorite film franchise, Jackass, those guys have just
kind of aged out of being able to put their
body through some of those things. They get new guys
to come in and do the more physical stunts. So
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I feel that that rumor that was swirling around at
Glenn Powell will step into the role and keep this
franchise going. But at number eight, I have Mission Impossible,
the Final Reckoning. At number seven, I have Jurassic Park Rebirth.
It's coming out on July second, twenty twenty five. Stars
Scarlett Johansson. It's about her and a family getting stranded
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on the island that's home to these dinosaurs. So this
is kind of a rebranding of Jurassic Park. You have
the originals from back in the nineties. You have the
reboot with Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard. Those characters
are gone. Last movie Jurassic Park Dominion, that was the
end of them. You had Jurassic World in twenty fifteen,
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which I really enjoyed. These are movies that I loved
going to experience in the theater. That's why it makes
it onto this list. I felt that over the course
of those movies it became less about the dinosaurs so
much so that the last one wasn't even really about
the dinosaurs. It was about the dang bugs. How are
you gonna make a Jurassic Park World movie about not
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dinosaur being the main focal point? So I think this
is gonna kind of take it back to I hate
it when people say we're taking it back to our
roots because that kind of means you've run out of
ideas and you want to go back to do what
was working and what was making you the most amount
of money. But I think bringing in Scarlett Johansson and
changing it so it's not about the park anymore. They
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just get stranded on this island, and so far, what's
out about the plot is that's kind of It doesn't
really say that there was somebody there putting all the
dinosaurs there. There weren't people going to visit it like
they did in the first movie, So it feels like
it's gonna be a little bit different. It brings up
a big question for me of why are there no
other really prominent dinosaur franchises. Why does Jurassic Park have
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the only rights to making dinosaur movies? And you may
say Godzilla Land before time, Pixar and Disney had made
some dinosaur movies, But when it comes to something so
captivating us dinosaurs that everybody, especially kids love. Why aren't
there other dinosaur movies that work? It's only Jurassic Park.
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That sixty five movie with Adam Driver was one of
the worst movies of all time. Really wasn't a dinosaur movie.
There was a t Rex in it. But I just wonder, like,
why is nobody else trying to make these movies? Is
it too expensive? Does Steven Spielberg have the rights to
every single dinosaur? Does he have the rights to t Rex? Which,
by the way, Steven Spielberg is still an executive producer
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on this movie. He's not directing him anymore, which I
think if he came back to direct him and started
using practical effects again, oh, I think that could kind
of work. But there was a rumor swirling around the internet,
which rumors never swirl around the internet. This is the
first I've ever heard of a rumor coming from the
Internet that's false. But people were saying that this movie
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was said to be rated R. Somebody put out a
poster and said radedar. It's not raded Ar, which I
think would be fantastic. But I think as long as
Steven Spielberg and Amblin Entertainment are involved in any way,
You're never going to get an R rated Jurassic Park movie,
which I think is at least what I want. I
don't think it's what kids want, who are probably going
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to be the most excited outside of me to go
see a movie like this. But if you could think
about the blood that you have seen throughout the franchise,
still one of those images that stays in my head
from my early childhood of watching movies was from the
Jurassic Park Lost World, which was my favorite Jurassic Park
movie because I saw that one as a kid before
I saw the original. But there's a scene where they're
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running from the t Rex. They get caught and they
have to hide behind this waterfall. They're like on this
little rock sliver and they are jumping through water to
get to like behind this waterfall so the t Rex
can't catch them. And somebody he gets eaten up by
the t Rex and you see the water changed from
clear to blood red as the bones crunch, and you
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no longer hear the person screaming and it's just that
blood coming down through the water. That image is stuck
in my head, and that's a PG. Thirteen movie could
you imagine the crazy violent things that they could do?
Which I think now that I think about it, there
are some straight to Amazon really low budget dinosaur movies
that probably have that. So maybe there's some type of
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balance that Jurassic Park movies have figured out where people
don't really want that bloody of a dinosaur movie. In
the title Jurassic World Rebirth, Hopefully this also serves as
a rebirth of the entire franchise that are able to
make these movies exciting again, which is what is great
about the Jurassic Park movies is they are exciting, they
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are captivating. But how do you recreate that feeling that
you built in the nineties where we're still limited technology.
It was so entry level cgi with those shots. How
do you recapture that now where we're so used to
seeing everything and being able to create anything with digital images.
As long as they don't make it anything like Jurassic
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World Dominion, I think we're good. That's why I have
Jurassic World Rebirth coming out on July second at number seven.
At number six, I have twenty eight years Later coming
out on June twentieth. It's about a group of survivors
of the rage virus living on this small island. One
of the people from the group believes the island to
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go on a mission into this mainland, and while he's there,
he discovers some secrets, some wonders, some horrors that have
mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.
When this trailer came out at the end of last year,
I thought, this is the movie I've been waiting for
for so long. This falls under the category of a
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legacy sequel and a soft reboot, because I think if
this movie is six successful, which I have seen the
excitement and demand their online people were so hype about
this movie. They also faced some issues that I was
talking about back when this trailer came out, of people
just not being able to access that for the longest time,
it wasn't on a streaming service and wasn't even available
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for you to rent. And right after I talked about
it in the trailer park, they announced that, Hey, we're
finally gonna make it available for you to watch it
home so you could read it. They're banking on the
fact that people going to pay and rewatch this movie.
The original line talking about leading up to twenty eight
years later. But at number six, I can't wait for
this one, twenty eight years later coming out on June twentieth,
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into the top five. Now you think this one would
be higher, but there are some hesitations I have going
into it. But at number five, I have Lilo and
Stitch coming out on May twenty third. It is the
live action Lelo and Stitch. If you are a longtime
listener of the podcast, you already know. If you're new here,
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Leelo and Stitch is my favorite Disney movie of all time.
I don't think it's the best, but if I had
to pick one Disney movie to save and not go
into the Disney vault forever, it would be Leelow and Stitch.
The story just resonates with me. I think Stitch is
the best Disney character since it came out hasn't been matched.
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The reason it's not higher is because I haven't fully
been a fan of all of these Disney reboot live
action movies, and there have been a lot of them.
We hadn't moved Fossil last year. Some of the worst
movies I've ever seen have been these Disney live action movies.
Pinocchio with Tom Hanks was awful, And the only thing
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that made those movies like it even watchable was the
fact that I was familiar with the story and they
were classics, and I just wanted to watch it all
the way through to see what they did. But they're
very lifeless, they're very cold, and they feel very much
like cash grabs. Like definition of cash grab. If you
look at cash Grab in the movie dictionary, you'll see
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Tom Hanks's face right there next to him as Jeppetto
and Pinocchio. That is just the definition of it, because
most of them aren't providing anything new, is just doing
it quote unquote live action, which sometimes they're not even
live action. M Foss is not a live action movie.
It's an animated movie, just different animation that makes it
look somewhat real. But I love Leelo and Stitch. I've
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had Chris Sanders on this podcast, the creator of Lelo
and Stitch. He's also the voice of Stitch and returning
in this movie. They haven't said if it's a direct
remake of the first one. They're following the story exactly,
but it's about Stitch meeting Lelo, who is an orphan
child living with their sister so that full plot isn't out,
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but I have to imagine it'll be something similar. Chris
Sanders is returning as the voice of Stitch, who has
had an amazing twenty twenty four with the Wild Robot
being so successful. Well that is turning into its own franchise.
So after watching the teaser trailer and by seeing the
poster and some other still images, it looks a lot
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better than I was expecting. So it comes down to
how all these characters look, and just looking at some
of the things Disney has done recently with their CGI.
I'm talking about the snow White trailer where the seven
doors look pretty terrifying. It's not a showing to say
that they're gonna get it right. So that is my
hesitation going into this movie. But me being such a
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big fan of Lee Low and Stitch still keeps me in.
I'm gonna go enjoy this movie for what it is
and not be overly critical because it is my favorite
character in the Disney world. So that is why I
have it at number five, because I wasn't fully into
them thinking that they needed to remake this movie, but
now that I see more details about it, I'm easing
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myself more into enjoying it without worrying about it ruining
the reputation of the first one. So at number five,
even though it sound a little bit head, I'm not.
I'm excited about it. I have Leelo and Stitch coming
out on May twenty third at number four. Getting into
some really good stuff here. Top five is great. The
Fantastic Four First Steps coming out on July twenty fifth, Pedro, Pascal,
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Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, Evan Moss Backack. That is your
Fantastic Four. This will launch Marvel into Phase six, which
a lot of people have been saying the Multiverse saga
has been pretty trash. I'm not really in that camp.
I've still enjoyed a lot of the movies in the
Multiverse saga. I'm all about the Multiverse. I think we
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had a lot of fun moments in it. I just
think it kind of ran its course and we need
to move on. But Fantastic four in history hasn't been
the best as far as just being good movie. There
are some iterations of it that people love based on nostalgia.
I was just never fully into the Fantastic Four and
didn't really understand the hype around them. Now, as I
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learn more about comic books and how impactful they were
to Marvel's success the first real superhero team, I understand
more of why people want these movies to be successful.
But this will be the third reboot of the Fantastic Four.
If this one doesn't work, they might be done. But
this movie will be set in the nineteen sixties in
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an alternative Earth. It's gonna be retro futuristic, follows the
Fantastic Four on a mission to protect Earth from Galactys
and the Silver Surfer. And then you gotta remember, we
have Robert Downey Junior on deck to play Doctor Doom,
the Fantastic Four's biggest villain. So will this movie tease
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them at all? Will it be in that post credit
scene queuing up what's gonna happen in Secret Wars? These
new Avengers movies that are coming out that Robert Downey
Junior will be a part of. So he's gonna be
tied into this world. That is why the success of
this movie, Well, it's gonna be so impactful on Marvel
in their years to come. And if this movie flops,
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it could start to tank Phase six. Hey, third time
to charm right. That is why I have Fantastic Four
at number four. Actually did that on purpose because I
wanted the Force to match up at number three coming
out on November twenty First, I have Wicked for Good.
This one is gonna take place directly after Wicked Part one,
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So in part one we already had our big songs,
we had popular, we had defined gravity. This one is
definitely going to rink up in the level of action,
but it will also have songs like as Long as
Your Mind, which I'll admit I'm not familiar with it.
I hadn't seen or known anything about Wicked going into it,
but I think as a whole, whether you had not
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seen Wicked or had seen Wicked, I think everybody loved
this movie. For Good is I believe, also a song
in Wicked, and that is why they decided to add
it to the title. Instead of calling it Wicked Part two,
it's called Wicked for Good. I can't wait to see
the transformation of alphabave because we all knew it was coming.
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The way Part one starts is with her death and
Glinda the Goodwitch telling us the story. We find out
she was friends with her, and then it goes all
the way back to the beginning. I like movies where
you know somebody is going to die at the very beginning,
where it opens up and that person is dead, and
then it's all the things leading up to that death.
In my heart, I'm still thinking, she's not gonna die.
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They're gonna change that. She's gonna be fine. How could
she die? I also love the fact that it comes
out the next year. We don't have to wait two
years because they did film these movies at the same time,
so it's not like this movie is gonna suddenly look
better and everybody's gonna look different. It's gonna be more polished,
it's gonna feel the same way, which I think is
fine as long as it still comes out as scheduled
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on November twenty first, which would just be a year
after the first one. I love that idea. Now. I
don't always love when movies get split into two, where
it's like this part one and this part two, the
Mission Impossible movies we were talking about earlier, where they've
split some of those ending movies into two. But I
think this case is a little bit different because they
could have just as easily made this movie and waited
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on the success of it to decide whether or not
they were going to make a part two, But now
you know they're already both in the can. I didn't
think this one would make my most anticipated movies of
the year, But when I think about that feeling I
was describing at the beginning of this episode, I want
that again. I felt that in Wicked. I was completely
tuned in the entire time while watching that movie. I
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want that feeling again. At number three, I have Wicked
for Good coming out on November twenty first. At number two,
even more so than the Fantastic four movie. Is the
other Marvel movie coming out this year that I'm excited for.
Captain America Brave New World, coming out on Valentine's Day,
February fourteenth. This one's right around the corner. We have
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our new Captain America Anthony Mackie, which if you missed
the Disney Plus show, I feel they kind of wasted
it there. You learn so much about his character in
that show, but I feel like not a whole lot
of people watch that show, so hopefully they don't base
a whole lot of this plot on that show, which
I think that's something Disney is trying to get away
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from of not making the movies connect with the TV shows.
I think those should be completely separate. And I know
Kevin Figy has always just kind of drilled that mentality
of thinking about the bigger picture making things inner lock.
But I think and hope that he learned that we
don't really want the TV shows to connect with the movies.
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I think we should kept us separate. I really think
that Disney Plus shows should be entire side quests and
not involved with the main MCU storyline. Do it with
some side characters, do more animated shows, do more things
like X Men ninety seven. They give us a reason
to go to Disney Plus, but not a reason to
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have to go see things in theaters and go back
to you. So hopefully by making that show, it didn't
take away from the impact of Sam Wilson taking over
for Steve Rodgers, which is huge, and I really feel
like that reveal on the big screen would have been
more impactful because now we've already seen it on Disney Plus,
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so there's not gonna be that big off factor because
we kind of have already seen it. We've kind of
wasted that already. I get why they wanted to make
that show. But if you think of how Endgame finished
with those two characters, if that was the last thing
we saw with Chris Evans giving him the Shield and
then moving on to this movie, which I guess would
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have been hard to do because that movie came out
like five years ago. At this point, I think over
that now, it would have been a long time to wait.
But still the trailer does give me some chills. Moments
where he says, I'm not Steve Rodgers. I feel like
it's really gonna be Sam coming into his zone, taking
over this role, taking on Harrison Ford, who's gonna go
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from being President Thunderbolt Ross into the Red Hulk. Hopefully
we get some good cameos in this, which I hate
the idea of chasing cameos in Marvel movies. It just
feels a little bit twenty tens to me to be like, oh,
I hope somebody shows up. All they showed up, All right,
cool cameo. I would like the cool cameo only because
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of who I feel could be involved in this story.
But ultimately that's what I want. I want a good story.
I want to be able to root for his character
and buy into the fact that he is Captain America,
which I have some doubts about. He doesn't have the serum,
he has the suit, he has the shield, But what
makes him Captain America? What makes him able to take
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on the Red Hulk, who by all means is stronger
than Green Hulk. That's who I really wanted this movie.
All want some Green Olk action. Overall. I hate the
way that Hulk has been portrayed in the later half
of the Infinity saga. Hasn't really been used much in
the Multiverse saga except for Sheet Hulk, But the Hulk
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is supposed to be just this rage monster, the person
they were so afraid of in the first Avengers movie
that overtime was smart Hulk, which I hate that whole
trajectory for his character. I want to go back to
that Hulk, the Hulk that people fear that you don't
want to make Bruce better, angry and that can be powerful,
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not the Hulk that gets his ass kicked by Thanos
and then as PTSD from that. So can they make
Sam Wilson a viable threat and somebody to root for?
Visually the movie looks amazing. They've already done the suit reveal,
but he looks good in it. Again, that could have
been something that was so impactful on the screen. But
the action looks up to par with those early Captain
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America movies, which I think out of any movie in
the MCU, it had the best fight scenes first one
Captain America Civil War. That is what I feel was
the krem de la creme of the MCU, the fight
scenes and the Captain American movies. But can you do
that without Chris Evans at the helm. But I'm so
excited for this movie. It's coming out soon. I'm not
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really that interested of how it's going to play into
the timeline. I don't care what this movie sets up.
I really don't care about what all these things are
building to at this point. I just want individual good movies,
even if the Avengers movies are completely separate from the
plot line. I don't really care at this point. I
just want to have fun and feel excitement when going
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to Marvel movies now. But at number two, I have
Captain America Brave New World coming out soon on February fourteenth.
At number one, I have Superman coming out on July eleventh.
This is the new launch at least on the film side.
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Of James Gunn taking over for DC, he is going
to be the new person much like Kevin Figy is
for Marvel, who is the president of Marvel and is
responsible for keeping everything cohesive and for having things connect
and building a big brand. He is the person now
who is going to direct movies like Superman, but also
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make sure that every film that they put out is
in line with values, has continuity, feels like the same
from one movie to another, which is something that the
EMCU did really well. They had a whole system in
place that no matter what director was directing each particular movie,
they all felt the same way. You have cameos from
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one to another, and it's all the same actors, all
the same people. He is going to be that now
for DC. Just the trailer came out, I think I've
thought about this movie every single day, and the movie
just feels so warm and inviting and fresh that every
shot just on its own looks like a page out
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of a comic book. It's so perfectly framed, and I
feel like this is really going to dive into what
makes Superman such a great character, the og superhero, the
most famous superhero and really give us that best version
of him since Christopher Reeves back in the day introducing
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the character on the big screen. I also love that
James Gunn is so heavily invested in stories from comics
with the Superman character, that is going to bring a
lot of that to life. And overall all the characters
just look really fun and vibrant and cosmic at times
where they need to be. And I just feel like
this is going to be one of those movies that
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once it starts from one second up there when you
see that DC logo, to the very end, it's gonna
feel like a perfect movie. And it's the one I'm
just the most excited to be in the theater to
watch because I think it's gonna be one of those
core movie memories for me. And I've had maybe three
of those since twenty nineteen, probably since Endgame, I would
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say that have really popped and I just remember that
moment of watching them for the first time. I think
that is gonna be inside of Superman. And that's why
I put it at number one, because as much as
I can't wait to see the new Captain American movie,
I don't think that or anything below it is gonna
have one of those memories. So I think this is
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the one I'm the most excited to see because I
think it could be one of my next favorite superhero
movies and I feel that, and I think also it
is one that's gonna have to win me over a
little bit because I wouldn't even put Superman in my
top five superheroes of all time. So I think it's
gonna be having my first iteration that I could fully
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be in love with Superman. Oh as much passion as
it is, there is Superman and going to win my heart?
Am I good to fall in love for those blue
eyes and slick back hair and red trunks could be?
So maybe that's why I'm so excited about this is
I'm ready to hook up a Superman to me in
love with them. But that is the list. There are
a bunch of honorable mentions. I'll go through these quickly.
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I have a category of almost made in my list.
There is an untitled Trey Parker movie coming out. Not
a whole lot of details out as far as what
it's about, what it's called, but Trey Parker is one
of the creators of South Park and Kendrick Lamar is
going to be in it. Elio was also a movie
on my list. It is a Pixar movie coming out
on June thirteenth. That movie has also been delayed for
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a while, so my excitement has also weighed down just
a little bit. Marvel also has The Thunderbolts coming out
later this year. Brad Pitt is going to be in
a racing movie called f one. We have a live
action How to Train Your Dragon Zootopia two, which I
think I might just do an episode on just straight
sequels coming out this year, because we also have Freaking
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Your Friday, Happy Gilmour too. Allegedly there is a fourth
Friday movie coming out this year. Not a whole lot
of details on that either, So I know I did
include some sequels in my top ten, but I think
I want to do an episode where I just think
and raise the question what will be the best sequel
this year? Movies that I'm the least interested in would
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have to be Snow White and the New Tron movie
because Jared Leto's in it and I think everything he
touches turns to the crap right now, So that is
the list. Those are my honorable mentions. If you want
to let me know what you were anticipating this year,
hit me up on socials or hey, send me an email.
Moviemke d at gmail dot com. Let's get into it now.
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A spoiler free review of One of Them Days for
the people who say, why don't they make good comedies anymore? Well,
if you didn't go see One of Them Days or
have no plans to, you're missing out. I was laughing
throughout this entire movie. Such a great chemistry between Keiki
Palmer and and Sizza, who this is her acting debut.
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They play two best friends trying to make back this
money because Sizza gave her boyfriend fifteen hundred bucks to
go pay the rent, but her boyfriend very untrustworthy. Instead,
he blows it on some fake Gucci shirts. In this
get rich Quick scheme he has landlord is upset banging
on their door and telling them, if you don't have
my money by five o'clock today, you guys are gonna
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get evicted. I'm gonna throw all your stuff out and
leave it on the curb. So Keithi Palmer's character, this
is a big blow to her. She's going through a
lot right now. At the start of the movie, she
is getting off work from an overnight shift. She works
at a fast food restaurant and is just trying to
get back on her feet, and what she has playing
for this day is just to go home, go to sleep,
and get ready for this big job interview that she
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has later in the day, and this totally derails it,
therefore bringing back the title of the movie, It's gonna
be one of them days. So instead of being able
to sleep get all prepared for this job interview, she
now has to find a way long with their best
friends Sizza, to make this money and then trying to
make it to her job interview on time, because if
you can get that job, it'll change the course of
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her life and get everything back on track. So that
is the dream. Sizza is a little bit opposite of
her in the fact that she is an artist. She
has all these paintings all around their apartment, which is
this really runn down apartment. It's not even a nice apartment,
which I think if you're like me, or really like
anybody who grew up going through hard times not having
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a lot, you have lived in an apartment, a trailer
park or something that resembles this. So I very much
identified with that. So what I enjoyed about this movie
is I think it came down to Keiki Palmer and
Sissa's chemistry, and I thought they worked really well together.
As best friends. You need that chemistry. And it is
hard to recommend a comedy because this movie was funny
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to me, it could not be funny to you. And
I think this is one of those movies that I
went into it wanting to enjoy it, wanting to have
a good time, and I allowed myself to open up
to some of the more ridiculous things that did feel
a little bit ninety sitcom here and there. But I
think the style of overall physical comedy and some of
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the wacky things that were very heightened reminded me of
something of that time period. So if you don't really
like that type of cheesy, over at the top humor,
I think you could watch this movie and think that
is stupid. How did you even find that funny? Why
do you recommend that? But I leaned into that it
reminded me of watching episodes of Home Improvement, episodes of Martin,
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where it's so ridiculous and so dumb, but it is
funny when it comes to all the random things and
fights and ways they try to make money in this movie.
I found it funny. There's one scene in particular where
they go to a blood bank. This was also in
the trailer. She's trying to make money for all this blood.
It's the first day of the worker there, played by
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Janelle James, who is also in Abbot Elementary, who plays
the principal in that show. It's her first dage. You
can't really find the vein and then they end up
getting covered in blood. And then they did it all
for a free biscuit coupon to go to churches and
get some food. Which, man, that reminded me of back
in the day where I was living in an apartment
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and I would rely so heavily on fast food coupons,
the ones they would just send to you for free,
that I would not only take the ones mailed to
my apartment, but I would go through the trash and
find the ones that other people threw away, because a
lot of people see that at junk mail, you're just
gonna throw it away. But I would stock up on
those stings and I would hit lunch on Silvers, taco bell,
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Jack in the box, water Burger, I'd go and get
all those because sometimes you don't have a whole lot
of money saving a buck two bucks getting two for one,
and that makes all the difference. So it reminded me
of that. That whole bit there was one of my
favorites that of the entire movie. And even though at
times this movie did feel predictable, I called a lot
of the things, and I'm trying to get better at
that because I know that's annoying, but predictability isn't always bad.
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Whatever happened to predictability, I think when it comes to
a comedy like this, you're not gonna write a whole
lot of twists and turns and things that come out
of nowhere they make you go, oh, man, I can't
believe they did that. It kind of goes beat by
beat of what you would expect in a ninety minute comedy,
so much so that a lot of this plot, given
that it also takes place in one day, very much
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reminded me of Friday. And I thought that back when
I broke it down in the trailer park, because essentially,
you have two best friends, you have them trying to
pay somebody back. By the end of the day and
if they don't, something bad is going to happen. You
also have Kat Williams who plays a guy named Lucky
in this movie that very much reminded me of the
comedic relief Ezell in Friday. I would say Kat Williams
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was a little bit more of a guardian angel here
where whenever they are trying to go to one of
those payday loan places to get the money and they
have like an astronomical interest rate, he is the one
outside also in the trailer telling them don't do it.
If you don't have the money this month, you're not
going to have the money next month. And I think
that is another commentary that this movie had where it
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was a comedy, you're not supposed to take it too seriously.
It's about two best friends and how you kind of
hate each other at times, but you remember all the
things you've been through, you remember they're the most supportive
person in your life. It is also a commentary on
the cycle of being broke and how expensive it is
to be poor and how sometimes you fall into that
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and can't get yourself out because it's so cyclical, because
you do things to try to pull yourself out of
debt that puts you more in debt. You take some
money at a payday long place, and suddenly you're paying
back all this interest on it. So not only was
it the money that you needed to make your rent,
but now you have to pay this place back for
all the interests. It is something that is tough in
this country, where once you are in a hole, it
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is so hard to dig yourself out of. And I
enjoyed that they work that into the plot of talking
about their characters and how much they have to work
just to make ends meet, talking about their credit scores
and how low they are, and how sometimes people just
laugh at them for the situation they are in. The
movie also did pretty well at the box office. It
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had a fourteen million dollar budget and made fourteen million
dollars over MLK weekend, so a big win for Sony.
I don't think they were expecting it to make that much.
Then again, you have Keki Palmer and Sissa. Keky Palmer
is a big movie star. Sizza hasn't done a whole
lot of acting. This is her debut, but she's obviously
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a massive musician, so there's obviously that star power there
so to be able to already make in your first
weekend all of the production budget. Is a big win
for them, especially for a comedy, especially where it is
so hard to get people to go to the theater
to watch a comedy. I feel like comedies almost have
that streaming quality to them that people feel like, oh,
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I could just wait to watch that at home. Doesn't
really ac a whole lot to go see it in theaters,
but this one did. It was a pretty full theater
when we went to go see it. I think it
adds something when you hear other people laughing and enjoying it.
It makes it feel more fluid and makes it feel
more like, oh, this is the bonding experience of a
lot of random strangers in a theater having a good
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time laughing at these ridiculous things. So I think this
is a big win for everybody involved, for Siza, for
Kiky Palmer, and for Sony that you can put out
a comedy like this with two female leads. At times,
this movie did feel like it had a female director
as well, but it's actually from director Lawrence Lamont who
this is pretty much his entry into film. That is
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a big win for him too, not his entire injury
into film. But as far as making a movie on
this scale for everybody involved, this is a sign of
good things to come. I think we see how well
it does in its entire box office run. This also
feels like a movie that would do really well once
it goes to streaming, so you could be potentially talking
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seek here. So for one of them days, I give
it four out of five free biscuit coupons. It's time
to head down to movie Mike trailer Paul Insane in
The Nova Caine. Let's talk about Jack Quaid in a
new action movie called Novacane. He plays a guy who
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can feel pain. You're always looking for pain, he can't
feel it, which I think. Jack Quaid is a really
good actor and this is his first real step into
being a leading man. He has done fantastic work as
Hugheye on The Boys. I've beenhralled in that show since
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it came out. Problem with that show and how many
people are involved in the cast of that hard to
stand out, and now seeing him in this trailer, I'm like, oh,
it is a much different feeling when jack Quaid is
just by himself. Even if you look at his history
in film, he was in the first Hunger Games back
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in the day, had a very small role in that
I kind of forgot he was in. That wasn't until
he got famous with the Boys that I went back
and realized, oh, he was also in Hunger Games. Most recently,
he was in Scream that came out in twenty twenty two,
but again not a lead there. But here he is
doing a what looks to be a really fun action movie,
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a movie after watching the trailer, I pretty much know
what I'm gonna get going into this movie. I don't
think it's gonna be anything that we haven't seen before,
but sometimes you just need a fun, shoot him up
action movie, and I love the premise. So before I
get into more about this story about a guy who
can't feel pain, here's just a little bit of the
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Nova Caine trailer. Why don't you just call the police?
Please can't take I'm in honest man, slaughter, grand theft Auto.
Do you noticed like to wait your whole life to
meet someone somebody finally gives your life? Meaning? Would you
wait around for someone else to save her? Would you
do it yourself? You've gotta be careful, dude, you can
still die. You're not Wolverine. Do you understand pain? Oh?
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Oh go no stop it? Ah? I mean, oh wow,
that hurt. That won't hurt the most. So what happens
in this movie. He is just a regular guy working
a regular job at a bank until that bank gets robbed.
Robbers are holding everybody up trying to get the money,
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and then the police arrive early, so they decide to
take somebody hostage. And right before you see that scene,
he meets this girl. They hook up and apparently he
can feel stuff there even though he can't feel pain,
they take her as hostage, so he wants to be
a hero. Earlier she called him a superhero, so he
tries to go and save her. But remember, just because
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he can't feel pain doesn't mean that he has all
these skills of fighting. The only benefit he has against
these criminals is that nothing is going to It's still
gonna hurt him, but he's not going to feel it.
So he steals a police car it looks like, tracks
these guys down and starts fighting them, trying to get
her back. But then, as you heard in the clip,
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cops thinks he was a part of it, thinks he's
involved with these criminals. So not only does he have
to save her, he also has to clear his name now.
So just by watching this trailer, just what I've been
able to infer after watching it, you kind of already
know it. And sometimes I say, whenever you watch a
trailer and it feels like you've already watched the entire movie,
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that's a sign of it's going to be a bad movie.
But I think in this case, the difference is, this
feels like it's going to be a roller coaster ride.
Sometimes action movies are predictable, Sometimes rom coms are predictable.
Sometimes even superhero movies are predictable, but that doesn't make
them bad. So I kind of know the journey we're
gonna go on with this character, just because they really
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laid out all the cards by telling us all these things.
I do love the reference there to Wolverine. That was
from co star Jacob Badelon, who is also ned in
the Tom Holland Spider Man movies. But he's the one
who raises that question and tells them, hey, just because
you can't feel these bullets going through you, these blades
going through you. One of my favorite scenes is when
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he's fighting a guy trying to get a gun from him,
and the gun falls into a fryer, and since he
can't feel pain, he puts his hand into the fryer
like where you put the fries and his hand comes
out crisp. I just thought that was a fun moment.
I want to see more stuff like that. It does
get into almost that uncomfortable feeling like I can do ooh,
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I can do gunshot wounds. But whenever you get into
people getting stabbed and just that sound ooh, it's for
some reason to me that strikes a nerve in me
that it makes it uncomfortable for me to watch somebody
getting stabbed. Is just like, oh, that hurts me a
little bit. If somebody gets stabbed or breaks a bone,
that is gonna make me feel uncomfortable. And again, like
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you said, he's not Wolverine, so we can't regenerate. I
wonder how they're gonna address how much blood he is
losing and how much these injuries are actually affecting him.
But again, at the end of the day, it is
just a movie, so I don't think they'll spend too
much time on that. Maybe in the third act where
he becomes probably just so bloodied up and broken and
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bruised where he can't even fight anymore. But you also
see a little bit of him and the trailer taking
some adrenaline, so maybe they'll kind of supplement it with that.
The other thing I enjoy about Jack Quaid is he's
always been really open and honest about being a neple baby.
His dad is Dennis Quaid, his mom is Meg Ryan,
so I feel that it would be impossible for him
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to not be an actor. Having two alist actors as parents,
it's kind of hard not to follow the family business.
My dad is a truck driver. Nobody would have bat
it deny if I became a truck driver and started
driving for my dad. It just seems to be since
it's Hollywood and those jobs are harder to get. It
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feels like everybody is trying to be an actor and
it takes so much to make it. Same thing like
being an athlete. It is so hard to make it
in anything at that professional level where we see and
idolize these people, because there are very few people actually
cut out to do it. I think that is why
people give celebrity kids such a hard time, because you
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think I would want that job. I want to be
an actor because it is a dream come true, and
some people really try to not bring attention to that.
They'll low key use one of their parents' last names,
but never bring them up in interviews, never really go
out in public with them because they don't want that
negative connotation on their name and for people to think
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that they only got to where they are because of
who their parents are. Really, anything in entertainment is who
you know doesn't matter. Even at my level, it's still
who do you know and what relationships can you form.
So having parents who have worked in the industry and
just being able to put you in touch with directors,
put you in touch with casting agents, it is a
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lot easier to do. But that would be the same
thing of your dad helping you get a job, your
mom helping you get a job, anybody in your family.
When you call your cousin and be like, hey, man,
could you give me an interview? I feel it is
that same thing, And if I was in that position,
I would do it. Why wouldn't you use the resources
around you? But I also get when they try to
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hide it a little bit and they are so secretive
about it and it becomes taboo. You don't have to
hide it, embrace it. And that's what Jackway does. He'll
talk about an interview, He's like, yeah, I've had a
little easier route because of who my parents are. I'm
not going to deny that. I think you have to
own it and then let your work stand on its own,
because just because you have two A list parents. I
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even think of somebody like Maya Hank as Ethan Hank
and Uma Thurman's parents. Just because she has those parents
doesn't mean that she's gonna be a great actor and
that audiences are going to embrace her. It will get
her foot in the door, it will get her into
some projects. But unless she does a good job, connects
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with her co stars, has good relationships with directors on
her own, they aren't going to have the same career.
It's not guaranteed. There aren't some NEPO babies who haven't
worked out who as much money as their parents spend
on them, not just in movies, but in music as well.
I see even more in music where I say, hey,
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my parents are rich, They're gonna pay for all the
studio time and do all these things, and I don't
have to work as far as have a nine to
five job to grind to make it, and it's a
lot easier when there's money there to grease the wheels
and you have those connections. So I think even for me,
who I grew up didn't have a whole lot, I
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can see why you would respect somebody who has had
to grind for it more from the bottom up, and
why you connect with those people more. But I still
think we shouldn't hold it against people when it comes
to movies, when it comes to even music, just because
who their parents are, and they use those connections because
you got to think about you would probably use them
as well. It's just different because it's an entertainment. So
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this will be I feel, one of the first big
tests of Jack Kwaid. I don't think this is a
make or break role. If this movie ends up bombing
at the box office, I don't think his career is
done because The Boys is still going on. He can
fall back on that series. But I think he's starting
to get at that point where he knows The Boys
won't go on forever. He doesn't want to be typecast
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as Hueye. And when you see some other people in
like the MCU or on the DC side who have
had success with something. I compare him to Superhero movie
just because he is in that world. You don't want
you just have your entire work set in that world
and be typecast and not be able to go do
projects that you really want to see yourself grow in.
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So I think this will be one of his first
big adventures out. I think it'll actually do pretty well.
If you look at the comments in the YouTube section,
there are a lot of fans of the boys there
saying can't wait to see how he does, a lot
of Huey comments, So I think he has that audience
there who is gonna carry over to watch him on
the big screen. So the movie is called Novakane. It
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comes out in theaters on March fourteenth. Geez at that
on was this week's edition of movie Line tram or Bar.
It's not as going to do it for another episode
here of the podcast, but before I go, I gotta
give my listeners shout out of the week this week.
I'm going over to TikTok because at the moment of
recording this episode, TikTok still alive and thriving, but by
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the time this episode actually posts, it could be gone. Y'all.
It's not going to get immediately deleted from our phones.
They are going to take it away from the app store,
essentially suffocating the app because it won't be able to
update anymore. So I wanted to feature somebody from TikTok
because we might not have it forever and that makes
me sad. But this week's listener Chad of the Week
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goes to Chad dub who actually commented with the question
I addressed earlier in the episode, wanting to know if
the R rated Jurassic Park rumor was actually true. Chad
was actually the one who even turned me on too
that because I didn't see the fake poster until I
saw Chad's message. Also sent a follow up message saying
he loves the podcast, so appreciate you, Chad. Thank you
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for sending me things like that. And when it comes
to any kind of fake poster, sometimes I just dismissed
him altogether and don't think about it. And usually they
are so bad that I feel that, ah, nobody's falling
for this. But sometimes you got to address those because
if I would have seen it, maybe I would have
believed that one a little bit. So thank you, Chad.
Thank you to everybody listening right now and until next time,
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go out and watch good movies and I will talk
to you. Letter
Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's Movie podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike. I love doing this episode
every single year my top ten most anticipated movies of
the year. I'm gonna do it a little bit differently.
I'm really gonna go off of motion on this list,
so we'll get into that. In the movie review, we'll
be talking about a new comedy called One of Them Days.
And in the trailer Partner's a new action comedy movie
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starring Jack Wade, who you may know from the Boys.
We'll talk about his acting career. We'll talk about Nepo babies.
Thank you for being here, thank you for being subscribed,
shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now
let's talk movies from the nast Trolle podcast network. And
this is movie Mike's Movie Podcasts. So I mentioned I
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wanted to do this episode a little bit different this year.
I've been doing this every year since I've been doing
this podcast going on. This will be the sixth year,
and usually I pick my movies based upon how good
I think the movie is going to be. I'm gonna
do it different this time. I was thinking about movies
last year that I went to go see that I
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just enjoyed the idea of going to watch this movie.
I was just excited to see these movies in theaters,
whether or not I had this podcast. It was just
fun for me. It took me back to my days
of weird to say, before I turned this into a job,
turned this into any kind of legit outlet that I
do an episode every single week. Before all that, where
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I would just be excited to go to a movie
for the sake of seeing a movie. Still love movies
with all my heart, but sometimes the process feels a
little bit differently because in my head I'm thinking of
how to review this movie, what to all those things.
But still, even at this stage of my life, there
are still movies that I'm just genuinely excited to go see.
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When I go see in theaters, I'm not going to
see them for screening. There's just no reason that I
need to go see that movie. I just want to
see that movie that still happens. So when that does
happen to make me back, I feel good about it.
I make less notes on those movies because I can
really go off of motion and what I already know
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about that film. So that is what I decided to
do when making this list, I thought, what movies of
all the movies coming out in twenty twenty five, am
I just going to be genuinely excited as I walk
down that long hallway. When you go to the movies,
you can go into all these different worlds just by
opening up a door. That is what I love about movies.
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That feeling for me, not even the Some of it
is the anticipate anticipation of going to the movie. But
then I think that best feeling is right when that
movie's done, Not because I get to go home, but
right when that movie is done, I walk back out
into that hallway and I just have that feeling that
I'm still in the movie. I'm still in that world.
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If it was a really good movie, anything in that
four point five even before, give me that feeling that
you walk out and you still feel like a part
of it. If it was a thriller, you kind of
still are looking over back over your shoulder they you know,
oh no, the bad guy's going to come get me.
If it's a horror movie, you genuinely feel creeped out.
Superhero movie, I feel like I'm ready to take on
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the world, and I think in that moment superheroes still exist.
I'm talking about movies that give me that feeling when
I leave the theater, I ride that excitement on the
entire drive home. So that is what I did when
coming up with this list, the ten films that I
am anticipating the most and will genuinely be the most
excited to see that. I still will use my own
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money to watch these movies, which I do no matter
what I had that regal unlimited. So let's get into
the list now. At number ten, I have Mickey seventeen,
directed by Bung June Hoe, starring the one and only
Robert Pattinson. The reason I had this movie lower on
my list is because it was on my list last year.
This movie's been delayed quite a bit. Part of it
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was the writer strike, and then part of it was
them shifting around lease dates and schedules and things not
lining up. So for that reason, it has dropped in
my list. But I love Bung Ju Hoo. He is
a fantastic director. You would probably know him best for
his movie Parasite, which was the last movie he put
out back in twenty nineteen, won the Oscar for Best Picture,
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won the Oscar for Best Director. That is my favorite
movie of his. I also love snow Piercer and Oakja,
but when it comes to Mickey seventeen. It is a
sci fi movie based on a book. Robert Panson plays
this expendable guy who signed up for this experiment where
he just keeps dying over and over. They're trying to
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colonize this world, and after each iteration of him dies,
they essentially throw him into like this incinerator. Then he regenerates.
He still has most of his memories. In tact, he
talks about how much it hurts to die, until one
day they are set to kill him like a do
just as part of the routine, and he doesn't die.
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He wakes up next to the next one. So then
they have to decide what do you do with this
duplicate now that two of them exists when the other
one was supposed to die. So something goes wrong in
that human printing process and then all crap breaks loose.
It has a little bit more of the wackier tone
that Mon June Ho is known for. I tend to
like more of his straight ahead drama or even his
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horror stuff. He has such a creative vision when it
comes to anything sci fi. That is why I put
Mickey seventeen at number ten. It comes out on March seventh.
At number nine, I have Avatar, Fire and Ash. It
is coming out on December nineteenth. It is directed by
James Cameron. It stars Sam Worthington. It's always held Donna,
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It's a gourney weaver pretty much everybody who's been a
part of all of these Avatar movies and whenever the
last one came out Way in the Water, and it
was three plus hours long, and that was the first
one since two thousand and nine. At the time when
Avatar came out, I didn't really get it. It really
wasn't until Way the Water came out that I went
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back rewatched that movie maybe for the third time. At
that point that I really started to understand it. I
started to leaning more into the work of James Cameron,
and by no means was I diving into the deep cuns.
But I watched first Avatar, rewatch Titanic, and I started
to realize how hard it is to make a movie
on the scale of a James Cameron film. For some
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to say that I don't really care about all these
Avatar movies. They have so many lined up for the
next I think ten years these will continue to come out.
And for me, if you had have told me five
years ago that I would be anticipating a new Avatar movie,
I would have said you were crazy. But now, after
watching Way of the Water in theaters with as long
as a runtime as it had, I love that movie.
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James Cameron knows action, he knows how to develop a story,
he knows how to create a world. Yes, they might
be a little bit long, but James Cameron is a
director who I believe warrants those long run times because
he knows how to utilize it. What I love about
the Avatar movies is how huge these fight scenes are.
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They are massive, There's so many things going on. So
this one's gonna make it on my list this year
because I usually have a little bit of hesitation when
going to watch any movie that's over three hours, But
now to go into an Avatar movie, I'm all invested
in it. I won't second guess it. And after leaving
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a movie like this, it makes me feel excited. They
haven't really said a whole lot about what this movie
is going to be about. First Avatar movie we were
introduced to the world of Pandora, all about those people
and the humans fighting with each other. Way of the
Water was then leaving that place, going to find these
new people and assimilating into their culture, and then again
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fighting the humans. So this one is probably going to
lead more into the Fire. You had a Way of
the Water, which was all based in water, has some
really fantastic visuals with all those underwater creatures and underwater
battle scenes. This one, the theme is no longer blue.
The theme is red. So maybe they just do a
different element in each of these installments. But again, this
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movie is coming out on December nineteenth, Avatar Fire and Ash.
I put this one at number nine, at number eight,
another movie that I'd kind of written off this franchise,
but with the Last Mission Impossible movie, I'm heavily invested.
At number eight, I had Mission Impossible, the Final Reckoning.
It is coming out this summer May twenty third. When
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I think summer now, I think Tom Cruise And this
one is picking up right where the Last Mission Impossible,
Dead Reckoning left off. They were trying to fight these
villains who had this artificial intelligence program called the Entity.
There's this key they're trying to assemble that it comes
into different parts, and this one is said to kind
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of feel like they haven't fully said it's going to
be the end of the franchise, but at least that
is what they are selling it as right now. And
that trailer, Tom Cruise says all like, I need you
guys to trust me one last time. I love the
shot of him the bottom of the ocean, and like
his tighty whities was probably like boxer briefs or some
kind of swimming shorts, but it's him floating that is
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fantastic visual. You see him running a lot, which is
trademark Tom Cruise. Will it be the sendoff to his
character or is he gonna pull Harrison Ford still be
in his seventies and still cashing in on the Mission
Impossible movies. I don't think so. These movies are pretty
physically demanding. He's broken his ankles before jumping from building
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the building. He has to take out big insurance policies
to drive motorcycles off of cliffs. I don't think he's
gonna be able to keep up with that scale. Much
like my favorite film franchise, Jackass, those guys have just
kind of aged out of being able to put their
body through some of those things. They get new guys
to come in and do the more physical stunts. So
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I feel that that rumor that was swirling around at
Glenn Powell will step into the role and keep this
franchise going. But at number eight, I have Mission Impossible,
the Final Reckoning. At number seven, I have Jurassic Park Rebirth.
It's coming out on July second, twenty twenty five. Stars
Scarlett Johansson. It's about her and a family getting stranded
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on the island that's home to these dinosaurs. So this
is kind of a rebranding of Jurassic Park. You have
the originals from back in the nineties. You have the
reboot with Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard. Those characters
are gone. Last movie Jurassic Park Dominion, that was the
end of them. You had Jurassic World in twenty fifteen,
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which I really enjoyed. These are movies that I loved
going to experience in the theater. That's why it makes
it onto this list. I felt that over the course
of those movies it became less about the dinosaurs so
much so that the last one wasn't even really about
the dinosaurs. It was about the dang bugs. How are
you gonna make a Jurassic Park World movie about not
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dinosaur being the main focal point? So I think this
is gonna kind of take it back to I hate
it when people say we're taking it back to our
roots because that kind of means you've run out of
ideas and you want to go back to do what
was working and what was making you the most amount
of money. But I think bringing in Scarlett Johansson and
changing it so it's not about the park anymore. They
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just get stranded on this island, and so far, what's
out about the plot is that's kind of It doesn't
really say that there was somebody there putting all the
dinosaurs there. There weren't people going to visit it like
they did in the first movie, So it feels like
it's gonna be a little bit different. It brings up
a big question for me of why are there no
other really prominent dinosaur franchises. Why does Jurassic Park have
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the only rights to making dinosaur movies? And you may
say Godzilla Land before time, Pixar and Disney had made
some dinosaur movies, But when it comes to something so
captivating us dinosaurs that everybody, especially kids love. Why aren't
there other dinosaur movies that work? It's only Jurassic Park.
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That sixty five movie with Adam Driver was one of
the worst movies of all time. Really wasn't a dinosaur movie.
There was a t Rex in it. But I just wonder, like,
why is nobody else trying to make these movies? Is
it too expensive? Does Steven Spielberg have the rights to
every single dinosaur? Does he have the rights to t Rex? Which,
by the way, Steven Spielberg is still an executive producer
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on this movie. He's not directing him anymore, which I
think if he came back to direct him and started
using practical effects again, oh, I think that could kind
of work. But there was a rumor swirling around the internet,
which rumors never swirl around the internet. This is the
first I've ever heard of a rumor coming from the
Internet that's false. But people were saying that this movie
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was said to be rated R. Somebody put out a
poster and said radedar. It's not raded Ar, which I
think would be fantastic. But I think as long as
Steven Spielberg and Amblin Entertainment are involved in any way,
You're never going to get an R rated Jurassic Park movie,
which I think is at least what I want. I
don't think it's what kids want, who are probably going
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to be the most excited outside of me to go
see a movie like this. But if you could think
about the blood that you have seen throughout the franchise,
still one of those images that stays in my head
from my early childhood of watching movies was from the
Jurassic Park Lost World, which was my favorite Jurassic Park
movie because I saw that one as a kid before
I saw the original. But there's a scene where they're
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running from the t Rex. They get caught and they
have to hide behind this waterfall. They're like on this
little rock sliver and they are jumping through water to
get to like behind this waterfall so the t Rex
can't catch them. And somebody he gets eaten up by
the t Rex and you see the water changed from
clear to blood red as the bones crunch, and you
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no longer hear the person screaming and it's just that
blood coming down through the water. That image is stuck
in my head, and that's a PG. Thirteen movie could
you imagine the crazy violent things that they could do?
Which I think now that I think about it, there
are some straight to Amazon really low budget dinosaur movies
that probably have that. So maybe there's some type of
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balance that Jurassic Park movies have figured out where people
don't really want that bloody of a dinosaur movie. In
the title Jurassic World Rebirth, Hopefully this also serves as
a rebirth of the entire franchise that are able to
make these movies exciting again, which is what is great
about the Jurassic Park movies is they are exciting, they
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are captivating. But how do you recreate that feeling that
you built in the nineties where we're still limited technology.
It was so entry level cgi with those shots. How
do you recapture that now where we're so used to
seeing everything and being able to create anything with digital images.
As long as they don't make it anything like Jurassic
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World Dominion, I think we're good. That's why I have
Jurassic World Rebirth coming out on July second at number seven.
At number six, I have twenty eight years Later coming
out on June twentieth. It's about a group of survivors
of the rage virus living on this small island. One
of the people from the group believes the island to
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go on a mission into this mainland, and while he's there,
he discovers some secrets, some wonders, some horrors that have
mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.
When this trailer came out at the end of last year,
I thought, this is the movie I've been waiting for
for so long. This falls under the category of a
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legacy sequel and a soft reboot, because I think if
this movie is six successful, which I have seen the
excitement and demand their online people were so hype about
this movie. They also faced some issues that I was
talking about back when this trailer came out, of people
just not being able to access that for the longest time,
it wasn't on a streaming service and wasn't even available
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for you to rent. And right after I talked about
it in the trailer park, they announced that, Hey, we're
finally gonna make it available for you to watch it
home so you could read it. They're banking on the
fact that people going to pay and rewatch this movie.
The original line talking about leading up to twenty eight
years later. But at number six, I can't wait for
this one, twenty eight years later coming out on June twentieth,
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into the top five. Now you think this one would
be higher, but there are some hesitations I have going
into it. But at number five, I have Lilo and
Stitch coming out on May twenty third. It is the
live action Lelo and Stitch. If you are a longtime
listener of the podcast, you already know. If you're new here,
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Leelo and Stitch is my favorite Disney movie of all time.
I don't think it's the best, but if I had
to pick one Disney movie to save and not go
into the Disney vault forever, it would be Leelow and Stitch.
The story just resonates with me. I think Stitch is
the best Disney character since it came out hasn't been matched.
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The reason it's not higher is because I haven't fully
been a fan of all of these Disney reboot live
action movies, and there have been a lot of them.
We hadn't moved Fossil last year. Some of the worst
movies I've ever seen have been these Disney live action movies.
Pinocchio with Tom Hanks was awful, And the only thing
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that made those movies like it even watchable was the
fact that I was familiar with the story and they
were classics, and I just wanted to watch it all
the way through to see what they did. But they're
very lifeless, they're very cold, and they feel very much
like cash grabs. Like definition of cash grab. If you
look at cash Grab in the movie dictionary, you'll see
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Tom Hanks's face right there next to him as Jeppetto
and Pinocchio. That is just the definition of it, because
most of them aren't providing anything new, is just doing
it quote unquote live action, which sometimes they're not even
live action. M Foss is not a live action movie.
It's an animated movie, just different animation that makes it
look somewhat real. But I love Leelo and Stitch. I've
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had Chris Sanders on this podcast, the creator of Lelo
and Stitch. He's also the voice of Stitch and returning
in this movie. They haven't said if it's a direct
remake of the first one. They're following the story exactly,
but it's about Stitch meeting Lelo, who is an orphan
child living with their sister so that full plot isn't out,
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but I have to imagine it'll be something similar. Chris
Sanders is returning as the voice of Stitch, who has
had an amazing twenty twenty four with the Wild Robot
being so successful. Well that is turning into its own franchise.
So after watching the teaser trailer and by seeing the
poster and some other still images, it looks a lot
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better than I was expecting. So it comes down to
how all these characters look, and just looking at some
of the things Disney has done recently with their CGI.
I'm talking about the snow White trailer where the seven
doors look pretty terrifying. It's not a showing to say
that they're gonna get it right. So that is my
hesitation going into this movie. But me being such a
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big fan of Lee Low and Stitch still keeps me in.
I'm gonna go enjoy this movie for what it is
and not be overly critical because it is my favorite
character in the Disney world. So that is why I
have it at number five, because I wasn't fully into
them thinking that they needed to remake this movie, but
now that I see more details about it, I'm easing
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myself more into enjoying it without worrying about it ruining
the reputation of the first one. So at number five,
even though it sound a little bit head, I'm not.
I'm excited about it. I have Leelo and Stitch coming
out on May twenty third at number four. Getting into
some really good stuff here. Top five is great. The
Fantastic Four First Steps coming out on July twenty fifth, Pedro, Pascal,
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Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, Evan Moss Backack. That is your
Fantastic Four. This will launch Marvel into Phase six, which
a lot of people have been saying the Multiverse saga
has been pretty trash. I'm not really in that camp.
I've still enjoyed a lot of the movies in the
Multiverse saga. I'm all about the Multiverse. I think we
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had a lot of fun moments in it. I just
think it kind of ran its course and we need
to move on. But Fantastic four in history hasn't been
the best as far as just being good movie. There
are some iterations of it that people love based on nostalgia.
I was just never fully into the Fantastic Four and
didn't really understand the hype around them. Now, as I
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learn more about comic books and how impactful they were
to Marvel's success the first real superhero team, I understand
more of why people want these movies to be successful.
But this will be the third reboot of the Fantastic Four.
If this one doesn't work, they might be done. But
this movie will be set in the nineteen sixties in
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an alternative Earth. It's gonna be retro futuristic, follows the
Fantastic Four on a mission to protect Earth from Galactys
and the Silver Surfer. And then you gotta remember, we
have Robert Downey Junior on deck to play Doctor Doom,
the Fantastic Four's biggest villain. So will this movie tease
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them at all? Will it be in that post credit
scene queuing up what's gonna happen in Secret Wars? These
new Avengers movies that are coming out that Robert Downey
Junior will be a part of. So he's gonna be
tied into this world. That is why the success of
this movie, Well, it's gonna be so impactful on Marvel
in their years to come. And if this movie flops,
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it could start to tank Phase six. Hey, third time
to charm right. That is why I have Fantastic Four
at number four. Actually did that on purpose because I
wanted the Force to match up at number three coming
out on November twenty First, I have Wicked for Good.
This one is gonna take place directly after Wicked Part one,
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So in part one we already had our big songs,
we had popular, we had defined gravity. This one is
definitely going to rink up in the level of action,
but it will also have songs like as Long as
Your Mind, which I'll admit I'm not familiar with it.
I hadn't seen or known anything about Wicked going into it,
but I think as a whole, whether you had not
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seen Wicked or had seen Wicked, I think everybody loved
this movie. For Good is I believe, also a song
in Wicked, and that is why they decided to add
it to the title. Instead of calling it Wicked Part two,
it's called Wicked for Good. I can't wait to see
the transformation of alphabave because we all knew it was coming.
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The way Part one starts is with her death and
Glinda the Goodwitch telling us the story. We find out
she was friends with her, and then it goes all
the way back to the beginning. I like movies where
you know somebody is going to die at the very beginning,
where it opens up and that person is dead, and
then it's all the things leading up to that death.
In my heart, I'm still thinking, she's not gonna die.
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They're gonna change that. She's gonna be fine. How could
she die? I also love the fact that it comes
out the next year. We don't have to wait two
years because they did film these movies at the same time,
so it's not like this movie is gonna suddenly look
better and everybody's gonna look different. It's gonna be more polished,
it's gonna feel the same way, which I think is
fine as long as it still comes out as scheduled
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on November twenty first, which would just be a year
after the first one. I love that idea. Now. I
don't always love when movies get split into two, where
it's like this part one and this part two, the
Mission Impossible movies we were talking about earlier, where they've
split some of those ending movies into two. But I
think this case is a little bit different because they
could have just as easily made this movie and waited
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on the success of it to decide whether or not
they were going to make a part two, But now
you know they're already both in the can. I didn't
think this one would make my most anticipated movies of
the year, But when I think about that feeling I
was describing at the beginning of this episode, I want
that again. I felt that in Wicked. I was completely
tuned in the entire time while watching that movie. I
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want that feeling again. At number three, I have Wicked
for Good coming out on November twenty first. At number two,
even more so than the Fantastic four movie. Is the
other Marvel movie coming out this year that I'm excited for.
Captain America Brave New World, coming out on Valentine's Day,
February fourteenth. This one's right around the corner. We have
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our new Captain America Anthony Mackie, which if you missed
the Disney Plus show, I feel they kind of wasted
it there. You learn so much about his character in
that show, but I feel like not a whole lot
of people watch that show, so hopefully they don't base
a whole lot of this plot on that show, which
I think that's something Disney is trying to get away
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from of not making the movies connect with the TV shows.
I think those should be completely separate. And I know
Kevin Figy has always just kind of drilled that mentality
of thinking about the bigger picture making things inner lock.
But I think and hope that he learned that we
don't really want the TV shows to connect with the movies.
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I think we should kept us separate. I really think
that Disney Plus shows should be entire side quests and
not involved with the main MCU storyline. Do it with
some side characters, do more animated shows, do more things
like X Men ninety seven. They give us a reason
to go to Disney Plus, but not a reason to
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have to go see things in theaters and go back
to you. So hopefully by making that show, it didn't
take away from the impact of Sam Wilson taking over
for Steve Rodgers, which is huge, and I really feel
like that reveal on the big screen would have been
more impactful because now we've already seen it on Disney Plus,
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so there's not gonna be that big off factor because
we kind of have already seen it. We've kind of
wasted that already. I get why they wanted to make
that show. But if you think of how Endgame finished
with those two characters, if that was the last thing
we saw with Chris Evans giving him the Shield and
then moving on to this movie, which I guess would
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have been hard to do because that movie came out
like five years ago. At this point, I think over
that now, it would have been a long time to wait.
But still the trailer does give me some chills. Moments
where he says, I'm not Steve Rodgers. I feel like
it's really gonna be Sam coming into his zone, taking
over this role, taking on Harrison Ford, who's gonna go
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from being President Thunderbolt Ross into the Red Hulk. Hopefully
we get some good cameos in this, which I hate
the idea of chasing cameos in Marvel movies. It just
feels a little bit twenty tens to me to be like, oh,
I hope somebody shows up. All they showed up, All right,
cool cameo. I would like the cool cameo only because
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of who I feel could be involved in this story.
But ultimately that's what I want. I want a good story.
I want to be able to root for his character
and buy into the fact that he is Captain America,
which I have some doubts about. He doesn't have the serum,
he has the suit, he has the shield, But what
makes him Captain America? What makes him able to take
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on the Red Hulk, who by all means is stronger
than Green Hulk. That's who I really wanted this movie.
All want some Green Olk action. Overall. I hate the
way that Hulk has been portrayed in the later half
of the Infinity saga. Hasn't really been used much in
the Multiverse saga except for Sheet Hulk, But the Hulk
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is supposed to be just this rage monster, the person
they were so afraid of in the first Avengers movie
that overtime was smart Hulk, which I hate that whole
trajectory for his character. I want to go back to
that Hulk, the Hulk that people fear that you don't
want to make Bruce better, angry and that can be powerful,
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not the Hulk that gets his ass kicked by Thanos
and then as PTSD from that. So can they make
Sam Wilson a viable threat and somebody to root for?
Visually the movie looks amazing. They've already done the suit reveal,
but he looks good in it. Again, that could have
been something that was so impactful on the screen. But
the action looks up to par with those early Captain
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America movies, which I think out of any movie in
the MCU, it had the best fight scenes first one
Captain America Civil War. That is what I feel was
the krem de la creme of the MCU, the fight
scenes and the Captain American movies. But can you do
that without Chris Evans at the helm. But I'm so
excited for this movie. It's coming out soon. I'm not
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really that interested of how it's going to play into
the timeline. I don't care what this movie sets up.
I really don't care about what all these things are
building to at this point. I just want individual good movies,
even if the Avengers movies are completely separate from the
plot line. I don't really care at this point. I
just want to have fun and feel excitement when going
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to Marvel movies now. But at number two, I have
Captain America Brave New World coming out soon on February fourteenth.
At number one, I have Superman coming out on July eleventh.
This is the new launch at least on the film side.
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Of James Gunn taking over for DC, he is going
to be the new person much like Kevin Figy is
for Marvel, who is the president of Marvel and is
responsible for keeping everything cohesive and for having things connect
and building a big brand. He is the person now
who is going to direct movies like Superman, but also
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make sure that every film that they put out is
in line with values, has continuity, feels like the same
from one movie to another, which is something that the
EMCU did really well. They had a whole system in
place that no matter what director was directing each particular movie,
they all felt the same way. You have cameos from
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one to another, and it's all the same actors, all
the same people. He is going to be that now
for DC. Just the trailer came out, I think I've
thought about this movie every single day, and the movie
just feels so warm and inviting and fresh that every
shot just on its own looks like a page out
(31:04):
of a comic book. It's so perfectly framed, and I
feel like this is really going to dive into what
makes Superman such a great character, the og superhero, the
most famous superhero and really give us that best version
of him since Christopher Reeves back in the day introducing
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the character on the big screen. I also love that
James Gunn is so heavily invested in stories from comics
with the Superman character, that is going to bring a
lot of that to life. And overall all the characters
just look really fun and vibrant and cosmic at times
where they need to be. And I just feel like
this is going to be one of those movies that
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once it starts from one second up there when you
see that DC logo, to the very end, it's gonna
feel like a perfect movie. And it's the one I'm
just the most excited to be in the theater to
watch because I think it's gonna be one of those
core movie memories for me. And I've had maybe three
of those since twenty nineteen, probably since Endgame, I would
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say that have really popped and I just remember that
moment of watching them for the first time. I think
that is gonna be inside of Superman. And that's why
I put it at number one, because as much as
I can't wait to see the new Captain American movie,
I don't think that or anything below it is gonna
have one of those memories. So I think this is
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the one I'm the most excited to see because I
think it could be one of my next favorite superhero
movies and I feel that, and I think also it
is one that's gonna have to win me over a
little bit because I wouldn't even put Superman in my
top five superheroes of all time. So I think it's
gonna be having my first iteration that I could fully
(32:55):
be in love with Superman. Oh as much passion as
it is, there is Superman and going to win my heart?
Am I good to fall in love for those blue
eyes and slick back hair and red trunks could be?
So maybe that's why I'm so excited about this is
I'm ready to hook up a Superman to me in
love with them. But that is the list. There are
a bunch of honorable mentions. I'll go through these quickly.
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I have a category of almost made in my list.
There is an untitled Trey Parker movie coming out. Not
a whole lot of details out as far as what
it's about, what it's called, but Trey Parker is one
of the creators of South Park and Kendrick Lamar is
going to be in it. Elio was also a movie
on my list. It is a Pixar movie coming out
on June thirteenth. That movie has also been delayed for
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a while, so my excitement has also weighed down just
a little bit. Marvel also has The Thunderbolts coming out
later this year. Brad Pitt is going to be in
a racing movie called f one. We have a live
action How to Train Your Dragon Zootopia two, which I
think I might just do an episode on just straight
sequels coming out this year, because we also have Freaking
(34:00):
Your Friday, Happy Gilmour too. Allegedly there is a fourth
Friday movie coming out this year. Not a whole lot
of details on that either, So I know I did
include some sequels in my top ten, but I think
I want to do an episode where I just think
and raise the question what will be the best sequel
this year? Movies that I'm the least interested in would
(34:21):
have to be Snow White and the New Tron movie
because Jared Leto's in it and I think everything he
touches turns to the crap right now, So that is
the list. Those are my honorable mentions. If you want
to let me know what you were anticipating this year,
hit me up on socials or hey, send me an email.
Moviemke d at gmail dot com. Let's get into it now.
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A spoiler free review of One of Them Days for
the people who say, why don't they make good comedies anymore? Well,
if you didn't go see One of Them Days or
have no plans to, you're missing out. I was laughing
throughout this entire movie. Such a great chemistry between Keiki
Palmer and and Sizza, who this is her acting debut.
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They play two best friends trying to make back this
money because Sizza gave her boyfriend fifteen hundred bucks to
go pay the rent, but her boyfriend very untrustworthy. Instead,
he blows it on some fake Gucci shirts. In this
get rich Quick scheme he has landlord is upset banging
on their door and telling them, if you don't have
my money by five o'clock today, you guys are gonna
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get evicted. I'm gonna throw all your stuff out and
leave it on the curb. So Keithi Palmer's character, this
is a big blow to her. She's going through a
lot right now. At the start of the movie, she
is getting off work from an overnight shift. She works
at a fast food restaurant and is just trying to
get back on her feet, and what she has playing
for this day is just to go home, go to sleep,
and get ready for this big job interview that she
(35:47):
has later in the day, and this totally derails it,
therefore bringing back the title of the movie, It's gonna
be one of them days. So instead of being able
to sleep get all prepared for this job interview, she
now has to find a way long with their best
friends Sizza, to make this money and then trying to
make it to her job interview on time, because if
you can get that job, it'll change the course of
(36:08):
her life and get everything back on track. So that
is the dream. Sizza is a little bit opposite of
her in the fact that she is an artist. She
has all these paintings all around their apartment, which is
this really runn down apartment. It's not even a nice apartment,
which I think if you're like me, or really like
anybody who grew up going through hard times not having
(36:28):
a lot, you have lived in an apartment, a trailer
park or something that resembles this. So I very much
identified with that. So what I enjoyed about this movie
is I think it came down to Keiki Palmer and
Sissa's chemistry, and I thought they worked really well together.
As best friends. You need that chemistry. And it is
hard to recommend a comedy because this movie was funny
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to me, it could not be funny to you. And
I think this is one of those movies that I
went into it wanting to enjoy it, wanting to have
a good time, and I allowed myself to open up
to some of the more ridiculous things that did feel
a little bit ninety sitcom here and there. But I
think the style of overall physical comedy and some of
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the wacky things that were very heightened reminded me of
something of that time period. So if you don't really
like that type of cheesy, over at the top humor,
I think you could watch this movie and think that
is stupid. How did you even find that funny? Why
do you recommend that? But I leaned into that it
reminded me of watching episodes of Home Improvement, episodes of Martin,
(37:30):
where it's so ridiculous and so dumb, but it is
funny when it comes to all the random things and
fights and ways they try to make money in this movie.
I found it funny. There's one scene in particular where
they go to a blood bank. This was also in
the trailer. She's trying to make money for all this blood.
It's the first day of the worker there, played by
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Janelle James, who is also in Abbot Elementary, who plays
the principal in that show. It's her first dage. You
can't really find the vein and then they end up
getting covered in blood. And then they did it all
for a free biscuit coupon to go to churches and
get some food. Which, man, that reminded me of back
in the day where I was living in an apartment
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and I would rely so heavily on fast food coupons,
the ones they would just send to you for free,
that I would not only take the ones mailed to
my apartment, but I would go through the trash and
find the ones that other people threw away, because a
lot of people see that at junk mail, you're just
gonna throw it away. But I would stock up on
those stings and I would hit lunch on Silvers, taco bell,
(38:34):
Jack in the box, water Burger, I'd go and get
all those because sometimes you don't have a whole lot
of money saving a buck two bucks getting two for one,
and that makes all the difference. So it reminded me
of that. That whole bit there was one of my
favorites that of the entire movie. And even though at
times this movie did feel predictable, I called a lot
of the things, and I'm trying to get better at
that because I know that's annoying, but predictability isn't always bad.
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Whatever happened to predictability, I think when it comes to
a comedy like this, you're not gonna write a whole
lot of twists and turns and things that come out
of nowhere they make you go, oh, man, I can't
believe they did that. It kind of goes beat by
beat of what you would expect in a ninety minute comedy,
so much so that a lot of this plot, given
that it also takes place in one day, very much
(39:21):
reminded me of Friday. And I thought that back when
I broke it down in the trailer park, because essentially,
you have two best friends, you have them trying to
pay somebody back. By the end of the day and
if they don't, something bad is going to happen. You
also have Kat Williams who plays a guy named Lucky
in this movie that very much reminded me of the
comedic relief Ezell in Friday. I would say Kat Williams
(39:45):
was a little bit more of a guardian angel here
where whenever they are trying to go to one of
those payday loan places to get the money and they
have like an astronomical interest rate, he is the one
outside also in the trailer telling them don't do it.
If you don't have the money this month, you're not
going to have the money next month. And I think
that is another commentary that this movie had where it
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was a comedy, you're not supposed to take it too seriously.
It's about two best friends and how you kind of
hate each other at times, but you remember all the
things you've been through, you remember they're the most supportive
person in your life. It is also a commentary on
the cycle of being broke and how expensive it is
to be poor and how sometimes you fall into that
(40:29):
and can't get yourself out because it's so cyclical, because
you do things to try to pull yourself out of
debt that puts you more in debt. You take some
money at a payday long place, and suddenly you're paying
back all this interest on it. So not only was
it the money that you needed to make your rent,
but now you have to pay this place back for
all the interests. It is something that is tough in
this country, where once you are in a hole, it
(40:52):
is so hard to dig yourself out of. And I
enjoyed that they work that into the plot of talking
about their characters and how much they have to work
just to make ends meet, talking about their credit scores
and how low they are, and how sometimes people just
laugh at them for the situation they are in. The
movie also did pretty well at the box office. It
(41:13):
had a fourteen million dollar budget and made fourteen million
dollars over MLK weekend, so a big win for Sony.
I don't think they were expecting it to make that much.
Then again, you have Keki Palmer and Sissa. Keky Palmer
is a big movie star. Sizza hasn't done a whole
lot of acting. This is her debut, but she's obviously
(41:34):
a massive musician, so there's obviously that star power there
so to be able to already make in your first
weekend all of the production budget. Is a big win
for them, especially for a comedy, especially where it is
so hard to get people to go to the theater
to watch a comedy. I feel like comedies almost have
that streaming quality to them that people feel like, oh,
(41:57):
I could just wait to watch that at home. Doesn't
really ac a whole lot to go see it in theaters,
but this one did. It was a pretty full theater
when we went to go see it. I think it
adds something when you hear other people laughing and enjoying it.
It makes it feel more fluid and makes it feel
more like, oh, this is the bonding experience of a
lot of random strangers in a theater having a good
(42:17):
time laughing at these ridiculous things. So I think this
is a big win for everybody involved, for Siza, for
Kiky Palmer, and for Sony that you can put out
a comedy like this with two female leads. At times,
this movie did feel like it had a female director
as well, but it's actually from director Lawrence Lamont who
this is pretty much his entry into film. That is
(42:38):
a big win for him too, not his entire injury
into film. But as far as making a movie on
this scale for everybody involved, this is a sign of
good things to come. I think we see how well
it does in its entire box office run. This also
feels like a movie that would do really well once
it goes to streaming, so you could be potentially talking
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seek here. So for one of them days, I give
it four out of five free biscuit coupons. It's time
to head down to movie Mike trailer Paul Insane in
The Nova Caine. Let's talk about Jack Quaid in a
new action movie called Novacane. He plays a guy who
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can feel pain. You're always looking for pain, he can't
feel it, which I think. Jack Quaid is a really
good actor and this is his first real step into
being a leading man. He has done fantastic work as
Hugheye on The Boys. I've beenhralled in that show since
(43:43):
it came out. Problem with that show and how many
people are involved in the cast of that hard to
stand out, and now seeing him in this trailer, I'm like, oh,
it is a much different feeling when jack Quaid is
just by himself. Even if you look at his history
in film, he was in the first Hunger Games back
(44:04):
in the day, had a very small role in that
I kind of forgot he was in. That wasn't until
he got famous with the Boys that I went back
and realized, oh, he was also in Hunger Games. Most recently,
he was in Scream that came out in twenty twenty two,
but again not a lead there. But here he is
doing a what looks to be a really fun action movie,
(44:26):
a movie after watching the trailer, I pretty much know
what I'm gonna get going into this movie. I don't
think it's gonna be anything that we haven't seen before,
but sometimes you just need a fun, shoot him up
action movie, and I love the premise. So before I
get into more about this story about a guy who
can't feel pain, here's just a little bit of the
(44:47):
Nova Caine trailer. Why don't you just call the police?
Please can't take I'm in honest man, slaughter, grand theft Auto.
Do you noticed like to wait your whole life to
meet someone somebody finally gives your life? Meaning? Would you
wait around for someone else to save her? Would you
do it yourself? You've gotta be careful, dude, you can
still die. You're not Wolverine. Do you understand pain? Oh?
(45:15):
Oh go no stop it? Ah? I mean, oh wow,
that hurt. That won't hurt the most. So what happens
in this movie. He is just a regular guy working
a regular job at a bank until that bank gets robbed.
Robbers are holding everybody up trying to get the money,
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and then the police arrive early, so they decide to
take somebody hostage. And right before you see that scene,
he meets this girl. They hook up and apparently he
can feel stuff there even though he can't feel pain,
they take her as hostage, so he wants to be
a hero. Earlier she called him a superhero, so he
tries to go and save her. But remember, just because
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he can't feel pain doesn't mean that he has all
these skills of fighting. The only benefit he has against
these criminals is that nothing is going to It's still
gonna hurt him, but he's not going to feel it.
So he steals a police car it looks like, tracks
these guys down and starts fighting them, trying to get
her back. But then, as you heard in the clip,
(46:20):
cops thinks he was a part of it, thinks he's
involved with these criminals. So not only does he have
to save her, he also has to clear his name now.
So just by watching this trailer, just what I've been
able to infer after watching it, you kind of already
know it. And sometimes I say, whenever you watch a
trailer and it feels like you've already watched the entire movie,
(46:40):
that's a sign of it's going to be a bad movie.
But I think in this case, the difference is, this
feels like it's going to be a roller coaster ride.
Sometimes action movies are predictable, Sometimes rom coms are predictable.
Sometimes even superhero movies are predictable, but that doesn't make
them bad. So I kind of know the journey we're
gonna go on with this character, just because they really
(47:03):
laid out all the cards by telling us all these things.
I do love the reference there to Wolverine. That was
from co star Jacob Badelon, who is also ned in
the Tom Holland Spider Man movies. But he's the one
who raises that question and tells them, hey, just because
you can't feel these bullets going through you, these blades
going through you. One of my favorite scenes is when
(47:24):
he's fighting a guy trying to get a gun from him,
and the gun falls into a fryer, and since he
can't feel pain, he puts his hand into the fryer
like where you put the fries and his hand comes
out crisp. I just thought that was a fun moment.
I want to see more stuff like that. It does
get into almost that uncomfortable feeling like I can do ooh,
(47:44):
I can do gunshot wounds. But whenever you get into
people getting stabbed and just that sound ooh, it's for
some reason to me that strikes a nerve in me
that it makes it uncomfortable for me to watch somebody
getting stabbed. Is just like, oh, that hurts me a
little bit. If somebody gets stabbed or breaks a bone,
that is gonna make me feel uncomfortable. And again, like
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you said, he's not Wolverine, so we can't regenerate. I
wonder how they're gonna address how much blood he is
losing and how much these injuries are actually affecting him.
But again, at the end of the day, it is
just a movie, so I don't think they'll spend too
much time on that. Maybe in the third act where
he becomes probably just so bloodied up and broken and
(48:29):
bruised where he can't even fight anymore. But you also
see a little bit of him and the trailer taking
some adrenaline, so maybe they'll kind of supplement it with that.
The other thing I enjoy about Jack Quaid is he's
always been really open and honest about being a neple baby.
His dad is Dennis Quaid, his mom is Meg Ryan,
so I feel that it would be impossible for him
(48:52):
to not be an actor. Having two alist actors as parents,
it's kind of hard not to follow the family business.
My dad is a truck driver. Nobody would have bat
it deny if I became a truck driver and started
driving for my dad. It just seems to be since
it's Hollywood and those jobs are harder to get. It
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feels like everybody is trying to be an actor and
it takes so much to make it. Same thing like
being an athlete. It is so hard to make it
in anything at that professional level where we see and
idolize these people, because there are very few people actually
cut out to do it. I think that is why
people give celebrity kids such a hard time, because you
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think I would want that job. I want to be
an actor because it is a dream come true, and
some people really try to not bring attention to that.
They'll low key use one of their parents' last names,
but never bring them up in interviews, never really go
out in public with them because they don't want that
negative connotation on their name and for people to think
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that they only got to where they are because of
who their parents are. Really, anything in entertainment is who
you know doesn't matter. Even at my level, it's still
who do you know and what relationships can you form.
So having parents who have worked in the industry and
just being able to put you in touch with directors,
put you in touch with casting agents, it is a
(50:21):
lot easier to do. But that would be the same
thing of your dad helping you get a job, your
mom helping you get a job, anybody in your family.
When you call your cousin and be like, hey, man,
could you give me an interview? I feel it is
that same thing, And if I was in that position,
I would do it. Why wouldn't you use the resources
around you? But I also get when they try to
(50:43):
hide it a little bit and they are so secretive
about it and it becomes taboo. You don't have to
hide it, embrace it. And that's what Jackway does. He'll
talk about an interview, He's like, yeah, I've had a
little easier route because of who my parents are. I'm
not going to deny that. I think you have to
own it and then let your work stand on its own,
because just because you have two A list parents. I
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even think of somebody like Maya Hank as Ethan Hank
and Uma Thurman's parents. Just because she has those parents
doesn't mean that she's gonna be a great actor and
that audiences are going to embrace her. It will get
her foot in the door, it will get her into
some projects. But unless she does a good job, connects
(51:26):
with her co stars, has good relationships with directors on
her own, they aren't going to have the same career.
It's not guaranteed. There aren't some NEPO babies who haven't
worked out who as much money as their parents spend
on them, not just in movies, but in music as well.
I see even more in music where I say, hey,
(51:47):
my parents are rich, They're gonna pay for all the
studio time and do all these things, and I don't
have to work as far as have a nine to
five job to grind to make it, and it's a
lot easier when there's money there to grease the wheels
and you have those connections. So I think even for me,
who I grew up didn't have a whole lot, I
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can see why you would respect somebody who has had
to grind for it more from the bottom up, and
why you connect with those people more. But I still
think we shouldn't hold it against people when it comes
to movies, when it comes to even music, just because
who their parents are, and they use those connections because
you got to think about you would probably use them
as well. It's just different because it's an entertainment. So
(52:31):
this will be I feel, one of the first big
tests of Jack Kwaid. I don't think this is a
make or break role. If this movie ends up bombing
at the box office, I don't think his career is
done because The Boys is still going on. He can
fall back on that series. But I think he's starting
to get at that point where he knows The Boys
won't go on forever. He doesn't want to be typecast
(52:53):
as Hueye. And when you see some other people in
like the MCU or on the DC side who have
had success with something. I compare him to Superhero movie
just because he is in that world. You don't want
you just have your entire work set in that world
and be typecast and not be able to go do
projects that you really want to see yourself grow in.
(53:16):
So I think this will be one of his first
big adventures out. I think it'll actually do pretty well.
If you look at the comments in the YouTube section,
there are a lot of fans of the boys there
saying can't wait to see how he does, a lot
of Huey comments, So I think he has that audience
there who is gonna carry over to watch him on
the big screen. So the movie is called Novakane. It
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comes out in theaters on March fourteenth. Geez at that
on was this week's edition of movie Line tram or Bar.
It's not as going to do it for another episode
here of the podcast, but before I go, I gotta
give my listeners shout out of the week this week.
I'm going over to TikTok because at the moment of
recording this episode, TikTok still alive and thriving, but by
(54:01):
the time this episode actually posts, it could be gone. Y'all.
It's not going to get immediately deleted from our phones.
They are going to take it away from the app store,
essentially suffocating the app because it won't be able to
update anymore. So I wanted to feature somebody from TikTok
because we might not have it forever and that makes
me sad. But this week's listener Chad of the Week
(54:23):
goes to Chad dub who actually commented with the question
I addressed earlier in the episode, wanting to know if
the R rated Jurassic Park rumor was actually true. Chad
was actually the one who even turned me on too
that because I didn't see the fake poster until I
saw Chad's message. Also sent a follow up message saying
he loves the podcast, so appreciate you, Chad. Thank you
(54:45):
for sending me things like that. And when it comes
to any kind of fake poster, sometimes I just dismissed
him altogether and don't think about it. And usually they
are so bad that I feel that, ah, nobody's falling
for this. But sometimes you got to address those because
if I would have seen it, maybe I would have
believed that one a little bit. So thank you, Chad.
Thank you to everybody listening right now and until next time,
(55:08):
go out and watch good movies and I will talk
to you. Letter
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