The theme of this episode is Death and creepy rituals. Mike shares the top 5 actors he would bring back from the dead and what 1 movie he would want them to star in. In the Movie Review, Mike talks about A24’s Bring Her Back. It’s about a brother and sister who witness a terrifying ritual at the secluded home of their new foster mother. Mike gives his reasoning why it is the horror movie of the year, how twin brothers went from YouTubers to directing bangers and how one of the actors job the part with ZERO acting experience. In the Trailer Park, Mike shares his 3 Red Flags why Netflix’s Happy Gilmore 2 isn’t going to be good. It takes place 30 years after winning his first tour and retired golfer Happy Gilmore returns to the sport to pay to send Vienna to a ballet school.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike. Today I want to talk
about what dead actor you would bring back to.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Life for one final movie.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
The theme of this week's episode is death and crazy rituals,
because in the movie review, I'll be talking about Bringer Back,
which is a new horror movie in theaters about her
brother and sister who witnessed a terrifying ritual at the
secluded home of their new foster mother. It is creepy,
it is disturbing, and in the trailer park, I'm feeling
excited but also hesitant about the new Happy Gilmore sequel
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coming out next month. I have my three red flags
on why I think it's not gonna be a good movie.
So thank you for being here, thank you for being subscribed,
Shout out to the.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Monday Morning movie crew. And now let's talk movies from
the Nashville Podcast Network. This is movie Mike's Movie Podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Ask the question is, if you could bring back one
dead actor to start in one final movie, who's.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
It gonna be. How did I end up on this question?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well, I was watching the Happy Gilmore two trailer and
out of all those cameos, I thought, you know who
would be perfect in this movie that is no longer
with us, The one and only Chris Farley. And I
started thinking about all these actors that we lost too soon,
and if I could only bring back one, who would
I bring back and what movie would I have them
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star in? Because I have my top three that I
want to discuss with you, and I have a lot
of honorable mentions. So mainly I just want to honor
a lot of great actors that we lost too soon.
So who do I have in my top three? Well,
at number three because I just mentioned him, is Chris Farley?
And what movie I would have him come back and
star in. It has to be Tommy Boy Too. What
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a great I feel like, the defining Chris Farley movie.
I heard David Spade talking recently how they wanted to
make a Tommy Boy Too. There was an idea behind it.
Ultimately it didn't work out, and now he would never
do something like that without Chris Farley. The thing I
did not realize about Chris Farley because he passed away
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in nineteen ninety seven. I was very young when that happened,
but he died at age thirty three, the age I
am at right now at the moment of recording this episode,
that is when Chris Farley died. That is so young
in my head. Hey died when he was much older,
in his forties, And whenever you're a kid and you
see somebody in their thirties, they just seem so much
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older to you, which is weird to me now that
a kid my age in nineteen ninety seven would have
been six. So now to think of a six year
old seeing me be.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
That old is a little bit like, oh man, I'm
old now.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I don't feel old, but that is such a young
age to die at that he is somebody I believe
we just lost too soon. He had so much charisma,
was also fighting so many demons and sometimes not always.
But it is those people who make you laugh the
hardest that are going through the most. And the more
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I think about, how sad is it that you have
to go through so much just to be funny sometimes,
And that is exactly the life of Chris Farlan because
he was so over the top. He gave so much
to every performance. He was a great physical comedian, even
sometimes doing things that he didn't enjoy doing, but he
knew they got to laugh. I think one of those
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famous cases is the SNL skit he did with Patrick Swayze,
who will talk about later, where they were Chippendale's dancers,
and the whole joke of that sketch was the fact
that Chris Farley was a bigger guy being a Chippendale's dancer.
I think that was credited as one of the sketches
he regrets doing the most because it put him in
a really dark place. But he died in nineteen ninety
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seven after a drug overduce of cocaine and morphine. His
most memorable roles were what I just talked about, Tommy Boy,
I think was his defining role in nineteen ninety five
my personal favorites as well or Black Sheep, Beverly Hills.
Ninja was such a great movie when I was a kid.
He also had a great cameo in Billy Madison Leave's
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behind a legacy of physical comedy, genius and this infectious
energy Almost Heroes, which I believe was the last film
he ever did, is one that is underrated. Him and
Matthew Perry now both no longer with us. So he
was one of those people that not only had such
success on Saturday Night Live, but it transferred onto the
big screen, even though a lot of those movies probably
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weren't well reviewed at the time, and now we look
back on those and think, man, we were so lucky
to get those from him. I also can't wait to
see what happens with his biopic that is in development
right now, set to play him as Paul Walter Hausa,
who you might remember he played Richard Jewel back in
twenty nineteen. He's also a really funny actor and the
perfect person to play him in my opinion. But Chris
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Farley is in my top three that I'm trying to
decide have him come back from the dead to be
in Tommy Boy to You. Also in my top three,
I have Robin Williams. I would want him to come
back for Jumanji four. He did the original back in
the nineties, and the franchise has really changed with all
the movies with The Rock, where I feel if we
brought Robin Williams back from the dead, we would do
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an indirect sequel to A one. So I don't want
Jack Black coming back. I don't want The Rock, I
don't want Kevin Hart, I don't want anybody else who
has been associated with these sequels. I want an indirect
sequel from that first one. Robin Williams died in twenty fourteen,
and he was one of the first actors or really
celebrities ever that died that really impacted me. There are
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a handful of celebrities that I remember the exact moment
I was the day that they died. Michael Jackson was
the first one who died in two thousand and nine.
Not only was that a huge deal because he is
one of the most famous people of all time, but
he also died on my birthdays, so I will always
associate his death with my birthday just because I remember
it every single year. Robin Williams was one in twenty
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fourteen for some reason, whenever mac Miller died that really
stayed with me. And then the other one is also
in my top which I'll get to in a minute.
But sometimes they're just people that you're like, man, how
did they die? Because I feel so connected to them,
even though I've never met them. And the odd thing
about people in film and in music is you can
continue to have them live in your world because you
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can continue to watch their work. And Robin Williams is
somebody that you would have never have known, all the
things he was going through, all the demons he was fighting,
because he was such a kind and caring person who
would take care of people on the set, put things
in his contract to get people hired to benefit all
these people in need, just because he was that type
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of person. And the fact that somebody who is so
renowned and so beloved and just such a great presence
on screen and on stage took their own life, I
think for me it was one of the first times
I really started to take mental health seriously because growing
up in the nineties even the early two thousands, having
parents who not that we didn't vowell you mental health,
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but we just never really talked about it in my
family growing up, unless you were bleeding or something was broken,
you were seen as being in good health. And taking
care of your head just wasn't really a thing, not
something I even had come into my orbit, probably until
I heard about celebrities taking their own lives, and then
didn't really do anything on my end until my late
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twenties early thirties, where I started going to therapy and
realizing how important it is to keep it clean and
good upstairs as much as you can, along with trying
to keep your body alive. It's so exhausting to be
an adult like man. I have to work out and
run this much just to keep this average physique, and
then I also have to take care of my brain too.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It's exhausting.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
But Robin Williams, even though we passed away in twenty fourteen,
left us behind with so many memorable movies.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I'm not even.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Sure what his most memorable single role would be. Would
it be Misis Doubt Fire nine D three, Dead Poet
Society in eighty nine, Goodwill Hunting in ninety seven, Aladdin
in ninety two. That is the role that nobody else
could do. Will Smith did the live action Genie, but
Man and no way to touch what Robin Williams did
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in the animated movie. My personal favorite Robin Williams movie
would probably be Jack Whenever. He is born with the
disorder that makes him age very quickly. It was Benjamin
Button before Benjamin Button, except for Benjamin Button it happens
in reverse Jack Man. That scene just gets me an
emotional Robin Williams where he's not playing a funny, gooky
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character and just really hits you in that Oh man,
that got me in the gut wherever he tries to
ask out his teacher Jennifer Lopez. That scene gets me
every time. That is my favorite Robin Williams movie. One
Hour Photo is what I believe to be the most
underrated Robin Williams film that came out in two thousand
and two.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
He plays a.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Awkward and shy guy who works inside of a mall
at a one hour photo developing lab, which they don't
have those anymore, and he starts to form a relationship
with the people who have been coming into his lab
for a long time, so he sees kids grow up,
he forms relationships with their parents. He's nice to the
kids because over the years he has seen them grow
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through the photos that he's developed, so he feels like
he has a personal connection with them. But then he
starts to see something peculiar in their photos, and then
he probably goes a step too far to be in
these people's lives, and it goes to an extreme because
he thinks he is much more a part of their
lives than he actually is. But man, what a transformation
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that his character goes through. It's a character that you
care about, but then also are a little bit creeped
out by. So if you haven't seen this, so and
highly recommend it. Even though it's not on a streamer
right now, you have to rent it. And I think
it's like that unfortunate three seventy nine price.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
That is a thing.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Man. Stream they can pick and choose what they have
on their service and what they can't. And now that
physical media is not a real thing. Sometimes it's like, Man,
I love a movie and I can't just watch.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It that easily.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Maybe we do need to bring back Blockbuster after all.
And obviously Jumanji, which I mentioned him earlier because that's
what I want him to come back and play in
one final time. So Robin Williams is also in my
top three. Rounding out the one two three of dead
actors is Chadwick Boseman. I would want him to come
back for a Black Panther three. Oh, I'm really heavily
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leaning on this one. Chadwick Boseman died back in twenty
twenty at the age of forty three due to colon cancer,
and he battled it privately for four years.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
This is one that just came out of nowhere.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I remember sitting with Kelsey on the couch and her saying,
did you see Chadwick Boseman died? I said, Chadwick Boseman died.
You are you sure you're talking about Black Panther? And
it was him. And the sad part about that is
he died in an age of social media where there
were people pointing out things about his physical appearance, having
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no idea, and they were just being awful and rude,
not knowing that he was battling cancer.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
And the fact that.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
He was able to star in all these movies and
still give amazing performances while he was going through something.
I don't know how he did that for so long
without people knowing. And that is easily his most memorable role,
a role that almost transcends the person he could ever be.
And I mean that in the most positive way saying
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that because Black Panther is a character that has so
much impact because of who it represents. For the first time,
young kids were able to see a superhero with their
same skin color that they'd never seen before on that level.
We'd had obviously black superheroes before. Blade being one of
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the most influential of the nineties and early two thousands,
and once his portrayal of T'Challa came out, there was
all these people who finally had somebody that looked like them,
and that movie was so much more impactful because of that,
But it was also a great movie. He's a great
superhero and he became through that role a cultural icon,
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a symbol of empowerment. And not only that, but he
took his role very seriously. He wasn't somebody who, oh, yeah,
I played Black Panther, but I also.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Want to go and do these other roles.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
He knew how impactful he was in that role and
made it a point to take pictures with fans, meet
with sick kids, and really they picked the perfect person
who not only embodied what it means to be Black
Panther on screen, but off screen as well. And I
can imagine bringing him back to life and having him
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be in one final Black Panther movie after all we
went through in Black Panther two and also in the
State of the Ms see you right now where, Man,
if you can give back a legacy Marvel character, can
you imagine the pop that a movie theater would have
bringing back that role. It would be just unearthing so much,
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and there are only a few Marvel moments that I
know exactly how that would make me feel. It'd go
back to No Way Home and go back to endgame.
Those moments were It's just like, I'm going to remember
that forever. So while I'm battling these three people, because
they are all three fantastic actors, I'm thinking of how
these movies would actually play out. Chris Farley, just because
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we haven't seen him in so long, would be a
trip like that would be amazing, Like with the Ritual,
will be worth bringing him back for Tommy Boy two,
Jumanji four. One of my favorite movies as a kid
was Jumanji. One of the first I remember just loving
the vhs watching it all the time, and one I
still go back and revisit to have one where he
gets sucked back into the game. And now we older
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and think about the technology you have now, how much
you can improve on the graphics and the special effects
from Jumanji one, but now still have Robin Williams. That
would be a spectacle. But I think I talked myself
into it just because I would want to experience that
moment in theaters of having the original Black Panther Return,
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and since it's only one final movie, you think about
his character arc that would happen in a Black Panther
three where he is back, but then by the end
of it you know he has to go away because
you can't get a sequel to this movie.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
That would hit me again.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Oh, could you imagine that you bring back somebody to
life and then know that they have to go At
some point you think what would I want to say?
What would I want to feel in those final moments?
And we would get that in cinema. So the one
actor I would bring back for one final movie, it's
going to be Chadwick Boseman, and the movie is going
to be Black Panther three.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I feel good with that pick.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Right now, all we're talking about dead actors. Here are
some other ones that I was going through in my research.
Heath Ledger, I'd bring them back for The Dark Knight Returns,
which is probably my favorite graphic novel of all time.
It is a story about Batman, older in age, has
not been Batman for a while. He probably in his
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mid to late fifties, early sixties. He's aged, he's slower,
he doesn't recover as much, but Gotham has really gone
to crap, and he decides, I think I need to
come back and be Batman, and a big part of
that story is Joker, and I would bring back Heath
Ledger to come back in the Dark Knight returns, and
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I would also use Christian Bale, who is also still alive.
But Heath Ledger died back in two thousand and eight
at the age of twenty eight. It was an accidental
overdose on prescription meds, and this was and ended up
being his most memorable role, The Joker in The Dark
Knight two thousand and eight. Another actor I was really
considering was Gene Wilder bringing him back for Wonka Io,
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which wouldn't be a sequel to Willy Wonka and the
Chocolate Factory, which is obviously his most memorable role, but
instead it would be a sequel to the Timothy shallow
May version and you just jump way ahead, go way
way way out in time to a much older Willy Wonka,
which some people speculated that it should be Jeremy Allen White,
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who you would know from The Bear Who Bears No
Pun intended a striking resemblance to Gene Wilder. Some people
thought that they were actually related. So should it have
been Jeremy Allen White playing Wonka instead of Timothy Shalloway Noah.
I thought Shallowy did a good job in that, but
he died back in twenty sixteen at the age of
eighty three due to complications with Alzheimer's disease. Along with
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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, he was also iconic
and Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles. My favorite movies of
his outside of Willy Wonka were Heino Evil, Here No
Evil with Richard Pryor, and Stir Crazy, which Richard Pryor.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Also made my list.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I would want him to come back and reprise his
role as Gus Gorman in the new Superman movie. Go
back in and get some quick reshoots and put well.
I guess you probably couldn't reshoot it at this point,
but maybe in the sequel to this one or Superman three,
you put Richard Pryor back in a Superhero film, which
Richard Pryor passed away back in two thousand and five.
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Another actor I was strongly considering because he is in
one of my favorite movies of all time, Bill Paxton,
and he would have to be in the sequel to Twisters,
which what would you call that movie? Because we had Twister,
then we had Twisters. Would it be Twisters his? Or
would it be Twisters too? I guess it would be
Twisters three though, because it's a it's a non direct
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sequel to the original. What would you call this movie?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Twisters is his?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
But I would want to bring back Bill Paxton, who
died back in twenty seventeen at the age of sixty one,
had a stroke following a heart surgery. Twister, to me
was his most memorable role, but he was also in
Apollo thirteen, Aliens in nineteen eighty six, and Titanic in
nineteen ninety seven, which I have to imagine was a pretty.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Good paycheck for him. What an incredibly versatile actor.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Just look at all those roles big blockbusters, and he
also did a lot of smaller independent movies as well.
But could you imagine Bill Paxton back from the dead
as Bill in Twisters?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Is?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Hey, Bill, You're back. I'm not back.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Got a few more here on my list, Bernie Mack,
because they are remaking Friday. I think it's still in development.
Allegedly was supposed to come out in twenty twenty five.
I don't see that happening. I'm not telling myself there's
a new Friday movie coming out until I see that trailer,
because this has been dangled over my head like a
carrot for I don't know the last decade. Bernie Mack
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died at the age of fifty back in two thousand
and eight. This was a sad one too, because I
loved The Bernie mac Show, which was probably his most
famous work, but in film, I think it would probably
be Oceans eleven in two thousand and one. I loved
him in life. He was also in Transformers Bad Santa. Oh,
whenever he threatens Bad Santa with wanting a fifty percent
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cut from the job, and they're at that diner and he's.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Like, off, how about forty five percent off?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Forty nine percent off? That was a great scene. Mister
three thousand was another good movie.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I love Bernie Mack, one of the best voices in comedy.
I also thought about bringing back John Candy and I
would want to be in the Madden biopick that they're
actually filming now, where Nick Cage is playing John Madden
and Christian Bale is playing Al Davis. But I look
at John Candy and think, oh, man, he would have
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been a great John Madden. He died back in ninety four,
had a heart attack at the age of forty three.
His most famous movie was probably Planes, Trains and Automobiles
in nineteen eighty seven. He was also in Uncle Buck
in nineteen eighty nine. My favorite John Candy movie is
probably Between Cool Runnings from ninety three. He was also
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in space Balls and had a cameo and Home Alone,
where he improvised all of his dialogue and is probably
one of his most memorable roles, even though he's only
in that for a limited amount of time and was
paid very little money to do that role. But much
like Chris Farley, he is somebody whose comedic presence in
film has been missed because there has not been another
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John Candy, because not only was he funny, but he
also had this warmth to him. Every scene just felt
very personal. He was very charismatic and delivered dialogue effortlessly.
There is coming out produced by Ryan Reynolds called John Candy,
I Like Me, which is a reference to a famous
line of his in Planes, Trains and Automobiles. So hopefully
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that is good because that is also being directed by
Colin Hanks. If I had unlimited rituals, I'd bring back
Norm MacDonald put him in Dirty Work too, even that
probably wasn't a movie he was particularly proud of, one
of my favorite comedies of the nineties. He died back
in twenty twenty one at the age of sixty one
due to leukemia. Probably more well known for his work
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on Saturday Night Live on Weekend Update, but I love
Dirty Work. Bring him back, get our delayne back in
there and give me that Adam Sandler cameo two. Patrick
Swayze was another one. I considered bring him back for
Dirty Dancing three, which.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Would be Dirty Dancing Maybe.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
He died back in two thousand and nine at the
age of fifty seven due to pancreatic cancer. Johnny and
Dirty Dancing was probably his most memorable role. He was
also in Ghost Point Break. He was a rare mix
of being somebody who was just all out masculine but
also had this tenderness to him that I think is
also greatly missed in Hollywood. And my final one on
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my list. Britney Murphy, who also left us too soon
in two thousand and nine, died at the age of
thirty two due to an accidental over. Her most memorable
roles included Clueless, Girl, Interrupted and eight Mile was probably
her biggest role. But for me, I loved her in
a little movie from two thousand and two called Spun.
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So give me back Brittany Murphy and put her in
Spun two. I'll come back and give my spoiler free
review of the new horror movie Bring Her Back. Let's
get into It now.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
A spoiler free movie review of Bring Her Back from
Danny and Michael Philippo, who are two Australian directors relatively
young thirty two years old.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
They got their start just making YouTube videos as twin
brothers just messing around beating each other up in their backyard.
And even in those early YouTube videos you can tell
that they had an eye for creating something special. There
are videos where you see the behind the scenes of
them as kids and like talking about like keep the
cameras held still, giving direction at such a young age
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on things that maybe the sum seemed very juvenile, like
beating your brother up with some wrestling moves.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
I can relate to that.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
They made their debut with a movie called Talk to Me,
which is available on Netflix now and since then they've
been taking Hollywood by storm. After that came out, they
started getting messages from their heroes like Jordan Peel. Stephen
King gave them praise for that movie. And now this
is something that we need in the horror genre. Two
guys who just feel like they're making movies that I
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want to see that nobody else is making right now,
because I think when you get into horror, you can
get very calculated. And by watching Bring Her Back, I
can tell that they had that punk rock mentality, that
YouTuber mentality of we're going to make something that we
want to see and not play to any of these rules.
Where I can feel the youth in this movie, and
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it's a good thing because you can tell that they
don't have the most experienced Like say, I would say
the best horror movie of the year up until this
one was probably The Monkey from Ouz Perkins, who has
more experience there last year with Long Legs, and this
movie feels so much less calculated to that. So where
it really shines is in that rawness but now also
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starting to have a little bit more experience under their
belt is what makes it great. I think also the
fact that they are Australian. It feels really refreshing to me,
a great just one two star for them, this being
their second movie and after watching it, I just feel
like we haven't seen their best work yet and this
is so exciting to me.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
So what Bringer Back is about?
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Which is a movie I feel you can spoil by
giving away the plot details, so I'm not going to
speak too much on that, but here is the description
pulled from IMDb. A brother and sister witness a terrifying
ritual at the secluded home of their new foster mother.
So you have these two characters who just lost their
father and now are at risk of being split up.
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The older brother has been taking care of the younger sister,
who is vision usually impaired, and after their dad dies,
they initially want to split them up, but luckily they
are able to work out a deal where they can
both go live with one foster parent. And then things
start to get really weird. But that's really all you
need to know going into this movie. Now, how scary
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is it? Bring her Back? Really isn't that scary. It
is unsettling, which at times to me is better because
this is a movie that is going to stay around.
It's going to linger with you the more and more
that you think about it. Like those times where I
would go to the gas station to get a burrito
and I'm questioning it. It's like a dollar ninety nine.
I'm like, do I really want this burrito? How long
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has this burrito been sitting at this gas station? But
I'm hungry, it's cheap, I'm broke. I want to go
and get that gas station burrito. I eat that burrito
in about five minutes, but then the after effects of
that burrito stick with me much longer than those five minutes,
much longer than the value of one ninety nine. It
hits me the next day, maybe even the day after,
and then the next time I go thinking about getting
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another gas station burrito, I think twice. That is how
I felt watching Talk to Me, where in the moment
I wasn't terrified, but it was so unsettling because there
were so many moments that there were things that I
had never seen before in a supernatural movie that made
my skin crawl a little bit, that made me just
kind of cringe.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
And there are certain.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Things that you can put in horror movies that get me.
And there were things in this one that I didn't
know could get me because I hadn't seen them yet.
Usually it's broken bones. In the case of Bringing Back,
there were these really violent moments that really made the film,
but in no way did it just capitalize on jump scares.
I don't think there were any jump scares in this movie.
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It comes down to great storytelling, which it did a
really good job of making you care about these characters.
It really invested in those first twenty minutes of yeah,
giving you some scary images, but really telling you the
story of these two kids and what they are going through,
and really made you care about their living situation and
all trauma that they are both dealing with that made
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you want to take this ride with them, made you
want to root for them throughout this entire thing, because man,
does it get crazy.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
So that was a.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Really important thing to do.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
And sometimes horror movies get it wrong because they spend
so much time on this exposition trying to make you
care about these characters, and it never quite connects. It
connected here, and then they also created just an impeccable
villain that was so bizarre and such a force that
you just hated with every fiber of your being because
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you cannot.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Believe what they were doing.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
So you have the great storytelling and the great acting
in a pretty limited cast.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
It's really these three members.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
You have the foster mom and the two kids, and
that really makes up the entire film. Nalie Hawkins plays
the foster mom, which you may remember her from the
Shape of Water back in twenty seventeen. She got an
Oscar nomination for that movie. I think she should have won,
although in the Shape of Water did take home Best Picture.
That is one of those best pictures that nobody but
he really talks about it anymore. I loved it in
the moment, but it's one I don't revisit a whole lot,
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even though it's a great movie. She was fantastic in
that and she brought that level of acting to this movie.
I heard a story that she scared all the other
people on set because how committed she was to this
role that had so many layers to it. Sometimes you
sympathize with her, sometimes you want to throw her out
a window, and sometimes you feel sad for her, and
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then sometimes you just all out hate her. Billy Barrett
played the older brother, who was fantastic gave a really
emotional performance. His younger sister was played by Sora Wong. Well,
this was her acting debut. She was not aspiring to
be an actor whatsoever, but her mom actually came across
a casting call on Facebook that was looking for a
visually impaired actor, so they applied. She got the role
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and she did an incredible job. She was born with
a condition that left her with limited sight, but had
zero experience in acting going into this film, and you
couldn't really tell because she was that good in this.
And what excites me about the Philippop brothers is I
know that their best films are probably five, seven, maybe
even ten years down the line. And I also don't
think that they're gonna do horror forever. I hear a
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lot of directors give their story how horror is their
first love and that's what makes them want to make movies. Also,
when you're young filmmakers doing things on YouTube, sometimes having
the lower budget just lends yourself to make in horror
movies because you can take some corn syrup and some
red food, die, make some fake blood. But I just
think that eventually they are so good at what they
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do and have this artistic vision that is so uniquely
them that they're going to go on to probably make
another couple horror movies, but really cement themselves as these
great directors who can do anything, and they've already proved
that in just two movies. So not necessarily when you
have to rush to see in theaters, although I would.
But if you want to start with Talk to Me,
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which you can watch on Netflix, which that is about
a group of teenagers who start messing with these dark
spirits because they get this embalmed hand that it all
starts out as a social media challenge where they take
this embalmed hand, they shake hands with it essentially, and
they're able to experience and communicate with the dead, and
they're all just filming it for social media. But it's
kind of like that episode of SpongeBob where SpongeBob and
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Patrick are riding the hooks and it's all, you know,
the fishermen fishing, so you can only ride the hook
so far up before you get caught and you have
to let go to come back down. But to them,
it's that experience of writing it all the way up
and then writing it down.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
But if you hold on just a little bit too long.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
You're in for a world to hurt, So maybe start
with Talk to Me and then give Bring Her Back
a chance, because I think if you're really into horror
and you haven't seen their work yet, you're gonna love it.
And I think when I ready to Talk to Me,
I probably gave it a four point five out of five,
which ended up being my favorite horror movie of the
year it came out. I don't like Bring Her Back
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as much as I did Talk to Me, just because
I think the overall scary nature Talked to Me was
a little bit better, but still a fantastic movie.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
For Bringer Back, I give it four out of five.
Foster Moms, It's time to head down to movie Mike.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Trey Lar Paul. I want to love it, but I'm hesitant.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
I have three signs why the Happy Gilmore sequel is
not gonna be good, and that pains me to say
because I love Adam Sandler. I believe his two most
important movies of all time were Billy Madison, which came
out in nineteen ninety five, followed that up with Happy
Gilmore in nineteen ninety six. That is the if these
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movies didn't exist, His career would not be where it
is today. But I think when you look at the
movie people love the most is Happy Gilmore, even though
for me I think the comedy is better in Billy Madison.
If I could pick one of those movies to have
a sequel to this year on Netflix, it would have
been Billy Maddison.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
But yeah, my way. Right now.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
I have to imagine eventually they probably will make another one.
Even if the story doesn't make sense, They'll find a
way to make that happen. This is one of those
movies that I always felt that it was just going
to exist on Facebook with people making fake posters for
it for a long time, but finally come into Netflix
Happy Gilmore Too. I've probably been seeing this rumor for
about ten years now, but this is actually true. I
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have three reasons why I think it's not going to
be good. But before I get into that, here is
just a little bit of the Happy Gilmore IWO trailer
coming to Netflix on July twenty fifth.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
My name is Happy Gilmore. Thirty years ago I decided
to give Goff a try.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
But even when you're at the top of your game,
you can always shank one.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Let them see the Happy I phone off player Happy
Gilmore's breaking in yet another caddy.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
You just met Happy Gilmore didn't have things flowing on
the first golf fall.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Here are my three reasons why I'm hesitant about this movie,
the three warning signs that Happy Go Moore two is
not going to be a good movie. At number three,
I have that it looks like a very small amount
of this movie is going to be original, and that
is not a good thing. What this movie is about
takes place thirty years after he won his first tour.
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He's retired, but he has to come out of retirement
because his daughter, when this movie is played by his
real life daughter, Sonny Sandler, she needs money to go
to Vienna to go to a ballet school.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
So he's like, I gotta make some money.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
I gotta go back and play some golf.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
You have Julie Bowen returning, and it seems like that's
all they need to put him back in this situation
to really pick back up back where the original started
in nineteen ninety six. So instead of him trying to
harness his energy and turn it into a great golf game,
now he's gonna try to get back that golf game
that he had back when he was first starting out,
So it really feels like the same case here. So
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that is warning signed number three at number two I have.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
There are so.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Many callbacks to that original movie that it feels like
this movie is going to just be living in the past,
which I don't understand why you need to make a
sequel if all you're going to do is remind people
about the gags you did in part one, which is
what we see in this trailer. References to all the
old characters coming back, his mannerisms, him yelling at people,
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him fighting people in all the same ways that he
did in the original one. You have Shooter McGavin returning
and they get into that same altercation where he references
the famous quote about what he eats for breakfast that
he did in the first one, and what this reminds
me of and why I'm so scarred by this is
the worst time I've ever been burned by a legacy
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comedy sequel was with Dumb and Dumber two. I was
so excited for this sequel, one of the best comedy
movies of the nineties, much like the to Adam Sandler
movies I've mentioned, and whenever that movie came out, what
we got was them just rehashing all the bits and
gags from the first one, and I hated that movie.
One of the worst live action comedy sequels of all time.
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And I think that is the territory we are getting
into Happy Gilmore Too, because the benefit of doing something
like this is it's gonna get a lot of eyeballs
on it because it's a.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Very beloved movie.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
But why make a sequel when you're gonna add no
new comedy and just do the same old gags. If
that were the case, I would just sit down to
watch Happy Gilmore one and not need to watch Happy
Gilmore Too. So I'm hoping that they have some other
elements of comedy that is new and refreshing, But I
just don't think we're gonna get that because Happy Gilmore
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did rely a lot on physical comedy, and I'm seeing
a lot of that showcased in this trailer. So just
by looking at this trailer, I feel like I'm not
gonna look at it and say some great comedy writing
went into Happy Gilmore Too. There's too many callbacks to
the original, too many reincarnations of the same gags.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
That is my second.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Warning, but number one the biggest red flag, and warning
that doesn't even just apply to Happy Gilmore.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Io.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
If a movie has as many cameos as this one
does in the trailer, it's just going to turn into
an all out cameo fest and the actual story is
going to be suppressed even more so. And I'm fighting
for a little ounce of original story, but it seems
like it's going to be cluttered with all these celebrity cameos.
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You have Travis Kelsey, Post Malone, Eric Andre Bad Bunny
is playing as Caddy. Much like in the original. You
have a bunch of professional golfers, which those obviously have
a place here. You have been still A returning as
his character in the original, Heat worked taking care of
Happy Gilmore's grandma, and now in this one he runs
a support group. And then you have more NFL players.
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Ken Jennings is in this movie, Dan Patrick, who is
in a lot of Adam Sandler movies.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
But the list goes on and on and on.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
But in the original there are only about seven celebrity cameos,
and those included the professional golfers who had roles in
that movie. But now there are so many I can't
even count them. There's a full page of them. And
Adam Sandler is a guy who likes putting all of
his friends in his movies, and.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
You gotta give it to him. Dude is loyal.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
But I just feel that this is gonna be a
movie that is really playing to social media because you
put all of these stars in a movie they all
promoted on their Instagram, on their tiktoks, and it causes
the movie to blow up because everybody to watch this
when it drops on Netflix. So maybe that is a
bit of marketing for this. Even though I feel like
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this is going to be an instant hit for Netflix,
part of the deal that they have with Adam Sandler
is basically they gave him millions and millions of dollars
and he gets to make whatever he wants. So I
am not trying to sound like a big Adam Sandler
henter in this regard.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Because I do like his work.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Some of his movies aren't the best that have come
out from Netflix, but I still enjoy them, and most importantly,
I still watch him because even though you're never gonna
recreate what I think was his best work in the
nineties and early two thousands, they're still a lot of fun.
So even though I'm saying that there are all these
warning signs of why it's not going to be good,
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I think it could still be fun. And I can't
even be mad at all of these celebrity cameos because
I could imagine if you were somebody who grew up
watching Adam Sandler and now are famous and get an
opportunity to not only be in one of his movies,
but to be in the sequel of one of his
most iconic movies of all time, you are gonna take that.
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So great for them, Great for Adam Sandler for always
looking out for his friends. I think he's just the
guy who wants to make movies with this family.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
And with his friends.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
He's been casting his wife and his movies for a
very long time, and now as of recently, has been
casting his daughters and things, and that just seems wholesome
to me, because movies take a long time to make.
They're often very boring, just a lot of sitting around,
and that is time that otherwise, if he didn't have
his family be a part of these films, he would
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be away from them.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
So he's kind of.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Found a cheat code in making movies. Hey, let me
do a tropical movie where I can not only take
my entire family, but we can work at the same time.
We can bring all my friends, and then we make
money on the other end. It is a win win situation.
I've never officially met Adam Sandler, but I have seen
him at an airport at a distance, and it felt
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like seeing somebody so famous that he was almost like
a ghost. When you see a ghost out of the
corner of your eye, where you think you see a ghost,
You're like.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Wait, that couldn't have been. Ghosts don't exist.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Ghosts exists only in movies. That is how I felt
about him, because I've been watching his movie since I
was a kid, and suddenly he's like four feet away
from me, walking in his classic Adam Sandler clothing with
a big baggy shirt, big baggy sweatpants, and he just
like a normal human in that moment, even though my
brain could just not compute that the sadman was right
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next to me.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
And the only other.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Thing I'll say about Netflix movies is they haven't been
the best. I think they make these obviously in order
to get subscribers and keep people happy and not cancel
their subscriptions. But man, why do they make all their
movies look exactly the same. It seems that they have
some kind of requirements for everybody to use as far
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as cameras when making a Netflix movie, and I think
they try to make movies that seem bright and colorful.
And maybe I'm the only one who notices this because
they wanted to look good on all the screens, all
the devices, not only your TV at home, but people
are watching movies on their phones, on their tablets, on
their Apple Watch, on their refrigerators, so you have to
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make sure it's bright and colorful. But I think it
just takes away from that classic film. Look the way
that Happy Gilmore was captured, So that's not really a
warning sign for me. That's just the person old pet
peeve and I'm probably alone in that. But again, Happy
Gilmour two is coming out on Netflix on July twenty fifth,
and you can.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Count on me waiting for you in the parking lot
at that for was this week's edition of Movie Mind
is Tramer.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Par and that is going to do it for another
episode here of the podcast. But before I go, I
gotta give my listeners shout out of the Week. This week,
I'm going over to TikTok, which I do have access
back to it, although I'm not able to change my URL,
although I think if you just search Mike Distro or
click the link in the podcast description.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
I've tried to update it. It says it's updated, but.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Some reason it just goes back to that freaking hackers
user name. But anyway, going over to TikTok, I posted
a clip from my Mission Impossible eight review last week,
and we're shouting out Henry, who said Mission Impossible has
always had great stunts, but after Mission Impossible for it
started being known for the real stuff. So whoever the
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torch gets passed on to, preferably would be someone willing
to do what Tom Cruise did but start off slow
figuratively big shoes to Phil. So it sounds like, Henry,
you are a fan of Mission Impossible, but also take
some digs there Tom Cruise, and I can appreciate that
because I kind of feel the same way. I like
what he does for the movie industry, but him as
a person, I don't know if I can get behind.
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I do think that is a good point to bring up, Henry,
because I did mention the rumor about Glenn Powell possibly
be the one who he wants to pass the torch
on over to, but I didn't really consider that at
the moment. Glenn Powell is not really considered to be
an action star. He's done some movies that have been
a little bit more physically demanding, but nothing on the
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level of a Mission Impossible movie or a Jason Bourne movie.
Doesn't really have an action franchise to his name, but
and I just think he would crush this franchise. So
thank you Henry for that comment. Thank you right now
wherever you are listening, hope you're subscribe. Hope you check
out my YouTube channel trying to get to a thousand
followers YouTube dot com slash Mike Destro to check out
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individual movie reviews and clips from the podcast. And until
next time, go out and watch good movies and I
will talk to you later.
Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike. Today I want to talk
about what dead actor you would bring back to.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Life for one final movie.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
The theme of this week's episode is death and crazy rituals,
because in the movie review, I'll be talking about Bringer Back,
which is a new horror movie in theaters about her
brother and sister who witnessed a terrifying ritual at the
secluded home of their new foster mother. It is creepy,
it is disturbing, and in the trailer park, I'm feeling
excited but also hesitant about the new Happy Gilmore sequel
(00:34):
coming out next month. I have my three red flags
on why I think it's not gonna be a good movie.
So thank you for being here, thank you for being subscribed,
Shout out to the.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Monday Morning movie crew. And now let's talk movies from
the Nashville Podcast Network. This is movie Mike's Movie Podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Ask the question is, if you could bring back one
dead actor to start in one final movie, who's.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
It gonna be. How did I end up on this question?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well, I was watching the Happy Gilmore two trailer and
out of all those cameos, I thought, you know who
would be perfect in this movie that is no longer
with us, The one and only Chris Farley. And I
started thinking about all these actors that we lost too soon,
and if I could only bring back one, who would
I bring back and what movie would I have them
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star in? Because I have my top three that I
want to discuss with you, and I have a lot
of honorable mentions. So mainly I just want to honor
a lot of great actors that we lost too soon.
So who do I have in my top three? Well,
at number three because I just mentioned him, is Chris Farley?
And what movie I would have him come back and
star in. It has to be Tommy Boy Too. What
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a great I feel like, the defining Chris Farley movie.
I heard David Spade talking recently how they wanted to
make a Tommy Boy Too. There was an idea behind it.
Ultimately it didn't work out, and now he would never
do something like that without Chris Farley. The thing I
did not realize about Chris Farley because he passed away
(02:05):
in nineteen ninety seven. I was very young when that happened,
but he died at age thirty three, the age I
am at right now at the moment of recording this episode,
that is when Chris Farley died. That is so young
in my head. Hey died when he was much older,
in his forties, And whenever you're a kid and you
see somebody in their thirties, they just seem so much
(02:26):
older to you, which is weird to me now that
a kid my age in nineteen ninety seven would have
been six. So now to think of a six year
old seeing me be.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
That old is a little bit like, oh man, I'm
old now.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I don't feel old, but that is such a young
age to die at that he is somebody I believe
we just lost too soon. He had so much charisma,
was also fighting so many demons and sometimes not always.
But it is those people who make you laugh the
hardest that are going through the most. And the more
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I think about, how sad is it that you have
to go through so much just to be funny sometimes,
And that is exactly the life of Chris Farlan because
he was so over the top. He gave so much
to every performance. He was a great physical comedian, even
sometimes doing things that he didn't enjoy doing, but he
knew they got to laugh. I think one of those
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famous cases is the SNL skit he did with Patrick Swayze,
who will talk about later, where they were Chippendale's dancers,
and the whole joke of that sketch was the fact
that Chris Farley was a bigger guy being a Chippendale's dancer.
I think that was credited as one of the sketches
he regrets doing the most because it put him in
a really dark place. But he died in nineteen ninety
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seven after a drug overduce of cocaine and morphine. His
most memorable roles were what I just talked about, Tommy Boy,
I think was his defining role in nineteen ninety five
my personal favorites as well or Black Sheep, Beverly Hills.
Ninja was such a great movie when I was a kid.
He also had a great cameo in Billy Madison Leave's
(04:04):
behind a legacy of physical comedy, genius and this infectious
energy Almost Heroes, which I believe was the last film
he ever did, is one that is underrated. Him and
Matthew Perry now both no longer with us. So he
was one of those people that not only had such
success on Saturday Night Live, but it transferred onto the
big screen, even though a lot of those movies probably
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weren't well reviewed at the time, and now we look
back on those and think, man, we were so lucky
to get those from him. I also can't wait to
see what happens with his biopic that is in development
right now, set to play him as Paul Walter Hausa,
who you might remember he played Richard Jewel back in
twenty nineteen. He's also a really funny actor and the
perfect person to play him in my opinion. But Chris
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Farley is in my top three that I'm trying to
decide have him come back from the dead to be
in Tommy Boy to You. Also in my top three,
I have Robin Williams. I would want him to come
back for Jumanji four. He did the original back in
the nineties, and the franchise has really changed with all
the movies with The Rock, where I feel if we
brought Robin Williams back from the dead, we would do
(05:09):
an indirect sequel to A one. So I don't want
Jack Black coming back. I don't want The Rock, I
don't want Kevin Hart, I don't want anybody else who
has been associated with these sequels. I want an indirect
sequel from that first one. Robin Williams died in twenty fourteen,
and he was one of the first actors or really
celebrities ever that died that really impacted me. There are
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a handful of celebrities that I remember the exact moment
I was the day that they died. Michael Jackson was
the first one who died in two thousand and nine.
Not only was that a huge deal because he is
one of the most famous people of all time, but
he also died on my birthdays, so I will always
associate his death with my birthday just because I remember
it every single year. Robin Williams was one in twenty
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fourteen for some reason, whenever mac Miller died that really
stayed with me. And then the other one is also
in my top which I'll get to in a minute.
But sometimes they're just people that you're like, man, how
did they die? Because I feel so connected to them,
even though I've never met them. And the odd thing
about people in film and in music is you can
continue to have them live in your world because you
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can continue to watch their work. And Robin Williams is
somebody that you would have never have known, all the
things he was going through, all the demons he was fighting,
because he was such a kind and caring person who
would take care of people on the set, put things
in his contract to get people hired to benefit all
these people in need, just because he was that type
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of person. And the fact that somebody who is so
renowned and so beloved and just such a great presence
on screen and on stage took their own life, I
think for me it was one of the first times
I really started to take mental health seriously because growing
up in the nineties even the early two thousands, having
parents who not that we didn't vowell you mental health,
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but we just never really talked about it in my
family growing up, unless you were bleeding or something was broken,
you were seen as being in good health. And taking
care of your head just wasn't really a thing, not
something I even had come into my orbit, probably until
I heard about celebrities taking their own lives, and then
didn't really do anything on my end until my late
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twenties early thirties, where I started going to therapy and
realizing how important it is to keep it clean and
good upstairs as much as you can, along with trying
to keep your body alive. It's so exhausting to be
an adult like man. I have to work out and
run this much just to keep this average physique, and
then I also have to take care of my brain too.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It's exhausting.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
But Robin Williams, even though we passed away in twenty fourteen,
left us behind with so many memorable movies.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I'm not even.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Sure what his most memorable single role would be. Would
it be Misis Doubt Fire nine D three, Dead Poet
Society in eighty nine, Goodwill Hunting in ninety seven, Aladdin
in ninety two. That is the role that nobody else
could do. Will Smith did the live action Genie, but
Man and no way to touch what Robin Williams did
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in the animated movie. My personal favorite Robin Williams movie
would probably be Jack Whenever. He is born with the
disorder that makes him age very quickly. It was Benjamin
Button before Benjamin Button, except for Benjamin Button it happens
in reverse Jack Man. That scene just gets me an
emotional Robin Williams where he's not playing a funny, gooky
(08:37):
character and just really hits you in that Oh man,
that got me in the gut wherever he tries to
ask out his teacher Jennifer Lopez. That scene gets me
every time. That is my favorite Robin Williams movie. One
Hour Photo is what I believe to be the most
underrated Robin Williams film that came out in two thousand
and two.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
He plays a.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Awkward and shy guy who works inside of a mall
at a one hour photo developing lab, which they don't
have those anymore, and he starts to form a relationship
with the people who have been coming into his lab
for a long time, so he sees kids grow up,
he forms relationships with their parents. He's nice to the
kids because over the years he has seen them grow
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through the photos that he's developed, so he feels like
he has a personal connection with them. But then he
starts to see something peculiar in their photos, and then
he probably goes a step too far to be in
these people's lives, and it goes to an extreme because
he thinks he is much more a part of their
lives than he actually is. But man, what a transformation
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that his character goes through. It's a character that you
care about, but then also are a little bit creeped
out by. So if you haven't seen this, so and
highly recommend it. Even though it's not on a streamer
right now, you have to rent it. And I think
it's like that unfortunate three seventy nine price.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
That is a thing.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Man. Stream they can pick and choose what they have
on their service and what they can't. And now that
physical media is not a real thing. Sometimes it's like, Man,
I love a movie and I can't just watch.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It that easily.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Maybe we do need to bring back Blockbuster after all.
And obviously Jumanji, which I mentioned him earlier because that's
what I want him to come back and play in
one final time. So Robin Williams is also in my
top three. Rounding out the one two three of dead
actors is Chadwick Boseman. I would want him to come
back for a Black Panther three. Oh, I'm really heavily
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leaning on this one. Chadwick Boseman died back in twenty
twenty at the age of forty three due to colon cancer,
and he battled it privately for four years.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
This is one that just came out of nowhere.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I remember sitting with Kelsey on the couch and her saying,
did you see Chadwick Boseman died? I said, Chadwick Boseman died.
You are you sure you're talking about Black Panther? And
it was him. And the sad part about that is
he died in an age of social media where there
were people pointing out things about his physical appearance, having
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no idea, and they were just being awful and rude,
not knowing that he was battling cancer.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
And the fact that.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
He was able to star in all these movies and
still give amazing performances while he was going through something.
I don't know how he did that for so long
without people knowing. And that is easily his most memorable role,
a role that almost transcends the person he could ever be.
And I mean that in the most positive way saying
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that because Black Panther is a character that has so
much impact because of who it represents. For the first time,
young kids were able to see a superhero with their
same skin color that they'd never seen before on that level.
We'd had obviously black superheroes before. Blade being one of
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the most influential of the nineties and early two thousands,
and once his portrayal of T'Challa came out, there was
all these people who finally had somebody that looked like them,
and that movie was so much more impactful because of that,
But it was also a great movie. He's a great
superhero and he became through that role a cultural icon,
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a symbol of empowerment. And not only that, but he
took his role very seriously. He wasn't somebody who, oh, yeah,
I played Black Panther, but I also.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Want to go and do these other roles.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
He knew how impactful he was in that role and
made it a point to take pictures with fans, meet
with sick kids, and really they picked the perfect person
who not only embodied what it means to be Black
Panther on screen, but off screen as well. And I
can imagine bringing him back to life and having him
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be in one final Black Panther movie after all we
went through in Black Panther two and also in the
State of the Ms see you right now where, Man,
if you can give back a legacy Marvel character, can
you imagine the pop that a movie theater would have
bringing back that role. It would be just unearthing so much,
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and there are only a few Marvel moments that I
know exactly how that would make me feel. It'd go
back to No Way Home and go back to endgame.
Those moments were It's just like, I'm going to remember
that forever. So while I'm battling these three people, because
they are all three fantastic actors, I'm thinking of how
these movies would actually play out. Chris Farley, just because
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we haven't seen him in so long, would be a
trip like that would be amazing, Like with the Ritual,
will be worth bringing him back for Tommy Boy two,
Jumanji four. One of my favorite movies as a kid
was Jumanji. One of the first I remember just loving
the vhs watching it all the time, and one I
still go back and revisit to have one where he
gets sucked back into the game. And now we older
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and think about the technology you have now, how much
you can improve on the graphics and the special effects
from Jumanji one, but now still have Robin Williams. That
would be a spectacle. But I think I talked myself
into it just because I would want to experience that
moment in theaters of having the original Black Panther Return,
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and since it's only one final movie, you think about
his character arc that would happen in a Black Panther
three where he is back, but then by the end
of it you know he has to go away because
you can't get a sequel to this movie.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
That would hit me again.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Oh, could you imagine that you bring back somebody to
life and then know that they have to go At
some point you think what would I want to say?
What would I want to feel in those final moments?
And we would get that in cinema. So the one
actor I would bring back for one final movie, it's
going to be Chadwick Boseman, and the movie is going
to be Black Panther three.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I feel good with that pick.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Right now, all we're talking about dead actors. Here are
some other ones that I was going through in my research.
Heath Ledger, I'd bring them back for The Dark Knight Returns,
which is probably my favorite graphic novel of all time.
It is a story about Batman, older in age, has
not been Batman for a while. He probably in his
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mid to late fifties, early sixties. He's aged, he's slower,
he doesn't recover as much, but Gotham has really gone
to crap, and he decides, I think I need to
come back and be Batman, and a big part of
that story is Joker, and I would bring back Heath
Ledger to come back in the Dark Knight returns, and
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I would also use Christian Bale, who is also still alive.
But Heath Ledger died back in two thousand and eight
at the age of twenty eight. It was an accidental
overdose on prescription meds, and this was and ended up
being his most memorable role, The Joker in The Dark
Knight two thousand and eight. Another actor I was really
considering was Gene Wilder bringing him back for Wonka Io,
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which wouldn't be a sequel to Willy Wonka and the
Chocolate Factory, which is obviously his most memorable role, but
instead it would be a sequel to the Timothy shallow
May version and you just jump way ahead, go way
way way out in time to a much older Willy Wonka,
which some people speculated that it should be Jeremy Allen White,
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who you would know from The Bear Who Bears No
Pun intended a striking resemblance to Gene Wilder. Some people
thought that they were actually related. So should it have
been Jeremy Allen White playing Wonka instead of Timothy Shalloway Noah.
I thought Shallowy did a good job in that, but
he died back in twenty sixteen at the age of
eighty three due to complications with Alzheimer's disease. Along with
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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, he was also iconic
and Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles. My favorite movies of
his outside of Willy Wonka were Heino Evil, Here No
Evil with Richard Pryor, and Stir Crazy, which Richard Pryor.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Also made my list.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I would want him to come back and reprise his
role as Gus Gorman in the new Superman movie. Go
back in and get some quick reshoots and put well.
I guess you probably couldn't reshoot it at this point,
but maybe in the sequel to this one or Superman three,
you put Richard Pryor back in a Superhero film, which
Richard Pryor passed away back in two thousand and five.
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Another actor I was strongly considering because he is in
one of my favorite movies of all time, Bill Paxton,
and he would have to be in the sequel to Twisters,
which what would you call that movie? Because we had Twister,
then we had Twisters. Would it be Twisters his? Or
would it be Twisters too? I guess it would be
Twisters three though, because it's a it's a non direct
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sequel to the original. What would you call this movie?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Twisters is his?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
But I would want to bring back Bill Paxton, who
died back in twenty seventeen at the age of sixty one,
had a stroke following a heart surgery. Twister, to me
was his most memorable role, but he was also in
Apollo thirteen, Aliens in nineteen eighty six, and Titanic in
nineteen ninety seven, which I have to imagine was a pretty.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Good paycheck for him. What an incredibly versatile actor.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Just look at all those roles big blockbusters, and he
also did a lot of smaller independent movies as well.
But could you imagine Bill Paxton back from the dead
as Bill in Twisters?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Is?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Hey, Bill, You're back. I'm not back.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Got a few more here on my list, Bernie Mack,
because they are remaking Friday. I think it's still in development.
Allegedly was supposed to come out in twenty twenty five.
I don't see that happening. I'm not telling myself there's
a new Friday movie coming out until I see that trailer,
because this has been dangled over my head like a
carrot for I don't know the last decade. Bernie Mack
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died at the age of fifty back in two thousand
and eight. This was a sad one too, because I
loved The Bernie mac Show, which was probably his most
famous work, but in film, I think it would probably
be Oceans eleven in two thousand and one. I loved
him in life. He was also in Transformers Bad Santa. Oh,
whenever he threatens Bad Santa with wanting a fifty percent
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cut from the job, and they're at that diner and he's.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Like, off, how about forty five percent off?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Forty nine percent off? That was a great scene. Mister
three thousand was another good movie.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I love Bernie Mack, one of the best voices in comedy.
I also thought about bringing back John Candy and I
would want to be in the Madden biopick that they're
actually filming now, where Nick Cage is playing John Madden
and Christian Bale is playing Al Davis. But I look
at John Candy and think, oh, man, he would have
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been a great John Madden. He died back in ninety four,
had a heart attack at the age of forty three.
His most famous movie was probably Planes, Trains and Automobiles
in nineteen eighty seven. He was also in Uncle Buck
in nineteen eighty nine. My favorite John Candy movie is
probably Between Cool Runnings from ninety three. He was also
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in space Balls and had a cameo and Home Alone,
where he improvised all of his dialogue and is probably
one of his most memorable roles, even though he's only
in that for a limited amount of time and was
paid very little money to do that role. But much
like Chris Farley, he is somebody whose comedic presence in
film has been missed because there has not been another
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John Candy, because not only was he funny, but he
also had this warmth to him. Every scene just felt
very personal. He was very charismatic and delivered dialogue effortlessly.
There is coming out produced by Ryan Reynolds called John Candy,
I Like Me, which is a reference to a famous
line of his in Planes, Trains and Automobiles. So hopefully
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that is good because that is also being directed by
Colin Hanks. If I had unlimited rituals, I'd bring back
Norm MacDonald put him in Dirty Work too, even that
probably wasn't a movie he was particularly proud of, one
of my favorite comedies of the nineties. He died back
in twenty twenty one at the age of sixty one
due to leukemia. Probably more well known for his work
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on Saturday Night Live on Weekend Update, but I love
Dirty Work. Bring him back, get our delayne back in
there and give me that Adam Sandler cameo two. Patrick
Swayze was another one. I considered bring him back for
Dirty Dancing three, which.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Would be Dirty Dancing Maybe.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
He died back in two thousand and nine at the
age of fifty seven due to pancreatic cancer. Johnny and
Dirty Dancing was probably his most memorable role. He was
also in Ghost Point Break. He was a rare mix
of being somebody who was just all out masculine but
also had this tenderness to him that I think is
also greatly missed in Hollywood. And my final one on
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my list. Britney Murphy, who also left us too soon
in two thousand and nine, died at the age of
thirty two due to an accidental over. Her most memorable
roles included Clueless, Girl, Interrupted and eight Mile was probably
her biggest role. But for me, I loved her in
a little movie from two thousand and two called Spun.
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So give me back Brittany Murphy and put her in
Spun two. I'll come back and give my spoiler free
review of the new horror movie Bring Her Back. Let's
get into It now.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
A spoiler free movie review of Bring Her Back from
Danny and Michael Philippo, who are two Australian directors relatively
young thirty two years old.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
They got their start just making YouTube videos as twin
brothers just messing around beating each other up in their backyard.
And even in those early YouTube videos you can tell
that they had an eye for creating something special. There
are videos where you see the behind the scenes of
them as kids and like talking about like keep the
cameras held still, giving direction at such a young age
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on things that maybe the sum seemed very juvenile, like
beating your brother up with some wrestling moves.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
I can relate to that.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
They made their debut with a movie called Talk to Me,
which is available on Netflix now and since then they've
been taking Hollywood by storm. After that came out, they
started getting messages from their heroes like Jordan Peel. Stephen
King gave them praise for that movie. And now this
is something that we need in the horror genre. Two
guys who just feel like they're making movies that I
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want to see that nobody else is making right now,
because I think when you get into horror, you can
get very calculated. And by watching Bring Her Back, I
can tell that they had that punk rock mentality, that
YouTuber mentality of we're going to make something that we
want to see and not play to any of these rules.
Where I can feel the youth in this movie, and
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it's a good thing because you can tell that they
don't have the most experienced Like say, I would say
the best horror movie of the year up until this
one was probably The Monkey from Ouz Perkins, who has
more experience there last year with Long Legs, and this
movie feels so much less calculated to that. So where
it really shines is in that rawness but now also
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starting to have a little bit more experience under their
belt is what makes it great. I think also the
fact that they are Australian. It feels really refreshing to me,
a great just one two star for them, this being
their second movie and after watching it, I just feel
like we haven't seen their best work yet and this
is so exciting to me.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
So what Bringer Back is about?
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Which is a movie I feel you can spoil by
giving away the plot details, so I'm not going to
speak too much on that, but here is the description
pulled from IMDb. A brother and sister witness a terrifying
ritual at the secluded home of their new foster mother.
So you have these two characters who just lost their
father and now are at risk of being split up.
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The older brother has been taking care of the younger sister,
who is vision usually impaired, and after their dad dies,
they initially want to split them up, but luckily they
are able to work out a deal where they can
both go live with one foster parent. And then things
start to get really weird. But that's really all you
need to know going into this movie. Now, how scary
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is it? Bring her Back? Really isn't that scary. It
is unsettling, which at times to me is better because
this is a movie that is going to stay around.
It's going to linger with you the more and more
that you think about it. Like those times where I
would go to the gas station to get a burrito
and I'm questioning it. It's like a dollar ninety nine.
I'm like, do I really want this burrito? How long
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has this burrito been sitting at this gas station? But
I'm hungry, it's cheap, I'm broke. I want to go
and get that gas station burrito. I eat that burrito
in about five minutes, but then the after effects of
that burrito stick with me much longer than those five minutes,
much longer than the value of one ninety nine. It
hits me the next day, maybe even the day after,
and then the next time I go thinking about getting
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another gas station burrito, I think twice. That is how
I felt watching Talk to Me, where in the moment
I wasn't terrified, but it was so unsettling because there
were so many moments that there were things that I
had never seen before in a supernatural movie that made
my skin crawl a little bit, that made me just
kind of cringe.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
And there are certain.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Things that you can put in horror movies that get me.
And there were things in this one that I didn't
know could get me because I hadn't seen them yet.
Usually it's broken bones. In the case of Bringing Back,
there were these really violent moments that really made the film,
but in no way did it just capitalize on jump scares.
I don't think there were any jump scares in this movie.
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It comes down to great storytelling, which it did a
really good job of making you care about these characters.
It really invested in those first twenty minutes of yeah,
giving you some scary images, but really telling you the
story of these two kids and what they are going through,
and really made you care about their living situation and
all trauma that they are both dealing with that made
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you want to take this ride with them, made you
want to root for them throughout this entire thing, because man,
does it get crazy.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
So that was a.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Really important thing to do.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
And sometimes horror movies get it wrong because they spend
so much time on this exposition trying to make you
care about these characters, and it never quite connects. It
connected here, and then they also created just an impeccable
villain that was so bizarre and such a force that
you just hated with every fiber of your being because
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you cannot.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Believe what they were doing.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
So you have the great storytelling and the great acting
in a pretty limited cast.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
It's really these three members.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
You have the foster mom and the two kids, and
that really makes up the entire film. Nalie Hawkins plays
the foster mom, which you may remember her from the
Shape of Water back in twenty seventeen. She got an
Oscar nomination for that movie. I think she should have won,
although in the Shape of Water did take home Best Picture.
That is one of those best pictures that nobody but
he really talks about it anymore. I loved it in
the moment, but it's one I don't revisit a whole lot,
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even though it's a great movie. She was fantastic in
that and she brought that level of acting to this movie.
I heard a story that she scared all the other
people on set because how committed she was to this
role that had so many layers to it. Sometimes you
sympathize with her, sometimes you want to throw her out
a window, and sometimes you feel sad for her, and
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then sometimes you just all out hate her. Billy Barrett
played the older brother, who was fantastic gave a really
emotional performance. His younger sister was played by Sora Wong. Well,
this was her acting debut. She was not aspiring to
be an actor whatsoever, but her mom actually came across
a casting call on Facebook that was looking for a
visually impaired actor, so they applied. She got the role
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and she did an incredible job. She was born with
a condition that left her with limited sight, but had
zero experience in acting going into this film, and you
couldn't really tell because she was that good in this.
And what excites me about the Philippop brothers is I
know that their best films are probably five, seven, maybe
even ten years down the line. And I also don't
think that they're gonna do horror forever. I hear a
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lot of directors give their story how horror is their
first love and that's what makes them want to make movies. Also,
when you're young filmmakers doing things on YouTube, sometimes having
the lower budget just lends yourself to make in horror
movies because you can take some corn syrup and some
red food, die, make some fake blood. But I just
think that eventually they are so good at what they
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do and have this artistic vision that is so uniquely
them that they're going to go on to probably make
another couple horror movies, but really cement themselves as these
great directors who can do anything, and they've already proved
that in just two movies. So not necessarily when you
have to rush to see in theaters, although I would.
But if you want to start with Talk to Me,
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which you can watch on Netflix, which that is about
a group of teenagers who start messing with these dark
spirits because they get this embalmed hand that it all
starts out as a social media challenge where they take
this embalmed hand, they shake hands with it essentially, and
they're able to experience and communicate with the dead, and
they're all just filming it for social media. But it's
kind of like that episode of SpongeBob where SpongeBob and
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Patrick are riding the hooks and it's all, you know,
the fishermen fishing, so you can only ride the hook
so far up before you get caught and you have
to let go to come back down. But to them,
it's that experience of writing it all the way up
and then writing it down.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
But if you hold on just a little bit too long.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
You're in for a world to hurt, So maybe start
with Talk to Me and then give Bring Her Back
a chance, because I think if you're really into horror
and you haven't seen their work yet, you're gonna love it.
And I think when I ready to Talk to Me,
I probably gave it a four point five out of five,
which ended up being my favorite horror movie of the
year it came out. I don't like Bring Her Back
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as much as I did Talk to Me, just because
I think the overall scary nature Talked to Me was
a little bit better, but still a fantastic movie.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
For Bringer Back, I give it four out of five.
Foster Moms, It's time to head down to movie Mike.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Trey Lar Paul. I want to love it, but I'm hesitant.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
I have three signs why the Happy Gilmore sequel is
not gonna be good, and that pains me to say
because I love Adam Sandler. I believe his two most
important movies of all time were Billy Madison, which came
out in nineteen ninety five, followed that up with Happy
Gilmore in nineteen ninety six. That is the if these
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movies didn't exist, His career would not be where it
is today. But I think when you look at the
movie people love the most is Happy Gilmore, even though
for me I think the comedy is better in Billy Madison.
If I could pick one of those movies to have
a sequel to this year on Netflix, it would have
been Billy Maddison.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
But yeah, my way. Right now.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
I have to imagine eventually they probably will make another one.
Even if the story doesn't make sense, They'll find a
way to make that happen. This is one of those
movies that I always felt that it was just going
to exist on Facebook with people making fake posters for
it for a long time, but finally come into Netflix
Happy Gilmore Too. I've probably been seeing this rumor for
about ten years now, but this is actually true. I
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have three reasons why I think it's not going to
be good. But before I get into that, here is
just a little bit of the Happy Gilmore IWO trailer
coming to Netflix on July twenty fifth.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
My name is Happy Gilmore. Thirty years ago I decided
to give Goff a try.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
But even when you're at the top of your game,
you can always shank one.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Let them see the Happy I phone off player Happy
Gilmore's breaking in yet another caddy.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
You just met Happy Gilmore didn't have things flowing on
the first golf fall.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Here are my three reasons why I'm hesitant about this movie,
the three warning signs that Happy Go Moore two is
not going to be a good movie. At number three,
I have that it looks like a very small amount
of this movie is going to be original, and that
is not a good thing. What this movie is about
takes place thirty years after he won his first tour.
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He's retired, but he has to come out of retirement
because his daughter, when this movie is played by his
real life daughter, Sonny Sandler, she needs money to go
to Vienna to go to a ballet school.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
So he's like, I gotta make some money.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
I gotta go back and play some golf.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
You have Julie Bowen returning, and it seems like that's
all they need to put him back in this situation
to really pick back up back where the original started
in nineteen ninety six. So instead of him trying to
harness his energy and turn it into a great golf game,
now he's gonna try to get back that golf game
that he had back when he was first starting out,
So it really feels like the same case here. So
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that is warning signed number three at number two I have.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
There are so.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Many callbacks to that original movie that it feels like
this movie is going to just be living in the past,
which I don't understand why you need to make a
sequel if all you're going to do is remind people
about the gags you did in part one, which is
what we see in this trailer. References to all the
old characters coming back, his mannerisms, him yelling at people,
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him fighting people in all the same ways that he
did in the original one. You have Shooter McGavin returning
and they get into that same altercation where he references
the famous quote about what he eats for breakfast that
he did in the first one, and what this reminds
me of and why I'm so scarred by this is
the worst time I've ever been burned by a legacy
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comedy sequel was with Dumb and Dumber two. I was
so excited for this sequel, one of the best comedy
movies of the nineties, much like the to Adam Sandler
movies I've mentioned, and whenever that movie came out, what
we got was them just rehashing all the bits and
gags from the first one, and I hated that movie.
One of the worst live action comedy sequels of all time.
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And I think that is the territory we are getting
into Happy Gilmore Too, because the benefit of doing something
like this is it's gonna get a lot of eyeballs
on it because it's a.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Very beloved movie.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
But why make a sequel when you're gonna add no
new comedy and just do the same old gags. If
that were the case, I would just sit down to
watch Happy Gilmore one and not need to watch Happy
Gilmore Too. So I'm hoping that they have some other
elements of comedy that is new and refreshing, But I
just don't think we're gonna get that because Happy Gilmore
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did rely a lot on physical comedy, and I'm seeing
a lot of that showcased in this trailer. So just
by looking at this trailer, I feel like I'm not
gonna look at it and say some great comedy writing
went into Happy Gilmore Too. There's too many callbacks to
the original, too many reincarnations of the same gags.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
That is my second.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Warning, but number one the biggest red flag, and warning
that doesn't even just apply to Happy Gilmore.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Io.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
If a movie has as many cameos as this one
does in the trailer, it's just going to turn into
an all out cameo fest and the actual story is
going to be suppressed even more so. And I'm fighting
for a little ounce of original story, but it seems
like it's going to be cluttered with all these celebrity cameos.
(36:34):
You have Travis Kelsey, Post Malone, Eric Andre Bad Bunny
is playing as Caddy. Much like in the original. You
have a bunch of professional golfers, which those obviously have
a place here. You have been still A returning as
his character in the original, Heat worked taking care of
Happy Gilmore's grandma, and now in this one he runs
a support group. And then you have more NFL players.
(36:55):
Ken Jennings is in this movie, Dan Patrick, who is
in a lot of Adam Sandler movies.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
But the list goes on and on and on.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
But in the original there are only about seven celebrity cameos,
and those included the professional golfers who had roles in
that movie. But now there are so many I can't
even count them. There's a full page of them. And
Adam Sandler is a guy who likes putting all of
his friends in his movies, and.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
You gotta give it to him. Dude is loyal.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
But I just feel that this is gonna be a
movie that is really playing to social media because you
put all of these stars in a movie they all
promoted on their Instagram, on their tiktoks, and it causes
the movie to blow up because everybody to watch this
when it drops on Netflix. So maybe that is a
bit of marketing for this. Even though I feel like
(37:42):
this is going to be an instant hit for Netflix,
part of the deal that they have with Adam Sandler
is basically they gave him millions and millions of dollars
and he gets to make whatever he wants. So I
am not trying to sound like a big Adam Sandler
henter in this regard.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Because I do like his work.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Some of his movies aren't the best that have come
out from Netflix, but I still enjoy them, and most importantly,
I still watch him because even though you're never gonna
recreate what I think was his best work in the
nineties and early two thousands, they're still a lot of fun.
So even though I'm saying that there are all these
warning signs of why it's not going to be good,
(38:19):
I think it could still be fun. And I can't
even be mad at all of these celebrity cameos because
I could imagine if you were somebody who grew up
watching Adam Sandler and now are famous and get an
opportunity to not only be in one of his movies,
but to be in the sequel of one of his
most iconic movies of all time, you are gonna take that.
(38:39):
So great for them, Great for Adam Sandler for always
looking out for his friends. I think he's just the
guy who wants to make movies with this family.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
And with his friends.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
He's been casting his wife and his movies for a
very long time, and now as of recently, has been
casting his daughters and things, and that just seems wholesome
to me, because movies take a long time to make.
They're often very boring, just a lot of sitting around,
and that is time that otherwise, if he didn't have
his family be a part of these films, he would
(39:10):
be away from them.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
So he's kind of.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Found a cheat code in making movies. Hey, let me
do a tropical movie where I can not only take
my entire family, but we can work at the same time.
We can bring all my friends, and then we make
money on the other end. It is a win win situation.
I've never officially met Adam Sandler, but I have seen
him at an airport at a distance, and it felt
(39:33):
like seeing somebody so famous that he was almost like
a ghost. When you see a ghost out of the
corner of your eye, where you think you see a ghost,
You're like.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Wait, that couldn't have been. Ghosts don't exist.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Ghosts exists only in movies. That is how I felt
about him, because I've been watching his movie since I
was a kid, and suddenly he's like four feet away
from me, walking in his classic Adam Sandler clothing with
a big baggy shirt, big baggy sweatpants, and he just
like a normal human in that moment, even though my
brain could just not compute that the sadman was right
(40:05):
next to me.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
And the only other.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Thing I'll say about Netflix movies is they haven't been
the best. I think they make these obviously in order
to get subscribers and keep people happy and not cancel
their subscriptions. But man, why do they make all their
movies look exactly the same. It seems that they have
some kind of requirements for everybody to use as far
(40:27):
as cameras when making a Netflix movie, and I think
they try to make movies that seem bright and colorful.
And maybe I'm the only one who notices this because
they wanted to look good on all the screens, all
the devices, not only your TV at home, but people
are watching movies on their phones, on their tablets, on
their Apple Watch, on their refrigerators, so you have to
(40:48):
make sure it's bright and colorful. But I think it
just takes away from that classic film. Look the way
that Happy Gilmore was captured, So that's not really a
warning sign for me. That's just the person old pet
peeve and I'm probably alone in that. But again, Happy
Gilmour two is coming out on Netflix on July twenty fifth,
and you can.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Count on me waiting for you in the parking lot
at that for was this week's edition of Movie Mind
is Tramer.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Par and that is going to do it for another
episode here of the podcast. But before I go, I
gotta give my listeners shout out of the Week. This week,
I'm going over to TikTok, which I do have access
back to it, although I'm not able to change my URL,
although I think if you just search Mike Distro or
click the link in the podcast description.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
I've tried to update it. It says it's updated, but.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Some reason it just goes back to that freaking hackers
user name. But anyway, going over to TikTok, I posted
a clip from my Mission Impossible eight review last week,
and we're shouting out Henry, who said Mission Impossible has
always had great stunts, but after Mission Impossible for it
started being known for the real stuff. So whoever the
(42:01):
torch gets passed on to, preferably would be someone willing
to do what Tom Cruise did but start off slow
figuratively big shoes to Phil. So it sounds like, Henry,
you are a fan of Mission Impossible, but also take
some digs there Tom Cruise, and I can appreciate that
because I kind of feel the same way. I like
what he does for the movie industry, but him as
a person, I don't know if I can get behind.
(42:22):
I do think that is a good point to bring up, Henry,
because I did mention the rumor about Glenn Powell possibly
be the one who he wants to pass the torch
on over to, but I didn't really consider that at
the moment. Glenn Powell is not really considered to be
an action star. He's done some movies that have been
a little bit more physically demanding, but nothing on the
(42:45):
level of a Mission Impossible movie or a Jason Bourne movie.
Doesn't really have an action franchise to his name, but
and I just think he would crush this franchise. So
thank you Henry for that comment. Thank you right now
wherever you are listening, hope you're subscribe. Hope you check
out my YouTube channel trying to get to a thousand
followers YouTube dot com slash Mike Destro to check out
(43:07):
individual movie reviews and clips from the podcast. And until
next time, go out and watch good movies and I
will talk to you later.
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Mike D
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