Best and Worst of May with Mike and Kelsey + Movie Review: Furiosa + Trailer Park: Moana 2

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I am your host Movie Mike, joined this week by my wife and co host Kelsey.

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Speaker 2: How are you great.

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Speaker 3: It's Friday, It's beautiful day outside. I'm about to basically sleep for the whole weekends.

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Speaker 2: I love a good sleep in weekend.

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Speaker 3: It's also supposed to rain tomorrow. We had plans to celebrate our anniversary a few days early. We're gonna go on a little date night, go play some like mini golf, got to eat And I looked at you and I was like, it's gonna rain Saturday. What are the chances we would like to get tay food and cancel our plans? And you really say less.

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Speaker 1: Our favorite hobby as a couple is canceling Pland to.

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Speaker 3: Be fair, last weekend was a lot chaotically busy with travel delays.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we could talk about that later. Okay, Oh oh that was a disaster.

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Speaker 3: It was a disaster.

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Speaker 1: There were also some disaster movies in the month of May, which we'll get into our best and worst. I'll give you my full thoughts on Furiosa, which came out in theaters. It surprisingly didn't do that well and in the Trailer Park. We have our first look at Mawana to thank you for being here, Thank you for being subscrib Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew. Now let's talk movies in a world.

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Speaker 1: All right, we have a lot to get into, so let's start off with what was the best movie you saw in me?

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Speaker 3: That's so easy. It was Babes.

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Speaker 1: I knew it was gonna be Babes, hands down your favorite movie.

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Speaker 3: I already want to see it again.

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Speaker 1: And as many movies as we watch, it's pretty rare we go back and rewatch a movie. I can't remember the last one that as soon as it hits streaming, I wanted to go rewatch again.

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Speaker 3: Every single Spider Man.

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Speaker 1: That's probably yeah, probably no way Home was the last one. Even as much as I love The Iron Claw, which is now on Max, I still have not watched it.

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Speaker 3: I know, Blue Beetle, Oh yeah.

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Speaker 2: I have, well, I resaw that in theaters.

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Speaker 1: We both saw it twice in theaters because we had to go take my mom to go see it, and I watched it again once it hit Max. The movie I was waiting to rewatch. I just wasn't in that right mental state to sit down and watch The Iron Claw. But if you haven't seen that movie yet, it is available on Max.

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Speaker 3: Now how do rewatch that one?

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Speaker 1: You have to kind of prepare yourself because it is inherently sad throughout the entire film.

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Speaker 2: That movie is so sad.

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Speaker 1: They had to take out sad things that actually happened to the true story because they thought audiences couldn't take it or wouldn't even believe it.

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Speaker 2: But it was all true.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it just was so sad. I don't want to give spoilers, but it just is deeply. You need a box of tissues.

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Speaker 1: So if you want the opposite experience of that, go see Babes in theaters.

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Speaker 3: Yes, we did a full on review, so I won't go too much into it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just go back one episode, or you can always watch full reviews individually on YouTube. Find all those links in the podcast notes. That movie was right up there. For me, I don't really think, well, at least in theaters. There was a terrible movie that we watched. My Worst is a terrible movie. But I feel like for the most part, May was pretty solid.

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Speaker 2: It's good month, although.

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Speaker 1: I think June is gonna ramp way up and then July is gonna be even better, which.

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Speaker 3: July is gonna We're just gonna live at the movie.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be just a great season.

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Speaker 1: But I think looking at just box office numbers and overall just movies that really got people excited, there were a lot of just good movies, not super on great movies in May, but overall a really good month. My best had to go to The Fall Guy, and I think the reason that is now looking back on it, is because I feel like as big of a fan of just movies in general i am. I think that's why that movie spoke so much to me, because it also shows you the movie making process.

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Speaker 3: You love a movie about a movie.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty meta, and I didn't know how well it was going to do with people who maybe didn't care so much about that because.

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Speaker 3: It was so good. Though. That was my runner up for best of the month because it just was. I loved it everything about it.

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Speaker 1: Ryan Gosling plays a stuntman who gets hurt, retires from stunt stunting, stunting stunting stunt manning.

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Speaker 2: And then gets pulled back in.

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Speaker 1: So while he is doing stuntman things in the fake movie on set, he is also doing stunt like things in the fall Guy. So it goes kind of like two layers. He's also acting as a stuntman, but he's also doing stunt things as the actor.

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Speaker 3: It was meta within a meta movie.

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of those moments, and I feel like at times it almost got way too into it. But I loved how unorthodox and different it felt than anything I'd seen in theaters in a long time.

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Speaker 2: So that was my best of the month. What is your worst?

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Speaker 3: A movie? I should have let you go see by yourself. It's called I Saw the TV.

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Speaker 2: I knew you were gonna do it.

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Speaker 3: It was too artsy for me. I am not hybrow when it comes to movies. The only thing I would say I'm ever maybe hybrow about his books. And I'll even read like popular books, Like I'm not a book snob, but like I enjoy deeper books than I do deeper movies. I was so bored. I was so freakin' bored.

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Speaker 1: I will say I didn't love I Saw the TV Glow, but I also didn't hate it as much as you did. I really enjoyed the vibe of I Saw the TV Glow. So what it's about. It's this kid named Owen and him and a friend get infatuated with this late night show that is kind of reminiscent of what you would see on Nickelodeon in the early nineties, kind of like the show.

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Speaker 2: Are You Afraid of the Dark?

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Speaker 1: Is what this show is In the movie, it's called The Pink Opaque, and it's them becoming infatuated with this show and then not being able to tell reality from the show.

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Speaker 2: And that is generally what the movie is about.

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Speaker 1: I will say the trailer was a little bit mislead because I thought it was gonna have a little bit more of a traditional story structure of here's this story with these two characters find this weird show, and then they have to go on some adventure.

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Speaker 2: There was really no adventure in the movie.

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Speaker 1: The storytelling was really abstract, which even for me that I loved the vibe of it, that nineties retro vibe. The soundtrack soundtrack is great. Oh, I've been listening to it NonStop. Literally, it is my most plained thing for the last week and a half because I loved it so much and even for a movie to make me want to go seek out its soundtrack, I feel is really powerful.

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Speaker 3: Willy Wonka made you seek out the soundtrack Willy Wonka.

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Speaker 2: I also listened to the Asteroid City soundtrack.

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Speaker 3: We listened to Willy Wonka for quite a while.

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Speaker 2: That was maybe a week. It was probably a week. Cashtroid City I listened to that probably for a week.

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Speaker 1: Two Last Train, Yeah, I listened to that on a lot too, but for like for music that would actually.

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Speaker 2: Go into something I would listen to on the rag.

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Speaker 3: You also wanted to see this movie because Phoebe Purse wasn't it for sixty seconds?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I thought she was gonna have bigger wrong, but.

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Speaker 3: She There's a lot of things we thought about this movie.

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Speaker 1: Music was a big part of it, because at times this movie felt like it transformed into a music video.

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Speaker 2: There were sequences that were just really beautifully shot, a lot of cool.

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Speaker 1: Fun neon visuals with a really cool song playing over it. And it was these moments where it didn't really feel that attached to the movie, so I enjoyed that part of it. I think that's why all the songs were so cemented in my head. Even the song with Phoebe Bridges was on screen in her band, I was like, I need to go listen to that song, and it didn't occur to me. Oh, it's probably a real song, a part of the soundtrack. So I feel like all of the parts of it were good, but when you put them all together, the overall movie wasn't what I thought it was going to be. It's like taking a bunch of good ingredients and throwing them all together into a dinner, but then the dinner not being good because it's just a bunch of ingreedies that don't really go well together.

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Speaker 3: Which also happens to us often.

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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, that was exactly I was speaking to me right now. Sometimes I think I want something and then I make exactly what I want and I think that's not what I wanted.

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Speaker 2: It taste good.

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Speaker 3: I say that often I throw things in a bowl and I'm like, this wasn't the vibe I was going for, And that's what the movie gave me not the vibe I was going for.

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Speaker 1: And I will say you, I don't want to say you have to be a film snob to enjoy this movie. It is an a twenty four movie, and I feel like all the people who really loved it are people who like going and researching and have someone explain to them what the movie was about, because there's a lot of subtexts and I saw the TV glow where these little small moments happen and then you go back and say, oh, well, it was actually saying this, and it's a commentary on this, and I get what it was trying to do is actually a great message behind it, but it's just not that well executed for me.

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Speaker 2: And I wanted to love it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I love a twenty four movies. I love something that's a little different, but that was It just wasn't a movie made for me, and that's fine. I just should have said Go by Yourself.

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Speaker 1: Was a short film, ten to fifteen minutes, it would be perfect. But the fact that this movie was ninety minutes and it felt really long at ninety minutes proves to me that there was a little bit more or not enough substance to carry on an entire follng movie. So this is a movie that I just like going back and looking at stills of and just little scenes from it, but overall not one that I would recommend or I may rewatch this eventually just to see if there were some things I missed and take me out of that theater and being able to kind of enjoy it at my own pace, maybe i'd feel differently about it.

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Speaker 2: So that's your worst? Huh? What would you rate it?

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Speaker 1: Because I know what you said right after we watched it, You're like zero out of five.

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Speaker 2: I'm out of here? Are you still at the zero? You could be at the zero.

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Speaker 3: I'll give it a point five for the soundtrack.

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Speaker 1: Soundtrack is good, I recommend, Well, you kind of got to be into sad indie music, which is like my jam Phoebe Bridges on a soundtrack that's gonna be all me all day.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll give it a point five for the soundtrack.

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Speaker 2: All right, we got it to a point five. Everybody. She was at a zero for me.

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Speaker 1: The worst movie I saw in May, hands down, is not only the worst movie I've seen in May, but.

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Speaker 2: So far probably the worst I've seen all year.

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Speaker 3: Maybe ever.

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Speaker 1: Oh, it's up there for being one of the worst movies of all time. It is unfrosted with Jerry Seinfeld.

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Speaker 3: How was that a real movie? I have so many big names.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how he thought this was funny. To me, Jerry Seinfeld hasn't been funny. I mean, I never really found Seinfeld to be that funny. It was not my go to show.

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Speaker 3: He also just said in an interview that he misses toxic masculinity and the like dominant male personality. So his really his whole terrible takes.

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Speaker 1: His whole promotional run for this movie was really weird because he came out saying that movies were dead, They're not relevant anymore, and he's saying this while promoting a movie. To me, he feels like he is this authority on comedy.

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Speaker 2: I get it.

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Speaker 1: He was big in the nineties. He has a really big, prominent state end up career. He's very influential to people. A lot of comedians look up to him. I never found him funny.

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Speaker 3: He did the ant movie that says a lot B movie, B movie.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, B movie director has opinions on what movies need to be going forward. Ants yea yeah, there was a Bugs Life, and there was Bugs.

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Speaker 3: Life, Perfect Movie, No Notes, Untouchable, the B movie, Yes, okay, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Ants isn't actually bad.

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Speaker 3: Ants isn't terrible. It's a B movie though.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, B movie's pretty bad.

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Speaker 1: But Seinfeld as a whole, I've never really been that big a fan of I know, people say, oh, you don't get his comedy. He likes pointing out the mundane, Like I just think he's out of touch. I don't want to hear a billionaire tell me what is funny.

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Speaker 3: The funniest person on Seinfeld was Julia Louis Dreyfus.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the other thing about Seinfeld. He was not the funniest part about that show.

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Speaker 3: He was not.

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Speaker 1: It was her and Kramer. Yeah, and I put Costanzo at third.

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Speaker 3: It was not him.

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Speaker 2: He was the least funny thing about Seinfeld.

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Speaker 3: Hot takes from us.

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Speaker 1: I don't even think that's a hant take. That is fact printed. Put it in a dictionary or wherever they keep those records. I don't think they keep Encyclopedia in an encyclopedia, in an Atlas, Rand McNally, Encyclopedia Britannica. I used to read those we had a set. I don't think we had all of them. I think we got them at a garage and I would go and just read them. I'd also read atlases because my dad was a truck driver and he would just have some and I'd was like, I need to know how to get to El Paso.

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Speaker 2: That's why I'm pretty good at directions.

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Speaker 3: Now you're so good, except for when we got to Austin at like two am, which we'll talk about more that the directions on the GPS. You were like, think it's telling me and I was like, I'm delirious, but I'm historically not good at directions, so normally you don't take mine. And you did listen to me that time, and I was sorry, But normally you're great with directions.

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Speaker 2: We'll get to that in a second.

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Speaker 1: But wrapping up this thought, going along with some movie news, the Netflix CEO said that if Barbie and Oppenheimer came out on Netflix that they would have been as successful, which I feel is the worst thing any CEO has said, probably.

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Speaker 2: Next to what the Chipotle ceo.

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Speaker 1: It's about to bring up, like, hey, our portions haven't gotten less, haven't gotten any smaller.

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Speaker 2: You guys are crazy.

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Speaker 3: It's my favorite video. He's like, you know, if they don't put enough, you just kind of and he gives this like, hey, come on, like shrug.

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Speaker 1: That dude has never been to Chipotle. No, he's never had a He's never had a burrito in his mouth in his life. The Netflix CEO saying that if Barbie and Oppenheimer came out on Netflix, they'd be as big is insane. Netflix hasn't had a culturally relevant movie since bird Box twenty eighteen. We watched together. It felt like the entire country, the entire world watched that movie.

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Speaker 2: Director.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't even gether like scary movies, and I was like, I got to get in on this.

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Speaker 1: But that was the first and last time really that they put out a movie that had any kind of pop culture.

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Speaker 3: Tiger King was a TV show, TV show, Tiger King and Cheer TV show. If it weren't for the pandemic, would they have been popular.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a big part of tier. We probably wouldn't all been on the Tiger.

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Speaker 3: King train if it bored and locked in the house.

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Speaker 1: And we needed something bizarre in our lives to have us escape from this thing going on.

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Speaker 3: In the world.

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Speaker 2: Tiger King was that we.

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Speaker 3: Needed something weirder than the fact that we were locked in our houses and this man with tigers.

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Speaker 2: What was his name again, Joe Exotic?

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Speaker 3: Thank you?

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Speaker 1: But they, I mean, they have great TV shows which they have shifted into they do wonderfully. But when it comes to movies, they're putting out movies with j Lo about AI that are ruining it.

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Speaker 3: Are we watching that?

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Speaker 1: By the way, I don't want to like out of just the core inner fiber of my being, I don't want to watch it, But I also want to see how much of a disaster it is. I've also been in my year of the downfallow Jennifer.

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Speaker 3: Lopez, you're really into the canceling her tour, her which didn't sell well.

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Speaker 1: Her album Tank, her movie did terribly. The most entertaining part of the movie was the documentary that came out of her calling up celebs and everybody being like, I.

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Speaker 2: Don't want to be in your movie. Oh yeah, it ham and.

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Speaker 3: Cheese on a roll back of chips and an Oran small bag of chips, small bag of chips, and an orange drink.

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Speaker 2: If you know you know so.

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Speaker 1: I think for that reason I would watch it also, just so we have another worse movie to add to the list, but I don't want to watch it. But going back to that movie, going back to Unfrosted, I think this is also having an effect on what people think about movies, and that is what is upsetting to me, is that people see a movie like the Ai Jennifer Lopez movie come out on Netflix that same weekend, Garfield and Furiosa all came out. To the average person, all of those are the same thing in their mind. They're all just content. They are all just movies. One you can watch at home, the others you have to pay a really big amount to go out and watch them. So you're gonna watch the one that's the easiest to get to, that's the cheapest, it's the Jalo movie. And you're putting out this lower tier quality of movie on Netflix, making people think that this is what movies are. They're terrible, they are waste of time. Therefore, when another good movie does come out in theaters, they don't want to go watch it. And for the first time right now since the pandemic, I kind of feel worried about the state of movie theaters because Furiosa came out and only made thirty million dollars on one hundred and sixty million dollar budget.

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Speaker 3: Okay, but that movie wasn't good. I think it was good, but I don't feel like Mad Max is like a huge because you can't appeal to like a younger crowd.

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Speaker 1: But it came out on Memorial Day weekend, which is historically like the weekend to go to theaters.

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Speaker 3: If you put out a really good movie.

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Speaker 1: True and Garfield made more than Furiosa if you put because kids are out of school now.

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Speaker 3: I think Memorial Day the only time that it makes a big amount of money because most people associate Memorial Day with a boat with water with hot dogs. People were the only ones who were like startled the season.

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Speaker 1: I think it's it's a mixture of that. Ticket prices at movie theaters are really expensive.

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Speaker 3: Get that regal.

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Speaker 1: I would highly recommend that because in two visits you're good. I feel like it might be a little bit different with families because you can't really get everybody a past that gets more expensive.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I went, but for us it worked perfectly.

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Speaker 3: I went to the movie with my family and like tickets and snacks was It's ridiculous but my family also loves snacks, like I got a popcorn to drink. My brother's got a large popcorn a drink, and I see my dad gets a popcorn water sometimes one of those pickles in a.

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Speaker 2: Bag and never had the pickle in the bag.

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Speaker 3: I'm pretty good.

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Speaker 1: And I think combined with movies coming out onto streaming much sooner, it's giving people less of a reason to go see it in theaters if they know you can get it in thirty forty five days at home for cheaper, if not for probably free if you're already subscribed to a service.

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Speaker 3: I mean, my family loves going to the movies, and half the time my mom says, I'll just wait till it's on streaming. And that's for people who even love going to movies.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So it's also how we kind of feel about TV shows is there's so many new TV shows every single week that you have to catch up on.

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Speaker 3: My brain is overloaded.

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Speaker 1: In the same way, you can't expect all these movies to crush it at the box office when you're putting out one every single week that needs to make a vast amount of money to recoup that people are gonna pick and choose the big ones to go see because you're looking at your finances and thinking, okay, and go to a movie for Deadpool and Wolverine. But that means we're gonna miss all these in May and June. So it's also you can't really expect all these to be blockbusters when people don't really have the time or the money to do that. Yeah, So I think I'm just worried in the sense that there are these movies that are still having these astronomical budgets one hundred and fifty two hundred million dollars and making thirty million. I think it's gonna have an impact on movie budgets, and hopefully it could be a good thing that you have kind of a revival of indie filmmaking. I mean, look at a movie like Everything Everywhere, All at Once that was made for a relatively low budget and went on to earn a lot more have a lot of critical acclaim and I think that is going to be the new model of spending less but having to be more creative, therefore giving people new things to be excited about, because what audiences are kind of getting fatigued with is having the same thing over and over the MCU had its run, and at the time, in two thousand and eight.

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Speaker 2: A big superhero movie was exciting.

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Speaker 1: It was novel, it was different, It was a spec to go to go see something like that in theaters. And I think it's not so much that people are fatigued with the superhero genre. They're fatigued with the formula. Same thing over and over. Here's a new character, here's their origin story, here's the villain. Here's them debating the villain by being bada boom, a lot of fighting and action. It's the same thing over and over. You have to reinvent that to give people a reason to not just go watch a big summer blockbuster movie, but also give them more of a story, different characters, different emotions. So you have to kind of go back to that indie style of filmmaking of not depending on your big budget to get people there.

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Speaker 3: I have something to say, But do we want to circle back to your rating on them Frosted before.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I will give it a one out of five pop Tarts worst movie. I'd probably go point five, actually even lower than that. I tend to not go zero because as long as you show up, you get a point five, so I'd give it a point five out of five pop tarts.

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Speaker 3: I was gonna say, can we go through really quick before we get toward disaster this weekend? Of what other summer blockbusters we have coming up, because I've already forgotten.

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Speaker 1: We have Twisters, which is the one we've been waiting for. As big of a fans are as we are of the original.

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Speaker 3: I can't wait to see it. And it's a big fan of Glenn Pal. I'm trying to set so he's moving back to Austin. And if my friend listens to this, she'll kill me for saying this. But her other friend and I are like, Glenn Pal's moving back to Austin. Hit him up, this is your chance.

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Speaker 2: So I'm gonna hit him up as my chance.

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Speaker 3: He's a big Longhorn fan. I know I could see him at football games going to go Home for one. Him and McConaughey, Flenny were your big fans. We have Inside Out coming out. We have Bad Boys coming out this week. Okay, I watched the trailer for that looks kind of funny.

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Speaker 2: It does look funny.

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Speaker 1: I find it more funny, probably from Martin Lawrence, who I love even at your brother's graduation, Rudy through my brother Rudy through on Blue Streak.

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Speaker 2: Big crowd pleaser.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody loves Blue Streak, so I'm more interested to see that. For Martin Lawrence, we have Despicable Me for that's gonna be a crusher. I think that could be the billion dollar movie of the summer.

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Speaker 3: We will be we'll be seeing that.

00:21:19
Speaker 1: We have that Austin Butler movie, The Bike Riders coming out.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I don't really.

00:21:24
Speaker 1: Know exactly how to feel about that movie. It kind of looks like, why is this getting made? Are we just trying to force Austin Butler as a movie star? We really are, like real hard because.

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Speaker 3: He wasn't that great Masters of Area though.

00:21:35
Speaker 2: He's been Elvis for the last two years.

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Speaker 3: I think that's gonna be a career blocker something else, but I'll keep it family friendly.

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Speaker 2: June twenty First, we have Kinds of Kindness, which looks good.

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Speaker 3: Yes, the Yorgo slanthemost movie. It's almost three hours.

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Speaker 2: Yeah that's a long one. Just on paper, it looks great.

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Speaker 3: The cast is amazing, is amazing.

00:21:54
Speaker 1: Org Slanting Moos is the same person who did things or things so almost everybody from the movie now in this one.

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Speaker 2: But it looks good. It's long, it is long.

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Speaker 3: I know we have a quiet place, but I don't do scary.

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Speaker 2: Oh you're not gonna go see that with me?

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Speaker 3: I think so. I just don't like anything that makes me jump.

00:22:10
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a full on horror movie. It's more suspenseful. But they are creepy monsters killing people.

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Speaker 3: This trailer doesn't look as bad as the other ones. I don't feel like this one's sudden New York.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:22:22
Speaker 3: Yeah, this one doesn't look as bad as like they're in like Cabin in the Woods being taken on.

00:22:26
Speaker 2: By It's pretty cool to how it all started.

00:22:27
Speaker 1: We have that Kevin Costner movie, an American saga Horizon movie.

00:22:32
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, self financed.

00:22:34
Speaker 3: I was thinking Kevin Bacon dif Kevin.

00:22:37
Speaker 1: Kevin Costner has always felt like a very just vanilla actor to me, like he doesn't really have it feels like I wanted defining movie to me, really.

00:22:44
Speaker 3: Leaning into like the period pieces with like yellow I know, and Yellowstone is like a current show, but he's leaning into like that, like Western and also the fact that it's two parts coming out in theaters. Feels a little bit like a cash grab. Yeah, and they're not that far apart.

00:22:56
Speaker 2: That's kind of the new trend now.

00:22:57
Speaker 3: It's weird though.

00:22:58
Speaker 2: It's like you make one movie that's way too long, so you split it up in.

00:23:01
Speaker 3: A two weird one that you watched on Netflix.

00:23:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Zack Snyder movie. Yes, I can't even remember the name. I hated the name Rose Planet.

00:23:09
Speaker 3: What was the name?

00:23:09
Speaker 2: It's like the ed Hardier movies.

00:23:12
Speaker 3: Okay, any other standouts?

00:23:14
Speaker 1: Those are the major ones and Deadpool and Deadpool which perody have tickets for?

00:23:18
Speaker 2: Yep.

00:23:19
Speaker 1: I want to find that machine where you can win the best friend's necklace. I think it's only at AMC.

00:23:24
Speaker 3: Go to an AMC for that.

00:23:25
Speaker 2: We have the pre order of the ticket.

00:23:26
Speaker 1: You pre ordered the ticket and they give you a coin and then you put that coin into the machine with the chance of winning it.

00:23:32
Speaker 3: There is a really nice AMC here, but it's just like it's like fifteen minutes away and we're.

00:23:36
Speaker 2: Like too far century away.

00:23:38
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, when we were in Texas, we're like, you want to drive thirty five minutes out of town for a smoothie?

00:23:42
Speaker 2: Yes?

00:23:43
Speaker 3: Speaking of Texas, let's talk about that.

00:23:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, we went to Texas for your brother's graduation and we tried to get there the night before.

00:23:51
Speaker 2: What time were we supposed to leave.

00:23:52
Speaker 3: We were supposed to take off at five forty five, and we were about to leave the house Collin Uber to go to the airport and it started getting delayed, which we had a feeling because the sky started turning really dark, real dark right before we left. So we're like, okay, we're delayed, Like let's just hang out at home. But then it was like kept getting delayed, and then you're in that weird mindset of like what if they like move it back up and it's not delayed, so you don't want to like get too comfortable, and then you just kind of sit there and you're like, I guess I'm gonna make dinner. At four thirty, I was like, I guess I'm gonna make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for dinner. So I'm gonna get to the airport finally, and we bored. We're taxing and the pilot comes on.

00:24:28
Speaker 2: What time are we on the plane?

00:24:30
Speaker 3: Nine? And he comes on and he's like like nine thirty because we're supposed to take off at like nine fifteen. So we're taxing on the runway about to take off, and he's like, folks got a mechanical light an electrical issue that just came on, which, to be fair, it was a Boeing, So I'm glad they turned his back around.

00:24:46
Speaker 2: Probably this is something we need to check out at.

00:24:47
Speaker 3: This point, and he's like, we're gonna go back to the gate. Well, then it takes forever to get off the runway because the runway is designed like if you're going in one direction, you're gonna take off. So then we had to like reorient back down the runway to get back to a gate. Then none of the gates were open. So we get to a gate and' like we're gonna look at it, and then my head, I'm like, this is gonna be like they're not gonna be able to fix it, or like our pilot's gonna time out or something. So like ten ten, he comes on. He's like, great news, they fixed they fixed it. They're riding up the report. So then we finally re taxi at like ten thirty. We take off at like ten forty. We land in Austin at like twelve forty five. We're deliriously tired. We get our rental car. Everyone's in line. I don't know what people were asking, but it took forever to get out of Enterprise. I'm like, because no one here rented a car before. We were so cranky. We were at that point where everyone we're like, everyone's an idiot, get out of here. And then it's not just that we like have to fly in. It's that my parents live an hour from the airport, which isn't terrible on a normal day, like whatever, smaller Texas town, but when you are so tired and you have an hour drive at one fifteen in the morning, we were exhausted.

00:25:56
Speaker 2: And that's where I was questioning the GPS and I was.

00:25:59
Speaker 3: Like, I'm pretty sure we need to go this way, like this used to be my route from the airport. I was right. But anyways, we get there, so we're like, great, we're here. We made it. You're up the next morning at five working remotely. I didn't go to sleep like three fifteen because my body couldn't like shut down.

00:26:16
Speaker 1: I was so worried I wasn't going to wake up that at one point I got I just kept waking up check my phone to see what time it was, and I haven't been drunk in a really long time, but in that moment, I felt like I did when I.

00:26:26
Speaker 2: Was drunk, and was like, what was going on?

00:26:28
Speaker 1: And I looked at the phone and I couldn't really make it out, like my eyes were blurry, like the feeling I have when you're drunk.

00:26:34
Speaker 2: That's how I felt because I was so tired.

00:26:36
Speaker 3: So then the next day we're like, Okay, at least we're here and we're taking my youngest brother to lunch, and my mom texts and she's like, so graduation just got canceled for tonight, and I'm like, excuse me. There were huge storms in Texas and the place they were supposed to have it was outdoors. They lost power the whole like facility. They were like, we'll try to do it tomorrow, and then they were like, we actually don't know if we're going to do it tomorrow. So by Friday, graduations just canceled for the weekends. We're supposed to go home Sunday, and then all of a sudden, they're like it's gonna be Tuesday and you had to go home. You had work, And I was like, I can stay and then I was like, I didn't bring my work laptop because we were supposed to be home. We had a friends staying at our house in Nashville while we were gone. She flew it back to Austin with her. We picked it up from her, and I did indeed stay for the weekend and got to watch middle brother graduate, which was so special, but it was one disaster after the next for the weekend.

00:27:23
Speaker 1: I was just upset because we did all that to get there.

00:27:26
Speaker 3: We jumped through so many hoops to get there in time.

00:27:28
Speaker 2: And I get, you can't control what happens with the weather, but maybe have a backup no backup plan, And I mean Texas did get hit hard that week.

00:27:35
Speaker 3: I got tornadoes and I guess pretty bad.

00:27:38
Speaker 1: So in the grand scheme of things, I get it it caused some devastation to the area, but also you don't have a backup plan, and the fact that we did so much just to be there on time, and then it just felt like it was for nothing. We still got to see family, we still got to do the graduation party.

00:27:51
Speaker 3: In Southwust game with some vouchers, but the.

00:27:53
Speaker 1: Actual event that we both went for only you got to experience.

00:27:57
Speaker 3: I know it was a bummer. Yeah, it was just a and we looked back. We planned we booked this trip in February. Yeah, like we had it. We were like, we're not missing this. This is a huge day. So anyways, that was our disaster of epic proportions. But I did get three extra days at home with my brothers and my puppy.

00:28:14
Speaker 1: We usually wrap up also with TV show and your book recommendation. We haven't really been watching much TV. I did finish X Men ninety seven, which is great. I also started gen V because The Boys is returning this month.

00:28:28
Speaker 3: But then you had a nightmare.

00:28:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not a show you need to one right before you go to sleep because it's really violent.

00:28:34
Speaker 2: And I watched it right before bed.

00:28:35
Speaker 1: I watched two episodes, went to sleep, and then just had these crazy, vivid, violent nightmares.

00:28:41
Speaker 3: Oh I watched Uh was that May? I don't think I've recommended yet The Girls on the Bus.

00:28:45
Speaker 2: I haven't. No, you watched that pretty quick.

00:28:48
Speaker 3: Like one and a half days on HBO Max about like four journalists on a presidential campaign. Was really good. And then book, hmm, whatever this month, I'm going to go oh with one called The Unexpected Spy. It was written by a woman who was in the CIA and the FBI, like right after September eleventh. Very interesting. A lot of it's redacted though, because obviously you can't give away a lot of like CIA stuff, so she'd even now, yeah, she'd leave it in and like just put like just like big black blocks over it. Cool. Yeah, that was really interesting. I felt like I learned a lot about like world affairs that either they don't teach you or you don't remember. And I'm just trying to read like different genres because I have a book now that's like investigative reporting called Sisterhood of the CIA, like about women working in the CIA that I haven't read yet, so I wanted to read a first hand perspective.

00:29:41
Speaker 1: I'm about to get into my Furiosi review. You mentioned you didn't like the movie before I give my rating, just give your rating why you didn't like it.

00:29:50
Speaker 3: I liked the first hour, but after the first hour, I was like, oh my god, we haven't even seen Ania Taylor Joy yet and we were on I wouldnt see it with my family. You had already left. So it was my mom and dad and I and my younger brothers.

00:29:59
Speaker 2: We saw it at the same time, but in different states we did.

00:30:01
Speaker 3: That was fun. We timed that out. My mom and I really, how much longer do we have of this? And then I would be like, Mike just got done, has started fifteen minutes before, so we still have fifteen minutes. My rating two out of five high speed vehicles. I don't know what they.

00:30:19
Speaker 2: Drove, A two basically for the first hour, but.

00:30:21
Speaker 3: I love Anya Taylor Joy, so one point five for the movie itself, in point five for Annie Taylor Joy.

00:30:26
Speaker 2: There you go.

00:30:27
Speaker 1: We'll come back and get my four review on that. Then we'll talk about we wanta.

00:30:30
Speaker 2: To Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie review.

00:30:38
Speaker 1: A Furiosa A Mad Max saga makes me want to say when God and Furiosa. This is a prequel to Mad Max Fury Road, which is a movie that blew my mind when I went to go see it in theaters. I was not expecting the movie going experience that I had after watching that because wasn't the biggest fan of the original Mad Max. I would love to say that I'm a huge Mel Gibson Tina Turner fan, but it was that movie that changed my perspective on the franchise and created this excitement for me to go and watch Furiosa, which is the prequel the origin story of Charlie Starone's character in Fury Road. And I also love Anya Taylor Joy, who I believe is an actor just on that upper trajectory with every movie that she does, and also somebody that has such a large variety of.

00:31:30
Speaker 2: Work so early on in her career.

00:31:32
Speaker 1: I first remember her in The Witch, which is the great horror movie, but she's also done movies like The Menu. She's the voice of Peach in the Super Mario Brothers movie, and she is starring alongside another well established A list star, Chris Hemsworth. We all still primarily know west Or, but I would say he's trying to separate himself a little bit from the MCU as far as showing audiences that he can do different things. He doesn't have to just be that ripped up muscly guy playing an agent, playing a soldier, playing an officer, and I think in this role he shows us that he can do other things. There are two things that I found very two things that I found very distracting about this movie that I'll get into later, but he looks a little bit different. They change his facial features, he has different color hair throughout the movie. So it's also just giving us a different side of him for our eyes, but also in the cadence and the way he spoke, and just having like this different kind of aura about him, which you have to have with doing such a weird movie like Furiosa living in that mad Max world. I think he proved that to be true. Now, what this movie is is Furiosa from a very very young age, I would say maybe eight or nine, ten years old. At the beginning of this movie, she is taken away from this place that she lives in, which is kind of a utopia.

00:33:03
Speaker 2: And in the Madamex world, it is out in the middle.

00:33:06
Speaker 1: Of basically a desert where there are no resources, there's no water, there's no ammo, there are very minimal things on which people have in order to survive. But the place she comes from is this place that has an abundance of things, and she is trying to keep people from discovering this place, but then encounter some bad people. One of those bad people happens to be Chris Hemsworth's character, who Furiosa ends up in the grips of him after she gets captured, taken away on a bike, and Chris hemsworth character wants to know where she comes from, but then her mom comes and rescues her, but ends up paying the ultimate price and sacrificing herself.

00:33:49
Speaker 2: And this may sound like.

00:33:50
Speaker 1: A spoiler, but it literally all happens in the first ten minutes of this movie and really is the overall kickstarter to the entire story of how Fury Are It became to be the warrior that we saw in Mad Max Fury Road, showing the impact of losing her mom and then throughout this entire movie never really having a home because having to go from one place to another place to another place, and how all of those things hardened her.

00:34:17
Speaker 2: But at the core of it fueled her.

00:34:20
Speaker 1: So that is really all I'll speak on as far as what the plot is, But the overall theme of the story is revenge. She wants to get revenge on the people who took her mother away from her, and the person who she wants that revenge from, who is responsible for that is Chris Hemsworth's character, And really that first hour of the movie is all dedicated to this young furiosa that you don't even see Anya Taylor Joy until that hour mark. So to me, this movie kind of felt like two movies split into one, and if I had to pick which one I enjoyed more, it was actually her very early life that I found more entertaining. All kicking off from how the movie started, where it leaps right into the action, and I think what I find annoying sometimes in movies like this that are either in a world that is so far in the past or so far in the future, where you're trying to establish all these characters in all these worlds, I always feel like they over explain everything, where you usually have the scene where it's like two historical ancient figures talking to each other, explaining all these details, saying all these names, talking about all these places, talking about all these wars that us as the viewers, we really just get lost. In the first movie that comes to mind when I think of this was Black Adam, and they go into this entire history of the character where it came from, and really, when you do that, nothing is really setting in with us because you're just feeding us information and telling us and you're not showing us you're not invoking any emotion. What I loved about Furi Yosa it got right into the action. It didn't need to establish these characters. It didn't need to give you all this backstory on why they are here, what this planet is called.

00:36:12
Speaker 2: It gave you that.

00:36:13
Speaker 1: Sense of action at the very beginning, made you feel something, and then just eases you into the story. And what I love about that is it doesn't make me feel dumb as the viewer that I need to be told every little detail way back. No, just show me, make me feel something, show me something entertaining that's gonna make me want to get to the next scene, that's gonna make me want to ride out this entire thing and get to that ending. I don't care about knowing the name of the planet or all these crazy backstories. Just show me the action, which is probably my favorite feature of this movie. I don't want to say it's NonStop action throughout the entire thing, but there's a fair amount. But if I were to compare it to a Dude, which.

00:37:00
Speaker 2: Is a lot more of dialogue.

00:37:04
Speaker 1: And backstory, I would say between these two, Mad Max is just the more fun and the reason I even compare those two is because when you look at the fabric of these movies, not only comparing it to Dune, but even comparing it to Star Wars, which are all kind of in that same category of being movies about people living in environments with scarce supplies. There's deserts and people want these supplies. These people don't want to share these supplies, and a lot of the action, a lot of the betrayal, a lot of the tension comes from that scarcity a supply. So that is why I would kind of compare Star Wars, Dune, and Mad Max. But what makes them all different, I would say, is the tone. Star Wars is more fun and light hearted. It's big adventure. Dune leans more into the sophisticated sci fi and has a much more serious tone. Mad Max has a much more action forward approach to the story. The tone is not really lighthearted, but a little bit more comical.

00:38:11
Speaker 2: Zany, weird and bizarre.

00:38:14
Speaker 1: So it really leans more into that what I would described as the psycho factor, And for me as the viewer, it really felt like a graphic novel coming to life because all of these characters are so distinct, the actions are very deliberate, and what I really love about a Mad Max film is you can tell just by the colors that it's a Mad Max film. George Miller just has this vision going into these movies that's gonna make them so distinct.

00:38:43
Speaker 2: So I loved all the blues and the oranges and the reds.

00:38:48
Speaker 1: But I will say, overall, I think the cinematography and the visuals were a lot better in Fury Road. Fury Road was just so groundbreaking at the time, and I feel like all the best parts of that were left out of Furiosa. And maybe it's just me, but I felt like some shots were a little bit sloppy, and maybe it was a style choice because, like I was saying that, it felt like a graphic novel come to life at times.

00:39:12
Speaker 2: That wasn't a good thing.

00:39:13
Speaker 1: And while we're on just a little bit of negative, I do want to address the two things that were really distracting for me that took me out of the film. Number one was Chris Hemsworth's nose. I know they were trying to make them look different. I just found it so distracting and a little bit off putting that it took me out of taking his character seriously. But what was more distracting to me was Anya Taylor Joy not actually shaving her head, because we all know Trey least their own infurior oat, actually shaved her head. It's such a distinct look, it's such a commitment to your character. To me, proves that I'm going to take every aspect of this person on and I'm going to live in it, and it's going to affect my real life because if I shave my head, there's no going back. I wake up and I am this character. I go on set, I am this character. There is no escaping it. There is no shortcut on your Taylor Joy said that she wanted to shave her head, but then George Miller, the director, said no, you don't shave your head.

00:40:21
Speaker 2: You don't need to do that.

00:40:23
Speaker 1: I think she needed to shave her head because it was so distracting to me with every shot where she came on and it was this wig. I knew it was a wig, And to me, that is saying, you know, I'm an actor, I have other projects I need to do, I have appearances. I can't afford to shave my head. Therefore, I am not committing to this role. That is what not shaving your head in this movie says to me and all A man, I'm probably being a little irrational there, because you do have special effects and you can make it look pretty good.

00:40:54
Speaker 2: But that's the thing. You can only make it pretty.

00:40:57
Speaker 1: Good to have a fake shaved head. It doesn't look completely accurate to me. But for me, as I'm watching all of those scenes with that shaved head, I don't see Furiosa. I see Anya Taylor Joy, a person who has all these other commitments that they can afford to shave their head for, and that takes me out of it. I want commitment from an actor. Maybe that's asking a little bit too much. Maybe that approach isn't for everybody. I'm not asking her to go full method actor, which is such an important thing for her character. Because Furiosa has this rage that is fueled by grief. She is a warrior. She is supposed to be the most be a person in this movie. And that's why I feel like you should totally commit to it if you are the actor portraying that character. So if I had to boil down what this movie is and pretty much overall what the Mad Max Saga franchise is they're desert pirates and they get into these battles on these crazy roads, much like pirates would get into these battles on the high seas. They get into battles while driving different types of vehicles and modes of transportation and buses, and they're all just fighting for these resources. And there are some really great action sequences. Some of these took months to film, so there is a big dedication there. But while watching Furiosa and I didn't have this experience while watching Fury Road, all of these action sequences started to feel very repetitive to me. It felt like the same thing over and over because it kind of is the same formula of people driving and then people coming and trying to overtake whatever vehicle it is. All of the action sequences just started to feel the same. And the movie is a little bit on the long side. I know it's listed as almost two and a half hours, but I timed it and it's right around two seventeen. And I am not opposed to a long movie, but you have to earn that runtime. For me, after two hours, I wouldn't be opposed to sitting in a movie for three hours, three and a half hours. I watched all of Avatar Way of the Water, enjoyed that all the way through. I feel like that one warranted the runtime. The Batman in twenty twenty two, almost three hours of that one warranted that runtime. Furiosa at two seventeen, I don't think it warranted that runtime, but I felt like the first half was just so much stronger.

00:43:26
Speaker 2: I felt more emotion in those moments.

00:43:28
Speaker 1: And by the end of the movie, where I expected to have this level of triumph, this really big payoff, I feel like if it would have ended after that.

00:43:36
Speaker 2: First hour, I would have been more satisfied.

00:43:39
Speaker 1: But overall, for Furiosa, I give it four out of five Fake shaved heads.

00:43:47
Speaker 3: It's time to head down to movie Mike Traylor par.

00:43:52
Speaker 1: Disney has been needing a hit, and I think they may have found it.

00:43:57
Speaker 2: Mwana two looks promising. The trailer is already breaking records.

00:44:04
Speaker 1: And the whole path of this movie is a little bit interesting because originally it was supposed to be a Disney Plus series. That's why I was surprised when it kind of came out of nowhere. The announcement earlier this year that they said, ah, it's not gonna be a series Miwana Too coming out on November twenty seventh, and that had me excited. And Mowana is a movie that I didn't love. The first time I went to go see it in theaters, I didn't fully get it. I left the theater thinking, Nah, that wasn't really good. What is happening to Disney? And the more I thought of it, I found myself thinking, I'll see the line of the Uh, I guess that's that song from Moana. Huh, that's interesting. May bet you go back and rewatch that movie. Rewatched it when it came out, and I was like, oh, those go kind of hard. By about the third time I rewatched it, I was see the line where the sky needs to see it calls me and no one knows how far eack like. I was full into it. I can't stop singing it. And I think it was also that I became more familiar and appreciative of the work of Lynn Manuel Miranda, who went way too hard on this soundtrack, probably went the hardest on a Disney soundtrack since Phil Collins and what he did with Tarzan. No reason whatsoever for that soundtrack. It goes so hard and the only real hesitation. Now I have going into this movie because after watching this trailer, I feel like the animation looks like an improvement. For the first one is the fact is that Lynn Manuel Miranda is not returning to do the music on this movie.

00:45:47
Speaker 2: I have a theory as to why. But in this trailer we see.

00:45:51
Speaker 1: Mowanna and Maui reuniting three years after the adventure from Mowana Part one. You have a whole new cast of unlikely seafares. Before we get into more about what is going on in this movie, why I'm excited and my one hesitation, here's just a little bit of the ma Wana II trailer.

00:46:11
Speaker 5: This is a call from the ancestors to sail to new skies and reconnect our people across the entire Oceano.

00:46:26
Speaker 2: Molly boats, snack.

00:46:30
Speaker 3: Boat snack upgrade bacon and eggs.

00:46:33
Speaker 2: Why didn't you bring the pig last time? So what this movie is about.

00:46:38
Speaker 1: After receiving an unexpected call from her ancestors, Mowanna must journey to this far seas of Oceana, into the dangerous Long Lost Waters for an adventure unlike anything she's ever faced. So this trailer really doesn't offer a whole lot more to the plot, But what it does give us is a lot of really great visuals, which I've fine to be quite exciting. We have Mowana floating in front of a whale, you have this really vivid water animation. To me, it feels a lot more photo realistic. The movements look more fluid. That to me tells me that this movie is going to have more action than the first one, because there seems to be a lot more articulated movements when it comes to this animation, which I feel is something Disney has really needed to step up. And if there's one movie that is going to be the reason to do that is Mowana too. And that's a good sign because if it was intended to be a Disney Plus series and not a movie first, what you could actually do on a Disney Plus series is spend a little bit less on animation because people aren't expecting cinematic quality from a Disney Plus show. But from what I see so far, it actually looking really good. That has me excited. So maybe at some point in the process they either started spending too much money or they realize this actually looks a lot better than we thought it was going to be let's just make this a movie. I think to me, that also says that Disney really believes in this. They're gonna spend the money not only on making this movie, but also promoting it and telling audiences this needs to be out on the big screen because I feel like some Disney and Pixar movies kind of got the raw end of the deal of having the Disney Plus only exclusive treatment, movies like Luca and Turning Red. I didn't want to see Mlwana have that same treatment for the sake of getting some more Disney Plus subscribers. So Dwayne the Rock Johnson as back as Maui Ali Lee Cravalo is back as Mwana. But the person who is not returning, who I feel was so crucial to Muwana is Lynn Manuel Miranda. And there's really not a reason why he is not.

00:48:47
Speaker 2: A part of it.

00:48:48
Speaker 1: It could be that he's working on another Disney project and is already tied up in that. It could also be, like I was saying that since it was going to be a Disney Plus show, maybe they just wanted to assign these other new composer to it. They couldn't afford him, or he couldn't really carve out the time to work on it in that capacity, and since it shifted to being a movie, he just ended up not being a part of it. Hopefully he is working on a new Disney movie or something else that is also going to be just as good. But I feel a lot of what made Mowana Part one so great were the really memorable songs, and the three I would pick as being the most standout songs from that movie were all written by Lynn Manuel Miranda. Of course, the when I was singing earlier, how Far I'll Go, hands down, is the song from Mijana. You also have your Welcome, which is right up there at number two, and that number three is shiny and all written by Lin Manuel Miranda. So I feel like the success of those movies were due to the fact that they had such great songs that were memorable that kids really grasped onto and overall just creates these really fun and sing along moments, which is probably why I didn't enjoy it the first time I went to go see it in theaters. Because when it comes to my animated movies, and I know Disney since its inception, has been essentially creating musicals, you have characters who just burst out into song, And as a kid, I enjoyed it Ryan King Goes Hard, But as an adult I lean more towards the Pixar movies because those don't burst out into song for no reason. Those characters don't really just sing. They have songs in them, but the thing moving those movies along are not fueled by songs. Mowana is So maybe that is why I didn't enjoy it the first time I saw it in theaters, but that second time, that third time, the songs really grew on me. But also I became a bigger linn Manuel Miranda fan as I got to see his other body of work after watching Hamilton, not going to actually see it in person, but whenever it came out on Disney Plus in twenty twenty, it allowed me to really.

00:50:58
Speaker 2: Understand his greatness.

00:51:00
Speaker 1: So I think, now, after appreciating him more, appreciating the original more, it's a little bit of a bummer that he's not going to be a part of the second one.

00:51:08
Speaker 2: And will the songs be.

00:51:11
Speaker 1: As memorable, Will that style still invoke those same emotions that Part one did? Is it going to try and become a little bit more of its own or are they hiring on these new composers to say, hey, kind of do what he did in the first one, because that is already the fabric of these movies, what people are going to expect from a Majuana movie.

00:51:33
Speaker 2: So now you are.

00:51:34
Speaker 1: Going to have to do an impression of what Linn Manuel Miranda.

00:51:39
Speaker 2: Did, Or will they say, hey, do what you want.

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Speaker 1: To do and create these songs and let your vision come to life through these characters and through these new songs, Because unlike any other movie, the songs are going to be so crucial to the success of Mowana because the story was great, the core of it had some really great fun visuals, and overall the comedic aspects, all those things you come to expect from a Disney movie.

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Speaker 2: We're all there in Molwana.

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Speaker 1: So I don't doubt that they could recreate that with another fun adventure. But to really bring it home, you're gonna need that one big song followed by another big, fun, memorable song like You're Welcome, and then have just these other songs to carry the movie. So we'll have to see how that plays out, and also have to live up to the fact that the first one did so well at the box office, making six hundred and eighty seven million dollars. I think Disney right now is on the search for their next billion dollar movie. If Inside Out isn't the one to do it this month, then they're gonna wait for Milwana to to be that movie for them in November. I will be there and be the only adult singing along on November twenty seventh.

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Speaker 4: At that was this week's edition of Movie by Tramer.

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Speaker 1: Par and that is gonna do it for another episode here of the podcast. Before I go, I gotta give my listeners shout out of the week. We had a bonus episode up last week with the director and star of the first omen And every time I have an interview on the podcast, I always give a secret emoji. I give it at the very end of those episodes for you to go and comment with on my Instagram or my TikTok. I'm on everything at Mike Dstro. If you ever want to see a clip from the show, if you want to go watch on YouTube, it's YouTube dot com slash Mike Dstro. If you ever forget any of that, it's always in the episode notes. So this time around, not only did I get somebody who left the secret emoji on one of my posts. I decided to pick the very first person to hit me with the secret emoji, which was the screaming face, and this week's listener shout out is Kimberlee. Suzanne was the first one to comment, basically right after I posted hit on Instagram, commented with a screen face emojis. Thank you Kimberly for listening to that entire episode and also going and commenting with that. You are this week's listener shout out all the week. If you missed that interview, just go back one in the feed. There was also a normal episode on Monday, so if you missed any of those, be sure to check those out. And until next time, go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you later.