Mike's Oscar Predictions for 2022 + Oscars Snubs and Surprises! + Best Picture Movie Review: Power of the Dog (Netflix) + Trailer Park: The Adam Project with Ryan Reynolds (Netflix)

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mix Movie Podcast, your go to source for all things movies. I am your host Movie Mike a k A. Mike d a k A, Mike Destro a k A. Your favorite film enthusiast at least I hope, And today I want to break down the OSCAR nominations and give you my predictions. My favorite time of the year. We'll talk about snubs and surprises. I'll give you a review of a movie nominated for Best Picture that you can watch on Netflix right now in the trailer park. We'll talk about a new movie coming onto Netflix starring Ryan Reynolds. So much to talk about this week, so let's talk movies. In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast, one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like never before in a movie podcast. A man with so much movie knowledge. He's basically like a walking au MTV with glasses from the Nicsville Podcast Network Movie mis Movie Podcast. So every year I love watching every single movie nominated for Best Picture, and I get not everybody has the time to do that, But I do a movie podcast. I want to know what the landscape of movies is. Every single year, and I think that's why I have come to love the Oscars so much. I know a lot of people hate them, and I want to talk about that first before I get into my predictions. I think the biggest criticism that comes with Oscar nominations is why do they always pick movies that nobody has seen. They don't pick things that kill it at the box office. They pick movies that A lot of times when the Oscar nominations come out, you're like, I haven't seen aus thing one of those movies. And I want to explain why I think that is and why I think it's important. If they were just picking every big movie that came out in the last year, it would almost be a marble fest. It would be a lot of action movies. And I think in doing that why I would love for, you know, movies that I go see with a bunch of people be nominated. I think what the Oscars are meant to do or represent something novel, and it also promotes people making new types of movies every single year, new stories or finding ways to depict characters that haven't been done before. Otherwise I think you would see films starting to go on to decline and people making the same movies every single type of year knowing that they would get nominated and win Oscar. So I think it is trying to hold film to a bit of a standard to where it's still an art form. People are still making movies that are something we haven't seen before, or really trying to break the mold on what a movie could be. And I think when it comes to what ends up winning for Best Picture, that's usually a pretty good representation of film. And personally, I'm a person who will come on here new a Jackass review one week and the next week I'm talking about the Power of the Dog, which I'll talking about in the movie review this week. I also think it's important to have that range. What I really think should happen is they should nominate at least one popular movie, like the most popular movie, the movie that made the most of the box office the prior year. That should be an automatic number one seed in the screws for the Best Picture. I think that's what they need to do. Have that number one seed goes to the highest grossing movie of the year before that way, for the people who only saw that movie, you at least have one to root for. Because that's the harder thing about the Oscars is why would you watch a show that you haven't seen a whole lot of movies or heard about. I think you need one pick for the people to get people more interested in watching the Oscars and really hold any kind of regard to it. But if you're like me and love the Oscars, love talking about these movies, I love to go and watch all the movies once the nominations come out, You're in the right place today because I'm gonna give you my insight based on seeing all these movies. And I do episode like this every single year. I'm pretty good at picking the Best Picture. I'll be honest. I can just kind of feel it. I totally nailed No man Land the year before, and I'm feeling good going into two. So let's get into talking about the Oscars, starting first with Best Picture you have nominated this year Belfast, Coda, Don't Look Up, Drive My Car, Dune King, Richard, Liquorice, Pizza, Nightmare Alley, The Power of the Dog, and West Side Story. This is a pretty stacked category, especially now that they're allowing more movies to be nominated for Best Picture. A couple of surprises In this category, I would have to say Don't Look Up. Of all the movies I thought last year would get nominated, I really didn't see Don't Look Up being worthy of Best Picture. And I think it's a little bit on the concept, a little bit on all the actors involved, and then you also have to think about who is voting on the Oscars, a lot of industry people, and I feel like a movie like Don't Look Up plays directly into that audience, and since it was a Netflix released, just looking at the list here, I think that's probably the one that the and from looking at this list, I think that's the movie that the most people have seen because it was on Netflix. Probably next would be Dune, which was also a high grossing movie last year. Didn't love that one. I knew it was going to be nominated just for the large scale of that sci fi movie. And then maybe third would be King Richard of the movie most people have seen on an average basis. Now I'll get into my full review of this later in the episode, so I don't want to fully give my review here, but I think the winner here is the Power of the Dog. And the reason why is because I feel It's the most novel out of every movie nominated here, and has excellent casting with been in a cumber Batch being the lead. It tells the story of a slice of life that I otherwise would have never investigated or been intrigued by in any way, and it's already racked up just so many awards, has so much critical acclaim going into it. I feel like I can easily see Power of the Dog dominating at the Oscars this year, with the Best Picture being one award that it's for sure going to win. So my vote for what will win Best Picture is the Power of the Dog. But I do think that King Richard is a close second, and I think if you had to watch one, only one movie nominated for Best Picture, I would recommend King Richard over the Power of the Dog. I liked the Power of the Dog, but I don't think the average person watched that movie and love it. It's a very slow burn and you have to pay attention so much while watching that movie. I really wouldn't recommend it again. I'll explain that fully in my review later. But if you just had to watch one Best Picture movie, I would still say King Richard. But I don't think it'll win here. Next category is Best Director. We have Kenneth Brainer who directed Belfast, Uski Yamaguchi, who directed Drive My Car, Paul Thomas Anderson who directed Licorice Pizza, Jane Campion who directed the Power of the Dog, and Steven Spielberg who directed West Side Story. It's really hard to not bet on Steven Spielberg to win an oscar. He is a legendary director, obviously, but I think at this point in his career the guy has enough oscars. I think he's good, and I think it's an easy thing to say that Steve even Spielberg will win this, But West Side Story not as strong as film. I think overall the response the West Side Story was a little bit underwhelming, not only at the box office, but I felt like it didn't even get that much critical acclaim. I think when it comes to musicals, more people were talking about Tick Tick Boom than they were talking about West Side Story. So I don't think it goes to Spielberg here. I don't think it goes to Paul Thomas Anderson here either, And I'm still going with my prediction of the Power of the Dog. Just cleaning house at the Oscars this year, So I'm going with Jane Campion and the reason why because I feel like so much of the reason that The Power of the Dog was a successful movie was the directing. In that movie, everything was very subtle and it's just a really hard story to tell. And if it wasn't for the intricacy of Jane Campion in this movie and the attention to detail and the storytelling, like that story really wouldn't have had any kind of resonation with the viewers that I felt, and I believe that it's entirely attributed to her directing this movie. So I'm going with Best Director Jane Campion. Moving on to Best Lead Actor, Harbier Bardem and being the Ricardo's Benedict Cumberbatch in the Power of the Dog, Andrew Garfield and Tick Tick Boom, Will Smith and King Richard, and then Denzel Washington in The Tragedy of Macbeth. A very tough category. You have some very heavy names in this with Will Smith and Denzel Washington alone, it's hard to bet against any of them. But when breaking down what best lead actor and also what best lead actresses, it has to be such a stellar either depiction of historical figure in history, or somebody with such a gripping, powerful, inspiring performance that really carries the entire movie. And most times I feel like a best lead actor or best lead actress almost transcend the movie they're in. You're gonna remember these characters, You're gonna remember these roles, and they will be the ones that people ask them about most an interviewers, just the ones that you associate most with these actors. So so considering that, it's tough, and then you also have to remember again who is voting on this. You have people in the industry, people who really pick apart acting and pick apart little subtleties that maybe we don't always realize or can pinpoint while we watch these movies. And I think it comes down to two people. I think it comes down to Bennett Cumberbatche and Will Smith. And this is a tough one because I feel in both of these movies they really command the screen in the same way they own their roles, really make both of those movies. And what Will Smith did and King Richard was an accurate description of a real life person bringing to your life a character and bringing to life a story that we weren't really familiar with. And if you go back and look at what Richard Williams was really they like in real life, you see how good of a job will Smith really did in this movie. And then with Bennett Cumberbatge. I've never seen him make a bad movie, never seen him in a bad acting role, And it was so weird to watch this movie and at any point not associate him or think that I was watching Doctor Strange on the screen. And that's a really tough thing to do, to be able to do Doctor Strange, be in a Marvel movie and then come out and do a movie like that, to where it's all in your raw acting, you have no special effects, no c G. I like, that's as a straight up acting as you can get. And you know, Will Smith has never won an Oscar and that's what has me betting on him right now. And I almost feel if there was a movie for him to do it like this was it. He put his all in this role. To be honest, I was almost I had a different actor while starting this when I went through all my notes, and I think I've convinced myself that I think it's gonna be will Smith here. I can almost just see that moment of him winning his first Oscar, kind of in the same way Leonardo DiCaprio did it just you know, five six years ago, winning for The Revenant for the first time. I think I see it here with Will Smith. I think it was such a good movie and it was greatly due to him in that role. I mean, they paid him the most money. The movie was about their dad more than it was the Williams sisters. So I think, out of all these movies, how important the lead actor is, it's Will Smith and King Richards. So before this I had admitted a comberback because I thought that was a harder role to do. But when you look at what had the most impactful performance and what would be most memorable and what I think people in the industry will really kind of focus in on, I think they have to give it to Will Smith here. So for best lead Actor, I am going with Will Smith and King Richard. And for best lead actors you have Jessica chas Stain in the Eyes of Tammy, Olivia Coleman and The Lost Daughter Penelope Cruz and Parallel Mothers Nicole Kidman and Being the Ricardos and Kristen Stewart and Spencer. Another tough category. I loved Parallel Mothers. I'll wait probably later to do a review of that movie. Penelope Cruz is really good in that, but I don't think it was an Oscar worthy performance. Olivia Coleman and The Lost Daughter. Olivia Coleman is like an underrated actress. She's almost like a hidden gym when it comes to watching really good movies. She's an actress who does constantly really good movies. One of my favorites being her and the favorite. The Lost Daughter is also just a very interesting movie and I thought she was really good in it, but again, I don't think that as an Oscar worthy performance here. But had to come down to two, I'm leaning towards Nicole Kidman and being the Ricardos and Kristin Stewart and Spencer. Now, Kristin Stewart did a really good depiction of Princess Diana in this movie, and I didn't love Spencer as much as I thought I would. It's a very unique feeling movie, and I know they had to like focus in on a very specific part of Princess Diana's life, but I felt like the plot of that movie was a little bit confusing at times. It felt a little bit spacey, and the whole movie just felt like almost like a weird dream. It didn't really have a consistent flow of what I was going into expecting out of that movie. But that said, Kristin Stewart gave a really powerful performance in that movie, not only looking like Princess Diana but also with the fashion, and she also showed a side of herself that I feel like more people are seeing now that I've been talking about for a while, that she has a really great actress When giving a powerful role like this, and a very important role at that, I think she really comes through in transcends anything she ever did in Twilight, which also, like Robert Pattinson, I feel like people just kind of Typecaster as or just really only know where is that she has so much more in that and I think the Oscar nomination in itself is huge for her. Who I think should win is Nicole Kidman, though, like I thought, she was so good as Lucile Ball to the point that I also forgot that I was watching Nicole Kidman, and I know there's not a whole lot of recorded footage that I've seen of just Lucy being Lucile Ball and not Lucy on the TV show. But I thought she did such a great job of going between the two of being the real life person but then also having the comedic side when they're showing the scenes from filming the TV show, like those felt like really great recreation. So she was doing a lot in that movie. I just don't know if Being the Ricardo's will have the same kind of weight at the Oscars that I feel like it should have. So if I had to put my money on one, I think because she is depicting a historical figure, because the movie is a little bit more artsy overall, and I feel like those movies tend to win. Those performances tend to win, So I think the winner here is going to be Kristen Stewart and Spencer, But me personally, I think Nicole Kidman should win, and I hope I'm wrong. All Right, We'll move through a couple of the other big categories. Best Supporting Actor. You have Kyron Hines and Bill Fast, Troy Kotzer and Coda, Jesse Plemons and the Power of the Dog J K. Simmons and Being the Ricardo's and Cody Smith McPhee in Power of the Dog, so you have Power of the Dog here, splitting the category between the two supporting actors, and I feel like those will cancel each other out of the two though, I think Cody Smith McPhee gave the better performance in that movie, so I would give him an edge over Jesse Plemon's. Jesse Plemons must have the best agent in Hollywood because he is in every single big movie. Somehow, I think this one is pretty easy. I think it is Troy Cottzer and CODA, which I was kind of surprised got even nominated because out of all the movies nominated for picture, I think that is the movie I liked the most effortlessly, like I wasn't watching that movie thinking I was watching an Oscar Worthy movie. It was just a good movie and it's very rare that a movie like that gets nominated. I reviewed that movie when it came out because I honestly didn't think it would get nominated. And if you don't remember, CODA stands for Children of Deaf Adults, which the movie is about that. It's about this family. The parents are deaf, the brother is deaf, and the daughter is the only one who is not deaf. She loves music, so she's trying to pursue music while her family is really struggling with their fishing business. And it's about her struggles of deciding what to do after high school. And I loved her parents in this movie. I really thought they brought the comedic edge to that movie. They also brought the emotional factor of you know, parents who really rely on their kids in the situation, and I thought they were fantastic in it. I thought the subject matter was an important movie to watch. So if you haven't seen Koda, it is on Apple TV plus. A really great movie, and I think it's so cool that Troy made history becoming the first deaf male actor to be nominated for Best Supporting Actor. So for that reason, I think he needs to win. So my vote for Best Supporting Actor, who I think is gonna win is Troy Cotzer. On the other side, for Best Supporting Actress, you have Jesse Buckley and The Lost Daughter, Ariana Dabos in The West Side Story, Judy Dench in Belfast, Kirsten Dunst in the Power of the Dog, and adnu Ellis and King Richard. Another tough category here, Judy Dench. I think it's another hard one to bet your money against. I feel like Jesse Buckley had an underrated role in The Lost Daughter. A lot of the storytelling in that movie was due to her performance and portraying the younger version of Olivia Coleman. I thought she did a fantastic job in that. I almost thought like following her story in that movie was almost more entertaining than following Olivia Coleman's story at moments. I do think it was really cool to see Kirsten dunn'st be nominated for her very first Oscar and the emotional journey that her character took in that movie. I feel like should really be recognized here. But I think with the stronger role overall in this category, I'm going with agnu Ellis and King Richard. She portrayed the mom of Venus and Serena Williams in a performance I thought was right up there with will Smith. Without her in this movie, and how important her chemistry with will Smith was to the telling and the portrayal of the story in this movie, I don't think it would have been the same movie. So I think you get Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress coming from King Richard. All Right, we'll go a little bit quicker here through the last big categories. I want to talk about Best Original Screenplay I think goes to Don't Look Up from Adam McKay. Honorable mention with Licorice Pizza, with it being such an interesting story. Still don't know how Paul Thomas Anderson got away with making that movie, to be honest. Best cinematography I think goes to Dune. While I wasn't the biggest fan of that movie, just the scope of the world that was created by Dune and how much work that really meant for that movie to be seen on the big screen, I think it's easily has to go to Dune. I could almost make a case for the Power of the Dog because that cinematography in the movie really puts you in that situation. It really feels like you're in it with those characters. But I still think that Dune will pick up the Best cinematography Oscar here. Best animated film easily goes to in Gonto. I love the Mitchell and the Machines probably more than in Gondol, but with all the hype around it right now, I think it's an easy win. Best costume design, Carrilla should win and will win. So much work went into the design of those costumes. I think that deserves to be recognized. Best Inner National Feature Film, I think easily goes to Drive My Car from Japan, and Best of Visual Effects. I think again it's going to be Dune. But Spider Man No Way Home is nominated and it should win. But realistically speaking, I don't think Spider Man No Way Home did anything completely different in that that should be recognized. Dune really looks like it's entirely owned world, so I will give it to him there, but I'm not happy about it. And then finally Best Original Song from King Richard You Have be Alive by Beyonce Good God, from Incanto you Have written by Lynn Manuel berandas from Belfast as you Have Down to Joy by Van Morrison, from No Time to Die you Have Well No Time to Die by Billie Eilish, and then from Four Good Days You Have Somehow You Do Perform by Reba McIntyre. So I think the song that wins here is No Time to Die from Billie Eilish. I was really surprised in in Ganto's decision not to put we Don't Talk About Bruno up for this category. They thought it didn't represent the movie enough and they wanted to go with this song instead. I think if they would have submitted we Don't talk About Bruno, they easily would have won this category. So with that said, out of all these songs, I think you have to give it to Billie Eilish No Time to Die. But those are my predictions. I'm going to do a review of the Best Picture nominee, Power of the Dog, which is on Netflix, and I'll also give some snubs and surprises after this time. Now for a spoiler free review of an OSCAR nominated movie for Best Picture this year, I want to talk about the Power of the Dog, which is available on Netflix, darring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst. It's a movie about Benedict Cumberbatch's character, who is a rancher who is basically tormenting and mocking the son of Kirsten Duncet after she has married his brother and now they are living under the same roof. A very gripping and emotional tale based on a book from nineteen seventies. Six. Before I get into my review, here's just a little bit of the power of the dog by patients the odds against him. From what kind of man would I be if I did not help my mother, I did not save her sort of lonesome place out here peint place and getting a swing effect. So the movie takes place in nineteen Montana. The two characters are Phil and George Burbank and they are these rich ranchers. They have very rich parents and he owned this ranch, have a bunch of people working for them. And in the movie, Jesse Plemens plays one of the brothers who meets Kirkston Dunce's character. They fall in love, they get married, and then Kirsten Dunns and her son come to live at the family home where he lives with his brother who has been at at Cumberbatch who basically doesn't like Kirston Dunce's son, ridicules him, torments him, is just a complete jerk. He has this very like egotistical old school rancher mentality. He is horrible to him, He is horrible to her. He makes fun of him for basically being a wimpy kid and not what you should be in Montana like he should. He wants everybody to be a ranger like him and as hardcore as him. So here's what I'll say about this movie. I think I was in the right place, in the right mind frame at the right time when I watched this movie, because it is a very slow burn. And I'll admit, this movie almost feels like homework when you watch it. It kind of feels like back in the day, like in social studies class or history class, when the teacher would bring in a movie and tell everybody they needed to watch and pay attention and take notes, and there would be a quiz afterward about this movie, maybe because you read the book to go along with it, but it felt like that type of movie. And in the first ten minutes of it, I didn't think I was going to get through it. It was a little bit boring, so slow, they talked weird, and I don't really like movie set in the early nine dreds. There was nothing about this movie, with it being a Western, that screamed I should watch this movie. But I watched every single also your nominated movies. So I was like, all right, I'll get it check off the list. If I hate it, I hate it, that's fine. I let those first ten minutes go by, and in the next twenty minutes I found myself completely dialed in and everything about this movie is so subtle, and you have to pay attention to everything because sometimes things happen and you don't realize that was a major plot point in the movie. So that's why I say I don't really recommend this movie, even though after it was done, I loved it and I got up and I was like, man, that was a really good movie. I did have to go back and rewatch some parts because I felt like I missed some things, and at the very end of it, I was kind of left with like a what did I just watch type of thing, like I didn't really get that last scene. I went back and actually watched the last twenty minutes again and it it was like, oh, I get it now. Even had to take it a step further and go and see some of the director's interviews where they kind of clarify some things. So you have to work for this movie. But it's a really good movie because I love movies like this, And while I think it will win for Best Picture because it takes a story that otherwise you would have no idea about and have no idea that you would be interested in this, and it's just so much of a psychological drama, which I really wasn't familiar with before going into this, that I found myself really enjoying it. I thought the cast was fantastic. I was talking earlier about the cinematography in this movie because it really makes you feel like you're in the nineteen twenties ranch The wide shots are so elaborate and beautiful, and it's colored so perfectly to where visually just very appealing to me. It's very comforting to me when it comes to seeing like nature like this. I don't know, I just want shoudn't really enjoyed that aspect of it. But I think at the end of the day, it's Benedict Cumber batches for woman's in this his character you really hate him, but he's done such a good job at playing somebody that you want to hate in a movie that made it so entertaining. And Kirsten Dunts as well. To see her take a role that requires some really great acting, and also hearing her say Peter's name in this movie, which is the name of her son, to give me flashbacks to watching Spider Man. So I love that aspect of it too, But I think it's a really beautiful film. It's a very novel film, and that of all the Best Picture nominees, it's the one that I wasn't expecting to like so much. The last time I felt this way was when I watched Parasite, which also ended up winning for Best Picture. Didn't expect to like a movie with subtitles, ended up loving it. In this case, I didn't expect to watch a western like this and end up loving it, but I did. For that reason, I think it will win Best Picture. But I can't entirely recommend this movie because I think you'll either go into it and think, what in the world did Mike like about this movie? How did he find this entertaining? This movie is so boring, It's like watching paint dry. I really think those are two scopes of this movie. You're either going to love it everything about it and think it was great, or you're going to think it was a terrible waste of your time. Given that, based your decision on whether or not to watch this movie, I would say even just give it ten fifteen minutes. If you don't like it, you're probably not gonna want to watch the rest of the movie, but personally, I would give it four out of five horses. I can see while it's so critically acclaimed and why it's leading in nominations this year with twelve nominations and being the most nominated movie. I can see why. So that's the power of the dog. I didn't want to talk about some Oscar snubs. I saw a lot of people sticking up for Lady Gaga for a really house of Gucci in general, even Jared at Oh, but I almost felt like how se Gucci was a little bit of Oscar bait, not saying that some of the movies that ended up getting nominated weren't Oscar bait, but I wasn't too surprised that it wasn't nominated. Another snub. I kind of thought Leonardo DiCaprio would get a nomination for Don't Look Up, like his performance aside from that movie getting nominated for Best Picture is what I thought would have went down because it was a different side of Leonardo DiCaprio. But maybe people didn't really get his like satirical approach to that character, so in that aspect, maybe it wasn't worth an Oscar nomination. Another thing I thought was snubbed was seeing two for animated movies. You also have Jennifer Hudson, who played Aretha Franklin in the biopic Respect didn't get a nomination. I was honestly surprised to see how many nominations that being the Ricardo's did get, and thought it was a little bit of snub that Aaron Slorkin didn't get one for Best Original Screenplay. But I think what the major snub was for the Oscars this year, there were some hype building around it. Tom Holland was saying he would love to be nominated for an oscar spider Man No Way Home. Like I truly believe if you're going to nominate a movie like Don't Look Up, why not nominate Spider Man No Way Home. I feel like, even if you don't nominate Tom Holland for Best Actor or Willem Dafoe for Best Supporting Actor, what that movie did for film and how important that movie will be historically. I think it will eclipse every other movie on this list. People will be talking about Spider Man No Way Home for far longer than any other movie I mentioned here, and I'm being honest here and That's not just me saying that because I'm such a big Spider Man fan, because that was my favorite movie last year. I think when you think about what you nominate for Oscars, you have to think how important movies are to film in general. And I'm kind of tired of saying superhero movies not being taken seriously in that respect of how really much these movies affect our lives and how much they are a part of us. That's why I was so excited when Black Panther was nominated. I feel like it should have won. But if Black Panther can be nominated, why not Spider Man? No Way Home. But I'll get off my rant here. The Oscars are coming up on March at seven pm Central on ABC. I will be watching and live tweeting as we watch those together, and then I'll have my normal episode the Monday following the Oscars and then also do a special bonus episode breaking down all the winners. See if I was right or not. You should definitely make a list to and I'll definitely put some polls up of who you think will win for Best Picture. Make sure you're following me on Twitter and Instagram at Mike Destro or like my Facebook page, Facebook dot com slash Mike Destro. If you forget any of those, they are always in the episode notes of every single episode. Time now for the part of the podcast where I break down a movie trailer of a film coming to you very soon in theaters or streaming online in a segment we call it's time to head down to movie Mike Paul. Today, I want to talk about a new Netflix movie coming to you very soon called The Adam Project. It stars Ryan Reynolds. It is about his character who is a time traveling pilot and he teams up with his younger self and his late father to come to terms with his past while saving the future. Pretty good premise. I was will see Ryan Reynolds here being a little bit different than his normal character. Before we get into why I'm excited about this movie, here's just a little bit of the trailer. Take it easy or you know, fall down on the screen. He knew how to get in my dad's girl. You know how close the frage. We have the same scar in here, and you're wearing gas watch best watch me. That's classified. But yes, that once was Where are you going? So what you hear? In that trailer is Ryan Reynolds meeting his younger self for the first time. And I have to say, I think this is the movie I would want to be a kid in experience. This is the kind of movie like I wanted to go to the movie theaters as a kid to watch. And you have a great cast here with Mark Ruffalo Jennifer Gardner teaming up again. It kind of feels like a thirteen going on thirty reunion. But what I'm most excited about is Ryan Reynolds being a different character here, not being who he wasn't Free Guy, Deadpool, every other Ryan Reynolds movie as of late. I feel like he has a little bit more but action edged to him. You know, he had that a little bit in Red Notice, but it was very much Ryan Reynolds kind of being this action star. I feel like this is the evolution he needs to go on. He needs to take rules to where yes, it is a little bit more lighthearted. Maybe he has a little bit of freedom to be a little bit of his comedic self. But I think where he would have a really great place to operate is in this movie, a sci fi kind of action movie, maybe taking things not so much seriously, but just not being his normal wacky, zany comedic self. I think he has some range there that he's been comfortable in movies that he's taken on, and he's gonna take a little bit of a break of acting. But I'm excited to see him in a movie like this. This movie is coming out on March eleventh on Netflix. I didn't mention his movie Free Guy, and Disney did announce that that's coming to Disney Plus very soon on February, And I just kind of wonder, when it comes to movies like this, if these are the movies that kids are watching right now and are going to be the ones that will stay with them for the rest of their life. Like a lot of movies that came out in the nineties are those for me early two thousands or movies that I just keep watching now as an adult because they remind me of when I was a kid. I wonder if now it's movies like Free Guy and Gonthal Soul, Sonic The Hedgehog, or maybe a movie now like The Adam Project that is really shaping what young kids are going to remember and feel nostalgic about, maybe twenty years from now, that's just where my brain goes for a big movie like this. Also in the trailer park, I wanted to talk about light Year, which now released the very first full trailer. I talked about it before when they released the little teaser of light Year, which is the origin story of the action figure Buzz Lightyear, and it's about the real life person that inspired the toy. So that's why it's not voiced by Tim Allen. It's voiced by Chris Evans. It's the movie that Andy from Toy Story would have watched to made him want to buy the toy. And this trailer kind of has me feeling a whole different way going into it. And here's just a little bit of that. Hello, bus, I am Socks, your personal companion robot. We're getting pursue it by just a massive robots. That was utterly terrifying and I regret having joined you my year on the cha So this movie is coming out on June sevente in theaters, and after watching this trailer, like, you really have to go watch this trailer. I feel when they said it was going to be a love letter to science fiction, very much draw from Star Wars movies, I didn't really get that until I saw this trailer. It almost doesn't feel like a Pixar movie at all. And the only way I can really tell it to Pixar movie is by the character design. It looks like, you know what you go to expect, and it Pixar movie, but with everything else, it feels like a Star Wars because the way I know it's a Pixar movie is the character designed themselves. They look very Pixar, but all the other elements look like a straight up Star Wars sci fi movie. From the spaceships, Emperor zurg in the movie and the action style, even the music in this, it feels more like a sci fi movie, and I totally get it now how they're really trying to differentiate itself and not really have any kind of connection to Toy Story. Take away that entire playful, colorful, bright feel that you get going into watching a Toy Story movie and really just focus on the action here and making it feel so unique. It almost just doesn't even have a vibe of a Disney movie at all. But again, that comes out on June seventeen, and I can't wait to watch it. This makes edition of movie Bars are that's gonna do it for another week, but before I hop out of here. Every single week I give a shout out to one of you who sends me a tweet, d m s me on Instagram, tags me in your Instagram story, or sends me an email. Movie Mike D at gmail dot com is that address actually hopping over into the email today? And this email is from Share, who actually inspired why I decided to include the Power of the Dog review in this movie because she sent me in her thoughts on the movie said she didn't really like it and only gave it a one point five out of five ranches, and that was very much based on the last thirty minutes of the movie. And Share also asked me about some key plot points in the movie, which I thought was interesting. And if you have any thoughts or ideas on movies or questions that you had while watching something, you can always email me. Because I won't give a spoiler review in my normal episode. Sometimes I'll do some bonus episodes when I get into spoilers, but I want everybody to be able to listen to these episodes and then go decide whether or not you want to see these movies or if you've already seen them see what I thought about that same movie, but I don't want to ruin anything for anybody, And with share I got into some of the plot points and what I thought some of the things meant in the movie, and we got into talking about the ending. So what I don't think the Power of the Dog warrants a spoiler review version, but I was happy to do that on email, So if that's ever an option you want to take, you can always send me an email. Thanks everybody for listening to the episode this week. It was a longer one had a lot of things to get through, so if you made it to the end of the podcast, I greatly appreciate it. Special shout out to the Monday Movie crew. That's everybody who listens on release day when these episodes drop on Monday. I hope you have a great rest of your week, and until next time, go out and watch good movies. Later