Mike and Kelsey’s Oscar Nominations Picks, Snubs and OUTRAGE!!!  + Movie Review: The Banshees of Inisherin (HBO Max) + Trailer Park: Scream 6

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I am your host Movie Mike, joined this week by my wife and co host Kelsey. How are you. I'm great. Ready to get into the Oscar nominations. We'll do that. I'll give you my review of a Best Picture nominee, The Banshees of Inna Sharin and in the Trailer Park, I'll talk about why my expectations have changed for screen six after screen five kind of let me down. So shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now 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 Nashville Podcast Network. Is Movie Mike. Movie Podcast nominations came out last week. It is the ninety five oscars. I gotta say, looking at this list, I'm a little underwhelmed. I would agree. And how would you describe Oscar season? For me? The super Bowl of movie I love it. I love watching all of the Best Picture nominees. It is the only award show I will watch all three hours of I try to defend it. I don't know why I do. There's no real reason for me to be behind the Oscars, but I just feel like there's a little bit of historical value and it kind of provides a snapshot into all the important things happening in movies for that year. And sometimes it becomes a relic of pop culture. We have the infamous Ellen degenerous selfie with all the celebrities, we had the slap last year. There's always something at the Oscars, always something. The Moonlight La La Land I was watching last week. I know, we watched that on TikTok last week and it still makes me cringe to this day. So there's just always something magical to me about the Oscars, aside from the movies that get nominated. And even now in today's world where we have more access to all these actors, it used to be that you would watch the Oscars because this would be the only time you would see these actors outside of their movies. I mean, we see them on social media all the time now, but I still think there's something special to having them all together in one room. Even watching the Golden Globes it was kind of cool to see them all interact. So I like the fashion. Oh you like that part of it. I love the fashion. I'm getting more into the guy fashion. I follow a lot of g Q accounts, so I get into a little bit of the red carpet because I like to see, like people like Seth Rogan make those lists, loves the g Q fall. I'll be driving and all look over and I'm like, what are you looking at g Q Instagram? Yeah, all right, but let's get into the list. Let's start it off with Best Picture. Who was nominated for Best Picture? And we'll go through all the major categories. I'll tell you who I think is going to win, and on some of these, i'll tell you who I think should win, because sometimes it's different for me. So let's start with Best Picture. Best Picture. We have all Quiet on the Western Front, Avatar, the Way of Water, the Band, Shees of inn A Sharin Elvis, everything everywhere, all at once, The Fableman's Tar, Top Gun, Maverick, Triangle of Sadness and women Talking. The thing that sticks out to me about this category is there are a couple of sequels in their Top Gun Maverick, Avatar, the Way of Water. Only two sequels ever have gone on to win Best Picture, that is Lord of the Rings of the Return of the King and The Godfather Part two. And the whole reason that the Best Picture category exists and why sequels rarely get nominated is because these movies are supposed to be novel. They're supposed to take either a concept, take a historical figure and present it in a way that hasn't been done before. This is the worst year of Best Pictures in my opinion, and it is the worst year Avatar really just because it took a lot of money to make and it made a lot of money and James Cameron does not mean it should be nominated for Best Picture. And what I said last year doing this episode is I believe that they should have like an automatic slot for whatever movie gross the highest amount the previous year to automatically get nominated for Best Picture. That kind of happened this year on its own, with Avatar now crossing the two billion marks. So having that movie there and having Top Gun Maverick, I feel, gives that movies for people to root for who don't normally care about Best Picture. And this is the battle I get into every year is I watch all these movies because you don't do this podcast. I would watch it even if I didn't have this podcast. But sometimes it's hard to get people interested because it's all movies they've never seen. But now they are actual movies that have also the box office numbers. So I feel it's a little bit different this year. But also I don't think Avadar should be up there. I don't think Elvis is Best Picture worthy. I'm going to say it. Elvis was good. I don't know. It didn't live up to the hype for me. Like I remember we talked about and I was like, it was good. Austin Butler did a great job, but we're what came out of June were like seven months out. Hey, I'm sick of his Elvis accent. I get he did method acting. If I have to hear him talk on an Award show, it irritates me to my core. But also, like I don't know, wasn't the greatest biopic ever made? It was different. I also think a lot of Best Picture in the Oscars altogether is politics, and you have avatars on there, so you have just people already built into this. So I don't think Elvis will win. I don't think Top Gun Maverick will win. I kind of feel like it kind of snuck in there. I like Triangle of Sadness, but I don't feel like that movie was big enough. I couldn't watch it. Yeah, there's a lot of puking in that movie. I can't handle that, and then banshees of inner shearing. I feel like that is one that the people voting on the Oscars would lean towards. The Academy loves that it was good. I was you liked it more than me, but I watched it. But it is very much like a caters to the Academy. And then you have the Fable Means, which it's hard to bet against. I loved the Fable Man. Even Spielberg I really liked it too. I feel like that's almost runner up in this scenario, and I wouldn't be surprised if it did win. I don't see it winning though, Yeah, I can't visualize that in my head. So I'm going with a winner here. Everything everywhere, all at once. It had the most nominations out of any movie. It is the most novel out of any movie on this list, and I think it deserves to win. I think it needs to be the movie that represents so I'm going with everything everywhere, all at once. A snub here. Some people said Nope, I really enjoyed Nope. I probably overhyped nope on this podcast. But I don't think it is a snub here. I don't think it was the Best Picture worthy, even though I really enjoyed it. What kinda Forever? I don't think it had as much of a cultural impact as the First Black Panther. But if you're gonna put Elvis up there, if you're gonna put top Gun Maverick Avatar up there, yeah, I'm surprised that Black Panther, What kind of Forever didn't get up there. So all right, let's move on now to Best Actor in the Leading Role another week category. I have a snub though, the Whale. Oh my gosh, I forgot about that I got so let's let's backtrack here. I said when I reviewed The Whale that I would riot if it didn't win Best Picture. I'm looking at your notes, and didn't even get nominated. For everyone listening, he moved his microphone away for you, But um, that was writ here. It did not even get nominated, and I was saying a lot of the Oscars are politics, and that is probably why it did not get nominated. The Whale probably didn't play the game that all these other movies did. It is an outrage to me that The Whale is not nominated, which this leads until we will talked about in the second he Britnain Frasier got nominated The Whale. I was going to get to that, but I forgot about the biggest snub of all time. When these were revealed, my jaw literally draw. I'm still getting choked up about it because that movie, even more so than everything everywhere all at once, resonated with me so much, and it was so well done. There was so much great acting in that movie. I can't believe it ain't be nominated. I also, I just referenced her notes. I would like to point up my point out. I woke up this morning and at like seven am, you had emailed I get fired up about the Oscars, prepped like prep for this episode. And I woke up and I was like, I feel like my boss is like sending me a tap, and you were like, Okay, this is what we're going through. And I just just review this when you have a chance. And I was like, what is this my job? Now? Yeah? But I was so fired up. But the whale I forgot to put it in my notes. But yeah, well we'll get to it now here. Best actor in a leading role. Who do we got? We have Brendan Fraseral, Austin Butler and Elvis, Colin Farrell and the Band, Trees of Inn Shearing, Paul mescal and aftersn and Bill nigh In living. If it doesn't go to Brindan Fraser, I'll riot. I'm already writing because it didn't get nominated for Best Picture, And I swear if Austin Butler wins, I'm turning off the TV. I'm out. Like he already won the Golden Globe, which I thought was it's the method acting, it's the fact that he's going to talk like Elvis for the rest of his life. I just don't believe that his performance in that movie was Best actor worthy. I like to think of it as like, could someone else have done that role better? Yeah? Like I don't feel like Austin Butler himself, like aside from like anyone who's going to commit to a part like that and do method acting can do that. I mean, we've seen Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey, and Dallas Buyer's Club, Like, we have seen people put themselves through hell to become the character they're playing. So like, I don't feel like Austin Butler brought anything novel other than the commitment to sounding like Elvis. I mean, he played it up so much about staying in character, and it's staying with him for like two years and having to go to the hospital. We get it, but I feel like it was more the theatric surrounding that movie that made it appealing. I don't really think it was him, So if he wins, I'm out. But the crazy thing is that all Best Actor nominees are all first time nominees. That's surprising that Colin Farrell has he been nominated before, like in a supporting role, first time nominee. Really, I was even looking back at some of his movies and for as a dynamic of an actor that he is, I don't think he really has that role defining role yet and that this one could be it. I wouldn't hate it if you won. That's interesting because I feel like Colin Farrell is like a defined like a list or in my head, there are several actors like that that I feel like they're a list, But even when you look at the movies they been in, you're like, oh, there's not one that I really gravitate towards. Remember when we saw Gwyneth Paltrow at the grocery store. Yes, like I know she back in the day won an oscar, But looking at her movies, I still associated with Pepper Potts, but I wouldn't really call that her, you know, her title role. Okay. Another to add to that, Claire Danes. Yeah, And I mean she's also like one Awards for a lot of early stuff that she did, but then like it was bigger on like Homeland, and then we just watched Trim Fleishman is in Trouble. So there's some of those that, yeah, it's like I forget what they're like early defining role was I was thinking of like Anna Kendrick, who obviously well known for Pitch Perfect. I loved her and up in the year and she's an alist. Yeah, but I still don't feel like she has that one role that like I got that's my favorite meme. Yeah, I'm going with Brendan Frasier as the winner. Here, I will say, I think a snub here is Johnny Knoxville. This is the stupidest take you have ever had on anything. See, when it comes to best actor in a leading role, they always give it to somebody who really went above and yawn to you get into character, put their body on the line. If anybody ever like drops a bunch of weight for a role like what King Phoenix for Joker, that always gets recognized, that always feels to me like an easy win. Johnny Knoxville in his fifty still putting his life on the line. And it's not a role, it's a it's a bit. He got hit by a bull again, broken for being stupid, broken ribs, a concussion, within the hospital for months, a brain hemorrhage. That deserves a nomination in my own No it doesn't. I think it does. That deserves to I don't know, like a Razzie for dumbest person. No, I think that's best actor worthy. But he's not playing a character. He's just being Johnny Knoxville being stupid. That's not a character. You could argue that the whole Johnny Knoxville persona is a character that he plays up. Not his real name, No, what's his real name? His real name is Philip John Clapp. Johnny Knoxville is a nickname. Johnny Knoxville sounds a lot. It is a lot. Okay, No, I still don't think he deserves an oscar. And also this was I read this when I read your prep this morning, and I got to this and I was like, this is truly the worst take you've ever had on anything, the only kind of takes you can only find a movie mis movie podcast. Johnny knox Steel deserves the Best Actor nomination. I also thought Ray fine the Menu. He was really good in that, so good he's he's such a good actor. He is, like, hands down, I think one of the best at playing just like villainous characters because he's Baltimore. Yeah, he has a really great range and it shows so much in that movie. I'm surprised that didn't get a nomination. Some people said that Tom Cruise should have been nominated for a top Gun. No, look at his performance in that is so cheesy, so retro eighties. Even though that character itself means a lot to so many people, that does not deserve an Oscar nomination, So get outta here with that movie. Got now to your best Actress in the leading role. What do we have here? Kate Blanchett and Tar on a Day, Armis and Blonde, Andrea Riseborrow and two Leslie, Michelle Williams and The Fableman's and Michelle Yao and everything everywhere all at once. I can't believe the Artemas was nominated. That is sus to me. I really love Michelle Williams and The Fableman's, Like she is such a great dramatic actress, and I felt like her performance in that movie, I mean really carried it. The entire story kind of surrounded her character in that movie and what she went through in her emotional struggles. I would almost give it to her here, but Michelle Yao and everything everywhere all at once. It was just such a great lead. And I think that role itself probably will be more defiant as the years go on, like that is just now an iconic movie character. I need to rewatch that movie already. We'll go rewatch it right now. But yeah, I think that one is going to win, all right. What do we have now, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Brendan Gleeson in the band She's a Inna Sharan, Brian Tyree Henry and Causeway Judd here in the Abelman's Very Colgan in the band She's of Inno Shearin, and then k We Kwon and everything everywhere all at once. I would really like him to win. I mean, he was a child actor, known for the Indiana Jones movies, known for the Goonies, and then didn't really have success later And the way he got this role was kind of his reprise and you know, returned to acting, and I think just for the sake of having a really good speech, and those moments kind of get me too. With the Oscars, I would really want him to win. I think he deserves it over anybody else. But to that point, he did the speech at the Golden Globes. Yeah, I want to see it again again. But I think the character and actor performance that I really fell in love with was Brendan Gleeson. Like he was so good in the Banshees of Indo Shearin and I was never really a particular fan of his, and even when he did and hosted SNL, I was kind of like, he's all right, But seeing him in this movie. It really made me like him, and I think he's going to win. I think, all right, who do we have now for actress in a supporting role? Angela Bassett from Black Panther, Waconda Forever, Hong Chow from The Whale Carrie Condon Band. She's ben A Sharin, Jamie Lee Curtis everything everywhere, all at once, and Stephanie Shoe everything everywhere all at once. I think both Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Shoe almost cancel each other out in this category. I feel like their characters were a little bit equal in that Jamie Lee Curtis has kind of a smaller role in that altogether, so I'm kind of surprised she got nominated. I don't think that's a supporting role worthy level performance. More so I would go with Stephanie Shoe. But I think hands down the one who should win is Angela Bassett in Black Panther. Oh absolutely, she deserves it. Like the emotion she put into her performance and her entire character arc in Black Panther was one of my favorite things in that movie. I want Angelabasset stand so she's great and surprised that Hong Chow was nominated for The Whale and not Sadie Sink. I really love Sadie think in that movie, I think Hong Chow's character had more depth because she was the one taking care of him but also almost enabling his disease. So I feel like her character had this really hard like juxtaposition of wanting to care for her friend as a human and like take care of him and keep him alive, but also like not wanting to deprive him of things like she would bring him fast food, but she was also like basically his nurse. So I just feel like her character had more depth and more layers than Sadie Sinks did, because Sadie Sink was not one dimensional as a character but his a strange daughter coming to get to know him. I guess I was just more surprised with her performance and how vicious she was and how well she kind of played into that role of making you at times not like her, like almost to the point where you hated her carer and then kind of feeling redemption and sympathy towards your character. And for being an actor at her age to be able to pull that off, I thought that was really impressive. I also think, though this is just kind of like the start of us seeing Sadie Sink. Yeah, I think like she's been some really good stuff lately, so I think I think there's potential there in the future. And also I think, kind of like you said, Jami Lee Curtis and Stephanie Shooe, if we had both Sadie Sink and Honk Child like, I don't think either of them would have a chance. But still, out of anybody, I think Angela Bassett deserves it. So we'll go through best Director now and then run through some of the rest of these. So who do we have for Best Director? Todd Field for Tar, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for Everything Everywhere, All at Once, Martin McDonough for The Band, She's of Inn Sharing Ruben Austlin Triangle of Sadness, and good old Steven Spielberg for The Fableman's He won the Golden Globe. But out of all of the Steven Spielberg movies I've seen, I know a lot of this movie, like the way it comes to life is because of his directing, and it is a story about himself done in a really kind of different way. It's not like a full on biopic, so it really focuses on their family. But I just don't think it's his best director winner here. He's wanted in the past, but I don't think it's here. Maybe that's what he's going for now, like in his older age, like I want to get another one, but I don't think he deserves it here. I think the most novel approach to directing and my new favorite team of directors are the Daniels and Everything Everywhere all at once. I really love their movie Before the Swiss Army Man. I just think after the success of this movie, this is what more directors are going to try and emulate. They're gonna basically steal their formula and not be able to replicate it. It kind of reminds me of Quentin Tarantino in the nineties when he put out pulp fiction. Everybody else kind of stole this genre. Everybody else wanted to be like him. I think that's what people are going to try to do now with the Daniels. They're going to try and create really outlandish, over the top, original stories, and I don't think they will be able to match them because they're already way steps ahead above everybody else, so I think they deserve to win. Their passion for directing really makes me excited just for everything they do in the future, and makes me excited that there will always be new novel movies coming out to root for, and that's always what I look for. And if you can't tell, this podcast is not an ad for everything ever, it is just Mike's favorite movie of the year. It is it one has a limit nominations. I think it's going to Clean House. So now we'll run through some of these other categories that are still noteworthy, but I don't really care about these as much. Animated feature film, I think we'll go to Gamma Do Toro's Pinocchio. I thought it was a really great movie, but I was also coming off of just seeing the Disney Plus version of Pinocchio, so I think I was just tired of Pinocchio, which I hate that both of those movies came out in the same year, and Gammo Do Toro's approach to it was so much more thought out, and you've been working on this movie for so long. I hate that I compare into the other one because I just had that story just stuck in my head. I'm a little over the Pinocchio story, but take that aside and think of all the animation and work that went into this. I'll to stop motion the score to this movie. I think that one deserves to win. When it comes to cinematography, I think All Quiet on the Western Front will probably win for that. I'm surprised that movie got as many nominations as it did, but Netflix really didn't have anything else to kind of put in the running here. The only other one I could see winning would probably be Elvis, just because that movie had that bos Luhrman like glow to it, that very flashy cinematography. It loves flash, It's so flashy, so I think that cinematography added a lot to that movie. But I'll still go with All Quiet on the Western Front. In a music category, original Song, I'm going with the Rihanna song left me up from Black Panther easily. Rihanna's singing at the super Bowl and then a month later she's getting an oscar. It's gonna happen. And that's the only song out of all the other ones nominated that I I associate with the movie, although that not to not to on the Golden Globe. That's probably the one that would beat it out. I just feel now that songs don't have as much of an impact in movies as they used to, like back in the nineties two thousands. I feel like there was always like that title track to a movie that you would always associate with it. I feel like that's becoming less and less of a thing. Like big artists do put out songs like this for movies. I mean, you have Lady Gaga nominated for Top Gun Maverick, so it still happens, but I feel like they don't have that much of an impact of me connecting it to that movie with me up did. I think the only one before this was probably Sunflower in Spider Man into the Spider Verse, but that's also because it's bost Malone. So I'm going with Rihanna here, but yes, you're right not to. Not to probably could win easily. And then an original score, I will go with the Fableman's. I think Steven Spielberg always makes great scores, and they always are very intentional and give the entire movie it's feel, whether you realize it or not while you're watching it. And I felt that in the Fableman's and then in costume design. I always like when they do this category because it's people who are so passionate about what they do and they rarely get recognized. I know some people are like, why are they putting all these categories on TV? Oh, I think this was one of the most important because I feel like again talking about I love the fashion of the Oscars. Good costumes can make or break a movie. A lot goes into it. It's very intentional to in a lot of movies, like think about like any like period piece you have, like those are going to be more like muted tone. Little Women comes to mind, or like Elvis, flashy, big costumes like replicated so much of what Elvis for like that that is a craft and I love seeing the people go up there to take on the award because they deserve some recognition. Absolutely, So, like you said with Elvis, I think that was a big part of it in that movie, all the plashy jumpsuits, even Colonel Tom Parker's costume added a lot to the entire movie. So I think that one will win all. I would like to see Black Panther take them that one, Like those costumes are amazing and the just the advancements they made into the Black Panther suit. Oh yeah, I mean I would pick, like, I personally vote for Black Panther, but I feel like if Elvis is going in something, yeah, I'd rather than win costume design than Austin Butler. And then finally for makeup and hairstyling, again, I probably think Elvis will win here. I do think they're because I mean they did, yeah get those and especially like Priscilla's hair, like they got that stuff down, And especially because Austin Butler doesn't really resemble Elvis a whole lot. I felt like through some of the makeup and the hair that kind of was able to create and paint that image. More so, I think that was important more so than all the other movies nominated here, all of the Whale, A lot of that did involve a lot of makeup and the hair design. Yeah, but that's also been done before. And if I was personally voting, I would vote for The Batman just because I like Robert Pattinson's look in that movie. How he was kind of like Emo with the black makeup, that's all the smudge, his hair was all messed up and all over the place, and he had like really cool street style, the makeup smudged in the hair. That's what people look like on Broadway on a Sunday morning. Yeah, you're in Nashville. Yeah, they just took that approach. But yeah, like if I were to dress like one character from a movie nominated, I would address like Robert Pattinson's Batman exactly. It works. But anyway, there you have it. We ran through all the nominees. The Oscars are going down on Sunday in March twelve on ABC. I will be watching all three hours and we'll see who wins. And you'll be wearing your Oscar Black Talks hoodie. Yeah, my annual tux hoodie will come back. I will give you my spoiler free review of the Best Picture nominee, The Banshees of Inna Sharin, and then we'll talk about Scream six. Let's get into a spoiler free movie review now. I want to talk about the Best Picture nominee, The Banshee's of in a sharing one of the most peculiar films I've seen in the Best Picture category and one that I don't think is for everybody. I think within the first twenty minutes of this movie, I looked over to my wife and she said, what is this? What are we watching? And it is a bit of a slow burn, And it's one of those movies where you expect there to be something else and there's really not. And sometimes that upsets me or disappoints me. But when I realized this is all this movie was going to be about, I was all in and I ended up really enjoying it. And what the movie really is, It's about Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson who are friends, and the entire movie is about them not being friends anymore. It's about a friendship unraveling. At the beginning, it feels like for no particular reason, but that's really it. It's just about a friendship unraveling and all the crazy links that this one guy goes through just because he can't take no for an answer. So before I get into my will review of the band Shees of Inner Sharing, here is just a little bit of the trailer. Colin Sonny Larry in June. He used to be the best of friends. We're still the best of friends. Enough. Who says we're not said somewhere else. Now, if I've done something here. Just tell me what I've done here. But they didn't do that to me. I just don't like you know, more like me yesterday. So Colin Farrell plays a guy named Patrick, Brendan Gleeson plays a guy named Kom. Sorry if I butcher their names after watching this movie, since it takes place in Ireland and they're both Irish actors, I've been trying to talk like Colin Farrell, so everything kind of comes out like this. I feel like I could go to the benches of inner sharing and and blend in a little bit. So I've been doing that a lot. So forgive me if I mess up the pronunciations of their names. But they are friends, and it starts at the very beginning of their story of them not being friends anymore. One day, Brendan Gleeson is just like, yo, I don't want to hang out with you anymore. And Colin Farrow is kind of this dim with guy who has trouble putting things together and he doesn't get it. He doesn't want to lose his best friend, and he goes through all these links to get him back. He won't take no for an answer. He keeps bothering him keeps bothering him. Even with the crazy stipulation he puts towards Colin Farrell to tell him never contact me again. It keeps going further and further, and once I realized that it really helped me settle into this movie and I understood that I was watching a comedy. And I've said recently that I feel like we're kind of out of the era of comedies, but maybe we're just out of the era of American comedies because they handle this one so well and it was so interesting and so more thought out that I think this is what comedies need to evolve into. It doesn't have to be all these zany things, all these gags and pop culture reference jokes and quotable moments that we tend to associate with comedies. I think you kind of need to grow from that to make people laugh again and have more stories like this where it's more situational comedy and finding really peculiar characters doing really unusual things. And there's all these cast of characters throughout this small, little remote island. It just felt like a really great ensemble cast and it didn't really feel like it was trying so hard to be funny. Just the essence of it I found hilarious anyway. So it's a very dead pan style of comedy, and I just really love the focus on finding a very remote island and telling a story there. And sometimes when I'm like driving across the country on a road trip, I'll see a very remote house and think, what is that person's story? They are nowhere near a grocery store or a gas station, Like how do they survive? Sometimes you see these small little towns and you think there has to be a story in there. And I felt like this is what the Banshees of Innit Sharing was. It was taking this small little community and amplifying it these otherwise unorthodox characters at no one else would tell their story. That is exactly what this movie does. So again, I don't think it's for everybody. And watching this movie a little bit closely, you can kind of tell why it's getting so many nominations. It's like right up there with what critics are going to like. And now, like I talked about earlier, I think it is a contender because of that. So I still have that feeling that it could win for Best Picture. I don't think it deserves too, but it does have that appeal of it being novel and also being a comedy, but there are no bills and whistles. It's really just a character study. Within the first ten minutes of the movie, you're like, what what is happening right now? And the other thing I really enjoyed about this film was the cinematography and the focus on the landscape of Ireland. They made this country out to look completely beautiful, which I'm sure it's beautiful all in its own, but they really focused on that, and they really highlighted that the island itself is kind of personified, being responsible for what's going on in all of these people's lives, and the fact that only so few people live there kind of adds to that humor of the craziness that happens on this small, little island. I just really loved how relentless Colin Farrell's character is, and it made me kind of appreciate him a little bit more as an actor. I've seen so many of his movies, but I never really would put him on my list of he's an actor that I have to see every single movie they've been in. But in the last ten years he's had quite a range of being able to do really big blockbusters and smaller indie movies, So in the last ten years, this definitely makes the list of one of my favorite roles of his and the range he has from doing a character like this to playing the penguin in The Batman and also doing movies like After Yang in the Lobster, It definitely gives him a little bit more of a case. For me, it definitely made me want to be a little bit more invested in him and pay attention to some of his roles because he makes some really good ones. And I think he really kind of shined in this role because he is Irish, and I think that added to a lot of the humor in this movie because it may became a little bit more natural to him. And also him and Brendan Gleason is just real life friendship that really translated on screen. I think that is a great friendship because it is so unusual. It in a weird way, kind of reminded me of the dynamic in Super Bad to where they are friends, but they also kind of have a falling out. There's some built up tension there, so in some weird, bizarre way, I kind of had that feeling of this is like Super Bad in Ireland, but without a party. So if you are looking for something to watch, that's rather peculiar. If you're interested in seeing all the Best Picture nominees and you don't want to watch a drama, you want to watch a comedy. And I'll still use the term comedy a little bit loosely because it's not L O L. You're gonna wet your pants watching this comedy. It's a very dead pain style, which is what I'm into. But if all that sounds good to you, you can watch it on HBO Max and I would give banshees of innit sharing four out of five fingers. You gotta us to find out why it's fingers. It's time to head down to movie trail Law Paul. Scream six is supposed to have a ghost face unlike any ghost face we've ever seen. It's supposed to step up the screen franchise, and I often feel whenever somebody tells you you're about to watch something unlike anything you've ever seen before, you know what I'm expecting. I'm expecting exactly what they've always been giving us, And watching this trailer, I want to feel different. Actually, within the first sixty seconds of this I was excited. I thought this trailer actually looked a little bit more sinister than its predecessor, Scream five, which I felt really banked on nostalgia bringing you back Nev Campbell, bringing back David R. Kuitt, But both of them are out in this movie. Nev Campbell actually isn't returning to Scream six because she hated the amount of money they offered her for Scream six after being a part of this franchise for so long, and she was like, I'm out. But it looks like a lot of the newer cast are back for Scream six, including Janet Ortega. And before I get into all my thoughts, as you can hear, I'm pretty fired up about this one. And I'm not even the biggest Scream fan. I just really want this franchise to do well for some reason. I'm just really begging on horror right now. But before I get into my full thoughts on Scream six, here is just a little bit of the new trailer. This isn't like any other ghost Face. What is this place a shrine? You've got to Laureamn, we execute him? Hello, let's play a game, you know, you're like the tenth guy to try this right. It never works out for the Tibetish from the Mask maybe, but there's never been one like me, Gail. I'm something different. That's why I'm gonna shoot you in the head. So for me, the first sixty seconds of the trailer, I thought it did look a little bit more sinister. It had me more interested. But once it got to that part, the entire exchange between Ghost Face and Gael, I felt like it was a lot of the same. I felt like Scream five kind of had a soap opera vibe to it, and I was looking a little bit more for the modern horror vibe because I think there's just so much room for the classic slasher to really evolve into something a little bit more sophisticated. Because screen movies were so big in the nineties, it really changed the trajectory of horror in the nineties going into the two thousands, and I'm always just kind of fascinated with the fan base that surrounds Scream. When it comes to all the iconic horror killers. I still put Ghosts Face on that Mount Rushmore because the face is so recognizable I've never really loved any of the characters or storylines from the original one or care to see them kind of play out the same way I would like the Halloween franchise. I'm more interested in seeing Jamie Lee Curtis, you know, continue out of that character than I am anybody in the Scream movies. So the premise behind this movie is all of the survivors from the last round of killings they leave Woodsboro and now are starting new in New York City. So I do like that aspect of getting out of that small town, all this weird history that's supposed to mean something, but really to us as viewers, doesn't mean anything. Like I don't care about the history of Woodsboro. I don't want to see the same thing play out over and over again. Put them in a big city. I think that's where ghost Space can really shine. One part I did really enjoy in this trailer that I thought was a cool visual effect whenever they are on the subway in New York and all of these people are in different Halloween mask and there are a different version of people wearing the ghost Face mask, and they're trying to figure out who is the actual ghost Space killer. And then I do love the little touch on the new ghost Space. It has like this weathered, worn down look. I think they are taking a page from Halloween and how they aged Michael Myers masks as all the reboots happened, and I almost feel like that is what they need to give ghost Space an edge, make them less like some dude who can just be taken down by a group of teenagers, and give them a little bit more of that Michael Myers e vibe being able to revive himself kind of like a zombie. Ghost Space is, I think what we need. And I saw some people complaining about ghost Face having a gun in this trailer, not because of their views on guns, but because it kind of takes away from some of the creativity, and I would agree with that to an extent. I think if you gave ghost Face a gun in the first or even the second movie, it would really take away from the appeal of what a slasher is supposed to be. I think a lot of horror movies would just kind of flat out be nothing if the village just had a gun, or even if they just shot him all the time. I think that is kind of an easy way out that would just end the story. In any situation, I always shout a minutes all over, like end of story. It's a lot more visually appealing to see ghost Space kill somebody with a garage door than him just shooting and taking some out. But when it comes to a sixth installment in a franchise and trying to create this darker, edgy r ghost Face, I kind of like him with a shotgun. I think the shotgun has a bit more of an edge than just a normal gun, and I'll even enjoy if they kind of play that up a little bit of him making a decision to use the gun, figuring out how to use it, and probably not keeping it throughout the entire movie. But in that little part when they are in that convenience store, I'm okay with Ghost Face having a gun. I think the trope is getting a little bit tired of him calling people when their home alone, showing up and then doing the whole home invasion thing. We had that flashback and screen five, but I don't think we need to keep revisiting that over and over again in every movie, even though they already did it in the trailer. That does make me think, though, now in maybe it's because I'm an adult, but a screen movie is almost scarier to me now than it was when I was a kid, because I think it's an adult. My biggest fear is a home invasion. I don't really have a list of fears of like animals or deep water or heights or anything like that, but home invasion. I don't care who you are, that is something that's always going to scare you. And that is the main reason why I can't go watch horror movies with my wife Kelsey, because anything that remotely deals with the home invasion, she is out. That's why she will not be watching Not Get the Cabin next week with me. So my biggest question going into Scream six is can the entire movie capture that sinister vibe that it has within the first sixty seconds of this trailer? And how much can this franchise really change in a year Screen five was last year. Is it possible to have that big of a tonal shift in one year to the next? I hope. So I think this movie has potential. I just hope it doesn't fizzle out within the first thirty minutes of it and the third act kind of fall apart. Like it did in Scream five. But I do want to get the answer to my question. This movie comes out this year on March ten. I will go. I will watch it, but as of right now, I won't be happy about it. My excitement meter on a ten scale, I'm probably at about a six, a little bit more excited than just like I don't care at all. I think this trailer won me over just a little bit. Otherwise I kind of would have been out after screen five. So I'm willing to give ghost Face at least one more chance. And I say that as I'll probably be lining up for screen six. This makes edition of Movie Bar and that's going to do it for another episode here of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta give my listeners shout out of the week. All you have to do is tweet me on Instagram, tag me in your Instagram story with a screenshot or a picture of the display on your car listening to an episode of the podcast. But this week I'm going over to my d M s and shouting out James who sent me a d M and said, hey, great to hear the A through Z episode just started listening around the holidays. I'm excited for this year. Thank you James for discovering the podcast, and anybody else listening to the podcast for the very first time. Welcome to the Movie Crew. My favorite part about doing this podcast is interacting with you on social media to see how you feel about different movies, what movie recommendations you took me up on, what movies you have different opinions on than I do. And also if you have a recommendation of a topic I need to cover, or even somebody I should interview on the podcast, always hit me up with those. After last week's episode, a lot of people said I should get Tom Hanks on the podcast. I would love to get Tom Hanks on the podcast. If anybody has a contact for him, hit me up. But it's a little difficult to get the most famous movie star in the entire country. So I'm gonna send up some emails today see if we can make that happen. But thanks for listening, have a great rest of your week, and until next time, go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you later.