10 Things in Film That Twist Movie Mike’s Nipples + Movie Review: Air + Trailer Park: Blue Beetle

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie Podcast. I am your host Movie Mike. Today I want to share with you ten things in film that twist my nipples. You heard me correctly. These are things that irritate me, that make me annoyed. Twist my nipples. That is exactly what we were talking about today. In the movie review, I want to get into my thoughts of Air, the new sports drama that came out over the weekend. And in the trailer park we'll talk about our very first Latino superhero in the DC universe. The movie is called Blue Beetle and comes out later this year. Thank you for being here and being subscribed in listening every single week. Shout out to the 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 IMTV with classes from the Nashville Podcast networkings Movie Mics, Movie Podcast. Today's question, what is something in film that twist nipples? What does that mean exactly? What is something that irks you? Something that annoys you, what grinds your gears, what gets your goat? Whenever a movie does this, I have come up with ten things that every time this happens in a movie or surrounding a movie release. Whenever these things happen, I just can't help but get a little bit irritated. We'll go through these ten. We have some honorable mentions because I asked this question online. Always like getting your feedback on these topics. So this is going to be a very unhinged episode if you can't tell just by the episode title. So we'll waste no time and get right into it. At number ten of things that twist my nipples any final words that phrase, and it has to do in regards to a villain always taking too long to kill the hero. Now, in a movie, we probably don't want to see the hero be killed. We want to see them save the day. But they have to do it a little bit different for me to not get irritated whenever a villain just goes through his entire plan right in front of the hero and then they take this extended period of time to take them out when they have like the gun pointed at them, when they can throw them off a cliff when there's just the opportunity to finish out their evil plan and they don't do it. And that is quickly followed by the other one that somebody comes in at just the right time. I, for one, at this point of watching movies, would just like to see the hero get hurt a little bit, much like we saw in John Wick four. They need to take some hits. I enjoy movies where sometimes the unexpected thing happened. So anytime there's a clichade, hero just gets rescued at the right time because they're like any final words, I'm not into it. That twists my nipples. That comes in at number ten. At number nine is an unrealistic amount of days from our main characters in a movie, as somebody who works Monday through Friday sometimes spills over into the weekend. I can't imagine a situation in a story where I would have just an unlimited amount of days off. And I get you have to suspend belief in a movie, but sometimes you have characters with very important jobs and they just don't work at all. The entire story carries out and there is no concern about how they make money. You don't have anybody checking in with their boss. If they get into a situation where they are gone for a very long time, there is just no worry in their mind. At bad Mom sixty seven on Twitter also said housing situations that don't match their actual jobs. I feel like these two go hand in hand. You have a character who is taking all this time off, but it is somehow able to afford a giant luxury apartment in New York City. This doesn't match up. Also along the same lines of unrealistic days off is whenever teenagers go missing or they go on a big adventure and their parents never wonder where they are. You mean to tell me all these teenagers were able to go away from their parents and not come back to a ton of miss calls and a police report. So unrealistic amount of days off, houses that don't match, and kids that go missing without their parents looking for them. I put that all into this category at number eight. It really twists my nipples every time a Star Wars project gets announced and the fan base just obliterates it. So I am going against the Star Wars toxic fan base because last week Star Wars announced that three new films are coming. They are starring Daisy Ridley. She's returning as Ray and it will be set fifteen years after the Rise of Skywalker. So the interesting thing here is it won't be called Episode ten. It's a whole new era. So this phase is supposed to be after the events of the sequel trilogy, which I am currently rewatching right now, So it takes place after the Rise of Skywalker. Like I said, it'll take place fifteen years after that movie. She's building a new Jedi academy, trying to bring back the Order to full strength. So at this moment, not a whole lot is known about this new phase of Star Wars other than that, but every single comment about this movie is that this is a franchise nobody asked for. And I think this is just the cycle of Star Wars. I was talking about this recently whenever this was just a rumor. It just seems like Star Wars fans are never satisfied, and I find myself to be a casual fan. I enjoyed the original trilogy. I love them for what they are, and I'm a nerd in my own riot, but I was just never super passionate about those movies, so I didn't really get upset about the prequel movies, so I don't feel like they ruined the legacy of Star Wars. And then when the sequel trilogy came out, that is really when I became more of a fan. I found it fresh and reinventive. I loved the story of Ray, which I know by defending these movies, I'll probably get roasted, but I'm okay with that. I found those movies to be a good bridge between the old classic characters that we loved at Chewbacca, you have Han, Solo, Princess Leia, all back in those movies. It was exciting for me to see them in those more so than it was for me to go back and watch those original movies, because I felt like the time that these movies came out, the technology was so much better and they look more sleek and crisp. In the visuals of Star Wars and the creation of that entire world, I felt just had more life to it, And as I rewatched them now, I still really enjoy them. So I find this move to be interesting because instead of creating a whole new trilogy and making episode ten, eleven, and twelve, they're really trying to bridge this gap, and I would rather them do this than copec and remake the original movies. I can only imagine the hate that would come if they did that. So to everybody who has that same comment about nobody asked for this, some people actually did so. At number eight is the Star Wars toxic fan base that always just twist my nipples. At number seven, this one maybe a little bit controversial, but the post credit scene. I think in twenty twenty three, I am over the post credit scene. I don't want to hang around in the movie theater that long anymore. And maybe it's because having this podcast, I watched so many movies. I go to the movie theater at least once, sometimes twice right now looking at three times a week. Because there are so many good new movies coming out, I'm just trying to keep up. I don't want to add any more time to hang around for a scene to tease the next project. So I find myself now. I'll go watch them on YouTube, or I'll find them on TikTok later. But I think we need to get away from the post credit scene. They used to be cute. It used to be fun to wait around to have that little moment of them teasing a new character. But at this point it kind of feels like when artists make a big deal when you go to see them in concert, like they're playing their last song and they leave the stage knowing, dang well, they're about to come out and do an encore. They're gonna do it regardless, it's already built into the set list that they're going to come back out and do the hit song that they haven't got to yet. I say we quit that entire song and dance and just put it at the end of the movie. It just needs to be the final scene, so it's not even so much teasing us for the next thing. Just get right to it and the movie one quick slate, get to the post credit scenes so we can get out of there. So number seven post kred scenes really started twist my nipples at number six along those same lines. This has to do with horror movies in particular, whenever a horror movie ends and that last final scene is finding out that the villain is not dead, therefore setting up a part two. I can't stand this anymore. This is the biggest cliche in horror movies that we need to get rid of. I've been seeing it so much more now and it just feels very eighties, nineties, early two thousands to do this. Let's get away from this. I feel like it's cheesy and it takes away from the ending of a movie. Once the character is finally able to kill the horror movie villain. We don't want to see them come back to live. We get it, you're probably going to make another one, but don't do the whole fake out of them opening their eye, of them moving their hand, or the one I really hate is getting us with that final jump scare and showing a real one quick second jump of the character like bursting out of the screen. I cannot stand that. And along those same lines, I just hate when a movie is made deliberately to set up the next one. At this point, I want to see a movie that doesn't leave anything on the table. Don't put out a movie if the entire reason is just to set up a sequel. I get that you're trying to build a franchise, you're trying to make a sound investment, you're trying to get people wanting to see more of your movie. But give us everything in part one, and if you do a good enough job, I want to see part two. You don't have to trick me to do it, and we get it. Horror movie villains are supposed to come back. Look how many times Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Jason have come back over the years. We know how this works. So that's what I have at number six. Moving on now to number five, This one is movies getting remade too quickly. I find we have this happening more and more because studios are cashing in on known properties. It seems like they are a little bit more unwilling to take risks on new content, new ideas, which is something they shouldn't be doing because we see with movies, like everything everywhere, all at once. He creates something new, fresh and exciting, people are going to pay attention to it. So the whole idea of let's just do what works is a really bad state of mind to be in. That being said, the one that really got me last week was Disney announcing that they are remaking Mahanna as a live action movie, with the Rock coming back as MAUI. I'm about to get into a big rant right here, so just hold on to your seats. Mauana is a great animated movie. It came out in twenty sixteen. Let me say that again. The movie came out in twenty sixteen, and we are already talking about a remake in twenty twenty three. That is unheard of to me. That might be a record for the quickest remake ever. I'm a big fan, or at least was a big fan of the Rock. I loved him as a wrestler. I loved a lot of his work. Once he really started to become a name in Hollywood, I think he is a great person, but I'm starting to see him have some qualities that he is starting to ruin franchises for me, look at what happened with Black Adam, and now he is moving on to ruining another one, and that is Mauanna. Now, I don't want to be that same person from the toxic Star Wars fan base. I don't want to say we didn't ask for this. I think Mauana was a movie that was kind of a sleeper hit for me. I saw it in theaters. I didn't entirely get it. I'm not the biggest fan of the musical Disney side. I could watch a Disney movie and take out all the musical numbers, and I'd be fine with it. I'm more invested in the story. But watching that movie for the second and third time, I was like, oh, this was a lot better than I remember. So Mauana is a great movie and a very important Disney movie, one of the most important ones in the last ten years. But to already be remaking it as a live action movie that is insane to me. They're just remaking every single Disney movie. And I get the old class sakes Pinocchio, Okay, Peter Panton, Wendy, all right, they're old movies that haven't been done in so long, But Mauana just so Dwayne the Rock Johnson can start in another live action movie because maybe being animated wasn't enough for him. He wanted to be the face of the movie. Is that the reason? He says it's because of the deep personal meaning connected with his heritage. I hope that's the case. I hope it's not just that he wants to be the face of another movie. And Mijuana has actually been one of his biggest roles in the last ten years. I would say his most significant role, the one that is universally loved, And maybe he just doesn't like the fact that it's just his voice in the movie. That is the only reason I can see why they are remaking this movie now. So I would just rather have a sequel and not a live action remake, at least in this point of time. Maybe another ten fifteen years. Maybe maybe we're just now getting a live action Lee Loin Stitch that was twenty plus years now. Live action Mawana not the time for it. So it's also getting harder and harder to defend Hollywood in their decisions when we just keep remaking everything, but now remaking everything within ten years insane. So that is number five. That one got me heated there at number four, it is continuity errors. What are continuity errors? It's whenever a movie lacks consistency, there is just some little mistake in the background, and it just comes down to they're not being enough attention to detail. And maybe it's just me, but I hyper fixate on little things in movies. I pay attention to every single little detail. So for me, a continuity error, it could be a character drinking out of a can, and the minute I notice a straw inside a can, I'm like, oh, that straw is going to turn every which way. And I'm gonna pay attention to every single cut in this movie because it's not gonna line up. I catch those. Every time there is a clock on screen, I am paying attention to what number is on the face of that clock, or if it's a clock with hands, I am looking dead at those hands to see all the little cuts. So maybe I'm a little too hyper focused into finding continuity errors, but it just twists my nipples. So if a character is drinking out of a cup, I am looking at the level of liquid in that cup. That's another thing. Why are we still drinking out of empty coffee cups? I get the reason why you do it. On a film set. You don't want your characters holding on to a hot beverage for an extended period of time. And maybe it doesn't add a whole lot to the scene to you, but it does to me. When a character gets handed a Starbucks cup and that thing looks like it will blow away with a little blow of the wind, that gets to me, what does it take to fill that up with liquid? Now, you may say having liquid in there would add some slashing around sounds, and you know how to edit out the sound in post production. But to me, that is worth it to add some weight to that cup and add some realism to that scene. There are other instances I notice, say when a lamp gets broken on screen, you see it shattered, and then in another there see and you see that lamp back in perfect condition. That one gets me too. Or in other instances, say a character gets hurt to the point to where they can't walk. They have this injury that is so bad in that moment, but then just a few scenes later, they completely forget about it and they're totally good trotting along. So let's tighten it up, Hollywood. Let's get rid of these continuity errors. At number three of things that twist my nipples, it is the weak use of a film title inside of a movie's dialogue. One of the best things a movie can do is say the title of a movie inside of that film. It is something I look for. It is something that every time it happens, I'm like that Leonardo DiCaprio meme pointing at the screen. It all comes back to that Family Guide joke where Peter Griffin jokes about them saying the title of the movie in the movie. I actually did an entire episode on this if you want to go back in search. The use of film titles in movies one of my favorite things in all the film But it being one of my favorite things, it can also be a thing that irritates me when it gets crowbarred in there, because to me, it is something so sacred that you have to be good at doing it. If you're not, just don't do it at all. The best example of this is twenty sixteens suicide Squad. So that's it. What we some kind of suicide squad. If you're going to deliver it like that, don't deliver it at all. Instead, hit me with one a little bit more creative, like in twenty seventeens Get out Yo Yo, or another fine example the breakfast club Breakfast Club. Unless you are hitting us with a quality example like that in a movie, don't bother doing it at all at number three is a weak use of the film title in that film. At number two. This one got me recently, but I cannot stand it when people in a movie order a pizza that is not enough for the amount of people in that movie. The last time I saw this was when I went to go see a good Person starring Florence Pugh Morgan Freeman, directed by Zach Braff. And there is a scene where there are two adults and a teenager having dinner and they only order one pizza. One pizza for three adults is not enough. That is an unrealistic amount of pizza in that situation. What do they do do? They just eat a slice, pass it around. Everybody just takes one by one bite rule, and this happens a lot. And I am somebody who loves pizza, but I also have pizza anxiety, especially at parties, because part of my entire existence is I have a very addictive personality and that greatly shows when I eat pizza. I don't know how normal people just eat one or two slices. I am a three four slice. I could eat a whole pizza if you don't stop me. So I have pizza anxiety. Where I am at a party and they start saying, hey, we should order pizza. I'm like, oh no, do I tell them that I can eat a whole pizza by myself And this is not a great situation for me. So I get pizza anxiety, and whenever that pizza gets there, I'm doing pizza mass and looking at all the number of adults, how many they have on their plate, because I know I'm about to eat my two slices that I modestly got on my plate in about four bites, And then is it too early to go back and get another slice? Should I give the host the last slices of pizza? I could easily polish off these other two slices I got after my other two slices. So I go through this entire thing in my head of how many pizza slices is enough to have at a party, and I can't stand it in a movie where they only order one pizza, get more pizza box. It's a cheap prop and this scene in particular took it up an even larger level because you know, you get eight slices of pizza in a normal pizza box, and there were leftover slices. So maybe I just don't know how much pizza the average person consumes, But I don't think one pizza is enough for two or more adults. I don't think so. And what are the odds they all agree on the same topping. That's a whole other discussion. So when people don't order enough pizza in movies that my nipples all right before we get into my number one has some honorable mentions. This one almost made my list, But it's whenever characters go into another room to have a private conversation, but then they proceed in having a conversation that is so loud that there's no doubt to us that for sure every other person in that other room heard every word that they just said. Why is it that just because you leave the room, you think people can't automatically hear you. Also in situations in movies where people pretend to whisper things so that other people don't hear them, but they're like inches away from that person they're trying to keep a secret from. They heard you. We heard you. It's not a secret. Also, when nobody makes concrete plans in a movie, say a character ask another character out on a date and they're just like, yeah, I'll go out with you, and they're all excited, and they just leave, no concrete plans, none of that negotiating of like what about Friday. Friday's no good for me. What about Saturday? Oh, Saturday's even worse. How about Sunday? I can't do Sunday that all gets cut out and somehow they just magically end up at the same place at the same time. Bizarre to me. Or even in movies where there are five or more adults and all of their schedules just magically aligned. Unrealistic. Also in movies whenever characters are driving and they're having a conversation and they make full on eye contact for several seconds, you mean to tell me that you can take your eyes off the road for several seconds and everything be okay. That is a crash waiting to happen. Unrealistic. Don't like it. A couple more these were comments on my Facebook page. Yolanda wrote, very rarely do characters stop for gas in a movie, which is very true. Cars just never run out of gas and they can also always find a parking spot. And Manuel on Facebook also said when characters don't use toothpaste. I admit I never really noticed this, but saw more people commenting about this. I feel like this goes hand in hand with the empty coffee cups and no attention to detail. So put some toothpaste on those toothbrushes. We made it to number one, and my number one is unrealistic. Room and makeup. And this has to do with in situations of peril, or in situations where characters are living in a post apocalyptic world, in a dystopian future, or way back in history and the character doesn't match their environment. So say it's a movie set way back in the day and somehow the lead actress has perfect makeup and perfect hair. That is unrealistic. I want that portrayal of what that character would actually look like. They probably wouldn't wake up with the full face of makeup and their hair perfectly combed, so they wouldn't have these big, clean, perfect Hollywood teeth. There are some fake teeth on them. Most recently, I saw this in Where the Crawdad sing. I love that movie, but her character was known as the swamp Girl, and she looked like she could be on the cover of a magazine. Also recently, I was rewatching The Hunger Games and they're in this situation where they're trying to kill all these other people and somehow they all still look perfectly groomed. Or how about Brad Pitt in the World War two movie Fury. He had a really cool haircut in that movie. There is no chance that somebody fighting in that war would be able to maintain that sharp of a fade. It just wouldn't happen. That haircut was too cool for that movie, although I admit after watching it, I wanted that haircut, but it did not match up with those times. And I think right now a lot of post apocalyptic movies are being made this dystopian future, and somehow all these lead characters have short, well groomed hair. Especially when it comes to the guys. If there was somebody who hadn't seen a barber in ten years, they would have the most untamed hair, the most untamed beard, and they would look very different than they are being portrayed. So if you have a movie set in a post apocalyptic world, I want a zz top beard. I want some broken teeth, I want some dirt on their face, I want torn up clothes. I want to smell those characters through the screen. I will refuse. I will refuse to see another period piece where somebody just has perfectly white teeth because anytime that happens, well you know what it does. It twists my nipples. So thank you for listening to this week's ten point rant. If you have any you want to add things that annoy you in movies. Let me know movie Mike d at gmail dot com or hit me up on any social media platform at Mike dstro Let's get into a spoiler free movie review. Now, if you're watching on YouTube, you will see that I am decked out in all my Nike gear because we're talking about Air today and the movie is about the creation of the Air Jordan shoe. So I actually have a partnership with Nike. I don't think I've shared this on the show before, but I have this really cool deal worked out where all I have to do is go on Nike's website, pick out anything that I want, pay for it with my own money, and they send it to me. So I have this great deal. That is why I am decked out in my Nike gear today to talk about Air. And I'll have to say at the top of this review that is what I was worried about going into this movie because based off of the trailer, it almost felt like it was going to be a two hour long Nike commercial, and I was worried about that. You know, whenever the Facebook movie came out back in the twenty tens, the social network, I felt like I had that similar feeling of like, am I really going to go watch a Facebook movie? Is it good to be that compelling? And I was proved wrong there, And I was proved wrong guess again, because this movie did not feel like a two hour long Nike commercial. So we'll get into all the details about this movie. So many great things involved in this movie, from the real life story involved with Nike and Michael Jordan, but also how this movie saw the light of day. How this movie was written and then ended up on the big screen is one of my favorite parts of the entire story. So before we get into all that, here is just a little bit of the air trailer. You asked me what I do here? This is what I do. I find you players, and I feel at this time, Okay, it's risky. When you were selling sneakers out of the back of your plymouth, that was risky. Don't change that now for a rookie, Yes, who's never set foot on court. That's the literal definition of rookie. Yeah, what's the plan? We build a shoe line around just him? I need the greatest basketball shoot that's ever been made. Who's the player? Michael Jordan? So this movie is not the story of Michael Jordan. It is the story of the creation of the Air Jordan shoe, so much so that you don't even really see Michael Jordan in this movie, mainly from the back. There's some brief little glimpses of Michael Jordan, but they didn't want to focus on his story. Director Ben Affleck actually said, that's a different story to tell. Instead, the movie focuses on Sonny Vicaro played by Matt Damon, and he is a sports marketing executive in the eighties at Nike, and this is a time where Nike wasn't at the top, at least in the basketball world. They were crushing it in their running shoes sales, but when it came to their basketball department, it was struggling. They weren't selling many shoes and they were really being beat out by their competitors, Converse and Adidas, who were signing all the big athletes, had the big rosters, had all the money to throw around, so it was going to be a natural fit for Michael Jordan to go to either Adidas or Converse. So he really wasn't even in their plans to go after They wanted to sign three players, but instead Sonny Vaccaro became obsessed with Michael Jordan, was watching all of his tape from his college days in North Carolina, and he thought that Nike should, instead of going after those three players, put all of the money from their budget into just landing Michael Jordan and creating an entire shoeline around him, which hadn't been done before. So instead of getting three players that are just not going to really do much for the company, let's go after one and put all of our eggs in one basket. Because he was so passionate about him and was so just enthralled by everything Michael Jordan was doing as a player that he knew in his gut that this was the best decision to make for Nike. One of the most powerful things in this movie is see how Nike wasn't dominating at this point and you root for Nike, which is weird to root for a corporation to sign somebody to make more money, but in this situation, it had me wanting Nike to win. They felt like the underdog in this movie. So I think that's why this movie really worked to be able to depict such a large corporation to be the underdog and we as Americans, we as people just love rooting for an underdog story. So that was actually pretty powerful. So I'll give that to Ben Affleck's filmmaking style to really making this root for Nike in this situation and also not really making it feel like a two hour long Nike commercial. Now you do see a lot of Nike throughout, and I'll admit, after I watched this movie, I started googling things like, ooh, I kind of like those old school classic running shoes. I gotta find me some of those. And also when it comes to actual air Jordans, I didn't have any money growing up, so I've never owned a pair of Air Jordans. But after this movie, I was looking at those retro ones to try and get a pair of the shoes featured in this movie because they are so cool. So maybe a little bit it did work as a commercial, but it didn't feel like they were just throwing it down your throat. And also, it doesn't really depict Nike as this grand organization that has no flaws. It shows some of their flaws. It talks about some of their practices of how their shoes are made, all of the struggles they are going through, so it doesn't really feel like Nike was behind this and saying like, oh, you can't make us look bad at all. I felt like it went through the highs and the lows of the company to give a real life picture of what was actually going on back in the eighties. And from the very opening scene of this movie, it felt like an eighties time capsule that eighties seemed like a wild time to be alive. I really love the cinematography and the opening shot of this movie, the real grainy footage, all the contrasting colors of the eighties. It really made it feel like a little time capsule. And I love the shift in that opening scene where it goes from that grainy eighties look to a more modern appeal, but still kind of keeping that aesthetic. And there was a lot of attention to tell in this movie. Everything from when Matt Damon's character would go into a seven eleven, all the products on the shelf looked like eighties products, all the cars, all the fashion very much felt like the eighties. So they did a really good job of putting us in that mindset and believing that this movie was made back in the day. That combined with the eighties soundtrack made me feel nostalgic for the eighties. I grew up in the nineties, but after watching this movie, I thought maybe I was born in the wrong decade. And that also helped with another aspect of the movie, because a lot of this movie takes place over phone calls, and it made me realize that you couldn't really make a movie with a story like this past two thousand and seven. Once the iPhone was created, nobody had phone conversations like they do in this movie. A lot of slamming of phones, a lot of dialing of phones, and a lot of the dialogue that took place was just phone conversations, and that wouldn't really work today. It really made me feel nostalgic for being able to slam a phone call after a heated conversation. So in an iPhone era world, in a smart own world, we won't really have that anymore. So we have to find more stories like this that took place before two thousand and seven to have that gratification of somebody slamming a foam because now if this story takes place, say you focus on the Lebron James story, all that is email text messages dms, it's not really good to feel the same way. There were so many standout performances in this movie from Chris Tucker in the opening scene. Very rarely do you get such a powerful opening from a supporting cast member. But it really made me appreciate Chris Tucker. And he has been so funny throughout his entire career in all of his roles from Friday that sometimes I wonder, like, why doesn't he go back and do a Friday movie. This movie was an example of why he should never do that, because he is worth more than that, and he can do a higher caliber movie like this and be great in it. There were so much great dialogue throughout this entire movie. That's what really carried it, because this movie is just really straight on filmmaking. There are no bells and whistles. It all down to the dialogue and the script. And what blew me away about the making of Air is that this entire movie exists because this dude, who was unemployed in his twenties watched The Last Dance. This twenty year old named Alex was just watching The Last Dance. And there's a part in that documentary where they briefly mentioned the partnership between Michael Jordan and Nike, and Alex saw that and thought that deserves to be a movie. Somebody has probably already made that movie, right, googled it up. No one has made it. So he sat down and wrote this script and just sent it out as a spec script, and that is how this movie was made. And Alex is a master of dialogue, because this movie was more comedic than actual comedies. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in the last two years, and it's not even trying to be funny. All of the dialogue is just written so well that the entire theater was laughing throughout this entire movie. And the dialogue felt so natural between Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, you think they must have wrote it. No, it's all thanks to Alex. So this movie is filmmaking greenwriting at its best. I thought maybe the absence of Michael Jordan would make it a little less exciting, but they proved me wrong. It really doesn't need him at all. And this movie was really inspiring to me because of Sonny mccarroll's story. It really shows you by the end of the movie that all you have to do is be passionate and put a lot of time and effort to those things you are passionate about, because that is what he did. When all the big companies were going after Michael Jordan, they were only telling him and boasting all of the things that made their companies great, not what made him great. And Sonny McCarroll was the only one that pointed out all of the things that made Michael Jordan great and why he would go on to be a global superstar. So it really proved to me that you need to find somebody who believes in you, somebody who really knows you. Invest in the people who invest in you. And also when making any kind of deal, whether in a job interview, a deal with your significant other, always ask the right questions that his movie is all about. Ask the right questions in those situations that are going to benefit you in the long run. I'll quote one of my favorite eighties movies, Stand in the Liver. Sometimes you only see the turn, you don't see the road ahead. Because mj and his mom, they were not just trying to make a lot of money with him signing with a random company. They were looking out for his entire life, and they knew he was something different, and they knew he needed to get paid for that. The other really impressive thing is that Ben Affleck has only made five movies in his career. I'm really enjoying the veteran actor turn director because I think they have this vision that only somebody who has done this for so long at such a high level and knows what it's like to be an actor on screen and also knows what it's like to get the performances that you need to make a movie great, and he has proved that in just five films. This is definitely my favorite Ben Affleck directed film. I'd go Air the Town from twenty ten at two and then Argo from twenty twelve at number three, because it is pretty impressive to make a movie about the origin of a shoe be this entertaining, and even more impressive that you could have us rooting for Nike and then leave the theater wanting to go buy our own Air Jordan's. So this movie is definitely a mussy and we're really not getting a high level of sports drama anymore. So this one is already easily entered for me into the top ten sports dramas of all time in the last five years, easily top three, probably the number one. If you love movies like Moneyball, this is definitely right up your ally and you don't even have to like sports to enjoy this movie. So if I had to rate Air, it is almost a perfect movie. And the only reason I deducted a half a point is because with a movie based on a true story like this, I would want it to be as accurate as possible, and I know you have to embellish some details to he would up a story and really give it that driving factor that's going to make you leave the theater and be inspired. So I was that I was five out of five leaving the theater. After doing some research on the story, this is where my mind changed a little bit, and I don't want to spoil it. Even though it is a true story, I feel like you can still spoil it. There are some details in the story that Michael Jordan said aren't completely true, and he oversaw a lot of the filmmaking process early on in this movie to kind of sign off on it, and what he said kind of changes your perspective on a big aspect of this movie. That's all I'm gonna say, but it's a pretty big aspect. So at just the entertainment value, this is as good as it gets. With the sports trauma, it would be a five out of five, But because of that, I can't let go what he said, so my rating for Air would be four point five out of five. Air Jordan's it's time to head down to movie, Mike Trait, Laura Paul, we finally have it, our first Latin superhero from DC. I am so excited to see it, and I didn't realize, probably until Black Panther came out, of how important it is for different races, different ethnicities, different colors of skin to be represented as superheroes. Just growing up as a Mexican kid, I never really thought that much about it because I just love superhero so much. It never occurred to me that a superhero could look like me. I just accepted them for what they were. They existed in a world that I knew was imaginary, not real, So I just never put those things together that I could be represented by a superhero. In twenty twenty three, maybe a little late to get our first Latin superhero from DC, but I'm okay with it. Because things are changing and even more so important it is to me that doesn't really matter at somebody in my thirties now and watching superhero movies. But to some kid seeing this trailer of Blue Beetle and thinking, man, not only does that kid look like me, but the family looks like me. They live in an area that looks like where I live. That is important and I think that actually is what is going to keep superhero movies alive, telling the stories of people from all around the world. We saw it work so wonderfully with Black Panther movies, like into the Spider Verse. It's a breath of fresh air, and that is what we need to do when making superhero movies. The only thing that worries me is that with any DC movie, people tend to not give it a chance even before it comes out. And I don't want to see that happen with the first ever DC movie to have a Latino superhero. So I am already highly invested in this movie because what it means to me. The movie is coming out in theaters on August eighteenth. Before I get into my full thoughts of Blue Beetle, here's just a little bit of the trailer, I think he likes me. What the free entry systems? Ready? So this movie follows the hero Himeraeus. He is this teenager who gets in possession of this ancient relic. It is this beetle that in the trailer you see it in this little box. It comes out and then it gets slammed into his face. Him becomes the host of the Blue Beetle, and now he has all these superpowers. And digging more into the history of this character. He debuted in the comics back in nineteen thirty nine, originally published by Fox Comics, later acquired by Charlton Comics in the nineteen sixties. This version was a little bit more lighthearted and humorous than the original, and then d C Comics acquired the rights to the character in nineteen eighty and that is when they adapted him into their mainstream superhero universe. And we didn't get the jime Res version until two thousand and six when he was introduced in Infinite Crisis number six. So that is this version of Blue Beetle we are getting. He is a teenager living in Elbasso, Texas. Although I was a little bombed, this movie actually isn't set in Elbasso. Instead, they decided to put it into a fictional city called Balmata City, so it's a futuristic beach town with a lot of palm trees. I just really wanted to see a Mexican character in Elbasso and how I would describe Blue Beetles characters. He's kind of like DC Spider Man. He's a teenager. Instead of being bit by a spider he is taken over by this beetle. Although he doesn't have the same superpowers as Spider Man, it's kind of combining the Iron Spider suit and Iron Man qualities. He has these powerful hand blasts and beams. He has sound many population technomorphy. He has a cool spaceship that looks like a beetle, and then the trailer. He also has this AI system that can create anything he imagines, which a lot of the movie kind of looks like him learning all the ins and outs of what the Blue Beetle can do. It kind of reminds me of the scene in Spider Man Homecoming where Peter wants to take off the training wheels protocol and is trying to unleash the full power of the Spider Man's suit with all the technology that Tony Stark is put into it. That is kind of the feeling I get out of Blue Beetle a little bit iron Man, a little bit Spider Man with a Latin twist. So in this movie, you have Zolo many Duena playing Blue Beetle, you also have George Lopez. It is directed by anhell Manuel Soto and it is coming out on August eighteenth, So I am really loving the representation in this movie. I like the superhero teenager route. I think when done correctly, it brings a lot of fun to a movie. If DC can find a way to make this story different than what is happening in Chosam Teenagers, I think they have a great shot. The only thing I'm not blown away by is the visuals in this movie. Before this trailer, we didn't really know what the Blue Beetle character was going to look like, and I was a little underwhelmed the first time I saw the suit. It almost looks like the CGI isn't quite done yet, So I don't know if this is actually the final look we are getting in the movie. Maybe this was still in the early stages of development and they cut the trailer from that but I was kind of hoping that the visuals would be a little bit more crisp. Especially in some of these close ups it almost looks like video game quality graphics. I am very aware in this trailer that I am watching something computer generated, and I think movies have reached a point now that I need to be convinced that this could actually happen in real life. It needs to look very realistic to me, unless it's very campy and kid friendly looking, and I don't really think this movie calls for that. So I was a little bit underwhelmed by the VFX in this movie, which is surprising to me because I feel the one place that DC really outshines Marvel recently is with their visual effects. I feel like Marvel is overworking their department right now, and we've even seen the stories come out about that of their conditions and things being rushed over there. I felt like DC has had a pretty good grasp on making really crisp looking superheroes. I didn't really feel that in this trailer. It almost looked like straight to TV quality to me, not a bad thing. It was just hard for me to get excited about the fight scenes with our character here. In the suit. Especially with this suit that can transform itself and you have all these cool weapons like cannons, blades and shields. I want to feel that a little bit more. This suit can also manipulate energy. It can also make things go invisible. So maybe they're just not giving us everything in this trailer. Maybe they'll set us up to blow us away later. I am hoping for that again. It comes out on August eighteenth. Dare I say it? I am hyped for it. This links addition of movie or bar and that is good to do it for another episode here of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta give my listeners shout out this week. It is a collective shout out because I announced last week that I am running a marathon again, my second marathon ever. If you're not aware, I am a pretty avid runner now. It all started ten years ago when I made the decision to get healthy, and the first step in my health journey was to just get my body moving. My first goal was to be able to run a mile without stopping, and that was hard for me. I was almost three hundred pounds. I could not run whatsoever. I could barely walk a mile without being at a loss for breath. But within that first year I made it a goal to do that. I was able to run a mile without stopping. One mile turned into two, turned into three, and in twenty seventeen, I ran my first marathon ever and it was the hardest thing I'd ever done. That I told myself I would never do it again. But then I found out that I could run a marathon and also raise money for a great cause. So I am running the Nashville Marathon on April twenty second and raising money for Saint Jude. And I put this up last week and the response was something I didn't really expect. I set my goal initially at five hundred dollars, and through the power of the B team, through the power of the movie crew, and just everybody's support, we were able to meet that so fast that I just kept upping the goal. So at the time of recording this, I went from wanting to hit five hundred dollars to hitting thirty five hundred dollars, which is crazy to me. So I wanted to thank everybody who donated. I was going through the list of donors trying to reply to everybody, couldn't get to everyone, so I just wanted to say thank you to everybody, because I saw a lot of people who said that they loved the podcast and that meant a lot to me. And reading all the stories you shared in the comment section of those donations really meant a lot to me and really gave me the motivation I was looking forward to really do well in this marathon, because even though I'm an avid runner still now, it was so hard the first time, I made a lot of mistakes and I am hoping to not make those again the second time around. But now that I see the support here and that I know that this money that we all raised is going to a great place and going to the kids at Saint Jude, I think it's going to feel a whole lot different to me. So thank you to everybody who donated. You can still donate if you are so inclined to. I will put the link in the episode notes of this podcast, so all you have to do is click it and any amount helps. We've already far reached anything I thought would be possible through this, so thank you. Hope you enjoyed this week's episode. There are so many movies to get to. We still have to talk about Dungeons and Dragons, the Super Mario Movie. There are so many movies coming out right now, so if I haven't made it to the movie where you you've been looking for yet, just know I'm reviewing as fast as I can, So until next time, go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you later