Desert Island Movie Bracket + Movie Review: Woman of the Hour (Netflix) + Trailer Park: One Of Them Days

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I am your host Movie Mike. Today we are doing the ultimate desert movie bracket. In the movie review, we're talking about a great new movie on Netflix, which rarely has great movies these days, and when they do, I want to tell you about them. It is Woman of the Hour, starring and directed by Anna Kendrick, the first movie she's ever directed, and man, this.

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Speaker 2: Movie will make you sick in the trailer park.

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Speaker 1: We'll get away from dark movies and talk about a new comedy coming out in January called One of Them Days that is very reminiscent of one of my favorite nineties comedies. But are we as a country, as a people, as moviegoers still embracing comedies. We'll talk about that. Thank you for being here, Thank you for being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew.

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Speaker 1: As It's a question I get asked frequently if you could only take one movie with you to a desert island, which movie would it be? It is so hard to answer. And what I've done, I've compiled a list of twelve different movies that I would all individually take on their own and I'm going to put them all against each other in this bracket. And what do you have to consider when thinking about desert island movies? Well, they have to be something you never get tired of to have rewatchability at this moment. All the movies on this list I've seen, I would say a minimum of five times minimum. Some of these I've seen upwards of fifty times. But they have to be movies you can't get tired of. So obviously, nothing really new is going to be on this list, at least not in the last ten years. They obviously have to be entertaining. I also believe in some cases they have to have a layer of depths, because when you think about a movie you're gonna watch over and over again, is the only one you have in your possession, whether it be a Blu ray, a DVD, a VHS, a laser disc or you have an actual film reel on a desert island. I don't know how you got there. I don't know what technology you have. Maybe you just have the file on your phone. But it has to be something that you can watch and break down different parts that maybe you haven't caught over time. So I did include some movies to me, I feel a little bit are more complex. Maybe they're not as comforting, maybe you have to think a little bit more, But I think that is important too, because if I'm on a desert island, I don't know how long I'm going to be there, and I think it would be good to have movies where you could pick up on things maybe you didn't see the first time. You could learn about things, maybe even discover something about yourself that you didn't know by really dissecting this movie. Because if it's the one thing you're going to be watching, you're gonna be dialed into every level of dialogue, every little camera movement, every little concept in that movie is going to become your world. So it's kind of like giving your brain like a real complex book to read. You're gonna get smarter by watching it. Is kind of my ideology on some of these picks. It also just has to be something that is comforting. And the reason I've rewatched some of these movies upwards of fifty times, and I know we don't really have this concept anymore, but they'd be movies that you would watch on TV at any given point and just sit there and continue to watch. We don't really have that anymore, and that is dying out in today's culture because we have so many options, and when you sit down to watch something, you are so intentional about it. You get on your streaming service and you start looking around, and you go and find and start something from the very beginning.

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Speaker 2: Very rarely do you hit the heah.

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Speaker 1: I'll just play whatever is on TV right now, and I have Hulu Live, and sometimes I'll go through and see what they are playing on different channels, and I never click on those, But I think back, and that was how I discovered a lot of movies when I was growing up. It just be me on a random Saturday, not even with cable, just basic TV watching Mattinees, discovering movies and really deciding within the first ten fifteen minutes if you're really going to enjoy it and sometimes I would sit there and watch movies that I didn't enjoy whatsoever, just because it.

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Speaker 2: Would be the only thing on.

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Speaker 1: We don't really have that anymore, so we're not really discovering the movies the same way now. It's just the movies that you go back and rewatch when they get added to a new service, like Spider Man goes from Hulu to Netflix and you're like, oh, it's here now, I will give it a watch. Or if you're all out of new things to watch, you go back and watch those classics. We don't really just stumble on movies like that anymore. But let's get into it. In round one, we have six different matchups. I'll go through, name each movie, Name the run time of each movie, because that is also important. How much are you getting out of this film? Because you only have one, I'll give you the two movies. I'll make my decision on which one is going to move on to round two and which one is going to go up in flames. Starting with the first matchup, Goodfellas coming in at two hours in thirty two minutes versus Heavyweights coming in at one hour and thirty five minutes, both nineties classics in their own regard. Goodfellas is an all time classic, my favorite Martin Scorsese movie.

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Speaker 2: You get everything.

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Speaker 1: You get the rise and fall, you get, the drugs, you get, the betrayal, you get, murder, you get sex, you get all the things that make a movie great. So many iconic lines in this movie. Has my favorite opening line to a movie of all time. Rayleiota Rip gave his best performance in this movie. But then you have Robert de Niro, Joe Peshi. Even the movie poster itself is iconic. I would wear it on a T shirt, I'd throw it up on a poster in my wall. Has an amazing soundtrack and is one of the most influential movies of the nineties. And it's also at a really great runtime of two hours and twenty six minutes. It's a movie that, back to that example of earlier, you could jump around and catch it at any moment and be so intrigued and so engaged because there are so many different levels to storytelling and Goodfellas. And on the other hand, the reason I decided to include Heavyweights on this list is because it is such comforting movie, one of my favorite movies growing up. Because I was a chunky kid, and I loved seeing a story about other chunky kids and accepting just being yourself even though you're not the cool skinny kid, because in Heavyweights, it's all the chunky kids that are the cool kids, and the skinny weirdos are the losers. And why I decided to include Heavyweights is I believe if I'm stuck on a desert island, I want something nostalgic. I want something that is going to ease the pain of hunger in my stomach, make me all. Even though they do eat a lot of food in this movie, maybe I didn't think that all the way through, but I want something to distract me from that, and the power of nostalgia to put me back into my young mind and how I was when I first watched this movie.

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Speaker 2: I think that is powerful.

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Speaker 1: Whenever I need any kind of comfort, I just go to like mid nineties Nickelodeon, live action Disney movies from that time, Animated Disney movies from that time. Anything in that genre is instantly.

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Speaker 2: Going to put me into a good mood.

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Speaker 1: Back when life was still just funny and you experienced things and didn't realize how significant that was going to affect the rest of your life. So that is why I put Heavyweights on this list over any other animated or Disney movie. Heavyweights is the movie that does it for me. But we gotta look at this matchup here, good Fellas versus Heavyweights. I think I made that point about I'm gonna be hungry on a desert island. I'll probably be surviving off of fish and coconut and random plants and berries. And seeing the Heavyweights kids eat Twinkies on their pizza, sneaking beef jerky, putting candy inside of hollowed out bedposts. I think that's gonna have an effect on me. And I also look at Goodfellas with that two hour and twenty six run time. That is a lot of movie. That's a lot of bang for your buck. It's a Martin Scorsese masterpiece. Moving on to round two is gonna be good Fellas and sadly going up in Flames is gonna be Heavyweights, all right. Next match up in round one, The Dark Night at two hours and thirty two minutes versus TMNT Secret of the Ooze coming in at one hour and thirty minutes, A tight packed in ninety minutes The Dark Knight has my favorite opening scene to any movie, has a lot of my favorite superhero quotes. Ah. That is a movie that just instantly sucks you in from that opening scene, and that's why I love that movie so much. And since two thousand and eight, out of any superhero movie, I think it's held up the most because it doesn't even feel dated at all to me. That movie is cemented in not even two thousand and eight, but just stands apart as being one of the best accomplishments from Christopher Nolan oh Man. That is a really tough one because on any given day, that could be my favorite movie of all time. A couple movies battled it out at one and two, and if you put a gun to my head, I think I would go Dark Knight over everything. But I have to think about the Desert Island scenario. And I've already seen The Dark Knight so many times. I rewatch it at least once a year at this point, sometimes twice a year. So it's a movie that I feel does have a lot of rewatchability because I've proven it. I've done it so many times. But do I need to continue to watch it based on the amount of times I've already seen it. That is a tough one because it is just so great, so perfect. Nothing bad I can say about that movie. He's ledger everything about it. On the other hand, you have kind of like the earlier matchup of the complete opposite of that Secret of the Ooze, which is the second TMNT movie ninety Minutes of Fun, incredibly nostalgic, my favorite iteration of the Turtles, where it's the perfect combination of comedy and then being the heroes that we need. But there are some elements now as I watch this more and more into my thirties, that I feel the movie starts to date itself. Even though this was my favorite TMNT movie growing up and it instantly puts me back into a good mood. It would take my mind away from anything going on in this desert island. I could watch it when I wake up in the morning to the sounds of waves crashing, or it could comfort me at night.

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Speaker 2: The movie really has it all. Oh.

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Speaker 1: I love Shredder and Secret of the Us, but I think if I had to go up against the Dark Knight, it's really hard to beat it. And even though this is one of my favorite movies from my childhood. I don't think it could beat The Dark Knight. So The Dark Knight, We'll move on to round two, and sadly, Secret of the Ooze will go up in flames. Moving on now to our next matchup coming in at one hour and thirty six minutes from two thousand and nine, The Hangover versus coming in at one hour and fifty minutes. One of the best movies ever from nineteen ninety four, which is a historic year in cinema, Dumb and Dumber arguably the two best comedies of each decade, best comedy from the nineties, best comedy from the two thousands, and The Hangover for the most part, still holds up pretty well. Oh the man, there are some jokes in there that are very questionable. Even if you go watch the trailer for The Hangover, you think, oh man, that word made the trailer. But I think it's a representation of the time. So I don't feel like we need to go back and cancel The Hangover. I think it's better that we have grown as people. We know there are certain words we can't say to describe people because they are just bad words and make you sound like an idiot. So I don't think we're in a space of like, oh, you can't make comedies anymore because you can't take anything negative about anybody because they get their feelings hurt. I don't think that is the thing. I just think you have to be smarter and you have to advance as people. You can't go back to things just said ten years ago because they just don't hold up.

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Speaker 2: Be better.

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Speaker 1: You can be better, and you can still be funny, but you have to try a little bit harder. You can't be solow brow and get away with it anymore. I think the people who say that are just unfunny people who want to say these same nasty, vile things that you could probably get away with even just back in two thousand and nine. But you gotta get better, you gotta get funnier. You have to get more creative in your writing, and Hangover kind of proves that if you do the same thing over and over again, some people are gonna get tired of it anyway. But Hangover Part one is one of my favorite comedies of all time. I love that entire franchise. I know two a lot of people hated. Three was essentially the first part over again in just a slightly different way, a little bit more intense. Everybody was a little bit more famous, a little bit richer, a little bit better looking. But I love that entire franchise, and I can sit down and watch it as a trilogy anytime. But Dumb and Dumber. When I first watched Dumb and Dumber as a kid, that changed everything about what I found funny because Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels just feel so animated and cartoon like, but it works.

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Speaker 2: So well their chemistry together.

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Speaker 1: All of the gags and jokes and quotes are perfect in this movie. So many iconic things come from Dumb and Dumber, and even watching it now as an adult, I still believe it holds up. And granted, my sense of humor at times can be very childlike. Maybe I haven't matured a whole lot in that department since my twenties or even before that, back in the nineties. But this movie is also an hour and fifty minutes, which is pretty long for a comedy movie. And nowadays, if I watch an hour and fifty comedy movie, it's going to feel like an hour and fifty minutes and gonna feel like, oh, man, let's get out of here. Dumb and Dumber doesn't feel like that. So even though I love the Hangover so much, I have to go with what I consider to be the best comedy movie ever made. Moving on to round two is Dumb and Dumber and going up in Flames is the Hangover.

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Speaker 2: Oh but it hurts me, Oh, it hurts me.

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Speaker 1: Next up in round one, we have Twister coming in at one hour and fifty three minutes versus Jurassic Park coming in at two hours and two minutes.

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Speaker 2: You guys know I love Twister.

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Speaker 1: I've had the director of this movie on this podcast earlier this year.

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Speaker 2: I told them all about how.

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Speaker 1: I've seen this movie over fifty times, eh, and I think that that's what it's gonna come down to do. I need to watch it more because I know this movie from the very start, the opening THX sound logo, from the very beginning, all the way to the end credits, Shine On, Shine On. I know every single lineup, dialogue and Twister. It's versus coming in at two hours and two minutes. Jurassic Park, which blew my mind as a kid. Another movie from nineteen ninety four, which you're gonna see a lot on this list, and Jurassic Park, the first one is such a big adventure and every single kid it is a rite of passage to have a dinosaur phase. We all grow up with it. Whether you're a boy or a girl, you grow up idolizing and thinking how cool dinosaurs are. Steven Spielberg, Oh, combined with his direction in this movie and the beautiful John Williams score, those magical moments that first time you see the dinosaurs is something that is just if I could put that feeling in a bottle and open it up whenever I want it to to feel it again, that first time you see the dinosaurs on screen and hear that score.

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Speaker 2: And.

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Speaker 1: I would play that clip, but I would go to podcast jail. If I could put that in a bottle and just open it up when I'm having a bad day and be like, oh, that is what I need to feel like right now, like an energy drink, like a shot of well, I don't want to say drugs. I don't want to encourage that, but something that you could just put in your bloodstream to feel better. That is the scene I would put into a bottle and open it at anytime. Oh but if I'm putting it against Twister. I I'm a scene Jurassic Park. Near as many times as I've seen Twister, I've probably seen it maybe around ten. Twister is over fifty. Now do I need to keep watching Twister? The answer is yes, Yes I do. Moving on to round two. Is Twister going up in Flames? Is Jurassic Park? We have two more excuse me there, We have two more matchups in round one, Avengers Infinity Ward coming in at two hours and thirty, and it's versus Star Wars a New Hope coming in at two hours. These are very similar in this matchup, and I believe Infinity War is the only MCU movie I included on this list because I feel that a lot of the MCU movies you need to have all of them run together in order to fully appreciate them. The thing I love and the thing I don't love about the MCU is they're very reliant on all the other movies to make them work. You could argue Iron Man the first one, maybe the first Guardians of the Galaxy, but for the most part, they feel like one big timeline that you have to watch the movie before it and after it to fully get just even where you are in the storyline. But Avengers Infinity War, to me, I feel like is a perfect film, even though it does lead right into Endgame. I feel is a perfect encapsulation of a story that is my favorite in the MCU, even with all those Spider Man movies in there. And it's also a beefy two hours in thirty minutes. And I included this one over Endgame because I feel that, yes, Endgame is longer, but I think Infinity War is just more exciting. And on the other hand, you have a new Hope, which is my favorite Star Wars movie of all time. It is the big introduction into this world, and I feel that my knowledge of Star Wars isn't as vast as it should be for somebody with glasses this stick. I don't really know a whole lot When people talk about like trivia with Star Wars, about all these planets, a lot of these side characters.

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Speaker 2: It is such a big world.

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Speaker 1: Even though I've seen these movies so many times, sometimes I just can't even name a character. People are talking about their favorite characters on TikTok and I'm like, I don't even know the name of that person. I can recognize them, but I feel like as a nerd, I should know more. And if I was on a desert island with this movie, I could do that. I could study it. I could write down all the character names, so it would really feel like I could take a deep dive into this movie and become more knowledgeable as a result. But if you have to look at entertainment value, I would have such a better time rewatching Infinity War as of now. I rewatch that and Endgame at least once a year, just all together, because it is a big investment to watch, like five hours of movies five and a half hours.

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Speaker 2: Oh, that is tough.

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Speaker 1: I love the way Infinity War starts, I love the way it ends. I think when I put those two together, I think over time, Infinity War would just hold up.

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Speaker 2: A lot better.

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Speaker 1: Even though I do believe a New Hope holds up the use of practical effects, give or take some scenes that are a bit questionable, I still think those practical effects hold up. But if I put these two next to each other, they're battling it out. I have to go with the Avengers, Infinity War moving on, and a New Hope going up in Flames Final matchup. In round one, we have Back to the Future coming in at one hour in fifty six minutes versus Inception coming in at two hours and twenty eight minutes. Back to the Future is a perfect movie mix to sci fi love story, little incest in there. There's a lot going on in Back to the Future, but for a movie that is two hours, that creates such a big concept and you're able to grasp everything and all these characters. That is a fantastic feat And I feel like if aliens came to our planet and said, you can show me one movie to represent what Hollywood is on your planet and represent it well, I would show them Back to the Future because you get a little bit of everything. I think if you were to break down movies by science on what is the perfect movie, I think it is Back to the Future because not only watching it at home, but watching it in a theater environment, it gives you everything you want out of that theater experience. You have Marty McFly, an iconic character with an iconic look, and it's fantastic trilogy, one of the best.

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Speaker 2: Trilogies of all time.

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Speaker 1: But again just focusing on the first one, I.

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Speaker 2: Think it is perfection a plus.

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Speaker 1: Inception is another Christopher Nolan movie that has made the list one of my favorite directors, and I think people forget how good that movie is, and it's a movie that you don't entirely get the first time you watch it, which is the case with the Inception and also the case with Interstellar.

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Speaker 2: From Christopher Nolan.

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Speaker 1: There are movies you really have to dive into the concept about it, and I just rewatch Inception. Shout out to night Light Events in Nashville. They host these outdoor movie screenings where they have this big, inflatable screen. You sit down at this really cool park in Nashville. They have food, so you go grab your food and then sit on this lawn and watch a movie with big sound, with a bunch of people in a really unique environment. Kelsey and I went, and she had never seen Inception, and I've seen this movie a lot, but even rewatching it in that setting, I felt a little bit like I was rewatching some parts for the very first time. A movie with one of those concepts, you really have to think about a dream inside a dream, How do you implant a thought into somebody's dream and have them believe that they created that thought on their own. I didn't really get the first time I watched it all the way through. And when you don't fully understand a movie, you can mistakenly think like, oh, that's a bad, dumb movie. But really you just have to watch it another time, and maybe even another time and then go again to fully understand what is happening in Inception. And even then you can watch it understand it, but there are still some things that are left to interpretation. It does have an open ending where you can believe one thing or you can believe an entirely different thing. It's up to you as the viewer to decide what actually you believe happened in this reality and in this dream. That is why I think it is such a fun, complex movie that I would love to have with me on a desert island. Oh so there's a lot to dive into there. You get about thirty more minutes out of Inception, and maybe I could even just learn more about my brain and lucid dreaming, and I could learn how to do inception by watching Inception. Who knows, but back to the Future as one of the best eighties movies of whole time. That's a tough matchup, but I think I'm gonna have to go with the underrated pick here and go with Inception. So that is moving on to round two and back to the future is going up in flames. Now it is time for round two. We'll move a little bit faster now that I've given you my reasoning on why these have even ended up on this list, and we're gonna get down into it now. Round two. Goodfellas versus The Dark Knight. Ooh, that is a tough matchup. Oh, and they're both kind of around the same runtime. Dark Knight has about eight minutes on it, But I feel like in Goodfellas, there are more storylines to follow, there's more character development. I feel like there are also some fun moments in Goodfellas because you do have the good with the rise. Eventually you have the downfall. You have Ray Liotta coked out of his mind making dinner for everybody and driving around picking up drugs. So you have the good in the beginning where everything is awesome, and then where his entire life gets ripped away from them. And the Dark Knight is arguably it could be one of my favorite movies of all time. But I think if I were stuck on a desert island. I feel like I've already seen The Dark Knight so many times that I would want to dive more into Goodfellas. I think moving on to the final round is gonna have to be Goodfellas and sadly, Oh, I didn't see this coming, but the Dark Knight is going up and playing y'all. Next matchup, Dumb and Dumber versus Twister. Oh, this could be even tougher than Goodfellas versus The Dark Knight because both nineties movies. Oh, Dumb and Dumber is so funny from beginning to end, and it is longer. But Twister, I've seen it fifty times? Do I need to see it more? I don't think I've seen Dumb and Dumber that many times. I used to have both of these movies on VHS, would watch the crap out of these. My family as a whole, we all love both of these movies, and I would it would take no convincing to get them to sit down and watch either of these with me. And I guess on this desert island, I have to think I'm alone. I don't think Kelsey's with me. I don't think I have family or friends with me. If I'm alone, do I want to experience Twister alone? Or do I want to laugh my butt off and escape reality. This is a tough one, y'all. And even though I would say I love Twister more, if I were ranking it on my favorite movies, it would rank higher. But I think in this situation on a desert island, I would take the comedy over Twister. So Dumb and Dummer is moving on to the final round. Oh another one. I didn't see this coming up and have burned out. I don't even want to say it. Uh, Twister is going up in flames, forgive me all. And the final matchup in round two Avengers Infinity War versus Inception. Somehow, this doesn't seem as drastic than in round one. I think it is a clear easy winner here. I don't even have to debate this one that much. It is easily Infinity War an Inception goes up in flames as much as I fought for Inception over Back to the Future, how quickly it goes down. So now we have the final round, and since we just had three winners in round two, we're going steel cage match three people only one Gets Out of the Steel Cage, Good Fellas, Dumb and Dumber, Avengers Infinity War all entirely different movies. You have a crime epic drama on one hand, comedy slapstick on the other hand, and then you're some freaking nature and you have another third hand, you have a superhero movie Avengers Infinity War. Automatically, I'm taking out Avengers, and oh am, I automatically taking that out. Oh no, I think automatically I have to take out Goodfellas because if I'm on a desert island. Now, I'm just thinking about runtime. Oh no, I can't think about runtime. I'm just thinking about rewatchability.

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Speaker 3: Here.

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Speaker 1: I think, out of these three movies, I would be more inclined to rewatch Infinity War and Dumb and Dumber over Goodfellas. I'm thinking of if these movies were on the shelf and I was going to grab, I could only grab two right now, if I had to save one in a situation, the island is on fire, the island's oh now, I've because I burn all the other one.

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Speaker 2: The island's on fire.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, the island is on fire, and right now I can only grab two of the movies. To save in that fire. Good Fellas is going up there. It's staying in the fire. I've saved two movies. I have Dumb and Dumber in my left hand. I have Avengers Infinity War in my right hand. I am running through this forest on this island. There are branches falling all around me. It is madness. I am all covered and just ash. My clothes are all torn up with flame holes. I don't even know how I got all these flame holes. But now this branch lands on me. Oh no, I'm stuck here. I'm gonna burn and I can use one hand and one arm to get out of this situation. That means I have to let go of the movie in that hand to be able to dig myself out. Which one am I going to let go of? Dumb and Dumber versus Avengers Infinity War. I gotta dig myself out. I could feel the flames running down my body. I got to get out of here. I can only save one movie. That movie is going to be Desert Island Movie. Out of all those movies. If I could only save one, and rewatch it until I get rest from this island that for some reason is now completely on fire. It is gonna be dumb and dumber, and Infinity War is going up in flames as we speak, and.

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Speaker 2: I feel really good about that.

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Speaker 1: I know the movie is an hour and fifty minutes, but you get all the last you get the rewatchability, you get that nostalgia too, because even though I don't really associate that movie with my childhood, it is just one of the best of all time.

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Speaker 2: I feel good about that.

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Speaker 1: My Desert Island movie from nineteen ninety four is dumb and dumber. Let me know, if you could only have one movie to watch on a desert island, what would it be? Hit me up on socials at Mike Distro, literally everywhere, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook. You can always find all the links to my social media in the episode notes. Well come back, I'll give my spoiler free review of Netflix's Women of the Hour. If you like watching a thriller and not leave in your house, then I have the movie for you, Women of the Hour on Netflix. And anytime Netflix puts out a movie that idem is worthy, I want to share it with you guys.

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Speaker 2: And why do I say it has to be worthy?

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Speaker 1: Well, because for the most part I believe Netflix kind of Kills movies. For me, I'm a theater guy. I have some bias. I still believe that going to the theater is the best way to experience a movie, sitting in a theater with the big screen, with the sound, having the ambiance of the room, taking in a movie the way the director and actors intended you to take in that movie, which I also know that means is because they make the most money off of that experience. But I still believe that that is how a movie should be taken in. And Netflix, for the most part, doesn't really have any big titles. I think the term Netflix original really doesn't carry any way to it. A Netflix original to me kind of says, oh, I really shouldn't waste my time on this. I should only watch this if I have run out of all the old episodes of their shows I want to watch, and I just need to watch something because I have nothing else. That is what Netflix movies kind of feel like to me. Although in the last month they've actually put out some two two decent movies that I would actually recommend to you, and on the top of that list is Woman of the Hour. It's stars and is directed by Anna Kendrick. This is the first movie she's ever directed. It is based on a true story. Now, if you are into true crime, I think this is the movie for you. And I don't even really consider myself to be someone into true crime.

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Speaker 2: I don't seek it out. I don't listen to true crime podcasts.

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Speaker 1: I would only recommend you listen to a movie on like this movie podcast that's it, don't listen to anything else. But I think for me, it feels icky at times to be into true crime, especially when it's these people covering events that are happening right now, unfolding before our eyes, and dealing with people's stories who are still living, and you think about how that affects somebody who is maybe a survivor of some of these things, a family member, a friend, And to have somebody in their basement going through all these files and doing podcasts about well, when they ripped their guts out, they did it at this location, and I dug into family records and found this, Like that feels like kind of an invasion of privacy to me, and you kind of lose grasp on reality of treating people like they're not real people and just treating them as subjects. That's why I can't really get into true crime. So for the most part, I don't get into it. With this story, I wasn't too familiar with. It also happened back in the seventies, so at least there's a little bit of distance there. But this movie is based on a true story about a dating game killer. So the movie is based on true events about the serial killer named Rodney who went on a dating show, a primetime dating show while he was in the midst of a killing spree. And on the show, the dating Game, you have the woman contestant who is asking questions to three dudes standing on the other side of this wall. She can't see them, she can only hear their answers. She's asking pretty much all these fluffy, puffy questions, trying to get to know their personalities.

00:31:31
Speaker 2: It's all in good fun.

00:31:33
Speaker 1: Then at the end of the episode, she is supposed to pick a guy and they're supposed to go on this sponsored trip somewhere sexy. But then it all goes crazy because in this actual show there's this serial killer there, and in the clips that you can actually watch on YouTube, the actual episode of the show has kind of been lost to the archive over the years.

00:31:55
Speaker 2: The entirety of.

00:31:55
Speaker 1: It doesn't exist anymore, but there are some clips that you can watch. There are some things that Anna Kendrick actually based this movie on when portraying real life Rodney, And if you go watch these clips, it is so creepy to watch because the guy is kind of charming, and that is what actually happens with these real life serial killer dudes. You think about Ted Bundy and in the Zach Effron movie, how they portrayed him to be like this really smooth dude with the ladies who had some kind of charming good looks, and that's how he would bring these women in to think, Oh, I'm so disarming to you with my smile. And you see that in this dating game show footage he's making jokes. They also reference that in the movie he's being charismatic. He has a smile on his face the whole time. You would not suspect this dude of being a cold blood killer. So not only does Anna Kendrick direct this movie, which I think she did a fantastic job in her directorial debut, and I love me a directorial debut, and I also love me actors turned directors because because I feel like they have a much deeper appreciation for getting the best performances out of their actors, and that is exactly what this movie does. And I can already see her really unique vision in filmmaking from just an extensive career in the industry. But she plays a character named Cheryl, who is based on the real person who went on this dating show. Now, some of these things they did have to make up, however, because the full episode has been lost to time. But overall what ends up happening as a result to the episode did actually happen. They do embellish a little bit the backstory of Cheryl in the movie. Anna Kendrick has moved to Los Angeles. She is trying to make it as an actor. Not getting any callbacks, she goes to this one really creepy audition where the guys there are asking her, will would you mind doing nude scenes? And she's not open to that and ultimately doesn't get the part. So then she gets a call saying, hey, we have a TV show for you, and she thinks, Oh, I don't even have to audition for this. I already got the part, and then finds out it's actually a dating show, So not only is it telling you the story of this insanely awful serial killer, it's also a bit of a commentary on the life of a woman trying to make it in Hollywood back in the seventies, where if you think how awful it is now of people going through these awful, horrendous casting auditions where men are absolutely vile saying things to women, you think about how bad it is now, think about how much worse it was back in the seventies, where this stuff was just common practice.

00:34:32
Speaker 2: People weren't getting called out.

00:34:34
Speaker 1: This is way before the me Too movement, which is also what this movie is a commentary on. But man, she ultimately doesn't get that part because she doesn't want to do a nude scene and these dudes are so creepy about it, and she doesn't even really want to do the dating show. She's just trying to make it in Hollywood, and somebody convinces her that, hey, this will give you an opportunity to be seen. Go do the dating show. It's easy, and maybe it'll lead to other opportunities. Not thinking what is going to happen and who she's going to encounter in this show. At all is what is waiting for her, and I don't really want to reveal all the details of it, even though it is based on a true story. They've actually even adapted this into a movie before this, but this was before the me Too movement, So I think that's also why it felt like a little bit more of a refreshing take, because there are even people in the audience who say, I know that guy. I need to talk to somebody because I need to warn them about this guy, and they don't listen to her. So you have that going on as the a plot in this movie. But then through flashbacks, you were learning about some of his victims, and going back to what I was saying earlier about sometimes having trouble taking in the details of true crime and the morals around telling these types of stories, I think that part was actually handled in a really careful manner where it wasn't glorifying any other violence, which I feel sometimes is what true crime does. They dive into all these just crusome details in the podcasts talking about it because if it bleeds, it leads, and that whole thing of like, oh, you got to tell the most gruesome parts to get the most reaction out of your audience. I don't really think that's what they were trying to do. And I got the sense of that from the very opening scene of this movie. That really set the tone, which this movie is all about tone, because you think about having such I don't want to say great premise, but a unique premise that is polarizing and going.

00:36:24
Speaker 2: To be interesting to people.

00:36:25
Speaker 1: You can't just give this story to anybody and think, oh, this is an instant home run. It is such a wild story that no matter how you make this movie, it's going to be great. No, it all comes down to tone, because if someone else took this exact same story but didn't have the tone that Anna Kendrick was able to nail down and hone in on, this movie would not work the same.

00:36:45
Speaker 2: And I absolutely love that.

00:36:47
Speaker 1: One of her biggest inspirations was No Country for Old Men by the Cohen Brothers, which is one of my favorite movies of all time. It is actually the movie that made me want to do what I am doing now reviewing movies. When I saw Oh, No Country for Old Men in two thousand and seven, my sixteen year old brain's mind was completely blown. It made me really fall in love with filmmaking and learning about why directors do the things that they do. It's like when I stopped calling them movies, it started calling them films. I thought it was so like sophisticated as a sixteen year old, But No Country for Old Men in two thousand and seven, one of the greatest years in cinema history of all time is the movie that did it for me, and Anda Kendrick said that was a major inspiration for her. That big opening scene in this movie, which a very specific thing that I like in movies is when they are able to capture, through such beautiful cinematography, a breath taking landscape. And I really got the sense of that even before I knew that No Country for Old Men was a inspiration to this opening scene. I felt that it is that feeling of seeing the mountains, and if done the right way, through that cinematography, through the score, I myself can transport myself right into that scene. I can smell the air, I can feel the sun on my skin, and that is the power of filmmaking to be able to put the viewer right into that scene and think I can smell the dirt in this situation because through this vision and through this scope the director has put me there. Not only does it set the tone visually, but also through the use of violence, which if you've seen No Country for Old Men starts with a very brutal scene. Anton Sugar is the serial killer in that movie, and oh boy, what a sinister character who murders all the victims in that movie in such a unique way that you wouldn't even think about it. And that is kind of the entire purpose and thought behind that movie of Tommy Lee Jones being an aging character in law enforcement and not being able to comprehend all these new crazy things these criminals are doing to kill people, and the idea of we just go back to the good old days where they were just good old fashioned crime. So Anna Kendrick sampled directly from that type of violence by showing you one of the first victims in this story in a very raw and not in a good way, but it is breathtaking. This movie will make you, in a very captivating way, feel very uneasy and angry at times because of how much you hate this serial killer just an awful, awful person. So you have a great performance from Anna Kendrick, a fantastic job directing, beautiful cinematography.

00:39:31
Speaker 2: I love the way that it.

00:39:33
Speaker 1: Weaves between what is going on on the dating game show and back into the stories and backstories of all the victims without getting too gruesome into all those little details, like they don't need to over show some of those things. It's also what Anna Kendrick decided not to show in the movie and where the story allows your brain to go, because sometimes that is way more haunting than anything you could show on screen. And on top of all of that, this movie is only nine minutes long. It is rare now to find a movie this captivating under two hours. For the most part, the only thing you can get for ninety minutes is a comedy. So I love that she didn't feel the need to stretch this story out. It is a jam packed ninety minutes, little to any at all downtime, and I think going back and forth between timelines and perspectives really helps move this movie along. Again, if you're into true crime, I think you will enjoy this movie. I think it's one of those that you're either gonna love or hate it, but either way, it is a big home run that Netflix needed for Women of the Hour. I give it four out of five potential shooters.

00:40:41
Speaker 3: It's time to head down to movie Mike Treylar Paul twenty twenty four has been pretty weak in the comedy movie department.

00:40:52
Speaker 1: I think the main reason we don't see a whole lot of comedies these days is they just aren't as profitable as they used to be, and studios do not want to.

00:41:01
Speaker 2: Take that risk.

00:41:02
Speaker 1: Movies as a whole are really bad investments. Just look at major movies this year that have cost a ton of money and lost a ton of money. But whenever you can put out a movie it doesn't cost you a whole lot to make and ends up being a smash at the box office, that is what studios chase. And you can have that a lot of times with a comedy and also a horror movie, because those can be made for a relatively low budget based on the actors you're working with, the premise you're working with, And I think that's why those genres are still appealing to streamers.

00:41:39
Speaker 2: And big movie studios.

00:41:42
Speaker 1: But comedies in particular are just becoming so so scarce that whenever a trailer liked this one I'm about to talk about actually drops and looks good it is so surprising and refreshing, and I'm like, all right, we're getting back to when comedies were good, and that is exactly the feeling I had after watching one of them days. And it's not coming out this year, so we're pretty much cutting our losses in comedies for twenty twenty four. But it is coming out on January twenty four, twenty twenty five, so kicking off the year with a good comedy. There's one thing I like and one thing I don't like about that release date. I love that in January there are really no expectations for a movie. It is what is known in the industry as a dump month, where studios just kind of throw out a comedy, a random horror movie, just seeing.

00:42:29
Speaker 2: What will stick against the wall.

00:42:30
Speaker 1: Because we just got out of the holiday season, We're pretty much out of the Oscar season by that point. People really aren't going to the theater that much early in the year. So I was like, all right, we'll throw out a comedy that maybe cost us twenty thirty forty million, and we'll see what we can make back. But sometimes you get some really unexpected sleeper hits in January. But for the same reason, I like that January release date is another reason I don't like it, because I feel if this movie is actually good, it's gonna get bare in the start of the year and nobody is gonna end up seeing it, and maybe it'll have a second life when it goes to streaming. But what is going on with this movie? You have Kiki Palmer and Siza who played two best friends trying to raise money for rent. It's an R rated comedy and very rarely do I actually laugh while watching a trailer, but this one got me a bit. There was also kind of a cringe worthy moment that I hope is in the indication of the comedy to come. But this, to me feels like a straight ahead comedy. And I'll get into more about why I think we don't see those a whole lot anymore and what I think so far in twenty twenty four is actually the biggest comedy.

00:43:36
Speaker 2: But before I.

00:43:37
Speaker 1: Get into all that, here's just a little bit of the One of Them Days trailer. Your boyfriends look our rint money and did.

00:43:43
Speaker 2: I invested it?

00:43:44
Speaker 1: This is our filter. If we don't get the rint money by six, we're gonna be on a car with fabians now we're gonna.

00:43:53
Speaker 2: Make fifteen hundred dollars by six.

00:43:54
Speaker 1: Not to mention I got the interview at four.

00:43:56
Speaker 2: Don't do it.

00:43:57
Speaker 1: It's a trap. You went alone. If you don't have the money this month, you're not gonna have it next month.

00:44:03
Speaker 2: R My credit score is currently a little credit score this month.

00:44:09
Speaker 1: You lucky she holding me back.

00:44:10
Speaker 2: You're lucky she.

00:44:11
Speaker 1: Holds me here. And that part in that trailer is actually the moment that got me whenever Kat Williams is talking about it. If you don't have the money this month, you're not gonna have the money for rent next month. I do like the commentary that this movie has on what it's like to be broke, and I haven't really seen that illustrated in the movie as of late. I feel like a lot of comedies don't really focus on things that affect everyday people. But when you can strike that cord of what it's like to be broke, not be able to pay for rent, and also this vicious cycle that people who didn't grow up without money don't realize is when you're broke, it is hard not to be broke. It is expensive to be poor sometimes because in this situation with these two roommates. You have the boyfriend who took the rent money and invested it in these Gucci shirts, trying to make a quick buck, so they don't have money to pay their rent. She has a job interview coming up, but has to find a way to pay the rent by six pm and still make that job interview at four pm. But sometimes in these situations, I've had family members who've had to do this. You have to go to these payday loan places that have atrocious interest rates that in that moment when you need that money, you don't really care how you get it, You don't really look at that number. There is a sign on the place that they go to in this movie trailer where you see an astronomical interest rate, And that is part of that vicious cycle of being broke, that you have to borrow some money to make your rent now, but then you spend your whole time trying to pay back that money, and then the rent comes again. Because life keeps going on, it keeps piling up and up and up, and even though you're working your fingers to the bone just trying to get by with things getting more and more expensive, the costs keep adding up. The bills are changing colors, and you find yourself in a situation like this. So I do think I like that they're representing this and showing this any movie, even though they are approaching it in a really funny way, but also kind of bringing to light on what a lot of people go through. And I think sometimes that people gloss over that fact that just because you're broke doesn't mean you're not working hard. I think sometimes the system is just set up to keep broke people broke, and that's not good. Something has to change there. But I digress on that rant because this is a comedy we are talking about here, but also in this cast you have Lil Rel, who makes any comedy better. You also have maud Apatow, which was a cameo I was not expecting in this trailer, but really I want to see more Kat Williams. I think he is hilarious. It is very rare to get just a straight ahead comedy like this, because I think something that the comedy genre has suffered is you can't just be a comedy anymore. And what I mean by that is movies back in the nineties and two thousands could just be straight ahead comedies. And I think what has been the downfall of comedies is we have become more critical of what we find funny because through the Internet we've been exposed to things that are quicker and funnier, and we could get on TikTok for ten to fifteen minutes and find a lot of funny things back to back that get straight to the point that sometimes is hard to translate back into a movie. So I feel that the comedies as of late that have been successful have also been something else. It's been a comedy sci fi, it's been a comedy horror, which has seen a lot of success when something is scary but also fun and campy and out the root of it still has horror elements, but you don't really go into it expecting to be scared. It's one of those Hey, let's take some friends and go watch something silly and watch people be bloody with each other. And I think what was the biggest comedy of the year was Deadpool in Wolverine, which is a superhero movie at its core, but if you look at that in the grand scope, it is a comedy movie. The amount of jokes and gags throughout that entire film is all comedy that is what the Deadpole character has created. So in order to have a successful comedy this year, you had to have the big, expensive budget, this incredible cast with all these star studded cameos to make a relevant comedy, which, by the way, Deadpool and Wolverine will be streaming on Disney Plus starting Tuesday, November fourteenth. So I am excited to go back and watch that and catch some things I didn't catch in theaters. But back to this movie, it feels like to me, Keki Palmer and Sisa are gonna have amazing chemistry. I'm not sure if the first time they met was on Saturday Night Live back when Keiki hosted it in twenty twenty two and Sisa was the musical guest. Maybe that was the start of it. Because Sissa is still relatively new to the acting game and Keki Palmer is coming off movies like Nope and Hustlers. She's about to be in a new heist comedy called The Pickup with Eddie Murphy and also a movie directed by Asi's I'm Sorry called Good Fortune that also stars Seth Rogen and Keanu Reeves. So she is crushing it right now, and I think the two of them together just makes sense and looks funny. The premise of this movie really reminds me of the first Friday movie, which those characters had a similar situation where Smokey and Craig got into some trouble because they smoked on their own supply and then owed Big Worm a lot of money. Had to pay them back by the end of that Friday otherwise they were gonna get killed, which it also looks like in this trailer at one point somebody is going to murder them as well, So maybe they did borrow a little bit from Friday. Just looking at the beats of this story from the trailer, it does look like it's going to be a little bit predictable, but I'm not mad at that. The only part that was a little bit cringe worthy to me was whenever there's a scene of Sizza trying to get these air Jordans off of the power line and she ends up getting shocked. The CGI in that scene looked really suspect, and her falling on Keki Palmer's character. That entire sequence just didn't really flow together to me, and I have to hope that the only reason they included that in the trailer is because maybe it was one of the bigger stunts, one of the more expensive scenes, and they're like, Okay, we got to showcase this moment because it's so wacky and outlandish. Which, speaking of Friday, I did see, I keeps say that Friday four has finally got some traction with Warner Brothers. They're apparently working on something, even though he was trying to just get the rights back to Friday and make the movie on its own. As much as I love that franchise, I think with you have three of a movie and it's kind of fizzled out, and really it's only that will they or won't they make another movie? Nobody really cares to see it. I think at this point you kind of move on because it's never gonna live up to the expectations. We can bank on the nostalgia of the movies we already grew up with and love, but I really don't need to see a Friday four. I even see that the Wayne's brothers are bad going to do another scary movie, and that is kind of the same deal, although a little different with their situation because they were involved in one and two and then we're not involved in any of the other scary movies, and those first two movies were hilarious at a time that I felt parody movies were still relevant. I don't really think another scary movie, even with the Waynes Brothers back at the Helm, would be successful now. And it's harder and harder to do a parody like that in a movie because you have to assume that everybody has seen all the things that you're gonna poke fun at. And I think in the world that we live in today, not everybody is watching all the same movies, much less the same TV shows, So it's gonna be harder making jokes about things when some people just.

00:51:27
Speaker 2: Aren't going to get it.

00:51:29
Speaker 1: It is wild that I saw this old footage on TikTok of people in the nineties talking about their favorite movies, and it was like in maybe ninety nine, and everybody talked about movies that had come out in the last two years. If you were to make that same video today in twenty twenty four and ask people their favorite movies, I have to imagine that maybe ten to fifteen percent would actually mention a movie that came out this year or in the last two years. A lot of people would talk about movies that came out back in the nineties and early two thousands and movies they grew up with. So if you think about that and how we consume media now and trying to make a movie based on the fact that everybody has seen these most recent horror movies like they did back in the first scary movies where they were making fun of things happening in that era of filmmaking.

00:52:20
Speaker 2: I don't think that'll work today.

00:52:21
Speaker 1: So that's an snl skit at best, but I am hopeful about one of them days again. It is coming out on January twenty fourth, twenty twenty five at that.

00:52:31
Speaker 2: Bar is this week's edition of Movie Mind Framer Bar.

00:52:35
Speaker 1: And that is going to do it for another episode here of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta give my listeners shout out of the week this week, I'm going over to Instagram dig it in my DMS. This week's listeners shout out goes to Katie. Katie sent me a message because I posted a video last week of my review of Venom the Last Stance and said, you have changed my mind about going. I will save my free movie ticket for a different movie. I was so disappointed with Venom the Last Dance. I stand by my one point five at a five rating, and whenever I don't like something, I do try to tell you who would enjoy that movie and what maybe some elements that I didn't like personally that other people would like. I never want to drag something for the sake of dragging it, knowing that this movie could be for somebody. But there were very few details in Venom the Last Dance that I could really see anybody enjoying. So it's one I wouldn't recommend going to see in theaters. But if you have seen one, have seen two, and don't want to waste your money, just wait till it goes to streaming. So thank you for that message, Katie. It means a lot to me when people say, hey, I went to go see or didn't go see a movie based on your review, because I do take pride in having fair and balanced reviews, even though I know I'm ridiculous at times. But if I can save you time, save.

00:53:49
Speaker 2: You money, that is why I do this podcast.

00:53:52
Speaker 1: So thank you for being here, thank you for being subscribed, and until next time, go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you later.