Best and Worst of June with Mike and Kelsey + Movie Review: Why Did Jurassic World Rebirth Suck? + Trailer Park:  Project Hail Mary

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's movie podcast. I am your host Movie Mike joined with my wife and coast Kelsey. How are you.

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Speaker 2: I have the post vacation scaries?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I have that, just it was so nice and now having to get back to regular life, it's like, uh, yeah.

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Speaker 3: I took the Friday off before we went on vacation too because I was about to have a mental breakdown from life. And our water heater broke and our power had gone out that week and it was just like everything and I was like, I need.

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Speaker 1: It's been one thing after another for a while now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then our closet broke this morning.

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Speaker 1: A lot of things going on, but it could be worse.

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Speaker 2: It's just small things.

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Speaker 3: But yes, I have the post vacation scaries thinking about my inbox.

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Speaker 1: Oh oh gosh. Well, we are here to talk about the best and worst for the month of June. In the movie review, we'll be talking about Jurassic World Rebirth, and in the trailer Park we'll be talking about Ryan Gosling in a book adaptation called Project Hail Mary. Thank you for being here, Thank you for being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now let's talk movies from the dust Trolle podcast Networking Movie Movie Popped app best and worst movies of June. Kick us off. What was the best thing in your opinion?

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Speaker 2: It was the last thing we saw in June. It was f one exciting. It was really good.

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Speaker 3: We always see a movie on the day that we get to Scottsdale for vacation because there's a really nice mall in theater there and usually we have to kill time. So we were already planning to go see it, and then we didn't have to kill time because our room was ready, but we were like, let's still go see it. We also kind of go into it and we're like, well, if we need to take a nap, but it was so good that I didn't want to take a nap.

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Speaker 1: I will like to shout out the theater that we go to in Scottsdale, which I guess it's a regional chain.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think it's like West Coast Harkins Harkins, Yeah, And it's the one at the Scottsdale Fashion Quarterball.

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Speaker 1: Big mall as a very nice theater.

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Speaker 2: We love to do a lap around them all there, and I.

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Speaker 1: Do feel like the overall quality of that movie. Theater added to me enjoying it because it was it wasn't on iMX, but just their normal screen alone was so much like bigger and crisp, and it had like the big stadium seating which we have here technically.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it also was just like a bigger theater.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Just overall it was bigger, maybe even twice the size of some of our theaters here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and they had doctor Pepper products so I could get a diet Doctor Pepper, which is usually unheard of.

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Speaker 1: It almost has like an old school movie style vibe as far as the theater, but very new and refreshed. The picture quality on that screen was just really great. The sound was really great, which I think really adds to F one because of all of the sound design in that movie, sound to the cars and the sound effects, but also like the way the music is used. So I feel like that really put all the sounds of that movie at the forefront, and I felt it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great theater.

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Speaker 3: We got there about tickets like five minutes before the movie starts, which isn't usually us normally we're like a week in advance. But we got perfect seats. It's great. It was nice to like escape the heat for a little bit. But back to the movie. Yeah, the movie was great. I just loved like the way they filmed it was really cool. I loved like the shots that felt like you were in the car, the like pit stops. I loved Damson Idris. I think he's British. I think so, and I saw that he might be the new Black Panther that would He was great in it.

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Speaker 2: Brad Pitt was great.

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Speaker 3: But I did see an article that was like brad Pitt's like kind of on like an image rehab tour, and I was like, oh, yeah, this movie makes you like Brad Pitt again.

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Speaker 2: But then there's all those terrible things that he apparently did.

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Speaker 1: So it's like separating art from artists a little bit. Because we did leave thinking like, oh man, he was so good in it. He had so much charisma. You realize why he is the level of movie star that he is because that movie is just him, like being classic Brad Pitt of even like the way he laughs, the way he just owns every scene that he is in, and then you kind of realize for a person to get to that point and they have to be maybe sometimes not the best person.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a tortured person to be that creative.

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Speaker 1: And you just look at like the relationship he has with his kids allegedly, you know, there's a lot there, Angelina. It's a great movie.

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Speaker 3: I'm not necessarily endorsing bread Pitt as a human, but yeah, it was just really good. I didn't think I'd be into like racing movies, but now I want to go to an F one race.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, which I think is what the movie is doing now. It's inspiring a lot of people to get interested in the sport, which, like, what better commercial than the brad bits that are in a movie about F one. I think I low key really enjoy racing movies now because for v Ferrari was also a really good one. Even Grand Tarisma that we saw was not maybe last year or the year before that. That's a pretty middle of the road racing movie. But just the formula, even though it's kind of predictable, it's all kind of like you know what is going to happen, It has all the same kind of elements. It's still entertaining as far as like sports movies go.

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Speaker 2: Didn't feel like it was two and a half hours.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it goes by really quickly, and I think overall, the formula of a racing movie is just amla Formula one. The formula of Formula one is just exciting. I kind of want to go back and revisit some classics that maybe I haven't seen, and I think I would to watch a sequel to F one, But what do you call it?

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Speaker 2: F one?

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Speaker 1: F two, F one part two, F one, part two one. Overall, I really enjoyed this one as well. And it's from the same director who did Top Gun Maverick, which I feel like really added to that level of action of like making you feel like you're a part of it and you feel the rev of the engine in your seat.

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Speaker 3: And then you have like Jerry Brockheimer as a producer. Hans Zimmer did the score right. Yeah, So it's like all the people that have done big movies over the years like kind of built. I'm like, this is what Apples should be spending their money on. Yeah, this is what Apples should be spending their money.

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Speaker 1: On, which is good for them to now have a big hit on their hands. And I think overall it's just a really crowd pleasing movie. That I feel like you could take your eighty year old grandma to watch it and also like your eight year old and everybody would find something that they enjoy in it because it's like there's nothing crazy to the plot. It's pretty easy. They want to win a race to bring their team back to or they're never been victorious to bring it its first victory. Can they do? That's that's all you need to know. That was really close to being my favorite of June. But I think for my favorite I'm going with twenty eight years Later, just because I think overall, when I picked probably my top ten of the year, twenty eight years Later easily gets in. I don't know if f one gets in. But even that movie I rated a four point five out of five, I still have not given out a five this year. I've been really close, which for me, a five has to be life changing to me. There hasn't been a movie like that this year, even though it's been a really solid year. I think the most four point five out of fives I've given out at this point of the year. So I think, after all is said and done, twenty eight years Later is going to be a movie that I see as like, oh, that's kind of a tent pole of where that franchise is going to go. So that's why I enjoy that one just a little bit more than F one, because I think leaving F one, I was writing more on the adrenaline of it than the plot, because it is so exciting. When you look at just the plot of that movie, it didn't really break any kind of ground that makes stand out above any other racing movie, but done really well as good as you can make a racing movie.

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Speaker 2: In my opinion, I think that's a good comparison analysis.

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Speaker 1: So that's why I rate it just a little bit higher. But overall a solid month for June. But we will talk now about our worst of the month. What do you have as your worst?

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Speaker 3: Shockingly, both of these were Apple films. One was Theater, one was released on streaming. I'm Gonna go Echo Valley.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Sydney Sweeney movie.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Julianne Moore, Sidney Sweeney.

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Speaker 3: It's kind of like a thriller book to me, where it's just like you're wanting more, but it's like how it's kind of tropy, like how many times can you rewrite a similar plot of her daughter as an addict comes to her for money, something happens, needs her to clean it up. Things happen. It felt like a thriller book that I've read before.

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Speaker 1: It fell overall, like I don't read those thriller books that you read. It just felt kind of the formula of a lot of shows and movies right now, where something goes wrong and then you have these people who have never been in this situation before. Again, we try not to give away a lot of the black details, but it just felt like this is kind of the pool that a lot of things are going to right now, and it's hard for something to stand out unless you do it really well. It also felt to me like maybe at some point this could have been a series, but there wasn't enough story to make it a serious so they condensed it into a movie.

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Speaker 3: Apple sometimes does that where it's like they make a series and it's like this should have been a movie.

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Speaker 2: I feel like they struggle with that.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes, Yeah, where it's like, in this case, it was just enough to even be a movie because it was only like an hour and a half maybe a little bit over that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't bad.

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Speaker 3: If you're looking for something, you're bored, there's nothing else. You just kind of want to palette cleanser. Like I said, it's like reading a thriller, Like I'll read a thriller between serious books, like when I just need something quick that I can probably predict, and that's just going to keep me turning the page.

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Speaker 2: Easy read. So it was easy watch.

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Speaker 1: I feel like it could have been great, but there was just something keeping it from being great. Yeah, and also I think Sidney Sweeney's character was really insufferable. Maybe that was by design because what her character is going through, but her entire relationship with her mom I found really just toxic and kind of annoying.

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Speaker 3: And Julianne Moore being kind of an enabler. And that's not a spoiler that's in the trailer.

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Speaker 1: That's literally the whole kind of premise of this movie, of her constantly trying to bail out her daughter. Sometimes it's hard for me whenever they do write such an insufferable character that you're supposed to be annoyed by, because I think they're doing their job and making you feel annoyed towards them, but then you just find the whole thing annoying. So I felt a reaction in my body every time her character was on screen, and the more trouble that she got into, you're like, oh, come on, like what is exactly going on here? But the movie still look good. Again, it's an Apple movie, so it still has like that visual style dark, very dark.

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Speaker 3: You literally can't watch anything that's on Apple in the daytime. The sun has to be downe.

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Speaker 1: Unless it's a comedy. In they're like, okay, we gotta do bright colors and make it a comedy like Stick is very.

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Speaker 3: Stick but even like the studio was like kind of but it was kind of dark visually again platonic, you're right as brighter ted Lasso. Yeah, comedies they tend to use brighter colors and all of their dramas are like you need to be able to turn the brightness up on your TV friends and neighbors.

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Speaker 1: Netflix kind of does the opposite, and I think they make their content now knowing that people watch on their phones and their iPads or wherever you watch it, that they make everything so so bright, so no matter what you're watching it on, it keeps your eyes on it.

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Speaker 2: It does make for a better viewing experience, it does, But all the things start to look the same.

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Speaker 1: They all kind of have like that greenish orange kind of filter on it where it's like almost a Netflix filter that everybody has to use now.

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Speaker 2: But everything on Apple looks the same.

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Speaker 1: It's all dark. Maybe they're all just going for their own profiles.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's kind of like how network television has certain like ways that they film. Gray's Anatomy has a color scheme that's much different than what er was on NBC, So it's like an NBC versus ABC thing. And I don't know how to describe it other than that, I.

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Speaker 1: Know what you mean. And I think back in the day, maybe ten even twenty years ago, it was more important. So when you're clicking through channels, different color palettes make you want to stop on that channel and.

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Speaker 3: You know, like what channel you're on, almost by the way things are filmed.

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Speaker 1: But now it's not we're not flipping channels. We are going streaming service to streaming service. I don't know if you really need that anymore, but that's just us being weird, of like the way things we watched.

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Speaker 2: So much TV in movies, so we notice it.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, run your worst. We get so into streaming service.

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Speaker 2: Echo Valley.

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Speaker 1: Your Worst was Echo Valley. My Worst was a movie you wanted to go see, and I initially, speaking of streaming movies, I thought it was a straight streaming movie. It is Bright Hard with Rebel Wilson.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't like I was necessarily like, this is gonna be a great movie, but it's been so hot that we also like turning the air up in our house and then going to summer colder.

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Speaker 2: So it was like, it's a good Saturday afternoon movie.

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Speaker 1: Which I'll go see anything.

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Speaker 2: We every little limited pays for itself.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and just two visits, not an AD.

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Speaker 2: So I was like, let's just go see it.

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Speaker 1: But when you describe this movie to me, it's Rebel Wilson, who plays like a secret agent.

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Speaker 2: And Anna Camp who they were both in Pitch Perfect together.

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Speaker 1: And they go on her bacheorette party, and while she's on this bachelorette party, Rebel Wilson goes off like on a secret mission. Their friendship is in jeopardy, and then she has to essentially rescue them all from some bad guys. Brideheart kind of a play on die Hard, obviously, So that's kind of what you're getting into a female led Diehard movie where she is trying to take out all of these bad guys who were holding her friends and family hostage. And like you said, you weren't going into this expecting it to be the best movie ever.

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Speaker 2: It made me laugh more than I expected.

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Speaker 1: But it was just one of those movies that you think, how did this get greenlit? And how did how'd they find the money for it?

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Speaker 2: Listen.

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Speaker 3: It also had Davine and Joy Randolph and I will see anything that she's in.

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Speaker 1: She's the best part of the movie.

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Speaker 3: I will see anything that she's in. Serious, funny, she does it all. She's amazing about down to her.

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Speaker 1: It's just it was interesting to me because it is a really if you think about the situation that they all get into, held at gunpoint by these criminals. There was no way that it felt dark in anyway, because could you imagine that happening. You go to a wedding and it gets taken over pipe people and then you're held hostage because they're trying to rob you. That would be a terrifying movie if done in any other style of right, But it's a comedy, so it feels so cartoonish, and I think overall, the action is what kind of drove me crazy because she is this like elite level secret agent and she doesn't grab a gun like her whole thing is like finding random objects to beat these people up with. So it was almost like Three Stooges esque or instead of like I'm gonna take this gun from you and shoot all these bad guys, it's like, no, I'm gonna go take the wedding cake and throw it in your eyes and then make you slip on a banana peel. So it was kind of like a live action cartoon.

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Speaker 3: It was reminiscent of kind of when Melissa McCarthy was doing all the like slapstick comedies.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she had a good run in the twenty tens.

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Speaker 2: Me laugh.

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Speaker 1: Maybe that's that's the only thing that kept me from enjoying this movie is the time that it came out, Like maybe ten years ago, this would have worked a little bit more.

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Speaker 2: Listen. It was better than a simple Favor two.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, simple Favor two.

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Speaker 2: We didn't even finish.

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Speaker 1: We didn't finish it, we didn't even review it because it was so bad.

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Speaker 2: So at least this one had some giggles.

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Speaker 1: I'll also give a full recap of every single movie I and you and I watched in June. Started off with The Venetian Scheme, which I gave a four out of five. Predator Killer of Killers was an animated movie on Hulu which I just watched kind of randomly. I'm with the biggest Predator fan, but that was awesome. I gave that one a four out of five, and want to see more of those Materialists, which we both love. I gave a four point five out of five. How to Train Your Dragon I gave a three point five out of five. Echo Valley for Me was a three out of five. Twenty eight years later was a four point five out of five. Brideheart, which I mentioned I gave a two out of five, and f one I give a four point five out of five. All right, those are our best and worst movies of the month. What about TV shows? What do you have as your best?

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Speaker 2: Easy?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 2: We were liars on Amazon Prime. Benched it on Vacation.

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Speaker 3: Came out like two weeks ago, and I was saving it and it's based on like a young adult book, and I thought it was great. Now I want to read the book. It was one of those where I was glad. I hadn't read the book before, but now it made me want to read the book easy, kind of like teen dark drama.

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Speaker 2: Couldn't wait to finish it. It was so good. I watched like six episodes in one day that.

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Speaker 1: The fastes you watched the TV show recently.

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Speaker 3: No cause I can binge a Netflix show in a day. I probably would have finished this in a couple days, but I liked waking up in the morning and like having my coffee and watching it, so I made it last a couple days, and then one night I stayed up and watched almost all of it.

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Speaker 1: I will say in June we had to run there of finishing a series like every Weekend, which was good. There was a lot of good stuff at once, and now it's kind.

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Speaker 2: Of listen, it's too hot to leave the house.

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Speaker 3: We don't have access to a pool, our backyard gets swarmed with mosquitoes. It's hot and humid. I have no interest in going in the outdoors. It cost too much money to leave the house. It's true, So put me on the couch and start a Netflix show.

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Speaker 1: For my best TV show of June, un easily goes to Squid Game Season three, which I enjoyed the whole thing. I know some people, I think people are always going to have a problem with how a series like this ends. You're never gonna please everybody.

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Speaker 2: People are always gonna have a problem with everything.

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Speaker 1: But I think with finales in particular, because people want answers to everything. People want everything to be resolved in a way that's just not possible. But for me, I always look at the journey of a TV show like, did I go through something with these characters that will be lasting to me that affected me emotionally? If it does by the end of it, like, that's all I care about. I don't care that every detail gets completely like here's exactly what you thought, here's exactly what happened, Everything like tied up in a nice little package. I just want to go on a journey with these characters. And that is what I felt at the end of Squid Game. Is it weird that I didn't even feel like it was a TV show? Because it felt so real to me that when I click an episode a Squid Game, it doesn't feel like I'm watching a TV show. It feels like I'm inside of a world. And I think that is a sign of something really just different and captivating that some shows I watch and it feels a little bit like a chore. Like whenever there's a Netflix show and there's eight episodes up already, I'm like, oh man, I got to get through eight episodes. It feels like, oh I'm doing something. I'm like doing homework. When I watch Squid Game, it's just like I'm in it. I don't look at the runtime. I don't look at how many episodes are left in the season, just because I completely get sucked into the show and that's all I think about. And I haven't had a show like that in a really long time. I loved it. I thought the ending was great. I thought it was satisfying to me, and I think it's built a world now that is going to be long last thing, hopefully with spin offs and maybe prequels. I think there's a lot they can do with it. But again, you're not gonna make everybody happy, so I think any of the negative reviews that are coming out, it's just people upset on how it ended. But we did talk about going on vacation, where do we go went to Scottsdale and why do we go there?

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Speaker 2: Because we like the because it's hot.

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Speaker 3: It's hot, there's a pool, there's a nice room that we can keep like sixty six degrees. And honestly, it's also cheaper during the summer because nobody wants to go to the desert.

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Speaker 1: Best and worst of vacation.

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Speaker 2: The worst was like leaving. I didn't want to leave.

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Speaker 3: The best was just kind of being able to unplug, sleep in, have no plans. We were never like, Okay, we have to be here at this time. Like it was fully just like what do we want to do? We went to a baseball game. Yeah, it was just being able to like kind of disengage for a bit. For me.

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Speaker 1: Best and worst. I think best was the baseball game, just because I think that's where that's kind of become our thing throughout our entire relationship. But go into baseball games, which I don't know how we both discovered that we both enjoy doing that. I think it was I mean, it's sorry with Chicago.

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Speaker 2: No, we went to a Roundick Express game.

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Speaker 1: Ah, sorry, we were, and then we were we started in minor leagues.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we were both like, I like baseball because I grew up watching baseball on TV with my grandparents and we used to go to Round Rock Express games all the time, and then yeah, our first vacation together was a trip to Chicago and we saw the Cubs versus the White Sox, and then ever since then, we just started going to baseball games.

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Speaker 1: But not I regally, which a lot of people think we went to.

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Speaker 2: Right now, we've only been to guaranteed rate Field.

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Speaker 1: I think it's just Rate Field now too, which is even more confusing.

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Speaker 3: But we are I know, we talked about seeing Wicked on Broadway Broadway when we go to New York next month. We're also going to a Yankees Animats game.

00:19:22
Speaker 1: Do you think we can go to all of the MLB parks in our lifetime?

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Speaker 2: I'd love to. I feel like we've kind of already started that unintentionally.

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Speaker 1: I think we try to do that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, sounds great.

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Speaker 1: So that was my best just because I love I love just being in a baseball park, and I think that's where we just have like it's also we do it towards the beginning of vacation, where it all feels like fresh and new and we're not thinking about the end of it. My foul balls, Yeah, we got very close getting nailed with the one my worst of vacation was even though we go there during the summer knowing that it's going to be hot, knowing that a lot of people don't go during that time because it.

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Speaker 2: Is so hot, a couple days where it was unbearable.

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Speaker 1: I would just say it was the heat more.

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Speaker 2: So getting in the car. Because you rented a black.

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Speaker 1: Car, which I knew was gonna be kind of an issue.

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Speaker 2: But you wanted a Bronco but I did.

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Speaker 1: It was the funnest car in the lot that we could pick from. I would have preferred a white one like we had last year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so that was getting in the car.

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Speaker 3: There was one day where we got in the car to go get like an assa ebol or something, and it was just so hot we didn't speak. It was like one of those where you're like, I'm going to roll the window down and the fresh hot air feels better than the stale hot air.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, even though I knew we were going into it to expect one hundred to one hundred and degree days, it's still like once you say, you're like, oh man, it's still really hot.

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Speaker 3: But I will say the pool is so nice. They're shade, they have such great service. They're always walking around with like fresh pictures of ice water, cold towels. Service there is phenomenal. So that's why we keep going back.

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Speaker 1: And we could go back again every summer. It just kind of feels to me like when I'd go to Mexico as a kid, where you get familiar with it, and also just something about being in a desert is of reminiscent of that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: We also one of the other reasons we go there is that it is one of the more affordable places to have a really nice room. Yeah, so we get like a room and it has its own rooftop decks. We have dinner out there. We sat out there and looked at the stars one night. We had dinner there most nights unless we were like at the restaurant on the property. We watched a thunderstorm roll in one night, which was really cool. You could just see the whole desert lightning everywhere.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I love Arizona because it's so flat and you can see for miles. So even just like looking out at the stars at night was like, oh, this feels different.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't get to see I feel like that much of the sky and.

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Speaker 1: Then you trim me out. When we got back. You were like, can you believe that's the same moon? And I was like, don't do that to me right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was like, that's the same moon that we were stargazing.

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Speaker 1: At, but it doesn't look the same here.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't.

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Speaker 1: It's like, weird, weird anything else? Do you have a book?

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Speaker 2: I do have a book. I read a lot in June.

00:21:51
Speaker 3: I've been doing this thing where I actually get up on time in the mornings and read and have coffee before I start my day.

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Speaker 2: And I hate to admit it's actually changed things.

00:21:59
Speaker 3: Darn The Poppy Fields by Nikki Rlick, and she is the author of The Measure, which I've talked about yes numerous times on here. It's her new book. Phenomenal Measure is still my favorite, but this one was a unique take on grief and how people cope. And it's the idea that these people go out to this place called the Poppy Fields and they get put in kind of like a medically induced sleep for a month, and when they wake up, it's helped with their grief. Really good, still great with The Measure is still my favorite by a little bit, but I read this one on like two days.

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Speaker 1: What do you read it?

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Speaker 2: I gave it. I only gave it a four.

00:22:31
Speaker 1: Oh, that'd be a four and a half the way you were talking about it. Yeah.

00:22:35
Speaker 2: Four.

00:22:36
Speaker 1: Speaking of books, I did see the Jeanette McCurdy book Who Was Sam and I Carly? Her memoir is getting turned into a series with Jennifer Aniston. You read that book, right, I did?

00:22:46
Speaker 2: You started it?

00:22:47
Speaker 1: I started it. I wanted to finish it. But now that I see it's being turned into a series. Speaking of earlier talking about books being turned into movies and Apple shows, yeah, and Apple, so it's also Apple. Do you think that is going to be a good series.

00:22:58
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be dark, heavy.

00:23:00
Speaker 1: Because that's kind of what the takeaway from that book was for you, right. It's disturbing all real.

00:23:06
Speaker 2: Self though, Yeah, it was really hard to read just.

00:23:09
Speaker 1: Because of all the trauma she went through as a kid in a relationship with her mom. Because from what I read, I was like, this is intense.

00:23:16
Speaker 3: What her mom put her through was really terrible and sad, And so I think that will be a very dark TV show with a lot of trigger content warnings, but I think it could be well done.

00:23:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm curious to see how that story gets portrayed, especially after all that went that came out with the Nickelodeon documentary about like quiet on the set and just the dark sides of child actors, and the relationship was not just well that was all about the relationship with the creators and producers of that show, but really barely touched on their relationship with their parents. So I think this could be really interesting and really dark.

00:23:54
Speaker 3: There's a lot of child actors that have opened up about like hard relationships, like Dylan and Cole Sprouse have talked about their relationship with their mom.

00:24:02
Speaker 1: Well, you think about for us growing up, it's all the childhood stars from like sitcoms, Disney Channel, Nickelodeon. But now it's like all the influencer kids who are like YouTube families and TikTok that it's like, oh man, this is.

00:24:14
Speaker 3: I haven't watched more than one episode, but there's a new Sewan Bravo called Next Gen NYC and it's like a lot of the Like Housewives kids, and one of them talks about how her mom stole all of her like influencing money when she was a kid.

00:24:26
Speaker 1: Dang, I mean I see you. Even now when I upload stuff to YouTube, they're like, are there any kids in this video? If so, you have to market.

00:24:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's sad.

00:24:34
Speaker 1: I don't want to end on a sad note, but this is kind of a bummer now.

00:24:37
Speaker 3: I do think the show will be good. I think Jennifer Anilsten will do it justice. Does she have an Apple deal?

00:24:44
Speaker 2: Do you think she has to?

00:24:45
Speaker 1: I mean between that and The Morning Show? Do you care about the Morning Show coming back?

00:24:49
Speaker 2: M h, I do.

00:24:50
Speaker 1: I kind of lost interested in after the last season.

00:24:53
Speaker 2: Great, I'll watch it withoume.

00:24:54
Speaker 1: I still want to watch it, But those first two seasons were like, oh, this is so good, this is next level television. And now it just kind of feels like, oh, this is just another drama. It just reflects so much of I guess the world that we live in now that it's.

00:25:09
Speaker 2: Just not escapism anymore.

00:25:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then it's also yeah, but.

00:25:11
Speaker 3: It always has it was built on like the whole mattlur thing. I should always reflected the world it's been. It's like an alternate portrayal of that.

00:25:18
Speaker 1: Then it's like a year to two years separated from it. So like after we lived things from like two years ago.

00:25:23
Speaker 3: Apple takes way too long. That's why we didn't get into season two of separance. Don't come out, forget everything, don't come at us. We couldn't same.

00:25:31
Speaker 1: Thing with I watched The Old Guard on Netflix or The Old Guard too, and I was like, I forgot everything that happened in The Old Guard one.

00:25:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, Apple does? I mean we're gonna have to go back. It's kind of like Euphoria on HBO.

00:25:41
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna have to watch every single season again, which it's been two. Yeah, but I feels like a lot more.

00:25:47
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:25:47
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go finish my Southern charm Binge. I'm almost done with that. I've watched alten seasons this year.

00:25:53
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go open some figures I bought on vacation.

00:25:55
Speaker 2: Some collectibles.

00:25:56
Speaker 1: Some collectibles.

00:25:57
Speaker 3: You would text me like, is this too much to spend? I think I said at one point, I cannot repeat this enough.

00:26:02
Speaker 2: I don't care.

00:26:03
Speaker 1: It's vacation.

00:26:03
Speaker 2: That's why we set aside money for vacation.

00:26:06
Speaker 1: You know, Hord, I'll put some stuff on TikTok.

00:26:08
Speaker 2: You did go hard.

00:26:08
Speaker 3: I'm proud of you, though, but at one point you were like, Oh, I can't believe I'm gonna spend this much, and I was like, oh, I'm so proud of him because I'm I'm the spender normally, so sometimes I need you to spend so I feel less bad. So I checked the bank account and I was like, that's all the damage you did, and you did go get more after but.

00:26:22
Speaker 1: I just have to over justify it, and then I feel bad and it feels dom and then I'm like, I have too much stuff. It's a whole cycle I go through.

00:26:29
Speaker 2: I should feel more.

00:26:32
Speaker 1: All Right, We'll come back and talk about Jurassic World rebirth, Jurassic Park rebirth, Why did it suck? Let's get into it. A spoiler free movie review. I love Scarlett Johanson, I love dinosaurs. I love Jurassic Park movies, even the ones with Chris Pratt. Twenty fifteen Jurassic World, I was all in Falling Kingdom. In twenty eighteen, I was still riding with them. Jurassic World dominion. Okay, we need a little bit of a reset. But you throw a Scarlet Joe Hanson in it, you get a great director like Gareth Edwards, who's also in movies like Rogue One Godzilla the Creator in twenty twenty three, and I thought this was hopefully the recipe we needed to break that cycle of a movie that left a really bad taste in our mouth, because what Dominion tried to do was recapture the energy of the first one, bring back those nostalgic characters, and bank on that. And what they failed to do was bring us a really good story. And now they have to retool the formula again and again to get us interested. So what happens here is Scarlett Johanson takes this highly skilled group. Their mission is to extract this genetic material, essentially this blood from dinosaurs. They need to get three different samples and take those samples in order to save the world because that DNA from the dinosaurs can provide us with some very life saving benefits to all living people. And they have to go to this place that nobody else goes. It's supposed to be where all the most dangerous dinosaurs lived, the island that was the research facility to the very first Jurassic part and what they dub as being the most dangerous place on Earth, and it's even illegal to go there. And I think with them setting it up that way that we're about to go to the most dangerous, crazy place, and the trailer teasing us with all these dinosaurs not just on land but also in sea. I thought we were going to be in for some really crazy action, really crazy encounters, and overall, when I go watch a Jurassic Park movie, I want to see some ridiculous deaths. And what they set us up for was maybe something that got my hopes a little bit too high, because what we got was such a watered down version of a Jurassic Park movie. And whenever I first saw the trailer, I told you that my biggest worry was all of the humor used in that trailer, where it felt like Scarlet Johanson was speaking in signs you would find in my mother in law's kitchen and just made their characters seem very one dimensional and almost cartoonish. That it was made more towards a very younger audience, which is a sense actually what the first Jurassic Part was for, and adults just happened to like it. And now here we are people who grew up with that movie in the nineties are now in our thirties and forties and want to experience that again and maybe we have to let go of the past a little bit. But after seeing that first trailer, I thought the comedy here isn't right. The writing seems so bad. It felt to me what is described now as superhero humor, where I was just waiting at one point for Scarlett Johanson to be standing there and saying, oh, no, the dinosaurs right behind me, isn't it. That is just the level of acting and direction and writing that we were working with here that the movie never found its sea legs. It was just kind of wobbling around the entire time. Something that I thought I would enjoy more is in this movie. It does open up with more of the journey to the island. There was more of an emphasis on aquatic dinosaurs, and I thought that would be a little bit more interesting. But we went almost thirty minutes with only having one and kind of a half encounters with dinosaurs, And for a Jurassic World movie to have so few dinosaurs in the opening thirty minutes, that felt like a travesty within itself. And the movie even makes it a plot point to say that humans have kind of just grown tired of dinosaurs. They become so normal, less of a spectacle. The museum where the scientist works at just doesn't really get visitors anymore. They used to have people lined up for days. You couldn't even get into this place, and now they sell like twelve fifteen tickets in two to three weeks. And maybe that's kind of how Universal fell after the last movie kind of flopped, like, Oh, we can't just really do the same thing anymore that we've been doing for the last almost thirty years of here's the t Rex. Here it is chasing people when following that same formula, because that is not a spectacle to us as moviegoers anymore. So they tried to revamp that and it just didn't work. I will say though, out of any Jurassic Park movie, it is the best looking, and that is what entices me so much going into it. The blues are so blue, like I wanted to jump in and taste that water because it looks so fresh and just so good on the big screen. The greens of the forests were just so bright and vibrant that really drew you into every single frame. The reds whenever they had flares going off, or the very few instances that there was blood were so rich, and there was kind of that juxtaposition between the dark blues and the greens and the reds. Everything just had a wonderful color palette that they used to craft this movie. It was also filmed on actual film, which movies now, especially on this scale, are really getting away from because it is so much more expensive. But it was shot on thirty five millimeters Kodak film, which made the movie look fantastic. It looked like old photos you would take back in the nineties come to life, like whenever I would get a disposable camera and take some pictures and you get like those reds and oranges from lights. That is how I felt watching this movie, and honestly, that is what kept me from come to hating everything about it. Was the fact that it looked so good and to know that you can make a movie on this scale that is so big summer blockbuster, that still has some artistic value to it, and I think that is overall what I enjoyed. It wasn't the design or the types of dinosaurs that they used that really made me not enjoy it. It was the fact that I felt we didn't have enough dinosaurs. But what really just kind of drove me crazy. Was the behavior of the dinosaurs that to me felt so controlled, and because again we were set up saying that these are the worst of the worst, the most vicious. Nobody should go here, it is illegal to go here. I felt like I could take a stroll to this Jurassic World and have a pretty easy time because it felt like there was nothing on the line. And again I don't want to give any spoilers or indicate who does and who doesn't live, but it became very very clear. I knew it from the very first moment that you're introduced to every single character who is going to live and who is not gonna make it. So it became so predictable and more like they were just concerned about who they keep around and who can move on if this movie is successful to make the next movie, which is something I just hate right now. That is the ongoing trend where if a character has a reason to die, I say, kill them, Just kill them, take them out. If it is important to the story, if it's gonna be memorable, if it's gonna be impactful, kill that character. I don't care about their contract. In the real world, I don't care about them wanting to go on to a sequel if it makes sense for the movie, if it's gonna leave me with an emotional impact, kill that character. Don't keep them around just because, oh, we need to keep them alive to keep this franchise going. No, because me as the viewer, I'm gonna check out. If I ever feel like something is being left on the table and it's not going to one hundred where this franchise needs to go to one hundred, I'm checking out. And that is what I felt held this movie back is their unwillingness to commit to things make them dangerous dinosaurs if you're gonna pitch this as a movie with the most vicious dinosaurs, and they just didn't do that. There was no sense of urgency. The movie was two hours long, but it didn't even get remotely interesting into those last thirty minutes where it was just too late. The dialogue was so weak, and it felt like they weren't even following the script, like they were freestyling. Yet and you have really great actors here, Scarlett Johansson, Maherschelo Ali, like all these people are fantastic actors. It just did not make sense. How am I seeing these actors who were so great, seem like they are delivering high school theater lines, and the movie felt more like a commercial at time, which the first Jurassic Park had that in there as well. Any big summer blockbuster is gonna have product placement, but the movie was trying to sell me candy, chips and beer. And if the product placement is one of the things that I remember most about the movie, I don't know what that says about your movie. Maybe it a lot of great things about your sponsors, but not so much about how the movie made me feel. How I felt it added to the franchise, because all I remember is then munching on some name brand snacks. Overall, it was too tropy, and the fact that it had excellent color grading, which is something I love, just could not save this movie. Scarlett Johansson could not save this movie. I still love all these actors, maybe feel a little bit differently about the director. Now with Jurassic Park Rebirth, that makes seven Jurassic Park movies, and this is how I would rank them. At the very bottom, at number seven, I would put Jurassic Park dominion. That movie just tainted the franchise. At number six, I would put Jurassic Park three, which came out in two thousand and one. It was the first one not directed by Steven Spielberg back with him doing the first and the second one, and just didn't really have the same identity. At number five is where I would put Jurassic Park Rebirth. They tried, they really tried, but just didn't get it right. At number four, I would put Jurassic Park Fallen Kingdom, which I enjoyed seeing that movie in theaters. Not one I really revisit now, but overall pretty solid. They're just not that memorable. At number two, I would put Jurassic World from twenty fifteen. Chris Pratt gets a lot of hate for his performance, but I thought that movie made me love the franchise again. At number two, I would put the original Jurassic Park, which was fantastic. It was groundbreaking. You're never going to recreate that moment whenever you first see the dinosaurs walking and you have the score there, just a perfect movie moment, and without that movie, we wouldn't have anything else here. Groundbreaking with the use of CGI and animatronics. They essentially created all of that technology for that movie, so revolutionary, but still I put it at number two because at number one I have The Lost World. It had a darker tone, it had more action, and to me, that is the Jurassic Park movie of my childhood. So that is how I would rank all the movies. And when it comes to my rating for Jurassic Park Rebirth, it is right there. It is so terribly mid that I can't give it anything more than a two point five out of five drops of dinosaur blood.

00:37:02
Speaker 2: It's time to head down to movie Mike Trailer Paul.

00:37:07
Speaker 1: Two things. I love Ryan Gosling and space movies. And we got another one because he was Neil Armstrong back in twenty eighteen in First Man, and now he's playing a guy named Ryland Grace in a movie called Project Hail Mary. It is based on a book and rarely do I have to give a spoiler warning for the trailer Park, but apparently there are a lot of plot points in this trailer that would spoil the book. So I want to say this at the beginning of the trailer park. If you are planning to read this book before watching the movie, and hopefully you haven't seen the trailer yet, I'm gonna say spoiler warning because I'm going to talk about this trailer in depth, and apparently, even though I haven't read the book yet, it spoils a lot of what comes out in the book. And I have also determined that this is going to be a book that I'm going to read before watching the movie. It's been a really long time since I've read a book before watching a film. I think the last time this happened was all the Hunger Games books, and that was back in the twenty ten. So there was something about this trailer that a light went off in my head, like, why don't I just read the book because I miss that experience. There is something special about reading something that you just get enthralled and you live in this world and you have it envisioned in your head, and then you go see the movie and you're like, oh, that's nothing how I pictured it. The book was so much better. And I may be tainted already because I've already seen the trailer and I'm going to start associating the character of Ryland with Ryan Gosling, But either way, I'm still going to read this book and then go watch the movie when it comes out next year, which it's March twenty twenty six. I have a lot of time to forget about this trailer and to establish this new world in my mind. But spoiler warning, I'm getting into all the plot details in the trailer. So if you want to go read the book first, maybe this park this week isn't for you, Or if you're like I'll read it anyway, or maybe I'll forget by then continue listening, because this trailer does look amazing. The book is written by Andy Weir, who was also the author behind The Martian, which was also turned into an award winning film directed by Ridley Scott starring Matt Damon called The Martian, which is a fantastic movie. So do they have another hit on their hands? We'll see. It is directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller again. It is coming out next year on March twentieth, twenty twenty six. Before I get into more, here's just a little bit of the project. Hell, Mary Traylor, please say to your name me very. He spoke up from a coma.

00:39:39
Speaker 2: There's several light years from my apartment, and I'm not an astronomer.

00:39:45
Speaker 1: I'm not an astronautic.

00:39:47
Speaker 2: The sun is dying. You're the only scientists who might know what this says. I'm just a teacher at gorover Cleveland.

00:39:56
Speaker 3: Middle We have a doctor at a molecular biology I need you to come with us.

00:40:01
Speaker 2: This is project how Mary.

00:40:03
Speaker 1: I put the Knot an astronaut. I've never done anything. I've never done a space I can't even moon walk. The three time Oscar nominee Ryan Gosling plays a middle school teacher who is sent to space as the world is coming to an end. Ryland Grace is our only hope, and he must see if humanity can survive somewhere else in space. After they discover that the sun is failing, all the stars are going out. They all seem to have some kind of infection, and then in space he discovers an extraterrestrial being that he names Rocky. I have to assume that is one of the spoiler things because that comes towards the end of the trailer, so it's probably a bit of a surprise, like, oh, he found life somewhere else, But like it says in the trailer, he has no experience as an astronaut, and I think that's where some of the novelty comes in. Has a sense of mystery, because he is trying to discover what exactly is killing the sun how can he save the Earth in the process. It starts with him waking up in this ship with this crazy hair and this crazy beard, forgetting about who he was and what he was doing. So it seems like the movie flashes backwards, flashes forwards, maybe flashes sideways into some other multiverse elements, maybe a little bit of interstellar action here as his memory starts to come back and he realizes and remembers exactly what he is doing, can he stop the Earth from a nice age? That is what we're going to figure out in this movie. It is either going to be a huge hit or it is going to bomb terribly. And I hate that for Ryan Gosling because he is one of the biggest movie stars right now, one of the very few people who are a household name. Everybody has known who Ryan Gosling is for probably twenty years at this point, because he has a large body of work, a lot of memorable movies that have both done well at the box office and also been critically acclaimed, and ever since The Fall Guy didn't quite live up to expectations, I feel like he is in need of another big hit to really put his career, not that he's off track, but to really solidify him out there right now as saying, oh, you can put Ryan Gosling in a movie and it's gonna make a lot of money and it's gonna be something that is really impactful. I still think he needs that because Barbie did become his highest grossing movie at the box office, and I wouldn't even consider that a Ryan Gosling movie. It is much more a Margot Robbie movie, so still a really big part of it. So I'm not downplaying his role in that movie and crediting his performance to the success of that, but I think it wasn't just him alone that made that movie a hit. It was Margot Robbie, it was Greta Gerwick, it was the entire supporting cast. In what segment of time did that movie captured with Barbenheimer and all that went into that. So that was truly a moment in pop culture history that will live on forever, and I still think he really needs to capitalize on that. And the only thing that really has me concerned about this movie is the touch of humor that it has that kind of caught me off guard a little bit because I was expecting more of a straight ahead space exploration drama, much like The Martian, and then you have these little glimpses of humor with Ryan Gosling delivering these quirky lines, and he does have great comedic timing. I just don't know how that is going to come across the audiences. And that is why I feel that this movie is either going to do really well and connect in all of those aspects, or some of the humor just really isn't going to land and it's gonna maybe deter the story from really having an emotional impact. So that is the only thing that has me worried. But with it being a really popular book, which by the way, came out back in twenty twenty one, you do have that built in audience that is going to go see it regardless, and hopefully those people who read the book go see it opening weekend and love it. Hopefully they love it. That is how that word of mouth spreads, and that is what could lead this movie to being a really big success. I mean, look at this trailer dropping almost a year before this movie even comes out, and there are already people talking about it. And after I saw What Happened to Mickey seventeen earlier this year, I realized that sci fi movies are having a bit of a hard time out at the box office. So that is why I wonder how this movie is going to resonate. Is it gonna feel too close to Mickey seventeen? To me, it kind of reminds me of that episode of The Simpsons Deep Space Homer where NASA is trying to spark a little public interest in space exploration because their ratings to their launches have dropped so low that they need to get people interested in space exploration again. So they go and do this program where they take a common person and turn them into an astronaut, much like we kind of saw with Jeff Bezos and all those celebrities going into space. I see that episode of The Simpsons in this movie trailer because it has that little element of humor. You have Ryan Goslin just being like, I don't belong here. I don't know anything about space, I don't know anything about being an astronaut. So that's what that reminds me of. I don't think it's going to be leaning into the comedy that hard, like they do in The Simpsons. But maybe this is the closest I get to having a lot action deep space Homer episode. But again, Project Hail Mary is coming out in theaters on March twentieth, twenty twenty six, and that.

00:45:08
Speaker 2: Was this week's edition of Movie Live tram.

00:45:11
Speaker 1: Or Bar and that is going to do it for another episode here of the podcast. But before I go, I got to give my listeners shout out of the week. This week, I'm going over to my Instagram dms and shouting out Keegan, who actually sent me a message saying that, hey, the Project Hail Mary Traylor has a lot of spoilers in it. She said that the book is actually her favorite book of all time, and she did ask if I or Kelsey have read it. Kelsey has not yet. Her book club I think is reading it right now, so she's about to start it. But she also didn't watch the trailer because she didn't want any of the spoilers. But whenever she reads that, I will have her do a review here. So this might be the first book turned into a movie that we both have read and will watch in theaters. And again, I've probably only read Uh, I'm not proud of this one book in the last three years. I read the Mark Happis book earlier this year. I devoured that book. I do want to read more, so this will be the first time in a long time where I read the book before watching the movie. Because comic books don't count, they just don't. So thank you for that heads up, Keegan. Thank you all for listening again this week. Hope you have a great Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Whenever you are listening to this and until next time, go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you later.