Movie Experience with In-Laws, Kelsey Questions Mike’s Google History, Underrated Movie Snack  + Movie Review: Why ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ Fell Short + Trailer Park: Keanu Reeves Is A Guardian Angel In “Good Fortune"

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

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Speaker 2: I'm good.

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Speaker 1: We're here to talk about the best and worst of May. We'll get into that in the movie review. I'll be talking about my thoughts on the new Mission Impossible movie. And in the trailer park there's a new movie with Aziz on Sari, Seth Rogan, and Keanu Reeves. It's comedy. Out of all those three actors, who do you like the most?

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Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm distracting thinking about how much tweed they.

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Speaker 1: Spunked on us.

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Speaker 2: There. Yeah, probably Soeth Rogan. I do think he's funny.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Auz he'sum. Sorry, but I think most people love Keanu Reeves. Not that I don't like Keanu Reeves. I just think I've been a longer fan of Aziz. He also hasn't been in a movie in a while, so I think that's also why I'm excited to see him back in something. So I'll talk about that. Thank you for being here, Thank you for being subscribed. Chat outs on the Monday Morning Movie Crew. And now let's talk movies from.

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Speaker 3: The Nustville podcast Networking is Movie Mike's movie podcast.

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Speaker 1: Well, jump right in to it. Best of May. What do you got Thunderbolts? Were you surprised how much you enjoyed it?

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Speaker 2: No, because I always enjoy a Marvel movie. Even if a Marvel movie is a bad Marvel movie, it's still a good movie in my opinion.

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Speaker 1: So you don't have superhero fatigue that a lot of people are complaining about. I don't know if that's a real thing or just the thing journalists and people online are talking about, like superhero fatigue.

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Speaker 2: No, it was also fun too because we wudn't see it with my family, so we saw it with my brothers, and it like kind of took me back to when I lived in Texas and lived close to them and we'd go see every Marvel movie together.

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Speaker 1: The thing I've had to learn from going to movies with your family is your family is a back of the row theater family the top row the row, back at the back where there's nobody behind you. It's at the very top. Why is that? Because my dad's a former cop, so it's a security thing.

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Speaker 2: It's a he wants to be able to see his environment he's just always been the way he has to sit facing the door of a restaurant. We've just always been top row. I think they also just like that there's no one behind.

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Speaker 1: Them that part. I do kind of like it's it's a lot higher up than I would I would prefer, because our normal row is ye.

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Speaker 2: But it's still not that high up because it's like the TRUEUSI recliners. Theaters used to be way taller. There was one aging myself called Tenseltown off of my thirty five. I remember that Olderville, and those were like giant because that was when it was just like the normal stadium seating, so that you can call it so there were more rows. Now that it's all like recliners, there's less rows that you can put in, So I don't even feel like the further back.

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Speaker 1: It's not that high far and the screens have gotten bigger since back then.

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Speaker 2: I would much rather be on the back row than the front row.

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Speaker 1: I also think the front row isn't that close as it used to be anymore, because.

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Speaker 2: But you still can't see that well. You're just like staring up like you leave.

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Speaker 1: Your neck hurts because whenever I went to go see minecraft. I got our normal row, but there was a whole family taking up the row and they had like young kids, and I was like, I don't want to make this a thing of making them move, So I went down further up where I was in that bottom section, like in the last row of the bottom section. But even that wasn't bad, and I could have gone to the very front row and I wouldn't have had that issue where I was like, oh my neck heurge.

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Speaker 2: After this, I feel like we saw something? Is it Star Wars? Yes?

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Speaker 1: Star Oh, don't tell the story. Don't tell the story. That was when we were long distance, uh, which we were long distance for two years, and I was.

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Speaker 2: Coming to town for Christmas and Star Wars movie was coming out, like right before Christmas, multiple visits. I was like, hey, should get tickets, and You're like, we don't need to get tickets, like gaslighting me that it was not going to sell out.

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Speaker 1: Oh, they will be fine. Where do we end up sitting the front row?

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Speaker 2: Yep? And who was right that we should have bought the tickets sooner? So now never argues with me when I'm like, let's get the tickets.

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Speaker 1: We always get tickets really early. Which I don't know if a lot of people do that whenever they go like, we're the type of people whenever they go on sale, we're like.

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Speaker 2: The first people buying tickets. It's also so easy in the Regal app. This it's not an ad for the Regal app, but again, Regal, if you would like sponsor us, let us know and I just do it and we get the seats we want, just check out with a little Regal Unlimited easy piecing.

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Speaker 1: I will say our Regal Unlimited has come into handy in the last month, like thirty bucks less than thirty bucks.

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Speaker 2: It's like twenty nine something. Now. Yeah, we were looking at we were like, you know what, let's branch out and go to a different theater, like that's fun in your thirties. I was like, well, let's go to a different theater in a different grocery store this weekend, Like genuinely, I was like, it's gonna be a fun Saturday.

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Speaker 1: See how they do popcorn.

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Speaker 2: And then we looked at the prices and I said, never mind, we don't need to have fun elsewhere. It was like twenty one dollars.

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Speaker 1: It's almost our home, matinee, almost our home. Mon regal.

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Speaker 2: We can go see a movie every day, we can see the same movie multiple times. We're gonna go see Leland Stitching in this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I can't wait. And I'm like, in this economy, gotta save money, I can't do that. I ended up really enjoying Thunderbolts as well. I think you got back to what made Marvel so great in phase one, and I think it sets up where we're going with a Fantastic four. I do want to get into here later of all the other movies coming out this summer, but now I'm excited, which I never really jumped ship on Marvel. There were some movies here and there since twenty twenty that I haven't loved.

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Speaker 2: I think it was disappointing after Captain America, A Brave New World was not as good as everyone helped. I think that was kind of like, oh no, like is Marvel done for?

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Speaker 1: But after that, I feel this has taken them an entirely different direction. The action was back in this where it was like, oh, this is actually just good fighting and good just the building of a team again, which we saw what happened at the end of it. But I think like this is what they need to do. They need to stop trying to hold on to all the old characters from the old Avengers movies and kind of move on and establish this world, which I think they did a really good job.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're funny. Thing about going to the movie with my family is just the snacks that they get.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, your family goes all like we do, drinks and popcorn and they go all out.

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Speaker 2: My parents are always like, how do we spend so much money? And I'm like, that's cause I think my dad got I think he started with popcorn and a pickle, which we've discussed this for pickle in a bag. In a bag are a very big thing at theaters and Texas. And then I think halfway through the movie he came back with a hot dog. My youngest brother had a bag of talkies and a slurpie, and then the older one had a large popcorn a drink. I and I know Regal does have like putting air quotes food, but where I grew up in Texas, there was a theater he had tater tots and they were so good. Let me tell you, I'm sure they were frozen out of a bag and just thrown into the fryar, but you could get a whole styrofoam container of tater tots. Underrated movie food.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's also easy to eat while watching a movie like It's that is underutilized food and.

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Speaker 2: Vibe is popcorn like a salty delicious, I.

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Speaker 1: Would be more inclined to get some tater tots.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't eat popcorn. It has even when your braces are going to be off, I don't see eating popcorn.

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Speaker 1: Which is soon, by the way, for everybody who's been asking me.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't know we were gonna exclusive exclusive.

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Speaker 1: They're coming off after this airs in like a week and a half. Yeah, yeah, so maybe I'll be speaking better without them on. So what would you rate Thunderbolts.

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Speaker 2: Four and a half on a five?

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Speaker 1: Bob's good old Bob for my favorite of may would it be any other movie? Leelo and Stitch, which I did not give a five out of five because I think the original was a five out of five doesn't quite come close to it. I don't think anything's ever gonna touch that. But do you give it a four point five out of five? And at the moment of recording this, we do have tickets to see it again.

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Speaker 2: I was reviewing our credit card stalment for the month, and I was like, those regal charges for the Stitch Merch the most we've ever spent. Like, I don't pay for popcorn at the movie because I have we have our regal credits. Like we go to so many movies that were just always accumulating credits that I always have a free popcorn.

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Speaker 1: Or some kind of discount or something, And to pay for popcorn.

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Speaker 2: I was like, y'ell around her paying for this.

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Speaker 1: It's expensive.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I see why people complain about going to the movies now.

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Speaker 1: It is expensive.

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Speaker 2: And it was a very small portion of popcorn.

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Speaker 1: And corn pale as I called it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a pail. You told the story too of how I like went on my lunch break to get the giant thing and then it.

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Speaker 1: Was still to make sure you could get it there still in stock. But you know how it would it worked the other way if you didn't do that.

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Speaker 2: I know it's fun to surprise you, but it was just like the day I picked to go, there was so much traffic and I was regretting every choice I'd ever made. And then we walk into the theater and somebody's like walking out with one and they're like, ah, I was like, are you bleeping kidding me?

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Speaker 1: But when it came to the first theater experience, I think I was judging it so the first close there have been only a handful of movies I've seen twice in theaters. Twisters was one in recent history. Blue Beetle was also one in recent history before Black Panther. Black Panther because we saw it, you and I and we saw it with your family, which is kind of the same deal with Blue Beetle. And I think those are all the movies I've seen twice in theaters and now about to be Leelo and Stitch. And it's because whenever we first went to go see it, I was comparing it to the original and wondering what they were going to keep in and what they were going to make differently that I don't think I fully enjoyed all of it. Yeah, you were analyzing because I was like, okay, they could do this all They're going to cut this out. Hey, this is different, and I had to think of, like, how's the story going to change if they don't have this. So I think now that I know what the live action version is I can go into it and just enjoy it for what it is, and then it starts forming into like, oh, this is how I differentiate the two. But I think the opposite thing kind of happened for me is where sometimes when they remake a movie I love, I'm overly critical of it, but I think how much I love the original. I was almost gonna love it no matter what. Yeah, so I can see why some people didn't enjoy it, and they kind of put it in that category of Disney just trying to cash grab on all their old properties. But I just can't see it that way. I even said bit of a bias here, because I love the first one so much that there's nothing they could have done that would have made me hate it. I can't hate too cute, and he was cute.

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Speaker 2: I was afraid that he was gonna look terrifying like those first few renderings when they started saying like live action, I was like, oh no, and then you watch it, you're like, he's so cute.

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Speaker 1: I'm when I was mad. I thought it was gonna happen like whenever they first made the song, like the Hedgehog movie, and the rendering came out of sonic, and he looked terrifying, and people online complained about it so much that they went back and changed his eyes and changed his mouth, and then he looked cute again.

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Speaker 2: Listen what people want.

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Speaker 1: So I think the fact that Stitch looked good helped the entire movie, because if you didn't, it would be really unbelievable, and even more so than the original movie. I was like, oh, man, like, I wish I hit my own stitching now because of you, I do. I come in here every day and I smiled because of that thing staring back at me.

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Speaker 2: Your reaction was so pure. It was so I got home with it. You were in the shower, so I ran into the house first to make sure you weren't around. I was like, hello, I'm home. No response. I was like, okay, I'm good. So I run back out to my car. I get it, and I come home and I put it on the counter in the kitchen, and you had walked past to get something out of the guest bathroom, and then you turned around and you like locked eyes with it on the kitchen counter, and you were like.

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Speaker 1: What is that? Say, where'd you get it? Where'd you get that?

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Speaker 2: Now? I was like where do you think I got it?

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Speaker 1: It just looks so lifelike that I was like, wait, what is happening here? It felt like I was having a very vivid dream because I'm like, why is Stitch on the counter right now? But that's gonna be a core memory for me of you showing up with that randomly. So I think even though we probably could have got it on opening.

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Speaker 2: Night, yeah, I forgot to use a real unlimited discount.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that memory alone is probably worth it. But again, I'm not the one who had to sit in traffic, so.

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Speaker 2: It was fine. I also was going to support us, so I.

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Speaker 1: Made a trip of it. But for Lail and Stitch after the first viewing, I give it a four point five out of five. Still can't really go up from there. I don't think it's going to go down from there. I think that is where it's going to live forever. I am excited that with the success of it, they're probably going to make more of them. And the crazy thing was well, maybe not that crazy, but I think the biggest audience that came out for in an opening weekend was millennials and millennials oh absolutely, So it wasn't even like this is a family.

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Speaker 2: Friendly millennials in like Stitch Snuggies.

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Speaker 1: I think it was like over fifty percent of people were like our age, will went to go see it, which made me feel better about it, just because even with you getting me that popcorn bucket and how big of a fan I am of Stitch, I kind of felt like, not a shame, but a little like ah, man, like this is an adult man so into Stitch. But I think seeing that there's this entire fan base that is my same age, and just seeing people on TikTok post about it, I'm like, oh, everybody's doing this, it feels more normal.

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Speaker 2: I also told you not to be ashamed of things that you enjoy.

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Speaker 1: I like collect.

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Speaker 2: I was thinking about this earlier for some random reason. I was like, we in the age of people making tiktoks of like things that give me the ick, things that are in, things that are out Like I understand the like good natured fun of it, but I also think those things can be really like hurtful to people because don't yuck someone's yum. Like I just was like the things that like some people choose to spend their money on if it's not how you spend your money. That's great, Like, just enjoy what you enjoy.

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Speaker 1: Life's hard enough, so hard to find things hobbies you want that bring you joy in this life, and just the way everything has been in the last few years, it's like, man, if we could just find some kind of comfort in a blue little creature, why not.

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Speaker 2: I did use this as a learning point for you. I was like, see, you want all these different stitches. They're the same thing, but they serve a different purpose. That's how I feel buying seventeen blushes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if you look in this room, I can see three different stitches. One that you're holding right now, which is a stuff stitch, like a weighted stitch. There just five stitches. There's the popcorn bucket. Oh yeah, there's this small one.

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Speaker 2: There's the one I'm holding in There's two figures. There's five stitches in here.

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Speaker 1: Five stitches. I think he's almost up there with Spider Man in this room. He's getting close.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I love your room. I think it's turned out so cool.

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Speaker 1: I love it so our worst now, what was the worst thing you saw in I don't think I'm gonna like this in May.

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Speaker 2: Friendship.

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Speaker 1: I love friendship Tom Robinson, Tim Robinson, sorry.

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Speaker 2: But I and I don't mean this rude. I think people who were lightly more socially awkward enjoyed it because they see themselves in it.

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Speaker 1: Is that why I love stuff like this?

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Speaker 2: I think so. I think that's why you're into like the rehearsal, like, because it's just like socially awkward people trying to make their way.

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Speaker 1: Maybe that's why I love jam Robinson so much.

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Speaker 2: To me is that you're not socially awkward around me.

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Speaker 1: I can't quite explain that, because you're the only person I can be my true self around where I don't care what I say or how I say it.

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Speaker 2: But it's like I'll post things on instagramm or stories and like my friends find it hilarious and I'm like, y'all think he's so quiet, but I'm like, this is the mic that I get twenty four to seven.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just whenever I'm around people, even people I do know, I just feel like in my head so much, and I think that's why I find comfort in these characters that like Tim Robinson does. Maybe that's it. Maybe that's why I love this movie.

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Speaker 2: I it just wasn't my brand of humor and it is.

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Speaker 1: It's a really hard movie to recommend to say, this is gonna be funny, you should go see it.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if it's a I would recommend to anyone in theaters.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, wait, because the comedy is it's so interesting, peculiar, and it's so original. But sometimes when you're so original, a lot of people can find it off putting and just kind of dismiss it, which I get. And if you watch his show on Netflix, or if you watch A Detroiter's which was a Comedy Central show, the Netflix show is I think you should leave. You kind of know his brand of humor and I love it. I love probably Detroiter's more just because it is more character driven and there's an actual storyline. I think you should leave, or like really short episodes with a bunch of random skits. And if you don't know Tim Robinson, he started out as a writer on SNL, was I think a cast member for a little bit, but never written. Never really quite panned out there. I think it's because his brand of humor was so specific that it didn't really work on Saturday Night Live, Which.

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Speaker 2: Is funny because I feel like a lot of things that SNL does are niche humor, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But sometimes even like a Kyle Mooney, who I would say was more successful on SNL than Tim Robinson. His brand of humor is also so specific that it didn't really quite take off on SNL as much as maybe some people thought. But I think Tim Robinson has had more success outside of it, and this movie was kind of a culmination of all of his TV shows and I thought it was good. I still enjoyed it, but I thought I was gonna love bit more based upon him being I would say my favorite comedian right now. So still a really good movie. I thought Paul Rudd was really good in it too. I just think overall the story wasn't exactly what I was expecting.

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Speaker 2: Kate Mara being in it was a surprise to me.

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Speaker 1: As far as my worst movie for May, there wasn't really a bad movie, and I think that's a good sign for the summer blockbuster season. But the one I enjoyed the least was Final Destination Bloodlines, which I gave a three point five out of five. I just think they kind of ran out of ideas and overall, when it comes to horror franchises, Final destination isn't my go to. I also went to go see it alone because you're like, I don't want to any.

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Speaker 2: Part of this The only one I've ever seen all the way through, and I've seen it multiple times because it was like a go to sleepover movie in my school's final destination too. It's traumatizing. The only thing I remember the logs are in that one, right, That's all I remember, And I can't drive behind anything that has things that are like tied to it. I will go around and I feel like that's the most effective marketing that our generation has ever seen.

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Speaker 1: They even brought back that marketing with this movie, and I think maybe something I missed a little bit was not seeing it with people, because I think it is one of those movies where you go with somebody and you both kind of poke fun at how ridiculous it is and have that kind of bonding moment. It was also kind of an empyr theater, so I also like seeing horror movies like in the middle of the day. It's just one of the best feelings. But that would be my worst of the month of May. Overall, not a bad month that got the lowest rating. What was your favorite TV.

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Speaker 2: Show of the month Easy, Overcompensating That was.

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Speaker 1: A really funny show. What's the premise of that?

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Speaker 2: So it's Benito Skinner, who is a comedian. He has been doing like sketches and skits for years, and it's history of being gay in college but no one knows, so we're still not telling people hiding his identity, and it's him like trying to navigate college just kind of like a bro dude, but like being gay and trying.

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Speaker 1: To be accepted therefore, over Compensating.

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Speaker 2: It was so funny. And I was listening to he and Mary Beth Burrow and they do a podcast, but they were on Jake Shane's podcast and he was like, people are like, oh my god, I need season two now, and he's like, well, I love that I need You also know it took seven years to get this first season made because he'd been writing it for so long and shopping it around until eight twenty four on Amazon picked it up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so it was on Prime video. It's kind of like an artist who has their entire life to write their first album, yeah, and then they only have like a year maybe two years to write their second album. That's hard though, because it is such a good show and it has the momentum, but you think about how much goes into it. The soundtrack, Yeah, because every whole good every episode is the name of a song and it takes place. Well, it kind of feels like it's modern day, but if you pay attention to it, it feels like the early twenty tens.

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Speaker 2: I think it that's when he was in college. Okay, because he's my age thirty one. You know how I pay attention to things whenever something's supposed to be set in a time period. They were making references to things that felt modern, like using phrases that we would use now.

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Speaker 1: But with all the characters and all the music they were listening to or the movies they were referencing, I'm like, oh, this is all stuff from like twenty nine.

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Speaker 2: Even the tie in of like Charlie XX was like her older song.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, when boom Clap was out back when I met her.

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Speaker 2: I think the next day I went to boxing and we boxed to boom Clap and I was like, Wow, It's like one of those things when you pay attention to something and then you start seeing it everywhere.

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Speaker 1: I really I really enjoyed it. I thought the writing was really great, and I'm also just really nostalgic for the twenty tens, which I think was the best time to be alive. And it reminds me, probably because that's when I was in college too, and I think just having something that represents that time. Whenever you're in it, you don't realize the things you are doing are going to be the things people remember about this decade. And now you watch that back and you're like, oh, yeah, like early social media, how big like go and the concerts were and being seen by people overall, like relationships and the way just culture was at that time. You're like, man, twenty tens, that was a time to be alive.

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Speaker 2: I think my peak not peak, but like my favorite was twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, my senior year. It was it was the best time. I took all of my classes with my best friend, Like we were the same major at the same schedule. We like staggered our classes so we only had like Tuesday Thursday, so then we'd like walk on Thursdays, talked about the Trude's on campus. We would have Margarita's and we'd fill up with the free chips it's also for dinner and then we'd walk home because we lived near campus and it was just the best time. And like twenty six teams when Closer By the Chainsmokers came out, like nothing will give me a feeling more than Closer By the Chainsmokers, like just take me back.

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Speaker 1: A lot of great movies around that time too, that I felt were kind of just core memories as far as like movies that eventually led to me doing this, So it was cool to see that represent it represented in a series.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I loved it. I highly recommend it on Prime. Would you give it five out of five?

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Speaker 1: Ooh, I've had a five.

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Speaker 2: I loved it.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. I watched two shows on HBO in May, and I kind of feel the same way about both as far as HBO show is feeling short, which they both had season finales that I did not know were coming. It was the Last of Us in the rehearsal, but that I feel.

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Speaker 2: Like you just weren't paying attention how many weeks it had been on because Last of Us had seven episodes. Yes, I know White Lotus has had in the past, it only had eight this season. But I got just typical HBO show, and.

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Speaker 1: I feel like that's not enough episodes.

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Speaker 2: Well, I agree, but it was just so funny that you were like flabbergout.

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Speaker 1: I was like, how is this a finale?

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Speaker 2: I was a cow many episodes, expecting you to say like four and you're like seven. I was like, that's an HBO season.

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Speaker 1: It's because they came out. They both aired on Memorial Day weekend and I was like, oh, I can actually watch these live if I want to. And then I was like, what time is it air? And they were like the finale of I'm like the finale, Yeah, you spiraled. I was like, I was not prepared, Like mentally, I was like, how is this story on both of these shows going to be done on this episode? So I just feel as a whole, like, man, we're not getting enough episodes. But then going back when you're talking about with overcompensating, I feel like these shows are just taking more and more to make. They're only eight of those, yeah, and they're at a level where it takes almost as long, if not longer, like it would to take a movie. But it's a show. And with the show, we were expecting to have another season at least by the next year. But it's now like two or three years before we have to get another one, let me tell you.

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Speaker 2: On the other hand, Secret Lives of Mormon Wives first season came out in September. This season came on met and there were ten episodes and they were draging those plot lines.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, is that the one I heard?

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Speaker 2: I ate it up, but they were dragging the plot lines.

00:22:33
Speaker 1: So yeah. Overall, I enjoyed the Last of Us Season two. I thought I was gonna love it because I love season one. I just felt season one was much more grittier. This one started to feel more like walking Debtish, which I'm I'm fatigued on those types of shows, so it didn't really have a uniqueness to it that I was looking for That made it feel like Last of Us.

00:22:58
Speaker 2: Don't I don't want to be one of the blast people's I absolutely don't.

00:23:01
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would be really bad at it.

00:23:03
Speaker 2: No thank you.

00:23:03
Speaker 1: I'm like, we gotta not get food from a grocery store. No, I would not survive.

00:23:09
Speaker 2: I can't online shop and just get things delivered to me. I have to like forage, no thank you.

00:23:14
Speaker 1: But a cannibal no, well, cannibalism m'd be interested in.

00:23:20
Speaker 2: Somebody's gonna sound like that and it's gonna end up somewhere.

00:23:25
Speaker 1: I mean, if it came to it at the end of the world. I dabble.

00:23:29
Speaker 2: It's like that movie was a movie about like the Argentinian team.

00:23:33
Speaker 1: Oh, Society of the Snow, Society of the Snow.

00:23:37
Speaker 2: Society of the Snow.

00:23:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, Society of the Snow. What I say, Society of the Snow. I wasn't airing the Society Society of the Snow.

00:23:44
Speaker 2: I couldn't. I couldn't handle the graphic nature of the cannibalism in that one.

00:23:49
Speaker 1: That is the movie that made me realize I could probably do it. When they start cooking it and it's like, stop stall, it probably tastes like chicken. To be honest, how would you know you're a vegan? You have a ten years. I just think humans tastes like chicken. Let's get a cannibal on the line. But yeah, any hammer, Hey, I don't think he actually did or did he do that allegedly? But Last of Us Season two, I would give it a four out of five. Still, I just felt kind of dipped in the middle and then blindsided me with the finale being so soon the rehearsal I would probably give. I rarely give any show of five out of five, so I would give it a four point five out of five. That show is so awkward, and again it's again like it probably why I like it. Nathan Fielder is a socially awkward guy, and in the first season he was working with a bunch of different people and having them rehearse big things they had coming up in their life that they were anxious about. In like the first episode of season one, he's helping out somebody with trivia night, and then in this season it's basically him trying to change the rules and aviation and make it safer.

00:24:56
Speaker 2: But there was one in the first season where he's like helping someone think about raising a child. Then they get like a new child, like every couple of days. To see the different stages, I think that's the only episode I've watched.

00:25:05
Speaker 1: And then it just goes layer and layer and gets more meta and more meta, until it's like, is this a show? Is this an experiment? What is going on here? So it kind of blends the lines of reality. So it's another show kind of like Friendship where I'm not exactly sure. I would recommend it even though I really love it. I just feel like you have to be into that brand of entertainment and humor to I don't want to say enjoy it, but just to appreciate.

00:25:29
Speaker 2: It, to even understand it.

00:25:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, to understand it. Like if I recommended that to like my dad or something, he'd be like, I had no idea what this is. This is ridiculous.

00:25:37
Speaker 2: Speaking of your dad, were you looking for Father's Day gifts for him on Amazon?

00:25:41
Speaker 1: Yeah?

00:25:42
Speaker 2: Were you looking for gifts for Mexican dads?

00:25:45
Speaker 1: I google gifts for Mexican dads on Father's Day.

00:25:49
Speaker 2: I went to buy something on Amazon earlier, and because you use my account, your search history comes up, and it was like hand soap, I bought a hairclip hips from Hexecones.

00:26:02
Speaker 1: If you google that, you find that it's a lot of alcohol based things. There's like a mom white just dads, and then some are like oddly like oh, a chili pepper That's just like I don't think that should be in this search. That feels a little racist, and then other things. Oh, the funniest part is there were some things that were like custom, like custom made with your last week I can't get custom gifts, fir, and I was like, I can't do that again. Last year, I tried to get him a custom hat that was like his first trucking company that he worked for and his name on it, and I went to a website I got it custom made, and they did not send him the right hat whatsoever. And it was a reputable website. If it was a reputable website, we won't them. And instead of sending him one hat like I ordered, they sent him two different hats that made no sense. One of them said Angie and his name is Angel, and he was like, Angie, what is this mean? I think? The other one said like it.

00:26:57
Speaker 2: Was like bats or something. It was like purple with like bats.

00:27:00
Speaker 1: But even had a word in Spanish. I don't remember what it was like it was so or something.

00:27:04
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's bueno.

00:27:06
Speaker 1: I'm like bueno.

00:27:07
Speaker 2: And he was like it was close enough to where he was like, I think this is probably what they ordered.

00:27:12
Speaker 1: And that's what made it worse is because he thought made it even funnier. It's like this has my name on it as far as the address, and this one's in Spanish and this one's almost my name I'm just confused why you would send this to me. And all I did was just send me a picture of it, and I was like, oh, no, that's not right at all. And I had to call him and explain. He was like, oh, that makes more sense.

00:27:32
Speaker 2: And then we also bought him the wrong shoe size for his birthday, so we didn't really do great on the gifts.

00:27:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's why I googled, and particularly ones that don't require a size or any customization really limits. Yeah, so I'll have to go back to Google to find something.

00:27:49
Speaker 2: We can't get him a cooler. No, my family loves to gift your dad coolers. I think they've gotten him too, haven't they.

00:27:56
Speaker 1: It's an easy dad gift, like dad to drink beer.

00:27:58
Speaker 2: But they've gotten him. Like, what's that one they got him? It was like a super It did something cool. It like had like something on the side or something, you know what I'm talking about.

00:28:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't really know what it is. And as a bottle opener, it can play music.

00:28:14
Speaker 2: It was something like fancy. And then my grandparents got him. So that's the other thing. My grandparents love your parents. When we do a family get together, it's like my parents, your parents, your siblings, my brothers, and my grandparents, and they are obsessed with your parents. And so my grandpa was like at Costco one day and sends me this picture. He's like, you think Angel would like this? And it's one of those like metal tubs that you can put like ic in and beer in. And I was like, yeah, I think he wouldn't. He like bought it and took it him the next time you saw him, and.

00:28:39
Speaker 1: He loves it.

00:28:40
Speaker 2: But yeah, so so no coolers. That's been overdone, overdone, but done enough, back to the drawing board. If anyone has good gift ideas for gifts from Mexican to ends, let us know.

00:28:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me know. We'll wrap it up with your book of the month. Easy.

00:28:53
Speaker 2: It was called The Names by Florence Nap. I read it in forty eight hours. It is this woman who has a son, and there's a name that her daughter wants to name the baby, a name that she wants to name the baby, and a name that her husband wants to name the baby. So each perspective. So it's set in chunks of like seven years, so it's like nineteen eighty seven, seven years later, seven years later all the way through like twenty twenty two, I think. But it's each chapter in that section is told from the perspective of the kid if he was named each one of those different names, and how his life would have been different. It was so good.

00:29:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, I it would take a lot for me to want to read a book of that size, But you're telling me the premise of that. I was like, oh, that sounds like a really good book, and even feel like give us so long. You know how I am with books.

00:29:34
Speaker 2: It's like three hundred pages.

00:29:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's like, my that's like a real book. It takes a lot for me to read a real book with three hundred pages.

00:29:41
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised if it's on my top ten of the year.

00:29:43
Speaker 1: Would they make a movie?

00:29:44
Speaker 2: I think make a movie of anything these days, but I think that would be really good.

00:29:48
Speaker 1: I would watch it. Almost sounds like it could be a limited series though, like episode by episode, like the Oh that I feel like it's a limited No.

00:29:55
Speaker 2: Each episode is that seven years? Yeah, and there's like twenty minute it's each character.

00:30:01
Speaker 1: What would you rate the book?

00:30:02
Speaker 2: Five out of five?

00:30:02
Speaker 1: Ooh, five out of five. You gonna be on the top ten of the year. Possibly, all right, anything else for everybody. It's our anniversary. This I guess this week. This comes out on Monday. Happy anniversary, four years married. We could have graduated college again.

00:30:17
Speaker 2: I just feel like an old married couple at this point in a good way. Like it just feels like yeah, like I don't at this point, I don't even remember long distance. I don't remember dating.

00:30:25
Speaker 1: It's just like, oh yeah, yeah, long distance seems like so long ago. And even you living here feels like five years. I can't remember you not being here.

00:30:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't remember it either.

00:30:36
Speaker 1: So happy anniversary.

00:30:37
Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you for my gift that I picked on and say you the link too, You're welcome and then made you let me open three weeks early.

00:30:43
Speaker 1: Thank you for my gift which came in early and you made me open immediately. But I love it.

00:30:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't do well with gifts.

00:30:48
Speaker 1: You're like, it came in surprise. Here it is, I did do that, but I do love it.

00:30:52
Speaker 2: And if you're wondering, it's a purse that I said like to. That's usually my go to gift. We're not those people that do the like four year I think four years is fruit fruit. But people do like really like creative interpretations, like I could have gifted you something from apple. You know'll do like different interpretations.

00:31:08
Speaker 1: Now, like an edible arrangement.

00:31:10
Speaker 2: You could do that. I should be better about that, Like I know people will like the first year I think is paper and then it's like cotton. To be honest, I just find something I like and send it and say, this is a great reason to get me a gift.

00:31:20
Speaker 1: That works at the universary. Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie review of Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning, which was a bit of a rebrand. It is the eighth and final installation in this series, the last time We're ever gonna see at least allegedly, Tom Cruise play Ethan Hunt. The movie takes place where the last movie left off, which was Dead Reckoning Part one. That's why this movie had a little bit of a rebrand because that movie ended up underperforming came out at a time where it was very competitive at the box office. Tom Cruise was also competing for Imax screens because he is a big proponent of I got to get these movies out in theaters where people can see them and on the biggest screen possible because he takes a lot of pride and what they put on the screen and the links they go to get these incredibly well crafted and choreographed action sequences that are really the thing to me that make these movies worthwhile to go see in theater. So that is why I have a bit of a I don't love Tom Cruise movies, but I respect what he's done for the movie industry. In a post COVID world, if it wouldn't have been for top Gun Maverick, I don't know that a lot of theaters would still be here. So he is still putting out movies that get people excited to go back to the theater, that keep cinemas alive. So I like that aspect of it. But when it comes to what I see as Tom Cruise, the person, the actor, and overall his work in the last fifteen years, I wouldn't call myself the biggest Tom Cruise fan for a period of my life. If Tom Cruise was in it, I would kind of be like, I don't think I want to watch it because of that. But with the last movie Dead Recording Part one, I really enjoyed it. I thought it had some great action, and it had a moment that was probably a total of five to six maybe eight seconds of him jumping off a cliff on a bike that I felt was the moment of that movie. And how much work went into getting that one specific shot I thought made it. And it's him doing those things that excite me and made me interested in going to see how they were going to wrap up this entire franchise which started back in nineteen ninety six. And I was not just a little bit, but kind of a lot of bit let down because it just felt like they were running over the same stuff over and over again. And in no way should this have been two movies. This one was almost three hours, say, with a one before this, and it was really the entire story again what this movie is about. It's Ethan Hunt and the IMF team. They're on a race against time to fight this thing called the Entity, which is essentially this rogue AI that has taken over the world. It's going to cause a bunch of just chaos and mayhem and war, and if this thing is not stopped, we're all not going to be here. So you need Ethan and his team to stop it. And apparently he's the only one who can do it by running really fast and fighting people and getting into situations that only he knows how to get out of, apparently. And the problem I had is overall it was too slow and too boring, aside from the big action sequences, but even the problem with those big action sequences in this one is while they look really expensive and I'm sure they took a long time to film and there was a lot of process that went into it, they spent so much time setting up all of these big action sequences, I felt that's all it was, and the time in between all the big moments were boring and slow, and my theater and myself just became restless because it was a lot of exposition, not a lot of action, especially just because it was retreading everything that happened in the first one. Because I really hate the trend of splitting up the last movie in a franchise into two parts. It is just everybody seems to do it now because you film one big movie and you think if you put it out into two parts, you can make double the money. I just find it really annoying and cash gravy, especially because now two parts feel very incomplete, and that is how this movie started, where they started telling you and reminding you all the things that happened in the part before this, because just in case you didn't see it, or in case you forgot about it already, they have to remind you. If you are a big fan of the franchise and you like sitting down and watching all of them back to back to back, it's gonna be so annoying by the time you get to this point where they're just reverencing things that have happened all throughout the series. I don't like all the callbacks at the beginning. It was really disorienting and overall just really boring. And the problem I had with the story here is that it didn't create a sense of urgency like it did in Part one. It just kind of felt like it was there, and they were really trying hard to make an emotional finale for Ethan Hunt. That's really what this was, him and the team all doing it one last time, him telling his crew like one last time, I'm not to ride with me, or something like that. And I feel like this franchise has lived different lives throughout one through three. I kind of see that as a trilogy. Those carried over into the two thousands, and in the twenty tens, I almost feel like they became this entirely different franchise where the story got better. At least, it got a little bit more cohesive, it formed its identity a little bit more. It also kind of went the way of, Okay, we have the franchise this thing. Now we have a formula that we have to follow to make a mission impossible movie. You throw in all the stelf destructing messages. And that was really in the twenty tens, where Tom Cruise became even more obsessed with doing his own stunts, with breaking his ankle, jumping from one building to another. But I really feel like the apex of that was in Dead Reckoning Part one. That is where the good stuff was. That is where just the beautifully shot moments were that I say, we're even Oscar worthy and the final Reckoning just felt like the falling action the entire time, And that was just really hard for me to sink my teeth into and really ride this wave of I want to see how this is all gonna play out, and I didn't really care what was gonna happen to Ethan Hunt's character, and I love finales when it comes to TV shows. I will watch the finale of a TV show even if I haven't seen all the seasons, just because I want to know, Oh, how are they going to wrap this thing up? Will it hit me emotionally if I am not aware of all these things that have gone on with all these characters. And I love a finale of a movie franchise even more because it is very monumental to take this story, to take Ethan Hunt, who has been around since the nineties, who has been around almost my entire life. I remember these movies being so in packful as a kid, iconic moments throughout its entire run. But this just wasn't it. It lacked that feeling, It lacked that emotion, It lacked that creativity, It lacked that finality. It didn't really feel like this was okay. I am. Well, You're never gonna be completely satisfied with the ending to anything. There's always gonna be things unsaid, There's always gonna be better ways to wrap it up. But as long as I feel satisfied, I think that is as good of a job as you can do as a filmmaker. But in no way did I really feel satisfied, because it felt like this movie was playing it safe from beginning to end. Now, they did give us some good action moments, I think the scene with the airplanes that you probably saw in the trailer, but even that didn't hit the same way that some of the action sequences have in previous films. They've gone to greater links, So this entire film just kind of felt like it was all the extra scenes that didn't work in anything else that they had done. What I am excited for is Tom to move on from Mission Impossible. I don't know exactly what he's going to do next, or even if this franchise is really good to be dead, because he says that, But if they come a knock in with another idea and they pay him enough money, I could actually see the rumor coming to life of Glenn Powell taking over the franchise, and maybe even not him fully. But you start kind of rotating who these movies are about, and then eventually Tom Cruise comes back as Ethan Hunt, and maybe three or four movies down the line where that feels a little bit more impactful, much like Robert Donney Jr. Returning to the MCU. Tom Cruise at his age in his sixties, still loves doing these big action movies, So I have to imagine another Top Gun movie is on the way, kind of in that same style of him just seeking that adrenaline. There is serious talks now of him reviving his character from Tropic Thunder, So I think he's in a position where he's just gonna do movies where he wants to have fun. Hopefully he wants something a little bit less demanding, because when is the last time you saw Tom Cruise in a straight ahead drama, in a rom com or something that maybe earned him an Oscar nomination. I feel like he does want to get back to that at some point, and maybe he has this pressure on him or feels a need because of his status as one of the last standing just A plus movie stars that can really influence people to go out and pay their hard earned money to spend on a ticket to go see something in theaters. He feels the need to create these summer blockbusters, and that if you went and just did a drama, did something like rain Man, did something a little bit more straightforward, it would be harder for him to promote because this has kind of been his identity now for over a decade where he's really just like, here's all these crazy action moments, you gotta go see them in the big screen. You gotta go eat your popcorn really aggressively like he does. Maybe there's just some kind of pressure there, or that's what he wants his legacy to be, knowing that he's not going to be able to do these roles forever. He's going to get to a point where he can't meet the demands of an action role like this, which he still looked really good in this movie. There were a lot of moments where there was a lot of shirtless Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise in his underwear running on a treadmill, and I think that was also him like saying, hey, look I still look good. I still got it. It just really didn't feel like the ending to me that started back in nineteen ninety six. It feels more like the ending of the era that started in twenty eleven. And I knew I wasn't heavily invested in it when we got to that hour mark, and I was already wondering, when is this thing going to be over? And by the time we got to the two hour mark, I was ready to get out of there because I now spent almost six hours on the same plot, and I was ready to move on. I was about to take ethan Hunt out myself. And some people might say, oh, you just don't like long movies. I love long movies. I have been a long proponent of three hour runtimes. I want to see the Brutallest that was three and a half hours with the intermission. I am not against long run times. I highly encourage it, especially when it goes to streaming at home, because you can take it in how you want. Three and a half hour movie, break it up into thirty forty five minute increments, and suddenly it is a limited series, which most people have no problem binging a limited series in a weekend because the nice little digestible portions for you. Do that with the three hour movie and you'll still find it really enjoyable. Is just when something does become three hours, you already have to set this expectation of, Okay, this is going to be an investment, no matter what. I do. Have to judge this a little bit differently, because if you are telling me that you needed three hours to tell your story, I'll accept that. I'll go watch that, but if at any point I feel that that three hours is unearned and I check out, then you're kind of in the world to hurt there. Needless to say, the movie still did really well at the box office. Even though it couldn't beat My Boy's Stitch in opening weekend, it was still a best for the French and I think the more hardcore fans of this franchise were saying this was a five out of five, a four point five out of five. A lot of film bros were really just gung ho about this movie, so much so that I thought, what am I missing here? And I know some of those people are probably watching or listening now and I'm going to feel the heat for this, But I am okay with that. I still went to see it. Would I still go watch another one? Yeah, because I still think these movies are entertaining and really benefit from that in theater experience. Where we went to see it opening weekend and the entire theater was full, I would say, pretty close to sold out on opening night. That is a feat in itself, so I do give it bonus points for actually getting people out into the theater for performing better than the movie that came before it, but still just wasn't quite it for me. I give Mission Impossible the Final Reckoning three point five out of five self destructing messages. It's time to head down to movie. Mike Trey Lar pau Leanu Reeves out here doing side quests. He's one of the biggest actors who just randomly will do a movie that makes you go ha, and then you watch a trailer and you're like, oh, that actually makes a lot of sense. It's him and Nicholas Cage that they can.

00:44:14
Speaker 3: Do it really serious or even just a really big blockbuster movie like a John Wick and then come out with a movie that you're like, hmm, they do this as a favor, but somehow I'm so interested in this.

00:44:29
Speaker 1: Keanu Reeves plays a guardian angel in a movie coming out called Good Fortune. It is written and directed by Azi's I'm Sorry. It also stars Seth Rogan. What the movie is about? Keanu Reeves plays a well meaning but rather a nept angel named Gabriel who just wants to make a difference in the world. So he sees this struggling gig worker played by Aziz I Sorry, who is kind of lost in life and wants to help him out, and tries to prove to him that, well, if you had money, it wouldn't really solve all your problems, So let me prove it to you by making you switch bodies with a really wealthy venture capitalist played by Seth Rogen. But then it turns out it kind of does solve all of his problems.

00:45:10
Speaker 2: I like the.

00:45:11
Speaker 1: Premise, even though it's not the most original thing I've ever seen. I could compare it to three movies right now, but I think I think this just might work. It's coming out in theaters on October seventeenth. Before I get into more about good Fortune, here's just a little bit of the trailer. Martha. Yes, Gabriel, is there any way I can have more meaningful duties? I want to guide people. I want to change their lives.

00:45:35
Speaker 2: To save a lost soul, that to find a loss soul.

00:45:39
Speaker 1: Arch. I'm an angel. My name is Gabriel. I'm here to save you. What who the fuck are you? How do you know my name?

00:45:49
Speaker 2: I'm normally only in charge of saving people from texting and driva. Wait, you're telling me I have a budget guardian angel kind of I think.

00:46:00
Speaker 1: The two of them look really great together. Most people are probably seeing this as a Keanu Reeves movie because he is such a huge movie star coming off of the John Wick franchise. I am seeing this as an ausis on Sorry movie because I've been a huge fan of his. I've always loved his comedy. I think most people still associate him with Parks and Rec. And as much as I love that show, I was such a huge fan of his that I don't even associate him as the guy from Parks and Rec. Because I used to watch all of his stand up specials, and when it comes to his TV roles, he hasn't even done a whole lot of those in a long time. Really. The last major thing he did was Master of None on Netflix, which did get two seasons. First season was fantastic, the second season was a good follow up, and then kind of fell off. They did another mini series under the same umbrella of Master and None, but really we only got two seasons of that show. He went through some personal stuff dealing with things in the news, and then he was gonna make another movie back in twenty twenty two called Being Mortal that starred Bill Murray, but then Bill Murray God accuses himself, so that movie got shelved, never came out, and now this is finally going to be his directorial debut, and it probably also means a lot to him that he also wrote the script for this movie. So getting back to the plot, it all centers around Gabriel, who one day notices this man down on his luck. Aziz On Sorry plays a guy who has hit rock bottom. He is at a Denny's restaurant and he gets his car Toad, and that is where Keanu Reeves's character shows up trying to help him out. He finds out he's working for Seth Rogan doing all these random jobs, and he's trying to convince him that hey, even if you had all of your boss's money, it wouldn't make you any happier. So as an angel, he says, well, let's make you two swap bodies and see what happens. Well, it turns out having Seth Rogan's character's money actually does solve all of his problems. So Gabriel loses his wings and is sent down to Earth to live among the humans. And now as On's character takes over Seth Rogan's body and just gets to live as him now, so a classic body swap movie which has been done before, so it's not like this plot is entirely original. It even reminds me of one of my favorite body swap and also Guardian Angel movies, Down to Earth with Chris Rock. And the reason I see parallels between these two movies, which Down to Earth came out back in two thousand and one, and it's just one of those movies from the two thousands I felt it should have been a hit. That movie is about Chris Rock's character who plays an amateur comedian. I see the parallels between him and a zi'son Sorry in real life. And Chris Rock is another one of those people who fantastic comedian has had so much success, but when it comes to his movies, hasn't really mirrored that same success. Even though I love Down to Earth, I love Top Five. He's done some pretty good work in the Gronos movies. You just don't really see Chris Rock and consider him to be a movie star. But in Down to Earth he plays a guy who dies at a point in his life where he thinks it is not my time. He convinces an angel that hey, you guys have made a mistake here. I need to get back down to earth. So they're like, all right, we'll work out a deal with you. We'll put you in a temporary body for now until maybe we can find you another body. So they put him in the body of a rich white guy, and suddenly he is Chris Rock, acting the same way he was before, but now in the body of a guy whose wife tried to kill him, and he gets to do all the things that he thinks he needed money to do, but he's still also trying to do comedy. So there's some great moments in that. There's a little bit of love and heartfelt moments, but overall, I think the movie just didn't resonate with audiences, and maybe only resonated with me. But that is an underrated movie of the two thousands, in my opinion, and Good Fortune really reminds me of that. So a lot of people have this question, why don't they make movies like this anymore, referring to nostalogic movies that we all grew up loving that maybe weren't the best reviewed, maybe even are considered box offic off his bombs, but they are movies that we cherish. They are cult classics. This feels like one of those movies, and it's maybe one that's not gonna get a whole lot of attention. Where this movie might be able to strike wile the iron is hot is the fact that, of course you have your big star Keanu Reeves, but also it's coming out on October seventeenth, which having a movie like this come out in October, that's not a horror movie. Counter program the horror. You beat all the Thanksgiving movies and definitely beat all the Christmas movies. And I just hate the fact that a lot of people are gonna watch this trailer, hear the plot and think, oh, that's just a streaming movie. If we want more movies like this that remind us of the good old days, we gotta go support them when they are out in theaters. I'm talking movies like Good Fortune, movies like Friendship, movies like Riff Raff from earlier this year. I love everything about it so far, even though I might be having a little bit of Seth Rogan fatigue. Maybe that's because I'm coming off the studio and all of his recent projects just kind of feel like it's Seth Rogan playing himself over and over again, and maybe that is the secret formula for him, Like I know how to play this role, and maybe that's exactly what this movie needs. But it just kind of feels like he's showing up in these projects and just being his exact same self, and sometimes just the characters that he plays and the situations that he is in I find really annoying. But is that him just being a good actor? If he is meant to play an annoying actor doing things that irritate you, is it getting its point across? Is he really just doing his job Because it's a lot to invoke an emotion like that, So maybe he's just really good at it. But I kind of just want a different look at him. Even talking about movies that Azielnsari has been in, one of them was Funny People, which was a big movie for Seth Rogan that was at a time where he did have a little bit more of an acting profile. As far as I can do these comedies like Knocked Up, but I can also show a little bit of a different side of me where I'm not just playing the same character over and over again. Can we get back to that, Seth Rogan? So other movies mentioned that I think you should check out if you want to dive in more to Azieland sorry, or more into body Squat Movies Thirty Minutes or Less, which was based on a true story. It also starts Jesse Eisenberg. He plays a pizza delivery guy who gets a bomb attached to him and then threatened by the people who put the bomb on him, who forced him to go rob a bank. The real life story was wild and tragic. The movie doesn't exactly follow what happened in real life. It's a lot more comical and less depressing. But that is a movie from the twenty tens that I feel is also underrated and underappreciated and kind of just went under the radar. Moving forward a decade before that, two thousand and Once Down to Earth with Chris Rock. If you want some two thousands of nostalgia and a movie you probably couldn't do today, check that one out as well, and that'll probably que you up for good fortune coming out on October seventeenth. This week's the tention of movie Li Famer Bar and that is goo 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. Thanks to everybody who has gone over and subscribe to my YouTube channel, almost to six hundred subscribers, which isn't a whole lot, but I am on my quest to get one thousand followers. So if you don't mind, just go down to the show notes. You can always find the links to all my social media. Thanks to everybody who has been sharing the clips from recent episodes. That means a lot. This week, I'm actually going over to Facebook and shouting out Vivian Forward as this week's listener shout out who commented on my video where I broke down all of the merch I got from Regal for Lilo and Stitch and said the Regal bucket looks so cool. I saw it last week, loved the movie and enjoyed it even with the slight differences in the storyline from the original. Thank you Vivian for that comment. 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