Movie Villains That Deserve An Origin Story + Top 5 Video Game Movies + Movie Reviews: Nomandland (Hulu) + I Care A Lot (Netflix)

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to movie Mike's movie Podcast. My name is movie Mike. You may know me from listening to the Bobby Bones Show, and I love movies. So I started a podcast. But that's all I do. I talk about movie topics. I bring on actors, directors, and on this episode, I want to talk about movie villains that deserve their own origin story. I want to talk about what I think at the top five video game movie adaptations. Hope your subscribe. Thanks for listening every single Monday to the podcast. Without any further ado, let's get started. In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast, one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like never before in a movie podcast. A man with so much movie knowledge, he's basically like a walking audience. Davie with Glasses from the Nashville Podcast Network Movie Movie Podcast. All right, so maybe you saw the trailer that came out last week, but we finally saw what Emma Stone looks like in Cruella. If you haven't seen that trailer, here's just a little bit of it now. I guess they were always scared that I'd be a psycho. Their thing is I was born crazy, born fast and at matters. So that got me thinking about what major movie villains deserve their own origin story. And I gotta say I really never expected to want to watch a Cruella Deville movie. I never really thought of her that much of a villain really, to be honest, from the one under one Dealvation movies, the hunderd Avations movies, she just never really, in my eye, was someone that deserved their own origin story. But after watching this trailer, I was like, Emma Stone really went there. She looks really dark and kind of twisted, and it has me kind of interested in learning about her story. It was almost reminiscent of when I saw the Joker trailer first come out, Like you didn't really realize the kind of mental trauma this character went through, And I think that this movie will really kind of dive into that a little bit and kind of unraveled story that we didn't really know. We just kind of knew Cruella de Ville as the evil person in the movie. But I just wanted to know what other movies you think would make a good villain origin story. So at the top of my list, I think one that has really no question that and I don't know why they missed out on making this movie. But and I know Marvel in their whole kind of scheme of putting out movies right now, they don't make villain origin stories. Really, the only place you can go with them is on the other side of getting like the Venom origin stories. But Standos is the greatest Marvel villain that's ever been because when you think about Marvel movies, a lot of the issues they had before was they didn't have any great villains. You would go watch an Iron Man, you'd go watch Captain America, and by I the end of the movie, the next time you go see the next one, you forget who the villain wasn't the one before. They just didn't really have longevity and villains until they got to Thanos st where they created somebody that you wanted to hate, like you wanted to see him get taken down by the Avengers, but they were never able to do it. And I think that's why Thanos was just such a great villain because he at the time in the movie seemed unstoppable. And there's just so much to be told about Thanos that you don't really know because he was just alluded to so long in the Marvel universe, you know, they would reference Stanos and like the end scenes, they would just kind of make allusions to the whole how this whole Marvel universe was going to come to an end. But once he's around, you don't really get the backstory of why he is the way he is and how he rose to power. I think that would be an intense Marvel movie because I think even a point could be made that maybe sometimes Stanos couldn't be viewed as the bad guy. If you made a solo Fanos movie, you could almost build it around him having more of a reason why he's doing the things he's doing, Like maybe he really thought he was going to try and save the world. So I would love to see Josh Browl and come back a Stanos and do a prequel origin story to Thanos. Let's talk about Voltimore. Now, what do you think he's a great villain or not. I think, honestly, he probably just kill Harry Potter and been done with it. But I guess if you do that, you lose out on the entire story of Harry Potter. But nonetheless, he's a very famous villain, and I think in the world of Harry Potter. They're trying to do other movies like The Fantastic Beasts within the world of Harry Potter without doing a reboot or without doing kind of anything with the original characters. But I think where they're missing out here is doing a Boltimore origin story, all the things that led him rising to power and ultimately trying to kill Harry Potter. I think there's an entire movie right there. All right, want to talk about another superhero villain I think needs the origin story, and Batman returns had Danny DeVito as the Penguin, who I felt did such a great job as the Penguin and it was such a unique performance that I feel they haven't really done the Penguin justice since. And you know, they've done so many Joker movies. They've done Catwoman all the time, made a terrible movie with Halle Berry, Yet we can't get a Penguin origin story. I would almost just want Danny DeVito to come back and do it. Now. You know, they have that technology down to where they can d age people the same effect they used on the Irishman to make them all look younger. Why not use that on Danny DeVito to have him come back as the Penguin, because when you think about the story they told in Batman Returns about Oswald cobble Pot, he has a dark backstory. He was a psychopathic, deformed man born and abandoned by his parents when he was a baby. Like that opening scene in Batman Returns, when you first learned about the Penguin, it's a really sad story. I got an awful origin story for any kind of supervillain to be abandoned by your parents because you're basically born with this deformity that causes you to be what people call a penguin. And if you give the Penguin the same treatment that you gave Joaquin, Phoenix and Joker, I think you could have a really dark story here because it kind of goes a step further of not just having that kind of mental illness and that kind of sinister energy in your mind, but it also has the physical capabilities of the person and that effect that it has when you wanted to snap and become a super villain. So why haven't they made this movie yet? I'm serious, why haven't they made this movie yet? Somebody give me fifty billion dollars and I'll go out and find Danny Devino and make this movie all right. And if you listen to last week's episode, I was talking about dark Disney theories and there was one about Scar and he's supposedly in the movie eight Mufassa after he killed him, which I went on a whole thing of why I love Scar, why I think he's a great villain. And I know they're doing Relativille, which is a Disney movie, why not go back and do a Scar origin story because in The Lion King he's really just viewed as the outcast. Even when Simba first goes to Scar, he's like, yeah, whatever, my dad's king and you're just going like that would really make me feel pretty bad if I had my nephew coming up to me and knowing that he's gonna be king someday. And there's something already in Scar's mind at that point of him plotting to kill Mufassa and then find a way to get rid of Simba, And you want to know what got him to their what made him be an outcast? And I've been thinking about Disney a lot because I really haven't been a fan of the new so called live action remakes I think they're okay. But again, I was born in the nineties, grew up in the nineties, and there's something about the original animated movies I just feel have a lot more charmed to them. And that's probably because I grew up with them. Of course, I'm gonna feel that way about the things I remember when I was a kid. And if they're going to do all these remakes with the intention of having people kind of watched them at a nostalgia and also share them with their kids now, to kind of expose them to these stories that they don't know about, why not go back and kind of go old school again and do that original kind of animation, just the thought and go back and do an origin story in the original kind of animation you did with the first Lion King, the one everybody loved, and do an origin story about Scar. Now. I know they did a bunch of sequels to The Lion King, they did the one and a half and two, they went straight to VHS, But I mean, they have Disney Plus now, they have the space to where they could put something out on like this, and you know it's not going to theaters to that capacity, but hey, maybe give us a Scar origin story for Disney, plus this one I was thinking about. And I love the movie Mean Girls somehow. It's a movie that I've seen many many times, and I really can't remember the first time I sat down and watched it, but think it's a movie we've all seen at some point, at least on TV. But Regina George, that's right, Regina George from Mean Girls. We need an origin story about her rise to the head of the plastics. How did she form the plastics? What went on at that high school before Lindsay Lohan showed up? And I know they're trying to reboot Mean Girls in some way. I know, at least Lindsay Lohan wants it to happen. I don't think it will really work with her coming back and doing anything. Get rid of Lindsay Lohan, focus on Regina George and make a origin story of her rise before Lindsay Lohan's character ever gets to the school. Maybe you lead up right to that point, don't even mention the whole thing with Lindsay Lohan, and then it's her afterwards. I think she's a great villain. Now. Staying in the comedy space, there's a movie called Home Alone, you got Harry and Marv as the Wet Bandits later dubbed the Sticky Bandits. How about an origin story about them, because obviously these guys had a pretty twisted past to get to a point to where they're scoping out rich people's houses and are okay with invading a house where a little boy is living, like there has to be something else going on in their lives to get him to that point to where they're actually gonna kill this kid. I know it's never stated in Home Alone, but the whole story is basically them going to the McAllister's house when they're out of town, they find a kid, and by the end of the movie, they are ready to murder this kid just because there are some paint buckets at their head. I want to know what did they do before they got to the Kevin McAllister house, because you know, when they end up getting arrested, the cops are able to identify all the houses they've been in because of all the sinks they left running to leave their mark. I want to know how they got to this point. The story of Harry and Marv, I think that would be interesting along those same lines. I really love the original Ninja Turtles movie, and the first one was so much better than all the other ones because it was a lot darker. And they made this movie based on a comic book and it was supposed to be four kids, but you have these Ninja Turtles fighting with real and full weapons, and the whole kind of tone of that first movie is really kind of dark and angry, like Raphael has this kind of built up anger that it didn't really feel like a kid's movie. And I think a lot of it has to do with, you know, the whole battle with Shredder, And I think Shredder is a great villain, whether it be in the movies or the cartoon. He's just very intense, but you don't know a whole lot about him. And they've remade a lot of the Ninja Turtles movies. I've still watched the reboots, even though I'm not a fan of the c G I think it's a little too much for me. It takes away the charm of the Ninja Turtles. I know, I keep complaining about this, and this is kind of me realizing more and more that I am getting older as I've had a turn thirty that I like the way things were when I was a kid, and I get that a kid now probably loves these new Ninja Turtles because they are huge and kind of funny still, but are more like superheroes than they were those original kind of charismatic Ninja Turtles. And the last one didn't do so great at the box office. So I think the next step here is to make an origin story about Shredder and make it that dark tone. I think everybody's kind of going for that grittier remake. You can see it in the Carrilla Doville origin story that's getting made. That's kind of what you're going for. I think Shredder lends himself as a perfect specimen for that kind of formula. So a Shredder origin story is another one I'm putting on the list. One more villain on my list is also from one of my favorite movies of all time, and it's No Country for Old Man, and Anton Sugar in that movie is so sinister and you really just kind of fall into his story at just some odd point in his life. You don't know a whole lot about his character, and that's what makes that movie so kind of mysterious and so kind of captivating to watch because you kind of just get thrown into it, just like the cops do in the movie, trying to figure out this guy. And he is such a force that he almost seems like he's not human in the movie, he's almost like a Michael Myers type figure, to where nothing can take him down and nothing affects him. He has an emotionless face throughout the entire movie. Is he's killing all these people, and he does it so effortlessly that you know, this guy has a really sick, dark and twisted past, and I want to know where he got the idea for that haircut. I also put this question out on my Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook page. Here are some of my favorite responses from you guys. Nikita Carmen actually had a reply and she said the Little Old Lady in the Goonies. That one made me laugh, Like I was waiting for a Goonies reboot. I think there needs to be a Goonies too. It's been a while. They're remaking stuff left and right. Why not make a Goony's reboot? But if we're going for an origin story, hey, why not the Little Old Lady from the Goonies? A lot of you guys also said Loki would be a really great origin story, and he's actually going to have an entire show on Disney Plus, so I think there's something coming in the world of Loki. I think it's kind of him post Avengers, so he almost made my list, but I'm waiting to see what that show is all about, because I agree Loki is a great villain before Stanos really came to be in the Marvel movies, he really kind of carried that torture being the best villain, but he kind of goes back and forth whether he's good or he's bad. So I almost had him on my list as well. Another one I saw submitted a lot was Bain, and I loved the way Tom Hardy did Baine, And at the time when I watched that movie, I felt like Bain was almost a more hardcore of villain than Joker was in The Dark Night. Now I feel a little bit differently about it now, but there was something about Bain. Now. The difference between him and the Joker is the Joker was just messing things up and terrorizing Batman because it was enjoyable for him. He really had no plan. His plan was just to cause anarchy and destruction. That was really Joker's whole thing, and getting underneath Batman's skin. He didn't really care whether he made money or anything. He just wanted do you like to say? In the movie Watched the World Burn, Bain, on the other hand, was really trying to take down Batman and ultimately leave him for dead. And in the dark Knight Rises, you really get this kind of in the same feeling that you felt like Thanos couldn't be stopped, you thought that Bain was gonna just take out Batman. And my real complaint with that movie was at the end that Bain just isn't an issue anymore, Like somehow he's just like goes soft and doesn't really fight anymore, and he's just kind of out of it. So that was really my issue with Bain of not being the best villain because at the end he kind of just fizzled out and suddenly a non factor. He turns into like a cat chasing yarn. And then finally, the last one I think that I got the most out of everyone was Ursula from The Little Mermaid. Now this one actually is currently being remade into a live action movie, and Melissa McCarthy is playing Ursula, which I think is a great casting choice. Again, you already know how I feel about the Disney remakes, but I do love Melissa McCarthy as Ursula. Is that movie does well, I can see it happening. If they're making the Cruella movie, why not go on a step further and do the Ursula movie with Melissa McCarthy. But again, I'm gonna wait to see how they do that movie. Alright, So that's the list coming up. Next, we'll talk about the new Mortal Kombat trailer that came out last week, and I'll give my top five video game adaptations of all time. After this, I want to start off first by reading this email from Jason. You can always send me an email. It's movie Mike d at gmail dot com, and Jason writes, Hey, Mike, big fan of the podcast. With the reveal of the photos from the new Mortal Kombat movie, I would love to hear your opinion on the best to worst be game adaptations. Thank you for your time, Jason. And I was holding onto the email for a minute because I really can't base a whole lot on the first images that come out after a movie like it's just too soon to see what it's going to look like. But really you're just seeing the first poster and it has no indication of whether the movie is going to be good or not. So I wanted to wait till the trailer came out. The trailer that came out last week. If you miss that, here's just a little bit of that trailer. Him sonya, that's kin over, I'm luka all right, the Fate of Alright. So after watching this trailer, I thought, this actually looks like it has some potential. Now, the first one has a bit of a cheesiness element to it, and it's to be expected. It's a video game meditation. There's always just a little element of cheesy when you're trying to do a video game to movie, because you want to incorporate things that the video game did and that are recognizable for people who played the video game and now I want to go see that movie. So it's always just a little bit cheesy to incorporate those things. And with a movie like Mortal Kombat, the first one kind of tried to be a little bit more dramatic and just a straight on action fighting movie, and it still came off a little bit cheesy with the costumes and the fighting and the overall c g I quality of that. Now looking back and watching that movie, it looks very nineties, but it has a charm to it. And what they tried to do with this new reboot they kind of wanted to work that nostalgia back into people who remember the video game from back in the day, but also give it the R rated treatment to where I think this movie really is going to shine, Like, I think the only way it really has of working is incorporating that. And you kind of get that feel for it in this trailer with the very R rated fatality. So you get the blood, you get the guts like full on like it was in the video game, and it's to an extent to where it's very cheesy. There's a point where sub Zero freezes the guy's blood and then stabs him with it. Yes, he freezes some guy's blood and then impales his body with that frozen blood. So that's where you're gonna get from a Mortal Kombat movie, and that's essentially what you want from a video game movie. So I put together my top five video game adaptation starting with number five, Tomb Raider, the original one with Angelina Jolie. Tomb Raider was a great video game. And what I loved about Tomb Raider is I felt like Angelina Jolie was the perfect match for that. At that time, she was still the biggest Hollywood actress and she looked like Laura Croft. And again, you're not gonna make the best movie from a video game meditation like that, but I think that one's pretty solid at number five. At number four, I would put Super Mario Brothers. Now, this isn't really viewed in any way of being a great movie. To be honest, it's kind of an awful movie. It's so bad that it's good though, So that's why I put it on this list, because it's nothing like you wanted it to be. Because Super Mario Brothers. It's quite arguably the most recognizable video game of all time, Like everybody knows Super Mario. And when I wanted to watch this movie as a kid, I wanted to see the big, colorful things. I wanted to see the gumbas like they are in the video game. I wanted to see an animated Yoshi and I got none of that. I got a story basically about two plumbers that get trapped into this weird underground rave like that is what the Super Mario Brothers movie is. But it's so bad and so just kind of ridiculous and makes no sense. The movie was entirely rushed. There's a whole disaster story how this movie got made. John Quizamba was on set like didn't want to do it. He's like they fired directors. There was just so much drama with this movie getting made. But it was just such a big anticipated movie that it had to come out, and what we got is not what we wanted. But looking back and remembering watching that movie as a kid, now it's still a movie I love. So I will put that one at number four. At number three, I'm putting the movie that came out last year, which is what I say the front runner to win Best Picture at the Oscars, Sonic the Hedgehog. And it took me a while to warm up that I actually enjoyed this movie when I went to go see it in theaters, because I think I was overly critical because I love Sonic the Hedgehog as a kid, and having a friend in the trailer park with the Sega Genesis was the ultimate thing as a kid because I didn't own one, but when I did, I wanted to go over and play Sonic the Hedgehog. And what this movie actually did was incorporate all the things from the video game that we loved, like the running around, the gathering rings, the Dr robot Nick played by Jim Carey, like all of that cartoon me sense from the video game was in this movie. And not only that, you get a little bit emotional attachment to Sonic kind of being this alien creature that's just trying to make friends and be understood. So you have that kind of emotional story too, on top of the video game action. So it's crazy to say that Sonic the Hedgehog was actually a really good, just overall movie. I had to put it as number three. At number two, I'm going with the one I was talking about earlier, Mortal Kombat, And I think why I loved this one so much is because they did a great job at taking the way the characters looked in the video game and making them look just like that in the movie. Like I want sub Zero to be wearing the blue suit, I want Scorpion to be wearing the orange or dark yellow whatever. That is, and again it's an awfully cheesy movie too, But the first one you really can't mess with now. If you want to talk about Annihilation, that one was terrible. But I think even now, if you went back and watched the original Mortal Kombat, it's still be pleasantly surprised. It's actually a pretty good movie. And at number one, I am putting Pokemon the first movie MW two strikes back now. I was a huge fan of Pokemon, like I think every kid who grew up in the early two thousands was. I collected all the cards, I played all the Game Boy games, I played the N sixty four games. And when this movie came out in I think it's the most ecstatic I've ever been to go to a movie theater. And the great thing about Pokemon is they do such a great job at promoting the show and the movies. Everything they do, it's just so well promoted. You see it now happening and McDonald's with adults going to McDonald's to buy happy meals to get these Pokemon cards. And even the most recent Pokemon movie I went to watch in theaters, Detective Pikachu, they gave you a Pokemon card when you went and picked up your ticket. And the feeling I had going into watching this Pokemon movie was unmet in anything I've gone to watch. I was probably seven years old at the time it came out, and I didn't go to a whole lot of movies as a kid, but this was one I had to see in theaters, and I didn't get to see it like the first couple of weeks. Maybe it was like three weeks out and they had already been in theaters, and I know initially they gave about Pokemon cards and I remember they were a kid in school I had when I was like, man, it only hed could have gone on opening night. But from watching the TV show to watching this movie, this is kind of where my love of movies started to come from, because it was characters I was already invested in and seeing them in a long form movie and having a story play out on the big screen was amazing and arguably one of the most And I'm thinking about this now of how emotional I got watching this movie in theaters. There's an epic battle scene at the end where Pikachu almost dies, but in turn, ash catch Um, his trainer, puts up his a Live to protect Pikachu, and it's an amazing story about how much Ash loved his Pokemon. I'm getting emotional now as I talk about it, but I think it's the greatest video game adaptation because it's exactly what it was like playing the game Boy game, playing in the N sixty four games. It's exactly what you got into TV show, but seen on the big screen. So they not only had people coming to them from playing the video games, but also playing the card game. So there's just so much into what makes a Pokemon movie great. And of all these video games, it's easily what I played the most, Like the only thing I owned really was a game Boy, and I could play this game for hours. And in case you're wondering, because I know you were, the Pokemon I always picked first was Chart Manager. He was my favorite to play in the video game. As far as worst video game adaptations, I'd say number one would have to go to Street Fighter, because such an amazing game that we all remember playing in an arcade, and such a terrible movie adaptation. They were basically trying to make Mortal Kombat, but had none of the style and none of the acting abilities to pull it off. I would also have to go with Max Paine, which was a great game on PlayStation, and the movie really had nothing to do with the game. They basically just took the Max pain name and got people excited about that, but it was nothing like the video game. Along those same lines, you have hit Man, Doom Rampage, and Assassin's Creed, which I think all of those movies they really just used the name of the video game to really just get people like, Okay, I love the video game, maybe all of the movie, but there has to be a little bit something more than that, or you just have to be like Super Mario Brothers and make a ridiculous movie that's so bad it's good. But that's what I think about movie video games. How about we get into another spoiler free movie or view talking about Nomad Land, which is available now well on Hulu or in theaters if those are a thing where you are right now. It stars Francis McDorman, if you remember, for three Billboards out of Ebbing, Missouri. Before we get into the review, here's just a little bit of the trailer. My husband worked at the U. S. G. Mind in Empire. I was a substitute teacher it is a tough time right now. You may want to consider early retirement. I need work. I like work. My dad used to say, what's remembered lives. I may be spent too much of my life just remembering. So let's get into what this movie it's about. It follows her story after the economic collapse of this company town she's working in in rural Nevada. Plays a character named Fern who essentially loses everything. She loses her business, she loses her husband, and then it's basically living out of a van. So it kind of starts with her at that point in her life. She's working at an Amazon packing center and really trying to find what her next move is. She's at this point in her life where she is older but not really old enough to retire yet, and she basically has this crisis of like, she wants to work, but there's really nothing for her, and she's deciding what to do with her life. So what does she decided to do. She decides to pack up her van and leave and travel around the country. And I think watching this movie it really made me feel different things about it because while it starts off with her coping with the loss of her husband, the loss of her job and her talent, really kind of trying to find herself again. It's really a great statement on not being so tied down to possessions, and this idea of being a nomad and not really having a home really comes into play, and it almost makes it kind of beautiful in a way or kind of poetic to just pack up all your things, live out a van, and go meet these other people who are doing the same thing. Very minimalistic life approach, and you're kind of doing enough to get by by other people's standards. But when you do this in this kind of setting and you have other people around you kind of doing the same thing, it feels normal, and it feels more like you're kind of doing things for the enjoyment of living out life. And there were some quotes in this movie that I jotted down because they kind of hit me and resonated with me. There's this point where she's talking to this group of people who this is a whole life. That's how they based their life is living out of their bands, living out of their cars, and traveling around the country, going to these meetups and these campsites. And at one point this lady says while talking about her life and you know, going out to experiencing things really for the first time. She's like, I didn't want my sailboat to be in my driveway when I died, And that that line kind of hit me because in life, we're always kind of worried about our security and doing things for our future, and sometimes it causes us to not really go out and live lives. Sometimes we spend our times working our jobs and trying to earn enough money to you know, be okay if something bad happened, but sometimes we never take the time to actually enjoy the things we've worked for. And it was in that moment watching that movie that it was just like, WHOA, I almost saw myself wanting to just pack up my things and go explore the land. And throughout the movie, she's meeting these people who are approaching the same kind of lifestyle she is, and talking the way they do about the simple things in life really kind of put a different perspective in your head. In overall, I thought the movie was really well done. It's a pretty slow movie, like it's a slow burn, but it's something you can just sit back and kind of enjoy. The stylistic approach they took, and just the overall storytelling in this movie. I think it's really great and I think it's more and more when I watch movies like this that I realized why certain actors get cast into certain roles. And Francis McDorman always seems to be in really dramatic, powerful roles and you kind of wonder, like what makes her kind of a like an Oscar worthy actor. And I think it was watching this movie that I realized that it takes a lot to play a character like this. Well, it's not an over the top dramatic performance. That's just something about her personality and the way she portrays a character like this that I really don't think somebody else could do. So I think it's a great road trip movie. It's great in the fact that it tells the story that really hasn't been told like this before. You get to see some cool parts of the country, and by the end of this you'll want to, like I said, to pack up all your things and go on a really long trip to find yourself. So I would give it four out of five Vans and you'll probably see this movie getting nominated for Best Pictures. So if you're wanting to be on top of those nominees, I would say go watch this one when you can. All right, let's talk about the new movie I Care a Lot, which is on Netflix and a movie that made me love and hate a movie at the exact same time, and I'll explain why. I think it was so infuriating that it was hard to watch, right, and we won't ruin the movie. I think this is almost a movie you need to go in and just know that you're gonna love and hate it at the same time. But no matter what, it's a very entertaining movie, right it is. I feel like neither one of us picked up our phones during the whole thing. And I don't know what it was about it, but the overall plot about it, it's a crooked legal guardian who is essentially becoming the guardian for these elderly people, draining their estates and just taking over their lives. That's how she makes money. So a rare movie where the main character is somebody that you don't like. Is the protagonist. You can't stand her, and then she gets involved with this woman who all will say is that she's not who she seems like she is. They think one thing about her and they're like, we're gonna drainer of all this money, like an easy situation for them, and you find out later that there's some whole other world going on with her, and it's really just kind of crazy, right, So that's what we'll say about that. We just want to say our feelings about it. So I felt like at one point in the movie, you were like, I can't even watch this, Like what was going through your mind while watching this movie? I feel like an hour in I looked at you and I was like, I kind of hate this. Do we keep watching it? Like I was entertained. I couldn't stop watching. But the plot just makes you really mad. Yeah, and you're just not rooting for her, No, not at all. And there's like two bad people in this movie. There's a few there's a few of them too. Yeah, there's just a whole bad situation. So you're gonna watch this and you're gonna like, at one point, just wanted to end. You wanted to be over. Not that it's a bad movie. I don't, well, at least I don't think it was a bad movie. I thought it was Yeah, like you said, really entertaining. One of the most entertaining movies I've watched out here, to the point to where I was so sucked into the movie I didn't care about anything else. I think I'm kind of having this effect now. Watching so many movies at home, I find it's harder and harder for them to keep my attention. Movies that are a bit of a slower burn, I find myself wandering off a little bit and wanting to do something else. But this one had me totally in. So why didn't you like it? At one point, I'm trying to figure out how to word that without giving anything away. Is it because you just couldn't stand your character anymore? Yeah, she's just the worst. You feel bad for all these poor elderly people, sad kind of it didn't make you. I think that's that got to you. It made you sad that they were taking advantage of these people, and they were going to the court and just kind of don't get anything away. They were defrauding the system, they were just doing these things very unethical. It's a part of a whole bigger thing. But I found a lot of people felt this way. I think this is the most talked about movie I've seen in a while, because you're gonna feel some type of way about it. And you know what I say about movies that make you feel, I love them, and did ask you at one point. I was like, who said we were gonna like this movie? And you were You said the Internet. The Internet. So I enjoyed it. I think it's a good movie overall. Like at the very beginning of it, I thought it was gonna be spectacular with it like the first first like thirty minutes, it felt so unique and so different that I thought it was gonna be one of my favorite movies. And then it goes from being kind of something realistic to something totally unbelievable. Is why I kind of got away a little bit of my ranking on it. But what would you rank this movie overall? Three point seven five out of five Diamonds. Interesting, I too, gave it a three point seven five out of five Nursing Homes, and I was right on the border of wanting to go like, it's it's just not it's not. It's not a four. It's just it's so close to being a four, but it's not a four. For whatever reason, It's not a four. It got a little too absurd, that's what it is. It got too absurd. If it would have just held that kind of realistic approach it had in the beginning, I think it would have been a lot better. But it almost went into like a fairy tale, and I guess it's kind of supposed to be like a satire a little bit. But it got just so obscure that I wanted it to and and it never made it to that four. But I think if you go to Netflix and you're looking for something to watch and you just want to watch something that's going to kind of trip out your mind and just be kind of a fun roller coaster, I think it's a great movie for that. So no matter what, you will be entertained. It's an entertaining movie. It serves its purpose. So there we go. That's what we think about. I care a lot. We'll get into some movie news now. I did see Adam Sandler celebrating twenty five years of Happy Gilmore and he was out on the golf course. Okay, it's been twenty five years since I've done this. Let's see what happens. Huter McGavin, this is for you and I'm not lying for your and that went pretty well dead. I think it's just funny that Adam Sandler like still knows the characters that made him famous. I know that people still love that, and he's not cool enough to go and do that character again. I just thought that was funny and crazy to think that movie came out twenty five years ago that I think I was talking about it earlier. But I think I'm at that point to where I'm realizing how some of the things that I grew up with and we're I mean, that movie was still a little bit before my time. I think it was like four years old when that came out. But a lot of the things that we kind of grew up with, and like the early two thousand's are now older to kins now, Like Finding Nemo came out in two thousand three, but kids now we're in high school, we're like bored than the two thousands, or like the wonder that was the Mary Kayton Nashley movies. No one watches those anymore. The straight t vhs, nobody knows those anymore. So that's the kind of weird thing I guess we'll go through as we get into our thirties. Also in movie news, Jesse Plemons has been cast as the lead in the new Martin's Corset in movie called Killers of the Moon. The cast includes the Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert de Niro. And it's gonna be a big budget thriller for Apple Studios. And I feel like Apple is about to get a lot of new movies and you kind of see big titles like this that once only went to Netflix. They're now kind of being chopped around a little bit more, and I think Apple kind of has the upper hand. I think if it's one thing they're going to excel in, it's probably gonna be movies. Aside from the Morning Show. I don't think they really have the TV shows yet, Ted Lasso, That's true. They have a few TV shows, but as far as the amount of Netflix and like Amazon and Hulu have, I kind of feel like they're their movies. They're getting big stars there. I mean, they had justin Timberlake, so I'm curious to see what else they come out with. I don't think there's really a lot on their worth getting an Apple Plus subscription. I think it's okay, but I don't think right now I would tell anybody you need to have Apple Plus not yet. Also in moving news, Joaquin Phoenix is going to be in his next movie. Since he's been in The Joker, I'm curious to see what he does now to kind of follow up to that. And it's from the same director as Midsummer. Do you say at Midsummer or Midsoma? I don't say either. I have ever said that movie title out loud. Midsummer I kind of like saying Missoma because that's how it spelled. One of the weirdest movies I've ever seen, so much so that when I was watching it, I just paused it when you walked through the room because I was like, I don't even want you to. But I knew what it was. I read the whole synopsis, knew what happened. I know it's with movies that I know I'm never gonna watch. I just read the plot synopsis on Wikipedia and never watch it. Interesting. Um. Also in movie news, China's box office is having a better year than before. Last year, like before, COVID like right now is like the best it's ever been. And it's weird that they're watching movies that came out a year ago, but having them like rand new, but it kind of gives you hope that movies will go a little bit back to normal, just a little bit glimmer, just to know that somewhere they're working on right, I think there's a little glimmer of hope there. And then finally in movie News, they're saying that Disney Plus will surpass Netflix eventually, at least in one country, which is a long time away. But when you think about how long Netflix has been around and just how much they grew during the pandemic and how much they just grow exponentially, I think just knowing that Disney will rival to them at some point is a pretty big deal because they're such a new service. But I feel like some people kind of dis Disney saying they only have stuff for kids, but there hasn't been anything just for kids in a long time. We watch a lot of stuff on this we do when we were watching One Division. Now, they don't really have a whole lot of the like original movie content, because I mean, they're so focused on putting things out in theaters, But I think later down the line, like I could see that happening. I mean, they're kind of my favorite right now. As far as like going on there and like looking around at what they have, like Netflix, I'll go because I mean, they have a new movie every single week. But as far as like what I'm excited for, it's the stuff coming to Netflix, all the Marvel stuff that's going over there, coming to Disney. Plus That's what I said. I get confused with all these streaming services. There's so many. I swear we have like every single streaming service. It's hard to keep track of what we have and what's on what all of them. And yeah, I just get I get frustrated. There's just so many of them. And I know people say there should be a thing where you go to one and it has all your streaming services, But that's just Cable. That's exactly Cable that we're going back to. We're reverting in our technologies now. Yeah, but it's like all on demand and it's new content, So I feel like it's not the same as cable. I know, that's all I have. I don't know. I'm just tired of figuring out what is where. But anyway, that is movie news. That's a review. Finally we get to our shout out of the week, and this week it is going to our friend on Twitter and he is at Big Impact VC also known as Michael Bigger's And just a shout out to Michael, because you tweet every single week that you're listening to the brand new episode on Monday, and I just love to see that. You've been tweeting for a while now, so I just wanted to give you a shout out. I recognize you and really everybody who's been tweeting lately saying they listen on every single Monday and all the emails we've been getting in, be sure to hit us up there movie Mike d at gmail dot com. I got a big announcement next week, very big interview here on the podcast. I will be talking with Lou Diamond Phillips, who you know from La Bamba, and I was so excited to have this interview. I hit him up a while ago because he's in a brand new movie that's already out in theaters and I was like, I see him doing interviews. If I could get him on the podcast, it would be amazing because La Bamba has been one of my favorite movies since I was a kid. Um He's also in the movie Standing Deliver, which I loved and it's really awesome that he's gonna be on the podcast next week, so look forward to that. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss that interview. Thanks everybody for listening to the podcast. We'll talk to you again next week and until then later