Most Underrated Disney Movie Songs + The Disney 'Dark Age' + Movie Review: Hamilton (Disney+)

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I'm your host Movie Mike on Twitter and Instagram at Mike Destro. That's Mike d E s t r oh. Pretty excited about this week's episode. I am talking about the most underrated Disney movie songs of all time. I feel like there's just some I feel like there are just some great Disney songs that kind of go unnoticed and you don't really hear when they do all these big elaborate musical specials about Disney songs, that these just don't get the credit they deserve. So I wanted to pull them all together for an episode and highlight some of those. Also asked a bunch of you guys on Twitter your opinion on what you think are the best ones, so I included those as well. So this is all about the underdogs songs of Disney, the ones that don't get the recognition, like maybe Elsa and let It Go. But that doesn't mean that they're not great songs. So we'll talk about that. I also want to get into what is known as the Disney Dark Age. If you don't know what that is, but it sounds interesting to you, you better stick around and kind of find out what is dubbed as the kind of war Disney movies of all time, and I'll explain why they were so bad and unmemorable, and then I'll also give my review of the movie Hamilton's. Yes, I'm calling it a movie because now it's on Disney Plus and you can watch it in your home. And I did have the whole debate on whether or not this constitutes as a movie. Yes, I meant to use the word constitutes, because you get it, constitute constitution. You just had to throw in an American pun in there. But I've never seen anything from Hamilton's before this. I've never listened to the soundtrack. And after watching it and realizing, wow, this is actually a cinematic piece and translate into a movie, I decided I have to review it as a movie because it was supposed to get a theatrical release next year and ended up just dropping early. 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You know that you got a friend in me the letter goes, the Kuna Matatas, all the really big Disney songs, But I feel like there are some that just kind of go unnoticed and unrecognized. So I wanted to pull them all together in this one episode to kind of show some light to these songs that maybe you forgot you even saw in these movies, or maybe once he had never even heard of. Because kind of when I was pulling this list together, I realized that altogether, some of these Disney movies are just highly underrated, and I feel they need to go back and kind of appreciate them for what they were. And I was kind of trying to think of why. I think maybe some of these songs are underrated, and maybe they're not as big and cinematic as the other ones they weren't the real big hit off of these movies, and some of these movies just aren't as well known. But there's are some really great songs, not just those Disney songs. But I feel it's just any other kind of song. And you know, I see these specials come out where they do like you know, Dancing with the Stars would do Disney Night or American and I would do Disney Night, or they'll do like these families singing lungs, and they all do the big ones. But I feel like sometimes there are some space in there to throw in someone a little more obscure Disney songs, because they're all really great. And the great thing about Disney is they usually put a lot of effort into their songs because that's really where a lot of the money is. If you get a really big hit from a movie, you can make a lot of money of it. Not only could you win a you know, oscar from the movie, but you could also win a Grammy as well. So I put together a list of some of my favorites, and I also asked to much of you guys on Twitter what you thought were some underrated songs, and I'll throw those in as well, But I just wanted to have a place where all these kind of this then you can hear these and maybe you go back and think of like, oh maybe as you go back and check out that Disney movie or just check out some of these songs. You can all search them up on YouTube or find them wherever you listen to Disney music in your car. But anyway, I got eight of these. I'll go through them one by one and talk about them, and then I'll throw an honorable mention before I get the number one. Kind of a whole another topic I'll get into after this about Disney, and then it's kind of a whole Disney musical episode. So we'll just run with it, starting off first with number eight. It's going to Colors of the Wind from pocahont Can you paint with all the Colors of the Wind? Now? The reason I put this one at number eight because I did feel like this is right on the edge of being a big Disney song and being an underrated song. Now. Personally, I think this is my favorite Disney song of all time, mainly because when I listened to it now is an adult I've it really makes me feel something For some reason, and I kind of visualize how it was the first time I saw it as a kid, and how I hear it now, And this is really just a great song. Not only or is the singing in it really great. I just feel it's a really emotional song and one that doesn't get a whole lot of credit and recognition, maybe because it's lower, maybe because it's harder to do it's a cover, but I feel it's a really great song. But it's also just right there on the edge of sometimes it will be recognized as being a bigger song. But I feel Pocahones as a whole is kind of an underrated Disney movie. It did come out like in the nineties and win a bunch of these other really big Disney movies, and I felt like it was just on the lower tier of that. But being on the lower tier of that kind of really golden Renaissance age of Disney movies, I feel it just had tough competition around it. So sometimes you don't really go back to this one all that much. But I just feel like this is such a great song. At number seven, I had a bunch of people tweet about this one, and it's I'll make a Man out of You from Mulan, and it's actually Donny Osmond singing this version in the movie Bath before Mr Ah Make a Man out of Again. I also feel like Mulan is kind of an underrated Disney movie, and I'm kind of really curious to see how the live action version kind of translates, because there's no songs in the live action version like there is in the animated one. Like they took out some major elements from the animated one to make it more of a realistic live action remake, which I've had kind of conflicting issues and feelings about the new Disney remakes, where of course it's the movies that we and I a bunch of people loved as a kid, and sometimes you get into that kind of mindset of like you like what you were into as a kid, and you always will remember it that way, and when you see it being redone, you're gonna kinda pick it apart and saying it's not as good as the original. Now. I feel in some ways that Disney has has got it right and making these cool live action movies and making them kind of different, But I also feel like they kind of take a little bit away of the of the magic of Disney and the reason they were so kind of revolutionary in the nineties of making these really masterpiece movies but doing them through animation and doing it through all the voice over work and really making them come to life. I feel you kind of lose a generation of that when you kind of do the live action stuff. So Mulan is gonna be a very interesting one to do because it just kind of looks like a straight of war movie, like a Disney war movie, without kind of the fun and kind of fun nature that the cartoon had. So I wonder how that will be received in theaters if it even comes out in theaters, which is the way things are looking now. It's been pushed back even further, so it's like, how is that going to come across? And then if we don't end up getting to see it in the big screen, how is that going to put in at home? So again, I still feel like the animated version of Mulan is an rated and this is just a really great song and looks like a bunch of people. And I think a lot of you guys on Twitter agree with me as well, because I got a lot of tweets for this one at number six, I am putting I won't Sam in love from the movie Hercules, I love my Heart, Like I was just talking about Mulan. They have confirms they are making live action Hercules, and I feel a little bit different about this one because this one is set in fantasy, and while Hercules is a real godlike human looking figure, I think putting it into that fantasy world will still have that kind of cartoon element despite it being quote unquote live action. A lot of this, you know, because they use kind of live action as saying that they put real actors in it, and kind of it's just not animated because their live action Li Lion King really wasn't live action. It was all computer animation and made to look very realistic, but it really was just kind of a highly advanced animation in the sense. So I feel like this one placed in a fantasy unlike Mulans kind of placed in like a real life worst situation. This one has the ability to kind of transfer over a little bit better. I feel it being more kind of like the remake of Aladdin. But I thought there was a lot of really great music in this movie and a lot of what I think about when I remember this movie is all the kind of music sequences and the way they tell the story through the songs, and they're all maybe so tied into the plot that there's nothing really that can be branched out into being its own song. And I feel like this one song in particular does that pretty much really well, and it's probably the only one to kind of break off from that, and one I feel that really doesn't get enough recognition. I know when they did do that family sing along the song, Ariana Grande saying, was this song so like at Ariana Grande shouting out of underrated Disney song? Like I bet they even wanted her to do like a more popular song. But it's pretty cool that she did that one one whole lot of people, don't You? At number five one of my favorite Disney movies. I did a whole kind of discussion on this one why I feel it's such an underrated Disney movie. But this song in particular, I'm talking about Eye to Eye from a Goofy movie is at number five. Now, this song just makes me feel good. This whole movie just really makes me feel good, and the kind of musical element to it is pretty cool because they create this fictional pop star named power Line, and he has these original songs that are actually really good, and it's kind of funny when you create a fictional pop star in a movie. And the hardest thing probably about making a fictional pop star in a movie and really just making any kind of original song for a movie that's intended to be a hit in the movie is actually making a good song. And I feel they had like probably two really great power Line songs in this movie, but this one in particular just made me feel really good because it's at the very end of the movie where Goofy and his son Max actually get to perform it with power Line and just has that really good feeling that kind of wraps up a Disney movie because the pop star power Line is kind of Michael Jackson esque. He has that kind of dance slash, high pitched vocals and really energetic songs, and I just thought this was a really great song from that movie. So underrated movie, even more underrated song. At number four, I had to go with the song from Janna and It's Your Welcome, which is performed by The Rocks. So I'm putting this one at number four except Welcome Well, the Times, the Sun the Sky. I had a bunch of you guys tweet about my wanna and this song in particular, and I have to admit when I first saw wanted to do this all, admit that I was not that big a fan of it. And I've said before that I am not a big musical fan. I like movies that have songs in it, and I feel like there's a difference like straight on musicals where they just burst into song. I'm not really a fan of I like movies like The Lion King that are storytelling but have songs in between them, and I feel like there's a difference in that. But I felt Muana was a lot more Broadway esque, and that's probably because Linn Manuel Miranda did all the music for it, and just watching it, I felt it wasn't really for me, and it wasn't until it came out later and I rewatched it, I was like, Oh, this is actually really good. Like I would remember going on YouTube and seeing just the songs for this and I'm like, that's actually a really good song, and it kind of got stuck in my head. And the thing I like about this one is that actually the Rock singing this, and he was, you know, coached by Lin Manuel Miranda when they recorded the vocals for this, And I just think it's really cool that he actually did this because in a lot of all these other ones, they'll have the voice actors who do the voice for the animated characters, but they'll usually bring in somebody to do the singing part. But the fact that the Rock actually made an effort and sang on this song, and I remember the Rock back of the day when he was doing w WF he put out like an actual single, as the Rock is not a great singer, so for him to be coached by these guys to actually sing and do a really good song, I just thought that was awesome. And this song always just kind of stuck out to me. I think the song from this movie that usually gets the most credit is how Far I'll Go, which is another really great song, but I feel that one kind of gets more of the attention it deserves, and this is one I felt was just underrated because it really brings the Rocks character to life in that movie and kind of explains what he's all about. But I also just think that Muanna is a really important movie for Disney and if you haven't seen it, it is on Disney Plus, so you can go watch that. And if you're kind of an unbeliever in musicals like I am, I think you'll enjoy it, even if you have to give it a second chance. At number three, I am putting a song from the movie Tarzan. It's called Strangers Like Me. So this song, along with the rest of the soundtrack, was written and recorded by Phil Collins, which I feel it really gives this movie kind of an identity. And while the song You'll Be in My Heart went on to win a Grammy, I feel like it's the really the biggest one from this movie. But for me, I remember watching the movie and when this song Strangers Like Me came on, it was a really emotional moment where Tarzan is kind of learning about himself and realizing that he is not like the apes he grew up around, and he's realizing, oh, there are other human beings out there. And I feel like at that point I kind of connected with Tarzan and feeling like, oh, there's something else that's there's actually other people like me. I'm not just the weird kind of outcast, and there's just something so cinematic about this one. Unlike like You'll Be in My Heart. I get it's a great song and a very emotional song, but this one, I feel like kind of uplifts you a little bit while it's still kind of making you feel a little bit sad. And it just is my favorite song from this movie and this movie, like some of the other ones on this list, I feel it's a very underrated Disney movie, mainly because the endnimation in this one, I feel it's really great, Like Tarzan looks different than any other really Disney character I've seen, and it's still in the two D kind of animation, which I love and I'm kind of a bigger fan of, and just all the movements of him, like flying through the jungle and doing all the kind of weird acrobatics I felt was really kind of Disney animation at its best, Like I like it when it's just straight up like classic drawings better than some of the computer animated stuff, which, don't get me wrong, is great, but there's just something a little more magical about animation when it's done this way, and I think it's done so perfectly in this The voices in this are great, and like I said, the soundtrack really just brings it all together really as a whole. There's not a bad song in the movie, but I feel like this one just doesn't get the credit it deserves. At number two, I'm going over to a classic, so not an underrated Disney movie by any means, The Lion King. So many great songs in The Lion King, but I feel one that just doesn't get the credit it deserves is from Scar himself, one of the greatest Disney villains. It's when he sings be Prepared. I feel like Scar is one of the greatest Disney villains of all time because he's the ultimate. He straight up kills Mufassa and then tries to kill Simba. Like it doesn't get more vicious and heart wrenching than Scar. Like, I just think he's the best Disney villain, hands down. Name another Disney villain, Go ahead, I'll wait so you can't name one, Scott, I think Scar is just the best. And this song kind of ties together what Scars about. And it's kind of a weird point in the movie because it just goes from being, you know, all about Simba and all about Mufassa to this point of like it gets kind of really dark for a second and almost really weird with the hyenas dancing around and all the smoke and everything, and then it turns like this green color that's coming up and it's Scars singing the song. And I have a feeling that some people are like, this is kind of a weird point of the movie, and why would you think that this is one of the greatest songs and underrated. I just think that musically it's a really great song. I love Scars singing. Something about his voice is just really dynamic, and the entire movie of having that kind of haraspy, dark, sinister villain voice and to have a song just kind of go off like this where he essentially says, you know what, I'm gonna be the next king and this is me taking over and telling all the hyenas this plan. It's just such a dark moment in the movie, aside from Prost's death of course, and the scene itself is so big and cinematic of alls, and you know, the hyena is doing this weird dance and kind of prancing around in the dark. I just feel it gets overshadowed by some of the other big songs like a Kuna Matata can You Feel the Love Tonight. There's just so many great songs in this movie that, of course one woman is going to kind of go off and be like, Okay, maybe that's not the biggest song from the movie, but I just feel it's really great. And the next Disney family sing long they do, I challenge the celebrity to sing this song. I think it'd be amazing. Alright, So that was number two. I gotta throw an honorable mention before we get to number one. It's from one of my favorite Disney movies, Lilo and Stitch Hawaiian roller Coaster Ride. I just love this song. Anything that makes me feel like I'm in a tropical place makes me smile. And I remember getting to visit Hawaii for the first time a couple of years ago, and we actually stayed at this Disney resort and they had like a Stitch statue, and I remember like thinking, like, oh man, I'm finally made it. Like the movie I watched as a kid and always thought of going to Hawaii, I'm finally here. And it reminded me of that scene. And it's just something that takes me back to I guess childhood or some kind of good memory of being at a beach and I hear this song and it makes me think of that. And now after that trip, I went back and watched Lilo and Stitch and had a better connection with the song of now out as an adult being able to say I went to Hawaii, something I never thought I would be able to do. So I think that's kind of why this song kind of speaks to me now. And there's not a whole lot to this song, and like the lyrics, doesn't think really big about it, but it's just that feeling it gives me. I feel it was a great original song for this movie and you can't hear it without smiling, so I had to shout it out as an honorable mention. But now we have arrived to number one, and we're going all the way back to the movie called Oliver and Company, and the song is why Should I Worry? The song is actually performed by Billy Joel, and the voice of the dog Dodger in this movie is actually Billy Joel. As a kid, I didn't know that. I didn't know who Billy Joel was. I just knew I love this song. And Oliver and Company. I would agree that it's a pretty obscure Disney movie because it's kind have been this weird realm Oliver and Company was one of my favorite Disney movies as a kid, and I remember just putting the tape in, hitting play and just kind of being taken away. It starts off kind of sad because Oliver, if you haven't seen the movie, as this cat who gets abandoned in New York city's basically a stray cat put up for adoption. He's like in this little box and he sees all these other kittens getting taken being adopted, and then he's just left in the box. It starts raining, the box tears apart, and he's essentially washed away in New York City and he goes to live with a bunch of dogs and kind of becomes one of them, which was kind of a departure for Disney, who was at the time doing just really fantasy movies or just movies based in a whole different realm or part of the world, and here you have a very realistic movie about a kind of a darker subject. In a way, said in New York City and just kind of tackling something different maybe even feels a little less timeless like all the other movies that they have put out before, and they even brought in like different actors to kind of make it maybe more pop culture at the time. Again this and I just felt like this was a really great song. It's a really big, single, long song and one that I maybe as a kid only knew like five lyrics from him, would sing it all the time. I just feel it has a lot of personality. The movie has a lot of charm, and this song in particular kind of embodies everything in the movie in this one song. And kind of knowing now that it is Billy Joel actually singing this song makes it a little bit cooler and it kind of makes more sense now. But I just felt like this song is such a big anthem to kind of not go noticed by some of the other Disney songs that I had to include it and make it my number one most underrated Disney song of all the time. And it also leads me to my next topic. So anyway, that's the list and what I want to get into next, because I did talk about Oliver and Company is what's known as the Disney Dark Age. So it's basically a bunch of movies that Disney put out that didn't perform as well. I'll kind of explain why it's called a dark age and why these movies didn't really work, and then keeping with the theme, I will get into my review of Hamilton's which is now on Disney Plus. I'll review it as a guy, like I said, who doesn't really like musical. So all that right after this break. All right, so now I want to talk about the Disney Dark Age. So let me explain what it is first of all, and kind of how I stumbled upon this. So I was talking about Oliver and Company, which came out in nine and I remember watching this movie on VHS as a kid, and I knew it was a Disney movie, but I also felt like it had a different feel to it. The animation was a little bit different. Again, as a kid, you don't really think a whole lot about how a cartoon is made, and maybe you can't tell the difference between a Lion King and Oliver and Company. But when I was looking about stuff in this movie and how it was made, I realized that it was a part of something called the Disney Dark Age, which they have different eras that they kind of dubbed for the different years they put out movies. So it goes way back to when they were first up the kind of the classic Disney movies to all the stuff they are doing now. So it goes from the Golden Age, the Wartime Era, the Silver Age, the Dark Age, which i'll talk about here in the second also sometimes called the Bronze Age, and then they have the Renaissance which was in the nineties, the Post Renaissance, which was the early two thousand stuff, and then the Revival Era, which is everything from the two thousand tens to the present time. So when you think of stuff in the Golden Age, it's all the really early Disney stuff like Snow White, Seven Doors, Pinocchio, all those really just straight up Disney classics. And maybe someday I'll do kind of a breakdown on each of these eras, but today I want to talk about the Dark Age. So we're about forty years from those original Disney movies, the ones that Walt Disney himself had a hand in doing. But then Walt Disney died on December fifteen, nineteen sixty six and after that it was basically people who worked under Disney kind of continuing the legacy of Disney and holding true to the kind of the vale use of what he put into movies. All the animation, all the stuff was basically hand drawn. So there are twenty four frames per second in an animated movie, and that means that they straight up draw all twenty four frames per second in every single animated movie before that. And this process takes a very long time. Sometimes they're working on you know, these really big canvases. I'm talking like things that you know, stretch out the length of your arms to make these movies, and that takes a lot of word to hand paint or hand animate every single frame. Like that's an intense process. But what you get is a really lively picture that looks like everything is moving and everything has a feel to it. It doesn't feel like you're watching an animade movie. And that's what makes those early movies great in classics. And Walt Disney himself made it a point to never cut any kind of corners when making these movies. So they go through the wartime area, they go through the silver rage, and then they get to the Dark Age, which was you know era that lasted from nineteen eighty one to nineteen eighty eight, and the movies that came out during this time were like The Fox and the Hound in one, the Black Cauldron in The Great Mouse Detective in nineteen eight six, and then ended with Oliver and Company in eight Yes, some other movies starting in there. And when you look at these movies, you can tell that they feel different. That's mainly because all the original guys who were there under Disney, we're pretty much all gone and they have new guys coming in, new animators making these movies, and they start to lose a bit of their charm because they changed away. They did animation essentially because they were trying to find a way to essentially make these movies for less. They were spending less on animation, they were spending less on production budgets, and a lot of these movies were scaled down. So what they started using was something called the xerox process, which xerox is essentially copying animation and reusing it in another way. So what you start seeing in some of these movies as they'll double up on character. So in a scene where maybe you have four or eight different kind of characters forming a group. What they ended up doing is just copying every single character and making them look exactly the same to maybe make a crowd. So it kind of loses that appeal of them individually drawing each one, and they're kind of just finding different ways to cut corners. They even use like different animation kind of sequences from older movies and recycle them to make new characters use movements that were already used by older characters. So they found all these kind of ways to cut corners to save costs, and what you end up getting is kind of a little more lifeless of an animated movie. A lot of it's a lot more stiff. The animation is less fluid because they're cutting down so much. And when you watch these now, if you pull up some clips on YouTube or you go watch them on Disney Plus, you can kind of notice, like in the background, a lot of this stuff is like not as well animated, Like the background doesn't move at all, and it's essentially just the characters moving in the foreground, So you kind of pick up on that. Maybe the thinking was that, you know, with kids watching these, they're not gonna notice if the background is not moving. But watching them and looking back at some of these times, you kind of realized that they kind of lost it a bit. Not only were they cutting back on the animation, but I feel like some of the stories on this kind of got away from the Disney brand, which was, you know, these big elaborate fairy tales essentially they created. They were going kind of more realistic and more dark and creating these stories that didn't really resonate with kids or resonate with really any audiences. So I think a lot of these movies just get overlooked. I actually remember watching a lot of these movies in school because every now and then we would have a movie day, and whenever it was like a Disney movie, you'd be really excited because you hope maybe it was toy story, the Lion King or something. But once you kind of got down the list, I felt like they would bust out some of these older movies and you can kind of tell that they were a little bit boring. Nothing really happened in these, even some of these were like longer like. They also just look very scratchy and kind of drawn together weird, and there's just no really dynamic characters in this it's just a bunch of kind of mediocre stories and really mediocre characters. Robin Hood, there was a Winnie the Pooh movie made, the Rescuers, Fox In the Hound, The Great Mouse Detective. All those movies were a part of this Dark Age. So I feel like these are all movies that really get talked about now. Maybe they have a little bit of charm because you remember them from your childhood, but even I remember watching these and not being impressed with them and being like, oh, it's okay, Like it's an animated movie, but it kind of feels like a chort of watch. So if you've ever wondered why these movies aren't as great, that's why they were part of the Dark Age. They were trying to save money. So yeah, that's it for that era. Maybe I'll break down some more of these because I think it's kind of fun to go back and look how these movies were made, mainly because Disney is just so much of a juggernaut when it comes to making iconic films that it's kind of rare that they fail. But I would kind of also like to determine and figure out what happened when they you know, we're in the Golden Age, Like what went right at that time to make those movies so great and memorable? All right, take a quick break now and then get back with the review of Hamilton's. All right, now, I want to get into my review of Hamilton's. And let me just say first of all, that I kind of debated whether or not I should review this as a movie because it's essentially a filming of the actual play with all the original cast, and it was made available on July three, right before July four, and it actually dropped early. Wasn't supposed to come out to like next year, and I was like, well, is it a movie? Like it's just a play, But now it's kind of being streamed into our houses. So after watching it, I'll have to say I felt different about it. Before I get into the whole review, here's just a little bit of Hamilton's. Alexander Hamilton, my name is sound Alexander Hamilton. There's a million things I haven't done, just you just all right. So this movie was anitially meant to come out in theaters next year October when I was supposed to come out, but because of coronavirus, Disney was like, you know what, we have this, we're sitting on it. Let's just release it now, right before July four, and I think people will love it. Not only that they probably made a lot of money off this because Disney Plus took away the seven day trial, the free seven day trial, right before this came out, so there's such a high demand to watch it now that they kind of probably saw a boost in people subscribing to Disney Plus, which I subscribe back when it launched, so I was good on that. I already had it ready to go. I actually really enjoyed Disney Plus. They kind of got me early on with the Mandalorian series and then having all the Simpsons episodes, and then they've kind of sprinkled in some original movies in there here and there. But I feel like this is the first really big release that has brought people over specifically to Disney Plus for something that everybody wanted to watch, and it's the only place you can get it. So the movie, and I say movie because it was supposed to come out in theaters, it is a live recording of the actual play with the all the original cast. It's about Alexander Hamilton's which who was the first Treasury Secretary and the founding father played by Lynn Manuel Miranda, who did all the music for this, And let me just say, like that is amazing. I know I talked about Muana earlier. He did all that music and where he probably made all of his money and is sitting pretty well right now is because of Hamilton's So the movie is all about Alexander Hamilton's life when he arrived in New York City back in seventeen seventies six, and him working with George Washington through the American Revolution and then all the post war work he did. And while watching this, first of all, I went into it thinking and knowing that it was a long movie, like it's over two and a half hours, I think, right around that mark. And this is also edited down a bit from the original Broadway play. But like I said, I was like, did I should I review this as a movie, And after I watched it, I felt like, yes, it's a movie, like it essentially translates over into a movie, but unlike a movie, it never you know, leaves the set because it's a play. But I feel like it was shot in such a way that it feels like it kind of moves through and you kind of get a feeling like this is a whole movie. You follow the story pretty well along with the songs, and it is a musical, and it's a straight on musical to the point where they never stop singing. So if you're not familiar with that and you go into it ever expecting them to stop singing, they don't, which is an amazing thing to really see. Like I'm really surprised and kind of perplexed by it, and I kind of see the hype in this movie and this play. I keep calling it a movie. I'm just gonna call it a movie because I feel like now it feels like a movie, and I actually really enjoyed it, and I kind of went into it thinking like at some point I'm gonna get bored, But I would say the first forty minutes really flu by because you're kind of getting into it. It takes a little getting used to the whole format of it, of it just goes from one song to the next, and sometimes it's kind hard to kind of follow along with all the lyrics and you're kind of wondering where it is in place. But I felt once you kind of get in that mindset of knowing what you're watching. It's a really great movie to sit down and watch all the way through, which I recommend doing. I sat down and dedicated the entire time to watch it all the way through, because like a play, you kind of get that feeling a little bit better of it all as one work. That's how it's kind of intended to be watched. What if you go watch a movie in theaters, you're gonna watch it anyway. So I know sometimes watching stuff at home, you want to hit pause and come back to it later. But I highly encourage just dedicating the time to sit down and watch this entire thing the kind of the way it was intended to be watched, because I think you'll get more out of it, because once you're into it, you're into it. And I wasn't expecting to like some of the songs from this because I'm not. I just never really bothered to kind of get into Hamilton's I never really listened to the soundtrack that people loved. I felt like you kind of needed to see it to be, you know, entertained by it. And I'm not a post of going to plays or seeing plays. I just haven't really It's never really been my thing. And the thing about plays is they're very memorable, and sometimes, unlike a movie, you never forget a play you go see. I watched a lot of movies. Some movies I forget some things that happen, you know, very small scenes in the movie. I'll forget it, you know, ten years later. But I still remember plays that I saw as a kid because they're just so visual and so vivid and you see them happening right in front of you that I can only imagine that people who got to see this in person and kind of what sparked us to be such a big phenomenon as it is so much so that, you know, demanded a theatrical release so more people could see it. And I think it's something everybody should see it sometime in their life. You'll learn a lot in this movie. You learn a lot through the songs, and it's done in an entertaining way. I think somehow my favorite songs were from King George, Like, for some reason, he was just so kind of like the comic relief in the play that I felt it needed at times, and he kind of comes back and sings like the same song every time, but it just ended up being my favorite. Kind of the thing people I'm wondering about is that will this movie be eligible for Oscars because they did kind of change the terminology and the restrictions of streaming movies to be eligible because the coronavirus and everything going on, that some movies won't have their theatrical release, but unfortunately Hamilton's will not be eligible. Now Disney is saying they still may submit it for some awards, but it's looking right now that it won't be eligible to win any Oscars. And I think it's kind of two things that has going against it. Is the fact that it is the recording of a live performance, not really a movie, and falls under those qualifications. Also that now that it's on kind of Disney Plus and being shown as like, oh, this is Hamilton's, it's kind of a promotional thing for the Broadway play. Therefore also ineligible to be considered in the running for an OSCAR. So it'll be interesting to see if any of that stuff changes with the success of it. But right now it's looking like it won't be up for any Oscars. But even though it won't be, I still think it's a really great movie. I give it four out of five Declarations of Independence, and that's mainly because I still feel like it's like Experiencing it live is probably that five out of five rating. But the recording of it is really great, and like I said, it still feels like a movie even though you're just watching a live recording of a play. And who's to say, somebody five years, ten years down the line doesn't end up trying to do a movie like this. You know, all one camera, all one shot. What's the difference. You still have a storyline, you still have all the elements of a movie, just presented in a slightly different way. So anyway, if you want to check that out, you have to get Disney Plus, or if you're nice, maybe I'll give you my account info. All right, that's the episode for this week. 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So tag me in that and I'll post repost you guys on my Instagram story and I'll pick one of you guys to give a shout out to you. I hope you enjoyed this week's episode and maybe give you that little bit of nostalgicic go back and watch some of these old Disney animated movies and get a feeling of like, oh, maybe these weren't is great. Maybe you can kind of notice those little differences from the movies at the dark Age or maybe you just want to go back and listen to some of these songs. I'm gonna go and annoy my girlfriend by singing some songs from Hamilton's Now So I will talk to you guys next week, next Monday, brand new episode right here, and until then later